Invasive Species - Episode 3
The survivor of a deadly attack is interviewed. The damaged boat is searched. Ballencek and Richards propose conflicting theories about the disappearances and deaths. Mayor Olafson reminds the investigating team that the RiverFest is the following day. Hoskins and Ballencek develop a plan for the Riverfest.
written and produced by Robert Parson
music by Earl Green
Cast: Lucien Dodge (Lt. Perry Ballencek), Jay Goemmer (Det. Richard Hoskins), Coreena Bolon (Dr. Marianna Richards), Robert Parson (Keiser / Mayor Sven Olafson), The Control Voice (Himself)
Total runing time: 4:23
In the time vortex, the Doctor’s TARDIS is surrounded by other Gallifreyan time vehicles - some of them armed for battle. The Doctor manages to escape them, but Charley - growing more aware of the borrowed time on which she’s been living since the Doctor took her away from the doomed R-101 - hits the TARDIS’ fast-return switch, leaving the Doctor and herself at the mercy of the Time Lords. On Gallifrey, the Doctor is briefed: his rescue of Charley has created a paradox which opened an opportune breach in the fabric of space-time, allowing anti-time to spill into the universe of real time. But creatures in the universe of anti-time now want to establish their own foothold in the real time realm, regardless of the disastrous consequences it could have for history across the universe. Romana, still the President of the Time Lords, asks for the Doctor’s help, but is unaware that much of what is happening is the direct result of another Time Lord. Along the way, the Doctor fights the Time Lords’ assertion that Charley must die in order for history to be saved, and an ancient TARDIS is found…one which belonged to Rassilon, but is now being used to lure the guardians of time to their doom.
Just as happened just before he visited the Cimmerian system, the Doctor’s TARDIS is thrashed by the energy of a time corridor - a corridor which just happens to bring him to a future in which few humans seem to know the historical significance of the works of Shakespeare. Even more alarmingly, time has somehow been altered to a degree that even Charley doesn’t know who Shakespeare is. General Mariah Learman does, however, remember the Bard, and she is intently trying to perfect a time machine of her own to set history to rights. The Doctor is troubled enough by Learman’s mission, but when the Daleks emerge from the time corridor - spouting Shakespearean prose - the Doctor knows something is terribly wrong. Shakespeare has been removed from time altogether, and the Doctor may not be able to put history’s most famous dramatist back where (and when) he belongs.