The Brimstone Kid (audio story)

The Brimstone Kid was the sixty-eighth Bernice Summerfield audio story released by Big Finish Productions. It was the third story of the Missing Persons series.

Publisher's summary
"Welcome to the White Rabbit. What'll it be?"

"You can start by locking and bolting the doors. Then everyone in here can keep real calm..."

Bernice and Irving were expecting another quiet night at the White Rabbit saloon — their only customers a veteran prospector named Toothless Bob and timid school teacher Miss Hannigan. But the evening takes a sinister turn with the arrival of the Brimstone Kid, a wanted outlaw, and the terrifying bounty hunter Cazador hot on his trail...

Soon, Bernice and Irving find themselves caught up in an adventure involving giant, flightless crows, buried treasure and the galaxy's most ruthless detective agency.

Plot
Mary Hannigan comes to the White Rabbit looking for somewhere to stay and introduces herself to Irving as a missionary for the Ninth-day Celestials, come to Legion City to teach. The Brimstone Kid enters the pub with a gun, has Irving lock the door and commands him, Benny, Miss Hannigan and Toothless Bob to hide him from the bounty hunter Cazador. Irving hides him in the basement. When Cazador arrives looking for Brimstone, whose real name is Billie Ford, the group claim not to have seen him, but he demands that he be shown to the basement.

Whilst Cazador is in the basement, Miss Hannigan leaves. This displeases Cazador, who returns from the basement, takes mouth swabs from everybody to eliminate them from his investigation and goes after Miss Hannigan to do the same. Benny, Irving and Brimstone buy a landcrow from Crazy Hank and ride to Cosimo Diamond Mine where Brimstone claims he has hidden his money. Whilst they travel, Cazador returns to the White Rabbit and, after finding Brimstone's DNA on a glass, he threatens Bob into telling him where he has gone.

to be completed

Cast

 * Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman
 * Irving Braxiatel - Miles Richardson
 * Brimstone - David Menkin
 * Cazador - John Schwab
 * Miss Hannigan - Katharine Mangold
 * Crazy Hank - Peter Sheward
 * Fortune Teller - Ellen Salisbury
 * Toothless Bob - Mac McDonald

Continuity

 * Benny mentions how she was left alone with nothing but a portentous message from Irving. (AUDIO: Judgement Day)
 * Benny is chastised by Irving in the same way she chastised Peter Summerfield on Moros Prime. (AUDIO: The Revenant's Carnival)
 * Benny mentions riding a Pegasus. (AUDIO: The Kraken's Lament)
 * Thorton mentions the Last Chance Saloon. (TV: The Gunfighters)