Nimrod vs. his racial memories and ancestral knowledge that conflict with his mechanical obedience to Josiah Samuel Smith

The Doctor navigates a delicate balance in the drawing room, deflecting Inspector MacKenzie’s demands for information about the missing household while covertly awakening Ace and testing Nimrod’s hypnotized state. The …

Nimrod erupts into the drawing room, seizing Ace to confront the encroaching supernatural forces he claims to understand. His cryptic invocations of paleolithic hunts and the Burning One crack under …