The Silver Turk (audio story): Difference between revisions

At Café Demel, Mary marvels at her sudden new-found ability to communicate in German and even read newspapers. The first thing that catches her eye is an article about "the second eyeless murder on the [[Ringstrasse]]". But then she notices the date on the newspaper, [[11 September]] [[1873]], which means that they did travel in time after all and which explains the absence of Samson and Gemma.

Upon realising that this is 1873, the year of the Vienna Exposition, the Doctor brings Mary there, although he has to rely on her paying both at the café and the entrance fee to the exposition. They hear Drossel inviting the public to a puppet performance at the [[Marionettenburg]] and promising that the puppets have "no strings attached" but decide to look at more famous attractions, including the [[Rotunda]] and the [[Industrial Palace]]. Meanwhile Drossel recognises the distressed Count Wittenmeier and invites him to his tent. Drossel says that he has also been wronged by Stahlbaum and seems to ask for the count's help in revenge. He then whistles to call [[Columbinetta]], a puppet moving on her own, and asks her to bring his watchdog, whom he calls "his burden, his curse". Before the watchdog attacks the count, Drossel states that his theatre is "out of this world".

* A newspaper picked up by the pair in Café Demel calls the murder of Leopold Krauss "the second eyeless murder on the Vienna [[Ringstrasse]]". Bratfisch proposed to take Mary and the Doctor once round the Ringstrasse to show them all the landmarks of Vienna. Later on, the cab with the Doctor and Stahlbaum driven by Bratfisch was pursued by [[Gramm]] and Mary in a mechanical cab along the Ringstrasse until it crashed trying to turn into the [[Hofburg Palace|Hofburg]].

* The Doctor and Mary visited the [[Rotunda]] and the [[Industrial Palace]] at the [[Vienna Exposition]], which also featured the [[Machine Hall]], the [[Temple of Kyoto]], and the [[Japanese Pavilion]].

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