| abstract | - The Doctor, known everywhere by his Police Box and with a billion cred bounty on his head for persecuting bad guys, risks a visit to Sunset Strip a lawless area between galaxies for a cup of Darjeeling and a couple of macaroons, before making a hasty exit en route to the weekly tech fair. Rose describes it as "Planet of the Gangsters". In a back alley they find Doll and her robot being held up by the Trigger Brothers. The Doctor intervenes and gets captured. A Detective Robot is shot and Rose makes off with Doll to a safe place. The Doctor is taken to see the Boss, Mr Lippizzaner (aka Lipps), who is dealing in arms: exoskeletal stongarms from Tashkentsupplied by Don Corpulone and his sons (Blonk and Gluey). The wearer of these arms, with five different charge levels including hi-velocity, incendiary and ricochet, is slaved to a remote control hub. In return for ten single arms, Don Corpulone wants Lips to find his daughter, Doll and "the Bird" she has taken from him. The Doctor is forced to call Rose to arrange a meet and swap at the Dockyards, Doll for the Doctor. At the Docks, with his Horsegoons wearing the strongarms, Lipps double crosses Don Corpulone. He believes he can claim the Doctor's bounty money and he has the strongarms. However, Don Corpulone has kept the remote control. The Horsegoons are turned on Lipps himself. Holding all the cards Don Corpulone calls for Doll and the Bird to be handed over. From their hiding place, the Doctor, Rose and Doll watch as Don Corpulone and his sons' heads detach themselves from their bodies. They turn around to see Doll's head has also become detached. One thing Doll's family does agree on is that if anyone learns their secret, which the Doctor and Rose just have, they must die...
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