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Intro. He had fallen, hurtling through time and space through the gap in Big Ben's clock. The confrontation with Basil had been titanic, a whirlwind of ingenuity and danger, and the fall from such a height seemed the inevitable end. But somehow, against all logic, he had miraculously managed to survive. The impact left him dazed, his body sore, but aware that he had landed on something soft. She found him lying near a small river, the cold water an unexpected caress on his bruises. And it was there, among the reeds and the gentle stream, that he saw it. He didn't know at the time that this was the evil Professor Ratigan, the criminal mastermind he had been chasing. For those who found it, in the gloom of dusk and with the confusion of their own fall, they saw only a wounded rat.

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