Martin's institutional conflict escalates into a personal moral crisis when he almost suffers fatal consequences from the Doctor's retrieval operation of a time active device (the Hand of Omega) in a funeral parlour, forcing him to reconcile institutio...

Martin's institutional conflict escalates into a personal moral crisis when he almost suffers fatal consequences from the Doctor's retrieval operation of a time active device (the Hand of Omega) in a funeral parlour, forcing him to reconcile institutional procedures with the potential reality of alien technology.