United (audio story)

United was the fourth and final story in the audio anthology, Assembled, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Matt Fitton and featured Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart, Ingrid Oliver as Petronella Osgood, James Joyce as Josh Carter, Warren Brown as Sam Bishop, Katy Manning as Jo Jones, Richard Franklin as Mike Yates and John Levene as John Benton.

Publisher's summary
The Silurians hold Great Britain under siege. Grand Marshal Jastrok rules the seas and the skies with reptile forces. On the ground, Commander Kalana crushes all ape resistance.

With Kate Stewart trapped, defence of the realm falls to UNIT's old guard. Jo Jones, Mike Yates and John Benton are ready to do their duty and stand united.

Plot
In addition to isolated attacks by Silurians on human military bases, the seas around the United Kingdom are plagued by Krelix's sea-beasts and genetically-modified pterosaurs control the skies. The monsters take out several RAF planes and UNIT, stranded at sea, rescue the survivors and take them to the Bay of Biscay. Osgood lacks the resources to block the Silurians' control signal and Sam's reports indicate that conventional weapons cannot harm the creatures.

Yates joins Jo and Benton in UNIT HQ and Kate puts the three of them in command of local operations whilst she is away due to their experience with the Silurians and Sea Devils. Jastrok has been spotted at Regent's Park with land hybrids, heading to London with an escort whilst his scientists work on replicating the fear trigger. Osgood and Josh transmat to them, getting within the required distance in a mini-submersible before an allosaurus ate it, and Osgood starts adapting a directed psionic beam emitter to jam the reptiles brains.

Jastrok enters Westminster Abbey with his escort and calls for a meeting with the leaders of humanity under truce. As Jo and Benton are assisting Osgood, Yates and Josh answer the call and meet with him, but he refuses to negotiate and demands humanity's surrender and enslavement. They are given until sunrise tomorrow to consider it. Whilst Yates and Josh are away, Kalana uses a fear trigger to aid her and her soldiers as she captures a nuclear base and locates the warheads as a contingency. Jastrok takes residence in the Houses of Parliament and makes it his council chamber, declaring the ushering in of the New Silurian Epoch and renaming Great Britain as Nova Siluria.

Jo takes the Sontaran transmat technology to transmat to the Houses of Parliament and attempts to negotiate with Jastrok, but he intends on holding the British people hostage and has her sent to Kalana upon realising that she is with UNIT.

to be completed

Cast

 * Kate Stewart - Jemma Redgrave
 * Osgood - Ingrid Oliver
 * Sam Bishop - Warren Brown
 * Josh Carter - James Joyce
 * Jo Jones - Katy Manning
 * Mike Yates - Richard Franklin
 * John Benton - John Levene
 * Jastrok - Richard Hope
 * Kalana - Neve McIntosh

Continuity

 * Kate and Osgood talk about Captain Burmaster. (AUDIO: Call to Arms, Tidal Wave)
 * Osgood mentions Project Charybdis. (AUDIO: Tidal Wave)
 * Benton says that Yates is late to the party again. (AUDIO: Call to Arms)
 * Yates and Benton remember the last time dinosaurs walked down Lewisham. (TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs)
 * Yates recalls the Silurians' attempt to wipe humanity with a plague. (TV: Doctor Who and the Silurians)
 * Jo refers to Santiago Jones keeping her up with all the latest technology. (TV: Death of the Doctor)
 * Benton uses the command "Chap with wings there, five round rapid". (TV: The Dæmons)
 * Jastrok bemoans Eldane, (TV: Cold Blood) Icthar and the Triads. (TV: Warriors of the Deep)
 * Kate uses Lyme Industries to create a cold spell in the weather and to create some fuel subsidies. (AUDIO: Power Cell et al.)