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=== Part four ===
=== Part four ===
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The
Queen chides Zellenger for his ignorance and even reveals she was
aware of his plot to frame the Doctor in the rose garden. She further
belittles him for his jealousy and finally makes an official order
that he is to be banished from the inner courts and denied entry to
the royal hall and chamber and will sleep outside the palace for the
next 25 years after which their divorce will be finalised and finally
that despite his demotion he is to make sure nothing happens at the
wedding ceremony tonight as minister of the guards. Despite his
protests, he obeys. The Doctor thanks the Queen as Zellenger is
dismissed and leaves but she turns to begin questioning him and his
suspicious behaviour. The Doctor admits he tried to escape but then
reveals he has spoken with Astorius and is aware of the current
situation and problems facing the Hexagorans. He consents to having
his “ability” put to their disposal.
 
As
the Doctor and the Queen walk, she explains the two major problems.
The first is that while Hexagorans can live for approximately five
centuries, humans can only last about one, so it will be necessary to
change host bodies a great number of times while the ice age endures
which would involve abducting more humans. Her second one is that as
the climate cools, their technology is beginning to degrade and that
they can only now risk the occasional space pod flight, and even that
is not insurance, they are now trapped on Luparis and the only way to
survive is remain in the mammal bodies.
 
Tegan
finally arrives outside followed by Mike. He asks her why she travels
with the Doctor saying that’s not the Tegan he remembers, a Tegan
who runs away, and that it is not the Tegan he was in love with.
Tegan is slightly shocked and rebuttals but they are interrupted by a
far-off voice announcing the wedding of the Doctor and Queen Zafira.
Tegan decides to go save the Doctor thinking that he is in trouble.
She decides to see if all the sleepers will work together to help her
gain entrance after Mike warns her that she won’t stand a chance
alone.       
 
The
Doctor is curious as to why their technology is being so badly
damaged by the weather, however, the Queen explains that it is not
the technology itself but their knowledge. They proceed into the
inner sanctum. She shows him the genetic memory code, shaped like a
giant tear drop. As they succumb to the code, so do they, and it
becomes more and more difficult to access the knowledge of their
ancestors and as such it is harder to do things like build the
advanced weapons that they used to stop their aggressors, etc. The
Hexian itself is malfunctioning and hence why many of the sleepers
are awakening. She reveals the way by which only she can access,
which is to use a special device that allows her to access the
genetic pool. However, she is able to do this less and less with each
passing day and is soon nearing a point where she will not be able to
at all, and thus will be useless to her people. She asks if the
Doctor can fix it but he explains that given the situation it would
be easier and less time-consuming to simply fix the space pods and
send the Hexagorans to another warm planet to colonize instead. The
Queen fears this plan because it means that the Hexagorans will have
to travel unguarded and alone a few at a time rather than together as
a swarm and is worried about either being attacked or losing the
precious members she has left. She reveals that by mating with the
Doctor and producing an off-spring that will be able to out-live the
coming ice age is the best strategy and further reveals that it is
not just the doctor, but they will use him and his TARDIS to invade
Gallifrey and acquire more Timelords to mate with the other
Hexagorans. The Doctor refuses but the Queen silences him, saying
that he has asked enough questions and that he will now act the part
of a good husband and ready himself for the marriage and follow and
obey every order she gives him from now on. She then sends him away.
 
Tegan
tells Mike the sleepers must distract the guards while she slips in.
 
Zellenger
opens the gates for Consul Nyssa and Jezzevar and they are told they
are to leave their weapons at the gate while Jezzavar teases
Zellenger about his lost position in the Queen’s favour inciting
further animosity between the two. They then proceed through the
gates.
 
The
Doctor enters the Chapel guards and is greeted by Astorius, who also
serves as the Archbishop. He explains to the Doctor that despite his
apparent “betrayal”, his actions are tolerated by the Queen
because he is viewed as a balancing force in matters.
 
Meanwhile
Mike manages to get his wings to work and flies Tegan over the gate.
 
The
parties install themselves in the churches for the marriage. The
Doctor and Nyssa are reunited. The Doctor is then asked to come to
the front.
 
Mike
and Tegan manage to land albeit very clumsily. Mike is injured and
when they hear Zellenger coming, he goads Tegan into fleeing while he
is found. Tegan comes out holding a pitch-fork and threatens
Zellenger who likewise threatens her. But she reveals that Jezzavar
has something big planned and so Zellenger runs off to warn the
Queen.   
 
When
Artorius asks if there is anyone who disagrees with the marriage, the
Doctor objects. First on the grounds that this whole ceremony is
wrong and that they are replicating a ceremony and culture that they
have no understanding or appreciation for and secondly because he has
no best man. The queen orders Jezzavar to fill this position.
Astorius asks the Doctor to present the ring. Jezzavar claims to have
one but instead pulls out knife and attacks them. Zellenger attempts
to stop him and it is revealed that Jezzavar was attempting to kill
them, start a coup and install Nyssa as the Queen. He then takes the
Queen hostage at knifepoint. Mike bursts in and manages to distract
him while Astorius pulls out the flint lock pistol and advises
Jezzavar to release the queen. He concedes. She berates him for what
he has done and orders him to be put to death when the doctor
realizes something. He tries to explain that the failure of being
able to access the memory pool has to do with the foreign bodies they
have been inhabiting for so long. He explains that their race has
always been accustomed to acting as a “hive-mind” but they are
not used to using bodies not equipped with telepathic sensors and so
the Hexagora are no longer a collective but are beginning to think
individually, hence the jealousy, betrayal and all other negative
features manifesting itself. She accuses him of just trying to save
the humans but he assures her that the reaosn they haven’t been
able to access the memory is because they are no longer recognized as
Hexagora by the pool, acting as a single hive-mind and collective. He
says that if they go back to their original bodies then they should
be able to access the memory pool once again and find the knowledge
to repair their space pods which they can then repair and use to
return the humans to Earth and find another safer
planet. When asked about
what to do with Jezzavar, the Doctor says that it doesn’t matter
since Jezzavar is just the victim of the mentality of the body he
inhabits as he is acting like “a true Elizabethan”.
 
Nyssa
and Tegan view the genetic pool and she asks Nyssa where the Doctor
is. Nyssa explains that once Astorius swtiched back bodies and
accessed the pool, he didn’t even need the Doctor’s help to
rebuild the pods. The Doctor then routed the reverse coordinates of
all the abductees that Astorius had kept and re-calculated, being
able to help send the humans home and luckily because they have all
been unconscious the whole time, they won’t remember anything. She
also reveals that Tegan must have really liked Mike and tells her
that he specifically requested to be sent home last. Tegan runs off.
 
Mike
and Astorius chat while they send the humans back to Earth. Tegan
arrives and The Doctor persuades Astorius to assess the memory pool
to give Tegan and Mike some time alone. He offers her a chance to
come back home and he’ll put on the BBQ for the two of them. She
says she will and come see him soon.
 
A
woman named Beth (the body that had previously served as Queen
Zafira’s vessel) wakes up to find her husband (who’s body had
been used as the vessel for Lord Zellenger) and tells him the
strangest thing happened and she feels like she’s been asleep for
ages. He laughs, and after she asks whether they’re going to watch
the Queen’s jubilee, they lovingly embrace.


== Cast ==
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