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As the second day comes around, Professor Karac's assistant offers evidence against Peri, and the judge calls a recess until the next day. The Doctor gets the assistant's permission to check out the lab, where he and the professor had been working on quantum flux technology. The Doctor finds the [[murder]] weapon in the lab and comes up with a plan. | As the second day comes around, Professor Karac's assistant offers evidence against Peri, and the judge calls a recess until the next day. The Doctor gets the assistant's permission to check out the lab, where he and the professor had been working on quantum flux technology. The Doctor finds the [[murder]] weapon in the lab and comes up with a plan. | ||
The next day in court, the Doctor pulls out the gun and aims at Peri, explaining that it is tagged with a genetic signature which the bullet uses to find the target when fired. He also explains that this was why the professor's assistant was behind Peri: so that he could fire through her at the professor and make it look like she, being the one with the gun, had done it. He then tells the assistant how he is currently wearing a cat brooch doused in chronal energy and with a drop of his blood on it, meaning that if he fires, the bullet will kill him, not Peri. Under huge pressure, the assistant confesses and is taken away. As Peri and the Doctor leave, the Doctor explains that the gun wouldn't have | The next day in court, the Doctor pulls out the gun and aims at Peri, explaining that it is tagged with a genetic signature which the bullet uses to find the target when fired. He also explains that this was why the professor's assistant was behind Peri: so that he could fire through her at the professor and make it look like she, being the one with the gun, had done it. He then tells the assistant how he is currently wearing a cat brooch doused in chronal energy and with a drop of his blood on it, meaning that if he fires, the bullet will kill him, not Peri. Under huge pressure, the assistant confesses and is taken away. As Peri and the Doctor leave, the Doctor explains that the gun wouldn't have worked, and that he was bluffing, a bluff which the assistant fell for. | ||
Back in the museum, the Doctor speaks through a camera to the mysterious onlooker, who says he and the Doctor have much in common, except for the obvious, and that he should have left him in the [[Crucible]]. The Doctor challenges him to come out, holding up an umbrella and remembering his [[Seventh Doctor|seventh incarnation]]. | Back in the museum, the Doctor speaks through a camera to the mysterious onlooker, who says he and the Doctor have much in common, except for the obvious, and that he should have left him in the [[Crucible]]. The Doctor challenges him to come out, holding up an umbrella and remembering his [[Seventh Doctor|seventh incarnation]]. | ||
