Eye of the Gorgon (episode)


*The following article is written from an Out of Universe perspective.*

Eye of the Gorgon was the fifth episode of Series 2 of Doctor Who: Adventures. It was written by Phil Ford, directed by Barry J. Kelly, and featured Samantha Bond as the Fourteenth Doctor, Montserrat Lombard as Erin Stevenson and William Moseley as Kyle Harrison.

Synopsis

A haunted nursing home leads the Doctor and her companions to a mysterious order of nuns with an ancient — and alien — secret.

Plot

The TARDIS trio land back in 1978, meeting up with Danielle and Roger once more. Roger tells the Doctor of his elderly mother, who is in a nursing home, and how she’s speaking of seeing a mysterious nun, who vanishes like a ghost. The trio go to meet Lavender Stevenson, at her nursing home, where she reiterates the story – however, Kyle wonders off, and meets another older lady called Bea, who is suffering from quite severe Alzheimer’s, she tells Kyle to “beware the Gorgon” and hands him an ancient talisman. Kyle goes to show this to the Doctor and Erin, who bid goodbye to Lavender, before going to see Bea. Due to Bea’s condition, she makes little sense, and the nurses insist the trio must leave, but the Doctor manages to spark a memory in Bea, whereby she explains that she and her husband Edgar were archaeologists, mentioning the meeting the Sontarans once – whereby the Doctor jokes with Bea about their appearance. They manage to find out that, according to Bea, the Gorgon is located at “St Agnes”.

The trio visit the St Agnes Abbey, where a group of nuns, who have already prepared for their arrival, trap them inside. They say they simply want the talisman back – the Doctor refuses. The nuns frequently refer to the “Abbess”, who the Doctor works out is a Gorgon, who they are protecting. The nuns bring the Abbess forward, threating to lift it’s veil, if the Doctor does not hand over the talisman. The Doctor does so, thinking more about her companions’ welfare. The nuns’ walk off with the talisman. The trio briefly have a look around the garden of the abbey, seeing hundreds of stone statues, which the Doctor says were all “poor victims of the Gorgon”.

The nuns place the talisman at the side of a stone altar, as they chant “Serve the Gorgon” several times. A green energy begins to swirl out of a portal, as the process of the Gorgon home world, coming through to Earth, begins. It’s revealed the Abbess’s body is dying, and the Gorgon needs a new host – the nuns choose the Doctor. With the Doctor held in front of the portal, Erin and Kyle manage to slip out of the room, and into the garden, whereby they find Bea wondering about – having escaped from the Nursing Home – she gives Erin and Kyle a mirror, and says that “this is how me and Edgar defeated the last one”. The two enter into the room again, just as the Gorgon lifts it’s veil to transfer into the Doctor – Erin holds up the mirror, and reflects the energy back at the Gorgon, as the Doctor grabs the talisman and closes the portal – leaving the Gorgon petrified itself and turned to stone. The episode ends with the trio returning Bea to the nursing home as the Doctor gives her mirror and the talisman back. Bea rejects the talisman, telling the Doctor to destroy it.

Cast (voices)

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Crew

Based upon "Doctor Who" Created by Sydney Newman, Donald Wilson and C.E. Webber
Created by Phil Ford

Art Director and Character Design - Alexandre Pelletier
Visual Effects - Edward J. Chichik
3D Design - Allan Douglas Parker
Lead Animator - Christine Kolosov
Sound Design - Howard Carter
Edited by - Todd Raleigh
Casting Director - Andy Brierley
Voice Recording - The Moat Studios

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