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DISC ONE All four episodes of the main feature plus a few extras
DISC TWO Features only disc
Four hundred million years ago, a damaged ship prepares to take-off. Its pilot, Jagaroth tries to persuade his fellow crew that take-off at power 3 is suicidal. Moments later, after take-off, the ship explodes seeming to prove that Jagaroth was correct.
Paris, 1979: the Doctor and Romana are enjoying a vacation. Not even a crack in time dissuades them, until they experience another instance while visiting the Louvre. During this second instance the Doctor grabs a bracelet from a woman observing the Mona Lisa. The Doctor and Romana leave the Louvre and make their way to a cafe, a private detective named Duggan following them. At the cafe the Doctor and Romana discuss the bracelet: it appears that the woman was using it to scan the security systems surrounding the Mona Lisa.
Duggan suspects that the Doctor and Romana may be involved in some scheme but when all three are taken to meet Count Scarlioni it becomes clear that the Count is the mastermind behind a steal the Mona Lisa. The contents of the Count's cellar intrigue the Doctor. Initially, there is the time experiment being conducted by Theodore Nikolai Kerensky, a scientist who proclaims himself the foremost expert on temporal theory in the world. However, even more intriguing are the six Mona Lisa paintings found in another part of the cellar. All six paintings prove to be genuine, the pigment and the brushstrokes are definitely the work of Da Vinci.Romana and Duggan set off to try and prevent the theft of the Mona Lisa hanging in the Louvre, while the Doctor travels to 16th century Italy to speak to Leonardo Da Vinci. What the Doctor finds there reveals a trail that could take him back 400 million years and an act that could prove to be the lynchpin of all life on Earth.
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(d) D.S.Carlin