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|series = [[Virgin Decalogs]] | |series = [[Virgin Decalogs]] | ||
|doctor = Third Doctor | |doctor = Third Doctor | ||
|companions = [[Jo Grant|Jo]] | |companions = [[Jo Grant|Jo]] | ||
|setting = [[Alrakis]] | |setting = [[Alrakis]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = Stephen Bowkett | ||
|anthology = | |anthology = Decalog 3: Consequences | ||
|release date = 18 July 1996 | |||
|next = Moving On (short story) | |next = Moving On (short story) | ||
|enemy = [[Zaniah]]}}{{prose stub}} | |enemy = [[Zaniah]] | ||
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'''''...And Eternity in an Hour''''' was the first story in the anthology ''[[Decalog 3: Consequences]]''. It was written by [[Stephen Bowkett]]. It featured the [[Third Doctor]] and [[Jo Grant]]. | '''''...And Eternity in an Hour''''' was the first story in the anthology ''[[Decalog 3: Consequences]]''. It was written by [[Stephen Bowkett]]. It featured the [[Third Doctor]] and [[Jo Grant]]. | ||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
The [[Time Lord]]s alert the [[Third Doctor]] to a [[time rift]] sweeping across the galaxy, and he uses the [[TARDIS]] intuition circuits to direct him to a time when he will be able to stop it. The TARDIS materialises on [[Alrakis]], where the Doctor and [[Jo Grant|Jo]] are separated during one of the timestorms which have been devastating the native civilisation, the [[Tonska]]. Jo is kidnapped by rebels who believe that the Time Lords are responsible for the disaster; she manages to convince them that she and the Doctor are here to help, but they reveal that | The [[Time Lord]]s alert the [[Third Doctor]] to a [[time rift]] sweeping across the galaxy, and he uses the [[TARDIS]] intuition circuits to direct him to a time when he will be able to stop it. The TARDIS materialises on [[Alrakis]], where the Doctor and [[Jo Grant|Jo]] are separated during one of the timestorms which have been devastating the native civilisation, the [[Tonska]]. Jo is kidnapped by rebels who believe that the Time Lords are responsible for the disaster; she manages to convince them that she and the Doctor are here to help, but they reveal that they're driving an armoured vehicle with a nuclear bomb into the palace of the tyrant [[Zaniah|Yed-Prior Zaniah]]. The Doctor makes his own way to Zaniah's palace, where he learns that she intends to channel and control the Time distortion to let her people live out natural life spans within hours while extending her own; thus, she will rule the planet for generations. The Doctor is forced to help her researchers, but discovers that their experiments to contain the Time distortion and use it to manipulate living creatures' morphic signatures have summoned the [[Cerunnos]], a metamorphic creature from the darkest corners of Time. Jo helps the rebels to break into the palace as the Cerunnos breaks free, but she and the Doctor can do nothing but retreat as the rebels' bomb goes off. The force of the explosion propels the Doctor and Jo thousands of years into the future, where they find that the grim civilisation they visited has fallen long ago. But the Cerunnos has survived the explosion and fled into the Time Vortex, following the trail of the TARDIS back to Earth. | ||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||