Zone 10 (audio story)

 was the eighth story in the Torchwood - Monthly Range by Big Finish Productions. It was written by David Llewellyn and featured Naoko Mori as Toshiko Sato.

Publisher's summary
They call it "Pulse" — a radio signal which has puzzled the world for 40 years. But now Toshiko Sato has solved it.

She's uncovered a message which leads her to Russia, and into an uneasy alliance with the KVI — the Russian equivalent of Torchwood. Toshiko needs to get into Zone 10 - a frozen wasteland which officially doesn't exist.

An intergalactic war was once fought in Zone 10. And it turns out there's a survivor.

Plot
Tosh finally manages to decode the radio signal sixty-two miles above Siberia known as Pulse and discovers that it is a message for her, telling her that "the truth is in Zone 10". She offers Maxim, director of the KVI, information on the recently deceased Neil Redmond in exchange for his help and together they go to the KVI's base where Maxim explains that Zone 10 is a remote exclusion zone and the site of unusual phenomena including unexplained disappearances. On the journey, Tosh and Maxim discuss how the KVI had a working arrangement with the Committee in the past and she admits that she came without Torchwood's knowledge to ensure that the mission was not taken from her.

Upon entering Zone 10, Tosh uses a temporal fluctuation dampener to escape fragmented spacetime and allow the two of them to escape a loop. They are followed by somebody that Maxim claims is likely FSB but manage to reach the centre of the zone, where they find that cosmonaut Anna Volokova has been consciously living in a time loop since 1965. An FSB agent arrives, having made a deal with Ivanov, to kill Anna and prevent her from revealing her true mission.

to be completed

Cast

 * Toshiko Sato - Naoko Mori
 * Maxim Ivanov - Krystian Godlewski
 * Anna Volokova - Ella Garland
 * FSB Agent - Geoffrey Breton

Continuity

 * Tosh works with KVI. (PROSE: Trace Memory)
 * KVI was investigating Neil Redmond. (AUDIO: Uncanny Valley)
 * Tosh mentioned a time lock she was working on. (TV: Journey's End)