The Dreams of Avarice (audio story)

 was the third story of the eleventh series of The Fourth Doctor Adventures, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Guy Adams and featured Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and John Heffernan as the Nine.

Publisher's summary
The Nine isn't your average robber. A ferociously intelligent and murderous kleptomaniac Time Lord with regenerative dissonance, he's a far more dangerous adversary than most security details are used to. So it's useful that the Doctor is on hand to stop him.

This time more than ever - as the Nine is about to pull off the greatest heist of his criminal career. Though could the consequences be far worse than the crime?

Part one
The Doctor is arrested by Detective Inspector Alan Probert in a high-security research centre on Sandak Minor and admits to trying to steal an experimental compound mass reducer before somebody else did. As the Doctor is interrogated, the Nine and his drones break into the facility and steal the device, taking it and several others to his TARDIS where his companion Thana is reading.

The police station is attacked by a Class-14 Attack Robot, stolen by the Nine from the Tsar of Opek. Probert and Boyd are cornered, but the Doctor saves them by blocking its gun barrel with a cricket ball, triggering a safety feature which shuts it down to prevent a backfire. One of the Nine's drones brings him the last object required to initiate his plan and he approaches the Doctor wearing a personal force field to find out what has happened to his Attack Robot.

After the Nine returns to his TARDIS, the Doctor has Probert lead him to the evidence room where his own TARDIS has been moved from the research centre's roof. The Doctor discovers that the Nine has stolen his dimensional control and, without it, his TARDIS is no longer dimensionally transcendental.

Part two
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Part three
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Part four
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Tom Baker
 * The Nine - John Heffernan
 * Detective Inspector Alan Probert - Richard Dixon
 * Drones / Aide / Sergeant - Mark Elstob
 * Thana / Mayor of Glimmer - Ronni Ancona

Continuity

 * The Fourth Doctor says that he has "more" than nine incarnations. He previously revisited a number of old faces during a mind battle with Morbius. (TV: The Brain of Morbius) He's also met the Tenth Doctor, (AUDIO: Out of Time) was once kidnapped alongside ten other incarnations (COMIC: Endgame) and, although he cannot remember, once joined up with "all thirteen" Doctors to save Gallifrey on the last day of the Last Great Time War. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
 * The Nine and the One talk about CIA plots regarding displacing planets in space. (TV: The Mysterious Planet, The Ultimate Foe; PROSE: The Eight Doctors)