A Timelord solider is being debriefed, her latest mission was to rescue a Tharil prisoner named Biroc, she thought it was a solo mission until another timelord showed up: the Doctor.

I’ve said before that the War Doctor audios haven’t really been for me. Listening to the Doctor playing solider boy isn’t really my cup of tea. I’m watching The Deadly Assassin at the moment, seeing these old, dodgery, stick-in-the-mud people and then hearing these soldiers, hell bent on winning the war is hard to reconcile.

I also feel that the Doctor shouldn’t just be a pawn in the game and should just turn up and do what he believes to be the right thing. In this he does more or less do that.

The addition of Biroc - the Tharil from Warriors Gate is a nice touch but adds little to the plot. You feel that maybe there's a point to it, that there’ll be a reason for his inclusion but none that I can remember.

As with the previous episode, Light the Flame, the Doctor it seems, is doing something that he would never do. Commodore Tamasan - the debriefing office takes great delight in the fact the Doctor ‘has changed’ and hammering this home to emphasise the nature of the war Doctor is just too much, no subtlety here. Its almost treating the listener as stupid, in case they don’t get the point. A minor spoiler maybe, but it doesn’t happen, all it really proves is the war Doctor is the Doctor, and rather than showing what a different person he is, it clearly shows the Doctor hasn’t changed at all.

As I’ve said, war films, solider stuff doesn’t really interest me. I was driving when I put this on and had to re listen to the start, but I enjoyed it to a point.

Not bad but has its flaws.