Anti-Grav Transporter

A compact transport device resembling a seated cabin with smooth metal surfaces, designed to carry two occupants. The Doctor demonstrates its function by explaining it immediately bypasses psy-tri projections, carrying users from Xoanon’s illusory rock maze directly to the escape ship. Leela’s unfamiliarity with Tesh environments heightens the urgency when the Doctor reveals it as the sole reliable escape route.

4 appearances

Purpose

Serves as a rapid escape mechanism that overrides Xoanon’s psy-tri projections, transporting users from life-threatening hallucinatory traps to a waiting ship.

Significance

Represents the Doctor’s indirect culpability ( stemming from the Mordee expedition) and his path to redemption. Its existence forces confrontation with past mistakes while providing a tangible solution to Xoanon’s immediate threat. Tied to Leela’s frustration with the Doctor’s introspection, underscoring diegetic tension between historical guilt and present danger.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

4 moments

S14E15 · The Face of Evil Part 3

Breaking through the psy illusion

The anti-grav transporter remains hidden behind the psy-tri wall until activated by the red light. It offers a critical escape route out of Xoanon’s hallucinatory maze, demonstrated by the Doctor as the sole reliable means of reaching the Tesh colony unhindered.

Before: Concealed by illusion within the throat passage, its existence unknown to Leela

After: Transports the Doctor and Leela directly to the escape ship, becoming their exit strategy

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S14E15 · The Face of Evil Part 3

Doctor recalls Mordee expedition past

After the Doctor explains its purpose, the anti-grav transporter becomes the sole viable escape route. Its introduction shifts the dynamic from perilous exploration to potential salvation, embodying both technological hope and the Doctor’s burst of clarity amid uncertainty.

Before: The anti-grav transporter is unknown to both travelers, a relic situated at the edge of reality within Xoanon’s psychic passages

After: Successfully transports the Doctor and Leela to the escape ship, proving its functional reliability despite the deceptive environment

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S14E15 · The Face of Evil Part 3

Leela demands action against the Tesh

The anti-grav transporter becomes the tangible solution to Xoanon’s deadly illusions, its compact cabin providing a direct escape to the waiting ship. The Doctor seizes this moment of crisis to pivot from introspection to action, using the device as both demonstration and exhortation to overcome fear of the environment. Its sudden availability transforms the scene from peril to potential salvation.

Before: Docked and dormant within the claustrophobic rock chamber, known only to the Doctor and previously unutilized in this confrontation

After: Activated and operational, carrying the Doctor and Leela away from illusory peril toward the exterior plain and safety

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S14E15 · The Face of Evil Part 3

Doctor explains anti-grav transporter to Leela

The anti-grav transporter is revealed by the Doctor as their sole means of bypassing Xoanon's deadly illusions. He explains its function after Leela encounters the protective suit's fate, positioning it as both solution and technological artifact from his past mistake.

Before: Dormant piece of Tesh technology located in the concealed chamber, unrecognized by Leela

After: Activated by the Doctor to transport them past Xoanon's psychic defenses to the escape ship

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