Writer: Andrew Smith
Format: Audio
Released: 30th June 2016
Series: UNIT: Shutdown 02
Featuring: Kate, Osgood, Josh
Synopsis
With few people left to trust, and with assassins on their tail, Kate and Osgood race to UNIT Command in Geneva. Will General Blair be able to help them?
But when death follows UNIT all the way from the English countryside to the snowy slopes of the Alps, Captain Carter finds himself in a race against time.
As the body count rises, Kate struggles to separate friend from foe, danger circles Osgood ever closer, and, high in the mountains, Josh comes face to face with the enemy...
Verdict
Death in Geneva was a great little story and a very good continuation of the Shutdown series of UNIT! It continued very nicely from where Power Cell left off and I really thought it transitioned the story nicely. I was quite surprised that Felicity Lyme didn’t make an appearance but I guess with the foreign setting that was understandable. General Grant was a new character that was introduced and it was rather nice to get to hear one of the UNIT higher ups in action. His admiration for Kate was terrific to hear and I liked the confidence he had in her when it came to his memories being extracted. The reveal of the creatures who did so much killing in the previous episode was welcomed and they have quite an elaborate name! The Tengobushi though were simply taking instructions and I liked the mysterious voice we initially heard that was obviously they’re master. More details came later in the audio with the emergence of Dokan, a Kamishi. I thought it was interesting that they were after an energy supply that they claimed to be theirs and their reasoning for being on Earth, despite heir claim of being all high and mighty, was to retrieve it. The brutality in which they gained the knowledge of its whereabouts through General Grant was brilliant and I liked how they weren’t messing around. The cameo appearance of Sir Peter was welcomed because of how well Kate attacked him. She was superb in that moment and really did question why someone from the Ministry of Energy and Environment was talking down on her rather than someone with jurisdiction from the Ministry of Defence. That seems to be the obvious place of leaks coming from the British Government but I do get the feeling there is a little more behind it. The Kamishi being able to change their appearance to suit their environment was good and I liked how it made them a walking chameleon circuit. Osgood’s ringtone being the TARDIS dematerialisation sound was wonderful and for that brief moment I did think the Doctor was going to show up. I’m sure it won’t be long before he makes an appearance in this series. It really is very good. Josh having an incident and losing Anna made him realise that Kate and Osgood were in danger and he knew he had to take his own journey abroad. He saved Osgood in the nick of time which was great and I also loved how she had a spare inhaler that allowed her to emit a deadly gas. She really was quite resourceful and that makes her a very loveable character. She also gained knowledge of the Tengobushi and saw their appearance which was very good. They weren’t human and I was also surprised by how much they didn’t sound metallic this time around. They don’t seem so threatening now that the Kamishi have been revealed but I’d argue they’re more interesting now. The relationship between Kate and Grant was good throughout and I liked how once the hitchhikers died just over the border, he gave his absolute full backing to the mission. Osgood deducing that it was the Tengobushi that had committed the murders was good and I also liked how she was targeted continuously. I’m intrigued by that. The ending was very good though and again set up the next story in the boxset very nicely. The Tower of London seems like a perfect setting for a story and with a battle for an energy supply the premise, I look very forward to listening. Overall though, a great story!
Rating: 8/10
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