Original air dates January through March 1971. Many episodes again. I think I like them shorter. Should have The Master in it, being a bad guy.
The Doctor and Jo motor to a prison, which is very noisy. They are about to explain the process they’re doing on prisoners. The “Keller process” extracts evil impulses from the brain, leaving a rational mind behind. There’s a white light and a science fictiony noise.
UNIT is busy, including moving a missile and security for a peace conference.
The brain sucker machine starts to blink and affect the prison administrator, feels he’s drowning. He dies.
At the peace conference, the Chinese delegate is murdered. UNIT invstigates.
At the prison, there’s another disturbance, and the brain-sucker starts to blink again, with the Doctor working on it. He feels as if he’s on fire, while the credits roll.
Jo interrupts.
The Doctor is recalled to London, leaving Jo to follow his instructions. Lock the doors and keep everyone away from the Kettering machine.
At the peace conference, the Chinese guard uses the Kettering machine somehow to knock down a UNIT man, and evade him.
Here’s the Master, bugging UNIT’s phones and planning to steal this missile as it is moved.
The Brigadier and Doctor go to see the new Chinese delegate, who the Doctor wins over by speaking to him in in his native tounge, leaving the Brigader lost.
Things continue to go badly at the prison.
The Master meets up with the Chinese guard, who he puts the whammy on real good to get her to kill the American delegate. She does this, but UNIT sees her. She starts killing the US Senator as credits roll.
Next episode, the Senator is afraid of wild animals or Chinese dragons or something and the Chinese guard turns into one to accost the senator, who is in shock, nearly dies.
The Doctor figures out the Master is Emmiel Keller and in charge of the Keller process. UNIT is informed Jo is a hostage. She doesn’t stay that way, seizing the gun and causing the distraction that allows the police to raid the stand off.
The Master arrives at the prison, talks to the next scheduled for the machine. Gives him a gun and grenades and helps him escape.
The Doctor, lured to the prison by the Master, is captured and then placed in the Keller machine. Master leaves him to his nightmares, and the credits roll over Dalek noises.
The Doctor’s brain overloads the machine, and the Master staggers back in to shut it off. The Doctor is half dead. Winds up in a cell with Jo.
The Master has a battle of wills with his machine, and mostly wins, but it’s a stress. The thing in the machine is getting stronger. The Master sees The Doctor, larger than life and laughing at him.
The convicts steal the missile for the Master.
Doctor and Jo see the Master leaving, and head for the Process room to deal with The Machine, which is now apparently moving itself around. It kills some more men and vanishes, leaving the Doctor and Jo free. Gunshots do not effect it and credits roll.
It chases another prisoner away.
A UNIT helicopter, looking for the missile, sees Jo and the Doctor at the prison. Lethbridge-Stewart decides the missile is there and they’ll take the prison.
The Doctor rigs a device to halt the wandering brain-sucker machine. The Master has had to come back to the prison to deal with it instead of launching the missile.
The Brigadier springs his jailbreak.
The lead prisoner uses The Doctor and Jo as hostages to get free. The Doctor is shot, as the credits roll.
The Master goes back to his missile to launch. The Doctor tries to figure out how to nobble the Keller machine. Meanwhile, it’s doing its best to escape, with much camera waving.
The Doctor offers The Master a deal; the dematerialization circuit from his tardis for the missile, and to take himself elsewhere. The Master accepts.
The Master runs away with his TARDIS, leaving the Doctor stuck and bitter.
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