Previously on… Big Finish Doctor Who, Thomas Hector Schofield, known to his friends as Hex, the Doctor and Ace were in Crimea, in 1845. A series of unfortunate events led to Hex being shot by a spy while working alongside Florence Nightingale.
The Doctor and Ace barely manage to get him into the TARDIS, as they head off for St. Gart's hospital to save their dying friend, but a plague has hit London. And as he tries his best to rescue his friend as well as an entire people, old enemies are still around, because of reasons a lifetime ago.
Last in the Trilogy of The Forge consisting out of Project Twilight, and Project Lazarus.
Project Destiny contains examples of:
- Acquired Poison Immunity: How the Doctor made the Twilight cure, and how he plans to cure the contaminants.
- Blatant Lies:The Doctor: AAAGH I'm ... HGHGGNNNN quite alright.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Part of The Corruption.
- Break the Cutie: Poor, poor Hex.
- Broken Pedestal: Lysandra Aristedesis has spent some time blaming the Doctor for the destruction of the old Forge facility and regarding Nimrod as a hero dedicated to protecting Earth, but her opinion shifts when she learns that the Doctor has created a cure for the current plague and Nimrod deliberately modified that cure to just kill the infected because it was easier.
- Bug War: What the entire situation devolves to.
- Call-Back: The Doctor recognizes The White Rabbit and works with System.
- Lazarus is code for the Doctor.
- Hex mentions having met the Forge in 1945, and recalls the last time he saw people shoot the ill and deceased, they were Daleks.
- Nimrod mentions the Forge is protected by Dalekanium, and says an army of Cybermen couldn't get through it, and that Hex knows all about Cybermen.
- Nimrod, unknowingly, muses how similar Vampire DNA is to a Time-Lord's.
- Nimrod has records of Hex being in France in World War I.
- The Seal of Rassilon is on Time-Lord tombs, not just his own, it seems.
- Call-Forward: Ace looks for a key in the TARDIS cubby hole.
- Came Back Wrong: The Doctor warns of bringing back Hex's mother because of this trope.
- Computer Voice: ORACLE.
- The Corruption
- Enemy Mine: Both the Doctor and Nimrod are willing to set aside their grievances and differences to help combat the plague that's causing the contaminants.
- Even Evil Has Standards: When Nimrod "fixes" the Doctor's cure to not cure the contaminants but rather reduce them to goop, Aristedes immediately takes over control and relieves him of power.
- For the Evulz: There is no clear reason for Nimrod to reveal Cassie's true fate to Hex beyond to screw with the Doctor and Hex's friendship even when he needs the Doctor's help.
- From a Single Cell: Nimrod says that vampires could potentially do this.
- Ghost London
- Have We Met Yet?: Aristedes hates the Doctor for something he hasn't done yet.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Artimes pulls a Taking You with Me.
- Heroic Willpower: The Doctor manages to keep his body's temperature down, and fight off the infection, by sheer force of will.
- "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: The Doctor pulls one on Cassie, Hex's mother.
- Just Following Orders: When Lysandra Aristedesis is about to shoot Ace, Ace asks her this.
- Last-Name Basis: Captain Lysandra Aristedes is only called Aristedes.
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Life Imitates Art: Nimrod says this is the case when referring to From a Single Cell. - Mercy Kill: The Forge execute several on contaminants, which pisses Ace off to no right degree.
- Metaphorically True: The Doctor says Nimrod uses just enough truth in his statements to be believed.
- Missing Mom: Hex finds out what happened to his mother.
- Nuke 'em: The government's final sanction is a missile with a payload that destroys all organic matter.
- Oh, Crap!: When Ace mentions that there is no traffic, in London, the Doctor immediately jumps to this.
- Only a Flesh Wound: The Doctor 'suffers' from one.
- Previously on…: The first minute before the theme consists out of snippets from the ending of "The Angel of Scutari".
- Doubles as a Late-Arrival Spoiler if you skipped that audio play.
- Private Military Contractors: The Forge functions as this in London.
- Professor Guinea Pig: The Doctor.
- Psychic Link: The Contaminants and infected share one.
- Sarcasm-Blind:Hex: Who am I to question orders?ORACLE: YOU-ARE-THOMAS-HECTOR-SCHOFIELD.
- Sequel Episode: To both Project Lazarus and The Angel of Scutanari.
- Sequel Hook: The Doctor when he realizes Aristedes described a Gallifreyan Sarcophagus, immediately has Ace disembark the TARDIS.
- The Slow Path: It's been decades since Nimrod last saw the Doctor. Helps he's a cyborg.
- Our Vampires Are Different: Nimrod and Hex's mother.
- Villain with Good Publicity: Nimrod shed his Armour plating and has been whitewashed as a servant to the crown.
- Voice of the Legion: When the Hivemind speaks through the Doctor.
- Wham Line: The Doctor and Ace realise that Aristedes is angry at him because of something that he hasn't done yet.
- What Could Have Been: According to the writer the story was supposed to have Dr. Elizabeth Klein but due to the story A Thousand Tiny Wings (and its sequels) it was rewritten to feature Nimrod instead.
- You Cannot Kill an Idea: Nimrod says this of the Forge, it's not a building, or an organization, he is the Forge and can and will bring it back.
- Zombie Infectee: The contaminants infect each other with minuscule parasitic eggs that enter the bloodstream, and the Doctor is getting dizzy, and claims it's Only a Flesh Wound...
