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* AlienLunch: Though the cuisine is normal for its day, but unfortunately for Mel it's not vegetarian-friendly.
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* AncientRome

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* AncientRomeAncientRome: The Empire, at least, if not the city of Rome itself.



* ChekhovsVolcano: Pompeii.

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* ChekhovsVolcano: Pompeii.Vesuvius.
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* ProngsOfPoseidon: The Doctor is offered a flavour IV in the GladiatorGames.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity

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* FaceDeathWithDignityFaceDeathWithDignity: The Doctor is preoccupied with the idea, and whether he can cheat fate again. Murranus and his gladiator compatriots also do this in their arena, deciding that the shame of fleeing would make living unbearable, so they'll take their chances staying where they are.



** Once the Doctor is able to break out of the DespairEventHorizon, he comes up with a ''really'' complicated plan to weasel out of his fate.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Deliberately. The Doctor and Mel never do find out what happened to the people they befriended in this episode.
* YouCantFightFate: The Fifth Doctor has already seen the aftermath of this adventure and evidence of [[spoiler: the loss of the TARDIS and his own probably death. Eventually [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], as the Seventh Doctor finds a way to [[TrickedOutTime avoid that outcome without causing a paradox]].

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** Once the Doctor is able to break out of the DespairEventHorizon, he comes up with a ''really'' complicated plan to weasel out of his fate.
it. He and Mel get back into the TARDIS, and sit tight for a few days as the lava hardens around them. Then, with a bit of careful piloting, they nip forward to the 1980s without actually moving in space at all. UNIT digs them up, tell the Fifth Doctor... and the Doctor and Mel fly off again as soon as everyone's stopped paying attention.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Deliberately. The Doctor and Mel never do find out what happened to the people they befriended in this episode.episode, and their fates are unknown to the audience too.
* YouCantFightFate: The Fifth Doctor has already seen Why the aftermath of Doctor's in such a sombre mood for this adventure and evidence of [[spoiler: the loss of one. Way back in his fifth body, he discovered the TARDIS had been dug up from the ruins of Pompeii and his own probably death.was forced to assume that meant he was dead or trapped in the past. Eventually [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], as the Seventh Doctor finds a way to [[TrickedOutTime avoid that outcome without causing a paradox]].

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* CharacterDevelopment: Mel claims to have never seen the Doctor this sombre and brooding before, and indeed this is chronologically one of the first times the Doctor's later, more grave personality comes to the fore.



* TheQueensLatin: Subverted, actual Latin is used in the story.

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* TheQueensLatin: Subverted, actual Latin is used in All the story.Roman characters speak in very old-fashioned and proper English, compared to the Doctor and Mel's more colloquial speech.

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* BookEnds: The adventure starts and ends at the same archaelogical dig.

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* BookEnds: The adventure starts and ends at the same archaelogical dig.archaeological dig.
* TheCameo: The UNIT Captain in the 1980s framing sequences is Muriel Frost, who appeared in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comics a few times.

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* FridgeLogic: It takes the Doctor three episodes to think of the solution that the listener may well come up with immediately. He is under a lot of pressure, though.



* HarsherInHindsight: In the light of the Tenth Doctor story 'Fires of Pompeii', the Seventh's line about the volcano being nothing to do with him comes over a lot differently.


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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Deliberately. The Doctor and Mel never do find out what happened to the people they befriended in this episode.
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Meanwhile, the Doctor is acting oddly melancholy, and spends more time in the local tavern than out adventuring. When the city's constant earthquakes cause the TARDIS to sink into the ground, he finally tells Mel what's going on: in 1980, when he was in his Fifth regeneration, UNIT told him that the TARDIS had been excavated in Pompeii. He'd refused to even see her and couldn't cope with the idea, so he'd decided to deal with it when the time came. And now, as soon as the TARDIS brought him to Pompeii, he'd realised that this was the end for him -- even if he'd find a way to prevent it, him surviving Pompeii would cause a time paradox. Because if he'd be able to retrieve the TARDIS, the TARDIS would never end up being excavated, and the Doctor wouldn't have known that he needed to retrieve the TARDIS in time.

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Meanwhile, the Doctor is acting oddly melancholy, and spends more time in the local tavern than out adventuring. When the city's constant earthquakes cause the TARDIS to sink into the ground, he finally tells Mel what's going on: in 1980, when he was in his Fifth regeneration, incarnation, UNIT told him that the TARDIS had been excavated in Pompeii. He'd refused to even see her and couldn't cope with the idea, so he'd decided to deal with it when the time came. And now, as soon as the TARDIS brought him to Pompeii, he'd realised that this was the end for him -- even if he'd find a way to prevent it, him surviving Pompeii would cause a time paradox. Because if he'd be able to retrieve the TARDIS, the TARDIS would never end up being excavated, and the Doctor wouldn't have known that he needed to retrieve the TARDIS in time.
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* AncientTomb: [[spoiler: The TARDIS is hidden in one]].

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* AncientTomb: [[spoiler: The TARDIS is hidden in one]].one.



* DespairEventHorizon: When the Doctor realizes he's reached the site of his last flight, he gives up on escape completely. Only after he realizes that [[spoiler: the TARDIS can't be buried where he parked it because it's in the wrong part of the city]] does he perk back up.

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* DespairEventHorizon: When the Doctor realizes he's reached the site of his last flight, he gives up on escape completely. Only after he realizes that [[spoiler: the TARDIS can't be buried where he parked it because it's in the wrong part of the city]] city does he perk back up.



* FixingTheGame: Murranus is using loaded dice to attempt to cheat the Doctor. According to the Doctor this just changes the contest from gambling to dexterity, to see who can toss the dice more skillfully. [[spoiler: It's not Murranus.]]

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* FixingTheGame: Murranus is using loaded dice to attempt to cheat the Doctor. According to the Doctor this just changes the contest from gambling to dexterity, to see who can toss the dice more skillfully. [[spoiler: It's not Murranus.]]



* LostHimInACardGame: The Doctor puts up Mel as stakes in a card game, but [[spoiler: wins]].
* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: The Doctor's theory when playing dice against Murranus, who was also cheating. [[spoiler: By extension, it's also how he gets out of the time paradox.]]

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* LostHimInACardGame: The Doctor puts up Mel as stakes in a card game, but [[spoiler: wins]].
wins.
* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: The Doctor's theory when playing dice against Murranus, who was also cheating. [[spoiler: By extension, it's also how he gets out of the time paradox.]]



* TrappedInThePast: The Doctor knows [[spoiler: the TARDIS will be unearthed at Pompeii, leaving him stuck in ancient Rome]]. Well, [[spoiler: or not]].
* TrickedOutTime: The Doctor tries this right out of the gate, asking Mel if she'd like to leave as soon as they arrive. [[spoiler: Since her decision wouldn't be based on knowledge of the future, there wouldn't be a time paradox and the Doctor could postpone this particular reckoning. Unfortunately, it doesn't work; Mel decides it won't hurt to look around ...

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* TrappedInThePast: The Doctor knows [[spoiler: the TARDIS will be unearthed at Pompeii, leaving him stuck in ancient Rome]]. Rome. Well, [[spoiler: or not]].
not.
* TrickedOutTime: The Doctor tries this right out of the gate, asking Mel if she'd like to leave as soon as they arrive. [[spoiler: Since her decision wouldn't be based on knowledge of the future, there wouldn't be a time paradox and the Doctor could postpone this particular reckoning. Unfortunately, it doesn't work; Mel decides it won't hurt to look around ...



* YouCantFightFate: The Fifth Doctor has already seen the aftermath of this adventure and evidence of [[spoiler: the loss of the TARDIS and his own probably death]]. Eventually [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], as the Seventh Doctor finds a way to [[TrickedOutTime avoid that outcome without causing a paradox]].

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* YouCantFightFate: The Fifth Doctor has already seen the aftermath of this adventure and evidence of [[spoiler: the loss of the TARDIS and his own probably death]].death. Eventually [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], as the Seventh Doctor finds a way to [[TrickedOutTime avoid that outcome without causing a paradox]].

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* FaceDeathWithDignity



* FixingTheGame: Murranus is using loaded dice to attempt to cheat the Doctor. According to the Doctor this just changes the contest from gambling to dexterity, to see who can toss the dice more skillfully. [[spoiler: It's not Murranus.]]



* FaceDeathWithDignity
* FixingTheGame: Murranus is using loaded dice to attempt to cheat the Doctor. According to the Doctor this just changes the contest from gambling to dexterity, to see who can toss the dice more skillfully. [[spoiler: It's not Murranus.]]

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* FaceDeathWithDignity
* FixingTheGame: Murranus is using loaded dice to attempt to cheat the Doctor. According to
FridgeLogic: It takes the Doctor this just changes three episodes to think of the contest from gambling to dexterity, to see who can toss solution that the dice more skillfully. [[spoiler: It's not Murranus.]]listener may well come up with immediately. He is under a lot of pressure, though.
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* [[spoiler: AncientTomb]]: [[spoiler: The TARDIS is hidden in one]].

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* [[spoiler: AncientTomb]]: AncientTomb: [[spoiler: The TARDIS is hidden in one]].



* ChangedMyJumper: Mel's clothing is conspicuous enough to require changing, but the Doctor's apparently isn't. (Mel [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade on it, but the Doctor [[HandWave ignores it]].)

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* ChangedMyJumper: Mel's clothing is conspicuous enough to require changing, but the Doctor's apparently isn't. (Mel [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade lampshade]] on it, but the Doctor [[HandWave ignores it]].)



* [[spoiler: SlippingAMickey]]: Murranus has Valeria offer the Doctor drugged wine so that he can kidnap him and take him to the amphitheater.

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* [[spoiler: SlippingAMickey]]: SlippingAMickey: Murranus has Valeria offer the Doctor drugged wine so that he can kidnap him and take him to the amphitheater.

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* ActualPacifist: The Doctor.
* AlienLunch: Though the cuisine is normal for it's day, Mel doesn't like it.

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* ActualPacifist: The Doctor.
Doctor. He's unwilling to fight Murranus no matter how much is at stake.
* AlienLunch: Though the cuisine is normal for its day, but unfortunately for Mel it's day, Mel doesn't like it. not vegetarian-friendly.



* [[spoiler: AncientTomb]]: [[spoiler: The Tardis is hidden in one]].
* AristocratsAreEvil: Well, they're complete dicks.
* BlasphemousBoast: Though no one is really boasting, Isis worship is frowned upon because she's a "Foreign God".
* [[BoltOfDivineRetribution Rocks Of Divine Retribution]]
* BookEnds: The Adventure starts and ends at the same archelogical dig.
* CassandraTruth
* ChangedMyJumper: Mel's clothing is conspicuous enough to require changing but the Doctor's is not, apparently.

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* [[spoiler: AncientTomb]]: [[spoiler: The Tardis TARDIS is hidden in one]].
* AristocratsAreEvil: Well, they're complete dicks.
dicks, anyway.
* BlasphemousBoast: Though no one is really boasting, Isis worship is frowned upon because she's a "Foreign God".
"foreign god."
* [[BoltOfDivineRetribution Rocks Of Divine Retribution]]
Retribution]]: In the minds of the superstitious Romans, at least.
* BookEnds: The Adventure adventure starts and ends at the same archelogical archaelogical dig.
* CassandraTruth
CassandraTruth: Mel, and eventually the Doctor, warn virtually everyone they come across. Very, very few believe it.
* ChangedMyJumper: Mel's clothing is conspicuous enough to require changing changing, but the Doctor's is not, apparently.apparently isn't. (Mel [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade on it, but the Doctor [[HandWave ignores it]].)



* DontCallMeSir: The Doctor is rather unconformable with being called "master" by the slave Aglae, probably because of that aforementioned old friend of his.

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* DespairEventHorizon: When the Doctor realizes he's reached the site of his last flight, he gives up on escape completely. Only after he realizes that [[spoiler: the TARDIS can't be buried where he parked it because it's in the wrong part of the city]] does he perk back up.
* DontCallMeSir: The Doctor is rather unconformable uncomfortable with being called "master" by the slave Aglae, probably because of that aforementioned old friend of his.



* FixingTheGame

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* FixingTheGameFixingTheGame: Murranus is using loaded dice to attempt to cheat the Doctor. According to the Doctor this just changes the contest from gambling to dexterity, to see who can toss the dice more skillfully. [[spoiler: It's not Murranus.]]



* HairTriggerTemper: The Gladiators

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* HairTriggerTemper: The GladiatorsGladiators.



* HonorBeforeReason[=/=]RevengeBeforeReason: The Doctor slighted Murranus'.

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* HonorBeforeReason[=/=]RevengeBeforeReason: The Doctor slighted Murranus'.Murranus' honor (in Murranus's mind, anyway) and must die.



* IsItSomethingYouEat: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. When Mel says she's a vegetarian, the question is "Where is that?".
* [[spoiler: LostHimInACardGame]]: Well it doesn't ''quite'' happen.
* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: The Doctor's theory when playing dice against Murranus, who was also cheating.
* OhMyGods: Well they ''are'' [[JustifiedTrope in the Roman nation]].

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* IsItSomethingYouEat: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. When Mel says she's a vegetarian, the question is "Where is that?".
that?"
* LostHimInACardGame: The Doctor puts up Mel as stakes in a card game, but [[spoiler: LostHimInACardGame]]: Well it doesn't ''quite'' happen.
wins]].
* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: The Doctor's theory when playing dice against Murranus, who was also cheating.
cheating. [[spoiler: By extension, it's also how he gets out of the time paradox.]]
* OhMyGods: Well they ''are'' [[JustifiedTrope in the Roman nation]].Empire]].



* TheTrickster: As he's known for, Seven gets an InUniverse reputation as one.
* TheQueensLatin: Subverted, there is actual Latin used in the story.
* TrappedInThePast
* [[spoiler: TrickedOutTime]]
* YouCantFightFate
** [[spoiler: SubvertedTrope]]

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* TheTrickster: As he's known for, He's already a GuileHero, but Seven gets an InUniverse reputation as one.
one here.
* TheQueensLatin: Subverted, there is actual Latin is used in the story.
* TrappedInThePast
*
TrappedInThePast: The Doctor knows [[spoiler: TrickedOutTime]]
* YouCantFightFate
**
the TARDIS will be unearthed at Pompeii, leaving him stuck in ancient Rome]]. Well, [[spoiler: SubvertedTrope]]or not]].
* TrickedOutTime: The Doctor tries this right out of the gate, asking Mel if she'd like to leave as soon as they arrive. [[spoiler: Since her decision wouldn't be based on knowledge of the future, there wouldn't be a time paradox and the Doctor could postpone this particular reckoning. Unfortunately, it doesn't work; Mel decides it won't hurt to look around ...
** Once the Doctor is able to break out of the DespairEventHorizon, he comes up with a ''really'' complicated plan to weasel out of his fate.
* YouCantFightFate: The Fifth Doctor has already seen the aftermath of this adventure and evidence of [[spoiler: the loss of the TARDIS and his own probably death]]. Eventually [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], as the Seventh Doctor finds a way to [[TrickedOutTime avoid that outcome without causing a paradox]].

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* ChekhovsVolcano: [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Pompeii]].

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* ChekhovsVolcano: [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Pompeii]].Pompeii.
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* IsItSomethingYouEat: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. When Mel says she's a Vegitarian, the question is "Where is that?".

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* IsItSomethingYouEat: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. When Mel says she's a Vegitarian, vegetarian, the question is "Where is that?".
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* HarsherInHindsight: In the light of the Tenth Doctor story 'Fires of Pompeii', the Seventh's line about the volcano being nothing to do with him comes over a lot differently.

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* DontCallMeSir: The Doctor is rather unconformable with being called "master" by the slave Aglae, probably because of that aforementioned old friend of his.



* HonorBeforeReason / RevengeBeforeReason: The Doctor slighted Murranus'.

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* HonorBeforeReason / RevengeBeforeReason: HonorBeforeReason[=/=]RevengeBeforeReason: The Doctor slighted Murranus'.



** [[spoiler: SubvertedTrope]]

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** [[spoiler: SubvertedTrope]]SubvertedTrope]]
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* ActualPacifist: The Doctor

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* ActualPacifist: The DoctorDoctor.



* BlasphemousBoast: Though no one is really boasting, Isis worship is frowned upon because she's a "Foreign God"

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* BlasphemousBoast: Though no one is really boasting, Isis worship is frowned upon because she's a "Foreign God"God".



* ChekhovsVolcano: [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Pompei]]
* CompellingVoice: The Doctor talks two people into sleeping, a bit like [[TheMaster an old friend of his..]]

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* ChekhovsVolcano: [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Pompei]]
Pompeii]].
* CompellingVoice: The Doctor talks two people into sleeping, a bit like [[TheMaster an old friend of his..his...]]



* HonorBeforeReason / RevengeBeforeReason: The Doctor slighted Murranus'

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* HonorBeforeReason / RevengeBeforeReason: The Doctor slighted Murranus'Murranus'.



* IsItSomethingYouEat: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. When Mel says she's a Vegitarian, the question is "Where is that?"

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* IsItSomethingYouEat: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. When Mel says she's a Vegitarian, the question is "Where is that?"that?".



* ProngsOfPoseidon: The Doctor is offered a flavour IV in the GladiatorGames

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* ProngsOfPoseidon: The Doctor is offered a flavour IV in the GladiatorGamesGladiatorGames.
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* HapinessInSlavery: Well not entirely happy but Tiberus and some of the slaves refuse to leave their mistress.

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* HapinessInSlavery: HappinessInSlavery: Well not entirely happy but Tiberus and some of the slaves refuse to leave their mistress.
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* BookEnds: The Adventure starts and ends at the same archelogical dig.
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* HapinessInSlavery: Well not entirely happy but Tiberus and some of the slaves refuse to leave their mistress.
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* [[BoltOfDivineRetribution Rocks Of Divine Retribution]]
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* [[spoiler: AncientTomb]]: [[spoiler: The Tardis is hidden in one]].
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Well complete dicks.

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* AristocratsAreEvil: Well Well, they're complete dicks.
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* SlippingAMickey: Murranus has Valeria offer the Doctor drugged wine so that he can kidnap him and take him to the amphitheater.

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* SlippingAMickey: [[spoiler: SlippingAMickey]]: Murranus has Valeria offer the Doctor drugged wine so that he can kidnap him and take him to the amphitheater.

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