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Zaroff managed to find a spot on the seabed where the Earth's crust was only fifteen miles thick. In order to drill the hole, he planned to activate his nuclear reactor, and when the desired figure was reached, fission would take place. In order to stop him, the Doctor first attempted to kidnap Zaroff, but he escaped by feigning illness, spearing the Atlantean priest Ramo to death when Ramo tried to help him, and kidnapping Polly. While Jamie was able to rescue Polly before any harm came to her, Zaroff managed to elude capture and found [[King]] [[Thous]], the ruler of Atlantis. By this point, Thous had come to realise that Zaroff was insane, but when he and his guards tried to stop Zaroff and shut down his project, Zaroff shot Thous with a pistol, and his guards killed Thous' guards. | Zaroff managed to find a spot on the seabed where the Earth's crust was only fifteen miles thick. In order to drill the hole, he planned to activate his nuclear reactor, and when the desired figure was reached, fission would take place. In order to stop him, the Doctor first attempted to kidnap Zaroff, but he escaped by feigning illness, spearing the Atlantean priest Ramo to death when Ramo tried to help him, and kidnapping Polly. While Jamie was able to rescue Polly before any harm came to her, Zaroff managed to elude capture and found [[King]] [[Thous]], the ruler of Atlantis. By this point, Thous had come to realise that Zaroff was insane, but when he and his guards tried to stop Zaroff and shut down his project, Zaroff shot Thous with a pistol, and his guards killed Thous' guards. | ||
With his initial plan derailed, the Doctor decided that the only way to stop Zaroff would be to evacuate the lower levels of Atlantis and flood them, submerging both the temple and Zaroff's laboratory. He and [[Ben | With his initial plan derailed, the Doctor decided that the only way to stop Zaroff would be to evacuate the lower levels of Atlantis and flood them, submerging both the temple and Zaroff's laboratory. He and [[Ben]] infiltrated the generator station, increased the reactor power and broke down the sea walls separating Atlantis from the ocean outside. Meanwhile, the Fish People were convinced to start a revolution, which cut off Atlantis' ability to renew its perishable food supplies. Panicked, Zaroff's workers deserted their posts, but even this was not enough to stop Zaroff's experiment. The floodwaters eventually frightened away even the guards in his laboratory, so Zaroff sealed his console off from the rest of the lab with a transparent screen. The Doctor managed to switch off the power to his laboratory, but Zaroff was still confident that he could carry out his plan. What he did not count on was a temple priest hiding behind his console with a knife. Zaroff was forced to raise his screen in order to get to his gun and kill the priest; this gave the Doctor the opportunity to fiddle with Zaroff's console, changing the settings and buying time for the seawater to flood in. While the Doctor and Ben escaped the lab, Zaroff was trapped in it, and when the seawater flooded his laboratory, he was drowned. . ([[DW]]: ''[[The Underwater Menace]]'') | ||
:''In the novelisation, he is given the first name of Hermann.'' | :''In the novelisation, he is given the first name of Hermann.'' | ||
