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* NotSoDifferent: The Doctor rejects the idea that he and Garundel are alike, but Garundel observes that they’re both basically ‘control freaks’ who can only truly rely on themselves.

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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: The Doctor rejects the idea that he and Garundel are alike, but Garundel observes that they’re both basically ‘control freaks’ who can only truly rely on themselves.

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* OutOfCharacterAlert: [[spoiler:Garundel realizes that the Doctor used the Persuasion machine on him when Klein points out that he didn’t strike her as someone willing to go on board an enemy ship (the Doctor later clarifies that this only worked because Garundel’s desire for profit trumped his self-preservation)]].
* PaperThinDisguise: The Doctor has Klein and Will disguise themselves as the Warlords of Zebrevnik, who look human enough that minimal disguise is needed and are far enough away that nobody would have plausibly met them.
* PragmaticVillainy: Garundel and his secretary just consider themselves facilitators as they reason they aren’t the ones firing the weapons.

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* OutOfCharacterAlert: [[spoiler:Garundel realizes that the Doctor used the Persuasion persuasion machine on him when Klein points out that he didn’t strike her as someone willing to go on board onboard an enemy ship (the Doctor later clarifies that this only worked because Garundel’s desire for profit trumped his self-preservation)]].
* PaperThinDisguise: The Doctor has Klein and Will disguise themselves as the Warlords of Zebrevnik, Zebrednik, who look human enough that minimal disguise is needed and are far enough away that nobody would have plausibly met them.
* PragmaticVillainy: Garundel and his secretary just consider themselves facilitators facilitators, as they reason they aren’t the ones firing the weapons.



* WeaksauceWeakness: The Doctor [[spoiler:is able to use Garundel’s Persuasion machine to convince the Sontarans that it’s time for them to recharge]].

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* WeaksauceWeakness: The Doctor [[spoiler:is able to use Garundel’s Persuasion persuasion machine to convince the Sontarans that it’s time for them to recharge]].
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With Kurt Schalk having been captured, the Doctor, Klein and Will track him to an interstellar auction being held by the Doctor’s old ‘acquaintance’, Garundel, which is also attended by the Sontarans.
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*AbsenceOfEvidence: The lack of detail on the persuasion machine in Schalk’s mind [[spoiler:helps the Doctor realise that the Schalk Garudenl has captured is a fake]].
*AdmiringTheAbomination: Will admires the science of the weapons on sale even if he acknowledges the horror of them.
*AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Marshall Sten tears off Garundel’s hand so that the Doctor can release the palm-lock Garundel used to secure the TARDIS door]].
*BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:Schalk made himself Hinterberger]].
*TheBusCameBack: Garundel returns as the man responsible for selling Schalk.
*CallBack:
** The Doctor and Garundel recall how they last met.
** There is a box marked ‘[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines WOTAN]]’ in the TARDIS.
*DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:The fake Kurt Schalk has been dead since Garundel took custody of him]].
*DidntThinkThisThrough: Garundel thought that he could invite races such as the Sontarans to an auction and expect everyone to go along with his rules.
*DisappointedByTheMotive: Will is exasperated to learn that Miss Ziv’s action’s just amount to a desire for money, as he had hoped aliens would be above something so petty.
*EnemyMine:
**The Doctor and Garundel join forces to catch up with Garundel’s stolen ship.
**Later [[spoiler:the Doctor convinces Marshall Sten to help him rescue Klein from Garundel]].
*EvenEvilHasStandards: The Sontarans are practical enough to recognize that they need more weapons than their standard strategies, and intervene to save Klein from the Kraken-Mother as Klein was unprepared for the attack and the Sontarans are interested in future possible conflicts.
*FakeMemories: [[spoiler:Schalk convinced himself and Hinterberger that they were each other]].
*NotSoDifferent: The Doctor rejects the idea that he and Garundel are alike, but Garundel observes that they’re both basically ‘control freaks’ who can only truly rely on themselves.
*OutOfCharacterAlert: [[spoiler:Garundel realizes that the Doctor used the Persuasion machine on him when Klein points out that he didn’t strike her as someone willing to go on board an enemy ship (the Doctor later clarifies that this only worked because Garundel’s desire for profit trumped his self-preservation)]].
*PaperThinDisguise: The Doctor has Klein and Will disguise themselves as the Warlords of Zebrevnik, who look human enough that minimal disguise is needed and are far enough away that nobody would have plausibly met them.
*PragmaticVillainy: Garundel and his secretary just consider themselves facilitators as they reason they aren’t the ones firing the weapons.
*RockBeatsLaser: The Doctor sets up a personal network for a pair of twenty-first century mobile phones so that Klein and Will can talk through the jamming devices around the auction.
*SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Ziv mentions that she likes Will because she doesn’t get to meet many nice people in her line of work.
*WeaksauceWeakness: The Doctor [[spoiler:is able to use Garundel’s Persuasion machine to convince the Sontarans that it’s time for them to recharge]].

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