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===Episode Four=== | ===Episode Four=== | ||
The Brigadier hears the Doctor shouting for help and disconnects the phone, cutting off the signal. The Doctor tells the Brigadier that the Nestenes can put life into anything made of plastic. | The Brigadier hears the Doctor shouting for help and disconnects the phone, cutting off the signal. The Doctor tells the Brigadier that the Nestenes can put life into anything made of plastic. Later, a daafodil sprays a plastic film over Jo's mouth. The Doctor and Jo accidentally discover that the plastic daffodils, which are activated by radio waves, emit an asphyxiating films over peoples' noses and mouths, accounting for the unexplained deaths. | ||
The Master arrives at the Doctor's lab, armed with his shrinking device, ready to kill him. The Doctor shows that he is holding the Master's dematerialization circuit, which would be destroyed if he used it. Jo breaks the stalemate when she blurts out that UNIT has identified the coach bus and is planning an airstrike. The Master then alters his plan, kidnapping them and leaving them tied up in the bus to be killed in the strike. The Brigadier and Benton see this and cancel the airstrike just in time. The Doctor communicates to UNIT by tapping a Morse Code message on the bus brake pedal, while Jo impresses the Doctor with her skills at escapology. | The Master arrives at the Doctor's lab, armed with his shrinking device, ready to kill him. The Doctor shows that he is holding the Master's dematerialization circuit, which would be destroyed if he used it. Jo breaks the stalemate when she blurts out that UNIT has identified the coach bus and is planning an airstrike. The Master then alters his plan, kidnapping them and leaving them tied up in the bus to be killed in the strike. The Brigadier and Benton see this and cancel the airstrike just in time. The Doctor communicates to UNIT by tapping a Morse Code message on the bus brake pedal, while Jo impresses the Doctor with her skills at escapology. The bus then escapes to the radio telescope. Rex Farrel, who is now free of the Master's control, tries to crash the bus in a field, but the Master hits him on the back, and he falls over. The Master sees the Doctor and Jo have escaped, and tells the Autons to go after them. | ||
While the Autons hold off a UNIT force led by Yates and Benton, the Doctor and Brigadier confront the Master at the radio telescope as he opens the signal for the Nestene invasion force. The Doctor convinces him that he'll be expendable once the Nestenes arrive, and together they reverse the radio signal, expelling the force into deep space. | While the Autons hold off a UNIT force led by Yates and Benton, the Doctor and Brigadier confront the Master at the radio telescope as he opens the signal for the Nestene invasion force. The Doctor convinces him that he'll be expendable once the Nestenes arrive, and together they reverse the radio signal, expelling the force into deep space. | ||
With the signal cut off, the | With the signal cut off, the Autons drop dead. The Master escapes, but without his dematerialization circuit he's trapped on Earth. Back at UNIT, the Doctor admits to Jo and the Brigadier that since they are now both stranded, he looks forward to their next meeting. | ||
==Cast== | ==Cast== | ||
