Blood of the Daleks ( audio story ) Blood of the Daleks was the first of Big Finish Productions ' " Eighth Doctor Adventures " audio stories . Co - produced with BBC 7 , this was the first " Doctor Who " audio story to debut on radio since " The Ghosts of N - Space " in 1996 . Broadcast and released in two parts , it featured the Eighth Doctor played by Paul McGann and introduced Sheridan Smith as Lucie Miller . This story takes place after the final story featuring Charlotte Pollard with the Eighth Doctor , namely " The Girl Who Never Was " . Publisher ' s summary . Part one . " People of Red Rocket Rising , my fellow citizens . Our long night is over . I ' ve been contacted by a benevolent people . They too have known great trials , but they have overcome them and made it their mission to help others do the same . They have offered us refuge , and passage to the nearest human worlds . They have the resources , and the patience and compassion , to evacuate every one of us . My fellow citizens , my friends , rescue is at hand ! " Part two . " The crashed ship . The one Tom Cardwell saw all those years ago . And you borrowed its technology , didn ' t you ? Maybe even found a Dalek or two in the wreckage . Dead , but intact . And you began to turn human beings into creatures like them . You did that ? I ' m right , arent I ? " Plot . Part 1 . To the Eighth Doctor ' s puzzlement and consternation , Lucie Miller appears in the TARDIS ; he attempts to return her to the north of England in 2006 , but finds that a temporal shield prevents him from landing there . Instead , the two find themselves on the human colony world Red Rocket Rising , which has suffered an asteroid strike . The survivors include the colony ' s acting president , Eileen Klint , disgraced scientist Asha Gryvern and the apparently paranoid Tom Cardwell . Klint receives a message from a Dalek fleet offering rescue to the colony ' s citizens , and accepts the offer , believing the Daleks to be benevolent . Lucie reveals that the Time Lord s have placed her in the Doctor ' s care because of something she ' d seen , although she doesn ' t know what it is . Asha , apparently the assistant to one Professor Martez , is in reality Martez himself , who had combined dead and living humans with technology salvaged from a crashed Dalek ship in an effort to ensure survival ; Martez has created a new race of Daleks . When the true Daleks land , they welcome the survivors onto their ship , and demand that Klint turn the Doctor over to them . Meanwhile , Martez orders his Daleks to open fire on the Doctor . Part 2 . The Doctor tricks Martez ' s Daleks and escapes . Martez has summoned the Daleks for assistance with his own Dalek creations , but the true Daleks see Martez ' s Daleks as a threat to the purity of the Dalek race , and plan to destroy them . The Doctor allies himself temporarily with the true Daleks in order to destroy Martez ' s Daleks , but then works with Tom Cardwell to eliminate both Dalek groups . The Daleks reveal that they caused the asteroid strike on Red Rocket Rising , in a failed attempt to eliminate Martez ' s creations ; they also destroyed the exodus ships carrying refugees from the disaster . Martez ' s Daleks , which are being birthed at a rapid rate , initially have an advantage over the true Daleks , who are weakened from another conflict . The Doctor eventually convinces Martez that a Dalek - dominated world will know only hatred , war and death . Martez , whose stolen body is breaking down , halts the birthing process ; in return , his creations kill him . Eventually , the two groups of Daleks ( aided by Cardwell ' s resistance ) destroy each other . The humans are left to pick up the pieces , and Klint announces that a new offer of rescue has been received from the inhabitants of a planet whose name begins " Tel - " . Lucie considers staying with the survivors on Red Rocket Rising , but the Doctor discovers that the Time Lords will not let him leave the planet without her . And elsewhere , a woman calling herself the Headhunter accepts a commission from one Mr Hulbert , promising him that she will find Lucie Miller anywhere in space and time . . .