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''The Stones of Blood'' is the third serial of the 16th season in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 28 October to 18 November 1978. Part 4 was broadcast during the week of the show's fifteenth anniversary. It forms part of the Key to Time story arc. ==Plot== The Doctor and Romana are about to embark in search of the third segment of the Key to Time when an aural warning tells them to "Beware the Black Guardian." They venture outside to find themselves near the Nine Travellers, a group of standing stones in Boscombe Moor, Cornwall. Also interested in the location is aged archaeologist, Professor Emilia Rumford, who is surveying the stones along with her friend, Vivien Fay. Alerted to the activities of a local druidic sect, the Doctor heads off to meet its implied leader, de Vries, who lives in a large property nearby, Boscombe Hall, built on the site of the Convent of the Sisters of St Gudula. Inside, de Vries and another woman, Martha are incanting to the Cailleach, the Druidic goddess of war and magic. The Doctor interrupts and de Vries knocks him out, aiming to sacrifice him to the Cailleach, but are disturbed by Professor Rumford, who helps the Doctor get free. At the same time Romana is wandering by the cliff edge when an apparition of the Doctor confronts her and she nearly falls over the edge. When the real Doctor saves her she is somewhat confused, but the newly arrived K-9 assures her that it is indeed the Doctor – and he is convinced of the existence of a projected doppelganger. He determines that de Vries can answer some questions, and sets off for Boscombe Hall. On arrival he finds de Vries and Martha crushed to death and the place under attack by a pair of mobile giant stones like those from the Moor. The Doctor and K-9 repel the attack, though the robot is badly damaged and needs repair work in the TARDIS. The Doctor works out that the stones are aliens, dependent on globulin and needing blood to survive. Hiding in the cellar, the Doctor and Emilia discover portraits of three of the previous owners of the Hall - all of whom share the face of Vivien Fay. Meanwhile, Miss Fay has brought more of the stones to life by pouring blood on them. Encountering Romana, she sends her to her spaceship in hyperspace. The Doctor and Professor Rumford reach the stone circle, where Miss Fay tells them that that Romana will be safe providing the Doctor stops interfering, and then disappears. The Doctor now identifies the stones as Ogri, a life form from Ogros in the Tau Ceti system. The Doctor calculates Romana and her captor must be in hyperspace, and builds a projecting device, which he uses to transmit himself there. He arrives on a hyperspace craft, which appears to be a prison vessel. He soon breaks a lock on a sealed door, releasing two floating globes. They are Megara, justice machines – dispensing the law as judge, jury and executioner. They contend that as the Doctor broke the seals he has transgressed the law and should be eliminated. K-9 and Emilia have meanwhile been tasked with protecting the projector used by the Doctor to cross the dimensions, but find themselves under attack from two of the Ogri. Vivien returns to Earth and destroys the device but spares her friend. She takes the Ogri back to the hyperspace vessel with her and there tells the Doctor and Romana she has destroyed their linking device between the dimensions, leaving them trapped in hyperspace. The Doctor now faces trial by the Megara, an abrupt and unfair process dependent on the word but not the spirit of the law. Conducting his own defence, he attempts to draw Vivien Fay into the trial and to get the Megara to subject her to truth indicators, surmising she is one of the criminals from the prison ship. He finds out that one of the prisoners the ship was carrying is Cessair of Diplos, a criminal wanted for murder and the removal and misuse of the Great Seal of Diplos, which had the powers of transmutation, transformation, and the establishing of hyperspatial and temporal coordinates. Emilia and K-9 have meanwhile repaired the projector and use the device to beam Romana back from the hyperspace vessel – plus the one surviving Ogri, which pursues them. They find some incriminating data at Miss Fay’s cottage and then Romana and the Ogri return to the spacecraft to await the verdict. At the close of his trial, the Doctor is convicted and the Megara fire at him. He quickly drags Vivien into the beams’ focus, forcing the Megara to halt the process and examine her to see if she is badly hurt. On doing so they find that she is indeed Cessair of Diplos. She is charged with her crimes when she awakes and sentenced to perpetual imprisonment as a stone on the Moor. The Doctor, K-9 and Romana return to the TARDIS, thanking Emilia for her great assistance. As he suspected, the Great Seal of Diplos – removed from the Cessair’s neck before she was turned to stone – is the third segment of the Key to Time. The Doctor sends the Megara back to Diplos, and he and Romana depart in the TARDIS before an astounded Emilia. 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 Stones of Blood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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