Project Destiny (audio story)

Publisher's summary
1999: Leaving her infant son behind, a young mother named Cassandra Scholefield departs Bolton, seeking a better life amid the lights of London.

2004: Despite the best efforts of the time-travelling Doctor, 'Cassie' Schofield dies on Dartmoor, a vampirised victim of the sinister organisation called The Forge.

2021: All grown up, and a nurse at St Gart's Hospital, Thomas Hector Schofield, known as 'Hex', meets and becomes a companion to that time-travelling Doctor… but remains unaware that his alien friend knew his mother, and watched her die.

1854: In the Crimean War, Hex takes a bullet, and is seriously injured. The Doctor promises to return him to St Gart's.

2025: Now. In a London ravaged by a deadly contagion… destiny awaits.

Cast

 * The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
 * Ace - Sophie Aldred
 * Hex - Philip Olivier
 * Sir William Abberton - Stephen Chance
 * Captain Lysandra Aristedes - Maggie O’Neill
 * Sergeant Jarrod - Philip Dinsdale
 * Helen/The Oracle - Ingrid Oliver

Races and species

 * It requires just a drop of family-blood to regenerate a Cassandra Scholefield's dusty remains into a body.
 * The 'contagion' aliens exist as a hive mind.

Continuity

 * Ace looks for the TARDIS key in the cubby-hole on the roof of the TARDIS. (DW: Doctor Who (1996))
 * The events of BFA: Project: Lazarus (to which this story serves as a sequel) are in the past but are in the Doctor's personal future.
 * The end of BFA: The Angel of Scutari leads straight into this story.

Timeline

 * Project: Destiny occurs after: BFA: The Angel of Scutari
 * Project: Destiny occurs before: BFA: A Death in the Family