Second Session was a short story released in The Doctor: His Lives and Times. Drawing some of its dialogue from the final scene of The War Games, this story featured a transcript of a second session of the Doctor's trial in that story. Taking a page from The Trial of a Time Lord, the Doctor faces an Inquisitor.
Summary[]
In the second session of the Doctor's first trial, the Second Doctor is questioned one-on-one by an Inquisitor. As the Doctor summarizes everything he's done following leaving Victoria Waterfield, a pattern emerges of the Earth being a frequent site of alien invasion. From this, the Inquisitor decides that the Doctor should be exiled to Earth.
Characters[]
- Second Doctor
- Inquisitor
Worldbuilding[]
- Bognor Regis is a very wet place.
- The Doctor wants to go back and tell Leonardo da Vinci that helicopters work.
- The Doctor refers to the Land of Fiction as an "Other Realm".
Notes[]
- Not only is some of the Doctor's dialogue adapted from The War Games, but some of the Inquisitor's dialogue comes from the Time Lords in that story.
- The Doctor refers to the Inquisitor as a "fellow", suggesting they are not the same character as the Inquisitor seen in The Trial of a Time Lord.
Continuity[]
- The Doctor uses a detailed analogy of entropy affecting a model train set to demonstrate the value of interference. (PROSE: Model Train Set)