History Recap / BigFinishDoctorWho143TheCrimesOfThomasBrewster

* MortonsFork: If the Doctor is actually "Doctor" Gallagher is looking for, he's a rival and must be killed. If not, he's a witness and must be killed.

** Evelyn asks the other Doctor if he remembers her, [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho073ThickerThanWater referring to the fact she's met another of his incarnations from the future before]].

* CallBack: The other Doctor is wearing [[Creator/PeterDavison an Edwardian outfit]].

** Evelyn asks Thomas (who's calling himself the Doctor) if he's planning to use his new weapons collection on the Daleks, whom's she's met [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho011TheApocalypseElement twice]] [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho040Jubilee before]].
** The Doctor mentions the London Underground seems [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebofFear very familiar]].
** The Doctor mentions if he's somewhere where his past selves have been, he [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho097TheWishingBeast gets a prickling sensation]] and that this is due to the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E1DayOfTheDaleks Blinovitch Limitation Effect]].

** The Doctor mentions to Evelyn he's been under the [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoCCS4E2TheGloriousRevolution original London bridge]] with King James II.

* ColdOpen: The Doctor and Evelyn plan to visit the Tower of London, and are beset upon by a giant robot

* TheXOfY: Just like his [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho107TheHauntingOfThomasBrewster the first story Thomas Brewster showed up in]].

* ChaseScene: The Doctor and Evelyn are chased down by a GiantFlyer down the Thames on a speedboat.
** ConvenientEscapeBoat

* ShoutOut: Menzies mentions having read [[Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife The Time Traveler's Wife]] as "study" about the Doctor. Okay, the TheMovie. Okay the first 10 minutes of the movie.

** Flip's ringtone is [[Creator/LadyGaga Lady Gaga]].

* ShapedLikeItself: The police sergeant reports "giant robot mosquitos swarming out of the station like, well, giant robot mosquitos." SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Said by the Doctor when Gallagher call's Evelyn "His girlfriend".

* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Said by the Doctor when Gallagher call's Evelyn "His girlfriend".

** Jared mentions that helping Symbios and fighting the Terravore is better than ''Videogame/CallOfDuty'' and ''[[Film/Avatar]]''.

* ShapedLikeItself: The police sergeant reports "giant robot mosquitos swarming out of the station like, well, giant robot mosquitos."

** Menzies asks Evelyn what happened to [[[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho105TheCondemned Charley Smith]], but Evelyn never met her. Menzies then [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho016StormWarning mentions]] [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho103TheGirlWhoNeverWas she too]] [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho105TheCondemned met the Doctor]] [[HaveWeMetYet out of order]].

* BiggerBad: The Terravore are only creations that do the bidding of someone else, whom we don't find out.

* HaveWeMetYet: DI Mendez has met the Doctor once before, but this is the Doctor's first meeting of DI Mendez.

** Mendez later converts "Can't communicate as long as the TARDIS is in the temporal vortex " to "Can't get a mobile signal".

* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: The Doctor and Thomas play this game. The Doctor first pulls this on Thomas, but Thomas figures it out, but then Mendez says ''[[GenderSwap she's]]'' the Doctor.

* LimitedWardrobe: The Doctor mentions he has a dozen identical [[IWasQuiteAFashionVictim multi coloured coats]]. Evelyn mutters under her breath "One down, eleven left..."

* ShoutOut: Mendez mentions having read [[Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife The Time Traveler's Wife]] as "study" about the Doctor. Okay, the TheMovie. Okay the first 10 minutes of the movie.

* StandardSnippet: DI Mendez' ringtone is the Nokia tune.

* DeadpanSnarker: Patricia Mendez to the degree that The Doctor says he can never take DI Mendez to [[MeaningfulName Literalis II]] because on that planet sarcasm is a capital offence.

* TheBusCameBack: For both DI mendez and Thomas Brewster.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Gallagher is David Troughton, [[Creator/PatrickTroughton Patrick]]'s son.

** Jared mentions that helping Symbios and fighting the Terravore is better than ''Videogame/CallOfDuty'' and ''[[Film/AVATAR Avatar]]''.

--> [[Film/Casablanca I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.]]

* TheXOfY: Just like his [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho107TheHauntingOfThomasBrewster the first story Thomas Brewster showed up in].

* BiggerBad: The Terravore are only creations that do the bidding of someone else, whom we don't find out [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho144TheFeastOfAxos until the next audio play]].

** The Doctor mentions if he's somewhere where his past selves have been, he [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho097TheWishingBeast gets a prickling sensation.]]

* TimeMachine: There's another one aside from the TARDIS in the story. Which is bad news according to the Doctor.

** Mendez later converts "Can't communicate as long as the TARDIS is in the temporal vortex " to "Can't get a mobile signal".

* AlienSky: Somehow the London Underground connects to one.

* TheWatson: The Doctor, pretending to the [[ItMakesSenseInContext the Doctor's companion]], says that as the Doctor's companion it's [[LampshadeHanging his job to ask stupid questions]].

A quick chase scene later has the Doctor in the public eye, and his eye is caught by [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho105TheCondemned DI Menzies]] last seen [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho116TheRaincloudMan when the Doctor was travelling with Charley]]. And The Doctor is, in her books, a notorious [[TheDon Kingpin]] of crime. But there's another Doctor around, ''and'' [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho107TheHauntingOfThomasBrewster Thomas Brewster]] is in town. He's used [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho113TimeReef the Doctor]] as an alias before, but is he behind the robotic menace called the Terravores?

** The Doctor thinks this is the case with the Terravores, the robotic beings.

* HiveMind: The Terravores.

* PhlebotinumAnalogy: The Doctor traps one of the Terravores in a "temporal distortion forcefield", akin to a "Fly caught in amber".

* StockQuotes: When Gallagher is forced into coercion with the Terravores, they offer him a freshly created diamond as payment. He replies with;

* SwordFight: The Doctor fights a Terravore with one, the Terravores being giant robotic creatures shaped like mosquitoes, this seems very apt.