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They arrive on a transport ship, the ''Chandler'', some centuries in the future. The ship is carrying a construction crew to a space station under construction…and the Doctor is thrilled to discover that the station is Nerva Beacon, which he has visited before (here called Nerva Dock). With Leela, he has a brief run-in with the crew’s foreman and shop steward, Jim Hooley, who decides they are new workers. The ''Chandler'' is forced to divert to a different airlock, as their expected lock is unexpectedly occupied by a space pod from another ship called the ''Aeolus''. Upon arrival, he orders the Doctor and Leela into spacesuits and onto the station hull with the rest of the work crew. | They arrive on a transport ship, the ''Chandler'', some centuries in the future. The ship is carrying a construction crew to a space station under construction…and the Doctor is thrilled to discover that the station is Nerva Beacon, which he has visited before (here called Nerva Dock). With Leela, he has a brief run-in with the crew’s foreman and shop steward, Jim Hooley, who decides they are new workers. The ''Chandler'' is forced to divert to a different airlock, as their expected lock is unexpectedly occupied by a space pod from another ship called the ''Aeolus''. Upon arrival, he orders the Doctor and Leela into spacesuits and onto the station hull with the rest of the work crew. | ||
The ''Aeolus'' pod is of Drelleran design, as is its parent ship; but it’s a human aboard, one Sergeant Henry McMullan. He enters the airlock without authorisation, and demands to be let in. Chief Technician Laura Craske calls her acting supervisor, Dr. Alison Foster for permission to let him in. Foster realises something is not right, and declines, but her signal is cut off, and Laura lets Henry in. He shakes her hand, and she suddenly becomes compliant to him. She takes him to the Control | The ''Aeolus'' pod is of Drelleran design, as is its parent ship; but it’s a human aboard, one Sergeant Henry McMullan. He enters the airlock without authorisation, and demands to be let in. Chief Technician Laura Craske calls her acting supervisor, Dr. Alison Foster for permission to let him in. Foster realises something is not right, and declines, but her signal is cut off, and Laura lets Henry in. He shakes her hand, and she suddenly becomes compliant to him. She takes him to the Control Centre, and introduces him to the station commander, Commodore Giles Moreau; Moreau declines to shake his hand. Moreau orders McMullan to medical quarantine as per standard procedure, but is interrupted by a system fault alert. Elsewhere, Hooley has escorted the Doctor and Leela back inside, and called for security; security arrives in the form of a hovering, robotic Drudger, and takes them (using mild force) to the Control Centre. Hooley returns to the hull. Moreau, meanwhile, traces the fault to the airlock where the pod is docked. McMullan tries to control the situation, and appears to mesmerise Leela, but the Doctor breaks her free of it. McMullan wants to shake hands with everyone, but Leela realises he is not what he seems. Moreau orders the Drudger to arrest them all, but it collapses in system failure. Laura, meanwhile, becomes suddenly weak and incoherent. On the hull, Hooley is behaving similarly to Laura; Foster orders him back inside. | ||
The Doctor realises McMullan is wearing the same uniform under his spacesuit as the dead soldiers they saw in 1895. He realises the ''Aeolus'' is a Drelleran ship, and confronts McMullan about stealing it. A proximity alert sounds; the Aeolus has arrived, and will soon dock. Henry, it seems, is an advance troop, carrying some kind of fast-moving infection that affects not only people, but the station systems; it is carried on the skin, in the form of a separate, independently-acting epidermis; the Doctor dubs it an “Epiderm”. Laura quickly becomes a similarly-mutated creature. The commander of the ''Aeolus'', Lord Jack Corrigan, contacts them. The Doctor, Leela, and the Commodore are forced to run. | The Doctor realises McMullan is wearing the same uniform under his spacesuit as the dead soldiers they saw in 1895. He realises the ''Aeolus'' is a Drelleran ship, and confronts McMullan about stealing it. A proximity alert sounds; the Aeolus has arrived, and will soon dock. Henry, it seems, is an advance troop, carrying some kind of fast-moving infection that affects not only people, but the station systems; it is carried on the skin, in the form of a separate, independently-acting epidermis; the Doctor dubs it an “Epiderm”. Laura quickly becomes a similarly-mutated creature. The commander of the ''Aeolus'', Lord Jack Corrigan, contacts them. The Doctor, Leela, and the Commodore are forced to run. | ||
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