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* Chessene's use of [[coronic acid]] inwardly alarms Dastari, as the [[Rutans]] are the weapon's inventors and chief distributors. With it, they decimated the Sontarans at Vollotha. The Sixth Doctor notes that it was specifically tailored to attack cloned tissue and the Sontarans still have no defence against it. When Varne perishes, shielding Stike from the canisters, he notes to himself to recommend his subordinate for the Golden Role of Heroes. | * Chessene's use of [[coronic acid]] inwardly alarms Dastari, as the [[Rutans]] are the weapon's inventors and chief distributors. With it, they decimated the Sontarans at Vollotha. The Sixth Doctor notes that it was specifically tailored to attack cloned tissue and the Sontarans still have no defence against it. When Varne perishes, shielding Stike from the canisters, he notes to himself to recommend his subordinate for the Golden Role of Heroes. | ||
* The Sixth Doctor's dispatch of Shockeye is altered in emphasis. Rather than a postmortem quip of "Your just desserts," he mutters the less ambiguous: "That was for Oscar." | * The Sixth Doctor's dispatch of Shockeye is altered in emphasis. Rather than a postmortem quip of "Your just desserts," he mutters the less ambiguous: "That was for Oscar." | ||
* It is revealed that the Doctor has invented the [[gumblejack]] as an excuse for Peri. | |||
* Stike sends Varl with Chessene as a last minute change which she had already anticipated. | |||
* It is made clear that [[Oscar Botcherby|Oscar]] and [[Anita (The Two Doctors)|Anita]] are on their way to summon help when they first summon the Sixth Doctor. | |||
* Stike is wearing his helmet when Oscar and Anita see him, explaining their lack of reaction to his alien features. | |||
* Dialogue between Stike and Varl about their weapons, featured in the original script, is restored. | |||
* There are more lurid descriptions from Shockeye about how meat is prepared on Earth. | |||
* Shockeye's musing that he has never eaten a Sontaran is replaced with him telling Dastari not to bother doing so, implying he has. | |||
* The name of Oscar's restaurant is changed from [[Las Cadenas]] to La Piranella. It is mentioned that, despite claiming to only be working there between roles, he has been doing so for three years. | |||
* Jamie's attack on Peri causes the Doctor to smash a glass tube in the box he is working on, explaining the gas jet. | |||
* There are some minor dialogue alterations, such as Jamie's line "It looks like Chessene's won" being given to the Sixth Doctor. | |||
* Oscar has a teddy which he asks Anita to look after along with his moths when he dies. | |||
* Peri retrieves the wheelchair with her hand rather than her leg. | |||
* Some sequences are rearranged, tending to concentrate on certain groups of characters for longer than on screen. (This creates an odd moment when the Sixth Doctor is said to be being chased by Shockeye at the same moment Chessene dies, yet manages to arrive at the cellar straight afterwards as on screen.) | |||
* The Sixth Doctor's final vow to become a vegetarian is removed. Instead, the novelisation closes with a short summary of the authorities' reaction to the destruction at the hacienda and the murder of Oscar. | |||
* Shockeye kills the lorry driver with a neck snap rather than hitting him across the back with a log. | |||
== Writing and publishing notes == | == Writing and publishing notes == | ||