Missy takes the Monk to Earth to make a point – she can be nice if she wants. In fact, she can save the planet! While the Monk tries to charm the corporate sharks, Missy makes them a better offer. To supply the ultimate warrior, created in the ultimate war...
The Seed was found drifting in Arkansas. The Seed was "acquired" by a certain expert institution and later sold to Temple.
The Master created the Seed - a War Seed - by using her own DNA. She made more than one. Due to her DNA being present, the War Seed's face keeps changing between the Master's faces. A War Seed embeds itself into a society and turns the populace into soldiers that answer to the Time Lords.
Missy suggests that if Temple returns her son, she will offer him the army left behind.
In a state of panic, Murph regenerates (or degenerates) into a monster resembling a cheetah-humanhybrid. The Monk contemplates whether this regeneration was based on pure survival.
The Seed could see somewhat into the future, knowing that Brad was going to die. He was also able to sense his brothers.
On a previously seeded planet, the bloomed War Seed had transformed the Cheetle populace into weapons.
The War Seeds have TARDIS DNA woven through him, allowing them to dematerialise on the spot.
Notes
Previously, this series had built upon the television series' character development of Missy, from possibly the most malevolent incarnations of the Master into one of the most benevolent. The audio series had seen her parental role towards Lucy and Oliver Davis, and her meeting with her future incarnation of the Lumiat, a purely benevolent incarnation. In The Bekdel Test, Missy's attitude and behaviour towards River Song is surprisingly upbeat, despite River having just killed the Doctor. In the previous story, Body and Soulless, Missy is praised by the Kalvor for the defeat of the VAD, and the ending of the VAD-Kalvor War. This appraisal had left Missy pondering the line between good and evil. In this story, however, whilst Missy is "saving the Earth", one could argue that the survival of Earth was merely a side-effect of her retrieving the War Seed. This story, instead, focuses on the morality of the Monk. In the final episodes of the Lucie Miller adventures, a previous incarnation of the Monk had manipulated the Eighth Doctor's timeline so much that he was unable to reach Lucie Miller, who was firstly trapped in a war between the Daleks and Humans, which then left her severely paralysed, resulting in her giving up not only her life, but the life of the Doctor's grandson for the sake of the human race. It is surprising, therefore, that this version of the Monk in this story no longer wishes to witness or take part in Missy's scheme. We see a Monk who, himself, his questioning where he sits on the moral fence.
Continuity
The Monk is still furious at Missy having removed his brain and throwing it into a ravine in their last adventure. (AUDIO: Body and Soulless)
Missy reminds the Monk that while she fought in the Time War, the Monk fled. She thinks that this means he had no right to an opinion. (AUDIO: Divorced, Beheaded, Died et al)
Richard Temple revels at the inner dimensions of the Monk's TARDIS. Missy previously stated that humans' surprise at the dimensions bored her the most. (AUDIO: Too Many Masters)
Missy mockingly begs the Monk to let her keep the Temples as her companions. She mentions the resemblance to the Doctor and his "squeaky" companions. (TV: An Unearthly Child et al)
Once again, the Monk underestimates Missy's plan. He had previously lied to the Kalvor and the Monk about the Monk's purpose in the destruction of the VAD. (AUDIO: Body and Soulless)
The Monk has finally had enough of Missy's torturing of others. He asks her to leave. Surprisingly, a previous incarnation of the Monk manipulated the Eighth Doctor's timeline so that he could not reach his companion Lucie Miller in time. This lead to her becoming trapped in a Dalek War, becoming severely disabled before her giving up her life. His part in Lucie's death causes the Doctor to enter a deep depression. (AUDIO: Lucie Miller, To the Death)
Upon their next meeting, now in his moustachioed form, the Monk tells the Eighth Doctor that upon every regeneration, he repents his sins and forgives himself, enabling him to start afresh. The Doctor refuses to accept such a denial of murder. (AUDIO: The Side of the Angels)
According to one account, the Master had the appearance of Roger Delgado while on Gallifrey. According to another, he had Anthony Ainley's likeness. According to another one, the one with James Dreyfus's appearance was the incarnation who ran away from Gallifrey.
While fighting to extend his life at the end of his regeneration cycle, many bodies were possessed by the Beevers incarnation, but all kept somehow reverting to his real being until he finally regenerated into the MacQueen one. Hence, these sections cannot be strictly chronological
