Thawn's desperate attempts to maintain control of the crisis response while rejecting external oversight and implementing increasingly destructive measures

Dugeen brings alarming scans to Thawn showing disturbances across the lake bed that cannot be explained by methane activity. Fenner reports the Doctor has fled the station under cover of …

Dugeen’s transverse scan pierces failing equipment to expose Kroll’s massive living form across the lake bed, confirming the colonists’ worst fears. The creature’s presence is so overwhelming it blocks sensor …