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** Knox mentions not having recovered from [[[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho060MedicinalPurposes the virus]] he contracted in Edinburgh.

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** Knox mentions not having recovered from [[[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho060MedicinalPurposes [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho060MedicinalPurposes the virus]] he contracted in Edinburgh.

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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The Doctor calls Knox a meddler. Then a misanthrope. A miscreant. A murderer.


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* AlliterativeList: The Doctor calls Knox a meddler. Then a misanthrope. A miscreant. A murderer.
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* HereWeGoAgain: Knox returns, of course, this time posing as Sir ArthurConanDoyle.

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* HereWeGoAgain: Knox returns, of course, this time posing as Sir ArthurConanDoyle.Creator/ArthurConanDoyle.

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* GambitPileup: Both from the actual historical figures and from the time/space travellers.



* ThirtyGambitPileup: Both from the actual historical figures and from the time/space travellers.
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** The Doctor mentions again he [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks saw the charge of the Light brigade in the Crimean war]].
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* CruelButUnusualPunishment: Knox arranges it so that the Doctor could potentially end up trapped listening to the Can Can until he dies of old age.

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* CruelButUnusualPunishment: CruelMercy: Knox arranges it so that the Doctor could potentially end up trapped listening to the Can Can until he dies of old age.
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* BatmanGambit: Knox pulls one on the Doctor. He makes the Doctor think it's a ThanatosGambit though.


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* CruelButUnusualPunishment: Knox arranges it so that the Doctor could potentially end up trapped listening to the Can Can until he dies of old age.
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* DemonicPossession: The Indo jumps from host to host.
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* EnergyBeing: The Indo.
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** Knox mentions not having recovered from [[[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho060MedicinalPurposes the virus]] he contracted in Edinburgh.
* DealWithTheDevil: Knox makes one with the Indo.
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** Knox's TARDIS has a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E3TheEdgeOfDestruction Fast return switch]] as well.
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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The Doctor calls Knox a meddler. Then a misanthrope. A miscreant. A murderer.


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* CallBack: The Doctor calls Knox a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E9TheTimeMeddler meddler]], the Time Meddler being someone who purposefully mucked up time.
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* SmugSnake: Knox ever so much.
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* HistoricalInjoke: When Knox arranges that John Wilkes Boothe dies before he can assassinate Abraham Lincoln, so that Lincoln will achieve things later presidents would (Such as Lincoln's "Ich bin ein Berliner."
* RubberBandHistory: The Doctor claims that the removal of one person won't do much, and time will try to patch things up, akin to HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct.
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* TheBusCameBack: Doctor Knox returns after last having fled with his tails in between his legs from [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho060MedicinalPurposes Medicinal purposes]].
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* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler: Knox returns, of course, this time posing as Sir ArthurConanDoyle]].

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* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler: HereWeGoAgain: Knox returns, of course, this time posing as Sir ArthurConanDoyle]].ArthurConanDoyle.
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The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn arrive on Friday, April 14, 1865, and realise they're about to witness the assassination of UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln. Joining them for the occasion is Creator/OscarWilde, which rather disturbs the Doctor, since Wilde is supposed to be just a young boy in 1865. As it turns out, "Wilde" is the Doctor's old enemy [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho060MedicinalPurposes Knox]], who's taken to impersonating famous playwrights and cashing in on their writing. Before Six and Evelyn can chew him out for upsetting history (and for [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho060MedicinalPurposes surviving]] the power of DavidTennant's hugs against all odds), John Wilkes Booth unceremoniously drops dead.

Since that was ''really'' not supposed to happen, the Doctor and Evelyn suddenly find themselves involved in a rather intricate plot involving nearly every witness involved in the assassination. It's not long before Knox is forced to reveal the true nature of his plan: he did actually die from being cuddled by DavidTennant after all. But he was re-animated by [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho078PierPressure the Indo]], who delighted in the idea of Knox's time-travelling history tours. The only problem: the Indo has plenty of family across time and space who also wanted a go at it. And now Knox has one locked up in the centre of his TARDIS, in a metal cage, that he's trying desperately to get rid of. The old familiar Indo promptly starts killing people and possessing key historical figures, so the Doctor consents to having it occupy his own body and taking off with it in Knox' TARDIS for a bit. The Indo is pleased because it has a Time Lord to possess; the Doctor is pleased because he (of course) immediately tricks and captures the Indo; and Knox is pleased from beyond the grave because, as he tells the Doctor in a recording, he pre-set his TARDIS to trap the Doctor forever on Mercury (while it plays the can-can at him on an eternal loop).

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The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn arrive on Friday, April 14, 1865, and realise they're about to witness the assassination of UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln. Joining them for the occasion is Creator/OscarWilde, which rather disturbs the Doctor, since Wilde is supposed to be just a young boy in 1865. As it turns out, "Wilde" is the Doctor's old enemy [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho060MedicinalPurposes Knox]], who's taken to impersonating famous playwrights and cashing in on their writing. Before Six and Evelyn can chew him out for upsetting history (and for [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho060MedicinalPurposes surviving]] the power of DavidTennant's Creator/DavidTennant's hugs against all odds), John Wilkes Booth unceremoniously drops dead.

Since that was ''really'' not supposed to happen, the Doctor and Evelyn suddenly find themselves involved in a rather intricate plot involving nearly every witness involved in the assassination. It's not long before Knox is forced to reveal the true nature of his plan: he did actually die from being cuddled by DavidTennant Creator/DavidTennant after all. But he was re-animated by [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho078PierPressure the Indo]], who delighted in the idea of Knox's time-travelling history tours. The only problem: the Indo has plenty of family across time and space who also wanted a go at it. And now Knox has one locked up in the centre of his TARDIS, in a metal cage, that he's trying desperately to get rid of. The old familiar Indo promptly starts killing people and possessing key historical figures, so the Doctor consents to having it occupy his own body and taking off with it in Knox' TARDIS for a bit. The Indo is pleased because it has a Time Lord to possess; the Doctor is pleased because he (of course) immediately tricks and captures the Indo; and Knox is pleased from beyond the grave because, as he tells the Doctor in a recording, he pre-set his TARDIS to trap the Doctor forever on Mercury (while it plays the can-can at him on an eternal loop).
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The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn arrive on Friday, April 14, 1865, and realise they're about to witness the assassination of Lincoln. Joining them for the occasion is Oscar Wilde, which rather disturbs the Doctor, since Wilde is supposed to be just a young boy in 1865. As it turns out, "Wilde" is the Doctor's old enemy [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho060MedicinalPurposes Knox]], who's taken to impersonating famous playwrights and cashing in on their writing. Before Six and Evelyn can chew him out for upsetting history (and for [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho060MedicinalPurposes surviving]] the power of DavidTennant's hugs against all odds), John Wilkes Booth unceremoniously drops dead.

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The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn arrive on Friday, April 14, 1865, and realise they're about to witness the assassination of Lincoln. UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln. Joining them for the occasion is Oscar Wilde, Creator/OscarWilde, which rather disturbs the Doctor, since Wilde is supposed to be just a young boy in 1865. As it turns out, "Wilde" is the Doctor's old enemy [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho060MedicinalPurposes Knox]], who's taken to impersonating famous playwrights and cashing in on their writing. Before Six and Evelyn can chew him out for upsetting history (and for [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho060MedicinalPurposes surviving]] the power of DavidTennant's hugs against all odds), John Wilkes Booth unceremoniously drops dead.
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* TheEndOrIsIt?: [[spoiler: Knox returns, of course, this time posing as Sir ArthurConanDoyle]].

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* TheEndOrIsIt?: TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler: Knox returns, of course, this time posing as Sir ArthurConanDoyle]].
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The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn arrive on Friday, April 14, 1865, and realise they're about to witness the assassination of Lincoln. Joining them for the occasion is Oscar Wilde, which rather disturbs the Doctor, since Wilde is supposed to be just a young boy in 1865. As it turns out, "Wilde" is the Doctor's old enemy [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho060MedicinalPurposes Knox]], who's taken to impersonating famous playwrights and cashing in on their writing. Before Six and Evelyn can chew him out for upsetting history (and for [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho060MedicinalPurposes surviving]] the power of DavidTennant's hugs against all odds), John Wilkes Booth unceremoniously drops dead.

Since that was ''really'' not supposed to happen, the Doctor and Evelyn suddenly find themselves involved in a rather intricate plot involving nearly every witness involved in the assassination. It's not long before Knox is forced to reveal the true nature of his plan: he did actually die from being cuddled by DavidTennant after all. But he was re-animated by [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho078PierPressure the Indo]], who delighted in the idea of Knox's time-travelling history tours. The only problem: the Indo has plenty of family across time and space who also wanted a go at it. And now Knox has one locked up in the centre of his TARDIS, in a metal cage, that he's trying desperately to get rid of. The old familiar Indo promptly starts killing people and possessing key historical figures, so the Doctor consents to having it occupy his own body and taking off with it in Knox' TARDIS for a bit. The Indo is pleased because it has a Time Lord to possess; the Doctor is pleased because he (of course) immediately tricks and captures the Indo; and Knox is pleased from beyond the grave because, as he tells the Doctor in a recording, he pre-set his TARDIS to trap the Doctor forever on Mercury (while it plays the can-can at him on an eternal loop).

The Doctor easily escapes, of course -- Knox hadn’t reckoned on him re-setting the TARDIS’s galactic positioning system to read "Mercury’s Southern lava field" as the corner of 8th Street, Washington DC. Also, John Wilkes Booth was just PlayingPossum, being an actual good actor and all. He's now inspired, though, to get a bit more violent in his political leanings and maybe kill a president tonight. The Doctor and Evelyn leave, happy that the Web of Time is still intact.

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!!Tropes:
* AddingInsultToInjury: Knox tricks the Doctor ''and'' has his TARDIS play the can-can at him.
* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Evelyn plants a big kiss on the Doctor.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Knox' Type-70 TARDIS has voice control. And an elevator.
* TheEndOrIsIt?: [[spoiler: Knox returns, of course, this time posing as Sir ArthurConanDoyle]].
* VillainTeamUp: Knox and the Indo.
* ThirtyGambitPileup: Both from the actual historical figures and from the time/space travellers.
* YouWillBeBeethoven: Invoked, but subverted.

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