Sympathy for the Devil ( audio story ) Publisher ' s summary . " What if . . . the Doctor had not been UNIT ' s scientific advisor ? " 1997 . . . and a lone exile arrives on Earth , years later than planned . On the eve of the Handover , an advanced Chinese stealth bomber crashes in the hills above Hong Kong . The discredited United Nations Intelligence Taskforce has just 24 hours to steal the technology , rescue the passenger and flee to international waters . Down by the harbour , there ' s big trouble in Little England — a bar owned by an old soldier who simply wants to forget the past . But an ancient evil is stirring in a place of peace . The Doctor finds a world on the brink of terror . A world that has lived without him for years . A world that is frighteningly like our own . . . Plot . After being put on trial by the Time Lords , the Doctor was intended to be exiled to 1970s England , but instead , he landed in 1990s Hong Kong , on the night of the handover to communist control . Finding his old friend , the Brigadier , he found out the world had changed due to him never coming to earth since the 1970s . Subsequently , the U . N . I . T . project had failed , and the Brigadier had been kicked out of U . N . I . T . , due to failing to stop various disasters . As the two talk , an invisible plane crashes into the nearby mountain . The Doctor and the Brigadier approach the mountain , looking for Ling , one of Alistair ' s employees . Ling and Adam discover that the crashed plane belongs to the communists . They rescue the pilot , but he is heavily wounded . The Brigadier and the Doctor then arrive , and the Doctor attends to the pilot ' s wounds . U . N . I . T . then arrive , much to the Brigadier ' s chagrin , led by Colonel Brimmicombe - Wood . Brimmicombe - Wood seals off the area , and takes the pilot in for questioning . A local Buddhist monastery is used as U . N . I . T . field headquarters . Adam is still trying to the find the other passenger , but is killed by the mysterious Ke Le . . . Brimmicombe - Wood interrogates the Doctor and the Brigadier , and chastises the Brigadier for his failures , criticising him for failing to stop the Probe 7 disaster , and the plastic purges , amongst other invasions . In the monastery , the Brigadier visits the abbot , who tells him about the " soul jar " of which the monks have chanted , non - stop for 150 years . Meanwhile , the Doctor translates the pilot ' s speech , saying that Ke Le told him to crash the plane , and threatened to kill him . Ke Le was the head of the Ke Le division , a Chinese group of ex - convicts who go on government suicide missions , and are presumably mind - controlled . The pilot mentions something that could " steal souls " . The Brigadier tells the Doctor about the soul jar . Ling recalls the passenger " changing " . The Doctor works out who the passenger really was . Meanwhile in the woods , Ke Le ( actually the Master ) , kills Adam . Adam ' s body is taken back to the monastery , as the soldiers assume he is Ke Le . The Master hands himself in . Upon entering the monastery , the Master threatens the abbot , and makes him give the Master the soul jar . The Master reveals the soul jar actually contains a mind - control parasite . The abbot is killed by the Master , and the Doctor , the Brigadier and Brimmicombe Wood are captured by mind - controlled U . N . I . T . guards . The Doctor is released by the Master , who tells him that his new plan has " noble intentions " . He intends to rule the world to cause world peace . The Master reveals that he has been trapped on earth for decades , and chastises the Doctor for never returning to earth . The Master rants about how he has had to live through the wars , and the panics , and the shortages , while causing " minor diversions " to hopefully attract the Doctor ' s attention . He plans to use a Chinese military bomb testing to release the parasites to control the world . The Doctor agrees to make a deal with the Master , and Brimmicombe - Wood and the Brigadier are released . They lead the mind - controlled monks and soldiers down to the waterside , and the Master agrees to stop the parasites in exchange for the TARDIS . He gives the Doctor the soul jar in exchange for the keys to the TARDIS . The Doctor and The Brigadier take the TARDIS to Mongolia and throw the soul jar into the bomb testing site destroying it . Meanwhile , back in Hong Kong , the Master was tricked into thinking the TARDIS was disguised as the Little England pub . The Ke Le divisions approach above in helicopters after the handover is complete . Brimmicombe - Wood prepares to leave , and the Master begs him to take him with him , but Wood refuses . The Master reveals that the Ke Le divisions will go mad , now that the parasites are dead . Thousands are killed by the helicopter gunfire . Later , the Doctor manages to free the TARDIS , and the Brigadier accepts . They leave together to continue their travels .