The Rapture ( audio story ) Publisher ' s summary . Ibiza , 1997 , and thousands of young people are acting like mindless zombies . Which is to be expected . Ibiza , the island of dance music , sex , drug s and alcohol , is the ultimate hedonistic paradise . God has sent help from on high to save the sinners of Ibiza . He has sent His angels to save their souls . Which would be simple enough if these souls didn ' t include an alien time - traveller working in a bar , a woman who disappeared in 1987 , a young man carrying a photograph of a girl he ' s never met and an Irish girl who doesn ' t even know who she is anymore . Plot . Part 1 . Ibiza , 14 May 1997 : A new club , the Rapture , has opened on the Spanish island of Ibiza . Its owners and DJs , Gabriel and Jude , call it a spiritual experience . In the crowd are Liam and Caitriona , two young partygoers ; Caitriona is already high on a mix of pills , though their guide , Brian , thinks the drugs are unnecessary — the Rapture is an experience on its own . He may be right ; the music and the laser show synchronize with the sunset over the smaller island of Es Vedra , making it practically entrancing . Ace and the Doctor arrive in the evening . Ace continues to struggle with the deaths of the Nazi Kurtz and the art patron Madame Salvadori in their recent adventures , and she worries that her travels with the Doctor have inured her to all the deaths . Trying to distance herself from that aspect of her personality , she has given up her nickname , and chooses to be called by her surname , McShane . The Doctor takes her to Ibiza to rest and recover , and introduces her to a time - displaced friend , Gustavo Riviera , whom the Doctor once rescued from the Spanish Civil War . He runs a bar in Ibiza now ; and he suggests to McShane that she might find some rest at the Rapture . She leaves the Doctor with Gustavo and goes to visit the new club . Meanwhile , Gustavo describes the two DJs as “ angels ” , a term they use for themselves ; the Doctor is not reassured , as those who call themselves angels are often the opposite . The Doctor goes to see the club for himself . At the Rapture , McShane meets Brian and hits it off with him , drinking and talking . Liam and Caitriona are on the dancefloor ; Caitriona is having a good time , but Liam has his concerns . He is interrupted , however , when he sees McShane across the room . He recognises her as Ace ; and he shows Caitriona a picture of her for identification . She urges him to speak with Ace alone and introduce himself . The duo introduce themselves ; Caitriona nearly gets into a fight with another clubgoer , but Liam stops her , and with McShane they head onto the dancefloor . Above , in the DJ box , Gabriel watches the crowd with doubts of his own ; his brother Jude reassures him , and refocuses him on their mission and the faith necessary for it . They are spreading the word of the Lord ; and soon He will descend and save the believers . Liam tries to find out more about McShane ’ s life for the past decade ; entranced by the music , she doesn ’ t notice . Over the speakers , Gabriel begins quoting scripture as the sun sets beyond the club ’ s windows ; he talks about the biblical Rapture before cranking up the music . The crowd is enthralled , including Brian , who does not drink or use drugs . As the music peaks , the clubgoers become silent and fully entranced . Alarmed , Brian goes to the DJ room to try to stop the situation — but only Jude is there . The self - proclaimed “ angel ” shoots him with a laser pistol for interfering . Outside , the bouncer will not let the Doctor in — until the bouncer too falls under the spell of the music . Slipping inside the club , the Doctor finds he cannot rouse any of the audience — and Gabriel is starting up the music again . Part 2 . The music climaxes — and suddenly returns to normal . The crowd awakens with no memory of anything unusual . The Doctor tries to warn McShane , but she takes it as more manipulation , and loses her temper at him . Reluctantly , he leaves her alone . Brian is nowhere to be found , and Liam is sick in the restroom ; Caitriona is still partying , and so Liam and McShane leave together . Meanwhile , Gabriel finds Brian ’ s body on the floor of the DJ room , and is upset ; Jude says that the man lacked faith , but that Gabriel is doing well . When Gabriel leaves to play more music , Jude calls their unseen benefactor and assures him that all is going well . When the club at last closes for the night , Jude awakens Brian — who was only stunned — and promises to make him immortal . Brian begins screaming . At Liam and Caitriona ’ s apartment , Liam explains about his relationship with Caitriona , who suffers from mood swings . However , he slips up and calls McShane “ Ace ” , a name she has not told him . She becomes furious and confronts him ; her rage grows when she sees he has a picture of her . She assumes he is manipulating her like so many others — but he stuns her to silence when he reveals the truth : his name is Liam McShane , and he is her younger brother . With the Rapture closed for the night , Caitriona visits Gustavo ’ s bar for something to eat . In line , she meets Gabriel , and eventually leaves with him , just missing the returning Doctor . The Doctor discusses the odd happenings at the Rapture with Gustavo ; Gustavo brushes off his concerns , saying that the youth are looking for meaning in the music and the atmosphere — much like a religious experience . Gustavo reveals his concern for the youth of the day , who have nothing to believe in or fight for ; do they not need guidance from their elders ? The DJs may not be the angels they claim to be , but they offer guidance . Then again , Ibiza has been visited by angels before . . . a 19th - century monk named Francisco Paolo claimed to have been visited by angels on Es Vedra . Meanwhile , Caitriona is talking to one of the erstwhile angels . She admits that she is very depressed , and hates herself , though for no apparent reason ; she claims that Gabriel ’ s music is the only thing keeping her going . He insists he is really an angel , and offers her “ angel dust ” to help her fly to Heaven with him . She accepts the dust . Liam explains that he was born when Ace was four years old . Shortly afterward , their mother Audrey was caught by their father Harry having an affair with Harry ’ s best friend . Rather than stay to retaliate , Harry simply snatched up the infant Liam and left , never to return ; he only left Dorothy — Ace — behind out of necessity , as she was at playschool at the time . Liam never knew about her until four years ago , when Harry had a heart attack and revealed the truth . He left to find his mother and sister , but when he found Audrey , she revealed that Ace had been missing for several years . When he returned home , Harry was dead ; Liam missed his father ’ s death by an hour . He produces a letter from their father as proof , and Ace breaks down , realising her life could have been very different . She tells him about her life — but then shuns him , insisting there is no room in her life for a brother . Angry and hurt , he storms out , leaving her to sleep on the couch ; she wrestles with her own hurt and guilt . Meanwhile , Caitriona is very high ; she sees a rainbow of colours , and hears hints of Liam and Ace ’ s argument . Gabriel leads her through these alleged revelations , but she is confronted with her own dark side and worst fears . She sees the Doctor as well ; in her visions he is cast as the evil , soul - devouring Sandman . She feels herself falling , and the vision tells her to kill Ace to save herself ; under the force of her will , she sees the apartment collapsing , crushing Ace to death . Part 3 . 15 May 1997 : In the morning , Caitriona awakens with a headache and no memory of the end of her evening . She thinks nothing odd of this as Liam returns . Ace is gone , and so Liam takes Caitriona to Gustavo ’ s for breakfast ; Gustavo tells her she left with Gabriel . Liam suggests returning to the Rapture to piece together what happened to Caitriona . Ace meets the Doctor on the beach , and makes up with ( temporarily at least ) ; they see Gabriel putting an odd parcel onto a boat . They slip aboard the boat , which heads for Es Vedra . En route , he reveals that he met Liam during the night . He suspects that Ace uses the TARDIS to hide from real life ; this is why Kurtz , who died in the TARDIS , hit her so hard — it was within her safety zone . She is not convinved ; but someday she must stop running . On Es Vedra , they follow Gabriel into a cave , as the Doctor fills her in on the biblical doctrine of the Rapture , which the alleged angels are abusing . They witness Gabriel speaking to what he claims to be God , via a large glowing orb ; he voices doubts , and explains that he is haunted by memories of a war that never happened . He has come to present a sacrifice : the still body of Brian . Ace slips and gives away their presence ; Gabriel confronts them . Ace covers by claiming they are here seeking salvation . He is pleased , and offers to take them back to the Rapture , his “ church ” ; however , they will have to take the boat , as he is out of angel dust , which would let them fly . He explains that tonight is the night of the ultimate communion , in which everyone in the Rapture will be , well , enraptured ; the Doctor suspects this is cover for a planned mass kidnapping . Liam and Cat split up inside the vacant Rapture . Liam goes to the office , and meets Jude , who claims he is here to save the world ’ s youth . Liam counters with his own faith in God , which tells him this angel is an imposter . Jude admits as much — but before he can act further , Gabriel arrives with the Doctor and Ace . Jude sends Gabriel to prepare for tonight ’ s activity , leaving the Doctor and Ace behind to be “ baptized ” . The Doctor confronts Jude , and reveals that the “ angel dust ” is the drug by that name , also called PCP or Phencyclidine — this explains Caitriona ’ s visions last night . However , he is confounded by the fact that Gabriel really believes himself to be an angel . He threatens to reveal the truth to Gabriel , forcing Jude to confess . They are aliens , exiles from the Euphorian empire ; their peaceful society was attacked and overrun by the Scordatura . Though they fought , they were beaten , leading to the conscription of non - soldiers to fight , including composers such as Gabriel . Gabriel could not cope , and went mad , killing his commander ; Jude rescued him from court - martial . They knew of a dimensional portal which led from their world to Es Vedra ; they had used it as children , leading to the “ angelic ” encounter recorded by Francisco Paolo . They escaped to 1997 Ibiza to recover ; and there , Jude decided to take new recruits from the local population to become soldiers for the Euphorians . He combined the drugs and the music to give Gabriel a new personality ; but now it is failing . Adapting texts from the Bible that Paolo had long ago given him , he created the Rapture and its dogma to bring in the youths who would become their soldiers when they inevitably return home . Although the Doctor is disgusted by Jude ’ s choices and methods , he is sympathetic to the cause , and offers to help Gabriel in some other way — but he won ’ t allow the kidnapping and conscription . These guideless children of Earth will soon enough have their own wars to fight . Jude is intrigued by the offer ; but as the Doctor and Ace leave , Liam threatens to kill Jude if anyone he loves is hurt by this situation . Downstairs , Gabriel finds his recent disciple Caitriona . He leads her to the dancefloor , then retreats to the booth to play music for her ; the music has the sound of Brian ’ s screams cut into it . It overwhelms her , and she begs Gabriel to save her from madness . She falls into a trance as the Doctor , Ace , and Liam arrive . Gabriel offers to introduce the Doctor to their benefactor , who made this possible ; the Doctor is horrified to see Gustavo enter the club . Part 4 . Gustavo explains that he funded the Rapture in the belief that Jude and Gabriel would bring purpose to the youth of Ibiza . He expected them to persuade the young people , not enslave them . Gabriel summons Caitriona to the DJ booth ; seeing that she is entranced , Gustavo realises the truth . The Doctor tries to calm Gustavo while Jude tries to explain to Gabriel about the change in plans ; but they are interrupted by Ace , who has realised that the screaming in the music is a recording of Brian ’ s death . Gustavo declares Gabriel to be evil , and attacks him ; both of them fall burst through the glass of the booth and fall to the dance floor — and their deaths . Gustavo holds on just long enough to give the Doctor a CD prepared by Gabriel . Jude is grief - stricken ; the others retreat to the office to give him a moment to mourn . This proves to be a mistake ; for Jude decides that humanity must pay for his brother ’ s death — and they will suffer through Gabriel ’ s music . He locks the Doctor ’ s group into the office . The Doctor realises he has misunderstood Jude . The key is Ace ; just as she has hidden from her reality in the TARDIS many times , Jude used his extensive care for Gabriel ’ s madness to keep his own madness at bay . Now , it can be unleashed . There is one chance : the CD left by Gabriel and given to the Doctor by Gustavo . As evening arrives , the club ’ s doors open , admitting thousands ; and with this event ’ s publicity , millions more will listen in by radio . Liam locates a ventilation shaft , and helps the Doctor to escape through it ; the Doctor promises to save Caitriona , and heads for the DJ booth . Meanwhile , Ace and Liam try to shout warnings to the clubgoers , but they can ’ t make themselves heard . Jude begins to play Gabriel ’ s last composition — but he has remixed it , and now it will make the hearers die in pain . The Doctor arrives in the DJ booth and tries to reason with Jude . Jude will have none of it , and sends Caitriona to retrieve Ace and Liam , whom he calls “ Satan ’ s disciples ” . Caitriona places them in the lift while Jude makes his point : the Doctor wants him to forgive his brother ’ s killers , but would he do the same if Jude forces Caitriona to murder Liam and Ace ? He starts the final segment of music , and orders Caitriona to use his laser pistol and kill them ; but she cannot bring herself to do it , and turns the weapon on herself . In a rage , Liam attacks Jude , who overpowers him ; Jude grabs Ace and dangles her over the dance floor . If he lets go , she will die like Gabriel . The Doctor begs him to wait ; he produces the CD , and promises that it will restore Jude ’ s faith . Jude allows it , and the Doctor stops the music , waking the clubgoers from their trance . He plays the CD , and reveals that it contains a confession , made by Gabriel to Brian after Brian ’ s murder . Gabriel admits that he killed Brian to save him , because Jude had taught him that the dead would rise during the Rapture . The thing he wanted most was for Jude to be proud of him . He reveals that despite his delusions , he was aware that Jude was saving him from a madness even worse , and he felt that Jude might resent him for it . In Caitriona he had found a kindred spirit , and so he was drawn to her ; if he could save her , he could make Jude stop regretting his relationship with his brother . Jude is abashed ; he in fact never regretted having a brother . Confronted with what he is doing , he realises that if he kills Ace , he is inflicting the same fate on Liam that has been visited on him — a life without a sibling . He lets her down safely , giving them a chance . Jude declares that he will return to his homeworld and face justice ; Ace argues against it , saying it will allow him to get away with his crimes here — but he slips away while she argues . Caitriona then awakens ; the Doctor reveals that he had seen her subconsciously set the gun on “ stun ” before she used it . Even in her trance , on some level she had still been herself . The Doctor starts to address the crowd — but Ace cuts him off by simply turning on some more Earthly dance music and restarting the party . Over a few days , Liam and Ace grow acquainted , but he chooses not to join her in her exotic life . He stays behind with Caitriona . Ace , meanwhile , will keep on — but now she has something to look forward to at home . The TARDIS departs , having seen the last of Jude . . . or maybe not . Later , an office worker in London receives an email with a music file attached — and when she plays it , the minds of all the office workers are blown .