Cultural References
- This episode opens with a tale from an alien of his story of a visit to a moon. Upon landing on the moon his crew light a fire. A sudden moon-quake arises and it emerges that the moon is actually a massive life form. This story is a clear parallel to the story of the first Tale of Sinbad the Sailor where a sailing ship lands on an island that proves to be a massive whale which comes to life after the crew light a fire on its back.
- Also, this episode's plot-line is a reference to the famous story by Robert Louis Stevenson of a man's fight with his evil alter-ego in the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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