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Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles 12.2/The Second Doctor 2.2                   


With Mother Earth apparently over and done with, the ISPF have their hands full. On one hand Devis investigates coffins that don’t seem to house people that actually existed. While Nathan and Kenzy pay a visit to the only residential building on the moon where a burglar has died…

With Priya if off on a course and Paul taking a little bit of a back seat, it does put the original Star Cops members to the front. It is nice to have Kenzy back and this time a proper star cop again. 

This starts with a scene from toward the end of the episode, and your given the events that led up to it. Devis’s case is somewhat straightforward, if the people who are supposed to be in the coffins didn’t really exist then there’s only one way to find out what is in them... Nathan and Kenzys case; well a man on his own and could have seen the body from his window, but who was the burglar and why was he doing it?

Kenny is offered a job in this , so for a brief time it seemed that as soon as we got her back she’d be going again. Luckily for us the opportunity didn’t last long.

There are some moments of real tension, particularly near the end - I mean almost edge of your seat stuff. I thought for a moment that it might be a two parter - a lot of build up, but then its quickly all over, which is perhaps my only complaint.

A nice episode.

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