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 * Inside the Sontaran ship, Harry discovers two more Sontarans, apparently hibernating.
 * Sarah destroys one of the patrol robots with the the Doctor's [[sonic screwdriver]].
+* Much of [[Erak]] and [[Krans]]' parts are exchanged, making Krans the more aggressive character. (He is described as big and burly, whereas on screen he is below average height.)
+* The Doctor falls down the crevice when the [[Scavenger]] lassoes Sarah and [[Roth]] while they are lowering him with his scarf.
+* [[Zake]] dies when the Scavenger stops him short with a lasso and causes him to break his neck, rather than falling down a crevice.
+* Styr is referred to several times as having an inky black breath.
+* Styr's experiment on Sarah is more elaborate, with her hallucinating drowning, being burned alive in a desert and attacked by a horde of ants. She is imprisoned in a cave rather than tied to a rock, and when Harry enters the cave he is affected too, imagining himself being attacked by a demonic Sarah. The experiment has already begun when Harry first finds her.
+* There is an extra scene of the Doctor meeting Harry and finding out about the Sontarans before going off to find Sarah. (A version of this was scripted but apparently not filmed.) The Doctor is briefly trapped in the force-field at the cave mouth.
+* Styr's superior is referred to as the Controller rather than the [[Marshal (The Sontaran Experiment)|Marshal]]. It is revealed that Styr is delaying submitting his report because he is enjoying the experiments.
+* On screen, Roth refers to two [[GalSec|Galsec]] crewmen killed in the experiments as [[Heath]] and [[Speer]]. Here, both Roth and Krans refer to Warra and Henk instead.
+* The Doctor and Styr start their fight unarmed and both later use the gravity bar as a weapon.
+* Styr kills [[Vural]] by knocking him over a cliff edge rather than stabbing him. He then throws the Doctor off the edge but he survives because part of the Scavenger's levitation system slows his fall.
+* The Doctor weakens Styr during the fight by pouring the contents of a hip-flask into his [[probic vent]].
+* The Doctor speculates that the Sontarans are trying to occupy Earth for its [[terullian]] deposits formed by the solar flares and later discovers it is part of an alliance with another cloned race, the [[Hyperioi]]. There is no mention of the war with the [[Rutan]] as on screen.
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