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== References == | == References == | ||
* The TARDIS has a mile of [[Margate]] beach with [[seagull]]s, a laundry, a greenhouse and a sauna. | * The TARDIS has a mile of [[Margate]] beach with [[seagull]]s, a laundry, a greenhouse and a sauna. | ||
* After the cat appears in the console room, Tamsin refers to ''[[Bagpuss]]'' and ''Animals Do the Funniest Things''. | * After the black cat appears in the console room, Tamsin refers to ''[[Bagpuss]]'' and ''Animals Do the Funniest Things''. | ||
* The Doctor quotes extensively from ''The Raven'' by [[Edgar Allan Poe]]. The robot-like ravens are modelled after the eponymous bird due to Senior Prosecutor Uglosi's obsessions with the works of Poe. Uglosi later quotes from Poe's ''The Black Cat'' and ''The Pit and the Pendulum'' whereas Berenice Ward quotes from ''The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket''. | * The Doctor quotes extensively from ''The Raven'' by [[Edgar Allan Poe]]. The robot-like ravens are modelled after the eponymous bird due to Senior Prosecutor Uglosi's obsessions with the works of Poe. Uglosi later quotes from Poe's ''The Black Cat'' and ''The Pit and the Pendulum'' whereas Berenice Ward quotes from ''The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket''. | ||
* The pilot of the ship which flew Senior Prosecutor Uglosi and Dr. Berenice Ward to Nevermore lost his eyes by looking into a sunburst several years earlier. He was then fitted with bionic eyes. | * The pilot of the ship which flew Senior Prosecutor Uglosi and Dr. Berenice Ward to Nevermore lost his eyes by looking into a sunburst several years earlier. He was then fitted with bionic eyes. | ||
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* Berenice was a survivor of the Red Death, whom Uglosi adopted due to his guilt. She is a mutant who leeches psychic energy from those around her, feeding a shadow entity which the Doctor believes to be composed of supraviolet radiation. | * Berenice was a survivor of the Red Death, whom Uglosi adopted due to his guilt. She is a mutant who leeches psychic energy from those around her, feeding a shadow entity which the Doctor believes to be composed of supraviolet radiation. | ||
* During her childhood, Uglosi read Poe's works to Berenice every night including ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue'', ''The Tell-Tale Heart'', ''The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar'' and ''The Mystery of Marie Rogêt''. | * During her childhood, Uglosi read Poe's works to Berenice every night including ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue'', ''The Tell-Tale Heart'', ''The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar'' and ''The Mystery of Marie Rogêt''. | ||
* Protocol Roderick is a reference to Poe's short story ''The Fall of the House of Usher''. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
