Double (audio story)

 was the sixty-ninth/seventieth story in the Torchwood - Monthly Range by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Guy Adams, and introduced and starred Louise Jameson as Roberta Craven.

Publisher's summary
Part One

1970s London is a place of suspicion and murder. The assassination of an entire embassy comes to the attention of Torchwood.

There's a global energy crisis. There's an alien invasion. Petrochemical companies are subject to hostile take overs by the mysterious Nessoil. Extremely hostile take overs.

Roberta Craven was once a spy. Now she's broken. But she can still see the patterns in the world. And they're closing in around her.

Part Two

A lot of people have died, and not for the first time in her life, Roberta Craven has changed sides.

Travelling the world with a dead man, she’s negotiating world peace. Or is she starting a world war?

The Autons are coming. And Torchwood won’t stop them...

Part one
On 23 October 1973, the entire staff of the Libyan embassy are found with their necks broken in St James's Square. Herman Baker of the Department of Trade and Industry starts supporting Nes Oil instead of Ossam and has an Auton suffocate Toby Green, the latter's managing director, before placing his body in a brothel. Following Mr Green's death and Ossam's takeover, journalist Neal Hart unsuccessfully attempts to interview Nes Oil's managing director David MacClean, a prostitute from the brothel and Mr Baker and is threatened by Cornwell of MI5 into dropping the story upon returning home.

Roberta Craven of Torchwood One stakes out Mr Baker's house with her partner Patty, stealing Neal's wallet during his brief visit, and meets up with a woman in a sauna to confirm that the Americans did not kill the Libyans. She is told by Cornwell, her old colleague, to stop looking into the "Libyan business" and that Nes Oil are being protected, but she refuses and lets him know that she is aware of the presence of Autons in the UK. At a meeting regarding the merger of Nes Oil and Ossam, MacClean reveals that he is an Auton by shooting down those in attendance, but Neal escapes him and goes to Roberta for help. She accepts.

to be completed

Part two
to be added

Cast

 * Roberta Craven - Louise Jameson
 * Patty - Emma Lowndes
 * Herman Baker - Don Gilét
 * Neal Hart - Omari Douglas
 * Cornwell - Anthony Howell
 * Al Sabah / Mac - Reda Elazouar
 * Veronica - Kim Ismay
 * Simeon - Barnaby Edwards
 * The Nestene Consciousness - Sam Stafford

Continuity
to be added