War Seed (audio story)

 was the second story in the audio anthology Missy and the Monk, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Johnny Candon and featured Michelle Gomez as and Rufus Hound as.

Publisher's summary
takes to Earth to make a point – she can be nice if she wants. In fact, she can save the planet! While the Monk tries to charm the corporate sharks, Missy makes them a better offer. To supply the ultimate warrior, created in the ultimate war...

Plot
to be added

Cast

 * - Michelle Gomez
 * - Rufus Hound
 * Richard Temple - John Telfer
 * Anastasia Temple - Lynsey Murrell
 * The Seed - Samuel Collings

Continuity

 * The Monk is still furious at Missy having removed his brain and thrown it into a ravine in their last adventure. (AUDIO: Body and Soulless)
 * Missy decides to prove to the Monk that she has a benevolent side by saving planet Earth, following on from numerous other adventures. (AUDIO: The Bekdel Test, A Spoonful of Mayhem, Brimstone and Terror). She will later go on re-evalute her malevolence during her rehabiltation by the Twelfth Doctor. (TV: The Pilot, Empress of Mars, The Eaters of Light)
 * The Monk fails miserably at hypnotising Richard Temple, in an attempt to copy Missy. (AUDIO: The Broken Clock et al)
 * Despite previous protestations with Missy, the Monk introduces himself to Richard Temple as "Mr Monk". (AUDIO: Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated et al)
 * Missy claims that the Seed is her son. She will later begin to tell Clara about her "daughter". (TV: The Witch's Familiar)
 * Missy "made" the Seed during the Time War to fight for the Time Lords against the Daleks. (TV: Day of the Doctor, AUDIO: From the Flames et al)
 * Missy reminds the Monk that while she fought in the Time War, the Monk fled. She thinks that this means he had no right to an opinion. (AUDIO: Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated et al)
 * Missy is still annoyed at the fact that she requires the Monk to fly his TARDIS. (AUDIO: Too Many Masters et al)
 * Richard Temple revels at the inner dimensions of the Monk's TARDIS. Missy previously stated that humans' surprise at the dimensions bored her the most. (AUDIO: Too Many Masters)
 * The Monk's TARDIS doors open with the pull of a big red lever. The Doctor's own TARDIS owned a similar one. (TV: The Five Doctors et al)
 * Missy mockingly begs the Monk to let her keep the Temples as her companions. She mentions the resemblance to the Doctor and his "squeaky" companions. (TV: An Unearthly Child et al)
 * Once again, the Monk underestimates Missy's plan. He had previously lied to the Kalvor and the Monk about the Monk's purpose in the destruction of the VAD. (AUDIO: Body and Soulless)
 * The Monk has finally had enough of Missy's torturing of others. He asks her to leave. Surprisingly, a previous incarnation of the Monk manipulated the Eighth Doctor's timeline so that he could not reach his companion Lucie Miller in time. This led to her becoming trapped in a Dalek War, becoming severely disabled before her giving up her life. His part in Lucie's death caused the Doctor to enter a deep depression. (AUDIO: Lucie Miller, To the Death)
 * Upon their next meeting, now in his moustachioed form, the Monk tells the Eighth Doctor that upon every regeneration, he repents his sins and forgives himself, enabling him to start afresh. The Doctor refuses to accept such a denial of murder. (AUDIO: The Side of the Angels)
 * The Monk wishes to visit the Eye of Orion. He claims it's like "Earth after a thunderstorm". The Fifth Doctor previously took Tegan Jovanka and Vislor Turlough to the same place, and Tegan made exactly the same comparison. (TV: The Five Doctors)
 * The Monk suggests that the scheme Temple is involved with sounds more like one of the upon learning about it. (TV: The Mark of the Rani)