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The Doctor succeeds in switching off the calming gas and the workers rise up against The Company and kill the hated Gatherer Hade, while the Doctor does some computer jiggery-pokery to bankrupt it. The Usurian "Collector" is powerless to stop The Company going bust and reverts to his natural form - a harmless fungus.
* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: the undercity.
* [[Author Tract]]: Writer Robert Holmes based this story on some of the troubles he was having with England's revenue office.<ref>Due to having been simultaneously paid by the BBC as a salaried worker in his role as script editor, and as a freelancer for the scripts he was credited writer on</ref>
* [[Badass Boast]]: Leela gets several, but most memorably when the Others threaten to kill her.
{{quote|'''Leela:''' Before I die I'll see this rathole ankle deep in blood. That is a promised thing.}}
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* [[Plant Aliens]]: The Usurians turn out to be a species of poisonous fungus.
* [[La Résistance]]
* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: Goudry is played by Michael Keating, better known for his later role as Vila Restal of ''[[Blake's 7
* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Villified]]: Initially subverted - the 'resistance' are depicted as brutal, self-interested and venal criminals out for themselves rather than any higher purpose until the Doctor effectively takes over.
* [[Sauna of Death]]: Leela is captured and sentenced to death by "steaming."
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