Patient Zero (audio story)

Patient Zero
Doctor:	Sixth Doctor
Companion(s):	Charley
Main enemy:	The Daleks, Dalek time controller, Mila
Main setting:	Amethyst Viral Containment Station, the far future
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Nicholas Briggs
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Post production:	Howard Carter
Cover by:	Iain Robertson
Release details
Release number:	124
Release date:	August 2009
Format:	4 Episodes on 2 CDs
Production code:	7C/PF
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-412-2
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Patient Zero was the one hundred and twenty-fourth monthly Doctor Who audio story produced by Big Finish Productions. Released in 2009, it featured Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor and Charley Pollard .

Publisher's summary

Finally, the Sixth Doctor challenges Charlotte Pollard to tell him the truth. Who is she really? What is she doing in the TARDIS?

To discover the answers, the Doctor must travel back in time, beyond all known civilisations to the vast, mysterious Amethyst Viral Containment Station. But answers lie within the TARDIS too. Someone who has been there a long, long time...

Meanwhile, the Daleks have travelled back in time on their own mission, to bring them the ultimate victory they crave. But it is a mission so complex and delicate that even they know they must beware the web of time...

Who is Patient Zero? What has happened to Charley? And why have the legendary Viyrans been summoned?

Plot

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Cast

• The Doctor - Colin Baker
• Charley Pollard - India Fisher
• Fratalin - Michael Maloney
• Mila - Jess Robinson
• Etheron/The Daleks - Nicholas Briggs

References

Daleks

• The Dalek Time Controller, a Dalek that directs Dalek strategies involving time travel, while preventing its destabilisation, appears.

The Doctor

• The Doctor travelled for a substantial amount of years searching for a cure for Charley's condition.

Individuals

• Mila is the first person that the Daleks infected with their virus (known as 7001).
• Fratalin is the caretaker of the Viral Containment Station.

Species

• The Viyrans make an appearance.

TARDIS

• The Doctor places Charley in the Zero Room to stabilise her condition.
• The TARDIS regenerates itself after being shot by the Daleks.
• It is stated that the TARDIS doesn't like Charley. The same will happen in the future with Clara Oswald.

Notes

Illustration by Brian Williamson from Doctor Who Magazine.

• This second season of Sixth Doctor and Charley stories includes this story, AUDIO: Paper Cuts and AUDIO: Blue Forgotten Planet.
• This audio release also included the fifth episode of The Three Companions "The Brigadier's Story".
• This story had the working title of Victory of the Daleks but had to be changed because of the television story of the same name.
• This audio drama was recorded on 16 and 18 March 2009 at The Moat Studios.

Continuity

• During his fifth incarnation, the Doctor previously visited Grallista Social in the company of Peri Brown. (AUDIO: Mission of the Viyrans)
• The cliffhanger at the conclusion of part four goes straight into AUDIO: Paper Cuts .
• Mila has been in the TARDIS since TV: The Chase.
• Mila refers to previous Dalek stories: TV: The Chase and TV: The Evil of the Daleks.
• One of the viruses would make it to Earth. (AUDIO: Blue Forgotten Planet)
• The method used here to stop the Daleks from dematerialising Amethyst was similarly used to prevent the Captain from materialising Zanak around Earth at the end of the story. At the start the reverse happened as the Captain stopped the TARDIS from materialising on Calufrax. (TV: The Pirate Planet)
• Although the Doctor believed that he had killed the Dalek time controller, it survived and travelled back through the Time Vortex to the 22nd century where it was discovered by the Daleks of that era. With the assistance of the renegade Time Lord, the Monk, the Dalek time controller planned to install a time warp engine in the core of the Earth and pilot the planet, which was to have become a plague planet teeming with the Amethyst viruses, through time and space. However, it was defeated by the Eighth Doctor, his granddaughter Susan Foreman, his great-grandson Alex Campbell and his former companion Lucie Miller, though both Alex and Lucie were killed in the process. (AUDIO: To the Death) The Doctor later encountered it once again on Srangor. (AUDIO: X and the Daleks)
• The viruses released from the Amethyst Viral Containment Station include a bio-engineered telephone virus (AUDIO: Urgent Calls), a mutagenic virus (AUDIO: Mission of the Viyrans) and Virus 7001B which was sent back in time to the beginning of the universe and resulted in the creation of life itself (AUDIO: The Viyran Solution).

External links

• Official Patient Zero page at bigfinish.com
• Patient Zero at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• DisContinuity for Patient Zero at Tetrapyriarbus - The DisContinuity Guide