The second two parts of **Rage Of The Time Lords** reveal the nature of The Master’s plan, as he heads a facility full of scientists near a thin thread of anti-matter,studying and extracting abilities from the creatures gathered in the previous stories (and lots of other unseen ones, many of which sound more interesting and relevant to proceedings than The Coney Island Chameleon). One of the most entertaining bits here is The Master being presented as the manager of a company, he is told early on about the Employee Of The Month, and how somebody wants a raise and this kind of thing, and then all of that plays out in completely evil, disturbing ways over the episode haha. The Doctor arrives in response to a psychic distress callfrom Alice, the girl from story one, and then as they try to escape together, his mind begins to go awry (wait, the Eighth Doctor with mind/memory problems? There’s a first time for everything!). The Master has been assembling all these unique abilities to birth a new creature, The Rage, ostensibly as a weapon for The Time War, but mostly for his own nefarious purposes first, and The Doctor’s presence is no accident. Lots of fun stuff between Jacobi and McGann, I personally always love a Doctor/Master storywhere Mr Evil’s plan spins wildly out of his control and he needs The Doctor to rescue him; this is almost that, but this being The War Master’s series, he’s always on top in the end.This two-parter was good but it unfortunately makes the overall plan a little uninspiring,like Phase 10 is kind of cool in their potential abilities, but so is Alice (who gets unceremoniously capped, and so wasn’t actually central to The Master’s plans, beyond I guess her ability to call him psychically, and the temporal possibilities power we see The Rage display in the final part, and I guess the mental poisoning which she displayed against the chickens is what they hone to poison The Doctor, her abilities come into play but she was a really strong character and I wish she’d been more central to the resolution). Instead we swap that character over to Pryor, the last of the race who used to live on this planet before The Master massacred them all, and I dunno, rather than mess about with Coney Island accents and the strongman who never returns and doesn’t really matter to the ending, maybe we should have done hour two about *that* story, to give a sense of the devastation that we later just have to be told about, and to give the box set an Alice/Pryor/Alice/Pryor structure which I think would really have tightened it all up.Good 8/War Master stuff, I love both of them to bits, but I actually don’t need The Doc to pop up in my War Master stories, we can do all that business over in the main franchise. Over here, my little creepy tweed trickster gets to do his elaborate, clever, abominable schemes on a massive scale and get away with it. Less good than the first two box sets, but then the first two are notably great BF stories in any range. The Survivor - 3.75, Coney Island - 3.25, **The Missing Link** - 3.5, **Darkness And Light** - 4, overall 3.75