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The Chameleon Tours flight takes off from Gatwick, with a captive Inspector Crossland on board.

Ann seals the cockpit and Captain Blade activates a wall-mounted device. He tells Crossland: 'You wanted to know the secret of Chameleon Tours...'

'Well Inspector, see for yourself.'

Crossland gasps as a monitor shows that all the passengers have disappeared.

Crossland gazes at the image in stunned disbelief as the plane continues its journey.

In the hangar Spencer tells Jamie the Doctor is dead. Jamie diverts his attention and knocks the gun from his hand.

Jamie and Samantha struggle to overpower Spencer but he pulls another device from his pocket.

Spencer renders Jamie and Samantha unconscious and then takes a large laser cannon from a cupboard on the wall.

Arranging the bodies in a row, he adjusts the cannon's control panel and activates it a few feet away from Jamie.

On board the plane Crossland asks what their destination is.

'You will know soon enough,' says Blade, who informs his base that he has 'an original', as ordered.

The Doctor, Jamie and Samantha regain consciousness but are unable to move. The searing beam of light from the cannon moves ever closer.

In the medical centre Nurse Pinto prepares her next patient.

She carefully attaches electrodes to the Chameleon's head and activates the machinery.

The process begins, and the Chameleon begins to assume the features of immigration officer Jenkins.

By time the process is complete, the Chameleon is an exact replica.

The Doctor asks Samantha to take a mirror from her handbag. She struggles to pass it to Jamie, who makes a supreme effort to hold it up to the beam.

'Quick Jamie,' urges the Doctor. 'Now!' There is a blinding flash.

Jamie collapses, exhausted. Before long, all three find they can move again.

The Doctor guesses that the Chameleons' plan is almost complete – and that Ben, Polly and Brian are all in the same place. Samantha goes to the Chameleon kiosk to look for Spencer while the Doctor and Jamie try to find the airport's medical centre.

Nurse Pinto takes Jenkins' personnel file and asks the recovered Chameleon some questions. 'Who are you?' she asks. 'Stephen Christopher Jenkins,' he replies. 'Where do you live?' she asks. 'With my parents in Wimbledon.'

Jamie emits a number of theatrical groans as the Doctor hauls him into the medical centre. 'It's a rare tropical disease,' he tells Nurse Pinto. 'I'm his doctor.'

Jenkins leaves as the Doctor heads for an inner room. 'I'm afraid you can't go in there,' says the nurse.

Spencer and Jenkins watch the Doctor's confrontation with the nurse on a monitor screen. 'This time,' says Spencer, 'let them come to us.'

Jean books a call to Athens in an attempt to trace some Chameleon Tours passengers.

She is unable to make a connection, and unable to discover the whereabouts of Inspector Crossland.

She adds that Samantha is looking for Jamie and the Doctor.

Jean receives a call from Athens – the last place on her list of Chameleon destinations to investigate. She replaces the receiver in a state of shock. 'They never deliver any passengers,' she tells the Doctor and the Commandant.

'What do you mean they never deliver any passengers?' asks the Commandant. 'It's absolutely true sir. They all say the same thing.'

'They say they pick up young passengers to take them to other places...'

'... but none of them ever arrive anywhere.' The Commandant decides to have the next Chameleon flight followed. He picks up the phone and asks to be connected to RAF Manston.

The Doctor tells Jean he would like to investigate the medical centre – but would like the nurse out of the way first.

Samantha tells Jamie that the next Chameleon flight to Rome leaves in half an hour – and she intends to be on it. 'It's the only way we can find out anything.'

Jamie wonders whether he could accompany his headstrong friend. 'Now you're talking,' she says. Jamie is despondent when he discovers a ticket costs £28. He decides instead to quietly steal Samantha's ticket.

'The next Chameleon flight will have an RAF fighter on its tail,' the Commandant tells Jean.

'Good grief!' exclaims the Commandant as Jean collapses.

He calls the medical centre and asks Nurse Pinto to come up to air traffic control. Jean's plan is working.

The nurse asks if it would be possible for Jean to make her own way to the medical centre. The Commandant insists, and when the nurse leaves the Doctor returns.

He studies some of the unusual appliances and machinery.

The Doctor finds something resembling an X-Ray machine: the duplicator of the Chameleons' human captives. He presses a button and a panel slides back, revealing the original Nurse Pinto.

The Doctor examines the sheath on the nurse's arm before closing the wall panel. Finding some more sheaths, he takes two – one black, one white – and puts them in his pocket.

Jean makes a miraculous recovery and the nurse leaves. 'Did that give you enough time?' Jean asks the Doctor. The Doctor produces the two sheaths and tells the Commandant that he will wait until Meadows comes back on duty.

Samantha arrives at the Chameleon Tours kiosk and rummages in her handbag for her ticket.

Spencer watches as Samantha discovers Jamie has already checked in using her ticket.

'You're very fortunate,' Samantha is told. 'Your ticket's just been found.'

Samantha is asked to meet the Chameleon Tours manager, but when she goes into the office she is confronted by Spencer. 'You won't escape again,' he says, pointing a ray gun at her.

'How high can fighters go these days?' the Doctor asks the Commandant. 'Oh, ten miles plus,' he confidently replies. 'How futile...' adds the Doctor.

The Chameleon Tours flight to Rome lifts off.

As the plane gains height, its undercarriage retracts.

Jean contacts the RAF base and passes the phone to the Commandant.

A jet fighter is scrambled and sets off in pursuit of the Chameleon plane.

On board the plane, a nervous Jamie puts his hand to his throat and heads for the toilet.

RAF Flight 241 follows the Chameleon plane at an altitude of 10,000 feet. 'Right on the tail,' confirms the Commandant. 'So far so good.'

'All set,' says Ann. Blade is concerned: 'Something's following us.' He reaches forward and activates a weapon.

There is a massive electrical surge in the cockpit of the fighter plane. The pilot clutches his face and screams.

'That fighter's off course,' says the Commandant, looking at the radar screen. As the plane drops off the radar it becomes clear that it has crashed. The Doctor then reports that the Chameleon plane appears to be standing still.

The Chameleon jet hangs motionless in the air.

Moments later its wings retract. On board, all the passenger seats are empty.

'Negative report from Air Sea Rescue,' reports Jean. The Doctor suggests that the Chameleon plane might have moved up, instead of crashing down. 'The darn thing would be in outer space,' scoffs the Commandant. 'Exactly,' says the Doctor.

The Chameleon plane makes a rapid ascent until it falls beneath the shadow of an even bigger craft.

The plane is soon engulfed by an enormous alien space station…

NEXT WEEK: What is the secret of the space station?

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