

As he does this, he catches sight of and recognises the woman in white from earlier, and is saddened. The Doctor, armed with Wilfred's gun, breaks into the room from above, but vacillates over whether to kill the Master or the President in order to sever the link he eventually spots the whitepoint star and shoots it instead. Gallifrey materialises above Earth, and all the other horrors of the Time War are likely to follow. When the Master clones himself billions of times, the Time Lord President also sends a "whitepoint star" from their home planet Gallifrey to the Master in the present day to strengthen the connection between present-day Earth and Gallifrey, which presently is "timelocked" in the middle of a Time War shortly before its destruction, a fate which it is otherwise unable to escape. They are able to put a signal in the young Master's head as a small child, creating the drum beat he has heard all his life. Meanwhile, the Time Lord President receives a prophecy about the future after the Time War, and so schemes to use the Master to one day escape. The Doctor and Wilfred are rescued from the Master by the Vinvocci, taking refuge on their orbiting ship. For Gallifrey! For victory! For the end of Time itself!"
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The Master and his race taunt the Doctor, who can only look on in horror.įar across the Universe, the episode's narrator remarks that the Master's removal of humanity is only the beginning of far greater events the narrator is revealed to be the Lord President of the Time Lords-the Doctor and Master's species- who addresses a vast chamber full of other Time Lords, and announces that it is "the day the Time Lords returned. The Master ultimately uses the device to replace all of humankind with his DNA, creating a 'Master Race' exceptions to this are Wilf, who is shielded from its effects, and Wilf's granddaughter Donna, a former companion and friend of the Doctor who acquired Time Lord biological traits in an earlier adventure. Aliens of the Vincocci species reveal themselves and attempt to explain that the device is a simple medical device from their homeworld, but are unsuccessful. They travel to the Naismith estate where they discover Naismith is in possession of an alien "Immortality Gate" and has enlisted the Master to fix its programming. Wilfred is repeatedly warned by an apparitional woman in white claiming an old service pistol to protect the Doctor, before he is joining him in his time machine, the TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). The Doctor discovers that the sound is not a symptom of the Master's insanity, but before he can learn more, the Master is abducted by troops and placed in the custody of billionaire Joshua Naismith.


The Doctor tracks the Master to wastelands outside of London, where the Master subdues him and forces him to listen to the sound of drums in his head. The Doctor attempts to trace the Master, on Christmas Eve, and encounters his friend Wilfred Mott, to whom the Doctor explains a prophecy that he is to die soon. On present day Earth, a cult loyal to the Master attempt to resurrect him the Master's ex-wife, Lucy Saxon sabotages the ceremony however, and the Master is brought back suffering from constant hunger, also having gained superhuman strength and speed along with energy projection from his constantly expending energy. The Doctor learns from the psychic alien Ood that his arch-nemesis the Master will shortly return, heralding "the end of Time itself".
