Beyond the Sea (audio story)

 was the forty-first Bernice Summerfield audio story released by Big Finish Productions. It was the first story of the ninth season.

Publisher's summary
A new phase in the never-dull life of Bernice Summerfield opens as she arrives on the human colony world of Maximediras, with her son Peter in tow, to begin work on a much-needed freelance assignment. Relics from a hitherto unknown civilisation have been discovered on the sea bed and Bernice has been hired by the planet's tourist board to travel out on one of their cruises and undertake a survey.

Bernice is suspicious of her employer's motives from the start, but becomes more uneasy as time goes on. Is she being taken advantage of? Is her reputation starting to cause trouble for her? More seriously, she starts to realise that she's travelling on a cruise ship with an unusually high suicide rate.

What is causing this? Or who...?

Plot
to be added

Cast

 * Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman
 * Peter Summerfield - Thomas Grant
 * Rick Hertz - Jeremy James
 * Kerry Lyle - Alice Barclay
 * Tate Booker - Ralf Collie

Continuity

 * Maximediras will play an important role in the events of AUDIO: Resurrecting the Past and AUDIO: Escaping the Future.
 * Benny mentions that she was born on Beta Caprisis. (PROSE: Love and War et al)
 * Maximediras was previously owned by the Interplanetary Mining Corporation. (TV: Colony in Space et al)
 * Benny mentions the circumstances of her leaving the collection. (AUDIO: The Wake)
 * When asked by Rick, Peter tells him that he has killed before (AUDIO: The End of The World)