Andred hurls pool chair at Sontaran
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Andred throws a pool chair at the Sontaran, knocking him off balance, as the Doctor and Borusa escape.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Adrenaline-fueled resolve masking fear of Sontaran reprisals
Seizing the instant Sontaran soldiers breach the pool area, Andred grabs a nearby pool chair and hurls it with athletic precision, knocking the leading warrior off balance just as Stor begins issuing commands, then fleeing deeper into the ship’s corridors.
- • Delay Sontaran pursuit through physical disruption
- • Enable the Doctor and Borusa to escape with the Great Key
- • Personal survival is secondary to higher mission of Gallifreyan resistance
- • The Doctor’s plans, however unorthodox, offer the best chance of survival
Predatory intent abruptly neutralized by unforeseen physical resistance
Bursting into the pool area at the head of a Sontaran strike force, the warrior advances with weapons raised, scanning aggressively for the shapeshifting Great Key, only to be blindsided by Andred’s flying pool chair that sends it staggering toward the water.
- • Capture or destroy the Great Key before it can be used against the Sontarans
- • Neutralize any Gallifreyan opposition blocking the artifact
- • Force and discipline guarantee mission success
- • Gallifreyan chaos can be exploited through superior martial order
Outrage flashing into determination to crush resistance
Commandeering the entrance alongside Kelner, Stor strides into the pool area expecting immediate tactical dominance only to witness his lead soldier sent reeling by Andred’s ambush, forcing a reactive adjustment and exposing the Sontarans’ vulnerability.
- • Regain strategic initiative after the failed ambush
- • Eradicate Gallifreyan resistance and capture the Great Key
- • Personal humiliation demands violent redress
- • The Doctor remains the principal obstruction to Sontaran victory
Coolly calculating, masking urgency with dry directness
Already in conversation with Borusa, the Doctor calmly reads the Titanic headline and sips a blue cocktail, sliding the newspaper toward Borusa without interrupting their tense exchange about safeguarding Rassilon’s artifacts.
- • Evade Sontaran capture while retrieving the Great Key
- • Manipulate Borusa into conceding the need for decisive retreat
- • Rassilon’s artifacts must never fall into Sontaran hands due to their replication weaponization
- • Institutional caution will not suffice against crenellated cloning threats
Cautious relief that someone else has intervened while confirming institutional procedures are now secondary
Escorting Stor into the pool area, Kelner notes aloud the Doctor’s modifications to Gallifrey’s defenses with cautious precision, simultaneously observing the pool chair strike that sends the Sontaran soldier off balance while keeping his own distance from active combat.
- • Assess the present layout and furnishings for institutional advantage
- • Minimize personal risk while documenting Sontaran tactical failures
- • Institutional survival trumps personal allegiance
- • Observation without intervention preserves long-term flexibility
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
The Great Key’s presence drives the entire scene but remains unseen in this beat; its existence and importance are conveyed through dialogue and the desperate pursuit of all parties. The Key’s absence from physical action intensifies the battle for temporal control.
The heavy plastic pool chair, rimmed with algae-stained blue vinyl and reinforced metal armrests, metamorphoses from lounging furniture into a projectile weapon when Andred hurls it with desperate precision. Striking the Sontaran’s chest armor, the chair’s weight and velocity send the soldier stumbling backward, teetering near the water, before collapsing rather than falling.
Location Details
Places and their significance in this event
The cavernous TARDIS pool area becomes a fugitive’s kill zone where the ceiling’s distorted skylights reflect displaced soldiers’ panic. Water gurgles in irregular pulses from irregular gravity, lending an eerie fluidity even to solid footfalls while the suspended grand piano gathers dust in an unplayable corner.
Organizations Involved
Institutional presence and influence
Stor leads the Sontaran Special Space Service detachment into the pool area, enforcing a disciplined wedge formation to secure the Great Key before the Doctor can escape. His forces respond to confrontation with fatalistic obedience, even when humiliated by Andred’s ambush, demonstrating the empire’s rigid hierarchy clamped onto a fluid battlefield.
Time Lord officers like Borusa operate under fractured institutional loyalties, cautiously aiding the Doctor’s retreat with vital knowledge rather than resorting to formal protocol. Andred, a rogue operative, embodies the shift from institutional obedience to survival-driven defiance when he hurls the pool chair, highlighting latent dissidence within Gallifrey’s ranks.
Narrative Connections
How this event relates to others in the story
"Andred throwing a pool chair at a Sontaran, knocking him into a carnivorous plant (beat_bc5ed214419ad4b4), is immediately followed by Kelner leading Stor into the swimming pool area where they find the Doctor and Borusa have escaped (beat_effa2eb94fc83464), showing tactical disruption leading to pursuit escalation."
Doctor warns Borusa of Rassilon's Key"Andred throwing a pool chair at a Sontaran, knocking him into a carnivorous plant (beat_bc5ed214419ad4b4), is immediately followed by Kelner leading Stor into the swimming pool area where they find the Doctor and Borusa have escaped (beat_effa2eb94fc83464), showing tactical disruption leading to pursuit escalation."
Sontarans arrive to find TARDIS escape"Andred throwing a pool chair at a Sontaran, knocking him into a carnivorous plant (beat_bc5ed214419ad4b4), is immediately followed by Kelner leading Stor into the swimming pool area where they find the Doctor and Borusa have escaped (beat_effa2eb94fc83464), showing tactical disruption leading to pursuit escalation."
Doctor warns Borusa of Rassilon's Key"Andred throwing a pool chair at a Sontaran, knocking him into a carnivorous plant (beat_bc5ed214419ad4b4), is immediately followed by Kelner leading Stor into the swimming pool area where they find the Doctor and Borusa have escaped (beat_effa2eb94fc83464), showing tactical disruption leading to pursuit escalation."
Sontarans arrive to find TARDIS escapeThemes This Exemplifies
Thematic resonance and meaning
Key Dialogue
"KELNER: Tangential formation has been quite altered. The Doctor has made many modifications over the centuries. We should be by now"
"STOR: Which way?"