Operation Dusk (audio story)

Operation Dusk was the first story story in the audio anthology Far from Home, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Alfie Shaw and featured Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor, Christopher Naylor as Harry Sullivan and Eleanor Crooks as Naomi Cross.

Publisher's summary
London during the Blitz, a city covered in darkness. It keeps everyone safe - until the darkness gets hungry. As the questions and victims mount up, the Doctor, Harry and Naomi are called in to investigate.

Why have the Vashta Nerada on Earth started eating people? And, perhaps more importantly, why didn’t they eat the cat?

Part one
After the bones of MI5 agent Harriet Thompson are found in her bombed house, the Doctor, Harry and Naomi are called in by Churchill to help Sebastian Hardcastle investigate. The Doctor deduces that particularly aggressive Vashta Nerada are responsible, although he does not know why they would spare Thompson's cat, and learns from Thompson's handler, Nathaniel Woodcoat, that Thompson had come to believe that Georgina Stevens was responsible for defective communications equipment. Wondering if the Nazis are in league with Vashta Nerada, he meets with Georgina.

Harry and Naomi learn from Wilton that journalist Marion Johnstone visited Thompson on the night of her death and, after searching Thompson's house and finding a note about Operation Dusk, question her at The Gazette. They regroup with the Doctor, who is suspicious of Georgina due to her reaction to him claiming to be from the War Office, and share their suspicion of Marion, who closed her notebook when they visited her.

Whilst Harry and Hardcastle go to speak with Georgina, the Doctor and Naomi go to search Marion's things at The Gazette and break into the office using the sonic screwdriver, finding a glowing man in a gas mask searching Marion's desk. The man points a gun at them. As Harry and Hardcastle make their way to Georgina's factory, they are stopped by men in a van who kidnap Harry and take him before Marion, who demands to know about Operation Dusk.

Part two
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Part three
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Cast

 * The Doctor – Sylvester McCoy
 * Harry Sullivan – Christopher Naylor
 * Naomi Cross - Eleanor Crooks
 * Sebastian Hardcastle – Nicholas Rowe
 * Marion Johnstone - Emily Raymond
 * Georgina Stevens / Harriet Thompson - Pepter Lunkuse
 * Nathaniel Woodcoat - Leon Parris

Worldbuilding

 * Harold Westlake is a newsreader.
 * Matilda is a cat.
 * The TARDIS crew are answering a summons from Winston Churchill.
 * Harry calls the Doctor Columbo.
 * Harry and Naomi question Wilton.
 * Marion works for The Gazette.
 * Georgina's father and brother are dead.
 * Marion's husband died at the Battle of Dunkirk.
 * The Abwehr are German military intelligence.

Continuity
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