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A strange telepathic message prompts the Doctor to travel to the
'Sector of Forgotten Souls', a place where, thousands of years ago,
Omega's ship vanished whilst detonating a star.
He's not the only one journeying towards it. 'Jolly Chronolidays'
prides itself on giving its tourists an experience of galactic history
that is far better than mere time travel.
Its motto is 'We don't go into history, we prefer to bring history
to you'.
When Omega's ship suddenly materialises in front of their shuttle,
and one of their employees goes insane and tries to destroy his hands...
...suddenly it's not just a motto anymore.
And Omega - and his madness - is closer than they think.
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Episode One:
In the medical bay, a figure enters. The Medibot
attending Tarpov tells the newcomer to leave as he needs isolation
for recuperation. Tarpov is muttering that he needs to stop Omega,
when the figure says 'You will not stop me Vanderkyrian,
because I, Omega, will kill you first!'
Episode Two:
Over the intercom, Tarpov, possessed by the
spirit of Vanderkyrian, tells Omega that he isn't the only person
who can destroy lives, he can do it to him just like he did it to
them. As Sentia cries out, a gun is fired...
Episode Three:
As the noise of the TARDIS fills the room,
Omega can't believe it as he didn't invite him. Emerging from within,
the individual introduces himself as the Doctor, but realises that
he has arrived a little late...
Episode Four:
The woman begins to tell the story, but only
because it's him and he asked. It's the story of a foolish and very
powerful Time Lord who did a terrible thing and a heroic Time Lord
who discovered what he did to his great horror. But before she
begins, she wonders if she could have the Doctor's autograph...
Senita: 'We don't like going into history. We much prefer
Jolly Chronolidays to bring the history to us, now don't we?'
Glinda: 'I hope we don't get hit by an asteroid, not before
we get to the souvenir shop.'
The Doctor: 'You have a refreshingly uncluttered view towards
history, as I'm already painfully aware.'
Ertikus: 'These days, stuff the facts, Ertikus, the tele-boys
say, history is the new soap opera. So we want the legends, and
the more lurid your take on the legends the better.'
The Doctor: 'My ability with endless prattle is legendary!'
Daland: 'I've always had this strange premonition that I
would end my life by dying.'
Omega: 'I have found this reality to be a cold and
unwelcoming place. I know now where I belong.'
Ertikus: 'Can I interview you about your part in the
destruction of the Omega myth?'
The Doctor: 'I always thought it would spoil things knowing
all there was to know about him. I mean it's best to have some
element of mystery about the character.'
Omega: 'Ironic, is it not? To give myself existence I must
return to the very place where I was betrayed and destroyed.'
The Doctor: 'We both rebelled against the orthodoxy of the
society we lived in. You in the name of science, and me in the name
of sticking my nose into things that don't necessarily concern me.'
Omega: 'If he have to be a monster to bring our race into a
new age of enlightenment, then so be it. I will be a monster.'
The Doctor: 'Even when you have the whole of time and space
to loose yourself in, sometimes the past has a habit of catching
up with you.'
The Doctor: 'These are choices I have to make all the time.
Sometimes I make the right one. Sometimes.'
Omega is written by Nev
Fountain, who served as script editor on bbc.co.uk's Death Comes To
Time, and is the first in a loose trilogy of stories featuring
the Doctor's old foes. It features the return of
Ian Collier as Omega with
Caroline Munro, star of several
British horror movies of the sixties and seventies who also featured
in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.
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