The Scales of Injustice (novel)

The Scales of Injustice
Doctor:	[[doctor::Third Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Liz
Featuring:	UNIT
Main enemy:	The Pale Man The Irish Twins The Silurians
Main setting:	London, 1970s
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Virgin Books]]
Writer:	Gary Russell
Release details
Release number:	24
Release date:	July 1996
Format:	Paperback Book, 262 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-20477-8
Virgin Missing Adventures
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The Scales of Injustice was the twenty-fourth novel in the Virgin Missing Adventures series.

Publisher's summary

"And what exactly, Doctor Shaw, do you think C19 does with the dead bodies of plastic dummies, reptile men, primordial throwbacks and all their human victims?"

A little boy goes missing; a policewoman begins drawing cave paintings; and the employees at the mysterious Glasshouse are desperate to keep everyone away -- the Doctor suspects it's all down to a group of homo reptilia. His assistant, Liz Shaw, has ideas of her own and has teamed up with a journalist to search for people who don’t exist.

While the Brigadier has to cope with UNIT funding, the breakdown of his marriage and Geneva’s threats to replace him, the Doctor must find the reptiles alone.

And behind it all lies a conspiracy to exploit UNIT’s achievements -- a conspiracy reaching deep into the heart of the British government.

Characters

• The Doctor
• Liz Shaw
• The Pale Man
• The Irish Twins
• Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
• Mike Yates
• Sergeant John Benton
• Sir John Sudbury
• Sir Marmaduke Harrington-Smythe
• Doctor Peter Morley
• Major General Scobie
• Icthar
• Marc Marshall
• Barbara Redworth
• Robert Lines
• Fiona Lethbridge-Stewart
• Chukk
• Auggi
• Baal
• Tahni

References

• The Pale Man was modified with Cyberman technology, while the Irish Twins were modified with Auton technology. The Stalker was created by injecting a Doberman with Stahlman's ooze.
• The C19 Vault contains WOTAN, the lower half of an Imperial Dalek, Nestene energy units, the Silurian virus and Cyber weapons, as well as the frozen bodies of Melvin Krimpton, Stephen Weams, George Ratcliffe, George Hibbert and Mark Gregory. (However, it is unclear as to how Hibbert's body came to be stored in the Vault, bearing in mind that he was vaporised by an Auton.)
• A Myrka is used by the Silurians.
• The Silurians are in a type of cline, with the Sea Devils and the Silurians being the most extreme forms. Hybrids between the two are generally unhealthy and sterile.
• Sir John Sudbury and C19 control UNIT's budget in Britain.
• The Brigadier's daughter, Kate, is five years old at this time.
• Liz joined UNIT the previous October.

Notes

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The alternate 'cover' for the E-Book publication

• The chapters are referred to as "Episodes".
• This story was released as an E-Book on the BBC website.

Continuity

• This story retroactively fixes some of the apparent inconsistencies of DW: Warriors of the Deep; specifically, this story explains how the Doctor knows Icthar, and how he knows of the Triad and the Myrka.
• The "Older Silurian", "Younger Silurian", and "Silurian Scientist" of DW: Doctor Who and the Silurians are here named respectively as Okdel, Morka, and K'to.
• As in DW: Warriors of the Deep, Sea Devils are called that by the Silurians. This novel makes it clear that their full name is Sea Devil Warriors and that they are a caste as much as a sub-species.
• The Myrka, which first appeared on screen in DW: Warriors of the Deep, is used by the Silurians in this story.
• C19 and Sir John Sudbury are mentioned on-screen only in DW: Time-Flight. C19 was also explored more fully in Who Killed Kennedy.
• Professor Rachel Jensen suggests recruiting her University of Cambridge protégés Allison Williams (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks), Ruth Ingram (DW: The Time Monster) and Anne Travers (DW: The Web of Fear).
• Rachel mentions Dr. Judson and the ULTIMA machine, which was stored at a British Army base in Maiden's Point in 1943. Later in his personal timeline, specifically during his seventh incarnation, the Doctor and his companion Ace would visit Maiden's Point during that year and defeat the ancient sentient force Fenric, who had taken possession of Judson's body. (DW: The Curse of Fenric)

Timeline

• The Scales of Injustice occurs after CC: Binary
• The Scales of Injustice occurs before PDA: The Devil Goblins from Neptune

External links

• The E-book version of Scales of Injustice via Internet Archive: Wayback Machine
• The Scales of Injustice at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: The Scales of Injustice at The Whoniverse
• Gary Russell's Strange Matter: The Scales of Injustice, notes on the novel by the author via Internet Archive: Wayback Machine