Steed is trapped in a diabolical game when his five co-members on a wartime tribunal begin to be murdered.
After a successful burglary in the house of his actress friend, the Saint is after an elusive, big-time fence whose identity is still unknown.
Arriving on the techno-Ruritanian world of Tara, Romana easily obtains the Fourth Segment...getting off the planet, however, isn't going to be quite so easy...
The Doctor must employ a desperate gambit to keep the evil Grendel off the throne, and the Count has a new pawn to play - Romana.
The Doctor and Romana are swept up in the political machinations of Tara. The Doctor must keep the android "king" running while Grendel plots to use Romana to destroy him.