The Dalek glided across the ballroom. Leela skulked along the wall behind it, stalking it.

She abruptly ran, jumping up onto the Dalek's dome, boosted by a toe on one of the skirt globes. She wrapped her legs around the dome and jammed her knife into the base of the eyestalk so it couldn't swivel. She grabbed the stalk and yanked back, using all her weight.

The eyestalk tore loose with an electronic scream and the pop of wires. She cut the last two wires with a quick slash of her knife then turned the eyestalk around and began beating at the gun arm with the heavy base. She ruptured the vanes on the gunstick and rendered it useless.

"Now, Doctor!" Leela yelled.

He stepped out from behind a pillar, a comically surprised look on his face. "Now what? You haven't left me anything to do!"

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