Reverse Engineering

Purity Undreamed #2

Released: 9 August 2022

Listened: 8/15/22

The second story reveals that this boxed set is going to be more tightly connected than the last, as Hebe has convinced the Doctor to hang around and help with the cleanup from last story. We’ve also got more of Patricia McBride, because if you’ve cast Imogen Stubbs, you don’t just use her in one story. She’s gone to visit an old friend at a health clinic he runs in Sweden, but of course something funny is going on, so she calls Hebe for help. Naturally, the health clinic is using alien-derived time technology to reverse-age the patients, but it’s all about to go horribly wrong. Mel gets more to do in this story, going undercover as an IT worker. Jonny Morris pays more attention to the plot than the last story too, giving us a few characters who aren’t what they appear, and folks who switch sides unexpectedly. And Patricia, having been dumped in the middle of a timey-wimey story, and being a fairly smart person, works out exactly what the TARDIS is.