Project Destiny (audio story)

Publisher's summary
1999: Leaving her infant son behind, a young mother named Cassandra Scholefield departs Bolton, seeking a better life amid the lights of London.

2004: Despite the best efforts of the time-travelling Doctor, 'Cassie' Schofield dies on Dartmoor, a vampirised victim of the sinister organisation called The Forge.

2021: All grown up, and a nurse at St Gart's Hospital, Thomas Hector Schofield, known as 'Hex', meets and becomes a companion to that time-travelling Doctor… but remains unaware that his alien friend knew his mother, and watched her die.

1854: In the Crimean War, Hex takes a bullet, and is seriously injured. The Doctor promises to return him to St Gart's.

2025: Now. In a London ravaged by a deadly contagion… destiny awaits.

Cast

 * The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
 * Ace - Sophie Aldred
 * Hex - Philip Olivier
 * Sir William Abberton (Nimrod) - Stephen Chance
 * Captain Lysandra Aristedes - Maggie O'Neill
 * Sergeant Jarrod - Philip Dinsdale
 * Helen/The Oracle - Ingrid Oliver

Species

 * It requires just a drop of family-blood to regenerate a Cassandra Scholefield's dusty remains into a body.
 * The 'contagion' aliens exist as a hive mind.

Continuity

 * Ace looks for the TARDIS key in the cubby-hole above the "P" in "Police Box" on the roof of the TARDIS. (BFA: The Angel of Scutari, DW: Doctor Who (1996))
 * The events of BFA: Project: Lazarus (to which this story serves as a sequel) are in the past but are in the Doctor's personal future. Nimrod informs the Doctor that he was present at the destruction of the Forge's alpha facility in 2008. The Doctor attempts to prevent Nimrod from telling him too much about his personal future so as not to disrupt the Web of Time.
 * The Seal of Rassilon is displayed above the inner doors of the TARDIS. (DW: Doctor Who (1996))
 * The Fourth Doctor previously visited London in 2025 in the company of Leela. On that occasion, he encountered the Daleks. (BFA: Energy of the Daleks)

Timeline

 * Project: Destiny occurs immediately after BFA: The Angel of Scutari
 * Project: Destiny occurs immediately before BFA: A Death in the Family