The Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown are in the English Fenlands. They are captured by Saxon rebels and brought before a man calling himself Hereward the Wake. He decides to let them live, then returns to a discussion with his men about attacking London and retaking it from the Normans. He says he will be able to secure Danish assistance in this battle, whereupon the Doctor protests. If the Danish/Saxon raid on London is successful and they dislodge the Norman king, the Danes will never let a scruffy Saxon like Hereward take the English throne.