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Tyler's X-Ray Plates

This is diagnostic radiographic evidence of cosmic phenomena, not a physical vehicle.
6 appearances

Purpose

To capture and document internal structural anomalies and temporal breaches through radiographic imaging, serving as diagnostic evidence for cosmic phenomena beyond conventional medical or scientific understanding.

Significance

These x-ray plates provide the team's first concrete visual evidence of interdimensional forces manifesting in physical space, transforming Tyler's report from unverified theory to alarming reality. Their revelation triggers the unit's emergency protocols and marks the transition from investigation to active crisis management.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

6 moments
S10E1 · The Three Doctors Part 1
Cosmic anomaly exposes interdimensional breach

Tyler uses x-ray plates to demonstrate anomalous cosmic ray phenomena to the Doctor and Brigadier, revealing distortions indicative of faster-than-light travel. The second plate’s narrow compared to the first, immediately raising concerns. The plate acts as tangible scientific evidence central to identifying the impending catastrophe.

Before: Stored in Tyler’s briefcase, organized and ready for presentation, showing clear images of cosmic ray anomalies.
After: Likely remains in the Doctor’s possession after Tyler’s disappearance, serving as critical evidence for the unfolding investigation.
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S10E1 · The Three Doctors Part 1
Doctor and Jo depart for crime scene

Tyler removes the freshly developed x-ray plate from the processing equipment and places it onto the light box for inspection. The plate displays an impossible, distorted face that should not exist, and its edges begin to emit an ominous crackle as antimatter energy destabilizes. Tyler’s desperate attempt to disassemble the box fails to prevent the flash, and the plate’s imprint lingers only as a ghost of the vanished scientist.

Before: Clean, newly developed x-ray plate showing anomalous cosmic ray distortions, contained within the development machine
After: Brazed and humming with residue energy, then obliterated in a violet flash; the plate’s inverted face becomes a portal to antimatter annihilation
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S10E1 · The Three Doctors Part 1
Tyler swallowed by antimatter entity

The x-ray plate, freshly developed from cosmic ray exposure, reveals a contorted, terrified face in place of expected scientific data. Tyler places it on the light box and both uses and is consumed by the anomaly, becoming a visual yardstick of the unnatural energy now flooding the lab.

Before: Unprocessed film, bearing Tyler’s latest cosmic ray exposure showing anomalous energy signatures but no discernible image.
After: The developed plate, now an evidentiary nightmare: a warped, screaming visage that hints at Tyler’s vanished presence; left singed at the edges and warm to the touch after the antimatter surge.
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S10E1 · The Three Doctors Part 1
Brigadier learns Tyler vanished in disaster

Tyler’s X-ray plates, visible in the Doctor’s demonstration to the Brigadier, show ghostly skeletal voids where humans once stood—indirect proof of Tyler’s vanishing and the entity’s predatory interception of matter at a subatomic level.

Before: Developed by Tyler prior to his disappearance; held together with brittle film edges likely handled by multiple personnel.
After: Shown to the Brigadier as evidence; displaced from original context into the open investigation box.
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S10E1 · The Three Doctors Part 1
Doctor deduces antimatter entity hunts him

Tyler’s X-ray plates are shown as evidence of faster-than-light phenomena and Tyler’s last work, culminating in the revelation that the kinetic energy release dispersed him. The plates provide forensic confirmation of the entity’s scanning beam and its targeting of UNIT.

Before: Stored in the evidence box, showing anomalous skeletal structures and energy distortions
After: Analyzed for clues, reinforcing the Doctor’s explanation of the incident
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S10E1 · The Three Doctors Part 1
Doctor reels as Bessie vanishes and beast closes in

Tyler’s newly developed X-ray plate shows Earth scanned by an unidentified energetic beam. The Doctor presents this image to the Brigadier and Jo as definitive proof that the antimatter entity arrived via an external scanning mechanism, directly connecting Tyler’s scientific work to the entity’s interdimensional ingress and Tyler’s own vanishing.

Before: Intact, freshly developed, stored in a secure evidence box at UNIT laboratory
After: Examined and held up for inspection, becoming the catalyst for the Doctor’s dire warning
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