The Final Amendment (audio story)

 was the thirty-ninth Bernice Summerfield audio story released by Big Finish Productions. It was the fifth story of the eighth season.

Publisher's summary
Forget the war and death and boring stuff like that with another trip to the Braxiatel Collection!

"A welcome return of an old favourite!" – Earth Empire News

"A moving parable on what it is to be human in these ever-changing times." – BFM

"Glorious, crukking filth! Hooray!" – Moonmaker

"Something of a curate's egg." – Fandomania

Joined by friends old and new, Jason Kane returns for his 15th series! Will Benny find out about him and Bev? Or about him and Adrian? What is the mysterious connection between Joseph and Doggles? Will Brax ever reveal his sinister plans?

And just who the hell is Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart?

Plot
After receiving an anonymous note asking for help, Benny travels to the White Rabbit on Bedrock XII and finds that the note is from Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart. Kadi knocks her out with a tranquiliser patch and takes her to President Fiona Dickens on Earth, where Benny learns from Fiona's son Howard that clones of herself, Jason and their friends star in a GalNet show. When Jason calls her and tells her that he has done something wrong, Benny is too upset with him to engage and tells him that they will speak once she returns to the Braxiatel Collection.

Benny and Kadi drink at the Hag's Head in the Undercity where Benny realises that all of the patrons are human; Kadi explains that aliens are being excluded and that Fiona seems to have been possessed or replaced, having previously been an ineffectual leader but now sending her political opponents to the Lunar Penal Colony. Unbeknownst to the two of them, Fiona is listening to them through a bug that she had a robot place on Benny and reveals to Howard that she is a clone. She has a clone of Howard kill him and sends clones of Benny and Kadi after them, planning on getting them out of the way so that she can replace as many ministers as possible.

to be completed

Cast

 * Bernice - Lisa Bowerman
 * Narrator - Nicholas Briggs
 * Fiona - Ann Bryron
 * Kadiatu - Sara Carver
 * Bev - Louise Faulkner
 * Jason - Stephen Fewell
 * Howard - Richard Glaves
 * Adrian - Harry Myers
 * Braxiatel - Miles Richardson
 * Joseph - Steven Wickham

Uncredited cast

 * Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy

Events

 * Actors protested against the use of clones in the Equity Uprising in New Newport.

Foods and beverages

 * Benny drinks a gin and tonic.
 * Benny and Kadiatu have a drink in the undercity.

Individuals

 * Bernice mentions Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester.
 * Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart is a descendant of Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart from the 22nd century.
 * Kadiatu was once Earth's Champion.

Planets

 * Benny mentions Terra Alpha.

Television series

 * Hollyoaks: Life on Phobos is broadcast after the Jason Kane Adventures.

Toys

 * Howard has toys of Clarence, Emile, Minko and Peter.

Continuity

 * Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart first appeared in PROSE: Transit. Benny "helped" her (with the whole mad psychosis thing) in PROSE: The Also People and they last encountered each other in PROSE: The Dying Days.
 * Benny mentions that Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart came to her wedding to Jason in Cheldon Bonniface on 24 April 2010. Kadiatu points out that it was hardly an exclusive event, given that Sherlock Holmes also attended. (PROSE: Happy Endings)
 * Benny has been to the Undercity before in PROSE: Original Sin (which is in the "future") which she and Kadiatu have both seen.
 * Time's Vigilante, who met and knew both Benny and Kadiatu, also became Earth's Champion. (PROSE: Set Piece)
 * The pub that Kadiatu and Benny meet up in is the White Rabbit, moved there generations ago. (AUDIO: The Harvest, A Death in the Family)
 * Benny notes when governments go wrong, mentioning the Nazis, (PROSE: Just War) the British government in the 21st century (AUDIO: The Fearmonger, The Time of the Daleks, PROSE: Trading Futures) and Terra Alpha. (TV: The Happiness Patrol)
 * When Benny gets in a fight with her clone, she starts to sing Happy Place. (AUDIO: The Worst Thing in the World)

Adventures of Jason Kane and Bernice Summerfield - TV series
In the TV series excerpts there are several references to previous stories:
 * The Oracle of the Lost and Bernice's cancer: PROSE: Tears of the Oracle
 * The effects of her cancer and the Mary-Sue: PROSE: Return to the Fractured Planet
 * The TV Jason says he deals in PROSE: Death and Diplomacy
 * Irving Braxiatel and his plans: AUDIO: The Crystal of Cantus