After Midnight (Short Trips: A Day in the Life)

Prose   As you will have gathered, I'm reading this Short Trips in isolation so I know that with After Midnight as the opening story in this anthology and Before Midnight as the closer, that some of the mysteries will be explained later.  As it stands this is a pretty fun round around in which the Doctor, Charley and yes C'rizz go to extraordinary lengths to thwart an intergalactic jewel thief.  The reveal of how they become part of the story I won't spoil, but it's in a way which wouldn't work quite the same in another medium as the prose style subtly shifts and its refreshing to have a story which doesn't read like a novelisation.

Placement:  C'rizz seems very confused by Earth customs so I'll put it just after Terror Firma.

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