Narrative Connection
How these two moments in the story relate
Why These Connect
The narrative assertion
"Edal and Exorse's patrol and hunt of primitives (rooted in distrust of outsiders like the Doctor) directly leads to the City's practice of draining life force, which the Doctor later confirms as the source of the City's prosperity."
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Why This Matters Across Episodes
The longer arc this connection carries
The patrol and hunt set up the City's systemic oppression of primitives, which the Doctor only discovers in Episode 2. This creates a direct causal chain from the guards' distrust (Episode 1) to the Doctor's confirmation of the City's parasitic nature (Episode 2).
About Causal Connections
A directly causes B. The first event sets forces in motion that produce the second. These are the load-bearing connections of plot--remove one and the story structure collapses.