Frazer's Torch

A utilitarian tubular flashlight with a narrow beam, gripped tightly by Colin Frazer as he investigates the crypt’s disturbances. Its bright white light slices through the crypt’s stale darkness, illuminating ancient carvings on the monument’s surface before abruptly dying when the antimatter predator’s beam strikes him. The torch becomes a prop in Frazer’s futile rebellion against cosmic forces he cannot comprehend, its beam the only tangible means he has to assert control in an unfolding nightmare beyond human scale.

5 appearances

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

5 moments

S20E1 · Arc of Infinity Part 1

Frazer and Stuart descend into the crypt

Frazer's torch provides the only light as they descend into the dark crypt, illuminating its chapel-like ornamentation. Robin hands it to Colin to share the burden but also perhaps to anchor his partner’s attention, making the object central to their immediate survival and Frazer’s fragile sense of control.

Before: Held by Robin Stuart, tightly gripped, unused.

After: Passed to Colin Frazer who wields it critically, its beam revealing hidden carvings and flaws in Robin’s story.

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S20E1 · Arc of Infinity Part 1

Frazer discovers the TARDIS arrival

Frazer’s utilitarian torch is swiftly retrieved from its resting place as a tangible tool of defiance against the encroaching unknown. Its narrow beam slices through cryptic darkness, becoming both his only weapon of perception and the final human assertion of control before the antimatter predator’s presence renders light—and understanding—obsolete.

Before: Stored securely, possibly tucked in Frazer’s clothing or within arm’s reach of the shelter cot, dormant and unnoticed.

After: Activated and wielded in confrontation, its battery intact but significance diminishing rapidly as the cosmic threat renders its light meaningless and it is left behind in the retreat.

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S20E1 · Arc of Infinity Part 1

Monument opens to claim Frazer

Frazer's torch provides the only artificial light in the flickering crypt, slicing through the ancient dark until it illuminates the newly appeared monument. When the antimatter predator fires its beam, the torch’s light vanishes abruptly, leaving Frazer momentarily sightless as the attack occurs. Its beam failure symbolizes the inadequacy of human tools against cosmic forces.

Before: Functioning flashlight, actively illuminating the crypt, gripped firmly by Frazer

After: Beam extinguished by antimatter interference, torch now inert and cold

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S20E1 · Arc of Infinity Part 1

Stuart awakens in the Pump Room

The torch becomes Stuart’s sole instrument of defiance and inquiry, gripped tightly as he transitions from rest to motion. Its beam slices through the crypt’s stale darkness, symbolizing both rational defense and futile rebellion against forces beyond human comprehension.

Before: -secured within reach

After: in Stuart’s possession, active in exploration

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S20E1 · Arc of Infinity Part 1

Antimatter horror terrorizes fleeing Stuart

Stuart’s utilitarian torch serves as the sole source of human light in the creature’s shadowed emergence. Beaming across the monument—TARDIS hybrid, it briefly stabilizes the scene before failing under psychic or dimensional interference. Its beam cuts through darkness but cannot halt the creature’s advance.

Before: Operational, held by Stuart in the crypt’s main chamber

After: Extinguished or diminished, reflecting overwhelming psychic disruption

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