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| |name= The Scales of Injustice
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| |image= Ma-24.jpg
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| |series=[[Virgin Missing Adventures]]
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| |number= 24
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| |doctor=Third Doctor
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| |companions= [[Liz Shaw|Liz]]
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| |featuring = [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]], [[Mike Yates]], [[John Benton|Benton]]
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| |enemy = {{il|The [[Pale Man]]|The [[Irish Twins]]|The [[Silurian]]s}}
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| |setting = [[London]], [[Cheviot Hills]], [[Northumberland]], [[Smallmarshes]], [[L'tlhe]] and the [[Channel Islands]], the [[1970s]]
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| |writer= [[Gary Russell]]
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| |publisher= Virgin Books
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| |release date= [[18 July (releases)|18 July]] [[1996 (releases)|1996]]
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| |format= Paperback Book, 262 Pages
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| |isbn= ISBN 0-426-20477-8
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| |prev=Killing Ground (novel)
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| |next= The Shadow of Weng-Chiang (novel) }}
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| '''''The Scales of Injustice''''' was the twenty-fourth novel in the [[Virgin Missing Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Gary Russell]]. It featured the [[Third Doctor]], [[Liz Shaw]] and Brigadier [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]]. This novel features Liz Shaw's departure from UNIT and the arrival of [[Mike Yates]], reporting for duty. Later, Yates saw his promotion to [[Captain]] following the events of this story.
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| == Publisher's summary ==
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| === 1996 Virgin Books edition ===
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| :"And what exactly, Doctor [[Liz Shaw|Shaw]], do you think [[C19]] does with the dead bodies of [[Auton|plastic dummies]], [[Silurian|reptile men]], [[Primord|primordial throwbacks]] and all their human victims?"
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| A little boy goes missing; a policewoman begins drawing cave paintings; and the employees at the mysterious Glasshouse are desperate to keep everyone away -- [[Third Doctor|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.
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| 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.
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| And behind it all lies a conspiracy to exploit UNIT's achievements -- a conspiracy reaching deep into the heart of the [[British government]].
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| === 2014 BBC Books edition ===
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| When a boy goes missing and a policewoman starts drawing cave paintings, the Doctor suspects the Silurians are back. With the Brigadier distracted by questions about UNIT funding and problems at home, the Doctor swears his assistant Liz Shaw to secrecy and investigates alone.
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| But Liz has enquiries of her own, teaming up with a journalist to track down people who don't exist. What is the mysterious Glasshouse, and why is it so secret?
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| As the Silurians wake from their ancient slumber, the Doctor, Liz and the Brigadier are caught up in a conspiracy to exploit UNIT's achievements - a conspiracy that reaches deep into the heart of the British Government.
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| == Plot ==
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| == Characters ==
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| * [[Third Doctor]]
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| * [[Liz Shaw]]
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| * The [[Pale Man]]
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| * The [[Irish Twins]]
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| * [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]]
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| * [[Mike Yates]]
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| * Sergeant [[John Benton]]
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| * Sir [[John Sudbury]]
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| * Sir [[Marmaduke Harrington-Smythe]]
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| * Doctor [[Peter Morley]]
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| * Major General [[Scobie]]
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| * [[Icthar]]
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| * [[Marc Marshall]]
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| * [[Barbara Redworth]]
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| * [[Robert Lines]]
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| * [[Fiona Lethbridge-Stewart]]
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| * [[Chukk]]
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| * [[Auggi]]
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| * [[Baal]]
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| * [[Tahni]]
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| * [[Jana Kristan]]
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| * [[Sula]]
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| == References ==
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| === The Doctor ===
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| * The Doctor has a terrible singing voice.
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| === Individuals ===
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| * The Pale Man was modified with [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cyberman]] technology
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| * The Irish Twins were modified with [[Auton]] technology.
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| * The [[Stalker]] was created by injecting a [[Doberman]] with [[Stahlman's ooze]].
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| * Sir John Sudbury and C19 control UNIT's budget in [[Britain]].
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| * The Brigadier and his wife [[Fiona Lethbridge-Stewart|Fiona]] married eight years ago. Their daughter, [[Kate Lethbridge-Stewart|Kate]], is five years old at this time. He and his wife have recently gone through a stressful point in their relationship and are nearing [[divorce]].
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| * Liz joined UNIT the previous [[October]].
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| === Locations ===
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| * The [[C19]] [[The Vault (C19)|Vault]] contains [[WOTAN]], the lower half of an [[Imperial Dalek]], [[Auton|Nestene]] energy units, the [[Silurian]] virus and [[Cyberman|Cyber]] weapons, as well as the frozen bodies of [[Melvin Krimpton]], [[Stephen Weams]], [[George Ratcliffe]], [[George Hibbert]] and [[Mark Gregory]]. ''(It is unclear as to how Hibbert's body came to be stored in the Vault, given that he was vaporised by an Auton.)''
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| === Species ===
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| * A [[Myrka]] is used by the Silurians.
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| * The [[Silurian]]s are in a type of {{w|Cline (population genetics)|cline}}. The [[Sea Devil]]s and the [[Silurian]]s are the most extreme forms. Hybrids between the two are generally unhealthy and sterile.
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| == Notes ==
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| * The chapters are referred to as "Episodes".
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| * This story was released as an ebook on the BBC website in 2006, with the book remaining on the BBC's site until 2009.
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| * This novel was reprinted and released as an ebook on Kindle by [[BBC Books]] on [[6 March (releases)|6 March]] [[2014 (releases)|2014]] as ''The Monster Collection Edition''.
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| == Continuity ==
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| [[File:The_Scales_of_Injustice_ebook_cover.png|thumb|right|The alternate 'cover' for the ebook publication]]
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| * This story [[Retroactive continuity|retroactively fixes]] some of the apparent inconsistencies of [[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep]]''. Specifically, this story explains how the Doctor knows Icthar and how he knows of the Triad and the Myrka.
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| * The "Older Silurian", "Younger Silurian", and "Silurian Scientist" of [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'' are here named respectively [[Okdel]], [[Morka]] and [[K'to]].
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| * As in [[TV]]: ''[[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 they are a caste as much as a sub-species.
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| * The Myrka, which first appeared on screen in [[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep (TV story)|Warriors of the Deep]]'', is used by the Silurians in this story.
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| * C19 and Sir John Sudbury are mentioned on-screen only in [[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight]]''. C19 was also explored more fully in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]''.
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| * It was [[Ian Gilmore|Air Commodore Ian Gilmore]] who suggested then Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart for the commander of the British branch of UNIT. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')
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| * Professor [[Rachel Jensen]] suggested recruiting her [[University of Cambridge]] protégés [[Allison Williams]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]''), [[Ruth Ingram]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'') and [[Anne Travers]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]'') to the [[Intrusion Countermeasures Group]].
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| * Rachel mentions [[Judson|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 Doctor|seventh incarnation]], the Doctor and his companion [[Ace]] would visit Maiden's Point that year and defeat the ancient sentient force [[Fenric]], who had taken possession of Judson's body. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'')
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| * Corporal Maisie Hawkes mentions that she has sent a [[Nestene]] energy unit to the [[National Space Museum]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'')
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| * The pale young man tells the Doctor that the Vault contains two [[Cyber-gun]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]''), Nestene energy units ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'') and phials of the [[Silurian virus|Silurian plague]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'').
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| * The Doctor does not recognise what the pale young man describes as one of the Vault's first trophies: "the lower half of a [[Imperial Dalek|cream-coloured]] [[Dalek]], stained with [[Kaled mutant|green]] and pitted with bullet holes." The Doctor notes that he has never seen a Dalek of that configuration before, least of all on [[20th century]] [[Earth]]. It was obtained by the ICMG in the aftermath of the [[Shoreditch Incident]] in [[November]] [[1963]]. Later in his personal timeline, the Seventh Doctor and Ace would be present for that event. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')
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| == External links ==
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| * {{dwrefguide|who_ma24.htm|The Scales of Injustice}}
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| * {{whoniverse|MA24.php|The Scales of Injustice}}
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| * [http://www.magnetopia.org/cloisterlibrary/scal.htm The Cloister Library: '''The Scales of Injustice''']
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| * [http://web.archive.org/web/20021010075140/www.gary.dircon.co.uk/StrangeScales.html Gary Russell's Strange Matter: '''The Scales of Injustice''', notes on the novel by the author] via [http://www.archive.org/web/web.php Internet Archive: Wayback Machine]
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