Mastermind (audio story)

Mastermind was the sixty-ninth release in the Companion Chronicles audio range. It was the first story of season 8. It was written by Jonathan Morris and featured the Master.

Publisher's summary
The Vault — an archive of alien artefacts securely stored deep beneath the Angel of the North.

There's also a prisoner in the Vault. An extraterrestrial known as. He has been on Earth for some time, but now he's under lock and key.

This is his story.

Or, as Captain Ruth Matheson and Warrant Officer Charlie Sato discover… perhaps it is theirs.

Plot
to be added

Cast

 * The Master - Geoffrey Beevers
 * Ruth Matheson - Daphne Ashbrook
 * Charlie Sato - Yee Jee Tso

Continuity

 * Charlie refers to the Thames Mead Massacre in London in 2012. (AUDIO: The Curse of Davros)
 * Charlie refers to the Master's aliases of Professor Emil Keller (TV: The Mind of Evil), Reverend Magister (TV: The Dæmons) and Professor Thascalos (TV: The Time Monster).
 * The Master tells Charlie that he is "known as the Master...universally." (TV: Terror of the Autons)
 * The Master references the events of TV: Doctor Who and PROSE: Forgotten.
 * The Master refers to his current form as a "Morphant Deathworm." (PROSE: The Eight Doctors; COMIC: The Fallen)
 * After stealing the body of Don Maestro's son Michael, the Master is elated at having "a new body at last." (TV: The Keeper of Traken)
 * After following under the Master's influence, Charlie and Ruth were sent to Fortress Island, which had become a retirement home for ex-UNIT operatives who posed a security risk. They were later brought back into active service by Captain Mike Yates, who needed his help to investigate what had happened to the Vault since he and Matheson left. (AUDIO: The Screaming Skull)