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== Specific Moments ==

* The Sergeant [[Hannibal Lecture|verbally dissecting]] Joanna's family and the de-aged Inspector as he holds them hostage during the dinner party. Anthony Hopkins' subdued performance as the Sergeant lends some legitimate creepiness to the performance as he, one by one, brings all of the Martin family to tears without even leaving his seat. Even worse: it's [[Tethercat Principle|implied]] that he did this to them ''every night'' during The Month That Was Meant To Be, while holding them hostage on his submarine.

* [[The Teaser]] from Season 22's "The Mark of the Maharani." The Sixth Inspector [[Dissonant Serenity|relaxing in a leather armchair]], staring directly into the camera, and muttering quiet, rhythmic gibberish (that, it turns out, is a synopsis of the episode's plot in [[Ominous Latin Chanting|backwards Latin]])? That's a bit creepy. But upon repeat viewings, you pick up more details--like the fact that he doesn't blink even once during the nearly two-minute-long intro, or that there are strange amorphous ''things'' churning in the darkness behind him, or that [[Freeze Frame Bonus|for a few frames toward the end his eyes appear to be charcoal drawings crudely sketched onto an expanse of otherwise featureless skin]], or that the Inspector is referring to you ''by name.''

* [[The Teaser]] from Season 22's "The Mark of the Maharani." The Sixth Inspector [[Dissonant Serenity|relaxing in a leather armchair]], staring directly into the camera, and muttering quiet, rhythmic gibberish (that, it turns out, is a synopsis of the episode's plot in [[Ominous Latin Chanting|backwards Latin]])? That's a bit creepy. But upon repeat viewings, you pick up more details--like the fact that he doesn't blink even once during the nearly two-minute-long intro, or that there are strange amorphous ''things'' churning in the darkness behind him, or that [[Freeze-Frame Bonus|for a few frames toward the end his eyes appear to be charcoal drawings crudely sketched onto an expanse of otherwise featureless skin]], or that the Inspector is referring to you ''by name.''

** It's worth noting that no one at BTV actually remembers writing or filming this intro, and that until his death Graham Chapman denied the person in the chair was him.

** At one point the pipe in the Inspector's hand is replaced with what appears to be an inhumanly large severed finger.