User:DoctorQuoi/sandboxBFCCS6E1TalesfromtheVault

Warrant Officer Charlie Sato is greeted by Captain Ruth Matheson at the UNIT archives in the Museum of Terrors, also known as "The Vault". After going through an identity conformation procedure in which he is scanned, gassed and given a drug, Captain Matheson takes him for a tour of the museum in hopes of having him join the staff. She explains the job of UNIT Secret Ops, the branch that he would be working for if he decides to take the job. She further explains that the water he had earlier was drugged and if he chooses not to take the job and return to regular duty the drug will simply wipe his memory of the last 24 hours to prevent the secrets from leaking out, whereas if he accepts she will give him the antidote to counteract the drug. He accepts.

They go to get some coffee in the break room and Matheson explains that Sato's job will be as an assistant on night-watch, keeping a close eye that the exhibits in the archive don't break out. She leads him downstairs to the exhibits to show and explain them to him.

Sato sees many different exhibits on his guided tour of the vaults, including Terravores, a Krynoid seed pod (empty husk) and a potential part of a Sontaran Scout Ship. Sato, curious about a jacket, asks Captain Matheson to explain and the Captain decides to play a tape recording of Jo Grant explaining the jacket's purpose. Due to technical difficulties (on Jo's end), Sato accesses the UNIT archives and gets a factual account and they discover that a man named Roddie Fletcher purchased a red infantryman's jacket that caused him to go ballistic and UNIT was brought in to investigate. Captain Matheson, trying to get commander Sato to expand his understanding, and engaging his curiosity, manages to find the second tape and goads Sato into listening to an alternative, more "human" account of the event. Jo explains how the Doctor and her cornered Mr. Fletcher, in which he claims he is a soldier from the Battle of Spion Kop named Tommy Watkins. They manage to take him down and remove the jacket, and UNIT surmises that somehow part of his concious lingered on in the jacket. Whether it can still posess people is unknown as no one has put the jacket on since. They move on to the next exhibit.

Captain Matheson explains that their next exhibit was one of the first assignments she ever had with special ops and it was for an exhibit for a very famous art piece. She plays her interview with Romana. The pair had discovered an important piece of artwork that shows the viewer their own death. They meet with its owner, Hickson, and the Doctor hears him recount what he saw. They explain what the paitning does. In a blind panic, Hickson runs out and is killed by a car, just as the paitning had predicted. Matheson was brought in to replace the painting and they gave the Doctor a fake and kept the real paitning as an emergency, since the Doctor would never know as he could never look at the painting. Romana was brought in for quick questioning and was then released.

Next she shows Sato a glowing orb containing parts of Zoe's memories. She explains a string of bank robberies in the early 50s and 60s found that thieves were robbing banks but no one could remember. The leader of this gang, a man named Dougleesh (?), is also using it on his associates to make them forget that he is also supposed to pay them. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe track down the orb and find him and reveal his plan to his associates. The crystal is then gifted back to UNIT by the Doctor when they meet on another occasion.

Suddenly they hear an alarm and go to investigate. A "capsule", sent by the Doctor, is found to be the source of the noise and is set to open that night. The two hear Steven Taylor on recording and he explains that he, Dodo and the Doctor had arrived in Africa during the Boer Wars at the behest of a distress signal. They find the crashed ship and ask its pilot (implied to be an Ice Warrior but the description is still vague enough to be have been something else) what happened. It reveals that the prisoner they were transporting has escaped and dies. The trio then hear gun shots and soon find themselves in a tent with private Tommy Watkins and his superior Lieutenant Thornicroft. Steven realises eventually, as the Doctor immediately had, that Thornicroft is really the escaped prisoner Kali Carash and he plans to take over the world. However, the record cuts and it is unknown what happened, whether the trio succeeded in stopping him or not.

Sato is concerned that he may still be at large and realizes that they may still be able to find him with the help of Tommy Watkin's conscious in the jacket. Despite Captain Matheson's warnings of breaking protocol, Sato puts on the jacket and draws Tommy Watkins out. Captain Matheson asks Watkins what happened before he died when he met the Doctor and Watkins recounts both being with the First Doctor and being on the rooftop with the Third Doctor. Then, he reveals that he is really Kali Carash and had instead survived by tricking the others and transferring his consciousness. He was waiting for Earth techology to advance to the point where he could use it to escape the planet, however, it was moving too slowly and he realized he could only escape using extraterrestrial technology. He reveals his master plan to Captain Matheson.

She tricks him into looking at the painting and he tells her what he sees. She realizes how to stop him, and uses the crystal to draw his consciousness from Sato's body (its true power/purpose). She then smashes the crystal after saying goodbye to Zoe's memory and Carash is gone for good. Captain Matheson reawakens Sato and reprimands him for his rash actions. She then congratulates him for learning the most important rule of the vault, that everything, both personnel and exhibits, are expendable, as she was willing to kill his possessed body to stop Carash. Sato asks why the Doctor set the capsule timer for tonight and not another time and Ruth explains that she isn't sure herself, but if she were to guess, she will write a report about the incident that has taken place, the doctor will end up reading it at some point and go back in time to set it. Sato is confused but Ruth explains that's usually how things are when they involve the Doctor. They then go to get some coffee and Sato comments that he thinks he's going to enjoy working here.

Notes:

Captain ruth Matheson mentions that UNIT doesn't just have bases beneath famous london landmarks (reference to original unit base, double check location of UNIT HQ from spearhead from space)

-matheson mentions how difficult it is to do duties with photographers -> isobel watkins, who killed kennedy

-june 6th 2002, wednesday?

according to the gregorian calendar, June 6th 2002 is actually a wednesday

-Tracy emin?? ... hixon/hickson the art gallery guy

-quistador mallery displays what the viewer's death would be; predicted their death

this piece is an omega 10 classification only to be used as a last ressort

-secon doctor story the invasion and another is mentioned, "big"

-plastic daffodils, grandfather clock -> terror of autons, master tardis