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===Part 2=== | ===Part 2=== | ||
[[file:varos_ep2.JPG|150px|thumb|left|Peri transforms]]During the ordeal, Peri has been brought to the control | [[file:varos_ep2.JPG|150px|thumb|left|Peri transforms]]During the ordeal, Peri has been brought to the control centre in the company of the Governor, Sil and the other officers. They question her as she watches them bring the Doctor's body to an acid bath for disposal. It is also revealed that he is not dead, but his mind was influenced to make him believe he was dying of thirst in a desert. The Doctor suddenly stands up and walks over to the two attendants while their backs were turned. The surprise causes the first attendant to jump, pushing the second into the bath. A struggle ensues and the first attendant is then pulled into the acid bath by the second attendant. The Doctor strolls out, morbidly quipping, "You'll forgive me if I don't join you." | ||
After making his way from the acid baths, the Doctor is cornered by [[Quillam]], Varos' chief scientist, and is taken away. Back in the control centre, it is decided that the Doctor and [[Jondar]] will be executed in a good "old-fashioned" way while Peri and Areta are to be reshaped with a cell mutator. The Doctor and Jondar are placed in the nooses while the Governor and Sil watch. At the last moment the Doctor questions the Governor about Sil and his extortion. Sil's bodyguards rush the platform where the nooses are and pull the lever. But the two simply fall through the holes, the rope coming right off the support. As it turns out, there was to be no execution — it was all a way to get information out of the Doctor. The Doctor suspected this as he noticed that they were not being filmed. | After making his way from the acid baths, the Doctor is cornered by [[Quillam]], Varos' chief scientist, and is taken away. Back in the control centre, it is decided that the Doctor and [[Jondar]] will be executed in a good "old-fashioned" way while Peri and Areta are to be reshaped with a cell mutator. The Doctor and Jondar are placed in the nooses while the Governor and Sil watch. At the last moment the Doctor questions the Governor about Sil and his extortion. Sil's bodyguards rush the platform where the nooses are and pull the lever. But the two simply fall through the holes, the rope coming right off the support. As it turns out, there was to be no execution — it was all a way to get information out of the Doctor. The Doctor suspected this as he noticed that they were not being filmed. | ||
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===Myths and rumours=== | ===Myths and rumours=== | ||
*The original title of this story was "The Song of the Space Whale." ("Song" was in fact a completely different story by [[Pat Mills]] which was rejected in | *The original title of this story was "The Song of the Space Whale." ("Song" was in fact a completely different story by [[Pat Mills]] which was rejected in favour of this one.) | ||
*A controversy persists regarding the scene where the two guards fall into the [[acid]] pit, as it looks as if the Doctor has pushed them in. A still on the [http://www.shillpages.com/dw/story/d6/st--6v21.jpg Doctor Who Image Archive website] seems to confirm that they do in fact fall in accidentally. The Doctor's quip after they die further exacerbates the controversy. | *A controversy persists regarding the scene where the two guards fall into the [[acid]] pit, as it looks as if the Doctor has pushed them in. A still on the [http://www.shillpages.com/dw/story/d6/st--6v21.jpg Doctor Who Image Archive website] seems to confirm that they do in fact fall in accidentally. The Doctor's quip after they die further exacerbates the controversy. | ||