Banquo Manor Banquo Manor was a house situated in the south east of England . Characteristics . Location . The village of Three Sisters was a mile from the manor , as was the local station , forming a triangle . Little Applecombe was 20 miles away when heading down the road from Three Sisters . Manor and grounds . Banquo Manor was build around the latter half of the 18th century . It was stone fronted with a conservatory of glass at the side . The drawing room was square and large , it had a fireplace against the wall and the door was made of strong wood . Both the drawing room and the conservatory had French windows leading into the grounds . After Harries ' experiment the conservatory was substantially damaged . The chimney shaft from the study met with the chimney shaft from the drawing room , forming a fork and one chimney The top floor had rooms for the scullery and kitchen maids ; these rooms were poorly furnished and cold . The next floor down had rooms for the household maids , the cook and the undercooks ; these rooms were better furnished than those on the top floor . A generator in the cellar supplied the manor ' s electricity . There was a room under the stairs that was used for storage ; Cuthbert Simpson later used this as his quarters . A shotgun was kept in the manor . The manor was made from orange - tinted stone from local quarries ; it was very rectangular and the front door was flanked by four pillars supporting an arch . It was small in comparison to other manors with tall narrow windows surrounded by white stone ; this same stone was used on the Tudor - style battlements that crowned the manor . The grounds of Banquo Manor included a large hill , one of the largest in the area . It overlooked Three Sisters . George Wallace wanted a cave build on the hillside where he could sit and look at the view . A shack stood nearby containing explosives used in the making of the cave . Name . The Manor was named after Banquo , a character from the play " Macbeth " . A plaque featuring a speech from the play hung in the drawing room ; a second one hung in the study but was removed . ( PROSE : " The Banquo Legacy " ) History . Construction . Robert Dodds inherited a significant amount of money from his aunt ; with this he commissioned the building of the manor by the Adam ' s brothers . He fancied himself as an actor ; his favourite performance was in Macbeth as Banquo , hence the manor ' s name . It was rumoured that Dodds killed his aunt to establish a legacy . This was untrue as he was in Italy at the time . Dodds ' was murdered by his cousin , Pamela while practising his role as Banquo . Pamela had recently escaped from a lunatic asylum . She stabbed him in the master bedroom and then drank his blood . It was said she killed him in revenge for him having supposedly killed her grandmother ( , his aunt ) . Residents and guests . In 1898 , George Wallace was the owner ; he lived in the manor with his wife , Elizabeth Wallace . Richard Harries was invited to use the conservatory as a laboratory for his experiments into brain waves . Harries took over the master bedroom . Harries dismissed all the staff apart from Cuthbert Simpson , the butler and Beryl Green , a maid with whom George had an affair . The Eighth Doctor , masquerading as Dr . Friedlander , and Fitz Kreiner came to assist in the experiments . John Hopkinson also came as a witness . Gordon Seavers was expected but , unknown to the residents ( bar Hopkinson ) he had supposedly committed suicide . Harries ' experiment . Harries trialled his experiments on rat s , having them share collective thoughts . Simpson implanted them with nano - cam s and set them free to keep tabs on the desk . Hopkinson sabotaged Harries ' experiment in revenge for him having blackmailed Seavers , resulting in his suicide . Harries hoped to share the thoughts of his sister , Catherine Harries . The machine overloaded and Richard was killed , Catherine survived . Ian Stratford and Sargeant Baker came to investigate . Murders . The Doctor was made the prime suspect after he disappeared . Ian , Baker and Fitz followed his footprints through the grounds and came across his body in Wallace ' s cave on the hillside . The body of Harries was stolen , but later found returned . Beryl was attacked and killed after she found evidence that Harries had been blackmailing George and Gordon . George and Elizabeth were killed in their bedroom . Realising the killer was still upstairs ; Stratford , Baker and John began searching . They came across the Doctor , alive and well . Then , Richard Harries ' corpse appeared . It was walking and trying to attack the group . They fled from it and Simpson fired upon it with no effect . The residents then barricaded themselves into Hopkinson ' s room . The Doctor deduce d that connection was made in Harries ' experiment whilst Catherine was unconscious . Subconsciously she wanted to protect her brother ' s honour and so the corpse wanted to kill everyone in the house , as it had done with George , Elizabeth and Beryl . The corpse broke in and Catherine halted its advance by thinking hard . Ian , Baker , John and the Doctor then went to get chains with which to tie the corpse up . Catherine followed them . She had Richard follow her and told them she was consciously controlling Harries in the killings , that she was connected to him and that she would now kill them . Catherine claimed that Richard was still alive and that she could talk to him through their link . Baker knocked her over and they barricaded her out . Catherine used Richard to break into the room from outside while she waited in another room . He came through the French window but with a collective effort they knocked him out and barricaded the window . Ian opened a door , Catherine was on the other side and she shot him in the shoulder . Ian and Baker stayed in the drawing room whilst John and the Doctor used the chimney fork to cross to the study and escape through the window . Susan and Kreiner abseiled down to them from above . Still in the room , Simpson was attacked , his eyes were torn out and he fell from the window and seemingly died . Harries came downstairs and chased the Doctor and Hopkinson . Kreiner and Susan re - entered the drawing room via the chimney . John and the Doctor ran to George ' s shed , Harries still pursued . They collected some dynamite and headed back to the manor . Ian and John pulled aside the barricade allowing them entrance . Harries managed to force his way in . Catherine also entered and commanded Harries to attack Susan . He hesitated but eventually complied , trying to throttle her . He was pulled free and Susan fell unconscious . Harries then attacked Baker as he stuffed Harries ' pockets with the dynamite . Richard was again pulled away , however Catherine fired at Baker twice hitting him in the back and head , killing him . John threw a lamp at Harries , lighting the dynamite . He exploded and his body was torn apart . His dismembered arm stopped Catherine from shooting Susan . Hopkinson wrestled her for the gun , it went of killing Catherine . The Doctor and Kreiner headed to Simpson ' s room in search of Simpson ' s Artron inhibitor , a device that was draining the TARDIS ' artron energy . They found it in the conservatory , the sole surviving valve of Harries ' equipment . The Doctor destroyed it restoring Compassion to her former self . Then , they all left . ( PROSE : " The Banquo Legacy " )