From: ensalada@cats.ucsc.edu (Kevin Charles Rubio)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: Companions (Part 1/3) was Re: Companions list
Date: 22 Jan 93 10:27:00 GMT
Reply-To: keeper@deeptht.armory.com
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In article <1993Jan20.172406.655@rivers> ph9991_manfr@rivers.acc.uwrf.edu writes:
>OK, accepted.  This was the hazy bit for me, but everything I've
>read and seen said that Katarina died at the end of episode 4, and I
>also seem to remember Sara not coming into the story until Katarina
>was already dead.  So how did it really happen?  Both people, I mean.

I will grant you, however, that Sara Kingdom doesn't actually become
a companion until episode 5.  She pursues the Doctor and Steven, trying
to kill them, but gets transported to the planet Mira with them and
a cage of laboratory mice.  It is there on Mira that Steven talks to her
and she begins to see the truth.  She at first is upset at him for the
way he talks, because she says, about the person she just had killed,
"Bret Vyon was my brother."

Aha!  I found the booklet I was looking for last night.  Unfortunately,
it doesn't give episode breaks, so the only episodes I can be sure about
are 5 and 10 -- the two that still exist.

Well, in the story summary, Sara's entrance comes in the paragraph
following Katarina's departure.  Katarina's death could have been
an episode-ender.  I have a clip of the moments just before her death,
but not of the dying itself, which I think does exist, because I recall
James Armstrong's list of what he has seen/has on video includes her
death.  The scene I have comes from a 1980 episode of Blue Peter.

In a Dalek ship, Steven and Bret Vyon have overridden the controls and
taken off from a prison planet, but one of the prisoners has got on board
and taken Katarina with him into the airlock, and is demanding to be taken
to Kembal, where he hopes to strike up a deal with the Dalek force there.
Vyon has switched off the audio channel from the airlock, I think ...
The scene goes something like:

Steven:  Turn the talk back on again!

Bret:  There's no point.

Steven:  Turn the talk back on before he >really< hurts her!

Bret:  He can't kill her, or he hasn't a hostage.

Steven:  (as apparently Bret complies, shouts through the airlock window)
         You animal!

Kirksen:  That's just the start!  Now do as I say!

Doctor:  (to Bret)  Take it back to Kembal.  Take it back to Kembal -- let
         the Daleks deal with him.

Steven:  Yes, and us!

Doctor:  Oh, don't worry, dear boy -- we'll find a way out.

---

Anyway, I imagine that it is only moments later that Katarina sees
the airlock controls, remembers how someone had operated them, and
does so.

Unfortunately, I have neither the audio from this story nor have read
either of the novelisations, so am not entirely certain.

Sara dies in the final episode, to be sure.  The Time Destructor is
activated by the Doctor, on a low setting.  He tells Steven and Sara
to run for the TARDIS.  Steven does, but Sara stays to help the Doctor.
She begins to age.  The Doctor and the now very old Sara run for the
TARDIS, with the Doctor holding the Time Destructor as a means to
prevent the Daleks from firing at him.  They collapse just outside
the TARDIS.  Steven comes out of the TARDIS and helps the Doctor in,
but in the process accidentally throws the Time Destructor into full
reverse.  The Daleks, Sara and the Varga plants introduced to the planet
by the Daleks all regress through time and turn into appropriate skeletal
forms.

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