The Monitor was a good friend of the Doctor, swiftly agreeing to help him by using the Logopolitans' skills in Block Transfer Computations to repair the TARDIS' chameleon circuit, but he still kept Logopolis' secret from him at all times. When arrived on Logopolis in 1981 and silenced Logopolis, the secret was revealed: the Logopolitans had been staving off the end of the universe, and now that they were dead, entropy would build up and destroy the universe.