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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.


After escaping from the Doctor’s trap, the Timewyrm immediately set about plotting her revenge.  She decided that she would use the Earth against the Doctor, and traveled forward in history until she found a moment where human technology reached the point where global devastation was at last possible. She also needed a vessel, and soon found someone who seemed ideal… a bitter, neurotic madman filled with hate and resentment. But as soon as the Timewyrm entered her chosen mind, she became trapped within it.
[[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 followed the Timewyrm’s course through time as closely as it could, and arrived in London, 1951, the [[Festival of Britain]].  The Doctor and Ace immediately set out to find the Timewyrm, but quickly noticed that something was very wrong with history.  Somehow, the Nazis had won World War II. Overheard by a local Nazi informant, the Doctor and Ace were arrested by the British Free Corps for making seditious, anti-Nazi statements.  They were put under the charge of Lieutenant Hemmings.
== 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.


The Doctor decided that they had to return to the TARDIS immediately to track down the source of the changes to history. After calmly enduring some Nazi psychological interrogation techniques, the Doctor tricked Hemmings into allowing them to escape, but the TARDIS was gone, taken by the British Free Corps.  The Doctor decided to impersonate a high-ranking Nazi official (previously murdered by the British resistance, and found by the Doctor and Ace) in order to ingratiate himself with the Nazis. He and Ace walked right into the office of General Strasser and conned him into believing that the Doctor was conducting a secret investigation into Nazi security.
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 Doctor used his new found freedom and influence to visit the war archives, housed in the former British Museum.  From there, he hoped to pinpoint where history diverged. While there, he came into brief psychic contact with the Timewyrm.  However, the Doctor wasn’t sure that she was really behind this. It seemed too subtle and precise for her. Meanwhile, Ace made contact with the British Resistance in order to find out as much about what happened during the war as she could. She learned of rumors of a Black Coven, a cult of mystics who were using supernatural powers to assist the Reich.
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.


Though their cover was eventually exposed, the Doctor and Ace managed to evade Hemmings and get back to the TARDIS. Before she left 1951, Ace caught a glimpse of Hemmings entering something that looked like the Doctor’s TARDIS, which disappeared with the same familiar TARDIS sound.
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 TARDIS next took the travellers to 1923, where they witnessed a doomed demonstration by the young and disorganised Nazi Party on the War Office in Berlin. The police broke up the demonstration, and a young Adolf Hitler was injured. The Doctor rushed to his aid, reset his dislocated shoulder, and told him that one day he would rule Germany. The Doctor asked that Hitler remember him when that day came.  As they were returning to the TARDIS, a shadowy figure in dark clothes approached the Doctor, clearly recognizing him, and attempted to kill him with some sort of laser gun. Thanks to a bit more nitro-nina-a, Ace helped the Doctor escape from his would-be assassin.
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.


Travelling forward to 1939, the Doctor and Ace witnessed another Nazi rally, this time in Nuremberg, and this one far, far larger.  Hitler was now ruling Germany, as the Doctor promised. As Ace listened to Hitler’s speech, she realized that his words are having a hypnotic effect even on her.  The Doctor suspected that his speech was being boosted somehow, using technology that shouldn’t exist in 1939.  The Doctor and Ace ingratiated themselves once again with Hitler, and were treated as honored guests.  Later that night, Hitler sent for the Doctor. While they discussed the impending war, Hitler suddenly burst into an uncontrollable rage.  He threatened not only to destroy his enemies throughout Europe, but also to destroy the entire planet, the galaxy, and the universe itself. Later, the Doctor told Ace that he believed the Timewyrm was trapped within Hitler’s mind, but unable to exercise any real control.
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 following day, the invasion of Poland began. The Doctor was on hand among Hitler’s inner circle to receive England’s official response.  Hitler was confident that the English would stop short of declaring war, but the Doctor told him otherwise.  When the Doctor turned out to be correct, it sent Hitler into another rage. The Doctor managed to calm Hitler down.  Meanwhile, Ace received a letter intended for the Doctor asking him to meet with a Dr. Kriegslieter of the Aryan Research Bureau. Thinking this meeting might reveal information useful to the Doctor, Ace went in his place.
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.


While the Doctor had a clandestine meeting first with Goering, then with Himmler, both involving the state of Hitler’s mental health, Ace walked into a trap set for the Doctor. Ace was transported somehow to a castle in Drachensburg and held in a dungeon. When the Doctor extricated himself from the political intrigue surrounding Hitler, he found a note left by Ace. Fearing the worst, he followed her immediately to the Berlin office of the Aryan Research Bureau.  He found there a crystal ball that showed him an image of Ace being shackled to a dungeon wall and threatened menacingly with a knife.  The Doctor found a transport device linking the offices in Berlin with the castle Drachensberg.  The Doctor used the device to go after Ace.
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.


In Drachensberg, the Doctor was introduced to the mysterious Dr. Kriegslieter, a hideously misshapen man.  Kriegslieter turned out to be the War Chief, a renegade Time Lord the Doctor had faced long ago (see [[The War Games]]), the deformities being a result of a botched [[Regeneration (Doctor Who)|regeneration]].  Once again, the War Chief was working with the War Lords to develop a superior race of soldiers from Earth’s history. They had been amplifying Hitler’s natural leadership abilities in order to manipulate World War II.  They would make sure Hitler avoided his major mistakes (the delay at [[Dunkirk]], opening the second front against the Soviet Union), and with the aid of nuclear reactor in the basement, see to it that Nazism took over the world, and eventually, beyond. Ace would be sacrificed according to ancient mystical rites invented to the War Chief to amuse the gullible Himmler, whose SS were loyal to the War Chief.
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]].


When Himmler arrived for the ceremony, the Doctor tried to expose the War Chief as a traitor to the Reich, but to no avail.  As the ritual sacrifice proceeded, the Doctor appealed to Himmler to allow him to perform the sacrifice personally, arguing that the ritual would have more meaning if he were to personally sacrifice this young woman whom Himmler believed was his niece. The Doctor used the sacrificial knife to cut Ace’s bonds, and used Ace’s last nitro-nine-a capsule to give them a chance to escape.  They ran to the top of the castle’s tower. Outside, Goering had arrived with a tank division and was advancing on Drachensberg. The Doctor explained the he had told Goering that treachery against Hitler was taking place at the castle.  The War Chief’s zombified soldiers fought back against Goering, but to no avail.  As the battle concluded, Hitler arrived by airplane.  The Doctor explained to Hitler that Kriegslieter was behind everything, and he did it in such a way as to make both Himmler and Goering look like loyal heroes of the Reich. Hitler thanked the Doctor again for his service. Hitler then told the Doctor that, with the Doctor’s assistance, he had learned to tame the Timewyrm within him and draw on her immense power as his own. The Doctor realized with horror that he had given Hitler the emotional control necessary to win the war!
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.


After Hitler and the others left, the War Chief rose from the battlefield. At his command, all of the apparently dead SS soldiers did the same. The Doctor and Ace ran back into the castle and bolted the door.  While Ace held the zombies off with grenades, the Doctor ran to basement to set the nuclear reactor to overload. That done, the Doctor and Ace ran to the top of the tower, where the Doctor produced a small device and pushed a button.  The TARDIS materialized in front of them, and they made their escape. When the reactor exploded, it destroyed everything, including the War Chief and his zombie soldiers.
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.


Back in the TARDIS, the Doctor came up with a plan to deal with Hitler and the Timewyrm. Consulting a World War II almanac, the Doctor picked the precise time and place for their confrontation, a place codenamed [[Felsennest]] in May 1940.  There, armed only with a lantern, the Doctor confronted Hitler.  He told him that he was in charge, and that the Timewyrm was nothing compared to his greatness. This had the desired effect, luring the Timewyrm out into the open.  The Doctor offered to allow the Timewyrm to take over his mind if she released Hitler. The Timewyrm accepted, but the Doctor’s lantern was really an extension of the TARDIS forcefield which he used to repel the Timewyrm.  Hitler was crushed and confused, suddenly robbed of his power and confidence. The Doctor persuaded him to halt the advance on Dunkirk and delay the invasion of England.  Hitler agreed, and the historical course of the war was maintained.
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]]...


Back in the TARDIS, Ace celebrated their success, but the Doctor blamed himself for freeing the Timewyrm.  She might have died trapped inside Hitler’s mind, but instead she was free to roam the universe.  To console him, Ace suggested that they return to 1951 to see the real Festival of Britain.  When they arrived, everything was nicely back to normal. 
== 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]]


Somewhere in the universe of time and space, the Timewyrm congratulated Lieutenant Hemmings on his progress, and promised him that he would soon have his revenge upon Ace and the Doctor…
== Worldbuilding ==
* The [[Venusian nerve pinch]] induces short term amnesia.


==Characters==
=== The Doctor ===
*[[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]]
* The Doctor can speak [[German language|German]].
:*Never met Hitler before this occasion.
* 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."
:*Has grey eyes.
:*Can speak German.
:*Goes under the alias Johann Schmidt.


*[[Ace]]
=== The Doctor's items ===
:*Drinks some weak [[tea]] whilst in the alternate-London.
* The Doctor has in his pockets a [[Gallifreyan Army knife]] of the kind that is issued to the [[Chancellery Guard|Capitol Guard]] on [[Gallifrey]].
:*Is almost killed by the warlord/chief


*[[Timewyrm]]
=== Foods and beverages ===
**Gets trapped within Hitler.
* [[Ace]] drinks some weak [[tea]] whilst in the alternate London.
* 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.


*[[Adolf Hitler]]
=== Medicine ===
**Had psychic powers because of the Timewyrm trapped within him.
* The Doctor gives [[Sisterhood Salve|Dr Solon's Special Morbius Lotion]] to Ace to use, following her ordeal.


*[[The War Chief]]
=== TARDIS ===
**Also appears known as Doktor Felix Kriegslieter
* The Doctor has a [[Stattenheim remote control]] for the TARDIS. Whistling helps focus the mind to telepathically call forth the TARDIS.
**His Time Lord physiology saved him when he was shot, but the War Lords took him with them to study.
* The War Chief mentions his [[SIDRAT]]s.
**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]]
=== Timeline ===
*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==
* 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==
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* [http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_na02.htm The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of '''Timewyrm: Exodus''']
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==Footnotes==
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* {{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]]

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]]

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]]

Worldbuilding[[edit]]

The Doctor[[edit]]

  • 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]]

Foods and beverages[[edit]]

Medicine[[edit]]

TARDIS[[edit]]

  • 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]]

Notes[[edit]]

  • 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]]

Cover gallery[[edit]]

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External links[[edit]]

Footnotes[[edit]]

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