History Recap / BigFinishDoctorWhoCCS6E3TheMemoryCheats

* NotSoDifferent: Zoe draws parallels between her own upbringing and the rationalist future the Communists were trying to create.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Several times Zoe challenges Jen: Does she really believe Zoe to be the ruthless, unfeeling person that the evidence suggests? Her remarks seem at least partly directed at the audience, too.

* CatapultNightmare: According to Zoe, she suffered from bad dreams even while travelling with the Doctor.

Later, Jen returns, having checked the story. [[spoiler: The name of the alien's home planet isn't a planet. It's the file reference of a secret report on the Elite programme, in which Zoe was educated. Zoe was taken from her family as a child with the promise of a better future, and wants to make Jen aware of just what that entailed; so she made up the story in which the same thing happens to the abducted children. She knew that with that information, it would lead Jen to the truth.]]

* [[spoiler:UnreliableNarrator: Zoe invented most of the story, to fit with the facts Jen knows. She deliberately drew herself to match the Company's description of her as a cold, ruthless person. By the end, we don't know how much of the story is true, how much Zoe remembers, and whether what she does remember has any relationship to what she told.]]

The TARDIS landed in Uzbekistan. The Doctor (who'd posed as an agent of the Soviet secret police in order to get a table at a restaurant), Jamie and Zoe discovered that children were disappearing from their homes, one each night. With the aid of the Lansings, a British couple who ran a local school, they set a trap and discovered that an alien was abducting the children. Before they could follow it, Chebrakov, the real investigator, showed up; the Doctor persuaded him and his men to accompany them. They discovered the alien's spaceship, where the children were being held. In the confusion, Chebrakov and his men were killed and the Doctor rendered unconscious.

* ArcWords: "I remember everything -- and I remember nothing."

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Not only does Zoe not remember her adventures with the Doctor, she doesn't even remember the statement she gave in ''Echoes of Grey''.

The TARDIS landed in Uzbekistan. The Doctor (who'd posed as an agent of the Soviet secret police in order to get a table at a restaurant), Jamie and Zoe discovered that children were disappearing from their homes, one each night. With the aid of a British couple who run a local school, they set a trap and discovered that an alien was abducting the children. Before they could follow it, Chebrakov, the real investigator, showed up; the Doctor persuaded him and his men to accompany them. They discovered the alien's spaceship, where the children were being held. In the confusion, Chebrakov and his men were killed and the Doctor rendered unconscious.

The TARDIS landed in Uzbekistan. The Doctor (who'd posed as an agent of the Soviet secret police in order to get a table at a restaurant), Jamie and Zoe discovered that children were disappearing from their homes, one each night. With the aid of a British couple who run a local school, they set a trap and discovered that an alien was abducting the children. Before they could follow it, Chebrakov, the real investigator, showed up; the Doctor persuaded him and his men to accompany them. They discovered the alien's spaceship, where the children were being held. In the confusion, the investigator and his men were killed and the Doctor rendered unconscious.

The TARDIS landed in Uzbekistan. The Doctor (who'd posed as an agent of the Soviet secret police in order to get a table at a restaurant), Jamie and Zoe discovered that children were disappearing from their homes, one each night. With the aid of a British couple who run a local school, they set a trap and discovered that an alien was abducting the children. Before they could follow it, the real investigator showed up; the Doctor persuaded him and his men to accompany them. They discovered the alien's spaceship, where the children were being held. In the confusion, the investigator and his men were killed and the Doctor rendered unconscious.

* [[spoiler:UnreliableNarrator: Zoe invented most of the story, to fit with the facts Jen knows. She deliberately drew herself to match the Company's description of her as a cold, ruthless person. By the end, we don't know how much of the story is true, how much Zoe remembers, or how much she made up.]]
* WaifFu: Zoe throws a man over her shoulder for trying to touch her inappropriately. Promptly [[{{LampshadeHanging}} lampshaded]] -- it's something that's much more likely to happen in her dreams than reality.

* [[spoiler:UnreliableNarrator: Zoe made up most of the story, to fit with the facts Jen knows. She deliberately drew herself to match the Company's description of her as a cold, ruthless person.]]

The TARDIS landed in Uzbekistan. The Doctor (who'd posed as an agent of the Soviet secret police in order to get a table at a restaurant), Jamie and Zoe discovered that children were disappearing from their homes, one each night. With the aid of a British couple who run a local school, they set a trap and discovered that an alien was abducting the children. Before they could follow it, the real investigator showed up; the Doctor persuaded him and his men to accompany them. They discovered the alien's spaceship, where the children were being held. In the confusion, the investigator and his men are killed and the Doctor rendered unconscious.