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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
[[file:TSP_0-01.jpg|thumb|Dervish (l) and Caven]] | [[file:TSP_0-01.jpg|thumb|Dervish (l) and Caven]] | ||
===Episode | ===Episode One=== | ||
Space beacons on the space lanes are being blown up and plundered for precious argonite by a gang of space pirates led by Caven, and his associate Dervish. The Earth Space Corps cruiser V-41 notices the destruction of the beacon and, with General Hermack and Major Warne in charge, sets out to apprehend the pirates. Another beacon is destroyed despite their best intentions, and the fragments are stolen using rocket propulsion. Hermack deploys troops to all nearby Beacons to prevent another robbery. | Space beacons on the space lanes are being blown up and plundered for precious argonite by a gang of space pirates led by Caven, and his associate Dervish. The Earth Space Corps cruiser V-41 notices the destruction of the beacon and, with General Hermack and Major Warne in charge, sets out to apprehend the pirates. Another beacon is destroyed despite their best intentions, and the fragments are stolen using rocket propulsion. Hermack deploys troops to all nearby Beacons to prevent another robbery. | ||
[[file:ZoeOverShoulderSP2.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor considers the dangerous position he, Jamie and Zoe are in onboard a segment of Beacon Alpha Four]] | [[file:ZoeOverShoulderSP2.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor considers the dangerous position he, Jamie and Zoe are in onboard a segment of Beacon Alpha Four]] | ||
The TARDIS crew has arrived on Beacon Alpha Four shortly before the pirates reach it. Caven and his men mop up the security force on the Beacon, and the pirates seal the time travellers in part of the Beacon before blowing it to pieces. | The TARDIS crew has arrived on Beacon Alpha Four shortly before the pirates reach it. Caven and his men mop up the security force on the Beacon, and the pirates seal the time travellers in part of the Beacon before blowing it to pieces. | ||
===Episode | ===Episode Two=== | ||
Fortunately the beacon falls into discrete, sealed pieces and the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find themselves inside one. The Doctor attempts to use the compartment's magnetics to attract the next segment, but sends their segment hurdling off into space instead. | Fortunately the beacon falls into discrete, sealed pieces and the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find themselves inside one. The Doctor attempts to use the compartment's magnetics to attract the next segment, but sends their segment hurdling off into space instead. | ||
The eccentric Milo Clancey, in his aged ship the LIZ-79, is discovered in the vicinity by the V-41 crew. | The eccentric Milo Clancey, in his aged ship the LIZ-79, is discovered in the vicinity by the V-41 crew. Clancey is brought onboard by General Hermack, questioned, and released (although Major Warne disapproves). Hermack explains that he suspects Clancey and places his spacecraft under observation. | ||
The nearest inhabited world is Ta, dominated by the Issigri Mining Corporation, whose leader is Madeleine Issigri. The firm was founded by her father and Clancey, and the latter is now suspected of Dom Issigri’s murder although nothing has been proved. Hermack visits Ta, believing that Clancey, whom he suspects of being the pirate leader, will end up there in due course. | The nearest inhabited world is Ta, dominated by the Issigri Mining Corporation, whose leader is Madeleine Issigri. The firm was founded by her father and Clancey, and the latter is now suspected of Dom Issigri’s murder although nothing has been proved. Hermack visits Ta, believing that Clancey, whom he suspects of being the pirate leader, will end up there in due course. | ||
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Meanwhile, Clancey has found the segment with the TARDIS crew and upon entering, shoots Jamie! | Meanwhile, Clancey has found the segment with the TARDIS crew and upon entering, shoots Jamie! | ||
===Episode | ===Episode Three=== | ||
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Clancy has just stunned Jamie: he rescues them from the station segment, deploying copper needles which immobilise Major Warne's ship. Zoe works out where the space pirates went: The planet Ta where Clancy wishes to hide under the nose of Madeline Issigri. Pirate leader Craven orders his subordinate Dervish to route the space station segments to Lobos, where Clancy's headquarters is located, to throw suspicion on him. Once on Ta The Doctor, Jamie & Zoe leave the ship but are chased by pirate guards and end up falling down a chasm.</p> | |||
===Episode Four=== | |||
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The Tardis crew find the injured Lt Zorba, seized from station Alpha 4. General Hermack retrieves Major Warne and they pursue a Beta Dart used by the pirates. The Doctor opens the audio lock on the door of the cell they fell into. They find Clancy and escape to Madeline Issigri's office telling her of the pirates on Ta but when Caven enters killing Sorba they realise she's in league with them.</p> | |||
===Episode Five=== | |||
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The Doctor, his friends and Clancy are flung into an old fashioned study by Caven. Inside they find Dom Issigri, Madeline's Father who Caven has been holding prisoner. Caven sabotages Clancy's ship and fits it with a remote control device. Madeline Issigri, finding that Caven intends to kill the prisoners, calls General Hermack for help with dealing with the pirates, but Caven coerces her into keeping quiet when he reveals he has her Father. The Doctor, Clancy & Dom Issigri and Jamie & Zoe escape, but the Doctor is separated from his friends and is caught in the blast as Clancy takes off.</p> | |||
===Episode Six=== | |||
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Jamie & Zoe escape their guards and find the Doctor. Milo Clancy and Dom Issigri are trapped on Clancy's ship which is out of their control and a diminishing oxygen supply. Caven has Dervish booby trap the Issigri base by setting demolition charges in the atomic fuel store before they leave. The Doctor reactivates the Oxygen supply on Clancy's ship and instructs Clancy in how to disconnect the remote control. Reaching a safe distance the pirates send the signal to detonate the explosives but the Doctor has successfully removed the detonator preventing an explosion. Major Warne in a Minnow tracks the pirates Beta Dart and destroys it. Madeline is taken to Earth to stand trial in her part in proceedings while Milo Clancy offers to take the Doctor, Jamie & Zoe to Lobos to retrieve the orbiting space station fragment containing the Tardis.</p> | |||
==Cast== | ==Cast== | ||
