The Last Diner (audio story)

 was the first story in the audio anthology The Year of Martha Jones, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by James Goss and featured Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones and Adjoa Andoh as Francine Jones.

Publisher's summary
Martha arrives on the west coast of the US and finds an old friend waiting to make contact.

A desperate group gathers for her stories. But when Francine arrives, escaped from the Valliant, she isn't so keen to hear about the Doctor...

Cast

 * Martha Jones - Freema Agyeman
 * Francine Jones - Adjoa Andoh
 * Holly - Serin Ibrahim
 * Karen - Marina Sirtis
 * Tucker - Ewart James Walters
 * Toclafane - Clare Louise Connolly

Continuity

 * Leo Jones' location remains unknown. Martha had previously ordered him to go on the run after Harold Saxon had Martha's entire family arrested. (TV: The Sound of Drums)
 * Despite being extremely immobile towards the end of her life, Holly remembers how her mother climbed onto the roof one Christmas Day. (TV: ''The Christmas Invasion)
 * Karen states that the Ghosts that appeared before the Battle of Canary Wharf was caused by mass hallucinations. She states that this theory is widely accepted by humans. (TV: Army of Ghosts)
 * Martha was present when the islands of Japan burnt. (PROSE: The Story of Martha, TV: Last of the Time Lords)
 * Francine Jones blames the presence of Harold Saxon on the Doctor. In an alternate timeline where the Doctor drowned underneath the River Thames, Harold Saxon never escaped Utopia and never became Prime Minister. (TV: Turn Left)
 * Martha once again struggles to have a conversation with Francine without getting frustrated. (TV: 42)
 * Despite Martha keeping up the appearance that she is wandering the Earth giving people simple hope, Francine correctly assumes that there's a secret plan at work. Francine will one day understand the true nature of Martha's meanderings and join in to take down the Master. (TV: Last of the Time Lords)
 * Martha is suspicious of everyone around her, claiming that anyone could be an informant. For that reason, she won't divulge any private information to anyone. Later, Martha would be deceived by Professor Docherty, who informed on Martha's location in the hope that would gain help to locate her son. (TV: Last of the Time Lords)
 * Human slaves are being used to build rockets. The Master would reveal to the Doctor that these rockets would be part of his plan to start a war with the rest of the universe. (TV: Last of the Time Lords)
 * A rocket is used to slaughter hundreds of people inside the diner. Upon rising to power, the Master had previously slaughtered one tenth of the population of Earth with similar callous and disregard of human life. (TV: The Sound of Drums)
 * The Master's disregard for human life on such a grand scale is not a new thing. His next incarnation, Missy, happily incinerated any human that got in her way, including the Doctor's friends. (TV: Death in Heaven, et al)