Fugitive
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| Fugitive | |
| Series: | Doctor Who (IDW) - Doctor Who Ongoing |
| Doctor: | Tenth Doctor |
| Companions: | Matthew Finnegan (joins) Emily Winter (joins) |
| Enemy: | Lassar (aka Lucas Finch) Shadow Proclamation |
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| Author: | Tony Lee |
| Editor: | |
| Artist: | Matthew Smith |
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| Published In: | Doctor Who Ongoing 3-6 |
| Publication: | September to December 2009 |
| Publisher: | IDW Publishing |
| Format: | Comic book - four issues |
| Previous Story: | Silver Scream |
| Following Story: | Tesseract |
Fugitive is the second story arc in the Doctor Who Ongoing series.
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[edit] Summary
The Doctor is put on trial by the Shadow Proclamation for saving Emily Winter's life in the 1920s and thus breaking the precepts handed down to them by the Time Lords by interfering with a fixed point in time. Furthermore, the universe is riddled with people who would be dead if not for the Doctor's interference. Mr. Finch serves as the prosecuting attorney. The Doctor's defense counsel is a blue woman who goes only by the name "the Advocate".
An attempt is made on the Doctor's life by a shapeshifting Gizou assassin during recess, but the assassin is vaporized by a Judoon guard. The Advocate unsuccessfully tries to get the Doctor to flee the proceedings. He is found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment on Volag-Noc. Mr. Finch tells the Judoon that the prison transport is to have a fatal accident before landing. The transport also carries a Draconian, a Sontaran, and an Ogron. After the Doctor introduces himself, the Ogron attacks him.
[edit] Characters
- The Doctor
- Shadow Architect
- Lucas Finch/Brother Lassar - says that he no longer goes by the name Lassar since assuming permanent human form
- The Advocate - a female solicitor who volunteers to defend the Doctor and tries to help him escape. Much like the Doctor, she intentionally is known only by her title.
- Brarshak, an Ogron
- Kraden, a Draconian
- Stomm, a Sontaran
- Matthew Finnegan
- Emily Winter
[edit] References
- The Shadow Architect compares the Doctor to the Master, Morbius, and the Rani.
- The Doctor and the Shadow Architect mention Charley Pollard as the last time he saved someone fated to die.
- At the end of part one, the Doctor is placed aboard a shuttle with a Draconian, a Sontaran (who utters "Sontar-Ha!", the battle cry introduced in DW: The Sontaran Strategem) and an Ogron. As part 1 ends, the trio react none to kindly when the Doctor identifies himself.
- The prison planet Volag-Noc appeared in the animated episode The Infinite Quest.
- In part 2, the Doctor quotes from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope but cannot remember where the quote came from.
- The Doctor bemoans the confiscation of his clockwork mouse (last seen in DW: The Doctor's Daughter).
- The Doctor refers to Stomm as "Mister Potato Head" (DW: The Sontaran Strategem).
[edit] Notes
- Although likely unintentional, the circumstance of having the Doctor trapped in a room with a Draconian and a Sontaran echo the events of the independent film Mindgame, in which a human (played by Sophie Aldred and strongly implied to be Ace, a companion of the Seventh Doctor) is trapped in a cell with a Draconian and a Sontaran.
- The cliffhanger ending of part 2 resembles the crash-landing cliffhanger featured during DW: The Caves of Androzani. This is more likely intentional, as one of Tony Lee's stated goals for the ongoing comic series is to revive the tension of the old televised serial cliffhangers at the ends of his issues.
- Cover art was done by Paul Grist and Matthew Smith
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[edit] Continuity
- In an interview, Tony Lee confirmed that the ongoing series featuring the Tenth Doctor occurs right before the final specials.
- However, as the final scenes of the second special lead into the final two specials, it is likely set before that, though the Children In Need preview scene from The End of Time, Part One heavily implies that after the final scene of The Waters of Mars, the Doctor intentionally went off to have an unseen numbers of adventures in order to avoid having to meet his "death." However, the events of the series must take place before The Darksmith Legacy as the Doctor implies this is his first encounter with The Shadow Proclamation since DW: Journey's End leaving no gap for TDL: The Pictures of Emptiness.
- This marks the first time a character from the Big Finish Productions audio dramas, Charley Pollard, has been referenced in a comic book. In the audios, Charley travelled with both the Sixth and Eighth Doctors.
- Finch previously faced off against the Doctor in DW: School Reunion.
- The events of DW: The Stolen Earth/Journey's End are referenced.
- The Gizou were introduced in IDW: Agent Provocateur.
- The Third Doctor is referenced, and it's indicated that the defeat of the Daleks and the Ogrons in DW: Day of the Daleks led to the Ogron race being disgraced and supplanted as the galaxy's main enforcers-for-hire by the Judoon. A planet-wide recession on the Ogron homeworld resulted.
- The Time War is referenced.
- The Doctor carries a sheet of "suggestibility paper" which appears to be a variant of psychic paper.
- The Doctor says he is the head of the Stockbridge Chess Society.
- The Shadow Architect refers to someone knocking four times.
- Matthew Finnegan and Emily Winter, introduced in Silver Scream, return at the end and accept the Doctor's offer to travel with him in the TARDIS.
[edit] Timeline
- Fugitive occurs immediately after: IDW: Silver Scream, and at some point after the events of DW: Journey's End owing to the reference to the "four knocks" prophecy.
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