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Doctor Who: Minuet In Hell (#19)
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By Alan W. Lear & Gary Russell
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The twenty-first century has just begun, and Malebolgia is enjoying it's
status as the newest state in America. After his successful involvement
with Scotland's devolution, Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
has been invited over to Malebolgia to offer some of his experiences and
expertise.
There he encounters the charismatic Brigham Elisha Dashwood III, an
evangelical salesman running for Governor who may not be quite as
clean-cut and wholesome as he makes out. One of Dashwood's other roles
in society is as patron of a new medical institution, concentrating on
curing the ills of the human mind. One of the patients there
interests the Brigadier - someone who claims he travels through time and
space in something called a TARDIS.
Charley, however, has more than a few problems of her own. Amnesiac, she
is working as a hostess at the local chapter of the Hell Fire Club,
populated by local dignitaries who have summoned forth the demon
Marchosias. And the leader of the Club? None other than Dashwood who
seems determined to achieve congressional power by the most malevolent
means at his disposal...
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Episode One:
Zebediah is prepared for the operation by Pargeter, but Gideon Crane
begins acting strangely around the PSI Machine. Pargeter declares that
what's happening is impossible as Zebbediah cries out as the machine
explodes...
Episode Two:
Zebediah is arguing with Crane about being the Doctor. Crane asks him if
he still hasn't worked it out yet. 'You aren't the Doctor, my poor mad
confused friend!' he says. 'I am...'
Episode Three:
Dashwood points his 'Trans-D' at Charley, telling her farewell as he's
about to send her through a dimensional interface to hell where a demon
will take over her body and become his Queen. Charley screams as she is
sucked through the interface...
Episode Four:
After saying his goodbyes to the Brigadier, Charley confronts him in the
TARDIS about what the psionovores told her about being useless to them.
The Doctor quickly changes the subject to asking about a quick trip
around somewhere else, somewhere nice, quiet and peaceful.
Dashwood: 'We of the Hell Fire Club believe in serving Lady Liberty by day, and Lucifer by night.'
Dr Dale Pargeter: 'Typical schizoid behaviour Mr Lethbridge-Stewart. Always identifying with the higher ranks, professional people, rather than admit their own identity.'
Gideon Crane: 'Think of me as the man with the blue box.'
Gideon Crane: 'I suppose you could call it your own private hell.'
Dashwood: 'I don't trust no man with no past.'
Zebediah Doe: 'You're going to cut up my brain, that's not really for my own good is it!'
Zebediah Doe: 'What do you think? Were they even really here? Are we really here?'
Lethbridge-Stewart: 'How terribly existentialist of you, Zebediah.'
Dashwood: Senator, when you die, and please let that be soon, you're so crooked they'll have to screw you into the ground!
Zebediah Doe: 'I am the Doctor. I am the Doctor!'
Gideon Crane: 'And what is the Doctor, can you tell me that? A bi-cardial biped of Gallifey, a spacio-temporal rolling stone who's had more faces than a dog has had fleas! A wide-eyed idealist, who renounced his Time Lord heritage centuries ago out of some misplaced revolutionary fervour, and has never since had the maturity to...'
Zebediah Doe: 'Wait! How do you know that Gideon? I've never told that to anybody!'
Gideon Crane: 'Charley, Sam, Ace, Evelyn, Nyssa, Romana, Sarah Jane, Jamie, Polly, Ian, Barbara and Susan, dear, dear, Susan...'
Zebediah Doe: 'How! How do you know all this?'
Gideon Crane: 'I know everything there is to know about these matters. Haven't you worked it out yet? You aren't the Doctor, my poor, mad, confused friend. No, I am...'
Zebediah Doe: 'Yes! Now I understand. Everyone in the Universe is the Doctor. Everyone except me!'
Demon: 'We have no use here for one who is already dead.'
Lethbridge-Stewart: 'I've met some people in my time, Mr Dashwood, who I've believed were the lowest humanity was capable of sinking to. But very few plumbed your depths.'
Minuet In Hell sees the return of
Nicholas Courtney to the role of the Brigadier, meaning that with this
story he has acted with all of the first eight actors to play the Doctor
in a Doctor Who drama. Morgan Deare,
who plays Senator Waldo Pickering, previously appeared in Doctor
Who in 1987's Delta And The Bannermen.
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