Odyssey (audio story)

Odyssey was the seventy-sixth story in the Torchwood - Monthly Range by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Patrick O'Connor.

Publisher's summary
Ida Scott has spent her life running from her father. But now she's come looking for him.

The Spire is an ancient relic left behind by The Resilient - a mysterious race who warped both gravity and time.

Odysseus Scott lies dying in a bed in The Spire. He believes it will cure him. But are The Resilient really dead?

Plot
After managing to get through the gravity storms in a borrowed Torchwood spaceship, Ida arrives at the Spire on Faber to see her ailing father, physicist Odysseus Scott. Tom, Odysseus's assistant, explains to Ida how the Spire is the last relic of the Resilient, gravitysmiths from the dawn of time who supposedly created the Spire, which is used for gravitational therapy, and whose powers Ida is sceptical of. Despite Tom's protests, she goes to her father's room whilst he is receiving treatment and is accused of visiting only because of her failed expedition to Krop Tor.

Ida suspects that her father has paid off the staff and other patients to leave given that he, Tom and the Ood are the only ones staying at the Spire and argues with him over dinner, but he starts having difficulty with his speech because of his illness and retires. She is concerned about Odysseus relying on gravitational therapy rather than conventional medicine and has Tom find out where Professor Destin has gone on leave in the hopes of speaking with him, watching the initial message that Odysseus sent him in the meantime. She is interrupted, however, by the sound of the Ood reciting something about agony followed by apparent nonsense.

to be completed

Cast

 * Ida Scott - Claire Rushbrook
 * Odysseus Scott / The Ood - Silas Carson
 * Tom - Jay Perry

Worldbuilding

 * Tom believes that Ida and Odysseus have the same frown.
 * Ida has a coffee pod with a voice command.
 * Odysseus is a physicist.
 * Odysseus once attended a conference on Delva and had all of the speakers fired, delivering the presentations himself for the rest of the week.
 * Professor Kennedy Destin runs the Spire.
 * Ida has borrowed a Torchwood spaceship from a friend.
 * Odysseus has Axobar's syndrome.
 * Dr Catrin Pendle was a patient.
 * Ida's mother used to cook for the family. She goes on pilgrimages.
 * Odysseus's voice is used for the translator spheres, which he created.
 * Ida wants Odysseus to go to the Granter Unit for medical attention.
 * Tom compares gravitational therapy to acupuncture.
 * Ida mentions the story of Cnut.

Continuity

 * The Beast described Ida as a scientist "still running from Daddy". (TV: The Satan Pit)