Tegana is the villain for this story, and it's a crime that he's not more widely recognized as one of the great Doctor Who villains, because he really shines in this story as a cold, calculating, ever-present menace, wishing to kill Marco Polo. He's successful due to an exchange between Marco Polo and Ian, about whose word Marco should trust, Ian's or Tegana's. Marco chooses Tegana, on the grounds that he has known him for longer, and trusts him implicitly, whereas Ian is just some random traveller that he met one day. And we see Marco's point, and we can see why he can trust this obviously moustache twirling villain over our heroes. And so we can help see everyone as three dimensional characters, and we can understand why we could get into these scenarios as well.
Tegana also works because he is willing to stop at nothing to get his way. In this episode, he organises bandits to attack the camp, and when he becomes aware that he is fighting a lost cause, he kills the leader of the bandits. His flexibility when it comes to his evil plan, and his determination in seeing it through means that he will even go against his own plans, should it be required. His complex character is a joy to experience on screen, and I look forward to seeing more of him as the story progresses.
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