The Cybermen's Persistent Threat
The Cybermen remain a persistent, collective threat, encountered by characters such as Laleham and the Second Doctor, representing a technological and existential menace.
Involved Characters
Arc Timeline
Season 5
7 eventsIn the Rocket Control Room, two Cybermen exploit Laleham and Vallance’s hypnotized state to orchestrate their own covert transport to Space Wheel W3. The Cybermen climb into a large crate, …
In the Power Room, Duggan inspects the Bernalium rods and discovers they are defective, covered in plastic, rendering them useless for stabilizing the Space Wheel's power systems. Chang reveals that …
Chang, working late in the loading bay, investigates a suspicious crate after noticing its false bottom. His discovery of the empty crate—clearly a Cyberman transport vessel—is cut short when a …
The Doctor and Zoe arrive in the Wheel Operations Room, where Zoe reveals her meteorite calculations were dismissed by Controller Bennett. The Doctor, already suspicious of Cyberman infiltration, presses Corwyn …
In the Wheel’s Operations Room, the Doctor interrupts a tense debate between Ryan and Lernov about retrieving critical radio spares from the Power Room, where Cybermen are actively breaching doors. …
The scene opens with Flannigan returning to the Wheel’s Operations Room under suspicion, having been under Cyberman hypnosis. Ryan immediately detains him, using an anti-hypnosis device to break the Cyberman’s …
In the loading bay, Flannigan—recently freed from Cyberman hypnosis—takes decisive action to repel the invading Cybermen by activating the neutron force-field. The force-field successfully halts their breach, sealing the outer …