History Recap / BigFinishDoctorWho086TheReaping

* 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.

* CallBack: The Eighth Doctor did -- does -- [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho072TerrorFirma eventually visit the Ice Caves of Shabadabadon]].

* BitterAlmonds: How the Doctor knows Lt. Doyle is feeding him poisoned coffee.

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

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.

The Doctor brings Peri back to her home in 1984 Baltimore so she can attend the funeral. She's greeted very coldly by her mother Janine, Anthony's best friend, who thought that her daughter was dead for four months. Janine and Howard had divorced in the meantime (after she accused him of murder), and she turned to the Chambers family for emotional support. After all, she'd similarly been there for Anthony when his own wife died, and Anthony's children -- Cathy and Nate, now staying with Janine -- are Peri's closest friends. But realising that her daughter is not only alive but now also plans to draw all the attention during the funeral to herself, Janine can only give Peri the cold shoulder. Peri breaks down into tears by Anthony's grave.

While Peri struggles with her grief and her mother's extremely cold reaction to her return, she also finds out that her best friend Cathy has been having a much easier life without Peri around. Despite getting more and more emotionally broken, she agrees to watch a video recording of Anthony's last birthday together with Cathy, Nate and Janine. And, having a few years of TARDIS experience under her belt, notices that something's very wrong -- there's a message tacked on at the end of the video, in which Anthony tells everyone he's being controlled. Janine is thoroughly disturbed by how mature and experienced her daughter is when it comes to danger. But after a quick attempt at explaining everything, the makeshift family agrees to folow Peri back to the Doctor.

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 Cathy 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.

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 the original Cybermen 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 Cathy 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.

** Cathy and Peri also always sort of hoped that Janine and Anthony would become a couple, but the two were more LikeBrotherAndSister.

The Doctor, meanwhile, decides to investigate and soon discovers that the murder wasn't what it looked like at all. When he finds the accused, a grieving widower named Mr. Wood, at the police station, the policemen turn out to be mind-controlled. He and Wood escape and have a long, serious discussion about Wood's emotional state, and his grief over losing his wife -- through which the Doctor makes him realise that it's their duty to find out what ''did'' happen.

Meanwhile, the Doctor and Wood 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 Cathy 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, Wood 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. 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, Wood -- was set up using their data surveillance, just to manipulate the Doctor into coming down to Earth and helping to restore the Cybermen.

In the aftermath, Nate is taken to a hospital and survives, if just barely. Peri and Cathy 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 has 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.

Meanwhile, the Doctor and Wood realise that Cybermen are behind it all -- specifically, Cybermen [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho058TheHarvest from the Doctor's own future]]. They main agent is a partially converted Anthony. While Janine, Nate and Cathy 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.

Meanwhile, the Doctor and Wood realise that Cybermen are behind it all -- specifically, Cybermen [[[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho058TheHarvest from the Doctor's own future]]. They main agent is a partially converted Anthony. While Janine, Nate and Cathy 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.

The Doctor, meanwhile, decides to investigate and soon discovers that the murder wasn't what it looked like at all. When he finds the accused, a grieving widower named Mr. Wood, at the police station, the policemen turn out to be mind-controlled. He and Wood escape and have a long, serious discussion about Wood's emotional state, and his gried over losing his wife -- through which the Doctor makes him realise that it's their job to find out what ''did'' happen.

The Doctor, meanwhile, decides to investigate and soon discovers that the murder wasn't what it looked like at all. When he finds the accused, a grieving widow named Mr. Wood, at the police station, the policemen turn out to be mind-controlled. He and Wood escape and have a long, serious discussion about Wood's emotional state, and his gried over losing his wife -- through which the Doctor makes him realise that it's their job to find out what ''did'' happen.

Meanwhile, the Doctor and Wood realise that Cybermen are behind it all -- specifically, Cybermen [[[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho058TheHarvest from the Doctor's own future]]. They main agent is a partially converted Anthony. While Janine, Nate and Cathy 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 Sixth Doctor brings Peri back to her home in 1984 Baltimore, where her best friend Kathy Chambers' father has just been murdered. While Peri struggles with her grief, her mother's cold reaction to her return, and her feelings of exclusion from her old life, a mysterious videotape and sightings of a "silver ghost" in the graveyard suggest there might be more to Mr. Chambers' death than meets the eye.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Mrs. Van Gysegham, much to the Doctor's distress.

* VideoWills: Mr. Chambers leaves one for his children at the end of a home movie of his 40th birthday party, revealing that he was being controlled by the Cybermen and telling them to leave Baltimore.

* ArcNumber: 8687, the significance of which is not revealed until ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho087TheGathering The Gathering]]''.

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Peri and the Chambers kids try to appeal to the partially cyber-converted Anthony Chambers' memories of his human self by showing him videos of himself and reminding him of the family's routines.
* MagicalDatabase: The Gogglebox actually is one, allowing users to access any recorded media from any point in history.

Forms a story arc with ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho087TheGathering The Gathering]]'', the Fifth Doctor story that follows it.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Peri's mom is [[Series/{{Babylon5}} Susan Ivanova]].

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Peri was from Pasadena, California in the TV Show. Here, her family has always been from Baltimore.

* DidNotDotheResearch: Peri was from Pasadena, California in the TV Show. Here, her family has always been from Baltimore.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Peri's mom is [[{{Babylon5}} Susan Ivanova]].