The Visitation - Part Four
The Doctor disarms Richard Mace and disconnects the power sources for the control bracelets that Mace and Tegan are wearing. Mace picks the lock and releases the Doctor from the handcuffs. They escape from the room and stroll around the house. The Miller locks them in a room but they manage to escape, overpower him, and remove the power source from his control bracelet.
The Terileptil sends the android to find the TARDIS. It encounters Adric and the men who captured him. The men are frightened off. Adric follows the android back to the TARDIS. Nyssa uses the device she created to destroy the Android. Adric pilots the TARDIS to the house where the Doctor, Tegan, and Mace are located. They get there just about the time that the Doctor realizes that they are locked in.
The Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa, Adric, and Mace go to London in search of the Terileptil. They find it using one of the scanners on the TARDIS. They get into a fight with the Terileptil and his friends. The Doctor accidentally starts a fire.
Those control bracelets seem to give the people wearing them a lot of autonomy to determine how they should interpret the orders they have been given. I think its a little too much autonomy.
I don't fully understand why the android let Adric follow him. I understand that it had orders to get the TARDIS but I would think it would consider Adric to be hostile and attack him.
Is this the first time that Adric has piloted the TARDIS? I'm not sure. It's funny how usually only the Doctor can get it to work except when the story calls for someone else to operate the TARDIS.
This one did not live up to my memories of it from about 35 years ago, when I first saw it. I think it is a little overly crowded even though the mind controlled actors don't have a lot to contribute other than their presence.
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