He Jests at Scars... (audio story)

 was the fourth Doctor Who Unbound audio story produced by Big Finish Productions. This was the first story not to feature an alternate Doctor, instead featuring Michael Jayston reprising his role as the Valeyard, whom he had last played in 1986's The Ultimate Foe. Bonnie Langford also reprised her role of Melanie Bush. However, like other characters in the Unbound series, these reprisals were of alternate versions of their characters, changed by the scenario presented in the story. The events shown here touch upon what might have happened if the Valeyard had won his trial against the Sixth Doctor and then stole his remaining regenerations.

Publisher's summary
''What if... the Valeyard had won?''

The thing about meddling with time is that one moment something is real, the next, it's been erased. Probability becomes just a possibility. Established truth becomes a theoretical falsehood. Like dominoes, as one timeline falls, the others come cascading down around it. You can engineer new timelines, new possibilities, but before long, the distinction between what is, what was, what might be and what never can be becomes blurred.

Out of this grow myths, lies and legends. The Doctor was one such legend, but no one knows whether he truly ever existed. Well, not now they don't. The Mighty One, ruling the multiverses from the eternal city of Chronopolis, has made sure of that.

Plot
to be added

Cast

 * The Valeyard - Michael Jayston
 * Melanie Bush - Bonnie Langford
 * Coordinator Vansell - Anthony Keetch
 * The President - Tim Preece
 * Ellie Martin - Juliet Warner
 * Nula - Jane MacFarlane
 * Gerrof - Mark Donovan
 * Pakhar / Tannoy Voice / Matrix Voice - Gary Russell

Continuity

 * Ellie complains that the Valeyard criticises her for carrying weapons unless it suits him. In the proper timeline, the Seventh Doctor's companion Ace frequently raises similar objections. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)
 * The Valeyard implies that he's picked up a weapon which belonged to Jack the Ripper. (PROSE: Matrix)
 * Vansell observes the Valeyard and Ellie onboard the Hyperion III in the place of the Sixth Doctor and Mel in the proper timeline. The Valeyard leaves Commodore Travers and his entire crew dead, as well as leaving the "augmented aubergines" to their own devices. (TV: Terror of the Vervoids)
 * Vansell compares the Valeyard to the inchoate form of a Watcher (TV: Logopolis) but claims that it is unprecedented for such a being to achieve independent sentience, implying either that the Time Lords are unaware of the existence of Cho-Je or that he was something else entirely. (TV: Planet of the Spiders)
 * Vansell refers to the Time Lords once sending the Doctor on an ultimately unsuccessful mission to destroy the Daleks after the Valeyard has altered history by giving the Thals a formula to wipe out the Daleks before their creation. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks)
 * Nula is from the planet Archetryx. (AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element)
 * The Valeyard intends to stop his fourth incarnation from destroying Logopolis and to steal the Master's TARDIS. (TV: Logopolis)
 * The First Doctor, Steven Taylor and "an extinct bird" visited Logopolis after leaving 13th century Kyiv. (PROSE: Bunker Soldiers)
 * Vansell observes the Valeyard and Ellie visiting a Silurian bunker in the Galapagos Islands. (AUDIO: Bloodtide)
 * The Valeyard berths his TARDIS at "the exact centre of the space-time vortex", where all timelines meet. (COMIC: Party Animals)
 * The Valeyard and Ellie retrieve the Diadem from a ravine on Pakha. (PROSE: Legacy)