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'''The Doctor''': History books? Captain Hart, Horatio Nelson was a personal friend of mine. }}
The Doctor and Jo go and visit the Master in his high-security offshore prison and find out that ships have been disappearing at sea. The Doctor investigates, and finds that the sinkings appear to centre around an abandoned sea fort. Heading out there, they encounter what one sailor calls a "Sea Devil" - apparently an amphibious breed of "Silurian" (see "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S7
It turns out that the Master has got his prison governor under control and the latter is procuring parts so that the renegade Time Lord can build a machine to revive the Sea Devils from hibernation.
The Doctor goes down in a diving bell to try and negotiate with the Sea Devils, but politicians have got involved now and a depth-charge attack soon puts paid to negotiations. In the confusion, the Doctor frees a captured British submarine and heads back to the surface.
The Sea Devils attack and capture the nearby naval base and with it the Doctor, who is taken to the Master and forced to help him finish the machine. But the Doctor sabotages it, and the two Time Lords escape as the base explodes. The Sea Devils are all killed in the explosion, but the Master makes his escape in a hovercraft.
* [[Action Girl]]: Jo Grant is one in this episode. She rescues the Doctor, incapacitates a guard and pilots a hovercraft.
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* [[Go-Karting with Bowser]]: The Doctor, Jo and The Master share a couple of jokes and chat amiably for a few minutes when The Doctor and Jo first arrive.
* [[Hazardous Water]]: The Sea Devils make every attempt to turn the North Sea into this.
* [[For the Evulz]]: Why is the Master working with the Sea Devils? So he can get rid of the Doctor's favorite species. That's all the reward he needs.
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Right at the very end, the script punts the ball squarely in the Doctor and the Navy's direction, and they catch it. The Navy has the Master under guard, with The Doctor watching, on a relatively small hovercraft. Somehow, even among all those sailors and one Time Lord, in a confined space, The Master is able to a) hypnotize a sailor into playing dead, b) slap a [[Latex Perfection|perfect mask of his face]] onto the poor schlub, and c) swap clothes with him. And then, he's able to make off with the hovercraft, because the Navy decided not to have at least two people mind it.
* [[Jedi Mind Trick]]: You can almost hear "these aren't the droids you're looking for" as [[The Master (trope)|The Master]] hypnotizes a CPO set to guard him in the last episode.
* [[Latex Perfection]]: [[The Master (trope)|The Master]] pulls one of these, along with another faked death, to escape at the end of the episode.
* [[Lima Syndrome]]: Colonel Trenchard falls under the Master's influence without even needing to be hypnotised.
* [[The Master (trope)|The Master]]
* [[Mistook the Dominant Lifeform]]: The Master mistakes The Clangers for actual aliens. (an [[Alternate Character Interpretation]], supported by watching the Master's reactions carefully, suggests that he knew full well that The Clangers was a TV show, but was toying with Trenchard by playing dumb.)
** As an ALTERNATE [[Alternate Character Interpretation]], the Master knew it was a children's show and was briefly amused by it: he's smiling and whistling along as he watches. Trenchard enters and catches him, and the Master has to pretend not to understand what he's watching in order to save face. His "Oh~" when he's informed that they're just puppets is said in that sort of false, semi-interested tone you use when someone tells you something you already know but you're being polite. He casually crosses the room to switch the TV off, and then out of Trenchard's view grimaces in exasperation at having to turn off a program he was enjoying.
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* [[Off-the-Shelf FX]]: That little nuclear sub? A modified toy from Woolworth's.
* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: The Bofors gun firing in the last episode, and many of the rifles throughout, don't seem to have their sounds adjusted, and were recorded as they'd naturally sound, making for a less-than-dramatic effect for those unaccustomed to how guns actually sound when fired.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: Averted. When trying to rent the launch from the quaymaster, The Doctor mentions that his leg was injured in [[Crimean War|The Crimea]]. The quaymaster doesn't buy it. Then he tries [[World War
* [[Reverse Polarity]]: The Doctor sabotages the Master's machine by "reversing the polarity of the neutron flow". This is [[Never Live It Down|the only time]] the Third Doctor utters the whole phrase instead of just parts of it.
{{quote|'''Doctor''': Before you reactivated it, I reversed the polarity of the neutron flow.}}
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