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== Deviations from televised story == | == Deviations from televised story == | ||
* Barbara's rebuke of the gaoler's advances leaves a livid gash in his cheek from where her ring caught the skin. | |||
* Instead of wishing the unconscious foreman pleasant dreams, the Doctor jokes to him, as he places the coin on his eye, that the traveller was right. The foreman had indeed witnessed a "total eclipse". | |||
* [[Louis XVI]] is mentioned. | * [[Louis XVI]] is mentioned. | ||
* Leon loses his composure towards the end of Ian's torture as his men grow more restless and violent. Before Jules emerges into the crypt, he is pleading with Ian for the schoolteacher's life in exchange for information on his conspirators. | |||
* Robespierre's maiming is depicted with "blood, teeth and fragments of jawbone [spurting] out between his clawing fingers." His pistol is flung from his hands into the ceiling where it discharges, creating a downpour of glass fragments from the chandelier to the delight of the jeering mob. | |||
* Jules and Barbara's discussion of who will succeed Robespierre mentions Barras, Fouche, Tallion and Freron as potential successors to the government. It's her, rather than Ian, who tells Jules to remember the name Napoleon Bonaparte. Sterling overhears the conversation with marked interest, though he hasn't the opportunity to ask the travellers where they really come from. | |||
* Ian and Barbara are more despondent about their inability to change the course of history than on television. The latter questions whether they learnt anything at all, which Susan refutes by pointing out they aren't the same people who came aboard in Totter's Lane. | |||
== Story notes == | == Story notes == | ||