Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Green-Eyed Monsters (audio story)

Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Green-Eyed Monsters, or simply The Green-Eyed Monsters, was the twelfth Bernice Summerfield audio story produced by Big Finish Productions. This was writer Dave Stone's first audio story.

Publisher's summary
It isn't all fun for a new mum.

Not only do you have to deal with the lack of sleep, the occasional embarrassing leak and the constant round of unexploded nappies — you have to deal with a couple of testeronically-charged idiots who won't get it through their skulls that you don't want either of them to be the Dad. Even though one of them technically is.

So when Benny gets the chance to skip off for a while, heading into a Goronos System packed with duplicity and peril to authenticate certain highly significant artefacts and totems, she doesn't have to think twice.

Only, sometimes, as she'll learn, when heading into duplicity and peril, it's not a good idea to leave a hostage to fortune behind...

Plot
Having decided to maintain a holostatic diary, Benny has Joseph record a message for Peter to view in the future. She is interrupted, however, first by Adrian, who has brought a stuffed bunny for Peter despite having claimed that Killoran males have nothing to do with their young, and then by Jason, who starts an argument with Adrian. She kicks them out and is contacted by Lady Ashantra du Lac of Goron IV; a number of artefacts and totems have been unearthed and Ashantra wants to hire Benny to identify them.

Benny has Jason and Adrian meet her at a bar and hands Peter over to them for the next few days. Accompanied by Joseph, Benny takes a shuttle rather than the Goronian spaceship she was offered and learns about the Goronos System from GalNet; the system is made up of five warring planets who believe that they were once ruled by twin kings with eyes that glow green in the presence of certain artefacts and who will be reincarnated to rule once more. She arrives and is welcomed by Ashantra, who expected her to have brought Peter, as well as identical twins Prince Ronald and Prince Boris.

Jason and Adrian are attacked and Peter is kidnapped. When Jason becomes conscious again, he checks the Collection's transit database and determines that the kidnappers must be locals.

In her room, Benny tries and fails to contact Braxiatel to ask him to keep an eye on Jason and Adrian. She is immediately called by Ashantra, who asks how she is settling in and whether her call was important, making Benny suspicious and leading her to get Joseph to find a frequency unknown to the Goronians. She quickly finds that the artefacts that were found are in fact forgeries or entirely worthless and confronts Ashantra, learning that she spread the false legend of the Twin Kings and intends on using implants to make Ronald and Boris's eyes glow green. To ensure Benny's cooperation, she shows her a holo-recording of Peter.

to be completed

Cast

 * Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman
 * Jason Kane - Stephen Fewell
 * Adrian Wall - Harry Myers
 * Joseph the Porter - Steven Wickham
 * Lady Ashantra - Maria Darling

Continuity

 * Benny and Jason both reference how Benny was possessed by Avril Fenman when Peter was conceived. (PROSE: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Squire's Crystal)
 * Benny mentions Peter's screams being able to destroy buildings, as happened to the Glass Prison in Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Glass Prison.
 * Joseph mentions the Garazone Bazaar, which first appeared in Sword of Orion.