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TARDIS Exterior Crate

A reinforced wooden shipping crate designed to transport the TARDIS between locations. The crate’s thick planks bear fresh scuff marks from Stephenson’s men prying it open, and metal strapping groans as Ravensworth’s team finally breaks the lock. Inside, the Doctor and Peri exit the time machine itself, leaving the empty crate as tangible proof of their impossible journey—its contents now obsolete.
3 appearances

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

3 moments
S22E6 · The Mark of the Rani Part 2
Doctor flees with TARDIS from workshop

The reinforced wooden shipping crate used to transport the TARDIS stands visibly broken open in the workshop after Stephenson’s men pry it apart. Its purpose has been fulfilled, now rendered obsolete by the TARDIS’s sudden disappearance.

Before: Locked and reinforced, recently delivered to the workshop with fresh scuff marks from manual efforts to open it.
After: Broken open and empty, its crate no longer serving any purpose.
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S22E6 · The Mark of the Rani Part 2
Doctor and Ravensworth spar over the TARDIS

The empty TARDIS Exterior Crate is not directly referenced in dialogue but sits in the background, evidence of the Doctor’s arrival and an object of implied fascination for Ravensworth. Its presence reinforces the sense of the extraordinary invading the mundane workshop.

Before: The reinforced crate is visible in Stephenson’s workshop, its contents vanished with the Doctor’s arrival.
After: The empty crate remains, its prolonged visibility underscoring the mystery of the vanished TARDIS.
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S22E6 · The Mark of the Rani Part 2
TARDIS dematerializes with Doctor and Peri

The empty wooden crate sits in the workshop after Stephenson’s men broke its lock to free the TARDIS. It remains as proof of the impossible within the workshop’s industrial setting, a mundane vessel that once contained the extraordinary.

Before: Filled with the TARDIS, locked, and positioned in Stephenson’s workshop.
After: Open and empty in the workshop, revealing the absence of its contents.
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