Varlik's conflicted loyalty between Swampie tradition and growing doubt about ritual necessity

Bound with creepers alongside Romana and Rohm-Dutt in Kroll's temple, the Doctor interrogates his captors with artful distraction as the Swampie priests debate the torment of the seventh ritual. He …

Rohm-Dutt seizes the moment of his ritual execution to expose Director Thawn’s concealed plot. While bound for the Swampies’ slowest death ritual, he shifts from desperate survival to whistleblowing, confessing …