The Furies (audio story)

 was the last full cast audio story in the third series of The Diary of River Song, released in January 2018 by Big Finish Productions.

Publisher's summary
Stories of the Furies abound across the cosmos: vengeful spirits hounding guilty souls to death. Madame Kovarian taught them to a child raised in fear, trained to kill, and placed inside a spacesuit.

Kovarian knows the universe’s greatest threat, the Doctor must be eliminated. An assassin was created for that purpose.

But if Melody Pond has failed, Kovarian will simply have to try again…

Plot
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Cast

 * River Song - Alex Kingston
 * Madame Kovarian - Frances Barber
 * Brooke 2 - Nina Toussaint-White
 * H-One - Francesca Zoutewelle
 * H-Two - Francesca Zoutewelle
 * Mission Captain - Francesca Zoutewelle
 * O - Pippa Bennett-Warner
 * The Deterrent - Pippa Bennett-Warner

Continuity

 * Madame Kovarian reminds River that she made River what she is. (TV: Closing Time)
 * In a fit of anger, River warns Kovarian that she "can wait". Both of her parents were so notorious for their ability to wait that the Eleventh Doctor nicknamed them The Girl Who Waited and The Boy Who Waited. (TV: The Eleventh Hour, The Big Bang)
 * H-One and H-Two have an argument over time sensitivity. (TV: Warriors' Gate) Brooke 2 announces to them that River is on board the ship and that she's "complicated". River has previously described herself as a "complicated space-time event". (TV: Flesh and Stone)
 * River tells Kovarian she stole her childhood from both her as well as Amy and Rory. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War, WC: Prequel (Let's Kill Hitler)) River notes that she is a reminder of Amy's infertility. (TV: Asylum of the Daleks)
 * Kovarian compares The Deterrent's arrival to the militarisation at the start of the Siege on Trenzalore. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)
 * River tells Brooke 2 she is no stranger to being imprisoned. (TV: The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone, The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon, A Good Man Goes to War, Let's Kill Hitler, Closing Time, WC: ''Prequel (The Impossible Astronaut))
 * Kovarian shuts down the idea of contacting the Papal Mainframe. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War)
 * River asks her clones if they can have a discussion like civilised psychopaths. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler, The Angels Take Manhattan)
 * River expresses to Kovarian that Brooke, Tarn, Lake, and Lily were all special and worthy of love. (AUDIO: The Lady in the Lake, A Requiem for the Doctor, My Dinner with Andrew)