The Stranger (Colin Baker) has settled down, has become a reporter for
a local newspaper and has started a relationship with its publisher Rose
(Holly King), whose flat and bed he also shares. However, Egan (David
Troughton) and Saul (John Wadmore), killers from another dimension whose
leader he once was and who need him to get back home (see Terror
Game) are still after him, and this time they pose as cops from
the internal affairs division and give a hard time to chief inspector
Sellers (Caroline John) and her precinct. After much to and fro that also
involves murder, kidnapping and a porn ring, they manage to corner him,
and the Stranger has to leave our world and dimension behind with Egan and
Saul, leaving the life and woman he
has come to love behind in order to save her. The most earth-bound, domestic, least
science fiction-ish episode of The Stranger - and also one
of the lesser episodes of the series, since it lacks the weirdness, the
out-of-this-world-feeling, the mystery of earlier episodes. There are
still points of interest of course, like seeing the Stranger having
adapted to domestic life, but that's more an in-joke than anything else.
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