Big Gay Longcat reviews Doctor Who: Inferno Episode 6

With the fire extinguisher as their weapon, they fight their way to a giant fire extinguisher that Greg rigged up earlier intending to cool the drill with. Despite the fact there are obviously more fire extinguishers on the walls, for some reason they don't use them and the Brigade Leader is worried about the one they have running out.

While Greg and the Doctor stay to try and fix the power that they need to send to the TARDIS console, the Brigade Leader, Liz and Petra escape out onto location where everything has gone orange to show how hot it is meant to be.

Back in the UNITverse, the Brigadier has received a telephone call about Sir Keith vanishing. He orders Benton to get Professor Stahlman so that he can ask him to "delay Penetration Zero" until Sir Keith returns. Obviously Stahlman says no because he is a knob.

That's enough UNITverse for now. Back where the Doctor is, he completes what he is doing and escapes with Greg, pausing to pick up two more fire extinguishers on the way. It is really not clear why nobody did this earlier when they only had one fire extinguisher between five of them.

Petra tries to fix up the nuclear power at the reactor room. The Brigade Leader shouts at her to hurry up until she snaps at him

"Brigade Leader, I'm trying very hard to carry out a complex scientific task under impossible conditions. You will not help matters by bullying me!"
"You are insolent, Dr Williams!"
"Am I? Then it's about time that you learned that some problems just can't be solved by brute force and terror."

The Brigade Leader obviously disagrees, because he tells Liz that he plans to use brute force and terror to make the Doctor to take them with him when the TARDIS console is working again.

The Doctor and Greg use Bessie to get to the hut where the console is, and when Greg sees it for the first time he says

"I thought it'd be a bit more impressive than that."

to which the Doctor replies

"What did you expect? Some kind of space rocket with Batman at the controls?"

Maybe Greg did expect something like that, especially if he noticed the Anti Thief Device gadget in Bessie.

The Brigade Leader is getting frightened, and Liz decides to troll him a bit by being insubordinate:

"All right, Brigade Leader, we're still here."

and

"You don't really think you can force him to take us? He's not the sort of man you can frighten."

Eventually the Brigade Leader admits that he will kill the Doctor rather than let him leave on his own:

"I shall make sure that he dies first."

Petra turns the power on but it doesn't work. There are explosions outside that we hear but don't see - to be honest we don't need to see them, this story is exciting enough already - these distract Liz for long enough that hairy Stahlman can sneak up and disarm her of her fire extinguisher. The Brigade Leader shoots him and they all run away.

Back out on location, they are chased by the other green mannys and also have to contend with falling over a lot from earthquakes. They get to the hut and tell the Doctor that the power still isn't working. Things look hopeless and the Brigade Leader panics.

He pulls his gun on Greg and actually tries to shoot him, but he has spent all his bullets shooting Stahlman.

"What do you do now, slap my wrists?"
"I don't need a gun to finish you!"

They have a punch-up, and the Brigade Leader looks genuinely surprised when Greg beats him.

Petra and Greg go back to try and fix the power again, since it is their only hope. Stahlman wakes up so Greg fire extinguishes him (again), allowing Petra to finish the job.

The Brigade Leader raises his gun and demands the Doctor takes them with him - do we assume he has remembered to reload it since two scenes ago? Greg actually challenges him on this, so the Brigade Leader fires off once to demonstrate that he has.
He counts to three, and then gets shot by Liz. The Doctor starts up the TARDIS console.

Out on location, the green mannys, as well as some other mannys that we see have survived this long, get attacked by the stock footage that the disaster has unleashed upon the evilverse. With the power of CSO it even threatens to reach them in the hut, looking a lot like a big pile of strawberry jam rolling slowly towards them.

Despite such a poorly dated special effect, this is an amazing cliffhanger, sold entirely by the terrified reactions of Liz, Petra and Greg.