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''Terror of the Zygons'' is the first serial of the 13th season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 30 August to 20 September 1975. It was the last regular appearance by Ian Marter as companion Harry Sullivan, who would later return in ''The Android Invasion''. It was also the last regular appearance by Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, although Courtney would return for guest spots as well. ==Plot== An unseen force attacks and destroys an oil rig in the North Sea. In rural Scotland the day after the attack, the Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan arrive in a small village where Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and U.N.I.T. are investigating the rig's destruction. Huckle, a representative of Hiberian Oil (the company which owned the rig) explains that three other rigs have been destroyed in similar circumstances in the past month. He leads the Doctor, Harry and the Brigadier to Hiberian Oil's headquarters, where survivors of the rig's destruction are having their injuries treated. Meanwhile, another survivor, named Munro, washes up on a shoreline. At the village's inn, Sarah talks to the landlord Angus, and admires a stuffed deer's head. Angus reveals the head was a gift from the Duke of Forgill, a local landowner, and tells her an old legend about Tulloch Moor, where many people have disappeared in the mist over the centuries. On his way back to the village, Harry sees Munro on the moor, but before Munro can reveal what happened to the rig he is shot dead by Caber, one of the Duke of Forgill's servants. A second shot severely injures Harry. The Doctor returns to the inn and starts work on a radio probe to check for localised signal jamming, but receives a phone call stating Harry has been found injured on the moor. He and Sarah visit Harry in Hiberian Oil's sickbay, where he is sedated and being cared for by a nurse named Sister Lamont. While Sarah stays with Harry, the Doctor leaves and spots a piece of wreckage from a destroyed rig pierced with strange holes. He takes it back to the inn and makes a plaster cast of inside the holes, which resemble large fangs. At the sickbay, Harry starts to awaken. Sarah tries to telephone the Doctor, but is grabbed by an orange-skinned creature. Hearing Sarah's screams over the phone, the Doctor races back to the Sickbay. Sister Lamont tells him she found Sarah gone and Harry's bed empty. The Doctor finds Sarah in a decompression chamber, but before she can explain what happened the creature locks them in and remove the air from the chamber. The Doctor hypnotises Sarah into limiting her breaths, and puts himself under a similar trance. Sergeant Benton finds them and unlocks the pressure door. At the inn, the Brigadier is briefing one of his officers when gas floods the room, rendering them unconscious. Harry is brought to the spaceship of the Zygons, which is deep underwater. Their leader Broton reveals the ship crashed on Earth centuries ago, but while they waited for rescue the Zygon home planet was destroyed in a stellar explosion. The Zygons plan to conquer Earth, and command a mammalian sea monster called a Skarasen, which they have upgraded into an armoured cyborg and send to destroy the oil rigs. They also have several humans held captive, including the Duke, Caber and Sister Lamont. The Zygons are capable of shape-shifting, and use their captive's "body prints" to mimic them. Meanwhile, the Doctor, Sarah and Benton return to the village to find everyone drugged by nerve gas. When the people start to wake up, the Doctor deduces the gas was let off so something could pass through unseen. Huckle gives the Doctor a strange device he found in the wreckage, and he hypothesises it is what summons the sea monster, attracting it by sending out a mating call. The dead body of a U.N.I.T. soldier is found on the moor, and the Doctor and the Brigadier go to investigate, leaving Sarah at the inn. A Zygon disguised as Harry arrives at the inn and takes the signal device, but Sarah is suspicious of Harry's behaviour and pursues him with a troop of soldiers. She follows him into a barn, where he is hiding on the upper level. He attacks Sarah with a pitchfork, but falls from the ledge and dies, reverting to his original form. Before he can be taken away, though, Broton "disperses" the corpse. When the Doctor and the Brigadier return, Sarah wonders how the aliens knew they had the signal device. U.N.I.T. search the inn, and Broton sends the Skarasen to attack the village. As the signal device starts to beep, the Doctor takes it to lure the monster away while the Brigadier tries to trace the activating signal. As he runs onto the moor, the semi-organic device attaches itself to the Doctor's hand, so as the Skarasen approaches him he is unable to remove the device. On the Zygon ship, Harry rushes into the control room and randomly hits the controls, causing the device to fall off the Doctor's hand and allowing him to evade the Skarasen. Broton assumes the Skarasen has killed the Doctor and calls it back. The Doctor retrieves the device and reunites with the Brigadier and Sarah, who have tracked the signal to Loch Ness. They visit Forgill Castle, and meet with the Duke of Forgill, who does not believe the Doctor's claims of aliens inhabiting the loch. At the inn, Angus finds hidden surveillance cameras within the eyes of the stuffed deer head, which the Zygons have been using, but before he can tell anyone about it a Zygon disguised as Sister Lamont kills him and removes the cameras. Sgt. Benton finds Angus' body and leads the U.N.I.T. troops in pursuit of the killer. They track the Zygon down to a nearby forest and open fire. The Brigadier is informed that U.N.I.T. are pursuing a Zygon, and he and the Doctor leave Sarah at the castle to research the history of the Loch Ness Monster, which they suspect was inspired by the Skarasen. In the forest, the wounded Zygon disguises itself as Lamont, knocks out a soldier and steals a Jeep. At the Castle, Sarah triggers a hidden switch and finds a hidden passage. She ventures into the dark tunnel, which leads into the Zygon ship. The Duke, who is actually Broton in disguise, discovers the open route and brings the Zygon wounded by U.N.I.T. into the tunnel. In the ship, Sarah frees Harry from his cell and sneaks him back to the castle, where they meet with the Doctor and the Brigadier. The Doctor explores the tunnel, but is taken prisoner by the Zygons, who seal the entrance. The Brigadier orders for Loch Ness to be depth charged, but the Zygon ship emerges from the loch and takes off. The Brigadier orders U.N.I.T. to follow the Zygon ship, while Sarah and Harry search Forgill Castle for clues of what the Zygons are planning. Sarah finds documents revealing the Duke of Forgill is President of the Scottish Energy Commission, but Harry dismisses the information as useless. They return with the Brigadier to London, while the ship lands in a quarry and the Skarasen swims out to sea. Broton, taking the Duke's form, tells the Doctor that a Zygon refugee ship is coming to Earth, but will take many centuries to arrive. In the meantime, the Zygons plan to restructure Earth's environment to make it suitable for them to inhabit. When Broton leaves the ship to plant a signal device on his chosen target, the Doctor rigs some of the organic technology in his cell and sends a transmission. Escaping from the cell, he frees the real Duke, Sister Lamont and Caber and uses his sonic screwdriver to set off the ship's fire alarm. While the Zygons are distracted, the Doctor ushers the captives out of the ship and activates its self-destruct setting. When U.N.I.T. arrive at the quarry, the Doctor and the captives escape from the ship before it explodes. They trace Broton's target to London, close to the Thames, and the Brigadier and the Duke explain that the Prime Minister is attending the first international energy conference at Stanbridge House, which is near the river. Because the Duke is the president of the Scottish Energy Commission, the disguised Broton will have a pass into the meeting. When U.N.I.T. and the Doctor reach Stanbridge House, Broton has placed the signal device in the basement to lure the Skarasen. The Doctor confronts him, they fight, and the Brigadier shoots Broton dead. The Skarasen emerges from the Thames, and the Doctor throws the signal device into its open mouth. Satisfied, the monster swims away, heading back to Loch Ness. Returning to Scotland, the Brigadier tells the Duke the incident will be covered up. The Doctor leads them into the woods where the TARDIS is, and offers everyone a lift. The Brigadier and Harry decline, but Sarah asks to be taken straight back to London. The Doctor promises, and they depart. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Terror of the Zygons」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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