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==== Episode 2 ====
==== Episode 2 ====
[[File:Third Doctor Robustly Yells at Collinson.jpg|right|thumb|The Doctor screams at the corporal to set off his military conditioning.]]
[[File:Third Doctor Robustly Yells at Collinson.jpg|right|thumb|The Doctor screams at the corporal to set off his military conditioning.]]
Taltalian demands the tape from the Doctor, who uses the principle of transmigration of object. Taltalian escapes. The Doctor with the Brigadier to meet one of the prisoners, a corporal, who was captured at the warehouse. The Doctor initially follows the niceties of interrogation, but as he walks out the door, he turns around and asks the man if he's had a cup of tea. When the man answers him, the Doctor catches him by surprise. He suddenly bellows in his face, ''"Stand to attention when you're talking to me and call me sir!"'' The man goes staunch and replies with, "Sir!" It keys in the Doctor's suspicion that this is man is conditioned to military protocol, and he deduces that he has been working over orders, but he cannot find out whose specifically.
Taltalian demands the tape from the Doctor, but the Doctor manages to keep the tape to himself using a "transmigration of object" trick which was experimented with earlier in the story. Taltalian escapes. The Doctor with the Brigadier to meet one of the prisoners, a corporal, who was captured at the warehouse. The Doctor initially follows the niceties of interrogation, but as he walks out the door, he turns around and asks the man if he's had a cup of tea. When the man answers him, the Doctor catches him by surprise. He suddenly bellows in his face, ''"Stand to attention when you're talking to me and call me sir!"'' The man goes staunch and replies with, "Sir!" It keys in the Doctor's suspicion that this is man is conditioned to military protocol, and he deduces that he has been working over orders, but he cannot find out whose specifically.


The crew finds that Recovery 7 has separated early. Meanwhile, the corporal is freed by a rogue soldier. The computer that the Doctor is working with has been sabotaged by Taltalian (the computer stating that 2 and 2 make 5).
The crew finds that Recovery 7 has separated early. Meanwhile, the corporal is freed by a rogue soldier. The computer that the Doctor is working with has been sabotaged by Taltalian (the computer stating that 2 and 2 make 5).
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