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2[[caption-width-right:350:The Doctor acquires a honest-to-God alien companion for once- one who isn't [[HandWaved handwaved]] as a HumanAlien, shape-shifter or robot plot device.]]
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4The debut story of the Eighth Doctor's second companion C'rizz, played by Conrad Westmaas.
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6After escaping from the endless nightmare that was [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho052Scherzo "Scherzo"]], the Eighth Doctor and Charley stumble around the unknown wasteland in search of the TARDIS. The air is breathable, the sky has two suns. They're questioned by a guard inside their heads -- the Kro'ka, which will become important in later episodes -- and encounter a runaway reptilian slave named C'rizz.
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8C'rizz had been captured by a race of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot corporate, bureaucratic, religious, slave-driving, insectoid potions masters]] called the Kromon. His betrothed, L'da, has been morphed into a maggot queen and impregnated with Kromon children. C'rizz first tries to kill himself, and when the Doctor and Charley stop him, he resorts to killing L'da to put her out of her misery. Everyone's captured and tortured a few times over, and Charley takes L'da's place as the new maggot queen and mother of the new Kromon babies. Although C'rizz insists on giving her a MercyKilling too, the Doctor rather effortlessly finds a cure and Charley turns back to normal without even remembering anything. C'rizz now has to live with having killed the love of his life for no reason whatsoever.
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10The Doctor wonders what the planet's second, artificial sun is for, and why no one in this universe knows the word "time" despite understanding the concept of its passing. The Kro'ka reveals that C'rizz is a monk, but doesn't reveal how this is significant.
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12[[WhamLine Experiment over]]. [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho054TheNaturalHistoryOfFear Next experiment starting]].
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14!Tropes:
15* ArcWords: "Mother", for the Divergent arc. C'rizz being strapped to the water wheel also continues the "spinning in circles" theme, and may even represent death and rebirth.
16* AlienInvasion: The Kromon aren't native to the world, though they were subject to one first, forcing them to seek habitats elsewhere.
17* BeePeople: The Kromon.
18-->'''The Doctor:''' Termites to be more specific.
19* BewareTheNiceOnes: Charley outright just beats up a guard when the Doctor suggests stealth.
20* BodyHorror: You wouldn't think it's possible in a non-visual medium, but Big Finish manages to pull it off handsomely.
21* BondOneLiner:
22--> '''The Doctor''': "The Kromon have just been introduced to the [[StuffBlowingUp Big Bang theory]]!!"
23* ChekhovsGunman
24* ContinuityNod: The Doctor says he once met UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin and managed to put him off of [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent reptiles for life]]. This happened in the audio adventure [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho022Bloodtide "Bloodtide"]], in his sixth regeneration.
25* CruelAndUnusualDeath: C'rizz is condemned to one for his execution.
26* DoubleStandardRapeSciFi: Charley's fate at the hands of the Kromon is treated as sort of just too weird and unfathomable for the narrative to properly deal with.
27* EasyAmnesia
28* ExplosiveBreeder: See also BodyHorror.
29* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong
30* {{Foreshadowing}}: C'rizz was first mentioned in [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoUnboundE4HeJestsAtScars "He Jests At Scars..."]]
31* FungusHumongous
32* GentleGiant: The Oroog. A sort of giant, soft-spoken mole-like creature.
33* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen
34* HalfHumanHybrid
35* HiveMind: The Queen. ''Every'' [[TheReveal Que]][[HiveQueen en]].
36* HumanoidAliens: Despite being in the Divergent universe which was supposedly ''not'' inhabited by bipedal lifeforms due to Rassilon, but the first corporeal being they meet is one. Explained in "The Next Life", when it's revealed that the Doctor and Charley were added to the morphic field of the Divergent universe during "Scherzo".
37* HybridMonster
38* InsectoidAliens: The Kromon.
39* JabbaTableManners: The Doctor and C'rizz are not thrilled when the Kromon Scientist begins eating.
40* KangarooCourt
41* LegoGenetics
42* LizardFolk: C'rizz and L'da.
43* MercyKilling: C'rizz to L'da.
44* MoleMen
45* MoreExpendableThanYou
46* PublicExecution
47* SdrawkcabName: Though not a SignificantAnagram. One of the Doctor and Charley's allies gets his name changed from C'rizz to Z'rric for disguise purposes.
48* SequelEpisode: This one directly follows [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho052Scherzo Scherzo]] (and by extension [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho050Zagreus Zagreus]] and [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho033Neverland Neverland]].)
49* TheSocialDarwinist: The Kromon are a species of this.
50* SurvivorGuilt
51* TorturePorn
52* VastBureaucracy
53* WaterSourceTampering: How the Kromon subjugate a species.

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