The Two Masters (audio story)

 was the two hundred and thirteenth story in Big Finish's monthly range. It was written by John Dorney and featured Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and Geoffrey Beevers and Alex Macqueen as the Master.

It was the third and final part of a "Multi-Master" trilogy.

Publisher's summary
The future is dying. All over the universe, gaps are beginning to appear. From the space lanes terrorised by the rag-tag remnants of the once-mighty Rocket Men, to the empire of the Gorlans, stricken by a terrible civil war. Gaps in space/time, portents of the end of everything.

Only three beings might prevent it. The Doctor, a renegade Time Lord from Gallifrey. , another renegade Time Lord from Gallifrey. And, yet another renegade Time Lord from Gallifrey.

One Doctor. Two Masters. What could possibly go wrong?

Part one
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Part two
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Part three
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Part four
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
 * - Geoffrey Beevers
 * - Alex Macqueen
 * Jemima - Lauren Crace
 * Blore/Baron Jarvill - Russ Bain
 * Tazeena/Bauza/Mum - Esther Hall
 * Sebastian - James Garnon
 * Sarlon/Time Lord - Neil Edmond

Continuity

 * The Doctor refers to his previous encounters with the Rocket Men. (AUDIO: The Rocket Men, Return of the Rocket Men, Requiem for the Rocket Men)
 * The Doctor mentions that he destroyed the Rocket Men's asteroid during his fourth incarnation. (AUDIO: Requiem for the Rocket Men)
 * The Rocket Men force those they capture into joining them. (AUDIO: Requiem for the Rocket Men)
 * The new Master recalls his encounter with the Rocket Men on the Asteroid. (AUDIO: Requiem for the Rocket Men)
 * The Doctor mentions that he and the Master were once friends. (TV: The Sea Devils, et. al)
 * The Master's TARDIS is once again in the form of a grandfather clock. (TV: The Deadly Assassin, The Keeper of Traken, AUDIO: And You Will Obey Me)
 * The Master refers to his imprisonment by UNIT. (TV: The Sea Devils)
 * The Doctor cannot remember his encounters with the Master in Hexford in 2016 during his fifth incarnation (AUDIO: And You Will Obey Me) or at the prison with the Carmentine Mind Leach during his sixth incarnation also in 2016 (AUDIO: Vampire of the Mind), which he attributes to reality collapsing around the Masters.
 * The Doctor has previously met the new Master. (AUDIO: Dominion)
 * The new Master advises the Doctor to use the Hostile Action Displacement System. (TV: The Krotons)
 * The Doctor mentions that he has met Harry Houdini. (AUDIO: Smoke and Mirrors)
 * The Doctor refers to his visit to Little Hodcombe in 1984 during his fifth incarnation. (TV: The Awakening)
 * The new Master recalls his attempt to steal the Fifth Doctor's body. (AUDIO: And You Will Obey Me)
 * The new Master refers to the fact that he has broken into the Time Lord base on Tersurus before. (AUDIO: Dominion)
 * The decayed Master tells his future self that he has recently begun using stasers rather than the Tissue Compression Eliminator. (TV: The Deadly Assassin)
 * The new Master discusses his earlier alliance with Lord Chancellor Goth on Gallifrey. (TV: The Deadly Assassin)
 * The two versions of the Master initiate telepathic contact to transfer information. (TV: The Three Doctors, The Five Doctors)
 * The Cult of the Heretic sent the Dragonhunters and the Transhuman Sisters to kill the new Master in Hexford in 2016. (AUDIO: And You Will Obey Me)
 * After exchanging body with his future self, the decayed Master comments on his "new voice". (TV: Utopia)
 * The Heretic was either killed by the Time Lords or imprisoned on Shada after plotting to regenerate the universe. (TV: Shada; AUDIO: Shada)
 * The new Master refers to his other incarnations as "" (TV: The Keeper of Traken) and "". (TV: Doctor Who; AUDIO: Mastermind)
 * The Doctor tells the Masters that he does not always get along with his other selves. (TV: The Three Doctors, The Five Doctors, The Two Doctors; AUDIO: The Sirens of Time)
 * The Doctor comments that the universe is sick and needs a Doctor, much like during his victory speech in 2008. (TV: The Sound of Drums)
 * The Doctor would later reboot the universe again during his eleventh incarnation. (TV: The Big Bang)
 * The circumstances of the Master's disfigurement are given a different account in Legacy of the Daleks, where the Master's disfigured state is the result of a confrontation with Susan Foreman when he tried to use her as a hostage and she destroyed his equipment to expel him from his TARDIS. However, since Legacy only depicts the Master being thrown from his TARDIS and later being discovered by Goth, rather than explicitly stating that he is reduced to his crippled state by the destruction of his equipment, this suggests that the two can be reconciled with the assumption that the younger Master survived Susan's attack unharmed and found another TARDIS to begin his raid on the Terserus compound before being attacked by his future self.