Sontaran Containment Boxes

Two standardized metal storage containers, their surfaces scarred from repeated use and rough transport. Their hinged lids bear the faint impressions of previous contents, and metal handles on each side hint at their portable design. Inside these boxes, Shockeye and Varl secretly stow equipment for the Sontaran operation, moving them quietly through the cellar to avoid detection. Their military-grade construction suggests they hold payloads critical to the invasion plot.

3 appearances

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When this object appears and how it's used

3 moments

S22E8 · The Two Doctors Part 2

Sontarans and Androgum solidify invasion plot

Two weathered metal boxes carried into the cellar by Shockeye and Varl are identified by Varl as the complete manifest of Sontaran operational equipment. These containers, superficially unremarkable, conceal the instruments of temporal extraction and Sontaran military hardware. Their presence in the cellar signifies the intersection of grotesque science with covert military planning, with the boxes’ contents poised to transform the hacienda into a battlefield.

Before: Contained within the Sontaran scout ship, transported to the hacienda undetected under cloaking fields. Their contents unknown to local inhabitants.

After: Positioned within the hacienda cellar laboratory, unpacked and ready for use in symbiotic nuclei extraction and temporal destabilization.

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S23E5 · Mindwarp Part 1

Frax accuses the Doctor and seizes his weapon

The extraction device’s consoles glow with residual blue-white light when the Doctor attempts to interact just before Frax’s arrival; the sudden blackout of their purpose—shifted from energy analysis to a murder scene—highlights how illicit discovery is instantly reframed as criminal act.

Before: Active interface for life-force monitoring, casting eerie patterns on cave walls

After: Darkened and bypassed, no longer a tool but an exhibit in a staged inquest

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S23E5 · Mindwarp Part 1

Doctor and Peri uncover horrors in the cave

The standardized metal housing units for the extraction device's consoles are revealed as Peri notes their considerable height, suggesting industrial-grade origins repurposed from dismantled Tharil systems. These units frame the Doctor's examination and become the physical evidence of the Mentors' systemic control.

Before: Hidden within the cave, their hasty field repairs and grime indicating concealment and recent transport.

After: Exposed to Frax and his guards, becoming a key exhibit in the 'murder' accusation against the Doctor and Peri.

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