Chrístõ is travelling alone again. But not for long. He answers his father’s call to visit him at the space station in the Aurigae system and there meets an old friend. Cam Dey Greibella of Haollstrom IV.

Chrístõ needs cheering up, and Camilla, aided and abetted by his father, thinks she knows what he needs. The sequence with the kiss on the promenade deck was, originally, even longer and more sensuous than it is. I decided to tame it just a little. After all, he WAS supposed to be missing Julia a LOT.

The kidnapping of his father interrupted his fun, of course. And from there Cam and his alter ego become his friend and ally as they were the last time they met. And a new ally is introduced. Morlen Kohbran, of course, first came into his life as an ally of his enemy, Epsilon. But now he is his father’s trusted aide, and determined to make up for his failure to protect him the first time.

The severed hand has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that The Doctor lost a hand in The Christmas Invasion or the hand that Captain Jack keeps in the Torchwood hub. Absolutely no connection whatsoever! The Ambassador is going to have to wait a lot longer for his hand to regrow.

The gunfight to rescue The Ambassador is something that would probably not be seen in Doctor Who. Chrístõ takes some decisions and does some things which in later life he would not do. This is the second time he has been in a gunfight. He is not new to the prospect of killing somebody. He is in a situation here where the kind of trickery and mind games he is able to pull of later would work. His father is held by people with deadly weapons and he has to use deadly force to rescue him. So do Kohb and Cam. The three of them are acting against their nature. Chrístõ was, to some extent, acting according to his father’s nature, or his father’s nature when he was an assassin.

And Chrístõ has friends to travel with, as well as a new job. Now he’s an ambassador in his own right, and he has Kohb as his aide and Cam as his friend. A whole new world of adventures open up for him.