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A conference of lexicographers: bromides in tweed. But the leading expert
in the field is found dead by her own hand - and by her hologlyphic
assistant. Is he responsible? Does the death fit any conventional
definitions? Can the Doctor realise who wrote the suicide note and
why, exactly, it was riddled with spelling errors?
Peri should help out, but there's a guy. Someone who loves language even
more than the Doctor. Maybe, she realises, enough to kill for. Or perhaps
just enough to ask her out to dinner. Unless, of course, he's already
spoken for...
Is it madness? Seeking transcendence in the complete lexicon? Having the
right words on teh tip of your tongue but never quite knowing when to
use them?
If so, how?
...ish
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Episode One:
Peri apologises for Warren and her intrusion on Book, who questions them
as to what they were doing in his room and why they interfered in his
work. He then asks them what makes them think they'll leave alive...?
Episode Two:
After Cawdry's caller says only 'ish', he and the Doctor are disturbed
when the conference attendees all begin to repeat the word over and over
again in unison...
Episode Three:
Warren asks the Doctor if he can appreciate the irony in the fact that a
lexicographer's lackey is going to bring about the disarticulation of all
language...
Episode Four:
The Doctor exasperates Peri when he concludes her thought that Book and
Osefa's task will have to begin again from start to fin-ish, before they
depart in the TARDIS.
The Doctor: 'English! What a remarkable versatile language. Ever
expanding, adapting, surviving but never compromising it's integrity nor
it's poetry. One of the foremost achievements of humankind, a living
language in it's truest sense and a language worth living.'
The Doctor: 'Across the night sky, beyond the stars, English
brings people together in the pursuit of knowledge and wonder!'
Warren: 'Would you please sign my dictionary?'
Book: 'I keep coming back to the same thing.'
Peri: 'He loves language, which is great, but it blows poetic
and pedantic at times.'
The Doctor: 'Her penchant for clarity and correct usage bordered
on occasion on the monomaniacal.'
Peri: 'Words change all the time, new meanings, different people
using them. You'll never be able to stop!'
The Doctor: 'She sells sea shells by the sea shore.' Peri:
'Sure, she sells shells, but sea shells? I'm not so sure.' The
Doctor: 'Humour! An excellent defence mechanism!'
Warren: 'Every dictionary ever written was a monster, a monument,
an authority at the centre of it's linguistic empire. But now, the
colonials are speaking their own language…' The Doctor: 'Their own
language! Well if you consider ish, ish, ish, some new variation of
sparkling after dinner repartee, you're as senseless as the ish itself!'
...ish is the debut script of Phil
Pascoe and reunites Colin Baker with
Nicola Bryant for the first time since
1999's Whispers Of Terror.
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The Tertiary Console Room
> Audio Titles
> The Sixth Doctor
> ...ish
