Project: Destiny

Main Range #139

Released: 13 September 2010

Listened: 12/31/20

Although released over a year later, this story follows directly from the previous one, and this trilogy ties up several loose ends from the Doctor’s and Hex’s past. The Doctor and Ace take the injured Hex to St. Gart’s, London, 2026, except London is abandoned, and the Forge (now Department C-4) is enforcing the quarantine, including Captain Lysandra Aristedes, who’ll be important later. It’s a zombie-apocalypse situation, created when the Forge lost control of a variant of their Twilight virus, but the public doesn’t know that. The Doctor infects himself and gets sidelined, which mostly leaves Nimrod free reign to mess with Hex’s head, by giving him incomplete info about his mother. Not a smart move on the Doctor’s part, as he knew Nimrod would do that. Ace spends most of her time with Lysandra, who’s angry at the Doctor for events that haven’t yet taken place, in his timeline. Ace is still playing up her military background here, although she makes some bad choices. Hex, for his part, makes some really bad decisions. He’s distraught, I’ll grant that, but he’s seen enough while traveling to know when to confront the Doctor and when to wait until later, even if the confrontation would do any good. Hex asks to stay behind, and the Doctor and Ace prepare to leave without him, but discover that the Forge has some Time Lord tech, and stick around to deal with that in the next story. This is pretty much the end of the Forge in Earth history, although they appear again in the Doctor’s personal timeline. That’s for the best, really, as 21st Century Earth has enough shadowy alien-hunting organizations running around in the TV series. It’s not the strongest writing, but it clears up some dangling threads, and sets up the next couple of trilogies.