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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
Tracking [[dark vacuum energy]] fluctuations, [[Sixth Doctor|the Doctor]] takes [[Peri Brown|Peri]] to [[St Ursula's College]] in [[September]] [[1939]] where she is mistaken by [[Petherbridge|Dr Petherbridge]], the [[principal]], for [[Susan Perry]], a thriller [[writer]] whom she is expecting. Dr Petherbridge tells Peri that anonymous poison pen [[letter]]s have been sent to [[Judaism|Jewish]] [[physicist]] [[Ruth Horwitz|Dr Horwitz]] and, to avoid involving the [[police]] and damaging the college's reputation, asks her to look into it, which the Doctor agrees that they will do. Peri gets the [[racism|racist]] letters from Dr Horwitz whilst the Doctor meets [[economist]] [[Joan Dalton|Dr Dalton]], who escorts him to his room to ensure that no undergraduates get an undeserved reputation for interacting with him. | |||
Peri | After [[Maria Backhouse|Dr Backhouse]] advises her to question Dr Dalton about her [[politics]], Peri catches up with the Doctor and she realises that Dr Dalton is a [[communism|communist]] rather than a [[Nazi]] following the announcement of the [[Second World War]] over the [[radio]]. Dr Horwitz tells Peri that somebody tried to [[murder]] as she was working, which coincides with the Doctor's readings becoming stronger, but she is unable to give a satisfactory answer for how she was able to escape. The Doctor and Peri wonder if Dr Dalton, who failed to recruit Dr Horwitz to the communist cause, is responsible and meet with her and Dr Petherbridge in the principal's office. Although Dr Dalton denies the charge, Dr Petherbridge calls the police and she is [[arrest]]ed. | ||
Doctor Horwitz bursts in after Dalton is taken away saying it's been a mistake. She and Peri walk back to her room, only to find the door open and the Doctor inside, saying he has discovered the source of the readings coming from the room and interrogates Ruth. They discover that Ruth was given a family heirloom as a girl and was curious about its properties, and so studied physics so she could further investigate the mysterious object. The Doctor realises that it is a petrified alien eye that has the ability to cloak other, albeit small, objects due its properties. Ruth explains that there are many people after the artefact, primarily the Nazis and that her family, who are in Vienna, are being held hostage for it by Dr Backhouse. They expect Dr Backhouse has fled with the artefact so the Doctor goes with the police in pursuit of Backhouse, assuming she hasn't gontten far. However, the further car gets, the more the energy readings die down and the Doctor realises he's made a huge mistake. | |||
Peri, Dr Petherbridge and Ruth celebrate but Peri reveals she's uneasy as she thought Backhouse would have put up more of a fight... but then they hear a noise and discover that Backhouse was hiding amongst them and never left the college using the artefact eye to hide herself the whole time. Peri and the others pursue her and the doctor arrives just in time and chases after Backhouse as the others are not able to keep up in order to stop her as she poses a danger to the girls in the dorms. He tries to pursuade Backhouse to give him the eye when they reach the roof as rain falls, making it slippery, but Backhouse refuses. She suddenly sees her hand and legs beginning to disappear and the Doctor tells her that it is the dark vacuum energy affecting her at a [[Molecule|molecular]] level and destabilising her and explains he can only save her if she throws away the eye but she refuses, however, missing her limbs she slips and falls off the [[roof]], destabilising completely as she hits the ground while the eye shatters and breaks much to the others' despair. | Peri, Dr Petherbridge and Ruth celebrate but Peri reveals she's uneasy as she thought Backhouse would have put up more of a fight... but then they hear a noise and discover that Backhouse was hiding amongst them and never left the college using the artefact eye to hide herself the whole time. Peri and the others pursue her and the doctor arrives just in time and chases after Backhouse as the others are not able to keep up in order to stop her as she poses a danger to the girls in the dorms. He tries to pursuade Backhouse to give him the eye when they reach the roof as rain falls, making it slippery, but Backhouse refuses. She suddenly sees her hand and legs beginning to disappear and the Doctor tells her that it is the dark vacuum energy affecting her at a [[Molecule|molecular]] level and destabilising her and explains he can only save her if she throws away the eye but she refuses, however, missing her limbs she slips and falls off the [[roof]], destabilising completely as she hits the ground while the eye shatters and breaks much to the others' despair. | ||
