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The Doctor enters Polly’s cubicle while she sleeps, discovering a hidden wire embedded in the wall—a device linked to the Macra’s mind-control system. He deliberately shorts it out, causing a …

Ben, still under the colony’s mind control, pursues Polly while dismissing her warnings about a lurking Macra. When a giant claw seizes Polly, Ben’s programmed denial collapses—his repeated insistence that …