Jamie McCrimmon's psychological trauma and fractured perception of time due to witnessing his Doctor's apparent murder and encountering alternate realities

Peri hauls the unconscious Doctor to safety after he is stunned by a humanoid attacker, revealing the intruder to be Jamie McCrimmon, a past companion separated by time. As Jamie …

Jamie awakens in disorientation after mistaking Peri and the Doctor for enemies, his trauma and fear manifesting in violent resistance and paranoid delusions that the Doctor has been killed by …