Line #43 Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho140ADeathInTheFamily


1	PreviouslyOn [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho139ProjectDestiny Doctor Who]]. Thomas Hector Schofield, known to his friends as Hex, was [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho122TheAngelOfScutari shot in 1845 Crimea]]. Taking their friend to the hospital they [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho058TheHarvest first met him]], the Forge, a shady organisation the Doctor faced [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho023ProjectTwilight once before]] ([[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho045ProjectLazarus and would again]] [[HaveWeMetYet in his future]]) under the leadership of [[ManipulativeBastard Nimrod]] fought a plague of alien bugs simply labelled "the contaminants". When Nimrod reveals to Hex what [[MissingMom happened to his mother]] and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent what she really was]], Hex' faith and trust in [[Creator/SylvesterMcCoy the Doctor]] is absolutely shattered and he leaves the crew of the TARDIS. But before the Doctor and Ace depart, they're informed that one of the symbols in the TARDIS is in the Forge archive as well... Which means a Time Lord is buried there.
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3	But what the Doctor finds seems to be beyond possibility, and in tow comes [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho115FortyFive something far worse]], and the return of an [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho073ThickerThanWater old friend]] can spell doom for them both.
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5	! Tropes
6	* AllJustADream: Sort of. The Word Lord manages to destroy every living thing in the universe... except only in the Hand of All, a living story that has no effect on the real universe.
7	* BackForTheDead: Evelyn's natural death.
8	* BadassFingersnap: Whenever Nobody No-One wants to emphasise his power, he does one.
9	* BatmanGambit: The Older Doctor leaves Ace and Hex in places where he needs them...
10	* BlatantLies: Ace's entire spiel about what "her role" is to the Doctor.
11	* BillBillJunkBill: The Doctor when he's rummaging through the alien tech.
12	* BorrowedCatchPhrase:
13	-->'''The Doctor:''' [[Series/{{Columbo}} Just one more thing]]...
14	* BreakTheCutie: The previous audio play tore down Hex. This episode makes sure to kick him while he's down, and ''hard''.
15	* TheBusCameBack: It's Evelyn!
16	* BusCrash: Rossiter, Evelyn's husband, has passed away since the last time we saw him.
17	* CallBack: The Doctor finds a [[ReverseThePolarity Neutron]] [[Creator/JonPertwee Polariser]] in a backpack of alien tech.
18	** The Doctor mentions the events of [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho115FortyFive Antartica]].
19	** The Doctor employs a [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors mind probe]].
20	** Hex rants on that the bad events never stop, with [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho089NoMansLand the Forge]], [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho058TheHarvest the Cybermen]], [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho121EnemyOfTheDaleks the Daleks]] and [[NoodleIncident the sky falling in]].
21	** The current Nobody No-One wears a scarf as [[Creator/TomBaker an homage]], and calls the Doctor "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho045ProjectLazarus Lazarus]]".
22	** Evelyn recalls the events of [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho023ProjectTwilight Project Twilight]] and how she came to meet Hex' mother.
23	** Pelachan's church has as "Holy relics" the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E3TheIceWarriors jawbone of an Ice Warrior]], half a Cyberman's arm, and a Dalek's eyestalk.
24	** When the Older Doctor asks Ace where she'd draw the line at saving others' lives. Picking up a gun, firing a missile, destroying a planet and she quips: "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks You've done it]]."
25	** To override the Doctor's programmed path for the TARDIS, Ace activates the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E3TheEdgeofDestruction Fast return switch]].
26	** The only currency Ace has in her pockets are [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho025Colditz Reichsmarks]].
27	** [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho139ProjectDestiny Aristedes]] is mentioned as "a serious woman" that shows up to talk to Henry to warn him about Ace.
28	** The TARDIS [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho122TheAngelOfScutari is still white]].
29	** Ace says she was [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E4Dragonfire still a kid]] when she started living in the TARDIS.
30	** [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho115FortyFive Four out of five]].
31	** When Evelyn she talks to the Doctor, they speak about how she met this incarnation before, [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho022Bloodtide Charles Darwin]] and [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoCCS5E5ATownCalledFortune leaping from steam trains]]...
32	*** In a partial CallForward (due to the AnachronicOrder Creator/BigFinish is brought out) she also mentions [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho143TheCrimesOfThomasBrewster Thomas Brewster]] and [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho144TheFeastOfAxos the Axos]].
33	** When Nobody No-One is systematically summing up the universe, he mentions Daleks, humans, Time Lords and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionofTime Sontarans]].
34	** CallBack: Evelyn's last thoughts are of [[Creator/ColinBaker her Doctor]], in his bright coat.
35	** She also mentions the Doctor once told her [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho057ArrangementsForWar he doesn't always win]].
36	* CallingTheOldManOut: The Word Lord brings this up a lot. But Evelyn really takes it to the Seventh Doctor hard.
37	* ChekhovsGun: The TG tablet, Space-time Stamp, and Mobius chip.
38	* TheChessmaster: The Older Doctor. Oh so much. Although Ace is forced to come up with a large bit of it.
39	* ComplimentBackfire:
40	--> '''Evelyn''': You are a monster.
41	--> '''Nobody No-One''': Thank you, grandma!
42	* ContinuityCavalcade: When the Doctor exposes his full memories to Nobody No-One we hear, (according to the TARDIS wikia); [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho023ProjectTwilight Project Twilight]]; [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho045ProjectLazarus Project Lazarus]]; [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho139ProjectDestiny Project Destiny]]; [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho099SonOfTheDragon Son of the Dragon]]; [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho127CastleOfFear Castle of Fear]]; [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho027TheOneDoctor The One Doctor]]; [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho040Jubilee Jubilee]]; [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho025Colditz Colditz]]; [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho120TheMagicMousetrap The Magic Mousetrap]]; [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho121EnemyOfTheDaleks Enemy of the Daleks]]; [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoCCS4E4ThePyralisEffect The Pyralis Effect]].
43	* CrystalDragonJesus: And there is NO such thing as a (''timeship'').
44	* DelayedRippleEffect: The Older Doctor says this is the reason why he can stand around and talk to Hex and Ace, while his younger self has died.
45	* DoggedNiceGuy: Henry is nothing but nice to Ace, and she takes advantage of him, despite bearing no ill will.
46	* EurekaMoment: When Henry says "Nobody can change that" Ace realizes what she can do.
47	* ExactWords: Whenever someone says "No one" or "Nobody" Nobody No-One can use whatever they said against them. Ace manages to use this against him by exploiting the idea that as a Word Lord, it's how the words are ''written'' rather than ''spoken'' that's important...
48	* FinalFirstHug: Ace and the Older Doctor hug.
49	* ForeseeingMyDeath: The Doctor claims he has "something similar" to a birthday calendar, but then for "other kinds of dates".
50	* HaveWeMetYet: Nobody No-One is from the Doctor's future.
51	* HumanPopsicle: The Doctor says Time Lord sarcophagi are more like hibernation chambers than coffins.
52	* IndyPloy: The Doctor says he has to be a [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] because of past failures, like Hex' mom.
53	* INeverToldYouMyName: When that strange passerby calls Hex by his name...
54	* ItsPersonal: Ace is positively gleeful when she has the Word Lord on the ropes, but it's nothing on the Doctor's gloating. There hasn't been this much hate dripping from Creator/SylvesterMcCoy's voice since "Remembrance of the Daleks."
55	* KarmicDeath
56	* LaughingMad: When Nobody No-One sends Hex running after dropping a grenade in the duck pond.
57	* LateToTheTragedy: The Doctor is late to [[ItMakesSenseInContext own death]]. Twice.
58	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The Word Lord brings this up when they are about to die, telling the seventh Doctor that he may just exist in a world of words and sounds.
59	* LikeASonToMe: The Older Doctor says this to Ace.
60	* LongList: Nobody No-One's list of things he's going to kill in the universe.
61	* LotusEaterMachine: The Handaveil on Pelachan is one, as long as there is a storyteller.
62	* ManipulativeBastard: The Doctor is in rare form, setting up poor Henry as a LoveInterest solely for his last name, then using the ''death'' of his previous incarnation's best friend as a weapon.
63	* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Ace and Henry.
64	* NoodleIncident: How Hex recognizes an Ice Warrior's jawbone isn't explained.
65	** Ace's dealings outside of the White Rabbit pub are very similar. She fights Polymorphic Soot monsters with L. S. Lowry and he flew a Loom shuttle to safety. For starters.
66	* NotQuiteDead: Nobody No-One is good at this.
67	* TheNthDoctor: The Nth Word-Lord: He even uses the word "regenerated".
68	* OhCrap:
69	--> '''Other Doctor''': ... nobody is coming... ... nobody is coming...\
70	'''Ace''': Did he say...!?
71	--> '''The Doctor''': I'm afraid I opened up a nasty can of ''words''...
72	* OmnicidalManiac: Nobody No-One turns into one towards the end.
73	* PreviouslyOn: Like the [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho139ProjectDestiny episode before it]], this shows snippets from the story prior to it in order to explain the context of the events.
74	* RealityWarper: Nobody No-One, who can use people's ExactWords to influence the fabric of reality itself.
75	* ShoutOut: Nobody No-One calls the Doctor "Series/{{Columbo}} in a hat" due to his tendency to come back, again and again.
76	* ShutUpHannibal: The Seventh Doctor to the Word Lord.
77	* SoProudOfYou: The Older Doctor's Last Words to Hex.
78	* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Henry Noon''e''.
79	* StoryBreakerPower: Nobody's abilities brought up to eleven by the unfortunate frequency with which his name is used to describe imposible situations. However, the use of his name is a DramaPreservingHandicap.
80	* TheStoryteller: In this case, essentially a human host for a story existing as an independent entity.
81	* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: The history and religion of Pelachan is based on CargoCult.
82	* TakingYouWithMe: Evelyn was already due to die at this time and at this place. The Doctor's plan, however, allows her to take Nobody No-One with her.
83	* TearJerker: The Older Doctor and his goodbyes to both Ace and Hex.
84	** When the Doctor (unintentionally) erases all of [[ItMakesSenseInContext Dorothy's]] past.
85	** Evelyn's death. Just... ''Evelyn's death''.
86	* TemporalParadox: Nobody No-One is not bound by the laws of time and space, and can easily kill a younger version of the Doctor without worry, despite having "fought the Doctor across all of existence".
87	* TimeSkip: After the first part, both Hex and Ace spend some time in their own time / space periods.

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