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Having split the party, our heroes find themselves in trouble. Barbara is captured by the Daleks, and while looking for her, the rest of Team TARDIS finds a Geiger counter which tells them what they should have noticed back on the TARDIS; that there are high levels of radiation. I was wrong about there being one brief spike that could have been missed; it was there the whole time, and they've been walking around in it.
There was a light on the sensor in the TARDIS. How did neither Susan nor the Doctor notice it going blinky blinky blinky?
Anyway, they've all got radiation poisoning. And the Doctor is forced to admit that he liked about the fluid link so that he could look at the city. Ian grabs it from him, and when the Doctor threatens to leave without finding Barbara, he holds it hostage. They go to find her, but are captured by Daleks, who we see in full view for the first time. But instead of EXTERMINATEing all of them, they are taken prisoner. When Ian doesn't obey immediately, they hit him with a paralytic ray and force the others to help him.
Barbara is waiting for them in a cell, curled up in a ball. They tell her about the radiation sickness. Then the Daleks interview the Doctor (and I'm sure all of Dalek-kind is cursing the interviewer for not just taking him out right there. The Dalek wants them to find the mutants that have survived the neutron war, and bring back their drugs.
The initial plan is for Ian to go, but his legs are still messed up from the paralytic ray, so Susan goes, since she's the only one still in decent shape. But being a female in an early sixties TV show, she wobbles and panics her way through the jungle. Finally she gets there, gets the drugs, rather than giving herself a shot immediately, starts to head back. But she barely makes it to the doors of the TARDIS when she is scared by the scary thunderstorm.
(I can imagine the TARDIS doing the noncorporeal version of headdesking at the sight of this.)
The episode ends with Susan trying to decide whether she's going to go back out into the scary scary storm, or stay inside while her grandfather and friends die. Most. Pathetic. Cliffhanger. Ever.
Having split the party, our heroes find themselves in trouble. Barbara is captured by the Daleks, and while looking for her, the rest of Team TARDIS finds a Geiger counter which tells them what they should have noticed back on the TARDIS; that there are high levels of radiation. I was wrong about there being one brief spike that could have been missed; it was there the whole time, and they've been walking around in it.
There was a light on the sensor in the TARDIS. How did neither Susan nor the Doctor notice it going blinky blinky blinky?
Anyway, they've all got radiation poisoning. And the Doctor is forced to admit that he liked about the fluid link so that he could look at the city. Ian grabs it from him, and when the Doctor threatens to leave without finding Barbara, he holds it hostage. They go to find her, but are captured by Daleks, who we see in full view for the first time. But instead of EXTERMINATEing all of them, they are taken prisoner. When Ian doesn't obey immediately, they hit him with a paralytic ray and force the others to help him.
Barbara is waiting for them in a cell, curled up in a ball. They tell her about the radiation sickness. Then the Daleks interview the Doctor (and I'm sure all of Dalek-kind is cursing the interviewer for not just taking him out right there. The Dalek wants them to find the mutants that have survived the neutron war, and bring back their drugs.
The initial plan is for Ian to go, but his legs are still messed up from the paralytic ray, so Susan goes, since she's the only one still in decent shape. But being a female in an early sixties TV show, she wobbles and panics her way through the jungle. Finally she gets there, gets the drugs, rather than giving herself a shot immediately, starts to head back. But she barely makes it to the doors of the TARDIS when she is scared by the scary thunderstorm.
(I can imagine the TARDIS doing the noncorporeal version of headdesking at the sight of this.)
The episode ends with Susan trying to decide whether she's going to go back out into the scary scary storm, or stay inside while her grandfather and friends die. Most. Pathetic. Cliffhanger. Ever.
