We think that he'll be alright, that the worst that'll happen to him is that he'll decide to leave the TARDIS altogether. But whilst trying to regain control of the ship, he sends it back in time to the period when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. The Doctor realises that this means that the explosion is now a permanent fixed event in time, and that whilst the Cybermen's plot has failed, it means that Adric is now doomed. But he still works away, trying to get control back. But just as he's about to solve the final problem, the control panel explodes from a Cyberman's gun shot. And then the ship reaches Earth, and explodes. And Adric dies.
Tegan's in tears. Nyssa's still trying to process it all. The Doctor is quietly shocked. He tries to save them all, always tries to find a better way. But he's failed, and now someone is dead directly because of his actions. Adric could have had so much ahead of him. He was a character of strong potential that was wasted by poor writing from almost every writer that wrote for him. And yet, occasionally he would work as a character, and we would care about him deeply. His rebellious nature in Full Circle, the young scientist of The Keeper of Traken, the inquistive boy in Logopolis, or the cheeky rapscallion in Kinda. But now he's gone, and we can see that the TARDIS is no longer a safe place. Danger lurks when you travel in time, and people die. And so we have hope in the Doctor, that he will find the better way and prevent more deaths like Adric's. But we can never be too certain, and all we can do is hope.
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