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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
The [[Fourth Doctor]] brings [[Leela]] to [[Victorian era|Victorian]] [[London]] to see how her ancestors lived but is rapidly drawn into a fiendish plot involving [[Chinese]] Tongs, disappearing women, an | The [[Fourth Doctor]] brings [[Leela]] to [[Victorian era|Victorian]] [[London]] to see how her ancestors lived but is rapidly drawn into a fiendish plot involving [[Chinese]] Tongs, disappearing women, an Asian stage magician with uncanny powers, a [[Mr Sin|murderous ventriloquist's dummy]], and [[giant rat]]s in the sewers. | ||
A dozen women are missing, believed dead. The murder of a cab driver married to one of the missing women causes the Doctor and Leela to encounter a police pathologist, Professor Litefoot, and a member of the Chinese tong which carried out the murder. The latter leads the Doctor to become suspicious of [[Li H'sen Chang]], a police interpreter, who is also a stage magician appearing twice-nightly at the [[Palace Theatre]]. | A dozen women are missing, believed dead. The murder of a cab driver married to one of the missing women causes the Doctor and Leela to encounter a police pathologist, Professor Litefoot, and a member of the Chinese tong which carried out the murder. The latter leads the Doctor to become suspicious of [[Li H'sen Chang]], a police interpreter, who is also a stage magician appearing twice-nightly at the [[Palace Theatre]]. | ||