Solon and the Sisterhood of Karn
A sequence of conflicts involving the Fourth Doctor's encounters with Solon's attempts to use Time Lord remains to create a new body, countered by the Sisterhood of Karn's opposition and the interaction between Solon, Condo, and High Priestess Maren.
Arc Timeline
Season 13
21 eventsSolon’s interrogation of Condo serves as a brutal display of psychological dominance, stripping away any pretense of loyalty with calculated threats. His reminder about the prosthetic arm—deployed as both carrot …
Maren and the Sisters of Karn conduct a forbidden scrying ritual, using Maren's ring to pierce temporal secrecy and locate the TARDIS on their planet. The TARDIS materializes before them, …
Maren and Ohica leverage their scrying ritual to materialize the TARDIS and identify the Doctor as a Time Lord. Their awe curdles to dread as they realize his mental resistance …
Maren uses the Sisters to scry the Doctor’s TARDIS and confirm his identity as a Time Lord. Concluding he endangers their sacred Elixir, she directs the Sisterhood to form a …
Solon uses the veneer of intellectual exchange to probe the Doctor’s knowledge while deflecting attention from his motives. He steers conversation toward their shared history, flattering the Doctor with references …
Solon’s taut monologue about never overcoming his nostalgia for Earth catches Sarah Jane off guard, revealing a rare vulnerability beneath his calculating demeanor. His admission about staring at stars and …
A vicious storm batters Solon's parlour as Sarah secretly pours wine into a dish, testing Solon's hospitality. The Doctor, sensing dark forces at work, recognizes the Morbius bust and exposes …
Solon’s false hospitality shatters when the Doctor recognizes the Morbius bust, confirming Solon’s forbidden connection to Time Lord history. As the Doctor drunkenly recalls Morbius’s crimes his balance fails and …
Sarah Jane slips into the surgical lab after Solon’s team moves out, revealing his immediate intention to extract the Doctor’s brain for Morbius’ transplant. The sight of prepared surgical tools …
Solon’s urgency boils over in the dim corridor as he abandons all pretense of caution. The Doctor’s survival threatens his dark ambitions, so he abandons surgical subtlety for speed. Sarah …
Solon sharpens his instruments with chilling precision while Sarah retreats from the lab’s horrors. The scent of antiseptic mingles with the metallic tang of danger as she realizes this sterile …
Solon discovers the Doctor has vanished from the examination couch in his lab and immediately flies into a rage, blaming his assistant Condo for failing to sedate the Time Lord. …
Maren confronts the bound Doctor in the Sisterhood’s shrine, accusing him of being a Time Lord spy dispatched to steal the Elixir of Life. The interrogation quickly escalates as Maren …
As the Sisterhood prepares to sacrifice the Doctor to the Sacred Flame, Ohica reveals the Elixir can no longer form, rendering their rituals meaningless and exposing their desperation. Maren insists …
Condo's simmering resentment erupts when he believes Solon intends to sacrifice him to the Sisterhood. Solon turns the tables by offering his own arm as a bribe, stripping away Condo's …
Solon’s basement laboratory reeks of desperation as rotting equipment and half-built devices testify to his frenetic obsession. The disembodied Morbius rails against the walls of his unseen prison, his voice …
In the claustrophobic basement laboratory, Morbius confronts Solon’s escalating delusions of scientific grandeur. As Morbius grows increasingly desperate to end his suffering or be freed, he accuses Solon of using …
Solon’s clinical examination of Sarah’s ruined retina reveals permanent blindness, stripping away the Doctor’s fragile hope. When pressed for options, Solon dangles the Elixir of Life as a fragile solution—one …
Morbius accuses Solon of deception from outside the basement room where the surgical procedure unfolds. His challenge echoes through the corridor, forcing Solon to confront his betrayal directly. Sarah, already …
Solon torments Sarah Jane while restrained on his examination couch, alternately mocking and threatening Condo for his brief show of compassion. After forcing him from the room, Solon draws back …
With the Time Lords poised to wipe him out and his organic support failing, Morbius demands salvation through an abandoned artificial braincase despite its horrific risks. Solon’s reluctant capitulation exposes …