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{{quote|''"I am the only one left now. I raise these stones to my wife, Astrid. May she forgive my sin. The day grows dark, and I sense the evil curse rising from the sea. I know now what the curse of Fenric seeks: the treasures from the Silk Lands in the east. I have heard the treasures whisper in my dreams. I have heard the magic words that will release great powers. I shall bury the treasure for ever. Tonight, I shall die, and the words die with me."'' }}
The Doctor and Ace step out of their TARDIS into a 1940's English naval base, where Dr. Judson is using his ULTIMA machine<ref>That would be [[Alan Turing]] and the ENIGMA machine.</ref> to crack inscriptions written on a Viking crypt. The inscription turns out to be a trigger for the eponymous curse and the awakening of an ancient evil named Fenric. What follows is a [[Gambit Pileup]] between Fenric and the Doctor.
Oh, and there's vampirism in the form of Haemovores and [[Character Development]] on the part of Ace.
Watch it [https://web.archive.org/web/20120428115715/http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x1322q_tardismedia_the-curse-of-fenric/1 here]
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* [[Large Ham]]: Jean and Phyllis are two juicy slices of utter ham.
* [[Last of His Kind]]: In the far future, pollution destroys all life on Earth except for the Ancient One.
* [[Les Yay]]: Jean and Phyllis, with each other and to a lesser extent with Ace.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: Ace realises that Kathleen is her grandmother.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Ace ''twice'' gives the villains the key piece of information they need to advance the plot.
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* [[Oop North]]: Meant to be set in northern England, although few, if any, of the guest cast try to sound northern. Faintly justified in that it's mostly set on a naval base during [[World War II]]; plenty of possibility for none of the sailors and marines stationed there to be from the local area. A lot of the characters aren't locals - Millington, Judson; even the Reverend Wainwright's distinctly non-Northern accent could be explained by him having gone to public school and learning to speak proper, like.
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: Besides acting more like zombies than vampires, Haemovores can be blocked by a psychic barrier created by one's faith.
* [[Out of Order]]: This was intended to be shown before "Ghost Light", so that Ace telling Kathleen about her fear of haunted houses would have been [[Foreshadowing]].
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: The Doctor's habit of not telling anyone else what's going on comes back to bite him big time.
* [[The Radio Dies First]]: Enforced
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: The eyes of every person Fenric takes over turn red.
* [[Shoot the Dog]] / [[Break His Heart to Save Him|Break Her Heart To Save Her]] / [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: The Doctor tells Fenric that he only took Ace in because he knew Fenric's curse was inside her, all while insulting Ace and making her cry. He had a good reason, but ''ouch''.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: 1940s computing is surprisingly accurately shown, and so are most of the details of period cryptanalysis. German cryptography really did depend on rotors, as shown, and the rotor diagram on Judson's blackboard is extremely simple but essentially accurate. On the other hand, translation of an ancient script is ''not'' "decryption", and the [[wikipedia:
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: Exploding chess sets.
* [[The Scottish Trope]]: "Let the chains of Fenric shatter."
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