Line #22 Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialsReturnOfTheDaleks


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2	A special release, part of the ''AudioPlay/DalekEmpire'' story arc. The story takes place over several years and offers a different perspective on the events in ''Dalek Empire''. Chronologically takes place between the second and third episodes of ''Dalek Empire'''s first series.
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6	The Seventh Doctor arrives on a planet called Zaleria, where Susan Mendes, the Angel Of Mercy, has been working for the Daleks in order to secure a peaceful invasion. The people of Zaleria are hungry for a rebellion. The Doctor tries to get through to a young Kalendorf, but realises that he can't interfere with events just yet -- after all, Kalendorf (a [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho001TheSirensOfTime Knight of Velyshaa]]) needs to survive and go on to do other important things. But eventually, the Doctor realises that the Daleks pose too much of a threat, and chooses to interfere -- revealing that the planet houses tens of thousands of frozen Daleks underneath its layers of ice.
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8	It's soon revealed that the planet wasn't originally called Zaleria: it was [[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E4PlanetOfTheDaleks Spiridon]] all along. Many centuries ago, the first wave of invading Daleks tried to copy the population's inherent invisibility. But the Daleks succumbed to light wave sickness due to their experiments, and the population lost their own invisibility in the process. The Doctor offers himself up to the Daleks in return for the planet's safety, and ends up spending many years working to find a way to make them invisible without negative effects. Of course, he instead spends those years ''increasing'' the sickness, and restoring the population's inherent abilities. By the time he's done, the rebellion (as detailed in Dalek Empire) is strong enough to organise an uprising. The Doctor retreats to his TARDIS, fully expecting to die permanently, but she heals him just in time.
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10	!!Tropes
11	* AnachronicOrder: The Seventh Doctor wakes up and shouts out for Mel, Ace and Hex. He then realizes [[NoodleIncident that they're all gone now...]]
12	* ColdBloodedTorture: The Daleks have an Ogron coldly break Suz's limbs when she won't talk.
13	* LesCollaborateurs What Susan and her friends are. At first, though.
14	* ContinuityPorn: Both to the TV series and to the ''Dalek Empire'' series. The planet turning out to be [[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E4PlanetOfTheDaleks Spiridon]] is the most important.
15	* DarkerAndEdgier: This is the Seventh Doctor towards the end of his life, evidenced by his low, tired voice, ruthless attitude and lack of friends. The fact he's once again facing off against the Daleks doesn't help. He coldly wipes them all out with a virus.
16	* FrazettaMan: The Ogrons are described this way. They also speak with very short sentences, without contractions.
17	* HeroicSacrifice: The Doctor pulls one. He miraculously survives because he gambled on the TARDIS being able to cure him.
18	* {{Interquel}}: This story takes place between the second and third ''Dalek Empire'' stories, "The Human Factor" and "Death to the Daleks!".
19	* KilledMidSentence: Aytrax.
20	* PerspectiveFlip: To ''Dalek Empire''. The Doctor's wandered into this story, with full knowledge of how it's supposed to end.
21	* RequiredSpinoffCrossover: Susan Mendes and Kalendorf are part of the Dalek Empire Spinoff.
22	* LaResistance: Initially subverted, but played straight by the end.
23	* SequelEpisode: Basically one to ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E4PlanetOfTheDaleks Planet of the Daleks]]'' with [[Creator/JonPertwee the Third Doctor]].
24	* SlaveRace: The Ogrons make a return.
25	* TitleDrop: "No one will be safe... from the [[TitleDrop return of the Daleks]]."

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