IA#24: Remiel

Roots: Lawrence Miles' future War plot from the EDAs, later spun off into The Book of the War. A reference is made to the genetic engineering of Jurassic Park (the company InGen).

Fluffs:

Goofs: Second Minister Benz temporarily becomes Minister Bintz and then Bentz (Ch. 7)
     Hiroshi needs a special gun to avoid the weapon scanners showing him to be armed, but there's no worry about the exceptionally powerful bomb in his rucksack [The bomb is also specially shielded] (Ch. 13)

Technobabble: Everything to do with bio-data, not to mention the whole nano-virus solution to escaping the paradox bubble. The implosion bomb that kills Kirena.

Plot Victims:

Doctor Who In-jokes: The line in the second epilogue abouyt two hearts beating as one is made in reference to the voice-over at the beginning of the slash-print of the Doctor Who telemovie.

Double Entendres: The perennial favourite: "We must act." (Ch. 4)

Dialogue Disasters: Any time someone swears by Rassilon's name

Dialogue Triumphs: The Doctor and Ryan/Mavis: "You once told me you wanted immortality."
     "Yes. Though I didn't quite mean like this," shi shook hir shoulders.
     "All those people you tortured, living the rest of their lives with your face burned into their memory, carrying around a little part of you in their scars." (Ch. 9)
     "You frighten me," Ruth says. (Ch. 11)

Continuity: New Cheadle, located in the Pacific, is one of the floating cities existing as part of the Atlantis Protectorate - it's free port with a free press. It's government includes a position called 'Second Minister' [a rebadging of the term 'Deputy Prime-Minister']. Black has replaced platinum as the colour of elite credit card designation.

Links: The events of IA: Ticket to Writhe background the initial police handling of the Doctor and set the scene for the return of Ryan Purity, while this story is the conclusion of the character arc for Luke that has run in the previous two IAs. The ubersoldaten from NA: Transit are namechecked.

Location: A floating city named New Cheadle on Earth, around 2099 [a few months following the incidents of IA: Ticket to Writhe]. A bubble in the Space-Time Vortex. Kapone, in an unspecified century [Jadi and Kirena’s home time]. A cloning facility on Capadoceous Prime, in another unspecified century. Earth a decade or so following the expulsion of the Daleks, presumably south-east England.

Unwritten Adventures: An recent but unexpected trip to Capadoceous Prime following far too many tequila sunrises (presumably pre-dating the events of IA: Clockwork Orange).

The Bottom Line: Bloody brilliant. As the closing chapter of the 'Morok Years' of the IAs - and should interest have waivered, potentially of the series as a whole - it does an amazing job of wrapping up the lives of the Doctor's supporting cast of the last few years in ways both dramatic and poignant.

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