The Darkening Eye is a prequel to last year's Seventh Doctor audio, The Death Collectors, which introduced us listeners to the Dar Traders, an alien race who are the eponymous collectors. Here we get the full early Fifth Doctor crew encountering them along with an undead assassin; none of it really made sense, to be honest, people keep getting stabbed and the ending of the framing narrative (Nyssa reminiscing to a patient on Terminus) didn't make a lot of sense.

But it's really lifted by Sarah Sutton as Nyssa, doing a pretty good take of Davison's Doctor, Janet Fielding's Tegan and even Matthew Waterhouse's Adric, as well as almost all the other characters. There are a satifying number of references back to Season 17 - dwarf star alloy, Traken, dimensional problems, etc. The plot is no worse than several of the TV stories she appeared in (though I still don't get the Dar Traders). ( )