The Countess Scarlioni and temporal thievery
Countess Scarlioni, often aided or opposed by Scaroth, orchestrates crimes involving temporal energy, drawing the Doctor and Romana into conflicts over time itself.
Arc Timeline
Season 17
12 eventsCount Scarlioni brutally leverages Romana’s unintended care for Duggan to force her compliance, weaponizing the unstabilized time field as an imminent threat to Paris. With Duggan abducted as leverage, Romana …
Count Scarlioni dismantles Romana’s detachment with a brutal ultimatum, forcing her into reluctant cooperation under threat of erasing Paris. Romana’s sudden concern for Duggan betrays her true allegiance, compelling Scarlioni …
The Doctor enters the drawing room with disarming charm, disarming a henchman with casual insults and unlikely Shakespearean anecdotes. He shifts focus to the Countess, probing her blind loyalty while …
The Countess ambushes Count Scarlioni with a pistol, demanding to know his true identity after uncovering his diagrams. His casual deflection evaporates when her interrogation becomes direct, forcing him to …
Scaroth unveils his true identity and unceremoniously silences his wife after she discovers his monstrous past as the last Jagaroth. His brief, hollow apology rings false as he weaponizes his …
Romana admits her role in stabilizing Scaroth’s time machine while secretly limiting its temporal jump to two minutes. She explains that without the stabilizer Scaroth could only use the time …
Duggan
Scaroth
Scaroth’s escape into the time machine forces the Doctor, Romana, and Duggan to confront the full scale of their mission’s peril. The astronomical scale of the temporal jump—400 million years …
The Doctor and companions burst into the Paris gallery, fleeing the unraveling timeline as Scarlioni’s crimes unfold. Romana and Duggan maintain outward composure while the Doctor slips into the TARDIS, …
Duggan discovers a forgery of the Mona Lisa deliberately marked as such and threatens to expose it, but the Doctor and Romana challenge his obsession with authenticity. Their debate about …
With the immediate threat of Scarlioni neutralized by Hermann’s intervention, the Doctor and Romana prepare to depart the Eiffel Tower. Their brief exchange with Duggan about authenticity and artistry masks …