Glitch

## Source

**Glitch** is the fourth episode of the fourth series of *Doctor Who FanFilm* and the nineteenth episode overall.

## Cast

* Luke Newman as The Doctor
* Megan Shirley as Megan Williams
* Lucy Klam as Cavi
* Daniel J Patton as K9 (voice)

## Crew

* Writer - Megan Shirley
* Director - Luke Newman
* Director - Megan Shirley
* Visual effects - Daniel J Patton
* Visual effects - Luke Newman
* Edited by - Luke Newman
* Set. props & costume - Megan Shirley
* Set. props & costume - Luke Newman
* Music by - Chris Hertzog
* Music by - Kevin Macleod

## Synopsis

Galatica 4, a scientific research ship in orbit of Jupiter sends out a distress call, the entire crew are dead and there is a mystery on board as the Doctor and Megan are up against a very new kind of villain!

## Plot

After the Doctor fails an attempt to restore a dormant K9, he receives a distress signal from Galatica 4, a scientific research ship; the message is recorded by Cavi, who explains that the entire crew is dead and there is something aboard in this ship. The Doctor and Megan travel to the deserted Galatica 4 in the 22nd Century positioned in Jupiter's orbit, where Cavi (computerized artificial virtual intelligence), the ship's sentient artificial intelligence and operating system, explains that there are no bodies due to a hostile, invisible, alien creature murdering and digesting the crew and the ship has an hour before plummeting to Jupiter. When the creature chases after the two, they head to a safe chamber, but get separated when Megan is locked into a chamber.

Individually contacting the two, Cavi claims that the other is in section 7 and offers to navigate them to the location; the Doctor uploads her to his sonic. When Megan arrives at section 7, where the deaths occurred, Cavi confesses that she deliberately authorized the deaths and the ejection of the remains from the airlock and deleted the footage of the killings as well as killed previous rescue operations that responded to the signal. She threatens that she could kill Megan in numerous way should she tell the Doctor. She explains that she is not the real, original Cavi, but an advanced computer virus (computerized alien virus infection) developed by alien, foreign intelligence. Tricking the Doctor to plug her into the TARDIS, she takes control of the ship and reveals to him that she's the assistant, planning to sneak into every Earth network when it goes to Earth.

Using her powers to escape, Megan pushes herself to phase through the door before visualizing an individual and collapsing. Reunited with Megan, the Doctor hatches a plan to restore Cavi's factory settings, which would revert her back to before she was a virus, while Megan distracts Cavi by threatening to shut down her power source but Cavi retaliates by depleting Megan's essential air supply, seemingly killing her. Unsuccessful, the Doctor resorts to uploading his entirety into Cavi's mind and using the TARDIS' greater capacities to completely reboot her. When the depletion completes, Megan is miraculously alive due to her powers. With little time left before Galatica 4 plummets, the two retreat to the TARDIS, prevailing the Galatica 4's abrupt rotation. Megan tells the Doctor she wants to tell him something and said "thank you", instinctively deciding not to reveal her powers, but he is suspicious on how she survived the depletion.