The Doctor's internal struggle between his compassionate duty to save lives and his knowledge of temporal consequences when interfering with fixed points in time
The Doctor's internal struggle between his compassionate duty to save lives and his knowledge of temporal consequences when interfering with fixed points in time
Events in This Arc
The Controller, a human collaborator with the Daleks, manipulates two Daleks into allowing him to interrogate the Doctor rather than execute him. He persuades them that human psychology, rather than …
The Doctor races to the cellar to find Shura, who is moments away from detonating a bomb intended to kill Sir Reginald Styles and prevent the wars she believes his …
The Doctor and Drax remain trapped within the TARDIS as the Shadow’s silent servant forces open the doors. The villain’s long-anticipated moment arrives as he commands retrieval of the Key …
The Doctor’s moment of ethical reckoning arrives when the White Guardian appears to claim the assembled Key to Time. As Romana grows suspicious of the Guardian’s sudden praise, the Doctor …
The Doctor, resisting the Key to Time’s corrupting influence, seizes the moment to dismantle it—and in doing so, frees Astra from her cosmic imprisonment. Forcing the Key’s components apart, he …