Lazarus demonstration
The Lazarus demonstration (PROSE: "Re: Jones Plan - Update" [+]Part of The Doctor: His Lives and Times, Loading...{"namedpart":"Re: Jones Plan - Update","1":"The Doctor: His Lives and Times"}) was the event in which Professor Richard Lazarus demonstrated his hypersonic soundwave manipulator. (TV: The Lazarus Experiment [+]Loading...["The Lazarus Experiment (TV story)"])
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
Background[[edit] | [edit source]]
Lazarus built a Genetic Manipulation Device with financial backing from Harold Saxon. It took him many years to complete, and he was seventy-six years old when he finished it. When interviewed on television, he spoke of how his experiment would "change what it means to be human."
The head of PR for his company, Tish Jones, organised an unveiling of the experiment. He stepped into the machine when it was activated. Despite engineering faults, the machine worked, taking thirty years off his age. He stepped out a younger man. (TV: The Lazarus Experiment [+]Loading...["The Lazarus Experiment (TV story)"])
The Incident[[edit] | [edit source]]
Unbeknownst to Richard, the process had activated dormant genes (TV: The Lazarus Experiment [+]Loading...["The Lazarus Experiment (TV story)"]) passed down from the days of the Great Vampires (PROSE: The Monster Vault [+]Loading...["The Monster Vault (novel)"]) in his DNA. They refused to settle down and he transformed into an alternate, scorpion-like evolution of humanity which fed on human life energy. In this form, he killed his associate, Sylvia Thaw, draining her of life. Lazarus then returned to human form. He needed still more for the mutation to stabilise, so he took Tish up to the roof, intending to drain her. The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones interrupted them and ran from him as he again mutated. He chased them down to the main room where he drained another victim.
The Doctor distracted him, leading him to a lab where he caused an explosion, hoping to kill him. However, this only angered Lazarus, who continued his pursuit. Martha and the Doctor hid within the Genetic Manipulation Device, knowing Lazarus would not want to damage it. Lazarus activated it but the Doctor altered it so that it let out a blast that incapacitated Lazarus; energy reflection, rather than receiving it. He changed back to human form and, seemingly dead, was taken away in an ambulance.
Lazarus had, however, survived the blast. He recovered and drained the two paramedics with him. He then escaped the ambulance and hid in Southwark Cathedral. He chased Tish and Martha up to the bell tower, mutating again. While he was there, the Doctor used the amplified noise of the organ to confuse and injure Lazarus, mere seconds before Lazarus could drain Martha. He lost his balance, fell from the tower to his death and his corpse changed into his young human form, then into his old form. (TV: The Lazarus Experiment [+]Loading...["The Lazarus Experiment (TV story)"])
