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novel name= Timewyrm: Exodus |
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series=[[Doctor Who]] -<br/>[[Virgin New Adventures]] |
|image= NA002 exodus.jpg
number= 2 |
|series = [[Virgin New Adventures]]
doctor=[[Seventh Doctor]] |
|range = Virgin New Adventures
companions= [[Ace]] |
|number in range = 2
enemy= the [[Timewyrm]]<br>[[The War Chief]] |
|number= 2
year= [[England]], [[London]], [[1951]], <br> Alternate [[1951]]: <br> [[London]], [[1951]] <br>  [[Munich]], [[9th November]], [[1923]] <br> [[Berlin]], [[1939]]<br> Felsennest, [[May]], [[1940]] |
|doctor = Seventh Doctor
writer= [[Terrance Dicks]] |
|companions= [[Ace]]
publisher= [[Virgin Books]] |
|enemy= [[Timewyrm]], [[Felix Kriegslieter|Kriegslieter]]
release date= [[August]], [[1991]] |
|setting= {{il|[[London]], [[Alternate timeline|alternate]] [[1951]]|[[Germany]], [[1923]], [[1939]] and [[1940]]|[[London]], [[1951]]}}
format= Paperback Book, 234 Pages |
|writer= Terrance Dicks
isbn= ISBN 0426203577 |
|cover= [[Andrew Skilleter]]
previous story= [[Timewyrm: Genesys]] |
|publisher= Virgin Books
next story= [[Timewyrm: Apocalypse]]}}
|release date= 15 August 1991
|format= Paperback Book;<br/>31 Chapters, 234 Pages
|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20357-7
|prev= Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)
|next= Timewyrm: Apocalypse (novel)
}}
'''''Timewyrm: Exodus''''' is the second book in the [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] series. It was [[Writer|written]] by [[Terrance Dicks]]. Featuring the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]], it is the second book in the Timewyrm story arc, and also acts as a sequel to {{cs|The War Games (TV story)}}.


==Publisher's Summary==
Dicks' first original novel, the plot, in essence, is comprised numerous interrelated mini-stories, with the Doctor hopping to various times and locations to sort out related instances of alien interference with Earth's history. A similar structure and premise was adopted in some of Dicks' later novels, in particular the [[Players (novel)|Players]] trilogy: ''[[Players (novel)|Players]]'', ''[[Endgame (novel)|Endgame]]'' and ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]''. Some of these novels even include references to ''Exodus'' which lightly ties it to the spanning narrative.
The pursuit of the [[Timewyrm]] leads [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Ace]] to [[London]], [[1951]], and the [[Festival of Britain]] -- a celebration of the achievements of this small country, this insignificant corner of the glorious Thousand Year Reich.


Someone -- or something -- has been interfering with the time lines, and in order to investigate, the Doctor travels further back in time to the very dawn of the [[Nazi]] evil. In the heart of the [[Germany]] of the Third Reich, he finds that this little band of thugs and misfits did not take over half the world unaided.
''Exodus'' features the first appearance in all of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' media of [[Adolf Hitler]], who had previously only been mentioned. It explores his rise to power and his reign at the beginning of [[World War II]] in the context of the [[Doctor Who universe|DWU]]. The later release, ''[[The Shadow in the Glass (novel)|The Shadow in the Glass]]'', complements ''Exodus'' by exploring Hitler's [[Battle of Berlin|downfall]]. ''Players'' is also a significant companion piece, containing a number of references to ''Exodus'', expanding on some of its ideas, and also following a similar story line with a focus on [[Winston Churchill]] rather than Hitler.


History must be restored to its proper course, and in his attempt to repair the time lines, the Doctor faces the most terrible dilemma he has ever known...
== Publisher's summary ==
The pursuit of the [[Timewyrm]] leads [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Ace]] to [[London]], [[1951]], and the [[Festival of Britain]] — a celebration of the achievements of [[Great Britain|this small country]], this insignificant corner of the glorious [[Third Reich|Thousand Year Reich]].


==Plot==
Someone — or something — has been interfering with the time lines, and in order to investigate, the Doctor [[Time travel|travels further back]] in [[time]] to the [[Beer Hall Putsch|very dawn]] of the [[Nazi]] [[evil]]. In the heart of the [[Germany]] of the [[Third Reich]], he finds that this little band of thugs and misfits did not take over half the world unaided.


[[History]] must be restored to its proper course, and in his attempt to repair the time lines, the Doctor faces the most terrible dilemma he has ever known...


The TARDIS apparently materialises in London, 1951, near the Festival of Britain -- but there is a swastika flying above the Skylon, and when the Doctor and Ace investigate they find that the Festival which should be celebrating Britain’s recovery from World War Two instead celebrates the triumph of the Thousand Year Reich. The exhibitions include photographs of Prime Minister Oswald Mosley, and of the reinstated King Edward VIII and Queen Wallis singing a peace treaty with Adolf Hitler. Outside, the Doctor and Ace see two members of the Britischer Freikorps bullying the Jewish proprietor of a tea stall, and the Doctor, claiming to be a party official, bluffs them into returning to their unit and placing themselves under arrest. He and Ace then set off back to the TARDIS, but see a man being stabbed to death nearby; the dying man falls into the Thames after passing his documents on to the Doctor. Freikorps patrols arrive in the area, responding to the disturbance, and the Doctor and Ace retreat back to the Festival -- where an informer who overheard their conversation about the photographs turns them over to Lieutenant Hemmings of the Freikorps, claiming that they are resistance agents.
== Plot ==
Following the events of ''[[Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)|Timewyrm: Genesys]]'', [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] takes the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] to London, 1951. It’s the Festival of Britain, set to celebrate recovery from [[World War II]], but something is amiss: It becomes immediately clear that history has changed, and the [[Nazis]] won the war. Britain is now a German protectorate.


Hemmings throws the Doctor and Ace into a temporary cell in the basement of the Savoy, and tries to break their resolve with psychological tricks. They easily withstand them and escape back to the Festival, only to find that the TARDIS has gone. An elderly passerby named Popplewell tells them that it was taken by a Nazi patrol. The Doctor decides to examine the documents which he was given earlier, and finds that the murdered man was a Reichsinspektor General -- and that there is no photographic identification amongst the papers. He therefore returns to the Savoy and bluffs his way into a meeting with General Strasser, and by the time Hemmings arrives to report his prisoners’ escape, the Doctor has convinced Strasser not only that he is the Reichsinspektor General, but that he deliberately allowed Hemmings to arrest him and his ward in order to test their security. Strasser doesn’t want the Doctor to take a poor report back to Berlin, and thus agrees to give him all the help he needs to correct what are no doubt minor problems. Aware that the furious Hemmings doesn’t believe a word of his story, the Doctor requests that Hemmings be seconded to his staff in order to keep an eye on him. Their credentials now established, the Doctor and Ace are ready to find the TARDIS, research the alternate history of Nazi-occupied Britain, and find out where the timelines diverged -- and what, if anything, can be done about it.
The Doctor saves a shopkeeper from a brawl with members of the Freikorps, a sanctioned group of local thugs under the loose control of the SS. He and Ace then witness a murder, and the dying man slips the Doctor an odd item: the identification of a high-ranking Nazi official, the [[Reichsinspektor General]]. Shortly thereafter, they are arrested on the word of an informant, and imprisoned by a Lieutenant [[Anthony Rupert Hemmings|Hemmings]], local commander of the Freikorps. They escape quite easily, and return to the Festival, where a local named [[Popplewell]] (secretly a resistance member) hints at how to contact the resistance movement. He also reveals that the TARDIS was taken by a patrol. They return to the local headquarters, and the Doctor uses the ID badge to bluff his way into the confidence of the local general, General [[Strasser]]. Hemmings breaks in and accuses them, and the Doctor has Hemmings seconded to his command, so as to keep him in view.


The next day, the Doctor visits what was once the British Museum to study military records, while Ace is “released from prison” to hook up with a resistance cell. Ostensibly her mission is to infiltrate the resistance and learn about their organisation; in fact, her real agenda is to speak with a few ordinary people and learn about the history of the war. A kind old woman named Ma Barker invites Ace back to her cafe, but once there she is confronted by Popplewell, the elderly man from the Thames -- who is in fact the leader of a resistance cell, and the man who killed the Reichsinspektor General. Ace manages to convince him and Barker that she is a representative of the exiled British government, here to learn all she can about life under the Nazis in order to determine the strength of the resistance. Popplewell and Barker tell her that all “undesirables” have been deported to the death camps, all able-bodied men have been sent to New Berlin as slaves, and all blonde and blue-eyed women have been sent to the Race Centres as breeding stock. There are also rumours of a Black Coven which is said to influence the Nazi party’s inner circle, conducting evil rituals and human sacrifice. Before Ace can learn more, the informer Arnie arrives with a warning for Popplewell and recognises her from the Festival. He claims to have seen her and the Doctor talking with General Strasser, and Ace in turn accuses him of turning them in earlier. Popplewell and Barker, unsure who to trust, decide that they have no choice but to kill them both, but they are too late; Hemmings, convinced that the Doctor is trying to play him for a fool, has had Ace followed and is about to raid the cafe.
The Doctor tells Hemmings that Ace is a relative of a resistance member, and has contacts; she must be "interrogated" (for the sake of appearances) and then released, and will then willingly lead them to the resistance. Meanwhile, the Doctor goes to the former British Museum to examine the military records stored there, hoping to find the point at which history diverged. He learns that the turning point was at Dunkirk during the war; unlike real history, the Germans annihilated the retreating British army at Dunkirk. He is contacted [[psychic]]ally by the [[Timewyrm]], who rages and tears up the room, much like a poltergeist, but he gets the impression she is trapped somehow. Hemmings, meanwhile, "interrogates" Ace; he beats her more than necessary for effect, as he doesn’t believe they are not enemies of some sort. He then releases her, and she goes to act on the tip from Popplewell, meeting resistance members at [[Ma Barker]]’s Cafe. Hemmings has her followed, and plans to raid the cafe; but he is interrupted by the timely intervention of the Doctor, who manages to vouch for the resistance members as double agent, and have Hemmings arrested. Back at HQ, he sends Ace to the TARDIS, and goes to release Hemmings secretly, knowing he put the man in a dangerous position; but Hemmings attacks him and bolts. Hemmings sees the TARDIS materialise, and a voice calls him inside; then the TARDIS vanishes. However, something isn't right; the Doctor's TARDIS is still where he left it. The Doctor joins Ace there, and they depart.


According to the museum records, the German army annihilated the British at Dunkirk, rather than allowing them to evacuate. As the Doctor considers his discovery, he senses a familiar presence in his mind -- and when he probes further, he is attacked by the enraged Timewyrm. Shaken, he puts up mental defenses to prevent this from happening again. He then returns to the Savoy, where he learns of Hemmings’ activities and alerts Strasser. Hemmings has just raided the cafe, but before he can place its occupants under arrest the Doctor arrives, claiming that Barker and her associates are double agents who were about to give Ace details about other resistance cells until Hemmings nearly bungled the operation. Strasser has the protesting Hemmings arrested, and departs to let Popplewell and Barker continue their fine work. After ensuring that Popplewell will be able to relocate and continue his fight, the Doctor and Ace return to the Savoy, where the Doctor sends Ace to wait by the TARDIS while he releases Hemmings; not even the sadistic Lieutenant deserves what will happen to him as a prisoner of the Nazis. Rather than thank the Doctor, however, Hemmings knocks him out and attempts to warn Strasser -- but before he can do so the TARDIS materialises before him, and the awed Hemmings steps inside and is transported away. Meanwhile, the Doctor recovers and heads back to his own TARDIS, only to be confronted there by Strasser and his personal guards; the body of the real Reichsinspektor has been fished out of the river, along with proper identification. Ace uses her new explosive concoction, nitro-nine-a, to bring down the wall on Strasser and his men before they can shoot the Doctor, and she and the Doctor enter the TARDIS and depart.
Working with a plan that he has not yet revealed, the Doctor travels to Munich, 1923, on the date of Hitler’s failed coup that led to his imprisonment (during which he would write "Mein Kampf". Against Ace's urging, he lets the events play out…and resets [[Hitler]]'s dislocated shoulder, ingratiating himself to the future dictator. Later he tells Ace that the Nazi regime failed in part because of Hitler's incompetence...and he cannot allow Hitler to be replaced with a competent dictator. Hence, his involvement now.


The Doctor confiscates the rest of Ace’s explosives and takes her to Munich in 1923, to lay the groundwork for the next stage. At this point in time, the Nazi party is still an insignificant street mob, and when Hitler tries to stage a coup he and his followers are easily driven away from the War Office by government soldiers. To Ace’s horror, the Doctor pulls the dispirited Hitler out of the fleeing crowd, tells him not to give up, and promises that he will return when Hitler rules a united Germany. Furious, Ace tries to kill Hitler as he departs, but the Doctor stops her, reminding her that the Nazi party will be destroyed in 1945 -- unless Hitler is replaced by somebody competent. As they return to the TARDIS, somebody shoots at them with an energy weapon, and they barely escape with their lives, now aware that the Nazis have definitely been infiltrated by someone who does not belong on 20th-century Earth.
They then travel to Nuremberg, 1939, and hide the TARDIS in a parking location in the Time Vortex. They attend a Nazi party rally, and the Doctor demonstrates that Hitler's speeches are not very good, but are using some highly advanced psychological tricks, tricks which don’t belong to this time period; someone has been interfering, but it doesn't seem to be the Timewyrm — it's not her style. He meets [[Hermann Goering|Goering]] and Himmler, Hitler's highest-ranking associates, and also [[Martin Bormann|Bormann]], Hitler's personal attendant. He also meets an old and deformed doctor named [[The War Chief|Kriegslieter]], who seems familiar somehow. He then meets Hitler, and, playing on the memory of their first meeting, he incorporates himself into Hitler's inner circle, obtaining resources and freedom to operate in the process. At a private audience with Hitler, he learns that the man has been possessed by the Timewyrm, who sets off a telekinetic storm like that seen in the museum. However, he learns something else: The Timewyrm is trapped in Hitler's powerful mind, and can't escape. He teachers Hitler some basic techniques to resist its influence. And still, someone else's hand is at work.


The Doctor travels to Nuremburg in August of 1939, and after parking the TARDIS in the Time Vortex to avoid drawing attention to it, he takes Ace to a party rally. The audience responds enthusiastically to Hitler’s rambling and disjointed speech, and much to her surprise Ace finds herself responding as well despite the vicious anti-Semitism on display, suggesting that there are powerful psychological forces at work in the crowd. She and the Doctor are spotted and arrested, but the Doctor claims to be a personal friend of Hitler -- and when they are brought before the Fuhrer, he instantly recognises the Doctor as the man who restored his faith, and warmly welcomes him to Nazi Germany. The other party officials display their public support for Hitler’s friend, but Goering and Himmler are suspicious of the new arrival and determine to find out what his true agenda is. The Doctor, meanwhile, meets a party official whom he does not recognise from the history books -- the deformed Dr Kriegslieter, who seems to know the Doctor of old.
Hitler kicks off the invasion of Poland. He believes that Britain will not counterattack, but will appease him, as they have done before, but he is wrong. Britain declares war, sending Hitler into a rage, but he is able to calm himself and not accede control to the Timewyrm, thanks to the Doctor. Meanwhile, the Doctor is content, knowing the war will proceed on schedule — history has not yet been derailed.


The Doctor attends a private audience with Hitler, and claims to have seen a future in which the Nazi armies will conquer most of Europe. But when he further predicts that the English will honour their treaty with Poland and declare war should Germany invade, Hitler flies into a rage, and his fury manifests itself as a telekinetic storm which nearly batters the Doctor to death. Unable to sustain the power flooding through him, Hitler collapses after speaking in the voice of the Timewyrm. As the Doctor and Martin Bormann tend to him, Bormann explains that the Fuhrer has experienced similar fits recently; in fact, only the Doctor has witnessed one and survived. The Doctor returns to his quarters, where he informs Ace that the Timewyrm has tried and failed to possess Hitler and is now mired within his madness, unable to escape. But the subtle, well-controlled changes to history that they have witnessed are uncharacteristic of the Timewyrm’s style. Something else is going on here.
The Doctor is summoned by Goering, who admits that if necessary, he would replace Hitler for the good of the Reich. He is then arrested and taken to [[Heinrich Himmler|Himmler]], but ingratiates himself by claiming to be a sorcerer–he knows that Himmler is obsessed with the occult. Himmler invites him to Drachensberg, the castle of the SS, where Himmler's other alleged sorcerers–the Black Coven–meet. However, upon returning to his rooms, the Doctor finds an invitation from Kriegslieter, which Ace has accepted in his place. By the time he gets to Kriegslieter's office, Ace is missing–and a crystal ball on the table shows her being prepared to be used as a sacrifice at Drachensberg.


Over the next few days, while waiting for Britain to declare war, Ace witnesses examples of the Nazi reign of terror and comes to understand the Doctor’s perspective; as brutal as the war will be, it must take place to ensure the end of the Nazi regime. Hitler sends his troops into Poland on schedule, and on the third of September the Doctor visits him to await word from England. Hitler remains confident that the British will concede to his demands, as they have always done before -- but at 9 am, a messenger arrives to announce that if German troops do not withdraw from Poland immediately, a state of war will exist between Germany and England. Hitler flies into another rage, but the Doctor helps him to calm himself, fearing the consequences should Hitler die, have a breakdown or impulsively order the immediate invasion of Britain. With great effort, Hitler manages to control the power flooding through him, and the Doctor sets off back to his hotel, assured that the war will begin on schedule.
The Doctor calls in a favour from Goering, setting him on the road to Drachensberg with an armored column. He then finds a transmat booth in Kriegslieter's office, which leads to Drachensberg. He tampers with it before using it, sending himself onto the roof of the castle instead of to the receiving transmat, and the receiving transmat explodes. However, to save Ace, he surrenders, and he recognises the equipment in use. It is the property of the War Lords, whom he last encountered at the end of his second life. Kriegslieter proves to be the renegade Time Lord known as the War Chief, now victim of a failed regeneration that left him deformed.


Before the Doctor can depart, Goering summons him to a private meeting to discuss the Fuhrer’s condition. Should Hitler suffer a breakdown, Goering is prepared to take his place -- for the good of the Reich, naturally -- and he wishes to know if he can count on the Doctor’s support. The Doctor remains non-committal, but as he leaves he is arrested by the Gestapo and taken to Himmler to explain himself. He manages to convince the superstitious Himmler that he is in fact a master of the grand order of sorcerers which Himmler has sought all his life, and Himmler, delighted, invites him to visit the castle at Drachensberg to meet the sorcerers of the Black Coven who have advised him during his rise to power. The Doctor finally gets back to his hotel room, to find that Dr Kriegslieter has invited him to the Aryan Research Bureau -- and in his absence, the bored Ace has decided to accept the invitation herself.
Escaping [[The War Games (TV story)|their past defeat]] by the Time Lords, the War Lords had come to Earth to again form an unstoppable army; but this time, unlike their previous plan to collect soldiers from throughout history, they will craft their own army via Nazi Germany. To that end, they have been controlling, manipulating, and assisting Hitler; it is this involvement that leads to the change in history at Dunkirk. The War Lords will win the war, accelerate humanity’s technological development, and conquer the galaxy. Ace will be sacrificed to motivate the SS, and the Doctor...Kriegslieter will take his body and his [[Regeneration cycle|regenerations]].


Ace is disgusted by the Bureau’s collection of Aryan tracts, vicious racism thinly disguised as scholarship -- and she soon realises that Kriegslieter’s arrogant, bespectacled assistant is trying to hypnotise her in order to question her about the Doctor. She resists his control and tries to flee, only to be captured by Kriegslieter, who has an energy weapon built into his cane. By the time the Doctor arrives, the Bureau is deserted and the crystal ball in Kriegslieter’s office is showing an image of Ace -- who is apparently about to become the subject of a human sacrifice at Drachensberg. The Doctor contacts Goering and informs him that the Black Coven is trying to overthrow Hitler and put Himmler in his place, and then searches Kriegslieter’s office and locates a transmat unit. He transports himself to Drachensberg, where he surrenders to the Coven to save Ace’s life -- but he recognises the alien machinery being used by the Coven, and finally realises that Kriegslieter is the renegade Time Lord known as the War Chief.
When Himmler arrives for the sacrifice, the Doctor tells him he is being groomed to replace Hitler. He turns on Kriegslieter, who is stunned, having underestimated Himmler's loyalty to Hitler. The Doctor frees Ace and uses her new Nitro-9-A variation to create a distraction, escaping to the top of the tower. Goering's armored column arrives, and a battle begins. Goering's men overcome the Black Coven, but are interrupted by Hitler; the Doctor senses something wrong, and realises that he has made a mistake–he has not only enabled Hitler to resist the Timewyrm, but to control it. Hitler leaves with Himmler and Goering and the troops. However, the dying Kriegslieter briefly reanimates his dead troops to attack the Doctor. The Doctor sets the castle's reactors to explode, and they escape in the TARDIS (summoned back from the Vortex) just before it blows, eliminating the War Lords and their technology.


Following the failure of the War Games, Kriegslieter was shot by his former allies, and in the confusion following the Time Lords’ arrival his subsequent regeneration aborted. He was taken back to the aliens’ planet as a medical curiosity, but over time he managed to convince them that his supposed betrayal of their leader was just a misunderstanding. With his help, the aliens broke free of the force field the Time Lords had set up around their world, and travelled back in time to infiltrate the Nazi party and influence them from behind the scenes. Their original plan had been to create an army from the human race’s finest soldiers, and they have found a ready-made army in the SS -- stormtroopers so lacking in humanity that the processing to make them serve the War Lords is barely necessary. Now, with the War Lords’ assistance, the Nazis will win the war and go on to conquer the galaxy, with the War Lord ruling behind the scenes. Ace will be sacrificed at a ceremony designed to impress Himmler, while Kriegslieter intends to possess the Doctor’s body and acquire a new, healthy Time Lord body with a full complement of regenerations.
But there is still the Timewyrm to deal with, and Dunkirk. The Doctor jumps ahead to 1940. At Hitler's command bunker, he confronts Hitler, who is about to order the destruction of the British Army at Dunkirk. The Doctor provokes the Timewyrm into showing itself, and with the aid of the TARDIS, he breaks it free of Hitler's mind, sending it unfocused into the void. Hitler, now a broken man at the mercy of his own madness, is left impressionable; and the Doctor gets him to order a withdrawal rather than an attack. Thus the true timeline is restored.


Kriegslieter takes the Doctor to the ceremony to watch Ace’s death, but when Himmler arrives the Doctor informs him that the Coven is grooming him to replace Hitler. Kriegslieter is surprised by Himmler’s furious reaction; unlike the other Nazi officials, who place their own glory above all else, Himmler is fiercely devoted to his Fuhrer. While Kriegslieter is taken off guard, the Doctor asks for permission to sacrifice Ace himself, and Kriegslieter, assuming that the Doctor is trying to save his own skin, agrees to let him do so. Instead, the Doctor cuts Ace’s bonds with the sacrificial knife and creates a distraction using the nitro-nine-a which he had taken from her earlier. He and Ace flee into the castle’s corridors, and before Kriegslieter’s troops can pursue them Goering and his men arrive to investigate the Doctor’s earlier warning. The Doctor and Ace reach a vantage point atop the castle tower and fire a few rounds at Goering and his men, provoking them to fire back and instigating a fierce battle. The converted SS troops prove useless in battle, as they have no will of their own and thus no initiative, and Goering’s men thus easily overpower and destroy the Black Coven.
The Doctor is unhappy; though he saved time, he still allowed the war to rage, and the Timewyrm is free again. Ace has him return to the festival in 1951, where he sees that all is restored; this cheers him up. However, elsewhere, the Timewyrm is still plotting–and preparing one Lieutenant Hemmings for the [[Timewyrm: Revelation|future]]...


As the Doctor and Ace prepare to depart, Hitler arrives in person to investigate, and the Doctor senses a disturbing new vigour about him. He descends to the courtyard and informs Hitler that Himmler had discovered Kriegslieter’s treachery, and that Goering has just saved the Reich -- and the pleased Hitler then informs the Doctor that he has learned to control the power within him, just as the Doctor had taught him. The horrified Doctor realises that Hitler has achieved symbiosis with the Timewyrm, giving him a new strength of will and purpose which could lead him to victory. As Hitler departs with Himmler and Goering, the Doctor tries to work out how to deal with this new problem -- but before he can do so the mortally wounded Kriegslieter uses his telepathic link with the processed SS soldiers to reanimate their bodies and send them after the Doctor and Ace. As Ace holds off the attacking zombies, the Doctor sets the castle’s nuclear reactors to overload and summons the TARDIS from the Time Vortex. He and Ace depart moments before Drachensberg explodes, wiping out the War Lords’ technology and putting an end to their scheme for good.
== Characters ==
* The [[Seventh Doctor]]
* [[Ace]]
* [[Timewyrm]]
* [[Adolf Hitler]]
* [[The War Chief]]
* Lt [[Anthony Rupert Hemmings]]
* [[Heinrich Himmler]]
* [[Hermann Goering]]
* [[Harry Goldstein|Harry Goldstein / Harry Gold]]
* Private [[George Brady]]
* Private [[Sidney Harris]]
* [[Arnold (Timewyrm: Exodus)|Arnold]]
* Major [[Popplewell]]
* General [[Otto Strasser]]
* [[Ma Barker]]
* General [[Erich Ludendorf|Ludendorf]]
* [[Martin Bormann]]
* [[Joseph Goebbels]]
* [[Joachim von Ribbentrop]]
* Herr [[Essler]]
* Herr [[Schmidt (Timewyrm: Exodus)|Schmidt]]
* [[Horst Schultz]]
* the [[Reichsinspektor General]]


The Doctor then wires the TARDIS telepathic circuits into an old storm lantern and takes Ace to Felsennest, Hitler’s command bunker, in May 1940. Just as the Doctor had promised Hitler, the Nazis have swept across Europe and driven the British back to the shores of Dunkirk, and Hitler is now poised to destroy them completely. The Doctor praises Hitler’s leadership skills, claims that he is solely responsible for the successful blitzkrieg and heaps scorn upon the pathetic contribution of the Timewyrm. Enraged, the Timewyrm attempts to tear itself free of Hitler’s body and destroy the Doctor -- and the Doctor uses the storm lantern to boost her power, freeing her from Hitler’s mind but banishing her into the Time Vortex in a storm of unfocussed energy. Hitler is reduced to a wreck by the experience, and the Doctor easily convinces him to let the remains of the British army escape, claiming that the grateful British will then see the truth of their Aryan heritage and ally themselves with Hitler. He and Ace then depart, leaving Hitler alone to fulfill his destiny.
== Worldbuilding ==
* The [[Venusian nerve pinch]] induces short term amnesia.


Despite his apparent victory, the Doctor remains moody and pessimistic; he’s just set the most terrible war in human history on course, and hasn’t even succeeded in destroying the Timewyrm, who will eventually recover from this assault and strike again elsewhere. Ace convinces him to return to the Festival of Britain to see what he has accomplished -- and this time, all is as it should be. The British are recovering from the hardships of the war and celebrating victory, and as the Doctor and Ace watch, a policeman drives off two thugs trying to bully the Jewish proprietor of a tea stall. Cheered, the Doctor sets off with Ace to enjoy the festival for a while -- unaware that elsewhere in time and space, Lieutenant Hemmings is being indoctrinated by the Timewyrm, and prepared to take his revenge…
=== The Doctor ===
* The Doctor can speak [[German language|German]].
* The Seventh Doctor describes his [[Third Doctor|third]] and [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnations]] as, "Well, I tried tall and dignified, and all teeth and curls, but it didn't really suit me."


==Characters==
=== The Doctor's items ===
*[[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]]
* The Doctor has in his pockets a [[Gallifreyan Army knife]] of the kind that is issued to the [[Chancellery Guard|Capitol Guard]] on [[Gallifrey]].
:*Never met Hitler before this occasion.
:*Has grey eyes.
:*Can speak German.
:*Goes under the alias Johann Schmidt.


*[[Ace]]
=== Foods and beverages ===
:*Drinks some weak [[tea]] whilst in the alternate-London.
* [[Ace]] drinks some weak [[tea]] whilst in the alternate London.
:*Is almost killed by the warlord/chief
* The Doctor's request for "a simple cold snack" results in being provided smoked [[salmon]], [[caviar]], roast [[chicken]], roast [[beef]], roast [[pork]], a variety of [[salad]]s, three kinds of [[wine]], [[champagne]], a selection of [[pudding]]s and a jug of [[cream]].
* The Doctor and Ace have [[toast]], [[coffee]], [[bacon]], [[egg]]s, and [[kedgeree]] for breakfast.
* [[Ham]] and [[corned beef]] are served at Ma Barker's café.
* [[canapé]]s are served at a Nuremberg rally. Champagne and caviar are served on Hitler's private train.


*[[Timewyrm]]
=== Medicine ===
**Gets trapped within Hitler.
* The Doctor gives [[Sisterhood Salve|Dr Solon's Special Morbius Lotion]] to Ace to use, following her ordeal.


*[[Adolf Hitler]]
=== TARDIS ===
**Had psychic powers because of the Timewyrm trapped within him.
* The Doctor has a [[Stattenheim remote control]] for the TARDIS. Whistling helps focus the mind to telepathically call forth the TARDIS.
 
* The War Chief mentions his [[SIDRAT]]s.
*[[The War Chief]]
**Also appears known as Doktor Felix Kriegslieter
**His Time Lord physiology saved him when he was shot, but the War Lords took him with them to study.
**He started to regenerate, except his injuries were too severe, so he half regenerated leaving him disfigured.
 
*Lt [[Anthony Rupert Hemmings]]
**Enters the TARDIS and becomes the Timewyrm's puppet.
 
*[[Heinrich Himmler]]
 
*[[Hermann Goering]]
 
*[[Harry Goldstein]] / [[Harry Goldstein|Harry Gold]]
*Private [[George Brady]]
*Private [[Sidney Harris]]
*[[Arnold (Timewyrm: Exodus)|Arnold]]
*Major [[Popplewell]]
*General [[Otto Strasser]]
*[[Ma Barker]]
*General [[Erich Ludendorf|Ludendorf]]
*[[Martin Bormann]]
*[[Joseph Goebbels]]
*[[Joachim von Ribbentrop]]
*Herr [[Essler]]
*Herr [[Schmidt (Timewyrm: Exodus)|Schmidt]]
*[[Horst Schultz]]


==References==
=== Timeline ===
* In the [[alternate timeline]] in which [[Germany]] won [[World War II]], [[Edward VIII]] and [[Wallis Simpson]] are [[King]] and [[Queen]] of [[England]], Sir [[Oswald Mosley]] is [[Prime Minister]], and [[Winston Churchill]] was executed.
* In the [[alternate timeline]] in which [[Germany]] won [[World War II]], [[Edward VIII]] and [[Wallis Simpson]] are [[King]] and [[Queen]] of [[England]], Sir [[Oswald Mosley]] is [[Prime Minister]], and [[Winston Churchill]] was executed.
* The Doctor has a [[Stattenheim remote control]] for the TARDIS. Whistling helps focus the mind to telepathically call forth the TARDIS.
* [[Nitro-9]]-a, has half the power of Nitro-9 and half as heavy, but is marginally more stable.
* [[Sisterhood Salve |Dr Solon's Special Morbius Lotion]] gives it to Ace to use, following her ordeal.
*The [[Venusian nerve pinch]] induces short term amnesia.
*The Doctor has in his pockets a [[Gallifreyan Army Knife]] of the kind that is issued to the [[Chancellery Guard|Capitol Guard]] on [[Gallifrey]].
*The Doctor describes his [[Third Doctor|third]] and [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnations]] as ''"Well, I tried tall and dignified, and all teeth and curls, but it didn't really suit me."''<ref>''Timewyrm: Exodus'', page 185</ref>
*The War Chief mentions his [[SIDRAT]]s.


==Notes==
== Notes ==
* This is the second novel in the Timewyrm tetralogy.
* This is the second novel in the Timewyrm tetralogy.
* The novel ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'' continues some elements of this novel.
* The novel ''[[Endgame (novel)|Endgame]]'' features a brief scene from this novel. In that instance, the currently-amnesic [[Eighth Doctor]] observes but does not recognise the Seventh Doctor and Ace visiting the Festival of Britain in 1951.
* This is a sequel to the television story ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', which introduced the War Chief and the War Lords.
* Some of the influences of the War Chief are seen in the novel ''[[Players (novel)|Players]]''.
* [[Lance Parkin]] spoke favourably of ''Exodus'' and acknowledged its enduring popularity but took issue with the contribution of aliens to Hitler's rise to power. Parkin wrote ''[[Just War (novel)|Just War]]'' as a reaction to this aspect of ''Exodus''; it contains a much more realistic exploration of the Nazi ideology. To draw parallels, the publisher's summary of ''Just War'' was written to give the impression that it was a sequel to ''Exodus'', and both stories contain the line "Everything from the [[Holocaust]] to [[Hiroshima]], with [[Dresden]] along the way."<ref>http://doctorwho.org.nz/archive/tsv48/lanceparkin.html</ref>


==Continuity==
== Continuity ==
*[[NA]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation]]'' continues some elements of this novel.
* Ace mentions [[Millington|Commander Millington]]'s office seen in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TV story)}}.
* [[EDA]]: ''[[Endgame]]'' features a brief scene from this novel.
* The Doctor reprimands Ace when she holds Hemmings pistol and tells her she's not in the [[O.K. Corral]]. The Doctor previously visited it in his [[First Doctor|first incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Gunfighters (TV story)}})
* This is a sequel to [[DW]]: ''[[The War Games]]''. It was also the first story the War Chief appeared in.
* The Doctor mentions that his was once in danger of being washed down the plughole. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Planet of Giants (TV story)}})
* Some of the War Chief's influences are seen in [[PDA]]: ''[[Players (novel)|Players]]''.
* The Doctor mentions his third self dying of radiation poisoning in [[TV]]: {{cs|Planet of the Spiders (TV story)}})
*Ace mentions Commander Millington's office seen in [[DW]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric]]''.
* The TARDIS repels paint, which it did not in either [[TV]]: {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (TV story)}} or [[TV]]: {{cs|Aliens of London (TV story)}}.
*The Doctor mentions his third self dying of radiation poisoning in [[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders]]''.
* The Doctor uses the [[Aliases of the Doctor|alias]] "Johann Schmidt." His next incarnation would use this alias again in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'', as would an [[Johann Schmidt|alternative version thereof]] in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Colditz (audio story)|Colditz]]'' and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Klein's Story (audio story)|Klein's Story]]''.
*The TARDIS repels paint, which it didn't in ''[[The Happiness Patrol]]'' or ''[[Aliens of London]]''.
* The [[Sixth Doctor]] previously met [[Joachim von Ribbentrop]] in [[1936]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Players (novel)|Players]]'')
* The [[First Doctor]] previously witnessed the evacuation of the British Army from Dunkirk ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Just War (novel)|Just War]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Byzantium! (novel)|Byzantium!]]'') while the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Molly O'Sullivan]] would later visit Dunkirk on [[29 May]] [[1940]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Fugitives (audio story)|Fugitives]]'')
* The Doctor says that "in an authoritarian society, people obey the voice of authority." He also says this in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Harvest (novel)|Blood Harvest]]'', ''[[Deadly Reunion (novel)|Deadly Reunion]]'' and ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]''.
* The Doctor again states that "sleep is for [[tortoise]]s." ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)}})
* Although the Doctor states that he has not met Hitler before, the [[Sixth Doctor]] met Hitler at a party in [[1942]] and just before his suicide in [[1945]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadow in the Glass (novel)|The Shadow in the Glass]]'')


==External Links==
== Cover gallery ==
* [http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_na02.htm The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of '''Timewyrm: Exodus''']
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20050227194011/www.geocities.com/rico.briggs/xods.html Bewildering Reference Guide to '''Timewyrm: Exodus'''] via [http://www.archive.org/web/web.php Internet Archive: Wayback Machine]
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==Footnotes==
== External links ==
{{dwrefguide|who_na02.htm|Timewyrm: Exodus}}
* {{whoniverse|na02|Timewyrm: Exodus}}
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/exodus.htm The Cloister Library: '''Timewyrm: Exodus''']
* [http://www.oocities.com/rico.briggs/xods.html Bewildering Reference Guide to '''Timewyrm: Exodus''']
 
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Timewyrm: Exodus is the second book in the New Adventures series. It was written by Terrance Dicks. Featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace, it is the second book in the Timewyrm story arc, and also acts as a sequel to The War Games [+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)"].

Dicks' first original novel, the plot, in essence, is comprised numerous interrelated mini-stories, with the Doctor hopping to various times and locations to sort out related instances of alien interference with Earth's history. A similar structure and premise was adopted in some of Dicks' later novels, in particular the Players trilogy: Players, Endgame and World Game. Some of these novels even include references to Exodus which lightly ties it to the spanning narrative.

Exodus features the first appearance in all of Doctor Who media of Adolf Hitler, who had previously only been mentioned. It explores his rise to power and his reign at the beginning of World War II in the context of the DWU. The later release, The Shadow in the Glass, complements Exodus by exploring Hitler's downfall. Players is also a significant companion piece, containing a number of references to Exodus, expanding on some of its ideas, and also following a similar story line with a focus on Winston Churchill rather than Hitler.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

The pursuit of the Timewyrm leads the Doctor and Ace to London, 1951, and the Festival of Britain — a celebration of the achievements of this small country, this insignificant corner of the glorious Thousand Year Reich.

Someone — or something — has been interfering with the time lines, and in order to investigate, the Doctor travels further back in time to the very dawn of the Nazi evil. In the heart of the Germany of the Third Reich, he finds that this little band of thugs and misfits did not take over half the world unaided.

History must be restored to its proper course, and in his attempt to repair the time lines, the Doctor faces the most terrible dilemma he has ever known...

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

Following the events of Timewyrm: Genesys, the TARDIS takes the Seventh Doctor and Ace to London, 1951. It’s the Festival of Britain, set to celebrate recovery from World War II, but something is amiss: It becomes immediately clear that history has changed, and the Nazis won the war. Britain is now a German protectorate.

The Doctor saves a shopkeeper from a brawl with members of the Freikorps, a sanctioned group of local thugs under the loose control of the SS. He and Ace then witness a murder, and the dying man slips the Doctor an odd item: the identification of a high-ranking Nazi official, the Reichsinspektor General. Shortly thereafter, they are arrested on the word of an informant, and imprisoned by a Lieutenant Hemmings, local commander of the Freikorps. They escape quite easily, and return to the Festival, where a local named Popplewell (secretly a resistance member) hints at how to contact the resistance movement. He also reveals that the TARDIS was taken by a patrol. They return to the local headquarters, and the Doctor uses the ID badge to bluff his way into the confidence of the local general, General Strasser. Hemmings breaks in and accuses them, and the Doctor has Hemmings seconded to his command, so as to keep him in view.

The Doctor tells Hemmings that Ace is a relative of a resistance member, and has contacts; she must be "interrogated" (for the sake of appearances) and then released, and will then willingly lead them to the resistance. Meanwhile, the Doctor goes to the former British Museum to examine the military records stored there, hoping to find the point at which history diverged. He learns that the turning point was at Dunkirk during the war; unlike real history, the Germans annihilated the retreating British army at Dunkirk. He is contacted psychically by the Timewyrm, who rages and tears up the room, much like a poltergeist, but he gets the impression she is trapped somehow. Hemmings, meanwhile, "interrogates" Ace; he beats her more than necessary for effect, as he doesn’t believe they are not enemies of some sort. He then releases her, and she goes to act on the tip from Popplewell, meeting resistance members at Ma Barker’s Cafe. Hemmings has her followed, and plans to raid the cafe; but he is interrupted by the timely intervention of the Doctor, who manages to vouch for the resistance members as double agent, and have Hemmings arrested. Back at HQ, he sends Ace to the TARDIS, and goes to release Hemmings secretly, knowing he put the man in a dangerous position; but Hemmings attacks him and bolts. Hemmings sees the TARDIS materialise, and a voice calls him inside; then the TARDIS vanishes. However, something isn't right; the Doctor's TARDIS is still where he left it. The Doctor joins Ace there, and they depart.

Working with a plan that he has not yet revealed, the Doctor travels to Munich, 1923, on the date of Hitler’s failed coup that led to his imprisonment (during which he would write "Mein Kampf". Against Ace's urging, he lets the events play out…and resets Hitler's dislocated shoulder, ingratiating himself to the future dictator. Later he tells Ace that the Nazi regime failed in part because of Hitler's incompetence...and he cannot allow Hitler to be replaced with a competent dictator. Hence, his involvement now.

They then travel to Nuremberg, 1939, and hide the TARDIS in a parking location in the Time Vortex. They attend a Nazi party rally, and the Doctor demonstrates that Hitler's speeches are not very good, but are using some highly advanced psychological tricks, tricks which don’t belong to this time period; someone has been interfering, but it doesn't seem to be the Timewyrm — it's not her style. He meets Goering and Himmler, Hitler's highest-ranking associates, and also Bormann, Hitler's personal attendant. He also meets an old and deformed doctor named Kriegslieter, who seems familiar somehow. He then meets Hitler, and, playing on the memory of their first meeting, he incorporates himself into Hitler's inner circle, obtaining resources and freedom to operate in the process. At a private audience with Hitler, he learns that the man has been possessed by the Timewyrm, who sets off a telekinetic storm like that seen in the museum. However, he learns something else: The Timewyrm is trapped in Hitler's powerful mind, and can't escape. He teachers Hitler some basic techniques to resist its influence. And still, someone else's hand is at work.

Hitler kicks off the invasion of Poland. He believes that Britain will not counterattack, but will appease him, as they have done before, but he is wrong. Britain declares war, sending Hitler into a rage, but he is able to calm himself and not accede control to the Timewyrm, thanks to the Doctor. Meanwhile, the Doctor is content, knowing the war will proceed on schedule — history has not yet been derailed.

The Doctor is summoned by Goering, who admits that if necessary, he would replace Hitler for the good of the Reich. He is then arrested and taken to Himmler, but ingratiates himself by claiming to be a sorcerer–he knows that Himmler is obsessed with the occult. Himmler invites him to Drachensberg, the castle of the SS, where Himmler's other alleged sorcerers–the Black Coven–meet. However, upon returning to his rooms, the Doctor finds an invitation from Kriegslieter, which Ace has accepted in his place. By the time he gets to Kriegslieter's office, Ace is missing–and a crystal ball on the table shows her being prepared to be used as a sacrifice at Drachensberg.

The Doctor calls in a favour from Goering, setting him on the road to Drachensberg with an armored column. He then finds a transmat booth in Kriegslieter's office, which leads to Drachensberg. He tampers with it before using it, sending himself onto the roof of the castle instead of to the receiving transmat, and the receiving transmat explodes. However, to save Ace, he surrenders, and he recognises the equipment in use. It is the property of the War Lords, whom he last encountered at the end of his second life. Kriegslieter proves to be the renegade Time Lord known as the War Chief, now victim of a failed regeneration that left him deformed.

Escaping their past defeat by the Time Lords, the War Lords had come to Earth to again form an unstoppable army; but this time, unlike their previous plan to collect soldiers from throughout history, they will craft their own army via Nazi Germany. To that end, they have been controlling, manipulating, and assisting Hitler; it is this involvement that leads to the change in history at Dunkirk. The War Lords will win the war, accelerate humanity’s technological development, and conquer the galaxy. Ace will be sacrificed to motivate the SS, and the Doctor...Kriegslieter will take his body and his regenerations.

When Himmler arrives for the sacrifice, the Doctor tells him he is being groomed to replace Hitler. He turns on Kriegslieter, who is stunned, having underestimated Himmler's loyalty to Hitler. The Doctor frees Ace and uses her new Nitro-9-A variation to create a distraction, escaping to the top of the tower. Goering's armored column arrives, and a battle begins. Goering's men overcome the Black Coven, but are interrupted by Hitler; the Doctor senses something wrong, and realises that he has made a mistake–he has not only enabled Hitler to resist the Timewyrm, but to control it. Hitler leaves with Himmler and Goering and the troops. However, the dying Kriegslieter briefly reanimates his dead troops to attack the Doctor. The Doctor sets the castle's reactors to explode, and they escape in the TARDIS (summoned back from the Vortex) just before it blows, eliminating the War Lords and their technology.

But there is still the Timewyrm to deal with, and Dunkirk. The Doctor jumps ahead to 1940. At Hitler's command bunker, he confronts Hitler, who is about to order the destruction of the British Army at Dunkirk. The Doctor provokes the Timewyrm into showing itself, and with the aid of the TARDIS, he breaks it free of Hitler's mind, sending it unfocused into the void. Hitler, now a broken man at the mercy of his own madness, is left impressionable; and the Doctor gets him to order a withdrawal rather than an attack. Thus the true timeline is restored.

The Doctor is unhappy; though he saved time, he still allowed the war to rage, and the Timewyrm is free again. Ace has him return to the festival in 1951, where he sees that all is restored; this cheers him up. However, elsewhere, the Timewyrm is still plotting–and preparing one Lieutenant Hemmings for the future...

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor can speak German.
  • The Seventh Doctor describes his third and fourth incarnations as, "Well, I tried tall and dignified, and all teeth and curls, but it didn't really suit me."

The Doctor's items[[edit] | [edit source]]

Foods and beverages[[edit] | [edit source]]

Medicine[[edit] | [edit source]]

TARDIS[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor has a Stattenheim remote control for the TARDIS. Whistling helps focus the mind to telepathically call forth the TARDIS.
  • The War Chief mentions his SIDRATs.

Timeline[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • This is the second novel in the Timewyrm tetralogy.
  • The novel Timewyrm: Revelation continues some elements of this novel.
  • The novel Endgame features a brief scene from this novel. In that instance, the currently-amnesic Eighth Doctor observes but does not recognise the Seventh Doctor and Ace visiting the Festival of Britain in 1951.
  • This is a sequel to the television story The War Games, which introduced the War Chief and the War Lords.
  • Some of the influences of the War Chief are seen in the novel Players.
  • Lance Parkin spoke favourably of Exodus and acknowledged its enduring popularity but took issue with the contribution of aliens to Hitler's rise to power. Parkin wrote Just War as a reaction to this aspect of Exodus; it contains a much more realistic exploration of the Nazi ideology. To draw parallels, the publisher's summary of Just War was written to give the impression that it was a sequel to Exodus, and both stories contain the line "Everything from the Holocaust to Hiroshima, with Dresden along the way."[1]

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Cover gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Original cover

    Original cover

  • Textless cover

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External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ http://doctorwho.org.nz/archive/tsv48/lanceparkin.html
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