PLEASE NOTE: These caches were originally all letterboxes, with stamps that I personally painstakingly made. Unfortunately, they have proven quite popular, and with that comes muggling. Apparently a number of the stamps have gone missing, and as some have complained about this, and I haven't the time to go and check all 100+ of them on a regular basis, I will be converting them to Traditional caches as needed.
It pains me to make this decision, but it must be done. I recognize that with a powertrail, caches are bound to go missing (that is the nature of the beast), and I appreciate that many of you have helped out by bringing along spares. However, your average cacher does NOT carry around spare stamps, and even if you did, it wouldn't be the one that I originally and personally made for the cache.
So, I am asking for your help: please let me know in your logs which ones are indeed missing their stamps, and I will be changing them to Traditionals (the alternative is archival, unfortunately). Thanks for your assistance in this endeavor, and thanks for supporting this series. I am glad that I spent the many hours needed to create these. However, I cannot justify consistently having to make and then replace all the stamps, due to time constraints.
Sincerely, the CO, josephaw
9/27/15
First off, let me thank you for finding this geocache! I hope you enjoyed the experience of finding it as much as I enjoyed creating and hiding all of these letterbox caches.
This is just one of many such caches in my Dr Who Letterbox Series, made with the help and inspiration of friends. As a Letterbox cache, please leave the stamp for others to see and use, thanks! Each cache has a unique stamp, so bring an inkpad and collect them all! Have fun, and be safe!
"The Unicorn and the Wasp" is the seventh episode of the fourth series of the revived British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was aired by BBC One on 17 May 2008 at 19:00.[2][3] Perhaps due to its later broadcast, it received an overnight audience rating of 7.7 million, making it the most successful episode in this series since "The Fires of Pompeii".[4] The episode is a pseudohistorical story set in 1926, in a manor owned by a character named Lady Eddison, which crime fiction novelist Agatha Christie is visiting, and is a comedic episode with a murder-mystery storyline.[5]
Plot
The Doctor lands the TARDIS in England in 1926. He and Donna invite themselves to a dinner party hosted by Lady Eddison and her husband Colonel Curbishley. They are thrilled to find one of the guests is Agatha Christie, and the Doctor realises that they've arrived on the day that she will inexplicably disappear for ten days. One of the guests is found dead, and the Doctor uses his psychic paper to convince the rest of them that he is from Scotland Yard and that Donna is his assistant. Together with Agatha, he begins investigating. They discover a viscous substance left behind by the killer that the Doctor identifies as morphic residue. He concludes that the murderer is an alien in human form. The Doctor and Agatha question the guests while Donna searches the bedrooms for clues. Donna is attacked by a gigantic wasp but it escapes through a window before the Doctor and Agatha arrive. The alien murders the housekeeper, and the Doctor, Donna, and Agatha chase it but it returns to human form before they catch it. While they regroup in the study, the Doctor is poisoned with cyanide. His Time Lord physiology allows him to detoxify himself, and he does so with the help of Donna. The poisoning inspires him to add pepper to the dinner meal, since pepper would act as an insecticide due to the piperine in it. As they eat, the guests hear the wasp but the lights in the room are blown out before they discover the identity of the alien. When the lights are restored, they discover that Lady Eddison's necklace has been stolen and that her son Roger has been stabbed with a knife.
The Doctor assembles the remaining guests in the sitting room, and he and Agatha reveal several truths they've discovered about the guests. The Doctor deduces that Lady Eddison's shutting herself away for months, years ago, allegedly due to malaria, was actually due to her becoming impregnated by a Vespiform, an alien wasp who could transform into a human. The Vespiform gave Lady Eddison her necklace before he died; unbeknownst to her it is a means of linking her telepathically with her child. The Doctor further speculates that the child, whom she gave up for adoption, is really Reverend Golightly. The Reverend recently became aware of his alien nature in a bout of anger and through the telepathic link absorbed the details of Christie's murder mystery The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, which his mother was reading at the time. Absorbing the details of the book prompted him to kill in a similar fashion.
Golightly transforms back into a wasp and threatens the guests. Agatha grabs the necklace and lures him away while driving towards the nearby Silent Pool, with the Doctor and Donna giving chase. When they catch up with Agatha, Donna grabs the necklace from her and throws it into the water, prompting the wasp to dive in after it and drown. Due to her own connection with the necklace, Agatha also suffers the wasp's death but right before he dies he severs the link, sparing Agatha but rendering her unconscious. The Doctor realizes this is the event that gave her the amnesia during her disappearance, and uses the TARDIS to quietly drop her near the Harrogate Hotel ten days later. Back in the TARDIS, the Doctor shows Donna Agatha's novel Death in the Clouds, in which wasps play a significant part. The Doctor explains that his copy was printed in the year 5,000,000,000 and that Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time.
Continuity
The Doctor produces items from a chest of items beginning with C, including a Cyberman chest-plate from "The Age of Steel", the head of a Greco-Roman statue (possibly depicting Caecilius from "The Fires of Pompeii"), and the crystal ball in which the Carrionites are trapped from "The Shakespeare Code" (which he playfully shakes).
Early in the episode, the Doctor states his desire to meet Agatha Christie. This is a reference to "Last of the Time Lords".
Donna remarks that meeting Agatha Christie during a murder mystery would be as preposterous as meeting "Charles Dickens surrounded by ghosts at Christmas", unknowingly describing the events of "The Unquiet Dead".
When Donna talks to Agatha about her cheating husband, she recalls her own engagement to Lance in which she found out he was using her, briefly mentioning the Empress of Racnoss as "a giant spider". This is a reference of the 2006 Christmas episode "The Runaway Bride".
The Doctor has a flashback scene when unravelling motives with Agatha Christie. He is shown in Belgium with a bow and quiver of arrows on his back. His voiceover explains that he was looking for Charlemagne who was "kidnapped by an insane computer". Christie interrupts before he can paint a full picture; however the events are fully explored on Doctor Who's BBC website in the short story "The Lonely Computer."[6]
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