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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
=== Part One === | === Part One === | ||
The [[Eighth Doctor|Doctor]] recounts how he met [[Sebastian Grayle]] | The [[Eighth Doctor|Doctor]] recounts to [[Matrix Rassilon|a mysterious other]] as to how he met a man named [[Sebastian Grayle]]. Arriving with [[Charlotte Pollard|Charley]] in [[Singapore]] on the eve of [[December]] [[31 December|31st]], [[1930]], the pair separate so that Charley can meet with her friend, [[Alex Grayle|Alex]]. While he is relaxing on his own, the Doctor is approached by a man who introduces himself as Alex's grandfather, Sebastian, who claims to know the Doctor as his greatest enemy. He gloats that he is from a future where he has killed the Doctor - created by his 'masters', who have taken over the earth. As Grayle smugly walks away, Charley meets back up with the Doctor and they return to [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] to figure out what is going on, hatching a plan to stop Grayle's alternative future by preventing him from ever meeting his so-called "masters". | ||
Arriving at Grayle's old family home, they rummage through Grayle's possessions and find evidence that leads them to [[305]] [[AD]] during the [[Roman Empire|Roman empire]], on the advice that this was the first recorded instance of the surname Grayle throughout human history. They meet a man named Decurian Graylisle, who they assume to be related to Grayle. After questioning him, the Doctor decides to investigate the "temple" that he is so desperate to get to, and they depart. The Doctor discovers it is a cult, while Charley is contacted via a communication device in Graylisle's tent by a mysterious voice. She finds and informs the Doctor, and they investigate it, discovering in the process that they have arrived at a point before Graylisle became the man they met. | |||
The Doctor attempts to talk Graylisle out of what he's doing by bargaining with him but he refuses. Charley manages to save him but Graylisle escapes and the Doctor and Charley are seemingly trapped... | A ceremony begins in the temple and Charley and the Doctor discovers that Graylisle had made a deal with the voice from the device Charley heard earlier, commanding him to gather the people in the temple as a sacrifice to them in order for them to grant him [[immortality]]. The Doctor orders the men to leave while he attempts to talk Graylisle out of what he's doing by bargaining with him, but he refuses. Charley manages to save him but Graylisle escapes and the Doctor and Charley are seemingly trapped... | ||
=== Part Two === | === Part Two === | ||
The Doctor and Charley manage to get into the TARDIS and escape. The Doctor deduces that Grayle will attempt to gain immortality again but seems to only be able to do so at certain times | The Doctor and Charley manage to get into the TARDIS and escape. The Doctor deduces that Grayle will attempt to gain immortality again, but seems to only be able to do so at certain times, surmising that the ones offering him this power must be inhibited by something. He finds that the beam attempting to get to Grayle originated in the [[Ordinand system]], a system surrounded by [[black hole]]s and planetary disturbances making it possible to only contact [[Earth]] every 750 years. They decide they need to stop his next attempt and next visit [[London]] in [[1055]] and visit the court of [[Edward the Confessor]] and his wife, [[Edith (Seasons of Fear)|Queen Edith]], who the Doctor had been previously engaged to. | ||
They find a [[Radiation|radioactive]] source in the court and suspect it to be Grayle. After meeting the rulers, who were already acquainted with the Doctor, they quietly confront Grayle, who is now going by 'Leofric of Exeter'. But as they interrogate him, Charley is [[poison]]ed from a [[drink]] she was having and the Doctor rushes to treat her back in the TARDIS, but is followed in by Grayle, who had orchestrated it. However, Edward is tricked by Grayle into believing that they were assassins, and theyare thrown in the [[dungeon]]s. | |||
Grayle once again gloats to them, revealing his plan to poison the king and queen with 'holy metal' (which the Doctor identifies as [[plutonium]]), take over their throne, and bring his masters to Earth to gain immortality. However, Edward, who had been listening in, reveals that he and his wife were suspicious of Grayle from the beginning, and that the plutonium jewellery he believed them to be wearing were fakes. Grayle attempts to summon his masters using the plutonium prematurely. The Doctor manages to stop him again but they enter a physical scuffle atop the castle. | |||
=== Part Three === | === Part Three === | ||
The Doctor barely manages to | The Doctor barely manages to beat Grayle, who falls into the river near the castle. As the Doctor and Charley watch him escape, the Doctor explains his suspicions to her and says they must go forward in time to stop him again. They have a heart-to-heart about his actions, wherein the Doctor confesses that it frightens him how viscerally angry Grayle makes him. The TARDIS lands in [[19th century]] [[Buckinghamshire]], having detected Grayle's presence. After doing some exploring, they find themselves in [[Wickham caves]], home of the [[Hellfire Club|Hellfire club]] - a variant of whom they have encountered earlier in their [[time stream]]. They are discovered by [[Richard Martin]], who takes the Doctor and Charley, who are masquerading as lost local nobility, to meet Sebastian - the founder of this club. | ||
The Doctor, Charley and Grayle are reunited once more, but in a strange gesture of hospitality, Grayle invites them to stay as guests. The Doctor accepts, and once alone, explains to Charley that Grayle's good mood must come from a feeling of invulnerability, meaning his goal is probably close to fruition - which he explains is the perfect time to start asking questions, perhaps to find out who his masters are. | |||
At dinner, the Doctor accidentally insults Grayle's latest [[Fiancée|fiancee]], [[Lucy Martin|Lucy]], and Grayle challenges him to a [[duel]] | At dinner, the Doctor accidentally insults Grayle's latest [[Fiancée|fiancee]], [[Lucy Martin|Lucy]], and Grayle challenges him to a [[duel]]. The Doctor wins by dint of an alien [[sword]] that is able to suck out the energy keeping Grayle young and immortal, actually wounding him. Disgraced in loss, Grayle kidnaps Lucy and makes a getaway, planning to use her as a sacrifice for his masters - who require organic matter to feed on, as passing through the black hole starves them. The Doctor, Charley and Richard give chase and find Grayle, but it is too late as the gate to his 'masters' has opened. A giant metal egg appears and the Doctor recognises it for what it is. As Grayle frees them, hsi masters are revealed to be the [[Nimon]], come to feast on the Earth. | ||
=== Part Four === | === Part Four === | ||
The Nimon reveal that to be freed, they require a device called the [[psyionic oscillator]]; a horned goblet that Grayle cannot find. Lucy reveals that she and Martin were thieves, and that they had used their marriage as a ruse to steal Grayle's fortune. Grayle runs back to the house and captures Lucy's father, who had made away with the oscillator. Meanwhile in the lair, the Doctor realises the entrapped Nimon's plan and escapes to the TARDIS with Charley, Lucy and her father, while Grayle finds the oscillator and frees the Nimon. Grayle manages to get inside and the Doctor seemingly sacrifices himself by flinging himself and the Nimon into the time vortex. Grayle continues his plan, but Lucy delivers a message that the Doctor had whispered to her to Charley: '[[Fast return switch]], three times fast.' Knowing what to do, Charley instructs Lucy to distract Grayle. | The Nimon reveal that in order for them to be truly freed, they require a device called the [[psyionic oscillator]]; a horned goblet that Grayle cannot find. Lucy reveals that she and Martin were thieves, and that they had used their marriage as a ruse to steal Grayle's fortune. Grayle runs back to the house and captures Lucy's father, who had made away with the oscillator. Meanwhile in the lair, the Doctor realises the entrapped Nimon's plan and escapes to the TARDIS with Charley, Lucy and her father, while Grayle finds the oscillator and frees the Nimon. Grayle manages to get inside and the Doctor seemingly sacrifices himself by flinging himself and the Nimon into the time vortex. Grayle continues his plan, but Lucy delivers a message that the Doctor had whispered to her to Charley: '[[Fast return switch]], three times fast.' Knowing what to do, Charley instructs Lucy to distract Grayle. | ||
The Doctor is flung via the time vortex into the 3rd century again, telling the same Roman cult that he and Charley met earlier that the demon bulls of [[Mithras]] that they had sworn to destroy would be arriving shortly, and to prepare for battle. He then finds Graylisle again, and discovers that all the man really wanted was money for an inheritance, so that he could marry his beloved Julia. Sympathetic, the Doctor provides him with one. The TARDIS then arrives and Grayle steps out, confronting the Doctor and his past self. The Nimon arrive soon after, but are immediately killed by the Romans after the Doctor provided them with weapons able to harm the aliens. Grayle attempts to kill the Doctor but Graylisle strikes first and kills his alternate self, disgusted at he had become. | The Doctor is flung via the time vortex into the 3rd century again, telling the same Roman cult that he and Charley met earlier that the demon bulls of [[Mithras]] that they had sworn to destroy would be arriving shortly, and to prepare for battle. He then finds Graylisle again, and discovers that all the man really wanted was money for an inheritance, so that he could marry his beloved Julia. Sympathetic, the Doctor provides him with one. The TARDIS then arrives and Grayle steps out, confronting the Doctor and his past self. The Nimon arrive soon after, but are immediately killed by the Romans after the Doctor provided them with weapons able to harm the aliens. Grayle attempts to kill the Doctor but Graylisle strikes first and kills his alternate self, disgusted at he had become. | ||
