Gharros
Stone, silence and a return the Doctor once swore he would never make.
Arrival
The Man Who Buried the Master opens on a planet barely retained in old records. The TARDIS arrives quietly. Raven steps onto precisely fitted hexagonal stone beneath a violet sky; the Doctor hesitates at the threshold. The apparent emptiness is already meaningful because he remembers being here before.
A place built to remember
The Doctor calls Gharros a Memory Sepulchre, a sacred archive associated with Time Lords. A black obelisk contains an indentation shaped for a palm. His touch reveals a descending stair. Architecture makes memory something the travellers must physically enter, and something from which leaving may prove more difficult than arriving.
Absence as evidence
Below the surface, the Doctor finds a blank tablet among records. Raven asks why an erased inscription would leave its stone behind. The question directs attention to the difference between a missing name and a vanished past. The first chapter makes that difference consequential before offering the travellers certainty.
Reveal the connection to the Master in Chapter 1
A robed figure welcomes the Doctor to the Vault of the Unspoken and identifies him as an Executor. A sealed sarcophagus brings his earlier burial of the Master into the conversation. The claims made about the burial and what lies inside become matters for the book to investigate; this entry does not treat the first explanation as a settled account of the ending.