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[[File:The crews all here.jpg|left|thumb|The [[Urbankan]]s observe their new guests.]] | [[File:The crews all here.jpg|left|thumb|The [[Urbankan]]s observe their new guests.]] | ||
Nyssa and Adric stay in the room to operate some machinery there. Tegan and the Doctor eventually find themselves on the ship's bridge and meet | Nyssa and Adric stay in the room to operate some machinery there. Tegan and the Doctor eventually find themselves on the ship's bridge and meet [[Monarch (Four to Doomsday)|Monarch]] and his two associates, [[Minister of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] and [[Minister of Persuasion|Persuasion]]. Monarch is interested in the Doctor and Tegan's knowledge of current and past [[Earth]] culture. He reveals the ship is bound for Earth. Tegan draws a picture of male and female uniforms at Heathrow for Enlightenment. Tegan and the Doctor leave the bridge and meet up with Nyssa and Adric. | ||
Nyssa claims she saw a humanoid man. The Doctor doubts this until one emerges, dressed in a Greek toga, to ask them to follow him. They are led to a dining chamber and seated at a table, to be joined by an [[Aborigine]], [[Kurkutji]], a [[Mayan]], [[Villagra]] and a Chinese mandarin, [[Lin Futu]]. They are representatives of their respective cultures; the Greek ([[Bigon]]) represents ancient [[Greece]]. The last guests to join them are Enlightenment and Persuasion, who have transformed into the humans Tegan sketched. | Nyssa claims she saw a humanoid man. The Doctor doubts this until one emerges, dressed in a Greek toga, to ask them to follow him. They are led to a dining chamber and seated at a table, to be joined by an [[Aborigine]], [[Kurkutji]], a [[Mayan]], [[Villagra]] and a Chinese mandarin, [[Lin Futu]]. They are representatives of their respective cultures; the Greek ([[Bigon]]) represents ancient [[Greece]]. The last guests to join them are Enlightenment and Persuasion, who have transformed into the humans Tegan sketched. | ||
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=== Part three === | === Part three === | ||
[[File:Robotised.jpg|left|thumb|[[Nyssa]] is processed.]] | [[File:Robotised.jpg|left|thumb|[[Nyssa]] is processed.]] | ||
The Doctor becomes suspicious of | The Doctor becomes suspicious of Monarch. He learns the Urbankans don't plan on a peaceful co-existence with humans. Instead, they will use a toxin that the Urbankans produced from their own bodies during the "flesh time" before they were converted to androids, which causes organic matter to shrink away to nothing. It will be unleashed before the Urbankans disembark. | ||
Adric and | Adric and Monarch have a conversation about the Doctor and his TARDIS. Adric tells Monarch about the TARDIS and Adric goes off to ask the Doctor if Monarch could be allowed entry to the TARDIS. Nyssa is held back by some androids | ||
The Doctor discovers the humans aboard are not descendants of the original abductees. The original people were taken from Earth and converted into androids, just like the three Urbankans. This revelation causes a panicked Tegan to use a spare key to get into the TARDIS, and she tries to pilot it back to Earth, but only succeeds in materialising it in space next to Monarch's ship. | The Doctor discovers the humans aboard are not descendants of the original abductees. The original people were taken from Earth and converted into androids, just like the three Urbankans. This revelation causes a panicked Tegan to use a spare key to get into the TARDIS, and she tries to pilot it back to Earth, but only succeeds in materialising it in space next to Monarch's ship. | ||
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The four leaders have been given additional circuits to help them reason, but this faculty can be taken away, as Bigon learns when he crosses Monarch once too often. | The four leaders have been given additional circuits to help them reason, but this faculty can be taken away, as Bigon learns when he crosses Monarch once too often. | ||
It is revealed that Monarch strip-mined and destroyed Urbanka in a quest for minerals to improve the ship, and now plans to do the same to Earth. Monarch believes that if he can move the ship faster than the speed of light, he can pilot it back to the beginning of time and discover himself as God. Adric is restrained as, on Persuasion's orders, the Doctor is forced to his knees and one of the Greek androids raises a sword to decapitate him... | |||
=== Part four === | === Part four === | ||
[[File:Tied to you.jpg|right|thumb|The Doctor makes his way through the [[vacuum]] of [[space]].]] | [[File:Tied to you.jpg|right|thumb|The Doctor makes his way through the [[vacuum]] of [[space]].]] | ||
Nyssa uses the Doctor's sonic screwdriver and a pencil to short out the androids and save his life. Adric stops Persuasion from shooting the Doctor by standing in the way and | Nyssa uses the Doctor's sonic screwdriver and a pencil to short out the androids and save his life. Adric stops Persuasion from shooting the Doctor by standing in the way and Monarch announces that the Doctor is not to be harmed. Despite these events, Adric is taken with Monarch, and relations between the Doctor and him become very strained. It takes the truth to break the alien's hold over the boy. | ||
The Doctor sets about overthrowing Monarch and, with the help of the human androids led by a restored Bigon, a revolution begins. The Doctor is forced to go out into space in order to retrieve the TARDIS, but Persuasion attempts to stop | The Doctor sets about overthrowing Monarch and, with the help of the human androids led by a restored Bigon, a revolution begins. The Doctor is forced to go out into space in order to retrieve the TARDIS, but Persuasion attempts to stop him. The Doctor and Adric tear out Persuasion's circuit and throw it into space. Enlightenment then tries to stop them and stuns Adric before the Doctor is able to get back into the TARDIS. Adric recovers after Enlightenment strands Doctor in space and tears out Enlightenment's circuit. The Doctor uses his [[cricket ball]] to propel himself the rest of the way to the TARDIS. He then lands the TARDIS back on the ship. Monarch tries to kill the TARDIS travellers by shutting down the life support, but they are able to survive with the help of the helmets they brought from the TARDIS. | ||
The Doctor retrieves a sample of the Urbankan toxin, intending to analyse it and turn it against its creator, but when an armed Monarch confronts the Doctor, he's forced to use the entire sample against Monarch, who is reduced to just inches tall. It seems he is a product of the weak “flesh time” after all, having never, as the Doctor suspected, been fully converted into an android. Adding insult to injury, the Doctor reveals that Monarch's plan to travel back in time was ridiculous and would never have worked. | The Doctor retrieves a sample of the Urbankan toxin, intending to analyse it and turn it against its creator, but when an armed Monarch confronts the Doctor, he's forced to use the entire sample against Monarch, who is reduced to just inches tall. It seems he is a product of the weak “flesh time” after all, having never, as the Doctor suspected, been fully converted into an android. Adding insult to injury, the Doctor reveals that Monarch's plan to travel back in time was ridiculous and would never have worked. | ||
