The Kraal Invasion
A prolonged conflict centering on the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith's resistance against the Kraal's plan to infiltrate Earth with android duplicates, led by Styggron and Marshall Chedaki, with Guy Crayford's collaboration.
Involved Characters
- The Fourth Doctor
- Sarah Jane Smith
- Harry Sullivan
- Guy Crayford
- Styggron
- Time Lord War Criminal Morbius
- UNIT Rapid-Response Soldier
- Kraal Military Soldiers
- Marshall Chedaki
- Grierson
- Adams
- Pursuers
- UNIT Android Corporal (Quarry Enforcer)
- Doctor (Android Duplicate)
- Kraal Infiltration Androids (Latent & Active)
- Kraal Android Duplicate (English Village)
- Kraal Android Duplicate of Sarah Jane Smith
Arc Timeline
Season 13
32 eventsThe TARDIS lands in Tubney Wood where the Doctor and Sarah Jane investigate environmental anomalies and encounter a trance-like Corporal walking with unnatural movements. The Doctor detects an energy source …
Sarah flees the android pursuers through dense woodland and nearly plunges off a steep cliff. Cornered and sliding toward the brink, she barely catches hold of the ledge. The Doctor …
The Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith step into the eerily quiet Fleur de Lys pub, only to find it stocked with half-drained drinks and freshly printed banknotes—a contradiction pointing to …
The Doctor flees soldiers through a loft hatch and makes it to the SDC roof where he is met by two white-suited figures pointing loaded weaponry. His sarcastic inquiry about …
Styggron and Crayford confront the sudden appearance of two unexpected captives in their cell block—a pair of spacefaring intruders identified as the Doctor and his human companion Sarah. Styggron’s procedural …
The Doctor risks a desperate gamble to divert the pursuing forces, lifting Sarah into a tree as sanctuary while he lures the tracker dogs away. Though she eludes their immediate …
After Harry intercepts her, Sarah awakens strapped to a curved examination bench in Styggron’s lab, her mind already targeted for duplication. The Kraals’ pulsing blue light procedure grinds through her …
Styggron studies the Doctor’s reaction to the darts board in the fabricated village, interpreting his confusion as both suspicion and uncertainty. Chedaki dismisses the experiment as wasted effort, arguing the …
Styggron abruptly terminates his reliance on indirect observation of the Doctor and asserts direct command, demanding the presence of Crayford. The move signals a sharp escalation in the Kraal's invasive …
Styggron's terse demand for completion exposes the Kraal's brittle invasion timeline. His impatience reveals cracks in the plan while underscoring the high stakes—the Doctor's interference has forced adjustments that risk …
Crayford reports a deviation in the invasion timeline to Styggron, his words strained by impending failure. His admission carries the weight of a commander forced to confront the erosion of …
Styggron and Chedaki assess the captured Doctor’s threat level, reviewing the Tyla’s data on his legacy of opposing conquest across time and space. Recognizing the Doctor’s systemic interference as an …
Styggron and Chedaki assess the risks of android technology while Crayford arrives to report readiness. Recognizing the android’s potential to be turned against the Kraals if the Doctor interferes, Styggron …
The Doctor reunites with Sarah in a village shop after their separate escapes from Kraal androids. Sarah reveals the terrifying ordeal of brain analysis by what she thought was the …
The Doctor and Sarah regroup in a village shop after their recent escapes, confirming the Kraal’s plan to replace humans with android duplicates. Recognizing they are being tested, the Doctor …
Styggron and Chedaki finalize the nine-minute countdown to annihilate both the Doctor and the simulated English village, a precise timetable for their victory over Earth. Sarah overhears the deadline while …
The Doctor and Sarah barely seal the hatchway before the Kraals detonate a shockwave that obliterates the simulated English village outside. The destruction leaves behind only a barren wasteland, graphically …
Crayford seizes control by ordering the Doctor and Sarah incarcerated, framing their capture as a victory for his Kraal masters. The Doctor’s casual inquiry about Styggron exposes his awareness of …
The Doctor and Sarah exploit the brig’s controls to rig a lethal counter. Working under the Kraals’ noses, Sarah baits the electrified plate while their android captor Adams is casually …
With the mind analyzer seconds from turning the Doctor’s consciousness into stolen data, Sarah escapes the brig using a jury-rigged power cable and matches to create a smoke diversion. She …
Sarah exploits a momentary lapse in the Kraals' vigilance to escape the brig, using a power cable and short-circuiting an android guard to create a diversion before racing back to …
As the rocket launch approaches, the Doctor and Sarah seek refuge in the hold to escape deadly g-forces. Finding a pod, they open it expectantly only to discover a dormant …
The Doctor and Sarah discover the Kraals' invasion plan is already in motion when they free a dormant android from its pod. Seconds later, Marshal Chedaki's voice counts down the …
With the android-invaded ship approaching and Earth's Defense Station in imminent danger, the Doctor awakens Sarah from blackout and lays bare a desperate gamble. He proposes they board unshielded cargo …
The Doctor’s carefully calibrated plan to expose the Kraal android infiltration reaches its first public confrontation in the SDC scanner room. Faraday and his team anxiously track Crayford’s returning ship …
The SDC scanner room team monitors the approaching XK-5 ship and a parallel meteorite-like cluster slowing unnaturally over Earth. As Matthews warns of their trajectory toward Oxfordshire, the Doctor senses …
The Doctor’s pod touches down on Earth, but instead of relief his first reaction is dread when he sees Sarah’s pod is empty. He calls out her name, his voice …
Sarah stumbles upon the TARDIS in Devessham Wood, relieved to find the Doctor waiting with a chilling revelation—someone has replicated both of them. Before she can react, the android Doctor’s …
The tension of Sarah’s resistance dissolves in an exchange of dark humor and reluctant admission about the Doctor’s deception. Her initial outrage over the android invasion’s flawed mimicry gives way …
Solon reveals his meticulous trap to ensnare the Doctor, exploiting Morbius’s desperate impatience. The scientist’s cold reasoning clashes with Morbius’s anguish, heightening the stakes of the already grotesque transplant scheme. …
Solon and Condo commence the grotesque operation by carefully removing Morbius' preserved brain from its jar, the vessel holding the war criminal's stolen consciousness. The moment carries the weight of …
Solon places Morbius' salvaged brain into the perspex braincase and forces Sarah to operate the pump, her reluctant assistance maintaining the brain’s viability long enough for partial revival. A claw …