The escalating battle against the Antimatter Carnivorous Maggot Entity and its rapid infestation across the slag heap and lab, threatening biological and environmental catastrophe

The Brigadier delivers a piece of slag contaminated with alien maggot residue to the Doctor’s lab, supplying the first tangible evidence linking the green sickness infestation to Professor Jones’s research. …

The final maggots succumb to the antidote fungus just as the exhausted Doctor and Benton prepare to depart, the danger seemingly past. Benton’s jaunty taunts to the deceased creatures end …

Yates abandons the immediate threat assessment in the Community Room to investigate a commotion along the slag heap, splitting the team’s focus at a critical moment. The Doctor and Jo’s …