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Eventually the Doctor manages to separate the two ships, with help from the TARDIS's systems. The drug-smugglers turn out to be Tryst and Dymond, the owner of the smaller ship. It turns out that vraxoin is made from decomposed Mandrel corpses, which was why Tryst was keeping them in his hi-tech zoo. The Doctor decides to return the Mandrels and the other specimens to their original planets.
Eventually the Doctor manages to separate the two ships, with help from the TARDIS's systems. The drug-smugglers turn out to be Tryst and Dymond, the owner of the smaller ship. It turns out that vraxoin is made from decomposed Mandrel corpses, which was why Tryst was keeping them in his hi-tech zoo. The Doctor decides to return the Mandrels and the other specimens to their original planets.
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=== Tropes ===
== Tropes ==


* [[All There in the Manual]]: The weird glowing thing that knocks Romana out is explained in the novelisation as a venomous Eden insect.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: The weird glowing thing that knocks Romana out is explained in the novelisation as a venomous Eden insect.
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* [[Call Back]]: The CET machine and the Mandrels are very similar to the Miniscope and the Drashigs from "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S10/E02 Carnival of Monsters|Carnival of Monsters]]".
* [[Call Back]]: The CET machine and the Mandrels are very similar to the Miniscope and the Drashigs from "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S10/E02 Carnival of Monsters|Carnival of Monsters]]".
* [[Clear My Name]] / [[Not What It Looks Like]]
* [[Clear My Name]] / [[Not What It Looks Like]]
* [[Death World]]: The misleadingly named Eden. (The novelisation makes it clear that this was deliberately sarcastic.}
* [[Death World]]: The misleadingly named Eden. (The novelisation makes it clear that this was deliberately sarcastic.)
* [[Drunk Driver|Drugged Pilot]]
* [[Drunk Driver|Drugged Pilot]]
* [[Drugs Are Bad]]
* [[Drugs Are Bad]]

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Romana: I don't think we should interfere.
The Doctor: Interfere! Of course we should interfere. Always do what you're best at, that's what I say.

The Doctor and Romana arrive on a space liner orbiting the planet Azure, which has just been impaled by a private spacecraft due to an accident leaving hyperspace. The accident happened because the navigator of the liner was stoned out of his mind on a horribly addictive illegal drug called vraxoin, and it appears somebody onboard the liner is smuggling it.

To make things more dangerous, a biologist named Tryst who is travelling aboard the liner is carrying a machine of his invention that keeps samples of alien ecosystems in pocket universes for observation. The effects of the hyperspace Tele Frag cause a group of monstrous predatory beasts called Mandrels, from the misleadingly-named planet Eden, to escape and start slicing people up.

The Doctor and Romana are further endangered when the brutal and stupid local border guards assume that the Doctor is a drug-dealer because he was carrying some vraxoin he discovered around as evidence.

Eventually the Doctor manages to separate the two ships, with help from the TARDIS's systems. The drug-smugglers turn out to be Tryst and Dymond, the owner of the smaller ship. It turns out that vraxoin is made from decomposed Mandrel corpses, which was why Tryst was keeping them in his hi-tech zoo. The Doctor decides to return the Mandrels and the other specimens to their original planets.

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