Recap / Big Finish Doctor Who NEDAS Dark Eyes 2 E 3 Times Horizon

The Doctor and Molly land on the spaceship Orpheus 4. They meet Liv Chenka, who previously met the Doctor in The Traitor, though the Doctor only recalls meeting her in Robophobia. The crew are travelling to the edge of the Universe but are attacked by the Eminence. However it turns out Liv is being controlled by a spy from the energy companies, who have sent her back in time to take the energy source. Liv, with Molly's help, overrides the control. She reveals she is dying due to radiation exposure while escaping the Daleks and faked her medical records to get onto this ship, not expecting to come back. The Doctor reverses the time tides, sending the Eminence back, and saves Liv.

Meanwhile in 1970s London Dr Sally Armstrong is saved from a car hitting her by a man called Harcourt Diath... Three guesses who that is? No, the first two guesses don't count.

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Tropes:

• The Atoner: Liv is believed to be going on this one-way mission for this by Bron, due to her collaboration with the Daleks.
• Body Horror: Someone becoming an eternal warrior of the Eminence ends up looking like a decaying corpse.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: What the Eminence do.
• Call-Back: The Doctor mentions he saw the Eminence take Kalsos.
• Les Collaborateurs: Vi Kruger, who assists the Eminence in fear for her life, and even offers to become an Infinite Warrior, which the Eminence grant to her. When she is rejected by the Eminence and they decide to kill her, she helps defeat them.
• Conqueror from the Future: The Eminence have traveled from the end of the Universe.
• Convenient Terminal Illness: Liv has this due to radiation exposure from spending eight months in a cargo ship hold.
• Dirty Coward: Vi. She redeems herself in the end, though.
• For Science!: Vi Kruger's reason for going on the one-way mission.
• Grand Theft Me: Liv Chenka has been taken over by Randall Verant, a spy for the energy companies.
• Have We Met Yet?: Liv Chenka and the Doctor from their perception have already met. However for Liv this is the second meeting between her and 8, for 8 it is the first.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Liv tries to do this by blowing up a beacon. The Doctor saves her.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Molly tries this with Liv. It works.
• I'm a Doctor, Not the Pilot: Liv Chenka says this to Molly when the ship is shaken.
• Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: Averted with Bron, who is a devout believer in the Goddess.
• Redemption Equals Death: Vi, who has spent her time as a cowardly opportunist and being altogether insufferable, finally manages to do the right thing when she holds back the Eminence long enough for the Doctor to defeat them.
• Sleeper Ship: The Orpheus 4.
• Time Travel for Fun and Profit: Randall Varant has time travelled onto the ship and has been setting up satellites to transmit the energy back to Earth space.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The Eminence are about to do this to Kruger, but she offers to be an Infinite Warrior instead. When her body rejects the Breath of Forever, the Eminence decide to kill her.