The Mind of Evil - Part Three
The Doctor, the Brigadier, and Fu Peng arrive just in time to save Senator Alcott. The Doctor finds a pin on Captain Chin Lee's jacket which picks up the signals broadcast by the device at Stangmoor Prison.
The takeover of Stangmoor by the prisoners continues.
The Doctor takes Captain Lee back to the Brigadier's office. He asks her some questions and gets enough information from her to guess that the Master is the one behind the recent events.
Jo helps the guards to regain control of the prison.
The Master heads to Stangmoor after he learns that the Doctor has interfered with his plans to use Captain Lee to kill Senator Alcott. He is welcomed by the Governor who knows him as Emile Keller. The Master disrupts things at the prison and soon thereafter the prisoners are back in control of Stangmoor.
The Doctor arrives at the prison, unaware that the Master has taken control of it. The Doctor is taken prisoner, subsequently escapes, and then after a brief bit of freedom he is taken prisoner again. The episode ends with the Doctor tied up and sitting right next to the device which has been turned on. He is once again writing in pain.
Thoughts
Toby Hadoke (moderator), Timothy Combe (director), Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Pik Sen Lim (Captain Chin Lee), and Terrance Dicks (script editor), are on the commentary track for this episode.
The Doctor and the Master finally come face to face in this installment. It is good to see the two of them face off. Hopefully there will be more of the same in the next three episodes.
The supporting cast are all very good.
I continue to enjoy this story more than I expected I would. I doubt that I would rate it higher than Invasion of the Dinosaurs, probably my favorite of the 3rd Doctor stories that I have seen, but Mind of Evil is still pretty good even though it is a little rough around the edges.
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