"Night must fall, Romana, even in E-Space." There is also a misquote of Pope's 'Essay on Man' ('What is, is wrong') and references to Browning's 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'. The Doctor (mis)quotes Henry V ('He who outlives this day and comes safe home shall stand a tiptoe when this day is named and rouse him at the name of E-Space!') and Hamlet ('That is the question'). The vampire genre (K9 mentions 'the legend of Count Dracula'), especially Vampire Circus (vampires killing children), Kiss of the Vampire and the rest of Hammer vampire cycle (the castle, the villagers terrified of strangers, etc.).Ĭamilla's name and particular interest in Romana (and her name) suggests the lesbian undertones of J.Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 story 'Carmilla' and such films as The Vampire Lovers, Vampyres: Daughters of Darkness and the work of Jean Rollin. The time travellers depart in the TARDIS, the Doctor telling Adric that he must now be taken straight back home. Camilla then advances on the boy while Zargo, seizing the retreating Romana, pulls the still bloodless knife from his chest and drops it to the floor. Adric throws a knife at Zargo, and it hits him in the chest. The Doctor and Romana are exploring a cavern beneath the Tower when they encounter Aukon, who tells them that this is the 'resting place' and welcomes them to his domain.Ĭamilla and Zargo menace Romana and Adric, intending to drink their blood.
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Romana points out to the Doctor that the sky is full of the creatures. The Doctor and Romana are making their through the forest to the Tower when suddenly they are assailed by bats. The Lords, deprived of their master, crumble to dust. The Great Vampire is about to be revived from its resting place beneath the Tower - in fact the spaceship in which the Lords, in their original human forms, came to E-Space - but the Doctor launches one of the ship's three shuttle craft and it pierces the heart of the creature, killing it.
The Lords are soon revealed to be vampire servants of the last of the Great Vampires, a race referred to in Time Lord mythology. The Doctor, Romana, K9 and Adric - an Outler from Alzarius who has stowed away aboard the TARDIS - arrive on a planet where the native villagers live in fear of 'the Wasting' and of three Lords named Zargo, Camilla and Aukon who rule from an imposing Tower.