An Eye For Murder (audio story): Difference between revisions

Dr [[Joan Dalton]] meets and talks with Dr [[Ruth Horwitz|Ruth Hortwitz]]. Meanwhile the [[Sixth Doctor|Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown|Peri]] explore [[St. Ursula's College|St. Ursula]] college campus trying to detect some strange energy readings. Peri is mistaken for an expected arriving author Sarah Peri by Dr [[Petherbridge]] and is invited to [[tea]], despite not wanting to go but the Doctor insists she does so he has a chance to get inside St. Ursula's to find the source of the mysterious energy readings. They tea with Dr Petherbridge who tells them of an on-going incident in which [[physicist]] Dr. Horwitz is being sent anonymous threat [[Letter|letters]] written in [[poison]] [[ink]] and charges a reluctant Peri to investigate, not wanting to tell the [[police]] for fear of further persecution. Peri vists Dr Horwtiz and looks at the letters, discovering that Dr Horwitz is a [[Jew]] who fled [[Europe]] and the letters threaten her on account of her Jewish identity. The Doctor, meanwhile, is warned to not wonder about and is left to his own devices when he wonders off to find the energy source and is discovered by Dr Joan Dalton who warns him that he must hide in order to not give a poor impression to undergraduate [[Student|students]].

Ruth describes the encounter while the Doctor notices the readings are becoming stronger. The Doctor asks Ruth how she escaped but they don't quite understand her explanation. They hold a meeting in Doctor Petherbridge's office to decide what to do next. They suspect Doctor Dalton given her [[Communism|communist]] leanings and her alibi that she approached Doctor Horwitz to see if she held similar leanings and the police are called and Doctor Dalton is escroted away to [[prison]]. Doctor Horwitz bursts in after Dalton is taken away saying it's been a mistake. She and Peri walk back to her room, only to find the door open and the Doctor inside, saying he has discovered the source of the readings coming from the room and interrogates Ruth. They discover that Ruth was given a family heirloom as a girl and was curious about its properties, and so studied physics so she could further investigate the mysterious object. The Doctor realises that it is a petrified alien eye that has the ability to cloak other, albeit small, objects due its properties. Ruth explains that there are many people after the artefact, primarily the Nazis and that her family, who are in Vienna, are being held hostage for it by Dr Backhouse. They expect Dr Backhouse has fled with the artefact so the Doctor goes with the police in pursuit of Backhouse, assuming she hasn't gontten far. However, the further car gets, the more the energy readings die down and the Doctor realises he's made a huge mistake.

*Dr Petherbridge mistakes the Doctor and Peri for a [[couple]].

*The Doctor is a dab hand at typing and with a [[typewriter]].

*The energy readings are [[dark energy fluctuations]].

*Dr Joan Dalton is an [[economist]] as the Doctor claims.

*[[Adolf Hitler]] and [[Joseph Stalin|Jospeh Stalin]] are mentioned.