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* [[Magic From Technology]]: The Daemons powers are handwaved as highly-advanced science.
* [[Magic From Technology]]: The Daemons powers are handwaved as highly-advanced science.
* [[The Master]]: Duh.
* [[The Master]]: Duh.
* [[Minion With an F In Evil]]: The cultist who gets upset when the Master decides to sacrifice Jo.
* [[Minion with an F In Evil]]: The cultist who gets upset when the Master decides to sacrifice Jo.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Azal, Reverend Magister, Devil's End
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Azal, Reverend Magister, Devil's End
* [[Our Gargoyles Rock]]: Bok.
* [[Our Gargoyles Rock]]: Bok.
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* [[Satan]]: Well, sorta.
* [[Satan]]: Well, sorta.
* [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]]: The Daemons, apparently responsible for many eras of human advancement.
* [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]]: The Daemons, apparently responsible for many eras of human advancement.
* [[This Is My Name On Foreign]]: The Great Wizard Quiquaequod and the Rev. Magister.
* [[This Is My Name on Foreign]]: The Great Wizard Quiquaequod and the Rev. Magister.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: A very limited amount of disagreement from the villagers when the Master tries to talk to them into helping him rapidly results in screaming demands for obedience and comparisons of them to dust beneath his feet.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: A very limited amount of disagreement from the villagers when the Master tries to talk to them into helping him rapidly results in screaming demands for obedience and comparisons of them to dust beneath his feet.


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I see. So all we've got to deal with is something which is either too small to see or thirty feet tall, can incinerate you or freeze you to death, turn stone images into homicidal monsters and looks like the devil.
—Captain Yates sums up UNIT's job.

Watching TV, the Doctor becomes uncharacteristically alarmed by a planned archaeological dig on a barrow in the village of Devil's End. He races there with Jo in tow, where he discovers that the local vicar, Mr Magister is really the Master (no!) who is using what looks like black magic rituals to raise the Devil.

In fact, the "devil" is a Sufficiently Advanced Alien called Azal who conforms to most of the classic appearance tropes of the Devil - horns, hoofs - and claims to have set the Earth in motion as an experiment.

With the Doctor and Jo in the village and UNIT troops cut off outside by a heat barrier, Azal appears and says that he will either pass on his powers or destroy the Earth as a failed experiment. The Master is hoping to be the recipient of the powers but Azal is swayed by the Doctor's eloquent defence of Earth and offers him the powers instead. The Doctor of course refuses, and Azal angrily decides to kill him. Jo offers herself in the Doctor's place and Azal, unable to comprehend self-sacrifice, suffers a Critical Existence Failure.

Meanwhile, UNIT troops have got past the heat barrier and the Brigadier has ordered Five Rounds Rapid at animated gargoyle Bok, and arrive just in time to apprehend the Master and take him away to await trial for Crimes Against Humanity: attempts to conquer humanity, subjugation of the people of Devil's End, and infliction of Morris dancers on an unsuspecting public.

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