The Master and Margarita (short story)
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The Master and Margarita was a novella and the sixth story published in I Am The Master: Legends of the Renegade Time Lord. It was written by Matthew Sweet and featured the Spy Master as played by Sacha Dhawan.
Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
Marooned by the Thirteenth Doctor on Earth for 77 years, the Spy Master becomes scientific advisor to the Soviet equivalent of UNIT – with a deadly agenda of his own. But his plans take a strange twist with the coming of the unearthly Comrade Cap...
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Spy Master
- K'vo
- Lev Surikov
- Captain Tsybukin
- Pletrov
- Bolesaw Bobkov
- Eleonora Kalashnik
- Magda
- Pelageya Vlasova
- Margarita
- Comrade Cap
- Yuri Gerasimov
- Leonid Illyich Brezhnev
- Kosygin
- Ekaterina Yegorov
- Catherine the Great
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- "Gospodinov" suggests that the Eocenes created the abyss in the Garden.
- Joseph Stalin banned hypnosis in the Soviet Union.
- "Gospodinov" works for Yedinitza as a scientific advisor.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The title of the story is a reference to the novel of the same name by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Master keeps newspapers detailing a mysterious mist in London, (TV: The Web of Fear) Reginald Styles, (TV: Day of the Daleks) a computer in the Post Office Tower, (TV: The War Machines) Senator Alcott at the first World Peace Conference, (TV: The Mind of Evil) and an advertisement for plastic Daffodils. (TV: Terror of the Autons)
- The Master is currently in a form of exile because of a woman. He claims he will have "a plane to catch" in the next fifty years. (TV: Spyfall)
- The Master knows that Jo Grant got married to a professor. (TV: The Green Death)
- The Master has seen Jo banish demons with her courage. (TV: The Dæmons)
- Comrade Cap paraphrases the Master's speech at the Pharos Project. (TV: Logopolis)
- The Daleks are known for invading Bedfordshire. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)
- The Master recalls his murders of George McDermott and Goodge. (TV: Terror of the Autons)
- The RAF bombing a manor house in Surrey is mentioned. This may be a reference to Chase Mansion. (TV: The Seeds of Doom)
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