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The craft is opened and found to be empty, save for a tape recorder — which is not standard equipment, according to Cornish — with a recording of Van Lyden's voice, which automatically activates in response to the radio; and a high amount of radiation. | The craft is opened and found to be empty, save for a tape recorder — which is not standard equipment, according to Cornish — with a recording of Van Lyden's voice, which automatically activates in response to the radio; and a high amount of radiation. | ||
[[George Carrington | [[George Carrington|General Carrington]] has ensured the capsule's crew — three spacesuited astronauts — are detained elsewhere, feeding them radiation to keep them alive. Carrington is introduced to the Doctor by Quinlan who explains that he is head of the newly formed Space Security Department and that his actions were to protect the astronauts as they had been infected with contagious radiation. Quinlan states that they did not want the public to become panic-stricken, so Carrington had been acting with authority in his actions. By the time Carrington takes the Doctor and his friends to meet the astronauts, the situation has changed again. | ||
[[File:BodiesInAGravelPitTAOD.jpg|thumb|[[Reegan]] dumps the dead bodies in a local gravel [[quarry]].]] | [[File:BodiesInAGravelPitTAOD.jpg|thumb|[[Reegan]] dumps the dead bodies in a local gravel [[quarry]].]] | ||
A criminal named [[Reegan]] has organised their abduction, killing the soldiers and scientists protecting them. Two of his henchmen are ordered to protect the astronauts, but the radiation they emit later kills them. Reegan, suited in protective clothes, disposes of their irradiated bodies in a Hertfordshire gravel pit, burying them under the rocks. He then returns to his laundry van. Covering his tracks with camouflage tactics, Reegan pushes a dashboard button that flips over the van's number plate so it reads another registration. At the same time, the "Hayhoe Launderers Ltd" signage on the van changes to read "Silcock Bakeries". Later on, the worker manning the industrial shovel uncovers the bodies when sifting the gravel. | A criminal named [[Reegan]] has organised their abduction, killing the soldiers and scientists protecting them. Two of his henchmen are ordered to protect the astronauts, but the radiation they emit later kills them. Reegan, suited in protective clothes, disposes of their irradiated bodies in a Hertfordshire gravel pit, burying them under the rocks. He then returns to his laundry van. Covering his tracks with camouflage tactics, Reegan pushes a dashboard button that flips over the van's number plate so it reads another registration. At the same time, the "Hayhoe Launderers Ltd" signage on the van changes to read "Silcock Bakeries". Later on, the worker manning the industrial shovel uncovers the bodies when sifting the gravel. | ||
