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Our Dalek story this time opens up in the middle of London, circa 1984. We watch a bum watching several oddly-dressed people attempt to escape from a random warehouse... only to be gunned down by British cops wielding modern (for 1984) submachine guns. The bum is then, of course, gunned down himself. The cops then pull out a remote and make the bodies vanish in a glow of red light. However, one man was able to hide...
On the TARDIS, however, the Doctor and our companions are [[Doctor Who
One of those cops, named Lytton, somehow transports himself aboard a rather sweet looking spaceship an untold distance away from Earth. As it turns out, he's working with... evil people. Doing evil things - though this is self-explanatory when it turns out they're working for the Daleks.<ref>And when they do the work of the Daleks, they wear Dalek-themed helmets.</ref> Their objective? To invade a space-prison that holds Davros, creator of the Daleks! Why? Well... we don't know. But ignore that, we've got a story to tell. And by "story" we mean "show the Daleks wiping out everyone on that prison station as they liberate Davros."
Meandering around the streets of London, the Doctor and companions run into that lone survivor: a terrified, stuttering man named Stein. Since the Doctor is totally caring for the man's situation, the Doctor immediately recruits Stein into helping his party search for the right warehouse which has the time corridor in it. However, before they can go much further, the Doctor and crew stumble across a bomb disposal squad. As it turns out, they've been called in to dispose of several things that are supposedly unexploded bombs, despite looking like naff props from a 1980s science fiction show. Turlough, for his part, stumbles into the time corridor - winding up on the alien ship.<ref>To his credit, he decides to hide rather than be captured in seconds.</ref> The rest of the crew are updated soon enough, however, as the time corridor activates again... revealing a Dalek! Good golly gosh, it certainly would be fantastic to have a companion who [[Doctor Who
Tegan, for her part, is hit by a ricochetting bullet and is out of action for almost the rest of this serial.
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The Doctor confronts Davros and the two of them engage in a lovely debate at gunpoint... until Stein's programming takes control again and everyone else in the party dies for some reason involving Dalek-controlled-humans and extermination. Well, ''shit.'' The Doctor and Stein escape again - but Stein runs off, refusing to risk the Doctor's life by staying around him. As it turns out, Davros has been reprogramming Daleks and random humans to obey only him, and the regular Daleks don't like this. As he begins his big escape, Davros drops a vial of the anti-Dalek virus to prevent the regular Daleks from killing him off - destroying several Daleks in seconds, making them spout lots of shaving cream as they die.
Back on Earth, however, a massive battle is going on between the Daleks and Davros' Army. The Doctor, back on Earth, figures out those 'bombs' are really giant capsules holding more samples of the virus. and sets them off, killing all the Daleks off instantly. Lytton, for his part, escapes and puts on a cop's uniform - wandering off into the sunset, [[Doctor Who
Back on the space prison, Davros himself begins to escape until he also begins to spray shaving cream from his wheelchair - [[Dropped a Bridge On Him|he too is vulnerable to the virus]]. Stein activates the self-destruct with his dying breath - taking out the remaining Daleks and pretty much tying up the plot in a neat little bow.
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* [[Distressed Dude]]: The Doctor, once again.
* [[Batman Grabs a Gun|The Doctor Grabs a Gun]]: And not just the compact fluorescent bulb gun pictured. Earlier, he unloads a clip of pistol on a Kaled mutant.
** [[Writer On Board]]: A possible explanation for the above. With the exception of [[Doctor Who
* [[Downer Ending]]
* [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]]: {{spoiler|Davros is apparently killed by the Movellan virus, and his body blasted to oblivion when the space station self-destructs. This was intended to kill off Davros permanently, but Terry Nation kicked up a stink, and so he got better for the next story.}}
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* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Stien, again.
* [[Kick the Son of A Bitch]]: On the one hand, it's Davros. On the other hand - serious [[Moral Dissonance]]. {{spoiler|Oh, and Davros ''talks'' [[Hannibal Lecture|his way out of it]]}}
* [[Kill'Em All]]: This serial has the highest on-screen body count in a [[
** Think ''that's'' shocking? At the time, it had a reputation for having a higher on-screen body count than ''[[The Terminator]]'', for Chrissakes!
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: Questionable. The Doctor isn't able to kill Davros but happily wipes out several Daleks. Of course you can argue he thinks Davros has a shot at redemption, while the Daleks are incapable of positive growth or that his failure to kill Davros drives him to kill the Daleks.
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