Inside, Biroc inspects a cobwebbed dining hall. The TARDIS crew see them approaching on their scanner.īiroc arrives at a stone arch with a door in it he enters and is closely followed by the Doctor. Using a mass detector, Rorvik and two of his crew search for the craft they picked up. The pair set about repairing K9, who warns them of three approaching humanoids. Romana tells Adric that they are in the gap between the negative co-ordinates of E-Space and the positive N-Space, which Adric likens to an intersection. He leaves to follow Biroc, after telling K9 to follow him but then realising he has been damaged by the time winds he finds a sign of life in K9 and then sets off. The Doctor shows Romana the co-ordinates, all zero. He says he (Biroc) is a “shadow of his past, and your future” to the TARDIS crew, and then he leaves to cross the white void.
Biroc speaks with the TARDIS crew he tells them not to trust Rorvik and his men. He announces that they are to go out to the TARDIS. On the craft, Captain Rorvik decides to wake another Tharil up to navigate them out of the “gap between timelines”. The Doctor and Romana note that he is on a different time line, prompting Romana to wonder why he hasn't been torn apart. Biroc begins operating the TARDIS controls. On the spacecraft, they pick up the TARDIS on their scanners, noting it as a craft. The Doctor avoids the time winds coming through the open doors of the TARDIS as Biroc enters and walks to the controls. Biroc has escaped the craft and runs through a white void. Adric decides to press a button and does so, determined by flipping a coin, a method suggested by the Doctor. The Doctor tells her Adric will love it on Gallifrey. She asks the Doctor if they have the right to take Adric out of his own time and universe. Romana is still trying to avoid returning to Gallifrey. He considers if he subconsciously wanted to press the button.
He moves to press a button but Romana prevents him from doing so because it is dangerous. Meanwhile, the Doctor is trying to land the TARDIS. He is seen by Lane, who warns the bridge. The Tharil, Biroc, is taken away but escapes from his escort. They have entered a disruption and the Doctor struggles to make sense of it. Onboard the TARDIS, the Fourth Doctor is at the controls. Are the Fourth Doctor and his friends fated to spend eternity in E-Space? What final shocking revelation awaits the Doctor?Ī countdown takes place, leading up to the crew of a spacecraft using a Tharil to attempt to escape from “nowhere”. The gateway offers the only exit from E-Space, but the void is contracting. The creature responsible for taking them there is Biroc, a member of the enslaved race known as the Tharil. This empty space is a gateway to the past and future. 5.1 Cultural references from the real worldĪ strange creature forces its way into the TARDIS, steering it to a white void occupied only by the ruins of an old building and a spaceship.
After Romana's departure, the Doctor decided not to take Adric home and instead allowed him to carry on travelling, even back to the Doctor's own universe. It was the first episode in which the Doctor started to view Adric as a companion, after the Alzarian had stowed away on the TARDIS. His promotion to the director's chair followed one of the rare instances that a director was fired during production of a Doctor Who story - although credited director Paul Joyce was quickly re-hired. The decision was made not to replace K9 with another new model which was the direction taken when Mark I left in The Invasion of Time.įrom a production standpoint, it marked Graeme Harper's directorial debut on the programme, although he wasn't credited in that capacity for his work. It was the final regular appearance of Lalla Ward as Romana and John Leeson as K9 and concluded the " E-Space trilogy". Warriors' Gate was the fifth story of the 18th season of Doctor Who. You may be looking for the reference book of the same name.
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