Victory of the Doctor (audio story)

Victory of the Doctor was the fourth and final story in the audio anthology Victory of the Doctor, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Alfie Shaw and featured Jacob Dudman as the Eleventh Doctor, Safiyya Ingar as Valarie Lockwood and Mia Tomlinson as Roanna.

It was the conclusion of a two-part story, which began in The Last Stand of Miss Valarie Lockwood, and served as a series finale to the entire Valarie era.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

He told them to run. They should have listened.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Eleventh Doctor programs the Arkheion device to strip away Daleks' aggression and tests it on one, getting it to officiate a mock wedding between Valarie and Roanna on Matrimonia in a pocket universe. He hacks into the Pathweb and brings the Dalek Supreme's ship to Matrimonia, having altered the time differential so that a second in the pocket universe is equal to a thousand years in the outside universe, before setting Medrüthians affected by the Surge on them. To weaken the Daleks, the Doctor decides to split up the command units into unique scenarios and leaves the Eternal Dalek in the ruins of the Everlasting Empire of Eriphor with time spiders.

Roanna traps the Dalek Supreme and the Strategist Dalek in a room and taunts them into shooting her, which the Strategist realises would result in their own deaths given that Roanna has taken the Surge. The Scientist Dalek, meanwhile, is taken apart by Valarie. The Arkheion device feeds on their emotions and the Strategist starts to see adaptation as an improvement, leading the Dalek Supreme to exterminate him. The Scientist deduces that they are in an Arkheion device and sends out a message informing the Dalek Supreme, who accesses the Pathweb to learn of the technology and escapes his prison, taking control of the universe from the Doctor and contacting the Parliament of the Daleks.

The Prime Minister sees the value in the device as a way of launching attacks on the universe and the Dalek Supreme keeps the Doctor, Valarie and Roanna trapped inside. As they take refuge in a fake TARDIS, the Dalek Supreme has a Dalek Commander begin the process of transferring the captured Dalek essence into them and begins the New Dalek Paradigm's assault on the universe, wiping out multiple planets. Valarie and Roanna argue with the Doctor about whether the Surge should have been distributed and decide to exterminate him for failing to save the universe, but he convinces Valarie that there is still hope and she stops Roanna. He gets Roanna to redirect her anger towards the Daleks and she removes her regulator to fight them.

After Valarie puts the regulator back on Roanna, the Doctor removes the Dalek essence from the trio and is taken before the Parliament of the Daleks to be exterminated by the Dalek Supreme. However, he reveals that the Daleks never managed to escape the Arkheion device and that the universe within is being infected with the Darinthian Blight; as the Daleks have conquered it, they are all killed by the Blight. The Doctor then leaves with Valarie and Roanna, taking them to the Endless Beaches of Pernia where he worries that the Daleks might survive thanks to a singular Dalek drone in storage, cut off from the Pathweb. Valarie tells him to take the win and explains that she will not be travelling with him anymore after what she had to do to her mother.

The Doctor agrees to be Valarie's best man at her and Roanna's wedding and gives a speech in which he tells her how much he will miss her and that he could have travelled with her forever. He decides to stop running around the universe and have some quiet time to think about Clara, whom Valarie asks that he give her best should he find her. After exchanging thanks and farewells, the Doctor leaves in the TARDIS, intending on moving forwards with his life.

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

• The Doctor - Jacob Dudman
• Valarie Lockwood - Safiyya Ingar
• Roanna - Mia Tomlinson
• Robo-Priest - Alfie Shaw
• The Daleks - Nicholas Briggs

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

• The Doctor recreates the Battle of Canary Wharf to distract a Dalek fleet.
• The Daleks invade Sontar, Spiridon, Peladon, Messaline and Calandra.
• Matrimonia is a wedding planet.
• Mason was the capital city of the Everlasting Empire of Eriphor.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

• The Doctor recalls losing Amy Pond and Rory Williams in The Angels Take Manhattan and failing to save Clara Oswald in Asylum of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)"] and The Snowmen ^[+]Loading...["The Snowmen (TV story)"].
• One of the distractions the Doctor sends to deal with the Special Weapons Daleks is the Raston Warrior Robot, which he had encountered during the Game of Rassilon in The Five Doctors ^[+]Loading...["The Five Doctors (TV story)"].
• Valarie mentions Daniel and Simone Simpson, who died in The Inheritance ^[+]Loading...["The Inheritance (audio story)"].

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Official Victory of the Doctor page at bigfinish.com