In the Garden of Death (audio story)

In the Garden of Death was the third story in the audio anthology The Eighth Doctor: Time War: Volume Two, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Guy Adams and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, Rakhee Thakrar as Bliss, Nikki Amuka-Bird as Major Tamasan, Jacqueline Pearce as Cardinal Ollistra and Julia McKenzie as the Twelve.

Publisher's summary
In a prison camp like no other, the Most Dangerous Man in the Universe is held in isolation. The rest of the inmates have no memory of who they were or what they might have done.

No memory even of their captors. Until the interrogations begin.

Plot
Bliss (known as Kappa Zeta) makes her way through a jungle surrounded by an electric fence and takes food to the Doctor (known as Alpha) in his high-security cell. Neither know who they are nor know why the Doctor is in his own cell whilst Bliss and the others are in a nearby camp, although the Doctor believes that he must be the most evil man in the universe to warrant such treatment. He is transmatted away to the Daleks for interrogation before he can eat his food and, confronted with his enemies, he says that he can remember.

Bliss returns to the camp and the safe corridor through the jungle is re-electrified. She is greeted by Tau Delta and tells him that the Doctor now believes that they might deserve to be locked up, something which the Twelve (known as Pi Gamma) believes could be true. Tau Delta's mechanical implants begin to fail and the Twelve suggests that, if Bliss wants to keep him alive, she should beat on his chest to get his heart implant working again. If it were her, however, she would rather die. Bliss is successful and Tau Delta thanks her, not blaming the Twelve for her inactivity given her headaches and having recently seen her shouting at herself.

Restless and bored, the Twelve builds a fire and asks Bliss how the enemy could possibly know what she is doing given the limited technology on the planet. The Daleks are watching her using drones disguised as mosquitoes, one of which she destroys. The Twelve does not trust the Doctor as she has a feeling that she used to know him and that they did not get along; she wonders if he is behind their imprisonment and if he is pretending to be trapped with them, but Bliss finds the idea ludicrous.

The Doctor is tortured and refuses to answer the Daleks' questions.

Bliss and the Twelve discuss their interrogations, which they cannot remember. They both have the feeling, however, that they are able to recognise the enemy as soon as they see them. The Twelve starts her fire, but it is almost immediately transmatted away. Once Bliss has gone, the Twelve talks to her previous incarnations, whom she has been keeping subdued so that her fellow prisoners do not think that she is mad. When she sees another mosquito, she destroys it and says to herself that she should not be underestimated.

The prisoners are awoken in the morning by the usual alarm and Bliss takes breakfast to the Doctor. Bliss surmises that the Doctor is able to guess the kind of weapon he was tortured with due to him having been an interrogator or being used to interrogation. They believe from Bliss' tendencies that she could be some sort of engineer and that the Twelve is used to putting others in their place as a grandmother, teacher or soldier. In the middle of their conversation, Bliss is transmatted away for interrogation.

to be completed

Cast

 * The Doctor - Paul McGann
 * Bliss - Rakhee Thakrar
 * The Twelve - Julia McKenzie
 * Borton - Victor McGuire
 * Lamda Epsilon - Rakie Ayola
 * Cardinal Ollistra - Jacqueline Pearce
 * Major Tamasan - Nikki Amuka-Bird
 * The Daleks - Nicholas Briggs

Continuity
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