Project Lazarus

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title=Project: Lazarus
series=Doctor Who
number=45
featuring=Sixth Doctor Seventh Doctor Evelyn Smythe


writer=Cavan Scott and
Mark Wright
director=Gary Russell
producer=Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery
executive_producer=Jacqueline Rayner
production_code=7CJ, 7X
set_between=Sixth Doctor: "Real Time" and "Arrangements for War" Seventh Doctor: "Excelis Decays" and "Master"
length=1 hr 50 mins
date=June 2003|:"This article concerns the "Doctor Who" audio drama. For other uses of the name Lazarus, see Lazarus (disambiguation)."

"Project: Lazarus" is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It is the sequel to "".

ynopsis

Two incarnations of the Doctor become involved with the plans of Nimrod and the Forge.

Plot

Having discovered the cure to the Forge Virus, the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn travel to Norway seeking Cassie. They find her, but much time has passed and she now works for the Forge and goes by the name of Artemis. At the Forge on Dartmoor, Nimrod conducts a terrible experiment on the Doctor, attempting to force him to regenerate by electrocution. Evelyn talks to Cassie about her son, whom she had forgotten due to Nimrod's brainwashing, and making her realise Nimrod's evil intentions. Cassie tells Evelyn that she knows the secret that she keeps from the Doctor — she has a heart condition and had had an attack just before travelling with the Doctor. She had been afraid to tell him as she thought the Doctor would not allow her to travel with him as his companion. Cassie frees the Doctor, but is killed by Nimrod. Evelyn is distraught, and upset at the Doctor for leaving Cassie behind.

Sometime in the future, the Seventh Doctor detects an anomaly in the vortex, which leads him to the Forge. There he meets his sixth self who is now working as the Forge's scientific advisor and Nimrod is conducting an experiment on the alien Huldran. Other Huldran creatures attack the Forge, and the Sixth Doctor is injured losing his arm. Knowing that he had never lost an arm, the Seventh Doctor makes mind contact and realises that it is in fact only a clone, his DNA taken from him when he endured Nimrod's regeneration experiment. As the Seventh Doctor and the clone Doctor uncover Nimrod's awful experiment, it is revealed that clone is just one of many — Nimrod has lost count of the total. The clone Doctor uses his perfect mimicry of Nimrod's voice and instigates the Hades protocol causing the Forge to shut down, ending all of Nimrod's experiments. The Seventh Doctor escapes with the Forge's human staff and the Huldran.

The Forge is not totally destroyed however, as the Oracle computer is heard stating that the back up facility has been created.

Cast

*The Sixth Doctor — Colin Baker
*The Seventh Doctor — Sylvester McCoy
*Evelyn Smythe — Maggie Stables
*Cassie — Rosie Cavaliero
*Nimrod — Stephen Chance
*Oracle — Emma Collier
*Huldran — Ann Jenkins
*Doctor Crumpton — Ingrid Evans
*Professor Harket — Vidar Magnussen
*Sergeant Frith — Adam Woodroffe
*Soldier — Mark Wright

External links

* [http://www.bigfinish.com/45-Doctor-Who-Project--Lazarus Big Finish Productions - "Project Lazarus"]
*Doctor Who RG | id=who_bf45 | title=Project Lazarus

Reviews

*OG review | id=bf-45 | title=Project Lazarus
*DWRG | id=projl | title=Project Lazarus