The Doctor and Romana II find themselves in Paris, investigating a fracture in time, when they find themselves face to face with not one but six copies of the Mona Lisa. All of which appear to be authentic. Oh, and the original's still hanging in the Louvre. Hmmm... The six Mona Lisas (Monas Lisa? Monae Lisae?) are all the property of one Count Scarlioni, who (as if all the Monas weren't enough) has a scanner for alien life, cleverly disguised as a bracelet on his wife's wrist. Now the Doctor's interest is thoroughly piqued.
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| - The Doctor and Romana II find themselves in Paris, investigating a fracture in time, when they find themselves face to face with not one but six copies of the Mona Lisa. All of which appear to be authentic. Oh, and the original's still hanging in the Louvre. Hmmm... The six Mona Lisas (Monas Lisa? Monae Lisae?) are all the property of one Count Scarlioni, who (as if all the Monas weren't enough) has a scanner for alien life, cleverly disguised as a bracelet on his wife's wrist. Now the Doctor's interest is thoroughly piqued.
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| - The Doctor and Romana II find themselves in Paris, investigating a fracture in time, when they find themselves face to face with not one but six copies of the Mona Lisa. All of which appear to be authentic. Oh, and the original's still hanging in the Louvre. Hmmm... The six Mona Lisas (Monas Lisa? Monae Lisae?) are all the property of one Count Scarlioni, who (as if all the Monas weren't enough) has a scanner for alien life, cleverly disguised as a bracelet on his wife's wrist. Now the Doctor's interest is thoroughly piqued. Turns out that Count Scarlioni is--surprise!--actually an alien: Scaroth, last of the warlike Jagaroth. He's been kicking around on Earth since his spaceship crashed some four hundred million years ago. All six paintings are original Mona Lisas, all painted by Leonardo da Vinci in the sixteenth century. Scarlioni intends to steal the one in the Louvre and then carefully sell each of the Monae to a different private collection. The proceeds will fund Scarlioni's time travel to prevent the crash from ever occuring. The Doctor doesn't especially mind... until he discovers that the crash of Scarlioni's spaceship was the "spark" that kicked off the development of life on Earth. Now they must work out how to defeat a being who's had four hundred million years to plan his escape. As if all that weren't enough, John Cleese and Eleanor Bron have cameos. For extra credit, spot the plot elements that Douglas Adams recycled into Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
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