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So, everyone goes back off to the Think Tank under various guises. The Doctor as a simple visitor, Harry as a random medical inspector. The Doctor and Winters banter back and forth about the K1 Robot, but Winters claims it's been dismantled while the Doctor figures she has to be lying. Back at UNIT HQ, the Doctor receives a call from Kettlewell about the Robot being at the think tank, leaves a note on the TARDIS [[Chasing Your Tail|and then runs back to the Think Tank]]. There, the Doctor finally runs into the K1 Robot, which proclaims him the enemy of Humanity. The Doctor gives it a game struggle (involving marbles, creative use of his scarf, and his own hat) before being knocked down, and the Robot begins to bend down and... well, not actually ''do anything'' to the Doctor, as Sarah Jane runs into the room and... shouts that the Think Tank is deceiving the poor robot.
 
Rather than continue, the K1 robot flails around helplessly. And then it runs away, showing an ability to [[Immune to Bullets|tank UNIT bullets like nobody's business]]. Our TARDIS crew finds Kettlewell tied up in a corner and takes him off to UNIT, where he explains that the robot is made out of living metal--andmetal—and, in a remarkable coincidence, that he's just developed an anti-formula that can turn that living metal into scrap. Why the hell does the think tank even fund stuff like this? It's clearly never going to come into play.
 
Anyway, as it turns out, Kettlewell is a member of this new group: the Scientific Reform Society. Sarah Jane investigated them earlier in the previous episode and declared them to be general nutters, but since Kettlewell is a member, it's time to go investigate them in more depth. Sarah Jane runs off with Kettlewell to attend tonight's meeting as the Brigadier and the Doctor realize that the recently-killed Cabinet Member held secret nuclear launch codes for all the nations of the world.<ref>Because, you know, Great Britain was totally a neutral country in the [[Cold War]].</ref> The Doctor puts all of these individual pieces together and somehow realizes... that the SRS is evil.
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Watch it [http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/xxyd1_tardismedia_robot here]
 
=== Tropes ===
 
* [[Actually, That's My Assistant]]: Sarah Jane makes this mistake while visiting the Think Tank.
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