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* Regarding the volatizer trap: Are we really to believe that in between the initial report of the incident at the radio telescope and the two scientists going missing, nobody (including Captain Yates) has gone up to the the dish cabin to look inside - if only to see if the two scientist are up there hiding or unconscious? Given that that is where one of them was last scheduled to be working, wouldn't this be the first place anyone would check for him, so setting the volatizer off before the Doctor arrived? | * Regarding the volatizer trap: Are we really to believe that in between the initial report of the incident at the radio telescope and the two scientists going missing, nobody (including Captain Yates) has gone up to the the dish cabin to look inside - if only to see if the two scientist are up there hiding or unconscious? Given that that is where one of them was last scheduled to be working, wouldn't this be the first place anyone would check for him, so setting the volatizer off before the Doctor arrived? | ||
:: Given the Master's penchant for hypnosis and disguise, and that he's very deliberately setting this as a trap, it's quite possible he used one means or the other to convince the director of the institute that the room had already been searched, or, indeed, lurked around in disguise until after it had been searched, and ''then'' planted the bomb, knowing that the room would then be left undisturbed until the UNIT investigators arrived. | |||
* The Doctor intuitively leaps to the conclusion that Jo is opening a bomb at the end of episode one. | * The Doctor intuitively leaps to the conclusion that Jo is opening a bomb at the end of episode one. | ||
::Based on her behavior and his knowledge of the Master's tactics, it's a fairly reasonable conclusion. | ::Based on her behavior and his knowledge of the Master's tactics, it's a fairly reasonable conclusion. |
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