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'''The Doctor:''' ''No, I'm more from what you'd call "inner time".'' }}
The search for the Key To Time takes the Doctor and Romana to present-day (well, 1970s) Earth, where the Tracer leads them to a group of standing stones on Boscome Moor. The third segment is nowhere to be found, and the travellers instead meet the elderly Professor Amelia Rumford and her assistant Vivien Fay, who tell them that the site has had a varying number of stones over the years.
Then the inevitable druids show up and inevitably nearly sacrifice the Doctor, before it is revealed that the stones themselves are sentient - a lifeform called Ogri who feed on blood. One of the Ogri kills the head druid and it is revealed that Vivien Fay is in fact the Cailleach, a being worshipped by the druids, having taken on human form after being on Earth for thousands of years. Fay transports Romana to a spaceship hidden in hyperspace at the circle, and the Doctor follows.
Accidentally releasing two justice robots, the Doctor is sentenced to death but he tricks them into instead knocking Fay unconscious. Reading her mind, the robots (called Megara) establish that Fay is in fact Cessair of Diplos, the criminal they have been sent to try. They transform her into the final stone in the circle, but not before the Doctor has snagged her necklace - the segment of the Key that he has been looking for.
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* [[All Myths Are True]]
* [[And I Must Scream]]: Cessair's fate
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* [[Celtic Mythology]]
* [[Cool Old Lady]]: Professor Amelia Rumford. When going out to find the Doctor, she takes a policeman's truncheon with her.
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'''Vivien:''' A policeman's truncheon. Last year, when she lectured in New York, she took it with her in case she got mugged.
'''Romana:''' And did she get mugged?
'''Vivien:''' No, she got arrested for carrying an offensive weapon. }}
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Exposition of Immortality]]: There are three portraits missing from the wall at Boscombe Hall. The Doctor and Profesor Rumford come across them later, revealing them to all be portraits of Vivien Fay painted at various points during her long existence on Earth.
* [[Fan Disservice]]: Professor Rumford is played by the 75-year-old Beatrix Lehmann who is quite clearly not wearing a bra beneath her blouse. And it gets quite cold in some of the exterior scenes, if you're into that sort of thing in old women.
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* [[Judge, Jury, and Executioner]]: The Megara
* [[Literal Cliff Hanger]]
* [[Milestone Celebration]]: Averted. This is the 100th [[
* [[Our Ogres Are Hungrier]]: The Doctor suggests that Gog, Magog, and Ogre could be inspired by the Ogri, large rocks that feed on blood.
* [[Plot Allergy]]: Cessair, like all Diplosians, has an aversion to citric acid, which helps in discovering her true identity.
* [[Really 700 Years Old]]: Vivien Fay
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Silicon
* [[Stripped to
* [[Vapor Wear]]
* [[The X of Y]]
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