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=== Episode 1 === | === Episode 1 === | ||
The TARDIS lands on a runway at Gatwick Airport and the Doctor, Ben, Polly, and Jamie run for their lives as a jet airplane tries to land on them. The jet avoids collision, | The TARDIS lands on a runway at Gatwick Airport and the Doctor, Ben, Polly, and Jamie run for their lives as a jet airplane tries to land on them. The jet avoids collision by aborting its landing, whilst the four intruders are spotted by a police officer, and causing them to split up. The airport's Commandant is informed by an air traffic controller of the reason given by the jet's pilot - a police box on the runway. He incredulously orders the obstruction investigated. The police box is quickly hauled away. | ||
The officer pursuing Ben has lost him, and Jamie meets up with the Doctor beneath a parked airplane. Polly, meanwhile, has hidden in the hangar for Chameleon Tours. She sees a man, who is holding an envelope, killed by another man, wearing a pilot's uniform, with some kind of futuristic weapon. The corpse is covered with a parachute whilst the pilot enters a hidden control chamber filled with high-tech equipment and reports via a monitor to another pilot by the name of Blade An alarm sounds, and a monitor shows Polly examining the body. The man goes out to catch her, but she escapes. | |||
The Commandant is flabbergasted to hear that the obstruction actually ''was'' a police box. Polly finds the Doctor and Jamie hiding under a plane She tells them what she saw; the Doctor insists she show them. | |||
Blade joins the other pilot, Spencer, in the hangar. Spencer explains he killed him as he "knew about the postcards". They search the body and learn they have killed Detective Inspector Gascoigne and Blade is concerned "a parent may have sent him." They dispose of the man's effects and two suitcases. An alarm sounds and they see the Doctor, Jamie, and Polly in the hangar searching for the body on a monitor. The Doctor is surprised to find the man Polly said was killed by a gun has been electrocuted. The time travellers leave to find someone in charge. | |||
Spencer and Blade are concerned when Polly says she could recognise the killer anywhere. They decide that, despite the Doctor's knowledge it is Polly who poses the biggest threat They intercept the Doctor and his companions and as Polly is lagging behind it enables Spencer to knock her unconscious using a pen-shaped device. Inside the hidden chamber, Polly is questioned to little effect. Polly warns the pilots her friends will worry about her. They say they must do something about that. | |||
When the Doctor and Jamie cannot find her in the hangar, they resume their quest for help from the authorities. The Doctor and Jamie arrive at the Immigration & Customs desk, but cannot get by the officer, Jenkins, as they haven't got passports. The officer is moved to action when Jamie mentions the TARDIS. Suspecting they may be involved with the police box affair, Jenkins asks them to wait while he contacts the Commandant. | |||
Meanwhile, Ben finds the Chameleon hangar and is drawn inside by sounds of hammering. Captain Blade is securing a packing case. Before he can draw his weapon, Jean Rock, the Commandant's assistant, arrives to give Blade flight schedules. Blade shows Ben the way out. | |||
The Commandant is | The Commandant is extremely dubious at the Doctor's story and disturbed by their lack of passports, but eventually relents and follows the Doctor and Jamie to the hangar to allow the Doctor to prove his story | ||
In the hangar's hidden chamber, Blade is affixing stamps to postcards. Spencer tells him that Polly has been "processed" and can be taken on the next flight. Blade opens a refrigerated cabinet. A scaly, humanoid arm is seen. He injects the arm. The pilots are alerted to the presence of the Doctor, Jamie and the Commandant in the hangar. | |||
The | The body is gone, but the Doctor reveals an unused Spanish postage stamp, the only thing found on the body. Jamie and the Doctor find burnt fibres and a burn mark. The Doctor begins to make deductions regarding these, much to the bemusement of the Commandant The Doctor suggests they search the hangar They move to open a packing case as Blade emerges from the back. Blade opens the case, revealing... plastic cups. The Commandant, fed up now, takes the Doctor and Jamie away. Spencer is ordered to bring the creature from the compartment. Blade and he help it out of the hangar worrying about the fact that it may be reaching "suffocation point." | ||
Back at Immigration & Customs, the Doctor and Jamie are being cross examined by the Commandant They spot Polly and draw her to the Commandant's attention but she claims not to know either of them. | |||
The two pilots guide the disguised creature through the airport concourse to the medical centre. The creature has a featureless face on a misshapen head and is breathing heavily... | |||
=== Episode 2 === | === Episode 2 === | ||
