The Shadow Heart (audio story)

The Shadow Heart was the third story in a 2012 multi-Doctor trilogy, beginning with the Fifth Doctor and ending with the Seventh Doctor.

Publisher's summary
One empire has fallen and another has taken its place. The race known as the Wrath are expanding into new territory. Only the Earth Empire stands in their way.

It's been fifty years since the Doctor last visited this sector of space. And one man in particular has been awaiting his return. As the mistakes of his past come back to haunt him, and with a price on his head and bounty hunters on his tail, the Doctor is heading for a last reckoning.

The pieces are finally coming together. Somewhere deep within the Shadow Heart.

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
 * Tenebris - James Wilby
 * Vienna Salvatori - Chase Masterson
 * Talbar - Eve Karpf
 * Horval - Alex Mallinson
 * Captain Webster / Starbaff / Wrath Emperor - John Banks
 * Lt. Dervish - Jaimi Barbakoff
 * Aliona - Kirsty Besterman

Continuity

 * Talbar refers to Vortis. (TV: The Web Planet)
 * It has been 80 years since the Fifth Doctor visited Sharnax (AUDIO: The Burning Prince) and 50 years since the Sixth Doctor visited Cawdor (AUDIO: The Acheron Pulse). Both planets were located in the Drashani Empire, which has since fallen to the Wrath. Vienna uses a memory sifter to ascertain his identity.
 * The Doctor tells Talbar and Horval that he survived the crash-landing of another ship during his fifth incarnation. (AUDIO: The Burning Prince)
 * Kylo tells Aliona that the Doctor has changed his face once again since they last met. (TV: Time and the Rani)
 * Kylo used the traces of Aliona's DNA contained in the royal carcanet, which was given to him by the Sixth Doctor fifty years earlier, to clone her 54 times. (AUDIO: The Acheron Pulse)
 * Vienna refers to the Earth Empire's corrective institutions. (TV: Frontier in Space)
 * The Doctor claims that he can survive in the vacuum of space for a brief period of time. (TV: Nightmare of Eden, TV: Four to Doomsday, AUDIO: The Death Collectors, TV: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe)
 * The Doctor refers to Aliona's cousin the late Empress Cheni. (AUDIO: The Acheron Pulse)