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Pitchfork

A worn pitchfork with three rusted tines and a splintered wooden handle, its prongs darkened by time and damp hay. The Zygon replica lunges with it, the weapon whistling through air thick with the scent of animal feed and decay. The creature’s desperate grip leaves sweat streaks on the shaft as it overreaches, ending in a sickening fall from the barn’s loft.
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Purpose

Farming tool repurposed as a makeshift stabbing weapon

Significance

The pitchfork’s use by the Zygon replica elevates it from ordinary farm implement to a catalyst for confirmation of the infiltration plot. Its failure as a weapon reflects the Zygon’s collapsing control and exposes the true enemy.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

1 moments
S13E2 · Terror of the Zygons Part 2
Sarah kills Zygon replica in barn fall

The pitchfork becomes the weapon of attack as the Zygon replica swings it violently at Sarah, aiming to incapacitate her. Its frantic movements cause the tines to whistle through the air, narrowly missing as Sarah dodges. In the final struggle, the replica lunges too hard, losing its footing and pitching the weapon aside as it falls.

Before: Leaning against the wall of the hayloft within reach of the Zygon replica
After: Knocked aside during the struggle, discarded on the loft floor after the fall
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