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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/siegeofbigben.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:A Doctor in an alternate world working with an alternate version of UNIT? [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoUnboundE2SympathyForTheDevil It's been done.]]]]
3	"The Siege of Big Ben" is a Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor and Jackie Tyler story, set after the events of "Journey's End". Notably, this is the first reappearance of the Meta-Crisis Doctor in any media since his birth. Written by Joseph Lidster, read in the first person by Camille Coduri.
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7	Jackie Tyler is settled into her new life, in Pete's World. She's head of food distribution for U.N.I.T, a super secret organisation devoted to fighting off alien threats. Well, the soldiers do that, but Jackie is there to give them the chips and beans they need to do it. But one day, when everyone is lured out on a mission, the base comes under siege, and it's down to her to stop it and save the world. Her and UNIT's scientific advisor.
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9	But the Doctor isn't the man he used to be.
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11	!!''The Siege of Big Ben'' contains examples of:
12	* AlternateUniverse: The audio once again returns to Pete's World, giving a few more little differences. According to Jackie, they play football 'backwards', did something awful to the Royal Family, and [[Series/EastEnders EastEnders]] doesn't exist.
13	* AntiVillain: Brigadier Krista Lateef, who is faking a raid on Big Ben entirely in an attempt to gain access to the Meta-Crisis Doctor's half-formed TARDIS and save her daughter from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E6TheAgeOfSteel Cyber-Conversion]].
14	* CallBack:
15	** Jackie mentions several of her previous encounters with aliens and the Doctor, including:
16	*** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E5WorldWarThree Killing a big green alien with vinegar]]
17	*** [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion Aliens making people stand on rooves]]
18	*** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth The death of (her universe's) Harriet Jones]]
19	*** When describing how aliens are always focused on the Doctor and not her, she mentions two people who tried to use her to find him: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E10LoveAndMonsters Elton Pope]] and [[Recap/BigFinishTheLivesOfCaptainJack The Harvesters]]
20	** Jackie describes the origin of the Meta-Crisis as [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd the Doctor's hand merging with 'some secretary', and being born in battle.]]
21	** When the Doctor reports the Brigadier to Pete, he mentions giving out [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion 'No second chances'.]]
22	** The Doctor is, once again, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace stuck on Earth working as UNIT's scientific advisor.]]
23	* FailedASpotCheck: The Doctor only bothers to do a scan for the supposedly alien life forms very late into the day, at which point it reveals that, rather than an army, there's only one other person in Big Ben aside from him and Jackie.
24	* FandomNod:
25	** The Meta-Crisis Doctor is growing his own TARDIS in his lab, following up a deleted scene of him being given a piece of TARDIS coral. RTD has gone on the record as considering this canon.
26	** The Doctor refers to him and Jackie being trapped in Big Ben as being "a proper Base Under Siege", a popular fanon term for stories (particularly in the Second Doctor's era) where the Doctor is trapped in a besieged base.
27	* ForWantOfANail: Jackie guesses the reason Pete's World saw no alien interference (at least, on a scale comparable to the mass invasions she was used to) was a fear of Cybus technology being used against them.
28	* INeverSaidItWasPoison: The supposed invaders give themselves away as suspicious by focusing their siege around gaining the Doctor's time machine. In Pete's World, the Doctor isn't a universe-renowned Time Lord, and very few people even within UNIT are even aware of his half-grown TARDIS.
29	* LandmarkingTheHiddenBase: Parallel UNIT is based out of Big Ben, and according the Jackie, it's meant to be secret... not that it stops Jackie telling her Beryl.
30	* TheGhost: Jackie's friend Beryl Thompson. Jackie never lets her get a word in edgewise.

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