The Crimes of Thomas Brewster (audio story)

The Crimes of Thomas Brewster is a 2011 Big Finish Productions audio play and is the first in the 2011 sixth Doctor audio trilogy.

It is notable for featuring the third appearance of Anna Hope's DI Patricia Menzies character, for turning Fifth Doctor companion Thomas Brewster into an assistant of the sixth, and for retconning Evelyn Smythe's personal timeline to show that there was a period of time where she shared the TARDIS with another companion.

Publisher's summary
''Sent down south to assist the Metropolitan Police in their efforts to investigate the gangland kingpin known only as 'the Doctor', Detective-Inspector Patricia Menzies finds herself up to her neck in laser-armed robot mosquitoes, gun-running criminal overlords, vanishing Tube trains... and not one, but two Doctors.''

Meanwhile the real Doctor, and his academic assistant Professor Evelyn Smythe, have become ensnared in the machinations of an old acquaintance – time-travelling Victorian guttersnipe Thomas Brewster. But what's Brewster's connection to the rapacious robot Terravores? And can anyone contain the gathering swarm?

Cast

 * The Doctor - Colin Baker
 * Evelyn Smythe - Maggie Stables
 * Thomas Brewster - John Pickard
 * DI Patricia Menzies - Anna Hope
 * Raymond Gallagher - David Troughton
 * Jared - Ashley Kumar
 * Phillipa Jackson - Lisa Greenwood
 * Sergeant Bradshaw - Duncan Wisbey
 * Terravore Queen - Helen Goldwyn

Continuity

 * This is the Doctor's first meeting with D.I. Menzies in his personal timeline. However, it is their third meeting from her perspective following BFA: The Condemned and BFA: The Raincloud Man. Menzies elects not to inform the Doctor but he correctly assumes that this is the case. He promises to return the favour when they meet for the first time from her perspective.
 * Menzies tells Evelyn of the time that Charlotte Pollard claimed to have met the Doctor out of order. (BFA: The Raincloud Man)
 * Captain Ruth Matheson would later tell Warrant Officer Charlie Sato about the 2010 Terravore incursion in the London Underground. (CC: Tales from the Vault)

Timeline

 * This story takes place after: BFA: Assassin in the Limelight
 * This story takes place before: BFA: The Feast of Axos