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Show Notes
Another missing episode of Doctor Who rejoins the fold via animated reconstruction. This time Simon and Eugene discuss the Daleks’ final outing when they look at Evil of the Daleks.
Episode Synopsis
The TARDIS has been taken from Gatwick airport on a lorry. The Doctor and Jamie chase the lorry as fast as possible with their lurching, awkward running strides, but eventually must give up on the foot chase. Instead they conduct an investigation to find the TARDIS.
Little do they know, they are being given a series of increasingly unlikely clues designed to lead them inexorably to an antique shop run by a Mr. Edward Waterfield – who specializes in really high-quality Victoriana.
Waterfield is a Victorian with a time machine. He is also in the employ of the Daleks!
As his final clue to lure the Doctor and Jamie to his shop, he sends them an actual invitation to his shop. When they arrive, rather than meet with them, he lays further clues and traps to knock them unconscious and transport them back to June 1866, somewhere near Canterbury, and the home of Mr. Theodore Maxtible.
Maxtible is a wealthy man and dabbler in sciences. He has hired Waterfield to help him build a time machine. They succeeded, after a fashion, but their experiment brought Daleks to Earth. The Daleks took Waterfield’s daughter, Victoria, captive, and forced the men to help them trap the Doctor.
With Victoria’s life on the line, now the Doctor is coerced into helping the Daleks, too. They want him to isolate the “Human Factor” – the collection of emotions and properties that humans possess that has allowed them to consistently beat the Daleks.
The Doctor agrees, and the Daleks insist that Jamie be the test subject.
Jamie must attempt to rescue Victoria Waterfield, all while the Doctor and the others are watching and identifying the Human Factor in Jamie.
Also, a man named Arthur Terrel, who is Maxtible’s daughter’s fiancé, is around, behaving erratically, and apparently also under control of the Daleks. He pops up occasionally to make things move along or slow down as fits the demands of the episodes.
A mute Turk named Kemel, who is kindly disposed towards Victoria, is tasked with stopping Jamie from reaching her. When Jamie saves his life, they team up to save Victoria. Which, they sort of do, but Victoria is recaptured and taken to Skaro.
It has become clear that Maxtible, despite his attempts to appear innocent, is fully complicit with the Daleks and their actions. They have promised him the secret of turning metal into gold. Absolutely no one except Maxtible believes they will keep that promise.
The Doctor isolates the Human Factor and installs it into 3 newborn Daleks. When they awaken, they have a sense of fun and friendship with the Doctor. He names them Alpha, Beta, and Omega.
All Daleks are recalled to Skaro, including the new ones and a bomb is left behind to destroy Maxtible’s house. Maxtible follows the Daleks to Skaro via the time closet, leaving the others behind to die.
The Doctor, Jamie and Waterfield escape in the Dalek time machine and head to Skaro. They’re all captured and put in a cell. The Doctor is given an audience with the Emperor Dalek.
The Doctor explains that he has destroyed the Daleks by introducing the Human Factor into the test Daleks. They will question orders and it will spread to other Daleks. Soon, they will be destroyed!
The Doctor has been fooled. While the point of his work was to isolate the Human Factor, somehow that also means he isolated “The Dalek Factor.” Now, with the Doctor’s TARDIS secured on Skaro, he will help them spread the Dalek Factor to all humans through Earth’s history.
Maxtible is the Guinea Pig and he is turned into a human Dalek. The Doctor is next; however, as he is not human, he is immune, but plays along as a ruse.
With a deft swap of positronic brains, and the right word in the Dalek Emperor’s ear, the Doctor tricks them into sending more Daleks into the device that will insert the Dalek Factor, but it is now actually inserting the Human Factor.
Dalek civil war breaks out.
Waterfield, who has been increasingly upset by the things the Daleks have forced him to be complicit with, sacrifices his life to save the Doctor. With everyone else dead, and Skaro being destroyed, the Doctor and Jamie take the orphaned Victoria in and she joins the TARDIS crew.