Double (audio story)

 was the sixty-ninth/seventieth story in the Torchwood - Monthly Range by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Guy Adams, and introduced and starred Louise Jameson as Roberta Craven.

Publisher's summary
Part One

1970s London is a place of suspicion and murder. The assassination of an entire embassy comes to the attention of Torchwood.

There's a global energy crisis. There's an alien invasion. Petrochemical companies are subject to hostile take overs by the mysterious Nessoil. Extremely hostile take overs.

Roberta Craven was once a spy. Now she's broken. But she can still see the patterns in the world. And they're closing in around her.

Part Two

A lot of people have died, and not for the first time in her life, Roberta Craven has changed sides.

Travelling the world with a dead man, she’s negotiating world peace. Or is she starting a world war?

The Autons are coming. And Torchwood won’t stop them...

Plot
On 23 October 1973, the entire staff of the Libyan embassy in St James's Square are found with their necks broken and Roberta Craven of Torchwood One investigates, suspecting that the murders are due to oil. The United Kingdom's oil supply is being dealt with by Herman Baker of the Department of Trade and Industry, who has switched from supporting Ossam to Nes Oil and has an Auton suffocate Toby Green from the former before placing his body in a brothel. Following Mr Green's death and Ossam's takeover, journalist Neal Hart unsuccessfully attempts to interview Nes Oil's managing director David MacClean, a prostitute from the brothel and Mr Baker and is threatened into dropping the story upon returning home.

Roberta stakes out Mr Baker's house with Patty, stealing Neal's wallet during his brief visit, and meets up with a woman in a sauna to confirm that the Americans did not kill the Libyans. She is told by her old MI5 colleague Cornwell to stop looking into the "Libyan business" and that Nes Oil are being protected, but she refuses and lets him know that she is aware of the presence of Autons in the UK.

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Cast

 * Roberta Craven - Louise Jameson
 * Patty - Emma Lowndes
 * Herman Baker - Don Gilét
 * Neal Hart - Omari Douglas
 * Cornwell - Anthony Howell
 * Al Sabah / Mac - Reda Elazouar
 * Veronica - Kim Ismay
 * Simeon - Barnaby Edwards
 * The Nestene Consciousness - Sam Stafford

Continuity
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