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 Noting that the service-cradle is still locked in place, Missy tells Alit to climb through a small gap in the hatch‘s bars, the latter quickly doing so and unlocking the door. The Master and Missy enter as well, the Master ordering Topknot to send the hatch to Floor 0508. The Cyberman operates a control and causes the cradle to begin descending into the floor’s sky. The Master slides towards Missy and complains about her chipper nature, Missy noting that he’s not keen on regenerating; the  Master claims that girls are disappointing, causing Missy to remember using Galleia, Kassia, Chantho, Miss Trefusis and Lucy Saxon. The Master calls Alit over, asking about her parents and if she likes any of the children in the farmstead. Alit states that Omebo’s ‘OK’, and the Master asks her if she’d betray him if she married him (with Alit shaking her head in response). Missy then questions the Master about their plan, knowing that he isn’t really going to stop the Cybermen or find an escape; the Master states that he intends to alter the Cybermen’s definition of humanity so they no longer recognise beings with two hearts as human, allowing him to regain control over them and use them to conquer the galaxy. When Alit asks multiple questions about their plan, the Master whines to her “are we there yet?”
-Dawn breaks, illuminating a huge network of bronze rail lines and crop fields, as the cradle lands on a small concrete square adjacent to a large circular area where two of the rails cross over. The Master explains that the central rail groove is for guidance, possibly containing a power feed within. As he finishes, a
+Dawn breaks, illuminating a huge network of bronze rail lines and crop fields, as the cradle lands on a small concrete square adjacent to a large circular area where two of the rails cross over. The Master explains that the central rail groove is for guidance, possibly containing a power feed within. As he finishes, a huge machine with various control panels on its sides quickly arrives; the Master believes it to be an automated crop harvester, and proposes that they follow it, as it may lead them to a means of accessing the ship’s systems. The machine stops by the group, before turning in a ninety-degree arc and travelling down one of the rails into a field, slicing and harvesting huge crops at the front whilst dispersing any waste from the back, into the ground. The group begins walking after it, although Alit finds the long walk difficult; she decides to keep walking after Missy suggests that Topknot carry her.
+After at least twenty minutes of walking, a cultivator arrives that the group hitch a ride on. As they travel through the fields, dusk begins to fall, and Alit names some of the crops growing whilst the Master observes a collection of tall, green storage silos in the distance. Missy questions who the crops would’ve been for, the Master believing they would’ve been for a native human colony as well as the higher floors. He asks Alit as to where her crops come from, the latter explaining that the carters would bring them, although they don’t deliver them as often nowadays. Eventually the cultivator passes an assortment of warehouses near the silos, and the group departs the machine, Alit ripping her shoe in the process; Topknot also twists its leg after falling off, and the Master simply pulls it up roughly when Alit tries to comfort it. The Master then orders Topknot to scan for technology that can be used to access the ship’s systems so he can hack into the patients on Floor 1056. The Cyberman points to a tower at the centre of the buildings, and the group discover it to be a huge edifice containing storage bays, silos and warehouses.
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