Project Lazarus (audio story)

Project: Lazarus was the second in a loose arc of three audio stories that featured the Forge. This is also one of only six audio stories in which Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy appear together.

Publisher's summary
"I'll survive, Doctor. I always do."

Unfinished business.

A frightened girl is stalked in a land of eternal night.

A hunter longs for recognition and power.

A traveller in time returns to correct the mistakes of the past and faces a danger that could rob him of his future. Unless his future intervenes.

And in the shadows stands Nimrod. Waiting...

Welcome to the Forge.

Cast

 * The Sixth Doctor - Colin Baker
 * The Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
 * Evelyn Smythe - Maggie Stables
 * Cassie Scholefield - Rosie Cavaliero
 * Nimrod - Stephen Chance
 * Oracle - Emma Collier
 * Sergeant Firth - Adam Woodroffe
 * Dr. Crumpton - Ingrid Evans
 * Professor Harket - Vidar Magnussen

Biology

 * Nimrod attempts to induce a regeneration in the Sixth Doctor.

The Doctor

 * Upon arriving in the Forge in 2008, the Seventh Doctor claims that "a century or three" have passed in his personal timeline since his previous incarnation visited it in 2004.
 * The Seventh Doctor briefly considers returning to Gallifrey.

Gallifreyan culture

 * The Decree of Rassilon is mentioned in relation to Vampires.

Individuals

 * The Seventh Doctor later meets Cassie's son Thomas Hector Schofield or Hex.

Science

 * The Forge's archive room contains zanium and a sample of Axonite.

Continuity

 * From the cover art and Nimrod's comment, the Sixth Doctor is wearing his blue coat featured in WC: Real Time.
 * The tension between the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn from this audio leads straight into BFA: Arrangements for War.
 * The Seventh Doctor, having met Cassie's son Thomas Hector "Hex" Scholefield in BFA: The Harvest, goes to see Evelyn on Világ in BFA: Thicker than Water to inform that he has taken Hex as one of his companions.
 * The Forge's computer Oracle recognises the Seventh Doctor from descriptions of his appearance given in reports from incidents in Shoreditch in 1963 (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks) and Carbury in 1997 (DW: Battlefield).
 * Earlier in his personal timeline, the Seventh Doctor visited the Forge's beta facility in London in 2025 in the company of Ace and Hex. Nimrod, who was by then referring to himself by his original name of Sir William Abberton, informed him that he was present at destruction of the Forge's alpha facility in 2008. The Seventh Doctor attempted to stop him from revealing any further information about his personal future so as not to disrupt the Web of Time. (BFA: Project: Destiny)
 * Nimrod would later inform Hex that the Doctor was involved in his mother's death (BFA: Project: Destiny) whereas the Seventh Doctor and Evelyn subsequently explained the circumstances of her death in more detail (BFA: A Death in the Family). Notably, this occurred many years earlier in the Seventh Doctor's personal timeline than the events of the second part of Project: Lazarus.
 * The Seventh Doctor tells Nimrod that Evelyn never forgave him for Cassie's death "even at the end." (BFA: A Death in the Family)

For the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn

 * Project: Lazarus occurs after WC: Real Time
 * Project: Lazarus occurs before BFA: Arrangements for War

For the Seventh Doctor

 * Project: Lazarus occurs after TN: Companion Piece
 * Project: Lazarus occurs before BFA: A Death in the Family

For Nimrod

 * Project: Lazarus occurs after BFA: Project: Twilight
 * Project: Lazarus occurs before BFA: Project: Destiny