Realising the true nature of Castrovalva's reality, The Master, seeing all is lost, flees to his TARDIS. The Doctor and his companions flee from the city, but who will survive as the city collapses in on itself...
Nyssa and Tegan follow the trail of blood away from the Cabinet, trying to find the Doctor while avoiding the feathered warriors in the forest. They eventually spot the Doctor some distance away, but although they call out to him he doesn't recognize his own name. The warriors take the Doctor into Castrovalva with them, but Nyssa and Tegan arrive seconds too late.
The Master reveals to the trapped Adric that he has a further trap set for the Doctor. Tegan searches the TARDIS computer systems and finds a place named the Dwellings of Simplicity on Castrovalva which will be a suitable place for the Doctor to recover from his regeneration, but when they arrive the Doctor vanishes!
The Doctor and Romana are heading for Gallifrey when the TARDIS suddenly falls into an alternate universe and lands on Alzarius, where a fifty-year old legend is coming to life.
The Doctor realizes the freighter is now a huge bomb and manages to send it back through time, where it can explode millions of years ago...but with one passenger still aboard....