With his TARDIS lost and his companion Tamara in the hands of the enemy, the Doctor finds himself trapped on Earth in the Nineteenth Century, alone. Her fate may somehow be connected to that of a dying race with a military installation hidden amongst the stars above the planet. Rescuing her may not mean signing only her death warrant, but that of time too. As the problems mount, the Doctor finds that an even larger force may be shaping events to its whim. Even if Tamara can be saved, even if the millions of lives hanging in the balance can be preserved, the Doctor may yet find himself powerless to act in the shadow of an organisation for which worlds are mere playthings.

This is the second part of a two-part story that began in "The Things That Matter-Part One"

This story was originally featured in the Season 30 Omnibus published January 2002

The Doctor and Tamara find themselves on a luxury cruise ship where they find that they must battle more than long buffet queues, copious tropical drinks, and swimsuit-clad beach volleyball players. The ship is being overrun by monsters, and it's a life or death race as the Doctor and Tamara try to stop the creatures before they kill everyone on board.

This story was originally featured in the Season 30 Omnibus published January 2002

When the TSS Leyland left Thera, bearing the pride of their race to a new world for a chance to begin again, it left riots and hatred in its wake. The few hand-picked colonists left to pursue their new lives, free of the taint of civil war which scarred their homeward. When the Doctor and Tamara follow a distress beacon to the TSS Leyland, they find a rusting hulk drifting helplessly in deepest space. Inside they find the crew battling a string of breakdowns, their ship falling to pieces around them. War criminals and droids stalk the gloomy corridors as the colony world becomes a distant dream. Tamara and the Doctor think they know how to help, but everybody on board is nursing secrets, and nobody is what they seem...

This story was originally featured in the Season 30 Omnibus published January 2002

UNIT Commanders across the globe are being murdered one by one, when the culprit aims their sights on Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. After several unsuccessful threats on Brigadier's life, he calls in his old friend 'The Doctor', who discovers that there is more going on than meets the eye.

This story was originally featured in the Season 30 Omnibus published January 2002

A trip to visit the opening of Tutankhamen’s tomb is disrupted when the TARDIS crash-lands in what appears to be England during the air raids of the Second World War. But strange planes criss-cross the skies, and in a mysteriously deserted English village, the Doctor and Tamara find a terrified Howard Carter surrounded by Egyptian relics and haunted by the terrifying apparition summoned from the distant past. When the village is stormed by undead Nazi troops, the time-travellers begin to uncover a dark parallel universe on the verge of unravelling into our own. A crashed time ship and the blindness of all-too human dark ambition force the Doctor to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to destroy the horrors of the Tomb of Shadows.

This story was originally featured in the Season 30 Omnibus published January 2002

When a part deep inside the TARDIS console fails, the Doctor is forced to seek out a replacement on the planet Nadir, a black market paradise on the edge of civilized space. The last time he dropped in for a visit the planet was little more than a collection of mining tunnels, but Nadir has changed, as all things do…and not for the better. While the Doctor investigates rumours of genocide and tries to stop a well-planned little war from destroying Nadir’s neighbourhood, Tamara finds herself dealing with a mysterious disease and an even more mysterious doctor…either of which may turn out to be deadly.

This story was originally featured in the Season 30 Omnibus published January 2002

With Gallifrey collapsing into civil unrest, the Lord-President has no choice but to recall the Doctor home once again. There, the Doctor and Tamara, along with their old friend Grae uncover a conspiracy that will drive the planet Gallifrey into ruin. No one is safe from the wrath of the mysterious rebel known as Bramahl and the stakes for the Doctor are about to get personal.

This story was originally featured in the Season 30 Omnibus published January 2002

After the explosive events of the previous story, the Doctor dumps Tamara on Earth and vanishes in the TARDIS, obsessed with discovering more about the force that has recently been drawn to his attention, which has been lurking in the shadows and shaping events from afar. Tamara, meanwhile, is horrified to discover that her mother has become critically ill. Faced with the possibility of losing the only parent she has ever had Tamara searches for the truth behind her father's disappearance. But is she prepared to discover that her entire life has been a lie?

This story was originally featured in the Season 30 Omnibus published January 2002