The Last (audio story)


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 was the sixty-second monthly Doctor Who audio story produced by Big Finish Productions.

Publisher's summary
Trapped on a dying world, the Doctor and Charley come face-to-face with those responsible for the war to end all wars, while C'rizz tries to understand what has happened and learns the terrible truth.

Powerful forces are at work on Bortresoye that not even a nuclear holocaust can tame; natural forces that have excited the interest of Excelsior, the self-proclaimed saviour of her people.

With Charley immobilised and C'rizz left to battle against the elements with some of the victims of war, one final, desperate hope of escape presents itself to the travellers.

But who will be the last to leave the planet? Who will have to stay behind? And will the Doctor, Charley and C'rizz live long enough to find out?

Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Paul McGann
 * Charley Pollard - India Fisher
 * C'rizz - Conrad Westmaas
 * The Kro'ka - Stephen Perring
 * Excelsior - Carolyn Jones
 * Minister Voss - Ian Brooker
 * Minister Tralfinial - Robert Hines
 * Landscar - Richard Derrington
 * Requiem - Tom Eastwood
 * Nurse - Jane Hills
 * Make-Up Assistant - John Dorney

Individuals

 * Voss is the Bortresoye Minister of War while Tralfinial is the Minister of Peace.
 * The Kro'ka presents the Doctor with visions of two of his companions who died while under his care, Katarina and Adric.

The Doctor

 * The Doctor refers to Katarina as "the little handmaiden from Troy." He regrets taking her away from her own time and giving her hope, only for her to be killed shortly afterwards.

Technology

 * Given that she is from 1930, Charley is unfamiliar with nuclear weapons.

Conflicts

 * Following the nuclear war, Voss reports that 60 million of Bortresoye's population of 75 million have been killed. However, Tralfinial believes that the death toll is even higher than that.

Continuity

 * The Doctor encounters the shades of his deceased companions Katarina and Adric. (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan, Earthshock) He refers to the former sacrificing her life to save his first incarnation and Steven Taylor. (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan)
 * C'rizz and Charley discuss the fate of L'da. (AUDIO: The Creed of the Kromon)