Night Thoughts (audio story)

 was the seventy-ninth Big Finish monthly Doctor Who audio story and the fifth audio story featuring the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex.

Publisher's summary
'I warn you, things could get very nasty here before they get better.'

A remote Scottish mansion. Five bickering academics are haunted by ghosts from their past. Reluctantly they offer shelter to the Doctor and his companions Ace and Hex.

Hex, already troubled by a vivid nightmare, is further disturbed by the night-time appearance of a whistling, hooded apparition.

Ace tries to befriend the young housemaid, Sue. Sue knows secrets. She knows why the academics have assembled here, and she knows why they are all so afraid. But Sue's lips are sealed -- she prefers to communicate through her disturbing toy, Happy the Rabbit.

And then the killing begins. Gruesome deaths that lead the Doctor and his friends to discover the grisly truth behind the academics' plans, and -- as the ghosts of the past become ghosts of the present -- to recognise that sometimes death can be preferable to life...

Plot
to be added

Cast

 * The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
 * Ace - Sophie Aldred
 * Hex - Philip Olivier
 * Major Dickens - Bernard Kay
 * The Bursar - Joanna McCallum
 * Dr O'Neil - Andrew Forbes
 * Sue - Lizzie Hopley
 * The Deacon - Ann Beach
 * Joe Hartley - Duncan Duff

Individuals

 * Ace's maternal grandmother, Kathleen Dudman, died in 1973. She remembered that her mother Audrey cried for days afterwards.
 * Hex was raised by his father and maternal grandmother, the mother of Cassie Scholefield whom the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe had encountered in 1999 and 2004 (BFA: Project: Twilight, BFA: Project: Lazarus). He believed that his grandmother was actually his mother until he was six years old.

Continuity

 * The Doctor and Ace met her maternal grandmother Kathleen Dudman at Maiden's Point in 1943 in DW: The Curse of Fenric.

For the Doctor

 * Night Thoughts occurs after ST: Presence
 * Night Thoughts occurs before BFA: Thicker than Water (cameo)

For Ace and Hex

 * Night Thoughts occurs after ST: Presence
 * Night Thoughts occurs before BFA: The Veiled Leopard