The next morning, they met the group in the kitchen again to plan. The Doctor and Martha were given native clothing in order to help them blend in. They would be attempting to ascertain what the government was up to, and for that they needed to get inside a government facility without being noticed. One of the group, Risal's eldest son, Delmar, was employed as a janitor at the government building and would be able to sneak them in unnoticed. They went over the plan one more time and then went their separate ways, the Doctor and Martha agreeing to meet with Delmar at the rear entrance to the in one hour. Separately they made their way to the back entrance of the municipal building. Risal's son had given them discarded sanitation workers uniforms. They helped to use the uniforms to enter the building undetected. Both uniforms were drab gray, with matching drab gray caps pulled down over their heads. At the sound of the starting bell, they joined the throng of workers entering the building. Throughout the course of the day, they made small talk with the other sanitation workers and followed the orders of the desk jockeys,picking up snippets of information here and there. At the end of the day, the Doctor and Martha sneaked into an unoccupied administration office in order to get a look at the information on the computers. Martha kept watched while the Doctor used the sonic to scan through the computers database. "No mention so far… wait a minute!" Martha looked over her shoulder at him,"what did you find something?" The Doctor grinned, "Oh ho ho, did I! Martha come take a look at this!" Glancing down the hall one more time, Martha quickly made her way over to the Doctor to see what his discovery was. What the Doctor had found has basically a complete manifesto of names and ranks of people who were being trained or had been trained as thought assassins. Each of the stolen relics had been assigned to an assassin. They had the proof they needed, now what to do about it? The Doctor carefully started making copies of the information contained in the files when they heard noises outside. "Doctor, hurry!" Martha said. The Doctor quickly finished coping the files onto a small disk which he quickly stuck into his pocket. He and Martha made their way out of the office before the unknown persons reached them. They had just managed to duck into an unused supply closet when they were able to distinguish the voices and what they were saying. "Are you certain they'll be ready in time? " A man was saying. Another replied,"they should be, Tigorie was just a test run, now that we have the assassins skills perfected and able to be channeled via the relics, it's a small matter to take the best and the brightest telepaths of our world and train them to our needs. And who cares if the telepaths we happen to pull just so happen to be from the lower class? It's not like any one will care if they die!" The two men laughed heartily and continued on passed the Doctor and Martha. Inside, both the Doctor and Martha were fuming. "How dare they! Using their own people in such a way!" Martha quietly exclaimed, the Doctor laid a hand on her arm in a halting gesture, the men were still talking. "Are the ships ready?" asked one. "Very nearly, only 3 more days and we'll be ready to launch. All of our new recruits should be ready by then." "What about the missing relic?" asked the first man. "I am sending out a patrol tonight to retrieve it. They have permission to use deadly force if necessary. We must procure that final relic!" The men continued on their way, leaving Martha and the Doctor stunned.
After the two men were out of range, Martha and the Doctor slowly crept from their hiding place. They continued on down the hall, and out the employee entrance in the back, making sure to keep to the shadows. Neither said a word as the crept through the back alleys and made their way back to Risal's small home. As they entered, Risal met them at the door. "Well?" she asked. "What did you find out?" the Doctor sighed. "We haven't much time. We must do something, quickly" They are planning an all out invasion." Risal gasped, along with several other people in the room, putting her hand over her mouth in her shock. The group gathered again, this time to plan a strategy that would get the figurines out of the hands of the government. They couldn't allow them to use people like they had used them in the past in order to commit what was basically genocide. They spoke long into the night, coming up with plans and discarding them, before finally coming up with the idea of having one person recover a figurine each by getting close to the telepathic controllers . It would be the Doctor's job to disable the telepathic amplifier in each of the relics, basically making the amplifiers completely useless. Martha was to help with getting the relics back into place. Basically, if all worked properly, they would steal the relics one by one, disable them and then put them back into place with none the wiser until the controllers attempted to use them. Thus they would save a planet possibly several planets from invasion and slaughter.
The next morning was D-day, when they would begin recovery in earnest. The Doctor and Martha followed Delmar to work as normal, entering through the employee entrance as before. They began their day of cleanup of the building after separating, a look passing between them. The Doctor was very worried about Martha, it was harder for him to help her if she wasn't with him, but he had to maintain his cover. As the day progressed, the office workers gradually went home, leaving the building empty. Martha was cleaning the room where one of the relics was kept, locked behind a glass cage. It would be a simple matter for the Doctor to retrieve it, disable it and then replace it. She turned to go find the Doctor but discovered she wasn't alone A bulky guard stood behind her eying her speculatively. Martha attempted to walk passed him, nodding in greeting as she went, but the guard grabbed her by the arm and pulled her back. "You know, " he leered, " I could be persuaded to not say anything about you being in here you know." Martha shuddered, "I was just cleaning and look I'm leaving right now." She slipped out the door and tried to walk away, but the guard managed to grab her by the back of the neck, shoving her into the wall. "Let. Her. Go!" it was the Doctor, standing just behind them , eyes flickering and his voice like the calm before a storm. His face was a carved mask. Hearing the tone in the Doctors voice, the man stepped away from Martha, but then foolishly tried to rush the Doctor instead. The Doctor simply side stepped him, using the sonic screw driver to cause the electronic belt he wore to go wild and shock him. The man dropped to the ground unconscious. The Doctor stared at the man for a moment longer before going over to Martha and grabbing her in a fierce hug. "Martha, are you all right!" he asked frantically. "Yeah I'm fine, look Doctor I found one of the relics!" she led him into the office and showed him. "Good job, Martha" the Doctor said pointing his sonic at the figurine. Within moments he was done, the figurine would no longer amplify the thoughts of the telepathic controller. "Now we just have to find the others and then get back to Risal's." "Do you think they are all here?" Martha asked. "Oh I doubt it" the Doctor said, they are going to want to keep the devices as far apart as possible, in order to maximize usage and to prevent what we just did from happening. First part of the job done, they slipped out o the office and passed the man still lying on the floor. He was moving slowly, starting to come to. The Doctor and Martha hurried around him and down the hall to the employee exit. They slipped out, making sure to keep their hoods over their heads. Suddenly there was a shout behind them."Stop!" they froze, glancing over their shoulders and saw that the man had not only awoken, but had gathered reinforcements. "Well now you see, we were just leaving for the day... the Doctor began, then used the sonic to cause several boxes to land in front of them, temporarily blocking the way. He looked at Martha. "Run!" They took off down the alley. Weaving in and out of nooks and crannies and finally making it to Risal's home. However, before they could attempt to enter, Risal's front door was thrown open, several men exited, all of them heavily armed. Risal and her family were no where in sight. "They got to them!" Martha exclaimed. "No", the Doctor frowned. "Hopefully they were able to get some where to hide. Those guards look pretty disappointed at what they found. Or rather what they didn't find." Come on we've got to get to the Tardis. They began to make their way to where the Tardis was hidden when suddenly they heard weapons fire behind them. They ran faster, but the enemy was getting closer by the second. The Doctor again used the sonic to set off a chain reaction in several of the low riding vehicles the people of this world used, using the devices to trip up the guards chasing them , there were still enough people chasing them to get by the attempted obstruction. Finally the Tardis was in sight. "Come on Martha just a little further." Shots rang out from half a dozen disruptor rifles around them, blowing up trashcans in the alleyway around them and nearly disintegrating almost everything they hit. Hearts pounding, the duo kept up a frantic pace. They were only a few feet away from the Tardis when the unthinkable happened. The sound of disruptor fire sounded much closer, and suddenly, Martha screamed. The Doctor skidded to a halt, mere steps away from the Tardis. He turned, and was horrified to see her falling, seemingly in slow motion. "No, Martha!" he screamed, dropping to his knees beside her. There was gaping, raw, hole in her right side.
