History Recap / BigFinishDoctorWho086TheReaping

In the aftermath, Nate is taken to a hospital and survives, if just barely. Peri and Kathy rekindle their friendship, and Peri decides to stay home, instead of travelling with the Doctor. She wants to keep the rest of the Cyber-technology as a bit of a souvenir. Six is heartbroken by her goodbye, but realises that everything ends, no matter how much they love each other. Back on the moon, he looks in on Peri... only to see her standing by her mother's grave. While Peri was out enrolling in university again, Janine accidentally activated the Cyber-technology, which recognised her as an unauthorised user and self-destructed. Peri goes back to travelling with the Doctor, thoroughly broken.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: This is pretty much "SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The Episode". Peri comes home only to discover that her mother thought she'd died, her mother and Howard have divorced over the fallout (she accused him of murder), and life without Peri has actually been ''easier'' for her friends and family in some ways. And then, once everything is resolved, Peri's decision to keep a bit of Cybermen technology as a souvenir makes her responsible for the worst thing that will ever happen to her, because it blows up and kills her mother, almost as an afterthought to the adventure. They're really not kidding with the title.

* CloningBlues: Alan, all Alans, are cloned from one Alan, and they have been on the Gogglebox showcase for over 2000 years.

* RealityEnsues: This is pretty much "RealityEnsues: The Episode". Peri comes home only to discover that her mother thought she'd died, her mother and Howard have divorced over the fallout (she accused him of murder), and life without Peri has actually been ''easier'' for her friends and family in some ways. And then, once everything is resolved, Peri's decision to keep a bit of Cybermen technology as a souvenir makes her responsible for the worst thing that will ever happen to her, because it blows up and kills her mother, almost as an afterthought to the adventure. They're really not kidding with the title.

* {{Revenge}}
* TheScream

* TheVirus: The Doctor believes there is one consisting of {{Nanomachines}}.
* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill
* WhatHaveIBecome
* WillTheyOrWontThey:

Meanwhile, the Doctor and Woods realise that Cybermen are behind it all -- specifically, Cybermen [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho058TheHarvest from the Doctor's own future]]. Their main agent is a partially converted Anthony. While Janine, Nate and Kathy attempt to cope with seeing him stumbling about, the Doctor finds the Cyberleader, who's badly damaged and trapped inside a stolen TARDIS found "on a burning planet". He needs the Doctor to steer it, to convert the dead into Cybermen, and to change Earth's future forever. The Doctor is definitely not over [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho034SpareParts his Cybermen guilt]] yet, and tries to explain what a horrible idea changing the future is.

Anthony's children, Woods and Janine try to confuse his cyber-implants, using the video tape to remind him of who he truly is. It's enough to halt him while the Doctor talks to the Cyberleader, but Nate is very badly wounded in the process, and Woods is killed. The Doctor, who faces the idea of Nate being murdered just to convince him, begs the Cyberleader to reconsider. But the Cyberleader reveals that everything -- the murder, the manipulation of the police force, Woods -- was set up using their data surveillance, just to manipulate the Doctor into coming down to Earth and helping to restore the Cybermen.

The Doctor eventually relents. He sets about converting corpses into Cybermen and leaves them the technology so they can convert others. The Cyberleader makes the Doctor take him several months into the future of 1984, so he can see the glorious new future of the Cyber race... which the Doctor does. To be precise, he takes the Cyberleader to several months into the future of 1984 ''on Mondas''. Where the Cyberleader is promptly carried off by [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho034SpareParts commander Zheng]] to be repurposed. The Doctor (who, of course, didn't convert anyone whatsoever) wishes him a very Orwellian rest of his life.

In the aftermath, Nate is taken to a hospital and survives, if just barely. Peri and Kathy re-kindle their friendship, and Peri decides to stay home, instead of travelling with the Doctor. She wants to keep the rest of the Cyber-technology as a bit of a souvenir. Six is heartbroken by her goodbye, but realises that everything ends, no matter how much they love each other. Back on the moon, he looks in on Peri... only to see her standing by her mother's grave. While Peri was out enrolling in university again, Janine accidentally activated the Cyber-technology, which recognised her as an unauthorised user and self-destructed. Peri goes back to travelling with the Doctor, thoroughly broken.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Lt Doyle, Mrs Van Gysegham thinks he's odd because he's 'never had a girlfriend'.

* BatmanGambit: The Cyberplanner killed people to near Peri's hometown in order to lure out the Doctor.
* BiggerOnTheInside: Doubles as ForeShadowing.

* CallBack: The Eighth Doctor did -- does -- [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho072TerrorFirma eventually visit the Ice Caves of Shabadabadon]], which the [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho087TheGathering Fifth]], Sixth and Seventh Doctor all had planned to once do.

* CallForward: The Cyberleader stole a TARDIS from a "burning planet"... [[GreatOffscreenWar presumably Gallifrey]].

* CloningBlues: Allan, all Allans, are cloned from one Allan, and they have been on the Gogglebox showcase for over 2000 years.
* ContinuityNod: The Doctor mentions having seen the [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho034SpareParts way the Cybermen came to be]].

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Mrs. Van Gysegham, much to the Doctor's distress.
** Also a case of WomenDrivers.
* ExactEavesdropping: Peri listens in on a conversation where her best friend laments the fact [[TearJerker she's returned]]..
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Cyberplanner is dropped off on Mondas, where he gets recycled for parts by the original [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho034SpareParts Mondas Cybermen]].
* HumanResources: Well, it's a given with a Cybermen story, the real kicker is The Doctor's made to be thought that they're dead body parts.

* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: The Cyberplanner's plan.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Daniel Woods, a pensioner, calls the Doctor a "Peculiar young man." the Doctor thanks him for the compliment.

* RedHerring: The opening sequence has Peri saying goodbye to her mom in a very fond way. Turns out she didn't come back in the TARDIS to before her departure. She was planning on running away to Morocco for a while.

* ShoutOut: The Doctor mentions the Music/ThePussycatDolls and Film/PoliceAcademy as things Peri could experience with the Goggle Box.
** ShoutOut/ToShakespeare: "Once more unto the breech my friends!"

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Peri enjoyed a lot of flirting with Nate before she became a time traveller. They sort of resume it during the episode, but Peri's a few years older and has seen an entire universe. And then Nate is moved to a hospital in a different city after Janine dies, Peri goes back to the Doctor, and they never see each other again.

** The ThemeSong to MiamiVice is heard, and it's described as "That new show".