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''to be | The intruders turn out not to be the Master and his minions, but [[Annie (And You Will Obey Me)|Annie]] with [[Colin (And You Will Obey Me)|Colin]] and [[Helen (And You Will Obey Me)|Helen]] in tow. The Doctor realises that the "children"'s visions of the Master, and the signal the Doctor tracked on his own TARDIS, were triggered by someone putting the key to the Master's TARDIS in the lock. He further guesses that Annie was responsible, leading Mike to a muted realisation that she must have been the one who actually killed his brother. The Doctor gives Mikey a key to ''his'' TARDIS and sends him and the other three "children" to take refuge there. Running to the police box, they find a space-ship hovering above it demanding that they surrender themselves, in service to the [[Transhuman Sisters of the Unholy Protocol]]. | ||
Meanwhile, the Doctor realises that Annie is in the service of the Transhuman Sisters and was sent in pursuit of the Master, just like the [[Dragonhunter]]s. After switching off her "personality matrix" to become a dispassionate node of the hive mind once again, she explains that after the Master's TARDIS's telepathic circuits reactivated, they awakened the nuclei inside Colin, Helen and Janine, which still contain enough of the Master's essence for him to potentially be resurrected. To complete her mission, she therefore intends to destroy them, as they "are" the Master now. | |||
Unable to get to the TARDIS without getting shot down, Colin, Helen, Michael and Janine commandeer one of the helicopters, wagering that the Transhuman Sisters won't shoot it down with the Master's TARDIS inside. However, they simply use a tractor beam to draw the helicopter into their own spaceship. The Doctor, however, makes them an offer: as a Time Lord, he can draw the Master's stray nuclei back into himself, becoming the Master by the Transhuman Sisters' standards. As their strict utilitarian calculations consider it better to have one host to kill to get to the Master rather than three, they accept the offer. | |||
In their cells, the three immortal friends and Mike catch up on how they've spent the last decades. It transpires that, although she is not entirely comfortable with her frozen age, Janine is the only one to have actually made something of the time she had, while the other two simply did their best to stay under the radar and lived mundane, repetitive lives. Finally, the Doctor, the Transhuman Sisters and the "children" are reunited. The Doctor asks to have access to the Master's TARDIS so that he can switch off its telepathic circuits and thus draw out the Master's nuclei. | |||
In the control room, they begin to hear the Master's chuckles around them, coming from everywhere at once. The Doctor realises that another fragment of the Master's consciousness has been residing inside his TARDIS itself, a "ghost in the machine", and he goads him into showing himself on the scanner. Outside the TARDIS, meanwhile, the Transhuman Sisters' ship is attacked by the Dragonhunters. They absorb the robots' knowledge and decide to rip off the "three Masters"'s heads rather than risk absorbing the Master's consciousness, which they suspect might be toxic to them. Before they can do so, however, Annie kills both of them. | |||
Inside the control room, Mike is goaded by the Master into reaching out to the telepathic circuits interface in an effort to destroy him. As soon as he touches it, Mike becomes frozen in place, screaming in pain, as the Master takes over his body. Possessing Mike, the Master walks out of the TARDIS and shoots Annie with Mike's gun before she can destroy the other "children". Within minutes, the Master's essence "rots Mike's body from the inside", returning the Master to his old cadaverous self, corporeal once again. Taking back hypnotic control of the "children", he has them take him into the clock TARDIS so that he can switch bodies with him. | |||
However, the Doctor appeals to the three, reminding them of their "heart's desires" that the Master never granted, and pointing out that he has in fact just killed Mikey. Managing to free themselves from the Master's control, they turn his psychic power back on him, attempting to force him to die, although the Doctor stops them from going that far. Running into his TARDIS, the Master takes off and escapes. | |||
After warning the surviving "children" that, with the Master gone from their time-zone, the nuclei in their systems will atrophy and they'll catch up to what their physical age ought to be, the Doctor leaves — though not before advising Janine to contact [[UNIT]] to get the KGB off her back. He returns to [[1984]], leaving Colin, Helen and Janine to contemplate where they will go from here. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
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* [[Colin (And You Will Obey Me)|Colin]] - [[Alex Foley]] | * [[Colin (And You Will Obey Me)|Colin]] - [[Alex Foley]] | ||
* [[Helen (And You Will Obey Me)|Helen]]/[[Jade Nymph]] - [[Peta Cornish]] | * [[Helen (And You Will Obey Me)|Helen]]/[[Jade Nymph]] - [[Peta Cornish]] | ||
* [[Michael Masterson|Mikey]]/[[Grigor (And You Will Obey Me)|Grigor]] - [[Russ Bain]] | * [[Michael Masterson|Mikey]]/[[Grigor (And You Will Obey Me)|Grigor]]/{{Macqueen|C}} - [[Russ Bain]] | ||
* [[Janine (And You Will Obey Me)|Janine]] - [[Tessa Coates]] | * [[Janine (And You Will Obey Me)|Janine]] - [[Tessa Coates]] | ||
* [[Gomphus]]/[[Auctioneer (And You Will Obey Me)|Auctioneer]] - [[Nick Ellsworth]] | * [[Gomphus]]/[[Auctioneer (And You Will Obey Me)|Auctioneer]] - [[Nick Ellsworth]] | ||
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* By his [[seventh incarnation]], the Doctor was unable to remember this encounter with the Master due to the time breaks which were slowly destroying the [[universe]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') | * By his [[seventh incarnation]], the Doctor was unable to remember this encounter with the Master due to the time breaks which were slowly destroying the [[universe]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') | ||
* The [[Cult of the Heretic]] sent the [[Dragonhunter]]s and the [[Transhuman Sisters of the Unholy Protocol|Transhuman Sisters]] to kill the Master. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') | * The [[Cult of the Heretic]] sent the [[Dragonhunter]]s and the [[Transhuman Sisters of the Unholy Protocol|Transhuman Sisters]] to kill the Master. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Two Masters (audio story)|The Two Masters]]'') | ||
* After losing his body, part of the Master's essence survives inside his TARDIS. The [[Fifth Doctor]] describes his state of existence as "a ghost in the machine". The Master would later find himself in this state again after falling into the [[Eye of Harmony]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sometime Never... (novel)|Sometime Never...]]'') | |||
* The Master attempts to switch bodies with the Doctor using the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
