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In 2044, a group of English gentlemen colonised Hekton and set up a society of Regency gentry. Unfortunately, they became fond of duelling and cruel sports — such as pursuing a hapless manservant on horseback with a pack of dogs, which is what Richard and Clive are doing when the TARDIS materialises, startling the horses. Doctor WhoDoctor Who finds himself threatened and taken to their mansion for their amusement. Richard sets the first test: the Doctorthe Doctor must snatch three ball bearings from a table before Clive brings an axe down on his hand. The DoctorThe Doctor cheats by using a magnet, which the gentlemen applaud, but the real test will be to face Clive in a duel with pistols at dawn. However, as the duel is about to begin, the Quarks are watching and waiting to kill the Doctorthe Doctor if Clive fails.
The duel goes ahead. Clive fires and misses. The DoctorThe Doctor shoots but only to disarm his opponent. The Quarks then open fire, but Doctor WhoDoctor Who evades their shots too, hiding in the woods. With the regency rogues and the Quarks at each others throats, the Doctorthe Doctor sneaks back to the TARDIS, but a Quark is waiting for him. His death is but a moment away.
The DoctorThe Doctor's death is delayed by the intervention of Richard and Clive, who capture both him and the Quark and return them to the mansion. There they are forced to fight with whips on a board above a fire. They claim the winner will go free, but the Doctorthe Doctor has his doubts. The DoctorThe Doctor unbalances but does not destroy the Quark and Richard decides to finish them both off with his pistol, but the Doctorthe Doctor uses the whip to disarm him and then to swing himself out of the mansion through a window. The manhunt is on!
The DoctorThe Doctor eludes his hunters for a while, but soon has a skirmish with Richard. He knocks the man to the ground and steals his horse. When he comes across the Quark ship he realises he can use it to find the TARDIS in the dark, but the gentry are waiting for him outside the ship. The DoctorThe Doctor fires all the engines and the noise causes the horses to stampede. The DoctorThe Doctor lands and slips away in the TARDIS.