Night of the Master (TV Story)

***Night of the Master*** was the first serial of Season 33 of *Doctor Who*. It was written by Colin Brake, directed by Roger Singleton-Turner and starred Nick Berry as the Ninth Doctor & Gillian Kearney as Lillian Truscott.

It was the first regular appearence of Nick Berry as the Ninth Doctor & Gillian Kearney as Lillian Truscott.

## Synopsis

The Doctor arrives in London during the blitz after his recent regeneration and is helped by a woman named Lillian Truscott, but lurking in the shadows is the Doctor's old enemy - the Master.

With the Mastter committing a string of murders and building a machine to restore his body the Doctor must try and stop him in their last confrontation.

## Plot

### Part One

The Luftwaffe bomb the streets of London below, nobody is safe and nobody dare brave the streets in fear of death, except two.

Lillian Truscott and her friend Marion race to get back to Lillian's garden so they can get to safety in her bomb shelter which they manage to do but almost get killed by a German bomb in the process.

They hide in the shelter and Lillian says they should probably be safe and they'll stay here until the bombing stops to which Marion agrees.

As the Luftwaffe fly through the night sky the TARDIS comes hurtling down to the streets below, Lillian hears something crash outside and goes to investigate and Marion calls her mad for going outside with all the bombs dropping.

She goes to an alleyway and discovers the TARDIS, she moves closer to it as the door slowly opens and a man walks out acting confused, Lillian asks if he's ok and he replies "It's normal, just getting used to evrything, by the way I'm the Doctor and..." The Doctor collapses and Lillian helps him back to the bomb shelter she and Marion help him rest.

After the bombs have stopped, Detective Margrave and another detective, Turner, investigate another strange death where they find a woman but she's the size of a mouse. Turner suggests the deaths could've been caused by a new German weapon and Margrave says they won't rule it out as a possibility but they have to make sure nobody else sucombs to this deadly fate, Margrave and Turner walk away unaware somebody is watching them.

The Doctor starts to come around and Lillian gives him a cup of tea to drink, Lillian and Marion get to know the Doctor a little more and the Doctor asks them if they both have family, Lillian says she does but they live in the country and hardly keeps contact with them and Marion fell out with her family and doesn't speak to them, when asked the same question the Doctor says he’s got no family and his friends recently died and that he’s all alone. At this point Lillian feels quite sorry for him and she tells him of an experience when she was young and her best friend died and that she knows what it feels like.

Marion says she thinks the bombs have stopped and the can go back outside now.

They go inside the house and hear a knock at the door, Lillian opens it and a policewoman says that if she plans on going outside she'll need to be careful as another murder has taken place, as the policewoman goes Lillian tells the Doctor and Marion what she was told by the officer and the Doctor asks when did the murders start and Lillian says they started a couple of weeks ago to which Marion adds more information and says that the victims were the size of a mouse when the police found them and the Doctor starts to think as he feels he's seen this before.

The policewoman walks down the street, she then hears some glass smash somewhere in the distance and walks down the street and sees a cat run out of what’s left of a destroyed house, she breathes a sigh of relief and then an unknown figure puts his hand over the Policewoman’s mouth. We see the Doctor looking out the window whilst talking to Lillian and Marion, he hears a scream and he, Lillian and Marion run off to where the scream was heard and they eventually find the Policewoman's miniaturised corpse.

The Doctor recognises it to be the work of the Master and he explains who the Master is to Lillian and Marion and says he must be stopped at all costs.

Detective Margrave and Turner arrive and find the policewoman's corpse, Margrave asks what happened and the Doctor explains they found the corpse and he can help them catch the murderer, Margrave says he doesn't think it's right letting a citizen help with a murder case but his expertise maybe be useful.

The Doctor then catches a glimpse of somebody running away and goes after them but as he's going to the person he violently collapses and Lillian and Marion help him back to the house as Margrave and Turner go after the person.

The Doctor is sat down in an armchair, Lillian becomes concerned for him and Marion starts to tease her as she thinks Lillian fancies the Doctor, Lillian denies this and they have a good laugh about until they hear a noise outside and Lillian says she's going to investigate and asks Marion if she's coming with her and she says yes.

The Doctor is now on his own in the house, unconscious, as he lies in the chair a man walks through Lillian's back garden and breaks into the house, the man places his hand on the Doctor's shoulder and he awakens and realises he is in danger as a familiar voice says "My dear Doctor, you have changed quite a bit since we last met." The Master smiles menacingly.

### Part Two

The Master places his hand over the Doctor's mouth and says he's got big plans for him, the Doctor pushes the Master away and backs away to the door, the Doctor asks what he's doing here and the Master says he killing people to absorb lifeforce from the humans as he's finally dying and he needs to kill people to extend his life as long as possible and with the Doctor here he can absorb the lifeforce of a Time Lord. The Master begins to walk forward towards the Doctor as the others enter, Turner is about to arrest the Master but is killed and Margrave goes after him, Lillian and Marion see if the Doctor is ok and he says he'll be fine and he needs to deal with the Master.

Margrave walks back to the house and he says he lost the Master and the Doctor says he'll turn up again and they need to be ready for when he does, Margrave asks how the Doctor knows the Master and the Doctor explains that they used to be friends and then he turned into a psychopath and he's had to stop him many times, Margrave asks if he can be stopped this time and the Doctor says that he's not too sure.

The Master walks through the empty streets and finds a man walking on his own, unable to control himself the Master kills the man and absordbs his life by using a machine before using the Tissue Compression Eliminator to shrink the corpse and runs away.

The Doctor says they should probably go outside and see if they can find him and wants everybody to do as he says and Margrave asks why they should as he could be involved with what the Master is doing and could be trying to throw them off, the Doctor says he's the only person that can stop the Master and he is going to do just that.

As they go outside to look for the Master, Margrave suggests the idea that they all split up and they all agree, even though the Doctor is reluctant to do so, Lillian goes with the Doctor and Margrave goes with Marion. The Doctor and Lillian look around the streets and find the corpse of the man the Master killed and the Doctor says that the Master is becoming more bloodthirsty and it's vital that they find him.

Margrave and Marion investigate a few of the alleyways as they think the Master could be hiding here and they look in different places, Margrave hears a noise and runs down the alley where the Master is awaiting, Marion hears Margrave scream and runs to see if he's ok, only to find his corpse, Marion calls out for the Doctor and Lillian and she turns round to see the Master waiting for her as he laughs.

The Doctor says to Lillian they need to find Margrave and Marion before anything bad happens to both of them and Lillian says they need to find them as quickly as possible, just then they hear Marion crying for help and they run to try and find her to which they do but the Master is no where to be found, Marion shows them Margrave's corpse and tells them that the Master was still here and he was waiting for her. The Doctor says he may not have gone to far and asks them both if there are any warehouses around and Marion says that a warehouse was closed a year ago and it's not far from here and the Doctor says the Master is going to be somewhere near there and they need to investigate.

They arrive at a warehouse and all three of them go inside and split up, Marion goes into the basement and is the Master puts his hand over her mouth and smiles. The Doctor and Lillian soon meet up and decide to investigate the basement and soon find the Master and says he met their friend earlier and the Doctor asks what he's done to her and he looks down at the floor as Marion's body has been shrunk.

### Part Three

Lillian breaks down and the Doctor looks at the Master with disgust, the Master says "You won't stop me, you'll fail at the very last and your defeat will be all the sweeter to be." The Doctor says he's stopped him so many times before and this time will be no different, the Master tells him that he’s got other ideas uses a Timelord gun to shot a pipe, steam starts to spit out of it as the Master gets away, the Doctor and Lillian manage to get around it and pursue the Master but eventually lose all traces of him.

Lillian is visibly upset and the Doctor promises he'll catch him, he then asks Lillian if anything else that's strange has happened and Lillian says that lightning was coming from the factory every night and nowhere else and the Doctor decides to investigate the factory but they need to go somewhere first, Lillian asks if where they are going will catch the Master and the Doctor says he hopes so.

They reach the TARDIS as the Doctor believes it could be a source of great help only to discover it’s locked and he asks it not to do this as it’s the worse possible time, they then hear another scream and find another person dead and the Doctor says they can't waste any more time and they head to the factory.

The Doctor and Lillian enter the factory and after investigating Lillian finds a bookshelf, looking out of place in it’s surroundings, she enters and the Master covers her mouth, the Doctor is also investigating but soon the Master whacks him over the head and says “Soon I will be reborn.”

The Doctor wakes up in a chair and tries to talk to Lillian and he theorises that they’re in the Master’s TARDIS, along with Lillian and they try and brake free but the Master soon walks in and charges up a machine and gets it ready, he explains that the machine is called ‘The Extractor’ and he can you use it to extract the Doctor’s remaining regenerations and Lillian’s life just for an extra life and then the Master puts on a headset and the machine powers on and the room starts to light up blue as the Doctor and Lillian realise they’re in fatal danger.

### Part Four

The Doctor screams in pain and tells the Master to stop, just then Lillian breaks free and the Master tries to shoot her but he narrowly misses but he just says that four lives are better than none and he’ll get her later, she than reaches the Master’s control room and presses a button which turns off most the power in the TARDIS and the Master realises this and goes after her, the Doctor frees himself and tries to find Lillian which he eventually does and they come up with a plan which involves destroying the extractor which could also destroy the TARDIS.

The Master starts to chase them as the Doctor and Lillian venture deeper inside the TARDIS and horrific hallucinations and bloodthirsty voices in their heads make it harder for them to get away from the Master. Lillian then has a hallucination of her family dying and she screams out in horror and bursts into tears and the Doctor starts to comfort her and tell her everything is going to be ok.

The Doctor and Lillian then realise they have lost track off the Master and they try and get back to the console room and the Doctor realises that the Master’s TARDIS is deteriorating and he says he’s going to use that as an advantage. They reach the console room and the Doctor brings the Extractor into the console room and he says he can use this to extract the power of the Master’s TARDIS which means his plan would’ve failed, the Doctor primes up the machine and it soon powers on, the Doctor is then grabbed by the throat and start to be strangled by the Master and they soon start to fight, while doing this the Doctor tells Lillian what to do and guides her through draining the power, the Doctor then uses Venusian Aikido on the Master and he then falls to the floor as the TARDIS’ power is now fully drained and the Doctor and Lillian run out the TARDIS into the factory as it is being bombarded by German bombs and the Master goes out to chase them but a bomb hits a railing, on one side the Doctor stands looking the Master dead in the eyes and the Master looks at him with hatred and his railing collapses and we see the Master fall into the flames, the Doctor and Lillian then make it out, the factory is now destroyed and the Doctor believes the Master is finally dead.

The next morning Lillian re-unites with the Doctor in his new costume standing next to the TARDIS, the Doctor asks her to come travelling with him where she’ll see all kinds of wonders to which Lillian asks “In that?”, the Doctor replies with “Take a look.” She enters and sees the control room for the first time and the Doctor walks in and tells her it can travel in space and time and anywhere she wants to go, Lillian dosen’t quite believe it as time travel doesn't exist, but the Doctor simply says ‘Wanna Bet?’ and the episode ends.

## Cast

* The Doctor - Nick Berry
* Lillian Truscott - Gillian Kearney
* The Master - Anthony Ainley
* Detective Margrave - Colin Jeavons
* Marion - Martine McCutchon
* Turner - Leslie Schofield
* Policewoman - Rakie Ayola

To be added.