"I'll survive Doctor, I always do". So speaks the enigmatic `Nimrod', when The Doctor encounters him once more in disturbing circumstances...Despite the somewhat grating presence of The Sixth Doctor's sexagenarian companion, Evelyn Smythe, the 45th original audio drama from Big Finish is an entertaining and well-produced yarn, featuring The Doctor's latest nemesis: Nimrod. First encountered in the play: `Project: Twilight' he is a vampire-human hybrid; masterminding the unearthly experiments being conducted at nefarious secret organisation: `The Forge'. Unusually, this double CD contains two separate but linked stories featuring two different Doctors. In the first, The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn arrive on an unnamed planet and meet their old friend Cassie, a reluctant vampire. They soon discover that she is working for Nimrod, who captures The Doctor and attempts to force him, through torture, to regenerate, in order that Nimrod might learn the secrets of The Time Lords' greatest achievement. The second disc introduces The Seventh Doctor who arrives at The Forge only to realise that Nimrod is now conducting cloning experiments using DNA from The Sixth Doctor which he acquired whilst torturing him...
The second disc is more satisfying; the first merely setting the scene for the events which will be played out on disc two. Baker and McCoy reprise their now familiar roles as The Sixth and Seventh Doctors, whilst Stephen Chance provides a very `Masterish' villain with the amoral `Nimrod'. Maggie Stables is less irritating than usual as Evelyn and the rest of the cast are competent, particularly Adam Woodrofe's `Sergeant Frith', who has more depth than it seems at first. The story is bog-standard but is by no means dull and the production is as good as ever.