Intelligence for War (audio story): Difference between revisions

The Brigadier joins the Doctor in his investigation, finding the Nazi in the pub and watching it mutate into the Sylimenta before disappearing. The search continues when reinforcements arrive and the creature is found at [[Denise Morris]]'s cottage, but the Brigadier orders it to be shot when it attacks the Doctor and it dies after mentioning a case, taking on a [[human]] form in death. Ken identifies the body as that of wealthy local [[Francis Teeling]] and the Doctor finds a device on Teeling's neck which he reasons is responsible for his transformations, intended to distract from an imminent invasion.

The Doctor investigates Teeling and speaks with his [[housekeeper]], [[Bryony Walker]], who is initially reticent to discuss Teeling's business but eventually admits that he sold [[weapon]]s and that some were in a dark green [[suitcase]]. She takes him to the [[stable]]s where Teeling met with his customers and they find piles of [[clothes]] belonging to Teeling's security in addition to a device similar to the one found on Teeling's neck. The Doctor supposes that a device other than the one on Teeling's neck backfired and goes to visit Liz whilst the Brigadier regroups.

Her [[hair]] dyed black, Liz meets with Lincoln and learns that Pinpoint arrested and interrogated him and other members of the AWA. They visit [[Glenda Symonds|Glenda]], a member who avoided arrest as she was in Huncleath taking [[photograph]]s of Teeling and who took the suitcase after Teeling was transformed and the others in the stable vanished. Liz and Glenda recover it from [[lecturer]] [[Brian Sherborne]]'s house where it was hidden, but [[Sylvia (Intelligence for War)|Sylvia]], who explains to Brian that she is the weapon that was inside the case, alters Glenda's perception so that she does not realise that the weaponry is gone.

The Doctor is suspicious of an inconclusive report on a psychic manipulator and has the Brigadier begin a search for the suitcase. Looking at photographs of the cottage where UNIT cornered Teeling, the Doctor realises that he was transforming into a [[Mercurian]] and that Denise must therefore have been familiar with the race despite humanity not having encountered them yet. He heads to Cambridge after receiving a [[telex]], the sender of which he keeps a secret, and the Brigadier is taken by Matthews to assess the facility where Liz was being held per his complaint. When the Doctor meets up with Liz, Lincoln and Glenda, the suitcase is opened and found to contain a [[bomb]].