The house is said to be cursed by the ghost of one of Jacqueline's ancestors, who died a violent death, but so far the doctor didn't suffer any damage. He lives in an old house once belonging to Jacqueline's family, together with his servant, Jade, a young girl. Planets away, on Perfugium, on a stormy night, the local surgeon, Dr John Smith, receives the visit of his two dearest friend, Victor and Jacqueline Schaeffer, at his house, for his birthday. He is interrupted by the Seventh Doctor, who starts telling him a story about good and evil, with an old friend of his as protagonist. Up in a tower, a man is about to kill someone during a parade. But two clues have led to much speculation - found outside the study window, a charred umbrella with a curved red handle and found inside the house, a blood-stained copy of Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.įor one person, this night represented an ending: an ending to one thousand years of darkness and an ending to ten years of light.īut for everyone else, is there no ending of this one night of Hell?
So, what happened to the distinguished dinner guests on that evening? Perhaps we'll never know. A mere few hours later all the occupants in that house had been changed - some were dead, others mentally scarred forever by the events of that night. Many years ago, on a dark and stormy night, the disfigured and enigmatic Doctor John Smith invited his closest friends, Inspector Victor Schaeffer and his wife, to a dinner to celebrate his birthday.
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