The Face In The Mirror
His name is Frederick Monash, and he’s a survivor of the Big Death. He’s on the run from Daniel’s forces, and he’s trying to reach the resistance, but has to go into hiding just before he can meet with them. Jeremiah’s father knew him, at Valhalla Sector, when he was working on a top-secret plan called Project Backfire, designed to keep Valhalla Sector’s more militant leaders from grabbing too much power – but no one ever knew if he lived long enough in the outside world to set that plan into motion. Monash’s mission was to create a new government that would challenge Valhalla Sector’s secretive tactics, and if a leader couldn’t be found to lead that new society, one would be invented. But somewhere along the way, Project Backfire lived up to its name and became even more vicious than Valhalla Sector itself, and its leader is indeed the one Monash dreamed up – and his name is Daniel.
story by Sara (Samm) Barnes and J. Michael Straczynski
teleplay by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by Sean Astin
music by Tim TrumanGuest Cast: Peter Stebbings (Marcus), Francoise Yip (Rachel), Leila Arcieri (Crystal), Robert Wisden (Devon), Matthew Walker (Frederick Monash), John Pyper-Ferguson (Sims), James Upton (Aide), Trever Havixbeck (Driver), Michael Jonsson (Driver), Kimani Ray Smith (Traveler), Leanne Adachi (Traveler), Linden Banks (Scientist), Judith Maxie (Scott), Larry Musser (Warren)
Appearing in footage from Letters From The Other Side and Crossing Jordan: Joanne Kelly (Libby)
LogBook entry by Earl Green
The Doctor lands his TARDIS just outside the office of the President of the Time Lords, and whisks President Romana and her K-9 unit away to Earth to see to unfinished business. At St. Cedd’s College, Cambridge, an elderly Time Lord refugee going by the name of Professor Chronotis has summoned the Doctor to help him return a book, “The Ancient and Worshipful Law of Ancient Gallifrey”, to the Time Lords themsevlves. His plan to have the Doctor do this for him, this preserving his anonymity, has one major snag: Chronotis appears to have accidentally loaned the book out to one of his students, Chris Parsons. Before the Doctor can locate the book, Parsons and his friend Clare Keightly have already figured out that there’s something strange and perhaps even dangerous about the book. And something dangerous is certainly on the trail of the book – a megalomanical criminal named Skagra, using his mind-draining sphere, will stop at nothing to find Chronotis and the book. He hopes to use the book to find the well-hidden Time Lord prison planet, Shada – and once there, he hopes to drain the mind of the Time Lords’ most dangerous criminal, Salyavin, using his knowledge to take over every sentient mind in the universe.