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Stealing Bruce's [[ambulance]] by murdering his [[Joey Sneller|paramedic partner]], the Master and Lee answered [[Dr]]. [[Grace Holloway]]'s request for an ambulance to collect the Doctor, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Novel of the Film (novelisation)|The Novel of the Film]]'') and agreed to take them to [[Professor]] [[Wagg]]'s [[atomic clock]] at the [[Institute for Technological Advancement and Research]] and repair the timing malfunction the Master caused with the clock's [[beryllium chip]], when he was really planning to bring the Doctor back to the TARDIS. Realising the Master's true identity, the Doctor and Grace escaped, but before they could do so, the Master secretly [[Possession|possessed]] Grace's mind. When the Doctor got back to the TARDIS to fix the timing malfunction, the Master had Grace knock him out and put him in restraints.

Having donned more traditional Gallifreyan robes, the Master boasted his plans to the restrained Doctor, accidentally letting it slip that he had lost his lives trying to destroy the Doctor, exposing his earlier lies to Lee. After killing Lee for refusing to follow his orders, the Master forcibly opened the Eye using Grace's retina so that he could steal the Doctor's regenerations. Although the Master was able to initiate the transfer process that would give him access to the Doctor's remaining regenerations, Grace was able to prevent this by rerouting the TARDIS' power and sending the ship into a [[temporal orbit]]. Grace released the Doctor from his restraints, but the Master threw Grace off of a balcony inside the [[Cloister Room]], killing her. With the Master's body dying as the Doctor's regenerations were returned to him, the two Time Lords fought near the [[Eye of Harmony]], culminating in the Master falling into it when he leapt at the Doctor and misjudged the angle. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')

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The Master was greeted by a {{Gomez|n=female incarnation of himself known as "Missy"}}, who had developed a plan to form a band to hypnotise viewers of ''[[The Battle of the Bands Beyond the Stars]]''. {{Pratt|n=His decaying thirteenth incarnation}}, {{Ainley|n=an incarnation possessing the body of Tremas}} and {{Simm|n=an incarnation going by the name "Saxon"}} all joined in the plan, and the team spent "decades" practising. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters]]'') After unveiling their presence to the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Abominable Showmen]]'') the Masters prepared for their performance. However, the "Tremas" Master began to fight with Missy over the control of [[Missy's device|her device]], believing that he alone could hold the universe in his grasp. The "Decayed" Master joined in the struggle, followed rapidly by the "Bruce" Master, and the group soon became involved in a full on brawl. The five were quickly disqualified, seemingly destroying them. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Five Masters]]'')

=== Escaping the Time Vortex ===

The Master managed to capture a child of the [[Vormatoda]]. Inspired by a VHS he found in the TARDIS' spare room, the Master brainwashed and disguised it as his daughter “Alison". In the meantime, the Vormatoda began attacking passing timeships in search of its child, leaving components which the Master could salvage. He eventually built a form of ship around the jettisoned TARDIS room, but was still stuck in the Vortex. After her vortex manipulator stalled mid-transit, he rescued [[River Song]] via the tractor beam he had acquired. With him posing as "Daniel", River began to help him retrieving bits of wreckage from victims of the Vormatoda, including a piece of a prison ship that had been transporting psychopath [[Kaliopi Mileska]].  During Mileska's rampage, the Master'd true identity was revealed and River discovered the truth about Alison. She managed to break Alison's brainwashing, allowing her to return to her natural form and reunite with her parent. With the Vormatoda now attacking his structure, the Master managed to escape the Vortex with Kaliopi in a stasis pod from the prison ship. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lifeboat and the Deathboat (audio story)|The Lifeboat and the Deathboat]]'')

== Psychological profile ==

=== Personality ===

The "Bruce" Master was generally calm and sinisterly villainous, but was also capable of terrifying rage. After he took possession of [[Bruce Gerhardt]]'s body, and, after finding out that his new body was not stable, he became determined to steal the remaining lives of the Doctor himself. When his attempt to take the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s remaining regenerations was thwarted, the Master reverted to a more basic, brutal approach, attempting to smash the Doctor's head in with a staff positioned around the Eye, proclaiming that "life [was] wasted on the living" and rejecting the Doctor's aid when he was being pulled into the Eye.