Big Gay Longcat reviews Doctor Who: Inferno Episode 5

The episode begins the reprise with the countdown on ten seconds, so here we can tell exactly how short it is. When the countdown reaches zero everybody falls over, including Stahlman so he can't shoot the Doctor after all.

In the drill room, Stahlman has a fight with the Doctor and Greg

although as they are all in disguise now it is hard to tell who is who, and who is their stunt double.

The Doctor and Greg come back out, and then the door is closed from the inside. Stahlman makes the other mannys in there with him nom the green slime. Lots of mannys and soldiers run away, which makes the Brigade Leader sad, but does at least mean there are less mannys to keep track of, although all the main characters are still there so it doesn't help all that much.

The Brigade Leader has been put in charge by "London" but Greg trusts the Doctor far more and asks him what will happen next.

"Well, the heat and the pressures will continue to build up until the Earth dissolves in a fury of expanding gasses, just as it was billions of years ago."
"How long have we got?"
"Maybe a few weeks, maybe only a few days."
"So it's doomsday?"

I certainly hope it isn't Doomsday, that was a terrible episode, mew.

A green manny comes in and rars at them. The Brigade Leader shoots him, then the Doctor fire extinguishes him. There are a lot of fire extinguishers about the place, it is terribly unlucky for the green mannys that they are so vulnerable to them. After that, Greg wants to leave but the Brigade Leader doesn't want him to go and they start shouting at each other.

"You're still loyal to your glorious Republic. I'd like to know what your precious dictator can do for you now."
"I will not listen to treason!"

Because Benton is still loyal to the Brigade Leader, along with some soldiers, he is able to regain control. Greg still wants to escape and he tries to convince Petra to help him.

The Doctor is sure that this world is going to blow up, which sounds bad - where would us cats keep our Blakes 7 DVDs if there was no world? He tries to convince Liz to help him save the UNITverse Earth if he can go back there in the TARDIS.

Having seen the console, the Brigade Leader still doesn't believe that it can go anywhere. Liz asks if the Doctor can give some proof to them, so he uses the little power that is stored in the console to make himself and it vanish for long enough to convince Liz and confuse the Brigade Leader before he reappears.
The Brigade Leader then asks a perceptive question for once:

"And take others with you?"
"No! No, I couldn't possibly do that."
"Why not?"
"It would create a dimensional paradox. It would shatter the space-time continuum of all universes."

Does the Doctor know this for certain or is he making it up? I bet he could take cats with him, or some less evil mannys perhaps?

"If you can save yourself, you can save us."

Is the Brigade Leader wanting the Doctor to save as many mannys as he can, or is he just wanting to save himself? We know that if it was the Brigadier it would be the former, but the Brigade Leader has been pretty evil so far, he could well be different enough to make the selfish choice.

Stahlman talks to them all over the intercom and says he wants to be let out of the drill room. The Doctor says they shouldn't let him out but the Brigade Leader threatens to shoot him (again) and Petra opens the door.

When he emerges Stahlman is still wearing his disguise but we can immediately see his fully green and furry paws. He then takes off his disguise to reveal his face has also gone green and hairy. The other mannys in the room have gone the same way, presumably from noming the green slime.

D'awww, so cute, can we keep them?

Benton comes in and gets got by them. He starts to go green and furry very quickly. Then he finds a pair of false teeth from somewhere, which unfortunately makes him look silly rather than cute.

Everybody else runs away. The green mannys cut them off from escaping completely, but they can get to the Brigade Leader's office. Even as they are trapped in there, we transition back to the UNITverse.

Sir Keith is in his car, where he guesses that his driver has been ordered (by Stahlman, of course) to not let him get back to the project after having persuaded the minister to shut it down. Just as he gets the driver back on his side, the car crashes. We then go straight back to the evilverse.

Everybody apart from the Brigade Leader is willing to help the Doctor, but before they can do his plan for escaping from the office, one of the green mannys tries to get in by breaking a pane of glass.

This is another cliffhanger that lacks a suitably dramatic punch, for all that it did include a literal dramatic punch. This is at least partly because the scene with Sir Keith formed a break in the action, and there was not enough time in the final scene to properly reestablish the momentum of rising tension before the climactic cliffhanger moment.