the master's adjudication is heard by a returning doctor and jo. still in the adjudicator's guise he tells ashe that an appeal will fail unless there are special circumstances, such as historical interest and is intrigued when ashe tells him about the primitive city. by this ploy he finds out more about the planet and the primitive city while ashe is drawn away from the doctor, who begins to lose his credibility with the colonists. the master then manipulates the doctor into accompanying him to the primitive city.