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|image = Reconnaissance.jpg
name=Reconnaissance|
|series=[[Doctor Who Yearbook]]s
series=[[Doctor Who Yearbook]]s|
|doctor = Third Doctor
doctor=[[Third Doctor]]|
|companions = [[The Brigadier]], [[Liz Shaw|Liz]]
companions=[[Liz Shaw]]|
|enemy= {{Delgado|c}}
enemy= [[The Master (UNIT years)|The Master]] |
|setting=
year=|
|writer = Terrance Dicks
writer=[[Terrance Dicks]]|
|publication=''[[Doctor Who Yearbook 1994]]''
publication=[[Doctor Who Yearbook 1994]]|
|release date = September 1993
previous story=Loop the Loup (short story)|
|prev = Loop the Loup (short story)
next story=The Changeling Years (short story)|
|next=The Changeling Years (short story)
|}}
}}
'''''Reconnaissance''''' was a short story in the ''[[Doctor Who Yearbook 1994]]''.


== Summary ==
== Summary ==
Liz Shaw is left back at UNIT Headquarters to work on a sheaf of calculations, while the Doctor and the Brigadier go to visit the committee responsible for funding UNIT. The Master arrives and hypnotises Liz in telling him ''everything'' she knows about the Doctor. Mulling over the information Liz has given him during her hypnotically induced recall of the Doctor's recent adventures, the Master decides how to best make use of all he has learned, considering the [[Nestene Consciousness]] and the [[Silurians]] to sound very promising for the  future. The Master then departs, after making Liz forget he was ever there. Later, Liz comes to an important decision: she will resign from UNIT and return to Cambridge.
[[Liz Shaw]] is left back at [[UNIT]] Headquarters to work on a sheaf of calculations, while the [[Third Doctor|Doctor]] and the [[Brigadier]] go to visit the committee responsible for funding UNIT. {{delgado|c}} arrives and hypnotises Liz into telling him ''everything'' she knows about the Doctor. The Master considers how to best make use of all he has learned. He decides the [[Nestene Consciousness]] and the [[Silurian]]s sound very promising. He makes Liz forget he was ever there and leaves. Later, Liz comes to an important decision: she will resign from UNIT and return to Cambridge.


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Third Doctor]]
* [[Third Doctor]]
* [[Liz Shaw]]
* [[Liz Shaw]]
* [[The Master (UNIT years)|The Master]]
* {{Delgado|c}}
* [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|The Brigadier]]
* [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|The Brigadier]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
''to be added''
''to be added''


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
''to be added''
* The story is set at some unspecified point after the events of the television story ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'' and before those of ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]''.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
''to be added''
* Liz decides to leave [[UNIT]], not immediately, but "soon". One account of her departure is depicted in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Country of the Blind (short story)|Country of the Blind]]'', and another in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scales of Injustice (novel)|The Scales of Injustice]]''.
 
== Timeline ==
* ''Reconnaissance'' occurs after [[ST]]: ''[[UNIT Christmas Parties: First Christmas]]''
* ''Reconnaissance'' occurs before [[MA]]: ''[[The Eye of the Giant]]''


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Latest revision as of 22:55, 29 February 2024

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Reconnaissance was a short story in the Doctor Who Yearbook 1994.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

Liz Shaw is left back at UNIT Headquarters to work on a sheaf of calculations, while the Doctor and the Brigadier go to visit the committee responsible for funding UNIT. The Master arrives and hypnotises Liz into telling him everything she knows about the Doctor. The Master considers how to best make use of all he has learned. He decides the Nestene Consciousness and the Silurians sound very promising. He makes Liz forget he was ever there and leaves. Later, Liz comes to an important decision: she will resign from UNIT and return to Cambridge.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]