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Doctor Who: Seasons Of Fear (#30)
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By Paul Cornell & Caroline Symcox
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On New Year's Eve, 1930, the Doctor lets Charley keep her appointment at
the Raffles Hotel in Singapore. But his unease at what he's done to
time by saving her life soon turns into fear. Sebastian Grayle: immortal,
obsessed, ruthless, has come to the city to meet the Time Lord. To the
Doctor, he's a complete stranger, but to Grayle, the Doctor is an old
enemy.
An enemy that, many years ago, he finally succeeded in killing. And this
is his only chance to gloat.
The Doctor and Charley desperately search human history for the secret of
Grayle's power and immortality. Their quest takes in four different time
periods, the Hellfire Club, the court of Edward the Confessor and the
time vortex itself. And when the monsters arrive, the stakes are raised
from the life of one Time Lord to the existence of all humanity.
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Episode One:
The Doctor and Charley are rushing for the TARDIS to escape the
devastating effects of the shockwave. Charley realises that they’re not
going to make it in time though...
Episode Two:
Grayle tells the Doctor that this time he will make sure of his death, and
asks him if he knows how to fly before one of them screams as they go
over the edge...
Episode Three:
The Doctor asks the newly appeared beings if they want to introduce
themselves or shall he. They insult him as a foolish Time Lord, before
revealing their identity and claiming this world as their prey...
Episode Four:
The entity says that now she knows all she needs to. She’s coming for
Charlotte Pollard, and the Doctor as well...
The Doctor: 'are you confusing me with someone else? I'm not the one who says "you must obey me", I don't meddle, and I'm not a glamorous woman at the moment.'
Charley: 'I assume you did your usual act of playing the fool and making him talk.'
Grayle: 'Don't turn your back on me for the sake of a short lived wench!'
The Doctor: 'How would it be if everything was always the same? If you never got too big for your dresses? If you never got to pass them onto your sister? If the rainy autumn lasted forever and spring never came. At least I change. I'm stumbling my way through bodies like I own a particularly dangerous bicycle. Grayle never changes, not inside, not who he is. So time piles on top of him and kills everything good. No one should have to go through that.'
Sebastian Grayle: 'Now I'm of the opinion that the world and all that's in it, merely exists to serve me.'
Seasons Of Fear is the second Doctor Who audio drama from
popular novelist and new series writer Paul
Cornell, writing here with Caroline
Symcox, who previously contributed the opening story
A Question Of Identity to the Bernice Summerfield short
story collection, The Dead Men Diaries.
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