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Once, there was a girl named Ali, who met another girl named Zoe at a research institute in Australia. Now, they meet again, but Zoe is much older than Ali, and doesn't recognise her. Has she lost her memory, or is it something more sinister? What happened at the Whittaker Institute? What happened to the Achromatics?
Once again, the framing narrative for Echoes of Grey is concerned in large part with establishing a reason for Zoe to recall what she has forgotten, but it also ties in to what will become an ongoing story exploring the fate of the older Zoe, in the manner of the arc-stories of the Leela and Sara Kingdom Chronicles. In Echoes we are first introduced to a shadowy corporate group with an interest in Zoe's memories of her travels.
Padbury gives assured and quite different performances as her old and young selves, and fills in the additional roles well. Her Doctor is solid, although her Jamie is a little too broad at times. Emily Pithon provides sound support, with a subtly creepy performance as the overeager Ali.
Echoes of Grey returns us to the nostalgic mode of earlier plays, with the sparseness of Zoe's post-TARDIS life in stark contrast to Jamie in The Glorious Revolution, enumerating his children and grandchildren. We'll be somewhere not dissimilar next time, with the Third Doctor in Find and Replace.
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