|
''The Hand of Fear'' is the second serial of the 14th season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 2 October to 23 October 1976. The serial was the last regular appearance of Elisabeth Sladen in the role of Sarah Jane Smith in ''Doctor Who''. ==Plot== Millennia ago on the planet Kastria, a traitor and criminal named Eldrad is sentenced to death for his crimes, including the destruction of the barriers that have kept the solar winds at bay. The pod containing the criminal is obliterated – but his hand survives. In the present day the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith arrive in the TARDIS in a quarry and are caught up in a quarrying explosion. Sarah is rendered unconscious but in that state makes contact with the fossilised hand, its ring placing her under its control. The Doctor takes her to the local hospital, where the mesmeric power of the hand becomes more complete and both Sarah and a pathologist called Dr Carter are brought under its control. Sarah heads for the nearest nuclear generator, the Nunton Complex, where she causes a crisis by breaking into the reactor with the hand. It seems to thrive on radiation and begins to regenerate, growing back its missing finger and moving around unaided. The head of the complex, Professor Watson remains at his post when the reactor goes critical, and offers the Doctor aid and advice in trying to get to Sarah despite Carter attempting to stop the Doctor before he fell to his death. But by the time the Doctor reaches Sarah and knocks her down, it turned out the radiation has been absorbed by the hand as the Doctor takes his companion to the medical center. The hand's ring later takes over a nuclear operative called Driscoll, who is manipulated into bringing the hand into the reactor core with everyone fleeing the complex. An RAF bombing raid simply adds to the available radiation and allows Eldrad to regenerate into a fully humanoid form. Finding herself in a female form, using her powers to learn from the Doctor why the humans attempted to destroy her, Eldrad convinces him to take her back to Kastria, explaining that she created the solar barriers that enable her people to thrive while claiming that they were subsequently destroyed when Kastria was caught in the middle of an interstellar war. The Doctor, Sarah and Eldrad travel to Kastria in the present time in the TARDIS – 150 million years after she left. They find a barren and frozen world, with the few signs of civilization many floors below ground. Eldrad is caught in one of a series of traps left, having the Doctor take her to a regeneration chamber. Though seemingly destroyed, Eldrad emerges in his true masculine form before going in a tirade upon seeing a hologram of King Rokon. Admitting that he destroyed the barriers during his attempt to usurp the Kastrian leadership, Eldrad finds the remains of Rokon while learning from a pre-recorded message that the Kastrian race accepted extinction over living a miserable existence underground and destroyed the race banks in case Eldrad returned. When Eldrad decided to make his new empire on Earth, the Doctor deposes of the would-be tyrant by tripping him into an abyss – keeping the Kastrain's ring to ensure he would not regenerate. Not long after departure in the TARDIS, the Doctor receives a summons to Gallifrey and declares he cannot take Sarah with him. Upset by that, after everything she went through, Sarah vents out her intention to leave and had packed her things. Though Sarah expressed an interest to see Gallifrey, the Doctor explains he cannot take her with him and takes her back to Earth where she tells the Doctor not to forget her. But after the TARDIS departs, Sarah Jane realises that the Doctor did not leave her on Hillview Road as planned, and probably not even in South Croydon. 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「The Hand of Fear」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|