History Recap / BigFinishDoctorWho115FortyFive

* TimeTravel: And not just the TARDIS in False Gods. A localized time field shunts Ace and Jane Templeton into the future where it's a DeathWorld.

* ASpotOfTea: Ace gets ordered to make some in False Gods, and the first thing Dr. Verryman demands when he enters the story in Order of Simplicity is that the kettle gets popped on.
* TheStarscream: Mrs. Crisp with a healthy dose of TheManBehindTheMan.

* MadmanInTheAttic: In False Gods, Howard Carter becomes one.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Creator/BenedictCumberbatch appears in False Gods.

* GodGuise:

** In a way, Forty Five is similar to the [[Creator/PeterDavison Fifth]] Doctor's anthology ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho091CircularTime Circular Time]]'' and [[Creator/ColinBaker Sixth]] Doctor's [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho100 100]].

* MadmanInTheAttic: In False Gods, [[Creator/BenedictCumberbatch Benedict]] portrays his character Howard in this fashion.

** In a way, Forty Five is similar to the [[Creator/PeterDavison Fifth]] Doctor's anthology ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho091CircularTime Circular Time]]''.

* AncientEgypt: False Gods takes place in it.

* CannotSpitItOut: The Doctor becomes forced to tell Hex that [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho045ProjectLazarus his mother, Cassie]], was murdered by the Forge. He manages to keep silent, and Hex remains blissfully unaware for now and convinces himself it was nothing.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Creator/BenedictCumberbatch

* MadmanInTheAttic: In False Gods

* CannotSpitItOut: The Doctor becomes forced to tell Hex that [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho045ProjectLazarus his mother, Cassie]], was murdered by the Forge. [[spoiler: He manages to keep silent, and Hex remains blissfully unaware for now and convinces himself it was nothing.]]
* TheBadGuyWins: In both [[spoiler: "Casualties of War"]] and [[spoiler: "The Word Lord"]].

* LogicBomb: [[spoiler: How the Doctor defeats Nobody No-One. For a while.]]
* MadmanInTheAttic: BenedictCumberbatch!

* {{Sequel}}: "Casualties of War" is one to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric "The Curse Of Fenric"]].

The Doctor soon realises that the phrase "forty-five" has been following them around for weeks, and discovers with horror that the phrase is the CORDIS -- TARDIS equivalent -- of a renegade Word Lord from a dimension composed entirely of language. He ushers all the base's personnel into his TARDIS for protection (who are all very freaked out at no longer needing their translators), puts Hex on research duty and has Ace go into the TARDIS along with the soldiers to protect them. Unfortunately, said Word Lord has named himself Nobody No-One, and any phrase containing his name (say, "No one can enter this base unnoticed" or "Nobody can get into the TARDIS to hurt these men"...) makes him pretty much all-powerful. Nobody promptly becomes corporeal right in the TARDIS console room, avoids the state of temporal grace entirely, murders every last soldier and very happily starts mocking Ace in manic hyperactive glee. The Doctor is absolutely ''terrified'' of his new EvilCounterpart, but eventually, with the help of his companions, reverses the polarity of the TARDIS' translation circuit and confuses the Word Lord into submission by making ''everything'' gibberish. Sadly, Spencer makes a HeroicSacrifice in the process to buy the Doctor more time, after revealing she's already met the Doctor in her own future -- meaning the Web of Time is just a little bit torn.

The Seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex arrive in 2045, at a military base on the South Pole. They're promptly captured and interrogated for the murder of a diplomat, which took place just moments before. The base is always in complete lock-down: no personnel, recording equipment, music players or even books (apart from the safety guidelines manual) are allowed on-site. Everything is recorded and wiped after only forty-five minutes. Team TARDIS is soon rescued from interrogation by Commander Claire Spencer, who's actually read UNIT's files on the Doctor, and they're asked to help solve the murder.

Hex, meanwhile, discovers that Verryman has Creator/BenedictCumberbatch locked in his attic. Cumberbatch, the original creator of the code, has been reduced to a mindless animal, which will be Verryman's fate soon enough as well. While Ace saves Hex from the locked room, the old housekeeper reveals herself to be part of a cult that started all this: the Order of Simplicity, which hopes to eradicate intelligence everyone through the machine, and return nature to a blissfully dumb state. The Doctor points out her hypocrisy in using a machine to do so, and is very frightened when she reveals what the code would do: after enhacing its victims' intelligence, they would be unable to resist solving the code, which would unleash the sapping of all human intelligence. With his own mind slowly deteriorating, the Doctor hooks himself into the machine, re-directs it into Creator/BenedictCumberbatch's mind and shuts off his own body just in time for the code to activate. With only Cumberbatch's animal IQ to go by, the machine collapses in on itself.

The Doctor soon realises that the phrase "forty-five" has been following them around for weeks, and discovers with horror that the phrase is the CORDIS -- TARDIS equivalent -- of a renegade Word Lord from a dimension composed entirely of language. He ushers all the base's personnel into his TARDIS for protection (who are all very freaked out at no longer needing their translators), puts Hex on research duty and has Ace go into the TARDIS along with the soldiers to protect them. Unfortunately, said Word Lord has named himself Nobody No-One, and any phrase containing his name (say, "No one can enter this base unnoticed" or "Nobody can get into the TARDIS to hurt these men"...) makes him pretty much all-powerful. Nobody promptly becomes corporeal right in the TARDIS console room, avoids the state of temporal grace entirely, and very happily starts mocking Ace in manic hyperactive glee. The Doctor is absolutely ''terrified'' of his new EvilCounterpart, but eventually, with the help of his companions, reverses the polarity of the TARDIS' translation circuit and confuses the Word Lord into submission by making ''everything'' gibberish. Sadly, Spencer makes a HeroicSacrifice in the process to buy the Doctor more time, after revealing she's already met the Doctor in her own future -- meaning the Web of Time is just a little bit torn.

* TheBadGuyWins: In both [[spoiler: "Casualties of War"]] and [["The Word Lord"]].

The Seventh Doctor tracks a time disturbance and ends up in 1945, where Ace realises they're right outside the place her mom grew up. Ace's dodgy great-uncle Joey has been collecting equally dodgy alien artifacts, and has gotten his hands on one that forces people to tell the truth. While Hex and the Doctor investigate the bar, Ace introduces herself to her great-grandmother and her three-year-old mom Audrey, pretending to be from the war office. ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric Kathleen]] is out for the day.) Also on the trail of the artifacts is the Forge, who punch Ace in the face and manage to get away with the artifact collection. The Doctor and Hex manage to track down Joey, but he uses his gadget to force them into telling the truth -- Hex into confessing he's just a bit smitten with Ace, and the Doctor into confessing [[[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho045ProjectLazarus who Hex' mother was]]... but just before the Doctor's about to reveal his secret to Hex, the Forge step in, cut off Joey's arm holding the artifact, and warn the Doctor about interfering in their affairs. Hex convinces himself that the Doctor was just lying about knowing anything about Hex' mom. The Doctor tells Ace's great-nan the bad news -- and while the old woman cries her heart out, Ace has a moment with her mom, tucks the little girl in, kisses her and quitly leaves.