Fear ( audio story ) Publisher ' s summary . " There is a conspiracy at the heart of Earth ' s Government . " The Orion War situation is worsening by the day . The human race is sleepwalking towards extinction . Now the time is right for the next phase of the Cyber plan to begin . " THERE IS NOTHING TO FEAR . . . " Plot . Samantha Thorn is an undercover Android secret agent , who has managed to return home from her assignment on Earth . She posed as the girlfriend of Paul Hunt to gain information on the Scorpius project and if it posed a threat to them . Prime Reordin , leader of the Androids and her lover , believes that Scorpius is no longer a threat . Just then , a distress call is received from Tracking Station Beta - 4 , which is under attack by a single Earth Forces raider . Despite overwhelming opposition , the raider disables their defences before Cybermen emerge to massacre the crew . As Androids cannot be converted , Cybermen simply destroy them . The Earth Government must be doing this in secret , but attempting to warn them would be dismissed as propaganda . It would be best if exposed by someone inside the government . Samantha returns to Earth and again goes undercover . Back on Earth , Paul Hunt has become a political advisor to President Karen Brett and is deputising for her while she and the Vice President are touring , something that doesn ’ t sit well with Commander - in - Chief Liam Barnaby , as Hunt is not an elected official and should not be empowered to make decisions on behalf of the administration . Barnaby has discovered evidence of secret incursions into Android space without his knowledge and all broadcasts received from the Androids are being jammed and deleted without been listened to . Hunt dismisses this as Android propaganda and implies Brett must have a good reason for keeping her Commander - in - Chief out of the loop . To calm down , Barnaby programs a scenic route home , but is nearly driven off the road by an unknown car , which leaves before emergency services can arrive . All security footage of the incident is found to have been lost . Determined to discover more about Paul Hunt , Barnaby accesses his personal files . Although there isn ’ t much , he learns that his former residence is now registered to a Samantha Thorne , who currently resides in Oceanic City . After visiting her , Hunt convinces Brett that Barnaby ’ s investigation into his past could endanger their attempts to achieve victory in Orion . Brett , under Hunt ’ s influence , blocks Barnaby ’ s attempts to hold an inquiry into Hunt ’ s past . Despite Barnaby ’ s concerns over Hun ’ s past or the continuing deterioration of the Orion war , she accuses him of letting his dislike of Paul Hunt cloud his professional judgement . She then informs him that the press have been informed that Barnaby is taking some personal leave , and has him escorted out of the White House . Frustrated , Barnaby contacts Samantha Thorne once again , only to learn that she ’ s abused her position as a data entry clerk to hack into the White House security net and learn that he ’ s just been fired . However , she warns him that if he turns her in for the security breach , he ’ ll never learn the truth about Paul Hunt . After evading secret agents who had been following Barnaby , Samantha tells him to meet her later by the old docks where she will tell him about Scorpius . Barnaby meets Samantha later as planned , but he ’ s been followed and is hit by weapons fire . Samantha manages to get Barnaby to a jet - boat she prepared earlier and escapes , but not before been hit herself . As Barnaby passes out from the pain , he realises that Samantha ’ s wound should have been fatal . Five days later , after healing , Barnaby awakens on the jet - boat with Samantha . Remembering what happened at the dock , he realises she is an Android , but is powerless to do anything : she is far faster and stronger than him , so escape or overpowering her are not possible . Earth is been flooded with refugees escaping the Orion conflict . These is an old penal colony on the Isle of White , which has been turned into a temporary refugee camp . Samantha has traced mysterious transmissions to the penal colony : a transmission made by Paul Hunt . The penal colony ’ s shore defences detect the boat , forcing them to abandon it and swim to shore . Barnaby does not trust her , but his preconceptions are shaken when a Cyberman walks past them on patrol and he recognises it from the hologram on Reticek IV . They are discovered by a Cyberman , but they claim to have wandered away from the rest of the refugees , and it herds them back to the camp . The refugees believe that they ’ re being taken to a medical base for vaccination shots and the Cybermen are soldiers wearing radiation protection suits . Barnaby and Samantha are taken into a treatment cell , where the first stage of Cyber - conversion begins and Barnaby ’ s emotions are suppressed . There is nothing to fear . . .