McBride and the Doctor after Aces funeral although the Doctor claims it to have little effect on his system.McBride sneaks some booze into the hospital, whereupon he and Mullen get severely drunk.Drives Like Crazy: In George Limbs time travel-breached alternate universe, both cars and pedestrians move at high speed.When this fails, Ace, from the alternate timeline in which everything is slightly bigger, falls into place, and soon regains her natural size. It is, in fact, a result of George Limb's anomalous attempt to prevent his own death. Disney Death: The Doctor believes Aces death to be irreversible.A word of protest from McBride encourages him to investigate the anomaly head-on. Cutting the Knot: Having tried to prevent Ace's death, the Doctor realises his involvement to have sown insurmountable consequences, and that further meddling will only protract the chaos.Creepy Physical: At Winnerton Flats, in preparation for dissection, the Doctor is forcibly medically examined, and is not happy about it.
Cool Gate: On the outskirts of Kennington, a cottage, due to frequent use by George Limb's Cybermen-acquired time machine, intermittently merges with two alternate universes: one in which Britain has acquired Cyber-technology the other near-identical to this one only slightly bigger.Clothing Damage: On surmising him to be a Russian genetic augment, General Crawhammer rips the Doctor's shirt with a bowie knife.Camp Gay: In the alternate universe, brusque Inquisitor editor George Pryke wears a beret and pink cravat, and lives with "his nibs.".Call-Forward: The Doctor, disorientated by Dr Hark's anaesthesia, notes that such things tend to disagree with him.A meaningful speech, implicitly about his future, persuades the General to let the Doctor leave. Downplayed with General Abe Crawhammer: believing the Doctor to be a Russian genetic augment, he tries to have him dissected - although he eventually does heed the Doctors claim to be otherwise.American Major Bill Collins, while staunchly dutiful, is reasonable - he reminds the Doctor of a young Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.Boom, Headshot!: As bait for the Doctor, George Limb murders Ace.Boisterous Bruiser: General Crawhammer is quite bullish, but sometimes in an amiable sort of way.Body Horror: In the Alternate Universe breached by the Waverider, much of Britain's populace is equipped in the back of the head with a recharge socket.Black Site: Winnerton Flats, seat of HM Governments British Rocket Group, is held at maximum security.Big Fancy House: Run-down Edwardian Mansion Winnerton Flats.With wife Ivy, Arthur Baulstrode finds his allotment ravaged by foot-long ants - theyre from a parallel timeline similar to this only rather bigger.Subverted with the Doctor and Ace's recreational visit to a planet of giant sapient butterflies.Bad Ass Longcoat: McBride's grimy mackintosh.Being about sixty feet high enables her to lift Mullen from the clutches of the Augmentation Programme. Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: On reversal of George Limb's temporal interference, Ace returns to life - from a timeline where everything is slightly bigger.
Anger Born of Worry: During an impromptu switchback tour of the galaxy, Ace's private misadventure with several hippies perplexingly angers the Doctor - who knows of, and is trying to prevent, her imminent murder.An Arm and a Leg: Chief Inspector Mullen's legs are shattered by a latterly exploded Luftwaffe bomb.Alternate Universe: Two have been breached by George Limbs time travel exploits - one in which 1959 Britain slowly undergoes Cyber-conversion the other near-identical to this one, only bigger.Alternate Timeline: George Limbs adventures with "Betty," as he names the Cybermen's time machine, breach a parallel timeline in which Major Lazonby's dream of a Cyber-augmented British Army, having crushed the Nazis in 1942, has gendered a bionically augmented populace.The Doctor: Its a banger! Its only capable of short hops, and then you were lucky.