The Final Poblom (The Paternoster Gang: Last Stand)

Audio  Having skipped the middle two boxed sets in this series for financial reasons (Eighth Doctor completists of the world unite!), I entered this with little idea as to who this great antagonist, the Zygon Brottac actually is.  Curiously the character doesn't have his own page on the TARDIS Wiki, a place where even a random shopkeeper in a Torchwood audio is gifted a mention.  He's supposed to be Vastra's Moriarty figure with this her The Final Problem (the title of the final play in the box an obvious play on words).  The whole thing is an excellent romp with some killer one liners from Strax one of which made me laugh so much I had to pause the drama until I'd finish.  I'm still grinning about it.

The Final Poblom

McGann plays duel roles, the vocally acceptable face of Brottac, a rare occasion on Big Finish when he goes full Zaroff and the Eighth Doctor himself for a couple of brief scenes.  My understanding from listen to this is that it was revealed in one of the plays I skipped that the Eighth from the first play may have been at least partly Brottac in disguise.  The Time Lord himself appears in just a couple of scenes, both of which continue the notion of him appearing in their lives in a non-chronological order.  He's still a pretty shadowing figure and there's not much more to say.  The ending seems to suggest that this isn't his last appearance in The Paternoster Gang (hopefully with more to do next time).

Placement: Straight after Till Death Do Us Part