Line #43 Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDAS2E6TheZygonWhoFellToEarth


1	The Eighth Doctor wants to visit his [[HoYay old poetry buddy]] Creator/WilliamWordsworth, but the TARDIS instead takes them to [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDAS1E3HorrorOfGlamRock Lucie's auntie Pat]] in the 1980's. They're a bit confused. Pat isn't exactly happy to see them, because last time they visited, people got eaten and stuff. Also, she wishes that the Doctor would stop calling her "auntie".
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3	Meanwhile, two businessmen also arrive at the hotel that Pat runs together with her husband Trevor. They're in the music industry, and they're hoping that Trevor is up for PuttingTheBandBackTogether one last time. He's not. In fact, he's horrified to see them. Lucie notes that Pat never mentioned a Trevor, and that her life right now seems to be significantly more interesting than that of the future Pat that she's known all her life.
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5	Also, there's a giant lake monster. Lucie goes to investigate and sees the businessmen (and one woman) suckling on the monster's teats. She's ''very'' squicked out by it, and quickly gets noticed.
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7	The Doctor quickly figures out that Trevor is, in fact, a body-snatching [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons Zygon]], with the lake monster being their pet Skarasen. The original human Trevor is stuck in a body-copying machine in the hotel basement. He and Lucie (who's acting a bit strange) go tell Pat. But Pat already knows, and doesn't even care that her husband is an alien. They're in love, they're having a grand time being eco-hippies and running a hotel, and they'd like to just be left alone now.
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9	The Zygon businessmen conclude that "Trevor" is insane, and that he's deluded himself into believing he can feel a weird human emotion like "love". Trevor and Pat, however, really are happily in love. In fact, the human body in the basement isn't even alive anymore; it was dead when Trevor the Zygon found it, and the Trevor that Pat came to know and love was always just him. The Doctor apologises for having assumed the worst. However, he also realises that Lucie is NotHerself, and is in fact the female Zygon in disguise. Lucie's been kidnapped and is stuck in a body-copying machine somewhere. And the Zygons have come to take Pat's organically-fused Zygon necklace.
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11	The Doctor figures out the Zygon plan: using global warming, they want to make Earth suitable as a new home planet. They engineered the rock music craze of the 1980's (hair spray, compact discs with invisible greenhouse gasses, etc. etc.) to hurry up that process. Which also explains Trevor's passionate love for the environment: he wanted to save the Earth instead. And so, Trevor makes a HeroicSacrifice and destroys the ship. But he's too late to save Pat: blood was still gushing out of the wound from her ripped-off necklace, and the destruction of the ship cost her her life.
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13	Lucie is woken up by a very frantic Doctor. She's missed the whole adventure, and is absolutely horrified to learn that her aunt is dead. The Doctor explains to her that since auntie Pat was pretty much a nobody in the future, time can adjust itself to just sort of... skip around her. That doesn't make Lucie any happier, and she wants to stay at the hotel for the remainder of the night to mourn Pat and make sure the customers are taken care of.
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15	The Doctor goes outside to look at the pretty sky and recite poetry for a bit. And to call Trevor out of the bushes where he's rather obviously hiding. Trevor is devastated to have lost his wife, but he can honour her... by concentrating ''really'' hard, transforming himself into her forever, and taking on her form for the rest of a natural human lifespan without needing his Zygon body-copying machine. The Doctor eventually agrees to always lie to Lucie about it. WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong
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17	[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDAS4E1DeathInBlackpool Well]]...
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19	!!Tropes:
20	* AttackAnimal: The Skarasen.
21	* BodyHorror: Pat's necklace.
22	* BoomerangBigot: Pat accuses the Doctor of being one when he makes a fuss about Trevor's species.
23	* CulturalRebel: Trevor to the Zygons.
24	* GenderBender
25	* GoingNative
26	* GreenAesop: Played straight.
27	* HomoeroticSubtext: Mims seems awfully eager to [[ThereIsOnlyOneBed share a bed with Urquhart.]]
28	* HumanPopsicle: The original Trevor.
29	* InterspeciesRomance: Pat and Trevor.
30	* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: As we find out in later episodes, Lucie considers the Doctor's decision to lie to her JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope, and it leads her to break off their friendship. She ''eventually'' forgives him when much worse things happen to both of them, but their friendship is never the same again.
31	* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Mims.
32	* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Zygons can permanently change form just by thinking really hard.
33	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: If only Trevor hadn't given Pat the necklace to wear...
34	* ScreamingAtSquick: The Zygon interlopers discuss how normally, humans scream and sometimes faint upon seeing their true forms.
35	* ShoutOut: The title and cover art reference the 1976 film ''Film/TheManWhoFellToEarth'', another story of an alien masquerading as a human. (Trevor taking on the form of a human musician likely references the fact that the title role was played by Music/DavidBowie.)
36	* StealthPun: The Bygones Guest House. Probably not the first "bygone"-"Zygon" pun in ''Who'', and [[LamePunReaction sadly]], probably not the last either.
37	* SweetTooth: The Doctor habitually takes his tea with ''six sugars''...
38	** YourFavorite: ...so Lucie knows to make it that way for him.
39	* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Discussed when Urquhart and Mims are checking into the guesthouse. Mims says he'd be cool with it.
40	* UnEvilLaugh: Mims'. He sounds like he's trying much too hard to fake it.
41	* WasItAllALie: After meeting Zygon!Lucie, Pat asks the Doctor if her niece Lucie ever really existed, although she of course does.
42	* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Almost literally said by the Zygons.
43	* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: The Doctor only remembers that you don't call people by family-related titles just 'cos your friends are related to them when Pat is dying.

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