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Meanwhile, Hensell returns from the perimeter, and detects an attitude from Bragen's guard when asking about the Dalek cables. | Meanwhile, Hensell returns from the perimeter, and detects an attitude from Bragen's guard when asking about the Dalek cables. | ||
The Doctor gives up on trying to escape and plays his recorder. The pitch of one of his notes opens Quinn's door. Quinn incapacitates the guard and frees the Doctor - placing the guard in the Doctor's cell. | |||
Hensell returns to find Bragen seated at his desk. When asked where the Examiner is Bragen explains the Doctor's duplicity and puts him in the frame for murder. Bragen is supercilious and arrogant. When Hensell attempts to reclaim his power, Bragen refuses. Hensell calls for the guards but they refuse to help. Bragen asks Hensell for cooperation. When this is refused Bragen kills him with a blast from a Dalek. | Hensell returns to find Bragen seated at his desk. When asked where the Examiner is Bragen explains the Doctor's duplicity and puts him in the frame for murder. Bragen is supercilious and arrogant. When Hensell attempts to reclaim his power, Bragen refuses. Hensell calls for the guards but they refuse to help. Bragen asks Hensell for cooperation. When this is refused Bragen kills him with a blast from a Dalek. | ||
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=== Episode 6 === | === Episode 6 === | ||
As the guards usher the Doctor, Quinn, and Polly to prison, they are stopped by armed Daleks. Quinn leads the humans away, with the Daleks merely watching them go | As the guards usher the Doctor, Quinn, and Polly to prison, they are stopped by armed Daleks. The Daleks refuse to let the humans past. Quinn leads the humans away, with the Daleks merely watching them go. | ||
Janley finds Bragen and rejoices that the revolution is over but Bragen is unsatisfied; he wants to wipe out the rebels as well. Janley reluctantly agrees, and turns to see Bragen putting down his gun ready to kill her if she did not agree. Unbeknownst to the two of them they are overheard by Valmar. | |||
The Doctor and friends take an opportunity to attack the guards and escape. | |||
Meanwhile, Valmar has taken Ben and is hiding in the guest quarters. Valmar explains Bragen and Janley's plan and leaves to find the Doctor and Polly. | |||
Bragen announces to the colony that Hensell has been murdered by the rebels, and that he has taken control. | |||
Quinn, the Doctor, and Polly find Ben on their own, and Ben tells them of Bragen's power-mad plans. The Doctor goes off alone to sort the problem out. | |||
The Dalek order is given: Commence extermination. The Doctor is almost captured by Kebble and two guards, but they are attacked by Daleks; he and Kebble escape with the Doctor saving Kebble's life. | |||
Quinn, now in charge, is appalled at the aftermath: not only are casualties enormous, but the Doctor's fiddling has destroyed the colony's power supply and will take months to repair. The Doctor suggests to Ben and Polly that they'd better leave "before they send us the bill," and they sneak away back to the TARDIS, outside which is a wrecked Dalek. As the TARDIS dematerialises, the Dalek's eyestalk slowly rises upwards, almost as if it is watching the ship depart... | In the lab, Valmar has attached control wires to three Daleks. Janley enters and convinces Valmar that she has not betrayed them. The Daleks offer to fight for them, and ask to be taken to where their people are fighting. | ||
With no way of moving forward The Doctor returns and escorts Ben and Polly out the window. Kebble is killed by a Dalek. | |||
Bragen is attempting to maintain control, and orders his guards to fight despite the fact that the Daleks are attacking them too. The leader of his guards reports that they are being beaten. | |||
Janley and Valmar soon lose control of the Daleks, who are firing indiscriminately at all humans. They are on the brink of being exterminated when a guard shoots at the Dalek who is distracted, allowing them to escape. | |||
The Doctor and friends make it to the lab, and are hidden by a deranged Lesterson as more Daleks emerge from the capsule. Lesterson insists that the Daleks are now supreme leaders at that the humans stand no chance. Lesterson also mentions a secret cable that Valmar rigged up inside the capsule that powered the rebels base. The Doctor suggests this could be the downfall of the Daleks and goes to seek out Valmar. | |||
Quinn saves Valmar as Janley is murdered by a Dalek. The Doctor finds Valmar and he tells the Doctor where the cable is. The Doctor says he needs more time and sends Quinn to Bragen to manufacture a distraction. | |||
Bragen has lost contact with all his guards and issues a speech asking for the Daleks to lay down their arms. Quinn enters Bragen's office armed. Quinn orders that Bragen should make his guards return to the capital; they will be a diversion for the Daleks. Bragen agrees. | |||
Back in the lab, the Doctor finds the junction box with the cable he needs to sabotage the Dalek's static power. Polly, who was on lookout warns of two Daleks. They enter and state how they have almost enough static electricity to move freely. Lesterson gives his life to distract the Daleks while the Doctor overloads the power, destroying the Daleks and wreaking havoc throughout the colony, knocking himself unconscious in the process. | |||
Seeing the destruction of the Daleks, Bragen and Quinn realise that the doctor must have saved them. Bragen knocks the gun from Quinn's hands and is on the verge of shooting him when he is killed by Valmar. | |||
Quinn, now in charge, is appalled at the aftermath: not only are casualties enormous, but the Doctor's fiddling has destroyed the colony's power supply and will take months to repair. The Doctor suggests to Ben and Polly that they'd better leave "before they send us the bill," and they sneak away back to the TARDIS, outside which is a wrecked Dalek. Ben and Polly wonder if the Doctor really knew what he was doing when he destroyed the Daleks. The Doctor neither denies not confirms. As the TARDIS dematerialises, the Dalek's eyestalk slowly rises upwards, almost as if it is watching the ship depart... | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
