The Mind of Evil

The Doctor and his UNIT friends have a lot going on in The Mind of Evil. First off, there's a big World Peace conference going on and the Brigadier is overseeing the security. Meanwhile, the Doctor and Jo are visiting a prison to observe some new machine that reportedly removes all of a criminal's negative impulses. On top of that, UNIT is also in the process of moving a super deadly missile. And while all of those may seem like distinct plot threads that would never have any crossover, this is a TV show we're talking about. A TV show that had only recently debuted a new mega adversary for our heroes, in the form of the Master. And through a series of complicated alliances and accomplices, the Master has hatched a plot to steal the super deadly missile so that he might blow up the World Peace conference and plunge the planet into a devastating nuclear war. While it may have been a mistake to have the Master be the main antagonist in every story of season 8 (spoiler alert?), this early into his run we're still getting to see new sides of the character. At one point the Master is driven up to the prison in a fancy car and we see him playing his own ominous entrance music in the backseat on a handheld radio. And it's a little weird that the Master and the Doctor are always so formal and considerate to each other whenever they're face to face.

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