And Rassilon Journeyed into The Black Void with a Great Fleet.

Nothing

EVER

Happens

— constantly….

And Rassilon journeyed into 

The Black Void 

with a great fleet. 

Her Name was Tecteun….

[Records room]

ENGIN: What about his character? 

Tom: Bad. 

ENGIN: Oh, Doctor, could you please be a little more specific? 

Tom: Yes. He was evil, cunning and resourceful. Highly developed powers of ESP and a formidable hypnotist. And the more I think about it, the less likely it seems. 

ENGIN: What? 

Tom: Well, that The Master would meekly accept the end of his regeneration cycle. It's not his style at all. 

ENGIN: But that's something we must all accept, Doctor. 

(Engin hands the Doctor a drink.) 

Tom: Thank you. Not The Master. 

No, he had some sort of plan —

That's why he came here, Engin. 

ENGIN: After the twelfth regeneration, 

there is no plan that will postpone death. 

Tom: He had a plan. Something to do 

with Goth becoming The President. 

What's so special about 

The President, Engin? 

ENGIN: Nothing. 

He's simply an elected Time Lord, 

usually from some senior position. 

He holds The Symbols of Office, 

but otherwise he's no different 

from any other Time Lord. 

Tom: 

Symbols…..

ENGIN: Yes. 

Relics from 

The Old Time. 

The Sash of Rassilon; 

The Great Key.

Tom: 

Tell me about Rassilon —

ENGIN: 

Well, it's all in The Book 

of The Old Time — 

But there's a modern transgram 

that's much less difficult….

Tom: 

— could WE hear that….? 

ENGIN:

 ……you mean, now? 

Tom: Oh! 

ENGIN: What is it? 

Tom: Engin, 

I can feel my HAIR, curling…..

and that means, either 

it's going to rain — 

……or else, I'm on

to Something —

[Records room]

ENGIN: And today we tend to think of Rassilon as the founder of our modern civilisation. But in his own time he was regarded mainly as an engineer and an architect. And, of course, it was long before we turned aside from the barren road of technology. 

Tom : 

Yes, that's all very interesting, 

could We hear The TransGram? 

ENGIN: 

Early history is something of a pet subject. 

The Book of The Old Time : 

And Rassilon journeyed into 

The Black Void with a great fleet. 

Within The Void, no light 

would shine and nothing of that 

outer nature continue in being, except that which existed within The Sash of Rassilon. 

Tom : 

…..must be 

A Black-Hole —

ENGIN: What? 

Tom : Shush. 

The Book of The Old Time : 

Now Rassilon found 

The Eye of Harmony, 

which balances all things, 

that they may neither flux, 

nor wither, nor change their 

state in any measure;

And he caused The Eye 

to be brought to the world 

of Gallifrey, wherein he sealed 

this beneficence with 

The Great Key;

Tom: 

What's The Great Key? 

The Book of The Old Time :

Then, the people rejoiced  —

(Engin turns off the playback.) 

ENGIN: It's an ebonite rod carried by The President on ceremonial occasions. But it's actual function, if it ever had one, is a complete mystery. 

Tom : Where's it kept? 

ENGIN: In the Panopticon. There's a display case of relics. 

Tom : And The Sash of Rassilon, where's that? 

ENGIN: Oh, that's held by the President. That stays in his possession. 

Tom : Of course. What a stupendous egotist.

ENGIN: Who? 

Tom : The Master. He'd have destroyed Gallifrey, the Time Lords, everything, just for the sake of his own survival. 

(Spandrell enters and hands 

the hypodermic to the Doctor.) 

SPANDRELL: It seems that The Master didn't die from natural causes. 

Tom : What? 

SPANDRELL: He killed himself. 

Careful, it's poison. 

Tom : Tricophenyladehyde. 

SPANDRELL: Deadly, no doubt. 

Tom : 

No. It's a neural inhibitor.

Spandrell, we've been fooled. 

SPANDRELL: What? 

Tom: 

The Master, he's still alive. 

SPANDRELL: 

I've just sent Hildred to staser him —