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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.
| | Zafira makes an order that Zellenger will be banished from the inner courts and be made to sleep outside the palace for twenty-five years, after which they will be [[divorce]]d. Upon learning that the Doctor knows the truth, she further explains that the [[hexian]] substance containing the knowledge of the Hexagora is degrading and that their only option, given the short life of humans, is to invade [[Gallifrey]] and mate with [[Time Lord]]s to produce children who will be able to out-live the [[ice age]] of Luparis. The wedding goes ahead, but Jezzavar attacks and holds Zafira at [[knife]]point until Astorius draws a [[flintlock]] and convinces him to let her go. The Doctor realises that the hexian is increasingly inaccessible because it no longer recognises the Hexagora due to them being in human bodies and that they will have to return to their original forms. |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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 colonise 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 Time Lords 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.
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| Tegan tells Mike the sleepers must distract the guards while she slips in.
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| 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.
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| 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. | |
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| Meanwhile, Mike manages to get his wings to work and flies Tegan over the gate.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| When Astorius 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 knife-point. 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 realises 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 reason they haven’t been able to access the memory is because they are no longer recognised 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".
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| Nyssa and Tegan view the genetic pool and she asks Nyssa where the Doctor is. Nyssa explains that once Astorius switched 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. | | Nyssa and Tegan view the genetic pool and she asks Nyssa where the Doctor is. Nyssa explains that once Astorius switched 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. |
