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Line 1: {{work}} [[File:ribos_9369.jpg\|frame]] {{quote\| '''The Doctor''': ''Ah! You want me to volunteer, is that it? And if I don't?''~~<br />~~ '''The Guardian''': ''Nothing.''~~<br />~~ '''The Doctor''': ''What? Nothing? You mean nothing will happen to me?''~~<br />~~ '''The Guardian''': ''Nothing at all. (pause) Ever.'' }} The White Guardian interrupts the Doctor's puttering around in the TARDIS to give him a quest: [[Gotta Catch Em All\|find all six segments]] of the [[Cosmic Keystone\|Key To Time]] before... well, there's a deadline, but it's not entirely clear when it is. But sooner would be better. [[~~The~~ Hero's Journey\|True to form]], the White Guardian gives the Doctor some supernatural aid. Her name is Romana. Line 16: Romana reads the TARDIS Owner's Guide and effects a perfect materialisation on the icy, remote, pre-contact world of Ribos, location of [[Plot Coupon]] #1. They quickly track it to the royal bling room, where it's been disguised as a huge glowy blue lump of [[Green Rocks\|jethrik]], an incredibly rare and expensive subtance. But all is not as it seems. The jethrik has been planted there by one Garron: ostensibly a real estate agent showing the planet to a client (the Graff, a psychopathic ex-dictator), but really a [[Snake Oil Salesman]] trying to trick the Graff into paying an inflated price for the allegedly jethrik-rich planet. It works, and the Graff's million-opek down payment is stored in the royal treasury for the night. The [[Genre Savvy]] will not be surprised to learn that, next morning, the money and the jethrik is gone, and the guards have no idea what the Graff Vynda-K is ranting about. === Tropes === * [[Aliens Speaking English]]: A peculiar variant. Garron affects a strong [[British Accents\|Somerset accent]] as part of his con, apparently to sound like more of a rube. The Doctor identifies it as such, and goes so far as to wonder why an accent specific to [[The West Country\|a few counties]] on an [[Insignificant Little Blue Planet]] is being heard on Ribos. [[Justified Trope\|It eventually turns out that Garron is either a native of Earth, or spent some time there in the past]]. * [[Green Rocks\|Blue Rocks]]: The jethrik. * [[The Caligula]]: The Graff Vynda-K. * [[Cosmic Keystone]] * [[Did We Just Have Tea ~~With~~with Cthulhu?]]: The opening encounter with the White Guardian. * [[Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?\|Did You Just Scam The Caligula?]] * [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: Ribos looks a lot like old Russia. This may be why it looks so damn cool. That or good [[World Building]]. Or both. Line 46: * [[The Shill]]: Unstoffe * [[Snake Oil Salesman]]: Garron * [[Vindicated Byby History]]: Unstoffe tells Binro the Heretic that he will be vindicated in his claims about astronomy and Ribos being one of many planets in the universe. {{quote\| '''Unstoffe:''' Someday, even here, people will look at each other and say: ''"Binro was right!"''}} * [[Violin Scam]] {{reflist}} [[Category:Doctor Who (TV)/Recap]]▼ ~~[[Category:Doctor Who S 16 E 1 The Ribos Operation]]~~ [[Category:Recap]] [[Category:Doctor Who]] ▲[[Category:Doctor Who ~~(TV)~~/Recap]]