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8	This episode, written by Creator/TrevorBaxendale, takes place in the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' canon rather than the Creator/BigFinish timeline. It takes place immediately after [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho013TheShadowOfTheScourge "The Shadow Of The Scourge"]], between the novels [[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresAllConsumingFire "All-Consuming Fire"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresBloodHarvest "Blood Harvest"]].
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12	The Seventh Doctor and Ace visit Franchise/BerniceSummerfield at a physics lab, where she was dropped off to meet an old friend. Since the guy never showed up, Bernice has mostly spent her time at the lab being bored and helping out with garbage disposal.
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14	The Doctor catches up with an old friend named Remnex, who immediately proceeds to get brutally murdered, and [[StableTimeLoop sends a distress signal back in time to the Doctor on his way there]]. Bernice, meanwhile, gets thrown down the garbage chute and ends up on the hellish planet below, where her lost friend (who was kidnapped and forced to do some emergency archaeology) ''also'' gets brutally murdered. His robot buddy Joseph, though, survives -- albeit with a bit of HeroicBSOD at losing the man who programmed him.
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16	The whole thing turns out to have been engineered by an EldritchAbomination intent on destroying the known universe with the lab's physics experiments. He's spent quite a number of centuries surviving by means of BodySurf (and with the help of a nice big interstellar {{Cult}}). He effortlessly takes over Remnex' body and starts hypnotising people left and right, including Benny. With his original skull now having been excavated, he's about to use the Dark Flame to subdue all life and become a God-King. He also plans to [[{{Squick}} use Benny's body as his next]].
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18	While Ace threatens to go suicide bombing, tries to snap Benny out of hypnotism and fights off animated skeletons with the Doctor's umbrella, the Doctor fuses Joseph's circuits to the MacGuffin (with Joseph making a HeroicSacrifice in the process). When the EldritchAbomination decides to engage in the BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind with the Doctor, his MindRape fails rather spectacularly, and the Doctor -- granted momentary RealityWarper powers -- manages to fashion the whole thing into a rather more positive CloseEnoughTimeline.
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20	!!Tropes!
21	%%* AlasPoorYorick
22	%%* AlmostDeadGuy
23	* AndIMustScream: The Doctor describes MindControl this way.
24	%%* AndThenWhat
25	%%* ApocalypseHow: Class X-4.
26	* BackFromTheDead: The cult of the Dark Flame is dedicated to bring their master back to life.
27	%%* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind
28	%%* BeneathTheEarth
29	%%* BetterToDieThanBeKilled
30	%%* BodySurf
31	%%* TheButlerDidIt
32	* CallBack: Black Light first made a TV appearance in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E1TheMysteriousPlanet The Mysterious Planet]].
33	** And this little gem:
34	--> '''Bernice''': "When I say run, run."
35	* CaptainErsatz: Joseph seems to have the mannerisms of [[Franchise/StarWars C3PO]].
36	* TheChessmaster: Seven, as per usual.
37	* CompellingVoice: The Doctor uses his to force Ace to sleep.
38	** Vilus Krull has one as well.
39	* ContinuityNod: Ogrons are namedropped.
40	%%* CranialProcessingUnit
41	%%* CueTheSun
42	%%* {{Cult}}
43	%%* CurseCutShort
44	%%* DeadpanSnarker: Bernice, oh so much.
45	%%* DemBones
46	%%* DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu
47	%%* EnergyBeings
48	%%* EyeScream / GoForTheEye
49	%%* ForTheEvulz
50	* HeroicSacrifice: Joseph makes one (though the Doctor promises he'll try to fix him up). Ace also wouldn't mind making one.
51	* HypocriticalHumor: The Doctor doesn't trust people who hide behind titles.
52	%%* JustBetweenYouAndMe
53	* JustOneSecondOutOfSync: A crystal and a skull exist "partially" out of the time continuum.
54	%%* KneelBeforeZod
55	%%* MindControl
56	%%* MindRape
57	%%* MyGodWhatHaveIDone
58	%%* OpenSaysMe
59	%%* ThePowerOfTheSun
60	%%* PsychicDreamsForEveryone
61	%%* PuppeteerParasite
62	%%* RapidAging
63	%%* RiseFromYourGrave
64	%%* RobotBuddy
65	* ShoutOut: A [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] quote.
66	* SingleBiomePlanet: Of volcanic activity with acid storms. [[SarcasmMode I heard it's lovely in the summer]].
67	%%* SmokeOut
68	%%* StarKilling
69	%%* SurvivorGuilt
70	* {{Swashbuckler}}: Ace does this with an ''umbrella''.
71	* TeleportersAndTransporters: The Transmat system comes back, as a garbage disposal into the planet's surface.
72	%%* TemporalParadox
73	%%* TimeMaster: The Doctor briefly becomes one.
74	%%* TitleDrop
75	* TookALevelInBadass: Ace spent some time with the military before this story. This makes her ''even more badass''.
76	%%* TheUndead
77	%%* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman
78	%%* WhoWantsToLiveForever

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