Remembrance of the Far

Doctor and Ace arrive in Shoreditch in 1963 and immediately meet with Professor Jensen and Sergeant Mike Smith, who track the main source of magnetic fluctuations outside the Coal Hill School. They are summoned to a secondary source in a dump on the Totters Lane, where Captain Gilmore and his men are attacked by a faraway man whom Doctor destroys with Ace, Nitro-9.

Meanwhile, Mike is being recruited by his friend Mr. Ratcliffe, whose group operates from a warehouse of building materials. His agents recover the remnants of the far, which Ratcliffe gives to the war computer of the far, hidden in his office. The doctor, worried about the presence of "the wrong one," goes with Ace to school and, with the permission of the principal, begins a search. The Doctor reveals to Ace that the faraway follow here to get the Omega Hand that the Doctor hid on Earth when he first arrived here. In the basement of the school, the Doctor finds a transmat that turns off, which causes him to look far behind him. Ace escapes from the basement, which is immediately locked by the director, enslaved by the far, and the far takes off up the stairs to meet the Doctor. Ace manages to defeat the director, free the Doctor, and detonate a far away anti-tank missile.

Concerned about the presence of two factions of the Daleks, the Doctor decides to bury the past and leaves Ace with Smith. The Omega device is stored at the local funeral home, and the Doctor takes the flying coffin to a freshly dug grave, as Smith watches. The doctor, Smith, Jensen, and her assistant Allison depart for Gilmore’s base, where they discover a ship far from Earth in orbit. A detachment of imperial far distant moves through a transmat repaired by the director. The doctor forbids military intervention, warning of possible responses from the imperial faction. He with the help of a jammer breaks into the control system of the far.

Ace, bored, recalls that she left the tape recorder at school. She returns and notices the imperial distant at school. Having made her way through the Daleks with the help of a baseball bat reinforced by the Omega Device, she is surrounded by three Daleks, but she is saved by a detachment of soldiers led by the Doctor, who then destroys the transmat. Upon learning of the burial place, Ratcliffe and his people begin excavations. A silent schoolgirl observes this. The imperial far distant notices excavations, and the Emperor sends a shuttle to pick up the Device from the Gray Far Apostate.

The doctor sends Gilmore and his men to the school’s defenses and explains to Ace that the two factions are fighting for the Omega Device, which gave the Galliffreys the secret of time. Ratcliffe gives the device to the Combat Computer, which is controlled by the same schoolgirl, but the Gray Far kills Ratcliffe's people, takes him prisoner, and is going to steal the device using the Time Controller. Not wanting this fraction to receive the Device, the Doctor turns off the controller and runs off to school, where the shuttle of imperial far lands in the courtyard.

The imperial far go to meet with the Departed, and push them to their base. Upon learning that Smith is Ratcliffe's agent, Gilmore detains Smith, but he escapes to the Departed base, where, together with Ratcliffe, he abducts the Time Controller. The main faraway orders a schoolgirl-controlled chase after them, and she manages to kill Ratcliffe and overtake Smith. Imperial returns to the ship with the Device. The doctor decides to use the remnants of the transmat to communicate with the ship far. The doctor asks Ace to follow Smith.

The doctor appears on the screen of the bridge of the Imperial ship and asks to cancel the launch of the Device. The emperor, who turns out to be Davros, announces plans to defeat the lords of time and decides to send the device to the sun of Scaro. But the device creates a supernova that destroys the Daleks house and crashes into the Daleks ship immediately after the boat with Davros is separated from the ship. The doctor announces that the device is heading home to Gallifrey.

Ace catches Smith still holding the Time Controller. The schoolgirl hunts down and kills him, after which she turns her attention to Ace. The doctor finds the Chief far away, who, having realized his loss, self-destructs and breaks control of the schoolgirl. At Smith's funeral, Ace asks the Doctor if they did everything right. The doctor replies: "Time will tell. It always shows."

• This is the last appearance of Davros in the classic series. To hide his presence in the credits, Roy Tromelli was indicated instead of Terry Molloy.
• The computer was voiced by John Leeson, the voice of K-9, a companion to the Fourth Doctor.
• The series, being the first in the jubilee twenty-fifth season, contains many references to the old series: the undertaker mentions the Doctor as an "old man with a gray haircut" (alluding to the First Doctor ), the blind vicar mentions the Doctor's voice change (to which he replies that he changed several times), the action of the series takes place in 1963 (the duration of the first episode of the first series of the series, “An Unearthly Child ”), including at the Coal Hill School and the dump on Totters Lane (the first was studied by the granddaughter of Dr. Susan Foreman , and worked Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright (Sun three were time as the first three satellites Doctors), the second was the Tardis in the first series), Ace finds a book by Susan about the French Revolution, the doctor mistakenly calls Captain Gilmore Brigadier (referring to Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart , commander of the units, the organization, similar to the detachment Gilmour) series refers to the events of the series " Invasion of the Daleks to the Earth ", " The Origin of the Daleks ", " terror zaygonov " and " Web of fear ", a device used by Dr., like the device of the series " Planet of the Daleks ", and the dialogue between Gilmour and scientific co etnikom Rachel (similar to Liz Shaw) refers to the dialogue between the Brigadier and Liz in the episode " Spearhead from Space ".
• Rachel mentions Bernard of the British Rocket Group. This is a reference to Bernard Quatermass and his British Experimental Rocket Group from Quotermass TV shows.
• The series contains a meta-reference: when Ace leaves home, the television announcer says: “This is BBC television, it’s now quarter past five, and our Saturday show continues with an adventure in the new sci-fi series“ Doc- ”, but the scene ends until the end of the phrase . However, initially in this scene the series “Professor X” was supposed to be mentioned.
• The doctor calls himself the President of the High Council of Gallifrey, although he was removed from this position in the series " Mysterious Planet ", and in the series " Perfect Enemy " refused to return to this post.
• Initially, the series was supposed to be the beginning of a story line about revealing the secrets of the Doctor’s personality, but the cessation of production of the series in 1989 put an end to these plans.
• The director of the series, Andrew Morgan, was suspended from production for exceeding the budget.
• Flying far was created as a response to claims that far can not overcome the stairs, as well as part of the cliffhanger of the first episode.
• This is one of the few episodes of the series not starting with the opening credits. The opening scene contains audio inserts from John F. Kennedy ’s speech at American University, “ I have a dream ” speech by Martin Luther King and many popular songs of the time.