Unispace Security Agent EM8 (Earth Man 8) Arthur Lippert is assigned to United Planet Building in New London on Earth to provide security for a broadcast by Defence Minister Tal Yorke. Journalists, including some from other galaxies, are in attendance to hear Yorke's announcement of the plan to keep the Daleks outside of a million mile area surrounding Earth's solar system. Lippert's superior, Security Agent EM1 Meric Scrivener who had been in charge of security arrangements for the address, assassinates Yorke with an atogun. He Lippert over the head with the gun and escapes.