A Death in the Family (audio story)

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Publisher's summary
"The future folds into the past. The homeless hero has fallen. Now begins the time of three tales: The Tale of the Herald. The Tale of the Hidden Woman. The Tale of the Final Speaker. When the last tale is told, all the lights shall fail. The world will end."

21st century London: Nobody No One, the extra-dimensional Word Lord, is again running amok. Only this time, he's unbeatable – and a terrible tragedy is about to unfold.

It is written.

Cast

 * The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
 * Ace - Sophie Aldred
 * Hex - Philip Olivier
 * Evelyn Smythe - Maggie Stables
 * Nobody No-One - Ian Reddington
 * Corporal/Novice/Henry Noone - John Dorney
 * Ayl-San/Faber/Nurse - Alison Thea-Skot
 * Captain Stillwell/Applin/Tour Guide - Andrew Dickens
 * Ann-the-Van/Story Speaker/Webster - Harriet Kershaw

The Doctor

 * The Doctor has something like a calendar of when his friends will die.

Individuals

 * The Doctor dies, killed by Nobody No-One.
 * Evelyn wistfully recalls "her" Doctor and criticises the Seventh Doctor for his scheming, manipulative nature.
 * Evelyn dies of a heart attack, capturing Nobody No One as she does though.
 * Henry Louis Noone was born in St. Stephen's Hospital in London on 10 February 2000. A body scan indicated that he would most likely die at the age of 82.
 * Henry Noone writes a story of what he thinks Ace would be like in ten years, if they married, and through a complicated process, creates Dr. Dorothy Noone, a being capable of combating the Word Lord Nobody No-One.

Locations

 * The Doctor and Ace search the remains of the Forge's building for alien technology with Captain Stillwell of UNIT.
 * Ace meets up with Henry Noone on a couple of occasions in the White Rabbit pub in London during 2027.
 * By 2027, the United Kingdom is ruled by a king.

TARDIS

 * The Doctor's TARDIS is still white. (BFA: The Angel of Scutari)
 * Ace is incapable of flying the TARDIS.

Time travel

 * Evelyn Rossiter was transported from Világ to the planet Pelachan via a temporal device.
 * The people of Pelachan are descendants of the crew of a human time ship called the USN Pelican which crashed on their planet almost two thousand years earlier, an event which occurred billions of years before the evolution of humanity on Earth. The name of the planet is a corruption of that of the time ship. Several items were recovered from the ship, which Evelyn believed to be a military or containment vessel, and came to be worshipped as holy relics. They included the jawbone of an Ice Warrior, the arm of a Cyberman and the eye stalk of a Dalek.

Earth

 * Bees were being reintroduced to the UK in June 2027. According to Ace, the bee problem would be resolved by 2040, by which time Earth would also have "new pandas." The implication of this last statement is that pandas become extinct at some point in the early 21st century but are eventually brought back to life through the use of cloning.

Continuity

 * Nobody No-One previously appeared in BFA: The Word Lord. In a manner similar to a Time Lord, he has regenerated since his previous encounter with the present Doctor. He claims to have battled the Doctor numerous times in the Doctor's personal future.
 * The Doctor mentions that meeting his past or future selves is something which he is "very much not supposed to do." (DW: The Three Doctors)
 * Hex refers to his encounters with the Cybermen (BFA: The Harvest) and the Daleks (BFA: Enemy of the Daleks).
 * Evelyn relates the events of BFA: Project: Twilight and BFA: Project: Lazarus to Hex in which she and the Sixth Doctor met his late mother, Cassie Scholefield.
 * Ace reminds the future Seventh Doctor that he once destroyed a planet. (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks)
 * When the Seventh Doctor arrives on Pelachan, Evelyn is initially somewhat disappointed to see him as she had been hoping that it would be "her Doctor." (BFA: The Marian Conspiracy)
 * Evelyn mentions meeting Julius Caesar's parents (BFA: 100 BC) and Charles Darwin (BFA: Bloodtide), "leaping from steam trains in the Wild West" (CC: A Town Called Fortune) and spending time "in a spacesuit bouncing about Axos with that poor boy Brewster" (BFA: The Feast of Axos).
 * Evelyn previously met the Seventh Doctor in BFA: Thicker than Water. Prior to that brief encounter, she saw him, Ace and Hex from afar in BFA: The 100 Days of the Doctor.

For the Doctor, Ace and Hex

 * A Death in the Family occurs after BFA: Project: Destiny
 * A Death in the Family occurs before BFA: Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge

For the future Doctor

 * A Death in the Family occurs after BFA: Project: Lazarus
 * A Death in the Family occurs before BFA: Master

For Evelyn

 * A Death in the Family occurs after BFA: Thicker than Water