Doctor Who:
Logopolis
By Christopher H. Bidmead
“It's the end. But the
moment has been prepared for.”
The Doctor wants to fix
the chameleon circuit and proceeds to head to Earth after much debate with
himself. He explains to Adric what the
chameleon circuit can do when working properly and also adds that it was the
reason The Master hid from them on Traken.
What he wants to do is go to Earth and measure a Police Box and then go
to Logopolis and get a block transfer and hopefully that will fix the chameleon
circuit.
They arrive at Earth and
around a Police Box but there is something wrong as the Cloister Bell is going
off. The Doctor explains to Adric that
when that alarm goes off to expect impending universal catastrophe. What appears to have happened is that they
did not materialize around another Police Box but around another TARDIS and it
caused recursive loop between the two TARDISes .
The Doctor and Adric
continue to go through all the TARDISes until they find themselves
outside. While they were doing this a
young woman named Tegan Jovenka and her Aunt Vanessa car ended up with a flat
tire and they parked the car near the TARDIS.
After struggling with the tire Tegan decides to take the flat to a
garage but instead decides to call for assistance but instead stumbles inside
the TARDIS and proceeds to get lost. While Tegan gets lost a strange laughing man
kills her Aunt Vanessa. Outside of the
TARDIS The Doctor is confronted by Police Inspector and is asked if he knows
anything about the two killings. The
Doctor looks in the car and is horrified at what he sees. Two doll like figures which is the calling
card of The Master who has indeed escaped from Traken after all.
The Doctor tries to flush
The Master out of his TARDIS by landing in the Thames and open the doors to
flood the TARDIS with water. But that
does not go to plan as the land on a boat dock.
There The Doctor and Adric see the Watcher and he motions for The Doctor
to him. The Doctor goes up to the bridge
and talks to the white shadow figure and comes back looking stern and
determined. The Doctor tells Adric they
are going to Logoplois and they are to prepare for the worst.
The Doctor and Adric
arrive at Logoplolis with Tegan as she finally gets back to the consule room
and proceed to give The Monitor the measurements of the police box for the
block transfer. But The Master has
meddled with the computations and causes the TARDIS and The Doctor to shrink. As the Monitor and Adric try to find out what
is wrong Nyssa arrives. She said a friend of The Doctor brought her to
Logopolis. While all this is going on
The Master is unwittingly working on destroying Logopolis.
The Doctor is restored to
normal size after Adric and The Monitor have fixed the problem and decides to
confront The Master. He proclaims he
will stop The Master if it is the last thing he does and will not have to wait
for that to happen as The Master makes his appearance. The problem is his meddling with Logopolis
and in essence destroying it has allowed entropy to be unchecked and it is
starting to destroy the universe. Now it
is up to the old enemies to join forces to save the universe and the price of
victory will cost The Doctor his fourth incarnation.
