This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order.

Previous Story: Whispers of Terror

I wasn't really enjoying this story at the start, a bit disappointed that we had another murder mystery around what seemed to be a suicide that turned out to be manipulated by an abstract entity for Six and Peri (odd that there's two like this in a row). The first two parts were fairly slow and generally uninteresting. I found it all a bit pretentious honestly. I was very much wrong by the second half when it shifted to be extremely bizarre and surreal.

I applaud that the writer of this managed to make linguistics so thrilling and eldritch. It helps that they clearly have a very verbose vocabulary and that none other than Colin Baker is the Doctor here. There genuinely isn't anyone else who could be the Doctor in this story. Being paired up with Nicola Bryant's Peri is also a fitting choice for this story with her much simpler American dialect being a perfect foil to the high-level academic vocabulary present in this story.

This story delves into a fair bit of genuine horror and the climax is very high-stakes and intense. While I wouldn't say this is the greatest Big Finish ever it's incredibly unique and it takes a theme it wants to use and absolutely runs with it. The only thing I'm disappointed by is how similar in structure this is to Whispers of Terror but this blows that story out of the park. Overall, I'd strongly recommend this if you want to hear Colin Baker flawlessly deliver words that you never even knew existed.

Next Story: Cryptobiosis