Ghosts of N-Space
Story: Ghosts of N-SpaceSynopsis: On holiday in Sicily, Sarah and the Doctor get to find out first-hand about the mysterious history of a haunted castle.
Sarah Moments:
• Jeremy invites Sarah on holiday to Sicily
• Frustrated by her editor's refusal to print any of her stories about her travels with the Doctor, Sarah briefly decides to give up journalism in favour of writing novels
• Sarah and Jeremy spot the Brigadier in Sicily, but he ignores them, so they follow him to his uncle's island castle
• Sarah investigates the hauntings in the castle using the library and finds a crucial entry from an old alchemical text
• Sarah volunteers to accompany the Doctor into N-Space
• Sarah becomes a ghost and gets to float through walls!
• Sarah nearly gets lost in the TARDIS' costume rooms
• Sarah and the Doctor go to the 19th Century and ingratiate themselves with the owner of the castle, and Sarah befriends his young ward, Louisa
• Sarah works out who the White Lady is
• Sarah dresses as a page boy to visit the 16th Century
• Keeping watch for the Doctor, Sarah gets talking to Guido and discovers his secret
• Sarah wears a wig that belonged to Sarah Siddons
• Sarah and the Doctor visit Hell
• Sarah stays in N-Space to help Louisa
• Sarah finds the long-lost heir to the castle
Capture, Rescue and Mortal Peril:
• Sarah tries to rescue the White Lady, gets scared by a monster, faints, and nearly falls over the cliff! The Doctor and the Brigadier rescue her.
• Sarah tries to go into the light and nearly gets lost in N-Space!
• Stones fall from the ceiling and Sarah, trying to help the Doctor, is hit! She's only concussed, though
• Sarah and the Doctor are thrown into a dark, smelly dungeon, but Guido lets them out
• Clever Sarah manages to stop the clock from striking, trapping Maximillian and saving the Doctor's neck
• Louisa locks Sarah into her room, so she climbs out of the window, but the rope slips and she gets stuck! The Doctor helps her back up.
• The Doctor nearly accidentally traps Sarah in N-Space forever! But Jeremy stops him.
• The Doctor fetches Sarah back from N-Space
Quotes:
• ‘Now then… let's see… "Elspeth looks in horror at the still-smoking automatic in her hand, and unwillingly lifts her eyes to the impossible sight of the old man's body. The noise of the door heralds the arrival of the person she fears most in all of the world – the erstwhile drug smuggler from Valparaiso, Garcia O'Toole… who is in Scunthorpe visiting his Irish aunt and happens to have heard the shot as…"… oh, phooey, that's just plain silly! […] But he's got to turn up and catch her or I'll never get them in bed together!' - Writing her first novel, Sarah clearly has her priorities straight...
• 'How's the greatest novel of the twentieth century coming along?' 'Now, don't you start! I'm having enough trouble with Garcia O'Toole and his lady love!' - Jeremy and Sarah
• 'Writing bestsellers – that's the thing. Winning the Booker and being rich and famous so nobody can muck you about!' - Sarah
• 'Oh, call yourself a journalist?' 'You're just nosy!' 'That's right!' - Sarah and Jeremy
• 'I feel like a refugee from Pride and Prejudice!' - Sarah, on her 19th Century costume
• 'Take him away, cast him into the deepest dungeon where he cannot practice his evil art! And take his catamite with him!' - The Barone, on the Doctor and Sarah
• 'Well, thank you for not saying I told you so.' 'Only because I didn’t; you didn't give me a chance! It was the daftest idea… Oh, yes, and another thing…' 'Oh, what?' 'Does catamite mean what I think it does?' 'I'm afraid so.' 'Hmm. Thought it might.' - The Doctor and Sarah
• 'Ouroboros is a winged snake, crowned like a king, forever eating his own tail!' 'Well, lucky old Ouroboros!' - The Doctor and a grumpy Sarah
• 'Oh, ye of little faith! Do you think the Doctor didn't know what he was doing?' - At this early stage in their relationship, Sarah still thinks the Doctor actually has a clue...
• 'Why did I ever think I could write a novel, Jeremy? I'm a journalist, and that's what I'll always be!' - Sarah
The Panel Said...
Sarah Watch:
paranoidangel: She was quite funny trying to write a romance novel and following the Brigadier about. The rest I don't really remember 5/10
Llin: She's very nosy, and brave stopping the clock, plus she dresses up in costumes which is always fun even if you can't see it! 7/10
Story Watch:
paranoidangel: Even after listening to it I still wasn't sure what the plot was. It was vaguely entertaining but made no sense. 5/10
Llin: It has some really fun moments, even if it is completely bizarre... 6/10
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