the original inhabitants of the planet, known to the colonists as "primitives", have a truce with the colonists – but this is tested when norton kills the colony's scientist and blames it on a primitive, whom he insists are hostile. later, norton is seen communicating with captain dent, implying that he is in fact a spy sent from imc to further disrupt the colonists and not the sole survivor of a similar colony as he claimed. the doctor meanwhile returns to the central dome of the colonists, having evaded an imc attempt to kill him, and explains to ashe that the miners are behind the deaths, and not a reptile. an adjudicator from earth is sent for to deal with the complex claims over the planet but when he arrives it turns out to be the master. impersonating the adjudicator, he rules that the mining company's claim to the planet is stronger.