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|companions = [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]], [[Audacity Montague|Audacity]] | |companions = [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]], [[Audacity Montague|Audacity]] | ||
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|setting = [[Edinburgh]], [[December]] [[1880s]] | |setting = [[Edinburgh]], [[20 December|20]]-[[21 December]] [[1880s]] | ||
|writer = [[Roy Gill]] | |writer = [[Roy Gill]] | ||
|director = [[Ken Bentley]] | |director = [[Ken Bentley]] | ||
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The second engraving is in [[hieroglyph]]s which the [[translation circuit]] does not decipher. Maggie's rubbing of the hieroglyphs is inexplicably pulled towards her [[fireplace]] and singed, but the flame triggers a partial translation which shows the Doctor a glimpse of something old before the lioness comes to life and searches for the crown. The Doctor has Audacity pull a [[Christmas cracker]] and puts on the gold paper crown from inside to distract the lioness, but it kills Maggie for being responsible for the crown's removal and jumps after the paper crown when the Doctor throws it into the [[sea]]. Being made of molten rock, the lioness solidifies and, the Doctor remembers, will one day be unearthed and placed in the [[National Museum of Scotland]]. | The second engraving is in [[hieroglyph]]s which the [[translation circuit]] does not decipher. Maggie's rubbing of the hieroglyphs is inexplicably pulled towards her [[fireplace]] and singed, but the flame triggers a partial translation which shows the Doctor a glimpse of something old before the lioness comes to life and searches for the crown. The Doctor has Audacity pull a [[Christmas cracker]] and puts on the gold paper crown from inside to distract the lioness, but it kills Maggie for being responsible for the crown's removal and jumps after the paper crown when the Doctor throws it into the [[sea]]. Being made of molten rock, the lioness solidifies and, the Doctor remembers, will one day be unearthed and placed in the [[National Museum of Scotland]]. | ||
Charley and Archie join the Doctor and Audacity and the four of them go to the TARDIS where the [[telepathic circuits]] complete and translate Maggie's rubbing, indicating that the crown will turn Sir Donald into a fire demon when he tries to use it at his power station to light up Edinburgh. They deduce that Sir Donald will have to use the [[time ball]] on Calton Hill to determine the moment of the [[winter solstice]], when fusion will be at its most powerful, and that [[iron]], which the lioness's claws were made of, could be used to counter Sir Donald. The Doctor sends Charley and Archie to prepare a [[cannonball]] whilst he and Audacity alter the time ball to delay Sir Donald's incarnation. | |||
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* The Cramond Lioness will one day be dredged up from the harbour and placed in the [[National Museum of Scotland]]. The Doctor and [[Romana]] saw it there in [[1999]]. | * The Cramond Lioness will one day be dredged up from the harbour and placed in the [[National Museum of Scotland]]. The Doctor and [[Romana]] saw it there in [[1999]]. | ||
* Romana always liked [[cat]]s. | * Romana always liked [[cat]]s. | ||
* Audacity has read [[alchemy]] as well as [[astronomy]] and knows about [[sympathetic magic]]. | |||
* Archie's aunt [[Flora (Winter of the Demon)|Flora]] believed that an [[iron]] [[horseshoe]] could keep demons out. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* The Doctor has a [[Christmas cracker]] left over from the [[Christmas]] party at [[107 Baker Street]] in {{cs|Twenty-Four Doors in December (audio story)}}. | * The Doctor has a [[Christmas cracker]] left over from the [[Christmas]] party at [[107 Baker Street]] in {{cs|Twenty-Four Doors in December (audio story)}}. | ||
* The TARDIS took the Doctor, Charley and Audacity to Christmas [[1947]] in {{cs|The Empty Man (audio story)}} because it was trying to get them to 1880s Edinburgh to stop Sir Donald. | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||