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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
The [[Thirteenth Doctor]] wakes, alone, on a barren wasteland, looking up at a giant, dilapidated house. She is then | The [[Thirteenth Doctor]] wakes, alone, on a barren wasteland, looking up at a giant, dilapidated house. She is then shaken back to reality; a field of marsh, surrounded by dead soldiers and spent artillery. [[Yasmin Khan|Yaz]] and [[Dan Lewis|Dan]] then reappear, having also blacked out when [[the Flux]] cloud hit [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. The Doctor deduces they are on [[Earth]] just as a woman approaches them from the [[fog]], calling them thieves. She confirms herself as [[Mary Seacole]] and the Doctor deduces they are near [[Sevastopol]] in [[1855]], in the middle of the [[Crimean War]]. Seacole hears enemy soldiers returning and the four of them hide. When the Doctor asks how many [[Russian]]s the British are fighting, Seacole disclaims her as a [[Sontaran]] [[commander]], riding a horse, emerges with his troop. | ||
Elsewhere, deep inside a large stone temple, [[Inston-Vee Vinder|Vinder]] wakes up from his encounter with the Flux and is quickly met by a floating diamond-shaped talking object called a [[Priest Triangle]], who desperately asks him if he can repair something and leads him further in. In the inner chamber, Vinder is taken aback by the six plinths, on which humanoid figures appear when he walks close by, two of them flickering. The triangle explains how "the [[Mouri]] must never be compromised." | |||
Seacole leads the Doctor's group to the safety of an army camp and introduces them to her [[British Hotel]]. As Yaz wonders if history is somehow being rewritten, Dan starts glowing blue and he quickly vanishes, followed by Yaz. The Doctor promises to get them back and considers their disappearances a side-effect of the collision of the Flux and [[vortex energy]]. She runs back to the TARDIS, hearing the [[Cloister Bell]] ring, but despite her panicked efforts, cannot find the door on any of its four sides. Upon hearing the Sontarans return, she runs back to the British Hotel. | |||
Meanwhile, Dan rematerialises to find himself on [[Granger Street]], [[Liverpool]], just outside where [[37 Granger Street|his house]] should be. As he apologises to his neighbours for the disturbance, they shoot him worried glances, and he looks down the street to see a [[Sontaran flagship]], followed by two Sontarans hunting him down for breaching their curfew. Dan narrowly escapes down an alleyway only for his mother, [[Eileen Lewis|Eileen]], and father, [[Neville Lewis|Neville]], to appear and knock them out. They are both surprised to see each other. | |||
Yaz awakens inside the same temple that Vinder appeared in and quickly meets up with [[Joseph Williamson]], who is equally confused on how he could have appeared there from [[1820]]. He explains that the building keeps shifting and leaves to retrace his steps. Suddenly, another Priest Triangle appears before Yaz, also asking if she can repair. Glancing down at the letters "WWTDD" on her hand, she agrees to help out. | |||
The Doctor enters the British Hotel and is welcomed by Seacole again, alongside a [[Great Britain|British]] solider, [[Lieutenant General]] [[Logan (War of the Sontarans)|Logan]] of the [[Light Division]], who is busy planning his advance against the Sontarans. He ignores her cries to avoid conflict at all costs and insists that the Sontarans have always been on Earth; the Doctor reconfirms this by finding [[Sontar (nation)|Sontar]] on a nearby map in the place of [[Russia]] and [[China]]. However, Seacole and Logan vaguely recognise the name 'Russia' and the Doctor concludes that the changes to time must have been relatively recent. However, Logan continues to dismiss her help and Seacole leads her away on her nursing rounds. | |||
As Seacole discusses her calling of tending to the victims of war, she leads the Doctor behind a curtain to see one of her patients - a Sontaran foot soldier named [[Svild]]. Despite his strong yells, he is captured after being hit by a cannonball, which the Doctor taunts him for. He asserts his right to silence under the [[Shadow Proclamation]] but changes his mind upon being told that the Doctor is nearby. She frees him under the promise that he will relay this information to his commander, allowing her to meet up with him on her signal, and he leaves under a shower of threats. | |||
The Doctor and Seacole follow Svild across the battlefield as the sun sets and they watch him seemingly disappear. The Doctor uncovers the Sontaran camp's [[camouflage shield]] and on the other side of it, at the top of a rock face, a whole fleet of ships is being protected by hundreds of Sontarans. The Doctor tasks Seacole with keeping watch of the camp overnight and note any weaknesses. | |||
Meanwhile, Svild passes on the Doctor's message to his commander, [[Skaak]]. Despite Skaak being impressed with the receipt of this information, he considers Svild a disgrace to the Sontaran effort and grants him "the mercy of immediate execution", disintegrating him. | |||
As Dan hides in a car with his parents, they explain that the Sontarans arrived just after he disappeared two days previously, following the [[Three Minute Eclipse]] that was caused by the [[Lupar]]i ships' shield. According to Eileen and Neville, millions of Sontaran ships have appeared worldwide, but they arrived six hours early in Liverpool, allowing the residents to learn their key weaknesses. As Dan's parents lead him to [[Liverpool Docks]], where the fleet first appeared, Dan chooses to invade their ranks alone, armed with the [[wok]] that Neville used to knock a Sontaran out earlier. | |||
== Cast == | == Cast == | ||
