Contents 1 Publisher's summary 2 Characters 3 References 4 Notes 5 Continuity 6 Timeline 7 External links

Publisher's summary Edit

Carsus: the largest repository of knowledge in the universe -- in any universe, for there is an infinite number of potential universes; or rather, there should be. So why are there now just 117,863? And why, every so often, does another one just wink out of existence?

The Doctor and Mel arrive on Carsus to see the Doctor’s old friend Professor Rummas -- but he has been murdered. Can they solve the mystery of a contracting multiverse, and expose the murderer?

With the ties that bind the Lamprey family to the past, present and future coming unravelled around him, only the Sixth Doctor can stop the descent into temporal chaos. But he is lost on Janus 8. And Schyllus. And a twentieth-century Earth where Rome never fell. And...

Characters Edit

• The Doctor
• Melanie Bush
• Monica Lamprey
• Shepherd Mullen
• Rummas
  • a Time Lord
  • a friend of the Doctor on Carsus
• Joseph Tungard
• Richard de Calne
• Sir Bertrand Lamprey

References Edit

• Among the phenomona mentioned by Professor Rummas is Strange matter fragments.
• An alternate version of Peri is said to have sacrificed her life for her version of the Doctor.
• The Spiral Chamber is a portal to the spiral in the Time Vortex.

Notes Edit

• Among the alternate versions of Mel is a human-Silurian Hybrid known as Melanie Baal.
• Before arriving on Carsus, the Doctor encounters one of his future incarnations outside the TARDIS Library. It is not specified which incarnation it is.

Continuity Edit

• Mel witnesses several different versions of The Doctor including one with a penguin, presumably Frobisher. Two Doctors wear blue coats. Both are accompanied by a lady in her fifties, who is meant to be Evelyn Smythe. (WC: Real Time)

Timeline Edit

• Spiral Scratch occurs after ST: Curtain Call
• Spiral Scratch occurs immediately before: DW: Time and the Rani

External links Edit

• Detailed synopsis of Spiral Scratch at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: Spiral Scratch at The Whoniverse

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