Writer: Scott Alan Woodard
Director: Gary Russell
Starring: Colin Baker as the Doctor and Bonnie Langford
as Mel with Terry Molloy as Davros
Release Date: February 2005
Recorded: 20 & 21 April 2004
Sound Design and Music: Steve Foxon
Production Code: 7C/S

Within a small mining colony on the dark and distant planet of Lethe, events are occurring the results of which could dramatically affect things on a universal scale. For within the dingy corridors of the artificial biosphere, the lone survivor of a devastating crash has expertly wormed his way into the lives of the colony¹s personnel.

A scientist known as Davros.

Separated from one another across space and time, the Doctor and Mel find themselves in very different predicaments: Mel has been employed on Lethe, while the Doctor has been imprisoned aboard an alien spacecraft. Both situations are inexorably linked, however,and at the apex of the two sits Davros and the terrifying possibility of a new threat even more powerful than the Daleks!

Rescuing Mel and stopping Davros should be the Doctor¹s primary goals, but could it be that this time, Mel does not wish to be rescued? And might Davros actually be working on something for the benefit of the civilised galaxies

This story takes place between "The Trial of a Time Lord" and "Time and the Rani".