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Cloning Petri Dishes

Three small glass dishes with transparent lids, arranged on Marius' laboratory bench. Their rounded edges and flat bottoms hold shallow pools of nutrient gel, still glistening under the sterile lights. The Doctor first points Leela toward them, indicating their role in the failed cloning attempt.
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2 moments
S15E6 · The Invisible Enemy Part 2
Leela rejects the cloning experiment

Marius places the cloning Petri dishes containing the Doctor's infected sample cells into the cubicle's cloning apparatus, where a series of energy flashes generate both the flawed copy of the Doctor and an attempted copy of Leela, who refuses to remain. The dishes function as containers for the unstable biological material being manipulated.

Before: Sterile glass dishes holding nutrient gel, arranged on Marius's laboratory bench, unused and empty of cloned figures.
After: Petri dishes remain in the cubicle after the cloning flashes, their contents temporarily converted into cloned figures that quickly deteriorate beyond utility, leaving residue of the failed cloning attempt.
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S15E6 · The Invisible Enemy Part 2
Clone Doctor departs on desperate mission

The cloning petri dishes serve as fetal chambers for the fragile imprints of the Doctor and Leela, their shallow nutrient gels sustaining carbon-based echoes for only minutes. Marius’s placement of these dishes into a cubicle triggers the flash sequence, crystallizing the experiment’s transient promise of intervention. The vessels themselves become relics of urgency, discarded once the figures materialize.

Before: Three small glass dishes with transparent lids, arranged sterilely on Marius’s laboratory bench, awaiting cellular samples and activation.
After: Dishes remain on the bench briefly, their nutrient gels now depleted as the imprints dissipate, signaling the failed sustainability of the cloning approach.
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