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|series =[[TV Comic|''TVC'' comic stories]] | |series =[[TV Comic|''TVC'' comic stories]] | ||
|doctor = Second Doctor | |doctor = Second Doctor | ||
|enemy = [[The Brotherhood]] | |enemy = [[Elder (The Brotherhood)|The Elder]] | ||
|setting = [[London]] | |setting = [[London]], [[1960s]]<br>[[Mexico]], [[1960s]] | ||
|publication = ''[[TV Comic]]'' 925-928 | |publication = ''[[TV Comic]]'' 925-928 | ||
|release date = [[6 September (releases)|6]] - [[27 September (releases)|27 September]] [[1969 (releases)|1969]] | |release date = [[6 September (releases)|6]] - [[27 September (releases)|27 September]] [[1969 (releases)|1969]] | ||
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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
Exiled to Earth by the Time Lords, | Exiled to Earth by the Time Lords, the Doctor is living in the Carlton Grange Hotel in London. A learned professor thereafter implores him to speak at the London University on the subject of advanced engineering techniques, which indeed he willingly does. Writing an equation on the classroom blackboard The Doctor tells the students that he encountered a super race on the planet Ebor who used this explosive to move themselves nearer to the sun in order to improve their weather. Listening to the lecture, two people in particular are noting The Doctor's unparalleled knowledge, with one saying to the other that the Elder was right, "The Doctor is our man". Afterwards outside the university, The Doctor is being congratulated on a most stimulating lecture, as the two men tell their driver to get them to the meeting place fast. The Elder is holding a meeting with gangster types, in a dimly lit basement, by the time the two men arrive. He is saying that The Brotherhood, an international crime syndicate, needs funds to take control of the world's protection rackets and that he had planned the usual massive robbery but something far better had come to light. He asks Brother Carlos, one of the two men, to explain. Carlos then informs him, and the other brothers, that his story begins centuries ago in Mexico, when the Spanish conquistadors pillaged and slaughtered their way through the Aztec nation. | ||
Detachments of Spanish soldiers were sent into the hills to strike at one of the most isolated Aztec settlements, but look outs warned the tribe, and they had time to hide their treasure by hurling it into a mountain lake, believing that if they survived, their divers could retrieve it. Carlos tells The Brotherhood that needless to say the Aztecs didn't survive and their treasure laid on the lake bottom undisturbed for five centuries, until four years ago in 1965. That year American millionaires financed an attempt to drain the lake, but sadly for them discovered the treasure had sunk deep into an oozing mud bed. Before any attempt could be organised to extract the treasure from the lake bottom, the blazing Mexican sun baked the mud harder than concrete. No drilling gear could penetrate the mud effectively enough to make the operation economical, but historians claim the Aztec treasure to be worth around ten million pounds. Carlos informs the gangsters that there is only one man capable of extracting it, The Doctor. | Detachments of Spanish soldiers were sent into the hills to strike at one of the most isolated Aztec settlements, but look outs warned the tribe, and they had time to hide their treasure by hurling it into a mountain lake, believing that if they survived, their divers could retrieve it. Carlos tells The Brotherhood that needless to say the Aztecs didn't survive and their treasure laid on the lake bottom undisturbed for five centuries, until four years ago in 1965. That year American millionaires financed an attempt to drain the lake, but sadly for them discovered the treasure had sunk deep into an oozing mud bed. Before any attempt could be organised to extract the treasure from the lake bottom, the blazing Mexican sun baked the mud harder than concrete. No drilling gear could penetrate the mud effectively enough to make the operation economical, but historians claim the Aztec treasure to be worth around ten million pounds. Carlos informs the gangsters that there is only one man capable of extracting it, The Doctor. | ||
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== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
* [[Second Doctor]] | * [[Second Doctor]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Elder (The Brotherhood)|The Elder]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Carlos (The Brotherhood)|Brother Carlos]] | ||
* | * [[Brother 3|Brother 3]] | ||
* | * [[Brother 4|Brother 4]] | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
* The Doctor is at the "tender" [[The Doctor's age#Second Doctor|age of | * The Doctor mentions his visits to the planets [[Ebor]] and [[Eon (planet)|Eon]]. | ||
* The Doctor is at the "tender" [[The Doctor's age#Second Doctor|age of 500]]. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
'' | * The Doctor mentions the planet [[Ebor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Peril at 60 Fathoms (comic story)|Peril at 60 Fathoms]]'') | ||
{{Second Doctor TVC comics}} | {{Second Doctor TVC comics}} | ||
