The most perfunctory of appearances for UNIT in this - just an opening bookend for the Brigadier. He doesn't even get a closing scene like in Colony In Space.
I always wish the short period where Linx and Irongron are friendly would last longer, I never get tired of seeing Irongron's bemused reactions to the talk about scientists and primary reproductive cycles.
But once they have fallen out, I love the bit where Linx loses his temper and casually throws Irongron across the table - Irongron's look of shock and surprise is not seen by his men, or Linx, just by the camera. Class.
Some good shadows (boom? camera?) on Linx when he's doing the 'By dawn I shall be 700 million miles from here' speech. (Unless you're watching the DVD, where there are no shadows, his face is bright orange and he's a Draconian instead of a Sontaran.)
Watch closely the scene where the Doctor talks engagingly about his most active day in two seasons, sorry, 'in years'. Sarah is eating something out of a bowl while he talks, but at the very start of the scene she's chewing the end of one of the laces on her tunic instead. Not as if she's bored either, as if she's tried to eat it by mistake.
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