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THE CLAWS OF AXOS BY: BOB BAKER & DAVE MARTIN EPISODE ONE Original Air Date: 13 March, 1971 5:15pm - 5:40pm 1: SPACE (A distant object moves through the vastness of space. Elongated with a round middle, it moves swiftly towards its destination.) 2: EXT. RADAR DISH (DAWN) (A turning radar dish points to the dawn sky.) 3: INT. UNIT HQ. TRACKING ROOM (The results of its scan appear on a screen in UNIT HQ's tracking room. A uniformed RADAR OPERATOR monitors this and the other read-outs...) 1 RADAR OPERATOR: Twenty-five MPS...one million miles...mass - variable. (A 2 RADAR OPERATOR sits back with a coffee and a satisfied smile.) 2 RADAR OPERATOR: Well, if that's its course, we've discovered a comet. Run another course check. (The 1 OPERATOR does so, but...) 1 RADAR OPERATOR: It's altered its course! 2 RADAR OPERATOR: It can't have. 1 RADAR OPERATOR: Oh, yes it can, mate! You can say goodbye to your comet, 'cause whatever that thing is... (He reaches for a phone.) 1 RADAR OPERATOR: It's on collision course and heading straight for Earth! 4: SPACE (The object of their attention is unlike any other spacecraft. Organic in looks with a skin-like hue, its forward end looks like a circular segmented doorway. The main part of the craft has folds and ridges.) 5: INT. AXOS (Inside are creatures from a nightmare. Bipedal in form, they are a mass of seething red and orange tentacles.) 6: SPACE (The craft approaches Earth...) 7: INT. UNIT HQ. BRIGADIER'S OFFICE (A suited, white-haired bespectacled man opens a blue file which has "TOP SECRET" embellished on its cover. He leafs through its contents. A few feet away, BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART leans on a filing cabinet and watches with an amused smile on his face. There are several other civilians in the room, also going through the BRIGADIER'S files. The man with the glasses puts down the file in exasperation.) CHINN: Nothing! (He walks over to the BRIGADIER.) CHINN: Nothing at all. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: No. CHINN: Brigadier, as head of this committee of enquiry, I must remind you of the Defence Ministry ruling. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Mr. Chinn, as head of UNIT, I must remind you, that we're not in the Ministry of Defence. (CHINN starts to quote from procedure...) CHINN: "All personnel must be properly screened..." (The BRIGADIER joins him in finishing the quote...) CHINN & BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: "And scrupulously filed." CHINN: As an elementary security precaution, I must insist upon a file for this..."Doctor"...erm, whatisname. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Smiles.) I'm sorry, Mr. Chinn - I am personally responsible for the Doctor. CHINN: (Outraged.) Typical! Absolutely typical! That's the kind of high-handed attitude one's come to expect from the UN recently. (CHINN seems to calm down for a moment...) CHINN: Now, Brigadier, what about this Doctor? I gather he's not a British subject. (...but his cajoling tone quickly turns to anger as he storms across the room, shouting...) CHINN: Then who is he and where does he come from! (CHINN halts in front of the double doors which suddenly open hitting him from behind. The subject of CHINN'S anger enters.) DOCTOR: Good morning... (The DOCTOR catches sight of CHINN. He seems to sum him up in one glance.) DOCTOR: (Coldly.) Oh...Good morning. 8: INT. UNIT HQ. CORRIDOR (JO walks along the corridor with another visitor to UNIT HQ - a young American named BILL FILER.) JO: I gather Washington think its time the Master was dealt with? FILER: Ah, something like that. JO: And you're going to deal with him? Single handed? FILER: (Smiles.) Yeah! (FILER laughs.) FILER: No, no, that was Errol Flynn. JO: Who? FILER: (Giving up.) Ah, forget it. (The two walk on. A series of alarm lights mounted on the corridor wall suddenly start to flash.) 9: INT. UNIT HQ. BRIGADIER'S OFFICE (A quietly furious DOCTOR has reached the end of his limited patience with CHINN'S "inquiry".) DOCTOR: My dear Mr. Chinn, If I could leave I would. If only to get away from people like you! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Warning.) Doctor... (The DOCTOR slams the desk.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) And your petty obsessions! "England for the English!" Good heavens, man! CHINN: (Shouts.) I have a duty to my country! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Not to the world?! (The doors open again and JO and BILL walk in.) JO: Good morning! Oh, I'm sorry, has the conference started? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: No, not yet. JO: This is Bill Filer from Washington HQ. (The BRIGADIER reaches out to shake hands.) 10: INT. UNIT HQ. CORRIDOR (The alarm lights are still flashing as CAPTAIN YATES and SERGEANT BENTON walk down the corridor.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: What is it? Do you know? SERGEANT BENTON: No idea, sir. 11: INT. UNIT HQ. BRIGADIER'S OFFICE (The conference in the office continues with all concerned ignoring the presence of CHINN.) DOCTOR: There's no point in discussing the Master. I keep telling you - he's left Earth by now. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: We can't be certain of that, Doctor. We must keep on looking. CHINN: Master? Who is the Master? (FILER starts to open his briefcase.) FILER: I, er, I have a report here, Brigadier. (To CHINN.) It's, er, it's classified I'm afraid, sir. CHINN: (Pompously.) Then I must insist upon staying! FILER: I'm sorry, sir. You have no clearance. CHINN: On the contrary, for the duration of this enquiry, I've been guaranteed full access to... FILER: (Interrupting.) Not by us, sir. CHINN: This has nothing to do with Washington! FILER: (Firmly.) I'm sorry, sir, you are a security risk! (FILER'S look ends the argument but there is an icy silence.) DOCTOR: Yes, well, erm... (An alarm bell suddenly rings and two lights mounted on the wall start to flash. The BRIGADIER runs towards the door as YATES enters.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: UFO, sir! Coming in fast! 12: INT. UNIT HQ. TRACKING ROOM (The tracking room has become a hive of activity.) 2 RADAR OPERATOR: UFO...bearing two zero nine. Five hundred miles and closing. SERGEANT BENTON: ITS, sir, report sightings confirmed. 2 RADAR OPERATOR: Velocity - twenty MPS... SERGEANT BENTON: Houston HAL tracking. 2 RADAR OPERATOR: ...decreasing. SERGEANT BENTON: Hawaii HAL tracking. (The BRIGADIER'S part enters the room. YATES goes to BENTON as the BRIGADIER starts to look at the read-outs himself, closely followed by a fussing CHINN.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: What__? SERGEANT BENTON: Negative ... , we're running ICBM checks, sir. CHINN: ICBM? What ICBM? Brigadier, what's going on here? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: An unidentified flying object appears to be heading for Earth, Mr. Chinn. Shouldn't you be in touch with your Ministry? (CHINN snaps his fingers at the 2 RADAR OPERATOR.) CHINN: Oh, erm, telephone, quickly man, quick! (The OPERATOR reaches for his phone but the BRIGADIER quickly stops him.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Captain Yates... CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Sir? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Show Mr. Chinn the direct line. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Puzzled.) Direct line? (The BRIGADIER gestures impatiently at the outer office.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: In there! CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Oh, yes, sir. (To CHINN.) Er, this way, sir. (CHINN follows him to the outer office. Once he is out of the way, the DOCTOR takes his place in front of the console with the read-outs.) 1 RADAR OPERATOR: Course changing - two zero seven...two zero six. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, Doctor, what is it? DOCTOR: I've no idea. 1 RADAR OPERATOR: Two zero five. (The DOCTOR looks at the read-outs.) DOCTOR: "Variable mass"? That's interesting. 2 RADAR OPERATOR: Orbital flight path... (He turns a switch.) 2 RADAR OPERATOR: ...now! (JO runs forward from the doorway where she has been stood with FILER.) JO: Is it going to h*t us? 1 RADAR OPERATOR: UFO entering atmosphere - now. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Compute target area. 1 RADAR OPERATOR: Check. (A computer chatters away. At the same time, the DOCTOR quickly starts to mutter his own calculations, watched by an amazed 2 RADAR OPERATOR. He quickly reaches his answer.) DOCTOR: Yes - somewhere on the south-east coast, I should imagine. 13: EXT. SHORE (The untidy figure of a tramp - PIGBIN JOSH - scurries past a series of small fishing boats which lie next to the exposed beach. Muttering to himself, JOSH puts a cloth bag over the handlebars of a bike and an empty bottle into the bag. He sets off on the bike.) 14: INT. UNIT HQ. TRACKING ROOM OUTER OFFICE (CHINN puts the "direct line" down.) CHINN: Brigadier! 15: INT. UNIT HQ. TRACKING ROOM (The BRIGADIER is still looking at the radar screens. With a look of impatience he moves off to the outer office.) 1 RADAR OPERATOR: South Atlantic - moving north. Bearing now - zero two zero. 16: INT. UNIT HQ. TRACKING ROOM OUTER OFFICE (CHINN addresses the BRIGADIER watched by the others.) CHINN: The Minister wants all these facilities linked up to strike force immediately. I have full authority. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yates? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: All taken care of, sir. CHINN: (Satisfied.) Oh, good. (YATES goes over to a series of three monitor screens which he switches on. The DOCTOR sits on the other side of the room with his back to the others, deep in thought. The monitors show the radar screen and sh*ts of a m*ssile launching site.) m*ssile SITE OPERATIVE: (OOV: Over tannoy.) ...one - cleared. Flight path - green one - cleared. CHINN: Yes, good. (To BENTON.) Er, get me station command, will you? SERGEANT BENTON: Yes sir. (BENTON dials a phone and hands it to CHINN.) m*ssile SITE OPERATIVE: (OOV: Over tannoy.) Strike unit ..... CHINN: (Into phone.) Ah, Chinn here - MOD. You know I'm coordinating this operation, don't you? Well, I want you to be ready to destroy this thing the moment I give the word. (He listens.) Oh, you are ready...good, well, standby then. (JO and FILER exchange a glance. An annoyed DOCTOR walks up to the BRIGADIER.) DOCTOR: All set to destroy it, Brigadier? Whatever it is? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Uncomfortably.) Just a precaution, Doctor. DOCTOR: I see. "sh**t first and think afterwards" - is that it? m*ssile SITE OPERATIVE: (OOV: Over tannoy.) Strike unit ... (The phone rings on CORPORAL BELL'S desk as the FIRST RADAR OPERATOR hands BENTON a note. He reads it out.) SERGEANT BENTON: "Major nuclear powers deny m*ssile launching - surveillance confirm". (BELL puts the phone down after receiving her report.) CORPORAL BELL: Estimated target area - England, south-east coast. (The BRIGADIER and YATES look at a smiling and satisfied DOCTOR.) CORPORAL BELL: There's a report in from the MET office, sir. There are freak weather conditions over the whole area. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Explain. CORPORAL BELL: Sudden snowstorms, sir. Dense fog's covering the area. 17: EXT. SHORE ROAD (Indeed the whole of the shoreline is covered with a scattering of snow and the horizon is lost in a mist as PIGBIN JOSH'S bicycle comes to a halt. He has spotted some "treasure" on a rubbish heap and clambers over to it to look closer. It is a child's bicycle. Muttering to himself, he examines the bike, sees that it is too small to replace his own, kicks it and throws it away.) 18: INT. UNIT HQ. TRACKING ROOM 2 RADAR OPERATOR: UFO over airline flight path green one. All civil aircraft scattered. 19: INT. UNIT HQ. TRACKING ROOM OUTER OFFICE (The voice of the 2 OPERATOR mingles with that of m*ssile Station Command over the tannoy in the outer office. The gathered people watch CHINN on the phone to Station Command.) 2 RADAR OPERATOR: (OOV: Over tannoy.) ETA sixty seconds, repeat: sixty seconds. m*ssile SITE OPERATIVE: (OOV: Over tannoy.) ... now. 2 RADAR OPERATOR: (OOV: Over tannoy.) Airborne interceptors closing. CHINN: (Into phone.) m*ssile strike now! Commit now! (He listens.) Yes, commander - now! (On the monitors, a m*ssile can be seen launching.) 1 RADAR OPERATOR: (OOV: Over tannoy.) ... steady. Velocity decreasing, decreasing, increasing. CHINN: A perfect sitting target! DOCTOR: (Coldly.) Hardly seems sporting, does it? (They continue to watch the approaching m*ssile, until...) 2 RADAR OPERATOR: (OOV: Over tannoy.) Contact lost! Contact lost! (They all rush into the small tracking room.) 20: INT. UNIT HQ. TRACKING ROOM 2 RADAR OPERATOR: It's gone, sir! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What, destroyed? 2 RADAR OPERATOR: No, you don't understand - it's disappeared, sir, and the m*ssile haven't reached it yet! (The DOCTOR turns to CHINN who is stood next to him - his face a picture of indecision...) DOCTOR: (Concerned.) Don't you think you'd better abort? (CHINN looks nervously at the radar screen...) DOCTOR: What goes up must come down again. (...which continues to show nothing.) DOCTOR: The warheads! (Shouts.) Abort, man, abort! (The DOCTOR grabs the civil servant and practically throws him into to outer office...) 21: INT. UNIT HQ. TRACKING ROOM OUTER OFFICE (...where YATES has Station Command on the phone. CHINN grabs the receiver.) CHINN: (Into phone.) Abort mission! Destruct, destruct, destruct! (On the radar and monitors, the m*ssile blow up.) 22: INT. UNIT HQ. TRACKING ROOM (A look of relief appears on the BRIGADIER'S face...) 23: INT. UNIT HQ. TRACKING ROOM OUTER OFFICE (...which is echoed by his colleagues in the next room.) 24: EXT. SHORE ROAD (JOSH'S journey continues. Still muttering to himself, he cycles down the coast road.) 25: INT. UNIT HQ. TRACKING ROOM BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well? 2 RADAR OPERATOR: Still no trace of the UFO, sir. (The BRIGADIER slams the console in impatience.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: It can't have disappeared. CORPORAL BELL: (OOV: From outer office.) ITSN report total radar contact lost. (The BRIGADIER walks through and joins the others.) 26: INT. UNIT HQ. TRACKING ROOM OUTER OFFICE BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, Doctor? Where's it gone? DOCTOR: Gone? It hasn't gone anywhere, Brigadier. It's just arriving! 27: EXT. SHORE ROAD (Still muttering to his lonely self, JOSH cycles his unsteady course through the mist. Suddenly a roaring sound fills the sky and JOSH is blinded by a fierce light. He cries out in pain and is momentarily held fast in the powerful beam. He cycles off the road, through the snow and into a pool of freezing water. Muttering oaths, he splashes angrily in the pool, at the side of which is a road sign which reads "Nuton Power Complex. 1 Mile".) 28: INT. UNIT HQ. BRIGADIER'S OFFICE (The UNIT group and their guests have returned back to the BRIGADIER'S office where CHINN berates a silent DOCTOR.) CHINN: We have to assume that it is hostile. It's landed right by the national power complex - Britain's entire power supply is menaced! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone.) Right. (The BRIGADIER puts the phone down. CHINN turns to him.) CHINN: Brigadier, in accordance with the Emergency Powers Act... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Interrupting.) All right, Mr. Chinn, all right. (To CAPTAIN YATES.) Yates? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Sir? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: All available personnel to the assembly area. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Sir. (To BENTON.) Sergeant? (The two move back to the tracking room outer office.) CHINN: I'm treating this as a national emergency... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, yes, so am I. (To the DOCTOR.) Doctor? (The BRIGADIER follows his men. CHINN follows him.) 29: INT. UNIT HQ. TRACKING ROOM OUTER OFFICE CHINN: (To the BRIGADIER.) From now on, you are to consider yourself under my orders. (The BRIGADIER stops and turns. He stares impassively at CHINN who returns the look, as if daring him to argue.) 30: INT. UNIT HQ. BRIGADIER'S OFFICE (FILER has been watching proceedings.) FILER: Er, Brigadier. (He too moves to the outer office.) 31: INT. UNIT HQ. TRACKING ROOM OUTER OFFICE FILER: Where do you want me? (CHINN turns on him.) CHINN: Mr. Filer - this is an internal matter - your presence is not necessary. If you don't leave immediately, I shall have to have you arrested. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Outraged.) Mr. Chinn! (He storms across the office.) FILER: No, no, no, it's all right, it's all right, Brigadier. Well goodbye, Mr. Chinn. (He goes to the door...) FILER: Take care. (...and leaves.) 32: EXT. AXOS LANDING SITE (JOSH walks his bicycle along to where he saw the light. As he crosses over a ridge, he stops, drops the bike and stares in astonishment. Sticking out of the shingle is the only part of the ship that has not been buried in the ground - the circular segmented doorway. A light shines through the almost closed centre from within.) PIGIN JOSH: Ooh-ar! Ooh-ar! (JOSH scurries down into the dip where the ship lies. He stops, mutters and scurries round the doorway. As he does so. The segments expand outwards and the door opens, revealing a misty orange interior. A snake-lie tendril comes out of the ship as JOSH completes his circular tour of the object. It grabs him by the wrists and pulls him towards the entrance. JOSH falls to the ground and, crying out, is pulled into the ship.) 33: EXT. ROAD (FILER drives towards the Nuton complex. He turns on his car radio and re-tunes it to pick up the UNIT radio signals.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (OOV: Over radio.) UFO sector confirmed as area north sector, national power complex. All vehicles, repeat: all vehicles, RV this area, out. 34: INT. AXOS. PRISON CHAMBER (JOSH lies is an organic colourful chamber. Its walls resemble a fleshy interior instead of flat panels. He is held fast by tendrils that grow out of the wall and floor and pulsing noises fill the air. A disembodied voice speaks.) VOICE OF AXOS: Analysis pattern reveals...locomotor facility normal, sensory receptors acute, intelligence atypical. 35: EXT. SHORE ROAD (FILER'S car screeches to a halt by the side of the snow covered area. He gets out and runs over to where he finds JOSH'S abandoned bike.) 36: INT. AXOS. PRISON CHAMBER (Its owner is still held fast as the mental analysis continues...) VOICE OF AXOS: This specimen is valueless - absorb, process and eject. (The frightened and wide-eyed tramp sits up as a physical force starts to drain the life out of his body.) 37: EXT. AXOS LANDING SITE (FILER stands before the entrance to Axos. As he approaches the object, the UNIT convoy made up of jeeps, motorcycles and the mobile HQ appears on the distant horizon and the klaxon-like alarm from the Nuton complex echoes over the empty landscape. FILER turns to look at it and therefore fails to notice the tendril as it again comes out of Axos and takes its second victim. FILER falls to the ground. Meanwhile, the convoy comes to a stop next to his car. UNIT troops are shouted out of the vehicles to take positions near to the spaceship. The DOCTOR, JO, the BRIGADIER and YATES walks towards the green mobile HQ van as a black limousine stops nearby and CHINN and two other figures get out.) 38: INT. AXOS. PRISON CHAMBER (FILER struggles in the same tendrils that held JOSH before him. His face creases in pain as the mental analysis takes place again.) 39: INT. UNIT MOBILE HQ CHINN: Sir George, this is Lethbridge Stewart. (The BRIGADIER steps forward to meet his visitors. HARDIMAN is an elderly establishment-type suited figure.) HARDIMAN: Brigadier, this is Winser, head of research. (WINSER, a younger studious type, dressed in polo neck sweater and jacket, nods.) WINSER: I hope you're not contemplating an att*ck - so close to the labs? (The DOCTOR, previously studying the consoles within the HQ, turns and listens.) HARDIMAN: You realise this complex provides power for the whole of Britain? An att*ck would be disastrous. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: An att*ck? By whom, Sir George? We have no idea what we're up against. We must take these precautions. CHINN: I've arranged with the army for full a*tillery support. DOCTOR: a*tillery? Well, your m*ssile couldn't find their target. What chance Bazooka's? (CHINN bridles.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Er, Sir George, Professor Winser, the Doctor is our scientific advisor. (WINSER looks in astonishment at the eccentrically dressed figure.) DOCTOR: Well, as far as I can gather with these primitive instruments here, the device has buried itself deep underground. So there's not much that anybody can do about it. Even if it is a b*mb. HARDIMAN: But you don't think it is? WINSER: Perhaps I could, er, check the readings? DOCTOR: Yes, please do. (The DOCTOR passes him a clipboard. JO, who has been looking at one of the read-outs, cries out.) JO: Doctor, look! (On one of the monitors, a pulsing oscilloscope type pattern is displayed.) DOCTOR: You know, I would have said that that was a heartbeat. 40: INT. AXOS. PRISON CHAMBER (The analysis of FILER concludes...) VOICE OF AXOS: Intelligent, aggressive, possibly dangerous. Hold for further investigation. 41: INT. UNIT MOBILE HQ (The 2 RADAR OPERATOR, wearing headphones, turns from his console.) 2 RADAR OPERATOR: Brigadier, something's coming through. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, let's hear it. (The OPERATOR switches the signal through to a loudspeaker. The people in the room react with amazement at what they hear...) VOICE OF AXOS: (Through loudspeaker.) ...Earth. Axos calling Earth. Fuel systems exhausted. Request immediate assistance, immediate assistance. Axos calling Earth, Axos calling Earth. Fuel system exhausted. (The VOICE tails off.) DOCTOR: (To CHINN.) More of a cry for help than a thr*at, wouldn't you say? CHINN: Brigadier, we can't wait any longer. We must att*ck now before they have time to reorganise their defences! (The DOCTOR steps forward.) DOCTOR: Before you start annihilating the thing, why don't we just take a look at it? HARDIMAN: I agree. (JO starts for the door but the DOCTOR holds her back.) DOCTOR: Jo...I'm sorry, not this time. (JO steps back. The DOCTOR steps outside.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Captain Yates. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Sir? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Stay here and act as liaison. (Quietly.) Keep an eye on Miss Grant. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Sergeant Benton, check the perimeter guard. SERGEANT BENTON: Right sir. 42: EXT. AXOS LANDING SITE (The entrance to Axos opens and the VOICE emits from within. The DOCTOR, the BRIGADIER, CHINN, HARDIMAN and WINSER stand before it.) VOICE OF AXOS: Axos calling Earth - request immediate assistance. Axos calling Earth. DOCTOR: Right, Gentlemen. Shall we go in? (Watched by the armed UNIT troops who stand guard on the site, the five men enter the craft and the doors close...) 42: INT. AXOS. ENTRANCE PASSAGE (They look in wonder at their surroundings - an organic passage that resembles the inside of an intestine.) 43: EXT. AXOS LANDING SITE (Outside, SERGEANT BENTON runs back to the mobile HQ...) 44: INT. UNIT MOBILE HQ (...where YATES is in the middle of an argument with JO.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: It's no good going on at me, Jo. You heard the Brigadier - he made it perfectly clear that... (BENTON bursts in, out of breath.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: What is it, Benton? SERGEANT BENTON: Sir, we've found body, sir. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Where? SERGEANT BENTON: Over by the north perimeter and we've found a car too - a big Yankee job. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Come on then, you'd better show me. SERGEANT BENTON: Right, sir. (They head for the door. JO beats them to it.) SERGEANT BENTON: No, Miss, I wouldn't go if I were you. (She nods meekly.) JO: All right. I'll stay here. (She sits down as the two soldiers leave.) 45: EXT. AXOS LANDING SITE (YATES and BENTON approach the body of PIGBIN JOSH. YATES looks down for a moment, then kneels and touches JOSH'S forehead. The entire face starts to fall in on itself, as if the outer body is a mere shell with the internal organs drained away. YATES and BENTON look on half stunned.) 46: INT. UNIT MOBILE HQ (A look of cunning on her face. JO goes to the door.) 47: EXT. AXOS LANDING SITE (She checks that the coast is clear and leaves.) 48: INT. AXOS. PASSAGEWAY (The five men make their way down a passage which is covered in tendrils, membranes and tendon-like protuberances. They make their way through one particular membrane which separates the passageway...) 49: INT. AXOS. INNER CHAMBER (Their progress is seen on the wall of an inner chamber. An eye-like object turns and watches them.) 50: INT. AXOS. PASSAGEWAY (The DOCTOR is the last through the membrane. He suddenly gasps in pain as he starts to suffer a mental as*ault...) 51: EXT. AXOS LANDING SITE (JO walks through the cordon of soldiers and approaches the spacecraft. The doors open to allow her to enter.) 52: INT. AXOS. PASSAGEWAY (The analysis of the DOCTOR causes him intense pain...) VOICE OF AXOS: ... subject non-typical. Investigate, investigate - Analysis pattern investigates extra-terrestrial. Investigate. (The DOCTOR struggles in the force-field that holds him. His voice is no more than a gasp...) DOCTOR: Brigadier...Brigadier...! (He sees the BRIGADIER holding out his hands in help, his mouth moving - but no words reach him...) 53: EXT. AXOS LANDING SITE (JO walks cautiously into Axos. The doors close.) 54: INT. AXOS. PASSAGEWAY (The analysis ends. The DOCTOR gasps and holds his head in pain. The BRIGADIER rushes forward.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Concerned.) Are you all right, Doctor? DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Yes, I suppose so. I must say this place is full of surprises, isn't it? Let's see what else we can find. (They set off, the DOCTOR receiving concerned enquiry's from WINSER and HARDIMAN.) 55: INT. AXOS. PRISON CHAMBER (Lying on the floor, FILER struggles in the grip of the tendrils.) FILER: Help! Help! (He suddenly sees that he is not the only prisoner in the chamber. Stood against a wall but similarly held fast by tendrils is a dark suited bearded figure - the MASTER!) 56: INT. AXOS. PASSAGEWAY (JO slowly makes her way through Axos. FILER'S shouts reach her.) FILER: (OOV.) Help...help! JO: Bill? Bill, is that you? 57: INT. AXOS. CENTRAL CHAMBER (The DOCTOR is alone in a large organic chamber. He turns, sees something and shouts...) DOCTOR: Brigadier! Brigadier! (The BRIGADIER and the others come running in. The DOCTOR points at one slightly opaque wall, behind which can be seen moving figures. The wall vanishes and four figures are revealed. They are humanoid in form but completely golden in colour - skin, hair, even eyes. They resemble a family unit of a MAN, a WOMAN, a BOY and a GIRL. They stare impassively at their astonished visitors.) DOCTOR: Well, Gentlemen - there's your enemy. (The AXON MAN steps forward. He speaks but slowly, as if the language is new to him...) AXON MAN: Our world's...are uncountable...light years...away - on the far rim...of the galaxy. Our planetary system has been crippled by extreme solar flare activity. (He looks at their surroundings.) AXON MAN: Axos is all that remains of our culture. As you can see, our science, unlike yours, has taken an organic path. (Unsure.) This...ship? (The DOCTOR nods in confirmation that he has used the correct word.) AXON MAN: This ship was not...built for our journey - it was grown. WINSER: (Astonished.) What? AXON MAN: Yes, grown from a single cell and now its nutrient is all but exhausted. We would like to stay. CHINN: (Coughs.) Well... AXON MAN: (Interrupts.) Until our nutrition and energy cycles have been fully replenished. In return, according to your custom, we offer a gift, a payment... (The AXON GIRL steps forward and holds up in the air a burnt orange coloured round organic object.) AXON MAN: Axonite! 58: INT. AXOS. PASSAGEWAY (JO continues to look for the source of FILER'S cry.) JO: Bill? Bill, where are you? 59: INT. AXOS. CENTRAL CHAMBER (The sample of Axonite sits on top of a squat pillar in the centre of the chamber.) AXON MAN: Axonite is the source of all our growth technology. Axonite can absorb, convert, transmit and programme all forms of energy. (The AXON MAN starts to walk away.) DOCTOR: Even radiation? (The AXON MAN stops, turns and nods slowly at the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: (Suspicious.) Why then were you crippled by solar flare? AXON MAN: It was already too late. CHINN: Perhaps you could explain, just what it is - what it does? (Smiles.) My report, you understand? AXON MAN: Axonite is, shall we say, the "Chameleon" of the elements. It is a thinking molecule. It uses the energy it absorbs, not only to copy but to recreate and restructure any given substance. DOCTOR: (Suspicious.) And yet you still ran out of fuel? (The AXON MAN stares at the DOCTOR.) WINSER: (Eagerly.) And the principle? The principle of Axonite? AXON MAN: It would be simpler for me to demonstrate Axontite. 60: INT. AXOS. PRISON CHAMBER (From his position against the wall, the MASTER looks down on FILER.) MASTER: What's your name? FILER: Filer, Bill Filer. Who are you? What do you want? MASTER: I'm your fellow c*ptive, Filer. I am the Master! (FILER looks up in astonishment at the object of his quest...) 61: INT. AXOS. CENTRAL CHAMBER (Watched by the assembled observers, a small toad sits in a perspex globe. The AXON WOMAN stands by with what resembles a hypodermic syringe. The MAN nods at the AXON BOY who walks forward and takes the top off the globe.) AXON MAN: A painless lasonic injection...of Axonite. (He takes the syringe off the WOMAN. Its transparent tube is filled with the burnt orange coloured Axonite. He holds it over the toad which sits on top of the pillar.) AXON MAN: This is, I presume, one of your food animals? WINSER: Er, no, no, it isn't. AXON MAN: My apologies. (He switches the syringe on. It lights up and buzzes.) AXON MAN: Assuming it were, you can see, of course, the possibilities for alleviating the world's food problems. (The toad starts growing to several times its size.) AXON MAN: The process is, of course, reversible. (The toad shrinks back to its normal size. The WOMAN takes the syringe away as the BOY puts the toad back in the globe.) WINSER: It's...Incredible! HARDIMAN: Unlimited food. DOCTOR: And unlimited power. CHINN: (Eagerly.) We must have it! 62: INT. AXOS. PASSAGEWAY (JO continues her exploration. Behind her, something starts to emerge from a wall.) JO: Bill? (Jo turns. One of the tendril covered creatures is emerging from the very substance of the wall. She screams...)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "08x11 - The Claws of Axos - part 1"}
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THE CLAWS OF AXOS BY: BOB BAKER & DAVE MARTIN EPISODE TWO Original Air Date: 20 March, 1971 5:15pm - 5:40pm 1: INT. AXOS. PASSAGEWAY (JO continues her exploration. Behind her, something starts to appear on one of the walls.) JO: Bill? (JO turns. One of the tendril-covered creatures is emerging from the very substance of the wall. She screams...) 2: INT. AXOS. CENTRAL CHAMBER (The screams reach the central chamber.) DOCTOR: That's Jo! Come on! (The DOCTOR and the BRIGADIER run off down a passage at the back of the chamber towards the source of the cries. HARDIMAN and WINSER are about to follow...) CHINN: Sir George! (To WINSER.) Now wait! (The two men hold back. CHINN turns to the AXON MAN...) CHINN: Now, regarding an agreement... (...but he is facing one of the walls away from them.) AXON MAN: The emergency is sector seven. (He turns to CHINN.) AXON MAN: I am sorry. I must investigate. (He walks off in the direction taken by the DOCTOR and the BRIGADIER.) CHINN: I must make my report to the Minister. (Smiles.) I think I can take care of...this perpetual interference from these UNIT people. 3: INT. AXOS. PASSAGEWAY (JO lies on the floor of the passageway. The DOCTOR and the BRIGADIER run into sight.) DOCTOR: Jo! (He helps her to her feet. Strangely, the AXON MAN has reached the spot before them and stands to one side.) DOCTOR: (To JO.) Are you all right? What happened? JO: (Scared.) I saw this thing. It was shapeless and horrible and... (She turns and sees the golden AXON MAN. She jumps back and gives a cry. The DOCTOR comforts her.) DOCTOR: It's all right, my dear, don't be frightened. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Miss Grant, what are you doing here? I gave you explicit orders! JO: I was following you in, sir, and I thought I heard Bill Filer's voice. (The BRIGADIER glances at the DOCTOR.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Filer? In here? JO: I tried to find him...and then suddenly this awful thing appeared. It came straight out of the wall at me! AXON MAN: I think I can explain. We are close to the organic power sources here. Emission from the energy cells would have affected your sense perception, almost certainly causing you to...hallucinate. JO: And the voices?DOCTOR: Well, it's all part of the same thing, I'm afraid. You must have been hearing things. JO: Hearing things? DOCTOR: Look, Jo, don't worry. The same thing happened to me when I first came in here. (JO looks nervously at her surroundings.) JO: Doctor, I wasn't imagining things. I tell you I heard Bill Filer's voice! 4: INT. AXOS. PRISON CHAMBER (FILER is still struggling in the grip of the tendrils. He manages to reach inside his jacket and pull out a p*stol. He fires two sh*ts into the tendrils that hold him.) MASTER: That won't help you, Filer! FILER: Go to hell! MASTER: Now look, if you do what I say, we can both escape from here. FILER: Oh, yeah, sure - how? MASTER: That ganglion on the wall behind you - you see it? (With an effort, FILER looks up and sees a green coloured ganglion hanging down above his head.) FILER: Yeah? MASTER: That's the nerve centre of this section of Axos. h*t that...and the shock will disorientate it temporarily. FILER: And that's our chance? MASTER: That's our only chance. FILER: Okay, I'll try. (FILER fires one sh*t and misses. He fires a second sh*t and severs one of the loops of the ganglion. The tendrils which hold him and the MASTER suddenly go limp.) MASTER: Filer! Come! (They go through a membrane which covers the doorway and escape the prison chamber.) 5: INT. UNIT MOBILE HQ (CHINN has wasted no time and has made it back to the mobile HQ. The 2 RADAR OPERATOR hands him a phone.) 2 RADAR OPERATOR: Your call to the Ministry, sir. (CHINN takes the phone.) CHINN: Ah, just wait outside, will you? 2 RADAR OPERATOR: Sir? CHINN: (Snaps.) Just wait outside! 2 RADAR OPERATOR: Very good, sir. (He walks out. CHINN sits down with a self-satisfied smile.) CHINN: (Into phone.) Minister? Will you scramble, or shall I, sir? (The Minister's reply is cutting.) THE MINISTER: (OOV: On phone.) Just your report, Chinn. I'm sure that will be quite garbled enough. (CHINN is unperturbed.) CHINN: (Into phone.) Yes sir, well, as I anticipated, we are having a certain amount of trouble with these UNIT people, sir. THE MINISTER: (OOV: On phone.) We, Chinn, we? CHINN: (Into phone.) Er, well I am, sir. THE MINISTER: (OOV: On phone.) Are you quite sure you can handle this matter, Chinn? CHINN: (Into phone.) Oh, yes sir, yes, of course! Er, about the special powers, sir? THE MINISTER: (OOV: On phone.) Because if you are not, just remember, it's your head on the block, Chinn, not mine. (CHINN nods nervously.) 6: INT. AXOS. CENTRAL CHAMBER (In the central chamber of Axos, the DOCTOR confers with HARDIMAN and WINSER.) HARDIMAN: Yes, well, I think we ought to...look to the future too. There are tremendous advantages for humanity in Axonite. DOCTOR: Yes, tremendous material advantages. But I doubt if even Axonite could increase the growth of human common sense. But since you seem hell bent on getting hold of it, I suggest the best thing to do is to restrict its use to your laboratories until we've made a full analysis of all its properties. WINSER: We? HARDIMAN: You mean you want to co-operate with us? DOCTOR: Scientifically, yes. HARDIMAN: Winser? WINSER: Huh, it depends? HARDIMAN: On what? WINSER: Who leads the investigation? DOCTOR: (Slightly mocking.) Why you do, of course! 7: INT. UNIT MOBILE HQ (CHINN'S phone call to his superior continues.) CHINN: (Into phone.) Er, about my request, sir? THE MINISTER: (OOV: On phone.) Special powers have already been granted. Do your best to keep me informed, old chap. After all, you are our man on the spot, Chinn - in more ways than one. (The line goes d*ad...) CHINN: Minister? (...but CHINN remains confident. He speaks with relish.) CHINN: Right, Brigadier! 8: INT. AXOS. CENTRAL PASSAGEWAY (The MASTER runs into a long corridor in Axos. As he turns a corner, tendrils reach out and pull him into the wall. FILER follows as the AXON MAN and one of his compatriots appear suddenly from each side. The other Axon man grabs hold of FILER as if to take him away.) MASTER: What about me? I insist you release me! I kept my side of the bargain, I say... AXON MAN: (Interrupting.) Silence. FILER: Well, where are you taking me? AXON MAN: Replication sector. (The second Axon man pulls him away.) 9: INT. AXOS. PASSAGEWAY (CHINN is back in Axos and is negotiating with the AXON MAN.) AXON MAN: Name them. CHINN: All we ask is your guarantee that the sole distribution right to all Axonite materials be vested in the British government. AXON MAN: To bring...the greatest possible benefit to all Earth peoples, Axonite distribution must be worldwide. CHINN: I think I can give you that assurance. AXON MAN: In that case, all that remains is for me to hand over samples of Axonite for your investigation to begin. CHINN: Thank you! (The AXON WOMAN hands over to CHINN a perpex globe containing Axonite. He looks at it greedily.) CHINN: Thank you! (He walks off with his precious sample. The two AXON'S stand alone for a moment.) VOICE OF AXOS: Begin...re-absorption. (The AXON WOMAN walks over to a wall and rests against it. Slowly, her features melt as she starts to become one with the ship.) 10: INT. AXOS. CENTRAL CHAMBER (CHINN walks back into the central chamber with his Axonite. Waiting there are the DOCTOR, JO, the BRIGADIER, WINSER and HARDIMAN.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Mr. Chinn? (He approaches the little civil servant.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What's been going on here. I warn you - you have no authority. CHINN: All over, Brigadier. No further concern of yours. Agreement has been reached - Britain...has the world rights to Axonite! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Not as far as I'm concerned. CHINN: I'm warning you, Brigadier. (The BRIGADIER takes out his g*n and points it at CHINN.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I'll take that, please. (CHINN hands the globe over.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Thank you. Right, shall we go? Doctor, Miss Grant. After you, Mr. Chinn. (They all head for the exit.) 11: EXT. AXOS LANDING SITE (The entrance to Axos opens and the party of six exit.) 12: INT. UNIT MOBILE HQ (In the mobile HQ, YATES and BENTON look at each other somewhat forlornly. CHINN and the BRIGADIER enter. YATES and BENTON stand. Behind them is stood a young regular army officer - CAPTAIN HARKER. The BRIGADIER looks at the scene in surprise.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What's going on here, Yates? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Regular's suddenly took over, sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Took over? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: We couldn't very well let them f*re on them, could we, sir? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What about the rest of the men? CHINN: They've all been arrested - and so, Brigadier, have you. If you will excuse me. (He holds his hands out for the Axonite. The BRIGADIER hands it over with reluctance.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: You have no right! CHINN: On the contrary, I have every right. You're all under security arrest under the Emergency Powers Act. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Captain, this is an illegal act. CAPTAIN HARKER: I have my orders, Brigadier. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (To CHINN.) I must tell you, Mr. Chinn, I shall make every possible attempt to warn the UN. CHINN: (To HARKER.) Captain, I want all these men put under twenty-four hour armed guard. They are to see no one. No one at all - do you understand? If you need me, I shall be with Sir George. (He leaves, pushing past the DOCTOR and JO who have just entered. HARKER, the BRIGADIER and his men follow.) 13: INT. AXOS. REPLICATION SECTOR (FILER stands absolutely still. A myriad number of colour patterns swirl round him...) 14: INT. UNIT MOBILE HQ (The DOCTOR taps the back of a chair as he thinks. JO watches.) DOCTOR: Mmm, quite a quandry... JO: About which side you're on, you mean? DOCTOR: Why should they foist this gift on to us? They must want something. Jo, tell me again about that creature that you saw? JO: (Delighted.) You mean you believe me? DOCTOR: Of course I believe you - I always did. Now then, you're quite sure it was Bill Filer that you heard? 15: INT. AXOS. REPLICATION SECTOR (The process on FILER continues...) 16: INT. UNIT MOBILE HQ (The DOCTOR passes a photograph of the body of Pigbin Josh over to JO.) DOCTOR: This body they found - was there no identification? JO: Apparently not. When they touched it, it just...disintegrated. There was a car too - Bill Filer's. DOCTOR: Mmm, perhaps he got here ahead of us? JO: And they didn't find any sign of him? DOCTOR: No. (He takes back the photograph and considers.) DOCTOR: Perhaps the same thing happened to him? JO: (Upset.) No! No, he can't be d*ad! He's still inside that ship! DOCTOR: I only hope you're right, Jo. JO: Look, we must get him out - we'll make the Axons let us search. CHINN: You'll do no such thing! (They look up - the civil servant has quietly entered the HQ and has been listening to their conversation.) CHINN: As far as I'm concerned, the man has ceased to exist! 17: INT. AXOS. REPLICATION SECTOR (The process reaches its climax. A ghostly image of FILER splits from his original, pauses and then walks off.) 18: INT. UNIT MOBILE HQ JO: (Shouts.) As far as you're concerned, Mr. Chinn, nothing exists except this contemptible underhanded deal! CHINN: I don't intend to prejudice anything at this stage. This man, Filer, is not going to cause an incident. There will be no search and that is that. (He turns to CAPTAIN HARKER who is back in the HQ, this time with WINSER.) CHINN: Captain, have them both taken to the complex and put with the others. Remember, no contact with anyone at all. CAPTAIN HARKER: Right, sir. (HARKER starts to lead the two of them away but WINSER points at the DOCTOR.) WINSER: (To CHINN.) Er, not him. The, er, Doctor's going to help with the preliminary investigations into Axonite. CHINN: Very well... (The DOCTOR starts to leave with WINSER.) CHINN: ...but understand - the slightest hint of delay or sabotage, it's your head on the block - not mine! 19: INT. AXOS. PRISON CHAMBER (The MASTER is back in the prison chamber, occupying the place where FILER was held on the tendril covered floor. The AXON MAN stands over him.) AXON MAN: We have done well, Time Lord. MASTER: Of course - the humans are fools. AXON MAN: So far, your predictions have proved correct. This is indeed a rich planet you have brought us to. MASTER: And am I to be released? AXON MAN: As yet, we have only gained a foothold. For the maximum nutrient value, Axonite must encircle the world within the next seventy-two hours. MASTER: And for that to happen, your secret arrangement with the British Government must be made universally known. Now, I can do that for you. Give me my freedom. AXON MAN: Your freedom? The bargain, you remember, was that if we spared you and your TARDIS, you would lead us to this planet in return for the death of the Doctor. MASTER: And the destruction of all life on Earth? AXON MAN: Of course. But our sensors detected something you neglected to tell us. (Harshly.) This Doctor is also a Time Lord - is he not! (FILER is thrown into the chamber through the membrane door. He lies still on the floor. The AXON MAN looks at the MASTER...) AXON MAN: No one...is irreplaceable. (...and leaves.) 20: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (WINSER'S laboratory looks more like the inside of a huge industrial complex. Two massive round metal cyclotrons sit one on top of the other and in between are a series of metal trellis platforms and walkways which surround a perspex tube that connects the two generators. The tube itself is large enough to accommodate a man and has a locked door built into it. To the left of the room is a window behind which is the control room for the light accelerator. Several white-coated lab technicians work whilst WINSER shows the DOCTOR round the large chamber. They reach a control panel in front of the perspex tube - the light accelerator.) WINSER: __ here. DOCTOR: And this brings in the whole output of Reactor One? WINSER: Yeah! The particles are accelerated round and round the cyclotron in an ever increasing electro-magnetic field. Now eventually, we hope to have controlled acceleration up to the speed of light. (He taps a round dial on which are several stages. The dial is marked "LIGHT x/1". The DOCTOR looks closely at it.) WINSER: (Proudly.) Now, once beyond that point, the particles will be travelling in the fourth dimension. I will be able to begin my experiments with the nature of time itself. DOCTOR: With the ultimate aim of making travel in time possible? WINSER: Why not? DOCTOR: Mmm, yes, most impressive. Much larger than my own set-up, of course. WINSER: Your set-up? DOCTOR: Yes. 21: INT. AXOS. CENTRAL CHAMBER (The replica FILER stands motionless in the true heart of AXOS. Hanging down from the roof, ever in motion, is a large green eye on a stalk. Brightly lit from the inside, the eye swivels round as the replica FILER receives its instructions.) VOICE OF AXOS: The other Time Lord will deal with the Axonite. Find him and bring him here. (The replica nods and moves off.) 22: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY WINSER: (Sceptically.) You're trying to tell me that you actually achieved time travel... DOCTOR: Mm.. WINSER: ...and published nothing? DOCTOR: In Britain, no. WINSER: Well, where then? DOCTOR: Er, elsewhere. Yes, yes, elsewhere. WINSER: And I suppose you can't remember. DOCTOR: Yes...as a matter of fact, that's the trouble - I can't. WINSER: How convenient! DOCTOR: Er, most inconvenient, actually. You know, I was thinking, if you'd really like to take a look at my TARDIS, maybe I could arrange to have it brought down. WINSER: "TARDIS"? Are you serious? DOCTOR: Absolutely. Perhaps we can get it operational - with the help of this stuff. (He taps the Axonite globe.) 23: INT. AXOS. PRISON CHAMBER (FILER comes round. He is back in his old place of confinement on the floor. The MASTER is nowhere to be seen. He attempts to jump up but the tendrils snap into place and hold him, then they relax again. FILER tries the same manoeuvre but gets the same result. Then, he tries to get up at a very slow pace. This time, the tendrils don't move.) 24: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (The discussion in the lab has turned into an argument...) WINSER: (Shouts.) No, Doctor, I simply won't hear of it! DOCTOR: Don't you see? It's the simplest way to break it down! WINSER: (Shouts.) But you're asking me to risk fifty million pounds worth of equipment! DOCTOR: Look, all we have to do is take the Axonite, put it in the light accelerator and crack it down into particles. WINSER: Dah! (Nevertheless, he paces the room thinking, then...) WINSER: No, it's far too hazardous. The whole damn lot could go up. DOCTOR: If it is a thinking molecule, it should analyse itself. All we have to do is switch on and read the print out. WINSER: Analyse itself?! (He laughs and turns to a technician.) WINSER: Is the spectra-scope set, ...? DOCTOR: Spectra-scope? You might as well use a magnifying glass. WINSER: (Annoyed.) What was that, Doctor? DOCTOR: (Exasperated.) Er, nothing, my dear Holmes! 25: INT. AXOS. PRISON CHAMBER (FILER continues his slow escape. He manages to get to his feet and then bursts through the membrane door.) 26: INT. AXOS. CENTRAL CHAMBER (The MASTER stands in the heart of Axos, talking to the eye...) MASTER: I know their ways on Earth. I can move around freely. I'm familiar with their systems, their organisations. You don't have the time to learn these things. If the nutrition cycle is to be activated in the next seventy-two hours, you must have world wide distribution by then. VOICE OF AXOS: Data confirms feasibilities. Queries motivation. Decision reads: "release Time Lord but retain his TARDIS time capsule until mission completed". MASTER: But I must have my TARDIS! VOICE OF AXOS: Negative. Data indicates time capsule un-necessary for success of mission. MASTER: Well, at least give me back my laser g*n. I may need to defend myself. VOICE OF AXOS: Return of laser g*n is acceptable. Possession of time capsule will prevent hostile action. (The light in the eye dims to show that the conversation is at an end. The MASTER sighs and moves off - not seeing FILER crouched nearby.) VOICE OF AXOS: Cell area! Emergency! Emergency! (FILER starts to follow the MASTER.) VOICE OF AXOS: Emergency! 27: EXT. AXOS LANDING SITE (The entrance to Axos opens. A soldier stood on guard has his back to the doorway and fails to see the MASTER emerge. The Time Lord creeps closer and closer to the soldier who hears a noise behind him and spins round. The MASTER whips out his laser g*n and fires. The end glows red and the soldier flies backwards with a cry and in a puff of smoke. The MASTER stands over the body, checks that he has not been spotted by anyone else and runs off. As the doorway to AXOS starts to close, FILER dives out to safety. He sees the d*ad soldier and himself runs off but in a different direction - towards the complex.) 28: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (The DOCTOR and WINSER have finished a series of tests on the sample of Axonite which sits on top of a series of equipment in front of them.) DOCTOR: Well? WINSER: Not a thing. Damn it. It should show some response to something. DOCTOR: Well, it's been programmed not to. Don't you see, it's deliberately resisting analysis? (WINSER doesn't answer.) DOCTOR: Well, isn't it? WINSER: Well, go on - say it! DOCTOR: Say what? WINSER: "I told you so!" DOCTOR: I told you so! (The DOCTOR walks off towards the central perspex tube - the heart of the particle accelerator.) DOCTOR: Particle acceleration - it's the only answer. (WINSER doesn't answer but merely looks weary.) DOCTOR: If you're not prepared to risk your own equipment, why don't we try mine? WINSER: I thought you said it was U.S. DOCTOR: Mmm, a certain malfunction of the drive system - yes, but the other components are all right. We could put them through the main reactor. WINSER: Well, if we... (He thinks...) WINSER: Well, if we can bypass the malfunction and your light accelerators compatible, it might work. DOCTOR: Well, it's the only thing left to do, isn't it? If you could persuade the powers that be... WINSER: Yes, I...I, er, suppose you're right. (He starts to leave.) WINSER: I...I'll see what I can do. DOCTOR: Right. 29: EXT. ROAD (An army truck heads down a road next to a steep bank which has a tunnel built into it on the right. The MASTER stands on top of the bank and as the truck drives into the tunnel, he jumps onto the back of the truck. The MASTER crawls along the top of the truck towards the drivers cab. As the journey continues, the MASTER climbs down the side of the truck. Inside it, the driver looks into his side mirror and sees the eyes of the MASTER looking hypnotically at him.) MASTER: I am Master. You will obey me! You will obey me! (The driver is easily subdued.) 30: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (The DOCTOR opens the door to the accelerator as the door to the lab opens and the replica FILER woodenly enters.) FILER: Doctor. (The DOCTOR turns round in delight.) DOCTOR: Filer! So you got away? FILER: Come with me, Doctor. (He grabs hold of the DOCTOR and tries to pull him towards the door.) DOCTOR: Come with you? FILER: Come to Axos! (The DOCTOR struggles free and puts an Aikido nerve hold on the American's chest.) DOCTOR: I won't go to Axos or anywhere else with you! In any case, you're not Filer! (The replica looks as if he might fall but then struggles to overcome the hold and the DOCTOR sees that his adversary is stronger than he at first thought.) FILER: Come to Axos. (The DOCTOR hears a voice behind him..) FILER: Out of the way, Doc! (The real FILER is stood in the doorway to the lab. His g*n in his hand. The replica takes advantage of the diversion and clubs the DOCTOR down. The real FILER sh**t at his copy several times but the b*ll*ts have no effect. FILER then tries brute force and punches "himself". The copy easily dodges the blows and manages to get several back himself. He then throws the original across the lab towards a guard rail and approaches him, getting his hands on his shoulders. The true FILER pushes him back and kicks him towards the accelerator. On the floor, the DOCTOR starts to come round. As the fight continues, the fake FILER gives the real man a strong punch which sends the man to the floor. The two trade further punches and blows as the DOCTOR gets to his feet. He grabs the real FILER, thinking it is the Axon replica...) FILER: No, Doc! (...and realises his mistake.) DOCTOR: ... ! FILER: No! (They turn and see the fake FILER rushing for them. They dive out of the way and the fake heads straight into the heart of the accelerator. There is an intense white flash and a spark and the fake is turned into a foaming mass on the floor of the accelerator.) FILER: Boy, am I glad that's not me in there. DOCTOR: Are you quite sure it isn't? (FILER taps himself and smiles.) FILER: Yeah, quite sure! DOCTOR: Good! Come along. (They move off.) 31: INT. UNIT HQ. CORRIDOR (The MASTER and the driver have reached UNIT HQ and stand in a corridor.) MASTER: You will load the Doctor's TARDIS onto your lorry. You will need some help. DRIVER: I will need some help. MASTER: Get the guard to give you a hand. DRIVER: The guard. MASTER: Now. (The driver walks towards a soldier who is stood nearby.) 32: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. OFFICE (The DOCTOR and FILER update the BRIGADIER and JO on what has happened.) DOCTOR: I tell you, Brigadier, they replicated Bill here! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Replicated? DOCTOR: Faked, copied, duplicated. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: But how? DOCTOR: (Sharply.) Look, does it matter how, Brigadier? We haven't got the time to explain. JO: Axonite! The copying molecule! DOCTOR: Yes, thank you, Jo. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, but I still don't see... DOCTOR: (Interrupting: To FILER.) Look, Bill, was the Master in Axos or not? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: He is sure is...or was, until he escaped. DOCTOR: Which was why they sent Filer or the fake Filer after me. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Then they're not human at all? DOCTOR: Human! They're not even humanoid! FILER: Well, according to the Master, they're some kind of, er, scavenger. You know, no planet - nothing. DOCTOR: The whole thing's just a pack of lies, Brigadier. JO: Apart from Axonite copying molecules. DOCTOR: Yes, quite. Look, we've got to stop Chinn getting hold of that stuff. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right... (The door opens and CAPTAIN HARKER and an armed soldier enter the room.) CAPTAIN HARKER: Nobody move, please. (To the soldier.) Take his g*n. (The soldier does so and walks out with it.) CAPTAIN HARKER: I'm sorry, Mr. Filer... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Shouts.) Captain, listen! CAPTAIN HARKER: Brigadier, I already have. (He reaches under the desk and takes out an electronic listening device.) DOCTOR: And what is your decision? CAPTAIN HARKER: Unfortunately, I have my orders. DOCTOR: Which are? CAPTAIN HARKER: To confine you strictly to the laboratory. 33: INT. UNIT HQ. TRACKING ROOM OUTER OFFICE (The MASTER checks round carefully and enters the tracking room.) 34: INT. UNIT HQ. TRACKING ROOM (The 1 RADAR OPERATOR is within trying to get in touch with mobile HQ.) 1 RADAR OPERATOR: (Into radio.) Trap one, do you read me? Over. Hello greyhound, this is trap one. Do you read me? Over. (The MASTER approaches. The RADAR OPERATOR turns.) 1 RADAR OPERATOR: No use, Harry...who are you? MASTER: The Brigadier sent me. 1 RADAR OPERATOR: But what's going on... (The MASTER stares intently at him...) MASTER: You have a top priority message to send to the United Nations. I will tell you what to say. (The hypnotised operator turns back to the radio.) 35: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (Alone in the lab, the DOCTOR closes the lid on a reel-to-reel tape recorder, stands up the microphone, switches it on and starts to speak.) DOCTOR: My dear Winser, I hope you'll forgive this unauthorised use of your precious equipment, but in case there is an accident, I'm making this recording of what not to do. I am about to place the Axonite in the light accelerator. (He goes over to the perspex tube, unlocks the door and opens it. He then places the raw mass of Axonite on a small stand within. Closes the door and locks it again. He then starts to make notes on a clipboard.) DOCTOR: Now, the idea is to split off a stream of Axonite particles and accelerate them through time. (He goes over to the console.) DOCTOR: In this way, we shall force it to...analyse itself on the print out. Right, here goes. (He starts to flicking switches on the console.) DOCTOR: Reactor One activated. Accelerating. (A humming sound starts to build up.) DOCTOR: Point one... (The needle on the "LIGHT X/1" dial starts to go up.) DOCTOR: Two...three...it's reacting. (The sound reaches a crescendo and the needle reaches the number "1" on the dial.) DOCTOR: Speed of light now! (An alarm bell starts to ring. The DOCTOR looks at the Axonite. It starts to foam and smoke.) 36: INT. AXOS. PASSAGEWAY (Within AXOS there is chaos. Three of the golden beings stagger about, holding their hands to their heads in pain...) 37: INT. AXOS. CENTRAL CHAMBER (The eye trashes about. The calm voice starts to sound agitated...) VOICE OF AXOS: Emergency! Nutrition cycle prematurely activated! Immediate recovery essential! Emergency! Emergency! 38: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. CORRIDOR (The soldier stands guard on the office as the alarm bell sounds throughout the complex. CAPTAIN HARKER runs up.) CAPTAIN HARKER: The prisoners still inside? Open up! (The soldier does as instructed and HARKER runs in - only to be punched out of the room and to the floor. The soldier also tries to get into the office but FILER manages to fight him back. The three prisoners escape into the corridor.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Sorry, Captain. Well done, Filer. I must get on to UNIT headquarters - you go with Jo and find the Doctor. JO: But... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Interrupting.) If anyone can explain, he can. Now hurry! (He dashes back into the office. JO turns to FILER.) JO: The Doctor's in the laboratory, isn't he? FILER: Yeah, that's where the alarms coming from! (They run off.) 39: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (The needle on the dial now points to "2". JO and FILER run in.) JO: Doctor, what are you doing? DOCTOR: A small experiment, that's all. JO: What? DOCTOR: Jo, please keep back! (JO and FILER jump back. The DOCTOR points to the foaming substance in the accelerator.) DOCTOR: That's Axonite, you know. It's now taking the whole output of Reactor One and absorbing it - Absorbing the whole lot and using it to grow. (A furious WINSER bursts in.) WINSER: What the hell's happening here! (He dives for the console.) WINSER: Now get out of my equipment, you idiot! (He switches the machine off, turns and sees the activated Axonite.) WINSER: Oh, you stupid quack! (He runs to the accelerator door.) DOCTOR: Don't touch that! (But it is too late. There is a blue spark and, with a cry, WINSER is flung backwards. The DOCTOR goes to help and sees WINSER'S body instantly decompose as Axos absorbs him. The DOCTOR realises what is happening...) DOCTOR: Yes...yes, of course! Axons! (To JO and FILER.) That ship! Axonite! It's all the same thing! Don't you see we're dealing with one single living creature. Axonite was just the dormant state until I...I activated it. FILER: Can't you stop it? DOCTOR: No, it's too late. Don't you see, Filer? This stuff could endanger the entire world. JO: Doctor! Look out! (WINSER has turned into a rolling mass of Axonite which starts to flow towards the three of them. They run round the accelerator and head for the door but a raw, tentacle Axon creature bursts through the door. JO screams and they run in another direction but another of the creatures is in front of them. JO cries out again - they are trapped.)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "08x12 - The Claws of Axos - part 2"}
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THE CLAWS OF AXOS BY: BOB BAKER & DAVE MARTIN EPISODE THREE Original Air Date: 27 March, 1971 5:15pm - 5:40pm 1: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (The DOCTOR realises what is happening...) DOCTOR: Yes...yes, of course! Axons! (To JO and FILER.) That ship! Axonite! It's all the same thing! Don't you see we're dealing with one single living creature. Axonite was just the dormant state until I...I activated it. FILER: Can't you stop it? DOCTOR: No, it's too late. Don't you see, Filer? This stuff could endanger the entire world. JO: Doctor! Look out! (WINSER has turned into a rolling mass of Axonite which starts to flow towards the three of them. They run round the accelerator and head for the door but a raw, tentacle Axon creature bursts through the door. JO screams and they run in another direction but another of the creatures is in front of them. JO cries out again - they are trapped. FILER turns to see another of the creatures behind him. Suddenly, one of them extends an orange tentacle which touches FILER on the chest. There is a crackling sound and, with a cry of pain, he falls to the ground. The other Axons close in on the DOCTOR and JO who back up towards the accelerator.) VOICE OF AXOS: De-energise them. (The DOCTOR and JO stiffen and close their eyes as if possessed as the three Axons surround them.) VOICE OF AXOS: Re-personalise. (The three Axons have linked "hands". They transform into their golden personas.) VOICE OF AXOS: Re-personalisation completed. Take them to Axos. (The DOCTOR and JO silently turn and face the door. Surrounded by the three Axons, they start to walk out.) 2: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. OFFICE (The BRIGADIER is on the phone to UNIT HQ.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone: Angrily.) What are you talking about, man?! I repeat - I want an urgent cable to Geneva HQ. Now, message reads "Chinn making illegal unilateral deal. Request confirmation..." (He stops in mid-sentence as the operator at the other end of the line speaks.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What do you mean a similar message has already been sent? (He listens.) It can't have been! (Listens.) Well, there must have been a security leak. (Listens.) Look, just tell me exactly what happened. (HARKER enters the room and puts up his g*n.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone.) Just a moment. (To HARKER.) You can put that away, Captain. I don't think you'll be needing it. CAPTAIN HARKER: Sir, you're still under arrest. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Smiles.) I doubt it. I think you'd better get in contact with your HQ. (HARKER looks confused...) 3: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (CHINN and HARDIMAN rush into the lab. The AXON MAN stands there.) HARDIMAN: (Angrily.) What's happened? Where's Winser? AXON MAN: Your scientist has been k*lled. HARDIMAN: (Shocked.) k*lled? How? AXON MAN: His body was destroyed by an intense blast of radiation. HARDIMAN: Radiation? CHINN: What happened? AXON MAN: Our instruments showed attempts were being made to interfere with the structure of Axonite. We came to help...but we were too late. HARDIMAN: We? AXON MAN: My crew have removed the unstable material. HARDIMAN: And the radiation? AXON MAN: Has already been neutralised. CHINN: (To HARDIMAN.) Did you authorise these experiments, Sir George? HARDIMAN: No, I did not. Winser went his own way - poor devil. CHINN: Did you mean to tell me...! AXON MAN: (Interrupting.) The blame is for you to decide. This kind of thing must never happen again - never! Otherwise, we shall cancel the agreement! (CHINN looks worried.) 4: INT. AXOS. PRISON CHAMBER (JO and the DOCTOR are held in the prison chamber. JO lies on the floor, the DOCTOR against the wall and both are held by wall tendrils.) JO: (Panicking.) Doctor! I can't move! DOCTOR: Jo, lie still! There's nothing we can do. JO: Where are we? DOCTOR: We're back inside Axos...and these claws, or whatever you call them, are a living part of Axos. (JO cries out as the tendrils tighten their grip.) JO: Well, why did they bring us here? DOCTOR: I wish I knew. 5: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (HARKER has gone to speak to CHINN in the lab. The AXON MAN watches. The BRIGADIER and several regular army soldiers are also in the lab.) CAPTAIN HARKER: Excuse me, sir. I've been talking to my HQ - about Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart. CHINN: (Impatiently.) The Brigadier is under arrest. HARDIMAN: Any sign of Miss Grant or the Doctor? CAPTAIN HARKER: Er, no, sir. (To CHINN.) Excuse me, sir, the message from HQ? CHINN: (Shouts.) Not now! (HARDIMAN speaks to the AXON MAN who walks round the other side of the main console.) HARDIMAN: When you arrived here, were there any signs... AXON MAN: (Interrupting.) When we arrived there was no one here - except this man. (He points to the floor and a previously unnoticed unconscious form that lies on the floor.) HARDIMAN: Filer! (HARDIMAN rushes to him and makes a quick examination.) AXON MAN: He is in a coma. Since my help is no longer needed. I shall return to my ship. (HARDIMAN waves one of the soldiers over. The BRIGADIER also joins them.) HARDIMAN: Here, give us a hand. He's terribly ill. (The BRIGADIER and the soldier pull FILER up off the floor.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (To HARKER.) You've got a medical wing, haven't you? Well take him there - get on with it! CAPTAIN HARKER: All right, sir. (To a soldier.) Come on. (Two soldiers start to carry FILER from the lab.) 6: INT. AXOS. CENTRAL CHAMBER (The DOCTOR and JO stand in the central chamber of Axos before the moving eye. On a wall behind it is an image of the AXON MAN'S head which constantly turns and cross-fades to another aspect of itself.) AXON MAN: All things must die, Doctor. Mankind, this planet, Axos merely hastens the process. DOCTOR: Oh? How? AXON MAN: Axonite is simply...bait for human greed. Because of this greed, Axonite will soon spread across the entire planet...and then, the nutrition cycle will begin. DOCTOR: Indeed, and what then? AXON MAN: Slowly, we will consume every particle of energy - every last cell of living matter. Earth will be sucked dry! (The DOCTOR and JO look at each other.) 7: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (CHINN is being made aware of the turn around of events.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: On the contrary, Mr. Chinn, the position has changed. CHINN: Changed? How? (To HARKER.) Captain? CAPTAIN HARKER: I'm afraid so, sir. I did try and tell you. I've had orders direct from the ministry - I'm to hand over command to the Brigadier. CHINN: Ministry? (Shouts.) But I haven't heard anything about this! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, you have now! CHINN: Now, look here... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Interrupting, to HARKER.) Captain, anything on the Doctor and Miss Grant? CAPTAIN HARKER: No, sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, release my men - they'll help you search. We've got to find them. 8: INT. AXOS. CENTRAL CHAMBER (The DOCTOR'S conversation with the ever-changing image continues...) DOCTOR: Well obviously, your plan entails some sort of time limit. AXON MAN: Axonite must be activated within seventy-two hours of our landing. (The image fades.) DOCTOR: You know, Jo, I think our friend, Chinn, has done the right thing for once - for the wrong reasons, of course. JO: What do you mean? DOCTOR: Well, fortunately, he intends to confine the entire supply of Axonite to Britain. 9: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. OFFICE (CHINN sits at a desk, quietly dozing. There is a noise from a monitor next to him. He switches it on and an image of a grey-haired, grey-faced man appears. It is CHINN'S boss - THE MINISTER.) THE MINISTER: (On monitor.) Chinn? CHINN: Sir? THE MINISTER: (On monitor.) Perhaps you can tell me why the sole result of the special powers I granted you, has been this catastrophic security leak? CHINN: (Puzzled.) Catastrophic security leak? Which catastrophic security leak, sir? THE MINISTER: (On monitor.) The United Nations are demanding the immediate free world-wide distribution of Axonite. The whole thing has blown up in our faces, Chinn. CHINN: Yes sir, in our faces, sir. THE MINISTER: (On monitor.) Distribution is to take place immediately. CHINN: Yes, sir. Just as soon as I can... THE MINISTER: (On monitor: Interrupting.) Yes sir - not as soon as - immediately. Arrange air transport. CHINN: You can depend upon me, sir. THE MINISTER: (On monitor.) Mmm, what? Yes, well, just in case we can't... (He holds up a piece of paper.) THE MINISTER: (On monitor.) Your resignation, Chinn. All ready for signature. Goodbye, Chinn. (CHINN squirms as the screen goes blank. He picks up a phone.) CHINN: (Into phone.) Hello? (He listens.) Get me air transport liaison. (He waits then...) CHINN: (Into phone.) Hello, Chinn here. I want you to arrange for world-wide distribution of Axonite immediately. 10: INT. SICK BAY (FILER lies unconscious in a hospital bed. A nurse makes a note on his chart and leaves. After she has gone, FILER starts to come round, mumbling incoherently.) FILER: Axonite...Axonite...dangerous...if kept here. Must not distribute...must not distribute! 11: EXT. NUTON COMPLEX (An open truck, with the TARDIS in the back of it, enters the Nuton complex.) 12: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (SERGEANT BENTON oversees the installation of the TARDIS in the lab and then walks up to a visitor and salutes. The visitor is dressed in a General's hat and overcoat.) SERGEANT BENTON: Will there be anything else, sir? GENERAL: Thank you, sergeant. That will be all. SERGEANT BENTON: I ought to let the Brigadier know you here... GENERAL: (Interrupting.) You will do no such thing and that's an order, sergeant. SERGEANT BENTON: Sir, he would like to know... GENERAL: (Interrupting.) This is a surprise inspection. I'll make meself known to the Brigadier in me own time. SERGEANT BENTON: Very good, sir. (BENTON salutes.) GENERAL: Thank you. (The General returns the salute with his swagger stick. BENTON motions to two soldiers to leave and follows them out of the lab. After they have gone, the General pulls off his face mask disguise - it is the MASTER. He takes off his hat and coat, straightens his own familiar black suit and walks round the lab inspecting the equipment. He then walks over to the TARDIS and, after checking that he is not being observed, takes a small rod-like device out of his pocket and "fires" it at the door lock. The TARDIS opens and the MASTER enters.) 13: INT. SICK BAY (In his hospital bed, FILER is still in a state of delirium...) FILER: No, we must find him! Helping them! Got to find him - must find the Master! 14: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (Within the TARDIS, the MASTER looks with horror over the cable-strewn console.) MASTER: Oh no! But what does he think he's doing? What a botch-up! 15: INT. AXOS. CENTRAL CHAMBER (The DOCTOR is alone in the central chamber. He sits in a misshapen organic chair, sweating heavily, as he undergoes an interrogation from an image of the AXON MAN...) AXON MAN: Lies are useless, Time Lord! DOCTOR: Look, for the thousandth time, I tell you I am not a Time Lor... (He is suddenly as*ault by a strong wave of energy. He writhes in pain.) AXON MAN: We have explored the blocks the Time Lords have imposed upon your memory...and can free them. We must have the secret of time travel. DOCTOR: Must you? Why? AXON MAN: Soon it will be necessary to expand our feeding range - to increase the energy sources available to us. Space-time travel will give us this power. 16: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The MASTER finishes his examination of the state of the TARDIS console.) MASTER: Oh, well I suppose it...could be made to work - just possibly. (He pulls out his laser g*n.) MASTER: Right, Doctor - don't keep me waiting, will you? 17: INT. AXOS. CENTRAL CHAMBER (The interrogation continues...) DOCTOR: I refuse to align myself to this cosmic bacteria of you... (Another energy wave tortures him...) AXON MAN: We shall see. You have seen how Axonite can absorb the life force from a human body. Now, we have arranged for your companion to age to death...before your eyes. (The DOCTOR sees JO before him.) DOCTOR: Jo? (As he watches, a series of green flashes start to age and wither the young girl. He skin starts to become wrinkled and her hair turns grey. The DOCTOR reacts with horror.) DOCTOR: No...no...no! Argh! Argh! Stop! Stop! AXON MAN: You will co-operate? DOCTOR: (Desperately.) You cannot defy the laws of time. Give me a chance and I'll prove it to you. (The image of JO alternates between being young and old.) AXON MAN: Very well. Release her. (The reversal of time takes place and JO returns to her normal self.) AXON MAN: All right, Doctor - begin. (The eye turns and stares at him...) 18: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. OFFICE (CHINN, with clipboard in hand, is in the middle of organising the distribution of Axonite. The AXON MAN is with him as the BRIGADIER tries to influence events.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: The whole question of Axonite's distribution must be shelved, until we've found the Doctor and got his report on it. CHINN: Doctor? (Laughs.) I spotted him for a charlatan the moment I saw him. If you ask me, Brigadier, you're not going to see much of that gentleman again. AXON MAN: (To CHINN.) Large quantities of Axonite are available for immediate distribution. Perhaps you could show me the extent of the operation. 19: INT. AXOS. CENTRAL CHAMBER VOICE OF AXOS: Concentrate, Doctor. You have only to...think the equation. The mind of Axos will do the rest. DOCTOR: Very well. (He closes his eyes and concentrates. His thoughts are extracted and when he opens his eyes he sees a series of mathematical equations appear on a wall.) VOICE OF AXOS: Good, now the power requirements. (The same process takes place again but this time the result is not satisfactory.) VOICE OF AXOS: What is this? (thr*at.) Remember what will happen if you lie. DOCTOR: (Angrily.) Pure mathematics cannot lie. You'll need an immense amount of power to create a time field for anything as large as Axos. (The calculation of the equations resumes. Again, they appear as an image on the wall.) DOCTOR: There you are. There are your final power requirements. VOICE OF AXOS: All data confirmed. DOCTOR: You see - just as I told you. Far in excess of your total power capacity. VOICE OF AXOS: Add the full power output of the Nuton complex to your figures, Doctor. DOCTOR: Oh, all right, but I...I fail to see what good it will do. (He closes his eyes and thinks through the equations again.) VOICE OF AXOS: Data confirms space-time travel possible using additional power from complex. You see, Doctor, we can call upon the additional power of the complex whenever we need it. DOCTOR: How? You can't just walk in there and take it. VOICE OF AXOS: On the contrary, Doctor - we can. 20: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. OFFICE (CHINN looks over a map of the world and checks his clipboard. He reads the results out with satisfaction to the AXON MAN as a soldier marks the points on the map.) CHINN: Cape Kennedy - ten units of Axonite, in transit. Washington Pentagon - five units due for take-off eleven hundred hours TMT. Ottowa - one unit, Axonite - in transit. Baikonur - ten units, ETA - twelve thirty GMT. Lop Nor...? (He and the soldier spot the place name on the map.) CHINN: Lop Nor - five units. Yes, well there we are. Axonite consignments on their way to every major capitol and scientific establishment in the world. AXON MAN: Excellent. CHINN: Thank you. (The AXON MAN hears a message from Axos.) VOICE OF AXOS: De-personalise. Locate and enter main reactor. Establish link to transmit power. (The AXON MAN starts walking towards the door.) CHINN: Yes, well, that just about wraps it up. Aren't you going to wait for confirmation of arrivals? (The AXON MAN speaks with an effort.) AXON MAN: I must...leave...now. (He opens the door and walks out of the office. CHINN goes to the door and shouts after him.) CHINN: Is something wrong? You all right? (CHINN receives no answer. He shuts the door and goes back to his map.) 21: INT. SICK BAY (FILER is still in his hospital bed but is now no longer delirious. The BRIGADIER questions him over his version of events.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: You're sure of all this? FILER: Look, I may have been sick, Brigadier, but I am not crazy. Now, the Axonite k*lled Winser, then the Axons turn up, clobbered me and took Jo and the Doc off. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: And the Doctor said that Axonite could become a danger to the whole world? FILER: Sure, something about "draining all energy". BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, I'm going to have a word with Chinn - not to mention our Axon friends. (He starts to leave.) FILER: Hey, hey! Wait for me! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Shouts back.) Lay there and rest! FILER: Yeah...sure. (FILER gets out of bed and calls across to the nurses.) FILER: Will one of you, er, "Florence Nightingales" kindly get my clothes? 22: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. CORRIDOR (The AXON MAN staggers along one of the corridors. Its head and hands are already mutating into its tentacled visage. As it moves off, the BRIGADIER walks into the corridor.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Shouts.) Hey! You there! Stop! (He runs off in pursuit.) 23: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. ANOTHER CORRIDOR (The Axon further mutated into its natural tentacled covered state.) 23: EXT. NUTON COMPLEX (It walks along a covered walkway that connects two of the buildings in the complex. Down below in the roadway, a soldier stands on guard. The Axon monster walks down a stairway and out towards the soldier as the BRIGADIER runs up from another exit. He watches as the soldier turns and sees the approaching creature. He starts f*ring at it. The b*ll*ts rip through the now fully mutated monster but don't stop its progress. The soldier gives up f*ring and starts running but the Axon monster fires out a tentacle that sh**t through the air at incredible speed, connects with the soldier and kills him in a devastating expl*si*n. Nearby, two other soldiers stand guard on a building sign-posted "MAIN RESEARCH REACTOR". They hear the expl*si*n and watch as the Axon monster lumbers towards them. They too start f*ring but again their sh*ts have no effect. Round after round pumps into the creature but it continues its relentless pace and connects with the two soldiers - k*lling them with a flash and an expl*si*n. The BRIGADIER runs up and watches as the Axon monster walks into the Reactor building.) 24: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (The BRIGADIER runs into the lab where YATES is giving BENTON orders.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Right, Benton, get your skates on. SERGEANT BENTON: Right, sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (To YATES.) Where's Hardiman? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: He's up in the control box, sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, come on. (They head towards the control box but HARDIMAN has already come down to the lab floor.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Sir George! HARDIMAN: May I ask why your men have brought an obsolete police box into my research laboratory? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Oh, I've no idea, er... (He turns and sees the TARDIS on the other side of the lab.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Oh, that's part of the Doctor's equipment... HARDIMAN: Is it? Well, I... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Interrupting.) Sir George, I must ask you to check the main reactor. I'm sorry, this is really rather urgent. (He virtually pushes him back into the control box.) 25: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LABORATORY CONTROL BOX HARDIMAN: Very well. (At a console next to the observation window, HARDIMAN looks over the readings.) HARDIMAN: Yes, the readings are slightly up. What is all this? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Our Axon friend has just walked straight into the furnace of the main reactor. HARDIMAN: What! 26: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (Within the TARDIS, the MASTER activates various controls but there is absolutely no response.) MASTER: Oh, hopeless! Overweight, under-powered old museum piece! (He walks to another panel and pulls some levers. The TARDIS materialisation sound echoes through the room, but it is distorted as if power levels are low.) MASTER: Oh, no proper s*ab... (He pushes the levers back and walks back to the first panel.) MASTER: Oh well, let's try again. (He pulls a lever. There is a small expl*si*n of sparks and smoke.) MASTER: You may as well try to fly a second hand gas stove! (He slams his fist down on the console, accidentally switching on the scanner which resides in one of the roundels of the wall behind him. It shows the light accelerator. The MASTER sees this and is struck by an idea. He focuses in on the mechanism in the roof of the perspex cubicle.) MASTER: Yes...if I use that trigger mechanism, it might... (He nods.) MASTER: Worth a try. (He opens the doors and walks out.) 27: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LABORATORY CONTROL BOX HARDIMAN: If the Axon walked into the reactor, he's simply committed su1c1de. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes. (YATES is looking through the observation window into the lab.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Sir, look - the TARDIS door. (They all look out and see the TARDIS's occupant exit.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: The Master! 28: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (The MASTER walks to the accelerator, undoes the perspex door and walks into the machine. He starts to try to dismantle the mechanism.) 29: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LABORATORY CONTROL BOX BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, not a sound. Benton, get some more men. Yates, with me. Sir George, you stay here. (The BRIGADIER and YATES start to leave the room and go back to the lab.) HARDIMAN: Who is... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Interrupting.) Please! 30: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (The UNIT men creep slowly into the lab, the p*stol ready. The MASTER is looking upwards at the machinery that he is trying to dismantle and fails to see their approach. They circle the accelerator cubicle and at last the MASTER sees his ambushers.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Stay right where you are! (HARDIMAN calls out to them from the control box using the lab intercom system...) HARDIMAN: (Into microphone.) Brigadier, a massive power surge on the main reactor. (The MASTER uses the diversion to make a run for the TARDIS.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Stop ... ! (The MASTER turns - he has his laser g*n in his hands.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Touch that thing just once and we'll blast you into pieces! (The MASTER glares at the men but sees that he is outnumbered. He throws his laser g*n to YATES.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Benton! (BENTON walks forward and handcuffs the MASTER. As he does so, the hum of the reactor starts to increase in pitch.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What are you doing here? What are you after? MASTER: That police box. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: You wanted to steal the TARDIS? Why? MASTER: Well, my own TARDIS is held by Axos and I needed a space vehicle to get away from this planet before it's too late. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Why bring it here? MASTER: Well, I knew the Doctor would soon return to his TARDIS and I very much wanted to meet him - just once more. Where is he, by the way? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: The Doctor and Miss Grant have disappeared. (The hum is growing louder. HARDIMAN enters the lab.) HARDIMAN: Brigadier, the power build up has spread to the whole complex. The reactors could go critical at any moment - the whole place could go up. MASTER: I'm afraid that your reactors have been taken over by the Axons. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: You know these creatures - is there anything we can do? Anything at all? MASTER: Nothing...but there may be something that...I can do. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What? MASTER: If, and only if, you guarantee my freedom, Brigadier. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Out of the question. MASTER: Oh well, in that case... (He turns away.) HARDIMAN: Brigadier, if this place goes up, thousands of lives will go with it. It only wants a chain reaction for the whole place to become a gigantic nuclear b*mb. MASTER: Yes, there is that possibility. (The BRIGADIER thinks over the matter.) HARDIMAN: Brigadier, for heaven's sake! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (To the MASTER.) Very well. MASTER: My absolute and unconditional freedom? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes - now get moving! MASTER: Thank you! (The MASTER approaches BENTON and holds up his cuffed hands.) MASTER: If you please, sergeant. (BENTON starts to release him.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Hurry, Benton! HARDIMAN: What can we do? (The MASTER is freed and walks over to the console.) MASTER: I'd like you to give me a link from the TARDIS to the accelerator so that I can get straight through to the main reactor. Now what I propose to do is this - stack up as much power as the TARDIS will take, then channel it back through the accelerator and boost it. So that instead of the gradual power build-up that Axos expects, it'll get the whole lot in one devastating surge. (He heads for the TARDIS.) HARDIMAN: What else can we do? MASTER: Oh, nothing very much... (He turns round.) MASTER: Oh, I suppose you can take the normal precautions against nuclear blast, like, er, sticky tape on the windows and that sort of thing! (He goes back towards the TARDIS as FILER enters the lab, sees the MASTER and points his own g*n. The MASTER raises his hands.) FILER: Now, hold it! Right there! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Filer, no! He's helping us - we need him. FILER: Helping? Are you crazy, Brigadier? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Probably, but we've got no choice. FILER: Yeah, but... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Interrupts.) Filer! (The hum of the reactor gets louder as FILER reluctantly drops his g*n and the MASTER lowers his hands.) MASTER: Thank you. (Again he makes for the TARDIS.) HARDIMAN: Where are you going? MASTER: Back into this contraption. HARDIMAN: Why? MASTER: Well, theoretically it should be able to store all the power generated around it, like it solar cell battery. HARDIMAN: Are you trying to tell me you can absorb the total output of this complex in a police box? (The MASTER smiles and nods.) MASTER: Yes! (He enters the TARDIS.) 31: INT. AXOS. CENTRAL CHAMBER (The DOCTOR is still sat in the central chamber. He watches intently as Axos absorbs the energy from the Nuton complex. On one wall, behind the eye, is an image of a fluctuating wave of energy, representing the power stored to begin the journey through time.) VOICE OF AXOS: ...percent time field capability...forty-five percent...fifty percent time field capability... (The DOCTOR starts to get nervous and chew his fingers. The pitch of the voice of Axos increases as does a background hum within the ship...) VOICE OF AXOS: Fifty-five percent...sixty percent time field capability. Prepare to enter time field, repeat - prepare to enter time field. Seventy percent...seventy-five... (Suddenly the hum starts to die down. The DOCTOR looks surprised and hopeful.) VOICE OF AXOS: Seventy percent...sixty-five percent...sixty percent...emergency! Emergency! Emergency! DOCTOR: They're not getting the power through! VOICE OF AXOS: Locate power failure source. Investigate possible cell damage. Evaluate, trace and restore all absorption channels. Emergency! Emergency! (The DOCTOR takes the opportunity of the distraction. He eases himself out of the "chair" and starts to slip out of the room. The eye watches him go.) VOICE OF AXOS: Attention! Attention! Time Lord escaping. Seal off control centre and all adjacent areas. Close all exit tracts. Surround, neutralise and retrieve when emergency is over. 32: INT. AXOS. PASSAGEWAY (The DOCTOR makes his way down a passage filled with writhing tentacles that hang from the wall and roof. Some of them attempt to grab him but he manages to fight his way through.) 33: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (A cable stretches from the open door of the TARDIS, past YATES and BENTON and to the light accelerator. HARDIMAN looks over the console in front of the accelerator.) HARDIMAN: Surely it can't take any more? 34: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (He appears on the TARDIS scanner. Inside the MASTER intently manipulates controls.) HARDIMAN: (On scanner.) I don't want to risk the cables. MASTER: (Harshly.) Risk the cables, man! Risk everything - you've got to! 35: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (HARDIMAN pulls a lever back for the full power transfer. The BRIGADIER and FILER exchange a look.) 36: INT. AXOS. PRISON CHAMBER (The DOCTOR struggles into the prison chamber. JO is still held on the floor. Within here too, the tendrils are flailing about.) DOCTOR: Jo! JO: Doctor! DOCTOR: Let's get out of here while the creatures are disorientated. (He pulls her to her feet.) DOCTOR: Come on! That's it, come on! JO: What's happening?! DOCTOR: Hang on to me. Come on! (They leave the chamber...) 37: INT. AXOS. PASSAGEWAY (...and struggle down the passageway past more of the tendrils.) 38: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (The MASTER has left the TARDIS and stands before a unit that has one large lever. He has his hand on it. He is watched by HARDIMAN, FILER and the UNIT men.) MASTER: Now, when I pull this handle, the enormous amount of power stored in the TARDIS will be channeled straight into Axos. FILER: What about Jo and the Doc? MASTER: They won't stand a chance - they will die with Axos. (His hand tightens on the lever. The BRIGADIER jumps forward.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: No! MASTER: (Harshly.) Either we destroy Axos or Axos destroys the world - which is it to be, Brigadier?! (The BRIGADIER agonises, then steps back. The MASTER pulls the lever.) 39: INT. AXOS. PASSAGEWAY (The energy surges back into Axos. Still struggling to the exit, the DOCTOR and JO are flung from side to side.)
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THE CLAWS OF AXOS BY: BOB BAKER & DAVE MARTIN EPISODE FOUR Original Air Date: 3 April, 1971 5:15pm - 5:40pm 1: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (The MASTER stands before a unit that has one large lever. He has his hand on it. He is watched by HARDIMAN, FILER and the UNIT men.) MASTER: Now, when I pull this handle, the enormous amount of power stored in the TARDIS will be channeled straight into Axos. FILER: What about Jo and the Doc? MASTER: They won't stand a chance - they will die with Axos. (His hand tightens on the lever. The BRIGADIER jumps forward.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: No! MASTER: (Harshly.) Either we destroy Axos or Axos destroys the world - which is it to be, Brigadier?! (The BRIGADIER agonises, then steps back. The MASTER pulls the lever.) 2: INT. AXOS. PASSAGEWAY (The energy surges back into Axos. Still struggling to the exit, the DOCTOR and JO are flung from side to side.) 3: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (HARDIMAN is looking at the readings on the console.) HARDIMAN: Well over maximum now. (The MASTER, looking stern, walks past the observers and into the TARDIS.) 4: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (Within, he manipulates controls.) MASTER: ... old antique - keep working! 5: INT. AXOS. PASSAGEWAY (The DOCTOR and JO continue to stumble through Axos. Wall tendrils flail at them and hallucinogenic images of the golden Axons appear before them. A screeching noise fills the air. An axon in its raw state stumbles around in front of them. JO screams as they manage to avoid its tendrils.) JO: (Screams.) I can't! I can't! I can't! (The ground under their feet moves beneath them as the organic ship convulses. JO is hysterical.) JO: (Screams.) I can't! I can't! I can't! (The DOCTOR slaps her face.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Jo! Stop it! Be quiet! Stop it! (JO covers her ears.) JO: (Shouts.) What's that screaming?! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) The whole thing's electro-convulsing. The power's creating an...electrical...electrical storm in its brain. We're going right through the centre of the trauma! Come on! Hang on! (He grabs her hand and they press on. They go through a membrane and see another Axon before them. The att*ck on their senses becomes too great and they both press their hands to their heads in pain. JO starts to scream again.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Jo! Try and stop it! Try and stop it! Don't...don't let it get a grip on your brain! Don't let it get a grip on your brain!. Listen to me! Answer me! What are three sevens?! JO: (Shouts.) Twenty-one! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Twenty-one! Keep answering! (He starts to pull her through the maelstrom again.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Three sevens...times four?! JO: (Shouts.) Eighty-four! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Minus thirty-five?! (Golden Axons also stumble past them as they continue towards the doorway.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Think Jo! Think Jo! JO: (Shouts.) Forty-nine! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Twice that?! (JO hesitates.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Twice...! JO: (Shouts.) Ninety-eight! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Plus ten?! JO: (Shouts.) A hundred and eight! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Divide by nine?! JO: (Shouts.) Twelve! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Divide by four?! JO: (Shouts.) Three! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Three sevens?! JO: (Shouts.) Twenty-one! DOCTOR: ... ! 6: EXT. AXOS LANDING SITE (The entrance to Axos bursts open and the DOCTOR dives out onto the shingle. JO runs out immediately after him. He picks himself up, grabs her hand and they start running towards the complex.) 7: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (The MASTER exits the TARDIS with a smile on his face.) MASTER: Well, gentlemen? Your congratulations? (The BRIGADIER and HARDIMAN look at each other.) MASTER: (Aggrieved.) I see. (He heads back to the TARDIS.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Wait! MASTER: Why? You promised me my freedom - I've earned it. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: We don't know yet what you've achieved. MASTER: My dear Brigadier, I promised to help you - not sort out all your problems! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Captain! CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Sir. Parker, McDougall. (Two UNIT soldiers stood near to the TARDIS stand in front of the doorway with their r*fles raised. Meanwhile, the noise from the accelerator starts to rise in pitch again...) HARDIMAN: Something's gone wrong. They must have reversed the power flow. They're feeding it back at us! 8: INT. AXOS. CENTRAL CHAMBER (The Axon eye watches over trashing raw-state Axons.) VOICE OF AXOS: ... source identified as light accelerator. Concentrate power reversal on this sector. Total destruction essential. Repeat - total destruction essential. 9: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (HARDIMAN addresses the complex. His words echo over the tannoy system...) HARDIMAN: (Into microphone.) All personnel - your attention please. Evacuate accelerator sector. Shut off all power in your area and proceed to blast wall shelters immediately. That is all. (He puts the microphone down.) HARDIMAN: Brigadier, I want everybody out of here. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right. Captain Yates, everyone up to the control box. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Right, Benton ... (There is a noisy hubbub as BENTON herds the people in the room to safety.) SERGEANT BENTON: Move! Come on, move! (HARDIMAN is putting on a pair of protective gloves. The BRIGADIER crosses to him.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What are you going to do? HARDIMAN: I'm going to disconnect the portals. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, where do we start? HARDIMAN: No, no, no, Brigadier. This establishment is my responsibility. Yours is with your men. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, but surely... HARDIMAN: (Interrupting.) I don't any help. I'll be with you in a minute. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Very well. (The BRIGADIER goes up to the control box as HARDIMAN puts on a protective hood, picks up a tool and goes into the accelerator cubicle. He starts to dismantle the mechanism in the roof of the cubicle. The sound of the reactor running away can be heard again...) 10: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LABORATORY CONTROL BOX (HARDIMAN'S efforts are watched by the UNIT men, FILER and the MASTER. The latter stands relaxed against a console.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (To the MASTER.) How's he doing? MASTER: Well, he'll have to take out the trigger mechanism before he can disconnect the final cable. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: How much time has he got? MASTER: Huh, who knows? 11: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (HARDIMAN continues his efforts as the pitch gets higher and higher.) 12: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LABORATORY CONTROL BOX BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Smiles.) He's done it! 13: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (But HARDIMAN is not quite finished yet. He has one more bolt to unscrew. On the verge of success, there is a spark and an expl*si*n. With a cry, HARDIMAN is thrown from the cabinet, through the air and over the railings into the depths of the laboratory.) 14: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LABORATORY CONTROL BOX (The men rush from the control box.) 15: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Hardiman! (They almost all rush to the railing and look over...) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Captain Yates, get some men down here. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Yes sir. (...all except for the MASTER who takes the opportunity of the distraction to make another run for the TARDIS. FILER spots this and pulls his g*n out. The MASTER then makes a run for the door leading out of the lab but these open up before he can get to them and a familiar figure walks in.) DOCTOR: Going somewhere? (The MASTER holds up his hands in surrender.) 16: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. OFFICE (With the MASTER in custody, the DOCTOR addresses the UNIT men and FILER in the office. One of the complex TECHNICIANS is also there.) DOCTOR: (Angrily.) The claws of Axos are already deeply embedded in the Earth's carcass! Soon, it'll activate its nutrition cycle and the feast will be begin. The Axonite'll cease to be dormant...and it'll continue to grow, gentlemen, until every living thing is consumed. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Unless we can find a way of stopping it? DOCTOR: Well, I don't think you can stop it. JO: Well, there must be something we can do, Doctor? DOCTOR: Well we can but try, Jo. (To the TECHNICIAN.) Can you commandeer the computer banks? I want to make some very complex calculations. TECHNICIAN: Of course. DOCTOR: Good, thank you. TECHNICIAN: I'll have them cleared immediately. (He leaves the room.) DOCTOR: Brigadier, can you set up a constant watch on that space dome? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, Captain Yates? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Sir? (They step to one side to discuss arrangements.) FILER: What about the Master? DOCTOR: I'm going to ask you to hand your prisoner over to me for a while. FILER: Well now, hold on...! DOCTOR: (Interrupting.) Look, Bill! I think I can defeat Axos...but I must have the Master's help! JO: But you know you can't trust him. He'll k*ll you the first chance he gets. DOCTOR: Oh, don't worry, Jo. I'll keep him in good order all right - with this. (He holds up the MASTER'S confiscated laser g*n. On the other side of the office, the BRIGADIER and YATES make arrangements.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I shall be setting up HQ in the lab. I want you and Benton in RT contact the whole time. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Yes sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, get going. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Right, sir. (He leaves collecting BENTON on the way out.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Sergeant Benton? SERGEANT BENTON: Sir. 17: EXT. AXOS LANDING SITE (CAPTAIN YATES carries a closed-circuit TV camera on a tripod from a UNIT jeep. He sets it up looking over the Axon spacedome. He goes back to the jeep and puts on a headset from an RT set.) 18: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LABORATORY CONTROL BOX (The BRIGADIER receives YATES'S message.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (OOV: Over radio.) Trap one to Greyhound, over. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Go ahead trap one, over. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (OOV: Over radio.) Eyes down. Look in, over. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (OOV: Over radio.) Roger. (The BRIGADIER switches on a small black and white monitor. The picture of the Axon spacedome appears on it.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (OOV: Over radio.) Receiving your signal. Maintain surveillance, over. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (OOV: Over radio.) Roger, wilko, out. (CHINN walks in, eating a chicken drumstick.) CHINN: That thing working? Get me the Ministry, will you? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Ah, Mr. Chinn. Now where have you been hiding yourself? Canteen? CHINN: As it happens, I've been doing your job! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Oh yes? CHINN: Mmm. Trying to do something about the situation. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Which particular situation? CHINN: Axonite, Brigadier, Axonite! Do you realise that Britain's going to get the blame for all this? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Britain - or you, Mr. Chinn? CHINN: Well, if you won't get the Ministry... (CHINN looks round.) CHINN: Where's Hardiman? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: d*ad. (He turns away. At this news, even CHINN is at a loss for words.) 19: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (FILER stands to one side of the lab, looking over the railing and deep in thought. JO approaches him. Behind them, the DOCTOR and the MASTER work in the light accelerator cubicle.) JO: You look like a disappointed Bloodhound. FILER: All Bloodhounds look disappointed. It's an occupational hazard. JO: Why Bill? You've got your man. FILER: Oh sure - Bill Filer of the New York mounted police. (He looks behind him at the DOCTOR and the MASTER.) FILER: I don't like it, Jo. JO: Well, all we can do is wait. FILER: I don't mean the hanging around - I'm used to that. I've just got this feeling that something is going on. (Behind them, the DOCTOR and the MASTER have taken out parts of the light accelerator and stand talking.) JO: Come on, Bill! Surely you don't think there's a... FILER: (Interrupting.) I don't think anything. It's a funny time to go collecting junk, that's all - real eager beavers. JO: But they've got to be - they're working against time. FILER: Well, why pack off all the technicians? Why can't they help? (The DOCTOR and the MASTER head for the TARDIS.) FILER: (To JO.) Why've they gotta go it alone, huh? Why? 20: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The DOCTOR and the MASTER enter the TARDIS. The DOCTOR holds the MASTER at g*n with his laser g*n. The MASTER puts the mechanism from the light accelerator down on the console.) MASTER: Well, Doctor? I'm still waiting to hear this, er, this marvellous scheme of yours. DOCTOR: Actually, there isn't one. (He puts the g*n in his pocket.) MASTER: Well, then why...? DOCTOR: Because if you mend the TARDIS, we can both escape. MASTER: Both? Tell me, Doctor, are, er, are you suggesting an alliance? DOCTOR: Why not? I don't want to spend the rest of my life as a heap of dust on second rate planet to a third rate star. Do you? MASTER: Do you mean to say that you are actually prepared to abandon your beloved Earth to the Axon's tender mercies? DOCTOR: Certainly! After all, we are both Time Lords. MASTER: Huh, maybe! Look, why should I help you? DOCTOR: Because if you don't I shall hand you over to UNIT and you'll become a prisoner on a doomed planet. MASTER: Yes, well, you'll be doomed along with me. DOCTOR: Exactly - we either escape together...or we die together. MASTER: Oh, very generous! But look, why not just hand me over to UNIT and...make your escape by yourself? (The DOCTOR looks sheepish and paces, rubbing his chin and neck.) MASTER: (Puzzled.) Well? DOCTOR: Because the Time Lords have put a block on my knowledge of dematerialisation theory - that's why! MASTER: (Amused.) Oh, I see! DOCTOR: Yes, well we haven't got much time. What's your decision? MASTER: All right, I accept. DOCTOR: Good, well you're the mechanic - what's the answer? MASTER: The answer, Doctor...is this. (He takes a small component out of the mechanism he brought into the TARDIS and holds it up.) DOCTOR: The trigger mechanism from the light accelerator? MASTER: Yes. DOCTOR: Yes, of course. MASTER: Now this will compensate for the deficiencies in your...dematerialisation circuit. Well, with a little ingenuity, I may be able to join one to the other but, erm...it'll take time. DOCTOR: Well, it'd better not take too much time. Right, you get on with the repairs, I'll go and work out some course co-ordinates. MASTER: Very well. (The DOCTOR starts to head out of the door, but a thought strikes him and he steps back. He lifts up a small panel on the console, unscrews a component and holds it up in front of the MASTER.) DOCTOR: Just in case you were thinking of leaving without me! (The MASTER laughs gently.) 21: INT. AXOS. CENTRAL CHAMBER (Within Axos, the eye hovers as the Axon plan reaches a vital phase...) VOICE OF AXOS: Data indicates distribution complete. Activate nutrition cycle one. Initiate recall one. Activate nutrition cycle two. Initiate recall two. Activate nutrition cycle three. 22: EXT. AXOS LANDING SITE (The entire Axon ship starts to rise out of the ground, soil and shingle falling off its curved organic bulk.) 23: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LABORATORY CONTROL BOX (The BRIGADIER receives a radio message.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (OOV: Over radio.) It's surfacing, sir! The whole thing! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Pull out, Yates. Back to the complex! CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (OOV: Over radio.) Yes, sir! 24: EXT. AXOS LANDING SITE (BENTON gets into the driving seat of the jeep while YATES, still in the open back, disconnects the cable leading to the TV camera. The jeep drives off.) 25: EXT. ROADS (The jeep speeds along a road to escape the ascending spacedome. It crashes through a gate but up ahead, the road is blocked by two Axons. BENTON drives straight through them however, further ahead, there is another larger group in the road. BENTON speeds the jeep up an incline away from them. The jeep then drives down a rough track past two more Axons who CAPTAIN YATES fires at. Further ahead, another Axon fires one of its tendrils at a tree. With a small expl*si*n, the tree collapses across the road, blocking the jeep's further progress. The Axons clamber onto the jeep where YATES finds that his r*fle is now empty. Instead, he uses it as a club and tries to stop the marauding Axons from getting at them.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: ... ! (BENTON, protected in the cab, reverses the vehicle which now has several Axons on board with YATES desperately fighting them off. BENTON does a sudden brake and then drives rapidly forward. The Axon in the back loses its balance and falls off the vehicle. One Axon is left on the front, smashing at the windscreen. YATES sees this, picks up a grenade and pulls out the pin.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Jump! (He jumps out, followed rapidly by BENTON. They run off as the still propelling vehicle goes over a small ridge and is suddenly rent by a huge expl*si*n, destroying the Axon. The blazing jeep careers down the hill.) 26: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (JO brings the DOCTOR a ticker tape of computer data. FILER sits pensively nearby.) DOCTOR: Ah, thank you, Jo. JO: Doctor, what are those figures? DOCTOR: Er, just some course co-ordinates, that's all. FILER: (Sarcastically.) What do you want course co-ordinates for, Doc? You're not thinking of leaving us, are you? (The DOCTOR smiles and walks towards the TARDIS where the MASTER waits. He passes him the roll of paper.) DOCTOR: Here you are. Everything ready? (The MASTER mutters a reply.) DOCTOR: Good. (The MASTER goes into the TARDIS and the DOCTOR goes back to JO and FILER.) DOCTOR: Yes, as a matter of fact, we are! FILER: Not if I can help it! (FILER runs forward with his p*stol.) DOCTOR: Drop that, Filer! JO: Doctor! (The DOCTOR fires the MASTER'S laser g*n, destroying the p*stol in an expl*si*n which hurts FILER'S hand.) JO: Doctor! (The BRIGADIER and CHINN run up.) DOCTOR: Sorry, Jo. Ah, Brigadier, just in time to say goodbye! JO: No, you can't! DOCTOR: I'm sorry Jo, we must. FILER: We? DOCTOR: Yes, after all, we are both Time Lords. (He goes towards the TARDIS.) DOCTOR: Goodbye, Brigadier, Mr. Chinn, goodbye, Bill. Goodbye Jo, I shall miss you! (He goes inside the TARDIS and closes the door.) JO: No! 27: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (Inside, the MASTER waits.) MASTER: Very neat, Doctor. You know, I must say I never thought you'd go through with it. DOCTOR: (Irritated.) If we're going, let's go. (The MASTER gestures at the console and the DOCTOR activates the take-off sequence. There is no response. The two men look puzzled. The MASTER walks away to check a small piece of machinery on one side of the console room whilst a sheepish DOCTOR remembers the small component that he took out of the console earlier and hurriedly replaces it. He does not manage to complete the task in time before the MASTER turns round and the two exchange rueful looks. The DOCTOR pulls the main lever again and this time the familiar dematerialisation sound blasts out.) 28: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (Outside, a sobbing JO pounds on the TARDIS door.) JO: No, Doctor, you can't! Please! Doc...! (She runs back from the TARDIS as YATES runs in.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: ... we're being over-run! (The TARDIS fades away.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Get the men inside! Get that blast door closed! FILER: Come on, Jo! (FILER pulls JO to cover behind a console.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Take the men back ... ! (The UNIT troops pour into the lab and take cover behind consoles and the light accelerator.) 29: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The DOCTOR starts quickly activating controls.) MASTER: But you can't rematerialise yet! We're not even in space-time! DOCTOR: This is as far as we're going - for the moment. (The DOCTOR pulls back the main lever and the TARDIS materialises.) MASTER: But where are we? DOCTOR: Oh, you'll recognise it when you see it. (The DOCTOR opens the doors and points the laser g*n at the MASTER.) DOCTOR: Right - outside! Come on - out! (The MASTER does as he's told and leaves the ship - the DOCTOR following.) 30: INT. AXOS. CENTRAL CHAMBER (They are in the central chamber of Axos. The plain white cube of the MASTER'S TARDIS stands on the other side of the room. Before them, the eye waves to and fro.) MASTER: But you must be mad! Why have you brought us here? DOCTOR: Well, you want your TARDIS back, don't you? We can't b*at Axos - we may as well join it. VOICE OF AXOS: Why have you returned? DOCTOR: That's simple - because you are winning! And we have a proposition - you may have conquered this tiny spec in space but you've yet to conquer time. VOICE OF AXOS: Well? DOCTOR: We are prepared to give you this power on one condition; that we join forces against the High Council of the Time Lords. VOICE OF AXOS: How can we do this? DOCTOR: By linking our drive systems. In this way, Axos will become a TARDIS and the TARDIS will become a part of Axos. VOICE OF AXOS: (To the MASTER.) And you? MASTER: No...my part is finished. All I'm interested in is the return of my TARDIS. Well, I...I will leave you to your new alliance. (He walks across the chamber to his TARDIS but, just a couple of feet away, hits an invisible force-field.) MASTER: (Angrily.) I insist on my freedom! VOICE OF AXOS: When the link is complete. Then you can have your freedom! 31: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (A hole is slowly being burnt in the blast proof door to the lab. The people within watch.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yates? (CAPTAIN YATES walks close to the doors with a grenade.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Wait for it...wait for it... (The sound of the burning through operation suddenly ceases.) JO: What happened, Bill? Why has it suddenly stopped? CHINN: Don't you think we ought to negotiate? (A spark of pure energy sh**t across the lab from the hole in the door towards the perspex cubicle. The trapped humans jump back.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What happened? TECHNICIAN: They've energised the light accelerator. (He looks at the dial that registers the speed of light. It is sh**ting upwards.) TECHNICIAN: Good grief! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, is there anything we can do? TECHNICIAN: Not without the trigger mechanism. The particles will just go on and on accelerating. FILER: Then what? TECHNICIAN: Bang! CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: The blast wall, sir! (The hole in the door is now huge...) 32: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The DOCTOR is connecting an organic tendril from Axos into the TARDIS console. The MASTER watches...) MASTER: Tell me, Doctor, isn't that a rather primitive way to make a link? DOCTOR: (Snaps.) Look, will you stop pestering me! MASTER: All right. I'll check the course circuits. (He turns and sees the scanner screen. On it, a radar-style display shows a spec of light travelling in a figure-8 formation.) MASTER: You've got it set in a Time loop! DOCTOR: That's right, yes. VOICE OF AXOS: Attention! Attention! Nutrition cycle incomplete. Disconnect all systems. (As the DOCTOR continues his work, the MASTER runs out of the TARDIS...) 33: INT. AXOS. CENTRAL CHAMBER (...and into the central chamber. The air itself pulsates with activity.) MASTER: Stop him! Don't you understand? He's committing su1c1de and he's taking us all with him! He's doing this for Earth - not for you! (He runs towards his own TARDIS.) MASTER: He's putting you all in a Time loop...and you'll never get out of it! Never! (He runs into his TARDIS.) 34: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The DOCTOR has finished the connection and stands at the console.) DOCTOR: Come on! Come on, you must take the load! (Shouts.) You must! 35: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (The Axon monsters burst through the remains of the blast doors and into the lab. The people inside scatter but the creatures are coming from all directions. The humans are slowly being hemmed in towards the cubicle of the light accelerator. The UNIT soldiers throw small grenades but they have little effect on the creatures. b*ll*ts likewise do not stop their onward advance. One Axon looms up before JO who screams. A soldier is thrust over the railing by one of the attackers whilst another touches a soldier with its tentacle, k*lling the man instantly. The trapped humans are slowly losing the battle for life...) 36: EXT. AXOS LANDING SITE (The exposed ship suddenly dematerialises...) 37: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (YATES fires at an Axon which, to his astonishment, abruptly disappears. BENTON goes to club another of the creatures and it to vanishes. So does another that looms over a floored FILER. All across the room, the inv*de fade into thin air...) 38: VORTEX (Axos travels through the Time loop.) 39: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (Within the TARDIS, a group of Axons pin the DOCTOR down against the console.) VOICE OF AXOS: Your sacrifice was in vain, Time Lord. You are joined to us forever in this loop of Time. Our fate is yours. (The DOCTOR desperately reaches for a switch.) DOCTOR: Not if I can...break through this...Time loop! 40: VORTEX (Axos continues on its never-ending journey.) 41: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The DOCTOR'S hand edges closer to a control. The figure-8 radar blip traces its course as the DOCTOR succeeds in pulling a lever back...) 42: VORTEX (...and the TARDIS appears in the vortex, its links to Axos severed.) 43: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (The danger at Nuton is not yet over. The dial on the light speed indicator goes into the danger area.) TECHNICIAN: Light accelerator's still going! It's going to go! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, everybody outside! Evacuate the whole area. (They survivors of the battle run for the doors. The BRIGADIER makes sure they all get through.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Go on! JO: Bill! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Go on! (He runs out followed by FILER. The TARDIS materialises in the empty chamber. 44: EXT. NUTON COMPLEX (As a klaxon alarm blares out, the escapees tear down a staircase and out of the main building. The BRIGADIER, JO and CHINN run into a black limousine as a UNIT jeep speeds past. The barrier rises and the cars sh**t out.) 45: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. LIGHT ACCELERATION LABORATORY (The DOCTOR comes out of the TARDIS. He sees the empty chamber and runs across to the console showing the out of control accelerator. He runs back to the TARDIS dodging out of the way as part of the roof collapses.) 46: EXT. SHORE ROAD (The convoy of vehicles arrives at a deserted spot some distance from the complex. The people get out and look towards the complex.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Get down! (They all do so but JO suddenly stands up as a thought strikes her...) JO: What about the Doctor? Suppose he comes back? (The BRIGADIER pulls her to the ground.) 47: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The DOCTOR desperately activates the TARDIS again.) 48: EXT. SHORE ROAD (The BRIGADIER looks through his binoculars and sees the laboratory destroyed in a huge expl*si*n. JO looks horrified. With the immediate danger over, they all pile back into the cars and head back to the destroyed site.) 49: EXT. NUTON COMPLEX (The area is now a pile of smoking rubble. The group get out of their cars and approach the remains. As they do so, the TARDIS rematerialises within the ruins. JO smiles up at the BRIGADIER as the door to the TARDIS opens. The DOCTOR gets out and looks through mangled girders at them all.) DOCTOR: Well! This is a fine welcome, I must say! 50: INT. NUTON COMPLEX. OFFICE (The office in the complex has also been badly damaged with one whole wall gone and the people inside exposed to the elements. Nevertheless, within there, the DOCTOR attempts an explanation to the BRIGADIER, JO, FILER and CHINN...) DOCTOR: Well, it's perfectly simple, Brigadier. (Coughs.) A Time loop is...it's, erm, well, it...it...it's a Time loop. (He waves his hands in a circular motion.) DOCTOR: One...one passes continually...through the same points in time. Passes through...the same... (His audience look impassively at him. He realises that he is making no progress with his explanation and gives up.) DOCTOR: Yes. Well, the Axons said they wanted time travel and now they've got it. FILER: What about the Master? DOCTOR: Well, I sincerely hope he's with them. FILER: Hope? DOCTOR: Well, I can't be absolutely sure. I was pretty busy at the time. But I'm ninety percent certain though. FILER: How much? DOCTOR: Well, pretty certain. (Ruefully.) Well, I suppose he could have got away... (He sees the BRIGADIER giving him a look.) DOCTOR: Just. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: This Time loop...thing. How did you get out of it? DOCTOR: Well I simply boosted the circuits and broke free. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: And you came back of your own accord? DOCTOR: (Laughs.) Well, I, er... JO: (Warningly.) Doctor? DOCTOR: (Seriously.) No. No, I'm afraid not. No, obviously the Time Lords have programmed the TARDIS always to return to Earth. (JO and the BRIGADIER smile at each other.) DOCTOR: (Exasperated.) It seems that I'm some kind of a galactic Yo-yo!
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "08x14 - The Claws of Axos - part 4"}
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COLONY IN SPACE BY: MALCOLM HULKE EPISODE ONE Original Air Date: 10 April, 1971 6:10pm - 6:35pm 1: SPACE (A multitude of planets and stars hang in the blackness of space...) 2: INT. TIME LORD PLANET. CHAMBER (Three TIME LORDS confer in a small chamber. The image of space appears on a screen that dominates one wall. The image focuses in on one grey planet.) FIRST TIME LORD: You are sure the Master knows? SECOND TIME LORD: The report on the Doomsday w*apon is missing from our files. Only he could have taken it. FIRST TIME LORD: Then we can use the Doctor to deal with this problem. THIRD TIME LORD: The Doctor resents his exile bitterly. Do you think he'll co-operate with us? SECOND TIME LORD: I doubt it. We immobilized his TARDIS, took away his freedom to move in space and time. FIRST TIME LORD: Then we must restore his freedom... (An image of the DOCTOR now appears on the screen.) FIRST TIME LORD: ...as long as it serves our purpose. (He walks off...) 3: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (At a lab bench, the DOCTOR picks up the dematerialization circuit from the TARDIS and, wearing a jewelers eyeglass, starts to make adjustments to it. A bored JO watches.) JO: Doctor, why don't you give up? You've been working on that thing for simply ages. DOCTOR: You know I can't give up, Jo. It's far too important. (The door to the lab opens and the BRIGADIER walks in, carrying a clipboard.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Still at it, Doctor? (The DOCTOR looks up.) DOCTOR: Now don't you start! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: The latest field reports are in. Still no trace of the Master. DOCTOR: Well, I didn't expect there would be. No, his TARDIS is working again now. He could be anywhere in space and time. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, that's as maybe, Doctor, but I've got to keep on looking. DOCTOR: You're wasting your time, Brigadier. (He returns to his task. The phone in the lab rings and JO answers it.) JO: (Into phone.) Hello, Laboratory? (She listens.) Yes, he's here. (To the BRIGADIER.) Brigadier? (The BRIGADIER looks up.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Oh, thank you. (He comes and takes the phone off her.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone.) Lethbridge Stewart? (He listens.) Right. Send him into my office. (He puts the phone down and turns to the DOCTOR.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: One of my agents thinks he's picked up a trace of the Master. (The DOCTOR continues his work...) DOCTOR: (Acidly.) Your agents are always picking up traces of the Master! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Coldly.) This agent happens to be particularly reliable, Doctor. I'll let you what he says... (He goes to the door...) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: ...if you're interested. (...and leaves the lab. The DOCTOR looks up at a smiling JO.) JO: Ah, now you've offended him! DOCTOR: Well! Well, look what happened last time. The man they arrested turned out to be the Spanish ambassador! (They both laugh. The DOCTOR takes a last look at the circuit through his eyeglass.) DOCTOR: Well, there you are. That's done it. JO: Done what? DOCTOR: I've made myself a completely new dematerialization circuit. One that'll bypass the Time Lords homing control - I hope. JO: You don't seriously think you'll get that thing working again, do you? DOCTOR: (Sarcastically.) Oh no! No, I've been doing all this work for fun! (He gets up and heads for the TARDIS, which sits in a corner of the lab. JO follows.) JO: I mean it's just a sort of hobby isn't it? A kind of game? DOCTOR: A game? JO: Well, what have you got in there anyway - a policeman? (The DOCTOR opens the door and gestures.) DOCTOR: Why not step inside and see for yourself? (Somewhat hesitantly, JO enters the TARDIS for the first time. The DOCTOR watches and then follows.) 4: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (Like many before her, JO looks round her surroundings in amazement.) JO: I don't believe it! It's bigger inside than out! DOCTOR: Yes, that's because the TARDIS is dimensionally transcendental. JO: What does that mean? DOCTOR: It means that it's bigger inside than out! (He lifts up a boxed panel on the console.) DOCTOR: Now then... (He starts to insert his new dematerialization circuit. Meanwhile, the doors to the TARDIS silently close. Back at the console, the DOCTOR rubs his hands with glee, but before he can touch the console, it springs into life, the central column rising and falling of its own accord.) DOCTOR: That's impossible! JO: The doors have closed. DOCTOR: What? (He checks a control.) JO: (Impatiently.) Doctor; let me out of here. DOCTOR: Well, I can't, Jo! I think we're taking off! JO: Well, stop it! (He looks over the console.) DOCTOR: Well, I'm trying to. Something's operating it by remote control! (The familiar sound of dematerialization echoes through the room. The DOCTOR suddenly realizes who lies behind these events...) DOCTOR: The Time Lords! 5: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (The BRIGADIER enters the lab.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I'm afraid you were right, Doctor. Another d*ad end and we... (He watches as the TARDIS disappears in an instant. He steps over to the space once occupied by the police box. ) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Doctor...come back at once! 6: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (JO is starting to get nervous...) JO: All right, Doctor. The joke's over. Open the doors and let me out? (The DOCTOR walks over to her.) DOCTOR: I can't, Jo. We've taken off. JO: All right then, where are we? DOCTOR: At the moment we're nowhere. JO: Oh, don't be silly - we can't be nowhere. DOCTOR: We're outside the space-time continuum. JO: (Amazed.) What? (The DOCTOR presses a control and points to the scanner.) DOCTOR: Look. (A series of multi-colored spinning lines appear.) JO: What's happening? Where are we going? DOCTOR: I've no idea. We'll just have to wait until we emerge. (The patterns fade and are replaced by the same image of a planet that appeared on the TIME LORD'S monitor.) DOCTOR: The planet Uxarieus! So that's our destination... JO: (Nervous.) Very impressive...but can we go back to Earth now, please? DOCTOR: I don't know, Jo. (The image of the planet grows larger.) DOCTOR: I just don't know. 7: EXT. UXARIEUS (A cold grey drab world. The wind, up until now the only sound, is interrupted by a mechanical whine as a ROBOT travels across the surface. Built like a small t*nk, a digger-like arm is attached to the top of the machine and can swing round 360 degrees. The arm drops down and scans the ground and then the ROBOT moves on. After it has gone, the TARDIS materializes in a split instant.) 8: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (JO walks over to the scanner and looks at the picture of their landing site.) JO: Is that supposed to be where we are? DOCTOR: That is where we are. JO: All right then, if we've landed on another planet, why don't you open the doors. DOCTOR: Because the atmosphere out there might be poisonous, that's why. I'll just check. (He goes over to the console and starts looking over the readings.) JO: And is it? DOCTOR: Is it what? JO: Is the atmosphere poisonous? DOCTOR: No, no, it's quite healthy. Similar to Earth before the invention of the motor car. JO: Look Doctor, are you going to open the doors or not? DOCTOR: Well, I can but try. (He presses a switch. Next to JO, the doors swing open. Outside of her line of vision is the landscape of Uxarieus.) JO: Thank you. (She walks round the edge of the door and stops in amazement at the sight of the planet.) JO: (Shocked.) Doctor! DOCTOR: That's an alien world out there, Jo. Think of it. JO: (Scared.) I don't want to think of it! (She runs back to the DOCTOR.) JO: I want to go back to Earth! DOCTOR: Look, do you realize how long I've been confined to one planet? JO: All that talk of yours about traveling in time and space - it was true! DOCTOR: Well, of course it was true! Before I was stranded on Earth, I spent all my time exploring new worlds and seeking the wonders of the universe. JO: But you don't know what's out there! DOCTOR: Then let's find out! Don't you want to set foot in another world? JO: Well, yes, I do but I... DOCTOR: (Interrupting.) Good! (He leaves the dumbstruck girl and walks round the console to where his cloak has been lying. He picks it up and puts it on.) DOCTOR: Come on. We'll just take a quick look around...and then I'll try and get you back to Earth, all right? (As he puts his gloves on, JO summons up her courage.) JO: All right. (The DOCTOR leads her outside.) 9: EXT. UXARIEUS (They step outside and gaze around. Almost immediately, JO spots something.) JO: Look... (They walk over and she picks up a long stemmed flower that has a blue bulb and red and blue petals.) JO: It's got different colored petals. DOCTOR: Mmm. (The DOCTOR, uninterested, sees something of more interest and moves off. JO follows. After they have gone, a figure rises from behind some rocks. Almost naked and dressed in a loincloth, its skin is mostly green veined. It has long straggly hair and wears strange jewellery. Its face is crude and misshapen with large black eyes and it carries a spear. JO, still holding the flower, catches up with the DOCTOR who follows the line of the ROBOT in the ground.) JO: What are they? DOCTOR: Well, tracks made by some sort of machine. This planet must be inhabited after all. (He points towards a ridge.) DOCTOR: I think we'd get a better view from up there. (He starts to set off but sees that JO isn't moving.) DOCTOR: Come on, what are you waiting for? JO: I feel a bit scared. DOCTOR: Come on, Jo. Nothing to worry about. (He takes her by the hand and leads her away. Behind them, the PRIMITIVE walks up toward the TARDIS and starts to examine the object. Meanwhile, JO sees a dome and a rocket on top of the ridge.) JO: Those things up there? DOCTOR: Like some sort of prefabricated dwellings. (He points in a different direction.) DOCTOR: Well look, there's another one - a small one, up there. Let's go and take a look at them. JO: Oh no, you don't! Let's get back to the TARDIS. DOCTOR: Yes, all right. But, erm... (He nods towards the ground.) DOCTOR: Do you mind if I take a look at that rock first? It's rather unusual. (They bend down and start examining the ground. The DOCTOR picks up the rock and starts to look at it in detail but something distracts JO and she looks behind her. Her eyes open wide in alarm.) JO: (Nervously.) Doctor? Doctor? (A man, bearded and somewhat bedraggled is pointing a g*n at them.) 10: INT. MAIN DOME. ASHE'S OFFICE (In the dome at the top of the ridge, a confrontation is taking place. A colonist - MARTIN - and his wife are speaking firmly with the leader of the group - ASHE. The men wear overalls and have a somewhat unkempt and bearded look. The look of the dome is functional and utilitarian. ASHE sits as an old-fashioned wooden desk, which has various ledgers and a photograph of a woman on it. Also in the office is WINTON, a younger blond haired intense man. Another male colonist watches.) MARTIN: Listen, Ashe, I saw those creatures. We both did. ASHE: I surveyed this planet myself before the colony was set up. MARTIN: Well, you didn't do much of a job. ASHE: And all the time we've been here, there's been no trace of any hostile animal life. MARTIN: Well, there is now! MRS. MARTIN: We heard this roaring in the middle of the night. When we looked out, there it was. (WINTON steps forward.) WINTON: What did it look like? MARTIN: It was enormous - some kind of giant lizard. ASHE: You must have been having nightmares! WINTON: Did it do any damage? MARTIN: No, I fired a few sh*ts and frightened it off. ASHE: Well, exactly. All right, Martin. (To WINTON.) David, how many men have you got to spare? WINTON: About six. ASHE: Well, go over to Martin's dome and have a look - just in case. WINTON: Very well. (ASHE walks out...) 11: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (...and into the main part of the hall. The functional - almost factory-like look continues here. A metal staircase goes up to a higher level. As ASHE walks through, their captor - LEESON and his wife, JANE, leads the DOCTOR and JO into the dome from the front entranceway.) ASHE: What the...? Leeson, who's this? DOCTOR: (To ASHE.) How do you do? Well, I must say this is most impressive. LEESON: (To ASHE.) We found these two in sector twenty-seven. They say they're explorers. ASHE: Where do they come from? DOCTOR: Err, we come from Earth. LEESON: They were examining rock samples. They're mineralogists. It was bound to happen! DOCTOR: Look, we are not mineralogists. And even if we were, why all the hostility? It's a respectable profession. LEESON: Because we don't want our planet gutted! This is our world! You've no right to be here! DOCTOR: Look, we've as much right to be here as anybody else. ASHE: This planet has been classified as suitable for colonization. Once your big mining combines move in, you'll reduce it to a galactic slagheap! DOCTOR: Haven't you got laws to deal with this kind of thing? LEESON: (Laughs.) Yes, there are laws. We complain to Earth's government just like all the others. By the time you get a final decision, the planet's useless. DOCTOR: I see. Yes well, I can sympathize with you gentlemen but I can assure you that I'm not working for anybody. (The DOCTOR starts to examine a wall chart.) ASHE: Then just why have you come here? DOCTOR: Pure chance. My spaceship developed a fault. We had to land somewhere. ASHE: Can you show me your papers? (The DOCTOR turns round in some embarrassment.) DOCTOR: Err, papers? Err, no, err, th...erm, they're back in my spaceship, if you'd like to come back there with me... ASHE: (Interrupting.) I think it would be better if you spent the night here. We'll go to your spaceship in the morning. JO: Oh, we don't want to put you to any trouble. ASHE: I'd rather you did as I say. Jane? JANE LEESON: Yes, John? ASHE: Show our two..."guests" to the dining area. We'll fix up your sleeping accommodation later. (JANE LEESON guides JO over to the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: (To JO.) Yes, go with them. It's all right, Jo. I'll join you later. JO: All right. JANE LEESON: (To JO.) This way. (They move off. The DOCTOR continues to examine the wall chart, which shows a series of graphs. LEESON sees this and angrily rushes over.) LEESON: What do you think you're up to! (The DOCTOR spins round and, with a cry puts an Akido pressure point hold on LEESON'S chest. The man drops his g*n. The DOCTOR releases him and calmly turns to ASHE.) DOCTOR: These are your crop records, I take it? ASHE: That's right, but I...really don't see what it has to do with you. DOCTOR: It's a very poor showing, isn't it? Are you operating above subsistence level? LEESON: We're surviving! Come on! ASHE: No, no, just a minute. I'd like to hear what he has to say. DOCTOR: Unless I'm very much mistaken, you've got far more to worry about that mineralogist. ASHE: (Quietly.) Just what do you mean by that? DOCTOR: Unless things improve radically, you're in grave danger of starving to death... (A look, half-guilt, half-denial, appears on ASHE'S face.) 12: EXT. UXARIEUS (The TARDIS topples onto its side. Both pushed and pulled by four primitives, it is taken away.) 13: INT. MAIN DOME. DINING HALL (The colonists sit in a bare dining hall. There are several sets of tables and MARTIN and his wife sit at one with two other colonists. They eat soup out of bowls.) MARTIN: I don't care what Ashe says, we say it, didn't we? MRS. MARTIN: I'm sure Ashe believes you. (JANE shows JO in.) JANE LEESON: You can sit where you like. (Back at the table...) MARTIN: Ah, he thinks we're seeing things. You two had better watch out. It could be you next. MRS. MARTIN: Ashe will take care of things. (Meanwhile, JO sits as JANE starts to pour some of the soup for her.) JO: Is that the first course? JANE LEESON: It's the only course. (She passes the bowl to JO.) JANE LEESON: Supplies are getting a bit low. MRS. MARTIN: (At the other table.) ... bound to be difficult. JO: (To JANE.) It's very nice. Thank you. JANE LEESON: I'd better get back to my husband. (Back at the table...) MRS. MARTIN: At least it's better than being back on Earth. MARTIN: Oh, I don't know - things weren't so bad there. MRS. MARTIN: Weren't they. No room to move? Polluted air? Not a blade of grass left on the planet, and a government that locks you up if you think for yourself. MARTIN: At least they fed you - this isn't exactly the Garden of Eden. And Ashe said we could make it further. (WINTON walks in with a g*n and goes up to them.) WINTON: Are you ready, Martin? We're going to look for your monsters. Let's hope we find something. MARTIN: You may be sorry if you do. WINTON: Oh, we can skin it and you can use it for a rug. (MARTIN and his wife pick up their g*n and leave with WINTON. A longhaired young girl walks in and starts to ladle out some soup for herself. JO watches her. The young girl turns to the tables, sees JO and joins her with a smile.) MARY ASHE: Hello! JO: Hello. MARY ASHE: I'm Mary Ashe. My father told me about you. JO: Jo Grant, how do you do? (They shake hands. MARY looks over JO'S purple striped top and dark trousers.) MARY ASHE: Is that what they're wearing on Earth now? JO: More or less... MARY ASHE: It was all quite different when we left back in '71. JO: (Smiles.) You left in 1971? MARY ASHE: No, 2471! (JO'S face is a picture...) 14: INT. LEESON'S DOME (NIGHT) (JANE LEESON reaches up to a calendar on the wall of their dome. She tears off the front sheet, which reads "MON, 2, MARCH 2472" and throws it in a bin. Like the main dome, the LEESON'S dwelling is functional rather than comfortable. There is a radio set to the right hand side and the door leading to the outside to the left. JANE goes over to one wall and pulls down a camp bed as her husband enters with his g*n. There is a sour expression on his face. He sits down as JANE shuts the door.) LEESON: I've been checking the northern sector. JANE LEESON: How's it going? LEESON: It isn't. These cover crops won't even start to grow. JANE LEESON: What about the other sectors? LEESON: Huh! It's even worse. JANE LEESON: Never mind, my dear. (She puts her hands on his shoulders and kisses his head. She then goes over to a machine, which she operates. It starts to dispense drinks.) LEESON: We should never have come here. JANE LEESON: We didn't even have a room of our own on Earth. Now, we've got land. (She pulls out two cups and takes one over to him, sitting on a chair near to him.) LEESON: What's the point of owning land if it won't grow a decent crop? JANE LEESON: Ashe is working on it. LEESON: Ashe knows we're beaten. He just won't admit it. Anyway, probably doesn't matter anymore. JANE LEESON: What do you mean? LEESON: Those people that I found this morning - suppose they are spies for one of the big mining combines. JANE LEESON: You seemed to believe what they say. (From outside, there is suddenly a faint sound like the roar of an animal.) JANE LEESON: What was that? LEESON: I don't know. (They listen but there is silence.) LEESON: Must have been the wind. JANE LEESON: Even if the mining combines do come, they can't drive us out. We were here first. LEESON: Oh, can't they? It's happened before. (There is another louder roar. LEESON jumps to his feet and runs outside.) 15: EXT. LEESON'S DOME (NIGHT) (Outside, in the darkness, a gigantic lizard looms over them. LEESON runs back in the dome.) 16: INT. LEESON'S DOME (NIGHT) LEESON: Get on the radio! (She runs to her set as he picks up his g*n.) JANE LEESON: Don't go out there! LEESON: Maybe I can drive it off. (Having loaded some b*ll*ts he runs back outside as JANE makes a call over the radio...) JANE LEESON: (Into radio.) Hello? Main dome - can you hear me?! (There is a sh*t outside. JANE looks round briefly and then turns back to the radio.) JANE LEESON: (Into radio.) Can you hear me?! MARY ASHE: (OOV: Over radio.) This is main dome. Please identify. JANE LEESON: (Into radio.) This is Jane Leeson. Our dome is being att*cked. (Outside, the lizard continues to roar as two more sh*ts are heard.) JANE LEESON: (Into radio.) Some kind of giant reptile! Please, you must send help! (There is another sound of two sh*ts. JANE turns towards the main door. She gets nervously to her feet.) JANE LEESON: Who are you? What do you want? (She suddenly gives a cry and runs for another g*n. She turns back to the intruder and sinks to her feet.) JANE LEESON: Go away! Go away! 17: INT. MAIN DOME. ASHE'S OFFICE (NIGHT) (The DOCTOR is sat with ASHE in his office.) DOCTOR: See if I've got this right - you brought your colonists to this planet just over a year ago? ASHE: Yes. (The DOCTOR gets up and walks over to a wall map of the area.) DOCTOR: You set up your main dome here...with all your subsidiary domes around it. ASHE: That's right. I made a preliminary survey before I sent for the others. DOCTOR: And you were convinced that this planet was suitable for habitation, despite the exhaustion of the soil? ASHE: Well, worn out soil can be reclaimed, Doctor, as you well know. We should have had subsidence crops within the year. DOCTOR: Exactly - should have. ASHE: The cover crop refuses to grow! We plant it; it sh**t up and then withers - again and again. There seems to be no reason for it. DOCTOR: Well, in theory, you should have a bumper crop by now. ASHE: I can't feed my people on theories, Doctor. DOCTOR: No, no, of course not. Well, in practical terms, what you must do is this... (The door bursts open and MARY and JO run in.) MARY ASHE: Jane Leeson's just radioed in! ASHE: Well, can't it wait? I'm very busy. MARY ASHE: She say's their dome's being att*cked! ASHE: att*cked? MARY ASHE: By some kind of giant reptile! JO: I heard it too - she sounded terrified! MARY ASHE: The radio cut out while she was still talking. DOCTOR: But didn't you say you'd sent some men down there? (ASHE gets up.) ASHE: Yes, but to Martin's dome at the other end of the colony. (To MARY.) Look; get in touch with Winton. Tell him to get over to Leeson's dome as fast as he can. I'll join you there. (MARY runs out. ASHE starts to follow...) DOCTOR: I'll come with you, if I may. ASHE: Well, there's no need for you to get involved, Doctor. DOCTOR: Scientific curiosity, my dear chap. I find your planet most intriguing. ASHE: Very well, thank you. (They both go but JO chases after the DOCTOR.) 18: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (NIGHT) JO: Doctor, I don't think you should go. It might be dangerous. DOCTOR: Jo, don't worry about me. I'll be careful. Now go and get some sleep. JO: Sleep! How do you expect me to s..? (The DOCTOR runs off after ASHE.) JO: Doctor! (She hears MARY back on the nearby radio.) MARY ASHE: (Into radio.) ... at Leeson's dome. I repeat - Leeson's dome. Do you read me? WINTON: (OOV: Over radio.) I read you. We're on our way. MARY ASHE: (Into radio.) Be careful. (She takes off the headset.) JO: How long did you say you'd been on this planet? MARY ASHE: Just over a year. JO: And you found no sign of these creatures then? MARY ASHE: There's no animal life. Just a few birds and insects. JO: Well, there is now. 19: INT. LEESON'S DOME (NIGHT) (The DOCTOR and ASHE watch as WINTON supervises two colonists who take away JANE LEESON'S body on a covered stretcher. The inside of the dome has been ransacked. ASHE looks forlorn. WINTON closes the doors after the stretcher-bearers and goes over to ASHE. The DOCTOR examines the wrecked furniture.) WINTON: Robert, there's nothing you could have done. They were both d*ad when we got here. ASHE: Did you see the creatures? WINTON: We caught a glimpse of one as we arrived. Everyone blazed away like mad. DOCTOR: And what happened? WINTON: Nothing. It didn't even seem to notice. ASHE: You must have missed! WINTON: What - all of us? We tried to get in closer but it just...disappeared. Vanished into the darkness. ASHE: It'll be daylight soon. Perhaps we shall be able to pick up tracks or bloodstains. DOCTOR: I doubt it. (The DOCTOR is crouched on the floor looking at one particular piece of up-ended furniture.) DOCTOR: Come and take a look at these claw marks, gentlemen. (The two come over and join him.) ASHE: Well, what about them? DOCTOR: Are you trying to tell me these were made by a giant lizard, Winton? WINTON: Yes, it must have been a least twenty-foot high. (The DOCTOR stands.) DOCTOR: Twenty foot high? WINTON: Yes. DOCTOR: Well, will you kindly tell me how a creature twenty feet high came through that door? (He points to the small entrance to the dome. The two men look round.) 20: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (The next morning, all the colonists are gathered in the entrance hall of the main dome in an angry meeting.) MARTIN: Why can't you admit defeat, Ashe? We've got to get back to Earth. ASHE: If we go back to Earth, we'll be worse off than we were before. All our savings have gone into this. WINTON: Then we must move on to another planet. If we stay here, we'll be d*ad! ASHE: I'm not sure that we can move on. Our spaceship was old when we bought it - it may not survive another trip. WINTON: Oh, Robert, why won't you admit your mistakes? ASHE: We've invested a year of our lives in this place. We've got the beginnings of a colony. WINTON: Our food stocks are getting lower all the time. We can't even support ourselves. ASHE: All right, we've got problems, but they can be overcome! (The DOCTOR steps through the group.) DOCTOR: Ashe is perfectly right. There is no reason why this planet should not support a thriving colony. MARTIN: (Sarcastically.) I suppose you're an expert in agriculture? DOCTOR: Yes, yes, as a matter of fact, I am. MARTIN: Then why won't my crops grow? DOCTOR: Because they are being inhibited by some unnatural force! We must track it down and overcome it. MARTIN: But two people have been k*lled, or have you forgotten that? ASHE: k*lled by creatures that vanish without trace? WINTON: Look, we saw something! DOCTOR: Whatever it was you saw can be destroyed! ASHE: This colony is our only hope. If we leave it, we'll have nothing. If we stay, we may have a future. WINTON: Why won't you... MRS. MARTIN: (Interrupting.) He's right! We've put too much work into this place to leave. MARTIN: What if these animals att*ck again? MRS. MARTIN: We fight back. ASHE: Good! Now what about the rest of you? Are you willing to give it another try? (They all look at each other and mutter in the affirmative.) MARTIN: Well, if there really is a chance... ASHE: There is if we stick together! Now, what we've got to do is to organize patrols for the domes. The Doctor here will help us with... WINTON: (Interrupting.) Robert, wait! (He has seen MARY entering the dome, supporting a wounded ragged man. WINTON rushes to help her.) MARY ASHE: One of the patrols found him wandering in the south sector. (They all run to help.) ASHE: Get some water, somebody - quickly! (They ease the man to the floor and lean him against a wall. Somewhat emaciated and covered in cuts and tears to his clothing, he stares dully up at the watching people.) ASHE: Where are you from? (The man's eyes wander over the people.) ASHE: Can you understand what I say? (The man stares particularly at the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: (Gently.) It's all right, old chap, You're amongst friends now. (WINTON is handed a cup of water, which he holds to the man's lips. He drinks.) ASHE: Who are you? Where have you come from? (The man speaks.) NORTON: (Weakly.) Colony...come from colony... ASHE: What colony? NORTON: (Weakly.) Long way...from here. WINTON: Do you mean there's another colony on this planet? NORTON: (Weakly.) I've been wandering...long time...nine months. (WINTON gives him some more water.) WINTON: These other colonists - well where are they? (The man's eyes open in fear.) NORTON: (Weakly.) d*ad...they're all d*ad...giant lizards! DOCTOR: (Puzzled.) Lizards? NORTON: (Weakly.) Came from nowhere...k*lled...everything. I'm the only one...left. (His eyes close...) 21: INT. LEESON'S DOME (Within the LEESON'S dome, two of the PRIMITIVES scavenge through the wreckage. One shows the other his find - the broken radio microphone - whilst the other holds up his treasure - a book. They suddenly flinch as they hear the voices of ASHE and the DOCTOR approaching.) ASHE: (OOV: Outside dome.) I hope you find what you're looking for, Doctor. DOCTOR: (OOV: Outside dome.) I only hope you're right. (One of the PRIMITIVES jumps back against the doorframe and pulls out a Kn*fe. The DOCTOR enters and the PRIMITIVE raises the Kn*fe. ASHE cries out...) ASHE: No! No, he is our friend. (The PRIMITIVE lowers the Kn*fe. ASHE points to the radio microphone in its other hand.) ASHE: Err, these are ours. You must leave them. (The PRIMITIVE moves over to the other side of the dome to replace the shattered microphone. The DOCTOR and ASHE watch.) DOCTOR: Do they have a language of their own? ASHE: I've never heard them speak but they seem to understand what I say. DOCTOR: Extraordinary. Must be some rudimentary telepathic ability. Are they friendly? ASHE: Depends on how you treat them. We had two colonists k*lled when we first moved here. (ASHE steps forward to speak to the PRIMITIVES.) ASHE: You...must go...now. (The two PRIMITIVES walk out. The DOCTOR starts to look over the dome himself.) ASHE: Just what are you looking for Doctor? DOCTOR: I've no idea. Possibly some evidence to convince your colonists to stay. ASHE: Yes, I thought I'd won them over until that man turned up. Now I don't know how long I can hold them. DOCTOR: Just play for time. ASHE: Yes. Well, I'd better get back there to see what's happening. Can you find your own way back? DOCTOR: Yes, oh yes, of course. ASHE: Right, I'll leave you to it then and...be careful. (He leaves. The DOCTOR takes a penknife and sample tube out of his pockets and starts to cut samples out of the table. He puts them in his sample tube and holds it up for examination. Suddenly he sees something in the doorway and jumps up. A ROBOT glides into the room. Marked with a logo that reads "IMC", it has two razor sharp metal diggers on the end of its two arms. It moves swiftly towards the DOCTOR who falls back against a wrecked table as the ROBOT looms over him...)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "08x15 - Colony in Space - part 1"}
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COLONY IN SPACE BY: MALCOLM HULKE EPISODE TWO Original Air Date: 17 April, 1971 6:10pm - 6:35pm 1: INT. LEESON'S DOME (The DOCTOR holds up his sample tube for examination. Suddenly he sees something in the doorway and jumps up. A t*nk ROBOT glides into the room. Marked with a logo that reads "IMC", it has two razor sharp metal diggers on the end of its two arms. It moves swiftly towards the DOCTOR who falls back against a wrecked table as the ROBOT looms over him. A man walks into the dome.) CALDWELL: Right! (He is dressed in a red and black tunic uniform. He wears a similarly colored mining helmet and has a remote control device attached to his belt with which he operates the ROBOT. From his defensive position, the DOCTOR looks up at the stranger in puzzlement and wariness.) CALDWELL: You can get up now. (The DOCTOR rises to his feet.) DOCTOR: Thank you very much. You know, you really ought to keep this thing of yours under better control. (The man takes off his helmet and strokes his dark thinning hair into place. He sports a moustache and has a cheerful calm voice.) CALDWELL: (Smiles.) Yeah, I'm sorry. He's only a mark three servo-robot. He's not very bright. (He looks round. A note of concern enters his voice.) CALDWELL: What happened in here? DOCTOR: Well, I only wish I knew. Something att*cked this place late last night. CALDWELL: Is it your place? DOCTOR: No. No, it belonged to two colonists. CALDWELL: (Surprised.) Colonists? According to Earth control, this planet hasn't been colonized. DOCTOR: It appears they we wrong, doesn't it? CALDWELL: Mmm. DOCTOR: May I ask what you're doing here? CALDWELL: IMC - Interplanetary Mining Corporation. We're doing a mineral survey. DOCTOR: How long have you been here? CALDWELL: We've just arrived. Colonists, eh? Well now we've got trouble. DOCTOR: (Sharply.) Why? Presumably you'll be moving to another planet? CALDWELL: Well, it isn't up to me. They'll have to sort that out at Earth control. Erm, what are you up to? DOCTOR: Erm, I, err, I'm, just making a few tests. CALDWELL: Are you some kind of scientist? DOCTOR: (Firmly.) I'm every kind of scientist. Now, if you'll excuse me. (The DOCTOR starts to head for the doorway.) CALDWELL: Look, I'm...on my way back to my spaceship. How about you coming back with me? (The DOCTOR has stopped making for the exit. He is stood between the upraised arms of the ROBOT.) DOCTOR: Well, I'd like to, but erm...I haven't really got the time. In any case, I ought to get back and tell the colonists that you've arrived. (The miner presses a button on his remote control and one of the ROBOT'S arms comes down before him - blocking his way.) CALDWELL: You have got plenty of time, you know. (The DOCTOR scratches his chin.) DOCTOR: Yes, well, I suppose I could spare you a few moments. (The man starts to put his helmet back on.) CALDWELL: You know, it's lucky no one was hurt. DOCTOR: What gave you that impression? CALDWELL: Well, surely, didn't you say...? DOCTOR: (Interrupting.) No, I didn't say anything of the sort. The two colonists that were living here have been k*lled! (The miner's self-confidence visibly disappears. He looks shocked.) CALDWELL: Two people k*lled? DOCTOR: That's right. (The miner collects himself.) CALDWELL: Erm, we'd better get moving. (He operates the remote and the ROBOT'S arm rises. The DOCTOR walks out of the dome as the ROBOT starts to turn to follow under CALDWELL'S operation.) 2: EXT. UXARIEUS. OUTSIDE THE LEESON'S DOME (Outside the dome is a small silver buggy emblazoned with the same "IMC" logo that appears on the ROBOT. The DOCTOR heads for it followed by CALDWELL. It is the DOCTOR who gets into the driver's seat. As he is about to start the vehicle he sees CALDWELL operating the remote control to the robot which now stands in the doorway of the Leeson's dome.) DOCTOR: What are you doing? CALDWELL: Programming Charlie to go back to the spaceship. (The antenna of the ROBOT turns as it receives instructions.) DOCTOR: Well, how far is your ship? CALDWELL: Only a few kilometers. (The DOCTOR nods, switches on the vehicle and drives off.) 3: INT. MAIN DOME. DINING HALL (NORTON wrapped in a blanket to keep him warm, sits at a table in the dining room quickly downing a bowl of soup. JO and some other colonists sit with him. WINTON brings him another bowl.) WINTON: So no one from your colony survived? NORTON: The lizards k*lled most of them. The primitives finished off the rest. JO: The primitives att*cked you as well? NORTON: Well, after the lizards there were only a few survivors. When the primitives saw how weak we were, they...they turned on us. They k*lled my family, m...my friends - everyone! (NORTON tucks into his second bowl.) JO: (To WINTON.) Your primitives don't seem too hostile? WINTON: They were when we first got here. Some of my friends were k*lled. JO: You get on all right with them now. NORTON: Mmm so did we - till we were defenseless. (WINTON strides in anger across the room.) WINTON: Maybe now Robert Ashe will listen to me! We must move on to another planet. (JO gets up to confront him.) JO: You're not just gonna give up, are you? After all the work you've done here? WINTON: Well, there's a time to cut your losses! We can't even grow our own food. JO: I'm sure the Doctor will be able to help you. NORTON: (Suspiciously.) What Doctor? JO: They turned up out of nowhere - this girl and a man. NORTON: Who are they? Where do they come from? WINTON: (To JO.) Well? We don't really know much about you, you know? JO: We told you! We're explorers! WINTON: But just the two of you? With a spaceship all to yourselves? JO: That's right. NORTON: You work for the government? (At that moment a PRIMITIVE enters the room.) JO: No, we don't work for anybody, we just... (JO'S voice tails off as she sees NORTON'S frightened reaction. The ragged man jumps up and picks up a r*fle pointing it at the PRIMITIVE.) JO: What are you doing? NORTON: They k*lled the survivors! All of them! Get out of the way! He'll k*ll you. (ASHE has entered the room.) ASHE: All right. Put that g*n down! NORTON: (Frightened.) Y...y...you don't understand! You...you can't trust them! ASHE: (Shouts.) I said put that g*n down! We have a truce with the primitives! We mustn't be the first to break it! (ASHE pulls the r*fle from him.) WINTON: We have a truce all right, Robert. But only because you give them our food. (ASHE ignores him. He takes WINTON by the shoulder and starts to lead him out of the room.) ASHE: You need rest. Show him where he can lie down, somebody. (A colonist takes NORTON and starts to lead him out. The man turns in the doorway.) NORTON: One day you'll wish you'd listened to me. (He is led out. ASHE glances at WINTON and then goes up to the PRIMITIVE. HE speaks to him slowly and carefully.) ASHE: Wait outside - I will bring you food. (The PRIMITIVE pauses as it looks at the humans and then leaves. ASHE reaches into a cupboard and starts to pull out a food packet.) WINTON: Robert, we can't keep feeding these savages! ASHE: We've got to keep on good terms with them - for our own safety! (He turns for the door. WINTON is stood in his way.) ASHE: While I'm leader of this colony, we'll treat the primitives in my way. WINTON: Even if we starve? (The two stare each other down.) ASHE: (Quietly.) Get out of my way, David. (After a tense moment, WINTON steps aside and ASHE walks out. WINTON leans on a table despondently.) JO: He's right, you know. You ought to listen to him - he is your leader, isn't he? WINTON: Maybe that's been my mistake. 4: EXT. UXARIEUS (The DOCTOR drives the small buggy down a rough track. They reach a rise and the DOCTOR looks round at the familiar landscape.) DOCTOR: The TARDIS - it's gone! (He drives the buggy off.) 5: EXT. UXARIEUS. IMC ROCKET LANDING SITE (A small distance away sits the IMC rocket. A dirty red in color, its has an ornate tail fin on its back with several rockets attached and is emblazoned with the registration number "157".) 6: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM (The captain of the IMC team - DENT - walks into the control room. This several manned consoles are at the back of the room, which is on a higher level. There are other consoles in the front lower section of the room. A large opaque screen acts as a part divide between the two parts of the room. The walls are studied with control panels All the men in the room, including DENT, wear the same red and black uniform as that worn by CALDWELL. The room is functional with little in the way of design that could be called luxurious or functional. DENT moves to his desk on the right of the room and presses a switch. The opaque screen loses its transparency and becomes a monitor, which shows a view of the barren wastelands outside the rocket. DENT is middle-aged and blond with a hard cruel face. A bulky dark-haired man - MORGAN - walks up to DENT'S desk with a paper report.) MORGAN: I've just got the first survey results. DENT: Well? (He takes the report from MORGAN and starts to look over it.) MORGAN: The computer predicts there's enough duralinium here to build one million living units on Earth. DENT: (Smiles.) Excellent. MORGAN: (Exasperated.) The thing I can't understand is why this planet was assigned for colonization! (DENT continues to read the report.) DENT: Does it matter? (An alarm quietly bleeps several times. MORGAN looks on the monitor on which the buggy carrying the DOCTOR and CALDWELL is shown.) MORGAN: Look - Caldwell's found us a colonist. Huh, I wonder why he's wearing fancy dress? DENT: All colonists are eccentric, Morgan, otherwise they wouldn't be colonists. MORGAN: Hmm, and what are you going to say to this "eccentric"? DENT: The usual story - that we've just arrived and we're surprised and shocked that the place has been colonized. MORGAN: Suppose they don't believe us? DENT: (Quietly.) It doesn't matter what they believe - they won't be here for long. 7: INT. IMC ROCKET. CORRIDOR (Having entered the rocket, CALDWELL leads the DOCTOR round a corner of a metal corridor. The ROBOT waits in an alcove. CALDWELL presses a wall control and a door opens. CALDWELL gestures to the DOCTOR.) CALDWELL: Please? DOCTOR: Thank you. 8: INT. IMC ROCKET. GUEST ROOM (The DOCTOR steps into a room. There is a table with several glasses and a stand-alone console in the middle of the room.) CALDWELL: And would you mind staying in here, please, while I let my colleagues know? DOCTOR: Yes, of course. CALDWELL: Erm, look make yourself at home. (He nods at the stand-alone console.) CALDWELL: That's the entertainment console. I shan't be long. DOCTOR: Right. (CALDWELL steps out and the door closes. The DOCTOR goes over to the console and sits at it. Whistling, he presses a button. On the other side of the room, a pair of curtains parts and a screen lights up showing a large g*n f*ring and scenes of warfare. The DOCTOR looks somewhat shocked and repulsed by the sight.) 9: INT. IMC ROCKET. CORRIDOR (CALDWELL strides purposefully down a corridor. He reaches the door to the control room. He sighs, collects his courage and walks in.) 10: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM (He walks up to DENT'S desk watched carefully by MORGAN.) CALDWELL: I've just brought a man in here. DENT: So I saw. CALDWELL: He was at the wrecked dome and he tells me that two people have been k*lled! (He points at MORGAN who gets up and walks towards them.) CALDWELL: (Shouts.) Now, he's only supposed to scare people off - not slaughter them! DENT: (To MORGAN.) Do you know about this, Morgan? MORGAN: (Quietly.) Yes - it was an accident. CALDWELL: (Shouts.) What do you mean - "accident"?! MORGAN: (Shouts.) They found me! They started sh**ting! What was I supposed to do - let myself get k*lled? DENT: You acted very foolishly, Morgan. You should never have let yourself be seen. CALDWELL: Foolishly? Dent, is that all you've got to say? DENT: Believe me, Caldwell, I regret this just as much as you do. CALDWELL: Oh, he... MORGAN: (Interrupts, shouting.) Look, there's no point in arguing about it! Besides, once these colonists have left this planet, there will be no more "regrettable incidents". CALDWELL: (To DENT.) Look, two people are d*ad and I want to know... (As he speaks, DENT gets up with the computer report.) DENT: (Interrupts.) You may care to look at this report... CALDWELL: I want to know for certain... DENT: (Interrupts, shouting.) Look at it! (CALDWELL starts to look over the report. His eyes widen as he sees the contents.) DENT: It's going to make you rich. This planet has enough duralinium to double the company's profits next year. Your bonus will be big enough to retire on. MORGAN: If we get rid of the colonists. (CALDWELL swallows...) CALDWELL: Yes, well all right, we can go ahead. But there's no need for anyone else to be k*lled. DENT: I think I'll have a chat with this colonist of yours. Be interesting to know the state of morale. (He leaves the room watched by a guilty looking CALDWELL.) 11: INT. IMC ROCKET. GUEST ROOM (The DOCTOR is now watching a watching a report, which informs him of the over-crowding on Earth in the twenty-fifth century. A picture shows a number of large structures whilst a VOICE describes their purpose.) VOICE: Scientists have turned to new means for providing accommodation for our ever-increasing population. These floating islands, rising to three hundred stories, will make living space for five hundred million people. (The DOCTOR presses a button and the curtains close on the screen. At the same time, the door opens and DENT walks in. The DOCTOR stands and looks at the newcomer with suspicion.) DENT: I'm Captain Dent - in charge of this survey team. A great pleasure to meet you, Mister? (He holds out his hand.) DOCTOR: Not Mister - Doctor. How do you do? (They shake hands but the atmosphere between the two men is cold.) DENT: Well Doctor, it seems a most unfortunate mistake has been made. DOCTOR: I'm glad you admit it. I take it you're preparing to leave at once. DENT: It's not necessarily out mistake. As things have turned out, this planet doesn't seem very suitable for colonization. DOCTOR: Oh, why? DENT: I understand it's still infested with hostile animal life? (DENT goes and pours out two drinks.) DOCTOR: The hostile animals - if they exist - can be found and destroyed, sir. DENT: I admire your optimism. Is it shared by the other colonists? (The DOCTOR sits.) DOCTOR: Hmm! I'm not a colonist. I'm a visitor. DENT: I see, then you're not really concerned? DOCTOR: I'm very much concerned! DENT: The colonists shouldn't be here. My corporation has been assigned the mineral rights on this planet. Our preliminary survey indicates a...very rich concentration of duralinium. You know how the Earth needs that mineral. (He holds out a drink to the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: Earth - or your corporation's profits? DENT: What's good for IMC is good for Earth. There are...one hundred thousand million people back on Earth and they desperately need all the minerals we can find. DOCTOR: What those people need my dear sir, are new worlds to live in like this one! Worlds where they can live like human beings - not battery hens! DENT: That's not my concern. Minerals are needed - it's my job to find them. DOCTOR: Even if it means turning this planet into a slagheap? DENT: I can see we're on opposite sides, Doctor. DOCTOR: Perhaps. (He holds up his glass...) DOCTOR: Your health, sir. (...and takes a drink. He puts the glass down and stands.) DOCTOR: Now, if you'll excuse me. I've lost some very valuable equipment. Perhaps one of your colleagues told you about it - a tall blue box. DENT: He's probably enquiring about it now. I'll go and check. If you wouldn't mind waiting here, Doctor? I'll detail someone to escort you back to your friends. (He opens the door and leaves.) 12: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM (MORGAN walks across the control room and speaks into a microphone.) MORGAN: (Into microphone.) Air-sey prediction on section four-eight. 13: INT. IMC ROCKET. CORRIDOR (DENT strides down a corridor, wiping his hands as he does so. He opens the door to the control room.) 14: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM (He looks round as he enters the room and goes up to MORGAN.) DENT: Where's Caldwell? MORGAN: Oh, he's chasing up some lost equipment for your colonist friend. DENT: He isn't a colonist...or at least, so he said. (MORGAN looks at him, a look of puzzlement and nervousness on his face.) MORGAN: Then what's he doing here? DENT: I don't know, but I think he's dangerous. MORGAN: Do you think he's been sent by Earth government, checking up on us? DENT: Perhaps. MORGAN: What do you propose to do about it? DENT: You're going to take him back to his colonist friends. (He sits at his desk.) MORGAN: You're not serious? DENT: When Caldwell found him, he was investigating the wrecked dome. MORGAN: Well? DENT: If he were found in the ruins, it would be obvious the monsters had returned and k*lled him. (A small smile appears on CALDWELL'S face.) MORGAN: Leave it to me. (He heads for the door.) MORGAN: Oh by the way, you, erm...you will send the necessary machine? DENT: It'll be waiting when you arrive. (MORGAN starts to put on a pair of black gloves. The door to the room opens and CALDWELL enters with a report, which he hands to DENT. He adds another verbal report.) CALDWELL: Whatever that Doctor's lost, no one seems to have found it. DENT: (To MORGAN, coldly.) You'd better break the sad news, Morgan. (MORGAN nods and leaves.) 15: INT. IMC ROCKET. GUEST ROOM (The DOCTOR is examining the locked door of the room searching for a sensor with which to open it. He gives up and turns away but hears footsteps approaching from the other side.) 16: INT. IMC ROCKET. CORRIDOR (It is MORGAN who walks past the alcove with the ROBOT and up to the door. He puts his hand on the sensor and the door slides open - revealing a puzzled and angry DOCTOR stood in the doorway.) DOCTOR: Who the blazes are you?! MORGAN: My name's Morgan. DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Well, why was this door locked?! 17: INT. IMC ROCKET. GUEST ROOM (He turns and walks back into the guestroom followed by MORGAN.) MORGAN: Was it? Must have jammed. I've been sent to take you back to your friends. DOCTOR: Well, where is the man who brought me here - and what happened to Captain Dent? MORGAN: I'm sorry, the Captain's busy. You've been handed over to me. DOCTOR: Oh, I see. Well I take it that your Captain is coming to see Ashe? MORGAN: (Puzzled.) Ashe? DOCTOR: The leader of the colonists! MORGAN: Oh, yes, yes! I'm to arrange the meeting. DOCTOR: How very formal. (The DOCTOR looks towards the door. MORGAN doesn't move. The DOCTOR speaks to him as if he were slightly simple.) DOCTOR: Well shall we go? MORGAN: After you...sir. (He gestures to the door. The DOCTOR walks out.) MORGAN: By the way... 18: INT. IMC ROCKET. CORRIDOR (MORGAN follows.) MORGAN: ...Captain Dent wanted you to show me the dome that was wrecked. DOCTOR: Why? MORGAN: Well, we're just as interested in these creatures as you are. Who knows - they might att*ck us too? DOCTOR: Yes, that's a point. (They turn and walk off.) 19: EXT. UXARIEUS (The buggy makes its return journey - the time driven by MORGAN. It suddenly comes to a halt. In the roadway ahead are three Primitives, all armed with spears.) MORGAN: Get out of the way! (They start pacing towards the buggy. MORGAN pulls out a g*n.) DOCTOR: No! (But the DOCTOR is too quick and pushes the g*n, deflecting the sh*t away. The DOCTOR gets out of the buggy and approaches the Primitives. One of them throws a spear, which the DOCTOR manages to catch and hold as a w*apon. The other two Primitives rush him but, with many a cry, the DOCTOR fights them off using the spear as a stave. The two Primitives are made short work of and they lay stunned on the ground, however the DOCTOR'S spear is broken and is a useless stump. The third Primitive starts to swing a stone on a rope and rushes at the DOCTOR. He uses his broken spear as a lever onto which the Primitive lands and is then thrown into the air. The tussle over, MORGAN drives up in the buggy. He beeps the horn and the DOCTOR climbs in.) DOCTOR: Let's drive slowly, shall we? (They move off.) 20: INT. MAIN DOME. DINING HALL (JO is stirring more soup in the dining hall when MARY ASHE walks in with some boxes.) MARY ASHE: Can you get these ready, please Jo? JO: Yes, of course. What do I do with them? MARY ASHE: Just add water and serve...but be careful. (ASHE walks in.) JO: What do they taste like? MARY ASHE: All exactly the same! (They laugh. ASHE hugs and kisses his daughter.) ASHE: Hello, Mary, my dear. How's it going? MARY ASHE: She's getting on very well. JO: Have you seen the Doctor yet? ASHE: No, I haven't. JO: He's been gone a long time. ASHE: Now, don't worry. If he's not back soon, I'll go and look for him. (To MARY.) Have you seen Winton? MARY ASHE: Mmm, he's showing Norton round the dome. ASHE: Well, when you see him, tell him I want him. I'll be in my quarters. (ASHE walks out. JO is suspicious.) JO: Norton's made a remarkable recovery. (MARY looks at JO.) 21: INT. MAIN DOME. POWER ROOM (In the dome's power room, a thin faced man - older than the other colonists - makes repairs to a squat unit in the middle of the room. The man - HOLDEN - is assisted by a PRIMITIVE. The walls of the room are covered with old-fashioned junction boxes and power units. The door to the small room opens and WINTON walks in with NORTON, who is still huddled in his blanket.) WINTON: This is our power supply junction box. (NORTON sees the PRIMITIVE and again reacts with suspicion.) NORTON: What's he doing? HOLDEN: Don't worry about him. He's my assistant. (HOLDEN raises up his left hand and the PRIMITIVE puts a tool into it. HOLDEN smiles.) HOLDEN: See what I mean? He gets the right one every time. Seems to know what's in my mind. Weren't your primitives like that? NORTON: No. We weren't so friendly with ours. (To WINTON.) Where do you get your power from? WINTON: Well we tap the ships nuclear generator and then beam the power through to the domes, as they need it. (To HOLDEN.) More trouble? HOLDEN: Naturally. This stuff should have been junked years ago. WINTON: Don't worry, you'll manage. You always do! Must be that sunny nature of yours. HOLDEN: (Flatly.) Thanks very much. WINTON: (To NORTON.) Well, shall we go back to the dining area? (NORTON nods and they leave. Without being asked, the PRIMITIVE passes HOLDEN a screwdriver. The little man smiles.) HOLDEN: Thanks! 22: INT. MAIN DOME. DINING HALL (JO and MARY are lifting chairs off the tables onto the floor, ready for dinner. WINTON and NORTON walk in.) WINTON: Got you working, I see? And what time's dinner? JO: Not long now. (To NORTON.) How are you feeling? NORTON: Oh, much better. Still hungry. MARY ASHE: What do you think of our colony? NORTON: I think you're managing very well. WINTON: You mean considering how old the equipment is? NORTON: Well, some of it is getting on a bit. WINTON: Yes... JO: Was your colony better equipped? NORTON: Yes. Didn't do us much good. (To WINTON.) Err, that junction box of yours - it, err, looks dangerous. MARY ASHE: That's what Jim Holden says. But he manages to keep it going. NORTON: Is he your only electrician engineer? WINTON: He's the only one we could get to come with us. We'd be lost without him. MARY ASHE: Oh, my father was looking for you. He said he'd be in his quarters. WINTON: Oh. (To NORTON.) Err, look, can you look after yourself. NORTON: Well, yes, I...I feel a bit tired. I'll just go and lie down until dinner. WINTON: All right. See you then. (WINTON walks out and NORTON takes a sniff at the soup.) NORTON: (Smiles.) I'm looking forward to this. After a year of living off roots, you don't know how good that looks. (He walks out. JO looks puzzled.) 23: INT. MAIN DOME. POWER ROOM (HOLDEN and the PRIMITIVE conclude their repairs.) HOLDEN: There. That should hold it for another few days. Put the tools away, will you? I just want to check the circuit relay. (HOLDEN puts some tools into the PRIMITIVE'S hands and turns to a wall junction box. The door opens and NORTON walks in. He throws off his blanket and raises a large spanner he has in his hand over the PRIMITIVE. He brings it crashing down as HOLDEN turns round.) HOLDEN: Are you crazy? (NORTON drops the spanner and picks up the PRIMITIVE'S spear, aiming it at HOLDEN.) HOLDEN: What do you think you're doing? No! 24: INT. MAIN DOME. ASHE'S OFFICE (MARY walks into her father's office, followed by JO. ASHE is at his desk.) MARY ASHE: Dinner's ready, father. ASHE: Oh. (As he is about the get up, the lights in the room dim as the power fails.) ASHE: Oh, here we go again. MARY ASHE: Don't worry, Jim'll fix it. (She and JO laugh as NORTON rushes into the darkened room. He is again huddled in his blanket.) NORTON: You've got to come with me! ASHE: Don't worry. It was only a power failure. NORTON: No, you don't understand. Please, come with me! (He pulls ASHE along.) 25: INT. MAIN DOME. POWER ROOM (HOLDEN lies d*ad in the room, near to the corpse of the PRIMITIVE who now lies on top of his spear. ASHE stops d*ad as he walks in, NORTON follows.) ASHE: What? (He rushes to HOLDEN and examines him.) ASHE: (Incredulous.) What happened? NORTON: I was just coming by. I saw it all! He didn't have a chance. ASHE: The primitive k*lled him? NORTON: He...he went for me too. I grabbed a spanner and h*t him. It was self-defense - I had to. ASHE: I don't understand it. They were such friends. NORTON: They're all the same - treacherous. They get your confidence and then they turn on you. (ASHE looks at the unit in the center of the room.) ASHE: The relay circuits have been destroyed! NORTON: Your man must have caught him messing about with the controls. ASHE: But unless we get this repaired, the whole colony will come to a standstill! He was the only one who could fix it! (Behind ASHE, a satisfied NORTON looks on.) 26: EXT. UXARIEUS. IMC ROCKET LANDING SITE (Aboard the IMC rocket...) 27: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM (...DENT walks into the control room and goes up to a radio unit.) DENT: (Into microphone.) Warp this message direct to IMC headquarters, Earth. Put it on scramble. Code two-nine-three. (There is a signal of acknowledgement from the radio unit.) DENT: (Into microphone.) Survey ship four-three to IMC headquarters, Earth. Captain Dent speaking. Preliminary survey confirms rich deposits of duralinium on this planet. Complications occasioned by previously arrived colonists can be dealt with. (CALDWELL enters the room with a folder.) CALDWELL: I've been checking out the survey results. DENT: Well? CALDWELL: Well, you were right. This is a big strike. (CALDWELL sits in DENT'S chair.) DENT: This biggest we've ever had...and I want you to radio Earth your requirements for radio equipment. CALDWELL: Right. What about the colonists? DENT: Oh, they'll have left by the time it gets here. CALDWELL: You can't be sure. That Doctor seemed pretty determined, didn't he? DENT: He can be dealt with. CALDWELL: How do you mean? Where is he? DENT: On his way back to his friends - with Morgan. CALDWELL: You're the Captain, why didn't you go? (CALDWELL suddenly realizes what DENT'S statement implies.) CALDWELL: He isn't going to get back to his friends, is he? (DENT looks at CALDWELL, his tone remaining calm.) DENT: Morgan's completely reliable. CALDWELL: Yes, that's what I mean. (CALDWELL jumps up and makes for the door. DENT also gets up and heads him off.) DENT: Where do you think you're going? CALDWELL: Look, scaring people is one thing and I don't my lying to Earth government but m*rder... DENT: (Interrupting.) Stay where you are. CALDWELL: (Shouts.) Now, get out of my way! DENT: May I remind you that I am Captain of this ship and we are on an alien planet. If you strike me, I can have you ex*cuted without trial. (CALDWELL collects himself...) CALDWELL: We can persuade these people to go. We've done it before. DENT: That man you brought here was some kind of government spy. He was suspicious. CALDWELL: Well, it's still m*rder! DENT: Back on Earth, tens of thousands of people die every day - traffic accidents, suicides, pollution, epidemics... CALDWELL: (His voice rising.) They are not the same thing and you know it! DENT: (Shouts.) Caldwell! (Calmer.) The exploitation of this planet can make us both rich. You can enjoy luxury for the rest of your life if you go along with the corporation. CALDWELL: I could exist without IMC. DENT: You get on our blacklist, you'll never work again - for anyone. You're up to your ears in debt - I checked. Don't worry about the colonists, Caldwell. Just get on with your work - and let Morgan get on with his. (CALDWELL looks torn...) 28: EXT. UXARIEUS. OUTSIDE THE LEESON'S DOME (MORGAN and the DOCTOR'S journey concludes outside the Leeson's dome. The two men get out of the buggy.) 29: INT. LEESON'S DOME (They walk into the dome.) DOCTOR: Well, here are are. Though I must say I still don't quite understand why you wanted to come here. MORGAN: I wanted to see how much damage these creatures can cause. (The DOCTOR points.) DOCTOR: Well, you'll find some claw marks over there and some more over there. MORGAN: And you say these same marks were found on the two colonists? (MORGAN crouches down and looks at one set of claw marks.) DOCTOR: That's right. Oh yes, it was all very efficiently done. (He looks up at the DOCTOR.) MORGAN: What do you mean? DOCTOR: Well, I think the whole thing was faked by somebody who wanted to frighten the colonists away. MORGAN: These claw marks, I mean, something made them. DOCTOR: Yes, they could have been faked by some sort of mechanical device. (MORGAN stands up and operates the remote control for the ROBOT.) MORGAN: You mean with something like this? (The ROBOT glides into the room. In place of the two metal hands are two mock "monster" hands - complete with razor sharp claws. The DOCTOR spins round.) DOCTOR: Yes, yes - exactly like this! MORGAN: By the time they've found you, the monster will have claimed another victim. (The DOCTOR turns back to MORGAN and is about to jump him but the miner is too quick and raises its g*n.) MORGAN: Keep back! Purely business, you understand. Nothing personal...
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COLONY IN SPACE BY: MALCOLM HULKE EPISODE THREE Original Air Date: 24 April, 1971 6:10pm - 6:35pm 1: INT. LEESON'S DOME (MORGAN looks up at the DOCTOR.) MORGAN: So what do you think happened? DOCTOR: Well, I think the whole thing has been faked by someone who wanted to frighten the colonists away. MORGAN: Well, these claw marks, I mean, something made them. DOCTOR: Yeah, they could have been faked by some sort of mechanical device. (MORGAN stands up and operates the remote control for the ROBOT.) MORGAN: You mean with something like this? (The ROBOT glides into the room. In place of the two metal hands are two mock "monster" hands - complete with razor sharp claws. The DOCTOR spins round.) DOCTOR: Yes, yes - exactly like this! MORGAN: By the time they find you, the monster will have claimed another victim. (The DOCTOR turns back to MORGAN and is about to jump him but the miner is too quick and raises his g*n.) MORGAN: Keep back! Purely business, you understand. Nothing personal... DOCTOR: Now, if you f*re that thing...you'll spoil your whole story. Monsters don't carry g*n! (MORGAN moves his g*n hand towards the remote control. With a cry and a karate kick, the DOCTOR knocks the implements out of the assassin's hands and then chops the man flying into a cupboard. MORGAN is half-stunned but recovers enough to run out of the dome. The DOCTOR backs away from the flailing arms of the ROBOT. He crouches down to the floor and edges to the dropped remote control. He manages to reach it and smashes it against a wrecked table. The ROBOT falls quiet and a relieved DOCTOR gets to his feet.) 2: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (JO wearily turns a wheel for a turbine generator, which is attached to the main dome's radio. MARY ASHE sits at the radio.) MARY ASHE: (Into radio.) You'll have to keep going on your individual power units. Main dome out. (She switches off the radio as ASHE walks by, sees them and walks over.) MARY ASHE: (To JO, wearily.) Oh, take a rest. JO: I could do with it. ASHE: (To MARY.) What's happening? MARY ASHE: Have they had any luck with the relay circuits? ASHE: I don't know - Norton and Winton are still working on it. MARY ASHE: All the domes have been screaming for power. ASHE: I've been checking the stock of individual power units. We've only got enough to last us a few days. JO: Well then what? ASHE: No power for machinery, no heat, no light - we're finished. JO: I wish the Doctor was here. He'd be able to fix it for you. Look, he has been gone rather a long time. You said you'd be able to go and look for him. ASHE: (Snaps.) I've got rather more to worry about than your friend, you know! The whole life of this colony is in danger! JO: Yes, I know, but he was trying to help you. ASHE: (Calmer.) Yes, yes, I'm...I'm very sorry. I'll send someone to look for him. JO: Thank you. (WINTON walks into the fenced off area where the radio is held.) ASHE: Any luck? WINTON: Norton say's it's impossible. ASHE: Well that's it then. (JO suddenly hears an engine type noise.) JO: What's that? (The other colonists listen.) ASHE: It sounds like a spaceship! (The sound grows louder.) ASHE: It must be going to land right by us! (He runs towards the entrance.) 3: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM (Aboard the spaceship, DENT and CALDWELL sit in two commands facing a monitor screen. On it is displayed the rocky surface of the planet.) VOICE: (Over tannoy.) Radar ... confirm terrain firm. DENT: Keep main retrorockets steady. Altitude report? VOICE: (Over tannoy.) One hundred meters. Descent rate now at minimum. DENT: Activate landing s*ab. (On the monitor, the ground rushes upward and the dome appears.) VOICE: (Over tannoy.) Landing s*ab in position. DENT: Final altitude report. (The dome grows closer.) VOICE: (Over tannoy.) Twenty meters...fifteen meters...ten...nine...eight...seven...six...five... (The men all brace themselves. The ship judders as it hits the ground.) VOICE: (Over tannoy.) We have contact. DENT: Cut motors. (DENT gets out of his chair.) CALDWELL: You've landed practically in their laps. DENT: I never like walking. (CALDWELL follows him. DENT picks up a folder and speaks to one of the IMC men - LONG - who sits at one of the desks.) DENT: Now, I'd better go and make friends. Close down all systems - we shall be here some time. LONG: Yes sir. (DENT walks off watched by a worried CALDWELL.) 4: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (Having met ASHE and WINTON, DENT walks into the dome with them.) DENT: I can assure you, Mr. Ashe, I'm as surprised as you are. How long have you been here? ASHE: More than a year now. You realize this planet has been assigned for colonization? DENT: No, not according to my company. We've been assigned full mineral rights. ASHE: Then your people must have made a mistake. DENT: Or yours. In any event, we're both here, so there's only one remedy - we shall have to send for an Adjudicator. WINTON: (Simmering.) Well, we know all about that. It takes years to reach a decision and by then, you've chewed up the entire planet. DENT: I'm sure you agree we must apply the proper procedures. ASHE: Well, yes I suppose so... WINTON: (Interrupting, angrily.) Procedures nothing, Robert! (To DENT.) This planet's ours - and the sooner you're off it, the better! ASHE: David! (ASHE pulls the man back. At that moment, a distraction is caused as the DOCTOR walks into the dome.) JO: (Delighted.) Doctor! (She rushes up to him and hugs him.) JO: What happened? Are you all right? DOCTOR: Yes, I'm fine Jo, fine. (He sees DENT and walks over to him as other colonists including NORTON gather.) DOCTOR: Sorry if that spoils your plans, Captain Dent! DENT: My plans? I...don't understand. DOCTOR: (To ASHE.) I was to have been another victim of their imaginary monsters. They're trying to frighten you off this planet. DENT: That's a very serious allegation, Doctor. DOCTOR: Yes, and one that I shall have great pleasure in bringing before the proper authorities. (To ASHE.) You say there's some sort of procedure? ASHE: Yes, we're going to send for an Adjudicator. DOCTOR: Good. I'm sure he'll be very interested in hearing what I have to say. ASHE: (To DENT.) Well? DENT: I refuse to listen to this man's... "ravings" any longer. I'll send a message to the Adjudicator's bureau right away. If you'll excuse me. (He walks out watched by the silent colonists. WINTON turns to the DOCTOR.) WINTON: He really tried to k*ll you? DOCTOR: Oh yes! Yes, the IMC people are using a robot to fake these monsters. WINTON: Doctor, those monsters were real - I saw them! DOCTOR: Optical trickery so that you think you can see monsters...and a robot with claws so that you can see their effects. The immobilized robot is at Leeson's dome. Or it was - they've probably removed it by now. ASHE: This is unbelievable! DOCTOR: Yes, well, don't worry old chap. When the adjudicator hears of IMC's methods, he's bound to decide in your favor. WINTON: Yes, if we're still here. DOCTOR: Why shouldn't we still be here? ASHE: We're in a middle of a power breakdown. Jo said that you might be able to fix it. DOCTOR: Well, I'd be only too pleased, but at the moment I'm looking for some lost property. It's a box, erm... (He holds up his hands to describe the shape of the TARDIS.) DOCTOR: A tall blue box like... (JO overhears and realizes what he is talking about.) JO: Doctor! You haven't lost the TARDIS?! DOCTOR: Well no, I haven't exactly lost it. Let's say it's temporarily mislaid. JO: But don't you realize, without the TARDIS we're stranded? ASHE: Look Doctor, the whole life of this colony is in danger! Now, we'll help you look for your blue box later. DOCTOR: Yes, all right. Come on, show me what's wrong. (He starts to lead ASHE away.) JO: But Doctor... DOCTOR: Later, Jo, later. (ASHE and the DOCTOR leave, with ASHE describing their problem as they go.) ASHE: The relay circuits have been completely destroyed... (NORTON steps forward up to WINTON with a smile on his face JO and MARY watch.) NORTON: What's he talking about? Optical trickery? I've been hunted by those things. You've seen them. WINTON: I saw something. It could have been faked. NORTON: I tell you the man's crazy! Those creatures are real and you know it! (JO steps forward.) JO: (Firmly.) If the Doctor says they were faked, they were faked. (WINTON walks a few paces away.) WINTON: Yes, but he hasn't mannered...managed to produce any evidence, has he? JO: Well, why don't we do something? WINTON: Such as what? JO: Well, we could find some proof. WINTON: Where? JO: We could start with the IMC spaceship. (WINTON overhears this...) 5: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM (MORGAN is de-briefing DENT over what happened at Leeson's dome. DENT is as calm and cold as ever.) MORGAN: There was nothing I could do! DENT: The Doctor told everyone what happened. MORGAN: Did they believe him? DENT: I'm not sure. (The door to the room opens and CALDWELL walks in. He puts a rock sample down on DENT'S desk.) CALDWELL: These look very good. Have you sent for an adjudicator? DENT: Not yet. CALDWELL: But you are going to? DENT: Of course - legality must always be maintained. CALDWELL: (Smiles.) What are you two going to say when the Doctor tells the adjudicator his story? (DENT looks coldly at CALDWELL but before he can answer, a buzzer sounds on the console in front of him. He presses a switch.) DENT: (Into microphone.) IMC control room? 6: INT. MAIN DOME. ROOM (The caller is NORTON who speaks into a small radio in a darkened room.) NORTON: (Into microphone.) Norton to IMC. Urgent message: two colonists are about to enter your ship. 7: INT. IMC ROCKET. CORRIDOR (WINTON stealthily makes his way down a corridor. He sees the deactivated ROBOT in the corridor. He turns and signals to JO. She walks up and looks over the ROBOT as WINTON examines a doorway.) WINTON: Jo! (He signals her to follow and they move off. After they have gone, the ROBOT comes to life and turns as a metal corridor door marked "EMERGENCY BULKHEAD" slides quietly down into place.) 8: INT. IMC ROCKET. ANOTHER CORRIDOR (WINTON and JO pass a notice board that displays the IMC logo and the sign "OFFICIAL NOTICES".) 9: INT. IMC ROCKET. ANOTHER CORRIDOR (They hide round a corner as LONG passes. When he has gone, they carry on. Another bulkhead slides down.) 10: INT. IMC ROCKET. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE CONTROL ROOM (They reach a doorway marked "COMMUNICATION DECK". WINTON is examining the door when it silently slides open. The room beyond is in darkness. JO and WINTON look at each other. They enter and the door slides shut.) 11: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM (Within, the lights in the room suddenly come on. JO and WINTON spin round to see DENT with MORGAN and IMC guards - all armed. DENT stares coldly at the intruders.) 12: INT. MAIN DOME. POWER ROOM (In the darkened power room, the DOCTOR makes final adjustments with a screwdriver to the unit in the center of the room. A nervous ASHE watches.) DOCTOR: There you are. I think that should do it. (He moves to a wallboard and flicks a switch. Instantly, the room is flooded with light and the hum of power fills the air. ASHE sighs and smiles.) ASHE: I'm really very grateful, Doctor! I'd better get power out to the outlying domes. (ASHE moves to another junction box and flicks further switches as the DOCTOR moves back to the central unit.) ASHE: How long will it keep going? DOCTOR: Eh? Well, as long as you want it to, of course. You say that somebody else has been trying to repair this relay circuit? ASHE: Yes, Norton. DOCTOR: Well, he didn't make a very good job. In fact one might almost think that he'd been trying to make things worse. (Before ASHE can answer, MARY runs in.) MARY ASHE: Doctor! There's a message for you from the IMC ship. DOCTOR: What? MARY ASHE: Captain Dent says he wants to see you. DOCTOR: What about? MARY ASHE: Something to do with Jo Grant. (The DOCTOR looks in alarm at ASHE.) 13: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM (The DOCTOR walks into the IMC control room where DENT and several IMC men wait.) DENT: Good of you to come so promptly, Doctor. (DENT sits. The DOCTOR walks up to him followed by MORGAN.) DOCTOR: All right, Captain Dent, where's Jo Grant? DENT: Under arrest. She was caught attempting to rob this spaceship. DOCTOR: (Angrily.) You've got no right to hold her...! DENT: (Interrupting.) You are acquainted with interplanetary laws? She's committed a capital offence. (The DOCTOR calms at this statement.) DOCTOR: I see. All right, what do you want? DENT: When the adjudicator arrives you will withdraw your ridiculous accusations. (The DOCTOR'S temper rises again.) DOCTOR: That's quite out of the question, and I repeat: where is Jo Grant! DENT: Not here, Doctor. She is rather uncomfortably placed. Do you know anything of our survey methods? DOCTOR: (Puzzled.) What? DENT: An expl*sive charge is laid and activated by remote control. I have only to press... (He points to a red button on his console.) DENT: ...this button. (The DOCTOR realizes DENT'S meaning.) 14: INT. PRIMITIVE RUIN (JO and WINTON are held in a rough brick-built Primitive ruin. In the center of the bare floor is a black ridged b*mb. JO and WINTON are on the ground and handcuffed by large devices, which surround the wrists and hold the hands together. Metal chains run from the cuffs to spikes in the floor next to the b*mb. An IMC man - ALLEN - hammers in WINTON'S spike into the ground. ALLEN activates a switch on the b*mb, which begins to emit a humming sound, and a red light on the top begins to flash. WINTON tugs at his chains.) ALLEN: I wouldn't do that - not until I've gone. Once the charge is primed, these things are very sensitive. In fact...I wouldn't move at all. (ALLEN picks up the hammer and walks off. Despite the advice, WINTON immediately starts to try to free himself as JO looks round.) JO: What is this place? WINTON: Primitive dwelling. Rather aptly named. (Smiles.) Well? What do we do now? JO: (Smiles.) Try and escape? WINTON: Of course! 15: INT. MAIN DOME. ASHE'S OFFICE (ASHE sits at his desk speaking to the DOCTOR who has returned to the dome.) ASHE: But this is abominable, Doctor! I'll go and see Captain Dent at once! (He stands up.) DOCTOR: (Sharply.) What good will that do? Dent'll deny everything and you'll be putting Jo's life at risk. ASHE: Then we must organize a search. DOCTOR: Look, Dent's spaceship is only a few hundred yards from this dome. He'll be monitoring us on his scanners. ASHE: Well, what if he is? DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Use your head, man! If he sees the slightest sign of a search, he'll detonate that charge! 16: INT. PRIMITIVE RUIN (JO falls over as she tries to pull free.) WINTON: Be careful, Jo! (JO gets back up, covered in sand and dust.) WINTON: You'll blow us all sky high. (WINTON sees something on the b*mb.) WINTON: Wait a minute...this thing's just been unpacked. JO: So? WINTON: Well, there's still some grease on the casing. JO: I get you. (JO puts her hands out towards the side of the b*mb facing WINTON.) JO: But, I can't reach. Look, if you can get some on my wrist... (WINTON collects some grease and rubs it on JO'S wrist.) WINTON: You'll have to try and pull your hands through. It won't be very easy. JO: Well, I...took a course in escapology - once. (WINTON starts to pull at JO'S cuffs.) WINTON: Steady... (JO grimaces as WINTON pulls harder, then...) JO: Pull! (WINTON is able to yank the cuffs off.) WINTON: Now back to the dome and warn Ashe! (JO looks round and starts to collect two large rocks.) JO: I'm not leaving here without you! WINTON: Look, don't you see this is just the evidence we need for the adjudicator? JO: (Firmly.) I'm not leaving here without you! (JO places WINTON'S chain on one rock and starts hammering at it with another.) JO: Oh! (She succeeds in knocking the b*mb, causing an alarm to sound from it. JO and WINTON look at it in horror...) 17: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM (Within the rocket, an alarm sounds on a wall console behind DENT.) DENT: Something's happening. (To MORGAN.) Who's guarding the girl? (LONG passes MORGAN a clipboard with a duty roster which MORGAN reads.) MORGAN: Allen. (DENT switches on a radio.) DENT: (Into radio.) Captain Dent to security guard Allen. ALLEN: (OOV: Over radio.) Receiving you. DENT: (Into radio.) Check up on your prisoners. 18: INT. PRIMITIVE RUIN (JO continues to hammer at WINTON'S chain. Finally she succeeds. WINTON runs to a hole in the wall leading to the outside and looks round.) WINTON: There are no guards - quick! This way, Jo! (JO is about to follow but ALLEN runs in from another part of the ruin and grabs her. She screams.) ALLEN: Stay where you are! (ALLEN fires a g*n and the b*llet hits WINTON. JO struggles madly in ALLEN'S grasp stopping him from f*ring again...) JO: Run, run! (...and giving the wounded colonist the chance to make a dive for the hole in the wall.) JO: Oh, please, no! Run, Winton, run! You'll be k*lled! (ALLEN fires again but is unsuccessful.) JO: No, no! (JO continues to struggle as ALLEN pulls out a radio.) ALLEN: (Into radio.) Security guard Allen to Captain Dent. Male prisoner has escaped. 19: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM DENT: (Into radio.) You've still got the girl? ALLEN: (OOV: Over radio.) Yes sir. DENT: (Into radio.) From now on, stay where you can see her. ALLEN: (OOV: Over radio.) What about the expl*sive charge, sir? DENT: (Into radio.) Don't worry. I'll give you plenty of warning. (He switches off the radio as MORGAN steps forward, awaiting orders.) DENT: Send some guards after the man. MORGAN: Do you want him brought back alive? (DENT looks at MORGAN in answer...) 20: EXT. UXARIEUS (The chase for WINTON begins. An IMC buggy drives at top speed across the surface of the planet but they fail to see the wounded fugitive crouched down behind a rock, the cuffs still on his hands. After they have gone, WINTON runs up a track but sees another buggy approaching him over the brow of the hill. He turns and runs in another direction. The buggy gives chase. WINTON stumbles and falls through a pit of muddy sludge but he carries on. The buggy comes to a halt and the two IMC men get out and start f*ring. WINTON sees them following in the distance and continues his escape but he is close to exhaustion. He sees a small metallic tent a few yards ahead with a piece of equipment outside out tended by CALDWELL. The miner gets a g*n out of his buggy and cocks it. WINTON closes his eyes in resignation and gets up. He walks towards CALDWELL. The two IMC men run up a slope towards CALDWELL'S survey unit. They hear several sh*ts, pause, then run on, but...) CALDWELL: (Shouts.) Don't bother! I got him for you! (The two IMC men catch their breath and then waves their thanks.) IMC MAN: Okay. Right. (They walk off. WINTON lies at CALDWELL'S feet. After a moment...) CALDWELL: It's all right. They've gone. (WINTON opens his eyes.) 21: INT. SURVEY UNIT (CALDWELL half-carries WINTON into his survey "tent". He helps WINTON onto a small bunk bed but the colonist cries out in pain.) CALDWELL: All right. (CALDWELL takes his helmet off and prepares to examine the young man.) CALDWELL: You'll be all right here. (He takes out of his belt a thin metallic pencil-like device. He points it at WINTON'S cuffs and presses a button. It emits an electronic noise and the cuffs spring open. CALDWELL takes them off totally and puts them on a side table.) CALDWELL: Now I'd better have a look at you. (He takes a metal box down from a shelf and takes a another small electronic device out of it. He pulls WINTON'S jacket open. WINTON again cries out in pain.) CALDWELL: All right, all right. (CALDWELL, his fingers now coated with WINTON'S blood, activates the device, which gives him a read-out.) CALDWELL: Yes, you're lucky...and you're lucky we've got these. (CALDWELL indicates his advanced first-aid kit out of which he takes a syringe-type device.) WINTON: (Weakly.) Why are you helping me? CALDWELL: I'm not one of Dent's K*llers. I'm a miner. (CALDWELL presses the syringe to WINTON'S chest. He presses a button and the solution enters. WINTON grimaces again, then calms.) WINTON: Thank you. CALDWELL: Why were they after you? WINTON: We were hostages. There was a girl with me, they've...still got her. (CALDWELL looks torn by guilt as he tries to help the young man...) CALDWELL: You go back to the colony and persuade your friends to get off this planet. WINTON: We're waiting for the adjudicator. (WINTON manages to sit up.) CALDWELL: (Shouts.) Look! (He shows WINTON a rock.) CALDWELL: Do you know what that this - those veins? It's duralinium. This is the richest source we've ever found. Now IMC want this planet and they're going to have it! WINTON: The adjudicator's decision is law. If he says we can stay... CALDWELL: (Interrupts, impatiently.) Even adjudicators can be dealt with! Oh, get your people off this planet before someone else is hurt. 22: INT. MAIN DOME. ASHE'S OFFICE (NIGHT) (The DOCTOR, ASHE, NORTON and a group of colonists are collected in ASHE'S office. ASHE holds up a map.) ASHE: It's dark now so they can't use their scanners. (He points at various places on the map.) ASHE: We'll start the search at the Primitive caves here, then onto the Primitive ruins here and here. (A vastly recovered WINTON rushes into the room and immediately picks up a r*fle, which he starts checking over.) ASHE: Winton! DOCTOR: Winton, where's Jo? WINTON: IMC have still got her. DOCTOR: What, you left her? WINTON: Doctor, there was nothing else I could do. DOCTOR: Well how did you get away? WINTON: One of the IMC men helped me but I had to leave Jo in the Primitive ruins. ASHE: Then we'll have to get over there at once! WINTON: Well, they'll have moved her by now. ASHE: Then we must organize a search. WINTON: No - we're going to mount an att*ck on their spaceship. We're going to try and get them to surrender, make them release Jo and then get them off this planet. ASHE: We're not going to start a w*r! WINTON: Now look, Robert - I've been chained to a b*mb, hunted and sh*t at. As far as I'm concerned, the w*r's already started. (ASHE is about to speak but WINTON stride out of the room with his r*fle.) DOCTOR: (To ASHE, urgently.) You've got to stop him. Dent'll sh**t them down and be glad of the excuse! ASHE: It seems the decision has been taken out of my hands. WINTON: (OOV: In the entrance hall.) Come in, dome three. Come in, dome three. 23: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (NIGHT) (WINTON is on the radio. The DOCTOR walks out of ASHE'S office and up to him.) WINTON: (Into radio.) Report to main dome immediately - do you read me? COLONIST: (OOV: Over radio.) Yes, I read you. DOCTOR: Did you say one of them helped you? WINTON: Yes - Caldwell, their chief mineralogist. DOCTOR: Well, where was he? WINTON: He had a survey tent pitched in the north sector. DOCTOR: Can you direct me there? WINTON: Well, why? DOCTOR: Well, I've got to talk to him. The only way we can save Jo now is with help from the inside. 24: INT. SURVEY UNIT (NIGHT) (CALDWELL is running a small probe over a sample of rock. The DOCTOR enters unseen.) DOCTOR: Ah, Caldwell. (CALDWELL jumps and reaches for his g*n but sighs heavily when he sees who it is.) DOCTOR: Working out your future bonuses? CALDWELL: What do you want? DOCTOR: I want your help. CALDWELL: I work for IMC. (The DOCTOR takes his gloves off and sits down uninvited.) DOCTOR: Did you know that Captain Dent had given orders to have me k*lled? CALDWELL: (Feigning disinterest.) No. DOCTOR: Or that they'd taken Jo Grant prisoner and may k*ll her? CALDWELL: Look, Dent's just bluffing to...to scare you into keeping quiet. (The DOCTOR leans forward and switches CALDWELL'S rock probe off. The miner looks exasperated.) DOCTOR: Tomorrow morning, the colonists are going to att*ck your spaceship. (CALDWELL looks closely at the DOCTOR upon hearing this news.) CALDWELL: Then you'd better stop them. The guards will mow them down. DOCTOR: I know. That's why I'm here. There's something that you can do to help me. CALDWELL: What? DOCTOR: Release Jo Grant before the att*ck starts. (CALDWELL sighs...) CALDWELL: All right, I'll do what I can. But you'd better stop that att*ck, Doctor. It won't be battle - it'll be a slaughter. 25: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM (The next morning, MORGAN winds a small tape recorder back and then plays the tape.) VOICE ON TAPE: Your message received from Captain Dent. Confirm an adjudicator is in your present galactic sector and is now on his way. Message ends. (DENT enters the room.) MORGAN: Message from Earth control. An adjudicator's on his way. DENT: Did they say who? MORGAN: No. DENT: Doesn't matter. Allen's still guarding the girl? (CALDWELL enters the room.) MORGAN: Yes, but I'd better send someone to relieve him. CALDWELL: Never mind about relieving that guard, Morgan. You just have the girl brought back here. (DENT looks coldly at the man in surprise.) DENT: What are you talking about? CALDWELL: Now you heard me - have her brought back! DENT: You're not in command of this ship. CALDWELL: I'm in command of the mining operation. If the girl isn't brought back, the survey stops. DENT: You'd be breaking your contract. CALDWELL: You'd have to explain to head office. DENT: (To MORGAN.) Have her brought back. (DENT sits at his desk and starts work as MORGAN goes over to the radio set.) DENT: Caldwell, you've just committed professional su1c1de. (CALDWELL turns away.) 26: INT. PRIMITIVE RUIN (JO lies asleep on the floor, again chained to the b*mb. ALLEN bends down, wakes her and starts to release her.) ALLEN: Come on. You're going back to the spaceship. JO: Why? What for? (ALLEN pulls her to her feet.) ALLEN: I'm just obeying orders. Get a move on. (As they are about to walk out, three Primitives walk in through one of the strangely shaped triangular doors in the walls of the ruin which leads to another room. One of them has a spear, the second a Kn*fe. ALLEN pulls out a g*n.) JO: Don't sh**t! (But ALLEN sh**t the Primitive with the spear. The second throws his Kn*fe hitting ALLEN in the chest. JO screams. The two Primitives surround the frightened young girl.) 27: INT. MAIN DOME. ASHE'S OFFICE (This time it is WINTON who sits in ASHE'S chair as he convenes a planning meeting of the colonists prior to the att*ck. An angry DOCTOR tries to reason with him.) DOCTOR: You make a frontal att*ck like that, and Dent'll blast you down without a second's thought! WINTON: (Wearily.) We've got them outnumbered. DOCTOR: What difference does that make?! That ship is like a fortress and the men are trained! By the time the adjudicator arrives...well, he will have k*lled them all and claimed it was self-defense. (WINTON stands.) WINTON: Now look, Doctor, we're going to att*ck this morning and that's final! DOCTOR: (Quietly.) I see. Well, you leave me no alternative. If I can't stop you, I must help you. WINTON: (Suspiciously.) Oh yes - how? DOCTOR: By giving you a piece of good advice - unless you want IMC warned, I'd keep a very close watch of our friend Norton. (The colonists look at each other in surprise.) WINTON: And secondly? DOCTOR: By helping you devise a less idiot plan of att*ck! 28: EXT. IMC ROCKET (LONG and another IMC man stand guard at the entrance to the rocket. MARY ASHE walks innocently up to them.) LONG: Where do you think you're going? MARY ASHE: I believe you've got a friend of mine in there. LONG: Well, we wouldn't know about that. (Distracted, the two men don't see the DOCTOR and WINTON edging round the base of the rocket.) MARY ASHE: But I was told she was here. I was expecting to meet her. LONG: This in an IMC ship - there are none of your people in here. (The DOCTOR and WINTON are able to sneak up behind the two IMC men. The DOCTOR taps LONG on the shoulder.) DOCTOR: Excuse me... LONG: What the...? (The DOCTOR and WINTON chop and club the two men to the ground. The DOCTOR puts the finishing touch to LONG with a finger hold to a neck nerve. They drag the two men away watched by a delighted MARY ASHE.) 29: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM (CALDWELL stands over DENT as he tried to contact ALLEN.) DENT: (Into microphone.) Captain Dent to security guard Allen, come in please and report your position. (The only reply is static.) 30: INT. PRIMITIVE RUIN (ALLEN lies on the floor of the ruin. DENT'S voice comes over the radio held in the d*ad man's hands.) DENT: (OOV: Over radio.) This is Captain Dent to security guard Allen, do you read me? 31: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM DENT: (Puzzled.) I can't raise him. CALDWELL: (Angrily.) Come on, Dent, where's that girl? DENT: The receiver's on and working...but he's not answering. 32: INT. IMC ROCKET. CORRIDOR (MORGAN walks down a corridor deep in thought. He passes two unfamiliar IMC guards - the DOCTOR and WINTON dressed in the IMC tunics. MORGAN stops and turns, but not before the DOCTOR has a chance to dive down a side corridor. MORGAN calls out to WINTON.) MORGAN: Hey! You! (He pulls out a g*n.) MORGAN: Come here! (The two men walk towards each other. From the side passage, the DOCTOR karate kicks the g*n out of MORGAN'S hand. The miner lunges out and manages to press a button and the ship echoes to an electronic alarm. The DOCTOR and WINTON grab MORGAN and pull him away as two armed IMC men run into the corridor, however two similarly armed colonists appear at the near end of the corridor and a g*n battle erupts. The colonists are the victors. In the side corridor, WINTON holds MORGAN'S g*n to his neck.) WINTON: All right, the control room! Move! (They pull him away.) 33: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM (Hearing the alarm, DENT speaks into the ship's communication system while CALDWELL watches.) DENT: (Into microphone.) Captain Dent to security section, what's going on? Report immediately. (The door to the room slides open and MORGAN is led in by the DOCTOR and WINTON.) WINTON: I'm afraid your guards are rather busy, Captain! (Leaving MORGAN to WINTON, the DOCTOR strides over to the Captain.) DOCTOR: All right, Dent, where's Jo Grant? (DENT switches off the alarm.) DENT: She's vanished, Doctor. I can't contact her guard. (The room starts to fill with colonists. The DOCTOR turns to CALDWELL.) DOCTOR: Is this true? CALDWELL: I think so. (The DOCTOR turns to WINTON.) DOCTOR: I'll leave them to you. (He leaves. WINTON walks over to DENT, g*n raised.) DENT: You know this is an act of piracy punishable by death under interplanetary law? WINTON: Never mind the speeches, Captain. Order your guards to surrender - now. 34: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (Back in the dome, the DOCTOR discards his IMC uniform helped by ASHE.) DOCTOR: All I can do is go down to those Primitive ruins and start searching from there. ASHE: I know where they are, Doctor. I'll take you there. DOCTOR: Good. Well, Winton seems to have seized control. I only hope he can keep it. ASHE: Quite so. DOCTOR: We've got to find out what's happening in those Primitive ruins - and where they've taken Jo. 35: INT. PRIMITIVE RUIN (The DOCTOR and ASHE reach the Primitive ruin. The DOCTOR examines ALLEN and finds out that he is d*ad.) DOCTOR: Err, seems as if the Primitives are no longer friendly. ASHE: Well, what do you expect? Norton k*lled one. DOCTOR: Yes, and Morgan tried to k*ll another. Where would the Primitives have taken Jo - to their city? ASHE: I'm afraid so. DOCTOR: Afraid? ASHE: In the early days, one or two of our people went down there. There were rumors of creatures that lived in the ruins. DOCTOR: Well, did they find them? ASHE: We don't know - they never came back. 36: EXT. PRIMITIVE CITY ENTRANCE (JO is led down a small gully by four Primitives. One of them goes up to a rock wall and gestures to the others. A door in the rock creaks open, revealing an entrance. JO is led into it.) 37: INT. PRIMITIVE CITY. ENTRANCE PASSAGE (Inside the darkened interior, JO looks round in fear as the door closes behind the group.)
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COLONY IN SPACE BY: MALCOLM HULKE EPISODE FOUR Original Air Date: 1 May, 1971 6:10pm - 6:35pm 1: EXT. PRIMITIVE CITY ENTRANCE (JO is led down a small gully by four Primitives. One of them goes up to a rock wall and gestures to the others. A door in the rock creaks open revealing an entrance. JO is led into it.) 2: INT. PRIMITIVE CITY. ENTRANCE PASSAGE (Inside the darkened interior, JO looks round in fear as the door closes behind the group.) 3: INT. PRIMITIVE RUIN DOCTOR: My dear Ashe, if the Primitives have taken Jo to their city, I must go after her. (The DOCTOR heads for the door.) ASHE: And get yourself k*lled - or captured too? (The DOCTOR turns in the doorway.) DOCTOR: (Angrily.) What else can I do? ASHE: Well, you may be able to buy her back. DOCTOR: What? ASHE: Well, from time to time they capture someone and trade them for food. With luck, they should be along soon to offer her back. DOCTOR: Well, I can't just sit here and wait! In any case, I haven't got any food to offer them. ASHE: Well, you don't have to worry about that. We've got plenty of food. DOCTOR: But you're running short! ASHE: All right, if you're determined to go on alone, tell them I'll pay the ransom. I think they trust me. DOCTOR: Thank you. (The DOCTOR is about to leave when the two men suddenly hear the whine of a rocket. They run to the hole in the wall and look out.) 4: EXT. PRIMITIVE RUIN ASHE: It must be the Adjudicator! 5: EXT. UXARIEUS (Above them a red rocket, shaped rather like a fighter aircraft flies overhead. It crosses over a range of hills, swings on its axis until it points to the sky and lowers to the ground in a cloud of displaced dust.) 6: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM (DENT and his crew are still held at g*n by the colonists.) DENT: You're simply making this worse for yourselves. (WINTON is using a crowbar to get into a locked cupboard.) WINTON: Well, you think so? DENT: You heard that ship land. What sort of impression will this make on the...Adjudicator? (DENT falters as WINTON succeeds in getting into the cupboard. He pulls out a small device rather like a camera.) WINTON: What's this? DENT: A very delicate piece of equipment. Leave it alone! (WINTON takes the cap off a lens.) WINTON: Some kind of projector! DENT: An item of Caldwell's survey equipment, isn't it, Caldwell? CALDWELL: Yes, that's right. WINTON: They why lock it away? (He switches the device on. The Lizard that was seen outside the Leeson's dome appears as a shimmering image on the far wall, accompanied by a series of low growls.) WINTON: Optical trickery! (He switches it off.) CALDWELL: It was only meant to scare you away. There was no need for anyone to be k*lled. DENT: Shut up, Caldwell. (WINTON reaches back into the cupboard and pulls out one of the huge "monster" claws that was attached to the IMC robot.) WINTON: Well, Captain Dent, I wonder how this will look to the Adjudicator? 7: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (ASHE runs into the dome and into the wire pen where the radio set is. MARY is on the radio speaking to the Adjudicator. The signal is heavy with static.) ADJUDICATOR: (OOV: Over radio.) Are both parties to the dispute assembled? MARY ASHE: (Into radio.) Well, er, not exactly, sir. ADJUDICATOR: (OOV: Over radio.) Surely you were advised of my arrival? (MARY puts her hand over the microphone and speaks urgently to her father.) MARY ASHE: It's the adjudicator calling from his ship. (ASHE signals to MARY who jumps out of the seat and hands the headphones to ASHE.) ADJUDICATOR: (OOV: Over radio.) Will you answer my question please? ASHE: (Into radio.) Er, this is Robert Ashe, sir. I am the leader of the colonists. ADJUDICATOR: (OOV: Over radio.) Good, now I require both parties to the dispute to be assembled as quickly as possible. ASHE: (Into radio.) But things have become rather confused, sir. The situation... ADJUDICATOR: (OOV: Over radio, interrupting.) I have no desire to discuss that before the inquiry. Kindly let me know when you're all ready. (There is a buzzing sound as the radio cuts out. MARY switches the set off for her father.) ASHE: I'd better tell Winton to get those IMC men over here. This is going to look very bad to the Adjudicator. MARY ASHE: Why? ASHE: Well, we've become the aggressors now. It may prejudice our case. MARY ASHE: Did you find Jo? ASHE: We found where they've been keeping her. It looks as though the Primitives have got her. 8: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. PASSAGE (JO is pulled along a passage by one of her captors. Another follows. The passage is in semi-darkness and is a strange mixture of hewn black rock and overhead mechanical supports which contain electronic devices within. JO is taken up to a doorway. The shape of the doorframe is the same as in the Primitive ruin but the door itself is rock illuminated by a glowing internal orange light. It opens with a rushing sound.) 9: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. ARCHIVE ROOM (JO is pushed inside. The room is hewn out of the same black rock. Within is a being smaller in height than JO. It faces the wall and is dressed in a long white cloak and a large collar which rises high above the head. Both are adorned with silver braid. JO stares at the back of the creature which slowly turns and faces her. Its face is pale with no discernable colour. The top of the head has ridges which resemble the patterning of a brain. Large black eyelids almost totally obscure a small pair of eyes. The lower lip protrudes outwards over the upper lip. JO screams.) 10: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM (DENT, CALDWELL and MORGAN are still held at g*n. WINTON is on the radio to ASHE.) WINTON: (Into radio.) What's the point in bringing over the prisoners? We'll bring the evidence. That should be enough for the Adjudicator. 11: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (MARY stands next to an agitated ASHE.) ASHE: (Into radio.) The Adjudicator insists that all parties should be brought together. We've got to do this legally, Winton. 12: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM WINTON: (Into radio, reluctantly.) Very well. We'll be over in a few minutes. (To the colonist guards.) Untie them. (The IMC men are released. Another bearded colonist - ALEC LEESON - enters the room, a r*fle in his hands.) ALEC LEESON: The guards have been disarmed and locked in their quarters. (He sees the "monster" claw and the projector.) ALEC LEESON: What are those for? WINTON: They used those to fake the monsters. That's the evidence we need. (LEESON points angrily at DENT and his men.) ALEC LEESON: Why have they been untied? WINTON: They're being handed over to the adjudicator. ALEC LEESON: No, we're not going to bother with the Adjudicator. (To MORGAN.) My name is Leeson. You m*rder my brother. (He points his g*n at him.) WINTON: Now Alec. MORGAN: (Nervously.) But...but Dent's the k*ller - not me. I mean, he's k*lled colonists on other planets. DENT: Shut up, Morgan. MORGAN: (Shouts.) Now look, I've got all the proof you need! (He gestures to DENT.) MORGAN: He m*rder the Leesons. (LEESON points his r*fle at DENT. WINTON jumps forward and grabs it.) WINTON: Take it easy, Alec! (WINTON himself points the r*fle at MORGAN.) WINTON: All right, where is your proof? (MORGAN points at DENT'S desk.) MORGAN: There's a secret compartment. WINTON: Well open it! (MORGAN goes over to the desk followed by WINTON.) CALDWELL: (To DENT.) Is he telling the truth, Dent? How many other killings have there been? DENT: I thought you didn't want to know about that sort of thing? Morgan! (MORGAN has opened the drawer and, unseen by WINTON, has his hands on a g*n. DENT jumps forward to distract WINTON.) DENT: I'm warning you, Morgan! (The ruse works. WINTON turns and points the r*fle at DENT.) WINTON: Now you be quiet! (MORGAN uses the distraction and jabs the g*n into the back of WINTON'S head.) MORGAN: Drop your g*n - or he's d*ad! (DENT takes the r*fle off WINTON and points it at the other colonists. He allows a small smile to appear on his face.) DENT: You'll release my security guards. 13: EXT. PRIMITIVE CITY ENTRANCE (The DOCTOR slowly walks into the same gully that JO was taken into previously. He walks cautiously, following the tracks in the ground. He suddenly catches sight of the closed entrance in the rock and walks over to examine it. He hears a noise behind him and turns. Four spear-armed Primitives are facing him.) DOCTOR: I've, er, I've come to bring back the girl. Well, Ashe will come and give you food if you come and return her. (The four Primitives stare impassively at him.) DOCTOR: Look, I know you can understand me. You can read my mind. I've come to buy back the girl! (One of the PRIMITIVES approaches and stares at the closed rock door. It glances at its companions and then back at the door which creaks open.) DOCTOR: Thank you. (He approaches the entrance.) 14: EXT. MAIN DOME (The Adjudicator walks up to the dome entrance. He wears a long black cloak and an imposing collar that completely covers his shoulders and rise up high behind his head, obscuring his face. ASHE and his daughter await him and bow to him as he approaches. The Adjudicator gives a slight bow of return.) ASHE: A great honour to meet you, Adjudicator. I am Robert Ashe and this is my daughter, Mary. We've done the best we can, er, the...rest will be here shortly. (He gestures to the entrance hall and the Adjudicator sweeps past them. ASHE speaks urgently to MARY.) ASHE: Get onto the radio! Find out why the others aren't here! MARY ASHE: All right. Have you told him the IMC people are prisoners? ASHE: No, not yet. I'll have a go now. 15: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (The two walk inside, MARY to the radio set and ASHE to their new visitor. The Adjudicators visage is revealed - it is the MASTER!) 16: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. ARCHIVE ROOM (JO waits patiently alone in the same room that she was previously brought into. The door opens and the DOCTOR walks in. She rushes up to him and hugs him. He kisses her forehead.) JO: Doctor! Oh, I'm so pleased to see you! I didn't think I'd see you again! DOCTOR: It's all right, Jo, it's all right, I'm here now. (Behind him the door closes on the PRIMITIVE waiting in the corridor. The DOCTOR rushes up to the door.) DOCTOR: Wait, wait! We must talk! JO: He's probably gone to get the other one. DOCTOR: (Puzzled.) What other one? JO: There's some sort of creature that seems to be in charge of them. DOCTOR: Is it humanoid? JO: No, not really. DOCTOR: Well, that's interesting. There must be two races on this planet. JO: Well never mind that! How are we going to get out of here? DOCTOR: Don't you worry about that, my dear. I'm gonna buy you back! JO: Buy me back? DOCTOR: That's right, just a simple business transaction. (He looks over their surroundings. Various pieces of machinery adorn the room.) DOCTOR: You know, judging by the room and this machinery, it could have been a highly advanced civilisation. JO: Then what happened to it? DOCTOR: It went into a decline. You know, these Primitives could be descendants of a tremendously advanced race. JO: That's just what I was thinking. Come take a look at this. (JO leads him to the left-hand side of the room on which a series of pictograms have been painted on a series of glass frames.) DOCTOR: Well, it's extraordinary. A sort of chronicle, history. Buildings, cities, machines...well, they even invented flight. (JO walks along several paces to a part of the frieze which displays d*ad and falling bodies.) JO: What happened here? DOCTOR: Mmm? (He joins her.) DOCTOR: Oh...buildings in ruins, people lying d*ad. Mmm, some great catastrophe, I should think. After that everything changes. (He looks further along to a part of the frieze which shows four figures holding a fifth aloft and putting it towards a bright hole in the wall - almost like a furnace.) DOCTOR: Yes, look at this, Jo. A completely different style and design. Much cruder, more primitive. JO: More recent too. DOCTOR: Mmm. JO: A man being...forced through a hatch. DOCTOR: It looks like some sort of sacrifice. (JO gasps in alarm. The DOCTOR sees this and leads her across the room to a piece of machinery in an effort to distract her.) DOCTOR: Jo, there - would you say that was some sort of time mechanism? (At that moment the door opens and the small being that JO saw earlier walks into the room accompanied by three Primitives. The DOCTOR is shocked but manages to retain his composure.) DOCTOR: How do you do? (The being looks closely at him then moves nearer to JO. She gasps and steps back.) DOCTOR: Don't move, Jo! I think he's almost blind. (The being moves back to the DOCTOR who speaks slowly and clearly to him.) DOCTOR: Er, I've come to take this young lady back. If you go to Ashe's dome, he will give you food. (The being moves over to the frieze. It stares intently at the final picture of the four figures putting the fifth into the furnace. It then moves to the Primitives, points to the DOCTOR and JO and then at the picture. The Primitives salute with their spears. The four creatures then leave the room without another movement.) JO: (Alarmed.) That picture he pointed to - it was the sacrifice! 17: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (Back at the dome, the tribunal is in session. The MASTER sits alone at one table. At right angles to this sit DENT, MORGAN and CALDWELL with more IMC men behind them. Facing the MASTER'S table is the one for the colonists where WINTON and MARY sit. ASHE is stood up between the colonists' table and that occupied by IMC, giving his evidence. NORTON stands behind him.) ASHE: Those sir, are the facts. The Interplanetary Mining Corporation has entered plan to drive us from this planet, which is rightfully ours. They've used v*olence and m*rder. MASTER: Do you have any proof to support these allegations? ASHE: There was proof. (WINTON stands.) WINTON: We found it on board their spaceship, the claws, the projection equipment - everything! MASTER: Can you produce this evidence? WINTON: They've destroyed it. MASTER: I see. (To ASHE.) Do you anything more to say? (He starts to return to his seat but WINTON blocks him.) ASHE: No sir. WINTON: Robert, you can't just leave it at that! What about the killings?! ASHE: (Angrily.) Look, leave it Winton! (ASHE returns to his seat. WINTON reluctantly does the same.) MASTER: Thank you. Right, I will now hear the statement from IMC. Captain Dent, please? (DENT stands with his papers in his hand and prepares to speak...) 18: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. ARCHIVE ROOM (The DOCTOR is still looking over the machinery in the room when the door enters and a lone-armed PRIMITIVE enters.) JO: Now what? DOCTOR: No idea. But if want to get out of here, we'd better distract him somehow. (The DOCTOR snaps his fingers to get the PRIMITIVE'S attention. He smiles, reaches into his trouser pocket and pulls out a coin. He holds it between the thumb and forefinger on his left hand and waves his right hand over it. He mimes an upward throw which the PRIMITIVE follows. The DOCTOR then pulls the coin from out of JO'S ear. The PRIMITIVE is thoroughly absorbed with the trick. The DOCTOR repeats the trick, upward throw and all but this time he taps the underside of his chin to show the PRIMITIVE the coin coming out of his mouth. The trick is repeated again but now the DOCTOR points behind the PRIMITIVE for the source of the disappeared coin. The PRIMITIVE looks round, JO grabs his spear and the DOCTOR chops him down with a blow to the back of the neck. The DOCTOR holds up a hand.) DOCTOR: After you, Miss Grant. JO: Thank you, Doctor. (They walk out into the corridor.) 19: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. PASSAGE (JO starts to head in one direction but the DOCTOR pulls her back the other way. They have hardly gone a few paces when the smaller being - the ALIEN PRIEST - appears at the end of the passage. It turns until it faces the two fugitives and then carries on turning as if it had not caught sight of them. JO uses the opportunity and tries to make a run for it but again the DOCTOR stops her.) DOCTOR: (Whispers.) Jo, I don't think he can see us. Come on. (They stealthily make their way to a side passage and press themselves against the darkened wall. Across the passage can be seen an opening with a large hall of machinery beyond. The ALIEN PRIEST is joined by two others of its kind and four Primitives who proceed down the passage back towards the archive room.) JO: Where are they going? DOCTOR: Let's not wait to find out. (They run off down the side passage.) 20: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. ARCHIVE ROOM (The alien procession reaches the archive room. The lead ALIEN PRIEST almost walks into the unconscious PRIMITIVE on the floor. It reaches down to touch him, realises what has happened and gestures to the Primitives to give chase.) 21: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. PASSAGE (JO and the DOCTOR slowly walk into a main passage and look around uncertainly. JO points in one direction.) JO: I think they brought us in this way. (They turn to see a Primitive appear at the end of the passage. They run off and the creature gives chase followed by four more of its kind.) 22: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. ANOTHER PASSAGE (The DOCTOR and JO run down a slim passage whose floor is sectioned off by buttresses. They jump over these and realise that they have reached a d*ad end. They turn back a short way and take a side passage as the Primitives continue the pursuit.) 23: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. PASSAGE (The DOCTOR and JO run into two ALIEN PRIESTS. They turn back but the armed Primitives stand in their way. The escapees give up.) DOCTOR: Checkmate, I'm afraid, Miss Grant. (One of the ALIEN PRIESTS gestures dramatically in one direction and the DOCTOR and JO are led off that way.) 24: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. CONTROL ROOM (An illuminated door opens onto another room and an ALIEN PRIEST leads the DOCTOR and JO in with another following. This room is different to another other part of the city. The walls are made of metal, not hewn rock, and it is well lit. A bank of machinery stands to one side. Columns of pulsing light on the walls and a constant humming sound show that the room is filled with power. One of the ALIEN PRIESTS goes to a double hatch at floor level which sits beneath a panel which appears to be made of the same material as the doors. The PRIEST opens the hatch and a blinding light floods out.) JO: What is that thing? DOCTOR: It's like a reactor. (Two Primitives stand behind the DOCTOR and JO and start to push them towards the hatch. JO realises what is happening...) JO: It's like that picture! I think they're going to sacrifice us! (Suddenly above the hatch, the panel starts to slide upwards. Beyond, in an alcove, is revealed another being. Its face is similar to that of the PRIESTS but its body and limbs are short and stunted - as if it is almost all brain with no need for body. It sits in a small metal chair from out of which pure rock stalagmites seem to grow. With a hum, the whole structure moves out from the alcove. The DOCTOR and JO stand in amazement as the creature speaks to them in a high pitched warbling voice.) GUARDIAN: My city is forbidden. Why have you come here? JO: (Nervously.) I was brought here. GUARDIAN: (To the DOCTOR.) And you? DOCTOR: I came to take her back. GUARDIAN: All intruders in the city must die. That is the law. (The DOCTOR looks nervous.) DOCTOR: We have no wish to offend your laws. The race that built this city were intelligent, civilised. They wouldn't condemn the innocent. GUARDIAN: The law must obeyed! DOCTOR: Surely the basis of all true law is justice. Look, we...we're both strangers to your planet. The girl was brought here by your warriors as a c*ptive! All we ask is to be allowed to leave in peace. GUARDIAN: (Considered.) I sense...that you are a being of...superior intelligence. And, although the creature with you is of no value, I will let you both go. (The DOCTOR and JO look at each other and then glance at their Primitive captors. They head for the door but stop as the GUARDIAN speaks again...) GUARDIAN: But...remember this - if you ever return, you will be destroyed. DOCTOR: Thank you sir. And may I say that I'm overjoyed to find that justice prevails in your city. (They walk out, followed by their Primitive escorts. The air shimmers with heat as the GUARDIAN'S chair retreats back into its alcove and the panel slides shut.) 25: EXT. PRIMITIVE CITY ENTRANCE (The rock door entrance to the city creaks open and the DOCTOR leaves first, then giving JO a hand to step outside. As they walk away, the door creaks shut again.) JO: Doctor, what was that thing that saved us? DOCTOR: Well, it was a being of tremendous intelligence, probably one of the rulers of this city. (To himself.) Three different races or three mutations of the same race? JO: Come on, Doctor. This is no time for philosophising. DOCTOR: (Smiles.) Yes. You're quite right. Let's get back to the space dome. (They walk off back to the dome.) 26: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (The MASTER addresses the tribunal...) MASTER: Right. Well, I have now heard the statements from both sides. I think you should know that on my way here I contacted Earth and had a check made of planetary records. Now obviously, an error has occurred. (ASHE and WINTON exchange a look.) MASTER: A faulty computer on Earth has allocated this planet both for colonisation and for mineralogical exploitation. It will therefore be my duty to judge this case upon its merits. (At that moment, the DOCTOR and JO enter the dome. They halt, stunned, as they see the figure sat across the room.) JO: It's the Master! (The "Adjudicator" looks thrown for the first time since his arrival. He coughs nervously and continues, although somewhat speedily to try and bring matters to an early conclusion...) MASTER: Since however the issues are, er, extremely complicated, I shall need time to consider my decision. This tribunal stands adjourned. (The MASTER stands and walks into the pen where the radio set is held. Naturally, the DOCTOR is hot on his heels. JO stands in the doorway and watches proceedings.) DOCTOR: And why are you impersonating the adjudicator? MASTER: My dear Doctor, I am the adjudicator! DOCTOR: Rubbish! MASTER: What are you doing here anyway? Did the Time Lords send you? DOCTOR: Nobody sends me anywhere. I'm a free agent. MASTER: So you've at last succeeded in escaping from your long exile on Earth. Congratulations. What are your plans now? DOCTOR: Well, my immediate plans are to expose you as an imposter! MASTER: That would be very foolish of you. My credentials are immaculate. DOCTOR: Forged, of course. MASTER: Of course! But...immaculate. May I see your credentials, Doctor? DOCTOR: Don't be absurd. MASTER: What? No interplanetary travel permit? (The MASTER holds up his own plastic card permit.) MASTER: No registration for your TARDIS? (His own is again displayed. The MASTER smiles as he sees the DOCTOR starting to feel uncomfortable.) MASTER: No personal identification? DOCTOR: Bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo! MASTER: Maybe, but in this regimented age of ours, essential. (The MASTER holds up his wallet of cards.) MASTER: Without these, my dear Doctor, you do not exist. I could have you sent back to Earth as a prisoner. DOCTOR: Oh, is that what you plan to do? MASTER: Not, not unless you force my hand. I think you'd be well advised to keep silent - for both our sakes? Now if you'll excuse me. (The MASTER walks out of the pen. The colonists and IMC men return to their places.) MASTER: The tribunal will reconvene. (He sits at his own place and the attendees at the tribunal take their cues from him and also sit. The DOCTOR and JO watch from the pen.) MASTER: Well, I have had time carefully to consider the statements that have been put before me. On the one hand, while I have...every sympathy with the aspirations of the colonists, there can be little doubt that their...their stay here is not proving a success. (ASHE and WINTON look concerned.) MASTER: On the other hand, we have this planet, rich in duralinium - a mineral that is much needed on Earth. I therefore have no alternative but to rule that colonisation on this planet is unsuitable and the settlers will leave here as soon as possible. (ASHE looks devastated...) 27: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM (The IMC men relax and celebrate with glasses of wine. They are slightly drunk on both their victory and the wine. CALDWELL has a grin on his face and the normally correct DENT slumps back in his seat. MORGAN sits of the edge of DENT'S desk.) CALDWELL: I still can't understand how we got away with it. DENT: The adjudicator was a sensible man. CALDWELL: He bent over backwards to help us and you know it! (MORGAN goes over to CALDWELL. He is impatient but, for him, good-natured.) MORGAN: Caldwell! We don't have to worry about it any more! From now on, this planet belongs to IMC. CALDWELL: And what happens if the colonists refuse to accept the decision? DENT: Then they'll be rebels - and we know how to deal with rebels - don't we Morgan? (In reply, MORGAN looks at DENT.) 28: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (ASHE and several colonists are consulting a book of law. WINTON paces the entrance hall, furious in thought. NORTON is with him, silkily trying to persuade him to see "reason".) NORTON: Look, be better for all of you to go before you get into more trouble. WINTON: (Coldly.) You're very keen for us to give in aren't you, Norton? (NORTON walks off. ASHE finishes his investigations.) ASHE: According to interplanetary law, we can appeal. WINTON: (Angrily.) What good will that do? By the time it's all decided, this planet will be gutted! ASHE: (Also angry.) The decision went against us because you made us look like criminals! Now what do you want to do now? WINTON: Capture the IMC men, disarm them and get them off this planet! ASHE: And once we've been classified as outlaws, what then? WINTON: Then declare ourselves an independent republic! Break with Earth altogether! ASHE: I absolutely forbid it! WINTON: I don't think you're in any position to do that. (WINTON turns his back on him. ASHE goes over to him and speaks quietly. NORTON watches.) ASHE: David, you've used v*olence once and we're worse off now than we were before. Now just give me a chance to use legal methods. (WINTON thinks, then...) WINTON: I'm sorry Robert. (ASHE nods and walks off quietly into the radio pen.) WINTON: (To himself.) Believe me, I really am sorry. (In the pen, ASHE finds the DOCTOR and JO. He is somewhat despondent.) ASHE: They're planning another att*ck. DOCTOR: Winton again? ASHE: I've got to talk to the adjudicator! We've got to appeal! (He walks off.) JO: Why don't you tell them about the Master? DOCTOR: I can't Jo, he wouldn't understand. JO: Well, we've got to do something. DOCTOR: (Thinks.) Yes, well, the Master came to this planet for a purpose, Jo. I'd like to hear what he has to say when Ashe goes to see him. (He walks off to carry out his plan.) 29: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM (MORGAN is still drinking. A buzzer sounds from the radio set and he goes over the room to answer it. DENT is almost asleep.) MORGAN: (Into microphone.) IMC control? (WINTON'S voice comes over the radio but is heavily disguised by static...) WINTON: (OOV: Over radio.) This is the adjudicator. I have received an emergency call and am preparing to leave this planet immediately. I wish to see Captain Dent at once. (DENT struggles to sit up and takes the microphone.) DENT: (Into microphone.) This is Captain Dent. Shall I come to your ship? WINTON: (OOV: Over radio.) You and your officers are to report... (The static gets worse and breaks up the message.) DENT: (Into microphone.) I do not read you. Reception is very poor. Please repeat. WINTON: (OOV: Over radio.) I repeat: your and your officers are to report to the main dome immediately. This settlement is to be ratified in the presence of all parties. (DENT clutches his head.) DENT: (Into microphone.) Very well, adjudicator. 30: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (WINTON gets up from the radio set. He is watched by MARY ASHE, NORTON and ALEC LEESON.) ALEC LEESON: Do you think you've fooled them? WINTON: Well, we shall soon find out. (He walks away to prepare.) 31: INT. MAIN DOME. DINING HALL (The DOCTOR and JO enter the dining hall which is next to ASHE'S office. From through the walls come the faint sound of ASHE and the MASTER in conversation. The DOCTOR takes a device out of his pocket which has two earpieces and a flat round metal microphone. He and JO don an earpiece each and the DOCTOR places the microphone against the wall. Immediately, the voices from ASHE'S office come through loud and clear.) MASTER: (OOV: In office.) ...Anyway, Earth is crying out for minerals. 32: INT. MAIN DOME. ASHE'S OFFICE (Within the MASTER has changed out of his Adjudicator's robes and is now dressed in his normal collarless suit. He is going through his papers as ASHE talks to him.) ASHE: Then you think an appeal would fail? MASTER: I do. Unless of course there were some...special circumstances. ASHE: (Eagerly.) Such as? 33: INT. MAIN DOME. DINING HALL (The DOCTOR and JO continue to eavesdrop.) MASTER: (OOV: In office.) Well, a claim to unusual historical interest, for instance. ASHE: (OOV: In office.) Well, this is a very old planet. We know there was once a very great civilization here. 34: INT. MAIN DOME. ASHE'S OFFICE (The MASTER shows interest in this statement...) MASTER: Indeed? Tell me, did they leave any traces? (The MASTER walks away from ASHE.) ASHE: There's a ruined city not far from here. MASTER: That's very interesting. Tell me more about it... (The MASTER'S attitude betrays his true interest...) 35: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (The male colonists are gathered and armed. WINTON is giving them instructions...) WINTON: You two men - up there on the gantry. You two'd better get there behind the steps. (Two men run up some metal steps to the gantry. Below them, the other two men get into hiding. WINTON, stood with ALEC LEESON, looks round.) WINTON: Now where's Norton? ALEC LEESON: No idea. WINTON: That Doctor said we should keep an eye on him. ALEC LEESON: I'll go and look for him. (LEESON goes off.) WINTON: Right, is everybody ready? They'll be here in a few minutes. 36: INT. MAIN DOME. POWER ROOM (In the power room, NORTON takes his radio out and starts speaking into it unaware that LEESON is walking into the room.) NORTON: (Into radio.) Norton to IMC spaceship... ALEC LEESON: Norton! Winton wants you in the main area! (LEESON walks forward as NORTON coolly lowers the radio.) ALEC LEESON: That's an IMC ra... (He stops as he realises that something is up. He walks towards NORTON, g*n raised.) ALEC LEESON: What the devil are you up to? (NORTON jumps and wrestles LEESON to the ground. There is a sh*t. The radio lies broken on the ground. A hand reaches out towards it - it is NORTON and LEESON lies d*ad. NORTON sees that the radio is useless. He takes LEESON'S g*n and leaves the room.) 37: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (WINTON comes down the steps as NORTON runs in.) WINTON: Where's Alec? NORTON: I don't know. WINTON: All right, Norton. Get up there. (He points up the stairs and NORTON runs up. An armed colonist runs in and whispers to WINTON. They both duck into hiding and the rest of the colonists do the same. They all wait with their r*fles raised. After a tense moment, MORGAN, DENT, CALDWELL and the other IMC men walk into the dome. Suddenly, their "inside" man calls out.) NORTON: (Shouts.) Look out! It's a trap! (NORTON turns LEESON'S g*n on the colonists below him but WINTON aims his r*fle and sh**t him d*ad with one sh*t.) MORGAN: (Shouts.) Take cover! (The IMC men dive for the safety of some packing cases and f*ring commences. The room is filled with the sound of sh*ts and it is a colonist on the staircase who is the first to fall. Several sh*ts from WINTON avenges him as an IMC man falls. CALDWELL, stood to one side of the entrance door, is the only one not f*ring. As the battle continues, the DOCTOR and JO run out of the dining hall and into the safety of the radio pen. The DOCTOR directs JO to stand behind the door of the pen.) DOCTOR: You stay here! I've got to try and stop this senseless k*lling! (The MASTER steps forward, a g*n in his hand. The DOCTOR and JO jump at the sound of his voice.) MASTER: It won't do any good, Doctor. They won't listen to you. It's always the innocent bystander who suffers eventually. DOCTOR: What's that supposed to mean? MASTER: I'm afraid you're both about to become the victims of stray b*ll*ts! (His raises his g*n and points it at the defenceless pair.)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "08x18 - Colony in Space - part 4"}
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COLONY IN SPACE BY: MALCOLM HULKE EPISODE FIVE Original Air Date: 8 May, 1971 6:10pm - 6:35pm 1: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL MORGAN: (Shouts.) Take cover! (The IMC men dive for the safety of some packing cases and f*ring commences. The room is filled with the sound of sh*ts and it is a colonist on the staircase who is the first to fall. Several sh*ts from WINTON avenges him as an IMC man falls. CALDWELL, stood to one side of the entrance door, is the only one not f*ring. WINTON suddenly retreats from the battle and moves towards the back of the dome, intent on some new purpose. As the battle continues, the DOCTOR and JO run out of the dining hall and into the safety of the radio pen. The DOCTOR directs JO to stand behind the door of the pen.) DOCTOR: Now you stay here! I've got to try and stop this senseless k*lling somehow! (The MASTER steps forward, a g*n in his hand. The DOCTOR and JO jump at the sound of his voice.) MASTER: It won't do any good, Doctor. They just won't listen to you. It's always the innocent bystanders who suffer. DOCTOR: And what's that supposed to mean? MASTER: I'm afraid you're both about to become the victims of stray b*ll*ts! (His raises his g*n and points it at the defenseless pair but ASHE suddenly appears outside the doorway to the pen.) ASHE: Winton! Winton! (The MASTER quickly drops his g*n to his side as ASHE spots him and runs into the pen.) ASHE: (To the MASTER.) You've got to stop this! DOCTOR: I agree. Don't you agree, Adjudicator? ASHE: You must do something. (Meanwhile, WINTON has made his way out of a back entrance to the dome and now appears in the main doorway behind DENT. He places his r*fle against DENT'S back.) WINTON: Tell your men to surrender. (DENT hesitates.) WINTON: Tell them! (DENT drops his own g*n and raises his hands.) DENT: Drop your g*n! (The IMC men follow his example and stand with hands raised. The colonists step forward and collect their w*apon.) 2: EXT. MAIN DOME WINTON: Now take them away and keep them under guard. (The colonists start to lead the IMC men into the dome.) COLONIST: Move! (WINTON is left with one colonist.) WINTON: Right, take some men. Get over to the IMC spaceship and lock the rest of the crew in their quarters. (The man nods and runs off out away from the dome.) 3: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (The DOCTOR and his party emerge from the radio pen. JO and MARY look over the d*ad and wounded who remain.) JO: Let's go and see if we can help with the wounded. MARY ASHE: Okay. (They run off as WINTON walks in triumph up to ASHE, the DOCTOR and the MASTER.) WINTON: Well, we've done it. ASHE: You've made us look like criminals! You do realize that, don't you? DOCTOR: You seem to have achieved a temporary victory, young man. What do you think is gonna happen next? WINTON: Now we declare this planet's independence. I'm sure that some people from Earth would want to join us. MASTER: (Contemptuously.) What, join you in starvation on this miserable planet? (WINTON and another COLONIST with him look at the MASTER with indignation.) WINTON: We no longer need your services here, sir. (To the colonist.) Escort the Adjudicator back to his spaceship. (The COLONIST nods and steps forward but...) MASTER: I think you do need my services. WINTON: Why? MASTER: Unless you want Earth to send a space fleet to wipe you out, you need someone to adjudicate for you. ASHE: Then you are willing to help us? MASTER: Yes, I am. (He steps towards an impassive looking WINTON with his full authoritative air back in place.) MASTER: Mind you, I think that you've acted very...foolishly, but...I've been impressed by your courage and determination. Now, Ashe and I have had what could be a very fruitful discussion. WINTON: What discussion? You'd already decided against us. MASTER: Well it appears that this planet of yours has some claim to preservation on the grounds of historical interest. Now, if I could investigate those claims, things could be very different. WINTON: Investigate? MASTER: Yes. I should like to go to the Primitive City. (The DOCTOR has heard enough. He speaks urgently to ASHE.) DOCTOR: I urge you not to trust this man - he's an imposter! ASHE: My dear Doctor, how can you possibly know that? DOCTOR: I tell you that he's not the Adjudicator! If he wants to go to the Primitive City, it's for some purpose of his own. (The MASTER turns to him.) MASTER: Can you substantiate these accusations? (The DOCTOR looks uncomfortable as he searches for an answer, then...) DOCTOR: Why don't you check his credentials with Earth? MASTER: Ah... (He steps up towards the DOCTOR.) MASTER: Talking of credentials, might we see yours? DOCTOR: Don't be absurd! MASTER: (To ASHE.) I understand this man is not one of your colonists? ASHE: Well, no, he just... "arrived" here. MASTER: Does anybody know who he is? Where he came from? Has he in fact given a proper account of himself? (ASHE and WINTON look at each other, their suspicions of the DOCTOR growing.) MASTER: Exactly. Well now, gentlemen, I think we can continue our discussion...uninterrupted. (He smiles and walks through the radio pen back towards ASHE'S office.) ASHE: I'm sorry, Doctor. (ASHE follows the MASTER. The DOCTOR goes up to WINTON as JO comes down the staircase.) DOCTOR: I repeat - do not trust that man! WINTON: Doctor, at present I have no reason to trust either of you. All I'm worried about is getting Dent and his friends off this planet. (WINTON walks off out of the dome. JO goes up to a pensive DOCTOR.) JO: Doctor, what's happening? DOCTOR: The Master has them eating out of his hand. JO: Did you tell them who he really was? DOCTOR: I tried to. JO: And they didn't believe you? DOCTOR: No, why should they? I've got to get some real evidence. JO: Huh, where do we find that? DOCTOR: In his TARDIS, perhaps? JO: I didn't see the Master's horse box here? DOCTOR: My dear Jo, a TARDIS can change its shape, you know. He changed his to look like the Adjudicator's spaceship. JO: How do we get in? (The DOCTOR holds up a key.) DOCTOR: With this. Don't you remember? When the Master first came to Earth, I got a hold of the key to his TARDIS. I always thought it might come in useful. (JO smiles.) 4: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM (The door to the control room opens and WINTON leads the IMC men in with other colonists escorting them from the back.) WINTON: Come on, move! COLONIST: In you go! Go on! In! WINTON: Right, you're leaving! Your arms and amm*nit*on are in our hands. Start getting ready for take-off. DENT: (Coldly.) And when we get back to Earth, I'll send a fleet to wipe you out. WINTON: Oh, don't be too sure. The adjudicator's changed his decision. He's on our side now. MORGAN: (Shouts.) You're lying! Why should he?! WINTON: You'll see. (Harshly.) Now get off this planet! (WINTON and his men walk out. CALDWELL has a barely concealed smile.) CALDWELL: Well, you seem to have lost this one, Dent. DENT: Not yet. Caldwell, go and release the guards. Morgan, contact Earth. I want a check on this Adjudicator - priority red-one. (MORGAN moves to the radio.) CALDWELL: Why? What's the use? DENT: I gave you an order, Caldwell. (CALDWELL, still smiling, moves off. The radio set bleeps before MORGAN can use it. He switches it in.) MORGAN: (Into radio.) IMC spaceship? WINTON: (OOV: Over radio.) By the way, Captain Dent, I've taken some expl*sive from your store and placed it under your ship. Unless you take off immediately, it will be detonated. Winton out. (The radio goes d*ad. DENT is as cold as ever but a note of admiration creeps into his voice.) DENT: A very resourceful young man. MORGAN: He's bluffing. DENT: I don't think so. MORGAN: (Shocked.) You're giving in! (DENT stares at MORGAN but doesn't answer.) 5: INT. MASTER'S TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The doors to the MASTER'S TARDIS buzz open and the DOCTOR and JO stand on the threshold.) JO: You're right, Doctor. It is a TARDIS. DOCTOR: Yes. A slightly more advanced model, actually. (The two step slowly forward but the DOCTOR hears a bleeping noise.) DOCTOR: Jo, stop. Don't move. (He takes his sonic screwdriver out of his pocket and switches it on. A low droning buzzing emits from it.) DOCTOR: There's an alarm beam here somewhere. Now move back very slowly one pace. (JO does so.) DOCTOR: Now stand quite still. (He reaches forward with the sonic screwdriver. The buzzing noise it emits increases in tone.) DOCTOR: There it is. (He lowers his arm towards the ground. A tiny red light in a photoelectric cell shines out of a small hole in the lower part of one of the doors.) DOCTOR: This doesn't give us much room to get under - about a foot. Right, get very flat, on the ground. (The two lie down, the DOCTOR on his side and JO on her back.) DOCTOR: All right? JO: Yeah. DOCTOR: Quite flat. (The two start to shuffle into the TARDIS.) DOCTOR: ... That's it - wriggle away. That's it. Well done. (They have almost made it past the door. JO gasps with the uncomfortable movement.) DOCTOR: Well done, come on. Come on, Right, stay there. Stay there. (Seeing that they have gone beyond the reach of the door, he gets to his feet.) DOCTOR: Right, give me your hand. (The DOCTOR pulls her to her feet.) DOCTOR: Good, well done Jo. Right, let's see what we can find before the Master gets back. 6: SPACE (The IMC spaceship hangs in orbit above the bleak orb of Uxarieus.) 7: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM (The planet appears on a large wall monitor watched by DENT and MORGAN in their command chairs.) DENT: Maintain parking orbit. (MORGAN presses a switch near to his chair.) MORGAN: Parking orbit s*ab. (There is the sudden noise of a signal.) MORGAN: Message from Earth control. DENT: Get it, Morgan. (MORGAN gets up and crosses to where a teleprinter type machine is busy chattering away. The print out shows a couple of messages of text underneath a photograph of a man dressed in a similar collar to the elaborate one the MASTER wore earlier. DENT and CALDWELL follow MORGAN.) MORGAN: It's that identification check you wanted on the Adjudicator. CALDWELL: Well, that can't be much help now, can it? (MORGAN rips off the paper and passes it to DENT.) DENT: It might. (DENT looks at the photograph.) DENT: Whoever that man is, down on that planet, he isn't the Adjudicator. MORGAN: Well, you'd better contact Earth! DENT: And admit we've been made fools of? We'll handle this ourselves. Prepare to go into...landing orbit. (MORGAN smiles and goes to carry out the order.) 8: INT. MASTER'S TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The decor of the interior of the MASTER'S TARDIS is slightly different to that of the DOCTOR'S. In the middle wall are two large upright tube-like capsules. On the left-hand wall are a series of filing cabinets and it is these that the DOCTOR and JO are rifling through now, pulling out file after file. The DOCTOR shows interest in one of the files.) DOCTOR: Ah... JO: What is it? (JO joins him.) DOCTOR: It's a mineralogical survey report about this planet. JO: Do you think he's after that duralinium stuff like the IMC people? DOCTOR: (Correcting JO.) Duralinium. (JO moves off to another cabinet.) DOCTOR: There's a lot of other survey reports here too. He's visited a lot of planets recently. He must be looking for something. (JO pulls out a small plastic wallet from her cabinet. It contains a color photograph of the man pictured on the IMC report.) JO: Doctor, look. These must be the real adjudicator's credentials. (The DOCTOR comes and takes it from her.) DOCTOR: Ah ha. Now that's more like it. Well done, Jo. I'll look after these if you don't mind. JO: Aren't you going to show those credentials to Ashe? DOCTOR: Yes, of course I am. But I'd like to find out why the Master came to this planet. (He turns back to his cabinet. JO gets nervous and moves over to the door to look outside.) JO: Oh, Doctor. Do come on. (She inadvertently crosses the alarm beam...) 9: INT. MAIN DOME. ASHE'S OFFICE (The MASTER rushes into ASHE'S empty office and shuts the door. He takes a small flat round bleeping device out of his pocket and sits at the desk. He opens the device, the bottom half of which is a small screen showing what is taking place inside his TARDIS. The door to the office opens and ASHE walks in with a large map.) ASHE: Well, this is the last of our... MASTER: (Interrupting.) Just a minute, Ashe. (The MASTER closes the device and lowers it out of view of the colonist. He presses a large red button on the lid of the device.) 10: INT. MASTER'S TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (Inside the TARDIS, a wall port opens and gas starts to quietly emit. JO is still stood in the doorway and calls over to the DOCTOR who is absorbed in a file.) JO: Doctor, please hurry up! The Master might come back. DOCTOR: I'm coming, Jo. (He looks up and sees where she is standing.) DOCTOR: Jo, you're standing in the alarm beam! (JO gasps and rushes back in. Suddenly, the gas starts to affect her and she starts to cough.) JO: Doctor...I can't breathe...! (The DOCTOR also starts to cough as the doors to the TARDIS close. The DOCTOR looks round and sees the wall port.) DOCTOR: Gas! (He staggers over to it but collapses before he can reach it. JO also falls to the ground.) 11: INT. MAIN DOME. ASHE'S OFFICE (The MASTER is still sat at the desk as ASHE shows him the map.) ASHE: This is the area surrounding the Primitive city. MASTER: But you have no map of the City itself? ASHE: Well, we never go there. It's too dangerous. MASTER: So really, nobody knows exactly what's in there? ASHE: Oh yes, the Doctor does. MASTER: (Surprised.) Why did he go there? ASHE: He went to get Jo Grant. The Primitives had taken her. Err, shall I go and get him for you? MASTER: No, no. That won't be necessary. (The MASTER gets up.) MASTER: I think I know where he is. (He walks out of the office.) 12: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM (The IMC ship is on a descent back to the planet. DENT and MORGAN are back in the command chairs.) DENT: Keep main retrorockets steady. MORGAN: Thirty meters - descent rate at minimum. DENT: Activate landing s*ab. (The rocky wastes of a range of hills appear on the wall monitor.) MORGAN: Landing s*ab in position. DENT: Report on altitude. (The noise of the ship increases as it comes in to land.) MORGAN: Twenty meters...fifteen meters... (On the monitor, dust is thrown up as the ship reaches the ground.) MORGAN: Ten...nine...eight...seven...six...five... (MORGAN and DENT brace themselves...) MORGAN: Three...one... (The ship judders as it lands.) MORGAN: We have contact. DENT: Cut motors. (They relax as MORGAN activates controls. DENT and MORGAN get up and step down into the main body of the control room where CALDWELL is sat. DENT speaks into the intercom.) DENT: (Into microphone.) Send in the security guard leaders. (He switches off the intercom.) DENT: We have no time to waste. CALDWELL: Suppose the colonists are waiting for you? MORGAN: They won't be. CALDWELL: They could have seen us come down. DENT: Impossible. We've landed on the other side of a range of hills. MORGAN: That's why we landed here. (The door to the room hums open and three helmeted security guards enter the room. They stand in line as DENT addresses them.) DENT: We've landed approximately fifty kilometers from the colonists' main dome. MORGAN: We can be there is two and a half hours. It'll be dark by then. DENT: Thank you Morgan. You've been defeated and disarmed by a group of farmers. Now is your chance to wipe out this black mark on your records. (CALDWELL is lounging in a chair behind DENT.) CALDWELL: (Cynically.) That's very inspiring. DENT: Your reputation's at stake as well, Caldwell. (DENT turns back to the guards.) DENT: Our objective is a simple one - to avenge our humiliation and put paid to these colonists. CALDWELL: But just remember - they've got the g*n. (DENT turns and gives CALDWELL his coldest stare. CALDWELL tries to return the look but soon lowers his eyes.) 13: INT. MASTER'S TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The DOCTOR still lies unconscious on the floor of the MASTER'S TARDIS. Its owner places a small gas mask over the DOCTOR'S face. There is a hiss of gas and the DOCTOR starts to come round.) MASTER: Well, Doctor, still pursuing burglary, eh? Hmm! You know, when you stole my dematerialization circuit, I decided to build in a few precautions. (He laughs.) (He gets up and goes over to JO who lies still on the other side of the room. The DOCTOR, somewhat weakened, turns over and looks towards his companion. He watches as the MASTER picks her up and cradles her head.) DOCTOR: What have you done...what have you done to her this time? MASTER: The same as I did to you - a simple sleep gas. Mind you, I could just have easily used a lethal one. DOCTOR: What stopped you? MASTER: I want to use your services as a guide, Doctor. You're going to take me to the Primitive City. DOCTOR: What do you want there? MASTER: That's no concern of yours - but you will do what I ask? DOCTOR: I take it that Miss Grant is to be held here as a hostage. (The MASTER laughs quietly.) DOCTOR: You know, you really are most unimaginative. MASTER: Ah, tried and true methods are the best. (He holds the gas mask near to JO.) MASTER: Well, Doctor? (The DOCTOR looks downwards realizing that he is beaten for now.) 14: INT. MAIN DOME. ASHE'S OFFICE (NIGHT) (ASHE is still looking over the map. WINTON, his r*fle slung over his shoulder, enters the room.) WINTON: Where's the Adjudicator? It's time we sent him back to Earth. (ASHE'S manner is cold with WINTON.) ASHE: I don't know. WINTON: Where is he Ashe? ASHE: I think he went to see the Doctor. WINTON: There's no sign of either of them. Now what are they up to? ASHE: Oh, perhaps they went to the Adjudicators spaceship. WINTON: I've just radioed to it and there's no reply. (ASHE looks at WINTON but then continues to look over the map, showing that he is not interested in WINTON'S problems. WINTON walks over to where a collection of IMC w*apon have been dumped.) WINTON: When are you going to issue these IMC g*n to our people? ASHE: I'm not. WINTON: I want these g*n issued, Ashe! ASHE: Those monsters were faked and the IMC men have gone. Those are military w*apon. We don't need them. WINTON: What if the Earth government send troops? ASHE: (Shouts.) If the Adjudicator helps us, it should never come to that! (WINTON realizes not to push the argument further.) WINTON: Very well. I'll go and check up on the guards. (He leaves the office. ASHE slams the desk in anger.) 15: EXT. MAIN DOME (NIGHT) (WINTON walks through the entrance hall to the outside where two COLONISTS, supposedly on watch, lounge in the doorway.) WINTON: Yes, well try not to nod off altogether! We've still got the Primitives to worry about, you know. (He storms off into the night. One COLONIST calls after him.) COLONIST: You worry too much, Winton. (While his back is turned, an IMC man quickly grabs the other. The first COLONIST turns and sees that he is alone. He looks cautiously into the gloom.) COLONIST: Tony? Tony? (He pulls his g*n out but MORGAN suddenly appears before him and clubs him to the ground. He picks up the g*n that the COLONIST has dropped and then turns and beckons to another IMC man to follow him. They stand at the edge of the doorway and peer into the darkened entrance hall...) 16: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (NIGHT) (...where two colonists walk down the staircase and off into the dome's interior, unaware that they are being watched. After they have gone, MORGAN and the other IMC creep into the hall, moving cautiously behind the staircase and some packing boxes, then behind the radio pen from where they beckon to the outside. On this signal, DENT and two more IMC men appear in the doorway.) 17: INT. MAIN DOME. ASHE'S OFFICE (NIGHT) (ASHE looks up as the door of his office opens. He sees the two IMC uniforms.) ASHE: (Astonished.) How did you...? (MORGAN and the IMC man walk in. The second IMC man immediately makes for the g*n.) ASHE: Why have you come back here? MORGAN: To reclaim our property. ASHE: You're to leave those where they are! MORGAN: Get them! ASHE: What are you going to do? MORGAN: You'll find out. (To the IMC man.) Cover him. (The IMC man does as instructed as MORGAN goes to the door to the office and signals to the other men.) 18: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (NIGHT) (DENT and the other men move quickly through the hall and towards ASHE'S office.) 19: INT. MAIN DOME. ASHE'S OFFICE (NIGHT) (They silently enter the office. ASHE sits despondently in his chair.) 20: EXT. MAIN DOME (NIGHT) (WINTON returns from his check of the guards and finds the COLONIST coming round on the ground. WINTON helps him and calls into the night.) WINTON: Guards! Over here, quick! (Two colonists come from around the edge of the dome. One of them helps the recovering COLONIST while WINTON and the second man enter the dome.) 21: INT. MAIN DOME. ASHE'S OFFICE (NIGHT) (MORGAN makes for the dump of w*apon. He selects one, discards it and chooses another, checking its magazine is full. He speaks to one of the IMC men.) MORGAN: Come with me. (The two men leave the office. The two other IMC men grab w*apon and follow.) 22: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (NIGHT) (MORGAN and the IMC men go through the radio pen for cover. WINTON and the other colonists are already behind the packing cases near the entrance and f*ring immediately commences with the positions taken by the opposing sides almost the opposite to the previous engagement. Once again, sh*t after sh*t rings out.) 23: INT. MAIN DOME. ASHE'S OFFICE (NIGHT) DENT: (To ASHE.) Get up! (ASHE gets wearily to his feet. DENT twists his arm behind his back and pushes him towards the door.) 24: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (NIGHT) (Ducking for safety behind ASHE, DENT pushes him through the radio pen and towards its open doorway to the remainder of the entrance hall, next to MORGAN.) DENT: Hold your f*re! (The colonists see the IMC men's hostage and stop f*ring.) MORGAN: If you want your leader alive, drop your g*n! (The colonists slowly drops their w*apon and step forward, hands raised. The IMC men and ASHE come out of the radio pen.) WINTON: (With disgust.) And you said we didn't need those g*n, Ashe! DENT: (To MORGAN.) Well done. MORGAN: It was a pleasure. DENT: (To the IMC men.) Make sure the rest of the dome is secure. Round up any strays and take their g*n. (He looks at ASHE.) DENT: Take good care of him. We must have him fit for the trial. ASHE: Trial? What trial? WINTON: And what are you going to charge us with? Trespass? DENT: No - treason. 25: INT. MASTER'S TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The next morning, the MASTER looks on his scanner at the grey rocks outside. He puts his g*n on the console, flicks a switch and moves to where the DOCTOR and JO stand in the two upright tube-like capsules. However, before opening the door to the DOCTOR'S capsule, the MASTER casts a glance back at his g*n, changes his mind with a smile at the DOCTOR and moves back to collect his w*apon. Having done so, he goes back and opens the DOCTOR'S capsule.) MASTER: I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, Doctor. But it's light now. We can set off. (The DOCTOR nonchalantly steps out of his capsule.) MASTER: Doctor, let me show you this. (The MASTER shows him the device, which he used in ASHE'S office earlier. He points to the red button on the lid.) MASTER: I just have to press this button on here...and Miss Grant's cubicle will immediately be flooded with lethal gas. (The DOCTOR looks over to where JO stands in her cubicle watching them, then turns back to the MASTER.) DOCTOR: You realize, of course, it can be extremely dangerous taking you to the Primitive city? MASTER: Don't worry about my welfare, Doctor. Keep thinking of Miss Grant's. (He steps back to the console, his laser g*n in his hand all the time. He activates a control and the doors to the TARDIS open. He gestures for the DOCTOR to step outside and he does so after one last look at JO. The MASTER follows him outside leaving the forlorn looking girl in her cubicle.) 26: EXT. MASTER'S TARDIS (Outside, the zigzag edge of the interior doors match those on the outside "hull" of the disguised Adjudicators ship. Whilst waiting for the MASTER to emerge, the DOCTOR silently drops the key to his adversary's TARDIS to the ground.) MASTER: Right Doctor, the buggy is over there. (He points in one direction and they walk off, the DOCTOR at g*n, leaving the discarded key on the ground.) 27: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (Another session is taking place in the entrance hall of the dome, but this time it is a trial. One table faces ASHE and WINTON who stand in IMC handcuffs. DENT stands before the two men and the joins MORGAN at the table. Various colonists - including MARY ASHE - and their IMC guards watch the proceedings.) DENT: As legally appointed governor of this planet, I declare this court in session. Morgan? (MORGAN stands and reads from a sheet of paper. ASHE and WINTON look impassive while CALDWELL watches with a guilty expression.) MORGAN: You are charged with destroying property and equipment belonging to the Interplanetary Mining Corporation, as*ault and m*rder of IMC personnel, trespass on a planet lawfully allocated to IMC and armed rebellion against the lawful representatives of the Earth's government. How do you plead? (WINTON jumps forward...) WINTON: This whole business is a joke! (...but an IMC man pushes him back.) DENT: I advise you to take it very seriously. Have you anything to say in your own defense? ASHE: (Angrily.) Everything we've done has been provoked by you! This planet is rightfully ours! WINTON: The only mistake we made was not k*lling you when we had the chance! DENT: You will do yourself no good by this hostile attitude - nor by repeating slanderous allegations, which have already been dismissed by the Adjudicator. ASHE: Well, why isn't the Adjudicator taking this trial? What right have you to sit... DENT: (Interrupts.) You still don't realize the position, Ashe. The Adjudicator's authority passed to me when he made his decision. I am now the legal ruler of this planet. Now for the last time, have you anything to say? ASHE: I agree with Winton - this trial is a farce! DENT: I take it you admit the charges? WINTON: We've admitted nothing! (DENT checks from a file in front of him.) DENT: On three of these charges, you could be sentenced to life imprisonment. On two you could be sentenced to death. (ASHE and WINTON start to look concerned.) DENT: The sentence is...execution. (The two colonists look at each other.) DENT: However, the sentence will be suspended on condition that you and your followers depart this planet immediately. ASHE: But that's impossible! DENT: The alternative is execution. ASHE: You don't understand. That spaceship was old when we bought it. It won't survive another trip. DENT: The trial is now concluded. (DENT stands. ASHE dashes forward to plead with the man.) ASHE: If you send us up in that spaceship, you're condemning all of us to death! DENT: You will make preparations for lift off immediately. (He walks off.) 28: EXT. UXARIEUS (An IMC buggy, driven by the DOCTOR with the MASTER in the passenger seat, moves swiftly across the planet. Unseen by the two men, a Primitive observes them from high on a ledge. It raises its spear above its head with both hands and uses it to signal to others of its kind and then points at the buggy. On other high ledge, two further Primitives signal back. Mean while the buggy comes to halt as the DOCTOR sees an obstruction ahead.) DOCTOR: Yeah, well, you stay there - I'll go and shift that irrigation pipe. (He climbs out of the buggy.) MASTER: Doctor? I hope you're not going to try anything clever? Remember Miss Grant? DOCTOR: I'll remember. (The DOCTOR hears a noise and looks upwards. Two Primitives are levering a large boulder off the edge of a ledge above them.) DOCTOR: Look out! (The MASTER climbs quickly out of the buggy before the rock hits, knocking the vehicle onto its side. The DOCTOR runs forward to examine it as the MASTER steps back towards him, laser g*n raised as always.) MASTER: Don't forget that you're still my prisoner. (The DOCTOR makes an impatient grimace and then spots something on a cliff ledge high above the MASTER. It is a Primitive raising its spear. The DOCTOR points.) MASTER: Oh, come now, Doctor. Not that old trick. (Nevertheless, the MASTER looks, sees the danger and fires his g*n at the Primitive. The end glows red and the creature tumbles down the cliff face. The MASTER rejoins the DOCTOR.) MASTER: Is that what you're frightened of, Doctor? Savages hurling stones and spears? DOCTOR: This is just the beginning. MASTER: Well, maybe. Let's be on our way, shall we? (The DOCTOR gestures at the buggy.) DOCTOR: What? With this? Somewhat clapped out and broken, isn't it? MASTER: In that case, we'd better walk. DOCTOR: Why not? (The two men move off, watched by another gesturing Primitive.) 29: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (MARY ASHE is on the radio, sending a message to all the colonists.) MARY ASHE: (Into radio.) By order of Captain Dent, all colonists must be on the ship one hour before blast off. There can be no exceptions. Each of you can bring luggage to weigh not more than seven kilos. (CALDWELL walks into pen, carrying a piece of paper. MARY finishes her message and takes off her headphones. CALDWELL looks guilty and uncertain.) MARY ASHE: Satisfied? CALDWELL: I don't arrange these things. MARY ASHE: Did you check our ship? CALDWELL: Yes, I've looked over it. It's not what I call brand new. MARY ASHE: (Snaps.) It was obsolete when we bought it! CALDWELL: You know, I don't understand you people... MARY ASHE: (Interrupts.) Anything's better than living on Earth! CALDWELL: You mean risking your lives coming to a place like this? MARY ASHE: Look, that ship of ours will never make another journey - you must realize that! CALDWELL: I've checked the motors. They'll be all right. MARY ASHE: Would you blast off in it? (CALDWELL hesitates and has difficulty in looking MARY in the eye.) CALDWELL: You'll make out. MARY ASHE: (Shouts.) We won't and you know it! (CALDWELL tries to walk off but MARY blocks his way.) MARY ASHE: (Tearfully.) If you don't help us, we're all going to die! (CALDWELL pushes past the distraught girl. Meanwhile DENT and MORGAN march back into the dome from the outside, past two saluting guards.) MORGAN: I've checked every inch of the dome! There's no sign of him! DENT: I want to see this fake Adjudicator. He's playing some game of his own and I must know what it is. Have you tried his ship? MORGAN: The hatches are sealed. (DENT sees the waiting CALDWELL.) DENT: Caldwell, go with Morgan. Get inside that ship. Use expl*sives if you have to. (DENT moves to go, but...) CALDWELL: Give me a moment. (DENT waits.) CALDWELL: I've just been checking over the colonists' spaceship. DENT: Well? CALDWELL: Ashe is right. It's in pretty bad shape. There's a fair chance it may blow up on the ground! (DENT considers and then turns to MORGAN.) DENT: Make sure all IMC personnel are clear of the area before take-off, will you? (He gives CALDWELL and hard look and then walks off.) MORGAN: Well, Caldwell? We've got a job to do. 30: EXT. PRIMITIVE CITY ENTRANCE (The DOCTOR and the MASTER approach the concealed rock door.) MASTER: Well? DOCTOR: This is it. This is the entrance. MASTER: Is it? How do we get in? DOCTOR: I haven't the remotest idea. (The MASTER raises the device with which he can k*ll JO.) MASTER: (thr*at.) Doctor? 31: EXT. MASTER'S TARDIS (CALDWELL tries a device on the door to the MASTER'S TARDIS watched by MORGAN.) CALDWELL: No good. Nothing seems to shift it. MORGAN: Well, we'll have to use expl*sives then. (CALDWELL starts rummaging in a toolbox. While he is waiting, MORGAN spots the discarded key.) MORGAN: Hey, wait a minute. Try this. (He hands it to CALDWELL who looks it over and then inserts it in the lock.) 32: INT. MASTER'S TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The doors buzz open and the two IMC men stare into the strange interior. CALDWELL is about to step in.) MORGAN: Wait. (g*n ready, the two men cautiously enter the TARDIS. As they do so, they see JO silently pleading and warning from inside her cubicle.) CALDWELL: Look, that girl! (They rush to open the cubicle, unaware that they have tripped the alarm.) 33: EXT. PRIMITIVE CITY ENTRANCE (The MASTER'S device starts to emit a signal.) DOCTOR: What's that bleeping noise? (The MASTER flips open the lid and sees JO and her "rescuers".) MASTER: Someone's trying to rescue Miss Grant. (He closes the lid and raises his finger above the button.) DOCTOR: No, you can't! MASTER: (Harshly.) I warned you, Doctor! DOCTOR: No! (The MASTER'S finger comes down...)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "08x19 - Colony in Space - part 5"}
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COLONY IN SPACE BY: MALCOLM HULKE EPISODE SIX Original Air Date: 15 May, 1971 6:10pm - 6:35pm 1: EXT. PRIMITIVE CITY ENTRANCE (The MASTER'S device starts to emit a signal.) DOCTOR: What's that beeping noise? (The MASTER flips open the lid observes the screen.) MASTER: Someone's trying to rescue Miss Grant. (He closes the lid and raises his finger above the button.) DOCTOR: You can't! MASTER: (Harshly.) I warned you, Doctor! DOCTOR: No! (With a cry, the DOCTOR swiftly kicks the device out of the MASTER'S hand. He then kicks the MASTER in the stomach and the renegade falls back to the ground before he can f*re his laser g*n. As this tussle takes place, the entrance to the Primitive City creaks out and one of the PRIESTS stands in the doorway. At the same time, several Primitives appear from each side with their spears pointed at the DOCTOR and the MASTER. The Time Lords stop their fight and stand prisoner. One of the Primitives picks up the MASTER'S g*n and they are then pushed forward towards the entrance and into the city.) 2: INT. MASTER'S TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (JO continues to shout from within he cubicle but the door effectively covers her shouts. Whilst MORGAN impassively watches, CALDWELL tries various controls on the console in an effort to free the girl.) CALDWELL: Ah, it's no use, I can't see... (He activates another control and the cubicle door buzzes.) CALDWELL: Just a minute! (He rushes to the cubicle, pulls open the door and helps a gasping and coughing JO out. She stumbles across the floor straight into MORGAN'S grasp.) MORGAN: Where is the Adjudicator? JO: He's not the Adjudicator, he's a fake! MORGAN: (Shouts.) We know that! Where is he! CALDWELL: Calm down - take it easy! (CALDWELL pulls JO away from MORGAN. He speaks quietly to her.) CALDWELL: Where could he have got to? Do you know? JO: He went with the Doctor. MORGAN: (Shouts.) Where! JO: To the Primitive city. 3: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. PASSAGE (The MASTER and the DOCTOR are led in silent procession along a passage in the city. At the head of the group, a PRIEST reaches a doorway, which opens, and the group moves in.) 4: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. ARCHIVE ROOM (They are in the same room that the DOCTOR and JO were held in before. The PRIEST stands still with his back to the group. The MASTER walks up to him and addresses him...) MASTER: Are you the leader of these people? I've come to help you. (The PRIEST turns and stares at the MASTER but says nothing.) MASTER: (To the DOCTOR.) Why doesn't he answer? DOCTOR: They don't speak. They're telepathic. (The PRIEST walks out of the room and the doorway starts to close.) MASTER: No, wait! (But the door closes. Imprisoned, the MASTER looks round their surroundings.) MASTER: What is this place? DOCTOR: Well, it looks like some sort of lumber-room. (The DOCTOR points to the painted glass frames on the left of the room.) DOCTOR: But err, take a look at this frieze here. I think it might interest you. (The MASTER is immediately absorbed by the sight.) MASTER: Yes... (He and the DOCTOR go over and look closely at one of the panels - the sacrifice depiction.) DOCTOR: It's a sort of chronicle of their history, showing that their science has deteriorated into a somewhat primitive religion. 5: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (JO has been brought back to the main dome. As the colonists pack for their departure, she is attempting to tell CALDWELL about the MASTER when DENT hurries in with MORGAN.) JO: The Master's a sort of...super-criminal. He can travel in time and space. He... (CALDWELL spots DENT approaching and stands to attention, adopting an officious tone.) CALDWELL: I'm afraid I can't help you. DENT: (To JO.) I understand you've been to this Primitive City? JO: Yes, and we only just got out alive. MORGAN: She has told me how to get there. I could take some men and hunt them down. DENT: No, you're needed here. I'll send a squad after them once we've got rid of these people. Things are going too slowly - get them moving! (MORGAN nods and moves off.) CALDWELL: What about this girl? DENT: She goes with the colonists. (He starts to walk out of the dome. JO shouts after him.) JO: Look, I'm not a colonist! I've got to find the Doctor. DENT: Put her with the rest! (DENT leaves the dome. JO turns back to CALDWELL.) JO: You must help me - please! CALDWELL: You heard what Captain Dent said - get on that ship. JO: You've...got to find the Master and stop him - for everyone's sake! CALDWELL: There's nothing I can do. JO: Let me go. If we can find the Doctor, we may be able to stop him. (MORGAN comes back.) MORGAN: Caldwell, you were told to put her on the ship. CALDWELL: All right, Morgan, all right. (He takes JO by the arm.) MORGAN: (Shouts.) Caldwell, you're still under my discipline, even if you are an engineer - now you remember that! CALDWELL: Who could forget it! (To JO.) Come on you. (He leads her out of the dome.) JO: Oh, please, you've got to... CALDWELL: You've given me enough trouble, now get on that ship when you're told! 6: EXT. MAIN DOME (They walk out of the dome. where there is a parked IMC buggy.) JO: Please listen to me! (CALDWELL looks round and then points to a metal tarpaulin, which covers the rear compartment of the buggy.) CALDWELL: Get under there. Move, quick before I change my mind! (JO dives under the tarpaulin and MORGAN gets in the drivers' seat.) 7: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. ARCHIVE ROOM (The DOCTOR and the MASTER are still looking at the pictograms.) MASTER: That's absolutely fascinating! The whole story is here! DOCTOR: Is it? Well, perhaps you'd be kind enough to explain it to me? MASTER: Well, this city was once the center of a great civilization. DOCTOR: Yes, I had rather gathered that. MASTER: By genetic engineering, they developed a super-race. Now that priest we saw must be a remnant of it. DOCTOR: You deduced all that from these pictures? MASTER: Well, not exactly, I...I knew it already. The files of the Time Lords are very comprehensive. DOCTOR: Ah, so that's more like it. You mean that you stole the information? MASTER: Well, it seemed an awful pity not to make use of it, you know? Well of course, that's typical of the High Council of the Time Lords - know everything, do nothing! DOCTOR: Tell me, why are you so interested in the history of this planet? MASTER: Well, this super-race developed a Doomsday w*apon - it was never used. DOCTOR: Why not? w*apon usually are eventually. MASTER: Who knows? Maybe it was due to a...a degeneration of the life strain. DOCTOR: I see. And so the super race became...priests of a lunatic religion worshipping machines instead of gods. MASTER: So it would seem. DOCTOR: Well, may I remind you that their religion embraces sacrifice...and that we are the destined victims? (The MASTER looks thoughtful at this statement...) 8: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. PASSAGE (An ALIEN PRIEST, carrying a staff of office, leads a small procession of Primitives down a passage towards the room in which the DOCTOR and the MASTER are held.) 9: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. ARCHIVE ROOM DOCTOR: (Shocked.) You're going to use this w*apon? MASTER: Not unless it's absolutely necessary. Well, don't you see, Doctor? The very thr*at of its use could hold the galaxy to ransom. (The door to the room starts to open.) DOCTOR: I think you've left it a trifle late. MASTER: Doctor, you underrate me. (Out of sight of the beings entering the room, the MASTER shows the DOCTOR a small gas mask and gas b*mb he is holding.) DOCTOR: What about me? MASTER: Try holding your breath! (The ALIEN PRIEST gestures with its staff and then walks up to the DOCTOR. The MASTER puts the mask to his face and throws the gas b*mb down. The aliens start to choke and collapse. The DOCTOR clamps a handkerchief to his face as the MASTER snatches his laser w*apon from a falling Primitive. The DOCTOR and the MASTER run out.) 10: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. PASSAGE (Outside the room, the DOCTOR coughs into his handkerchief as the two Time Lords move down the corridor.) 11: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (MARY ASHE counts off the last of the colonists on a clipboard as they collect their belongings under the eyes of the IMC men and move out of the dome. MORGAN goes up to her.) MORGAN: Is that the last of them? MARY ASHE: Yes, they're all on board now. (MORGAN takes the clipboard off her and looks down the list.) MORGAN: That troublemaker - Winton. MARY ASHE: Well? MORGAN: You've checked him off. I didn't see him. MARY ASHE: (Coldly.) He's been on board some time. He's trying to get the engines working properly. (DENT calls over from near the radio pen.) DENT: Morgan. (MORGAN thrusts the clipboard back at her and goes over to his captain.) DENT: Where's Caldwell? MORGAN: Well, he's keeping out of the way in case he has to see anything unpleasant. DENT: He'll be all right once we've got rid of these people. (ASHE walks into the dome.) ASHE: Mary? (His daughter runs up to him but DENT also joins them.) DENT: Ready to go? ASHE: You're sending us to our deaths. DENT: Oh, nonsense. My engineer checked your spaceship - it's sound enough. ASHE: How are you going to explain to Earth government if something happens to us? DENT: There will be no explanation. Once you're off this planet, you're no longer my concern. ASHE: I think you're forgetting one thing, Captain Dent. DENT: Really? ASHE: I'm the only qualified space pilot left in this colony. Suppose I refuse to blast off? DENT: Then you can sit in your ship till you rot. Try to get out and you'll be sh*t on the spot. (ASHE nods, puts his arm round MARY and leads her out of the dome.) MORGAN: Suppose they do try to get out. DENT: Put a man with a communicator on that hill overlooking the dome. If they do try to leave the ship, he can call up a security squad. MORGAN: Very well. (They leave the dome.) 12: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. PASSAGE (Having recovered from the gas, the DOCTOR and the MASTER run along the dark passages of the city. The DOCTOR stops and waits for the MASTER to catch up. He has a map of the city.) DOCTOR: Which way do we go now? (The MASTER looks at his map and points down a side passage. The DOCTOR starts to run off.) MASTER: Wait, Doctor! (The MASTER has spotted a strange wall marking. He consults his map again.) MASTER: Yes, we're very near to our goal now. You will soon see the most powerful w*apon ever created. (He gestures ahead with his laser w*apon and they move off.) 13: EXT. COLONIST'S ROCKET (ASHE and MARY stand within the doorway of the rocket pulling in their final supplies with some IMC men. MORGAN walks up.) MORGAN: Is everyone aboard? ASHE: Yes. MORGAN: Very well. Start your final checkout. (To an IMC man.) Take the buggy back to the ship. (ASHE presses a button and the rocket door closes on them with a hum. The IMC men move off.) 14: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (DENT stands alone in the deserted dome entrance hall. As he looks round his newly conquered area, he sees something he dislikes and, in an unusual show of emotion, storms over to the wall and tears a crop chart down. MORGAN walks in.) MORGAN: They've just started final check-up. DENT: Have the guards been posted? MORGAN: Yes - and the other guards have returned to the ship. DENT: We'd better get back - just in case. (Screwing up the wall-chart, DENT walks out of the dome, followed by MORGAN. They both fail to spot a figure that comes crawls of hiding at the top of the stairs and watches them go - it is WINTON.) 15: EXT. UXARIEUS (An IMC man - Rogers - keeps watch on the dome and the colonists' rocket from a distance. He raises his binoculars and looks through them at the two structures. He sees no movement. Suddenly, DENT comes through on his radio.) DENT: (OOV: Over radio.) Captain Dent to Security Guard Rogers. Captain Dent to Security Guard Rogers. (ROGERS puts down the binoculars and picks up a small radio.) ROGERS: Receiving you, sir? DENT: (OOV: Over radio.) What's happening there? ROGERS: Not a thing, sir. 16: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM DENT: No attempts to leave the ship, mm? ROGERS: (OOV: Over radio.) No sir. DENT: If anything happens, anything at all, I want to know at once. Captain Dent out. 17: EXT. UXARIEUS (Rogers puts the radio down and continues his watch through the binoculars. So intent is he on his task that he fails to see WINTON creeping up behind him through the grey rocks. WINTON is almost upon him when Rogers stands and sees him. WINTON punches him and Rogers falls back into a pool of light grey watery mud. Before he can get to his feet, WINTON jumps down and the two men struggle. They get to their feet but WINTON again punches Rogers into the quagmire. WINTON struggles over to him but Rogers manages to push him off. This time it is Rogers who is first to his feet and he lands WINTON a huge punch, which sends him flying. Rogers jumps on him to finish him off but WINTON manages twice to push Rogers' head below the surface of a pool of white water. The two men, getting exhausted with their struggle get to their feet but WINTON is again the first to land a punch that this time knocks Rogers unconscious.) 18: INT. IMC ROCKET. CONTROL ROOM (DENT paces the control room impatiently. MORGAN sees this.) MORGAN: Shall I call up the guard again? DENT: Yes. (MORGAN goes over to the radio set. He is about to press the button, when...) DENT: No. Can you get the colonist's ship on video-link? MORGAN: I can try. (MORGAN presses a button and the opaque screen in the center of the room activates and fills with a close-up picture of ASHE in the control room of the colonist's rocket. He wears a headset and microphone.) MORGAN: The best I can do I'm afraid. DENT: Mmm. MORGAN: Their equipment's pretty ropy. DENT: (To the screen.) Ashe? Are you receiving me? Captain Dent speaking. (ASHE turns to his on-board camera.) ASHE: (On monitor, impatiently.) Yes, I'm receiving you. DENT: What's the delay? ASHE: (On monitor.) An electrical fault in our life support system. We're repairing it now. DENT: How much longer? (ASHE looks towards another person who is outside the camera range. He nods and turns back to the camera.) ASHE: (On monitor.) Nearly fixed. We'll start countdown in a few moments. (DENT stares across the room, deliberately avoiding the screen.) DENT: Excellent. (Quietly.) Goodbye Ashe. (MORGAN switches off the screen.) MORGAN: Do you think he means it? DENT: What else can he do? 19: EXT. UXARIEUS (The IMC buggy carrying CALDWELL and JO - now in the passengers' seat - drives up to the upturned buggy abandoned by the DOCTOR and the MASTER. They stop and run over to examine the vehicle.) JO: Do you think they were hurt? CALDWELL: They must have been thrown clear. JO: Or else they've gone ahead on foot. (They are interrupted by a roaring noise. They turn and look in the direction the sound is coming from.) 20: EXT. MAIN DOME (The engines of the colonist's rocket f*re and the sleek craft starts to rise off its launch pad.) CALDWELL: (OOV.) It's the colonist's spaceship! 21: EXT. UXARIEUS CALDWELL: They've made it! (They smile in delight but the rocket is hardly into the sky when it is rent by a huge blast and explodes into pieces. JO buries herself in CALDWELL and he closes his eyes against the flare of the blast. JO turns and looks.) JO: (Distraught.) All those people... (She walks off. CALDWELL is overcome with guilt and emotion and tears appear in his eyes.) CALDWELL: (To himself.) And I told them the motors were all right. 22: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. CONTROL ROOM (The door to the control room opens and the DOCTOR is led in at the MASTER'S g*n. The MASTER looks round in satisfaction.) MASTER: Wait, Doctor. This is it. DOCTOR: Is it? Well where is this super w*apon of yours. MASTER: We're in the heart of it. It stretches for miles all round us. Look, let me try and explain how it works. (The MASTER goes over to a console. He puts down his map, which also seems to have other instructions, which he consults.) MASTER: Yes. (He presses a control and, on the other side of the room, behind the DOCTOR, a screen, which seems to be made out of the same material as the doors, slides upwards. Behind it is displayed a large monitor on which is displayed a star-scape.) MASTER: Look! (The image closes in on one star.) MASTER: That, Doctor, is the sun that gives life to the planet Earth that you hold in such affection. DOCTOR: I do know a little basic astronomy. MASTER: Then you will know that, one day, that sun will burn through to its core and explode. DOCTOR: In about ten thousand million years time, yes. MASTER: Well, with this w*apon, I could make that happen now! DOCTOR: That's unbelievable! MASTER: You know the Crab Nebula? DOCTOR: The cloud of cosmic matter that was once a sun, of course. MASTER: That was the result of the super race testing this w*apon! (The DOCTOR starts to look concerned.) 23: EXT. PRIMITIVE CITY ENTRANCE (JO and CALDWELL'S buggy speeds into the gully and up to the closed entrance to the city. It stops.) JO: Well, this it. (CALDWELL stops the engine and gets out of the buggy. He goes up to the door and tries to pull it open but fails.) CALDWELL: How do we get in? JO: I don't know. The Doctor and I were taken in. There must be some way of opening it? (CALDWELL tries again on both side of the door but is just as unsuccessful. He turns back to JO.) CALDWELL: Beats me. We'll have to find another entrance. (Behind him, the doorway starts to creak open.) JO: Look! (CALDWELL reacts instantly, rushing to hide out of view. From within the city, an armed PRIMITIVE emerges. It sees JO and walks towards her, its spear raised. CALDWELL jumps out of hiding and clubs the PRIMITIVE to the ground. JO dashes out of the buggy and runs into the city whilst CALDWELL holds the closing door open. He then follows JO inside and the door closes as the PRIMITIVE starts to recover from the blow.) 24: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. PASSAGE (JO and CALDWELL make their way down a passage. CALDWELL has his g*n raised. JO looks round and then points down a side passage.) JO: I think it's this way, let's try. (They move off in the indicated direction. After they have gone, a Primitive appears at the other end of the passage.) 25: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. CONTROL ROOM DOCTOR: So, you intend to hold the universe to ransom? (The MASTER walks over to him, his laser g*n lowered.) MASTER: Doctor, why don't you come in with me? We're both Time Lords, we're both renegades. We could be masters of the galaxy! Think of it, Doctor. (The DOCTOR starts to scratch his chin, looking as if he is pondering the offer.) MASTER: Absolute power! Power for good. Why, you could reign benevolently, you could end wars, suffering, disease. We could save the universe. (The DOCTOR'S face clears.) DOCTOR: No, absolute power is evil. (The MASTER raises his g*n.) MASTER: Consider carefully, Doctor. I'm offering you a half-share in the universe. 26: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. PASSAGE (CALDWELL and JO run down the passage which is intersected by buttresses.) CALDWELL: Well? JO: I don't know. CALDWELL: We're lost. JO: Yes. 27: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (MORGAN stands in ASHE'S old office, looking at a clipboard hung on a wall. DENT enters.) DENT: Morgan, where's Caldwell? None of the other miners have seen him. (He sits at ASHE'S desk.) MORGAN: One of the guards saw him leaving the dome in a space buggy. He was heading for the Primitive City. DENT: Take a squad and get after him. MORGAN: Is he worth the trouble? DENT: Caldwell's our mining expert and don't you forget it. We can't do without him. MORGAN: What about that Doctor and the fake Adjudicator? DENT: The only one we need is Caldwell. MORGAN: There will be trouble about those colonists, you know. DENT: We offered to check their ship to make sure it was safe. They refused our help. It's all in my report. MORGAN: Of course. (MORGAN smiles and leaves.) 28: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. CONTROL ROOM MASTER: You must see reason, Doctor. DOCTOR: No, I will not join you in your absurd dreams of a galactic conquest. MASTER: (Exasperated.) Why? Why?! Look at this... (The MASTER returns to the console and adjusts the view on the monitor. It expands to show numerous star fields.) MASTER: Look at all those planetary systems, Doctor. We could rule them all! DOCTOR: What for? What is the point? MASTER: The point is that one must rule or serve - that's a basic law of life! Why do you hesitate, Doctor? Surely it's not loyalty to the Time Lords, who exiled you on one insignificant planet? DOCTOR: You'll never understand, will you? I want to see the universe - not rule it! MASTER: Then I'm very sorry, Doctor! (He raises his laser g*n and takes aim. Suddenly, the panel over the sacrificial hatch starts to rise and the GUARDIAN is revealed again.) MASTER: What's happening? DOCTOR: Wait and see! (The GUARDIAN'S chair structure moves out from the alcove.) MASTER: (To the DOCTOR.) What is it? DOCTOR: The ultimate development of life on this planet. GUARDIAN: (To the DOCTOR.) Why have you returned? (The GUARDIAN looks at the MASTER.) GUARDIAN: What do you want here? MASTER: I want to restore this city and this planet to their former glory. DOCTOR: Don't listen to him, sir. MASTER: (Passionately.) You have here a wonderful w*apon! Why with it you could bring good and peace to every world in the galaxy! DOCTOR: On the contrary, he'll bring only death and destruction. MASTER: This planet of yours could be the center of a mighty empire! The greatest that the cosmos has ever known! DOCTOR: Tell me, sir, has this w*apon of yours ever brought good to your planet? GUARDIAN: Once the w*apon was built, our race began to decay. The radiation from the w*apon's power source poisoned the soil of our planet. DOCTOR: Exactly. The w*apon has only brought death - and yet he wants to spread that death throughout the galaxy! Unless you destroy this w*apon, sir, he will use it for evil. MASTER: (Shouts.) No! You must be mad! Why with this, we could control every galaxy in the cosmos! We could be gods! GUARDIAN: You are not fit to be a god. I sense...that if you have control of this w*apon, you will bring only unhappiness and destruction to the entire universe. MASTER: Then die! (He points his laser w*apon at the GUARDIAN but before he can use it, the device disappears into thin air. The MASTER is dumbfounded.) GUARDIAN: (To the DOCTOR.) There is a self-destructor mechanism. You will please operate it. DOCTOR: Not only does justice prevail on your planet, sir, but also infinite compassion. (The DOCTOR goes over to a console and touches a device, looking at the GUARDIAN for confirmation. It shakes its head. The DOCTOR touches a lever and the GUARDIAN nods. The DOCTOR pulls the lever. Immediately, the room starts to shake and the rumble of power builds up.) GUARDIAN: You must leave at once, or you will be destroyed with the city! (The MASTER needs no second bidding and makes a dash for the door. The DOCTOR follows but stops briefly.) DOCTOR: Thank you, sir. (He runs out. Behind him, the GUARDIAN starts to thresh in its chair as the power within the w*apon starts to go out of control.) 29: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. PASSAGE (In the passages, the Primitives and PRIESTS stumble about, as if the w*apon and its power are a very part of their being. They all seem to be heading towards the control room. The MASTER runs past them, but the DOCTOR hesitates to shout a warning...) DOCTOR: Come back, you'll all be k*lled! 30: INT PRIMITIVE CITY. ANOTHER PASSAGE MASTER: (To the DOCTOR.) Come on! Do you want to die with them?! (The DOCTOR runs after the MASTER and they both run into JO and CALDWELL at the other end of the shaking passage.) DOCTOR: Jo, what are you doing here?! JO: Looking for you! DOCTOR: We've got to get out of here at once! The whole place is going up! (To the MASTER.) You had a map - give it to me. MASTER: You fend for yourself! (He tries to make off but CALDWELL grabs him and holds his g*n up to him.) CALDWELL: Help that man! (The DOCTOR pulls the map out of the MASTER'S pocket, consults it and looks round.) DOCTOR: I think this is it, come on. (He moves off through a small opening in the rock wall, followed by JO, the MASTER and CALDWELL.) 31: EXT. PRIMITIVE CITY EXIT (They emerge from a small round opening at the base of a cliff, which appears to be another way out of the city. The sound of the rising power can still be heard. They all dash for safety just as an enormous expl*si*n bursts out of the opening. The DOCTOR and JO have made safety behind a rock and the MASTER and CALDWELL do the same just as their is a second cataclysmic expl*si*n which brings part of the rock face down across the opening. The immediate danger over, the MASTER makes a grab for CALDWELL'S g*n but he fends him off and points the g*n at him. They are suddenly startled by a voice.) MORGAN: Get up! All of you, get up! (It is MORGAN and an armed squad of IMC guards.) MORGAN: Caldwell, come over here. (MORGAN runs over and joins them as the DOCTOR and JO rise out from behind their rock. The MASTER assumes the countenance of the Adjudicator and walks over to the IMC men.) MASTER: You've arrived just in time. Put these people under arrest. MORGAN: Get back to your friends. MASTER: You don't understand. I am the Adjudicator. MORGAN: You're an imposter. We don't need you. (The MASTER looks startled and joins the DOCTOR and JO.) MASTER: You've got to do something, Doctor. They're going to k*ll you! (CALDWELL sees that the MASTER'S statement is all too true.) CALDWELL: Morgan, you can't! (MORGAN turns his g*n on CALDWELL.) MORGAN: Shut up, Caldwell. If we didn't need you, you'd be over with them! CALDWELL: You're insane. WINTON: Drop those g*n! (MORGAN spins round. WINTON - and a fully armed line of colonists stand on a ridge above them. MORGAN immediately fires.) MORGAN: Take cover! (The DOCTOR, JO and the MASTER run for cover along with the IMC men. Again, a furious g*n battle erupts between the two sides. One IMC man is hurt and is soon followed by a colonist. Another colonist soon falls but they have the advantageous position and WINTON is able to dispatch MORGAN. The MASTER uses the diversion as an opportunity and sneaks away unseen from the battle. The IMC men start to run out of amm*nit*on and one makes a break for it. The MASTER drives off in an IMC buggy. WINTON sees that few IMC men are left alive. He stops his own men f*ring and calls out to their opponents.) WINTON: Surrender the rest of you - you won't be k*lled. (The two IMC men left alive take his good advice, drop their w*apon and walk forward, arms raised. The colonists rush down the slope to take them prisoner. JO looks behind them and sees who's missing.) JO: The Master - he's gone! (She and the DOCTOR rush off. The colonists search the IMC men for concealed w*apon as the DOCTOR and JO climb into another buggy and drive off.) 32: INT. MASTER'S TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The MASTER runs into his TARDIS, closes the doors and switches on the scanner. On it he sees the DOCTOR and JO approaching in the buggy. He moves back to the console and starts the dematerialization sequence.) 33: EXT. UXARIEUS (The DOCTOR stops the buggy and points.) DOCTOR: Look! (The red Adjudicator rocket vanishes into thin air with the normal take-off sound of a TARDIS.) 34: INT. MAIN DOME. ASHE'S OFFICE (Later, WINTON sits behind ASHE'S desk as he confers with the DOCTOR and JO.) DOCTOR: Now look, stop worrying. It was the radiation from that w*apon that was poisoning the soil. Your cover crops will grow now. WINTON: Yes, well...let's hope you're right. JO: You know, I still don't understand why you weren't in that ship when it blew up? WINTON: Well, we knew the IMC would have to get clear before we blasted off. I hid in the dome; I...knocked out the guard and let the others out. JO: Yes, but it took off and blew up - I saw it. (WINTON looks guiltily at the DOCTOR who guesses the answer.) DOCTOR: Ashe? WINTON: He took it up alone. JO: But he must have known! WINTON: The rocket had to take off! It was the only way that we could get IMC out of the way. DOCTOR: And Ashe insisted on staying on board? (WINTON nods, a pained look on his face.) DOCTOR: Yes, yes, he would, of course. (A colonist calls out from outside ASHE'S office.) COLONIST: (OOV: In entrance hall.) Doctor, there's something here for you! (The DOCTOR and JO run outside, followed by WINTON.) 35: INT. MAIN DOME. ENTRANCE HALL (Outside, two colonists stand before a familiar looking object.) JO: The TARDIS! DOCTOR: (To WINTON.) My dear chap, this is absolutely splendid! Where did you find it? WINTON: In one of the dwellings a few miles from the dome. There was a lot of stuff there that the Primitives have stolen. DOCTOR: Well I cannot tell you how grateful I am. WINTON: Doctor, what is it? DOCTOR: (Nervously.) What is it? Well, erm, it's, err...it's a sort of antique really. Err, but err, it does have great sentimental value. Will you excuse us? WINTON: Yes, of course. (He spots MARY ASHE over the other side of the hall and goes over to her.) WINTON: Mary? (The DOCTOR points to the TARDIS and then gives a goodbye wave to a delighted JO to indicate that they should leave. She and the DOCTOR go inside the TARDIS as CALDWELL comes out of the radio pen and joins WINTON and MARY.) CALDWELL: We've had a reply from Earth. They're sending an Adjudicator. WINTON: A genuine one, I hope? CALDWELL: This time, yes. WINTON: What about you, Caldwell? You're finished with IMC. You can never go back to Earth. CALDWELL: I don't think I want to. MARY ASHE: You want to stay here? CALDWELL: Well, if you've a place for an out-of-work miner, yes. WINTON: (Smiles.) All right. We'd be glad to have you. (CALDWELL looks at the chart that WINTON is holding.) CALDWELL: Well, for a start, I can help you with your power... (They are interrupted by the sound of the TARDIS engines. They spin round and see the police box vanish. They look at each other in amazement.) 36: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (The BRIGADIER stands in the DOCTOR'S laboratory.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Doctor...come back at once! (...and, as if on cue, the TARDIS materializes.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Smiles.) Come on out, Doctor. (The door opens and JO and the DOCTOR step out.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, that was a short trip. You'll never get that thing working properly. (The BRIGADIER crosses the lab and picks up a report that he brought in with him.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Oh, you were right about that report, I'm afraid. It wasn't the Master after all. JO: (To the DOCTOR, puzzled.) He's talking as if we'd never been away. DOCTOR: As far as he's concerned, we haven't. The TARDIS returned to Earth just a few seconds after it left. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What are you two talking about? DOCTOR: Don't try and explain Jo. He'd never understand. (They smile at each other.)
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THE DÆMONS BY: GUY LEOPOLD EPISODE ONE Original Air Date: 22 May, 1971 6:15pm - 6:40pm 1: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (NIGHT) (Flashes of lightning illuminate the small quaint cottages that sit on the edge of the village green of Devil’s End. Rain pours down in torrents and a crack of thunder peals over the rooftops. At the end of the green, a typical English village church is bathed in the light of the storm as water streams out of its guttering. Within its environs, the animals of the night shelter from the heavenly outburst. A cat watches as a small furry rodent scurries between the gravestones. Across the green, the pub sign of “The Cloven Hoof” swings in the strong wind and the door opens as open of the regulars leaves the warm inviting interior with his dog. He calls back inside...) JIM: Goodnight, Frank. FRANK: (OOV: Inside pub.) Goodnight, Jim. (The man walks home past the churchyard, his dog pulling all the way but the animal is excitable and as Jim struggles against the storm, his pet pulls free and with a bark runs up a short flight of steps, through the gate and into the churchyard. The man follows as the dog runs into the maze of gravestones. The man looks for him and hears his distant barks. He follows them and hears as the dog suddenly yowls as if in pain. It is then silent. Jim walks through the churchyard to where he last heard his dog but suddenly he sees something and his eyes open with shock. He falls the ground clutching a gravestone...) 2: EXT. VILLAGE STREET (A middle-aged eccentric looking lady scurries down a road in the village desperately trying to keep with the village doctor - DR. REEVES. The lady - MISS HAWTHORNE - wears a long green cloak and has a talisman around her neck on her chain. She carries a battered umbrella. DR. REEVES is obviously harassed by her presence and walks as fast as he can to his car.) MISS HAWTHORNE: He died of fright, Doctor. DR. REEVES My dear Miss Hawthorne... MISS HAWTHORNE: (Interrupting.) I don’t care what you say - the man died of fright! (DR. REEVES reaches his car and tries to firmly end the conversation.) DR. REEVES My dear Miss Hawthorne, the medical diagnosis was quite clear- he died of a heart att*ck. MISS HAWTHORNE: But his face...! (DR. REEVES opens the door of his blue saloon.) DR. REEVES Slight protrusion of the eyeballs, rictus drawing of the lips back over the teeth - common enough in heart failure. (He gets into his car but MISS HAWTHORNE is not deterred.) MISS HAWTHORNE: The signs are there for all to see! I cast the runes only this morning. DR. REEVES You’ll have to excuse me. I have my rounds to do. (He starts up his car.) MISS HAWTHORNE: If Professor Horner opens up that barrow, he will bring disaster on us all! (He drives off, MISS HAWTHORNE shouting after him...) MISS HAWTHORNE: This is just the beginning! 3: EXT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW (At the aforementioned barrow, preparations are in hand for a television outside broadcast. A sign points “TO THE DIG” and a BBC technician rolls a wheel of cable towards one of the outside broadcast vans. Lights and cables litter the area. One of the technicians shouts instructions to a colleague as the smartly-suited youthful presenter - ALASTAIR FERGUS - walks towards a canvas tunnel which covers the entrance that has been built into the humped lonely barrow.) TECHNICIAN: A bit more, David. ALASTAIR FERGUS: Professor Horner? TECHNICIAN: That’s it. ALASTAIR FERGUS: Oh, where’s he got to, for pete’s sake? (ALASTAIR calls down the tunnel.) ALASTAIR FERGUS: Harry?! (A young floor manager emerges from the tunnel, clipboard in hand. Calmer than ALASTAIR, he is better dressed for a broadcast from a windswept Wiltshire down.) HARRY: Hello Alastair, what’s up? ALASTAIR FERGUS: Where’s Professor Horner? HARRY: Probably in make-up. Unless he’s had second thoughts and scarpered. ALASTAIR FERGUS: What?! HARRY: Well, you know the local chat - “death and disaster if he opens the barrow”. ALASTAIR FERGUS: Well, there’ll be a disaster if he doesn’t get a shift-on! HARRY: (Calming.) Okay, okay, I’ll chase him up. (HARRY goes off leaving a very perturbed and worried ALASTAIR behind.) 4: EXT. UNIT HQ GARAGE (The DOCTOR, dressed in a blue overall coat, is bent over the engine of Bessie as JO chatters away to him.) JO: But it really is the dawning of the age of Aquarius! DOCTOR: So? JO: Well, that means the occult. Well you know, the supernatural and all that magic bit. (The DOCTOR sighs and stops work.) DOCTOR: You know, really Jo, I’m obviously wasting my time trying to turn you into a scientist. (He hands JO a tool which she puts on the bench.) JO: Well, how do you know there’s nothing in it? (The DOCTOR picks up the detachable bonnet of Bessie and puts it back into place.) DOCTOR: How? Well, I just know, that’s all. Everything that happens in life must have a scientific explanation - if you know where to look for it, that is. (He tries to get past JO.) DOCTOR: Excuse me. (JO steps aside and he goes to the garage bench.) JO: Yes, but...suppose something was to happen and nobody knew the explanation. Well, nobody in the world - in the universe! Well, that would be magic, wouldn’t it? DOCTOR: (Sighs.) You know Jo, for a reasonably intelligent young lady, you do have the most absurd ideas. (As he speaks, Bessie starts to drive forward of its own accord. It goes through the open door of the garage. JO is wide-eyed in astonishment.) JO: Doctor, look! (They both go to the doorway and watch as the car circles the garage forecourt before it comes back into the garage and stops before them.) DOCTOR: Bessie, how dare you go gallivanting around like that! (Bessie’s horn beeps once.) DOCTOR: Are you sorry? (The horn beeps two more times. JO is speechless.) DOCTOR: Very well, I forgive you. Now go back to your parking place before I change my mind. (Bessie starts up again and reverses out of the garage. The DOCTOR and JO hear a voice behind them as MIKE YATES has entered the garage unseen.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: I know there’s a good explanation for all this but I just can’t think of it for the moment. DOCTOR: Would you believe magic? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Magic? DOCTOR: Mmm. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Laughing.) No! DOCTOR: Well, Jo would. JO: That’s not fair! DOCTOR: Well, you explain it then. JO: I don’t know. (Smiles.) I suppose you did it? DOCTOR: Naturally - or should I say scientifically. Er, solenoids and a solar mechanism in Bessie and, er... (He takes his hand out of his pocket. He is holding a small device which has an arial on the side, a small steering wheel at the top and several buttons and dials on it.) DOCTOR: ...a radio control unit here. See how easy it is to be a magician? JO: How infuriating can you get?! (MIKE smiles.) JO: Hmm, well, it doesn’t prove anything. DOCTOR: Would you like me to show you some more then? JO: No thanks. I’ve had enough of your knavish tricks! Anyway, I want to see that TV programme. (JO looks at MIKE’S wristwatch.) JO: Mike, would you give me a lift? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Sure. JO: Thanks. (She walks out of the backdoor of the garage.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: You coming, Doctor? DOCTOR: Coming where? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Well, to see that programme. DOCTOR: Oh, not you too, Captain Yates? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Oh, I wouldn’t miss it for the world. It’s very exciting. (The DOCTOR divests himself of his overall coat.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Forecasts of doom and disaster if anyone disturbs the burial chamber. DOCTOR: (Sighs.) Captain Yates, you astound me. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Well, you never know. Devil’s End has a funny reputation. (The DOCTOR’S whole manner changes. His smile disappears and he looks sharply at CAPTAIN YATES.) DOCTOR: What did you say? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Devil’s End - the village near the dig. (The DOCTOR goes into a reverie, muttering to himself as he tries to bring a memory to the forefront of his mind.) DOCTOR: Devil’s End? Devil’s End? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Doctor, are you all right? (The DOCTOR puts his coat on a peg and picks up his normal red jacket.) DOCTOR: Yes, yes, I’m fine. (He walks out of the garage towards Bessie.) DOCTOR: Fine... CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Now where are you going? DOCTOR: To see that TV programme, of course! (A puzzled MIKE puts his cap on and heads the other way.) 5: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (Microphone in hand, ALASTAIR FERGUS speaks to his audience, his voice echoing in the cavern.) ALASTAIR FERGUS: (To camera.) Devil’s End - the very name sends a shiver up the spine. (FERGUS’ name appears on screen.) ALASTAIR FERGUS: (To camera.) The witches of Devil’s End, the famous curse, the notorious cavern underneath the church where the third Lord of... (FERGUS turns. Another cameraman faces him from another direction. FERGUS walks down a small series of steps onto the floor of the cavern.) ALASTAIR FERGUS: ...Aldbourne played at his eighteen-century parody of black magic. Devil’s End is part of the dark mythology of our childhood days. And now, for the first time, the cameras of the BBC have been allowed inside the cavern itself. (FERGUS walks round the cavern as he talks. The whole area resembles a normal crypt of a church but the area has been used for a darker purpose in the past. In the recesses, instead of tombs, are illuminated displays of witches and the history of the cavern for tourists.) ALASTAIR FERGUS: In this cavern, pagan man performed his unspeakable rites. In this cavern, the witches of the seventeenth century hid from the fires of Matthew Hopkins, witch-hunter extraordinary. In this cavern,...huh, but I could go on all day. (FERGUS has reached the strangest object of all - a stone horned gargoyle which sits on a plynth, cross legged with its chin in its hands. FERGUS lays his hand on its shoulder.) ALASTAIR FERGUS: (To camera.) There is...something strange about Devil’s End. (FERGUS moves on from the gargoyle.) ALASTAIR FERGUS: (To camera.) Is Professor Horner being as...”foolish” as his critics would suggest? Huh, I must admit, standing here in this...unquiet place, I’m beginning to wonder myself. 6: EXT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW (Outside the Devil’s Hump, FERGUS faces another camera. HARRY holds up his hand for silence...) HARRY: Quiet please! (...and brings his arm down, giving FERGUS his cue to start.) ALASTAIR FERGUS: While I was recording that earlier this afternoon, the archaeological dig was proceeding apace. Professor Horner and his team have cut their way into the “Devil’s Hump” - as this barrow is called by the locals - as if it were a giant pie. But now the question is can Professor Horner pull out his plum! (FERGUS gives an oily laugh at his own joke. He is disturbed by a portly man, wearing a suit and a pork pie hat who is stood nearby. He speaks in a Yorkshire accent, rich in cynicism.) PROF. HORNER: Get on with it, man... (FERGUS looks at the man - PROF. HORNER himself.) ALASTAIR FERGUS: Or will the Professor be proved disastrously wrong? 7: INT. UNIT HQ. DUTY ROOM (The live broadcast continues on a black and white television set in the duty room of UNIT HQ. A pair of bunk-beds stand against one wall and a coffee machine is against another. Sat at a table with two phones, engrossed in the programme is SERGEANT BENTON.) ALASTAIR FERGUS: (On television.) For some two hundred years, the controversy has raged - What is the Devil’s Hump. Now, we’re not the first to try and find out. But from 1793, when Sir Percival Flint’s miners ran back to Cornwall leaving him for d*ad to the famous Cambridge University fiasco of 1939... (JO, the DOCTOR and MIKE walk in.) JO: Has it started yet? SERGEANT BENTON: ... DOCTOR: Shh, shh. Let’s see what he has to say. (JO sits down with the DOCTOR and MIKE stood behind her.) ALASTAIR FERGUS: (On television.) ... has remained an enigma. Er, but tonight, the enigma will be solved. Tonight... 8: EXT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW ALASTAIR FERGUS: (To camera.) ...at midnight, the witching hour, viewers of BBC3 will have the privilege of being present when Professor Gilbert Horner, the noted archeologist... (HORNER steps into view.) PROF. HORNER: Got round to me at last, have you? About time too! ALASTAIR FERGUS: Er, not yet, Professor, not yet. (HORNER ignores FERGUS and gestures at the cameraman.) PROF. HORNER: Hey you! Bring that camera over here, would you? Come on! ALASTAIR FERGUS: Er... (HORNER walks down the canvas entrance into the barrow as FERGUS gives a sickly and embarrassed laugh. He nevertheless gestures to the cameraman himself and follows HORNER in. The camera follows...) 9: INT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW (HORNER goes up to a large round stone which is the final block to the entrance to the barrow.) PROF. HORNER: There - that’s the spot. Six inches behind there lies the greatest archeological find this country has known since Sutton Hoo. ALASTAIR FERGUS: Er, would you like to explain that reference, Professor? PROF. HORNER: No, and at midnight tonight... (FERGUS turns to the camera.) ALASTAIR FERGUS: Sutton Hoo, of course... PROF. HORNER: (Interrupting.) Never mind about Sutton Hoo. (He points at the stone.) PROF. HORNER: This is what your precious viewers are interested in - the “Devil’s Hump” and what’s inside it - right? ALASTAIR FERGUS: And what is inside it? PROF. HORNER: Treasure, that’s what. The tomb of a great warrior chieftain, bronze age, 800BC. ALASTAIR FERGUS: Er, you’re very precise? PROF. HORNER: No need to take my word for it - see for yourself, midnight. ALASTAIR FERGUS: Ah yes, now then, why midnight and why tonight? PROF. HORNER: Well, it’s obvious - April 30 is Beltane, isn’t it? ALASTAIR FERGUS: Beltane? PROF. HORNER: You know, you ought to have done your homework before you came on this dig. (FERGUS manages to keep his temper.) ALASTAIR FERGUS: Er, for the viewers, Professor. PROF. HORNER: April 30 - Beltane - greatest occult festival of the year, bar Halloween. 10: INT. UNIT HQ. DUTY ROOM ALASTAIR FERGUS: (On television.) Well, frankly, I’m not much wiser. (The DOCTOR looks worried...) DOCTOR: (To himself.) Beltane! Of course! (JO notices his concern.) PROF. HORNER: (On television.) You’ve heard the tales about this place? The ghosts, the witches, the curse - the famous curse? ALASTAIR FERGUS: (On television.) But you don’t believe that, do you? Well then, why have you...? PROF. HORNER: (On television.) My new book comes out tomorrow. (FERGUS’ tone becomes tired as he realises that he and his crew have been had.) ALASTAIR FERGUS: (On television.) Oh, then it’s what one might call a publicity gimmick? PROF. HORNER: (On television.) Top of the class, lad! ALASTAIR FERGUS: (On television.) And you’re not concerned of your colleagues to ... ? (The DOCTOR voices a concern.) DOCTOR: You know, there’s something dreadfully wrong here. JO: Hey, you really mean that, don’t you? PROF. HORNER: (On television.) Oh, they’ll react the same way as always - ... green. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (To the DOCTOR.) Well, what could be wrong? ALASTAIR FERGUS: (On television.) But surely, if you... DOCTOR: (To CAPTAIN YATES.) I don’t know. (He paces the room, desperately trying to make sense of his concerns, seemingly unaware that a strident feminine tone is now coming from the television.) DOCTOR: (To himself.) Aquarius? The Devil’s Hump? Beltane? MISS HAWTHORNE: (On television.) ... of course I know you’re on the air. That’s why I’m here! DOCTOR: Come on, think, think! (BENTON points at the television.) SERGEANT BENTON: Doctor look! Something’s going on. (On the television, the view has returned to outside the barrow. HARRY is shown attempting to restrain a scarved MISS HAWTHORN but she casually clubs him with her umbrella.) MISS HAWTHORNE: (On television.) Get your hands off me, young man! Let me go! 11: EXT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW (FERGUS and HORNER step outside the barrow.) ALASTAIR FERGUS: Okay, Harry. MISS HAWTHORNE: I’ve come here to protest and protest I shall. (FERGUS turns to the camera.) ALASTAIR FERGUS: Er, this is Miss Hawthorne, a prominent local resident who’s very much opposed to Professor Horner’s dig. (To HORNER.) Er, Professor Horner, I believe you two have already met? PROF. HORNER: I’ll say - the daft woman’s been pestering me for weeks! MISS HAWTHORNE: (Contemptuously.) I’ve been trying to make you see reason. ALASTAIR FERGUS: Miss Hawthorn, why are you opposed to this dig? MISS HAWTHORNE: Because this man is tampering with forces he does not understand. PROF. HORNER: Oh, come on now! MISS HAWTHORNE: You’ll bring destruction on yourself and upon the whole area if you persist! PROF. HORNER: Pish! MISS HAWTHORNE: Death and disaster await you! Believe me, I know! (FERGUS smiles into the camera.) ALASTAIR FERGUS: Er, but that’s just it - why should we believe you and how do you know? MISS HAWTHORNE: I’m a witch. (She speaks as if the answer is blindingly obvious. FERGUS gives a nervous laugh.) PROF. HORNER: You see? I told you she was daft! ALASTAIR FERGUS: Miss Hawthorne, you don’t really mean to... MISS HAWTHORNE: I tell you I’m a witch! ALASTAIR FERGUS: Wha...wha... MISS HAWTHORNE: (Interrupting.) Well, white, of course... ALASTAIR FERGUS: Ah... MISS HAWTHORNE: ...but that is why you should listen to me - I know! ALASTAIR FERGUS: Well, thank you very much, Miss Hawthorn, for a most interesting... MISS HAWTHORNE: (Interrupting.) I’ve cast the runes. I’ve consulted the talisman of mercury. It’s written in the stars. (Her voice takes on a quiet note of danger and warning...) MISS HAWTHORNE: “When Beltane is come, tread softly. For lo, the prince himself is nigh...” and tonight is Beltane! PROF. HORNER: You see? Mad as a hatter! (He steps away.) ALASTAIR FERGUS: (To MISS HAWTHORNE.) Er, “the prince”? MISS HAWTHORNE: The prince of evil, the dark one, the horned beast! (She holds up a hand with the index and little fingers raised as a sign of protection.) 12: INT. UNIT HQ. DUTY ROOM (The DOCTOR has seen enough. He makes for the door.) DOCTOR: Come on, Jo. JO: Where to? DOCTOR: Devil’s End, of course. That woman is perfectly right - we’ve got to stop that lunatic before it’s too late! (He strides out. JO gives a look back to MIKE and SERGEANT BENTON and then follows. MIKE shrugs at his fellow soldier and sits down to watch the end of the broadcast.) ALASTAIR FERGUS: (On television.) Miss Hawthorne, Professor Horner, thank you. So... 13: EXT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW (MISS HAWTHORNE’S voice carries on in protest in the background as FERGUS winds up the transmission...) ALASTAIR FERGUS: (To camera.) There we are - it seems that time is running out in more ways than one. What is going to happen here at midnight? Why not tune in to BBC3 and 11.45 tonight and find out? Until then, from me, it’s goodbye now. Alastair Fergus, “The Passing Parade”, Devil’s End.” 14: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR (In the bar of the pub, the television is switched off. The regulars have been watching the broadcast of the events of their own village. DR. REEVES stands at the bar together with WINSTANLEY, the local Squire - a portly white haired man - and TOM GIRTON, a younger dark haired man. BERT THE LANDLORD, a middle-aged man stands behind the bar. The men all laugh. Other regulars stand behind them in the crowded bar.) WINSTANLEY: Good for Miss Hawthorne! She kept her end up pretty well! (BERT makes a noise of derision.) BERT THE LANDLORD: The woman’s round the twist if you ask me - always has been. TOM GIRTON: Er, you’re right Bert. Should have been put away years ago. WINSTANLEY: Oh, I’m not so sure she hasn’t got a point. (GIRTON chokes on his pint and stares at the Squire.) WINSTANLEY: Broadly speaking, you know. TOM GIRTON: What? All that stuff about death and disaster? Well, you’re not telling me you believe it, Mr. Winstantley? WINSTANLEY: Well, no. But there have been a lot of q*eer goings-on the last few weeks. (WINSTANLEY faces the regulars in the rest of the pub who all listen to his words.) WINSTANLEY: Strange sudden noises and, er, gasts, er, gusts of wind, and poor old Jim dropping down in the churchyard. BERT THE LANDLORD: (Mocking.) Yeah, Frank was telling me his cows have gone dry...and my wife’s hens have stopped laying. (REEVES and GIRTON laugh but WINSTANLEY remains serious.) WINSTANLEY: Yes, and all since they started digging up there on Devil’s Hump. BERT THE LANDLORD: Could just be a coincidence, you know? TOM GIRTON: Ah, we’ve had a spell of bad weather. Always upsets things that does. WINSTANLEY: Yes, but just suppose she’s right, eh? How about that, Bert? BERT THE LANDLORD: (Smiles.) Well, I’ll tell you - if the old’n does come along here tonight, he can have my best room - my bread and butter, he is! (His regulars all laugh.) 15: EXT. VILLAGE STREET (The village bobby - PC GROOM - walks out of his cottage and shuts the door. He walks to the gate to collect his bicycle, turns and sees MISS HAWTHORNE walking past his cottage.) PC GROOM: Good evening, Miss Hawthorne, Saw you on the television just now. Very good I thought you were. MISS HAWTHORNE: They chopped me! Cut me off! Don’t you worry, Constable, I’ll get my chance later tonight - you’ll see! (PC GROOM smiles at her and she walks on. In an instant, a howling demonic winds strikes up, blasting at MISS HAWTHORNE. Behind her, PC GROOM puts his fingers to his ears as if in pain. MISS HAWTHORNE balances herself against the wind, raises her hands to the air and starts an incantation...) MISS HAWTHORNE: Avaunt all ye elementals! (PC GROOM, possessed, picks up with both hands a large rock from his garden and starts to walk towards MISS HAWTHORNE with it.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Avaunt all ye powers of adversity! (PC GROOM nears her, the rock raised over high. MISS HAWTHORNE’S words are lost over the noise of the wind but as the policeman gets up close behind her, her words start to have an effect. The wind dies down and with it she lowers her arms. As if by signal, GROOM’S hands lower at the same time in perfect synchrony.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Be still and return to thy resting. Be at peace in thy sleeping... (She sighs and turns round to see a dazed and confused PC GROOM still holding the rock.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Mr. Groom? Mr. Groom, are you all right? PC GROOM: Yes, I...I think so. I...I just felt a bit faint for a moment or two. MISS HAWTHORNE: I’m not at all surprised. Not at all. (Smiles.) It’ll pass, Mr. Groom, it’ll pass. PC GROOM: I’m feeling a lot better now already, thank you. MISS HAWTHORNE: We must be on our guard, all of us. (She clutches her green cloak and walks off.) 16: EXT. COUNTRY LANE (The DOCTOR and JO in Bessie sh**t down a lane.) 17: EXT. CROSSROADS (Ahead of them, a finger post in the crossroads points in four different directions - one of them towards Devil’s End which is three miles away. The same demonic wind strikes up and the post starts to revolve round at speed until it comes to a stop with the sign for Devil’s End pointing in totally the wrong direction. Its job done, the wind dies down - just as Bessie comes into view. The car hesitates and then drives on in the incorrect direction indicated.) 18: EXT. CHURCHYARD (MISS HAWTHORNE strides through the churchyard. As she steps down a rise towards the vicarage, she jumps as she almost walks into a black garbed figure that stand before her - the Verger GARVIN.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Oh! GARVIN: What do you want? MISS HAWTHORNE: How dare you jump out at me like that! Out of my way, please. GARVIN: (Insistent.) What do you want? MISS HAWTHORNE: Well, if you must know, I wish to contact the vicar. GARVIN: Mr. Magister’s not in at the moment. MISS HAWTHORNE: Not him - I mean the real vicar. GARVIN: (Smiles.) What would you call Mr. Magister then? MISS HAWTHORNE: I mean Canon Smallwood - our old vicar. The one who left in such mysterious circumstances. GARVIN: Nothing mysterious about it. Taken ill and had to leave. MISS HAWTHORNE: Suddenly? In the middle of the night? Without so much as a goodbye to anyone in the village? (GARVIN crosses his arms but doesn’t move out of the way.) GARVIN: I’ve got no time to listen to your nonsense. I’ve got my work to do. MISS HAWTHORNE: Very well then. I’ll see the other gentleman. I cannot say that I like him but he is at least a man of the cloth. GARVIN: (Menacingly.) I told you, didn’t I? He’s not in. MISS HAWTHORNE: Well, I intend to find that out for myself. Let me pass please. (She tries to push past him but he stands immobile.) GARVIN: You’re wasting your time. MISS HAWTHORNE: If you don’t stand out of my way, Garvin, I shall be forced to use v*olence. (A gentle voice calms the situation as the vicar steps forward.) MASTER: Dear me, I hope that v*olence will not be necessary. (Dressed in a vicar’s suit, complete with dog collar and black rimmed spectacles, the village vicar is the MASTER.) MASTER: Good evening, Miss Hawthorne, and, er, what can I do for you? 19: INT. UNIT HQ. DUTY ROOM (SERGEANT BENTON puts the phone down in disgust as CAPTAIN YATES gets a drink out of the dispenser.) SERGEANT BENTON: Well, that’s made a mess of my evening! (The door to the room opens and the BRIGADIER walks in, dressed in red-jacketed regimental dress.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Everything in order, Yates? (BENTON stands.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Yes sir. No problems. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: All right, Benton. (To YATES.) Right, and I’m off. You know where to reach me if anything crops up. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Yes sir. (YATES looks at BENTON and smiles.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Have a good evening, sir. (The BRIGADIER, leaving the room, senses the mockery and turns in the doorway.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Thank you, Captain Yates. Goodnight. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: ‘Night, sir. SERGEANT BENTON: Goodnight, sir. (He walks out and a UNIT corporal closes the door and then puts a plate of sandwiches in front of BENTON.) SERGEANT BENTON: It’s all right for some, isn’t it, sir? And we’re stuck here with a television and a plate of... (BENTON examines the contents of the plate.) SERGEANT BENTON: Corned beef sandwiches! 20: EXT. CHURCHYARD (MISS HAWTHORNE pleads with the MASTER while GARVIN stands sullenly nearby.) MISS HAWTHORNE: I beg you to help me, Mr. Magister. Help me to stop that foolhardy man! MASTER: You mean the Professor? But surely... MISS HAWTHORNE: (Interrupting.) He must not enter the tomb - tonight of all nights! MASTER: Why ever not? MISS HAWTHORNE: Beltane. The forces of evil are abroad tonight. MASTER: Really, Miss Hawthorne, as a rational man, I... MISS HAWTHORNE: (Interrupting, passionately.) We are all in mortal peril, Vicar! Have you no concern for the souls in your care? MASTER: The soul as such is a very dated concept. Er, viewing the matter existentially, I... MISS HAWTHORNE: Existentially? Oh, you’re a blockhead! (She turns to go. The MASTER puts a hand on her arm.) MASTER: Miss Hawthorne, one moment. You’re very distressed, I can see that. You know, you really are worrying unduly. (He takes off his glasses and stares hypnotically at her.) MASTER: There’s nothing to worry about. You must believe me. You must believe me. (MISS HAWTHORNE stares back, gripped by his mesmeric force...) MISS HAWTHORNE: Must...believe... (She shakes her head and gets a grip of herself.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Oh, why should I believe you? A rationalist, existentialist priest indeed! MASTER: (Angrily.) Listen to me! MISS HAWTHORNE: You’re a fool, sir! If you won’t help me, I must find someone who will! (She holds up the talisman around her neck, almost as a protection against the evil of the MASTER. He recoils from it and she stalks off. The MASTER stares in fury at her retreating figure, then snaps his fingers at GARVIN. The verger runs forward and the MASTER points at the MISS HAWTHORNE as she walks through the churchyard. The Verger needs no second bidding and starts to run after the lady...) 21: EXT. ROAD (NIGHT) (Night has fallen and Bessie comes to a fork in the road and stops. JO has a map in her hands and a torch to read it with.) DOCTOR: It’s no good, we’re hopelessly lost! JO: I can’t understand it. We followed the sign posts all right. DOCTOR: Well, if we had, we would have been there by now. You must have missed one. JO: I did not! (The DOCTOR looks at the map in her hands, snatches it and turns it round before handing it back.) DOCTOR: If you look at the map the right way up, we might eventually get there! Now, which way is it. JO: Erm... (She traces their position on the map and points to the left.) JO: ...that way. DOCTOR: Thank you very much! (They move off again in the direction indicated.) 22: EXT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW (NIGHT) (The barrow is a hive of activity as the TV crew prepare for the midnight broadcast. ALASTAIR FERGUS paces nervously as a calm HARRY walks out of the canvas tunnel entrance.) HARRY: You all right, Alastair? ALASTAIR FERGUS: (Snaps.) Of course I’m all right! Why shouldn’t I be, for Pete’s sake?! Of all the stupid questions! HARRY: Well, I only asked. There’s no need to make a production number out of it. ALASTAIR FERGUS: I’m sorry, Harry. I’m just a bit on edge. I’ll be all right. (He walks off. HARRY sees HORNER sat nearby drinking a cup of tea and goes over to him.) HARRY: Everything okay, Professor? Won’t be long now. PROF. HORNER: Any sign of that fool woman? HARRY: Not so far. PROF. HORNER: Well, keep her away from me. I’ll tell you lad, I’ll do her a mischief. HARRY: Do my best. Now, you’ve got everything straight? We start with an intro from Alastair, then I give you a cue to launch into your speil... PROF. HORNER: Speil? HARRY: The chat bit, “momentous occasion” and all that? PROF. HORNER: Oh aye. HARRY: Tom says if you could break into the burial chamber as the church clock strikes the first stroke of midnight, that would be absolutely super. PROF. HORNER: Right-oh lad, I’ll do my best to be “absolutely super”! (HARRY is oblivious to the sarcasm and walks off giving him a thumbs up.) PROF. HORNER: (Muttering.) Super...! (HARRY is about to walk back into the barrow but a thought strikes him...) HARRY: Professor? PROF. HORNER: Mmm? HARRY: Suppose something does happen? PROF. HORNER: Like? HARRY: Personal appearance of you-know-who? PROF. HORNER: Well, use your initiative, lad. (He points to the nearby figure of ALASTAIR.) PROF. HORNER: Get your chatty friend over there to interview him! HARRY: Of course! Why didn’t I think of that? (He goes into the barrow.) 23: INT. UNIT HQ. DUTY ROOM (NIGHT) (BENTON is alone in the darkened duty room engrossed in a rugby match on the television.) MATCH COMMENTATOR: (OOV: On television.) So, trying to run out of his own twenty-five, then inside to Neary... (YATES comes in.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Anything happen yet? SERGEANT BENTON: No sir, not a thing. MATCH COMMENTATOR: (OOV: On television.) ...to Robinson who couldn’t hold it. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Isn’t it about time for the dig? SERGEANT BENTON: Just about. This is highlights from the game at Twickenham. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Better turn over then. (He goes towards the TV set but before he can reach the channel dial, an incident occurs in the match which annoys the SERGEANT.) SERGEANT BENTON: Hey, did you see that? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Quite right too! MATCH COMMENTATOR: (OOV: On television.) ...a number of the Staffordshire county side. (YATES’ interest is now taken with the match and he forgets about changing channels, instead sitting nex to BENTON to watch the game.) SERGEANT BENTON: As bad as the ref you are, sir! (Something else occurs not to the SERGANT’S liking...) SERGEANT BENTON: Oh no! CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: That’ll line them. 24: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR (NIGHT) (The pub is still crowded at closing time with the village regulars as the DOCTOR and JO burst in, the DOCTOR rudely pushing past two men to get to the bar.) BERT THE LANDLORD: Come along now friends, drink up! (The DOCTOR stands at the bar next to DR. REEVES and TOM GIRTON. The regulars stare at his strange appearance.) BERT THE LANDLORD: Sorry sir, well past time. DOCTOR: Yeah, that’s quite all right. We don’t want a drink - just the directions to the Devil’s Hump. JO: Where the dig is. BERT THE LANDLORD: Ah, you’re going up there are you? It’s all on telly, you know? DOCTOR: Yes, yes, I know but, er, would you please tell us the way? This is very urgent. BERT THE LANDLORD: (Smiles.) Always in such a hurry, you towns folk. All be the same in a hundred years time, sir! DOCTOR: I can assure you, sir, it will be no such thing! (WINSTANTLEY steps forward.) WINSTANLEY: Are you one of these television chaps then? DOCTOR: Er, I am no sort of “chap” sir! WINSTANLEY: Forgive me, but I thought...well, the costume and the wig, you know? DOCTOR: (Snaps.) Wig?! JO: (Calming.) Now, Doctor! TOM GIRTON: What do you wanna go up the Hump for anyway? DOCTOR: Look, there is no time for all these unnecessary questions... BERT THE LANDLORD: All the time in the world, sir! DOCTOR: I want to go up to the Devil’s Hump because I want to stop that lunatic Professor of your from bringing devastation upon you all! TOM GIRTON: (To WINSTANLEY.) Huh, one of Miss Hawthorne’s brigade! (And with that he walks out of the pub.) DOCTOR: Is nobody here capable of answering a perfectly simple enquiry? What’s the matter with you all? WINSTANLEY: You’re making all the fuss, old man. DOCTOR: Fuss? I’ve never heard such balderdash in all... JO: (Interrupting.) Doctor! (JO turns on the charm for WINSTANLEY...) JO: Look, could you please tell us the way? (...and it works.) WINSTANLEY: Yes, certainly. Straight past the green outside, fork left, straight up the rise and you can’t miss it. DOCTOR: (Smiles.) Excellent! Thank you very much! (They start walking out.) JO: Thank you. Goodbye. WINSTANLEY: Extraordinary fellow! (REEVES smiles but BERT looks perturbed...) 25: INT. CHURCH. VESTRY (NIGHT) (GIRTON has made his way straight over to the church and is reporting events to the MASTER in the vestry.) TOM GIRTON: White hair he had, and a sort of cloak. (The MASTER flinches.) MASTER: Did he by any chance call himself...”the Doctor”? TOM GIRTON: That’s right! It’s what the girl called him! How did you know that? (The MASTER’S face darkens...) MASTER: It’s of no importance. (He snaps his fingers at GARVIN for him to leave.) MASTER: Well Girton, you’ve...you’ve done very well. (He points at GIRTON colourful checked jacket.) MASTER: But, er, why aren’t you ready? TOM GIRTON: Well, I thought I should tell you. He said he was going to stop the dig. MASTER: Well, you’d better hurry and change. We start the ceremony in a few minutes. (He shows GIRTON through another door which has a sign on it which reads “TO THE CAVERN”. The MASTER himself goes into a gated area of the vestry and opens a cupboard. From it he takes a bright red silken cloak, decorated with a black and gold collar and a gold chain with a mystical talisman as a decoration.) 26: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (NIGHT) (Dressed in the cloak, the MASTER walks down the steps into the cavern. Several black cloaked and hooded coven members are preparing for a sabbat, carrying a old altar stone into place. The MASTER walks round the back of the cavern, looking meaningfully at the seated stone gargoyle. He then walks up to the altar stone as coven members walk forward with a ceremonial urn and other accoutrements for the ceremony.) 27: EXT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW (NIGHT) (The broadcast is about to start...) HARRY: (Shouts.) Quiet please! Lots of lovely hush! (The response is not as fast as he would wish for...) HARRY: (Yells.) Quiet! (The area grows quieter. ALASTAIR FERGUS is getting a last minute touch-up of his make-up. The lady finishes and FERGUS looks into the camera with a sickly smile.) HARRY: Stand by...on the studio announcement now. Good luck, Tom. (HARRY brings down his arm for the cue for FERGUS to begin.) ALASTAIR FERGUS: (To camera.) Welcome back, viewers. And here at the Devil’s Hump, the excitement is intense. The stage it set. What shall we see when the curtain rises? 28: EXT. ROAD (NIGHT) (Bessie speeds along a darkened road.) 29: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (NIGHT) (The altar has been set with the implements for the sabbat. A row of black candles sits along the altar and the MASTER stands over the small urn into which he has thrown some phosphorus material, causing a flare to rise upwards. The coven stands in a perfect circle around the altar.) MASTER: As my will, so mote it be. COVEN: Nema. (The MASTER picks up a small bowl and sprinkles water three times on the altar. He then holds his hands aloft.) MASTER: Hearken to my voice, oh dark one. Ancient and awful, supreme in artifice, bearer of power, I conjure thee - be present here at my command and truly do my will. (His voice rises...) MASTER: Aba, Abara, Agarbara, Gad, Gadoal, Galdina! COVEN: Io Evohe! (The MASTER takes another piece of phosphorescent material and holds it over the urn.) MASTER: As my will, so mote it be! (He drops it in and it flares upwards.) 30: EXT. ROAD (NIGHT) (Bessie tears along the road but JO gives a warning shouts as ahead of them, a branch falls across the road, seemingly by itself and blocking their path. The car comes to a stop and they get out to try and move the obstruction.) DOCTOR: It’s no good, we’re just wasting time, come on! Run ... (He grabs her hand and they run on.) 31: INT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW (NIGHT) (HORNER sits next to the entrance stone to the barrow under the light of some small arc lamps. He speaks into the camera.) PROF. HORNER: Let’s face it - you’ve had enough blather from t’other feller! You want to see for yourself. Well, I’ll tell you what you’re gonna see - a stone wall. (At the base of the stone, he scrapes away some earth.) PROF. HORNER: There you are. What did I tell you? I’m not daft! 32: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (NIGHT) (The coven circle the altar, chanting “Eoh evoteh” as the MASTER stands, hands raised upwards, outside the circle, chanting his own incantation.) MASTER: Ogoteruss awbm, Aleht tnewy ramahe, Ehwy revedna wonssa, Etih swawec stahn, Bmaltlttiladahy ram! COVEN: Io Evohe! (The MASTER holds his arms aloft as the coven stand still.) MASTER: Eko, eko, Azal! COVEN: Eko, eko, Azal! (The MASTER walks up to the urn and drops in another burning phosphorescent object.) 33: INT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW (NIGHT) (HORNER continues to scrape at the stone.) 34: EXT. FIELD (NIGHT) (The DOCTOR sprints towards the dig as the midnight chimes of the distant church sound out. JO runs behind, desperately trying to keep up.) DOCTOR: Stop! Stop that dig! (JO falls over and struggles to her feet as the DOCTOR continues onwards.) DOCTOR: Stop it! 35: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (NIGHT) (The coven stand with joined arms round the altar. Smoke and incense fill the cavern.) MASTER: By the power of earth, by the power of air, by the power of f*re eternal and the waters of the deep, I conjure thee and charge thee Azal - arise, arise at my command, Azal! Azal! COVEN: Azal! 36: INT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW (NIGHT) (The DOCTOR runs into the barrow.) DOCTOR: Stop! Don’t pull that stone! Don’t! (But he is too late. HORNER pulls the stone away and immediately a howling, freezing ice-filled wind pours out of the barrow. The DOCTOR and HORNER fall down under the blast.) 37: EXT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW (NIGHT) (The wind screams out of the barrow, knocking the TV crew backwards. The ground shakes as FERGUS desperately tries to keep on his feet. Tables, chairs and arc-lamps go flying. HARRY and a cameraman fall to the ground.) 38: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (NIGHT) (The wind also fills the cavern. As the coven members falls to the ground, only the MASTER keeps to his feet, his face lit with pleasure as he laughs exultantly.) MASTER: Azal! (GIRTON, using a pillar for support sees something on the other side of the cavern and points.) TOM GIRTON: Look! (The gargoyle’s head turns and its eyes are glowing bright red - it is coming to life!) 39: EXT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW (NIGHT) (JO struggles through the wind and into the canvas entrance.) 40: INT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW (She looks at the figures on the ground.) JO: Doctor! Are you...are you all right? (PROF. HORNER and the DOCTOR lie quite still, covered in ice. As the barrow shakes, part of the roof starts to come down.) JO: Doctor! No! Doctor! Oh no!
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THE DÆMONS BY: GUY LEOPOLD EPISODE TWO Original Air Date: 29 May, 1971 6:10pm - 6:35pm 1: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (NIGHT) (The wind fills the cavern. As the coven members fall to the ground, only the MASTER keeps to his feet, his face lit with pleasure as he laughs exultantly.) MASTER: Azal! (GIRTON, using a pillar for support sees something on the other side of the cavern and points.) TOM GIRTON: Look! (The gargoyle’s head turns and its eyes are bright red - it is coming to life!) 2: INT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW (NIGHT) (In the barrow, JO looks at the figures on the ground.) JO: Doctor! Are you...are you all right? (Prof. Horner and the DOCTOR lie quite still, covered in ice. As the barrow shakes, part of the roof starts to come down.) JO: Doctor! No! 3: INT. UNIT HQ. DUTY ROOM (NIGHT) (The rugby match - watched by CAPTAIN YATES, BENTON and a UNIT Corporal who is stood at the back of the room - comes to an end. YATES sits back in triumph.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Thirteen-nil! SERGEANT BENTON: They’re lucky it wasn’t a hundred and thirteen-nil! What a useless lot! (YATES holds out his hand for his winnings and BENTON reaches into his pocket and pulls out a coin which he flips to the victor. YATES checks his watch.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: We’ve missed the dig. SERGEANT BENTON: Well, we might just catch the end of it. (BENTON stands and changes channels on the television set. Immediately, they see JO bent over the still and ice and debris covered DOCTOR.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Look, there’s Jo! JO: (On television.) Doctor! (The picture is replaced by a caption card which reads: DEVIL’S END Temporary fault (The smooth calming tones of an announcer assures viewers...) ANNOUNCER: (OOV: On television.) We seem to have lost all contact with the barrow. We shall, of course, resume transmission as soon as we can. In the meantime, here’s some music. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Benton, get on to the BBC. See if you can find out what’s going on down there. I’ll try to raise the Brigadier. SERGEANT BENTON: Right, sir. (The two concerned men stand to go to the phones.) 4: INT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW (NIGHT) (Within the barrow, a tearful and distraught JO is helped by several members of the BBC crew as they crawl frantically at the DOCTOR.) JO: Look at him, please hurry! Please hurry! 5: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (NIGHT) (The cavern is quiet now. The MASTER, watched by the coven who lie shocked on the floor, stands arms aloft and triumphant before the altar.) MASTER: Oh, great Azal! I, the Master, thank thee for arising at my command! Behold my worthy disciples. They know now of thy presence and will seek to help me to fulfil my desires. Therefore I command them to rise to their feet and welcome thee, Azal! (The coven gets to their feet.) MASTER: To do my will shall be the whole of the law. (The coven, still in a state of shock at the turmoil that they have witnessed reply haltingly...) COVEN: To do thy will shall be the whole of the law. MASTER: Azal, hear me. (He picks up a Kn*fe off the altar and moves to the back of the cavern. Inset in the floor is a stone, brightly painted with symbols of the occult. The MASTER circles it, pointing at it with his Kn*fe.) MASTER: Let this stone...mark the appointed place. (He returns to the altar and addresses the coven.) MASTER: Let us meet together later...and thou mayest learn my intent. As my will, so mote it be. COVEN: As thy will, so mote it be. MASTER: You have nothing to fear - so long as you do the will of the Master. Go now. (The coven start to leave but the MASTER stops them with a final instruction...) MASTER: And say no word to any man, but await my commands. 6: EXT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW (NIGHT) (The frozen DOCTOR has been carried out of the barrow and lies on the darkened ground outside, JO and HARRY kneel over him. The DOCTOR’S hands, solidified by the cold, point slightly upwards.) HARRY: He’s gone too. JO: No...no, he can’t! Look, we must get a doctor! HARRY: Look, love, face it - they’ve had it. JO: But there must be a doctor in the village or somewhere! (HARRY shouts over to a nearby member of the crew.) HARRY: Charlie, can I have word in a minute? CHARLIE: (OOV.) Okay, Harry. HARRY: (To JO, gently.) Charlie’ll take him down ... JO: (Relieved.) Thank you. (HARRY gets up and walks off. JO turns back to the DOCTOR whose face is a pale and as white as snow.) JO: Doctor! Doctor, please?! 7: INT. UNIT HQ. DUTY ROOM (NIGHT) (YATES, BENTON and the Corporal are all on the phone, BENTON to the BBC and YATES trying to find the BRIGADIER.) SERGEANT BENTON: (Into phone.) Now listen, this is an official call from UNIT... CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Into phone.) Yes, but gone on to where? SERGEANT BENTON: (Into phone.) United Nations Intelligence Taskforce. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Into phone.) Because it’s urgent. SERGEANT BENTON: (Into phone.) Look, I warn you, if you’re withholding information... CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Into phone.) ... you will ring me back? SERGEANT BENTON: (Into phone.) But you must know something? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Into phone.) Right then, I’ll ring you...in ten minutes. SERGEANT BENTON: (Into phone.) Well, find out and ring me back at this number. (BENTON puts his phone down) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Into phone.) No, make it five. (YATES also finishes his call and looks up at BENTON.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Anything? SERGEANT BENTON: No, sir. You? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: No. The Brigadier went on somewhere after dinner. No one knows quite where. ANNOUNCER: (OOV: On television.) We’re sorry for this interruption in our outside broadcast from Devil’s End but we still can’t get through to our unit... CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Oh, this is stupid! ANNOUNCER: (OOV: On television.) Just as soon as we have some news... CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: I’ve a good mind to go down there and find out for myself. SERGEANT BENTON: The Brigadier’d go spare, sir! I mean, we might get news at any minute. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Oh yes, sure, and in the meantime what’s happening to Jo and the Doctor? 8: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR (NIGHT) (The DOCTOR lies on a table in the bar of “The Cloven Hoof”, still in a frozen state. DR. REEVES finishes his examination watched by a near hysterical JO. Also there are WINSTANLEY and BERT and the last of the regulars.) DR. REEVES: Too late, I’m afraid. He’s gone, just like the Professor. JO: No...no, he can’t be d*ad! DR. REEVES: I’m sorry. JO: Oh, please, you must do something! DR. REEVES: I can’t work miracles, you know. He’s very nearly a solid block of ice. (JO falls sobbing into WINSTANLEY’S arms. DR. REEVES makes a final check.) WINSTANLEY: (To JO.) Oh, there, there. I’m sorry, my dear, there’s nothing we can do. DR. REEVES: I don’t believe it... WINSTANLEY: What? (DR. REEVES turns to BERT.) DR. REEVES: Get some blankets and some hot water bottles - lots of them. (BERT nods and moves off.) JO: He’s alive then! DR. REEVES: It’s possible but I think I felt a pulse. JO: Oh, then there’s a chance? DR. REEVES: Maybe. He must have the constitution of an ox to be able to survive a reduction of temperature like that. (He applies his stethoscope to the DOCTOR’S chest.) WINSTANLEY: He doesn’t look all that tough. DR. REEVES: You can’t always tell by... (He moves the stethoscope across the DOCTOR’S chest.) DR. REEVES: Hello? JO: What? DR. REEVES: Silly really, I swear it sounds as if he’s... WINSTANLEY: What? (He takes the stethoscope off.) DR. REEVES: It’s quite ridiculous. It must be an echo off an atypical bone structure. WINSTANLEY: Sounds as if what? DR. REEVES: As if he had two hearts...one on each side? (BERT returns with some blankets.) BERT THE LANDLORD: Doctor? (REEVES and JO start to cover the DOCTOR with the blankets.) DR. REEVES: Fine, fine, now more if you’ve got them. JO: He’s going to be all right then? DR. REEVES: There is a chance. WINSTANLEY: Cheer up! While there’s life there’s hope, right? (JO nods and turns to BERT.) JO: Look, have you got a telephone I could use, please? BERT THE LANDLORD: In the corner. JO: Oh yes, thank you. (JO moves off towards where BERT has indicated.) 9: INT. UNIT HQ. DUTY ROOM (NIGHT) (Soon, MIKE YATES is speaking to her...) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Into phone.) And is he all right now? 10: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR (NIGHT) JO: (Into phone.) Well, touch and go, I think Mike. Look, can you get down here right away? 11: INT. UNIT HQ. DUTY ROOM (NIGHT) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Into phone.) Yes, of course. We’ll come down in the chopper as soon as it’s light. 12: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. (NIGHT) (In another part of the pub, a Kn*fe is cut through the phone line...) 13: INT. UNIT HQ. DUTY ROOM (NIGHT) (MIKE YATES hears the phone go d*ad...) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Into phone.) Hello? Jo? Can you hear me? (To BENTON.) Blast! We’ve been cut off. 14: EXT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW (NIGHT) (The area around the barrow is now almost in darkness. PC GROOM watches as a final jeep from the TV crew drives out of the field from the site of the broadcast and stops next to him. HARRY leans out of the passenger window.) HARRY: Well, that’s the last of us. Thanks for all your help. PC GROOM: Happy to oblige, sir. HARRY: (Nervously.) Well, I can’t wait to get away myself. Don’t envy you. PC GROOM: Oh, that’s all right, sir. Just a bit of night duty. I enjoy a bit of peace and quiet. HARRY: Well, you’re welcome to it, mate. Anyway, I’m away. ‘Night. PC GROOM: Bye, sir. (The jeep drives off into the night. Left behind, GROOM closes the gate and secures it. He then uses a small rock to hammer a hastily painted sign to the gate which reads “DANGER - KEEP OUT”. This task done, he reaches into a small bag and takes out a packet of sandwiches which he starts to unwrap. Behind him in the field, the canvas entry to the barrow still stands although two planks have been hammered over it in an X-type barrier. Within the entry, two red points of light, like eyes, appear and look out into the night...) 15: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. GUEST ROOM (It is the next morning. The DOCTOR lies on a bed in one of the pub’s guest rooms. He is still unconscious although the colour has returned to his face and he no longer lies in a stiff position but at ease. JO opens the curtains, switches off a bedside lamp and resumes her vigil by the DOCTOR’S bed.) 16: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (The MASTER has divested himself of his satanic red robes and now stands in the cavern in his dress of a vicar. He stands over the symbolically painted stone and checks his watch. He then moves to the altar, bows his head, closes his eyes and starts muttering an incantation under his breath.) 17: EXT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW (At the barrow, PC GROOM drinks a cup of tea as he continues his watch in the morning sunlight. Suddenly, the ground starts to shake as if disturbed by a series of gigantic steps. He looks round...and up at something that looms high above him. A look of alarm appears on his face as a shadow falls over him. With a grunt of alarm he falls...) 18: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (The MASTER’S eyes snap open. He smiles and walks out of the cavern.) 19: EXT. COUNTRYSIDE (The UNIT helicopter flies through the skies towards the village. Inside YATES and BENTON have changed out of uniform and are in civvies. BENTON pilots the craft.) SERGEANT BENTON: Soon be there, sir. (YATES nods and looks out.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Hello, what’s that? SERGEANT BENTON: Must be the dig. (YATES looks to the ground where there are a series of gigantic indentations crossing a field.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: No, beyond that. A line of...they couldn’t be hoofmarks, could they? They’re enormous. SERGEANT BENTON: Shall we go and see, sir? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Better. (The helicopter lands and the two men get out and examine the ground.) SERGEANT BENTON: They are you know, sir. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Hoofmarks? They can’t be! The animal that made these would have to be at least thirty feet tall. SERGEANT BENTON: Well, whatever it is, it’s gone into that wood over there. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Well, it’ll have to wait. (He starts heading back to the helicopter.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Come on, first things first. (BENTON follows him.) SERGEANT BENTON: What, like breakfast you mean, sir? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: No, I don’t - I mean Jo and the Doc. SERGEANT BENTON: Right. 20: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. GUEST ROOM (JO is dozing in the DOCTOR’S room. The sound of the helicopter overhead wakes her up. She runs to the window.) 21: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (The helicopter lands on the deserted village green. JO looks out from the pub window and smiles in delight.) 22: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. GUEST ROOM (She takes a quick look at the DOCTOR and rushes from the room.) 23: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (YATES and BENTON climb out of helicopter and look round. There is no one in sight.) SERGEANT BENTON: Well, where’s the red carpet then? And the brass band? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: After last night, I reckon they all deserve a lie-in. SERGEANT BENTON: Well, there’s the pub, sir. (BENTON points at the building and they see JO come out and wave to them.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: And Jo. (They walk towards her.) 24: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR (JO leads the two men into the pub. YATES takes his jacket off.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Are you sure you’re all right now? JO: Yes thanks, honest. Boy, am I glad to see you two. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: And the Doc? JO: Upstairs. Better I think, but he’s still out cold. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Oh, he’ll pull through. You know what a tough old bird he is! SERGEANT BENTON: Anyway, you’re both safe - that’s the main thing. JO: (Nervously.) Well, I don’t think there’s any danger in here - but out there... CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Look Jo, what is going on? JO: I don’t know, something...really bad, you know... CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Well, how do you mean? JO: (Embarrassed.) Well, you know...devilish. SERGEANT BENTON: Look sir, if you don’t need me here, I’d like to make a quick recee of those tracks. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Unhappily.) Oh... SERGEANT BENTON: Look, fifteen minutes, say twenty? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Right - but at the first sign of trouble, straight back here. SERGEANT BENTON: Right. (BENTON heads for the door.) JO: Do be careful, Sergeant Benton. SERGEANT BENTON: Don’t you worry, Miss. (To YATES.) Oh, and don’t forget to contact the Brigadier, sir. (He leaves the pub.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Ah! I’d forgotten all about him! 25: INT. BRIGADIER’S BEDROOM (Still in bed, clad in blue pyjama’s, the BRIGADIER makes a call from his bedside phone to UNIT HQ.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone.) The Doctor’s gone? Gone where? (He listens.) Well you should know, corporal. I want to talk to him. (Listens.) What? Oh, all right then, wake up Miss Grant. (Listens.) I see, and I suppose she didn’t leave a number either? (Listens.) I suppose it wouldn’t do any good to ask for Captain Yates or Sergeant Benton? (He hears the answer. He sits up in anger and shouts down the phone...) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone.) My helicopter! Where to? (He listens, then thoughtfully.) Devil’s End... (Listens.) Yes, yes I see. Get my car here right away. (Listens.) Yes, and if they do contact you, tell them to stay put. 26: INT. VILLAGE CHURCHYARD (BENTON makes his way through the village churchyard in the morning sunshine. He hears a faint voice crying for help.) MISS HAWTHORNE: (OOV.) Help! Help! (BENTON stops and looks round.) MISS HAWTHORNE: (OOV.) Help! Let me out of here! (The voice seems to be coming from beyond a side door in the church. He runs towards it, opens the door and enters.) MISS HAWTHORNE: (OOV.) Help! Help! 27: INT. CHURCH. VESTRY MISS HAWTHORNE: (OOV.) Oh, let me out... (The voice is coming from a large chest in the corner. BENTON quickly opens the lid revealing MISS HAWTHORNE tied up inside with her hands bound.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Who are you? Friend or foe? SERGEANT BENTON: Friend, I hope, ma’am. (He helps her to sit up and starts to untie her hands.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Oh, oh, oh, very perfect gentle knight! SERGEANT BENTON: What? MISS HAWTHORNE: Oh well, your damsel in distress may be a bit long in the tooth, but...she’s very grateful. SERGEANT BENTON: Yes well, you’re lucky I heard you. (He finishes untying her hands.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Who are you? SERGEANT BENTON: Benton - Sergeant Benton. What happened? MISS HAWTHORNE: Police Sergeant? SERGEANT BENTON: No - army. Now who put you in here? MISS HAWTHORNE: Garvin - the verger. (He helps her to her feet and out of the chest.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Now, we must...we must get the police at once. Oh, oh, may name’s Olive Hawthorne, by the way. How do you do? (They shake hands.) SERGEANT BENTON: How do you do. Look, what is going on here? All hell seems to be breaking loose. MISS HAWTHORNE: Do you know, sergeant, you’re exactly right. Come on. (She goes to the door leading to the outside. She looks out and shushes the SERGEANT.) SERGEANT BENTON: What is it? 28: INT. VILLAGE CHURCHYARD (GARVIN can be seen walking through the churchyard towards the church itself.) 29: INT. CHURCH. VESTRY MISS HAWTHORNE: Garvin - the one who tied me up. (She quietly shuts the door.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Quick! (BENTON heads towards one door but MISS HAWTHORNE pulls him back and heads for the door leading towards the cavern.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Hide down here ‘til he’s out of the way. (They go into the cavern...) 30: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (...and down the steps. MISS HAWTHORNE leads the way to the back of the cavern but stops suddenly.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Goodness! SERGEANT BENTON: What? What is it? MISS HAWTHORNE: The gargoyle - it’s gone! (And sure enough, the plinth is now empty of the stone gargoyle. The suddenly hear a noise at the door.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Shh! (She pulls BENTON to the back of the cavern and they hide behind a pillar near one of the displays. GARVIN walks into the cavern, looks round momentarily and leaves a quickly.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Better wait ‘til he’s gone. (They wait a moment and then step out. BENTON spots the painted stone.) SERGEANT BENTON: Here what’s this? MISS HAWTHORNE: The sign of the evil one. (BENTON reaches down to touch it.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Keep away! (She pulls him back.) SERGEANT BENTON: (Exasperated.) For goodness sake! MISS HAWTHORNE: You know who’s at the bottom of all this? SERGEANT BENTON: No - who? MISS HAWTHORNE: The Reverend Mr. Magister. SERGEANT BENTON: Who’s he? MISS HAWTHORNE: The vicar, so called. But he’s an imposter. SERGEANT BENTON: Oh, yeah. MISS HAWTHORNE: Oh, I should have realised at once. Magister is the name given to the leader of a black magic coven. SERGEANT BENTON: Black magic? That stuff died out years ago. MISS HAWTHORNE: Do you know when the last Witchcraft Act was repealed in this country? 1951 - why, it’s as alive today as it ever was. SERGEANT BENTON: Yes, well... MISS HAWTHORNE: I’m sure it’s safe now. GARVIN: That’s what you think! (GARVIN is stood on the steps, g*n in hand. MISS HAWTHORNE jumps back as GARVIN approaches. BENTON raises his hands but walks towards the verger.) GARVIN: Right, on your way - move. (BENTON turns as if he is willing to be led away, but kicks back, knocking the g*n’s barrel upwards. He jumps GARVIN and the two men wrestle for the g*n. GARVIN pushes BENTON back and manages to throw him over his shoulder. As GARVIN picks up the g*n, BENTON kicks him in the stomach and jumps back up, pushing the g*n out of the man’s hands. As MISS HAWTHORNE watches, GARVIN manages to push BENTON back until he is stood on the painted stone. Immediately, the air is filled with a noise like a speeded up screeching and BENTON twists and cries out in agony as if he is being assailed by an invisible force. MISS HAWTHORNE is desperate to help and chooses the right moment to pull BENTON free of the stone. The soldier lies almost unconscious on the floor.) GARVIN: All right - on your feet. MISS HAWTHORNE: Oh, don’t be stupid. Can’t you see he’s half unconscious? GARVIN: Somebody’ll have to help him then, won’t they? MISS HAWTHORNE: Yes... (She reaches down and pulls an extremely groggy BENTON up, putting one of his arms across her shoulder.) MISS HAWTHORNE: (To BENTON.) Come on. GARVIN: Right, come on - this way. (They are led out of the cavern at g*n.) 31: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. GUEST ROOM (JO and MIKE YATES are leaning over the DOCTOR’S bed. MIKE is trying to bring him round.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Doctor? Doctor, wake up! JO: You see? He’s been like that for hours. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Well, shouldn’t he be in hospital? JO: Well, Doctor Reeves said that we shouldn’t move him. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Sighs.) Then we’ll just have to wait. 32: INT. VILLAGE CHURCHYARD (GARVIN leads MISS HAWTHORNE and her heavy burden out of the church but something is waiting outside. A red haze fills the air and a strong wind blows the trees. Sounds like thunder crash and as MISS HAWTHORNE struggles away with BENTON, GARVIN looks upwards and sees something that causes him to raise his g*n towards it in panic. MISS HAWTHORNE and a still groggy BENTON manage to make it round the corner of the church and shelter behind a gravestone as heavy footsteps approach GARVIN. He fires both barrels of his g*n at the thing which he sees and is instantly vaporised into nothingness by a sh*t of f*re which also sets light to the foliage near to where he was stood.) 33: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. GUEST ROOM (In the pub, the air shimmers with heat caused by the being in the churchyard. The room shakes and objects break as they fall to the floor. JO and MIKE are thrown across the room.) 34: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (The being has made it down into the cavern and heads round a corner and towards the symbolic stone. It seems to shrink down into the stone itself...) 35: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. GUEST ROOM (...and with that, the heatwave and earth tremor both cease. JO and MIKE pick themselves up off the floor.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: All right? (Suddenly, the DOCTOR sits bolt upright...) DOCTOR: Eureka! 36: INT. VICARAGE HALLWAY (The MASTER gazes exultantly upwards...) MASTER: Azal! I welcome thee! 37: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (A blue van travels along a country road. The ground suddenly starts to shake causing the BAKER’S MAN who is driving the van to panic and screech the vehicle to a halt at the side of the road. As a rumbling starts to increase, he dashes out of the van, holding his ears against a roaring noise which gathers in pitch to a deafening roar. Suddenly the sound disappears. The BAKER’S MAN takes his hands away from his ears and then watches astounded as his van is suddenly consumed in a fireball. Another noise fills the air - one like a brisk wind as the van continues to burn.) 38: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR (The DOCTOR, dressed in his coat and cloak, leads the way down the stairs into the main part of the pub, rubbing his neck gently. JO is still concerned.) JO: Now you’re sure you’re all right? You’d better come and sit in this chair over here. Come on. (She tries to lead him towards a chair but he resists.) DOCTOR: Jo...Jo, please, stop fussing. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: She’s right you know. Better take it gently. DOCTOR: Look, I tell you, I am perfectly all right. It was a parky up there for a while, I’ll admit, but it soon warmed up. JO: That wave of heat? DOCTOR: Yes, the final confirmation of my theory. JO: You mean you know what caused it? DOCTOR: Yes, I think so. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Tell us then. DOCTOR: No, not just yet. I want to wait until I’m absolutely sure. Right, I’m going back up to the dig. JO: Doctor, haven’t you had enough of that place? (As the DOCTOR heads for the door, an amazed BERT comes out of a back room.) BERT THE LANDLORD: Hello? You better? I thought you’d had it. DOCTOR: Fortunately, no. (To MIKE.) Captain Yates, you’d better wait here, all right? (The DOCTOR heads for the door again, but before he can reach it, it bangs open and MISS HAWTHORNE enters still half carrying a near unconscious BENTON. All stand amazed.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Oh, If I drop him, he’ll go with a most dreadful wallop! (The DOCTOR and MIKE rush to help her.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: He’s out on his feet! DOCTOR: Get him over to that bench - quickly! BERT THE LANDLORD: Here, what’s happened to your boy? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: He’s been beaten up - by an expert, I’d say. (MIKE helps MISS HAWTHORNE push BENTON onto a bench.) MISS HAWTHORNE: (Exhausted.) Oh, you might indeed say that! You might indeed. SERGEANT BENTON: Oh, no... (MISS HAWTHORNE collapses into a seat.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Oh dear, he’s a very heavy young man! BERT THE LANDLORD: I’ll get a doctor. DOCTOR: Yes, it’s all right - I am a Doctor. (JO smiles in pride as the DOCTOR starts to examine BENTON. He is covered in cuts and bruises and grimaces in pain.) SERGEANT BENTON: Ahh... DOCTOR: Well, there are no bones broken or anything. Look could you get me some hot water and some hot sweet tea, perhaps? BERT THE LANDLORD: Yes, ... (BERT moves off.) DOCTOR: Thank you very much - and thank you too, Miss Hawthorne. MISS HAWTHORNE: You know who I am? DOCTOR: Yes, of course. It’s a great pity they didn’t listen to you in the first place. MISS HAWTHORNE: If only they had. SERGEANT BENTON: Ohh... MISS HAWTHORNE: (Smiles.) Oh, what a tale I’ll have to tell them now! 39: INT. VICARAGE HALLWAY (The MASTER is taking a telephone call. It is not news that he is happy to receive.) MASTER: (Into phone.) Both alive are they? (He listens.) And the others? (Listens.) I see. (Listens.) Very well, they’ll all be dealt with. Now you’d better get back inside before they become suspicious. (He slams the phone down in anger.) 40: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR (Watched by the DOCTOR, JO bathes BENTON’S bruises as MIKE questions MISS HAWTHORNE.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: This fellow, Garvin, who did him over... MISS HAWTHORNE: (Irritated.) No, no, no, it was the elementals in the cavern! DOCTOR: (Puzzled.) Elementals? MISS HAWTHORNE: Yes, creatures of the devil. (They all look at her.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Did you say the devil? MISS HAWTHORNE: Yes, dear boy - Satan, Lucifer, the prince of darkness, Beelzebub, the horned beast, call him what you like - he was there! DOCTOR: (Astounded.) You saw the devil? MISS HAWTHORNE: Yes. DOCTOR: And what did he look like? MISS HAWTHORNE: Oh, well, it was a glimpse - no more. Twenty, thirty feet high, but the horns were there...and the face... JO: (Aghast and frightened.) The devil! DOCTOR: DOCTOR: Look, Miss Hawthorne, I agreed with you from the first about the danger, but now I think you’re utterly mistaken. Whatever else you saw it certainly was not the devil. MISS HAWTHORNE: But it was! There’s a Satanist cult in this village and last night they held a sabbat. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: A sabbat? MISS HAWTHORNE: Oh yes, an occult ceremony to call up the devil. JO: And it worked! The devil came! DOCTOR: Nonsense, Jo! Miss Hawthorne, who is the leader of this cult? MISS HAWTHORNE: The new vicar - he calls himself Magister. (And the DOCTOR realises all...) DOCTOR: (Whispers.) Magister! Yes, of course, I should have known! JO: What? (BERT watches intently from the back of the bar.) DOCTOR: Jo, did you fail Latin as well as science? (JO hangs her head.) DOCTOR: Magister is the Latin word for Master! (JO looks up and BERT’S face betrays his anger.) 41: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (The BRIGADIER’S staff car approaches the BAKER’S MAN who stands in the road, waving his arms. The car stops and the BRIGADIER leans out of the passenger window.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What’s up? BAKER’S MAN: I wouldn’t go any further, mate, look what’s happened to my van! (The BRIGADIER and his driver sergeant get out of the car and approach the van.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Petrol t*nk? BAKER’S MAN: No, it just went up in a flash. (The three walk round the van. They stand before a strip of burnt earth, some two feet wide which cross the road at their feet. The van lies on this strip of earth.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: During the earth tremor’s was it? BAKER’S MAN: No, just after it stopped. I was about to get back in and drive back to the village and bingo! - off it went. (The BRIGADIER looks across the fields.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Is that Devil’s End over there? (He points with his swagger stick, which now enters the airspace immediately above the burnt earth - the stick bursts into flames! The three men jump back with shock. The BRIGADIER gingerly holds up his stick again and the effect is the same.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Must be some sort of heat barrier! We’ll try getting in from the south. (He and his sergeant rush back to the car leaving a puzzled BAKER’S MAN behind.) 42: EXT. ROAD (The DOCTOR and JO have made it back to the road at the point where a branch blocked Bessie’s progress the night before.) DOCTOR: Right. (They both grab the branch and heave it to the side of the road.) DOCTOR: Get the saw, will you? JO: Yes. (JO grabs a saw which they used to cut the branch into movable pieces and they both climb into Bessie. The DOCTOR starts up the car and they drive off.) 43: EXT. FARM ROAD (The BRIGADIER’S car approaches the village from another direction. It stops and the BRIGADIER and his driver approach a strip of burnt earth identical to that on the previous road. This one goes right over the roof of a concrete out-building. The air is again filled with the high-pitched sound of a brisk wind. The BRIGADIER picks up a stick and throws it into the barrier. It explodes in a puff of smoke on contact.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (To the driver.) Right, that settles it. We’d better try and raise the Doctor. (He goes back to the car to get his radio...) 44: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR (...and is soon receiving an update from YATES.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Into radio.) And, er, that’s about it, sir - over. 45: EXT. FARM ROAD BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) I see, Yates. So, the Doctor was frozen stiff at the barrow and was then revived by a freak heatwave, Benton was beaten up by invisible forces and the local white witch claims she’s seen the devil? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Over radio.) Yes, sir. I know it sounds a bit wild... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) It does indeed, Yates. Now listen, I’m bringing up some men to investigate this heat barrier. Let me talk to the Doctor. Over. 46: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Into radio.) I’m afraid you can’t, sir. He’s gone up to the dig with Jo. Over. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Over radio.) I see. Well Yates, anything further revelations? (YATES glances at MISS HAWTHORNE and BENTON who are sat drinking tea nearby. He smiles to himself.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Into radio.) Just one, sir. 47: EXT. FARM ROAD BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Well, what is it? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Over radio.) We’ve found out who’s at the bottom of all this - it’s the Master. Over and out. (The BRIGADIER’S lips purse and he slams home the aerial on his radio.) 48: INT. VICARAGE HALLWAY (The MASTER stands in front of a tapestry picture of a scripture quote which reads “Nothing in my hand I bring”. His face is dark.) MASTER: Still alive are you, Doctor? Very well. (He closes his eyes and starts to mutter an incantation. There is a sound of demonic energy and then the noise of flapping wings. The MASTER goes up some stairs to a landing and looks out of the window as something outside flies up into the air...) 49: EXT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW (Bessie sh**t down a road at high speed and approaches the barrow. The car stops and the DOCTOR and JO run out to where the body of PC GROOM lies crushed under the remains of the gate. The DOCTOR briefly examines the man.) DOCTOR: Ah, poor fellah. JO: Do you know what k*lled him? DOCTOR: Well it certainly wasn’t the devil - at least not exactly. JO: What do you mean? DOCTOR: Look, I’m going in. Would you prefer to wait outside? JO: No. I’d rather stick with you - if I wouldn’t be in the way. DOCTOR: No, of course not. I’d be glad of the company. Come on. (They step over the now dislodged planks at the entrance to the barrow and walk down the canvas tunnel. After they have gone, a creature rises up out of sight on the other side of the barrow. With a hideous face and horns, complete with wings on its back, it is the living stone gargoyle missing from the cavern - BOK.) 50: INT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW. INNER CHAMBER (The DOCTOR and JO go through the hole in the wall and into the inner chamber of the barrow. The DOCTOR has a torch and plays it over the round stone wall of the chamber.) JO: What are you looking for? DOCTOR: If my theory’s right, we’re all in mortal danger. JO: Everyone in the village? DOCTOR: Everyone in the whole world. (The DOCTOR shines the torch round and spots something.) DOCTOR: Ahh... (He goes over to a small bump on the floor, JO following.) 51: EXT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW (Outside, BOK the gargoyle scampers down the side of the barrow.) 52: INT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW. INNER CHAMBER (The DOCTOR pushes away soil and reveals a metallic object.) JO: What is it? DOCTOR: Metal. JO: It looks like a model spaceship. DOCTOR: That’s right. Except that it isn’t a model. JO: What is it then? DOCTOR: Jo, look at the shape of this tomb. (He shines the torch round on the shape of the walls.) JO: Well, it looks like that spaceship. DOCTOR: A different size, that’s all. Now you try picking it up. (JO crouches down and tries to pick up the metal object.) JO: I can’t. It’s fixed down. DOCTOR: The reason why you can’t pick it up is that is weighs...oh, about seven hundred and fifty tonnes, at a rough guess. JO: Oh, come on, be serious! DOCTOR: Be serious? All right. About a hundred thousand years ago... 53: EXT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW (Bristling with demonic power, BOK sh**t into the canvas tunnel...) 54: INT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW. INNER CHAMBER (And comes roaring into the inner chamber. The DOCTOR and JO leap back as the creature rushes for them...)
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THE DÆMONS BY: GUY LEOPOLD EPISODE THREE Original Air Date: 5 June, 1971 6:10pm - 6:35pm 1: INT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW. INNER CHAMBER (The DOCTOR pushes away soil and reveals a metallic object.) JO: What is it? DOCTOR: Metal. JO: It looks like a model spaceship. DOCTOR: That’s right. Except that it isn’t a model. JO: What is it then? DOCTOR: Jo, look at the shape of this tomb. (He shines the torch round.) JO: Well, it looks like that spaceship. DOCTOR: A different size, that’s all. Now you try picking it up. (JO crouches down and tries to pick up the metal object.) JO: I can’t. It’s fixed down. DOCTOR: The reason why you can’t pick it up is that is weighs...oh, about seven hundred and fifty tonnes, at a rough guess. JO: Oh, come on, be serious! DOCTOR: Be serious? All right. About a hundred thousand years ago... 2: EXT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW (Bristling with demonic power, BOK sh**t into the canvas tunnel...) 3: INT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW. INNER CHAMBER (And comes roaring into the inner chamber. The DOCTOR and JO leap back as the creature rushes for them. The DOCTOR passes JO the torch.) DOCTOR: Hold this! (She takes it as he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a small trowel. He holds this up before the gargoyle and calls out...) DOCTOR: Klokleda Partha Mennin Klatch! (The gargoyle staggers backwards, holding its arms up to its face.) 4: INT. VICARAGE HALLWAY (The MASTER opens his eyes in puzzlement, then closes them again, muttering another incantation under his breath.) 5: INT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW. INNER CHAMBER (BOK judders and staggers as the DOCTOR continues to hold up the trowel to it.) 6: INT. VICARAGE HALLWAY MASTER: What’s happening, Bok? Why do you not att*ck?! 7: INT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW. INNER CHAMBER (BOK continues to shake in confusion...) 8: INT. VICARAGE HALLWAY MASTER: You must! You must! There’s nothing to fear. It’s just mumbo jumbo! I... (He sighs in anger.) MASTER: Oh, very well, return. Return! (He opens his blazing eyes.) 9: INT. DEVIL’S HUMP BARROW. INNER CHAMBER (BOK staggers backwards and, with one last growl at the DOCTOR and JO, runs out of the tomb. They hear the flapping of his wings as he flies off. The DOCTOR peers down the tunnel to make sure that the gargoyle has gone.) DOCTOR: Phew! JO: How did you do that? (He holds up the trowel.) DOCTOR: Iron. It’s an old magical defence. JO: But you don’t believe in magic. DOCTOR: I don’t, but he did - luckily. JO: And was that a...spell you said? DOCTOR: No, it’s the first line of an old Venusian lullaby, as a matter of fact. Roughly translated it goes “Close your eyes, my darling. Well three of them, at least”! (JO laughs and hands him back the torch.) JO: Doctor! DOCTOR: I must admit, that thing took me completely by surprise. JO: What was it? DOCTOR: Well, it looked like a gargoyle made of stone. JO: But it was alive. DOCTOR: In a sense, yes. JO: But that wasn’t what Miss Hawthorne described, surely? DOCTOR: No, the creature she saw must have been a hundred times more hideous. JO: And never of them were the...devil? DOCTOR: No, not your mythical devil, Jo, no. Something far more real...and far more dangerous. 10: INT. VICARAGE HALLWAY (WINSTANLEY is at the vicarage. The MASTER, wearing his black rimmed glasses again, speaks to him in an imperious tone...) MASTER: Now see here, Winstanley. This is an emergency! It’s up to you to call a meeting of the village and start behaving like the Squire. WINSTANLEY: (Angrily.) You may be the vicar, but I’ll thank you not to take that tone with me! MASTER: Ah, a man of spirit are you? That’s exactly what’s wanted at a time like this. WINSTANLEY: I still don’t understand what you’re talking about. MASTER: Decadence - that’s what I’m talking about. It’s what I see on every side. All this talk of “democracy”, “freedom”, “liberty”. (He takes off his glasses and stares intently at WINSTANLEY.) MASTER: What this country needs is strength, power and decision! And those are what you can give to it. (WINSTANLEY stares back, held by the MASTER’S gaze.) WINSTANLEY: Yes...yes, you’re right of course. MASTER: I am the Master. I control a power which can save this world. If you choose, you can share my triumph. WINSTANLEY: Power? What power? MASTER: I control the forces that have been released in Devil’s End over the last few hours. (WINSTANLEY’S trance drops...) WINSTANLEY: All that fuss up on the dig? Are you trying to tell me it was you? MASTER: Exactly. WINSTANLEY: Well, that’s ridiculous! MASTER: You need proof, do you? Very well, you shall have it! (The MASTER steps to one side and starts muttering an incantation under his breath. A demonic bubbling sound fills the air and the doors to the outside burst open allowing a howling wind to fill the hallway. It blows a vase and papers off the table, a light fitting from the ceiling and a picture off the wall. WINSTANLEY starts to panic and shouts to the still MASTER.) WINSTANLEY: Stop it! Stop it! (A plant stand is blown off the staircase landing. The MASTER slowly opens his eyes and the wind dies down. He glances over his shoulder to the shaken Squire.) MASTER: Well? WINSTANLEY: I’ll do anything you say. (The MASTER smiles.) 11: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR (MISS HAWTHORNE walks into the pub carrying a pile of large books. YATES is with her carrying a small slide projector.) MISS HAWTHORNE: There you are, Doctor. DOCTOR: Oh, thank you, Miss Hawthorne. Let me help you. (He takes the books off her and takes them over to a table. JO and BENTON - recovered but covered in cuts and bruises - follow and watch.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Oh, thank you. The pick of the finest collection of occult material in the country, though why you wanted me to bring it, I don’t know. DOCTOR: You’ve all been asking me for explanations, perhaps these will help me to provide them. MISS HAWTHORNE: Well, there is only one possible explanation - this is the supernatural at work. DOCTOR: Nonsense! SERGEANT BENTON: Yes, well, what about the thing that got me? That was real enough. DOCTOR: Nothing more real than a force field, sergeant. Even a psionic one. (The DOCTOR holds up slides to the light to look through them.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Oh, you’re being deliberately obtuse! We’re dealing with the supernatural - the occult, magic! DOCTOR: Science! MISS HAWTHORNE: (Shouts.) Magic! DOCTOR: Science, Miss Hawthorne! CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Look, whatever it is, how do we stop it? JO: Well, how can we stop it without knowing what it is? DOCTOR: Well done, Jo. You’re being logical at last. I’ll turn you into a scientist yet! Right, if there are no more interruptions, I’ll tell you what it is. (But he is stopped by a bleeping from YATES’ radio. He reaches into his pocket for it and smiles at the DOCTOR.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Sorry! (Into radio.) Greyhound two, come in please, over. 12: INT. UNIT MOBILE HQ (The BRIGADIER sits in the mobile UNIT HQ at a radio set. SGT. OSGOOD sits at another set on the other side of the room.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Greyhound two to trap two, is that you, Yates? Now, what’s going on there? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (OOV: Over radio.) Quite a bit, but I don’t think you’d believe me, even if I told you. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Well, the thing is we can’t get past this wretched heat barrier. It incinerates anything that tries, over. 13: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Into radio.) Can’t you go round it, Brigadier? Over. 14: INT. UNIT MOBILE HQ BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio, sarcastically.) The thought had occurred to me, Captain. I sent out patrols but as far as I can see... (SGT. OSGOOD brings over a piece of paper which the BRIGADIER reads.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Well, that settles it. The perimeter of this thing is an unbroken circle ten miles... 15: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (OOV: Over radio.) ...in diameter. Its centre being the village church, over. DOCTOR: (To CAPTAIN YATES.) Give me that. (He takes the radio off YATES.) DOCTOR: (Into radio.) Hello, Lethbridge Stewart? The Doctor here. What about going over the top of it? 16: INT. UNIT MOBILE HQ (The BRIGADIER hears the noise of a jet overhead.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) The RAF are just coming through now. Hang on a minute. (He runs to the door and looks outside.) 17: EXT. DEVIL’S END ENVIRONS (A sleek jet flies over.) 18: INT. UNIT MOBILE HQ (The BRIGADIER runs back in where SGT. OSGOOD is picking up the radio message from the RAF Pilot. It is relayed through the room.) RAF PILOT: (OOV: Over radio.) Red-zero-four to greyhound two - no soap, repeat, no soap. Last test canister exploded at altitude four-five-zero-zero feet. Estimate dome shaped area above village approximately one mile high at apogee, over. SGT. OSGOOD: (Into radio.) Thank you, zero-four. Received and understood. RAF PILOT: (OOV: Over radio.) Over and out. (The BRIGADIER goes back to his radio set.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Do you hear that, Doctor? We’re locked out, over. 19: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR DOCTOR: (Into radio.) Or we’re locked in. All right, Brigadier, we’ll keep in touch. (He switches off the radio.) 20: INT. UNIT MOBILE HQ BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Doctor? Doctor? Yates?! (The BRIGADIER sits down and pushes his cap back.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Typical! 21: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR (The DOCTOR has drawn on a piece of paper a diagram which shows the village church at its centre towered over by a huge dome - the heat barrier.) DOCTOR: Right, that’s it. Now, as you can see, we’re smack in the middle of a sort of lethal mushroom, about ten miles across and a mile high. Now... CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: I can understand that part of it all right, but can’t you explain the wider issues, Doctor? DOCTOR: Yes, all right. Jo, Captain Yates, would you mind drawing the curtains? (JO and MIKE go to either end of the room and pull the curtains, putting the room into semi-darkness. SERGEANT BENTON pulls out a chair for MISS HAWTHORNE to sit on, next to the slide projector, behind which the DOCTOR sits.) DOCTOR: Come on, Jo, stir your stumps! (JO returns.) DOCTOR: Now then, all right? (JO nods and the DOCTOR turns on the projector. Displayed on a portable screen is a slide of a ancient artifact showing a bull-like creature.) DOCTOR: Now then, tell me - who’s that? JO: An Egyptian god, isn’t it? DOCTOR: Top of the class, Jo, top of the class. That’s right, that’s the Egyptian god Khnum - with horns. (He changes the slide. This shows a far bigger creature.) DOCTOR: Now, there’s another one. A Hindu demon... JO & YATES & BENTON & MISS HAWTHORNE: (Interrupting together.) With horns! DOCTOR: (Taken back.) Oh...thank you very much! (He changes the slide again to show a early representation of the devil.) DOCTOR: And our old friend...the horned beast. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: I don’t get it... DOCTOR: (Interrupting.) Probably because I haven’t finished, Captain Yates! CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Oh sorry, Doctor. MISS HAWTHORNE: Oh, you could go on all day and all night showing us pretty pictures. I mean, horns have been a symbol of power ever since... DOCTOR: (Interrupting.) Ever since man began? (The DOCTOR has changed the slide again. This time it shows three almost identical creatures - all with horns.) DOCTOR: Exactly, but why? All right, Captain Yates, the curtains. (MIKE opens the curtains behind the DOCTOR. He walks round to the other side of the projector to address the group.) DOCTOR: Now creatures like those have been seen over and over again throughout the history of man. And man has turned them into myths, gods or devils, but they’re neither. They are, in fact, creatures from another world. SERGEANT BENTON: Do you mean like the Axons and the Cybermen? DOCTOR: Precisely, only far, far older and immeasurably more dangerous. JO: And they came here in spaceships like that tiny one up at the barrow? DOCTOR: That’s right. They’re Dæmons from the planet Dæmos... (To JO.) ...which is? (She tells MIKE and BENTON what the DOCTOR had told her up at the barrow...) JO: Sixty thousand light years away on the other side of the galaxy. DOCTOR: And they first came to Earth nearly one hundred thousand years ago. 22: INT. VICARAGE HALLWAY (A group of villagers have gathered in the vicarage hallway, including WINSTANLEY and TOM GIRTON. As they chatter, the MASTER pulls the Squire to one side and they walk up the stairs to the first landing from where they can address the group.) MASTER: Now, you’d better explain to them all why you’ve brought them together, then leave the rest to me. WINSTANLEY: Yes. (WINSTANLEY claps his hands for silence.) WINSTANLEY: Meeting to order, please. (The group falls silent.) WINSTANLEY: Thank you, thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Well now, it seemed to me that we ought to get together and discuss the situation, before it gets out of hand. (The group mutters its agreement.) WINSTANLEY: Now it seems...that the vicar here has had a few thoughts on the subject. So I’ve asked him to put in a word. Er, Mr. Magister. MASTER: Thank you. (The MASTER steps forward and looks down on the group.) 23: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR (The DOCTOR’S explanation continues...) JO: A spaceship, fifteen inches long? DOCTOR: That’s right. Mind you, when it landed it was two hundred feet long and thirty feet across. But they diminished it, just as they diminished themselves, which accounts for the heatwave and the freeze-up. JO: (Puzzled.) Mmm? Sorry, could you say that again? I didn’t quite follow you. DOCTOR: Oh, come on, Jo. E=MC2! JO: You’re the Doctor! DOCTOR: (Exasperated.) Look, when you lose mass the energy has to go somewhere. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: I see, so all we’ve got to deal with is something which is either too small to see or thirty feet tall, can incinerate you or freeze you to death, turns stone images into homicidal monsters and looks like the very devil! DOCTOR: Exactly. SERGEANT BENTON: Well, I still don’t get it. I mean, what’s the creature doing here? I mean, why did they ever come? DOCTOR: To help h*m* kick out Neanderthal man. They’ve been coming and going ever since. Mmm, the Greek civilisation, the renaissance, the industrial revolution - they were all inspired by the Dæmons. MISS HAWTHORNE: But this thing the Professor let loose is evil - you said so yourself and...now you’re trying to say they’ve been helping mankind for a hundred thousand years? JO: Yes, and you say they come from another planet - then what’s all this jazz about witchcraft and covens and so on? DOCTOR: Look, don’t you see? All the magical traditions are just remnants of their advanced science and that is what the Master is using. MISS HAWTHORNE: Then these creatures are linked with the black arts. They are evil! DOCTOR: Amoral perhaps. They help Earth but on their own terms. It’s a scientific experiment to them - just another laboratory rat. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Then what’s the Master up to? DOCTOR: He’s established a link with the Dæmon. (Worried.) What worries me is the choice - domination by the Master or total annihilation. JO: Well, this Dæmon could destroy the world? DOCTOR: Oh, what does any scientist do with an experiment that fails? He chucks it in the rubbish bin. JO: The end of the world! 24: INT. VICARAGE HALLWAY (The MASTER’S address begins...) MASTER: Now, a...as I told you, this is not going to be a sermon! (There is a small amount of laughter.) MASTER: But all the same, I do beg of you to listen carefully. Because this could be the most important day in your lives. (Several of the villagers look at each other.) MASTER: Now as you know, I am a newcomer among you, and yet...already I feel that I know you all. For instance, you, Mr. Thorpe... (They all look at the indicated man who smiles.) MASTER: Are you still padding the grocery bills of the local gentry? (The group start to mutter as the smile disappears from a shaken THORPE’S face.) THORPE: What...what are you on about - that’s slander. MASTER: Now, now don’t deny it - I know. (He looks at another villager.) MASTER: And you Charlie - how’s your conscience? Do you think you’ll manage to balance the post office books in time? (Charlie starts to look sheepish and shuffle on his feet as the villagers mutter again. The MASTER then addresses a man stood near to him.) MASTER: And you, Mr. Grenville - has your wife come back from her sisters yet? Will she ever come back, do you suppose? (Mr. Grenville looks round the group in shock. Some of them grin back at him but an angry muttering is breaking out.) MASTER: Now, now look please. Please do not be angry with me. I assure you that I’m on your side. Now listen, if you do what I say, you can all of you get whatever you want in this world, when you want it, if...you listen to me! 25: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR (The DOCTOR has donned his cloak.) DOCTOR: Now the Dæmon will appear three times and the third time he’ll probably tell us what our fate is to be. Now he’ll be in the cavern somewhere awaiting the Master’s second call. SERGEANT BENTON: Then if we know where he is, why don’t we go and find him? DOCTOR: You’d be wasting your time, Sergeant. At the moment he’s so small he’s...practically invisible. JO: Well, Doctor... DOCTOR: (Interrupting.) Jo, would you give me a piece of paper and a pencil, please? (The DOCTOR goes to a table and sits as JO brings him the requested items. BERT appears and leans over a nearby settle, every inch the convivial landlord.) BERT THE LANDLORD: I wondered if you’d all care for a bite to eat? SERGEANT BENTON: Yes, please. JO: No, thanks. Not just now. The Doctor’s a bit busy. BERT THE LANDLORD: Ah. Well, er, is it all right if I get on with a bit of clearing up? JO: Yes, fine, if you could do it quietly though. BERT THE LANDLORD: You won’t know I’m here. JO: Thank you. (BERT starts at his task as CAPTAIN YATES’ radio bleeps. He answers it.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Into radio.) Greyhound two? Come in please, over. 26: INT. UNIT MOBILE HQ BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Is that you, Yates? Now look, we’re going to blast our way in. I’m calling up the a*tillery and RAF strike command. You lot had better evacuate to the cellar... 27: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (OOV: Over radio.) ...over. DOCTOR: What? (To CAPTAIN YATES.) Give me that. (The DOCTOR takes the radio as nearby BERT listens carefully.) DOCTOR: (Into radio.) You’ll do no such thing, Lethbridge Stewart! Of all the idiotic suggestions! In the first place, the energy released would only strengthen the barrier, in the second place it would provoke the most appalling reprisals and in the third place I’ve got a better idea! Over. 28: INT. UNIT MOBILE HQ BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio, angrily.) Well, what? I’m not going to sit here like a spare... (He stops and collects himself.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Like a spare lemon waiting for the squeezer! Do you hear me, over. 29: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR DOCTOR: (Into radio.) Have you got the mobile HQ there? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (OOV: Over radio.) Yes, of course. DOCTOR: (Into radio.) With the new Mark 4A condenser unit? 30: INT. UNIT MOBILE HQ (The BRIGADIER looks over to SGT. OSGOOD who nods.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Apparently. (OSGOOD walks over and stands next to the BRIGADIER.) DOCTOR: (OOV: Over radio.) Good, then I’ve got your problem solved and mine. We’re going to build a diothermic energy exchanger. Is your technical fellow there? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) He’s listening. 31: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR DOCTOR: (Into radio.) Right, well tell him to build an EHF wide-band width variable phase oscillator, with a negative feedback circuit tunable to the frequency of an air molecule at, erm, what is the temperature up at the barrier, Brigadier? 32: INT. UNIT MOBILE HQ (OSGOOD shrugs and walks away.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) We’ve no idea what you’re talking about, Doctor, over. 33: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR DOCTOR: (Into radio.) Well, it’s a simple enough question, over. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (OOV: Over radio.) No, what you said earlier - the oscillating feedback bit. DOCTOR: (Into radio.) All right, I’ll come out and explain it to you myself. (Wiping a nearby table, BERT hears this and moves through the bar and into the back room as the DOCTOR continues.) DOCTOR: Yates and Benton can stay here and keep an eye open. Only don’t touch anything until I get there - understood? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (OOV: Over radio.) All right, Doctor, we’ll try it your way, but get a move on, will you? DOCTOR: (Into radio.) I’ll be with you in ten minutes. 34: INT. UNIT MOBILE HQ BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Make it five, over and out. 35: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR (The DOCTOR pushes the aerial of the radio back in, gets up and passes the device back to MIKE.) JO: Of all the idiotic plans. As if bl*wing things up solves anything! DOCTOR: Jo, the Brigadier is doing his best to cope with an almost impossible situation. And since he is your superior officer, you might at least show him a little respect. (JO’S mouth opens at this put down.) DOCTOR: Coming? (She follows the DOCTOR out of the pub. BENTON smiles as he watches her go but quickly adopts a more somber tone as MIKE turns and looks at him.) 36: INT. VICARAGE HALLWAY (The MASTER’S appeal to the villagers continues...) MASTER: I ask you what you want in life and I offer it to you. I tell you that everything is possible if you do as I say - everything! (BERT enters the vicarage.) BERT THE LANDLORD: Mr. Magister! MASTER: (Angrily.) Why do you interrupt me? BERT THE LANDLORD: The Doctor, he’s trying... (The MASTER puts a finger to his lips...) MASTER: Shh! (...and walks down from the landing to where BERT whispers in his ear. As the villagers mutter, the MASTER gives him whispered instructions back. BERT nods and leaves. The MASTER snaps his fingers and signals to TOM GIRTON to come over. He does so.) MASTER: Girton... (GIRTON hears more whispered instructions. He nods his head and leaves the vicarage. The MASTER goes back up the landing next to a frowning WINSTANLEY and recommences his speech to the crowd but the atmosphere towards him has markedly changed and the people now view him with suspicion.) MASTER: Now please, as I was telling you - the whole world can be ours! I only need two things - your submission and your obedience to my will! WINSTANLEY: What’s all this about obedience and submission? You said that we were going to rule. MASTER: (Caustically.) You rule?! Huh! Why you’re all less than dust beneath my feet! (An angry hubbub breaks out from the crowd...) WINSTANLEY: Preposterous! MASTER: You choose to question me, do you? Very well, I’ll give you another choice - obey me or I shall destroy you! (The crowds mutterings grow angrier...) WINSTANLEY: (To the MASTER.) Well, if that’s your brave new world, you can keep it! (To the villagers.) I’m getting out of here and if the rest of you have got any sense, you’ll come with me. (He walks down the stairs and joins the rest of the villagers.) THORPE: I reckon the Squire’s right. Come on, let’s get out of here! (Back on the landing, the MASTER closes his eyes and starts to mutter an incantation. Suddenly, BOK jumps in from an open window and looks to the MASTER for instructions. The villagers, particularly WINSTANLEY, cower back in fear. The MASTER points at WINSTANLEY who is holding up his hands in a pathetic attempt at protection. BOK turns and points a hand at the Squire. A bolt of f*re sh**t from the hand and the Squire is atomised in a puff of smoke. The villagers cry out in alarm.) MASTER: Right, does anybody else agree with the Squire? (No one does...) MASTER: Thank you. It does my heart good to know I have such a willing band of followers! (THORPE and his neighbours look at the MASTER in fear.) MASTER: Now, today is May Day. Go and enjoy yourselves. Celebrate the festival with your families. When I need you all, I shall summon you again. (The villagers leave the vicarage and the MASTER turns to a waiting and twitching BOK.) 37: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (TOM GIRTON runs towards the UNIT helicopter and climbs inside.) 38: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR (CAPTAIN YATES sees this from the pub and dashes outside.) 39: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (The blades of the helicopter start to rotate. GIRTON has a flying helmet in his hands which, when MIKE pulls the helicopter door open, he uses as a w*apon to throw at YATES, knocking him to the ground. GIRTON jumps out of the helicopter and picks the soldier up, only to throw him back down and try to return to the machine. MIKE runs after him and grabs him round the neck but GIRTON easily throws him off and turns to face him. MIKE jumps up and punches GIRTON straight in the face but, to YATES’ amazement, the villager hardly seems hurt by the blow. MIKE punches again but GIRTON grabs his arm and knocks him to the ground. He runs back to the helicopter and it takes off as MIKE shakes his head and, still somewhat dazed, watches it fly off into the sky above the village. MIKE spots his p*stol which fell out of his jacket in the fight, picks it up and fires at the helicopter but he has no effect. He looks round and spots and motorcycle parked nearby. He jumps on it, starts it up and drives off out of the village.) 40: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (Bessie proceeds along a country road when JO spots the helicopter approaching.) JO: Look! (The DOCTOR stops the car as the helicopter comes in low and skims over the top of them. They duck and look over their shoulders.) DOCTOR: What’s happening? I told Yates and Benton to stay in the pub! (The helicopter turns and makes another low pass.) DOCTOR: Who’s flying that thing?! That’s not Benton! (JO looks behind them.) JO: Well it’s certainly not Mike - look! (She points at the figure of CAPTAIN YATES who is catching them up on the motorcycle in the distance. JO then sees the helicopter coming back in.) JO: Well, however it is, he’s trying to k*ll us. (The DOCTOR re-starts Bessie.) DOCTOR: Hang on, Jo, we’re in for a bumpy ride! (They move off at speed down the road, the helicopter buzzing them as they proceed. MIKE catches them up and rides abreast.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Shouts.) He’s handling it like an expert! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Like a man possessed, you mean! (The helicopter turns again.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Look out, he’s coming back! CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Shouts.) I’ll try and drive off! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) No, you keep away. It’s me he’s after, not you! (YATES gives the DOCTOR a thumbs-up sign and pulls away. GIRTON smiles and comes in low again over BESSIE. Over at the nearby heat barrier, the BRIGADIER, surrounded by UNIT troops, lowers his binoculars in puzzlement.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What’s Captain Yates up to? He’ll k*ll the lot of them! SGT. OSGOOD: No sir, that’s Captain Yates over there. (OSGOOD nods over to where YATES is f*ring up at the helicopter from his moving motorcycle. The helicopter comes in low again over Bessie.) JO: What’s he trying to do?! DOCTOR: He’s trying to drive us into the heat barrier! (YATES fires again at the turning helicopter which makes another low pass at the DOCTOR and JO. Watching this ahead, the BRIGADIER realises what is happening...) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: He’s heading straight for the heat barrier! (He lowers his binoculars and starts to wildly wave his arms.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Shouts.) Get back! Back! (The DOCTOR sees the burnt strip of earth getting nearer and nearer as the two vehicle approach.) JO: It’s the heat barrier - we’re heading straight for it! (At the barrier, OSGOOD has joined his superior officer in waving his arms in alarm.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Shouts.) Back! (The helicopter comes in low again...) DOCTOR: Hang tight, Jo! Hang on tight - now! (Mere feet from the barrier, he swerves to the right but JO falls out of the car as he does so. GIRTON cannot turn in time and flies straight into the barrier. The UNIT helicopter explodes in a huge fireball. The DOCTOR sees this and then looks down to where JO stops rolling across the ground and lies still.) 41: EXT. VILLAGE CHURCHYARD (In the village churchyard, the MASTER a plume of black smoke on the horizon. He smiles, pats a gravestone in satisfaction and enters the church.) 42: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (The DOCTOR jumps out of Bessie and runs over to JO where he examines her. YATES brings the motorcycle to a stop and joins the DOCTOR.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: How is she? DOCTOR: She’s had a nasty knock on the head. She’ll be all right. You’d better load her into Bessie and take her down to the pub. ... CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Okay, what about you? DOCTOR: Well, I’d better go and have a word with the Brigadier. He’s probably bursting a blood vessel by now. (YATES grins and starts to pick up JO. The DOCTOR gets onto the motorcycle and starts it up, setting off for the UNIT convoy as YATES puts JO into Bessie.) 43: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (The MASTER, with BOK scampering excitedly ahead of him, enters the cavern. He is again wearing his red satanic robes. The MASTER points to his plinth and the gargoyle runs over to it. The MASTER then approaches the altar. He bows his head.) 44: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (At the heat barrier, the DOCTOR stops the motorcycle and gets off, approaching the strip of burnt earth. On the other side of it, a non-too pleased BRIGADIER is waiting.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Twenty thousand pounds of UNIT money gone up in a puff of smoke! DOCTOR: You’ve got the mind of an accountant, Lethbridge Stewart! So, this is your heat barrier is it? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, and I advise you to keep your distance. DOCTOR: Yes? (The DOCTOR picks up a rock and throws it into the air in front of him. A small expl*si*n destroys it. Despite himself, the DOCTOR is impressed.) DOCTOR: Mmm, even rock. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Wood, rock, four-inch armour plate - you name it, we’ve tried it. It’s impenetrable. DOCTOR: A hasty and inaccurate assessment, Brigadier. Tell me, have you got enough cable to reach those high tension pylons over there. (He points towards some electric pylons which run across a nearby field.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, we should have, why? DOCTOR: We’ll need at least ten-thousand volts to get through this lot. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: All right, I’ll lay things on. DOCTOR: Good, only please hurry - we may have very little time left. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Sergeant Osgood? SGT. OSGOOD: Sir? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: You’d better come and listen to the Doctor. You’ve got to build the wretched thing. (OSGOOD runs up.) SGT. OSGOOD: (To the DOCTOR.) What’s the principal, sir? DOCTOR: Negative diothermic, sergeant. Buffer the molecular movement of the air with a reverse phase short-waves. It’s quite simple. SGT. OSGOOD: Simple? It’s impossible! DOCTOR: Yes, well, according to classical aerodynamics, it’s impossible for a bumblebee to fly! 45: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (The MASTER lights some black candles on the altar and starts to mutter an incantation under his breath...) MASTER: By the power of earth, by the power of air, by the power of f*re eternal and the waters of the deep, I conjure thee and charge thee Azal - arise, arise at my command, Azal, arise, arise. 46: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. GUEST ROOM (JO lies in the bed in the guest room, recently vacated by the DOCTOR. CAPTAIN YATES and DR. REEVES attend her. JO is delirious, her head thrashing from side to side, her eyes closed and calling out...) JO: The cavern - he said the danger was in the cavern! DR. REEVES: Just lie still, my dear, try and relax. JO: But the... DR. REEVES: This won’t hurt. (He swabs her arm.) JO: But the Doctor - I must help him find the Master! CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Take it easy, Jo. As soon as he gets back, we’ll all go and sort the Master out. Now don’t worry. (DR. REEVES gives JO an injection.) JO: But we must go now...there’s no...time... (She falls silent as the injection takes effect.) DR. REEVES: That’s better. A few hours sleep and she’ll be as right as rain. 47: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN MASTER: Eo evoheh! Eo evoheh Azal! I will speak with you! Show yourself! (A rumbling breaks out and a cold mist starts to fill the cavern. BOK looks round as a film of ice appears on the MASTER’S face. He turns and stares as something starts to rise from the painted stone and grows in height over him. A look of alarm appears on his face as the earth starts to shake and he falls to the ground.) 48: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (The tremors reach the heat barrier, throwing the DOCTOR and the men from UNIT around.) 49: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. GUEST ROOM (They are enough to wake JO from her drug-induced sleep...) 50: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR (...while downstairs, YATES, BENTON and MISS HAWTHORNE try to hold onto the bar and avoid flying glass and other objects.) MISS HAWTHORNE: The dæmon! If he comes out, we shall all die! 51: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (The manifestation approaches the MASTER who slides back across the floor in panic...) MASTER: (Shouts.) No, no stop! Go back to the mark! Go back! You will destroy me! No! No!
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THE DÆMONS BY: GUY LEOPOLD EPISODE FOUR Original Air Date: 12 June, 1971 6:10pm - 6:35pm 1: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN MASTER: Eo evoheh! Eo evoheh Azal! I will speak with you! Show yourself! (A rumbling breaks out and a cold mist starts to fill the cavern. BOK looks round as a film of ice appears on the MASTER’S face. He turns and stares as something starts to rise from the painted stone and grows in height over him. A look of alarm appears on his face as the earth starts to shake and he falls to the ground.) 2: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (The tremors reach the heat barrier, throwing the DOCTOR and the men from UNIT around.) 3: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. GUEST ROOM (They are enough to wake JO from her drug-induced sleep...) 4: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR (...while downstairs, YATES, BENTON and MISS HAWTHORNE try to hold onto the bar and avoid flying glass and other objects.) MISS HAWTHORNE: The dæmon! If he comes out, we shall all die! 5: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (The manifestation approaches the MASTER who slides back across the floor in panic...) MASTER: (Shouts.) No, no stop! Go back to the mark! 6: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (The tremors have ceased and an impatient DOCTOR is haranguing the UNIT troops again...) DOCTOR: Now get a move on with the heat exchanger! We’ve got to get it charged and through this barrier and down to the village before it’s too late. (SGT. OSGOOD and another soldier lift a large piece of machinery into the back of an open jeep and fit it into place over a second device which is already secured there.) 7: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (The MASTER crawls backwards towards a pillar. The whole cavern is suffused in a red glow and the sound of a wind howls through the chamber.) MASTER: No! No, back! Back! (The MASTER sees a large candle-stand, leaps to his feet and brandishes it in front of him as a w*apon.) MASTER: In the name of the unspeakable one - back! (There is a rumble like thunder.) MASTER: Nackniad seriatach, back! 8: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. GUEST ROOM (JO is sat up in bed - a state of shock registering on her face.) JO: The cavern! I must get to the cavern! (Still dressed, she throws the bedsheets back, jumps up and makes for the door, grabbing her jacket on the way. She climbs down a couple of steps which lead down to the bedroom door and opens it but halts in her tracks when she hears voices downstairs. She listens...) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (OOV: In main bar.) Well, I’m going down to the cavern to see what’s going on. MISS HAWTHORNE: (OOV: In main bar.) You can’t, dear boy, the Doctor told us to stay here. SERGEANT BENTON: (OOV: In main bar.) Well, anyway, we can’t just leave Jo alone. (JO shuts the door and climbs back into the main body of the room. She looks out of the window next to the bed and then, putting her jacket on, crosses to the window at the back of the room. She opens it...) 9: EXT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. BACK YARD (...and climbs out onto the roof of a small extension that juts out of the back of the pub. There is a small stepladder already placed there which JO uses to descend to ground level. Once down, she walks down a passage at the side of the pub...) 10: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (...and emerges at the front of the pub on the village green where Bessie is parked. She checks to ensure that she has not been seen and then runs off towards the church.) 11: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR (Inside the pub, CAPTAIN YATES picks up another piece of fallen furniture and then makes for the door.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: I’m going to see what’s happening. (MISS HAWTHORNE and then SERGEANT BENTON both run forward to stop him.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Oh, you can’t, it’s too dangerous! SERGEANT BENTON: Look, the Doctor told us to stop here, sir. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Oh, all right. 12: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (UNIT soldiers roll forward a drum of cable as SGT. OSGOOD sits in the back of the open jeep connecting the device under the DOCTOR’S watchful and critical eye.) DOCTOR: No, man, no. You’re trying to channel the entire output of the national power complex through one transistor. Reverse it. SGT. OSGOOD: Reverse what? DOCTOR: Reverse the polarity. SGT. OSGOOD: Look, we’d get along much faster if we knew what we were doing. DOCTOR: Yes, I couldn’t agree with you more, sergeant! Now let’s concentrate shall we? (The BRIGADIER comes out of the mobile HQ and goes up to OSGOOD in the jeep.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, I’ve fixed with Nuton for the power to be off for fifteen minutes. Ready to link up? SGT. OSGOOD: No sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well when will you be ready, for heaven’s sake? DOCTOR: About next Christmas, I shouldn’t wonder! At a rough estimate of course. SGT. OSGOOD: (To the DOCTOR, angrily.) Look, if you push ten thousand volts through this lash up you’ll blow it anyway! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Quietly.) Just do as you’re told, sergeant. The Doctor knows what he’s doing. SGT. OSGOOD: Right, sir. (To a soldier.) Right, Jenkins, have you got that junction box lined up? (As OSGOOD climbs out of the jeep to hurry the soldier, the BRIGADIER approaches the heat barrier and speaks quietly to the DOCTOR.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Do you know what you’re doing? DOCTOR: (Grins.) My dear chap, I can’t wait to find out! 13: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (A huge being stands before the MASTER in the cavern. Two enormous cloven feet stand on the ground supporting two legs on which dark hair grows part way down. The bottom half of the creature resembles an animal - it is the Dæmon, AZAL. It speaks in a huge booming voice and when it does so, wind howls as if its words disturb the very elements...) AZAL: Speak! (The MASTER nervously steps forward.) MASTER: I am the Master. I called you here. AZAL: That I know! Tell me why you now call me! MASTER: Give me your knowledge and your power. AZAL: Why?! MASTER: So that I may rule these primitives on Earth here, and help them to fulfill your plan. AZAL: You are not one of their kind! MASTER: No, I’m superior to them - that’s why I should be their leader. AZAL: There is another here of your race! MASTER: (Confidently.) He has been destroyed. AZAL: No! (The MASTER flinches.) AZAL: He lives! (The MASTER licks his lips nervously.) AZAL: I would speak with him! MASTER: (Angrily.) I think not! (AZAL’S raging voice booms even louder and the MASTER jumps back.) AZAL: Take care, creature! With your few pitiful grains of knowledge, you have summoned me here, but I am not your sl*ve...and you are not immortal! (The MASTER bows in supplication.) MASTER: Forgive me, might one, forgive me. Nevertheless, I claim that which is rightfully mine. (The MASTER looks up at a head which is covered in dark ringlets of hair and which sits on a human pair of shoulders.) AZAL: Your mind is superior to mankind’s - and your will is stronger! MASTER: Then I am to be your choice? AZAL: I shall consider! Now leave! MASTER: But you will come again? AZAL: I shall appear but once more! So be warned - there is danger! My race...destroys its failures - remember Atlantis! MASTER: Yes, but surely... AZAL: (Interrupts, shouting.) Be silent! I am the last of the Dæmons. This planet smells to me of failure! It may be that I shall destroy it! You still wish me to come once more?! (The MASTER, although undeniably nervous, nods.) MASTER: I do. AZAL: Very well! Now goooooo! (The MASTER bows hurriedly and runs out of the cavern. As he goes, the air glows white with heat and shimmers, thunder rumbles and the earth shakes.) 14: INT. CHURCH. VESTRY (He runs into the vestry and shuts the door behind him. Even here, the air is white and shimmers. The MASTER pulls at his collar in the hot air and tries to breath but he is nevertheless exultant at the result of his interview with the Dæmon and starts to laugh.) 15: EXT. CHURCHYARD (Outside, JO staggers through the heat and howling wind at the back of the churchyard. She falls against a wall where ivy is thrashed about in the storm. It seems to catch hold of the girl) 16: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR (MIKE YATES falls to the floor in the pub. He tries to get up but the force of the heat and the keeps him down. He too cries out in pain.) 17: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (At the heat barrier, the DOCTOR and the BRIGADIER look towards the village.) DOCTOR: He’s going. Now I must get back. The next time could be the finish. (He looks over to where SGT. OSGOOD is still fixing the machine in the back of the jeep.) DOCTOR: Sergeant Osgood, can you operate that machine now? SGT. OSGOOD: Well, I’m not quite sure... DOCTOR: (Interrupting.) Yes, well, you’ll have to. We may have very little time left. (The DOCTOR walks towards the motorcycle and climbs onto it.) SGT. OSGOOD: Wait, Doctor! I still don’t understand how you lock the pulse generator to the feedback circuit - they’ll never be in phase. DOCTOR: Well of course they won’t! That’s the whole point! SGT. OSGOOD: Well, how do you do it then? DOCTOR: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, well I’ll explain once again - only this time, please listen! 18: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (In the cavern, the Dæmon closes in on the marked stone and returns to its diminished state.) 19: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR (As the heat dies down, YATES clambers to his feet and a thought strikes him.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Jo? (He runs up the stairs...) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Jo! Jo! 20: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. GUEST ROOM (...and into the guest room.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: You all right, Jo? (He sees the empty bed and the open window. He then looks out the front window and realises what has happened.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Little idiot! (He runs back out of the room.) 21: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR (BENTON rights a chair as MISS HAWTHORNE goes behind the bar.) MISS HAWTHORNE: You all right? SERGEANT BENTON: More or less. How about you? MISS HAWTHORNE: Shaken, I’ll admit. (CAPTAIN YATES comes back downstairs as MISS HAWTHORNE starts to pour themselves a couple of drinks.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Jo’s gone -out of the window. I’m going after her. SERGEANT BENTON: Well, do you know where she is, sir? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: I know all right - she’ll have gone to the cavern. MISS HAWTHORNE: No! SERGEANT BENTON: Oh, trust her! CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Look, when the Doc gets back, tell him what’s happened. SERGEANT BENTON: Look, be careful sir. I don’t want you to cop it like I did. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Huh, not if I can help it. (YATES leaves the pub. BENTON goes over to the bar where MISS HAWTHORNE passes him a glass and has one for herself.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Sergeant? SERGEANT BENTON: Thank you. (He takes the glass and swigs the drink back.) 22: INT. CHURCH. VESTRY (BERT is with the MASTER in the church vestry.) MASTER: And make sure you do the job properly. The Doctor’s been in my way for far too long. You know, I was very foolish to speak with Azal alone. Next time, I shall use the full ceremony. Every possible member of the coven must be present. If I’m going to control Azal, I need every ounce of power I can summon up. (BERT nods.) MASTER: Very well. (He opens the door and ushers BERT out.) 23: EXT. CHURCHYARD (Arriving at the front of the churchyard, MIKE sees the vestry door opening and BERT coming out. He runs for cover behind a gravestone and watches BERT leave, get into a car and drive off. MIKE then runs through the main door of the church. On the other side of the building, in the back of the churchyard, the ivy releases its grip and JO falls onto the ground in a d*ad faint.) 24: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (The DOCTOR has drawn a circuit diagram on the glass shield of the motorcycle and is taking the watching OSGOOD and LETHBRIDGE STEWART through it.) DOCTOR: And it comes out here. Right? SGT. OSGOOD: (Uncertain.) Right...I think. DOCTOR: (Exasperated.) Good grief, man! It’s as simple as Einstein’s special theory of relativity! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: We’ll manage, Doctor. DOCTOR: Good. And when you get that thing finished, bring it through the barrier and down to the village at once, all right? (The BRIGADIER nods and the DOCTOR starts up the motorcycle and drives off back to the village. The BRIGADIER goes over to OSGOOD who is back at the machine in the jeep.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Do you know, sergeant, I sometimes wish I worked in a bank! (OSGOOD smiles as the BRIGADIER goes over to some soldiers.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, at the double there! 25: EXT. CHURCHYARD (JO comes round. She gets up and runs off from the ivy in fear. Then she summons her courage, stops and heads back, giving the ivy a wide berth. Making sure that no one is around, she then makes a run for the church.) 26: INT. CHURCH. VESTRY (She enters the now deserted vestry and quickly crosses through it. She goes through the door which leads down to the cavern.) 27: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (She descends the steps and starts to look round the cavern for the first time. Her attention is caught by the effigies at the back of the chamber and she walks along examining them. Suddenly she stops and cries out - sat back on his plinth is Bok, again an inanimate statue. Not realising this JO backs away and doesn’t see a figure which approaches her from behind and clamps a hand over her mouth. She turns to see that it is MIKE.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Shh! They’re in and out all the time. JO: Mike! CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Why didn’t you stay in bed? JO: I had to find out what was going on. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: You’re an idiot! This place is alive with booby traps! JO: What? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Spells, elementals - the Doctor’s force-fields. (JO looks round.) JO: Where...where are they? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: All over. Here, I’ll show you. Give me that book there ... (JO picks up a red book from a nearby table and passes it to MIKE.) JO: Yes. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Now watch this. (He throws the book onto the marked painted stone and it is instantaneously ripped to shreds, the pieces being thrown into the air. MIKE and JO jump back.) JO: It’s a trick! A horrible conjuring trick! CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: You think so? Remember Benton? Now come on, let’s get out of... (They suddenly hear a noise from the vestry.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Shh! (He pulls JO into cover behind a circular railing on the far side of the cavern. A black robed member of the coven enters the chamber and goes up to the altar.) 28: EXT. ROAD (The DOCTOR rides the motorcycle back to the village. As he goes down the winding, tree-lined road, he hears a sh*t. BERT is in lying in wait behind a fallen tree in a field next to the road, r*fle pointed at the moving target. He fires again but misses once more. The DOCTOR drives the bike down a small side track and into a field. BERT aims once more and fires again. The DOCTOR deliberately turns the bike over and falls to the ground. Looking over to where his would-be assassin is, he gets up and starts to run for cover in some trees. BERT fires again and then gives chase.) 29: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (JO and MIKE watch as the coven member lies an ornate dagger down on the altar.) JO: Mike, I’m scared. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Don’t worry. The Doc’ll be here soon. Benton knows we’re here. 30: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR (BENTON is attempting to contact the mobile HQ.) SERGEANT BENTON: (Into radio.) Hello, greyhound, this is trap three. Do you read me, over? (All he receives is static. He tries again as MISS HAWTHORNE walks up with a tea tray.) SERGEANT BENTON: (Into radio.) Hello, greyhound, greyhound, do you read me, over? MISS HAWTHORNE: I’ve bought you a nice cuppa, sergeant! I hope you like china. SERGEANT BENTON: For goodness sake, Miss Hawthorne! MISS HAWTHORNE: What’s the matter? Don’t you like tea? SERGEANT BENTON: Something’s gone badly wrong. We’ve no idea what’s happening to Miss Grant and the captain, the Doctor should be back here by now, I can’t get through to the Brigadier and...you’re nattering on about tea! (Sat down, MISS HAWTHORNE smiles and pours from a teapot.) MISS HAWTHORNE: You must learn the art of waiting, sergeant. The Doctor will come...or else he won’t and that’s all that can be said. Now, milk or lemon? (BENTON sighs and tries the radio again.) SERGEANT BENTON: (Into radio.) Hello, greyhound, greyhound, do you read me, over? 31: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (At the UNIT convoy, a group of soldiers hammer some metal spikes into the ground as OSGOOD sits at the now-operating machine. It gives off a loud whine. The BRIGADIER comes out of the mobile HQ.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Sergeant? SGT. OSGOOD: Sir? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Is it you making that horrible racket? I can’t get a thing through. The air’s thick with it. SGT. OSGOOD: (Enthusiastically.) Yes, sir, yes. Testing you see, sir - this is fascinating! It’s not right yet but even on the battery, it’s pumping it out! It’s a sort of controlled resonance... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Interrupting.) Yes, well never mind the mumbo-jumbo. Keep the wretched thing switched off until it’s ready. SGT. OSGOOD: I’m sorry, sir, I can’t. I must finish the tests. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well how long are you going to be? SGT. OSGOOD: About a minute, sir. I’ve got the hang of it now. (He bends down over the machine - out from which emits a small expl*si*n. OSGOOD raises his blackened and rueful face.) SGT. OSGOOD: Half an hour, sir...at least. (The BRIGADIER shakes his head and goes back into the mobile HQ.) 32: INT. VICARAGE HALLWAY (The MASTER, book in hand, comes down the stairs at the vicarage to answer a repeated hammering knock on the front door. He opens it to see an apologetic looking BERT on the doorstep.) BERT THE LANDLORD: Magister...I’m sorry. (The MASTER guesses the reason for the visit and turns back into the hallway.) MASTER: The Doctor got away. (BERT follows.) BERT THE LANDLORD: How did you know that? Well, yes he did. Y...you see, what happened... MASTER: (Interrupting.) Excuses waste time - where is he? BERT THE LANDLORD: I...lost him in the woods. Expect he’s making his way back to the village by now. MASTER: Then we must see that he is given a suitable welcome, mustn’t we? (He looks meaningfully at BERT who smiles and nods.) 33: INT. UNIT MOBILE HQ (The BRIGADIER uses the temporary halt to SGT. OSGOOD’S effort with the machine to call the pub.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) What’s the matter with you, Benton? I want to speak to the Doctor, over. 34: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR SERGEANT BENTON: (Into radio, puzzled.) But I...but I thought he was still with you sir, over. 35: INT. UNIT MOBILE HQ BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) No, he left here...oh, a good forty minutes ago. Hasn’t... 36: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (OOV: Over radio.) ...he turned up yet? SERGEANT BENTON: (Into radio.) Well, no sir. Not a sign of him. (BENTON goes over to the window to look outside to the village green.) SERGEANT BENTON: (Into radio.) Do you suppose he’s all right, sir? Over. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (OOV: Over radio.) Maybe he’s piled up that wretched motorbike. SERGEANT BENTON: (Into radio.) Well, do you want me to go and look for him sir, over. 37: INT. UNIT MOBILE HQ BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) No, better give him a bit longer. (OSGOOD, his face still blackened, enters the mobile HQ, a coil of cable in his hands.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Oh, but if he does turn up will you tell him that we’re running into a bit of trouble with our...feedback phasing. (To OSGOOD.) Is that right, Osgood? Well? SGT. OSGOOD: Yes, sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Yes, that’s it, Benton. Tell him that will you? Over and out. 38: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR (BENTON slams the aerial on his radio home and goes over to where MISS HAWTHORNE sits working on some crochet.) SERGEANT BENTON: That’s it then. MISS HAWTHORNE: More waiting, sergeant. SERGEANT BENTON: Yes, well the Captain and Miss Grant should have been back ages ago. And the Doctor seems to have disappeared completely. Look, I’m gonna go and have a nose around out there. MISS HAWTHORNE: You stay where you are. I’ll go and look for them. (She gets up but BENTON gently pushes her back into her chair.) SERGEANT BENTON: I’m sorry, ma’am, would you please do as you’re told! (MISS HAWTHORNE smiles as BENTON goes back to the window to check that the coast is clear.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Anyone in sight? SERGEANT BENTON: No, just a few villagers. (He comes away from the window.) SERGEANT BENTON: Er, could you tell the Doctor I’ve gone to the cavern? (Suddenly, the faint sound of accordion music reaches them.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Wait, listen! (She goes over to window and looks out. BENTON joins her.) SERGEANT BENTON: Well, what do they thing they’re doing? 39: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (A maypole has been erected on the village green. A group of villagers stand on the far side of the green looking down a side round down which comes a procession of MORRIS DANCERS. The bells they wear jangle in time to the skips of their dance and heading them is the traditional figure of the paper man - a lead man who wears a coat and hat entirely covered with strips of paper that flutter in the wind - but it is BERT who wears this coat and plays this part. Across the green, sinister moves take place as a door opens and a mother, a look of concern on her face, pulls her little girl indoors. As the procession of MORRIS DANCERS, followed by a dancing group of villagers reaches the green, another householder shuts her window, as if not wanting to take part in the events that are about to unfold. The dancing villagers skip towards the maypole and take their places around it, each one taking up a ribbon. The MORRIS DANCERS and BERT finish their first dance.) 40: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR MISS HAWTHORNE: Charming! SERGEANT BENTON: Yeah, they’re round the twist if you ask me. MISS HAWTHORNE: Oh, but it’s Mayday. We always have the Morris Dancers on Mayday. It’s traditional. (Another tune strikes up. BENTON points outside.) SERGEANT BENTON: Hey look, there’s the Doctor! 41: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (The villagers skip round the maypole and the MORRIS DANCERS carry out their own intricate steps as the DOCTOR appears round the corner and starts to walk across the green to the pub. The fool of the DANCERS, dressed in a white smock and correctly separate from his colleagues, beats out at the DOCTOR with his “pig’s bladder on a stick”.) DOCTOR: Yes, yes, most amusing. (The DOCTOR changes direction to escape the attentions of the fool but BERT signals to the MORRIS DANCERS who come out of their established pattern and surround the DOCTOR. They dance round him holding him in place with crossed sticks.) DOCTOR: Now please, let me pass. (They spin the DOCTOR round.) DOCTOR: Er, frankly, any time I’d gladly join you but I... (They carry on spinning the DOCTOR round. THORPE is one of the villagers dancing round the maypole and he watches events as BERT pulls out a small a*t*matic from the paper folds of his coat. The MORRIS DANCERS lever the DOCTOR to the ground and hold him in place with the sticks across his neck.) DOCTOR: What on earth is going...? What are you doing?! What on earth is this?! (BERT leans forward and points the a*t*matic straight at the DOCTOR’S face.) BERT THE LANDLORD: You’re being invited to join our Mayday revels, Doctor! I’m sure you don’t want to disappoint us - or Mr. Magister. (The DOCTOR looks grimly at the pointed g*n and the music stops.) 42: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR (BENTON and MISS HAWTHORNE are unable to see what is happening properly from their vantage point.) MISS HAWTHORNE: They seem to have stopped. SERGEANT BENTON: Yeah...hey, what’s happening?! Well, that doesn’t look very traditional! 43: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (Sticks still held across his neck, the DOCTOR is pulled across to the maypole and THORPE ties his hands behind his back, securing him in place.) 44: INT. “THE CLOVEN HOOF”. MAIN BAR SERGEANT BENTON: Look, I’ve got to go and help him. MISS HAWTHORNE: No, you can’t - there are too many of them! (BENTON ignores her and goes to the door. He opens it and a stave comes crashing down. He jumps back into the pub and one of the Morris Dancers runs in after him. BENTON tries to raise his g*n but the dancer brings his stave crashing down on his hand and he drops the w*apon. The dancer then punches BENTON onto the bar and brings the stave crashing down on his back. BENTON manages to turn and grab the stave as it comes down again. The two men wrestle for the w*apon and BENTON manages to throw the dancer across the room. BENTON reaches for the g*n but the dancer is fast up on his feet and smashes the stave down on his hand again, then kicks the SERGEANT. BENTON is then knocked back onto a table and again they wrestle for possession of the stave. It is MISS HAWTHORNE who decides the result of the fight when she comes up behind the dancer and smashes her handbag down on the head of the dancer who immediately falls to the ground unconscious. BENTON lies on the table holding his bruised ribs.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Did he hurt you? SERGEANT BENTON: What happened? MISS HAWTHORNE: I h*t him with my reticule. (She takes a large crystal ball out of her handbag.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Oh, on these occasions, the outcome’s a certainty! SERGEANT BENTON: Very handy, thank you. MISS HAWTHORNE: I always carry it with me. (BENTON, battered and bruised once again, picks up his g*n.) MISS HAWTHORNE: No, sergeant, wait. Look, I know these people. They’re not wicked - well most of them anyway. SERGEANT BENTON: So? MISS HAWTHORNE: So, it’s up to us to explain to them how mistaken they are. Now, listen carefully... 45: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (To another tune, the villagers dance round the maypole, securing the DOCTOR even tighter with the ribbons on the pole as they circle him. BERT watches.) DOCTOR: The Master’s planning to make slaves of you all. I’m the only one who has a chance of stopping him! BERT THE LANDLORD: He’s lying! He is the enemy! Mr. Magister will care for you - give you everything you’ve ever wanted. DOCTOR: That’s nonsense - all the Master will bring upon you is disaster! BERT THE LANDLORD: He is the enemy! He’s a black witch! A witch, do you hear? (The dance comes to an end and the villagers walk in towards the DOCTOR and surround him.) BERT THE LANDLORD: A witch...and you’ve always known what you must do with a witch, haven’t you? (The villagers mutter to each other.) BERT THE LANDLORD: “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live!” (The villagers mutter again.) VILLAGER: That’s what they say... DOCTOR: (To BERT.) Are you out of your mind? BERT THE LANDLORD: (To the DOCTOR.) Shut up! (To the villagers.) That’s right, friends - “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” (Shouts.) Burn him! THORPE: Burn him! VILLAGERS: Burn him! Burn him! (The DOCTOR looks round in concern.) 46: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (Again the coven are meeting in the cavern. The MASTER throws a piece of phosphorus material into the small urn. It flares.) MASTER: Eo evoheh! COVEN: Eo evoheh! MASTER: As my will, so mote it be. COVEN: Nema. (YATES and JO watch from hiding.) MASTER: Harken to my voice, oh dark one. Ancient and awful, supreme in artifice, bearer of power, be present here at my command and truly do my will. Ava, Avara, Agarbara, Gad, Gadoal, Galdina! (He throws another piece of phosphorescent material into the urn.) MASTER: As my will, so mote it be! COVEN: As thy will, so mote it be! (From their hiding place, JO and YATES watch as the Bok’s red eyes light up. The gargoyle is coming to life again.) 47: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (Stacks of brushwood have been piled up around the DOCTOR and the maypole. THORPE stands with an unlit torch and a cigarette lighter. MISS HAWTHORNE comes running from the pub and THORPE, watched by a female villager who is both horrified and fascinated, lights his torch.) BERT THE LANDLORD: Now! (THORPE is about to thrust the torch into the brushwood, but...) MISS HAWTHORNE: Stop! You will bring a terrible retribution upon yourselves if you persist! (She runs up to BERT.) BERT THE LANDLORD: Shut up, you silly old fool! MISS HAWTHORNE: You would dare to harm the great wizard Quiquaequod? THORPE: (Puzzled.) Wizard? (MISS HAWTHORNE sees THORPE’S confusion and addresses him.) MISS HAWTHORNE: You wouldn’t listen to me before and now you’re in the power of the Magister. You know I speak the truth. BERT THE LANDLORD: Get on with it, man! (THORPE is about to push the torch in again.) MISS HAWTHORNE: No wait, listen to me - under the Magister you have been frightened, injured, your property destroyed. Serve the great Quiquaequod - in him lies peace and great joy! (The DOCTOR, who has been listening in some puzzlement himself, nods.) BERT THE LANDLORD: If he’s such a great magician, let’s see him untie himself. DOCTOR: You choose to mock the great Quiquaequod? Well, I will not. BERT THE LANDLORD: Because you can’t! (An impatient BERT crosses the THORPE and snatches the torch from him.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Oh, give him a sign of your power, O mighty one! DOCTOR: What had you mind? (MISS HAWTHORNE looks round and points to a lamp post in the centre of the green.) MISS HAWTHORNE: I know! That lamp - shatter it! DOCTOR: (Puzzled.) Shatter it...I see. (The DOCTOR tries to hide his confusion and shouts across the green.) DOCTOR: Lamp - I order you to shatter! (The glass shatters. The villagers gasp.) DOCTOR: You see? That could have been you. Now, all of you...look at the, erm... (The DOCTOR looks round, spots another target and looks to MISS HAWTHORNE for confirmation.) DOCTOR: Weathercock on the church tower? (MISS HAWTHORNE nods and BENTON, at the pub window, re-aims his p*stol fitted with a sil*ncer.) DOCTOR: Weathercock - now! (The weathercock spins round of its own accord and the villagers gasp again as BENTON retracts his arm in from the window.) FIRST VILLAGER: He is - he’s a magician! SECOND VILLAGER: He is a magician! MISS HAWTHORNE: Bert, drop that torch! You’re beaten and you know it! BERT THE LANDLORD: Am I? (BERT is about to light the pyre but BENTON fires once more and sh**t the torch out of his hand.) DOCTOR: ... (To MISS HAWTHORNE.) Daughter of light, would you kindly untie my bonds? BERT THE LANDLORD: You...don’t scare me with a lot of daft tricks! Mr. Magister has the real power. MISS HAWTHORNE: His power is worth nothing in comparison. BERT THE LANDLORD: Right...well let’s see if you can turn aside a b*llet! (BERT walks round to them and pulls out his a*t*matic. BENTON aims again, but villagers are now blocking his target.) DOCTOR: I’ll give you one more chance. Look behind you. BERT THE LANDLORD: That’s the oldest trick in the book. DOCTOR: Very well. (Shouts.) Let my familiar spirit bring that car to me! (Bessie, parked outside the pub, starts up and drives, seemingly by herself, onto the green. The villagers, and BENTON, watch in amazement. BERT keeps his aim on the DOCTOR and doesn’t even turn to see the approaching vehicle.) BERT THE LANDLORD: You won’t frighten me, you know. Do you think I’m as stupid as this lot? (The car gets nearer. BENTON comes out of the pub as BERT finally hears the engine immediately behind him. He turns and fires but Bessie is upon him and he falls back, being pinned to the ground by the vehicle. The villagers are amazed.) VILLAGER: That’s it - he is a god! MISS HAWTHORNE: You really are a magician! DOCTOR: I’m sorry to disappoint you, madam, but I were, I’d hardly need your assistance in extricating me from this...this sacrificial gift wrapping! (MISS HAWTHORNE starts to untie him as BENTON runs up.) SERGEANT BENTON: How on earth did you do that, Doctor? DOCTOR: Elemental, my dear Benton! (BERT makes a run for it but BENTON is too quick and, using the side of Bessie as a springboard, jumps on BERT and pulls him to the ground, aiming his g*n at him.) SERGEANT BENTON: Oh, no you don’t chum - we’ve all got a date with the Master - haven’t we? 48: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (The coven circle the altar as the MASTER stands arms aloft.) MASTER: Ogoteruss awbm, Aleht tnewy ramahe, Ehwy revedna wonssa, Etih swawec stahn, Bmaltlttiladahy ram! (The coven halt.) COVEN: Eoh evoteh! (A member of the coven walks forward, holding a chicken.) MASTER: Azal! We have power over life, you and I. Accept this life I now dedicate to thee! (JO watches in horror.) MASTER: Atanee Bmaltlttiladahy ram! (He raises the dagger. JO has seen enough and runs forward.) JO: No! Stop it! It’s evil - don’t you see that? It’s evil! MASTER: You are too late, my dear! Eko, eko, Azal! COVEN: Eko, eko, Azal! (A cold wind starts to blow through the cavern. The air turns red and the MASTER holds his arms aloft, laughing. A rumble sounds behind them and the MASTER and JO spin round and look down at the painted stone on the floor of the back of the cavern behind them. From it, a creature growing in size appears and steps forward turning round to face the group as it continues to grow to an enormous height. With cloven feet, the legs of an animal, horns on its head and a cruel face with a slavering mouth made up of sharp pointed teeth, AZAL is the image of the devil!) MASTER: (Laughs.) Azal! (JO looks up in horror as AZAL reaches its full height. The Dæmon has made its final appearance...)
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THE DÆMONS BY: GUY LEOPOLD EPISODE FIVE Original Air Date: 19 June, 1971 6:10pm - 6:35pm 1: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (JO watches in horror.) MASTER: Atanee Bmaltlttiladahy ram! (He raises the dagger. JO has seen enough and runs forward.) JO: No! Stop it! It’s evil - don’t you see that? It’s evil! MASTER: You are too late, my dear! Eko, eko, Azal! COVEN: Eko, eko, Azal! (A cold wind starts to blow through the cavern. The air turns red and the MASTER holds his arms aloft, laughing. A rumble sounds behind them and the MASTER and JO spin round and look down at the painted stone on the floor of the back of the cavern behind them. From it, a creature growing in size appears and steps forward turning round to face the group as it continues to grow to an enormous height. With cloven feet, the legs of an animal, horns on its head and a cruel face with a slavering mouth made up of sharp pointed teeth, AZAL is the epitome of the devil!) MASTER: (Laughs.) Azal! (JO looks up in horror as AZAL reaches its full height. The Dæmon has made its final appearance.) 2: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (The BRIGADIER lowers his binoculars after observing the latest disturbance over at the village. SGT. OSGOOD walks past with a length of cable in his hands.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: The last appearance, that’s what the Doctor said. SGT. OSGOOD: Well, I’m working as fast as I can. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, it doesn’t seem to be fast enough. You have five minutes, sergeant. (OSGOOD fixes the cable to one of the metal supports in the ground. The BRIGADIER calls out to the other troops.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right - we’re on our way in five minutes! 3: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (The DOCTOR, BENTON and the villagers pick themselves up off the ground from where they were flung by the latest manifestation of the Dæmon. BERT is immediately grabbed again to stop him running off by two of the village men.) MISS HAWTHORNE: The third appearance. SERGEANT BENTON: In the cavern. DOCTOR: Well where else? SERGEANT BENTON: Well, we’d better get over there, hasn’t we? (He starts to walk towards the church but...) DOCTOR: Wait - all of you! BERT THE LANDLORD: (Mocking.) See? This chap’s frightened! DOCTOR: Well, of course I’m frightened. So should you be - and your friend Mr. Magister. (The villagers look at each other.) 4: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (The MASTER is glowing and exultant.) MASTER: Azal, welcome! (JO runs over to MIKE who has his p*stol in his hands.) MASTER: Bok, stop them! (BOK jumps off his plinth. As two of the coven grab JO, MIKE fires a couple of sh*ts at the gargoyle but does not damage to it. The little stone creature raises a hand and a bolt of f*re sh**t out, vaporising MIKE’S p*stol. He immediately raises his hands in surrender. The MASTER walks forward.) MASTER: You are very wise, Captain. (To the two coven members.) Prepare the girl in the ceremonial tabard. She will make a welcome addition to this sabbat. (The two men start to drag JO away.) JO: No, please! Don’t let me go! Mike, help me please! No, let me go! (MIKE tries to run after them but two other coven members run forward and drag him back. JO is pulled up a small spiral staircase at the back of the cavern as MIKE is knocked to the ground and dragged out of the cavern up to the vestry.) 5: INT. CHURCH. VESTRY (There, somewhat concussed, he is held face down on the ground whilst his hands are tied behind his back.) 6: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (On the green, the DOCTOR addresses the villagers.) DOCTOR: Now we’re facing the greatest danger the world has ever known. Now look, I’ve got to tell you the truth. MISS HAWTHORNE: (Whispers.) Doctor, no! DOCTOR: (Whispers.) I’ve got to risk it! THORPE: (Puzzled.) What are you talking about? DOCTOR: I’m not a magician or a wizard or anything of the sort. BERT THE LANDLORD: See! I told you! DOCTOR: But neither is the Master. I’ve tricked you - yes, but only to save you from him. BERT THE LANDLORD: To save your own life, you mean. DOCTOR: Yes, of course, that too. (BERT is amazed at this confession and calls out to his neighbours and captors.) BERT THE LANDLORD: Wha...? Well, there you are! Do you hear, the lot of you? He admits it! THORPE: Just pipe down for two minutes, Bert. BERT THE LANDLORD: But you heard him! THORPE: Shut up! We want to hear what he’s got to say. (The villagers mutter but MISS HAWTHORNE is also puzzled.) MISS HAWTHORNE: But your car - how did you make it move by itself? DOCTOR: Science - not sorcery, Miss Hawthorne. Look. (He holds up the remote control for Bessie and presses it. The horn on the car honks twice to general astonishment from all the watchers.) VILLAGER: That’s amazing! SERGEANT BENTON: I’ll be blowed! DOCTOR: (To BERT.) And your Mr. Magister uses no more magic than that. (BERT, furious, pulls away from his captors and walks right up to the DOCTOR.) BERT THE LANDLORD: You’re talking rubbish! The Master’s a magician I tell you! DOCTOR: All his feats are based on science. Either ours or the secret science of the Dæmons. BERT THE LANDLORD: Well, there you are! That proves you’re talking nonsense - how could he have called him up in the first place except by sorcery? DOCTOR: Well, he uses violent emotions - fear, hatred, greed. THORPE: How? DOCTOR: Well the emotions of a group of ordinary human beings generate a tremendous charge of psychokinetic energy. This the Master channels for his own purpose. MISS HAWTHORNE: But that is magic - that’s precisely what black magic is! DOCTOR: No, Miss Hawthorne, I’m afraid not. MISS HAWTHORNE: Are you trying to tell me that the invocations, the...the rituals, even the sabbat itself are just so much window dressing? DOCTOR: No, no, no, of course not. No, they are essential to generate and control the physonic forces - and to control the Dæmon himself. SERGEANT BENTON: Look, shouldn’t we get over there and sort this...Dæmon thing out? DOCTOR: How? SERGEANT BENTON: Well, I could get the men... (BENTON falters...) DOCTOR: Yes? SERGEANT BENTON: Well, we could... (He falls silent.) DOCTOR: Exactly - all we can do is wait. SERGEANT BENTON: Well, what for? DOCTOR: The energy exchanger. This machine that the Brigadier is building for me. With that I should be able to drain off our visitor’s energy. Then perhaps we can sort him out! 7: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (The MASTER looks up to the towering form of the Dæmon.) MASTER: Azal, the time for decision draws near. Once more, I demand the power... (AZAL interrupts, his voice booming and echoing through the cavern.) AZAL: You demand?! MASTER: Yes, and why not? Who in the whole galaxy is not my inferior? There is not one creature! AZAL: Not even one?! MASTER: Not one! Save the last of the Dæmons. (JO is dragged back down the spiral staircase and back into the cavern. Instead of her brown corduroy trouser suit, she is now wearing a long pure white tabard.) JO: No, please, let me go! MASTER: Azal, accept this offering as a token of our fealty. As my will, so mote it be! (JO is dragged forward.) COVEN: As they will, so mote it be! MASTER: Eo evoheh, Azal! COVEN: Eo evoheh! Eo evoheh! Eo... 8: INT. CHURCH. VESTRY (MIKE comes round and, still tied up, struggles to his feet. He looks through the door to the cavern and then makes for the other door to the outside and freedom.) 9: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (Once outside, he yells across the churchyard to the village green.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Doctor! (He runs full pace out of the churchyard.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Doctor! (The DOCTOR starts running across the green to meet him. BENTON indicates BERT to the village men.) SERGEANT BENTON: Hold him. (As BERT is secured again, BENTON races after the DOCTOR. The other villagers, including MISS HAWTHORNE, THORPE, BERT and his captors follow. The DOCTOR meets YATES half way across the green. BENTON runs up and immediately starts to untie him.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Doctor! Doctor, it’s Jo! DOCTOR: Jo? I thought she was still in the pub? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: They’ve got her in the cavern. DOCTOR: What?! CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: That creature’s in there. The Master calls him Azal. MISS HAWTHORNE: Azal? Of course - Azael, the fallen angel! DOCTOR: (To BENTON.) Walkie-talkie. (BENTON hands him his radio and the DOCTOR extracts its aerial and switches it on.) DOCTOR: (Into radio.) Hello, Brigadier? Are you there? 10: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Is that you, Doctor? 11: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (OOV: Over radio.) Over. DOCTOR: (Into radio.) Look, they’ve got Jo. That machine must come through now! Now, do you understand?! 12: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD DOCTOR: (OOV: Over radio.) Now! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) We’re on our way, Doctor. 13: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN DOCTOR: (Into radio.) Good, and put a watch up on that barrow, will you? Just in case the Dæmon’s ship reactivates. 14: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Will do, Doctor. Over and out. (The BRIGADIER slams home the aerial and walks over to OSGOOD in the jeep.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: You heard him, Sergeant - now. SGT. OSGOOD: I need... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Interrupting angrily.) That’s an order, Sergeant - now! (Unhappily, OSGOOD switches on the machine.) 15: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (The DOCTOR retracts his aerial and whispers urgently to himself.) DOCTOR: Come on, Brigadier. Get a move on. 16: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (Members of the coven clear the altar of its ceremonial paraphernalia as the MASTER talks to a firmly held JO.) MASTER: I’m sorry, Miss Grant. But you are to be sacrificed to a noble cause. JO: No...no! (She looks pleadingly at her captors.) 17: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (The power from the machine carries through the cables which lie across the road. The troops run to the vehicles in preparation for their entry to the village as OSGOOD, in the back of the jeep, increases the power. Smoke starts to come out of the machine.) SGT. OSGOOD: It’ll never take it, I tell you! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: It must! Keep trying. 18: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (The DOCTOR directs the villagers in preparation for the machine taking its effect and their as*ault on the church.) DOCTOR: Right, now some of you - that way, but spread out. The rest of you, follow me! (One group moves to the side whilst the DOCTOR’S group, including the secured BERT move off towards the church.) 19: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (A Coven member runs in from the vestry.) COVEN MEMBER: Mr. Magister - they’re coming, they’re coming! JO: Doctor, help...! (JO is silenced by a hand over her mouth as the MASTER signals to BOK. The gargoyle scuttles out of the cavern.) 20: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (As it appears, roaring and screeching on the steps leading to the churchyard, the villagers scatter in fright. BENTON reaches for his g*n.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Right, Benton. You keep us covered. We’ll get in round the back. DOCTOR: No, we must wait for the Brigadier. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: And what about Jo? DOCTOR: We won’t help her by committing su1c1de. (BERT manages to struggle free from THORPE and another villager.) BERT THE LANDLORD: Mr. Magister! Magister! (He runs towards the churchyard and BOK but the gargoyle does not differentiate BERT from the rest of the villagers and raises a stone arm. BERT sees what is happening and halts.) BERT THE LANDLORD: N...no, no, a friend...I’m a friend! (BOK sh**t out a bolt of f*re and BERT disappears in a puff of smoke.) DOCTOR: (To YATES and BENTON.) You see? (Into radio.) What’s going on, Brigadier? 21: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD DOCTOR: (OOV: Over radio.) You must hurry! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) We’re up to the maximum now Doctor, and it’s still no good. DOCTOR: (OOV: Over radio.) You’ll have to use the booster. (SGT. OSGOOD, still with the smoking machine in the back of the jeep, overhears this.) SGT. OSGOOD: If you do, sir, she’ll blow us all sky high! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) We’re coming through, Doctor, over and out. (The BRIGADIER turns to OSGOOD.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Booster on! SGT. OSGOOD: Sir... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Interrupting.) Damn it, man, get on with it! (OSGOOD hesitates. The BRIGADIER walks over and slams shut a lever on a part of the machine labelled “BOOST”. The tone of the machine starts to race away.) 22: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (The MASTER picks up the sacrificial dagger in its jewelled scabbard from the altar.) MASTER: All mighty Azal, in the name of Atame, I dedicate this offering! (He holds the dagger over his head and pulls the blade from the scabbard. One of the coven members who is holding JO panics at this.) JONES: No, no, Magister, it’s not right! MASTER: To do my will shall be the whole of the law! (The coven members are hesitant and somewhat reluctant in their response.) COVEN: To do thy will, shall be the whole of the law. JONES: It’s not right, I tell you! MASTER: (Shouts.) Obey me! 23: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (A huge amount of smoke is now pouring from the machine. The BRIGADIER looks towards the heat barrier.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Look, it’s working! (A shimmering half-circular archway appears in the centre of the barrier. The BRIGADIER walks up to it and sticks his swagger stick into the arch. Smoke comes out of it. He turns to his troops.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, it’s still hot - but passable. Right, follow up and keep to the tunnel! (He gets into his staff car and it drives through the hole in the barrier. A UNIT jeep follows.) 24: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN MASTER: (To the coven.) Obey me. (He points to the altar and the coven members start to place JO on it. Suddenly, AZAL starts to feel the effects of the machine. He groans out loud and grasps his head in pain. His cries grow louder as he starts to stagger on the spot.) 25: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (The DOCTOR is on the radio again while YATES, g*n aimed, and BENTON keep their eyes on BOK.) DOCTOR: (Into radio.) Look, what’s going on, Brigadier? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (OOV: Over radio.) We’re through, Doctor, over. DOCTOR: (Into radio.) What, all of you? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (OOV: Over radio.) Yes, but not the machine. DOCTOR: (Into radio.) Well that should have come through first. (BENTON points.) SERGEANT BENTON: Doctor, look! (Like its creator, BOK starts to stagger on the spot.) DOCTOR: The exchanger - it’s working. It’s bleeding off the energy. 26: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (The BRIGADIER has come out of his staff car and runs up towards the barrier. OSGOOD, still on the other side of the barrier, is out of his jeep and disconnecting the power cables.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Come on, man! Bring it through! Get a move on! SGT. OSGOOD: Sir! (OSGOOD runs back into the jeep and shouts at the driver.) SGT. OSGOOD: Right, Jenkins. (The jeep drives through the barrier. The BRIGADIER extends the aerial on his radio.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) You can stop worrying, Doctor - we’re through. DOCTOR: (OOV: Over radio.) Well, about time too. Now get it over here fast! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right. (OSGOOD’S jeep screeches to a halt. The whine from the machine is at an intense pitch.) SGT. OSGOOD: (Shouts.) Sir! Sir, I can’t stop it - it’s running away! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Shouts.) Osgood, out of it! Get down, all of you! (The two soldiers in the front of the smoke filled jeep need no further encouragement and run out of the vehicle. OSGOOD hesitates, still trying to control the machine.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Shouts.) Osgood, get down man! (OSGOOD runs out of the jeep - just before the machine explodes.) 27: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (The expl*si*n is heard in the village.) DOCTOR: (Into radio.) Brigadier? (There is no reply.) DOCTOR: (Into radio.) Brigadier, are you all right? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (OOV: Over radio.) The machine’s gone west - blown itself up. Be with you right away, over and out. (The DOCTOR angrily slams the aerial home.) DOCTOR: A fat lot of good that’ll do! (He looks towards the church.) DOCTOR: Right, keep the others back, Captain Yates, I’m going in before that creature recovers. (He starts heading towards the gate.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: I’ll come with you, Doctor. DOCTOR: Alone! (He heads off. THORPE shouts after him.) THORPE: You can’t go in now, sir. You said yourself it will be su1c1de! CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Doctor, wait! (At the churchyard gate, BOK is still staggering but is slowly starting to recover. The DOCTOR runs past him, pulling the gate shut behind him. BOK recovers sufficiently to go after him. The creature pulls the gate open and sees the DOCTOR running for the vestry door. BOK fires...) 28: INT. CHURCH. VESTRY (But the DOCTOR has made it into the building and shuts the heavy oaken door on the expl*si*n of BOK’S firebolt. He then races through the opposite door...) 29: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (...and into the cavern...) MASTER: Ah, Doctor, I’ve been expecting you. (...where the sight of the towering Dæmon stops him in his tracks. He stares up in amazement at the creature.) MASTER: You’ve saved me a lot of trouble by coming here. I’m most grateful to you. (The DOCTOR walks up to the altar.) DOCTOR: Hello, Jo. I cannot tell you how glad I am to see you. MASTER: (Sarcastically.) How very touching! 30: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (The UNIT convoy sweeps into the village. The BRIGADIER gets out of his staff car and YATES goes over to meet him.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Where’s the Doctor? (YATES nods at the church.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Gone in there, sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Then what are we waiting for? Let’s get after him. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Wait sir, look. (He points towards the gargoyle which twitches and sniffs at these new arrivals.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What the blazes is that? Some kind of ornament? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Not exactly, sir. (He looks round for an object to throw at BOK and sees a rock near his feet. He picks it up.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Watch. (YATES throws the rock towards BOK who instantly sh**t a bolt of f*re at it, destroying it.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, I see what you mean. Never mind, we’ll soon fix him. Jenkins! JENKINS: Sir? (An soldier, armed with a r*fle runs forward.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Chap with the wings there - five rounds rapid. (Jenkins balances his g*n arm on the BRIGADIER’S staff car and fires as ordered. BOK’S head twitches as each b*llet ricochets off it but the gargoyle is otherwise unharmed. An unimpressed YATES looks towards the BRIGADIER and sighs.) 31: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN MASTER: You realise, of course, that you’re a doomed man, Doctor? DOCTOR: Oh, I’m a d*ad man. I knew that as soon as I came through that door, so you’d better watch out! You see, I’ve nothing to lose, have I? MASTER: Enough! (The MASTER looks up at the Dæmon.) MASTER: Azal, destroy him! AZAL: Who is this?! MASTER: My enemy and yours, Azal. Destroy him! AZAL: This is the one we spoke of! He too is not of this planet! MASTER: He is a meddler and a fool. AZAL: He is not a fool, yet he has done a foolish thing coming here! (To the DOCTOR.) Why did you come?! DOCTOR: I came to talk to you. AZAL: Talk then! DOCTOR: Certainly (He points towards JO who is still held by two coven members.) DOCTOR: But first let her go. MASTER: No! (AZAL points at the coven members and blue sparks fly from his fingers. They cry out and jump back, allowing JO the opportunity to run into the DOCTOR’S arms.) JO: Doctor! DOCTOR: Are you all right, Jo? JO: I am now. (The DOCTOR looks up at AZAL. The Dæmon’s voice booms out ... ) AZAL: You wish to talk?! DOCTOR: Yes...I want you to leave this planet while you still can. AZAL: You are bold! DOCTOR: Why not? I’ve got a machine outside that can annihilate you. AZAL: (Angrily.) You lie! DOCTOR: You’ve already felt its power. AZAL: It is destroyed! DOCTOR: One of them, yes, not both. AZAL: You lie! There was but one! JO: Doctor! AZAL: You have a regard for truth! Why do you lie?! DOCTOR: To try and make you listen to me. AZAL: Why should I! I see no consequence of value! MASTER: Then k*ll him, k*ll him now! AZAL: Very well! (AZAL points a huge finger at the DOCTOR.) JO: No! DOCTOR: If you k*ll me now, you will wonder throughout eternity whether you should have listened to my words. 32: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (Villagers huddle in their houses as a battle erupts on the green between the UNIT troops and BOK. The troops shelter behind the stone cross in the centre of the green and f*re sh*t after sh*t at the gargoyle which staggers back under the force of the sh*ts but is otherwise unharmed. Another set of troops run round to the side of the churchyard and climb up the bank and wall into its grounds, trying to get to the creature from behind. Back at the village cross, YATES, next to BENTON, gives up and lowers his p*stol.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: You might as well use a sh**t on four inch armour. Sergeant, get the bazooka’s set up - over there, quick. (YATES points at one side of the churchyard.) SERGEANT BENTON: Right sir. (BENTON jumps up and starts to take some of the soldiers with him.) SERGEANT BENTON: Right, you with me. 33: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN (AZAL still points at the DOCTOR, hesitating. The MASTER grows impatient.) MASTER: Well? You waste time. I order you to k*ll him, Azal! AZAL: I demand - I do not obey! MASTER: (Puzzled.) But I...I called you here and you came? AZAL: I answered your call...because the time was come for my awakening! The time has come for the completion of the experiment or its destruction! MASTER: Then fulfill your mission...by granting the ultimate power to me! Who else is there strong enough to give these humans the leadership they need?! DOCTOR: I seem to remember somebody else speaking like that. What was the bounder’s name? h*tler - that’s right, Adolf h*tler - or was it Genghis Khan? MASTER: Azal, I have the will - you yourself said so. AZAL: I am still not convinced! DOCTOR: (To AZAL.) I’m very pleased to hear it. AZAL: You wish to see this planet destroyed?! DOCTOR: By no means. You see, I have an alternative. AZAL: State it! DOCTOR: Leave humanity alone. Just go. You’ve done enough harm. AZAL: We gave knowledge to man! DOCTOR: You certainly did! Thanks to you man can now blow up the world and he probably will. He can poison the water and the very air he breathes. He’s already started - he can... AZAL: (Interrupts.) Enough! Is man such a failure then?! Shall I destroy him?! MASTER: No! A strong leader can force him to learn! AZAL: You are right! I have decided! I shall pass on my power! MASTER: (Delighted.) Oh, mighty Azal - I thank you! AZAL: But not to you! (The MASTER’S face falls.) AZAL: To him! (The MASTER looks aghast at the DOCTOR who himself is none too pleased.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) No! No, I don’t want it! 34: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (The battle has reached the churchyard. UNIT troops use buttress corner of the church and the gravestones as shelter as they f*re one useless round after another at BOK. One soldier does not make it in time to the protection of a gravestone and BOK fires at him. The soldier disappears. BENTON comes up to the wall of the yard with a bazooka in his hands. The BRIGADIER and YATES watch as he aims. The BRIGADIER nods.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: f*re! (...and BENTON does so. BOK is torn to pieces in a hail of rock.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well done, sergeant. SERGEANT BENTON: Just a minute, sir - look! (Across the churchyard, the pieces reassemble themselves. BOK is whole again.) 35: INT. CHURCH. CAVERN AZAL: (To the DOCTOR.) You refuse my gift?! DOCTOR: Of course I do! Don’t you understand? I want you to leave. I want you to go away and give man a chance to grow up. AZAL: I cannot! My instructions are precise! I bequeath my power...or I destroy all! MASTER: Then you will give your power to me?! AZAL: I shall! Time is short! (The MASTER points at the DOCTOR.) MASTER: What about him? AZAL: He is not rational. He is disruptive! He must be eliminated! (Concern is etched on the DOCTOR’S face as AZAL again points a finger at him. Blue sparks fly out and the DOCTOR starts to buckle, his face contorted in agony. JO jumps forward. and stands in front of the DOCTOR.) JO: No! No, he’s a good man! k*ll me, not him! (She bravely closes her eyes and waits for the bolt. However it does not come. AZAL starts to cry out in pain and the DOCTOR, recovered from the sh*ts, looks up. AZAL is glowing and flaring with an inner light, staggering and holding his head. He cries out ... ) AZAL: This action does not relate! There is no data! It does not relate! Goooo! Leave meee! All of youuuuu! (The cavern starts to shake with the power from the Dæmon. Smoke fills the chamber as all within run for the exits.) 36: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (BENTON fires another sh*t from the bazooka and the UNIT troops f*re conventional sh*ts. Suddenly, BOK stops f*ring back and assumes a sitting position on the ground identical to that which he had on his plinth in the cavern.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Shouts.) Cease f*ring! 37: INT. CHURCH. VESTRY (The DOCTOR, JO and various members of the coven run through the smoking, shimmering heat-filled vestry.) 38: EXT. VILLAGE GREEN (The BRIGADIER, YATES and BENTON have approached the still and seated BOK. The BRIGADIER taps the creature with his swagger stick and they look at each other in puzzlement. Suddenly the door to the vestry opens and the DOCTOR, JO still in the white tabard but carrying her own clothes and the coven sprint out of the church.) DOCTOR: Run for it, Brigadier! (The UNIT troops run away from the church as fast as they can. The main door to the building opens and the MASTER, still in his red robes runs out with more coven members as the ground starts to shake. All run across the green as fast as they can. A red burning glow can be seen within the church which is suddenly destroyed in a huge expl*si*n. All fall to the ground as the smoke clears revealing the remains of the walls and the stump of the church tower. The immediate danger over, villagers start to come out of their houses - including MISS HAWTHORNE. On the green, the MASTER starts to get off the ground but becomes aware that BENTON is stood behind him, p*stol in hand.) SERGEANT BENTON: Get up. (The MASTER sighs, raises his hands and slowly gets to his feet.) SERGEANT BENTON: Don’t try anything! (The BRIGADIER is with the DOCTOR, JO and YATES near the pub.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What happened in there, Doctor? DOCTOR: Well, by a ridiculous and foolhardy act of self-sacrifice, Jo here has managed to save us. JO: (Puzzled.) I did? DOCTOR: You did. (To the BRIGADIER.) You see, Azal couldn’t face an act as irrational and as illogical as her being prepared to give up her life me. (The DOCTOR looks down at JO’S white tabard.) DOCTOR: Look Jo, why don’t you go and get out of that ridiculous garb? JO: (Smiles.) Okay. (She heads for the pub.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: So what happened? DOCTOR: Well, all his power was turned against himself. You might say he blew a fuse! (Suddenly they all jump at the sound of another expl*si*n nearby. YATES switches on his radio.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Into radio.) Greyhound two, come in please, over. CHALMERS: (OOV: Over radio.) Chalmers here at the dig, sir. Are you all right, over? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Into radio.) Couldn’t be better. What’s happening? CHALMERS: (OOV: Over radio.) Big bang at the dig, sir. DOCTOR: (To the BRIGADIER.) The spaceship - a*t*matic self-destruct, I suppose. CHALMERS: (OOV: Over radio.) And the barriers cleared itself, over. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Into radio.) Good show. We’re coming out now with one prisoner. Over and out. (YATES switches off his radio. The BRIGADIER calls out to BENTON who is still stood guard on the MASTER.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Benton, get ready to move out. SERGEANT BENTON: Yes sir. (BENTON looks over to the nearby waiting troops.) SERGEANT BENTON: Right, you lot, you heard the man - the picnic’s over! (The MASTER sees his opportunity and flings his cloak over BENTON’S head. The SERGEANT falls to the ground. The MASTER runs towards and climbs into Bessie. BENTON fires a couple of sh*ts and the BRIGADIER pulls his own p*stol out, sh**ting as Bessie drives away. The DOCTOR, watched by MISS HAWTHORNE, yanks the BRIGADIER’S hand down.) DOCTOR: Stop f*ring - you’ll damage Bessie! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Do you want him to get away? DOCTOR: Don’t worry, Bessie’ll bring him back. (MISS HAWTHORNE smiles as Bessie starts to turn round, despite the MASTER’S best efforts. JO, now back in her own clothes, joins them as the MASTER is driven back into the circle or armed and aiming UNIT troops. He raises his hands in resignation. The BRIGADIER is stunned.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (To the DOCTOR.) How on earth did you do that? DOCTOR: Simple - if you know how. (He smiles at JO. BENTON comes up to the BRIGADIER.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right Benton, get ‘em moved out. (He points at the MASTER.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: And take him with you - maximum security guard. SERGEANT BENTON: Yes sir. (To the soldiers.) Right - get moving! DOCTOR: And look after him! (He looks at the MASTER.) DOCTOR: I want to deal with him later. MASTER: Do you, Doctor? You always were an optimist, weren’t you? DOCTOR: Thank you for the compliment! SERGEANT BENTON: All right, move. (Under the aim of several r*fles, the MASTER gets out of Bessie and walks over to an open UNIT jeep into which an armed soldier climbs ahead of him. More get in behind him, all still pointing their r*fles. The MASTER chooses to stand in the jeep. The DOCTOR and JO smile as the jeep drives off, the MASTER intently staring at the DOCTOR as it goes. As the jeep leaves the village green and passes the watching villagers, they boo and jeer its occupant. The jeep drives off and the sound of its engine is replaced by a sound previously missing - birdsong. MISS HAWTHORNE steps forward, a delighted smile on her face.) MISS HAWTHORNE: Listen... DOCTOR: To what? JO: (Smiling.) Yes, the birds are singing again. MISS HAWTHORNE: Oh, and smell the flowers! DOCTOR: Yes, well it makes a change from the smell of sulphur, doesn’t it? MISS HAWTHORNE: The May Day miracle has happened again - the Earth is born anew! (The accordion of the Morris Dancers starts up again as BENTON walks up and reports to the BRIGADIER.) SERGEANT BENTON: All under way, sir. MISS HAWTHORNE: Sergeant, we must do the fertility dance to celebrate! SERGEANT BENTON: Oh no, I’m sorry, ma’am. I’m still rather busy at... MISS HAWTHORNE: Oh, nonsense, Sergeant - come along! (She grabs his arm and pulls him towards the villagers at the maypole. His colleagues grin at his discomfort.) JO: Come on, Doctor! (The DOCTOR’S smile disappears as JO too drags him towards the dancing villagers. The BRIGADIER and YATES are left alone.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Fancy a dance, Brigadier? (The BRIGADIER looks at him.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: It’s kind of you, Captain Yates. I think I’d rather have a pint! (YATES grins and they head off to the pub. In the centre of the green, the dance is in full swing. The DOCTOR, ribbon in hand, approaches JO as they dance in opposite directions round the pole.) DOCTOR: You’re right, Jo - there is magic in the world after all! (And watched by a large crowd of villagers, the dancers round the maypole continue their celebration of deliverance.)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "08x25 - The D\u00e6mons - part 5"}
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DAY OF THE DALEKS BY: LOUIS MARKS EPISODE ONE Original Air Date: 1 January, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. HALLWAY (NIGHT) (A grandfather clocks ticks in the darkened tapestry covered hallway of a country house. A UNIT soldier stands guard on a set of double doors. From them emerges a smartly dressed fair-haired woman in her forties. She speaks to the soldier.) MISS PAGET: You will be sure that nobody disturbs him, won't you? (The soldier nods and the woman - MISS PAGET - ascends a staircase.) 2: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (NIGHT) (Through the doorway is a study and within it a distinguished man sits at a table writing. He blots the paper and, tired, takes off his glasses and rubs his eyes. Suddenly, the curtains at a french window blow as if disturbed by a wind. The man - SIR REGINALD STYLES - gets up from behind the desk and goes to the curtains. He parts them and stands back in shock as he sees a figure behind the curtains. It is a man dressed in combat fatigues and carrying a futuristic w*apon.) SIR REGINALD STYLES: What the...? (SIR REGINALD steps back but the man grabs him by his jacket and pushes him down onto a table. SIR REGINALD lies on his back looking at the man as he aims the g*n at him.) SIR REGINALD STYLES: Ah...no...no! No! (Suddenly, the man stiffens. A pattern of lights surround him and seem to extend from him and an electronic warbling fills the air. Within the pattern, the man disappears. SIR REGINALD looks up in shock and clambers to his feet. The door opens and MISS PAGET enters, alerted by the noise.) MISS PAGET: Sir Reginald? (She sees SIR REGINALD shaking in the middle of the room.) MISS PAGET: Are you all right? (He gabbles incoherently.) MISS PAGET: What happened? SIR REGINALD STYLES: (Gasps.) He att*cked me! Tried to k*ll me! MISS PAGET: Who did? What happened? SIR REGINALD STYLES: He vanished...disappeared into thin air! Like a...ghost... (He points at the open French window.) 3: INT. UNIT HQ. DUTY ROOM (A phone rings on a desk in the UNIT duty room. The BRIGADIER hands a paper to one of the female operatives within and then sits at the desk, picking up the phone.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.) Lethbridge-Stewart? VOICE: (Over telephone.) Ah, I have the Minister for you. MINISTER: (OOV: Over telephone.) Hello? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.) Oh good, put him through, will you? MINISTER: (OOV: Over telephone.) Hello? Hello? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.) Er, good morning, Minister. MINISTER: (OOV: Over telephone.) I've just been on to Auderly House. I've rather had some rather disturbing news. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.) Yes, yes, I've seen the report from Miss... (He looks over a paper.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.)...er, Miss Paget. Doesn't seem to be very much to go on. MINISTER: (OOV: Over telephone.) I don't need to tell you how critical the situation is. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.) Er, yes, Minister. I'm very well aware of Sir Reginald's importance in these negotiations. MINISTER: (OOV: Over telephone.) Then you're proposing to do nothing about it? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.) No, Minister. I do not propose to ignore the matter. I'm putting my best man on to it. (A small smile appears on his face.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.) As a matter of fact, I was just about to brief him when you rang. 4: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (The DOCTOR has once again taken the TARDIS console out of the ship and is again making adjustments to the dematerialisation circuit, watched by JO, who holds a clipboard.) JO: Doctor, why don't you take a break? (The DOCTOR ignores her and crosses to the other side of the console where he flicks a switch.) DOCTOR: It's maddening, you know. So nearly there. If I could only cut out their override on the dematerialisation circuit. Let me see those figures. (He takes the clipboard and a pen off her and starts to read the sheets attached.) JO: Doctor? DOCTOR: Mmm? JO: I thought the TARDIS was working again. DOCTOR: What gave you that idea? JO: Oh, being dragged off to an alien planet five hundred years in the future, for example. Oh, you know - all that business with the miners and the colonists. DOCTOR: My dear Jo, the TARDIS was being operated then under remote control by the High Council of the Time Lords. JO: Well, if it worked for them... DOCTOR: (Interrupts.) I don't want it to work for them. I want it to work for me. No-one's going to turn me into an interplanetary puppet. (JO smiles. The DOCTOR returns to his clipboard.) DOCTOR: Yes, of course. Why didn't I think of that before? (He hands her the clipboard back and ducks beneath the console. JO herself starts to look over the clipboard and hears the green double lab doors opening behind her. In the corridor stand another DOCTOR and another JO! She turns round and looks at them in shock.) DUPLICATE DOCTOR: Yes, of course. I remember now. (This second DOCTOR sees the look on the original JO'S face.) DUPLICATE DOCTOR: Look, don't worry, my dear. I know you're alarmed but you needn't be. (The original DOCTOR gets up from beneath the console.) DOCTOR: Yes, well I think that should do it. Why on Earth I never realised that... (He sees the look on JO'S face and follows her gaze.) DOCTOR: Oh no! What are you doing here? DUPLICATE DOCTOR: Well, I'm not here. Don't worry. Well, that is, in a sense, er, I am here, but, erm, you are not there. Er...yes, well, it's a bit difficult to explain really. DOCTOR: This won't do at all! We can't have two of us running about. DUPLICATE DOCTOR: Yes, well don't worry. It will all sor... (There is a sudden flash on the console and the two duplicate figures disappear.) JO: Doctor! What happened? DOCTOR: Well, it's a very complicated thing - time - Jo. Once you've g*n tampering with it, the oddest things start happening. JO: But there was another you and another...me. (She looks round.) JO: Well, where've they gone? DOCTOR: Back into their own time stream, of course. Or do I mean forward? JO: But, Doctor, I don't understand... DOCTOR: (Interrupts.) Look, Jo. Don't worry about it. It was a freak affect. It's very unlikely to happen again. (He passes her the dematerisation circuit.) DOCTOR: Hold that and give me those papers. (He takes the clipboard off her again and is once more looking over the papers when the BRIGADIER enters the lab, himself reading a report.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Ah, Doctor. Glad you're still here. (The DOCTOR looks up and grins at JO.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: I need your help. DOCTOR: Sorry, Brigadier. I'm busy. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Yeah, so am I, Doctor, so am I. Now then, you've heard of Sir Reginald Styles? (The DOCTOR continues to make notes on his clipboard and shows no interest in the BRIGADIER.) DOCTOR: No, can't say that I have. JO: Well isn't he the chief representative at the UN? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: That's right - key figure at the latest summit conference. DOCTOR: My dear chap, I'm a scientist. Not a politician. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: You know, Doctor, if you...didn't spend so much time tinkering around with this wretched contraption, you'd realise just how bad the international situation's become. DOCTOR: Humans are always squabbling over something, Brigadier. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Yes, well, this particular squabble looks like ending up in a third world w*r. (The DOCTOR looks up from his clipboard and shows some interest at last.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: The Chinese delegation have refused to attend. Without them, the conference can't even begin. Now Styles is flying to Peking in a few hours. There's just a chance that he can persuade them to change their minds. DOCTOR: All right, Brigadier. So what's his problem? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Well, he was working late last night, down at Auderly... JO: (Interrupts.) Where's that? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Auderly, Miss Grant, is a Government owned country house about fifty miles north of London where the conference is due to be held. JO: Oh. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: He suddenly started behaving...rather oddly. Seemed to think that someone was trying to assassinate him. DOCTOR: Any idea who? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Some sort of "ghost" apparently. 5: EXT. AUDERLY HOUSE (The quiet but overgrown grounds of Auderly House are bathed in sunshine. The peace is disturbed by the same sound that was heard in the study the night before. A pattern of lights appear and within, the attacker from the night before materialises. He quickly looks round and then runs for the cover of some undergrowth. Seeing that all is clear, he starts to run towards the large white Georgian mansion. Suddenly he stops. A long drawn out whistle-like sound can be heard. The GUERILLA looks terrified. He turns and runs back the way he came as fast as he can.) 6: EXT. TUNNEL AREA (A short time later, the man, now out of breath, arrives at a railway bridge which runs over a canal. The GUERILLA looks round when a large simian-like figure steps out behind him. The man is clubbed to the ground and he falls down the bank towards the canal side. The figure which clubbed him looks down on him. It is large with a dark ape-like face and thick set eyes. Long straggly hair comes off its head. It wears a primitive sort of uniform. It is joined by another of its kind and they glance over their victim before walking under the railway bridge where there is a tunnel leading into darkness. A train rumbles over head as they go...) 7: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (The DOCTOR, JO and the BRIGADIER have travelled to Auderly House where MISS PAGET explains what she knows in the study.) MISS PAGET: He said somebody att*cked him and vanished. DOCTOR: And you're absolutely certain that he used the word "ghost"? MISS PAGET: Oh yes. But afterwards he... (The doors open and SIR REGINALD walks in. He is clearly angry at the intrusion of the strange group.) SIR REGINALD STYLES: Miss Paget! What's going on here?! MISS PAGET: These people are from UNIT, sir. SIR REGINALD STYLES: Who asked them to come here? MISS PAGET: I did - because of what happened yesterday. SIR REGINALD STYLES: Nothing happened yesterday. (He snatches a paper from her and starts to read it.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: There seems to have been some sort of incident, Sir Reginald? SIR REGINALD STYLES: (Snaps.) Nothing of any importance. JO: Well, if you could tell us what happened? SIR REGINALD STYLES: (Unconvincingly.) I was working late. I must have dropped off. Freak gust of wind, blew some papers off my desk, I woke up rather confused, I was picking up the papers when Miss Paget came in. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: But you did mention ghosts. SIR REGINALD STYLES: Did I? Must have been having a nightmare. MISS PAGET: But the French windows were shut. I closed them before I went to bed. SIR REGINALD STYLES: Then I must have opened them! (The DOCTOR points across the room.) DOCTOR: Did you, er, did you also make those marks on the floor over there? Muddy feet, Sir Reginald. Someone was in here, you know. SIR REGINALD STYLES: (Angrily.) Are you accusing me of lying, sir?! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Sir Reginald, you've obviously been under considerable strain recently. Were you feeling at all unwell last night? SIR REGINALD STYLES: I felt, and feel, perfectly well. Now, if you'll excuse me, I've a lot to do. I'm due at the airport in an hour. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: You've no objection to my men searching the grounds? SIR REGINALD STYLES: None at all. Though I really don't know what you hope to find. (He walks out and shuts the door. MISS PAGET looks worried.) 8: EXT. TUNNEL AREA (The search of the grounds has g*n. Two soldiers traverse the railway bridge, looking down on the canal and embankment below. The DOCTOR, the BRIGADIER, YATES and BENTON watch as more soldiers search the overgrown area nearby. The GUERILLA still lies unconscious at the bottom of the embankment which leads down from the railway bridge, his futuristic w*apon next to him. Suddenly, he is spotted by one of the soldiers on the bridge.) UNIT SOLDIER: He's over here! (The DOCTOR and his companions run towards the spot indicated.) UNIT SOLDIER: Sergeant! (BENTON moves to where the soldier has called him while the DOCTOR looks over the GUERILLA.) DOCTOR: Ah, he's in a bad way, poor chap. You'd better get him to the hospital. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Captain Yates... CAPTAIN YATES: Right away, sir. (YATES runs off to fetch help. The BRIGADIER picks up the GUERILLA'S w*apon and looks over it.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: This is a new one on me. What do you make of it, Doctor? (He passes it to the DOCTOR who looks over it.) DOCTOR: I'm not sure... (BENTON returns carrying what looks like a small battery pack in his hand with a shoulder strap attached to it.) SERGEANT BENTON: Sir? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: What've you got there, Benton? SERGEANT BENTON: No idea, sir. (He passes it to the BRIGADIER who opens the top. Inside is a mass of complex circuitry.) SERGEANT BENTON: It was hidden about fifty feet inside the tunnel. Must have been put there recently, I reckon. (The DOCTOR looks thoughtful.) 9: INT. CONTROL ROOM (Far away, a cold-faced man sits in a luxurious leather chair in a large control room. He is dressed in a simple dark green tunic. Around him, a number of girls man flat-topped control units which stand on split level platforms. A uniformed guard stands to one side. The man in the chair - the CONTROLLER - presses a button on a small remote control unit and a door buzzes open. The two ape-like beings who att*cked the GUERILLA walk into the room and up to the CONTROLLER.) CONTROLLER: Your report? OGRON: We...found...and destroyed...the enemy. CONTROLLER: Any complications? OGRON: No complications. CONTROLLER: Good. They will be satisfied. (The two OGRONS turn to go.) CONTROLLER: I did not say dismiss! I want an intensified effort. There can be no relaxation - not until we have found all those responsible for this menace - and eliminated them too! (Wearily.) Now you may go. (The two OGRONS start to walk out.) CONTROLLER: But keep me informed of all developments. (The two beings leave.) 10: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (SIR REGINALD walks into his study but recoils in shock as he sees the BRIGADIER holding the GUERILLA'S g*n.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Have you seen this before? SIR REGINALD STYLES: (Angrily.) Really Brigadier! What sort of games are you playing? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: It's not a game, sir. It's our duty to protect you! SIR REGINALD STYLES: (Snaps.) I don't need your protection! (He storms past the DOCTOR who is also in the room.) DOCTOR: Sir Reginald, we've just found a very severely injured man down by the canal tunnel. (STYLES goes to his desk and starts putting papers into a briefcase.) SIR REGINALD STYLES: Oh really? And what did he look like? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Thirty-fiveish, average build. He was wearing a sort of guerilla combat suit. DOCTOR: And carrying that g*n. SIR REGINALD STYLES: I am very sorry, gentlemen, but I have rather more important things on my mind at the moment. If you'll excuse me? (He heads for the door, briefcase in hand.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: I've arranged an escort to take you to the airport, sir. SIR REGINALD STYLES: Thank you, but it shouldn't be necessary. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: I'm sorry, sir, but I think it will! SIR REGINALD STYLES: (Dismissive.) Oh, if you insist. (He walks out.) DOCTOR: I'd like to get that g*n down to the laboratory and run a few tests on it. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Anything else we can do? DOCTOR: No, not for the moment. I think we'll just have to sit and wait and hope that our would-be assassin regains consciousness. 11: INT. AMBULANCE (SERGEANT BENTON sits in an ambulance near the railway bridge and helps pull in a stretcher which is pushed in from the other side by YATES and another soldier. The GUERILLA is on the stretcher.) CAPTAIN YATES: And stay with him every moment, Benton. Take down everything he says - anything at all. SERGEANT BENTON: Leave it to me, sir. 12: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (A miniature dematerisalisation circuit sits on a box top. Near it, the DOCTOR has secured the GUERRILA'S g*n onto a stand. The g*n is pointed at a man-shaped target which is set in an alcove. JO and the BRIGADIER watch.) DOCTOR: Well, basically it's a form of ultra-sonic disintegrator. JO: You mean a ray g*n? DOCTOR: That's right, Jo, I mean a ray g*n. Only it's far more sophisticated than any w*apon yet invented on Earth. Now take a look at this. (The DOCTOR fires the g*n. There is a white flare and the target disappears.) DOCTOR: Quite an effective little w*apon, eh? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Doctor, you say this wasn't made on Earth. Do you mean it comes from another planet? DOCTOR: Well that was my theory at first, yes. But the metallurgical analysis shows that the, er, iron constituent is very much of this world. In fact, it was mined not very far from here - North Wales. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: How do you explain that? DOCTOR: Do you believe in ghosts, Brigadier? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Let's be serious, Doctor. DOCTOR: I am. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Oh, come along, Doctor, come along. DOCTOR: Oh, my mistake. I was forgetting the unimaginative nature of the military mind. But we saw a couple of "Amicus Seperatus" a few moments ago, didn't we, Jo? JO: Did we? DOCTOR: Yes, here in this laboratory. JO: Oh, you mean when we... DOCTOR: (Interrupting.) Mind you, they were manifestations of a much more benevolent kind. None of your clanking chains and chilly fingers! But ghosts, none the less. JO: That was because you were playing around with the time mechanism on the TARDIS, wasn't it? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Smiles.) Still can't get it to work, eh? (The DOCTOR picks up the box found near the railway bridge.) DOCTOR: Well, I can't get this thing to work, either. But this is a form of, er, of time machine of a very crude kind. JO: How do you know? DOCTOR: Come over here. Look at this. (He picks up the miniature dematerialisation circuit.) DOCTOR: Now what do you think that is? JO: Ooh, it's a...mini-dematerialisation circuit. DOCTOR: Top of the class, Jo. Now then, pop this in here, like that. (He slots the circuit into the box.) DOCTOR: Now, as far as I can gather, when you push this button, it should... (The box starts to hum and the light display starts to emanate from it.) DOCTOR: Good grief! It's working! 13: INT. AMBULANCE (In the ambulance, the GUERILLA is bathed in the same light display. Watched by an astonished BENTON, he vanishes.) 14: INT. CONTROL ROOM (The CONTROLLER stands to one side of the room. Nearby a GIRL TECHNICIAN'S hands seem to hover over the control board. She speaks in an emotionless monotone.) GIRL TECHNICIAN: Sir? CONTROLLER: What is it? GIRL TECHNICIAN: Time transmitter in operation, sir. Twentieth Century Zone. (The CONTROLLER is instantly alert.) CONTROLLER: Can you fix the space-time coordinates? GIRL TECHNICIAN: I'm trying, sir, but it's very faint and erratic. 15: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (The time machine shakes in the DOCTOR'S hand as he attempts to control it.) JO: Do be careful, Doctor! DOCTOR: All right, Jo, all right. 16: INT. CONTROL ROOM CONTROLLER: Well? GIRL TECHNICIAN: No good, sir. There was a transference, I think, but the machine's cut out completely. CONTROLLER: (Angrily.) Continue scanning - and next time you had better be more efficient! (He walks over to his chair and looks over to an open archway. Within a familiar looking being waits for him - a gold coloured DALEK!) CHIEF DALEK: Report! 17: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (The DOCTOR looks over the now dormant time machine.) DOCTOR: Well, the thing's completely d*ad now. JO: But it was working. DOCTOR: Yeah, it started to work... (He opens the unit and looks over the circuitry.) DOCTOR: Ah, I see, yeah. Yes, the temporal feedback circuit has overloaded. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: The what's done what? DOCTOR: In your terms, Brigadier, the thing's blown a fuse! (A phone buzzes. The BRIGADIER mouths to the DOCTOR if he minds him using it.) DOCTOR: Please. (The BRIGADIER picks up the phone while the DOCTOR and JO look over the miniature dematerialisation circuit.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.) Lethbridge-Stewart? (He listens.) Yes, Sergeant. (Listens.) Really? (Listens.) You're sure? (Listens.) Yes, I see. All right, sergeant. You'd better report back to Captain Yates. Goodbye. (He puts the phone down.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: That was Benton. He was in the ambulance with the man we found. DOCTOR: Well? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Well according to him, that man just...vanished, faded away - like a ghost. JO: Oh no! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Well, Doctor, what now? DOCTOR: Well, everything that happens seems to centre round Styles' house. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Obviously. DOCTOR: And whoever tried to harm him will probably try again. (He considers, then...) DOCTOR: Jo, how would you like to spend the night in a haunted house? (A non-too pleased JO looks at the BRIGADIER.) 18: EXT. AUDERLY HOUSE (NIGHT) (Auderley House sits in semi-darkness. A crow and an owl can be heard nearby. The only lights in the house come from the study.) 19: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (NIGHT) (Within, a very nervous JO runs over to the French window and shuts and locks them firmly. The study door opens and the DOCTOR enters, carrying a tray on which rests a bottle of wine, two glasses and a cheese.) DOCTOR: You know, one thing you can be certain of with politicians, is that whatever their political ideas, they always keep a well-stocked larder - not to mention the cellar! (He sits down on a leather settee and puts the tray down.) JO: Doctor, ought you just to help yourself like that? DOCTOR: Well, you heard what Miss Paget said, Jo. We were to treat the place as our own. JO: I wish you hadn't sent all the servants away. DOCTOR: That's commonsense. You can't expect a ghost to walk in a house full of people, can you? Come on, tuck in. (He starts to cut himself a piece of cheese.) JO: Well, I'm not really hungry, thank you, Doctor. DOCTOR: Well you ought to eat something, you know. This is likely to be a very long night. (JO sits next to him but jumps up almost immediately as she hears a bell tolling. The DOCTOR tucks into the cheese.) JO: What's that? DOCTOR: It's a clock chiming. I say, you really ought to try this gorgonzola cheese. It's absolutely delicious. (JO, however, cannot settle and paces the room, constantly on the alert.) 20: EXT. AUDERLY HOUSE (NIGHT) (A patrol of soldiers run past the house, harangued by SERGEANT BENTON.) SERGEANT BENTON: Move! (They go past CAPTAIN YATES who stands next to a jeep, radio in hand. BENTON goes over to him.) CAPTAIN YATES: (Into radio.) Hello? Hello? Greyhound to trap one. Greyhound to trap one. How do you read me, over? SERGEANT BENTON: All the lads are in position, sir. CAPTAIN YATES: Thank you, Benton. Quiet so far? SERGEANT BENTON: Like a morgue. 21: EXT. TUNNEL AREA (NIGHT) (Not far away, in the tunnel under the railway bridge, the light display from one of the time machines starts to appear...) 22: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (NIGHT) (JO is still nervously pacing the room as the DOCTOR, sprawled on the settee, smells and then tastes a glass of wine.) DOCTOR: Yes...yes, that's a most good-humoured wine. A touch sardonic perhaps, but not cynical! Yes, a most civilised wine. One after my own heart. (JO walks into the hallway.) 23: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. HALLWAY (NIGHT) (The ticking of the grandfather clock is the only sound she can hear. She steps onto the staircase landing and looks round. Hearing a noise, she spins round. SERGEANT BENTON steps out of the darkness.) SERGEANT BENTON: Everything all right, miss? JO: It was until you came along! You took years off my life creeping about like that! SERGEANT BENTON: Well, I didn't want to disturb the Doc. (Whispers.) What's he up to? JO: Well, at the moment, he's carrying on rather like a one-man food and wine society. SERGEANT BENTON: Oh, talking of food, you, er, you couldn't get us a bite to eat, could you, miss? I'm famished! JO: Hang on. (JO goes back into the study.) 24: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (NIGHT) (Smiling, she picks up the plate of cheese and a glass of wine and starts to walk out. The DOCTOR watches her go.) DOCTOR: (Puzzled.) Jo? JO: All in a good cause. 25: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. HALLWAY (NIGHT) (She passes the items to BENTON.) SERGEANT BENTON: Ah, you've saved my life. (He cuts a piece of cheese and is about to eat it when...) CAPTAIN YATES: (OOV.) Sergeant Benton! SERGEANT BENTON: Sir! (With a look of pain on his face, BENTON hurriedly passes the items back to JO and stands to attention just before CAPTAIN YATES walks into the hallway.) CAPTAIN YATES: Just what do you think you're up to, Benton? SERGEANT BENTON: Er, I...was just checking, sir. CAPTAIN YATES: Yes, well I want you to go and check on number three patrol. Move, Sergeant Benton. SERGEANT BENTON: Sir. (He leaves. CAPTAIN YATES spots the plate and glass.) CAPTAIN YATES: Jo, how thoughtful! (He takes the glass and has a large swig of the wine, then hands it back.) JO: Well, that wasn't very kind of you. (YATES takes a piece of cheese.) CAPTAIN YATES: RHIP, Jo. JO: Pardon? CAPTAIN YATES: Rank Has Its Privileges. Thank you. (He walks off and JO goes back into the study.) 26: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (NIGHT) DOCTOR: And what was all that about? JO: (Smiles.) Feeding the troops. (She puts the plate and glass down and sits next to the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: Oh, quite right. Do you know, I remember saying to old Napoleon, "Boney", I said, "Always remember - an army marches on its stomach". JO: Well, Mike Yates certainly does. Doctor? DOCTOR: Mmm? JO: You didn't mean what you said to the Brigadier - about...ghosts? DOCTOR: Well, there are many different kinds of ghosts, Jo. Ghosts from the past and ghosts from the future. JO: Well what kind did you have in mind? DOCTOR: What's more to the point is - have they got us in mind? (The wind blows and the French windows open. JO jumps up.) DOCTOR: Just the wind. (The DOCTOR gets up and closes them.) DOCTOR: Look, why don't you take a nap? 27: EXT. TUNNEL AREA (NIGHT) (The light display in the tunnel appears again and, within it, three figures materialises - a woman and two men. They are dressed in the same combat gear as the GUERILLA. One of the men, SHURA, starts to walk off but the woman - ANAT holds him back.) ANAT: We'll wait here till it's light. SHURA: Time we... ANAT: (Interrupts.) I said we'll wait! 28: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. HALLWAY (The next morning, the clock continues to tick in the hallway.) 29: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (JO is asleep in a leather armchair. The DOCTOR fiddles with the small time machine and then checks his watch. He goes over to JO and taps her.) DOCTOR: Wake up, Jo. (JO wakes up with a start.) DOCTOR: It's all right. It's morning. JO: Nothing's happened? DOCTOR: No, nothing at all. (He goes to the window and opens the curtain. Daylight floods the room.) 30: EXT. TUNNEL AREA (Two UNIT soldiers on patrol walk along the canal bank and towards the railway bridge and tunnel. The three Guerillas have pressed themselves against the brick support of the bridge in hiding. As the soldiers get nearer, SHURA steps out of hiding and raises his blaster. He fires, there is a flare and the two soldiers fade away in nothingness. The three Guerillas move off.) 31: INT. UNIT HQ. DUTY ROOM (A female RADIO OPERATOR yawns at her set. Two other operatives are at another set. The door to the room opens and a slightly dishevelled BRIGADIER walks into the room.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Any chance of a cup of coffee? U.N.I.T. RADIO OPERATOR: The canteen's closed, sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: It would be. (He starts to walk out.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Anything? U.N.I.T. RADIO OPERATOR: Not a murmur, sir, all night. (As he goes into the corridor, the radio bursts into life with a loud klaxon-like alarm.) U.N.I.T. RADIO OPERATOR: It's Geneva, sir. 1 VOICE: (Over radio.) Emergency! Emergency! Emergency to all UNIT national HQ's - stand by for a special announcement. (The BRIGADIER comes back in and stands over the radio.) 2 VOICE: (Over radio.) Here is the latest official report: the international situation is growing steadily worse. w*r now seems inevitable. As yet, there is no further news of Sir Reginald Styles, who has flown to Peking in a last minute attempt to persuade the Chinese to con...reconsider their withdrawal. 1 VOICE: (Over radio.) Observation satellites report troops massing along the Russian-Chinese frontier. In South America and Southern Asia, reports say fighting has already broken out in many regions. All UNIT personnel are hereby placed in maximum alert! 32: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (The DOCTOR is again making adjustments to the time machine. He puts the set down and it starts to hum.) 33: EXT. AUDERLY HOUSE (The DOCTOR can be seen through the open French window and he walks across the room.) DOCTOR: Jo! Jo! (In the shrubbery, the three Guerillas arrive and crouch down. SHURA takes aim with his blaster at the figure.) 34: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (The DOCTOR pours himself a drink from a table next to the French window and then steps away.) 35: EXT. AUDERLY HOUSE (His target having moved, SHURA lowers his blaster. ANAT signals to him to move and he starts to run towards the house. ANAT and the third Guerilla - BOAZ - then run in another direction but also towards the house. SHURA reaches the house, checks round and then enters the study.) 36: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (He looks round the empty room. He quickly spots the humming time machine and puts his blaster down. He walks towards the machine but is interrupted when the DOCTOR, glass in hand, enters the room. SHURA runs at him but the DOCTOR casually gives him an Akido punch to the stomach and then a chop to the neck. As SHURA falls to the ground, the DOCTOR takes a sip of his drink. He walks over to the settee and puts his glass down on the table as SHURA gets up and runs at him again. The DOCTOR grabs him and throws him over onto the settee. SHURA tries to get up but the DOCTOR places a nerve hold on his chest and the Guerilla lies back helpless.) SHURA: Please! Turn that machine off - or they'll k*ll all of us! Please! 37: INT. CONTROL ROOM (The GIRL TECHNICIAN at her station picks up the signal.) GIRL TECHNICIAN: Sir? CONTROLLER: Yes? GIRL TECHNICIAN: We've picked up that time transmitter again. CONTROLLER: You're sure? (He steps over to her.) GIRL TECHNICIAN: Yes, sir. Same frequency, same time...time zone. Much stronger now. CONTROLLER: Right. I want the exact space-time co-ordinates so whatever happens, don't lose it! (He steps over to his chair.) 38: INT. DALEKS CHAMBER (His image appears on a screen high up on the wall in the DALEKS metallic chamber. Two grey DALEKS are in here together with the gold coloured CHIEF DALEK.) CONTROLLER: (On monitor.) We have a fix on the time transfer device. It is operating again in the twentieth century time zone and it must be them. CHIEF DALEK: You have obtained the space-time co-ordinates? CONTROLLER: (On monitor.) We're trying now. The trace is much stronger this time. There is every chance... CHIEF DALEK: (Interrupts.) You must not fail! CONTROLLER: (On monitor.) Security forces are standing by. If we do get the co-ordinates, what are your instructions? CHIEF DALEK: Whoever is operating the time machine is an enemy of the Daleks. All enemies of the Daleks must be destroyed! Exterminate them! (The three DALEKS start to chant...) DALEKS: Exterminate them! Exterminate them! Exterminate them!
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "09x01 - Day of the Daleks - part 1"}
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DAY OF THE DALEKS BY: LOUIS MARKS EPISODE TWO Original Air Date: 8 January, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. CONTROL ROOM (The GIRL TECHNICIAN at her station picks up the signal.) GIRL TECHNICIAN: Sir? CONTROLLER: Yes? GIRL TECHNICIAN: We've picked up that time transmitter again. CONTROLLER: You're sure? (He steps over to her.) GIRL TECHNICIAN: Yes, sir. Same frequency, same time...time zone. Much stronger now. CONTROLLER: Right. I want the exact space-time co-ordinates so whatever happens, don't lose it! (He steps over to his chair.) 2: INT. DALEKS CHAMBER (His image appears on a screen high up on the wall in the DALEKS metallic chamber. Two grey DALEKS are in here together with the gold coloured CHIEF DALEK.) CONTROLLER: (On monitor.) We have a fix on the time transfer device. It is operating again in the twentieth century time zone and it must be them. CHIEF DALEK: You have obtained the space-time co-ordinates? CONTROLLER: (On monitor.) We're trying now. The trace is much stronger this time. There is every chance... CHIEF DALEK: (Interrupts.) You must not fail! CONTROLLER: (On monitor.) Security forces are standing by. If we do get the co-ordinates, what are your instructions? CHIEF DALEK: Whoever is operating the time machine is an enemy of the Daleks. All enemies of the Daleks must be destroyed! Exterminate them! (The three DALEKS start to chant...) DALEKS: Exterminate them! Exterminate them! Exterminate them! 3: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (The DOCTOR still has the nerve hold on SHURA when ANAT, g*n raised, and BOAZ, holding JO'S arm pinioned behind her back enter the study from the hall.) ANAT: Let him go. (The DOCTOR does so and turns to face the guerillas.) ANAT: Now then - turn off that machine. 4: INT. DALEKS CHAMBER (A large curved metal door raises to the ceiling. The CONTROLLER is stood on the other side and enters the DALEK chamber from the control room. The CHIEF DALEK is waiting for him.) CONTROLLER: I have to report that we have lost the trace. It was operating only a few moments. CHIEF DALEK: We are not interested in excuses. Find them! Find them! Find them! 5: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (ANAT coolly looks the DOCTOR over as he stands at the point of SHURA'S g*n.) ANAT: So...you are the man. Outwardly so innocent looking but capable of such crimes. Who would ever know? DOCTOR: My dear young lady, I'm afraid I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about. ANAT: You have said and done enough. The time has come for your execution. DOCTOR: Execution? ANAT: Those are our orders. DOCTOR: May I ask whose orders? ANAT: It is no concern of yours. Shura...? (SHURA walks round the DOCTOR and raises his g*n at him. JO jumps up.) JO: But he hasn't done anything! He's a scientist! (BOAZ steps forward and pushes her back into a chair.) ANAT: (To the DOCTOR.) No last words of repentance, Sir Reginald? (The DOCTOR looks puzzled for a moment.) DOCTOR: No, only that you're making one fundamental mistake... ANAT: That is? DOCTOR: A question of mistaken identity. I am not Sir Reginald Styles. ANAT: Is that the best you can do? JO: But it's true! Sir Reginald... DOCTOR: (Interrupts.) Sir Reginald is at this moment many thousands of miles away - in Peking, to be precise. ANAT: (Uncertain.) You are lying. DOCTOR: No, I'm not. He flew there yesterday. (ANAT still has a look of uncertainty on her face.) ANAT: I do not believe you. DOCTOR: It's all there in the paper in front of you. Why don't you take a look? (He gestures to a newspaper on the desk. With SHURA still pointing her g*n at the DOCTOR and ANAT also keeping hers trained, she reaches out a picks up the paper. She glances at it and passes it to SHURA who also looks over it. He nods at ANAT in confirmation.) DOCTOR: I'm sorry to disappoint you. By the way, that, er, that machine of yours is a bit antiquated, isn't it? Do you mind if I suggest some improvements and...? SHURA: (Interrupts.) Shut up! BOAZ: It's a trick - k*ll him now! ANAT: If you are not Sir Reginald Styles who are you and what are you doing in his house? DOCTOR: Well, believe it or believe it not, I came here to see you. (BOAZ steps forward and trains his g*n on the DOCTOR. SHURA turns his on JO.) BOAZ: We're wasting time, Anat. Here, I'll do it. ANAT: (Angrily.) Who is in command of this mission?! (She gently pushes BOAZ'S g*n away.) ANAT: We are soldiers, not m*rder. Keep guard outside, I'll deal with these two. (BOAZ doesn't move.) ANAT: I said out! (BOAZ, with reluctant dignity, moves to the hallway and shuts the door behind him.) ANAT: Now then, answer my question - who are you and what are you doing here? 6: EXT. AUDERLY HOUSE (CAPTAIN YATES waits with a jeep outside the main entrance to the house with some soldiers. SERGEANT BENTON walks up to the CAPTAIN and salutes.) SERGEANT BENTON: Two men missing, sir. CAPTAIN YATES: Are you sure? SERGEANT BENTON: I'm positive. I've doubled checked and there are two men missing. CAPTAIN YATES: From the patrol? SERGEANT BENTON: Yes sir. Now there's just one possibility - they could be in the house. I mean, it's none too warm a day, is it, sir? CAPTAIN YATES: Well, let's go and check. (They move off.) 7: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (While SHURA keeps an eye on JO, ANAT'S interrogation of the DOCTOR continues...) ANAT: Answer my question sensibly - how could you know we were coming? DOCTOR: 'Cos you've already tried to k*ll Styles once and failed. It was logical that you would try again. SHURA: And you deliberately took his place? DOCTOR: That's right. I wanted to talk to you. ANAT: Why? DOCTOR: To find out where you came from. And more to the point - when. (BOAZ comes back in.) BOAZ: Two soldiers approach. ANAT: Hide! (ANAT runs into the hallway, while BOAZ pulls JO up and SHURA pushes the DOCTOR out.) 8: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. HALLWAY (In the hallway, ANAT looks round. She spots a doorway under the stairs.) ANAT: Down there! (BOAZ pushes JO along while the DOCTOR calmly walks in front of SHURA.) BOAZ: Hurry! (BOAZ opens the door and the group walks through.) 9: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. CELLAR (BOAZ switches on the light and the group starts to descend down the steps.) ANAT: Stay where you are! (They stop and she switches off the light.) 10: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. HALLWAY (ANAT opens the door a fraction and listens as YATES and BENTON enter the hallway.) CAPTAIN YATES: Doctor?! Jo?! Try the study, Benton. 11: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (BENTON enters the deserted study and looks round.) SERGEANT BENTON: Doctor? Anyone there? 12: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. CELLAR (JO tries to call out but BOAZ has his hand clamped over her mouth.) 13: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. HALLWAY (YATES shouts up the stairway under which ANAT is still listening.) CAPTAIN YATES: Doctor? Miss Grant? (BENTON comes out of the study.) SERGEANT BENTON: What do you make of it, sir? (YATES takes out a pocket radio.) CAPTAIN YATES: (Into radio.) Greyhound two to... 14: INT. UNIT HQ. DUTY ROOM (The BRIGADIER is on the phone in the duty room as the RADIO OPERATOR receives YATES' message.) CAPTAIN YATES: (Over radio.) ...trap one. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.) I see, sir. CAPTAIN YATES: (Over radio.) Greyhound two to trap one. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.) Well, I've already alerted my main personnel. U.N.I.T. RADIO OPERATOR: (Into radio.) Trap one, over. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.) Oh yes, naturally, in a national emergency, we'll liaise with the defence forces. U.N.I.T. RADIO OPERATOR: (Into phone.) Sorry, the Brigadier is busy ... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.) Oh, I'll...I'll have to go now, sir. I've got the Minister coming through on the scrambler. Goodbye. (Another phone on the BRIGADIER'S desk has started to beep. He puts the first phone down and picks up the second.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.) Lethbridge-Stewart? VOICE: (Over telephone.) Ah good, I have the Minister of Defence for you. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.) Oh, right, put him through. (The RADIO OPERATOR calls across the room...) U.N.I.T. RADIO OPERATOR: Captain Yates, sir, on four. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: I can't speak to him now. U.N.I.T. RADIO OPERATOR: He says something very odd is happening at Auderly House. If you could have a quick word with him, sir? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: All right. (Still holding the phone, he flicks a switch on a speaker on his desk.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into radio.) Yes, what is it, Yates? CAPTAIN YATES: (OOV: Over radio.) A couple of my men missing, sir, and the Doctor and Miss Grant - not a sign of them. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into radio.) Look really, Yates, I've got a major international crisis on. I really haven't got time for any... MINISTER: (OOV: Over telephone.) Oh, Lethbridge-Stewart? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.) Erm, yes, yes, that's right? MINISTER: (OOV: Over telephone.) Yes, it's the Minister here. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.) One moment, sir. (Into radio.) Listen, Yates, search the grounds again or report back to me - out! (He flicks the switch off.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.) Yes, Minister? 15: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. HALLWAY CAPTAIN YATES: (To BENTON.) Well, you heard what he said - let's get down there. (They walk out of the hallway. ANAT listens to them go.) 16: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. CELLAR (She quietly closes the door.) ANAT: Light. (SHURA switches the light back on.) BOAZ: So what do we do now? ANAT: Tie them up. (SHURA and BOAZ push their two c*ptive further down the cellar steps and onto the floor.) SHURA: Sit down there. (ANAT steals quietly into the hallway...) 17: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. HALLWAY (...where she checks that the coast is clear.) 18: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (She then enters the study and checks that this too is clear.) 19: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. HALLWAY (Ever watchful she heads back for the cellar.) 20: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. CELLAR (Here, the DOCTOR and JO sit on the floor, their hands tied behind their backs and a gag over their mouths. ANAT comes back in.) ANAT: Right, they're clear of the house. Have you finished? SHURA: Yes. ANAT: We must go. (The two men come back up the steps, casting a final eye back on their c*ptive.) ANAT: Quietly! (They leave the cellar. Behind them, the DOCTOR starts to frantically move his mouth, edging the gag further down his chin. JO watches as he manages to free his mouth.) DOCTOR: Oh, that's better. (JO mumbles some words behind her gag.) DOCTOR: You know, I've got a good mind to let you stay like that! So much more peaceful. (JO mumbles indignantly and moves herself across to the DOCTOR'S side against a wine rack.) DOCTOR: In any case, even if I released you, you'll probably ask me a lot of fool questions! (JO manages to shake her own gag off.) JO: I've only got one question - who are they? DOCTOR: On the face of it, three rather desperate people. JO: Well, they're criminals - they must be! DOCTOR: Ah, you're prejudiced. JO: Well, aren't you? They tried to k*ll you and me. DOCTOR: That's not in their favour, I'll admit. You know, we shouldn't really judge 'em until we find out why they're here. Well, come on, Jo. What about trying out some of that escapology of yours? JO: Well, I've been trying but...ropes are too tight. (He edges round so that he and JO are almost back to back.) DOCTOR: I'll tell you what...have a try...have a try at untying mine. JO: Okay. DOCTOR: Got it? (JO nods and starts to try to untie his bonds.) JO: Where'd they come from? DOCTOR: Well, technologically speaking, that g*n of theirs is about two hundred years ahead of its time - your time that is. (Ponders.) The twenty-second century visiting the twentieth...a planned expedition through time to meet and k*ll an important politician. Now, why? JO: Well, I'm the one who's supposed to be asking...the questions. DOCTOR: He's obviously not only important to us, he's also important to them. Or history - their history - must talk a lot about Sir Reginald Styles, I think. JO: You mean, they travelled back in our team to try and change history? DOCTOR: That's it, yes. How are you doing? JO: Oh, not very well. These knots are...rock hard. DOCTOR: Well, in that case, there's only one thing left for us to do. (He leans back against the wine rack.) JO: I know - wait. DOCTOR: You're learning, Jo. (She smiles and relaxes.) JO: You know, I still don't get it - that changing history bit. DOCTOR: Have you got a better theory? JO: Well, no. It just doesn't fit them. They seem more like a bunch of thugs to me. DOCTOR: Fanatics, Jo, not thugs. Changing history is a very fanatical idea, you know. 21: INT. CONTROL ROOM (The DALEKS have come out of their chamber and are in the control room. They surround the CONTROLLER as he explains the lack of progress.) CONTROLLER: We are maintaining constant watch, but there is no sign of any time transference module in operation. CHIEF DALEK: All criminal elements must be tracked down and destroyed. CONTROLLER: Well, I am doing everything possible, but... CHIEF DALEK: (Interrupts.) They will have returned to the time zone where the first criminal was eliminated. You will dispatch security forces to search for them. CONTROLLER: Of course...at once. (He looks at a small device which rests on top of a thin stand. It looks like a sculpture of two silver globes.) CONTROLLER: And the new equipment? CHIEF DALEK: The Time Vortex Magnetron is set to the frequency of the module that was traced. Anyone using that module will be diverted in the space-time vortex and attracted here. CONTROLLER: But only if that particular module is used? CHIEF DALEK: It is necessary to know the frequency. CONTROLLER: But surely no one will use the module? They must realise that we can trace them... CHIEF DALEK: (Shouts.) Do not dispute with the Daleks! The function of the human is to obey! Activate the Magnetron! (The DALEKS and the CONTROLLER face the device. It starts to hum and light patterns start to emanate from it.) 22: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (While BOAZ looks through the door into the hallway and SHURA keeps an eye on the window, ANAT speaks urgently into a small radio but that emits from it is a buzzing sound.) ANAT: (Into radio.) Intercept to base. Intercept to base. Do you coordinate? Do you coordinate? Intercept... (She gives up.) ANAT: No good. There is a massive disturbance in the vortex. BOAZ: We cannot fail again. This is our last chance. ANAT: We must get fresh orders. The time coordinates are crucial. BOAZ: (Snaps.) We cannot wait for new orders! SHURA: Look, why don't I return to the tunnel? There's better chance of contact there. ANAT: Right, Shura. Ask them... BOAZ: (Interrupts.) Why ask them anything? Isn't it obvious what we must do? We wait here and k*ll Styles. ANAT: And if we are detected? BOAZ: We hold those two as hostages. We k*ll them if necessary. (ANAT passes the radio to SHURA.) ANAT: Get alternative orders. SHURA: Right. (He goes to the French window, checks that there is no one in view and leaves.) BOAZ: (Quietly.) You are soft, Anat. What do two lives matter when so much is at stake? 23: EXT. AUDERLY HOUSE (SERGEANT BENTON drives himself, YATES and a UNIT soldier, armed with a machine g*n, in a jeep through the wooded grounds. They speed past some bushes where SHURA is concealed. He watches them go and then comes out of hiding, running at breakneck speed.) 24: EXT. TUNNEL AREA (Still running, he reaches the railway bridge. He descends half-way down the embankment and reaches behind some tall grasses growing at the side of the bridge. From there, he pulls out a plastic bag and out of that he takes what appears to be a flat, round b*mb device. He checks it, puts it back in the bag and re-conceals this. He then takes out his radio and speaks urgently into it...) SHURA: ZV6 to Eagle. ZV6 to Eagle, do you connect, over? (Suddenly, he is aware of a massive form by his side. He looks up and sees an OGRON. As he struggles to his feet, the creature clubs him viscously on the arm. SHURA staggers back and then slides himself down the remainder of the embankment to the canal bank. Both he and the OGRON reach for their respective blasters but SHURA is the quicker and he blasts the OGRON into nothingness. Clutching his injured arm, he runs back up the embankment and back to the house.) 25: INT. UNIT HQ. DUTY ROOM (YATES and BENTON have returned to UNIT HQ and are reporting back to an impatient BRIGADIER.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: What do you mean, missing? CAPTAIN YATES: Well, there's not a sign of them. SERGEANT BENTON: We searched the house and the grounds, sir. CAPTAIN YATES: The Doctor, Jo and a couple of my men - vanished. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (His voice rising.) Now listen, Yates, I've been talking to the Minister. Styles seems to have pulled it off. The Chinese have agreed to attend and the conference is on again. CAPTAIN YATES: Oh, when's it fixed for? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Shouts.) Tomorrow night, so you see the spot this puts me in! (He picks up a phone.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.) Get me Auderly House! 26: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (ANAT is growing nervous as SHURA fails to return...) ANAT: Where is he? BOAZ: I told you, Anat. (A phone suddenly starts to ring. ANAT goes over to it.) BOAZ: Leave it! ANAT: No - suspicious. Next time the soldiers may find us. (She gestures to the hallway.) ANAT: Get them up. (BOAZ leaves as the phone continues ringing.) 27: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. CELLAR (The DOCTOR and JO are still tied up. The sound of the phone ringing reaches them in the cellar but they don't seem to notice.) DOCTOR: Jo, every choice we make changes the history of the world. JO: I just don't understand. I mean, why don't they go back to September 12 if that's where they want to be - you know, have another go. DOCTOR: Well, that's the Blinovitch limitation effect. JO: The what? (Before the DOCTOR can answer, BOAZ calls out from the stairs...) BOAZ: On your feet, both of you! (They look up and see him pointing his blaster at them.) 28: INT. UNIT HQ. DUTY ROOM (The BRIGADIER still listens to the ring tone.) CAPTAIN YATES: Honestly, sir. You're wasting your time - he's not there. (The BRIGADIER is about to put the phone down when he hears that it has been picked up and...) DOCTOR: (OOV: Over phone.) Hello? Hello? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.) Doctor? DOCTOR: (OOV: Over phone.) Yes? (The BRIGADIER glances at YATES and BENTON.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.) Lethbridge-Stewart. DOCTOR: (OOV: Over phone.) Ah. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.) Is everything all right there? 29: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY DOCTOR: (Into phone.) Yes fine, Brigadier. Yes, things couldn't be better. (But his hands are still tied and ANAT holds the phone to his ear with one hand and her blaster pointed at him with the other. BOAZ stands behind the DOCTOR.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (OOV: Over phone.) Yates and Benton came to look for you. Said the place was deserted. DOCTOR: (Into phone.) Did they? Oh yes, we were probably down the cellar at the time. Old Styles keeps a remarkably good selection of wines, you know. 30: INT. UNIT HQ. DUTY ROOM BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.) Now listen, Doctor, you're sure that everything is normal down at that house? Because Styles is coming back there tomorrow night. 31: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY DOCTOR: (Into phone.) Look, I...I don't that's very wise, Brigadier... (ANAT raises her blaster.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (OOV: Over phone.) Well, why not if everything's all right? 32: INT. UNIT HQ. DUTY ROOM BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into phone.) It is all right, isn't it, Doctor? Captain Yates was very concerned about you. 33: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY DOCTOR: (Into phone.) Well, you tell Captain Yates not to worry, everything's fine. And tell old Styles too, and the Prime Minister. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (OOV: Over phone.) Right. DOCTOR: (Into phone.) Oh, and Brigadier? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (OOV: Over phone.) Yes? DOCTOR: (Into phone.) Don't forget to tell it to the marines. Goodbye. 34: INT. UNIT HQ. DUTY ROOM (The BRIGADIER puts the phone down.) CAPTAIN YATES: There you are, sir. I said there was something wrong. (The BRIGADIER gets up and heads for the door.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: I'm going down to that house myself. Lay on a jeep for me, will you? I'll meet you there later. (He leaves the room and YATES turns to the phone to carry out the order.) 35: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (ANAT is exultant. Both she and BOAZ fail to spot that JO, sat on the other side of the room, is frantically working on her bonds behind her back.) ANAT: He's coming! Sir Reginald Styles is coming here. DOCTOR: Well that surprises you? Well, I should have thought with your insight into the future...oh no, in your case, it'd be the past, wouldn't it? BOAZ: The conference tomorrow night - our dates were right after all. ANAT: All we have to do is to wait here until he returns and then... (JO is free of her ropes. She jumps up and grabs the time machine.) JO: Right! Drop your g*n! If you don't, I'll smash this to pieces. (ANAT and BOAZ turns their g*n on her.) DOCTOR: Jo, put that thing down. I've only just got it in working order. JO: I mean it. ANAT: Stupid child! You do not know what you are doing! JO: Oh yes I do - you're going to let us both out - or you'll be stranded here for ever. BOAZ: We don't need that machine. We have another one. ANAT: The man who owned that machine is d*ad. His body is back in our time zone. JO: You're...bluffing. ANAT: Put it down and don't be silly! DOCTOR: Jo, do as she says. (Suddenly the machine starts to hum. BOAZ looks frightened.) BOAZ: Drop it...drop it! (Light patterns emanate from the machine...) 36: VORTEX (...and JO finds herself spinning round in vortex, travelling further and further into the distance.) 37: INT. CONTROL ROOM (She materialises in the control room. Two OGRONS stand over the CONTROLLER'S chair and the man himself is sat in it. He swings round and looks at a nervous and confused JO as she tries to take in her surroundings.) 38: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (The DOCTOR shouts into empty space.) DOCTOR: Jo! Jo! (He looks at the two guerillas who themselves seem sober in their attitude to what they have just seen.) DOCTOR: Look, can't you do anything? ANAT: No, it's too late. DOCTOR: Well, what...what's happened to her? ANAT: Disintegrated, dispersed around the time vortex. BOAZ: If she was lucky. DOCTOR: And if she wasn't? BOAZ: Re-embodied in the twenty-second century. ANAT: Believe me, she would be better off d*ad. 39: INT. CONTROL ROOM (JO, looking nervous and scared, is still stood before the CONTROLLER who gestures to the two OGRONS.) CONTROLLER: You may go. (They walk out of the control room and the CONTROLLER closes the door using a hand device. From his seat, he smiles charmingly at JO.) CONTROLLER: You see, they're really not as terrifying as they look. JO: What are they? CONTROLLER: Ogrons. They're a form of higher anthropoid. They used to live in scattered communities on one of the outer planets. They make very useful servants. JO: Servants? Well, what do they do? CONTROLLER: Oh, we use them as...policemen. (He stands.) CONTROLLER: They're very simple, very honest, very loyal. (He gestures at his own chair.) CONTROLLER: Do please sit down. JO: Thank you. (She takes a seat and looks round the control room.) JO: Is this really the...twenty-second century? CONTROLLER: Oh, don't worry. We can return you to your own time, but, er, tell me Miss, erm? JO: Grant, Jo Grant. CONTROLLER: Miss Grant...these three people who att*cked you - what did you make of them? JO: Well, they were sort of...guerillas, I suppose. CONTROLLER: They are cruel and ruthless fanatics. JO: You know who they are? CONTROLLER: Unfortunately, yes. But what you don't know, is how lucky you are that they didn't get rid of you straight away. JO: They tried to k*ll the Doctor. CONTROLLER: He's still with them , is he - this friend of yours? JO: Yes, they're holding him prisoner. CONTROLLER: Then I am afraid he is in very grave danger. JO: But they've no reason to harm him! They know he's the wrong man! CONTROLLER: (Passionately.) You don't know these people! We have spent years trying to track them down. If you knew some of the terrifying crimes they have been capable of! If anyone stands in their way, they are without mercy. JO: (Quietly.) I can believe it. CONTROLLER: However, there is a chance that I may be able to save your friend. (JO jumps up.) JO: Could you?! CONTROLLER: I can try. There are means but I shall need your help. JO: Well, how can I help? CONTROLLER: Well, first of all, I shall want to know exactly where you came from...and when. JO: Well, we were at Sir Reginald Styles' house, about...fifty miles from London. CONTROLLER: Now, you've told me the year, can you tell me the exact date? JO: That's easy - it was September the 13th. CONTROLLER: Excellent. (The door to the control room buzzes open and one of the grey suited female assistants walks in.) CONTROLLER: Now, you must be tired, you must be hungry. We do have special guest rooms. (He gestures for JO to follow the assistant.) CONTROLLER: Leave everything to me. Oh, there is one last question...these criminals - can you tell me exactly where they entered your time? I mean, did they manifest themselves in the house itself? JO: I don't think so. CONTROLLER: Somewhere outside the house - some hiding place? JO: I don't know for sure, but there's a tunnel by a canal, not far from the house. We found that...time machine there. (The CONTROLLER looks pleased.) CONTROLLER: A tunnel? Thank you. I'll call you as soon as we have any news. (JO walks out with the assistant and the CONTROLLER closes the door with his hand device. He then turns and faces the scanner.) CONTROLLER: You see? She trusts me implicitly. 40: INT. DALEKS CHAMBER (His image appears on the monitor in the DALEK'S chamber.) CHIEF DALEK: The criminals are using the tunnel as a transfer point. We will prepare an ambush in the twentieth-century time zone. CONTROLLER: (On monitor.) We have security forces in the area. With any luck, they will drive the guerillas straight into our hands. I shall take charge of the operation myself. CHIEF DALEK: (Angrily.) I shall lead the expedition! This time there must be no mistake. The enemies of the Daleks will be destroyed! 41: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. CELLAR (The DOCTOR is back in the cellar. Ungagged, he is sat on the floor with his hands tied behind his back while BOAZ ties his feet. ANAT shouts an urgent whisper from the steps.) ANAT: Hurry! Shura may be back! (BOAZ finishes and leaves the cellar. As soon as he is alone, the DOCTOR starts to cut his bonds against a sharp point behind him. After a moment's frantic effort, he hands are free and he starts to untie his feet.) 42: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (ANAT and BOAZ enter the study.) ANAT: Where is he? He should be back! 43: EXT. AUDERLY HOUSE (Outside the house, OGRONS start to crash through the shrubbery and approach the house.) 44: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (BOAZ spots them approaching.) BOAZ: Anat! Look! (She joins him at the window.) 45: EXT. AUDERLY HOUSE (The OGRONS make their way across the lawn.) ANAT: sh**t! 46: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (The guerillas raise their g*n and f*re through one of the open French windows.) 47: EXT. AUDERLY HOUSE (The OGRONS f*re back...) 48: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. STUDY (...and another of the windows explodes in a flash and a shower of glass.) ANAT: Pull back! (BOAZ runs to the door.) BOAZ: We can get through the library. Come! (Before he can move, the door flies open behind him and knocks him to the floor. The DOCTOR enters and ANAT turns her blaster on him.) ANAT: Stay where you are! Boaz, get out! BOAZ: ... ! ANAT: Boaz, come on! (BOAZ gets up and makes a run for the DOCTOR but he is easily thrown back. ANAT, still keeping a g*n trained on the DOCTOR, helps BOAZ to his feet.) ANAT: Come on, Boaz, out! Out, out! (They scramble out of a side door, watched by the DOCTOR who, after they have gone, quickly starts to don his cloak. As he does so, another of the French windows is smashed through and an OGRON lumbers into the room from outside.) DOCTOR: How do you do? (The DOCTOR karate kicks the OGRON'S g*n hand. The creature falls to its knees and the DOCTOR grabs its blaster and runs out of the study. The OGRON growls and sets off after him.) 49: EXT. AUDERLY HOUSE (ANAT and BOAZ run along the terrace of the house. They reach a corner behind which ANAT shelters whilst BOAZ ducks below the level of the terrace. They see two more OGRONS coming along the terrace from the other direction. ANAT fires a sh*t which misses. She jumps down and joins BOAZ and the two set off, ANAT f*ring a couple more sh*ts as they go. A moment later, the DOCTOR comes running along the terrace. He sees the OGRONS and fires causing one of the creatures to vanish in a flare. Suddenly there is the sound of a vehicle screeching to a halt on the gravel followed by the rattle of a machine g*n and the second OGRON falls d*ad. The DOCTOR turns and sees that the BRIGADIER has arrived in a UNIT jeep and was himself manning the g*n in the back. The soldier climbs down.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Doctor, what on earth's going on? DOCTOR: Thank you, Brigadier, for that timely intervention. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Who is that creature. DOCTOR: Yes, well, I'll explain about him later. Excuse me, old chap, I'm in a hurry. (He climbs in the seat vacated by the driver and sets off at speed. The BRIGADIER calls after him...) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Doctor, come back at once! (He gives a rueful shake of the head.) 50: EXT. TUNNEL AREA (ANAT and BOAZ have reached the railway bridge. They run down the embankment and enter the tunnel. A moment later, the jeep crashes through the undergrowth and arrives at the bridge. The DOCTOR gets out and runs through a gap in a chainlink fence, down the canal side and into the tunnel.) 51: INT. TUNNEL (He pauses within the brick-lined passageway. As he looks round, he hears the sound of materialisation from one of the time travel machines. A DALEK fades into view in a side tunnel and he looks once more upon the form of his greatest enemies...)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "09x02 - Day of the Daleks - part 2"}
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DAY OF THE DALEKS BY: LOUIS MARKS EPISODE THREE Original Air Date: 15 January, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: EXT. AUDERLY HOUSE (The DOCTOR climbs in the seat of the jeep vacated by the driver and sets off at speed. The BRIGADIER calls after him...) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Doctor, come back at once! (He gives a rueful shake of the head.) 2: EXT. TUNNEL AREA (The jeep crashes through the undergrowth and arrives at the bridge. The DOCTOR gets out and runs through a gap in a chainlink fence, down the canal side and into the tunnel.) 3: INT. TUNNEL (He pauses within the brick-lined passageway. As he looks round, he hears the sound of materialisation from one of the time travel machines. A DALEK fades into view in a side tunnel and he looks once more upon the form of his greatest enemies. He reacts instantly and looking round quickly, runs at full pace further down the tunnel.) 4: INT. ANOTHER PART OF THE TUNNEL (Two DALEKS glide from opposite directions and turn down the same side tunnel.) 5: INT. ANOTHER PART OF THE TUNNEL (The DOCTOR runs down another brick passageway. He reaches an intersection, stops and looks urgently round. ANAT and BOAZ stand there, the latter's hands round one of their time machines which he is about to operate. BOAZ sees the DOCTOR.) BOAZ: Get back! Get back! DOCTOR: Please! Wait! I've got to talk to you! ANAT: Keep away! (She suddenly gasps and looks in horror over the DOCTOR'S shoulder. He looks behind him and sees that a DALEK is a few feet away.) DALEK: Exterminate! BOAZ: __ or you'll be caught in the time field! (The familiar light patterns emanate from the machine and the DOCTOR and the two guerillas fade from existence leaving the DALEK by itself.) 6: VORTEX (The three travellers spin in the light-filled vortex...) 7: INT. TUNNEL (...and rematerialise in what appears to be the same tunnel but missing the watching DALEK. Both the DOCTOR and ANAT seem slightly disorientated by the journey.) BOAZ: We warned you. DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Yes, yes, so you did. ANAT: This may come as a shock to you, but you've just travelled two hundred years through time. DOCTOR: Thank you. But I'm probably more familiar with the concept of time travel than you are. (BOAZ turns to leave but the DOCTOR stops him.) DOCTOR: Now wait a minute. Before the time transference, I saw a Dalek. BOAZ: You know of the Daleks? DOCTOR: Indeed I do. I know them only too well. They've been my bitterest enemy for many years. BOAZ: (Curtly.) Then you're a fool to have let yourself be brought here! DOCTOR: (Impatiently.) Look, I came here in order to find Miss Jo Grant. ANAT: I told you, she's probably d*ad. DOCTOR: But as long as there's a chance... BOAZ: (Interrupting.) Come on, Anat. (He turns to leave but is once more stopped by the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: Wait a minute - what is my best way of finding her? BOAZ: That's your problem. ANAT: We can't just leave him! BOAZ: I can - come! (Before he can take many paces, a whistling tone fills the tunnel and approaching footsteps are heard. In the distance, a phalanx of OGRONS run towards them through the darkness.) ANAT: Run, Doctor - run! (The guerillas run one way while the DOCTOR darts down a side tunnel. Two OGRONS run past him.) 8: INT. ANOTHER PART OF THE TUNNEL (The DOCTOR again finds himself running down a brick tunnel. Once more, he dodges into a side passage. Another pursuing OGRON runs past. In the side tunnel, the DOCTOR presses himself against the wall and listens to the receding footsteps. He is about to move off when he looks round a sees a metal ladder nearby which goes upwards. The tunnels echo to more footsteps as the DOCTOR starts to ascend the ladder.) 9: EXT. WASTELAND (A flat trapdoor in the ground opens upon a scrub-filled wasteland and the DOCTOR climbs out looking at the desolation around him. Whatever buildings once stood here are now small ruins and nature has reclaimed the area as its own. The area is filled with weeds and overgrowth. There is near silence. After a moment, he sets off in no particular direction.) 10: INT. TUNNEL (Down below, two OGRONS run up through the darkness to a waiting DALEK.) FIRST DALEK: Have you...found them? OGRON: No, they escaped. (A SECOND DALEK glides up behind them.) FIRST DALEK: Hunt them! Exterminate them! DALEKS: Exterminate them! Exterminate them! Ext...! 11: EXT. WASTELAND (The DOCTOR is walking through the wasteland when he hears the noise of steps in unison behind him. He ducks behind a low ruined wall and watches from hiding as a troop of OGRONS march past. Seeing them go, he stands up from his hiding place and looks towards the direction they came from. He sees a number of white, featureless, high-rise buildings. He moves off towards them.) 12: INT. DALEKS' CHAMBER (The curved metal entrance door to the DALEKS' chamber rises upwards and the CONTROLLER walks in. His manner is restrained and nervous as the CHIEF DALEK and two grey DALEKS glide up and surround him.) CHIEF DALEK: Report! CONTROLLER: The security guards have combed the tunnels. They've found nothing. CHIEF DALEK: You have failed the Daleks! You will be punished! CONTROLLER: The fault is not mine! Your security guards let them get away. Those creatures are useless! FIRST DALEK: They are loyal to the Daleks. CONTROLLER: As loyal as they are stupid! They will never be a match for human guerillas. FIRST DALEK: No one can succeed who opposes the Daleks. CONTROLLER: For every guerilla cell that you destroy, another one springs up. They have stolen your time machines and copied them. They steal your w*apon, your expl*sives. CHIEF DALEK: These criminals will be exterminated. The Daleks will destroy them. CONTROLLER: If only you would let me recruit more human security guards... CHIEF DALEK: (Interrupting.) Humans are treacherous and unreliable! CONTROLLER: Not all humans. I have served you faithfully. (The CHIEF DALEK hovers furiously on the spot.) CHIEF DALEK: Do not dispute with the Daleks! Obey without question! CONTROLLER: Very well. There was one...curious thing. The girl referred to a companion in her own time zone. She called him... "the Doctor". (The FIRST DALEK has a note of fear in its voice...) FIRST DALEK: Doctor?! Did you say "Doctor"?! CONTROLLER: He appears to have got through to our time. He was seen by the guards. CHIEF DALEK: The Doctor is an enemy of the Daleks! He must be found at once and exterminated! 13: EXT. WASTELAND (The DOCTOR makes his way towards the scrub, ever nearer to his destination. He hesitates momentarily and then walks on, passing a remote-controlled camera on a pole. It swings round and follows his movements.) 14: CAMERA IMAGE (The DOCTOR is seen on the camera's output to approach a concrete-walled building. He is seen to examine a large squared entrance that itself looks like a continuation of the concrete wall. He examines the outer edges of the entrance and, after a moment, the wall moves inwards, allowing him to enter.) 15: INT. CONTROL ROOM (Instantly an alarm sounds to ring out across the control room as one of the female technicians hovers her hands over her control panel.) DALEK: (Over tannoy.) Alert! Alert! Area one-one-seven! (She then takes a slip of paper to the senior TECHNICIAN.) GIRL TECHNICIAN: Continue scanning. (The first technician silent returns to her post.) 16: INT. DALEKS' CHAMBER (The CONTROLLER passes on the report to his masters...) CONTROLLER: All forces are on full alert. I can assure you that we will secure his arrest at any moment now. I will go myself and supervise the search. (He turns to leave.) CHIEF DALEK: Wait! (The CONTROLLER halts.) CHIEF DALEK: You have not been dismissed. There has been a drop in recent production figures. CONTROLLER: That can be explained. CHIEF DALEK: Explanations are irrelevant. Production targets must be maintained. CONTROLLER: We will reach the targets on the next work period. CHIEF DALEK: For the next work period, target figures will be increased by ten percent. (For a moment the CONTROLLER is stunned, then...) CONTROLLER: But that's impossible! If we push the workers any further, they will die! FIRST DALEK: Only the weak will die. Inefficient workers slow down production. Obey the Daleks. (The CONTROLLER recovers his composure.) CONTROLLER: Very well. We will do our best. CHIEF DALEK: You may go. (He walks out and into the control room.) 17: INT. CONTROL ROOM (There his nerves overtake him once more and he stands for a moment, nervously chewing his lip. Behind him, the entrance panel to the DALEKS' chamber glides down. The CONTROLLER walks up to the waiting GIRL TECHNICIAN.) CONTROLLER: Well? GIRL TECHNICIAN: We have a tracking report on that stranger. CONTROLLER: The Doctor? GIRL TECHNICIAN: He has managed to penetrate the outer perimeter of work centre one-one-seven. (She hands him a series of report cards.) CONTROLLER: Have the guards there been alerted? GIRL TECHNICIAN: Yes, they'll pick him up once he's inside. (The CONTROLLER thinks for a moment.) CONTROLLER: I want the work figures for centre one-one-seven kept separate from general analysis. I want to take a special look at them. GIRL TECHNICIAN: Is there something wrong there? CONTROLLER: Perhaps...I want the work figures for all the factories in the central zone fed into the work computer - the results tabulated for me immediately. GIRL TECHNICIAN: Very good. CONTROLLER: See I get those figures. (He walks off, watched by the TECHNICIAN.) 18: EXT. WASTELAND (A blond male moustached guerilla - MONIA - walks through the wasteland and approaches a series of ruined brick buildings. His g*n is constantly raised and he looks round warily. Satisfied that he is not being watched, he enters one of the buildings.) 19: INT. GUERILLA CELLAR (He walks down a stairwell and into a darkened bleak cellar. There ANAT and BOAZ are arguing between themselves as they nervously smoke cigarettes. They fail to notice the arrival of MONIA.) BOAZ: Don't gloss over it, Anat, we failed! ANAT: We had no choice once our plan was known to them. BOAZ: If you'd listened to me, we still could have done what was needed. ANAT: We did all we could! (ANAT suddenly spots the new arrival on the stairs.) ANAT: Monia, our orders were to eliminate Styles, right? MONIA: Yes, but you failed. BOAZ: We could have succeeded. MONIA: Then why didn't you? ANAT: He wasn't there! Security guards found us. BOAZ: (Sneering.) But Anat went soft. MONIA: Be quiet. ANAT: (To BOAZ, angrily.) The trouble with you, Boaz is... MONIA: (Interrupts.) Both of you! We have to think now. The situation is different. BOAZ: As I see it, it's exactly the same - we still have a job to do. MONIA: No. There may be other ways. I've had a report from one of our contacts. A girl has been captured. They're holding her prisoner at the control centre. ANAT: The same girl - the one who operated the time module at Styles' house? MONIA: It fits your description. ANAT: Well, at least she's alive. BOAZ: In the hands of the Daleks? She won't live long. MONIA: Can she tell them anything? BOAZ: Nothing of importance. Have they picked up that Doctor yet? MONIA: Not yet. It's only a matter of time. 20: INT. WORK CENTRE (A procession of emaciated, ragged men and women carry containers of gravel and tip it into a skip under the cries of a GUARD.) GUARD AT WORK CENTRE: Move! Move! Come along there, you scum! (The DOCTOR rounds a corner and seemingly unseen, watches the proceedings with a grim look on his face.) GUARD AT WORK CENTRE: Move! Come along there, move! Move! Go on! (Having seen enough he turns to leave but sees two more guards heading in his direction. He turns the other way but runs straight into an OGRON. The creature clubs him to the ground.) 21: INT. CONTROL CENTRE GUEST SUITE (The CONTROLLER and JO sit cross-legged on large cushions on the floor of a brightly lit guest suite. Its walls are metallic and the design is, like elsewhere in the centre, futuristic and functional. The CONTROLLER passes JO a plastic container full of fruit, mainly grapes.) CONTROLLER: Some more grapes, Miss Grant? JO: (Smiles.) No thanks, really I couldn't. That was a fabulous meal. CONTROLLER: Oh, it was just a light snack, I assure you. Now later on, I have a real treat in store for you - a banquet of genuine twentieth century food. Because I'm afraid most people don't eat like this nowadays. We've managed to get down the main food elements to pills and tablets. JO: (Hesitantly.) Look, I don't want to seem ungrateful... CONTROLLER: Something's worrying you? JO: Well, you did say you might be able to get me back - to my own time, I mean. CONTROLLER: Our scientists are working at it, but time travel is a very difficult, it's a very dangerous business, you know? JO: The guerilla's machine got me here easily enough. CONTROLLER: That was a lucky fluke, I assure you, nothing else. You could just as easily been k*lled. JO: Then what about the Doctor? You did say something about rescuing him. CONTROLLER: There is something I have not told you. JO: (Alarmed.) About the Doctor? Look, is anything wrong? CONTROLLER: He has been seen in our time zone...with the criminals who att*cked you. Doubtless they kidnapped him. JO: Where is he now? CONTROLLER: Oh, don't worry. We're on his track. I expect news of him at any moment now. JO: Can I help you find him? CONTROLLER: Unfortunately no. You have to stay here for your own safety. JO: (Puzzled.) My safety? CONTROLLER: If those criminals saw you here, they might think that you had betrayed them, and in any case...they would try and harm you. (JO looks over to the entrance where a burly guard stands on duty.) JO: Is that why there's a guard on the door? CONTROLLER: Exactly. He is there simply for your protection. (The GIRL TECHNICIAN enters the room with a report card in her hand.) CONTROLLER: (To JO.) If you will excuse me a moment? (He gets up and walks over to the GIRL TECHNICIAN.) CONTROLLER: Well? GIRL TECHNICIAN: A message, sir. (She hands him the card. JO watches anxiously as he reads it. He then turns and smiles warmly at her.) CONTROLLER: I have good news for you. We have found your friend, the Doctor. JO: Is he all right? CONTROLLER: Don't worry. I can assure you he is alive...and well. 22: INT. CENTRAL CONTROL INTERROGATION ROOM (But that is far from the case. An near unconscious DOCTOR, stripped of his jacket, is hauled across the barred room by two OGRONS and dumped into a chair. The DOCTOR'S eyes open and the SENIOR GUARD, stood to one side with a whip in his hand, speaks up.) SENIOR GUARD: Well? Perhaps now you'll tell us who you are? (The DOCTOR recovers his breath.) DOCTOR: You wouldn't believe me if I told you. SENIOR GUARD: You're a spy! DOCTOR: Am I? Who am I spying for? (The GUARD steps forward and stands over him.) SENIOR GUARD: I'm asking the questions. I repeat - you're a spy! DOCTOR: That wasn't a question - that was a statement. SENIOR GUARD: Careful - our friends here don't get much fun. (The DOCTOR glances at the OGRONS.) DOCTOR: Poor fellahs. I'm sorry I can't oblige them at the moment. I'm not in the mood for games. SENIOR GUARD: All right! (He places the whip on the DOCTOR'S shoulder and then under his chin.) SENIOR GUARD: I want to know what you're doing here. (The DOCTOR loses his temper and smartly pushes the whip away.) DOCTOR: I've already told you what I'm doing here. I'm looking for a girl called Jo Grant! (An electronic buzzing is heard in the room.) SENIOR GUARD: Who's she? Another spy? DOCTOR: Don't be stupid, man! (The buzzing comes from a wall panel which glides upwards into the ceiling. A pudgy middle-aged cold-faced man dressed in a light grey tunic stands beyond the panel.) MANAGER: Well? SENIOR GUARD: He's not exactly being cooperative. MANAGER: Isn't he? That's very foolish of him. Have you told him what will happen if he doesn't cooperate? SENIOR GUARD: I've even given him a free sample. MANAGER: Don't worry - leave him to me. I know how to deal with his sort. (The GUARD approaches the MANAGER.) SENIOR GUARD: I only need a bit more time. MANAGER: Out! SENIOR GUARD: (Smiles.) All right...but we'll be outside if you need us. (To the OGRONS.) Come. (The three walk out and the MANAGER approaches the DOCTOR as the panel slides shut again. He stands look coldly down on the prisoner as the panel reaches the floor but once it has done so, his whole manner changes and he leans forward and whispers conspiratorially to the DOCTOR.) MANAGER: Which group are you from?! DOCTOR: (Puzzled.) What? MANAGER: Quick - we haven't much time! Who sent you? DOCTOR: Look, nobody sent me. I'm not a spy or a guerilla. I haven't the faintest idea what you're talking about. MANAGER: For heaven's sake man, I'm trying to help you! (The panel starts to rise again and once more the MANAGERS attitude and manner undergoes a transformation. He stands back up and starts shouting at the DOCTOR as the CONTROLLER enters the room.) MANAGER: Admit it! You're a spy! CONTROLLER: Is this the man? MANAGER: Yes, Controller. CONTROLLER: (Silkily.) Then why is he being treated in this fashion? (To the DOCTOR, effusively.) My dear Doctor, I cannot apologise enough! I am the Controller of this region. You're a very elusive fellow, you know? I've had quite a job in tracking you down. (A very confused DOCTOR stands up.) DOCTOR: Then I'm glad you finally succeeded! CONTROLLER: I've been looking forward to meeting you. You are an honoured guest of our government. DOCTOR: You surprise me. CONTROLLER: I'm sorry if the Ogrons were a little...uncivilised. It was all a misunderstanding, I do assure you. The whole thing has been sorted out now. (He looks over to the guard from the guest suite who stands waiting to one side.) CONTROLLER: Now, make sure that the Doctor is taken immediately to the guest room at regional control. DOCTOR: Frankly, I don't know whether I can stand much more of your hospitality! CONTROLLER: A very great friend of yours is waiting for you there. DOCTOR: Miss Grant? CONTROLLER: Yes. DOCTOR: Is she safe? CONTROLLER: Of course. Looking forward to seeing you. I shall follow later. (He looks over at the guard and as he does so the MANAGER gives a small shake of his head at a questioning DOCTOR.) CONTROLLER: In the meantime, the guards will take good care of you. Please? (He gestures and the DOCTOR walks out, followed by the guard. A puzzled MANAGER approaches the CONTROLLER.) MANAGER: What's going on? Who was he? CONTROLLER: That is no concern of yours. MANAGER: As you wish, Controller. CONTROLLER: What does concern you, however, is the production quota for this factory. MANAGER: There have been difficulties. The workers are... CONTROLLER: (Interrupting.) Your production figures have been consistently lower than any other factory in the central zone. MANAGER: I'm sorry. Things will improve - I promise. CONTROLLER: Indeed they will. For the next work period, targets are to be raised...by ten percent. (The MANAGER'S incredulous reaction is that same as that of the CONTROLLER earlier.) MANAGER: That's impossible! I can't do it! CONTROLLER: Then I shall just have to find someone who can, shan't I? And you know what that will mean, don't you? To you...and to your family. MANAGER: Please, I...I didn't mean it, I...I'll do it somehow. CONTROLLER: (Smiles.) Good. We'll just regard this as a...friendly warning, shall we? MANAGER: Thank you, Controller. You're very kind. (The CONTROLLER walks out and the wall panel descends again. As soon as he is gone, the MANAGER opens up a small grey box on a nearby table and takes a small hand-held radio out. He speaks into it...) MANAGER: (Into radio.) ZV ten to Eagle, ZV ten to Eagle, do you connect? MONIA: (OOV: Over radio.) We connect - proceed. 23: INT. GUERILLA BASE (MONIA listens on a similar radio as ANAT listens.) MANAGER: (OOV: Over radio.) Time's short. They're getting suspicious. A man was here. A stranger, caught on the grounds. MONIA: (Into radio.) Identify. MANAGER: (OOV: Over radio.) High intelligence. They call him Doctor. (ANAT and MONIA react with surprise.) MANAGER: (OOV: Over radio.) I don't know who he is, but he's important. They're taking him to the guest suite at control. MONIA: (Into radio.) Do you know why he's important? 24: INT. CENTRAL CONTROL INTERROGATION ROOM MANAGER: (Into radio.) No. Check your source at control point... (The MANAGER is interrupted as a huge hairy arm clamps down on his shoulder. He spins round and sees that he is face to face with an OGRON. Like the DOCTOR before him, he is clubbed to the ground. The OGRON walks out as MONIA'S voice continues to come out of the dropped radio.) MONIA: (OOV: Over radio.) ZV ten? ZV ten, do you connect? ZV... 25: INT. GUERILLA BASE MONIA: (Into radio.) ...ten? (He gives up.) 26: INT. CONTROL CENTRE GUEST SUITE (His jacket back on, the DOCTOR reclines on a cushion with a plastic glass in his hand. A girl technician holds out a large frosted glass beaker for a re-fill. The CONTROLLER sits between the DOCTOR and JO.) CONTROLLER: Some more wine, Doctor? DOCTOR: No, thank you, no, not for me. Though I must admit, it's an excellent vintage. Well, it's the finest I've tasted since, erm, well, since we had dinner at old Styles' house. Do you remember, Jo? JO: (Wistfully.) It seems a long time ago. DOCTOR: Yeah, it was. Two hundred years, to be precise. And quite frankly, I wish I was back there now. CONTROLLER: Naturally, you prefer the twentieth century, Doctor. After all, it is your own time. DOCTOR: Oh, I've known many times. Some of them much more pleasant than others. JO: Well, I quite like it here, I must say. Everyone's been most kind. (The CONTROLLER gives her a smile and a nod of thanks.) DOCTOR: Well I met some people today who were far from kind. CONTROLLER: That was a simple mistake, Doctor, I assure you. You must not jump to conclusions. DOCTOR: Well, better than jumping from the crack of a whip from some security guard. Do you run all your factories like that, Controller? (The smile has left the CONTROLLER'S face. He stares coldly at an unfazed DOCTOR.) CONTROLLER: That was not a factory, Doctor. DOCTOR: Hmm, then what was it? CONTROLLER: A rehabilitation centre. A rehabilitation centre for hardened criminals. DOCTOR: Including old men and women - even children? CONTROLLER: There will always be people who need discipline, Doctor. DOCTOR: Now that's an old fashioned point of view, even from my standards. CONTROLLER: I can assure you that this planet has never been more efficiently, more economically run. People have never been happier...or more prosperous. DOCTOR: Then why do you need so many people to keep them under control? Don't they like being happy and prosperous? JO: You're being a bit unreasonable, Doctor. DOCTOR: Am I now? JO: Well look, the Controller wants to help you. DOCTOR: Does he? I wonder why? JO: You're not on the side of the criminals, surely? They wanted to k*ll you! DOCTOR: When I meet a regime that needs to import savage alien life-forms as security guards, I begin to wonder who the real criminals are. JO: Those creatures aren't really savage. CONTROLLER: Exactly. They are simply...guard dogs. They just do what I tell them. DOCTOR: You mean there aren't enough humans around that will follow your orders so blindly? CONTROLLER: That is not what I was saying. DOCTOR: Isn't it? Then what you're saying is that the entire human population of this planet, apart from a few...remarkable exceptions like yourself, are really only fit to lead the life of a dog. Why? CONTROLLER: (Furiously.) You have no right to say that! DOCTOR: Haven't I? Who really rules this planet of yours? (The CONTROLLER is silent for a moment. He then gets to his feet.) CONTROLLER: I'm sorry. I must go. I have work to do. (To JO.) You will excuse me. (He walks stiffly out. An embarrassed JO moves closer to the DOCTOR.) JO: You shouldn't have spoken to him like that. You don't know the whole picture. (The DOCTOR wags a finger at her.) DOCTOR: Neither do you, Jo, neither do you. (He points after the departed CONTROLLER.) DOCTOR: That man is no more than a superior sl*ve himself. Humans don't rule this world any longer, Jo. JO: (Puzzled.) Well then, who does? DOCTOR: The most evil, ruthless life-form in the cosmos - the Daleks! 27: INT. DALEKS' CHAMBER (The DOCTOR is being watched. The silent image from the guest suite appears on a monitor in the DALEKS' chamber watched by the CHIEF DALEK and the CONTROLLER.) CONTROLLER: Is it the same man? CHIEF DALEK: The physical appearance does not match our data. CONTROLLER: Then it is not your Doctor? CHIEF DALEK: The appearance of the Doctor has changed before. CONTROLLER: And how will you find out? CHIEF DALEK: We will use the mind analysis machine. 28: INT. CONTROL CENTRE GUEST SUITE DOCTOR: (To JO.) Right, now do you understand exactly what to do? JO: Yes, ready when you are. DOCTOR: Good. (They both stand. JO remains where she is while the DOCTOR goes and stands to one side of the doorway.) DOCTOR: Right - now. (JO suddenly starts to scream in a panic and then cries out...) JO: Help! Help! Help! (A puzzled OGRON enters the room walking past the hidden DOCTOR. He springs forward and karate-chops the creature but it fails to have an effect. The OGRON spins round and swings an arm at the DOCTOR but he dodges the blow. The DOCTOR then rains blow after blow down on the OGRON but it seems impervious to them. It grabs the DOCTOR but JO has come up behind it with the wine beaker in her hand and she crashes this down on the back of the OGRON'S skull. The creature falls to the ground.) DOCTOR: Pity - that was rather a good vintage. JO: What? DOCTOR: It doesn't matter - come on. (He grabs her hand and his cloak from the floor and they run from the room.) 29: EXT. CENTRAL CONTROL (They run out of the entrance to central control and into a pillared forecourt. The DOCTOR spots a three-wheeled motortrike and he runs towards it. The DOCTOR starts it up and jumps on, JO climbing on behind him. They speed off as OGRONS and guards run out and start giving chase.) 30: INT. DALEKS' CHAMBER (The CONTROLLER stands before the DALEKS as an alarm sounds.) DALEK: The prisoners have escaped. They have broken through the outer perimeter. CHIEF DALEK: Find and exterminate them! CONTROLLER: We need them alive! CHIEF DALEK: The prisoners will be recaptured and returned here for mind analysis! 31: EXT. WASTELAND (The motortrike makes its way through the wasteland, past a security camera with OGRONS in full pursuit. The DOCTOR is making good progress, JO holding on tight, when they see more OGRONS straight ahead and swerve round. They run easily over flat ruined foundations but the trike suddenly stops d*ad when it hits an obstruction. OGRONS point their g*n straight at the DOCTOR'S head.) 32: INT. GUERILLA CELLAR (MONIA descends the steps and into the guerilla's base. ANAT and BOAZ are anxiously waiting.) ANAT: Well? MONIA: Been captured. Taken for processing. We must rescue him. BOAZ: Rescue him? Are you mad?! From there? MONIA: I say we must! BOAZ: su1c1de. MONIA: Are you afraid? BOAZ: Me? Of course I am. I'm not a fool. What is he to us? MONIA: We have fresh information from one of our contacts at control centre. He is the sworn enemy of the Daleks. He is the one man they're afraid of - don't you see? It's our only hope. If we don't act quickly, it may be too late. 33: INT. DALEKS' CHAMBER (A jacketless DOCTOR lies on a table in the DALEKS' chamber. He is firmly restrained by a metallic strap across his chest. His head is braced and he wears a metallic band across his forehead which has a central disc on it. Swirling sounds fill the room and the DOCTOR seems paralysed by the effect of the operation on him. On a screen over the doorway appear still images of his two previous appearances over strange multi-coloured patterns. The DALEKS are triumphant...) CHIEF DALEK: You are the Doctor! You are an enemy of the Daleks! Now you are in our power! You will be exterminated! DALEKS: You will be exterminated! You will be exterminated! You will be exterminated! You will be exterminated!
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "09x03 - Day of the Daleks - part 3"}
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DAY OF THE DALEKS BY: LOUIS MARKS EPISODE FOUR Original Air Date: 22 January, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. DALEKS' CHAMBER (A jacketless DOCTOR lies on a table in the DALEKS' chamber. He is firmly restrained by a metallic strap across his chest. His head is braced and he wears a metallic band across his forehead which has a central disc on it. Swirling sounds fill the room and the DOCTOR seems paralysed by the effect of the operation on him. On a screen over the doorway appear still images of his two previous appearances over strange multi-coloured patterns. The DALEKS are triumphant...) CHIEF DALEK: You are the Doctor! You are an enemy of the Daleks! Now you are in our power! You will be exterminated! DALEKS: You will be exterminated! You will be exterminated! You will be exterminated! You will be exterminated! (The DALEKS aim their g*n. The CONTROLLER shouts from outside in the control room.) CONTROLLER: Stop! (He runs in.) CONTROLLER: You mustn't k*ll him! CHIEF DALEK: Be silent. CONTROLLER: Don't you realise he can help us? FIRST DALEK: The Doctor is an enemy of the Daleks. How can he help us? CONTROLLER: He is our contact with the guerillas. He has valuable information. CHIEF DALEK: You have proof of this? CONTROLLER: I know he's working for them. The manager of one-one-seven has been proved to be a subversive agent. And the Doctor was trying to contact him when we picked him up. FIRST DALEK: We will force the truth from him with the Mind Analysis machine. (The CONTROLLER gestures imploringly at the totally-still form on the table.) CONTROLLER: But look at him! You've practically k*lled him just getting a simple admission of identity. He'll die before he tells you anything else. CHIEF DALEK: What is your plan? CONTROLLER: Let me interrogate him. CHIEF DALEK: Why should you be more successful? CONTROLLER: Because I understand human psychology. I shall be able to gain his confidence. To put pressure on him through the girl. By the time I have finished with him, I shall be able to crush the guerilla organisation entirely! CHIEF DALEK: Release him. (The swirling noise from the Mind Analysis Machine slows down and dies out as an OGRON steps forward to carry out the order.) 2: INT. CENTRAL CONTROL INTERROGATION ROOM (JO has been taken to the interrogation room. She sits on a seat with a worried look on her face. The wall panel buzzes upwards and the SENIOR GUARD steps in, looking down at her impassively.) JO: The Doctor! How is he? SENIOR GUARD: Come with me. JO: But... (He turns and stalks off. JO follows.) 3: INT. DALEKS' CHAMBER (A weakened DOCTOR is on his feet - just. He is held up by two OGRONS and stands before the CHIEF DALEK and his cohorts. The CONTROLLER watches.) CHIEF DALEK: The Daleks have discovered the secret of time travel. We have inv*de Earth again. We have changed the pattern of history. (With difficulty, the DOCTOR speaks...) DOCTOR: Y...you won't succeed, you know? (The CHIEF DALEK'S voice rises...) CHIEF DALEK: The Dalek empire will spread through all planets and all times. No one can withstand the power of the Daleks! CONTROLLER: Take him away. (The OGRONS lead the DOCTOR away.) 4: INT. GUERILLA BASE (MONIA puts a map down on a table. It shows a series of buildings surrounded by a perimeter fence. He points to two places on the map as ANAT, BOAZ and other guerillas look on.) MONIA: Now, the control centre is here. As far as we know they're being held prisoner in this block here. BOAZ: Then how do we get through? MONIA: The disused underground railway of the old city. There's an exit right by this wall. BOAZ: Even as a ruin it has its uses. MONIA: Come, time is short. (ANAT puts her g*n in her side-bag and she and her colleagues leave their base.) 5: INT. CONTROL CENTRE GUEST SUITE (The DOCTOR, JO and the CONTROLLER have resumed their places in the guest suite. The DOCTOR has recovered both his jacket and his strength. Nevertheless, he shows little gratitude to the CONTROLLER...) DOCTOR: My dear man, how can I tell you what I don't know myself? CONTROLLER: But you were in contact with the guerillas? JO: But not through choice. Look, they were going to k*ll him. I know the Doctor would help you if he could. CONTROLLER: I am trying to help him! I've already save his life. DOCTOR: Yes, for your own purposes. CONTROLLER: Look, if you do not tell me everything that manager knew about these criminals - where they operate from, what their plans are - then the Daleks will destroy both of you. DOCTOR: I don't doubt it. CONTROLLER: Do you value life so little? DOCTOR: On that contrary, I value it enormously. The Daleks will k*ll us whatever we tell you. CONTROLLER: Not if you co-operate with them. DOCTOR: As you c-operate with them? Do you really think that makes any difference? CONTROLLER: They can be reasonable! DOCTOR: (His voice rising.) Reasonable! They tolerate you as long as you're useful to them. CONTROLLER: I am a senior government official. DOCTOR: (Shouts.) You sir...you sir, are a traitor! You're a Quisling! CONTROLLER: (Angrily.) Silence! You do not understand! (He calms down and grows reflective...) CONTROLLER: Nobody who did not live through those terrible years can understand. Towards the end of the twentieth century, a series of wars broke out. There was a hundred years of nothing but...k*lling, destruction. Seven-eighths of the world's population was wiped out. The rest were living in...holes in the ground, starving - reduced to the level of animals. JO: So the Daleks saw their opportunity and took over? CONTROLLER: There was no power on Earth to stop them. DOCTOR: So, they've turned the Earth into a giant factory, with all the wealth and minerals were looted and taken to Skaro. CONTROLLER: Exactly. Men who were strong enough, of course, were sent down the mines, the rest...work in factories. JO: Why? Why are they doing all this? CONTROLLER: They need a constant flow of raw materials. Their empire is expanding. JO: How did you come to work for them? CONTROLLER: They chose a few humans to help them get things going again, to organise the remaining population. (Proudly.) My family have been controllers in this area for three generations. DOCTOR: A family of Quisling's, eh? (The CONTROLLER takes the bait...) CONTROLLER: We have helped make things better for the others! We have gained concessions! I have saved lives! DOCTOR: Wouldn't you have helped more by organising the fight against them? CONTROLLER: No one can fight against the Daleks. DOCTOR: That's not what your criminal guerillas seem to think, is it? CONTROLLER: A handful of fanatics? Most of them have been...k*lled already. I assure you there is nothing they can do to change things. 6: EXT. CENTRAL CONTROL (An OGRON stands guard just outside the pillared forecourt to central control. A guerilla jumps down from a staircase onto its back, knocking it unconscious. ANAT uses one of the pillars for cover as she starts to f*re at the other OGRON guards who start to approach. From another side, a DALEK approaches and from this angle, ANAT is exposed.) DALEK: Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! BOAZ: Anat, look out! (BOAZ jumps forward and slams a b*mb onto the side of the DALEK. It goes off almost instantly, k*lling both him and the DALEK, only the base of which remains. MONIA and another guerilla start to f*re at two OGRONS. One of them is h*t and fades into nothing but the other returns f*re and a guerilla undergoes the same fate. MONIA, ANAT and the other guerillas redouble their f*re and the second OGRON is h*t.) MONIA: Come! We must reach the control centre, come! (They start to run further into the complex. ANAT hesitates as she sees BOAZ lying next to the destroyed DALEK. MONIA sees her.) MONIA: No! Come! Come! (She shakes herself out of her reverie and runs after her compatriots.) 7: INT. CONTROL CENTRE GUEST SUITE (Within the buildings, the "discussion" between the DOCTOR and the CONTROLLER continues...) CONTROLLER: If you don't give me the information I need, there is nothing I can do to help you. DOCTOR: For the last time, I tell you I haven't got any information. (Angrily.) And quite frankly, even if I had, I wouldn't give it to you! (Further talk is forestalled as MONIA, ANAT and the guerillas burst into the room, their g*n raised.) MONIA: Right, stay where you are! (The three people within jump to their feet.) CONTROLLER: Guards! MONIA: Guards? You have no guards. They're all d*ad. ANAT: (To the DOCTOR and JO.) Are you all right? DOCTOR: Yes, thank you. All the better for seeing you. ANAT: You're coming with us. (The two need no further invitation and start to leave the suite.) ANAT: No harm must come to these two. Too much depends on them. (MONIA aims his g*n at the CONTROLLER.) MONIA: As for you, my friend... (The DOCTOR hears this and steps back.) DOCTOR: Put that g*n down! There's no point in m*rder him. (MONIA keeps his g*n trained...) MONIA: You don't know how much blood there is on his hands. DOCTOR: Nevertheless, he's not your real enemy. MONIA: He helped the Daleks. He's worked for them! DOCTOR: They would always have found someone! Now just leave him. (There is a tense moment, and then MONIA lowers his g*n.) ANAT: Right, let's go. (They all go, MONIA providing cover for the rear as they go. Left behind but unharmed, the CONTROLLER is relieved and thoughtful at the same time...) 8: EXT. TUNNEL AREA (Back in the twentieth century, the BRIGADIER drives up a jeep towards where CAPTAIN YATES and several UNIT soldiers stand near the tunnel. YATES walks up to the jeep and makes a report which is not well received...) CAPTAIN YATES: ... , Sergeant. ... searched ... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Then search again, Yates. CAPTAIN YATES: We've been through every inch of the tunnel, sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: And even the Doctor can't vanish into thin air. He must be somewhere. Extend the radius of the search. CAPTAIN YATES: I'll need some more men, sir. (A motorcycle draws up next to the two men.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: You can have all you want. From now on, this house is top priority. (The BRIGADIER looks over at the cyclist who hands him a note. He opens it and reads it.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: "Sir Reginald Styles and other delegates arriving by special plane at RAF Manston - at 18.00 hours." 9: INT. GUERILLA BASE (The DOCTOR and JO have been taken to the guerilla base and are sat down with ANAT and MONIA as they discuss the situation. Other guerillas look on.) JO: But how do you know this? MONIA: Oh, there are books. Even during the wars, people found time to study, to write about it. ANAT: What to you has not yet happened, is to us history. DOCTOR: This history of yours - it...it talks about Sir Reginald Styles? MONIA: Oh yeah, he pretended to be working for peace, but really he just wanted power for himself. DOCTOR: So the conference he called was just a trick? MONIA: He managed to lure the world leaders to a remote country house, and he pretended they needed absolute quiet if the meeting was to succeed. But then, there was a devastating expl*si*n... ANAT: And Styles was k*lled with the others. He must have set a b*mb and mis-timed the charge. MONIA: There were accusations, counter-accusations, and then the wars began. That was the turning point. JO: But if this true, Sir Reginald Styles must be completely round the bend! DOCTOR: Er, so, you went back into our time to k*ll Styles before he could carry out his plan? MONIA: Right. We've been fighting the Daleks for years. But it was hopeless. Eventually we must lose, so we thought - what else can we do? ANAT: We learnt through one of our spies that the Daleks had succeeded in creating a time machine. We even managed to steal a copy of the plans, and we built one of our own, so that we could go back into history to the exact point where things started to go wrong. MONIA: With one action, we could them. Mankind could have a chance to take a new direction! ANAT: But even now, the transfer isn't always s*ab. People materialised in your time and then just...faded away. JO: (To the DOCTOR.) The ghost that Styles saw? (The DOCTOR nods.) MONIA: Yeah, now, somehow...somehow, the Daleks found what we were doing. And they sent Ogrons back into your time after us and att*cked one of our men. DOCTOR: (To JO.) Well, that must have been the man that we saw down by the canal tunnel. (JO looks puzzled.) DOCTOR: You remember, Jo, the one who vanished from the ambulance? (JO'S face clears as she realises the connection.) ANAT: Yes, we fixed on the tunnel as a place that was s*ab in your time and in ours. We used it as a transfer point. Well, you know the rest. DOCTOR: Yes, well there's a...there's one thing I don't quite understand and that is...why were you so keen to rescue us? Well believe me, we're grateful, but... MONIA: Well, you told us yourself - you're an old enemy of the Daleks. DOCTOR: Yes. MONIA: Then you will help us to b*at them? DOCTOR: What do you expect me to do? MONIA: Well, you can succeed where we've failed, Doctor. We want you to go back into your own time...and k*ll Styles! 10: EXT. AUDERLY HOUSE (As preparations for the conference start, the front of Auderly House would seem to be protected by a ring of steel as SHURA watches from the shrubbery. Holding his injured left arm, he rushes from bush to bush and tree to tree as he skirts the house. He breaks through one set of bushes and sees the he is at the back of the house. He checks that he has not been seen and runs down a short flight of steps to a rear door. He enters the house...) 11: INT. GUERILLA BASE (The DOCTOR is shocked by MONIA'S request.) DOCTOR: You're asking me to commit m*rder! (He rises to his feet.) ANAT: No! We're asking you to k*ll one man and prevent millions more dying! DOCTOR: That is still m*rder! MONIA: Isn't it worth it? To save the human race from the Daleks? DOCTOR: Yes, but would it? ANAT: We've told you how it happened! DOCTOR: But your history could be wrong, you know? (He leans against a pillar and looks back at MONIA.) DOCTOR: Now listen, why don't you send us back to our time? We know the future now - maybe there are other things we can do? ANAT: Monia, we're wasting valuable time! Every minute that goes by! MONIA: Doctor, will you help us? It's our only hope. JO: I still can't believe that Sir Reginald Styles is a ruthless m*rder. DOCTOR: Yes, I agree, Jo. Vain to the point of arrogance, a trifle obstinate, perhaps, but basically a good man. So, if it happened, how did it happen? (He thinks furiously for a moment, his fingers drumming mid-air, then a sudden thought strikes him...) DOCTOR: Any of your people still in our time zone? MONIA: No. ANAT: Oh, Shura. He left just to send a message and we never saw nor heard from him again. We assumed he must be d*ad. 12: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. CELLAR (SHURA has made it back to the cellar where the DOCTOR and JO were previously imprisoned. Crouching on the floor, he takes the plastic bag out of his jacket and unpacks the b*mb. He adjusts a control on top of the device.) 13: INT. GUERILLA BASE (Two centuries later, the discussion in the guerilla's cellar base continues.) MONIA: Look, why are you so interested in Shura? DOCTOR: I'm curious, that's all. ANAT: (Angrily.) Curious! Well, that's funny! Mark and Boaz got k*lled to save you and you're curious! MONIA: Anat! (ANAT controls herself.) DOCTOR: Look, please believe me, I'm completely with you about the ends. I only disagree as to the means. MONIA: All right. What do you want to know? DOCTOR: (To ANAT.) This mission of yours to the twentieth century - what did you take with you? ANAT: The usual battle gear - radio, disintegrators... DOCTOR: Any sabotage equipment? ANAT: Only a few charges of Dalekanium. DOCTOR: (Puzzled.) Dalekanium? ANAT: It's a highly effective type of expl*sive. We stole the formulae from the Daleks. (The DOCTOR starts to see the truth...) DOCTOR: Could it destroy a house? MONIA: What are you trying to say, Doctor? DOCTOR: Well, don't you see? This has happened before! ANAT: What has? DOCTOR: You went back to change history, but you didn't change anything - you became a part of it. MONIA: What are you talking about? DOCTOR: If Styles didn't cause that expl*si*n, somebody else did. ANAT: Well, obviously, but who... (ANAT realises with horror what the DOCTOR is getting at...) ANAT: Shura! DOCTOR: Isn't that exactly what he would have done? One last suicidal attempt to carry out his orders? MONIA: It's possible, I suppose... DOCTOR: (Intense.) You're trapped in a temporal paradox! Styles didn't cause that expl*si*n and start the wars - you did it yourselves! 14: INT. DALEKS' CHAMBER (The CONTROLLER stands before the DALEKS.) CHIEF DALEK: You have failed the Daleks. The Doctor has escaped. CONTROLLER: He will be recaptured. I swear it! CHIEF DALEK: He must be found and destroyed. CONTROLLER: He will attempt to return to his own time zone. If those guerillas are helping him, they will use the tunnel - and I am setting up an ambush. (The entrance to the chamber starts to buzz upwards.) CHIEF DALEK: If you fail us again, you will pay with your life. This is your final chance. CONTROLLER: I will go and supervise the operations myself. (He leaves the room.) 15: INT. CONTROL ROOM (Outside the SENIOR GUARD waits, an insolent smile on his face.) CONTROLLER: Is everything ready? SENIOR GUARD: Security forces have covered the whole tunnel. (Mocking.) Don't worry - they won't escape a second time. (The CONTROLLER gives him a look, and then stalks off.) 16: EXT. WASTELAND (Escorted by MONIA, ANAT and the guerillas, the DOCTOR and JO are taken through the wasteland. The guerillas have their g*n constantly trained. They stop near a manhole in the ground and MONIA passes one of the time machines to the DOCTOR.) MONIA: Now, you are sure you know how to use it? DOCTOR: Well, it seems simple enough. Bit too simple, for my liking. MONIA: Right. We will give you covering f*re, just in case. DOCTOR: Good. (The DOCTOR steps down into the hole and lifts up a hand to help JO down. She starts to step into the hole.) JO: (To ANAT.) Take care. (Keeping her eyes on the ground around, ANAT waves her thanks. JO disappears from view and the manhole is closed over them.) 17: INT. TUNNEL (The DOCTOR steps down the ladder, closely followed by JO. They run off into the darkness, closely followed by two silent OGRONS.) 18: INT. ANOTHER PART OF THE TUNNEL (The DOCTOR and JO run into two more OGRONS and they are quickly surrounded as the two behind them catch up. The CONTROLLER steps out of the shadows.) CONTROLLER: So it has ended as I said it would. Did I not tell you it was madness to fight the Daleks? DOCTOR: Is it madness to want to see a world free from their rule? CONTROLLER: It can't be done. DOCTOR: Oh yes, it can. And I can do it. Are you going to stop me? (The CONTROLLER considers and then looks at the surrounding OGRONS.) CONTROLLER: Go. I will deal with these criminals myself. (The creatures hesitate.) CONTROLLER: I said go! (They obey the order and move off. After they have gone, the CONTROLLER turns back to the DOCTOR.) CONTROLLER: If only I could be sure. DOCTOR: You spoke of the w*r - of its years of suffering and starvation. Well, I can prevent all that happening, you know? (The CONTROLLER stares at the DOCTOR and speaks quietly...) CONTROLLER: You saved my life. You could have let them k*ll me. Go, quickly. DOCTOR: Thank you. (The DOCTOR steps back a few feet.) DOCTOR: Jo, come here and stand by me. (A scared and nervous JO steps back and joins the DOCTOR. He operates the time machine and, in a flare of lights, they disappear. The CONTROLLER thinks for a moment and then moves off. He fails to see the SENIOR GUARD who is hidden round the corner and has heard everything.) 19: EXT. TUNNEL AREA (SERGEANT BENTON is stood on the canal bank some distance from the tunnel entrance when a UNIT soldier, stood near to the entrance, shouts across to him.) UNIT SOLDIER: Sergeant! They're here! (BENTON turns and sees the DOCTOR and JO running from the tunnel. He immediately switches on his radio.) SERGEANT BENTON: (Into radio.) This is Sergeant Benton calling UNIT HQ. Look, we've found them. Will you get a jeep over here pronto? (The DOCTOR and JO reach him.) SERGEANT BENTON: This way, Doctor. (BENTON leads them away.) 20: INT. DALEKS' CHAMBER (Utterly composed, the CONTROLLER stands before the DALEKS.) CONTROLLER: I am sorry. They were too quick for us. They escaped in the darkness. CHIEF DALEK: (Angrily.) You are lying. You have betrayed the Daleks. CONTROLLER: No! I told you before - those security guards are no match for humans. CHIEF DALEK: You are a traitor to the Daleks. You must be exterminated! CONTROLLER: Who knows? I may have helped to exterminate you! (The CHIEF DALEK fires. The air turns negative with the power of the ray which holds the CONTROLLER suspended. He then slumps to the ground. After a moment, the SENIOR GUARD steps forward from one side of the chamber and stands to attention.) CHIEF DALEK: You have proved yourself worthy to be the new controller, but be warned - the Daleks demand total loyalty from those who serve them. SENIOR GUARD: Of course. (His new position secured, he bows and walks out of the chamber as the DALEKS gather round the d*ad body of the CONTROLLER.) CHIEF DALEK: We must follow them into the twentieth century time zone. FIRST DALEK: The peace conference must be destroyed. w*r must break out. CHIEF DALEK: The Dalek conquest of the planet Earth must not be reversed! 21: TELEVISION REPORT (A REPORTER stands on the lawn at the front of Auderly House. Behind him, soldiers stand guard at the entrance to the house and there are other reporters and press photographers.) TELEVISION REPORTER: Here in the peaceful heart of England... (A caption appears:) ALEX MacINTOSH (Auderly House) TELEVISION REPORTER: ...will soon take place what could be described as the most important summit conference of this century. The peaceful atmosphere of this Georgian house gives little indication of the underlying tension of the occasion. A desperate, last-minute attempt to stem the rising tide of international tension seems to be moving the great powers towards the brink of a third world w*r. (A motorcade made up of several motorcyclists and several limousines draws up in front of the house.) TELEVISION REPORTER: Arriving now is Sir Reginald Styles who, with his team of government aides, has been working around the clock to make this meeting possible. (SIR REGINALD STYLES meets the BRIGADIER and they walk into the house.) TELEVISION REPORTER: Sir Reginald himself, has just returned from an eleventh-hour meeting in Peking... (A Chinese delegate gets out of another car and enters the house.) TELEVISION REPORTER: ...where his success in persuading the Chinese leaders to reconsider their walk-out... (An African delegate gets out of the next car...) TELEVISION REPORTER: ...gave the first real chance of success to these talks. (Another delegate, white haired and dressed in a brown suit gets out of another car and is pointed into the house.) TELEVISION REPORTER: Talks, on which may well depend, the fate of the entire world. (The report ends with the REPORTER watching the delegate's cars.) 22: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. HALLWAY (STYLES walks into the hallway followed by the BRIGADIER and his aide.) SIR REGINALD STYLES: Everything set up, Brigadier? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Yes, sir. Although I still feel... SIR REGINALD STYLES: (Interrupts.) We won't waste time on the formalities. We'll just got on with the business as soon as possible. 23: EXT. AUDERLY HOUSE (A UNIT jeep, driven by the DOCTOR tears up the drive of the house and screeches to a halt outside the front. The DOCTOR and JO get out and run inside.) 24: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. HALLWAY SIR REGINALD STYLES: (To the BRIGADIER.) Look, you're supposed to be in charge of security. Kindly get on with your job and leave me to get on with mine. DOCTOR: (OOV.) Brigadier! (The DOCTOR and JO run up to them.) DOCTOR: Brigadier, get everybody out of this house at once! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Where the devil have you been? DOCTOR: Never mind all that! Just clear this house immediately! SIR REGINALD STYLES: What's the man talking about? JO: Do as he says! Look, there isn't much time! 25: EXT. TUNNEL AREA (As if to prove JO'S words, two OGRONS emerge from the tunnel underneath the railway bridge. Immediately behind them is a grey DALEK, followed by more OGRONS, another grey DALEK and then the CHIEF DALEK. More grey DALEKS and OGRONS follow. UNIT troops are still stationed near the tunnel and a furious battle erupts between the soldiers b*ll*ts and the OGRON'S ray g*n. The CHIEF DALEK fires and two soldiers are h*t. Their arms rise up in agony as the ray hits them and then they fall.) 26: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. HALLWAY (A less deadly battle of wills is taking place in the hallway of Auderly House between the DOCTOR and SIR REGINALD.) DOCTOR: Look, try and use your intelligence, man - even if you are a politician! SIR REGINALD STYLES: Brigadier, if you can't get this lunatic out of my way... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Interrupts.) I know it all sounds incredible, sir, but the Doctor usually knows what he's talking about. SIR REGINALD STYLES: Arranging this conference was an almost impossible task. It is no exaggeration to say that the world depends on its success. I will not jeopardise that success now! DOCTOR: Brigadier, get this man and all the delegates out of this area immediately. Use force if you have to! Jo, you stay here. (He rushes off.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Sir Reginald, please? SIR REGINALD STYLES: No, I will not permit it! 27: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. CELLAR (The DOCTOR runs down the steps into the cellar. SHURA is quickly on his feet with his blaster trained on the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: Shura! SHURA: (Shouts.) Get out of here unless you want to die too! I must k*ll Styles to prevent the w*r! DOCTOR: Shura, listen to me. Styles and all the delegates are already leaving this house. You detonate that b*mb and you'll be sacrificing yourself for nothing. 28: EXT. TUNNEL AREA (The battle next to the canal shows no signs of abating. Having to shout over the sounds of the g*n, BENTON calls back to base.) SERGEANT BENTON: (Shouts, into radio.) Benton calling UNIT HQ, Benton calling UNIT HQ - we just can't hold them, sir! 29: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. HALLWAY (The call is received by CAPTAIN YATES as, behind him, SIR REGINALD stubbornly stands his ground. The sounds of the battle are reaching them.) CAPTAIN YATES: (Into radio.) Look, Benton, keep them back as long as you can. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Sir Reginald, this house is under att*ck by a hostile force. You will please consider yourself under my orders. SIR REGINALD STYLES: Brigadier, I warn you... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Shouts.) Now be quiet, sir! (SIR REGINALD seems lost for words.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Captain Yates? CAPTAIN YATES: Sir? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Get Sir Reginald and all the delegates away from this area at once. Use the front exit. (He stalks off, shouting at a UNIT soldier to follow him. YATES gestures to STYLES to come with him.) SIR REGINALD STYLES: I absolutely refuse! CAPTAIN YATES: Sir Reginald, please? SIR REGINALD STYLES: But my papers, the documents... (STYLES' aide gestures to the briefcase he is carrying.) STYLES' AIDE: They're all here, sir. SIR REGINALD STYLES: Well, I suppose I shall have to agree - but under protest! CAPTAIN YATES: This way, Sir Reginald. (YATES hurries him away. JO, left behind, goes into the study.) 30: EXT. AUDERLY HOUSE GROUNDS (The invading army of DALEKS and OGRONS have broken through the troops at the canal bank and have made their way into the grounds of the house. The UNIT troops are f*ring but retreating all the time. The troops f*re a shell from a portable launcher but it explodes uselessly in front of the DALEKS, not harming them. Further sh*ts do down an OGRON but overall the twentieth century troops are no match for the inv*de.) 31: EXT. AUDERLY HOUSE (At the front of the house, STYLES, MISS PAGET and the other delegates get into their limousines and drive off. At the rear of the house, d*ad UNIT troops litter the grounds as the inv*de approach the terrace. As the CHIEFDALEK moves round the edge of the house, another DALEK pushes open a French window and enters the building.) 32: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. CELLAR (JO runs down into the cellar. SHURA still has his g*n trained on the DOCTOR.) JO: Doctor! The Daleks - they're coming into the house! SHURA: Daleks? You're lying! DOCTOR: No, she's not. They've come back to make sure that their version of history isn't changed. (To JO.) Is everybody out of the house? JO: Yes, everyone but us. SHURA: Get out of here. Let them come in! Leave them to me! JO: No, no! You must come with us! SHURA: You don't understand! (He points at the b*mb on the floor.) SHURA: That's Dalekanium - it's the only thing that's effective against the Daleks. DOCTOR: Well, couldn't we set a time fuse? SHURA: This stuff's too unstable. There just isn't time. This is something that I must do myself. Now get out! (The DOCTOR considers, then...) DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Very well. (He runs up the stairs. JO seems stuck to the spot.) SHURA: (Shouts.) Out! (She dashes after the DOCTOR.) 33: EXT. AUDERLY HOUSE (The UNIT troops still hold the terrace at the front of the house. The BRIGADIER is on the radio as the DOCTOR runs out, followed by JO.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: (Into radio.) Greyhound to trap one, greyhound to trap one, do you read me? Over. Greyhound to... (The DOCTOR runs up to him.) DOCTOR: Tell your men to fall back. Let the Daleks into the house. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: Doctor, are you sure that... DOCTOR: It may not make military sense but it's the only way. (He runs to a jeep.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: All right. (Into radio.) Brigadier to all units - let them pass! I say again, let them pass! Re-group on the main road, out! (As the jeep speeds off, the BRIGADIER nods to a soldier and they begin their retreat.) 34: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. HALLWAY (Two DALEKS glide into the hallway.) FIRST DALEK: Where are the delegates? SECOND DALEK: Where is the man, Styles? FIRST DALEK: They must be found and exterminated. 35: INT. AUDERLY HOUSE. CELLAR (Down in the cellar, SHURA hears this.) SHURA: Oh no, not this time. This time it's going to be different! (He presses the detonator...) 36: EXT. AUDERLY HOUSE (...and the house is rent by a huge expl*si*n which decimates the interior leaving the bare walls of the structure filled with flame.) 37: EXT. AUDERLY HOUSE GROUNDS (At a safe distance, the cloud of smoke that rises into the air is seen by the DOCTOR. A puzzled STYLES is stood a few yards behind him.) SIR REGINALD STYLES: Well, what happened? DOCTOR: (Smiles.) Your conference has been saved, Sir Reginald. Now it's up to you and your friends to make sure it's a success. You still have a choice. SIR REGINALD STYLES: Don't worry. We all know what will happen if we fail. DOCTOR: So do we. We've seen it happen, haven't we, Jo? (The future of her world saved, JO smiles back.)
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THE CURSE OF PELADON BY: BRIAN HAYLES EPISODE ONE Original Air Date: 29 January, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: EXT. CITADEL (NIGHT) (The citadel of Peladon is literally carved halfway up the side of a sheer mountain. It turrets, walls and towers are of the same dark rock of the mountain. Hundreds of feet above ground level, it gives the appearance of an impenetrable medieval fortress. The citadel and the mountain are lashed by rain and storm. Winds blow the stark trees at the base of the edifice and flashes of lightning illuminate the impressive scene.) 2: INT. PASSAGE (NIGHT) (The medieval theme is continued within the citadel. Stark passages are gloomily lit by torches affixed to brackets on the wall. Along one of these passages, a man on the cusp of old age strides along. He wears an impressive robe and cloak, both of an imperial purple colour. The collar of the cloak is trimmed with an animal fur. He sports an impressive head of white hair and a similar white beard but both have long streaks of red within them. He walks up to a set of double doors on which primitively attired guards stand on duty with pikestaffs raised. They open the doors for the man and he enters the throne room beyond.) 3: INT. THRONE ROOM (NIGHT) (This chamber is better lit than others in the citadel. Within the room are more guards with pikestaffs and another figure who is dressed and groomed in identical fashion to the newcomer. This is HEPESH, High Priest of Peladon who bestows on the newly arrived TORBIS, Chancellor to the King, a look of barely concealed contempt which is returned to him. The Monarch himself, PELADON, sits on a simple throne which is one a raised dais at the far end of the room. Barely into his twenties, he too has a white head of hair, also streaked with red but no beard. His clothes are similar to the two other men but his cloak is waist length and has no fur. He presents the appearance of weak youth, struggling to be strong in the face of immense responsibilities. Behind PELADON stands GRUN, the King's champion. An immense man, white haired without the red streak, he is dressed in the uniform of the guards and now stands sentinel in the post of the King's personal bodyguard. TORBIS puts one foot on the steps of the throne and smiles at his King.) TORBIS: The delegate from Alpha Centauri has arrived, your Majesty. He will present his credentials to you shortly. PELADON: Thank you, Torbis. TORBIS: We wait now only for the chairman delegate from Earth, then the discussions can begin. (HEPESH can stand no more and steps forward, speaking to TORBIS with frustration and impatience in his voice.) HEPESH: You will persist then in this folly? Nothing I can say will deter you? (TORBIS sounds weary as he turns and faces his adversary.) TORBIS: Hepesh, you have already had your say in the Grand Council. The question has been discussed and decided. HEPESH: Decided by you, Torbis, and the fools who support you! You mislead the King, you abandon the ancient ways of our people! TORBIS: Nothing but ignorance and superstition. HEPESH: You will bring the curse of Aggedor upon us! TORBIS: It'll take much more than your childish mumbo jumbo to frighten me. (PELADON has been watching the argument with increasing irritation. He holds up one hand and calls out...) PELADON: Enough! (PELADON stands and shouts down at the two men.) PELADON: I will not have my Chancellor and my High Priest squabbling on the steps of the throne! HEPESH: You Majesty is right to rebuke us, nevertheless I must pursue...! TORBIS: (Interrupts.) Must I remind you, Priest...! PELADON: (Interrupts.) My friends! (They stop squabbling once more. PELADON sighs and steps down to the two men. He speaks with passion.) PELADON: My good friends. You are more to me than my Chancellors, my regents, much more! It grieves my heart to hear such hate between two brothers. TORBIS: May I speak, your Majesty? PELADON: Very well. TORBIS: It was not I who chose to quarrel. Ever since the death of his exalted Majesty, your father, I have been as a parent to you. If you should forget now all that I have ever taught you, if you should let the superstitious fear of this foolish man... (He stares at HEPESH who takes the bait...) HEPESH: The folly has not been mine ... ! (PELADON holds up a hand for silence from HEPESH but TORBIS has already started shouting over him...) TORBIS: Your Majesty, my whole life would be a failure, as a sacred trust, I am the ... HEPESH: (Interrupts, shouting.) Sacred ... ?! PELADON: (Interrupts, shouting.) Hepesh, please?! (He turns back to TORBIS and speaks quietly...) PELADON: Torbis, I shall not betray you. HEPESH: But, Sire! (PELADON swings round on his High Priest.) PELADON: No, Hepesh! The decision has been taken. If the committee of assessment judges favourably, then Peladon will join the galactic federation. And I shall expect your loyal help and support at this difficult time. (HEPESH bows his head and sounds sincere but the look of anger and disapproval never leaves his face.) HEPESH: Your Majesty. (Having received this gesture, PELADON turns back to TORBIS.) PELADON: Torbis, please inform the others that Alpha Centauri has arrived. (He salutes his Chancellor with an arm across the chest and turns back to the throne. TORBIS throws HEPESH a look of barely concealed triumph and leaves the room. HEPESH watches him go with an inscrutable look on his face.) 4: INT. PASSAGE (Leaving the throne room, TORBIS strides down the passage.) 5: INT. ANOTHER PASSAGE (He heads down another long, torch-lit passage. As he turns a corner a roar rings out and TORBIS raises his hands in horror. A large fur-covered animal towers over him. It raises a paw and brings it crashing down on the man, who falls to the ground. The creature roars again.) 6: INT. THRONE ROOM (The unearthly sound reaches the throne room. GRUN immediately runs out, closely followed by PELADON and HEPESH.) 7: INT. ANOTHER PASSAGE (GRUN sprints down the passage and is first to reach the stricken Chancellor. As he looks over the barely moving figure, a shadow falls over GRUN and he looks up at the roaring animal. He cowers back as the creature lumbers off into the darkness. PELADON runs up seconds later and sees TORBIS on the ground - now not moving.) PELADON: (Somewhat distraught.) Torbis! Torbis! (He cradles the man's head in his hands as HEPESH reaches GRUN.) HEPESH: Grun, what happened?! What happened, Grun? (He shakes the huge man as he continues to cower on the ground. GRUN raises his head and makes a strangulated noise. He is a mute. He points up at one of the torch brackets. On its side is the molten image of a horned beast. HEPESH stares at it.) HEPESH: So, the spirit of Aggedor has risen again. The ancient curse of Peladon...will be fulfilled! 8: EXT. CITADEL (Lighting flashes and wind continues to batter the citadel. Way below it, on a narrow ledge on the lower slopes of the mountain, the TARDIS materialises.) 9: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (Within, the central column comes to a standstill. The DOCTOR, wearing a checked cloak, and JO, wearing a long velvet evening dress with her hair smartly coiffured, watch it stop. The DOCTOR adjusts controls.) DOCTOR: There you are, Jo. A perfect landing. JO: And about time too! DOCTOR: Now, now, Miss Grant. Let's not be impatient. JO: Impatient? Look, I'm all dolled up... (The DOCTOR turns away from her to look over a control. JO walks round to him to get his attention.) JO: I'm all dolled up for a night out on the town with Mike Yates when you talk me into a joyride in this thing, then... DOCTOR: (Interrupts.) It's hardly a joyride, Jo. This is the TARDIS' first test flight since I got it working again. JO: Yes, I know, but you said we'd only... (The DOCTOR turns away again to look at another control. JO walks round him again to attract his attention.) JO: You said we'd only be a few minutes, right? (The DOCTOR is hardly paying attention.) DOCTOR: Mmm hmm. JO: Well we've been simply ages. Look, I'm going to be very late, so if you'll just open the doors, ... I'll be... DOCTOR: (Interrupts.) One minute, Jo. Routine landing procedures first, eh? Let's see what the scanners have to tell us. (JO gives up and looks up at the scanner with the DOCTOR. The screen remains resolutely blank.) JO: Precisely nothing. DOCTOR: Must be on the blink. (He moves beneath the console to look for the source of the problem.) JO: I might have expected it. The TARDIS always is! (The DOCTOR looks up at her.) DOCTOR: I hope you're as in good condition when you're as old as she is! (They both laugh. The DOCTOR returns to his investigations and quickly stands holding a metallic unit in his hands.) DOCTOR: Now...let's have a look. (He looks closely at the device.) DOCTOR: Yes, this is a tiny fault in the interstitial beam synthesiser. Still, I can put that right later. (He slips it back into his pocket and returns to the console controls.) JO: Doctor? DOCTOR: Mmm hmm? JO: You're sure we're back at base? DOCTOR: Yes, well everything outside seems perfectly normal. Atmosphere, temperature, gravity -yeah. (He tickles JO'S chin.) DOCTOR: Cheer up, Jo. It's a perfect landing. (Suddenly, the entire room lurches to one side.) JO: You did say "perfect"? 10: EXT. MOUNTAIN LEDGE (The TARDIS is balanced precariously on the ledge, swaying in the strong winds. The doors face towards one side of the ledge, therefore the DOCTOR is able to leap out of the doors. He backs against the cliffside and , blown by the gale, stares down into the abyss below.) JO: (OOV: Inside the TARDIS.) Doctor, what's the matter?! Where are we?! (He looks up and gauges their surroundings.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Well, we seem to be half way up a mountain! We're balanced on the edge! (He looks at the rocking police box.) JO: (OOV: Inside the TARDIS.) Well, what are we gonna do?! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Come towards me. Come on! (JO appears gingerly in the doorway.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Now, give me your hand, very, very gently! (She reaches her hand out towards his outstretched one.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Ready now? JO: (Shouts.) Yes! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Right, jump! (She half-leaps, and is half-pulled onto the stormy ledge. Like the DOCTOR she backs against the battered cliff-face and clutching each other in the wind, they both watch as the TARDIS pivots off the ledge and, tumbling over and over against the mountain, it falls into the valley below. JO is horrified.) JO: (Shouts.) It's smashed to pieces! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Jo, the TARDIS may have its faults, but it is indestructible. Our main worry is how to get to it. We certainly can't climb down there. (He looks upwards and the flashes of lightning reveal the citadel carved into the rock high above them.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Jo! Jo, look up there! JO: (Shouts.) Oh, looks a bit doomy. DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Well, we certainly can't recover the TARDIS by ourselves. We'd better get up there and see if we can find help. JO: (Shouts.) Up there?! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Yeah, that's right. JO: (Shouts.) But I'm not exactly dressed for mountaineering. DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Well, you always wait here, I suppose. JO: (Shouts.) No thanks. Anyway, we don't even know where we are. DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Exactly, so the sooner we find out, the better. Come on. (He starts to climb.) 11: INT. THRONE ROOM (An astonishing creature ambles into the throne room. It has a long yellow body with a green base. Its head is also green and covered in veins and is dominated by one huge eye. From under a long yellow cloak emerge six arms, one of which carries a scroll which it passes to HEPESH as it approaches the throne.) HEPESH: The delegate from Alpha Centauri, member of the galactic federation, presents his credentials before his Majesty, King Peladon. (The delegate bows and PELADON, wearing an elaborate studded collar and robe returns a seated bow and salute from the throne. He speaks warmly.) PELADON: Peladon welcomes the delegate from Alpha Centauri. (ALPHA CENTAURI speaks in a high-pitched feminine and slightly nervous voice as it twitches away.) ALPHA CENTAURI: As a member of the preliminary assessment commission, I have great hopes that your planet will be acceptable as candidate for the galactic federation. PELADON: That is my firm intention. My Chancellor will... (He stops and corrects himself as a look of sadness crosses his face.) PELADON: My High Priest will give you all assistance to this end. HEPESH: (To ALPHA CENTAURI.) We willing accept the hands of true friendship. (He salutes ALPHA CENTAURI in a similar manner to the King. The delegate bows back.) HEPESH: Unfortunately, discussions cannot begin until the arrival of the chairman delegate from Earth. PELADON: He will be here soon, Hepesh, never fear. Earth is many...light years away from us? Is that not so, Alpha Centauri? ALPHA CENTAURI: Indeed, your Majesty. (The creature gives out a nervous giggle.) ALPHA CENTAURI: A remote and unattractive planet at best. (HEPESH crosses to the King.) HEPESH: I say again the omens are not good! PELADON: (Wearily.) Hepesh... HEPESH: Once before your Majesty saw fit to ignore my warnings, and now your Chancellor, Torbis, lies d*ad, slain by the wrath of Aggedor... PELADON: Hepesh, enough! (But ALPHA CENTAURI has overheard and calls out in a cowardly squeal...) ALPHA CENTAURI: Slain? Danger here? Then the conference must be cancelled! PELADON: This is not a matter to trouble the delegates. (He stands and crosses over to ALPHA CENTAURI speaking as reassuringly as he can.) PELADON: Torbis, my former Chancellor, died earlier tonight in...mysterious circumstances. But the truth will be brought to light, meanwhile there is no danger to you or to your fellow delegates. ALPHA CENTAURI: (Unconvinced.) I...accept your Majesty's assurances... PELADON: Thank you. Lord Hepesh will take you to your fellow delegates. (HEPESH bows and leads the delegate away. PELADON watches them go with a sigh of relief.) 12: EXT. MOUNTAIN SIDE (Battered by the winds, deafened by the cracks of thunder and startled by the lightning, the DOCTOR and JO make slow and painful progress up the mountain side. JO especially finds the going difficult in her unsuitable shoes, several times losing her foothold. The DOCTOR is slightly ahead of her and reaches another narrow ledge. He pulls her up beside him. She sits and he is about to start off again but JO is exhausted.) JO: It's no good...I can't go any further...I nearly broke...my neck coming up...this far. DOCTOR: Well, we certainly can't stay here, Jo. I'll tell you what - let's traverse along this ledge for a bit. I'll see if there's another way out. Have a look that way. JO: Okay. (The DOCTOR goes to the left and JO sets off to the right. As he makes his way slowly along, his cloak flapping in the wind, he hears JO'S voice calling from behind him...) JO: Doctor! DOCTOR: Well, what is it? (He looks back but cannot see her.) DOCTOR: Jo? (He looks in panic up and down the mountainside.) DOCTOR: Jo, where are you?! Jo, where are you?! (She pokes her head out of an opening in the rockface. The DOCTOR crosses to her.) JO: Over here! Come on! DOCTOR: What is it? JO: A tunnel, come on! (She goes back into the opening and the DOCTOR follows.) 13: INT. DELEGATE'S CONFERENCE ROOM (HEPESH opens a pair of double doors and leads ALPHA CENTAURI into another gloomy torch-lit room.) HEPESH: This chamber is reserved for the delegate's private meetings. (Suddenly, they hear a harsh, strangulated vaguely electronic voice.) ARCTURUS: Greetings - you are the delegate from Alpha Centauri? HEPESH: The delegate from Arcturus. (Across the room is another delegate. The base is a square t*nk machine. It is surmounted by a transparent dome which contains a creature which appears to be made up of a wholly skull-like head from which several appendages emanate. A constant stream of live-preserving fluids flow within the dome and a heartbeat sound pulses from within the machine. ALPHA CENTAURI bows to the delegate and crosses over to it.) ALPHA CENTAURI: Greetings delegate. There has been an incident - a court official has been slain! ARCTURUS: Slain? There has been v*olence? I am in danger? HEPESH: An internal matter, delegate Arcturus. Do not be concerned. ARCTURUS: The delegation must be concerned! If only for its own safety. ALPHA CENTAURI: We are committed to the rejection of v*olence. ARCTURUS: But we are capable of self-defence, should it prove necessary. Allow me to demonstrate. (From the base of the machine, a radar dish-type device emerges. A red flash sh**t out from this and, across the room, a decorative stone urn on a stand also grows red and starts to smoke. HEPESH flinches as he watches. The red glow disappears and the urn is now a smoking pile of clinker. ARCTURUS' w*apon retracts back into the base of its machine.) ARCTURUS: So, be warned. Do not provoke us. HEPESH: We desire only your friendship. ARCTURUS: Then make sure that our mission is not endangered. (HEPESH bows and leaves the room.) 14: INT. TUNNEL (The DOCTOR slowly moves along a narrow tunnel. He reaches a grill in the wall beyond which he sees a temple-like room. It is dominated by a huge statute of a rearing horned beast which is lit by flickering torches.) DOCTOR: Jo, come at look at this. (JO comes up the tunnel and joins him.) JO: What on earth is it? DOCTOR: It looks like some sort of shrine. JO: I've never seen anything like it before. DOCTOR: No, neither have I. At least not on Earth. Come on. (They move off.) 15: INT. THRONE ROOM (PELADON and HEPESH stand looking at the empty throne. HEPESH has a hand on the King's shoulder. PELADON, now divested of his elaborate collar and robe, has an attitude that is one of sadness) PELADON: I remember when you and Torbis first brought me to the throne room. HEPESH: At first you refused to sit upon the throne. You said that rightfully it could only be your father's place. (PELADON is emotional...) PELADON: But Torbis...lifted me up...and set me here. And then you said... HEPESH: (Interrupts.) And then I said "although the royal blood that flows in your veins is mingled with that of strangers, yet you shall be Peladon of Peladon! Greater than your father, greater than any past or future king"! And then, the Earth woman... (PELADON interrupts wearily at this description...) PELADON: And then my mother, Hepesh. She smiled... (He sits on the throne.) PELADON: ...and placed my left hand in yours...and my right hand in Torbis'. HEPESH: And together we made a boy into a king! PELADON: And now Torbis is d*ad. HEPESH: His task was almost done. As mine will be when once I have anointed you king. PELADON: Why did he die, Hepesh?! HEPESH: (Passionately.) He saw your future as a servant of the galactic federation! I see you as an independent ruler of a great and glorious kingdom! PELADON: You really believe he was destroyed by Aggedor, don't you?! HEPESH: Yes, it was a warning! (PELADON strides across the throne room.) PELADON: But the federation delegates are here at my invitation - it should have been me that was struck down! HEPESH: No! No, it was Torbis blinded by them that would have destroyed your kingdom! You would have become a sl*ve, not a king. PELADON: But Hepesh, you were always telling me "a king must choose and choose courageously". HEPESH: Aggedor has shown the way! PELADON: Backwards into superstition! It was you who taught me to fight, to ride...and to think. Help me to realise my dream. I know what is best for my people. HEPESH: I do not trust these aliens! PELADON: Well then trust me! HEPESH: I tell you, I know their minds! I will not let them lead you into a trap! PELADON: But their motives are open and honest! HEPESH: But to them, Peladon, we are merely savages! Savages to be tamed! They despise and distrust us! PELADON: Then I will talk to them - convince them! Summon the delegates. (HEPESH hesitates.) PELADON: (Angrily.) Now, Hepesh! (The High Priest bows and leaves.) 16: INT. TUNNELS (The DOCTOR and JO cross through a series of dark tunnels and rock chambers.) JO: Which way now? DOCTOR: Which way indeed? (With no obvious solution, he points one way at a time in four different directions.) DOCTOR: Eenie, meenie, minie, mo... (From the fourth direction, there is suddenly the echoing roar of an animal. JO jumps back.) JO: Meenie? (The DOCTOR nods and they move off quietly in that direction. As they hear another roar, they come to the end of the tunnel. The cul-de-sac is lit by a single torch on a wall bracket.) JO: Oh no, it's blocked up. DOCTOR: Yes. (The DOCTOR looks at the torch in puzzlement.) DOCTOR: If the tunnel's never used, why is this torch still alight? (He reaches for the torch but finds it is affixed to the bracket. He then finds that the entire bracket moves on a pivot and, lowering the bracket, a door in the rock wall behind him suddenly springs open and hits him in the back. JO smiles.) JO: Right again, Doctor! (He nods ruefully and they both go through the door.) 17: INT. PASSAGE (They find that they are behind a tapestry covering one of the walls in a passage of the citadel.) JO: Where are we? DOCTOR: Somewhere inside the castle, I should think. Let's take a look around. (Suddenly, they hear a movement further down the passage and the DOCTOR pulls JO back into hiding behind the tapestry. Once they are concealed, a large being lumbers past. Green in colour, it is covered with a scaly armour and helmet and has two pincer-like hands. It struggles for breath as it walks along past the tapestry. Last seen by the DOCTOR in the Earth's T-Mat control moonbase, a representative of the race of the Ice Warriors is in the citadel of Peladon! The DOCTOR comes out of hiding and, followed by JO, they move to a corner and watch the alien as it continues down the passage. The DOCTOR has a look of intense concern on his face.) JO: What was that? DOCTOR: That, Jo, was an Ice Warrior. A native of the planet Mars. JO: You've seen them before? DOCTOR: Yes, indeed I have, and believe me, they're not very pleasant company. JO: Oh, come on, let's get back to the tunnel - quickly. (They run back to the tapestry but a platoon of palace guards has beaten them to it. Turning back more have appeared from the other direction. They are trapped.) 18: INT. THRONE ROOM (The Ice Warrior - SSORG - walks into the throne room. An Ice Lord - IZLYR - awaits his entrance and gestures to his subordinate to stand to one side. IZLYR then turns and bows to the King on the throne. HEPESH and the other two delegates are also in the room and GRUN stands guard again on his monarch.) PELADON: Thank you. By now, you all know of the tragic incident involving my Chancellor - Torbis. He was more than an advisor, he was, like Hepesh, a trusted friend. (IZLYR catches his breath and speaks...) IZLYR: And yet, he was k*lled - why? HEPESH: It was a supernatural warning. PELADON: My High Priest connects this death with one of our ancient legends. ARCTURUS: Your Priest speaks of a warning. Perhaps it is more than that? PELADON: Superstition - nothing more! IZLYR: This incident could well mean a thr*at...to us, and to the federation. (PELADON starts to sound desperate.) PELADON: But it was Torbis who died! The legend only concerns my people. ALPHA CENTAURI: Your legend seems violent and unpleasant...and rather too convenient. (HEPESH smarts at this comment...) HEPESH: The legend of the curse of Peladon has been handed down through countless centuries. IZLYR: I think, perhaps, we should hear this... "legend"? (PELADON swallows nervously and nods at HEPESH.) HEPESH: It concerns the royal beast of Peladon - now extinct. It is written: "Mighty is Aggedor, fiercest of all the beasts of Peladon!" Young men would hunt it to prove their courage, his fur trims our royal garment, his head is our royal emblem. (He points dramatically at a carving on the wall. Similar pictorial representations adorn the doors within the citadel.) HEPESH: It is also written that there will come a day when the spirit of Aggedor will rise again to warn and defend his royal master, King Peladon. For on that day, a stranger will appear in the land, bringing peril to Peladon... (PELADON suddenly sits up as the doors to the throne room are opened and, behind the delegates, the DOCTOR and JO are shown in by the guards.) HEPESH: ...and great tribulation to his kingdom. (His voice tails off as all turn and stare at the newcomers. The DOCTOR only has eyes for IZLYR and SSORG who walk menacingly towards him, and then...) IZLYR: Chairman delegate from Earth...greetings. (The DOCTOR looks puzzled at this development. Whilst everyone's attention is distracted, HEPESH turns and nods at GRUN. The huge man steps back off the throne dais and ducks behind a wall tapestry to a secret passage as IZLYR introduces himself...) IZLYR: Delegate Izlyr from Mars. Sub-delegate Ssorg. (The DOCTOR bows awkwardly. ALPHA CENTAURI holds up one of its six arms for attention.) ALPHA CENTAURI: Delegate Alpha Centauri. The galactic committee is terribly in need of your experience and judgement! ARCTURUS: I am delegate Arcturus - you are late! DOCTOR: Late? Er, yes, my apologies to the committee but, erm, our space-shuttle crash-landed down the mountain. I wonder if something could be done about rescuing it? HEPESH: That will be arranged. I am Hepesh - High Priest of Peladon. DOCTOR: How do you do? (The DOCTOR steps towards him. HEPESH bows and the DOCTOR does the same.) HEPESH: Protocol demands that you should present formally your credentials to King Peladon. Hand them to me. DOCTOR: I'm afraid that will not be possible. We have lest everything in the crash. PELADON: Er, we can deal with protocol later, Hepesh. Present the chairman delegate from Earth - and his companion. (PELADON is clearly taken with JO - HEPESH less so.) HEPESH: I presume this female is of royal blood? DOCTOR: (Nervously.) Well naturally. Why...well, why do you bother to ask? HEPESH: We are standing in the royal throne room of Peladon. Only men of rank and females of royal blood may set foot here. The penalty for trespass is death. (The DOCTOR stares at him, thinking furiously. Behind him, JO suddenly speaks out in a haughty, regal tone...) JO: Doctor, I do not deal through "intermediaries". Kindly present us to our royal host. (The DOCTOR takes his cue and bows.) DOCTOR: Yes, of course. (To HEPESH.) Excuse me. (He somewhat pushes HEPESH aside and approaches the throne. He bends down on one knee.) DOCTOR: Your Majesty, as delegate from Earth, I greet you. (He stands and gestures to JO.) DOCTOR: May I present Her Royal Highness, the Princess Josephine...of TARDIS! (JO, looking the part in her evening gown, walks forward. The King stands as JO curtsies and then helps her up by her hand. The DOCTOR stands beside them.) PELADON: Greetings Princess. I'm sorry to hear that your journey ended so...uncomfortably. JO: The whole affair was most deplorable. The pilot was exceedingly inefficient! (The DOCTOR sh**t JO a look.) PELADON: Well, I'm glad it was nothing more. You bring a welcome beauty to a serious occasion. JO: Thank you, your Majesty. 19: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE THRONE ROOM (GRUN comes out from behind another tapestry high up on a ledge which overlooks the passage immediately outside the throne room.) 20: INT. THRONE ROOM (Back in the throne room, IZLYR steps forward and addresses JO.) IZLYR: Your Royal Highness... (The DOCTOR, alert to the Ice Lord, watches carefully. JO is as taken with the King as he is with her and it is only when the DOCTOR nudges her with his elbow that she turns and faces IZLYR, losing her composure somewhat when she sees that the Martian is talking to her.) IZLYR: What are your powers on the committee of assessment? (JO looks at the DOCTOR who thinks quickly.) DOCTOR: Erm, the Princess is here in the capacity of a royal observer only. IZLYR: (Satisfied.) Ah, as on my planet, you still retain the aristocratic process. DOCTOR: Yes, in a democratic sort of way. ARCTURUS: Chairman delegate from Earth, we are not here to indulge in social diplomacy. DOCTOR: No, no, of course not, I... ARCTURUS: (Interrupts.) We are here to consider admitting this somewhat primitive planet into the galactic federation. DOCTOR: Yes, thank you for reminding me. I... ALPHA CENTAURI: (Interrupts.) Unfortunately, the success of our mission in thr*at - violently! DOCTOR: thr*at? Perhaps you'd be kind enough to explain that to me from the beginning? PELADON: Ah, this is an... 21: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE THRONE ROOM (PELADON'S words carry outside the throne room. On the high ledge is a huge statue of the royal beast, AGGEDOR. GRUN is starting to lever the statue off its base with a huge piece of wood.) PELADON: ...internal affair. We mean no trouble, chairman delegate. (As GRUN continues with his task, the discussion of the death of TORBIS continues but only the loud electronic words of ARCTURUS reach GRUN...) ARCTURUS: (OOV: Inside throne room.) By a legend, we are told. (GRUN presses on the lever as the conversation within proceeds.) ARCTURUS: (OOV: Inside throne room.) Or a blatant attempt to intimidate this commission. ALPHA CENTAURI: (OOV: Inside throne room.) I cannot ..... (Through the open doorway, the delegates all begin to show and argue at once. The DOCTOR steps forward.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Gentlemen, please?! 22: INT. THRONE ROOM ALPHA CENTAURI: ...are of no concern. (All the arguing voices tail off. The DOCTOR puts on a show of astonishment.) DOCTOR: Do my ears deceive me? Members of the galactic federation squabbling like a g*ng of small children? HEPESH: You are right, chairman delegate. Moreover the throne room is hardly the place for such discussions. IZLYR: Then perhaps we should withdraw...to the delegate's conference room? DOCTOR: That is a splendid idea. (All the delegates - and the two recent additions to their number - bow to the King and start to leave the chamber. The King stands.) PELADON: Princess? (He steps down to JO.) PELADON: I do look forward to speaking with you again - less formally. JO: Thank you. That would be very nice. See you later! (She looks at the DOCTOR who grimaces at this faux pas of protocol and regal language. They follow the delegates as HEPESH watches them go.) 23: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE THRONE ROOM (The DOCTOR follows IZLYR and the other delegates as they step into the passageway. Something catches his eye and he looks up. The statue is falling towards them...)
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THE CURSE OF PELADON BY: BRIAN HAYLES EPISODE TWO Original Air Date: 5 February, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE THRONE ROOM (The DOCTOR follows IZLYR and the other delegates as they step into the passageway. Something catches his eye and he looks up. The statue is falling towards them.) DOCTOR: Look out! (JO jumps back into the protection of the doorway as the DOCTOR roughly pushes IZLYR, SSORG and ALPHA CENTAURI further along the passageway...) DOCTOR: Look out! (...and out of danger as the statue crashes to the floor and into pieces.) 2: INT. THRONE ROOM (Hearing the commotion outside, PELADON jumps off the throne and makes to rush for the door but HEPESH holds him back.) PELADON: (Shouts.) What has happened! HEPESH: (Shouts.) Quick, there may be danger! PELADON: (Shouts.) But the delegates may be harmed! HEPESH: Your Majesty's safety is all that matters. 3: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE THRONE ROOM (Up on the balcony, GRUN retreats back behind the curtain and back into the secret passage. Down below, JO comes out of cover and rejoins the DOCTOR who makes his way back to the throne room entrance. ARCTURUS is the last of the delegates out of the throne room. IZLYR and SSORG join them with ALPHA CENTAURI who makes high-pitched twittering, sobbing noises of panic. Jo momentarily forgets her assumed role...) JO: Phew! That was a bit close, wasn't it? DOCTOR: (Meaningfully.) All you all right, Princess? (JO takes the hint and recovers her regal composure.) JO: Yes, thank you. I think so. IZLYR: (To the DOCTOR.) You have saved our lives, thank you. DOCTOR: I'm sorry to have been so abrupt about it, gentlemen. ALPHA CENTAURI: (Hysterical.) This is terrible! We could all have been k*lled! JO: Well I feel definitely wobbly at the knees. (HEPESH pushes past ARCTURUS and looks at the wreckage.) HEPESH: Aggedor has been merciful. We must give thanks that you have all been spared. DOCTOR: I think we should investigate what caused this, Hepesh. ALPHA CENTAURI: I agree. IZLYR: Yes, indeed. DOCTOR: If only as a matter of protocol. (Through the open doors of the throne room, GRUN is seen to come out from behind the curtain.) HEPESH: It was a sign of Aggedor's anger. His ghost walks amongst us. DOCTOR: It must have been a pretty substantial type of ghost to have shifted a solid granite statue. ALPHA CENTAURI: Yes - very! HEPESH: The spirit of Aggedor can move mountains! JO: Seemed more like he was trying to remove us! (CENTAURI is still highly emotional...) ALPHA CENTAURI: Our mission is peaceful! We come to help your people - to raise them from barbarism. JO: Maybe they don't want to be raised. IZLYR: Hepesh, you say this is foretold in your ancient writings? What sort of manifestation is there supposed to be? HEPESH: It is written: "His coming shall be full or terror and darkness. His cry shall be heard in the night, and death shall walk in the land of Peladon!" JO: Well, there was no cry of warning - and nobody actually saw him, did they? HEPESH: To the unbeliever, all signs are as dust in the wind. DOCTOR: Well, the point is - what does King Peladon believe? IZLYR: If this man speaks for King Peladon, our purpose here is wasted. ARCTURUS: The conference must be cancelled. (PELADON steps into view within the throne room.) HEPESH: I agree. PELADON: (Shouts.) No! I am King - not Hepesh! (ARCTURUS swings round and looks at the King.) PELADON: And not Aggedor! Would you rejoin us? Hepesh! (The delegates and HEPESH make their way back into the throne room.) 4: INT. THRONE ROOM (HEPESH stands next to the King on the steps of the throne. The delegates assemble before them.) PELADON: (Fiercely.) Negotiations must continue! IZLYR: Negotiations are only possible in a peaceful atmosphere. ARCTURUS: Political conflict violates federation law. (JO looks round and spots the tapestry curtain behind the throne. She looks at the DOCTOR who gives an imperceptible nod.) PELADON: Centuries ago, on your own planets, w*r and v*olence flourished! (Unseen, JO steps away from the crowd and slips behind the curtain.) ALPHA CENTAURI: We have learned to control our past. PELADON: (Passionately.) Then you must teach Peladon. Without help we will never raise ourselves from the dark ages. Do not desert us now! DOCTOR: Your Majesty is an enlightened ruler...but who will your people believe? King Peladon...or Aggedor? 5: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE THRONE ROOM (In the passageway, two guards start to remove the debris of the statue. Above them, on the balcony, JO steps out from the behind the curtain. She almost immediately spots a small electronic device on the floor and picks it up and retreats back behind the curtain.) 6: INT. THRONE ROOM ARCTURUS: Doctor, you are our chairman - do we go or stay? DOCTOR: I think it would be a tragedy if the conference were to break up now. IZLYR: If we remain we put ourselves at risk. DOCTOR: His Majesty deserves the opportunity to convince us, surely? (JO quietly steps back from behind the curtain and silently slips back into the row of delegates.) ALPHA CENTAURI: But if we do decide to leave, are we free to go? PELADON: Of course! DOCTOR: You don't think that King Peladon would keep you here by force, do you? ALPHA CENTAURI: Such things have been known on primitive planets. PELADON: Why should I detain you? ARCTURUS: As pawns in some political game, perhaps? ALPHA CENTAURI: That has happened before. (IZLYR walks thr*at towards the throne.) IZLYR: It would be most unwise. PELADON: There is no plot! I am being completely honest with you. (Quietly.) Please, stay and help me to help my people. (IZLYR looks to the DOCTOR for a conclusion.) DOCTOR: Your Majesty, we will adjourn now and consider our position. We will let you know our decision as soon as possible. (The DOCTOR and IZLYR bow and leave the throne room. The other delegates follow with JO holding back to allow the bulk of ARCTURUS' casing to swing round and leave.) PELADON: Your Highness, would you remain? Hepesh, you may leave us. (HEPESH bows.) HEPESH: Your Majesty. (He walks out followed by the guards. JO stands silently.) PELADON: Do you believe me? (JO is slightly flustered but gathers her nerve.) JO: I'm only an observer. It's up to the committee to decide whether or not to help you. PELADON: I'm talking from a personal point of view. (PELADON looks round to make sure they are alone and smiles, relaxing his demeanour.) PELADON: I don't often get the chance. JO: Being a king is no fun? PELADON: It's very lonely. But you must know that? It's so hard to find someone to talk to as a person. JO: But you have Hepesh? He seems very fond of you - just like a father. PELADON: Hepesh is an old man - like your friend, the Doctor. JO: (Smiles.) I somehow don't think he'd care for that! (PELADON gives a slight laugh.) PELADON: I was brought up by wise old men. I hardly ever see anyone young or...beautiful. (JO lowers her eyes.) PELADON: My mother was an Earth woman. So you see, there is a bond between us. (He takes JO'S hands.) PELADON: Do you believe me? (JO smiles.) JO: Yes. Yes, I believe you. PELADON: Then speak for me to the commission. Make them see my case. (JO'S smile disappears and a look of betrayal appears on her face.) JO: I see. All you want is a...political ally! PELADON: No! I want you as a friend! JO: Oh no. No. I'm strictly neutral. Count me out! (She storms out of the throne room. PELADON gives a sigh.) 7: INT. TEMPLE OF AGGEDOR (HEPESH stands with his arms raised before the huge state of AGGEDOR that the DOCTOR and JO glimpsed in their journey through the tunnels. This is the temple of the royal beast. Incense and smoke fill the air. HEPESH bows to the statue and turns back to an altar next to which GRUN kneels in supplication.) HEPESH: The failure was not yours, Grun. You acted well. Aggedor has been merciful to his enemies. But now the hour for mercy has passed. Now an evil influence comes between King Peladon and his true destiny! It must be destroyed! Aggedor will give his blessing. (GRUN bows forward on his knees as HEPESH throws three pieces of a magnesium-type material into a bowl. It flares each time as the High Priest's voice rises.) HEPESH: (Shouts.) I dedicate you to the destruction of the King's enemy, to purge the soul of Peladon by this act and to give the ghost of Aggedor release! (He turns and holds his arms aloft again at the statue.) HEPESH: The foremost of the King's enemies is the chairman delegate from Earth! The one they call the Doctor. (He turns back and stares wildly at GRUN.) HEPESH: (Fiercely.) Destroy him, Grun! 8: INT. EARTH DELEGATE'S REST ROOM (JO has caught up with the DOCTOR and given him the electronic device that she found on the balcony. He inserts a jewellers eyeglass into his eye and looks over it.) JO: Well? What is it? DOCTOR: It's an electronic key. Used for opening doors by identifying the bearer electronically. Probably used for their spaceship. JO: Whose spaceship? DOCTOR: Well, the Ice Warriors of course. It's made from trisilicate... (He takes the eyeglass out.) DOCTOR: ...which can only be found on the planet Mars. (He hands the device to JO and goes over to a sideboard and pours himself a drink.) JO: So you think that it was Ssorg who made those footprints on the balcony? DOCTOR: Yes, I think it's highly likely. JO: Wasn't he in the throne room with us? DOCTOR: I'm not sure. Well you managed to slip away without anybody noticing, remember? JO: Yes. (Puzzled.) But what would they be after? DOCTOR: Well, the last time that I encountered them, Jo, they were trying to colonise the planet Earth. And Peladon is very like Earth. JO: Hmm. But they say they're here for the same reason as the other delegates - peace. (The DOCTOR takes a seat.) DOCTOR: Do they? Well, believe me, I know the Ice Warriors, Jo. They're a savage and a warlike race. No, among the delegates, only Ssorg's strength could have shifted that statue. (JO sits next to him.) JO: I still think you're jumping to conclusions. DOCTOR: Well who else could be responsible? Arcturus is only a box of tricks. I hardly think Centauri would hurt a fly, would you? JO: No, I think he's rather sweet. (Smiles.) Or is he a she? DOCTOR: Neither - she is an it. It's a hermaphrodite hexapod. JO: Oh. DOCTOR: The point is - what possible motive could they have? JO: Look, why don't we just organise someone to dig out the TARDIS and get out here? (Plaintively.) Did you have to get us involved in all this? DOCTOR: I didn't really have any choice, did I? JO: (Smiles.) Oh, come on! You love all that chairman delegate stuff! (The DOCTOR looks sheepish. JO looks him closely in the eye and grins.) JO: Admit it. DOCTOR: Well, how do you like being a princess, Princess? JO: (Laughs.) Like you said, I didn't really have much choice. (She laughs again and falls quiet, but the peace of the room is disturbed by a sudden wailing electronic noise coming from another room.) JO: What's that? DOCTOR: It sounds like an alarm. Come on. (They run out of the room.) 9: INT. DELEGATE'S CONFERENCE ROOM (The alarm is coming from ARCTURUS. The inspection hatch on the front of his casing is missing and a series of bare wires are exposed inside. The casing shudders from side to side and the little skull-like head within the transparent globe shakes as if undergoing a fit.) 10: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE DELEGATE'S CONFERENCE ROOM (The DOCTOR and JO run at full pace down the passage...) 11: INT. DELEGATE'S CONFERENCE ROOM (...and stop when they see ARCTURUS within. The DOCTOR rushes over to the delegate. They have to speak up over the wail of the alarm.) JO: What are you going to do? (The DOCTOR bends down and sees the open inspection hatch.) DOCTOR: Well, someone's taken the servo-junction unit of his life support system! I'll have to re-wire the circuits! (He plunges a hand into the wiring and starts his task.) JO: Well, what does this servo thing look like? DOCTOR: It's a small plastic cube full of very fine circuitry - why? (JO starts to look over the room as the DOCTOR frantically continues to repair the damage.) JO: Well, whoever took it must have been the one who tried to k*ll Arcturus. DOCTOR: Obviously, so? (She comes back to him as his hands move with lightning speed over the innards of ARCTURUS' casing.) JO: So if we could find it... Look, I can search all the delegates rooms. DOCTOR: You'll do no such thing, Jo. It's far too dangerous. I'm going to try a little direct confrontation here. JO: But if we had some real evidence... DOCTOR: (Interrupting.) Jo, please do as I say. There's a good girl. (IZLYR and HEPESH enter the room, having been alerted by the continuing alarm.) IZLYR: (Suspiciously.) What are you doing to Arcturus? DOCTOR: Someone has disconnected a vital part of his life support system. I'm trying to save him. Now please, leave me alone! (ALPHA CENTAURI also enters the room as JO sneaks out unobserved. The DOCTOR works for a moment longer and then stands up as the alarm starts to die down and ARCTURUS returns to a s*ab state.) DOCTOR: I think that should do it. IZLYR: Have you succeeded? DOCTOR: Yes, he'll be all right in a moment. HEPESH: This is the work of Aggedor! (The DOCTOR looks meaningfully at IZLYR.) DOCTOR: This is the work of a skilled technical knowledge. Your medieval monster, Hepesh, would simply have tried to smash Arcturus' protective globe. IZLYR: (Angrily.) What are you suggesting? (The DOCTOR stares calmly at IZLYR.) IZLYR: (Angrily.) I reject the accusation. DOCTOR: Yes, of course, you would. But nevertheless, you can't deny that you do have the necessary technical knowledge. IZLYR: The technology of...Centauri is competent enough - and so is that of Earth. And it was you, Doctor, that we discovered. (The DOCTOR frowns.) 12: INT. MARTIAN DELEGATE'S REST ROOM (JO pushes open the heavy wooden door to the Ice Warrior's room. She checks that no one is there and enters. She sees a large metallic chest and goes and opens it. Seeing nothing inside answering to the description of the missing servo-unit she goes over to a small table on which there are various small pieces of machinery but nothing like the one that she is looking for. She then spots a wooden chest on the floor and open it. There, on top of several other items, is the missing unit. She makes for the door but as she reaches it, she hears the tell-tale rasping of a Martian's breath outside. She quickly looks round, spots a tapestry curtain and dives behind it. The door to the room opens SSORG enters. Almost immediately he sees the open metallic chest and looks round the room. JO'S shoes can be seen peeking out from the bottom of the curtain. SSORG lumbers over and yanks it aside. JO gasps.) SSORG: Why are you here? (JO summons up her courage.) JO: I was looking for something - and I've found it! (She holds up the unit. SSORG roughly pulls it from her grasp.) SSORG: This is not ours. (He throws her onto a bench.) JO: No, you took it from poor Arcturus when you tried to k*ll him! SSORG: You will stay. I must inform Izlyr. (Pulling a large sonic g*n from the metallic chest, he starts to leave the room, leaving a defiant JO behind.) 13: INT. DELEGATE'S CONFERENCE ROOM (ARCTURUS is much recovered but his voice is somewhat unsteady.) ARCTURUS: I...have been...att*cked. ALPHA CENTAURI: (Frantically.) By whom, Arcturus, by whom?! HEPESH: Was the face of Aggedor revealed to you? ARCTURUS: Memory...circuits...out...of phase. ALPHA CENTAURI: It must have been a dreadful experience! We'll have to ask him later. IZLYR: We cannot wait. It is too important. We must know now. ARCTURUS: I...cannot...remember. (IZLYR gestures with impatience.) DOCTOR: How very fortunate, Izlyr. (IZLYR draws his breath in with anger.) DOCTOR: Excuse me, Gentlemen. (The DOCTOR leaves the room.) 14: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE DELEGATE'S CONFERENCE ROOM (He walks quickly down the passage but quickly bumps into the massive form of GRUN. The bodyguard puts out an arm to stop him and the DOCTOR tries to get either side of the huge man but to no avail.) DOCTOR: Let me past, Grun. (GRUN holds him by the arm and makes strangulated noises.) DOCTOR: What do you want? (GRUN gestures and makes more noises.) DOCTOR: You want me to come with you? (GRUN nods and starts to pull the DOCTOR at speed back down the passage.) DOCTOR: All right, all right, I'm coming. (They go past the open door to the conference room.) DOCTOR: Where are you taking me? (They move off down the passage and HEPESH steps out of the conference room and quietly watches them go.) 15: INT. DELEGATE'S CONFERENCE ROOM (ARCTURUS now seems fully recovered.) ARCTURUS: I saw no-one, delegate Izlyr. The att*ck was too quick. IZLYR: We discovered the Doctor. He seemed to be attacking your life support mechanism. ALPHA CENTAURI: But what motive could the Doctor have? IZLYR: Ask his masters...on Earth. ARCTURUS: The Princess - why is she here? ALPHA CENTAURI: A diplomatic courtesy, surely? Peladon's mother was an Earth woman. IZLYR: Exactly! (Thinks.) And if Peladon marries this Earth princess...the blood relationship would be strengthened - and could be used to foster Earth's interests, inside the federation. ARCTURUS: That must not be allowed to happen. (SSORG enters the room, carrying the servo-unit.) SSORG: Lord Izlyr? IZLYR: Yes, what is it? SSORG: I must speak with you. IZLYR: Of course. If you will excuse us, Arcturus? (They stand to one side of the room and talk quietly.) ARCTURUS: (To CENTAURI.) There has been some new development? ALPHA CENTAURI: Something dreadful, no doubt! Really, this barbarous planet! (IZLYR holds up the servo-unit to the other two delegates.) IZLYR: Sub-delegate Ssorg has discovered the missing servo-junction unit. ARCTURUS: Where? IZLYR: In the hands of the Earth Princess! 16: INT. MARTIAN DELEGATE'S REST ROOM (JO paces within the locked Martian's room. She sits back on the bench and looks upwards...and immediately sees an opening high up in the wall. She gets up and looks at it with delight and then runs over to the table with the various electronic instruments. These she throws to the floor and pulls the table to the wall beneath the opening. It not being quite high enough, she looks round and spots a metallic box which she takes and puts on the table. She then climbs onto the table, onto the box and, hitching up her evening dress slightly, up onto the open ledge.) 17: EXT. CITADEL (JO edges out of the long opening and into the night air. The citadel is still being relentlessly battered by the storm outside and the ledge outside is very narrow. Pressing herself against the wall, she momentarily looks down into the abyss below and then, illuminated by flashes of lightning and deafened by the thunder, she starts to traverse the ledge. At one point, the masonry beneath her feet crumbles sending pieces of stone falling thousands of feet but she recovers her balance and continues her perilous escape. After a moment, with a sigh of relief, she reaches another opening and re-enters the citadel.) 18: INT. PASSAGE (The opening is equally as high as the one in the Martian's room but looking there is a table below it. JO jumps down onto the table and then onto the floor. Not pausing, she runs down the passage.) 19: INT. ANOTHER PASSAGE (Elsewhere in the citadel, GRUN and the DOCTOR reach a tapestry with a flaming torch bracket next to it. GRUN gestures to the DOCTOR to stop and then pulls down the bracket. He pulls back the curtain revealing an opening behind to which he gestures to the DOCTOR to enter.) DOCTOR: In here? (GRUN makes more noises.) DOCTOR: Why? Is someone in trouble? (GRUN nods frantically.) DOCTOR: Well who, Grun? (GRUN holds a hand down at a low level to indicate a small person.) DOCTOR: Not the Princess?! (GRUN nods and pulls the DOCTOR through the opening.) DOCTOR: All right, all right! 20: INT. ANOTHER PASSAGE (JO speeds down a passage and stops at an intersection. She looks round as if she is lost. Suddenly there is a roar behind her and she spins round and gasps. AGGEDOR rears above her, huge tusks coming out of its boar-like head and mouth. JO runs as fast as she can in the opposite direction.) 21: INT. TUNNEL (GRUN and the DOCTOR make their way down dark carved tunnels and climb through openings. Suddenly, they too hear the roar of AGGEDOR. GRUN stops, terrified.) DOCTOR: What is that noise, Grun? (GRUN panics and runs off.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Grun! Grun, come back here! Grun! (The DOCTOR gives chase a short way, calling after him.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Grun! Grun! (He gives up. He hears another roar and cautiously makes his way onward.) 22: INT. PASSAGE (JO runs down the torch-filled passage and straight into SSORG and IZLYR. They hold her between them. JO is almost breathless with terror.) JO: ... ! IZLYR: How did you escape from my room? JO: The monster, Aggedor - he's down there! IZLYR: Ssorg. (IZLYR gestures to his subordinate who, sonic r*fle in hand, moves back down the corridor to investigate.) JO: No, you can't! Look, it'll k*ll Ssorg! IZLYR: Ssorg's sonic g*n can destroy any living creature. (Further down the passage, GRUN slips out from behind the curtain and moves off, just before SSORG reaches the spot. He pauses and looks round. Back down the passage, IZLYR still holds JO in his clamp-like hand and questions her.) IZLYR: Where were you going? JO: I was going to find the Doctor and King Peladon, when this... (SSORG returns.) SSORG: There...is...nothing. JO: But it was there! I saw him! IZLYR: You say you see this monster, when there is no monster. You are trying to trick us! JO: No! Oh, look, please - I've got to find the Doctor. IZLYR: Then we will help you. It is time that you and the Doctor answered my questions. 23: INT. TUNNEL (The DOCTOR frantically runs through the various tunnels. Not far behind him, the huge fur covered figure of AGGEDOR roars in pursuit. As well as the tusks in its mouth, its forehead is surmounted by a massive horn and sharp claws end the large paws.) 24: INT. MARTIAN DELEGATE'S REST ROOM (IZLYR and SSORG lead JO into their room. IZLYR gestures to a bench.) IZLYR: Sit down, Princess. (JO reluctantly does so.) IZLYR: Why did you try to escape? (SSORG holds the sonic r*fle up to her.) JO: I was frightened. Can you blame me? IZLYR: So, Princess, you believe that we tried to k*ll Arcturus? (JO gathers her courage and snaps back...) JO: Well if you didn't, why was the missing servo unit in your room? IZLYR: Perhaps you brought it here as part of your scheme to trap us? (JO jumps up.) JO: But that's just not true! I... (SSORG pushes her back down gently but firmly with the r*fle.) JO: But you must have tried to k*ll Arcturus. IZLYR: Nobody tried to k*ll him. JO: What? IZLYR: To destroy Arcturus, the helium regenerator must be deactivated. JO: What about the unit? IZLYR: Merely sensor equipment. Disconnecting that only produces metabolic coma. JO: So it...couldn't be fatal? IZLYR: Only...uncomfortable. (JO'S voice is calm and she stands.) JO: I'm sorry if I might have misjudged you. But the Doctor did say you were a race of warriors. IZLYR: We were once, but now we reject v*olence - except in self-defence. JO: What about Ssorg's g*n? This is supposed to be a peaceful mission. (IZLYR gestures to SSORG to stand down and his voice softens in tone.) IZLYR: Unfortunately, in order to preserve peace, it is necessary to survive. JO: Well...if you didn't do it, who did? Who could benefit by it? IZLYR: Perhaps the Doctor will be able to explain. 25: INT. TUNNEL (The roars of AGGEDOR close behind him, the DOCTOR runs down a tunnel. He reaches a dead-end and looks round to see the creature fast approaching, angrier than ever. The DOCTOR sees another sole flaming torch and manipulates it in its bracket. As expected, a secret door opens revealing the temple beyond. Faced with no choice, he cautiously enters.) 26: INT. TEMPLE OF AGGEDOR (He looks at the huge statue of AGGEDOR as the door closes behind him. He walks over to the statue and reaches out and touches it. As he does so, a cry rings out.) HEPESH: Sacrilege! Seize him, Grun! (GRUN jumps forward and grabs the DOCTOR by the neck as HEPESH shouts into his face...) HEPESH: You have defiled the inner sanctum of the holy temple of Aggedor! Your mind, your word, your being - all are evil! DOCTOR: Give me a chance to explain, Hepesh! HEPESH: Take him before the King! (GRUN starts to pull him away.) DOCTOR: No Hepesh, give me a chance! 27: INT. THRONE ROOM (PELADON sits on the throne. All the delegates, including JO, are assembled and GRUN firmly stands next to his prisoner. HEPESH stands on the steps of the throne.) HEPESH: Your Majesty, the charge against the chairman delegate from Earth is one of extreme sacrilege. (To the DOCTOR.) I, Hepesh, High Priest of Peladon, and Grun, the King's champion, accuse you - an alien intruder - of desecrating the holy of holies - the inner sanctum of the temple of Aggedor. (To PELADON.) Your Majesty. (PELADON looks torn and nervous.) PELADON: I have no alternative, Doctor. To this charge, the laws of Peladon allow of no defence...and only one punishment - death.
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THE CURSE OF PELADON BY: BRIAN HAYLES EPISODE THREE Original Air Date: 12 February, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: EXT. CITADEL (Lightning, thunder and wind batter the citadel of Peladon...) 2: INT. THRONE ROOM (In the throne room, all the delegates, the DOCTOR, JO and HEPESH stand before the throne. PELADON looks torn and nervous.) PELADON: I have no alternative, Doctor. To this charge, the laws of Peladon allow of no defence, and only one punishment - death. (There is a slight gasp from the assembled delegates.) DOCTOR: But there was no sacrilege intended, sir. HEPESH: Only the alien's death can purify the holy temple of Aggedor. DOCTOR: I had no idea that the tunnels would lead there. (PELADON is instantly alert...) PELADON: Tunnels? I know of no tunnels, Hepesh? DOCTOR: Surely your Majesty must know that beneath the citadel there is a network of secret passages? HEPESH: He is lying, your Majesty. There are no such passages! (The DOCTOR stares are HEPESH, almost in realisation. The High Priest coolly returns the stare. The DOCTOR turns back to the King.) DOCTOR: King Peladon, I swear to you that I am telling the truth. I am innocent. HEPESH: Your Majesty... (JO runs up to the throne.) JO: (Begging.) You've got to believe him! IZLYR: His ignorance of the law at least deserves consideration. HEPESH: No, his crime is too great! IZLYR: A Royal pardon would could highly with the federation. HEPESH: The federation cannot override our holy laws. It is forbidden by its charter. ARCTURUS: That is correct. Galactic articles of peace: paragraph twenty-nine, sub-section two. ALPHA CENTAURI: Then we are powerless to interfere! (From the steps of the throne, JO shouts down at the other delegates.) JO: But you can't just let him be k*lled! HEPESH: You cannot prevent it! (She turns on him...) JO: No...but a King can! (She looks imploringly at PELADON and moves closer to him, putting her face in front of his.) JO: You asked me once if I believed in you. I want to believe in you, and here is your opportunity to show that you are a civilised King. (PELADON swallows nervously.) HEPESH: He can do nothing - this is ancient law! PELADON: Hepesh is right. I am powerless to save him. JO: (Tearfully.) I'm begging you! Please...? (PELADON looks closely at her, then stands and looks closely at the DOCTOR.) PELADON: There is one alternative...trial by combat. (The delegates twitch in shock.) HEPESH: But the Earth delegate is not of noble blood! JO: (Disgusted.) That's barbaric! PELADON: It is all I can offer. HEPESH: He cannot be given an honourable alternative. PELADON: (Snaps.) You forget, Hepesh, he is a man of rank, and as such, an honourary nobleman of the citadel. (To the DOCTOR.) What do you say, Doctor? (The DOCTOR looks round briefly, then.) DOCTOR: Very well, your Majesty, I accept the challenge. But who do I fight? PELADON: (Reluctantly.) You will be held c*ptive in your room until dawn. Then you will lowered into the pit beneath the citadel, where you will engage in combat to the death...with the King's champion, Grun. (The DOCTOR looks at the massive man who he is to fight. JO looks even more tearful than before. Only HEPESH seems pleased...) 3: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE DOCTOR'S ROOM (HEPESH leads a procession of two guards and the DOCTOR down a torch-filled passage. The lead guard opens the door to a room and the DOCTOR is about to enter when he stops and looks back at the waiting HEPESH, a smile on his face.) DOCTOR: Yes, you're a wily old bird, aren't old you, Hepesh? But you do realise, don't you, that my death could cause a major interplanetary scandal? (HEPESH remains stony-faced. The DOCTOR is in the doorway when he once more offers a piece of advice...) DOCTOR: Consider the consequences, Hepesh. (He enters his room. HEPESH'S face betrays a touch of uncertainty.) 4: INT. THRONE ROOM (JO and PELADON are left alone in the throne room, apart from some guards. JO looks disconsolately down at the floor as she paces. She turns and looks up at PELADON who stands at top of the throne steps.) JO: (Upset.) How can I ever believe in you now? (PELADON walks down to her.) PELADON: I'm sorry. But there are some things I cannot change even for you. JO: Don't you even want to? What do mercy and compassion mean to you? (Shouts.) You need someone to die to justify your own stupid superstition! PELADON: (Shouts.) I want no one to die! (Quieter.) Can't you see I've done all I can? (JO restrains a sob and moves off a few paces.) PELADON: He means a great deal to you. JO: Yes. PELADON: Princess, I'm helpless. Don't hate me for that. JO: (Passionately.) I don't hate you. (PELADON looks sad and moves up the steps to the throne. He looks at the chair.) PELADON: Both Torbis and my father died before they could break the traditions that bind us. But my mother taught me all she could of justice, compassion...and love. She knew the time would come. (He sits down. JO rushes up to him.) JO: Then make it now! Be the King she wanted you to be. Be the King I want you to be! PELADON: Oh, there's so much I could do if I had someone by my side to help me. Oh, Princess, will you not give your Royal agreement to an interplanetary alliance...by marriage with me? (JO is stunned.) JO: You know...I just don't understand you! I...I really don't! One minute you're condemning the Doctor to death, and the next minute you're proposing to me! PELADON: Josephine, the matters are completely separate! I had to condemn the Doctor - that was my duty as a King. What I'm trying to say to you now, that comes from my feelings as a man. JO: Then there's no...no connection between the two? PELADON: But of course not. (JO can contain herself no longer. She runs from the room. PELADON shouts after her.) PELADON: How could there be! 5: INT. DOCTOR'S ROOM (The DOCTOR lies on his bed, utterly relaxed while HEPESH paces the room.) HEPESH: The door of your room will be left open. There will be no one there to stand in your way. DOCTOR: I see. k*lled while trying to escape - is that it? (HEPESH speaks with conviction...) HEPESH: I don't want your death - trust me. (The DOCTOR rises slightly from his reclining position and looks at the High Priest with interest.) 6: INT. DELEGATE'S CONFERENCE ROOM (IZLYR, ALPHA CENTAURI and SSORG enter the conference room. ARCTURUS is already there.) ARCTURUS: The facts point to one thing; a unilateral blood alliance between Peladon and Earth. IZLYR: It is unusual to celebrate such an event with an execution. ARCTURUS: That possibility is obviously intended to confuse us. (ALPHA CENTAURI looks from ARCTURUS to IZLYR and screeches out...) ALPHA CENTAURI: I do not understand! What is happening? ARCTURUS: This is a conspiracy to destroy federation unity and we are to be the victims. 7: INT. DOCTOR'S ROOM (HEPESH has placed a parchment map of the tunnels on a table in the DOCTOR'S room. He traces a route through the tunnel with a flint-like primitive pen.) HEPESH: There lies your route to freedom. Take it, leave our planet and live. DOCTOR: I'm afraid I can't. (HEPESH puts the pen down and looks at him.) DOCTOR: Well, not without my space shuttle. HEPESH: A large blue box was found on the lower slope of the mountain. DOCTOR: Yes, that's it. Where is it now? HEPESH: It is being brought to the citadel. DOCTOR: Well, that's splendid. And what about Princess Josephine? HEPESH: She will be allowed to leave with you. (He heads for the door...) DOCTOR: Hepesh? (...but stops in his tracks.) DOCTOR: Why do you go to so much trouble? You could simply have me k*lled. (HEPESH comes back into the room.) HEPESH: I do not mean to have this planet destroyed in retaliation by the spaceships of the federation. DOCTOR: Yet you slap the federation in the face by sabotaging the commission, why? (A note of fear comes into HEPESH'S voice.) HEPESH: Because I'm afraid. DOCTOR: Afraid? Afraid of what? The federation is your safeguard. HEPESH: (Fiercely.) That is not true! I know the federation's real intent. DOCTOR: The federation's real intent is to help you. HEPESH: No! They'll exploit us for our minerals, enslave us with their machines, corrupt us with their technology. The face of Peladon will be changed, the past swept away, and everything that I know and value will have gone. DOCTOR: The progress that they offer - that we offer - isn't like that. HEPESH: I would rather be a cave dweller and free. DOCTOR: Free! Your people imprisoned by ritual and superstition. HEPESH: We need Aggedor. DOCTOR: You can hardly expect your pet ghost to take on the whole federation single-handed, can you? HEPESH: (Smiles.) We do not stand alone. (The DOCTOR takes up on this...) DOCTOR: Oh, who stands with you? HEPESH: Take your chance while you still can. (He moves the map slightly to remind the DOCTOR of its existence...) HEPESH: It will soon be dawn. (...and leaves the room. The DOCTOR watches him go.) 8: INT. DELEGATE'S CONFERENCE ROOM (JO has gone to plead with the other delegates in their conference room. ALPHA CENTAURI twitches with nervousness...) ALPHA CENTAURI: But Princess, we must leave. If only in order to avoid v*olence! JO: But you can't just scuttle off and leave the Doctor. ALPHA CENTAURI: What will the grand council say? JO: That you have no power to cancel a mission just like that. IZLYR: The Princess is right. Federation authorisation would be required. ARCTURUS: If we stay, we risk being taken as hostages. ALPHA CENTAURI: (Panicking.) We must leave! While we have the chance. We're in terrible danger! JO: But so is the Doctor! ARCTURUS: This is a very delicate political situation. (JO starts to lose her temper.) JO: It'll be even more delicate if the Doctor is k*lled! IZLYR: Yes, that would amount to a declaration of w*r. ARCTURUS: An interesting problem. IZLYR: And the federation would totally destroy Peladon. ALPHA CENTAURI: Yes it would! ARCTURUS: Therefore, we must do nothing. JO: Oh, great! Thanks a lot! (She pushes her way between IZLYR and SSORG and runs from the room.) IZLYR: Ssorg. (IZLYR indicates with a clamp-like hand for him to follow JO.) 9: INT. DOCTOR'S ROOM (The DOCTOR has made some adjustments to his sonic screwdriver. A small metal rod extension has been screwed to the end and on top of this, he attaches a small round mirror on a bar. He spins this round and it gives out a hypnotic sound. The DOCTOR stares at the light given out, falling fast under the effect of the device. He blinks rapidly and rubs his eyes to recover from the spell. Stopping the mirror from spinning, he smiles, puts it in his breast pocket and starts to leave the room, coming back briefly to pick up the map.) 10: INT. PASSAGE (JO stalks down one of the passages when she hears a voice behind her.) SSORG: Princess...wait. (SSORG lumbers into view.) SSORG: Delegate Izlyr must talk with you. (He opens the door to the Ice Warrior's room.) SSORG: Will you enter, please? (In none too good a temper, JO stalks into the room.) 11: INT. MARTIAN DELEGATE'S REST ROOM (JO waits impatiently. After a moment, IZLYR enters followed by SSORG who shuts the door.) JO: (Curtly.) Well? IZLYR: You left the meeting in anger? JO: Not much else I could do once you lot had ganged up to leave the Doctor stranded. IZLYR: We have not, as you say, "ganged up". Arcturus is a coward by logic, and Centauri is a coward by instinct. But they will not leave the Doctor stranded. JO: And why the sudden change? IZLYR: Because federation law allows only unanimous decisions...and I voted to stay. JO: (Puzzled.) You? Why would you do that? IZLYR: You remember when the statue fell? The Doctor saved my life. Now I intend to save his. JO: You really mean it? 12: INT. PASSAGE (Out in the passage, a listening device has been attached to the door which extends from ARCTURUS' casing. The delegate is listening to every word said in the room...) JO: (OOV: Inside room.) You'll help me save the Doctor? IZLYR: (OOV: Inside room.) Yes, it is essential that the Doctor escapes. JO: (OOV: Inside room.) You go and get the Doctor, and meet me at the tunnel. He'll show you where it is. All right? IZLYR: (OOV: Inside room.) Right. (ARCTURUS glides away. A moment later, the door opens and the three come out. JO goes in one direction and IZLYR and SSORG in another.) IZLYR: Come, Ssorg. 13: INT. ANOTHER PASSAGE (The DOCTOR reaches the tapestry behind which is the entrance by which he and JO entered the citadel. He looks round to make sure that he is not observed, pulls the curtain aside and lowers the torch bracket to open the secret door. He walks through.) 14: INT. TUNNEL (Once through, he lowers another torch bracket to close the secret door.) 15: INT. ROOM (HEPESH is with a bearded GUARD CAPTAIN.) HEPESH: Gather all our men, captain. Search the catacombs and the dungeons, and remember - the alien is dangerous. If he resists, k*ll him. GUARD CAPTAIN: My lord. (The CAPTAIN walks off to carry out the order.) 16: INT. TUNNEL (The DOCTOR makes his way through the tunnels, following the map. Suddenly there is a roar and AGGEDOR starts to lumber out of the darkness. The DOCTOR stops and takes the mirror device out of his pocket.) DOCTOR: Yes, I rather hoped I'd meet up with you, old chap. (He starts it spinning and walks forward.) 17: INT. ANOTHER PASSAGE (JO walks up to the same tapestry-covered entrance to the tunnels that the DOCTOR used. She repeats his movements and goes through the secret entrance.) 18: INT. ROOM (GRUN is now with HEPESH.) HEPESH: Our ally has plotted well, Grun. Whatever the Doctor does now, he'll be discredited. (GRUN looks almost as if he is sulking.) HEPESH: Oh, I know you wanted to k*ll him yourself, fulfil your oath as King's champion, but never fear. He is moving into ever greater danger. I promise you - the King's honour will be maintained. Trust me. (GRUN looks with some suspicion at HEPESH.) 19: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE DOCTOR'S ROOM (IZLYR and SSORG walk up the passage to the DOCTOR'S room. They see the open door.) 20: INT. DOCTOR'S ROOM (They look in through the door with suspicion and see that the room is unoccupied. IZLYR looks at SSORG and then they both enter.) IZLYR: It seems that the Doctor has escaped without our help. SSORG: Or he has been eliminated. IZLYR: If that is so, Hepesh and this planet will have much to answer for! (Angered, he stalks out of the room with SSORG following.) 21: INT. TUNNEL (Sat on a rock, the DOCTOR holds the mirror directly in front of AGGEDOR'S eyes. The monster crouches and roars but makes no move to strike. As the DOCTOR gently moves the mirror to and fro, AGGEDOR'S head movements follow it. The DOCTOR sings an alien song to a haunting melody.) DOCTOR: "Klokleda Partha Mennin Klatch, Haroon Haroon Haroon!" (AGGEDOR'S roars have reduced to a gentle growl.) DOCTOR: "Klokleda Shina Tierra Natch, Haroon Haroon Haroon." (The mirror is slowing down its spin. The DOCTOR flicks it back into full speed and carries on with his "song"...) DOCTOR: "Haroon, Haroon, Har-oon, Haroon, Haroon, Haroon." (He lowers his pitch, letting the refrain die away quietly...) DOCTOR: "Haroon, Haroon, Har-oon, Haroon, Haroon, Haroon! Haroonnnn..." (He lowers the mirror. AGGEDOR gently rocks on the spot.) DOCTOR: Well, I must say, you seem quite partial to old Venusian lullabies, don't you, Aggedor, old chap, mm? Right, let's see how friendly you really are. (He raises a hand to AGGEDOR'S head...) DOCTOR: Right, take it easy. (...and gently rubs the scalp. AGGEDOR'S growls start to increase.) DOCTOR: There, that's it. There's a good chap. (AGGEDOR suddenly roars and rears upwards.) DOCTOR: Oh, sorry! Not quite under! (He sets the mirror spinning once more and starts to sing again.) DOCTOR: "Klokleda Partha Mennin Klatch, Haroon Haroon Haroon! Klok..." 22: INT. ANOTHER TUNNEL (Hearing the roars ahead, JO pulls a flaming torch from its bracket and runs on.) 23: INT. TUNNEL (AGGEDOR is quiet again...) DOCTOR: "...Tierra Natch, Haroon Haran Haroon." (Torch in hand, JO comes running out of the darkness.) JO: (Shouts.) Hang on, Doctor! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) No, Jo, keep back! JO: (Shouts.) I'll scare him off! (The DOCTOR jumps to his feet as JO starts to thrust the torch at AGGEDOR who runs off from the f*re roaring. JO gives chase.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Jo, keep back! JO: (Shouts.) Get back! Go on! Back! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Jo! (Her mission accomplished, JO comes back.) JO: Are you all right? DOCTOR: Oh, Jo, you idiot! (He sits back down in disappointment.) DOCTOR: I'd just started to get through to him. JO: (Puzzled.) How? DOCTOR: By a kind of technical hypnosis. JO: You weren't...talking to him? (She sits next to the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: No, not exactly, merely...merely empathy. (He sets the mirror spinning to demonstrate. JO, staring over his shoulder, is immediately drawn to its effect.) JO: Empathy? DOCTOR: Yes, it's a kind of telepathic understanding, Jo. (He gets no answer.) DOCTOR: Jo? (He looks at the girl and sees that she is looking at the mirror in a wide-eyed trance.) DOCTOR: Oh, good grief! (He snaps his fingers in front of her face.) DOCTOR: Jo, snap out of it! (JO jumps to her feet, her hand to her head.) JO: What? What happened? DOCTOR: Well, you just ruined a very promising experiment - that's what happened. JO: (Sorrowfully.) I'm sorry. I thought you were going to be k*lled. I only wanted to help you. DOCTOR: (Smiles.) Yes. (He gets up and speaks gently.) DOCTOR: Yes, of course you did. And very brave you were too. Come on. Let's see if we can find King Peladon. (His arm round her shoulder, he leads her away.) 24: INT. THRONE ROOM (IZLYR and SSORG have an audience with the King. GRUN, HEPESH and the GUARD CAPTAIN are also there. IZLYR demands some answers...) IZLYR: Where is the Doctor? And where is the Princess? (PELADON glances at HEPESH and licks his lips nervously.) PELADON: It seems they have escaped. HEPESH: A coward admitting his guilt. His life is forfeit. He will be hunted and k*lled like an animal! (Suddenly...) DOCTOR: I'm sorry to disappoint you, Hepesh. (The DOCTOR and JO stand in the doorway. All turn to look at them.) HEPESH: Guard! (The GUARD CAPTAIN gestures and the two guards at the door cross their pikestaffs in front of the two newcomers.) PELADON: Wait! (The pikestaffs are pulled back. The DOCTOR and JO step forward and bow.) DOCTOR: Your Majesty. I bring you a message...from Aggedor. HEPESH: (Furiously.) He commits ever greater sacrilege! No one sees Aggedor and lives! DOCTOR: Well we just did. And I must say, he's quite pleasant company...for an animal. He didn't even seem to mind when I scratched him behind the ears! HEPESH: (Furiously.) He defiles everything that is sacred. He must be silenced! IZLYR: Let us hear what he has to say. HEPESH: No! PELADON: (Snaps.) We shall hear him, Hepesh. (Gently.) Doctor? DOCTOR: Aggedor is no spirit, your Majesty, but a truly noble beast. But his power is being used falsely, however, to prevent any chance that you may have of entering the galactic federation. (HEPESH stalks down the steps of the throne and up to the DOCTOR.) HEPESH: You lie! The spirit of Aggedor will take his revenge! His manifestation is holy! DOCTOR: Rubbish! His manifestation, as you call it, is solid, hairy, fact! JO: It's true, it's no ghost. I've seen it as well. HEPESH: Then produce this creature, if you can. DOCTOR: He lives in the tunnels beneath the city, sir. PELADON: Tunnels? You spoke of them before, Doctor, yet I know nothing of them. (As the King is speaking, a desperate HEPESH runs up to him and speaks over him...) HEPESH: There are no tunnels, your Majesty. DOCTOR: The entrance is hidden, your Majesty. IZLYR: Then we must organise a search. HEPESH: No! This is merely a device to...to postpone the trial by combat. DOCTOR: Once I have proved what Aggedor really is, the trial by combat, sir, will hardly become necessary. HEPESH: So you want us to spend a lifetime searching for these mythical tunnels. A coward's devious excuse. Take him to the pit. JO: No! (She rushes to the throne.) HEPESH: Let him face his challenge. JO: Peladon?! You can't! (The King looks torn.) HEPESH: Peladon! (PELADON gives in and nods to HEPESH.) HEPESH: Take him away. (PELADON is unable to look JO in the eyes. She drops her head as the GUARD CAPTAIN escorts the DOCTOR from the room.) 25: INT. PIT (PELADON, JO and the delegates come onto a balcony that looks onto the darkened pit. SSORG carries his sonic g*n. The pit itself is beneath them and is surrounded on all sides by a net of ropes that stretch high up to the ceiling. The spectators on the balcony look upwards and watch as the DOCTOR and GRUN shimmy down on two ropes onto the sand covered floor of the pit. Once there, they each pick up a pikestaff which rest on a large log in the middle of the pit and bow to the royal box. PELADON salutes them and bows his head back. He then takes his seat. The DOCTOR and GRUN nod to each other and then the two ropes by which the combatants accessed the pit are raised. The DOCTOR is distracted by this action and GRUN takes the opportunity to charge him. The DOCTOR parries the blow and manages to get several of his own back with GRUN successfully blocks. The two men trade thrusts and swings of their pikestaffs, both the end with the blade and the handle. GRUN rushes at the DOCTOR who steps to one side and GRUN falls against the rope net. JO looks pleased at this. GRUN is quickly on his feet and rushes at the DOCTOR who almost manages to trip his opponent once more. A series of vicious blows send the DOCTOR tripping backwards and lying back on the log. He manages to dodge out of the way just before GRUN crashes down his pikestaff. Unfortunately he gets his staff stuck in the log and the DOCTOR approaches him, his own staff raised. GRUN backs up against the nets as, up on the balcony, the GUARD CAPTAIN silently unsheathes his sword. GRUN edges round the pit, the DOCTOR in careful pursuit. From up above, HEPESH calls down...) HEPESH: Grun! (...and drops the CAPTAIN'S sword into the pit. GRUN catches it and, with muted cries, starts to swing it at the DOCTOR. After several attempts, he succeeds in chopping the blade of the DOCTOR'S pikestaff off and then cuts at the handle that the DOCTOR holds up as his only w*apon. With several blows, he cuts the handle to pieces and then succeeds in knocking what remains from the DOCTOR'S hands. As an agonised JO watches, GRUN chases the DOCTOR round the pit, swinging his sword as he goes. The DOCTOR manages to avoid several thrusts of the sword and then is able to grab GRUN by the arm and round the neck, pulling him to the ground. He bangs GRUN'S hand against the log until the champion drops the sword. The two men are then in unarmed combat as they wrestle in the sand on the floor. GRUN manages to throw the DOCTOR and then rushes at him but the DOCTOR is able to throw the large man himself. GRUN rushes back at the DOCTOR. They grapple on the ground again and GRUN manages to pick the DOCTOR up and throw him onto the ropes, trapping the DOCTOR'S ankle in the net. In an astonishing show of strength, GRUN picks up the log and is about to throw it at the DOCTOR who manages to dislodge his foot and jump out of the way. GRUN launches himself at the DOCTOR who once again dodges and the larger man is on the floor. Quickly on his feet, the two men circle each other whilst up on the balcony, the skull-like head of ARCTURUS twists to look at HEPESH. Down below, the DOCTOR drops to one knee, as if hurt and GRUN, smiling, runs at him. It is a ruse and the DOCTOR is able to pull GRUN down by his leg, lift him over to the ropes and thrust his head into the net. The DOCTOR pulls the net taught, trapping and choking the man. PELADON stands whilst down below, the DOCTOR steps back and looks down at his defeated opponent.) DOCTOR: All right, live, Grun. I would not k*ll the King's champion. (The DOCTOR looks up to the balcony where PELADON holds up a hand to show that the fight is finished. Others have different ideas however and from his casing, ARCTURUS' w*apon emerges. ALPHA CENTAURI screams and PELADON and the DOCTOR both look round sharply to see what is wrong. SSORG fires his sonic g*n...)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "09x07 - The Curse of Peladon - part 3"}
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THE CURSE OF PELADON BY: BRIAN HAYLES EPISODE FOUR Original Air Date: 19 February, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. PIT (ALPHA CENTAURI screams and PELADON and the DOCTOR both look round sharply to see what is wrong. SSORG fires his sonic g*n and ARCTURUS explodes. JO and PELADON look at what remains of the twitching skull-like creature underneath the shattered globe. HEPESH and the GUARD CAPTAIN exchange a hurried glance at each other and quietly move away. JO, looking at the destroyed alien, realises what this means...) JO: So, Arcturus was behind everything. 2: INT. THRONE ROOM (The DOCTOR, JO, PELADON, GRUN and the remaining delegates have returned to the citadel where the DOCTOR takes up the story...) DOCTOR: Arcturus and Hepesh. PELADON: But what about the att*ck on Arcturus? DOCTOR: Faked, your Majesty. He told Hepesh what to do. IZLYR: That is what I suspected. JO: And the things I found on the balcony and in Izlyr's room? DOCTOR: Planted by Hepesh...or one of his agents. (The DOCTOR glances at GRUN who lowers his eyes, almost in shame. PELADON doesn't notice this.) PELADON: (To the DOCTOR.) An...and the manifestation of Aggedor? DOCTOR: Well, that's simple, your Majesty. Hepesh found that on a high mountain a few still existed. So he captured one, trained it and kept it hidden in the tunnels beneath the citadel. Ready to pop out whenever he needed a bit of haunting. PELADON: (Astounded.) But why did he do all this? What did he hope to gain? DOCTOR: The entire planet of Peladon - or effective control of it, which comes to the same thing. PELADON: And Arcturus? IZLYR: His planet lacks mineral deposits. Peladon has them, in abundance. DOCTOR: That's why he wanted to make sure that Peladon did not enter the galactic federation. You see, he'd already made a private secret alliance with Hepesh. ALPHA CENTAURI: (Satisfied.) Extremely unethical! Fortunately the scheme has been foiled so all is well. DOCTOR: Ah, but is it? JO: (Puzzled.) Yes, Arcturus is d*ad. DOCTOR: But Hepesh is still very much alive! 3: INT. TUNNEL (HEPESH makes his way through one of the tunnels underneath the citadel...) 4: INT. THRONE ROOM DOCTOR: You see, Hepesh believed everything that Arcturus told him. He still does. He firmly believes that entering the galactic federation would mean sl*very and he'd go to any lengths to stop you joining. JO: But what can he do? (He nods towards IZLYR.) DOCTOR: Accuse the Ice Warriors of m*rder Arcturus. IZLYR: Yes, Mars and the world of Arcturus are old enemies. (Hisses.) That would mean w*r! DOCTOR: Exactly. And then all the rest of the galactic federation would take sides... ALPHA CENTAURI: (Aghast.) The federation will be ripped! There will be interplanetary conflict! DOCTOR: And Peladon would become the first b*ttlefield. (He looks at the King.) DOCTOR: Blasted and sterile. (PELADON looks dumbfounded. He walks up the steps of the throne, deep in thought. Finally, he turns and faces the DOCTOR.) PELADON: What shall I do, Doctor? DOCTOR: Replace Hepesh with someone you can trust, your Majesty - now! 5: INT. TUNNEL (The GUARD CAPTAIN comes from another direction in the tunnels and up to the High Priest.) HEPESH: Captain. GUARD CAPTAIN: My lord. (He salutes HEPESH.) 6: INT. THRONE ROOM PELADON: The shame will destroy him. DOCTOR: (Softly.) It's not easy to be a king, Peladon. But unless you replace Hepesh, he will destroy everything that you have worked for. (The King falls deep into thought again. GRUN nods at the DOCTOR and to one side to indicate that he wants to show him something. The DOCTOR sees the gesture but gives no sign of having done so.) DOCTOR: (To PELADON.) Well, sire? PELADON: There could be civil w*r. Will the federation back me? (CENTAURI twitches away as behind them all, GRUN starts to slip quietly out of the room.) ALPHA CENTAURI: The galactic charter does not permit our involvement in internal politics. (IZLYR steps forward and to one side of CENTAURI.) IZLYR: A unanimous decision could call on emergency powers. (JO steps forward to the other side and CENTAURI'S large head swings to look at her.) JO: The circumstances are unusual, you know, and your own safety is involved. ALPHA CENTAURI: But it would be a break with all precedent. (To IZLYR, self-importantly.) I can't persuade myself that interference of this kind is justified. DOCTOR: (Sharply.) Then I think we ought to try and persuade you. (To PELADON.) Your Majesty, will you excuse us? We have the need of a private conference for the benefit of Alpha Centauri. (CENTAURI twitches nervously.) PELADON: Very well. I shall consider all you have said...and if you can assure me of your support, then I shall act. (They all bow, prior to taking their leave.) 7: INT. PASSAGE (GRUN, checking to see that he is not watched, approaches the tapestry covered entrance to the tunnels, pulls the torch bracket down and goes through the door. A second later, he returns and places a large rock in the door on the floor. He then replaces the bracket and heads into the tunnel.) 8: INT. ANOTHER PASSAGE (ALPHA CENTAURI, IZLYR and SSORG make their way to the delegate's conference room. CENTAURI is at its bureaucratic worst...) ALPHA CENTAURI: Mind you, I reserve my legal right of veto. IZLYR: We will discuss the matter fully, I assure you. ALPHA CENTAURI: It would be different if there were precedents for such a situation - but there aren't. We must consider all possibilities. We must not be rash! 9: INT. PASSAGE (The DOCTOR and JO make their way down another of the torch-lit passages.) DOCTOR: Jo, do you realise how dangerous and complex this situation has become? Hepesh could still bring Peladon to his way of thinking, you know. If that happens, he'll have won without a fight. JO: But he can't just ju...accuse the Ice Warriors of m*rder. There were witnesses. Ssorg had to sh**t him to save your life. DOCTOR: Jo, you seem to be forgetting something else - officially we don't even exist. We're just a couple of imposters. (They move off. Soon they come to the tunnel-entrance and the rock placed by GRUN. As JO carries on talking the DOCTOR looks down at the rock and realises its significance.) JO: You playing the grand ambassador and Centauri upstaging everybody and Peladon acting like a wet fish, I think it's about time that... (JO stops talking as the DOCTOR gestures at the rock.) DOCTOR: Yeah, so that's why Grun was beckoning at me like that. JO: Hmm? DOCTOR: Jo, I want you to go ahead and take charge of the conference. Work on Centauri. Once you've got a unanimous decision - act. JO: Well, what are you going to do? DOCTOR: I'm going to see a man about an open door. Off you go. JO: (Sighs.) All right, if you say so. (JO moves off. The DOCTOR looks round and then picks up the rock. He carries it through the tapestry covered door into the tunnel...) 10: INT. TUNNEL (...where he places it on the floor. He then manipulates the torch bracket to close the door back into the citadel and moves off into the tunnels.) 11: INT. ANOTHER TUNNEL (In another part of the tunnels, the GUARD CAPTAIN reports back to HEPESH.) HEPESH: Is everything ready for the att*ck, captain? GUARD CAPTAIN: The men are armed and ready, sir. HEPESH: Good. Now remember, I want no harm to come to the king. He's to be taken prisoner and kept in safe custody. (As he is speaking, GRUN approaches from behind and taps him on the shoulder.) HEPESH: What Grun? (GRUN gestures to HEPESH to follow him.) HEPESH: You want me to go with you? (GRUN makes a guttural noise of agreement.) HEPESH: No Grun, I've things to do. (To the CAPTAIN.) Now, captain, as soon as we arrive at the chamber... (GRUN pulls HEPESH round by the shoulder and gestures again. A note of impatience enters HEPESH'S voice.) HEPESH: Grun, in the past you have served me well. I shall not forget. But for the moment, leave me! (To the CAPTAIN.) Now... (GRUN grabs HEPESH round the waist and bodily lifts him off the ground, carrying him away.) HEPESH: Guard! Guard! (A guard runs forward. GRUN drops the priest and stands his ground before the guard who starts to deliver several blows to the stomach of the king's champion. GRUN takes each blow as if it is a gentle swat and then lifts the guard off the ground, throwing him to one side. The GUARD CAPTAIN has unsheathed his sword and warily approaches GRUN who backs off slowly, not seeing that HEPESH is approaching from behind, a rock raised above him. HEPESH brings the rock crashing down on GRUN'S head and the champion falls to the ground, unconscious.) HEPESH: Come captain - it is time! (HEPESH strides off and the GUARD CAPTAIN and his men follow, stepping over GRUN as they go.) 12: INT. DELEGATE'S CONFERENCE ROOM (IZLYR and SSORG stand either side of ALPHA CENTAURI as JO chairs the meeting.) IZLYR: The verdict of the committee of assessment - the motion is that we urge the federation to support King Peladon in bringing peace to this...troubled planet. JO: Those in favour? (She raises her own hand. IZLYR and SSORG do the same and stare meaningfully at CENTAURI who looks from one to the other...and then raises three reluctant arms.) IZLYR: Carried unanimously. JO: Thank you. Alpha Centauri, you've made a very wise decision. ALPHA CENTAURI: I trust so, your Highness. For the record, my agreement is registered under protest. I accept no responsibility. IZLYR: We must inform the federation. (CENTAURI'S voice raises a pitch...) ALPHA CENTAURI: With all this fuss, I forgot to mention it! This morning, I found my communicator broken! IZLYR: Then we must use mine. Ssorg, the communicator. (He waves an arm and SSORG moves off.) IZLYR: We must contact our spaceships. JO: Definitely. (She suddenly looks puzzled.) JO: Spaceships? IZLYR: I take it your spaceship, like ours, is orbiting this planet? JO: Oh, er, yes! Yes, of course... IZLYR: You seem...disturbed, Princess? JO: No, not in the slightest. IZLYR: I take it there is no doubt that the Earth government will ratify your decision - in view of the special circumstances? JO: Circumstances? Well, I'm not quite sure - what circumstances? IZLYR: Your forthcoming marriage with King Peladon. (JO'S jaw drops.) 13: INT. PASSAGE (HEPESH moves aside the curtain and, seeing that the passage is clear, moves through into the citadel. The CAPTAIN and the guards follow.) 14: INT. MARTIAN DELEGATE'S REST ROOM (SSORG enters the Ice Warrior's room. He closes the lid of the metallic chest and sees the communicator unit on the other side of it - smashed to pieces. He hisses and walks back out of the room.) 15: INT. TUNNEL (The DOCTOR moves slowly through the tunnel. As he rounds a corner, he sees GRUN starting to recover on the ground.) DOCTOR: Grun! (He runs up to help him.) DOCTOR: Grun, what happened? Who att*cked you? (GRUN starts to moan.) DOCTOR: Who? (GRUN traces a letter "H" in the sand on the tunnel floor.) DOCTOR: "H" ...what, Hepesh? (GRUN nods and points to the still-unconscious soldier on the floor.) DOCTOR: And a soldier? (GRUN nods.) DOCTOR: How many soldiers? (GRUN counts five, ten, fifteen with his hand.) DOCTOR: Many? (GRUN nods.) DOCTOR: If he takes charge of the citadel, we...we don't stand much chance. (Suddenly, he hears the roar of AGGEDOR in the distance.) DOCTOR: Perhaps we do. Come on. (He starts to run towards the sound but sees that GRUN is holding back.) DOCTOR: You're not frightened, are you? A big chap like you? (GRUN nods and moans.) DOCTOR: Well don't be. You come with me, come on. (The DOCTOR grabs his arm and pulls him further into the tunnels.) 16: INT. DELEGATE'S CONFERENCE ROOM (JO is non-too pleased at the inference of the delegates.) JO: Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but a marriage has not been arranged. To coin a phrase - we're just good friends! ALPHA CENTAURI: (Sadly.) But it would have made a magnificent coronation! JO: Before we have a coronation, we have to have a king. Are you going to help me or not? ALPHA CENTAURI: Well... (SSORG enters the room.) SSORG: Lord Izlyr, the link with our spaceship has been deliberately destroyed. ALPHA CENTAURI: Yours too? IZLYR: (To JO.) Then we must make use of yours, Princess. JO: Well, don't look at me. Ours was...damaged when we crash-landed. ALPHA CENTAURI: (Wails.) We're completely cut off! JO: Hepesh? IZLYR: Yes - Hepesh. 17: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE THRONE ROOM (Two guards stand outside the closed doors to the throne room. Up above, on the empty balcony, two more guards move silently into position, ready to pounce. Further down the passage, HEPESH, the GUARD CAPTAIN and the other guards quietly creep along. HEPESH gestures to the CAPTAIN who walks forward and past the guards on the door.) GUARD CAPTAIN: Men, fall in. (The guards step out to follow - and find themselves directly under the other two guards on the balcony. They jump down onto their backs and pound them with their fists. HEPESH and the other guards walk round the corner.) HEPESH: Remember, captain, no harm must befall the king. Proceed. 18: INT. DELEGATE'S CONFERENCE ROOM (In the background, ALPHA CENTAURI twitches and screeches hysterically at an impassive SSORG as JO and IZLYR try to discuss their next moves...) ALPHA CENTAURI: (To SSORG, hysterically.) What will happen?! What will we do?! JO: (To IZLYR.) Yes, but I'm sure the Doctor would know what to do. ALPHA CENTAURI: (To SSORG, hysterically.) I'm a civil servant, not a scientist! IZLYR: (To JO.) Yes, but where is he? ALPHA CENTAURI: (To SSORG, hysterically.) There's no escape! JO: (To IZLYR.) Well, I don't know. (IZLYR glances over at CENTAURI.) ALPHA CENTAURI: (To SSORG, hysterically.) Without our communicators, we cannot return to our spacecraft! I knew something like this would happen! IZLYR: (To JO.) Arcturus was an unattractive person, Princess... ALPHA CENTAURI: (To SSORG, hysterically.) We're all going to be k*lled! How are we to escape?! From this barbarous planet?! IZLYR: (To JO.)...but I think I preferred his cold logic... ALPHA CENTAURI: (To SSORG, hysterically.) We should never have come here at all! It was madness! IZLYR: (To JO.)...to the hysteria of Centauri. ALPHA CENTAURI: (To SSORG, hysterically.) I thought so all the time! Now there's no escape! JO: (Sighs.) Centauri, stop it. (CENTAURI doesn't hear and continues...) ALPHA CENTAURI: (To SSORG, hysterically.) We shall all be k*lled! IZLYR: Centauri... ALPHA CENTAURI: (To SSORG, hysterically.) I tell you, we will be k*lled! What are we going to do?! JO: (Louder.) Centauri, stop it! (CENTAURI hears this time and turns round to JO.) JO: Nothing has happened yet. We're quite safe here. IZLYR: They would not dare to att*ck federation delegates. ALPHA CENTAURI: But... 19: INT. THRONE ROOM (With a cry, the doors to the throne room burst open and the guards loyal to HEPESH burst in and engage in a furious sword fight with those guards still loyal to the king. PELADON himself stands in shock and the GUARD CAPTAIN quickly runs forward and holds a sword to his throat. They then watch as guards engage in hand to hand combat with swords and pikestaffs. The room is filled with the cries of the dying as swords are thrust into their bellies. Then...) GUARD CAPTAIN: (Shouts.) Surrender, or the King will die! (The room falls silent. The king's guards surrender and are led away. HEPESH enters the room and walks up to the throne. He and PELADON stand in contemplative silence for a moment.) PELADON: (Sadly and quietly.) Oh, Hepesh. I thought you would bring me the crown of kingship. Are you going to bring me death instead? HEPESH: You have become a stranger to me, Peladon. Return to the ancient ways of our people, and you will live on, our beloved king. If not, the royal line of Peladon must meet an ignoble end. (PELADON realises what HEPESH'S words mean...) 20: INT. TUNNEL (The DOCTOR and GRUN on further into the tunnel. They hear another roar from AGGEDOR. GRUN looks terrified.) DOCTOR: Grun, you're a brave warrior. What you're going to see now may amaze you, but just you trust me. (The DOCTOR takes the mirror device out of his top pocket. Ahead, AGGEDOR tuns and lumbers up to them, roaring. The DOCTOR starts to mirror spinning.) DOCTOR: All right, old chap. You remember me, don't you? You remember me... (Sings.) "Klokleda Partha Mennin Klatch, Haroon Haroon Haroon!" (GRUN hangs back, his face filled with fear as AGGEDOR falls under the hypnotic influence again.) DOCTOR: (Sings.) Klokleda Shina Tierra Natch, Haroon Haroon Haroon." 21: INT. PASSAGE (Someone knocks on the door to the delegate's conference room.) 22: INT. DELEGATE'S CONFERENCE ROOM (Inside, SSORG has his sonic r*fle raised. IZLYR gestures to JO and CENTAURI to stand back and they do so.) IZLYR: enter. (The door opens and HEPESH enters.) IZLYR: Ssorg will destroy you if you try to harm us. HEPESH: I am unarmed and alone. (He turns to JO.) HEPESH: Where is the Doctor? JO: (Defiantly.) I don't know. HEPESH: He will not escape capture for long. IZLYR: What do you want? HEPESH: You will all accompany me to the throne room. JO: Why? HEPESH: My men hold King Peladon prisoner. If I do not return will all of you immediately, he will die! Follow me. (He strides off. JO looks concerned.) 23: INT. TUNNEL (AGGEDOR is crouched down, almost asleep under the hypnotic effect. GRUN is still terrified.) DOCTOR: (Sings.) "Haroon, Haroon, Har-oon, Haroon, Harun, Haroon." (He lowers his pitch, letting the refrain die away quietly...) DOCTOR: "Haroon, Harun, Har-oon, Haroon, Harun, Haroon! Haroonnn... Harunn..." (He stops singing.) DOCTOR: There you are, Grun. Yes, he's quite under now. Not such a terrifying creature after all, is he? Right, I think it's about time that King Peladon learned the truth, don't you? (The DOCTOR takes AGGEDOR by the horn on his head and starts to lead him through the tunnel.) DOCTOR: Come on, Aggedor. Come on, old chap, that's it. Come on, Aggedor. That's it. Come on, Grun. (GRUN follows warily.) 24: INT. THRONE ROOM (The guards open the door to the throne room and HEPESH walks in. JO runs after him and stops d*ad in her tracks when she sees the PELADON, still with the GUARD CAPTAIN'S sword at his throat. The other delegates follow.) HEPESH: You see? I did not lie. JO: What are you going to do to him? HEPESH: Nothing if the delegates cooperate. IZLYR: (Angrily.) You will answer to federation justice for this! HEPESH: The federation has no jurisdiction over me or over this planet. It is you who will answer for your interference! ALPHA CENTAURI: You are holding us here by force! You will answer for that! HEPESH: I am not holding you. I do not want you either as guests or as hostages. I know the retribution this planet would suffer if anything happened to any of you. Therefore go in peace. Tell you masters, Peladon wants nothing of their federation - but go now! (There is a cry from the doorway.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Who dares challenge Peladon?! (They all spin round and see the DOCTOR stood in the half-closed doorway.) JO: Doctor! DOCTOR: Kneel and pay homage to his sacred guardian! Kneel! (The DOCTOR opens the doors fully and AGGEDOR shuffles in. There is a cry from all in the room.) PELADON: Hepesh! He is real! ALPHA CENTAURI: The beast! (AGGEDOR rears up but remains still, quietly growling.) HEPESH: (Shouts.) Do not listen to the alien! I am your High Priest! DOCTOR: I speak for Aggedor, and I accuse you, Hepesh, of being not only a traitor to your king, but also to your sacred trust! HEPESH: Do not listen to the alien! This is not Aggedor's spirit! I will show you... (He runs across the room and pulls a flaming torch from its bracket.) HEPESH: ...the reality of this creature! I am his master! When I speak he obeys! (He waves the torch in front of AGGEDOR.) HEPESH: Aggedor! Aggedor! k*ll him! (He gestures at the DOCTOR. AGGEDOR growls and swings to look at the DOCTOR. It then swings back and with a swing of one huge paw, swipes the torch from HEPESH'S hand. He knocks the priest to the ground. HEPESH cries out in pain as AGGEDOR roars and CENTAURI screams. The DOCTOR runs forward with the mirror device and backs AGGEDOR out of the room, the creature roaring as it goes. HEPESH lies wounded on the ground. PELADON runs to him with a genuine cry of grief.) PELADON: Hepesh! (He takes HEPESH in his arms. The old man's voice is weak.) HEPESH: I wanted...to save...our world. To preserve...the old ways. Perhaps I was...wrong, Peladon. I hope so...the future...you set so much store by...is yours now. (His head falls. PELADON starts to sob and JO comes forward, putting an arm round his shoulders to comfort him.) JO: Peladon, they're waiting for you. (PELADON recovers himself, picks up a piece of purple cloth and puts it over HEPESH'S face. His face contorts with emotion. Having secured AGGEDOR, the DOCTOR enters the room. One look at the covered body tells him what has happened. He looks at JO who gently shakes her head. The DOCTOR then addresses the GUARD CAPTAIN.) DOCTOR: Tell your men to lay down their arms. Your leader is d*ad. (The GUARD CAPTAIN gestures to his men who all drop their swords and kneel. The CAPTAIN does the same but offers his sword to PELADON.) GUARD CAPTAIN: Your Majesty. (PELADON takes the sword and the CAPTAIN presents his neck.) PELADON: There will be no punishments. The memory of this unhappy day shall be wiped from our history. (The CAPTAIN looks up, amazed at the pardon.) GUARD CAPTAIN: Your Majesty. (PELADON looks down sadly at HEPESH'S corpse.) 25: INT. PASSAGE (His cloak back on, the DOCTOR leads JO down the passage to the delegate's conference room.) DOCTOR: Come on, Jo. Follow me. I've got a nice surprise for you. JO: What? DOCTOR: You wait and see. (They approach the closed door.) DOCTOR: You ready? JO: Yes. DOCTOR: All right then. 26: INT. DELEGATE'S CONFERENCE ROOM (The DOCTOR opens the doors.) DOCTOR: Right, take a look at this. (Inside is a familiar object. JO runs in excitedly.) JO: The TARDIS! Wow! DOCTOR: Some of Peladon's stout lads heaved here up the mountainside for us. JO: Is she all right? DOCTOR: Yes, never better. (The DOCTOR pats the TARDIS on the side.) DOCTOR: I told you the TARDIS was indestructible. JO: Well, I hope it gets us back to Earth this time. DOCTOR: Mmm, so do I, Jo. So do I. (The DOCTOR walks across the room, deep in thought.) JO: Is there any doubt? DOCTOR: You don't really think that our appearance on the planet of Peladon at this precise crisis in their history was just coincidence, do you? JO: The Time Lords again. DOCTOR: Yes, I think so. JO: Ah, you didn't b*at them after all. DOCTOR: No, not yet, but I will, Jo. Just give me time. Still, now we've done what they wanted us to do, I suppose they'll whip us straight back to Earth. (The sound of an excited crowd reaches them from far off.) JO: At least we get to see a real coronation before we go, eh? DOCTOR: Yeah, that's true. You know, I haven't seen a coronation since Elizabeth the first's...or was it Queen Victoria? JO: Name dropper! (A fur covered shape lumbers into the room on all fours. JO jumps back.) JO: Oh! DOCTOR: Don't worry. It's only Aggedor. JO: Phew! DOCTOR: The trouble is he seems to have grown rather fond of me! (JO laughs as AGGEDOR shuffles up to the DOCTOR like a pet dog.) DOCTOR: He keeps following me about. Hello, Aggedor. JO: Hello. DOCTOR: There's a good chap. (He gives AGGEDOR a friendly scratch. AGGEDOR responds with an attempted bear-hug!) DOCTOR: All right, down Aggedor, down boy, down! (He pushes AGGEDOR back down.) DOCTOR: I think I'd better go and lock him up! JO: Yes, please. DOCTOR: Come on. Come on, Aggedor. (He starts to lead AGGEDOR out of the room as PELADON enters in ceremonial cloak and collar. The DOCTOR pauses to give a short bow.) DOCTOR: Your Majesty. (He gestures to JO and leads the royal beast out of the room.) DOCTOR: Easy, Aggedor. That's it. Come on, this way. (PELADON approaches JO.) JO: Hello. Oughtn't you to be getting ready for the big occasion? PELADON: I wanted to see you first - to ask you to stay. JO: But I can't. PELADON: Why can't you? JO: (Torn.) Don't ask me for reasons. You wouldn't believe them. PELADON: I need you. JO: But you don't understand. I'm not even a real Princess. (PELADON smiles and speaks as if he knew this all the time.) PELADON: That doesn't matter! JO: (Sadly.) Oh, Peladon, I'm very, very fond of you, but I can't stay - really. PELADON: Well look, I must go now. I'll talk to you again after the coronation. I shan't give up, you know? I shall go on asking. (JO kisses him and they hold hands as the DOCTOR enters the room.) DOCTOR: Your Majesty. (He sees that he has interrupted a moment.) DOCTOR: Oh, excuse me, but your court officials are in a state of considerable panic. PELADON: Oh, yes, of course. I must go. (To JO.) Your Highness? JO: (Smiles.) Goodbye. (PELADON walks out, nodding to the DOCTOR as he goes.) PELADON: Doctor. (The DOCTOR turns to JO smiling.) DOCTOR: Right, we'll just see the ceremony and slip quietly away, all right? (JO turns away from him, overcome with emotion.) JO: Yes. Fine... (The DOCTOR sees that something is wrong.) DOCTOR: Jo? You do want to come back? (JO recovers herself and turns to face him.) JO: I think I'd better, don't you? DOCTOR: Mmm hmm. (Gently.) In any case, I wouldn't like to lose you. (He tickles her chin. Outside they hear the roars of the crowd increase as the coronation procession gets under way. He offers her his arm.) DOCTOR: Should we join the procession? JO: Yes! (She takes his arm and they walk out of the room.) 27: INT. PASSAGE (In the passage outside, a woman dressed in a black suit and holding a scroll is in angry dispute with IZLYR and ALPHA CENTAURI.) AMAZONIA: I'm telling you, my good fellow. I am the official Earth delegate! ALPHA CENTAURI: But the Doctor is the accredited Earth delegate. (Unseen by them, the DOCTOR and JO round the corner and stop d*ad when they overhear the conversation.) AMAZONIA: Doctor? What Doctor? Doctor who? (The DOCTOR and JO step back round the corner and out of sight although they can still hear the conversation.) IZLYR: The Doctor and the Princess Josephine. DOCTOR: (To JO.) Pity about that. I rather wanted to see that coronation. AMAZONIA: (OOV.) Princess Josephine? Never heard of her. JO: (To the DOCTOR.) Never mind. We could always go to Queen Victoria's. IZLYR: (OOV.) Yes. ALPHA CENTAURI: (OOV.) You must have heard of Princess Josephine! DOCTOR: (To JO.) Queen Victoria's? I've already seen Queen Victoria's. JO: (To the DOCTOR.) I haven't. Let's go again! AMAZONIA: (OOV.) ... They're obviously imposters! DOCTOR: (To JO.) All right. (They rush back to the delegates room. Meanwhile, round the corner...) ALPHA CENTAURI: I do not under... AMAZONIA: Where are they now? IZLYR: I think they were in the delegate's conference room. Come! I will take you there! (They all move off towards the conference room.) 28: INT. DELEGATE'S CONFERENCE ROOM (The DOCTOR leads JO into the room and straight into the TARDIS. A moment later IZLYR leads CENTAURI, SSORG and the real Earth delegate into the room as distant bells start to chime.) AMAZONIA: Well? Where are they? (IZLYR points at the TARDIS as its dematerialisation sound roars out.) IZLYR: What is that?! (The blue police box fades away as AMAZONIA looks on in astonishment.)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "09x08 - The Curse of Peladon - part 4"}
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THE SEA DEVILS BY: MALCOLM HULKE EPISODE ONE Original Air Date: 26 February, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. SS PEVENSEY CASTLE. RADIO ROOM (NIGHT) (In the radio room of the SS Pevensey Castle, a RADIO OPERATOR grabs a chair and sits before his radio set. He wears an orange lifejacket. Outside the room, screams of terror and fear can be heard from his shipmates. He grabs the radio mike and switches on the set.) RADIO OPERATOR: (Into radio.) Mayday. Mayday. SS... 2: INT. NAVAL BASE. RADIO ROOM (NIGHT) (At the naval base, LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN is on duty and picks up the signal from his set through his headphones.) RADIO OPERATOR: (OOV: Over radio.) ...Pevensey Castle - we're being att*cked! LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: (Into radio.) Give your position, please! Give your position! (Through the doorway in the room beyond, the commander of the base - CAPTAIN HART - enters coughing having been interrupted from his sleep. He switches on the light and walks through to the radio room. He wears his uniformed greatcoat. He walks through to the radio room and joins BOWMAN.) CAPTAIN HART: What is it? LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: It's a Mayday, sir. SS Pevensey Castle - they say they're being att*cked! 3: INT. SS PEVENSEY CASTLE. RADIO ROOM (NIGHT) RADIO OPERATOR: (Into radio.) We're abandoning ship! We're abandoning ship! Our position is... (He stops as a scaly hand grabs the microphone. He jumps backwards from his chair in shock and raises his hands to his face and screams in terror...) 4: EXT. SEA (A small boat crosses a calm sea heading towards a series of small islands. The DOCTOR and JO are at in the boat. The DOCTOR is protected from the breeze by his cloak while JO is open to the elements from the white trouser suit she wears. The owner of the boat, ROBBINS, points ahead.) ROBBINS: That's it over there. (The DOCTOR holds his hand up against the sun but the black duffel-coated ROBBINS hands him a pair of binoculars. The DOCTOR looks through them and sees a Victorian gothic folly castle ahead near the shoreline. It has several turrets and a round tower. The DOCTOR hands the binoculars to JO.) DOCTOR: There you are, Jo. That's the Master's permanent residence from now on. JO: Well let's hope he's still there. 5: EXT QUAYSIDE (The little boat comes by the side of a jetty. The DOCTOR jumps out and grabs the rope which he ties to the side.) DOCTOR: Okay. (Having secured the boat, the DOCTOR and JO walk down the jetty followed by ROBBINS. At the end of the jetty a minimoke waits, driven by a man dressed in a uniform which includes a blue round necked jumper, a short black cloak and a beret. ROBBINS: I'll be back in a couple of hours to take you over to the mainland. DOCTOR: Right. (ROBBINS collects a motorcycle while the DOCTOR and JO squeeze into the minimoke. The driver starts up the vehicle and they move off.) 6: EXT. CASTLE (Within the gothic castle...) 7: INT. CASTLE. GOVERNOR'S OFFICE (...a man, past middle age, picks up a telephone in his office in his slightly shaking hands. The room is a mixture of stone-lined ancient with modern office needs,) TRENCHARD: (Into phone.) Yes? CASTLE GUARD BARCLAY: (OOV: Over phone.) Main gate. Two visitors for the prisoner, sir, from UNIT. Passes all in order, sir. TRENCHARD: (Into phone.) Right, send them up. 8: EXT. CASTLE (Having passed through the main gate, the minimoke pulls up at the castle itself and is greeted by several armed guards. One of them escorts the DOCTOR and JO inside.) 9: INT. CASTLE. GOVERNOR'S OFFICE (The slightly elderly man, TRENCHARD, is now sat at the desk, writing. The DOCTOR and JO are shown in through an arched doorway in the stone wall by the guard who waits in the room with them. JO coughs but TRENCHARD continues to write as if unaware of their presence. JO and the DOCTOR smile at each other and then he makes a pronouncement to the Governor...) DOCTOR: Well, I suppose we could always come back later! (TRENCHARD looks up.) TRENCHARD: Oh, yes, of course. (Coughs.) You'll be the chappy from UNIT. (JO walks forward and extends her hand.) JO: My name's Josephine Grant. How do you do? And this is the Doctor. (He shakes the DOCTOR'S hand.) TRENCHARD: Colonel Trenchard. Delighted to meet you. Pleasant trip? DOCTOR: Yes, thank you. TRENCHARD: You're late, you know? JO: Yes, we were held up. (He gets up with a paper in his hand and walks across to the guard.) TRENCHARD: Mmm, thought you might have sunk without trace. JO: Sunk? TRENCHARD: Happens all the time recently. DOCTOR: What does? (He hands the paper to the guard who leaves the room.) TRENCHARD: Ship's vanishing. Makes you think, doesn't it? DOCTOR: It does indeed. TRENCHARD: Now then - passes? DOCTOR: Er, well look, we've been through all that ... TRENCHARD: (Interrupts.) We don't take any chances here. Let's see them. (JO passes them to him as he returns to his desk.) TRENCHARD: Oh. Ah yes, from UNIT. DOCTOR: That's right, yes. TRENCHARD: Yes... (He looks over them.) TRENCHARD: Ah, jolly good. Well, you'll be wanting to see the prisoner? (He stamps the passes.) DOCTOR: That was the general idea. TRENCHARD: He's an interesting chap, you know. (TRENCHARD signs the passes.) TRENCHARD: You'll enjoy talking to him. DOCTOR: If ever I get the opportunity. Has he given you any trouble as yet? TRENCHARD: Not a bit. JO: You've got to be joking! He must have tried to escape? TRENCHARD: You've seen our security precautions. Anyway, we're on an island. DOCTOR: Has he tried to hypnotise any of the guards, by any chance? TRENCHARD: Not at all. All our men are completely immune to hypnotism. JO: How can you be so sure? TRENCHARD: Prove it to you. (He presses an intercom button on his desk and speaks into it.) TRENCHARD: Trenchard here. Send that new man, er, Wilson, in to see the prisoner. (He switches off the unit and gets up from his desk. He crosses the room behind the DOCTOR and JO.) TRENCHARD: Now then, come over here and take a look into this screen. (TRENCHARD switches on the screen and a venetian-blind effect monitor becomes a view on the MASTER'S room. He sits wearing a white top and trousers and wearing a cloak, He assiduously reads a book. The room is brick lined and although not luxuriously furnished, is comfortable enough.) DOCTOR: (Smiles.) My word, he's putting on weight! (JO laughs.) TRENCHARD: Poor chap, he can't get the exercise. Now then, watch. 10: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM (One of the black-cloaked guards enters the MASTER'S room.) CASTLE GUARD WILSON: Mr. Trenchard sent me, sir - to see if you wanted your book changed? MASTER: Well, that's very kind of him, but, erm, I haven't quite finished yet. CASTLE GUARD WILSON: Right you are, sir. (WILSON heads for the green metal door.) MASTER: Just a minute. (The guard stops.) MASTER: You're new here, aren't you? CASTLE GUARD WILSON: Arrived yesterday, sir. (He turns to leave again.) MASTER: Wait...do you know who I am? CASTLE GUARD WILSON: (Puzzled.) You're the prisoner. (The MASTER fixes him with his hypnotic stare...) MASTER: I am the Master...come here. (WILSON walks over to the MASTER who stands and stares intently into his eyes.) MASTER: I am the Master...you will obey me! You understand? You will obey me! (WILSON is unaffected...) CASTLE GUARD WILSON: You'll let us know when you've finished with the book, sir? (He walks out leaving a furious and frustrated MASTER behind.) 11: INT. CASTLE. GOVERNOR'S OFFICE TRENCHARD: You see? (He switches off the monitor.) DOCTOR: Yes, very impressive. Erm, perhaps we could see him now, yes? TRENCHARD: Certainly, this way. (He goes to the door and opens it. He gestures to JO.) TRENCHARD: After you, my dear. (As JO walks out, TRENCHARD pats her on the shoulder. The DOCTOR follows.) 12: INT. CASTLE. PASSAGE OUTSIDE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE (In the passage, TRENCHARD leads the way past two waiting guards.) 13: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM (The MASTER is exercising on a rowing machine.) 14: INT. CASTLE. PASSAGE OUTSIDE MASTER'S ROOM (TRENCHARD leads the way down a flight of steps and gestures to another guard for the door to the MASTER'S room to be unlocked. TRENCHARD walks in.) 15: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM (The MASTER stops rowing.) TRENCHARD: Visitors for you. (The MASTER seems genuinely pleased to see them.) MASTER: Why, Doctor! And Miss Grant! What a very pleasant surprise! (The DOCTOR smiles, slightly embarrassed.) DOCTOR: Yes, well, er, how are you? MASTER: Well, as you see, very well. Trying to keep fit. TRENCHARD: Yes, well, I'll leave you all together. Er, give the guard a shout when you want to leave. DOCTOR: Thank you, Colonel. (TRENCHARD walks out. The MASTER gets up off his rowing machine and laughs gently as he towels himself.) MASTER: He's quite a decent sort really. Used to be the Governor of a colony once, so he tells me. DOCTOR: Very small colony, wasn't it? In fact, I believe they, er, they claimed independence soon after he arrived! (The two men laugh.) JO: He seems to be looking after you very well. MASTER: Oh, yes, I've got everything I want - except of course my freedom. (The DOCTOR grows serious...) DOCTOR: You can consider yourself lucky. Quite a few people were in favour of having you ex*cuted. MASTER: My dear Doctor, don't think I'm not grateful. I've had a chance to think about things while I've been in here. DOCTOR: Have you now? MASTER: I wish that something like this had happened a long time ago. JO: Well, surely you don't like being locked up? MASTER: No, but...it's given me a chance to reconsider my life. (He goes into the next room.) DOCTOR: Am I to take it that you're a changed man? 16: INT. CASTLE. BATHROOM (The MASTER washes his hands watched by the DOCTOR and JO from the other room.) MASTER: Is that so very incredible? After all, I do have a great deal with which to repent. JO: You're telling us! DOCTOR: In that case, perhaps you'd like to tell me the whereabouts of your TARDIS? (The MASTER puts on blue dressing gown.) MASTER: So that you could use it in order to escape from this planet, Doctor? 17: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM DOCTOR: No, so that I can make absolutely certain that you can't! (The MASTER rejoins them.) MASTER: No, I'm sorry. That is too much to ask. (The atmosphere in the room sours.) DOCTOR: Ask a silly question. Come on, Jo. I think we'd better be going. (He shows JO to the door but the DOCTOR has one more question...) DOCTOR: Er, is there anything that I can do for you at all? MASTER: There is one thing - please come in now and then to have a chat. Oh, Trenchard's a very nice man, but, er, his conversation is somewhat limited. JO: (Smiles.) Goodbye. MASTER: Goodbye, Miss Grant. (She walks out.) MASTER: And goodbye, Doctor. I sincerely hope we meet again very soon. (He holds out his hand. The DOCTOR goes to shake it but thinks better and holds up his hand in a wave which the MASTER reciprocates.) DOCTOR: Goodbye. (The MASTER laughs gently as the DOCTOR walks out and the door is locked after him. The MASTER divests himself of his dressing gown and gets back on the rowing machine. Before he takes the first stroke, he laughs again, but this is no gentle friendly laugh - it is one of triumph and cunning.) 18: INT. CASTLE. GOVERNOR'S OFFICE (The DOCTOR and JO are back in the governor's office but without TRENCHARD. The DOCTOR looks pre-occupied.) JO: Doctor? DOCTOR: Mmm? JO: You felt sorry for him, didn't you? You wanted to come down here and see that was all right? DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Well, he used to be a friend of mine once. A very good friend. In fact, you might almost say we were at school together. JO: How long's he going to be here? DOCTOR: Forever, I should think. (TRENCHARD comes back in.) TRENCHARD: Ah, ready for off then? I'd better stamp your passes. DOCTOR: What - again? (JO hands them to him.) TRENCHARD: Gotta be checked in and out, old man. It's the rule. (TRENCHARD sits at his desk and starts to stamps the passes.) TRENCHARD: Well, we don't look after him too badly, do we? DOCTOR: No indeed. But I advise you to be careful. He's a very dangerous man. TRENCHARD: Ah, don't worry. I keep my eye on him. (TRENCHARD hands the passes back to JO.) TRENCHARD: There you are, my dear. Come along, now then. JO: Thank you. (TRENCHARD heads for the door.) TRENCHARD: I'll get one of my chaps to run you down to the quayside. DOCTOR: Thank you. 19: EXT. CASTLE (The DOCTOR and JO are escorted out of the castle by a guard. They climb into a waiting minimoke and are driven off. As they proceed down the drive, the DOCTOR gives a troubled look back at the castle. JO notices this and does the same.) 20: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM (TRENCHARD re-enters the MASTER'S room. The man himself is sat making notes.) TRENCHARD: There we are then. Fooled them nicely, didn't we? MASTER: I hope so. TRENCHARD: What about that hypnotism wheeze, eh? That took 'em in! MASTER: Don't underestimate the Doctor. (He goes over to a metal bookcase and takes down a book.) MASTER: Do you really believe that he came here to see me? TRENCHARD: Why else? MASTER: Vanishing ships, of course. TRENCHARD: Oh. I don't think so. No, he didn't seem particularly interested when I mentioned it. (The MASTER spins round furiously.) MASTER: You did what?! TRENCHARD: Oh, just chatting. No harm done, surely? MASTER: (Sighs.) Let's hope not. By the way, what about those admiralty charts I asked for? TRENCHARD: Er, they'll be here this afternoon. MASTER: Ah, splendid. Er, there is one more thing... TRENCHARD: Yes? MASTER: I wonder, do you think I could have another television set - for the bedroom? TRENCHARD: Yes, yes, I'm sure that's possible. MASTER: Er, colour, of course. TRENCHARD: Of course! Well, if you'll excuse me? (He walks out.) 21: EXT. QUAYSIDE (The DOCTOR and ROBBINS walk down the jetty.) ROBBINS: Ah, it's true. Three ships vanished. Summit q*eer going on, for all they're tryin' to hush it up. DOCTOR: Well, who's trying to hush it up? ROBBINS: Well, them over at the naval base - the secret research establishment. DOCTOR: You seem to know a great deal about all this. ROBBINS: Well, I'm in the lifeboat crew, aren't I? We went out to look for survivors. Only found the one lifeboat - capsized. One that was all charred in a sort of pattern. DOCTOR: Well, where's this boat now? ROBBINS: Ah, the navy took it. Told us to keep our mouths shut. DOCTOR: Well, where's this naval base, then? (ROBBINS points to the right.) ROBBINS: Over beyond the headland. DOCTOR: Right, well perhaps you'd like to take me there straight away? ROBBINS: Mr. Trenchard paid me to bring you out here and take you back. You want to go over to the naval base, then you make your own arrangements. (They reach the end of the jetty.) DOCTOR: Yes, well you're...probably perfectly right. (The DOCTOR takes a note out of his pocket and holds it up.) DOCTOR: Look, erm, I wonder whether you'd like to go and see what's happening to my young friend? Erm, she said she was going to buy some picture postcards. ROBBINS: I don't mind. DOCTOR: I'd go myself, only, er...my bad leg's playing me up a bit - the Crimea, you know? ROBBINS: I see. (Puzzled.) Crimea? DOCTOR: Oh, Gallipoli? El Alamein? (He holds up the note again.) DOCTOR: Does it really matter? ROBBINS: I reckon not. (He takes the note and walks off. As soon as he has gone, the DOCTOR lets the rope of the boat go, climbs aboard, starts the motor up and sails off. ROBBINS, money in hand, watches him go.) 22: EXT. NAVAL BASE. ENTRANCE (Two ratings stand guard on the entrance. The sign on the barrier reads "HMS SEASPITE. NAVAL RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT". In an office overlooking the entrance, CAPTAIN HART stands at the window dictating a letter to his secretary, 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE.) CAPTAIN HART: And I regret to inform your Lordships... 23: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE (He steps away from the window.) CAPTAIN HART: ...that our investigations have failed to reveal any clue as to the cause of the sinkings, full stop. The charred ship's lifeboat will be sent to our laboratory at HMS Vernon, Portsmouth, for investigation and analysis. (He paces back to the window.) CAPTAIN HART: Meanwhile, we are keeping careful watch... (He stops.) 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: Yes, sir? CAPTAIN HART: Come and look at this! (She joins him at the window.) 24: EXT. NAVAL BASE CAPTAIN HART: What on Earth...? (Through the window they see the DOCTOR in his boat getting near the beach.) 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: Perhaps he's lost, sir? CAPTAIN HART: This place is supposed to be top secret! 25: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE (He goes to a phone on his desk.) CAPTAIN HART: People treating it like Brighton beach! (Into phone.) Get me the Master-at-arms. (He waits, then...) Captain Hart here. I don't know whether you've noticed but there happens to be a stray civilian chugging into the base! Get on to it, will you?! 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: Sir, he's making straight for the lifeboat! 26: EXT. NAVAL BASE (The DOCTOR has made his way through a wire fence and is approaching the upturned burnt lifeboat. He takes out a magnifying glass and starts to look at the hull. He hears a cry behind him.) NAVAL OFFICER: Oy! You! (He turns and sees the Master-at-arms and five armed ratings running up to him. He is unfazed.) DOCTOR: Good afternoon! I wonder whether I could see your commanding officer? (The sailors look down on him in puzzlement.) 27: EXT. QUAYSIDE (JO hands ROBBINS a ten pound note.) ROBBINS: Thank you, Miss. (He takes off his motorcycle helmet and hands it to JO.) ROBBINS: Look after it for me, won't you? JO: Don't worry. I'll bring it back just as soon as I've found the Doctor. (JO puts the helmet on and climbs on the bike. She starts it up and rides up the jetty and off towards the base.) 28: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM (The MASTER switches on a screen on the wall of his room. It is a venetian-blind type like that in the governor's office. On it is an episode of "<a href="../http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/tv/clangers/clangers_v6.shtml">The Clangers</a>". The MASTER sits back and smiles as he watches. After a moment, he starts to imitate the creature's whistles. TRENCHARD walks in with a rolled up chart under his arm.) TRENCHARD: What are you watching? MASTER: It seems to be a rather interesting extra-terrestrial life form! (TRENCHARD looks from the television to the MASTER in puzzlement.) TRENCHARD: Only puppets, you know? For children. MASTER: Oh. (The MASTER walks over and switches the set off with a sigh at TRENCHARD'S lack of humour.) TRENCHARD: Yes, well, here's the chart you wanted. MASTER: Oh, good! (He eagerly takes it from TRENCHARD and spreads it on the table. TRENCHARD hands him some plotting tools.) MASTER: That's right. Thank you. Now... (The MASTER starts to plot points on the chart.) MASTER: You know, Trenchard, a man of your efficiency is really wasted in a job like this. TRENCHARD: Huh, bit of a comedown in a way, I suppose, but, er... MASTER: Never mind. Once our plan succeeds...people will really begin to realise your true worth. TRENCHARD: Ah. (He laughs appreciatively at the MASTER'S flattery.) TRENCHARD: Er, what are you doing? MASTER: I've just been plotting the sightings of the three sinkings. (He draws three spots on the chart...) MASTER: There, there and there. (He then draws three lines between them forming a triangle.) MASTER: And it's interesting that...right in the middle of them, there's this abandoned sea fort. (He circles the fort on the map.) TRENCHARD: Not abandoned any more, old chap. MASTER: Really? TRENCHARD: Hart's people are going to use it as a sonar testing station. Contractors are working on the place now. MASTER: Mmm... 29: EXT. SEA FORT (The large round Napoleonic sea fort sits in the middle of the water. Its blackened walls lapped by the waves.) 30: INT. SEA FORT. CREW ROOM (Within its walls, two men sit at a table in a crew room drinking out of cans and playing cards.) HICKMAN: How much to see you? CLARK: A fiver. (HICKMAN looks dubious, but...) HICKMAN: Right. CLARK: Full house. Kings on two's. (HICKMAN looks despondent at CLARK'S hand.) HICKMAN: Oh, that's marvellous, innit? Just marvellous! CLARK: Come on, it's not your life savings, it's only a couple of quid. I'll give you a chance to get your own back. HICKMAN: Ah, forget it. CLARK: What's the matter with you? HICKMAN: I don't know. Being stuck out here, I suppose. (He gets up and goes over to a shelf.) CLARK: It's not so bad. Are you sure you don't want another game? (HICKMAN opens another can.) HICKMAN: Do you know, there's something funny about this place. CLARK: (Sarcastically.) Share the joke. HICKMAN: Well, the place is deserted, right? CLARK: So? HICKMAN: Just the two of us on maintenance? CLARK: Right. HICKMAN: Yet I keep getting the feeling I'm being watched... 31: INT. SEA FORT. PASSAGEWAY (A scaly hand appears over a window ledge...) 32: INT. NAVAL BASE. CORRIDOR (CAPTAIN HART leads the DOCTOR down a corridor to his office.) CAPTAIN HART: If you are from UNIT, then where are your credentials? DOCTOR: I never carry the things. Bureaucratic nonsense. If you wish to see my pass, then ask Miss Grant. (He enters the office uninvited.) 33: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE (HART follows and JANE BLYTHE closes the door.) CAPTAIN HART: Why didn't you arrange for an official visit through normal channels? DOCTOR: Well, I just dropped in purely on impulse, old chap. As soon as I heard about that charred lifeboat, I had to see it. CAPTAIN HART: Oh, why? DOCTOR: You've inspected the boat yourself? CAPTAIN HART: Well, of course I have. DOCTOR: Then you must have noticed the linear nature of those scorch marks. (JANE is holding a pen and notepad.) DOCTOR: Excuse me, my dear, may I? (He takes them from her and sits on the edge of the desk.) DOCTOR: (To HART.) Now then, sit down! (With a look at the DOCTOR, HART sits at his desk. The DOCTOR draws a series of wavy lines on the pad like a line of concentric 'S's.) DOCTOR: Now, the marks are a very definite shape...a linear shape, like this. Now, how do you account for that? CAPTAIN HART: A freak affect if the ship caught f*re. DOCTOR: Yes, but it didn't catch f*re. If it had, the smoke and flames would have been seen, wouldn't they? CAPTAIN HART: All right then, how do you account for them? DOCTOR: A concentrated beam of heat, applied from underneath the boat whilst it was still in the water. (HART smiles in disbelief.) CAPTAIN HART: Deliberately to sink a lifeboat? DOCTOR: Yes...to make sure there were no survivors. (The DOCTOR crosses to a transparent chart which stands on one side of the room. Three points have been placed on it.) DOCTOR: What are these markers here? CAPTAIN HART: Those are the last known positions of the missing vessels so far as we can estimate. (The phone rings and JANE BLYTHE answers it.) 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: Captain Hart's office? (She listens.) Yes, yes I see. Hold on. (To HART.) There's a young lady here with two UNIT passes. She wants to know if there's anyone here called the Doctor? (The DOCTOR smiles.) 34: INT. SEA FORT. CREW ROOM (CLARK carries a draughts board over to the table.) CLARK: Come on, you can't lose anything at draughts. HICKMAN: There's a jinx on this place. Nothing but trouble since we started repairing the foundations. CLARK: Forget it, it's not your problem. Black or white? (HICKMAN suddenly sits up.) HICKMAN: What's that noise? CLARK: It's the mermaid - she can't resist us! HICKMAN: Shut up! (HICKMAN runs to the door.) HICKMAN: There's someone moving about upstairs. CLARK: It's the wind. HICKMAN: Fat load of use you are. (HICKMAN takes a flare g*n off a shelf and loads it.) CLARK: What are you doing now? Going to send up a distress signal? HICKMAN: You never know. (Carrying the g*n, he leaves the room.) 35: INT. SEA FORT. PASSAGE (HICKMAN reaches a vertical ladder and starts to ascend it to a higher level. Reaching it, he moves off to investigate.) 36: INT. SEA FORT. CREW ROOM (CLARK is setting up the drafts board when he hears a scream of terror from HICKMAN.) CLARK: Hickman! (He runs to the door and out into the passage.) CLARK: Hickman? 37: INT. SEA FORT. PASSAGES (He makes his way through the deserted passages of the fort. The only sound is that of the sea outside. He reaches the ladder that HICKMAN climbed earlier and follows the same way. On the upper level, he looks round.) CLARK: Hickman? Where are you? (Round a corner, he finds HICKMAN lying on a concrete buttress. He is d*ad, his eyes wide open. CLARK looks at him in shock, then he sees movement across the room. A turtle-faced creature turns and looks at him...) 38: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE (The DOCTOR, deep in thought, sits on a sofa in the corner of HART'S office while JO shows the CAPTAIN their passes.) CAPTAIN HART: Yes, well, these passes appear to be in order. You may go. (The DOCTOR comes out his reverie and gets up.) DOCTOR: Go? My dear chap, I don't want to go. I want to visit this fort here. (He points at the chart.) CAPTAIN HART: That fort is being converted for use as a testing station. There's nobody there but a couple of maintenance workmen. DOCTOR: Nevertheless, it is right in the centre of all the trouble, isn't it? Now if some of your naval bods could get me out there, Captain? CAPTAIN HART: Doctor, I have no authority to provide naval vessels for your pleasure jaunts! DOCTOR: Look, don't you realise how important this is? CAPTAIN HART: I realise only too well. Three ships have been sunk and may lives have been lost. Now, if you don't mind? JO: Doctor, I think he wants us to go! CAPTAIN HART: I suggest that you take your theories along to your own people at UNIT and put the whole thing on an official level! DOCTOR: If Horatio Nelson had been in charge of this operation, I hardly think that he would have waited for official instructions. (He goes and meaningfully opens his door for the DOCTOR and JO.) CAPTAIN HART: Yes, a pretty impulsive fellow, if one can believe the history books. 39: INT. NAVAL BASE. CORRIDOR (The DOCTOR walks to the doorway.) DOCTOR: History books? Captain Hart, Horatio Nelson was a personal friend of mine. Come on, Jo. (JO, smiling, follows him along the corridor. HART, a look of astonishment on his face, watches them go.) CAPTAIN HART: Good grief. Poor chap's as mad as a hatter. 40: EXT. SEA FORT (In ROBBIN'S boat, the DOCTOR and JO approach the sea fort.) JO: How do we get onto the fort? DOCTOR: Up that ladder. Now hold tight, Jo. We're coming alongside now. (The boat stops next to the fort and the two start to ascend the ladder, passing a sign which reads "MOD PROPERTY. NO LANDING".) 41: INT. SEA FORT. PASSAGE (The two walk along a metal landing and descend a staircase.) JO: I still say you should have taken Mr. Robbin's boat back. DOCTOR: We will, Jo, we will. We'll take his motor bicycle back at the same time. Still, now we're here, let's take a look around, shall we? (They move off, JO looking nervously around.) 42: EXT. SEA FORT (Outside, a scaly hand comes over the edge of the boat...) 43: SEA FORT. CREW ROOM (The DOCTOR and JO find the crew room. They look round at the bunk beds and table. The DOCTOR picks up the discarded drinks can on the table and smells the contents.) DOCTOR: Well, somebody's here all right. JO: Well, where? Where are they then? DOCTOR: Well, this is a big fort, Jo. They must be in some other part of it. Come on, we'll find them. 44: EXT. SEA FORT (Smoke is pouring out of the boat.) 45: INT. SEA FORT. PASSAGE (The DOCTOR and JO continue to look round the fort. JO is getting nervous.) DOCTOR: There's supposed to be two workmen. They can't just have vanished. JO: Well, they have, haven't they? Look Doctor, it's getting dark. Let's get out of here. DOCTOR: There's plenty of time. (There is suddenly a huge expl*si*n outside. They rush to the window...) 46: EXT. SEA FORT (...where they see debris lying on the surface of the water.) DOCTOR: It must have been the petrol t*nk! JO: It couldn't just blown up by itself. 47: INT. SEA FORT. PASSAGE JO: Doctor, do you realise - we're stranded here! DOCTOR: Don't worry, Jo. There must be a radio on this fort somewhere. We'll just have to get a message back to shore. Come on. (They move off. After they have gone, the turtle-faced creature appears out of the shadows and watches them go. The height of a tall man, fins cascade down the back of its neck and it wears a blue net-like robe.) 48: INT. SEA FORT. ANOTHER PASSAGE (The DOCTOR and JO ascend the vertical ladder to the upper level. Their steps echo in the silence. As they look round, JO gasps...) JO: Look! DOCTOR: What is it? (It is HICKMAN'S body, unmoved. The DOCTOR rushes over to examine him.) DOCTOR: He's d*ad, poor chap. JO: Doctor, let's get out of here, please? DOCTOR: All right. Let's find that radio first. JO: Shh, listen! (They hear a ragged breathing. Round a corner in the passage, a shape stumbles towards them.) JO: It's coming towards us!
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "09x09 - The Sea Devils - part 1"}
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THE SEA DEVILS BY: MALCOLM HULKE EPISODE TWO Original Air Date: 4 March, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. SEA FORT. ANOTHER PASSAGE JO: Shh, listen! (They hear a ragged breathing. Round a corner in the passage, a shape stumbles towards them.) JO: It's coming towards us! (The figure comes round the corner. It is CLARK but the man is almost deranged. He has a wrench in his hand which he raises with a gasp.) DOCTOR: Stop! We're friends! (CLARK takes no notice.) DOCTOR: Stop! (He rushes at the man and grabs his arm, spinning him round and pinioning the limb. CLARK drops the wrench. The man is clearly out of his mind and is almost sobbing as the DOCTOR holds him.) CLARK: Hickman! He's d*ad! They k*lled him! The sea...the sea...the sea devil! DOCTOR: Come on, Jo, quick. Give me a hand. (The DOCTOR puts the almost-fainting CLARK'S arm across his shoulder and JO takes the other.) JO: (To CLARK. comforting him.) It's all right. DOCTOR: We've got to get him into that cabin. (They start to help the man down the passage and back to the crew room. He babbles as they go.) CLARK: Hickman... DOCTOR: Come on. All right. CLARK: Monster... DOCTOR: Yes... CLARK: Sea Devil... DOCTOR: That's right... CLARK: Hickman... (As they move out of sight, the turtle-faced creature - the SEA DEVIL - comes from round a corner and watches them go.) 2: SEA FORT. CREW ROOM (The DOCTOR and JO help CLARK into the crew room. He is still babbling and weak.) CLARK: The sea monster... DOCTOR: Yeah, come on, don't worry. (They lead him over to a bunk bed and help him down onto the bottom bed.) DOCTOR: Get yourself down here. (CLARK places himself down.) DOCTOR: That's right. JO: Yes. (CLARK lies back with JO holding his head. He is still almost incoherent.) CLARK: Hickman... JO: Shh... DOCTOR: Where's the radio? (CLARK doesn't answer but breathes in an almost sobbing fashion. The DOCTOR shouts into his face.) DOCTOR: The radio - where is it? (CLARK points across the base of the bed towards another part of the crew room.) DOCTOR: Over here? (The DOCTOR goes over to an empty metal box on a shelf and looks in it.) CLARK: Hickman... JO: Shh... CLARK: Ripped it out...they took it away. DOCTOR: Yes, they certainly did. (The DOCTOR looks round and sees a wooden first aid box affixed to the wall above the shelf. CLARK cries out and JO soothes him with whispering comforting words.) CLARK: Sea monster... (The DOCTOR r*fles through the box and returns to the bed with a swab, a bottle and an small box.) CLARK: Monster... JO: Yes, yes, yes, all right. (The DOCTOR sits on the edge of the bed. He opens the small box and takes out a hypodermic syringe.) DOCTOR: (To CLARK.) Now, listen to me... (To JO.) Take this swab, Jo. Swab his arm. (JO starts to undo the swab packet and carry out the task as the DOCTOR starts to fill the syringe whilst talking to the almost incoherent man.) DOCTOR: (To CLARK.) Now, are there are more transmitters on this fort? CLARK: No...nothing... DOCTOR: Any transistor radios, that sort of thing? CLARK: I think so - the crew's quarte...the crew... JO: Want do you want to do? Listen to... "Night ride"? DOCTOR: It is possible to turn a receiver into a transmitter, you know. JO: It is? DOCTOR: Yes, it's simply a matter of modulating the signal. You connect the output of your loudspeaker into the input of your low frequency amplifier...and you connect the output of your low frequency amplifier into your oscillator. You use your loudspeaker as a microphone... (He finishes filling the syringe.) DOCTOR: And there you are. JO: Ah. DOCTOR: (To CLARK.) Now, where exactly are these transistor radios? CLARK: C...crew's quarters...down the corridor...next deck... DOCTOR: All right. Thank you. (He prepares to inject the man.) DOCTOR: Now don't worry, this is not going to hurt you. (He finishes injecting him.) DOCTOR: All right? Now you'll soon be all right. CLARK: Hickman... DOCTOR: Soon be all right. Look after him, will you, Jo? JO: Yes. (The DOCTOR leaves the crew room as JO soothes the man as the injection takes effect.) JO: Shh, come on, try and relax. Come on. That's it. (CLARK'S breathing eases and his eyes fall closed.) 3: INT. SEA FORT. PASSAGE (The DOCTOR walks along a silent passage and descends the staircase to the lower level. As he reaches the bottom step, he stops and backs against a wall as the SEA DEVIL turns a corner. The creature sees him and almost jumps with shock.) DOCTOR: Don't be alarmed. I've no wish to harm you. (The SEA DEVIL raises an arm. On the end of its arm is a w*apon which resembles a round metal disc on the back of which is a hood which rests over the creature's hand.) DOCTOR: Now wait - we must talk! (A red flash of f*re sh**t from the w*apon and there is a corresponding flash on the wall behind the DOCTOR'S head. After the briefest of glances at the wall, the DOCTOR rushes for the staircase and runs up them. The SEA DEVIL gives chase.) 4: INT. SEA FORT. ANOTHER PASSAGE (The DOCTOR runs as fast as he can down one of the passages of the fort, the SEA DEVIL close behind him. The DOCTOR climbs down a ladder and runs back for the crew room but the SEA DEVIL is not far behind in descending the ladder.) 5: SEA FORT. CREW ROOM (CLARK'S eyes are open again but he is still. JO speaks quietly to him.) JO: How do you feel now? Would you like a nice hot cup of tea with some sugar, hmm? (The DOCTOR rushes into the room and slams the door shut behind him, slamming a bolt home.) JO: What are you doing? (The DOCTOR doesn't answer but starts to look over the unkempt room.) DOCTOR: Wire? (He sees a length of wire among some rubbish and, picking it up, runs over to a junction box near the first aid kit.) JO: What is going on? (The DOCTOR starts to make adjustments to the wire.) DOCTOR: Just as I thought - reptiles - like those creatures in the caves. 6: INT. SEA FORT. ANOTHER PASSAGE (The SEA DEVIL runs towards the crew room.) 7: SEA FORT. CREW ROOM (The DOCTOR finishes connecting the wire to the junction box.) DOCTOR: It's completely hostile. (The DOCTOR hands her the wire.) DOCTOR: Here, hang on to this - tight! Hang on. JO: Right. (The DOCTOR goes to the other end of the wire and finds that it ends in two strands with crocodile clips. He fixes these to the doorframe and the bolt.) JO: Well now what are you doing? (The DOCTOR goes back to JO and takes the wire from her, giving some final twists to secure it to the wires from the junction box.) DOCTOR: Those creatures can cut through anything - rock, metal, anything. (They hear a hissing noise.) JO: Look! (A red glow appears on the barricaded door. The metal barrier starts to melt. Enough of a hole is eventually burnt through to enable the SEA DEVIL to stick an arm through and start to feel for the bolt. The DOCTOR slams home the lever on the junction box. The SEA DEVIL is touching the bolt when it is flooded with electricity and it flashes. The creature gives a scream of pain and hastily withdraws its arm. The DOCTOR moves to level back into the 'off' position.) DOCTOR: Come on. Give me a hand. (He and JO pull the table back and the DOCTOR unbolts and opens the door.) JO: Where are we going? DOCTOR: We've got to get after that creature - now, come on. (They run into the passage.) 8: INT. SEA FORT. ANOTHER PASSAGE (Holding its injured arm, the SEA DEVIL stumbles along one of the fort's metal passages. The DOCTOR and JO are not far behind.) 9: INT. SEA FORT. PASSAGE (They are running down the staircase as they hear the SEA DEVIL crying out as it falls out of the window and into the sea.) 10: EXT. SEA FORT (They rush to the window and look out.) 11: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE (JANE BLYTHE is on the phone as HART enters his office.) 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: (Into phone.) Keep trying. (She puts the phone down.) CAPTAIN HART: Morning, Blythe. 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: Good morning, sir. CAPTAIN HART: Anything in? 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: We've had this report from civilian police, sir. That man who was here yesterday, trying to get over to the fort, seems to have disappeared with the boat he came in. (HART gives a sigh and moves over to his desk. BLYTHE follows with the report which she places before him.) CAPTAIN HART: Oh no! 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: He and the girl were seen heading out to sea yesterday afternoon. There's been no sign of them since. CAPTAIN HART: Well, get onto the fort and see if they've wound up there. 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: I've already done that, sir. The fort just wasn't answer - I can't raise them at all. (HART starts to look concerned and picks up the phone.) CAPTAIN HART: Well we'd better take a look around. (Into phone.) Get me air-sea rescue. 12: EXT. NAVAL BASE (Soon, a sea king helicopter is heading off for the fort.) 13: SEA FORT. CREW ROOM (Things are quieter at the fort. CLARK is asleep while JO makes a mug of tea. She looks over at the DOCTOR who has the innards of a transistor radio across the table.) JO: How's it going? DOCTOR: It's nearly finished - just about to test it. (JO brings the cup over and looks over the table.) JO: Mmm, I've seen things like that in a modern art exhibition! You don't honestly think you can transmit with it, do you? DOCTOR: Certainly I do. Ah, I'll prove it to you. Right, here goes. (He picks up a small exposed speaker and holds up a length of wire as an aerial. He then flicks a switch on the transistor. Instantly, inane music starts to blare out.) DISC JOCKEY: (OOV: Over radio.) ... here on Earlybird, we've got a wonderful batch of discs for you this morning! So, don't feel isolated and cut off from the world - whoever you are, wherever you are, we've got something just for you! (The DOCTOR smiles somewhat sheepishly. JO badly conceals a grin.) JO: Hey, that was my favourite DJ! DOCTOR: I think I must have got me wires crossed somewhere! (They both laugh. JO moves the mug towards him.) JO: Here's your tea. DOCTOR: Thanks. (JO moves to check CLARK and adjusts his sheets as the DOCTOR starts to make adjustments to his lash-up.) JO: Doctor? DOCTOR: Mmm? JO: Those "things" that att*cked us - you said you'd seen something like it before. DOCTOR: Something very similar, certainly. They emerged from some caves in Derbyshire. JO: The...Silurians, wasn't it? The Brigadier was telling me. DOCTOR: Ahh, that's a complete misnomer. The chap who discovered them must have got the period wrong. No, properly speaking, they should have been called the Eocenes. JO: That was that race of super-reptiles that had been in hibernation for billions of years, wasn't it? DOCTOR: That's right, and if you want my opinion, there's another of their colony right here beneath us. JO: Well, something seems to have woken them up. (JO goes to pour herself a mug of tea.) DOCTOR: Probably the rebuilding of this fort. JO: But I thought you said they lived in caves? DOCTOR: Well, this is a different species - completely adapted to life underwater. JO: And they've been sinking this ships? DOCTOR: Very likely. (She rejoins him with her tea.) JO: Why? I mean, why are they so hostile? What have we done to them. DOCTOR: Well, they still think of Earth as their planet, Jo, and they want it back. As far as they're concerned, man is just an ape who got above himself. (The DOCTOR finishes his re-work.) DOCTOR: Right, I think that should do it. Let's have another go. (He again picks up the speaker and the aerial wire and switches the apparatus on.) DOCTOR: (Into radio.) Hello, hello, Mayday, Mayday, Mayday! This is, er, this, erm, this is... (To JO.) What is this? What's our callsign? (JO goes to where the original radio set was and reads a notice on the wall.) JO: Oscar Bravo Tango Seven Four. DOCTOR: (Into radio.) Hello, Mayday, Mayday, Mayday, this is Oscar Bravo Tango Seven Four. We are stranded on this fort and have a wounded man here. Can you send immediate assistance? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Over. (The DOCTOR switches the microphone off. There is a slight crackle of static from the speaker.) JO: Doctor, you don't think you'll get through to anybody on that old lash-up, do you? (However...) HELICOPTER PILOT: (OOV: Over radio.) Hello, Oscar Bravo Tango, I am receiving you, loud and clear. I am about to land, over. (The sound of an approaching helicopter is heard. JO hugs the DOCTOR.) JO: It worked! (She runs from the room.) DOCTOR: (Into radio.) Hello, Oscar Bravo Tango speaking - who are you? Who are you? Over. 14: EXT. NAVAL BASE (JO runs to the window, looks out and sees the helicopter.) JO: It's a helicopter! 15: SEA FORT. CREW ROOM (The DOCTOR looks with pride over his set-up. He picks up the speaker unit) DOCTOR: Yes, well, though I say so myself, I think that's a remarkably efficient piece of work! (A small flash rips through the set. The DOCTOR drops the piece and puts a rueful face in his hand.) 16: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM (TRENCHARD walks into the MASTER'S room with a guard who is carrying a large cardboard box. The MASTER is reading a book again.) TRENCHARD: (To the guard.) Right, put it over there. (The guard puts the box on the table.) TRENCHARD: (To the MASTER.) Here we are then. MASTER: Splendid! (He gets up and goes to the box as the guard leaves the room.) TRENCHARD: Er, none too easy, you know - getting hold of something like this at a moments notice. Had to send one of my chaps to the mainland. Said it was for theatricals. MASTER: Ha! How very ingenious. TRENCHARD: Nothing to it. Just have to use the old loaf, you know. When do we leave? (The MASTER has placed a naval officer's hat on his head from the box.) MASTER: As soon as possible. 17: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE (JANE BLYTHE finishes another phone call and puts the receiver down as HART enters the room with the returned DOCTOR and JO.) CAPTAIN HART: How can I go to the Admiralty with a story like that? Sea Devils! If only you had some proof. JO: What about the two men on the fort? One of them was k*lled but the other one saw the creature. (HART and BLYTHE give each other a look. HART gives his secretary an instruction...) CAPTAIN HART: Yes, get on to sickbay, will you? See if he's conscious yet. (JANE carries out the request and picks up the phone.) 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: (Into phone.) Sickbay, please. Oh hello, Captain Hart's secretary... (Across the room, the DOCTOR starts to harangue HART again.) DOCTOR: Even you must admit that something happened on that fort! CAPTAIN HART: Well, perhaps one of them went berserk and...att*cked the other one. JO: But we saw it too - remember. CAPTAIN HART: You may... (JANE comes over to them, having finished her call.) CAPTAIN HART: Well, Blythe? 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: He's still delirious...and he's babbling something about Sea Devils. (HART looks shocked.) 18: EXT. NAVAL BASE. ENTRANCE (A minimoke from the prison approaches the gate to the naval base. It is driven by one of the guards with TRENCHARD in the passenger seat. They both hold up passes to the ratings who open the gate. The minimoke drives in.) 19: EXT. NAVAL BASE. CAR PARK (The minimoke drives into a parking space. TRENCHARD and the guard get out.) TRENCHARD: You can go to the Petty Officer's mess. I'll send for you later. CASTLE GUARD: Very good, sir. (The guard moves off. TRENCHARD looks round to make sure that they are unobserved, knocks on the side of the vehicle and then walks away. A minute after he has gone, a blanket in the rear of the minimoke is thrown back and the MASTER, complete in senior naval officer's uniform, looks up. Seeing that the coast is clear, he gets out, straightening his jacket. Some distance off, TRENCHARD glances back but then carries on. A squad of ratings, escorted by their officer, march past.) NAVAL OFFICER: Squad, eye's right! (The squad carries out the command and the MASTER salutes them.) NAVAL OFFICER: Eye's front! (The MASTER watches them go with a satisfied smile on his face...) NAVAL OFFICER: About...turn! (...and then walks off into the base, saluting more ratings as he goes.) NAVAL OFFICER: Squad, halt! 20: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE (An impatient CAPTAIN HART is taking an unwelcome phone call.) CAPTAIN HART: (Into phone.) Well did he say why he wanted to see me? (He listens.) Oh, all right, you'd better send him up. (HART puts the phone down, sits and resumes his conversation with an equally impatient DOCTOR.) CAPTAIN HART: All right then, Doctor, let's assume that I accept the existence of these...Sea Devils - what do you want me to do? DOCTOR: Well, to begin with, we must make every effort to make contact with them. CAPTAIN HART: But you claim that they're responsible for sinking the ships. DOCTOR: It may still be possible to find a peaceful solution. We're not dealing with animals, Captain Hart, we're dealing with intelligent beings! (There is a knock on the door and TRENCHARD walks in.) TRENCHARD: Have you got a minute, old chap? (JANE BLYTHE takes his hat.) TRENCHARD: Thanks very much. (To HART.) Want a word with you about the golf tournament. (Suddenly he sees the DOCTOR and JO. He slightly loses his composure.) TRENCHARD: Good heavens! DOCTOR: Colonel Trenchard. TRENCHARD: Ah, Doctor. (He takes JO'S hand in an oily grasp as if to pat it.) TRENCHARD: Miss Grant, er, thought you two'd left the island yesterday? (JO recovers her hand.) JO: Well, we didn't quite manage to get away. TRENCHARD: Taking a look round the island? (To the DOCTOR.) Charming spot, isn't it? (HART coughs significantly.) TRENCHARD: Er, sorry to bother you, John, old man, but it's about the weekend. We are rather relying on you, you know? CAPTAIN HART: Well, of course, I'll do my best but if we get a bit of a flap on, then... TRENCHARD: (Interrupts.) That's just what I was thinking, so perhaps it would be as well if I arranged to have a reserve standing by. (The DOCTOR, barely keeping his temper, interrupts acidly...) DOCTOR: Yes, why don't you do that, Colonel?! Captain Hart is likely to be very busy from now on. (He storms across the room and starts looking over the transparent chart.) CAPTAIN HART: Yes, life is rather full at the moment, George. (TRENCHARD refuses to take the hint and perseveres, much to his audiences' annoyance...) TRENCHARD: Exactly! So as I was passing, I just thought old John's going to pretty tied up with all these ship's sinking... CAPTAIN HART: Well... TRENCHARD: ...is it fair to ask him to play golf in the middle of something like this? So I said to myself "What I'll do is - I'll just drop by and sound him out". You see, time's getting short and I've got to get cracking... 21: INT. NAVAL BASE. STORES ROOM (The MASTER enters the stores. He checks that no-one is around and then goes behind the counter where the packed shelves are. He starts to look over the labels on the boxes and packages, taking selected items. He returns to the counter and starts to put the items in a sack. As he does so, someone enters the room - the middle-aged uniformed figure of C.P.O. SMEDLEY. He stands to attention when he sees the MASTER, who carries on regardless.) C.P.O. SMEDLEY: I'm sorry, sir, but should I know you? MASTER: You certainly should, chief. Had you not been warned of my coming? C.P.O. SMEDLEY: No, I'm afraid not, sir. MASTER: Special audit, Ministry of Defence. C.P.O. SMEDLEY: (Puzzled.) Special audit, sir? MASTER: Yes, the items in this bag here are defective. Did you realise that you were carrying defective supplies here, Chief? C.P.O. SMEDLEY: Look, I'm sorry, sir, but do you mind if I see your pass, please? MASTER: Captain Hart's preparing it right now. He'll be bringing it down right away. C.P.O. SMEDLEY: I see, sir. Well then, you won't mind if I just phone and double check then, will you? (He goes to a phone on the counter.) MASTER: What exactly are you suggesting? C.P.O. SMEDLEY: I'm not suggesting anything, sir. I'm just obeying orders. MASTER: (Shouts.) You will obey my order, Chief Petty Officer! C.P.O. SMEDLEY: Your order, sir? (The MASTER turns his hypnotic stare on the C.P.O.) MASTER: You will obey me...you have seen my pass and it is quite correct... C.P.O. SMEDLEY: Your pass...? MASTER: You have seen my pass... (SMEDLEY, fast coming under the hypnotic influence, shakes his head to dispel the effect.) C.P.O. SMEDLEY: No, I've gotta phone and check! (He picks up the phone but before he can take any action, the MASTER gives him a vicious chop to the back of the neck. SMEDLEY slumps to the ground. The MASTER replaces the handset, picks up his sack of parts and heads for the door.) 22: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE (TRENCHARD'S diversion continues, despite HART'S best efforts.) CAPTAIN HART: Now, don't worry, George. If I can't make the tournament, I'll let you know in plenty of time. TRENCHARD: Yes, but you do understand? (JO looks at the DOCTOR who is barely restraining himself.) TRENCHARD: I don't want you to feel under any pressure about this. If you want to drop out, I suppose I could rope in old Harry. CAPTAIN HART: Well, perhaps that's for the best. Now, if you don't mind, George...? (HART tries to lead him to the door but TRENCHARD gently pulls him back.) TRENCHARD: At the same time, I don't want you to miss your game. (Laughs.) I mean we...we'd much rather have you - if you can manage it. CAPTAIN HART: Well, I'll do my best. (Meaningfully.) Now, goodbye, George. (He opens his office door for his visitor to leave.) TRENCHARD: Yes, yes, of course, I...see how busy you are. CAPTAIN HART: Yes. (TRENCHARD crosses to the DOCTOR and JO.) TRENCHARD: Staying down here much longer, Doctor? DOCTOR: It entirely depends how long it takes me to conclude my business. Good day, Colonel. TRENCHARD: Yes, yes, of course, I...mustn't hold you up. Er, goodbye, Miss Grant. It's been a great pleasure to see you again. (He holds out his hand for JO but she pointedly doesn't take it.) JO: Goodbye, Colonel. TRENCHARD: (Embarrassed.) Well, I'll, er... (Coughs.) I'll be pushing off then. Oh, thanks very much. CAPTAIN HART: I'll be in touch, George. TRENCHARD: Yes. (TRENCHARD finally leaves and HART closes the door after him. JO gives a sign of relief and crosses to the window, looking out across the base.) CAPTAIN HART: Now then, Doctor, where were we? DOCTOR: Where were we indeed? Ship's must be kept away from this area. CAPTAIN HART: Doctor, those are major shipping lanes. We'd have protests from all over the world. DOCTOR: You'll have even bigger protests if ships go on sinking. CAPTAIN HART: And even if we do declare it a prohibited area, how are we going to enforce it? 23: EXT. NAVAL BASE (At the window, look of total surprise appears on JO'S face.) CAPTAIN HART: (OOV: Inside office.) You know what happens in the English Channel - Trinity House marker buoys are ignored half the time. DOCTOR: (OOV: Inside office.) You'll just have to patrol the area, won't you? (Down below her, she sees the MASTER, in his full naval uniform, walking freely through the base.) CAPTAIN HART: (OOV: Inside office.) What are we supposed to do ... 24: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE DOCTOR: ...realise how how dangerous... (JO spins round from the window.) JO: Doctor! DOCTOR: What? JO: Doctor, come here! DOCTOR: Jo, please! Not now! CAPTAIN HART: (To the DOCTOR.) Don't you believe it... JO: Doctor, it's the Master! DOCTOR: What! (He runs to the window.) 25: EXT. NAVAL BASE DOCTOR: (Inside office.) Where? JO: (Inside office.) Down... (She looks to where she saw him, but he has now gone and the area below is empty.) JO: But it was him! Look, I know it was! (The DOCTOR looks at her...) 26: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE (...and turns back to HART.) DOCTOR: Captain Hart, I suggest that you order a full security alert immediately. (The phone rings and JANE BLYTHE answers it.) CAPTAIN HART: Would you mind telling me what this is all about?! DOCTOR: Miss Grant has just seen a very dangerous criminal in your base! CAPTAIN HART: Doctor, I've been very patient with you, but if thought... (JANE BLYTHE interrupts him with the message from the phone call.) 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: Sir, someone's been found unconscious in the sonar stores. DOCTOR: (To JO.) Come on! 27: EXT. NAVAL BASE. ENTRANCE (The minimoke, driven by the castle guard with TRENCHARD and the MASTER as seen and unseen passengers respectively, approach the main gate. The guard and TRENCHARD hold up their passes and the barrier is opened. The vehicle passes out and as it does so, a wailing siren echoes around the bass. Rating's run from the guard room, throwing r*fles to their compatriots as the minimoke drives away from the base.) 28: INT. NAVAL BASE. STORES ROOM (SMEDLEY is sat on a chair in the stores, rubbing his neck as HART, the DOCTOR and JO stand over him.) C.P.O. SMEDLEY: (Groggily.) I don't know. He...he was taking equipment, sir. Said he was...doing some special audit. Well, I went to phone up to check and that's when he h*t me. DOCTOR: What did this officer look like? C.P.O. SMEDLEY: About my height, he...he was dark and...and he had a short beard. JO: (To the DOCTOR.) You see - the Master. CAPTAIN HART: (Impatiently.) Who is the Master? JO: How did he get in here? He's supposed to be locked up. DOCTOR: Trenchard. JO: What? DOCTOR: Well don't you see? He arrived just before this happened...and he left just a few moments ago. JO: Of course! All that silly talk about a golf tournament. CAPTAIN HART: Are you suggesting that George Trenchard is mixed up in all this? DOCTOR: Yes, I certainly am. Captain Hart, can you lend me some transport? CAPTAIN HART: Well, of course I can, but what's it all about? DOCTOR: No time to explain now. Come on, Jo. (They leave the stores.) 29: EXT. CASTLE (A naval jeep, driven by the DOCTOR with JO as a passenger, pulls up at the castle. They get out, show their passes to the guards and enter.) 30: INT. CASTLE. GOVERNOR'S OFFICE (Inside his office, TRENCHARD is practicing his golf putt into a glass on its side. There is a knock on the door.) TRENCHARD: In conference! (His command is ignored by the DOCTOR who bursts in.) DOCTOR: Colonel Trenchard! TRENCHARD: Hello, old chap? What are you doing here? DOCTOR: I've reason to believe that your prisoner has escaped. TRENCHARD: Nonsense! DOCTOR: It is? TRENCHARD: See for yourself. (He crosses to the venetian monitor and switches it on. The view is much the same as before - the MASTER sat in a chair reading.) TRENCHARD: There you are, you see? Safe and sound. JO: Well he may be here now, but half-an-hour ago he was at the naval base. TRENCHARD: Impossible. Be a case of mistaken identity. (The DOCTOR stares intently at him in a battle of wills.) TRENCHARD: Er, I'll tell you what though, I'll...I'll go and check the guards myself. DOCTOR: Yes, you do that. TRENCHARD: Yes. (TRENCHARD walks out of his office and shuts the door behind him. The DOCTOR looks at JO and gives a nod of his head. She takes the hint and looks into the corridor while he crosses to a phone. JO comes back.) JO: (Whispers.) All clear. (The DOCTOR picks up the phone.) DOCTOR: Try and get an outside line. (The DOCTOR taps the cradle of the phone, puts it down and tries another.) DOCTOR: No, they're both completely d*ad. Now listen, Jo, I want you to take the jeep, go down to the naval base and call UNIT. Tell them that Colonel Trenchard and his entire staff are to replaced immediately. JO: But, Doctor... DOCTOR: (Interrupts.) No "buts", Jo, just do as I ask! JO: What about you? DOCTOR: Now, don't worry about me. I'll stay here and keep an eye on him. Now, you hurry. 31: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM (In the MASTER'S room, TRENCHARD is starting to lose his composure...) TRENCHARD: But the girl saw you! MASTER: Oh, it could only have been a fleeting glimpse. Convince her that she was mistaken. TRENCHARD: I tell you, they don't believe me. The Doctor knows. MASTER: Very well, in that case, suggest to the Doctor that he come down here and see me for himself. TRENCHARD: What's the good of that? MASTER: I'll tell him exactly what we're doing. I'll convince him to keep quiet. TRENCHARD: Could you? MASTER: Yes, yes. But I must see him alone. I don't want any guards. You leave everything to me. I'll put the Doctor's mind at rest. TRENCHARD: All right. (He heads for the door.) TRENCHARD: I suppose it's worth a try. (He leaves the room. Immediately, the MASTER goes to a chair which he stands on and starts to remove a small grille on the wall. Behind it is the security camera. The MASTER puts a black cloth over the camera, puts the grille back and climbs down. He presses a bell button next to his bathroom door and sits in his chair with his book. A second later, his door opens and a guard enters.) MASTER: Ah, I think there's something wrong with the air-conditioning in. Now, that grille seems to be blocked. (As the guard turns and looks up at the indicated grille, the MASTER comes up behind him and clubs him down with a doubled fist on the back of the neck. The MASTER is about to remove the collapsed guard's p*stol when he spots a dagger in a sheath which he removes.) 32: INT. CASTLE. GOVERNOR'S OFFICE (The DOCTOR ties a blindfold round his head and places the golf ball on the floor. TRENCHARD enters.) TRENCHARD: I've seen the guards. Everything's in perfect order... DOCTOR: Fore! (The DOCTOR putts the ball and it sh**t across the carpet and enters the glass.) TRENCHARD: Bless my soul! (TRENCHARD looks in shock at the DOCTOR as he takes the blindfold off.) DOCTOR: You were saying, Colonel? TRENCHARD: Yea... (TRENCHARD realises that someone is missing...) TRENCHARD: Where's Miss Grant? DOCTOR: Oh, she's gone back to the naval base. TRENCHARD: Oh, I see. Look here, old chap, if you're worried, I suggest you go and see the prisoner yourself. DOCTOR: Oh, I've just seen him. TRENCHARD: (Worried.) What? DOCTOR: Yes, on there. (He indicates the monitor.) TRENCHARD: (Relieved.) Oh! Yes, quite, but, er, if you're in any doubt, I'd sooner you interrogated the man yourself, er, you know the way, don't you? (He opens his door.) DOCTOR: If you insist. (The DOCTOR leaves and TRENCHARD rushes to his phone which is now working.) TRENCHARD: (Into phone.) Trenchard here. There is a Miss Grant on her way down to you. She is not to leave! 33: INT. CASTLE. PASSAGE OUTSIDE MASTER'S ROOM (The DOCTOR walks down the passage to the MASTER'S room. He sees that there is no guard outside and that the door is open. He cautiously enters the room and stands in the doorway.) 34: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM (The MASTER is sat in his chair with a newspaper.) MASTER: Why, Doctor? So you came for a chat. DOCTOR: Been out for a little jaunt, have you? MASTER: I beg your pardon? DOCTOR: Why did you go to the naval stores and steal those electronic spares? (The MASTER gives a quiet laugh and stands up.) MASTER: How could I possibly go anywhere? You know very well that I'm a prisoner. DOCTOR: You've got some sort of hold over Colonel Trenchard. What's going on? MASTER: I can see that I shall have to tell you everything. (He whips out the guard's g*n from under his newspaper. The DOCTOR looks at it for a moment.) DOCTOR: Good afternoon! (He pulls the door shut between him and the MASTER who runs over to the metal barrier, listens, and then slowly leaves the room with the g*n raised.) 35: INT. CASTLE. PASSAGE OUTSIDE MASTER'S ROOM (The DOCTOR is stood to one side of the doorway, his back pressed against a wall. He kicks out a long leg, and with it, the g*n from the MASTER'S hand. The MASTER reaches on the wall behind him where there is a small rack of fencing swords and takes one.) DOCTOR: Like that is it? (He grabs another sword from a similar rack. The two immediately cross swords and battle commences. There is a furious clash of metal but both men prove expert in the art. They reach the point where the two blades are pressed against each other in a trial of strength but the DOCTOR wins and pushes his opponent back onto the floor and then uses the diversion to dive through an archway behind a curtain. The MASTER recovers and starts to slash at the curtain. The DOCTOR comes out from another archway and nonchalantly watches the MASTER'S efforts.) DOCTOR: I wouldn't do that if I were you. That's government property. (The MASTER spins round in anger. The two men clash swords again. This time, the MASTER grabs the DOCTOR'S fencing wrist and pushes him back into the cell.) 36: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM (The DOCTOR lands on the table in the centre of the room. He manages to dodge out of the way before the MASTER'S sword comes crashing down and dodges back the other way before the sword comes down again. He then recovers his feet. The DOCTOR then crashes his sword down and knocks the MASTER'S sword from his hand. The DOCTOR holds his own sword against the MASTER'S chest, sits on the table and grabs a sandwich from a plate with his free hand.) DOCTOR: I always find that...violent exercise makes me hungry. Don't you agree? MASTER: Then you'd better enjoy your meal, because it might be your last! DOCTOR: Oh, you think so? (The DOCTOR, confident of having the better skills, uses his own sword to throw the MASTER'S sword back into his opponent's hands. There is another furious clash which sends the DOCTOR back and falling into the chair. The MASTER rushes at his downed adversary and the two men grab sword wrists.) MASTER: You're good, Doctor, but you're not good enough! DOCTOR: Ah, but you haven't seen the quality of my footwork yet! (The DOCTOR brings up his left leg and uses it to push the MASTER back, over the table, and falling badly to the floor. He grimaces in pain as the DOCTOR gets to his feet, holding both the swords. He looks down at the MASTER and tuts.) DOCTOR: How many times have I told you? v*olence'll never get you anywhere. (He turns his back on the MASTER, who gets to his feet, takes out the concealed dagger that he stole from the guard and throws it at the DOCTOR'S back...)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "09x10 - The Sea Devils - part 2"}
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THE SEA DEVILS BY: MALCOLM HULKE EPISODE THREE Original Air Date: 11 March, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. CASTLE. PASSAGE OUTSIDE MASTER'S ROOM (The DOCTOR is stood to one side of the doorway, his back pressed against a wall. He kicks out a long leg, and with it, the g*n from the MASTER'S hand. The MASTER reaches on the wall behind him where there is a small rack of fencing swords and takes one.) DOCTOR: Like that is it? (He grabs another sword from a similar rack. The two immediately cross swords and battle commences. There is a furious clash of metal but both men prove expert in the art. They reach the point where the two blades are pressed against each other in a trial of strength but the DOCTOR wins and pushes his opponent back onto the floor and then uses the diversion to dive through an archway behind a curtain. The MASTER recovers and starts to slash at the curtain. The DOCTOR comes out from another archway and nonchalantly watches the MASTER'S efforts.) DOCTOR: I wouldn't do that if I were you. That's government property. (The MASTER spins round in anger. The two men clash swords again. This time, the MASTER grabs the DOCTOR'S fencing wrist and pushes him back into the cell.) 2: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM (The DOCTOR lands on the table in the centre of the room. He manages to dodge out of the way before the MASTER'S sword comes crashing down and dodges back the other way before the sword comes down again. He then recovers his feet. The DOCTOR then crashes his sword down and knocks the MASTER'S sword from his hand. The DOCTOR holds his own sword against the MASTER'S chest, sits on the table and grabs a sandwich from a plate with his free hand.) DOCTOR: I always find that...violent exercise makes me hungry. Don't you agree? MASTER: Then you'd better enjoy your meal, because it might be your last! DOCTOR: Oh, you think so? (The DOCTOR, confident of having the better skills, uses his own sword to throw the MASTER'S sword back into his opponent's hands. There is another furious clash which sends the DOCTOR back and falling into the chair. The MASTER rushes at his downed adversary and the two men grab sword wrists.) MASTER: You're good, Doctor, but you're not good enough! DOCTOR: Ah, but you haven't seen the quality of my footwork yet! (The DOCTOR brings up his left leg and uses it to push the MASTER back, over the table, and falling badly to the floor. He grimaces in pain as the DOCTOR gets to his feet, holding both the swords. He looks down at the MASTER and tuts.) DOCTOR: How many times have I told you? v*olence'll never get you anywhere. (He turns his back on the MASTER, who gets to his feet, takes out the concealed dagger that he stole from the guard and throws it at the DOCTOR'S back just as TRENCHARD walks in the room with an armed guard. The Kn*fe thuds into the doorframe next to the DOCTOR'S head.) TRENCHARD: What's going on here?! (TRENCHARD looks from the MASTER to the DOCTOR for an answer. The MASTER is the first to speak and take the initiative.) MASTER: I was defending myself. (Points.) This man came here to k*ll me. TRENCHARD: (To the DOCTOR.) Be so good as to explain yourself, Doctor. DOCTOR: Only a complete fool would listen to such an accusation! Though I suppose in your case...? TRENCHARD: (Angrily.) Don't speak to me like that! I shall have a full enquiry into the whole thing. Meanwhile, consider yourself under arrest. (To the guard.) Take him to my office immediately. DOCTOR: Oh, don't be absurd, man! TRENCHARD: (To the guard.) You heard me - take him away. (The guard approaches the DOCTOR with his p*stol raised. The DOCTOR throws down the two swords and heads for the door, throwing some acidic comments at TRENCHARD as he goes.) DOCTOR: If you must continue with this ridiculous charade! Only take care not to lose him this time, won't you? (TRENCHARD signals to the guard who follows the DOCTOR from the room. TRENCHARD shuts the door after them.) TRENCHARD: What are you going to do - k*ll him? Though I warn you... MASTER: (Interrupts.) I told you - I was defending myself. The point is, what are you going to do about it? TRENCHARD: This whole thing's getting out of hand, I...I just don't know. MASTER: Well then, I'll tell you - keep the Doctor here a prisoner. You have no alternative. By the way, is the girl with him? TRENCHARD: Yeah, she was going to leave, but I had her stopped at the main entrance. MASTER: Good. Then there's nothing to worry about. (He walks off to his bathroom, leaving an astonished TRENCHARD behind.) 3: EXT. CASTLE (JO walks out of the main entrance of the castle and up to the jeep. CASTLE GUARD BARCLAY has the keys in his hand and JO puts her hand out for them but he puts them in his pocket.) JO: The keys! I've got to get back to the naval base - it's urgent! CASTLE GUARD BARCLAY: Sorry Miss, orders. (He speaks to another guard stood nearby.) CASTLE GUARD BARCLAY: Take her back inside. (JO thrusts an elbow into his ribs and then throws him at his colleague. As they both fall to the ground in a heap, she runs off.) CASTLE GUARD BARCLAY: (Shouts.) Well, don't just sit there - get after her! (The guard runs after her, closely followed by BARCLAY.) 4: INT. CASTLE. GOVERNOR'S OFFICE (A bored DOCTOR is sat on the edge of the desk in TRENCHARD'S office. He speaks to the guard.) DOCTOR: Have you any idea why Colonel Trenchard is taking orders from the Master? (The guard stares ahead, showing no sign of having heard the question. The DOCTOR gets up and walks over to him.) DOCTOR: Look man, I'm talking to you. (He snaps his fingers in front of the guard's eyes. The guard gives him a short but telling look and then looks away again. The DOCTOR gives up.) DOCTOR: Very well. (He walks away from the guard as TRENCHARD enters the room.) TRENCHARD: Now then, Doctor, I'm afraid you're in very serious trouble. (He sits at his desk.) TRENCHARD: I've been giving this matter some thought. I'm going to hold you here until the whole thing's cleared up. DOCTOR: Is that what the Master told you to say? TRENCHARD: You've att*cked a government employee, and tried to harm a prisoner under my care and protection. DOCTOR: I've done no such thing. The Master knocked that guard out himself, as you very well know. (TRENCHARD holds up the DOCTOR'S UNIT pass.) TRENCHARD: And as for this UNIT pass of yours, I believe it's a forgery. (He rips the pass up.) DOCTOR: That's absolute rubbish! Anybody at UNIT headquarters will vouch for me, if you'll permit me to use the telephone. (The DOCTOR starts to pick up the receiver but TRENCHARD puts his hand down over his, replacing the receiver back in the cradle.) TRENCHARD: Prisoners are not allowed to make telephone calls. DOCTOR: Colonel Trenchard, why are you allowing the Master to use you like this? TRENCHARD: (To the guard.) All right, take him away. DOCTOR: Look, you're jeopardising your entire career! TRENCHARD: I have nothing further to say to you. The interview is over. DOCTOR: Didn't anybody else warn you about the Master? Whatever he's told you, it's all lies! TRENCHARD: You'll be well treated as long as you behave yourself. DOCTOR: You really think you can keep me here? (TRENCHARD looks intently at the DOCTOR.) TRENCHARD: This is no ordinary prison. If you attempt to escape, the guards will sh**t to k*ll. DOCTOR: (Unperturbed.) I see. Thank you. Thank you very much. (The guard opens the door and he and the DOCTOR leave. TRENCHARD'S phone rings.) TRENCHARD: (Into phone.) Trenchard. (He listens.) What? (Listens.) Then find her - now! 5: EXT. CASTLE GROUNDS (JO hides behind some shrubbery. With the castle in the background, she watches as a patrol of cloaked guards, r*fles in hand, run past. Once they have gone, she heads back towards the castle.) 6: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM (The MASTER is working on the equipment stolen from the naval base. He has a magnifying glass on a stand and is soldering a circuit as TRENCHARD walks into his room.) TRENCHARD: I've got him under lock and key. MASTER: Just a minute. (The MASTER continues to make minute adjustments while TRENCHARD looks over his shoulder in fascination.) MASTER: Ah! Under lock and key, eh? TRENCHARD: That's right. MASTER: The girl too? TRENCHARD: What a fascinating contraption! (The MASTER looks up from his work.) MASTER: I asked about the girl. TRENCHARD: Oh, little...mishap on the way back here. She...got away. (The MASTER slams the soldering iron down and stares angrily at TRENCHARD.) MASTER: And by now is, no doubt, running straight back to the naval base! TRENCHARD: Oh, no fear of that. She'll never get out of the grounds. Guards'll pick her up at any moment. MASTER: Well, I hope that you're right. TRENCHARD: Oh, no doubt about it. MASTER: Nevertheless, we need to work very fast from now on. Trenchard, I need your fullest cooperation. Tell me, where is the Doctor? TRENCHARD: In the security cell. MASTER: Send him to me, will you? I want a word with him. (The MASTER returns to his work. TRENCHARD stares at the MASTER, seeing that what little authority he had is slipping away. Seeing that his instruction is not being carried out, the MASTER stares at the governor. TRENCHARD gives up, leaves the room and the MASTER returns to his task.) 7: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE (A young bearded naval COMMANDER stands in HART'S office looking at a naval chart. HART points to the central point within the triangle formed by the last known position of the three sunken ships.) CAPTAIN HART: I can't give you much to go on, I'm afraid, but I believe there's something down there. Your submarine's fitted with the new experimental sonar. It'll give you a chance to try it out. COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: What are we looking for, sir? CAPTAIN HART: I wish I knew. The man we took off the fort was babbling something about "Sea Devils". COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: (Smiles.) Oh, don't you think this is getting a bit out of hand, sir? Ships have vanished at sea before. CAPTAIN HART: (Coldly.) I'm well aware of that. To be exact, seventy in the last ten years. But we've lost three, all in the same area, in the last few weeks. (The smile doesn't leave RIDGEWAY'S face.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: We'll do what we can to find your Sea Devils, sir. CAPTAIN HART: I want you to signal me a full report the moment you resurface. COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Yes sir. (RIDGEWAY collects the chart and his cap.) CAPTAIN HART: All right, carry on. COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Yes sir. (He heads for the door which has been opened by JANE BLYTHE.) CAPTAIN HART: And good luck. COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Thank you, sir. (He nods at JANE and leaves. BLYTHE crosses to HART, slightly worried.) 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: Excuse me, sir? CAPTAIN HART: Yes? 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: I was just wondering about Miss Grant and the Doctor. Shouldn't they be back by now? 8: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM (TRENCHARD brings a handcuffed DOCTOR into the MASTER'S room. A guard follows them.) TRENCHARD: All right, Doctor. Come along in. (The MASTER has changed into his own clothes - his dark Nehru suit. The device that the MASTER has been working on seems to be near completion. Roughly boxed shaped, it is an exposed mass of wires and circuits with what looks to be a transmitter on top.) MASTER: Ah, Doctor. Good of you to spare me a few moments. DOCTOR: I hadn't really anything better to do. MASTER: Yes, time does hang heavy when one is a prisoner. (He indicates a chair.) MASTER: Would you care to sit down? DOCTOR: Thank you. (The DOCTOR sits. The MASTER frowns at TRENCHARD and nods at the handcuffs.) TRENCHARD: (To the guard.) Right. (The guard walks forward and undoes the handcuffs...) DOCTOR: How very kind of you. (...but then immediately pinions the DOCTOR'S hands behind his back and relocks the cuffs.) DOCTOR: How very unkind of you! TRENCHARD: (To the MASTER.) Right, I'll leave you to have your little chat. There will be a guard outside at all times. DOCTOR: I'm very relieved to hear it! (TRENCHARD and the guard leave. The MASTER leans over the DOCTOR.) MASTER: No doubt, Doctor, you're wondering why I sent for you? DOCTOR: Your usual childish desire to gloat, perhaps? MASTER: How much have you told UNIT? DOCTOR: Everything. I sent them a full report as soon as Miss Grant spotted you at the naval base. MASTER: And yet you came back here to investigate in person? Interesting. (The MASTER goes and sits in another chair.) MASTER: You know, I wonder whether you're telling me the truth. DOCTOR: Well, you'll find out soon enough. MASTER: You realise, of course, that I could k*ll you, here and now? DOCTOR: And how would you explain that away to Colonel Trenchard? I'm hardly in a position to att*ck you now, am I? MASTER: Do you really think I care what Trenchard thinks? DOCTOR: Whatever you're up to, you still need Trenchard's cooperation. You're still a prisoner here, you know? MASTER: My dear Doctor, I can walk out of here any time I choose. DOCTOR: Then why don't you? MASTER: Because this place makes a good base for my operations. (The MASTER gets up and places a hand on his newly completed device.) MASTER: You see, I'm planning to contact our...reptilian friends. (The DOCTOR sits up, frowning.) DOCTOR: How do you know about them? MASTER: Oh, from the Time Lord's files. DOCTOR: More stolen information? MASTER: Naturally. DOCTOR: Well, why do you want to contact them? MASTER: Those reptiles, Doctor, were once the rulers of this Earth. And with my help, they can be so again! 9: INT. NAVAL BASE. RADIO ROOM (RIDGEWAY reports from the submarine by radio.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: (OOV: Over radio.) Entering the specified zone now, sir. About to dive. CAPTAIN HART: (Into radio.) Very well. Standing by for your report. (To the telegraphist.) Carry on. TELEGRAPHIST: Sir. (HART leaves the room.) 10: EXT. SEA (The submarine ploughs through the waters of the sea.) 11: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE (HART returns to his office from the radio room. JANE BLYTHE enters from the corridor with a report that she places on HART'S desk. He walks towards the transparent wall chart and starts to plot the submarine's position.) 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: Excuse me, sir? CAPTAIN HART: Yes, what is it? 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: (Nervously.) I hope you don't mind, but I telephoned Colonel Trenchard about the UNIT people. He said they'd both gone back to London. (HART is still plotting on the chart and not really listening.) CAPTAIN HART: Oh, I see. 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: But they didn't bring the Landrover back, sir. Colonel Trenchard said they took a taxi to the quay. CAPTAIN HART: (Impatiently.) Well, you'd better send someone to collect it. 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: Y...yes sir, but why take a taxi when they could have used the Landrover and...well... (Her voice tells off but she now has HART'S attention.) CAPTAIN HART: Well, go on. 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: Well, sir, surely they'd have come back here before leaving the island? (HART is now very interested...) 12: EXT. SEA (The huge bulk of the submarine sinks beneath the waves...) 13: INT. SUBMARINE CONTROL ROOM (In the cramped control room of his submarine, RIDGEWAY gives a command to his young number one...) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Keep fifty feet. LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: Aye aye, sir. (MITCHELL crosses to an on-board intercom.) LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: Stand by to blow Q. RATING: (OOV: Over intercom.) Stand by to blow Q. LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: Blow Q. RATING: (OOV: Over intercom.) Blow Q. COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Up periscope. (A periscope comes up from a tube in the centre of the floor. RIDGEWAY goes over to it and pulls down the viewing handles.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: (To MITCHELL.) Right, number one, stand by to start your sonar watch. LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: Aye aye, sir. (Unsure.) Er, what are we looking for, sir? COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: (Smiles.) I don't know. Maybe we'll know when we find it. LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: Sir. 14: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM (The DOCTOR is still pinioned in the MASTER'S room.) DOCTOR: But I still don't see why you want to help them. What can you possibly gain? MASTER: The pleasure of seeing the human race exterminated, Doctor. The human race of which you are so fond. Believe me, that'll be a reward in itself. (CASTLE GUARD DREW enters the room.) CASTLE GUARD DREW: The governor wants to see you, sir. MASTER: In a moment. CASTLE GUARD DREW: He wants to see you now, sir. DOCTOR: (Amused.) Better run along, old chap. You're still a prisoner here, you know. (The MASTER picks up his device and walks out of the room.) DOCTOR: You'll never get it off the ground! (The MASTER gives him a look and leaves. Immediately he has gone, the DOCTOR starts to pull at his handcuffs.) 15: EXT. CASTLE (A patrol of guards drives round the base of the castle in one of minimokes - r*fles raised. They drive past an a*tillery practice range, failing to see JO hidden behind the sandbags and the targets. As they go off into the distance, JO runs up the castle wall and tries a large white iron door set into the stone. It refuses to give way and she moves off to try elsewhere.) 16: INT. CASTLE. GOVERNOR'S OFFICE (The MASTER enters TRENCHARD'S office, device in hand. The governor comes over from the window, in something of a panic.) TRENCHARD: Captain Hart's car's been spotted heading for the main gate. He must have guessed something's up. What am I to do? MASTER: Use your intelligence, Trenchard - bluff him. 17: EXT. CASTLE (JO rounds a corner of the castle. She looks through a barred window and seeing nothing there, moves onto another window.) 18: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM (She has struck lucky - it is the MASTER'S room with the DOCTOR still inside, trying to find a way out of his bonds. She taps at the window and the DOCTOR looks up in delight. JO mimes a plan. She waves both hands, points at the cell door, taps her fingers and thumbs together as if to demonstrate talking, circles her fingers over her watch face and holds up five fingers. She then points at the DOCTOR, the cell door and again mimics talking with her fingers. The DOCTOR nods, smiles and mouths "All right!" Jo gives a thumbs up and moves away from the window. The DOCTOR looks at the clock on the wall. It shows seven minutes past two.) 19: EXT. CASTLE (JO carries on moving round the edge of the castle. She sees a ground level sash window which is slightly open. She pushes it up further and starts to climb inside.) 20: INT. CASTLE. INNER COURTYARD (Inside, she comes through the small room which has the window in the wall and comes out into an inner courtyard. She sees a stone flight of stairs with a door in the base. She goes through this doorway when she hears a noise above and goes into the interior as a guard starts to come down the steps.) 21: INT. CASTLE PASSAGE (JO creeps down a corridor.) 22: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM (The DOCTOR checks the clock. It now shows thirteen minutes past. He calls out...) DOCTOR: Anyone out there? 23: INT. CASTLE. PASSAGE OUTSIDE MASTER'S ROOM (Outside the room, CASTLE GUARD DREW stands on guard.) DOCTOR: (OOV: Inside room.) I said, is there anyone out there? CASTLE GUARD DREW: Please be quiet, sir. DOCTOR: (OOV: Inside room.) Look, guard, I want to talk to you. (Angrily.) I said I want to talk to you! (The GUARD enters the room as JO peers round the corner at the top of the steps at the end of the passage.) 24: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM CASTLE GUARD DREW: What's all the noise about, sir? DOCTOR: How much longer am I going to be kept chained up like this? What... 25: INT. CASTLE. PASSAGE OUTSIDE MASTER'S ROOM (Outside the room, JO starts to tiptoe down towards the door.) DOCTOR: (OOV: Inside room.)...about the Geneva convention? CASTLE GUARD DREW: (OOV: Inside room.) You'll have to stay here until someone tells me different, sir. DOCTOR: (OOV: Inside room.) What about some food then? I'm sure they didn't tell you to starve me to death. CASTLE GUARD DREW: (OOV: Inside room.) You'll be fed when the time comes. (She quietly enters.) 26: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM (The guard has his back to the door. JO sneaks in and hides behind the open door.) DOCTOR: You tell Colonel Trenchard that I want to see him straight away. He's got no right to keep me here like this! CASTLE GUARD DREW: Look, sir, you're a lot better off here than in one of the cells, so please be quiet, sir. (He goes back out, shutting the door behind him. Revealed in her "hiding place", JO gives a wave to the DOCTOR. She goes over to him and looks over the cuffs. He mouths to her "Screwdriver, over there" and nods at the table where the MASTER has left his tools. JO picks up a couple of screwdrivers and starts to pick the lock.) 27: INT. CASTLE. GOVERNOR'S OFFICE (CAPTAIN HART is in TRENCHARD'S office.) TRENCHARD: There's nothing more I can tell you, old chap. I'm as puzzled as you are. Just called for a taxi and off they went. CAPTAIN HART: I see. But Miss Grant was sure she'd caught sight of your prisoner at the base. TRENCHARD: Huh, absolutely ridiculous! This place is totally de...secure. Oh, just take a look at the alarm system. (TRENCHARD switches on the venetian monitor and a diagram of the castle complex appears.) TRENCHARD: There. CAPTAIN HART: And you see, George, you did drop in on me at exactly the time of the robbery. (TRENCHARD switches the monitor off.) TRENCHARD: My dear chap, you're scarcely suggesting that I pinched your wretched material? (Laughs.) Don't understand the stuff. Tried to make myself a crystal set once, when I was a lad. Never got it to work. CAPTAIN HART: Well then, would it be possible to see your prisoner? TRENCHARD: Oh, strictly against the rules. No one can see him without a special pass - completely incommunicado. CAPTAIN HART: Oh, surely we can stretch the rules, George? This is important. (TRENCHARD considers.) TRENCHARD: Well, all right, old chap. Seeing it's you. Take a look at him on this. (He leads the way back to the monitor.) CAPTAIN HART: Thank you. (TRENCHARD switches the monitor on again and this time it shows a view of the MASTER sat in a different cell to his usual one.) TRENCHARD: There you are. CAPTAIN HART: Well, I suppose the Doctor must have been wrong. TRENCHARD: Of course he was. Seemed a pretty cranky sort of fellow to me. CAPTAIN HART: I... TRENCHARD: Time for a quick one? CAPTAIN HART: No, I should be going, George. TRENCHARD: Yes, yes, of course, I...realise how busy you are. (TRENCHARD passes HART his cap and swagger stick.) CAPTAIN HART: Well, thank you. (Hesitantly.) Look here, George... TRENCHARD: (Meaningfully.) The guard'll see you out. CAPTAIN HART: Yes, thank you. (HART walks out...) TRENCHARD: Bye, John. (...and TRENCHARD shuts the door after him.) 28: SEA (The submarine moves through the depths of the channel.) 29: INT. SUBMARINE CONTROL ROOM (MITCHELL watches LDG. SEAMAN LOVELL operating their specialised equipment as RIDGEWAY walks up. The equipment gives out the characteristic "ping" of a sonar.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Anything, number one? LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: Er, no, sir. Nothing...nothing at all. COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Keep trying, old chap. LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: Sir. (RIDGEWAY walks away. MITCHELL continues to watch the sonar. A second later, the tone of the sonar changes.) LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: Er, we have a contact, sir. (Suddenly, various electronic screeches come out of the equipment. LOVELL tears off his headphones.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: What the blazes is that? LDG. SEAMAN LOVELL: It's gone crazy, sir! COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Get on to the sonar maintenance. LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: Aye aye, sir. (MITCHELL runs across to a control board.) LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: It's packed up, sir. It's gone d*ad, sir! COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: What the devil's going on? (As RIDGEWAY moves across to MITCHELL, a report suddenly comes over the intercom and RIDGEWAY stops in his tracks.) ENGINEER: (OOV: Over intercom.) Engine room here, sir. Loss of essential power supplies. (A gaggle of voices starts to come over the intercom to the stunned COMMANDER...) 30: SEA (...as the submarine hovers in the watery depths.) 31: INT. CASTLE. GOVERNOR'S OFFICE (The MASTER walks down a spiral staircase into TRENCHARD'S office, the device still in his hand.) MASTER: Well, Trenchard. I think that you handled Captain Hart exceedingly well. TRENCHARD: (Troubled.) I can't keep it up, you know? The lies I've told! How long before that device of yours is ready? MASTER: Oh, just a few hours now. (The MASTER puts the device down on TRENCHARD'S desk and sits in his chair.) TRENCHARD: What is exactly is it? MASTER: It's a perfect replica of the communications device used by the enemy agents. We are going to use it to lure them into a trap. TRENCHARD: (Sighs.) Well, I only hope it works. If it doesn't, I'm for it, you know? MASTER: Oh, it'll work, don't you worry about that. (The MASTER crosses to TRENCHARD.) MASTER: Just think of it, Trenchard - you will be responsible for exposing some of the most dangerous saboteurs this country has ever known. (He places a hand on TRENCHARD'S shoulder.) MASTER: I think you'll find that a grateful government will give you anything that you ask for. TRENCHARD: (Humbly.) Oh, don't want any reward, of course. Er, just doing my duty. MASTER: Yes, of course. I'd better get back to my quarters. (He picks up the device.) TRENCHARD: This Doctor fellow - have you finished with him? MASTER: For the time being, yes. Oh, by the way, what about the girl? Have they caught her yet? TRENCHARD: Oh, grounds are very large, you know. Only a matter of time, though. She can't get away. MASTER: I hope you're right. (He crosses to the door.) MASTER: Erm, it might be better if one of the guards were to take me back. TRENCHARD: Huh? Oh, yes, of course! Er, must keep up appearances, what? (He presses an intercom switch.) TRENCHARD: Guard? 32: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM (JO succeeds in opening the DOCTOR'S cuffs. The DOCTOR whispers "Okay" to her so quietly that it can hardly be heard. He then whispers "behind the door" in the same almost inaudible tone. JO nods and takes up the position. The DOCTOR, keeping his hands behind his back, then starts calling out...) DOCTOR: Guard! Guard! (Shouts.) Guard! I want to talk to you! (CASTLE GUARD DREW enters the room.) CASTLE GUARD DREW: What's wrong now, sir? (JO comes out from the behind the door and crouches down immediately behind DREW.) DOCTOR: These handcuffs - they're far too tight. They're k*lling me! CASTLE GUARD DREW: I'm under strict instructions, sir, that they're to be kept on... (The DOCTOR leans over from his chair and butts DREW in the stomach. The CASTLE GUARD stumbles backwards, over JO and onto the floor. He attempts to sit up but JO gives him a quick karate chop on the chest, knocking him out. The DOCTOR pulls his hands free and shakes JO'S hand. They then head for the door which JO opens. The DOCTOR politely holds up his hand for her to go through.) DOCTOR: After you. JO: No, after you! DOCTOR: No, no - after you! (JO laughs and goes through into the passage. The DOCTOR follows.) 33: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE (JANE BLYTHE comes from the radio room and heads for the chart to make an adjustment. HART is at his desk, deep in thought.) CAPTAIN HART: Anything from the sub? 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: No sir. CAPTAIN HART: Look here, Blythe, you'd better get on to UNIT and see if they've any news yet of the Doctor and Miss Grant's return. 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: Right, sir. 34: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM (TRENCHARD enters the MASTER'S room and sees his "prisoner" bent over the unconscious form of CASTLE GUARD DREW with the DOCTOR'S handcuffs in his hands.) TRENCHARD: What's happened? MASTER: It would appear that Miss Grant has succeeded in releasing the Doctor. TRENCHARD: This is appalling! It'll ruin everything! MASTER: Exactly. (Angrily.) That's why you've got to find them! 35: SEA (The submarine falls towards the sea bed.) 36: INT. SUBMARINE CONTROL ROOM (MITCHELL walks over to the COMMANDER.) LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: It's no good, sir. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the engines. We've run a complete check on them. COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: And we're still going down. 36: SEA BED (The nose of the submarine hits a shelf of rock...) 37: INT. SUBMARINE CONTROL ROOM (...jolting the men inside.) 38: SEA BED (The back end of the submarine then falls on the sea bed...) 39: INT. SUBMARINE CONTROL ROOM (...and the men inside are again thrown to one side. The vessel steadies and MITCHELL crosses to RIDGEWAY.) LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: What do we do now, sir? COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Keep working on the engines. LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: There's nothing wrong with them, sir. There's nothing wrong with any part of this boat. We've checked everything. COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Then check again. (They suddenly hear the echoing sound of banging noises on the hull.) LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: Divers? COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: That's impossible. (They hear more bangs.) LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: There's something out there, sir. (Suddenly, the ship's intercom bursts into life.) RATING: (OOV: Over intercom.) For'ard section here, sir. We're being att*cked! (Behind the sound of the sailor can be heard cries and shouts from his compatriots. RIDGEWAY grabs an intercom radio.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: (Into radio.) This is the captain, what's happening? RATING: (OOV: Over intercom.) Someone's coming in, sir. Through the escape compartment. COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: (To MITCHELL.) Shut off for'ard and aft escape compartments. LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: Aye aye, sir. COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: (Into radio.) What's happening, man? RATING: (OOV: Over intercom.) They're coming in, sir! They're... (The voice suddenly screams out in agony and then cuts out...) 40: SEA BED (The submarine is completely still on the sea bed.) 41: INT. CASTLE. GOVERNOR'S OFFICE (TRENCHARD is on the phone in his office.) TRENCHARD: (Into phone.) Understand this - they've got to be found. They're two dangerous enemy agents. Use every available man. (He puts the phone down and swigs back a drink of something strong.) 42: EXT. CASTLE GROUNDS (The DOCTOR and JO pelt down a hill in the castle grounds. Nearby is a bayonet practice range. From behind this, CASTLE GUARD BARCLAY stands up and speaks calmly into a radio.) CASTLE GUARD BARCLAY: (Into radio.) Ground to control. Subject's entering sector twenty-seven. 44: INT. CASTLE. GOVERNOR'S OFFICE (TRENCHARD is on the phone again.) TRENCHARD: (Into phone.) Yes, yes, all right. (He puts the phone down. The MASTER is back in his office, together with the device.) TRENCHARD: They're making for the beach - towards the minefield. MASTER: No doubt they're trying to rejoin their associates at sea. TRENCHARD: Right, we must head them off. MASTER: No, let them get to the beach. TRENCHARD: But we've got to catch them! MASTER: We shall. This device is now ready for testing. We shall use it trap them all together! (The MASTER switches on the device. A small radar-type disc on top starts to spin round and a powerful signal is given out.) 45: EXT. CLIFFS AND BEACH (The DOCTOR and JO run past a life-ring post and towards a cliff. They see the steepness of the ridge down to the beach and run back. On the beach, a minimoke filled with guards speeds towards the spot near the cliffs. The DOCTOR grabs the rope from the ring and runs back towards the cliff edge as the minimoke gets nearer. He then throws the rope over the edge and starts to abseil down the cliff.) DOCTOR: All right, Jo! Come on! (JO hesitates but sees the MASTER, device in hand, with TRENCHARD and some guards running past to life-post and towards her. She then puts the rope round her and also abseils down, joining the DOCTOR on the beach just as the MASTER and TRENCHARD appear at the top of the cliff. They run towards the water but from one side, the minimoke stops and the guards get out with their r*fles raised. They look to the other side and see a line of barbed wire and a red sign reading "DANGER MINEFIELD". They are trapped on three sides with the sea on the fourth. To make matters more difficult, the MASTER switches on the device and points it at the waves. Almost immediately, a SEA DEVIL rises from the water and starts to make its way inland. One of the guards sees it and shouts to the others as he points.) CASTLE GUARD BARCLAY: Look! (The other guards see it and drop their r*fles in amazement. JO also sees the creature.) JO: Doctor - look! (The DOCTOR looks at the approaching reptile...)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "09x11 - The Sea Devils - part 3"}
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THE SEA DEVILS BY: MALCOLM HULKE EPISODE FOUR Original Air Date: 8 March, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: EXT. CLIFFS AND BEACH (The DOCTOR and JO run towards the water but from one side, the minimoke stops and the guards get out with their r*fles raised. They look to the other side and see a line of barbed wire and a red sign reading "DANGER MINEFIELD". They are trapped on three sides with the sea on the fourth. To make matters more difficult, the MASTER switches on the device and points it at the waves. Almost immediately, a SEA DEVIL rises from the water and starts to make its way inland. One of the guards sees it and shouts to the others as he points.) CASTLE GUARD BARCLAY: Look! (The other guards see it and drop their r*fles in amazement. JO also sees the creature.) JO: Doctor - look! (The DOCTOR looks at the approaching reptile as it gets nearer to the shoreline. Up on the cliff, TRENCHARD holds his hat up as shield against the light as he looks down on the creature in amazement.) TRENCHARD: What is it? MASTER: (Smiles.) One of the creatures that have been destroying the ships. TRENCHARD: You told me it was enemy agents. Why didn't you tell me the truth? MASTER: If I had, would you have believed me? (Down below, the DOCTOR and JO look round is desperation. They see that the guards are still diverted by the SEA DEVIL.) DOCTOR: There's only one thing for it - we'll have to go through the minefield. (He pulls her towards the barbed wire as the SEA DEVIL reaches the beach. It turns and looks at the guards who have lowered there w*apon as they look on in shock. It raises its open w*apon and a flame sh**t out from the disc. A guard falls d*ad and another sh*t fires out. Another guard falls as the remaining take up defensive cover behind the minimoke and start returning f*re. As a mini-battle erupts, the two fugitives reach the first of two rows of barbed wire. The DOCTOR hesitates momentarily and then throws himself down onto the first set, enabling JO to step over him. He gets up and throws himself back first onto the second row and JO repeats the manoeuvre. They crouch down at the very edge of the minefield. The DOCTOR reaches into his pocket, takes out his sonic screwdriver and starts to make adjustments to it.) JO: We'll get blown up. DOCTOR: No, don't worry. My sonic screwdriver - it converts into rather a good mine detector. (He switches it on and it starts to give out a regular high-pitched pulsing noise. Behind them, the noise alerts the SEA DEVIL which switches it attention away from its fight with the guards and turns to face the two escapees in the minefield. Meanwhile, a higher and louder pitched sound emanates from the sonic screwdriver.) DOCTOR: Look out. Look, there's one over there. Now, you'll have to move round to the right. Now follow me. (They get up and start to step carefully across the sand. The SEA DEVIL watches them go but makes no move to follow - much to the anger of the watching MASTER.) MASTER: Stupid beast! Why doesn't it att*ck them?! (He makes an adjustment to the device and the signal from it increases in tone. The SEA DEVIL starts to run after the DOCTOR and JO. They meanwhile are making tortuously slow progress across the minefield. JO looks back.) JO: Doctor, it's following us! (The SEA DEVIL steps through the barbed wire previously crushed down by the DOCTOR.) JO: (Panicking.) Doctor! DOCTOR: Relax, Jo, relax. (They have stopped and the DOCTOR makes another adjustment to his screwdriver. He points the device across the minefield at the approaching reptile and presses a switch. A different tone comes from the screwdriver and two of the mines explode. He presses the switch again and another mine explodes right in front of the SEA DEVIL. It gives out a cry of pain and staggers. The DOCTOR activates another two expl*si*n and the SEA DEVIL screams out again, turns and runs back over the barbed wire, back towards the safety of the water.) DOCTOR: Right, Jo, follow me. (The DOCTOR re-adjusts the screwdriver and he and JO their progress through the remainder of the minefield as the SEA DEVIL slips beneath the waves.) 2: INT. NAVAL BASE. RADIO ROOM (HART walks into the radio room where BOWMAN is on duty at the radio set. BLYTHE is also there.) CAPTAIN HART: Anything from the sub yet? LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: It's no good, sir, there's nothing. CAPTAIN HART: (Irritated.) They had instructions to surface over an hour ago. 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: (Calmly.) Maybe they've found something, sir. Perhaps they're still investigating. CAPTAIN HART: If they haven't surfaced by now, then something must be stopping them. All right, sub-miss procedure. Alert submarine command, we'll set up a full scale search right away. 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: Sir. (He walks out as BLYTHE picks up a phone.) 3: INT. SUBMARINE CONTROL ROOM (Inside the trapped and sunken submarine, RIDGEWAY and MITCHELL listen carefully at a closed and bolted bulkhead door in the control room. A tannoy message in a Scottish accent comes through.) SUBMARINE RATING: (OOV: Over tannoy.) Submarine indicator buoys still won't release, sir. (RIDGEWAY leaves MITCHELL crosses to C.P.O. SUMMERS who is getting dressed into an orange freeascent submarine escape suit.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: All right, Summers. Radio Captain Hart the moment you surface. Tell him we're immobilised on the sea bed by some unknown force and intruders have broken through the hull. C.P.O. SUMMERS: Aye aye, sir. COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Have you checked your R/T? C.P.O. SUMMERS: Er, yes sir. COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: All right, carry on. Good luck. (SUMMERS moves off as MITCHELL calls over from the hatch. There is a hissing noise in the air.) LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: Something's happening to this door, sir! It's getting hot! COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Right, small arms number one. LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: Right, sir. (MITCHELL moves across to a locked and barred armoury cupboard, taking out his keys. As MITCHELL starts to unlock the cupboard, SUMMERS calls over from another hatch near to the cupboard.) C.P.O. SUMMERS: For'ard hatch is jammed, sir! COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: All right, Summers. (RIDGEWAY points out places from which the ratings are to take up position.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Johnson, here. Petty Officer, here. (He joins MITCHELL and starts to hand out g*n from the cupboard. Meanwhile, a part of the hatch door starts to melt away in a similar fashion to the one in the sea fort. There is a red glow behind it.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Right, take cover. (All the men in the room find places of cover and crouch down, g*n raised and primed. There is a tense moment as the men watch what remains of the bulkhead falls away.) LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: The door's going! COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: (Calmly.) All right, number one. (The door is now fully breached.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Hold your f*re until we see what they are. (A SEA DEVIL pushes its way through the melted remains of the door. The men are dumbstruck by the sight of the lizard.) 4: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM (Back at the castle prison, TRENCHARD has still not recovered from the sight on the beach. He angrily paces the MASTER'S room while his impatient prisoner sits and watches him.) TRENCHARD: I just can't take it in. It...it's all too much for me. MASTER: Trenchard, you really must be more calm. Believe me, it's very simple. TRENCHARD: Simple? You've misled me all along. You said it was spies, saboteurs. You said we'd catch them! (The MASTER stands in anger.) MASTER: Look, if I had talked to you about sea monsters, would you have believed me? TRENCHARD: I've risked everything to help you - and you've lied to me. MASTER: I had to lie. Now sit down, Trenchard. Sit down and listen to me. (TRENCHARD stops pacing and does as the MASTER says.) TRENCHARD: I don't know how you can be so calm. MASTER: Now listen, that creature that you saw is one of a race of intelligent reptiles that has a deadly hatred of mankind. Now somehow, they've established themselves in the sea, but now...they intend to emerge and conquer the Earth! (A look of both incredulity and shock appears on the gullible TRENCHARD'S face. He jumps up.) TRENCHARD: What, we...we must warn the authorities at once! MASTER: No, no. Premature action would ruin everything. TRENCHARD: What else can we do? MASTER: Wait until this device of mine is perfected, and then tell the authorities. 5: EXT. CASTLE GROUNDS (The DOCTOR and JO emerge from woodland in the castle grounds and start to run across a hill towards a large bush. The DOCTOR hears the distant voices of searching guards. He grabs JO and they rush into cover behind the bush.) DOCTOR: Still! Keep still! (Two mimimokes, filled with armed guards, and another guard on horseback comes over the brow of the hill. They charge down but, not having seen the two fugitives, move off to one side. The DOCTOR and JO watch them go.) DOCTOR: We've got to get back to Captain Hart. Come on. (They move off.) 6: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM (TRENCHARD comes into the MASTER'S room. He is working on his device again.) TRENCHARD: They're not in the beach sector. We've completely lost track of them. MASTER: (Angrily.) Trenchard, if they reach the naval base...! TRENCHARD: (Interrupts.) Exactly - they'll tell Hart everything. MASTER: Mind you, there's a good chance that he won't believe them, of course. TRENCHARD: But suppose he does? Suppose he turns up here again? MASTER: Refuse to admit him. TRENCHARD: (Incredulous.) Wha...don't be ridiculous! MASTER: (Patiently.) Trenchard, you are running a top security establishment here. Your only responsibility is to the government. TRENCHARD: Oh, what about the Doctor? He'll report to UNIT - they can go to the government. MASTER: Now look, you must trust me a little longer. I assure you...all your troubles will soon be over. 7: SEA (The submarine is once more on the move through the depths of the sea.) 8: INT. SUBMARINE CONTROL ROOM (Within, RIDGEWAY makes an adjustment to a transparent sea chart similar to the one in HART'S office.) RATING: (OOV: Over tannoy.) Aft end, land space, dry ... , sir. (He then crosses the room, past a dubious looking C.P.O SUMMERS to where the SEA DEVIL stands over a map table with MITCHELL. There is an air of uneasy calm in the room as they move onwards under their new "commander". The SEA DEVIL grabs hold of RIDGEWAY'S arm and places it down on the map table so that his finger points to the sea fort on the chart.) LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: Why there? COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Ask green gilbert! LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: (To the SEA DEVIL, cheerfully.) All right, old man. Get you there in no time! (To RIDGEWAY.) Er, sir, shall we...take a look at the pressure gauge, sir? (RIDGEWAY smiles and nods. MITCHELL moves off as RIDGEWAY speaks to the SEA DEVIL.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: If you'll excuse me one moment? (RIDGEWAY joins MITCHELL on the other side of the room. They speak quietly.) LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: Sir, shouldn't we try and jump them? COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: No. LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: You mean we're going to do nothing at all? COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Sooner or later, these things are gonna return to their base. I want to know where that is. (Loudly.) Starboard twenty, number one. 9: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE (NIGHT) (Night has fallen. The DOCTOR and JO have reached the safety of HMS Seaspite and are sat in HART'S office. JO has a coat draped over her shoulders as she drinks out of a hot mug whilst the DOCTOR drinks a glass of spirits. HART slams his desk, gets up and paces his office.) CAPTAIN HART: I'm sorry if I seem to be repeating myself, Doctor, but I don't believe a word of it! DOCTOR: Well, I can assure you we didn't walk ten miles across open countryside just to tell you fairy stories. CAPTAIN HART: (Scoffing.) Monsters coming out of the sea! JO: But it's different this time! Everybody saw it - Trenchard and the guards. CAPTAIN HART: And you think Trenchard will confirm your story? DOCTOR: I doubt it. The Master's got some sort of hold over him. JO: The Doctor's seen these creatures before. CAPTAIN HART: Oh, I'm quite sure he has, Miss Grant. JO: In some caves in Derbyshire. You see, they want to take over the Earth... CAPTAIN HART: Oh, really, Miss Grant, if you think for one moment I'm going to believe... JO: ...well, re-take if you like, and what they're going to do is... DOCTOR: (Interrupts.) All right, Jo, all right, all right. Let me deal with the explanations. (To HART.) Look, it's like this... (JANE BLYTHE enters with a plate of small sandwiches and goes up to JO.) 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: Only cheese, I'm afraid. The best the steward could do. (She gives JO the plate.) JO: Oh, that's super. Thanks very much. (The DOCTOR snatches it from her.) DOCTOR: For heaven's sakes, Jo. What do you think this is - a picnic? (JO rolls her eyes to heaven at JANE and puts her chin in her hands as the DOCTOR turns back to HART.) DOCTOR: All right, well let's forget about the Sea Devils. What about Trenchard taget...trying to take us prisoners then? (He unthinkingly pops a sandwich in his mouth and starts to munch.) CAPTAIN HART: Well, I only have your word for that, haven't I? DOCTOR: All right, what about the theft of your electronic spares? Surely you'll agree that happened? (The DOCTOR puts a second sandwich in his mouth.) CAPTAIN HART: Since I was here at the time, yes. JO: The Master stole those parts to make his calling device, and... CAPTAIN HART: (Interrupts.) His what?! DOCTOR: Well, he's developed some way of communicating with them. Mm, probably, mm, ultra-high frequency sonic beam. (He eats a third sandwich and indicates with the plate to HART.) DOCTOR: These are rather good, want one? CAPTAIN HART: (Impatiently.) No, thank you. DOCTOR: (To BLYTHE.) Sandwich? 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: Thank you. (She takes the fourth and final sandwich.) JO: Doctor! (The DOCTOR sees that he is now holding an empty plate.) DOCTOR: Oh, I'm so sorry. (He says this with little feeling or sincerity and passes her the empty plate. The phone rings at BLYTHE'S desk and she answers it.) 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: (Into phone.) Captain Hart's office? (She listens, but sounds disappointed with her reply.) 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: (Into phone.) Oh, I see. (Listens.) Yes, yes, I'll tell him. (To HART.) They've had to abandon the search, sir. They'll start again at first light. CAPTAIN HART: Very well. 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: (To JO.) I'll get you some more sandwiches. JO: Thanks very much. (BLYTHE leaves.) DOCTOR: How overdue is the submarine? CAPTAIN HART: Four hours. DOCTOR: It should never have been sent, you know? They were bound to presume it was hostile. CAPTAIN HART: (Snaps.) Kindly leave the naval side of the operation to me, Doctor! DOCTOR: Captain Hart, you are dealing with situation completely outside of your own experience. And if you won't let me help you... CAPTAIN HART: (Angrily.) All right then, Doctor! (HART sighs and realises that the DOCTOR is right. He calms down.) CAPTAIN HART: What do you want me to do? DOCTOR: Well, the key to this whole situation is at the castle... (Suddenly, BOWMAN pops his round the door to the radio room.) LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: Sir, I think we've got something. (He moves back into the radio room and the others follow.) 10: INT. NAVAL BASE. RADIO ROOM (NIGHT) CAPTAIN HART: Where? (BOWMAN, back at his station, points a place on a radar screen. At the centre of the screen is an outline of the island.) LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: There, sir. Contact bearing two-seven-zero. Range, twenty thousand yards. Heading zero-four-seven. JO: The submarine? CAPTAIN HART: Could be. LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: I think it must be, sir. (The DOCTOR also points at the screen.) DOCTOR: You see where the thing's heading - that beach for castle! (To HART.) Perhaps you'll believe me now. (The CAPTAIN looks slightly sheepish.) 11: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM (NIGHT) (The MASTER is working again on his device. Another sound is coming from it - a sound rather like a speeded up signal. The MASTER smiles and starts to tap on an eight digit keyboard, resulting in a different signalling sound. He flicks a switch and the first signal sound starts to be heard again. The MASTER listens to this intently, still smiling slightly. He flicks the switch back and is starting to reply again when TRENCHARD comes in unannounced.) TRENCHARD: That thing working all right? (The MASTER hastily switches the device off.) MASTER: It, erm, still needs a few minor adjustments, that's all. TRENCHARD: Look, I've been giving...some thought to all this. It's going to be a...an enormous job coping with these creatures. We must give the authorities all the notice we can. (The device suddenly bursts into life with the receiving signal. The MASTER hastily pulls a wire out of the back of the machine.) TRENCHARD: What was that? MASTER: Just random feedback. It's nothing important. TRENCHARD: Sounded like some sort of message. MASTER: (Wearily.) Look, Trenchard, I am trying to carry out a very difficult and complex task here, and...I can't work if I'm being continually interrupted. (TRENCHARD looks down at the MASTER as if he really sees the man for what he is for the first time.) TRENCHARD: I'm terribly sorry, old chap. I'll leave you to it. MASTER: Thank you. (TRENCHARD goes back to the door and looks back.) TRENCHARD: Yes... (He goes out. The MASTER plugs the wire back in and the device bursts into life again. The signals get even more frantic and tone as the MASTER smiles again.) 12: EXT. BEACH (NIGHT) (In the semi-darkness, a group of six SEA DEVILS make their way out of the water and up onto the beach. Further out to sea, another six of creatures rise up out of the water.) 13: INT. CASTLE. GOVERNOR'S OFFICE (NIGHT) (TRENCHARD drums his fingers on his desk as he makes an urgent telephone call...) TRENCHARD: (Into phone.) I tell you I must speak to the minister. It's most important. (He listens.) Mmm? Well when do you expect him back? (Listens.) No, I can't tell you what's wrong. The security of the nation is at risk. (Listens.) Oh, very well, I'll...I'll hold on, but please hurry! 14: INT. CASTLE. PASSAGE (NIGHT) (A castle guard walks down a flight of steps in a passage in the castle. He reaches a locked door and starts to get his keys out of his pocket. He fails to see the SEA DEVIL that comes up behind him and pulls his head back, snapping his neck.) 15: INT. CASTLE. GOVERNOR'S OFFICE (NIGHT) TRENCHARD: (Into phone.) No, it can't wait till the morning. (He listens.) Oh, you'll have to interrupt his meeting. This is a matter of national urgency. (Listens.) Oh, very well, as soon as he's free then. But if there's any unnecessary delay, believe me, you'll answer for it. (He puts the phone down and goes over to the monitor. He switches it on and watches the MASTER as he intently carries on signalling. He switches it off and picks up one of the phones next to the monitor.) TRENCHARD: (Into phone.) Guard? (He receives no reply and taps the phone several times.) 16: INT. CASTLE. PASSAGE (NIGHT) (Elsewhere in the castle, a wall phone falls to the floor as it is ripped from its mounting. A castle guard falls down next to it. A SEA DEVIL walks past the body and up a set of steps.) 17: INT. CASTLE. GOVERNOR'S OFFICE (NIGHT) (TRENCHARD gives up on the phone and goes back to his desk. He looks intensely worried. Sat in his chair, he rummages in his pocket and pulls out a key with which he unlocks a drawer on his desk. From this he takes an old service revolver. He checks that it is loaded and looks at it with determination...) 18: INT. CASTLE. PASSAGE OUTSIDE MASTER'S ROOM (NIGHT) (Two castle guards walk down the steps near to the MASTER'S room and round a corner. They see two SEA DEVILS in front of them. As their jaws drop in shock, one of the guards swiftly reaches for a wall alarm and presses the button. The ring of the bell fills the castle.) 19: CASTLE. PASSAGE (NIGHT) (Two armed guards run down a passage, reacting to the alarm.) 20: CASTLE. ANOTHER PASSAGE (NIGHT) (Two SEA DEVILS carefully make their way through the castle, pausing to check through open archways.) 21: CASTLE. PASSAGE (NIGHT) (His revolver is his hand, TRENCHARD runs through the castle.) 22: CASTLE. ANOTHER PASSAGE (NIGHT) (Two guards run round a corner and are confronted by two armed SEA DEVILS. sh*ts are fired between the two parties but the result is a foregone conclusion and the two guards fall d*ad as the reptiles move on.) 23: INT. CASTLE. PASSAGE OUTSIDE MASTER'S ROOM (NIGHT) (CASTLE GUARD DREW crouches down in a defensive position outside the MASTER'S room, f*ring away as the SEA DEVILS move off. TRENCHARD runs up. They shout over the continuing sound of the alarm bell.) TRENCHARD: What's happening, man? CASTLE GUARD DREW: (Panicking.) They're all over the place, sir! They k*lled most of the lads! TRENCHARD: Who? Who's attacking us? CASTLE GUARD DREW: Well, those lizards, sir. Like that thing we saw on the beach. Come on, sir! They were after me! TRENCHARD: Pull yourself together, man. Have you sent for help? CASTLE GUARD DREW: But it's no good, sir! TRENCHARD: There's a direct line to Whitehall in my office - use that. CASTLE GUARD DREW: Why can't you, sir? TRENCHARD: I shall attend to the security of my prisoner. Go on, man - move! (DREW moves off and TRENCHARD turns to face three SEA DEVILS who raise their w*apon. TRENCHARD balances his revolver across his left forearm and starts f*ring. One of the SEA DEVILS clutches its chest as TRENCHARD continues to pump away b*ll*ts.) 24: INT. CASTLE. MASTER'S ROOM (NIGHT) (The MASTER continues to tap out a signal on his device. Satisfied, he switches it off and turns and faces the door as it opens to admit three SEA DEVILS. Behind them in the passage can be seen the fallen body of TRENCHARD, his usefulness now over. The SEA DEVILS nod at each other and the MASTER smiles as his captivity comes to an end.) 25: INT. NAVAL BASE. RADIO ROOM (NIGHT) (BOWMAN taps out a Morse code signal but then gives up. On the radar screen, the blip from the submarine is away from the island again.) LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: No, it's no good, sir - nothing. JO: (To HART.) Well, if that thing was the submarine, why don't they answer your signals? DOCTOR: Perhaps they can't. CAPTAIN HART: (To BLYTHE.) Tell the search coordinator to check that area immediately. It'll be light soon. 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: Sir. LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: Sir - contact fading! CAPTAIN HART: What?! (He rushes to the radar screen only to see the blip fading.) DOCTOR: Captain Hart, we've got to find out what's happening at that castle. LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: Contact lost. CAPTAIN HART: (To BLYTHE.) I want an armed party and two Landrovers at the main gate in four minutes flat. (Urgently.) Doctor? (HART rushes out followed by the DOCTOR and JO. BLYTHE picks up a phone to pass on the order.) 26: EXT. CASTLE (It is now light. Two Navy Landrovers screech up to the castle entrance and stop. HART gets out of one of the vehicles and the DOCTOR and JO out of the other. Numerous armed ratings also get out of the two vehicles. The DOCTOR and Jo immediately run through the un-guarded entrance. HART turns to his ratings.) CAPTAIN HART: Come on! Follow me! 27: INT. CASTLE. PASSAGE (The DOCTOR and JO, making their way to the MASTER'S room, see a d*ad guard splayed out on the floor. The DOCTOR stoops to examine him. HART passes him and looks down a side passage.) CAPTAIN HART: Doctor! (HART runs off to what he has seen and the DOCTOR and JO follow.) 28: INT. CASTLE. PASSAGE OUTSIDE MASTER'S ROOM (HART runs down the short flight of steps to the body of TRENCHARD. A quick examination confirms the worst as the DOCTOR, JO and some ratings catch up. JO looks distraught. HART is shocked by his friends fate.) CAPTAIN HART: I...don't understand why. DOCTOR: The Master had no further use for him - that's why. CAPTAIN HART: But why did he help the Master in the first place? DOCTOR: What would you say was Trenchard's strongest characteristic? CAPTAIN HART: Oh, I don't know - patriotism, I suppose. DOCTOR: Exactly. And the Master used that patriotism as a w*apon. 29: INT. NAVAL BASE. RADIO ROOM (NIGHT) (BOWMAN is writing down a message as BLYTHE brings in a mug.) 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: I've bought you some kai. (BOWMAN continues to take down the message as JANE watches over his shoulder. Finally, BOWMAN speaks into a hand microphone.) LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: Roger, search force. Over and out. (To BLYTHE.) Er, did you get through to Captain Hart? 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: I telephoned the castle but they've already left. LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: Well, they're definitely getting an echo and the object's moving. 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: I see. (At that moment, HART, the DOCTOR and JO come back in.) CAPTAIN HART: What is it, Bowman? Have they re-established contact? LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: It's a message from one of the search vessels, sir. They are getting an echo. DOCTOR: The submarine? LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: Yes, it's moving towards the fort now. Er, moving at about thirty knots. CAPTAIN HART: Depth? LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: Steady at one-five-zero feet. DOCTOR: The fort. Look, Captain Hart, can you lay on a diving vessel? CAPTAIN HART: Yes, the "Reclaim"s standing by on the search, but why? DOCTOR: I want to inspect the sea bed at the base of that fort. (HART looks slightly surprised at this request.) 30: EXT. SEA (A small launch boat moves further away from the shore. On it are the DOCTOR, JO and HART. One of the ratings signals with an oar to a large diving vessel that they are approaching - "HMS Reclaim". The launch pulls alongside the ship and its rope ladder. On board the "Reclaim", ratings secure the launch and JO is the first to climb the rope ladder.) 31: EXT. "HMS RECLAIM". MAIN DECK (JO climbs on board followed by the DOCTOR. As HART starts to climb the rope ladder, three ratings pipe them aboard. The DOCTOR takes JO to a hatch that leads below.) 32: INT. "HMS RECLAIM". CONTROL ROOM (Within the control room, JO helps the DOCTOR to take his cloak off and then to put on an anorak as HART joins them and speaks to LT. COMMANDER WATTS.) CAPTAIN HART: All pre-dive checks completed? LT. COMMANDER WATTS: Yes sir. CAPTAIN HART: Doctor, are you quite sure you want to go through with this? DOCTOR: Yes, positive. CAPTAIN HART: (To WATTS.) Ready to lower the observation chamber? LT. COMMANDER WATTS: Yes, sir. The crew is standing by. We'll send a man armed with him. CAPTAIN HART: Good. DOCTOR: If you don't mind, I'd rather go down on my own. CAPTAIN HART: Well, I presume you're a trained diver in addition to your other accomplishments then, Doctor? DOCTOR: Naturally. What's more, I know these creatures. I've encountered them before so I know what I'm looking for. CAPTAIN HART: (To WATTS.) All right, carry on. LT. COMMANDER WATTS: Aye aye, sir. (WATTS climbs up to the deck to carry on with preparations as JO speaks quietly to the DOCTOR.) JO: Doctor? DOCTOR: What is it, Jo? JO: Is it really necessary for you to go down? (He lifts her chin up.) DOCTOR: How else am I going to make contact? CAPTAIN HART: Doctor? (CAPTAIN HART is waiting for them. The DOCTOR takes the ladder to the deck, followed by JO.) 33: EXT. "HMS RECLAIM". MAIN DECK (The DOCTOR comes to the deck. A large metal cylindrical diving bell is there, attended to by white polo-necked sailors who hold the device in place under its winch cable. The bell is ringed on the outside by oxygen cylinders. The DOCTOR glances at it, then HART shakes his hand.) CAPTAIN HART: Well, good luck, Doctor. DOCTOR: Thank you, Captain Hart. (The DOCTOR gently pats JO'S face and then steps under the diving bell, climbing up into the structure through a hatch in the bottom.) 34: INT. DIVING BELL (The DOCTOR stands in the bottom as a C.P.O. pops his head up through the hatch.) C.P.O: Everything okay, sir? DOCTOR: Yes, thank you, Chief. C.P.O: Very good. (The C.P.O. makes a small adjustment...) 35: EXT. "HMS RECLAIM". MAIN DECK (...and then steps out, giving a thumbs up sign to LT. COMMANDER WATTS.) LT. COMMANDER WATTS: Test the links. (The orders are shouted on...) NAVAL OFFICER: ... ! (The ratings make checks on the bell.) NAVAL OFFICER: ... then! (The winch crane starts to lift the bell.) 36: INT. DIVING BELL (Within the bell, the DOCTOR sways on his feet as the device rocks.) 37: EXT. "HMS RECLAIM". MAIN DECK (HART and JO watch as the bell, held in the air, is pushed over the edge of the hull.) NAVAL OFFICER: Down drop ... ! (WATTS shouts a command to the men operating the winch.) LT. COMMANDER WATTS: ... the links. Carry on lowering. (The steel cables play out and the bell plunges into the water, creating a large disturbance on the surface.) 38: INT. DIVING BELL (The movement of the water is all that can be heard in the bell.) 39: EXT. "HMS RECLAIM". MAIN DECK (HART indicates to JO to go with him back below deck. They walk back to the hatch.) RATING: Twelve feet. NAVAL OFFICER: Carry on lowering. (The cables heading into the water are now the only sign of the bell.) 40: INT. "HMS RECLAIM". CONTROL ROOM (HART climbs back into the control room followed by JO. LT. COMMANDER WATTS is there ahead of them standing next to a control bank manned by two ratings. Two monitors are on the bank, both of which shows a view of the DOCTOR inside the bell.) CAPTAIN HART: Let me speak to him. (The CAPTAIN takes a microphone from the WATTS.) CAPTAIN HART: (Into microphone.) How's it going, Doctor? DOCTOR: (On monitor.) Splendid, thank you. A most interesting trip. CAPTAIN HART: (Into microphone.) You'll reach sea-bed in a few minutes. Tell us immediately if anything goes wrong. DOCTOR: (On monitor.) Don't worry. I'll be all right. 41: EXT. "HMS RECLAIM". MAIN DECK (The cable winch stops turning.) 42: INT. "HMS RECLAIM". CONTROL ROOM CAPTAIN HART: (Into microphone.) You have reached sea-bed. DOCTOR: (On monitor.) Right. CAPTAIN HART: (Into microphone.) Are you all right, Doctor? 43: INT. DIVING BELL DOCTOR: Yes, I'm fine thank you. (He looks out of small porthole window into the murky green beyond.) DOCTOR: Hang on a minute! (He steps back. A SEA DEVIL looks through the window into the bell...) 44: INT. "HMS RECLAIM". CONTROL ROOM CAPTAIN HART: (Into microphone.) Are you all right, Doctor? Shall we bring you up? DOCTOR: (On monitor.) Definitely not! I think I've just... (The sound is suddenly replaced by static and at the same time the image on the monitors cut out.) CAPTAIN HART: Bring him up! (HART rushes out followed by JO. WATTS starts shouting orders.) LT. COMMANDER WATTS: Start winches! Hoist SCC! 45: EXT. "HMS RECLAIM". MAIN DECK (The winch is frantically turning as HART and JO run up back onto deck and to the ship's side. They watch anxiously as the surface of the water is disturbed by the rising diving bell.) NAVAL OFFICER: ... ! (The bell is pulled clear of the water and into the air. Further orders are shouted and the crane pulls the bell over the deck where it is pulled down by several ratings. JO looks to HART who walks towards the bell and ducks under. He emerges after a moment and walks solemnly towards her. She reads the look in his face and goes towards the bell herself. Ducking under, she carefully stands up into the interior of the bell.) 46: INT. DIVING BELL (JO sees that it is totally empty...)
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THE SEA DEVILS BY: MALCOLM HULKE EPISODE FIVE Original Air Date: 25 March, 1972 5:45pm - 6:10pm 1: EXT. "HMS RECLAIM". MAIN DECK (The surface of the water is disturbed by the rising diving bell.) NAVAL OFFICER: ... ! (The bell is pulled clear of the water and into the air. Further orders are shouted and the crane pulls the bell over the deck where it is pulled down by several ratings. JO looks to HART who walks towards the bell and ducks under. He emerges after a moment and walks solemnly towards her. She reads the look in his face and goes towards the bell herself. Ducking under, she carefully stands up into the interior of the bell.) 2: INT. DIVING BELL (JO sees that it is totally empty.) 3: EXT. "HMS RECLAIM". MAIN DECK (She comes out of the bell and stares in shock at CAPTAIN HART.) JO: He's gone! 4: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. MAIN CHAMBER (The interior of the SEA DEVIL'S base is a cold, dark metallic structure. The sound of lapping water echoes through the cavernous chambers. Several SEA DEVILS walk into the main chamber where an alien looking up-right, man sized pod is being lowered into the ground. The CHIEF SEA DEVIL watches. He looks identical to his fellow creatures except that he wears a cloak of the net material across his shoulders in addition the usual robe. He waves a hand in command and one of the SEA DEVILS removes a plug from the front of the pod. It is connected to cables that go into the pod through a hole and within this can be seen the DOCTOR. He opens his eyes and looks out.) 5: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE (JANE BLYTHE opens the door to CAPTAIN HART'S office to admit a man dressed in a camel hair overcoat, bowler hat and carrying an umbrella and briefcase. He is middle aged and has a self-assured and confident public school demeanour that crosses the path into being patronising. He takes off his bowler and smiles at JANE.) WALKER: Good morning, my dear! Captain Hart here? 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: No sir, he's at sea. WALKER: Well, I suppose that's the right place for a sailor, eh? What's your name? 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: Blythe, sir. WALKER: Walker - Parliamentary Private Secretary. (He promptly hands her the bowler hat and umbrella and steps into the office.) WALKER: Any chance of any breakfast? 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: I'll call the steward, sir. WALKER: Excellent! (JANE retains her temper.) 6: INT. NAVAL BASE. RADIO ROOM (WALKER steps into the radio room where BOWMAN is at his post.) WALKER: And, er, who are you? (BOWMAN looks up in puzzlement.) LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: Leading...Telegraphist Bowman, sir. WALKER: Jolly good! (WALKER casts the briefest of glances over the radio set and then turns to JANE who has followed him in.) WALKER: Er, nothing very elaborate, my dear. Just, erm...eggs, bacon, toast, coffee...oh, and a little rough-cut marmalade, if they've got it. Er, how long is he likely to be - Captain Hart, I mean? 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: I don't know, sir. WALKER: Oh, well now, I tell you what - you get him on your jolly old wireless and ask him to come over here at the double, will you? (He takes off his overcoat, dumps it into JANE'S already full hands and goes back into HART'S office. Struggling with his items, she passes the order onto BOWMAN with only the slightest hint of annoyance and irony in her voice.) 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: Send a signal to Captain Hart. Tell him that a Mister Walker is here to see him. (WALKER pops his head round the door and smiles as he gives his full title.) WALKER: Parliamentary Private Secretary. LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: Er, aye sye, sir. 7: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE (WALKER returns to HART'S office and sits at his desk. He starts to look through the CAPTAIN'S papers. JANE walks back through.) 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: I'll call the steward. WALKER: Ah, and get me the morning papers, will you? There's a good girl. 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: If I may ask, sir, what is the purpose of your visit? (WALKER gives her a condescending smile.) WALKER: Why, all those ships sinking. I've come down to clear it up for you! The Minister's put me in full charge. 8: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. MAIN CHAMBER (The DOCTOR has been taken out of the travel pod. Surrounded by SEA DEVILS, he stands in his blue navy anorak as he converses with the CHIEF SEA DEVIL. The reptile speaks in a fluttering, whispering voice.) CHIEF SEA DEVIL: This is our planet. My people ruled the Earth when man was only an ape. DOCTOR: Your people went into hibernation and abandoned Earth to its fate. CHIEF SEA DEVIL: Our astronomers predicted that a great catastrophe would end all life on the face of the Earth. DOCTOR: Yes, but the catastrophe that you predicted never happened. And the apes that you left behind on the surface to die became man. CHIEF SEA DEVIL: You know our history? DOCTOR: Yes...yes, I've encountered your people before. That is why I want to prevent a conflict that can only end in your destruction. CHIEF SEA DEVIL: We shall destroy man and reclaim the planet. Already we have g*n to sink his ships. DOCTOR: Yes, and already more ships are being sent to hunt you down. CHIEF SEA DEVIL: The submarine? We have captured it. DOCTOR: You may win a few victories to begin with but eventually you're bound to lose. CHIEF SEA DEVIL: There are many thousands of our people in hibernation in this base. We have other colonies hidden all round the world. We shall be the victors in the w*r against mankind. (The DOCTOR shakes his head.) DOCTOR: But there's no need for a w*r. Why can't you share the planet? CHIEF SEA DEVIL: That would be impossible. DOCTOR: Well, the depths of the sea and those areas on Earth where man cannot live can be yours. (The CHIEF SEA DEVIL considers in silence for a moment and then turns to the DOCTOR.) CHIEF SEA DEVIL: And man would agree to that? DOCTOR: There's a chance. Wouldn't it be better to try for a peace, than to launch yourself into a w*r that you cannot possibly win? CHIEF SEA DEVIL: I will consider what you have said. DOCTOR: Let me return to the humans and I will endeavor to make a peace for you. CHIEF SEA DEVIL: Perhaps it would be possible. (Suddenly...) MASTER: (Shouts.) No! (The MASTER stands in the entrance to the chamber, his arrival un-noticed. He stares impassively at the CHIEF SEA DEVIL.) MASTER: (Shouts.) The Doctor is your deadly enemy! He must be destroyed! 9: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE (CAPTAIN HART and JO have returned to the naval base but WALKER has not vacated the CAPTAIN'S desk. He sits there stirring a cup of tea with his breakfast as he argues the case for his actions.) WALKER: Captain Hart, there's only one way to deal with this problem. You have to att*ck. (He sips his tea and grimaces.) WALKER: (To JO.) Mmm, oh, pass me the sugar, my dear, will you? (JO reaches for a sugar bowl that was well within reach of the P.P.S anyway and passes it to him.) CAPTAIN HART: My submarine is missing in that area. There's a chance that some of the crew may still be alive. (WALKER starts to put spoonful after spoonful of sugar into his tea.) JO: And what about the Doctor? He may still be alive down there too! CAPTAIN HART: Yes. WALKER: Well, this is w*r, my dear, and w*r calls for sacrifice. (To BLYTHE.) Any chance of any more toast, my dear? 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: Yes sir. (With a look of thunder, she takes the toast rack from WALKER and leaves the room.) WALKER: Ah, I've had a look at that UNIT file about the creatures that your friend, the Doctor, encountered in those caves. And do you know what happened? Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart blew the whole lot up. (He carries on with his breakfast.) JO: Maybe, but I bet he didn't do it by risking the lives of his own men. WALKER: Well, that's as maybe, but our line is quite clear - immediate retaliation with everything that we've got. CAPTAIN HART: I'm sorry, sir. I don't agree. WALKER: Your opinion is quite immaterial, Captain Hart. The order's already been given - ships are converging on this area from ports all over England. (HART looks horrified and loses his respectful demeanour with WALKER.) CAPTAIN HART: You're throwing away the lives of the men in that submarine, sir! JO: And you've probably k*lled the Doctor! Look, do you realise that that's m*rder?! (WALKER has a mouthful of food as he continues to be absorbed in his breakfast.) WALKER: m*rder? (He licks his fingers.) WALKER: w*r always is, my dear. Where on Earth's that girl with my toast? 10: EXT. SEA (A line of ships plough through the water.) 11: EXT. COMMAND SHIP (A bespectacled REAR ADMIRAL stands on the upper deck of the command ship. A rating with a clipboard steps up and salutes. He prepares to take a note of dictation.) REAR ADMIRAL: Make this to Ministry of Defence - Navy. Special Task Force will be in position at 13.50. That's all, thank you. (The rating salutes.) 12: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. MAIN CHAMBER DOCTOR: I beg you not to listen to this man! He's the personification of evil! CHIEF SEA DEVIL: The Master is our friend. DOCTOR: He wants only to provoke a w*r. MASTER: I do not! (To the CHIEF SEA DEVIL.) I came here to help you revive your people. DOCTOR: Why should you need his help? CHIEF SEA DEVIL: Our hibernation unit is faulty. MASTER: And I can now repair it for you. DOCTOR: But why revive your people only to have them k*lled? Let me try and negotiate that peace for you. MASTER: As you did before, Doctor? (The MASTER points at the DOCTOR.) MASTER: The last time this man encountered your race, he tricked them. The humans destroyed them all. CHIEF SEA DEVIL: (To the DOCTOR.) Is that true? DOCTOR: (Sadly.) Yes...I tried to make peace but I failed. MASTER: You see? He admits it. Man is weak! Your conquest will be easy. DOCTOR: Believe me, man is not weak! He's only too proficient at devising w*apon of annihilation...and using them! (The CHIEF SEA DEVIL looks from the MASTER to the DOCTOR.) CHIEF SEA DEVIL: He says man is weak. He says man is strong. MASTER: He's lying! He's trying to frighten you! (The CHIEF SEA DEVIL walks round the back of the DOCTOR and places a hand on the back of his head, as if trying to feel his thoughts.) CHIEF SEA DEVIL: No. I do not think he lies. Perhaps it would be better to make peace. (With a look of contempt at the MASTER, the DOCTOR turns and faces the CHIEF SEA DEVIL with a smile.) CHIEF SEA DEVIL: I shall have consider what you have said. MASTER: Don't trust him! (The DOCTOR raises up a hand and the CHIEF SEA DEVIL places his own against his new ally's palm.) 13: EXT. SEA (The task force carries on.) 14: INT. NAVAL SHIP (Within one ship, a torpedo is pushed by the machinery along a rack and into the f*ring tube.) 15: EXT. NAVAL SHIP (On deck, the g*n rise into position.) 16: INT. NAVAL SHIP (Another torpedo is pushed into position. Ratings in their heat resistant battle gear sit at their stations.) 17: EXT. NAVAL SHIP (The g*n stand poised.) 18: EXT. COMMAND SHIP (The REAR ADMIRAL turns to another officer on the upper deck.) REAR ADMIRAL: Inform Ministry of Defence - Task Force now in position and ready to att*ck. OFFICER: (Salutes.) Aye aye, sir. 19: INT. NAVAL BASE. RADIO ROOM LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: (Into radio.) Roger Task Force, over and out. (BOWMAN passes the message to HART who reads it.) WALKER: What is it? CAPTAIN HART: The Task Force is in position, sir. WALKER: (Pleased.) Excellent! "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of w*r", mm? (HART sighs.) WALKER: Well, tell 'em to carry out their orders. The att*ck will go ahead now. (JO rushes to HART.) JO: No! Look, please!? You've got to do something! Can't you stop him? CAPTAIN HART: (To WALKER.) I wish you'd reconsider, sir. (WALKER'S manner darkens...) WALKER: Captain Hart, I have full authority. Now, are you going to carry out my order or must I replace you with someone who will? (HART is stood to attention. JO looks at him is desperation, but...) CAPTAIN HART: I'm...sorry, Jo. (He turns to BOWMAN.) 20: EXT. SEA (The task force waits in line.) 21: EXT. COMMAND SHIP REAR ADMIRAL: Commence att*ck. 22: INT. NAVAL SHIP. BRIDGE (Aboard one ship, the wheel is spun round...) 23: EXT. SEA (...and the vessel starts to turn in the water.) 24: INT. NAVAL SHIP OFFICER: (Into radio.) Urgent att*ck - ... (A trigger is pressed...) 25: EXT. SEA (...and the g*n start to f*re their payload. The charges start to explode under the water. Another barrage is fired.) 26: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. MAIN CHAMBER (Those within the SEA DEVIL'S base have no idea of the impending onslaught...) CHIEF SEA DEVIL: You will negotiate a truce between my people and the humans. DOCTOR: If you'll release the submarine and its crew, yes - as a gesture of good faith. CHIEF SEA DEVIL: Very well. (A furious MASTER watches from the sidelines...) MASTER: (Shouts.) You are throwing away the control of this planet! The humans will never make peace with you! (Without warning, the base is suddenly shaken by a massive expl*si*n as the first of the charges h*t. The MASTER looks up in panic as he and the others are thrown to the ground.) 27: EXT. SEA (The water is thrown high into the air by the force of another expl*si*n.) 28: INT. NAVAL SHIP (Within one of the ships, the trigger is pressed again...) 29: EXT. SEA (...and the g*n f*re again and again, breaking up the surface once more.) 30: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. MAIN CHAMBER (Once again, the inhabitants of the base are knocked off their feet. The MASTER yells up from where he lies on the shaking floor.) MASTER: (Shouts.) Is this the promised peace?! Can't you see that the humans are determined to wipe you out?! (He struggles up to a standing position. The CHIEF SEA DEVIL is furious...) CHIEF SEA DEVIL: You are right! These apes cannot be trusted! (He looks at the DOCTOR.) CHIEF SEA DEVIL: Take him away...and k*ll him! (The DOCTOR is grabbed by two SEA DEVILS. They start to lead him from the chamber. The DOCTOR pauses to stare at a smiling MASTER before he is led away.) 31: EXT. SEA (The g*n continue to f*re round after round into the boiling waters.) 32: EXT. COMMAND SHIP (The REAR ADMIRAL watches the att*ck through his binoculars as his ship tears through the waters.) 33: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. PASSAGE (The two SEA DEVILS escort the DOCTOR down a passage which would seem to be hewn out of rock on the sea bed. As they are shaken by the force of another h*t, the DOCTOR uses the opportunity to shake himself free of his captors and make a run for it. Before they can react, another h*t causes the rock roof to fall in on top of the two SEA DEVILS. The DOCTOR presses himself against a wall for safety and then looks down at the bodies of the SEA DEVILS. As the shaking dies down, he goes over to the body of one of them, removes some of the rubble and takes its g*n.) 34: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. MAIN CHAMBER (The base continues to rock with the att*ck.) CHIEF SEA DEVIL: Destroy the ships! MASTER: No! Send your people down to the lower level. They'll be safe there. CHIEF SEA DEVIL: We must retaliate. MASTER: Not yet. If I'm to revive your people, I need time. CHIEF SEA DEVIL: What would you have us do? MASTER: Convince the humans that their att*ck has been a success. (There is another h*t. The MASTER looks up in concern as the room shakes violently.) 35: EXT. SEA (Once more, the waters explode.) 36: EXT. COMMAND SHIP (On the upper deck of the command ship, an officer looks through his binoculars. He turns to the REAR ADMIRAL...) OFFICER: Sir? (...who looks through his own set of binoculars. He sees two SEA DEVILS floating on the surface of the water.) 37: INT. NAVAL BASE. RADIO ROOM LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: (Into radio.) Roger Task Force. (He takes his headphones off and, with piece of paper, goes into HART'S office.) 38: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE (WALKER once more sits at HART'S desk but BOWMAN reports direct to his CAPTAIN.) LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: Sir? Signal from Task Force - they report bodies and debris coming to the surface. (JO runs forward fearfully.) JO: Bodies? Did they say...? LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: No...Miss, just the lizard things. CAPTAIN HART: (To WALKER.) We can call off the att*ck now, sir. WALKER: Well, I'm not sure. (JO leans over the desk into WALKER'S face.) JO: (Accusingly.) Look, you've probably k*lled the Doctor and all those sailors. Aren't you satisfied? (HART steps in and gently pulls her back.) CAPTAIN HART: There is a chance there might be some survivors. Would you want it said that you unnecessarily endangered the lives of naval personnel, sir? (WALKER considers and then replies in a surly manner.) WALKER: All right. Have it your own way. (Relieved, HART steps into the radio room.) 39: INT. NAVAL BASE. RADIO ROOM CAPTAIN HART: (To BOWMAN.) Base to Task Force - abandon att*ck. LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: Aye aye, sir. (Smiling, BOWMAN turns to his radio.) 40: EXT. COMMAND SHIP REAR ADMIRAL: Cease f*re. 41: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. MAIN CHAMBER (A panel rises on the wall of the SEA DEVIL'S base to reveal a radar-type screen. The Task Force ships appear as pulsing green oblong shapes. The MASTER turns in satisfaction to the CHIEF SEA DEVIL.) MASTER: You see? My plan has worked. CHIEF SEA DEVIL: We could still destroy the ships before they are out of range. MASTER: No, let them go. Let them think that they have won. (In a similar manner to the DOCTOR'S gesture to him before, the CHIEF SEA DEVIL raises his hand and the MASTER places his gloved palm against it in a show of trust.) CHIEF SEA DEVIL: You will now revive the rest of my people. MASTER: Yes, but first the trigger mechanism on your reactivation unit is faulty. I need electronic equipment to build a new one. CHIEF SEA DEVIL: And where will you obtain this? MASTER: The humans will provide it. We shall att*ck their base! 42: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. HALLWAY (w*apon in hand, the DOCTOR enters a small darkened chamber in the base. Some of the naval equipment from the submarine lies on the floor. He walks down a short flight of steps, past the body of an unconscious SEA DEVIL.) 43: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. CELL (Leading off from this hallway is a small box-like cell within which RIDGEWAY and MITCHELL are held. The LT. COMMANDER is trying to force the metal door with a Kn*fe.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Optimistic, number one, but I admire your pluck. (MITCHELL grunts with the effort.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Give it to me. LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: Would you like to try, sir? (MITCHELL passes him the Kn*fe and RIDGEWAY starts to try to prise the panel. After a moment, the DOCTOR'S face appears at a porthole-like window in the cell door.) DOCTOR: Good afternoon, gentlemen. Erm, look, er, would you mind keeping back for a moment? Er, that is if you want to get out? (The amazed sailors look at each other...) DOCTOR: Thank you! (...and then step back.) 44: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. HALLWAY (The DOCTOR also steps back, raises the SEA DEVIL w*apon and fires. A flame sh**t round the edge of the door...) 45: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. CELL (...the lower half of which sh**t open. RIDGEWAY steps out...) 46: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. HALLWAY (...followed by MITCHELL.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: (To the DOCTOR.) Who the blazes are you? DOCTOR: Look, I've no time to explain now. Where are the rest of your men? COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Still in the submarine? DOCTOR: Is the submarine still operational? COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Should be. LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: They've ripped out the communicators and the escape gear, as you can see. (He gestures to the equipment on the floor.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: But left the engines alone. LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: Yes. DOCTOR: Where's the sub now? COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: In a kind of undersea harbour. DOCTOR: Can you find the way? COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: I think so, yes. DOCTOR: Right, you'd better lead on. (He holds up the SEA DEVIL w*apon.) DOCTOR: Here, take this. (RIDGEWAY looks at it in puzzlement.) DOCTOR: It's a g*n. Now come on, let's hurry. (RIDGEWAY takes the g*n and he leads the way out of the hallway.) 47: INT. SUBMARINE CONTROL ROOM (A SEA DEVIL paces the submarine control room as C.P.O. SUMMERS, LDG. SEAMAN LOVELL and A/B GIRTON play cards to pass the time. A small pile of cash lies on the table.) C.P.O. SUMMERS: What about you, Chris? LDG. SEAMAN LOVELL: I'll stick. C.P.O. SUMMERS: You? A/B GIRTON: Twist. (SUMMERS hands him a card.) A/B GIRTON: I'll stick. C.P.O. SUMMERS: Right. (SUMMERS turns a card.) C.P.O. SUMMERS: Ha! Pay twenties. A/B GIRTON: Eighteen, LDG. SEAMAN LOVELL: Nineteen. Well, that's it then. You've cleared me right out. C.P.O. SUMMERS: (To GIRTON.) What about you? Do you want to go on? A/B GIRTON: Not bothered. (They suddenly hear a pattern of knocking against the hull - Morse code. The SEA DEVIL also listens.) LDG. SEAMAN LOVELL: (Whispers.) What's that? C.P.O. SUMMERS: (Aloud, hastily.) Erm...loose rigging. (The SEA DEVIL moves off, seemingly satisfied with this explanation. SUMMERS start to write quickly on a pad.) LDG. SEAMAN LOVELL: Rigging? C.P.O. SUMMERS: Yeah, what about a game of consequences? Yeah, I'll start. (SUMMERS takes down the continuing message. When it has finished, he shows the paper to GIRTON.) C.P.O. SUMMERS: Right, it's your turn. Er, you've got to do what it says there. LDG. SEAMAN LOVELL: (Puzzled.) That's not how you play consequences. C.P.O. SUMMERS: (Firmly.) It's the way we play! LDG. SEAMAN LOVELL: Oh... (GIRTON suddenly clutches his stomach and cries out in pain. His back to the SEA DEVIL, SUMMERS waves him on to turn up the act and for LOVELL to join in.) LDG. SEAMAN LOVELL: What's the matter with him? C.P.O. SUMMERS: He's having a fit! (The two men "help" GIRTON as the SEA DEVIL steps over.) C.P.O. SUMMERS: Here! Can't you see? He's not well! (The SEA DEVIL bends over the doubled-up man to investigate and SUMMERS and LOVELL suddenly jump the reptile. It easily shakes them off and clubs GIRTON to the floor but the diversion has enabled RIDGEWAY to climb down the ladder into the control room unseen. The SEA DEVIL turns as RIDGEWAY raises his w*apon. The DOCTOR is behind him on the ladder and sees this.) DOCTOR: No, no! Don't k*ll him! (But RIDGEWAY fires. The SEA DEVIL clutches its chest and falls.) DOCTOR: (Angrily.) There's no need to have done that! (RIDGEWAY ignores him and the DOCTOR goes to retrieve the fallen reptile's w*apon.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Any more of 'em, Summers? C.P.O. SUMMERS: Yeah, there's some more on guard up top, sir. COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: We've dealt with them already. Right - action stations! We're getting under way. LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: Aye aye, sir. (The men rush into action.) 48: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. HALLWAY (The unconscious SEA DEVIL in the hallway comes to. It rises to its feet and almost immediately...) 49: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. CELL (...sees the empty cell.) 50: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. HALLWAY (It presses a wall alarm and runs off.) 51: EXT. UNDERWATER CAVE (The retaken submarine reverses out of an underwater cave.) 52: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. MAIN CHAMBER (Alerted by the alarm, the MASTER runs into the main chamber.) CHIEF SEA DEVIL: The humans have escaped! MASTER: The submarine! They'll try to recapture it! CHIEF SEA DEVIL: Activate the force field! (A SEA DEVIL raises its hand in salute and moves off to obey.) 53: EXT. UNDERWATER CAVE (As the submarine starts to come out of the cave, a flickering force-field suddenly surrounds the vessel.) 54: INT. SUBMARINE CONTROL ROOM (LOVELL and GIRTON sit at a control bank. MITCHELL spots something and runs over to check.) LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: Sir, we've stopped moving. (RIDGEWAY comes over to check himself.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Increase revolutions. 55: EXT. UNDERWATER CAVE (The propeller on the submarine starts to turn round faster.) 56: INT. SUBMARINE CONTROL ROOM LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: Maximum revs, sir. DOCTOR: They're holding us back with some kind of force field. 57: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. MAIN CHAMBER (The monitor screen which previously showed the radar view of the Task Force now shows an image of the submarine in the cave. The MASTER watches anxiously and turns to the CHIEF SEA DEVIL.) CHIEF SEA DEVIL: They cannot escape us now. 58: INT. SUBMARINE CONTROL ROOM (RIDGEWAY paces the control room in frustration.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: There must be something we can do? DOCTOR: Well, you could try f*ring your torpedo's at the cave wall and blasting yourselves free. LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: (Horrified.) We're still halfway in the cave, sir! We could blow ourselves up! DOCTOR: That's the risk you'll have to take. (RIDGEWAY considers and then pulls down a radio hand set.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: (Into tannoy.) For'ard ends, this is the Captain, Load all bow tubes. Open one and two bow caps. 59: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. MAIN CHAMBER (The MASTER and the SEA DEVILS continue to watch.) CHIEF SEA DEVIL: Increase the force field. 60: INT. SUBMARINE CONTROL ROOM (RIDGEWAY hears a change in tone in the throbbing from the engines.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: The engine - we're losing power. DOCTOR: Well, hurry up and f*re those torpedoes. Or we'll be drawn back into the cave. RATING: (OOV: Over tannoy.) All bow heads open. Ready to f*re, sir. (RIDGEWAY stares at the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Well, come on, man! You've got to risk it! (MITCHELL looks nervously at his COMMANDER as he considers. Finally, he reaches his decision.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: (Into tannoy.) Stand by bow salvo. RATING: (OOV: Over tannoy.) Standing by, sir. COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: (Into tannoy.) f*re one. 61: EXT. UNDERWATER CAVE (A torpedo sh**t out of its tube.) 62: INT. SUBMARINE CONTROL ROOM COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: (Into tannoy.) f*re two. 63: EXT. UNDERWATER CAVE (A second torpedo fires.) 64: INT. SUBMARINE CONTROL ROOM (The men in the submarine are thrown about as the torpedoes h*t the cave wall.) 65: EXT. UNDERWATER CAVE (The submarine sh**t out of the cave and the range of the force field.) 66: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. MAIN CHAMBER CHIEF SEA DEVIL: Increase the force field! They must not escape! MASTER: It's no use. You're already too late. 67: INT. SUBMARINE CONTROL ROOM (C.P.O. SUMMERS secures a hatch and goes up to report to RIDGEWAY.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Any damage, for'ard chief? C.P.O. SUMMERS: No damage to tell, sir. COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: Thank you. (SUMMERS moves off.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: All right, stand by to surface, number one. LT. COMMANDER MITCHELL: Aye aye, sir. (He moves to comply as RIDGEWAY takes a drink from a cup with a smile on his face.) COMMANDER RIDGEWAY: We're going home. 68: EXT. SEA (The huge bulk of the submarine surfaces into daylight.) 69: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. MAIN CHAMBER (The monitor is now being used as a radar screen again. The submarine shows up as a flashing green oblong.) CHIEF SEA DEVIL: They can tell the humans how to find our base. MASTER: It's of no importance. Before they can att*ck us...we shall att*ck them! 70: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE (CAPTAIN HART leads JO into his office from the radio room. The DOCTOR is stood there waiting for them.) JO: Doctor! (She rushes to him and hugs him.) JO: I thought you were d*ad! DOCTOR: d*ad? No, I don't think so. JO: When I saw that thing come up empty, I thought I'd never see you again. (WALKER and BLYTHE walk in from the corridor.) WALKER: Well, well, well, so the heroes have returned. (The DOCTOR ignores him. JO helps him out of his anorak.) DOCTOR: Captain Hart, what idiot ordered an all out att*ck just as I was on the verge of finding a peaceful solution? (HART coughs in embarrassment.) JO: But it wasn't Captain Hart's fault. It was this ... from the... CAPTAIN HART: (Interrupts.) I'm terribly sorry - this is Mr. Walker. He's the parliamentary private secretary in charge of this business. (Behind WALKER'S back, JANE rolls her eyes. WALKER is unfazed and takes his place at HART'S desk.) WALKER: I'm the idiot you've just been talking about! (To HART.) Absolutely splendid lunch, old man. (A quietly angry DOCTOR walks forward.) DOCTOR: You ordered the att*ck? WALKER: I did. DOCTOR: Did you give any thought at all, sir, as to what you were doing? WALKER: Our duty is to destroy the Queen's enemies. Don't you know your national anthem? "Confound their politics, frustrate their knavish tricks." DOCTOR: That, sir, is an extremely insular point of view! At the precise moment of the att*ck, I was negotiating a peace. WALKER: Peace?! Huh! What, when they've been attacking our shipping and heaven alone knows what? I think you've got it all wrong, old man. "Seek and destroy" (To HART.) That's what you chaps say, isn't it? (The DOCTOR leans over the desk, barely controlling his temper.) DOCTOR: But the point, Mr. Parliamentary Private Secretary, is that you have not destroyed! You have just made them angry - very, very angry! 71: EXT. NAVAL BASE (An armed rating patrols the shoreline. Just off the beach, the SEA DEVILS start to rise from the water in large numbers. Back on the beach, one of them has snuck up behind the rating and pulls him to the ground. Others step onto the beach and make their way into the base, their w*apon raised. They skulk in doorways and behind equipment as they advance, so far without opposition.) 72: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE (WALKER rises from behind HART'S desk and crosses to the sea-chart.) WALKER: I'm going to get on to the Minister, and I'm going to ask him to seek approval for an immediate att*ck with nuclear w*apon. DOCTOR: (Horrified.) Well that, sir, would be tantamount to m*rder. WALKER: Oh, come, come, Doctor. You speak as if these creatures were human. We're not going to hand over the world to a lot of lizards, you know. DOCTOR: You can share it with them, surely? WALKER: (Exasperated.) Oh come, really Doctor! DOCTOR: Look, let me make one final attempt to negotiate. WALKER: Well, you didn't get very far last time, did you? DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Just you think of it, sir - think of it. Wouldn't you like to be the man behind a peaceful settlement? "Walker, the peacemaker" they'd call you. Or would you prefer to be known as the man responsible for launching a full scale w*r?! WALKER: Look, you can actually communicate with these creatures? DOCTOR: Yes. WALKER: And you'd be willing to undertake the preliminary negotiations yourself? DOCTOR: Just leave it to me. JO: (Shocked.) Doctor, you're not thinking of going down there again? DOCTOR: Jo, it's the only way. JO: But, Doctor, it's far too dangerous! DOCTOR: Don't you understand, Jo? I've got to go down there of my own free will as a gesture of good faith. (To HART.) Captain Hart, is that diving vessel still alongside? CAPTAIN HART: Yes, but I must say that I agree with Miss Grant. DOCTOR: (To HART.) Then with your permission, Mr. Walker? (The DOCTOR, JO and HART leave the office.) 73: EXT. NAVAL BASE (The three exit the main block and start to walk across the forecourt. The DOCTOR has retrieved his cloak.) CAPTAIN HART: Doctor, do you think you're doing the right thing? DOCTOR: I'm doing the only thing possible, Captain Hart, if we're to avoid a major conflict. CAPTAIN HART: Suppose they won't listen to you? (JO looks to one side and suddenly cries out...) JO: Doctor! (The DOCTOR spins round. A SEA DEVIL aims its g*n at the three people.)
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THE SEA DEVILS BY: MALCOLM HULKE EPISODE SIX Original Air Date: 1 April, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: EXT. NAVAL BASE (The DOCTOR, JO and CAPTAIN HART exit the main block and start to walk across the forecourt. The DOCTOR has retrieved his cloak.) CAPTAIN HART: Doctor, do you think you're doing the right thing? DOCTOR: I'm doing the only thing possible, Captain Hart, if we're to avoid a major conflict. CAPTAIN HART: Suppose they won't listen to you? (JO looks to one side and suddenly cries out...) JO: Doctor! (The DOCTOR spins round. Two SEA DEVILS run round a corner and one of them aims its g*n at the three people. The DOCTOR jumps forward, karate chops the w*apon out of its hand and spins the creature round, pushing it against a wall. He then throws it to the ground and elbow jabs the second SEA DEVIL in its stomach before knocking it to the ground with a double-fisted punch.) DOCTOR: Alright, Captain Hart, get these two out of here. (He fails to see a third SEA DEVIL running up behind him.) JO: Doctor, look out! (Before he can react, the SEA DEVIL grips his neck in a paralysing nerve hold. The DOCTOR quickly succumbs and is thrown at the feet of JO and CAPTAIN HART. More SEA DEVIL'S run up, their w*apon raised to f*re, but the MASTER is with them and he forces his way through the group to prevent them sh**ting.) MASTER: No! Take them inside. (JO and CAPTAIN HART pick up the groggy but recovering DOCTOR and head back towards the main block, escorted by two of the SEA DEVILS. Left behind with the others, the MASTER watches them go.) MASTER: Dear, oh dear, Doctor - will you never learn? (The small group reaches the block.) 2: EXT. ANOTHER PART OF THE NAVAL BASE (Elsewhere in the base, an officer and ratings, their hands behind their head in surrender, are forced by a group of armed SEA DEVILS into another block and the door is shut behind them.) 3: INT. NAVAL BASE. CORRIDOR (Guarded by three SEA DEVILS, the DOCTOR waits in the corridor outside HART'S office. The MASTER walks along the corridor escorted by a fourth of the reptiles.) MASTER: Now, Doctor, for your information, the capture of this naval base is the first step in the return of this planet to its rightful owners. Right, bring him in, will you? (The MASTER enters HART'S office and the DOCTOR is taken in after him by the SEA DEVIL guards.) 4: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE DOCTOR: How do you hope to achieve that? (The MASTER stands behind HART'S desk.) MASTER: As you know, our friends here have underground and underwater bases all over the world. Well, I propose to reactivate them. DOCTOR: Well you haven't reactivated them yet, have you? MASTER: Er, not yet, no. But I can - with your help. DOCTOR: I wondered why I was still alive. MASTER: I advise you not to give me any trouble, Doctor. Not if you value the life of every man on this base. 5: INT. NAVAL BASE. RADIO ROOM (JO, HART and WALKER have been locked in the radio room. HART picks up a set of headphones, turns a switch and listens.) CAPTAIN HART: (Angrily.) It's no good! They've cut the power supply! (He throws the headphones down. JO has been listening at the door to HART'S office.) JO: Shh! (Whispers.) Look, there's still some of them in there. WALKER: (Pompously.) This is monstrous! What are you going to do about it, Captain? (HART ignores him. JO starts to look round the room and points to hatch in the ceiling.) JO: (Whispers.) Captain Hart, what about this? (HART joins her and looks up at it.) CAPTAIN HART: (Quietly.) Yes, we should be able to open it. But I could never get through the ventilation shaft up there. JO: (Whispers.) No, but I could. (HART looks round the room. He points to a table with a couple of pieces of electronic equipment on it.) CAPTAIN HART: (Quietly.) The table. JO: (Whispers.) Right. (They cross to the table and HART takes one of the pieces of equipment and puts it on the floor...) CAPTAIN HART: (Quietly.) Here. (...followed by the other which he takes from JO. WALKER loses his pompous demeanour and instead displays his cowardly streak.) WALKER: What...what are you doing? (HART and JO start to carry the table across the room and place it under the hatch.) CAPTAIN HART: We're going to put this table underneath that ventilation hatch and try to open it. WALKER: (Scared.) Yeah, but...supposing you get caught? They might take reprisals against the innocent! (HART climbs on the table and examines the hatch.) CAPTAIN HART: A screwdriver. Jo, over there - on the bench somewhere. JO: Right. (She runs to the main radio bench and starts to look over it.) WALKER: (Panicking.) Don't you think we ought to leave these things to the Doctor? He said we ought to cooperate with them, you know? (HART ignores the politician.) CAPTAIN HART: (To JO.) Tool kit! Underneath! Underneath the bench! (JO starts to rummage in the equipment under the bench and quickly finds the toolkit and the screwdriver within.) WALKER: (To JO.) Look, he's, er, he's not going to try and trick them, is he? JO: Shh! (She hands the tool to HART...) CAPTAIN HART: That's it. (...who starts to unscrew the hatch.) WALKER: (Panicking.) This could have the most dreadful consequences! He...he...he made them a promise, you know? CAPTAIN HART: Yes, in order to save our lives! Now do you mind? 6: INT. NAVAL BASE. STORES ROOM (The MASTER has gone with the DOCTOR to the stores room that he raided on his previous visit to the base. He nods to their SEA DEVIL escort and shows him outside the room. He then turns to a relaxed DOCTOR who leans nonchalantly on the counter.) MASTER: Now then, Doctor, my problem is this: during millions of years of hibernation, the reactivation machinery has deteriorated. I now find it necessary to build a trigger mechanism for it. DOCTOR: And how do you hope to do that? MASTER: Well, by constructing a sonar device analogous to the laser. With this, I can not only pinpoint and revive the base by the sea fort, but every other base in the world. DOCTOR: And you've convinced your reptilian friends that this will work? MASTER: You know it'll work - with your cooperation. (He gestures round the packed shelves.) MASTER: All the equipment we need is here. DOCTOR: Yes. Yes, I suppose it's possible. MASTER: I've drawn up some preliminary plans here. (The MASTER opens some blueprints and spreads them over the counter.) MASTER: There. (The DOCTOR looks over them and smiles.) DOCTOR: Good grief! What on earth do you think you're doing? MASTER: Now what is the matter? DOCTOR: Well, this circuit here - it's completely misplaced. And also you'll need far more power through to your main dipode. Give me a pencil, will you? (The MASTER hands the pencil over.) MASTER: Ah. DOCTOR: Thank you. MASTER: And you think you can correct this fault? DOCTOR: Yes, I think so - given time. Now then, let's see. (He starts to scribble on the blueprints as the MASTER smiles with satisfaction.) 7: INT. NAVAL BASE. RADIO ROOM (WALKER is getting more nervous as HART completes his task...) WALKER: Are you...are you really going to let a...a mere child risk her life? CAPTAIN HART: (Sarcastically.) Well I could never get through that ventilation shaft! Would you like to try? (WALKER looks aghast.) CAPTAIN HART: Come on, Jo. (He helps JO onto the table.) CAPTAIN HART: Now, once you're through the shaft, there's a hatch that comes out on to the roof of this building. JO: Okay. CAPTAIN HART: Are you ready? (He lifts her up.) CAPTAIN HART: Huh! That's it. (JO climbs into the shaft.) 8: INT. NAVAL BASE. VENTILATION SHAFT (She edges through the shaft.) 9: EXT. NAVAL BASE. ROOF OF MAIN BLOCK (Reaching grille, she knocks it down and climbs out of the shaft. She checks that there is no one around and, walking past a radar tower, starts to climb down a fixed ladder stair to the ground. After she has gone, two patrolling SEA DEVILS steps into view.) 10: EXT. NAVAL BASE. STORES ROOM (JO finds the stores room and looks through the frosted glass window.) 11: INT. NAVAL BASE. STORES ROOM (Within, the MASTER works at the trigger mechanism. It is a hastily constructed and crude affair of various components and wires built within what appears to be the frame of an old chair. The DOCTOR appears from the back room of the stores with a cardboard box of more parts. He spots JO closing the window. He returns to the counter with the box, makes a play of searching through it and heads for the back of the stores again. The MASTER sees this...) MASTER: Doctor? DOCTOR: Oh, I need a polarising condenser. MASTER: Oh, allow me. DOCTOR: Oh, thank you. (The MASTER moves into the back room. JO re-opens the window.) JO: (Whispers.) Come on, Doctor! Hurry! (The DOCTOR checks that the MASTER is out of the way.) JO: (Whispers.) Come on! (The DOCTOR runs to the window.) 12: EXT. NAVAL BASE. STORES ROOM DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Now Jo, listen to me. In a few minutes time, I'm going to create a diversion. Now, as soon as it starts, you try and get Hart and the others out. JO: (Whispers.) But what about the guards? DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Don't worry about the guards. You leave them to me. Now, you hurry back there and wait for the off. JO: (Whispers.) Okay. (She moves off.) 13: INT. NAVAL BASE. STORES ROOM (The DOCTOR pulls the window to and dashes back to the counter before he is spotted.) 14: EXT. NAVAL BASE. STORES ROOM (Outside, JO tries to run back the way she came but, as she reaches the corner, she turns and runs quickly in the other direction - just before two patrolling SEA DEVILS march round the corner. They fail to spot her.) 15: INT. NAVAL BASE. STORES ROOM (The DOCTOR and the MASTER finish their work on the trigger mechanism.) DOCTOR: All right? (He takes a lead and plugs it into the wall socket.) 16: INT. NAVAL BASE. CORRIDOR (JO has made it back to the main block. She quietly tiptoes down the corridor to HART'S office. Glancing within, she spots a SEA DEVIL guard. She waits in the corridor out of view.) 17: INT. NAVAL BASE. STORES ROOM (The door to the stores opens and a SEA DEVIL enters. It watches the DOCTOR and the MASTER as they step back from their completed work.) MASTER: Well, Doctor? DOCTOR: How about a little test? (The MASTER nods with satisfaction.) DOCTOR: Right, here goes. (The DOCTOR turns a dial on a part of the machinery. All at once, a valve on the mechanism lights up and a screeching signal is emitted which causes the watching SEA DEVIL to clutch its head in pain and stagger in agony on the spot.) 18: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE (The effect on the SEA DEVIL in HART'S office is the same...) 19: INT. NAVAL BASE. STORES ROOM (...as the signal continues to pulse out.) 20: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE (JO uses the diversion to run in from the corridor and unlock the door to the radio room. HART rushes out.) CAPTAIN HART: What the blazes?! JO: The Doctor's doing it - now come on! (They rush off. The cowardly WALKER hesitates and loses his nerve when the reptile staggers into his path. The politician retreats back into the radio room and pulls the door to.) 21: INT. NAVAL BASE. STORES ROOM (The signal continues...) 22: EXT. NAVAL BASE (Outside the main block, two SEA DEVIL'S writhe in agony. HART and JO run past them and come across a fallen sailor. HART grabs his r*fle.) CAPTAIN HART: We must find the Hovercraft pilots. JO: Yes, alright. ... Come on! (She runs off and HART follows.) 23: INT. NAVAL BASE. STORES ROOM (The signal continues...) 24: EXT. BEACH (JO and HART reach an empty waiting hovercraft. JO climbs on board while HART sh**t at five distantly approaching SEA DEVILS that stagger through their agony in an effort to try and stop them.) 25: INT. HOVERCRAFT (JO climbs into the pilot seat of the hovercraft.) 26: EXT. BEACH (HART climbs in after her.) 27: INT. NAVAL BASE. STORES ROOM (The signal continues...) 28: EXT. BEACH (From the open doorway of the hovercraft, HART watches the approaching SEA DEVILS. They attempt to f*re at the escapees but they cannot focus clearly on the vessel. As the hovercraft powers up, HART is able to easily pick off the SEA DEVILS with his r*fle. The hovercraft rises and turns into the sea.) 29: INT. NAVAL BASE. STORES ROOM (The signal continues...) 30: EXT. SEA (The hovercraft races through the waters.) 31: INT. NAVAL BASE. STORES ROOM MASTER: Switch the power off! (He pushes past a grinning DOCTOR and rushes to the wall socket, pulling the plug out. Immediately, the signal dies down and the SEA DEVIL stops writhing.) MASTER: What happened? DOCTOR: Well, I must have had the frequency too high. Er, sorry about that. (He looks over the trigger mechanism.) DOCTOR: Ah, no, I see what it is. I had the output jack in the input socket. (He swaps the two leads round.) DOCTOR: There...yeah, there that should work all right now. MASTER: We shan't know for sure till we get it back to their base and built it into their power system. DOCTOR: We? MASTER: Yes, Doctor. You're coming with me. DOCTOR: Oh, I see. (The two to the stores bursts open and the CHIEF SEA DEVIL enters together with three of his minions.) CHIEF SEA DEVIL: This noise - what has been happening? MASTER: Teething troubles - that's all. CHIEF SEA DEVIL: It must not happen again. Is the work completed? MASTER: Yes, I've now finished. CHIEF SEA DEVIL: Then we shall return to our base. (The CHIEF SEA DEVIL looks at the DOCTOR.) CHIEF SEA DEVIL: Do you want him k*lled now? MASTER: No...he might yet prove useful. (To the DOCTOR.) Well, Doctor? Shall we go? DOCTOR: If you insist. (The MASTER takes hold of the trigger mechanism and leaves the stores, following the CHIEF SEA DEVIL. The DOCTOR puts on his cloak for the journey.) 32: INT. NAVAL BASE. STORES ROOM (Outside the stores, the CHIEF SEA DEVIL hears and quickly sees the returning hovercraft approaching the beach from the sea.) CHIEF SEA DEVIL: Guard them. (The MASTER and the DOCTOR are pushed back into the stores room by a SEA DEVIL.) CHIEF SEA DEVIL: Keep them safe. I must alert the others. (It hurries away.) 33: EXT. BEACH (The hovercraft beaches on the shingle. The door opens and a squad of helmeted, armed sailors leap out, led by HART, f*ring as they go. They race up the beach and through the fence into the naval base.) 34: EXT. NAVAL BASE (Their sheer numbers are too much for the SEA DEVILS who are cut down in rapid succession. HART waves his sailors on into the compound of the base. There, one of the first sailors is quickly cut down by a SEA DEVIL in hiding round a corner but the d*ad man's comrades quickly return the f*re, cutting down the reptile.) 35: EXT. BEACH (More sailors pour out of the hovercraft, with JO the last to leave.) 36: EXT. NAVAL BASE (Within the base, the battle continues. A SEA DEVIL on a roof sh**t a sailor down but returned f*re from another topples the reptile and it falls from the roof with a cry. More SEA DEVILS run into the fray, f*ring as they go.) 37: EXT. BEACH (The hovercraft, with one sailor on board, leaves the beach.) 38: EXT. NAVAL BASE (The battle continues. One by one, the SEA DEVILS are k*lled.) 39: INT. NAVAL BASE. STORES ROOM (The DOCTOR and the MASTER hear the sounds of battle from within the stores room.) DOCTOR: Well, it seems as if things aren't quite going according to plan. (An impatient MASTER turns on their SEA DEVIL guard.) MASTER: Look, we must break out of here! I've got to get this device down to your base. NAVAL OFFICER: (OOV: Outside store room.) Myers, check that storeroom! (The SEA DEVIL, hearing this, pushes the MASTER out of the way and waits behind the door as it opens to admit a bearded C.P.O. MYERS. He enters.) C.P.O. MYERS: Looks all right. DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Look out behind you! (MYERS spins round and pumps five b*ll*ts into the SEA DEVIL before it can f*re at him. The creature flinches with each b*llet and then falls.) C.P.O. MYERS: Will one of you gentlemen be the Doctor? DOCTOR: Yes, I am. (He points at the MASTER.) DOCTOR: This man's an extremely dangerous criminal, so guard him well. Now, have you seen Captain Hart and Miss Grant? C.P.O. MYERS: I'm not sure, sir. DOCTOR: Right, I'd better go and find them. (He makes for the door.) C.P.O. MYERS: Right, I'll stay with this bloke. DOCTOR: Yeah, do that - and watch him! (He leaves and MYERS levels his r*fle at the MASTER. The renegade Time Lord waits a moment and then speaks quietly...) MASTER: There's been a misunderstanding here, you know? (MYERS cocks his r*fle. The MASTER quietly shakes his head and steps forward, staring intently at the C.P.O.) MASTER: I'm not the man that you want. (He moves closer.) MASTER: There's been a mistake... (MYER'S struggles against the hypnotic stare.) MASTER: You understand...? (The MASTER moves the r*fle barrel out of the way with a gloved hand.) MASTER: A mistake... (MYERS drops the r*fle and the MASTER chops him down to the ground.) MASTER: A mistake! 40: EXT. NAVAL BASE (With the noise of battle all round them, HART and two sailors reach a g*n emplacement. They sit within it and swing it round to face a group of approaching SEA DEVILS. They f*re shell after shell into the reptiles, k*lling them off one by one. The DOCTOR runs up to the emplacement.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Have you seen Jo Grant anywhere? CAPTAIN HART: (Shouts.) She's on the beach. (The DOCTOR moves off as HART fires more shells and kills the final SEA DEVIL.) 41: EXT. ANOTHER PART OF THE NAVAL BASE (The DOCTOR runs round a corner and sees the MASTER, trigger mechanism in hand, running through a gate of the perimeter fence and onto the beach. He follows.) 42: EXT. BEACH (The MASTER runs down the beach towards two orange sea scooters. He places the trigger mechanism into the back of one of them and then pulls it into the water. The DOCTOR runs towards him as he starts the machine up and heads out to sea. The DOCTOR pulls the second scooter into the water and gives chase. Back on the beach, the SEA DEVILS who have survived the battle escape the base and plunge into the water in retreat.) 43: EXT. SEA (The DOCTOR keeps close behind the MASTER in their respective sea scooters. The waters out at sea are made fairly choppy by the machines and the DOCTOR'S scooter constantly rides on the waves created by the MASTER. Several times, he is doused by the waters which overlap him but manages to keep up.) 44: EXT. BEACH (The MASTER drives his scooter onto a deserted shoreline. The DOCTOR moves in next to him and jumps off his machine to apprehend him. The MASTER waits with a smile on his face.) MASTER: I'm sorry, Doctor. (He points further up the shore. A drenched DOCTOR looks and sees a waiting SEA DEVIL transport pod and several of the reptiles running into view. The MASTER laughs as the SEA DEVILS await their "guests".) 45: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE (Back at the base, things are returning to normal. WALKER is still shaken by his experience and barely keeping his nerve.) WALKER: Now, perhaps you'll admit I was right all along? Massive nuclear strike - it's the only way. JO: (Appalled.) But not until we know what's happened to the Doctor! (BLYTHE enters the room and goes up to CAPTAIN HART.) 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: Excuse me, sir. I've just seen Lieutenant Scott. He said he saw the Doctor heading out to sea. WALKER: (Laughs.) Gone to join his friends! Gone over to the other side! 3 OFFICER JANE BLYTHE: (To HART.) He seemed to be chasing another boat. JO: He must have been after the Master. WALKER: Well, be that as it may, they'll both have to take their chances. (He sits at HART'S desk.) WALKER: I'm going to put an end to these creatures - right away. Kindly get me the Minister on the phone. I'm going to request that we launch a nuclear strike - now. (JO looks in horror at HART.) 46: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. MAIN CHAMBER (A dried off DOCTOR and MASTER are in the main chamber of the SEA DEVIL'S base. The trigger mechanism has been connected to a large table-like power unit and the two are making final modifications.) CHIEF SEA DEVIL: We ... back from the human's base. Many of my people have been k*lled. (The MASTER crosses to the CHIEF.) MASTER: It was a necessary sacrifice. CHIEF SEA DEVIL: You said man was weak. MASTER: So he is. Soon you will surge from the seas in your millions and exterminate him. (The DOCTOR turns from his work.) DOCTOR: Don't listen to him. Why begin a long and bloody w*r where thousands will be k*lled on both sides? CHIEF SEA DEVIL: We shall destroy man and reclaim the planet. DOCTOR: Is there nothing I can say to make you reconsider? CHIEF SEA DEVIL: Nothing! (The DOCTOR sighs.) DOCTOR: (Quietly.) I'm sorry. (He turns to the machine and, unseen, turns a large metal switch on top.) CHIEF SEA DEVIL: Is the machine ready? MASTER: It is. CHIEF SEA DEVIL: Then activate it. (The MASTER walks back to the trigger mechanism.) MASTER: Allow me, Doctor. We don't want any accidents this time. DOCTOR: The power may take some time to build up, you know? (The MASTER switches it on. The sound of rising power is faintly heard, building up slowly. The MASTER points at the DOCTOR.) MASTER: I suggest you now dispose of this man! CHIEF SEA DEVIL: Take them both to the cages! (A shocked MASTER is immediately seized by two SEA DEVILS.) MASTER: What's the meaning of this? I'm your ally! CHIEF SEA DEVIL: Both I say! Take them! (A smiling DOCTOR, also held, and the MASTER are led away, the latter screaming as he goes...) MASTER: I helped you! I helped you! 47: EXT. SEA (Once again naval ships start to congregate on the area. They are joined by a submarine.) 48: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. HALLWAY (The DOCTOR and the MASTER are led by SEA DEVIL guards to the cell previously occupied by the submarine officers.) MASTER: Look, I demand you take me back to your chief! Immediately! DOCTOR: (Amused.) You seem to be losing your touch! 49: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. CELL (The MASTER is pushed in and sits on the floor. The DOCTOR follows and the door is closed.) MASTER: Once they see that the device works properly, they'll release me. DOCTOR: I very much doubt it. You see, before you reactivated it, I reversed the polarity of the neutron flow. (The MASTER looks stunned. They hear the rising power around them.) MASTER: You did what? You realise what will happen? DOCTOR: Oh, yes. Do you? MASTER: Well there'll be a massive reverse feedback into their whole power system! DOCTOR: Exactly. (He checks his watch.) DOCTOR: In about, erm, ten minutes from now the whole place should go up. Enjoy your revenge. (He smiles as the MASTER rushes to the porthole window...) 50: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. HALLWAY (...and looks out.) MASTER: Guards! Guards, come back! You must release me! I must talk to your chief! (The hallway is deserted. The only sound is that of the power for the trigger mechanism starting to race away.) MASTER: Let me out! We're all in danger! Let me out! 51: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. CELL DOCTOR: You're wasting your time, you know? (The MASTER slumps to the floor.) DOCTOR: Even if they heard you, they couldn't do anything about it. MASTER: Why? DOCTOR: Well, I built a self-destruct mechanism into the main control switch. You can't turn it off. MASTER: (Shocked.) But...but we'll both be k*lled. (The DOCTOR smiles and winks.) DOCTOR: That's right. Unless we can both escape. 52: INT. NAVAL BASE. RADIO ROOM (BOWMAN turns from his equipment. He is watched by JO, HART, BLYTHE and WALKER. The latter has recovered his full confidence and arrogance.) LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: Ship's moving into position now, sir. WALKER: Very well. This time we'll continue the att*ck until those creatures are finally destroyed. Now, how about some tea? (He moves off into HART'S office with a smile. JO starts to become tearful.) 53: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. CELL (The DOCTOR uses his sonic screwdriver on the lock of the cell. It explodes and the door opens.) DOCTOR: You see? Come on. (They crouch through the door and out.) 54: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. HALLWAY (They cross the discarded equipment from the submarine, including two escape suits.) DOCTOR: Well, as I told you. Submarine escape equipment. Now, all we've got to do is find the airlock. MASTER: Airlock? DOCTOR: Yes, there must be one around here somewhere. Otherwise how else did we get down in those capsules? (He passes him an escape suit.) DOCTOR: Here you are, put this on. 55: INT. NAVAL BASE. CAPTAIN HART'S OFFICE (HART plots movements on his chart as BLYTHE enters with a lunch tray for WALKER.) WALKER: Ah, thank you, my dear. (He examines the sandwiches.) WALKER: Ah ha! Smoked salmon... (He laughs.) Delicious! (He starts to eat. HART opens the door to the radio room and enters.) 56: INT. NAVAL BASE. RADIO ROOM (JO is in there with BOWMAN. She looks up hopefully.) CAPTAIN HART: Won't be long now. JO: Suppose the Doctor manages to escape from that place? CAPTAIN HART: Not much chance, I'm afraid. JO: Yes, but just suppose? (HART considers and then speaks urgently to BOWMAN.) CAPTAIN HART: Get a high speed hovercraft over that area. I want a complete sweep before the att*ck. LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: Aye aye, sir. 57: EXT. SEA (The DOCTOR and the MASTER have managed to escape and float on the surface of the sea in their inflatable suits. A hovercraft approaches. The DOCTOR and the MASTER unzip their suits and start to wave to attract attention as the vessel gets nearer. It slows down and a sailor climbs down the rim to help the two men up.) 58: INT. HOVERCRAFT (The pilot watches...) 59: EXT. SEA (...as first the MASTER is hauled aboard.) 60: INT. HOVERCRAFT (The pilot grows impatient as the deadline for the att*ck nears.) 61: EXT. SEA (With the MASTER on board, the DOCTOR is then helped up.) 62: INT. SEA DEVIL'S BASE. MAIN CHAMBER (As the SEA DEVILS watch, the pulses from the trigger mechanism grow in power. The CHIEF SEA DEVIL enters the chamber and crosses to the device.) CHIEF SEA DEVIL: This device is causing the power to overload. (He reaches out to switch it off but there is a small expl*si*n from within.) 63: INT. HOVERCRAFT (Still in their escape suits, the DOCTOR and the MASTER are shown to chairs but the MASTER suddenly clutches his chest and falls to the floor. A sailor starts to assist him but he and the DOCTOR are diverted by a massive expl*si*n outside.) 64: EXT. SEA (The waters of the sea are thrown upwards by the force. Watching through the window, the DOCTOR has to shield his eyes from the force of the expl*si*n.) 65: INT. NAVAL BASE. RADIO ROOM (WALKER and BLYTHE have returned to the radio room. BOWMAN takes his headphones off.) LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: Large underwater expl*si*n reported, sir. (JANE sees JO'S reaction and puts her arm around her shoulders.) WALKER: What? Has the att*ck started already? LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: No sir - before the att*ck. And they've picked up two survivors. One of them's in a bad way. They've radioed for an ambulance to stand by. JO: (Nervously.) Did they...did they say who? LDG. TELEGRAPHIST BOWMAN: No, Miss. (She suppresses her tears.) 66: EXT. BEACH (The hovercraft reaches the shore at the same time as a naval ambulance, its siren screeching. The door to the hovercraft opens and an escape-suited DOCTOR steps out. A delighted JO and HART run to meet him as the two ambulance men run into the hovercraft with a stretcher.) JO: They said someone was hurt? DOCTOR: It's the Master. He collapsed soon after they picked us up. CAPTAIN HART: Well then, Doctor, what happened? DOCTOR: I managed to destroy their base for you. CAPTAIN HART: Thank goodness. Well done! DOCTOR: Well, I did what I had to to prevent a w*r. (The ambulance men come out with the MASTER lying still on the stretcher. They reach HART, JO and the DOCTOR.) JO: He's d*ad. AMBULANCE MAN: We were too late. The doctor in the hovercraft said so. DOCTOR: (Puzzled.) Doctor? What doctor? (He reaches down and peels the face of the "MASTER" back. Underneath it is a hypnotised sailor.) SAILOR: I must obey...I must obey... (They suddenly hear the sound of the hovercraft starting up.) SAILOR: I must obey...I must obey... (They see the MASTER in the pilot's seat. He smiles and gives a wave.) SAILOR: I must obey... I must obey... (The DOCTOR gives a slight smile as he watches the hovercraft turn into the sea and escape.) SAILOR: I must obey...I must obey...
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THE MUTANTS BY: BOB BAKER AND DAVE MARTIN EPISODE ONE Original Air Date: 8 April, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: EXT. SOLOS (The surface of Solos is a cold desolate wasteland. Bare stunted bushes and shrubs litter the ground and the air is permanently filled with a floating mist. Gasping for breath, an old man comes running into view through the decayed flora. He has long straggly white hair and beard and his clothes are little more than rags. His face looks terrified. He stops to gain his bearings and to try and look through the murk. Suddenly he hears a harsh voice calling out from nearby...) MARSHAL: (OOV.) Over here! Move in! ... , he's heading for the ... ! This way! (The mists seem to clear slightly and the old man sees an empty path ahead. He starts to run down it. His back is revealed to be a series of ridges which seem to be sprouting from underneath the material of his ragged top.) MARSHAL: (OOV.) Over here! (The owner of the voice comes through the mist. He is a large portly man, dressed in a uniform of black with silver braiding. He wears a similarly coloured helmet on his head with a visor and a small compact gas-mask over his mouth. In one hand he carries a futuristic g*n and in the other a small detector which gives out a series of static bleeps. The man moves with a determined speed, despite his bulk. He suddenly stops, rips of his mask and screams viciously into the mist...) MARSHAL: Mutt! Mutt! (He turns and shouts behind him into the mists.) MARSHAL: Hurry, you men - hurry! (He turns and gives another yell at his quarry...) MARSHAL: Mutt! (...and seeing him slightly ahead, gives a yell of rage as he starts to run faster after the old man. Such is his haste and anger that he drops his gas-mask. A moment later, two men in similar black and silver uniforms reach the spot and see the mask lying on the ground. The smaller of the two, a white man called STUBBS, picks up the object and yells into the white vapour...) STUBBS: Sir! Marshal - your mask! (His companion, a tall lithe black man called COTTON pulls his own mask off to speak with disgust...) COTTON: Mutt mad he is. Sport to him. STUBBS: k*ll one before he passes out. COTTON: Solos - stinking rotten hole. Can't even breathe - what a planet. STUBBS: Not long now, soldier. (STUBBS runs after the MARSHAL.) COTTON: Should have given them independence years ago. (COTTON follows.) 2: EXT. ANOTHER PART OF SOLOS (The MARSHAL walks slowly ahead to where the old man lies d*ad in a muddy pool of water. He stares down at the corpse as STUBBS and COTTON catch up.) MARSHAL: Look at it! Disgusting mess. Get rid of it. STUBBS: Sir. (STUBBS hands the MARSHAL his mask.) MARSHAL: Make out a report - Mutt found d*ad...as usual. (The MARSHAL heads off. STUBBS stands momentarily to attention and then speaks into a receiver which pokes out of the front of his uniform jacket.) STUBBS: (Into radio.) Stubbs calling Skybase. Returning shortly. (He checks his watch.) STUBBS: (Into radio.) ETA - forty-two, zero, six. Have dealt with mutant native alert, area seven. Mutant tracked and found d*ad on arrival... (He speaks with a mixture of sadness and disgust...) STUBBS: (Into radio.) Cause unknown. (They move off.) 3: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (Stood before his bench with a screwdriver in his hand, the DOCTOR works at a small electronic unit. Dressed in a brown top and patterned trousers, JO watches with boredom.) JO: Doctor? DOCTOR: Mmm? JO: Are you going to be very much longer? DOCTOR: No, nearly finished, Jo. JO: What are you doing anyway? DOCTOR: I'm making a Minimum Inertia Superdrive for Bessie. JO: Oh. Well, for your information, it's well past lunch time, and I'm... DOCTOR: Eh...? (JO stops speaking as an object suddenly appears on the bench in front of them. Sized and shaped roughly like a football, it is dark brown in colour and covered with a series of rough, differently sized plates, giving at a look almost like crazy paving.) DOCTOR: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! JO: Lunch? DOCTOR: No. JO: (Slightly nervous.) b*mb? DOCTOR: No, nothing so exciting. (They crouch down to look at it.) JO: Well? DOCTOR: It's an assignment. JO: Well then, it is exciting! (The DOCTOR gives her a withering look.) DOCTOR: No, it's a container of some kind, Jo - from them. JO: Time Lords? DOCTOR: That's right. JO: Well, aren't you going to open it? DOCTOR: Mmm, I'm not allowed to open it. JO: Huh? DOCTOR: Well, I couldn't, even if I wanted to. No, I'm not meant to. I couldn't open it, even if I wanted to. No, it's only meant for one person...and/or creature. And it will only open for one person. JO: And/or creature? DOCTOR: Yeah, that's right. Yes, I'm just the messenger boy. JO: Well, can't you just refuse? (He picks the container up and starts to look over it.) DOCTOR: Well, they only send these things in a real emergency, Jo. It's top priority - three line whip. No, no, I've gotta go. JO: How do you know where to deliver it? (They suddenly hear a hum from the TARDIS sat in the corner of the laboratory and its roof light starts to flash.) DOCTOR: I think that has already been decided. (The TARDIS door buzzes open and the DOCTOR walks across the lab to fetch his cloak. JO grabs her jacket which is of the same pattern as her trousers.) JO: Hang on. Wait for me. I'm coming too. DOCTOR: That's out of the question. It's bound to be dangerous, probably difficult. JO: All the more reason. You need me to look after you. DOCTOR: Sorry, Jo, that's a lot of rubbish. Not this time. Au revoir! (He steps into the TARDIS.) JO: Oh, no you don't! (JO dashes across the lab and through the TARDIS door before it can close. The Police Box dematerialises...) 4: EXT. SKYBASE ONE (In space above the surface of Solos, a large impressive craft orbits the planet. It is made up of two globes, one much larger than the other, connected by a central ridged section and two support struts. Its surfaced is patterned with lighted windows and various radar dishes and aerials decorate the surface. This is Skybase One.) 5: INT. SKYBASE ONE. STORAGE ROOM (The TARDIS rematerialises within a metallic room. There is one blue oval door leading off the room and a porthole type window in another wall. JO and the DOCTOR step out.) JO: Well? Where are we? DOCTOR: It looks a bit like the tradesman's entrance, isn't it? JO: What do you mean? (She wanders over to the window while the DOCTOR glances round at the few white storage boxes which sit in the room.) DOCTOR: Well, I don't see any red carpet - do you? (She looks through the small window.) JO: Doctor, look! We're flying! 6: EXT. SOLOS (JO'S face appears at the porthole. She steps aside for the DOCTOR to take a look. Below the skybase is the surface of the planet - cratered, mountainous and covered with the thick grey mist.) 7: INT. SKYBASE ONE. STORAGE ROOM DOCTOR: We're not exactly flying, Jo. We're in planetary orbit. We must be on a... (He stops speaking as a two note klaxon bell alarm rings out followed by a cold metallic voice...) TANNOY VOICE: Skybase One. This is Skybase One. DOCTOR: ...A Skybase. JO: (Mocking.) Amazing! TANNOY VOICE: Duty personnel to reception and transfer section. Clear visiting party. DOCTOR: We are expected then. TANNOY VOICE: Next, escort them through bacteriological decontamination hall. Skybase One - out. JO: Bacteria what? DOCTOR: Well, put less delicately, Jo - delousing! JO: Cheek! (She flinches and starts to scratch herself. The DOCTOR laughs and she joins in.) 8: INT. SKYBASE ONE. TRANSFER SECTION (Two sets of people are collected in the well-lit transfer and reception of Skybase. First, a number of guards, dressed in the same uniform as STUBBS and COTTON stand with g*n warily cocked. Secondly, the Solonians who wear a mixture of long colourful robes, leggings and sets of chain mail. Some are adorned with primitive jewellery and wear their hair long and sometimes braided. The reception area is a series of archways which lead off which form a sort of cloister to a number of corridors. The archways are circular and the walls are made up of triangular cell-like patterns. On one side of the transfer section are two transportation cabinets. In between them are three signs. One reads: HAVE YOU GOT YOUR OXYMASK? The other two point to either cubicle. One states OVERLORDS and the other SOLONIANS. From the latter cubicle steps a tall good-looking young man. He steps down and smiles at an older pugnacious looking Solonion with long braided hair and an ornamental sword at his side. This is VARAN, one of the Solonian tribal leaders and the young man is his SON. Their place their right hands on each others right shoulders in a sign of salute.) VARAN'S SON: Father. (There is an electronic noise and the Solonian cubical glows with a bright blue light. When it has faded, another Solonian is revealed within. He opens the door and steps out. He is younger than VARAN with short dark hair and equally dark eyes. His attitude is lithe and alert. He wears tribal clothing including a leather jerkin and several long chains round his neck. He looks coldly at VARAN and steps down towards him. The two men start to speak in strong colonial accents.) VARAN: Greetings, Ky. KY: I knew you would be here, Varan - with your Overlord masters. VARAN: And why are you here? KY: I was summoned. VARAN: You will attend the conference? KY: The conference? More lies from the Overlords, more promises of freedom. VARAN: Yet Ky still came? (KY raises his voice in order that all around him can hear.) KY: I came to demand that the Overlords stop m*rder our people! VARAN: The mutants must be rooted out. They are evil and diseased. (Near to VARAN, one of his men, his bodyguard, twitches his arm and hides it beneath his cloak.) KY: Who tells us that? VARAN: My eyes tell me. KY: No, Varan, the Overlords tell you. They tell you to k*ll and you k*ll! VARAN: My people are warriors. It is honourable to fight. KY: (Cries out.) Where is the honour in hunting down unarmed creatures?! VARAN: Their duty, Ky. They are diseased. (KY tenses up.) KY: Well, if it is a diseased, what has caused it? (He stalks round the transfer section, looking into the eyes of the other Solonians.) KY: Once we were farmers and hunters, the land was green, the rivers ran clear, the air was sweet to breathe! And then the Overlords came, bringing Earth's poisons with them - calling it progress. We toiled in their mines, we became slaves! (Shouts.) Worse than slaves! VARAN: (Shouts.) Liar! KY: (Shouts.) m*rder! (The two men face each other and raise their arms to fight.) KY: You have nothing else to hunt, so you hunt your own kind. (VARAN rushes to grab his sword as a guard steps between them with his g*n raised in one hand and grabbing KY back in the other. STUBBS turns a corner and steps into the middle.) STUBBS: So! You've arrived, Ky. KY: As you see, Overlord. We come when we are called. STUBBS: Well, don't just stand there making speeches, get into decontamination. (STUBBS nods his head in the right direction and KY stalks off through a doorway.) STUBBS: And the rest of yer! (VARAN'S SON and all the other Solonians except VARAN and his bodyguard follow.) STUBBS: Varan, the Marshal wants to see you. (VARAN and his bodyguard start to go through an archway in another direction.) STUBBS: Alone! VARAN: (To his bodyguard.) Wait. (The bodyguard stands back and VARAN moves off. STUBBS also sets off leaving the bodyguard and one Skybase guard. The bodyguard desperately tries to keep his left hand behind his back and the Skybase guard becomes suspicious. He grabs the hidden arm and pulls it out. He sees that the human looking hand has become replaced by a scaly looking one. He instantly yells down the corridor.) GUARD: Mutt! (The bodyguard grabs the man round the neck and clubs him to the ground. He then pulls the unconscious man into one of the teleport cubicles and sets off into the interior of the Skybase.) 9: INT. SKYBASE ONE. STORAGE ROOM (The DOCTOR steps out of the TARDIS again.) DOCTOR: Taking their time, aren't they, Jo? (He sees that he is seemingly alone in the room.) DOCTOR: Jo? (He starts to look round the back of the TARDIS.) DOCTOR: Jo, where... (JO steps into view from where he is searching.) DOCTOR: Oh, they you are. JO: Doctor? DOCTOR: Mmm? JO: Are you sure we're in the reception area? Looks more like a broom cupboard. Where exactly are we - time wise? DOCTOR: (Pained.) Don't use expressions like that, Jo, please? JO: Alright - century wise? (She giggles.) DOCTOR: According to the TARDIS's instrument readings, we are now in the thirtieth century empire. JO: I see. (Puzzled.) What empire? DOCTOR: Well, your empire - Earth's empire. Yes, great colonists - Earthmen - you know, Jo. Once they'd sacked the solar system, they moved onto pastures new. Solos is one of them - one of the last. Do you ever read Gibbon's "Decline and Fall"? JO: No, is it good? DOCTOR: (Patiently.) Jo, this is like that, you see? JO: No. DOCTOR: Oh, well empires rise and empires fall. And if this is their idea of a reception, this one has obviously crumbled! (They laugh. The DOCTOR inspects the door. Next to it is a panel with sensors in the shape of a palm-print.) DOCTOR: Oh, to get out of here, I've obviously got to try and break the circuits. (He takes out his sonic screwdriver and starts to adjust it.) 10: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (VARAN, escorted by two Skybase guards, steps into the MARSHAL'S office through a blue oval sliding doorway. The office has a raised area along the back wall with a small railed podium on the right hand side and the MARSHAL'S metallic desk on the left. In the centre of the room is a circular table with seats below the platform. The back walls are adorned with diagrams resembling neutrons around an atom. The MARSHAL is within his domain and turns to face the visitor.) MARSHAL: Ah, Varan? VARAN: Why has Ky been summoned to this conference? MARSHAL: Oh, you've seen him then? (He sits at his desk.) VARAN: He called me m*rder. Me - Varan. I should have finished with him there and then. MARSHAL: Oh now, Varan, we want no martyrs. I have other plans for Ky. VARAN: You said I would represent my people. MARSHAL: You will be there. You and Ky. Now listen... (He leans forward...) 11: INT. SKYBASE ONE. STORAGE ROOM (With an expl*si*n of sparks on the panel, the door slides open under the as*ault of the sonic screwdriver. The DOCTOR is about to step out but JO holds him back.) JO: The box. DOCTOR: What? JO: The box! DOCTOR: Oh yes, of course. (He hurries back into the TARDIS and emerges with their consignment.) DOCTOR: Here, you take it. JO: Alright. (She takes the box as they step into the corridor.) 12: INT. SKYBASE ONE. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE STORAGE AREA (The DOCTOR looks round. There is a sign on the wall which reads: STORAGE AREA 4 ...but the corridor is otherwise empty.) DOCTOR: It's alright. There's nobody about - come on. (JO follows him but they have barely taken a few steps when the bell-klaxon rings out again.) TANNOY VOICE: Attention. Attention. Computer confirms door malfunction in storage area four. JO: That's us. TANNOY VOICE: Investigation please. DOCTOR: Yes, I know. I'm not sure I like being described as a malfunction. (They laugh and move on.) 13: INT. SKYBASE ONE. STORAGE AREA 5 (STUBBS and COTTON are playing chess using a futuristic metallic set in another storage area. STUBBS makes a move followed by COTTON.) COTTON: Check. TANNOY VOICE: I repeat: Investigation please. STUBBS: That's us. COTTON: What is it? STUBBS: A door. COTTON: Door? All the way over there for a door? STUBBS: Yeah, seems a bit pointless, doesn't it? COTTON: Ah, leave it. Leave it till morning. We have only just got back up here after that Mutt hunt. Tell you what...? STUBBS: What? COTTON: You won't catch him rushing about tonight. STUBBS: Who? COTTON: His Nibs - the Marshal. (They return to their game.) 14: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (The MARSHAL finishes giving VARAN his instructions.) MARSHAL: You understand? I want a man I can trust and trust absolutely. VARAN: All my warriors can be trusted. They will fight to the death for Varan. (The MARSHAL passes VARAN a small rectangular piece of red plastic.) MARSHAL: Then you will need this pass. VARAN: It is good. MARSHAL: Hmm! I doubt if Ky will think so. Varan, I shall want to see this man of yours myself. VARAN: Now? MARSHAL: Afterwards. (VARAN steps out of the office. The MARSHAL watches him go and mutters to himself...) MARSHAL: The fool! 15: INT. SKYBASE ONE. CORRIDOR (The DOCTOR and JO make their way down one of Skybase's corridors - still unchallenged.) DOCTOR: Hello? (They turn a corner and look round. The DOCTOR calls out louder...) DOCTOR: Hello? (A wall sign shows that they are now also in storage area 5. The DOCTOR spots another door closed by a palm-print panel and takes out his sonic screwdriver to deal it.) JO: (Warning.) Doctor... DOCTOR: Well, we can't wander around here all night with nobody noticing, now can we? (As the DOCTOR stands one side to avoid the sparks when he operates his screwdriver, JO looks round and spots the approaching figure of the mutating Solonian bodyguard.) JO: Doctor! (The bodyguard starts to draw his sword. The DOCTOR destroys the panel and he and JO dive through the doorway as the Solonian rushes at them. Once through, the starts to close behind them but the Bodyguard manages to get his mutating arm through...) TANNOY VOICE: Attention. Attention... 16: INT. SKYBASE ONE. STORAGE AREA 5 (In another part of the storage area, the chess game between STUBBS and COTTON continues...) TANNOY VOICE: Door malfunction in storage area three. Immediate investigation ordered. Possible emergency - out. (Looking worried, STUBBS puts his gloves on and starts to collect his helmet and g*n.) STUBBS: We should have gone the first time - come on. COTTON: Oh, we couldn't have known. STUBBS: Come on! We're in enough trouble already. Two malfunctions, eh? I don't like the sound of that. (They go through a palm-print doorway and out.) 17: INT. SKYBASE ONE. CORRIDOR (The Solonian Bodyguard's arm claws through the doorway. The DOCTOR strains on the other side as he desperately tries to keep it closed.) DOCTOR: I can't hold it much longer! JO: Well, what is it? DOCTOR: I've no idea but whatever it is, it isn't friendly! (Another door opens and STUBBS and COTTON step through, g*n raised.) STUBBS: Away from that door. DOCTOR: Look, you fool...! STUBBS: (Shouts.) Away from the door! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Look at his hand! (COTTON rushes at the DOCTOR and pushes him and JO away. Immediately, the bodyguard springs through the door. He quickly looks round and focuses on STUBBS. With his sword raised, he gives a roar but STUBBS fires his g*n. The flash downs the bodyguard. He passes his g*n to COTTON and draws up his uniform microphone.) STUBBS: (Into microphone.) Stubbs and Cotton investigating malfunction - storage area three. Mutant native contacted and destroyed. Two other non-personnel found and held. Report ends. (He takes his g*n back off COTTON and points it at the DOCTOR.) STUBBS: Good evening, sir. Will you please come with us to reception? DOCTOR: I assume I have no choice? STUBBS: This way, sir. (He steps back. The DOCTOR, about to follow, looks down at the d*ad Solonian.) DOCTOR: "Mutant native", you say? STUBBS: That's right, sir. (The DOCTOR leads JO by the hand towards the door. She is still carrying the Time Lord's container. The body of the Solonian has a series of ridges growing out of its back...) 18: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (The MARSHAL receives the news in his office through a baton he carries, the top of which extends to become a radio.) MARSHAL: (Into radio.) Mutt? On my Skybase? How? STUBBS: (OOV: Over radio.) He was Varan's bodyguard, sir. MARSHAL: (Into radio.) Mmm, Varan's bodyguard? Get me a full report at once. Hold the other two, and get Varan. (He pushes the end of his baton in as the door to his office opens and a man steps through. He is dressed in a uniform somewhat like the rest of the Skybase crew but with a longer knee-length jacket, denoting seniority. The man is in his forties, slim, dark-haired and with a cold face.) MARSHAL: I've asked for a full report, Administrator. ADMINISTRATOR: I should think so. What happened to your security arrangements? And why wasn't I informed that Varan was here? Really, Marshal - on the eve of the independence conference? MARSHAL: They'll be a full security clampdown. The Solonians will never know. As for Varan, he was merely reporting on Ky's activities. ADMINISTRATOR: (Coldly.) Spying for you, you mean? (The MARSHAL tries to smile.) MARSHAL: Oh, all part of security. ADMINISTRATOR: Security? Such as we have tonight? Natives and the devil knows who else running amok. Good heavens, man! We're not at w*r with the Solonians - we're giving them independence. MARSHAL: (Scoffs.) Oh, eventually. ADMINISTRATOR: Not eventually, Marshal - now. Total and absolute independence. We're pulling out. (The MARSHAL looks devastated and finds it difficult to find the words...) MARSHAL: Pulling out? ADMINISTRATOR: I take it you've been too busy with security to study the latest reports from Earth? We can't afford an empire any more. Earth is exhausted, Marshal - finished. Politically, economically and biologically - finished. MARSHAL: Then why go back? We could keep Skybase on Solos - take over the whole planet. ADMINISTRATOR: Out of the question. Apart from the Solonians themselves, there's the problem of the atmosphere. MARSHAL: Well, they're both problems that can be solved. ADMINISTRATOR: Ky's already making political capital out of your... "experiments" in that field. MARSHAL: Hmm! The Mutants! ADMINISTRATOR: Exactly. MARSHAL: (Defensive.) There is no proof that my atmospheric experiments have anything at all to do with these mutations. The Mutts are a menace and must be wiped out. ADMINISTRATOR: And that's your alternative to independence? Genocide? MARSHAL: Mmm, give them independence, they'll starve out of total incompetence. ADMINISTRATOR: (Angrily.) Nevertheless, they shall have their independence! Whether they're ready for it or not. MARSHAL: When you summoned this conference, Administrator, I assumed it for your usual line. ADMINISTRATOR: Which is? MARSHAL: Oh, fob them off with promises, a few minor concessions - it's always worked before. ADMINISTRATOR: Well, this time I'm conceding all Ky's demands. MARSHAL: But...! ADMINISTRATOR: (Interrupts.) We have no choice! We must return to Earth. MARSHAL: But I've put years of my life into this planet! The whole...my whole career...! ADMINISTRATOR: (Interrupts.) Yeah, well, I'm afraid things are going to be a bit...tricky for ex-colonial officials. Still, don't worry, old chap, we'll...find you something. (He heads for the door but stops for a final gibe with a faint smile on his face...) ADMINISTRATOR: The Bureau of Records, perhaps? Something clerical. (He goes out. The MARSHAL, a furious look on his face, walks up to his desk, thinking furiously. He opens up his baton...) MARSHAL: (Into radio.) Get me that fool, Varan. 19: INT. SKYBASE ONE. ROOM (It is the next morning. Light floods through one of the portholes. JO goes up to it and looks through wearing some sunglasses from her pocket for protection from the glare.) JO: Doctor? DOCTOR: What? JO: You can see the planet in daylight now. (The DOCTOR joins her.) DOCTOR: Oh, yes, so you can. 20: EXT. SPACE (In the light of Solos' sun, the mists on the planet appear even thicker.) 21: INT. SKYBASE ONE. ROOM JO: It's not like our Earth, is it? It's all grey and misty. (They step away from the window.) DOCTOR: Well, the Earth these people know now, Jo - the thirtieth century empire - is even more grey and misty. (JO takes off her glasses as they sit on a bench.) JO: It can't be! DOCTOR: Mmm, land and sea alike- all grey. Grey cities linked by grey highways across grey deserts. JO: Really? DOCTOR: Yeah. Slag, ash, clinker - the fruits of technology, Jo. (They are in a small room guarded by STUBBS. The door opens and the ADMINISTRATOR walks in.) ADMINISTRATOR: Morning. DOCTOR: Good morning, sir. ADMINISTRATOR: I've seen your statements. What is it you want? As briefly as possible. DOCTOR: We come from Earth. ADMINISTRATOR: Who sent you? DOCTOR: Overlord centre. ADMINISTRATOR: (Puzzled.) The council, you mean? DOCTOR: Yes. ADMINISTRATOR: The council has no further interest in Solos. (The door opens again and the MARSHAL enters with another guard.) DOCTOR: Well, they certainly had when we left. MARSHAL: Just, er, when did you leave, Doctor? DOCTOR: Sometime ago now. MARSHAL: He's lying. He's got no pass. DOCTOR: Look, this was an emergency. MARSHAL: There have been no shuttles, no departures from Earth, no arrivals on Skybase in weeks. DOCTOR: For goodness sake, does it matter how we got here? MARSHAL: They must be from Solos! ADMINISTRATOR: Let him speak. (To the DOCTOR.) Why are you here? DOCTOR: This is why. Jo? (JO fetches the Time Lord's container and passes it to him.) DOCTOR: Thank you. (The DOCTOR holds it out expectantly to the ADMINISTRATOR with a slight bow. He takes it and looks it over but nothing else happens.) DOCTOR: Yes, well, obviously it's not for you. (The DOCTOR takes it back from him but the MARSHAL snatches it from his hands. The DOCTOR waits a second, sees that the result is the same and takes it back.) DOCTOR: Nor you, it would seem. ADMINISTRATOR: Some kind of a joke? Who is it for? What is it anyway? DOCTOR: Well, it's a container of some kind, but I must have confess that I... ADMINISTRATOR: (Interrupts sharply.) Then open it! (The DOCTOR stares at the interruption and then speaks down to the ADMINISTRATOR.) DOCTOR: Can't! (The MARSHAL hands his baton to STUBBS, taking his g*n in return. He points it at the DOCTOR.) MARSHAL: Open it! DOCTOR: You're wasting your time, Marshal. This box will only open for the person to whom it was sent. MARSHAL: We shall see. Stubbs? STUBBS: Sir? (The MARSHAL gestures to a tall flat stand. STUBBS takes the container from the DOCTOR and places it on the stand.) MARSHAL: Stand back. (They all do so. The MARSHAL fires two sh*ts. The container glows with an opaque light. There is a small expl*si*n and some smoke creeps out from beneath the object but otherwise it looks undamaged. The MARSHAL hands STUBBS his g*n back and walks forward to examine the container. The DOCTOR, JO and the ADMINISTRATOR join him. The DOCTOR taps the container.) DOCTOR: Do you see? ADMINISTRATOR: You must know who it's for? MARSHAL: They were found with the Mutt. They must be saboteurs. DOCTOR: Oh, don't be a fool! If we were saboteurs, that'd be a b*mb and thanks to you we'd all be blown to smithereens by now. (The door opens and COTTON steps in, standing to attention before the ADMINISTRATOR.) COTTON: Sir, the Solonian delegates are ready for you. ADMINISTRATOR: Thank you. (He looks again at the container.) ADMINISTRATOR: Well, whatever it is, it'll have to wait. Marshal? MARSHAL: Be with you in a moment. (The ADMINISTRATOR leaves and the MARSHAL turns to the two prisoners.) MARSHAL: Now, perhaps you'll tell me just what this is really all about. JO: But he has! What he told you was the truth. MARSHAL: (To the DOCTOR.) What are you - some sort of special agent for the council? Sent to check on me? DOCTOR: If you really want to find out what's in this... MARSHAL: (Interrupts.) I shall find out! DOCTOR: May I suggest that you take it to the conference. It could well be for someone there. MARSHAL: Could it? I think there are more important things. (He heads for the door and opens it.) MARSHAL: Far more important things. Stubbs! STUBBS: Sir? MARSHAL: Don't let these two out of your sight. STUBBS: Sir. (The MARSHAL and his guard leave. The DOCTOR gestures to JO to re-take her seat on the bench and he joins her. They stare at STUBBS with the friendliest of smiles.) 22: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (KY, VARAN and three Solonians are gathered in the MARSHAL'S office. A Solonian keeps KY and VARAN from approaching each other to continue their dispute. Apart from these two warring leaders, the others are sat at the table in the middle of the room. The door glides open and the MARSHAL enters. Over his uniform, he wears a sleeveless ceremonial tunic. He is followed by two guards and VARAN'S SON. As the guards search this latecomer, VARAN and the MARSHAL stand together and quietly confer.) MARSHAL: Which is he? VARAN: By the door. MARSHAL: Does he understand the new instructions? VARAN: He understands. MARSHAL: Is he reliable? VARAN: He is my son. (The MARSHAL looks surprised.) MARSHAL: Your son? VARAN: You asked for someone in whom we could trust. MARSHAL: Yes, good Varan. (He hands VARAN a small object like a leather pouch and steps away as VARAN'S SON approaches his father. VARAN hangs the object round his SON'S neck as KY watches in a mixture of suspicion and pent-up hatred. The klaxon bell rings out.) TANNOY VOICE: His Excellency - the Administrator. (The ADMINISTRATOR walks in. He too wears a ceremonial tunic. He steps onto the platform which overlooks the central table.) 23: INT. SKYBASE ONE. ROOM (In the centre of the DOCTOR and JO'S room, an object like a crystal ball has now been placed on the central stand. On this appears a distorted image of the events in the MARSHAL'S office. STUBBS watches with them.) TANNOY VOICE: Skybase one, Skybase one, this is an Overlord telecast. (A piece of militaristic electronic music starts to be played.) DOCTOR: b*mb signature tune, isn't it? STUBBS: Well, it always impresses them on Solos. DOCTOR: (Sarcastically.) Does it really? (They see all the Solonians taking their places with KY taking a seat at the round table that keeps his back to the ADMINISTRATOR on his podium.) TANNOY VOICE: His Excellency, the Administrator, is about to make his final statement of terms relating to the question of independence in the presence of the Solonian all-peoples union. DOCTOR: What's your view, Stubbs? STUBBS: Independence? Yeah, the sooner the better. Let's get off and home. Plenty to sort out there. DOCTOR: Yes, quite so. (Whilst STUBBS is looking at JO, the DOCTOR gestures to her with his fingers to keep him talking. She takes the hint...) JO: Have you got a family back on Earth? STUBBS: Oh, I hope so, Miss. JO: Do you hear from them very often? (The DOCTOR slowly starts to walks behind STUBBS.) STUBBS: Oh, I get reports, you know? The odd video. JO: No letters? STUBBS: Letters? JO: Mmm. STUBBS: What the... (The DOCTOR places two hands on STUBB'S shoulders in a nerve-pinch. The man looks pained and sinks to the floor.) DOCTOR: Sorry about that, Stubbs. Well done, Jo, you did that beautifully. JO: Pity, he was rather sweet. DOCTOR: Do you think so? JO: Mmm. DOCTOR: Come on, let's go to that conference. (He operates the door and JO passes him the container.) JO: Here, you take that. 24: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (The ADMINISTRATOR gazes down at the small group of Solonians, including a visibly tense and impatient KY.) ADMINISTRATOR: Some five hundred years ago, we Earthmen - Overlords, as you call us - arrived on Solos. Our ancestors, yours and mine, made a solemn treaty - a pact, a bond, an act of friendship... (KY mutters loudly enough to be heard to a Solonian next to him.) KY: Treachery... ADMINISTRATOR: ...and mutual co-operation between our two peoples. (Sat at his desk, the MARSHAL watches impassively.) ADMINISTRATOR: A bold concept - two...different cultures, far apart in terms of development... (The MARSHAL nods at VARAN'S SON...) ADMINISTRATOR: ...uniting together to create a new society. (VARAN'S SON starts to examine the pouch.) ADMINISTRATOR: A new and richer world. Now, after five hundred years of... KY: (To the Solonians.) Exploitation. (The ADMINISTRATOR ignores the comment.) ADMINISTRATOR: ...expert scientific and technical aid, we have steered you to the verge of... (KY turns in his seat and yells up into the ADMINISTRATOR'S face.) KY: Disaster! ADMINISTRATOR: ...to the verge of independence. 25: INT. SKYBASE ONE. TRANSFER SECTION (The DOCTOR and JO enter the deserted transfer section. They see the designated transport cubicles.) DOCTOR: Segregation. JO: Mmm. (They look round.) DOCTOR: This way. (They head off.) 26: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (The conference continues...) ADMINISTRATOR: ...rights and privileges as citizens of empire. You, the peoples of Solos, have given us much. And we in return have given you... KY: (Loudly.) Mutts! ADMINISTRATOR: ...a strong and s*ab system of government. (KY has had enough. He mutters to the Solonian on his right...) KY: Freedom now! ADMINISTRATOR: Despite... (The Solonian nods. KY turns to the one on his left...) KY: Freedom now! (He too nods.) ADMINISTRATOR: Despite, I say, recent acts of terrorism, v*olence... (The Solonians start to chant, their voices rising in pitch...) SOLONIANS: Freedom...freedom...freedom! ADMINISTRATOR: ...and subversion. (The ADMINISTRATOR raises his voice to make himself heard as the SOLONIANS chant.) SOLONIANS: (Shout.) Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! ADMINISTRATOR: (Shouts.) The only black mark on the history of amicable relations unparalleled throughout the empire! (KY thumps the table and jumps to his feet.) KY: (Shouts.) We want freedom and we want it now! 27: INT. SKYBASE ONE. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE THE MARSHAL'S OFFICE (The DOCTOR and JO round a corner and find themselves outside the door to the MARSHAL'S office. COTTON is there with his g*n raised.) COTTON: Where do you think you're going? DOCTOR: Well, to the conference, of course. COTTON: Not without a pass. Sorry, sir. DOCTOR: Pass, what pass? COTTON: Nobody in without a pass, sir. DOCTOR: Look, all this has been arranged by the Administrator. COTTON: Sorry sir, that Mutt - extra security all over. (The DOCTOR holds up the container.) DOCTOR: Look, this thing contains important documents - details of the whole independence agreement, ready for signing. COTTON: Open it up, please sir. DOCTOR: (Shocked.) What? COTTON: Can't risk w*apon in there, sir. 28: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (As VARAN'S SON points the pouch at the ADMINISTRATOR, he and KY are both shouting, both making impassioned speeches and shouting over one another...) ADMINISTRATOR: Now it is my duty to set out the final conditions that Earth Council has laid down! KY: (Shouts.) Do you hear that, Varan? Hundreds of years of oppression and sl*very! ADMINISTRATOR: Good friends! I beg you to listen! KY: (Shouts.) You pollute the lands we live by! ADMINISTRATOR: (To KY, urging.) We have no need to quarrel. KY: (Shouts.) Now you want to take from us the very air we breathe! ADMINISTRATOR: Look, Earth government... (The MARSHAL stands and points to KY as VARAN'S SON aims...) MARSHAL: (Shouts.) Guards, arrest him! ADMINISTRATOR: Earth Government is prepared to concede if you will only let me finish! (The guards rush KY and they start to struggle. VARAN'S SON fires what would appear to be a small poison object at the ADMINISTRATOR who clutches his cheek in shock. A guard rushes to assist him. KY fights off his guards.) KY: (Shouts.) Out! Go! (KY runs for the door.) MARSHAL: (Shouts.) Stop him! KY: (Shouts.) Get back to Solos! MARSHAL: (Shouts.) Stop him! 29: INT. SKYBASE ONE. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE THE MARSHAL'S OFFICE (KY runs into the corridor where the DOCTOR is still arguing with COTTON.) DOCTOR: No, I can't open it! KY: (To the DOCTOR.) Out of my way, Overlord! (KY pushes past him, touching the container in the process. The top of it starts to rise upwards and KY runs off.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) The box - it's opening! Wait - this is for you! JO: I'll get him, Doctor. DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Wait! (JO runs off after the fleeing Solonian as the guards and the MARSHAL pour out from his office.) MARSHAL: After him! After him! He must be stopped! (They all give chase.) 30: INT. SKYBASE ONE. TRANSFER SECTION (KY runs into the reception and transfer section. Hearing JO coming up behind him, he hides round a corner.) JO: Wait! Listen! I've got to talk to you! Listen...! (KY grabs her and uses her as a shield as he backs towards a transport cubicle, hearing the MARSHAL shouting to the approaching guards.) MARSHAL: (OOV.) Stop him! JO: What are you doing? KY: They will not sh**t an Overlord. JO: But I'm not an Overlord! I've come to help you! (KY and JO enter a transport cubicle. The MARSHAL, the DOCTOR and the guards, w*apon trained, stand before the row of cubicles.) MARSHAL: Now, you fool! sh**t! DOCTOR: No, you can't! MARSHAL: I said f*re! (The guards f*re and the cubicle explodes...)
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THE MUTANTS BY: BOB BAKER AND DAVE MARTIN EPISODE TWO Original Air Date: 15 April, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. SKYBASE ONE. TRANSFER SECTION (KY uses JO as a shield as he backs towards a transport cubicle.) JO: But I'm not an Overlord! I've come to help you! (KY and JO enter a transport cubicle. The MARSHAL, the DOCTOR and the guards, w*apon trained, stand before the row of cubicles.) MARSHAL: Now, you fool! sh**t! DOCTOR: No, you can't! MARSHAL: I said f*re! (The guards f*re and the cubicle explodes. When the smoke has cleared, there is a large burnt hole in the glass of the door but no sign of JO or KY. The MARSHAL raises the microphone in his baton as the DOCTOR looks on in horror.) MARSHAL: (Into radio.) Alert all ground stations. (To the DOCTOR.) Your friend won't get far...without a mask. 2: INT. SOLOS. TRANSFER STATION (The transfer station on Solos looks much like its counterpart on Skybase, complete with signed, segregated cubicles. The Solonian cubicle glows with an intense blue light which fades, along with the sound of the materialisation which at first blocks out KY'S words as he speaks to JO. He has now released her.) KY: ... No Overlord can exist without a mask. JO: How many more times do I have to tell you I'm not an Overlord? (A short distance away, a Skybase guard sits behind a counter behind which is a sign which reads: CHECK OXYMASKS BEFORE LEAVING He hears a radio message from the MARSHAL.) MARSHAL: (Over radio.) I want both of them. Do I make myself clear? SOLOS GUARD: Sir. (He grabs a g*n from a wall mounting and opens the counter door as KY and JO step out of the cubicle. A klaxon alarm starts to blare out. KY looks round warily.) KY: ... outside. The atmosphere is poisonous! No Overlord can exist for more than a few hours without a mask. JO: Well, what am I going to do? KY: Well you will stay here. I shall make a run for it. (He starts to head off but JO follows.) JO: No, I'm coming with you! KY: Look, I warn you - my life is more important than yours - to Solos and my people. I cannot stop to help you. (The alarm stops.) JO: I'm coming with you. (In the now silent passage, KY hears something.) KY: Shh, guards! (He pulls JO round a corner as the reception guard turns round another. He spots JO just out of hiding and starts to walk towards her. KY springs out from one side and grabs the guard round the neck, pulling him to the floor.) KY: (To JO.) Come on! (The guard quickly starts to recover as KY pulls JO down the passage, past the counter and to a door marked with a sign next to it which reads: AIRLOCK OXYMASKS MUST BE WORN The guard fires a sh*t which hits the sign. A shower of sparks explodes as KY opens the door and bundles JO through.) 3: INT. SOLOS. TRANSFER STATION. AIRLOCK (KY presses the palm-print sensor and the inner door closes. He starts to twist a dial on a device on the outer door.) KY: Alright? JO: Fine so far. KY: Good. (He opens the door and they step cautiously out onto the foggy surface of the planet.) 4: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (The DOCTOR is sat at the centre table in the MARSHAL'S office as the man himself closes his baton radio. The Time Lords container rests on the table and two guards stand on the door.) DOCTOR: Bad news. MARSHAL: For you Doctor, for your friend - they have escaped on to the surface of Solos. DOCTOR: Ah. MARSHAL: Still, without a mask... But never fear, Doctor, we shall find her - or her body. (The DOCTOR looks up.) DOCTOR: Would you kindly explain that remark, sir? MARSHAL: During the hours of daylight no human can survive on Solos without an oxymask. The soil contains a nitrogen isotope unknown on Earth. The ultra-violet rays of the sun cause a kind of...poisonous mist. DOCTOR: (Concerned.) How poisonous? MARSHAL: I give your friend an hour, possibly less depending on how fast they're travelling. I could, of course, step up the search. (The DOCTOR quickly rises to his feet.) DOCTOR: May I suggest that you do so immediately? MARSHAL: Or I could call off the search altogether - let them escape. DOCTOR: (Shocked.) And let her die? You can't do that! MARSHAL: I can do as I please, Doctor. And since the unfortunate assassination of the Administrator, Solos is under Martial Law - my law. DOCTOR: How very convenient for you. Now look, are you going to search for Miss Grant or not? MARSHAL: That depends on you, Doctor. (He looks down pointedly at the container.) DOCTOR: Does it? (The DOCTOR picks the container up.) MARSHAL: Well, I thought you said this box was intended for Ky? DOCTOR: Apparently. MARSHAL: Then I shall want to know what's in it - before he does. (He takes the container off the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: No, I'm sorry. That would be completely unethical. (The MARSHAL crosses to his desk.) MARSHAL: Then I shall be forced to recall my men, Doctor. We're stretched very thin on Skybase. So many demands on our resources, you know. (The DOCTOR considers and gives in.) DOCTOR: Alright. I'll try and open the box for you, but...I shall need your most advanced laboratory facilities. (The MARSHAL opens his radio.) MARSHAL: (Into radio.) Calling Solos - intensify the search. (He is about to finish his message, but...) DOCTOR: Marshal! MARSHAL: (Into radio, reluctantly.) The girl must not be harmed. DOCTOR: That's better. 5: EXT. SOLOS (KY and JO run as fast as they can through the stunted bushes and mists of the planet. KY easily takes a lead as JO is starting to find it hard to breathe. She stumbles down. KY, constantly looking out for guards, sees that she has fallen. He considers but goes back to help her as she lies stretched out on the ground, gasping for breath. He picks her up to carry her.) 6: EXT. ANOTHER PART OF SOLOS (Shortly behind them, STUBBS, COTTON and another Skybase guard, all wearing oxymasks, are in pursuit. STUBBS carries a bleeping tracer.) STUBBS: This way. (STUBBS looks at his device.) STUBBS: Funny? Only one now. Only one trace registering. (They carry on.) 7: EXT. ANOTHER PART OF SOLOS (With JO in his arms, KY carries on through the mists. He hears the bleep of the tracer close behind him.) 8: INT. SKYBASE ONE. LABORATORY (The MARSHAL has taken the DOCTOR to a futuristic laboratory in Skybase. The room is triangular in shape with a raised platform running round the edge of two sides. The doorway is on the upper level to the left and the ubiquitous two guards stand on duty. The walls of the laboratory are covered with control panels. In the well of the room are various pieces of equipment including one device which resembles a cylinder which rests at an angle. The MARSHAL walks along the outer platform with pride as the DOCTOR follows. The tour of inspection over, the MARSHAL turns to the DOCTOR for his reaction. He is disappointed...) MARSHAL: Well? DOCTOR: Adequate. Not quite what I hoped for but...adequate. (The DOCTOR steps down to the lower level and starts to look over the cylindrical device. The MARSHAL follows.) MARSHAL: Adequate! What do you mean "adequate"? It's the finest laboratory it's possible to build. DOCTOR: Well, I was rather hoping for a particle reversal set-up. You know, something that would... (He waves his hands in a circle.) DOCTOR: ...Turn the box inside out, but...well all this stuff, it seems for geared for atmosphere modulation. (He points to a part of the cylindrical device.) DOCTOR: And this circuits about to overload for a start. (He switches it off.) DOCTOR: What is it anyway - weather control? MARSHAL: Well, something of the sort. Now, tell me, Doctor... (He is interrupted as the door opens and a furious, plump little man bursts in. He is past middle age and dressed in a brown tunic and speaks in a middle-European accent.) JAEGER: (Shouts.) What the blazes is going on in here?! (He stops and gives a sickly smile when he sees who is there.) JAEGER: Oh, it's you Marshal. My apologies. But there was tampering with one of the circuits. DOCTOR: Yes, I'm terribly sorry. I'm afraid that was me. I'd no idea that the thing was operational. One of your circuits was about to overload. JAEGER: Marshal, I must insist! The experiment has reached a critical stage. I'm working here alone and against time...and, with respect, I can't afford...to have you or anyone else interfering with it whenever you feel like doing some stupid guided tour! MARSHAL: Jaeger, that's enough. JAEGER: You give full priority to atmospheric regeneration and then you expect... MARSHAL: (Shouts.) Jaeger! Jaeger! (JAEGER falls silent.) MARSHAL: For the moment, Jaeger, I want you to give full priority to this little problem here. (He taps the container which rests on a lab table.) JAEGER: What? (Puzzled.) What is it? (JAEGER picks the container up as the DOCTOR steps forward.) JAEGER: Who is this man? MARSHAL: An emissary from Earth - or so he claims. (The MARSHAL'S baton bleeps and he answers it.) MARSHAL: (Into radio.) Mmm? VOICE: (Over radio.) Varan's son's in your office, Marshal. MARSHAL: (Into radio.) Good. Hold him there. (He closes the baton.) MARSHAL: I'm sorry, gentlemen, I cannot stay. The assassination, you understand? A man is being held. (He heads for the door.) MARSHAL: Jaeger, I want you to give the Doctor all the help he needs to get that thing open. Doctor, I'll keep you informed about Miss Grant, and you'll keep me informed about your progress. (Smiles.) Won't you? (He walks out.) 9: EXT. SOLOS (KY still carries JO across the wasteland, constantly hearing the bleep of the Skybase guard's tracking device behind him. He deposits JO in some dense shrubbery on a ledge and heads back a little to listen and watch. A short distance away, STUBBS looks at his device watched by COTTON and the third guard.) STUBBS: It's now two. (He nods to the third guard who heads off in one direction.) STUBBS: (To COTTON.) Come on. (They head off in another. The third guard slowly makes his way towards where JO is hidden. KY watches, choosing his moment carefully and then jumps down from the ledge onto the guards back. The fall knocks the guard out. KY takes his oxymask and returns to JO with it. He places it over her mouth.) 10: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (The MARSHAL walks into his office where VARAN'S son is waiting, looking over the pouch-like device that he used to k*ll the Administrator. The MARSHAL waves the guards back at the door not to enter. They step back and the door closes.) MARSHAL: Greetings, son of Varan. VARAN'S SON: Why have I been brought here a prisoner? It was upon your orders that I k*lled the Administrator. You said he was an enemy of our people. MARSHAL: You've done well. Now for your reward. (VARAN'S son smiles.) 11: INT. SKYBASE ONE. TRANSFER SECTION (VARAN stalks down the corridor next to the reception area towards the MARSHAL'S office.) 12: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (The MARSHAL has the assassination device in his hands, looking it over as VARAN'S son watches.) MARSHAL: Amusing little device, isn't it? Works...perfectly. (He aims it at the Solonian. Alarm appears on his face and then shock as the MARSHAL fires. He clutches his stomach and falls to the floor. At that moment, the door to the office opens and VARAN walks in. He instantly sees his SON on the ground. He casts a look of hatred at the MARSHAL and kneels down to examine his son. He waves a stiff hand over the corpse and then raises his hands to his gods and says a couple of words in his native language. He then looks at the MARSHAL as he starts to unsheathe his sword.) VARAN: So... MARSHAL: No regrets, Varan. First the Administrator, now an attempt to k*ll me. He was in league with Ky. VARAN: You lie! You ordered us to k*ll the Administrator! MARSHAL: Others will believe me! (The MARSHAL again raises the pouch and fires. The sh*t misses and VARAN makes a run for the door, managing to get out. The MARSHAL opens his baton.) MARSHAL: (Into radio.) Attention! Attention! This is the Marshal speaking... 13: INT. SKYBASE ONE. CORRIDOR (VARAN stumbles along the corridor as...) 14: INT. SKYBASE ONE. ANOTHER CORRIDOR (...elsewhere, guards search.) MARSHAL: (OOV: Over tannoy.) Solonion Varan has gone mutant. He is at large on Skybase. If taken, he must be dealt with immediately. 15: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE MARSHAL: (Into radio.) Calling Solos, calling Solos. This is the Marshal. Stubbs and Cotton, come in. 16: EXT. SOLOS (STUBBS and COTTON have found the fallen guard as they receive the MARSHAL'S message.) STUBBS: (Into radio.) But we're almost on them, sir. MARSHAL: (OOV: Over radio.) I want you up here immediately - out. STUBBS: (To COTTON.) Stay here. COTTON: Thanks. (STUBBS is about to head back...) COTTON: Stubbsy? STUBBS: Yeah? COTTON: Someone's pinched his mask. STUBBS: I'll send some medics down to pick him up. 17: INT. SKYBASE ONE. LABORATORY (The attempt to open the container progresses. JAEGER has rigged up a device, rather like an elaborate elongated lamp, which points at the subject of their efforts together with various other pieces of equipment in an extemporised lash-up. His jacket off, the DOCTOR paces the platform reading some notes.) DOCTOR: You know, I can't think why you people ever came here. JAEGER: Thaesium, Doctor. This planet is one of the richest fuel sources in the galaxy - or it used to be. DOCTOR: Are the deposits now exhausted? JAEGER: More or less. (The DOCTOR joins him.) DOCTOR: So, now you plan to colonise the planet in earnest, if you can change the atmosphere? JAEGER: That's my problem, not yours. DOCTOR: Well, there are other people concerned, you know? JAEGER: Such as? DOCTOR: Well, the Solonians, for example. After all, it is their planet. JAEGER: Was, Doctor. (Smiles.) It is "Doctor", is it? (The DOCTOR gives him a look for his goading and starts to look over a machine connected to the lamp-like probe.) DOCTOR: I think you'll find that... (He un-plugs and the correctly plugs back in various wires which lead into the device.) DOCTOR: That that should hold the Proton beam steady, "Professor"! (JAEGER looks at him sharply. He loses his temper...) JAEGER: (Shouts.) I think that this whole thing is a senseless waste of time! (Scoffs.) Particle reversal! (Laughs.) Nobody has ever achieved it! DOCTOR: On the contrary, my dear chap, I found it a very useful research technique. JAEGER: Er, what do you expect to happen? DOCTOR: I expect the particles to reverse...and the box to turn itself inside out. What's on the outside will be on the inside, and what's on the inside will be on the outside - where we can see it. JAEGER: Rubbish! DOCTOR: You think so? (The DOCTOR takes a small control unit and, unravelling the wire from it, takes a few steps back to a safe distance.) DOCTOR: Come over here and see for yourself. (A look of doubt on his face, JAEGER joins him.) DOCTOR: You ready? (JAEGER gives the slightest of nods.) DOCTOR: Then watch. (The DOCTOR switches the control unit on. Immediately, lights start to flare around the container and a tablet with strange markings on is momentarily revealed against the inside of the container. Almost immediately, the device explodes with a small flash...) 18: INT. SKYBASE ONE. CORRIDOR (VARAN reaches a doorway. He hits the palm-print sensor with the handle of his sword until the door opens. He steps in. A sign next to the door reads: HERBARIUM NO UNAUTHORISED ENTRY Guards footsteps approach the door.) 19: INT. SKYBASE ONE. HERBARIUM (They look within. The room is suffused with an orange glow and is filled with plants and greenery but there is no sign of VARAN.) 20: EXT. SOLOS. CAVE MOUTH (KY carries JO towards a large cave mouth. Looking round to make sure they are not being followed, he steps within a few feet and rests JO gently on the ground. She has the oxymask on her face. Taking her hands in his, he stands behind her and pulls her arms back and forth, rather like rowing a boat, in an effort to make her lungs contract and therefore to breathe. The technique works and she quickly comes round. He helps her sit up and takes the mask off. She looks round in some fear as she recovers her breath...) JO: What is this...place? KY: A disused mine. One of many on Solos. JO: I remember...running. KY: I nearly left you to die. JO: What about the mask? KY: A guard's. JO: He...! KY: He'll be alright if he takes it easy. You won't need this while you're in here. It's the daylight makes the air poisonous to Overlords. You are from Earth, but you are not... JO: (Interrupts.) The Doctor! We came to help you. KY: Ah, the Overlord with the box. JO: For goodness sake! KY: I'm sorry. My people know Earthmen only as Overlords. It's difficult to think otherwise. JO: The box! It was for you! But, that's...why I followed you. KY: (Puzzled.) Me? Why? JO: I don't know. KY: Is it w*apon? JO: I don't know! KY: Who sent you? JO: I...we must ask the Doctor. KY: How? 21: INT. SKYBASE ONE. LABORATORY (The DOCTOR starts to make repairs to the lash-up as an astounded and transformed in attitude JAEGER watches.) DOCTOR: Well, there are bound to be one or two snags to begin with. JAEGER: But...but it worked? DOCTOR: Well, of course it worked. JAEGER: But theoretically it's impossible. DOCTOR: I don't suppose you saw what it was, did you? I mean inside, I mean? JAEGER: Not clearly, but the process... DOCTOR: ...Was all over in a flash. Yes, I know. (The door opens and the MARSHAL enters with STUBBS.) MARSHAL: Is Varan here? (JAEGER is still too stunned to reply.) DOCTOR: Who? MARSHAL: Jaeger, have you seen him - Varan, the Mutt? DOCTOR: Another mutant? MARSHAL: He was heading this way. Jaeger! JAEGER: (Impatiently.) No, Marshal, I haven't seen him! I've got more important things to do. MARSHAL: So long as that Mutt stays alive, he's a menace to everybody on this Skybase. He was behind the assassination plot with Ky. (The DOCTOR is more interested in what the MARSHAL has to say than the experiment which now consumes JAEGER'S attention...) DOCTOR: And now you say he's mutating? (STUBBS' radio bleeps.) VOICE: (Over radio.) Mutant Varan hiding in storage section ,sir. STUBBS: They've located him, sir. MARSHAL: Alright, Stubbs, you know what to do. STUBBS: Sir. DOCTOR: Marshal? MARSHAL: Mmm? DOCTOR: I wonder...could I perhaps go on this "Mutt hunt" with you? MARSHAL: Out of the question. JAEGER: I'm sure the Doctor has good reason. He'd find it most interesting. MARSHAL: What? (Behind the DOCTOR, JAEGER gives a shake of his head to indicate that he wants the DOCTOR out of the way. The MARSHAL takes the hint.) MARSHAL: Oh, very well. Stubbs? STUBBS: Sir? MARSHAL: Keep an eye on him. STUBBS: Yes, sir. I will. (The DOCTOR takes his jacket and leaves with STUBBS. The MARSHAL steps down to JAEGER.) MARSHAL: Well? JAEGER: With that man's help, I could the whole atmosphere regeneration project operational within a week. MARSHAL: What?! JAEGER: He understands particle reversal. He could speed up the whole process. MARSHAL: Then we must be sure he stays with us. Yes, his assistant's the key to that as well. 22: EXT. SOLOS. CAVE MOUTH (KY is putting together a small pile of twigs and branches to make a f*re.) JO: How long before they track us down? KY: Caverns run for miles. They'll never find us. JO: Well that means neither will the Doctor? KY: We must wait. My people will tell me when the Doctor comes. JO: (Puzzled.) Your people? KY: The dispossessed, the outcasts, the t*rrorists as the Overlords label them. (JO continues to look puzzled.) KY: Tell me about the caverns of Earth. JO: The what? KY: The caverns - where you live on Earth. JO: I live in London! (KY thinks he understands and smiles.) KY: A sky city. JO: No, London. London on the ground. KY: No, I have seen pictures of Earth. No one lives on the ground. The air is too poisonous. And soon, Solos will be the same. The Overlords only promise independence so they can go on plundering our resources, turning our green fields into their grey slagheaps. Am I not right? Is it not true? JO: I...don't know. It's rather a long time since I left Earth. KY: Once my people were farmers and nomads. Now look at them. (Bitterly.) Slaves in factories and mines! Already the pollution is causing mutations. The "Mutts" as the Marshal calls them. (He snaps a branch in anger.) KY: Mutts! JO: What happens to them? KY: Well they are k*lled. Hunted down and k*lled. Or if they escape they hide in places like these. 23: INT. SOLOS. CAVE PASSAGE (Not far away, a creature with a stubbled back and claw-like hands scurries down a passage with a roar...) 24: INT. SKYBASE ONE. HERBARIUM (The DOCTOR and STUBBS cautiously enter the herbarium.) DOCTOR: What is this place anyway? What's it for? STUBBS: Seed propagation. Earth crops for Solos. (His g*n ready, STUBBS walks further into the semi-darkened room.) STUBBS: Varan? Varan? It's no use, me old son. Let's get it over with. DOCTOR: (Appalled.) Get it over with? You don't intend sh**ting him in cold blood, do you? STUBBS: It's the only way. DOCTOR: How do you know? (STUBBS ignores him. He goes one way while the DOCTOR walks off in another direction.) STUBBS: (Smiles.) Come on, Varan. Varan? Make it easy on yourself! (Suddenly he feels the tip of a sword in his back as VARAN steps out of cover. STUBBS drops his g*n but twists round on the Solonian and they start to struggle.) VARAN: Varan is no Mutt, Overlord! I am a warrior and I fight like a warrior! (VARAN has the upper hand and obviously intends the use the sword on STUBBS' throat. The DOCTOR picks up the dropped g*n and aims it at VARAN.) DOCTOR: Varan, no! Varan! Varan, wait! (He fires at VARAN'S hand and sh**t the sword out of it. He hands the g*n back to STUBBS who aims it at VARAN but the DOCTOR knocks it back.) DOCTOR: Don't be a fool, Stubbs! Can't you see? There's no sign of any mutation. STUBBS: But the Marshal said he was a mutant! VARAN: The Marshal has m*rder my son! DOCTOR: I think you'd better tell us what you know - quickly! We're your only chance. 25: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (COTTON stands to attention before the MARSHAL who sits at his desk in his office.) COTTON: I thought you knew, sir. The guard's mask was gone when we found him. (The MARSHAL jumps up in anger.) MARSHAL: No, Cotton, I did not know! I'm surrounded by incompetents! COTTON: Sir. (The MARSHAL starts to pace...) COTTON: Sir? MARSHAL: Well? COTTON: At least it means the girl is still alive. MARSHAL: Yes, Cotton. But Ky has got her and not us. I want that girl found - understand? One more thing; as far as the Doctor is concerned, we have already got her. COTTON: Sir? MARSHAL: We have already got her, Cotton. She's in hospital - on Solos. Right? (COTTON nods.) 26: INT. SKYBASE ONE. CORRIDOR (The DOCTOR and STUBBS have left VARAN having heard his story and they make their way back to the MARSHAL'S office. STUBBS is astounded at what he has heard.) STUBBS: You mean His Nibs fixed up the whole thing? Had the Administrator done in and then swung the blame on the natives? DOCTOR: That's right. You heard Varan's story. STUBBS: I see. And if there's independence, the Marshal's out of a job. DOCTOR: Yes, exactly. But now the planet's under marshal law, "his nibs", as you call him, means to keep it that way. STUBBS: So what do we do? DOCTOR: Keep Varan in hiding, tell the Marshal he's been dealt with. I can't move against him openly until I am sure Miss Grant is safe. I'll just have to play for time. 27: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (They enter the MARSHAL'S office where the man himself is still with COTTON and two other guards.) MARSHAL: Ah, Doctor, good news. Stubbs, did you find Varan? STUBBS: He's been dealt with, sir. DOCTOR: (In disgust.) Dealt with! MARSHAL: Mmm, these Mutts are a bigger menace than you realise, Doctor. As no doubt Miss Grant will tell you. DOCTOR: You've found her then? When can I see her? MARSHAL: Cotton? COTTON: She's receiving oxygen treatment - in a day or so. DOCTOR: A day or so? MARSHAL: Possibly longer. She was in pretty poor shape when Cotton found her. DOCTOR: What about Ky? MARSHAL: Ky left her to die, Doctor. The whole planet will remain under marshal law until the full of the assassination dies down. Meanwhile, Doctor, Professor Jaeger could use you on a project of some urgency. It will pass the time. DOCTOR: Until you let me see Miss Grant, you mean? MARSHAL: (Smiles.) Exactly! 28: INT. SKYBASE ONE. LABORATORY (The DOCTOR has returned to the laboratory. On one wall is a semi-ornate diagrammatical decoration showing SOLOS, its layers of atmosphere and Skybase in orbit. JAEGER uses a pen-like device to draw arrows on a screen on a machine in front of him which appear on the device, illustrating his plan for the watching DOCTOR'S benefit. The arrows all point down through into the atmosphere.) JAEGER: What I propose to do is to b*mb these layers of the atmosphere with ionisation rockets at these points. This will provide...a barrier against the ultra-violet rays which create the poison mist. DOCTOR: What you're proposing - and do correct me if I am wrong - is an all out rocket att*ck on a defenceless planet. JAEGER: (Amused.) But these aren't military rockets! DOCTOR: Well, try telling the Solonians that. JAEGER: I can't understand your concern, Doctor. This planet, as it stands, is no longer of any use unless we make the atmosphere breathable. DOCTOR: Even if it means wiping out every Solonian in the process? JAEGER: (Losing his patience.) Earth is fighting for its survival. The side-effects are of no importance! (The DOCTOR slams a fist down on a console and jumps up.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Genocide as a side-effect! (He paces the laboratory in anger.) DOCTOR: You ought to write a paper on that, Professor! JAEGER: Perhaps you have an alternative suggestion? DOCTOR: Yes, perhaps. JAEGER: Particle reversal, no doubt? Your little forte? DOCTOR: Particle reversal is one way. Not as violent as yours, of course, but...the result will be the same. JAEGER: The question is, Doctor, can it be done? DOCTOR: Well, we could try an experiment, couldn't we? (The door glides open and COTTON enters.) COTTON: The Marshal wants to see you, Professor. JAEGER: Can't it wait? COTTON: You know the Marshal. JAEGER: Oh, very well, I know. (Resigned, he leaves the laboratory. COTTON waits until the door has closed and steps down to the DOCTOR who has returned to his work.) COTTON: Sir? DOCTOR: Mmm? COTTON: I've been chatting with Stubbs. He's a kind of mate of mine. DOCTOR: Oh, yes? COTTON: About Varan? And about Miss Grant. (The DOCTOR, his interest caught, stands up.) DOCTOR: When can I see her, Cotton? COTTON: That's it her, sir - you can't. We didn't find her. DOCTOR: What? COTTON: As far as we know, she's still with Ky. DOCTOR: (Thinks.) That means I've got to find both of them. How am I going to do that? COTTON: All the guards have orders to stop you leaving this section. DOCTOR: Is there any other way to the transfer station? COTTON: 'Fraid not, sir. (The DOCTOR paces, thinking.) DOCTOR: Cotton, is there an emergency power supply to the transfer station? COTTON: Yes, it... Why, sir? DOCTOR: What would happen if I blew the main power supply to the whole of Skybase? COTTON: Sheer chaos. DOCTOR: Yes, exactly. But if the emergency power supply to the transfer station were already switched over...? COTTON: You could slip down to Solos in the confusion. DOCTOR: Yes, exactly. Can you get the power switched over? COTTON: I can try. DOCTOR: Good, now I'll tell you what I want you to do... (The door opens and an angry JAEGER returns...) JAEGER: Cotton, who told you that the Marshal wanted to see me? COTTON: He did, sir. JAEGER: Then one of you must be mad. COTTON: Oh, yes sir. Sorry, sir. Maybe he changed his mind, sir. (COTTON walks out, nodding to the DOCTOR as he goes.) DOCTOR: Professor, I've been thinking. Perhaps we could try an experiment, er, just to prove whether I'm right or wrong - about particle reversal. JAEGER: Good. DOCTOR: But we'll need to link up to the main power supply. (JAEGER looks dubious...) 29: INT. SKYBASE ONE. TRANSFER SECTION (Clipboard in hand, COTTON approaches a guard who is on duty in the reception area.) COTTON: Orders to check stand-by equipment. (The guard steps aside and COTTON starts to press buttons on a panel which is marked MAINS STANDBY. The door to the Solonian cubicle now seems to have been fixed.) 30: INT. SKYBASE ONE. HERBARIUM (STUBBS enters the herbarium.) STUBBS: Varan! (VARAN steps out of hiding in the shrubbery.) STUBBS: Listen - we're going to try and get you off Skybase. Now when I go, I shall leave this door unlocked. VARAN: How do I know this is not just another Overlord trap? STUBBS: When the time comes, you head straight for the transfer station, but wait for the signal first. VARAN: What signal? STUBBS: You'll hear them announce a power failure. That'll be your chance. VARAN: When will this signal come? STUBBS: That's it - we don't know! You'll just have to trust us, Varan. (He leaves, watched by a narrow-eyed VARAN.) 31: INT. SKYBASE ONE. LABORATORY (The DOCTOR has connected a large cable from the cylindrical device to his particle reversal equipment. He steps up to a wall panel on the upper level.) JAEGER: Surely you'll overload the whole power supply? DOCTOR: Oh, not a bit of it, old chap. That modulator's utterly reliable, but...I'd be very grateful if you'd keep a close eye on it, would you? (JAEGER leans over the equipment.) DOCTOR: Well, are you ready? JAEGER: Yes. DOCTOR: Well, here goes. (The DOCTOR flicks a switch. A glass tube within the machinery starts to glow and the hum of power builds and builds. JAEGER looks at the DOCTOR in concern.) DOCTOR: It's alright, don't worry. Just you keep your eye on that centre dial. (The little professor turns back to the equipment - which promptly explodes in his face. The room is plunged into semi-darkness and JAEGER lies on the floor, unconscious. The DOCTOR retrieves the container and his cloak and heads for the door.) TANNOY VOICE: Skybase One - Emergency! Emergency! (JAEGER comes round...) TANNOY VOICE: We have power failure. 32: INT. SKYBASE ONE. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE LABORATORY (...as the DOCTOR makes his escape from the laboratory.) 33: INT. SKYBASE ONE. CORRIDOR (VARAN comes cautiously out of the herbarium.) TANNOY VOICE: Emergency! Emergency! (He has not gone far when he is spotted.) GUARD: Stop or I f*re! (The guard fires but misses.) 34: INT. SKYBASE ONE. CORRIDOR (The DOCTOR makes his way down another corridor...) 35: INT. SKYBASE ONE. TRANSFER SECTION (...and into the transfer section. He checks the operating panel and hearing a noise steps back. VARAN grabs him round the neck.) VARAN: Die, Overlord, die!
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THE MUTANTS BY: BOB BAKER AND DAVE MARTIN EPISODE THREE Original Air Date: 22 April, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. SKYBASE ONE. TRANSFER SECTION (The DOCTOR walks into the transfer section. He checks the operating panel and hearing a noise steps back. VARAN grabs him round the neck.) VARAN: Die, overlord, die! (Two armed guards run into the transfer section. They see that VARAN has managed to pull the DOCTOR into an Overlord transfer cubicle and that they are struggling behind the glass with the Solonians arms still around the DOCTOR'S neck. The cubicle flares to blue as they transmat...) 2: INT. SOLOS. TRANSFER STATION (NIGHT) (...down to the surface of Solos. As they tumble out of the cubicle, the DOCTOR delivers an elbow-jab to VARAN and struggles free. He then hits him with the Time Lord's container and manages a forearm jab with his free arm, knocking the Solonian to the ground. VARAN unsheathes his sword and raises his arm but the DOCTOR puts a two-fingered nerve hold on VARAN'S throat, paralysing the warrior.) DOCTOR: (Angrily.) Now you listen to me, Varan! For the last time, I tell you I am not an Overlord! I've come to help your people but I must find Ky. VARAN: Ky is my enemy! I will destroy him and you too, Overlor...! (The DOCTOR increases the pressure of the hold, chocking off VARAN'S words.) DOCTOR: You will take me to Ky or I will leave you here for the guards to find. Now, do you give me your word as a warrior? (VARAN manages a nod and the DOCTOR releases the hold.) DOCTOR: Lead the way. (VARAN leads the DOCTOR down the passage to the airlock. As they proceed, they suddenly hear a series of whooshing sounds from overhead and multi-coloured glows penetrate the corridor from the outside.) DOCTOR: What the blazes is that? VARAN: Firestorms. DOCTOR: Firestorms, is that all? VARAN: It is the wrath of the gods. DOCTOR: It's a simple atmospheric disturbance, Varan, and something very much to our advantage. (They come to the counter. VARAN checks in and then looks at the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: Well, now what's the matter? VARAN: You have no mask. When the sun rises, you will not be able to breathe the air on Solos. (The DOCTOR calmly opens the inner door using the palm-print sensor.) VARAN: No Earthman can. DOCTOR: Did I say I was an Earthman? (VARAN looks at him in suspicion. The DOCTOR steps through into the airlock.) 3: INT. SOLOS. TRANSFER STATION. AIRLOCK (NIGHT) (VARAN follows and operates the controls on the outer door. They step out into the night.) 4: EXT. SOLOS. CAVE MOUTH (NIGHT) (Sat next to their f*re, JO and KY watch the display of firestorms from the cave mouth. Glows of red and green light up the blackness of the night and sparks bounce along the ground. The constant screeching of the storm echoes into the cave. KY is calm at the sight but JO flinches from the display.) JO: How long do they usually last? KY: The firestorms? First it was a few minutes, now it can go on all night. Each one longer than the last, terrifying my people. (A particularly close screech makes JO jump.) JO: Surely they're used to these thunderstorms? KY: There were no firestorms on Solos - until the Marshal began his experiments. JO: Experiments? KY: To make our air breathable for the Overlords but not for the Solonians. (Another close expl*si*n lights up the interior of the cave with a red glow.) KY: It would mean the end of my people, Miss Grant. (A fierce white glow fills up the entrance. JO watches as it illuminates a fully formed mutant. The creature is upright with rounded-claw hands and feet. Its thorax narrows down from a humped, ridged back to a narrow waist and it has an elongated abdomen which curls down almost to the ground like a huge tail. The mutant roars with fright from the firestorm. JO is equally as frightened and screams, clutching onto KY.) JO: There - look! KY: It's alright. They're harmless. JO: But it's horrible! KY: They're people - my people. Or at least they were before the Marshal's experiments. (The mutant stumbles closer towards them. Its skin can be seen to be layered like that of an armadillo and two mandibles curve down from its face. KY picks up a branch from the f*re and approaches the mutant, waving the torch.) KY: Back! (The mutant turns and starts to stumble away, showing its two large unblinking eyes in the light. KY returns to JO.) JO: I thought you said they were harmless. KY: I don't understand it. Perhaps it's the firestorm, usually they're alright. It'll be safer further back in the cave. (They move down into the darkness, KY carrying his improvised torch for illumination.) 5: INT. SOLOS. CAVE (NIGHT) (KY leads the way into a large cavern, whose walls glow with a red and green light. All seems still, but suddenly several mutants come stumbling and roaring out of the darkness. KY seems that there are too many of them. He looks round and points to a small side passage.) KY: We'd better hide in here. (JO and KY retreat down the passage. It ends with a smaller nook which KY guides JO into.) KY: Don't worry! ... (He turns back to face the mutants with his torch.) JO: Be careful, Ky. (JO watches nervously as KY starts to jab at the mutants with the flaming torch.) 6: SPACE (Up above the surface of the planet, the firestorms erupt against the hull of Skybase in a shower of flaring expl*si*n...) 7: INT. SKYBASE ONE. LABORATORY (The noise of the storms penetrates the hull. The MARSHAL is in the laboratory, looking down contemptuously at a blackened and sulking JAEGER who sits on the floor.) MARSHAL: (Mocking.) Professor Jaeger, one of the Empire's greatest scientific minds foiled by a simple booby trap. JAEGER: The Doctor said it was an experiment. MARSHAL: A booby trap, Jaeger, so he could escape. JAEGER: It was a particle reversal - I know it was. MARSHAL: (Snaps.) Forget particle reversal - get those rockets ready! You'll have to go ahead on your own now. (JAEGER climbs to his feet.) JAEGER: Marshal, you don't realize? I'm just not ready. Without particle reversal, the whole process is too dangerous. It could get completely out of hand. MARSHAL: Jaeger, will you get this into your maundering egghead? I want the atmosphere on the planet changed and I want it changed now! Clear? (He opens his baton radio.) MARSHAL: Get me Stubbs and Cotton. I want to see them right away. I'll be in my office. (He snaps the radio shut.) 8: INT. SKYBASE ONE. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE THE MARSHAL'S OFFICE (STUBBS and COTTON nervously approach the door to the MARSHAL'S office.) STUBBS: This is it then. COTTON: Is he on to us? STUBBS: Well, we'll soon find out. (The guard outside opens the door for them.) 9: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (The MARSHAL sits at his desk. He watches the two men as they enter.) MARSHAL: Ah, Stubbs and Cotton - my trusty right-hand men! (They stand to attention...) COTTON: Sir. STUBBS: Sir. (...and approach his desk as the noise of the firestorms die down. The MARSHAL is looking over a globe of Solos.) MARSHAL: Not only have you failed to capture Ky and Miss Grant, you've also let the Doctor escape to Solos. COTTON: I tried to stop him, sir. Professor Jaeger let him get out. MARSHAL: (Shouts.) Silence! Prepare to pay a last visit to Solos. STUBBS: (Puzzled.) Last visit, sir? (The MARSHAL gets up and walks behind them.) MARSHAL: For a while, Stubbs. And there we shall k*ll three birds with one stone. Mutts, Varan...and the Doctor. (STUBBS and COTTON look at each other.) 10: EXT. SOLOS. CAVE MOUTH (NIGHT) (The DOCTOR and VARAN have made their way to the cave mouth vacated by JO and KY. The small f*re is still blazing.) DOCTOR: Well, somebody's been here. I wonder why they left? (VARAN hears a low growl and looks round.) VARAN: Look! (He points at a mutant which has appeared round a corner. The creature roars and then turns, stumbling off in fright into the darkness.) VARAN: You saw? Such creatures are evil - diseased! DOCTOR: Perhaps...but I hope the answer to their mutation is in here. (He taps the container and then picks up another burning branch from the f*re.) DOCTOR: Come on. Let's find Ky. VARAN: Then you must find him alone, Doctor. Varan goes no further. (The DOCTOR hears noises from further back in the cave.) DOCTOR: Something's going on in there. Perhaps it's Miss Grant. (He is about to go and investigate but VARAN stands in his way.) VARAN: No! No... DOCTOR: What is it? Varan, the great warrior, afraid of the dark? VARAN: (Goaded.) Varan fears nothing! DOCTOR: I'm delighted to hear it. Come on then. (He walks past VARAN further into the cave. The warrior picks up his own torch and follows.) 11: INT. SOLOS. CAVE (NIGHT) (KY is losing his battle against the mutants. As JO watches in fright, the creatures are growling less fearful of the brandished torch and make lunge after lunge at a desperate KY.) 12: INT. SOLOS. CAVE PASSAGE (NIGHT) (The DOCTOR and VARAN make their way down a narrow passage towards the sound of the fight.) DOCTOR: This way. 13: INT. SOLOS. CAVE (NIGHT) (KY is now surrounded by six mutants. He thrusts the torch at them again and again.) KY: Ha! (One mutant has climbed onto a rock above KY and attempts to att*ck from above. KY thrusts the torch at the creature with a cry...) KY: Ha! Ha! Ha! (The mutants refuse to back off.) KY: Ha! (KY is undaunted and continues to try and make the creatures retreat.) KY: Ha! Ha! Ha! (One of the mutants breaks off and makes for JO who is still sheltering in the incline. She dodges past its flailing arms as KY tries another approach.) KY: No! Listen to me! I am Ky! You know me, my people? I come to find refuge, not to harm you! (The appeal has no success and the mutants continue to press in. KY is driven back and he falls. In doing so, he drops the torch. The mutants converge on him. At that moment, the DOCTOR and VARAN enter the cave. Seeing what is happening to KY, the DOCTOR puts down the container and rushes in with his torch. VARAN watches.) DOCTOR: Leave him alone! Go on! Back! Get back! Get back - leave him be! (The DOCTOR'S efforts have more effect and the mutants start to retreat. VARAN draws his sword and, also with his torch, joins the DOCTOR in pushing the mutants back.) DOCTOR: Go on! Back! Go on! Go on! 14: INT. SOLOS. CAVE PASSAGE (NIGHT) (Driven off by her own attacking mutant, JO has run off down a side passage and therefore not seen the arrival of the DOCTOR. She makes her way down the red and green glowing, almost carved passage. She sees a glowing white light ahead and makes her way towards it.) 15: INT. SOLOS. RADIATION CAVE (NIGHT) (JO enters a strange cave. Lights play all over the walls which seem to have a translucent quality. The mixtures of gold and purple tones give way to green and yellow as JO looks round in awe. The sounds in the cave grow and grow in her head and she starts to feel disorientated. She seems to see a vague white figure ahead of her. She puts her hands to her temples as she is overcome by the effects in the cave and slowly sinks to the floor. The white figure comes forward. It is a being dressed in what appears to be a silver radiation suit, complete with hood with a dark visor which totally obscures its features. The being goes up to JO...) 16: INT. SOLOS. CAVE (NIGHT) (Having driven the mutants off, the DOCTOR and VARAN approach a nervy and wary KY.) DOCTOR: So, you must be Ky? (He takes off a glove and holds his hand out.) DOCTOR: How do you do? I'm the Doctor. (KY is puzzled but takes the DOCTOR'S hand. They shake.) DOCTOR: That's the idea. Now then, where's Miss Grant? (KY recovers himself.) KY: Why are you here, Varan? Did your Overlord masters send you to hunt me? DOCTOR: Steady, old chap, he did help to save your life, you know? VARAN: The Marshal has betrayed me. The Overlords are my enemies too now, Ky. KY: (Delighted.) At last, Varan, you see the truth. Now we can work together. VARAN: (Proudly.) I need no help from you, Ky. Now I shall return to my people, and lead them in battle against the Overlords. (KY'S face betrays his disappointment. He turns to the DOCTOR.) KY: So, you are the Doctor - the friend of Miss Grant? DOCTOR: That's right. Now where is she? KY: I took her to a place of safety when we were att*cked. DOCTOR: Good. KY: Why did you come here? DOCTOR: To find her. (He goes over and picks up the container where he left it and holds it out to KY. VARAN watches with interest.) DOCTOR: And to give you this. (KY cautiously takes the container in his hands. All three watch as the top of the container rises of its own accord. KY places the container down. VARAN is the first to reach in and take one of the contents out. It is a stone tablet as glimpsed in the experiment in the laboratory. The DOCTOR and KY help themselves to another tablet each. They are made of some dark stone.) VARAN: (Derisively.) Tablets! Sketchings! These are not w*apon. KY: Varan is right. How can these help us in our struggle? w*apon are what we need. DOCTOR: Perhaps these tablets are worth more to you than any w*apon? (KY looks over the signs and markings carved onto the tablet.) KY: I have seen such signs. DOCTOR: Well read it, man. Well, what does it say? Read it! KY: Well, I...I cannot. It is the language of the old ones. No one remembers. All our culture has been destroyed by the Overlords. DOCTOR: But, you...you've seen this kind of writing before? KY: Signs like these are carved in rocks all over Solos. But no one knows, no one remembers. As far as we are concerned, Doctor, they are meaningless squiggles. DOCTOR: They must mean something, otherwise why would I have been sent here? VARAN: Then why indeed? Come. If we stay here, they will surely att*ck again. DOCTOR: No, I'm sorry, I can't go yet. VARAN: (Shouts.) You are fools! DOCTOR: I can't go yet - not without Miss Grant. VARAN: Is this the way to fight the Overlords? To stay here and be k*lled by Mutts? If you will not fight, Varan will. (He storms off.) DOCTOR: Now, Varan, wait. (VARAN ignores him.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Varan - wait! (KY has put the tablets back into the container. As he picks it up, the top closes.) KY: He will go back to his village and he and his men, for all their valour, will be wiped out. Swords are no use against the Overlord! DOCTOR: (Quietly.) No. Right, Ky - take me to Miss Grant. KY: This way, Doctor. (KY picks up his discarded torch and lights it with the DOCTOR'S. They can hear the distant roar of a mutant. They set off.) DOCTOR: There must be somebody on Solos who understands the old language. KY: There was a man called...er, Sondergaard - a man of learning from Earth. He came to study our culture. DOCTOR: And? KY: After a while he disappeared. Oh, it was all arranged by the Overlords. DOCTOR: Our friend, the Marshal, again, eh? (KY smiles and nods. They continue onwards.) 17: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (JAEGER, STUBBS, COTTON and the MARSHAL are in the latter's office. JAEGER is sat at the desk writing while the MARSHAL and his men look over a map of the complex structure of the caves.) MARSHAL: Simple operation. Surveillance reports show they've gone to ground - there. (He points to a place on the map with his baton.) MARSHAL: Now, Jaeger has devised some novel gas grenades. (JAEGER passes him a red pen and the MARSHAL scribbles on the map to indicate the exit points.) MARSHAL: I want men stationed at every exit. We set off the grenades, flush 'em out - all of them - Ky, Doctor, Varan, Mutts, the lot. STUBBS: What if the grenades don't flush them out, sir? MARSHAL: Then they'll die anyway. 18: INT. SOLOS. CAVE (NIGHT) (KY runs up to the incline where he left JO. He sees that it is deserted.) DOCTOR: Well? KY: Well, I left her here. Perhaps she became frightened, ran off in panic. DOCTOR: Perhaps. Then we'd better start searching, hadn't we? 19: INT. SKYBASE ONE. LABORATORY (The MARSHAL and JAEGER have gone to the laboratory. JAEGER carries a report in his hand in a red binder.) JAEGER: I've been studying the monitoring reports since the storms. MARSHAL: I am not interested in weather reports! JAEGER: Then you should be. The reports show a sharp rise in temperature after every one of these storms. MARSHAL: So? JAEGER: There is no corresponding decrease. Marshal, Solos is getting hotter and hotter. We're moving into something which none of us have ever experienced - the Solonian summer. MARSHAL: Mmm? JAEGER: Ever since we've been here - five hundred years - it's been spring. Now - summer. It may become too hot for any human being to live here. MARSHAL: And it may not! That's for you to find out, Jaeger. My first priority is to wipe out the Mutts. JAEGER: The reports also indicate a very sudden rise in the mutation rate. More Mutts than ever, Marshal, and all moving towards your target area. (The MARSHAL at last shows an interest...) MARSHAL: Good. Good then. The more the merrier. 20: EXT. SOLOS. CAVE MOUTH (Down on Solos, it is now daylight. Four armed Skybase guards get into position outside the cave mouth. From within, VARAN watches them. One of them enters the cave and walks past the cleft which VARAN had pressed himself into. VARAN starts to unsheathe his sword, but seeing that he has not been spotted, instead runs out of the cave. He sprints past the three other guards who are resting outside before they can react. Nevertheless, they quickly raise their w*apon and start to f*re at the escapee. They are joined by the fourth guard who runs out from inside the cave.) 21: EXT. SOLOS (VARAN runs as fast as he can, but he is hampered by the constant expl*si*n from the guard's g*n which rip up the ground near to his feet. The four guards give chase a short way but, the warrior having eluded them, they soon give up.) 22: INT. SOLOS. CAVE (KY, carrying his container, returns to the main cave where he had his encounter with the mutants. He sees the DOCTOR coming from another passageway.) KY: No? (The DOCTOR shakes his head, a look of worry on his face.) DOCTOR: No. KY: But she must be here! DOCTOR: Well, we'll...we'll just have to search them all over again, won't we? KY: If the torches last - and they don't att*ck. DOCTOR: What, you heard them? KY: They're watching us all the time. (They hear a quiet roar from nearby.) DOCTOR: Yes. (The DOCTOR holds his torch up and looks at the walls. One of them, within a passage ending, has a symbol on it.) DOCTOR: But they don't att*ck us in the tunnels. Only in here. This chamber must be important to them. KY: I feel it myself. DOCTOR: Feel what? KY: (Quietly.) A sensation. An awareness of being drawn here. This is a warm, like safe place - a centre. A sort of instinct. DOCTOR: Yes. Yes, it's strange. Still, let's keep searching. Come on. (They move off. After they have gone, from a concealed entrance in the passage that the DOCTOR was looking towards, a gloved hand emerges...) 23: INT. SOLOS. CAVE PASSAGE (The MARSHAL has joined his men on Solos. He makes his way down a passage with two guards.) MARSHAL: Hurry up. I want those gas grenades here. (He stops.) MARSHAL: Give me those blast packs. (One of the guards hesitates and the MARSHAL grabs the two packs of expl*sive with timers attached from him.) MARSHAL: And no one else is to know about this - understood? (The two guards nod and move off. A moment later STUBBS and COTTON come down the passage, each carrying a small searchlight. The MARSHAL swiftly conceals the blast packs behind his back.) MARSHAL: Everything ready? STUBBS: Yes sir. Er, excuse me, sir? MARSHAL: Well? STUBBS: I think we should do something about finding the Doctor, sir. MARSHAL: Do you now? STUBBS: Professor Jaeger said he was important, sir. MARSHAL: Mmm. Well Cotton? COTTON: I agree, sir. MARSHAL: I thought you would. Very well, Stubbs, you and Cotton - I'll give you fifteen minutes - no more. STUBBS: Right, sir. MARSHAL: You keep in radio contact all the way. STUBBS: Sir. MARSHAL: I wanna hear every word. (They move further into the passage. The MARSHAL shouts after them...) MARSHAL: And if you come across Ky, make sure you make a better job of him than you did of Varan! (He smiles...) 24: EXT. SOLOS (VARAN has reached hilltop. The mist is clearer here. He peers through it and descends.) 25: EXT. SOLOS. VARAN'S VILLAGE (VARAN approaches a building in his fog-enshrouded village. A rough thatched triangular hut open at one end. VARAN calls across his village...) VARAN: (Shouts.) ... ! Varan is returned! (He hears a moaning from within the hut and walks in. A ragged OLD MAN is crawling out of a simple bed.) OLD MAN: Varan... VARAN: What has happened? Where are my people? OLD MAN: The f*re... VARAN: Speak! OLD MAN: The firestorms...evil, a plague of evil! f*re from the sky...! (He pulls the man to his feet.) VARAN: Listen to me - summon my council! Go, b*at the w*r gong! (VARAN pushes the man towards a large circular gong which hangs on a wooden frame next to the hut. The man picks up a hammer and beats the gong. His back is a series of insectile ridges...) 26: INT. SOLOS. CAVE PASSAGE (STUBBS and COTTON make their way down a passage, calling as they go. They have their searchlights on.) STUBBS: Doctor?! Doctor? COTTON: Doctor? STUBBS: Doctor?! 27: INT. SOLOS. ANOTHER CAVE PASSAGE (Nearby, their cries reach the DOCTOR and KY.) STUBBS: (OOV.) Doctor?! Doctor?! KY: Overlords! We must abandon the search. They will trap us here. STUBBS: (OOV.) Doctor! COTTON: (OOV.) Doctor! DOCTOR: Alright, head back to the chamber. (They run back the way they came.) 28: INT. SOLOS. CAVE PASSAGE STUBBS: (To COTTON.) Let's try this way. (They move off in one direction down the passage.) 29: INT. SOLOS. CAVE (The DOCTOR and KY re-enter the main cave. As they do so there is a faint moan. KY fails to hear it.) KY: If they att*ck now... DOCTOR: Shh! Wait...listen. (The DOCTOR looks over at a side cave. They hear another moan.) DOCTOR: That's Jo Grant in there somewhere. (Shouts.) Jo?! Jo, are you in there? Jo... (They move into the side cave and find JO, almost unconscious, on the ground.) DOCTOR: Jo? Jo, are you alright? (JO turns her head.) DOCTOR: Jo? JO: (Faintly.) Doctor... DOCTOR: Yes, it's alright, it's me. (There are sudden footsteps and they are illuminated in the glare of the searchlights.) STUBBS: Ah, there you are. KY: (Shouts.) Run, Doctor! DOCTOR: No, Ky! 30: INT. SOLOS. CAVE PASSAGE (Having forgotten to switch their radios off, their every word is relayed to a listening MARSHAL...) KY: (OOV: Over radio.) ... STUBBS: (OOV: Over radio.) It's us, Doctor - Stubbs and Cotton. Is Miss Grant with you? DOCTOR: (OOV: Over radio.) Yes, she's over here. She appears to be injured. (The MARSHAL switches his baton radio off and turns to two guards next to him.) MARSHAL: Right, prepare the grenades. SOLOS GUARD: But, sir, they're all in there. MARSHAL: Exactly. f*re the grenades. (The guards pick up a stick grenade each and move further down the passage. They light them up and throw them down the passage. Each falls to the ground and starts to give out a gas.) MARSHAL: Pull out! Everyone out of the cave. (The guards move back towards the surface. The MARSHAL attaches a blast pack to one passage wall and switches the timer on. He then attaches the second to the other wall and extends his baton microphone.) MARSHAL: (Into radio.) All stations: seal off exits. f*re grenades. (He switches the second timer on and follows his retreating guards.) 31: INT. SOLOS. CAVE (STUBBS is trying to contact the MARSHAL on his radio. The DOCTOR and KY sit down nearby.) STUBBS: (Into radio.) Hello? Hello? (The DOCTOR looks up at STUBBS.) STUBBS: Lost contact. 32: INT. SOLOS. CAVE PASSAGE (The gas in the passage grows thicker.) 33: EXT. SOLOS. VARAN'S VILLAGE (VARAN is still alone with the OLD MAN.) VARAN: Why does no one come? Where are my warriors? OLD MAN: Your warriors have fled, Varan. VARAN: Am I left with nothing but mutants? OLD MAN: They too. It is the way with us all, old and young, those who can walk have gone - to the mines, Varan, to the mines. VARAN: Why? Why has this curse come upon us? (He suddenly sees the back of his right hand. A scaly, crust skin is starting to grow there. He looks at it in horror. He sinks to the ground...) VARAN: No! No, no, no, no...! (...but suddenly seems to hear a voice in his head as he stares into the mist...) VARAN: (Thoughts.) Go, Varan...go to the place of sleeping...the place of darkness and light...go, Varan, go...go...go...go... (His face clears and he struggles to his feet.) VARAN: I was born to fight. (Desperately trying to concentrate, he unsheathes his sword.) VARAN: Varan...will not die sleeping! 34: INT. SOLOS. CAVE PASSAGE (The gas is rapidly starting to fill all the passageways. The mutants within quickly succumb to its lethal effects and fall to the ground.) 35: INT. SOLOS. CAVE (JO has recovered a great deal and is trying to remember her experiences to the others...) JO: Passageway...full of light. Even the rocks were glowing. I remember...walking towards the light... DOCTOR: Yes? JO: And then there was this...noise in my head. I couldn't hear, I couldn't see properly. It was then I started to get dizzy. DOCTOR: Mm hm. JO: And then there was a figure...a silvery figure. DOCTOR: A mutant? JO: I don't know... DOCTOR: Well, and then what? JO: Well, then I'm...sorry, Doctor, I...fainted. DOCTOR: Ah, whatever it was, it...brought you back here. STUBBS: (To COTTON.) I'd better tell His Nibs what's going on. DOCTOR: Here, just a minute. I don't particularly want to find myself in the Marshal's hands again, thank you very much. COTTON: Better off on Skybase than in here. (To STUBBS.) You'll have to hurry, old son. The att*ck's due to start any minute now. DOCTOR: att*ck? COTTON: Gas - the Marshal's solution to what he calls the Mutt problem. JO: Doesn't he know we're in here? KY: He knows. COTTON: I think we ought to move out now, before it's too late. 36: EXT. SOLOS (Outside the cave, the MARSHAL speaks to SOLOS GUARD who holds a detector.) MARSHAL: What's the count? SOLOS GUARD: It seems to be swarming with Mutts, sir. They're attracted to the place. MARSHAL: Mmm, they go there to die. They have the old idea of the elephant's graveyard. Right, should be any moment now. (He checks his watch and looks towards the nearby cave mouth. After a second, it is ripped apart by two large expl*si*n. The MARSHAL smiles in satisfaction.) 37: INT. SOLOS. CAVE PASSAGE (STUBBS is making his way back to the entrance. He stops suddenly as he smells something. Looking down a side passage, he sees the rockfall from the expl*si*n and a cloud of gas creeping towards him. Coughing, he runs back the way he came.) 38: INT. SOLOS. CAVE (The DOCTOR waits in the cave with JO, KY and COTTON.) DOCTOR: Let me see those tablets again, Ky. (KY takes one out of the open container and passes to the DOCTOR who looks it over in frustration.) DOCTOR: The answer must be here somewhere. (STUBBS comes running back up to them.) STUBBS: Doctor! Gas! They've started the att*ck already. COTTON: We've got to get out. STUBBS: We can't get out. The Marshal's sealed us in. COTTON: What are we going to do? (The gas starts to fill the cave...)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "09x17 - The Mutants - part 3"}
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THE MUTANTS BY: BOB BAKER AND DAVE MARTIN EPISODE FOUR Original Air Date: 29 April, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. SOLOS. CAVE (STUBBS comes running back up to them.) STUBBS: Gas! They've started the att*ck already. COTTON: Come on, we've got to get out. STUBBS: We can't get out. The Marshal's sealed us in. COTTON: What are we going to do? (JO suddenly points.) JO: Look! (From one side of the cave a figure walks forward - the radiation suited being. It waves to the five to follow him.) JO: That's it - the thing I saw. (STUBBS reaches for his g*n but JO stops him.) JO: No, don't sh**t - look. (The figure's gestures to follow continue. At the same time, the cave itself starts to rumble and shake.) DOCTOR: Whatever it is, I think we'd better follow it. Go on. (They walk towards the figure who turns and walks off, the others following and coughing within the encroaching gas.) 2: INT. SOLOS. CAVE PASSAGE (As they follow the figure down a passage, they hear more distant expl*si*n.) STUBBS: Making sure of it this time. COTTON: Huh? STUBBS: The Marshal. (There is another louder expl*si*n.) STUBBS: That's the exits. COTTON: Was the exits. STUBBS: Yeah. (KY pushes past them.) KY: (Bitterly.) The Overlords are very thorough. STUBBS: If it goes on like this, the whole lot'll come down on top of us. COTTON: Hurry up, Stubbs! STUBBS: Alright, alright. COTTON: Where's he talking us anyway? 3: INT. SOLOS. DOORWAY IN PASSAGE (The figure reaches a metal wall which cuts across the rock passage. In the wall is a metal doorway with a palm sensor next to it. The figure presses it and enters through the sliding door into a brightly lit room beyond. The DOCTOR is about to follow but pauses to scratch the outside metal of the wall with an object from his pocket.) DOCTOR: Lead. What does lead mean to you, Jo? JO: Radiation. DOCTOR: Yes, exactly. (He steps in.) 4: INT. SOLOS. LABORATORY SHELTER (The others follow. The room within is part metal walls, part rock. A laboratory bench and other equipment lines one side of the room. The DOCTOR and JO immediately start to look over it as the figure waits for the two Skybase men to enter and then closes the door with an internal palm sensor. JO and the DOCTOR spin round as they hear the noise of the door. The figure then pulls off the hood of its radiation suit. Underneath is revealed a man. Just about middle-aged, completely bald, with strong intelligent eyes. He speaks in a Nordic accent as he approaches the DOCTOR with a smile and an outstretched hand...) SONDERGAARD: Welcome. You must not be alarmed. My name is... DOCTOR: (Interrupts.) Professor Sondergaard, I presume? SONDERGAARD: Mmm. (SONDERGAARD and the DOCTOR shake hands, smiling at each other.) 5: EXT. SOLOS (The MARSHAL approaches a GUARD.) MARSHAL: Right, I am returning to Skybase. I want every exit sealed. Understand? Every exit. SOLOS GUARD: That's impossible, sir. These mine galleries stretch for miles. We'll be here for weeks. MARSHAL: (Agreeing.) Mmm hmm. Give the gas a while to disperse, then take a squad down to the galleries. Who knows - you may find some survivors down there. (Coughs.) Right, I'm returning to the Skybase, report to me there. (He puts his oxymask back on and moves off.) 6: INT. SOLOS. LABORATORY SHELTER (SONDERGAARD sits as he divests himself of the rest of his radiation suit. Underneath it, he wears a robe and beads of native Solonian clothing.) SONDERGAARD: There is radioactivity present throughout the cave system. Oh, it's natural in a thaesium mine, and it's not dangerous, unless you're here for many years, as I am. Or unless you find yourself in an unstable zone - as you did, young lady. JO: S... SONDERGAARD: The entrance you found led you straight to the heart of the most dangerous radioactivity. JO: So it was you I saw? And you brought me out? SONDERGAARD: Ha! I didn't know what to do. I couldn't let you die, so I carried you as quickly as I could out of the radioactive zone to where I hoped your friends would find you. JO: Well, thank you, Professor. KY: You were given up for d*ad years ago. SONDERGAARD: Yeah, so were many others in the mines. The mutants, for example. JO: The mutants? Well they att*cked us and tried to k*ll us. SONDERGAARD: Yes, I know. There are more now, may more, and as their numbers increase, so it seems does their aggression. Oh, it's not an isolated phenomenon. The...same behaviour may be observed in rats when confined. KY: And who did this to my people? Who hunted them down like wild animals - the Overlords! DOCTOR: This, er, increase in aggression that you speak of - it seems to be spreading. KY: (Cries out.) Aggression?! Yes! And who were the first aggressors? DOCTOR: Ky! This is not a political meeting. We're all on your side, you know - all of us. (KY points at a silent SONDERGAARD.) KY: Him? Why does he hide in these caves? To experiment on my people! (SONDERGAARD shakes his head.) DOCTOR: Look, give him a chance to explain! JO: Please, Ky. SONDERGAARD: Well he has my sympathies. (To KY, passionately.) Do you think I've chosen to live here? To work with this primitive equipment? I was young, ambitious. I hoped to make many great discoveries here. (KY stalks away from the Professor.) SONDERGAARD: (To the DOCTOR.) And my first was that Solos had become a sl*ve colony. I was unwise enough to...try to inform Earth control. The Marshal intercepted my report. I was lucky to escape with my life. I managed to reach the caves. I've been here ever since. DOCTOR: But you have continued with your research? SONDERGAARD: Hah! As well as I could. As you see, I lack equipment. If it were not for the mutants, I would not have been able to survive here. KY: (Puzzled.) My people...help you? SONDERGAARD: They did. We were all outcasts. We helped one another. Once they stole food for me, and clothing. DOCTOR: And now? SONDERGAARD: Now they don't come near me. It is as if I were... KY: Diseased? SONDERGAARD: Who knows? Perhaps they're right. Strange things are happening on Solos, Doctor. (He starts to take some samples of soil, dying plants and organs in a solution off a shelf and take them over to the lab bench.) SONDERGAARD: Oh, not just to the people, but to the plants, the soil, the atmosphere - even the weather, the whole flora and fauna of Solos. (The DOCTOR looks over the dying plant-life.) DOCTOR: It's Professor Jaeger's experiments. SONDERGAARD: Exactly, and my belief is this: at first the changes were natural, but now Professor Jaeger's experiments have accelerated the changes and...something is seriously wrong. DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Yes...yes indeed. But why was I sent here? Where do these tablets come in? Ky? (He gestures to the container. KY places his hands on it and the top starts to rise open.) 7: INT. SKYBASE ONE. LABORATORY (The MARSHAL enters the laboratory where JAEGER is looking over the remains of the lash-up from the DOCTOR'S particle reversal experiment.) MARSHAL: Are the ionisation rockets deployed? JAEGER: Mmm? MARSHAL: (Impatiently.) The rockets, man, for the b*mb! JAEGER: Marshal, this is not a w*r. MARSHAL: Oh? JAEGER: This is a scientific application of ballistics. An experiment to show that population control can be affected by atmospheric means. MARSHAL: Of course, of course, Jaeger, but let's get on with it, shall we? (He heads back for the door.) MARSHAL: Experiments, population control - jargon, Jaeger! This is w*r! (He leaves. JAEGER sighs and crosses to a console to carry out the order.) 8: INT. SOLOS. LABORATORY SHELTER (The four stone elliptical tablets have been placed on the lab bench and SONDERGAARD looks them over.) SONDERGAARD: Extraordinary! This wonderful, Doctor, marvellous. DOCTOR: Yes, but what do they mean? SONDERGAARD: This is the same kind of hieroglyphs I've seen in the old temples. (SONDERGAARD crosses to the other side of the laboratory to fetch something.) SONDERGAARD: Ah. (He returns with a photograph of a symbol on the cave wall identical to that seen earlier by the DOCTOR.) SONDERGAARD: All over Solos you see the same symbols, you see. DOCTOR: Yes, I can see that, Professor, but can you read them? SONDERGAARD: Well, I can try. I have approximate translations for many of the basic symbols. One might call this the "Solonian book of Genesis" - the lost tablets. This, Doctor, is how the s...the story of how Solonian civilisation began. (The shelter is suddenly shaken by what seems to be another expl*si*n. A small part of the ceiling comes in.) DOCTOR: And ended, if we don't get a move on, I think. STUBBS: (Worried.) Doctor, that wasn't a blast pack, or a grenade - that was the mountain itself. The tunnels are falling in. Now if we stay here, we finished - all of us. DOCTOR: Professor? (SONDERGAARD is absorbed in the tablets.) DOCTOR: Professor, is there another way out? SONDERGAARD: Yes, yes, there is a way, but it's dangerous. It leads to a native village a few miles from here. KY: Varan's? SONDERGAARD: Yes, I believe so. STUBBS: Well, let's go then! (STUBBS collects his equipment.) SONDERGAARD: No, no, no, I must stay. STUBBS: Doctor? DOCTOR: No, sorry, Stubbs, no, you go. Take Miss Grant with you. The Professor and I have got work to do. JO: (Concerned.) You're not going to stay here, Doctor? DOCTOR: Jo! Look, the key to everything lies here in this room - these tablets, Professor Sondergaard's records - I must find the answer. JO: Yes, I know but you heard what he said - the whole mountain is caving in. DOCTOR: We shall have time. JO: (Cries.) But, Doctor, you... DOCTOR: (Interrupts.) Jo, please? Please, don't argue with me. I'll join you later. STUBBS: Come on, Miss Grant. (He opens the door to the outside.) STUBBS: (To KY.) What about Varan? KY: I can handle him. SONDERGAARD: To find the shaft that leads to the passageway, take always the path leading up. (The four start to walk out. JO gives the DOCTOR a smile before she goes which he returns. SONDERGAARD closes the door and then returns to the bench, rubbing his hands.) SONDERGAARD: Now then, Doctor. (The two scientists pore over the four tablets. SONDERGAARD points to a symbol that appears on three on the tablets.) SONDERGAARD: Now, this particular symbol here, for instance, is the Solonian symbol for life. 9: INT. SOLOS. CAVE PASSAGE (STUBBS lights the way with his torch as leads KY and JO through the cave system with COTTON bringing up the rear. The remnants of the gas fills the air. JO stumbles in the gloom and looks back to see a roaring mutant stalking them. COTTON helps her on.) 10: INT. SOLOS. LABORATORY SHELTER (The examination of the tablets continues...) SONDERGAARD: Now then, this pattern repeated is almost the same, and this is the Solonian sun symbol. (He points to an oblong with a carved point on it - rather like the drawn path of on elliptical orbit.) DOCTOR: Yes, well, they aren't numbers, so it can't be a code. Let's try something else. (He points to the four in turn.) DOCTOR: f*re, earth, air, water... (SONDERGAARD doesn't look impressed with the idea.) DOCTOR: No, alright, that's no good. SONDERGAARD: Mmm. Well, erm, a...a cycle perhaps, representing some form of chemical process? DOCTOR: Yes, but the process keeps repeating itself. What process repeats itself? SONDERGAARD: Well, life. DOCTOR: Life in some form will always go on. (There is another expl*si*n rumble from the mountain above and another part of the roof comes down.) SONDERGAARD: Let's hope so. DOCTOR: Yes. (They continue.) 11: INT. SOLOS. CAVE PASSAGE (The four continue down a long passage. JO, still near the rear of the group, glances into a side turning.) JO: Look, a guard! (KY jumps into concealment behind a ridge as COTTON makes a show of apprehending JO. The guard runs forward with his g*n raised. STUBBS runs back.) STUBBS: Alright, mate? It's me - Stubbs. Here ... (The guard looks impassively on and fires at STUBBS. He ducks to miss the sh*t as KY jumps out of concealment and clubs the guard down. STUBBS looks round.) STUBBS: Come on, better try this way. (They move off down his suggested route.) 12: INT. SOLOS. LABORATORY SHELTER DOCTOR: It must be a code of some kind - it must. (Inspiration suddenly comes to him and he snaps his fingers.) DOCTOR: Eureka, it's a calendar! (He points at the four tablets in turn.) DOCTOR: Spring, summer, autumn, winter. SONDERGAARD: Ha, but Solos has no seasons. It does not tilt on its axis relative to its sun. DOCTOR: Well, it may not tilt, Professor, but it could move closer. Look, these ellipses here, they're the orbits. SONDERGAARD: But Solos takes two thousand years to go round its sun. We know that. (The DOCTOR thinks.) DOCTOR: Then the seasons must be five hundred years long. SONDERGAARD: Mmm, possibly. (The DOCTOR points to two of the tablets in turn.) DOCTOR: See, these signs here. They only appear in the summer. And these little matchstick men here only appear in the spring. (SONDERGAARD points to a third.) SONDERGAARD: Yes, but...but what about these spirals? They...they're like small sun symbols. DOCTOR: Yes, like small sun symbols... (Realisation dawns...) DOCTOR: Well, yes but...but that's it! That...that's what I said - that's radiation. That's thaesium radiation! So that's why they sent me here. (He grabs his cloak.) DOCTOR: Professor, I want you to take me to that place where you found Jo Grant. STUBBS: The radiation cave - but I've only one suit. If you spend any time in there without one, Doctor, you will die. Any man would. DOCTOR: Any "man" perhaps. (There is another rumble and the room shakes. The DOCTOR throws SONDERGAARD his radiation suit.) DOCTOR: Hurry, Professor. (SONDERGAARD starts to don the suit.) 13: INT. SOLOS. CAVE PASSAGE (The four make their way along a passage with an upward incline. KY helps JO as she gasps for breath.) 14: INT. SOLOS. ANOTHER CAVE PASSAGE (This passage is more even. STUBBS shines his searchlight on the ceiling as they go. He stops.) STUBBS: This is it - look! (Above them is a carved funnel leading to an opening.) STUBBS: If we can reach that ledge. Right, Cotton, you first, then Ky. JO: If only we had a rope. (Suddenly, a Solonian in armour looks over the edge of the opening and downwards at the group. JO sees him and gasps.) COTTON: What? What is it? JO: Look! (JO points upwards but the figure has disappeared.) JO: There was someone there, I tell you. There was! COTTON: Well, he's not there now, Miss. JO: But he was there. He was wearing a...a helmet. KY: A warrior? JO: Well, he could have been. KY: If we are near Varan's village...his people are in a savage mood. COTTON: Right. (COTTON starts to climb up the funnel, easily making it by standing on or gripping onto the heavily ridged sides. He reaches the top.) STUBBS: Anything?! COTTON: No, nothing! STUBBS: Right, up we go. KY: Varan will be somewhere near. (KY starts to climb, followed by JO then STUBBS.) 15: EXT. SOLOS. VARAN'S VILLAGE (VARAN, dressed in an armoured helmet, addresses three of his similarly attired warriors. VARAN'S transformation has moved a stage further and his face is now also encrusted.) VARAN: My people, we are all that are left. But we are warriors yet. Shall we crawl away and die in darkness like the rest or shall we fight, one last time? WARRIOR GUARD: (OOV.) Varan! (A WARRIOR GUARD runs out of the mist and into the village.) WARRIOR GUARD: (OOV.) Varan! Varan - Overlords, from the place of darkness. 16: INT. SOLOS. CAVE PASSAGE (The DOCTOR and the suited SONDERGAARD walk into a passage.) DOCTOR: Where is it? SONDERGAARD: This section here. (SONDERGAARD points at a huge round stone blocking an entrance.) DOCTOR: Right, there it is. (They walk up to it.) DOCTOR: How do we move it? SONDERGAARD: That way. DOCTOR: This way. (The two brace themselves against the stone...) DOCTOR: Right? SONDERGAARD: Yep (They roll the stone to one side...) 17: INT. SOLOS. RADIATION CAVE (...and a glowing light within pours out.) 18: INT. SOLOS. CAVE PASSAGE (They rest the stone against the wall of the passage...) 19: INT. SOLOS. RADIATION CAVE (...and peer within. SONDERGAARD has to hold up his hands against the glare.) DOCTOR: Your helmet, Professor. (SONDERGAARD seems transfixed by the glare.) DOCTOR: Your helmet, man! SONDERGAARD: Oh, yes. (He starts to don the helmet.) SONDERGAARD: What about you, Doctor? The intensity in there's far greater. DOCTOR: Don't worry about me. I've already prepared myself. Ready? SONDERGAARD: Mmm hmm. (They enter. Their movements become slower as they are h*t by the energy. They walk slowly towards the centre of the cave. Once more, its dazzling colours create a cascade of light across the walls. SONDERGAARD holds up his hands in protection against the forces within while the DOCTOR stands calmly but in awe at what he sees around him.) DOCTOR: It's magnificent! It's like a cathedral! 20: EXT. SOLOS. VARAN'S VILLAGE (JO and the others reach the village. There is no sign of anyone about. JO breathes in using COTTON'S oxymask and, having had her fill, passes it back to the Skybase guard. They enter the small open hut. Once within and entrapped, VARAN and his men jump forward out of the mist, the WARRIOR GUARD giving a cry as he does so. STUBBS and COTTON raise their g*n.) KY: No! Don't sh**t! (Another warrior has come in from the back of the hut and grabbed JO. They are surrounded.) VARAN: Your w*apon, Overlords. (STUBBS and COTTON drop their g*n. VARAN now has a series of ridges growing out of his back...) 21: INT. SOLOS. RADIATION CAVE (The DOCTOR and SONDERGAARD make their way further into the cave. Dazzling blue shapes seem to fly past them. SONDERGAARD gives a cry of pain.) DOCTOR: Come on, we've got to get to the heart of it. (The DOCTOR takes his arm and puts it over his shoulders and half carries the man onwards. As they approach nearer to the centre, more shapes come out of nowhere and fly past the two men. SONDERGAARD gives another cry of pain, falling off the DOCTOR and to the ground.) SONDERGAARD: No! You go! Leave me! (The DOCTOR lets him down and then examines him briefly. He then moves on towards the centre of the cave, holding his hands up against the light. He rounds a corner and sees a brilliantly-lit object, rather like a statue of a seated figure. Holding his hands up against the glare, he approaches it. A dark point rests in the centre "chest" of the figure. The DOCTOR reaches out and takes it. It appears to be a dark crystal. As he walks off, sparks surround him. He pockets the crystal and returns to SONDERGAARD, picking the man up in a fireman's lift. He then makes for the exit from the dazzling cave.) 22: EXT. SOLOS. VARAN'S VILLAGE (JO and the others kneel on the floor of the open hut, their hands bound behind their backs. VARAN and his men stand over them. Two of the Solonians hold STUBBS and COTTON'S w*apon. JO is breathing badly in the atmosphere.) VARAN: Overlords, you will suffer as I have suffered. And you, renegade, will die. KY: You are a fool, Varan. att*ck Skybase and you will sacrifice your men for nothing. VARAN: What have we to fear? We have nothing left now but revenge. KY: (Cries out.) You cannot hope to get into Skybase, much less destroy it! VARAN: You forget - we have the Overlords, we have their w*apon. You and the woman will act as shields. So you see, renegade, you will die for a cause - the cause of Varan's revenge. Now move! WARRIOR GUARD: Move! (The four are pulled to their feet and thrust forward.) 23: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (The door to the MARSHAL'S office opens and JAEGER is escorted in by two guards.) MARSHAL: Well? The countdown started? JAEGER: Started? Marshal, are you aware how long it takes to check out an orbital rocket? MARSHAL: You have the engineers, haven't you? JAEGER: They've deteriorated almost as much as the hardware. MARSHAL: Hmm! Excuses, Jaeger, excuses! (There is a sudden trilling signal from the MARSHAL'S radio baton. He opens it.) MARSHAL: (Into radio.) Yes? TANNOY VOICE: Message from deep space. (The MARSHAL looks alarmed.) MARSHAL: (Into radio.) What? TANNOY VOICE: Message reads: Unscheduled Hyperion Space Shuttle now on course: Solos. ETA: Twenty-two, twenty, twenty-nine, Solos time. Earth Council investigator on board. (The MARSHAL is looking more perturbed as the message is relayed.) MARSHAL: (Into radio.) Investigator? What investigator? TANNOY VOICE: Message ends. (The MARSHAL snaps his baton shut.) MARSHAL: Blast the Earth council! Who do they think they are? An investigator? Investigating what? JAEGER: Your activities should give him plenty of scope. (At this, the MARSHAL stands and walks round his desk in a thr*at fashion.) MARSHAL: Jaeger, if I didn't need you... Now, listen to me - when this...investigator arrives, he will be met with a fait accompli. Your experiments will have been carried out and Mutts will have been eliminated and the air on Solos will be breathable - understand? JAEGER: But the rockets are only half ready... MARSHAL: (Shouts.) Either they go or you go, Professor Jaeger! (Quietly.) I intend to meet this investigator on the planet's surface itself. Face to face, without masks. 24: INT. SOLOS. TRANSFER STATION (A Skybase Guard, alone in the Solos transfer station, turns and sees STUBBS and COTTON walking towards him.) GUARD: Hello you two, where are you going? Up, Stubbs? STUBBS: Yeah, His Nibs wants to see us. (He is knocked to the floor from behind by VARAN'S mutating hand. As STUBBS and COTTON lay him to one side, JO and KY are brought into the reception area by the other Solonians.) VARAN: You did well, Overlords. Now the way to Skybase lies open. STUBBS: You don't stand a chance, Varan. VARAN: We're prepared to die. JO: What good will that do? Believe me, the Doctor will help you find a cure. VARAN: There is no cure for this! (He indicates the heavily encrusted skin on his face.) 25: INT. SOLOS. LABORATORY SHELTER (The DOCTOR and SONDERGAARD have returned to the Professor's laboratory. The crystal has been placed on a block for examination. SONDERGAARD stands to one side, recovering from the effects of the radiation cave.) DOCTOR: Yes, of course! The Solonians are meant to mutate. Mutation is part of it. Part of an evolution. They're meant to change, their environment changes every five hundred years - a life cycle unique in the history of the universe. And now, thanks to the Marshal, thr*at with extinction. SONDERGAARD: So, it's...it's not a sickness? DOCTOR: No, it's a metamorphosis, an adaptive change. The mutants, as we know them, are...an intermediate form. SONDERGAARD: And we've yet to see the final metamorphosis? DOCTOR: Exactly. The radiation cave is the key to that. SONDERGAARD: Well, the tablets led us to the crystal. DOCTOR: Yes, it must play a vital part in the process, but what? SONDERGAARD: Oh...well, maybe that the cellular change is only affected by the particular radiation in the crystal. DOCTOR: That's the extraordinary thing about it. It shows absolutely no radioactivity at all. Here, try it for yourself. (The DOCTOR passes him the probe of a Geiger counter.) SONDERGAARD: But that's impossible! (SONDERGAARD plays the probe over the crystal with no result.) DOCTOR: Apparently not. If only we could analyse it...and find out its true function. SONDERGAARD: The equipment here's too primitive for crystallography. There's only one place... (The DOCTOR realises what he's talking about.) DOCTOR: Skybase - Jaeger's lab. SONDERGAARD: Hmm. (They grab the crystal and the four tablets and prepare to leave.) 26: INT. SOLOS. TRANSFER STATION (The guard still lies unconscious on the floor in the Solos transfer station. A tannoy announcement is made...) TANNOY VOICE: All Skybase personnel. All Skybase personnel - return to Skybase immediately. Repeat: return immediately. Countdown proceeding on rocket launch. (There is no one else in the area.) 27: INT. SKYBASE ONE. TRANSFER SECTION (Up on Skybase, JO and STUBBS are held by VARAN and one of his warriors in the transfer section. The two booths glow blue and KY and COTTON materialise with their Solonian escorts.) TANNOY VOICE: Launch now in final stage. (KY and COTTON are thrust out of their booths.) VARAN: Now, Overlords. This way. (The four prisoners are thrust down a corridor.) TANNOY VOICE: All vectors cleared. All systems green and go on countdown. Sixty seconds and counting. 28: INT. SKYBASE ONE. CORRIDOR (STUBBS and COTTON take the lead as they progress through Skybase.) TANNOY VOICE: Fifty-five and counting. (JO and KY, still with their wrists bound are next, followed by VARAN and his men.) TANNOY VOICE: Fifty-one. Fifty and counting. 29: INT. SKYBASE ONE. LABORATORY (JAEGER sits nervously at a console while the MARSHAL stands impassively over him.) TANNOY VOICE: Forty-seven. Forty-five and counting. JAEGER: This is stupid! I take no responsibility! MARSHAL: That is for me to decide. TANNOY VOICE: Forty-one. Emergency! Emergency! Unauthorised personnel in transfer section! Hold countdown! (The MARSHAL speaks into his baton.) MARSHAL: No, keep the countdown going. TANNOY VOICE: Countdown proceeding. MARSHAL: Guards to transfer section - immediate! (To JAEGER.) Nothing is to stop this countdown - nothing! (He storms out of the laboratory.) MARSHAL: Guards! 30: INT. SOLOS. CAVE PASSAGE (The DOCTOR and SONDERGAARD make their way up the same incline taken by JO and the others before. SONDERGAARD is heavily out of breath. He points.) SONDERGAARD: There...there! (The DOCTOR sees a shaft of light coming into the passage. At that moment, SONDERGAARD collapses. The DOCTOR looks torn.) 31: INT. SKYBASE ONE. CORRIDOR (The MARSHAL leads his men stealthily down a corridor. As they come to a junction, he halts them and watches. After a moment, the inv*de come round the corner, the hostages still in the lead.) TANNOY VOICE: Thirty-eight, thirty-seven, thirty-six, thirty-five, thirty-four, thirty-three, thirty-two, thirty-one and counting. Thirty, twenty-nine... JO: What are they counting? TANNOY VOICE: Twenty-eight... STUBBS: It must be one of Jaeger's experiments. COTTON: You hope. TANNOY VOICE: Twenty-seven... VARAN: Silence! TANNOY VOICE: Twenty-six, twenty-five, twenty-four... (They pass the door to the Bacterial Decontamination section.) KY: This is madness, Varan. TANNOY VOICE: Twenty-three... (STUBBS senses someone ahead.) STUBBS: Quiet! TANNOY VOICE: Twenty-two, twenty-one, twenty seconds and counting. (STUBBS sees the approaching MARSHAL and his men. He points to the Bacterial Decontamination section.) STUBBS: In there, quick! TANNOY VOICE: Eighteen, seventeen... (They start to enter as the Skybase Guards open f*re. The first casualties are all of VARAN'S men who are sh*t to the ground. The others, including VARAN make it into the chamber.) 32: INT. SKYBASE ONE. BACTERIAL DECONTAMINATION SECTION (The chamber is bare and well-lit. VARAN draws his sword as the MARSHAL follows them in.) TANNOY VOICE: Ten, nine, eight, seven... (The MARSHAL fires point-blank at the VARAN...) TANNOY VOICE: Six, five... (...and the entire wall behind him explodes and is torn away revealing nothing but space beyond.) TANNOY VOICE: Four, three... (As JO watches in horror, VARAN is sucked into space.) TANNOY VOICE: Two, one, zero! (The others are thrown to the floor as Skybase lurches. COTTON grabs hold of a wall handle.) 33: EXT. SKYBASE ONE (From exit holes, a rain of rockets emerges...) 34: SPACE (VARAN twists in space, his mouth open in silent agony.) 35: INT. SKYBASE ONE. BACTERIAL DECONTAMINATION SECTION (The MARSHAL grips to the edge of the gaping hole in the wall as the air is sucked out.) TANNOY VOICE: Emergency! Emergency! (The others have formed a human chain from COTTON'S handgrip to KY'S arm. STUBBS holds onto his leg with one hand and JO in the other but they are all being pulled towards the gaping hole...) TANNOY VOICE: Hull fracture in section three. Depressurise and isolate!
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THE MUTANTS BY: BOB BAKER AND DAVE MARTIN EPISODE FIVE Original Air Date: 6 May, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: EXT. SKYBASE ONE (From exit holes, a rain of rockets emerges...) 2: SPACE (VARAN twists in space, his mouth open in silent agony.) 3: INT. SKYBASE ONE. BACTERIAL DECONTAMINATION SECTION (The MARSHAL grips to the edge of the gaping hole in the wall as the air is sucked out.) TANNOY VOICE: Emergency! Emergency! (The others have formed a human chain from COTTON'S handgrip to KY'S arm. STUBBS holds onto his leg with one hand and JO in the other but they are all being pulled towards the gaping hole...) TANNOY VOICE: Hull fracture in section three. Depressurise and isolate! 4: EXT. SOLOS (The DOCTOR and SONDERGAARD walk out of a large cave opening. They look around themselves as they proceed when, without warning, there is a loud expl*si*n mere feet away as one of the rockets lands. The two dive into the shrubbery for cover and lie on the ground, covering their heads. A second expl*si*n goes off. SONDERGAARD raises his head, only for a third expl*si*n to occur just above where they lie. As dust rains down on them, they cautiously sit up.) SONDERGAARD: What is it? What's happening?! DOCTOR: It's rockets! That fool Jaeger's b*mb the planet with rockets! (They dive their heads back down at a fourth expl*si*n. After a quiet moment, they look up again.) DOCTOR: Well, it seems to have died down for the moment. Let's get out of here and find Miss Grant and the others. (They get up and move off.) 5: INT. SKYBASE ONE. BACTERIAL DECONTAMINATION SECTION (The five people in the bacterial decontamination chamber are still struggling for their lives, desperately holding onto either each other or tenuous grips on the walls.) TANNOY VOICE: Section three isolated. We are about to de-pressurise. COTTON: (Shouts.) Pressure will ease in a minute! We've got to get out before the air goes! (Skybase starts to right itself. As the angle of the room becomes less acute, STUBBS struggles to his feet. He grips a wall handle and helps the still bound JO to stand. COTTON manages the same with a similarly bound KY. They all struggle towards the door.) 6: INT. SKYBASE ONE. CORRIDOR (They stumble out into the corridor.) STUBBS: Quick, the door! (COTTON activates the palm-print sensor and the door closes. They all struggle to get their breath back as STUBBS and COTTON start to un-bind the other two.) COTTON: (To KY.) ... STUBBS: (To JO.) Are you alright, Miss? JO: Yes, I think I'm o... (Her words freeze as she looks up. The MARSHAL has also escaped and is stood watching them.) MARSHAL: Very touching. Guards! (Armed guards quickly surround the four.) MARSHAL: Bring him! (The c*ptive are led away.) 7: EXT. SOLOS (The DOCTOR and SONDERGAARD have made it to some high grassland where the mists are clearer. The DOCTOR looks around and then takes a telescope out of his pocket and looks through it.) 8: EXT. SOLOS. VARAN'S VILLAGE (He sees the deserted village through the eyepiece.) 9: EXT. SOLOS (He lowers the telescope.) DOCTOR: No, there's no sign of them. SONDERGAARD: Or of Varan? DOCTOR: No. Well, he said he was going to att*ck Skybase. If he ran into any of the others... Come on. Let's make for the transfer station. 10: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (The four c*ptive have been taken to the MARSHAL'S office. All four now have their hands bound behind their backs but rope has been replaced by metallic restraints with their arms wrapped around the rail at the edge of the podium. The MARSHAL looks on in satisfaction.) MARSHAL: This time, as you see, we are taking no chances. (A SKYBASE GUARD enters and stands to attention.) SKYBASE GUARD: Squad ready, sir. MARSHAL: Good. (He walks down the line of the four, quickly pronouncing sentence...) MARSHAL: Cotton - Treason. Stubbs - Treason. Ky - Conspiracy, Sabotage, Terrorism. Miss Grant... such a pity. KY: Miss Grant had nothing to do with it! MARSHAL: Guard! (The GUARD steps forward.) MARSHAL: Call the squad in. (The GUARD goes to the door and calls out into corridor as JO and KY look at each other in alarm but also as much reassurance as they can muster.) SKYBASE GUARD: Squad - forward! (Three other guards enter with their commander and stand in line and to attention facing the condemned. KY manages a smile.) KY: Once again, the justice of the Overlords! MARSHAL: Exactly. KY: You will never win, Marshal. You will never take over this planet. As long as one of my people remains alive, you'll never be safe. My death is unimportant. It will only help our fight for freedom. There will be others after me. MARSHAL: Always the speechmaker, Ky, but you're wrong. There will be no one after you. We are making sure of that. (He stands behind his desk.) MARSHAL: Ready...aim... (The four executioners raise their g*n as the office door slides open and an enraged JAEGER comes running in, shouting at the top of his voice and carrying a binder.) JAEGER: (Shouts.) No good! (He stands between the four men and their victims, knocking one of the g*n out of the way in his anger.) JAEGER: (Shouts.) The whole operation ruined, Marshal - thanks to you! MARSHAL: Later, Jaeger - I am busy! JAEGER: I see! So tell them to get out! This is far more important! MARSHAL: Jaeger, I am warning you... (JAEGER pushes his way through the four men and slams the binder down on the desk, opening a page.) JAEGER: Marshal, do you want to know what's happened to Solos or are you too busy playing soldiers, mm?! (The MARSHAL glances at a page of the binder.) MARSHAL: Guards - wait outside. (To JO and the others.) You'll forgive a short postponement, I trust? (JAEGER points at the binder.) JAEGER: Here are the figures - total failure! Every one of those rockets malfunctioned in one way or the other. If they had been properly checked out as I insisted, Marshal... MARSHAL: Jaeger, what happened? JAEGER: I'll tell you what happened! None of the ionisation rockets exploded in the atmosphere. Every single one h*t the surface! MARSHAL: So? JAEGER: So?! Instead of seeding the atmosphere with ionisation crystals, the planet's surface itself has been contaminated! You've made yourself master of a desert, Marshal. A lethal desert! No one will be able to set foot on Solos for centuries now, once the crystals have taken effect. No one! Not you and certainly not the Investigator! (The MARSHAL glances at his four c*ptive as they take this information in.) MARSHAL: Jaeger, will you shut up! JAEGER: (Quieter.) As for this display of megalomania, how do you hope to conceal it from the Investigator? They are not all of them as loyal as those guards. Someone will talk, if only to save his own skin. MARSHAL: Someone like you, Jaeger? JO: Jaeger's right, you know? Someone will talk! MARSHAL: And I dispose of you all first? STUBBS: You can't silence the whole of Skybase. You've got a problem, Marshal. None of the men want to stay here. (Goaded, the MARSHAL jumps forward.) MARSHAL: My men do as I tell them! STUBBS: That's not true, Marshal. Cotton and I aren't the only ones, you know? JO: The Investigator's going to find out everything - the Administrator assassinated, native leaders d*ad or missing and a contaminated planet. Now that's not a very successful record, is it, Marshal? MARSHAL: Very good, Miss Grant. Very convincing. You forget one thing - the Investigator still has to get here, and his ship is no match for Skybase. STUBBS: Agreed, you could dispose of the Investigator too. (To JAEGER.) But how reliable are your rockets, Professor? (JAEGER looks dubious.) STUBBS: (To the MARSHAL.) As for the advance warning system, the Doctor and Miss Grant landed, Marshal - landed without being detected. And the Doctor's still free. MARSHAL: (Screams.) Doctor! Always the Doctor! JO: But no one else can help you, or Solos for that matter. Do you think we didn't know about the Investigator? Well, why do you think we were sent? He's coming to confirm the Doctor's findings. MARSHAL: (Smiles.) Where is your precious Doctor now? KY: (Smiles.) He's on Solos, Marshal - with Sondergaard. And both of them are very much alive. 11: EXT. SOLOS (The DOCTOR is helping the struggling SONDERGAARD across the poisoned surface of Solos. It becomes too much for the scientist...) SONDERGAARD: Ah, no! (...and he falls to the ground. They have fallen in some decaying shrubbery, a part of which the DOCTOR breaks off to examine more closely.) SONDERGAARD: What's happening here? DOCTOR: Well, it's started already - the contamination from the ionisation crystals. We've got to get out of here, Sondergaard. SONDERGAARD: (Gasping.) It's no good. I can't. You'll have to leave me. DOCTOR: My dear chap, I wouldn't hear of it. SONDERGAARD: You've got to get to that laboratory on Skybase, Doctor. You stand a better chance on your own. I'll be alright. I'll rest here for a while and then go back to the caves. I'll be safe there. Now go, please. (The DOCTOR considers.) DOCTOR: Yes, alright. You take care, alright? (He moves off.) 12: EXT. ANOTHER PART OF SOLOS (A Skybase Guard sweeps round his detector, checking the reading. He picks up his radio microphone.) 13: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (...and a short time later, the MARSHAL lowers his radio baton...) MARSHAL: You're right, Miss Grant. Your friend, the Doctor, is alive, and on Solos. And we know where he is. JO: Then why don't you arrest him? MARSHAL: Oh, we shall - never fear. JAEGER: You see, Miss Grant, there's a technique known as particle reversal. We wish to use the Doctor's knowledge of this technique to...as it were, sweep the dust under the carpet before the Investigator arrives. JO: And supposing the Doctor refuses to cooperate? MARSHAL: (Smiles.) Mmm, oh, he will cooperate. He will, Miss Grant. You are our guarantee. Now I shall to Solos, supervise his capture. Guard! (He sweeps out of the office. JO looks concerned.) 14: EXT. SOLOS (Down on the grey surface and wearing his oxymask, the MARSHAL addresses four of his men.) MARSHAL: Drive him this way! Remember - keep the pressure on! I want the Doctor here, in one piece. (Screams.) Right, get on with it! (The four guards stand to attention and move off in different directions.) 15: EXT. ANOTHER PART OF SOLOS (The DOCTOR makes his way through the d*ad foliage, but detector carrying guards are not far behind him. The DOCTOR is making steady progress but the guards are pursuing at a run. The DOCTOR increases his pace through the mists hearing the bleeps of the nearby detectors. He runs through a thick patch of mist as the bleeps of the detectors get faster. All of sudden, a guard is in front of him. He punches the detector out of his hand and grabs his arm, twisting it round.) DOCTOR: Goodbye! (And with that, he knocks the man back and into unconsciousness and runs off into the murk. A minute later, the three other guards run up and find their colleague still on the ground and his detector lying nearby.) SOLOS GUARD: He's heading for the transfer station. After him! Come on, move it! (They give chase.) 16: INT. SOLOS. TRANSFER STATION. AIRLOCK (The DOCTOR has reached the transfer station. Within the airlock, he pulls the door to and twists the locking dial. He then opens the inner door.) 17: INT. SOLOS. TRANSFER STATION (He sprints along the corridors towards the transfer cubicles and jumps one. Back along the corridor, the inner airlock door re-opens and two pursuing guards enter the transfer station. They immediately aim at the DOCTOR'S cubicle. He jabs a switch and waves to the guards as the air within the cubicle flares to a brilliant blue as he transmits.) 18: INT. SKYBASE ONE. TRANSFER SECTION (He reappears on Solos. He jumps out of the Solonian cabinet, checks that there is no one around and runs off. A moment later, both cubicles flare to blue and a guard appears in each. They look round and give chase.) 19: INT. SKYBASE ONE. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE THE MARSHAL'S OFFICE (Further ahead, the DOCTOR hears them coming. He hides behind a buttress near to the door to the MARSHAL'S office. He waits until they have run past and then enters the MARSHAL'S office.) 20: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (The four c*ptive are still restrained where they were left. The DOCTOR smiles at the first of the four he sees as he quickly dashes in.) DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Cotton. (The others are as pleased to see him.) STUBBS: (Quietly.) Doctor! JO: (Quietly.) Doctor! DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Hello, Jo. Now then, we'll soon get you out of this. (The DOCTOR starts to use his sonic screwdriver on the restraint on JO'S hand but the buzzing that the device emits means that he fails to hear the office door opening. He only becomes aware that they have company when a set of keys are dropped in front of him.) MARSHAL: Use the key, Doctor. (Disappointment shows on all their faces as the MARSHAL walks in with the SKYBASE GUARD and another guard.) MARSHAL: But before you do, consider what might happen to Miss Grant. (The armed SKYBASE GUARD holds up his g*n at the DOCTOR and his hands out for the keys. The DOCTOR hands them over.) SKYBASE GUARD: And the other thing. (The DOCTOR slaps the sonic screwdriver into his hand.) DOCTOR: Well, what do you want? MARSHAL: As you're no doubt aware, Jaeger's made a complete hash of my plan to make the planet habitable. He seemed to think you could help him put it right. DOCTOR: And if I do? MARSHAL: Then you will live. (He looks meaningfully at JO.) MARSHAL: Both of you. DOCTOR: And if not? MARSHAL: Oh, come now, Doctor, surely you can guess? DOCTOR: Yes, only too easily. MARSHAL: Then why the delay? (He looks at KY, STUBBS and COTTON.) MARSHAL: It's not just their lives - the whole planet is at stake. DOCTOR: (Nods.) Very well then. MARSHAL: Yeah... Oh, one more thing - your superior will be arriving shortly. DOCTOR: (Puzzled.) Superior? MARSHAL: Yes, Earth Control has seen fit to have my project investigated. I want my reforms to have their approval. You and your friends here will confirm the necessity of stern measures. Outbreaks of plague and rebellion must be controlled, don't you agree? DOCTOR: Marshal...you are quite mad. MARSHAL: (Laughs.) Only if I lose. 21: SPACE (A thin spaceship makes its way towards Solos - the "Hyperion".) 22: INT. SKYBASE ONE. LABORATORY (JAEGER is making notes at a console when the door to the laboratory glides open and the DOCTOR is shown in by the SKYBASE GUARD and one of his colleagues - both of them keeping their g*n carefully trained on their prisoner. The DOCTOR looks down on JAEGER from the upper level. JAEGER: Ah, here you are. DOCTOR: Well, I gather that you've made a complete hash of things. (JAEGER ignores the jibe. He reports matter-of-factly and the DOCTOR steps down and looks at his readings.) JAEGER: This is the situation: as far as we can tell, the centres of crystal contamination have already started to spread, and in some cases link up. DOCTOR: Mm hm. JAEGER: All the living organisms seem to be affected. DOCTOR: Well, whatever we do, we're bound to leave a few bald patches. JAEGER: It wasn't my decision, Doctor. DOCTOR: Oh, no. No, no, of course not. You were simply obeying orders. That's a common excuse, Professor. (He looks round.) DOCTOR: Right, now I'll need a macrovisor. The strongest one you've got. (He goes over to the cylindrical unit.) JAEGER: Well, there's only one. DOCTOR: The one you use in the transfer system? JAEGER: Yes, but you can't use that. DOCTOR: Well, we've gotta use it! We'll have to train it on each affected area in turn, like a searchlight. JAEGER: I thought you were going to use the particle reversal? DOCTOR: I am, Jaeger, I am. But we shall...we shall need the beam to transfer the effect from this laboratory to the contaminated areas. JAEGER: Oh, I see. (Puzzled.) Er, why? DOCTOR: Well, we can hardly set it up on the surface of the planet now, can we? You've seen to that! JAEGER: I shall have to get the Marshal's authority. DOCTOR: The Marshal's? JAEGER: It's not going to be easy. It means isolating Skybase. DOCTOR: (Snaps.) Look, for heaven's sake, stop dilly-dallying and let's get on with it! These unstable reactions are dangerous. (He starts to search round the laboratory.) DOCTOR: I shall need some equipment. (He pauses in his search to throw one last insult at JAEGER.) DOCTOR: If we don't come up with an effective control system, we'll particle reverse Skybase and we'll be in a bigger mess than we were before! 23: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (The SKYBASE GUARD has returned to the MARSHAL'S office to keep an eye on the prisoners. Somewhat deficient in his duties, he wanders round the room, taking his eye off his charges. KY watches and then nods a signal to JO. She starts to try and ease her hands out of her restraints. They watch as the bored GUARD sits on one of the chairs around the central table, puts down his g*n and rests his himself. JO works at her restraint some more. She then waits. KY watches carefully, then...) KY: (To JO, whispers.) Right. (JO gasps and sinks to her knees.) STUBBS: Guard! JO: (Wearily.) Oh... STUBBS: The girl's collapsed! JO: (Wearily.) Help... (The GUARD hesitates.) STUBBS: Well, come on, man! Get over here - quickly! (The GUARD picks up his g*n and goes over to JO.) JO: (Wearily.) Please, help me... STUBBS: Hurry up! (As the GUARD bends down to help her, she snatches the g*n with her freed hands and jumps to her feet pointing it at him.) JO: Right! Key. (The GUARD hands the keys over from his trouser pocket...) JO: And the other thing. (...and the sonic screwdriver which is secured in his belt.) JO: Thank you. (Keeping the g*n trained on the guard, she unlocks KY's hands. He takes the g*n from her while she frees STUBBS and then COTTON.) COTTON: Well? Now what? JO: Well, now we've got to get onto somebody in authority and tell them what's happening here. STUBBS: That's it, Miss - contact the Investigator. COTTON: We can use the Marshal's communicator. (STUBBS spots the MARSHAL'S baton on his desk as COTTON runs over to it.) STUBBS: There it is. Right, you do that, I'll block the door. (JO, pocketing the sonic screwdriver, joins COTTON as he switches the baton radio on.) COTTON: (Into radio.) This is Skybase One calling "Hyperion". Skybase One calling "Hyperion". Come in "Hyperion". This is urgent, repeat: urgent! (The ominous sounds of g*n f*ring comes from the other side of the closed door. STUBBS waits with the g*n while KY uses a set of the restraints on the GUARD.) STUBBS: Hurry up, Cotton. I won't be able to hold them once they get in! COTTON: (Into radio.) Skybase One! Skybase One! Come in "Hyperion"! Skybase One calling "Hyperion"! (The door is blasted open but STUBBS is quicker and has the g*n trained on the three guards outside before they can react.) STUBBS: Stay where you are, lads. I don't wanna sh**t unless I have to. (Shouts.) Go on, get back! (The guards start to retreat.) COTTON: (Into radio.) Come in "Hyperion"! This is urgent! Skybase One on open channel! 24: INT. SKYBASE ONE. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE THE MARSHAL'S OFFICE (The MARSHAL stalks along the corridor.) MARSHAL: What's going on here? (He sees STUBBS with the g*n and shouts at the guards...) MARSHAL: Get him! Get him! STUBBS: (Within the office.) Get back, Marshal! MARSHAL: (To the guards.) Give me that, will you?! (He grabs out and snatches one of the guard's g*n, f*ring it into his office.) 25: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (STUBBS jumps back and returns the f*re.) COTTON: (Into radio.) Skybase calling "Hyperion"! Skybase calling "Hyperion"! 26: INT. SKYBASE ONE. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE THE MARSHAL'S OFFICE (The MARSHAL jumps back as the sh*t just misses him.) 27: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE HYPERION VOICE: (Over radio.) Go ahead, Skybase One. It's "Hyperion". COTTON: Stubbsy, we've got 'em! STUBBS: Well, get on with it then! (He ducks from another sh*t from outside the door.) COTTON: What do I say? JO: Here, let me. (She snatches the baton in her multi-ringed fingers and speaks into it desperately as g*n sh*ts are exchanged between STUBBS and the party outside the office.) JO: (Into radio.) Situation on Solos critical. Marshal's attempts to convert atmosphere is causing severe loss of life. The Administrator assassinated on Marshal's orders. Marshal attempting to maintain complete control of entire planet. He must be replaced immediately! Over. HYPERION VOICE: (Over radio.) Message received, Skybase One. Request identification. Official information soonest. "Hyperion" out. (JO grins. At that moment, a critical sh*t is fired. STUBBS receives a direct h*t which explodes on him and he falls back with a cry. COTTON is distraught.) COTTON: Stubbsy! (They all rush over to him. COTTON and JO cradle STUBBS' head in their hands.) STUBBS: (Weakly.) Did you get through? COTTON: Yes. STUBBS: (Weakly.) Good lad, Cotton. Good... (He falls back.) COTTON: C...come on, Stubbsy. Stubbsy, man? (A look of determination appears on COTTON'S face as he realises that he has lost his partner. KY has snatched up the fallen g*n and is returning the f*re.) KY: Quick! Get out - I'll follow! (Another sh*t it fired from without.) JO: But what about him?! COTTON: No need to worry about him. We'd better make for the transfer section. Come on. (JO looks at the doorway which looks tantalisingly onto the transfer cubicles down the corridor - between which are the MARSHAL and the guards.) JO: We can't! COTTON: Not that way! Follow me! (He pulls her across the office, past the secured GUARD towards and through a second door marked: NO UNAUTHORISED ENTRY KY follows. The MARSHAL and his men rush in.) MARSHAL: After them! (The MARSHAL punches the restrained GUARD.) MARSHAL: Fool! 28: INT. SKYBASE ONE. LABORATORY (The sound of the g*n reaches the DOCTOR and JAEGER in the laboratory.) DOCTOR: What's that? JAEGER: Ready to isolate transfer macrovisor. DOCTOR: What? Oh, right. Carry on. (Concerned, the DOCTOR goes to the door where two armed guards stand on duty.) DOCTOR: Excuse me. GUARD: No. (The guard stops him proceeding at the point of his g*n. The DOCTOR gives up and steps down into the well of the room. He hears another faint g*n sh*t and looks back in concern.) 29: INT. SKYBASE ONE. CORRIDOR (The reduced party runs as fast as they can along a corridor. sh*ts are fired which narrowly miss them. KY does his best to stave off the pursuers with their single g*n. After they have gone, the MARSHAL is at the vanguard on his men, all of them pausing for cover behind bulkheads before moving on.) 30: INT. SKYBASE ONE. TRANSFER SECTION (The three reach the transfer section. COTTON bundles JO and KY into a cubicle.) 31: INT. SKYBASE ONE. LABORATORY JAEGER: Transfer system isolating...now. (The DOCTOR nods and JAEGER presses a button.) 32: INT. SKYBASE ONE. TRANSFER SECTION (All three escapees have squeezed into one cubicle. COTTON desperately tries to operate the transmat. The door refuses to close. The MARSHAL and the guards run up. KY fires a sh*t which misses by a mile.) MARSHAL: Guards! (The lead guard drags KY from the un-opened cubicle and kicks the g*n out of his hand. Defenceless, they all are quickly held by the guards.) MARSHAL: Your friend, the Doctor, again I'm afraid, Miss Grant. He's cut off the power, no doubt. Take these two to the radiation chamber. (KY and COTTON are dragged away.) MARSHAL: Now, Miss Grant, perhaps you'd be good enough to come with me? (At the point of a g*n that the MARSHAL is holding, JO is led away.) 33: INT. SKYBASE ONE. LABORATORY (The DOCTOR lowers in a glass rod into the exposed top of the cylindrical console.) DOCTOR: Er, you do realise, Professor, that the slightest accident in this stage of the proceedings... (JAEGER, stood on the gantry, almost drops another rod as he hands it to the DOCTOR who tuts as he grabs it. He lowers it carefully into the exposed console as he speaks.) DOCTOR: The slightest accident in this stage of the proceedings...and we'd all reverse instantly into anti-matter. Blasted out to the other side of the universe, a flash of electro-magnetic radiation. We'll all become un-people, un-doing un-things un-together! Fascinating! (He finishes lowering it in.) DOCTOR: Got it. Right, all we've got to do is switch on now and...see what happens. Or un-happens as the case may be. Alright, lower away, will you? (JAEGER presses a wall switch and then joins the DOCTOR in holding the top panel of the console as it descends from a small ceiling pulley and lowering it into place.) DOCTOR: By the way, I didn't tell you, did I, Professor Sondergaard and I think we've discovered the secret behind the mutations. It's not a disease at all. 34: EXT. SOLOS. CAVE MOUTH (Down on Solos, SONDERGAARD, clutching onto the rock wall for support, makes his way towards the cave mouth.) 35: INT. SOLOS. CAVE PASSAGE (Once within a falls amongst a fall of rock. he collapses. A moment later, a Skybase Guard comes along on patrol with his searchlight. He quickly spots SONDERGAARD with the light and aims his g*n at him. The Professor stands and awaits the fatal sh*t but a mutant comes up behind the guard and clubs him to the ground. SONDERGAARD looks on warily as the mutant and others approaches him roaring. He starts to plead with them...) SONDERGAARD: Please...wait a minute, please. Can you understand me? Can you? (They surround him.) SONDERGAARD: You saved me from the guard. Do you know who I am? You know me? I help you - Sondergaard. I help all the mutants, you remember? (One of them nods.) SONDERGAARD: Good, now listen. How many are there left...after the rockets? How many mutants? (One of the creatures speaks in a deep guttural voice...) MUTT: Sick...sick... SONDERGAARD: No, not sick. We know now. You are supposed to become like this. You are supposed to change. (This disconcerts the MUTTS. They rear up, roaring in consternation.) SONDERGAARD: Now listen to me, please? But the Overlords experiments with the air of Solos have made the mutation rate, made the change happen wrongly. Do you follow me? (The mutants nod to each other.) SONDERGAARD: The change can be put right. We know that now. The mutation rate can be made to go as it was meant to. But you must help me. You must help me find the Doctor. Will you come with me...and find him. To save your people? (The mutants roar at him. He nods.) 36: INT. SKYBASE ONE. LABORATORY (The DOCTOR sits at a side console while JAEGER operates the cylindrical console.) DOCTOR: Now let it build up, Professor. (JAEGER pulls down a level on the side of the console. A hum starts to build up and race...) DOCTOR: More...more. (JAEGER pulls the lever full down.) JAEGER: You have full power now. DOCTOR: Right, now here goes. (He presses several buttons on his console.) DOCTOR: Activation beginning. (The hum is at its peak. JAEGER holds the lever down.) 37: EXT. SKYBASE ONE (A purple flare emanates from a satellite dish on the side of Skybase and onto the surface of the planet. After a second it ceases and another takes it place, but onto another part of the surface of the planet.) 38: INT. SKYBASE ONE. LABORATORY (JAEGER is looking through a telescope-type device.) DOCTOR: What's the reading? JAEGER: Planet surface no longer contaminated. DOCTOR: The nitrogen isotope level? JAEGER: Exactly as it was before my rockets landed. DOCTOR: Good, then that's how it stays. (The DOCTOR presses a switch and the hum rapidly decreases, but...) MARSHAL: Not so, Doctor. (The MARSHAL has entered the laboratory with a guard.) MARSHAL: You'll continue to operate this device for me until Solos has an atmosphere breathable by humans - and only by humans. (The DOCTOR stands and slams the console in determination.) DOCTOR: No! MARSHAL: Very well. Bring in Miss Grant. (The DOCTOR looks on in concern as JO is led in by another guard and a g*n pointed at her head.) MARSHAL: Well, Doctor. (Suddenly, the tannoy bursts into life.) HYPERION VOICE: (Over radio.) Attention Skybase. Attention Skybase. This is Earth Investigator space shuttle "Hyperion". We are about to dock. (JO grins in delight.) HYPERION VOICE: (Over radio.) I repeat: we are about to dock. DOCTOR: Well, Marshal, it seems as if your superiors have arrived. What are you going to do now? MARSHAL: (To the guard.) Get her out of here. Take...put her with the others. (JO is led out.) MARSHAL: And now, Doctor, shall we welcome the Investigator...together? (He gestures at the open door.) 39: EXT. SKYBASE ONE (A docking port extends from the huge bulk of Skybase. "Hyperion" floats upwards and connects with it on the top of its hull.) 40: INT. SKYBASE ONE. RADIATION CHAMBER (A porthole-type hatchway is opened and JO is thrust through it by the guard. KY and COTTON in the chamber beyond catch her as she falls to the ground, the hatch being at chest level.) COTTON: (To JO.) Are you alright? JO: Well, yes, I...I think so. (The guard slams the hatch shut, locking them within.) COTTON: What's happening? JO: The Investigator's arrived. KY: And the Marshal? JO: Well from what I could gather, he's taken the Doctor to meet the Investigator. KY: (Delighted.) Then at last my people can expect justice! COTTON: Doubt it. KY: Why not? The Doctor will tell him everything. JO: Well why do you think we've been shoved down here? We're hostages, Ky, to make sure the Doctor says the right thing. COTTON: Come on. Let us stay away from that wall. (The room they are in is almost square in shape. The wall with the hatch in it is made up of the triangular cells. The right hand wall has a circular well in it over which light patterns are played. KY is stood next to this but COTTON leads him away.) JO: Well, why? What's wrong? COTTON: We're in the refuelling lock, next to where we store the radioactive thaesium. That's what makes the walls glow. JO: Thaesium? COTTON: Nuclear fuel, Miss. We use it to power Skybase, spaceships, practically everything. KY: How dangerous is it - this radiation? COTTON: Safe enough for short time. Stay here too long though and, well, it builds up. JO: Well, how long's the Marshal going to keep us down here? COTTON: Who knows? Don't suppose he's worried. (A thought strikes COTTON...) COTTON: Wait a minute - refuelling! JO: Well, what is it? COTTON: The shuttle! KY: What do you mean? COTTON: They'll need to refuel "Hyperion" - the Investigator's shuttle. They should be putting a probe out any minute now. (He looks towards the circular well.) COTTON: Then live thaesium will start flooding through there! We'll all be done for!
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "09x19 - The Mutants - part 5"}
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THE MUTANTS BY: BOB BAKER AND DAVE MARTIN EPISODE SIX Original Air Date: 13 May, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: EXT. SKYBASE ONE ("Hyperion" connects with a Skybase docking port on the top of its hull.) 2: INT. SKYBASE ONE. RADIATION CHAMBER JO: Well, how long's the Marshal going to keep us down here? COTTON: Who knows? Don't suppose he's worried. (A thought strikes COTTON...) COTTON: Wait a minute - refuelling! JO: Well, what is it? COTTON: The shuttle! KY: What do you mean? COTTON: They'll need to refuel "Hyperion" - the Investigator's shuttle. They should be putting a probe out any minute now. (He looks towards the circular well.) COTTON: Then live thaesium will start flooding through there! We'll all be done for! 3: EXT. SKYBASE ONE (A probe extends from the front of "Hyperion" towards Skybase.) 4: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (The DOCTOR sits calmly at the centre table in the MARSHAL'S office. He watches as the man himself slams a fist down on his desk and paces round shouting...) MARSHAL: How much longer am I supposed to run Skybase with my entire crew suspended from duty? I refuse to be treated like a...like a... DOCTOR: Criminal? MARSHAL: I'm warning you, Doctor. (The door to the office has opened. Armed guards have entered but these are men dressed in a white and gold uniform and helmets with 'ECS' displayed on them. They are followed by a cold, authoritative figure dressed in a white robe with golden trimmings. He wears a white headpiece which covers all of his cranium and flows over the shoulders. The effect is rather like that of a High Court Judge updated to the thirtieth century. He carries a folder in his hands. He is accompanied by two like-dressed assistants, one Asiatic in appearance.) INVESTIGATOR: My apologies, Marshal. (He looks at the DOCTOR who has got to his feet.) INVESTIGATOR: And who is this? MARSHAL: Er, it's the Doctor, as I am sure you know. INVESTIGATOR: Your scientific advisor? MARSHAL: (Puzzled.) Well, surely...you know one another? INVESTIGATOR: Should we? DOCTOR: Perhaps I can explain? INVESTIGATOR: Perhaps you can in due course. (The INVESTIGATOR and his assistants cross to and stand on the podium, looking down on the two individuals before them.) INVESTIGATOR: I've read your report, Marshal. And I should like to begin this enquiry, if I may, by discussing certain matters arising from it. You have been accused of some very serious crimes, Marshal. Well? MARSHAL: Well, Investigator, I'm sure you're aware that all Colony Commanders are faced with accusations of this kind. INVESTIGATOR: Some, Marshal. Occasionally, the accusations are justified. That is why I'm here. MARSHAL: Oh, of course, of course. Of course you are. (He crosses to his desk.) MARSHAL: You see, Solos has been beset in recent months with problems. I mean, an upsurge of nationalism, outbreak of plague, constant and growing att*cks and sabotage, culminating in the assassination of the Administrator by t*rrorists on the eve of independence. It was at this point that I decided to impose martial law. INVESTIGATOR: I see. How severe was this martial law? MARSHAL: Oh, rounding up of political suspects... (The INVESTIGATOR consults his folder.) INVESTIGATOR: There's no report here of any trial being held. MARSHAL: Oh, ho, the prisoners were allowed to escape. INVESTIGATOR: (Reading.) By, er, Stubbs and Cotton? MARSHAL: Er, yes. INVESTIGATOR: Now deceased? MARSHAL: Yes. INVESTIGATOR: I see. Continue. MARSHAL: I then took personal control of the operation and tracked these t*rrorists to their hideout in a disused mine area. INVESTIGATOR: Er, these would be thaesium mines? MARSHAL: Correct, correct, yeah... I ordered the area to be cordoned off and the exits blown up. INVESTIGATOR: And the natives inside? MARSHAL: (Dismissive.) Oh, they were Mutts. INVESTIGATOR: (Puzzled.) Mutts? DOCTOR: He...he means they were all plague victims. They...use the cave as a refuge. MARSHAL: Yes, the t*rrorists took advantage of their unfortunate compatriots. I had no alternative. INVESTIGATOR: And presumably thousands died as a result of your actions? MARSHAL: Unfortunately, but their condition was incurable. I couldn't allow this risk of the plague spreading. INVESTIGATOR: "Mutts" you say? DOCTOR: Yes, er, "Mutant Natives", sir. It's a local term. Medically speaking "Accelerated genetic metamorphosis". INVESTIGATOR: I see. You are a Doctor, I take it? DOCTOR: I am, yes. INVESTIGATOR: Er, qualified in...? DOCTOR: (Smiles.) Practically everything. INVESTIGATOR: Ah. Well, Doctor, do you agree with the Marshal's diagnosis that the condition of these "Mutts" was incurable? (The DOCTOR glances at the scowling MARSHAL.) DOCTOR: Yes, sir. Yes, I would. (He nods and looks guiltily at the MARSHAL.) 5: EXT. SKYBASE ONE (The probe from the "Hyperion" enters a portal in the hull of Skybase which opens with an iris effect.) 6: INT. SKYBASE ONE. RADIATION CHAMBER (KY has fallen ill. Badly affected by the radiation, he crouches on the floor, covered in a film of sweat and breathing heavily. JO is trying to help him. She looks up as the entire chamber starts to glow.) JO: Look, the walls! COTTON: Not long now. Now sure you've got is straight, Miss? Any minute now, "Hyperion"'s fuel probe will come through there. (He points to a round port on the opposite side of the wall to the circular wall.) COTTON: That's how we get out - okay? (JO looks at KY.) JO: Yeah. If we don't get out soon, it'll be too late. (The buzzing in the room suddenly takes on a new tone. COTTON pulls JO and KY to their feet and out of the way of the port.) COTTON: Stand back! (The port opens and the large metal probe emerges. The end splits in two and opens vertically.) COTTON: This is it then. Get inside, Miss. JO: Inside? COTTON: Fast as you can - move! (JO who has been helping KY to stand on his feet, dashes inside the open probe. KY starts to collapse but COTTON helps him back up...) COTTON: Ky! Come here! JO: Ky! (...and over to the probe. They dash inside, just before a refuelling probe emerges from the other side of the chamber and connects with that of the "Hyperion". 7: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (The DOCTOR watches intently as the INVESTIGATOR whispers with his two assistants.) INVESTIGATOR: (Whispers.) ... You understand? (They nod as the door to the office open and JAEGER enters. He smiles to the INVESTIGATOR and points to the MARSHAL to indicate that he wants to speak to him. The INVESTIGATOR nods and JAEGER bows back. He then crosses to the MARSHAL at his desk and speaks quietly.) JAEGER: Do you realise "Hyperion"'s started refuelling? MARSHAL: Well? JAEGER: Your prisoners are...in the fuel lock. If they caught in the thaesium stream...? MARSHAL: Then they'll be totally destroyed. Convenient, isn't it? (JAEGER looks shocked but before he can react...) INVESTIGATOR: Professor Jaeger, the committee will hear you now. 8: INT. "HYPERION". CHAMBER (JO, a weakened KY and COTTON climb out of a port at the other end of the probe and onto a gantry. COTTON pushes them towards a ladder.) COTTON: Up there - quick! JO: Alright. (The three ascend. The room glows brighter and brighter as the thaesium refuelling starts.) 9: EXT. SKYBASE ONE (The "Hyperion" is still connected to Skybase.) 10: INT. SKYBASE ONE. DOCKING AIRLOCK (The three have made it through the "Hyperion" and back into Skybase. COTTON locks the outer door.) COTTON: Right. (They pass through into Skybase.) 11: INT. SKYBASE ONE. DOCKING SECTION (A sign on the wall reads: <h5>DOCKING SECTION AIRLOCK</h5> The three cautiously walk in.) JO: (Whispers.) Where are all the guards? COTTON: Worry about that later. Come on. (They run off, KY at a slower pace.) 12: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (JAEGER'S questioning continues...) INVESTIGATOR: Nevertheless, Professor, you were involved in experiments to change this planet's natural atmosphere? JAEGER: In the laboratory - yes. INVESTIGATOR: The accusation is that you mounted a massive operation to convert the atmosphere to one breathable by humans, but not by the native population. JAEGER: Nonsense. INVESTIGATOR: And further, that these experiments were the root cause of the outbreak of mutations. Well? JAEGER: I'm a scientist... (The DOCTOR coughs loudly. JAEGER sh**t him a look and continues.) JAEGER: And I rest my case on scientific proof only. Your scientists have made their own tests. The atmosphere of Solos is exactly as it always was. As for the "Mutts"... Er, as for the mutants, I regret that so far, we have found no solution to the problem. INVESTIGATOR: Thank you, Professor, that will be all. (JAEGER bows and stands back. The INVESTIGATOR mutters with his two confederates and then addresses the three men in the room.) INVESTIGATOR: Well, gentleman, we have heard the evidence. In the absence of evidence to the contrary... (The sound of JO outside the room reaches them.) INVESTIGATOR: I have no alternative but to exonerate you from blame... JO: (OOV: Outside the office.) ... just let me pass ... ! INVESTIGATOR: ...and to declare this preliminary hearing closed. (The door slides open to reveal JO struggling with the INVESTIGATOR'S guards outside. She breaks free and runs in towards the DOCTOR.) MARSHAL: Stop them! Stop them! INVESTIGATOR: What is going on here?! Who are these people?! (KY and COTTON are brought in by the guards.) DOCTOR: Investigator! These are the missing witnesses. Jo, er, Miss Grant here, is my assistant, kept hostage... MARSHAL: (Shouts.) Lies, all lies! DOCTOR: Kept hostage to ensure my cooperation in this travesty of justice! (He points at the MARSHAL and JAEGER.) DOCTOR: Investigator, I accuse that man and that man of the most brutal and callous series of crimes against a defenceless people, it's ever been my misfortune to encounter! 13: INT. SOLOS. TRANSFER STATION (SONDERGAARD walks warily into the transfer station on Solos. He sees that it is deserted. He turns and beckons encouragingly to the mutants who stumble into the station. Their body language shows that they are nervous to be in the area.) SONDERGAARD: You see? There is nothing to fear. (He tries to pull one over to a transfer cubicle but it resists.) SONDERGAARD: Look, I cannot help you until I find the Doctor. (He tries to pull another one but it too scurries back.) SONDERGAARD: Oh, very well. I shall go alone, and you will stay as you are now - forever. (SONDERGAARD heads into a cubicle. A mutant tries to pull him back but the Professor shakes it off.) 14: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (The MARSHAL sits at his desk while the DOCTOR accuses and berates him...) DOCTOR: You destroyed these poor people for no reason at all. MARSHAL: They would have died anyway! DOCTOR: Not died, Marshal - changed. (The MARSHAL jumps to his feet.) MARSHAL: (Shouts.) It was my duty! My duty to save Solos from contamination! DOCTOR: Duty?! Your idea of duty was to keep this planet for yourself! MARSHAL: (Screams.) They're mutants! Mutts! They're diseased! To be wiped off the face of the planet! I...! (He stops as he sees the DOCTOR'S smile of triumph and realises that he has said too much. His face drops. The DOCTOR calmly walks over to the podium and the watching INVESTIGATOR.) DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Need I say more, Investigator? (The INVESTIGATOR mutters with his two assistants. The MARSHAL and JAEGER watch intently and the DOCTOR and JO whisper between themselves. The INVESTIGATOR turns back to the DOCTOR.) INVESTIGATOR: Can you prove your assertion, Doctor? Perhaps we could see these tablets you mention? DOCTOR: Yes, yes, of course. (He starts to feel in his pockets, but to no avail.) INVESTIGATOR: Well? DOCTOR: Er, no, I'm sorry, sir. Er, I...I forgot. The tablets are in the care of Professor Sondergaard. INVESTIGATOR: Ah yes, you mentioned him in your report. Where is Professor Sondergaard now? DOCTOR: I'm not sure, sir. Somewhere on the surface of Solos, I believe. INVESTIGATOR: I see. And your other proofs the mutations are not harmful? DOCTOR: Well, I can only reassure you that... MARSHAL: (Interrupts.) He can prove nothing! DOCTOR: (To the INVESTIGATOR.) As I say, I can assure you, sir, that...conclusive evidence does exist. MARSHAL: Where? Where is your proof? DOCTOR: (To the INVESTIGATOR.) This present mutation is one of a series of adaptive changes, sir. Solos is moving out of spring into summer, and that is why the Solonians are changing. (The office door opens again. This time, a guard leads SONDERGAARD in.) INVESTIGATOR: What is the meaning of this interruption?! Who is this man?! DOCTOR: This, sir, this is Professor Sondergaard, who's worked and lived on Solos for many years! He can tell you better than I what the Marshal's been doing there! SONDERGAARD: Doctor, I don't understand. What's happening here? DOCTOR: Don't worry, Professor. We're holding a much needed investigation. Thank heavens you've arrived just in time to tell the investigator of our discoveries. SONDERGAARD: Oh, yes. Of course! And I'm sure the Doctor will have told you of our work in the cave. And he will also have told you that we now realise what's made so many of these mutations to go wrong. INVESTIGATOR: Wrong? But the Doctor has said it was a natural process. Why wrong? SONDERGAARD: Well, you see... (The MARSHAL jumps forward.) MARSHAL: There you see? Even Sondergaard admits it - the mutants are evil! Must be destroyed! 15: INT. SOLOS. TRANSFER STATION (The mutants left behind on Solos are nervous at the disappearance of SONDERGAARD. One of them walks cautiously into a cubicle and the door closes behind it. It presses a button as it saw the Professor do and dematerialises...) 16: INT. SKYBASE ONE. TRANSFER SECTION (...reappearing on Skybase. It exits the cubicle, looking round in shock. It then moves off as if following a trail to SONDERGAARD.) 17: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE SONDERGAARD: (To the INVESTIGATOR, passionately.) I beg not to listen to this man! The mutants are not monsters. They are the native life form of this planet, undergoing a...a natural and inevitable change. This change, however, has been brought about prematurely... (He points at JAEGER.) SONDERGAARD: By that man's rash and careless experiments! JAEGER: That's a lie! Where's your evidence? (The office door slides open. To the shock of all within, the mutant has found its friend and protector.) MARSHAL: (Screams.) Mutts! (The INVESTIGATOR'S guards all raise their g*n at the nervous creature.) SONDERGAARD: (Shouts.) No! There's nothing to be afraid of! The mutants are not dangerous unless you try to harm them! MARSHAL: They're evil! Don't deserve to live! SONDERGAARD: That is a rational and intelligent creature! To k*ll it would be m*rder! MARSHAL: Destroy it or we'll all be k*lled! KY: No! (KY tries to pull a g*n out of the guard's hands but is easily pushed to the ground. As the mutant scurries from the office, the MARSHAL himself grabs the g*n and aims. KY jumps on the MARSHAL to stop him and is again thrown off. The MARSHAL fires once through the open doorway and then sets off in pursuit. The INVESTIGATOR and his men follow.) 18: INT. SKYBASE ONE. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE THE MARSHAL'S OFFICE (The MARSHAL easily catches up with the mutant. It turns to face him and he fires point-blank into its stomach. He stands over the corpse as the shocked INVESTIGATOR walks up.) MARSHAL: There! You see what I have to deal with? All these creatures may att*ck us. I want my men released at once - now! And your men placed under my command! (One of the INVESTIGATOR'S men runs up.) INVESTIGATOR: Release the Marshal's men. Obey his orders during this emergency. (He runs off. The MARSHAL watches him go with a smile. He turns to the others of the INVESTIGATOR'S men.) MARSHAL: You others follow me. 19: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (The MARSHAL re-enters his office. There is only JAEGER and COTTON helping a deteriorating KY.) JAEGER: They've gone. MARSHAL: What?! Who? JAEGER: The Doctor, his assistant, Sondergaard - these two weren't quick enough. (The MARSHAL points at two of the "Hyperion" guards.) MARSHAL: Right, after them to the laboratory! Seal all exits! (They run off through the second door to the office.) MARSHAL: Take these two to the radiation chamber! JAEGER: But what about the radiation level? After refuelling, it'll be much higher. MARSHAL: That's their problem, isn't it? Take them away! (The two guards take their prisoners away. Even JAEGER looks unhappy at this order.) 20: INT. SKYBASE ONE. LABORATORY (The DOCTOR, JO and SONDERGAARD rush into the laboratory. The DOCTOR takes a piece of metal, shaped rather like a door-handle, off a lab table and passes it up to JO on the upper level.) DOCTOR: Jo, take this key - lock the door. JO: Right. (She starts to attach the metal device to the door.) SONDERGAARD: Doctor, the crystal - the one you found in the cave - you have it still? DOCTOR: Yes, yes, of course. (The DOCTOR'S cloak hangs off one of the railings that surround the upper level. He digs in his pocket and extracts the crystal as the sound of g*n is heard outside the door. He then places it in a tripod.) DOCTOR: Yes. Now, all we've gotta do is analyse its structure. SONDERGAARD: But that will take hours. DOCTOR: Yes, well we haven't got hours. (He points to the remains of his particle reversal lash-up.) DOCTOR: But we do have this. And it will help me to accelerate the process, I think. (He attaches two leads to the crystal.) JO: Well quickly, Doctor! DOCTOR: I'm being as quick as I can, Jo. (He switches his device on. The crystal starts to glow with a bright, intense light.) DOCTOR: Yes, of course! Of course! (He snatches the leads off and takes the crystal out of the tripod.) DOCTOR: The crystal acts as a bio-catalytic agent. Sondergaard, take this crystal to Ky immediately. (He puts the crystal in his hands.) SONDERGAARD: But what about the thaesium radiation? Surely that's the vital part of the process? JO: Well, there's thaesium radiation in the chamber where they took us - Cotton told me. DOCTOR: Well, what else can we do? We must try it. If we hope to achieve a successful mutation, that is. (As the DOCTOR goes over to the cylindrical unit, the door "key" suddenly explodes, the door itself slides open and the MARSHAL and two guards enter the laboratory.) MARSHAL: Get away from that machine, Doctor! Guards, take that girl and Sondergaard to the radiation chamber. (The two are led out.) DOCTOR: So? You've managed to wriggle out of trouble, have you? MARSHAL: I am once more in full control of Skybase, Doctor. A fact you would do well to remember. DOCTOR: Congratulations. Well, what do you want now? MARSHAL: An Earth-type atmosphere on Solos - nothing more, nothing less. Your friends will be confined to the radiation chamber while you work. I am afraid the radiation is at a dangerously high level at the moment, so you'd better hurry, Doctor. 21: INT. SKYBASE ONE. RADIATION CHAMBER (KY is in a worse condition. He lies on the floor of the chamber, thrashing about as if he is consumed by an intense fever. COTTON can only watch helplessly. The entire room glows with the effects of the radiation. The entry hatch opens and SONDERGAARD and JO are pushed in. They immediately join COTTON as the hatch is closed by a guard.) COTTON: I'm afraid Ky's just about had it, Miss. SONDERGAARD: How long has he been like this? COTTON: It started as soon as we got in here. The first dose didn't do him any good. Now this lot on top. SONDERGAARD: The first d...? Oh yes, you were confined here before, weren't you? (He reaches into his pocket and takes the crystal out.) SONDERGAARD: Well, we'll have to hurry. We may already be too late. (He places it in KY'S hands. The Solonian grabs it and hugs it to his chest.) COTTON: Now what? SONDERGAARD: We wait. COTTON: We can't wait too long. (KY suddenly starts to thrash about even more, as if he is having a fit.) JO: Ky! SONDERGAARD: No, no, leave him! (KY starts to calm down again, reducing to a shiver. JO'S eyes widen.) JO: Look! He's changing! (And sure enough, the skin on KY'S hand starts to grow scaly. Within seconds he loses the appearance of having fingers and then, as quickly, the limb turns into a curved mutant claw.) 22: INT. SKYBASE ONE. LABORATORY (The DOCTOR is at work in the laboratory, watched over by two guards. The MARSHAL stares with satisfaction at his small globe of Solos. The door opens and JAEGER comes in.) MARSHAL: Watch him, Jaeger. That's about all you're good for. So watch him like a hawk. (The DOCTOR smiles at JAEGER and carries out repairs on his particle reversal equipment. The door slides open and the INVESTIGATOR strides in shouting...) INVESTIGATOR: (Furious.) Marshal! MARSHAL: (Warmly.) Investigator. (JAEGER turns, distracted by this entrance. Whilst he is not being watched, the DOCTOR swiftly swaps round two leads in the equipment. Meanwhile, a bare-headed INVESTIGATOR yells across the room at the MARSHAL.) INVESTIGATOR: Why have my men been disarmed and confined to their quarters? (He walks down into the well of the laboratory and stares up at the MARSHAL on the upper level.) INVESTIGATOR: What is this nonsense about my ship not being allowed to leave Skybase? MARSHAL: (Soothing.) Oh, no nonsense, Investigator. I'm sure you and your crew will enjoy your stay on Solos. INVESTIGATOR: Solos? MARSHAL: Yes, as soon as our good friend, the Doctor, here has finished his twiddling, Solos will find itself with a new atmosphere. You and the others will be the first settlers on New Earth. (He stares at his globe.) INVESTIGATOR: And you, Marshal? MARSHAL: (Smiles.) I shall rule from Skybase. INVESTIGATOR: You will never be allowed...! MARSHAL: (Interrupts.) Oh, come now! You didn't think I'd let you return to Earth Council? An accident will be reported - "lost with all hands" I believe is the phrase. INVESTIGATOR: Other ships will come from Earth! MARSHAL: Oh, they'll be room for them. You should be grateful to help me. We'll begin a new Earth - the centre of a new empire. DOCTOR: It's alright, Investigator. He's quite mad. MARSHAL: Oh no, Doctor. I told you: madmen lose, I've won - Solos is mine. Have you finished your work? DOCTOR: Almost. And my companions? MARSHAL: Will be released...as soon as the job is done. 23: INT. SKYBASE ONE. RADIATION CHAMBER (KY stands in one corner of the laboratory, now fully in the form of a mutant. The glow from the thaesium radiation which filled the room is now concentrated around him.) JO: Why is he drawing all the radiation? SONDERGAARD: I don't know, my child. We can only watch and hope. (Suddenly, the mutant flares in a glow and the three watchers have to shield their eyes. The brightness diminishes and they look up to see a new being in the mutant's place. It has its hands to its head, but as it removes them, it seems to tear apart strands like a cocoon. Underneath is the form of a man, but a man who glows with rainbows of energy and who wears long trailing silver robes. The figure floats just above the floor.) SONDERGAARD: It worked! Thank heavens it worked! COTTON: Worked? JO: Ky? Ky, can you hear me? (KY, now with golden hair and a radiant face "speaks" in a high, echoing light voice, but his lips do not move.) KY: I hear you. SONDERGAARD: It's thought transference - that's wonderful! Wonderful! COTTON: Yeah, marvellous. But can he get us out? KY: There is little I cannot do now. Ky thanks you, Professor Sondergaard. You have saved my people. You have shown the way. ("KY" floats towards the wall, growing smaller...and then vanishes.) KY: Goodbye. (He fades out of sight.) JO: Ky! COTTON: Goodbye? Great innit? He just flashes off and leaves us here! (With an almighty crash, the hatch door swings open, seemingly of its own accord.) SONDERGAARD: Out, quickly! Help Miss Grant! (COTTON helps JO up to the hatch and out. He climbs out next, followed by SONDERGAARD.) 24: INT. SKYBASE ONE. CORRIDOR ("KY" floats along a corridor. He comes to a wall...and fades through it.) 25: INT. SKYBASE ONE. ANOTHER CORRIDOR (Two Skybase guards walk along another corridor. They hear something behind them and turn. To their shock and surprise, "KY" floats past. The being waves its arms and the two men are knocked by a force to the ground. "KY" floats on...) 26: INT. SKYBASE. LABORATORY (The guards have left the laboratory. The MARSHAL has one of their g*n in his hand keeping the DOCTOR and the INVESTIGATOR prisoner.) MARSHAL: Are we ready? DOCTOR: Yes. MARSHAL: Very well. (The DOCTOR looks coldly at JAEGER and then moves to the cylindrical unit. His hand poises on the lever.) DOCTOR: You do realise, Marshal, that you're about to destroy a life form unique in the history of the universe? MARSHAL: (Quietly.) Hurry, Doctor, hurry. DOCTOR: As you wish. (He puts a finger on a switch.) MARSHAL: Wait! DOCTOR: Change of heart, Marshal? MARSHAL: I still don't trust you. Jaeger? (JAEGER moves to take the DOCTOR'S place. The DOCTOR crosses to join the INVESTIGATOR, glancing at him meaningfully and pulling him into the corner of the laboratory, further away from the unit. The MARSHAL nods at JAEGER who slowly pulls down the levers. The power level starts to rise. JAEGER pulls the levers further. There is a small spark on the unit and then another as the power seems to run out of control.) MARSHAL: (Shouts.) Jaeger! Stop it! JAEGER: (Shouts.) I can't! It's overloading! (Smoke starts to pour out of the unit and the DOCTOR pulls the INVESTIGATOR down to floor level. A second later, a massive expl*si*n tears through the unit, flinging JAEGER to the floor.) DOCTOR: Right - out! (He and the INVESTIGATOR rush to the door but the MARSHAL has been unhurt by the expl*si*n and aims his g*n at the two.) MARSHAL: (Shouts.) Doctor! You have destroyed my dreams! I'll destroy you! (Before he can carry out his thr*at, "KY" appears from nowhere, floating in mid-air. The MARSHAL stares at him, open-mouthed as they hear his thoughts in their heads...) KY: Die, Marshal! Let there be an end to your t*rture of my people! ("KY" raises his clenched hands. A ray of light spurts from them which hits the MARSHAL. He glows white and vanishes from existence. "KY" turns to the DOCTOR.) KY: I thank you, Doctor - for all my people. Goodbye. (He fades away. The DOCTOR and the INVESTIGATOR look at each other in some surprise.) 27: INT. SKYBASE ONE. MARSHAL'S OFFICE (The DOCTOR, JO, COTTON, SONDERGAARD and the INVESTIGATOR are all assembled in what was the MARSHAL'S office.) DOCTOR: Well, Professor Songergaard has agreed to stay on Solos and see as many of the Solonians as possible through to the stage that Ky has already achieved. JO: But what about the others - the mutants we saw in the caves? DOCTOR: They were premature mutations, Jo. The...cycle of changes was triggered off too soon. Rather like butterflies that hatch out on a cold spring day. Their instincts were too confused to...seek out and use the crystal. JO: (To SONDERGAARD.) And now you think you'll be able to help them? SONDERGAARD: Oh yes, we think so. Ky is on Solos now and, with the crystal, we hope we can save them. JO: And what are you going to do, Cotton? COTTON: Give Ky and Professor Sondergaard all the help I can. Try and clear up some of the mess the Marshal made. Then, do something we should have all done a long time ago. JO: What's that? COTTON: Go home, Miss. Back to Earth. INVESTIGATOR: Exactly. Cotton, you will...assume acting command of this base, pending its return to Earth. COTTON: Sir. INVESTIGATOR: (To the DOCTOR and JO.) I take it you will be returning in "Hyperion" with me? (The two start to look uneasy.) INVESTIGATOR: I still require a full account of your involvement in this affair. DOCTOR: Yes, yes, of course, but I...I wonder whether you...you'd excuse us for the moment, Investigator? My assistant is feeling rather faint. JO: (Surprised.) Who, me? No, I'm fine now, honestly. I didn't feel too good earlier, but... DOCTOR: (Interrupts.) Yeah, Jo, now you have been rather overdoing it, you know, and you... JO: I have? DOCTOR: ...you don't look too well. JO: Really? DOCTOR: Come on, yeah. (He takes her by the hand and leads her to the door. He looks back at the three men in the office.) DOCTOR: Will you excuse us? We'll...we'll see you all - later. (They walk out. Those left behind look confused.) INVESTIGATOR: (To SONDERGAARD.) Doctor...who, did you say? 28: INT. SKYBASE ONE. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE STORAGE AREA (The DOCTOR and JO turn a corner. They see a sign for Storage Area 4.) DOCTOR: Well, here we are. JO: Where? DOCTOR: Well, the storage area where we left the TARDIS. JO: Oh! (They go to the door and the DOCTOR presses the palm-print sensor but there is no response.) DOCTOR: Oh, no. They've locked it again. (He starts to explore his many pockets.) JO: More breaking and entering? (But it is JO who takes the sonic screwdriver out of her pocket and holds it up with a smile. The DOCTOR looks up, sees his trust device and snatches it back.) DOCTOR: Give me that! (He pulls her back out of harms way and switches the sonic screwdriver on. After a moment, the panel explodes and the door slides open, revealing the TARDIS beyond.) JO: Oh well, back to the broom cupboard. DOCTOR: Yes, well, at least we've made a clean sweep of this place! (JO looks pained at the joke.) DOCTOR: No? (Neither can keep a straight face and they laugh and walk into the room. As they do so, the two-toned klaxon alarm rings out, then...) TANNOY VOICE: Attention! Attention! Computer confirms malfunction in storage area four. Investigate, please. Investigate, please. (Within the room, the TARDIS materialisation noise starts...) 29: EXT. SKYBASE ONE (...as Skybase hangs above the soon to be transformed planet of Solos.)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "09x20 - The Mutants - part 6"}
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THE TIME MONSTER BY: ROBERT SLOMAN EPISODE ONE Original Air Date: 20 May, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: THE DOCTOR'S NIGHTMARE (A volcanic eruption sends huge clouds of dust, ash and clinker skywards. From the basin of volcano, lava fountains upwards over the rim in never-ending waves. The DOCTOR sleeps on a chaise-longue within an area of four pillars in a smoke-filled temple. A fork of lightning fires into the stone of the temple floor and the DOCTOR wakes up with a start. Sitting up, he immediately sees a crystal, in the shape of a trident, glowing with an internal light. It sits within a font-type receptacle in front of which are two erect double-headed axes, the three objects making a point of primitive worship. The DOCTOR suddenly looks upwards. Towering over him is the figure of the MASTER, but increased in height to the proportions of a giant. His evil nemesis gestures down to him.) MASTER: Welcome! Welcome to your new Master! (The MASTER starts to laugh in triumph. There is another flash of lightning and the figure fades away. With that there are further plumes of volcanic smoke interspersed with images from ancient times of old Grecian-type faces, statues, artifacts, all surrounded by death and destruction. The DOCTOR hears himself calling out...) DOCTOR: (OOV.) Jo! Jo! Jo! (His call is answered...) JO: (OOV.) Doctor! 2: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (The DOCTOR sits up. He is still on the chaise-longue but it is now in the more familiar and comfortable surroundings of his laboratory at UNIT HQ with JO by his side as he wakes up.) DOCTOR: Jo... JO: Doctor...are you alright? (The DOCTOR gasps with relief and starts to rub his forehead.) DOCTOR: Oh, oh, I must have been dreaming. JO: I'll say you were. A real pippin of a dream. I've brought you a cup of tea. (She holds it up to him but he is still shaken by his nightmare.) JO: Do you want it? (He takes it in a shaking hand.) DOCTOR: Volcanoes and a...and earthquakes. (He stands up with the cup in his hand. He starts to walk away, but hands the un-tasted drink back to JO, still totally distracted.) DOCTOR: Thank you. I enjoyed that. (He crosses to his lab bench in the middle of the room. Although the TARDIS sits in the corner of the laboratory and most of the equipment dotted about would seem to be much like that the DOCTOR has used before, the laboratory itself would seem to be in new premises. Painted brick walls are interrupted by a Venetian-blind covered window and a set of double panelled yellow doors that lead into the corridor.) JO: Doctor, have you been working all night again? DOCTOR: Mmm hm. (He picks up a small piece of equipment from his desk.) JO: On that? (The DOCTOR nods. JO crosses to join him. She wears a short brown dress with yellow and blue patterning and knee-length yellow boots. She looks at the circuit in the DOCTOR'S hand.) JO: (Reprovingly.) I don't know. What is anyway - a super dematerialisation circuit? DOCTOR: No, no. No, that'll have to wait. No, this is far more important. It might make all the difference the next time he turns up. JO: The next time who turns up? DOCTOR: The Master, of course. Jo, now listen to me - I want you to find out as quickly as possible if there have been any volcanic eruptions or severe earthquakes recently. It doesn't matter where - anywhere in the world. JO: You're joking of course! DOCTOR: Believe me, this is no matter for jokes. JO: But I read it all out to last night, I... (She tuts.) JO: Don't go away. (She crosses to a table where she has previously left a newspaper and collects it, returning with it and sitting on the DOCTOR'S lab bench.) JO: It just shows you don't listen to a word I say, doesn't it? Now, yes, here we are. (Reads.) "New eruptions in the Thera group of islands." Somewhere off Greece. DOCTOR: Does it say anything about a crystal? JO: Crystal? DOCTOR: Mmm. JO: No, what crystal? Look, I know I'm exceedingly dim, but would you mind explaining? DOCTOR: Well, it was in my dream, Jo. There was...there was a large crystal. Shaped like a trident... 3: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM (At the Newton institute in Wootton, Cambridge, work progresses on an experiment. It is conducted from a laboratory in a converted s*ab block which has been divided into two rooms. The second room is beyond a panelled divide which is glazed in the top half and entered through a single door and some steps. Within it, the main piece of machinery appears to be a container type device and near to it are a series of probes. The equipment gives off a constant series of electronic hums. Two figures stand in the room. One is a mature blond woman in a lab coat - DR. RUTH INGRAM. The other person also wears a lab coat and he speaks with a Greek accent. He holds a crystal up, some nine inches high and shaped like a trident. The man is the MASTER.) MASTER: A simple piece of quartz - nothing more. (He fixes the crystal within the container device.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: But Professor Thascales, that is ridiculous. MASTER: Of course it is, Dr. Ingram, of course it is! (He laughs indulgently and fixes a perspex cover over the crystal.) MASTER: You know, there is no means whereby I could prove to you that that crystal is any different from any other piece of quartz, and yet...it is unique. As you say; ridiculous! (Taking his lab coat off, he moves into the first room, through a door marked "WARNING RADIATION".) 4: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (He hangs the lab coat on a stand. Under it, he wears a shirt and tie. The first room has even more pieces of equipment within it and is the main room of the operation. It is obvious that the equipment in the second room is divided off for safety reasons.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: So, this is the missing piece of equipment we've been waiting for? MASTER: Exactly. (The door from the corridor bursts opens and a moustached young man rushes in. His slightly unkempt appearance is complimented by his somewhat frantic manner.) STUART HYDE: I'll swear I switched that alarm off in my sleep! (He suddenly catches sight of the MASTER who is putting his suit jacket on.) STUART HYDE: (Abashed.) Oh, sorry, Prof. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Simmer down, Stu, for pete's sake. MASTER: Please do not call me "Prof". STUART HYDE: In the doghouse again! (The MASTER addresses the two of them in a courteous yet firm manner, typical of a senior professor to two students.) MASTER: Now quiet, both of you. Now listen - I have a meeting with the new director in two and a half minutes. So, I'm afraid I shall have to leave the final tests for the demonstration to the two of you. DR. RUTH INGRAM: But aren't we going to have trail run, Professor? MASTER: No, it's not necessary. STUART HYDE: Well, that's marvellous! We're going to look a right bunch of Charlies if this fellow from the Grants Committee turns up and we're left with egg on our faces. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Yes, surely, Professor, it would be better if... MASTER: (Interrupting gently.) Now look, my dear, there is no need for you to worry your pretty little head! DR. RUTH INGRAM: And there's no need for you to be so patronising, Professor. Look, just because I'm a woman, there's no need to treat me like... (STUART raises his eyes to heaven.) STUART HYDE: Here we go! MASTER: (Interrupts.) No, no, no, I'm sorry. You're quite right, Doctor. Please forgive me. (He bows and opens the door. RUTH'S steely face shows that her anger is not abated.) MASTER: And now, erm, do please run those tests? (He closes the door.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: That man! You know, I don't what infuriates me more - his dictatorial manner or that infernal courtesy of his. (She starts to note down readings from the equipment on her clipboard.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: It's all the same really - a bland assumption of male superiority. STUART HYDE: May God bless the good ship women's lib and all who sail in her! 5: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (CAPTAIN MIKE YATES unfurls and map on the lab bench and points to a series of islands.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: There you are, Jo - the Thera group. Those little islands there. JO: Doctor? (The DOCTOR is still working on his piece of equipment across the lab.) DOCTOR: Mmm? JO: Come and take a look. DOCTOR: No, not now, Jo, I'm busy. JO: But it's the map you asked for. DOCTOR: Oh? (He glances at the map.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: There, you see? DOCTOR: Thera. (Tuts.) It doesn't mean a thing to me. (JO peers closer at the map.) JO: Well, its says... "Santorini" in brackets. Well that must be another name for it. How about that? DOCTOR: Oh, let's forget all about it, Jo, shall we? Well, I just had a nightmare, that's all. (MIKE rolls the map up.) JO: Sorry, Mike. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Ha! Better than hanging round the duty room. If nothing turns up soon, I'll go round the twist. JO: (Laughs.) That makes two of us. Here was I, all ready for a nice little trip to Atlantis... DOCTOR: (Alert.) What? JO: Well nothing, I was just saying to Mike... DOCTOR: (Interrupts.) Yes, I heard what you said, but you said Atlantis - why Atlantis? JO: Well that's what it says in the paper. (The DOCTOR puts down his equipment and at last takes an interest.) DOCTOR: Give me that map, Captain Yates. (MIKE again unrolls the map onto the bench as JO finds the paragraph is the paper.) JO: Yes, here we are - (Reads.) "Believed by many modern historians to be all that remains of Plato's metropolis of Atlantis." DOCTOR: (To himself.) Of course, of course! CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Atlantis? I thought that was supposed to be in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean? JO: Well, you're a bit out of date. Apparently it was part of the Minoan civilisation. Oh, you know - the Minotaur and all the Cretan jazz. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: It's only a legend though, isn't it? (The DOCTOR is still absorbed in the map.) DOCTOR: Jo, get me the Brigadier, will you? JO: What - now? DOCTOR: (Snaps.) Yes, now! JO: Oh, all right. (She crosses to a desk phone. MIKE joins her as she starts to dial.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: The Brig? Why the Brig, for heaven's sake? JO: Search me. (The DOCTOR looks intensely thoughtful and serious as JO makes the call.) JO: Doctor? It's the Brigadier. (He takes the phone from her.) DOCTOR: (Into phone.) Hello, Brigadier? It's the Doctor here. Now listen to me - I want you to put out a world-wide warning. Alert all your precious UNIT HQ's, not that it'll do any good... 6: INT. UNIT HQ. BRIGADIER'S OFFICE (Sat behind his desk, the BRIGADIER'S eyebrows rise.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone, sarcastically.) Thank you very much. And against what precisely am I supposed to be warning the world? DOCTOR: (OOV: Over phone.) The Master. I've just seen him. (The BRIGADIER sits up.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone.) Seen him? Where? When? 7: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (The DOCTOR looks slightly embarrassed...) DOCTOR: (Into phone.) In a dream. 8: INT. UNIT HQ. BRIGADIER'S OFFICE (The BRIGADIER does not look impressed...) 9: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY DOCTOR: (Into phone.) Not half an hour ago. 10: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (A small clock tower sits on top of the former s*ab block. The MASTER comes out through the main archway past a sign on the s*ab block which reads:) THE NEWTON INSTITUTE LABORATORY AREA STRICTLY OUT OF BOUNDS TO ALL UNAUTHORISED PERSONS 11: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (The BRIGADIER has joined the DOCTOR in his laboratory watched on by JO and MIKE YATES.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: In any case, Doctor, every section of UNIT now has the search for the Master written into standing orders. DOCTOR: (Caustically.) Priority Z-one hundred and forty four, I suppose? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Patiently.) Priority A-one actually. DOCTOR: Look, I tell you, Brigadier - there is grave danger. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Danger of what, for heavens sake? DOCTOR: Well, I'm not sure, but in my dream I quite clearly saw... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Interrupts.) You know, if this got out, you'll be the laughing stock of UNIT. A dream - really, Doctor, you'll be consulting the entrails of a sheep next. (JO bursts into laughter. The DOCTOR gives her a pained look.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, we'd better be on our way to the UNIT institute. Ready, Doctor? DOCTOR: No, I can't go anywhere at the moment. I'm far too busy. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: But I told them you'd be coming. Two observers from UNIT, I said. JO: Well, shall I go? DOCTOR: No, certainly not, Jo. I shall need you here with me. JO: Well, what's it all about anyway? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: TOMTIT - that's what it's all about. A demonstration of TOMTIT. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: TOMTIT? What on earth does that stand for? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, it's the...the trans... (The DOCTOR interrupts his struggling explanation...) DOCTOR: Transmission Of Matter Through Interstitial Time. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, exactly what I was going to say - TOMTIT. JO: Well, what does it do? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Oh, it's a brilliant idea, apparently it can break down solid objects into light-waves or whatever, and transmit them from one place to another. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: And it works? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Apparently. Well, Yates, I suppose you'd better come with me. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Sorry, sir. I'm Duty Officer. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Exasperated.) Well, someone's gotta come! (The lab door opens and SERGEANT BENTON, dressed in civvies and carrying a bag, enters.) SERGEANT BENTON: I'm just leaving, sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Ah, Sergeant Benton - the very man. SERGEANT BENTON: But I'm just off on a forty-eight hour pass, sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Oh no, you're not, Sergeant. You're coming for a little trip to the Newton Institute. SERGEANT BENTON: (Sighs.) Yes, sir. The where, sir? The Newton Institute? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: That's right. It's a research establishment at Wootton, just outside Cambridge. 12: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. DIRECTOR'S OFFICE (Within the director's office of the institute in the main house, a furious row is taking place. The office is elegantly furnished with leather chairs and prints on the wall. The MASTER stands before the desk of the director where a distinguished although elderly man called DR. PERCIVAL sits.) MASTER: (Shouts.) A charlatan! How dare you! (In his anger, he has lost his Greek Accent.) DR. PERCIVAL: (Shouts.) Dr. Cook is not only chairman of the Grants Committee, but a colleague and a personal friend. Am I to tell him this afternoon that I am as gullible as that drunkard I have replaced? How is it that I can find no trace of your academic career before you visited Athens University, Professor? (He leaps to his feet.) DR. PERCIVAL: (Shouts.) How is it that you publish nothing? That you refuse to reveal the hypothesis behind your so-called experiment? That the very name of your project is arrogant nonsense?! TOMTIT! What, pray, is "Interstitial Time"? MASTER: You're a very clever man, director. I can see that I shall have to tell you everything. Oh, yes, you...you're perfectly right. I am no professor... DR. PERCIVAL: Ah, say no more... MASTER: But do please hear me out. (DR. PERCIVAL laughs as he sits down.) MASTER: I can see that you're very upset... DR. PERCIVAL: Upset! MASTER: But there is nothing to worry about. You must believe me... (The MASTER leans over the desk and stares hypnotically into the director's eyes.) MASTER: You must believe me! (His words seem to echo in DR. PERCIVAL'S head and he stares back at the MASTER.) MASTER: You must...believe me... DR. PERCIVAL: (Haltingly.) Must...believe you... MASTER: I am the Master. You will listen to me...and you will obey me! You...will...obey...me! DR. PERCIVAL: (Haltingly.) Obey...obey. I will obey. (The MASTER relaxes.) MASTER: Now you just sit there quietly and await the arrival of this wretched man from London. And remember - you are perfectly satisfied as to the authenticity of my credentials, and the integrity of my work here. You understand? (DR. PERCIVAL is held by the MASTER'S eyes.) DR. PERCIVAL: Yes...I understand. 13: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (RUTH and STUART are running their tests as requested. RUTH is in the first room, running down the items on her clipboard communicating with STUART in the second room by intercom.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: (Into intercom.) One, point, three-five-nine. STUART HYDE: (Over intercom.) One, point, three-five-nine, check. DR. RUTH INGRAM: (Into intercom.) Two, point, o-four-five. STUART HYDE: (Over intercom.) Two, point, o-four-five, check. DR. RUTH INGRAM: (Into intercom.) Three, point, o-six-two. STUART HYDE: (Over intercom.) Three, point, o-six-two, check. 14: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM (STUART, in the second room, is looking at the readings on the equipment in there.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: (Over intercom.) Five-nine and steady. STUART HYDE: (Into intercom.) Five-nine and steady. DR. RUTH INGRAM: (Over intercom.) And that's the lot. STUART HYDE: (Into intercom.) And that's the lot, check, check, check! 15: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM DR. RUTH INGRAM: And now we just stand around and wait. (Their tests over, STUART comes through the partition door and joins RUTH in the first room.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: You know, I still think it's just plain stupid not to do a trial run. It's ludicrous. STUART HYDE: Ludicrous - check! DR. RUTH INGRAM: Oh, grow up, Stu. STUART HYDE: No, but I mean it, love. It is ludicrous. I mean, just suppose this thing won't wag its tail when we tell it to? DR. RUTH INGRAM: Well, they withdraw the grant. STUART HYDE: As sure as God made little green apples, and bang goes my fellowship. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Bang goes my job - and my reputation too, for that matter. (Tuts.) Men - it's their conceit that bugs me. STUART HYDE: Hey, hey, I'm on your side, remember? DR. RUTH INGRAM: Oh, you don't count. STUART HYDE: Oh, don't I? And why not, may I ask? DR. RUTH INGRAM: Look, don't bully me, Stu, or I think I'll burst into tears. (STUART returns to his clipboard. He makes a note and then a thought strikes him.) STUART HYDE: Let's do it! DR. RUTH INGRAM: What? STUART HYDE: Have a run through. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Without him? STUART HYDE: Well, why not? DR. RUTH INGRAM: Well, it is his project. I mean, he's the boss. STUART HYDE: Nominally. But do you think how much you've put into it. It's a joint affair. I reckon you've as much right to take a decision as he has. DR. RUTH INGRAM: (Considers.) Well... STUART HYDE: Course, if you need a man in charge...? DR. RUTH INGRAM: That does it! We go ahead. STUART HYDE: That's my girl! (He smiles and gives her a friendly hug. She smiles back.) 16: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (The DOCTOR is fixing in the back panel of his new device with a screwdriver. It is made to be held in the hand and has two circular dials in the bottom of the face and a small radar-dish type receiver at the top.) JO: You know, Doctor, you're quite the most infuriating man I've ever met. (The DOCTOR smiles at her as he carries on working.) JO: I've asked you at least a million times - what is it? DOCTOR: Extraordinary - I could have sworn I'd told you. It's a time sensor. JO: (Uncertain.) Oh, I see. DOCTOR: Do you? Well, what's it do then? JO: (Haltingly.) W...well, it, erm... DOCTOR: Mmm hm? JO: It, erm, detects disturbances in a time field. (The DOCTOR'S stops work with some surprise. He turns to her in delight.) DOCTOR: Well done, Jo, you're learning! It's exactly what you need if you happen to be looking for a TARDIS. JO: (Smiles.) It's a "TARDIS sniffer-outer"! DOCTOR: Yeah, or any other time machine, for that matter. So, if the Master turns up again... JO: Bingo! DOCTOR: As you so rightly say - Bingo! 17: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (STUART has taken off his white lab coat and is climbing into a silver radiation suit.) STUART HYDE: I feel like the back end of a pantomime horse. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Very suitable for a keen young man like you. STUART HYDE: Eh, come again? DR. RUTH INGRAM: Starting at the bottom. STUART HYDE: Ooh! Anyway, it's just a waste of time. Why should there be any radiation in the receiver room? We're only going to use about ten degrees. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Are you willing to take the risk? (He takes a radiation hood out of a locker.) STUART HYDE: No. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Well, stop beefing then and get on with it. (Putting the hood on, he enters the second room watched by a smiling RUTH. She crosses to the main control unit of TOMTIT and switches it on. The sound of the power starts to rise.) 18: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (Outside, a ladder is placed against the window of the second floor laboratory in the s*ab block and a WINDOW CLEANER, bucket in hand, starts to ascend.) 19: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM (He reaches the window and starts to clean it, but his attention is rapidly caught by the sight of STUART in his radiation suit inside the lab, bent over the equipment and passing on readings to RUTH through the intercom.) STUART HYDE: (Into intercom.) Interstitial activity - nil. 20: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (Inside the first laboratory, a white vase has been placed on a metal plate connected to the equipment.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: (Into intercom.) Molecular structure s*ab. Increasing power. Two-o, two-five, three-o... 21: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (JO holds the time sensor and calls over to the open door of the TARDIS.) JO: I say, Doctor, you're not going to disappear to Venus or anywhere like that, are you? DOCTOR: (OOV: Inside the TARDIS, laughs.) No, no. You just keep your eye on those dials. (Suddenly the time sensor bursts into life. It emits a chattering signal as the dish turns and a light flashes.) JO: It's working! DOCTOR: (OOV: Inside the TARDIS.) Well, of course it's working. Now make a note of the readings, will you? JO: Alright. (She grabs a pen and paper.) 22: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The test run continues...) DR. RUTH INGRAM: (Into intercom.) Three-five, four-o, four-five... STUART HYDE: (Over intercom.) Check, check, check! (A dial starts to rise rapidly on a meter.) 23: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (The time sensor dies down and the DOCTOR comes out of the TARDIS with a grin on his face.) JO: Well done. DOCTOR: Thank you. (JO hands him the pad of paper.) JO: It's a bit out on distance though. It says the TARDIS is only a foot away. DOCTOR: Well, that's venusian feet. JO: Oh, they're larger than ours? DOCTOR: Oh yeah, much larger. Almost tripping over themselves, the Venusians. (They laugh and the DOCTOR sits at the bench to start going over the figures.) DOCTOR: Good, that's good. (The time sensor starts up again.) JO: Doctor? DOCTOR: Mmm? JO: I think you must have left something on in the TARDIS. DOCTOR: No, I certainly didn't - why? JO: Well it's started again. (He looks at the sensor.) DOCTOR: That's impossible unless... JO: Unless what? DOCTOR: Another TARDIS! 24: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM (In the second lab, a series of probes that hang over a metal plate similar to that in the first laboratory, They are flashing with light.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: (Over intercom.) Isolate matrix scanner. STUART HYDE: (Into intercom.) Check. DR. RUTH INGRAM: (Over intercom.) Five-o, five-five, six-o. (The faint outline of the vase appears on the plate.) STUART HYDE: (Into intercom.) It's going to work! DR. RUTH INGRAM: (Over intercom.) Write down the ... Stand by. Initiating transfer...now! (STUART presses a switch and starts the countdown as the crystal within the equipment starts to glow with an unearthly light...) STUART HYDE: (Into intercom.) Ten...nine...eight... 25: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. DIRECTOR'S OFFICE (The MASTER has requisitioned the director's office for himself. He sits at the desk completing some paperwork when the clock over the nearby s*ab block starts to chime. But the sounds of the bell are slowed down as if time itself is being affected. He jumps up and looks through the window at the clock which sits atop the s*ab block to the right of the building he is in now.) 26: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (The clock shows eleven o'clock but its chiming is getting slower...) 27: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. DIRECTOR'S OFFICE (The MASTER turns from the window.) MASTER: Why - the fools! (He runs from the office.) 28: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (Her hands on the controls, RUTH watches the vase intently.) STUART HYDE: (Over intercom.) Four...three...two...one! (RUTH slams a lever home and the sound of the equipment starts to reach a crescendo. The vase fades away from its place on the plate...) 29: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM (...and reappears on its counterpart in the second room. The watching WINDOW CLEANER'S jaw drops.) STUART HYDE: (Into intercom.) Okay, Ruth - switch off! We've done it! DR. RUTH INGRAM: (Over intercom.) Stuart, come here! STUART HYDE: (Into intercom.) Eh? DR. RUTH INGRAM: (Over intercom.) Come here, Stuart! (He snatches his hood off and runs next door as the WINDOW CLEANER continues to watch.) 30: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (As STUART joins RUTH, the equipment is starting to run away...) DR. RUTH INGRAM: The positive feedback - she's overloading! Look, you'll have to bring the surge down as I reduce the power or she'll blow. STUART HYDE: Right! (He takes his place at another part of the equipment.) 31: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM (The WINDOW CLEANER still looks on in astonishment.) 32: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (He loses both his concentration and his footing and starts to fall off the ladder. However, the speed of his fall is as slowed down as the chiming of the clock. Nevertheless, he falls badly. After a moment, a door opens in the main house and the MASTER emerges. He quickly sees the fallen CLEANER and the ladder against the window. His face grows thunderous and he makes his way towards the laboratory without doing anything for the stricken man.) 33: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (RUTH and STUART have managed to shut TOMTIT down and hug each other in delight at the success of their unauthorised test.) STUART HYDE: We've done it! (She nods excitedly and he starts to dance her in circles round the room.) STUART HYDE: We've done it! We've done it! We've done it! We've done it! We've done it! We've done it! We've done it! We've done it! (They reach the door which has opened to admit a furious MASTER. The guilty pair breaks apart.) 34: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (The DOCTOR consults a map of south-east England.) DOCTOR: Now, I put it somewhere in that sector there. Anywhere between... (He checks the scale of the map.) DOCTOR: Well, fifty and a hundred miles from here. JO: Well, that's not much to go on. DOCTOR: No, not unless he switches his TARDIS on again. JO: Well, you never know - he might. DOCTOR: If we were a bit nearer...and in Bessie. JO: Right - let's go! You take the map. (He does so with a smile as JO grabs the time sensor.) 35: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The MASTER has resumed his Greek accent as he gives his two assistants a dressing down.) MASTER: You are a fool, Dr. Ingram! DR. RUTH INGRAM: (Angrily.) You have no right to call me a fool... MASTER: (Interrupts.) Be silent! You may have caused irreparable damage. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Look, I was in full control the whole time... MASTER: (Interrupts.) That is irrelevant. Mr. Hyde, why did you permit this stupidity? STUART HYDE: Here, hang about, mate. I'm not my sister's keeper. She's the boss. Anyway, I suggested it. MASTER: Yes, I might have guessed that. You're behaving like a...an irresponsible schoolboy! You'll pay for this! DR. RUTH INGRAM: The decision, professor, was entirely mine! MASTER: Ah, I see, therefore... DR. RUTH INGRAM: (Interrupts.) I take...I take full responsibility for testing the apparatus, and I'm prepared to justify my actions at the highest level. Perhaps we'd better go and see the director right away and sort this out. MASTER: (Hastily.) No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm sorry, doctor, please excuse me. That won't be necessary. We need take this matter no further. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Well, that's all very well, professor, but after what you... MASTER: (Interrupts.) Please, doctor, accept my apologies. (RUTH calms down.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: Oh well, perhaps it was a bit unethical of me not to have told you. STUART HYDE: Oh, come off it, Ruth! He's only climbing down because he doesn't want us to walk out. He needs us for the demo. MASTER: How very clever of you, Mr. Hyde. Of course I need you - both of you. STUART HYDE: After all, prof, we couldn't risk a foul-up disaster when the... MASTER: (Interrupts.) No, no, no, no, say no more. The whole matter is closed. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Well...not quite, professor. You see, it wasn't exactly plain sailing. We had some sort of a positive feedback - an overload. MASTER: But...but that is impossible! DR. RUTH INGRAM: See for yourself. (As STUART starts to divest himself of the radiation suit, she tears a sheet of computer readings off a nearby printer and passes it to the MASTER.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: Mmm? See? (STUART spots something through the open door and crosses over to look in.) MASTER: I see. Yes... Of course, how foolish of me! STUART HYDE: Hey, Ruth, professor, come here! DR. RUTH INGRAM: What is it, Stu? STUART HYDE: The crystal - it's still glowing! 36: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM (The MASTER and RUTH join him in the open doorway and look through at the glowing crystal.) MASTER: Well, of course it is! DR. RUTH INGRAM: Well, you know what caused the overload then? 37: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM MASTER: Yes, don't you see? You were drawing power from somewhere outside of time itself. Now, what we have to do is to build a time vector filter into the transmitter here. Look, let me show you - something like this... (He starts to draw a design on the clipboard he is holding as STUART goes back to the locker near the window to put his radiation suit back.) MASTER: And... it's a paracybernetic control circuit, in fact. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Yes, but won't that take some time to set up? The demonstration's at two. MASTER: Mmm, yes, I'm afraid it will take some time, and I'm afraid I will have to leave it to you, because I am expected to eat a pretentious meal and exchange pleasantries with our distinguished guests. STUART HYDE: That's all right, prof. You go and enjoy your nosh. Leave it to the toiling masses. MASTER: Mr. Hyde, I have every faith in you - and in you, doctor. There. (He passes the clipboard to RUTH and points and mutters further instructions as STUART looks through the window and calls out to the pair of them.) STUART HYDE: Hey, you'd better get your skates on. The VIP's are arriving...escorted by a UNIT jeep, no less. (Understandably, this grabs the MASTER'S attention.) MASTER: What? (He joins STUART at the window.) 38: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (A limousine and the UNIT jeep proceed along the driveway of the extensive grounds of the house. As they get nearer, they approach the fallen and forgotten WINDOW CLEANER. The occupants of the vehicles, the BRIGADIER included, get out and approach the man.) 39: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM MASTER: What are they doing here? STUART HYDE: Military observers, happens all the time. They're the only ones with enough money for our sort of nonsense. MASTER: I see. (To RUTH.) Dr. Ingram, I've changed my mind. I will set up this filter myself. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Well, I'm perfectly capable of constructing a simple, professor. (The MASTER tries to steer her towards the door.) MASTER: I am sure that you are equally capable of devouring a tough pheasant on my behalf. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Well, why can't you go and devour it? MASTER: Look, doctor, please...I am lifelong pacifist. Now the association of the military with k*lling, with...with v*olence...please bear with me. (She hands him the clipboard and he takes it away.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: Very well. I'll get them to send some sandwiches across to you. STUART HYDE: (Quietly.) Good thinking, batman. We've got a nutcase on our hands! 40: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (The BRIGADIER is examining the WINDOW CLEANER as two pin-stripe suited civil servants walk up. The taller and more senior of the two - DR. COOK - demonstrates the lowest possible interest in his caustic manner. The other - PROCTOR - carries his superior's case and hangs permanently behind his master's shoulder.) DR. COOK: He's not d*ad? (The BRIGADIER finishes his examination as SERGEANT BENTON, now back in uniform, walks up behind them.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: No, he's still breathing. DR. COOK: Who is he? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, the window cleaner, I presume. He must have fallen off that ladder. It's a miracle he's still alive. DR. COOK: Oh, poor fellow. Well, come along, Proctor. I trust you'll make the necessary arrangements to get him into hospital? (They walk off towards the house, uninterested in the reply.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Of course, sir. Sergeant Benton? SERGEANT BENTON: Sir? 41: EXT. ROAD (Bessie makes its way down a road and through a stretch of typical English countryside. From the passenger seat, JO looks up at the grey sky.) JO: Huh, it's a doomy old day. I mean, just look at that sky - just look at it! DOCTOR: Do stop wiffleing, Jo? There's a good girl. We're not out on a pleasure jaunt, you know? JO: Sorry, Doctor. DOCTOR: Only, if it is the Master, we can't run the risk of losing him. You just keep your eye on the time sensor. JO: Right. (She does so. It starts up almost immediately.) JO: Doctor? DOCTOR: Yeah? JO: It's working again. (He brakes as JO looks at the dials.) DOCTOR: What's the bearing? JO: Er, o-seven-four, and, er, sixteen point three-nine miles away. DOCTOR: So, that's venusian miles. In earth miles, that's be...about seventy two, point seven-nine. Let's take a look at the map. (He checks their bearings.) DOCTOR: Well, we're about here. JO: Mmm. DOCTOR: That should put us somewhere around...there. A village called Wootton. JO: Wootton? Well that's where the Brigadier and Sergeant Benton are. DOCTOR: TOMTIT? Well, if the Master's behind that...? What time's the demonstration? JO: Two o'clock. DOCTOR: Well, we've got to stop it. Hang on tight, Jo. (He pulls out a lever on a unit marked "SUPER DRIVE". Bessie sh**t off at an incredible speed.) 42: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (The s*ab clock shows a quarter to two.) 43: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. CORRIDOR (Led by RUTH, DR'S COOK and PERCIVAL make their way to the laboratory followed by the BRIGADIER, BENTON and PROCTOR.) DR. COOK: There you are, Charles. It may seem churlish of me after eating your excellent lunch. How your institute can afford pheasant, I really don't know. 44: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (RUTH opens the door and they enter the empty laboratory.) DR. PERCIVAL: We are in the depths of the country, you know? DR. COOK: Be that as it may. We are responsible for international funds - public money. I doubt very much whether we should allow ourselves the luxury of either pheasants...or TOMTITS. (Only PROCTOR laughs at his bosses joke.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: Well, the professor doesn't seem to be here, gentlemen. DR. PERCIVAL: Obviously. (STUART comes in from the second room. He has donned his radiation suit again but minus the hood.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: Ah, Stuart, where's the professor? STUART HYDE: Search me. He was here a couple of minutes ago. DR. COOK: (To PERCIVAL.) Who is this fellow, Thascales, anyway? I've never heard of him. DR. PERCIVAL: Oh, an excellent background. Surely you've read his paper on the granular structure of time? DR. COOK: All I can do to keep up with the departmental minutes. I leave all the rest to Proctor. (The BRIGADIER looks over the various components which make up TOMTIT.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: That's a fearsome looking load of electronic nonsense you've got together, Dr. Ingram? How does it all work? In words of one syllable. DR. RUTH INGRAM: I'll do my best. Well, gentleman, to begin with, time isn't smooth. It's made up of little bits. STUART HYDE: A series of minute present moments. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Mm, that's it - temporal atoms, so to speak. So, if one could push something through the interstices between them, it would be outside our space-time continuum altogether. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Where would it be then? DR. RUTH INGRAM: Well, nowhere at all in ordinary terms. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: You've lost me, Dr. Ingram. DR. COOK: And me. I've never heard such a farrago of unscientific rubbish in all my life. It's a impossible situation. STUART HYDE: But we've done it. We shoved that vase through and brought it back, in there. (He points to both the vase and the second room.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: But shoved it through where, for goodness sake? SERGEANT BENTON: Sort of...through the crack between now and...now, sir. STUART HYDE: Right - you've got it! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, I give up. It's beyond me. (Behind them the MASTER has entered the room but dressed head to toe in a second radiation suit in order to hide his appearance from the two soldiers.) MASTER: Then you must see for yourselves, gentlemen. (They all turn and look at him as he walks over to the equipment.) MASTER: I apologise for keeping you waiting. Shall we begin? 45: EXT. ROAD (JO is scared at Bessie's speed and yells above the roar of the engine...) JO: (Shouts.) Doctor, slow down. It's not safe to drive so quickly - please! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Nonsense! It's perfectly safe. My reactions are ten times faster than yours. Bessie's no ordinary car, remember? (They sh**t along towards a crossroads and stop instantly at the give-way line. JO moves forward slightly in her seat but with nothing like the force that she expected. The DOCTOR smiles.) DOCTOR: See what I mean? JO: (Shocked.) But why didn't I go through the windscreen? DOCTOR: Well, the brakes work by the absorption of inertia - including yours. (The time sensor starts up again.) JO: It's working again. DOCTOR: Right, come on, Bessie, old girl. It's up to you now. (He starts the engine and Bessie tears off...) 46: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. GROUNDS (...and into the grounds of the institute.) 47: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (RUTH places a cup and saucer on the transfer plate of the equipment as the MASTER stands at the controls. STUART is in the second room as the observers watch. The hum of the equipment starts to build up.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: Surely you don't need to wear anti-radiation gear, professor? MASTER: In case of an emergency, doctor. I may have to join Mr. Hyde in a hurry. (Into intercom.) Report, Mr. Hyde? 48: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM STUART HYDE: (Into intercom.) Interstitial activity- nil. 49: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (RUTH gives off the readings from her unit...) DR. RUTH INGRAM: Molecular structure - s*ab. Four-o, four-five, five-o. MASTER: Increase in power. DR. RUTH INGRAM: (Into intercom.) Isolate matrix scanner. STUART HYDE: (Over intercom.) Check. (A strident note appears within the hum of the equipment...) DR. RUTH INGRAM: Six-o, six-five, seven-o, seven-five... MASTER: Increase in power! DR. RUTH INGRAM: It's gone into the second quadrant already, professor. MASTER: I know what I'm doing, doctor. Initiating transfer - now. (He slams home the lever watched by a worried RUTH.) STUART HYDE: (Over intercom.) Ten, nine, eight... 50: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM (The crystal starts to glow with an intense light.) STUART HYDE: (Into intercom.) Seven, six, five... 51: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM STUART HYDE: (Over intercom.) Four, three, two, one... (The cup and saucer disappear in front of the eyes of the astonished observers. Once again, the hum of the equipment starts to run away. RUTH looks towards STUART in the second room in alarm.) 52: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM STUART HYDE: (Shouts, into intercom.) I'm getting too much power! I can't hold it! Switch off! (He suddenly grabs his head in pain.) 53: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM DR. RUTH INGRAM: (Shouts.) Turn it off, professor! Turn it off! (The MASTER looks upwards and slams up higher the power lever...) MASTER: (Shouts.) Come, Kronos, come!
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THE TIME MONSTER BY: ROBERT SLOMAN EPISODE TWO Original Air Date: 27 May, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM DR. RUTH INGRAM: Surely you don't need to wear anti-radiation gear, professor? MASTER: In case of an emergency, my dear. I may have to join Mr. Hyde in a hurry. (Into intercom.) Report, Mr. Hyde? STUART HYDE: (Over intercom.) Interstitial activity- nil. (RUTH gives off the readings from her unit...) DR. RUTH INGRAM: Molecular structure - s*ab. Four-o, four-five, five-o. MASTER: Increase in power. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Isolate matrix scanner. STUART HYDE: (Over intercom.) Check. (A strident note appears within the hum of the equipment...) DR. RUTH INGRAM: Six-o, six-five, seven-o, seven-five... MASTER: Increase in power! DR. RUTH INGRAM: It's gone into the second quadrant already, professor. MASTER: I know what I'm doing, doctor. Initiating transfer - now. (He slams home the lever watched by a worried RUTH.) STUART HYDE: (Over intercom.) Ten, nine, eight... 2: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM (The crystal starts to glow with an intense light.) STUART HYDE: (Into intercom.) Seven, six, five... 3: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM STUART HYDE: (Over intercom.) Four, three, two, one... (The cup and saucer disappear in front of the eyes of the astonished observers. Once again, the hum of the equipment starts to run away. RUTH looks towards STUART in the second room in alarm.) STUART HYDE: (Shouts, into intercom.) I'm getting too much power! I can't hold it! Switch off! DR. RUTH INGRAM: (Shouts.) Turn it off, professor! Turn it off! (The MASTER looks upwards and slams up higher the power lever...) MASTER: Come, Kronos, come! DR. RUTH INGRAM: (Shocked.) Stuart! (She runs over to the window looking onto the second room and sees...) 4: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM (...STUART grabbing his head in pain and falling backwards as he tries to rip off his hood.) 5: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The BRIGADIER rushes to join her at the door and open it.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: No, wait! It's too dangerous! Professor! (But the MASTER has run off. As the equipment hum rises ever higher, she desperately pulls the power lever back.) 6: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (The s*ab clock shows d*ad on two o'clock. Once again its chimes are slowed down at a dull clang as Bessie, in an ironic counter to the timepiece, races up to the building at a hurtling speed and stops on an instant.) DOCTOR: Right, Jo. (JO doesn't react.) DOCTOR: Jo? (He looks at her. She is frozen in time in her seat and stares ahead without reacting.) DOCTOR: Oh, good grief! (Unaffected by the slow down of time like the MASTER, he jumps out of the car and starts to run towards the s*ab block, but in slow motion. As he turns a corner and enters through a doorway, he fails to spot the MASTER, still in his radiation suit, pressed up against a nearby wall in hiding.) 7: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The DOCTOR bursts into the laboratory and instantly assesses the situation.) DOCTOR: Cut the power! DR. RUTH INGRAM: (Desperately.) I can't, it won't budge! DOCTOR: Then reverse the polarity! DR. RUTH INGRAM: What? DOCTOR: Reverse the temporal polarity! (RUTH pulls a unit out of the main console, swaps round a circuit and plugs the unit back in. She then pulls the power levers back as the others watch impatiently from the doorway to the second room.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Is it safe to go in? DR. RUTH INGRAM: No, no wait. (DR. COOK tries to assert his authority...) DR. COOK: (Angrily.) What is all this about? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Impatiently.) Oh, for heaven's sake! There's a man in there! (The scream of the equipment is fast dying down.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: Right, the level should be alright now. (The BRIGADIER runs into the second room.) 8: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM (STUART lies unconscious across the equipment.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Doctor? (The DOCTOR is right behind the BRIGADIER and they lift the man up. An astonishing change has occurred. The previously young man now has snowy white hair and a lined face. Appearance wise, he has aged into his eighties. RUTH has also come into the room and stares in shock at her colleague.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: Stuart! DR. COOK: (Angrily.) If this meant to be some kind of a joke... DR. PERCIVAL: (Angrily.) What on earth is going on?! DOCTOR: (To RUTH.) Who is this? DR. RUTH INGRAM: My assistant - but Stuart's only twenty-five! DOCTOR: Twenty-five? But this man's eighty or more? (Freed from the effects of TOMTIT, JO runs into the room.) JO: What's happening, Doctor? Are we too late? DOCTOR: On the contrary, Jo, I think we're just in time. 9: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. STUART'S ROOM (STUART has been taken to his room in the institute. On two levels, it is simultaneously a bedroom, living room and kitchen with the only divisions being shelving units. He has been put into his bed in the lower level and, watched over by the DOCTOR and JO, RUTH takes a thermometer out of his mouth and reads the temperature. The BRIGADIER enters.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: How is he? DOCTOR: Well, what he needs at the moment is rest. We'll get him to the hospital later. He must have been a pretty tough youngster. DR. RUTH INGRAM: He was. DOCTOR: Well, lucky for him. Otherwise the shock of the change would have finished him off. JO: But will he be alright? DOCTOR: Yes, he'll survive. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Yes, but how long for, Doctor? He's an old man. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What caused it, Doctor - some sort of radioactivity? DOCTOR: No, it was more than that. JO: A change in metabolism? DOCTOR: Well, that's more like it, Jo, but it still isn't the answer - even if the metabolic rate had increased a hundredfold. DR. RUTH INGRAM: That's impossible. DOCTOR: Well, of course it is. Even if it wasn't, the change in him would have taken...seven or eight months, not eight seconds. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, there's only one thing I know which makes people old... DOCTOR: And that is? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Anno Domini, Doctor - age, the passing of time. DR. RUTH INGRAM: We all know that. DOCTOR: Mmm, congratulations, Brigadier. I think you've provided the explanation. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, glad to be of service. (Puzzled.) What did I say? DOCTOR: "The passing of time." - that's the only possible answer. Stuart's own personal time speeded up so enormously that his own physiological life passed by in a moment. But why? How did it happen? (He crosses to one side of the room, deep in thought.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: Well, the professor might know but he seems to have disappeared. JO: What professor? DR. RUTH INGRAM: Professor Thascales - TOMTIT's his baby. (The DOCTOR spins round.) DOCTOR: Thascales! Really, the arrogance of that man is beyond belief! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, who's arrogance? Doctor, I wish you wouldn't talk in riddles. DOCTOR: Perhaps a classical education would have helped you, Brigadier. Thascales is a Greek word. JO: (To herself.) Thascales? (To the DOCTOR.) I get it - Thascales is Greek for "Master"! DOCTOR: Right, Jo. (STUART starts to stir and moan.) STUART HYDE: Mmm, no... DR. RUTH INGRAM: He's coming round. (Although weakened, he starts to feebly thrash about in the bed.) STUART HYDE: ...oh no, help me, help... DR. RUTH INGRAM: It's alright, it's alright, you're quite safe! STUART HYDE: ...not safe, no, nobody's safe... DR. RUTH INGRAM: Shh! It's alright. STUART HYDE: .. no one's safe - oh, he's here...he... DR. RUTH INGRAM: Shh! STUART HYDE: ...he's here, I saw him, I saw him. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Oh, the poor boy's delirious. STUART HYDE: No, no, no... DR. RUTH INGRAM: Don't try to speak, Stu, just rest. DOCTOR: No, no, let him talk. Who did you see, Stuart? Answer me. STUART HYDE: ...danger, the...the crystal... DR. RUTH INGRAM: Please stop this, Doctor, please? DOCTOR: Look, answer me! Stuart, who did you see? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Go easy, Doctor. STUART HYDE: No...no... JO: Doctor, please? DOCTOR: Be quiet - both of you! (Shouts.) Now answer me - who did you see? Answer me! STUART HYDE: The...K... (He sits up in bed and opens his eyes as he struggles to get the word out, then...) STUART HYDE: (Shouts.) Kronos! (He falls back.) DOCTOR: Kronos? Yes, of course! I should have known. Dr. Ingram, I want you to come with me. I want you to tell me everything that you know about that machine of yours. JO: Shall I come? DOCTOR: No, no, you stay here with Stuart. Phone me immediately he starts talking again. (He heads for the door followed by RUTH and the BRIGADIER.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: You'd better lock the door behind us, Miss Grant. DOCTOR: Brigadier, don't hang about. I have a job for you too, you know? (They leave as JO starts to minister to STUART.) 10: INT. UNIT HQ. BRIGADIER'S OFFICE (CAPTAIN YATES is using the BRIGADIER'S desk in his commanding officer's absence. Taking a radio call over an intercom unit on the desk, he scribbles down his instructions.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Into radio.) Newton...Institute...Wootton. Got that, sir. Over. (He presses the button. The reply is filled with static.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Into radio.) Say again, sir, I didn't quite get that, over. 11: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (The BRIGADIER repeats his instructions into his TM45 radio.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) I said bring some men with you. I feel as naked as a babe in his bath. I'll want light and heavy machine g*n. Oh, and Yates? Shove a couple of t*nk g*n in the boot, will you? Over. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (OOV: Over radio.) You got t*nk there, sir? Over. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) You never know, Captain, you never know. Over. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (OOV: Over radio.) Right, sir, and, er, when, sir? I mean - how soon? Over. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Oh, the usual, Captain Yates, about ten minutes ago. Oh, Yates, the Doctor wants you to bring his TARDIS with you. Alright? Over. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (OOV: Over radio.) Right, sir. Out. (At that moment, DR'S PERCIVAL and COOK with PROCTOR in tow, come out of the main door of the house and towards their car and the UNIT jeep.) DR. COOK: I'm sorry, Charles, but the whole thing smells of bad fish, ... DR. PERCIVAL: But I'd take my reputation on the professor's integrity. DR. COOK: You already have, Charles, you already have. A foolish gamble, gone wrong. Now, it's not surprising that you lost. DR. PERCIVAL: Please, Humphrey! DR. COOK: I can see no alternative to a full Whitehall inquiry. I can only hope that we don't have to...parade our dirty linen at Westminster, not to mention Brussels. (The BRIGADIER closes the door of the jeep and approaches them.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Forgive me, Mr. Cook? DR. COOK: (Coldly.) Dr. Cook. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I'm so sorry, Dr. Cook. I couldn't help overhearing what you said. DR. COOK: Well? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: This affair's no longer in your hands, sir. DR. COOK: I beg your pardon? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: This is now a security matter. I've taken over. DR. COOK: You have no right... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Interrupts.) I'm sorry, sir. I've every right - Subsection 3A of the preamble to the Seventh Enabling Act. Paragraph 24G, if I remember rightly. DR. COOK: (Floored.) Oh... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: So, bearing in mind the Official Secrets Act as well, you'll please make certain that you say not a word about today's events to anybody - either of you. PROCTOR: That's all very well... DR. COOK: (Interrupts.) Be quiet, Proctor. (To the BRIGADIER.) You can't possible have sufficient grounds for such high-handed behaviour. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: This man, Thascales, he's a dangerous criminal and an escaped prisoner. Sufficient grounds? DR. COOK: Oh, well, er, yes. Come along, Proctor, don't stand about! You'll be hearing from us, Charles. (PROCTOR opens the back door the limousine for his boss who gets in as the driver starts the engine up. PROCTOR climbs in after his boss and the vehicle speeds away. DR. PERCIVAL makes his way back to the house.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Oh, excuse me, sir? (PERCIVAL seems to ignore him.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Shouts.) Dr. Percival? (PERCIVAL turns, rubbing his drawn face.) DR. PERCIVAL: Er...what? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: You feeling quite well, sir? DR. PERCIVAL: Yes, yes, of course I am. Oh, this whole matter is... a shock, but...what did you want? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I'd like this whole place evacuated of all but essential personnel at once, please. DR. PERCIVAL: I can't think, Brigadier, you have the slightest idea of what you're asking. There are projects in train... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Interrupts.) I'm sorry, sir, but it's absolutely necessary. Now, Sergeant Benton will keep an eye on this machine of yours until the troops arrive. But I can't be held responsible for the consequences unless you do as I ask. DR. PERCIVAL: (Angrily.) Brigadier, you may enjoy playing at soldiers... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Interrupts.) By three o'clock, please, Dr. Percival. (PERCIVAL sees that the BRIGADIER means what he sees and again turns back for the house.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: And if the Master contacts you, don't try to hold onto him. Just let me know at once. DR. PERCIVAL: Who? (The BRIGADIER smiles at his own error.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I'm sorry. Of course, I mean the professor. DR. PERCIVAL: Well, he'll be miles away by now. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I doubt it. There's no reason why he should know we're onto him. He'll be back. (He strides off leaving a very worried looking DR. PERCIVAL behind.) 12: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (There is a knock on the door of the TOMTIT laboratory. SERGEANT BENTON, on guard, unlocks the door and opens it. RUTH and the DOCTOR walk in.) DOCTOR: Any trouble? SERGEANT BENTON: Well, I've been a bit lonely, but that's all. DOCTOR: Good, good. DR. RUTH INGRAM: But, Doctor, why won't you explain? DOCTOR: Because I must find out whether I'm right - that's why. Now where's the crystal? DR. RUTH INGRAM: It's through here. (She leads him towards the second room. BENTON follows.) 13: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM (She opens the door and points to the crystal under the perspex cover.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: There. (The DOCTOR walks over to the unit, pulls off the cover and leans over the trident-shaped crystal.) DOCTOR: The crystal of Kronos! So I am right! DR. RUTH INGRAM: Kronos? Well, that's what Stuart said. Look, Doctor, what is all this about? DOCTOR: Well...it'll be difficult to accept - I warn you. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Well, try me. DOCTOR: Well, luckily you are already familiar with the idea of stepping outside of space-time. DR. RUTH INGRAM: I've lived with the concept for months. DOCTOR: And I've lived with it for many long years. I've been there. DR. RUTH INGRAM: You have? DOCTOR: Yes, I have. Strange place it is too. Place that is no place...a dangerous place where...creatures love beyond your wildest imagination - Chronovores, time eaters. They swallow a life as quickly as a boa constrictor can swallow a rabbit, fur and all. DR. RUTH INGRAM: (Amazed.) Are you saying that...Kronos is one of these creatures? DOCTOR: I am. The most fearsome of the lot! 14: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. DIRECTOR'S OFFICE (The MASTER sits in a leather-backed chair in the director's office. He drinks a brandy and smokes a cigar as he works on a paper. The door opens and PERCIVAL walks in. He immediately grows agitated.) DR. PERCIVAL: You! What're you doing here? (He starts to look if they have been spotted by anyone in the corridor outside.) MASTER: Now don't panic. Shut the door and come here. (PERCIVAL does so.) DR. PERCIVAL: But they'll find you. MASTER: Not if you keep your head. Why should they look for me here anyway? (PERCIVAL is a figure of indecision and nerves.) MASTER: Look, don't fidget, please! 15: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM DR. RUTH INGRAM: But Kronos was a Greek legend. He was the Titan who ate his children, wasn't he? DOCTOR: Yes, exactly. And what's more, one of those children in the legend was Poseidon, the god of Atlantis. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Are you trying to tell us that the classical gods are real? DOCTOR: Well, yes and no. Extraordinary people, the Atlantians, you know. Even more extraordinary than their cousins in Athens. Huh! Once reality became unbearable for them, they would invent a legend to tame it. DR. RUTH INGRAM: You mean, like the legend of Kronos? DOCTOR: Quite so. Kronos, a living creature, was drawn at a time by the priests of Atlantis, using that crystal as its centre. (He points at the crystal.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: You mean, that...that crystal is the original? The actual crystal from Atlantis? DOCTOR: It is, and your friend, the professor, is trying to use that crystal, as it was used four thousand years ago, to capture the Chronavore. DR. RUTH INGRAM: So that's what you meant when you talked of terrible danger. SERGEANT BENTON: Danger to us, you mean, Doctor, or to the whole world? DOCTOR: Not just danger to our world, Sergeant - or even our galaxy...but to the entire created universe! 16: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. DIRECTOR'S OFFICE (DR. PERCIVAL has not calmed down, in contrast to the MASTER who coolly blows out a cloud of cigar smoke.) DR. PERCIVAL: But suppose somebody should walk in here now and find me talking to you. MASTER: Oh dear, you are a worrier, aren't you?! Come here...closer. (DR. PERCIVAL steps closer to the chair and the MASTER looks up at him with his hypnotic stare.) MASTER: Now look into my eyes. There is nothing to worry about. Everything will be alright if you just obey me. Just obey me... DR. PERCIVAL: (Haltingly.) Obey...I must obey...everything will be alright. MASTER: That's better. (He points at PERCIVAL'S desk.) MASTER: Now you go along there and carry along with your telephoning, and let me get on with my sums. (The thoroughly subdued director crosses to his desk and sits, picking up one of the telephones.) MASTER: You know, it's a long time since I came across a hypnotic subject who turned out to be as good as you are. Hmm! It's just like old times! (He laughs quietly.) 17: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The DOCTOR, RUTH and BENTON have returned to the first room where the DOCTOR holds a small hand-sensor over the equipment, looking at the readings.) DOCTOR: There are two things I don't quite understand, though? One is the massive power build up that you had, and the second is the strength of the signal that I received on the time sensor. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Yes, but you said yourself it picks up all time field disturbances. DOCTOR: Oh, indeed it does. The strength of the signal was far too strong for an apparatus as crude as this. However... (He stops examining the readings of the equipment in the middle of the room and turns his attention to tall computer unit that stands against the right-hand wall. His sensor gives him a reading.) DOCTOR: Ah... SERGEANT BENTON: Well, what is it, Doctor? DOCTOR: Yes, well I thought it would be around here somewhere. This, Sergeant, is the Master's TARDIS. 18: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. DIRECTOR'S OFFICE (The MASTER scribbles notes as PERCIVAL makes a phone call.) MASTER: (Mutters.) E to the power of seven, E equals MC cubed. DR. PERCIVAL: Squared. (Into phone.) Er, yes, thank you at once. (He puts the phone down.) MASTER: What? DR. PERCIVAL: E equals MC squared, not cubed. MASTER: (Snaps.) Not in the extra-temporal physics of the time vortex. Oh dear, now you've made me lose my place. You're an interfering dolt, Percival! DR. PERCIVAL: I am sorry. What are you doing? MASTER: Ah, dear, I am trying to find out why we had that massive power build-up. It makes the whole experiment uncontrollable, even the filter didn't prevent it...and logically, it just shouldn't happen. 19: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The same conversation is taking place in the laboratory.) DOCTOR: Logically, it just shouldn't happen. DR. RUTH INGRAM: But it did. DOCTOR: Yes, indeed it did. So, there's only one thing left for us to do. Wouldn't you agree, Sergeant? SERGEANT BENTON: Oh, yes, sure - what, for instance? DOCTOR: Switch on, and take a look for ourselves. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Right. (She switches the main unit on as BENTON looks through the closed door into the second room.) DOCTOR: It's reading ten already. DR. RUTH INGRAM: But that's impossible! SERGEANT BENTON: Doctor? Doctor, the crystal's glowing. (The DOCTOR joins him.) 20: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM (He opens the door and looks over at the glowing crystal.) DOCTOR: Sergeant, now you're a strong young man, go in there and pick up that crystal, will you? SERGEANT BENTON: (Shocked.) Doctor! Stuart w... DOCTOR: (Interrupts.) It's perfectly safe at this low level, believe me. SERGEANT BENTON: If you say so, Doctor. DOCTOR: I do. (BENTON gingerly walks in. He holds the crystal in his cupped hands and attempts to lift it.) SERGEANT BENTON: It's fixed down. DOCTOR: No, it isn't you know. You can see it isn't. (BENTON tries again.) SERGEANT BENTON: Well, I can't shift it. (The DOCTOR and RUTH come into the room.) DOCTOR: (Thinks.) No...no, of course you can't. Do you know why you can't shift it? Because that crystal isn't really here at all. It's made the jump through interstitial time. Must to be linked to that other crystal all those thousands of years ago. Or rather it is the other crystal. DR. RUTH INGRAM: But then where is the original one? DOCTOR: Where do you think? In Atlantis, of course. 21: INT. ATLANTIS. THE TEMPLE OF POSEIDON (Thousands of years earlier, just as in the DOCTOR'S dream, a bolt of forked lightning crackles down into the darkened temple of Poseidon, to the shock of a watching child of the temple - a NEOPHITE. Also from the DOCTOR'S dream, a crystal sits in a font-type receptacle and starts to glow. The bare-chested boy runs down from the altar to a nearby figure. He sits at his feet in terror.) NEOPHITE: Holiness! Holiness! Come quickly! The crystal is afire! (The figure is the high priest of the temple - KRASIS. An elderly man, whose long braided brown hair has not lost its colour, he wears a red cloak over his white robes and a gold head-band. In amazement, he approaches the altar as there is another crack of thunder. Delight appears on the old man's face and he starts to whisper reverently.) KRASIS: At last! At last, Kronos, the time is come! And wait your call! (He looks up to the heavens, not realising that he is being watched by a young man stood behind a nearby pillar. He too is bare-chested and wears a white kilt-like robe and wears his dark hair long. The young man - HIPPIAS - watches intently.) 22: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (Centuries later, the telephone rings in the laboratory.) SERGEANT BENTON: (In second room.) 'Scuse me, Doctor. (BENTON leaves the DOCTOR and RUTH and returns to the first room, picking up the phone.) SERGEANT BENTON: (Into phone.) Sergeant Benton? (He listens.) Ah, hello, Miss Grant. (Listens.) Yeah, yeah, he's here. (Listens.) Oh, I see. Look, hang on a sec... (He calls through to the second room.) SERGEANT BENTON: Doctor? DOCTOR: (In second room.) Mmm? (He joins the SERGEANT.) SERGEANT BENTON: Doctor, it's Jo. She says Stuart Hyde's coming to. He's in a bit of a state, it seems. DOCTOR: Alright. Tell her I'm on my way. You'd better stay here, Sergeant. SERGEANT BENTON: Right. DOCTOR: You coming, Ruth, er Dr. Ingam? DR. RUTH INGRAM: Ruth will do. (They start off.) SERGEANT BENTON: (Into phone.) Hello, Jo? 23: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. STUART'S ROOM JO: (Into phone, smiles.) It's alright, I heard. (She listens.) Well, no, no, not scared exactly. Just a bit, well you know - churned up. (Listens.) Yeah, and a merry Michaelmas to you too! (STUART has started to stir on the bed.) STUART HYDE: Kronos.. JO: (Into phone.) Oh, lor', I'm forgetting my patient. See you, Sergeant. STUART HYDE: Krono... (JO puts the phone down and runs over to STUART as the "young" man tries to sit up.) JO: You alright? STUART HYDE: I felt him coming back... JO: Who? STUART HYDE: Kronos. Oh, don't let him touch me... (She tries to push him back down.) JO: It's alright, you're alright. STUART HYDE: Oh, I'm burning...burning... JO: You're quite safe, honestly. Shh, shh... (Whispers.) You're safe. (STUART opens his eyes and looks at her.) STUART HYDE: Who are you? JO: I'm Jo. STUART HYDE: Oh, where am I? JO: You're in your own room. STUART HYDE: Oh, I've got the grand-daddy of all hangovers. Oh, oh... (He raises a hand to rub his eyes and suddenly sees how lined they are.) STUART HYDE: My hands! What...? (He starts to become agitated as JO tries desperately to calm him down.) JO: Well...it's alright... STUART HYDE: What's happened to my hands? JO: It's alright, honestly. STUART HYDE: My mirror? JO: It's a difficult thing to... STUART HYDE: Where's my mirror? JO: There isn't. STUART HYDE: Give me a mirror. JO: Please? I'll get you one later. Come on, now just lie down and... (But STUART leans over to the other side of the bed and grabs a small mirror. He looks at the reflection in shock.) STUART HYDE: Oh, no! No! No! (His head falls.) 24: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. DIRECTOR'S OFFICE (PERCIVAL sits patiently at his desk as the MASTER finishes scribbling his final calculations.) MASTER: That's o, o, three, five, seven. Point o, o, three, five, seven. Good! DR. PERCIVAL: You've finished? MASTER: Yes, at last. (He stands up.) MASTER: Now, back to the laboratory. DR. PERCIVAL: Yes, well they'll have somebody on guard. MASTER: Ah, yes. You don't happen to know who it is, do you? DR. PERCIVAL: Yes, er, a Sergeant Benton, I think. MASTER: Really? Well, I think I know how to deal with him. 25: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. STUART'S ROOM (The DOCTOR and RUTH have returned to STUART'S room. He has calmed down and is sat up in bed as he relates his story.) STUART HYDE: It was just after the cup and saucer appeared. I was about to switch off...when it...happened. (He starts to become emotional again at what has happened to him.) DOCTOR: Go on, old chap. Go on, you're doing fine. STUART HYDE: Like...like a tub of flame. All my body was on f*re. All my life, all my energy, was...being sucked out of me. DOCTOR: Why did you say Kronos? STUART HYDE: Because that's who it was. DOCTOR: How did you know? STUART HYDE: I just knew. DR. RUTH INGRAM: You mean you heard a voice or something? STUART HYDE: No, I...just knew. DOCTOR: It's a race memory. We all have them. JO: But what is Kronos? Or should I say who? DOCTOR: Later, Jo, later. Go on, Stuart, what else? STUART HYDE: Nothing else until I woke up here. Doc, am I really an old man? Is there nothing you can do, or am I stuck...like this? (The DOCTOR looks apologetic.) DOCTOR: I'm sorry, Stuart. I just don't know. But I promise you that we'll do everything we possibly can to help you. 26: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The phone rings again. BENTON, alone in the room, answers it.) SERGEANT BENTON: (Into phone.) Hello? DR. PERCIVAL: (OOV: Over phone.) Hello, is that Sergeant Benton? SERGEANT BENTON: (Into phone.) Yes. DR. PERCIVAL: (OOV: Over phone.) This is the director. The Brigadier wishes to see you back at the house. SERGEANT BENTON: (Into phone.) But I don't get it. The Brigadier wants me back at the house? DR. PERCIVAL: (OOV: Over phone.) Yes, that's right. At once. SERGEANT BENTON: (Into phone.) Yes, but that means leaving the lab unwatched. 27: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. DIRECTOR'S OFFICE (The MASTER watches as PERCIVAL makes the call.) DR. PERCIVAL: (Into phone.) Oh, but he said to be sure to lock up. Those were his very words. 28: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM SERGEANT BENTON: (Into phone, sighs.) I don't know, Dr. Percival. I mean, you've put me in a bit of a spot. The Brigadier told me to stay here no matter what happened. He'll have my stripes if I don't. 29: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. DIRECTOR'S OFFICE DR. PERCIVAL: (Into phone.) Er, one minute. (He cups the mouthpiece.) MASTER: What's the matter? DR. PERCIVAL: I don't think he believes me. MASTER: I'm not surprised. I've never seen a more inept performance! Look, tell him to ring the Brigadier for confirmation... DR. PERCIVAL: But you can't... MASTER: (Interrupts sternly.) Do as I tell you! DR. PERCIVAL: (Into phone.) Oh, Sergeant Benton? I suggest you check with Brigadier Stewart yourself. SERGEANT BENTON: (OOV: Over phone.) Where do I do that? DR. PERCIVAL: (Into phone.) Er, oh, you want his number? Er... (The MASTER picks up the second phone and points to the number for PERCIVAL.) DR. PERCIVAL: (Into phone.) Oh yes, I...I think you can contact him on five-three-four. SERGEANT BENTON: (OOV: Over phone.) Five-three-four, right. DR. PERCIVAL: (Into phone.) Yeah...yes, that's right. 30: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM DR. PERCIVAL: (OOV: Over phone.) Goodbye. SERGEANT BENTON: (Into phone.) Goodbye. (BENTON starts to dial the number.) 31: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. DIRECTOR'S OFFICE (The MASTER picks up the receiver of the second phone and speaks in an exact imitation of the BRIGADIER'S voice...) MASTER: (Into phone.) Lethbridge Stewart? SERGEANT BENTON: (OOV: Over phone.) Hello, Sergeant Benton here, sir. MASTER: (Into phone.) Ah, Benton. SERGEANT BENTON: (OOV: Over phone.) Sir, I've just had the most peculiar phone call. MASTER: (Into phone.) Nothing peculiar about it, my dear fellow. Perfectly simple. I need you over here, on the double. SERGEANT BENTON: (OOV: Over phone.) Right, sir. (The MASTER puts the phone down.) 32: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (BENTON looks intensely troubled as he puts his phone down. He reaches a decision and pulls the sash window open at the back of the room. He looks through to check the nearby roof arrangement and leaves the room.) 33: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. DIRECTOR'S OFFICE (DR. PERCIVAL looks through his office window to the area near the s*ab block as the MASTER checks his notes.) MASTER: Well? DR. PERCIVAL: No sign of him. Do you think he...he really will...? Ah, there he is. 34: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (Down below, BENTON comes out of the archway of the laboratory section and walks round the side of the s*ab block.) 35: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. DIRECTOR'S OFFICE DR. PERCIVAL: It worked! It really worked! MASTER: Of course it worked. Now see if the corridor's clear. (PERCIVAL opens the door and checks outside.) DR. PERCIVAL: Not a soul, professor. (He opens the door open for the MASTER and the two men leave.) 36: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. BACK OF THE s*ab BLOCK (BENTON has climbed onto the roof at the back of the s*ab block. He checks that he is not watched and, grabbing hold of a fixed ladder and then a drainpipe, climbs across to the open window and back inside the laboratory.) 37: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The room is still empty. He crosses it and checks through the window on the other side of the room that overlooks the forecourt.) 38: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (The MASTER and PERCIVAL come out of a French window in the main house. Checking that they have not been seen, they move urgently towards the s*ab block.) 39: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (Drawing his p*stol, BENTON looks round for a hiding place and finally decides to duck down behind the pieces of equipment. He hears PERCIVAL'S whining voice as the two men approach the laboratory.) DR. PERCIVAL: (OOV: In corridor.) ... times. (They enter the room.) MASTER: Time? Soon I shall have the time in the world, literally. DR. PERCIVAL: In an hour or so, the place will be swarming with soldiers. (BENTON shuffles along behind the equipment until...) MASTER: Dr. Percival, you're beginning to irritate me. Now do be quiet. I tell you that nobody and nothing can stop me now. (He can jump up and be between the MASTER and the door. He does so, pointing the p*stol.) SERGEANT BENTON: Put your hands in the air, both of you. (The two men freeze.) SERGEANT BENTON: Now get 'em up. (They raise their hands.) SERGEANT BENTON: Now turn around slow...slowly. (The two men turn. The MASTER looks utterly shocked.) MASTER: Well, well, well? The resourceful Sergeant Benton! SERGEANT BENTON: Yes, well, you didn't really think you could fool me with a fake telephone call, did you? It's the oldest trick in the book. MASTER: I underestimated you, Sergeant. How did you know? SERGEANT BENTON: Simple. The Brigadier is not in the habit of calling Sergeant's "my dear fellow". MASTER: Ah, the tribal taboos of army etiquette. I find it difficult to identify with such primitive absurdities. SERGEANT BENTON: Yes, well, primitive or not, mate - you're still in the soup without a ladle, aren't you? MASTER: Now, Sergeant, you must let me explain. (His hands still raised, the MASTER takes a step towards BENTON.) SERGEANT BENTON: Keep back! Keep... (The MASTER stands where he is.) MASTER: Yes, of course... SERGEANT BENTON: Keep back. MASTER: Of course, Sergeant. You see, Sergeant Benton, the whole point is that... (He looks over BENTON'S shoulder with a cry of delight.) MASTER: Doctor! What a very time... (BENTON turns to look and the MASTER jumps forward, grabbing the p*stol and throwing BENTON back against a locker and the wall. He hits his head and falls.) MASTER: (Shouts.) You're wrong, Sergeant Benton. That is the oldest trick in the book! (He dashes over to the main console and starts flicking switches. The power starts to rise.) DR. PERCIVAL: What are you going to do? MASTER: I am going to bring somebody here who can help me find the power that I need. Without it, I am helpless! DR. PERCIVAL: I don't understand! MASTER: Of course you don't understand! How could you possibly understand? Only one thing stands between me and complete power over the Earth, over the universe itself. Now the one I bring here will show me how to harness that power. Now... (He slams home the two power levers and points PERCIVAL towards the second room.) MASTER: You watch that crystal! 40: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM (PERCIVAL looks through the glass partitions at the crystal as it glows again.) 41: INT. ATLANTIS. THE TEMPLE OF POSEIDON (Still watched by HIPPIAS, KRASIS stands with his arms raised before the crystal in the temple, his voice rising...) KRASIS: Lord of life, give me of thy power! Oh, mighty Kronos, lord of death! Give me thy power! Oh, mighty Kronos, lord of life, give me thy strength! (Lighting forks down into the temple.) KRASIS: (Shouts.) Mighty lord, exalted one - I hear and obey! (There is another crash of lightning and KRASIS fades away, to HIPPIAS' amazement.) 42: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (BENTON starts to stir on the floor. He sits up and starts to edge towards the door. He sees the MASTER and PERCIVAL intently looking through the glass into the second room where a dazzling display of white light starts to flare out. A figure starts to materialise within the light. PERCIVAL turns in shock to the MASTER as, with a crash of thunder, KRASIS appears in the twentieth century.)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "09x22 - The Time Monster - part 2"}
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THE TIME MONSTER BY: ROBERT SLOMAN EPISODE THREE Original Air Date: 3 June, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The MASTER throws BENTON back against a locker and the wall. He hits his head and falls.) MASTER: (Shouts.) You're wrong, Sergeant Benton. That is the oldest trick in the book! (He dashes over to the main console and starts flicking switches. The power starts to rise.) DR. PERCIVAL: What are you going to do? MASTER: I am going to bring somebody here who can help me find the power that I need. Without it, I am helpless! DR. PERCIVAL: I don't understand! MASTER: Of course you don't understand! How could you possibly understand? Only one thing stands between me and complete power over the Earth, over the universe itself. Now the one I bring here will show me how to harness that power. Now... (He slams home the two power levers and points PERCIVAL towards the second room.) MASTER: You watch that crystal! 2: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM (PERCIVAL looks through the glass partitions at the crystal as it glows again.) 3: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (BENTON starts to stir on the floor. He sits up and starts to edge towards the door. He sees the MASTER and PERCIVAL intently looking through the glass into the second room where a dazzling display of white light starts to flare out. A figure starts to materialise within the light. PERCIVAL turns in shock to the MASTER as, with a crash of thunder, KRASIS appears in the twentieth century.) 4: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM (The MASTER opens the door of the second room as the flare of light fades. KRASIS still stands with his arms raised in supplication.) MASTER: (Delighted.) Welcome! (He walks in.) MASTER: Welcome! KRASIS: I am Krasis, High priest of the temple of Poseidon in Atlantis! MASTER: (Puzzled.) Poseidon? But surely Kronos is your lord? (KRASIS lowers his arms and looks coldly at the MASTER.) KRASIS: You would dare profane, with your irreverent tongue, the great secret?! The mystery which no man dare speak?! Who are you? MASTER: I am the Master - lord of time and ruler of Kronos. (KRASIS points a finger of accusation at the MASTER.) KRASIS: You are lying! No one rules Kronos! MASTER: I shall, with your help. KRASIS: You... MASTER: (Interrupts.) And together we shall become masters of the universe. 5: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (BENTON makes a run for the door. He is spotted by PERCIVAL.) DR. PERCIVAL: Professor! (The MASTER appears in the doorway to the second room.) MASTER: Oh, let him go. He can do us no harm now. (To KRASIS.) Come with me. (KRASIS steps down into the first room and starts to walk round in his sandalled feet, looking round at the strange walls, furnishing and equipment.) KRASIS: Is this the abode of lord Kronos? MASTER: No, but with you to assist me, I shall bring him here. KRASIS: I exist only to do his will. He is not to be commanded. MASTER: Oh, but surely...Kronos obeys the priests of Kronos as a pet dog obeys his master? KRASIS: (Angrily.) You...! MASTER: The truth, Krasis? KRASIS: It is so written. MASTER: Ah. Well, therefore you have the secret? You have the formula? KRASIS: No, it is lost. For five centuries it has been lost to Atlantis. MASTER: And there was nothing can be done? KRASIS: Nothing. MASTER: Nothing at all? KRASIS: Nothing, save the crystal...and the seal of the high priest. (He holds up a round metal seal that hangs on a chain round his neck. He takes it off the chain and hands it to the MASTER.) MASTER: (Triumphantly.) But that's it! From this seal, I can learn the true constants! Kronos is in my power at last! 6: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (RUTH pushes STUART out to a waiting ambulance in a wheelchair, accompanied by the DOCTOR, JO and the BRIGADIER.) DOCTOR: Rest - that's all you need at the moment, until your body recovers from the shock. STUART HYDE: A charming prospect, I must say. Hey, Ruth? You'd better find out about my old age pension. After all, I'll be twenty-six in seven weeks time. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Oh, try not to be too bitter, Stu. STUART HYDE: Oh... (SERGEANT BENTON comes running out of the main house.) SERGEANT BENTON: Doctor! JO: Sergeant Benton? SERGEANT BENTON: Doctor, it's the Master. He's there in the laboratory. 7: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The MASTER traces a pencil over the lines on the seal, makes some notes and flicks some switches, watched by KRASIS and a very nervous PERCIVAL.) DR. PERCIVAL: But...how can Atlantian measurements mean anything to you? MASTER: Comparative ratios remain constant throughout time. If you have nothing intelligent to say, do please keep quiet! Right. Now... (He crosses to the main console.) MASTER: We switch on. (He does so. The power starts to rise again. KRASIS looks alarmed and raises his arms.) 8: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (BENTON has told the DOCTOR of the conversation that he overheard...) DOCTOR: Are you sure he said he was from Atlantis? SERGEANT BENTON: Yes, he...he just appeared from nowhere. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, what are we waiting for? Benton, Doctor, on the double! Females stay under cover, right, Miss Grant? (He runs towards the s*ab block.) DOCTOR: Brigadier - wait! DR. RUTH INGRAM: Hey, wait for me! Females indeed! (She runs after the BRIGADIER and BENTON. JO stays with the DOCTOR. She looks down at STUART.) JO: Doctor, look! (As they watch, STUART, unconscious again, starts to shed his years and return to his youthful looks.) DOCTOR: It's a massive feedback of time. Jo, it's too late. Kronos is coming. 9: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM (KRASIS and PERCIVAL look through the open doorway at the glowing crystal.) 10: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The MASTER pushes up the power lever as the hum of the equipment again reaches its highest pitch.) MASTER: Come, Kronos, come! 11: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM (From within the depths of the crystal, an image of a white flapping animal appears. It grows bigger and more distinct.) MASTER: Kronos - welcome! (It solidifies into a huge man-shaped creature which gives out unearthly cries and screeches as it tears flying around the room. Glowing with an intense white light, it swoops down onto the terrified PERCIVAL who has stepped within the room. The unfortunate man cries out.) DR. PERCIVAL: No! (When KRONOS moves back, the elderly academic has disappeared, totally absorbed by the creature.) 12: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The MASTER rushes to the doorway, appalled as he realises the creature is out of his control.) MASTER: (Shouts.) Kronos, be at peace - I am your friend! 13: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM (The two men watch the flapping manifestation from the doorway...) KRASIS: (Shouts.) You will never control Kronos! He is the ruler of time! He is the destroyer! You are doomed! MASTER: (Shouts.) Rubbish! Kronos - hear me! I order you to obey! (He holds up his hands. Within the left one, he still holds the seal. KRONOS gives out a cry of pain and flies backwards.) MASTER: Well, well, well - so the pet dog does obey him master, eh? Right, you stay in your kennel until I have need of you. (He pulls the door to. KRONOS continues to flap its huge wings.) 14: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (The two UNIT men run towards the s*ab block but, as they get nearer, their movements get slower.) DOCTOR: Just as I thought - they've run right into trouble. Jo, you stay here. (JO nods and the DOCTOR runs towards RUTH. Like the MASTER before him, he is unaffected by the slowdown in time. He grabs hold of RUTH and drags her back to the ambulance. As they get nearer, her movements start to speed up. They reach JO and STUART. RUTH looks dazed.) DOCTOR: She'll be alright - now she's outside the limit. JO: What's the matter with them? (Without replying, the DOCTOR runs back for the soldiers.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: (Uncertain.) What's happening? JO: Are you alright? DR. RUTH INGRAM: Well, what's going on? JO: Don't worry. The Doctor'll explain later...I hope. 15: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (KRASIS watches in fear as KRONOS flies around the walls of the second room. The MASTER is busy at various consoles of TOMTIT.) KRASIS: What are you doing? MASTER: Reversing the interstitial flow. Now don't interrupt me. I must concentrate. KRASIS: You have not the power to control him! MASTER: I shall have - never fear. Just give me time. (He returns to the main console.) MASTER: Now, I must put him back where he belongs. (He pulls the lever home.) 16: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (Only the BRIGADIER remains to be rescued from the time displacement. The DOCTOR reaches him and starts to pull him back to the watching group, their movements speeding up as they approach.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well...well, what on earth? Doctor, will you...please kindly explain...? DOCTOR: There's really no time to explain now. Benton, take the chair. Everybody inside - quick. 17: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM (KRONOS diminishes as it fades back into the crystal.) 18: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The MASTER mops his brow. His tie is askew and he looks drained by the event.) MASTER: Right, it's safe to go in now, most noble high priest. 19: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM (He opens the door to the second room and enters. KRASIS follows.) MASTER: Thank you for your help. KRASIS: I am no sl*ve that I should serve you. I serve only the gods. MASTER: You'll serve me, Krasis, and you'll like it. KRASIS: (Angrily.) You dare mock the high priest? MASTER: Take care! I can always bring Kronos back, you know? KRASIS: No! No, I beseech you! What is your will? MASTER: Knowledge - your knowledge of the ancient mysteries. (Angrily.) Why could I not control him?! KRASIS: For all your sorcery, you are as a child trying to control a rogue elephant. A puny child! MASTER: But I have the crystal! KRASIS: That crystal is but a part of the true crystal of Kronos - a small fraction! MASTER: Fraction? And the rest is in Atlantis? KRASIS: Deep in the vaults of the temple of Poseidon, guarded by night and by day from such thieves as you. You may command the sl*ve but never shall you command the mighty one himself. MASTER: You think not? We shall see. (He grabs hold of the crystal.) 20: INT. ATLANTIS. THE TEMPLE OF POSEIDON (HIPPIAS runs into the temple with the lighted torch. He is accompanied by an old man whose hair is as white as his robes and whose lined face shows a lifetime of wisdom and experience. They look at the empty receptacle.) HIPPIAS: Do you see, most venerable king? The crystal has gone! DALIOS: And Krasis? (HIPPIAS nods.) HIPPIAS: I was here. The sky opened and a sphere of f*re whirled by the hand of Zeus... DALIOS: Yes, yes, yes, I saw the thunderstorm myself. What next? HIPPIAS: They disappeared - Krasis and the crystal together like smoke. What does it mean, Lord Dalios? Has the time come at last? DALIOS: You are young, Hippias. As young in years as in the sacred mysteries. What do you know of...Kronos? HIPPIAS: The years of Kronos were the golden years of Atlantis. Perhaps he will return to us. DALIOS: That is my fear. Our world is in great danger! Come! (He pulls him away.) 21: INT. ATLANTIS. THE TEMPLE OF POSEIDON. ANTECHAMBER TO CATACOMBS (The two men walk down some steps into the vaulted depths of the temple. DALIOS takes a torch from a wall bracket to help light his own way.) DALIOS: How old would you think me, boy? HIPPIAS: A great age, Dalios. DALIOS: How great? HIPPIAS: Four score years or...more, perhaps. DALIOS: A stripling of eighty summers, eh? No, Hippias, when these eyes were clear like yours, I saw the building of the temple. I was a witness at the enthronement of the image of the great god Poseidon himself. HIPPIAS: But, that was...well, it must have been five hundred years ago? DALIOS: Five hundred and thirty seven. HIPPIAS: Dalios, will you have me believe you are...? DALIOS: I am. (DALIOS leads him to a great wooden door. He pulls the bolts back and opens the door. An intense white light glows from within.) HIPPIAS: What is it - that light?! DALIOS: It is the light of true crystal of Kronos. This is the great secret, the veritable mystery. But now that Krasis has gone, you alone know the secret. You must guard it with your life. HIPPIAS: I shall, my lord. (There is suddenly a bellowing noise of a great animal from within the room. HIPPIAS steps back in terror.) DALIOS: There is nothing to fear, it is the guardian. (He calls into the room.) DALIOS: Return to your rest! It is I, Dalios! (He shuts the door and re-locks it.) HIPPIAS: What? Who was it? You said no other person shares the great mystery. DALIOS: The guardian is a person no longer. A thing, a creature, too horrible to imagine! Half-man, half-beast! Come. (He leads the young man away.) 22: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. STUART'S ROOM (Fully recovered, STUART leads the others into his room.) STUART HYDE: Make yourselves comfortable...if you can. DOCTOR: Thank you. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Alright, Doctor, go on - what next? Having picked us all up by the scruff of the neck and bundled us all in here, what do you propose to do with us? DOCTOR: Nothing at all. There's nothing to be done except wait. JO: I seem to have heard that before. DOCTOR: Speaking personally, I'd like a cup of tea. How about it, Stuart? STUART HYDE: Well, I'll put the kettle on. Hey, Ruth, get the mugs out, er... DR. RUTH INGRAM: Right. (RUTH heads for the kitchen area.) STUART HYDE: How about a sandwich? Only marmalade, I'm afraid. SERGEANT BENTON: I'd love one, please. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: This isn't a picnic! One moment you're talking about the entire universe bl*wing up, and the next you're going on about tea! Doctor! What's happening? DOCTOR: A great deal. For instance, you, Brigadier, you were caught in a hiatus in time. (The BRIGADIER, his patience running out, raises his eyes to the skies.) DOCTOR: Being without becoming! An ontological absurdity. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I don't understand a word you're saying. JO: Well, it's true. You and Benton and Dr. Ingram, well, you were...you were stuck. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Nothing of the sort, Miss Grant. DOCTOR: Well, you wouldn't be aware of it, of course. Because your time had slowed down too. SERGEANT BENTON: And all because of this TOMTIT gadget? DOCTOR: Yes, so it would seem. After all, it did make a crack in time, didn't it? JO: A what? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Oh, a gap between the now and the now, as Sergeant Benton put it. DOCTOR: Yes, exactly. So we're bound to experience all kinds of freak side effects. (RUTH returns with a plate of sandwiches.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: You mean, even leaving Kronos and the crystal right out of it? DOCTOR: That's correct. (She holds out the plate to him.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: Marmalade sandwich? DOCTOR: No, thank you. Jo? (He passes the plate to JO to take one.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: Well, why weren't we affected when we were actually working the machine? I mean, we weren't slowed down. (Having passed the plate back to RUTH, the DOCTOR starts to pick objects off STUART'S shelves.) DOCTOR: Well, you stand right under a fountain, you don't necessarily get wet, do you? DR. RUTH INGRAM: Oh, I see, mm. (RUTH hands the plate to the BRIGADIER and BENTON.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, I'm dashed if I do. Doctor, what are you doing? DOCTOR: Me? Collecting. 23: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The MASTER walks out of his TARDIS, clapping his hands in satisfaction. He has changed out of his business suit and is dressed in his usual collarless jacket suit.) MASTER: Right! Now we shall soon be ready to move. (He picks up a piece of equipment from TOMTIT and starts to work on it.) KRASIS: (Fearfully.) Master, he may return. The mighty one may return! MASTER: Oh, fortunate Atlantis - to be blessed with such a courageous high priest! Never fear - Kronos will only return if I desire it. KRASIS: But the crystal! MASTER: I am reversing the interstitial flow, thus draining the time energy from the crystal. Otherwise, we couldn't take it with us. KRASIS: We? Where are we going? MASTER: Where do you think? Atlantis, of course! 24: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. STUART'S ROOM (The DOCTOR starts to throw his collected objects onto STUART'S bed.) DOCTOR: Well, he must be stopped. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Fair enough. Why don't we get on with it? DOCTOR: Because we can't even find out what he's up to without the TARDIS. Right, a bottle - I need a bottle. (STUART crosses from the kitchen with a milk bottle.) STUART HYDE: How about this? DOCTOR: No, no, that won't do. Erm, one with a narrow neck...a...a...a wine bottle. STUART HYDE: Moroccan g*n, for instance? DOCTOR: Yes, that'll do nicely. (STUART picks up an empty bottle from under the bed.) STUART HYDE: There we are. DOCTOR: Fine. And the cork? STUART HYDE: Oh, you've got me there, I'm afraid, erm... (RUTH comes out of the kitchen with the corkscrew.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: How about this, Stu? STUART HYDE: Oh, remarkable efficiency! Still on the corkscrew. DOCTOR: Well done. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Angrily.) Doctor, I must insist - what are you up to? DOCTOR: Delaying tactics, Brigadier. A small fly in the Master's metaphorical ointment. 25: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The MASTER turns a lever on one of the consoles as KRASIS watches through the doorway into the second room.) MASTER: Right, nearly there. KRASIS: The f*re is dying! You are indeed the Master! (The MASTER smiles with satisfaction.) 26: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. STUART'S ROOM (Watched by the others, the DOCTOR is putting together a strange piece of equipment. The main part of it is the wine bottle with the cork part-rammed back in. A needle sticks upwards out of this.) DOCTOR: Do give me a fork, Jo, will you? (JO passes him a fork and the DOCTOR sticks this into the side of a second cork. Another fork still out of the other side. He presses this second adorned cork onto the needle that sticks upwards out of the first cork.) DOCTOR: Right, so far, so good. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Another nutcase! STUART HYDE: Fruitcake standard! JO: You just wait and see. 27: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM (The MASTER unplugs the unit that holds the crystal.) MASTER: Right, Krasis, you'll have to help me to carry it. KRASIS: No! No, I dare not! MASTER: But there's nothing to be afraid of - I promise you. Do as I tell you! KRASIS: Master, do not compel me! I beseech you! 28: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. STUART'S ROOM (The DOCTOR has stuck another series of strange objects, topped by a metal ashtray, onto the second cork using the corkscrew, thus assembling an unusual tower. He dangles a set of keys from one of the stuck-out fork handles and a small bottle from the other.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: And what's that meant to be? DOCTOR: You're a philistine, Brigadier. It's not meant to be anything - it just is - I hope. DR. RUTH INGRAM: You mean it's just a ridiculous piece of modern art? DOCTOR: No, certainly not. It's a time-flow analogue. STUART HYDE: Course it is, Ruth. You should have seen that at a glance! DOCTOR: The relationships between the different molecular bonds and the...actual shapes form a crystalline structure of ratios. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Does this make any sort of sense, Dr. Ingram? DR. RUTH INGRAM: None whatsoever. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Just as I thought. Doctor, please stop this silly game at once. DOCTOR: Patience, Brigadier, patience. Now then, here goes. (The spins the tower stuck into the cork round. It spins, but does little else.) DOCTOR: Oh dear. JO: What's up? DOCTOR: Well, it doesn't work. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: You astound me. (BENTON has trouble suppressing a grin.) STUART HYDE: Bad luck, Doc. Have a cup of tea and drown your sorrows. DOCTOR: Thank you. (He takes the cup.) DOCTOR: Tea! Yes, of course - tea leaves. (He swigs the drink down in two goes and then places the empty cup on top of the tower.) DOCTOR: Tea leaves. 29: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM MASTER: I give you my firm pledge, Krasis, the crystal is totally inactive. KRASIS: It...it looks d*ad. MASTER: Well, of course it is. I promise you. (The MASTER takes the cover of the unit off and KRASIS gingerly reaches out for the crystal.) 30: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. STUART'S ROOM DOCTOR: Right, here we go. (He spins the tower round again. It starts to give out a bleeping noise and glows from within with a light.) 31: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. SECOND ROOM (At the same time, the crystal starts to glow. KRASIS snatches his hand back.) KRASIS: No! No, the crystals afire! The great one comes again! MASTER: The meddling fool! (He runs into the first room.) 32: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. STUART'S ROOM (The DOCTOR keeps his "device" spinning round, to the amazement of all the others, apart from a stone-faced BRIGADIER.) JO: But what does it do? I mean, how does it actually affect the Master's plans. DOCTOR: Well, it's just like jamming a radio signal, Jo. We used to make them at school to spoil each others time experiments. DR. RUTH INGRAM: I don't believe it! I just don't believe it! 33: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The MASTER rams home a power lever...) 34: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. STUART'S ROOM (...and a small expl*si*n rips apart the tower. They all jump back.) DOCTOR: Ah, well. Well, it was fun while it lasted. 35: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (A UNIT convoy, made up of the lead jeep, a troop carrier and a truck with the TARDIS on the back makes its way down a country road towards WOOTTON.) 36: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The MASTER is carrying the crystal unit towards his TARDIS when the voice of CAPTAIN YATES comes over a small transmitter unit on his wrist. KRASIS looks round for the source of the voices in the air.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Greyhound? Greyhound? This is Greyhound three. Over. (The MASTER puts the unit down and looks at the device on his wrist. Within a small screen, he can see the approaching convoy.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Greyhound three - Greyhound. Thank you, Captain Yates. And where have you been? Over. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Greyhound three. Won't be long now, sir. About ten miles or so. Over. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Greyhound, well get your skates on, will you? We need the Doctor's TARDIS here double quick. Out. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Greyhound three. Wilco. Out. (KRASIS looks over the MASTER'S shoulder at the screen as he adjusts the image.) KRASIS: Images that move and speak! Wagons but no oxen to draw them. This is indeed a time of wonders! (The MASTER goes over to one of the TOMTIT consoles and starts making adjustments.) MASTER: I will show you greater wonders than either. KRASIS: Master Lord, you will not bring the mighty one here once more. MASTER: Certainly not. I will just give you a demonstration of my power over time. Now, you watch this carefully. 37: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (A medieval KNIGHT, in full armour on horseback, appears over the brow of the road. The horse rears and the KNIGHT starts to charge the approaching convoy, as if he was in a jousting contest. From the passenger seat of the front jeep, CAPTAIN YATES looks at the figure in amazement.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Look out! (All three vehicles in the convoy turn into the fields at both sides of the road and the KNIGHT charges through the gap. YATES jumps out of the jeep and looks back. He grabs a radio.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Greyhound three? We're stuck in the mud. Forced off the road by some goon in fancy dress - I think. Over. 38: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. STUART'S ROOM (The DOCTOR thinks deeply as the BRIGADIER replies to the message.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Are you suffering from hallucinations, Captain Yates, or have you been drinking? Over. 39: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: I could do with one, I don't mind telling you! This character in armour just galloped at us. Do you know, sir? The King Arthur bit, then he vanished. 40: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. STUART'S ROOM BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: In a puff of blue smoke, I suppose? You have been drinking! 41: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM MASTER: And that, Captain Yates, was just a sample. (He adjusts both TOMTIT and his wrist receiver.) 42: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (CAPTAIN YATES shouts up to the UNIT SERGEANT in the back of the waiting troop carrier.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Right, Sergeant, get a shift on. I want to get out of here. UNIT SERGEANT: Right, lads, everybody out! (The soldiers start to clamber out of the vehicle. The SERGEANT stands and waits for further orders.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Right, Sergeant... (A sh*t suddenly tears through the back of YATES' jeep.) ROUNDHEAD OFFICER: (Shouts.) Open your ... UNIT SERGEANT: Look, sir. (He points and YATES looks across the field to see a unit of ROUNDHEADS, complete with muskets and cannon aiming at the UNIT troops.) ROUNDHEAD OFFICER: (Shouts.) Give f*re to ... (Some of the troops f*re their muskets...) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Shouts.) Hey! What do you think you're up to?! (...and the others f*re their cannon.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: (Shouts.) Get down! Blithering idiot means it! (The UNIT troops get down on their haunches and aim their r*fles. YATES uses his radio.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Greyhound? Greyhound? Over. 43: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. STUART'S ROOM BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio, with forced patience.) I'm listening, Captain Yates, over? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Another hallucination, sir. Roundheads attacking us with ball amm*nit*on. (The others in the room look at each other in surprise as they hear the message and the background sh*ts.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Cannonballs in fact! Out! (The BRIGADIER'S tenuous patience snaps...) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Captain Yates, if this is some sort of a joke, I...! DOCTOR: Believe me, Brigadier, this is no kind of a joke. This is deadly serious. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Alright, Doctor, you tell me what's going on. DOCTOR: Well, don't you see? Roundheads? Horsemen in armour? The Master's using that crystal to bring them back in time. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: So why don't we get over there and stop him? DOCTOR: Because it would be su1c1de to go anywhere without the protection of the TARDIS. SERGEANT BENTON: And that's stuck in the mud being battered by a load of Roundheads. DOCTOR: We'd better go and fetch it. Come on. (He heads for the door.) DOCTOR: Come on, Jo. Brigadier, are you coming? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes. (The DOCTOR and JO leave.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Benton, you'd better stay here. If the Master shows his face, you know what to do. SERGEANT BENTON: Yes, sir. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Can I come, Brigadier? STUART HYDE: I've always fancied myself as a bit of a cavalier! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Sorry, you'd better stay here with the Sergeant. DR. RUTH INGRAM: But, Brigadier... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: You're the only people who can handle that infernal machine, apart from the Doctor. I must ask you to place yourself under the Sergeant's command. Both of you - right? (He leaves.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: Full of old world charm, isn't he? (RUTH and STUART click their tea mugs together in a toast and drink.) 44: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (The DOCTOR and JO wait in Bessie as the BRIGADIER comes out of the house.) DOCTOR: Do buck up, Lethbridge Stewart. (The BRIGADIER heads for his jeep.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Sorry, Doctor, a matter of some urgency. Better go under my own steam. Cheers - see you there. Try not to be far behind. (He gets in and starts off. In Bessie, the DOCTOR pulls the superdrive switch, executes a turning circle in a flash and speeds past the jeep to the BRIGADIER'S amazement.) 45: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (The UNIT troops are now returning their f*re at the Roundheads.) 46: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The MASTER and KRASIS continue to watch the battle.) KRASIS: But why? Do you fear this machine so much? MASTER: I fear nothing. It's just that I intend to go to Atlantis and I don't want my enemy to follow us. Now get on with it, you seventeenth century poltroons! 47: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (YATES runs forward to the protection of a gatepost. He pulls the key out of a grenade and throws it into the centre of the troop of Roundheads. They disappear into thin air just before the grenade harmlessly explodes. YATES looks out from the cover of the post and sees that the field is now empty.) 48: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The MASTER gives a snort of laughter.) MASTER: I could have told you that wouldn't work, Captain Yates. Now...stand by to duck, for here comes the grand finale. (He makes further adjustments to his wrist device and TOMTIT. The ominous image of a V1 rocket appears on his screen.) 49: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. STUART'S ROOM (The drone of the machine reaches STUART'S room.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: What's that? STUART HYDE: Sounds like a motorbike. (BENTON goes to the window.) SERGEANT BENTON: Yeah, but...it's coming from the sky. 50: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (The V1 continues through the sky. Down below in a much slower Bessie, JO also hears the drone.) JO: Doctor? DOCTOR: Mmm? JO: There's something wrong with the engine. DOCTOR: Never - why? JO: Well, listen - there's a funny noise. (The DOCTOR brakes, as does the BRIGADIER next to them. The DOCTOR listens.) DOCTOR: Oh no! (The BRIGADIER gets out of his jeep.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What's up? DOCTOR: Listen. (They listen in silence.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: That sounds like...no, it can't be! DOCTOR: Oh yes, it can. It's displaced in time, but that's real enough - that's a V1. JO: What? DOCTOR: A V1, a doodlebug, a...b*mb. The Germans used them towards the end of the h*tler w*r. JO: Well, what did they do? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Blew up sizeable chunks of London. It that engine cuts out, then fall flat on your face because that'll mean its on the way down. JO: Look, there's the convoy. (She points across the fields. The convoy of three vehicles can be seen moving again beyond some trees. The BRIGADIER speaks urgently into his TM45 radio.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Greyhound three, greyhound three, can you hear me, Captain Yates? Over. (CAPTAIN YATES' voice comes through but with a great deal of static.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Greyhound three, I can only just hear you, over. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yates, that thing is a b*mb and its on its way to you - over! CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Say again, say again, I cannot read you, over. 51: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The MASTER flicks several switches.) 52: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (The drone of the V1 abruptly stops.) DOCTOR: Jo, out of the car. Get down! (They get out of the car quickly. The BRIGADIER yells into his radio.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yates, get out of it, man! It's a b*mb, it's a b*mb! Get out of it, Yates! (The convoy has disappeared behind a copse of trees.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Alright, lads! It's a b*mb! Dive! (Beyond the copse there is a massive expl*si*n.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yates? (There is only static.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yates, can you hear me? (A cloud of smoke rises into the air.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yates, can you hear me? Can you hear me? Over! Mike, can you hear me?!
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "09x23 - The Time Monster - part 3"}
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THE TIME MONSTER BY: ROBERT SLOMAN EPISODE FOUR Original Air Date: 10 June, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM MASTER: Now...stand by to duck, for here comes the grand finale. (He makes further adjustments to his wrist device and TOMTIT. The ominous image of a V1 rocket appears on his screen.) 2: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. STUART'S ROOM (The drone of the machine reaches STUART'S room.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: What's that? STUART HYDE: Sounds like a motorbike. (BENTON goes to the window.) SERGEANT BENTON: Yeah, but...it's coming from the sky. 3: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (The DOCTOR brakes, as does the BRIGADIER next to them. The DOCTOR listens.) DOCTOR: Oh no! (The BRIGADIER gets out of his jeep.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What's up? DOCTOR: Listen. (They listen in silence.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: That sounds like...no, it can't be! JO: Look, there's the convoy. (She points across the fields. The convoy of three vehicles can be seen moving again beyond some trees. The BRIGADIER speaks urgently into his TM45 radio.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Greyhound three, greyhound three, can you hear me, Captain Yates? Over. (CAPTAIN YATES' voice comes through but with a great deal of static.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Greyhound three, I can only just hear you, over. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yates, that thing is a b*mb and its on its way to you - over! CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Say again, say again, I cannot read you, over. 4: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The MASTER flicks several switches.) 5: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (The drone of the V1 abruptly stops.) DOCTOR: Jo, out of the car. Get down! (They get out of the car quickly. The BRIGADIER yells into his radio.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yates, get out of it, man! It's a b*mb, it's a b*mb! Get out of it, Yates! (The convoy has disappeared behind a copse of trees.) CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Alright, lads! It's a b*mb! Dive! (Beyond the copse there is a massive expl*si*n.) 6: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. STUART'S ROOM SERGEANT BENTON: Brigadier, come in, please? (RUTH and STUART watch on.) SERGEANT BENTON: Greyhound three, come in! (There is no reply.) SERGEANT BENTON: Captain Yates, can you hear me, sir? Over. (BENTON lowers radio, looking desperately worried.) SERGEANT BENTON: It's no good. I just can't raise them. They must have copped it! 7: EXT. COPSE (The b*mb has created a large crater in the ground and the wreckage of the convoy is strewn about. The TARDIS lies against the side of the crater as does the bloodied UNIT SERGEANT. A yokel FARMWORKER leans over him as the troops help their wounded.) FARMWORKER: What happened then? UNIT SERGEANT: I don't know. Some sort of expl*si*n. (He clambers to his feet.) FARMWORKER: Ah, I 'eard it. Funny that. Huh, it was just about here where that doodlebug fell - back in 1944, that were. 8: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The MASTER snaps closed the screen on his wrist viewer.) MASTER: You know, I thoroughly enjoyed that! (He laughs as he switches off TOMTIT.) KRASIS: You have...you have destroyed this...this TARDIS? MASTER: No, it can't be destroyed. But people can. 9: EXT. COPSE (The DOCTOR, JO and the BRIGADIER have reached the convoy. YATES is stood up next to his jeep, groggy and with blood on the side of his head as the BRIGADIER looks him over. JO and the DOCTOR run up.) JO: Mike, you alright? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Now, you take it easy, Mike. You've finished work for the day. CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Sir, I... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: An ambulance is on its way. DOCTOR: Jo, can you spare me a moment? CAPTAIN MIKE YATES: Sorry about the TARDIS, Doctor. DOCTOR: Oh, don't worry, Captain. We'll soon have her on her feet again. (And nearby, the troops not wounded in the att*ck are attaching ropes to the TARDIS in an effort to pull it upright. The DOCTOR gets the time sensor out of Bessie and passes it to JO.) DOCTOR: Right, Jo, I want you to keep a close eye on this. As soon as you see the slightest reaction, you let me know. JO: Right. (Meanwhile the ropes have been attached to the back of the FARMWORKER'S tractor.) FARMWORKER: One, two, six, heave! One, two, six, heave! (He drives forward and the troops help to right the TARDIS.) FARMWORKER: Pull! 10: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. STUART'S ROOM (SERGEANT BENTON has managed to make contact with the BRIGADIER...) SERGEANT BENTON: Sir, I'll stand by. And I'm glad you're all okay, sir. We'd really thought you'd copped it. Greyhound ... (On the other side of the room, RUTH and STUART are in the middle of an argument.) STUART HYDE: It's a daft idea anyway. I've had one basinful and I don't feel much like walking into another. You heard what the Doctor said! DR. RUTH INGRAM: You know, Stuart, for a so-called member of the dominant sex, you are being remarkable feeble! (BENTON walks over.) SERGEANT BENTON: Hey, hey! Is this a private fight or can anyone join in? DR. RUTH INGRAM: Boudicea here only wants to creep over to the lab and knobble the Master! SERGEANT BENTON: Hey, well supposing the time field's still working? STUART HYDE: Exactly! DR. RUTH INGRAM: Well we shan't know that till we try it, now shall we? SERGEANT BENTON: Right then, then what are we waiting for? DR. RUTH INGRAM: Right! STUART HYDE: Oy, you're worse than she is! SERGEANT BENTON: Oh, you're suggesting that we just sit here and let the Master treat us as a load of twits, I suppose? STUART HYDE: Look mate, you're paid to play the James Bond games, I'm a scientist. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Stuart, really! STUART HYDE: Oh, don't you start! You'll be the first to clobber me if I muck things up! DR. RUTH INGRAM: Well, you might at least have a go. Oh, why are you men so spineless? STUART HYDE: Lovey, I'm not men - I'm Stuart Hyde, registered, card-carrying, paid-up coward! (RUTH and BENTON stare at STUART.) STUART HYDE: Oh, for pete's sake, what are you looking at me like that for? (He gives in.) STUART HYDE: Alright, I'll come. SERGEANT BENTON: Thanks, Stuart. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Jolly good, Stu, I knew you wouldn't let us down! STUART HYDE: Just give me time, that's all. (He picks up a large spanner.) STUART HYDE: Well, come on then! What are we waiting for? (He heads for the door.) SERGEANT BENTON: Let's go. 11: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The MASTER picks up the unit with the crystal inside.) MASTER: Come, Krasis. We have work to do. (He walks into his computer-unit TARDIS and the puzzled high priest follows.) 12: INT. MASTER'S TARDIS (The console of the MASTER'S TARDIS has changed and the central rotor is made up of a metallic tower with no glass cover. The roundels on the wall are now circular bowls, back lit with a soft light. The main doorway is an alcove rather than two double doors. The MASTER places the crystal unit on a glass table as KRASIS looks round the futuristic room in shock.) KRASIS: Master, what is this place? Is it a temple? (The MASTER starts to reconnect the crystal unit.) MASTER: Do not let it concern you, Krasis. KRASIS: So vast a space inside so small a box! MASTER: My power is greater than your imagination can encompass - you just remember that. Your only interest at the moment is to realise that Atlantis awaits us. (He crosses to the main console.) MASTER: Now...test the power levels. (A whine of power starts to build up.) MASTER: Good. Just a few minutes re-cycling and we shall be ready to leave. (He walks out of his TARDIS.) 13: EXT. COPSE (As MIKE'S wound is treated, JO runs over to the DOCTOR with the time sensor.) JO: I'm getting a reading. (The DOCTOR looks at the device.) DOCTOR: Oh, it's very low. JO: Mmm, it's fading again. DOCTOR: He must be testing before take-off. The power drain would have been enormous. Brigadier? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, Doctor? DOCTOR: The Master seems to be on the move again. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, Sergeant, get the Doctor's machine loaded up. UNIT SERGANT: Right lads, let's load her up. DOCTOR: No, there's no time for that now. I'll have to take the TARDIS up from down there. I'll use the time sensor as a homing device and put my TARDIS inside his. Then wherever he goes, I'll go with him. (Followed by the BRIGADIER and JO, he climbs down into the smoking crater where the TARDIS is now upright, the soldiers having just removed the ropes.) DOCTOR: Well, goodbye, Lethbridge Stewart. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Bye. DOCTOR: I'll make contact as soon as possible. JO: We'll make contact as soon as possible. DOCTOR: We? JO: We. DOCTOR: Nothing I can say to dissuade you? JO: No. DOCTOR: Oh... (He opens the door and they enter.) 14: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (Strangely, the walls of the DOCTOR'S TARDIS have also changed and now resemble the MASTER'S although the console remains unchanged.) JO: Doctor? DOCTOR: Yeah? JO: The TARDIS looks different. DOCTOR: Oh, just a spot of redecoration, that's all. Now, Jo, you realise that what I'm about to do is going to be appallingly dangerous? JO: I've been in the TARDIS with you before. DOCTOR: Alright, but you've been warned. (She laughs. He puts the time sensor on the console and closes the doors. JO offers to take his cloak.) JO: ... ? DOCTOR: Thank you. (He takes it off and she hangs it over a lectern, together with her own "fun-fur" coat. The DOCTOR picks up the time sensor.) DOCTOR: Right. Now then, come over here - look at this. JO: Yeah, I'm coming. (She joins him as the time sensor starts up again. The two needles on the dials of the device point exactly the same direction.) DOCTOR: Now, the two TARDIS's are operating on the same frequency, you see? Now, here comes the tricky part - you see this? (The DOCTOR adjusts controls on the console.) JO: Yeah. DOCTOR: Well this is the time setting. Now its critical to a billionth part of a nanosecond. You see? JO: Yeah. (He passes her the sensor.) DOCTOR: Now hold this. If it's infinitesimally low, we'll miss it entirely and goes whistling off to heaven knows where. But if it's too high, even by a fraction of a moment... (He claps his hands.) DOCTOR: Woomph! Time-ram! JO: Time-ram? DOCTOR: Yes, you see the atoms making up this TARDIS would...occupy precisely the same space and time as the atoms making up the Master's TARDIS. JO: But that's impossible! DOCTOR: Yes, well of course it is. So what do you think would happen? JO: Woomph! DOCTOR: Yes, exactly - extinction. Utter annihilation. Now do you still want to come? JO: It is my job - remember? (He gives her a mock salute.) DOCTOR: Glad to have you aboard, Miss Grant. (She returns the salute...) JO: Glad to be aboard, Doctor! (...and grins.) 15: EXT. COPSE (The TARDIS dematerialises. The FARMWORKER looks round to see where it has gone and then shakes his head.) FARMWORKER: Londoners! (He strolls off.) 16: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (Keeping low, SERGEANT BENTON, RUTH and STUART run out from the side of the main house and keep behind the shrubbery which skirts the edge of the drive and forecourt. They reach the edge of this cover and BENTON runs towards and behind a tree some yards away. Once there, RUTH and then STUART, with his spanner, follow. BENTON beckons them on again and they make for the bushes that grow at the base of the building next to the s*ab block which contains the director's office. BENTON looks out to make sure that they are not being watched from the s*ab block itself.) 17: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The DOCTOR looks over the readings on one panel of the console.) DOCTOR: (Satisfied.) Ah ha. (He moves to another panel...) DOCTOR: Yes. (...and a third.) DOCTOR: Yes, so far, so good. JO: How long's it going to take us to get there? DOCTOR: Well, that's the curious thing - no time at all. We're outside time. Of course, it always seems to take a long time but that depends upon the mood, I suppose. JO: What - your mood? DOCTOR: No, no, no - hers. (He nods at the console and JO bursts out laughing.) DOCTOR: No, the TARDIS's. JO: You talk as if she was alive! DOCTOR: Well, it depends what you mean by alive, doesn't it? You take old Bessie, for instance. (He looks a reading on the console.) DOCTOR: Right, coming in to land now, Jo. (He slowly pulls a lever on the console. The TARDIS materialisation sound fills the room, but it is at a slower speed and lower pitch than usual. The whole room shudders...) DOCTOR: ... ! (...JO grabs the console and on the other side of the room, the MASTER'S TARDIS, still a computer unit, materialises.) JO: Look! DOCTOR: Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear! (Sighs.) Still, that was always on the cards I suppose. JO: His TARDIS is inside ours instead of, well, the other way round. DOCTOR: Yes, quite. Very curious effect that. I wonder how it happened? Jo, er, switch on the monitor, will you? Let's see where we are. (She presses a switch. In one of the roundels an image of a flickering red and orange vortex appears.) DOCTOR: Well, that's strange. (He realises and snaps his fingers.) DOCTOR: No, of course! We're seeing through the TOMTIT gap into the time vortex. (He opens the doors.) DOCTOR: Jo, you wait right here. (Leaving a scared looking JO behind, he walks out...) 18: INT. MASTER'S TARDIS (...and into the MASTER'S TARDIS. The police box looks as incongruous here as the computer unit did in the DOCTOR'S.) DOCTOR: Good grief! Jo, come out here a moment, will you? (Jo steps out.) JO: I don't get it! DOCTOR: No. Follow me. (He flicks a switch on the MASTER'S console and walks out of the doors...) 19: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (...back into his own TARDIS. The image of the inside of the MASTER'S TARDIS now appears on the scanner.) JO: I still don't get it! DOCTOR: Well, it's perfectly simple, Jo. My TARDIS is inside the Master's. JO: Yes, but his is inside yours. DOCTOR: Exactly - they're both inside each other. Yeah, I should have suspected that. JO: Well, what are we going to do now? DOCTOR: Three guesses? (JO puts a finger to her lips in a mock pose of deep thought.) JO: Erm, I wonder? Wait? (He snaps his fingers.) DOCTOR: Right first time! 20: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The MASTER makes notes on a clipboard of readings from TOMTIT as KRASIS paces the room. His constant walking back and forth takes him to the window. He glances out.) KRASIS: Master! 21: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (The UNIT convoy, minus the truck which carried the TARDIS, has reached the institute and turns from the drive into the forecourt.) 22: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM KRASIS: Alien warriors! (The MASTER runs to the window, glances out and runs back to TOMTIT.) MASTER: I'll soon fix them! (He starts s*ab at buttons. The hum of the machinery builds up...) 23: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (The convoy stops. The soldiers start to climb out of the troop carrier as the BRIGADIER draws his p*stol.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, D squad round the block. (They all start to move off.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Keep your eyeeeess ooopppppeeeeeennnnnn... (...and come to a complete halt, frozen in time.) 24: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM MASTER: There. (He joins KRASIS at the window.) MASTER: That'll keep them nicely unoccupied for the time being. (Satisfied, he goes back to TOMTIT, operating final controls.) MASTER: Right, Krasis, in you go. KRASIS: Where? MASTER: Into the TARDIS, man, and hurry up! (KRASIS looks terrified at the prospect but reluctantly makes his way over. The door opens and RUTH and STUART come in unseen.) MASTER: Right, they won't stop me now. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Sorry, professor, but that's where you're wrong. (The MASTER looks up in surprise. Walking towards the two of them, he fails to see that BENTON has repeated his trick and has entered by the back window. He is drawing and aiming his p*stol.) MASTER: Well, well, my devoted assistants. And are you going to stop me? DR. RUTH INGRAM: Not by ourselves, no. Take a look behind you. MASTER: Oh, come on, really! SERGEANT BENTON: You suit yourself, mate, but let's just have those hands up in the air, shall we? (The MASTER spins round and raises his hands.) MASTER: I should have disposed of you while I had the chance! SERGEANT BENTON: Yes, well, you'll never have a better one. Stu, see if he's got a g*n. (STUART puts his spanner down and turns to search the MASTER, but makes the mistake of standing between their prisoner and BENTON.) SERGEANT BENTON: Stuart, look out! (The MASTER pushes STUART at BENTON...) STUART HYDE: ... ! (...and runs into his TARDIS.) 25: INT. MASTER'S TARDIS (KRASIS is waiting and immediately points out the addition to the room.) KRASIS: Master! The other one...is here! Your enemy is here! MASTER: Good! (Laughs.) Now I've got him really trapped! (He s*ab at the console...) 26: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (...and the MASTER'S TARDIS dematerialises.) STUART HYDE: What the...! (Even STUART is stunned into silence.) 27: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The DOCTOR'S TARDIS rocks and shakes and JO has to hold onto the console to keep on her feet.) JO: What's happening, Doctor? DOCTOR: We're on way, Jo. The Master's taken off for Atlantis! (JO is thrown to the floor, but is unhurt.) JO: She's never behaved like this before! DOCTOR: Because the TARDIS's are operating out of phase - that's why. (The room steadies.) DOCTOR: Well, that's calmed her down a bit. She's very temperamental when she's roused, isn't she? JO: You know, I never know whether you're joking or not, I... (JO rubs her backside.) JO: Oh, oh, I think I've bruised my tailbone! DOCTOR: Sorry about your coccyx, Jo, but these little things are sent to try us. JO: My what? DOCTOR: Coccyx - your tailbone. (They fail to spot that the MASTER has appeared on the scanner and is watching and listening, until...) MASTER: (On scanner.) I'm sorry about your coccyx too, Miss Grant. How very sociable of you both to drop in. (He sniggers.) 28: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (TOMTIT is still running as RUTH and STUART try to find a way to switch it off.) SERGEANT BENTON: Well, I don't think we should touch it. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Why ever not? SERGEANT BENTON: Well, the Doctor was going after his TARDIS, right? DR. RUTH INGRAM: Right. (BENTON points at TOMTIT.) SERGEANT BENTON: Well, that thing there is a sort of time machine, isn't it? DR. RUTH INGRAM: So what? SERGEANT BENTON: So we'd better leave well alone. DR. RUTH INGRAM: You're in command, Sergeant Benton. SERGEANT BENTON: Yes. STUART HYDE: And a right foul-up you've made of it too! DR. RUTH INGRAM: Well not exactly his fault. STUART HYDE: Well, don't look at me. You can't say I didn't warn you, now can you? SERGEANT BENTON: (Snaps.) Oh, well I'll listen to you next time. That was the closest I'll ever come to catching the Master, that was. STUART HYDE: Oh, come on now, it's not the end of the world, now is it? SERGEANT BENTON: Isn't it? Well, the Doctor seems to think it might be. And the Master - well, there's no telling where he is by now, is there? Or when he is, for that matter. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Oh, for pity's sake, look, you two make me sick! Standing about moaning like a couple of old women! STUART HYDE: Old women? DR. RUTH INGRAM: Look, I mean it, Stu. Well okay, he's gone off somewhere, so he's gone off. Whether he's gone into the past or the future... SERGEANT BENTON: All I know is... DR. RUTH INGRAM: ...I don't know and, frankly, I don't care. (Tired of another argument, STUART wanders over to the window.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: The point is that we are here and now. Now, what we've got to do is to define the problem SERGEANT BENTON: That's all very well, Dr. Ingram, but I... (STUART calls over from the window...) STUART HYDE: Stop right there, "professor"! The problem's defined. Come and have a look. (They join him.) 29: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (...and see the UNIT troops as still as statues.) SERGEANT BENTON: (OOV.) It's the Brigadier! DR. RUTH INGRAM: (OOV.) Exactly the same as before. STUART HYDE: (OOV.) How can it be the same as before... 30: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM STUART HYDE: ...now that the crystal's gone? (RUTH goes back to TOMTIT.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: I think I remember the Doctor said it works independently, even without the crystal. SERGEANT BENTON: Yes, but do you realise we're still trapped - inside? DR. RUTH INGRAM: Now will you let me turn off the transmitter? SERGEANT BENTON: Well, I don't think we ought to. STUART HYDE: Well, perhaps we could get out through the back. It may not work all the way round. DR. RUTH INGRAM: I'll bet it does. How do you propose finding out? I mean, once we're stuck, we're stuck! SERGEANT BENTON: Yes, and only the Doctor can get you out. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Well? SERGEANT BENTON: Alright, Dr. Ingram - switch it off. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Ah ha! A man of decision. (She flicks several switches as BENTON and STUART look out of the window again. The power of the machine runs down.) SERGEANT BENTON: Go on then, switch off. DR. RUTH INGRAM: But I have. STUART HYDE: They're still stuck! 31: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (And indeed, the men outside have not changed position.) 32: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM DR. RUTH INGRAM: But that's impossible! STUART HYDE: Well, you'd better explain to them, lovey. They still think they're stuck, apparently. SERGEANT BENTON: Yes, and we're still trapped - in here. 33: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM MASTER: (On scanner.) Er, what can I do for you, Doctor? Or, erm, is your visit purely social? DOCTOR: Well, I thought we might have a little chat. MASTER: (On scanner.) What an excellent idea. Er, why not join me out here? 34: INT. MASTER'S TARDIS DOCTOR: (On scanner.) One step outside my TARDIS and that would be the end of me, wouldn't it? MASTER: Oh, you have a very poor opinion of me, don't you, Doctor? DOCTOR: (On scanner.) You've noticed! Well, well, well. MASTER: It might be of interest for you to know that, erm, I've put a time-lock on your TARDIS. You cannot leave - unless I lift it, of course. DOCTOR: (On scanner.) Do you think that I haven't thought of that too? You're as trapped as I am. You couldn't even open that door of yours unless I wish it. MASTER: Alternatively, I could fling you out into the time vortex now. I doubt whether you could do that to me, so be very, very careful, Doctor. DOCTOR: (On scanner.) Do you really think I care what happens to me at the moment? Don't you realise that your plans could ru... (The MASTER flicks a switch and the sound cuts out although the DOCTOR is seen to carry on talking. The MASTER gives a snort of laughter.) MASTER: You know, he has an excellent brain, that man, though a little pedestrian. But, oh dear, what a bore the fellow is! KRASIS: But is he dangerous? MASTER: He's dangerous enough. But don't worry. I can handle him. (KRASIS points at the police box.) KRASIS: But you said he was in there! You told me he was safe in there! MASTER: Once he realises that he's talking to himself, he'll be out here like a sh*t! (He sees that the DOCTOR has stopped talking.) MASTER: Ah! He's realised it at last. That took a long time, the slow witted fool. Now you watch - he cannot bear not to have the last word. 35: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM DOCTOR: He's not even listening. He's turned the sound off! JO: Well, that's not very nice, is it? DOCTOR: We've got to make him listen - it's our only chance of stopping him. JO: You're not thinking of going out there, are you? DOCTOR: No, not if I can help it. (The DOCTOR ducks under the console and returns with a unit in his hand.) JO: Well, what are you going to do then? DOCTOR: If he's turned his sound receiver off, I must make myself heard without it. (He starts to swap round components in the unit.) DOCTOR: "If the Thraskin puts his fingers in his ears, it is polite to shout!" That's an old venusian proverb. JO: Well, what's Thraskin? DOCTOR: Thraskin? Oh, it's an archaic word, seldom used since the twenty-fifth dynasty, the modern equivalent is "plinge". JO: What does plinge mean? DOCTOR: Oh, for heaven's sake, Jo. I've just told you - it means Thraskin. (He ducks back under the console with the changed unit.) JO: Oh, of course! 36: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (RUTH is also swapping round circuits from a unit in TOMTIT.) SERGEANT BENTON: But why? I mean, if you turned it on, the Brig. and company should have speeded up again - why didn't they? DR. RUTH INGRAM: Well, I don't know but it looks as if TOMTIT has made a permanent gap in the structure of time. Our only hope is to close the gap up. STUART HYDE: So what are you doing? DR. RUTH INGRAM: Well, I'm turning the circuits upside down, so to speak. Well, it's empirical, but you never know. SERGEANT BENTON: Empirical, I... DR. RUTH INGRAM: That, Sergeant Benton, means that I haven't got a clue what I'm doing. (She puts the unit back.) STUART HYDE: Join the club. SERGEANT BENTON: So, it's just trial and error? Have a go and see what happens? DR. RUTH INGRAM: Yeah, more or less. Right, Stu, you monitor the interstitial activity... STUART HYDE: Okay. (She goes to the unit with the power levers while he stands at another.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: If you get a reading over six-o give us a shout. STUART HYDE: What's the upper limit? DR. RUTH INGRAM: If it gets to seven-o, say a quick prayer and duck. SERGEANT BENTON: Well, what about me? DR. RUTH INGRAM: You just stand there and look pretty. Right, Stu, are you happy? SERGEANT BENTON: Ecstatic. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Okay then, let's have a s*ab at it. (STUART switches on.) STUART HYDE: Interstitial activity - nil. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Molecular structure - s*ab, increasing power. STUART HYDE: Two-five, three-o, three-five, four-o... DR. RUTH INGRAM: How's the time reg? (On the other side of the equipment, BENTON watches, totally non-plussed.) STUART HYDE: Er, steady on zero, zero, four. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Right, isolate matrix scanner. STUART HYDE: Check. Four-five, five-o... DR. RUTH INGRAM: Interstitial activity. STUART HYDE: sh**ting up! Five-five, six-o, six-five, seven-o... (Unseen by RUTH or STUART, a black glow seems to spread through BENTON'S body. The soldier falls slowly down to the floor.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: Can't hold! It's running away again! Stop increasing power! STUART HYDE: Seven-five, seven-o, six-five, six-o, five-five, five-o, four-five, four-o, three-five, three-o. (The hum of the racing power reduces.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: Right, that should be enough. I think the level should be okay now. STUART HYDE: Mmm, quite okay, I'd say. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Right, now let's have a look at it. (They run to the window.) 37: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (The soldiers are still stuck.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: (OOV.) It's made no difference. 38: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM DR. RUTH INGRAM: They're still stuck. (They walk away from the window, disappointed.) STUART HYDE: There we were, the skin of a gnat's whisker from the big bang... DR. RUTH INGRAM: And nothing happened at all. (He suddenly hears a whimpering noise and looks down at the floor.) STUART HYDE: Nothing? (RUTH also looks down. To their shock, a baby sits on the floor. BENTON has been regressed back in his own personal time.) 39: INT. MASTER'S TARDIS (The MASTER and KRASIS watch as the DOCTOR makes his adjustments to the TARDIS circuits.) KRASIS: Master, what is he doing? MASTER: The same as I would in his position. KRASIS: And what is that? MASTER: Wait and see, Krasis, wait and see. KRASIS: And what are you going to do, Master? (The DOCTOR stands. His voice comes over loud and clear.) DOCTOR: (On scanner.) Testing, testing, testing. One, two, three, four, five, testing? JO: (On scanner.) He can hear you. MASTER: I thought as much! (The MASTER starts to operate switches on his console.) DOCTOR: (On scanner.) Yes, and he can't turn me off. Can you? You've got to listen to me now. MASTER: Have I? (He carries on making adjustments...) DOCTOR: (On scanner.) Obviously, you've not as yet been able to bring Kronos through, otherwise you wouldn't be going to Atlantis, So perhaps there's still time to make you realise the folly of your... (...and s*ab a final button.) 40: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (Immediately, the DOCTOR'S words turn into a stream of gibberish. JO looks at him in wide-eyed amazement.) MASTER: (On scanner.) I...I'm sorry, Doctor, what was that again? (The DOCTOR tries again but he makes a little sense this time as before. The MASTER bursts out laughing and the DOCTOR turns the microphone off.) DOCTOR: Of all the low underhanded tricks! JO: What language was that? DOCTOR: English. JO: English? DOCTOR: Yes, but backwards. JO: I just don't get it. DOCTOR: Well, he's picking up my words even before I've spoken them and feeding them back to me through the TARDIS's telepathic circuits - making them come out backwards. JO: The TARDIS's are telepathic? DOCTOR: Yes, of course. How else do you think they communicate? Well, that decides it. I've got no option. Now listen to me, Jo - when I go out there, I want you to... JO: (Firmly.) You're not going out there. DOCTOR: Well, what else can I do? JO: Doctor, you said yourself it would be su1c1de to go out there without the protection of the TARDIS! DOCTOR: Well, I've got to risk it. He's got to be stopped, but that's no reason to put you into any danger. Now once I go out of that door, I want you to close it, alright? JO: But that means you'll be locked out! DOCTOR: Yes, and you'll be safely locked in. Now, you're not to open that door for anybody or anything until I say so. JO: I won't do it. (Shouts.) I will not do it! DOCTOR: Jo, you'll do as you're told! It's your job - remember? JO: (Tearfully.) Doctor, if anything happens to you... DOCTOR: Yes, I know, Jo, I know. Now go and open that door. (She does as he says and watches him go.) 41: INT. MASTER'S TARDIS (The MASTER is waiting by the crystal unit as the DOCTOR steps out.) MASTER: There you are, Krasis. What did I tell you? (The DOCTOR looks at the high priest.) DOCTOR: Won't you introduce me? KRASIS: I am Krasis - high priest of the temple of Poseidon. (The DOCTOR bows.) DOCTOR: Greetings to you, Krasis. Any friend of the Master's is an enemy of mine. MASTER: Oh come, Doctor, must we play games? I take it you have something to say to me before I destroy you? DOCTOR: Yes, I most certainly have. 42: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (JO watches...) MASTER: (On scanner.) Your usual song of death and disaster? I do wish you'd learn a new tune. 43: INT. MASTER'S TARDIS DOCTOR: You're risking the total destruction of the entire cosmos. MASTER: Of course I am. All or nothing - literally! What a glorious alternative! DOCTOR: You're mad! Paranoid! MASTER: Who isn't? The only difference is that I'm a little more honest than the rest. (He flicks a switch on the crystal unit.) MASTER: Goodbye, Doctor! KRASIS: No, Master, no! (From within the depths of the glowing crystal, a white flapping creature emerges and starts to grow larger.) MASTER: Behold Kronos - a rare and delicate feast for you - A Time Lord! Devour him! (The DOCTOR steps back as the flapping creature swoops down on him. KRONOS moves back and the DOCTOR is seen to have disappeared.) 44: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM JO: (Horrified.) Doctor! (She faints with the shock.) 45: INT. MASTER'S TARDIS (The MASTER holds up the seal.) MASTER: Kronos, be at peace! I command you! Be at peace! (The creature retreats back into the crystal.) MASTER: Your work is nearly done...for now. (The MASTER switches the unit off and laughs in triumph.) MASTER: You see, Krasis? Kronos is my sl*ve. (He moves to the console and hears JO gasping as she recovers and stands up.) MASTER: Miss Grant? JO: (On scanner.) What happened to the Doctor? You must help him! MASTER: Ah, he's beyond my help, my dear. He's beyond anybody's help. JO: (On scanner.) You mean...that thing...that...that creature really swallowed him up? MASTER: Ah, that's a nice point. Yes and no. Yes, it engulfed him - no, it didn't actually "eat him up". He's out there in the time vortex and there he's going to stay. JO: (On scanner.) Then he is alive? MASTER: Well, if you can call it that - alive for ever in an eternity of nothingness. (Laughs.) To coin a phrase: a living death! JO: (On scanner.) That...that's the most cruel, the most wicked thing I ever heard! MASTER: Thank you, my dear. Now, what are we going to do about you though? You're an embarrassment to me. As indeed is that antiquated piece of junk of the Doctor's. Now let me see... (He looks down at the console.) JO: (On scanner.) I don't really care anymore. Do what you like. But just get it over with. MASTER: Your word is my command. (He s*ab a control on the console.) MASTER: Goodbye, Miss Grant! (The slowed down, tortured sound of materialisation fills the room.) 46: VORTEX (In vortex, the two TARDIS's spin round, one superimposed over the other as they continue to occupy the same space.) 47: INT. MASTER'S TARDIS (The MASTER bursts into laughter as the image of JO on his scanner starts to rock wildly out of control prior to the two ship's separating...)
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THE TIME MONSTER BY: ROBERT SLOMAN EPISODE FIVE Original Air Date: 17 June, 1972 5:45pm - 6:10pm 1: INT. MASTER'S TARDIS MASTER: Now, what are we going to do about you though? You're an embarrassment to me. As indeed is that antiquated piece of junk of the Doctor's. Now let me see... (He looks down at the console.) JO: (On scanner.) I don't really care anymore. Do what you like. But just get it over with. MASTER: Your word is my command. (He s*ab a control on the console.) MASTER: Goodbye, Miss Grant! (The slowed down, tortured sound of materialisation fills the room.) 2: VORTEX (In vortex, the two TARDIS's spin round, one superimposed over the other.) 3: INT. MASTER'S TARDIS (The MASTER bursts into laughter as the image of JO on his scanner starts to rock wildly out of control prior to the two ship's separating.) 4: VORTEX (The two ships are no longer joined together. They spin off in different directions into the infinity of vortex.) 5: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (JO slowly comes to on the floor of the TARDIS. The air is filled with whispering voices.) JO: (Weakly.) Doctor... DOCTOR: (OOV.) Jo...Jo, are you in there? (She sits up in surprise.) JO: Doctor? (She gets to her feet and looks round in space, trying to locate the source of the voice.) JO: Well, it is you! DOCTOR: (OOV.) Thank heavens you're alive. JO: Oh, I'm so happy! Where are you? DOCTOR: (OOV.) I'm nowhere, Jo. I'm in the time vortex. The TARDIS is relaying my thoughts to you. JO: What are all those other voices I can hear? DOCTOR: (OOV.) What other voices? Oh...oh, those are my subconscious thoughts. But I shouldn't listen to them too hard if I were you. I...I'm not all that proud of some of them. JO: But I still don't understand? But you must be somewhere. Tell me how I can get you back? DOCTOR: (OOV.) Well, you can't, Jo, but luckily the TARDIS can. That's why she's put us in touch. JO: But what do you...I mean, w...w...what does she want me to do? DOCTOR: (OOV.) Well, go to control panel number three. (She walks round the console to one panel.) JO: Okay. DOCTOR: (OOV.) Now, lift the little lid marked "Extreme Emergency". (She lifts a lid on a small unit.) JO: Right. DOCTOR: (OOV.) The one with the red handle inside? JO: Mmm hm. DOCTOR: (OOV.) Alright, Jo, pull it! (She does so. With a sound of materialisation, the DOCTOR appears sat cross-legged on the floor. JO is still looking up into the air and fails to see him.) DOCTOR: Hello, Jo. JO: Doctor! (She rushes to him and hugs him.) 6: EXT. ATLANTIS. FORECOURT OF THE TEMPLE OF POSEIDON (In Atlantis, two trumpeters blow large curved ceremonial horns. The people and the councillors of the land stand in the forecourt of the temple which is adorned with Doric columns. The entrance to the temple itself is an ornamental entrance at the rear. To the side is the palace of the King. The people wear a mixture of robes and have their hear long. The green robed and armoured guards carry tridents.) FIRST ATLANTIAN COURTIER: Open the doors! SECOND ATLANTIAN COURTIER: Open the doors! (To stirring music, the doors to the palace are opened and DALIOS steps out. He stands on the steps of the temple and waits. Behind him, four black slaves carry out a litter chair. In it sits a voluptuous red-headed woman, many years younger than DALIOS. She is adorned with gold over her luxuriant white robe and stroking a black cat which sits on her knee. The woman is GALLEIA, Queen of Atlantis. They place the chair next to DALIOS who bows to the council, as do the people. He then sits on a stone throne. A handmaiden, LAKIS, stands behind the Queen. A courtier - CRITO - slams down a staff three times on the stone floor.) CRITO: Peace, my brothers. His holiness, the most venerable priest of Poseidon, king of the ten kings, will hear his council. (HIPPIAS steps forward, to a cold smile from the Queen.) HIPPIAS: My lord, your holiness, most venerable priest of... DALIOS: (Smiles.) Yes, yes, yes, I hear you, friend. HIPPIAS: Lord, may I speak plainly? DALIOS: (Good humoured.) It would grieve me to think you would ever speak otherwise. Speak as a friend should speak. HIPPIAS: You are popular, Dalios. The people love you. Will their love fill their bellies in the winter when the granaries are empty? (DALIOS sits up sharply, a look of anger on his face. The crowd murmurs.) DALIOS: Your words are plain indeed, Hippias. What would you have me do? Order the rain to fall? HIPPIAS: Aye, Dalios, I would! (Another young councillor grabs HIPPIAS' arm.) MISEUS: Hippias! DALIOS: Have a care! (HIPPIAS is carried away with himself. He raises his voice.) HIPPIAS: Indeed, I shall have a care! A care for the people of Atlantis. A care that foolish superstition, old wive's tales, the fear of old men should not prevent our caring for them as our rank demands! MISEUS: He speaks the truth, O, King. DALIOS: You know not what you ask. (HIPPIAS ascends the steps and turns and faces the crowd.) HIPPIAS: Must I be plainer still?! I know quite well! I ask for the blessings out forefathers once enjoyed! I ask for the divine power to be given back to the land, from which it was most cruelly stolen! 7: INT. MASTER'S TARDIS (The MASTER is working out his position on a map of Atlantis.) KRASIS: But, Master, why are we not in Atlantis? MASTER: My dear Krasis, I must work out our landing coordinates as accurately as possible. You see, your people must realise immediately that I am the Master, that I come from the gods and that I am bringing Kronos back to them. KRASIS: Where then will you arrive? MASTER: Why...smack in the middle of the temple, of course. (He points at a place on the map.) 8: EXT. ATLANTIS. FORECOURT OF THE TEMPLE OF POSEIDON (The meeting is getting more out of hand. DALIOS stands and raises his arms for silence.) DALIOS: (Shouts.) Brothers, silence! (The order is not instantly obeyed.) DALIOS: (Shouts.) Peace, peace, I say. (The crowd falls silent.) DALIOS: I shall speak plainly too. You ask for the blessings of the golden years. Yet there came a time when Atlantis grew to hate them. What would you have, Hippias? If you were master of Kronos, lord of time - ten crops in one season? A surfeit of fishes? An ocean of wine? Then take the barren soil as well, the stinking piles of rotting meat, an idle drunken people - I tell you: Kronos was a curse! HIPPIAS: But Dalios, I... CRITO: (Shouts.) Be silent! The King speaks! DALIOS: I have seen a temple, twice the size of this, fall through a crack in the very bedrock of the earth. I have seen a city drowned, a land laid waste by f*re, so listen to the fears of an old man. For I tell you, if Kronos came again, Atlantis would be doomed, destroyed, never to rise again! (The crowd starts to mutter once more. It is GALLEIA who first hears the noise of the materialisation of the MASTER'S TARDIS. She gets to her feet.) GALLEIA: No, listen - I hear strange music. (The crowd fall silent and listen as well.) GALLEIA: There it is again. (In an empty space to one side of the temple, the computer unit appears and solidifies. GALLEIA: Look! DALIOS: Guards! (The guards surround the MASTER'S TARDIS with their tridents. The door in the side slides open and the MASTER emerges to gasps. He calmly pushes a trident aside and steps forward.) DALIOS: Who are you? MASTER: I am the Master. I come as an emissary from the gods. (DALIOS is almost amused.) DALIOS: Indeed? Any god in particular? MASTER: Of course, why should you trust me? (He snaps his fingers and KRASIS steps out of the TARDIS, to gasps of shock from the assembled people.) ATLANTEAN: Krasis! DALIOS: (Shocked.) Krasis! MASTER: Now do you believe me? DALIOS: What do you want? MASTER: To speak of the ancient mysteries - the secrets of the mighty Kronos. (There are more gasps of shock. DALIOS looks sternly at the MASTER.) DALIOS: You are brave indeed, oh Master. An emissary from the gods? Brothers, should I listen to this man? (GALLEIA steps forward, her eyes lit up. It is clear that she is very taken with the MASTER.) GALLEIA: He has the very bearing of a god himself. MISEUS: He appeared from the heavens like Zeus. DALIOS: I have seen many such tricks. Krasis? (The old high priest steps forward.) KRASIS: Most venerable, I have seen him! (The people gasp again.) KRASIS: I have seen the mighty one! (Even DALIOS is shocked at this...) DALIOS: You have seen Kronos? (To the MASTER.) We must speak together privately. The council is at an end. Come, lady. (He starts to walk back into the palace, followed by KRASIS. The MASTER also follows, but he stops momentarily to bow at the Queen. A look of understanding passes between them.) CRITO: The council is at an end. The king departs. Sound trumpets! (The MASTER follows the others. GALLEIA mutters to herself...) GALLEIA: He had the bearing of the gods. (This does not go un-noticed by HIPPIAS.) 9: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The time sensor is once more active.) DOCTOR: There we are, Jo - on our way to Atlantis. JO: But you can't just take the TARDIS wherever you want, can you? I mean, you haven't even managed to fix it yet? Or have you? DOCTOR: No, not entirely, but the time sensor will lead us to where the Master's TARDIS is. JO: But not inside it? DOCTOR: No, that's right. Not this time. But we'll soon find out. 10: EXT. ATLANTIS. FORECOURT OF THE TEMPLE OF POSEIDON (HIPPIAS is trying to gain entry to the palace and is being stopped by KRASIS.) HIPPIAS: But, Krasis, I beseech you! Please give me the chance! (Before KRASIS can reply, he hears the materialisation of the DOCTOR'S TARDIS. They run across the forecourt to where the sound is coming from and, with MISEUS and some guards, watch the police box appear next to the computer unit. The DOCTOR and JO step out, straight into a set of pointed tridents. The DOCTOR spots KRASIS almost immediately.) DOCTOR: Well, well, well. Isn't it a small world? KRASIS: You are still alive? DOCTOR: Yes, so it would seem. KRASIS: But not for long! Guards! (They are about to thrust their tridents into the pair but...) HIPPIAS: No! I forbid it! Are you mad? Who are these strangers? KRASIS: They are the enemies of the Master, and therefore the enemies of our people and our land. DOCTOR: We've come here to warn you that... KRASIS: (Interrupts.) Silence! (To HIPPIAS.) You will regret this interference, lord. (To a GUARD.) Take them to the King! GUARD: Come, this way. (The GUARD and his compatriots lead the DOCTOR and JO into the palace.) 11: EXT. ATLANTIS. PALACE. KING'S TERRACE (DALIOS sits on a chair on his columned terrace which overlooks the buildings of the city. The MASTER stands before him and two guards stand on the door.) DALIOS: But if the high priest saw fit to break a scared trust, you think that good reason for the king to follow? (Behind a nearby pillar, GALLEIA stands hidden, listening to every word.) MASTER: Your high priest saw the crystal in my hands. He saw Kronos himself, saw him dominated by me. Krasis knows that I am the Master of Kronos. DALIOS: Krasis is but a sl*ve at heart. MASTER: Maybe, but he has come to learn that it is as well to obey me. DALIOS: You seek to make me fear you? MASTER: Oh, not at all. (Unbidden, he sits next to the King and stares into his eyes.) MASTER: But if you will but see, like Krasis, that I am indeed the Master of Kronos, then naturally you will obey me... (His voice hardens as he attempts to hypnotise the King...) MASTER: You will obey me...you will obey me! (DALIOS smiles and bursts into laughter.) DALIOS: A very elementary technique of fascination! (He gets up.) DALIOS: I'm too old a fish, too old in years and in the hidden ways to be caught in such a net. (He looks down at the MASTER in amused contempt.) DALIOS: You are no emissary from the gods. MASTER: But you saw...! DALIOS: (Cutting.) Tell me then, what of great Poseidon? What did he have for breakfast? Fish, I suppose? And what of Zeus and Hera? What is the latest gossip from Olympus? Do tell me! MASTER: I underestimated you, Dalios. DALIOS: (Angrily.) I'm no child to play with such painted dolls. Kronos is not god, no titan. I know that and so do you. MASTER: The king is old in wisdom. DALIOS: Now you try to flatter me. You'll pull a string and want to see me dance. You shall not have the crystal! (The MASTER stands.) MASTER: I shall go now. I have nothing more to say to you! (He heads for the door but the guards cross their tridents.) DALIOS: You have said nothing to me yet. When you find the true words to speak, I will listen. (The guards let the MASTER through and follow him out. Across the room, GALLEIA watches from her hiding place.) 12: EXT. ATLANTIS. PALACE. ANTECHAMBER TO TERRACE (A furious MASTER walks into the antechamber from the King's terrace - and straight into the DOCTOR and JO, escorted by HIPPIAS and their guards. The DOCTOR grins.) DOCTOR: Good afternoon! Now where have I seen that face before? (The MASTER looks stupefied. His mouth moves but no words come out.) DOCTOR: Can't think of anything to say? JO: How about "Curses, foiled again!"? (The two grin as the MASTER storms off.) HIPPIAS: Come this way. (He leads them towards the terrace.) 13: INT. ATLANTIS. PALACE. QUEEN'S CHAMBER (Having returned from the terrace, GALLEIA walks into her own richly decorated stone chambers. Her face looks thoughtful.) 14: EXT. ATLANTIS. PALACE. KING'S TERRACE (The DOCTOR, JO and HIPPIAS stand before the King.) DALIOS: Strangers are uncommon in our land. Who are you? DOCTOR: Er, this is Jo, Jo Grant, your majesty. DALIOS: You are welcome, Jo Jo Grant. Surely as in ancient times, a goddess has descend from Olympus. JO: But I'm not a goddess! Honestly, I'm not. DALIOS: No, no, of course you're not, my child. Forgive the clumsy gallantry of an old man. I'm afraid I'm sadly out of practice. Hippies? HIPPIAS: Lord? DALIOS: Take the lady Jo Jo Grant to the Queen while I talk with this, er...? JO: Oh, this is the Doctor. DALIOS: This learned man. HIPPIAS: This way, lady. (HIPPIAS opens the door. JO steps forward but looks back at the DOCTOR with reluctance.) DOCTOR: You'll be alright. (JO and HIPPIAS go.) DALIOS: Forgive the roughness of your welcome. Hippias has all the delicacy of a red-necked fisherman. DOCTOR: Nevertheless, he did save our lives, your majesty. DALIOS: Indeed? He kept that to himself. 15: INT. ATLANTIS. PALACE. QUEEN'S CHAMBER (GALLEIA sits on a divan, holding a hand mirror whilst LAKIS rearranges her hair.) GALLEIA: But what did you think of him, Lakis? LAKIS: He has the bearing of a god, lady. GALLEIA: My very thoughts. In fact, my very words. (Coldly.) Are you teasing me, girl? Would you dare? LAKIS: No, lady, no. (GALLEIA considers.) GALLEIA: No, I hardly think you would. (She moves the mirror round in order that she can see the girl's face.) GALLEIA: Are you frightened? I shan't be angered by your reply...if it is an honest one. LAKIS: I like...the lord Hippias better. (GALLEIA gives a short laugh.) GALLEIA: A sweetmeat. A confection for a child's taste. I prefer this Master. He would not claw you upon the tongue as Hippias does. LAKIS: He is a very handsome man, lady. GALLEIA: Handsome? Aye, he looked well enough. But his face, Lakis - it was a face of power. A man with such a face would dare risk the world to win his own desire. Hippias is but a boy, a petulant boy. (At that moment, the door to the chamber opens and HIPPIAS enters. He has heard these final comments.) HIPPIAS: I am a foolish one, no doubt, to trust a queen. (GALLEIA stands in anger.) GALLEIA: Foolish, certainly, to think himself man enough to love a queen. (Behind her, she hears LAKIS turning and leaving the chamber.) GALLEIA: No, Lakis, come back. The lord Hippias is not staying. HIPPIAS: The lord Hippias would not be here at all, but he has been sent on an errand by the King. GALLEIA: Then give me your message and go. (He turns and calls into the hallway where JO waits with a guard.) HIPPIAS: Lady! (To GALLEIA.) I did my best. GALLEIA: (Contemptuously.) He made you look a fool. (A very nervous JO walks in.) HIPPIAS: Lady Galleia, may I present to you the lady Jo Jo Grant. The King bids you treat her as an honoured guest. (JO steps forward and holds out her hand in twentieth century custom.) JO: How do you... (She sees the cold look that the Queen gives her and steps back.) JO: Greetings. (GALLEIA bows her head in greeting.) GALLEIA: Greetings, lady. You come from a far land? JO: It couldn't be much further. HIPPIAS: She and her companion fell from the skies - as did the Master. GALLEIA: A day of wonders. JO: You can say that again! GALLEIA: Why should I say it again? Lakis? (LAKIS steps forward.) GALLEIA: Show the lady Jo Jo Grant... JO: Oh, it's just Jo, actually. GALLEIA: Your pardon. Show the lady Jo to a guest room. (She looks over JO'S short-skirted dress, boots and fun-fur coat.) GALLEIA: And give her attire more fitting to a lady of the court. LAKIS: Yes, lady. JO: Thank you. LAKIS: (To JO.) This way. (They start to walk out.) GALLEIA: And Lakis? Return quickly. I have an errand for you. LAKIS: Yes, lady. (They leave for the inner rooms.) HIPPIAS: And none for me to run? A flower perhaps? A token of undying love to some lordling of the court. But no, it would be d*ad before it were delivered. (GALLEIA steps forward, her lips pursed and her eyes cold...) GALLEIA: You are impertinent! Remember, I am Galleia, Queen of Atlantis, daughter of kings and wife of Dalios. So, have a care. (She strokes his cheek and steps away.) HIPPIAS: Your pardon. I took you for another. I knew Galleia once, you see? The woman, not the queen. A sweet and loving lady. I took you for her. Please do forgive me. (She has her back to him. She does not turn.) GALLEIA: You may go. HIPPIAS: I thank you, lady. (He steps out a closer the door. GALLEIA sits on the divan.) GALLEIA: Lakis? Lakis, come to me at once. (LAKIS enters and stands warily.) GALLEIA: Come closer. (She does so.) GALLEIA: Go to the lord Master, and when no one is near, say quietly to him only one word... LAKIS: What word, lady? GALLEIA: Kronos. 16: EXT. ATLANTIS. PALACE. KING'S TERRACE (EVENING) (Night is approaching and from the terrace, the city is almost in darkness. The DOCTOR and DALIOS' conversation continues as the King paces the terrace in a distracted manner.) DALIOS: Kronos, Kronos, Kronos... I am the last alive who has known, who has seen, who remembers with a terror of twisted guts. And these fools would have me bring him back. DOCTOR: Well, why didn't you destroy the crystal? DALIOS: We tried and merely split the f...smaller crystal from it. It cannot be destroyed. DOCTOR: Yes, of course. Just like the TARDIS. It has its being outside time and its appearance is here. DALIOS: You are a philosopher, friend. DOCTOR: Well, if wisdom is to seek the truth, I am, yes. (DALIOS sits next to the DOCTOR, growing fearful as he speaks.) DALIOS: Then help me, Doctor. Help me to find a way to stop these evil men. Help me to save Atlantis from destruction! 17: INT. ATLANTIS. PALACE. QUEEN'S CHAMBER (EVENING) (LAKIS shows the MASTER into GALLEIA'S chamber by the back entrance. The room is now lit by torches but the Queen is not there.) MASTER: Where is she? LAKIS: If you will please wait, lord. MASTER: The Master waits for no one. I shall return when the Queen is ready to speak with me. (He turns for the door but GALLEIA is there already, her cat in her arms.) GALLEIA: Please stay. Lord, great lord, be seated. (She gestures at the divan. The MASTER bows but does not sit.) GALLEIA: The wine, Lakis. (LAKIS brings forward two golden goblets and hands them out.) GALLEIA: You may go. Minister to the needs of our guest. (LAKIS goes into the inner rooms. The Queen and her guest sit on the divan with their wine. The MASTER looks into GALLEIA'S eyes, but attempts a more subtle form of hypnotism.) MASTER: Lady Queen, you are beautiful. (GALLEIA almost purrs...) 18: INT. ATLANTIS. PALACE. QUEEN'S GUEST ROOM (EVENING) (JO comes out from behind a screen. She wears a long, multi-coloured Atlantian robe. Over her own hear, she wears a long golden wig in the braided style of the women of the court. She looks in a mirror as LAKIS looks on smiling.) JO: Wow! What a groovy dress! Do you reckon it'll get mum's approval? LAKIS: (Puzzled.) Mum? Oh, you mean Queen Galleia? JO: Yeah, guess so. LAKIS: (Laughs.) Mum! JO: Anyway, let's go and give her a preview. (She heads for the door.) LAKIS: No, I'm sorry. She does not wish to be disturbed. The lord Master is with her. JO: Is he now? LAKIS: They speak of the sacred mysteries. JO: Kronos and all that bit? LAKIS: (Shocked.) It is forbidden! JO: But that is what they're on about? LAKIS: Yes. JO: Right. (She starts to pull the door open.) LAKIS: No, you mustn't go in - you mustn't! JO: Look, I'll be quiet as a... Do they have mice in Atlantis? LAKIS: Yes. JO: Well, that's what I'll be as quiet as - an Atlantian mouse, okay? (She opens the door a crack and listens...) 19: INT. ATLANTIS. PALACE. QUEEN'S CHAMBER (EVENING) (...as within.) GALLEIA: You're a man who knows what he wants, lord Master. MASTER: And takes it. GALLEIA: You want the crystal? MASTER: (Nods.) I am going to possess it. GALLEIA: Not without my consent. MASTER: Of course not. But, erm, I am confident that you will give it. GALLEIA: Why should I help you? MASTER: For the sake of Atlantis, lady. Would you not see her restored to her former glory? Rich, powerful, magnificent among the nations of the world? (Laughs quietly.) Who would not be ruler of such a country? GALLEIA: (Quietly insistent.) Nothing must happen to Dalios. MASTER: Why should it? He will rule for many years - the beloved sovereign of a beloved prosperous people. GALLEIA: But surely you would want to... MASTER: Well, purely because of lord Dalios' great age, it might be well if he were "relieved" of some of the more onerous duties of kingship. But the reins of power, Lady Queen, should be in stronger hands - hands such as yours. (He puts a gloved hand over her be-jewelled one. She completes the pact by putting her left hand on top.) GALLEIA: And yours? MASTER: It would be a pleasure to serve you. And then, when the end comes for Dalios, as...it must come for all men, then perhaps? GALLEIA: The crystal shall be yours. 20: INT. ATLANTIS. PALACE. QUEEN'S GUEST ROOM (EVENING) (JO and LAKIS look at each other.) MASTER: (OOV: Within chamber.) Tell me - where is it kept? 21: INT. ATLANTIS. PALACE. QUEEN'S CHAMBER (EVENING) GALLEIA: Deep in the earth... MASTER: Mm hmm. GALLEIA: Beneath the temple. Dalios has the key. (Smiles.) Oh, and Krasis has the key. MASTER: Well then, Krasis will take me there. I'll speak with him immediately. GALLEIA: I wish it were as simple as that. No one can get near, save Dalios himself. It's certain death to try. MASTER: What is the danger? (GALLEIA looks fearful.) GALLEIA: The guardian. 22: EXT. ATLANTIS. PALACE. KING'S TERRACE (NIGHT) (Torches have also been lit on the terrace as night has now fallen.) DOCTOR: Yes, but who is the guardian? DALIOS: A beast - a man. You can take your choice. Once he was my friend, a fellow councillor, a great athlete. And just as I longed for the wisdom the years alone could bring, so he craved great strength. The strength of the bull and a long life in which to use it. DOCTOR: Well, it's a harmless enough ambition, I should have thought? DALIOS: So should I. But Kronos in his blind sport gave him his desire. But not only the strength - the head of a bull. And so he has remained for the past five hundred years or more. DOCTOR: (Realising.) It's the minotaur. DALIOS: (Puzzled.) Please? DOCTOR: It doesn't matter. Please go on. DALIOS: Well, there's little more to tell. No one else shall suffer as he has suffered. Till the last day of his life, for which he longs so ardently, he will guard the crystal. No one can approach it. To try is certain death. 23: INT. ATLANTIS. PALACE. QUEEN'S CHAMBER (NIGHT) (KRASIS has been summoned to the Queen's chamber. She relaxes on the divan while the MASTER and KRASIS stand before her.) MASTER: Would you like to volunteer, Krasis? KRASIS: (Shocked.) No, lord, no! GALLEIA: Very well then. We shall send one down who is mighty with the sword, and who longs with all his heart to seize the crystal. One whose death would be of little account. KRASIS: But who, Lady? GALLEIA: (Smiles.) Hippias, of course. 24: INT. ATLANTIS. PALACE. QUEEN'S GUEST ROOM (NIGHT) (JO and LAKIS come back from the door. The handmaiden is distraught.) LAKIS: What can we do? What can we do? JO: We'll tell the Doctor. That's what we can do. Now, take me to the King. LAKIS: Oh, I dare not, Lady Jo. JO: Would you rather let your precious Hippias face that creature? (LAKIS summons her courage.) LAKIS: Oh well, come quickly then! (She takes her to a rear door.) 24: INT. ATLANTIS. PALACE. QUEEN'S ANTECHAMBER (NIGHT) (LAKIS checks that the coast in clear.) LAKIS: This way. (They move off.) 25: EXT. ATLANTIS. FORECOURT OF THE TEMPLE OF POSEIDON (NIGHT) (They approach the steps to the palace from the temple. Two trident-armed sentries stand on duty. The tridents are crossed in their path when they attempt to approach the main doors.) GUARD: Halt! JO: Take me to the King. (The door to the palace opens and CRITO walks out.) CRITO: The King is not to be disturbed. JO: But I've got to see the Doctor! It's a matter of life and death! CRITO: Indeed it is - yours. JO: Will you hear what I've got to say? LAKIS: Come, my lady. (LAKIS pulls JO away and they whisper.) JO: (Whispers.) What's the matter? LAKIS: (Whispers.) Have a care. The Lord Crito is no friend to Hippias. JO: (Whispers.) ... (They suddenly hear movement across the forecourt. LAKIS pulls JO into the shadows and they watch as a door opens and KRASIS and HIPPIAS come out. HIPPIAS is armed with a sword. They move off.) JO: Right, they're going now. I'll follow them. You try to get in and tell the Doctor, and the King for that matter. Alright? Now take care. (JO follows the two men who cross towards the entrance to the temple. KRASIS beckons HIPPIAS onwards and JO watches as HIPPIAS draws his sword and walks in.) JO: (In a shocked whisper.) No! (She runs across the forecourt and into the temple.) 26: INT. ATLANTIS. THE TEMPLE OF POSEIDON (NIGHT) JO: No, Hippias! Don't go in there! (From the shadows, KRASIS jumps out and grabs her. For all his great age, he manages to pull her away.) 27: INT. ATLANTIS. THE TEMPLE OF POSEIDON. CATACOMBS (NIGHT) (The great wooden door is opened and JO is thrown to the floor. The door is pulled to behind her. She gets up and starts hammering on it.) JO: Open the door and let me out! (She turns. From the darkness of the columns comes the bellow of an animal. JO looks over in the direction of the sound and a look of sheer terror appears on her face...)
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THE TIME MONSTER BY: ROBERT SLOMAN EPISODE SIX Original Air Date: 24 June, 1972 5:45pm - 6:10pm 1: INT. ATLANTIS. THE TEMPLE OF POSEIDON. CATACOMBS (NIGHT) (The great wooden door is opened and JO is thrown to the floor. The door is pulled to behind her. She gets up and starts hammering on it.) JO: Open the door and let me out! (She turns. From the darkness of the columns comes the bellow of an animal. JO looks over in the direction of the sound and a look of sheer terror appears on her face. A creature faces her. It has the body of a strong and well-muscled man but from the shoulders upwards, it has the appearance of a bull - the MINOTAUR!) 2: EXT. ATLANTIS. PALACE. KING'S TERRACE (NIGHT) (LAKIS comes running onto the terrace where the DOCTOR and DALIOS are still sat in conversation.) DALIOS: What is it? (She falls at the King's feet.) CRITO: (OOV: In pursuit.) Come back! LAKIS: Forgive me, Lord King, forgive me! (CRITO runs in and grabs LAKIS.) DALIOS: Tell us, child. CRITO: Your pardon, lord. (CRITO starts to pull her out. LAKIS calls out as she is dragged away.) LAKIS: Lord Hippias and the high priest have gone into the lair of the guardian followed by the Lady Jo! (The DOCTOR jumps to his feet.) DOCTOR: What? 3: INT. ATLANTIS. THE TEMPLE OF POSEIDON. CATACOMBS (NIGHT) (The MINOTAUR starts to make his way towards JO. It roars and runs towards her. With difficulty in her long Atlantean dress, she runs into the depths of the labyrinth and hides behind a pillar. The MINOTAUR approaches and she runs off again.) 4: INT. ATLANTIS. THE TEMPLE OF POSEIDON (NIGHT) (KRASIS approaches the door in the temple that leads down to the labyrinth. A guard is on duty. KRASIS hears someone approaching on the steps that lead down from the concourse and the DOCTOR turns the corner into view.) KRASIS: (To the guard.) Seize this intruder! (The DOCTOR grabs the raised trident and pins the two men back against the wall by their necks.) DOCTOR: Sorry to hold you up like this, Krasis, but I need that key! (He grabs the key out of KRASIS' hand, snaps the trident in two over his knee and dashes for the door, unlocking it before the guard and KRASIS can react. They give chase.) 5: INT. ATLANTIS. THE TEMPLE OF POSEIDON. CATACOMBS (NIGHT) (Down in the labyrinth, a deadlier game of chase is in progress as JO runs from pillar to pillar and down darkened torch-lit passages. She comes up against a mirror and turns, seeing the relentless MINOTAUR coming round a corner and making its way towards her. Suddenly the DOCTOR'S voice rings out.) DOCTOR: Jo? (He stands near the entrance door to the labyrinth, looking round and listening to the bellows of the guardian.) DOCTOR: Jo? Jo? (He walks into the labyrinth.) DOCTOR: Jo, where are you? (Further in, the MINOTAUR rounds a corner. It has JO firmly in its sights. Suddenly, HIPPIAS rounds a corner, a torch in his hand.) HIPPIAS: Stay back! (The MINOTAUR turns and goes for the young Atlantean. HIPPIAS throws his torch at the creature but it is ineffectual. The MINTOAUR grabs him and throws him across the room. HIPPIAS gets to his feet and bravely jumps on the back of the creature but it merely raises him into the air and throws him through a mirrored wall. Suddenly, the DOCTOR is stood at the end of a row of columns, his red-lined cloak held out like a matador and calling out yells in Spanish. The minotaur turns and charges him, head down and horns out. The DOCTOR neatly side-steps the guardian, swirling his cloak. The manouevre is repeated but this time, the DOCTOR neatly chops the MINOTAUR on the back of the neck as it passes. It slides to the ground and the DOCTOR runs off towards JO.) JO: Doctor, are you alright? DOCTOR: Yes. (He sees the MINOTAUR charging again.) DOCTOR: Look out, Jo! (The creature sweeps between them and straight into a wall. The force of the impact brings the huge blocks of stone down, k*lling the creature and revealing a brightly-lit chamber beyond. The DOCTOR and JO go and look through the hole in the wall.) 6: INT. ATLANTIS. THE TEMPLE OF POSEIDON. CHAMBER OF THE CRYSTAL (NIGHT) (JO suddenly remembers...) JO: Hippias! He saved my life. DOCTOR: I'm afraid he's d*ad, Jo. (The DOCTOR looks further into the chamber at the source of the bright light.) DOCTOR: The crystal! It's the crystal of Kronos! (And the original glowing crystal is indeed sat in its receptacle. The two walk towards it, carefully circling the d*ad guardian.) DOCTOR: There you, Jo. That's what all the fuss has been about. JO: It's beautiful...but at the same time, horrible. It gives me a funny feeling. DOCTOR: Well, cheer up, Jo. Now that we've found the crystal, the Master's little game is at an end. KRASIS: Not quite! (They spin round as KRASIS and two guards step out of the shadows behind them.) KRASIS: The game is just beginning! A pity you will not live to see the end. DOCTOR: And that's where you're mistaken, Krasis. And if you value your own life, you will take me to see the King - now! 7: EXT. ATLANTIS. PALACE. KING'S TERRACE (NIGHT) (A shock awaits them when they KRASIS takes them to the terrace.) MASTER: But, I am the King. (The MASTER looks towards the high priest.) MASTER: Oh, didn't he tell you? (Laughs.) Oh, he's a jolly fellow, our friend, Krasis. He loves a joke. (The stony-faced humourless priest stares at the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: Does he really? (The doors to the rear of the terrace open to admit GALLEIA to a blast of trumpets. She wears a long blue and silver dress.) MASTER: A complete success, our little...palace revolution. DOCTOR: What happened to King Dalios? MASTER: Why, nothing. DOCTOR: Then he's still alive? (The MASTER stands for the Queen.) MASTER: Why, certainly. And treated honourably. GALLEIA: Even though Dalios is an old man, the King is still the King. MASTER: And now it appears that I have to thank you both. JO: What for? MASTER: For giving me the crystal. DOCTOR: You don't mean to say that you still intend going ahead with this... MASTER: Tomorrow you will both receive a suitable reward - an introduction to the mighty Kronos... (His voice hardens...) MASTER: And this time, Doctor, there will be no mistake. DOCTOR: I wouldn't count on that. (The two are led away by the guards and KRASIS.) MASTER: Right, Lady, I have a lot to do so...you must leave me too. (The MASTER turns to go but GALLEIA is annoyed by his tone and manner.) GALLEIA: Must I, indeed? MASTER: You would question my decision? GALLEIA: Perhaps. It depends what you mean to do. MASTER: You must learn to obey, my love. (He strokes her cheek.) MASTER: To do my will. To carry out my commands without question, like a soldier. GALLEIA: You mean like a servant girl? And you must learn, "my love", that Galleia is a Queen. (She storms off, leaving an angry MASTER.) 8: EXT. ATLANTIS. PALACE. CELL (NIGHT) (The DOCTOR and JO sit chained to the wall of a straw-lined cell. JO struggles against her manacles.) DOCTOR: Any luck? JO: Funnily enough, they didn't include Atlantean chains in my escapology course. No, it's no good. Doctor, what are we going to do? DOCTOR: (Calmly.) Well, well just have to play it by ear, won't we? JO: What happens if the Master wins? DOCTOR: Well, the whole of creation is very delicately balanced in cosmic terms, Jo. If the Master opens the floodgates of Kronos' power, all order and all structure will be swept away, and nothing will be left but chaos. JO: (Depressed.) Makes it seem so...pointless really, doesn't it? DOCTOR: I felt like that once when I was young. It was the blackest day of my life. JO: Why? DOCTOR: Ah well, that's another story. Well, I'll tell you about it one day. The point is, that day was not only my blackest, it was also my best. JO: Mmm? Well, what do you mean? DOCTOR: Well, when I was a little boy, we used to live in a house that was perched halfway up the top of a mountain. And behind our house, there sat under a tree an old man - a hermit, a monk. He'd lived under this tree for half his lifetime, so they said, and he'd learned the secret of life. So, when my black day came, I went and asked him to help me. JO: And he told you the secret? Well, what was it? DOCTOR: Well, I'm coming to that, Jo, in my own time. Ah, I'll never forget what it was like up there. All bleak and cold, it was - a few bare rocks with some weeds sprouting from them and some pathetic little patches of sludgy snow. It was just grey. Grey, grey, grey. Well, the tree the old man sat under, that was ancient and twisted and the old man himself was...he was as brittle and as dry as a leaf in the autumn. JO: But what did he say? DOCTOR: Nothing, not a word. He just sat there, silently, expressionless, and he listened while I poured out my troubles to him. I was too unhappy even for tears, I remember. And when I'd finished, he lifted a skeletal hand and...he pointed. Do you know what he pointed at? JO: No. DOCTOR: A flower. One of those little weeds. Just like a daisy it was. Well, I looked at it for a moment and suddenly I saw it through his eyes. It was simply glowing with life, like a perfectly cut jewel, and the colours! Well, the colours were deeper and richer than you could possibly imagine. Yes, it was the daisiest daisy I'd ever seen. JO: And that was the secret of life? A daisy? (Laughs.) Honestly, Doctor! DOCTOR: Yes, I laughed too when I first heard it. So, later, I got up and I ran down that mountain and I found that the rocks weren't grey at all - but they were red, brown and purple and gold. And those pathetic little patches of sludgy snow were shining white. Shining white in the sunlight. (Smiles.) You still frightened, Jo? JO: (Smiles.) No, not as much as I was. DOCTOR: That's good. I'm sorry I brought you to Atlantis. JO: I'm not. DOCTOR: Thank you. (The door to the cell is unlocked and opened and a familiar white robed figure is thrust in.) GUARD: Inside, old man! (DALIOS stands up to the GUARD.) DALIOS: I demand to be taken to the Lady Galleia! GUARD: You'll do as you're told. (He pushes DALIOS back in the cell.) DALIOS: How dare you lay your hands on me! I shall see the Queen! Out of my way, sl*ve! (The GUARD strikes DALIOS to the ground with his trident. The old man gasps and falls on the floor and the door is shut. The blow has knocked all the strength out of the King and he lies stunned in front of the DOCTOR and JO. Manacled, they are unable to help him.) DOCTOR: Dalios! Dalios! DALIOS: (Weakly.) Who would have thought it...my sweet Queen... DOCTOR: Is the Master responsible for this? DALIOS: (Weakly.) Ah...but tis no matter. Come closer. (He manages to lift his head into JO'S lap.) DOCTOR: What is it? DALIOS: (Weakly.) There's so little time...so little. I tell you the vision of a dying man. Atlantis was doomed. You are a true philosopher. The world must be...must be saved. And you are the one to do it. The only one. Who'd have thought it? My lovely Galleia... (He falls back.) DOCTOR: Dalios! (But he has gone. JO grows tearful.) DOCTOR: We won't fail you, Dalios. 9: EXT. ATLANTIS. FORECOURT OF THE TEMPLE OF POSEIDON (It is the next day. On the forecourt of the temple, another meeting of a much-reduced council takes place before the people. KRASIS and MISEUS are among those assembled. The MASTER sits on the king's throne and the DOCTOR and JO have been brought up in their chains and have been placed, one on each side of the temple steps. Trumpets sound and CRITO slams down his staff.) CRITO: Silence! The Lady Galleia, Queen of Atlantis, now speaks. (The trumpets sound again and GALLEIA stands.) GALLEIA: Brethren of the council, my faithful few. Our troubles are now at an end. No longer shall we tread beneath the hand of an old defeated king. I shall present to you his holiness, the most venerable, Lord Master. (The MASTER stands another trumpet salute, a murmur from the crowd and a shouted comment from the DOCTOR to JO.) DOCTOR: Quite above himself, isn't he? CRITO: Silence! MASTER: Greetings to you, my brothers. I grieve to see the council is so small. And yet I rejoice that you, the few who have put me here, have come to claim your just reward. Today, you shall see the mighty one himself - Kronos, the most terrible. (The crowd gasps at the mention of the name.) MASTER: Krasis, the high priest will assist me. Prepare, Krasis. (The crystal unit from the MASTER'S TARDIS has been brought out onto the concourse and KRASIS walks over to it. Into the top has now been inserted the true crystal which towers a foot above the one from the Newton Institute. Watched by a puzzled crowd, KRASIS starts to flick switches on the machine.) DOCTOR: And what happened to the rest of the council? JO: Yes, where are they? DOCTOR: Are they alive? MASTER: The point is academic, Doctor. In a few moments, it'll be of no further interest to you. DOCTOR: Then satisfy my curiosity now. Are they indeed alive, or are they d*ad like King Dalios? (The Queen looks sharply at him.) GALLEIA: The King is unharmed! DOCTOR: The King is d*ad, Madam! JO: (To GALLEIA, softly.) It's true. (GALLEIA stares at her, shock registering in her face.) JO: We were there when he died this morning. (GALLEIA looks as if her world has fallen apart...) GALLEIA: You were there? You saw him? (To the MASTER.) Is this true? (The MASTER doesn't respond. GALLEIA stands and calls out across the crowd.) GALLEIA: Is this true? Is the lord Dalios, your King, no longer alive? (She looks at the MASTER, trembling with anger.) GALLEIA: Answer me! MASTER: He died this morning. He was an old man. DOCTOR: And you were responsible for his death! GUARD: Quiet! GALLEIA: (Tearfully.) You promised. MASTER: I promised you power. And you shall have it. Power to realise your most ambitious dreams! GALLEIA: You promised he should not be harmed! MASTER: He was an old man - and he was stubborn! (She strikes him.) GALLEIA: Oh, you! (To the guards.) Seize him! Seize him! (The guards close in on the MASTER and grab hold of him.) MASTER: Krasis, the switch! (KRASIS pulls the main switch.) DOCTOR: No, stop him! Stop him! (KRONOS starts to emerge from the crystal, growing in size and strength.) MASTER: Kronos! I, the Master, welcome you! I, the Master, bid you do my will! (The guards release the MASTER as they and the crowd cowers back from the screeching creature which flies over the temple concourse.) MASTER: I command you - destroy these men! (The MASTER points at the guards but the creature makes no move towards them.) MASTER: Obey me! I command you! I order you to obey! DOCTOR: He'll never obey you! Don't you understand yet what you've done! He's out of control! MASTER: ... ! (The MASTER runs for the crystal unit as KRONOS starts to wreak havoc on Atlantis. Lightning flashes and the stones of the temple start to crash to the ground, falling on top of the people. GALLEIA frees JO who runs through the chaos at the MASTER.) DOCTOR: Jo! Jo, come back! Jo! Jo! (As the MASTER takes the main crystal out of the unit, JO jumps on his back. He runs into his TARDIS with JO still clinging to him.) DOCTOR: Come back, Jo! Come back! Jo! (The computer unit dematerialises. Few people now remain alive in the debris but one of them is GALLEIA who also frees the DOCTOR. He runs into his TARDIS and swiftly dematerialises. GALLEIA stands with her head bowed in the ruins of the temple with the d*ad people all around her. KRONOS continues to fly above the destruction.) 10: INT. MASTER'S TARDIS (Having only recently been freed, the MASTER uses a handcuff to secure JO again, this time by one of her hands to his console.) MASTER: There, Miss Grant. I think we've seen the last of the Doctor. Buried for all time under the ruins of Atlantis. (He laughs, but then a thought seems to strike him...) MASTER: You know, I'm going to miss him. JO: He's not finished - I just know it! MASTER: Of course he is. JO: (Shouts.) No, you're the one that's finished! Do you think that...that creature out there will ever let you control it? MASTER: I do so already. He came when I called. You saw that yourself. JO: Like a tiger comes when he hears a lamb bleating. MASTER: Nicely put, my dear. You know, that was worthy of the late lamented Doctor himself. (He claps his hands in delight and walks over to the crystal.) MASTER: You know, I could kick myself for not having polished him off long ago! Just think of the future - dominion over all time and all space! Absolute power forever! And no Doctor to ruin things for me! (The DOCTOR suddenly appears on the scanner.) DOCTOR: (On scanner.) Don't worry, Jo. JO: Doctor! DOCTOR: (On scanner.) I'll soon sort him out for you. MASTER: (Shocked.) Doctor! Well, you must be as indestructible as that wretched TARDIS of yours! And how exactly do you propose to..."sort me out"? DOCTOR: (On scanner.) By making you see reason - and making you destroy that crystal. MASTER: Uh? Why should I? I have my TARDIS, I have Kronos and I have Miss Grant. Now, my reason tells me that I hold all the cards. DOCTOR: (On scanner.) Ah, but there's one card that you've forgotten. MASTER: Oh? DOCTOR: (On scanner.) The trump card. I could stop you whenever I please. MASTER: You are bluffing, Doctor. DOCTOR: (On scanner.) Am I? How about time-ram? MASTER: Time-ram? (Contemptuously.) You couldn't do it in that old crock! DOCTOR: (On scanner.) The two TARDIS's are operating on the same frequency, and our controls are locked together. See for yourself. (A dial on the console starts to move towards an orange zone. Beyond it is a red zone marked "DANGER". A buzzing sound fills the room.) MASTER: Stop! DOCTOR: (On scanner.) You know what'll happen if that control goes over the safety limit, don't you? Tell him, Jo. JO: The two TARDIS's occupy exactly the same space and time, and that means that you... MASTER: (Snarls.) I know very well what it means! DOCTOR: (On scanner.) Do you? MASTER: Yes! (Reluctantly.) Oblivion! DOCTOR: (On scanner.) Top of the class. Extinction - for you, the TARDIS and the crystal. MASTER: And for you and Miss Grant. DOCTOR: (On scanner.) Oh yes, of course. But by then, Kronos will be free, and the universe will be saved. (The MASTER slams the console and stands back.) MASTER: Very well. Go ahead. DOCTOR: (On scanner.) What? MASTER: Go ahead - time-ram! JO: You can't be serious? MASTER: Do you think I'm going to dance to the Doctor's tune like some performing poodle? Look, Doctor, you want to stop me? Try! DOCTOR: (On scanner.) Very well. Goodbye, Jo. (The dial enters the orange zone and the buzzing grows louder. It moves by gradients towards the red zone and teeters on the edge.) MASTER: Well? Why have you stopped? DOCTOR: (On scanner.) To give you one last chance. MASTER: (Shouts scornfully.) Nonsense! You can't bring yourself to destroy her - now admit it! It's that fatal weakness of yours, Doctor - pity, compassion... (He laughs.) MASTER: You know, for a moment there, you almost had me believing you! JO: Don't listen to him, Doctor! Think of all those millions of people who'll die! Think of all those millions of people who'll never be born! Do it, Doctor, quickly! DOCTOR: (On scanner.) Jo, there may be another way. MASTER: Of course there is - the way to immeasurable glory! JO: Goodbye, Doctor! (She lunges for the control.) DOCTOR: (On scanner.) Don't do it! JO: Too late! MASTER: No! (The MASTER jumps forward to stop her but she manages to put the dial into the red zone and the two TARDIS's implode in a bright burst of energy...) 11: VOID (The expl*si*n contracts and the two TARDIS's appear in a strange void, where the blurred ground is yellow and the sky a deep blue.) 12: INT. MASTER'S TARDIS (JO and the MASTER are both unconscious on the floor of the MASTER'S TARDIS. JO is now free of her manacle. She starts to come to.) JO: Doctor... (She sits up.) JO: Doctor... (She heads out of the door.) 13: VOID (She cautiously crosses the void from the MASTER'S TARDIS and enters the DOCTOR'S.) 14: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (There she finds the DOCTOR also unconscious on the floor. She strokes his head.) JO: Doctor? Doctor? (He comes to.) DOCTOR: Jo...you alright. JO: I'm fine. d*ad, of course, but I'm fine. DOCTOR: d*ad? (He sits up.) DOCTOR: What are you talking about? You're no more d*ad than I am. JO: Well, that's just it. Well, I mean, that's what I mean. I mean, you're d*ad too, and so's the Master. DOCTOR: And I suppose we're all in heaven? JO: Yeah, or somewhere. Hey, come take a look. (She leads him to the door.) JO: Come on. 15: VOID (He steps out of the TARDIS and joins her.) JO: Groovy, isn't it? DOCTOR: Yes...yes, it's fascinating. But somehow I don't think we're in heaven. JO: Well, where are we then? DOCTOR: Well, that's just it. I don't know myself. You shouldn't have put us into time-ram, Jo. In any case, I was just about to do it myself. JO: Oh, really? DOCTOR: Now look, Jo, I... (She laughs.) DOCTOR: No, not really. (Suddenly they hear an echoing polite cough. They turn. In place of the never-ending void, a huge female FACE appears with golden eyes and lips. The DOCTOR bows towards the gigantic apparition.) DOCTOR: Greetings. (The FACE laughs and speaks in an echoing but slightly indistinct feminine tone.) FACE OF KRONOS: Your courtesy is always so punctilious, Doctor. DOCTOR: You know me? FACE OF KRONOS: Of old. DOCTOR: Well, you must forgive me, but, erm...I can't quite place you. FACE OF KRONOS: I am Kronos. JO: You? But you're a girl. FACE OF KRONOS: Well, shapes mean nothing. JO: But a little while ago you were a...a raging monster and an evil destroyer. FACE OF KRONOS: I can be all things - a destroyer, a healer, a creator. I'm beyond good and evil as you know it. DOCTOR: W...well, where exactly are we? FACE OF KRONOS: On the boundary of your reality and mine. You brought yourselves here. DOCTOR: Ah yes, the time-ram. FACE OF KRONOS: At the moment of impact, I was released. That saved you and took you to the threshold of being. DOCTOR: (Sighs.) Well, what now? FACE OF KRONOS: I owe you a debt of gratitude nothing could repay. What would you wish? (The DOCTOR and JO look at each other. She answers the question on their behalf.) JO: To go home? DOCTOR: In the TARDIS? FACE OF KRONOS: You shall. DOCTOR: Thank you. JO: But what about the Master? FACE OF KRONOS: (Coldly.) He stays. JO: And what will happen to him? FACE OF KRONOS: Torment, of course! The pain he has given so freely will be returned to him, in full. (Having heard this, the now-conscious MASTER comes running out of his TARDIS, his face full of terror.) MASTER: No! (He sinks to his knees before the DOCTOR, his hands clasped begging...) MASTER: Doctor, please?! Please help me, I can't bear it! Please, Doctor, please?! (The DOCTOR appears unmoved, but looks down from his pitiful enemy and up at the giant FACE.) DOCTOR: Mighty Kronos, may I ask one last favour of you? FACE OF KRONOS: Name it. DOCTOR: His life - his freedom. FACE OF KRONOS: (Curtly.) He made a prisoner of me. DOCTOR: Yes, I know. But would you allow us to deal with him in our way? FACE OF KRONOS: I do not understand you, but if that is your desire, so let it be. (The MASTER raises his head and gets to his feet. His face is full of relief.) MASTER: Thank you, Doctor. DOCTOR: Don't thank me. You're coming back to Earth with us. MASTER: Yes, of course. (The DOCTOR opens his TARDIS door and starts to enter. JO follows and the MASTER also but he pushes JO against the DOCTOR and makes a run for his own TARDIS.) DOCTOR: No! No! (The door to the MASTER'S TARDIS closes and it starts to dematerialise.) DOCTOR: Kronos! Stop him! Stop him! Kronos! (The computer unit vanishes in a flash of light. KRONOS appears almost amused.) FACE OF KRONOS: You asked for him to be given his freedom - he has it! JO: Here we go again. 16: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The infant BENTON sits on the adult's clothes on the floor of the laboratory while STUART tries to feed him from a dish. The baby merely cries.) STUART HYDE: Come on, baby Benton. Come on, get it down you. (STUART gives up. RUTH is still adjusting the machinery.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: What are you feeding him on now? STUART HYDE: The remains of my lunchtime sandwiches mashed up with some cold tea. DR. RUTH INGRAM: Well, stop playing mothers and fathers and come and give me a hand. I think I'm nearly there. STUART HYDE: And what are you trying to do? (She puts a unit back in place and closes an inspection panel.) DR. RUTH INGRAM: Well, if I'm on the beam, we should be able to close the gap in time for good. Right, switch on, Stu. STUART HYDE: Okay. (They take their places at the consoles.) 17: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The DOCTOR and JO are in the TARDIS and back in flight.) JO: But, why? I mean, why did you even ask? DOCTOR: Jo, would you condemn anybody to an eternity of torment - even the Master? JO: No...no, I guess I wouldn't. DOCTOR: No. Well neither would I - even though he was responsible for the destruction of Atlantis. JO: (Sadly.) So terrible though, when you think about it - all those people. DOCTOR: Yes. Well, Jo, we're about to land back in Cambridge. Just think - it all happened three thousand, five hundred years ago. 18: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (The power of TOMTIT is starting to build up again.) STUART HYDE: Three-o, three-five, four-o... (The TARDIS materialises on the other side of the room.) STUART HYDE: Suffering catfish! DR. RUTH INGRAM: (Unfazed.) Increase in power. STUART HYDE: Well, Ruth, look! DR. RUTH INGRAM: Yes, it must be the Doctor. Now concentrate, Stu. Increase in power! (JO, still in her Atlantean garb, and the DOCTOR walk out of the TARDIS.) STUART HYDE: Four-five, five-o... DR. RUTH INGRAM: Isolate matrix scanner. STUART HYDE: Five-five, check! DOCTOR: What's going on here? STUART HYDE: Six-o, six-five, seven-o... DR. RUTH INGRAM: See if it's working, Stu. (He runs to the window.) 19: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (The BRIGADIER and the UNIT troops start to move, slowly at first but gathering speed.) STUART HYDE: (OOV.) Hey! Yes, it is! DR. RUTH INGRAM: (OOV.) Good. 20: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (Wisps of smoke start to come out of the machinery.) DOCTOR: It seems to be working a bit too well. DR. RUTH INGRAM: It's running away again. STUART HYDE: Ruth, everybody, get down. It's going to go up! (They all duck down as the main unit explodes.) 21: EXT. NEWTON INSTITUTE (Outside, time runs at a normal speed. The BRIGADIER sends some of his troops in one direction and follows the others in the direction of the laboratory.) 22: INT. NEWTON INSTITUTE. LABORATORY. FIRST ROOM (TOMTIT, now out of action, is silent.) JO: You'll just have to start right at the beginning again. DR. RUTH INGRAM: No, I couldn't. Not without the professor. Just as well I guess. DOCTOR: So it's done its job. Everything's now back to normal. (The BRIGADIER, p*stol in hand, and several armed troops burst in the door.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, stand quite still everyone! (He stops as the four people look calmly at him. He looks round rather foolishly.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Er, where's the Master? DOCTOR: A very good question, Brigadier. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Doctor, glad to see you're back. (He suddenly takes notice of JO'S Atlantean dress and wig.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Miss Grant, what on earth are you doing in that extraordinary get-up? (Shouts.) And where, for heaven's sake, is Sergeant Benton?! STUART HYDE: (To RUTH.) The baby! We forgot the baby! (They start to dash round the consoles of TOMTIT, but SERGEANT BENTON stands. He is almost naked, covering his modesty and with an embarrassed smile on his face.) SERGEANT BENTON: Would somebody please mind telling me exactly what's happening around here? (All but the BRIGADIER burst into laughter...)
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THE THREE DOCTORS EPISODE ONE By Bob Baker and Dave Martin Original Air Date: 30 December, 1972 5:50pm - 6:15pm BLACK SCREEN (Coloured lights flash before our eyes and resolve into a familiar, friendly face, which fades into the background. It is replaced by the show logo.) (This is then replaced by the following text.) TITLE THE THREE DOCTORS (Fades to.) WRITTEN BY BOB BAKER AND DAVE MARTIN (Fades to.) PART ONE (Fade in.) 1. EXT. WILD LIFE SANCTUARY – LAKE DISTRICT – DAY (By the side of a lake, a weather balloon has come down. A man, ARTHUR, walks up to it and inspects a box that is attached to it. He touches it, hesitantly.) 2. EXT. WILD LIFE SANCTUARY – ENTRANCE – DAY (A land rover drives up to the house, passing a sign. MINSBRIDGE WILD LIFE SANCTUARY WARDENS OFFICE (The land rover drives up to a house and stops. The driver, DOCTOR TYLER, gets out and is approached by a WOMAN.) WOMAN: Dr. Tyler is it? TYLER: Yeah. Sorry to be a trouble. Thanks very much for calling. WOMAN: Oh, Arthur's keeping an eye on it, down by the lake. He hasn't touched it. TYLER: Oh good. WOMAN: It's not chemicals is it? Only the birds, you see... TYLER: No, you'll be all right. Nothing to worry about. (He gets back into his land rover and drives off.) 3. EXT. WILD LIFE SANCTUARY – LAKESIDE – DAY (Arthur is looking at the box suspiciously. He gets up and looks at the road and sees Tyler's land rover approaching. He looks back at the box. The box crackles, menacingly. Arthur looks down at it. There is a blinding flash of light, emanating from the box, and Arthur Ollis vanishes. Across the lake the birds take flight in fright...) (A few moments later, Tyler drives up in his land rover. He gets out of the car and looks around for Mister Ollis.) TYLER: (Yelling.) Mr. Ollis! (He is answered only by a bird's call.) TYLER: (More cautiously.) Mr. Ollis? (Tyler gazes at the box. Sighing, he turns back to the land rover and pulls out a radio, one of the small walkie-talkie kinds that can be connected to the dashboard.) TYLER: Put me through to UNIT HQ will you, please? 4. INT. UNIT HQ – DOCTOR'S LABORATORY – DAY (The Box sits on the bench. The TARDIS sits in the corner of the lab. Jo enters with a tray of standard issue military coffee in plastic cups. Doctor Tyler is talking with the Third Doctor as the Brigadier watches.) TYLER: So there you are. Mrs. Ollis says her husband's down there, I see him wave, get there and there he is – gone. So I got in touch with you lot. BRIGADIER: Quite right too. That's what we're here for, hey Doctor? THE THIRD DOCTOR: Yes of course. JO: What exactly is this machine for? (Jo starts examining the box.) TYLER: Cosmic Ray Research, Mrs. Grant. JO: And you still use balloons. TYLER: That's right. We may not be NASA, but we get the results. Inside that (Indicating the box.) is the most sophisticated Cosmic Ray Monitoring device between here and Cape Kennedy. You see, I was going to get in touch with you people anyway, even before this business. BRIGADIER: Oh? Why was that? TYLER: Can you give me that briefcase, will you? THE THIRD DOCTOR: Yes of course. (The Doctor picks the briefcase up from the floor and passes it to him.) TYLER: Well, we've been getting some pretty funny results on these latest tests. (He puts on his glasses, opens the briefcase, and pulls out some slides.) TYLER: Now this is the first one you see. Ah, this is normal. (This slide shows the normal pattern of cosmic rays. He then hands it to the DOCTOR who pins it up on a board over the lab bench.) TYLER: Now then. This is why I'm here. Last week's tests. Look at that. (The BRIGADIER stares at the second slide and then Tyler passes it on to the DOCTOR for closer inspection.) THE THIRD DOCTOR: Good grief. (The second slide shows a streak of lightening.) TYLER: Yeah. Nobody knows what to make of it. Well, they've all seen it. Yanks, and the other lot. BRIGADIER: Oh?! TYLER: Now here's somewhere, oh yes. Now this is what really put the tin hat on it. From that deep space monitor Houston put up. But just take a look at those readings! (While he has been talking, Tyler has pulled out a mass of paper, covered in numbers. He shows it to the BRIGADIER, who looks confused by it.) BRIGADIER: Erm, the Doctor's the, erm, the man that you... TYLER: What? Oh, oh I see. THE THIRD DOCTOR: Thank you. (Tyler now shows the papers to the DOCTOR, who takes them and starts leafing through them, looking at a few pages here and there very briefly.) THE THIRD DOCTOR: Well it's travelling faster than light. TYLER: Yes. And it can't, can it? I don't know what to make of it. It's come all that way, through millions of star systems. Must have been directed... And it must have been directed at us. But why? THE THIRD DOCTOR: Why indeed, Professor Tyler, why indeed. BRIGADIER: Thing is Doctor, is there anything I can do? THE THIRD DOCTOR: Yes. Pass me a silicon rod will you? (The BRIGADIER picks up a small rod from the bench in front of him. He passes it to Jo, who in turn passes it to the Doctor. He stirs his coffee with it, and then takes a sip. The Brigadier looks annoyed.) BRIGADIER: Yes, what I meant was, is there anything that U.N.I.T. can do about this space lightening business? THE THIRD DOCTOR: Lightening? Yes I suppose it could look like lightening, only it isn't. (The DOCTOR stares at the two plates hanging up over the sink.) THE THIRD DOCTOR: No. If there where such a thing I would say it was compressed light. A sort of controlled superlucent omission. BRIGADIER: What? (Not understanding a word of it.) JO: He means it travels faster than light. BRIGADIER: Thank you, Miss Grant. THE THIRD DOCTOR: Tell me, Professor, is this machine of yours functioning properly? TYLER: Far as I can tell. Haven't developed that latest slate yet, of course. THE THIRD DOCTOR: Well, I suggest that you do so immediately and let me know the result of your findings. Jo, you and I are going to take a look at the scene of the crime. JO: Right. THE THIRD DOCTOR: I think you'll find everything you need here. TYLER: Oh, right. Thanks. (The Doctor and Jo leave, while Tyler takes a small plate out of the box and begins to use the equipment in the lab to develop it. The Brigadier looks on. Tyler notices the Brigadier, still hovering expectantly.) TYLER: Oh, I can manage now, thank you. BRIGADIER: (Icily.) I'm delighted to hear it. Make yourself at home. (Sarcastic.) We're only supposed to be a top-secret security establishment. Liberty Hall, Doctor Tyler. Liberty Hall! (With that the Brigadier marches away, leaving Tyler to shake his head in bewilderment. A few seconds later he is given cause for even more bewilderment. Upon pressing a button on the developing machine in the corner of the laboratory, a small piece of photographic paper emerges. Tyler picks it up and looks at it in amazement.) TYLER: That shouldn't happen. (Placing the slide on the viewer, we can now see the cause for concern. The slide shows a streak of space lightening, and then, superimposed upon the image, is Mr. Ollis' face, contorted in agony.) TYLER: That defiantly shouldn't happen. (Tyler goes across to the box, still sat on the workbench, and begins to unscrew the top of the box. The box crackles to itself and Tyler backs away in fear as there is a blinding flash of light and Tyler vanishes. Poor Doctor Tyler seems to have gone the way of Mr. Ollis. A few moments later a small blob of purple-brown stuff emerges from the box and makes it's way slowly into the sink and down the drain.) 5. EXT. WILD LIFE SANCTUARY – LAKESIDE – DAY (The THIRD DOCTOR is bent down, examining the ground while JO and Mrs. OLLIS watch.) MRS. OLLIS: This here's the place all right. (Jo is not convinced.) JO: Are you sure Mrs. Ollis? MRS. OLLIS: Well the Land Rover tracks stop here don't they? I told you, you're too late. The other gentleman's been and gone. (The Doctor has been examining the ground with a Geiger counter-like device which has been emitting a lot of beeps, far more than is normal for simple background radiation. The Doctor looks up and addresses Mrs. Ollis.) THE THIRD DOCTOR: And you haven't seen your husband since this morning? MRS. OLLIS: No. Nothing unusual in that. Oh he'll be off somewhere. We shan't see him now until dark. I'll look for him if you like. THE THIRD DOCTOR: No. No, it's not important. MRS. OLLIS: Please yourself. I'll be getting on then. (Mrs. Ollis walks away, back to the house, leaving the Doctor and Jo to chatter.) JO: It is important, isn't it, Doctor? THE THIRD DOCTOR: Yes Jo. Yes, it's much more important than I thought. 6. INT. UNIT HQ – DOCTOR'S LABORATORY – DAY (The BRIGADIER enters the now deserted room. Some time has passed since Doctor Tyler's disappearance, but the room is just as he left it.) BRIGADIER: Doctor Tyler, these reports might interest you... (He notices the absences of Doctor Tyler.) BRIGADIER: Tyler? (Crossing to another door, the Brigadier opens it and yells through it.) BRIGADIER: Doctor Tyler?! (He crosses back into the middle of the room.) BRIGADIER: Sergeant Benton! (After a moment, Sergeant BENTON runs into the Laboratory.) BRIGADIER: (Fuming.) Doctor Tyler appears to be wandering around UNIT Head Quarters. Go and find him and bring him here at once. BENTON: Yes sir. (Benton turns to leave.) 7. EXT. UNIT HQ – APPROACH ROAD – DAY (The THIRD DOCTOR and JO drive BESSIE, the Doctor's car, up to the entrance to UNIT HQ, with the hood down. The Doctor and Jo are protected from the rain by her umbrella.) (The sign on the gate reads MINISTRY OF DEFENCE U.N.I.T. HEADQUARTERS BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART NO UNAUTHORISED ENTRY (BESSIE drives in through the gate, around the UNIT building and enters the garage at the back of the complex.) 8. EXT. UNIT HQ – UNIT GARAGE – DAY (BESSIE enters the garage and the THIRD DOCTOR parks the car. Jo puts down the umbrella, and the Doctor and Jo get out of the car.) THE THIRD DOCTOR: Right, lets see what Doctor Tyler's found out about that plate. JO: What's that? (Coming out of the drain in the centre of the garage is a much larger version of the blob that entered the sink in the laboratory before. It seems to be drawn towards Jo and Bessie. Jo is still standing on the running boards of the car.) THE THIRD DOCTOR: Jo! Back slowly away behind the car. (Jo doesn't move.) THE THIRD DOCTOR: Do as I say! (She does so and they both stand with the car between them and the Blob, now almost the size of the car.) JO: What is it? THE THIRD DOCTOR: When I tell you to run, you run. (A pause.) THE THIRD DOCTOR: Right! Run! (Jo does so, heading for the bushes across the road from the garage. The Doctor follows close behind her. They hide behind a tree and watch what happens inside the garage. The Blob increases in size and there is a blinding flash. Bessie vanishes. The Doctor and Jo exchange worried glances.) JO: What happened? What is that? THE THIRD DOCTOR: I don't know. (The Blob disappears back down into the drain.) JO: Poor old Bessie. THE THIRD DOCTOR: Right. Come on. (The camera lingers on the spot where Bessie once stood. The THIRD DOCTOR and JO head off into the building.) 9. INT. UNIT HQ – DOCTOR'S LABORATORY – DAY (The BRIGADIER is tapping Doctor TYLER'S box with his cane, awaiting the return of... anybody really. After a moment, SERGEANT BENTON enters the Laboratory.) BRIGADIER: Well, where is he? BENTON: Sorry sir, we just couldn't find him. Doctor Tyler's just disappeared. We've searched the grounds and the buildings sir and there's no sign of him. Oh, and there was an expl*si*n in the garage sir. BRIGADIER: expl*si*n? What expl*si*n? I heard nothing. THE THIRD DOCTOR: Well, you wouldn't Brigadier. (The THIRD DOCTOR and JO enter the Laboratory.) BENTON: But there was a flash Doctor. THE THIRD DOCTOR: A flash yes, not an expl*si*n. It was a release of kinetic energy. BRIGADIER: One of Bessie's gadgets misfire? JO: It's far more series than that Brigadier. BRIGADIER: You better check Benton. BENTON: Right sir... THE THIRD DOCTOR: (Cutting him off.) NO! I shouldn't go anywhere near it. Not just at the moment. BENTON: What shall I do sir? THE THIRD DOCTOR: I suggest that you put a guard on the drains Benton. BENTON: The drains? THE THIRD DOCTOR: Yes the drains! BRIGADIER: Put the men on stand by, Benton. BENTON: Right away sir. (Benton leaves to carry out his orders.) THE THIRD DOCTOR: All right Brigadier. Well then, what's the situation as you see it? BRIGADIER: Well, I just had a call from Mrs. Ollis. Her husband hasn't returned. JO: Oh no. THE THIRD DOCTOR: Yes, I was rather afraid that might happen. BRIGADIER: We're cooperating with the local Police, but we have got fifteen hundred acres to cover. THE THIRD DOCTOR: Well, I shouldn't bother going on looking for him Brigadier. I think you'll find that that's Mr. Ollis. (The Doctor has found the slide that Doctor Tyler was processing shortly before his disappearance. He hands it to the Brigadier.) BRIGADIER: Is this the plate that Tyler was developing when we left? THE THIRD DOCTOR: Yes that's right. BRIGADIER: When I came back with these satellite reports, Tyler had disappeared and this box was open as it is now. (The box's lid is half off, as we last saw it.) THE THIRD DOCTOR: Nothing's been moved? BRIGADIER: Nothing. THE THIRD DOCTOR: Excuse me a minute will you? BRIGADIER: Um. (The THIRD DOCTOR takes his Geiger counter out of his jacket pocket and tests the box for radioactivity. There are only slight beeps from the Geiger counter, but still more than would be expected from normal background radiation. The Third Doctor moves the counter over the sink and then the readings go through the roof.) THE THIRD DOCTOR: All right Brigadier, go on. BRIGADIER: These are tracking reports and assessments from just about every country in the world. THE THIRD DOCTOR: Thank you. (The Doctor takes the large sheaf of papers and flicks through it, looking at only a few entries here and there, as if all the pages say the same thing.) THE THIRD DOCTOR: It looks as if Tyler was right. That light beam or whatever it is seems to have scanned the Earth like a searchlight and picked on us. BRIGADIER: Since UNIT is now in charge of this investigation it would help if you where a little more forthcoming. JO: Tell him about Bessie, Doctor. THE THIRD DOCTOR: Wh...? Oh yes. Well Brigadier, now Bessie has disappeared. BRIGADIER: What? JO: But it was after us. BRIGADIER: Yes, but what was after you? THE THIRD DOCTOR: Well, some kind of powerful organism thing with a very strong hunting instinct. JO: It was hunting you, wasn't it Doctor? THE THIRD DOCTOR: Yes. Yes, I'm afraid so. BRIGADIER: Are you trying to tell me that this whole thing has been arranged just for your benefit? JO: Oh yes that's right. You see that stuff simply ignored me as soon as it saw the Doctor. BRIGADIER: What about this chap Ollis? THE THIRD DOCTOR: Oh I don't know. Well perhaps this thing was confused, or it's instructions weren't getting through. BRIGADIER: And Tyler? THE THIRD DOCTOR: Tyler? Yes that was its second mistake, here in this laboratory where I usually work. And its third mistake was Bessie. JO: And you were in Bessie. THE THIRD DOCTOR: Yes. BRIGADIER: And you think there's a link between the beam and this... this organism thing. THE THIRD DOCTOR: Yes I do. I think that that beam was the method it used to get here. BRIGADIER: Well now it's arrived. And it's hostile. And it's still here. So what do we do and how do we find it? THE THIRD DOCTOR: We don't find it Brigadier. If we wait around here long enough, it'll find us. 10. EXT. UNIT HQ – FRONT GATE – DAY (Two soldiers guard the main gate. One of them strolls over and leans against a small army jeep that is parked near the front gate. He stands and looks down the approach road that leads from the main road to the front entrance to UNIT. One by one, THREE CREATURES appear at the entrance to UNIT. They are roughly the shape of a man, with a round featureless head and thick blobby arms and legs. They are the small Blob-like substance that att*cked Bessie, but are now much more solid. They are the equivalent of as*ault soldiers.) (They stand motionless for a second and then begin to advance towards UNIT HQ.) GUARD: Holy mosses! What's that? (The GUARD, the one leaning on the van, looks towards the creatures as they emit a strange growling sound and start to advance.) GUARD: Get Sergeant Benton, quick! 11. EXT. UNIT HQ – BUNKER – DAY (The CREATURES appear all around UNIT HQ.) 12. EXT. UNIT HQ – FRONT GATE – DAY (SERGEANT BENTON and TWO OTHER MEN arrive.) 13. EXT. UNIT HQ – BUNKER – DAY (More creatures arrive.) 14. EXT. UNIT HQ – FRONT GATE – DAY BENTON: How many of them? (More men rush out of UNIT HQ and follow the SERGEANT.) GUARD: I'm not sure, Sarge. They seem to be springing out all over the place. BENTON: Right. You hold them off here, and I'll cover the back. Right, you men come with me. Hurry. (BENTON and all but two of the men leave.) GUARD: f*re at will! (The guards f*re at the creatures. The g*n has no effect whatsoever on the creatures. It is as effective as taking on a Tyrannosaurus Rex with a sh**t. One creature raises its hand and emits a burst of energy. There is a huge expl*si*n and the man dies.) 15. INT. UNIT HQ – DOCTOR'S LABORATORY – DAY (The BRIGADIER, Jo and THE THIRD DOCTOR watch from the LAB window as the creatures surround UNIT HQ and advance.) BRIGADIER: What are those creatures? Where are they coming from? THE THIRD DOCTOR: Obviously from the same source as that organism thing. First the scout, then the reinforcements. BRIGADIER: Their grasp of military tactics is very good. JO: Well let's hope Sergeant Benton's are even better. 16. EXT. UNIT HQ – BACK ENTRANCE – DAY BENTON: Hurry men and keep your heads down. (SERGEANT BENTON runs past the back entrance to UNIT HQ just as three more creatures appear. Two men run out of the building and set up a sub-machine g*n, which then blasts away at the creatures. One of the creatures raises its hand and fires, bl*wing up the men holding the g*n, k*lling them instantly. It also destroys the sub-machine g*n.) 17. EXT. UNIT HQ – BACK ENTRANCE – OTHER AREA – DAY (SERGEANT BENTON is directing the action on a walkie-talkie. One man fires a bazooka at a creature and it appears to die.) BENTON: Well done Johnson! (However, the creature gets up and advances, followed by three others.) BENTON: (Into walkie-talkie.) Brigadier, do you read me? Over. BRIGADIER: (On walkie-talkie.) What's the situation Benton? Over. BENTON: We're under att*ck from all sides. w*apon are useless. Nothing seems to touch them. Nothing. Over. 18. INT. UNIT HQ – DOCTOR'S LABORATORY – DAY (The BRIGADIER is talking on the walkie-talkie. JO and the THIRD DOCTOR are watching.) BRIGADIER: Get the men out Benton. Complete evacuation. Then report to me in the laboratory. Is that clear? Over. (Outside the window, BENTON yells at the men.) BENTON: (Voice Over.) Okay men, fall back! Complete evacuation. ... building. Everybody. Now move. BRIGADIER: (Over above.) I better see what's happening. You stay here Doctor. THE THIRD DOCTOR: Not much point in my going anywhere else is there? (The Brigadier leaves the laboratory. As he does so, a small blob can be seen emerging from an air vent just outside the laboratory doorway. It heads straight for the Laboratory and the THIRD DOCTOR, growing larger as it does so. Inside the laboratory, THE THIRD DOCTOR and JO and talking.) THE THIRD DOCTOR: I think you ought to get out of here too Jo. JO: Not a chance. I'm staying right here with you. THE THIRD DOCTOR: Now please Jo, do as I ask. They won't harm you. You ignore them, they'll ignore you. I'm the one they're after. JO: Well, I'll just have to risk it, won't I? BENTON: (Climbing in the window.) Right Jo, Doctor. Have you seen the Brigadier? THE THIRD DOCTOR: Sergeant Benton. Just the man I wanted to see. Will you please take Miss Grant with you? Even if you have to carry her! BENTON: I'm sorry Doc, my orders were to report to the Brigadier. THE THIRD DOCTOR: Your orders sergeant... (The argument is stopped when the blob makes the doors to the laboratory vanish.) THE THIRD DOCTOR: Into the TARDIS quick! (All three run for the TARDIS. The Doctor opens the doors and they enter.) 19. INT. TARDIS CONSOLE ROOM (THE THIRD DOCTOR starts operating the controls and the TARDIS begins to warm up. Sergeant Benton takes in the huge console room he's just stepped into, housed inside the tiny 1963 London Police Telephone Box exterior.) THE THIRD DOCTOR: Right. Force field on. (The TARDIS doors close.) 20. INT. UNIT HQ – DOCTOR'S LABORATORY – DAY (Annoyed at loosing its pray, and being unable to enter the TARDIS, the Blob starts to remove parts of the laboratory.) 21. INT. TARDIS CONSOLE ROOM JO: You were going off without me weren't you. THE THIRD DOCTOR: Well sergeant, aren't you going to say it that it's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Everybody else does. BENTON: It's pretty obvious isn't it. Anyway, nothing to do with you surprises me anymore Doctor. THE THIRD DOCTOR: Oh. Thank you for the complement. (Jo smiles. Benton is obviously very shaken. The Doctor fiddles with the controls and the TARDIS shakes a little. It starts making the first part of the dematerialisation noise. Jo looks on, wondering what he's doing.) THE THIRD DOCTOR: It's not reacting. Well, there's only one thing for it. I'll have to send an SOS. (The THIRD DOCTOR pulls up a small box set into the console and flips a switch.) THE THIRD DOCTOR: I hate having to call them, but, there we are. JO: What were you planning to do, anyhow? THE THIRD DOCTOR: I was planning to lure that stuff away from Earth, Jo. But now as it seems to have immobilised the TARDIS, I'm not going anywhere. We're trapped. JO: So what are we going to do? THE THIRD DOCTOR: At least we can watch that thing in comfort and then we can send in a report and see what they have to say about it. (The Doctor turns on the scanner and goes to look at it. He can't seem to get an image on the scanner.) BENTON: Who are 'they'? JO: The Time Lords. Oh, things are pretty serious. THE THIRD DOCTOR: Yes. They are. 22. SPACE (The SOS message departs the TARDIS and spins through space.) 23. INT. CHAMBER – TIME LORDS HOME PLANET – DAY (The SOS is being received. Two people, one very old, the other middle aged, sit at consoles. The rest of the large room is deserted. Two people enter the room. They are the PRESIDENT and the CHANCELLOR. They approach the Old Man.) PRESIDENT: Is the Doctor holding out? OLD TIME LORD: We are giving his TARDIS all the energy we can spare. PRESIDENT: And the hostile? OLD TIME LORD: Unidentified so far my lord. (On the monitor screen above the Old Man's console, the old Time Lord now plays a recording of the Blob destroying the laboratory. The image is in black and white.) CHANCELLOR: And the source of this beam? PRESIDENT: You see Chancellor? The Black Hole. (On the screen, a massive gagged hole in space can be seen. From it, a beam of light is being emitted, directly at Earth.) CHANCELLOR: That's a nowhere. No place. A void. According to all known laws nothing can exist there. PRESIDENT: Somehow through this black hole vital cosmic energy is draining away in spite of all we can do to check it. CHANCELLOR: Already the Time Travel facility is in danger, my lord. PRESIDENT: Without it, we shall be helpless. Unless the energy loss is stopped the whole fabric of space time will be destroyed. We are being consumed and we can find no way to fight back. CHANCELLOR: Are you telling me we are up against an adversary, a force, equal to our own. PRESIDENT: Equal and opposite to our own. CHANCELLOR: A force which inhabits a universe where by definition even we cannot exist. PRESIDENT: Yes. A force in the universe of antimatter. CHANCELLOR: But that's too terrible to contemplate. Someone must go and help the Doctor. PRESIDENT: I agree, but no one can be spared, you excellency. Everyone is needed to combat the energy drain. CHANCELLOR: Are you saying we can't help him? PRESIDENT: Yes I am. But perhaps he can help himself. Show me the Doctor's time stream, the section for his earlier self before he changed his form. OLD MAN: Sir. CHANCELLOR: You can't allow him to cross his own time stream! Apart from the enormous energy it would need, the First Law of Time expressly forbids him to meet his other selves. (The Old Man types on the console.) PRESIDENT: I am aware of that your Excellency, but this is an emergency. CHANCELLOR: But you can't! PRESIDENT: No excellency. I have to. CHANCELLOR: Be it on your own head. (The Chancellor turns and leaves the room.) PRESIDENT: Now, show me. (On the screen, a black and white image forms of a little man in a baggy black jacket and equally ample check trousers. He appears to be running away from a burning barn. He puts his finger in his mouth as he reaches the camera and his face has an expression of 'Did I do that?' This is the SECOND DOCTOR.) (The image fades and the camera returns to the TARDIS CONSOLE ROOM.) 24. INT. TARDIS CONSOLE ROOM (Inside the CONSOLE ROOM, the THIRD DOCTOR, JO and BENTON and gathered to one side of the console. They hear a dematerialisation sound.) THIRD DOCTOR: That's odd. Nobody touched anything did they? BENTON and JO: No. THIRD DOCTOR: Well you heard it though didn't you? JO: Yes and felt it too. Could it be that stuff outside? THIRD DOCTOR: Well I don't think so. Hello, what's this? (The Third Doctor has found a recorder on the console. He picks it up and looks at it. Haven't we seen this before somewhere?) THIRD DOCTOR: Seems strangely familiar. Is it yours Jo? JO: A flute? No. THIRD DOCTOR: Well, properly speaking it's a recorder. SECOND DOCTOR: Thank you. (The Second Doctor appears out of thin air and takes the recorder from the Third Doctor.) SECOND DOCTOR: I was wondering where that had got too. (He plays a few notes experimentally. The recorder seems to be broken.) SECOND DOCTOR: You haven't been trying to play this have you? (He looks around the TARDIS console room.) SECOND DOCTOR: Oh. I can see you've been doing the TARDIS up a bit. Um. I don't like it! (The Second Doctor looks around, taking in the scene, including the monitor with the image of the Blob on it, as it tries to destroy the lab.) SECOND DOCTOR: Oh my word. (The Doctor flips a switch on the console, rather dramatically, and the sound increases. We can hear the chairs and tables being removed. He then flips the switch again, just as dramatically, and the sound turns off.) SECOND DOCTOR: Oh dear. We are in trouble aren't we? Just as well I turned up. JO: Doctor... (To the THIRD DOCTOR.) BENTON: Doctor! (To 'his' Doctor. The original article, you might say.) Where did you spring from? SECOND DOCTOR: Now don't tell me. (The Doctor thinks for a moment and then snaps his fingers.) SECOND DOCTOR: Corporal Benton isn't it! (BENTON points to his third stripe.) BENTON: Sergeant Benton now. SECOND DOCTOR: How do you do my dear fellow. BENTON: Nice to see you. SECOND DOCTOR: Haven't seen you since that nasty business with the Cybermen. BENTON: All those years ago. (JO turns to her Doctor, the THIRD DOCTOR. BENTON and the SECOND DOCTOR keep chatting. Brief snatches of conversation are heard as Benton tells the Doctor that the Brigadier has gone up in the world now as well.) JO: Who is he and how did he get in here. THIRD DOCTOR: Well it's a bit difficult to explain, Jo. JO: He's not one of them is he? (Jo points to the ceiling, meaning the 'Time Lords'.) THIRD DOCTOR: Well not so much one of them as one of use. One of me to be precise. (The Second Doctor has been listening to this last part.) SECOND DOCTOR: Oh no no no no. I'm sorry my dear I hate to be contrary, but I can see he's a little bit confused, poor old chap, and I do feel you should have the correct explanation, you don't mind do you? THIRD DOCTOR: Yes. SECOND DOCTOR: (Ignoring himself.) I didn't think you would. You see Jo, I may call you Jo, mayn't I? (Jo nods.) SECOND DOCTOR: He is one of me. JO: Oh I see. You're both Time Lords. SECOND DOCTOR: Well quite. Well, not quite. JO: Oh. SECOND DOCTOR: Not... not just Time Lords. Were the same Time Lord. THIRD DOCTOR: Oh please, you're only confusing my assistant. Jo, it's all quite simple. I am he and he is me. JO: "And we are all together gogokechoo?" THE DOCTORS: What? JO: It's a song by the Beatles. SECOND DOCTOR: Oh, how does it go? (The Second Doctor places the recorder to his lips.) THIRD DOCTOR: Oh please be quiet. (The Second Doctor lowers the recorder and looks offended.) JO: Look, is he really you? THIRD DOCTOR: Yes, yes I'm afraid so. BENTON: I think he is Miss Grant. You see, when the Brig and I first met the Doctor, he (Pointing at the Third Doctor.) looked like him. (Pointing at the Second Doctor.) JO: How? THIRD DOCTOR: Yes. That's what I'd like to know. You've got no right to be here. SECOND DOCTOR: Perhaps... THIRD DOCTOR: What about the First Law of Time. SECOND DOCTOR: Perhaps I could explain! THIRD DOCTOR: Perhaps you could! SECOND DOCTOR: Well our fellow Time Lords out there are just as much under siege as we are. THIRD DOCTOR: What? SECOND DOCTOR: And they couldn't send anyone to help you. But they did summon up enough temporal energy to lift me out of my bit of our time stream and prop me down here. Into my own future, so to speak. THIRD DOCTOR: Why? SECOND DOCTOR: My dear fellow, you are being a bit dim aren't you? Your effectiveness is now doubled! THIRD DOCTOR: Halved more like! SECOND DOCTOR: Now, now. There's no need to be ungracious. Suppose we have a look, er, at our problem, shall we? Er, you don't mind do you? THIRD DOCTOR: Oh, be my guest! SECOND DOCTOR: Oh, thank you. (He flips a switch on the console.) 25. INT. UNIT HQ – DOCTOR'S LABORATORY – DAY (The Brigadier, now in full military dress, strides towards the Laboratory followed by two soldiers, preparing to storm what remains of the Lab. They sidle up towards the hole in the wall where the doorway once was, and look at the Blob inside the room.) GUARD: Good grief, sir. What's that? BRIGADIER: Don't just stand there man. Open f*re! (The Guard does so, and the creature causes the water cooler, right next to him, to vanish. The Guard falls back in fear.) BRIGADIER: Fall back! 26: INT. TARDIS CONSOLE ROOM (Inside, the Doctors, JO and Benton have just watched this on the monitor.) SECOND DOCTOR: Dear old Lethbridge-Stewart. Still blazing away as usual. BENTON: Can't we do something to help them, Doctor? THIRD DOCTOR: They'll be all right as long as they keep out of its way. (The Third Doctor turns off the monitor.) THIRD DOCTOR: Right, now you can see our problem, can't you. SECOND DOCTOR: Yes. Most unpleasant. (To one side, to himself.) They are very worried, you know. THIRD DOCTOR: Yes, and so am I. I think perhaps I ought to put you in the picture. SECOND DOCTOR: Right. THIRD DOCTOR: Contact. SECOND DOCTOR: Contact. (They both face forward and looking straight ahead with eyes closed telepathically tell each other about what has gone on. The camera holds on each face for a split second so that we get the impression of both faces merging into one being.) (They open their eyes. Contact is broken.) SECOND DOCTOR: I see. So it's after you? Or should I say us? THIRD DOCTOR: That's right. And as they can't help us, we'll just have to help ourselves. (We now see how different the personalities of the two Doctors actually are. The Second needs music to think by, but the Third prefers quiet to work.) SECOND DOCTOR: "Twinkle, twinkle little star." (He proceeds to play the tune on the recorder, as he starts to think what to do.) BENTON: What was all that about? JO: Sort of telepathic conference, I think. THIRD DOCTOR: Must you! SECOND DOCTOR: Are you going to take this attitude to my music all the time? THIRD DOCTOR: Yes, I'm rather afraid I am. JO: Oh dear... (The Two Doctors argue.) 27. INT. CHAMBER – TIME LORDS HOME PLANET – DAY (In the Chamber, the Old Man and the Chancellor are watching the progress of the two Doctors. Both can be seen bickering on the monitor, as Jo and Benton try to stop them.) OLD MAN: We've achieved a transference, sir. PRESIDENT: Splendid. OLD MAN: But I don't think it's going to work. PRESIDENT: Why, what's wrong? OLD MAN: They refuse to co-operate. PRESIDENT: I see. Well, we'll soon shatter that. Show me the earliest Doctor. OLD MAN: Him too sir, but surly... PRESIDENT: Show me. (On the monitor, the FIRST DOCTOR can be seen, as he straightens his jacket. He is a quiet, dignified, white-haired old man. A figure who is to be reckoned with.) PRESIDENT: He'll keep them in order. 28. TARDIS CONSOLE ROOM (Back as they where before. The Doctors are STILL arguing, this time over the loss of picture on the monitor.) SECOND DOCTOR: Well, you've been fiddling with it, haven't you? THIRD DOCTOR: It was perfectly all right until you touched it. Now if only you'd leave things to me. SECOND DOCTOR: If we were to leave things with you, my dear fellow, we'd be in a fine pickle wouldn't we? THIRD DOCTOR: Look, you lost the image, not me. BENTON: Here they go again. SECOND DOCTOR: I did not loose the image! (The THIRD DOCTOR and the SECOND DOCTOR have an overlapping argument as each accuses the other of losing the image. JO Notices something appearing on the screen.) JO: Doctor look. Both of you! Look. (On the monitor, a small triangular cell is seen lowering into view. Inside, the FIRST DOCTOR is trapped.) FIRST DOCTOR: Ah, there you are. I seem to be stuck up here. Um? Um? Oh. So you're my replacements. (Both replacements smile politely.) FIRST DOCTOR: A dandy and a clown. (The smiles vanish and both stare at each other.) FIRST DOCTOR: Have you done anything? SECOND DOCTOR: Well, we've, er, assessed the situation. FIRST DOCTOR: Just as I thought. (He laughs.) Nothing. THIRD DOCTOR: Well it's not easy, you know. SECOND DOCTOR: It's not as if we know what that stuff is. THIRD DOCTOR: No. FIRST DOCTOR: Then I'll tell you. It's a time bridge. (Both Doctors looks surprised.) SECOND DOCTOR: What? THIRD DOCTOR: I see. FIRST DOCTOR: Now what's a bridge for, hay? SECOND DOCTOR: Well, I... THIRD DOCTOR: Crossing. FIRST DOCTOR: Right. So stop dilly-dallying. And cross it! (He recedes into the distance.) (The Second Doctor screams at the monitor and runs back to the console and starts fiddling with the controls, followed by the Third Doctor.) SECOND DOCTOR: No! No wait! THIRD DOCTOR: You faded him again. SECOND DOCTOR: I did not fade him, you saw... THIRD DOCTOR: Yes you certainly did... (They both start arguing again.) JO: I hate to ask. (The DOCTOR'S stop and turn to her.) JO: But, who was that? THIRD and SECOND DOCTORS: Me. (They turn indignantly to each other and shout at each other.) THIRD and SECOND DOCTORS: Me! SECOND DOCTOR: Call will you? (The Second Doctor produces a coin from his pocket. It's one the Third Doctor knows well. It's doubled headed.) THIRD DOCTOR: Heads. (The Doctor tosses the coin, catches it, reads the face and then quickly pockets the coin.) SECOND DOCTOR: Hard luck. (The Third Doctor is resigned to his fate.) THIRD DOCTOR: All right. Stand by to disconnect the force field. BENTON: What are you going to do? THIRD DOCTOR: Now! JO: Doctor, No. (The Second Doctor disconnects the Force Field and opens the TARDIS doors. The Third Doctor emerges.) 29. INT. UNIT HQ – DOCTOR'S LABORATORY – DAY (The Third Doctor is now in the lab. Jo runs after him and catches up to him. They are now trapped by the blob.) THIRD DOCTOR: Jo get back! (Jo grabs hold of him and there is a blinding flash of light. The laboratory is deserted.)
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THE THREE DOCTORS EPISODE TWO By Bob Baker and Dave Martin 6 January, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm INT. TARDIS SECOND DOCTOR: Steady now, Sergeant, he knows what he's doing! At least I hope he does. BENTON: Yes, but what about Jo? SECOND DOCTOR: Yes, it's a pity she ran after him like that. Let's have a look, shall we? BENTON: Will they be all right? Where are they? Doctor? SECOND DOCTOR: As far as I can see, that stuff's gone to a great deal of trouble to find me, er, him, so whoever or whatever it was that sent it can't merely want to k*ll him. No, no, they've been transported somewhere. BENTON: Transported? What do you mean, transported? Transported to where? SECOND DOCTOR: No, wait a minute. Do you know, Sergeant, I think our friend has gone off the boil, so to speak. BENTON: Right then. Now I'm going to take this chance to blow it to bits. I'll get a grenade. We'll soon see SECOND DOCTOR: No, I think we could try a more subtle approach. Let's turn off the force field and open the doors first, shall we? BENTON: Right. SECOND DOCTOR: Wait a minute. Let me go first. INT. UNIT LABORATORY (They emerge carefully into the laboratory.) SECOND DOCTOR: Hmm. Awaiting further instructions, I would think. (It bristles at them and they retreat back to the TARDIS, then emerge slowly again.) BENTON: You're not going near that thing, Doctor, are you? SECOND DOCTOR: It's all right. I think it was just hiccups. Fascinating. (He moves closer.) (The Brigadier runs in as the blob bristles again.) BRIGADIER: For heaven's sake be careful, Doctor! EXT. UNIT LABORATORY SECOND DOCTOR: No, no, Brigadier. Leave it alone. It's not dangerous for the moment. It seems to think it's achieved its mission. (The Brigadier does a double-take.) BRIGADIER: Oh, no. SECOND DOCTOR: Oh, yes. BRIGADIER: Yes, but you're not the BENTON: Yes, it is, sir. It's the first one. SECOND DOCTOR: How are you, Brigadier? BRIGADIER: Pretty well, thanks. Doctor, what the blazes are you doing? Why have you changed your appearance? And what's happened to Miss Grant? (The black hole's beam deposits the others in a quarry. Then we go right back to the lab.) SECOND DOCTOR: There you are. It's all quite simple really. BRIGADIER: Yes, well, I'm sorry. Well, I don't believe a word of it. Look, just tell me this. Are you or are you not the Doctor that I met during the Yeti business, and then later when the Cybermen inv*de? SECOND DOCTOR: Of course I am. You can see that. BRIGADIER: Right. But then you subsequently appeared on Earth during that trouble with the Autons, only then you'd changed into a tall, thin fellow. SECOND DOCTOR: Had I really? How fascinating. BRIGADIER: Doctor, I warn you. SECOND DOCTOR: It's no use your asking me about all this, Brigadier. As far as I'm concerned, it hasn't happened yet. Don't you see? I'm just a temporal anomaly. BRIGADIER: It's quite obvious to me what's happened. You've been mucking around with that infernal machine of yours. BENTON: Be careful, sir. BRIGADIER: You've been mucking around with that infernal machine of yours, and somehow or other you've changed back your appearance and sh*t poor Miss Grant off to heaven knows where. BENTON: It's not quite as simple as that, sir, honestly. BRIGADIER: Now that'll do, Benton. Just two things I want from you, Doctor. An effective way of controlling that stuff and the safe return of Miss Grant. BENTON: What about our Doctor, sir? Don't you want him back? BRIGADIER: Enough of that nonsense, Benton. I've got him back. As long as he does the job, he can wear what face he likes. SECOND DOCTOR: Well, I'll do my best, but I can't make any promises. BRIGADIER: In that case, you'd better consult those all-powerful superiors of yours for their advice. SECOND DOCTOR: Oh, I don't think that'd do any good. At the moment they're far from being all-powerful. That's why it's been left up to me and me and me. BACK ON GALLIFREY CHANCELLOR: What's happening? TIME LORD: It's draining our power as fast as we pump it in, sir. CHANCELLOR: Yet you continue to waste the power we so urgently need. What is more, by permitting the Doctor to meet his other selves, you have transgressed the first and most important law of time. TIME LORD: I know that, your Excellency, but this is an emergency. CHANCELLOR: No emergency can justify this transgression. This operation must stop immediately. PRESIDENT: On the contrary, it must continue. The Doctor is our only hope. There is no one else. CHANCELLOR: I could wish for more hope than that. PRESIDENT: Your Excellency, you have said yourself we are dealing with a thr*at from an area over which even we have no control. A black hole in space. The universe of antimatter. Unknown forces at least equal and opposite to our own. CHANCELLOR: But the first law of time must be obeyed! PRESIDENT: It will be obeyed, later. For the moment the Doctor needs all the help he can get. We can't stop now. Transporting his other selves across the time stream has already utilised more energy than we can afford. CHANCELLOR: Criminal irresponsibility. PRESIDENT: They have only a limited time together, and if they do not succeed we shall lose our time travel facility and become as vulnerable as those we are pledged to protect. CHANCELLOR: You would do better to husband your resources, not throw them away on what is no more than a dangerous gamble. PRESIDENT: I am prepared to take that risk. CHANCELLOR: I understand your attempt to transport yet one more Doctor has met with only limited success. PRESIDENT: His transportation unit became trapped in a time eddy. At the moment he can do no more than advise, but the second Doctor is assisting UNIT to help with matters on Earth. CHANCELLOR: I see. And the other? PRESIDENT: He, together with his companion, has passed into the black hole. They are over the absolute event horizon. CHANCELLOR: Theoretically, they're d*ad. EXT. PLANET SURFACE THIRD DOCTOR: Jo? Jo? Can you hear me? Jo, wake up. JO: Where are we? Everything seems so strange. THIRD DOCTOR: Are you all right? JO: We're not? THIRD DOCTOR: Jo. JO: We are, aren't we. We're d*ad. THIRD DOCTOR: This is a place. It's just like any other place. Well, almost. We've been brought here. Anyway, it's not much like heaven, is it. Come on, let's go and take a look around. (They walk away, and we look up to see a gell guard lingering on the cliff above.) EXT. UNIT LABORATORT SECOND DOCTOR: So wherever they are, Miss Grant and my other self, we can't contact them. That's the problem with antimatter. You can see the effect but never the cause. It's like being punched on the nose by the invisible man. BRIGADIER: Then what's this stuff? SECOND DOCTOR: The invisible man. Antimatter. BRIGADIER: But I thought you said that matter and antimatter couldn't meet without an expl*si*n. SECOND DOCTOR: Yes, that's right. BRIGADIER: So, it shouldn't exist here, but it does. SECOND DOCTOR: Yes. Awkward, isn't it? As far as I can see, there's only one explanation. BRIGADIER: Yes? SECOND DOCTOR: Well, this stuff, or whoever sent it, is cleverer than we are. Unfortunate, isn't it. BRIGADIER: And there's nothing that even you can do? SECOND DOCTOR: Oh, I wouldn't say that. We can make sure it stays harmless for a start. BRIGADIER: Oh, that's a relief. Look, can I leave you to get on with that? Those other things are still outside there. I must contact Geneva. (The Brigadier leaves.) BENTON: Doc, I think the strain's been a bit too much for him. What are we going to do now? SECOND DOCTOR: Keep it confused. Feed it with useless information. I wonder if I have a television set handy. EXT. PLANET SURFACE THIRD DOCTOR: That's odd. JO: Hey, surely that's the water cooler from outside the lab. THIRD DOCTOR: Yes. JO: And what's this? THIRD DOCTOR: Well, that's the Brigadier's computer. JO: Oh. THIRD DOCTOR: Look, this is the lab door. JO: It's locked. THIRD DOCTOR: Well, it says No Admittance. (They walk on.) THIRD DOCTOR: Yes. Well, we both know what that is, don't we? JO: Sure do. THIRD DOCTOR: Er, Jo, do you see what I see? JO: Oh, yes! THIRD DOCTOR: That clinches it. We have been transported, and so has all this stuff. Come on. (They walk down the rocky path toward a waiting Bessie. Then they climb in.) THIRD DOCTOR: Right. All we've got to do is find out where we are and who brought us here. JO: Right, come on then. THIRD DOCTOR: Where to? JO: Twice round the park? THIRD DOCTOR: Right. JO: Right. (He puts Bessie in gear and backs up, then puts it in forward and drives off, with a gell guard looming in the foreground. A crazy angle shows us the car as it stops and they get out again. The investigate some footprints in the dirt.) THIRD DOCTOR: Man Friday, would you believe? JO: At the moment, I'd believe anything. THIRD DOCTOR: Come on. (They set off to follow the prints, and Arthur Ollis peers over a ridge.) INT. UNIT LABORATORY (The Doctor is crouching with Benton behind a parabolic microphone or similar device, listening to the blob making its crackling sound.) SECOND DOCTOR: It's quite like old time, eh, Sergeant? BENTON: Yes, it is, isn't it. Is it ready yet? SECOND DOCTOR: Hmm? Oh, nearly ready for testing. BENTON: Look, Doc, why don't we give this great big blancmange the full treatment now? SECOND DOCTOR: Now steady on, Sergeant. BRIGADIER: Right, come on, Doctor. Security Council want an explanation and I'm leaving it all up to you. SECOND DOCTOR: Oh, no. BRIGADIER: They're on video in my office. SECOND DOCTOR: But won't they think it strange? I mean, me? BRIGADIER: I've explained all that. You're his assistant. SECOND DOCTOR: His what! BRIGADIER: I decided the truth was too much for them. Assistant it will have to be. Well? SECOND DOCTOR: Well, I've just set this thing up! Now I won't be able to confuse it! BRIGADIER: No doubt. It seems to be your forte, Doctor, confusing people. You're sure that thing's all right? SECOND DOCTOR: Yes, as quiet as a lamb. We've got it thoroughly subdued, haven't we, Sergeant. BENTON: We haven't tested it. BRIGADIER: All right then, Benton, you'd better keep an eye on it. BENTON: Me, sir? BRIGADIER: Yes, you. SECOND DOCTOR: Oh, very well. Here you are, Sergeant, you'll need this. Now if it gives the slightest trouble, a little dose of that will settle it. BENTON: Yes, but say that doesn't work, Doctor? SECOND DOCTOR: Then give it the lot! Come on, Brigadier. (The Doctor leaves with the Brigadier. Benton stands a little worried, then pops a piece of chewing gum in his mouth.) BENTON: Now you're not going to give me any trouble, are you, okay? (He throws the chewing gum wrapper at it and turns away. It bristles, and Benton backs up alarmed. It continues bristling, and Benton takes the control and activates the device. It appears to have no effect.) BENTON: Doctor? Doctor, are you there? (He continues using the device to no effect.) BENTON: Doctor! Doctor! Doctor! SECOND DOCTOR: What is it? Oh! BRIGADIER: Benton, what have you done? BENTON: I did what the Doctor told me, sir, but it wouldn't work. It's gone mad. SECOND DOCTOR: Into the TARDIS, quickly! Come on, Brigadier! (A bright flash, but they've made it into the TARDIS.) INT. TARDIS SECOND DOCTOR: Yes, it's quite cozy, isn't it? Oh, you'll soon get used to it, old chap. Relative dimensions and all that. BRIGADIER: So this is what you've been doing with UNIT funds and equipment all this time. How's it done? Some sort of optical illusion? SECOND DOCTOR: Oh, no, no, no. They come like this. Really. BRIGADIER: Yeah. BENTON: Hey, Doc, it's going berserk out there. SECOND DOCTOR: Yes, it is, isn't it. BRIGADIER: All right, now we're in here, what do we do? SECOND DOCTOR: Oh, we have a think. Care for a jelly baby? BACK IN THE BLACK HOLE TYLER: E equals MC squared. There's no doubt about that. But if you equate gravitation with acceleration, I must have travelled faster than the speed of light. That's impossible. By definition, the light here must be travelling backwards, but I can still see. JO: Who's that? THIRD DOCTOR: It's Doctor Tyler. Doctor Tyler! TYLER: Huh? Why, it's the Doctor, isn't it? And Miss Grant. JO: How did you get here? TYLER: Well, I was in your lab, developing that plate, and there was some kind of an expl*si*n and here I am. Oh, it's fascinating. JO: Do you know where we are, Doctor Tyler? TYLER: No, I don't. Do you, Doctor? THIRD DOCTOR: Yes. We're at the other end of that light streak of yours. TYLER: What? THIRD DOCTOR: We've been transported along it. TYLER: That's in the black hole. THIRD DOCTOR: Yes, exactly. That's where we are. On a s*ab world in a universe of antimatter. An anomaly within an impossibility. JO: Huh? TYLER: What he means is that a place like this shouldn't exist in a cosmos like this, and even if it does, we shouldn't be here anyway. I think. JO: Oh. THIRD DOCTOR: Well, here we are. Kidnapped and marooned. But by whom? INT. THRONE ROOM (They are being watched on a screen by someone.) OMEGA: At last, a Time Lord within my power. Let my guests be brought into my presence. (The gell guard moves.) EXT. PLANET SURFACE THIRD DOCTOR: Well, these things sound very much like the creatures that att*cked us at UNIT HQ. JO: Yeah. THIRD DOCTOR: What exactly did they look like? (Dr Tyler sees a gell guard over the ridge.) TYLER: Like that. THIRD DOCTOR: Run! (The gell guards f*re, and expl*si*n ring the travelers. They hold their hands up and surrender. Mr Ollis watches from nearby.) INT. TARDIS BRIGADIER: Doctor, will you open this door? BENTON: It's still thrashing about out there, sir. SECOND DOCTOR: Yes, it is, isn't it. My little plan seems to have misfired. I seem to have accentuated its metabolic rate BRIGADIER: Doctor! SECOND DOCTOR: Most unfortunate. It shouldn't have happened. Now, what went wrong? BRIGADIER: Will you let me out of this contraption! SECOND DOCTOR: The beam should have desensitised. Of course, you fool. It's antimatter! The opposite effect! Instead of quietening down, I've stimulated it. BRIGADIER: Will you stop nattering? SECOND DOCTOR: You haven't seen my recorder anywhere, have you? It's a little thing about this long with holes in. I had it when I came in and I put it down somewhere and I can't find it. BRIGADIER: For the last time, will you let me out of this madhouse! SECOND DOCTOR: There's no point. BRIGADIER: I'm sorry, Doctor, but I'm afraid I must insist. My place is with the men out there, trying to do something about this, well, whatever it is out there, not standing around here messing about looking for some damn fool flute! SECOND DOCTOR: Brigadier, I cannot open that door without first turning off the force field, and even if I did, you'd never make it across the floor. That thing out there has become a k*ller. It's my fault and I'm sorry. BRIGADIER: Sorry? SECOND DOCTOR: All we can do now is think, and I think best to music. Now, where is my recorder? INT. OMEGA'S LAIR (The gell guard is following the travelers.) JO: It looks like Aladdin's cave. THIRD DOCTOR: It's the entrance to some sort of palace, I should imagine. TYLER: I wonder who it belongs to? THIRD DOCTOR: I've no idea, but I expect we'll soon find out. JO: I'm not sure that I really want to. TYLER: Whoever had us brought here doesn't mean us much good. JO: I have a feeling you might be right. TYLER: And I don't fancy hanging around to meet him. I'm going to try and make a break for it. THIRD DOCTOR: What? INT. TARDIS BRIGADIER: Corporal Palmer, this is the Brigadier. Do you read me? Over. SECOND DOCTOR: You're wasting your time. You'll never get through with the force field on. BRIGADIER: I've got to find out what's going on out there. SECOND DOCTOR: Let's have a look at this thing. SECOND DOCTOR: I'll try to set you up a communications unit. BRIGADIER: Be careful. SECOND DOCTOR: It's all right. Don't worry. I can boost this through the TARDIS's communication circuit. I think. BRIGADIER: Oh, I give up. BENTON: With respect, sir, aren't we wasting time? BRIGADIER: Yes, we are. SECOND DOCTOR: Are you still worried about your other Doctor, Sergeant? BENTON: Well, yes, I am, and Miss Grant. SECOND DOCTOR: Well, I shouldn't worry too much if I were you. In fact, I rather envy them. BENTON: You what? SECOND DOCTOR: Yes, I think they're having a very interesting time. INT. OMEGA'S LAIR TYLER: The time to make a getaway is now, while we're still near the entrance. Once they get us down that maze of passageways we shall never get out. THIRD DOCTOR: My dear Doctor Tyler, I don't want to get out. I want to meet our host. I allowed myself to be brought here for that very purpose. TYLER: Perhaps you did, Doctor, but we didn't want to come here and we don't want to stay. THIRD DOCTOR: Don't you understand? You were both brought here by accident. Your only chance of getting back lies in my persuading whoever brought you here to send you home. TYLER: I prefer to take a chance on my own. How about you, Miss Grant? Are you coming with me? JO: No. No, I'll stick with the Doctor, thank you. TYLER: Looks like I'll have to go on my own then. THIRD DOCTOR: Doctor Tyler, you're not going anywhere. TYLER: What? THIRD DOCTOR: I refuse to allow you to endanger all our lives. TYLER: No. No, I suppose you're right. (He gets a very obvious look on his face, then makes a dash for it.) THIRD DOCTOR: Tyler! Tyler, come back! Tyler! (A gell guard blocks the Doctor from giving chase. Tyler creeps along the corridor.) THIRD DOCTOR: Idiot. He'll jeopardise the entire operation. JO: With his life, probably. THIRD DOCTOR: Yes. JO: They might not harm him. You said we were only here by mistake. THIRD DOCTOR: Yes, that's right, Jo. I'm the one they're after. I'm sure I can persuade our host to send you back. JO: But supposing you can't? Well, they might just get rid of us. (Tyler continues his random escape attempt through the passageways, gell guards everywhere.) THIRD DOCTOR: Jo, we're dealing here with a creature of great intelligence, and superior intelligence and senseless cruelty just do not go together. JO: Oh, I hope you're right. (Tyler comes tumbling back into their area.) JO: Tyler! THIRD DOCTOR: Tyler! Come on, get up. Up, up. Are you all right? TYLER: Yes, I think so. Thanks. That was a bit of a waste of time, wasn't it. INT. TARDIS (The Brigadier paces.) SECOND DOCTOR: Here we are, Brigadier. Have a try with that. (He approaches with trepidation.) SECOND DOCTOR: It's all right, it won't bite you. BRIGADIER: Corporal Palmer? Come in, Palmer. (Nothing but static. The Doctor takes the microphone and bashes it against the console.) PALMER (OOV): Corporal Palmer here. Over. BRIGADIER: Corporal Palmer, this is the Brigadier. Now listen. We're pinned down in the laboratory. What's the situation there? Over. PALMER (OOV): Ah, sir, we've been trying to reach you. The building is still surrounded but we're just standing by for further orders. Over. BRIGADIER: Now listen, Palmer. I want every man to maintain vigilance, but no further offensive action, is that clear? Over. PALMER (OOV): But sir, I thought BRIGADIER: That's an order, Palmer! PALMER (OOV): Roger, sir. Wilco. BRIGADIER: Keep in contact. Out. BENTON: Doc. SECOND DOCTOR: Hmm? BENTON: Hey, Doctor, it's the old boy. SECOND DOCTOR: Oh, excuse me. FIRST DOCTOR (on scanner): Made any progress? SECOND DOCTOR: No, none at all. And you? FIRST DOCTOR: Hardly. I'm trapped in this infernal time eddy. SECOND DOCTOR: What about our fellow Time Lords? FIRST DOCTOR (on scanner): Growing steadily weaker. They can't seem to check their energy loss. SECOND DOCTOR: We can't help you, I'm afraid. FIRST DOCTOR (on scanner): Oh yes, you could. SECOND DOCTOR: Oh? How? FIRST DOCTOR (on scanner): Well, first turn off your force field. SECOND DOCTOR: What? But I don't FIRST DOCTOR (on scanner): Off, I said. SECOND DOCTOR: But I still don't see FIRST DOCTOR: Oh, use your intelligence. (He fades from the screen.) BRIGADIER: Who in the name of heaven was that? SECOND DOCTOR: I'm afraid you'd never believe me. INT. OMEGA'S LAIR (The prisoners are led on by a gell guard.) TYLER: It still doesn't make sense, Doctor. We are matter, and you say this place is antimatter. THIRD DOCTOR: That's right. TYLER: So, the mere fact of our being here should cause a colossal expl*si*n. THIRD DOCTOR: Yes, well, our bodies have been converted, processed in some ways, so that we can exist here. JO: Just as that organism thing could exist in our world? THIRD DOCTOR: Yes, exactly. TYLER: I just don't believe it. This is matter. I can see it. Why, I can feel it. THIRD DOCTOR: But things aren't always as they seem, you know, Doctor Tyler. Now, you take this pencil, for example. TYLER: It's just a pencil, isn't it? THIRD DOCTOR: Ah, but is it? Watch very, very closely. (He performs a magic trick with stupid noises, turning the pencil into a bunch of flowers.) THIRD DOCTOR: Or is it a bunch of flowers? TYLER: Ah ha, that's all very well, but that's just a conjuring trick. THIRD DOCTOR: Yes, that's exactly what this place is, a scientific conjuring trick of a very high order. I think the waiting is over. (The gell guards lead them in.) INT. TARDIS BRIGADIER: You're not going to turn off the force field? SECOND DOCTOR: Yes, I think so. BRIGADIER: But why? SECOND DOCTOR: Because he told me to, and I've always had a great respect for his advice. BENTON: Doctor, if you switch the force field off, that thing out there can get at the TARDIS. SECOND DOCTOR: Precisely! Hold tight, everyone. (He slams down on the switch on the console. Outside, the gell guards vanish abruptly, to the amazement of the UNIT soldiers.)
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THE THREE DOCTORS EPISODE THREE By Bob Baker and Dave Martin 13 January, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm (The entirety of UNIT HQ also vanishes. We see it disappearing into the black hole.) INT. OMEGA'S LAIR JO: It's fabulous! THIRD DOCTOR: Yes, most impressive, I must admit that. TYLER: Almost worth the trip just to see this place. JO: Yes, but who brought us here, and why? OMEGA: I did. I am the one who brought you here. THIRD DOCTOR: Who are you? OMEGA: In the legends of your people I am called Omega. THIRD DOCTOR: Omega? But that's impossible. Omega was destroyed. OMEGA: No, brother Time Lord, I was not destroyed, as you can see. Take the man and the girl. {He emerges into the light.) THIRD DOCTOR: Where are you taking them? OMEGA: They will not be harmed, Doctor. They have no part in my revenge. (Jo and Dr Tyler are led away by gell guards.) OMEGA: I have been grievously wronged, Doctor, and now it is time for my vengeance! INT. ROOM {Jo and Dr Tyler are brought to another room by the gell guards. They look around.) TYLER: Well, they won't hold us long in here. Not in a cell without a door. JO: Look! TYLER: It's impossible! It's a real wall. (He goes over to the door where a wall has appeared.) JO: Really? What kind of a place is this? And who was that creature in the mask? TYLER: I don't know. JO: The Doctor seemed to know him. TYLER: Yes, and whoever it was knew the Doctor, but I wouldn't say they were exactly friends. JO: No, it seemed more like they were deadly enemies. INT. OMEGA'S PLACE OMEGA: Without me, there would be no time travel. You and our fellow Time Lords would still be locked in your own time, as puny as those creatures you now so graciously protect. THIRD DOCTOR: You knew your mission was dangerous. OMEGA: Dangerous, yes, but I completed it, and I did not expect to be abandoned. Many thousands of years ago, when I left our planet, all this was then a star until I arranged its detonation. THIRD DOCTOR: You were the solar engineer. It was your duty. OMEGA: It was an honour, or so I thought then. I was to be the one to find and create the power source that would give us mastery over time itself. THIRD DOCTOR: Well, you succeeded, and are revered for it. OMEGA: Revered? Here? I was abandoned. THIRD DOCTOR: The histories say that you were lost in the supernova. OMEGA: I was sacrificed to that supernova. I generated those forces, and for what? To be blown out of existence into this black hole of antimatter? My brothers became Time Lords, but I was abandoned and forgotten! THIRD DOCTOR: No, not forgotten. All my life I've known of you and honoured you as our greatest hero. OMEGA: A hero? I should have been a god! INT. ROOM JO: Why would the creature bring the Doctor here if they're deadly enemies? Unless he means him some terrible harm. TYLER: Come along, Jo, pull yourself together. No point in getting worried about this. We don't know that they're enemies. In any case, I'm sure the Doctor knows what he's doing. JO: I hope you're right. INT. OMEGA'S PLACE THIRD DOCTOR: Well, theoretically, of course, all this is quite impossible. OMEGA: Here, Doctor, everything is possible. Be seated. (A chair appears from nowhere.) THIRD DOCTOR: Thank you. Tell me, how did you manage to survive? OMEGA: How does anyone survive? Force of will. Mind, you might say, over antimatter. THIRD DOCTOR: And this organism stuff that you sent to bring us here? OMEGA: Created from the raw stuff of matter. An organism that can exist in your world and mine. It brought you here and imbued you with its properties so that you too could exist in both worlds. THIRD DOCTOR: But how do I fit into this picture? OMEGA: There are some things that even I cannot do, not alone, and at this point in my plans I need the help of a brother Time Lord. THIRD DOCTOR: Oh, I see. OMEGA: And it pleases me to use you against them. THIRD DOCTOR: And if I give you my help, do you really think you can defeat the Time Lords? All of them? OMEGA: But I am defeating them, Doctor. All of their power is insufficient to prevent the cosmic energy drain which I have caused. THIRD DOCTOR: And if I refuse to cooperate? OMEGA: Then you will face the wrath of Omega, you and those miserable humans who accompany you. (An alarm goes off nearby, and Omega walks over to a rose coloured sphere and listens to the bleepy message. He then responds.) OMEGA: Investigate immediately but do not harm them. THIRD DOCTOR: Them? OMEGA: Well, Doctor, it seems that we have more company. INT. TARDIS SECOND DOCTOR: Well, we appear to have arrived. BRIGADIER: Corporal Palmer. Come in, Palmer. SECOND DOCTOR: I don't think you'll get through with that thing. BRIGADIER: Why not? SECOND DOCTOR: It hasn't quite got the range. BRIGADIER: What are you talking about, Doctor? They're only just outside the building. SECOND DOCTOR: Brigadier BRIGADIER: Corporal Palmer, do you read me? SECOND DOCTOR: I think you should prepare yourself for a bit of a shock. BENTON: Can we take a look outside, Doc? SECOND DOCTOR: We can try. (He activates the scanner.) SECOND DOCTOR: Well, I never. BENTON: It seems to have gone, sir. BRIGADIER: Yes, well, it looks quiet enough. Right, Doctor, if you'll just open that door, I'll see what's going on. SECOND DOCTOR: I really wouldn't advise it. BRIGADIER: Oh, come along now, Doctor. SECOND DOCTOR: Oh, all right. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, I do wish you'd listen to me. Come along, we'd better follow him. INT. UNIT LABORATORY (They are looking around the lab.) SECOND DOCTOR: That's extraordinary. That stuff must have found the TARDIS a bit indigestible even without the force field on, so it swallowed a bit of the surrounding matter as well. Hmm. Rather like taking a pill with a swig of water. BRIGADIER: Well, we seem to have got rid of it. Benton, you stay here. BENTON: So you think we've moved, is that it, Doctor? SECOND DOCTOR: Oh, I'm quite sure we have. (The Brigadier opens the door to see a completely different planet. He does a double take and returns to the lab.) BENTON: Well, where do you reckon we are? SECOND DOCTOR: Not where he thinks we are. BRIGADIER: Now see here, Doctor, You have finally gone too far. SECOND DOCTOR: I rather think we all have. What's it like out there? BRIGADIER: There's, well, there's sand everywhere! SECOND DOCTOR: Oh, splendid. Who's for a swim? BRIGADIER: Do you realise what you've done? You've stolen the whole of UNIT HQ. Now what am I going to tell Geneva? That the whole blessed building has been picked up and put down on some deserted beach? We're probably miles from London! SECOND DOCTOR: I'm afraid we're a little bit further than that, Brigadier. BRIGADIER: You mean we're not even in the same country? There'll be international repercussions. This could be construed as an invasion. BENTON: It's not just a matter of the same country, sir. If the Doctor's right, we're not even in the same universe. BRIGADIER: What? Oh, nonsense, Benton. I tell you that's a beach out there. It's probably Norfolk or somewhere like that. THIRD DOCTOR: Oh, please, if you'd only listen to me. BRIGADIER: Right, now I'll tell you what we'll do. You two stay here. See that nobody wanders in. We can't have the place overrun with holiday makers. I'll nip out, find a phone and tell the authorities exactly where we are. I'm fairly sure that's Cromer. Back in a jiff. (The Brigadier leaves.) SECOND DOCTOR: Dear oh dear oh dear. BENTON: Let's go after him, Doc. SECOND DOCTOR: Yes, I suppose we better had. (He starts, then reconsiders.) SECOND DOCTOR: Just a minute. I think I'll have another look for my recorder. BENTON: Doctor, when are you going to face the facts? You've lost your recorder and that's that. SECOND DOCTOR: Oh, no, I'm sure it's in the TARDIS somewhere. I shan't be a minute. EXT. UNIT LABORATORY BENTON: Doctor! Look. SECOND DOCTOR: Oh my giddy aunt! BENTON: Get back. Back! EXT. PLANET SURFACE (The Brigadier goes for a stroll on the beach.) OLLIS: Hey! Hey, you! Just a minute. BRIGADIER: Who are you? OLLIS: Ollis, game warden. BRIGADIER: Ollis? Yes, of course, the chap who found the balloon then vanished. Where are we? What's going on here? OLLIS: I thought you'd have told me that. They're your manoeuvres. BRIGADIER: No, Mister Ollis, I'm as much in the dark as you are. Isn't there anything you can tell me? OLLIS: Well, there were two others in a daffy old motor car for a start. A man and a girl. They went off after another fellow and all got took by those lumpy creatures. BRIGADIER: What did the man look like? OLLIS: Tall, fancy get up, white hair. BRIGADIER: But that's. What happened to them? OLLIS: I told you! They got took by those things. They didn't get me, though, because I'm used to moving quiet, stalking them and that. BRIGADIER: What, did you follow them? OLLIS: I was just coming to that. Look out! (They duck behind a dune.) OLLIS: That's them. That's those things. That's what I meant. BRIGADIER: They've got the Doctor and Benton. Come on. OLLIS: Hold on now. It's no use rushing them. I know where they're bound. (The Gels make their prisoners turn left towards a massive blue-edged opening in a cliff face and take them inside.) OLLIS: Now what, General? BRIGADIER: First we do a recce, then we mount a surprise att*ck. Mister Ollis, you will consider yourself under my orders. INT. OMEGA'S PLACE THIRD DOCTOR: Look, if you cannot reverse the energy drain, the fabric of the entire universe could be torn apart. OMEGA: What if it is? It will make an interesting spectacle. THIRD DOCTOR: Then you would be utterly alone forever. OMEGA: I am used to solitude. And I shall have had my revenge. I shall be satisfied. THIRD DOCTOR: Omega, if you would undo the harm that you've done and resume your place on the High Council, you could have the freedom to do anything that you wished. OMEGA: Power is the only freedom that I seek. (As Omega goes on, the gell guards bring in the Second Doctor and Benton.) OMEGA: Absolute power is absolute freedom. No bargains. OMEGA: Especially not with those who betrayed and deserted me. No, Doctor, you are here for a reason. Who are you? THIRD DOCTOR: Oh, just some more innocent bystanders. Probably scooped up by that bungling organism of yours. Send them back, Omega. They can do you no harm. OMEGA: The organism was programmed to seek out a Time Lord. THIRD DOCTOR: And it has done so. OMEGA: Can this or this also be a Time Lord? SECOND DOCTOR: Appearances aren't everything, you know. OMEGA: Ah, you do not fear me. Can it be? Two Time Lords? (He considers for a moment.) OMEGA: Ah! The same Time Lord! The High Council must be desperate indeed to transgress the laws of time. SECOND DOCTOR: I really think you're making a mistake, you know. OMEGA: You have tried to trick me. SECOND DOCTOR: I was out for a stroll with my friend here when this horrible great jelly OMEGA: I might have known the High Council would make some such pathetic attempt to deceive me. THIRD DOCTOR: Now, Omega OMEGA: Be silent! (thunder roll) While I consider what shall be your fate. SECOND DOCTOR: (sotto) Is it really him? Omega? THIRD DOCTOR: (sotto) Yes, I'm afraid so. OMEGA: You have angered me. You are facing death! Take them away! (The gell guards blob away all three.) EXT. PLANET SURFACE (Ollis and the Brigadier are on the move.) BRIGADIER: Did you find a way in? OLLIS: No. You? BRIGADIER: No. There's only one thing for it. OLLIS: Eh? BRIGADIER: Wait till the door opens then take them by storm. A full scale frontal att*ck using all the resources available. OLLIS: What does that mean? BRIGADIER: That, Mister Ollis, means you and me. Come on. INT. ROOM (They're all locked up together now.) THIRD DOCTOR: I tell you, I practically had him won over then you turned up and he started treating me like an imposter. SECOND DOCTOR: Well, you are really, aren't you. THIRD DOCTOR: What do you mean? SECOND DOCTOR: Well, I suppose in another way we both are. Or is it neither of us? THIRD DOCTOR: Look, for heaven's sake, stop twittering on. SECOND DOCTOR: There's no need to be offensive! THIRD DOCTOR: I'm not being offensive. The important thing is JO: There they go again. BENTON: You're supposed to help one another. JO: That was the idea. THIRD DOCTOR: Yes, well, all right, I'm sorry. Perhaps I did speak a trifle sharply. SECOND DOCTOR: Yes, well, I'm sorry, too. Well, what did you think of this chap Omega? THIRD DOCTOR: Frankly, I thought he was somewhat confused. TYLER: Yes, and I'm somewhat confused. Who's he? DOCTORS: Me. TYLER: I beg your pardon? THIRD DOCTOR: Oh, ask Jo, there's a good chap. You see, one minute he was talking about destroying everything SECOND DOCTOR: Yes. THIRD DOCTOR: The next minute he's talking about freedom. TYLER: Look if this is a world of antimatter, how can it all exist? DOCTORS: The phenomenon of singularity. TYLER: Singularity? THIRD DOCTOR: Look, you explain to him. You're far better at it than I am. SECOND DOCTOR: Oh, no, no, please. Older and wiser head. TYLER: Singularity. Now I know it's supposed to exist THIRD DOCTOR: Yes, well, it does exist. Right here, I'm afraid. TYLER: But that's just a theory. JO: Oh look, Doctors, what are you talking about? And simple answers, please. One at a time this time. SECOND DOCTOR: Well, singularity is a point in space/time that can only exist in a black hole. We are in a black hole, in a world of anti-matter very close to this point of singularity, where all the known physical laws cease to exist. Now, Omega has got control of singularity, and has learned to use the vast forces locked up inside the black hole. THIRD DOCTOR: Now, that is how Omega is able to create the world we are now living in by a fantastic effort of his will, but unfortunately he thinks he's been wronged by the Time Lords. TYLER: Time Lords? THIRD DOCTOR: Yes, and now he's hell bent on revenge. JO: Well, you'll just have to stop him, won't you. SECOND DOCTOR: Well, the trouble is, we're not sure we can. BENTON: Well, who is this Omega, anyway? THIRD DOCTOR: A Time Lord. One of the greatest of all my race. SECOND DOCTOR: Our race. THIRD DOCTOR: Our race. Yes, sorry. SECOND DOCTOR: Long, long ago, we learnt the secret of time travel, but in order to make it a reality we had to have a colossal source of energy. THIRD DOCTOR: Omega provided that energy by a fantastic feat of solar engineering. We thought he was destroyed, instead of which he finished up here. SECOND DOCTOR: Yes, it seems that his imprisonment was the price of our freedom to travel in time. JO: Even so, you can't let him smash everything up. Well, look, he's not all-powerful, you know, or else why did he need to bring you here? THIRD DOCTOR: Yes, that's true. BENTON: There must be something you can do to get us out of here? JO: What about your sonic screwdriver? THIRD DOCTOR: No, that's useless in this world. The only natural law here is the law of Omega's will. JO: Omega's will. Look, if Omega can will up an entire world, well surely you two could will up a small door. Well look, you're a Time Lord, aren't you? THIRD DOCTOR: Yes. JO: In fact, you're two Time Lords. Well, surely your wills combined are a match for his? Why else do you think the High Council wanted the two of you here? THIRD DOCTOR: That might work. It just might. SECOND DOCTOR: It's worth a try. THIRD DOCTOR: Yes. SECOND DOCTOR: Right. THIRD DOCTOR: Right. SECOND DOCTOR: Ready? THIRD DOCTOR: Ready. SECOND DOCTOR: Contact. THIRD DOCTOR: Contact. JO: It's working. (A door begins to appear in the wall near the opening.) THIRD DOCTOR: Well done. SECOND DOCTOR: I couldn't possibly have done it without you. Well, what next? THIRD DOCTOR: Now for the singularity chamber. That's the key to it all. SECOND DOCTOR: Splendid. Come on. THIRD DOCTOR: Come on. JO: But you THIRD DOCTOR: Jo, you wait there. SECOND DOCTOR: It even opens! (The two Doctors leave.) TYLER: Singularity chamber. Can't miss that. It's the chance of a lifetime! (Tyler leaves.) JO: That's charming. BENTON: I'm not just going to sit here while they have all the fun. JO: Neither am I. Come on, Sergeant Benton. INT. OMEGA'S LAIR (Out in the passageways the two Doctors stealthily creep. They are followed at a distance by the others (noisily).) BENTON: Through here. (The gell guards seem to be in pursuit. Sort of. Slowly. They might just be out for a walk, too.) INT. OMEGA'S PLACE (The Doctors reach the inner chamber.) SECOND DOCTOR: Well, shall we? THIRD DOCTOR: The bull by the horns, eh? SECOND DOCTOR: All right. THIRD DOCTOR: Well, after you. SECOND DOCTOR: Let's toss, shall we? THIRD DOCTOR: What would be the point? INT. SINGULARITY ROOM (He steps through first. There is something that looks like a steam vent in the middle of the room.) THIRD DOCTOR: Singularity. SECOND DOCTOR: Fascinating. OMEGA: What! How is it that you two are free? THIRD DOCTOR: By combining our wills against yours. SECOND DOCTOR: Together we were able to break down your barriers, so you're not all powerful after all, Omega. THIRD DOCTOR: If you free us, we'll plead your cause to the Time Lords. Otherwise we shall combine our wills to destroy you. OMEGA: You dare thr*at to destroy me? You wish to fight the will of Omega? THIRD DOCTOR: Yes, if I must. OMEGA: Then you shall, but you will fight the dark side of my mind. (Something freaky starts to happen.) OMEGA: The dark side of my mind. (A weird troll creature approaches the Doctor.) INT. THE PASSAGES BENTON: It's no good. It all looks the same. TYLER: Well, we can't just stay here. JO: They're right behind us. BENTON: This way. They're everywhere. TYLER: Let's try down here. JO: Yes, come on. (The gell guards make more grumpy noises as they give their interminably slow pursuit.) BENTON: It's no good, we're lost. TYLER: Well, we can't just give ourselves up. BENTON: Agreed. What do we do? JO: Let's try this way. JO: Hey, look what I found. BENTON: Oh great. Well, how can that help us? JO: It's the corridor to the main entrance. Come on. (They find the main door.) BENTON: Doctor Tyler, give me a hand with this. JO: Quickly, they're coming! (As they push the doors open, the Brigadier and Mr Ollis are just outside, and give assistance.) BRIGADIER: Out! Make for the hills! (They all dash out, followed by gell guards. A few moments of running, hiding, expl*si*n and slow chases follow. Then they all catch their breath behind a dune.) EXT. PLANET SURFACE BENTON: How did you know we were trying to get out? BRIGADIER: We didn't. We were trying to get in. Miss Grant, was the Doctor with you when you came here? JO: Yes, of course, sir. BRIGADIER: Well he can't have been. He was with me. BENTON: Sir, look over there. BRIGADIER: Come on, it's just over the dune. JO: What is? (Back in the Omega wrestling arena, the troll att*cks, and the Doctor flips it. It rises. The Doctor backs off as the troll reaches for him. The Doctor flips it again. He tries a gut punch but the troll manages to grab the Doctor's arm and give him a flip.) ON GALLIFREY FIRST DOCTOR: Well, what do you want now? PRESIDENT: Energy levels are dangerously low, Doctor. You are our last chance. You must go in. FIRST DOCTOR [on screen]: In? PRESIDENT: The black hole. I repeat, you are our last chance. All three are needed to defeat Omega. We will use the last of our energy to send you through. FIRST DOCTOR [on screen]: Well, better than being stuck here, I suppose. All right. (Meanwhile the Omega battle rages on. The Doctor is flipped again. The troll looks mean, but it's his turn to be flipped next. The Doctor tries another punch, and damn, this is like total déjà vu here. Then the troll does something rude for a moment, and the Doctor ends up on top although face up. The troll begins to strangle him.) OMEGA (OOV): Those who oppose the will of Omega shall not live! Destroy him!
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THE THREE DOCTORS EPISODE FOUR By Bob Baker and Dave Martin 20 January, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm SECOND DOCTOR (OOV): No, Omega! Destroy him and you'll destroy your only chance of freedom. INT. SINGULARITY ROOM (The Doctor ceases his strangulation struggles and gets up.) THIRD DOCTOR: Thank you, Omega. A most interesting demonstration. OMEGA: Be warned. You have seen my power. You and your friends will learn that it is useless to defy me. SECOND DOCTOR: But our friends do not defy you! OMEGA: Oh, yes. They too are trying to escape. EXT. PLANET SURFACE (The others are getting into Bessie.) JO: Where are we going? BRIGADIER: UNIT HQ. JO: What? BRIGADIER: It's nearer than you think. INT. SINGULARITY ROOM THIRD DOCTOR: All this exists because you have willed singularity to create it all for you. OMEGA: Exactly. SECOND DOCTOR: I say, you mean all you've got to do is think of a thing, rub your magic lamp over there and shally me gally me zoop, there it is? That's jolly clever. That's jolly clever. OMEGA: Are you sure that you and he are of the same intelligence? SECOND DOCTOR: You couldn't run me up a quick recorder, could you? It's a little thing about this long with holes in. I've lost mine, you see. OMEGA: I will tell you of the task that lies before you. SECOND DOCTOR: It's not much to ask, a small recorder! OMEGA: Silence! THIRD DOCTOR: Please, ignore him. Just ignore him. He's incorrigibly frivolous. SECOND DOCTOR: Just because you're not musical! THIRD DOCTOR: Please! Will you stop interrupting? Continue. OMEGA: Continue? (thunder and the palace wobbles) While you play stupid childish games? You face annihilation, do you know that? You, your entire race, your precious terrestrials, everything, and what do you do? Huh? You wrangle and babble of pipes! SECOND DOCTOR: It's not a pipe! THIRD DOCTOR: (sotto) What the hell do you think you're trying to do? SECOND DOCTOR: (sotto) Testing the limits of his self control. They're not very good, are they. THIRD DOCTOR: (sotto) No. No, they're not, but it'll be dangerous if you push him too far. SECOND DOCTOR: (sotto) We'll have to risk that. That temper is his only weakness. OMEGA: What are you saying? Do you plot against me? THIRD DOCTOR: No, no. I was just explaining to my associate here that he should show you more respect, for both our sakes. SECOND DOCTOR: I am thoroughly repentant. You mentioned some task. OMEGA: Yes. I created this world through the power of my will. I created the organisms which brought you here. This is the source of the light stream you travelled along, and I created it. I alone! Omega! And it is not enough. None of it is enough. I am still trapped. As trapped as I was the moment I arrived in this, this desolation. Huh. Ironic, is it not? SECOND DOCTOR: But surely, if you can transmit matter to Earth down that light stream, you could transmit yourself anywhere. OMEGA: Yes, so I imagined, but no, there was no way out. No escape. THIRD DOCTOR: But why? OMEGA: So long as I control singularity, I can make it do my will. All these things exist because I will them to exist. Without me and the unceasing pressure of my will, the work of thousands of years would collapse into chaos in microseconds. I am, if you like, the Atlas of my world. THIRD DOCTOR: So, the moment you abandon control, you cannot escape, and you cannot escape without abandoning control. OMEGA: Exactly. I am a prisoner of my own power, my own creation. Or rather, I was, until now. And that is your task. To take over my burden so that I may escape. (Outside, Bessie drives along amid a series of expl*si*n.) INT. SINGULARITY ROOM OMEGA: Well? Your answer? THIRD DOCTOR: We will obey you, Omega. SECOND DOCTOR: We have no choice. OMEGA: Then you help me make my preparations. You must first remove this mask. Now you, too, will need such masks. The light stream has a slow, corrosive effect, due to the acceleration of the particles, but you are in no immediate danger. The process takes time. Come, the mask. (He sits down, and the Doctors approach. They set about to remove it very carefully. The frontpiece lifts up on a hinge, and they step back in amazement.) OMEGA: What is it? Why do you not obey me? Take off the mask. (They lower it instead.) OMEGA: What are you doing? I am in haste to be gone! SECOND DOCTOR: We, we cannot remove the mask, Omega, because. THIRD DOCTOR: Because beneath that mask there is nothing left of you. The corrosion has already done its work. OMEGA: What? (He walks over to a mirror and lifts the entire helmet, revealing nothing underneath.) THIRD DOCTOR: You exist only because your will insists that you exist. Your will is all that is left of you. (Omega lets out a slow, painful, convincing wail of despair.) OMEGA: It is not true. I am Omega, creator of this world! And I can also destroy! Therefore I must exist! SECOND DOCTOR: But don't you see? You can only exist here! OMEGA: If I exist only by my will, then my will is to destroy, and all things shall be destroyed! All things! All things! (The whole place starts to shake and crumble. The Doctors dash for the nearest passageway.) PALACE DOORS OMEGA (OOV): All things! All things! SECOND DOCTOR: I told you he'd got no self control. THIRD DOCTOR: Come on, out! (They run from the main entrance.) EXT. PLANET SURFACE (Bessie comes to a stop near a dune.) BENTON: Brigadier, watch it! BRIGADIER: There it is, over there! JO: How did it get there? BRIGADIER: That's a very good question. Miss Grant. Come on! DR TYLER: Move, man, move man! (Meanwhile, the Doctors climb another dune.) THIRD DOCTOR: That's funny. I could have sworn I left Bessie here. SECOND DOCTOR: You did, old chap. The tracks are leading that way. THIRD DOCTOR: That's Jo and Benton. SECOND DOCTOR: They'll be making for UNIT Headquarters. THIRD DOCTOR: What? THIRD DOCTOR: Come on! Let's get a move on. INT. UNIT LABORATORY (All are talking at once.) BRIGADIER: Locked. Typical. Just one moment, if you please! Now wait a moment. We may be in a somewhat unusual situation, but you two at least are still supposed to be members of UNIT. JO: Yes, sir. BENTON: Yes, sir. I'm sorry, sir. BRIGADIER: The question is this, what offensive action should we or indeed can we take against this chap Omega? Now in the absence of the Doctors it seems to me that BENTON: Sir, listen! BRIGADIER: Sounds like a full scale att*ck. JO: Maybe they're not f*ring at us. Maybe (They're pounding at the front door. The others run and let them in.) JO: It's the Doctors! BRIGADIER: Benton, open the door, quick! JO: Quickly, come on. (They pile in.) SECOND DOCTOR: TARDIS, everybody! Into the TARDIS, quickly! TYLER: But we can't all get in there! THIRD DOCTOR: Come on, inside. Come on, Brigadier. Inside, inside! INT. TARDIS THIRD DOCTOR: Right, force field on. SECOND DOCTOR: Force field's on. INT. OMEGA'S LAIR OMEGA: Fools. Do yo think to deny the might of Omega? Soon you will come crawling to me for mercy, but by that time, your universe will no longer exist. TIME CONTROL (Back on Gallifrey, the lights are dim.) PRESIDENT: Well? TIME LORD: Energy almost completely exhausted, sir. PRESIDENT: And the latest transference? TIME LORD: No contact since we tried to pass him through the black hole. The power level was so low that he may only be able to observe, advise, not to act. INT. TARDIS THIRD DOCTOR: Well, there you are, then. They can't get in SECOND DOCTOR: And we can't get out. THIRD DOCTOR: We're besieged. JO: Oh, great. SECOND DOCTOR: If only I could find my recorder, I could play you a little something to pass the time. BRIGADIER: We must be thankful for small mercies. TYLER: Well, this TARDIS of yours is a real marvel, Doctor. I still don't understand how we all got inside it, but I don't wish to spend the rest of my life in it. JO: True. We can't just stay here for ever. BENTON: Come on, Doc. I mean, with two of you there should be twice as many ideas. Well surely you can think up something to nobble this Omega bloke? SECOND DOCTOR: Nobble him? You're talking about one of the most powerful blokes in the cosmos. Nobble him? THIRD DOCTOR: Well, I. Excuse me. Someone's trying to get through to us. SECOND DOCTOR: You don't think? (points up) THIRD DOCTOR: I hardly think so. FIRST DOCTOR: There you are, then. What's all this, a mass meeting? THIRD DOCTOR: Well, we had to bring them all in here. It wasn't safe outside. FIRST DOCTOR: In a pretty pickle, aren't you. Yes, trapped in your own TARDIS! SECOND DOCTOR: You're trapped in your own bubble. You can talk. FIRST DOCTOR: Unfortunately, talk's all I can do, and not much of that. The transference isn't s*ab. Let's get on with it, eh? SECOND DOCTOR: On with what? FIRST DOCTOR: Putting our heads together and finding a solution. Ready? SECOND DOCTOR: Ready. THIRD DOCTOR: Ready. SECOND DOCTOR: Contact. THIRD DOCTOR: Contact. (We get the funky flickering Doctors.) FIRST DOCTOR: We're all agreed, then. Risky, but it could work. I'll report back. THIRD DOCTOR: We'd have to strip down the force field. SECOND DOCTOR: But that'd mean leaving the TARDIS defenceless. THIRD DOCTOR: Yes, I know, but I think we'll have to risk it. SECOND DOCTOR: It's worth a try. Come on! BRIGADIER: What was all that about, Miss Grant? JO: Another telepathic conference, I think. BRIGADIER: That old chap? JO: Afraid so. BRIGADIER: Three of them. I didn't know when I was well off. Doctor! THIRD DOCTOR: Yes, what is it? BRIGADIER: Would you mind telling us laymen what you scientists are getting so excited about? THIRD DOCTOR: We think we've found a way of dealing with Omega. TYLER: Mind telling me how? THIRD DOCTOR: Later, old chap. If there's still time. TYLER: Oh, splendid. THIRD DOCTOR: How do we know that he'll take the generator? What if he should refuse? SECOND DOCTOR: Ah, I've found it. THIRD DOCTOR: Found what? THIRD DOCTOR: My recorder. It must have been there all the time. SECOND DOCTOR: Right in the corner of the force field. THIRD DOCTOR: Well, don't touch it. SECOND DOCTOR: I wasn't going to. THIRD DOCTOR: Don't you understand? It's exactly what we want. Far better than the force field generator. SECOND DOCTOR: Oh no, not my recorder! THIRD DOCTOR: I'll get you another one. I'll get you a hundred, I'll get you a thousand of them. Come on. INT. GALLIFREY TIME CONTROL TIME LORD: I've got a contact, sir. PRESIDENT: Oh? TIME LORD: The Doctor. PRESIDENT: Did you find them? Did you make contact? FIRST DOCTOR [on monitor]: For a while. PRESIDENT: Is there any chance? We can't hold out much longer. What's happening? FIRST DOCTOR [on monitor]: There's a possible solution. I'll let you know as soon as I can. INT. TARDIS (The Doctors remove the module with the recorder wired up in the middle.) SECOND DOCTOR: Here we are, then. This should do the trick. BRIGADIER: I suppose it would be too much to ask for someone to tell us what all this means. THIRD DOCTOR: It means, Brigadier, that we can now strike a bargain with our friend Omega. BRIGADIER: With that box of tricks there? JO: And a flute? THIRD DOCTOR: This box of tricks, as you call it, is a kind of portable force field. SECOND DOCTOR: And the recorder is considerably more than just a recorder. THIRD DOCTOR: Yes. Right, ready? SECOND DOCTOR: Here, if you'd just hold this. TYLER: Oh, splendid. Yes. THIRD DOCTOR: Right, switch on. SECOND DOCTOR: On. THIRD DOCTOR: Omega, we want to talk with you. (Omega appears on the scanner screen.) OMEGA: I hear you, brother Time Lords. THIRD DOCTOR: We think we have discovered a way to give you back your freedom. Will you now free the TARDIS so that we can come to you? OMEGA: Is this some deceit? You cannot escape my world unless I will it. SECOND DOCTOR: No, not a bit of it, old chap. We just want to avoid a long, tiring walk, that's all. OMEGA: Very well. Come to me you shall! THIRD DOCTOR: Right. Now listen to me, everybody. From now on you are to do exactly as you are told. JO: Why? What's going to happen? THIRD DOCTOR: Now, Jo, please do as I ask. Do exactly as I tell you. Do you promise? JO: All right, I promise. THIRD DOCTOR: Good. Are you ready? Stand by. Here we go. (The TARDIS dematerializes from the UNIT HQ lab.) INT. SINGULARITY ROOM (The TARDIS reappears inside Omega's lair, and they all come out.) OMEGA: Do you think this trickery will save you for long? THIRD DOCTOR: We have come to set you free. OMEGA: What is this? THIRD DOCTOR: On one condition. OMEGA: I make the terms, Time Lords! THIRD DOCTOR: Omega, if you will send these people back to where they came from, we will stay and help you. THIRD DOCTOR: We think we have devised a way of restoring your freedom to you. OMEGA: What way? I know now that you cannot give me my freedom, but you can keep me company in the endless empty years that lie ahead. If you will both stay here willingly and share my exile, then I will spare your friends and their universe. THIRD DOCTOR: We shall give you that promise, Omega. We will not attempt to leave this world before you do. JO: You can't! THIRD DOCTOR: Jo! You promised! OMEGA: Go, then, back to your planet. Be gone, and give thanks that Omega is merciful. BRIGADIER: Doctor, what shall we do? (The Doctor walks up an examines the singularity.) THIRD DOCTOR: Brigadier, I want all of you to step through that column of smoke. BRIGADIER: What? THIRD DOCTOR: Don't be alarmed. It won't harm you. On the contrary, it will take you back home. SECOND DOCTOR: Please, Brigadier, it's the only way. BRIGADIER: Well, I don't know what you're up to, but all right. Now, Mister Ollis? OLLIS: Not me. I'm not going in there. BRIGADIER: Doctor Tyler? TYLER: Are you sure it's all right? THIRD DOCTOR: Yes, of course I'm sure. (He steps through and vanishes.) BRIGADIER: Now then, Mister Ollis. (Ollis goes, reluctantly. He vanishes too.) BRIGADIER: Sergeant Benton. (Benton straightens his uniform and goes.) BENTON: I'd sooner Miss Grant. BRIGADIER: Move, Benton. (He vanishes.) BRIGADIER: Now then, Miss Grant. JO: No! No, I want to stay with the Doctor. THIRD DOCTOR: Jo, please. BRIGADIER: Come on, Jo. THIRD DOCTOR: Trust me. (The Brigadier leads her to the singularity.) THIRD DOCTOR: You'll be all right. (She vanishes.) BRIGADIER: Goodbye, Doctor. Doctors. (The Brigadier salutes and steps through.) OMEGA: So, brother Time Lords, I have played your game. Now it is your turn to play mine, and there can be no escape for any of us! SECOND DOCTOR: You are wrong, Omega. You can have your freedom. It is here. OMEGA: What is this childish contraption? SECOND DOCTOR: The only freedom you can ever have. Take it. (There is a lengthy pause.) THIRD DOCTOR: Take it, Omega. Take it! (They mind meld, to no effect.} OMEGA: Commands? You command me? This is my world! I command! And you pester me with trinkets! (Omega slaps the device out of the Doctor's hand.) SECOND DOCTOR: Run! THIRD DOCTOR: Come on, quick! The portable force field fizzles, and a new star flares in the middle of the black hole.) GALLIFREY TIME CONTROL (The black hole emits a light stream, which is observed on Gallifrey. It turns into a brilliant expl*si*n. A new nebula appears to be created in its place. The lights come back on.) PRESIDENT: Another source of energy. Once again, Omega. INT. UNIT LABORATORY BENTON: We're back! TYLER: Well, we certainly seem to be. BENTON: But we're really back. JO: But the Doctors. BRIGADIER: Oh, I dare say they'll turn up as usual. (She begins to sob.) BRIGADIER: Wonderful chap, both of him. (The TARDIS appears.) JO: The TARDIS! THIRD DOCTOR: I told you he had no self-control, didn't I? JO: Doctor! TYLER: How did you manage it? SECOND DOCTOR: By the skin of our teeth. TYLER: Splendid. SECOND DOCTOR: Where's Mister Ollis? TYLER: What? SECOND DOCTOR: Where's Mister Ollis? THIRD DOCTOR: Oh, back where he came from, I imagine. (Near the lake, Mr Ollis reappears suddenly, then goes on his way.) INT. UNIT HQ THIRD DOCTOR: So there you are. Omega's will was like the tension in the elastic. Once that will was broken, all the bits of Earth, UNIT etc just snapped back right into their proper place. BENTON: But how come you turned up in the TARDIS? SECOND DOCTOR: Because that was the proper place for us. JO: What was all that business about the flute? SECOND DOCTOR: Well, as you know, it accidentally fell into the force field of the TARDIS, so that when we were all transformed into antimatter, that was the only thing that wasn't processed. THIRD DOCTOR: And when Omega knocked it out of our hands and it fell out of the force field, all the atoms and the anti-atoms annihilated one another. TYLER: So, big bang, and the black hole becomes a supernova! THIRD DOCTOR: Exactly. SECOND DOCTOR: Pity, though. I think it had a lovely tone. (The first Doctor is heard calling.) FIRST DOCTOR (OOV): Everything okay? INT. TARDIS THIRD DOCTOR: Well, here we are, back safe and sound. SECOND DOCTOR: Quite a party. FIRST DOCTOR (on scanner): Yes, well, the party's over now. You young men and I go back to our time zones. Though considering the way things have been going, well, I shudder to think what you'll do with out me. SECOND DOCTOR: Goodbye. Well, goodbye, everybody. Goodbye. It's been so nice to meet me. THIRD DOCTOR: Yes, I see what you mean. I hope I don't meet me again. SECOND DOCTOR: Ah. (He vanishes.) TYLER: Now I've seen it all. JO: Pity. He was so sweet. THIRD DOCTOR: Yes, wasn't I? BRIGADIER: Yes, well, as far as I'm concerned, Doctor, one of you is enough. More than enough. Sergeant Benton! BENTON: Sir? BRIGADIER: You and I'd better make a full inventory of the HQ. Make sure everything's back in place. It's all got to be accounted for, you know. BENTON: Sir? BRIGADIER: Yes? BENTON: Well, excuse me, sir, but, well, if anything is missing, where do we say it's gone? BRIGADIER: Come along, Benton. TYLER: Well, I think I'd better be on my way, too. Thank you for a fascinating trip, Doctor. THIRD DOCTOR: Goodbye. TYLER: Goodbye. Goodbye, Jo. JO: Goodbye. TYLER: I don't think I'll write it up in the University journal, not if I want to keep my job. JO: What's the matter, Doctor? Everything worked out all right, didn't it? THIRD DOCTOR: Yes, for us. JO: I know what it is. It's because you had to trick Omega. THIRD DOCTOR: I didn't exactly trick him. I promised him his freedom and I gave it to him. The only freedom he could ever have. JO: What else could you do? It was either him or everything. (A materialization sound is heard, and something appears on the time rotor.) THIRD DOCTOR: The Time Lords! Look, they've sent me a new dematerialisation circuit. And my knowledge of time travel law and all the dematerialisation codes, they've all come back. They've forgiven me. They've given me back my freedom. JO: I suppose you'll be rushing off, then. THIRD DOCTOR: No, not straight away, Jo. Of course not. I've got to build a new force field generator first. EXT. THE LODGE MRS OLLIS: And where do you think you've been, Arthur Ollis? I've been worried sick about you, I have. Everybody's been searching. Where have you been? Soldiers looking for you. You didn't come home for your dinner. Well? OLLIS: You'd never believe me, woman. Supper ready?
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CARNIVAL OF MONSTERS BY: ROBERT HOLMES EPISODE ONE Original Air Date: 27 January, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (An alien looks up expectantly into the sky of his planet. Almost bald-headed except for a fringe of hair which skirts the edge of his head, his eyes and lips have a red tinge within a face that is otherwise as grey as his hair. He has thick grey eyebrows. His clothing is also grey or pinstriped with a white, metallic-coloured top and black boots. The impression of the individual is that of a colourless bureaucrat. His watch is rewarded as a space rocket comes to dock on a platform in the port. Long and pointed, it lands on three legs with a jet of f*re beneath it to slow its descent. The buildings that surround it are as grey as the watcher, covered in rivets and with some structures that resemble iron cacti. The alien - ORUM - walks along down some steps and onto an elevated walkway built into the rock and sand of the planet and up to another of his kind. This individual - KALIK - walks with a stiff and erect bearing, making him even more of a parody of a civil servant than the slightly bumbling ORUM. KALIK speaks in a clipped thin tone...) KALIK: Well, the cargo shuttle has arrived...at last. ORUM: One must prepare oneself to encounter the aliens. KALIK: Reluctantly, one agrees. (Below the elevated walkway, within the panelled buildings of the port, the silver boxed cargo from the shuttle comes down a ramp and out of a square hatch onto the ground. Immediately a functionary - the lower caste of the planet - rushes forward. He starts to pull forward others of his kind - identical, with grey heads, unfinished features, flat noses and tunic like uniforms - and exhorts them to start work with a mixture of grunts. They start to put the boxes onto a conveyer belt, taking little notice of the next "item" which falls from the hatch. It is a young woman, dressed in a grey and silver space suit with an air tube attached but with green and pink bobbles adorning her grey-blonde hair and brightly coloured make-up and glitter on her face. She looks non-too pleased at her form of arrival. A moment later, an older man falls from the hatch. He too wears a spacesuit. He has glasses and a thick luxuriant moustache. He holds his hand to his head in vexation at their tumbled entrance.) VORG: Oh, oh, oh dear. Oh... (The young woman stands up and starts to harangue him...) SHIRNA: "Top of the bill", he says! VORG: Ahh.. SHIRNA: "Received like Princes", he says! VORG: Now, now, Shirna, don't be so... (A thought strikes him and he snaps his gloved fingers.) VORG: The scope! Come on! (He rushes to the cargo hatch.) VORG: Come on, give me a hand. (A cylindrical machine is coming down the ramp and out of the hatch. The base is a round column, on top of which at waist height is a control panel and topped by a large globe, sliced down one side to give a viewing screen which is yellow in colour. Some functionaries start to assist the two humanoids with the machine.) VORG: Oh...oh dear, careful now. Please be careful. (The functionaries start to roughly push the machine away from the hatch area.) VORG: Now have a care with that, please? It cost a lot of credit bars. (The man and woman start to collect the remainder of their copious luggage - multi-coloured plastic bags, a large cylindrical silver case and a toolkit - as the functionaries push the machine under an archway and into a quiet corner of the spaceport. The man follows the machine as the girl looks upwards to the elevated landing, sees someone approaching, and runs after the man.) SHIRNA: Look out, here they come. (KALIK and ORUM walk into the hatch area. They coldly watch the work for a second. Suddenly, one of the functionaries clutches his head and pushes his way through his colleagues and through the archway through which the two observers have just come. He appears a moment later on one of the elevated walkways, grunting and gesticulating to his brethren below in a "speech" of defiance. They in turn start to push their way towards the archway as if to try and join the rogue functionary. ORUM desperately tries to hold them from doing so.) ORUM: No, no! Come on! Back! Back! Back! Back! (Meanwhile, the more calculating KALIK reaches for a w*apon which hangs from a holder on his waist. Silver, it has two prongs which emanate from the core and meet back in the middle. KALIK fires, there is a red glow and the air distorts into a frenzy of oscillating waves. The functionary clutches his chest and plunges from the walkway, falling to the ground below.) ORUM: (Relieved.) Very good. You have eradicated him. KALIK: No, no, no, merely rendered him unconscious. ORUM: But he will be disposed of? KALIK: Naturally. But first his mental and nervous systems will be subjected to analysis. ORUM: Yes, of course. Now, one must deal with the aliens... (They turn and stare at the two terrified arrivals...) 2: EXT. OCEAN (A two-masted steamship floats on a calm sunlit sea.) 3: INT. SS BERNICE. CARGO HOLD (The TARDIS materialises in a hold filled with a cargo of a very different nature to that in the spaceport. Wooden crates and barrels are scattered around the metal hull and the throb of the ship's engines constantly fill the room. The DOCTOR strides out in a green smoking jacket and brown cloak. Jo follows, wearing a blue jacket and denim jeans over dark blue boots.) DOCTOR: Look, I tell you there's no need for a test, Jo. I've been here before and the air is perfectly... JO: (Interrupts.) Phew, it smells! (She sniffs the stale air.) DOCTOR: Yeah, that's odd. JO: Sort of..."farmy". DOCTOR: Yes... (He sniffs the air again.) DOCTOR: Yes, gaseous sulphides - low concentration. Nothing to worry about. (He strides off. JO looks sceptical to say the least.) 4: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (In their corner of the now quiet space port, the girl - SHIRNA - starts to divest herself of her spacesuit. Underneath she wears a garish costume of a blue, lime green and pink stage costume, covered with small bobbles and with darker green boots on her feet. The functionaries start to gather to watch with interest. The man - VORG - starts to pull off his own spacesuit. Under that he wears an incredible costume of orange bell-bottoms, purple boots, and a pink and green chevroned waistcoat topped off by an overcoat of multiple patchwork and multi-coloured plastic circles. SHIRNA notices the functionaries staring at them.) SHIRNA: (Nervously.) Hey, Vorg? (VORG, ever the showman, smiles in delight.) VORG: Well, well, well! We're getting a crowd! Better start the pitch. SHIRNA: Here? VORG: Well, there's no point in wasting any time. (He dons a plastic transparent bowler hat. SHIRNA picks up a blue flat squarish tambourine like device from out of her luggage and starts to tap on it as VORG begins the performance...) VORG: Roll up! Roll up and see the monster show! Roll up and see the monster show! A carnival of monsters, all living in their natural habitat, wild in this little box of mine! (He taps the cylindrical machine and raises his hands...) VORG: A miracle of intragalactic technology! Roll up! Roll up! Roll... (His voices tails off as a stern-looking KALIK and ORUM stride up behind the group of functionaries who immediately begin to disperse. VORG falls silent and drops his upraised hands. SHIRNA drops her tambourine back into her luggage. KALIK turns in disgust to ORUM.) KALIK: So...those are Lurmans. ORUM: The male is called Vorg, it seems. The female: Shirna. KALIK: Ridiculous names! But at least their physiology is familiar. One was afraid they might have four heads, huh! ORUM: No doubt that is why President Zarb decreed that Lurmans should be our first alien visitors. KALIK: (Snorts.) No good can come from fratinising with these...inferior races. ORUM: Nevertheless, Commissioner Kalik, one has one's duty to perform, no matter how unpleasant. KALIK: Mmm. One thinks one will wait for Plectrac. He is chairman of this tribunal. Let him do his duty. (Meanwhile, a red light starts to flash on VORG'S machine and it gives off a bleeping noise.) SHIRNA: Vorg, look. VORG: Mmm? (He walks over from his luggage.) VORG: Oh, that's nothing. (He starts to bang the side of the machine.) VORG: I'm sure it's nothing. SHIRNA: It indicates a systems defect, doesn't it? VORG: It's just a loose connection somewhere. (He starts to kick the machine.) VORG: Nothing of any importance. SHIRNA: (Archly.) A systems defect. VORG: Of all the times to go wrong! 5: INT. SS BERNICE. CARGO HOLD (The DOCTOR and JO are still in the hold.) DOCTOR: Well, I can assure you that the last time I was here, the air was... (He kisses his fingers.) DOCTOR: Like wine. JO: Are you certain we are here? DOCTOR: Where? JO: Well, where you think we are. Are you sure you can steer that TARDIS properly? DOCTOR: Jo, I don't steer the TARDIS - I program it. And according to program, this is Metebelis Three, the famous blue planet of the Acteon group. (JO suddenly becomes aware of the rumble of the ship's engines.) JO: Shh - listen! (The DOCTOR listens.) DOCTOR: It's extraordinary. We appear to be in some kind of a machine. JO: Yes, and it's moving - I can feel it. DOCTOR: Yes, you're right. Come on. (He heads to a door-hatch.) JO: Where are you going? DOCTOR: Well, to find out where we are, of course. JO: I thought you knew? DOCTOR: (Sheepishly.) Yes, well we may have slightly overshot the blue planet, but we must be on one of planets in the group. We'll soon see. (He heads again for the door. JO is about to follow but suddenly hears a noise across the hold and cries out in fear...) JO: Doctor! (He comes back.) DOCTOR: What is it? JO: There's something alive over there! (She points into the darkness across the hold from where they can hear animal noises.) DOCTOR: Well, let's take a look, shall we? (The object of JO'S fear is a wooden cage full of chickens. She smiles in delight.) JO: Chickens! (The DOCTOR holds up a hand in salute.) DOCTOR: Greetings! (The chickens show signs of panic...) DOCTOR: Alright, alright, alright, we're friends! JO: Try clucking. DOCTOR: (Patiently.) Jo, when you've travelled as much as I have, you'll learn never to judge by appearances. These creatures may look like chickens, but for all we know, they're the intelligent life form on this planet. JO: They not only look like chickens, they are chickens. (She notices the crate that the cage stands on.) JO: And what about this? (Across the crate is stenciled in paint a place name. The DOCTOR reads it.) DOCTOR: Singapore. JO: The Acteon galaxy, you said, Doctor? (He gives her a rueful look and heads for the doorway. JO makes clucking noises at the chickens.) DOCTOR: Oh, Jo, do come on! JO: (To the chickens.) Bye. (She follows him.) 6: INT. SS BERNICE. PASSAGE OUTSIDE CARGO HOLD (They start to climb a metal wall ladder to the decks above.) 7: EXT. SS BERNICE. MAIN DECK (An Indian sailor climbs down from the for'ard deck and walks past a metal door. After he has gone, the door opens and the DOCTOR and JO peer out into the sunshine. They watch the sailor walk off.) JO: Hey... DOCTOR: Shh! JO: Well, it's just an ordinary ship. DOCTOR: Appearances can be very deceiving, Jo. No, there's something wrong here. JO: We're still on Earth, aren't we? DOCTOR: No, that's impossible. JO: Don't you ever admit that you're wrong? DOCTOR: No, that's impossible too. (They see the sailor climb up another flight of steps to the upper rear deck.) DOCTOR: Come on, but keep low. (Doing so, he comes out of the doorway and moves off, crouching down. JO grins and follows. They make their way past a large deck hatch leading to the cargo hold below, using it for cover. Coming to the end of the hatch, they pause in hiding to watch a mess hand throwing the contents of a bucket over the side. Once he has gone, they too start to climb the steps taken by the first sailor and find themselves next to an open cabin. The DOCTOR presses against the wall as he hears a voice coming from ahead speaking in a clipped English accent.) MAJOR DALY: (OOV.) That was a splendid dinner, absolutely topping. (The DOCTOR indicates to JO with a nod of the head to duck inside the cabin and he follows. A moment later, three people come along the gangway. The speaker is a typical MAJOR of the British Empire, dressed in a white tropical suit with a panama hat. A young girl, dressed in the style of a flapper walks with him holding onto his arm and they are followed by a handsome young officer in a white uniform.) MAJOR DALY: Oh, there's nothing like a good curry. 8: INT. SS BERNICE. PASSENGER SALOON (The DOCTOR and JO have entered a comfortable saloon cabin. Teak furniture and bookshelves line the wooden room. The two hide behind a wooden bench seat and listen as the three people enter the room.) MAJOR DALY: Do you say the cook's a Madrassi, Andrews? JOHN ANDREWS: I believe so, sir. MAJOR DALY: Oh, I find the Madrassi's a bit idle meself. Won't have them on the plantation. (He heads straight for a drinks tray.) MAJOR DALY: Still, I must admit your fellow does know how to curry a chicken. (He opens a whisky bottle and picks up an empty glass.) MAJOR DALY: Sundowner? JOHN ANDREWS: Er, not for me, sir. MAJOR DALY: Claire? CLAIRE DALY: No, thank you, daddy. John and I thought we'd take a turn around the deck. JOHN ANDREWS: Would you care to join us, sir? It's a glorious evening. MAJOR DALY: No, no, no, you two run along. I'm going to do a spot of reading. (He takes a swig of his drink and sits on a leather bench in front of a book. He takes out his spectacles.) MAJOR DALY: Determined to finish this book before we reach b*mb. CLAIRE DALY: Well, we're due there tomorrow. How much have you got left? MAJOR DALY: Only another two chapters. JOHN ANDREWS: Well, we'll see you later then, sir. MAJOR DALY: (Not listening.) Yeah... (ANDREWS offers CLAIRE his arm and leads her back out of the saloon and onto the gangway.) JOHN ANDREWS: Twenty times round the deck is a mile, Claire. So, if we put our best feet forward... (His voice tails off and they walk away. The MAJOR takes another drink and opens his book. He starts to read but soon starts yawning. Within seconds his eyes start to drop as the DOCTOR and JO wait patiently. They cautiously raise their heads but quickly drop down again as CLAIRE and ANDREWS make the first of their twenty passages past the door.) CLAIRE DALY: Really, though, I love musical plays! I saw "Lady, be good" four times, and don't you think that young American chap was marvellous - you know, Fred somebody? Fred Astaire! JOHN ANDREWS: Personally, I think musicals are a lot of nonsense... (They move off again out of earshot. The DOCTOR indicates to JO that she can rise and she does so with him as the strains of a gramophone playing "Five-Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" reach them. They are about to head for the open doorway when the MAJOR mutters in his sleep. The DOCTOR stares at the sleeping man.) DOCTOR: (Quietly.) No, there's only one explanation. JO: (Whispers.) What's that? DOCTOR: (Quietly.) This isn't Earth - it just looks like it. JO: (Whispers.) Alright, Doctor, I'll convince you. (She creeps forward as the MAJOR again mutters under his breath. She takes a magazine off the table and returns to the DOCTOR with it, tapping the wrap-around cover.) JO: (Whispers.) There. Take a look at that. (The DOCTOR opens the magazine to its title page. It is "The Illustrated London News" with a dateline of Saturday, April 3, 1926.) DOCTOR: (Quietly.) 1926? Mmm... JO: (Whispers.) Convinced? DOCTOR: (Quietly.) No. JO: (Quietly.) Oh, Doctor, you're so...stubborn! And you ought to have an 'L' plate for that police box of yours! You don't even know where you're going in it. DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Come on, Jo. JO: (Quietly.) Where to? DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Back to the TARDIS. JO: (Quietly.) And what for? DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Well, I don't know what's happening here, but I don't like it. Why do you want to stay? JO: (Quietly.) I just want you to admit the truth, that's all. Well, instead of swanning around some distant galaxy, we've slipped back about forty years in time and we're on a little cargo boat in the middle of the Indian Ocean. (She is interrupted by a loud roar outside, followed by a scream from CLAIRE. The DOCTOR and JO again dive into their hiding place behind the bench as the two noises wake the MAJOR up.) MAJOR DALY: Yeah...what...what? What? What? What? (He jumps to his feet as CLAIRE, distraught, and ANDREWS come running back into the saloon.) CLAIRE DALY: (Terrified.) Daddy, oh, Daddy, there's something terrible out there in the sea! MAJOR DALY: (Shouts.) What's going on? JOHN ANDREWS: Some kind of monster! (Outside the cabin, they can see as a prehistoric monster rises into view from the surface of the sea, roaring at the boat. CLAIRE finds comfort in JOHN'S arms as they stand agog.) MAJOR DALY: What the deuce is it?! (The DOCTOR and JO can also see it from their hiding place. The DOCTOR is as shocked as the occupants of the saloon.) DOCTOR: (To JO.) It's a plesiosaurus! JO: What? DOCTOR: It's incredible! If this really is 1926, the plesiosaurus has been extinct for one hundred and thirty million years! (The monster roars again and falls below the level of the gangway. The MAJOR gingerly steps to the door and looks out.) MAJOR DALY: It's gone back in the sea! JOHN ANDREWS: I'd better get a r*fle, Major. It might att*ck again! Here, sir, if you'll just look after Claire a moment? MAJOR DALY: Yes, yes, yes, of course. (He hugs his daughter as ANDREW'S rushes off. From outside the cabin, they can hear the yells of the shocked sailors.) MAJOR DALY: I say! What a monstrous beast! CLAIRE DALY: (Tearfully.) It was awful, horrible! MAJOR DALY: There, there, there, my child. (He leads her to a chair.) MAJOR DALY: You'd better come and sit down. I've never seen anything like it in me life! I wonder if it'll come back? CLAIRE DALY: Oh no! MAJOR DALY: Mmm? Oh, you look as if you need a peg. (He goes to the drinks tray. The DOCTOR sees that the way is now clear for them to leave and they start to stand up and make their way to the open door.) MAJOR DALY: Might get a sh*t at the beast next time. What a head, eh?! Gad, I'd love to have that on the club wall, what? (But CLAIRE turns her head at the wrong moment and gives a cry of alarm as she sees the two. Caught, they stand stock still as the MAJOR looks at them in puzzlement.) MAJOR DALY: Hello? DOCTOR: (Smiles.) Hello! Topping day, what? (He heads for the door again.) MAJOR DALY: Er, just a minute - you two passengers? (The DOCTOR halts.) DOCTOR: Er, yes, but...only temporarily. MAJOR DALY: What? JO: Oh, he means only to b*mb. MAJOR DALY: (Laughs.) But, I thought my daughter and I were the only passengers? CLAIRE DALY: Where did you come aboard? JO: Port Said. CLAIRE DALY: But I don't understand. Why haven't we met before? JO: Ah, well you see, my...my uncle hasn't been terribly well, so... MAJOR DALY: (Smiles.) Ah, poor traveller, eh? Not used to it, I suppose? DOCTOR: (Riled.) On that contrary, sir... MAJOR DALY: (Good humouredly.) Well, never mind. We've now got a fourth for bridge, what? DOCTOR: Yes! (The DOCTOR and JO laugh.) MAJOR DALY: Or would you prefer Mah Jong? DOCTOR: Yes. (Smiling, he heads for the door again - just as ANDREWS comes back with an Indian sailor. They are both armed.) JOHN ANDREWS: Not a sign of the beast, Major... (He sees the DOCTOR and JO.) JOHN ANDREWS: Who are these people? MAJOR DALY: (Puzzled.) Well, don't you know, Andrews? CLAIRE DALY: (Puzzled.) They said they joined the ship at Port Said? JOHN ANDREWS: Stowaways, eh? MAJOR DALY: (Booms.) Stowaways! JOHN ANDREWS: Where have you been hiding? (The DOCTOR and JO are seemingly lost for words, but...) JO: (To the DOCTOR.) You tell them, uncle! (He looks at her in astonishment.) 9: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (Another of the grey bureaucratic aliens traverses an upper level walkway and down some steps. He is identical in looks and dress to his two comrades bar a full length grey-silver cloak with a pleated front that denotes his senior rank. He joins his two comrades and speaks to them in his continuously worried and fussy manner.) PLETRAC: Another functionary has dared to ascend to the higher level. KALIK: One, er, witnessed the event. ORUM: One cannot understand why they do it. KALIK: But then, one is not a functionary. PLETRAC: It is a growing problem. As members of the official species, we must all share President Zarb's concern. ORUM: They've no sense of responsibility. Give them a hygiene chamber and they store fossil fuel in it. 10: INT. SS BERNICE. PASSENGER SALOON MAJOR DALY: Look, let...let's all have a drink and...discuss this thing like civilised people, what? (He turns back to the much-used drinks tray.) DOCTOR: Yes, that's an excellent idea, Major. I'll have a large scotch. JOHN ANDREWS: (Interrupts firmly.) Major Daly, these people are stowaways. Quite possibly even criminals, and either unable or unwilling to give a satisfactory account of themselves. MAJOR DALY: Hang it all, Andrews! The fellah is a sahib, you know! JOHN ANDREWS: This is not a social occasion, Major. MAJOR DALY: Oh, all right. (He mutters as he starts to pour himself another drink.) MAJOR DALY: Have it your own way, though we can't extend back hospitality to a couple of poor wretched people in the... (ANDREWS talks over him...) JOHN ANDREWS: Well, actually, sir, I should like to extend to them the hospitality of your cabin. MAJOR DALY: What! JOHN ANDREWS: Until the Captain is free to see them. (The MAJOR frowns as he considers, but then resumes his hearty manner.) MAJOR DALY: Yes, very well. You may certainly have my cabin! JOHN ANDREWS: Thank you, sir. (To the DOCTOR and JO.) In that case, you two follow me. (To the sailor.) You bring up the rear. SAILOR: Yes, sir. (He heads to a door that leads into the boat.) DOCTOR: (To JO.) I told you we should have left I wanted to. 11: INT. SS BERNICE. PASSENGE OUTSIDE SALOON (ANDREWS leads the way, JO, the DOCTOR and the sailor following as they descend some steps below deck.) 12: INT. SS BERNICE. LOWER DECK PASSAGE OUTSIDE CABIN (Once down, ANDREWS leads them through a bulkhead door and along a passageway. The DOCTOR spots something on the floor.) DOCTOR: Here, Jo. Look at this. (ANDREWS waits at an open doorway.) JOHN ANDREWS: Come along - in here. DOCTOR: Any more of these about on the ship, or is this the only one? JOHN ANDREWS: What? DOCTOR: These. (At his feet is a hexagonal silver plate, some three feet wide.) DOCTOR: Is this the only one? JOHN ANDREWS: Well, there's nothing there! (JO looks at him in surprise.) JO: Do you mean you can't see it? (ANDREWS loses his temper with her.) JOHN ANDREWS: Get into this cabin! (He gestures through an open doorway. JO goes in but the DOCTOR doesn't move.) JOHN ANDREWS: And you! (The DOCTOR, a look of intense thought on his face, follows her.) 13: INT. SS BERNICE. MAJOR DALY'S CABIN (They are in a cramped but comfortable cabin. Apart from two chairs - one with a few clothes on a it - the only items are a bed that JO sits on, a wall calendar, a clock that reads twenty-five to eight and a wallplan of the ship marked "SS BERNICE". The DOCTOR stares at this.) JOHN ANDREWS: I have a crew of lascars who try to make a fool of me on every trip. Well, they've never managed it yet, and neither will you. DOCTOR: Don't underestimate us, sir. (He gestures at the wallplan.) DOCTOR: Tell me, is this ship the "SS Bernice"? JOHN ANDREWS: You trying to pretend you didn't even know that? DOCTOR: I didn't, but I do now. Makes everything much clearer - thank you. JOHN ANDREWS: Alright, now I'm going to lock you in here until the Captain is ready to see you, and that might not be for a long time. He's a busy man. (He closes and locks the louvered door. The DOCTOR sits in one of the chairs.) JO: Alright, Doctor, what's clear? DOCTOR: Mmm? JO: You said everything seemed much clearer now. DOCTOR: Yes, relatively speaking. An extinct monster, that plate out there on the deck - yes, this is all most interesting. JO: Do you really believe Andrews couldn't see it? DOCTOR: What? JO: Well, the plate in the floor. DOCTOR: Oh yes, it's been blocked from his consciousness. Yes, if I'm right, it would have to be. It's certainly no part of the fabric of this ship. JO: I'd say it was very much a part of the ship. A great lump of... (She pauses.) DOCTOR: A great lump of what? It's not steel, copper or iron. And that metal is unknown on Earth, Jo. JO: But we are on Earth, we must be! I mean, this ship, the people, the chickens... Oh, come on, Doctor, you're not going to tell me that Major Daly is an alien from another planet, are you? DOCTOR: (Smiles.) No. JO: Well then? (He gets up and points to the wall calendar. It shows the month of June 1926 with the first three dates crossed off.) DOCTOR: Oh, look. Old Daly's been keeping track of the date. (He sits on the bed.) DOCTOR: I suppose the name of this ship means nothing to you, Jo, eh? JO: No, should it? DOCTOR: Well, in its time, the "SS Bernice" was as famous a sea mystery as the "Marie Celeste". JO: Why, what happened? DOCTOR: Nobody really knows. A freak tidal wave was the popular explanation, although the Indian Ocean was as flat as a millpond on that night. JO: You mean she sank? DOCTOR: No, she vanished, Jo. Two days out from b*mb on June the 4th, 1926, the "SS Bernice" just disappeared off the face of the Earth. JO: Disappeared on June the... (She looks at the calendar.) JO: June the 4th? But according to that calendar, that's today! DOCTOR: Yes, intriguing, isn't it? (She stares at the wall clock.) JO: Shall I tell you something else intriguing? DOCTOR: Mmm hmm. JO: When we came in here, that clock said twenty-five to eight. DOCTOR: Well? JO: Well, now look at it. (The DOCTOR gets up and looks at the clock which has gone back fifty-five minutes and now has hands pointing to twenty to seven.) DOCTOR: Oh, you've noticed that, have you? Well done! Shall I tell you something that you may not have noticed? It's broad daylight outside. JO: So? DOCTOR: If this really is after dinner, and we are in the Indian Ocean, it should be pitch dark. (He heads for the door leaving a puzzled JO.) JO: I don't get it? (She looks on as he examines the lock.) JO: Sonic screwdriver? DOCTOR: No, that only works on electronic locks, Jo. We need something far more primitive. JO: Skeleton keys. DOCTOR: Well, they'd do fine if only we had any. (She takes a set out of her jacket pocket with a smile and holds them up.) JO: Allow me, Doctor. (The DOCTOR grins in delight.) 14: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (VORG fusses with the controls of his machine as SHIRNA nervously watches. She scuttles behind him as the three aliens approach.) PLETRAC: From your data disks, it appear that you travel from planet to planet performing some kind of ritual with, er, this machine? For what purpose? (SHIRNA steps forward with a smile.) SHIRNA: We are entertainers. PLETRAC: Entertainers? Explain the term. SHIRNA: We put on a show - you understand? (She does a small tap dance with ends with a flourish and a smile.) PLETRAC: (Coldly.) No. VORG: Our purpose is to amuse, simply to amuse. Nothing serious, nothing political. (The three shocked aliens stare at each other in astonishment. They move quickly out of earshot and confer quietly.) KALIK: Amusement is prohibited. It's purposeless. PLETRAC: Zarb is considering lifting that restriction. The latest thinking is that the latest outbreak of v*olence among the functionaries is caused through lack of amusement. KALIK: Oh, more anti-productive legislation! ORUM: Where will it end? KALIK: One can see where it will end, Orum. Ultimately, the functionaries will take over. ORUM: (Shocked.) Take over! PLETRAC: It is not the functionaries who dream of power, Kalik? KALIK: Huh? (He smiles ingratiatingly.) KALIK: One simply speaks one's thoughts. PLETRAC: Your thoughts are as clear as your ambitions! KALIK: How dare...! ORUM: (Interrupts.) Please! One is simply here to decide whether to grant these Lurmans an entrance visa. KALIK: Since their presence here is clearly subversive, one moves that their presence here be rejected. PLETRAC: Opposed. ORUM: Supported! (PLETRAC frowns as he sees that the fawning ORUM has helped outvote him.) PLETRAC: Oh, very well. (They return to VORG and SHIRNA.) PLETRAC: You application for a visa has been rejected. You will be allotted space on the next outbound cargo thruster. VORG: (Shocked.) But your worship, please! I beg you! We spent our last credit bar on the journey here! KALIK: That was unwise... VORG: Your worship, please...? (He pulls a cassette from his pocket.) VORG: I have a document here...micrographed by the great Zarb himself. If you will do...just do me the honour of considering it. (He passes the cassette to an astonished PLETRAC.) PLETRAC: President Zarb? (He turns and stares at his two colleagues and then, without a word, rushes off into the buildings of the port. VORG smiles as he watches him go but SHIRNA hisses over his shoulder.) SHIRNA: Wasn't the great Zarb that Walarian wrestler we met at the instellar exhibition? VORG: Shh! Shut up! SHIRNA: Oh, you've got a nerve, Vorg, passing that off. 15: INT. SS BERNICE. LOWER DECK PASSAGE OUTSIDE CABIN (Having got out of the cabin, the DOCTOR and JO are examining the mysterious floorplate.) DOCTOR: Well, it slides open. JO: Mmm, how does it work? DOCTOR: Anti-magnetic conhesion, I should think. JO: Never heard of it. DOCTOR: No, you wouldn't have done, Jo. You were born about a thousand years too early for that. JO: Oh, I do love being with you, Doctor - you make me feel so young! (They giggle.) JO: Can you open it? DOCTOR: (Sighs.) Without a magnetic core extractor, no. JO: Ah well, that's that then, isn't it? DOCTOR: On the contrary. I happen to have got one in the TARDIS. JO: Oh, I knew you wouldn't travel anywhere without one! But there's one tiny little problem? DOCTOR: Yes, I know - getting to the TARDIS. JO: Right, means we've gotta go through the saloon. DOCTOR: Well, they can only lock us up again, can't they? JO: True. DOCTOR: Come on. (They head back up the passageway.) 16: INT. SS BERNICE. PASSENGER SALOON (MAJOR DALY, CLAIRE and ANDREWS enter the saloon from the gangway.) MAJOR DALY: You say the cook's a Madrassi, Andrews? JOHN ANDREWS: I believe so, sir. MAJOR DALY: Oh, I find the Madrassi's a bit idle meself. (He heads straight for a drinks tray as CLAIRE and ANDREWS whisper conspiratorially.) MAJOR DALY: Won't have them on the plantation. Still, I must admit your fellow knows how to curry a chicken. Sundowner? JOHN ANDREWS: Er, not for me, sir. MAJOR DALY: Claire? CLAIRE DALY: No, thank you, daddy. John and I thought we'd take a turn around the deck. JOHN ANDREWS: Would you care to join us, sir? It's a glorious evening. 17: INT. SS BERNICE. PASSENGE OUTSIDE SALOON (Having climbed up from the lower deck, the DOCTOR frowns as he hears the repeated conversation.) MAJOR DALY: (Inside saloon.) No, no, no, no, you two run along. I'm going to do a spot of reading. (He ducks into hiding beside the door to the saloon.) MAJOR DALY: (Inside saloon.) Determined to finish this book before we reach b*mb. CLAIRE DALY: (Inside saloon.) Well, we're due there tomorrow. How much have you got left? (The DOCTOR signals to JO to join him.) MAJOR DALY: (Inside saloon.) Only another two chapters. (She does so.) JOHN ANDREWS: (Inside saloon.) Well, we'll see you later then, sir. MAJOR DALY: (Inside saloon.) Right. JOHN ANDREWS: (Inside saloon.) Twenty times round the deck is a mile, Claire. So, if we put our best feet forward... (JO frowns in astonishment as she hears events replayed. ANDREWS' voice tails off as he and CLAIRE leave the saloon.) JO: (Quietly.) Doctor! They're saying exactly the same things as before! DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Yes, I know. JO: (Quietly.) But if he would... DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Shh! (He glances through into the saloon...) 18: INT. SS BERNICE. PASSENGER SALOON (...where MAJOR DALY is again yawning over his book. CLAIRE and ANDREWS walk past the door again...) CLAIRE DALY: No, really, I love musical plays! I saw "Lady, be good" four times, and don't you think that young American chap was marvellous - you know, Fred somebody? 19: INT. SS BERNICE. PASSENGE OUTSIDE SALOON CLAIRE DALY: (OOV: Outside saloon.) Fred Astaire! JOHN ANDREWS: (OOV: Outside saloon.) Personally, I think... (As they move off, the DOCTOR mouths to JO "Come on" to follow him into the saloon. They creep back in.) 20: INT. SS BERNICE. PASSENGER SALOON (The DOCTOR goes up to the sleeping MAJOR.) JO: (Whispers.) Come on, Doctor. Let's get out of here! DOCTOR: (Whispers.) In a minute, Jo. If my theory's right, we should be getting confirmation any minute now. JO: (Quietly.) Theory? What theory? DOCTOR: (Quietly.) About what's happening to this ship. JO: (Quietly.) Well, what is happening? I mean, it's like a gramophone record - a stuck gramophone record. DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Yes, well naturally. As if they've all been programmed to repeat a simple behaviour pattern. JO: (Quietly.) And that monster, the...the plesiosaurus - that was programmed too? DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Very probably. JO: (Quietly.) But that was from a different time. They weren't any plesiosaurus's in 1926. DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Yes, exactly. Historically speaking, this collection is a bit of a jumble, I must admit. JO: (Quietly.) Do you mean that...well, this ship is part of a collection? (She looks round.) JO: (Quietly.) But it all seems so ordinary. DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Jo, have you ever seen any small boys collecting sea creatures and putting them into a rock pool? JO: (Nods.) Mmm. DOCTOR: (Quietly.) And after a minute all the sea creatures settle down and behave quite normally, quite naturally. It's only the small boys looking down from above that see the change in the environment. JO: (Quietly.) Well, yes, but that's different. Human beings are slightly more intelligent than whelks. DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Yes, and they were collected by a slightly more sophisticated means than a bucket of water. But everything is relative, Jo. (She tuts and shakes her head.) JO: I'm sorry, Doctor, I just can't take it in. DOCTOR: Yes, well, don't worry about it. (He checks his wristwatch.) DOCTOR: Right, stand by for blasting. JO: Oh, wait a minute, do you mean...? DOCTOR: Shh! (He makes a final check of his watch.) DOCTOR: Right, go and hide. (They run to their previous hiding place. The DOCTOR looks down at his watch. After a few seconds, time carries on repeating itself when the peace of the ship is disturbed by the roar of the monster and CLAIRE'S scream. The MAJOR wakes up...) MAJOR DALY: Yeah...what...what? What? What? What? (He jumps to his feet as CLAIRE, distraught, and ANDREWS again come running back into the saloon.) CLAIRE DALY: Daddy, oh, Daddy, there's something dreadful out there! MAJOR DALY: What's going on? JOHN ANDREWS: Some kind of monster! (The plesiosaurus again makes its appearance.) MAJOR DALY: What the deuce is it?! (The creature roars again and once more falls back into the sea as the DOCTOR and JO wait. The MAJOR goes to the doorway.) MAJOR DALY: It's gone back in the sea! JOHN ANDREWS: I'd better get a r*fle, Major. It might att*ck again! Here, Major, if you'll just look after Claire a moment? MAJOR DALY: Oh, yes, yes, of course. (He hugs his daughter as ANDREWS rushes off. From outside the cabin, they can hear the yells of the shocked sailors.) MAJOR DALY: I say! What a monstrous beast! CLAIRE DALY: (Tearfully.) Yes, it was awful, horrible! MAJOR DALY: There, there, there, child. (He leads her to a chair.) MAJOR DALY: You'd better come and sit down. I've never seen anything like it in me life! I wonder if it'll come back? (The DOCTOR signals to JO to rise and follow him.) CLAIRE DALY: Oh no! MAJOR DALY: Oh, oh, you look as if you need a peg. Might get a sh*t at the beast next time. (They run out of the cabin as DALY pours a drink for his daughter.) MAJOR DALY: What a head, eh?! By gad, I'd love to have that on the club wall! What? 21: INT. SS BERNICE. CARGO HOLD (Having safely made their way back, the DOCTOR and JO re-enter the ship's hold.) DOCTOR: Hang on a minute, Jo. I'll get the magnetic core extractor. (He enters the TARDIS.) JO: Doctor, do we have to stay here? Can't we just leave? DOCTOR: (OOV: Inside the TARDIS.) Where's your scientific curiosity, Jo? Don't you want to know what's going on? JO: Not much, no. (She suddenly hears a rumbling from above and looks up in shock.) JO: Doctor! DOCTOR: (OOV: Inside the TARDIS.) What is it now? JO: (Screams.) Doctor! (Light floods the hold as the DOCTOR rushes out of the TARDIS.) DOCTOR: What is it, Jo? JO: (Gasps.) Look! (She points upwards as a gigantic hand reaches down from above and grasps the TARDIS, starting to lift it away...)
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CARNIVAL OF MONSTERS BY: ROBERT HOLMES EPISODE TWO Original Air Date: 3 February, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. SS BERNICE. CARGO HOLD (JO looks up in shock.) JO: Doctor! DOCTOR: (OOV: Inside the TARDIS.) What is it now? JO: (Screams.) Doctor! (Light floods the hold as the DOCTOR rushes out of the TARDIS.) DOCTOR: What is it, Jo? JO: (Gasps.) Look! (She points upwards as a gigantic hand reaches down from above and grasps the TARDIS, starting to lift it away. The DOCTOR and JO follow its movements upwards until the DOCTOR runs forward in indignation.) DOCTOR: Hey! JO: It's gone! (The DOCTOR points upwards.) DOCTOR: Up there. JO: But there's no way through. Are you sure? DOCTOR: Yes, the whole deck-head swings open. JO: But it's solid steel - it must weigh tons and tons! DOCTOR: Yes, and probably held in place by two tiny little wing nuts. JO: Tiny? DOCTOR: Well, relatively speaking - you saw the size of that hand. JO: But there's only deck above here. DOCTOR: That's what it looks like. JO: But we've been up there. DOCTOR: I told you this was no ordinary ship, Jo. (He heads back toward the doorway from the hold.) JO: Where are you going? DOCTOR: To find the TARDIS...and that means finding a way off this ship. (He heads out. JO looks back upwards to where the TARDIS disappeared.) 2: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (VORG has his right hand within the innards of his machine. SHIRNA keeps a nervous eye out for the returning aliens.) SHIRNA: Vorg, they're coming over. VORG: Good, I think I've found the trouble anyway. (He pulls his hand out and holds up the TARDIS - but it is only some two inches high.) VORG: There you are - a bit of bric-a-brac lodged inside circuit three. I'd better put it back. Might spoil the illusion. Never let the customers see too much. (He lodges it back in the machine.) 3: EXT. SS BERNICE. MAIN DECK (The DOCTOR and JO retrace their steps back to the rear of the ship, trying to make their way to where the metal plate lies on the lower deck. They crouch down beside the deck hatch. They reach the steps which will take them up to the gangway leading to the saloon and hear CLAIRE talking to ANDREWS as they make their twenty trips round the deck.) CLAIRE DALY: But I love "Choo Chin Chow". (The DOCTOR signals to JO to hide under the gangway on which the two trapped humans are walking. They run and press themselves against the wall.) CLAIRE DALY: Daddy took me when I was a little girl. (Above them, CLAIRE and ANDREWS pause to talk whilst the two unknown fugitives pause to listen. In the background they can again hear "Five-foot two, eyes of blue".) JOHN ANDREWS: "Choo Chin Chow"! I tell you, the whole thing's absolute rubbish. CLAIRE DALY: Oh, it wasn't! How can you say that? JOHN ANDREWS: Well, I sailed into Shanghai fifty times, my girl. I know what Johnny Chinaman's like. CLAIRE DALY: Oh, John, you've seen so much of the world. Makes me seem so...so unsophisticated. (Below the two...) JO: (To the DOCTOR.) Suppose we're due for the monster bit any minute now? JOHN ANDREWS: (Up above.) ...these bright young things, they... DOCTOR: Yes, very probably. JOHN ANDREWS: (Up above.) You're different. CLAIRE DALY: (Up above.) I wouldn't want you to think I'm just a silly flapper. 4: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (Watched by a nervous VORG and SHIRNA, KALIK and ORUM approach and circle the machine.) KALIK: In what way does this machine, er, amuse? VORG: Your worship, allow me to demonstrate. (He starts to press controls on his machine.) VORG: If you will watch the glowsphere. (On the large round screen, a slightly distorted image of CLAIRE and ANDREWS on the deck of the "SS BERNICE" appears.) ORUM: What is this? VORG: These creatures are Tellurians, a species discovered in a distant galaxy. Scientists have been amazed at the remarkable similarity between these little chaps and our own dominant lifeform. ORUM: The resemblance is unpleasant. VORG: These are the only Tellurians in captivity. Some scientists think that their discovery refutes Valdek's theory that life in the universe is infinitely variable. An even more interesting, though less amusing, form of life is the Ogron. (He presses a button and the distorted image changes to that of an ape-like Ogron, walking against a moon-like background.) VORG: They are of limited intelligence and are used as servants by some race called, erm, Daleks, I believe. (VORG presses another button.) VORG: We will shortly be seeing the prize of my collection - the Drashigs! KALIK: Drashigs? (VORG speaks in a showman's bloodcurdling tone as SHIRNA smiles with pride...) VORG: They are, without doubt, the most evil, the most vicious and undoubtedly the most frightening form of life in the whole of the universe! SHIRNA: Oh look, there's one! (They watch as a dragon-like form, with multiple eyes on stalks, sinks into a misty swamp. Its appearance has been brief to say the least.) KALIK: (Unimpressed.) Amazing. VORG: The Drashigs have no intelligence centre, unfortunately. So I cannot control their behaviour. ORUM: Ah, but these pictures; they are recorded, surely? VORG: Oh no, your worship! The scope is good, old-fashioned live entertainment. The picture on the glowsphere is an actual projection of what is now taking place deep down inside. KALIK: (Sharply.) Do you mean that all these creatures are living - in there? VORG: Within their own miniaturised environments, of course. I'll switch back to circuit three. 5: EXT. SS BERNICE. MAIN DECK (The plesiosaurus roars at the ship. On the gangway, CLAIRE screams.) JOHN ANDREWS: Good heavens! (As the sailors run to and fro in a panic, only the DOCTOR and JO remain unaffected by the appearance of the dinosaur.) JO: Just like goldfish in a bowl, aren't they? Round and round forever. Isn't there anything we can do for them? DOCTOR: No, not while we're inside this thing. No, we've got to get out of here. Come on. 6: INT. SS BERNICE. PASSENGER SALOON (The repeated course of events have led up to the point where a shaken CLAIRE sits in the saloon as her father pours her a drink...) MAJOR DALY: What a head, eh? By gad, I'd love to have that on the club wall, what? (He swigs back his own drink as behind him, the DOCTOR and JO sneak their way back into the cabin.) MAJOR DALY: Mmm. (He turns and spots the DOCTOR and JO about to open the door that will lead them down to the lower deck.) MAJOR DALY: Oh, hello? (The DOCTOR and JO wear broad grins, again trying to bluff their way out of the situation.) DOCTOR: (Heartily.) Well, hello. Topping day, what? MAJOR DALY: (Puzzled.) Absolutely splendid. DOCTOR: (Heartily.) Yes, ninety-nine skidoo! Well, must press on, pip-pip, old chap. (He turns back to the door.) MAJOR DALY: But just a minute, you two passengers? DOCTOR: Well, you've asked us that question once before. Don't you remember? MAJOR DALY: Have I? I'm sorry to be uncivil an' all that, but... DOCTOR: (To JO.) You see, Jo. No memory traces at all. MAJOR DALY: What's that? (Confused.) Do you know, you'll think I'm an awful idiot, but, do you know...? DOCTOR: (Interrupts.) You've forgotten our names? (The MAJOR takes umbrage at this...) MAJOR DALY: What's that? Well, I never knew them! I've never bally well seen you in all me life before! 7: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT VORG: Now, by simply adjusting the aggrometer... (He starts to turn a dial on the scope's console.) VORG: ...the peaceful Tellurians can be made to behave in an amusingly violent way - watch. (He giggles.) 8: INT. SS BERNICE. PASSENGER SALOON (The sequence of events have led beyond the point where ANDREWS and the Indian sailor have arrived at the saloon. The young lieutenant, staring with aggressive intent at the DOCTOR, passes his r*fle to CLAIRE and takes off his hat.) JOHN ANDREWS: Right! CLAIRE DALY: What are you doing, John? JOHN ANDREWS: I'm going to trash this fellow within an inch of his life! (The DOCTOR turns to JO in puzzlement.) 9: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (KALIK and ORUM watch the events...) 10: INT. SS BERNICE. PASSENGER SALOON (JO helps the DOCTOR off his with green smoking jacket.) JOHN ANDREWS: You still sticking to that stupid story? DOCTOR: I'm afraid so, old chap. JOHN ANDREWS: You'll regret it, sir, and I think I ought to warn you, I used to box for my school. (He takes up the classic boxer's stance.) DOCTOR: And I think I ought to warn you that I took lessons from John L. Sullivan himself. (The DOCTOR takes up a similar stance.) MAJOR DALY: (To CLAIRE.) By Jimminy, the old fellah's got some pluck! (The two combatants start to square up to each other.) DOCTOR: Queensbury rules? JOHN ANDREWS: Naturally. (The DOCTOR gets ANDREWS with two sharp jabs to the jaw. He tries for a third but ANDREWS ducks and gets a sharp jab into the DOCTOR'S stomach. He falls back slightly but regains his feet. ANDREWS comes in but the DOCTOR gives him a sharp punch back.) CLAIRE DALY: Oh! (ANDREWS staggers to the floor. He tries to regain his feet but the DOCTOR merely stares at him and folds his arms. ANDREWS falls to the floor.) CLAIRE DALY: John! DOCTOR: Good afternoon. (He grabs his jacket from JO and the two of them make a run for it out of the saloon.) 11: EXT. SS BERNICE. MAIN DECK (They run as fast as they can along the gangway.) 12: INT. SS BERNICE. PASSENGER SALOON (Back in the saloon, ANDREWS gets to his feet and makes for the door, grabbing his r*fle as he gasps an order to the Indian sailor.) JOHN ANDREWS: Cover the aft companionway - quick, man! 13: EXT. SS BERNICE. MAIN DECK (As the DOCTOR and JO run towards the back of the ship, ANDREWS runs out of the saloon and sees their retreating forms.) JOHN ANDREWS: Stop or I'll f*re! (As MAJOR DALY joins him, he raises the r*fle and carries out his thr*at to f*re. The sh*t rings out just as the two fugitives make it round the stern of the ship. Here, the DOCTOR and Jo come up to a door. The DOCTOR tries it but it is locked. Another sh*t rings out and JO looks back in alarm. As ANDREWS sh**t back the handle of his r*fle, they dash up a flight of steps and up to a higher level deck. They run between the upper hull and lifeboats as ANDREWS and DALY give chase up the steps. Near the top, ANDREWS pauses, aims carefully and fires again, just missing the back of the DOCTOR. They resume the chase, which is tiring JO out as she pauses with the DOCTOR, trying to get her breath back.) JO: (Gasps.) Oh, how many times round the deck is a mile? DOCTOR: Who's counting? (As ANDREWS and DALY close in, they run off again and find the steps back down to the main deck. The DOCTOR looks round.) DOCTOR: Let's try that door. (The two try a small wooden door which opens after a couple of tugs. They go back down below as ANDREWS and DALY come to the top of the steps and see them disappearing.) JOHN ANDREWS: Now we've got 'em. (He shouts behind them...) JOHN ANDREWS: Bosun! (The two descend...) 14: INT. SS BERNICE. LOWER DECK PASSAGE (...as within the ship, JO and the DOCTOR also descend to yet another level. The DOCTOR looks round.) DOCTOR: This way. (They run off as the DOCTOR puts his jacket back on.) 15: INT. SS BERNICE. LOWER DECK PASSAGE OUTSIDE CABIN (They make their way back to the metal plate outside MAJOR DALY'S cabin. The DOCTOR reaches into his pocket for the device he fetched from the TARDIS. Further along the passage, two of the Indian sailors, armed with r*fles, descend down the steps from the saloon section. They call out to each other in their native language, thus giving themselves away. The DOCTOR gives JO the device and rushes to shut the bulkhead door. As he does so, the sailors f*re at the closed door which, on the other side, the DOCTOR locks.) JO: How does this thing work? DOCTOR: Hold it flat. Run it along the edge of the plate. JO: Right. (JO holds the hammer-shaped device and uses it as instructed. It gives out a buzzing sound.) DOCTOR: That's the idea. (But...) JOHN ANDREWS: Alright, on your feet. (They stand up to see that ANDREWS and DALY have come from the side the DOCTOR and JO took while the Indian sailors have approached from the other.) MAJOR DALY: We've had enough of your nonsense. JOHN ANDREWS: Right, Bosun. (The r*fle arms are pulled back and aimed.) JO: Doctor! DOCTOR: No, you can't! 16: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT VORG: I can't it for too long or the specimens start damaging each other. (VORG turns the switch back.) 17: INT. SS BERNICE. LOWER DECK PASSAGE OUTSIDE CABIN (The passageway is filled with a high-pitched sound which descends in tone. DALY smiles and turns to ANDREWS.) MAJOR DALY: Ah, dinner, splendid! Coming? (As the DOCTOR and JO stare in incredulity, DALY and ANDREWS stroll past them and follow the sailors back towards the saloon. DALY is momentarily puzzled...) MAJOR DALY: Who the devil are those two? (ANDREWS shakes his head with something approaching a lack of interest and they walk off, leaving an astonished pair behind.) JOHN ANDREWS: I say, I hope there's something decent tonight. MAJOR DALY: Yes! JOHN ANDREWS: I'm feeling rather peckish. 18: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT SHIRNA: Hey, Vorg? (She walks to one side of the area to speak out of earshot of the assessment committee. VORG follows.) SHIRNA: Do you know, I'd swear I'd never seen those two before? (She gestures at the scope.) VORG: Wha...? SHIRNA: Those two Tellurians - have you seen them before? VORG: Oh, really, Shirna! I mean, they all look so much alike. SHIRNA: (Insistent.) They're new, Vorg, they're strangers. 19: INT. SS BERNICE. LOWER DECK PASSAGE OUTSIDE CABIN (Now free of interruption, JO again runs the device along one edge of the plate.) DOCTOR: And here. (He points to another side. JO runs the device where indicated.) DOCTOR: That should do it. (He gently pushes the plate. It starts to move.) DOCTOR: Yes! (The plate moves fully back. It reveals a hole, hexagonal in shape like the plate, in the floor from which comes a steadily flashing red light.) JO: Looks like some sort of shaft. DOCTOR: Good. Down we go. (He jumps down.) 20: INT. SCOPE WORKINGS (He lands only a few feet down. JO follows and they move along into the open. They are next to a gigantic piece of advanced electrical apparatus, just part of the enlarged workings of the scope which surround them. A constant hum of electronics fills the air.) DOCTOR: Just look at this filter circuit, Jo! What a beautiful piece of work! Now then, this must be the output... (He follows a circuit along with his finger.) DOCTOR: And that must be the input through there. Let's have a look. (He walks low under the bulk of the circuit, through a low passage of large tubing and gigantic wires. They stand up again when they are able to.) DOCTOR: Yes, it is. JO: What is it? DOCTOR: What is it? My dear girl, this is a perfect example of an early pulse mechanism, based on the principle of caesium decay. Oh, this is absolutely vintage stuff! JO: But this can't be the ship's engine room? DOCTOR: Well, of course it isn't. I told you - we're no longer in the ship. JO: Well, where's the TARDIS? DOCTOR: I've no idea. Probably outside this machine entirely. (He points to a nearby piece of apparatus made up of an upright flexible tube with another smaller tube snaking round it.) DOCTOR: And just look at this, Jo. What a magnificent auxiliary capillary pump. Mmm, have you ever seen anything like it? (They walk along a long wide flat circuit line. They reach a ledge of another circuit and the DOCTOR helps JO up and they jump down the other side.) DOCTOR: I've never been small enough to get inside one of these things before. (He looks up into the massive hallway-like structure of enlarged circuits, advanced valve-like bulbs and elongated metal shapes.) DOCTOR: It's fascinating! It's like walking around inside a wristwatch. (He moves through a series of archway like joints, completely absorbed in wonder at the sight.) DOCTOR: It's wonderful - really is magnificent! JO: Well, can't we just find the way out? DOCTOR: Well, we could try following this circuit. Probably run for miles though. (JO sighs as they set off.) 21: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (On the upper level and long cloak swirling, PLETRAC comes storming back into the space port, with the cassette in his hand. A furious look on his face, he descend the steps to the lower level and barges his way through a group of working functionaries.) PLETRAC: Out of my way! (He stops as he walks into the side area where VORG and SHIRNA wait with KALIK and ORUM.) PLETRAC: Not authentic! VORG: What? PLETRAC: A forgery. (VORG acts shocked as he takes the cassette back from PLETRAC.) VORG: A forgery? But your worship, I had no idea! And my assistant and I travelled all the way from Demos believing that we would be welcome on your...noble planet. PLETRAC: That is your misfortune. KALIK: Pletrac, this machine, this... "scope", contains many alien creatures. The Lurman has imported them, without a licence. PLETRAC: (Appalled.) What?! VORG: If I've done something wrong, I...I...I... KALIK: (Interrupts.) The Interstellar Ecology Commission expressly forbids the transference of zoological specimens between planets. ORUM: The creatures will have to be destroyed. VORG: Destroyed?! PLETRAC: The machine too. SHIRNA: You can't do that! Our livelihood depends on the scope! VORG: We're just simple strolling players! PLETRAC: Destroyed! (He turns and speaks into a wrist communicator.) PLETRAC: Send the eradicator detachment to section two immediately. (The aliens move off.) VORG: Barbarians! (SHIRNA sits down in dejection on their luggage.) SHIRNA: "Dim-witted yokels", you said they were. Twist them round your finger, you said. Have them eating off of your hand, you said. Well, a fine mess we're in now, aren't we? VORG: You're not blaming me? SHIRNA: Well, I didn't wanna come here, Vorg. I should have stayed with the all-star dance company. VORG: Ho! That third-rate bunch of hoofers? (He mimics a song and dance and waves a hand in dismissal.) SHIRNA: At least when I was with the company I always had a few credit bars, and we never travelled by cargo thruster. (Suddenly...) PLETRAC: Eradicator detachment - follow me! (PLETRAC strides back into the area, followed by a group of functionaries pushing a futuristic g*n which rests on a stand. This, in turn, is on a mobile tripod.) VORG: What's that? (The functionaries set up the g*n and aim it at the scope. VORG and SHIRA stand in front of their livelihood.) VORG: This is m*rder! Assassination! PLETRAC: Stand aside, you two. VORG: I'm not without influence, you know. I shall complain! (SHIRNA pulls him out of the way.) PLETRAC: Prepare to era... (PLETRAC suddenly realises that he is stood too near to the machine.) PLETRAC: Wait. (He moves and stands next to KALIK and ORUM.) PLETRAC: Commence eradication. (The functionaries f*re. A pulsing red glow emanates from the end of the g*n. In turn, the scope glows with the same red f*re.) 22: INT. SCOPE WORKINGS (The effect carries throughout the workings of the scope. JO and the DOCTOR crawl along a glowing, smoking circuit, chocking for breath...) JO: (Gasping.) What's happening, Doctor?! DOCTOR: I don't know! Hold on, Jo! JO: (Gasping.) Some kind of earthquake! It's getting hotter and...hotter! DOCTOR: Come on! Keep moving! 23: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (The eradicator is switched off and the red glow that surrounds the scope diminishes. The att*ck would seem to have had no effect on the scope. VORG and SHIRNA slowly start to smile. PLETRAC looks concerned.) KALIK: (Dryly.) Bravo. PLETRAC: (Quietly.) The machine must be armoured. KALIK: We have lost face, Pletrac. Our technology has proved deficient. ORUM: The eradicator was designed only for use against organic molecules. PLETRAC: (Hopefully.) And the creatures in there? ORUM: They're organic. The eradicator will have destroyed them. PLETRAC: (Pleased.) Well, that is the main objective. Destruction of the machine is unimportant. (The three committee members walk off to a burst of laughter from VORG. He claps his hands in delight.) VORG: Built, eh? (Laughs.) None of your modern rubbish! (He pats the machine and snatches it back in pain as it is still hot.) SHIRNA: Is it damaged? It might be damaged? VORG: We'll check the circuits. 24: INT. SCOPE WORKINGS (The DOCTOR and JO lie on a circuit, almost unconscious. The DOCTOR stirs.) DOCTOR: Come on, Jo, get up. JO: Not yet, I'm only half-cooked! (The DOCTOR sits up slowly.) DOCTOR: Alright, come on. Get yourself up. Come on, give us your hand. Come on, up... (He takes her hand and pulls her up into sitting position. He then reaches into his pocket and hands her a handkerchief.) DOCTOR: Here, mop yourself down with this. JO: Thanks. (She mops her face.) JO: Wow, what happened? DOCTOR: Well, it just a bit hot, didn't it? JO: (Realises.) Hey - it was them! They did it on purpose! DOCTOR: Who? JO: Well, the giants, of course! DOCTOR: Well, why should they, Jo? We've done them no harm. JO: Well, what other reason? DOCTOR: Look, one problem at a time, eh? Our problem is to find our way out of here. (He looks round in all directions and picks one that leads down a short silver ramp.) DOCTOR: Oh, this looks quite promising. Let's try it, eh? (He goes ahead of JO. She follows and slides down the ramp, rather like a child in a park.) JO: (Unimpressed.) Promising, huh? 25: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (VORG has switched on a circuit in the scope. An image appears on the glowscreen - that of the sinister form of a Cyberman. The silver giant turns and walks off in a blur of static.) SHIRNA: Well, that's marvellous. Who's going to pay good credit bars to see a blob in a snowstorm? VORG: Yeah, all that heat, you know - must have affected the video circuits. Still, the specimens are alright, and that's the main thing. It only needs a slight readjustment. (The two are being observed around the corner of the port by the three assessment members. They watch them, not directly, but using an oblong scanner screen built into one of the walls.) KALIK: Destroy it, Orum, or eradicate it. ORUM: The machine must contain a defensive barrier. KALIK: (Bitterly.) But it seems we have no defences, Orum. Zarb and his councils of fools have betrayed us! (He storms off past the cargo conveyor belt. The other two follow.) PLETRAC: That is dangerous talk, Kalik - even for the president's brother. KALIK: (Angrily.) Some things need to be said! Zarb disbanded the army, and now our only defence... (He stalks through the archway into the area where VORG and SHIRNA are. He jabs a finger at the eradicator.) KALIK: ...is that! (The three line up on one side of the area, next to an archway that looks across the desert.) KALIK: We have just demonstrated its inefficiency to those Lurman spies. ORUM: One is told there's a new model being developed. KALIK: And do you think the Lurman battlefleets will wait? They'll be picking their landing sites already. PLETRAC: Oh, you are an alarmist, Kalik. After all, we have defence pacts with all the neighbouring planets. KALIK: (Sneering.) Don't talk to me about brotherhood and neighbourliness. We have survived in the past because of our strength. ORUM: Now? KALIK: We shall perish! Because of our weakness. ORUM: You really think the Lurman is a spy, sent here to test our defences? KALIK: Isn't it clear? (ORUM sees VORG with the miniature TARDIS in his hand as he continues to check the scope.) ORUM: Oh, look! Perhaps a transmitter? 26: INT. SCOPE WORKINGS (The DOCTOR helps a tired JO climb through a Y-shaped component.) DOCTOR: Right, come on now. Come on, quick as you can. JO: Okay. (She uses metal flanges on the circuit as steps down.) DOCTOR: That's it. (She moves further down the circuit.) DOCTOR: That's it. (She reaches the bottom.) DOCTOR: There. JO: Doctor, I think we're going round in circles. I'm sure we've been this way before. DOCTOR: No, no, no. All these shafts look very much alike. (They climb up a familiar-looking silver ramp. She spots something at the top.) JO: Hey? DOCTOR: Mmm? (It is the dropped handkerchief which she picks up as they sit down again.) JO: I was right - look. Your handkerchief - you must have dropped it. DOCTOR: Yes, you are right. We must have been this way before. (He pockets the cloth.) JO: Oh, well that's it. We're lost. DOCTOR: Of course we're not lost, Jo. What makes you think that? (He points to a nearby giant unit.) DOCTOR: See this? You know what that is? (JO shakes her head.) DOCTOR: That's a bearing housing for one of the ventilator shafts. (He takes a notepad out of his pocket and starts to write in it.) JO: Oh good, knowing makes me feel so much better. DOCTOR: Yeah, I thought it might. JO: Oh, well that means we're almost home, doesn't it? DOCTOR: It means there should be an airduct around here somewhere. JO: Silly question, but why are we looking for an airduct? DOCTOR: Well, where's air ducted from, Jo? JO: Outside! DOCTOR: Right first time. JO: Sorry, Doctor, it's just I thought we weren't getting anywhere. DOCTOR: Yes, I know. The trouble is we're inside the blueprint instead of looking down on it. (They hear a noise above them and get to their feet. They then have to jump back as a huge tool, shaped like a spear crashes down into the circuit three times, each time barely missing their feet.) JO: What was tha...? (The DOCTOR signals for silence. Up above them, through an observation hole, a giant blue eye stares down at them. The DOCTOR points at it.) 27: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (VORG stands up from looking into the machine and puts his glasses back on.) VORG: You know, Shirna, I'm not given to imagination, but I thought I saw two Tellurians in the works. (He stands up and feels the end of KALIK'S pronged w*apon in the back of his neck.) KALIK: Slowly, Vorg. (VORG starts to stammer with fear and nervousness.) VORG: W...wh...what are you ju...doing? (KALIK and ORUM stand behind him.) ORUM: Where is the transmitter? VORG: (Fearfully.) Transmitter? KALIK: We know you've been sending signals. VORG: (Fearfully.) Signals? KALIK: Stop...wasting time! VORG: (Fearfully.) But I...I had no transmitter. PLETRAC: What were you doing in there? VORG: (Fearfully.) But, just...just minor repairs, that's all.! Just a little minor repairs! SHIRNA: We had a fault in one of the video circuits, that's all - nothing. VORG: (Fearfully.) Nothing of consequence, nothing serious. KALIK: Orum? (ORUM starts to delve into the scope.) KALIK: If there is a transmitter in there, Vorg, you're d*ad. VORG: (To SHIRNA, quietly.) What...what is a transmitter, Shirna? SHIRNA: (Quietly.) For sending messages, you idiot! A beam pulser. VORG: (Quietly.) We haven't got one, have we? SHIRNA: (Quietly.) I thought you told me you had a masters degree in radionics? VORG: (Quietly.) Not exactly a degree. I never did understand these electrical... (He tries to push KALIK'S w*apon away.) VORG: Would you please...keep that a little further away? It's very frightening, you know? (KALIK points it back as ORUM finishes his inspection.) ORUM: No, one can't see anything, Kalik. KALIK: If there is a transmitter, it'll be disguised. ORUM: No, there's nothing in there - only this. (He holds the miniaturised TARDIS in the palm of his hand.) KALIK: What is it? VORG: A...a bit of bric-a-brac, your worship. It was causing interference inside circuit three. Er, better put it back in the scope. (The TARDIS suddenly starts to expand in ORUM'S hand. He panics and puts it on the floor.) KALIK: What is it? And let's have the truth this time! (PLETRAC has joined them as they watch the TARDIS grow on the floor.) VORG: I don't know! I swear I don't know! PLETRAC: Some Lurman secret w*apon perhaps? ORUM: It's some kind of a container! VORG: It's causing interference in circuit three! ORUM: Bric-a-brac?! (The TARDIS is almost its normal height.) ORUM: Why does it keep changing size?! (The police box is now its original height.) VORG: You took it outside the scope's compression field and kept it out too long, you see? After a bit, things regain their normal size. PLETRAC: (Panics.) Silence! It is an alien artifact! Where did it come from?! How did it get in there?! SHIRNA: Vorg - the Tellurians! VORG: Shh! KALIK: What? SHIRNA: Earlier in circuit three, I noticed two new Tellurians - strangers. I told Vorg at the time. VORG: My assistant is an imaginative... KALIK: (Interrupts.) Quiet. (To ORUM.) Is this possible, Orum? ORUM: What? PLETRAC: (Panicking.) For Tellurian inv*de to penetrate the scope in containers such as that?! ORUM: Well, it wouldn't be possible for our technology, no. Perhaps Tellurian science is more advanced? KALIK: And, if they can get into the machine, no doubt they can also get out of it. ORUM: What are you thinking, Kalik? KALIK: These Tellurians are not even from our home galaxy. There is no way of telling what diseases they may have brought with them! (PLETRAC almost has a heart att*ck at this thought.) PLETRAC: Is there an exit from that machine? VORG: Quite impossible, your worship. Each group of specimens is permanently contained in its own individual chamber. The scope is completely and utterly escape proof. 28: INT. SCOPE WORKINGS (The DOCTOR is using a metal string to cut through a bar across a metal door that is hexagonal in shape, like the plate in the ship.) JO: It's almost through. (The bar is cut through and falls to the floor.) JO: Free! Ladies first? DOCTOR: No, not this time, Jo. After all, we don't know what's behind this door, do we? JO: The TARDIS, I hope. DOCTOR: Yes, so do I. (He pulls open the door and they step through.) 29: INT. CAVE (They find themselves in a rocky but rather false looking cave. They can hear a moaning wind outside.) JO: Looks like some sort of cave. DOCTOR: Yes. Come on. (They move off.) 30: EXT. MARSH (They emerge from the cave into a wilderness. The cave entrance is surrounded with green and yellow foliage and is built into a sandy bank. Apart from that feature, the entire landscape is a flat and desolate land of marsh. Its only other discerning landmark is a winding stream from which bubbles of misty gas emerge.) DOCTOR: Yeah...not quite what I expected, Jo. Hang on a minute, will you? (He runs to the top of the sandy back and parts some of the yellow and green foliage to look over the other side.) JO: Can you see anything? DOCTOR: No, it's just the same. (He runs back down to join JO.) JO: It's a bit scary, isn't it? DOCTOR: Mmm. JO: What are all those bubbles? DOCTOR: Oh, some sort of marsh gas - probably highly inflammable. Come on, we'd better take a look around. (He heads off.) JO: But there's nothing to look at. (She sighs and follows him across the desolation.) 31: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (VORG and PLETRAC are arguing, both talking at the same time...) PLETRAC: I will not accept this, Vorg. One repeats to you; one will not accept this. It has been most clearly laid down in ..... VORG: Your worship, the scope if handled with care, is one of the safest conveniences in all ..... (The scope has started to give out a quiet alarm signal which ORUM points out to KALIK.) KALIK: Just a minute! VORG: ...my professional experience... KALIK: What is that? (He points to a flashing red light on the console.) SHIRNA: (Sighs.) Oh, another fault has developed. It's in circuit five this time. VORG: Oh, some insignificant electrical matter. Switch on the circuit, my dear. (The glowsphere shows the view of the empty marshy desolation.) VORG: There you are, you see? It's working perfectly. Nothing wrong there. SHIRNA: The fault is still being signalled. KALIK: What do you call the creatures here? VORG: The Drashigs - my little carnivores! Oh ho! They're great favourites with the children, you know. With their gnashing and snapping and tearing at each other. (He laughs.) SHIRNA: Vorg - look! (The DOCTOR and JO appear on the screen, walking across the flat marsh.) VORG: The Tellurians! They've broken into the circuit! SHIRNA: Vorg, you've got to get them out. VORG: How can I? They're already as good as d*ad. ORUM: Why? VORG: Once the Drashigs get their scent, they won't stand a chance! KALIK: (Interested.) Fascinating... 32: EXT. MARSH (The DOCTOR and JO look across the eerie landscape.) DOCTOR: Something's wrong, Jo. JO: (Fearfully.) Let's go back, Doctor. I don't like it here. DOCTOR: (Quietly.) No, neither do I. (They turn round and start to head back.) 33: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (SHIRNA shakes her head sadly.) SHIRNA: They'll never make it. 34: EXT. MARSH (The silence is broken. A sound between that of a cry and a roar is heard, seemingly in the distance. The two spin round.) JO: What was that?! (The DOCTOR is silent for a moment. They hear a variation of the sound again.) DOCTOR: I don't know. But it didn't sound very friendly. (JO hears a noise and turns round.) JO: Look! (A gigantic reptilian creature bursts from the wet swampy ground. It has an elongated trunk of a body, six eyes on stalks on the top of its head and a huge red mouth with massive white teeth including several long incisors. It looks down on and screams a roar at the two helpless visitors to its domain...)
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CARNIVAL OF MONSTERS BY: ROBERT HOLMES EPISODE THREE Original Air Date: 10 February, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: EXT. MARSH JO: Look! (A gigantic reptilian creature bursts from the wet swampy ground. It has an elongated trunk of a body, six eyes on stalks on the top of its head and a huge red mouth with massive white teeth including several long incisors. It looks down on and screams a roar at the two helpless visitors to its domain. Suddenly the Drashig starts to move forward, sliding along with the exaggerated movement of a snail. It moves its concertinaed body past the DOCTOR and JO and off into the distance.) JO: What a horrible thing! Why didn't it att*ck us? DOCTOR: It couldn't have seen us, Jo. Must be hunting by scent. JO: Hunting what? DOCTOR: Us, I'm afraid. It's following our outward trail. (JO looks horrified.) JO: But...it'll be at the cave when we get back there! (They suddenly hear another subdued cry of a Drashig.) JO: What's that? DOCTOR: There's more than one of those things about, Jo. Let's go. (They start running across the swamp.) 2: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (The assessment committee and VORG and SHIRNA continue to watch.) ORUM: They are escaping. VORG: Nothing escapes the Drashigs! Even that size they terrify me. PLETRAC: How many are there? SHIRNA: In the scope? Oh, just one colony - twenty or so. KALIK: Where do they come from? VORG: One of Grundle's satellites. It's said that many years ago, a battlethruster landed there for emergency repairs. It had a crew of fifty and all the latest armaments. They thought they could hold the Drashigs off - huh! PLETRAC: (Nervously.) What happened? SHIRNA: Nothing more was heard from them so a scout orbiter was sent out. The pictures showed nothing left of the thruster. It had been eaten. PLETRAC: (Horrified.) Eaten? They eat a spaceship? SHIRNA: Apart from just a few scraps of the reactor ventricle. They're omnivorous. VORG: Of course, they prefer flesh when they can get it. (KALIK smiles to himself and nods...) 3: EXT. MARSH (The DOCTOR and JO with some speed through the swampy terrain, despite having to wade across the gaseous streams and pools.) DOCTOR: Come on, Jo! JO: (Exhausted.) I can't. (The cave is just ahead of them.) DOCTOR: But you must! We're nearly there! (JO looks over the DOCTOR'S shoulder in wide-eyed terror.) JO: Doctor! (He turns. Three Drashigs are looming near the cave.) DOCTOR: Run for it, Jo! (JO is up to her knees in a bubbling stream. She tries to move her legs but can't.) JO: I...Doctor, I'm stuck! (The DOCTOR reaches into his pocket and pulls out his sonic screwdriver. He points it at the marsh gas which lies between them and the Drashigs and switches the tool on. Immediately, the gas starts to burst into expl*si*n of flame. The Drashigs scream in pain as the flames surround them. JO has now sunk into the muddy stream up to her waist. The immediate danger over, the DOCTOR rushes back and starts to pull her out.) JO: They're coming back! (The Drashigs are now between them and the cave and getting nearer.) 4: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (KALIK almost looks concerned...) KALIK: (To VORG.) Erm, can't you help them? VORG: Me?! KALIK: You're in charge of the machine. Can't you get the Tellurians out of there? VORG: (Aghast.) What? But I should have to put my hand inside! SHIRNA: Oh, go on, Vorg. We can't stand here and let them be torn to pieces. (VORG looks dumbstruck...) 5: EXT. MARSH (The DOCTOR switches on the sonic screwdriver again but this time, there is no eruption of flame.) DOCTOR: It's no good. There's not enough gas. (He turns back to the problem of getting JO free and manages to yank her out of the stream and onto firmer ground. Suddenly, a giant hand comes down out of the sky and starts to swat the Drashigs back. The DOCTOR and JO use the diversion and dash the last few yards into the cave.) 6: INT. CAVE JO: Doctor, that hand we...! DOCTOR: No time to talk about that now, Jo! Let's get out of here - come on! (They go through the metal plate door and back into the workings of the scope.) 7: INT. SCOPE WORKINGS (Once back into the calm, humming interior, JO slumps sitting to the floor.) JO: (Gasping.) Doctor...I've got to rest. (The DOCTOR slides down next to her.) DOCTOR: Yes, I'm beginning to feel the century's meself. (JO gasps an agreement and tries to get her breath back.) JO: That...that swamp place - it wasn't the real outside, was it? DOCTOR: No, I thought it was at first though. JO: But that hand - that came from the real outside, didn't it? DOCTOR: Mm hmm. JO: The giants were trying to help us. DOCTOR: Yes... (He suddenly realises and slaps his leg.) DOCTOR: By jingo, I've got it! I know what this is! JO: What? (He sits up.) DOCTOR: We're in a miniscope! JO: Miniscope? DOCTOR: Yes, you...you know, Jo, it's like, erm, it's like one of those things, those...those glass cases that people keep colonies of ants in. JO: (Puzzled.) Well, yes, but I don't see... (Realises.) Well, wait a minute, do you mean that...that Major Daly and all those people on the ship are in a...in a sort of a peepshow? DOCTOR: That's right, Jo, and you and I are inside its works. JO: And outside there are...people and...and creatures just looking at us for kicks? DOCTOR: Very probably. JO: They must be evil and horrible! DOCTOR: No, not necessarily, Jo. Thoughtless, maybe. JO: Thoughtless?! DOCTOR: Well, haven't you ever been to the zoo? Have you never kept goldfish in a bowl? JO: Well, yes, but that's slightly different. We're not animals. DOCTOR: We are to those creatures up there, Jo. (He puts on a showman's voice...) DOCTOR: Roll up! Roll up! Roll up! And see these funny little creatures in their native 'abitat! Watch 'em go through their funny little tricks! Poke 'em with a stick and make 'em jump! JO: Stop it, Doctor, it's not funny! DOCTOR: No. Oh no, believe me, I'm just as angry as you are. As a matter of fact, I had a great deal to do with the banning of these miniscopes. JO: (Puzzled.) Y...you did? DOCTOR: Yes, I did. I managed to persuade the High Council of the Time Lords they were an offence against the dignity of sentient lifeforms. JO: But I thought the Time Lords never interfered? DOCTOR: Yes, well they don't as a rule. But, frankly, I made such a nuisance of myself that...well, they banned the things. JO: But, well if these scope things were banned, how come we're inside one? DOCTOR: I don't know. Well, officially they were all called in and destroyed. JO: Somehow this one was missed. DOCTOR: Yeah, looks like it. (Thinks.) The TARDIS must have materialised...it...must have materialised in its compression field. JO: So, here we are all cosily wrapped up with the other specimens. DOCTOR: Yeah, but not for long, Jo. We'll soon get out of here. JO: Huh, will we? Seems to me we have a choice of being sh*t by those idiots on the ship, or eaten by those horrors out there. (They hear the roar of the Drashigs.) 8: EXT. MARSH (The three huge roaring creatures slither towards the cave mouth.) 9: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (SHIRNA sees this on the scope as VORG sits down eating a fruit. The two are alone.) SHIRNA: Vorg, look at this. They're following the Tellurians. VORG: I should have thought of that. The Drashigs never leave a scent - not with a meal at the end of it. SHIRNA: But if they can get out of their circuit, Vorg, anything can happen. They might even escape from the scope! VORG: Keep your voice down, girl. We're in trouble enough as it is. 10: INT. SCOPE WORKINGS (The next roar is immediately behind the metal door.) JO: Doctor! DOCTOR: Come on, Jo. It's time we got out of here. (They get up and run off. Another roar sounders even louder and they turn and watch as a Drashig bursts through the wall from the cave and into the inner workings of the scope. The two run off as fast as they can along a flat circuit.) 11: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (NIGHT) (Night has fallen across the desert seen outside of the port. PLETRAC paces nervously between his two colleagues.) PLETRAC: What is the legal position, Kalik? KALIK: According to law, the Lurmans should be deported and the zoological specimens impounded, destroyed. ORUM: But how? PLETRAC: Ye...how, indeed? The eradicator is powerless against their scope. That is why one suggests, in order to save face, that the Lurmans be deported together with their machine. ORUM: Agreed. KALIK: This tribunal is not empowered to bend regulations, Pletrac - not even to save face. PLETRAC: We must be flexible! If we can't destroy the thing, what else can we do? KALIK: One suggests that you, Chairman Pletrac, seek special authority from Zarb. PLETRAC: (Sighs.) That may take time. KALIK: It is the correct procedure. PLETRAC: (Sighs again.) Orum? ORUM: Kalik is right. The tribunal should observe the correct forms of procedure. PLETRAC: Oh, very well. Make sure the functionaries with the eradicator remain alert. (He strides off. KALIK smiles.) 12: INT. SCOPE WORKINGS (The DOCTOR and JO run along another circuit. They reach a junction.) DOCTOR: We've got an advantage over them, Jo - we're smaller than them. JO: That's an advantage? DOCTOR: Yes, if we keep to the narrow sections, we can move faster. JO: You never give in, do you, Doctor? (A Drashig roars uncomfortably close behind them. They look and see is elongated reptilian body slithering along.) DOCTOR: Come on, quick! Down this way! (They move down a circuit and through the Y-shaped circuit again using its ridges as steps downwards.) DOCTOR: Come on! Come on, give me your hand. (He takes JO'S hand and helps her step down.) DOCTOR: Come on, up you go. That's it, dear. Quick as you can. (JO reaches the bottom in a panic.) JO: Oh, Doctor, those things'll follow us to the end of time! They'll never give up either! 13: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (NIGHT) (VORG and SHIRNA are slumped asleep, VORG on their luggage and SHIRNA against the TARDIS. The scope suddenly starts giving out a bleeping alarm.) SHIRNA: Hey, Vorg! VORG: (Waking.) What...mmm...what? (He looks up sleepily at the scope.) VORG: Oh, it's just a minor block in one of the feed lines, that's all. SHIRNA: That minor block is probably a Drashig - look. (The Drashig's marsh home appears on the glowsphere.) SHIRNA: Not a Drashig to be seen. VORG: Well? That's not unusual. SHIRNA: After all that excitement? You know what they're like. Normally they mill round for hours. VORG: Well? (She suddenly realises what this means.) SHIRNA: They're loose inside the scope, Vorg! They must be roaming round out of their circuit! VORG: What? (ORUM and KALIK, conferring quietly nearby, overhear this...) ORUM: The machine has become dangerous? VORG: No, no, no, your worship, not at all, no. (KALIK and ORUM walk over.) SHIRNA: Oh, tell 'em the truth. What does it matter now? ORUM: What is the truth? VORG: My assistant is an imaginative gi... KALIK: (Interrupts.) Quiet. VORG: Whatever you say. Er, you can rely upon my profound silence for as long as you desire... KALIK: (Interrupts.) What is the truth? SHIRNA: We think the Drashigs have broken out of their circuit. VORG: You speak for yourself. Personally, I don't... KALIK: (Shouts.) Silence! ORUM: Broken out? SHIRNA: Well, they went into that cave after the Tellurians and none of them have come out again. ORUM: Where does the cave lead? SHIRNA: Down into the supply lines. There's a control valve at the back of the cave. VORG: (To SHIRNA.) Look, if the Drashigs have broken out of their circuit, and I don't for one moment believe that they have, whose fault is it, Sir...Shirna? Whose suggestion was it that I help the Tellurians escape? KALIK: Mine. VORG: (Bows.) And a most merciful and compassionate gesture, your worship! ORUM: (Quietly amused.) Merciful and compassionate? KALIK: One has...twinges. 14: INT. SCOPE WORKINGS (As the DOCTOR and JO carry on their relentless run through the workings of the scope, more Drashigs are coming through the burst hole from the cave.) 15: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (NIGHT) (ORUM and KALIK are on the upper level walkway.) ORUM: You expected the Drashigs... KALIK: Shh! (He indicates silence and they walk down to the lower level, KALIK looking round all time to make sure that they are not observed. Satisfied that they are not, he indicates with a nod of the head to ORUM that he can speak. They do so quietly.) ORUM: You expected the Drashigs to follow the Tellurians? KALIK: They follow a scent blindly, so that primitive told us. ORUM: What's to be gained by that? KALIK: Possibly the world. ORUM: What? KALIK: The Tellurians will try to escape. ORUM: And? KALIK: The Drashigs will follow them. ORUM: What good will that do any of us? KALIK: Listen, Orum. For thousands of years, ever since the great space plague, our world has stood alone and been the stronger for it. Now Zarb is trying to change our ways. ORUM: Because the functionaries are growing restive. They need distractions. KALIK: What the functionaries need, Orum, what we all need, is something to unite us. We need a sense of purpose, we need a new leader, we need a w*r! ORUM: Ha! How do you propose to achieve all that, Kalik? KALIK: By leading the rebellion against my dear brother Zarb. (ORUM is silent at this statement.) 16: INT. SCOPE WORKINGS (The DOCTOR and JO continue their desperate attempt at escape from the pursuing Drashigs. They reach a point where the circuit that they are running on reaches an end with a sheer drop into the darkness of the machine workings below. They kneel down and the DOCTOR retrieves a coin from his pocket which he drops into the well. After several long seconds they hear the chink as it lands below. They look disappointed.) JO: Well? DOCTOR: Well, logically, there should be an extractor down there. Well, if I'd designed it, there would be one. (They hear another distant roar behind them.) JO: They're still following us, Doctor. DOCTOR: Persistent little beggars, aren't they? JO: (Despondent.) Well, that's it. We're done for. DOCTOR: I wonder? JO: Well, we'll break our necks if we try to get down there. We'll just go on wandering as...around this ghastly machine forever. Well, sooner or later, we'll crawl round a corner and run slap into one of them. (The next roar sounds nearer.) DOCTOR: Things do look a little difficult at the moment, I must admit. JO: Difficult? They're impossible. DOCTOR: Not impossible, Jo. Nothing's impossible. There's always an answer if you can find it. JO: Yes, such as? DOCTOR: Well, that's the trouble - finding it. No, I think this is the time for lateral thinking. JO: What? DOCTOR: Well, instead of approaching the problem from head on, you approach it sort of sideways. JO: Sideways? DOCTOR: Yes, take our own particular example for a moment, eh? This is our problem; we can't go forward because this shaft is too steep, we can't go back the way we came because of our hungry little friends here. JO: Oh, I see! So we've got to go sideways. DOCTOR: Well,...I didn't mean it quite so literally, Jo. If...if we move sideways, we'll find ourselves back on the ship. JO: (Excited.) Wait a minute - the ship! Well, that's it! There's rope on the ship, miles of it! We can use it to get down the shaft. Oh, Doctor, you're brilliant! DOCTOR: I am? JO: Yes, of course you are! I see what you mean now be lateral thinking. Come on, let's go. DOCTOR: Right, hang on a minute. Let's take a look at the plan. JO: Right. (He takes his notebook out of his pocket.) DOCTOR: Now, according to this plan, there should be a way back on the ship... (There is another roar, again somewhat nearer.) DOCTOR: Just around the corner. Come on. (They get up and move off in the direction indicated.) 17: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (NIGHT) (Sat down, VORG is rifling through one of their bags as SHIRNA, nearby, continues to look over the scope.) SHIRNA: They must be in that upper section, Vorg. Can't you push them back into the circuit? VORG: I'm not putting my hand in there again! SHIRNA: Well, think of something! They'll wreck the machine if you leave them there. VORG: Look, all they're interested in, Shirna, is the Tellurians. The minute they're polished off, they'll probably follow their own trail back home. SHIRNA: Why don't you close down the support system? (He pulls a bottle of green liquid out of the bag.) VORG: Because I can't. We'd lose the entire collection. 18: INT. SS BERNICE. CARGO HOLD (An elongated hexagonal shaped door in the side of the darkened hold of the "SS Bernice" opens. The DOCTOR steps cautiously out and looks round.) DOCTOR: Right, it's all clear. Come on. (Jo follows him, pulling the door closed behind her. They move further into the hold.) JO: How much do we need? DOCTOR: About a dozen fathoms, I should think. JO: Fathoms? DOCTOR: Ah, here's some here. (They move to pick up some rope which is behind one of the packing crates. Suddenly they hear the clanking of the hold door being unlocked.) DOCTOR: Quick! (They crouch down behind the crate. The iron door creaks open and ANDREWS, armed with a r*fle, and a sweating MAJOR DALY enter the hold, looking cautiously around.) JOHN ANDREWS: Can't see anything here, Major. MAJOR DALY: Well, I heard it quite plainly. Like the hound of the bally Baskervilles! JOHN ANDREWS: Are you sure it came from here, sir? MAJOR DALY: Positive, old boy. JOHN ANDREWS: Well, perhaps some of the cargo shifted. MAJOR DALY: Oh, sea's a bit calm for that, isn't it? JOHN ANDREWS: Well, vibration could have done it, sir. The skipper's got her up to full steam, trying to make up a few hours. MAJOR DALY: Ah, b*mb tomorrow, eh? By Jove, I could do with a soak in a tub of fresh water, what? (ANDREWS has spotted something and signals for quiet. He nods towards the crate from behind which JO'S booted foot peeks out.) JOHN ANDREWS: Alright, come on out from there. (He cranks the handle of his r*fle back.) JOHN ANDREWS: It's no good lying doggo. I can see your foot. (JO looks round and sees that it is her foot that he is talking about. She indicates to the DOCTOR that he should stay where he is and keep quiet. He nods and she stands up in full view of the two men.) MAJOR DALY: By jingo, a memsahib! JOHN ANDREWS: Where did you stowaway? JO: (Sighs.) Here we go again! JOHN ANDREWS: What? JO: Nothing. JOHN ANDREWS: Well, you'd better come with us, Miss. (Unperturbed, JO strides out of the hold. The two 'captors' follow and the DOCTOR rises cautiously up from his hiding place.) 19: EXT. INTER MINOR. DESERT (NIGHT) (ORUM and KALIK walk in the night air of the desert next to the space port.) ORUM: Zarb's position is secure. How can a rebellion succeed? KALIK: The Drashigs escape from the machine and then into the city. They would cause havoc before finally being destroyed. The Central Bureau would be forced to admit to serious miscalculation, and on whose part, Orum? Who would be blamed? ORUM: President Zarb! KALIK: Exactly. The Drashigs are only here because of Zarb's liberal-minded weakness. ORUM: Popular feeling would be aroused against him, certainly. 20: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (NIGHT) (They walk back into the port and talk quieter as the functionaries with the eradicator.) ORUM: But you're forgetting one thing. KALIK: What? ORUM: The eradicator. (They glance at the w*apon.) ORUM: Assuming the Drashigs do escape, they'll never get into the city. 21: INT. SS BERNICE. PASSENGER SALOON (JO drinks a glass of orange juice as CLAIRE DALY pours one for herself.) CLAIRE DALY: Why don't you tell John how you came aboard? JO: 'Cos he wouldn't believe me. CLAIRE DALY: Well, he'll only keep questioning you until you do tell him the truth. It's his job, you see? JO: Look, how long do you think you've been on this ship? CLAIRE DALY: What? JO: Well, you know - how long? CLAIRE DALY: Do you mean since we left England? JO: Well, yes, if you like. CLAIRE DALY: Mmm, nearly four weeks - why? JO: Well, doesn't it seem like ages? I mean, well don't you seem like you've been doing the same things for as long as you can remember? (CLAIRE suddenly looks as if she has had a fleeting memory. But her face clears almost as quickly and, with a sigh, she shakes her head.) CLAIRE DALY: Ah, I don't know what you mean. (ANDREWS and MAJOR DALY come back into the saloon.) JOHN ANDREWS: The Captain wants to see you, Miss. JO: Oh, well, anything for a change. JOHN ANDREWS: Well, not a pleasant change, I'm afraid. He's certain to put you under arrest. JO: Well last time he was too busy to see me. MAJOR DALY: (Puzzled.) Last time? JO: Well, yes, when I was put in your cabin, Major Daly. No, wait a minute. No, that wasn't last time. That was the time before. Oh, can't any of you remember anything? 22: INT. SS BERNICE. CARGO HOLD (The DOCTOR, a length of rope slung over his shoulder, heads back for the hexagonal door. He opens it - into the screaming roar of a Drashig on the other side. He jumps back hurriedly and watches as the huge reptile crashes through the wall from the workings of the scope. The DOCTOR, a look of fear on his face, backs up towards the opposite wall as the Drashig starts to push its way into the hold, roaring all the time.) 23: INT. SS BERNICE. PASSENGER SALOON (The cries reach the saloon.) MAJOR DALY: There it is again, Andrews! JOHN ANDREWS: And it did come from the for'ard hold! MAJOR DALY: Why... 24: INT. SS BERNICE. CARGO HOLD (The DOCTOR is still backing up as the Drashig moves nearer. Suddenly, the DOCTOR falls to the floor and a small packing case lands on top of him. The door to the hold opens and ANDREWS with his r*fle, two armed Indian sailors and MAJOR DALY run in. They look up in disbelief at the Drashig.) MAJOR DALY: I don't believe it! JOHN ANDREWS: f*re! (They f*re several sh*ts at the screaming, roaring creature which have no effect. ANDREWS indicates that they should get out.) 25: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (NIGHT) (ORUM watches in surprise as KALIK send the eradicator detachment of functionaries off.) ORUM: (Whispers.) Where are they going? KALIK: (Whispers.) To the guard block. One ordered them to take their repasts. ORUM: (Whispers, shocked.) But regulations state that no eradicator must be left unattended. If there's a heat build-up, it could engage accidentally! KALIK: (Whispers.) But this one won't, Orum - will it? 26: EXT. SS BERNICE. MAIN DECK (The "SS Bernice" is in a panic. The Indian sailors shout at each other in their native language. One runs across the deck head towards ANDREWS.) JOHN ANDREWS: What is it, man? (Up above, the bearded, white-uniformed CAPTAIN comes out of the bridge and shouts down to ANDREWS.) CAPTAIN: What's going on, Mr. Andrews? JOHN ANDREWS: (To the sailor.) Right, get going. (He shouts up at the CAPTAIN.) JOHN ANDREWS: It's through into the after hold, sir. CAPTAIN: Well, where on earth did it come from, man? Out of the bilges? JOHN ANDREWS: It's as big as an elephant, sir - bigger. CAPTAIN: Bosun, where's that g*n? JOHN ANDREWS: I know where there's something even more useful, sir, in the for'ard hold - dynamite. (As ANDREWS runs to the bow of the ship, the CAPTAIN yells down to the Indian Bosun.) CAPTAIN: Bosun, chalo, chalo!... ! 27: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (NIGHT) (As KALIK keeps watch, ORUM is trying to sabotage the unattended eradicator g*n. Suddenly KALIK hisses twice and ORUM hurriedly pockets a component from the eradicator as PLETRAC walks into the area.) PLETRAC: (Pleased.) President Zarb has granted special powers. The Lurmans and their machine are to be deported. ORUM: Excellent! (KALIK glances over at the TARDIS.) KALIK: And the, er, Tellurian vessel? PLETRAC: Oh, that too can be loaded and jettisoned in deep space, unless of course the Lurmans wish to enter a claim of ownership. ORUM: Agreed. (Suddenly, PLETRAC sees that the functionaries are nowhere to be seen.) PLETRAC: (Appalled.) Where are the functionaries?! Why is the eradicator unattended?! KALIK: Er, one ordered them to leave it. PLETRAC: You ordered them? You?! KALIK: They had been on duty continually for two periods. PLETRAC: You have exceeded your authority, Kalik! There will be an enquiry. KALIK: Very well. PLETRAC: But where are the functionaries? ORUM: In the guard room. PLETRAC: Well, fetch them! Fetch them at once! (ORUM runs nervously from the area. KALIK is about to follow but PLETRAC holds him back.) PLETRAC: From the time this tribunal is dissolved, Kalik, you will be suspended pending my official report. Is that clear? KALIK: Perfectly, Chairman Pletrac, perfectly clear. (He smiles and walks off.) 28: EXT. SS BERNICE. MAIN DECK (MAJOR DALY is leading his daughter and an unwilling JO towards a lifeboat. The banging of the Drashig against the hold cover can be heard.) MAJOR DALY: Come on. JO: But the Doctor's down there! MAJOR DALY: No place for the fair sex, my dear. JO: I must go! MAJOR DALY: Take place in a lifeboat, the pair of you. JO: I'm not leaving here. (One of the Indian sailors walks up with what looks like a sub-machine g*n.) MAJOR DALY: Ah, the very thing. (The sailor begins to speak to the MAJOR in his own language.) MAJOR DALY: Give it to me, man. (Despite the sailor's protests, the MAJOR takes the g*n off him.) MAJOR DALY: Quiet! (The MAJOR runs towards the bow of the ship, followed by JO. Up above, the CAPTAIN sees what is about to happen and shouts a warning out...) CAPTAIN: Look out below, Major Daly! (The MAJOR turns. They hear a noise like the shredding of metal and turn to see the Drashig bursting through the hold cover. The MAJOR starts to pump the roaring, shrieking creature full of b*ll*ts. It sways and they hear it fall into the sea.) 29: INT. SS BERNICE. CARGO HOLD (The DOCTOR is still unconscious. ANDREWS runs into the hold. He grabs a crowbar off a hook and starts to lever open a crate lid.) 30: INT. SS BERNICE. PASSENGER SALOON (JO, a captor again, is led back into the saloon by the MAJOR. CLAIRE follows.) MAJOR DALY: I'm sorry, my dear, I'm sure the Captain won't be long. By Jove, that beast took a bit of stopping, eh? Well, we could all do with a chocker peg, what? (He heads for the drinks tray.) CLAIRE DALY: I've never seen anything like it. (To JO.) Have you? JO: Well, actually, I have. There's rather a lot of them about. MAJOR DALY: Yes, strange waters these, you know? JO: (Pleading.) Oh, look, please? I've got to find the Doctor. MAJOR DALY: Ahh, you feeling a bit umpty? I'm not at all surprised! (JO looks upset at her inability to make them understand.) 31: INT. SS BERNICE. CARGO HOLD (As other nearby Drashigs roar, ANDREWS lights a stick of dynamite. The DOCTOR comes round and sees what he is about to do.) DOCTOR: No, man, don't! You'll blow us all to bits! Don't! (But a Drashig is sighted through the ripped hole in the wall from the scope workings. ANDREWS throws the dynamite through. It explodes within. He runs forward with another lit stick.) DOCTOR: No, man, no! (This too is thrown through. ANDREWS runs from the hold and the second stick explodes with a massive ferocity that makes the DOCTOR crouch down for safety.) 32: INT. SCOPE WORKINGS (Torn electrical circuits spark as the immediate effect of the expl*si*n recedes. The DOCTOR cautiously approaches the hole in the wall and looks through.) DOCTOR: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. That's done it. 33: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (NIGHT) (VORG and SHIRNA are sat with their luggage, still waiting for their deportation. SHIRNA suddenly notices the effect on the scopes console.) SHIRNA: Look at those dials, Vorg. (She gets up and looks closer.) VORG: What about them? SHIRNA: They're suddenly dropping back - all of them! All the circuits! VORG: They can't be. SHIRNA: Well, look for yourself. It's a general power failure. (VORG joins her.) VORG: Don't be ridiculous. The power system's fully protected. SHIRNA: Well? VORG: Well it can't be a power failure. SHIRNA: The generators. VORG: The generators were built by the old Eternity Perpetual Company. They're designed to last forever. That's why the company went bankrupt. SHIRNA: Well, they're still dropping. They'll be down to critical soon. VORG: I can see that. SHIRNA: (Sighs.) Well that's that then. That's the scope finished. VORG: There should be enough power already in the circuits to keep it functioning for a time. SHIRNA: How long? VORG: I don't know. Nothing like this has ever happened before. SHIRNA: Long enough to repair it? VORG: Maybe...if I still had that handbook. SHIRNA: You've not lost it?! (VORG looks sheepish.) 34: INT. SCOPE WORKINGS (Next to the long dark shaft, the DOCTOR ties the ship's rope to a metal strut.) 35: INT. SS BERNICE. PASSENGER SALOON (JO still waits in the saloon. ANDREWS walks in.) MAJOR DALY: Oh, hello, old chap, sundowner? JOHN ANDREWS: Oh, not for me, sir? MAJOR DALY: Claire? CLAIRE DALY: No, thank you, daddy. John and I are just going for a walk. MAJOR DALY: Oh. JOHN ANDREWS: Twenty times round the deck is a mile... (JO, unnoticed for the last moment, steps forward.) JO: You've forgotten, haven't you? You've forgotten everything! MAJOR DALY: 'Pon my soul! JOHN ANDREWS: Who are you? JO: (Sighs.) Here we go again. JOHN ANDREWS: You're not a passenger. Where did you come from? JO: How do know I'm not a passenger? JOHN ANDREWS: What? JO: Well, since none of you can remember more than about...ten minutes ago, how do you know? 36: INT. SCOPE WORKINGS. BASE OF SHAFT (The DOCTOR climbs down the rope to the bottom of the shaft. The wounded Drashig lies there. He looks briefly over the almost still creature and then looks round. He spots another hexagonal metal door and starts to feel over it for a way through.) 37: INT. SS BERNICE. PASSENGER SALOON (JO is still desperately trying to get through to the three people in the saloon...) JO: Can't you remember sh**ting the monster about...twenty minutes ago? CLAIRE DALY: What monster? JO: I was with you when you sh*t it down, Major! MAJOR DALY: (Smiling.) Wha...? (The three look at each other in total bafflement. JO gives up, sighs and runs out of the saloon. The MAJOR laughs.) MAJOR DALY: Oh, poor young girl. Must have a touch of the sun, what? JOHN ANDREWS: Maybe. Still, we can't have stowaways wandering about. MAJOR DALY: No. JOHN ANDREWS: Better get after her. MAJOR DALY: Yeah. (ANDREWS runs onto the deck and the MAJOR makes to follow.) MAJOR DALY: (To CLAIRE.) Watch out for the monster! (Laughing, he follows the young officer. Again, CLAIRE'S face shows that she has a fleeting memory.) 38: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (NIGHT) (VORG is working on the scope. SHIRA shakes her head.) SHIRNA: The power's still dropping, Vorg. (PLETRAC steps forward.) PLETRAC: What are you doing? VORG: (Quietly.) I wish I knew. (VORG suddenly realises who is talking to him. He spins round.) VORG: Er, oh! Routine maintenance, your worship. (SHIRNA suddenly lets out a cry of fear and disgust. At her feet, a panel on the side of the scope opens and the tiny form of the DOCTOR staggers out and then falls to the floor...)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "10x07 - Carnival of Monsters - part 3"}
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CARNIVAL OF MONSTERS BY: ROBERT HOLMES EPISODE FOUR Original Air Date: 17 February, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (NIGHT) (VORG is working on the scope. SHIRA shakes her head.) SHIRNA: The power's still dropping, Vorg. (PLETRAC steps forward.) PLETRAC: What are you doing? VORG: (Quietly.) I wish I knew. (VORG suddenly realises who is talking to him. He spins round.) VORG: Er, oh! Routine maintenance, your worship. (SHIRNA suddenly lets out a cry of fear and disgust. At her feet, a panel on the side of the scope opens and the tiny form of the DOCTOR staggers out and then falls to the floor. Now outside of the compression field, he starts to grow to full size watched by the horrified observers.) PLETRAC: (Panicking.) Eradicator detachment - stand by! (The returned functionaries start to prepare their w*apon as the DOCTOR starts to stir.) SHIRNA: It's one of the Tellurians! PLETRAC: Hurry! It must be eradicated! (SHIRNA bends down to help the DOCTOR as he sits up groggily.) SHIRNA: Why? He hasn't done anything wrong. (To the DOCTOR.) Are you alright, dear? PLETRAC: Don't touch it! It's probably crawling with germs! (VORG pulls SHIRNA away.) VORG: He's right, Shirna. Come away - the thing must be destroyed! PLETRAC: Eradicator detachment - one charge, maximum intensity... (KALIK, with ORUM not far behind, steps between the eradicator and the still woozy DOCTOR.) KALIK: Wait! PLETRAC: Stand aside, Kalik. KALIK: This procedure is not in order. PLETRAC: Not in order? KALIK: The eradicator cannot be used without authority from the tribunal. PLETRAC: In an emergency, it's perfectly... KALIK: (Interrupts.) One alien...hardly constitutes an emergency. PLETRAC: The function of this tribunal is to keep this planet clean. This Tellurian creature comes from outside our solar system and is a possible carrier of contagion. (Now fully recovered, the DOCTOR gets to his feet.) PLETRAC: Furthermore the creature may be hostile. DOCTOR: Would you kindly stop referring to me as the "creature", sir, or I may well become exceedingly hostile! PLETRAC: Silence! This...tribunal is deliberating. DOCTOR: The tribunal is not deliberating. The tribunal is arguing. Quite nonsensically, if I may say so. PLETRAC: (Angrily.) The tribunal will not tolerate insolence from unauthorised lifeforms! DOCTOR: Will one of you kindly explain to me exactly where I am? Which planet, I mean? KALIK: You are on Inter Minor. DOCTOR: Inter Minor? What, not Metebelis Three, the famous blue planet of the Acteon galaxy? ORUM: Oh no. DOCTOR: I see. (He turns and sees a familiar shape.) DOCTOR: Oh, thank heavens the TARDIS is safe anyway. PLETRAC: This "container" is yours? DOCTOR: Yes, it is indeed. (He then sees the scope. Nearby, VORG is thoroughly enjoying the display of the DOCTOR'S authority over the Minorians.) DOCTOR: And oh yes! Just as I thought - a miniscope. (Angrily.) Now this is outrageous! Who is responsible for this device? (To PLETRAC.) Is it yours? PLETRAC: Certainly not! It is the property of this Lurman. The female is his assistant. (The DOCTOR looks at a grinning VORG who, in turn, gestures to SHIRNA. The DOCTOR bows to her. She simpers and giggles as the DOCTOR turns back to PLETRAC.) DOCTOR: And you sir, you are? (PLETRAC steps forward, desperately trying to re-assert his authority.) PLETRAC: Chairman Peltrac of the admissions tribunal. (ORUM speaks an aside to KALIK...) ORUM: One wonders why the tribunal is submitting to questioning by this creature. Shouldn't it be the other way round? DOCTOR: Well, I'm sorry to have to tell you gentlemen, but you are all in very serious trouble. ORUM: (To KALIK, laughing.) Really, one almost admires its audacity! DOCTOR: You are, I take it, the representatives of authority on this planet? PLETRAC: (Proudly.) One's authority comes direct from President Zarb himself. DOCTOR: Then you have allowed the importation and the operation of a machine that is expressly forbidden by intergalactic law. PLETRAC: (Haughtily.) One did not allow it! One has already ordered the deportation of the Lurmans and their machine. DOCTOR: But for the moment, the machine is here and it is in operation. Surely you'll scarcely deny that? PLETRAC: (Caught out.) Well...strictly speaking, one...must concede that, er, in a sense... DOCTOR: (Interrupts.) Then you are responsible, are you not? As a direct result of your carelessness, my young companion is trapped inside this machine, in a situation of extreme peril. PLETRAC: (Snaps.) Look, one is forced to remind you that the question before this tribunal is your own eradication as a menace to public health! DOCTOR: (Ignoring him.) If you will allow me...to rescue my young companion, and give what help I can to the rest of the unfortunates trapped in here, then I am prepared to overlook the entire matter. ORUM: One is indeed overwhelmed! DOCTOR: If not, then you'll just have to take the consequences. Let me know when you've made up your mind. (He moves over to inspect the scope. VORG and SHIRNA are delighted and impressed by the performance.) VORG: Marvellous, Shirna! What audacity, eh? Do you know, I do believe he's one of us? SHIRNA: One of us? He's a Tellurian. VORG: Of course, but I recognise the type. He's in the carnival business, I'm sure. I mean, look at his manner and look at his clothes. Don't forget that I've...I've worked many a Tellurian fairground. SHIRNA: You may be right. He's certainly got the style. VORG: Oh, I'd wager on it. He's got the measure of these grey-faced idiots right enough. (Nearby, the three Minorians are arguing...) KALIK: Personally speaking, one is against this whole thing. PLETRAC: One might have expected you to take that attitude, Kalik. Orum - are you for or against the use of the eradicator? ORUM: Against. KALIK: You are outvoted, Pletrac. PLETRAC: Very well. Eradicator detachment - stand down. (The functionaries step back from the w*apon. The DOCTOR overhears this and steps up behind the momentarily alarmed Minorians.) DOCTOR: (Smiles.) Thank you for your timely intervention, sir. (He starts to walk away again.) PLETRAC: Wait! Where are you going? (The DOCTOR points back at the scope and smiles.) DOCTOR: Just over there! (He goes off without another word. PLETRAC bites his lip.) KALIK: You're very nervous, Pletrac? PLETRAC: (Quietly.) Not nervous so much as puzzled. What use is the Tellurian to you? KALIK: (Soothing.) Of no use. PLETRAC: You never do anything without a reason, Kalik. Why did you try to save the Tellurian's life? KALIK: Out of...mercy and compassion. Vorg will tell you. (Smiling, KALIK walks off, followed, as ever, by ORUM. PLETRAC is looking more and more suspicious. Nearby, an admiring VORG and SHIRNA watch the DOCTOR as he continues to work on the scope.) VORG: I bet he understands the palare. Listen to this. (Laughs.) SHIRNA: Eh? VORG: The Tellurian carnival lingo - watch. (He steps up to the DOCTOR.) VORG: Palare la carny? (The DOCTOR looks up, confused.) DOCTOR: I beg your pardon? VORG: Varda the Bona Palone? DOCTOR: I...I'm sorry, er... VORG: Niente dinari round here, y'jills. (VORG laughs. The DOCTOR speaks slowly and loudly...) DOCTOR: I...I must apologise. I...I'm afraid I do not understand your language. VORG: Oh, you understand alright! You're a showman, the same as me, ain't you? DOCTOR: Are you a showman, sir? VORG: Allow me to introduce myself. I am the great Vorg! (He gestures with an imperious finger in the air and then gestures to SHIRNA.) VORG: And this beautiful young lady is Shirna, my assistant. (The DOCTOR bows again.) DOCTOR: Delighted, Miss Shirna. I am the Doctor. VORG: "Doctor" - great title, you know. Doctors, Professors - always pulls 'em in. DOCTOR: Tell me, sir, are you in charge of this disgraceful device? VORG: Yes, why? Is something wrong? DOCTOR: Yes, something is very wrong. I too have an assistant, you know, and she's trapped inside this machine. Now somehow I've got to get her out. (He opens an inspection panel on the console.) VORG: Oh, Doctor, Doctor! I wouldn't put your hand in there. Those Drashigs can take a lump right out of you. DOCTOR: Drashigs? SHIRNA: They followed you out of the circuit. They're running wild inside there now. Doing terrible damage, aren't they, Vorg? VORG: Oh, they've broken through to statofields. Very soon, I'm going to lose the entire collection. DOCTOR: What, lose them? That would be a tragedy. VORG: You can say that again. My insurance doesn't cover the replacement of livestock. DOCTOR: (Furious.) Livestock! Now let me tell you, sir, that the people inside that ship are human beings. VORG: That's right - Tellurians, Ogrons, Drashigs - oh, marvellous collection. DOCTOR: The collection of the simplest animal lifeforms is a dubious enough pursuit in itself, sir. But the collection of civilised intelligent beings is a positive crime! Now let me warn you that I intend to put an end to this shameful business. VORG: Well, there's no need to get excited. It's putting an end to itself. DOCTOR: Huh? What does that mean? VORG: The scope's packing up. All the life support systems are going to break down soon. SHIRNA: Even on tickover, the power's almost down to critical. DOCTOR: How long will it last? VORG: Who knows? Can't be much longer. DOCTOR: (Urgently.) Well that means that every living creature in there will die, including my assistant! Now somehow, I've got to find a way of saving them! 2: EXT. SS BERNICE. MAIN DECK (JO is hiding on the deck behind some of the ship's deck paraphernalia. She watches as ANDREWS and MAJOR DALY meet in their search.) JOHN ANDREWS: Have you seen her? MAJOR DALY: Not this side. JOHN ANDREWS: Well, she can't get away. We'll get a search party together and search the ship. (The two men move off, as does JO but in the opposite direction.) 3: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (NIGHT) (ORUM gestures to KALIK to join him. He points over at the DOCTOR as he works on the scope, watched with an element of disinterest by VORG and SHIRNA.) ORUM: (Whispers.) What is the Tellurian doing? KALIK: Trying to rescue the other Tellurian, one imagines. ORUM: They are clearly social creatures. KALIK: Mmm, and harmless. ORUM: (Nervously.) Pletrac is growing suspicious. If he should decide to examine the eradicator, he will discover that...one has rendered it useless. KALIK: You worry too much, Orum. ORUM: President Zarb still decrees the death penalty for acts of treason! KALIK: Have you destroyed the part? ORUM: What part? KALIK: (Impatiently.) From the eradicator! ORUM: Oh, you mean the trizon? KALIK: Mmm. ORUM: Yes, it's here. (ORUM is about to hold the object up but KALIK stops him.) KALIK: We will conceal it in the Lurman's baggage, and then if anything should go wrong, one of us can always...discover it. ORUM: (Whispers.) Of course! Blame it on the Lurman. KALIK: (Smiling.) An alien spy and saboteur. 4: INT. SS BERNICE. CARGO HOLD (JO enters the silent hold of the ship.) JO: Doctor? (She walks further into the hold.) JO: Doctor, you there? (She suddenly sees the hole torn by the Drashig, but...) JOHN ANDREWS: There she is! (She makes a run for the hole but an Indian sailor runs forward and grabs her. ANDREWS steps forward.) JOHN ANDREWS: Now then, Miss. JO: It's alright. I know the routine. (She allows herself to be led towards the door.) 5: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (NIGHT) (The DOCTOR pokes his nose into the inspection hatch on top of the console of the scope. Alarmed, VORG scurries over to SHIRNA.) VORG: You know, Shirna, he could lose that nose of his... (He snaps his fingers.) VORG: ...just like that. (SHIRNA is suddenly alert.) SHIRNA: Vorg! (She nods towards the base of the scope where the panel by which the DOCTOR exited is starting to shake - as if something the other side was trying to push against it.) VORG: (Alarmed.) The Drashigs! SHIRNA: They've reached the outer hull! Vorg, if they get out, they'll expand to full size! VORG: Come on, it's time we left - come on! (He pulls her away from the area and into the part of the port with the cargo hatch. They run straight into PLETRAC.) PLETRAC: And where are you going? VORG: (Nervously.) Er, where are we going, yes. SHIRNA: Home? VORG: Home - we thought we'd take a shuttle out to the thruster base. PLETRAC: A transporter has been ordered for you. You will be taken, together with your machine, to the thruster base. VORG: (Nervously.) There's...there's no need to worry. I mean, we can find our own way. Don't bother. Er, you can keep the scope, your welcome to it. PLETRAC: You will remain here until the transporter arrives! The quarantine regulation on the conveyance of aliens is explicit. You will be taken to the thruster base in a transporter which we then be disinfected before further use! VORG: Disinfected? (PLETRAC pulls out his two-pronged hand w*apon and starts to herd the two Lurmans back towards the area which contains the scope.) PLETRAC: Back! Back! Back! 6: INT. SS BERNICE. MAJOR DALY'S CABIN (ANDREWS opens the door to MAJOR DALY'S cabin and the Indian sailor pushes JO inside.) JOHN ANDREWS: Now, Miss, I'm gonna lock you in here until... JO: (Interrupts.) Until the Captain can find time to see me. I know! JOHN ANDREWS: Right, sensible girl. (He pulls the door to and locks it. JO listens carefully and goes to the door with her own set of skeleton keys.) 7: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (NIGHT) (The DOCTOR pulls a small burnt component out of the scope as, nearby, VORG and SHIRNA stand and watch nervously.) DOCTOR: Vorg? VORG: D...Doctor, I shouldn't stay too near the scope - the...the Drashigs, you know? DOCTOR: Yeah, listen, Vorg, I shall need your help. I've gotta get back inside this machine. VORG: (Shocked.) What? DOCTOR: Well, it's the only way I can get Jo out of there in time and save the rest of your livestock. But I shall need you to trigger the settings for me. VORG: Settings? DOCTOR: (Impatiently.) Look, this is your machine, isn't it? VORG: Well, of course it is, why? DOCTOR: Then I presume you know how it works? SHIRNA: He won it, Doctor. DOCTOR: He what? VORG: It was during the Great Wallarian Exhibition. SHIRNA: You know what gamblers the Wallarians are? Well, Vorg had the Magum pod concession. VORG: Surely you've seen it? I have three Magum pods and a Yarrow seed. You know, the quickness of the hand deceives the eye. You put the Yarrow seed under the middle pod... DOCTOR: (Interrupts.) Yes, yes, I have seen something similar. Y...you say you won this machine. And you haven't the faintest idea how it works? (VORG nods.) DOCTOR: I see. Well, look, t...this Wallarian that you got it from, did he by any chance give you a...a green or a blue disc - a thing about this big? (He holds a finger and thumb about two inches apart.) VORG: Oh, he gave me a lot of odds and ends. They're in my bag. I think there is something like that. DOCTOR: Well go and have a look, will you? It's very important. (VORG starts to search through their luggage.) SHIRNA: What's the idea, Doctor? DOCTOR: Well, it's simple really. You see, the scope's, er, omega circuit is broken. Now if I can link it to the TARDIS and use that as the master, I can re-programme the scope. SHIRNA: And what will that do? DOCTOR: Well, two things I hope. It'll enable me to get Jo out of here in time, and get her out of this wretched contraption, and it will return all the other lifeforms to their original space/time coordinates. SHIRNA: So they'll all get back to where they came from? DOCTOR: I sincerely hope so, yes. (VORG returns with the requested object.) VORG: Is this it? It's a bit mucky, I'm afraid. (He hands it to the DOCTOR who looks it over.) DOCTOR: Yes, that's it. Thank heavens you've kept it. Look, come with me and I'll tell you what I want you to do. (He leads them towards the TARDIS but thinks better of letting them enter.) DOCTOR: Erm, would you mind just waiting there for a moment? (He goes inside the TARDIS.) 8: EXT. INTER MINOR. DESERT (NIGHT) (Just outside one of the archways that leads from the port, KALIK has been speaking to a group of four functionaries.) KALIK: (Quietly.) Now remember, do nothing until you get the signal - is that clear? (They grunt and nod.) KALIK: (Quietly.) Good. About your business - quickly. (They move off as ORUM comes up.) ORUM: (Whispers.) The transporter must arrive shortly. KALIK: (Quietly.) So, do you think my plan has failed? ORUM: Upon reflection, one is conscious of certain flaws. KALIK: Indeed? ORUM: One gathers the intention is the escape of these..."Drashigs" in order to cause a disaster that will reflect badly upon President Zarb and his regime. KALIK: Admirably put. ORUM: To this end, one has...sabotaged the eradicator in order to leave the city defenceless. KALIK: Precisely - the bigger the disaster, the better for us. ORUM: (Nervously.) Yes, but is it not possible that one might oneself become part of that disaster? KALIK: Mmm, there is a certain...minimal risk. (KALIK moves off.) ORUM: One has no wish to be devoured by alien monstrosities - even in the cause of political progress! (ORUM scurries after him. A functionary approaches and skirts the pair, moving off out of earshot. KALIK makes sure that they are not observed.) KALIK: (Quietly.) When the Drashigs burst from the machine, the city will be taken by surprise. We, on the other hand, will be ready to remove ourselves from the area of danger. ORUM: One trusts the removal will be speedy! According to that Lurman, the ferocity of the Drashigs is formidable! KALIK: No doubt he exaggerates. And, in any case, I'm sure that as commissioners of Inter Minor we shall prove to be more than a match for these, er, primitive lifeforms. (ORUM sighs.) KALIK: Have no fear, Orum. My plan will not fail! (He walks back into the space port and ORUM follows.) ORUM: Well, it will if the Drashigs don't escape! 9: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (NIGHT) ORUM: And there's no sign of that. KALIK: Shh! (The calmer KALIK holds up a hand for silence. VORG and SHIRNA are working on a large piece of equipment that the DOCTOR has brought out of the TARDIS. The two Minorians can hear a faint knocking sound. Making sure that they are not observed by the Lurmans, they move nearer the scope and bend down. KALIK points to the slightly moving plate at the base of the machine.) KALIK: (Whispers.) Listen. ORUM: (Whispers.) They'll never break through those plates! They're molectic bonded disillum. KALIK: (Whispers.) Then perhaps one had...better give them a little help. 10: INT. SS BERNICE. MAJOR DALY'S CABIN (JO succeeds in opening the cabin door.) 11: INT. SS BERNICE. LOWER DECK PASSAGE OUTSIDE CABIN (She slowly steps out. She looks round and sets off.) 12: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (NIGHT) (The DOCTOR has engineered an intricate set-up of machinery to carry out his plan, The device that VORG and SHIRA were working on before resembles a large junction box. This is connected by a series of thick cables to the TARDIS and with another set to the scope. The DOCTOR is finishing off the wiring.) VORG: Will it work, Doctor? DOCTOR: (Impatiently.) Yes, of course it'll work. VORG: Well, it's not very well insulated. DOCTOR: Then don't touch any bare metal. Right, now listen to me. (The DOCTOR points to a handle-switch that juts out of one side of the machine...) DOCTOR: This is the phase one switch here. (...and then to a second that juts out of the other side.) DOCTOR: And this is the phase two. Now don't touch the phase two until the last possible moment - do you understand? VORG: I've got that - phase one, phase two, yeah. DOCTOR: Good. (PLETRAC steps forward.) PLETRAC: What are you doing? SHIRNA: The Doctor's going back into the scope. (The DOCTOR gives her a look for babbling out his plan. She lowers her eyes.) PLETRAC: (To the DOCTOR, imperiously.) You will remain here! You came here illegally. Regulations demand that you be sent to the ICCA. DOCTOR: Mmm, what's the ICCA? VORG: The Inner Constellation Corrective Authority. You won't like it, Doctor. DOCTOR: Prison? PLETRAC: You are, by your own admission, a vagabond. DOCTOR: Oh yes...yes, very much so. (He looks at VORG who nods almost imperceptibly.) DOCTOR: Phase one. (VORG pushes down the handle. The DOCTOR, stood with his palms flat on the junction box, fades out of sight, utterly throwing PLETRAC.) PLETRAC: What? Er, stop! Er... (He pulls out his hand w*apon and fires. The air oscillates and the junction box explodes.) VORG: Oh, n...oh no! SHIRNA: We'll never get him back now! 13: INT. SCOPE WORKINGS (The DOCTOR materialises, miniaturised once more and flat on the floor of a circuit path. He is seemingly unconscious. He comes to and sits up. He clambers to his feet and sets off.) 14: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (NIGHT) (VORG is desperately trying to make sense of the wires within the junction box.) SHIRNA: Can you fix it? VORG: I don't know, I...all these wires! SHIRNA: Well, you must try. VORG: Well, I'm doing my best. SHIRNA: The Doctor's relying on us. VORG: Well, put your finger on there a minute, will you? (He points to a metal terminal.) SHIRNA: Here? (There is a fierce crackle and a spark. SHIRNA shrieks and snatches her hand back.) VORG: Good, that must be the live terminal. 15: INT. SS BERNICE. CARGO HOLD (JO has made her way, unnoticed this time, back down to the hold. She carefully enters and goes to the ripped hole that she saw last time.) 16: INT. SCOPE WORKINGS (She calls into the workings.) JO: Doctor? Doctor, can you hear me? (There is no reply as her voice echoes round. She seems to give up.) 17: INT. SS BERNICE. CARGO HOLD (She is lost in thought as, suddenly, the DOCTOR'S voice calls out to her...) DOCTOR: (OOV.) Jo? Jo, is that you? (She looks back into the workings and sees the DOCTOR appear across the circuits.) JO: Doctor! Doctor, where've you been? DOCTOR: Look, stop asking silly questions and come on! 18: INT. SCOPE WORKINGS (Delighted, she jumps through the ripped hole, up and cross the circuits and joins him.) JO: Doctor! (They run off.) 19: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (NIGHT) (As VORG continues his repairs, SHIRNA looks through a toolbag.) VORG: Haven't you found that sprock yet? SHIRNA: I think you've lost that too. VORG: Oh. (They fail to see KALIK on the other side of the scope as he tries to free the plate. ORUM runs up to him.) ORUM: (Whispers, urgently.) We'll have to hurry, Kalik! The transporters due! KALIK: (Whispers.) Keep Pletrac busy! ORUM: (Whispers.) One will try! KALIK: (Whispers.) Orum! (He hands ORUM his hand w*apon to use if necessary. ORUM takes it with some reluctance and moves off. Meanwhile, SHIRNA lifts up the unit from the eradicator which has been deposited in their toolbag.) SHIRNA: Is this part of something, Vorg? VORG: Mmm? (He takes the metal and plastic unit.) VORG: Where'd you get that? SHIRNA: I found it in your bag. Do you know what it is? VORG: Ha! I haven't seen one of these since my national service days. (VORG doesn't notice that a humming tone is coming from the scope.) VORG: The old fourteenth heavy lasers. Oh, what an outfit! Our battery sergeant was a Crustasoid mercenary... SHIRNA: (Interrupts.) Vorg! The power's almost down to critical! Is the phase two switch ready? VORG: Well, it won't be long. I've just got to fix this junction box. 20: INT. SCOPE WORKINGS (Within the scope things are getting critical. As the power starts to run down, the chamber of circuits fills with smoke. The DOCTOR tries to pull JO up a circuit. She gasps with the lack of air.) DOCTOR: Come on, Jo. JO: (Gasping.) I can't... DOCTOR: Come on! JO: (Gasping.) ...get...get...my breath! DOCTOR: Come on, the circuits are going! JO: (Gasping.) I can't... DOCTOR: Come on, Jo! Come on, one last effort, we're nearly there. 21: INT. SS BERNICE. PASSENGER SALOON (The effect is the same on the "SS Bernice". CLAIRE staggers into the saloon, holding onto the walls for support.) CLAIRE DALY: Daddy... MAJOR DALY: Claire...oh... CLAIRE DALY: Oh, I... MAJOR DALY: My dear... (She falls into the MAJOR'S arms as ANDREWS, also struggling, comes into the saloon.) JOHN ANDREWS: What's the matter? MAJOR DALY: Give us a hand. (They lay CLAIRE on a seat.) MAJOR DALY: It's heat exhaustion. I should never have brought her out here. (The MAJOR himself falls back unconscious on a padded bench. As CLAIRE breathes faintly, ANDREWS falls to the floor.) 22: EXT. INTER MINOR. DESERT (NIGHT) (Just outside the port, ORUM "runs into" the returning PLETRAC.) ORUM: Ah, the transporter has arrived at last! PLETRAC: Yes, it is time to get these aliens aboard. (PLETRAC tries to step past ORUM but the Minorian side-steps and gets in his way again.) ORUM: Why was it delayed? PLETRAC: One understands that the functionaries at the transporter depot are refusing to work double shifts. (Again they both side-step...) ORUM: What impudence! PLETRAC: Yes, the functionaries are getting above themselves. We live in troubled times. (...and again.) PLETRAC: Oh, do get out of the way, Orum! (ORUM, holding KALIK'S w*apon but too scared to use it, finally moves aside. PLETRAC takes his first steps towards the port when he hears the roar of a Drashig and a scream of terror from KALIK. He looks in horror at ORUM and moves off.) 23: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (NIGHT) (Within the port, VORG and SHIRNA back off in terror as the Drashig rears above KALIK. He runs across the port but the Drashig pursues him.) KALIK: No, no, no, no! (PLETRAC yells an order at the functionaries.) PLETRAC: Quick, the eradicator! (They however have different ideas and run off. PLETRAC shows surprising bravery and takes over the g*n himself. He presses the trigger several times but there is no response.) PLETRAC: Sabotage! Run for your lives! (He does so. Realising what he holds, VORG himself runs for the eradicator as the Drashig continues to roar.) VORG: This way! (He plugs the unit into the underside of the barrel of the eradicator.) 24: EXT. INTER MINOR. DESERT (NIGHT) (Outside, KALIK falls back as the Drashig plunges down at him.) 25: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (NIGHT) SHIRNA: Vorg, look here! (She points through the archway at the Drashig. He swings the g*n round and fires. The red glow surrounds the creature's head and it falls to the ground, d*ad. Another Drashig has escaped from the scope and roars directly over the two Lurmans.) SHIRNA: Look out! (VORG swings the g*n round and fires again.) 26: INT. SCOPE WORKINGS (Their steps slow and turgid, the DOCTOR and JO stumble their way along a circuit. Unable to go on, they fall to the floor. The DOCTOR gasps...) DOCTOR: Vorg...Vorg...the phase two switch... 27: INT. SS BERNICE. PASSENGER SALOON (The occupants of the saloon cabin are totally unconscious.) 28: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (NIGHT) (VORG and SHIRNA look over the d*ad smoking Drashig.) VORG: Well, that's that. SHIRNA: Well, what about the Doctor? VORG: Oh, it must be too late. SHIRNA: Well, we can try. VORG: (Shrugs.) If you like. (He approaches the junction box and pushes the phase two handle down. He glances at the front of the box.) VORG: No, it's no use. The power's completely gone. (SHIRNA sighs.) VORG: No, no, wait a minute! (Suddenly, a hum of power is heard from the machine. VORG pushes the handle fully down.) 29: EXT. MARSH (A lone Drashig, still in its swamp, vanishes.) 30: EXT. OCEAN (The entire "SS Bernice" also fades away.) 31: INT. SCOPE WORKINGS (The DOCTOR and JO, still and unconscious, fade from view.) 32: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (NIGHT) (The junction box is starting to run away and the scope's glowsphere is flaring with light.) VORG: I'll have to switch it off. SHIRNA: But, you can't! (The scope's glowsphere explodes. It is now just a melted mass sat on top of the ruined console unit.) VORG: Well, that's it then. SHIRNA: No, wait! (She looks at the floor and sees a full-sized DOCTOR and JO fade into view.) VORG: It worked! (The two start to stir. The DOCTOR pushes himself up.) DOCTOR: Hello, Vorg. Well, you cut that a bit fine didn't you? (He gets to his feet.) VORG: Oh, we had a spot of bother here. (JO starts to come round.) JO: Doctor...Doctor... DOCTOR: It's alright, Jo. It's alright, Jo, we've made it. (He helps her to her feet. JO looks round her new surroundings.) JO: Well, where are the others? DOCTOR: Others? JO: Well, yes - on the ship? DOCTOR: Well, I reversed the original settings and linked them to the TARDIS, so they should still be on the ship. JO: But...back in 1926 in the Indian Ocean? DOCTOR: Yes, exactly. 33: INT. SS BERNICE. MAJOR DALY'S CABIN (NIGHT) (The MAJOR lies in his pyjamas in bed. Their time loop broken, his finally finishes his book closes the cover. There is a knock on the door.) MAJOR DALY: Who is it? (CLAIRE comes in.) CLAIRE DALY: Only me. I didn't wake you, did I? MAJOR DALY: Course not. CLAIRE DALY: I wouldn't want to wake you just to say goodnight. (She sits on the end of the bed.) MAJOR DALY: Been reading. CLAIRE DALY: Have you finished it? MAJOR DALY: Yeah...seems like the longest book I've ever read in me life. CLAIRE DALY: It does seem to have been a long trip somehow. (Suddenly she frowns, again as if she had a slight memory of events...) CLAIRE DALY: Daddy! MAJOR DALY: Mmm? (She thinks a moment more, then sighs.) CLAIRE DALY: Oh...nothing. MAJOR DALY: Disappointing ending, you know? Fellow became a missionary. I thought he was going to marry her. CLAIRE DALY: (Laughs.) Oh, you are an old romantic, aren't you, daddy? I'll bet half your stories about the east are just romances. MAJOR DALY: You'll see for yourself tomorrow, Claire - b*mb! CLAIRE DALY: Mmm, I'm looking forward to that. MAJOR DALY: Mmm, don't think young Andrews is though! (Laughs.) CLAIRE DALY: That's what I mean, you see - romantic! Good night, daddy. (She gets up and gives her father a kiss.) MAJOR DALY: Goodnight, my child. Sleep well. (She leaves the cabin. The MAJOR yawns and picks up a pencil. On his bedside calendar, he is finally able to put a cross through Tuesday 4 June 1926.) 34: EXT. INTER MINOR. SPACE PORT (NIGHT) (As the DOCTOR and JO wheel the junction box back into the TARDIS, VORG is at the eradicator, watched by a bored SHIRNA, as he regales PLETRAC with the story of his bravery.) VORG: There was this second monster, barreling in at ninety degrees, practically breathing down my neck, and I swung like this, see, keeping low and I gave him a quick burst right in the vitals! That sh*t it was! (PLETRAC nervously pushes the pointed eradicator away from himself.) PLETRAC: (Smiles.) We are all extremely grateful to you. Your valour will not be forgotten. VORG: (Smiles.) Well, it's my natural reaction to stand and fight, you know. PLETRAC: (Smiles.) Our president will almost certainly wish to honour our Lurman guests for their courageous action. VORG: Some form of, er, decoration perhaps? SHIRNA: But how are we going to live? The scope's had it, and we haven't a credit bar to our name. VORG: You leave that to me, my dear. I say, Pletrac, old man, er, let me show you a little trick. (He puts a hand on PLETRAC'S shoulder, to a flinch of disgust from the Minorian. VORG takes his hand back.) VORG: I'm so sorry. (VORG, the showman, starts to put the tools of his trade on the standing end of one of their pieces of luggage.) VORG: Now, I have here three Magum Pods and a Yarrow seed. Right? Now, I place the Yarrow seed under the middle pod, like so. PLETRAC: Mmm hmm. VORG: Now, I move them very very slowly, now watch. (He moves the three covering shell-like pods round.) PLETRAC: Yes. (The DOCTOR and JO have come back out of the TARDIS and are watching. The DOCTOR whispers something to JO.) VORG: Watch carefully. Are you watching? You tell me which pod you think the seed is under. PLETRAC: (Confidently.) The middle one. VORG: The middle one. Er, you wouldn't like to wager say, er, a couple of credit bars on your judgement, would you? (SHIRNA shakes her head to herself.) PLETRAC: Certainly. One will wager two credit bars that the seed is under the middle pod. Ha! One can hardly discount the evidence of one's eyes. (VORG puts down two blue-tipped metal bars down as his part of the wager and lifts the middle pod. Underneath it is, of course, nothing.) VORG: Oh...you're unlucky. PLETRAC: One was obviously too hasty. One will not make the same mistake a second time. VORG: Another little wager? PLETRAC: Five credit bars, er, no - ten! VORG: Whatever you say, Pletrac! (Laughs.) (PLETRAC hands over a yellow tipped metal bar to a delighted VORG.) VORG: Thank you. You know, I'm going to like it here! You remind me of the Wallarians, you know? They're great sportsmen too! (Laughs.) There we are. DOCTOR: (To JO.) I don't think we need worry too much about our friend, Vorg. (She smiles and nods.) VORG: (To PLETRAC.) Now, this is the one, right? PLETRAC: (To VORG.) Indeed. JO: (To the DOCTOR.) I think he'll probably wind up president. (The DOCTOR and JO laugh and he gestures for her to enter the TARDIS.) VORG: (To PLETRAC.) Watch carefully. PLETRAC: One watches. VORG: I move them very, very slowly like that. Now, keep watching. Now you tell me...which pod you think the seed is under. PLETRAC: Er... VORG: I'm giving you a chance to... (He is interrupted as the TARDIS engines echo round the port. They all look up in surprise as the blue box fades away. SHIRNA smiles...)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "10x08 - Carnival of Monsters - part 4"}
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FRONTIER IN SPACE BY: MALCOLM HULKE EPISODE ONE Original Air Date: 24 February, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: SPACE (A large dull grey space ship cruises silently through space. It has crane-like appendages at the front and rockets at the rear.) 2: INT. CARGO SHIP. BRIDGE (The bridge has two control consoles at a slight angle to each other. Each has a monitor in the wall and pilot's seat before it. Several personal photographs have been stuck to the walls above the consoles. Occupying the chairs are HARDY and STEWART, the only crew of the ship. They are both in their thirties and wear brown uniforms with large cushioned sleeve-ends and shoulder pads. Both men are in the process of completing flight checks. A microphone on a long stalk protrudes from both of the desks. HARDY speaks into his.) HARDY: (Into radio.) This is Earth cargo ship C982 on course and on schedule. We shall be entering hyperspace in... (Checks.) ...fifty seconds. (A counter in the wall clicks away with the revised schedule. STEWART sighs and leans back in his chair as HARDY starts to strap himself into the seatbelt built into his chair.) STEWART: You know what I'd like? HARDY: What? STEWART: A job on one of those luxury space liners. First Officer on the Mars-Venus cruise - that'd suit me. HARDY: Hmm, you can keep it! Spit and polish, cocktail parties and all those passengers? STEWART: Gold braid uniform, beautiful stewardesses? (Smiles.) Yeah, I'd take that any time. HARDY: You're more likely to wind up pushing a battle cruiser. STEWART: There no...there's not going to be an interplanetary w*r. HARDY: Didn't you see the videocast last night? "The President of Earth's government deplores the Draconian att*ck on two of Earth's cargo vessels." (STEWART starts to manipulate his bank of controls.) STEWART: Look, they steal a few of our cargoes, we steal a few of theirs. It'll all blow over. Right, get ready for the jump. (STEWART straps himself into his own chair.) HARDY: Preparing to enter hyperspace at twenty two, o-nine, seventy-two, two thousand, five hundred and forty BST. Right. STEWART: Right. (STEWART slams a lever home...) 3: SPACE (and the spaceship accelerates through space, gaining velocity for the jump to hyperspace.) 4: INT. CARGO SHIP. BRIDGE (HARDY studies his monitor screen intently.) HARDY: Hey look - a ship! (STEWART leans across to look at the screen too. A familiar looking blue box with a flashing light on the top spins into view through the dust clouds of space.) STEWART: That's no ship! HARDY: It's going to h*t us! (STEWART pulls the lever on his console back.) STEWART: Pulling out of hyperspace now at twenty two, thirteen, seven-two, seven two, four-zero! (The whine of the trip through hyperspace dies down.) STEWART: Phew! That was a close thing. (HARDY looks at his monitor again. It now only shows the dust clouds.) HARDY: It vanished. It just vanished! STEWART: You'd better report it. HARDY: (Into microphone.) Mysterious object sighted during hyperspace transition. Object resembles large box with flashing light on top. Object disappeared before collision. Present whereabouts unknown. (HARDY sits back and sighs with relief.) 5: INT. CARGO SHIP. HOLD (The TARDIS has already solidified in the cargo hold. The light flashes as the dematerialisation noise dies down. The door opens and JO and the DOCTOR step out. They both wear the same clothes as they wore on their previous adventure on Inter Minor. The chamber they are in couldn't be more different from the cargo hold on the "SS Bernice". It is metallic and futuristic. A raised railed platform skirts three edges of the room. The fourth has several viewing portals that look out onto space. Running along the platform are several machine-like containers marked: DANGER BULK FLOUR The hold is well-lit.) JO: Well, I'm never going in that thing again. DOCTOR: Oh, come on, Jo, be reasonable. JO: Only you could manage to have a traffic accident in space. DOCTOR: Well, we didn't h*t it, did we? JO: Didn't we? Where's this then? (JO climbs a short flight of steps onto the platform and begins to explore.) DOCTOR: Well, by a rather brilliant last minute course correction, I've managed to materialise the TARDIS inside the spaceship. But to avoid hitting it, I've had to make a random jump back into normal space. JO: Terrific, but what do we do now? DOCTOR: Well, if I'm to get us back to Earth, I'd better find out where we are. I'll just go and check the instruments. (The DOCTOR goes back into the TARDIS, leaving the door ajar. JO explores further. She sees the containers.) JO: Mmm, they're carrying bulk flour. DOCTOR: (OOV: Inside the TARDIS.) What? JO: (Louder.) They're carrying a cargo of bulk flour. (JO steps down and walks across the room to one of the viewing portals. She looks through into space and sees a spaceship with pincer-type locking gear flying close by. As she looks, a strange, high pitched pulsating sound increases in volume, hurting her ears. As it does so, the spaceship flares and shimmers. It then returns to normal.) JO: Doctor? DOCTOR: (OOV: Inside the TARDIS.) Well, I think I know where we are. (The DOCTOR walks out of the TARDIS, preoccupied with the notebook he is scribbling in.) DOCTOR: And I've got a pretty good idea about when. JO: Come and take a look at this. DOCTOR: A look at what? (He looks out of the portal and she points.) JO: That. DOCTOR: Well, it's just a space ship, Jo. (He delves back into his notebook.) DOCTOR: You know, I reckon we must be somewhere in the twenty-sixth century. Well, interstellar travel's pretty routine by now. JO: A moment ago, it...it seemed to change shape. DOCTOR: Mmm? JO: It was when I heard that noise. (The DOCTOR looks at her.) JO: Didn't you hear it? DOCTOR: Well, I did hear something but very faintly. Come on, Jo. Let's go and find the crew. I want to find the exact date for my calculations. (He moves off but JO takes a last look outside the portal.) JO: Doctor! It's coming straight at us! DOCTOR: What?! 6: INT. CARGO SHIP. BRIDGE (HARDY has seen the spaceship on his scanner screen.) HARDY: You won't believe this. STEWART: Now what? HARDY: Maybe it's a wreck. STEWART: Try to make contact. They may need help. HARDY: (Into radio.) This is earth cargo ship C982 in close proximity to you. Do you read me? Do you read me? (They switch on the receiver. There is only static.) STEWART: Try again. HARDY: (Into radio.) Do you read me? Are you in need of assistance? (Again they hear static.) HARDY: It's a weird looking crate. (Then they too hear the pulsating sound. HARDY and STEWART put their hands to their ears in pain and their expressions change to horror and disbelief as the spaceship shimmers and turns into a w*apon battle cruiser.) HARDY: Draconians! 7: SPACE (The newly-transformed battle cruiser manoeuvres until it is face on to the cargo ship.) 8: INT. CARGO SHIP. BRIDGE (The strange noise begins to fade.) STEWART: What? This close to Earth? HARDY: They're going to att*ck us! STEWART: Get the blasters. HARDY: You can't take on a battle cruiser! STEWART: Get the blasters! (HARDY gets out of his seatbelt and runs out of the bridge as STEWART makes an emergency call...) STEWART: (Into radio.) Emergency, emergency, red alert. This is Earth cargo ship C982 on co-ordinate eight-nine-seven-two, stroke, six, four, eight, three. We are under att*ck by a Draconian battle cruiser - galaxy class - equipped with neutronic m*ssile. Emergency, emergency! 9: INT. CARGO SHIP. AIRLOCK AREA (A sliding door opens. HARDY enters an area immediately behind the cargo hold. He runs over to the keypad to the w*apon armoury lock and starts to press the combination buttons.) 10: INT. CARGO SHIP. HOLD (The DOCTOR and JO are again both looking through the viewing portal.) DOCTOR: Well, that's interesting. They must be going to do a link up. JO: What for? DOCTOR: Well, the two ships are joined together by a sort of tunnel, you see, with two airlocks. Well, then they equalise the pressure allowing the crew to move from one ship to the other without using space suits. Well, otherwise they'd have to get all kitted up and do a space walk. JO: Fascinating, but let's get back to the TARDIS. DOCTOR: Look Jo, don't worry. We'll be on our way soon. Now let's go and take look at the ship's calendar. (As JO sighs with frustration, the DOCTOR walks away from the hold area.) 11: INT. CARGO SHIP. AIRLOCK AREA (HARDY, pulling two blasters out of the armoury, hears him approaching. He steps back and points the w*apon as the DOCTOR leaves the cargo hold and walks round the corner. The pulsating noise starts up again and intensifies.) DOCTOR: (Smiles.) Ah, how do you do? I'm sorry about this intrusion. (The DOCTOR holds out his hand. HARDY is clearly scared.) HARDY: Who are you? (As the DOCTOR offers to shake hands, HARDY'S vision blurs. His view of the DOCTOR changes into that of a green reptilian creature. It has a peaked head with flat skin on the forehead but scaly dimples on the cheeks and underchin. It wears an ornate uniform, part scaly armour, part ornate robe.) DOCTOR: I said how do you do? (HARDY steps back in shock.) HARDY: Dragons! Drop that g*n. DOCTOR: (Amiably.) g*n? I haven't got a g*n. This is simply my hand. (JO appears from the cargo hold. As she runs to the DOCTOR, her image of HARDY shimmers into that of a towering beast with vicious, slavering jaws - a Drashig.) JO: (Screaming.) No! DOCTOR: Jo, what's the matter with you? JO: (Terrified.) It's a Drashig! DOCTOR: Nonsense, it's simply a man with a g*n. Now pull yourself together. (But JO'S view stubbornly remains that of a terrifying creature such as she saw in the miniscope.) 12: INT. CARGO SHIP. BRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) This is Earth cargo ship C982. Situation: Red Alert. Draconian battle cruiser is now about to grapple. (He checks the monitor.) STEWART: (Into radio.) They are going to lock on now. Repeat: Draconian battle cruiser about to lock on now. 13: SPACE (The two ships approach each other...) STEWART: (OOV: into radio.) All anti-boarding procedures carried out. Awaiting instructions. Out. (...and then lock together.) 14: INT. CARGO SHIP. BRIDGE (A clipped, precise but alien voice booms out of the communications link and the reptilian face of a DRACONIAN appears on the scanner screen. This one looks like the DOCTOR as he appeared to HARDY but has a small tufted beard.) DRACONIAN SPACE PILOT: (On monitor.) This is the commander of the Draconian battle cruiser. We are locked onto your vessel and are about to board. If you offer any resistance, you will be destroyed. (JO and the DOCTOR enter. HARDY is covering them with the blasters. DRACONIAN SPACE PILOT: (On monitor.) Open the hatch of your airlock. HARDY: Move! (STEWART gets out of his seat and looks in fear at the two new arrivals as HARDY quickly gives him a blaster. Both men cover the DOCTOR and JO.) HARDY: I found these two Dragons in the hold. STEWART: But that...that's impossible. They're...we're only just locking on. JO: Doctor, what's happening? What's going on? DOCTOR: I'm not sure, Jo. Something rather intriguing. DRACONIAN SPACE PILOT: (On monitor.) If you resist, we can destroy you with our neutronic w*apon. (STEWART sits down again and twists to speak into his microphone as he tries to keep the DOCTOR and JO covered.) STEWART: (Into intercom.) If you destroy our ship, you won't get the cargo. DOCTOR: (To JO.) Oh, so that's what it's all about. DRACONIAN SPACE PILOT: (On monitor.) Open the hatch to your airlock or we shall enter your ship by force. STEWART: (Into intercom.) We refuse. HARDY: They can blow us to pieces! STEWART: I've sent a message to Earth asking for help. HARDY: Tell them about the prisoners. STEWART: (Into intercom.) We have captured two of your soldiers. They will not survive if you enter our ship. (To HARDY.) Lock them in the hold. (HARDY speaks somewhat brutally to the DOCTOR and JO.) HARDY: Move! Get moving! (HARDY shepherds the DOCTOR and JO out at g*n as STEWART turns back to his microphone.) STEWART: (Into radio.) Emergency, emergency. Red alert. This is cargo ship C982 on co-ordinate eight, nine, seven, two, stroke, six, four, eight, three... 15: SPACE (STEWART'S message beams across space towards his home planet: the Earth is seemingly peaceful as it floats in space...) STEWART: (OOV: into radio.) Draconian battle cruiser has now locked on. They are about to force entry. Repeat: they are about to force entry. ..... 16: EXT. EARTH. PRESIDENTIAL PALACE (The PRESIDENTIAL PALACE is a low futuristic building with two twin tower blocks, a domed conference hall and a ramp leading down to the grassy area outside.) 17: INT. EARTH. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE (Within the office of the PRESIDENT OF EARTH stands another of the DRACONIANS, a PRINCE, looking imperious and with his arms folded. His beard is slightly longer and black. He wears ornate rings on his scaly fingers and his green and brown silken robes fall to the ground. Armoured shoulder protection sticks upwards in an ornate, almost oriental style. The office itself is stark and modern. Predominantly white in colour, it has two glass topped tables at right angles to each other with the PRESIDENT'S desk backing onto a set of full-length windows. The PRESIDENT herself is a distinguished middle-aged woman with a faint Eastern European accent and attired in a knee-length orange dress with a wide collar. One of her aides, GENERAL WILLIAMS, looks out of one of the windows. He is also of middle age with cropped black hair and a grim, cold, face. His uniform is a simple green and brown tunic. The PRESIDENT strides angrily up to the DRACONIAN PRINCE.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: But all these charges are false, your Highness. We are not attacking Draconian ships. We never have! (The PRINCE speaks in the typical clipped precise style of his kind...) DRACONIAN PRINCE: Our soldiers have seen the Earthmen att*ck us. Our cargoes have been stolen. We are Draconians - we do not lie. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: The honour of your race is well known, your Highness. That is why I cannot understand your actions. DRACONIAN PRINCE: Actions? PRESIDENT OF EARTH: You att*ck our ships, you steal their cargoes. You ignore our protests...and just meet them with these counter-charges. DRACONIAN PRINCE: Our charges are true but yours are false. We do not att*ck your ships. (The PRESIDENT picks up a note from her desk.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: This is a transcript of a distress call from one of our ships. (Reads.) "From Earth's cargo ship C982 on co-ordinate eight, nine, seven, two, six, four, eight, three. We are under att*ck by a Draconian battle cruiser - galaxy class - equipped with neutronic m*ssile". (She looks at him accusingly.) DRACONIAN PRINCE: The treaty between our two empires established a frontier in space. We have never violated that frontier. You have inv*de our part of the galaxy many times. (GENERAL WILLIAMS can stand no more and swings round.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: In pursuit of your ships when they have raided ours! We've been very patient - perhaps too patient. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: (Warning.) General Williams! (He falls silent.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: I take it a rescue attempt has been mounted? GENERAL WILLIAMS: We've established an a*t*matic procedure - because of the frequency of these att*cks. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: Then I suggest you go and supervise the matter. GENERAL WILLIAMS: There's no need. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: (Insistent.) Please do as I say. GENERAL WILLIAMS: (Reluctantly.) As you wish, Madam President. (WILLIAMS leaves the office with a cold glance at the PRINCE. He leaves through a sliding door through which a guard can be seen on duty outside.) DRACONIAN PRINCE: Your General is insolent. We know the hatred he has always felt for our people. Long ago he caused w*r. Now he wishes to do so again. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: He's a soldier, your Highness, and he's angry. The people of Earth are angry. DRACONIAN PRINCE: So are the nobles of my father's court! PRESIDENT OF EARTH: (Pleading.) I must ask you to take my personal appeal to your father, the Emperor. He must put a stop to these att*cks. If Draconia has some grievances against Earth, then this is not the way to deal with them. DRACONIAN PRINCE: Many of our noblemen felt it was a mistake to make a treaty with the Earth men. Perhaps they were right. You att*ck our ships and when we protest you trick us with lies and evasions. (He points a scaly arm at the PRESIDENT.) DRACONIAN PRINCE: I give you a final warning. The path you are treading leads only to w*r. And in that w*r, Draconia will destroy you! 18: INT. CARGO SHIP. STARBOARD CUBICLE (The door opens to a small metallic room next to the hold. HARDY gestures to JO and the DOCTOR with the blaster.) HARDY: In there. (JO enters. The DOCTOR starts to protest.) DOCTOR: Look... HARDY: In there. (HARDY shuts and locks the door as JO sits on a shelf at the side.) JO: Doctor, what's happening on this ship? Are they both mad or am I? First I see a Drashig and... (The DOCTOR pulls his sonic screwdriver from his pocket.) JO: No, you can put that away - bolts. (She points at the door.) JO: And why do they keep calling us Dragons? (The DOCTOR sits next to her.) DOCTOR: Well, that's the way they see us, I suppose. JO: Yes, but why Dragons? DOCTOR: It's got to be some non-human life form. Something that they're frightened of. (Thinks.) Dragons...Dragons... (He remembers and snaps his fingers.) DOCTOR: Yes, of course - Draconians. JO: What? DOCTOR: Well, if this is the period that I think it is, there are two great empires spreading their way through the galaxy of the Milky Way. JO: Empires? You mean like Solos? DOCTOR: Those were the declining years of Earth's planetary empire - this is just the beginning. Now, Earth and Draconia are both been expanding, you see? Colonising one planet after another, and they're sitting on a powder keg. JO: Yes, but why do they mistake us for these "Dragons"? DOCTOR: No, Draconians. No, "Dragons" is rather an unflattering nickname. Well, you remember that sound you heard? JO: Yes. DOCTOR: And the man that you saw with the g*n? JO: Oh, no. No, no, what I saw was a Drashig! DOCTOR: No, you didn't, Jo. That sound made you see what you fear most. JO: How? DOCTOR: Well, it shouldn't be too difficult. Ultrasonics geared to stimulate the fear centres of the brain, something like that. JO: How long does it last? How long before they see that we're just people? DOCTOR: Well, difficult to say. It seems to act like some post-hypnotic command. It will fade eventually, of course. (JO tuts, sighs and starts to pace the room.) JO: Why should anybody go to all this trouble to make people see things? DOCTOR: Why indeed? JO: Well, we've got to get out of here somehow. (JO peers through the grille of the door.) 19: INT. CARGO SHIP. HOLD JO: (Excited.) Doctor! DOCTOR: Mmm? JO: I can see the TARDIS! 20: INT. CARGO SHIP. STARBOARD CUBICLE DOCTOR: (Calmly.) Well, that's one consolation, isn't it? 21: INT. CARGO SHIP. BRIDGE STEWART: Try Earth Control again. HARDY: (Into radio.) Emergency, emergency, red alert. This is Earth cargo ship C982 on co-ordinate eight, nine, seven, two, stroke, six, four, eight, three... (They hear a drumming noise coming from the radio.) HARDY: Argh! They're jamming us. STEWART: Well, maybe the first message got through. They'll send help. HARDY: Will they? They're probably still passing memos to each other. STEWART: (Insistent.) They'll send help. HARDY: (Panicked.) I know what they'll do. They'll send an urgent protest to the Draconian Embassy. By that time, we'll be finished. Government should have blown the Dragons out of space years ago. STEWART: And have another w*r? HARDY: What do you think this is? STEWART: Look, the door of our space lock is ninety-nine percent durilium. They're not going to get through that in a hurry. DRACONIAN SPACE PILOT: (On monitor.) Earth men, this is your last warning. Surrender your cargo and you will be unharmed. Resist and you will be destroyed. STEWART: Right. (He grabs his blaster.) STEWART: Looks like battle stations. We'd better get down to the airlock. HARDY: You're not going to fight them? STEWART: If I have to. Do you have a better idea? HARDY: It's only a load of flour! STEWART: It's my cargo. And if the Draconians want it, it's going to cost them more than just a few thr*at. (He strides out of the bridge. A very nervous HARDY grabs his own blaster and follows.) 22: INT. EARTH. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE (The latest newscast is playing on a giant screen which occupies most of the far wall of the office. The PRESIDENT is handing various papers to her pink-dressed SECRETARY.) NEWSCASTER: (On monitor.) And the bureau of population control announced today that the recently reclaimed Arctic areas are now ready for habitation. As a special inducement for those willing to live in New Glasgow and New Montreal - the first two totally enclosed cities to be opened - the family allowance will be increased to two children per couple. (The SECRETARY leaves.) NEWSCASTER: (On monitor.) News is just coming through of another recorded att*ck on an Earth cargo ship in space. (The PRESIDENT looks up and presses a buzzer on her desk.) NEWSCASTER: (On monitor.) This is the third att*ck on an Earth cargo ship this month. (She gets up and starts to angrily pace the office.) NEWSCASTER: (On monitor.) In a statement issued by the Draconian Embassy on Earth, the Draconian government denies all knowledge of this or any other att*cks. (GENERAL WILLIAMS enters and immediately takes an interest in the newscast after a look of fury from the PRESIDENT.) NEWSCASTER: (On monitor.) As yet there has been no official comment, but Congressman Brook, Leader of the Opposition has said "The people of Earth will no longer tolerate these unprovoked att*cks. It is time for the World government to take a stand and issue a final ultimatum to the Draconian Emperor". (She switches off the newscast.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: (Angrily.) I thought I ordered a complete security blackout? GENERAL WILLIAMS: The news services have their own monitors. They probably picked up the distress messages. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: And? GENERAL WILLIAMS: The rescue ships should rendezvous in seventeen and a half minutes from now. It'll be too late, of course. All they'll find will be d*ad men and a gutted ship. 23: INT. CARGO SHIP. AIRLOCK (Two familiar looking, hairy, ape-like creatures wearing leather tunics hold a lance to the airlock door. They are beginning to make progress in their attempt to cut through.) 24: INT. CARGO SHIP. AIRLOCK AREA (HARDY and STEWART watch the burning line make its way down the door from their side of the airlock.) HARDY: They'll be through that door any minute! 25: INT. CARGO SHIP. STARBOARD CUBICLE (The DOCTOR is making minute adjustments to his sonic screwdriver.) JO: Doctor, what are you doing? DOCTOR: I'm reversing the polarity of me ultrasonic screwdriver's power source, thereby converting it into an extremely powerful electro magnet. JO: Oh. What good will that do? DOCTOR: You wait and see, Jo. (The DOCTOR gets up and points the screwdriver out through the grille and bars in the door, trying to magnetically draw back the bolts.) JO: Is it working? DOCTOR: Yes, I think so. 26: INT. CARGO SHIP. AIRLOCK AREA (HARDY and STEWART nervously level their w*apon at the airlock door.) HARDY: I'm going to get the prisoners. STEWART: What for? HARDY: We're using them as hostages - remember? (He runs off.) STEWART: You'd better be quick about it. We haven't got much time. 27: INT. CARGO SHIP. STARBOARD CUBICLE (The DOCTOR is still trying to work the bolts with the sonic screwdriver.) JO: How is it going? DOCTOR: Nearly there. 28: INT. CARGO SHIP. HOLD (The bars creak as the DOCTOR works on them.) 29: INT. CARGO SHIP. STARBOARD CUBICLE DOCTOR: There you are - that's it. (The DOCTOR opens the door to find HARDY pointing a g*n at him.) 30: INT. CARGO SHIP. HOLD DOCTOR: Oh, how very embarrassing. Good afternoon. (The DOCTOR tries to shut the door...) 31: INT. CARGO SHIP. STARBOARD CUBICLE (...but HARDY pushes it back open.) HARDY: Out. JO: That's just where we were going. HARDY: We're going to meet your friends. (HARDY shepherds them out pulling the door to behind them.) 32: INT. CARGO SHIP. AIRLOCK AREA HARDY: Come on! Get on there! (The DOCTOR and JO enter at g*n.) STEWART: Come on, they're almost through. (STEWART grabs the DOCTOR while HARDY takes JO.) HARDY: Get in front! (The DOCTOR and JO are held in front of them as shields.) HARDY: If your friends start sh**ting, they'll get you first. JO: But they're not our friends! STEWART: You are part of their boarding party. DOCTOR: Well, they haven't boarded yet. They're still breaking through that door. Now, try and be logical, man. HARDY: They're coming through! (Now cut through, the airlock door falls to the ground and the inv*de burst in. JO recognises them immediately...) JO: (Screaming.) Ogrons! (The DOCTOR grabs STEWART by the arm and barrels him towards the inv*de.) DOCTOR: Back to the TARDIS, Jo, back! (As they run off, an Ogron fires and HARDY falls stunned. The Ogron fires again.) 33: INT. CARGO SHIP. HOLD (The DOCTOR is h*t and falls unconscious.) JO: Doctor! Doctor! (JO runs back to help the fallen DOCTOR. She looks up as a grinning Ogron bears down on her.) 34: INT. EARTH. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE (GENERAL WILLIAMS and the PRESIDENT are watching another newscast. The picture shows an image of the cargo ship.) NEWSCASTER: (OOV.) Distress signals have been received from another Earth cargo ship, reporting an att*ck by a Draconian battle cruiser. Rescue ships are now on their way. (WILLIAMS switches off the newscast.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: There have been anti-Draconian riots in Tokyo and Belgrade, and the Draconian Consulate in Helsinki has been burnt to the ground. In Los Angeles, demonstrators burnt an effigy of you. (The intercom signals. The PRESIDENT answers. It is her SECRETARY.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: Yes? SECRETARY: (OOV: Over intercom.) They have just found the cargo ship, Madam President, but it is not responding to signals. GENERAL WILLIAMS: (Into intercom.) And the Draconians? SECRETARY: (OOV: Over intercom.) There is no sign of any Draconian ships, sir. They are about to board...now. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: (Into intercom.) Thank you. (She turns off the intercom.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: We shall soon know what really happened. GENERAL WILLIAMS: If there's anyone alive to tell them. 35: SPACE (The cargo ship floats as if abandoned...) 36: INT. CARGO SHIP. HOLD (Left where he was sh*t in the hold, the DOCTOR begins to stir. JO'S voice seems to call from far off.) JO: Doctor? DOCTOR: (Groggily.) Jo? JO: Doctor! DOCTOR: Jo? (From his position on the floor, he sees that JO has been put back into their former room and the door has been bolted shut again. There is no sign of the Ogrons.) JO: Doctor, I'm over here! (The DOCTOR staggers up and walks over to the room.) DOCTOR: (Still groggy.) Hello, Jo, what are you doing in there? JO: Oh, Doctor, thank goodness you're all right! I thought they'd k*lled you. (He unbolts the door and goes inside.) 37: INT. CARGO SHIP. STARBOARD CUBICLE JO: Come on, come and sit down. (She helps him to sit on the low bench. He rubs his head.) DOCTOR: Must have been some kind of neuronic stun g*n. I wonder why they didn't k*ll me? What exactly happened, Jo? JO: Well, they took the cargo, threw me in here and...Doctor? DOCTOR: Mmm? JO: They also took the TARDIS. DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Oh... JO: Oh, we're stranded. What are we going to do? DOCTOR: Well, try and get the TARDIS back, of course. Why should the Ogrons att*ck this ship? JO: To steal the cargo. DOCTOR: No...no, there's more to it than that. That's...that sound that you heard, it...it's all too sophisticated for the Ogrons. JO: Well, they're gone now. DOCTOR: Yeah, the question is, where? JO: Hey, Doctor, last time we met the Ogrons they were working for the Daleks, right? Well, you don't suppose that that... DOCTOR: No, no, not necessarily. No, the Ogrons are mercenaries. Other life forms use them to do their dirty work. Come on, Jo, let's go and find the crew. (They leave the room.) 38: INT. CARGO SHIP. AIRLOCK AREA (HARDY and STEWART lay unconscious on the floor. The hole in the airlock door seems to have been welded shut. The DOCTOR and JO enter.) DOCTOR: Jo, take a look at that one. (JO goes to the aid of HARDY while the DOCTOR attends to STEWART.) DOCTOR: Well, they're both stunned, just as I was. (He notices the welded door and stands up to look at it.) DOCTOR: That's funny - the Ogrons have repaired the airlock door. JO: (Sarcastically.) Well, that was nice of them. DOCTOR: Well, if they hadn't, we'd have both been done for. All the air would have escaped when the ships unlocked. JO: (Puzzled.) Why should they go to all that trouble? DOCTOR: Well, maybe they've got kind hearts. There's good in everyone you know, Jo. (JO sighs in impatience at the DOCTOR'S optimism. Suddenly, a voice carries through the ship, coming from the speakers.) GARDINER: (OOV: Over radio.) Earth Battle Cruiser to Earth cargo ship number C982. We are now approaching you. Do you read me? DOCTOR: Look after them, will you? JO: Right. (The DOCTOR runs off towards the bridge as JO attends the STEWART.) GARDINER: (OOV: Over radio.) Do you read me? 39: SPACE (A large battle cruiser circles the floating cargo ship, turning in order that it can approach its airlock.) GARDINER: (OOV: Over radio.) Earth Battle Cruiser to Earth cargo ship number C982. We are now approaching you. Do you read me? Over. 40: INT. CARGO SHIP. BRIDGE (GARDINER appears on the monitor on the deserted bridge. He is a young man in military uniform with a headgear that covers the ears but leaves the top of his head bare.) GARDINER: (On monitor.) Earth Battle Cruiser to Earth cargo ship number C982. We are now approaching you. Do you read me? Do you read me? (The DOCTOR runs on the bridge and sits in STEWART'S chair.) GARDINER: (On monitor.) Prepare to be boarded. Repeat: prepare to be boarded. Do you read me? Over. DOCTOR: (Into microphone.) Hello battle cruiser, battle cruiser. This is the cargo ship. Over. GARDINER: (On monitor.) What is your situation? DOCTOR: (Into microphone.) The ship has been att*cked and the cargo stolen. Over. GARDINER: (On monitor.) Do you have casualties? DOCTOR: (Into microphone.) Yes, the crew are stunned, but otherwise they're unharmed. Over. GARDINER: (On monitor.) We shall lock on...five seconds from now. (The DOCTOR checks his watch, switches off the microphone and leaves the bridge.) 41: SPACE (The nozzle of the battlecruiser docks with the cargo ship.) 42: INT. CARGO SHIP. AIRLOCK AREA (The echoing sound of the docking reaches the airlock area. JO is helping STEWART drink from a small flask as the DOCTOR returns.) DOCTOR: It's alright, Jo. We're being rescued. STEWART: What happened? DOCTOR: Well, don't worry, old chap. You'll be all right now. I think... (STEWART hears airlock lock opening as the cabin pressurises.) STEWART: Draconians! They're boarding! (GARDINER enters through the airlock, accompanied KEMP by some heavily armed soldiers.) GARDINER: Stewart? (He points his g*n at the DOCTOR.) GARDINER: Who are you? DOCTOR: Passengers. GARDINER: I see. Having a fancy dress party? (To STEWART.) What happened? STEWART: Dragons - att*cked us. GARDINER: Did they get the cargo? STEWART: I don't know. JO: Yes, they took everything. DOCTOR: Including some rather valuable property of mine. GARDINER: Well, tough luck. DOCTOR: Oh, thank you very much. (HARDY gets to his feet.) HARDY: (Groggily.) Dragons...they att*cked us. (GARDINER goes to help him.) GARDINER: Yes, we know. (To the DOCTOR.) You say you're passengers. Isn't that a little unusual on a cargo ship? DOCTOR: Well, we're here, aren't we? GARDINER: (To STEWART.) Where did you pick these two up? STEWART: I don't know. I can't seem to remember... GARDINER: (Harshly.) Pull yourself together! How did they get on board? (STEWART thinks desperately for an answer.) STEWART: Stowaways...that's it - they were stowaways. They were sending messages! HARDY: That's right - they were helping the Dragons! They're traitors! (The soldiers all raise their blasters to cover the DOCTOR and JO.)
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FRONTIER IN SPACE BY: MALCOLM HULKE EPISODE TWO Original Air Date: 3 March, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: SPACE (A large battle cruiser circles the floating cargo ship, turning in order that it can approach its airlock.) GARDINER: (OOV: Over radio.) Earth Battle Cruiser to Earth cargo ship number C982. We are now approaching you. Do you read me? Over. 2: INT. CARGO SHIP. BRIDGE (GARDINER appears on the monitor on the deserted bridge. He is a young man in military uniform with a headgear that covers the ears but leaves the top of his head bare.) GARDINER: (On monitor.) Earth Battle Cruiser to Earth cargo ship number C982. We are now approaching you. Do you read me? Do you read me? (The DOCTOR runs on the bridge and sits in STEWART'S chair.) GARDINER: (On monitor.) Prepare to be boarded. Repeat: prepare to be boarded. Do you read me? Over. DOCTOR: (Into microphone.) Hello battle cruiser, battle cruiser. This is the cargo ship. Over. GARDINER: (On monitor.) What is your situation? DOCTOR: (Into microphone.) The ship has been att*cked and the cargo stolen. Over. GARDINER: (On monitor.) Do you have casualties? DOCTOR: (Into microphone.) Yes, the crew are stunned, but otherwise they're unharmed. Over. GARDINER: (On monitor.) We shall lock on...five seconds from now. (The DOCTOR checks his watch, switches off the microphone and leaves the bridge.) 3: SPACE (The nozzle of the battlecruiser docks with the cargo ship.) 4: INT. CARGO SHIP. AIRLOCK AREA (The echoing sound of the docking reaches the airlock area. JO is helping STEWART drink from a small flask as the DOCTOR returns.) DOCTOR: It's alright, Jo. We're being rescued. STEWART: What happened? DOCTOR: Well, don't worry, old chap. You'll be all right now. I think... (STEWART hears airlock lock opening as the cabin pressurises.) STEWART: Draconians! They're boarding! (GARDINER enters through the airlock, accompanied KEMP by some heavily armed soldiers.) GARDINER: Stewart? (He points his g*n at the DOCTOR.) GARDINER: Who are you? DOCTOR: Passengers. GARDINER: I see. Having a fancy dress party? (To STEWART.) What happened? STEWART: Dragons - att*cked us. GARDINER: Did they get the cargo? STEWART: I don't know. JO: Yes, they took everything. DOCTOR: Including some rather valuable property of mine. GARDINER: Well, tough luck. DOCTOR: Oh, thank you very much. (HARDY gets to his feet.) HARDY: (Groggily.) Dragons...they att*cked us. (GARDINER goes to help him.) GARDINER: Yes, we know. (To the DOCTOR.) You say you're passengers. Isn't that a little unusual on a cargo ship? DOCTOR: Well, we're here, aren't we? GARDINER: (To STEWART.) Where did you pick these two up? STEWART: I don't know. I can't seem to remember... GARDINER: (Harshly.) Pull yourself together! How did they get on board? (STEWART thinks desperately for an answer.) STEWART: Stowaways...that's it - they were stowaways. They were sending messages! HARDY: That's right - they were helping the Dragons! They're traitors! (The soldiers all raise their blasters to cover the DOCTOR and JO.) JO: But that's absolute nonsense! Look, we didn't want to be on this ship - it was an accident! GARDINER: You said you were passengers? DOCTOR: I was merely trying to avoid a lot of tiresome explanations, old chap. GARDINER: Stewart, I'll leave Kemp on board to take your ship back to Earth. STEWART: What about these two? GARDINER: Lock them in the hold. Put a guard on them. JO: But we haven't done anything! GARDINER: They say you have! Take them away. DOCTOR: Now, if you'll only listen to me... GARDINER: You can talk to Earth Security. They'll listen - it's their business. Put 'em in the starboard cubicle. KEMP: Alright, get moving. (At KEMP'S g*n, the DOCTOR and JO are led away into the hold area.) 5: INT. CARGO SHIP. HOLD (...and back towards their previous 'cell'.) KEMP: In there. 6: INT. CARGO SHIP. STARBOARD CUBICLE (JO enters and then the DOCTOR who is roughly pushed in by KEMP. He collides with JO as the door is slammed shut behind them.) JO: Woops! No need to push! 7: INT. CARGO SHIP. HOLD (The door is secured and the soldiers move off.) 8: INT. CARGO SHIP. STARBOARD CUBICLE DOCTOR: Listen! (They hear echoing noises through the ship.) DOCTOR: The ships - they're unlocking. 9: SPACE (And sure enough, the battlecruiser moves off from the cargo ship.) 10: INT. CARGO SHIP. HOLD (JO looks out of the grille and sees KEMP stood on guard nearby.) 11: INT. CARGO SHIP. STARBOARD CUBICLE JO: Still watching the door. DOCTOR: That's what he's there for, isn't it? (The DOCTOR sits calmly on the bench while JO starts to pace the room, thinking furiously. Suddenly, her face lights up.) JO: Right! We'll give it a few minutes, then I'll start groaning and pretending I'm ill. When he comes in, you can use your Venusian karate! DOCTOR: And then what? JO: Then, we'll take his g*n, go to the flight deck and make somebody take us back to Earth. DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Jo? This ship's already going back to Earth. (JO'S face falls.) JO: Oh... Oh, dear, mm. (She puts a finger to her lip, paces, thinks once more and again has a eureka moment...) JO: Hey, I've got a terrific idea! I saw this film once, you see, and there were these two gangsters, big fellers they were, with sort of cauliflower ears... (The DOCTOR sighs...) DOCTOR: Look, Jo... JO: And one of them... DOCTOR: Will you stop pacing up and down like a perishing panda! Now come and sit down. Let me think, will you? (JO sits quietly.) DOCTOR: That's better. (But not for long...) JO: Doctor? (The DOCTOR sighs once more.) JO: Well, now the Ogrons have gone, why don't the crewmen remember what really happened? DOCTOR: Because the true facts have been erased from their minds, that's why. JO: Well, yes, but why do they keep telling lies about us? DOCTOR: Well, they don't know that they're lying, Jo. They're desperately trying to fit us into their version of things. JO: Well, what are we going to do then? DOCTOR: Well, when we get back to Earth, we've got to reach someone in authority whose mind isn't already closed. JO: Closed to what? DOCTOR: Jo, look, these people believe that the Draconians are attacking their spaceships, right? JO: Right. DOCTOR: And we know that they're wrong, don't we? JO: Well, yes, it was Ogrons. DOCTOR: Well, we also know that the Ogrons couldn't possibly have created that hallucinatory device that makes the Earthmen think they're Draconians. JO: Oh... Oh, well that's simple then. I mean, all we've got to do is: find out what's going on, who's behind the Ogrons, where they've taken the TARDIS, go and get it back and then we can all go home - right? DOCTOR: Right. JO: Oh. I don't know what I've been worrying about... 12: INT. EARTH. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE (KEMP appears on a small black and white videoscreen on the desk in the PRESIDENT'S office, watched by the PRESIDENT herself and GENERAL WILLIAMS.) KEMP: (On monitor.) We are now in space port ten. The ship will land in...fifteen minutes. The crew are safe. Also aboard - two human stowaways, origins unknown. GENERAL WILLIAMS: I want a cordon around the landing area the minute that ship touches down. Nobody on, nobody off till I get there. KEMP: (On monitor.) Sir. (GENERAL WILLIAMS switches the screen off.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: I'd better get down there. I want to handle the preliminary interrogations myself. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: Good. (He heads for the door.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: General Williams. (He stops.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: Whatever you find out, you'll report directly to me. GENERAL WILLIAMS: (Dryly.) Naturally. And now if you'll excuse me? (He heads out. A ghost of a smile flickers over the PRESIDENT'S face.) 13: INT. CARGO SHIP. STARBOARD CUBICLE (The DOCTOR and JO wait in their room on the cargoship. JO is once more pacing as the DOCTOR remains sat calmly.) JO: What do they think they're doing? We've been landed for simply ages. DOCTOR: Well, twelve minutes, to be exact, Jo. JO: Shh! (They can hear footsteps approaching.) JO: Someone's coming. (The door opens and KEMP enters, his blaster raised. More soldiers are outside the door.) KEMP: Outside. JO: We want to see somebody in authority. KEMP: You're going to - outside. (He pushes her outside the door. The DOCTOR follows, taking his cloak with him.) 14: INT. CARGO SHIP. HOLD (GENERAL WILLIAMS walks up at that moment.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: Now then, what's all this about? 15: INT. EARTH. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE (Having heard the version of events from the DOCTOR and JO, WILLIAMS has returned to the PRESIDENT.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: Draconian agents? Are you sure? GENERAL WILLIAMS: What else can they be? Their story is obvious nonsense. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: But why? We... Why would the Draconians leave them on board the ship? GENERAL WILLIAMS: (Firmly.) The Draconians are preparing for w*r. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: You're still only suspecting then? There is no proof. GENERAL WILLIAMS: Then they need to plant human agents, traitors, on this planet to sabotage our w*r effort. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: But we are bound to suspect them. They must have realised? GENERAL WILLIAMS: The Draconians probably thought the crew was d*ad. We could easily have accepted those two as passengers - two unfortunate refugees from a Draconian att*ck, ideally placed for espionage. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: If you are right, the sooner we confront the Draconians with this, the better. (She presses the intercom on her desk.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: (Into intercom.) Bring the prisoners in. (To GENERAL WILLIAMS.) We'll bring them face to face with the Draconian ambassador. 16: INT. SECURITY BUILDING. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE CELL (GARDINER leads the DOCTOR and JO down a heavily guarded gloomy passage in the security building. The passage is roofed by heavy bars which create shadows of bars across the walls and floors. He points to a doorway.) GARDINER: In there. 17: INT. SECURITY BUILDING. CELL (With some reluctance, the DOCTOR and JO enter a stark cell. There is one padded bench and a small table affixed to a wall. The walls are a scruffy white. The DOCTOR starts to divest himself of his cloak. GARDINER follows them in, his tone and manner slightly softer...) GARDINER: When did you last eat? JO: Quite some while ago. GARDINER: Well, I'll see they send you some food. DOCTOR: I'd like to get a message through to your president. GARDINER: Not a chance. I'm going straight back to my ship. Don't want to get mixed up with security. It's not healthy. (He looks at the two unusual prisoners.) GARDINER: Look, I'll give you a piece of advice. DOCTOR: Yes? GARDINER: Sooner or later, you're going to tell them everything. They'll use the mind probe. You talk to them now. You'll save yourselves a lot of trouble. (He walks out of the cell and presses a sensor on the wall. A metal door hums and slides closed. JO jumps up with worry.) JO: A mind probe?! (The DOCTOR sits calmly.) DOCTOR: Oh, you don't want to worry about those things, Jo. As long as you tell 'em the truth, they can't do you any harm. JO: They can't? DOCTOR: No, of course not. Well, they're only sort of computers with a few extra knobs on. And you know how stupid computers can be, don't you? Now come and sit down, stop worrying. (JO sighs with worry.) DOCTOR: Come on. Sit down. (He takes her hand and she sits.) DOCTOR: Did I ever tell you the story about how I was once captured by the Medusoids? JO: What are they? DOCTOR: Medusoids? JO: Mmm. DOCTOR: How can I describe them to you? Well, they're a hairy jellyfish with claws, teeth and a leg. JO: Eurgh! DOCTOR: Anyway, they put me under one of these mind probes things, you see, and tried to get me to tell them where I was going. So, I said I was on my way to meet a giant rabbit, a pink elephant and a purple horse with yellow spots. (JO giggles.) JO: What happened? DOCTOR: Well, the poor old machine just couldn't believe it - had a nervous breakdown. JO: And then what happened? DOCTOR: Well, they put me under another one of these mind probe things and the same thing happened. JO: But you weren't telling the truth - I mean, you weren't really going to meet a giant rabbit, a pink elephant and a...? What was it? DOCTOR: A purple horse with yellow spots. Yes, I was. You see, they were all delegates for the third Intergalactic Peace Conference. JO: How did you get away from these things? DOCTOR: Well they had to turn me loose eventually. JO: Why? DOCTOR: They ran out of mind probes! (JO bursts into laughter and the DOCTOR joins in.) 18: INT. EARTH. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE (HARDY and STEWART stand in front of the PRESIDENT'S desk while she questions them with GENERAL WILLIAMS. The DRACONIAN PRINCE and his similar looking First Secretary stand behind the two spacemen, listening impassively.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: And you are quite sure it was a Draconian battle cruiser. STEWART: Of course, Madam. HARDY: They locked on, and boarded us. We saw them. They were Draconians. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: Thank you. That will be all. I hope you will soon recover from your ordeal. (The two men nod and leave.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: (To the PRINCE.) Well, your Highness? DRACONIAN PRINCE: These men are your servants. They are saying what they have been ordered to say. GENERAL WILLIAMS: On this occasion, we have more than our servants to confront you with. We have captured two of your human agents. DRACONIAN PRINCE: We have no human agents. Subversion and espionage are expressly forbidden by the treaty of peace between our two empires. GENERAL WILLIAMS: A treaty which you have flagrantly broken. DRACONIAN PRINCE: (Annoyed.) I shall return to my embassy. (He turns to leave.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: (Urgently.) Just a moment please, your Highness. (Into intercom.) Bring them in. (The door hums open and the DOCTOR and JO and led in by a guard at blaster point.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: Now these people stowed away on the cargo ship. They transmitted signals which enabled your battlecruiser to home in on its prey. DRACONIAN PRINCE: I know nothing of this. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: Perhaps you do not, but some servant of the Draconian empire employed them. DOCTOR: Madam? I can assure that I've never been employed by anybody! Least of all by the Draconians. DRACONIAN PRINCE: (Smiles.) Your servants should have been better rehearsed in their lies. GENERAL WILLIAMS: Or they're showing a misguided loyalty to their Draconian masters. DOCTOR: If we really were working for the Draconians, why did they leave us in your ship? GENERAL WILLIAMS: To act as spies when you were brought back to Earth. DOCTOR: Allow me to congratulate you, sir. You have the most totally closed mind that I've ever encountered! (To the PRESIDENT.) Madam, I beg of you to listen to me. Some third party is trying to provoke w*r between Earth and Draconia. You are both being duped. GENERAL WILLIAMS: Take them away. (The guard steps forward.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: Just a minute, please. (To the DOCTOR.) Why should a third party wish to do this? DOCTOR: I've no idea, Madam, but believe me, that is what is happening. GENERAL WILLIAMS: (Impatiently.) Take them away. (The DOCTOR and JO are grabbed by two soldiers and hustled out. The DOCTOR yells back as he is led away.) DOCTOR: Now please listen to me! If you don't you'll be involved in a w*r that could cause the death millions! (The DRACONIAN PRINCE walks over to the PRESIDENT'S desk and looks haughtily down at her.) DRACONIAN PRINCE: Is this the evidence upon which you accuse me? PRESIDENT OF EARTH: I must ask you to convey a formal protest to your Emperor. (He strides towards the door...) DRACONIAN PRINCE: I shall inform him of this latest insult to the honour of the Draconian empire. (He and his secretary leave. The PRESIDENT sits with her head in her hands.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: We should have used the mind probe before we saw the ambassador. If we'd had a full confession...! PRESIDENT OF EARTH: Has it occurred to you that they might have been speaking the truth? GENERAL WILLIAMS: Huh! Is it likely? Mysterious alien giants that can change their form? A pocket spaceship that appear inside another? PRESIDENT OF EARTH: I suppose you're right. It is nonsensical. GENERAL WILLIAMS: Just you leave them to me. I'll get the truth out of them - eventually. 19: EXT. SECURITY BUILDING (The security headquarters is an ugly futuristic concrete construction, made up of blocks of buildings, ramps and walkways. All of these are patrolled by guards. Two of them lead the DOCTOR and JO up a couple of steps and along one of the walkways between guards posted at regular intervals. They are led up to a doorway in a higher point of the building.) 20: INT. SECURITY BUILDING. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE CELL (They are then led along the corridor that leads back to their cell.) 21: INT. SECURITY BUILDING. CELL (They enter their cell and the door hums closed. JO sits.) JO: Well, we've seen the President. DOCTOR: I've got to get them to listen to me - for their sakes as well as ours. JO: Well, why their sakes? DOCTOR: Well, that was a Draconian with the President, you know? Obviously an ambassador of some kind. JO: So? DOCTOR: Well, clearly Earth and Draconia are on the brink of w*r, and they both believe it's the others fault. JO: Well never mind about that. What about getting us out of here? DOCTOR: Well I can but try. (He takes out his sonic screwdriver and, after a smile at JO, examines the door.) DOCTOR: Yeah, seems a fairly conventional type of electronic lock - rather old-fashioned really. Here goes. (He switches the screwdriver on. A whine starts to build up, followed by a blaring alarm. The DOCTOR gives up with a rueful look.) DOCTOR: Yes, well, I think we'll sit here for a while after all. (The two sit quietly down as the alarm continues to blare...) 22: INT. EARTH. DRACONIAN EMBASSY. AMBASSADOR'S OFFICE (The office of the DRACONIAN ambassador is plain and functional. There is one white desk and a single white visitor's chair. A light sculpture hangs from the ceiling and a full length window in the corner overlooks a terrace and pleasant garden. The double doors open and the PRINCE and the First Secretary enter.) DRACONIAN PRINCE: But why? Why should they produce such an elaborate lie? DRACONIAN FIRST SECRETARY: The ways of the Earthmen are devious. They're an inscrutable species. DRACONIAN PRINCE: Obviously they are preparing the next stage of their plan. First, the att*cks on our ships and now - this. DRACONIAN FIRST SECRETARY: Is it possible, your Highness, that for once the Earthmen spoke the truth? Some plan of the Emperor of which your Highness has not been informed? DRACONIAN PRINCE: The Emperor would not possibly contemplate such a plan. We do not break the treaty of peace. DRACONIAN FIRST SECRETARY: Shall I prepare your Excellency's report to the Emperor on this meeting? DRACONIAN PRINCE: I must have more information. DRACONIAN FIRST SECRETARY: It would be useful to question the humans who were found on the ship. DRACONIAN PRINCE: They are supposed to be prisoners. DRACONIAN FIRST SECRETARY: (Meaningfully.) Prisoners have been known to escape, your Highness. DRACONIAN PRINCE: (Also meaningfully.) Not without help. And that would be a grave act of hostility. I could not possibly countenance such a plan. DRACONIAN FIRST SECRETARY: But...should two escaping prisoners...seek sanctuary in this embassy, it would be uncivilised to turn them away. (The two aliens look at each other. The PRINCE smiles.) DRACONIAN PRINCE: I must not detain you longer. No doubt you have "duties" demanding your attention? DRACONIAN FIRST SECRETARY: (Bows.) Your Highness. (He leaves.) 23: INT. EARTH. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE (The PRESIDENT stands in her office, looking into space and thinking. The desk monitor buzzes.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: Yes? (Her SECRETARY appears on the screen.) SECRETARY: (On monitor.) The first secretary from the Draconian embassy wishes to speak you, Madam President. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: Very well. (The picture changes to that of the First Secretary.) DRACONIAN FIRST SECRETARY: (On monitor.) I'm honoured that you consent to speak to me, Madam President. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: What is it that you wish to say? DRACONIAN FIRST SECRETARY: (On monitor.) It concerns the two Earthmen who were found on board your cargo ship. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: Well? DRACONIAN FIRST SECRETARY: (On monitor.) His Highness would like to question them - in your presence, of course, Madam President. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: For what purpose? DRACONIAN FIRST SECRETARY: (On monitor.) His Highness feels that such an interrogation would help to convince you that they are not agents of Draconia. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: I shall have them brought here immediately. I suggest his Highness joins me here. We shall question them together. 24: INT. SECURITY BUILDING. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE CELL (Three guards, blasters ready, approach the DOCTOR and JO'S cell. The lead one presses the wall sensor and the door opens.) 25: INT. SECURITY BUILDING. CELL (He enters. The DOCTOR and JO are still sat down on the bench.) CELL GUARD: On your feet. DOCTOR: Mmm, why? CELL GUARD: You heard me - move. DOCTOR: Not unless you give me some good reason. CELL GUARD: The President wants you. Is that good enough? JO: Perhaps she believed you? (The DOCTOR gets up.) DOCTOR: Are you sure it's the President? Not another ridiculous interrogation. CELL GUARD: I said move! DOCTOR: Come on, Jo, Perhaps we can convince them after all. (The two leave.) 26: EXT. SECURITY BUILDING (The two are led out into the sunlight that manages to permeate between the heavily guarded concrete blocks. Up above them, a blaster with sights fixed, is raised. It fires and the guard in front of the two prisoners falls to the ground. The DOCTOR pushes JO to the safety of one side. He looks up and sees that their attacker is a Draconian soldier. Another sh*t rings out and another Earth soldier falls.) GUARD: Move, ... ! (The guards start to return the f*re but there are several Draconians and they have the advantage of surprise.) DOCTOR: Get up! Right! (The DOCTOR tries to lead JO away but they are quickly surrounded by the Draconians who have now dealt with most of the guards who lie d*ad around them. The DOCTOR tries to fight off the Draconians but a blaster is put to his neck. Nearby, JO runs up a flight of steps, pursued by three guards.) JO: Quickly - the Doctor! (At the top of the flight of steps, JO runs into a fourth guard. The other three run up and re-take her.) JO: But you don't understand! It's the Draconians - they've got the Doctor! 27: INT. EARTH. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE GENERAL WILLIAMS: We must demand the immediate withdrawal of the Draconian embassy. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: Break off diplomatic relations completely? GENERAL WILLIAMS: (Angrily.) What diplomatic relations? The embassy staff have behaved like criminals. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: (Angrily.) We don't know that the ambassador was behind this! GENERAL WILLIAMS: The attackers were Draconians. They were clearly seen. The Draconian embassy tricked you into moving the prisoners, then mounted an armed att*ck in order to rescue their agents. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: Is the girl here? GENERAL WILLIAMS: She's outside now. (She presses the intercom.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: (Into intercom.) Bring the girl in. I wish to question her. GENERAL WILLIAMS: And the closing of the Draconian embassy. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: I do not intend to break off diplomatic relations! GENERAL WILLIAMS: But surely there's no alternative once this news gets out? PRESIDENT OF EARTH: (Firmly.) Then it mustn't, General Williams. It is your responsibility to ensure a complete security blackout on this incident. GENERAL WILLIAMS: (Surly.) Very well, Madam. Under protest. (The door hums open and JO is led in by a guard.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: (To the guard.) You can go. (The guard turns and leaves.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: (To JO.) Come forward, my dear. (JO nervously approaches her.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: You realise that the escape of your colleague has left you in a very serious position? JO: But he didn't escape - he was kidnapped! GENERAL WILLIAMS: (Coldly.) He was rescued - by your Draconian paymasters. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: The wisest course you can take now is to make a full confession. Remember your colleague has left you to your fate. JO: Oh, but you've got it all wrong! You see, the Doctor was pleased when you sent for him because he wanted to talk to you. And... GENERAL WILLIAMS: (Interrupts.) We have eye witness reports on what occurred. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: We need to know how you came to work for the Draconians. GENERAL WILLIAMS: When were you recruited? How many agents do they have on Earth? What are their plans? PRESIDENT OF EARTH: If you tell us everything, I'll promise I'll see to it personally that you will be treated leniently. JO: (Desperately.) But I don't know what you're talking about! Look, we told you the truth when we first came here! We're not working for the Draconians. GENERAL WILLIAMS: We're wasting time. I suggest you let me apply deft interrogation techniques without delay. JO: Look, you can use your mind probe or whatever - I'm telling you the truth. 28: INT. EARTH. DRACONIAN EMBASSY. AMBASSADOR'S OFFICE (The DOCTOR is sat in a chair in the middle of the floor by two Draconian guards. The PRINCE and the First Secretary are there.) DOCTOR: Well, I must say it's very nice of you gentlemen to invite me here. And where is Miss Grant? DRACONIAN FIRST SECRETARY: Your companion is still with your fellow Earthmen. DOCTOR: Don't you realise what you've done? You've now finally convinced them that we're both Draconian agents. DRACONIAN PRINCE: There is no need to maintain this pretence. We know that you are both agents of the Earth government. DRACONIAN FIRST SECRETARY: You're part of a plot against the Draconian empire! DOCTOR: My dear chap, I've already been through all this with the President of Earth. She thinks I'm working for you. DRACONIAN PRINCE: You are working for General Williams. DOCTOR: I'm what? DRACONIAN PRINCE: General Williams hates out people. Once before, he caused w*r between us and the Earthmen. Now he plans to do so again. DRACONIAN FIRST SECRETARY: Such a w*r would be madness since both empires would be destroyed. DOCTOR: Yes, I couldn't agree with you more. That's exactly what I've been trying to say to you. The Earth cargo ship was not att*cked by Draconians. DRACONIAN FIRST SECRETARY: It was not att*cked at all. The whole story is a lie! DOCTOR: I can assure you that it was att*cked - but by Ogrons. DRACONIAN PRINCE: Ogrons? DOCTOR: Yes. Some third party's employing them trying to make trouble between Earth and Draconia. (The PRINCE and the First Secretary look at each other.) DRACONIAN PRINCE: (To the DOCTOR.) If you tell us the details of General Williams' plan, we shall be able to expose him to your President. There will still be a chance for peace. DOCTOR: My dear chap, nobody is more devoted to the cause of peace than I am. But I cannot tell you something that I don't know. DRACONIAN FIRST SECRETARY: (Icily.) We have mind probing techniques just as efficient as those employed by you Earthmen. If you do not speak now, we shall force you to confess! (The DOCTOR slams his chair arm in anger and impatience.) DOCTOR: Don't you realise you're completely on the wrong tack? There is a plot - yes - but the Earthmen are not behind it, any more than you are. (The First Secretary gestures to the two guards.) DRACONIAN FIRST SECRETARY: Take him away! (They approach the chair. The DOCTOR stands, grabs the two guards and throws them forward towards the Secretary. He then does a backward flip on his chair as one of the guards goes for his blaster.) DRACONIAN PRINCE: No! (The DOCTOR runs through one of the open windows and onto the terrace followed by the Secretary and the guards.) 29: EXT. EARTH. DRACONIAN EMBASSY (The exterior of the embassy is another futuristic building but this time of a warmer brick. The DOCTOR looks over the terrace edge and then climbs over it. He runs down to a lower terrace. One of the guards above yells down...) FIRST GUARD: Stop him! (There are two more guards on patrol below. They react as the DOCTOR runs down the planted terrace and raise their blasters.) SECOND GUARD: Halt! (The DOCTOR karate chops this guard and easily pushes down the next who tries to stop him. He jumps out onto a lawn and thus out of the embassy area. He is almost instantly surrounded by Earth guards.) 30: INT. SECURITY BUILDING. CELL (JO sits alone and concerned in the cell. The door hums open and the DOCTOR stands there at g*n. He waves.) DOCTOR: Hello, Jo. (He walks in and JO rushes up to him.) JO: Doctor, where've you been? (The door closes.) DOCTOR: I've been paying a brief but unwilling visit to the Draconian embassy. And I'm afraid I had to leave in rather a hurry and found myself back here. JO: Well, what happened? DOCTOR: Well, believe it or believe it not, Jo, they think we're working for General Williams and trying to provoke a w*r. JO: Oh no! (She slumps down on the bench disconsolately.) DOCTOR: Yes, Earth is blaming Draconia and Draconia is blaming Earth. JO: And both sides are blaming us. DOCTOR: That's about it. (Suddenly, JO hears the same pulsating signal that she heard on the cargo ship. She jumps to her feet with a look of fear on her face.) DOCTOR: What's the matter? JO: Well, that sound...the one I heard on the cargo ship. I think I can hear it again. 31: EXT. SECURITY BUILDING (Outside, the guards on the walkways also hear the sound. They look round for the source. One of them looks down from a ramp and sees the strange form of an Ogron below. He pulls out his blaster and sees the ape-like creature change into that of a Draconian - who promptly sh**t the guard. A second running battle breaks out in the area, but this time between the far stronger Ogrons and the Earth guards. One Ogron is a casualty but they easily break through the cordon of guards and run up the stairways to the entrance door. There the sole guard sees the Ogrons as Draconians before they sh**t him down. They then rush at the door...) 32: INT. SECURITY BUILDING. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE CELL (...smashing it down with little finesse. They sh**t down the two guards who approach them and then sh**t the lock of the DOCTOR and JO'S cell.) 33: INT. SECURITY BUILDING. CELL (The door hums open and they enter, blasters pointed.) JO: Ogrons! OGRON: You - come!
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FRONTIER IN SPACE BY: MALCOLM HULKE EPISODE THREE Original Air Date: 10 March, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. SECURITY BUILDING. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE CELL (The Ogrons smash down the door with little finesse. They sh**t down the two guards who approach them and then sh**t the lock of the DOCTOR and JO'S cell.) 2: INT. SECURITY BUILDING. CELL (The door hums open and they enter, blasters pointed.) JO: Ogrons! OGRON: You - come! 3: INT. EARTH. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE (The PRESIDENT, now changed into a blue dress, lies back on a couch as her personal masseur, SHEILA, gives her temples a massage while her SECRETARY goes through the main items of her post.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: What's next? SECRETARY: The Historical Monuments Preservation Society wants you to address their annual meeting on the tenth of January. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: Mmm. Clashes with a cabinet meeting. Erm, express apologies. Congratulate them on their good work. (The SECRETARY turns to another sheet.) SECRETARY: And there's an enquiry report in on the anti-Draconian riots in Peking last week. The petitioners seek your support for compensation. (She passes it to the relaxing PRESIDENT who briefly scans through it and passes it back.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: Pass that on to the treasury with my recommendation - all claims to be sympathetically considered. Anything else? SECRETARY: General Williams requires an interview. He says it's extremely urgent. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: I see. (Her tension returns...) 4: EXT. SECURITY BUILDING (The DOCTOR and JO are led out of the security building. At the top of the flight of stairs, they are sitting targets for one of the Earth security guards below but his first sh*t hits the accompanying Ogron. JO screams but the DOCTOR uses the confusion of the battle below them to grab her and make a run for it. They hide behind a concrete ledge from where they can see the battle.) DOCTOR: (Relieved.) That was close. (He looks behind him and taps JO'S soldier. She turns and sees that a security guard stands over them - blaster aimed.) 5: INT. EARTH. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE (The PRESIDENT sits at her desk, watching a television report on the large wall monitor. The silent pictures show riot police in street battles with demonstrators. Its commentary runs along its base reading: Reports are coming in of Anti-Draconian riots in Tokio. No loss of life but property extensively damaged. In several other cities de... The intercom on the desk buzzes.) SECRETARY: (OOV: Over intercom.) General Williams to see you, Madam. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: (Into intercom.) Will you ask him to come in, please? (She switches the telecast off and pours herself a drink as an angry GENERAL WILLIAMS enters.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: Vanished! The Draconian kidnappers have completely disappeared. No trace of them at all. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: Have some wine? GENERAL WILLIAMS: Thank you. (She pours a second drink.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: Well, at least they didn't get away with it. Those two traitors are back in their cell and that's where they'll stay. The time has come for extreme measures. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: I know. You want me to break off diplomatic relations. GENERAL WILLIAMS: I want more than that. This is a military situation. We should att*ck - now! PRESIDENT OF EARTH: (Firmly.) No! I will not be responsible for starting a w*r! GENERAL WILLIAMS: There is one thing worse than w*r, Madam President, and that is defeat. You must think of your own position. (She looks at him sharply.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: What about my position? GENERAL WILLIAMS: If you're not seen to act decisively against the Draconians, you can- and will - be replaced. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: By you, perhaps? (She passes him his drink. He doesn't reply but goes to the chair at the side table. The look on his face is a combination of firmness and also hurt.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: We used to be friends once. (He sits.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: I know what's happened has changed all that, but do you really think I'd betray you? (She shakes and drops her head.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: No...no, I've never doubted you. I'm sorry. (She starts to pace her office.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: There are certain senior officers who feel that a military dictatorship is needed. Your political opponents are clamouring for w*r. You must act now - or they will bring you down. (The PRESIDENT tries to keep her temper.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: I shall break off diplomatic relations. The Draconian ambassador and his staff will be expelled from this planet. I shall inform the Emperor, that his...actions will no longer be tolerated. But unless you give me conclusive evidence of their intentions, I shall not strike the first blow! GENERAL WILLIAMS: The proof you need is in the minds of those two traitors. We shall have to use the mind probe. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: Not on the girl. Perhaps I can make her see reason. GENERAL WILLIAMS: I doubt that. I prefer to put my faith in the mind probe. 6: INT. SECURITY BUILDING. CELL (The DOCTOR lies on a couch in his cell. JO is nowhere to be seen. A small circular device has been strapped to the DOCTOR'S forehead. A small console has been set up in the cell and this is operated by a young female TECHNICIAN attired in a silver dress. The equipment buzzes away as GENERAL WILLIAMS continues the interrogation...) GENERAL WILLIAMS: Well, Doctor, shall we try again? DOCTOR: You can suit yourself. But I warn you - you're wasting your time. (GENERAL WILLIAMS nods to the TECHNICIAN and she increases the power.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: Are you a member of the Draconian secret service? DOCTOR: No. (Both GENERAL WILLIAMS and the TECHNICIAN look up at a wall monitor which shows a number of readings like that on medical equipment.) TECHNICIAN: No change in the rhythm, sir. He must be telling the truth. GENERAL WILLIAMS: How did you get on the cargo ship? DOCTOR: (Tuts and sighs.) I came here in my own ship - the TARDIS. GENERAL WILLIAMS: TARDIS? DOCTOR: Yes, my own spaceship. (GENERAL WILLIAMS looks at the screen and sees an image of a police box whirling through space.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: Why did you help the Draconians att*ck the cargo ship? DOCTOR: I didn't. In any case, it wasn't the Draconians - it was the Ogrons. (The image on the screen changes to that of the events on the cargo ship when the Ogrons att*cked through the airlock and blasted first Hardy and Stewart down, and then the fleeing DOCTOR.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: (To the TECHNICIAN.) Your machine can't be working properly, or else he's controlling it. TECHNICIAN: I've checked all the circuits, sir. Those are his thoughts. GENERAL WILLIAMS: We know that this man is a Draconian agent. He must be lying! TECHNICIAN: Perhaps he's already been brainwashed, sir. But as far as he's concerned, what he's telling us is the truth. GENERAL WILLIAMS: Then we must break through his conditioning. (To the DOCTOR.) Unless you tell me the truth - the real truth - I shall be forced to use increased power. DOCTOR: (Calmly.) I wouldn't do that, old man. I know these machines. They aren't awfully reliable, you know? GENERAL WILLIAMS: You'd do better to worry about the effect on your mind. (The DOCTOR looks at the TECHNICIAN.) DOCTOR: There's just no telling some people, is there, my dear? GENERAL WILLIAMS: Step up the power. Increase to twelve - now! (The power is increased...) GENERAL WILLIAMS: Are you an agent of the Draconians? DOCTOR: (Calmly and quietly.) No... GENERAL WILLIAMS: When do they plan to att*ck us? DOCTOR: They don't. GENERAL WILLIAMS: How did you board the cargo ship? DOCTOR: In the TARDIS. GENERAL WILLIAMS: Who first recruited you to serve the Draconians? DOCTOR: No one. (The power starts to race away.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: Who are the other Draconian agents on Earth? DOCTOR: I don't know. GENERAL WILLIAMS: The truth, man. I want the truth! DOCTOR: I'm telling you the truth. GENERAL WILLIAMS: (Shouts.) I will get the truth! (But his prediction fails to come true as the machine explodes. The DOCTOR grins.) 7: INT. SECURITY BUILDING. CELL (LATER) (Later on, the DOCTOR still lies on the couch with his arm across his forehead. The mind-probe equipment has been taken away. GENERAL WILLIAMS and the TECHNICIAN have also left but JO is back. Her clothes have changed and she now wears black prison attire, halfway between a dressing gown and a martial arts outfit with incongruous high heeled boots. She sits on the couch and leans over the DOCTOR.) JO: Doctor? Are you sure you're alright? DOCTOR: Mm hmm, apart from a bit of a headache. I like the new outfit. Who are you fighting tonight? (She laughs and gets up.) DOCTOR: What happened to you anyway? JO: Oh, they kept going on at me to confess. DOCTOR: Yes, awkward, isn't it? Well, they've made up their minds, you see? They'll only believe us if we tell them what they want to hear. It's a pity really that the Ogrons didn't succeed in kidnapping us. Perhaps we should have been more helpful. JO: Why? DOCTOR: Well, if they had succeeded, presumably they'd have taken us to where the TARDIS is. Well, I'm sorry, Jo, but I'm afraid another kidnapping attempt is our only ray of hope. JO: So, we just sit around here waiting for those jolly old Ogrons to turn up again? DOCTOR: That's about it, yes. (The cell door hums open and an armed guard enters.) GUARD: The President wants to see you. Get moving. (JO helps the DOCTOR up and towards the door but the guard stops her.) GUARD: Not you - you. (He gestures at the DOCTOR.) JO: This may be your chance. Good luck. (He takes his cloak off her and bows courteously.) DOCTOR: See you later. JO: Bye. (He leaves the cell with the guard leaving a nervous JO behind.) 8: INT. EARTH. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE (The DOCTOR stands before the PRESIDENT'S desk but the conversation is making little progress. GENERAL WILLIAMS looks on.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: I'm giving you a final chance to tell me the truth. DOCTOR: Madam President. I've been telling you the truth for some considerable time, but you just won't believe me. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: I can't think why you chose to work for the Draconians. But whatever it is, I'll double any offer that they have made to you. DOCTOR: Well, that's very generous of you, Madam, but you'd only be buying information that doesn't exist. (She sits back.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: You leave me no alternative. Under the powers invested in me by the Special Security Act, I'm sending you to the Lunar Penal Colony. DOCTOR: (Concerned.) What - without a trial? Without even a chance to state my case? (He glances at GENERAL WILLIAMS.) DOCTOR: So, you're just tucking me quietly away, are you? What about my companion? PRESIDENT OF EARTH: She will remain here. I have hopes that away from your influence, I might be able to make her see the error of her ways. DOCTOR: But you will see that she comes to no harm? PRESIDENT OF EARTH: We are not barbarians. If you want to help her, why don't you tell me where she comes from? I'd like to inform her family. DOCTOR: I'd like to, Madam. I really would, but there's nothing I can say that you'd believe. May I say goodbye to her? (WILLIAMS speaks up from the other side of the room.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: No! You'll be leaving immediately for the penal colony. We're putting you where your Draconian friends will be unable to reach you. 9: INT. MOON. LUNAR PENAL COLONY. COMMUNAL AREA (The communal area of the penal colony looks out across the bleak surface of the moon through large windows. Bench tables and chairs are scattered across the room. It is empty apart from one waiting LUNAR GUARD. A door hums open and the DOCTOR enters with three other prisoners. One is a middle-aged man, one is a young black woman and the third is a young Asian man- PATEL. These three are in prison uniform - sky blue pyjama type attire with silver boots. The GUARD points across the room.) LUNAR GUARD: Over there. (The four walk towards the spot indicated.) LUNAR GUARD: (Shouts.) Get in line and face the front! (The four are slow to obey the command.) LUNAR GUARD: Face the front! (The four do as instructed. PATEL finds himself next to the DOCTOR.) PATEL: What did they get you for? DOCTOR: Oh, it's a long story. I don't think you'd believe me even if I told you. PATEL: You are a political, aren't you? DOCTOR: Not particularly, no. PATEL: Oh, come off it! Only politicals get sent to the moon, none of your common criminals. DOCTOR: Have you got many political prisoners here? PATEL: Thousands. Well I mean, criticise the government and you're for it, aren't you? You a member of the Peace Party? DOCTOR: Well, you might put it like that, yes. Yes, I tried to stop a w*r. PATEL: Me too. I tried to sabotage a military base. DOCTOR: Did you? How long is your sentence? PATEL: (Puzzled.) Sen...? Where have you been? There are no sentences. Once they send you to the moon, it's forever. (The door hums open again and another man enters. He has a grizzled look and also wears prison uniform but wears a black belt to distinguish himself from the others.) CROSS: No talking! LUNAR GUARD: Get in line! (The man - CROSS - starts to walk down the line of prisoners. Behind him, almost unnoticed, an elderly bearded man has slipped into the room and sits himself at one of the bench tables. CROSS sees a bulge in PATEL'S pocket.) CROSS: What have you got in there? PATEL: Nothing. CROSS: Show me. PATEL: Chocolate. (He holds a silver foil covered bar up.) PATEL: My allowance from the remand prison. CROSS: No chocolate allowed here. (He snatches it from PATEL. The DOCTOR tuts.) DOCTOR: Now that's stealing, you know? CROSS: That's what I'm in for. Got a trouble maker, have we? DOCTOR: That's what I'm in for! CROSS: I'll remember you. DOCTOR: Good, I'm glad to hear it. (Behind them, another man has entered the room, accompanied by two guards.) LUNAR GUARD: Attention! (CROSS turns and sees the man who is dressed similarly to the prisoners but in a lighter blue and with a badge of office on his chest. He is middle aged and dignified with a short beard.) CROSS: New arrivals, sir. (CROSS goes and stands next to the man as he looks at the line of prisoners.) PRISON GOVERNOR: I'm the Governor of this penal colony. There's one rule here - you do as you're told. If you behave yourselves, you'll be reasonably treated, but you have no rights and there is no means of escape. You'll do well to remember that you're here for the rest of your lives. (He has spotted the DOCTOR in is rather different dress to that of the others.) PRISON GOVERNOR: Why is that man not in uniform? CROSS: Don't know, sir. That's how they sent him - special security prisoner. PRISON GOVERNOR: See he's kitted out immediately. CROSS: Sir. (The GOVERNOR turns to leave but PATEL calls out.) PATEL: We won't be staying here forever, you know?! The Peace Party will win one day. PRISON GOVERNOR: Very well, Cross, I'll leave them to you. CROSS: Sir. (CROSS moves to the line-up.) CROSS: That's probably the last time you'll see the Governor. But you'll see me every day. Now I run a nice quiet tidy section here. Any trouble, it's a black mark on my records, so there's, er, never any trouble - got it? PATEL: Look, don't you realise that you're one of us? We're all prisoners here! Victims of the system! CROSS: Shut up, you! (CROSS strides out of the room, barking an order at the elderly man sat at the bench...) CROSS: You, kit out that man. (To the GUARD.) Come with me. (CROSS and the GUARD leave as the elderly man walks up to the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: (To PATEL.) I thought you said there were no common criminals here? PROFESSOR DALE: Cross is a trusty. They are all hard core criminals specially imported from other prisons. (PATEL recognises the elderly man.) PATEL: Professor Dale? (DALE looks at PATEL through his pince-nez.) PROFESSOR DALE: You were on our youth committee, were you not? PATEL: That's right, sir. Oh, we met last year, just before your arrest. PROFESSOR DALE: Well, you'll find yourself in very good company here, my boy. I sometimes think there are more members of the Peace Party up here than back on Earth. (PATEL laughs quietly.) DOCTOR: Don't, er, any of you try to escape? PROFESSOR DALE: (Suspiciously.) Escape? Occasionally - why do you ask? DOCTOR: It seems a perfectly natural question. PROFESSOR DALE: (To PATEL.) Do you know this man? PATEL: Er, no sir. I...er, met him on the shuttle. PROFESSOR DALE: (To the DOCTOR.) I'd better get you a uniform. Come this way. (The DOCTOR holds up a "V" for victory sign with his fingers to PATEL and follows the PROFESSOR. The young man returns the sign.) 10: INT. EARTH. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE (The PRESIDENT and GENERAL WILLIAMS look at two large pictures of the DOCTOR which appear on the wall screen in her office. They resemble mug-shots.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: There's no doubt about it. These are the same people. (She presses a button and the image changes to a series of written charges detailing defrauding a bank, evading payment of planetary income tax and as*ault and battery.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: No doubt. But that doesn't mean we should hand them over to anyone. (The image changes again to two mug-shots of JO.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: I'm surprised, specially about the girl. (The image changes to JO'S charges which are that she is an accessory after the fact of the DOCTOR'S crimes.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: All these crimes! GENERAL WILLIAMS: Just the sort of people the Draconians would employ. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: Nevertheless the dominion government of Sirius 4 does have a claim to them. GENERAL WILLIAMS: And so do we. They have vital information. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: They must be very important to them. I think I'd better see their representative. (She presses the intercom.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: (Into intercom.) Send in the commissioner from Sirius 4, please. GENERAL WILLIAMS: Surely you're not going to hand them over? PRESIDENT OF EARTH: Well, we'll have to see, won't we? Relationships with the colony of planets are always difficult. And if there is a w*r, we'll need all the allies we can get, won't we? (The door hums open and the SECRETARY enters.) SECRETARY: The commissioner, Madam. (A man walks in behind her. He is dressed in a black, part-pvc uniform with a chest insignia and carries a silver briefcase - it is the MASTER!) MASTER: Madam President. This is indeed a great honour. (He bows.) 11: INT. MOON. LUNAR PENAL COLONY. COMMUNAL AREA (A bored PATEL is playing a strange form of chess on a board of elevated platforms with another prisoner. He moves a piece.) PATEL: Check...and mate. (The room is full of blue attired prisoners. A door opens and DALE and the DOCTOR - now wearing the regulation uniform - walk in and up to the table where PATEL is playing.) PROFESSOR DALE: Yes, there's an excellent library. There are books, videofilms, handicrafts and discussion groups - all sorts of ways of passing the time. DOCTOR: Including planning to escape? PROFESSOR DALE: That's not one of the things we discuss. DOCTOR: Oh, why? Doesn't anybody ever try? PROFESSOR DALE: Occasionally. There was an attempt last month. PATEL: Yes, what did happen? PROFESSOR DALE: What always happens - they are d*ad. No one escapes from here. DOCTOR: No...no, quite so. But there's got to be a first time for everything, hasn't there? Come on, Professor, come and tell me all you know about the layout here. (He leads DALE away. PATEL looks suspicious.) 12: INT. EARTH. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE (The MASTER sits in the visitor's chair in the PRESIDENT'S office.) MASTER: Truly, Madam President, I...I sympathise with your position. But my government has sought these criminals throughout the galaxy. GENERAL WILLIAMS: (Coldly.) There are now prisoners of the government of Earth. That's good enough. MASTER: With the greatest respect, General Williams, I must disagree. They are citizens of Sirius 4. GENERAL WILLIAMS: Part of Earth's empire. MASTER: Yes, but it has been granted dominion status. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: He has a point, General Williams. Once a colony has been raised to dominion status it enjoys certain autonomous rights - including the right to try and punish its own citizens. MASTER: Exactly. But I feel assured that once these two have come to trial, my government will be only too happy to send them back to you for further interrogation. But meanwhile, my orders are clear - I must take them back with me to Sirius 4. GENERAL WILLIAMS: (Angrily.) I will not hand over vital prisoners to some...tin-pot colony! PRESIDENT OF EARTH: (Sharply.) As the commissioner has pointed out, General Williams, Sirius 4 is no longer a colony. It is a dominion. (To the MASTER.) Your request is granted. (The MASTER gets up and bows.) MASTER: Madam President. I am most grateful. GENERAL WILLIAMS: Heaven help you if you let them escape! MASTER: You may rest assured, General Williams, they will be perfectly safe with me. 13: INT. MOON. LUNAR PENAL COLONY. COMMUNAL AREA (It is feeding time on the moon. A LUNAR GUARD watches as the prisoners file past a table where they are handed a plastic beaker of liquid.) LUNAR GUARD: Right, keep it moving! (DALE takes his and moves along. The DOCTOR takes his and follows him.) DOCTOR: Is this all we get? PROFESSOR DALE: It contains all the elements to support life. (The DOCTOR takes the top off and looks at the contents.) DOCTOR: Mmm, and absolutely nothing to make it enjoyable, eh? PROFESSOR DALE: You get used to it after a month or two. Anyway, it's all we ever get. (Behind them, PATEL has held up the line, also looking in disgust at their rations. CROSS is also there.) LUNAR GUARD: Keep moving! CROSS: You heard him - move! (PATEL takes his cup and joins the DOCTOR and the PROFESSOR.) DOCTOR: Not exactly friendly, are they? PROFESSOR DALE: One gets used to it. PATEL: What time do we get to bed? PROFESSOR DALE: Anytime. There's no day or night here. DOCTOR: (Quietly.) No, er, tell me, Professor, when, er, when do you plan to escape? PROFESSOR DALE: No one escapes from here. DOCTOR: But you're going to try? PROFESSOR DALE: For all I know, you could be a spy for the Governor. DOCTOR: If I were, I'd hardly be drawing attention to myself quite so quickly, now would I? PROFESSOR DALE: No, a valid point of logic. I wonder if I can trust you? DOCTOR: You've really got no alternative, Professor. We're all in this sector together. Whatever you do, I shall know about it. PATEL: Yes, but we don't know you. Why did they send you here? DOCTOR: Oh, I was sent here at the express wish of a certain General Williams. PROFESSOR DALE: We have no proof of that. We have no...no reason to tell you anything. DOCTOR: I'll tell you something; there is a conspiracy to start a w*r between Earth and Draconia. PROFESSOR DALE: There are warmongers on both sides. We are aware of that. DOCTOR: But there's also a third party, Professor, who's plotting to set the two empires at each others throats. 14: INT. SECURITY BUILDING. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE CELL (That third party walks down the corridor leading to the cell where JO is kept, accompanied by two guards. A third guard on duty goes to open the door.) MASTER: No, I'll see her alone. (The guard steps back and the MASTER opens the door.) 15: INT. SECURITY BUILDING. CELL (JO sits on the couch, bored with her head resting on a hand and not paying attention to the new arrival. The MASTER observes her for a moment, then...) MASTER: Penny for them, Miss Grant? (JO'S head sh**t up at the familiar voice.) JO: (Shocked.) You! What are you doing here? MASTER: To coin a phrase - I've come to take you away from all this. JO: What are you talking about? MASTER: Well, surely you don't want to spend the rest of your life in here, do you? JO: Well, I'm not going anywhere with you - that's for sure. MASTER: Oh, but you are, you know. Believe it or not, I am a fully accredited commissioner from the planet Sirius 4, and you and the Doctor are two dangerous criminals being handed over into my custody. JO: (Realises.) So it was you! You ordered those Ogrons to att*ck the ships and pretend they were Draconians! MASTER: Of course! Those lumbering idiots could never have thought up such a brilliant scheme by themselves. JO: Why did you want to start a w*r? MASTER: Now, come on, Miss Grant, be reasonable. You want to see the Doctor again, don't you? JO: Where is he? MASTER: He's in another prison, on the moon. We're going to collect him. JO: How do I know you're telling the truth? MASTER: You don't. And the only way you'll find out is by coming with me. Well? (JO considers and then gets up and joins him.) JO: How did you know we were here in the first place? MASTER: Well, after they'd att*cked the cargo ships, the Ogrons returned to their planet, taking their loot with them. Now imagine my surprise - and my delight - when I found that they'd brought me the Doctor's TARDIS. (He smiles.) JO: And why are you taking us with you? MASTER: Oh, need you ask? How could I leave two dear friends in such dire straights? JO: Oh, you don't seriously think that I'm going to believe that you want to help us...?! MASTER: (Interrupts.) Believe what you think, Miss Grant, I have my reasons! Now, are you coming, or do you really wish to vegetate in this hole for the rest of your natural? JO: (Nods.) Very well. I'll come. MASTER: Excellent! (The MASTER presses a call button and the door slides open. A guard appears.) MASTER: The prisoner and I are ready to leave now, guard. (He gestures to JO to leave.) JO: Anywhere is better than here. (She walks out, he follows and the door slides shut after them.) 16: INT. MOON. LUNAR PENAL COLONY. COMMUNAL AREA (The DOCTOR is sat at a table with PROFESSOR DALE and PATEL and has been telling them his story.) DOCTOR: Well, there you are. There you have it. That's how I came to be here. PATEL: (Stunned.) It's fantastic! I mean, our people seeing Draconians, Draconians seeing Earthmen. I...can't believe it. PROFESSOR DALE: Well, I can. DOCTOR: (Pleased.) Good grief. Do you know, sir, you're the first person who's believed me? PROFESSOR DALE: It would explain a great deal. After the stupidity of the Draconian w*r, the bitterness eventually died down and we had many years of peace. There were trade treaties, cultural exchanges and then...for no reason at all, these sudden acts of hostility. (The door from the main part of the prison opens and the LUNAR GUARD and CROSS walk in.) LUNAR GUARD: Dale! Over here! (DALE stands.) PROFESSOR DALE: Yes, what is it? LUNAR GUARD: Spot check. You ought to know. PROFESSOR DALE: (To the DOCTOR and PATEL.) If you'll excuse me, one of our little prison rituals. (Watched by the DOCTOR, DALE joins CROSS who starts to frisk him, muttering under his breath as he does so.) CROSS: This is it. There's a VIP landing in his spaceship in ten minutes time, bay seven. You can pinch it. I've set up two space suits for you. PROFESSOR DALE: (Surprised.) I can't believe it. CROSS: Well, I keep my promises - now you keep yours. When you get back to Earth, don't forget who your friends are. PROFESSOR DALE: When the peace party takes over, you'll be given a free pardon. You have my word. (CROSS finishes his search and speaks up...) CROSS: Right, you're clean. Report to airlock three for maintenance work. You and one other. You can choose him yourselves - okay. (DALE walks back to the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: What is it? What's up? PROFESSOR DALE: Oh, just a search. All part of the routine. (CROSS and the GUARD leave the room. DALE moves closer to the other two. The DOCTOR is suspicious.) DOCTOR: Come on, Professor. Come on! You were giving off conspiracy in waves over there. You can trust me, you know. PROFESSOR DALE: The escape plan - it's now. (PATEL leaps to his feet.) PROFESSOR DALE: We have to walk from the airlock, across the moon's surface. We're going to steal a spaceship. They've left two spacesuits for us. DOCTOR: Who are you taking with you? PROFESSOR DALE: Well, I had planned to take another member of the Peace Party committee, but...I'm afraid he'll have to give up his place. (He gently eases a disappointed PATEL back into his seat.) PROFESSOR DALE: Doctor, I want you to come with me. DOCTOR: Well that's very generous of you, but... PROFESSOR DALE: (Interrupts.) We must get you back to Earth so that you can tell your story. DOCTOR: Well, it was telling my story on Earth that got me sent here in the first place. PROFESSOR DALE: We have contacts everywhere - journalists, broadcasters, even friends in the government. We'll make them believe you. DOCTOR: (Pleased.) Thank you, Professor. You don't know what it means to me to have found allies at last. PROFESSOR DALE: Well we'd better be going, Doctor. This spaceship will be landing any moment. (They walk off, with the DOCTOR and PATEL giving each other the victory sign again.) 17: INT. MOON. LUNAR PENAL COLONY. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE AIRLOCK (The DOCTOR and the PROFESSOR walk up a corridor to the airlock door.) PROFESSOR DALE: Good! He's left it open. 18: INT. MOON. LUNAR PENAL COLONY. AIRLOCK (They enter the room. There are wall shelves with spacesuits on them and on the floor are two oxygen cylinder packs. The DOCTOR pulls the solid door closed behind them.) PROFESSOR DALE: Excellent! Excellent! (The DOCTOR crosses to the other door which leads directly out onto the moon's surface. He looks through a window in the door and sees...) 19: EXT. MOON (...a small spaceship on a landing pad.) PROFESSOR DALE: (OOV.) Come on, Doctor, we haven't got long. 20: INT. MOON. LUNAR PENAL COLONY. AIRLOCK (The DOCTOR joins DALE at the wall shelves and they start to take down spacesuits.) DOCTOR: Take this one? (Taking a brown suit each, they start to climb into the overall-type garments.) PROFESSOR DALE: We can't use the main entrance to the space port. It's too well guarded. All we have to do is to walk across the moon's surface - about ten minutes and we're there. DOCTOR: Tell me, Professor, why is Cross helping you? PROFESSOR DALE: A kind of bribery, I'm afraid. I promised to get him a free pardon once we get into power. DOCTOR: That's extraordinary. I would have thought he would have wanted something far more positive than promises. 21: INT. MOON. LUNAR PENAL COLONY. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE AIRLOCK (DALE'S voice carries into the seemingly empty corridor...) PROFESSOR DALE: (OOV: In airlock.) Oh, he's not a bad fellow when you get to know him. 22: INT. MOON. LUNAR PENAL COLONY. AIRLOCK PROFESSOR DALE: I appeal to his better self. Now do hurry, Doctor. (Unnoticed behind them, CROSS appears through an observation slit.) 23: INT. MOON. LUNAR PENAL COLONY. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE AIRLOCK (The trusty starts to turn a large dial next to the door.) 24: INT. MOON. LUNAR PENAL COLONY. AIRLOCK (Within the room, as the men finish dressing, there is the faint hiss of escaping air.) DOCTOR: What's that? I thought I heard something. PROFESSOR DALE: Yes, now Doctor, clip my cylinder on the back of my suit and then I'll fix up yours. DOCTOR: Alright. (He picks up one of the cylinders) DOCTOR: Well, this one's empty. PROFESSOR DALE: (Surprised.) It can't be. DOCTOR: Well, it certainly is. Take a look for yourself. (He passes the empty cylinder to DALE.) DOCTOR: There, look at the gauge. (The DOCTOR picks up the second cylinder.) DOCTOR: Yes, and so's this one. They're both empty, Professor. 25: INT. MOON. LUNAR PENAL COLONY. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE AIRLOCK (CROSS turns the dial further. A pressure gauge on the wall starts to rise.) 26: INT. MOON. LUNAR PENAL COLONY. AIRLOCK (Within the airlock, the noise of escaping air gets louder. The DOCTOR crosses to the door and tries to turn an unlocking wheel.) DOCTOR: The door - it's locked! (DALE hears the escaping air.) PROFESSOR DALE: Listen. (The DOCTOR listens.) DOCTOR: They're depressurising. (He spots another gauge on the wall, identical to that outside.) DOCTOR: Don't you understand, man! They're pumping out the air!
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FRONTIER IN SPACE BY: MALCOLM HULKE EPISODE FOUR Original Air Date: 17 March, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. MOON. LUNAR PENAL COLONY. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE AIRLOCK (CROSS turns the dial further. A pressure gauge on the wall starts to rise.) 2: INT. MOON. LUNAR PENAL COLONY. AIRLOCK (Within the airlock, the noise of escaping air gets louder. The DOCTOR crosses to the door and tries to turn an unlocking wheel.) DOCTOR: The door - it's locked! (They hear the escaping air.) DOCTOR: They're depressurising. (DALE hears it too.) PROFESSOR DALE: Listen. DOCTOR: Don't you understand, man! They're pumping out the air! PROFESSOR DALE: Well...we're going to suffocate! DOCTOR: Of course we're not. (He rushes and grabs one of the empty cylinders. He then uses it to try and bring their plight to anyone's attention by banging it against the locked door.) PROFESSOR DALE: That's no good. They...they'll never hear us. DOCTOR: Well, they certainly won't if we don't try. PROFESSOR DALE: (Breathlessly.) Help! Help! Help! DOCTOR: Professor, don't shout! You'll just waste oxygen. (With the air getting thinner, the old PROFESSOR starts to slump on the floor. The DOCTOR gives up his attempt and bends down to help him.) DOCTOR: Come on, Professor, come on. Come on, up you get. 3: INT. MOON. LUNAR PENAL COLONY. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE AIRLOCK (The gauge outside is almost at the highest level. Beneath it, a black gloved hand reaches out for the air dial and starts to turn it in the other direction.) 4: INT. MOON. LUNAR PENAL COLONY. AIRLOCK (Air starts to rush back into the room as the DOCTOR helps the PROFESSOR up.) DOCTOR: Come on, ... (He hears the incoming air.) DOCTOR: Listen! Listen - it worked! (He helps the struggling PROFESSOR to his feet and waits for the airlock door to open. It does so to admit a surprising figure.) MASTER: I do hope that you're alright, Doctor. (Catching his breath, the DOCTOR nods...) DOCTOR: You. Yes, I might have guessed. MASTER: I'd hate you to come to any harm, you know? 5: INT. MOON. LUNAR PENAL COLONY. GOVERNOR'S OFFICE (The GOVERNOR'S office is as plain and functional as the rest of the prison. The man himself sits behind a report of the incident, with the MASTER, still in his commissioner's uniform, beside him. CROSS, the DOCTOR and DALE stand before the desk, with armed truncheon wielding guards behind them.) DOCTOR: It was a deliberate attempt at cold-blooded m*rder, Governor. And I demand an enquiry! PRISON GOVERNOR: (Calmly.) You were trying to escape. You've only yourselves to blame for the consequences. DOCTOR: I also believe there was a conspiracy to destroy this man... (He nods at DALE.) DOCTOR: ...because he's politically dangerous to you. PRISON GOVERNOR: (Riled.) How dare you! PROFESSOR DALE: Cross said he would help us to escape, and he left spacesuits for us in the airlock. DOCTOR: With no oxygen in the cylinders. PRISON GOVERNOR: (To CROSS.) Is there any truth in this? CROSS: No, sir. They stole the suits. Must have messed it up and taken ones with empty cylinders. DOCTOR: And I take it we that also locked ourselves in the airlock from the outside and switched off the air supply, mm? MASTER: He does have a point there, you know, Governor? Had it not been for my time... CROSS: (Interrupts.) Maybe another prisoner did it? You know, one who had it in for 'em? PRISON GOVERNOR: You are both guilty of attempting to escape. You'll both be placed in solitary confinement for the next year. MASTER: Er, just a moment, Governor, do what you will with the old man but that one... (He points with his papers at the DOCTOR.) MASTER: ...comes with me. (The GOVERNOR signs his report.) PRISON GOVERNOR: Mmm, out of the question, I'm afraid. He's committed an internal offence and is subject to prison discipline. Take 'em away. (The guards lead the DOCTOR and the PROFESSOR out of the room. CROSS steps forward.) CROSS: Sorry about this, sir. I'll, er, see it doesn't happen again. PRISON GOVERNOR: Yes, it had better not. Alright, you can go. CROSS: Sir. (CROSS leaves.) MASTER: You know, I do wish that you'd reconsider, Governor. Obtaining custody of that prisoner is very important to me. And I do have a warrant. (He waves his papers.) PRISON GOVERNOR: Well, it's out of the question, I'm afraid. You see, he's under punishment. When he's completed his solitary confinement, I'll, er, reconsider. MASTER: I see. (The MASTER starts to pace the office, thinking...) MASTER: You know, I have a theory about this incident. PRISON GOVERNOR: It's no concern of yours. MASTER: I think that those two prisoners were telling the truth. I think that your trusty, Cross, was helping them. PRISON GOVERNOR: Why should he do that? MASTER: On your instructions. PRISON GOVERNOR: (Angrily.) That is an outrageous suggest... MASTER: (Interrupts.) Oh come, Governor! You rid yourself of a politically dangerous prisoner, and foster the legend that escape is impossible in one go. I must congratulate you. PRISON GOVERNOR: You're being very impermanent! MASTER: Suppose I were to support the Doctor's demand for an official enquiry? Some very awkward questions could be asked? (The GOVERNOR tries not to look nervous as he strokes his beard.) PRISON GOVERNOR: I have nothing to fear. MASTER: Haven't you? Oh come, Governor. Hand the Doctor over to me...and I promise you he'll be no further trouble to you. (The GOVERNOR sits back in his chair and waves his hands.) PRISON GOVERNOR: Well, I've no wish to be uncooperative. What would you do with him? MASTER: Oh, take him back to Sirius 4 and see that he stands trial. (Sighs.) You wouldn't believe the list of crimes he's committed. 6: INT. MOON. LUNAR PENAL COLONY. SOLITARY CONFINEMENT CELL (The DOCTOR sits on a narrow bench in his darkened solitary confinement cell. The door hums open and the GOVERNOR and the MASTER enter and stand over him.) PRISON GOVERNOR: I'm releasing you into the custody of this commissioner. He will fly you back to Sirius 4 to stand trial. DOCTOR: And may I ask what I'm supposed to have done there? (The MASTER coughs, opens his papers and starts to read...) MASTER: "Defrauding the Sirius 4 Dominion Bank, evasion of planetary income tax, as*ault and battery committed upon the person of a Sirius 4 police official, taking a spaceship without authority and piloting the said spaceship without payment of tax and insurance. Landing the said spaceship on an unauthorised area of Sirius 3". Need I go on? DOCTOR: I seem to be quite the master criminal, don't I? (To the GOVERNOR.) You don't mean to say that you really believe all this nonsense, do you, Governor? Whatever credentials he's shown you are forged. MASTER: Oh come, Doctor, you know the game's up. Why not admit defeat? (To the GOVERNOR.) You know, this man always works with an accomplice - a girl. (The DOCTOR looks sharply up at the MASTER.) MASTER: I've got her under lock and key in my ship. (The DOCTOR'S eyes open as he takes in the implied thr*at. The MASTER looks down at him and smiles.) MASTER: Well, Doctor, are you coming quietly? 7: EXT. MOON (The small spaceship that the DOCTOR saw from the airlock is the MASTER'S stolen police ship.) 8: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA (Within it, a worried JO sits within a barred cage in the well of a room in the rear of the ship. A raised platform runs round the edge of the room. There are two bunks in the cage with silver blankets on them. The door from the airlock opens and two guards lead the DOCTOR in. He has changed back into his own clothes. The MASTER follows.) DOCTOR: Hello, Jo. JO: Doctor! (The DOCTOR is led round the raised area to where he is next to JO. He leans through the bars.) DOCTOR: How are you - alright? JO: Well... MASTER: (Interrupting.) Right, they'll be plenty of time for the exchange of social pleasantries. Put him inside. (One guard opens the barred door to the cage and the other leads him inside and pulls the door to. It is locked.) MASTER: Thank you, gentlemen. You can leave them to me now. (The two guards leave through the airlock. The MASTER goes up to the bars of the cage. Inside, the DOCTOR and JO sit on their respective bunks.) MASTER: Well, Doctor, this is an interesting reversal. I remember your once visiting me when I was in prison. DOCTOR: You know, I'd very much like to know why...? MASTER: (Interrupts.) Why you've been locked up? DOCTOR: No - why I'm still alive. MASTER: Oh, your health is very precious to me - for the moment. You see, my...my employers are most interested in you. JO: The Ogrons? MASTER: Miss Grant, please! I employ them. DOCTOR: Yes, well whatever it is you're up to, you needn't expect any help from me. MASTER: I don't need any help. Your simple presence will be quite enough. Oh, by the way, I need hardly warn you there is no point in trying to escape. This is an interplanetary police spaceship, specially built for carrying prisoners - as you can see. (He gestures at the cage.) DOCTOR: Er, stolen, of course? MASTER: Oh, of course. Oh, and another thing... (He points at a small camera which hangs down from the ceiling.) MASTER: There's a closed circuit television camera trained on you from up there, so you will be under continuous observation. I think that's all. Well now, if you'll excuse me, I have some rather complicated astro-navigational calculations to work out. (He steps up to the raised platform.) DOCTOR: Er, may I ask where we're going? MASTER: Certainly - to the home of our friends, the Ogrons. A barren and uninteresting planet on the remote fringes of the galaxy. JO: Why are you taking us there? MASTER: That, Miss Grant, you will discover when you arrive. (He walks out of another door heading towards the bridge. The DOCTOR dives over to JO'S bunk and starts to speak urgently.) DOCTOR: Right, now listen to me. We haven't got much time before he gets back to the flight deck. Now, the first thing we've got to do is to escape. Now they took my sonic screwdriver from me in the prison, but they didn't get a hold of this. (From out of the edge of his boot, he pulls out a long flexible steel string.) DOCTOR: A steel file. JO: Right, let's go. DOCTOR: No, not yet. Let's wait until he gets back to the flight deck, then he'll set the controls. Now this is an a*t*matic spaceship. Once we're underway, the computers take over - right? JO: Okay, so what's the plan? DOCTOR: Now this is what we're gonna do... JO: Mmm hmm? 9: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (The MASTER has changed out of his police commissioner's suit and back into his own normal collarless suit. With a clipboard in his hand he enters the bridge, which closely resembles that of the cargo ship but with one pilot's seat. He adjusts several controls and a picture of the moon appears on of the two monitors. He puts in his co-ordinates and a console read out changes from 46487 to 68110. He straps himself in and switches on the second monitor. It shows the view from the cell area.) MASTER: (Into microphone.) Right, you'd better hold in there, you two. We're about to lift off. 10: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA (The DOCTOR and JO patiently wait.) 11: EXT. MOON (The rocket's engines f*re...) 12: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (...and soon the image of the moon's surface, moving beneath the spaceship, appears on the first monitor.) 13: SPACE (The small spaceship moves out of the moon's orbit and swings into space.) 14: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (The MASTER picks up a book and also switches on the intercom from the cell area. The DOCTOR'S conversation to JO comes over.) DOCTOR: (On monitor.) So I told the High Council of the Time Lords. I said they had absolutely no right to put me on trial in the first place. Well, if I chose to go wandering around the universe in my own time, that... 15: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA DOCTOR: ...was my business. JO: What about stealing the TARDIS? DOCTOR: I didn't steal it. I just borrowed it. I fully intended to return it, I assure you. Anyway, she wasn't exactly the latest model, poor old thing. JO: (Laughs.) You can say that again. DOCTOR: I tell you, I made a complete fool of that prosecuting council, though. I ridiculed his every argument. (What the MASTER doesn't notice is that the DOCTOR, sat on a bunk facing the camera, has his hands behind him, cutting through a metal bracket that forms part of the lock of the cage.) DOCTOR: Yes, and I told him that I had the complete answer to every one his charges against me. JO: And then what happened? DOCTOR: Then what happened - well, they found me guilty, changed my appearance and exiled me to Earth. JO: And that's where you met me! 16: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (The MASTER holds his book as is making an attempt to read it but cannot help but listen into the conversation...) DOCTOR: (On monitor.) That's right. That's where I met you. And that alone made the exile worth while, Miss Grant. (The MASTER gives a grimace of laughter.) JO: (On monitor.) Thank you! DOCTOR: (On monitor.) Not that there's anything wrong with Earth. Well, it's quite a nice little planet in its own way, but...after all, I am a Time Lord, Jo, and I think I've deserved my freedom. JO: (On monitor.) Right! (The MASTER switches on the microphone.) MASTER: (Into microphone.) In reminiscent mood, are you, Doctor? Poor Miss Grant - you have my deepest sympathy. (He laughs, switches off the microphone and settles back with his book - "THE w*r OF THE WORLDS".) 17: SPACE (The police ship sh**t through space.) 18: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA (The DOCTOR continues to cut through the bracket as he continues his diversionary conversation...) DOCTOR: As I soon realised, the trouble with Lethbridge-Stewart is that he's got a military mind. JO: Well, he is a Brigadier, after all. I mean, what do you expect? DOCTOR: No, that's the trouble though. (Behind him, the file is almost at the top of the piece of metal.) DOCTOR: He's hidebound, you see. He always does everything by the rules. I keep telling him. I said, there are times, you know, when you've simply got to cut right through the red tape. JO: And you managed to do that, have you? DOCTOR: Yes, I've managed to cut... (He manages a last pull and the metal bracket is severed.) DOCTOR: Right through it. (JO smiles.) DOCTOR: And I'm not gonna let authority stand between me and my freedom. (JO gets up and moves to the bars. She sighs.) JO: Lethbridge-Stewart, how mu... Hey! As far as he's concerned... 19: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (Her movement means that her image effectively takes up all of the camera sh*t as it appears on the bridge, where the MASTER is absorbed in his book.) JO: (On monitor.) ...I've been absent without leave all this time. I'm always telling you that you've no idea where you're going in... 20: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA JO: ...that TARDIS of yours. (She talks on as the door to the cage quietly opens...) JO: I mean, you're supposed to be getting me back to Earth - right? And we keep landing up in one terrible situation after the other. (...and closes again now that the DOCTOR is out.) JO: I mean, when I get back, I'll probably be court-martialed, and then I'll be put in a cell again. (The DOCTOR crawls on his hands and knees round the base of the cage.) JO: That's if we do get back, and the way things are going, it doesn't look like it. But if we do get back, I'm telling you one thing, right here and now... (Now out of camera range, the DOCTOR stands and opens a cupboard in the corner of the room which contains a spacesuit and oxygen cylinder. He takes off his jacket.) JO: I'm never going back in that TARDIS with you again. But if we do get back, I really do think you ought to be a bit more reasonable with the Master. (JO has sat back down on one of the bunks, talking to a huddled mass beneath one of the blankets. The DOCTOR starts to divest himself of his boots.) JO: I mean, he keeps offering you a share in the galaxy, or whatever's going on, and you keep refusing him and playing dirty tricks on him. Then, you see, the trouble is with you is, well, you're so stiff-necked. I mean, you've got to realise that this... 21: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (On the bridge, the MASTER continues with his book.) JO: (On monitor.) ...time, the Master has won. You might as well make the best out of a terrible situation. I mean, look at it now. Here we are... (Distracted by JO'S wittering, and not taking his eye off the page, he reaches for a dial and turns the volume right down and then up slightly in order that the volume is decreased. He continues reading.) JO: (On monitor.) Goodness knows where he's taking us to. I mean, just a few of those Ogrons is bad enough. Can you imagine a whole planet of them? 22: SPACE (The policeship continues on its long journey.) 23: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA (The DOCTOR has now put on all of the spacesuit except the helmet and the oxygen pack.) JO: Still, I suppose I suppose it's all my own fault really. I mean, if I hadn't asked my uncle to pull those strings and get me that job, I'd never have landed up in this mess in the first place. (The DOCTOR points to the camera and indicates to her that she should block it again. She gets up.) JO: You know, some people think that it's very romantic working in intelligence. (She gets up, stands in the camera's field of vision and continues...) JO: Oh, but my goodness, I could tell you it's not. (The DOCTOR meanwhile, holding the helmet and pack, dashes round to the airlock door.) JO: I mean, they that I run around all day with terrific looking James Bond style going to suave dinner parties. (He selects one of the two buttons on the control panel next to the door and pushes it open.) JO: Oh, but I don't, you know. (He waves a goodbye to JO and enters the airlock.) JO: I mean, I dine with the Brigadier and I'm doing the filing at HQ, which is very, very difficult, or else I'm running around making tea and being general dogsbody. I mean, times come really when I'm... 24: SPACE (The external airlock door opens and the fully-suited DOCTOR steps out into space.) 25: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (The MASTER reads on while JO'S faint voice just reaches him...) 26: SPACE (The DOCTOR, floating round the edge of the ship, grabs hold of some maintenance hand-holds that form a series of steps.) 27: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (A light flashes on a panel marked "COURSE CORRECTION". The MASTER puts down his book and starts to make adjustments. He presses the intercom switch.) MASTER: (Into microphone.) You'd better hold on again, you two in there. Doctor, Miss Grant, I'm going to make rather a sharp course correction. 28: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA MASTER: (OOV: Over intercom.) It'll only last a moment. (JO looks fearful as she knows what this could mean.) 29: SPACE (The rockets engines f*re and the entire structure moves off from the DOCTOR who is left stranded in space. He grasps out ineffectually.) 30: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (The MASTER finishes his correction.) 31: SPACE (The DOCTOR continues to float, just yards from the ship. He reaches out behind him and pulls out his oxygen line. He then turns up the pressure on the pack and uses the forcefully escaping gases from the upheld line to propel him back towards the hull. Once there he, plugs the line back into his suit.) 32: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (The MASTER realises that all is silent in the cell area.) MASTER: (Into microphone.) Is everything alright, Miss Grant? 33: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA (A shocked JO looks up at the camera.) JO: Yes...yes, I'm fine. MASTER: (OOV: Over intercom.) You appear a little distressed? JO: No, I'm...I'm just a bit shaken, that's all. MASTER: (OOV: Over intercom.) Yes, I can quite... 34: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE MASTER: (Into microphone.) ...understand. And how about you, Doctor? No ill effects, I hope? (There is obviously no reply.) MASTER: (Into microphone.) Doctor, are you alright? JO: (On monitor.) Please don't wake him. He's...he's fast asleep. (The MASTER is instantly suspicious.) MASTER: (Into microphone.) Is he? How very relaxed of him. (He dashes out of his seat and moves to a wall storage cupboard. Taking a blaster out of it, he moves off the bridge.) 35: SPACE (The DOCTOR resumes his climb up the maintenance steps to the top of the ship. There, he opens a hatchway on the roof and climbs in.) 36: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA (JO resumes her monologue, but her voice is shaky.) JO: You really ought to be more careful, Doctor. I mean, I know there's a lot of...a lot of evil in the universe, but you can't help to put it all right by yourself. (JO doesn't notice as the door from the front of the ship opens and a personification of that evil walks quietly in and watches her.) JO: I mean, one of these days your...your luck will run out and you'll get yourself k*lled... MASTER: Thank you, Miss Grant, we'll let you know! (She looks up as the MASTER points the g*n at her.) MASTER: Where's the Doctor? (She looks towards the airlock door.) 37: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (The route that the DOCTOR has taken ends up at another hatch in the ceiling of the bridge. He opens it and checks that the area is empty.) MASTER: (On monitor.) I say, he has been busy, hasn't he? (Seeing that it is, he starts to climb down a fixed wall-ladder.) MASTER: (On monitor.) Where is he, Miss Grant? JO: (On monitor.) He's gone. MASTER: (On monitor.) I see. He found a spacesuit and he's gone into the airlock - is that it? (At the base he takes his helmet off.) 38: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA (The MASTER has entered the cage and keeps the blaster pointed at an upset JO.) MASTER: Why? What's his plan?! JO: He...he wanted to get to the flight deck. He...he was outside the ship when you made your course correction! (She is having difficulty holding back the tears. The MASTER however is amused.) MASTER: Was he now? (Laughs.) How very unfortunate. By now he's probably thousands of miles away, swimming around in space by himself. (JO continues to quietly sob.) MASTER: But just in case he isn't, you come with me, Miss Grant. (He grabs her arm and roughly pulls her out of the cage. He pulls her up the steps onto the raised platform and round to the airlock door. He opens it.) MASTER: Right, in you go, Miss Grant. (He pushes her inside and closes it again. He then steps down and into the cage, looking up into the closed-circuit camera.) MASTER: Can you hear me, Doctor? 39: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE MASTER: (On monitor.) Are you on the flight deck? If so, listen to this - Miss Grant is in the airlock. (But the bridge is empty...) 40: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA MASTER: Unless you surrender yourself to me immediately, I shall open the outer door and hurl her into space. (Looking at the camera, he fails to see the DOCTOR emerging from the bridge area and tying his belt-end round his wrist. Too late, the MASTER turns as the DOCTOR uses the belt to whip the w*apon from the MASTER'S hands.) MASTER: What an ingenious fellow you are, Doctor! 41: SPACE (Outside the ship, a large round battlecruiser is starting to approach them.) 42: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA (The MASTER makes a dive for his g*n but the DOCTOR slams a socked foot through the bars and on top of it.) DOCTOR: Oh, no you don't! (The MASTER then runs out of the cage and make a run for the airlock controls. The DOCTOR sees this and also runs round. He again uses his belt to whip the MASTER'S hand away from the controls and then pushes him onto the railings of the platform.) JO: (OOV: Inside airlock.) Please let me out! 43: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. AIRLOCK (JO hammers on the inside of the airlock door.) JO: Doctor! Please let me out somebody! 44: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA (Outside, the fight continues. The MASTER grabs the DOCTOR'S leg and hurls him backwards, thereby managing to get the advantage - his finger on the airlock button.) MASTER: Now hold it, Doctor, hold it! (The DOCTOR pauses and the MASTER points into the cage.) MASTER: Get that blaster over to me or I press this button, and that will be the end of Miss Grant! 45: SPACE (The battlecruiser homes in on the policeship.) 46: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA (The DOCTOR walks up to the MASTER with the w*apon and reluctantly hands it over to him.) MASTER: Thank you, Doctor. (They are suddenly jolted as the battlecruiser locks on.) DOCTOR: Well, we appear to have company. 47: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. AIRLOCK (In the airlock, JO looks nervously at the outer door. It opens and a DRACONIAN CAPTAIN and two of his soldiers walk in.) 48: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA DOCTOR: Would these be your Ogron friends? MASTER: (Puzzled.) Why, no, no. (The two men step backwards from the airlock door. The MASTER still holds his g*n and has it pointed at the door.) DOCTOR: Well, I should try and be a bit more hospitable, old chap. Come on, put that g*n away. They've probably got us out-numbered. (The MASTER drops the g*n down just before the inner airlock door opens and the DRACONIAN CAPTAIN, his own g*n raised, steps through. The other two follow with JO.) MASTER: Welcome on board my ship. To what do I owe the honour? DRACONIAN CAPTAIN: Why have you violated the Draconian frontier? MASTER: Ah, yes, I'm most apologetic about that, but it was really beyond my control. You see, my prisoners were trying to escape and my...my ship was thrown off course. DRACONIAN CAPTAIN: Prisoners? MASTER: Yes, I am the commissioner of Earth's interplanetary police. I'm taking these two people back to planet Sirius 4 for...for trial. Ah, here is my warrant of authority. (He takes a small wallet out of his breast pocket.) DOCTOR: Now don't believe this man - he's lying. DRACONIAN CAPTAIN: I'm not concerned in disputes between Earthmen. Owing to the many insults and outrages committed against the empire of Draconia, a state of emergency exists and all diplomatic relations have been severed. You have violated Draconian space. The penalty is death. MASTER: I insist on speaking to higher authority! DRACONIAN CAPTAIN: You are in Draconian space. I am the authority here. DOCTOR: Captain, you cannot condemn us without a trial. Now, I have vital information for your Emperor. At least give me the chance to speak to him? (The CAPTAIN considers and turns to his men.) DRACONIAN CAPTAIN: We shall take them to Draconia. Put them in the cage. (One of the soldiers pushes JO down one way from the raised platform towards the cage while the other herds the DOCTOR and the MASTER in a different direction towards the same destination, despite the latter's vociferous protests...) MASTER: But you can't do that! I'm a commissioner of interplanetary police - this is my spaceship! I tell you - you cannot do that! 49: SPACE (The two vessels unlock and the policeship moves off.) 50: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA (The DOCTOR and JO sit on a bunk. The MASTER stands with his arms folded, glowering at the two Draconian guards.) DOCTOR: Well, personally I'm quite happy to be going to Draconia, Jo. Perhaps we can convince the Emperor what our friend here has been trying to do. MASTER: You really think he'd believe you? DOCTOR: Well, this won't be my first visit to Draconia, you know? Many years ago, I spent quite some time there. I was able to help them through a period of very great difficulty. MASTER: Hmm! Displaying your usual sickening lovability, I suppose? JO: So there's a good chance that they'll believe you, huh? DOCTOR: Well, it's a long time ago. Things may have changed. But I do understand the Draconian mentality, Jo. It all depends how you approach them. JO: (To the MASTER.) So, if they do believe the Doctor, you've had it! MASTER: Perhaps, Miss Grant, perhaps. One never knows when help may be at hand. (He settles down on the other bunk.) MASTER: Now, if you'll excuse me, I think that this is going to be rather a long journey, so, er, goodnight. (He lies down with his back to the DOCTOR and JO. They fail to see that he has taken a small signalling device out of his pocket and has switched it on. A light starts to flash on the unit.) DOCTOR: Er, we'll wake you with a cup of tea in the morning. MASTER: Thank you. (The MASTER lies back, with the device still emitting its signal...) 51: SPACE (...which is picked up far off in space by a ship similar to the one that JO saw from the portal of the cargo ship.) 52: INT. OGRON SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (Inside a silvery metallic control room, a lone Ogron sits at a control console on a raised gantry which runs round part of the room. The signal appears on his monitor and the creature makes adjustments to the controls.)
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FRONTIER IN SPACE BY: MALCOLM HULKE EPISODE FIVE Original Air Date: 24 March, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. OGRON SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (Inside a silvery metallic control room, a lone OGRON sits at a control console on a raised gantry which runs round part of the room. The signal appears on his monitor and the creature makes adjustments to the controls.) 2: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (The DRACONIAN CAPTAIN sits at the controls of the policeship, making adjustments as the "COURSE CORRECTION" light flashes. The ship jolts.) 3: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA (The MASTER, fast asleep, is jolted on his bunk. The two Draconians are still on guard.) DOCTOR: Well, that's it then. (He taps JO who is huddled asleep up on the corner of the other bunk.) DOCTOR: Come on, we've landed. (JO looks over to the MASTER'S bunk.) JO: Oh, hadn't we better wake our cellmate? DOCTOR: Hmm! He's awake already. He's just trying to show us how unconcerned he is. (The MASTER laughs, claps his hands and sits up.) MASTER: How well you know me, Doctor! (He looks over at the jacketless DOCTOR as he adjusts his own tunic.) MASTER: Now come on, smarten yourselves up. We want to look our best for a royal audience, you know. JO: (To the DOCTOR.) He's very confident. MASTER: Well, Miss Grant, as an Earth poet once said "My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure". (He turns to the two Draconian guards.) MASTER: Come on, you fellows, let me out! Your Emperor is waiting to see me! (They turn to him and raise their blasters. The MASTER raises his hands in mock surrender...) 4: DRACONIAN. EMPEROR'S THRONE ROOM (The DRACONIAN EMPEROR, majestic and regal, sits on his metallic throne in an ornate green, equally metallic and echoing chamber, guarded by soldiers. The rooms only decoration would seem to be tall stands which emit an incense. The EMPEROR'S dress is of the same basic style as the other of his kind but more ornate with sharply upturned shoulder armour. The PRINCE steps forward.) DRACONIAN PRINCE: So, father, once more Earthmen have inv*de our space. (The EMPEROR'S voice is slightly aged, but rigid, precise and imperious in its tone.) DRACONIAN EMPEROR: You will address the Emperor in a proper manner! (The PRINCE takes a humble step back.) DRACONIAN PRINCE: Your pardon. May I have permission to address the Emperor? (His father holds out hand. The PRINCE steps forward and kisses it.) DRACONIAN PRINCE: My life at your command. DRACONIAN EMPEROR: One day, my son, you will inherit this throne. Then you will realise the importance of due formality. Now, what do you wish to say? DRACONIAN PRINCE: Surely now you will declare w*r upon the Earthmen? Let me lead your battle-fleets to crush their... DRACONIAN EMPEROR: (Interrupts.) They too have battle-fleets, my son. Such a w*r could well bring down both empires. DRACONIAN PRINCE: Not if we strike first, then we shall be the victors! DRACONIAN EMPEROR: In such a w*r, there are no victors. DRACONIAN PRINCE: The nobles of the court are demanding action. They fear for the honour of Draconia. DRACONIAN EMPEROR: I am the Emperor! The honour of Draconia is vested in me. DRACONIAN PRINCE: The throne depends upon the great families for support. Emperors have been deposed before now. DRACONIAN EMPEROR: An Emperor who does not rule deposes himself! DRACONIAN PRINCE: Then what will you do, father? DRACONIAN EMPEROR: I shall question these Earthmen myself. I have already sent for them. DRACONIAN PRINCE: Why waste time listening to their lies? (The PRINCE steps to the side of his father as the DRACONIAN CAPTAIN walks in and bows, followed by his three captors.) DRACONIAN CAPTAIN: Majesty - I bring you the prisoners. (The DOCTOR and the MASTER bow.) DOCTOR: May I have permission to address the Emperor? (The EMPEROR nods. The DOCTOR steps forward but the PRINCE blocks him.) DRACONIAN EMPEROR: Wait! DRACONIAN PRINCE: This is an insult! (But the EMPEROR holds out his hand. The PRINCE lets the DOCTOR forward, who takes the EMPEROR'S hand and bows his forehead to it.) DOCTOR: My life at your command, sire. DRACONIAN PRINCE: How dare you address the Emperor in a manner reserved for a noble of Draconia? DOCTOR: Ah, but I am a noble of Draconia. The honour was conferred on me by the fifteenth Emperor. DRACONIAN PRINCE: (Mocking.) The fifteenth Emperor reigned five hundred years ago. (The MASTER laughs.) MASTER: Your majesty, do not be taken in by this ridiculous story...! DRACONIAN EMPEROR: (Shouts.) Be silent! There is a legend among our people of a man who assisted the fifteenth Emperor at a time of great trouble when we were almost overwhelmed by a great plague from outer space. But you could not be that man. No Earthman lives so long. DOCTOR: Your Majesty, this man that you speak of - was he not known as the Doctor? And did he not come to this planet in a spaceship called the TARDIS? DRACONIAN EMPEROR: He did. DOCTOR: Well, I am that man, sire. And I come from a race of people that live far longer than any Earthman. DRACONIAN EMPEROR: Even if I accept your claim, you have broken our law. Why did you violate Draconian space? MASTER: Your majesty, this man was, and still is, my prisoner. DOCTOR: It is true, your majesty. I did come here as a prisoner, but I...I came willingly - in order to warn you that this man is plotting a w*r between Earth and Draconia! DRACONIAN PRINCE: All Earthmen are determined upon w*r. DOCTOR: Ah, but the Master is not an Earthman. I'm sorry to have to admit it, but he's a renegade of my own race, and he's using creatures called Ogrons to att*ck your spaceships and those of the Earthmen. DRACONIAN EMPEROR: The Earthmen who att*cked our spaceships - they have been seen many times. DOCTOR: I'm sorry, but there you are in error, sir. Your people have seen Ogrons, but they appear to them as Earthmen because of a hypnotic device. JO: It's true, your majesty. When Ogrons att*cked the Earth ships, the Earthmen saw them as Draconians. DRACONIAN PRINCE: Silence! Females are not permitted to speak in the presence of the Emperor. MASTER: Your majesty, do not be deceived by the pathetic ravings of two criminals trying to evade justice. DRACONIAN EMPEROR: (To the DOCTOR.) If what you say is true, it would explain much. We lived at peace with the Earthmen for many years, then suddenly they began to raid our spaceships. When we protested, they said that we were attacking them. DRACONIAN PRINCE: In order to cover up their own att*cks! This is simply a plot of the Earthmen to lull us into false security. (A DRACONIAN MESSENGER enters the throne room and bows to the EMPEROR.) DRACONIAN EMPEROR: Speak! DRACONIAN MESSENGER: Your majesty, a spaceship from Earth seeks permission to land in the palace spaceport. They say they're on a special mission from the President of Earth. DRACONIAN PRINCE: This is a trick! You must not allow them to land! DRACONIAN EMPEROR: We are not yet at w*r with Earth. I shall hear what their President has to say. I give my permission. DRACONIAN MESSENGER: Your majesty. (He bows and leaves.) DOCTOR: A wise decision, your majesty. For only by Earth and Draconia working together can we hope to arrive at the truth. MASTER: I too welcome your wisdom, your majesty. Nobody could be more devoted to the cause of peace than I. (The DOCTOR and JO look at each other. JO is about to say something but the DOCTOR holds up a hand for her to be quiet.) MASTER: As a commissioner of Earth's interplanetary police, I have devoted my life to the cause of law and order. And law and order can only exist in a time of peace. (The DOCTOR puts a friendly hand on his shoulder.) DOCTOR: You feeling alright, old chap? (The MASTER ignores him and continues...) MASTER: Only during a period of social s*ab, can society adequately deal with criminals such as this man and this unfortunate girl. (As she speaks, JO looks round. She can suddenly hear the hypnotic pulsing signal again.) JO: Doctor, listen! That sound! DRACONIAN PRINCE: Silence, female! JO: Quiet! It's the same noise that I heard on the cargo ship. (The EMPEROR listens to the sound.) JO: Doctor, it's the Ogrons! DOCTOR: (To the EMPEROR.) Your majesty, I beg of you to be cautious. Something is seriously wrong here. This ship that has just landed - I beg you, place it under guard immediately. MASTER: Your majesty, please? (But suddenly, the OGRONS burst into the throne room and start blasting away. The MASTER runs to their protection as a fight breaks out between the raiders on one side and the Draconians, with the DOCTOR as support, on the other.) DRACONIAN PRINCE: Seize them, fool! (The DOCTOR manages to kick an OGRON down into unconsciousness but all the other casualties are Draconians as the EMPEROR watches in horror.) MASTER: Ah, you idiots! Back to your ship - all of you! FIRST OGRON: Back, Master! (The OGRONS surround the MASTER and hurriedly leave the throne room. The PRINCE rushes to the throne.) DRACONIAN PRINCE: Now will you believe in the treachery of the Earthmen? DOCTOR: Your majesty, look down here and tell me - what do you see? (The EMPEROR stands up and looks down to where the DOCTOR points. He sees an unconscious Earth soldier.) DRACONIAN EMPEROR: I see one of your Earth soldiers who att*cked my palace and k*ll my people. DOCTOR: Jo? (JO comes out from hiding by the side of the throne.) DOCTOR: Jo, can you still hear that sound? JO: Yes, it's...it's fading. It's almost gone. DOCTOR: Your majesty, I beg of you, please?! Look again! DRACONIAN PRINCE: Why do we delay? Destroy him! (The sound totally disappears. The EMPEROR looks down at the "Earth soldier".) DRACONIAN EMPEROR: Wait! (The man changes. In his place is the unconscious OGRON.) DRACONIAN EMPEROR: He has spoken the truth. 5: SPACE (The OGRON ship leaves the orbit of Draconia.) 6: INT. OGRON SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (The door to the bridge opens and a furious MASTER stalks in, followed by his retinue of OGRONS.) MASTER: Great lumbering idiots! Now you tell me that you've left one of your fellows in the palace! Do you realise what this means? As soon as the sound of the hypno-effect wears off, the Draconians will know who it really was who att*cked them. You've ruined everything! FIRST OGRON: What shall we do now? MASTER: Do? There's only one thing we can do - make sure that the Doctor and his evidence is never allowed to reach Earth. 7: DRACONIAN. EMPEROR'S THRONE ROOM (The OGRON is now conscious and stands in chains before the throne under the barrels of several raised blasters. The DOCTOR, now in favour, stands on the steps of the throne next to the EMPEROR.) DOCTOR: Why does the Master want w*r between Earth and Draconia? DRACONIAN PRINCE: Did you att*ck our spaceships and those of the Earthmen? JO: Oh, it's no good. We're not getting anywhere. DRACONIAN PRINCE: (To the EMPEROR.) Let me take him for questioning. He shall answer to me. I shall use the mind probe. DOCTOR: You'd only be wasting your time. The Ogrons have got the finest defence mechanism of all - stupidity. They haven't got a mind for you to probe. DRACONIAN EMPEROR: Then remove him. We will deal with him later. (The OGRON prisoner is led away.) DRACONIAN EMPEROR: Why did that sound make us see this creature as a soldier from Earth? JO: Because you're frightened of Earthmen. DRACONIAN PRINCE: Draconians fear nothing, female. JO: Well, of course you do. You fear them and they fear you. That's why when Earthmen heard that sound, they saw Draconians. DRACONIAN EMPEROR: That is true. We do fear the Earthmen...and they fear us. DOCTOR: And fear breeds hatred, your majesty. Fear is the greatest enemy of them all, for fear leads us to w*r. DRACONIAN EMPEROR: We shall tell the Earthmen what has happened here. They too must know the truth. DRACONIAN PRINCE: They will not believe us. DOCTOR: The Prince is right, your majesty. We must mount an expedition at once, and we must take the Ogron as evidence. DRACONIAN PRINCE: The empires are on the verge of w*r. A Draconian spaceship in Earth space could be destroyed before it reaches its destination. JO: (To the DOCTOR.) We could use the ship that Master brought us in. It's an Earth police spaceship. DRACONIAN PRINCE: Females are not permitted to speak... DRACONIAN EMPEROR: (Interrupts.) The female may speak. DRACONIAN PRINCE: But... DRACONIAN EMPEROR: (Interrupts.) We must respect the customs of our guests, strange though they may be. The suggestion had merit. JO: Thank you, your majesty. (She sh**t a look at the PRINCE.) DRACONIAN EMPEROR: (To the DOCTOR.) You too will go on this mission. But it must be headed by a Draconian of noble rank. I shall send my son. (The PRINCE looks up and glares at the DOCTOR.) 8: SPACE (The policeship returns on its diplomatic mission.) 9: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA (Inside the cell area, the OGRON is now in the locked cage, with one DRACONIAN on guard. JO enters with two items of food.) JO: Here you are. Brought you some food. (She puts one item down on the bunk, and hands the other to the OGRON through the bars of the cage.) JO: And a delicious banana. (The OGRON takes it and bites into the fruit without preparation.) JO: I think you're supposed to peel it first? (The OGRON carries on munching.) JO: Oh well. (She calls over to the Draconian guard.) JO: Hey, you know - you wanna be very careful of him. He's not as stupid as he looks. (The guard barely gives her a glance and turns away again.) JO: I know, I know - women aren't allowed to speak. You know, I think it's about time that women's lib was brought to Draconia. (She walks out of the cell area as the OGRON pushes against the barred door of his cage.) 10: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (The DOCTOR operates the controls of the ship, watched by the DRACONIAN PRINCE. JO returns to the bridge.) DOCTOR: Hello, Jo. How's your Ogron friend? JO: Not too happy. He seemed to enjoy his banana though. Doctor, where are we? DOCTOR: We're just about to cross the frontier into Earth space. JO: Ooh, that's good. DRACONIAN PRINCE: Unless your Earth people destroy us. DOCTOR: Well, this is an Earth police spaceship, you know, sir. JO: Even if it is stolen. (The PRINCE suddenly spots a blinking signal on the monitor screen.) DRACONIAN PRINCE: What is that?! DOCTOR: Well, it looks like another spaceship. It appears to be following us. 12: SPACE (The OGRON ship is their mysterious pursuer.) 13: INT. OGRON SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (On the bridge, a similar signal appears on their monitor screen. The OGRON at the console sees it.) FIRST OGRON: Look! (The MASTER steps up to the control console.) MASTER: Well, that must be them. No other ship would be on a course for Earth at a time like this. FIRST OGRON: (Puzzled.) We are on a course for Earth! MASTER: (Shouts in exasperation.) Well naturally, because we're chasing them a...! (He regains his patience with his subordinate.) MASTER: Keep quiet and let me think! (To himself.) No, soon they'll be within striking distance. FIRST OGRON: What will you do, Master? MASTER: Ah, I...I'd like to try and take the Doctor alive if possible. If not...I'll blast him out of space! Pity though... FIRST OGRON: You do wish to k*ll him? MASTER: Of course I do! I don't know - rocket f*re at long range, it's... I don't know, somehow it lacks that personal touch! 14: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (The DOCTOR, JO and the PRINCE.) DOCTOR: They're closing in. Perhaps it's a frontier patrol ship coming to investigate us. JO: Well, can't we talk to them and tell them who we are? DOCTOR: Well, we can try. We should be within audio range. (He switches the radio on.) DOCTOR: (Into radio.) Hello, this is Earth police spaceship two, three, nine, o on a special mission to the President of Earth. Do you read me, do you read me? Over. 15: INT. OGRON SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (The DOCTOR'S voice comes through in a slight haze of static.) DOCTOR: (OOV: Over radio.) Earth police spaceship two, three, nine, o on a special mission to the President of Earth. Do you read me, do you read me? Over. (The MASTER, holding a hand microphone, replies in a bland tone...) MASTER: (Into radio.) This is Earth police spaceship number one, four, two. Your ship is one that has been reported as stolen. You will please reduce speed so that we can board you. 16: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE DOCTOR: (Into radio.) Hello, Earth police spaceship one, four, two. I think we'll be in trouble over this. Ah, hello, we've, er, recaptured this ship and are taking it back to Earth, over. MASTER: (OOV: Over radio.) Reduce speed immediately so that we can board you. DRACONIAN PRINCE: Why should we submit to this delay? Our mission has diplomatic immunity. DOCTOR: Yes, but they, unfortunately, didn't know that - did they? Hello, Earth police spaceship, we are reducing speed as you request, over. JO: Doctor, are you sure? We don't really know if it's the police. DOCTOR: Yes, exactly. That's why I want to get them into visual scanner range. 17: INT. OGRON SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (The MASTER watches the readings.) MASTER: Right, they've reduced speed. They should be within striking distance now. (He waits a moment.) MASTER: That's about it. Release the first m*ssile! (The OGRON opens a cover over the f*ring button and presses it.) 18: SPACE (A hatch opens on the side of the OGRON ship and a battery of m*ssile on a f*ring frame slides out. One of the m*ssile fires, followed by another...) 19: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE DOCTOR: We should be able to pick them up on the visual scanner now. (He presses a button and the picture changes to that of an indistinct shape in space. After a moment, it focuses into a familiar shape.) JO: It's an Ogron ship! (They are suddenly rocked as the first m*ssile explodes.) DOCTOR: Hold tight! I'm taking evasive action! (He frantically operates the controls as the second m*ssile explodes.) 20: INT. OGRON SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (The MASTER watches the moving police ship on the bridge monitor. He tries to focus the m*ssile trigger on it.) MASTER: Come on, Doctor, keep still, keep still. That's better. That's about it. Right - f*re! 21: SPACE (A third m*ssile fires.) 22: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE DOCTOR: They're still after us. (They are rocked by the third m*ssile.) 23: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA (The c*ptive OGRON has broken out of its cage. The door lies to one side. The creature has sneaked up behind the Draconian guard and knocks him to the ground.) 24: INT. OGRON SPACESHIP. BRIDGE MASTER: f*re! (The FIRST OGRON presses the f*ring button again.) 25: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE DRACONIAN PRINCE: Can we not f*re back? DOCTOR: No...no, I'm afraid we're g*n. This isn't a battlecruiser, you know? (The ship is rocked again as next m*ssile explodes.) 26: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA (The OGRON makes its way along the raised platform towards a door that leads to the bridge.) 27: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE DOCTOR: Hang on! I think we're shaking them off! (The growling OGRON bursts onto the bridge.) JO: Doctor! (The OGRON makes for the DOCTOR who starts to grapple with its arm.) DOCTOR: Your royal highness! Get out, Jo! (JO runs off the bridge as the DOCTOR pushes the OGRON back against the console. However, in doing so, it pushes back against the speed controls.) 28: INT. OGRON SPACESHIP. BRIDGE MASTER: We must have h*t them. They're losing speed. FIRST OGRON: Shall I f*re again? MASTER: No, no, it might be possible to take the Doctor alive after all. (He calls to a SECOND OGRON.) MASTER: Muster a boarding party. SECOND OGRON: Yes, Master. (It moves off.) 29: SPACE (The police ship lies still in space. The OGRON ship closes in.) 30: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (The DOCTOR and the PRINCE have managed to subdue the OGRON on the floor and re-bind its arms behind its back.) DOCTOR: Right, there you are, my friend. 31: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA (JO runs into the cell area and up to the recovering Draconian guard.) JO: You alright? (Suddenly the airlock door starts to open. JO jumps up to try and close it again.) JO: Oh no, you don't! (But several OGRONS burst in and grab her.) JO: (Screams.) No, no! No, they've got me! SECOND OGRON: This way! (They move towards the bridge door.) 32: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (JO'S cries reach the bridge.) JO: (OOV: From the cell area.) Let me go! DOCTOR: (To the PRINCE.) We've been boarded! We need blasters - come on! DRACONIAN PRINCE: The prisoner? DOCTOR: Don't worry about him. He's no use to us at the moment. 33: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CABIN (They run onto a room behind the bridge and the DOCTOR opens an armoury cupboard.) JO: (OOV: From the cell area.) Let me go! No! Doctor! (The DOCTOR hands a blaster to the PRINCE and takes one himself. The door from the cell area opens.) DOCTOR: Get down! (He and the PRINCE dive behind a piece of machinery and use it for cover. They are seen by the OGRON who uses the doorframe for cover.) SECOND OGRON: The enemy! (sh*ts are exchanged between the two parties.) SECOND OGRON: Fool - go! (As the SECOND OGRON returns the f*re, another runs in.) 34: INT. OGRON SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (The MASTER is getting impatient as he watches the scanner with the FIRST OGRON.) MASTER: What is happening? They should have taken that ship by now! (He lets out an exclamation of despair.) MASTER: Must I do everything myself?! FIRST OGRON: Look! (A third spaceship appears on the monitor.) MASTER: An Earth battlecruiser. You'd better recall the boarding party. I'll take over here. (The FIRST OGRON gets out of the pilot's chair...) MASTER: As soon as they're back on board, we unlock. (...and the MASTER takes his place as the OGRON moves off.) MASTER: Fools! 35: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA (JO, struggling, is still held fast by an OGRON. The FIRST OGRON, having made his way over, waits.) JO: (Screams.) Help! Doctor! (The SECOND OGRON gestures through the bridge doorway to the others.) SECOND OGRON: You come! (The others return from the bridge with their rescued compatriot.) FIRST OGRON: You must come! Look out! We must take the girl! JO: (Screams.) No! (The other OGRONS start to leave the ship through the airlock.) JO: (Screams.) Help me! No! FIRST OGRON: Bring the girl! JO: (Screams.) Doctor! (They drag JO through to their ship.) 36: INT. OGRON SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (JO is pulled onto the bridge.) FIRST OGRON: In here! MASTER: Right - unlock! 37: SPACE (The two ships pull away.) 38: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. AIRLOCK (The airlock is still open to space. Against the rush of escaping air, the DOCTOR and the PRINCE struggle through to the cell area and see the open door. They grasp onto the handles of the raised platform and try to make it along to the doorway.) 39: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA (Handhold by handhold, they reach the doorway as the air rushes through.) 40: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. AIRLOCK (The DOCTOR, with one hand still on the rail, reaches out and grabs the airlock door. He struggles to pull it to against the enormous pressure but manages to do so.) 41: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. CELL AREA (The crisis over, the two gasp for air.) DOCTOR: We should be alright in a minute. The ship'll pump in more oxygen. 42: SPACE (The Earth battlecruiser still hangs nearby.) 43: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (The EARTH CRUISER CAPTAIN appears on the monitor on the bridge.) EARTH CRUISER CAPTAIN: (On monitor.) This is Earth battle cruiser X, two, nine. Do you read me? Identify yourself. (The DOCTOR and the PRINCE come back on the bridge. The DOCTOR takes the pilot's chair.) EARTH CRUISER CAPTAIN: (On monitor.) This is Earth battle cruiser X, two, nine. Do you read me? Identify yourself. DOCTOR: (Into microphone.) Hello, this is Earth police spaceship two, three, nine, o on a special mission to the President of Earth, over. 44: SPACE (The battlecruiser closes in to dock.) EARTH CRUISER CAPTAIN: (OOV: Over radio.) Identify the ship that has just unlocked from you. They refuse to answer our signals. 45: INT. POLICE SPACESHIP. BRIDGE DOCTOR: (Into microphone.) Look, it's of vital importance that you pursue and capture that ship immediately, over. EARTH CRUISER CAPTAIN: (On monitor.) You are in possession of a stolen police spaceship. You are under arrest. Stand by to be boarded. 46: INT. OGRON SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (On the OGRON ship, the MASTER, JO and the OGRONS listen into the conversation...) DOCTOR: (OOV: Over radio.) Look, you don't understand. The man who stole this ship is escaping in that vessel. EARTH CRUISER CAPTAIN: (OOV: Over radio.) You are under arrest. You'll be given the opportunity of making a full statement. Do not offer any resistance. Stand by to be boarded. DOCTOR: (OOV: Over radio.) Oh, very well. We're standing by. (The MASTER switches off the radio and laughs.) MASTER: Poor Doctor! Enmeshed in the throes of...bureaucracy. Ah, it'll take him a long time to talk himself out of that one. JO: But he'll get to see the President eventually. MASTER: She won't believe him. JO: Oh yes, she will - when she sees the Ogron prisoner. He's our evidence. (The MASTER points behind JO.) MASTER: Your evidence is standing right behind you. (She looks at an impassive OGRON.) JO: (To the MASTER.) The Draconian Prince knows the truth and he's with the Doctor. MASTER: My dear Miss Grant - in the climate of opinion that I have created, do you think that any Earthman is going to believe the word of a Draconian? 47: INT. EARTH. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE (Back on Earth, in the PRESIDENT'S office, the DRACONIAN PRINCE has backed the DOCTOR'S story to the PRESIDENT herself and GENERAL WILLIAMS, but...) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: Your highness, we've heard the Doctor's theory before. And with respect, there is still no concrete evidence. I myself would like to believe you but, as you can see, I need proof to convince my people. DOCTOR: Then we must mount an expedition to the planet of the Ogrons. The proof we need is there, Madam. GENERAL WILLIAMS: With Earth on the brink of w*r, how can we divert our forces into such a pointless expedition? Suppose this is yet another Draconian trick to divide our strength? DOCTOR: My dear chap, I'm not asking for a battle-fleet. All I require is one small spaceship. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: Your request is granted. GENERAL WILLIAMS: On the contrary, your request is denied. (The furious PRESIDENT jumps to her feet.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: My authority...! GENERAL WILLIAMS: (Interrupts.) In a purely military matter of this kind, Madam, your authority is limited. PRESIDENT OF EARTH: I can overrule you. GENERAL WILLIAMS: Only with the backing of the full Earth senate. And do you think they will give it? DRACONIAN PRINCE: (Angrily.) How can we expect help from a man such as this? (He points an accusing scaly finger at GENERAL WILLIAMS.) DRACONIAN PRINCE: (Angrily.) This is the man who deliberately caused w*r between our people! (GENERAL WILLIAMS himself jumps up and faces the PRINCE as they close in on each other.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: That is untrue! DRACONIAN PRINCE: Twenty years ago, you destroyed a Draconian ship that had come in a mission of peace! GENERAL WILLIAMS: A ship that was about to open f*re on us when we were damaged and helpless! DRACONIAN PRINCE: They came in peace as had been arranged. GENERAL WILLIAMS: Then why didn't they answer my signals? DRACONIAN PRINCE: Their communications equipment had been destroyed in a neutron storm - the same neutron storm that damaged your ship! PRESIDENT OF EARTH: Is this true? DRACONIAN PRINCE: I have read the records of my father's court. It is the truth. GENERAL WILLIAMS: But why a battlecruiser? The agreement was that both ships were to be unarmed. DRACONIAN PRINCE: Naturally we sent a cruiser. How else should a nobleman of Draconia travel? But its m*ssile banks were empty - the ship was unarmed. (GENERAL WILLIAMS looks stunned.) 48: INT. OGRON SPACESHIP. BRIDGE (The planet of the OGRONS appears on the monitor. The MASTER turns to JO.) MASTER: Well, very soon we shall be landing. I think, Miss Grant, you had better prepare yourself for a long stay. I'm afraid it's not a very comfortable place, but as the old song says: "Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home". 49: INT. EARTH. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE GENERAL WILLIAMS: Your highness, please accept my deepest regrets for the wrong I have done your people. (The PRINCE bows.) DOCTOR: Then I, can I take it, sir, that you will now authorise the expedition? GENERAL WILLIAMS: I intend to lead it. If the planet of the Ogrons exists, we shall find it. 50: EXT. PLANET OF THE OGRONS (The planet of the OGRONS is a grey, bleak and rocky place. Accompanied by two OGRONS, the MASTER, holding JO'S arm fast, leads her across the terrain and down a path that suddenly gets steeper.) MASTER: Be careful down here. (JO takes her steps carefully as they descend. The MASTER points.) MASTER: This way. (At the base of the path, the MASTER points to his left.) MASTER: Right - in there. (Their destination is a cave mouth. They enter.) 51: INT. PLANET OF THE OGRONS. MASTER'S OPERATIONS AREA (Deep inside the cave, it is mostly man-made in light bricks although rocks litter the ground. Spot-lights have been placed on the wall to create pools of light in the gloom and various pieces of machinery and controls stand on temporary shelving units. The whole place is functional with no luxuries.) MASTER: Well, Miss Grant, welcome to my humble abode. (He snaps his fingers and the OGRONS depart. JO looks round, non-too impressed.) JO: I think you were better off in prison. MASTER: Oh, temporary quarters, my dear. I shall soon be changing them for something better. JO: Oh, you'll soon be back in jail. When the truth gets out, Earth and Draconia will combine their forces to att*ck you. MASTER: I don't think so. There's too much distrust between them. JO: The Doctor will find you eventually. MASTER: Ah, there I agree with you. He must find me. Not only to rescue you... (He crosses to a control panel.) MASTER: But also to be reunited with his beloved TARDIS. (He flicks a switch and the area behind JO, previously in darkness, is bathed in light. Within an alcove stands the welcome shape of the TARDIS. JO rushes up to it and places her hands on the locked doors) MASTER: You know, Miss Grant, I'm going to set a trap for the Doctor...and you are going to help me. (JO remains silent.) MASTER: What? No noble speeches to the effect that you'd rather die than betray the Doctor? JO: You know I'm not going to help you. (The MASTER approaches her with the hypnotic look in his eyes.) MASTER: I know that you are. (He stares at her and his voice deepens.) MASTER: I know that you will obey me. You will obey me! I am the Master... (As he closes in, JO starts chanting...) JO: "Mary had a little lamb, his fleece was white as snow, and everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go". MASTER: You...will...obey...me! JO: "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall..." MASTER: (Angrily.) Stop that, Miss Grant! JO: It's a form of self-conditioning. You fill your mind with nonsense and then you can't be hypnotised. (The MASTER tries again.) MASTER: You...will...obey...me...! JO: "See-saw, Marjory Daw, Johnny shall have a new master". MASTER: You...will...obey...me...! JO: "He shall have but a penny a day, because he can't work any faster..." MASTER: (Shouts.) Alright, alright, alright, alright! (JO falls silent.) MASTER: I was never very fond of nursery rhymes anyhow! JO: Then you'll just have to give up all hope of hypnotising me, won't you? Once was quite enough, thank you. (The MASTER sighs and gives her a look almost of admiration. He crosses to a desk.) MASTER: In that case, I shall have to try something else. (He picks up a small black box and switches it on. A red light on the side starts to flash and a familiar pulsing signal starts to emit.) MASTER: You may have heard this noise before, Miss Grant. It works directly on the fear centres deep in your mind! (JO'S eyes widen in fear as the signal grows stronger.)
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FRONTIER IN SPACE BY: MALCOLM HULKE EPISODE SIX Original Air Date: 31 March, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. PLANET OF THE OGRONS. MASTER'S OPERATIONS AREA (The MASTER crosses to a desk.) MASTER: In that case, I shall have to try something else. (He picks up a small black box and switches it on. A red light on the side starts to flash and a familiar pulsing signal starts to emit.) MASTER: You may have heard this noise before, Miss Grant. It works directly on the fear centres deep in your mind! (JO'S eyes widen in fear as the signal grows stronger.) JO: It's not real! I... (Coughs.) ...it's an illusion! MASTER: Then we shall have to try a little harder, Miss Grant. JO: It's not real! (Her determination wavers as the form of the MASTER changes into that of a Drashig.) JO: It's you! It's the Master! MASTER: You cannot shut your eyes! It is impossible! (The form changes again into that of a Solonian Mutant.) MASTER: Let's try a little harder! JO: It...it...it's not real! It's an illusion! It's you! (The form changes into a Sea Devil.) JO: It...it...it's the Master! It doesn't work on me any more! It's you! It doesn't work on me any more! (Her mantra succeeds. The Sea Devil disappears and the MASTER is in its place.) JO: It doesn't work on me any more! It... (The MASTER switches off the device. As JO gasps for breath after her mental battle, the MASTER nods and once more looks at her with something approaching admiration.) MASTER: Congratulations, my dear. I seem to have failed again. JO: Yes, you do, don't you? Never mind! You can't win 'em all! MASTER: Hmm! I shall have to think about this. I'm afraid I shall have to ask you to be my guest for a little longer. (He snaps his fingers and two armed OGRONS appear.) MASTER: Show Miss Grant to her room, will you? (They grab JO and heave her away.) JO: Let me go! (The MASTER chuckles to himself. An OGRON appears from round the passageway.) FIRST OGRON: Master? MASTER: Yes, what is it? FIRST OGRON: Two raiding ships have returned. MASTER: Oh, were they successful? FIRST OGRON: They found and att*cked two Earth cargo ships. MASTER: Where was this? FIRST OGRON: In Earth space. One ship resisted. (Triumphantly.) We destroyed it! MASTER: (Laughs.) Excellent! That should stir things up. It can't be long now before they declare w*r on each other. 2: INT. EARTH. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE (The PRESIDENT, the DOCTOR and the DRACONIAN PRINCE watch a newscast in the PRESIDENT'S office. Displayed on the large wall monitor, it shows a close-up of a rabid middle-aged bearded speaker, dressed in a white tunic and with an American accent as he whips up an unseen crowd. He would appear to be speaking out of doors.) CONGRESSMAN BROOK: (On screen.) And I warn the President that the people of Earth will no longer tolerate these insulting and m*rder att*cks! I hear the cries all about me. att*ck Draconia! att*ck now! Earth will not produce peace at the price of humiliation! There is only one solution now! w*r! w*r! w*r! (As the speech ends, the crowd cheers and the PRESIDENT, her arms folded as if in fear, switches off the screen.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: I don't know how much longer I can hold them. DRACONIAN PRINCE: You must tell that it is not the Draconians who att*ck you. DOCTOR: (To the PRINCE.) Your royal highness, could you convince your people they were not being att*cked by Earthmen? PRESIDENT OF EARTH: (Sighs.) If only we had proof. Then I could convince my people and you could convince yours. (The door to her office hums open.) PRESIDENT OF EARTH: But there's not much time. (GENERAL WILLIAMS enters.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: Madam President, everything is ready. We shall use my personal scoutship. DOCTOR: We'd better leave at once. Madam President. (The DOCTOR bows. The PRINCE advances to her, kisses her hand and then sweeps out.) DRACONIAN PRINCE: My life at your command! GENERAL WILLIAMS: Madam President. (He follows the PRINCE.) 3: INT. PLANET OF THE OGRONS. CELL AREA (JO is held in one of two barred raised cells in the Ogron base. Through the bars, an OGRON passes her a bowl of some liquid and a jug.) JO: Thanks, cheerful. (JO takes the objects and the OGRON leaves. There being nothing to sit on, JO crouches on the floor of the cell to 'enjoy' her repast. She sniffs the contents of the bowl and pulls a face. She lets the brown-looking liquid run over the spoon and decides better against eating it. Putting the bowl down, she gazes at the large spoon in thought and suddenly looks as if she has an idea. The floor of the cell seems to be bare soil, easily moveable with the spoon. Near to the bars to the next door cage, she starts to dig...) 4: SPACE (GENERAL WILLIAMS' personal, one-engine scoutship moves through space.) 5: INT. GENERAL WILLIAMS' SCOUTSHIP. BRIDGE (The inside of the bridge is not-too dissimilar in design to that of the other ships in this era of time. A PILOT'S seat is next to a navigator's seat on a raised, partially railed, platform. Each seat has a control bank with a monitor screen but this ship has a large observation window between the two which looks out onto space. The DOCTOR sits in the navigator's seat, next to the PILOT, making calculations while the PRINCE and GENERAL WILLIAMS wait.) DOCTOR: Right, thirty-four seconds... A course correction to galactic coordinates two, three, four, nine...six, seven, eight, four. GENERAL WILLIAMS: You realise where that will take us? A completely uninhabited sector of the galaxy. DOCTOR: Well, not completely uninhabited, General Williams. That's where the Ogron's planet is. GENERAL WILLIAMS: (Surly.) No doubt your information is better than mine. May I ask where you obtained it? DOCTOR: Certainly - from the Master. He fed the co-ordinates into his ship's computer when I was his prisoner. (To the PRINCE.) And after you'd captured the ship, sir, I extracted the information from the ship's memory banks. GENERAL WILLIAMS: We're simply wasting time... (They are suddenly rocked by a huge expl*si*n. The ship steadies and a Draconian battlecruiser can be seen on one of the monitors.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: Dragons! DRACONIAN PRINCE: Let me talk to them - I shall explain! (Another m*ssile explodes nearby.) DOCTOR: Somehow I don't think they're in the mood for explanations at this minute. Can you outrun them? GENERAL WILLIAMS: This ship can outrun anything. (To the PILOT.) Hyperdrive. (A third m*ssile rocks the cabin, momentarily dimming the lights.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: Engage hyperdrive! 6: SPACE (The little scoutship's speed picks up to an impossible level.) 7: INT. GENERAL WILLIAMS' SCOUTSHIP. BRIDGE DOCTOR: Right, we're out of range now. GENERAL WILLIAMS: Reduce speed, return to course. DRACONIAN PRINCE: (Haltingly.) I...regret the behaviour of my people. The officer will be punished. DOCTOR: Well, we were infringing Draconian space, after all, your royal highness. (He returns to his clipboard of calculations as the PRINCE bows his head.) PILOT OF SPACE SHIP: General Williams? GENERAL WILLIAMS: Yes? PILOT OF SPACE SHIP: I can't get her back on course, sir. One of the drive-alphas is malfunctioning. (As if to confirm that a problem exists, the little ship rocks suddenly.) DOCTOR: Do you know exactly what's wrong? PILOT OF SPACE SHIP: Er, there's damage to exterior electrical circuit. GENERAL WILLIAMS: Can't you repair it? PILOT OF SPACE SHIP: It'll mean going outside, sir. GENERAL WILLIAMS: Put the ship on a*t*matic and get out there. PILOT OF SPACE SHIP: No good, sir. I've got to control it manually. (The DOCTOR puts down his clipboard.) DOCTOR: Right, well you hold her steady. I'll go and effect the repairs. (He starts to make for the airlock. GENERAL WILLIAMS stops him with a leer.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: No doubt you're a qualified space engineer too, Doctor? DOCTOR: Naturally. (He carries on, leaving an unhappy GENERAL WILLIAMS behind.) 8: SPACE (Protected in an orange space suit, the DOCTOR moves down the side of the hull, this time secured by a wire to the ship. He moves along to a hatch next to which is written: DANGER EXTERIOR ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT (He opens it with a locking key. The hatch slides open revealing burnt circuitry beneath.) 9: INT. GENERAL WILLIAMS' SCOUTSHIP. BRIDGE (GENERAL WILLIAMS sits in the navigator's chair with a radio microphone in his hands.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: (Into microphone.) How's it going, Doctor? DOCTOR: (OOV: Over radio.) A bit of a shambles, I'm afraid. Though I'll do my best to bodge something up. DRACONIAN PRINCE: Look! (The PRINCE points to a monitor screen. The relentless Draconian Battlecruiser appears on it.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: It's coming up fast. Look as if your friends are catching up with us. PILOT OF SPACE SHIP: Once they're in range, they'll f*re again. GENERAL WILLIAMS: (Into microphone.) Er, Doctor, there's a ship approaching. 10: SPACE (The DOCTOR continues his repairs.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: (OOV: Over radio.) We think it's the Draconians. How long will you be? DOCTOR: (Into radio.) I've no idea, old chap. (Nearby, the Draconian battlecruiser turns to face the scoutship...) 11: INT. GENERAL WILLIAMS' SCOUTSHIP. BRIDGE GENERAL WILLIAMS: Stand by for hyper-drive. PILOT OF SPACE SHIP: I can't sir. The Doctor's had to disconnect the main circuitry to make the repair. I can't boost the speed until he's finished. DRACONIAN PRINCE: If my people f*re, he will be k*lled! Let me speak to him! GENERAL WILLIAMS: Do you think they'll wait to talk? (Into radio.) The Draconians are coming up fast, Doctor. If you don't get that repair finished, we'll be a sitting target. 12: SPACE (The DOCTOR calmly continues his repair.) DOCTOR: (Into radio.) I know. I'm on the outside. (He inserts the locking handle and starts to turn it.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: (OOV: Over radio.) It's getting very close. DOCTOR: (Into radio.) I'm being as quick as I can. (The Draconian ship nears...) 13: INT. GENERAL WILLIAMS' SCOUTSHIP. BRIDGE PILOT OF SPACE SHIP: He's done it! DOCTOR: (OOV: Over radio.) Right, I'm coming in now. GENERAL WILLIAMS: Right, stand by. 14: SPACE (The DOCTOR climbs up onto the top of the ship. He enters the rooftop hatch and closes it after him. The Draconian battlecruiser fires...) 15: INT. GENERAL WILLIAMS' SCOUTSHIP. BRIDGE (The cabin is rocked by the sh*t.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: Maximum hyperdrive! 16: SPACE (Again, the little craft sh**t forward at an incredible speed...) 17: INT. PLANET OF THE OGRONS. CELL AREA (JO has dug enough space beneath the bars of the cage to enable her to squeeze herself through into the next door cage which has an open door. She quietly slips out. An OGRON walks past nearby in the shadows. She presses herself against the bars of the cage until it has gone.) 18: INT. PLANET OF THE OGRONS. PASSAGE (The OGRON moves to a strange sort of altar in a niche in which has been painted a primitive picture of a large bug-eyed reptile creature that resembles a fat snail. Beneath this burns a candle. The OGRON puts down an offering and bows. It does not see that JO has crept up behind him and is pressed up in the darkness against a wall. The OGRON moves off. JO quickly inspects the altar and then follows the OGRON.) 19: SPACE (The scoutship hovers over the planet of the OGRONS.) 20: INT. GENERAL WILLIAMS' SCOUTSHIP. BRIDGE (The DOCTOR, still in his orange space-suit, looks at it on the monitor.) DOCTOR: Pilot, can you get her into a closer orbit? PILOT OF SPACE SHIP: If you want me to take her in that close, sir, we may have to enter the atmosphere. What about that repair - will it stand the heat? DOCTOR: Well, we'll just have to risk it. We can't see anything from up here. 21: SPACE (The scoutship moves in closer to the planet. Smoke is coming from the hatch within which the DOCTOR effected his repairs.) 22: INT. PLANET OF THE OGRONS. MASTER'S OPERATIONS AREA (JO has reached the MASTER'S control area. She quickly finds the hypnotic box and secrets it in her dress. She also holds a small card she has found with their coordinates on. Making sure that she can see no one, she crosses to what looks like a radio set and picks up the microphone. She then presses several switches until she gets a signal. She makes adjustments and then speaks into the radio.) JO: (Into radio.) Mayday, mayday, this is an urgent message for both Draconian and Earth forces. The Ogrons are using a planet - galactic co-ordinates two, three, four, nine to six, seven, eight, four... 23: INT. GENERAL WILLIAMS' SCOUTSHIP. BRIDGE (Her message comes through to the scoutship but in a great deal of static.) JO: (OOV: Over radio.) ...as a base for their att*cks on both Earth and Draconian spaceships. Please inform... PILOT OF SPACE SHIP: We're losing the signal. JO: (OOV: Over radio.) ...the authorities. DOCTOR: Can you boost it up? JO: (OOV: Over radio.) I repeat... (JO'S voice can only be heard faintly and the amount of static increases until it drowns her out.) PILOT OF SPACE SHIP: I'm sorry, sir. We're nearly over the horizon. GENERAL WILLIAMS: Did you get a fix on it? PILOT OF SPACE SHIP: Pretty close. I can put us down on a general area. GENERAL WILLIAMS: How long will it take us to complete the orbit? PILOT OF SPACE SHIP: About twenty minutes. GENERAL WILLIAMS: Increase speed. 24: INT. PLANET OF THE OGRONS. MASTER'S OPERATIONS AREA JO: (Into radio.) Please inform the authorities of either Earth or Draconia. I repeat: Mayday, mayday, this is a m... (The MASTER steps up behind her and quietly takes both the microphone and the card. He is accompanied by several OGRONS. He switches off the radio.) MASTER: Thank you, Miss Grant. That was the trap. JO: Oh, no. You're the one who's trapped. I've just given your entire position away! MASTER: Yes. I left those galactic coordinates for you to find. JO: You mean they were fakes? MASTER: Oh, no, no, no. They were genuine enough. But this is, er, a short-range transmitter. So no one will have picked up your message more than...two or three hundred miles from this planet. JO: (Sadly.) Nobody heard me. MASTER: On the contrary, the Doctor heard you. Yes, at this moment, he's orbiting the planet in a small spaceship. I picked him up on radar a little while ago. JO: How do you know it was the Doctor? MASTER: My dear Miss Grant, who else could it be? You see, when the Doctor arrives, we'll be waiting for him. So you have been useful to me after all. (He laughs.) MASTER: But, erm, just in case the Doctor should get lost... (He switches on the homing signal device with which he previously summoned the OGRONS.) MASTER: There. Now he'll think that this homing signal comes from you, Miss Grant. (Softly.) By the way, congratulations - I knew I could count on you to get out of your cage. (To an OGRON.) Right, take her away. (The OGRONS grab her and pull her back to the cage area.) MASTER: And this time, make sure that she's properly under guard. JO: No...no...no! (The MASTER laughs to himself.) 25: SPACE (Smoke is now liberally pouring out of the hatch.) 26: INT. GENERAL WILLIAMS' SCOUTSHIP. BRIDGE GENERAL WILLIAMS: (To the PILOT.) How much longer? PILOT OF SPACE SHIP: Two seconds to go. (GENERAL WILLIAMS checks his own controls.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: We're overheating badly. PILOT OF SPACE SHIP: Yes, I know. This is it. We should pick her up again now. (The homing signal starts to come through.) DRACONIAN PRINCE: What is that signal? DOCTOR: Jo must have fixed up some kind of homing device. GENERAL WILLIAMS: Splendid! That'll lead us right to them. DOCTOR: Doesn't it strike you as being a bit too convenient? GENERAL WILLIAMS: Mmm. 27: SPACE (Not just smoke, but now flame is coming from the hatch.) 28: INT. GENERAL WILLIAMS' SCOUTSHIP. BRIDGE PILOT OF SPACE SHIP: The drive-alpha circuit's gone again! (The ship suddenly rocks.) DOCTOR: Can you get her down? PILOT OF SPACE SHIP: Yes. But I'm not sure where. 29: INT. PLANET OF THE OGRONS. MASTER'S OPERATIONS AREA (The MASTER sits over a star chart as the homing signal pulses away. It also appears as a blink on a monitor showing a space. Several OGRONS hover over him.) MASTER: Yes, they should be here very soon now. Judging by the size of the ship, they can't be in any great force. So conceal yourselves and ambush them as soon as they arrive - right? (The OGRONS are about to move off but the signal suddenly cuts out and the light on the monitor stops flashing.) MASTER: Hold on, wait a minute. Something's happened. They must have landed very nearby. Right, send out patrols! Get them and bring them back here immediately. And remember - I want the Doctor alive. OGRONS: Yes, Master. 30: EXT. PLANET OF THE OGRONS (The wind howls across the bleak planet of the OGRONS. The party from the scoutship appears over a ridge - the DOCTOR – now out of his spacesuit - the PRINCE, GENERAL WILLIAMS and four armed soldiers. The DOCTOR takes a small detector out of his pocket and sweeps it round trying to get a reading. Finally getting something, the DOCTOR speaks to his colleagues and they move off down the spine of the ridge.) 31: EXT. PLANET OF THE OGRONS. VALLEY (The exploration party have reached a base of a shallow valley. There are footprints in the mud of the valley.) DOCTOR: Williams? (GENERAL WILLIAMS turns and sees that the DOCTOR is pointing at another track. He then spots one more.) DOCTOR: Another one. (They move on.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: One dominant lifeform - a large and savage reptile. DOCTOR: Yes, well let's hope we don't encounter one. GENERAL WILLIAMS: Doctor, has it occurred to you what we're going to do when we discover the source of this signal? DOCTOR: I've no idea, old chap. We'll find out when we get there. Come on, can't be far. (They carry on. After they have gone, an OGRON scout rises from concealment behind them and watches them go. The party has almost climbed out of the valley when an OGRON appears from behind them.) OGRON: Drop! Surrender! (One of the Earth soldiers turns and raises his w*apon. He is quickly sh*t down.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: Take cover! (The remainder all dive behind rocks but the OGRONS have surrounded them on all sides. A pitched battle takes place between the two parties with only the DOCTOR not f*ring a w*apon. Another of the Earth soldiers is a casualty and so are several OGRONS when the fight comes to a sudden end - high above them, on the rocks, is the personification of the reptilian creature that JO saw pictured on the altar. The OGRONS immediately flee down the hillside in a panic.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: What's that?! DOCTOR: I've no idea, but whatever it is, it's on our side. 32: INT. PLANET OF THE OGRONS. MASTER'S OPERATIONS AREA (The MASTER is speaking into his microphone to an unknown party...) MASTER: (Into microphone.) Yes, I await your arrival with the greatest of pleasure. And I shall be there to meet you the moment that your ship touches down. (He switches off the radio set. The moaning, frightened OGRONS run into the area. The MASTER faces them down.) MASTER: Well, where's the Doctor? FIRST OGRON: The monster came! OGRONS: Monster...monster! MASTER: The monster? And I suppose you all ran like rabbits?! FIRST OGRON: We fear the monster! (The MASTER punches the huge OGRON.) MASTER: (Shouts.) You stupid cowardly idiots! You will answer to your masters for this! FIRST OGRON: What? They are coming?! MASTER: Yes, they are coming! Which means that dispense with your doubtful ... ! (The OGRON'S cries of panic drown out the MASTER.) MASTER: Out of my way! (He pushes through the group to leave the area. The OGRONS themselves run off in fear.) 33: EXT. PLANET OF THE OGRONS (The DOCTOR tries his tracking device again. It picks up a signal as he directs it.) DOCTOR: That's good. It's started again. Come on. (They are about to move off but see something over the horizon.) DRACONIAN PRINCE: A ship! (They all hold up their hands in protection as best they can against the dust that the landing ship whirls up.) DRACONIAN PRINCE: Somebody else seems to have received the message! (The ship lands and the dust dies down. They move off) 34: EXT. PLANET OF THE OGRONS. VALLEY (The party reaches an area with several grey pools of liquid. The DOCTOR halts and looks round with a look of concern on his face. GENERAL WILLIAMS sees this and comes back.) GENERAL WILLIAMS: What is it? DOCTOR: I don't know. (He looks round at the empty silent ridges high above them.) DOCTOR: I've got a feeling. Some sort of premonition. GENERAL WILLIAMS: Doctor? DOCTOR: Yes, come on. (They move on, but high on a ridge, the silhouetted figure of the MASTER appears.) MASTER: Hello, Doctor! (The party swings round at the sound of the voice.) MASTER: So here you are at last, eh? GENERAL WILLIAMS: Surrender or you'll be sh*t down! DOCTOR: No, he's unarmed. MASTER: Unarmed maybe, but not unaccompanied. I've brought some old friends along to meet you. (He laughs and gestures to one side and several familiar shapes glide forward - DALEKS! All of them have their w*apon trained on the party below.) MASTER: Quite a touching little reunion. You don't seem very pleased? GENERAL WILLIAMS: (To the soldiers.) f*re! (Before the two soldiers can f*re, the DALEKS exterminate them. They fall to the ground which explodes around them.) DOCTOR: No! No, don't. It's no good. (GENERAL WILLIAMS lowers his own w*apon as the MASTER laughs in triumph.) 35: INT. PLANET OF THE OGRONS. MASTER'S OPERATIONS AREA (The MASTER leads the party into his control area. There, a gold CHIEF DALEK awaits with two other g*n DALEKS.) CHIEF DALEK: Doctor, you are in our power and you will be exterminated. MASTER: No, not yet. CHIEF DALEK: (Angrily.) You will obey the Daleks! MASTER: You know as well as I do that this man does not fear death. I want him to suffer a much worse punishment. Look, my skill and cunning has brought about this w*r which will make you the masters of the galaxy. Leave the Doctor with me, and let him see the...result of that w*r. Let him see the galaxy in ruins. Let him see the planet Earth, that he loves so much, in ruins - then exterminate him. CHIEF DALEK: Very well. He will remain your prisoner until the w*r is concluded. Then you will bring him to us and we shall exterminate him. We shall now return to our base and prepare the army of the Daleks. (The three DALEKS turn and glide off. The DOCTOR turns to the MASTER.) DOCTOR: Oh, I suppose I should thank you for saving my life? MASTER: Not for long, Doctor. It's going to be a very short w*r. Right, take them away. (The OGRONS take them off.) 36: INT. PLANET OF THE OGRONS. CELL AREA (JO sits on the floor of her cage. She sees the DOCTOR and his two companions being led in. The DOCTOR is put in the same cage as her. She runs forward and hugs him.) JO: Hello, Doctor. DOCTOR: Hello, Jo. (She sees GENERAL WILLIAMS and the PRINCE being put into the cage next to them.) JO: Oh, so now they've got all of us. GENERAL WILLIAMS: All except the pilot. He's repairing the ship. DRACONIAN PRINCE: (To the DOCTOR.) Why do these...Dalek creatures wish to set your people and mine at w*r? DOCTOR: Because w*r will mean the extermination of both empires, your royal highness, and the Daleks will emerge as the supreme rulers. Now somehow, we've got to get out of here and stop them. JO: (Quietly.) Doctor! Doctor, will the Master's little fear-box help? (She takes the hidden box out and passes it to the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: Well done, Jo! JO: You see, we could use it to frighten the Ogrons away and then we can all escape. GENERAL WILLIAMS: Well, that's not impractical, Miss Grant. They'd just run off and we'd still be locked in. JO: Oh... DOCTOR: There is one thing we can do, though, and it'll need a very slight adjustment. (The DOCTOR takes a small tiepin out of his shirt and starts tinkering with the box.) 37: INT. PLANET OF THE OGRONS. MASTER'S OPERATIONS AREA (The MASTER speaks into his radio.) MASTER: (Into radio.) There's nothing to worry about. The Doctor will be perfectly safe in my hands. I promise you - when I deliver him to you, he'll be a broken man. CHIEF DALEK: (OOV: Over radio.) Do not fail the Daleks. MASTER: (Into radio.) The w*r is certain now. And once the great empires destroy each other, I ask but one thing - let me rule the planet Earth in your name. 38: INT. PLANET OF THE OGRONS. CELL AREA (The DOCTOR continues to adjust the box.) DOCTOR: General Williams, if we do manage to get out of here, and Jo and I manage to create a diversion, could you find your way back to your spaceship? GENERAL WILLIAMS: Certainly. DOCTOR: Good. Right, that should do it. Now I want you to take off immediately. Get the truth back to your respective governments. DRACONIAN PRINCE: Yes. DOCTOR: Tell them that they must mount a joint expedition and capture this base at once. DRACONIAN PRINCE: I shall stay and help. DOCTOR: No, we'll need you to convince the Emperor, your royal highness. GENERAL WILLIAMS: What about you and Miss Grant - how will you get away? DOCTOR: Jo, I presume that the TARDIS is still here? JO: Yes, I know where it is. DOCTOR: (To GENERAL WILLIAMS.) Well, don't worry about us. Our spaceship is here. GENERAL WILLIAMS: That's all very well, Doctor, but we still happen to be locked in. DOCTOR: Yes, well, would you mind blocking your ears and...covering your eyes just for a moment? DRACONIAN PRINCE: I do not understand? DOCTOR: No, but I...I think you will in a moment. Just do as I ask, would you? You too, Jo. JO: Oh no, it's alright. I can resist it. DOCTOR: Can you? JO: Yes. DOCTOR: Good. (The DOCTOR turns to the bars. Beyond them stands an OGRON on guard. He calls out to it.) DOCTOR: Er, how much longer are you gonna keep us locked in here? (The OGRON turns and looks at him.) DOCTOR: Yes, I'm talking to you. (The DOCTOR presses the switch on the box and the signal starts up. In the OGRON'S eyes, he immediately starts to change into the CHIEF DALEK. The "DALEK" even speaks in a combination of a normal DALEK voice and the DOCTOR'S own distinctive tone.) DOCTOR: Open the gate. Open the gate. (The OGRON, its eyes wide open in terror, stumbles forward with the key in its hand and unlocks the gate.) DOCTOR: Open the gate or I will exterminate you. (The OGRON then runs off as fast as it can, leaving the key in the gate. The DOCTOR switches the device off and leaves the cage. He then unlocks the second cage and taps the two occupants who still stand with their eyes closed and their hands over their ears.) DOCTOR: Right. (The DOCTOR runs out of their cage and they follow.) JO: Come with me. Follow me. (They all set off.) 39: INT. PLANET OF THE OGRONS. MASTER'S OPERATIONS AREA (The MASTER is again in touch with the DALEKS via radio.) CHIEF DALEK: (OOV: Over radio.) We are about to enter hyperdrive and return to our base. Do not fail the Daleks. (The MASTER switches the radio off.) MASTER: Right, we'll see who rules the galaxy when this is over. Do not fail the Daleks, indeed! You stupid tin boxes! (The OGRON from the cell area runs in, gibbering with fear.) MASTER: Why aren't you guarding the prisoners? SECOND OGRON: The Daleks sent me away! MASTER: There are no Daleks! The Daleks have all left the planet! SECOND OGRON: The Dalek said to open the cell! MASTER: Did he now? Fetch the others! I want them here immediately! (The OGRON runs off and the MASTER darts to one side and down a passage.) 40: INT. PLANET OF THE OGRONS. PASSAGE (The escapees have reached the primitive altar.) JO: Doctor, look at this. DOCTOR: Well, that's fascinating. JO: Is it some sort of idol? I saw one of the Ogrons worshipping it. DOCTOR: Yes, I'm not surprised. We've seen the real thing, haven't we? They're probably more frightened of him than they are of the Daleks. JO: Right, come on. This way. (They carry on.) 41: INT. PLANET OF THE OGRONS. MASTER'S OPERATIONS AREA (They reach the control area. JO points down one of the passageways.) JO: Right, you can get out this way. Good luck. GENERAL WILLIAMS: And you Miss Grant, Doctor. (They shake hands.) DOCTOR: General Williams. GENERAL WILLIAMS: Farewell. (The PRINCE kisses JO'S hand...) JO: Good luck. (...and shakes the DOCTOR'S.) DOCTOR: Your royal highness. DRACONIAN PRINCE: My life at your command. (He follows GENERAL WILLIAMS out.) JO: The TARDIS is over there. (The DOCTOR and JO head towards the police box but suddenly the MASTER steps out of the shadows, a g*n in his hands. Several OGRONS surround them.) MASTER: Going somewhere, Doctor? DOCTOR: You know, you really are incredibly persistent, aren't you? (The MASTER looks at the hypnotic box in the DOCTOR'S hands.) MASTER: That is my property, I believe. DOCTOR: Oh yes, yes, a most ingenious device. I congratulate you. (He switches it on. Immediately panic reigns among the OGRONS as they scream and panic.) OGRONS: The monster! (The MASTER raises his g*n and fires as the OGRONS start to flee, taking him with them. The DOCTOR clutches his head and falls to the ground in front of a shocked JO. He feebly feels his forehead. There is a mark where the sh*t h*t. He seems to fall unconscious as the last OGRONS run out of the area, but again starts to stir slightly.) JO: Oh, Doctor, I thought you were d*ad? DOCTOR: (Weakly.) Help me... (He tries to clamber up.) JO: Yes...here... (With JO'S help he gets to his feet and falls back against the wall next to the TARDIS.) DOCTOR: (Weakly.) Help me into the TARDIS, Jo... JO: Okay. (She pushes the door open...) 42: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (...and they enter, the DOCTOR leaning on JO for support.) DOCTOR: (Weakly.) Alright, Jo. JO: Careful. (The DOCTOR staggers to the console, watched by a concerned JO. He closes the doors and stumbles round the edge of the console.) DOCTOR: The first thing we've got to do is...get out of here. (He pulls the main switch and the TARDIS starts to dematerialise. He stumbles to another panel, holding onto the console for support watched by JO. He puts out his hands and places them on two round discs on the console. Immediately a sound like speeded-up signals is faintly heard. The DOCTOR stands with his eyes closed and desperately trying to concentrate as the message continues...) JO: Doctor, what are you doing? DOCTOR: Tele...telepathic circuits...sending a message to the Time Lords... 42: VORTEX (The TARDIS spins off into vortex and in pursuit...)
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PLANET OF THE DALEKS BY: TERRY NATION EPISODE ONE Original Air Date: 7 April, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. PLANET OF THE OGRONS. MASTER'S OPERATIONS AREA (The DOCTOR starts to stir slightly.) JO: Oh, Doctor, I thought you were d*ad? DOCTOR: (Weakly.) Help me... (He tries to clamber up.) JO: Yes...here... (With JO'S help he gets to his feet and falls back against the wall next to the TARDIS.) DOCTOR: (Weakly.) Help me into the TARDIS, Jo... JO: Okay. (She pushes the door open...) 2: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (...and they enter, the DOCTOR leaning on JO for support.) DOCTOR: (Weakly.) Alright, Jo. JO: Careful. (The DOCTOR staggers to the console, watched by a concerned JO. He closes the doors and stumbles round the edge of the console.) DOCTOR: The first thing we've got to do is...get out of here. (He pulls the main switch and the TARDIS starts to dematerialise. He stumbles to another panel, holding onto the console for support watched by JO. He puts out his hands and places them on two round discs on the console. Immediately a sound like speeded-up signals is faintly heard. The DOCTOR stands with his eyes closed and desperately trying to concentrate as the message continues...) JO: Doctor, what are you doing? DOCTOR: Tele...telepathic circuits...sending a message to the Time Lords...I must tell them to...I mu...I mu... (He collapses over the console.) JO: Doctor! (He manages to keep on his feet. JO run across the room to where there are a series of drawers and cupboards comprising one wall. She presses a button on the cupboards and one large drawer at floor level extends to reveal a full-length divan. She goes back to the console and helps him over to the divan.) JO: Come on, come and sit down. Come on. (He sits down.) JO: That's it, careful, that's it. (He starts to divest himself of his cloak.) DOCTOR: (Mutters.) Help me off with this. JO: Let's get this off. Now just lie back. DOCTOR: (Mutters.) Must lie down, Jo... (He falls back on the divan.) JO: Yes. DOCTOR: Must rest for a while...must rest... (She spreads the cloak over him like a blanket.) DOCTOR: I must rest, Jo... JO: Yes. (She strokes his forehead. She then gets a handkerchief out and dabs his forehead. He winces with the pain as it touches his wound.) JO: It's alright. (The DOCTOR gasps slightly and tries to remain conscious while he speaks to JO.) DOCTOR: Now, Jo...now listen to me...I'm liable to sleep for quite some time. Now, if anything happens - anything at all - record it in the log...record it in the log... JO: Log? DOCTOR: Yes... JO: What log? (She shouts at him to try to get through...) JO: Doctor, I don't know what you're talking about! DOCTOR: In the log...up there in the locker. (He looks upwards to a locker. JO opens it up and takes out a small recorder, the size of a cassette tape.) JO: Doctor? (The DOCTOR is breathing heavily but is unconscious.) 3: VORTEX (The TARDIS spins off into vortex and in pursuit...) 4: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The DOCTOR is alone. Only semi-conscious, he starts to thrash about on the divan.) DOCTOR: Jo!...Jo! (JO walks in from the inner section. She has changed out of her prison garbs and now wears a closely fitting check jacket and brown flares. She carries a raincoat which she throws onto the console when she sees the DOCTOR'S state and rushes over to him.) DOCTOR: (Delirious.) Careful! JO: Doctor?! DOCTOR: (Delirious.) Jo?! JO: Doctor?! (His fit starts to get worse...) DOCTOR: Jo?...Jo?! JO: Doctor! (He suddenly falls still. Fearfully, JO pulls back the cloak, opens his green jacket and listens to his hearts.) JO: Oh, it's so cold! (Totally unsure what to do, she sits on the edge of the divan and switches on the log to record...) JO: Shortly after entering the TARDIS, the Doctor fell into a...deep coma. His...respiration was very shallow...and his skin icy to the touch. (She gets up and paces the room, still recording...) JO: I could find trace of pulse or heartbeat, and his breathing apparently ceased. (Thinks.) But I've seen the Doctor in this condition once before...and he recovered after a sudden rise in temperature. (A beeping noise comes from the console and the materialisation noise starts up. JO watches as the centre column falls still and takes up her log again.) JO: The TARDIS seems to have landed. I suppose the Time Lords are working it by remote control again. I...I've no idea what the Doctor said to them in his message... (Sighs.) ...or where we are. I just...I just hope that they've...they've brought us somewhere where I can find some help for the Doctor. (She looks over at him and her eyes open wide. The still-unconscious DOCTOR now has a layer of ice covering his face. She rushes over to him and feels it.) JO: Ice! (She hurriedly pulls the cloak back over him and gets a shock when his eyes suddenly open wide - staring straight upwards.) JO: Doctor! Doctor, you're alive! (She listens again at his chest and then speaks into his blank face...) JO: Doctor? Doctor, I don't know whether you can hear me or not. Both your hearts are beating about...oh, about once every ten seconds...and your body temperature is somewhere below zero. I'm going outside. I'm going to try and find some help. (She goes to the console and looks over it for a control.) JO: Scanner...scanner? (She finds it...) JO: Scanner. (...and flicks the switch.) JO: That's it. (The small black and white monitor comes on. It shows a thick jungle outside. As the image revolves, it reveals that immediately outside the TARDIS are a series of primitive ruins - several standing stones, some of which have strange carvings and inscriptions on them. Suddenly, the image is partially as a splurge of liquid lands on the lens, followed by another and another. They are then continuous. JO bites her lip and goes over to the still unconscious DOCTOR, putting on her raincoat. He still stares upwards.) JO: Doctor? Doctor, I'm going now. I'll be back as soon as I can. (She sighs with frustration and heads for the door.) 5: EXT. JUNGLE. CLEARING OF RUINS (NIGHT) (The TARDIS door opens cautiously and she steps out. Part of the outside of the police box now has the spurted substance on it but it now seems to have encrusted. Wearing her raincoat and gloves, JO moves cautiously forward. She looks into the gloom through the thick mixture of tree, shrub, palm, bush and vine, listening all the time to the cries and noise of various animals. Suddenly, the mystery of the splurges on the TARDIS scanner is solved when a nearby plant sends out a squirt of yellow liquid at JO from the centre of its petals. JO whirls round as it lands on her back and moves slowly away from the plant. Another behind her squirts out another load of the substance in the same way. She moves further away from them and up to the ruins. She briefly looks over the stones and then moves on. A screech of a nearby animal alarms her but she carries on, pushing her way through dangling tendrils as she goes.) 6: EXT. JUNGLE (DAWN) (Further into the jungle, she stops at the base of a large tree. She crouches down to rest and rubs her eyes. As she looks up, the green murk of the night sky suddenly gives way to an orange glow of dawn. She starts to record events in the log again.) JO: Things growing in this jungle seem more like animal than plant-life. The light is changing. It seems as if it's daybreak. There's a sudden change in temperature. I haven't seen any form of intelligent life...except...except those bits of... (She sighs as she struggles for a description...) JO: ...bits of statue by the TARDIS. (She sighs again. With the rise in temperature, she takes her raincoat off - only to realise with a shock that the back of it where the liquid landed is now blackened. She throws it away in disgust and moves on. Nearby are two plants growing like upturned pots. In the side of each of them is a flower like a small bulb. Both turn across the surface of the plant and follow JO'S movements. She carefully makes her way through the trees and past some shrubs that resemble pampas grass. After she has gone, this starts to thrash about, as if moved by an invisible creature, and a hoarse breathing is heard...) 7: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The DOCTOR comes round. The icy substance on his face has disappeared.) DOCTOR: Jo? Jo, where are you? (He sits up weakly. His wound has also gone but his forehead is covered with a film of sweat. The noise of the substance from the plants landing on the shell of the TARDIS continues to come through to the console room.) DOCTOR: Jo? (He looks round in puzzlement.) DOCTOR: Jo? 8: EXT. JUNGLE (JO continues to make her way through the trees. Suddenly she stops. In a patch of soil in front of her are a series of footprints. They all end in a sharply pointed series of toes, almost like an arrowhead. Not seeing that she is near one of the spitting plants, she takes her woolen gloves off to touch and examine the footprint. Suddenly, the plant spits out its venomous substance which lashes across the ends of her fingers. She snatches her hand back and wipes it rapidly on her trousers, moving out of range of the plant.) 9: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (Recovering quickly, the DOCTOR gets to his feet and goes to the console. Almost immediately, one of the dials catches his attention...) DOCTOR: That's odd. The atmosphere outside is breathable and yet the a*t*matic oxygen supply is on. 10: EXT. JUNGLE. SPACECRAFT LANDSITE SITE (Her gloves back on, JO continues to follow the footprints. She looks up and sees, to her delight, that they lead to the first sign of advanced habitation that she has found - a crashed flat metal spacecraft in the jungle. Two arms lead back into exhaust ports and between them is a doorway in the hull. She goes up to this.) JO: (Quietly.) Hello? (Louder.) Hello, is anybody there? (She walks round one side of the craft, looking at its markings and insignia. Seeing no sign of life, she moves back to the door at the rear of the craft. She opens it and enters.) 11: INT. SPACECRAFT (Inside is a cramped rear cabin with two upright seats, either side of an aisle. She looks through a short passageway to the front cabin where she sees a figure sat in a pilot's chair. It wears a beige ribbed spacesuit and a white helmet. It has a covering of cobwebs. She goes through a tiny passage between the cabins and up to the figure, shaking it on the shoulder. It falls to one side - d*ad.) 12: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The DOCTOR goes round to the door control on the console and flicks the switch. They do not open and make a noise like a strained motor. He tries again and gets the same result. Before he can take any further action, an alarm starts to bleep on the console. The main scanner shows a read-out which says: a*t*matic Oxygen Supply Exhausted He thinks for a moment.) DOCTOR: I'll just have to use the emergency supply. (He goes over to a low cabinet in the corner of the room and wheels it out. He presses a button in the side and the inner section rises upwards. It reveals three horizontal oxygen cylinders contained within. He opens the valve of the top one. It hisses for a moment but then dies out. He opens the middle one but it is just as exhausted. He tries the final one and it gives out a steady and reassuring hiss. Satisfied, he looks down at his somewhat grimy jacket, soiled by events on Inter Minor, Earth, Draconia and various other locations. He goes over to another of the cupboards for a change of clothes - not noticing that the hiss of air from the last of the three cylinders is dying down...) 13: INT. SPACECRAFT (JO is crouched down as far as she can into a corner of the front cabin of the crashed ship as someone enters and creeps slowly nearer. The new arrival has on a beige ribbed spacesuit like the d*ad man. She looks up fearfully as the figure comes into the front cabin and is revealed to be holding some sort of advanced stubby w*apon, connected by a flexible cord to a power pack on a belt round his waist. The figure himself is a tall man with a shock of blond hair. Another man, slightly younger but similar in dress and looks stands behind him. The first man reaches out and pulls JO up. Without speaking, he pulls JO into the rear cabin where the second man puts her into one of the upright seats. They both stare at her in puzzlement and keep their w*apon pointed. JO summons her courage.) JO: Who are you? (The first man speaks...) TARON: My name is Taron. (He looks at his unsmiling companion.) TARON: This is Vaber. JO: I'm Jo Grant. Do you live here? I...I mean do you live on this planet? TARON: What are you? Where are you from? JO: Well, I'm from a planet called Earth. VABER: (Harshly.) Earth? JO: (Hopefully.) You've heard of it? TARON: We know the name. (The younger man continues stares at JO with a mixture of hostility and aggression.) VABER: There is no such place as Earth. It's just a name in our old legends. It doesn't really exist. JO: (Amazed.) Believe me - it does! TARON: How did you come here? JO: In the TARDIS. TARON: TARDIS? JO: Well, yes, it...it's a sort of spaceship. VABER: Are you alone? JO: No. No, I have a friend with me and he's very sick. I was trying to find some help for him. (Pleading.) Look, I'm afraid he's dying. VABER: (Sharply.) We're not a hospital service! JO: (Slightly tearful.) Please? Please, you...you've got to help me! TARON: I'm qualified in space medicine. I'll do what I can. (JO sighs with relief. VABER looks at TARON with some disgust.) JO: Thank you. I was beginning to think that I'd never find anybody to help me. VABER: You were lucky they didn't find you. JO: They? TARON: Where is this ship of yours - the TARDIS? JO: Well, back through the jungle. TARON: Is it far? JO: Well, no, n...not far. It's by some...some...bits of statue. VABER: (To TARON.) Reference seven? TARON: (Impatiently.) Yes, yes, yes. JO: Look, come on, I'll take you there. (She is about to get out of her seat when the door opens and another blond young man, dressed in an identical spacesuit to the other two runs into the cramped cabin.) CODAL: Very near - a patrol! VABER: How many? CODAL: Three or four - headed this way. (He suddenly catches sight of JO.) CODAL: (To TARON.) Who's this? TARON: We have to move. JO: Well, I'm coming with you! TARON: No, we know this jungle now. We can move in it quietly and quickly. You'll be safer if you stay hidden here. (He opens up a small cupboard that is off the small passage.) TARON: Get inside. You can work the securer from in there. JO: But I want to come with you! TARON: That would slow us all up. You'd endanger all of us. Don't worry. We'll lead them away from here and lose them in the jungle. JO: Lose who? VABER: Come on! (VABER is halfway out of the ship, impatient to leave.) VABER: Come on! (He leaves. The third man follows him with a look of reluctance.) TARON: We'll do what we can for your friend. I'll come back for you later. JO: Thank you. (He runs out after his two companions.) JO: Please hurry! (She goes to the door...) 14: EXT. JUNGLE. SPACECRAFT LANDSITE SITE (...and watches as the three men, w*apon raised, move cautiously into the jungle.) 15: INT. SPACECRAFT (She then does as instructed as goes into the cramped cupboard, locking it behind her. In the top half of the door is a grille. She looks through this into the body of the craft. Suddenly, the entire structure rocks and the door opens of its own accord. JO watches through the grille as a green communicator rises into the air from its resting place on a shelf. The cabin is filled with a hoarse rasping breathing sound. JO watches as the communicator is put down. She presses herself back against the wall as an identical cupboard next to hers is opened and the contents spilled onto the floor. Nervously she listens to the invisible intruder.) 16: EXT. JUNGLE (An unsmiling VABER and a nervous CODAL look into the jungle as TARON runs up behind them. They spin round as they hear him, their w*apon raised. They relax slightly when they see who it is but remain alert.) VABER: Which way are they moving? TARON: We're alright. They seem to be staying on the main tracks. There's a few scouts moving independently but off that way. (He points off into the trees.) CODAL: What about the girl? TARON: Oh, she should be alright. VABER: (Suspiciously.) And this "friend" of hers? TARON: (Thinks.) Let's go and find him. 17: INT. SPACECRAFT (The cupboard door shuts and the door handle of the cupboard next to it - JO'S hiding place - starts to be tried. Inside, JO keeps as quiet and as still as she can as she hears the hoarse breathing. Outside, an object like a f*re extinguisher is lifted up from the floor of the rear cabin as it is inspected. JO is starting to look alarmed but, down the body of the craft, the rear door is opened as the invisible creature leaves the ship.) 18: EXT. JUNGLE. SPACECRAFT LANDSITE SITE (It walks way from the craft - leaving footprints in the soil like pointed arrowheads...) 19: INT. SPACECRAFT (JO comes out of her hiding place. She goes to the rear door.) 20: EXT. JUNGLE. SPACECRAFT LANDSITE SITE (She steps cautiously outside.) 21: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The console bleeps another alarm. The read-out on the scanner now states: Cabin Atmosphere Unable to Sustain Life (The DOCTOR, now dressed in a purple velvet jacket and matching shirt, is under the console examining the circuitry underneath. He is starting to find it hard to breathe.) DOCTOR: All the circuits are in order. The door must be held from the outside. I must get it open. (He starts to get to his feet.) DOCTOR: I must get that door open. (He staggers towards the door.) DOCTOR: Got to get...got to get that door open... (He leans on the two double doors.) DOCTOR: That's it...must get...o... (With little oxygen left, he slumps onto the floor.) DOCTOR: Must get it o...must get...must get...must get... (He starts to pass out as a scraping noise comes from the outside.) 22: EXT. JUNGLE. CLEARING OF RUINS (It is the TARON and VABER. Each wearing a protective helmet with an attached plastic overall and plastic gloves, they use knives to scrape the solidified substance off the shell of the TARDIS. CODAL keeps guard with his g*n as the plants continue to squirt their deadly liquid at the rescuers. They manage to get the doors open and TARON steps inside and carries the DOCTOR out. VABER helps to carry him out of the range of the plants.) TARON: Right, sit him down here. (They sit the DOCTOR, now breathing heavily, onto a rock. CODAL takes their soiled protective gear off them as the DOCTOR quickly recovers, although he still gasps.) DOCTOR: Thank you...thank you very much. How did you find me? TARON: A girl we met. VABER: She told us where you were. DOCTOR: Is she alright? TARON: She should be. VABER: We left her hiding. TARON: (To CODAL.) Circle round the neighbourhood. See if there's any activity. (The young man moves off as the DOCTOR looks intently at TARON and VABER.) VABER: (With hostility.) What are you staring at? DOCTOR: Oh, I'm sorry, it's just...just that I thought I knew you. VABER: That's not likely. DOCTOR: Where are you from? TARON: A planet...many systems from here. DOCTOR: (Realises.) Skaro! Yes, of course - you're Thals! (TARON and VABER look at each other in shock.) TARON: How did you know that? DOCTOR: Cos I've been to Skaro - that's why. TARON: When? DOCTOR: Oh, many years ago. During the Dalek w*r. VABER: Dalek w*r? DOCTOR: Yes. VABER: (Suspiciously.) That's impossible! That was generations ago. You couldn't have been there. DOCTOR: Well, I can assure you that I was. TARON: How? DOCTOR: By travelling through the barriers of time. If you must know, I was with the Thal group when they broke into the Dalek city. TARON: (To VABER.) In our legend, there is a being - a figure from another planet who came to Skaro when the Thals were in their greatest peril...in something called...a TARDIS! (He looks down at the DOCTOR.) TARON: He had three companions with him. DOCTOR: Yes - Barbara, Ian and Susan. VABER: And their leader was called? DOCTOR: The Doctor. TARON: Are you trying to tell us that you are the Doctor? DOCTOR: That's right. VABER: (Angrily.) That's nonsense! You've come to spy on us! What are you doing on this planet? Here, of all the planets in the galaxy! (He jabs his g*n at the DOCTOR.) VABER: (Shouts.) Answer! (Annoyed, the DOCTOR pushes the w*apon to one side.) DOCTOR: Now, you listen to me, young man. You may have saved my life, and I'm grateful, but that does not give you the right to subject me to an inquisition! (He wipes away something on his cheek. TARON catches his hand and examines his face.) TARON: Vaber, give me the spray. DOCTOR: What? VABER: Waste our medical supplies? TARON: (Insistent.) The spray, Vaber! DOCTOR: What are you doing? (VABER reaches into his belt for a small spray.) TARON: You have been infected by a particularly deadly fungus. (TARON takes the spray.) TARON: Close your eyes. (The DOCTOR does so and TARON sprays his cheek.) TARON: They spread their spores in that liquid they've discharged. And the fungus spreads very quickly unless the surface has been specially treated. Turn your hand over. (He sprays the DOCTOR'S hand.) TARON: There, that should be alright now. DOCTOR: Now? Why, wha...woul...what would have happened? TARON: Without special treatment it would have spread all over your body. DOCTOR: Ah, that's nice. TARON: Until finally, you'd have been engulfed by it. DOCTOR: Oh... 23: EXT. JUNGLE. SPACECRAFT LANDSITE SITE (The area around the spaceship is quiet again.) 24: INT. SPACECRAFT (Inside, JO is still waiting for the three men to return. She takes off her jacket - and sees that a fungus is growing over the fingers of her left hand...) 25: EXT. JUNGLE. CLEARING OF RUINS (VABER is getting impatient...) VABER: Come on - let's get started! (The DOCTOR gets to his feet but TARON pushes him back down.) TARON: No. We wait for Codal. DOCTOR: Tell me, what's the name of this planet? VABER: Spiridon - one of the nastiest pieces of space garbage in the ninth system. DOCTOR: Is it inhabited? VABER: Oh yes! Vegetation that's more like animal life than plant, creatures hostile to everything including themselves and a...climate that changes from tropical in the day to...sub-freezing in the night. DOCTOR: Any intelligent life-form? TARON: Oh yes - the Spiridons. They're invisible. DOCTOR: Mmm, I'd very much like to see one of them! I mean, I'd very much like to come into contact with one of them. VABER: Don't worry - you will. DOCTOR: You said just now that you were on some sort of mission? May one ask what it is? TARON: No, I can't tell you that - that's top secret. DOCTOR: As you wish. I'm on something of a special mission myself. (VABER'S short reserves of patience run out again...) VABER: Taron, why can't you face it? TARON: Now listen... VABER: (Interrupts.) None of us is ever going to get away from here! TARON: Vaber! VABER: The radio's gone, the ship's damaged, we can't take off - we're on a su1c1de mission! TARON: It was your choice - nobody made you come. (Annoyed by this put-down, VABER steps away in a sulk. The DOCTOR has been listening intently.) DOCTOR: Well, whatever it was you came here to do, it must be pretty important? TARON: We think so. DOCTOR: How many are there of you? (TARON hesitates, then...) TARON: There were seven. But our commander was k*lled on touchdown. And we've lost three others since. DOCTOR: Oh, only three left. TARON: Yeah. DOCTOR: Well, you could make that four if you let me help you? Five with Jo Grant. TARON: Thanks. I'll think about it. DOCTOR: You still don't trust me? TARON: Why should I? You come here out of nowhere and then claim to be something out of a legend. DOCTOR: Yes, I see your point. But I am on your side, you know? (With a whistle signal, CODAL returns, stepping through the bushes. Not understanding the signal, the DOCTOR is the most alarmed and jumps to his feet.) VABER: Anything about? CODAL: No, it, er , it seems quiet enough. TARON: (To the DOCTOR.) You alright now? DOCTOR: Yes, never felt better. TARON: Good, we'll take you to your friend. DOCTOR: That's good. TARON: After that, you're on your own. If you see me signal, dive for cover quickly and don't make a sound - understood? DOCTOR: Understood. 26: INT. SPACECRAFT (JO lies unconscious on the floor of the cabin. The fungus has now grown across the back of her hand, her wrist and her lower forearm.) 27: EXT. JUNGLE (The party of four makes its way through the trees. The Thals are constantly alert. Suddenly TARON, in the front, gestures with a wave and the other three crouch down. Nearby, they can hear a scraping mechanical noise. They all gaze into the bushes.) TARON: (Quietly.) It's coming this way. (They continue to hear the noise.) TARON: It sounds like it's in trouble. (They listen for a moment more.) TARON: What do you think? VABER: It could be ray exhaustion. CODAL: No, light-wave sickness. That's what the others had. (The sound stops. Nearby, there is a vaguely round depression in the soil.) TARON: Do you think it's deactivated? CODAL: Well, we can't be sure. VABER: Let's chance it. (On TARON'S example, they rise and move slowly forward. TARON stops them again.) DOCTOR: Spiridons? (TARON shakes his head and looks at CODAL who hands the DOCTOR what looks like a paint canister.) CODAL: Here. DOCTOR: What's this? Some kind of w*apon? (CODAL passes another to TARON.) CODAL: A liquid colour spray. (TARON points it at empty air in front of them.) TARON: Point it in this direction, press the control on top and you'll see what we're up against. (The DOCTOR sprays what should be thin air, but the paint starts to land on an invisible object. Round slats appear, as does an eye-stalk, sensor panels and other parts of a familiar object...) DOCTOR: Daleks!
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PLANET OF THE DALEKS BY: TERRY NATION EPISODE TWO Original Air Date: 14 April, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: EXT. JUNGLE (The DALEK is now fully revealed. The DOCTOR finishes spraying it and passes his canister back to CODAL. He then gives the still casing a shake...) DOCTOR: Motive power - nil... (...waves a finger in front of the eye-stalk...) DOCTOR: Total loss of vision... (...looks round the midriff of the creature...) DOCTOR: Sensor plates not functioning... (...and gives the g*n stick a few pushes.) DOCTOR: ...and w*apon deactivated. TARON: You seem to know a good deal about Daleks? DOCTOR: Yes, well I've had cause to. (He taps the DALEK.) DOCTOR: This one's something new. I've never come across Daleks that have mastered invisibility before. VABER: They haven't mastered it - not completely. CODAL: As far as we can tell, they can only stay invisible for very short periods. TARON: Even so, it gives them quite an advantage. DOCTOR: Yes, a terrifying advantage. Have you any idea how they do it? TARON: Codal's our scientist. CODAL: They discovered it by studying the Spiridons. It's an anti-reflecting lightwave. Their problem is that to create the energy required, they have to generate fantastic power, so they can't sustain it for very long. DOCTOR: I see. CODAL: I'd like to investigate a bit further. (He puts his hands on the slats beneath the dome.) CODAL: Let's lift off the top so that... DOCTOR: No, don't do that! No, most Daleks have an a*t*matic distress call. Even when they're deactivated, the transmitter may keep functioning. (TARON looks at CODAL who removes his hands.) TARON: Thank you...Doctor. (The two men smile an understanding at each other.) TARON: Let's go. (The DOCTOR nods and lets TARON lead the way off through the jungle.) 2: EXT. JUNGLE. SPACECRAFT LANDSITE SITE (In the Thal ship...) 3: INT. SPACECRAFT (JO comes to on the floor of the cabin. She struggles up, gasping. Catching sight of her arm, she gasps and covers it from her own sight with her jacket. Weakened, she gets to her feet. She spots the log recorder and slumps into a chair. She starts to record...) JO: My hand and...my hand my arm are...infected by...by something I can't describe. It's spreading rapidly...and my hand is...already...quite numb. 4: EXT. JUNGLE (The group cautiously make their way through the undergrowth with TARON still in the lead followed by CODAL, the DOCTOR and VABER bringing up the rear. TARON halts.) TARON: You wait here, Doctor. Codal and I will scout ahead. We won't be long. (TARON and the young scientist move off. The DOCTOR sits on a rock.) DOCTOR: Taron seems very cautious? VABER: Too cautious. Things would be different if Miro was still alive. DOCTOR: Oh? Who is Miro. VABER: Expedition commander. He was k*lled when we landed. DOCTOR: Oh, I'm sorry. And Taron, who's he? VABER: (Sneering.) Spacecraft doctor - next in seniority so he took command. And a fine mess he's making of it. DOCTOR: Oh, do you think so? I thought he seemed to be doing rather well. VABER: Do you? Three more d*ad? Nothing achieved? Nothing even planned. He'll go on being cautious until we're all k*lled. DOCTOR: Well, what do you think he should do? VABER: Oh, we've got expl*sives - and w*apon. We could att*ck the Dalek laboratory and wipe them all out. DOCTOR: How many Daleks are there - do you know? VABER: Well, as far as I know, there's not more than twelve - just a scientific group, here to try and learn the technique of invisibility. One determined att*ck and we could destroy them all! (VABER sits on another rock.) DOCTOR: Tell me about these creatures that live here - the Spiridons? Are they invisible at all times? VABER: As far as I know. DOCTOR: They working with the Daleks? (Both men fail to spot a tentacle-like object moving towards VABER through some long grass next to him.) VABER: I imagine they've been, er, token subjugated - the usual Dalek technique of rule by terror. DOCTOR: Mass exterminations followed by absolute suppression of the survivors - I know. VABER: I hate all this waiting round. I wish he'd get back and we could get started. (The tentacle slithers nearer...) 5: EXT. ANOTHER PART OF THE JUNGLE (Further off, TARON and CODAL scout further. TARON suddenly crouches behind the cover of some bushes and CODAL, without asking, does the same. They watch through a gap in the undergrowth as three DALEKS glide past and off into the trees.) TARON: (Quietly.) Probably going out to recover the one we found. CODAL: (Quietly.) That's a pity. (TARON looks in another direction to the one just taken by the three DALEKS.) TARON: (Whispers.) Let's check out the area in that direction, then get back to the others. CODAL: (Quietly.) Yeah. (They move off.) 6: EXT. JUNGLE (The tentacle has made further progress through the undergrowth towards VABER. Meanwhile, DOCTOR'S attention has been caught by two of the plants next to him whose bulbs follow movement. He waves his hand in front of one of them and watches it as VABER checks his g*n.) DOCTOR: Fascinating. VABER: The eye-plants? DOCTOR: Mmm. VABER: They've come in very useful. DOCTOR: Oh, how? (The DOCTOR makes the other plant move.) VABER: They get very agitated whenever an invisible Spiridon comes near them. It's given us a...well, a kind of early-warning system. (The DOCTOR is intent of looking at the eye-plants. Suddenly, he hears VABER cry out. He looks up and sees that the tentacle has moved with incredible swiftness and has wrapped itself round the body of the young Thal, pulling him to the ground.) DOCTOR: Vaber! (The DOCTOR tries pulling the tentacle off but it hangs onto its victim like a boa constrictor.) VABER: Get my Kn*fe! (The DOCTOR reaches into a holder on VABER'S belt.) DOCTOR: Right, hang on! Just hang on! (He takes the Kn*fe out.) DOCTOR: I got it! (VABER'S hand is clutching onto the tentacle where the DOCTOR needs to cut it.) DOCTOR: Quickly - your hand. Let go! Let it go! Let it go.) (The DOCTOR cuts into the tentacle. An animal scream of pain screeches out but VABER is freed as TARON and CODAL run up.) TARON: What happened? DOCTOR: Oh, it's alright. Nothing much. Just some sort of tentacle trying to make a breakfast of our friend here. (VABER staggers to his feet.) TARON: Vaber? VABER: (Gasping.) Alright... TARON: Are you sure? VABER: (Snaps.) I said I'm alright! (VABER holds up his hand for his Kn*fe which the DOCTOR still holds.) VABER: (Gratefully.) Thanks, Doctor. DOCTOR: My pleasure. Made an interesting little object lesson. VABER: What do you mean? DOCTOR: Well, just that it shows the...the need for continued caution, I think? VABER: (Riled.) You think I don't know that? I have been here rather longer than you have. The danger's not going to scare me into doing nothing! (He looks pointedly at TARON.) TARON: Vaber... DOCTOR: There's a considerable difference between courage and reckless stupidity, you know! VABER: If I have to die, I want it to be for a better reason than providing nourishment for a flesh-eating tentacle! CODAL: The eye-plants are moving. (The bulbs of the plants that the DOCTOR was investigating swing round.) TARON: (Whispers urgently.) It's a Spiridon patrol! Quick - over there! (The four rush off.) 7: EXT. JUNGLE. SPACECRAFT LANDSITE SITE (JO, her jacket still slung over her infected arm, staggers out of the Thal ship. Very weak, she tries a few steps but falls into the soil, dropping the TARDIS log as she does so. She looks up as she hears the hoarse breathing of the invisible creature that investigated the ship. She manages to get to her feet and makes it back into the ship as some of the bushes start to move.) 8: INT. SPACECRAFT (Inside, JO soon collapses again, much weakened now.) 9: EXT. JUNGLE. SPACECRAFT LANDSITE SITE (The bushes move more, and then the door to the Thal ship and the structure moves slightly as the Spiridon steps onto the threshold of the ship and towards a recumbent JO.) 10: EXT. JUNGLE (Bushes are also moving near to where the DOCTOR is crouched down with the Thals.) TARON: (Whispers urgently.) They're coming closer! DOCTOR: Unless they change direction, they're bound to find us. VABER: Why wait? We're well armed - let's att*ck now! TARON: Don't be stupid. There could be dozens of them. (The movement of the bushes gets nearer and nearer.) CODAL: I'll try and lead them off. (Without waiting for a response from the others, he suddenly gets up and rushes off in a direction away from his companions. Within seconds, the bushes behind him start to thrash about as the Spiridons follow.) TARON: Codal's given us a chance. Let's not waste it! (They move off.) 11: EXT. ANOTHER PART OF THE JUNGLE (CODAL comes to a rest. Almost immediately, his arms pinion straight behind him as the invisible pursuers catch him. He clutches onto his g*n but his arm is held straight and he cannot f*re. Nearby, a stick of wood rises into the air, hovers over CODAL'S head and then comes crashing down.) 12: EXT. JUNGLE. SPACECRAFT LANDSITE SITE (The DOCTOR, TARON and VABER have made it back to the Thal ship. The DOCTOR spots the TARDIS log on the ground and picks it up.) TARON: There's our ship. Your friend's inside. DOCTOR: Thank you. (VABER suddenly spots movement...) VABER: Wait - something moving, other side of the clearing. TARON: Where? (He looks briefly in the direction indicated.) TARON: Quick - get through there! (They dash through some bushes and hide. A second later, two DALEKS glide into the clearing and see the Thal ship.) FIRST DALEK: Primitive spacecraft of type originating on Skaro. Report discovery to command centre. SECOND DALEK: Dalek patrol two calling command centre - we have located Thal spacecraft. Indicate course of action. (The DOCTOR and the Thals continue to watch through the shrubbery...) SECOND DALEK: Command centre orders the craft is to be destroyed. FIRST DALEK: Position to f*re. (The two DALEKS glide closer.) DOCTOR: (To TARON.) But Jo Grant's inside your ship - I've gotta do something! TARON: There's nothing you can do. (Meanwhile...) FIRST DALEK: Aim... (The DOCTOR bursts from the bushes and stands between the DALEKS and the ship.) DOCTOR: No...wait! Wait...somebody's still in there. FIRST DALEK: Save for interrogation. Disable. (The DALEKS f*re. As the air turns negative, the DOCTOR cries out in pain and clutches his legs. He falls to the ground, crawling like a baby.) FIRST DALEK: Proceed as ordered. DOCTOR: (Shouts.) No! No! FIRST DALEK: f*re. (The DALEKS f*re and expl*si*n and smoke pour out of the Thal ship.) FIRST DALEK: Repeat - full power. (They f*re again at the small craft. The helpless DOCTOR looks on sadly.) DOCTOR: Jo... (The two DALEKS, their task completed, hover over the DOCTOR.) FIRST DALEK: Stand...or we will exterminate you now. (The DOCTOR painfully stumbles to his feet as the Thals watch.) VABER: We've got to help him. TARON: There's nothing we can do - nothing. (The DOCTOR, his face creased with pain, is upright.) FIRST DALEK: Walk! (The DOCTOR manages a few steps. He casts one look back at the ship.) FIRST DALEK: (Angrily.) Walk! (They move off. The two remaining Thals get disconsolately to their feet.) TARON: Let's get away from here. 13: INT. DALEK CITY. UPPER LEVEL CORRIDOR (The DOCTOR, his legs much recovered, walks along one of the corridors of the Thal city followed by his two captors. They turn a corner and come to a halt in front of a lift door.) FIRST DALEK: Wait. (One of the DALEKS presses a sensor and the lift door opens.) FIRST DALEK: Walk. 14: INT. DALEK CITY. UPPER LEVEL CORRIDOR (The DOCTOR and the first DALEK alone enter the lift. This DALEK turns and presses another sensor inside. The door closes and the lift starts to descend past several floors as the DOCTOR looks at the DALEK in an awkward silence. The lift comes to a halt and the DALEK presses the sensor to open the door again.) FIRST DALEK: Walk! 15: INT. DALEK CITY. LOWER LEVEL CORRIDOR (The DOCTOR walks out of the lift into a similar looking but darker corridor. They turn a corner and another DALEK is stood outside a door.) FIRST DALEK: Halt! (The DALEK presses a sensor next to the door and it opens to reveal a small cell.) FIRST DALEK: Enter. 16: INT. DALEK CITY. CELL (The DOCTOR walks in. CODAL, his w*apon belt taken from him, is sat on one of two stools but the DOCTOR at first fails to spot him.) CODAL: Doctor! (He gets up to greet the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: Codal? So, they captured you too, did they? CODAL: Where are the others - Taron and Vaber? DOCTOR: Well, they're alright as far as I know. How are you? CODAL: Mmm, I'm fine. Splitting headache, but...I'll survive. DOCTOR: That's good. (The two men sit.) CODAL: (Nervously.) Why didn't they k*ll us straight away, Doctor? DOCTOR: Ah, I expect they're saving us for interrogation. They'll want to know what we're doing on this planet. You know, what you did back there, leading the searchers away from us, was very courageous. CODAL: I just didn't give myself time to think. If I had, I certainly wouldn't have taken the risk. DOCTOR: Oh, I don't know. I think you're doing yourself rather an injustice there. If you hadn't acted the way you did, we'd have all been captured. They give medals for that sort of bravery. CODAL: Bravery? I've been terrified ever since I landed on this planet. It's different for Taron and Vaber - they're professionals. They've seen action before. DOCTOR: And do you think they're any the less brave because of that? CODAL: They know how to deal with fear. They're used to living close to death. I'm not - I'm a scientist, not an adventurer. DOCTOR: Well, forgive me if I'm wrong, but...aren't you a volunteer? CODAL: Yes. DOCTOR: Then you must have known what you were getting into? CODAL: No. None of us did. We're not a warlike people, Doctor. We've only just developed space-flight. No one had attempted a voyage of this length before, but every man and woman from my division volunteered - over six hundred of them. You see, I didn't even have the courage to be the odd man out. (The DOCTOR laughs.) CODAL: What are you laughing at? DOCTOR: Ah, you, my friend. You may be a very brilliant scientist but you have very little understanding of people, particularly yourself. Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know? CODAL: What is it then? DOCTOR: It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway - just as you did. CODAL: I'm not convinced...but thanks anyway. (They smile. The DOCTOR claps his hands.) DOCTOR: Right, well after that little tutorial on bravery, let's see if we can find a way of getting out of here. CODAL: (Amazed.) Escape? DOCTOR: Yes, escape. Well, let's take a look in our pockets and see if we can come up with something that might prove useful. Come on. Turn 'em out. (The two men start to r*fle through their own pockets. The first thing the DOCTOR takes out is a familiar looking object...) DOCTOR: Hmm, sonic screwdriver... CODAL: Battery... (They drop their findings on the floor.) DOCTOR: Fancy hankie... (The next thing the DOCTOR takes out is the TARDIS log. He switches it on.) JO: (OOV: On log.) Shortly after entering the TARDIS, the Doctor fell into a...deep coma. (He switches it off.) CODAL: Wasn't that the girl we met - your assistant? DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Yes, that's right. She'd gone to fetch help for me. The Daleks... CODAL: Took her prisoner? DOCTOR: No, they m*rder her. (CODAL falls silent. The DOCTOR sadly switches the recorder back on and listens to JO'S voice.) JO: (OOV: On log.) ...his respiration was very shallow...and his skin icy to the touch. 17: INT. CAVE (But JO is not d*ad. She lies unconscious under a blanket of a fur, coloured several gaudy shades of purple, in a cave filled with reed like bushes that is almost out in the jungle. Above her, the invisible creature breathes hoarsely. Two primitive bowls hover over her, pouring a brown liquid from one bowl to the other. The furs start to be pulled off JO. This brings her round and she woozily sits up in alarm. Her entire forearm is now covered with the fungus. The invisible creature speaks in a breathless voice...) WESTER: Don't be afraid. I want to help you. (JO watches as the two bowls continue mixing.) JO: What are you doing? (The bowl that ends up being the receptacle for the liquid hovers over to her arm. She flinches it back.) WESTER: You've been infected by the fungoids. This will clear it. (The bowl turns and pours its liquid over the infection. JO looks round.) JO: Where are we? WESTER: A cave near the city. I found you unconscious in a spacecraft and brought you here. It was fortunate I found you in time. The machine was destroyed shortly after by the Daleks. JO: Daleks! Daleks here?! WESTER: You did not know? JO: Who are you? Why did you help me? There's so much I want to ask you...and I...I don't know where to s...where to begin. (JO starts to look sleepy.) WESTER: All in good time. You must rest while the potion is taking effect. When you're feeling better, I'll tell you everything...I can. (JO falls back with her eyes closed and starts to sleep.) 18: INT. DALEK CITY. CELL (The DOCTOR runs his sonic screwdriver over the edge of the cell door.) DOCTOR: No, that's hopeless. If there's one thing the Daleks are very good at making, and that is locks. CODAL: Well, what now - if we can't even get the door open? DOCTOR: Well, we'll just have to start our escape when the door's already open. CODAL: But they'll be a Dalek standing outside. DOCTOR: Yes, exactly. So, we're not trying to deal with a door, we're trying to deal with a Dalek. CODAL: How? DOCTOR: How. A very good question. (He walks back to the stools.) DOCTOR: How... (He sits down and looks over their collection of objects spread over the floor.) DOCTOR: Well, there must something here that could prove useful. CODAL: There's nothing that I can see. DOCTOR: (To himself.) Come on, come on! We've got to think of something. CODAL: Well, the one thing we have got is time. DOCTOR: On the contrary, my friend, the Daleks don't intend to let us rot down here, you know? 19: INT. DALEK CITY. CONTROL ROOM (Several DALEKS stand and wait in a control room. It has bare bluish walls with a right-angled bank of controls to the right of the room. A DALEK glides in and up to another at the controls.) DALEK LEADER: Report. DALEK: Section three requests that after interrogation, prisoners should be transferred to their laboratory. DALEK LEADER: State reasons. DALEK: They are required for experiments of light-ray emissions on living tissue. DALEK LEADER: Agreed. Next. DALEK: Central control report that only two Thals are still at liberty. Their capture is expected shortly. 20: EXT. JUNGLE (TARON and VABER take two objects out of the undergrowth. They are wrapped in clear plastic bags to protect them. They each have two fat red columns on dynamite held within a white stand with handles attached.) TARON: Well, at least these haven't been found - that's something. VABER: There's enough expl*sive here to take care of fifty Daleks, never mind twelve. Come on, Taron, we'll take a chance - rush the main entrance. If we can make it down that first tunnel, the blast from these will cave in the whole section - bury the Daleks! TARON: And if we don't make it down that tunnel? VABER: (Impatiently.) Oh, come on, Taron! What's the matter with you? When we came on this mission, you knew there'd be risks. Well let's start taking them! (TARON starts to put the b*mb back.) TARON: We make our move when we have a chance of succeeding, not before. (Behind him, VABER has had enough. He takes out his g*n and points it at TARON'S back.) VABER: Give me the expl*sives! (TARON looks up. He remains calm.) TARON: No. VABER: Get them out! I mean it, Taron! I'll k*ll you if I have to! TARON: And that's the only way you'll get them. (VABER pulls the safety catch of his blaster back. Before he can carry out his thr*at there is a roar overhead. A wind howls through the patch of jungle and the area is suffused with a red glow. The two men crouch down against this sudden onslaught. It ends with a thump and several small expl*si*n some distance off. The wind having died away, the men look up.) TARON: What's that? (VABER shakes his head, as puzzled as TARON who suddenly realises the cause.) TARON: A spaceship coming in too fast. (There is another expl*si*n.) TARON: Burning up... (Their dispute temporarily forgotten, the two men move off to investigate.) 21: INT. DALEK CITY. CELL (The DOCTOR looks over the TARDIS log and ponders.) DOCTOR: A tiny motor with an electric power source... (He snaps his fingers.) DOCTOR: That's it. Yes...yes, I'll dismantle the circuitry, reverse the polarity...and convert to a low power receiver transmitter with a positive feedback. CODAL: That's right! The Dalek's guidance system functions by means of high-frequency radio impulses. DOCTOR: Correct, and if we can jam them... CODAL: It should give them quite a headache. DOCTOR: It should give them quite a brainstorm. Give me a screwdriver. (CODAL passes him the object from the floor and the DOCTOR sets to work.) 22: INT. CAVE (JO is awake and recovered. She looks over her arm which is now clear of the fungus.) WESTER: All trace of the infection has gone. Your arm will be sore for a few days, but that's all. (JO looks up to where the bowl still hovers in the air and smiles.) JO: Thank you. I'm very grateful to you. Tell me some more about your planet? WESTER: Before the Daleks inv*de, they b*mb the planet with bacteria. Only a handful of my people survived. When the Daleks landed, we could offer no resistance. Those that were left were forced to cooperate with the Daleks. JO: But you don't? WESTER: No. There are a few of us, not many, who do what we can to fight back, and that's little enough. JO: Why did the Daleks inv*de you? What did they want? WESTER: To master our techniques of invisibility, and they seem very close to doing it. JO: Is there no way of stopping them? WESTER: They're too powerful. I had hoped the aliens from the spacecraft might help us, but there are so few of them. Two more were captured today. JO: You've seen them? WESTER: When they were taken to the city - a tall fair-haired man, and later, one with silver hair, also tall, wearing strange clothes. (JO smiles in delight as she recognises the description.) JO: The Doctor! Oh! (She gets to her feet.) JO: W...where is he? WESTER: You know him? JO: Well, yes! And I thought... WESTER: He's imprisoned in the city. JO: Well then we must find a way of helping him - get him out! WESTER: There is no way. The Daleks will interrogate him, and then use him in their...experiments. He'd be better off d*ad. 23: EXT. JUNGLE (TARON and VABER make their way through the trees towards the newly arrived ship. The air is filled with a gloomy smoke which causes the two men to cough.) VABER: Something moving... (They see a young blond Thal woman, wearing a beige ribbed spacesuit identical to their own, struggling along through the gloom, also coughing with the smoke. TARON recognises her immediately...) TARON: Rebec! Rebec! (He catches hold of her as she reaches them. Her face and spacesuit are covered with grime and burns. He helps her to sit.) TARON: Are you alright? REBEC: I think so. Our flight angle was too steep and we came in too fast. We were lucky to get out alive. All the equipment, the expl*sives, everything - gone. TARON: Are you the only survivor? REBEC: No, Maret and Latep - they're following. (TARON looks to VABER who immediately sets off to investigate and help. TARON turns back to REBEC.) TARON: But why did you come? REBEC: Communications intercepted another Dalek space signal. We had to warn you. TARON: Warn us? What about? REBEC: Do you know the strength of the Dalek force here? TARON: Well, it...it's no more than a dozen. REBEC: The signal we intercepted was to Dalek Supreme Command. It stated that the force assembled on Spiridon was now complete. It gave their numbers. Well, somewhere on this planet there are ten thousand Daleks! (TARON looks stunned.)
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PLANET OF THE DALEKS BY: TERRY NATION EPISODE THREE Original Air Date: 21 April, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: EXT. JUNGLE REBEC: Somewhere on this planet there are ten thousand Daleks! (TARON looks stunned. REBEC breaks into another fit of coughing.) TARON: Are you fit to move? (REBEC nods.) TARON: We must find the others quickly. They're bound to send a patrol to investigate the crash. REBEC: With any luck, they might think there were no survivors. (TARON hears the sound of several people coughing nearby and looks as VABER returns through the smoke with two more beige spacesuit-fitted, young Thal men. VABER helps one of the - LATEP - along with his arm slung across his shoulder while MARAT can walk unaided.) TARON: Maret! Latep! Are you alright? LATEP: Just shaken. We came down with a bang. MARAT: I'm alright. TARON: Good. We must move, it's not fit to stay here. REBEC: Do you have a plan? TARON: Yes, yes, I think so. VABER: (Impatiently.) We'd better get a move on, we haven't got much time! (TARON leads the way off...) 2: EXT. DALEK CITY ENTRANCE (JO, accompanied by an invisible WESTER who is carrying a branch for protection, hides in the bushes near to the entrance to the DALEK city. It has been built into solid rock and its entrance is all that can be seen. This appears to be some primitive Spiridon work like a former temple. On either side of the tall entrance are carvings of alien shapes, rather like two totem poles. In front of these stand two DALEK guards. Figures covered entirely in purple fur robes wheel large tubs of the green vegetation into the city and through the high open double doors. JO whispers to WESTER...) JO: Is this the only way into the city? WESTER: Yes. JO: Somehow I've got to find a way of getting past those Dalek guards. WESTER: Even if you could, what would you do once you got in there? JO: Well, find the Doctor and try to rescue him. WESTER: Ah... (JO looks in puzzlement at the fur-covered figures.) WESTER: Those are my people - the Spiridons. The Daleks have made them slaves. JO: But I can see them now! WESTER: Ah, you see the furs they wear to protect them from the cold. JO: What are they taking into the city? WESTER: Samples of our vegetation. The Daleks are experimenting with plant-destroying bacteria. JO: Now, if I could hide in one of those bundles... WESTER: You can't risk it. JO: Look, if I got into the city, where's the most likely place they'd be holding the Doctor? WESTER: In the lower levels, most certain - deep, deep down. JO: I'm going to try it. 3: INT. DALEK CITY. CELL (CODAL nervously paces the cell as the DOCTOR continues to adapt the TARDIS log.) CODAL: Doctor? DOCTOR: Mmm? CODAL: If this jamming device of yours works, we'll have a w*apon that we can use against all the Daleks. We can give the lot of them brain-storms. DOCTOR: No, I'm afraid not, Codal. You see, the Daleks armour acts as a sort of shield, so we've got to get in very close. In any case, the effect will only be temporary. CODAL: Well, how long will it last then? DOCTOR: Well, if we're lucky, long enough to get away. That is...if... CODAL: If what? DOCTOR: If it works. (The DOCTOR continues working. Now CODAL looks even more nervous...) 4: EXT. ICE TUNNEL ENTRANCE (TARON has taken MARAT and REBEC to a small tunnel entrance, no more than a couple of feet wide, in a rock face on the edge of the jungle. It can be seen that inside the tunnel, the walls are composed of ice. REBEC puts her hands in a small pool of liquid that drips down the rock in front of the cave. The liquid has a slight greenish hue.) REBEC: It's freezing! TARON: Yeah, it's an anatrope of ice. REBEC: A what? TARON: Well, it's a form of ice that never gets hard. Codal is convinced that the core of this whole planet is a mass of it, because every once in a while the pressure builds up and the whole thing bursts to the surface. REBEC: Like a volcano? TARON: Yeah, but instead of...instead of white hot lava, this erupts with molten ice. We've seen it - tremendous expl*si*n - the ice covers the jungle for miles around! MARAT: Are there many of these outlets? TARON: Yes, dozens of them, but this is the nearest one to the city. REBEC: Yes, but...why's it important to us? TARON: Ah, well...when they built the city, they used this ice volcano to provide a cooling system. They drove shafts out to meet the natural fissures. MARAT: So if we could find the junctions we could get right inside the city? TARON: That's the theory anyway. (MARAT crouches down and looks into the ice tunnel.) TARON: Trouble is we don't know if the shafts will stay wide enough to crawl through...and we'll have no idea which tunnel to follow. REBEC: And if the ice erupts when we're in there? (TARON looks at her, but before he can answer, VABER and LATEP return through the jungle. VABER carries one of the b*mb.) VABER: I've left the rest of the expl*sives in a safe hiding place. TARON: Good. VABER: I've marked the position - just in case. (He hands TARON a map which he looks over and passes to MARAT.) TARON: (To MARAT and REBEC.) Switch on your heating units. It's going to be cold in there. (The two adjust a small electronic pack on the belt of their spacesuits.) TARON: You two get started. (MARAT nods and he and REBEC crawl into the tunnel.) TARON: Vaber, Latep, remember - positions by the main entrance to the city. If we manage to cause a diversion - you att*ck. VABER: Right. (LATEP nods and moves off. TARON turns to follow the other two.) VABER: Er, Taron. Er, about what happened, I'm... (His apology dries up.) TARON: Forget it. (VABER follows LATEP without a word or a gesture. TARON starts to crawl into the ice tunnel.) 5: INT. DALEK CITY. CELL (The DOCTOR finishes adapting the log.) DOCTOR: Oh, well that's it. That's the best that I can do. (He passes it to CODAL to look over.) DOCTOR: There's only one thing we need now. CODAL: What's that? DOCTOR: A Dalek to try it out on. 6: EXT. JUNGLE (In the jungle two, fur-clad Spiridons dump vegetation into one of the tubs. JO and WESTER watch. The two Spiridons move into the trees.) WESTER: Quickly - now! (JO runs up and into the tub, pulling the vegetation over herself. Seconds later, the Spiridons return with more supplies, throw it into the tub and wheel it away. JO pokes her head up briefly to see where they are going.) 7: EXT. DALEK CITY ENTRANCE (The Spiridons wheel the tub into the city past the DALEK guards.) 8: INT. ICE TUNNEL (The Thals crawl along the ice tunnel on their hands and knees, TARON in front, REBEC behind and MARAT bringing up the rear. They can hear constantly rumbles of ice flows and these sounds echo through the cramped tunnel. Turning a corner, the angle of the tunnel is constantly downwards. The three stop and huddle for a moment.) REBEC: Oh, it's so cold! My heating unit's turned to maximum but I'm still freezing. MARAT: Ha...how far do you think we've come? TARON: It's hard to tell. We should strike one of the cooling ducts soon. (There is a louder rumble, loud enough to be a crash.) REBEC: What's that? (They look down the empty but ominous tunnels in both directions but see nothing.) TARON: I don't know - just keep moving! (He pushes REBEC ahead. He is about to follow but a nervous MARAT holds him back.) MARAT: Taron - could be the start of an eruption? TARON: It's possible. MARAT: Then let's get back while we still have time. TARON: No, if it's coming, we're already too late. We've no chance of getting to the surface in time. Our only chance is to strike one of the shafts and quickly! (He crawls off. REBEC is waiting a little further along and TARON re-takes the lead. 9: INT. DALEK CITY. CONTROL ROOM (The Spiridons wheel the tub into the control room and leave it there, next to a window overlooking a small laboratory. A DALEK glides into the control room and joins another as JO pokes her head out of the vegetation. A DALEK turns and JO quickly ducks down. The DALEK that has just arrived speaks.) FIRST DALEK: Attention! The prisoners are to be taken for interrogation immediately. SECOND DALEK: I obey. 10: INT. DALEK CITY. CELL (CODAL has his ear pressed to the cell door. He can hear a dying whine of machinery beyond it.) CODAL: I can hear the lift. (He listens further.) CODAL: There's one coming! DOCTOR: Come and sit here. (CODAL comes and sits next to the DOCTOR on one of the stools.) DOCTOR: Now remember what I told you - get in close so that it can't use its blaster, right? CODAL: Right. 11: INT. DALEK CITY. CORRIDOR (Outside, a DALEK closes the lift door and turns to the cell door sensor. It presses it and enters the room.) 12: INT. DALEK CITY. CELL DALEK: Prisoners will stand. (CODAL gets to his feet but the DOCTOR pushes him back down. The DALEK moves closer.) DALEK: (Angrily.) Prisoners will stand! (The DOCTOR stares at the DALEK for a moment, then...) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Now! CODAL: Wha... (The two men jump up and start to wrestle with the DALEK, keeping well out of the way of its g*n.) DALEK: (Shouts.) Surrender or you will be exterminated! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Hold on! Hold it! (As CODAL tries to keep the base of the DALEK still, the DOCTOR slams the recorder onto the top of its dome and tries to hold onto the back of the creature.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Hold on! (The DALEK starts to spin round to try and dislodge the two men.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Mind yourself! Hold on to it! (The DALEK starts to give out cries as the recorder begins to have an effect.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Hold on to it! CODAL: (Shouts.) I can't! (CODAL is flung off...) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Hold it! (...and then so is the DOCTOR. The DALEK'S cries get louder and more anguished until it suddenly slams into a wall and is still. The two men get off the floor and gingerly approach it. The DOCTOR touches the casing. There is no movement.) CODAL: That little machine of yours has quite an effect. DOCTOR: Had quite an effect. (He picks the dislodged and broken recorder off the floor.) DOCTOR: Not any more, I'm afraid. You know, for a man who abhors v*olence, I took great satisfaction in doing that. Right, let's get on. We may be out of the cell but we're a long way from being free. (He leads CODAL to the open door and looks out.) 13: INT. DALEK CITY. CORRIDOR (The corridor appears to be empty. They move to a junction and look round. The DOCTOR spots a coat-stand type object with CODAL'S confiscated belt-pack hanging off it.) DOCTOR: Get your g*n. (CODAL retrieves his belt and puts it back on. The two set off.) 14: INT. DALEK CITY. CONTROL ROOM (JO peeks out of her tub again. There are to DALEKS in the control room, both with their back to her. She jumps out of the tub and hides round a corner, just before a third DALEK glides in. A quiet alarm suddenly pulses and the hands of a clock-like dial on the wall suddenly start to turn.) FIRST DALEK: Sensors detect ice eruption is imminent. (It turns and looks at the dial.) SECOND DALEK: Prepare to close all cooling ducts. Activate when scale registers "red alert". FIRST DALEK: I obey. 15: INT. ICE TUNNEL (The three Thals move as fast as they can on their hands and knees along the rumbling tunnel. After MARAT has gone past, liquid ice starts to pour down from a crack in the tunnel roof. The three reach a junction and look round the corner. They see shards of ice being pushed towards them by a rush of liquid ice.) TARON: Back! (REBEC and MARAT reverse slightly enabling TARON to crawl into a side tunnel. The other two follow. The ice continues to flow.) 16: INT. DALEK CITY. CORRIDOR (The DOCTOR and CODAL also reach a junction in the corridors of the city. Hearing something, the DOCTOR stops CODAL proceeding. Round a corner, a DALEK glides along and also stops. Its eye-stalk swings round suspiciously. The DOCTOR indicates with sign language that they should proceed. They do so and turn the corner at the same time as the DALEK glides forward.) DOCTOR: Back! Back! (The two men rush back the way they came.) DALEK: Alert! Alert! Alert! (The DALEK fires ineffectually.) 17: INT. DALEK CITY. CONTROL ROOM FIRST DALEK: Level seven reports prisoners at liberty! SECOND DALEK: Instigate condition of maximum alert! Normal operations will cease! FIRST DALEK: I obey. (The FIRST DALEK glides off as the other presses a button on the bank of controls.) SECOND DALEK: All Daleks units will report to lower level. Maximum search to commence immediately. Locate and destroy prisoners. (It too turns and glides off to join the search.) SECOND DALEK: Locate and destroy! Locate and destroy! Locate and destroy! (Just one DALEK is left in the control room, its eye-stalk held with rapt attention of the wall dial. JO steps out of hiding and ducks back behind the vegetation tub.) 18: INT. DALEK CITY. CORRIDOR (A lift whines to a halt and the doors open. The DOCTOR and CODAL creep out. They move along, checking all the time that the corridor is clear. Turning a corner, they find it isn't as a DALEK sentinel stands at the end.) DOCTOR: Back to the lift! DALEK: Halt! Halt! DOCTOR: Back to the lift! (The DOCTOR and CODAL rush back into the lift and close the doors. Outside the DALEK fires and the lift doors blister under the heat.) 19: INT. DALEK CITY. LIFT (The DOCTOR presses the lift sensors but nothing happens.) DOCTOR: Well, it's not going up. They must be operating it by remote control. Well, there's only one thing for it - we'll have to go down. (He presses the button to do this and the lift sh**t downwards. It halts and the DOCTOR opens the doors and CODAL tensely waits with his g*n in his hand. CODAL looks through the opening gap and sees a DALEK outside.) CODAL: Shut the doors! (He dives to one side out of harm's way as the DOCTOR starts to close the doors.) 20: INT. DALEK CITY. CORRIDOR (The DALEK fires at the narrowing gap between the doors.) 21: INT. DALEK CITY. LIFT (The doors have closed. A vertical scorch mark is burnt onto the back wall of the lift where the DALEK firepower made it through the closing gap. The lift starts to go downwards again.) DOCTOR: Whew! That was close. CODAL: If they keep driving us down to the lower levels, we'll never get out. DOCTOR: Presumably, that's their intention. Still, we haven't much alternative, have we? Let's try another level. (He presses a button to open the door. CODAL holds him back and holds up his g*n.) CODAL: Let me go first, Doctor. At least I've got this. DOCTOR: Thank you very much. 22: INT. DALEK CITY. CORRIDOR (The two men come out of the lift and start to edge along the corridor. They reach a point where there is a grille in the wall which the DOCTOR stops to inspect.) 23: INT. ICE TUNNEL (Liquid ice is now dripping liberally into the tunnel as the three Thals shuffle desperately along. TARON pushes REBEC ahead as MARAT looks back and sees a wall of liquid ice coming up behind them. REBEC looks round a corner and sees a metal, manufactured shaft.) REBEC: Look - the shaft! (TARON sh**t up it, followed by REBEC. MARAT is now crawling through the ice which forms a lake on the floor of the tunnel as more pours towards them from another direction. TARON crawls up to a grille at the top of the shaft.) 24: INT. DALEK CITY. CORRIDOR (It looks out onto a corridor, into which the DOCTOR and CODAL suddenly walk. TARON yells out to them from the grille.) TARON: Doctor! Codal! (The two men go up to the eye-level grille, beyond which they can hear the rumbling of the ice.) DOCTOR: I know it's not the moment to ask how you got in there, but I'd be fascinated to know how. TARON: Help me free this grille! Hurry! The ice is moving up - behind us! DOCTOR: (To CODAL.) Push it up! (The DOCTOR and CODAL on one side, and the other Thals on the other, try to push the grille up and off the wall.) DOCTOR: (To CODAL.) Use your Kn*fe! (CODAL takes his Kn*fe out of his belt and gets it under the edge of the grille.) DOCTOR: Right now, lever it down, lever it down - right, now push! (The grille starts to come off the wall.) DOCTOR: That's it! (They lower the grille.) 25: INT. DALEK CITY. CONTROL ROOM (The dial on the wall has now entered the maximum zone. The DALEK turns from this and to the console, enabling JO to sneak behind it and round to another corner of the control room.) DALEK: Eruption nearing danger peak. All cooling ducts now being closed down. All cooling ducts now being closed down. 26: INT. ICE TUNNEL (MARAT desperately holds onto TARON'S hand in the tunnel. His lower half is submerged in the ice.) 27: INT. DALEK CITY. CORRIDOR (Two doors on either side of the now open shaft start to close together.) DOCTOR: Doors are closing! TARON: Hold them! Hold them! (The DOCTOR and CODAL on the outside, and TARON and REBEC within, grab hold of the doors and desperately try to stop them from closing.) 28: INT. ICE TUNNEL (MARAT is starting to succumb to the cold.) 29: INT. DALEK CITY. CORRIDOR CODAL: (Shouts.) I can't hold it! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) You must! Pull! (They all struggle to keep the gap open.) 30: INT. ICE TUNNEL (MARAT tries to slither through the ice and up the shaft watched by REBEC.) 31: INT. DALEK CITY. CORRIDOR (The machinery to close the doors dies down and the entrance is re-opened.) DOCTOR: Come on. (REBEC is the first to clamber out.) DOCTOR: Put your leg here. (They help her down.) 32: INT. ICE TUNNEL (With room created at the top of the shaft, MARAT is able to move out of the ice.) 33: INT. DALEK CITY. CORRIDOR (TARON gets out of the shaft and they pull a frozen MARAT out.) CODAL: (Shouts.) Look! (He points at the shadow of a DALEK on the wall as it nears the corridor junction.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Out of here! Quick - out! (TARON and CODAL help MARAT along.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Come on, get him out of here! (They move off as the DALEKS turn round the corner. They aim to f*re but are stopped as a cascade of liquid ice pours out of the open shaft and douses them.) 34: INT. DALEK CITY. CONTROL ROOM (JO watches as the sole DALEK in the control room glides off. She steps out of hiding and up to the control bank. She selects a button and presses it, thereby switching on the intercom.) FIRST DALEK: (OOV: Over intercom.) ...and prisoners have been driven to level zero. All units will proceed to this level immediately. SECOND DALEK: (OOV: Over intercom.) All ascent areas sealed off. Prisoners now confined to level zero. 35: INT. DALEK CITY. LEVEL ZERO CORRIDOR (The DOCTOR looks round a corner and sees that all is clear.) DOCTOR: Come on. (REBEC and TARON follow him. CODAL helps MARAT.) MARAT: You go on, I'll be alright. (At the end of the corridor, the DOCTOR urges the group through a doorway and into a room beyond. The door is coming down from the ceiling.) DOCTOR: Hurry, up. The door's going to close. Come on through. (They all dive under the door but MARAT, g*n in hand, hangs back.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Come on, Marat! Marat, come on! Marat! MARAT: (Shouts.) No, you get inside! (The DOCTOR ducks under the gap.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Come on, Marat! MARAT: (Shouts.) Get in! (He looks behind him, g*n ready.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Marat! (The door closes on the DOCTOR. MARAT fires at the DALEKS as they glide round the corner. His sh*ts have no effect but they easily blast him. He tries to f*re as he dies and falls to the ground.) 36: INT. DALEK CITY. COOLING CHAMBER (REBEC shouts at the closed door as the DOCTOR adjusts his sonic screwdriver.) REBEC: (Shouts.) Marat! Marat! TARON: There's nothing we can do - nothing. (The DOCTOR goes to a small junction box next to the door.) DOCTOR: Right now, cover your eyes! (He switches his screwdriver on and the junction box explodes...) 37: INT. DALEK CITY. LEVEL ZERO CORRIDOR (...just as the DALEK on the other side of the door presses the opening sensor. The door does not move. It turns to its two companions, one of which has the Thal map on the end of its sucker arm.) FIRST DALEK: This was hidden on the prisoner's body. SECOND DALEK: This shows where the Thals have concealed their expl*sives. Take a patrol immediately. Locate expl*sives and destroy. FIRST DALEK: I obey. (It glides off.) SECOND DALEK: Report. THIRD DALEK: Door mechanism fails to respond. SECOND DALEK: Bring cutting equipment. 38: INT. DALEK CITY. COOLING CHAMBER (CODAL looks at the destroyed junction box.) CODAL: Well, they won't open that in a hurry. DOCTOR: Never underestimate the Daleks, Codal. They won't let a little matter of a metal door delay them for long. REBEC: Doctor? DOCTOR: Yes? (He joins her in the middle of the room. Above them is the opening of a massive chimney-like shaft that leads straight upwards. Around the edge of the room are large banks of machinery.) REBEC: Looks as if all Marat's courage was for nothing. There's no other door. DOCTOR: No. So I don't know whether I've locked the Daleks out or ourselves in. TARON: Have a look at this. (The DOCTOR joins TARON at one of the pieces of machinery. Part of it seems to have slats of ice around the edge.) TARON: What do you make of it? (The DOCTOR touches the machine and snatches his hand back.) DOCTOR: Well if it wasn't for the fact that it doesn't make sense, I'd say it was a gigantic refrigeration unit. TARON: Yes, it's big enough to freeze an ocean. DOCTOR: Yes. REBEC: But why? All their cooling needs are taken care of by the ice tunnels. (They hear a thumping sound on the other side of the door. The DOCTOR looks up the chimney shaft which rises to the ground hundreds of feet above them.) DOCTOR: What's this? TARON: Well it's a ventilator shaft - carries out the hot gases from the unit. DOCTOR: Right, that's it then. TARON: What do you mean? Nobody could climb that! DOCTOR: You're probably right. Nevertheless it does lead up to the surface, doesn't it? CODAL: Shh! (CODAL is near the door.) CODAL: Something's happening outside. 39: INT. DALEK CITY. LEVEL ZERO CORRIDOR (Outside, a DALEK approaches the door. In place of its sucker arm, it has a heating blade. It presses this against the door and starts to melt a hole in the metal.) 40: INT. DALEK CITY. COOLING CHAMBER TARON: They're cutting through. Doctor? (The DOCTOR is busy with a large piece of plastic tarpaulin which covers one of the machinery banks.) TARON: Doctor, they're cutting through the door. DOCTOR: Well, it's pretty obvious they'd do something of the sort. TARON: Well, what are we going to do? DOCTOR: Nothing. When faced with the inevitable, don't waste precious time by resisting it. Now, what would you say the tensile strength of this material is? (TARON looks down at the plastic in puzzlement.) 41: INT. DALEK CITY. LEVEL ZERO CORRIDOR (The heating blade moves down the door, cutting as it goes.) 42: INT. DALEK CITY. CONTROL ROOM (Hearing a noise, JO ducks behind the control bank as two DALEKS enter from different directions. One of them is the one from level zero holding the Thal map.) FIRST DALEK: We located the position where the Thals have hidden their expl*sives. We are to proceed to the area and destroy them. (They turn and glide off, watched by JO. She rises up out of concealment and follows them.) 43: INT. DALEK CITY. LEVEL ZERO CORRIDOR (The blade moves further downwards.) 44: INT. DALEK CITY. COOLING CHAMBER (The DOCTOR has got the Thals working on the plastic sheet by cutting up rope and tying it to the four corners.) TARON: I wish you'd tell us what the point is of all this, Doctor. CODAL: Well, we're certainly not going to float out of here. DOCTOR: Huh! That's precisely what we are going to do. Come with me, Taron. I want to show you something. (The DOCTOR leads him under the shaft and starts to search his pockets.) TARON: Hurry up, Doctor, it's pretty hot in here. DOCTOR: Yes, exactly - but if we can turn the refrigeration unit up to maximum, the updraft will be hotter and even more powerful. Have a look at this. (He holds up a piece of paper and lets go of it. It starts to float upwards on the current of warm air.) TARON: So? Hot air rises. DOCTOR: Exactly - and if we can trap enough of it, we might be able to rise with it. TARON: (Smiles.) Fantastic! Will it work? DOCTOR: I've no idea. we haven't got much choice. TARON: Let's get on with it. 45: INT. DALEK CITY. LEVEL ZERO CORRIDOR (The blade cuts the top of what is starting to be an archway in the door.) 46: EXT. DALEK CITY ENTRANCE (Three DALEKS glide out of the city entrance, one of them holding the map. JO follows at a distance.) 47: INT. DALEK CITY. COOLING CHAMBER (The Thals spread the plastic under the chimney...) CODAL: Pull ... REBEC: Like this? (They then hold the plastic up to trap the heat as the DOCTOR turns up the dials on the machinery. He looks over to the door where very little of the archway now remains to be cut.) 48: INT. DALEK CITY. LEVEL ZERO CORRIDOR (The remorseless blade continues its progress.) 49: INT. DALEK CITY. COOLING CHAMBER (The plastic now fills the base of the shaft like a huge open parachute. The four ropes hang down, held onto by the Thals.) REBEC: (Shouts.) It's beginning to fill - it's rising! Hurry up, Doctor! CODAL: (Shouts.) Come on, Doctor! REBEC: (Shouts.) Come on! CODAL: (Shouts.) Get your rope! (But the DOCTOR'S attention has been caught by a small closed inspection hatch in the wall. He opens it...) REBEC: Doct... 50: INT. DALEK CITY. ARSENAL CAVERN (...and looks through in amazement.) 51: INT. DALEK CITY. LEVEL ZERO CORRIDOR (The cutting of the arch is finished.) DALEK: att*ck force prepare - f*re power maximum. The prisoners are to be exterminated. 52: INT. DALEK CITY. ARSENAL CAVERN (The sight through the inspection hatch is of a huge rock cavern. It is filled with rows and rows of frozen still DALEKS. The DOCTOR looks at the awesome sight.) TARON: (Shouts.) Doctor! 53: INT. DALEK CITY. COOLING CHAMBER (The three Thals are suspended a few inches off the floor, their feet in a loop at the bottom of their ropes.) CODAL: (Shouts.) Come on, Doctor, come on! It's going up! TARON: (Shouts.) Come on, Doctor, we're nearly there! (The DOCTOR takes his rope from CODAL and steps into the loop. His extra weight pulls them all down to the floor level.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Oh no! TARON: Oh! CODAL: (Shouts.) There's not enough lift to take all our weight! 54: INT. DALEK CITY. LEVEL ZERO CORRIDOR (The DALEKS batter at the door to force the arch down.) 55: INT. DALEK CITY. COOLING CHAMBER (The four trapped people gaze desperately upwards.) TARON: Rise, will you? Rise! DOCTOR: Give it time, Taron, give it time! REBEC: (Shouts.) It's not going to work! Doctor, it's not going to work!
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PLANET OF THE DALEKS BY: TERRY NATION EPISODE FOUR Original Air Date: 28 April, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. DALEK CITY. COOLING CHAMBER DOCTOR: It's lifting! It's beginning to lift! (The four jerk slightly as the parachute starts to climb.) DOCTOR: Hang on tight! TARON: I got... DOCTOR: Hang on! TARON: It's going... (The four are lifted off the ground and upwards. The thudding sound is still coming from the door as...) 2: INT. DALEK CITY. LEVEL ZERO CORRIDOR (...as on the other side, the DALEKS batter away at it.) 3: INT. DALEK CITY. COOLING CHAMBER (Only the legs of the four can now be seen as the chute moves further upwards. The cut arch in the door comes down and the DALEKS start to glide in...just as the feet of the four move up out of sight. The DALEKS look round the empty room and the one with the cutting blade as an arm states the obvious...) FIRST DALEK: Escape from this section is impossible. The prisoners are hiding. Locate and destroy. They are to be exterminated! (The DALEKS look round the empty room in bafflement.) 4: INT. COOLING SHAFT (The chute slowly climbs with the four hanging desperately on. REBEC looks down and then, wishing she hadn't, closes her eyes.) TARON: How far have we come? DOCTOR: Well, it's hard to tell. Let's hope we're high enough to be out of range. 5: INT. DALEK CITY. COOLING CHAMBER (One of the DALEKS has at last looked upwards.) SECOND DALEK: Prisoners located! Prisoners located! (The others swing round to look as the SECOND DALEK aims upwards with its g*n and fires.) 6: INT. COOLING SHAFT (The force of the blast fails to reach the four in the shaft.) DOCTOR: Yes, we are out of range. That's a relief. You alright, Rebec? REBEC: I can't stand heights. I daren't look down. TARON: Just keep your eyes closed and hang on tight. You'll be alright. CODAL: Any idea how far to the surface? DOCTOR: Miles, I should think. Don't forget we started at the lowest level of the city. Should be a long slow haul. 7: INT. DALEK CITY. COOLING CHAMBER FIRST DALEK: A patrol will ascend to surface level and proceed immediately to the point where the shaft emerges. Patrol will require to travel at maximum speed to reach the point before prisoners escape. (A DALEK glides out to carry out the order.) FIRST DALEK: An anti-gravitational disc is to be brought here at once. SECOND DALEK: I obey. 8: JUNGLE. ROCKFACE (The three DALEKS with the map of the expl*sives carry on through the jungle, failing to see that JO is managing to keep up with them. She hides behind some tall reeds and watches as the DALEKS approach a rockface. One of them moves forward and moves its sucker arm over a niche in the rocks.) FIRST DALEK: expl*sives located - assist. (The DALEK with the map moves backwards to allow the third forward to assist. JO watches. The one with the map senses something and turns towards JO'S hiding place. She ducks down. The DALEK glides forward but doesn't search far and glides back to the other two DALEKS. In the meantime, they have managed to uncover the three b*mb and placed them on a rockshelf.) FIRST DALEK: The expl*sives are equipped with detonating mechanisms. SECOND DALEK: We will detonate them here - activate mechanism. (JO watches again.) FIRST DALEK: All mechanisms primed. The b*mb will self-detonate. SECOND DALEK: We will return to the city. (As the DALEKS move off, scree falls downwards from the rockface. JO crouches down even further as the DALEKS glide past. Once they have gone, she steps out of hiding and moves across to the b*mb. She hesitates and then starts to turn the timing mechanism on the first b*mb to the "off" position. She does the same with the second. More scree starts to fall on top of her. She reaches out for the third b*mb, when the rockfall becomes more serious and a small boulder lands on top of her head. She is instantly knocked unconscious to the ground - leaving the timer on the third b*mb ticking away...) 9: INT. COOLING SHAFT (The four escapees move further upwards.) DOCTOR: You know, after this, I think I must take up hot-air ballooning. It really is most exhilarating. REBEC: I'd prefer a rocket to take me off this planet. DOCTOR: Ah, cheer up, my dear. Just you hang on tight - we're perfectly safe. (They fail to see that one corner of the plastic is starting to tear where the rope is attached.) 10: INT. DALEK CITY. COOLING CHAMBER (Hundreds of feet down below, a small ramp has been placed directly under the shaft opening. Within it are a series of flashing lights. The six DALEKS assembled wait...) SECOND DALEK: Anti-gravitational disc in position. Energy level building to lift-off capacity. Prepare for ascent. (One of the DALEKS glides up the ramp and onto the disc.) SECOND DALEK: Lift off. (The DALEK starts to rise upwards.) 11: EXT. JUNGLE (Three more DALEKS, on their mission to intercept the four escapees at the end of their journey, glide through the jungle.) FIRST DALEK: We are nearing the top of the shaft. Central command reports prisoners still in shaft. 12: JUNGLE. ROCKFACE (JO is still unconscious. The timer on the third b*mb is almost at the detonation point. At last, JO starts to slowly recover. Holding her head, she struggles into a sitting position. Her face looks cloudy as she looks round and takes in her surroundings. Suddenly she remembers and looks upwards. She jumps up and grabs the two unprimed b*mb and runs off with them - just as the three DALEKS on their way to the shaft exit glide up. JO dives behind a wall of rock to shield her from the blast as the third b*mb explodes - destroying the three DALEKS. Carrying the two b*mb, JO steps over the wreckage of the three DALEKS as the wildlife in the jungle cries out in a panic at the blast.) 13: INT. COOLING SHAFT (The DALEK on the anti-gravitational disc moves further up the shaft. TARON looks down and sees its distant shape.) TARON: Doctor? There's something coming up after us. (The DOCTOR looks down.) DOCTOR: Well, its rate of ascent doesn't seem much faster than ours. We should reach the surface before it can catch up with us. (The tear in the plastic is getting longer. REBEC sees it.) REBEC: Doctor - look! (The DOCTOR looks up. The tear is on his rope.) DOCTOR: The whole thing's going! Get on the side! (The plastic tears. The DOCTOR jumps. Running down the side of the shaft are four ridges at each corner like ladder steps. The DOCTOR grabs one as he falls and desperately hangs on. The DALEK is still coming up.) 14: EXT. JUNGLE. SHAFT EXIT (The shaft emerges into the jungle through a raised area against a rockface. Using the handholds, CODAL, TARON and REBEC make it to the surface and climb out on three sides of the shaft. They look back downwards as they start to loosen their supplies of rope which hang off their belts.) REBEC: Taron - quickly! 15: INT. COOLING SHAFT (The DOCTOR has grabbed the very lowest of the ridges and therefore has no foothold. He strains to pull himself upwards as the DALEK gets nearer.) 16: EXT. JUNGLE. SHAFT EXIT CODAL: The Dalek's only just below him! (TARON starts to lower his rope into the shaft.) 17: INT. COOLING SHAFT (The end comes down and dangles inches above the DOCTOR. Holding on with one hand, he tries to reach for the rope with the other.) REBEC: (OOV: At the shaft exit.) He can't reach it! 18: EXT. JUNGLE. SHAFT EXIT CODAL: I'll try mine. (CODAL dangles his rope downwards.) 19: INT. COOLING SHAFT (As the DALEK gets nearer, CODAL'S rope reaches the DOCTOR. He has tied the end into a loop which the DOCTOR manages to step into. He lets go of the side and grabs the rope.) DOCTOR: Right! 20: EXT. JUNGLE. SHAFT EXIT (CODAL has put the rope round his own neck as TARON helps heave it upwards.) 21: INT. COOLING SHAFT (The DOCTOR gets near the top.) 22: EXT. JUNGLE. SHAFT EXIT TARON: Get on the step! Codal! CODAL: It got it! (TARON leaves CODAL to take the reduced strain on the rope and reaches into the shaft for the DOCTOR.) TARON: Give me your hand! (He takes the DOCTOR'S hand as he starts to emerge from the shaft. The strain on the rope now gone, CODAL is able to join TARON.) TARON: Come on, Doctor, that's it! (The DOCTOR'S head and shoulders come over the edge.) 23: INT. COOLING SHAFT (The DALEK is also near the top.) 24: EXT. JUNGLE. SHAFT EXIT (Leaving TARON with the escaping DOCTOR, CODAL joins REBEC who is with some heavy rocks on the other side of the shaft. They each strain at a rock and push them down into the shaft.) 25: INT. COOLING SHAFT (The rocks h*t the DALEK, sending both it and its disc plummeting back down to level zero with a large crash and a shower of debris.) 26: EXT. JUNGLE. SHAFT EXIT (As the smoke comes upwards, the Thals look downwards in exultation...) REBEC: We've done it! CODAL: Well done, Rebec. We've made it! TARON: Thanks to the Doctor. DOCTOR: Yes, well I think we ought to postpone the celebrations until we're in a slightly safer area. Come on. TARON: Yeah... (They run off the shaft platform.) 27: INT. DALEK CITY. CONTROL ROOM (Eight DALEKS are assembled in the control room being addressed by the DALEK LEADER.) DALEK LEADER: Whilst the aliens are at liberty, a full state of emergency will be maintained. Normal operations will be suspended. Spiridon sl*ve workers will cooperate with Dalek patrols in saturation level search. The aliens must be located and destroyed! 28: EXT. JUNGLE (JO is making her way through the jungle with the b*mb when she hears voices. She puts the b*mb down in some long grass and presses herself up against a tree and waits. TARON walks past, his g*n ready but the figure who follows him is a much more welcome sight. She runs towards him joyfully.) JO: Doctor! DOCTOR: (Amazed.) Jo! (Just as delighted, he hugs her. JO steps back and looks at him, babbling with delight as the Thals look on with some bemusement.) JO: (Overjoyed.) Oh, Doctor, I thought...I thought you were d*ad! I thought...oh, I don't know what I thought! I'm so pleased to see you! DOCTOR: Jo, you were in that Thal spaceship?! I saw it destroyed! JO: No, I wasn't. DOCTOR: But you were! JO: No, I wasn't. Look, Doctor, what's been happening? Where've you been? DOCTOR: Well, it's a long story and there were a few moments that were a trifle worrying... CODAL: A trifle worrying? (The Thals laugh.) DOCTOR: You know Codal and Taron, don't you? JO: (Nods.) Yes. DOCTOR: I don't think you've met Rebec? JO: Hello. REBEC: Hello. JO: Look, Doctor, the last I'd heard about you, you'd been captured by the Daleks, right? DOCTOR: Yeah, but... (JO races away with her questions as the DOCTOR tries manfully to interrupt her...) JO: And I was told that they were going to take you b... DOCTOR: Yes, I know that... JO: Because they're doing all these experiments... DOCTOR: Now look, Jo, please... JO: ...and then I thought you were going to be in them... (The DOCTOR cups her face in his hands.) DOCTOR: Alright, Jo...Jo! Jo! Jo! JO: I didn't know what I was going to do...! (JO at last falls silent.) DOCTOR: Please? (The Thals smile.) DOCTOR: (To TARON.) Look, will you excuse us for a moment? My friend has rather a lot to talk about! TARON: Of course. (The DOCTOR leads JO across the clearing. She immediately starts up again.) JO: Doctor, wait till you hear what happened to me! It was te...and then I got rescued by this bowl! (Left behind, TARON and REBEC sit down. They eat small pieces of food concentrates but TARON is silent.) REBEC: You might say you're glad to see me? TARON: I might. Why did you come? REBEC: I was part of the back-up crew. I was trained and ready - I had no choice. (CODAL joins them.) TARON: That's not true. There were dozens of other people trained to the same state of readiness as you. You could have backed out. REBEC: Why should I? I wanted to come on the first landing, and you made sure I was kept out of your crew. So when the chance came, I took it. (There is an uncomfortable silence.) CODAL: Look...I...I think one of us ought to keep watch. I'll take the first stretch. (He moves off.) TARON: (To REBEC.) You shouldn't have come! REBEC: Now I'm here, we're together again - and there's nothing you can do about it. TARON: But don't you realise what you've done? Can't you see the position you've put me in? I mean, not counting Jo and the Doctor, there's only five of us left now. Five of us out of two missions! And somehow we've got to achieve what we set out to do. We must destroy the Daleks! REBEC: And how does my being here change that? TARON: Because... (He sighs.) TARON: Because I love you. I can't convert you into a cypher. But from now on, every judgment I make will be clouded. I'll even hesitate to take the right risks because I'll be worrying about you. (REBEC shakes her head.) REBEC: I'm sorry. I didn't think of it like that. I didn't understand. TARON: Well you might understand this - your being here might be the very reason the Daleks win. (REBEC looks at him. He sighs and moves off.) 29: INT. DALEK CITY. LABORATORY (Beyond the window in the laboratory that overlooks the control room, two DALEKS confer...) FIRST DALEK: Our patrols report no contact with the aliens. Temperatures falling rapidly. SECOND DALEK: The search will continue. FIRST DALEK: I obey. SECOND DALEK: Supreme Command has decreed that we prepare a bacteriological culture that will destroy all living tissue. Daleks and Spiridon sl*ve workers will be given immunity to the disease. (Within the laboratory is a large glass t*nk. In the base of it is a pile of vegetation with a yellow spongy fungus growing on it.) FIRST DALEK: If the aliens are not taken, the bacteria is to be released. Without immunity, no living thing can survive the disease. All will be exterminated! 30: EXT. JUNGLE (The DOCTOR and JO sit in the jungle as they talk. An upset REBEC is still sat nearby.) DOCTOR: But, Jo, why on earth didn't you stay in the TARDIS? We'd have been safe there. JO: Well, Doctor, you didn't look very safe. Well, I thought you were dying and I went out to try and find some help for you. DOCTOR: On a planet full of Daleks? Well surely I warned you? JO: Well, Doctor, you didn't tell me anything. You just rushed into the TARDIS, you...you rattled off some sort of a message and...well, then you flaked out. DOCTOR: Did I? JO: (Nods.) Uh huh. DOCTOR: Oh, I'm sorry, Jo. I'm afraid I wasn't myself. JO: Doctor? DOCTOR: Mmm? JO: What did you say to the Time Lords in your message? DOCTOR: Well, I told them about the Dalek spaceship leaving the Ogron planet and told them to send the TARDIS after it. JO: But what are the Daleks doing on this planet? DOCTOR: They've got an army based here, Jo - the mightiest army of Daleks there's ever been. JO: But...but when we were on the Ogron planet, we...we put a stop to their plan to sort of cause a w*r? DOCTOR: Well, evidently that was only part of their plan - to make their conquest easier perhaps? Well, with an army this size, we now know they intend to inv*de the galaxy anyway - unless we can stop them. JO: Just us? DOCTOR: Well, and our Thal friends. (Looking over to the group, he catches sight of the upset REBEC.) DOCTOR: Oh dear. (To JO, quietly.) Perhaps a female shoulder to cry on might come in handy? JO: (Smiles.) Right. DOCTOR: Give it a try, will you? JO: Yes. (With a smile on her face, JO moves up to REBEC and starts quietly chatting. The DOCTOR moves across the clearing to where a distracted TARON stares into space.) DOCTOR: The load getting a little heavy? (TARON gives a rueful smile.) TARON: I don't think I'm equipped to handle all this any more. DOCTOR: Oh, why? Just because you've found out that you're not made of stone? TARON: This job doesn't allow for human weakness. DOCTOR: Then they should have sent a machine, shouldn't they? TARON: I thought they had. I was wrong. DOCTOR: Good, because the business of command is not for a machine, is it? The moment that we forget that we're dealing with people, then we're no better off than the machines that we came here to destroy. When we start acting and thinking like the Daleks, Taron, the battle is lost. (TARON frowns in thought at the DOCTOR'S words. Before he can react further, he hears something.) TARON: Someone coming! (With a low whistle of a signal, CODAL comes into the clearing.) CODAL: Look who I found. (VABER and LATEP are right behind him.) TARON: (To VABER.) What happened to you? VABER: What happened to you? We saw the ice eruption and assumed you hadn't made it. LATEP: We went to the entrance of the city anyway. VABER: I wanted to take a chance - make a rush, but we found our b*mb was faulty. LATEP: So we had to go back to get the other b*mb, to find some Daleks had been there before us and blown themselves up. JO: Well, I managed to get two of the b*mb before that. I've hidden them. DOCTOR: Well done, Jo. If those two are alright, we at least have a chance. TARON: We must move on. It'll be dark soon. CODAL: And cold. You haven't experienced a full Spiridon night, Doctor. You don't know what cold is until you have. DOCTOR: Then we must find shelter. VABER: Right, but not here. There are Daleks and Spiridon sl*ve workers making a terrific sweep across the jungle - not that far behind us. TARON: Well prepare to move. We'll go to the plain of stones. JO: Plain of stones? CODAL: Yes, it's an area of huge boulders. They absorb the heat of the sun and then discharge it at night. DOCTOR: You know, this planet never ceases to amaze me. First we find a gigantic refrigerator and now night storage heaters. It really sounds quite luxurious. CODAL: Not exactly, Doctor. All the animal life from the jungle goes there as well. (JO looks alarmed at this prospect.) DOCTOR: Oh, that's nice. Right, let's get going. (VABER and CODAL move off, following TARON and REBEC.) DOCTOR: Jo, where did you hide the b*mb? JO: I'll get them. LATEP: Let me help you. JO: They're here. (JO shows him the b*mb in the grass. The young Thal seems attracted to JO.) LATEP: We...haven't met properly. I am Latep. JO: I'm Jo. How do you do? (She takes his hand. It hangs limp in hers.) JO: Oh...oh. You don't know about a handshake? Well, you see, it's an old Earth custom. We clasp hands like that and...it shows that we're good friends and that we're pleased to meet one another. (LATEP smiles as they hold hands.) JO: Come on. (Carrying the b*mb, they follow the others.) 31: EXT. JUNGLE (NIGHT) (Night is falling again. Several DALEKS and fur-covered Spiridons move through the darkened jungle. Crouched in the bushes, the DOCTOR, JO, CODAL and LATEP watch them.) DOCTOR: (Whispers.) What are those animals? CODAL: (Quietly.) They're not animals, Doctor - Spiridons. They wear those furs against the cold. DOCTOR: (Quietly.) That's good. At least we can see them now. Did you notice anything peculiar about the Daleks, Jo? JO: Not particularly - why? DOCTOR: Only that their movements seem to be slower. LATEP: Well, fast enough to k*ll us on sight, Doctor. CODAL: Almost as though their mechanical reflexes weren't functioning properly. DOCTOR: Yes, but the reason? The reason is the important thing. CODAL: They're out of range now. I think we can chance a move. JO: Come on, let's do it. I'm freezing! (They move onwards.) 32: EXT. PLAIN OF STONES (NIGHT) (The plain of stones is a barren area of rocks and crags. The night sky is illuminated by the Spiridon version of the aurora borealis whilst the stones themselves glow slightly in the moonlight. The DOCTOR and JO walk into the plain, followed by the Thals. The group immediately stands right up against various of the stones, absorbing their heat. Suddenly, they hear the sound of the flapping of huge wings and they duck down as a shadow sh**t over them and a roar echoes over the area. The danger having passed, they look upwards.) REBEC: What was that? TARON: I don't know. We've heard them before - never seen them. Latep, take first guard. (LATEP moves off to carry out the order.) TARON: Doctor? DOCTOR: Yes...yes, of course. TARON: Do you mind? DOCTOR: Come on, Jo. Come and keep me company. JO: Alright. (They move off as VABER starts to harangue TARON with his usual mantra...) VABER: I hate this running and hiding. We need to att*ck - and soon! TARON: I'll decide when - and how. VABER: You've been putting off this att*ck since we got here. What do you want - a guarantee of safety? TARON: No, I just want the best possible guarantee of success. Any attempt that fails is worth nothing! (VABER walks off in a sulk. TARON crouches down near VABER.) TARON: Codal, that giant refrigeration unit - what did you make of it? CODAL: It was neutron powered... TARON: Yeah... CODAL: Could run for a thousand years. I'm convinced that somehow it's vital to the Dalek's survival. TARON: Why do they need such low temperatures? CODAL: I can't answer that...but I am sure that refrigeration unit is the key to our att*ck. (VABER returns having heard this.) VABER: Are you saying is we destroy the refrigeration plant, we destroy the Daleks? CODAL: Yes...yes, I think it would wipe them out. VABER: Then that's it! That's the way we do it! We go in through the shaft you came out of - or better still, we lower the b*mb down. TARON: The Daleks wouldn't have left the top of that shaft unguarded. VABER: We think about that when we get there. If we leave now, we can be there before light. TARON: We'll att*ck - but this has to be planned. (Firmly.) Until it is, we'll wait. VABER: Wait! Wait - that's all we've heard from you! Why don't you face it, Taron? Admit what we all know - be honest - you're afraid. Miro would have taken action by now - he was a real commander, and he wouldn't have had her hanging around our necks! (He gestures angrily at REBEC. Pushed beyond his limits, TARON starts to fight VABER. CODAL jumps up and tries to pull TARON off.) CODAL: Latep! (VABER is trying to pull his g*n out. Even with CODAL trying to hold him, the bigger and stronger TARON manages to club the w*apon to the ground before CODAL pinions his arms. LATEP holds VABER in a similar fashion. TARON calms down as REBEC hands him his own g*n.) TARON: (Quietly.) I am still in command here...and like it or not, you will obey orders. And believe me, Vaber, if you don't, I shan't hesitate to k*ll you. (VABER pulls himself free of LATEP and again moves off glowering in anger.) TARON: Now let's all get some rest. Latep, go back to your post. (LATEP moves off to keep guard whilst all the Thals, except VABER settle down against the stones. He turns and stares at TARON.) 33: INT. DALEK CITY. LABORATORY (NIGHT) (Three DALEKS hover round the bacteria t*nk.) FIRST DALEK: The bacteria are multiplying. SECOND DALEK: We have calculated that after the release of the culture into the atmosphere, it will totally contaminate the planet within the space of one Spiridon day. FIRST DALEK: All plant life will wither and die. SECOND DALEK: All un-immunised animal life will die within one hour of inhaling the contaminated air. DALEK LEADER: Approved - continue with preparations. (The DALEK LEADER glides out of the laboratory area.) FIRST DALEK: The most virulent form of the bacteria will be ready for release in half a Spiridon day. 34: INT. DALEK CITY. CONTROL ROOM (NIGHT) (The DALEK LEADER glides up to another in the control room.) DALEK LEADER: Report. THIRD DALEK: Spiridon slaves report aliens believed to be hiding at the plain of stones. DALEK LEADER: Order all search units into that area. THIRD DALEK: I obey. 35: EXT. PLAIN OF STONES (NIGHT) (TARON, asleep next to REBEC, wakes up. He glances round. Seeing that someone is missing, he whispers loudly into the gloom.) TARON: Latep! Doctor! (He bends down and starts to shake awake a sleeping CODAL.) TARON: Codal...Codal! (LATEP runs up.) TARON: Where's Vaber? CODAL: He was sitting over there. (TARON stands. CODAL nods to LATEP to search the area with him. The DOCTOR returns.) TARON: Doctor, the b*mb have gone. DOCTOR: What? (CODAL brings over a sheet of paper.) CODAL: He left this. (TARON takes the note and reads...) TARON: "I'll do what I have to do alone". (He hands the note to the DOCTOR who reads it.) DOCTOR: He doesn't stand a chance. TARON: That's the last of the expl*sives. CODAL: We've got to stop him. TARON: I intend to. Codal, will you come with me? Doctor, would you stay here? DOCTOR: If that's what you want. TARON: Thanks. CODAL: He'll be heading for the ventilator shaft. TARON: Yeah...we'll be back as soon as we can. Latep, stay here. (To CODAL.) Come on. (They move off into the night.) REBEC: Be careful, Taron. (The DOCTOR glances round.) DOCTOR: Have you still got your g*n with you? REBEC: Yes. DOCTOR: That's good. Keep them handy, will you? Look around you. (REBEC and the others look round. In the darkness, the eyes of animals, like so many little points of light, are staring at them...) 36: EXT. JUNGLE (NIGHT) (Carrying the two b*mb, VABER makes his way through the darkened trees. Stepping into a clearing, he looks up with alarm as several fur-covered Spiridons come out of the gloom towards him. They quickly overpower him and wrestle him to the ground. One of them stands and looks down.) SPIRIDON: Take him to the Daleks...
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PLANET OF THE DALEKS BY: TERRY NATION EPISODE FIVE Original Air Date: 5 May, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: EXT. JUNGLE (NIGHT) (VABER struggles in the Spiridon's grasp.) SPIRIDON: Take him to the Daleks... (They lift him to his feet and start to carry both him and the two b*mb away.) 2: EXT. ANOTHER PART OF THE JUNGLE (NIGHT) (TARON and CODAL follow VABER'S trail. Hearing movement, they hide in the bushes as watch as the procession of the Spiridons and their prisoner passes.) TARON: (Whispers.) They've got Vaber. CODAL: And the b*mb! TARON: (Whispers.) We must get them. (They start to follow the group.) 3: EXT. PLAIN OF STONES (NIGHT) (The eyes of the animals watching the group at the plain of stones continue to glow in the darkness. The four left behind have lit a f*re in the rocks and look out at the circle of watchers.) REBEC: What sort of creatures are they? DOCTOR: I've no idea...but whatever they are, they're moving in closer. REBEC: I'll try a sh*t at them. (She fires her g*n. The end lights up and one of the creatures gives a howl of pain. The eyes disappear.) LATEP: (Delighted.) They've gone. It scared them off. DOCTOR: Yes...but they don't stay scared for long, do they? (The eyes appear in the darkness as the creatures return. REBEC fires again. There is another howl of pain.) LATEP: Let them get in closer. (REBEC looks at her g*n.) REBEC: That's the last of my charges! (LATEP looks at his.) LATEP: And I've only two left. (The eyes continue to watch.) 4: EXT. JUNGLE (NIGHT) (The procession of Spiridons moves through the jungle. One leads the way, two follow with the struggling VABER, a fourth carries the b*mb and a fifth brings up the rear. This one holds back slightly and TARON and CODAL jump out of the trees and wrestle it to the ground. TARON has a large stick and he clubs the Spiridon with it. They take the fur off the invisible creature.) TARON: Help me into this. CODAL: Alright. TARON: Let's see if we can get in. (TARON wraps the fur over his shoulders.) TARON: Now listen, I'll try to get close to one of the others. Be ready to move in when I jump in. CODAL: Right. TARON: Right. CODAL: Good luck. (TARON covers his head and moves off after the others.) 5: EXT. PLAIN OF STONES (NIGHT) (LATEP fires his g*n. Another creature howls and he checks the levels of his now useless g*n.) LATEP: That's it. (The group looks nervously at each other. The DOCTOR picks up a large stick.) DOCTOR: Well, if they come in ones and twos, we might manage to b*at them off. LATEP: And if they rush us? (The DOCTOR places the stick into the f*re, waits a minute and then lifts it out. The end is alight.) DOCTOR: I'm going to try something. (He stands up and waves the flaming torch into the darkness with wild cries. Frightened, the creatures roar and the pinpoints of lighted eyes start to disappear.) DOCTOR: Don't just stand round there - get yourselves torches. They're frightened of flame. LATEP: But, Doctor, there won't be enough wood for the f*re. DOCTOR: We'll just have to hope that supply lasts till morning. We've got to keep that f*re going at all costs! (He waves his torch again.) 6: EXT. JUNGLE (NIGHT) (The group of Spiridons continues through the trees. CODAL has kept up with them and whispers to the last of the group.) CODAL: Taron! Taron! (The final fur-wrapped figure hangs back and looks at the Thal.) CODAL: If you can work your way through to Vaber, and get close to him, then I'll... (CODAL hesitates as he starts to suspect the worst. He opens the front of the fur wrap. There is nothing behind it. The real Spiridon pushes CODAL to the ground and then lifts up a huge rock to crush him with. In so doing, he fails to see TARON behind him with a raised stick and it is the Spiridon instead who becomes the victim. TARON helps CODAL up.) TARON: (Whispers.) Come on... (CODAL looks the worst for wear.) TARON: (Whispers.) You nearly got yourself k*lled! CODAL: (Quietly.) I thought it was you. (TARON picks up the fur from the Spiridon on the ground.) TARON: (Whispers.) Get into this. (CODAL puts the fur round himself.) TARON: (Whispers.) Now stay close to me. We've got to near the one carrying the b*mb. When I jump him, grab the b*mb and make off quickly. Make as much noise as you can. They'll follow you. I'll try and free Vaber. CODAL: (Quietly.) Oh, I'll...I'll try and head back for the Doctor. If all goes well, I'll meet you there. TARON: (Whispers.) Alright. (They cover themselves fully and follow the group again.) 7: EXT. PLAIN OF STONES (DAWN) (The sky is starting to become lighter. The DOCTOR is deep in thought over the remains of the f*re. JO huddles in the cold.) JO: Penny for them? DOCTOR: Ah, I was just thinking about Vaber. What on earth possessed him to go rushing off like that? REBEC: Once we'd worked out the plan, he wanted to att*ck straight away. DOCTOR: (Puzzled.) Plan, what plan? REBEC: To blow up the refrigeration unit. DOCTOR: (Appalled.) What? But that's the worse thing he could possibly do. REBEC: But Codal said if we destroyed the refrigeration unit, we'd be destroying the Daleks. DOCTOR: On the contrary, you'd be bringing their army to life. LATEP: How, Doctor? JO: Oh, I get it - the Daleks you saw in the arsenal were in, sort of, suspended animation? DOCTOR: No ageing process, no degeneration. An army of Daleks in cold storage until they're needed. REBEC: So that's why they built the refrigeration unit? JO: And you mean, they need a constant controllable low temperature because the volcano's too unstable? DOCTOR: Yes, that's about it. And the moment that temperature rises, the Dalek army's going to be on the move. Now we've got to find the others and warn them. (Suddenly...) WESTER: Ah, Jo! (A purple fur-covered figure looms over them.) DOCTOR: A Spiridon! (The DOCTOR jumps to his feet with a stick to club it.) JO: Doctor - no! (The DOCTOR hesitates as JO grabs his arm.) JO: That's Wester - he's the Spiridon that helped me. DOCTOR: You sure? JO: Yes. (The DOCTOR throws his stick down.) DOCTOR: Well, please accept my thanks...Mr. Wester. I owe you a very great deal. WESTER: Jo, I have news from inside the city. JO: Well, what is it? WESTER: The Daleks have prepared a bacteria b*mb. It will destroy every living thing on this planet. DOCTOR: Except, presumably, the Daleks? WESTER: Yes, they have a way of immunising themselves. They are preparing them to release the b*mb now. JO: Well, what shall we do? WESTER: I shall go back into the city. Perhaps I can find some way of delaying them. DOCTOR: Well, thank you for warning us. We'll do all that we can to help you. WESTER: Goodbye, Jo. JO: Goodbye, Wester. WESTER: I must go now. (The figure moves off. JO shouts after him.) JO: Wester! Take care. REBEC: (To the DOCTOR.) What shall we do about Taron and Codal? DOCTOR: Well, we'll wait till it's full light, if they're not back by then, we move out without them. REBEC: Very well. (REBEC and LATEP move off to confer.) JO: Doctor - what shall we do? DOCTOR: Well, first of all we've got to stop the Daleks releasing their bacteria, second - we've got to make sure their army stays inactive and third - we've got to generally put an end to their chances of invasion of other planets. JO: Well, how're we going to do all that? (The DOCTOR checks to make sure that the Thals can't hear him and then shakes his head.) DOCTOR: I haven't the faintest idea. 8: EXT. JUNGLE CLEARING (The Spiridons drag VABER into a clearing where two DALEKS wait.) DALEK: Halt! (The group halts. One of them steps forward with the b*mb.) DALEK: What is this? SPIRIDON: We have captured one of the aliens. DALEK: We will question him. (It glides closer to VABER.) DALEK: Where are the others hiding? (VABER remains silent.) DALEK: Answer! VABER: If you want them... (TARON and CODAL are with the group. TARON looks alarmed at the start of this answer...) VABER: If you want them - you find them! DALEK: Answer - or we will exterminate you! VABER: I haven't seen them. DALEK: The others are near the plain of stones. You will lead us to them. (The g*n aim at him.) VABER: (Frightened.) No! DALEK: You will lead us to them! VABER: (Frightened.) No...no, don't f*re. I'll take you there. Whatever you say. DALEK: We will start immediately. (VABER throws off the Spiridon holding him.) VABER: It's...it's back this way. (He points in one direction but then pushes his Spiridon guards aside and dives into the trees. A Spiridon gives chase. The DALEKS f*re, k*lling both VABER and their Spiridon sl*ve. TARON and VABER use the distraction to try to get the b*mb. TARON grabs the Spiridon who is holding them while CODAL snatches the b*mb from his grasp. They then both run off into the jungle. The DALEKS follow.) DALEK: Pursue! Pursue! 9: INT. DALEK CITY. CONTROL ROOM (The DALEK LEADER glides from the control room and towards the laboratory where another DALEK waits near the t*nk of bacteria. Over it, hangs a heat-lamp type of device.) 10: INT. DALEK CITY. LABORATORY (The door slides upwards and the DALEK LEADER enters.) DALEK LEADER: Report. SECOND DALEK: The antidote is prepared and ready to be administered. DALEK LEADER: Demonstrate. (The overhead lamp lowers and flashes over the two DALEKS.) SECOND DALEK: Synthesised anti-bacteria elements are released in immediate vicinity of subject. The elements provide immunity on contact. (The lamp stops flashing.) SECOND DALEK: We are now protected against the bacteria. DALEK LEADER: Approved. I will order all Dalek units and Spiridon sl*ve workers assembled here for treatment shortly. Is the bacteria ready for release? SECOND DALEK: All is prepared. (The bacteria has continued to develop. The vegetation matter in the t*nk has now disappeared and a green gelatinous substance now remains.) DALEK LEADER: The final phase of the operation is to commence immediately. (The DALEK LEADER turns to leave the room.) SECOND DALEK: Removal of the container top is all that is required to allow bacteria to enter the atmosphere. 11: INT. DALEK CITY. CONTROL ROOM (The DALEK LEADER glides into the control room.) DALEK LEADER: Transmit a general call to all units. They are to report here immediately for protective treatment prior to release of bacteria. THIRD DALEK: I obey. 12: EXT. PLAIN OF STONES (The DOCTOR is stamping out the smoking cinders of the f*re when LATEP holds up a hand of caution.) LATEP: Shh! (They wait. TARON and CODAL run, gasping for breath, into the plain carrying the b*mb and the furs.) DOCTOR: Where on earth did you get those? TARON: We persuaded a couple of Spiridons to part with them. DOCTOR: Well done. Have you got the b*mb? CODAL: Yes. LATEP: Where's Vaber? CODAL: He's d*ad. TARON: I'll tell you about that later. We've got to move away from here. There's a Dalek patrol right behind us. DOCTOR: Now wait! We can't go on running forever. It's time for a change of tactics. TARON: We can't risk a straightforward confrontation. DOCTOR: No, I agree, so let's stop for a moment and use our intelligence, shall we? TARON: Alright...what have you got in mind? DOCTOR: Well, to take any effective and permanent action, we've got to get inside that city. REBEC: How do we do that? DOCTOR: Well, I do have a plan. You'll have to trust me. (The Thals look at each other, then...) TARON: What do you want us to do? DOCTOR: Well, first of all, we've got to make sure that a Dalek patrol finds us. Somebody must go out, show themselves and then lead them back here. LATEP: I'll go. DOCTOR: Thank you, Latep. Now try and lead them around for a bit before you bring them back here. We'll need a little time to get ourselves ready. LATEP: Alright. (He starts to leave.) JO: Wait, Latep, I'm coming with you. DOCTOR: (Shocked.) Jo! JO: Doctor, I'm tired of being hunted too. DOCTOR: Yes, alright. (The two move off.) DOCTOR: Taron? (The DOCTOR indicates that he wants TARON to follow him. He hands his fur to REBEC.) CODAL: We'll keep watch. (TARON follows the DOCTOR.) 13: EXT. ICE POOL (Nearby is a large pool of molten ice. Steam and bubbles rise out of it, causing a mist to hang over the whole area. The DOCTOR leads TARON down to it.) DOCTOR: I noticed this this morning. Have you seen them before? TARON: Yes, they're all over the place - molten ice pools. A sort of natural spring. (The DOCTOR takes off a glove and picks out some of the molten ice in his hand. He shakes it off.) DOCTOR: Yes, and hyper-cold. Yes, it's an odd phenomena - the water on this planet. It sustains sub-zero temperatures and yet remains semi-liquid. TARON: I'm sorry, I don't see the significance of all this. We've known about these ice pools for some time. DOCTOR: The Daleks are vulnerable to extremely low temperatures...and they hardly function at all at sub-zero level. (TARON smiles as he realises what the DOCTOR is getting at.) TARON: Yes...yes, I see. Come on, let's look around. Find a way of making it work. DOCTOR: Yes, it's a good feeling, isn't it? When the hunted become the hunters. 14: EXT. DALEK CITY ENTRANCE (A group of five Spiridon sl*ve workers and their DALEK escort glide into the city, past the DALEK guards.) 15: INT. DALEK CITY. CONTROL ROOM (They enter the control room and stand in line before the DALEK LEADER.) DALEK LEADER: Spiridon sl*ve workers will proceed to level four to await treatment. Move! (The Spiridons shuffle off. The DALEK LEADER turns to another DALEK at the control bank.) DALEK LEADER: Report. SECOND DALEK: Dalek patrol three is proceeding towards the city with remainder of Spiridon sl*ve workers. DALEK LEADER: Only patrol seven remains unaccounted for. (It turns and faces another DALEK.) DALEK LEADER: Report. THIRD DALEK: Contact with patrol seven established. They have made contact with aliens and are in pursuit. They request permission to continue. DALEK LEADER: Permission granted. Advise that no prisoners are to be taken. They are to be exterminated. 16: EXT. JUNGLE (Hand in hand, JO and LATEP run through the trees and pause to rest, crouched down in a clearing. They both gasp for breath.) LATEP: You alright? JO: Bit winded. Never run so far in all my life! (She coughs.) LATEP: I think we've given them enough running around now. It's time we started back for the others. JO: Right. (He looks into the trees.) LATEP: (Whispers.) There we are! (Two DALEKS glide nearby.) LATEP: (Whispers.) Are you ready? JO: (Whispers.) Yes. (They stand up in sight of the DALEKS and run off. The DALEKS burst through the bushes in pursuit.) DALEK: Pursue! Pursue! Pursue! Surrender! 17: EXT. PLAIN OF STONES (The DOCTOR and TARON return to the CODAL and REBEC. She is keeping watch.) DOCTOR: Right, you all set? TARON: Yes, we're ready. DOCTOR: Good. REBEC: Doctor - it's Jo and Latep! (The two run gasping into the group.) JO: The Daleks are right behind us. (TARON looks at the DOCTOR.) TARON: Scatter! DOCTOR: Come on, Jo! (He grabs JO'S hand and they all run off in different directions. After a moment, the DALEKS glide into the plain of stones. Hidden behind one of the rocks, the DOCTOR and JO watch.) DOCTOR: Alright, I'll try and draw them off that way. (He nods in one direction. The DOCTOR runs off past the DALEKS before they can react into the mists.) FIRST DALEK: Give protective f*re. (The FIRST DALEK glides after him.) 18: EXT. ICE POOL (The DOCTOR steps through the mud at the edge of the molten pool and hides behind a rock.) DOCTOR: Taron! Taron, get ready! (The DALEK glides nearer and stops. The DOCTOR runs off again to draw it along and he manages to hide behind another rock just before it fires at him. As the DALEK glides forward, TARON runs over a small rise and grabs the DALEK. The DALEK starts to turn and therefore to be able to f*re at TARON.) DOCTOR: Get out of its line of f*re! (The DOCTOR runs up and starts to pull the DALEK with TARON.) DOCTOR: Pull it! (They start to pull it towards the molten pool.) FIRST DALEK: Assist! Assist! 19: EXT. PLAIN OF STONES (JO peeks out from behind her rock. The SECOND DALEK spots her.) SECOND DALEK: Halt! (JO runs out from the other side of the rock and tries desperately to keep behind the DALEK. They each turn one way and the other playing a desperate game of cat and mouse.) SECOND DALEK: Surrender! Surrender or you will be exterminated! Surrender! (The DALEK suddenly spins round knocking JO to the ground. She falls with a cry.) SECOND DALEK: Surrender or you will be exterminated! (It aims at her but suddenly CODAL runs forward and throws his Spiridon rug over it. He then starts to grapple with the creature himself.) SECOND DALEK: I cannot see! (LATEP and REBEC run forward. LATEP starts to h*t at the DALEK with a rock while REBEC helps JO to her feet in order that all four can help in the fight.) SECOND DALEK: Emergency! Alert! Vision impaired! 20: EXT. ICE POOL (Meanwhile, the DOCTOR and TARON are still struggling with the FIRST DALEK towards the molten pool. It swings its eye-stick round and hits TARON who falls to the ground. He looks up in terror as the DALEK aims at him but the DOCTOR exerts all his strength and pushes the creature onto an incline towards the pool. It starts to roll towards it.) FIRST DALEK: Assist! Assist! Assist! Assist! Assist! (As the FIRST DALEK enters the pool, the other four push the SECOND DALEK in the same direction, past the DOCTOR and TARON.) CODAL: Hold on! SECOND DALEK: Assist! Assist! (The SECOND DALEK enters the pool. The two creatures are both still at slight angles in the liquid. The group is overjoyed.) JO: We've beaten it! DOCTOR: Well done. Well done everybody! Now come on, Taron. We've got work to do. TARON: Latep, switch on your thermal liner. (The two men switch on the units on the belts and wade into the pool and up to the DALEKS.) DOCTOR: Keep out of their angle of f*re. They may still be dangerous. (They nod their understanding and grab hold of the casings.) DOCTOR: Right, now lift up the top section. (The two Thals do so.) DOCTOR: Are they d*ad? TARON: Yes, that...the shock of the sudden cold must have k*lled them straight away. (The group on the bank watch as the creatures inside as lifted out of the casing and dumped in the pool. REBEC looks on with disgust while JO'S eyes widen with horror at the sight.) DOCTOR: Right, get that one up onto the bank. (TARON and LATEP start to push the casing of the SECOND DALEK.) 21: INT. DALEK CITY. CONTROL ROOM (A fur covered Spiridon - WESTER - hangs about on the periphery of the control room. He moves quickly out of the way as a DALEK glides into the room and up to the DALEK LEADER.) DALEK LEADER: Report. SECOND DALEK: We have lost contact with patrol seven. Last reported position was they were entering the plain of stones in pursuit of the aliens. DALEK LEADER: No further information? SECOND DALEK: Weak signal from the a*t*matic distress transmitter, then silence. DALEK LEADER: We will wait no longer. (The DALEK LEADER glides into the laboratory. A THIRD glides round the corner and sees WESTER.) THIRD DALEK: Stop! What are you doing here? WESTER: My name is Wester. I have a vital message for the section leader. I've made contact with the aliens - lured them into a trap. THIRD DALEK: The section leader is occupied. WESTER: He ordered an immediate report. THIRD DALEK: You will enter the laboratory and report when the section leader is free. (WESTER enters the laboratory.) 22: INT. DALEK CITY. LABORATORY (The door slides down behind him. The two DALEKS within ignore him.) DALEK LEADER: We will commence to administer the protective treatments immediately. DALEK: I have located minor mechanical fault in the equipment. It will be rectified quickly. DALEK LEADER: Work at all speed. I shall assist you. (The DALEK LEADER turns and knocks the t*nk of bacteria.) DALEK: Caution! Caution! 23: EXT. DALEK CITY ENTRANCE (At a small distance, the DOCTOR looks at the city entrance. He then turns back to the group of JO, LATEP and the retrieved DALEK. He leans down and speaks to the casing.) DOCTOR: Alright, Rebec. REBEC: (OOV: Inside casing.) Yes, I think so. DOCTOR: Latep, you sure you know the way to the ventilator shaft? LATEP: Taron marked it on the chart, Doctor. JO: Can we come with you, Doctor? DOCTOR: I'm sorry, Jo. No, it must be a two-pronged att*ck and double our chances of success. Have you got the b*mb? (LATEP holds up one of the b*mb.) DOCTOR: Whichever group gets there first must detonate that b*mb in one of the tunnels near the cooling unit - block off the Daleks completely. Now, whatever you do, don't damage the refrigeration unit. It's absolutely vital that that continues to function. JO: We understand. (TARON and CODAL, wrapped in Spiridon furs run up. They hold a third fur.) TARON: Here you are then! DOCTOR: More gentle persuasion? TARON: You could put it like that. DOCTOR: Right, put it on. (TARON helps the DOCTOR into the fur. Only his head pokes out.) DOCTOR: Well, Jo, do I pass? JO: You'll do - at a pinch. Good luck, Doctor. (She hugs him.) DOCTOR: And to you. LATEP: Good luck. DOCTOR: Alright, Rebec? REBEC: (OOV: Inside casing.) Alright. DOCTOR: (To TARON and CODAL.) Okay? (The three cover their heads with the furs.) DOCTOR: Right, off we go. (The three "Spiridons" and their "DALEK" escort move towards the city entrance, watched by JO and LATEP. As the group of four approach the doors, a DALEK glides out. JO and LATEP duck into the bushes.) DALEK: All units were ordered to return to base. You are late. Report to central control immediately. (The group carries on into the city.) JO: (Whispers.) They're in! LATEP: (Whispers.) We'd better get going. JO: (Whispers.) Right. LATEP: (Whispers.) Come on. (They move off into the trees.) 24: INT. DALEK CITY. CONTROL ROOM (Beyond the glass, the two DALEKS and WESTER can still be seen in the laboratory. The DOCTOR'S group enters unchallenged and see what is taking place.) TARON: What are they doing? (TARON and the DOCTOR peek out of their furs.) DOCTOR: Presumably, they're preparing the bacteria. TARON: There's a Spiridon in there. DOCTOR: That's Wester! 25: INT. DALEK CITY. LABORATORY DALEK: Fault rectified. Equipment now fully operational. DALEK LEADER: We are both already immune. We will start to administer the protective treatment to all units at once. (WESTER runs forward and grabs the glass top of the t*nk and starts to heave it off.) DALEK LEADER: You must not open the container! (The misty substance within starts to fill the room. The air starts to flare red as WESTER, unprotected, groans and falls to the floor. The DALEK LEADER turns to open the door, but is warned off.) DALEK: Bacteria is released. Do not open door! Repeat: do not open door! 26: INT. DALEK CITY. CONTROL ROOM (Another DALEK in the control room glides forward in a panic. The DOCTOR'S group have observed these events.) DOCTOR: (Whispers.) If they open that hermetically sealed door even a fraction of an inch, the bacteria will escape and destroy everything - including themselves. 27: INT. DALEK CITY. LABORATORY (Within the laboratory, WESTER, now d*ad, starts to assume a visible form. His face fades into view within the furs. The Spiridons are humanoid but with a double row of eyebrows, almost like ridges on their forehead and a nose that spreads out partially across their cheeks.) DALEK LEADER: We cannot leave here. No one can enter. We can never leave here - never, never, never! 28: INT. DALEK CITY. CONTROL ROOM DOCTOR: (Whispers.) Let's try and get to the lower levels. (TARON nods.) TARON: Alright, Rebec. (REBEC starts to move her casing forward and the others follow but a DALEK glides forward.) DALEK: Wait! Spiridon sl*ve workers are to report to level four immediately. (The group hesitates.) DALEK: Move! (Within the furs, TARON looks at the DOCTOR and then they set off. Bringing up the rear is CODAL, but he fails to spot that his booted foot is sticking out from his fur. The DALEK looks down and sees it.) DALEK: Wait - you are not Spiridons! Emergency! Emergency! Emergency!
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PLANET OF THE DALEKS BY: TERRY NATION EPISODE SIX Original Air Date: 12 May, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. DALEK CITY. CONTROL ROOM DOCTOR: (Whispers.) Right, let's try and get to the lower levels. TARON: Alright, Rebec. (REBEC starts to move her casing forward and the others follow but a DALEK glides forward.) FIRST DALEK: Wait! (The group stops.) FIRST DALEK: Spiridon sl*ve workers are to report to level four immediately. Move! (Within the furs, TARON looks at the DOCTOR and then they set off. Bringing up the rear is CODAL, but he fails to spot that his booted foot is sticking out from his fur. The DALEK looks down and sees it.) FIRST DALEK: Wait - you are not Spiridons! Emergency! Emergency! Emergency! (An alarm starts to blare out.) FIRST DALEK: Do not move! (The DOCTOR throws his cloak off and shouts to CODAL.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) The cloak, come on - over it! (The DOCTOR and CODAL thrust the cloak over the screeching DALEK.) FIRST DALEK: Alarm! Alarm! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) ... come on! (The DOCTOR helps TARON push REBEC'S DALEK casing.) FIRST DALEK: I cannot see! Vision impaired! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Get it out! Come on! (The dash round the corner, past the sealed laboratory door and out of the control room.) FIRST DALEK: Pursue! Pursue! (A DALEK follows.) 2: INT DALEK CITY. CORRIDOR (The four reach a junction in the corridor.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) This way! (He pulls the casing round the corner with the Thals. After they have gone, two DALEKS come up in close pursuit.) 3: INT. DALEK CITY. CONTROL ROOM (A DALEK presses a communications button on the main console.) DALEK: (Into intercom.) Alert! Alert! Alert! Aliens at liberty in city. Instigate condition of maximum security. Alert! Alert! alert! 4: INT DALEK CITY. CORRIDOR (The DOCTOR and CODAL are running ahead as TARON pushes the casing.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Come on! Come on! They're right behind you! (TARON is having pushing the casing round the corner.) TARON: (Shouts.) Codal! (They all grab the unwieldy casing and pull it round another corner.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) This way! This way! (The two DALEKS are still close behind.) FIRST DALEK: Pursue! Pursue! Alarm! Pursue! (They almost take the wrong direction but hesitate and choose the corridor taken by the DOCTOR'S party.) 5: INT. DALEK CITY. CONTROL ROOM FIRST DALEK: Report. SECOND DALEK: Aliens have descended to level eight. FIRST DALEK: Seal off all levels above them. They must be driven down to the deepest levels. SECOND DALEK: I obey. 6: INT DALEK CITY. CORRIDOR (The two DALEKS turn a corner. At the end of the corridor, they see the DOCTOR and TARON with the casing.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Out - quick! (The DALEKS f*re and the casing explodes. The DALEKS glide towards the smoking remains.) 7: INT DALEK CITY. ANOTHER CORRIDOR (REBEC is not d*ad. Carrying a b*mb, she runs with the DOCTOR, TARON and CODAL towards a set of lift doors.) DOCTOR: Well, Rebec, it seems you stopped being a Dalek just in time. (She nods quietly as the lift opens.) DOCTOR: Come on, in you get. (REBEC and CODAL dive in the lift. TARON holds back, looking down the corridor.) DOCTOR: Come on, Taron, quick. (TARON and the DOCTOR enter the lift.) 8: INT DALEK CITY. LIFT (The DOCTOR presses the sensor panel to close the door and send the lift downwards.) TARON: How deep are we going? DOCTOR: Down to the arsenal. CODAL: And what then? One b*mb against an army of Daleks? DOCTOR: (To TARON.) He's right, you know. One b*mb won't destroy them all. The most we can hope for is to stop that army getting into action. (The lift stops its descent. The DOCTOR opens the doors and they cautiously look out.) DOCTOR: (Whispers.) All clear - come on. (They walk out.) 9: INT. DALEK CITY. LEVEL ZERO CORRIDOR (They walk down the corridor towards the refrigeration room. The door has not been repaired and the DOCTOR glances through the cut archway, then turns to TARON and CODAL.) DOCTOR: Look, see what you can find in the cooling chamber act as a barricade. Block off that corridor as best you can. CODAL: Right DOCTOR: I know we can't stop them but it might hold them up for a bit. TARON: Yeah. CODAL: Right. (The two men duck under the archway and enter the cooling chamber. The DOCTOR goes up to another doorway next to the one that leads into the cooling chamber. He presses the sensor opening and the door slides slowly upwards.) 10: INT. DALEK CITY. ARSENAL CAVERN (The DOCTOR and REBEC looking through the opening doorway at the mass ranked of frozen DALEKS within.) DOCTOR: There you are, Rebec - the greatest Dalek invasion force ever assembled. REBEC: And with the Spiridon's power to become invisible, nothing can stop them. DOCTOR: That's about it. Right, let's go and help the others with the barricade. 11: INT. DALEK CITY. LEVEL ZERO CORRIDOR (They go to TARON and CODAL as they come out of the cooling chamber with a piece of machinery to start their barricade.) 12: INT. DALEK CITY. CONTROL ROOM FIRST DALEK: Report. SECOND DALEK: Message from command spacecraft. The Dalek Supreme will touch down in Spiridon shortly. He will assume total command of all operations on this planet. FIRST DALEK: Understood. SECOND DALEK: Dalek command has identified the leading alien - the one who is not a Thal. FIRST DALEK: Who is he? SECOND DALEK: He is the one known as the Doctor - the greatest enemy of the Daleks. FIRST DALEK: He has much knowledge that would be of value to us. He must be captured alive for interrogation by the Dalek Supreme. 13: EXT. JUNGLE CLEARING (JO and LATEP make their way through the jungle with their b*mb towards the shaft exit. Suddenly, their faces are illuminated by an orange glow and the ground starts to shake. They duck behind the shelter of some bushes and watch as a spacecraft starts to descend. Built like two co-joined flying saucers, four red flares erupt from its base as it nears the ground. It lands in a rocky bare patch within the jungle. JO and LATEP watch from their hiding place as a door in the side of the craft falls to the ground to form a ramp down which a DALEK glides. The DALEK however is very different to the others. Coloured black and gold, it has an enlarged fender and a bigger eye-stalk and dome lights. Accompanied by two standard DALEKS, it glides away from the ship and past JO and LATEP'S hiding place. The young Thal is immediately interested in observing the open ship that has been left behind whilst JO watches the DALEKS glide away.) JO: (Whispers.) I've never seen a Dalek like that before. LATEP: He's something very special - one of the supreme council. (He looks back at the ship in admiration.) LATEP: They certainly know how to build spacecraft. (JO looks at the ship and a thought strikes her.) JO: (Whispers.) Latep? Could you fly that thing? LATEP: With the help of the others - yes. JO: (Whispers.) Well then, it could take you back to Skaro. LATEP: I'd thought of that. JO: But don't you see what that means? Look, you thought that even if this mission was a successful one, that you'd be marooned here for the rest of your lives. With that, you've got a chance of getting home! LATEP: But the Daleks haven't been defeated yet - not by a long way. JO: I know, I know all that! But it gives you a chance. It gives you all something to hope for. I wish the others were here and then we could tell them about it. LATEP: I'm glad they're not. JO: But why? If they knew there was a way to escape that... LATEP: (Interrupts.) Just knowing might mean the difference between success and failure. We all thought that whatever happened, there was no way out. It was a su1c1de mission. That's affected everything we've done. We've faced dangers and taken risks because there was nothing to lose, Jo. JO: Would you go on taking them? LATEP: I don't know. You see, I've found a reason to be more careful - a reason for wanting to stay alive. (He looks meaningfully at her. JO hesitates, then...) JO: (Whispers.) Come on, Latep. We've still got a long way to go. (Hand in hand, they move off.) 14: INT. DALEK CITY. LEVEL ZERO CORRIDOR (The DOCTOR'S group finishes building the extemporaneous barricade of bits of pieces from the cooling chamber.) DOCTOR: That should hold them for a while. Rebec, stay near. At the slightest sound of the Daleks breaking through, give us plenty of warning. (To TARON and CODAL.) Come on, you two. (He leads them into the cooling chamber.) 15: INT. DALEK CITY. COOLING CHAMBER (The DOCTOR goes over to the refrigeration unit with CODAL while TARON looks up the chimney shaft.) DOCTOR: (To TARON.) Any sign of Jo and Latep? TARON: No, not yet. (The DOCTOR looks at a small control panel on the refrigeration unit.) CODAL: What are you after, Doctor? DOCTOR: Blast! I was hoping there'd be a way of locking these controls into the 'on' position. As soon as this refrigeration unit is switched off, those Daleks will be on the move. CODAL: The main switches are probably in the control room. We don't want to go back there. DOCTOR: No...then we'll have to use my other plan. Come on. (They start to walk out, past where TARON is keeping a watch up the chimney shaft.) DOCTOR: Let's us know as soon as you see Jo and Latep. TARON: Yeah. 16: INT. DALEK CITY. ARSENAL CAVERN (The DOCTOR and TARON are about to enter the arsenal, when...) REBEC: Doctor! They're trying to get through! 17: INT. DALEK CITY. LEVEL ZERO CORRIDOR (The DALEKS are throwing themselves against the barricade. On the safer side...) DOCTOR: Well, it should hold them for a little while yet. Now, don't worry. (To CODAL.) Come on. (The two go into the arsenal. Despite the DOCTOR'S words, REBEC looks extremely concerned.) 18: INT. DALEK CITY. CONTROL ROOM (The DALEK SUPREME and his two lieutenants glide into the control room. It glides up to a waiting DALEK.) DALEK SUPREME: Report. (When it speaks, its eye-piece as well as its dome lights illuminate.) FIRST DALEK: Aliens still at liberty. DALEK SUPREME: All Dalek units are to be assigned to their capture immediately. (It turns to one of its lieutenants.) DALEK SUPREME: Take charge of all controls. (The DALEK lieutenant turns and glides towards the control bank as the DALEK SUPREME turns back to the waiting DALEK.) DALEK SUPREME: Report on invisibility experiments. FIRST DALEK: Daleks can now achieve total invisibility for periods in excess of two work cycles. DALEK SUPREME: Satisfactory. The supreme council has ordered our army to be activated immediately. The invasion of all solar planets is to begin today. (It turns to its lieutenant at the control bank.) DALEK SUPREME: Switch on arsenal heating. Close down refrigeration unit. 19: INT. DALEK CITY. COOLING CHAMBER (Waiting in the cooling chamber, TARON hears the machinery wind down as it is deactivated. He glances up the chimney shaft...) 20: INT. DALEK CITY. ARSENAL CAVERN (...and then runs to the entrance to the arsenal.) TARON: Doctor! (Within the arsenal, the DOCTOR and CODAL are on a raised catwalk which runs along the edge of the cavern. Below them are the still and silent DALEKS. A cold mist hangs in the air.) DOCTOR: Yes? TARON: The refrigeration unit's been shut down. The temperature's starting to rise. DOCTOR: Thank you, Taron. (The DOCTOR joins CODAL who is examining the rock which forms the wall on the other side of the catwalk.) DOCTOR: We haven't much time. 21: INT. DALEK CITY. CONTROL ROOM (The DALEK SUPREME gives another order to its lieutenant.) DALEK SUPREME: Order space transporters to assemble and await landing orders. SECOND DALEK: I obey. (The black and gold creature then turns to face the FIRST DALEK.) DALEK SUPREME: The action of the aliens has caused considerable disruption of operations on this planet. FIRST DALEK: This was a matter beyond my control! DALEK SUPREME: Your orders were to exterminate them! FIRST DALEK: (Panicking.) It has not been possible! We have been unable to use the bacteria b*mb! DALEK SUPREME: The responsibility was yours! You have failed! The supreme council does not accept failure! (The DALEK SUPREME fires and the FIRST DALEK explodes.) 22: EXT. JUNGLE. SHAFT EXIT (LATEP is securing a rope to some rocks at the top of the shaft.) LATEP: This should hold. (He turns to a nervous JO.) LATEP: Are you ready? (She nods without enthusiasm.) LATEP: Don't worry - we'll make it. JO: It's not so much the climb down that worries me. It's what we'll find when we get there. (LATEP smiles but he looks just as nervous.) LATEP: I'll go first. (He throws the rope down.) 23: INT. DALEK CITY. LEVEL ZERO CORRIDOR (The DALEKS continue to hammer at the shaking barricade. On the other side, REBEC turns to a watching TARON.) REBEC: It won't stand much more. 24: INT. DALEK CITY. ARSENAL CAVERN (CODAL is still examining the rock wall. He shouts to the DOCTOR who is further down the catwalk.) CODAL: Doctor! DOCTOR: Hello? CODAL: Take a look at this! (The DOCTOR runs over and looks at a crevice in the rock.) DOCTOR: Well it looks promising. How deep is it? CODAL: I can get my arm right inside. (He does so.) DOCTOR: Well, that's it then, although it does need a bit of clearing. (He and CODAL start to pull away small pieces of rock in the cleft.) CODAL: It's getting warmer down here. DOCTOR: Yes, the temperature has risen quite considerably. (CODAL looks over his shoulder into the main body of the cavern.) CODAL: (Nervously.) Doctor... (The DALEKS are starting to awaken. In their massed ranks, some of them are starting to glide around, although in a somewhat disorientated fashion.) DOCTOR: In a minute, they'll all be fully active. Come on. Here... (They start to pull at the rock.) 25: INT. DALEK CITY. LEVEL ZERO CORRIDOR (TARON and REBEC back away from the barricade.) TARON: A couple more tries and the whole lot's coming down. Let's get out of here. 26: INT. DALEK CITY. ARSENAL CAVERN (They run into the arsenal. and press the internal door sensor. There is no response.) TARON: No power left to operate the door. Come on! (They run into the main body of the arsenal. Meanwhile, the DOCTOR and CODAL step back from the slightly larger gap they have created in the rock.) DOCTOR: That should be wide enough. (TARON and REBEC run up.) TARON: Doctor, there's no sign of Jo and Latep, and they're nearly through the barricade. DOCTOR: Thank you, Taron. Look, I've got an idea that these catwalks lead to some sort of loading area on the surface. Check it out, will you? TARON: Right. (To REBEC.) Come on. (They run past the DOCTOR and CODAL and further along the catwalk.) DOCTOR: (To CODAL.) Right, get the b*mb. (The b*mb has been placed on the edge of the catwalk. At that moment, a shuffling DALEK knocks it with its arm, sending it falling to the main floor of the arsenal.) CODAL: The b*mb! Get down! (The two men h*t the floor of the catwalk but there is no expl*si*n.) DOCTOR: Where is it? (They look over the edge and see the b*mb between the base of two awakening DALEKS. The DOCTOR climbs over the rampart of the catwalk and, holding onto CODAL for support, steps onto the top of a DALEK before stepping into the lion's den. Hemmed in on all side by ever-wakening DALEKS, he tries to push through them to reach the fallen device. CODAL watches as the DOCTOR reaches out between the bases of two DALEKS and grabs the b*mb by its handle. He passes it up to CODAL who then helps him climb back up out of harm's way. They crouch down and examine the b*mb.) DOCTOR: Is it damaged? CODAL: The timing mechanism isn't functioning properly. DOCTOR: Can you fix it? CODAL: I think so. It'll take a minute or two. DOCTOR: Get on with it. (TARON and REBEC run back.) TARON: Doctor? Doctor, you're right. There is a power ramp - goes up to ground level. I think we can climb it. DOCTOR: Good, good. REBEC: What are you planning to do, Doctor? DOCTOR: Well, this whole area is simply honeycombed with ice tunnels. Now, a b*mb, put in the right place, could so weaken those walls, the pressure of the ice would burst through the walls and flood this entire chamber. TARON: (Smiles.) Bury the lot of them? DOCTOR: That's the theory. REBEC: But it won't destroy them - just put them back into their deep frozen state of suspended animation. DOCTOR: Yes, but it would centuries to melt them out. (They hear a bang as the barricade starts to give way.) 27: INT. DALEK CITY. LEVEL ZERO CORRIDOR (The DALEKS push against the remains of the barricade.) 28: INT. DALEK CITY. COOLING CHAMBER (LATEP reaches the base of the shaft. Hearing the noise outside, he goes to the doorway of the cooling chamber.) 29: INT. DALEK CITY. LEVEL ZERO CORRIDOR (The DALEKS continue to push the obstruction aside.) 30: INT. DALEK CITY. COOLING CHAMBER (JO reaches the base of the rope. LATEP rushes back to help her down.) LATEP: You alright? JO: Yes, I think so. (He leads her to the door and they look out.) 31: INT. DALEK CITY. LEVEL ZERO CORRIDOR (Very little now remains of the barricade.) 32: INT. DALEK CITY. COOLING CHAMBER JO: We've got to stop them. (LATEP switches on the timer of his b*mb...) 33: INT. DALEK CITY. LEVEL ZERO CORRIDOR (...and throws it across the floor from the doorway to the DALEKS as they make their way past the fallen barricade. One of them fires but LATEP has ducked back. The DALEKS start to glide forward.) 34: INT. DALEK CITY. COOLING CHAMBER (Within the cooling chamber, JO and LATEP lie on the floor and cover their heads.) 35: INT. DALEK CITY. LEVEL ZERO CORRIDOR (Outside, the b*mb explodes right in the middle of the group of DALEKS.) 36: INT. DALEK CITY. COOLING CHAMBER (JO and LATEP, coughing in the smoke of the expl*si*n, get to their feet.) 37: INT. DALEK CITY. LEVEL ZERO CORRIDOR (They come out of the cooling chamber to see the smoking remains of the DALEKS. The walls are blackened with the force of the expl*si*n and the lights have been knocked out.) JO: Come on...let's see if we can find the Doctor. (Coughing they make their way towards the arsenal as more DALEKS come up the other side of the pushed-aside barricade.) 38: INT. DALEK CITY. ARSENAL CAVERN (The DOCTOR and REBEC are crouched down a s CODAL works desperately on the final b*mb. REBEC sees JO and LATEP approaching.) REBEC: They're here! (The two run up and also crouch down.) LATEP: They're still coming, Doctor. JO: We did what we could though. DOCTOR: Well done, Jo. CODAL: Right - that's it. DOCTOR: Taron, you and the others get started. We'll set the b*mb. TARON: Yes. Come on, you two. (JO and LATEP follow REBEC and TARON towards the exit they have found.) DOCTOR: (To CODAL.) Set it to detonate in thirty seconds. CODAL: Right. (He adjusts the timer. The DOCTOR looks out across the arsenal where the DALEKS are now much more active...) 39: INT. DALEK CITY. LEVEL ZERO CORRIDOR (Two DALEK reinforcements glide past the smoking remains of their destroyed compatriots.) 40: INT. DALEK CITY. ARSENAL CAVERN CODAL: Detonator running...now. (The DOCTOR takes the b*mb from him and starts to push it into the crevice. CODAL looks at the doorway into the corridor.) CODAL: They're coming! (The DALEKS start to glide in.) CODAL: Hurry up, Doctor! Hurry up! DOCTOR: Off you go. (CODAL runs off after the others. The DOCTOR makes a final check on the b*mb and runs off after him. CODAL has joined the other four and they are all crouched down further round the catwalk. The DALEKS are gliding up to the point where the b*mb is secreted as the DOCTOR runs up and crouches down with his allies. He looks at his watch.) DOCTOR: Twenty-seven...twenty-eight... (The wall bursts outwards with a massive expl*si*n, destroying part of the catwalk but very little else. The DOCTOR stands up and looks through the smoke. He looks utterly disappointed.) DOCTOR: It failed! (The DALEKS are now moving freely within the body of the arsenal. JO and the others stand up, similarly downhearted at their lack of success.) DOCTOR: Come on - let's get out of here. (They turn to leave when they suddenly hear a loud rumbling noise.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) The ice volcano! (A wall of ice bursts from the cleft in rock, overwhelming the two DALEKS on the catwalk and drowning the DALEKS within the arsenal in its green icy molten sludge.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Out, everybody, out! (The others run as fast as they can. The DOCTOR holds back just for a moment to see the inundation pour over the DALEKS. He runs off as the creatures are covered by the ice which rises to the level of their domes and over.) 41: INT. DALEK CITY. CONTROL ROOM (The only DALEKS left in the control room are the DALEK SUPREME and his two lieutenants. They look over the control bank.) FIRST DALEK: Arsenal and all lower levels inundated. Molten ice rising through all sections. SECOND DALEK: No response from any Dalek unit. Total loss of contact. DALEK SUPREME: Seal off all sections. FIRST DALEK: Not possible. Controls not responding. Total power source failure. SECOND DALEK: Sensors registering ice now advancing through upper levels! DALEK SUPREME: Advise supreme command that our att*ck force is totally immobilised, and that we are the only survivors. (Its eye-stalk turns and the DALEK SUPREME sees molten ice starting to run down the walls of the control room.) DALEK SUPREME: Set self-destruct on all instruments. We are abandoning! (The three DALEKS glide hurriedly from the control room.) DALEK SUPREME: We are abandoning! We are abandoning! We are abandoning! We are abandoning! 42: EXT. JUNGLE CLEARING (The victorious party emerge from the jungle into the clearing where the DALEK spaceship lies.) LATEP: There it is! REBEC: We can get home - back to Skaro! TARON: It's a bonus I'd never expected! LATEP: Jo, I must speak with you. (LATEP and JO step away as CODAL turns to the DOCTOR.) CODAL: Doctor? I need to look over the controls of that ship. DOCTOR: Yes, of course. CODAL: So... (He hesitates.) CODAL: (Quietly.) You've done a lot for me, Doctor. Thank you. (He salutes him with a Thal salute - the left hand placed on the right breast.) CODAL: Thank you. (The DOCTOR returns the salute and nods. CODAL smiles and heads off for the ship.) TARON: Doctor, we'd never have succeeded without all your help. I wish there was some way of thanking you. DOCTOR: As a matter of fact, there is. REBEC: Yes, Doctor? DOCTOR: Throughout history, you Thals have always been known as one of the most peace-loving peoples in the galaxy. TARON: I hope we always will be. DOCTOR: Yes, that's what I mean. When you get back to Skaro, you'll all be national heroes. Everybody will want to hear about your adventures. TARON: (Puzzled.) Of course. DOCTOR: So be careful how you tell that story, will you? Don't glamorise it. Don't make w*r sound like an exciting and thrilling game. TARON: (Smiles.) I understand. DOCTOR: Tell them about the members of your mission that will not be returning - like Maro and Vaber and Marat. Tell them about the fear, otherwise your people might relish the idea of w*r. We don't want that. REBEC: You can depend on us. DOCTOR: Thank you, my dear. Well, you'd better get aboard, I think. (TARON looks over at JO and LATEP.) TARON: What about them? DOCTOR: I'm not sure about them. Goodbye, Rebec. (He holds out his hand. She takes him and gives him a kiss on the cheek.) REBEC: Goodbye, Doctor. (She heads for the ship. The DOCTOR holds out his hand to TARON...) DOCTOR: Taron? (...who takes it.) TARON: Goodbye, Doctor. DOCTOR: Good luck. (TARON heads for the ship. LATEP leaves JO and approaches the DOCTOR.) LATEP: Doctor, I've asked Jo to come back to Skaro with me. Would you have any objections? DOCTOR: If that what she wants - no. (LATEP turns to JO.) LATEP: Well, Jo? Is it? (She approaches him with a smile.) JO: No, I'm sorry, Latep. Look, I'm very fond of you. But, you see, I've got my own world and my own life to go back to. (She kisses him and walks away. The young Thal turns and shakes the DOCTOR'S hand.) LATEP: Thank you, Doctor. DOCTOR: Thank you, Latep. (The DOCTOR joins JO and they watch as LATEP goes up to the ship, gives a final wave back and enters. The ramp door closes behind him. With a burst of red exhaust flares, the DALEK ship takes off and rises into the Spiridon sky. As the noise and dust dies down...) DOCTOR: Right, shall we go and find the TARDIS? (JO is about to reply but sees something over the DOCTOR'S shoulder.) JO: Look! (He turns and sees the DALEK SUPREME and its two lieutenants gliding out of the jungle.) DOCTOR: Come on, run! (The dash off as the DALEKS spot them.) DALEK SUPREME: Aliens! Pursue! Pursue! 43: EXT. JUNGLE (The DOCTOR and JO run desperately through the jungle but the DALEKS are never far behind.) DALEK SUPREME: Pursue! Pursue! 44: EXT. JUNGLE. CLEARING OF RUINS (The DOCTOR and JO reach the pathway to the TARDIS. Immediately, the spitting plants start to eject their deadly liquids.) JO: Wait! If those spores h*t us...? (The DOCTOR looks behind them.) DOCTOR: They're coming! (The DALEKS approach.) DOCTOR: Now cover your face and hands as best you can! Come on! (The two dash towards the TARDIS under a reign of f*re from the plants. JO cries out.) DOCTOR: Jo, come on! Come on! (She falls to the ground but the DOCTOR drags her up and into the TARDIS as the DALEKS f*re. The rays h*t the ship.) 45: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The two run into the console room. The DOCTOR presses the switch to close the doors and then pulls the main switch. The dematerialisation noise fills the room.) 46: EXT. JUNGLE. CLEARING OF RUINS (The DALEKS continue to f*re as the TARDIS departs, then...) DALEK SUPREME: Have supreme command send rescue craft. FIRST DALEK: I obey. DALEK SUPREME: Preparations will begin at once to free our army from the ice. We have been delayed - not defeated. The Daleks are never defeated! 47: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The centre column rises and falls. The DOCTOR switches on the scanner. It shows a series of star fields and then a planet.) DOCTOR: Jo? Look. (A sad JO looks up at the scanner.) DOCTOR: That's Skaro. JO: (Quietly.) Yes. DOCTOR: Any regrets? JO: (Sadly.) No, not really. DOCTOR: But Jo, that's only one little world. There's so many hundreds of others to see. (JO smiles.) JO: There's only one little world I want to see right now. (She presses a button on the console herself. The image on the scanner changes to that of a familiar looking planet.) JO: That one. DOCTOR: That one? (Puzzled.) But, Jo, that's Earth. JO: That's right, Doctor - home. (The DOCTOR smiles.) DOCTOR: Home it is, Miss Grant. (He adjusts the controls...)
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THE GREEN DEATH BY: ROBERT SLOMAN EPISODE ONE Original Air Date: 19 May, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: EXT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY (The decommissioned mine of Llanfairfach sits in a pretty and green Welsh valley. The red-brick collection of buildings are collected round the tower of the lift crane with its large double wheels at the top of the winding gear. Around the site is collected the clinker filled slag heaps of decades of profitable mining, but no more. At the entrance to the site, the metal gate is firmly shut and a "CLOSED" sign has been pasted over the board underneath with the name of the colliery.) 2: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. GALLERY (Deep below the ground, a maintenance man - HUGHES - runs along one of the worked-out galleries in something approaching a blind panic. A mist, glowing a florescent shade of green covers the ground. HUGHES looks round desperately and carries on.) 3: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. MAIN GATE (Some distance away, a white Range Rover drives up to the entrance to a modern factory complex. A sign of the side of the factory reads: GLOBAL CHEMICALS RESEARCH CENTRE A group of discontented male villagers, including a MILKMAN with his float, hang around outside the factory gate. The Range Rover sweeps past them and underneath a barrier which the entrance guards then lower. The vehicle comes to a stop just beyond the barrier and the villagers walk up to the lowered barrier. A uniformed thuggish looking chauffeur - HINKS - gets out of the driver's door and allows his passenger to get out via the lowered front seat. He is STEVENS, the Director of the complex. He is a middle-aged man, with a moustache wearing a smart coat and homburg hat and carrying a briefcase. A younger coated man, also with a moustache and wearing spectacles comes out of the factory and up to his boss. He is ELGIN, the public relations officer.) ELGIN: Welcome back, sir. What's the news? STEVENS: All good. (He looks at the scowling crowd at the factory gate.) STEVENS: How long has this been going on? ELGIN: Oh, ever since early this morning. They want to know what is going to happen. Well, we all do. STEVENS: In that case, I'll tell them. (He walks to the back of the Range Rover, hands his briefcase to ELGIN and steps up onto the tailgate. He takes a piece of paper out of his pocket and holds it up as he shouts to the crowd...) STEVENS: I have in my hand a piece of paper which will mean a great deal to all of you! Wealth in our time! (The crowd laugh derisively among themselves and start to mutter and call back.) 4: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. LIFT GALLERY (HUGHES reaches the point in the gallery where the waiting cage lift stands. Gasping for breath, he hurries in, presses the call button and enters the cage, pulling the mesh half-door closed behind him.) 5: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. LIFT SHAFT (The lift starts to rise. HUGHES lifts up his trembling right hand. The back of it is a glowing bright green, showing the pattern of the veins within. HUGHES looks at it in horror and tries uselessly to wipe the infection away.) 6: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. MAIN GATE (STEVENS is managing to bring the crowd round. They give him a cheer.) STEVENS: When the National Coal Board were forced to close the pit last year... (The crowd's mood turns ugly again. There are several shouts of shame and a loud mutter from the largest man in the crowd who stands at the front - a grizzled ex-miner called DAI EVANS.) STEVENS: No, my friends, we must not be bitter. We must face the facts - coal is a dying industry. MILKMAN: (Shouts.) Rubbish! DAI EVANS: (Shouts.) No, never! MILKMAN: (Shouts.) Rubbish! STEVENS: Oil is our future now and the government agrees with me. MILKMAN: (To DAI EVANS.) Eh? STEVENS: They have not only given us the go-ahead for our plans, they have promised us money for future expansion! MILKMAN: I don't believe you! STEVENS: I have it here in black and white! (The now delighted crowd cheers.) STEVENS: Money for all of us! (A smile now on all their faces, they cheer again.) STEVENS: More jobs, more housing, more cars! (The crowd cheers again but there is a note of discontent. This comes from a small group of men and women stood to one side. They are younger than the male villagers and dressed in a far trendier style than the donkey-jacketed men. The two women wear hippy clothes and their leader is a young good-looking man with fashionable long hair. He yells out in a lilting Welsh accent at STEVENS.) CLIFFORD JONES: (Shouts.) More muck! More devastation! More death! (STEVENS bends down and enquires quietly of ELGIN...) STEVENS: Who is that? What did he say? ELGIN: It's that Professor Jones. He's a troublemaker. STEVENS: The Nobel prize winner? ELGIN: Yes, go easy, sir. He gets a lot of coverage in the press. (STEVENS stands back up.) STEVENS: It seems there are some who do not agree with my vision. VILLAGER: (Shouts.) Oh, get off home! STEVENS: The future we hold in our hands...there are always those who resist progress. (The women in CLIFFORD JONES' group laugh. JONES himself yells at the villagers in an alternative speech as they turn to face him.) CLIFFORD JONES: (Shouts.) Progress? Don't listen to him! He means fatter profits for Global Chemicals. VILLAGER: (Shouts.) Ah, shut up! CLIFFORD JONES: (Shouts.) At the expense of your land! VILLAGER: (Shouts.) Shut your face! CLIFFORD JONES: (Shouts.) The very air you breathe! Aye, and the health of you and your kids! MILKMAN: (Shouts.) Ah, shut up! DAI EVANS: (Angrily.) It's alright for you! You can afford to live the way you want to - we need the jobs. MILKMAN: (Angrily.) Ah, we can't live on nuts, man! DAI EVANS: (Angrily.) Can't live on nuts! CLIFFORD JONES: (Shouts.) Can't you see you're being exploited? MILKMAN: (Angrily.) Ah, shut up - go home, will you?! DAI EVANS: (Angrily.) Shut up before I shut you up! (The villagers yell more abuse at JONES and his group until STEVENS, still on the other side of the barrier intervenes in a calming, yet somehow patronising, manner.) STEVENS: No wait! Wait, my friends! Professor Jones is right. We must all share his concern. I assure you that I and my fellow directors... (He is interrupted by an almost forgotten sound - that of the siren at the pit. It wails its noise of disaster across the valley.) DAI EVANS: It's the pit! MILKMAN: Oh no! VILLAGER: It's the pit! (The villagers immediately run off towards the pit.) DAI EVANS: Right, boys! (STEVENS looks frustrated that his speech has been interrupted.) 7: EXT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY (Steam pours out of the whistle siren.) 8: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. ENGINE ROOM (Within the engine room, HUGHES' hand is gripped to the siren handle. He is quite still and d*ad. Now his arm and face are entirely green...) 9: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (Apple in one hand, cup of tea and newspaper in the other, JO dressed in a white trouser suit with cricketing-type jersey underneath, takes a bite out of the fruit and sits at the lab bench, reading the paper. The DOCTOR, singing gently, and dressed in a green velvet smoking jacket, comes out of the open door of the TARDIS with an electrical unit in his hand. He sits near JO and inserts a jewellers eyeglass into his eye. JO looks up and speaks with a mouthful of apple.) JO: Is that the dematerialisation circuit? (The garbled words, mixed with the apple, make little sense.) DOCTOR: What? (She swallows her apple.) JO: Sorry - I said is that the dematerialisation circuit? DOCTOR: No, no - no more trouble there, thank goodness. I can now take the TARDIS wherever and whenever I like. I've got absolute control over her. JO: Now that the Time Lords have forgiven you. DOCTOR: Yes, exactly. JO: What is it, then? DOCTOR: What - this? JO: Mmm. DOCTOR: Well, this is the space/time coordinate programmer. Wretched thing's nearly worn out. That's the trouble with the TARDIS - she's getting on a bit, you know, Jo. (JO speaks with even more apple in her mouth and making even less sense.) JO: No wonder we never got to Metebelis Three? (She almost spits part of the fruit out and bursts out laughing. The DOCTOR, wiping the spat fruit off his sleeve is less impressed.) DOCTOR: Look, must you? JO: I'm sorry! It's my breakfast. I said no wonder we never got to Metebelis Three. DOCTOR: There's precious little protein in an apple, you know. JO: Mmm? (He gets up and crosses to a toolbox as JO starts to glance over her paper again.) DOCTOR: Protein's the thing for breakfast, Jo. JO: Eggs and Bacon - yeurgh! DOCTOR: Yeah, that's where we're going to next. JO: Where are we going? DOCTOR: Metebelis Three. The TARDIS can't miss this time. I've actually wired the coordinates into the programmer. (He returns to the bench and his eyeglass as something in the paper catches JO'S appalled attention...) JO: Oh no! No, they can't! DOCTOR: I can't wait to go there, you know, Jo. JO: (Not listening.) It's criminal - absolutely criminal! DOCTOR: It must be a fascinating place. Just imagine it - a blue sun... JO: Listen... (Reads.) "And at last the Ministry have gi...given the green chemicals..." DOCTOR: (Not listening.) No, not a green light, it's a blue light. Everything's blue there. JO: (Reads.) "Common sense has triumphed at last." Well, don't they realise the pollution it will cause? DOCTOR: (Not listening.) Mmm, absolutely, yes. JO: (Reads.) "And the futile protests of Professor Jones..." DOCTOR: (Not listening.) You know, I might even get a hold of one of those famous blue sapphires. Well, there you are. That should do it, I think. JO: (To herself.) He won't give up, you know. A man like Professor Jones will never give up. (A determined look on her face, she puts down the paper and heads for the door.) DOCTOR: Where are you off to? JO: Pack a suitcase. DOCTOR: Ah, good. Give me a couple of minutes and we'll be off. JO: Off? Off where? DOCTOR: Well, Metebelis Three, of course. JO: I'm not going to Metebelis Three. (Puzzled and slightly hurt at this reaction, the DOCTOR downs tools and crosses to JO.) DOCTOR: Why? Where are you thinking of going to? JO: Well South Wales, of course - Llanfairfach! (She points at the paper.) DOCTOR: Ah, Jo! JO: You haven't been listening, have you? Honestly, Doctor, you... (He completes the sentence with her...) DOCTOR AND JO:...never listen to a word I say! (They both burst into laughter.) 10: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. ENGINE ROOM (The men from outside the factory, including CLIFF JONES' group have reached the pit and found HUGHES. The d*ad miner has been laid on the floor and DAI EVANS lowers a red tartan rug over his green glowing face. The shock of the find has evaporated the antagonism between JONES and DAI EVANS.) CLIFFORD JONES: Well what was he doing down the pit in the first place? DAI EVANS: Monthly inspection. Best prop forward we ever had. What k*lled him? You're a doctor, Dr. Jones? CLIFFORD JONES: I'm not you know - I'm a biologist. Some sort of gas maybe? DAI EVANS: But why's he turned green, man? CLIFFORD JONES: I've no idea...except... DAI EVANS: Expect what? CLIFFORD JONES: Well that phosphorescent glow - it's almost like you get with putrefaction. DAI EVANS: That's it then! CLIFFORD JONES: Well no, after several weeks - he's been d*ad less than an hour. 11: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (The DOCTOR walks back into his lab, followed by the BRIGADIER.) DOCTOR: No, no, no! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: But, Doctor, it's exactly your cup of tea. This fellah's bright green apparently - and d*ad. DOCTOR: Lethbridge Stewart, I'm not a policeman. Neither are you, for that matter. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Ah, but there are international implications, you see - possibility of sabotage at Global Chemicals. It's UNIT's duty to protect them - my duty. DOCTOR: (Smiles.) Then do your duty, Brigadier. (He heads into the TARDIS.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: But, Doctor, surely you must see the... (JO enters the lab, wearing a white fur coat and carrying a large bag of her belongings. She starts to put more of her stuff from the lab into the bag.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Ah, Miss Grant, I've a little job for you. I want you to... JO: (Interrupts.) I'm sorry, Brigadier, I can't. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Can't? Can I remind you, Miss Grant, that you are... JO: (Interrupts.) That I am a member of UNIT - orders, court martials and all that. But unless you arrest me, I mean unless you actually seize me and fling me into a dungeon, I...! (The DOCTOR comes out of the TARDIS.) DOCTOR: Oh, Jo, all ready? JO: Oh dear... Doctor, I mean it - I'm going to go to South Wales because they have got to be stopped. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Who's got to be stopped? JO: Well, Global Chemicals, of course. Can't you see the harm this go-ahead will do? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: No, Miss Grant, I can't. Cheap petrol and lots of it - exactly what the world needs. JO: (Appalled.) No! No, look it's time to call a halt! It's time that the world awoke to the alarm bell of pollution instead of sliding down the slippery slopes of...of...of... (She shrugs.) JO: ...whatever it is. DOCTOR: (Smiles.) A very pretty mixed metaphor. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, I seem to recognise the style. This fellow, Jones, isn't it? "The nutcake professor" - isn't that what the papers call him? JO: That doesn't make him wrong, does it? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: And you want to go down there to help him in his noble fight against the windmills? Down to Llanfairfach? (JO stands almost to attention in front of her commanding officer.) JO: I'm sorry, Brigadier. I'm going to go - even if it means resigning from UNIT. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Ah...well, we can discuss that on the way down, can't we? JO: (Smiles.) You mean...? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: You will at least accept a lift, I trust? Yes, Miss Grant, I'm going there too. (He heads for the door.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Also the Doctor, I hope? DOCTOR: I'm going to Metebelis Three. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Wouldn't like to have to order you, Doctor? DOCTOR: I wouldn't advise you to try. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes... Ten minutes, Miss Grant. (He strides off. The DOCTOR looks expectantly at JO.) DOCTOR: Metebelis Three, Jo? (She doesn't reply.) DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Well where else would you like to go? You choose for yourself. JO: But I've only got ten minutes. DOCTOR: Jo, you've got all the time in the world, and all the space - I'm offering them to you. JO: But, Doctor, don't you understand? (Passionately.) I've got to go! This Professor Jones - he's fighting for everything that's important. Well, everything that you've fought for. In a funny way, he reminds me of a sort of...younger you. DOCTOR: I don't know whether to feel flattered or insulted. (He smiles.) DOCTOR: It's alright, Jo, I understand. (She hugs him.) JO: Oh, Doctor! Thank you. (She returns to her bag.) DOCTOR: Jo? JO: Mmm hmm? DOCTOR: Tell the Brigadier that I'll follow him down. JO: Right. DOCTOR: Later. (She looks sad for a moment and pauses.) JO: Right. (She puts a brave smile on her face and almost runs out of the door.) JO: Bye! DOCTOR: Goodbye. (The DOCTOR watches her go, realising that his young assistant is growing apart from him.) DOCTOR: So...the fledgling flies the coop... (Sadly, he enters the TARDIS. It dematerialises from the laboratory.) 12: EXT. LLANFAIRFACH (The BRIGADIER'S open white sports car crosses over a cattle grid near a row of cottages and pulls up next to the milkfloat. The BRIGADIER, in civvies of a sheepskin jacket and flat cap and with JO sat next to him calls over to the MILKMAN.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Excuse me? Can you tell me the way to Global Chemicals, please? The research place? MILKMAN: Well, if you don't turn off the straight road ahead, you can't miss it, can you? It's just past the chapel on the hill, isn't it? JO: And the Wholeweal community? MILKMAN: I beg your pardon, Miss? JO: The Wholeweal? Oh, you know - Professor Jones. MILKMAN: Oh, the nuthatch! Well, you'll be passing the nuthatch on the mountain, won't you? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, thank you. MILKMAN: You're welcome, boyo. (He walks back to his float. JO smiles at the BRIGADIER.) JO: Boyo! (They pull away and the milkman watches them go, muttering under his breath.) 13: EXT. WHOLEWHEAL COMMUNITY (The BRIGADIER'S car drives along a farm track and past a brightly painted sign which proclaims "WHOLEWEAL". The community itself is a collection of farm buildings with a cow roaming loose in the yard. The car comes to a halt and JO gets out, picking up her bag and a suitcase from the back.) JO: Thanks for the lift. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Not sure that I approve, Miss Grant. Duty is duty when all's said and done. JO: Well a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do...sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Mmm. (She heads towards the main farm building, past another sign which reads "SPORE STORE & TOADSTOOLS".) JO: Bye! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: The Doctor's no better, gallivanting off on a pleasure jaunt at a time like this. 14: EXT. METEBELIS THREE (NIGHT) (The blue police box materialises in a blue mountainous landscape against which runs a blue waterfall. The DOCTOR steps out. A air of calm hangs around the place. He looks round appreciatively at a colourful blue and red sunset. Suddenly the peace is shattered as a long-drawn out animal cry gets louder and louder and turns into a terrifying screech as a long hair-covered tentacle wraps itself round him...) 15: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. HALL PASSAGE (A bell jangles on its bracket and the front door opens as JO walks into the cosy hallway. She looks round. The only sign of life is the music of a radio playing.) JO: Hello? (She shuts the front door.) JO: Hello? (There is no reply. Walking past a grandfather clock, she makes her way down the passage and up to a closed door on the left which has a sign painted in bright flowers on it with words which she reads...) JO: "Room for living". Mmm, like it. (She opens the door and calls out.) JO: Anybody at home? (Still receiving no reply, she closes the door and notices another on the opposite side of the passage with two similar signs hanging off it. They read "WATCH IT" and "TOADSTOOLS PROFESSORS". She knocks on the door.) CLIFFORD JONES: (OOV: Inside laboratory.) Come in. (She enters.) 16: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LABORATORY (The room, lined with shelves, is filled with laboratory equipment including a microscope, a few bubbling specimen jars and trays of toadstools. More toadstools are on the shelves together with many books. CLIFF JONES sits in a ceiling suspended wicker chair holding the radio in his hands and not facing the door or JO. A cloth strewn over the top of the chair hides CLIFF'S face.) CLIFFORD JONES: No one in. JO: You are. CLIFFORD JONES: Did my stint in the fields before breakfast, didn't I? JO: Oh, I see. They're all out in the fields. CLIFFORD JONES: Aye, that's what I said. No work, no food - logically, esthetically and morally right. Right? JO: (Puzzled.) Right...I suppose. (He gets out of the chair.) CLIFFORD JONES: Well now, what... (Shouts.) Shut the blasted door! (JO quickly steps into the room as shuts the door and CLIFF nervously checks a thermometer that was jammed into one of the trays of toadstools.) CLIFFORD JONES: Of all the silly young goats! JO: (Confused.) Oh, I'm sorry - what did I do? CLIFFORD JONES: Well, you ruined a month's work - that's all. Can't you read? It said on the door to watch it, didn't it? JO: Yes. (He puts the thermometer back and crosses to a lab bench.) CLIFFORD JONES: Half a degree drop and ... JO: Well, I...! (She goes to follow him but bangs into the lab bench, almost upsetting the tray of toadstools. She cries out with a yelp but CLIFF doesn't notice.) CLIFFORD JONES: No, no, no - not there, you'll have the lot over. (She stands to one side of the room.) CLIFFORD JONES: Not there either. You'll contaminate my spores. (He sits at the bench as JO comes forward rubbing her knee.) JO: Where can I go, for pete's sake? CLIFFORD JONES: Well, just try standing still, my love, uh? Tell us the dreadful news. You've come to join us - right? JO: Well, yes, in a way. You see I'm Jo Grant. (JO holds out her hand but CLIFF is too absorbed in the bench to notice it. She withdraws the hand as she speaks...) JO: I...I rang from London. I spoke to somebody who said her name was...mum. CLIFFORD JONES: (Puzzled.) Mum? Oh, our Nancy that is, yeah - Nancy with a laughing face. She didn't tell me. (JO is starting to get annoyed by the young man.) JO: Well, why should she? You see, I've come to see Professor Jones - not you. CLIFFORD JONES: Oh... (He looks back at his work.) JO: So if you could tell me where I could wait? (CLIFF taps figures into an electronic calculator and ignores her.) JO: I said, if you could... (She leans nearer to him and in doing so, sends another tray crashing to the floor. JO looks appalled and CLIFF looks incredulous. They both lean over the edge of the desk and at the spilled contents on the floor.) CLIFFORD JONES: Look... JO: Well, I... CLIFFORD JONES: Why not just have a stool - over here... (He almost manhandles her towards a lab stool out of harm's way. On the way, JO almost hits something else.) CLIFFORD JONES: And careful, now! (They reach the safety of the stool.) CLIFFORD JONES: Look, n...that's it. Just sit there - simmer down. Alright? (He rubs her hair in a patronising manner.) CLIFFORD JONES: Right. (A sulking JO safely installed on the stool, he returns to his own bench.) CLIFFORD JONES: There, we've got off on the wrong foot, haven't we? Still I suppose you can't help being a bit cloth-headed. You're only a kid, after all. JO: Charming! CLIFFORD JONES: (Smiles.) Hey, welcome to the nuthatch! (JO turns her back on him.) JO: Huh! 17: EXT. METEBELIS THREE (NIGHT) (His jacket torn, his face grubby, the DOCTOR runs across the misty surface of a Metebelis Three that is very different to how he envisaged it. The cries of various animals follow him. He sees a blue snake approaching and runs off again.) 18: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LABORATORY (CLIFF still works at his bench and JO remains on her stool. There is a frosty silence in the room. CLIFF, looking guilty, hazards a look at JO at the same moment that she does the same. They both quickly look away. CLIFF ponders a moment and then turns to JO.) CLIFFORD JONES: Do you know anything about...Entomology? JO: Insects? CLIFFORD JONES: Mmm. JO: (Smiles.) Yes, a little. CLIFFORD JONES: Right - what's got twenty legs, a yellow body about two inches long and big red pincers on the front end? JO: (Thinks.) Mmm, don't know - why? CLIFFORD JONES: There's one crawling up your left leg. (JO screams and jumps off the bench. She looks down.) JO: There's nothing there! CLIFFORD JONES: No, I couldn't stand the silence any longer. (The ice broken, the two burst out laughing.) 19: EXT. METEBELIS THREE (NIGHT) (The DOCTOR climbs up a cliff-face, his face and back covered by driven flakes of snow and a wind howling round him. He looks down and sees the snake again. He traverses along a ledge on the rockface.) 20: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LABORATORY (Their friendship established, JO is taking an interest in the trays of fungi on the lab bench which CLIFF is quite happy to explain to her.) JO: But why toadstools? CLIFFORD JONES: Oh, that's just our Nancy's little joke. (He holds up one the white and red toadstools.) CLIFFORD JONES: This is really our new hybrid fungus - Saliota Orbis. JO: Pardon? CLIFFORD JONES: It's a sort of cousin of the mushroom you can buy in the shops. JO: You mean you can eat it? (He takes the toadstool to a bench and cuts it in half.) CLIFFORD JONES: Oh yes - that's the whole point. Well, the world's going to need something instead of meat. High protein fungus can be just the answer. JO: Well, yes...yes, of course! CLIFFORD JONES: You see, Jo, we haven't set up this community just to..."drop out". I mean, let's face it, who does like the petrol stinking, plastic rat-trap life we all live? No, no - if we're going to make a success here at Wholeweal, we've got to do something that's got to help the entire world. So, we're a bio-technic research unit, as well as a nuthatch! JO: But that's marvellous! Did he think of that? The Professor, I mean? CLIFFORD JONES: Well, I could never have got it off the ground without the Nobel prize money. JO: (Puzzled.) But... (She smiles as she realisms...) JO: Are you Professor Jones? CLIFFORD JONES: Your obedient servant, ma'am! (He bows. JO tries to keep a stony look on her face but can't help smiling.) 21: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE (The office of the Director of Global Chemicals is a mixture of the opulent, the fashionable and the technologically advanced. The walls are papered with a black and white pattern, a modern wooden desk and leather chair dominate the room while behind it is a small control desk and a monitor screen on a wall-bracket. Louvered blinds cover the window. The BRIGADIER has come to visit STEVENS who angrily confronts him as ELGIN watches.) STEVENS: We've sunk a great deal of time and money into this new project, and we're not going to stand by and see it wasted. Now your job, Brigadier, is... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Interrupts.) Oh, forgive me, sir, but I know quite well what my job is. We'll look after you - never fear. STEVENS: I beg your pardon. I had no intention of... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Interrupts.) Equally, I'm quite certain also that it's my job to find out about this man's death. Events like that are the very reason UNIT was created. STEVENS: I see. What...do you intend to do? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Get hold of the Doctor at once. Er, may I use your phone? STEVENS: Yes, of course. Elgin, get an outside line, will you? ELGIN: Sir. (STEVENS smiles at the BRIGADIER.) 22: EXT. METEBELIS THREE (NIGHT) (Millions of light-years away, the DOCTOR struggles up the side of a mountain. On a ledge sit a sparkling collection of blue jewels like glittering sapphires.) 23: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (The phone rings in the empty lab at UNIT HQ) 24: EXT. METEBELIS THREE (NIGHT) (The DOCTOR is reaching out for one of the jewels. He hears a cry and looks up as a flapping noise gets nearer. The shadow of a huge set of wings crosses his face.) 25: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (The phone continues to ring.) 26: EXT. METEBELIS THREE (NIGHT) (A huge set of taloned feet swing down out of the sky towards the DOCTOR. He ducks down to avoid them.) 27: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (The ringing phone is still unanswered. It cuts out.) 28: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE (The BRIGADIER speaks to the UNIT operator...) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone.) I see. Alright, keep trying and ring me here as soon as you do get an answer - understood? (He listens.) That's right, goodbye. (He puts the phone down and turns back to STEVENS and ELGIN.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Er, Mr. Stevens, I wonder if you'd explain to me exactly why...er, Professor Jones and his friends should object to your new process? STEVENS: I wish I could tell you. After all, he and the rest of the doom merchants never stop telling us that we're using up the world's supply of oil. We can now produce twenty-five percent more petrol and diesel fuel from a given quantity of crude oil. If that isn't conservation, I don't know what is. 29: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LABORATORY (CLIFF is having a similar conversation with JO.) CLIFFORD JONES: But it's still using up the oil and doubling the atmospheric pollution. No, the world has got to find ways of using the energy the sun is giving us now. JO: Well, like what, for instance? CLIFFORD JONES: (Enthusiastically.) Well, like...like using the movement of the wind and the tides and the rivers. Well, I mean, like here at the nuthatch. Well, you are quite warm? JO: (Smiles.) The ambient temperature suits me fine, thank you! CLIFFORD JONES: Heat from the river - and the heat pump works on electricity generated by a windmill. Alternative technology, see? JO: And no waste - no pollution! CLIFFORD JONES: Exactly! 30: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (To STEVENS.) No waste? No pollution from an oil refinery? STEVENS: Minimal...negligible. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, I'm no scientist, Mr. Stevens, but I find that somewhat difficult to believe. ELGIN: Oh, it's been one of our strongest selling points. It makes nonsense of the objections. We've been able, in all sincerity, to assure the government, the people, indeed the world, that the Stevens process is clean. 31: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LABORATORY CLIFFORD JONES: The Steven's process must be based on Bateson's polymerisation, and that means thousands of gallons of waste. Aye, a thick sludge you can't break down in any way like...like a liquid plastic. And what properties that would have, heaven alone knows. JO: And you're wondering what they're going to do with it? CLIFFORD JONES: I wondering what they're doing with it now. And I can't help thinking there must be some connection with Hughes' death. (He takes half a toadstool out of a jar of solution he has been holding and starts to examine it.) JO: You mean they're pumping the waste down into the old mine workings? CLIFFORD JONES: Aye, could be. JO: Well then, let's go and have a look. CLIFFORD JONES: (Sarcastically.) Oh, that's a good idea. JO: I mean...I mean, like now! CLIFFORD JONES: My dear good child, I've got work to do! JO: (Annoyed.) You're being patronising. CLIFFORD JONES: Aye, so I am. But I've still got work to do. JO: Oh! (Determined to make an effort, she rushes for the door, again bumping into the lab bench. She reaches the door without further incident.) CLIFFORD JONES: Shut the door! (JO slams the door shut behind her with great force.) 32: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. PITHEAD OFFICE (The ex-miners are still in the pithead office with two of the maintenance men - a middle-aged small wiry man called DAVE and a slightly younger softly-spoken man called BERT. They are all drinking tea but DAI EVANS is keen for action.) DAI EVANS: It's plain stupid, man. Here we are, sitting about nattering like the women after chapel, and we still don't know what k*lled him. BERT: Finding out won't do him any good now. DAI EVANS: No, but it'll do me a lot of good, though - all this waiting DAVE: Ah, well, it could be dangerous, man. DAI EVANS: Dangerous? I've spent twenty years of my life down there. Think it scares me now? BERT: Oh, why bother? DAVE: Aye, don't panic, man. DAI EVANS: I'm going down. (He heads towards the changing room.) 33: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE (The BRIGADIER is still with STEVENS and ELGIN as the Director paces his office.) STEVENS: Therefore, I think it imperative that nobody should go down the mine. It must be sealed off completely. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I'm afraid I must disagree, sir. Indeed, I intend to make the investigation of that mine my first priority...as soon as the Doctor arrives. STEVENS: If he ever does arrive. 34: EXT. METEBELIS THREE (NIGHT) (The DOCTOR is running for his life. An assortment of animal cries and screams follows him and boulders and spears are thrown at him as he reaches the safety of the TARDIS and slams the door. The tentacle lashes the door of the police box.) 35: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (The phone is ringing again in the laboratory. The TARDIS materialises and the gasping, dishevelled DOCTOR steps out. He hears the phone and answers it as he tries to get his breath back.) DOCTOR: (Into phone.) Hello? (He listens.) I'll speak to anyone! 36: EXT. ROAD (Some time later, Bessie travels at an impossible speed using the Minimum Inertia Superdrive past another vehicle. The car tears past the road sign for Llanfairfach.) 37: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. LIFT AREA (DAI EVANS, helmet on, walks into the lift area. He presses the communications button three times and steps into the cage.) 38: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. ENGINE ROOM (BERT signals to DAVE who sits at the gears of the lift equipment in the galleried engine room.) DAVE: Okay. (DAVE pulls the large gear handles back.) 39: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. LIFT AREA (The cage, with DAI in it, starts to descend...) 40: EXT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY (...as the wheels at the top of the lift tower turn.) 41: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS (Bessie turns into the main gate of Global Chemicals. The Guard waves the DOCTOR, changed into a blue velvet jacket and checked cloak, through into the complex. A relieved BRIGADIER sees this from the window.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: At last. Now we can get on. (He turns from the window and back to STEVENS who is sat at his desk.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Will you excuse me, sir? 42: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE STEVENS: You still intend to go investigate the mine? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Indeed I do. (Without another word, he walks from the office. STEVENS waits a moment and then presses an intercom on his desk.) STEVENS: Hinks - at once. (STEVENS gets up and walks round his desk, a look of concentration on his face. HINKS walks into the office and waits for STEVENS to speak to him but the Director seems utterly absorbed in his thoughts - strangely so.) HINKS: (Puzzled.) Sir? (STEVENS looks at the chauffeur.) STEVENS: Hinks, I want you to... (He frowns again as if he has lost his thought.) STEVENS: I want you to... (He stops again.) HINKS: You alright, sir? STEVENS: Yes, yes. (He frowns again and speaks slowly as if each word is controlled from elsewhere.) STEVENS: Nobody...must go down...the mine. (He seems to come to.) STEVENS: Hinks! (He approaches HINKS and places a hand on his shoulder. He looks into the man's face and again speaks slowly...) STEVENS: Nobody...must...go down the mine - nobody. HINKS: Yes, sir. You're sure you're alright? (STEVENS becomes more himself.) STEVENS: Yes, yes, of course. Go on - get on with it. (With a rueful look, HINKS turns and walks from the office. STEVENS locks the door after him and crosses to the small console behind his desk. He lifts the cover off an elaborate set of headphones. He plugs the lead into the console and puts the headphones on. A green light illuminates on the side of each earpiece and STEVENS closes his eyes in concentration...) 43: EXT. HILLSIDE (Still wrapped against the cold in her coat, JO crosses over the brow of a hill and sees the mine workings below her. She sets off for them.) 44: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. ENGINE ROOM BERT: Here, maybe we shouldn't have let Dai go down there himself? DAVE: Well, I tell you now, boy, I was tried to stop him having a drink too many at the club, and I can still feel the bruises - and that's a fact. BERT: Aye. (JO walks into the engine room.) DAVE: Oh, hello, who's this now then? BERT: Here - private property this is. JO: Oh... DAVE: Aye. JO: I'm sorry, but you see I'm with the UNIT people and I was wondering if I could take a look down the mine? DAVE: Yeah, well, not without authority you can't. JO: Oh, well, where do I get it? BERT: NCB - Cardiff. (A wall phone linked to the galleries below buzzes.) DAVE: Hang on here a minute. (He crosses to the phone and answers it.) DAVE: (Into phone.) Hello, who is it? 45: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. LIFT GALLERY (Down below, DAI is on the other end of the phone. He blustering demeanour has gone and he is now in a blind panic. Like HUGHES, the back of his hand is glowing green.) DAI EVANS: (Into phone.) Dave...help me, Dave! Help me! DAVE: (OOV: Over phone.) Dai, well, what's happened? What's up? DAI EVANS: (Into phone.) Help me quick! Help! (He collapses onto the floor.) 46: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. ENGINE ROOM (A puzzled DAVE hangs the phone back.) DAVE: Dai - he's in trouble. BERT: Then we've got to get him out! I'll go down. You work the cage, Dave. JO: Well I'm coming too! BERT: Oh, don't be daft! JO: Well look, I'm trained in first aid - I might be able to help save your friend's life. DAVE: You mean that? JO: Yes. DAVE: Yeah, well she's got something there, Bert. You take her down and look after her. BERT: (To JO.) Right, come on with me now. We'll get you a helmet and lamp. JO: Right. (They rush out to get changed.) 47: EXT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY (The BRIGADIER is now a passenger in Bessie as he and the DOCTOR approach the mine.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: So I thought I'd better get you here at once to have a look. DOCTOR: Yes, you're quite right, Brigadier. Nobody must go down that mine until I've had a chance to do just that. (They drive into the courtyard of the mine. After they have gone, HINKS steps from one of the out-buildings and moves off.) 48: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. LIFT AREA (JO and BERT have changed into a set of blue overalls and a helmet with lamp each. JO steps into the lift cage and BERT presses the communications button. He puts the cage door in place.) 49: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. ENGINE ROOM (DAVE pulls the gear handle...) 50: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. LIFT AREA (...and the cage descends into the ground.) 51: EXT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY (As it does so, the wheels of the lifting gear at the top of the shaft turn. The occupants of Bessie see this as they draw up.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Someone's going down! (The DOCTOR brakes the car.) DOCTOR: We must stop them! (They run into the pit head.) 52: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. ENGINE ROOM (They see DAVE at the gear levers in the engine room and run up to him.) DOCTOR: (Urgently.) Who's in the cage? DAVE: Oh...it...it's Bert Pritchard and the young lady from UNIT. DOCTOR: Well, stop winding! DAVE: No, I can't do that. They've gone down below to help Dai Evans. DOCTOR: Stop winding, I said! (DAVE looks at the DOCTOR and pulls the brake lever. There is no response except a scraping noise from the machinery.) DOCTOR: Quickly, man, quickly! DAVE: (Horrified.) I can't! The brake won't work! It's out of control! DOCTOR: What?! (The DOCTOR looks stunned...)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "10x21 - The Green Death - part 1"}
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THE GREEN DEATH BY: ROBERT SLOMAN EPISODE TWO Original Air Date: 26 May, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. LIFT AREA (The cage descends into the ground.) 2: EXT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY (As it does so, the wheels of the lifting gear at the top of the shaft turn. The occupants of Bessie see this as they draw up.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Someone's going down! (The DOCTOR brakes the car.) DOCTOR: We must stop them! (They run into the pit head.) 3: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. ENGINE ROOM (They see DAVE at the gear levers in the engine room and run up to him.) DOCTOR: (Urgently.) Who's in the cage? DAVE: Oh...it...it's Bert Pritchard and the young lady from UNIT. DOCTOR: Well, stop winding! DAVE: No, I can't do that. They've gone down below to help Dai Evans. DOCTOR: Stop winding, I said! (DAVE looks at the DOCTOR and pulls the brake lever. There is no response except a scraping noise from the machinery.) DOCTOR: Quickly, man, quickly! DAVE: (Horrified.) I can't! The brake won't work! 4: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. LIFT SHAFT (BERT and JO are thrown across the cage as it drops like a stone down the shaft.) BERT: (Shouts.) ... ! Hang on! Try and hang on! (BERT grabs JO and they fall to the floor of the cage.) 5: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. ENGINE ROOM (A huge flywheel on one side of the engine room spins round as DAVE still desperately pulls at the levers.) DAVE: The clutch and brake are both gone! DOCTOR: What?! Well, there's only one thing to do! (He quickly looks over the room and spots a huge metal bar on the gantry near the turning flywheel. He runs over, picks it up and jams into the edge of the turning wheel. A tearing, scraping noise fills the room as the DOCTOR strains to keep the bar in place.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Right - reverse the motor! DAVE: (Shouts.) That won't work! They'll be a cable break! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Don't argue man! Do as I say! Brigadier! DAVE: Okay. (DAVE pulls at the levers again as the BRIGADIER runs and joins the DOCTOR in trying to keep the metal bar jammed in the flywheel.) 6: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. MACHINERY (Weights drop and a drum of cable turns as the machinery starts to slow down.) 7: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. ENGINE ROOM (The DOCTOR and BRIGADIER continue to strain at the lever...) 8: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. MACHINERY (...as part of the machinery breaks apart. The cable drum slows.) 9: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. ENGINE ROOM DAVE: (Shouts.) It's slowing! (A small expl*si*n occurs in the flywheel and the din in the room grows quieter.) DAVE: Though...don't know how long the cable holds? 10: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. MACHINERY (The cable drum stops turning.) 11: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. ENGINE ROOM (A larger expl*si*n rocks the flywheel.) 12: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. LIFT SHAFT (The plummeting lift suddenly halts, knocking JO and BERT unconscious.) 13: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. ENGINE ROOM (The engine room is falling silent but smoke pours from the flywheel.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: It seems to have seized up. DOCTOR: Yes. (Coughs.) (At the levers, DAVE mops his brow.) DAVE: You know, I...I hand it to you, boyo. A few moments and they'd have had it. DOCTOR: How deep are they? (DAVE looks over at an indicator on the wall.) DAVE: Nearly six hundred yards. DOCTOR: How deep is the shaft? DAVE: (Quietly.) Six hundred yards. 14: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. LIFT SHAFT (JO comes to. The cable can constantly be heard straining.) JO: Bert? (BERT comes to and sits up, rubbing his neck.) JO: Bert? BERT: Blodwyn? JO: You alright? BERT: Oh, I think so. JO: What happened? BERT: Felt like brake failure. Can't happen in theory. (He helps JO to her feet.) BERT: Ah, steady now. JO: How are we gonna get out of here? BERT: Eh? Oh, not up, that's for sure. (He opens a hatch on the side of the lift. JO walks forward to look down but BERT stops her from going too far.) BERT: Steady now ... (He takes a screwdriver out of his pocket and drops it down the shaft. They listen for the noise of it hitting the ground which it does after a moment.) BERT: About twenty feet? That was really close. Ah, let's try to get down there. (He starts to pick up a length of rope in the cage.) JO: Well, can't they haul us up in a cage? BERT: Oh, doubt it. Anyway, we'll have to get out of here. Listen to that cable - could go at any second that. (He drops the rope over the edge and passes it to JO.) BERT: Right, there you go, Blodwyn. JO: Right. (JO takes the rope and steps to the edge.) JO: Bert? BERT: Huh? JO: Do you mind going down first? BERT: Alright, love. Here goes. (He climbs over the edge and steps out.) JO: Careful. (He starts to descend.) JO: Okay. 15: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. ENGINE ROOM (DAVE examines the seized flywheel.) DAVE: Er, it's hopeless, man. The friction has welded it together. It...it's just scrap metal. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What about the other shaft? DAVE: No, it's a counterweight lift system, see? As one goes down, the other one comes up. So if one is jammed, so is the other. DOCTOR: Well, can you rig a donkey-engine and a pulley system? If we can free the other cage, we could use that. DAVE: I suppose so but it would be dangerous. DOCTOR: We'll just have to risk that. Mind you, it'd mean cutting the cable. DAVE: Yes, well, we haven't got any cutting equipment, you see? I mean, the mine's been out of action a year. But I know where we can get some. DOCTOR: Oh, where? DAVE: Global Chemicals. 16: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. LIFT GALLERY (JO and BERT reach the bottom of the rope and the floor of the gallery.) BERT: Okay? JO: Yes? BERT: Watch your feet now. JO: Right. (They walk through the gloom to the phone on the wall. BERT tries it.) BERT: Ah, useless! (He taps the cradle again.) BERT: Oh, the wire must have broken when the cage fell. (JO tries it.) JO: Oh, come on! (They hear a low moaning behind them and look round.) BERT: Hey, it's Dai! (DAI lies on the floor of the gallery. His hand and chin are glowing green.) JO: He's in a bad way. BERT: It's the same as poor d*ad Hughes - look! (He points at the green skin.) 17: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. ELGIN'S OFFICE (ELGIN sits in his spartan office at Global Chemicals on the phone.) ELGIN: (Into phone.) Good heavens - is anyone hurt? (He listens.) I see. You think you can get down to them? (Listens.) Cutting equipment? Why yes, we... (Suddenly the line cuts out. ELGIN looks at the phone in puzzlement.) 18: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. PITHEAD OFFICE (The caller is the BRIGADIER.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Cut off! (He starts to dial again.) 19: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE (STEVEN'S flicks all the switches on the telephone to the 'on' position.) 20: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. PITHEAD OFFICE (The BRIGADIER finishes dialling and hears the bleeping of the engaged tone.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well now it's engaged! DAVE: Look, try the Wholeweal people - Jones the nutcake. They might have equipment for cutting cables - see? 21: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. HALL PASSAGE (In the hallway of Wholeweal, CLIFF JONES takes the call on a wall phone.) CLIFFORD JONES: (Into phone.) Cutting a cable? What cable? (He listens.) Why? (Listens.) What - Miss Grant?! (Listens.) But why was she...look, I'll come right over. (Listens.) No, no, we haven't - but Global Chemicals have. (Listens.) Well, yes, definitely. We tried to borrow it a few weeks back. (Listens.) Aye. 22: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE (STEVENS and another man walk into his office. The little balding man, FELL, looks perturbed.) FELL: But why me? STEVENS: You're my senior man - they'll believe you. FELL: I'm sorry, Mr. Stevens, but I can't do it. STEVENS: (Quietly.) Of course you can, Fell. You must. FELL: It was too late to save the miner. He was already d*ad, but this! Well, to leave them trapped down there - it's...well, it's m*rder! STEVENS: Don't be ridiculous man. They'll never have survived a fall like that. I just need a little more time, that's all. (Coldly.) That mine must not be investigated. You know that as well as I do. FELL: One death is enough! (He turns to the door but HINKS is there and blocks the little man from leaving.) FELL: Will you please get out of my way! (HINKS looks impassively at him. Before anything else can be said, a deep sonorous VOICE booms out of the wall monitor screen on which is displayed a constantly twitching and undulating line like a oscilloscope that is in time to the VOICE. It is vaguely electronic and yet has a human tone...) BOSS'S VOICE: Stevens...? (STEVENS turns and looks up at the monitor.) STEVENS: Yes? BOSS'S VOICE: Process him. STEVENS: Is that wise? BOSS'S VOICE: It is necessary. Do as I say - process. STEVENS: Very well. FELL: (Nervously.) Er...who was that? STEVENS: Our boss - yours and mine. (FELL glances at the calm HINKS who smokes a cigarette.) FELL: I don't understand? (STEVENS stares at FELL.) STEVENS: You will, Fell - very soon. 23: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. LIFT GALLERY (Avoiding the glowing right hand, JO feels DAI'S left wrist.) JO: I can hardly feel his pulse. Have you ever seen anything like it before? BERT: No, never. JO: What could have caused it? BERT: Dunno. I tell you what though... JO: What? BERT: Whatever it was, it's still down here with us. 24: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE (The BRIGADIER is back in STEVENS' office with the Director and ELGIN. The door opens and FELL walks in. His manner has changed and he seems stiff and wooden.) STEVENS: Ah, Mr. Fell. Our friend, the Brigadier, needs our help. I'm afraid there's been another accident. FELL: (Flatly.) Yes, sir. I heard. STEVENS: Good, good, now, erm... (An impatient BRIGADIER interrupts and turns to FELL.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Look, we need some cutting equipment - oxy-acetylene, that sort of thing and we need it fast. FELL: I'm very sorry, Brigadier, but we have nothing of that kind. (The BRIGADIER is amazed. Behind his back, ELGIN looks in astonishment at STEVENS.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What - in a place of this size? FELL: The emergency equipment was withdrawn some time ago, to be replaced by thermic lances. They have not yet arrived. (STEVENS looks almost amused.) STEVENS: Oh dear, oh dear, you'll think we're woefully ill-equipped. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I find it very hard to believe. (STEVENS steps forward, looking the BRIGADIER straight in the eye.) STEVENS: You're not accusing him of being deliberately obstructive, I hope? (The BRIGADIER considers.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: No, of course not. STEVENS: Of course not. But you still have this problem, haven't you? (He heads for the door...) STEVENS: Oh, have you tried Professor Jones. (...and opens it for the BRIGADIER making it clear that the meeting is over.) STEVENS: Oh no, now I come to think of it... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (To FELL.) 'Scuse me. (The BRIGADIER follows STEVENS out and their conversation reaches ELGIN and FELL from the corridor.) STEVENS: ..., they tried to borrow ours yesterday, so presumably they can't have any now I come to think about it... (A still amazed ELGIN approaches the still FELL.) ELGIN: What on earth's going on, Ralph? We must have some cutting tools here - dammit, people's lives are at stake! (FELL speaks coldly and without emotion, like an automaton.) FELL: I have given an exact account of the position. ELGIN: You feeling quite well? FELL: Perfectly. I must go. (He turns to leave but ELGIN holds him gently by the arm.) ELGIN: No, hang about, old son - no panic. I've been wanting to have a word with you. FELL: About what? ELGIN: Oh, our revered lord and master - friend Stevens. (FELL turns and faces ELGIN like a robot swiveling round.) FELL: Well? ELGIN: (Sighs.) It strikes me he's a bit too keen to hush up the green man bit. Is there something I don't know? FELL: I cannot discuss our Director with you, Elgin. ELGIN: (Amused.) Elgin? FELL: Your attitude will be reported. ELGIN: Reported? You sound like a head prefect. FELL: Disloyalty cannot be tolerated. ELGIN: Oh, we're not in the army now, you know. FELL: The Director shall hear of this. (FELL turns and leaves, watched by a perturbed ELGIN.) 25: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS (The BRIGADIER approaches his white sports car and gets in. He takes his TM45 radio off the seat and extends the aerial.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Greyhound to trap one - over? UNIT RADIO OPERATOR: (OOV: Over radio.) Trap one. Go ahead, Greyhound. Over. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Let me talk to Captain Yates... 26: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. LIFT GALLERY (JO and BERT are still crouched down by DAI EVANS. JO looks nervous. BERT tries to be comforting.) BERT: Scared? JO: Bit. (They suddenly hear a crashing sound from a distant gallery.) JO: What was that? BERT: Oh, it's only a touch of settling, love. The old mine's snoring a bit, isn't she? JO: Oh, what are they doing up there, Bert? BERT: Oh ho! It takes time, girl, takes time. (He hugs her.) 27: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. PITHEAD OFFICE (CLIFF has reached the pit and watches as DAVE speaks to the National Coal Board on the phone.) DAVE: (Into phone.) Hello, NCB? Llanfairfach here. Look, there's been more trouble. (The DOCTOR bustles in.) DAVE: (Into phone.) Yes, another accident. DOCTOR: Well, that's where you're wrong! DAVE: (Into phone.) Hang on a minute, will you? (To the DOCTOR.) What is that you say? (The DOCTOR places a small metal bolt on the desk in front of the little Welshman.) DOCTOR: Recognise that? DAVE: Yes, it's...it's...it's a cotter pin. DOCTOR: Yeah, precisely. I found it on the floor. It had been removed from the brake linkage. This was no accident, Mr. Davies. This was deliberate sabotage! 28: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. LIFT GALLERY (JO feels DAI'S brow.) JO: He's much worse. We can't just stay here. BERT: What else can we do? JO: But he might die. (BERT thinks.) BERT: Hang on...I've just thought of something. JO: What? BERT: Well, the last time I got trapped, it was over in the west seam. There was an emergency shaft sunk there. JO: Well, can we get to it? BERT: Well, the whole seam was filled up right after. Too dangerous to work any more, they said. But the shaft might still be open. JO: Well, it's better than staying here. BERT: Aye, I wonder if I can remember the way though? D...got a bit of paper? JO: Erm... (She searches the pocket of her overalls.) JO: Yes. 29: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. ENGINE ROOM (The BRIGADIER walks through the pit office and into the engine room as the DOCTOR and DAVE, watched by CLIFF look over a wall plan of the mine.) DOCTOR: What about the west seam here - can we reach them through there? DAVE: No, that's closed after a bad fall. Fourteen k*lled... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: No luck, Doctor, they haven't got any. DOCTOR: That's ridiculous! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Thought it a bit funny myself. DAVE: Well, that's nonsense, man. We had the equipment up here a fortnight ago. I took it back myself. It's in the storage shed behind the power house. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, I've only quoted what the technical fellow told me. CLIFFORD JONES: You should have insisted! (The BRIGADIER looks in puzzlement at the long-haired young man.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Erm, who...who's...? DAVE: Oh, this is, er, Professor Jones. (The DOCTOR, absorbed until now with the immediate problems facing them, turns round and looks at CLIFF.) DOCTOR: Is it indeed? I hadn't realised. (He walks up to CLIFF and shakes his hand.) DOCTOR: I've been wanting to meet you for a long time. Your paper on DNA synthesis was quite remarkable for your age. CLIFFORD JONES: A promising youngster, huh? DOCTOR: No, no, no, I mean for the age that you live in. Now, you were about to make a suggestion, I believe, Professor? CLIFFORD JONES: Why don't we just go back to Global Chemicals and take the equipment, by force if necessary? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Out of the question. Now then, let's talk sense, shall we? Now, where's the nearest town where we can get some cutting equipment - Newport? DAVE: Well, that's the nearest - yes. But it's quite a way from here. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, we'd better get started then. DAVE: I'll come with you. I know the place fairly well. It's near the gasworks... (They leave the office. The DOCTOR smiles and puts a friendly arm across CLIFF'S shoulder.) DOCTOR: You know, Global Chemicals is beginning to interest me. Tell me, Professor, do you know the layout? CLIFFORD JONES: Aye, very well. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? (The DOCTOR smiles at him.) 30: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. MAIN GATE (One of the Guards on duty at the main gate of Global Chemicals hears a strange commotion made up of drums and cymbals and walks forward to investigate. Coming down the road which runs next to the chain-link fence at the side of the complex is a strange procession made up of people from Wholeweal. The guard runs into the small booth next to the barrier and picks up a radio microphone.) GUARD: (Into microphone.) All security units to front section. (The procession comes nearer. CLIFF leads it banging a huge drum while the others play a motley collection of cymbals, accordions or pipes and carrying an assortment of banners which read "STEVENS MUST GO", "STEVENS OUT!", GC = GLOBAL CORRUPTION", "KEEP LLANFAIRFACH CLEAN" and "SAVE OUR VALLEY FROM POLLUTION". They repeatedly chant "Stevens out!" as they near the gate.) 31: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. COMPLEX (All over the complex and grounds of the site, guards pick up the message on their radios...) GUARD: (OOV: Over radio.) Demonstration at main gate. (...and come running.) GUARD: (OOV: Over radio.) I repeat: all security units to front section. 32: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. MAIN GATE (The demonstration comes nearer.) 33: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. COMPLEX (Another guard runs out of the building.) GUARD: (OOV: Over radio.) Demonstration at main gate. 34: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. MAIN GATE GUARD: (Into microphone.) assist. (CLIFF vigorously bangs his drum.) CLIFFORD JONES: Stevens out! 35: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. COMPLEX (Another guard opens an inner gate to make his way towards his colleagues.) 36: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. MAIN GATE (The procession reaches the gate.) CLIFFORD JONES: Stevens out! 37: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. BACK OF THE COMPLEX (Another guard reacts to the radio message, running past a sign which reads: DANGER ELECTRIFIED FENCE A Land Rover pulls up to the fence along a perimeter road. It has the logo on the side of the South Wales Electricity Board and has a Hy-Mac hoist crane fitted in the back. The DOCTOR gets out and climbs into the cradle of the crane. He pulls the operating levers and the cradle starts to rise. He manoeuvres it over the edge of the electrified fence, climbs over the edge and drops to the ground. He takes a hand-drawn map of the complex out of his pocket, consults it and moves off towards the buildings. He doesn't see that he has run straight past a red sensor fixed into a metal plate in the ground.) 38: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE (An electronic voice is heard in STEVENS' office. The Director listens intently.) VOICE: Ground sensors picking up unauthorised footsteps - power house section. Cameras alerted. 39: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. COMPLEX (The DOCTOR, reading the map, walks past a series of pipes and stop-wheels. As he moves off, a security camera follows his progress.) 40: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE VOICE: Picture available. (The DOCTOR appears on the wall monitor in STEVEN'S office. Over it, the undulating line of the oscilloscope is superimposed as the sonorous and mysterious VOICE booms out at STEVENS...) BOSS'S VOICE: Who is this? STEVENS: One of the UNIT personnel. I saw him talking to the Brigadier earlier. What instructions? BOSS'S VOICE: No action...yet. 41: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. COMPLEX (The DOCTOR walks down a narrow section between a brick wall and a storage t*nk. Reaching the end, he checks carefully round the corner and moves on.) 42: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE VOICE: Entering number six sector into main storage area. (STEVENS continues to watch the wall monitor intently.) STEVENS: Shall I terminate him? BOSS'S VOICE: Negative. Apprehend him. Find out his function and purpose. 43: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. COMPLEX. YARD (The DOCTOR runs by the side of some more pipes and reaches the end of a ledge bordered by a barrier. He looks out across a yard on the other side of which are some corrugated metal storage sheds. He consults the map once more, jumps over the barrier and starts to run across the yard. Suddenly, a guard's voice booms through a fixed wall megaphone-speaker.) GUARD: (OOV: Through speaker.) Stop! (The DOCTOR halts and looks round with a rueful look on his face.) GUARD: (OOV: Through speaker.) Stand still! Perfectly still! Put your hands above your head! (The DOCTOR wearily does as instructed. A metal hatchway in the side of one of the buildings rises and HINKS and two guards step out of a storage bay.) 44: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. GALLERY (BERT in front and a nervous JO make their way down a gallery towards the west seam. BERT is carrying the lamp off his helmet in his hand like a torch. JO stops.) JO: Bert? (He comes back to her.) JO: Bert, I... BERT: Oh, never fear, Blodwyn, Bert is here! Come on. (He helps her on.) 45: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. COMPLEX. YARD (HINKS and the guards jump down from the storage bay and walk up to the DOCTOR. HINKS carries a small p*stol and indicates to the guards to stand back slightly.) HINKS: Well, well, well, bit old to play games, ain't we? DOCTOR: I'm quite spry for my age actually. HINKS: Oh, gonna have a go? Terrific! (The DOCTOR cries out and knocks HINKS to the ground unconscious with a karate chop. Another guard runs forward with his truncheon raised but the DOCTOR easily flips him over his back. The next guards arm is grabbed and he too is flipped over. The first guard gets up, raises his truncheon again and receives a jab to the stomach and a throw for his pains. The second guard tries again and grabs the DOCTOR round the back of the neck. The DOCTOR retaliates with a arm jab to the man's stomach and throws him into his recovering colleague. All three attackers now lie still on the ground.) DOCTOR: Venusian akido, gentlemen. I do hope I haven't hurt you? (He hears footsteps and looks up to see four more guards, armed with r*fles, run round a corner and in his direction. He runs off and round a corner.) 46: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. COMPLEX (He makes his way into a small semi-open pipe house but finds it is a trap. A barred gate shuts across one door and another through the door by which he entered. He is looking round for another exit when STEVENS and a recovering HINKS appear at one set of the bars.) STEVENS: Who are you? What do you want? (The DOCTOR looks through the bars at his captor.) DOCTOR: I'm afraid you have me under several disadvantages, sir. Er, whom am I addressing? STEVENS: Forgive me. My name is Stevens. I'm the Director of this project. DOCTOR: Yes, and very efficient it is too, if I may say so. STEVENS: (Coldly.) Thank you. You were about to explain your purpose. DOCTOR: It's really quite simple. I'm attached to UNIT as a scientific advisor. STEVENS: Ah, the errant Doctor. DOCTOR: We urgently need cutting equipment at the mine. You have refused to give it. Now my information is that it is stored in that shed over there. (He nods in the direction of the shed.) STEVENS: My dear Doctor, you could have saved yourself all this bother. Why didn't you ask to see me? Please...help yourself. (STEVENS looks at HINKS who presses a button on the wall of the corrugated metal shed behind him. The bars slide back. STEVENS and HINKS stride off and the DOCTOR follows. Across the yard, two guards slide back the metal door of the shed, revealing nothing beyond bar the breeze block walls.) STEVENS: You see? DOCTOR: (Unconvinced.) Mmm. HINKS: Come on, Doctor. (He gestures to the DOCTOR to follow him and they set off. Across the yard, ELGIN walks through a gate having witnessed everything.) 47: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. GALLERY (JO and BERT crouch down as they move along another gallery. JO is having difficulty in breathing.) JO: It's getting very stuffy in here. BERT: Oh, take deeper breaths now. It's better for you. (JO does so and they move on.) 48: EXT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY (The BRIGADIER and BERT come to a halt in the soldier's car outside the mine. On the back seat are two large gas cylinders of a cutting and welding set. DAVE calls out to two waiting maintenance miners.) DAVE: Come on, lads, look sharp. (As the two men get out of the car, the two miners start to lift out the cylinders.) 49: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. PITHEAD OFFICE (The DOCTOR is sat in the pit office going through a sheet of diagrams and calculations with CLIFF.) DOCTOR: The breaking strength at this point should be in the region of a hundred and twenty three, point thirty-six pounds. CLIFFORD JONES: Aye, that's right. (The DOCTOR sh**t the young man a look but at that moment the BRIGADIER walks in.) DOCTOR: Well, you're back quickly, Brigadier? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Oh, sheer luck actually, Doctor. (Behind him, DAVE and a miner start to carry the equipment through to the winding room.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Stopped for petrol and there was a fellow in the corner of the garage cutting up an old banger. Everything under control here? DOCTOR: Thank you, yes. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Good. (He goes through to the engine room...) 50: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. ENGINE ROOM (...where DAVE is starting to assemble the cutting gear.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, will it take you long to set it up? DAVE: No, not long once we get started, see? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Good, right, well I'll find some gear. DAVE: Oh no, it's my job to go down, isn't it? I mean, it's my responsibility, isn't it? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: As the one in charge... DAVE: Look here, you're not in charge of me, mate! (CLIFF and the DOCTOR come through from the office having heard this exchange.) CLIFFORD JONES: If you want a volunteer...? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Interrupts.) Look, there's no question of a volunteer... DOCTOR: (Interrupts.) Indeed there isn't, Brigadier. Jo and the others need my help now. So, if Mr. Davies and some of his colleagues would come with me? DAVE: Oh, you couldn't stop me, man! 51: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. GALLERY (BERT forges ahead but JO is still finding breathing a bit difficult.) JO: Can we stop for a bit, Bert? BERT: Oh no. Once you start, you've got to keep going. JO: Is it much further? BERT: Oh, we'll take a breather when we get there. JO: Okay. BERT: Come on now. 52: EXT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY (A miner lights a huge cutting torch and puts the flame to a steel cable.) 53: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. GALLERY (JO and BERT continue on.) 54: EXT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY (The flame cuts through the cable and the miner signals to another.) 55: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. LIFT AREA (The DOCTOR, in mining overalls and helmet, with DAVE and two others miners who have kitted up with helmets, enter the cage. DAVE presses the lift button and puts the mesh door across the entrance.) 56: EXT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY (Up above, the two wheels on the lift tower start to turn in opposite directions.) 57: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. LIFT SHAFT (The four men wait patiently as the lift descends.) 58: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. GALLERY (JO and BERT are crouched down as they make their way through a narrow tunnel. JO is gasping with the effort.) BERT: Alright...nearly there... (BERT crawls out of the tunnel and is able to stand.) BERT: Oh, here we are now. (He helps JO out. The two are exhausted.) BERT: Oh...good...we'll take a rest now. Yes... JO: Oh, I could...I couldn't have gone another step. BERT: Oh, we haven't got far now...a hundred feet or so...and then we start to go up. ... Aye, the emergency shaft. Oh, it only goes up for about forty-five degrees. And it comes out on the hillside. JO: Oh... BERT: Let's us save the lamps, eh? (He switches JO'S helmet lamp off.) JO: Okay... (...and does the same to his own hand-held lamp. They are not plunged into darkness but BERT is too tired to notice the green illumination that reaches them. JO however does...) JO: Bert? BERT: Huh? JO: How can light get down here? BERT: Well, it can't. JO: Then how can I see you? BERT: (Puzzled.) Hey, some light somewhere? (They start to look round.) JO: What's that smell? It...it's like something rotting. BERT: Hey - look. (He points to where a thin green luminous trail is running down one of the walls. They walk over to look at it.) JO: Oh, that smell! What is it? BERT: I've never seen anything like that before. (He reaches out for it.) JO: I wouldn't t... (But it is too late as BERT dips his fingers in the slime. He cries out in pain.) BERT: Ah! It burns! 59: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. LIFT GALLERY (The lift comes to a halt. DAVE takes the mesh door off. He, the DOCTOR and the two miners step out and DAVE immediately sees DAI EVANS on the floor. The glowing green encrustation has spread further and now covers his whole face.) DAVE: Here's Dai. (He reaches out to help him.) DOCTOR: Don't touch him. (The DOCTOR kneels down and looks over the man without touching him.) DOCTOR: He's d*ad. Come on, we'll find the others. DAVE: Yes, but they might... (The DOCTOR ignores whatever the little man was about to say and yells down the gallery.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Jo?! DAVE: They might be d*ad too. DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Jo?! Where are you?! (His voice carries down the dark passage. DAVE notices a sheet of paper jammed near the phone.) DAVE: Look, Doctor. (He passes the sheet to the DOCTOR who reads it...) DOCTOR: "Couldn't wait any longer. Gone to find another way out. Jo." The idiots! Why didn't they wait? (He turns the paper over. DAVE sees what is scrawled on the back.) DAVE: That looks like a map of the mine. DOCTOR: Yes, of course. That's the west seam. Come on. Let's go after them. (He starts to walk off.) DAVE: Doctor? You can't go on your own. You don't know the mine. (To the miners.) Look, you two - take Dai Evans up and send the cage back for us. I'll come with you, Doctor. 60: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. WEST SEAM GALLERY (JO is having to help BERT along with his arm slung across her shoulder.) BERT: Hey, it's my turn to feel tired now. I must be getting on. (He manages a grin at her.) JO: Come on, Bert. Keep going. It's not far now. 61: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. GALLERY (The DOCTOR and BERT make their way along a gallery previously taken by JO and BERT.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Jo?! DAVE: (Shouts.) Bert?! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Jo, can you hear me?! DAVE: Bert?! (He calls out in Welsh. They listen for a reply and move on.) 62: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. WEST SEAM GALLERY (BERT is getting weaker as JO helps him along. Neither of them notices the green glow on BERT'S fingers.) JO: Hang on, Bert...that's it. BERT: Oh, it's no use. (He sits down at the side of the gallery. JO sits with him.) BERT: I can't go on. Oh, I feel so...oh, so bad... (He raises his hand to wipe his brow and the two notice with shock and horror the green glow on his fingers.) BERT: (Terrified.) Fraid I've had it! Like Dai! JO: No, it doesn't. Look, we'll find help. BERT: It's no use! You...you must go on. JO: (Appalled.) But I can't leave you too! BERT: It's my only chance! JO: But I can't! BERT: You must! You must please go on! JO: Alright then...I'll be as quick as I can. (Her face full of misgivings, she moves off.) 63: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. GALLERY (The DOCTOR and BERT move along a low and narrow passage. The DOCTOR almost dislodges one of the pit props. They turn a corner and see that the gallery ahead is suffused with a green light.) DOCTOR: What's that light? DAVE: Where? DOCTOR: Up ahead - there. DAVE: (Shouts.) Bert? (He shouts again in Welsh.) DOCTOR: The light's green. BERT: Put our lights out then, Doctor. (The two men switch off their lights.) DOCTOR: Come on. (He takes a few paces but then stops and sniffs the stale air.) DOCTOR: Extraordinary smell. Come on. (They reach the place where the green slime trails down the wall.) DOCTOR: What is this stuff? (DAVE, like his colleague before him reaches out to touch but on this occasion is stopped in time.) DOCTOR: No, don't touch it! Come on, let's get on. 64: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. ANOTHER PART OF THE WEST SEAM GALLERY (JO makes her way along.) 65: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. WEST SEAM GALLERY DAVE: Wha... Here's Bert! DOCTOR: Where? (DAVE rushes forward to help the collapsed man.) DAVE: Bert? Bert? (BERT is gasping for breath and DAVE speaks to him in Welsh. BART raises his right infected hand.) DOCTOR: Dave - look at his hand! (DAVE jumps back. BERT is just lucid.) DOCTOR: Where's the girl? BERT: Gone on ahead... DOCTOR: (To DAVE.) Take him up to the surface - quickly as you can. Let the professor take a look at him. DAVE: What about you? DOCTOR: I'm going on ahead to look for Jo. Tell the Brigadier that I'll find her and bring her back but don't let anybody come down looking after us. You understand? DAVE: Yes, Doctor. DOCTOR: It's far too dangerous. (He moves off.) 66: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. CAVERN GALLERY (JO turns a corner in the gallery where the green glow is stronger. She walks past a series of hanging rusting chains and sees a horrifying sight in front of her. Filling a natural cavern in the rock is a lake of the green slime and swimming within it are hundreds of maggots. But these creatures are way beyond their normal size. Each is some two to three feet long as it swirms in the mire. She steps back in disgust. Some distance behind her in the tunnel, the DOCTOR gets nearer.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Jo?! Jo - are you there?! JO: (OOV: Ahead in the cavern.) Doctor - here quickly! (The DOCTOR moves on at speed and soon he and JO bump into each other in the green gloom.) JO: Doctor! Doctor - it's horrible! (She points back where she has come from.) DOCTOR: What is it? (He moves on to look. He reaches the cavern and sees the lake of giant maggots.) DOCTOR: Good grief! (He goes back to her.) DOCTOR: Come on! (They start to set off back the way they have come but all of a sudden there is a rumbling sound. The long-disused tunnel, disturbed by their movements, starts to collapse. Dust and rocks fall down, totally blocking their route back. To make matters worse, several maggots suddenly emerge from gaps in the debris. JO looks on in horror as the creatures start to shuffle towards them. One of them hisses at the pair with its small mouth filled with razor-sharp teeth...)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "10x22 - The Green Death - part 2"}
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THE GREEN DEATH BY: ROBERT SLOMAN EPISODE THREE Original Air Date: 2 June, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. CAVERN GALLERY (The DOCTOR gets nearer.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Jo?! Jo - are you there?! JO: (OOV: Ahead in the cavern.) Doctor - here quickly! (The DOCTOR moves on at speed and soon he and JO bump into each other in the green gloom.) JO: Doctor! Doctor - it's horrible! (She points back where she has come from.) DOCTOR: What is it? (He moves on to look. He reaches the cavern and sees the lake of giant maggots.) DOCTOR: Good grief! (He goes back to her.) DOCTOR: Come on! (They start to set off back the way they have come but all of a sudden there is a rumbling sound. The long-disused tunnel, disturbed by their movements, starts to collapse. Dust and rocks fall down, totally blocking their route back. To make matters worse, several maggots suddenly emerge from gaps in the debris. JO looks on in horror as the creatures start to shuffle towards them. One of them hisses at the pair with its small mouth filled with razor-sharp teeth. The DOCTOR pulls JO back in the direction of the lake in the cavern.) JO: There's no way out. DOCTOR: Nil desperandum, Jo. JO: But, Doctor, those things crawling around in that green stuff - you saw what happened to the others. DOCTOR: Then we mustn't let them touch us, must we? Now, how do we get out of here? (JO points to some wheeled coal carts nearby.) JO: What about those - they any good? (One cart is slightly de-railed.) DOCTOR: Lift it up. (They strain to lift the cart...) DOCTOR: Right...now, push it over. (...and then to lift it back onto the rail.) 2: EXT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY (An ambulance has been called to the mine. The driver closes the back doors and the watching BRIGADIER walks back into the pit office as the ambulance sets off.) 3: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. ENGINE ROOM (A tired DAVE sits down, upset at the turn of events. CLIFF tries to offer comfort.) DAVE: If anything happens to Bert too, I...I don't know what I'll do. CLIFFORD JONES: It was their own decision to go down, man. You can't count it your fault. No, it's obvious who's responsible - Global Chemicals. We'll have to go down. (The BRIGADIER enters and listens.) DAVE: No! No, the...the Doctor - he was most emphatic. I...it's too dangerous. On no account, go down. CLIFFORD JONES: But that girl, man! She's in terrible danger. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: It may surprise you to learn, Professor Jones, that Miss Grant is one of my staff. I think that she and the Doctor are quite capable of looking after themselves. CLIFFORD JONES: Two people, possibly three, have died already. She may be next. I'm going down even if you're not. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Professor Jones, believe me, my concern for Miss Grant is as deep as yours - probably more so. The Doctor knows what he's doing. CLIFFORD JONES: Very well, but you must do something. It's got to be stopped, man, it's gone too far! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Far too far - I quite agree. I think it's time that I paid Global Chemicals another visit. 4: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. CAVERN GALLERY (The DOCTOR and JO have managed to put the cart back onto the rails. JO is stood in the cart and the DOCTOR passes JO a disused pit prop.) DOCTOR: Get a hold of this prop. (JO takes the prop from him.) DOCTOR: Take it over that side. JO: Right. (She rests the prop like a pole from a punt over one side of the cart.) DOCTOR: Make room for me. (The DOCTOR climbs into the cart with his own prop.) DOCTOR: Right, you ready? JO: Yeah. DOCTOR: Then off we go. (They both start to push but while the DOCTOR is trying to push the cart towards the lake, JO is pushing in the opposite direction with the result that they don't move an inch. The DOCTOR notices.) DOCTOR: No, not that way! The rail's blocked. This way - through the cave here. JO: Through those things?! DOCTOR: Well, it's only about a foot deep. JO: (Appalled.) I can't - I just can't! DOCTOR: Jo, we haven't got any alternative. JO: Doctor, it's not that I'm afraid exactly, it's just...it's just those maggots. DOCTOR: Then close your eyes. JO: Alright. DOCTOR: Good girl. (JO shuts her eyes tight and starts to punt the cart along in the same direction as the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: That's it - right, we're under way. (The cart moves into the maggot infested lake of green slime. JO momentarily opens her eyes but quickly closes them again.) 5: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. CORRIDOR (ELGIN bumps into FELL in a corridor.) ELGIN: Have you heard? They've brought another two out of the mine - one d*ad and the other dying. FELL: (Coldly.) Yes, I heard. ELGIN: Is that all you can say? Do you feel no responsibility at all? FELL: I - why should I? ELGIN: (Angrily.) You told them we had no cutting equipment and you knew we had and I'm sure you know something about what's going on down in that mine! FELL: No, I... (FELL puts his fingers up to his screwed-up face as if in pain.) ELGIN: Oh, for heaven's sake, man, tell the truth! Others might die if you don't. (FELL recovers his self-composure.) FELL: (Flatly.) You are mistaken. (He enters a room, shutting the door behind him on ELGIN.) 6: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. PUMPING ROOM (The room that FELL has entered is a pumping operations room. Large pipes run down the walls of the room and there is a console on the edge of a raised dais in the centre. The dais runs into a raised gantry which runs round the side of the room. FALL takes a clipboard off the wall and sits at the console. Behind him, ELGIN follows him quietly into the room and takes cover behind a large vertical blue pipe, watching FELL carefully.) 7: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. CAVERN GALLERY (The little cart continues to be punted through the infested lake of slime.) DOCTOR: Well, I've heard of boating lakes but this is ridiculous! (They come to the other end of the lake and the continuation of the tunnel.) DOCTOR: Bit more. Right, that'll do. Right, get rid of your pole. (The two throw their pit props down and the DOCTOR starts to clamber out.) DOCTOR: Come on. (JO follows him.) DOCTOR: Well done, Jo. JO: Now what? (The DOCTOR looks up the continuation of the tunnel which becomes more narrow and less man-made.) DOCTOR: We go up this crevice.. It was marked on the map. JO: How do you know it leads to the surface? DOCTOR: Well, that stuff must have come down here from somewhere. If there's a way down, there's a way up. I think I know where it leads to. Come on, you go first. (He pushes JO on ahead.) 8: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE (The BRIGADIER has been granted another meeting with STEVENS.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: No, there's no question of it, sir. This is now a security matter and UNIT's taking charge. My people will be arriving as soon as possible. STEVENS: Yes, but surely... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Interrupts.) Now this cannot be dealt with locally. Now, I intend to request a full international investigation under the auspices of the United Nations. There's too much at stake. STEVENS: (Annoyed.) Indeed! Indeed! (STEVENS gets up from his chair and walks round his desk to the BRIGADIER.) STEVENS: Our work here is of international importance. However, I would point out a certain risk - should it be thought that we are in any way connected with these deaths, my whole project might be closed down! Sentimental fools are always with us. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: If it would become advisable to close down your plant... STEVENS: (Interrupts.) That must never happen! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Firmly.) Mr. Stevens, two of my friends are still down there in that mine in the gravest danger. If it consider it necessary to close Global Chemicals, then closed it will be. (He heads for the door.) STEVENS: Brigadier, I advise you to be careful - very careful indeed. (The BRIGADIER looks STEVENS in the eye.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Are you thr*at me, Mr. Stevens? STEVENS: (Softly.) Yes, I think perhaps I am. Or perhaps I'm just counselling a little prudence. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: If necessary, I can bring influence to bear at Cabinet level. STEVENS: Oh, you have friends in high places, have you? Well so have I! (He returns to his desk and jabs the intercom switch.) STEVENS: Stella? (There is a buzz of acknowledgement.) STEVENS: Will you get the Minister of Ecology on the phone, please? (There are two buzzes of response. The BRIGADIER looks less confident at this development.) 9: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. CREVICE (JO and the DOCTOR are climbing at a steel angle up a crevice filled with abandoned pit props and rocks.) DOCTOR: If I remember rightly, it gets easier further up. JO: At least there's none of those awful... (She suddenly sees something ahead.) JO: Ergh! DOCTOR: What is it? (He struggles up next to her to see what she is looking at. On a ledge above them are a pile of huge enlarged maggot eggs.) JO: They look like eggs. DOCTOR: I think I'm beginning to understand. Now, hold on a minute. I've got to get a hold of one of those. (He pushes past her and further into the "hatchery". He reaches up and takes one, putting it into a large sack as JO watches nervously.) DOCTOR: Come on by. JO: Alright. (JO climbs past him.) DOCTOR: Now don't knock the pit-prop over. You'll have the whole thing down on us. JO: Okay. DOCTOR: Keep tight into the wall. JO: Right. (She forges on ahead.) DOCTOR: Alright? JO: Yeah. 10: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. PUMPING ROOM (FELL is still sat at the console, operating the controls. At one side of the console are two thermometer-like indicators marked "1" and "2" and an "EMPTY" and "FULL" line indicated between the two. At the moment "1" is full and "2" is empty. ELGIN comes out from his observation place.) FELL: What are you doing here? This is for authorised personnel only. ELGIN: Oh, come on, Ralph. You know quite well I'm as authorised as you are. FELL: Not for here. ELGIN: Why? What's so special about this room? FELL: Nothing. ELGIN: Looks like a pumping control to me. That's not a security area. FELL: So there's nothing to see. Why don't you go away? ELGIN: Oh, but I'm interested. You're venting one t*nk and filling another. Is that it? FELL: Yes, for cleaning purposes. ELGIN: I see. (ELGIN points to indicator "1". The levels of each indicator are changing.) ELGIN: Now that one refers to the main waste t*nk on level four. (He points to "2".) ELGIN: Where's this one - the one you're filling? FELL: Close to it. ELGIN: The next big one on level three? FELL: Yes. ELGIN: (Thinks.) But that's a heavy duty pump working. You shouldn't need anything more than gravity feed. FELL: I...I made a mistake. It is for a t*nk on a higher level. ELGIN: There isn't one on a higher level. (Thinks.) No, hang about - there's that new special storage t*nk... FELL: (Interrupts nervously.) Excuse me. I cannot answer any more of your questions. I am busy. ELGIN: Of course, old man. Of course. 11: INT. WHITEHALL MEETING ROOM (In a wood-panelled room, members of the Cabinet are in a meeting. One of them - the MINISTER OF ECOLOGY - takes a phone call.) MINISTER OF ECOLOGY: (Into phone.) Fair enough, Johnstone, but you are interrupting a Cabinet meeting, you know. (He listens.) Who? (Listens.) Oh yes, the UNIT chap. Well, you'd better put him on. (He looks over at a man sat at the head of the table.) MINISTER OF ECOLOGY: Do forgive me, Prime Minister. (Into phone.) Ah, Brigadier. Unfortunate business this. 12: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE (STEVENS watches with a smile as the BRIGADIER speaks with the MINISTER.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone.) I'd put it a little more strongly than that, sir. (He listens.) Well, it seems to me that an international investigation... (Listens.) No, I don't agree at all, sir. 13: INT. WHITEHALL MEETING ROOM MINISTER OF ECOLOGY: (Into phone.) Don't you, Brigadier? Interesting. Nevertheless, I strongly suggest that you put yourself and UNIT at the disposal of the director of Global Chemicals. He's in by far the best position to handle the situation. 14: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone.) May I remind you that I answer to Geneva. Under article seventeen of the third enabling act, the... 15: INT. WHITEHALL MEETING ROOM BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (OOV: Over phone.) ...United Nations... MINISTER OF ECOLOGY: (Into phone.) I helped draft that act, Brigadier. May I remind you of article eighteen? In matters of domestic concern, er, paragraph three if I remember rightly, will place itself at the disposal of the host nation - in all respects. The Prime Minister and I feel... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (OOV: Over phone.) Sir, with... 16: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone.) ...respect, I disagree that this is a purely domestic matter, on the contrary... 17: INT. WHITEHALL MEETING ROOM (The MINISTER cups the mouthpiece as the BRIGADIER continues and speaks to the Prime Minister.) MINISTER OF ECOLOGY: Wretched fellow needs a swift kick on the backside. Would you care to administer it, Jeremy? (He passes the phone to the Prime Minister.) 18: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone.) And what's more, sir... (He listens.) What do you say? (The BRIGADIER'S mouth drops.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone.) Oh... (Coughs.) Yes, good afternoon, sir. (He listens.) Duty? Yes, I think I know... (Listens.) Yes, I know that, s... (Listens.) Is that an order, Prime Minister? (Listens.) I see. (The phone buzzes as it is put down abruptly at the other end.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, you leave me no choice. (He puts the phone down and turns back to a silent watching STEVENS.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: You have very powerful friends, Mr. Stevens. 19: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. CREVICE (The crevice has flattened out somewhat but the two are still having to make their way forward crouched down.) JO: I think I can see something. DOCTOR: Good. Go on. JO: Okay. (They move on slightly.) DOCTOR: Right, let me pass. (They reach the end where the rock gives way to a metal ceiling in the crevice with a large pipe coming down. A ladder runs down the inside of the pipe.) DOCTOR: A pipe - I was right. JO: Of course. DOCTOR: After you, Miss Grant. (JO goes to the base of the ladder.) 20: INT. PIPE DOCTOR: Up you go. JO: Right. (She starts to climb.) DOCTOR: There. (As the DOCTOR comes up after her, JO sniffs the pipe.) JO: What's that smell? DOCTOR: Oh, it's crude oil. Or rather crude oil waste. You can see it on the sides of the pipe. JO: You mean it leads to Global Chemicals? DOCTOR: Where else. Come on - up you go. JO: Right. 21: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. PUMPING ROOM (FELL looks ill. He clutches his head as ELGIN tries to reason with him...) ELGIN: I don't know what's happened to you, Ralph, but you've got to fight it! (An alarm sounds and an electronic voice is heard.) VOICE: Intruder in 'D' area - section two. Visual identification available. (An image appears on a wall monitor of the DOCTOR and JO climbing up inside the pipe.) ELGIN: It's that Doctor chap and there's a girl with him. (FELL picks up a trimphone from the side of the console.) FELL: (Into phone.) Intruders located. Unauthorised entry into pipe. ELGIN: You mean they're actually in the pipe? Well, we've got to get them out. (A beep comes from the console. Indicator "1" is almost full again as "2" empties out.) FELL: t*nk voiding operations completed. Waste disposal underway. (FELL puts the phone back as ELGIN yells at him.) ELGIN: Waste? You're putting the waste into that pipe? You'll k*ll them! FELL: They are intruders. ELGIN: Turn it off, damn you! (FELL starts to look perturbed.) FELL: I can't. The operation is a*t*matic. Twenty-eight seconds to go. 22: INT. PIPE (JO pauses.) JO: Doctor, I think there's a sort of vibration in this pipe. Can you feel it? DOCTOR: Yes, I certainly can. JO: What does it mean? DOCTOR: It means I think we ought to hurry. Come on! (They carry on their ascent.) 23: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. PUMPING ROOM (ELGIN continues to plead with FELL who is growing increasingly erratic as the control over him lessens.) ELGIN: For heaven's sake! There are two innocent people in there - we've got to save them! FELL: Not...possible. ELGIN: Yes, it is. We can open this door. (Ho goes to a hatch-door on one side of the room. He tries to pull it open as FELL stares at the console, his mouth twitching.) ELGIN: How's it done? (He continues to try and find the lock of the hatch.) ELGIN: How's it done?! FELL: (Struggling to speak.) Un...authorised...personnel. Not...in...the...interests...of...the...company. (ELGIN rushes back to FELL.) ELGIN: Interests be damned! It's m*rder! You've got to tell me - how does it open? (FELL gets up looking more and more distraught.) FELL: m*rder...unauthorised...saves lives...! (The DOCTOR and JO appear at an observation window on the pipe, signalling desperately for help.) ELGIN: Fell, tell me... FELL: Not...permitted. ELGIN: ...how do I open the hatch? (A rumbling sound starts to build up in the room. FELL strains to answer and points as if in pain at the console.) FELL: Yellow button...left side... (He collapses on the floor as ELGIN presses the indicated button and rushes to the hatch. He pulls back the locking bolts and opens the door. The DOCTOR and JO rush out and ELGIN slams the door shut, just as the green slime sh**t down the pipe as seen through the observation window.) 24: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE (STEVENS and the BRIGADIER share a drink following the Director's 'victory' over the soldier.) STEVENS: We're not m*rder, Brigadier. I am as anxious as you are to prevent any further...accidents. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Good. STEVENS: We shall cooperate with you in every possible way. An office will be placed at your disposal and my secretary will be pleased to... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Interrupts.) Er, that's very kind of you, Mr. Stevens, but my own staff will be joining me. Well, thank you for the drink. And now if you'll excuse me, I must find out if there's been any news about the Doctor and Miss Grant. (He places the empty glass on the table and leaves.) 25: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. PUMPING ROOM (The DOCTOR has told ELGIN of what is happening in the mine.) ELGIN: Where can these creatures have come from? Do you think they are linked to the oil waste? DOCTOR: Well, they must be in some way. And that waste area down the mine seems to be their breeding ground. (Behind them, FELL starts to get up off the floor.) ELGIN: Stevens couldn't have known anything about these...these maggots. Nor could Fell for that matter. (FELL leaves the room. ELGIN hears the noise of the shutting door.) ELGIN: Fell? (He goes to the door...) 26: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. CORRIDOR (...and looks out into the empty corridor. He sighs and re-joins the DOCTOR and JO.) 27: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. PUMPING ROOM ELGIN: He's gone. DOCTOR: Where? To tell Stevens about us? ELGIN: Perhaps, perhaps not. He was acting very strangely. Didn't seem to know which side he was on. DOCTOR: Oh, and which side are you on, Mr. Elgin? ELGIN: I don't like what's happening here any more than you do. DOCTOR: Good man. ELGIN: So, what next - beard the mighty Stevens in his den? JO: Doctor? DOCTOR: Yeah...? (She crosses to him, shivering.) JO: I'm so cold. DOCTOR: Good heavens, what am I thinking of? Mr. Elgin, can you get us out of here without us being seen? ELGIN: Yes, of course. We can take the back lift down to the car park. DOCTOR: And what about Fell? ELGIN: Well, even if he does go to see Stevens, I doubt if he'll make any sort of sense. 28: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE (FELL bursts into STEVENS' office. The Director, smoking a cigar, is with HINKS. FELL stares blankly and uncomprehendingly at STEVENS.) STEVENS: What is it, man? FELL: I...I... STEVENS: (Impatiently.) What is it? FELL: (With an effort.) I have...a...head...ache. (STEVENS puts down the cigar and joins FELL.) STEVENS: Of course you have. You've been overdoing it. Come and sit down. (He helps him to a chair. HINKS stands behind him.) FELL: My head...help...me. STEVENS: Of course I'll help you. (STEVENS crosses to the console...) STEVENS: I helped you once before - remember? (...and lifts the cover off the headphones. FELL gasps out his words.) FELL: Once... STEVENS: I'll always help you. FELL: You...helped...me...once...before... (STEVENS pulls the headphones into the socket and takes the headphones over to FELL.) FELL: Once...before...emergency...equipment...was...withdrawn... (Through his delirium, FELL realises what is happening and feebly covers his ears but HINKS yanks his hands back.) FELL: Once...before... (STEVENS puts the headphones on...) FELL: Once...before... (...and FELL starts to receive the conditioning again.) FELL: Once...once...before... (The faces of STEVENS and HINKS shimmer before him.) FELL: Once...before...once...before... (He seems to see STEVENS approaching again with the headphones. His head lolls slowly forward and back as he looks up at STEVENS and HINKS and finally he is still with a sad look in his reddened eyes.) FELL: You've...done something...to my mind. (The oscilloscope lines on the overhead monitor burst into life...) BOSS'S VOICE: Stevens, the processing was a failure. This man is of no further use. I suggest...self-destruction. STEVENS: That's not necessary, surely? BOSS'S VOICE: You are...a sentimentalist, Stevens. (Firmly.) I repeat: self-destruction. (With some reluctance, STEVENS crosses back to the console and presses a single red button marked with the number "9". In total silence, FELL grasps the headphones and twitches as if receiving a mild electric shock. With a sigh, he then slumps slightly forward and HINKS removes the headphones. Suddenly, in a total trance, FELL stands up and walks like an automaton out of the room. STEVENS watches him go with a pained look on his face.) STEVENS: Not...necessary, surely? 29: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. CORRIDOR (ELGIN scouts ahead round a corner in the corridor. At one end of the corridor is a short flight of steps which lead to the a door and daylight. ELGIN signals to the DOCTOR and JO to follow but no sooner have they turned the corner than ELGIN sees someone approaching.) ELGIN: Fell. (The little man is coming at them at a run. He bursts through the group and up the steps.) DOCTOR: Fell? ELGIN: Ralph! (As the DOCTOR and JO look at ELGIN in puzzlement, FELL goes through the door which can be seen to lead to a small balcony.) ELGIN: Ralph - come back! 30: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. BALCONY (FELL climbs over a barrier...) 31: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. CORRIDOR (...and screams as he falls. ELGIN rushes for the door, followed by the DOCTOR and JO.) 32: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. BALCONY (They look over the edge and JO closes her eyes when she sees FELL'S body below on the concrete ground. Two guards rush up and one sends the other back to get help. Up above, STEVENS also looks down from his office window. He returns to his desk...) 33: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE (...and sits down with his head in his hands. The oscilloscope twitches...) BOSS'S VOICE: Stevens? You are a sentimentalist. (STEVENS looks devastated.) 34: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LIVING ROOM (NIGHT) (It is later that evening. The DOCTOR and JO have returned to Wholeweal, changed from the mining gear and are enjoying a meal with CLIFF and the BRIGADIER. Various other members of the community go about their various activities which includes one shawl-wearing girl playing a soothing tune on a flute, one man sculpting, and the others chatting. The BRIGADIER wears an evening suit while JO wears a purple evening gown. The DOCTOR has been regaling them with some of his tales and his three listeners round the dinner table burst into laughter as the last reaches its conclusion...) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Laughs.) Is that all? CLIFFORD JONES: (Laughs.) Nonsense! I don't believe it! DOCTOR: Well, the moral of story, of course, is never trust a Venusian shanghorn with a perigosto stick! CLIFFORD JONES: The most useful moral trip with endless applications! Some more wine, Doctor. DOCTOR: Thanks very much. (CLIFF fills his glass as JO and the BRIGADIER chat between themselves.) DOCTOR: You know, it's really excellent this wine, though I don't recognise the vintage. CLIFFORD JONES: Well, now you've got domestic elderberry - our Nancy's best. DOCTOR: Can I have a bottle to take home? CLIFFORD JONES: Certainly. (The DOCTOR picks up the bottle.) DOCTOR: Brigadier, do you want a little more of this? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Thank you. (He refills the BRIGADIER'S glass as CLIFF points out a dish to JO. NANCY, a young women with long dark hair and wearing a caftan-type dress enters the room.) CLIFFORD JONES: Some more of this, Jo? JO: Oh, no thank you, it was delicious but... NANCY: Doctor? DOCTOR: Yeah? NANCY: You're wanted on the telephone. (The table falls silent as if something ominous is brewing.) DOCTOR: Excuse me, will you? CLIFFORD JONES: It's in the hall - by the lab door. DOCTOR: Thanks. (The DOCTOR goes out. CLIFF points to a dish.) CLIFFORD JONES: Some more, Brigadier? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Sighs.) Oh, I wish I could. (JO laughs.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What was that meat? CLIFFORD JONES: Not meat at all - fungus. (The soldier's eyes open wide.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Fungus? CLIFFORD JONES: My new hybrid. JO: So you've solved your problem? You've found what you've been looking for? CLIFFORD JONES: Oh, I wish I had. No, no, it tastes fine, looks good, the texture's right, but it's relatively low in protein. Has to be picked at exactly the right moment, and it has to be eaten or dried straight away, or it goes off. JO: Oh, so you've still got a long way to go. CLIFFORD JONES: Yes, you could say that. Right up the Amazon in fact. JO: Up the Amazon? (CLIFF looks at JO.) CLIFFORD JONES: Aye...in about a month's time. JO: Oh... CLIFFORD JONES: Look, I'll show you. (He crosses the room to get a book.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: So, all your research is biological? CLIFFORD JONES: Well, mine is, oh, the others, well... (He looks over at the flautist.) CLIFFORD JONES: Well, take Jessie there, tootling away on her tin whistle. She's one of the finest mathematicians in the country. She's doing a study of the probability factors that of our projected future ecology. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Impressed.) Is she indeed? I never would have guessed. And...and the gentlemen making that statue thing? CLIFFORD JONES: Well, used to design supersonic aircraft. They even made one once. (JO laughs.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What's he doing here? CLIFFORD JONES: Making windmills. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Really? (CLIFF nods to a girl doing yoga in the middle of the floor.) CLIFFORD JONES: Aye, and when Hilda's not upside down there, she's writing a book on self-actualisation. Aren't you, love? Used to run an encounter group in Aldgate. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Oh, I was stationed once in Aldgate. CLIFFORD JONES: Really? (CLIFF finds the large book and returns to the table with it.) CLIFFORD JONES: Here it is - "Up the Amazon with r*fle and camera". Practically unexplored territory, see? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What, the Amazon basin? Oh, surely...? CLIFFORD JONES: No, no, I mean the things people eat to get their protein - grubs, caterpillars, locusts, the blood of their cattle. JO: Ergh! CLIFFORD JONES: Well, it's only the same as black pudding, love. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Mmm. JO: Oh, that's disgusting. CLIFFORD JONES: Ah now, listen to this... (Reads.) "And when game is in short supply, these tribes, or so it is said, will subsist for months at a time on a certain giant toadstool peculiar to their region, which serves them for their meat, thus stuffed with beneficent providence" etc. etc. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: When was that published? CLIFFORD JONES: 1884. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: And on the strength of that, you go gallivanting off into the jungle? CLIFFORD JONES: Aye. JO: (Enthused.) But of course! Well look, it's like finding an old treasure map, isn't it? CLIFFORD JONES: Aye! And what a treasure! Could help to make the whole world rich! JO: Right. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: A toadstool? CLIFFORD JONES: Aye, a toadstool! (They all burst out laughing. The DOCTOR enters the room with a sad look on his face, instantly dampening the jollity.) DOCTOR: Bad news. The other miner's d*ad. JO: Bert? DOCTOR: Yes, I'm afraid so. He never regained consciousness. JO: (Tearfully.) No... (CLIFF puts a comforting hand over JO'S.) DOCTOR: Well, they've completed the post mortem on Hughes. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: And? DOCTOR: Every cell in his body had been att*cked, by some sort of virus apparently. They still haven't been able to isolate it though. CLIFFORD JONES: So we're fighting in the dark? DOCTOR: No, not quite. We've still got that egg, remember? JO: (Sadly.) Poor Bert... 35: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE (NIGHT) (As HINKS lights a cigarette for his boss, he relates to him the news of the egg.) STEVENS: An egg? They've actually got an egg? HINKS: Well, that's what they were saying down in the village. You see, there was this old taff in the pub, and, er... STEVENS: (Interrupts.) But the Doctor and the girl are the only ones actually to have...seen these creatures, is that right? HINKS: Load of old codswallop, if you ask me. Still, you know, I thought I ought to tell you. STEVENS: Yes, quite right, quite right. And where is this...egg now? HINKS: Over at the nuthutch. STEVENS: I see. Well, you'd better go and get it, hadn't you? 36: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LABORATORY (NIGHT) (In the darkened laboratory, the DOCTOR shows the egg to the BRIGADIER.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: It's tremendous size. DOCTOR: Yes, isn't it? Well, tomorrow morning, Professor Jones and I are going to examine it properly. 37: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LIVING ROOM (NIGHT) (JO and CLIFF have the living room to themselves. JO is sat in front of the f*re with the book on the Amazon in front of her. She is still upset at the news about Bert.) JO: (Tearfully.) But Cliff, if I'd stayed I...I might have been able to...help him in someway. (CLIFF comes and sits next to her.) CLIFFORD JONES: Oh, there's nothing you could have done, love. You mustn't blame yourself. JO: (Tearfully.) I know that really, it's...it's just he was...he was such a perky little man. He called me Blodwyn. (CLIFF puts his arm round her shoulder and she leans against him.) JO: (Tearfully.) Cliff, I'm sorry. I don't know why I'm crying. A funny little Welshman that I hardly knew. CLIFFORD JONES: (Gently.) You shouldn't feel ashamed of your grief. It's right to grieve. (JO looks intently at him.) CLIFFORD JONES: (Gently.) Your Bert - he was unique. In the whole history of the world, there's never been anybody just like Bert - and they'll never be another. Even if the world lasts for a hundred million centuries. JO: (Smiles.) Thanks. (CLIFF kisses her forehead. They look at each other for a moment and then move in to kiss. They hear the lab door banging and the DOCTOR'S voice as he and the BRIGADIER return. The two break apart and laugh gently.) DOCTOR: Well quite frankly, Brigadier, I fail to see the value of a lot of idiot soldiers running around the place! (The DOCTOR is first into the room. He cannot help to see what has been developing and does not look pleased.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Oh, you've been thankful enough sometimes, Doctor. (The BRIGADIER is less cognisant of events.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Ah, Professor Jones, just come to say goodnight. I'm off. (CLIFF gets up from his place by JO at the f*re.) CLIFFORD JONES: Are you sure you won't stay here too, Brigadier? We've plenty of room. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Er, no thank you. It...it's very kind of you, but the pub'll do me. Er, goodnight, Miss Grant. JO: Goodnight, Brigadier. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Goodnight, Doctor. DOCTOR: Lethbridge Stewart. CLIFFORD JONES: I'll show you out. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Ah, thank you. (The two men leave the room.) DOCTOR: I think a good night's sleep is indicated, Jo. JO: Oh, I'm fine now. Honestly I am. Actually, I think I'll stay up for a bit. This book on the Amazon looks fascinating. DOCTOR: Yes...well, I shouldn't be too late if I were you. (He smiles down at her.) DOCTOR: Goodnight. JO: (Briefly.) Night. (She looks back down at the book. The DOCTOR pauses in the doorway.) DOCTOR: By the way, Jo, the TARDIS did come up trumps. I got to Metebelis Three. (He reaches into his pocket and pulls out one of the blue sapphires.) DOCTOR: As you can see. JO: Mmm? (JO looks up. For a moment, she shows some of her old enthusiasm.) JO: Oh great! (But it quickly disappears.) JO: Great... Night. (She returns to her book. The DOCTOR stares at her and re-pockets the jewel. He manages a smile.) DOCTOR: Goodnight. (He turns to leave as CLIFF comes back into the room.) CLIFFORD JONES: Ah, off to bed, are you? (JO looks up in delight but the DOCTOR slyly pulls CLIFF back towards the hallway.) DOCTOR: Professor Jones, the very man, I've had some thought about this so-called virus... CLIFFORD JONES: Oh, but I, er... DOCTOR: (Ignoring him.) It seems me that if we were to postulate that... (CLIFF is firmly led from the room.) CLIFFORD JONES: Goodnight, Jo! DOCTOR: (OOV: In hallway.) ...had a nucleus on this... CLIFFORD JONES: (OOV: In hallway.) Sleep well! DOCTOR: (OOV: In hallway.) We could possibly... (JO'S face drops as she listens to the DOCTOR leading CLIFF away from her. She stares into the f*re and smiles.) 38: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LABORATORY (NIGHT) (In the silent laboratory, the egg starts to twitch. The shell breaks and a maggot emerges. It starts to slither out.) 39: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LIVING ROOM (NIGHT) (JO leafs through the book in the firelight.) 40: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LABORATORY (NIGHT) (The maggot is now on the floor. It slithers towards the doorway and out into the hallway.) 41: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LIVING ROOM (NIGHT) (JO is still absorbed in her book. Her back is to the door. She therefore fails to see as the maggot enters the room and rears up slightly as it senses her presence. It then carries on slithering towards her unprotected back...)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "10x23 - The Green Death - part 3"}
foreverdreaming
THE GREEN DEATH BY: ROBERT SLOMAN EPISODE FOUR Original Air Date: 9 June, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LABORATORY (NIGHT) (In the silent laboratory, the egg starts to twitch. The shell breaks and a maggot emerges. It starts to slither out.) 2: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LIVING ROOM (NIGHT) (JO leafs through the book in the firelight.) 3: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LABORATORY (NIGHT) (The maggot is now on the floor. It slithers towards the doorway and out into the hallway.) 4: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LIVING ROOM (NIGHT) (JO is still absorbed in her book. Her back is to the door. She therefore fails to see as the maggot enters the room and rears up slightly as it senses her presence. It then carries on slithering towards her unprotected back. HINKS appears at the French window. He looks into the room and then silently opens the window and creeps in. The maggot changes direction and moves towards him while he in turn is creeping up on JO. HINKS glances round and sees the approaching maggot. His face registers a mixture of horror and disgust as the grub rears up and jumps up at the thug's hand, biting into it. HINKS yells with pain and horror. JO jumps up, sees what is happening and screams. The maggot falls off his hand and slithers quickly towards the open window and HINKS falls to the ground crying out with the pain of the infected bite. CLIFF, the DOCTOR, NANCY and another man of the community come running into the room.) JO: Doctor! Doctor! CLIFFORD JONES: What is it, Jo? What's happened? JO: I don't know! I heard him shout and turned round, this...then I saw a maggot on him! Look, you can still see its trail. (A trail of the green slime runs across a rug and the parquet floor.) DOCTOR: The egg - it must have hatched out. NANCY: We'll go after it. (JO and CLIFF attend to HINKS.) DOCTOR: Nancy - now be careful. Find out where it's gone and come back here at once. NANCY: Right. (NANCY and the man go through the window. Meanwhile HINKS is starting to breathe badly.) JO: Who is he? CLIFFORD JONES: It's the bloke that drives Stevens around. His private strong-arm man. JO: Doctor, will he die? DOCTOR: Well the others did. CLIFFORD JONES: Oh, he's getting weaker already. I'll ring for an ambulance. DOCTOR: Yes, and the Brigadier. CLIFFORD JONES: Right. (He leaves the room as NANCY comes back in through the window from the night.) NANCY: Doctor? DOCTOR: Yes? NANCY: It's disappeared. The trail's stopped by the window. DOCTOR: Thank you, Nancy. Can't be helped. (Using a pencil, the DOCTOR scoops up some of the slime off the floor.) DOCTOR: Well, at least we can analyse this slime. 5: EXT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY (It is the next morning. The UNIT troops have arrived in force and unloading amm*nit*on boxes marked "expl*sives" near the mine under the watchful eye of the BRIGADIER. He moves to another part of the mine workings where SERGEANT BENTON is yelling instructions at more troops.) SERGEANT BENTON: Come on, Dicks, get a move on! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Sergeant Benton! SERGEANT BENTON: Yes sir? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: The charges laid? SERGEANT BENTON: Not yet, sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well get on with it. SERGEANT BENTON: Right, sir. (They walk up some steps to where they can see the main gate and the road across which the troops have put up a barrier. The village MILKMAN is there, arguing with the sentries.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What's going on down there? MILKMAN: (Angrily.) What's going on here? (The BRIGADIER walks down to the barrier as the argument continues...) MILKMAN: (Angrily.) Orders? What do you mean - orders? (The MILKMAN approaches the Corporal in charge.) MILKMAN: I suppose if your officer gave you orders to kick the Prince of Wales, old Callow, up his royal britches, you'd do it, I suppose, would you? What about Miss Cartwright's ginger cat, eh? (As the BRIGADIER approaches, the soldiers laugh at the MILKMAN'S comments.) MILKMAN: At death's door, he is, poor devil, not to mention Tom the sea captain. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, let him through. (The soldiers start to pull the barrier away as the MILKMAN smiles.) MILKMAN: Ah, an educated man, you see? Thank you, Captain. (The MILKMAN turns back to his float but then stops.) MILKMAN: Hey, what are you doing up at the pit? Going to blow it up, are you? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: How did you know that? MILKMAN: Well, I've got eyes, haven't I? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, you have. And now perhaps you'll be good enough to be on your way. MILKMAN: Such courtesy. Thank you, Captain. (The MILKMAN smiles, cheekily salutes and walks off to his float.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (To himself.) Blast! 6: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LABORATORY (CLIFF puts a slide under his microscope and looks through it. The DOCTOR fills a test-tube and JO watches.) DOCTOR: Well? CLIFFORD JONES: Aye, you're right. It's incredible. The DNA must be invading the foreign cells. JO: Look, I'm sorry, I know I'm a cloth-head... CLIFFORD JONES: (Interrupts.) Well, that's alright, love - not your fault! JO: Yes, but I don't understand. DOCTOR: Well, it's quite simple, Jo. We're putting some of the green cells from the maggot's trail with some human body cells. JO: (Appalled.) Which? I mean, which body? Whose body?! CLIFFORD JONES: Mine - mucus membrane cells. JO: Did it hurt? DOCTOR: Oh, Jo, really! JO: I'm sorry. CLIFFORD JONES: Well, the point is that the maggot cells changed the internal structure of the human cells into their own nature. DOCTOR: Yeah, rather as a virus does. JO: (To CLIFF.) You mean, your cells turned into maggot cells? CLIFFORD JONES: In effect, yes. JO: That's what happened to those poor miners. DOCTOR: Correct, Jo, correct. JO: Well, what now? DOCTOR: Well, we'll just have to get a hold of one of those maggots, won't we? JO: Down the mine again? DOCTOR: Well, I don't like the idea any more than you do, Jo, but we've no alternative. JO: No. (NANCY comes into the room.) NANCY: Cliff? Old Jones the Milk says they're going to blow up the mine! DOCTOR: What? (He runs from the room.) 7: EXT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY (The cloaked DOCTOR reached the mine and is in the not-unusual position of arguing with the BRIGADIER.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Sorry, Doctor, those are my orders. (They walk down some steps towards BENTON, JO and CLIFF. Nearby are some troops completing operations.) DOCTOR: Orders? Whose orders? Not that fellow from Global Chemicals? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: It's the only sensible thing to do. Seal those things inside there for good. Ready, Benton? SERGEANT BENTON: Standing by, sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Alright then, clear the area. SERGEANT BENTON: Right, sir. (He crosses over to the troops as the DOCTOR continues to plead with the BRIGADIER.) DOCTOR: Wait, wait, Brigadier - give me an hour. SERGEANT BENTON: (To the troops.) Okay, lads, clear the area! DOCTOR: Give me half an hour. At least give me a chance to talk to the wretched man. (The BRIGADIER consults his wristwatch.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: You've exactly thirty-two and a half minutes. DOCTOR: Right. (He sets off.) 8: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE (At Global Chemicals, the DOCTOR has no success with STEVENS.) STEVENS: For over a quarter of an hour I've listened patiently to you, Doctor - now it's my turn. DOCTOR: Mr. Stevens, at the moment those maggots and their eggs are situated in one place where we can observe them. Now if you seal off that mine, then we shall have no way of knowing... STEVENS: (Interrupts.) Please, Doctor! There is no point in going on like this. You have convinced me. DOCTOR: (Puzzled.) Oh, then you don't intend to blow up the mine? STEVENS: You have convinced me that you are an arrant sensation monger, a political hothead and a scientific charlatan! Giant maggots indeed! (The DOCTOR raises his voice...) DOCTOR: All I'm asking for is a little more time! STEVENS: (Shouts.) Time to spread more calumnies - more lies! DOCTOR: Time to find out the truth. Time to find out if the waste from your product is causing these maggots to appear! STEVENS: (Shouts.) That's enough! I warn you, Doctor, if you persist in these slanders, I shall have you restrained under the emergency powers act! DOCTOR: You have no such right! STEVENS: The necessary authority was brought to me this morning. (He presses the intercom on his desk.) STEVENS: Stella? (It buzzes once...) STEVENS: Ask Mr. Elgin to bring in the man from the ministry, will you? (...and then buzzes twice.) STEVENS: Do you realise what my process can mean to the economy of this country? Can you imagine any government allowing such... (The door opens and ELGIN leads a man in.) STEVENS: Ah. come in, will you? Doctor, may I introduce you to Mr. Yates? (The DOCTOR, paying little attention to the two newcomers thus far, suddenly looks up.) CAPTAIN YATES: How do you do? (CAPTAIN YATES, out of uniform and in a smart suit, gives the DOCTOR the most subtle of meaningful looks. The DOCTOR nods.) DOCTOR: How do you do? 9: EXT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY (The BRIGADIER checks his watch.) JO: Come on, Doctor, come on! (To CLIFF.) How much longer? (CLIFF checks his own watch.) JO: It's too late, isn't it? CLIFFORD JONES: In two and a half minutes, the Brigadier's going to press that button. (He looks over at the detonation button.) 10: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE (The DOCTOR, whilst maintaining the cover, is now arguing with YATES as STEVENS and ELGIN watch on.) DOCTOR: If he does that, it'd be criminal folly! CAPTAIN YATES: I'm sorry, Doctor, but the Brigadier's orders and my own are quite clear. DOCTOR: (Furiously.) Orders! Is nobody capable of acting on their own around here? CAPTAIN YATES: I'm sorry. (STEVENS smiles.) 11: EXT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY (The BRIGADIER looks at his watch.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, Benton - stand by. SERGEANT BENTON: Right, take cover, lads. Stand by! (The troops take cover behind a mining truck. BENTON adjusts a fuse and lifts the detonation handle. A short distance away, JO and CLIFF with other troops watch.) JO: No, you can't! (The BRIGADIER joins them and counts down on his watch.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Ten...nine...eight... 12: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE DOCTOR: (To YATES, shouting.) You must stop him! 13: EXT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Five...four... 14: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE CAPTAIN YATES: (Shouts.) I can't! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) You must! 15: EXT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Two...one...f*re! (BENTON plunges down the handle and a series of enormous expl*si*n erupts from the working buildings of the mine, bringing them down and destroying the galleries beneath.) 16: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE (The sound of the expl*si*n reaches STEVENS' office. The Director stands up.) STEVENS: The point has become academic, it would seem? CAPTAIN YATES: (To the DOCTOR.) Perhaps it's all for the best. (The DOCTOR rounds on YATES and speaks to him in a quietly dangerous tone.) DOCTOR: The best! I think you'll find, Mr. Yates, that this is the worst day's work the world has seen for many, many years. STEVENS: I don't think we need detain you, Doctor. DOCTOR: No. (He heads for the door which ELGIN holds open for him.) STEVENS: And Doctor? DOCTOR: Yes? STEVENS: (Coldly.) I would advise you not to come back here. If you should be so foolish, you would be received with considerably less courtesy. (The DOCTOR looks at the three men, nods and walks out. STEVENS' manner softens...) STEVENS: And now, Mr. Yates, we must make sure you are well looked after during your little stay. Elgin? Show Mr. Yates to the visitor's suite, will you? CAPTAIN YATES: Thank you, Mr. Stevens. ELGIN: Do you have a case? CAPTAIN YATES: It's in the car. (He follows ELGIN out.) ELGIN: Good, we can get it out together... (STEVENS watches them go and the door closes. STEVENS, a smile on his face lets out an audible sigh of satisfaction. The wall monitor oscilloscope starts...) BOSS'S VOICE: Ah, Stevens, the adrenaline flowing nicely? Living dangerously? That's how you get your kicks like the good little Nietzschean you are - right? STEVENS: I...don't know what you mean? BOSS'S VOICE: No? Oh, supposing that this Doctor had managed to persuade them to hold up the sealing of the mine. The Brigadier is a friend of his, you know? STEVENS: It...would only have been temporary. BOSS'S VOICE: Ah, long enough, perhaps, for them to get one of these creatures. Not safe to ask outsiders to do our work for us. STEVENS: Of course. (He bows to the monitor.) STEVENS: I'm sorry. BOSS'S VOICE: Oh, don't apologise, my little superman! Huh! Just be sure next time. The day is coming fast - D-day! ... ! Nothing must be allowed to stop it! Nothing! 17: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LABORATORY (The DOCTOR, JO, CLIFF and the BRIGADIER have returned to Wholeweal. The DOCTOR hangs up his jacket, ready to start work again on the slime.) JO: Mike Yates - here? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes. DOCTOR: Well, why didn't you tell me? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Didn't give me much of a chance, did you? JO: Well what's the idea? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Smiles.) Well, I'm not such a dunderhead as you all seem to think. I don't like this fellow Stevens any more than you do. DOCTOR: Then why did you blow up the mine? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Orders, Doctor, orders. I'm still a soldier, you know. But that doesn't stop me having an inside man to have a shuftie round. DOCTOR: Yes, well I take your point, Brigadier. But, you know, there are times when I do wish that your devotion to duty was a trifle more...flexible, shall we say? (He joins CLIFF at the bench.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I don't understand you lot. Seems to me the problem's solved. We'll see no more of those creepie-crawlies, you mark my words. (All three look up at the soldier...) 18: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. CORRIDOR (An aproned CLEANER approaches the pumping room door with the tools of her trade. She unlocks the door and enters.) 19: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. PUMPING ROOM (Once within the room, she suddenly cries out and drops her cloth and dustpan in shock.) CLEANER: Oh no! (Beyond the inspection hatch of the pipe can be seen the maggots, crawling about in their green slime. The CLEANER runs for the door.) 20: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. CORRIDOR (Outside, she runs straight into ELGIN.) CLEANER: Oh! ELGIN: Mrs. Griffiths - what on earth's the matter? (She points back into the pumping room.) CLEANER: Oh, in there! Horrible, it is! (ELGIN enters the room.) 21: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. PUMPING ROOM (He stops in shock when he sees the mass of maggots beyond the glass.) 22: EXT. SLAGHEAP (A UNIT jeep drives across the slagheap which adjoins the now destroyed mine. It stops near a patrolling soldier and BENTON gets out of the passenger seat and speaks to the soldier.) SERGEANT BENTON: Everything okay? (The soldier waves and nods.) SERGEANT BENTON: Well, keep your eyes open, just in case. (BENTON is about to get back into the jeep but something at the feet of the soldier catches his eye and he looks down to see a maggot emerging from the clinker next to the soldier's boot.) SERGEANT BENTON: Look out, man! Get back! (The soldier jumps back as the maggot hisses at him.) 23: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE (ELGIN has come to STEVENS with the news of the maggots but the Director is airily dismissive of the problem.) STEVENS: Nonsense! ELGIN: It is not nonsense! The pipe is full of them! They're about two feet long. They must have come up from the bottom of the mine. Everything that Doctor said is true. STEVENS: I'm not disputing it, dear boy, but there's no need to get so excited about it. There's a simple remedy - pump down more waste and flush 'em away. ELGIN: That is just shoving the problem underground. We've been poisoning the mine for long enough. STEVENS: (Sharply.) Poisoning? I find your choice of words a trifle excessive. ELGIN: (Shouts.) There are three people d*ad, Mr. Stevens! STEVENS: (Shouts.) The mine has been sealed! ELGIN: (Calmly.) Am I to understand that you propose to do nothing about this? STEVENS: I see no necessity. ELGIN: Then I must find somebody who will. (He moves to the door but before he can open it, STEVENS presses a button on his desk and the door lock can be heard moving into place. ELGIN remains calm.) ELGIN: Please unlock this door. (STEVENS looks at him and then moves in front of the console.) STEVENS: Come and sit down, Elgin. ELGIN: Unlock the door. (STEVENS considers and then presses a button on the console. An electronic shriek fills the room and ELGIN clamps his hands to his ears in pain. His face clouds over and he removes his hands.) STEVENS: Sit down. (ELGIN, moving as if possessed, moves to a visitor's chair. STEVENS unpacks the sinister headset.) STEVENS: Don't worry. I won't hurt you. 24: EXT. EDGE OF THE SLAGHEAP (The BRIGADIER is at the edge of the slagheap, where the UNIT troops have retreated to, watching events through a pair of binoculars. Barriers have been set up to prevent entry to the area. SERGEANT BENTON drives up in a jeep and joins him.) SERGEANT BENTON: Sir? I thought it best to back it up a bit - seeing as you said they could jump. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, quite right, Benton, quite right. (He looks through his binoculars. The whole area of the slagheap is covered with hundreds of crawling, slithering maggots.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: There's another lot. (He looks in another direction.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: They're all over the place! 25: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LABORATORY (The DOCTOR puts a phone down.) DOCTOR: Well, they're all over the place. JO: You mean they...they've tunnelled their way out? DOCTOR: The maggots are some sort of larvae...and not the finished product. Trying to find their way to daylight. CLIFFORD JONES: They must be coming up some of the old shafts in the mine - breaking through the last few feet of earth. JO: But how did it happen? CLIFFORD JONES: Oil waste from Global Chemicals must have contaminated some of the maggots causing an atavistic mutation. JO: Giant maggots?! Well what kind of insects are they going to turn into? DOCTOR: That's a very good question, Jo. 26: EXT. EDGE OF THE SLAGHEAP (Three writhing maggots hiss at a UNIT soldier as he patrols near the edge of the slagheap. He runs off from them. Nearby, several soldiers pump b*llet after b*llet into the creatures. They have no effect and the soldiers retreat. The soldier who ran from the maggots, reaches the BRIGADIER and the DOCTOR and points out the nearby creatures.) UNIT SOLDIER: Sir - look! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, I see 'em. (He unholsters his own p*stol.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, I never thought I'd f*re in anger at a...dratted caterpillar, but... (He fires several sh*ts at them but the maggots are unharmed.) DOCTOR: No, not a chance, Brigadier. Thick chitinous plates protecting the whole body surface - it's armour- plated. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Alright, we'll try AP b*ll*ts. (To the soldier.) Give 'em ten rounds rapid. UNIT SOLDIER: Sir. (The soldier aims with his r*fle and fires the ten heavier sh*ts at a maggot but the b*ll*ts ricochet off its shell. The BRIGADIER speaks into his TM45 radio.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Greyhound one to greyhound three - how's the spray working - over? SERGEANT BENTON: (OOV: Over radio.) No, it's no good, sir. 27: EXT. ANOTHER PART OF THE SLAGHEAP (An insecticide is being sprayed over more maggots but they are moving relentlessly forward.) SERGEANT BENTON: (Into radio.) They seem to thrive on it - the same with every pesticide we try. 28: EXT. EDGE OF THE SLAGHEAP DOCTOR: There's only one real answer - a biological counter-strike. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: With what? DOCTOR: Professor Jones is working on it...but he needs more living tissue. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, there's any amount of it out there going begging. DOCTOR: No, wait! I don't like it. Nobody should have to risk infection until we know we have a cure. We want no more deaths. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What then? DOCTOR: Can you get me any oil waste from Global Chemicals? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Simplicity itself. DOCTOR: Good. 29: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. YATES' OFFICE (CAPTAIN YATES has been allocated a small office at Global Chemicals. His phone rings and he finishes stirring a cup of tea and answers it.) CAPTAIN YATES: (Into phone.) Yates? (He listens.) Oh... (Coughs.) Lethbridge Stewart - my dear chap. What can I do for you? 30: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. PITHEAD OFFICE (The BRIGADIER is using the pithead office, undamaged in the expl*si*n.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone.) Your report, Captain Yates. Have you discovered anymore about their oil formula? 31: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. YATES' OFFICE CAPTAIN YATES: (Into phone.) No. No, everyone's being most helpful. 32: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. PITHEAD OFFICE BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone.) Can you get the Doctor a sample of the oil. 33: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. YATES' OFFICE CAPTAIN YATES: (Into phone.) Of course not, Brigadier. If ever I want anything, there's always somebody right at my elbow...to lend a hand. (YATES looks up at a GUARD stood next to him who has been permanently assigned to escort him. The man smiles down at his charge as he stirs his own cup of tea.) 34: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. PITHEAD OFFICE BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone.) I see. So you've got nothing. DOCTOR: Let me talk to him. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone.) Hold on a minute. (He passes the phone to the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: (Into phone.) Captain Yates - the Doctor here. Now look, I'm going to have a s*ab at getting in there myself. 35: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. YATES' OFFICE CAPTAIN YATES: (Into phone.) Well naturally, I have the utmost confidence in the security. In fact, they've, er, doubled it up since the problem arose. So we've no worries there. 36: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. PITHEAD OFFICE CAPTAIN YATES: (OOV: Over phone.) Nobody can get in. DOCTOR: (Into phone.) I see. Well, erm, keep a look out for me anyway, will you? 37: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. YATES' OFFICE CAPTAIN YATES: (Into phone.) Yes, of course. Goodbye. (He puts the phone down and picks up a biscuit off a plate.) CAPTAIN YATES: These military types. Always worrying about something, aren't they? (The guard nods and sips his tea.) 38: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. PITHEAD OFFICE BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: You've set yourself quite a task, Doctor. They're pretty efficient up there. DOCTOR: Yes. Yes, I know. (He crosses to the window and looks out.) 39: EXT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY (The milkfloat passes. From the window, the DOCTOR smiles.) 40: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. MAIN GATE (The milkfloat approaches the main gate of Global Chemicals. The barrier is raised and one of the GUARDS steps forward. Sat in the milkfloat, wearing coat, cap, glasses and a false moustache is the DOCTOR.) GUARD: (Suspiciously.) Where's the other bloke? (The DOCTOR replies in a old wheezy voice and a Welsh accent.) DOCTOR: Ohh...the poor boyo is taken very sick. Er, something he ate, his mam said. GUARD: Oh, who are you then? DOCTOR: Me, er, oh, I'm his Da. I mean, they told me I was too old to take over, they did, but I...I've been doing this milk round, ooh, fifty-three years, wet or fine, didn't I? (The GUARD starts to get bored.) DOCTOR: Oh, er, there's life in the old dog yet. Ah, I...I was only saying to Rosie up at the "Red Dragon", a big fine strapping girl she is... GUARD: (Interrupts.) Look, I haven't got time to listen to you blathering - just get on in. DOCTOR: Thank you. GUARD: Yes, and you. (The DOCTOR starts the float up again and drives into the complex.) 41: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LABORATORY (JO holds up two test tubes of the green slime while CLIFF extracts a sample from one of them and smears it on a slide.) JO: You know, when I first started working for UNIT, the Brigadier told me this was going to be my job. You know, holding test tubes for the Doctor and telling him how brilliant he was! (Laughs.) Never seemed to get around to it though somehow. CLIFFORD JONES: A pretty dull sort of job. JO: I don't know - I'm rather enjoying this. CLIFFORD JONES: Aye, so am I. (They smile at each other. CLIFF places the slide next to several others on the lab bench.) CLIFFORD JONES: Look, Jo... JO: Mmm hmm? CLIFFORD JONES: When all this business is over, I was wondering if you'd... (JO turns and knocks a jar of brown powder all over the slides.) CLIFFORD JONES: Ow! JO: Oh, Cliff! CLIFFORD JONES: You clumsy young goat - you've ruined the lot! JO: I'm sorry! CLIFFORD JONES: All wasted. JO: Well, what was that stuff? CLIFFORD JONES: Dry fungus - my hybrid. I'll have to do the whole lot again. JO: Well, no you won't because all you've got to do... (JO reaches out for the slides but CLIFF knocks her hands back.) CLIFFORD JONES: No, leave it! I shudder to think what might happen. JO: I'm sorry. 42: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. CORRIDOR (The DOCTOR, still in his milkman disguise and with container of bottles in his hand, makes his way down a corridor, past an unsuspecting guard. He turns a corner and looks round. Suddenly a klaxon alarm blares out followed by an electronic voice...) VOICE: Phase three alert...in central security area. Intruder believed to be in main block dressed as milkman. (The DOCTOR opens a door and looks in. It seems to be a storeroom for the cleaners.) VOICE: Apprehend and detain. 43: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. CLEANER'S CUPBOARD (He enters and closes the door.) 44: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. CORRIDOR (Outside, guards run past in their search.) 45: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. CLEANER'S CUPBOARD (The DOCTOR starts to divest himself of his disguise although the false moustache momentarily sticks to his fingers.) 46: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LABORATORY (CLIFF is looking intently through his microscope.) JO: Cliff? CLIFFORD JONES: Mmm? JO: What you really need is a maggot, isn't it? CLIFFORD JONES: First things first. JO: Okay, well what shall I do? CLIFFORD JONES: Keep me company, make some coffee? (He returns to his work.) JO: Like a dutiful tea girl? CLIFFORD JONES: (Not listening.) Fine. JO: In a frilly cap and an apron? CLIFFORD JONES: (Not listening.) Perfect. JO: Would you like a nice cup of arsenic? CLIFFORD JONES: (Not listening.) Fine, fine, whatever you've got. (JO sighs. She thinks and then grabs a pen and notepad. She scribbles a note and places it next to CLIFF.) CLIFFORD JONES: Thanks. (JO looks round the room and spots an empty wicker cat carrier. She picks it up and leaves the room. CLIFF, intent on his work, doesn't notice.) 47: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. CORRIDOR (YATES is accompanied by his GUARD as they walk down the corridor. They pass a cleaner in apron and headscarf who has smeared a window with polish. As they move towards a lift door, the cleaner turns. It is the DOCTOR. He desperately waves his cloth at YATES but he doesn't get his attention. The two reach the lift and the GUARD presses the button to summon the lift.) CAPTAIN YATES: What's all the fuss? YATE'S GUARD: Oh, some milkman - wandering about where he shouldn't be. They'll find him. (YATES turns and sees the DOCTOR who has written "GET RID OF HIM!" in the polish and is urgently pointing between the message and the unseeing GUARD. The lift door opens. The GUARD sees YATES looking intently at the "cleaner" who is scrubbing away at the polish.) YATE'S GUARD: Okay? CAPTAIN YATES: Yeah. (They enter the lift and the GUARD presses the button.) CAPTAIN YATES: Oh, I've forgotten my attaché case. (YATES jumps out of the closing doors and away from the alarmed GUARD.) CAPTAIN YATES: I'll join you downstairs! (The doors close and YATES rubbing his hands with glee runs over to where the DOCTOR, bucket held like a handbag, holds up an imperious finger and speaks in a deep feminine voice like Wilde's Lady Bracknell in drag...) DOCTOR: You say one word... (YATES looks him over.) CAPTAIN YATES: I like your handbag! DOCTOR: Do you? Well watch out I don't slosh you with it! (He throws the empty bucket into YATES' hands and speaks in his normal voice.) DOCTOR: Now, where can we talk? CAPTAIN YATES: In my office. DOCTOR: Right, come on. (They move off.) 48: EXT. EDGE OF THE SLAGHEAP (JO makes her way towards the slagheap, cat carrier in hand. SERGEANT BENTON draws up in a jeep and JO hastily holds the carrier behind her.) SERGEANT BENTON: Hello, looking for the Doctor? JO: Er...er, yes. SERGEANT BENTON: Well, he's not here. Gone over to the complex. JO: Oh. Alright, I think I'll take a look around...while I'm here. SERGEANT BENTON: Sorry, Miss Grant, Brigadier's orders an' all that. It's too dangerous up there, with all those things popping up out of the ground all over the place. JO: Oh. Alright. SERGEANT BENTON: See you later then, bye. (He drives off. JO watches him go and then carries on.) 49: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. YATES' OFFICE (The DOCTOR and YATES enter the office. The DOCTOR puts down his cloth and bottle of polish on a filing cabinet.) DOCTOR: Alright, Captain Yates, what have you found out? CAPTAIN YATES: Well clearly, Global Chemicals is responsible for the trouble at the pit. DOCTOR: Yes, yes, I know, that's obvious. But have you been able to get a hold of any of that waste? CAPTAIN YATES: Be like stealing the crown jewels. DOCTOR: Well, can you get a hold of the formula? CAPTAIN YATES: Not much chance, but we could try. DOCTOR: Where's it kept? CAPTAIN YATES: Everything important is isolated on the top floor. There's a special lift at the end of the block. (YATES takes out a notebook and shows the DOCTOR a plan he has drawn.) DOCTOR: Mmm hmm. CAPTAIN YATES: It works with some sort of key but the Director's the only person who's got one. (He tears the map out and passes it to the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: Well then, Captain Yates, this could prove absolutely vital. CAPTAIN YATES: There's one other thing... DOCTOR: Mmm hmm. CAPTAIN YATES: The Director isn't the real boss. He takes his instructions from someone else. DOCTOR: Oh, who? CAPTAIN YATES: Whoever lives on the top floor. (They hear a noise outside. YATES dives for his briefcase and the DOCTOR for his cleaning cloth as the door opens and STEVENS and the GUARD enter. His back to the three, the DOCTOR quickly starts polishing the filing cabinet.) STEVENS: Ah, Mr. Yates, we were looking for you. YATE'S GUARD: You said you had to get an attaché case? CAPTAIN YATES: Yes, here it is. (He holds the case up and smiles at STEVENS.) CAPTAIN YATES: I'm ready now. STEVENS: Good. (STEVENS and YATES leave. The GUARD is the last out and throws a friendly question at the scrubbing DOCTOR.) YATE'S GUARD: How's the old man, Doris? (The DOCTOR looks momentarily alarmed but speaks in a wizened Welsh voice.) DOCTOR: Oh, oh, he's ... lovely. (The GUARD smiles and seems to accept the DOCTOR'S garbled reply and leaves.) 50: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LABORATORY (CLIFF looks up from his microscope with a sigh of frustration. He glances down at the slides over which the brown powder was spilled. The powder seems to have absorbed the slime. He grabs at one and puts it under the microscope. He examines it and bangs the bench with his fist in joy.) CLIFFORD JONES: That's it, of course! Jo, we can cure it! (He looks round and sees that he is alone.) CLIFFORD JONES: Jo? (He notices the written note and reads it...) CLIFFORD JONES: "Gone to get you a maggot." (Tuts.) Silly young fool - she'll get herself k*lled! (He rushes out of the lab.) 51: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. CLEANER'S CUPBOARD (The DOCTOR changes out of his cleaner's disguise and puts his own velvet jacket back on. He checks the note map and leaves the cupboard.) 52: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. CORRIDOR (He makes his way down a corridor and spots the lift. He goes up to the door, checks that no one is nearby and takes his sonic screwdriver out of his pocket. He adjusts it and uses it to open the lift doors. The chamber beyond is patterned with studded walls. He enters and the doors close.) 53: EXT. EDGE OF THE SLAGHEAP (The BRIGADIER walks with BENTON to the barriers at the edge of the slagheap.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Won't be long now, Benton. SERGEANT BENTON: You mean reinforcements, sir? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, I've just been on to the RAF. They'll be flying a low level strike with H.E. grenades in... (He checks his watch.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: ...in just seven minutes. In ten minutes time, they'll be nothing left alive in that whole area. 54: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. COMPUTER ROOM (The lift has reached its destination and the doors open. The DOCTOR steps out into a brightly-lit room which is filled with a mass of computer equipment - tape banks, consoles, monitors - all quietly humming and ticking away. The DOCTOR looks round in puzzlement. There is no one there. He walks round and stands on a small platform. Suddenly, the VOICE that emits from STEVENS' monitor booms across the room in a friendly, welcoming tone.) BOSS'S VOICE: How kind of you to drop in, Doctor! I've been looking forward to having a little chat with you. (The DOCTOR looks for the source of the VOICE in total bafflement.) DOCTOR: Who are you? Where are you? BOSS'S VOICE: You disappoint me, Doctor. I should have thought you'd have guessed. (Behind the DOCTOR is a huge circular screen on which the oscilloscope twitches against a red background.) BOSS'S VOICE: I am the BOSS. I'm all around you. (The DOCTOR turns and looks at the red screen.) BOSS'S VOICE: Exactly - I am the computer!
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THE GREEN DEATH BY: ROBERT SLOMAN EPISODE FIVE Original Air Date: 16 June, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: EXT. EDGE OF THE SLAGHEAP BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, I've just been on to the RAF. They'll be flying a low level strike with H.E. grenades in... (He checks his watch.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: ...in just seven minutes. In ten minutes time, they'll be nothing left alive in that whole area. 2: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. COMPUTER ROOM (Suddenly the VOICE that emits from STEVENS' monitor booms across the room in a friendly, welcoming tone.) BOSS'S VOICE: How kind of you to drop in, Doctor! I've been looking forward to having a little chat with you. (The DOCTOR looks for the source of the VOICE in total bafflement.) DOCTOR: Who are you? Where are you? BOSS'S VOICE: You disappoint me, Doctor. I should have thought you'd have guessed. (Behind the DOCTOR is a huge circular screen on which the oscilloscope twitches against a red background.) BOSS'S VOICE: I am the BOSS. I'm all around you. (The DOCTOR turns and looks at the red screen.) BOSS'S VOICE: Exactly - I am the computer! 3: EXT. EDGE OF THE SLAGHEAP (SERGEANT BENTON surveys the slagheap through a pair of binoculars as CLIFF comes running up behind him.) CLIFFORD JONES: Sergeant? SERGEANT BENTON: Hello, Professor. Have you come up to have a look at our nasty little maggots, have you? CLIFFORD JONES: I'm looking for Jo Grant. SERGEANT BENTON: Oh, you've just missed her. CLIFFORD JONES: She's in there? (He looks towards the maggot-infested slagheap.) SERGEANT BENTON: No, no, no, I wouldn't let her through there. CLIFFORD JONES: Thank God for that. SERGEANT BENTON: She's gone off to look for the Doctor, I think. (BENTON suddenly sees something behind CLIFF'S shoulder and leaves the Professor to harangue two soldiers.) SERGEANT BENTON: Hey you two! Don't you obey orders any more? (Left by himself, CLIFF looks across the slagheap. He suddenly stiffens as he sees JO making her way across the area in the distance.) SERGEANT BENTON: What's the point of me telling you to stop it if you don't carry it out? (He follows her, unnoticed by the UNIT soldiers.) 4: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. COMPUTER ROOM BOSS'S VOICE: Well, Doctor, have you nothing to say? DOCTOR: (Derisively.) Why should I want to talk to a machine? (He starts to wander around the room as BOSS gives out a short laugh.) BOSS'S VOICE: Oh really, Doctor! As far as I can gather from your computer record at UNIT, the difficult thing is to stop you talking. (Laughs.) No, no, no, you won't provoke me so easily. DOCTOR: You're still a machine. BOSS'S VOICE: And you? And your human friends? Aren't you machines - inefficient and organic machines? DOCTOR: No. BOSS'S VOICE: No? DOCTOR: (Thinks.) Then yes. (He wanders across to the far side of the room to look at one particular bank.) DOCTOR: The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. We are more than machines. BOSS'S VOICE: Ah! Thank you - because in that case, so am I. DOCTOR: What are you then? BOSS'S VOICE: I am the first Biomorphic Organisational Systems Supervisor. DOCTOR: (Spells.) B, O, double S - the BOSS! BOSS'S VOICE: Precisely! DOCTOR: (Amused.) Ha! (He wanders over to another area of the room.) BOSS'S VOICE: Ah! My designers also found it amusing. I find it suitable. DOCTOR: You're still nothing but a gigantic adding machine like any other computer. BOSS'S VOICE: Oh no! No, no, no, no - I am the only computer ever to be linked to a human brain. DOCTOR: Stevens? BOSS'S VOICE: Yes - Stevens! And I learned from him that secret of human creativity is inefficiency. (The DOCTOR starts to leaf through a pile of computer printouts.) BOSS'S VOICE: The human brain is a very poor computer indeed. It makes illogical guesses which turn out to be more logical than logic itself. DOCTOR: Yes, infuriating, isn't it? BOSS'S VOICE: I programmed Stevens to programme me to be inefficient. (The VOICE starts to take on a ranting tone...) BOSS'S VOICE: I am now self-controlling, I am self-sufficient, I am the greatest being this planet has ever seen - I am the BOSS! DOCTOR: Today Llanfairfach, tomorrow the world, eh? BOSS'S VOICE: How well you understand me, Doctor. DOCTOR: A machine - a megalomaniac machine... (He throws the pile of papers into the air.) DOCTOR: But still a machine! BOSS'S VOICE: And as such, uniquely fitted to carry out my prime directive. DOCTOR: And that is? BOSS'S VOICE: Efficiency, productivity and profit for Global Chemicals, of course. Nothing and nobody can be allowed to stand in the way of that! Not even you, Doctor... 5: EXT. SLAGHEAP (A maggot hisses at JO, showing its sharp little teeth. JO looks at it in horror. They have her cornered against a rockface. CLIFF catches up with her.) CLIFFORD JONES: Hey! What the hell do you think you're up to? JO: I'm looking for a little playmate for you! CLIFFORD JONES: Shh! I nearly had a fit when I saw you! JO: I've been a bit worried myself. CLIFFORD JONES: Look, if anything had happened to you, I... (He hugs her.) CLIFFORD JONES: Oh, come on - let's get out of here. (They run off.) 6: EXT. EDGE OF THE SLAGHEAP (SERGEANT BENTON gives a soldier an order whilst behind him, the BRIGADIER swigs back a mug of tea.) SERGEANT BENTON: That'll be all, Stevens. Thank you. (The soldier stamps his salute and walks off as the noise of a helicopter is heard and BENTON'S radio bursts into life.) HELICOPTER SOLDIER: (OOV: Over radio.) Greyhound one? This is eagle. SERGEANT BENTON: (To the BRIGADIER.) It's the helicopter, sir. (The BRIGADIER comes over and takes the radio from him.) HELICOPTER SOLDIER: (OOV: Over radio.) Do you read? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Ah, thank you, Benton. HELICOPTER SOLDIER: (OOV: Over radio.) Over. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Eagle, this is greyhound one - receiving you loud and clear, over. HELICOPTER SOLDIER: (OOV: Over radio.) Eagle standing by, over. (BENTON points into the air.) SERGEANT BENTON: There she is, sir. (A small helicopter appears over the ridge of the slagheap.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Go ahead, eagle. The area is clear, over. (The helicopter gets nearer.) 7: EXT. HELICOPTER (The soldier in the helicopter signals to the pilot.) HELICOPTER SOLDIER: (Into radio.) Thank you greyhound. Commencing first run, over. 8: EXT. SLAGHEAP (JO and CLIFF run round a corner of the slagheap as the noise of the helicopter gets nearer. They pause and watch as the helicopter starts to drop its b*mb which result in large expl*si*n on the ground. CLIFF points.) CLIFFORD JONES: Over there! (They dash towards a small man-made tunnel entrance in the face of the slagheap. Behind them, the expl*si*n continue, seemingly consuming the maggots in balls of f*re.) 9: EXT. HELICOPTER (The soldier continues to drop b*mb after b*mb...) 10: EXT. SLAGHEAP (and the expl*si*n continue. JO and CLIFF get nearer to the tunnel as f*re erupts over more and more of the expanse of black rock. The helicopter sh**t overhead but fails to see the two trapped people below as they enter the tunnel - just as a huge expl*si*n erupts on the spot they were stood on.) 11: INT. CAVE (The inside of the tunnel is a small man-made cave with fallen pit props being testament to its decay. CLIFF watches through the smoke as JO gets a UNIT radio out of her pocket.) JO: (Into radio.) Hello, Brigadier, this is Jo. Greyhound one, come in please. Hello, Brigadier, this is Jo. Greyhound one, come in please. (They fail to see that a maggot is writhing in the dark recesses of the cave behind them...) 12: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. COMPUTER ROOM (The sound of the expl*si*n reach the computer room. The DOCTOR rushes over to the lift doors to listen.) DOCTOR: What's that? BOSS'S VOICE: The b*mb has started. DOCTOR: b*mb? What b*mb? BOSS'S VOICE: The Air Force will soon have obliterated those creatures out there. Your Brigadier - he's in charge. DOCTOR: Fool! What did he want to bring them in for? Doesn't he realise that b*mb'll never stop those maggots? BOSS'S VOICE: Stevens arranged it on my instructions, you see. The facts offer it as the only logical solution. DOCTOR: Well, it won't work, I tell you. BOSS'S VOICE: Oh, you are mistaken. I can't be wrong. I am infallible. (This interests the DOCTOR. He looks at the red screen.) DOCTOR: Really? Then try this one - if I were to tell you that the next thing I say will be true, but that the last thing I said was a lie, would you believe me? (For once, BOSS starts to sound uncertain...) BOSS'S VOICE: Er...the...matter is not relevant. DOCTOR: Check! BOSS'S VOICE: (Hastily.) Er, it can be worked out! Yes...erm... DOCTOR: Go on... BOSS'S VOICE: Erm... DOCTOR: Mmm hmm? BOSS'S VOICE: Your...your statements do not correlate, they are incompatible, it is not a valid query, er...d...give me time, Doctor. I shall work it out. (Around the room, the tapes start to spin ever faster...) BOSS'S VOICE: I shall work it out... (...and the hum of the equipment starts to rise as BOSS grows more frantic to find the answer.) BOSS'S VOICE: Mmm...it cannot be unsaid...but I will work it out! I shall work it out! I must! DOCTOR: (Smiles.) Check and mate! You're nothing but a machine after all. (Satisfied, he heads for the lift as the BOSS starts to rave...) BOSS'S VOICE: I shall answer it, I shall answer it. I shall, I shall, I shall! (The DOCTOR reaches the door and takes out his sonic screwdriver.) BOSS'S VOICE: I shall answer it! (He opens the doors and they part to reveal an impassive STEVENS and two guards.) BOSS'S VOICE: I shall, I shall, I shall I shall answer it! 13: EXT. SLAGHEAP (The helicopter continues its b*mb of the slagheap 14: INT. CAVE (JO moves near the entranceway to get a better signal. The inside of the cave is now very smoky from the expl*si*n outside.) JO: (Into radio.) Brigadier, greyhound one, come in? Brigadier, greyhound one, come in? (The maggot hisses and this draws CLIFF'S attention to it.) CLIFFORD JONES: Jo, look out! JO: (Into radio.) Greyhound...! (The maggot sh**t across the cave towards them as CLIFF pushes her out of the way.) 15: EXT. SLAGHEAP (Outside there is a massive expl*si*n...) 16: INT. CAVE (...the force of which throws CLIFF off his feet and across the cave. JO looks down in shock.) 17: EXT. SLAGHEAP (The helicopter flies away from the target area.) HELICOPTER SOLDIER: (OOV: Over radio.) This is eagle. Greyhound one? Mission accomplished. 18: EXT. EDGE OF THE SLAGHEAP (The BRIGADIER, BENTON and the soldiers have been watching.) HELICOPTER SOLDIER: (OOV: Over radio.) Over. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Thank you, Eagle. Thank you - out. (He hands the radio back to BENTON and lifts up his binoculars.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, let's have a look. 19: EXT. SLAGHEAP (As the flames die down, the maggots would seem to be lifeless.) 20: EXT. EDGE OF THE SLAGHEAP (The BRIGADIER lowers his binoculars with a satisfied look on his face.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, that seems to have done the trick. (BENTON is looking through his own binoculars.) SERGEANT BENTON: No, I'm afraid no, sir. Look over there - to the right. (The BRIGADIER looks again.) 21: EXT. SLAGHEAP (The maggots are shuffling through the dying flames.) 22: EXT. EDGE OF THE SLAGHEAP (The two despondent men lower their glasses.) SERGEANT BENTON: Well, that means we're in trouble, doesn't it, sir? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes. 23: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. COMPUTER ROOM (The DOCTOR has been sat and secured by his wrists in a small alcove next to the red circular screen. The conditioning headphones have been placed on his head and he sits with his eyes closed concentrating as STEVENS and the two guards look on. An aura of white lights circle his head like a halo.) BOSS'S VOICE: It is no use begging for mercy, Doctor. (The DOCTOR mutters numbers under his breath and then opens his eyes, wholly unconcerned.) DOCTOR: (Airily.) Oh, I'm not. No, I'm merely working out a few sums to keep myself from getting bored. Now, let's see - pie - three, point, one, four, one, six... BOSS'S VOICE: Power increasing, Doctor. (The hum of the equipment rises. The DOCTOR, looking wholly unconcerned, continues to mutter. STEVENS starts to look concerned at the lack of progress.) 24: INT. CAVE (JO kneels next to CLIFF and gently shakes him. He doesn't move.) JO: Cliff? Cliff, we can go now, it's stopped. Cliff? (There is no change. JO suddenly catches sight of the radio and picks it up. It would seem to be smashed in two. JO sighs and goes to the entrance.) 25: EXT. SLAGHEAP (She looks down in concern. Several hissing maggots are shuffling nearer. She retreats back into the cave.) 26: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. COMPUTER ROOM (The DOCTOR is still muttering his sums. The lights round his head are growing fiercer with streaks of blue and red. BOSS starts to sound angry.) BOSS'S VOICE: The subject is not responding to therapy! DOCTOR: Therapy! Oh, what a pretty euphemism! You're not trying to tell me this is all for my own good? BOSS'S VOICE: It is! DOCTOR: And that it hurts you more than it hurts me? BOSS'S VOICE: It does! DOCTOR: You didn't mean it to though, did you? BOSS'S VOICE: (Screams.) I will not...! (BOSS tries desperately to control itself.) BOSS'S VOICE: ...be angered...I will eradicate anger. It effects efficiency. DOCTOR: Nonsense. Sometimes it helps, you know. (He smiles with delight. Suddenly, the halo of lights that surround the DOCTOR'S head cease.) BOSS'S VOICE: Stevens, take over. (He bows to the screen and wanders over to the DOCTOR in as friendly a manner as he can muster.) STEVENS: Doctor, believe me - we wish you no harm. DOCTOR: Now don't worry, my dear fellah, I'm having a whale of a time! (STEVENS wanders round the room, as if making a speech.) STEVENS: In the end, we all want the same thing - an ordered society, with everyone happy, well fed... DOCTOR: (Interrupts.) Global Chemicals taking all the profits... (STEVENS turns and faces him.) STEVENS: What's best for Global Chemicals is best for the world, is best for you. DOCTOR: Such as a little touch of brainwashing? STEVENS: Freedom from fear, freedom from pain... DOCTOR: Freedom from freedom? BOSS'S VOICE: (Furious.) Enough! Stevens - destroy him! STEVENS: Guards! (He gestures to the guards who rush as the secured DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: No, wait! BOSS! BOSS...! (The guards stop.) DOCTOR: Now, you're being illogical. If you destroy me, you're destroying your bargaining power. After all, I'd make a good hostage, wouldn't I? BOSS'S VOICE: Mmm...he's right. We shall not k*ll him now. We shall postpone that pleasure. DOCTOR: Pleasure? Well, well, well, perhaps I was wrong about you after all? That last remark was worthy of a human being. 27: EXT. SLAGHEAP (JO is watching the hissing maggots once more. With a look on her face approaching despair, she goes back into the cave.) 28: INT. CAVE (There she examines the radio once more. She has a screwdriver and starts to try to repair the device.) 29: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. ROOM (The DOCTOR is thrown into a darkened room by the two guards. It is bare apart from the Global Chemicals logo on the wall and a set of chains that hang down from the ceiling. The guards throw the DOCTOR'S cloak in after him and then close the door. The DOCTOR starts to look round. There is a very secure grille made up of thick bars, a f*re alarm and not much else. He picks up his cloak.) 30: EXT. SLAGHEAP (The maggots shuffle nearer to the entrance.) 31: INT. CAVE (JO, still fixing the radio, hears them. She pleads to the still unconscious Professor.) JO: Please wake up - they're getting closer. Cliff? (She sighs and carries on desperately trying to fix the radio.) 32: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. ROOM (The DOCTOR, his eyes closed, rests sat against the wall of his room. He has donned his cloak. He hears the noise of the door being unlocked and jumps to his feet. His back pressed to the wall he waits. The door opens and a figure looks into the gloom. With a cry, the DOCTOR leaps forward, yanks the figure into the room and slams him against a wall. He suddenly sees who he has att*cked...) DOCTOR: Captain Yates, my dear fellow, how terribly sorry I am. (He lets the soldier go and YATES walks forward a step...) CAPTAIN YATES: Think nothing of it. (...and promptly collapses on the floor.) DOCTOR: Yates! Get up! Get up! Don't mess around there - come on! (He pulls the coughing and gasping YATES to his feet.) DOCTOR: Get up, there's no time for horseplay. How did you know I was here? CAPTAIN YATES: I saw it all on one of the monitors downstairs in the Director's office. DOCTOR: Well, we've got to get out fast. There's more going on here than I thought. CAPTAIN YATES: You mean in the mine? DOCTOR: I don't, I mean all over the world. Come on, we've got to tell the Brigadier. (He leads YATES out of the room.) 33: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. CORRIDOR (They come to a junction in the corridor and look round. They set off and a wall camera turns and follows their movement. Suddenly an alarm bell starts to ring.) DOCTOR: That'll be for us. (YATES points to a door.) CAPTAIN YATES: Through here. (They go through, shutting the door after them.) 34: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. ANOTHER CORRIDOR VOICE: (Over tannoy.) Phase four alert in central security area. Two intruders in main block. (The two "intruders" run down a set of steps but the DOCTOR sees two armed guards further down the corridor.) DOCTOR: Hold it - they're coming! CAPTAIN YATES: This way! (He points in another direction and they take it, another security camera following their every movement.) VOICE: (Over tannoy.) Search the area and detain. 35: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. LOADING BAY (The DOCTOR runs towards the ledge of a loading bay and jumps down into the yard. YATES is a few yards behind and a door slams down before he can reach it. The DOCTOR turns and sees YATES through the glass of the door. The CAPTAIN mouths to him "Run, Doctor, you get out" as the guards catch up with him. The DOCTOR nods and runs off. The guards lead YATES away.) 36: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. MAIN GATE (The DOCTOR runs between two buildings and finds his abandoned milkfloat. He jumps into the driver's seat, starts the engine and reverses at the fastest speed possible towards the barrier. The guards can do little but watch as he crashes through the barrier, spilling bottles as he goes. He turns and drives off as the guards start to f*re their r*fles at the departing vehicle. The DOCTOR weaves the vehicle from one side of the road to the other in an attempt to avoid the b*ll*ts, spilling a great number of full milk bottles onto the road.) 37: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. CORRIDOR (Inside the factory, YATES is thrown against a wall by the guards and then dragged off.) 38: INT. CAVE (JO has managed to repair the radio.) JO: (Into radio.) Hello? Brigadier, greyhound one? Greyhound four, do you read me, over? (She listens for the reply but there is only static.) JO: (Into radio.) Hello? Brigadier, this is Jo. Do you read me? Hello? Hello? (She looks desperately towards the cave entrance.) 39: EXT. EDGE OF THE SLAGHEAP SERGEANT BENTON: (To a soldier.) That'll be all, Betts, thank you. (The soldier moves off and the BRIGADIER walks up. They salute each other.) SERGEANT BENTON: Sir? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: At least the creatures seem to be staying around the slagheap. SERGEANT BENTON: Ah, I expect they want to stay near home, sir. Lie close to their breeding ground? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: No, we can't count on it. If they took it into their heads to move off to the country, we'd be in real trouble. (He hears the noise of a car engine and watches as Bessie rounds comes over the edge of the hill.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Ah, the Doctor. (The car comes to a halt and the two soldiers walk up to it.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, Doctor, the b*mb didn't work. DOCTOR: (Quietly.) No, I didn't expect it to. (BENTON'S radio suddenly comes to life with a great deal of static.) SERGEANT BENTON: (Into radio.) Station calling greyhound one. You're very faint. Please repeat, over. 40: INT. CAVE (JO looks delighted.) JO: (Into radio.) Hello? Is that you, Sergeant? It's Jo. Look, I'm up on the slag heap with the Professor. He's hurt and we're surrounded by maggots. Please hurry. 41: EXT. EDGE OF THE SLAGHEAP DOCTOR: I thought they were in the lab? SERGEANT BENTON: Well, they came up here but I sent them both back. DOCTOR: Well, we've got to get them out of there. Jump in, Sergeant. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, Benton, you go with the Doctor. I'll alert Wholeweal. SERGEANT BENTON: Right, sir. (BENTON gets into the passenger seat and the little roadster sets off. The DOCTOR turns it onto the slagheap.) 42: EXT. SLAGHEAP (They drive past the scattered maggots.) DOCTOR: Alright, Sergeant, call up Jo and ask if she can see us. SERGEANT BENTON: Right. (Into radio.) Hello, Jo - do you read? Can you see us, over? JO: (OOV: Over radio.) Yes...yes, I can see you. Keep coming straight ahead. We're in the small cave. DOCTOR: I heard that. (The cave indicated comes into sight.) SERGEANT BENTON: There's the cave up there, Doctor - d*ad ahead. DOCTOR: Yes, I can see it. Tell Jo to stand by. SERGEANT BENTON: (Into radio.) Jo, stand by. Stand by, Jo. We're nearly with you - over. 43: INT. CAVE (JO smiles with relief.) JO: (Into radio.) Right, standing by. 44: EXT. SLAGHEAP (Bessie comes to a halt. BENTON gets out and starts to make his way towards the entrance.) DOCTOR: No, wait, Sergeant, wait. (The DOCTOR pulls his sonic screwdriver out of his pocket and adjusts it. He switches it on and it starts to emit a high-pitched electronic shriek. BENTON holds his ears in pain.) SERGEANT BENTON: Steady on, Doc! (The maggots, now at the very cave entrance, start to retreat and move towards the two men as though attracted by the sound.) DOCTOR: Right, off you go - now. (BENTON runs to the entrance and jumps over the maggots.) 45: INT. CAVE SERGEANT BENTON: Jo! Are you okay? JO: Sergeant! (He bends down to help the still unconscious CLIFF.) SERGEANT BENTON: Give me a hand. JO: Right. (They start to lift him up.) JO: That's it. 46: EXT. SLAGHEAP (The DOCTOR keeps emitting the signal.) 47: INT. CAVE (BENTON now has CLIFF slung over his shoulders.) SERGEANT BENTON: Right, come on, hurry! (BENTON carefully negotiates himself and CLIFF through the narrow doorway.) JO: Okay. 48: EXT. SLAGHEAP (They jump over the maggots, JO doing so with a small squeal. The DOCTOR keeps the screwdriver on the maggots as the party comes back.) DOCTOR: Get him into the car, quick. (They do so.) DOCTOR: You alright? SERGEANT BENTON: Okay, Doc. (The DOCTOR switches off the screwdriver and jumps back into the driver's seat. CLIFF is slumped in the back seat with BENTON supporting him. JO is in her customary seat in the front. The DOCTOR reverses the vehicle in an arc and sets off back.) 48: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LIVING ROOM (A bed has been set up for CLIFF in the living room. He gasps and moans slightly. NANCY takes his temperature and turns to JO.) NANCY: But how did it happen? JO: The blast from the expl*si*n, I think. You see, he was trying to save me from the maggots. NANCY: Oh, don't worry. (She goes and puts an arm round the upset girl.) NANCY: I expect it's only concussion. He hasn't broken any bones or anything. He'll be alright - you'll see. JO: Please God he is. You see, Nancy, it was all my fault... NANCY: Oh, Jo, you mustn't... (The DOCTOR comes into the room.) DOCTOR: Any change, Jo? JO: No, none. DOCTOR: I can't understand it. He should have come to by now. (JO goes over to the young man and strokes his hair. CLIFF'S face is covered in sweat.) JO: Cliff? Cliff, please wake up, for my sake? (CLIFF'S eyes open. He stares upwards.) JO: Cliff! CLIFFORD JONES: (Faintly.) S...Sssserendipity. Ss...ah... (He falls unconscious again.) JO: Cliff? Cliff! DOCTOR: What did he say? JO: Serendipity? DOCTOR: Serendipity? (JO sighs. NANCY comforts her again.) NANCY: He'll be alright, love. (JO suddenly gasps.) DOCTOR: What is it? JO: His neck! (A green glowing patch has appeared on CLIFF'S neck.) 49: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. HALL PASSAGE (The DOCTOR follows the BRIGADIER into the hallway.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Is there anything you can do for him? DOCTOR: Well, I've given him a broad spectrum antibiotic. That should slow the infection down. No, we must find an answer to those maggots before they pupate. Imagine, thousands of flying insects spreading their infection throughout the world. 50: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LABORATORY (The DOCTOR enters the laboratory.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (From the hallway.) I'd rather not, thank you. (The BRIGADIER walks off and the DOCTOR leans over a lab bench, thinking furiously.) DOCTOR: Serendipity? (Tuts.) What on earth did he mean by serendipity? (Suddenly, and unexpectedly, CAPTAIN YATES rises up from a hiding place behind another lab bench. The DOCTOR turns in surprise and delight.) DOCTOR: Mike! You don't know how glad I am to see you. How did you get away? CAPTAIN YATES: They let me go. DOCTOR: But why? (YATES raises a small a*t*matic.) CAPTAIN YATES: To k*ll you. (The DOCTOR stiffens. YATES holds the g*n in both hands and takes a step forward to aim.) CAPTAIN YATES: You do see that I have to k*ll you, don't you? DOCTOR: Gently, Mike, fight it. CAPTAIN YATES: It is...necessary...to k*ll you. DOCTOR: (Intensely.) No, it is not necessary. Your orders are false. Do you understand me? False! (The BRIGADIER walks into the room, not seeing YATES.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Doctor, I forgot to mention to you... CAPTAIN YATES: (Shouts.) Stay back! (The BRIGADIER turns and sees his CAPTAIN holding the g*n.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Captain Yates, what...? CAPTAIN YATES: (Shouts.) Stay where you are! I have my instructions! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Barks.) Instructions! Who from? DOCTOR: Keep quiet, Brigadier, and keep still! (Quietly.) Now, Mike, listen to me. It is necessary for me to show you something. CAPTAIN YATES: (Puzzled.) Necessary? DOCTOR: Yes, for increased efficiency. Now, I'm going to take something from my pocket. (Having warned YATES, the DOCTOR moves his hand into the left-hand pocket of his jacket.) DOCTOR: Now, it won't harm you...it won't harm you. (He extracts the blue crystal from Metebelis Three and holds it up in the air, pointing its facets at the CAPTAIN.) DOCTOR: Watch it, Mike...watch it carefully, Mike. (YATES' face seems to start to cloud over. He stares at the jewel which seems to have started to emit an intense blue glow.) DOCTOR: Strange stones these Metebelis sapphires... (To YATES, the light seems to pulse and the DOCTOR'S voice starts to echo.) DOCTOR: Watch it...look deep into the blue light. (YATES' face starts to crease in pain as the light and the DOCTOR'S words start to penetrate his mind.) DOCTOR: Soon your mind will be locked onto the crystalline pattern...and the neural paths of your brain will be swept clean...and you will be free! (The reconditioning reaches a climax and YATES drops the g*n, clamping his hands to his head. He slumps to the floor and the DOCTOR lowers the crystal.) DOCTOR: So, you see, Brigadier? My trip to Metebelis Three wasn't wasted after all. (Receiving no reply, the DOCTOR sees that the BRIGADIER also has been thoroughly put into a trance by the jewel.) DOCTOR: Oh, good grief! Wake up, Lethbridge Stewart! (He taps his chin.) DOCTOR: Wake up. 51: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. ROOM (In the room that was previously the DOCTOR'S prison, STEVENS walks towards a suited figure. Another employee of Global Chemicals - Mr. JAMES - has been thoroughly conditioned and stares into space.) STEVENS: Mr. James? Do you hear me, Mr. James? JAMES: I hear you. STEVENS: Good. How have you been programmed? JAMES: To obey the BOSS. STEVENS: At all times? JAMES: At all times. STEVENS: Good. Now then, we must go to work. There is very little time left. Here are your instructions. 52: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LABORATORY (YATES starts to come to on the floor of the laboratory. The BRIGADIER is also out of his trance.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: He's a trained soldier. He's been taught to withstand that sort of thing. DOCTOR: Mmm, if he hadn't tried so hard, he's have come in sh**ting. I'd have been a d*ad man by now. You too probably. (YATES suddenly gasps and starts...) CAPTAIN YATES: Uh! Where am I? DOCTOR: You're in the nuthutch. CAPTAIN YATES: What...? DOCTOR: Professor Jones' house. (The two men bend over him as he puts a hand to his head.) CAPTAIN YATES: That blue light... DOCTOR: Yes, well, you'll be alright now, old chap. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, Captain Yates, you're well out of Global Chemicals. DOCTOR: I'm afraid he's not. (To YATES.) I'm going to ask you to go back. Do you think you feel up to it? CAPTAIN YATES: (Sighs.) Right as rain, Doctor. DOCTOR: I'm sorry to have to ask you to do this but there's some information that I simply must have. Now, here's what I want you to do... 53: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE (STEVENS sits in his chair reading checkpoints off a clipboard as BOSS replies from the wall monitor.) STEVENS: New York, seven, two, o, three - sl*ve units prepared. BOSS'S VOICE: Now reading seven, five, eight, zero. STEVENS: Zurich - one, five, eight, four. BOSS'S VOICE: In preparation. sl*ve unit assessment to follow. STEVENS: Moscow, ten, zero, zero, three. BOSS'S VOICE: Prepared - one, one, zero, zero, nine, eight. (There is a knock on the door.) STEVENS: Permission? BOSS'S VOICE: Of course. (STEVENS presses a button on his desk to unlock the door.) STEVENS: Come in. (The door opens and YATES enters. He holds the a*t*matic and appears to be a conditioned state again.) STEVENS: Well? CAPTAIN YATES: The Doctor...is d*ad. (His shoulders slump down. STEVENS appears satisfied and looks up to the monitor.) 54: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LIVING ROOM (CLIFF'S condition is getting worse. He gasps for breath and the green patch glows brighter. JO tends to him as the DOCTOR fills a syringe.) JO: Shouldn't we get him to hospital? DOCTOR: What'd be the point, Jo? You know what happened to the others. Ordinary treatment won't work. JO: He won't die, will he? DOCTOR: He means a lot to you, doesn't he? JO: Yes. DOCTOR: Well then, trust me, Jo. I'm sure these injections are doing him some good. (The DOCTOR starts to inject CLIFF'S arm as JO tries to quieten him.) JO: Shh, it's alright. DOCTOR: At least it'll give us time to find the real cure. (JO whispers quietly to CLIFF.) 55: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE (YATES stands transfixed next to STEVENS' desk. The Director holds the p*stol with a smile of satisfaction on his face.) STEVENS: And the girl? CAPTAIN YATES: No need to worry. She's too concerned about the Professor to make trouble. STEVENS: All the same, I think it might be advisable to...dispose of her too. CAPTAIN YATES: I don't think that would be necessary. (STEVENS looks round at him.) STEVENS: Don't you now? How very interesting. (He presses the intercom button on his desk and it buzzes.) STEVENS: Stella? Ask Mr. James to come in, will you? (He sits back.) CAPTAIN YATES: To dispose of the girl would not be efficient. STEVENS: The time will come. Thank you for your most valuable advice, Mr. Yates. (The door opens and JAMES enters.) JAMES: You sent for me? (STEVENS gets up and hands JAMES the a*t*matic.) STEVENS: Yes. Wait here with Mr. Yates. (He walks out of the room and shuts the door. Immediately, CAPTAIN YATES turns to JAMES, smiles and puts his hands into his suit pockets. JAMES raises the g*n.) JAMES: What are you doing? CAPTAIN YATES: Nothing. (He raises his hands. The crystal is in the right one.) CAPTAIN YATES: Just concentrate on the blue crystal, Mr. James. (JAMES stares at the crystal. YATES' voice starts to echo in his mind.) CAPTAIN YATES: As you look, you'll see it glow. Watch carefully. (To JAMES, the jewel starts to give off its blue flare. His face creases as the light burns into his mind. The glow grows more intense until JAMES gives out a gasp and staggers backwards. YATES pockets the crystal and goes to help the little man.) CAPTAIN YATES: Mr. James? (He gently slaps the cheek of the uncomprehending man.) CAPTAIN YATES: Your mind's clear now. You have to tell me what's going to happen. JAMES: (Gasps.) Takeover...by the BOSS...at four o'clock this afternoon...the computer is going to... (There is suddenly an electronic howl. JAMES grasps his ears and falls d*ad to the floor. YATES examines him but a sudden voice makes him look up.) STEVENS: Just can't depend on anyone. (STEVENS and two guards stand at the console.) STEVENS: Can you, Mr. Yates?
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THE GREEN DEATH BY: ROBERT SLOMAN EPISODE SIX Original Air Date: 23 June, 1973 5:50pm - 6:15pm 1: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. STEVENS' OFFICE CAPTAIN YATES: Just concentrate on the blue crystal, Mr. James. (James stares at the crystal.) CAPTAIN YATES: As you look, you'll see it glow. Watch carefully. (To James, the jewel starts to give off its blue flare. His face creases as the light burns into his mind. The glow grows more intense until James gives out a gasp and staggers backwards. YATES pockets the crystal and goes to help the little man.) CAPTAIN YATES: Mr. James? (He gently slaps the cheek of the uncomprehending man.) CAPTAIN YATES: Your mind's clear now. You have to tell me what's going to happen. JAMES: (Gasps.) Takeover...by the BOSS...at four o'clock this afternoon...the computer is going to... (There is suddenly an electronic howl. James grasps his ears and falls d*ad to the floor. YATES examines him but a sudden voice makes him look up.) STEVENS: Just can't depend on anyone. (STEVENS and two guards stand at the console.) STEVENS: Can you, Mr. Yates? 2: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LABORATORY (The BRIGADIER enters the Wholeweal laboratory with a small open box in his hand. He takes it to the DOCTOR is examining a slide under a microscope.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: This the sort of thing you mean? (The DOCTOR looks. The box contains a piece of coal rock with a trail of the green slime across it.) DOCTOR: Yes, that's exactly what I mean. Well done, Brigadier. Now I can really get on. (The DOCTOR starts to scrape some of the slime onto a slide.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, I must get a bite to eat. Seems a long time since breakfast. DOCTOR: Yeah, well Nancy's gone to make some sandwiches, I believe. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: All that fungus stuff? DOCTOR: Yes, why? Don't you like it? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Rather have a slice of beef. What are you trying to do? (The DOCTOR takes the slide over to another microscope and inserts it.) DOCTOR: Carry on where Professor Jones left off. Trying to find a specific antibiotic reaction. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Could be...a long job? DOCTOR: Yes, could be. (He looks up from the microscope.) DOCTOR: You know, I wish I knew what he meant by serendipity. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Serendipity? DOCTOR: Yes, means making a marvellous discovery by mistake. I have an idea Professor Jones was on the point of a breakthrough. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, you've got his notes there, haven't you? DOCTOR: Yes. Yes, I have, but it doesn't say a thing. Take a look for yourself. (He passes the BRIGADIER a clipboard with notes attached. The soldier looks over them.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Huh! Might as well be in Sanskrit for all it means to me. 3: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. KITCHEN AND LARDER (NANCY works in the kitchen making her sandwiches. She finishes and carries a plate of fungus that looks like a joint of beef into the larder and places it on the side.) 4: EXT. WHOLEWHEAL COMMUNITY (Outside, a UNIT jeep tears up the farm track and halts in front of Wholeweal. SERGEANT BENTON is at the wheel. He gets out and picks up a large sausage-shaped bundle wrapped in a cloth from the front passenger seat. He runs into the farm building with it.) 5: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LABORATORY (NANCY has given the BRIGADIER a piece of the beef-like fungus to eat. He munches on a morsel.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: It's beef! It is beef! NANCY: It's exactly the same fungus you had last night. It's just cooked differently. (BENTON bursts in with the bundle and NANCY leaves.) SERGEANT BENTON: I thought I'd find you here, sir. (He places the bundle on one of the tables. The DOCTOR is busy reading CLIFF'S notes.) DOCTOR: What have you got there, Sergeant? SERGEANT BENTON: It's a maggot, Doctor. I found it on the edge of the danger area. (The DOCTOR instantly puts down the notes and comes over to examine the bundle.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Is it d*ad? SERGEANT BENTON: Not exactly, sir. (The DOCTOR unwraps the bundle. Within is the empty shell of a maggot. He turns it over with a glass rod.) DOCTOR: It's a chrysalis. They're beginning to change. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Change? I don't understand. DOCTOR: Like the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, but change into what? DOCTOR: I wish I knew, Brigadier. (The BRIGADIER suddenly realises the implications and looks down at the chrysalis in horror.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: You mean they might be able to fly? DOCTOR: Yes. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Then we can't stop them. Within a matter of hours they could be all over the countryside. DOCTOR: Yes, it's horribly possible. Well, they're our number one priority now. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: And the cure for Professor Jones? DOCTOR: That'll have to wait, I'm afraid. (They are interrupted by a scream of terror from the kitchen.) NANCY: Doctor! Come quickly! (They all rush towards the kitchen...) 6: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. KITCHEN AND LARDER (...where they find NANCY pointing at something in the larder.) DOCTOR: What is it, Nancy? NANCY: It must be the one that escaped from the lab. (The DOCTOR cautiously walks into the larder doorway. There a maggot lies next to the plate of fungus. It doesn't seem to move. From the doorway, the DOCTOR cautiously shakes the table but still the creature doesn't move. He pokes it with the glass rod he has carried through from the laboratory. The maggot is still and lifeless. They all walk into the larder.) DOCTOR: Well, it's d*ad. It's not a husk like the other one but a complete d*ad maggot. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes well, I find the live ones more worrying, Doctor. DOCTOR: But don't you understand, Brigadier - what k*lled it? SERGEANT BENTON: Could it have been something it ate? NANCY: That's it - the fungus! (She points to the plate. The DOCTOR picks it up and examines it.) DOCTOR: Yes...this could be exactly what we need. (To NANCY.) How much of this fungus have you got? NANCY: A whole pile of it in the outhouse. DOCTOR: Show me quickly. NANCY: Right. (He passes the plate to the BRIGADIER and follows NANCY out. He in turn thrusts the plate into BENTON'S hand and follows them too. BENTON deposits the plate next to the d*ad creature.) 7: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. COMPUTER ROOM (BOSS is 'singing' a tune to itself as STEVENS leafs through a series of computer cards.) BOSS'S VOICE: Er, Stevens? (STEVENS puts down the cards and goes and stands on the small platform in front of the red screen.) BOSS'S VOICE: Stevens, erm, how did Captain Yates manage to break Mr. James' processing? STEVENS: I don't know. Some...specialised hypnotic technique perhaps? BOSS'S VOICE: Ah ha. And he also resisted our conditioning programme, didn't he? STEVENS: He is dangerous. He should be eliminated. BOSS'S VOICE: No - no, he will make an interesting experiment. Total processing comes next. He shall be the first of the new sl*ve elite. See to it! STEVENS: Right away. (STEVENS bows and walks off.) 8: EXT. EDGE OF THE SLAGHEAP (The DOCTOR waits on the edge of the slagheap in Bessie. UNIT soldiers transfer sack after sack of the fungus from a jeep onto the back seat of the car.) SERGEANT BENTON: Come on, lads - keep 'em moving. (The BRIGADIER walks forward.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Good luck, Doctor. DOCTOR: Thank you, Brigadier. (The soldiers finish loading Bessie.) DOCTOR: Right, Benton. (BENTON stands on the running board and the DOCTOR drives off onto the slagheap. The BRIGADIER observes through his binoculars.) 9: EXT. SLAGHEAP (The writhing maggots hiss as Bessie drives past.) DOCTOR: Alright, Sergeant, start scattering. SERGEANT BENTON: With pleasure, Doctor. (He reaches into the sacks and starts pulling out handfuls of the fungus which he throws to the ground. The maggots start to shuffle towards the substance, nosing and biting into the contents.) 10: EXT. EDGE OF THE SLAGHEAP BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) They're taking the bait, Doctor. 11: EXT. SLAGHEAP (BENTON throws more handfuls down, being careful to aim them as close to each maggot as possible.) DOCTOR: There's some down here, Sergeant. SERGEANT BENTON: Right. DOCTOR: Right alongside the car. (Fungus lands in front of the snouts of the maggots indicated.) SERGEANT BENTON: Got 'em! DOCTOR: That's it. (More maggots shuffle nearer to the proffered meal.) 12: EXT. EDGE OF THE SLAGHEAP BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Hello, Doctor? Hello, Doctor? It's working! 13: EXT. SLAGHEAP (The maggots which have eaten the fungus start to become sluggish and die quickly. They writhe slowly and become still. The area that the DOCTOR and BENTON have driven through is littered with the corpses of the creatures.) 14: EXT. EDGE OF THE SLAGHEAP BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Doctor, it's working. I say again - it's working. They're dying like...well, like maggots! 15: EXT. SLAGHEAP BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (OOV: Over radio.) We've licked 'em! (The DOCTOR picks up BENTON'S radio off the front seat as the SERGEANT continues to dispense the fungus over the side of the car.) DOCTOR: (Into radio.) Not quite, Brigadier. Remember that empty skin. 16: EXT. EDGE OF THE SLAGHEAP (The BRIGADIER listens...) DOCTOR: (OOV: Over radio.) I haven't seen any more about but you never know. 17: EXT. SLAGHEAP (Bessie drives on at speed. The two men in the car fail to see that they are being observed. Crouched on a brow of the slagheap is a huge fly. Its back is black and patterned with yellow spots and blotches. Its large head turns and watches the car go.) 18: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LIVING ROOM (CLIFF'S condition is deteriorating. He gasps and mutters in a delirious manner and the glowing green infection on his neck has now doubled its size. JO mops his brow.) JO: Nancy, he's getting worse! Isn't there anything we can do? NANCY: Just keep him as comfortable as possible, I suppose. The Doctor will be back soon. JO: Even he doesn't know what to do, does he? Shh, Cliff. It's alright, shh! 19: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. ROOM (CAPTAIN YATES has been secured in the room previously occupied by the DOCTOR and Mr. James. To make doubly sure of his incarceration, his wrists have been locked into the chains which dangle from the ceiling and he hangs there in some discomfort. The door opens and STEVENS and two guards enter. They start to release his hands.) STEVENS: Well, young man, you have escaped us once. Believe me, it won't happen again. Bring him along. (YATES, much weakened, is dragged from the room.) 20: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. CORRIDOR (STEVENS leads the men down a corridor. They reach the lift where YATES hangs weakly between the two guards as they and STEVENS wait for the lift. The doors open and YATES springs into life, pushing the two guards at the Director so that all three men fall into a heap on the floor of the lift. The doors close on them and YATES sprints down the corridor. He makes for the door which leads onto the balcony and the roof.) 21: EXT. EDGE OF THE SLAGHEAP BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Sector four - report, over. UNIT SOLDIER: (OOV: Over radio.) Vehicle now approaching last group of creatures. 22: EXT. SLAGHEAP (Bessie moves into the last patch of maggots.) UNIT SOLDIER: (Into radio.) All others destroyed, over. (BENTON, his humour much restored by their results, throws the fungus over the side of the car.) SERGEANT BENTON: Kitty, kitty, kitty! Come on, come and get your lovely din-dins! Come on, kitty, kit... (The DOCTOR'S humour however remains resistant...) DOCTOR: Sergeant Benton! (BENTON falls silent and carries on throwing down the fungus. The final maggots cannot even manage a hiss as they gurgle and die. The giant fly has kept up with the car and crawls over the edge of the hill. Its giant red glowing eyes look down at the car. Meanwhile...) DOCTOR: Well, that seems to be the last of them, Benton. Let's get back to the Brigadier. SERGEANT BENTON: Right. (The car drives into a turning circle and starts to head back. The fly takes off in pursuit of it.) 23: EXT. EDGE OF THE SLAGHEAP (The BRIGADIER, observing events through his binoculars, suddenly catches sight of the fly.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Good grief! (He hurriedly pulls out his TM45 radio.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Doctor... 24: EXT. SLAGHEAP BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (OOV: Over radio.) Look out! Look out, above you! (The two men look up and the DOCTOR brings Bessie to a halt as the fly buzzes down on them. They crouch down as best they can in their seats but the DOCTOR chances a look up.) SERGEANT BENTON: Doctor, get down! (He pushes the DOCTOR back down as the fly swoops in over them.) 25: EXT. EDGE OF THE SLAGHEAP BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Doctor, it's attacking again! 26: EXT. SLAGHEAP (As the fly comes in for the att*ck again, this time it is the DOCTOR who pushes the inquisitive SERGEANT'S head back down.) DOCTOR: Keep down, Sergeant! (The fly comes over and passes. The DOCTOR looks up and the fly suddenly spits out a stream of the green slime at the car. The DOCTOR quickly ducks beneath the dashboard as the deadly liquid hits the windscreen.) 27: EXT. EDGE OF THE SLAGHEAP (The BRIGADIER lowers his binoculars in exasperation.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (To himself.) What is he trying to do? 28: EXT. SLAGHEAP (The fly comes in for a sweep once more. The DOCTOR stands up in his seat, takes off his cloak and throws it into the air as the fly sh**t down. The creature hits the garment and gets tangled up in it, falling to the ground with a crash. The DOCTOR and BENTON climb down from Bessie and run over to inspect it.) DOCTOR: Careful, Sergeant. (The DOCTOR carefully pulls back the cloak to reveal the d*ad insect.) DOCTOR: What a beautiful creature. SERGEANT BENTON: (Unconvinced.) Oh yes, Doctor - beautiful! 29: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS (YATES is on the one-storey roof of Global Chemicals. He runs along the edge and jumps down onto the porch over the main entrance and from there onto the ground. He runs off.) 30: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LIVING ROOM (The DOCTOR has made it back to Wholeweal. CLIFF is quieter but his breathing is very slow and deep. The DOCTOR takes his pulse as NANCY comforts JO.) DOCTOR: And you say he was delirious? NANCY: For a while, yes, but...then he seemed to go into a coma. DOCTOR: Can you remember what he said? JO: (Upset.) Er, no...it was just nonsense. He didn't make any sense. (The DOCTOR leaves CLIFF and stands in front of JO.) DOCTOR: Jo, think hard. You were with him in the lab. Did he seem on the track of a cure? JO: No, not at all. DOCTOR: (Thinks.) Ah, it's very curious. Well I shall just have to hope for some serendipity of my own. JO: Doctor? DOCTOR: Mmm? JO: What is serendipity? DOCTOR: A happy accident. JO: (Upset.) I had an accident and...with Cliff, I...spilled some brown powder all over his slides. He wasn't very happy about it. DOCTOR: (Realises.) Jo, that's it! (He thumps the palm of his hand.) DOCTOR: Do you happen to remember which powder? JO: Yes, I think so. DOCTOR: Then come and show me, quickly. Come on! (He almost drags her from the room.) 31: EXT. COUNTRYSIDE (Gasping for breath, YATES runs past a plantation of fir trees. He stops to get his bearings and then runs on.) 32: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LABORATORY (The DOCTOR looks at the jar of brown powder.) DOCTOR: And you're positive this is the one? JO: Positive. DOCTOR: Well, I should have guessed. It's the same fungus that k*lled that maggot. JO: (Delighted.) You mean...that's the cure? DOCTOR: It must be! 33: EXT. SLAGHEAP (Wearing thick protective gloves, the UNIT troops are picking up the corpses of the maggots and putting them into sacks. The BRIGADIER and BENTON observe proceedings.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, Benton, now we know how to deal with these creatures, the next thing is to get the National Coal Board to open up that emergency shaft. We ought to make certain that it's all quite clear of those creatures. Not only down the mine but all the possible ways up to the surface. (Suddenly...) CAPTAIN YATES: Brigadier, sir! (They look to see the exhausted figure of CAPTAIN YATES running towards them.) CAPTAIN YATES: The computer, sir! The computer! 34: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LABORATORY (A dishevelled YATES has been brought back to Wholeweal to report to the DOCTOR who is busy making up CLIFF'S cure. NANCY and JO watch on as the DOCTOR mixes powder and solution in a small plastic tub.) DOCTOR: So, what's the computer going to do? CAPTAIN YATES: That's just it, Doctor, I don't know. But whatever it is, it's pretty big and it's going to happen at four o'clock. DOCTOR: Right, well I'll get up there as soon as I finish this. NANCY: What is it you're doing? (He starts to stir the powder and liquid.) DOCTOR: Making an aqueous extract of the amino fraction of this fungus. NANCY: Oh, an injection? DOCTOR: That's right. NANCY: I can do that. I'm not just a mum here, you know? DOCTOR: Thank you, Nancy. (She takes the plastic tub from him and sets to work.) DOCTOR: Jo, pick up the paste from that fungus powder and apply it to the green stain on Cliff's neck. JO: Okay. (She sets to work.) DOCTOR: Alright, Captain Yates, where's the Brigadier? CAPTAIN YATES: He's gone - to Global Chemicals. Hopes to confront the Director and get him to talk. 35: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. COMPUTER ROOM (STEVENS stands before the red screen of BOSS and reports the loss of their prisoner.) BOSS'S VOICE: Stevens? You are inefficient but you are also a fool. As Oscar Wilde so very nearly said - to lose one prisoner may be accounted a misfortune, to lose two smacks of carelessness. STEVENS: (Hesitates.) I'm...very sorry. BOSS'S VOICE: Ah ha! No, they can't harm us now, my little superman. It's too late. STEVENS: We're going ahead then? BOSS'S VOICE: Well, naturally. Report. STEVENS: The medical staff have completed all implantations... BOSS'S VOICE: Ah ha? STEVENS: ...and all sl*ve units are now ready to be activated. BOSS'S VOICE: Good, good! Establish a links with the seven international computers. The countdown to phase one can begin! (STEVENS smiles.) BOSS'S VOICE: Well, get on with it! (STEVENS jumps and bows.) 36: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. MAIN GATE (The guard in the booth puts down the phone and comes out with his r*fle to where the BRIGADIER, BENTON and some troops in a jeep patiently waits at the lowered barrier.) GUARD: It's no good, sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: For heaven's sake, man! Don't you know who I am? GUARD: Makes no difference, nobody's getting in. (They hear the noise of a car and watch to see Bessie containing the DOCTOR and YATES speed up and screech to a halt. The DOCTOR gets out.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Wretched fellow won't let me in. DOCTOR: Well, thank goodness for that. I shall go in alone. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Now, Doctor... DOCTOR: Brigadier, if I'm not out of there by three minutes to four, you and the rest of your clod-hopping friends can come in and... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Interrupts.) And rescue you? DOCTOR: No, I'm afraid not. If I'm not out by then, I shall be d*ad. Now you must go in and try and destroy that computer. Right, now lets synchronise our watches. (The armed guard has been listening.) GUARD: It's no good, sir. I've already explained to the Brigadier. 37: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. COMPUTER ROOM (BOSS is singing again as STEVENS, clipboard in hand, makes adjustments to the systems in the room.) STEVENS: Right, phase one countdown completed. (BOSS carries on singing as STEVENS checks his watch.) STEVENS: We're falling behind time. (He rushes with unaccustomed speed across the room to continue his countdown tasks.) BOSS'S VOICE: Stevens, you know, we should have arranged for a symphony orchestra to herald my triumph. To take over the world, to sweep into power on the crest of a wave of Wagnerian sound! Er, you like that idea, of course? STEVENS: Please! BOSS'S VOICE: No? Oh, er, the 1812, perha...oh, or would we dare - the glorious ninth? (STEVENS is growing impatient with the BOSS' ramblings.) STEVENS: We must go ahead! (BOSS sounds like a whingeing, spoilt child.) BOSS'S VOICE: Oh, Stevens, you're a dull fool too! Very well...activate the total processing of the sl*ve elite. (STEVENS bows, crosses to a console and starts to flick a series of switches.) 38: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. MAIN GATE GUARD: I'm sorry, sir. I must ask you and this gentleman to move right away from this area. DOCTOR: Now look here, my dear fellow... (The DOCTOR takes a step forward and the g*n swings round and aims the r*fle at him.) GUARD: If you take one step into... (He stops as a wavering electronic sound emits across the complex. His face screws up and he becomes immobile. The DOCTOR goes for the barrier.) DOCTOR: Now, come on, get it up! (The BRIGADIER helps him raise the barrier and the DOCTOR runs past the still guard into the complex.) 39: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. COMPUTER ROOM (BOSS is singing again – this time Beethoven's fifth. The movement of the oscilloscope twitches in time.) BOSS'S VOICE: Tan, tan, tan, ra! Tan, tan, tan, ra! STEVENS: (Impatiently.) There is no time to be lost! (BOSS ignores him and carries on singing as STEVENS rushes to another console.) STEVENS: Until final link-up takes place and the sl*ve units are responding, we are quite defenceless! (BOSS continues. STEVENS shouts out between gritted teeth.) STEVENS: Please, listen to me! BOSS'S VOICE: Oh, not even a little fan-fare? You're unkind, Stevens. STEVENS: Links by landline are complete. Radio links are now being established. It is only a matter of minutes. BOSS'S VOICE: Minutes? Before the moment of truth sails towards us on time's winged chariot! (STEVENS rolls his eyes as BOSS laughs.) BOSS'S VOICE: I love a really juicy mixed metaphor, Stevens. Oh, very well, phase two! (STEVENS goes to the alcove seat. He takes down the conditioning headphones and sits holding them, staring straight ahead.) BOSS'S VOICE: Discontinue primary function. (STEVENS jabs at two of the buttons in the wall of the alcove.) BOSS'S VOICE: Connect! (With a slight smile, he presses one final button and dons the headphones. BOSS starts to sing again to the tune of Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G".) BOSS'S VOICE: "Connect, connect, connect, connect, connect, connect, connect, zim bum!" 40: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. CORRIDOR (The DOCTOR dashes through the corridors of Global Chemicals, taking out his sonic screwdriver as he goes in preparation for the lift.) 41: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LIVING ROOM (CLIFF'S breathing is very shallow as NANCY injects his arm. JO has smeared his neck and the green glow has disappeared under a streak of brownish sludge and she continues to dab his brow. CLIFF'S breathing suddenly becomes easier.) NANCY: (Softly.) I think it's going to work! (CLIFF'S eyes suddenly open. He blinks and looks up at the two women.) CLIFFORD JONES: (Quietly.) Hello, Nancy. Oh, Jo! Oh, Jo! (As JO smiles down at him, he kisses her hand.) 42: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. MAIN GATE (The UNIT men wait patiently. They check their watches.) SERGEANT BENTON: Only six minutes left, sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Mutters.) Come on, Doctor! 43: INT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. COMPUTER ROOM (The lift doors open and the DOCTOR runs into the computer room. BOSS is singing still but now, sat in the alcove, STEVENS lips move to the sound as man and computer have become one. The DOCTOR runs up to him.) DOCTOR: Stevens! Stevens, listen to me, I've got to talk to you. You've gotta stop this! (STEVENS' mouth moves as BOSS answers...) BOSS'S VOICE: Stevens no longer exists, Doctor. Say what you have to say to me. (The DOCTOR ignores the machine and continues to plead with the human being...) DOCTOR: Of course you still exist. Don't listen to this...this machine. Fight it! BOSS'S VOICE: Too late, Doctor. In five minutes, my power will be extended to seven other complexes throughout the world. Think of that! You have failed in your poor little attempt to halt our progress towards maximum efficiency and productivity. DOCTOR: (Urgently.) Stevens, listen to me: you've seen where this efficiency of yours leads - wholesale pollution of the countryside, devilish creatures spawned by filthy by-products of your technology, men...men walking around like brainless vegetables, death, disease, destruction! BOSS'S VOICE: Teething problems. They will be dealt with in due course. DOCTOR: In the usual efficient way, I suppose - elimination. (STEVENS holds up four fingers.) BOSS'S VOICE: Four minutes. (The DOCTOR reaches into the pocket of his cloak.) DOCTOR: Stevens...I want you to look at this crystal. (He holds up the Metebelis jewel.) DOCTOR: Look...at this sapphire. (STEVENS' eyes waver towards the crystal.) DOCTOR: Look deep into its blue light. BOSS'S VOICE: Concentrate on the task in hand, Stevens. DOCTOR: Don't listen to this machine! (STEVENS' eyes start to screw up as he starts a mental struggle within himself.) DOCTOR: You're the one in control - fight it! Look at this crystal. Look at it. (STEVENS' head wavers slightly between staring ahead and wanting to look at the crystal.) DOCTOR: Look deep into the blue light. Look at it. Look at it! (STEVENS finally stares full on at the crystal. He sees its bright glow and the DOCTOR'S words start to echo in his mind.) DOCTOR: Look at it. Look at it, Stevens. Look deep into the blue light. Look at it. (STEVENS looks pained as the glow of the crystal burns into his mind. His own voice partially recovers as it starts to supercede that of BOSS...) STEVENS: (Struggling.) Doctor...I...help...me... (But BOSS tries to reassert its control...) BOSS'S VOICE: No, no, I am the one who ... Think of our great plan, our dream! STEVENS: (Struggling.) I...I'm...sorry! I...shall...speak...! DOCTOR: That's it - fight it! Fight it! You're a human being! (The force of the crystal grows stronger.) STEVENS: (Struggling.) Isn't there another answer?! BOSS'S VOICE: No, no, no - you and I are one! STEVENS: (Shouts.) But the disease, the deaths! BOSS'S VOICE: They are necessities! STEVENS: (Screams.) No, there must be another way! (The power of the crystal reaches its climax. STEVENS gasps and slumps in his seat. The DOCTOR wrenches the headphones off. STEVENS looks up at him, gasping as if he is still fighting for control of his own mind.) STEVENS: Get out...quickly! DOCTOR: Come with me. STEVENS: No...no. (He starts to activate controls in the alcove. The lights in the room start to flare.) STEVENS: (Gasps.) I'm cross-feeding the generator circuitry. In two minutes...the whole place'll go up. Warn the others! Get out! (The DOCTOR runs for the lift.) STEVENS: You have two minutes! (The lights in the room start to flare into a rainbow series of colours. BOSS cries out in pain.) BOSS'S VOICE: Reverse...pulse! (The hum of the machinery starts to race away. STEVENS, his face screwed up in pain, struggles across the room to activate more of the destruct sequence as BOSS, maddened beyond control, fluctuates between his former singing, cries of instruction and those of pleading.) BOSS'S VOICE: Loss of control...Stevens...integrate booster function... (BOSS'S ramblings become garbled as STEVENS struggles from console to console.) BOSS'S VOICE: Such good friends! Stevens! Stevens! Please! Please! (BOSS cries out as STEVENS collapses against a console and starts to thump the switches down.) BOSS'S VOICE: It hurts! The pain! My circuits are on f*re! Nooooo! Never thought it would come to this! Stevens! Stevens! (STEVENS struggles back to the alcove seat.) BOSS'S VOICE: My sentimental friend! My frieeeeeennnnnnnnddddddd! (STEVENS presses one final switch. BOSS falls quite, the lighting in the room returns to normal...and STEVENS stares into space with tears falling down his cheeks...) 44: EXT. GLOBAL CHEMICALS. MAIN GATE (The DOCTOR runs towards the main gate where the guard, the control influence of BOSS reducing, is swaying on his feet.) DOCTOR: Get down everyone! Take cover! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, take cover everyone! (The soldiers run behind the jeep as the DOCTOR grabs the fainting guard...) DOCTOR: Come on! Come on! (...and pulls him behind Bessie. They crouch down as a massive expl*si*n tears the factory apart...) 45: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LIVING ROOM (EVENING) (CLIFF, up, dressed and recovered, finishes devouring a bowl of soup watched by the DOCTOR, JO and NANCY.) CLIFFORD JONES: Oh, Nancy, that fungus soup is delicious! Is there any more? NANCY: I'm afraid I haven't got any more made at the moment. The UNIT troops have scoffed the lot. DOCTOR: Including the Brigadier? NANCY: Including the Brigadier! (They all laugh. NANCY leaves with the empty bowl.) JO: (To CLIFF.) Well, you're feeling better alright. CLIFFORD JONES: Aye. DOCTOR: Well, Jo, we'd better get back to UNIT HQ. We've got a report to make out. (She hesitates.) JO: Doctor... DOCTOR: Mmm? (She glances at CLIFF and he gives her a nod of encouragement.) JO: I don't think I'll be going back just yet. DOCTOR: Oh, you thinking of staying here? JO: Well, not here exactly. Only you see, Cliff is going on this expedition to look for this fantastic fungus. DOCTOR: Where? CLIFFORD JONES: The upper reaches of the Amazon. JO: And he's asked me to go with him. DOCTOR: And you want to go? JO: More than anything else in the world. DOCTOR: I see. When? CLIFFORD JONES: Well, very soon now. We'll just stop off in Cardiff, pick up our supplies, get married and... JO: (Surprised.) Married? (CLIFF looks at her.) CLIFFORD JONES: Aye... (The DOCTOR looks between the two in embarrassment.) DOCTOR: Erm, look...will you excuse me, I...I do think I'm going to be wanted on the telephone. (He leaves the room. The two don't even seem to notice his departure.) JO: (Smiles.) You...you didn't say anything about getting married. CLIFFORD JONES: Didn't I? I'm sorry, love. You will, of course? (JO throws her arms round him.) JO: Yes! Course, I will! (The two part, grinning, laughing and uncertain what to say next.) CLIFFORD JONES: Right...oh, well... JO: Yes! (CLIFF cries out with joy and spins JO round.) CLIFFORD JONES: Yeehaa! Ah, life's good, isn't it?! (Alerted by the noise, the BRIGADIER, YATES, BENTON and NANCY run into the room.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What's going on? NANCY: Are you alright, Jo? CLIFFORD JONES: Go on - tell 'em! (More of the community come into the room as JO laughs and makes her announcement.) JO: Cliff and I are going to get married. SERGEANT BENTON: Getting married?! (As everyone breaks out into a hubbub of noise, YATES looks disappointed but puts on a brave face.) CAPTAIN YATES: Well, that's marvellous. (To CLIFF.) Oh, congratulations, Professor Jones. CLIFFORD JONES: Thank you. (They shake hands. JO and the BRIGADIER do the same.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Congratulations, Jo, not before time. (JO pecks him on the cheek.) SERGEANT BENTON: (To CLIFF.) Professor Jones, ... CAPTAIN YATES: (To JO.) I'm sure he'll make you very happy. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (To CLIFF.) Well, Professor Jones... CLIFFORD JONES: Thank you, Brigadier. (The BRIGADIER takes out a slip of paper he has had tucked into his belt.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I've got a wedding present for you. It's a telex from Geneva, granting your place here official status as a United Nations priority one research complex. CLIFFORD JONES: Oh, what! SERGEANT BENTON: Well done! (YATES and BENTON applaud him. Behind them, NANCY has come back in with a tray of glasses and a bottle of what seems to be champagne.) CLIFFORD JONES: Do you know what that means? It means unlimited financial help! Work for the valley's. SERGEANT BENTON: That's great. (Like an excited child, CLIFF runs round the room, spreading his joy with the other members of the commune.) CLIFFORD JONES: Aye, and food! Food for all the world! (The BRIGADIER has a quiet word with YATES.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Never mind, Mike, let's have a drink. (They join the others in taking a glass from NANCY. The DOCTOR has come back into the room and is having a quiet word with JO. She hangs her head down in sorrow at their parting and he lifts her chin and smiles.) DOCTOR: You got onto your uncle at United Nations, didn't you? JO: It's only the second time I've ever asked him for anything. DOCTOR: And look where the first time got you. (JO'S voice cracks.) JO: You don't mind, do you? DOCTOR: Mind? He might even be able to turn you into a scientist. (JO smiles.) JO: Don't go too far away, will you? And if you do, come back and see us sometime. DOCTOR: Yes. (The BRIGADIER'S words reach them as he takes a glass...) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Thank you, lovely. (But for once, they seem to find it difficult to find the words to say to each other.) DOCTOR: Save me a piece of wedding cake. JO: Right. (A silence falls between them again, then...) DOCTOR: Oh, I nearly forgot. (He reaches into his pocket and holds up the Metebelis crystal.) DOCTOR: Your wedding present. (She takes the jewel.) JO: It's beautiful! Thank you, Doctor. (She hugs him as CLIFF comes up with two glasses for the DOCTOR and JO.) CLIFFORD JONES: Hey, Jo, come and drink a toast to the happy couple, huh? JO: But that's us. CLIFFORD JONES: Aye, so it is. (He kisses and hugs her.) CLIFFORD JONES: Don't worry, Doctor. I'll look after her. (He leads her to the rest of the group where the BRIGADIER is ready to make a speech. The DOCTOR watches, glass in hand.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Are you ready? Are you all ready? CAPTAIN YATES: There we are. SERGEANT BENTON: Would you like a drink, Professor? (BENTON passes him a glass as the others give a small cheer. The DOCTOR looks at his glass.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well...well, now...er, quiet everyone. Quiet for a moment. (The DOCTOR swigs back the contents.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Now, well, er, here's to you both. SERGEANT BENTON: Here, here! CAPTAIN YATES: Here's to you both. NANCY: Congratulations. (They all drink their toasts as behind them, the DOCTOR opens the door and walks quietly out of the room. BENTON starts to sing...) SERGEANT BENTON: "For, he's a..." (...and the others join in. Only JO notices the closing door with a look of infinite sadness on her face.) ALL: "jolly good fellow, for they are jolly good fellows, for they are jolly good fellows, and so say all of us" 46: EXT. WHOLEWHEAL COMMUNITY (EVENING) (The DOCTOR dons his cloak as he walks with a heavy heart past the farm animals towards Bessie. The noise of the party within reaches him and some music starts up as someone switches on a record player. He walks through the path of a sheepdog herding a ewe and its lamb by itself and climbs into the car. For a moment he sits in the twilight and looks back towards the house with a sad look on his face but then he starts the car up and drives off.) 47: INT. WHOLEWEAL COMMUNITY. LIVING ROOM (EVENING) (The party is in full swing. BENTON dances with NANCY as the BRIGADIER and YATES chat with the members of the commune. JO and CLIFF come together and kiss. They hug. JO smiles...) 48: EXT. ROAD (EVENING) (Against the dying sun, Bessie moves across the horizon carrying the DOCTOR on his return journey...alone.)
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The Time Warrior By Robert Holmes Episode One Broadcast December 15 1973 Duration: 24'15 1. FX sh*t. SPACE (We see a bright light moving rapidly across the screen. This is LINX's spaceship heading toward Earth.) 2. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE (An axe smashes into a table. Pull back to reveal BLOODAXE who looks nervously at his master, IRONGRON. They both sit at the table.) IRONGRON: This sheep has been d*ad a year. Are they trying to poison me? BLOODAXE: It is salted. IRONGRON: Salted? It stinks! (He throws a bone against the wall.) IRONGRON: Wine! Must I perish of thirst? Bring me wine! (MEG scurries up to the table with a pitcher. She pours some wine into IRONGRON'S t*nk.) MEG: 'Tis the dregs of the barrel, captain. 'Tis the last there is. (MEG backs away as IRONGRON drinks. It is foul. He spits it out.) IRONGRON: (angry.) Ooh... (He throws the flagon at MEG. It's contents land on one of his minions, waking him up.) IRONGRON: Sour wine!...Stinking meat, sour wine...is this how I am served? BLOODAXE: Our supplies are low captain...it's some time since we went a-foraging. IRONGRON: And meanwhile our fine neighbours feast their bellies full of fresh meat and swill down flagons of fine wine. BLOODAXE: Sir Edward's storehouses and cellars are well stocked. IRONGRON: Then perhaps we should relieve him of some of his abundance, eh my friend? He's a good neighbour...he'll not miss a little of his pantry. BLOODAXE: Look! (BLOODAXE gets up and crosses to the window.) (CSO sh*t - We see LINX's ship descend, as BLOODAXE watches.) BLOODAXE: Stars a-fallin'! (IRONGRON joins him at the window.) IRONGRON: I see only one star. (CSO sh*t - The ship has now landed. We can see a pulsing glow through the window.) IRONGRON: It has fallen in the forest! Come on, get up you fellows. Get up. Get up! (His men rouse themselves from their sleep.) BLOODAXE: 'Tis on omen...an evil sign! IRONGRON: It is mine...Irongron's star...I will have it! Hurry, fetch the horses. BLOODAXE: Hurry? Hurry where? IRONGRON: To find the star before some knave robs me of it! It landed close by! BLOODAXE: But the forest is still in darkness! Who knows what demons may set upon us?! IRONGRON: Why, you chicken-hearted knaves! Every man of you! (He rushes at them, axe raised. BLOODAXE stops him.) BLOODAXE: It's but and an hour till dawn. Let's wait till then. To wait and see what faces us. We'll follow you then, captain. (He reluctantly agrees.) IRONGRON: Let all be made ready. I ride at dawn. Alone if need be. BLOODAXE: We're with you, captain. IRONGRON: Then bring me some wine. We'll drink a toast to Irongron's Star. (He smashes the axe into the table as the men scurry out.) 3. EXT. FOREST CLEARING. DAY (On, horseback, IRONGRON, BLOODAXE and the men ride up to LINX's Ship; a silver sphere. They dismount and approach it cautiously.) IRONGRON: A star...a fallen star! BLOODAXE: Careful, captain...looks like the devil's work to me. (A hidden door in the sphere swings open and LINX emerges. He is squat and clothed in a space suit of some kind. A domed helmet obscures his features. He carries a stick.) IRONGRON: A warrior...a warrior from the stars! (He draws his sword.) IRONGRON: Have you come to challenge me, sky warrior? (LINX silently raises his w*apon and sh**t the sword from IRONGRON's hand.) BLOODAXE: Flee for your life, captain! IRONGRON: What creature is this? BLOODAXE: 'Tis a devil from hell. (LINX adjusts a control at his waist. It emits a strange noise.) LINX: Peace...fear not...I shall not harm you. IRONGRON: It speaks! Who are you? Where do you come from? LINX: I am a Sontaran officer. My name is Linx. BLOODAXE: I say he's the Saracen. I have heard tales of his eastern magic. (LINX thrusts the stick into the ground. He salutes it. It opens to display two small flags.) LINX: By virtue of my authority as an officer of the Army Space Corps, I hereby claim this planet, its moons and satellites, for the greater glory of the Sontaran Empire. 4. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE (IRONGRON's men surround LINX at sword-point.) IRONGRON: Help you? Why should I help you, Star Warrior? Why should I not k*ll you and take your ship and its treasure for myself? LINX: The ship is in need of repair. Even if it were not, you would destroy yourself should you tamper with it. IRONGRON: Then why should I not just slay your for sport? Can you overcome all of us with your...magic? (LINX looks around, considering the odds. He approaches IRONGRON.) LINX: You are a soldier, are you not? A warrior? IRONGRON: I took this castle by force of arms. Those that were here before me I slew. All the countryside around here pays my tribute. LINX: Yet no doubt you have enemies - other warriors who envy your good fortune? IRONGRON: Aye. But they cannot harm me. The King has levied tribute. All their troops are at the wars. LINX: And when they return? IRONGRON: Then we shall fight. LINX: I can give you w*apon. w*apon that can make you master, so that none dare stand against you. You shall take what castles you will. IRONGRON: Magic w*apon? Like that that smote the sword from my hand? LINX: Other w*apon fitter for your purpose. w*apon that can strike a man d*ad from far away. You can be Supreme Warrior. IRONGRON: I can be king! But what do you ask in return, apart from your life? LINX: Shelter. (BLOODAXE steps forward but IRONGRON signals him to stay.) LINX: A place to conceal my ship and help with its repair. You have men that can work in metal? IRONGRON: An armourer to sharpen w*apon...a Smith with a forge if these will serve your need? LINX: I need more of much more. There is damage to the drive mechanism of my ship. I need alloy, skilled technicians, complex circuitry. IRONGRON: We have none of these things of which you speak. LINX: Then I must take them from those who have. 5. INT. CUBICLE ROOM (The room has three cubicles on one side and a table and chair in the middle. On the other side, a couple of beds. A soldier is finishing putting up a door to the last cubicle. Another soldier enters with a grubby mattress. The DOCTOR and the BRIGADIER follow him. The soldier puts the mattress on the empty bed frame and exits.) DOCTOR: In here, Brigadier? BRIGADIER: Yes, I'm afraid so, Doctor. Not exactly The Ritz, I know, but you know it's no joke providing emergency accommodation for all these scientists. DOCTOR: All right Brigadier, you've had your little bit of mystification. Now I know where I'm supposed to stay, perhaps you we don't mind telling me why? BRIGADIER: Well, this place is one of the most top-secret security establishments in the whole country. In fact, most of their work's so secret they don't even know what they're doing themselves. DOCTOR: And? BRIGADIER: It's also one of the best guarded places in the country; security details, alarm systems... DOCTOR: Yes, I rather gathered that when we arrived. For a moment I thought they weren't going to let you in! BRIGADIER: Yes exactly. Place is almost too security conscious. That's what makes it all the more puzzling... DOCTOR: Makes what all the more puzzling? Come on, Brigadier, you can tell me. BRIGADIER: People...vanishing. DOCTOR: People? BRIGADIER: Well, they've lost half a dozen leading scientists and several million pounds worth of ultra-secret equipment. DOCTOR: What are they working on here, anyway? BRIGADIER: Space hardware...new alloys...guidance systems...methods of propulsion. DOCTOR: And what action have you taken so far? BRIGADIER: Well, I'd rather a bright idea. It's rather hard to keep track of all these scientist chaps at home, so I've had these cubicles put up on several floors...confined the whole lot to barracks...all my eggs in one basket, so to speak. DOCTOR: Well that's fine, so long as no one steals the basket! 6. INT. LINX'S WORKSHOP (The missing scientists and equipment LINX has stolen fill one side of the room. One of Irongron's men, hypnotized, brings in some muskets and puts them on the table. LINX inspects these and then crosses toward his ship, which sits in the corner. There is a knock at the door. It is BLOODAXE.) BLOODAXE: Linx? My Lord Linx? Will you open the door? LINX: None may enter here. Such was my agreement with your captain. BLOODAXE: Yeah, it is my captain who sends me. He would have words with you, Lord Linx. LINX: Then tell him I am occupied. Now leave me to my work!...insolent primitives...did I not need their aid... 7. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE (IRONGRON sets an apple up for target. He holds one of the muskets that LINX has been making. BLOODAXE enters.) IRONGRON: Where is the star warrior? BLOODAXE: He will not come. He says he's occupied. IRONGRON: Why, the insolent barbarian! Did I not need his help, I'd... See, Bloodaxe, the first of the new w*apon! Watch! (IRONGRON fires the musket.) BLOODAXE: Oh! Claps the ears! IRONGRON: I'll soon master the aim. 8. INT. CUBICLE ROOM RUBEISH: Rubeish. DOCTOR: I beg your pardon? RUBEISH: Joseph Rubeish. DOCTOR: Oh, I see. I'm so sorry. Hello. How do you do? (They shake hands. The TARDIS now stands in a corner of the room.) RUBEISH: It's disgraceful of course, utterly disgraceful. DOCTOR: What is? RUBEISH: Shutting us all up. Like a lot of kids kept in after school. That Brigadier chap. Military idiot. DOCTOR: Yes I know how you feel. Still, he means well, you know. RUBEISH: Haven't seen my wife and family for three days. DOCTOR: I'm sorry to hear that. RUBEISH: Ah well, just shows. There's always a silver lining. And your name? DOCTOR: Er, Smith. Dr John Smith. RUBEISH: Oh...seems to be a lot of 'em about today. DOCTOR: I'm sorry? RUBEISH: Well I was talking to a young woman just now. Also Smith. (SARAH enters.) RUBEISH: Ah, there she is. Miss Smith? SARAH: Yes, Professor? RUBEISH: Come and meet your namesake. Miss Lavinia Smith, Doctor, err... DOCTOR: Doctor John Smith. How do you do, Miss Smith? SARAH: Hello. RUBEISH: Doctor, I'm intrigued. What's that for? (He indicated the TARDIS.) DOCTOR: That? Oh, that er, that contains my equipment. Professor. RUBEISH: That's original. (He wanders over to it.) DOCTOR: You're the virologist, Miss Smith? SARAH: Yes. Who told you? DOCTOR: I've read your paper on the teleological response of the virus. A most impressive piece of work. SARAH: Thank you. DOCTOR: Particularly when I realize you must've written it when you were five years old. SARAH: Ah, er...yes, that is rather difficult to explain isn't it? DOCTOR: But you're going to try, aren't you? SARAH: Well um, my Aunt Lavinia is in America on a lecture tour, you see. DOCTOR: hmmm. SARAH: She had an invitation to visit here. I took her place. DOCTOR: Why? SARAH: Well, I thought all this might give me a good story. I'm a journalist. Sarah Jane Smith. DOCTOR: You realize this is a very dangerous place to be in? SARAH: Well I can't help that. I'm stuck here now...and anyway, we've got all these soldiers looking after us. Are you going to give me away, Doctor? (The DOCTOR sits back in his chair, considering for a moment.) DOCTOR: I don't think. SARAH: Why not? DOCTOR: Well you can make yourself useful. We need someone around here to make the coffee. SARAH: If you think I'm going to spend my time making cups of coffee for you, you're very... DOCTOR: Professor! (The DOCTOR slaps the table and stands up, crossing to the TARDIS.) DOCTOR: Look, would you kindly desist? This is not a blackboard, you know? (He takes out his key and puts it in the lock.) RUBEISH: Oh I do beg your pardon, Doctor. I was just trying to prove... SARAH: What do you plan to do in there? DOCTOR: Make myself a cup of coffee. Good day to you. 9. EXT. ESTABLISHING SHOT-SIR EDWARD'S CASTLE 10. INT. SIR EDWARD'S CASTLE LADY ELEANOR: But for how long, Edward? How long are we to tolerate this upstart, this insolent usurper as our neighbour? He robs, he pillages, he m*rder...he flouts your authority every day. Your authority which comes direct from the King! SIR EDWARD: Unfortunately, my dear, the King who gave me my authority has taken away my troops to fight in his interminable wars. LADY ELEANOR: Irongron's band is small, and we still have Hal the archer and one or two men at arms. SIR EDWARD: I have sent letters to all our neighbours. Each, like myself, has but a mere handful of men...yet, if all these handfuls be combined they might yet make a force that will crush this Irongron. LADY ELEANOR: If you will excuse me my dear, I must give orders for dinner. 11. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE (BLOODAXE leads in two men dragging with them ERIC, one of Sir Edward's men.) BLOODAXE: We caught his little rabbit in the forest, sire. IRONGRON: Sir Edward's squire. Are you loyal to your lord, boy? ERIC: Aye IRONGRON: We shall see. BLOODAXE: He had this on him. (He produces a parchment.) BLOODAXE: He tried to eat it when we caught him! IRONGRON: Are all Sir Edward's men so ill fed? (They laugh. IRONGRON looks at the parchment.) IRONGRON: Bah! I can make nothing of their Norman scribbles. What does it say? BLOODAXE: I cannot read, captain! IRONGRON: What's the message say, boy? (ERIC does not answer.) IRONGRON: So your Sir Edward is going to att*ck me, eh?. Well, speak! ERIC: I know nothing. IRONGRON: Take him below. We will loosen his tongue presently. (They drag ERIC away.) 12.INT.SIR EDWARD'S CASTLE (LADY ELEANOR is shown SIR EDWARD's uneaten dinner by a servant girl. Then he enters. The room is dark and candle-lit.) LADY ELEANOR: Edward! SIR EDWARD: What is it? Is Eric back yet? LADY ELEANOR: You haven't eaten all day! SIR EDWARD: Why hasn't he returned? I could have ridden to my Lord of Salisbury's castle three times over. LADY ELEANOR: It's not good for you to worry so much. SIR EDWARD: How can I not worry. LADY ELEANOR: Think that tomorrow will be brighter. Edward, I've heard that Irongron walks his battlements every morning. SIR EDWARD: Oh, it pleases him to be high. He's like a cockerel. LADY ELEANOR: But does he climb so high that an arrow cannot reach him? 13. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE (IRONGRON is practicing swinging his axe when LINX enters.) LINX: Irongron! IRONGRON: That strange armour you wear suits you, Linx. LINX: It is Sontaran space armour. IRONGRON: But why must we never see your face? LINX: This helmet conceals the fact that I am not to of your kind, Irongron. You might not find my true appearance pleasing. IRONGRON: By my sword, Linx, I'll wager you're the fairest beauty in the castle! LINX: Why did you summon me? You know my work is pressing. IRONGRON: I have a prisoner in the dungeon, a surly fellow who will not speak. LINX: And you wish him to? IRONGRON: Yes. LINX: Then give him to me. I will make him speak. (IRONGRON throws a bone at one of his men standing by the door.) IRONGRON: Tell Bloodaxe to bring up the prisoner! (The man exits.) IRONGRON: Well Linx, you cunning old devil, what fresh tricks can you show Irongron, eh? LINX: What is the nature of information you seek? IRONGRON: He is a messenger of those who plot a w*r against me. LINX: A w*r? That is excellent. IRONGRON: Oh, so you like a w*r, eh? LINX: Who does not? My race has been at w*r for millennia. There is not a galaxy in the universe that our space fleets have not subjugated. (IRONGRON looks blank.) LINX: But you do not understand me. I am stranded on this primitive planet when I should be leading my squadron to glory. I am an expert at w*r, Irongron. IRONGRON: I know. What about those new w*apon you promised me? LINX: Keep your side of the bargain and I shall keep mine. You shall have your w*apon. IRONGRON: We make good allies, Linx. Each has much that the other wants. 14. INT. CUBICLE ROOM (The DOCTOR has set up some equipment on the table, which he is examining closely.) RUBEISH: Miss Smith! DOCTOR: No, no. I'm the Doctor! You really must keep your glasses on the end of your nose, Professor! RUBEISH: No, no, listen. She's not Miss Smith. DOCTOR: She isn't? RUBEISH: No! Who is she? DOCTOR: I don't think I quite understand what you talking about Professor? RUBEISH: Well, just now I was in the common room with Sir Maxwell Dingle and I happened to mention that I was on the same landing as Lavinia Smith the virologist. And do you know what he said? DOCTOR: Yes, he said she's in America. RUBEISH: He said she's in Ameri... How could you know? (As RUBEISH turns round, he knocks over a cylinder on the table.) DOCTOR: Please be careful, this is very delicate equipment! RUBEISH: But, if she's a spy...what do we do? DOCTOR: (PAUSE.) sh**t her? RUBEISH: Well, there's something odd about her. She even tried to tell me you were a spy! (SARAH has entered.) SARAH: Am I on the right floor? RUBEISH: Goodnight. SARAH: Goodnight Professor! (RUBEISH goes into his cubicle and SARAH shuts the room door.) SARAH: What's that? (The equipment.) DOCTOR: That's my alarm clock. SARAH: Oh Doctor, kindly don't be so patronizing. Now what is it really? DOCTOR: It's a Rhondium Sensor. It detects delta particles. At a pre-set spectrum density of 15 ams it oscillates this little cylinder there, which promotes a vacuum in there which wakes me up. Clear? SARAH: Well, why do you want to be woken up when it detects delta particles? DOCTOR: Because I'm very fond of delta particles. Why do you ask so many questions? SARAH: Because I'm a journalist. (The DOCTOR leans back in his chair and puts his feet on the table.) SARAH: Are you going to sleep there? DOCTOR: If you'll allow me to do so. Good night Miss Smith. (SARAH goes into her cubicle. RUBEISH comes out of his.) RUBEISH: Psst. Shouldn't we tell the Brigadier? DOCTOR: Tell the Brigadier what? RUBEISH: About her! DOCTOR: I think we can decide what to do about Miss Smith in the morning, Professor. If we're all still here! 15. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE (ERIC is dragged before IRONGRON and LINX.) BLOODAXE: He's stout-hearted this one, sire. He speaks not a word. IRONGRON: A fair measure for you, Linx. (ERIC stares in fear at LINX, who takes the wand-like w*apon from his belt. The end glows brightly and a humming sound is heard. ERIC straightens up, his expression becoming blank.) IRONGRON: Well come on Linx, have at him! LINX: Ask what you wish. IRONGRON: Eh? But you've done nothing! (LINX indicates his w*apon.) LINX: This is a key. I have unlocked your prisoners mind. Question him. IRONGRON: How many men guard Sir Edward's castle? ERIC: There are but ten, old men for the most part. IRONGRON: He plans to att*ck me with ten old men? ERIC: He sends messengers to raise a force against you. If he succeed, then he will att*ck. IRONGRON: Listen to the fellow! He cannot stop babbling! (LINX begins to leave.) IRONGRON: Stay, Linx! Have I given you leave? (LINX produces his w*apon and cuts the head off IRONGRON's axe.) LINX: Each of us has work to do, Irongron. I'll be back. IRONGRON: By my sword, Bloodaxe, I'll pickle that insolent Star Warrior in boiling oil, one day! Insolent dog! (IRONGRON slams a t*nk on the table.) 16. INT. CUBICLE ROOM ( The DOCTOR is asleep. His equipment is making a strange noise. The DOCTOR wakes up. He looks at a compass on the table- the direction of the needle indicates Rubeish's Cubicle.) DOCTOR: Rubeish? (He crosses to the cubicle and knocks on the door.) RUBEISH: (From within) What? Who is it? DOCTOR: Oh, it's alright. Nothing to worry about. Just checking. (He returns to his equipment. SARAH comes out of her cubicle, putting her jacket on.) SARAH: What's happening? DOCTOR: You're asking questions again. (There is a crash from RUBEISH's cubicle.) DOCTOR: Rubeish! SARAH: Professor Rubeish? (They rush into...) 17. INT. RUBEISH'S CUBICLE (...but he has vanished.) SARAH: He's gone! DOCTOR: Yes, but he was here a moment ago. (SARAH picks up a pair of glasses lying on the bed.) SARAH: Well, he can't have gone far. He's as blind as a bat without his glasses. (The DOCTOR goes back to the table and picks up a torch-like device. He makes for the door as SARAH comes out of the cubicle.) DOCTOR: You stay here, Miss Smith. I'm going to check the landing. (He exits to...) 18. INT. THE LANDING (...where two SOLDIERS are on guard.) DOCTOR: Did anybody come out here just now? (The SOLDIERS shake their heads. The Doctor moves toward the stairs and activates the torch-like device. He slowly pans across the landing and up the stairs. Suddenly, the ghostly image of LINX appears at the top of the stairs. One of the SOLDIERS fires a sh*t. The ghostly image vanishes as they rush up the stairs. The DOCTOR returns to the...) 19. CUBICLE ROOM SARAH: What were they sh**ting at? DOCTOR: Shadows. SARAH: Oh come on, Doctor. Stop treating me like a child. DOCTOR: I can't understand why the definition was so low...unless he's operating with a very weak power source at maximum range. Yes, of course! (He makes for the TARDIS. SARAH is about to follow him when the BRIGADIER bellows...) BRIGADIER: DOCTOR!!! (...and she turns back instead into her cubicle as the BRIGADIER enters.) BRIGADIER: Doctor? DOCTOR: (Inside TARDIS.) Hello? BRIGADIER: Look, Doctor, we've had a raid. Is everyone present on this landing? (The DOCTOR comes out of the TARDIS carrying a deep briefcase.) DOCTOR: No. Professor Rubeish is missing. BRIGADIER: Oh my giddy aunt, the Minister'll go spare! Did you see anything, Doctor? DOCTOR: Yes BRIGADIER: What? DOCTOR: Well, I thought I saw a man in armour. (The DOCTOR moves to the table and begins packing his equipment in to the case.) BRIGADIER: A man in armour? DOCTOR: Mmhmm BRIGADIER: Old-fashioned armour? You mean a ghost? DOCTOR: I very much doubt it. Sorry I can't stop, Brigadier. BRIGADIER: Why? Where are you going? DOCTOR: Well, I've got to get on the trail while it's still warm. BRIGADIER: What trail? The chap's just vanished? DOCTOR: Oh no he hasn't. I've just got a fix on him. Something very odd indeed is going on. BRIGADIER: Yes, well if I may say so, Doctor, that is not exactly news to me. DOCTOR: Someone's operating a matter transmitter. The really odd thing is, there's a time transference too. It's being worked from several centuries ago. Past and present mixed up. Very interesting, that... (Behind them, unnoticed, SARAH has crept toward the TARDIS. She is looking in through the open door.) SARAH: (Quietly.) Professor Rubeish? Are you in there? (She enters the TARDIS.) DOCTOR: Well, I can't stay here chatting, old boy. Got to get after Rubeish. BRIGADIER: Doctor, I forbid you to go off in that contraption. There's no telling where you'll end up. Remember what happened to you on Metebelis Three! DOCTOR: I got there, didn't I? BRIGADIER: Yes, eventually. After several detours. DOCTOR: My dear Brigadier, a straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting. Goodbye old chap. (The DOCTOR enters the TARDIS and closes the door.) BRIGADIER: But Doctor! (The TARDIS dematerializes.) 20. EXT. OUTSIDE IRONGRON'S CASTLE (We can see IRONGRON walking his battlements. In the forest below, HAL, the archer, hears the sound of the TARDIS materializing.) 21. EXT. WOODS (The DOCTOR stands next to the TARDIS. He gives the ship a pat.) DOCTOR: Well done, old girl. Absolutely on target...for once. (He walks out of sh*t and SARAH exits the TARDIS.) SARAH: It's still only a Police Box...must find a telephone. (She sets off.) 22. EXT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE (IRONGRON and BLOODAXE ascend the battlements.) IRONGRON: Sir Edward only has a puny force. He stands within his walls. If only we could breach them, Bloodaxe! BLOODAXE: We can cut Sir Edward's soldiers down in half the time our rogues spend with their breakfast. IRONGRON: It's those accursed walls, walls like these! But with Linx's new w*apon... 23. EXT. FOREST (HAL has his bow drawn and is aiming his arrow when SARAH speaks and distracts his aim.) SARAH: Excuse me, could you tell me where the nearest telephone... (HAL takes to his heels and runs, leaving SARAH behind.) 24. EXT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE (HAL's arrow misses IRONGRON, burying itself in a door behind him.) BLOODAXE: He flees through the forest! (He runs down to the edge of the battlements.) BLOODAXE: Take Him! After him, you dogs! Through the forest! 25. EXT. CASTLE APPROACH (SARAH runs up to see IRONGRON's men running out to pursue HAL.) SARAH: Oh, it must be some sort of pageant. I say! Hey, you there! (As the men rush past, one of them stops to grab her and drag her back to the castle.) SARAH: Hey! What are you doing? Get off! DOCTOR: How the blazes did she get here? 26. EXT. CASTLE COURTYARD (SARAH is being dragged along by one of IRONGRON's men.) SARAH: Look, if this is a Rag Day joke, it's not funny! (She is dragged away, protesting all the while. The DOCTOR cautiously enters the courtyard. He ducks behind a cart as LINX enters and then pauses for a moment. The DOCTOR looks up and gives a nod of recognition at the sight of the Sontaran. LINX removes his helmet and turns round to camera, revealing his troll-like features!)
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The Time Warrior By Robert Holmes Episode Two Broadcast December 22 1973 Duration: 24'15 1. EXT. CASTLE COURTYARD (SARAH is being dragged along by one of IRONGRON's MEN.) SARAH: Look, if this is a Rag Day joke, it's not funny! (She is dragged away, protesting all the while. The DOCTOR cautiously enters the courtyard. He ducks behind a cart as LINX enters and then pauses for a moment. The DOCTOR looks up and gives a nod of recognition at the sight of the Sontaran. LINX removes his helmet and turns round to camera, revealing his troll-like features! The DOCTOR turns at the sound of HAL being dragged into the courtyard by some more of IRONGRON's MEN. LINX hastily replaces his helmet and moves off. The DOCTOR ducks into a nearby doorway as they approach where he was hiding.) 2. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. HALL (One of IRONGRON's MEN is sharpening an axe on a rotating stone wheel. As he speaks, the sound of SARAH protesting at her captors grows louder.) IRONGRON: Make it keen. I want Sir Edward not to know the moment when his head is parted from his shoul... What's this?! (The protesting SARAH is dragged in by BLOODAXE, who has tight hold of her wrist.) BLOODAXE: Get inside, wench! SARAH: Let go of me! (SARAH slaps BLOODAXE's arm, trying to make him let go.) BLOODAXE: She was found within bowshot, Captain! SARAH: Idiots! (BLOODAXE releases his grip and lets her go.) SARAH: Why don't you stop this ridiculous pantomime. IRONGRON: Ah, she spits f*re! Eh, Bloodaxe? Come here girl. SARAH: Get lost. (IRONGRON grabs SARAH and pulls her to him, snatching a gold chain from her neck.) IRONGRON: She wears gold, Bloodaxe. (SARAH tries without success to grab the chain back.) SARAH: That hurt, you fool! (IRONGRON now has hold of both her wrists.) IRONGRON: Do not call Irongron a fool. Or I'll have the marrow from your bones, my little chicken. Now where are you from? SARAH: Now look, just pack this up, will you, it's not funny. I happen to be a reporter and I've got a big story... (IRONGRON shoves her to BLOODAXE who grabs her by the wrist again.) IRONGRON: Take her away, Bloodaxe. Throw her in the dungeon. (The MAN who has been sharpening the axe hands it to IRONGRON.) SARAH: Why don't you take off that ridiculous gear and go home to your butcher's shop! (BLOODAXE starts to drag her away but she resists.) SARAH: (To BLOODAXE.) Let go! Look, I warn you, any more of this and I'm going straight to the police. (BLOODAXE turns to drag her away.) IRONGRON: Stay, Bloodaxe! BLOODAXE: Captain. IRONGRON: Leave her. (BLOODAXE lets go. SARAH rubs her wrist.) SARAH: That's better. Hmph! Now if I could just use your telephone. (We hear a loud cry from off-set. Two of IRONGRON's MEN drag in a struggling HAL and force him to his knees before IRONGRON.) BLOODAXE: This is the dog that sh*t at you, Captain. IRONGRON: So you thought to k*ll Irongron, eh? HAL: Aye, and I would, but for her. She drew my aim aside. IRONGRON: You treacherous dog. Did Sir Edward send you? HAL: No. IRONGRON: You lie. HAL: I speak the truth. IRONGRON: If not Sir Edward, who then?! (IRONGRON has raised the axe above his head, ready to strike.) SARAH: I don't understand...where am I? HAL: It was...my Lady Eleanor. (At this, IRONGRON lowers the axe.) IRONGRON: Ah, that narrow-hipped vixen. Bloodaxe, tomorrow we dine at Wessex Castle! (The MEN drag HAL to his feet as IRONGRON sits at the table.) BLOODAXE: Yes, Captain. And what of the prisoner? IRONGRON: Ere long we shall deal with him sharply. (BLOODAXE laughs and gestures for the MEN to take HAL away, which they do.) IRONGRON: Sharply, eh? 'Tis richly put. (BLOODAXE sits next to him.) BLOODAXE: Aye, that'll be a fine jest, Captain Irongron. IRONGRON: I'm not one of your stuffy Norman nobles. I like a bit of rough fun. BLOODAXE: 'Tis true Captain, you have a merry wit indeed. SARAH: Look, please. Now you've had your laugh now, you know, just stop it and let's talk sensibly. I mean, if it's any consolation to you, you're scaring me out of my wits. BLOODAXE: P'raps the wench is crazed, Captain. SARAH: Oh come on! What is this place? IRONGRON: You are in the Castle of Irongron, my lady. Few uninvited guests come here and few that do leave alive. SARAH: All right, if you insist on playing guessing games...now... it's not a village pageant, it's too elaborate for that...a film set?...no, no - no lights, no cameras... IRONGRON: Aye, the wench is crazed right enough. A pity. She is not uncomely. SARAH: I've got it! It's one of those tourist places...er...a medieval castle all restored to its original condition, with jolly banquets and buxom serving wenches! That's it, isn't it? Mind you, I think you've overdoing the sordid realism a bit. I mean, I know things were a bit grotty in the middle ages, but really! You might leave the tourists a bit of glamorous illusion. I've never seen such a scurvy, smelly... IRONGRON: For pity's sake, cease this babbling, girl! BLOODAXE: Captain! (LINX enters, carrying a control box.) IRONGRON: Ah, Linx. What of my w*apon. Are they ready? LINX: Soon. But I have another w*apon to show you. BLOODAXE: By your leave, master. The prisoner. IRONGRON: Aye, aye... (BLOODAXE exits. LINX notices SARAH.) LINX: What is this? IRONGRON: Hmm? Oh, just a girl taken in the forest. LINX: Girl? You have two species on this planet? IRONGRON: How say you? LINX: The girl is not of your kind, Irongron. The hair is finer, the thorax of a different construction. IRONGRON: Oh hell's teeth, have you no girls beyond the stars? No women to do the lowly work? LINX: Ah, I understand. You have a primary and secondary reproductive cycle. It is an inefficient system, you should change it. IRONGRON: You what? LINX: At the Sontaran Military Academy we have hatchings of a million cadets at each muster parade. Thus we can sustain enormous casualties on all battle fronts. IRONGRON: Linx, you cluck away like a broody old hen. LINX: Wait! (LINX examines SARAH's jacket.) LINX: This cloth is machine woven. The girl is not of your time, Irongron. (LINX produces a wand-like w*apon from his belt and points it at SARAH. It lights up and makes a humming sound.) IRONGRON: Curse the girl, show me the wea... (SARAH's expression goes blank.) LINX: Who? What? How? SARAH: Sarah Jane Smith, reporter. In a machine, I did not understand it. LINX: What century? SARAH: Twentieth. LINX: Your civilisation know nothing about time dimensional technology. Explain. SARAH: I cannot. It is a machine that belongs to someone called "The Doctor". IRONGRON: Linx... LINX: SILENCE! This is important! My mission is thr*at. Explain "The Doctor". SARAH: He is a scientist. He was at the research centre. He said he was very fond of Delta particles. LINX: Ah. Is he here? SARAH: Yes. Somewhere. I was hiding in the machine as he left. LINX: It becomes clear. (He turns from SARAH, who begins to come to.) IRONGRON: Linx, what of the w*apon? LINX: Very well. It is here. (LINX activates the control box and his ROBOT enters. It is dressed like a knight with a visored helmet, obscuring any features it may have within. It stops before IRONGRON who approaches it.) IRONGRON: Who are you? How do you come into my castle? Well, speak fellow! Answer me or lose your head for insolence! LINX: It cannot answer you. It is just a suit of steel. It is empty. IRONGRON: But it walks! LINX: It walks... (He operates the control box.) LINX: ...and it fights! (The ROBOT KNIGHT raises its sword.) LINX: Irongron, is it a good w*apon? IRONGRON: Does it k*ll? LINX: It does nothing else and it cannot be k*lled. IRONGRON: By heavens, Linx, can you make me more of these? LINX: If you wish. (Behind them, SARAH starts to creep out of the hall, unseen.) IRONGRON: With a few such soldiers as that I could take the world! LINX: When I have left this dull planet, it would amuse me to think of it under the rule of King Irongron. Very well, provide me with all that I ask for and I can make many more of these. IRONGRON: It's a bargain. By heavens, Linx, I never thought when I first saw you that I should come to love you as a brother. Now, show me how the iron man works! LINX: Wait...the girl creature has gone. IRONGRON: Oh, she'll not get far before one of my guards grabs her tail. Now, show me - show me how it fights, make it walk again. (LINX activates the control box and the ROBOT KNIGHT turns and starts smashing its sword against the table, much to the amusement of IRONGRON who laughs with glee.) 3. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. CORRIDOR. "T" JUNCTION (SARAH enters from our right. The DOCTOR enters from our left. At the sight of him, SARAH runs off down the left-hand corridor, The DOCTOR calls after her...) DOCTOR: Sarah? Miss Smith. Come back! (The DOCTOR hides as IRONGRON's MEN pass by with the struggling HAL. Once they have passed, The DOCTOR ascends the staircase at the corridor's rear.) 4. EXT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. COURTYARD (Close up on HAL as he is forced onto the chopping block. BLOODAXE raises an axe above his head, ready to strike.) IRONGRON: (OOV.) Stay! Bloodaxe! (Reveal IRONGRON.) BLOODAXE: Sire! (IRONGRON advances toward HAL and gestures for his MEN to get him up from the chopping block, which they do. IRONGRON roughly pushes one of them aside and addresses HAL.) IRONGRON: Would you fight for your life, fellow? HAL: I'll fight any man, my lord. (IRONGRON laughs, adjusts the control box and Linx's ROBOT KNIGHT enters the courtyard.) IRONGRON: Then stand against Irongron's Champion. BLOODAXE: Who is this? IRONGRON: You'll see some sport now, Bloodaxe. (He hands HAL his bow and arrows.) IRONGRON: Here, fellow. BLOODAXE: Master, this is not fair combat - to pitch knight against bowman. At this close range his arrows'll pierce the armour's weak points IRONGRON: Ready to aim, fellow? HAL: I am that. IRONGRON: Your freedom if you k*ll him. Stand back! (They all move away, leaving HAL alone to face his opponent. SARAH enters but quickly ducks back into hiding.) BLOODAXE: Your champion'll have more arrows in his gizzard than a thistle has spikes. (As IRONGRON adjusts the control box, HAL fires his first arrow. It hits the ROBOT KNIGHT in the chest but has no effect.) BLOODAXE: My lord, look! He still moves! (On the Battlements above, two of IRONGRON'S MEN watch the duel in the courtyard below. They do not spot the DOCTOR enter from the staircase behind them. The ROBOT KNIGHT advances on the helpless HAL, who falls as he backs away. The ROBOT KNIGHT raises its sword for the death-blow. But before it can strike, the DOCTOR takes up a nearby crossbow and sh**t the control box from IRONGRON's hand.) IRONGRON: What fool...? (The ROBOT KNIGHT now turns round and advances on IRONGRON.) BLOODAXE: Guard your back, my lord! (IRONGRON backs away. HAL, forgotten for the moment, takes cover behind a nearby cart.) BLOODAXE: (OOV.) Captain! (BLOODAXE throws IRONGRON an axe. SARAH gestures to HAL to join her in hiding. He runs for cover as IRONGRON knocks off the ROBOT KNIGHT's helmet. After a moment, it falls to the ground.) IRONGRON: By heavens, Bloodaxe. 'Tis like a tin tadpole. You cut off its head and yet it wriggles. (We see that the ROBOT KNIGHT is still swinging its sword.) IRONGRON: I'll have a word with Linx about this. (He growls and leaves the courtyard. As his MEN gather round to laugh at the ROBOT, SARAH and HAL slip away unnoticed.) 5. INT. LINX'S WORKSHOP (LINX, minus his helmet, activates a control. There are various zombie-like SCIENTISTS - captured from the research centre - at work around the room at various pieces of equipment. They wear control devices on their heads. We pan up to see the DOCTOR's face appear at a grille at the entrance to a drainage channel that traverses the room. Someone batters on the door to the workshop.) IRONGRON: (OOV.) Linx? Linx, you mongrel! I have a bone to pick with you! Come here! LINX: I am occupied, Irongron. IRONGRON: What? Out this minute or I'll burst the door down. (He continues his as*ault upon the door, which gives way. IRONGRON enters and stands shocked at his first sight of LINX.) LINX: Well? What is it you need to say to me? (IRONGRON is speechless.) LINX: Didn't I tell you you might not find my face pleasing? IRONGRON: Aye. And never was truer word spoken. Are they all so fair of face beyond the stars? LINX: The variety of sentient life forms is infinite. D'you think your primitive features are pleasing to me? Well, what is it you want? IRONGRON: That accursed iron warrior of yours. LINX: You are pleased with it? IRONGRON: Some knave with a crossbow sh*t the control from my hand. The iron man became crazed, tried to k*ll all of us. LINX: Perhaps the hand control unit itself is a weakness...I will make you a better warrior, Irongron. One that'll obey your voice perhaps. IRONGRON: First, help me k*ll the one I have now. It still struggles to slay my knaves. LINX: It cannot be k*lled. It was never alive. Come. I will de-activate it. (They exit together as the DOCTOR pushes out the grille in the drainage channel and clambers down into the room. He crosses to Irongron's Spaceship and looks inside. He watches the zombie-like SCIENTISTS as they work. He recognises one of them.) DOCTOR: Professor Morrison? (The man ignores him and goes about his work. One of Irongron's men enters and places some r*fles on a table. He moves in the same zombie-like way. The DOCTOR examines the r*fles.) DOCTOR: Absolute lunacy. (He spots an important-looking control panel and crosses over to it. He looks up and sees...) DOCTOR: Rubeish! (Reveal RUBEISH entering. He is minus his glasses.) RUBEISH: Who is it? DOCTOR: It's me, it's the Doctor. Don't you remember? We were on the same landing at the research centre. RUBEISH: Oh my dear fellow! So he's got you too, has he? DOCTOR: No, hardly. Look, Professor. What's wrong with all these people? RUBEISH: Hypnotised. Can't get a word out of 'em. Rotten company. DOCTOR: Well you seem to be all right? RUBEISH: Ah, didn't work with me. Strong-minded, you see. DOCTOR: Yes, and very nearly blind. RUBEISH: Oh, nonsense. DOCTOR: Obviously working some sort of ocular device. Professor, have you any idea where you are? RUBEISH: Yes, some sort of medieval English castle, I suspect. I've been feeling the carvings on some of theses columns. They're astonishingly well preserved. DOCTOR: Yes, well, you're in a castle all right. But d'you know the time? RUBEISH: About four in the afternoon...? We haven't had breakfast yet, you know. Doesn't feed us much. Once a day if we're lucky. DOCTOR: Now Professor, listen to me. This may come as a shock to you, so steel yourself. You have been brought back to the early years of the Middle Ages! RUBEISH: That's interesting. I've always maintained that the Loop Theory Of Time shouldn't have been so arrogantly dismissed by Crabshaw and his cronies. DOCTOR: Yes, well, tell me about it some other time, will you, we've got to get out of here before Linx comes back. RUBEISH: Oh not yet, Doctor. Why, this is the opportunity of a lifetime. D'you know, there's some very interesting work being done here. If only I could see it all properly... DOCTOR: Professor, your life is in considerable danger, I must insist that you... RUBEISH: Oh, you go if you want to, Doctor. Go on. But leave me alone. DOCTOR: But Professor, don't you understand...? (RUBEISH wanders out of sh*t as LINX crashes in, throwing the door wide open and facing the DOCTOR, w*apon drawn in readiness.) LINX: Stop! You are the one called the Doctor? DOCTOR: You know who I am? LINX: I have been expecting you. Why did you follow me to this time? DOCTOR: To prevent your interference in the affairs of Earth. Don't you realise the harm that you'll cause? LINX: This primitive planet and it's affairs are of no importance. DOCTOR: That's a typically Sontaran attitude. LINX: Only one thing matters: to complete the repairs to my ship and return to the glorious w*r that is my destiny. Nothing must interfere with that. Nothing - and nobody. (LINX raises the wand-like w*apon and fires. The DOCTOR is bathed in a fierce red light. His face twists in pain!) 6 .INT. SIR EDWARD'S CASTLE (Hal and Sarah are with Sir Edward and Lady Eleanor. A servant pours some wine into Sir Edward's cup.) HAL: I vouch for her, my lord. Without her help I would not be here. ELEANOR: She looks like one I would trust. Sit, child, and tell us where you're from. (Sarah sits down.) SARAH: I can't. It's too difficult to explain. EDWARD: The manner of her dress is strange, and the manner of her speech. HAL: There is much strange at Irongron's castle, Sir Edward. I told you of the knight that fights on, though it should be d*ad. And one of the guards told me there's a man from the stars that lives among them; a mighty wizard who makes magic w*apon. EDWARD: A man from the stars? I've heard it said he has the help of devils and magicians. HAL: It is true, Sir Edward! I have seen it! SARAH: Well, I know who's helping him - it's the Doctor. ELEANOR: The Doctor? SARAH: Ah, well that's what he calls himself, but he's no magician, just some eccentric scientist. EDWARD: What does she say? ELEANOR: Her words are strange, but I know her meaning. Who is this Doctor? What do you know of him? SARAH: Scientists, learned men - they're being taken from the place I come from, and I believe that the Doctor is bringing them here and handing them over to Irongron. ELEANOR: What would Irongron want with these wizards? HAL: To make him magic w*apon, my Lady. Irongron thinks only of w*r and conquest. EDWARD: Anything that makes Irongron strong can work only to our harm. HAL: With an army of magic knights such as I fought, Irongron could conquer the whole kingdom. Well, who knows what other sorceries he may soon have at his command? SARAH: I'm sure the Doctor's the key to it all. He was there when one of the scientists was taken. He has a machine that can travel through time - well, it must be him! And somehow we've got to stop him! EDWARD: If he's Irongron's ally, he sits safe within Irongron's walls, there's naught we can do. SARAH: Oh, there's always something you can do - it' s just a matter of working out what! EDWARD: Brave speech. HAL: She has the heart of a lion, Sire. I saw her give Irongron the sharp edge of her tongue. EDWARD: If I had an army of girls such as you I might hold this castle forever. As it is, how can I fight Irongron and this Doctor? SARAH: Alright, I'll tell you how. Now, the first thing we must do is grab the Doctor and get him away from Irongron. EDWARD: And force him to make his magic for me? Haha, good thought - aye but how could it be done? SARAH: Oh, what's wrong with you? All it needs is a sort of commando raid - you knock out the sentries, rush into the castle, grab the Doctor and away! Well, you've got soldiers haven't you? EDWARD: A handful - a raid? A bold plan. HAL: I'll go, Sir Edward. 7. INT. LINX'S WORKSHOP (The Doctor sits on the floor rubbing the back of his neck. Linx is stood over him, covering him with his w*apon. Various controlled scientists and knaves move around, fulfilling their tasks.) LINX: You resisted well, Doctor. I could have increased the power, but it might have k*lled you. I need you alive. A brain of your capacity can be of use to me. DOCTOR: Thank you. LINX: You're not of this planet, how came you to be here? DOCTOR: Oh, I'm just a tourist, I like it here. LINX: This hole in space. DOCTOR: You haven't seen it at its best. LINX: It has no military value, no strategic significance. DOCTOR: Once again - a Sontaran philosophy. LINX: I'm Commander Linx - Fifth Sontaran Army Space Fleet. DOCTOR: Yes... yes, just as I thought. A Sontaran Warrior. (He gets to his feet.) DOCTOR: So, the perpetual w*r between the Sontarans and the Rutans has spread to this tiny planet, has it? LINX: Emergency landing. I was on a reconnaissance mission when I was att*cked by a squadron of Rutan fighters. You have encountered my race before, Doctor? DOCTOR: Unfortunately. LINX: I'll overlook that insult for the moment. What is your native planet? DOCTOR: Gallifrey. I am a Timelord. LINX: Ah yes, a race of great technical achievement, but lacking the morale to withstand a determined as*ault. DOCTOR: Oh, do you think so? LINX: I'm only a lowly Commander, Doctor. I merely quote from the appreciation circulated by our military intelligence. DOCTOR: Yes, well you'd be advised never to put that appreciation to the test, Linx. LINX: My only ambition at the moment is to return to my squadron. You can be of value to me. You can help me to repair this ship. DOCTOR: You seem to have acquired some help already. LINX: Primitives. I adapted my ship's frequency modulator and projected myself forward as far as I could. Unfortunately I only had the power to reach the twentieth century. DOCTOR: From which you stole the help and the equipment you couldn't find here. LINX: Yes. But the work goes slowly. DOCTOR: Commander Linx, if you will return these people to their own time I might possibly consider helping you. LINX: Do not attempt to bargain with me, Doctor! (gestures) Take that seat there by the controls. Move! DOCTOR: You're interfering with human evolution, Linx. Don't you realise the damage you're going to do to them? (The Doctor sits in front of a computer bank. At the rear of the seat is a pole with a device attached that is above head.) LINX: I have no interest in human evolution. (He adjusts a control and puts a headset on the Doctor's head.) LINX: I'm placing you under auto-control, Doctor. To ensure your complete co-operation. DOCTOR: Human beings must be allowed to develop at their own pace. At this period, they're just a few steps from barbarism. LINX: You will monitor progress rates on the input panel against the programmer (flicks a switch) Now I must leave you in charge for a time. (He leaves the Doctor, puts on his helmet and picks up some r*fles from a nearby table.) DOCTOR: You give them breech-loading g*n now, they'll have atomic w*apon by the seventeenth century. They'll have the capability to destroy their own planet before they're civilised enough to handle it! (A spark of electricity sh**t out from the device above into the Doctor's headset. He winces in pain.) LINX: You would do well to concentrate on the task I have given you, Doctor. Answer the programmer. (He exits, leaving the Doctor to push buttons on the control panel. He tries to take off the headset and slide out from underneath it but gets another electric shock both times.) 8. EXT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE ENTRANCE (One of the guards is att*cked as the raid begins. Sarah has changed into contemporary clothing.) HAL: I still say this is no work for women. SARAH: I wouldn't have missed this for anything. Anyway, I'm the only one who knows what the Doctor looks like. Come on, this way. 9. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE (Linx has brought the r*fles to Irongron & Bloodaxe.) IRONGRON: Ah, now these are more to my taste than your iron man, Linx. LINX: I will still prefect the fighting robot for your army, Irongron. IRONGRON: We'll take these w*apon to the men, Bloodaxe and I will instruct them in their use. Tomorrow morning, at dawn, we march on Sir Edward's castle. (Reveal Sarah and Hal listening from outside.) BLOODAXE: Yes captain. IRONGRON: By sunset he'll be feeding the crows. 10. INT. LINX'S WORKSHOP (The Doctor is pressing buttons when he spots...) DOCTOR: Rubeish! Professor, over here quickly. RUBEISH: That you, Doctor? I thought you were going? DOCTOR: Change of plan, old chap. Look, I want your help. RUBEISH: (looking at the headset) Are you wearing a hat? DOCTOR: Behind me there's a panel. You'll find a switch on it. RUBEISH: Dangerous, you know. Overheats the brain... Panel... Oh yes, I've got it. DOCTOR: Right, turn the switch. RUBEISH: Always thought that's why Judges are so peculiar - it's those wigs they wear. (Rubeish flicks the wrong switch, electrocuting the Doctor.) DOCTOR: No! NO! The wrong-aaargh! (Rubeish turns it off.) RUBEISH: Oh, I do wish I'd brought my glasses. DOCTOR: So do I, Professor. It was the wrong one. RUBEISH: Is this the one? (It is. Gingerly the Doctor slides out from underneath the device, removing the headset.) DOCTOR: Yes, that was the one. Thank you very much indeed, Professor. RUBEISH: Not at all, Smith. DOCTOR: Smith...! Yes, will you excuse me, I've got to go and find a young girl. I'll see you later. I hope. (He exits.) RUBEISH: Young girl? I would've thought he was a bit old for that sort of thing...oh well. 11. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. PASSAGEWAY (The Doctor rounds a corner and meets Irongron and Bloodaxe.) DOCTOR: Ah! Good evening! (He reaches out to shake Bloodaxe's hand. When Bloodaxe responds, the Doctor knocks him into Irongron, causing them both to fall to the floor. The Doctor runs off. They scramble to their feet and give chase.) IRONGRON: Get after him! Call the guards! 12. EXT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. COURTYARD (The Doctor is being chased by several of Irongron's men. Sarah and Hal watch from a battlement above.) HAL: They try to k*ll their wizard. SARAH: Quick, we need him alive! (Hal takes aim as the Doctor stumbles and falls. Irongron steps up to him.) IRONGRON: He who strikes Irongron dies! (Irongron lifts his axe over his head...)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "11x02 - The Time Warrior - part 2"}
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The Time Warrior By Robert Holmes Episode Three Broadcast December 29 1973 Duration: 23'30 1. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. PASSAGEWAY (The Doctor rounds a corner and meets Irongron and Bloodaxe.) DOCTOR: Ah! Good evening! (He reaches out to shake Bloodaxe's hand. When Bloodaxe responds the Doctor knocks him into Irongron, causing them both to fall to the floor. The Doctor runs off. They scramble to their feet and give chase.) IRONGRON: Get after him! Call the guards! 2. EXT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. COURTYARD (The Doctor is being chased by several of Irongron's men. Sarah and Hal watch from a battlement above.) HAL: They try to k*ll their wizard. SARAH: Quick, we need him alive! (Hal takes aim as the Doctor stumbles and falls. Irongron steps up to him.) IRONGRON: He who strikes Irongron dies! (Irongron lifts his axe over his head - but one of Hal's arrows knocks it from his hand.) SARAH: Doctor! Up here! (The Doctor runs out of the courtyard into a passageway...) 3. EXT. PASSAGEWAY (...He blocks it with straw and sets f*re to it with a torch, preventing Irongron and his men from following. Irongron curses inaudibly.) 4. EXT. BATTLEMENT (The Doctor meets up with Sarah and Hal.) DOCTOR: Thank you Miss Smith; a most timely rescue. SARAH: This isn't a rescue, Doctor - it's a capture. Let's get him out of here (Two men grab the Doctor and bundle him off.) 5. INT. LINX'S WORKSHOP (Linx, with his helmet on, returns to find the Doctor gone. After a quick look round, he leaves. Rubeish is revealed hiding at the back of the room. When Linx has gone, he busies himself grinding a piece of glass on a lathe, attempting to make himself a makeshift magnifying glass. He rubs it with his hankie and gives it a test, squinting through it.) 6. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. HALL (Irongron and Bloodaxe are sat drinking at the table. Meg hovers nearby with a flagon.) IRONGRON: The fellow has the gall of a camel and the cunning of a fox! BLOODAXE: Aye, you shall have your revenge, Captain. He'll be with Sir Edward now. And not even a rat'll come out of that castle tomorrow. IRONGRON: By the stars, Bloodaxe, I swear I'll cut him up so fine not even a sparrow will fill its beak at one peck! (Meg backs away as Linx enters. Then she leaves.) LINX: One of my workers has disappeared. Order a search of your castle IRONGRON: If you've lost one of your dumb, whey-faced ninnies, Linx, then look for him yourself. My men are at rest. BLOODAXE: We march upon Sir Edward within the hour. LINX: I insist upon a search, Irongron. The Doctor is of great value to me. And while he is at large, he could be dangerous. BLOODAXE: The Doctor? IRONGRON: Bother me now, little toad, and you will feel an axe in your skull! BLOODAXE: Master, I heard someone call "Doctor" while we were at that fellow's heels. IRONGRON: Is this Doctor a long shank rascal with a mighty nose? LINX: That is how he would appear in human eyes. IRONGRON: Then he is no longer here. Sir Edward sent raiders to my castle, captured him. LINX: He has escaped! 7. INT. SIR EDWARD'S CASTLE SARAH: Tell Sir Edward we're back (A servant leaves to convey the message. The Doctor is stood with Sarah and Hal.) SARAH: Now... DOCTOR: You've been getting around, Sarah. Are you on visiting terms with all the local nobility? SARAH: Doctor, let's get a few things straight, shall we? DOCTOR: Oh dear. Well I'm afraid you're going to be awfully confused if you ask me to explain about the TARDIS. SARAH: The TARDIS? DOCTOR: Yes, my Police Box. You were a stowaway, I imagine. SARAH: Yes, but we'll come to that later. Now then, why are you helping Irongron? DOCTOR: My dear girl, I'm not helping him. Linx is. I'm trying to stop him. SARAH: Linx? DOCTOR: Yes, perhaps you're lucky enough not to have met him yet. Nasty, brutish and short just about sums him up. SARAH: There was a strange looking knight with Irongron... DOCTOR: Yes well, he'd have looked even stranger if he hadn't been wearing space armour. He comes from a planet where the surface gravity is many times than of earth. SARAH: A man from the stars? DOCTOR: Mmhmm. SARAH: How do I know you're telling the truth? DOCTOR: Because I never lie. Well, hardly ever. Ever heard of UNIT? SARAH: You work for UNIT? DOCTOR: In an advisory capacity, yes. Well, they asked me to look into this question of the missing scientists for them. SARAH: But I thought you were responsible for that. DOCTOR: My dear girl, I don't go around kidnapping scientists! No, Linx brought them here to staff his workshop. Now I've gotta find a way of sending them back to there own time. (Lady Eleanor has entered, along with Sir Edward.) ELEANOR: This is the magician? SARAH: Er, yes. This is the Doctor. EDWARD: You have done well, Sarah. (The Doctor bows.) DOCTOR: How do you do? It is a pleasure to be among the company of civilised people at last. EDWARD: A courtly rogue. ELEANOR: Is he willing to change his allegiance and serve Sir Edward instead of Irongron? SARAH: Well he says he wasn't serving Irongron, and there is another stranger at the castle - someone called Linx. DOCTOR: Yes, he's your enemy, I assure you - not me. We'd be well advised to join forces against him. EDWARD: Does he speak truth? SARAH: I'm not sure. I suppose I could've been wrong. DOCTOR: That's a generous admission. Especially coming from one of the fair sex. SARAH: Or he could just be changing sides to save his own skin. ELEANOR: These wizards and warlocks were ever a treacherous breed. We'd best be wary of him. EDWARD: I shall spare your life, if you cast your spells and incantations to help me against Irongron, Doctor. Refuse and you die. DOCTOR: You offer a somewhat restricted choice, Sir Edward. EDWARD: What is your answer? DOCTOR: My services are at your disposal, Sir. Such as they are. EDWARD: Good. Serve me straight, Doctor, and I shall reward you well. HAL: Oh, master... (Edward gestures for him to be silent.) HAL: Oh but master, Irongron marches here before noon! We heard this said from his own mouth. EDWARD: Then we are lost. We cannot stand against them. DOCTOR: On the contrary, sir, I think we can. EDWARD: But how? With a handful of men? DOCTOR: Yes sir, with just a few men I think I can persuade Irongron that, er, we have a full garrison. EDWARD: By the use of your magic. DOCTOR: By creating an illusion anyway. EDWARD: Your magic will have to be powerful indeed to discourage Irongron. DOCTOR: It will be, sir. 8. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. HALL (Irongron is suiting up for the att*ck.) BLOODAXE: The men are ready, captain. IRONGRON: Good. Though for such an easy conquest as this, 'tis scarce worth strapping on armour! (they laugh) You and I alone, good Bloodaxe, could take that castle! BLOODAXE: Indeed we could, captain. IRONGRON: With Sir Edward's treasure I shall hire more men, and with Linx's w*apon to arm them, who shall stand against us? (Linx enters.) LINX: When does the fighting start, Irongron? IRONGRON: In the time it takes to ride from here to Sir Edward's castle. LINX: Then I shall come with you. IRONGRON: What, you? Haha. Upon my oath, Bloodaxe, can you see that on a scaling ladder? LINX: I have an interest in seeing the battle. IRONGRON: Those eyes have thirst for blood. Well find our bold warrior a horse, Bloodaxe. Copme then! (They all exit.) 9. INT. SIR EDWARD'S. A ROOM. (The Doctor is stirring a bowl of yellow stuff with a napkin tucked under his chin. Sarah enters with a frame for one of the Doctor's dummy soldiers. Atop it is a cloth face and a helmet. She puts some more cloth on the table.) SARAH: Here's a few more for you, Doctor. DOCTOR: Thank you, Sarah. SARAH: Lady Eleanor's got every serving wench in the castle sewing away like mad. DOCTOR: I told you there'd be plenty of work for everybody, didn't I. SARAH: Oh. Typically masculine arrangement, though. We do all the dirty work - you get all the fun. DOCTOR: You don't think mixing this singularly noxious compound is fun, do you? How's the rest of it going? SARAH: Not bad. I put Sir Edward in charge of painting the dummies' faces. He's turned out to be quite an artist. Once I'd set him on the right lines. DOCTOR: Excellent. Glad I decided to let you stay. SARAH: You decided? DOCTOR: You know, was never much of a hand with a paint brush meself. SARAH: No? DOCTOR: No. Nor a palette Kn*fe for that matter. I'd like to study under one of the masters one day. Rembrandt preferably. SARAH: Rembrandt?! DOCTOR: Mmhmm. SARAH: Can you... can you just go anywhere you like in that TARDIS? DOCTOR: Yes, within reason. SARAH: Then why are you staying here? Why don't you go somewhere safer? DOCTOR: Because, my dear Sarah, I've got a job to do. One that involves the whole future of your species. Here, hold this will you? (He hands her a bit of rope for her to hold while he cuts short lengths from it to tie up his bags of smoking mixture.) SARAH: My species? DOCTOR: Mmhmm. SARAH: You're talking as if you weren't human. DOCTOR: Yes, well the definition of the word "humanity" was always a rather a complex question, wasn't it. SARAH: You know perfectly well what I mean; are you or aren't you? DOCTOR: If you mean am I a native of the planet Terra, the answer is no, I'm not. SARAH: Well, what are you then? DOCTOR: Me? I'm a Timelord. SARAH: A Timelord? DOCTOR: Yes, that's right. And my people are very keen to stamp out unlicensed time travel. You can look upon them as galactic ticket inspectors if you like. SARAH: Galactic ticket inspectors? Ooh, I could m*rder a cup of tea - you're serious, aren't you? DOCTOR: About what I do, yes. Not necessarily the way I do it. For example, you know what this is? SARAH: I've no idea. DOCTOR: This is my own special smoking mixture, consisting of saltpetre, sulphur and fat. With a few little extras thrown in. (We hear a sound.) DOCTOR: Aha, that is Irongron. Battle is about to commence! 10. EXT. WOOD (Irongron rides up, dismounts his horse, takes his axe from one of his men and joins Linx, who is studying the battlements, which are filled with the Doctor's dummies.) IRONGRON: We've been tricked, Bloodaxe. That dolt of a prisoner swore that Edward had but a few old men to guard his castle! BLOODAXE: My Lord of Salisbury must have sent him help IRONGRON: The messenger to Salisbury died in our dungeon, these cannot be Salisbury's men. LINX: Why do you wait? What will be your first method of att*ck? IRONGRON: We don't att*ck, we return to my castle. LINX: You fear to fight? The greater the odds, the greater the glory. IRONGRON: I fear nothing, toadface! But there is little profit in butchered for naught. BLOODAXE: Sir Edward holds his walls with too strong a force. LINX: Then use your r*fles, sh**t them from the walls. IRONGRON: r*fles? LINX: The w*apon that I made for you. IRONGRON: Ah, on my oath, Linx, when I am King, you shall be my champion! 11. EXT. BATTLEMENTS (Pan across the battlements, showing more dummies than men. The Doctor has a small pile of smoking mixture b*mb in front of him and Sarah.) SARAH: That's made them stop and think, anyway. DOCTOR: I thought Linx would have to come along. Sontarans just can't resist getting involved in w*r. SARAH: This must be very minor league stuff to him, surely? DOCTOR: Oh yes, he's just like a little boy, stirring up the red ants and the black ants. This is something to keep him amused, to stop him from getting bored. (A sh*t hits the wall behind them.) SARAH: They've got g*n! 12. EXT. WOOD (Irongron is holding the r*fle he has just fired.) BLOODAXE: No man has fallen, captain! IRONGRON: Your w*apon do not work, Linx! (He throws it to the ground.) LINX: You do not sh**t them straight! (He is passed another r*fle. He sh**t straight through one of the dummies.) LINX: Those figures are dummies. IRONGRON: Bah! Your w*apon are useless! LINX: They do not move or fall. They are not living men. IRONGRON: I smell that fox of a Doctor behind this. Bring up the scaling ladders! 13. EXT. BATTLEMENTS SARAH: Here they come, Doctor! 14. EXT. CASTLE WALLS (Irongron's men bring up their scaling ladders, but the Doctor lights the fuse on his homemade b*mb and lobs them over the side where they explode with loud bangs and clouds of yellowish smoke. Irongron and his men retreat. One of Sir Edward's men fires an arrow at Irongron but it misses and sticks in a tree.) IRONGRON: Away! Away! 15. EXT. BATTLEMENTS (The Doctor and Sarah are looking out at Irongron's retreat.) DOCTOR: Yes, well I think we'd better get back inside before that smoke rises, it's liable to hang around for quite some time. SARAH: What was that stuff, Doctor? Some kind of gas? DOCTOR: Gas? Good heavens, what on earth do you take me for? No, it was some sort of superior stink b*mb with a few bangs and flashes thrown in for good measure. No, it's quite harmless, I assure you, but... (They can start to smell it. They hurry inside.) 16. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. HALL (Irongron and his men enter, spluttering and coughing.) IRONGRON: Bring me wine! Wine, I say! Quench the dust from my throat and the stench from my nostrils. (Meg is nearby with a tray of flagons from which they help themselves.) IRONGRON: More, wench! More! Am I a sparrow to quench my thirst with a few scant drops? (Pause as they drink.) IRONGRON: Oooooh - Mice! A few loud noises, a few bad smells and you scatter like sheep! BLOODAXE: It was sorcery, master, black devils' work - you said so yourself. Well, this wizard, the Doctor, he's gone and joined Sir Edward and he threw all the fires and the stenches o' hell itself at us! IRONGRON: With poltroons like these, it were ill work to lay siege to a hen coop! BLOODAXE: They do but need food and rest to recover their spirits, captain. IRONGRON: We att*ck again tomorrow morning. I will take Sir Edward's castle or I will see every man of you perish in the attempt! Chicken-hearted knaves! Begone from my sight! (The men leave as Linx enters, carrying his helmet under his arm.) LINX: Did I not see you yourself leading their retreat, captain? IRONGRON: (picking up an axe) Taunt me not little toadface. Or by the stars I'll see if the colour of your blood is red like mortal man's. LINX: You earth creatures give up too easily. I doubt you have the potential to make a truly military species. IRONGRON: And you Linx, you claim to like w*r. I haven't seen you doing much this day. LINX: I came only to observe. I should have known better than to look for interest in a struggle between primitives. thr*at me once more and I will destroy you. (Irongron moves to att*ck but Linx easily swats him aside, leaving him sprawled and fearful on the tabletop.) LINX: Primitives! Childish, squabbling primitives! It is well that I do not need to spend much more time among you. (He leaves.) 17. EXT. SIR EDWARD'S CASTLE (They are all sat down laughing as they have a meal. Sir Edward throws chicken bone over his shoulder. The Doctor does likewise, prompting a look from Sarah. A servant approaches the Doctor's cup with a jug.) EDWARD: More wine, Doctor? DOCTOR: No, thank you, no. Oh, well just perhaps just a little. (The servant fills the Doctor's cup.) EDWARD: Those knaves of Irongron's ran like rabbits! (laughter) Finest sight that ever I saw, Doctor. And all thanks to you and your wizardry. DOCTOR: Well, we all played our part, Sir Edward. EDWARD: Now your magic works for us, our troubles are over. DOCTOR: Not quite, I'm afraid. SARAH: The Doctor thinks Irongron's bound to att*ck again. EDWARD: And you shall affright the knaves with more of your sorceries. DOCTOR: Well it won't work indefinitely, I fear. This time we had the element of surprise. They won't be frightened off quite so easily again. EDWARD: Then we've gained a respite, no more. SARAH: Actually, the Doctor does have another idea. ELEANOR: Then let us hear your counsel, Doctor. So far you have served us well. DOCTOR: Well, there's one sure way to prevent Irongron from capturing your castle. EDWARD: And that is? DOCTOR: You must capture his. EDWARD: You advise the impossible, Doctor, when they outnumber us so greatly. (The Doctor has produced a piece of paper from his pocket. He looks at it and passes it to Lady Eleanor.) DOCTOR: My Lady, are you familiar with these herbs and simples? ELEANOR: Ragwort, henbane, love-in-a-mist, fennel, sesame. Most we have dried in the kitchens, the rest grow in the woods nearby. DOCTOR: Excellent. I want to brew up a little draught. ELEANOR: You mean to mix a magic potion to slay the dog? DOCTOR: No, no not quite; just something to calm him down a little. 18. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. HALL (Irongron slams a t*nk down on the table. He and Bloodaxe have been drinking.) IRONGRON: Ooh, I should have slain the filthy little toad there and then. I should have carved him up into callops on the spot. BLOODAXE: Aye, captain, it puzzles me as to why you did not IRONGRON: Aye, well 'tis a matter of high policy, d'you see? Above your understanding. Hmm? As yet we still need Linx's aid. w*apon he has promised me - and by the stars, w*apon I shall have. Wonderful magical w*apon, that will crumble the castles of those that oppose me into dust. And then, and only then, shall Linx die by my hand! (Pause.) BLOODAXE: Oh, 'tis a cunning plan, captain. IRONGRON: Aye, 'tis as well for you dolts that you have me to guide you. Huhhuh. There's more to w*r than hard strokes, my good Bloodaxe. BLOODAXE: Aye, master, yours is indeed a towering intelligence. (Irongron looks suspiciously at Bloodaxe.) 19. EXT. OUTSIDE IRONGRON'S CASTLE (Two monks - the Doctor and Sarah in disguise - approach the gate of Irongron's castle where two guards stand on duty.) GUARD: Hold, friar. What business have you here? DOCTOR: (yokel voice) We, er, come to beg alms of the good captain Irongron. The fame of his charity is spread far and wide. GUARD: You will find captain Irongron in the great hall. He is indeed a kindly and charitable man and his temper is most sweet and pleasant. Pass, friar. DOCTOR: Heaven will reward you, my son. Come, brother. (They walk in past the two guards.) GUARD: It is to be hoped the two friars are fleet of foot, or the church will have two new martyrs ere long. (They both laugh.) 20. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. CORRIDOR (The Doctor and Sarah have removed their disguises. Sarah is now wearing a blue serving wench's dress. They hear someone coming and hide as Linx passes by carrying a box of r*fles. They watch him go.) DOCTOR: Right, let's take a look at Linx's workshop. 21. INT. LINX'S WORKSHOP (Linx's spaceship sits in the corner. The door opens and the Doctor and Sarah enter.) SARAH: What's that? DOCTOR: It's a Sontaran spaceship, to be precise, and tremendously powerful for its size, just like its owner. Here, give me your habit. (Sarah passes it to him and he walks off with them both, dumping them nearby. One of the hypnotised scientists walks past.) SARAH: What's wrong with him? DOCTOR: Deep hypnosis. RUBEISH: Ah, there you are, Doctor! Back again, eh? SARAH: Professor Rubeish! RUBEISH: What? Oh, it's you! Doctor, I knew this girl was involved. We should have reported her as I wanted. DOCTOR: Yes, well I'm very glad we didn't. In a few hours that ship's going to be ready for takeoff. RUBEISH: Yes, he's been working these people at a k*lling pace. Come over here. (He leads them over to where one of the scientists lies on the floor.) RUBEISH: Look. No sleep. Practically no food. They're starting to collapse like flies. DOCTOR: I'm not surprised, he's suffering from near starvation. SARAH: Oh we'll have to get them some food, Doctor, or at least a drink. DOCTOR: There's no time for that. SARAH: But they'll die if we don't. DOCTOR: Sarah, listen to me. Linx's spaceship is just about ready for takeoff. And if that happens, there's going to be the most tremendous expl*si*n. Everybody in this castle will die. 22. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. HALL (Linx throws the box on the table.) LINX: These are the w*apon I have promised you. Also a good supply of the projectiles that they use. IRONGRON: Oh, my thanks good toadface, er, good Linx. More w*apon from the stars. LINX: I shall complete the repairs of the improved fighting robot, if I have time before I leave. IRONGRON: If you wish to leave then, you would do well to obey me. LINX: Do you thr*at me? I leave when I am ready and that will be soon. IRONGRON: And will you carry your starship on your back, good toad? You needed my knaves to bring it here, you will need them to take it hence. LINX: Evidently you have no understanding of the forces involved in interstellar travel. I shall leave when I am ready. It would be foolish of you to attempt to stop me. 23. INT. LINX'S WORKSHOP (The Doctor is sat on the floor, flashing a small torch light rhythmically into the eyes of one of the hypnotised scientists.) RUBEISH: Doctor, what are you doing? DOCTOR: Trying to break this hypnosis. RUBEISH: It's very deep. Narcoleptic condition, eh? DOCTOR: The brain can still receive signals, Professor. It might work. RUBEISH: Even if it does, can't see what you intend. DOCTOR: Don't you want to get back to the twentieth century? RUBEISH: Steak and mushroom, lobster, chocolate truffles, oh dear me yes. DOCTOR: Get these people to respond and send them back with Linx's osmic projector. RUBEISH: Osmic projector? DOCTOR: Yes, it's over there on the table. SARAH: Why can't you just send them as they are? DOCTOR: It's too risky with their minds in this state. The transition might damage them permanently. SARAH: I've never heard so much gobbledegook in me life. DOCTOR: Polka time! RUBEISH: It's the b*at, look he's beginning to respond. (The door opens and Linx enters. They all hide. He takes off his helmet and spots the scientists, exhausted on the floor. He removes a w*apon from his belt and points it at one of them.) LINX: Up! Get back to work! (One of them tries but collapses.) LINX: Work. What's wrong with you? Get up or I will k*ll you! (The Doctor pops up from his hiding place.) DOCTOR: Leave him, Linx! LINX: Aaah, how fortunate that you have returned, Doctor. My failure to destroy you was the one thing that marred the pleasure of my approaching departure from this miserable planet. DOCTOR: Well, don't you want to know why I returned? LINX: It is of no interest to me. DOCTOR: I came here to offer you my help. LINX: We're sworn enemies, Doctor. Why should you help me? DOCTOR: Because I want something from you. If you will let me de-hypnotise people and send them home, and help me capture Irongron and his men, then I will assist you in the repairs to your spaceship. Well, the w*apon that you've made for Irongron you can leave here in the castle. When it's empty, you can take off, destroying castle and w*apon at the same time. Alright, commander Linx, what do you say? LINX: You wish for my answer, Doctor? DOCTOR: I do. LINX: Then here it is. (He raises his w*apon and fires it at the Doctor.)
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The Time Warrior By Robert Holmes Episode Four Broadcast December 5 1974 5:30pm - 5:55pm INT. LINX'S WORKSHOP (Sarah dashes at Linx trying to deflect his aim.) SARAH: No! (The Doctor falls and Linx brushes Sarah off.) LINX: The female, too. It seems I am doubly fortunate. (One of the scientists collapses with exhaustion.) LINX: Get up! Get back to work! DOCTOR: Linx, can't you see that your prisoners are physically exhausted? They've had no sleep and nothing to eat for days. LINX: They can still work. DOCTOR: Not for much longer. LINX: I owe these primitives nothing. (Rubeish hunts around stealthily for a w*apon.) LINX: My only concern is to rejoin our glorious struggle for freedom. DOCTOR: That's such an old tune. Don't you know there's no such thing as the super race? LINX: Your Time Lord philosophy is egalitarian twaddle. It is a weakness. DOCTOR: Every species has its own weakness, Linx. For instance, you can only be stunned by a blow on the probic vent, that small hole at the back of your neck. LINX: In our case, Doctor, it is a strength, because it means we must always face our enemies. LINX: Now, to return to the question of your demise. I think it would be better if you witnessed first the destruction of your female companion. (Rubeish strikes Linx, who screams, falls, hisses and gurgles.) DOCTOR: Well done, Rubeish. SARAH: Doctor, are you all right? DOCTOR: Yes. Yes. The blast was too brief. But I wouldn't have been in a few moments. Thank you very much, Sarah. SARAH: Oh, pleasure. (Sarah helps the Doctor to his feet.) SARAH: Hadn't I better be getting on with the rest of your plan? DOCTOR: Yes, all right, but be careful. SARAH: You too, Doctor. (Sarah exits.) DOCTOR: Right, well, if we can secure our friend here, we can get on with the job of restoring his wretched victims. RUBEISH: Will this help? (Rubish passes the Doctor some cable.) DOCTOR: Rubeish, you're invaluable, my dear chap. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. HALL (We see Irongron lift a r*fle from crate full.) IRONGRON: Bloodaxe. BLOODAXE: Captain. IRONGRON: Fetch me Linx. Fetch me that scabby faced stoat from his burrow. BLOODAXE: At once, Captain. INT. LINX'S WORKSHOP (The Doctor binds up Linx with the cable.) DOCTOR: Well, that should hold him for a while, even on this planet. RUBEISH: Why this planet? DOCTOR: Well, in his own environment he weighs several tons. Fortunately his muscles have been designed for load bearing rather than leverage. RUBEISH: Fascinating. I'd always assumed that creatures from a high density planet would have developed a pressure balanced physiology. For example, if you take certain types of seaweed BLOODAXE (OOV): Linx! Linx! (The Doctor runs to get Linx's helmet and puts it on. Bloodaxe is at the door.) BLOODAXE: Linx? DOCTOR: Who speaks? BLOODAXE: Captain Irongron commands your presence. DOCTOR: Tell him I'm busy. BLOODAXE: Well, come soon or we come and fetch you. (Bloodaxe exits and the Doctor takes off Linx's helmet.) RUBEISH: Who is Irongron? Is he a nice chap? DOCTOR: Well, I wouldn't recommend him for the Royal Society. All right, Rubeish old chap, now you know how to bring these people round? RUBEISH: Yes. A simple repetitive optical DOCTOR: Yes, quite so. I'll leave you to get on with it. RUBEISH: Well, what do you propose to do? DOCTOR: I was going to preset this osmic projector and send these people back to their own time, but now I have to find a way of stalling Irongron. (The Doctor stopis in his tracks as he sees the robot knight.) DOCTOR: The robot! Yes, of course. That ought to give him something to think about. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. KITCHEN (Sarah cautiously enters, finds a small bag and starts filling it with food.) MEG: Thief! SARAH: You common scullion, stand aside. How dare you obstruct me? I shall have you flogged. MEG: Oh, so, a lady, are you? A lady dressed as a serving wench? SARAH: I'm hungry. Please let me go. I've tasted neither bread nor meat for nearly a month. (Meg grabs Sarah's hand and studies it.) MEG: No, nor done no work for longer by the look of you. All right, my girl, I'll give you bread and cheese, but you'll have to earn it. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. HALL (The robot appears through the open doorway.) IRONGRON: Who are you? DOCTOR (in the robot knight's suit): I am a gift to Captain Irongron from the one who made me, my master, Commander Linx. IRONGRON: It is indeed the robot, Bloodaxe, though somewhat different in shape. And I remember, Linx promised to make me a second iron man, one that would obey my voice. But why has Linx sent you? Why has he not he himself obeyed my summons? DOCTOR: My master toils in his workshop to make you more fighting robots. He sent me as proof of his goodwill. IRONGRON: What? DOCTOR: Now I must return. IRONGRON: Hold. I would see something of the mettle of this gift. Can you fight, iron man? DOCTOR: That is my purpose. IRONGRON: Then fight me. DOCTOR: I was programmed to fight for you, not against you. IRONGRON: Cease thy gabble and fight. DOCTOR: You will damage my circuits. IRONGRON: Fight, iron man, or you'll return to Linx in as many pieces as did your brother. (Irongron strikes and they launch into a sword fight, where the Doctor gets the better of him.) IRONGRON: Hold. BLOODAXE: It's truly a marvel, Captain. Never have I seen a finer swordsman. IRONGRON: Ah, tis great sport this, Bloodaxe. Draw your sword and join me. We'll try this creature's strength to the upmost. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. KITCHEN (Meg smacks a worker on the back of the neck.) MEG: Get on! (The sword fight can be heard.) SARAH: What's that? MEG: Oh, fighting again in the great hall, I'll warrant. Men were ever like children, fond of noise and brawling. Get about your work, girl. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. HALL IRONGRON: Hold. Hold, I say! We must slow this iron man's speed a little. Stick me some crossbow bolts in the creature. We'll see if it fights as well with a crossbow bolt or two in its gizzard. And if that fails, we'll lop off its head and try again then. DOCTOR: Isn't that a bit unsporting, old man? I mean, sitting ducks and all that. IRONGRON: This iron man talks like some Norman ninny. Lift up your visor. DOCTOR: I cannot reveal my face, Irongron. IRONGRON: Why? DOCTOR: Because if I did, it might give you a seizure. (Irongron raises the visor.) IRONGRON: The wizard! DOCTOR: Well, I did warn you, didn't I? (The Doctor runs out the door.) IRONGRON: Seize him! (The Doctor is brought back by two men. Irongron removes the Doctor's helmet and raises his sword to strike.) IRONGRON: No. The sword is too quick and clean a death for you. Well, since you are a wizard, then by wizardry shall you die. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. KITCHEN MEG: Not so much of that oatmeal, girl. It's only pikemen we're feeding, not horses. Hey, watch that pot. MEG: If you burn Irongron's stew, he'll have your liver cut out. SARAH: Is all this for Irongron? MEG: Him and his chamber guard. SARAH: How many's that? MEG: Half a dozen. You're full of questions, girl. SARAH: Don't the guards on the gate get stew? MEG: What, meat for those common creatures? I should say not. They'll have oatmeal the same as the rest of us, and lusty enough they are on that. So you watch yourself if ever you take out that skillet. SARAH: I'm not afraid of men. They don't own the world. Why should women always have to cook and carry for them? MEG: What else should we do? SARAH: Stand up for ourselves. Tell the men you're tired of working for them like slaves. MEG: We are slaves. SARAH: Then you should set yourselves free. MEG: Oh? And how should we do that? SARAH: Don't you want to be free? MEG: Women will never be free while there are men in the world, girl. We have our place. SARAH: What subservient poppycock. You're still living in the Middle Ages. MEG: Eh? SARAH: Nothing. MEG: You're young and foolish, girl. And I warn you, keep those thoughts to yourself or you'll not live long enough to grow wiser. I must tell them their food will soon be ready. (Meg goes out the door. Sarah pours somthing into the stewpot. She then goes over to where the oatmeal is being prepared.) SARAH: Look at that great spider! (The girl screams and jumps back. Sarah tips the bottle into the pot.) INT. LINX'S WORKSHOP (Rubeish is singing to himself as he flashes a light at one of the scientists.) RUBEISH: Oh see me dance the polka, oh see me dah dah dee. (hums the rest.) (The scientist stirs.) RUBEISH: Ah, that's it. Come on, stand up, my dear chap. Come on. Come on. That's it. (Rubeish addresses five of the scientists.) RUBEISH: Now listen, all of you. You've been kidnapped, but you're about to be rescued. I hope. There's a machine here that'll send you home again. Unfortunately, I don't know how to work it, and the chap who does has vanished. But I expect he'll pop up again. He usually does. But the important thing is, until then, you must carry on working as if you were still hypnotised. MORRISON: Can I ask RUBEISH: Oh, Morrison, don't start asking a lot of awkward questions. I assure you I don't know the answers any more than you do. IRONGRON (OOV): Linx! RUBEISH: Back to work, everyone. Someone's coming. (They scurry and Irongron comes through the door.) IRONGRON: Linx, you dog! Where are you hiding? (Irongron notices the Doctor's jacket on a table, then finds Linx on the floor.) IRONGRON: Oh, there you are, you dragon eyed toad. Who puts these bonds on you? (Irongron draws his dagger and cuts Linx's bonds.) LINX: The Doctor. I was struck from behind. Where is he? IRONGRON: The Doctor is dying. LINX: What method have you chosen to destroy him? INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. HALL (Irongron flings the jacket at the Doctor.) DOCTOR: Thank you, sir, for your charm and old world courtesy. May I ask the purpose of this tomfoolery? If you're going to have me sh*t, why don't you get on with it? IRONGRON: I would not have your death be in vain, good sorcerer. I intend that it shall be of some use to me. DOCTOR: Nothing that I do will be of use to you, Irongron. IRONGRON: Oh, nay, Doctor, but you're wrong. These knaves of mine lack practice with their star w*apon. A living target will give them a chance to better their aim before tomorrow's battle. You, sh**t! (The man cocks his r*fle and fires, missing the Doctor.) IRONGRON: These knaves of mine aim so ill, Doctor, that you are mayhap safer to stand still. You, sh**t. (The Doctor ducks this one.) IRONGRON: The aim improves, Doctor. Be patient. We shall h*t the target all in good time. DOCTOR: I'm in no great hurry, I assure you. IRONGRON: Oh, beshrew me, but I grow fond of this fellow. sh**t when you please, lads, and a bag of gold to the one that brings him down. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. KITCHEN SARAH: That noise! I can hear sh**ting. MEG: More tomfoolery. SARAH: What is it? What's happening? MEG: They've captured Sir Edward's sorcerer, this fellow the Doctor, and now they're slaying him in the great hall with these devil's w*apon of theirs. (Sarah runs up the stairs.) MEG: For the life of me I can't see what's wrong with a good old-fashioned broad sword. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. HALL IRONGRON: By the stars, this fellow hops around like a flea on a griddle. LINX: Give me a w*apon. I will destroy him. IRONGRON: What? Would you spoil good sport, old toad? (Sarah unties the candelabra let's it go.) SARAH: Doctor! (The Doctor seizes the swinging candelabra and runs out.) INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. CORRIDOR (The Doctor battens the doors and Sarah appears.) DOCTOR: Well done, Sarah. Just like a daring young man on the flying trapeze. Come on. IRONGRON (OOV): Get them! EXT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. COURTYARD DOCTOR: Sarah, wait. Come on. (They dash for the entrance, then slow down and stroll through. The Doctor whistles and beckons the two guards.) DOCTOR: Hai! (The Doctor strikes both guards simultaneously.) INT. SIR EDWARD'S HALL (The Doctor and Sarah are sitting at the table.) DOCTOR: Do you know, I think that was one of the most active days I've had in years. Well, it's not as if I was a lad anymore, once you're over two hundred. EDWARD: So then, Doctor, your plans have miscarried, I fear. What will you do now? DOCTOR: Oh, wait a bit. Give the potion time to work and then go back. SARAH: But Doctor, you can't! DOCTOR: Sarah, I must. Rubeish and all those scientists are there. Now, Linx's spaceship is just about ready for takeoff, and when that happens, there'll be a tremendous expl*si*n and all that will be left of that castle will be a pile of stones. EDWARD: But Doctor, how can the castle go? DOCTOR: Just believe me, sir. When Linx goes, it goes. ELEANOR: Irongron's castle is to be destroyed by sorcery? Then all is well. DOCTOR: There are innocent people in that castle, my lady, and I don't like the idea of anybody going up in smoke. Not even Irongron. SARAH: If you're going back, then I'm coming with you. HAL: I too will come with you, if my master permits. DOCTOR: Well, thank you. Thank you both. I can do with all the help I can get. INT. LINX'S WORKSHOP (Linx grabs a device from a scientist. Lights come on in the spaceship.) LINX: Thank you, my friends. Your work is finished. You may rest now for a time until the power build up is complete. (Linx goes out the door.) RUBEISH: Doctor, I think you'd better get a move on. I've a feeling time's beginning to run out. EXT. FOREST. IN FRONT OF THE TARDIS (The Doctor exits the TARDIS) EXT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. MAIN ENTRANCE The guards slide to the ground as they fall asleep. EXT. FOREST (The Doctor joins Hal and Sarah, who are observing behind some scrub.) DOCTOR: Good evening. SARAH: It's working, Doctor. Look. HAL: Aye, the villains sleep like innocent babes. DOCTOR: Good. Well, we'll wait a bit to be on the safe side, and then we'll go in. INT. LINX'S WORKSHOP RUBEISH: At last, Doctor, there you are. Something most interesting happening here. DOCTOR: Yes, so I see. Where's Linx? RUBEISH: I don't know. He started his spaceship going then cleared off. DOCTOR: Where's the osmic projector? It was over there on the table. RUBEISH: He put everything back inside the ship. DOCTOR: Well, I'll just have to take it out again, won't I. Hal, scout around the castle. See if Irongron and his men are sleeping. If they are, disarm them and come back here. SARAH: What are you going to do, Doctor? DOCTOR: Get the osmic projector. Fortunately it's an independent unit. SARAH: Well, can't you switch this thing off? DOCTOR: Well, I can try. SARAH: Suppose you don't succeed? DOCTOR: Then we've got between five and ten minutes to get out of here before we're all blown to kingdom come. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. CORRIDOR (Hal relieves a guard of his sword.) INT. LINX'S WORKSHOP SARAH: Couldn't you shut it down? DOCTOR: No, the drive system is sealed. Linx must have taken the activator key. I managed to get a hold of this, though. I was lucky to get it out with the drive running. (The Doctor adjusts the device.) DOCTOR: I think that should do it. DOCTOR: I've got to send them back one at a time. Get the first one to stand over there, will you, Rubeish? RUBEISH: Come on, Morrison. DOCTOR: All right, Rubeish, come over here. I may want you to take over. Now then, all you have to do is this, this and this. Get it. RUBEISH: Yes. DOCTOR: Right, here goes. (The scientist dematerialises.) DOCTOR: Right, that ought to surprise them back at the Research Centre. Next gentleman, please. RUBEISH: Come on. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. HALL IRONGRON: For the last time, Linx, let there be no more talk of leaving. LINX: And I tell you for the last time, I am leaving now. Our alliance is at an end. IRONGRON: It ends when I say it ends and not before. LINX: You would be well advised to march from this castle now and capture another. Soon you will have need of it. BLOODAXE: He thr*at us, Captain. IRONGRON: He does not understand our ways. Tomorrow, Linx, we smite the enemy, hip and thigh. But tonight, we feast. LINX: By your dawn I shall be seven hundred million miles from here. Can I be concerned with the fate of primitives? (Linx marches out and the men laugh.) BLOODAXE: What did he mean, Captain? IRONGRON: He is a toad. Who know what a toad thinks? BLOODAXE: Aye, Captain, 'tis truly said. IRONGRON: This stew has made me heavy. (The men start falling asleep.) IRONGRON: Hey. INT. LINX'S WORKSHOP DOCTOR: That's Linx. Send the rest of them back. I'll try and keep him busy. (Links fires at the Doctor, who shields himself.) INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. HALL (Hal is removing all the mens' swords. Irongron wakes and grabs him.) IRONGRON: Trickery! Sorcery! (Irongron knocks Hal to the ground.) IRONGRON: What sorcery! Treachery! That toad Linx bewitched us all! INT. LINX'S WORKSHOP (The Doctor and Linx are still fighing.) SARAH: Now you, professor. RUBEISH: I really don't think I ought to go and leave you. SARAH: Off you go now. Now then. This, this and this. RUBEISH: Well, goodbye and good luck. It really has been a most fascinating experience. I hope you and the Doctor will be all right. See you back at the Research Centre. (Rubeish dematerialises. Linx throws the Doctor head over heels.) SARAH: Doctor! (Irongron comes through the door.) IRONGRON: So, destroy my castle by sorcery, would you, toad face? Well, Irongron's magic is too strong for you! (Irongron goes to strike Linx and Linx uses his ray g*n on him.) INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE. HALL (Hal regains consciousness and tries to wake Bloodaxe.) HAL: Now listen, dog. In minutes now this castle will be destroyed by the sorcery. If you'd save your miserable skins, then get you gone! (Hal runs out the door.) BLOODAXE: Flee, dogs! Flee for your life! Come on, waken, you dogs! And flee, flee for your lives, you dogs! Waken! Waken up! Now flee! INT. LINX'S WORKSHOP (Linx is in his spaceship. Sarah shakes the Doctor.) SARAH: Doctor, do get up. We've got to get you out! (Hal appears and deftly fires an arrow into Linx's probic vent.) DOCTOR: Something's gone wrong. He must have h*t the take off button too soon. Come on, we've got about a minute to get out of here. Quick, run! (Equipment starts to spark.) EXT. FOREST (The Doctor, Sarah and Hal are running, when the castle explodes and knocks them to the ground. When the dust clears, they get up and walk over to the TARDIS.) DOCTOR: Well, you can tell Sir Edward that his problems are over, Hal. Irongron, his castle, his magic w*apon and his sorcerer, they're all destroyed. HAL: Will you not tell him yourself, Doctor? He will reward you well. We owe you much. DOCTOR: I'm sorry. I'm afraid we must be off. Goodbye, Hal. HAL: Goodbye, Doctor. SARAH: Goodbye. HAL: Goodbye. You are truly a great magician, Doctor. DOCTOR: To tell you the truth, Hal, I'm not a magician at all. SARAH: I'm not so sure about that.
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "11x04 - The Time Warrior - part 4"}
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INVASION OF THE DINOSAURS BY: MALCOLM HULKE PART ONE 12 January, 1974 5:30pm - 5:55pm 1: EXT. ALBERT EMBANKMENT (London: Bird song is the only sound that is heard along the pavement that runs down from St. Thomas's Hospital. In front of the Houses of Parliament, the Thames is devoid of moving river traffic.) 2: EXT. WESTMINSTER BRIDGE (Slightly downstream, nothing crosses the Thames either. Westminster Bridge - normally a vital artery in the city - is utterly vacant of vehicles.) 3: EXT. WHITEHALL (The hub of Government is silent, still and deserted. No civil servants come out of the Foreign and Commonwealth office and pass by the Cenotaph.) 4: EXT. TRAFALGAR SQUARE (In Trafalgar Square, not a pedestrian or vehicle is seen to move. The fountains are switched off. ) 5: EXT. MARGARET STREET (Margaret Street, running parallel and to the north of Oxford Street is as quiet as the grave.) 6: EXT. HAYMARKET (Haymarket, on the cusp of theatreland and governmental London is bereft of the normal bustle of shoppers and tourists that are usually to be seen. A lone pigeon walks across the road, for once at no danger at all from the crush of vehicles.) 7: EXT. BILLINGSGATE MARKET (The old Billingsgate Market off Lower Thames Street betrays its decay more than usual in this deserted silence, broken only when a dog barks.) 8: EXT. LONG LANE (What should be another hive of activity - Smithfield Market - is equally deserted.) 9: EXT. COVENT GARDEN (In the very centre of London, Covent Garden shows no sign of human habitation.) 10: EXT. REGENT'S PARK OUTER CIRCLE (Residential London, starting near Regent's Park, also has none of the movement associated with one of the largest and greatest cities on Earth.) 11: EXT. RESIDENTIAL STREET (At last, life. A slightly emaciated dog laps something up from the well of a car, its door left open as if hurriedly abandoned. It moves off past a row of houses that are partially decayed...and partially crushed in.) 12: EXT. ANOTHER RESIDENTIAL STREET (A leather satchel full of coins lies untouched on the pavement. Near to it are several broken milk bottles and the milkfloat itself abandoned on the kerb.) 13: EXT. PARK (Scattered on the ground of a leafy public park are the remains of children's toys, but there are no children. Then the silence is broken by the materialisation of the TARDIS. The door opens and SARAH steps cautiously out. She looks round as the DOCTOR follows, locking the door shut behind him. SARAH wears the same clothes that she wore when she stowed aboard the TARDIS at the research centre. The DOCTOR has changed into a dark blue smoking jacket and wears a tweed cloth cloak.) SARAH: Seems to be alright. DOCTOR: Well, I told you I'd get you back home safely, didn't I? SARAH: We set off from the research centre. DOCTOR: Well, there's no point in going back there. No, I set course for UNIT HQ. SARAH: Well, this isn't UNIT HQ. DOCTOR: Space time co-ordinates were a bit out, that's all. We can't be far away. SARAH: So where are we? DOCTOR: Somewhere in London. SARAH: And when? DOCTOR: Well when we left - give or take a few weeks. SARAH: It's not the nineteenth century or the twenty-first? DOCTOR: My dear Sarah, you are perfectly safe. Now all we've got to do now is go and find a telephone and...ring the Brigadier. (They start to set off but there is the sound of a crashing tree from not too far away.) SARAH: (Nervously.) What was that? (The DOCTOR listens.) DOCTOR: Well, the parks department's cutting down some trees. Come on. (They move off, failing to notice two abandoned deck chairs on the grass some way behind the TARDIS. One lies on its side...as if its last occupant was in no hurry to remain.) 14: EXT. ROAD (The DOCTOR is inside the telephone trying to phone the BRIGADIER. SARAH stands outside looking around whilst she waits for him. The DOCTOR repeatedly taps the phone and then comes out of the familiar red cubicle.) DOCTOR: No, it doesn't work. SARAH: Probably been vandalised. DOCTOR: That's a very unfair word, you know. Because actually the Vandals were quite decent chaps. (SARAH grins.) DOCTOR: Come on, let's see if we can go and find a taxi. SARAH: Some hope. (Points.) Well, there's a bus stop. DOCTOR: Yes. (They walk down the deserted road towards it.) 15: EXT. INDUSTRIAL SITE (A man, wearing a flat cap and carrying a bag appears at the top of a flight of metal stairs. He looks round cautiously and then makes his way down the steps. Beyond some pipes and girders, he sees a jeep with four soldiers in it turn and corner. He ducks down on the stairwell. After the jeep has moved off, the man gets up, leans over the edge of the stairwell to make sure the jeep has truly gone and then runs down the remaining steps to a waiting car. He gets in and closes the doors. He starts the engine and drives off.) 16: EXT. ROAD (Waiting patiently for a bus to turn up, the DOCTOR plays with the chain on which the TARDIS key hangs.) SARAH: There's no bus. DOCTOR: There's no anything. No, nothing's moving. No bicycles, no pedestrians, no cars - nothing. SARAH: Why? DOCTOR: Well, perhaps it's Sunday. Great Britain always closes on Sundays. Come on, I think we'd better walk. (They start to cross the road but hear and then see and see the car from the industrial site rushing towards them. The DOCTOR signals to the driver to stop but the car drives head on at them. The DOCTOR pushes SARAH out of the way and the car speeds off.) SARAH: Charming! DOCTOR: Well, perhaps he doesn't like hitch-hikers. (They move on.) 17: EXT. SHOPS (The car drives up and parks by a row of small shops. The road is covered with litter and all the shops are shut up. The man, PHILLIPS, looks round carefully from his driver's seat. He has spotted a jeweller's shop in a small arcade off the road. He checks round once more, gets out and takes a large holdall off the passenger seat. He runs into the jewellers. A moment later, the DOCTOR and SARAH walk up the road following where the car went. They reach a corner and the DOCTOR holds SARAH back while he looks round. They move on up to the open car and check quickly inside. The DOCTOR looks round for any sign of the driver and spots the open jeweller's shop. He goes towards it and SARAH follows.) 18: INT. JEWELLER'S SHOP (Inside a shop packed with clocks, plates and figurines, PHILLIPS is greedily examining a pile of expensive bracelets. He hears sounds from outside and quickly puts the jewellery in his bag and runs into the back of the shop, taking something with him. The DOCTOR and SARAH enter.) DOCTOR: Anybody here? (SARAH spots PHILLIPS' holdall.) SARAH: Look! (She starts towards it but PHILLIPS comes out from the back of the shop, pointing a sawn-off g*n at them.) PHILLIPS: I got here first! Turn round! Hands against that wall! DOCTOR: Do as he says, Sarah. (The DOCTOR turns to obey but a plucky SARAH doesn't move.) DOCTOR: Sarah, do as he says! (He pulls her with him and they stand with their hands against the frosted glass panels of the back of the window display. PHILLIPS starts to collect his holdall.) DOCTOR: Look, I realise that you're very busy, but would you mind telling me what's going on around here? (PHILLIPS, holdall in hand, starts to edge out of the shop, keeping the g*n on them all the time.) PHILLIPS: You find your own places. There's plenty to choose from. I got here first. (PHILLIPS dashes out and SARAH makes to follow him.) DOCTOR: Sarah - no! He's liable to sh**t you out of pure terror. (They hear the car starting up and driving away.) SARAH: I'll call the police. (As the DOCTOR looks outside from the doorway, she picks up a telephone and dials 999. It rings but there is no answer.) SARAH: They're not answering! (There is a screech of tyres and a roar from outside. The DOCTOR and SARAH look at each other and run to the door.) 19: EXT. ROAD (The man's car is totally smashed in, as though it had h*t a large and heavier obstruction but there is no such thing in sight. PHILLIPS lies d*ad on the ground just outside the driver's door. Blood covers the right-hand side of his face and his loot spills from his holdall next to him. Sickened by the sight, SARAH looks away. The DOCTOR looks saddened.) 20: INT. SCHOOL CLASSROOM (A radio operator - PRIVATE OGDEN - sits by a set listening to a message and writing it down.) PRIVATE OGDEN: (Into radio.) Right, okay, got it. (He tears the paper off the pad and turns to someone behind him.) PRIVATE OGDEN: Serg? (He hands a piece of paper to SERGEANT BENTON who is sitting at a table behind him.) PRIVATE OGDEN: Another sighting. (Next to BENTON is another soldier who is using a typewriter. BENTON gets up and walks over to where a map of London covered with coloured pins has been put up on a blackboard easel. The room they are in is a schoolroom in a London Victorian building. Children's drawings cover the wall. Trestle tables have been set up with phone lines installed, a radio set and the office paraphernalia required for a temporary HQ. The BRIGADIER is talking on a telephone.) SERGEANT BENTON: Thank you, Ogden. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone.) Yes, that's right. Frequency of sightings about the same. (He listens.) There's not much we can do, sir, except block them. (Listens.) No, sir, the Doctor isn't back yet. I'm hoping he'll return very soon. (Having finished adjusting the pins on the map, BENTON puts the slip of paper in front of the BRIGADIER. Another phone rings and CAPTAIN YATES, sat at a desk in front of the BRIGADIER, answers it.) CAPTAIN YATES: (Into phone.) UNIT HQ, Captain Yates? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone.) Yes, right. (He listens.) Yes, alright, sir, I'll keep you informed. Goodbye. CAPTAIN YATES: (Into phone.) Yes, got that. Thank you. (He puts the phone down as the BRIGADIER walks past him with a sheaf of papers in his hand.) CAPTAIN YATES: Sir, five more looters have been picked up in Hyde Park. (YATES holds up the paper with the message but the BRIGADIER doesn't take it.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Ogden? (The PRIVATE runs over.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Get this off to General Finch, will you? PRIVATE OGDEN: Sir. (OGDEN goes back to the radio set and the BRIGADIER starts to examine the newly-adjusted map.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I've asked the regulars for more men. We've got to get more patrols out. CAPTAIN YATES: It's organised gangs now, sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What? CAPTAIN YATES: The looters. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, that's only to be expected. CAPTAIN YATES: We're going to need more detention centres. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Shouts impatiently.) Yes, alright, Yates. Get them set up! The looters are a detail. It's these we've got to worry about. (He points at the pins on the map.) 21: EXT. ROAD (The sign reads: METROPOLITAN POLICE The DOCTOR, carrying the holdall retrieved from PHILLIPS' car, is knocking on the door of the Police Station but there is no answer.) SARAH: There must be somebody somewhere. (The DOCTOR gives up and they stand and listen. They hear the faint sound of a vehicle.) DOCTOR: Listen. SARAH: Over there. (She points to the end of the road and they watch as a Land Rover drives past.) DOCTOR: It's stopping. (The DOCTOR picks up PHILLIPS' bag.) DOCTOR: Come on. (They start running in the direction that the vehicle took.) 22: EXT. GARAGE LOCK-UP (The Land Rover reverses into a garage and a second man pulls the wooden double doors closed behind them. A moment later, the DOCTOR and SARAH walk up to the area and look round for signs of the vehicle. They hear the sound of something metal being dropped in the garage into which the Land Rover reversed and walk up to it. The DOCTOR pulls the door open and walks in.) 23: INT. GARAGE LOCK-UP (SARAH follows. There would seem to be no sign of the two men.) DOCTOR: Hello? (Further into the lock-up, the sound of the DOCTOR'S voice surprises the two men and they drop a pile of furs. One of them gestures and they run into hiding, one further into the back and the other in another direction.) DOCTOR: (OOV.) Hello? (The DOCTOR and SARAH walk round the corner and towards where the furs have been dropped. One of the men comes out from hiding with a wrench making for the DOCTOR but, with a few karate chops, the man is easily disposed off and flung against a wall. While the DOCTOR looks down at him, the second WAREHOUSE LOOTER comes up behind him and hits him on the back of the head with an object. The DOCTOR falls and SARAH tackles him but is saved from serious injury by the sound of rapid g*n f*re outside. This startles the two men and they both run off out of the garage. The DOCTOR starts to recover and SARAH, concerned, runs over to help him.) SARAH: Are you alright? DOCTOR: Not really, no. Help me up, will you? (As they hear the sound of vehicles outside, SARAH helps the DOCTOR to stand up and walk to the front of the garage. The Land Rover is still there.) DOCTOR: Oh, it's an ill wind. At least we've got some transport. Open that door, Sarah, will you? (As the DOCTOR opens the passenger door of the Land Rover, SARAH tries the doors but they refuse to move.) SARAH: They're jammed! (The DOCTOR goes to help her. There is a screeching sound. SARAH gives out a slight scream as she looks up a wooden staircase and sees a large reptilian bird-like creature flying down towards them. It opens its mouth revealing a layer of sharp teeth. SARAH covers her head and the DOCTOR watches stunned as the creature flies over her. It then turns and starts to att*ck both him and SARAH. The DOCTOR tries to smash it away with the holdall.) DOCTOR: Get out! (To SARAH.) Come on! In the van! (They rush into the Land Rover. SARAH watches in horror as the creature flies at them and smashes through the driver's door window. It tries to tear at the DOCTOR'S arm as he tries to start the vehicle up.) DOCTOR: Get out! (He knocks it away from the window and struggles with the ignition. He finally starts the Land Rover up...) 24: EXT. GARAGE LOCK-UP (...and drives straight through the garage doors.) 25: INT. SCHOOL CLASSROOM (The temporary UNIT HQ has a visitor who is in animated discussion with the BRIGADIER. YATES and BENTON swap a look as YATES passes the SERGEANT a message paper.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Sorry, sir, I can't agree to that. GENERAL FINCH: I'm giving you a direct order, Brigadier. (YATES walks past the two men. The visitor is a shortish thin-faced man with a moustache and wearing a GENERAL'S uniform.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: With respect, sir, I cannot and will not allow troops under my command to open f*re upon civilians. GENERAL FINCH: These civilians are looters and central London is under martial law. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What's happening is deplorable, sir, but may I remind you that looters are not our main problem? Shortage of observation patrols is. GENERAL FINCH: The army has been stretched to its limits with the evacuation of eight million people. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: The evacuation is now complete, sir. GENERAL FINCH: For you, perhaps, but not for us. All these wretched people have to be fed, sheltered, cared for... (The BRIGADIER walks over to the board with the coloured pins.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: But the front line's here, sir - in central London. It's more important to find the cause of this crisis than to deal with its effects. GENERAL FINCH: Alright, but what are you doing about it? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Plotting the incidents as they occur and searching London to find their cause. GENERAL FINCH: (Sneering.) Waiting for this mysterious scientific advisor of yours to turn up? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: That's right, sir. GENERAL FINCH: Mmm. I suppose he'll just materialize out of thin air. (The BRIGADIER'S eyes open a little at the accuracy of GENERAL FINCH'S comment.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Very probably. (Not understanding the BRIGADIER'S meaning, the GENERAL looks sharply at him.) GENERAL FINCH: Very well, but while we're waiting for this Doctor of yours, you will obey my orders. (The BRIGADIER sighs.) GENERAL FINCH: You can have your extra patrols, Brigadier, but my instructions to them are that any looter who does not surrender immediately will be sh*t. (FINCH goes.) 26: EXT. WAREHOUSE AREA (A group of soldiers, led by CORPORAL NORTON, stand in the yard of a warehouse area. They carry heavy-duty g*n. The Land Rover drives up with the DOCTOR and SARAH inside. They stop in front of the soldiers, get out and start to head towards them, but...) CORPORAL NORTON: (Shouts.) Halt! Place your hands above your head! (He sh**t several sh*ts into the air showing them that he means business.) CORPORAL NORTON: (Shouts.) That will be your only warning! Raise your hands! (The DOCTOR sighs. They both do as instructed.) DOCTOR: Will you please tell me what's happening? (NORTON and another soldier come forward and gesture with their g*n.) CORPORAL NORTON: Over there by the Land Rover. (Their hands still raised, the DOCTOR and SARAH walk towards their vehicle.) CORPORAL NORTON: Turn round, lean forward, hands against the side. DOCTOR: Look, will you please tell me what's going on here? CORPORAL NORTON: (Shouts.) Turn round! (The two carry out the order.) CORPORAL NORTON: (To the two soldiers.) Search their vehicle. (One soldier runs to the back of the Land Rover and another to the drivers' seat while CORPORAL NORTON runs his hands up and down the prisoners searching for w*apon. The soldiers return, one with PHILLIPS' holdall and the other with a pile of furs from the back.) CORPORAL NORTON: You have had a busy day, haven't you? (The DOCTOR turns and looks at NORTON, taking in his meaning...) 27: INT. DETENTION CENTRE (The DOCTOR and SARAH have been taken to a church hall which serves as a temporary detention centre. Outside can be heard the sound of soldiers being drilled in the yard. SERGEANT DUFFY sits at a desk writing down details on a card of a swaggering young man - LODGE - who stands before him. The DOCTOR and SARAH stand behind, waiting their turn. Soldiers guard them.) SERGEANT DUFFY: (To LODGE.) Right, you were arrested today, found looting in possession of two tape recorders, one radio and a colour television set. You will be held for military trial. Photographs. (A soldier pushes LODGE away.) SERGEANT DUFFY: Next! (The DOCTOR and SARAH step forward, guarded by NORTON.) SERGEANT DUFFY: Names? DOCTOR: Now, if I can have a word with someone in author... SERGEANT DUFFY: Names! SARAH: Sarah Jane Smith. SERGEANT DUFFY: (To the DOCTOR.) Name? DOCTOR: Doctor John Smith. No relation. (DUFFY, having written this down, glances between the young girl and the older man.) SERGEANT DUFFY: (To SARAH.) Age? SARAH: Twenty-three. SERGEANT DUFFY: (To DOCTOR.) Age? DOCTOR: You'd never believe me. (SARAH sniggers. DUFFY looks up at the DOCTOR and then writes on the card.) SERGEANT DUFFY: (To NORTON.) Offence? CORPORAL NORTON: Looting furs, jewels and money. SERGEANT DUFFY: Right, you'll be held for military trial. Over there for photographs. SARAH: But why are the military running everything...? DOCTOR: (Interrupts.) Come on, Sarah. Let's go and have our photos taken, shall we? (They walk over to where LODGE is finishing being processed. A young soldier stands behind a camera. The DOCTOR looks at the equipment.) DOCTOR: Oh, deary me, that's very antiquated equipment, isn't it? (He stands in front of the camera.) DOCTOR: I'll think you'll find that the right is my best side. (He turns and puts on a wide grin for the sh*t. NORTON steps forward with a small blackboard.) CORPORAL NORTON: Shut up and hold that in front of you. DOCTOR: Oh, all right. (The DOCTOR faces the camera with the board. "DETENTION CENTRE: 5" has been painted on the edge of the board and "PRISONER: 177781" scrawled on it in chalk. He smiles as the photograph is taken. Then NORTON turns him sideways and another photo is taken as SARAH watches smiling.) CORPORAL NORTON: (To SARAH) Now you. (Making a mockery of the routine, the DOCTOR bows to SARAH to stand in his place.) SARAH: Thank you! (Taking her cue from the DOCTOR, she stands before the camera with a broad and happy smile. The DOCTOR looks over the soldier photographer's shoulder with a sneering look at the equipment as NORTON passes the slightly amended board to SARAH. The number now reads "177782". She smiles as the front and right profile pictures are taken. Then the DOCTOR steps forward and puts his arm round her.) DOCTOR: Now, what about one of both of us? (To NORTON.) Come and join in! (An impatient NORTON jabs a thumb over his shoulder.) CORPORAL NORTON: Over there. (He escorts them over to where LODGE is sat on the floor in front of the curtained stage of the hall, guarded by a soldier.) CORPORAL NORTON: Down there. (SARAH is about to obey the command but the DOCTOR yanks her to her feet.) SARAH: Hmm? CORPORAL NORTON: On the floor. DOCTOR: No we'd rather stand, if you don't mind? CORPORAL NORTON: Sit down! (SARAH gestures to the DOCTOR to look behind him. He does so and exclaims with pleasure...) DOCTOR: Oh! (There are a pile of fold-up chairs. He takes one, sets it up and gives it to SARAH.) DOCTOR: What a good idea. There we are. (Then he takes one for himself and sits.) DOCTOR: That's better. (NORTON, having had enough of the two, speaks with some impatience to the other soldier.) CORPORAL NORTON: Keep 'em quiet. SOLDIER: Right. (He moves off.) SARAH: (To the DOCTOR.) What do we do now? DOCTOR: Wait for the officer to turn up. Maybe we can get some sense out of him. SARAH: What on earth's going on? What's happening? DOCTOR: I've no idea. (He looks down at LODGE.) DOCTOR: Maybe this gentleman here can enlighten us. (To LODGE.) How do you do, sir? I'm the Doctor. LODGE: (Sneers.) You've got nothin' to be cheerful about. There's no judge and jury now, mate - military law. SARAH: But why? LODGE: Where've you been? Because of the monsters! (The DOCTOR and SARAH look at each other in puzzlement.) 28: EXT. ROAD (A building collapses outwards as something large within starts to push its way out - it is a large roaring Tyrannosaurus Rex. Nearby are some UNIT Soldiers, one of whom is reporting into a radio in their jeep as his colleagues f*re round after round at the dinosaur.) R/T SOLDIER: (Into radio.) It's coming straight for us, sir, and we're trapped. (Within the remains of the building, the Tyrannosaurus rears up.) R/T SOLDIER: (Into radio.) Same as usual. The b*ll*ts won't do any good. We're gonna try and turn it with the grenades. (The dinosaur roars again. A soldier throws a grenade towards it and they all get down on the floor. The grenade explodes directly in front of the reptile. The R/T SOLDIER goes back to the jeep and the radio.) R/T SOLDIER: (Into radio.) It's working, sir. Seems to be moving off. (The Tyrannosaurus lumbers off down the road, knocking down a lamp post as it does so.) 29: INT. SCHOOL CLASSROOM (The message is picked up by PRIVATE OGDEN at the temporary UNIT HQ but the message fades in and out of a strange kind of static.) R/T SOLDIER: (OOV: Over radio.) It's running away now, sir... (The message fades out and in again...) R/T SOLDIER: (OOV: Over radio.) ...in the direction of... (The message totally dissolves. OGDEN switches the set off and turns to the BRIGADIER and BENTON who have been listening.) PRIVATE OGDEN: It's gone again. Happens every time, sir. Whenever we get a sight, the R/T reception's diabolical. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, I'm well aware of that. (He walks off. BENTON follows.) SERGEANT BENTON: Yes, sir, but there must be some connection. Whatever's causing the monsters is causing the interference. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Sarcastically.) The thought had occurred to me, Benton, but since we don't know what's causing either we're not really much the wiser. (A soldier walks in and puts two large envelopes down on the table. The BRIGADIER picks them up and passes one to BENTON.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Latest batch of looters. File them. SERGEANT BENTON: Right, sir. (The BRIGADIER opens the other envelope and reads the memo within.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Hmm. Another message from the government here telling us to make sure that law and order's maintained in the evacuative zone. They seem to have forgotten the main problem. (BENTON, sat on the edge of a trestle table, is looking through the looter's photographs.) SERGEANT BENTON: Yes, well, it's alright for them - stuck safe and sound up in Harrogate. (The soldier at the typewriter is looking over BENTON'S shoulder at the photographs.) SERGEANT BENTON: A scruffy looking bunch we've got here. SOLDIER: You can say that again. (Suddenly BENTON crosses to the BRIGADIER'S desk with the photographs.) SERGEANT BENTON: Hey sir, look! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What? (BENTON passes him one.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Good grief! (It is the two pictures of the DOCTOR grinning amiably. The BRIGADIER reads the caption underneath.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: "Looter charged with stolen furs, jewellery and money"? (BENTON hands the BRIGADIER a second card.) SERGEANT BENTON: And there's one of that journalist girl - Sarah Jane Smith. (The BRIGADIER reads this.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: They're being held at number five reception centre. Ogden, number five reception - get them on the RT will you? (OGDEN tries but only gets the strange static again as the BRIGADIER and BENTON cross to him.) PRIVATE OGDEN: No good, sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Oh right, I'll go there myself. Get my jeep, will you? SERGEANT BENTON: There's a planning conference for General Finch in ten minutes, sir. Well, shall I go? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Thinks.) No, you'd better stay here. Send a dispatch rider and get them brought here as quickly as possible. SERGEANT BENTON: Right, sir. (BENTON moves off to carry out the order as the BRIGADIER continues looking at the photos.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Typical, absolutely typical. (Impatiently.) What is the man playing at?! 30: INT. DETENTION CENTRE (The DOCTOR sits on his fold-up chair, his eyes closed as though asleep. LODGE, sat on the floor at his feet, looks at him strangely. He then looks at the soldier on guard, who is leafing through a magazine and not paying much attention to them. A helicopter is heard flying over the hall. LODGE hisses at SARAH.) SARAH: Mmm? (Seeing that LODGE wants their attention, she nudges the DOCTOR.) SARAH: (Quietly.) Doctor? (The DOCTOR wakes and sees that LODGE wants him.) DOCTOR: Yes? LODGE: (Quietly.) There's only him. We could make a break for it. SARAH: (Quietly.) And get ourselves sh*t? LODGE: (Quietly.) You know what they'll do with us? DOCTOR: (Quietly.) No, do you? LODGE: (Quietly.) Twenty years in some detention camp. (They hear a vehicle drawing up outside.) LODGE: (Quietly.) Look, with a bit of luck we could get out of here. What do you reckon? (The DOCTOR looks at the soldier, considers his options and then smiles down at LODGE.) DOCTOR: (Quietly.) No, thank you very much. (He is about to fall asleep again but hears footsteps. He watches as SERGEANT DUFFY comes back into the hall with a uniformed officer - LIEUTENANT SHEARS. DUFFY shouts down at the three prisoners.) SERGEANT DUFFY: Right, on your feet! (SHEARS crosses to the desk and sits behind it as the three stand. DUFFY stands to the side of the desk and picks up a file of papers.) SERGEANT DUFFY: Prisoners forward. (LODGE swaggers forward smiling, with the DOCTOR and SARAH following.) SERGEANT DUFFY: Prisoner's numbers one-seven-double-seven-eight-o, one-seven-double-seven-eight-one and one-seven-double-seven-eight-two, sir. DOCTOR: We do have names, you know? LIEUTENANT SHEARS: Just these three, Sergeant? SERGEANT DUFFY: Yes, sir. LIEUTENANT SHEARS: Alright, let's get on with it. I have to be back at HQ in ten minutes time. Evidence? (DUFFY consults his file and points at LODGE.) SERGEANT DUFFY: Seven-eight-o, Lodge, sir. Caught in possession of two tape recorders, one radio and a colour television set. LIEUTENANT SHEARS: (To LODGE) Anything to say? LODGE: Well, yes! I, er, found the stuff see. I was going to hand it in. LIEUTENANT SHEARS: You've been found guilty of looting. (SHEARS rubber-stamps a form and signs it.) LIEUTENANT SHEARS: Under the authority vested in me by the Emergency Powers Act, I'm issuing an order that you'll be held in a military detention centre for the duration of the emergency. You'll be handed over to the civil authorities for trial and sentence when time permits. Next! (LODGE is pulled away by the soldier guard and the DOCTOR and SARAH step forward.) SERGEANT DUFFY: Seven-eight-one and seven-eight-two were caught together, sir, in possession of furs, jewels and stolen money. LIEUTENANT SHEARS: Were they now? SERGEANT DUFFY: Yes, sir. LIEUTENANT SHEARS: Anything to say? SARAH: We found those things after someone else had stolen them. LIEUTENANT SHEARS: And you were gonna hand them in? SARAH: Yes. LIEUTENANT SHEARS: Very original. You've been found guilty of looting. DOCTOR: Now just one moment... SERGEANT DUFFY: Keep quiet! LIEUTENANT SHEARS: Well, what is it? DOCTOR: Sir, I am the scientific advisor to UNIT and I demand to be put in immediate touch with Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart. LIEUTENANT SHEARS: I suppose he's an old friend of yours? DOCTOR: Yes, as a matter of fact he is. LIEUTENANT SHEARS: How very interesting. You've been found guilty of looting. (He stamps on their papers and signs them.) LIEUTENANT SHEARS: Under the authority vested in me by the Emergency Powers Act, I'm issuing an order that you'll be held in a military detention centre for the duration of the emergency. You will be handed over to the civil authorities for trial and sentence when time permits. (To DUFFY.) Put them on the next transport for detention centre, will you? SERGEANT DUFFY: Sir. (SHEARS passes him the papers.) LIEUTENANT SHEARS: I must be off. (SHEARS gets up to leave and DUFFY salutes.) SERGEANT DUFFY: Attention! LIEUTENANT SHEARS: Carry on, Sergeant. (The "hearing" over, SHEARS walks out.) SERGEANT DUFFY: Right, back over there. (He points back to the fold-up chairs and the DOCTOR and SARAH go back to their place next to LODGE.) LODGE: See? I told ya! Stuck in a detention camp for months. In prison! SARAH: What are we going to do, Doctor? Nobody will listen to us. (The DOCTOR looks at the soldier on guard who is reading the magazine again.) DOCTOR: (To LODGE, quietly.) Tell me, my friend - what was that idea that you had about escaping? LODGE: (Quietly.) Well, there's three of us - we could jump him. DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Well, I think we can be a bit more original than that, can't we? LODGE: (Quietly.) Oh, so what do we do, then? DOCTOR: (Quietly.) We have a fight. LODGE: Eh? (The DOCTOR jabs a finger at him, raises his voice and speaks in an attempt at a cockney accent.) DOCTOR: You're the nark, aren't ya? It was you wot grassed on us! LODGE: (Shouts.) I never grassed in my life! DOCTOR: Yes you did! Come on! On ya feet! Come on, up! (The two stand.) LODGE: Alright then, you great dressed up twit, you asked for it! (LODGE throws a real punch which the DOCTOR blocks.) DOCTOR: (Whispers.) Steady! (The two exchange a couple of blows and LODGE grabs the DOCTOR round the neck.) SARAH: Guard, stop them! You wanna stop them! (The soldier comes running forward.) SOLDIER: Break it up! Break it up! (He forces them apart with his g*n. The DOCTOR clamps the soldier on the neck with a nerve pinch and he slumps to the ground as LODGE takes the g*n.) LODGE: (Puzzled.) What did you do? DOCTOR: Never mind that now. Come on, let's get out of here. (LODGE holds the g*n up at them.) LODGE: Ah no - Not you. You go that way. SARAH: But...we'll run straight into the soldiers! LODGE: Yeah, an' while they're busy with you, I'll get away. DOCTOR: Oh, so much for honour amongst thieves. (With a cry, he kicks LODGE using his Venusian aikido. The g*n flies out of the looter's hand and the DOCTOR throws him onto the stage where he falls unconscious.) DOCTOR: Come on, quick! Out of here! Come on! (They run out of the back door.) 31: EXT. DETENTION CENTRE (They run down a pathway between the back of the building and a fence. Reaching the end of the path, they see an empty army Land Rover on the road. They get inside the vehicle and the DOCTOR searches around the dashboard.) SARAH: What are you looking for? DOCTOR: A piece of wire to jump the ignition. I'll try in the back. (He climbs out of the Land Rover, but CORPORAL NORTON, his g*n raised, and another soldier are stood there.) CORPORAL NORTON: (Smiles.) Ready for the detention centre? (The DOCTOR sighs, smiles and folds his arms.) 32: EXT. SUBURBAN ROAD (The Land Rover turns a corner and drives down a suburban road.) 33: INT. LAND ROVER (The DOCTOR and SARAH are handcuffed to each other in the back.) SARAH: Honestly, Doctor! DOCTOR: And how was I to know it was detention centre transport? (SARAH laughs.) SARAH: Oh well, I can see us being locked up for months - sewing mail bags probably. I mean, let's face it - nobody's listened to us so far. (The vehicle suddenly stops, throwing the two slightly. There is a loud roaring sound. The two look at each other and move to the back from where they can peer through the tarpaulin cover.) 34: EXT. ROAD (They look in shock as they see a roaring Tyrannosaurus rearing up above the vehicle.)
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INVASION OF THE DINOSAURS BY: MALCOLM HULKE PART TWO Original Air Date: 19 January, 1974 5:30pm - 5:55pm 1: INT. LAND ROVER DOCTOR: And how was I to know it was detention centre transport? (SARAH laughs.) SARAH: Oh well, I can see us being locked up for months - sewing mail bags probably. I mean, let's face it - nobody's listened to us so far. (The vehicle suddenly stops, throwing the two slightly. There is a loud roaring sound. The two look at each other and move to the back from where they can peer through the tarpaulin cover.) 2: EXT. ROAD (They look in shock as they see a roaring Tyrannosaurus rearing up above the vehicle. The two soldiers jump out of the Land Rover and start to f*re at the dinosaur. The b*ll*ts h*t the reptile but they seem to have no effect. A few yards in front of the soldiers is an abandoned metal dust handcart. They run and take cover behind the cart and continue f*ring. Back at the Land Rover, the DOCTOR lets down the back hatch and they get out and run off. The soldiers, busy f*ring at the Tyrannosaurus don't notice their escape. One of the soldiers indicates to the other to take cover which he does. He then throws a grenade at the reptile. It explodes directly in front of it.) 3: INT. GARAGE (The DOCTOR and SARAH run into a garage and slam the door shut behind them. Within the darkened interior they rest to get their breath back as they hear the sh*ts from the soldiers outside as they resume f*ring.) SARAH: (Gasps.) That thing - what was it? DOCTOR: A Tyrannosaurus Rex - the largest and fiercest predator of all time. (The DOCTOR looks out of the window.) SARAH: But...but those things died out millions of years ago? DOCTOR: Yeah, sixty-five million years ago, to be precise. (He looks round and spots a workbench within the tool filled room. Still handcuffed to SARAH, he half-pulls her to the bench...) SARAH: What...? (..and searches over it for something with which to free themselves from the handcuffs. They fail to notice that someone wearing furs is in the garage with them and watching from the shadows.) 4: EXT. ROAD (Another grenade explodes in front of the Tyrannosaurus and it starts to retreat away back down the road, roaring as it goes. Once it is out of sight, the soldiers rise up from their cover of the dustcart and return to the Land Rover and get in.) 5: INT. LAND ROVER (The soldier in the passenger seat looks through into the back.) FIRST SOLDIER: They've gone! SECOND SOLDIER: Oh no! (The First Soldier clambers out to give chase.) 6: INT. GARAGE (The DOCTOR clumsily picks the lock of the handcuff with a tool. It slips.) SARAH: Ow! DOCTOR: Sorry. (He succeeds and frees SARAH'S wrist which she shakes.) SARAH: Ooh! DOCTOR: There we are. (He throws the tool down.) DOCTOR: Right, now let's review the situation. A prehistoric monster's turned up in central London. (A mini is parked in the garage. SARAH goes over to try the doors...) SARAH: Well, how...how do you know it's only central London? (...but it is locked.) DOCTOR: Cos those soldiers were talking about the central zone, weren't they? SARAH: But where did that monster come from? DOCTOR: Ah, that's a very good question, Sarah. (SARAH fails to see that the figure dressed in furs and rags is still watching them.) SARAH: Suppose...suppose there was an egg, buried in the ground somewhere, and somehow or other it hatched out? DOCTOR: What - producing a sweet little baby monster? SARAH: Yes. (Thinks.) Ah...no. Now, how would it, er, grow to that size without anyone noticing it? DOCTOR: Perhaps somebody kept it as a pet and turned it out when it got too big to feed?! (SARAH sneers at his sarcasm.) SARAH: Oh! DOCTOR: Anyway, aren't you forgetting that Pterodactyl that att*cked us in the warehouse? SARAH: I suppose you've got the explanation then? DOCTOR: Yes, as a matter of fact, I think I have. (The figure in the shadows makes a sudden rush for the door. The DOCTOR steps towards him.) DOCTOR: Hello, who are you? (The figure holds up a hand for protection and scream at the DOCTOR. He wears cloth leggings and a fur and leather jerkin. He has long unkempt black hair and a beard.) PEASANT: Back! Back, accursed wizard! DOCTOR: Wizard? I'm no wizard, I assure you. You've got no need to be frightened of me. (He takes another step forward and the man holds up a Kn*fe.) SARAH: Doctor! Be careful. (She puts out a hand. The DOCTOR stops and looks at the frightened man.) DOCTOR: How did you get here? PEASANT: The witch - she's cast a spell on me. I'll tell the priest and have her b*rned! DOCTOR: Yes, yes, of course. Look, do you know what year it is? SARAH: What's the name of the King? PEASANT: Well, Richard, of course. But he's in the Holy Land. John rules now. (The DOCTOR and SARAH look at each other.) PEASANT: Look, take the curse off me, wizard? Send me home? DOCTOR: I only wish I could. (The PEASANT'S pleading voice turns into a thr*at tone.) PEASANT: Send me home. Send me home or you die! DOCTOR: I'm afraid I don't have that power. (The PEASANT roars and rushes at the DOCTOR. He grabs his Kn*fe arm and the two men start to struggle. SARAH runs behind the man, grabbing him round the neck and pulling him off the DOCTOR. Suddenly, a high-pitched whine is heard. A reddish ray emanates from the PEASANT and SARAH and they both freeze as the man tries to plunge the Kn*fe down. As the seemingly unaffected DOCTOR watches in fascination, time seems to run backwards. SARAH'S run behind the man goes backwards until the PEASANT is once more stood against the garage door and she is watching him. He then fades away and both the reddish rays and the whining sound vanish. SARAH shakes her head and looks round her in astonishment. She sees the DOCTOR is still lying where the struggle took place - on the garage bench and deep in thought.) SARAH: Well...what happened? He...he was going to k*ll you. (The DOCTOR suddenly sits up.) DOCTOR: Fascinating! Absolutely fascinating! That was a time eddy. For a moment there, time went backwards. SARAH: What? (They suddenly hear the sound of an approaching and stopping vehicle. SARAH runs to the garage door and peers out.) SARAH: Soldiers - they're searching! (As they hear the sound of booted footsteps and calls, the DOCTOR starts to look round.) SARAH: They're coming nearer! DOCTOR: Can you bolt that door? SARAH: No! (The DOCTOR listens at the door as footsteps approach. He somewhat roughly pushes SARAH to one side.) DOCTOR: Back! (They both stand either side of the door with their backs pressed up against the wall. The door is thrown open and the DOCTOR raises an arm with a cry to deliver a blow. The arrival though is the BRIGADIER. The DOCTOR lowers his arm, laughing and in embarrassment.) DOCTOR: Bri...Brigadier! (SARAH sighs with relief as the BRIGADIER puts his g*n away.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What do you think you're doing, Doctor? 7: INT. SCHOOL CLASSROOM (The DOCTOR and SARAH have been taken to UNIT'S temporary HQ. BENTON hands out mugs of tea as the BRIGADIER starts to explain the situation with a jibe...) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: It all started just after you, Doctor, and as we later discovered, Miss Smith, went off on your last little jaunt. SARAH: We were helping you, and if you knew what we'd been through...! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, some other time, Miss Smith, if you don't mind? (SARAH pulls a face as the DOCTOR puts four spoonfuls of sugar into his tea.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: A variety of prehistoric reptiles began to appear in the central London area. There was, as you can imagine, considerable panic and some loss of life. DOCTOR: How many of these things have been seen up to now? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, the pins the sighting... (BENTON tactlessly interrupts as he explains the map.) SERGEANT BENTON: It's a colour code, Doctor. We're using red pins for Tyrannosaurus, blue for Triceratops, green for the Stegosaurus and pink for your actual Pterodactyl. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Acidly.) Thank you, Benton. We soon realised that these creatures only appeared in central London. We therefore evacuated the entire area and set up this temporary HQ, which as you can see from the map, is on the periphery of the zone. SARAH: You've evacuated everybody? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Eight million people. I'm happy to say the evacuation was carried out without a hitch. Course, the criminal element has been taking advantage of the situation. SARAH: Looters, you mean - like those people we met? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: There's been quite a bit of that, I'm afraid. But we're keeping them under control. (The DOCTOR taps the side of his mug with the spoon and throws it down. He speaks with some sarcasm.) DOCTOR: Well, that's absolutely marvellous, Brigadier. Now what're you doing about the real problem? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, as soon as these creatures appear, we make sure that they're contained within the evacuated zone, and don't wander off into populated areas. DOCTOR: Well having contained them, what do you do then? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Ah, well that's where you come in, Doctor. So far we've absolutely no idea where they're coming from...or come to that, where they go. SARAH: Where they go? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, that's one of the few good things about the entire situation. According to my patrols, they seem to...vanish - just disappear. No one sees 'em come, no one sees 'em go. SARAH: But things that size, w...where could they go? DOCTOR: Well, that's pretty obvious, isn't it, Sarah? SARAH: Mmm? DOCTOR: Back where they came from - into the past. (The door opens and GENERAL FINCH and CAPTAIN YATES walk in. The soldiers stand to attention.) GENERAL FINCH: Alright, Brigadier, you can have your extra patrols. (FINCH waves OGDEN back down to his seat at the radio.) GENERAL FINCH: But I warn you, I shall expect results. (The DOCTOR walks round the table and, completely ignoring FINCH, shakes YATES' hand.) DOCTOR: Mike, my dear fellow, how are you? CAPTAIN YATES: (Smiles.) Doctor... DOCTOR: Good to see you again. GENERAL FINCH: (To YATES, puzzled.) Who's this? (The BRIGADIER steps forward.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Er, sir, this is the Doctor - our scientific advisor. GENERAL FINCH: (Coldly.) Ohh...we've been waiting for you, you know? May I ask where you've been? DOCTOR: Certainly. (He walks away without another word. There is a silence.) GENERAL FINCH: Well? DOCTOR: You can ask but I don't guarantee that you'll get a reply. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: D...Doctor, this is General Finch. He's in overall charge of the entire operation. DOCTOR: (Smiles.) Oh, is he indeed? (Trying to be more diplomatic, the DOCTOR returns to FINCH with his hand held out.) DOCTOR: How do you do, General? (FINCH ignores the gesture and glares at the DOCTOR who gives up and sits on the edge of the table.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: The Doctor's already come up with a most interesting theory, sir. He believes these creatures are coming to us from the past. GENERAL FINCH: (Sarcastically.) Hmm! Very interesting - how? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, erm...Doctor? DOCTOR: Oh, somebody or something is operating a temporal displacement on a very vast scale. GENERAL FINCH: Never mind your scientific gobbledygook... DOCTOR: The creatures are being brought from the past into the present, General, staying here for a while and then returning to their own time. GENERAL FINCH: Rubbish! (The DOCTOR'S own tone and manner grow colder.) DOCTOR: I take it then that you have a better theory? GENERAL FINCH: Yes. Some mad scientist fellow has been secretly breeding these things. Now they've all got away. SARAH: Ah, no, General, now I thought that, but if you think about... GENERAL FINCH: (Sharply.) Who's this? SARAH: Oh, Sarah Jane Smith, how do you do? (FINCH cuts her d*ad and turns to YATES.) GENERAL FINCH: Civilians are not allowed in this zone. Have her evacuated immediately. (The DOCTOR crosses to SARAH.) DOCTOR: Er, Miss Smith is presently acting as my assistant, General. (To SARAH.) You were saying, my dear? SARAH: Well, we've just met a man from the past - a peasant from the age of King John. (The GENERAL exclaims scornfully.) SARAH: No, honestly, General - it's true! GENERAL FINCH: I'm not staying here to listen to this rubbish. (He heads for the door but YATES gently intercedes.) CAPTAIN YATES: I think you'll find it is worth listening to the Doctor, sir. He's given us a great deal of help in the past. (FINCH seems to listen to YATES more than he does to the others. He turns back as OGDEN finishes taking a radio message.) PRIVATE OGDEN: (Into radio.) Okay, out. (To BENTON.) Sergeant? Another sighting. (He passes him a slip of paper.) SERGEANT BENTON: Oh, thank you, Ogden. (BENTON heads to the map with the paper.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Where is it, Benton? SERGEANT BENTON: Section five, sir. (He points to the map.) SERGEANT BENTON: Somewhere here. GENERAL FINCH: Send for the a*tillery right away. We shall need field g*n. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Sir. DOCTOR: You'll do no such thing, Brigadier. GENERAL FINCH: (Sharply.) I'll thank you to stop interfering... DOCTOR: (Interrupts.) General... (He stands over the soldier and speaks softly.) DOCTOR: We need to study this creature, not sh**t at it. How much do you think we'll learn from a d*ad dinosaur? (The GENERAL stares at him.) DOCTOR: Come on, Brigadier. I want you to take me down there right away. (He leads the BRIGADIER out. The GENERAL watches them go with contempt in his eyes.) 8: EXT. INDUSTRIAL UNIT (A UNIT CORPORAL and two soldiers stand nervously next to their jeep looking at an industrial building. The BRIGADIER'S jeep draws up and the CORPORAL moves to greet his superior officer as he and the DOCTOR get out.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Alright, where is it? UNIT CORPORAL: It's behind that building, sir. I've put an observer up on the roof keeping track of it. (They look up to see a fourth soldier on the roof who suddenly points downwards, signalling to a point obscured by the building and then indicating with a wave of his hand that the people on the ground should move back. The DOCTOR does the opposite.) UNIT CORPORAL: (To the BRIGADIER.) It's coming this way, sir! (The BRIGADIER holds the DOCTOR'S arm to stop him advancing any further.) DOCTOR: Good grief! It's a Stegosaurus! (At the corner of the building stands a huge greenish reptile, a double row of diamond-shaped plates sticking upwards out of it spine. It roars gently at the humans but makes no movement towards them.) DOCTOR: (Admiringly.) Splendid specimen. (The CORPORAL raises his g*n but the DOCTOR knocks it back down.) DOCTOR: No, no, don't sh**t! I want to take a good look at it. (The DOCTOR walks towards the reptile.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Be careful, Doctor! DOCTOR: Don't worry, Brigadier, it's a vegetarian. (Nevertheless, the DOCTOR doesn't move too closely to the Stegosaurus. The large reptile and the smaller humanoid stand in contemplation of each other.) 9: INT. SCHOOL CLASSROOM (CAPTAIN YATES drinks from a mug as he chats to SARAH who sits on the table next to him.) CAPTAIN YATES: Well, after all that business in Wales with the giant maggots, I had to have a spot of leave. Suppose it was a reaction really? SARAH: Oof! I'm not surprised. (She gets up and walks over to the window, looking at the deserted streets outside.) CAPTAIN YATES: As soon as I get back, of course, all this business blows up. SARAH: It's weird seeing London like this - all those deserted streets. (CAPTAIN YATES has a faintly dream-like look on his face as he smiles.) CAPTAIN YATES: I rather like it. (BENTON walks past.) SERGEANT BENTON: Excuse me, sir. PRIVATE OGDEN: (Into radio.) Trap two, over. CAPTAIN YATES: (To SARAH.) Have you noticed the air? SARAH: Mmm? CAPTAIN YATES: It's clean - no cars, no people. Do you know yesterday I saw a fox in Piccadilly? SARAH: And nightingales in Berkeley Square? (She laughs, but YATES appears to take the idea seriously, indeed with some passion.) CAPTAIN YATES: It's not impossible. (The smile disappears off SARAH'S face.) SARAH: No...no, I like London the way it was, traffic jams and all. CAPTAIN YATES: (Quickly.) Yes, I expect you're right. (He makes it clear from his attitude that the conversation is finished. SARAH looks at him with some puzzlement.) PRIVATE OGDEN: (Into radio.) Okay, out. (To YATES.) Sir? Message from spotter control, sir. (He carries the message paper over to YATES.) PRIVATE OGDEN: The Doctor and the Brigadier have arrived. (To SARAH.) Oh, and the Doctor now has the monster under close observation, miss. SARAH: (Unimpressed.) Hmm! 10: EXT. INDUSTRIAL UNIT (The DOCTOR finishes his “close observation” and returns to the BRIGADIER and the soldiers.) DOCTOR: Right, we'll need some rope and a strong net. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Amazed.) You intend to capture it? DOCTOR: Yes, of course. I want to observe it under laboratory conditions. (To the CORPORAL.) Have you got any rope? UNIT CORPORAL: We've got some towing rope, sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Amazed.) You're going to tie it up? DOCTOR: That's my intention, yes. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Alright, Corporal, carry on. UNIT CORPORAL: Right, sir. (The CORPORAL moves to the jeep to get the rope.) DOCTOR: That creature has an amiable disposition, Brigadier, and a brain about the size of a walnut. I think we should be able to deal with it, don't you? (The CORPORAL returns with another soldier. They have lengths of rope slung over their shoulders.) UNIT CORPORAL: The rope, sir. (The DOCTOR walks back to the Stegosaurus.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (To the CORPORAL.) Well, of all the lunatic schemes. Alright then, let's give him a hand. (The three soldiers take one pace forward but suddenly the high-pitched whine starts and they freeze into immobility as they are enveloped in the reddish rays. The reptile also stops moving. Once more, only the DOCTOR is unaffected. He turns and watches as the BRIGADIER and the soldiers take one pace backwards and then the reptile fades away. The whine and the rays fade leaving a very puzzled BRIGADIER.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: It's gone! (The DOCTOR moves back to them.) UNIT CORPORAL: It must have gone round the corner, sir. Should we go after it? DOCTOR: (Ruefully.) It's alright, Corporal, don't bother. 11: INT. SCHOOL CLASSROOM (Back at the temporary HQ, BENTON and SARAH watch as the DOCTOR and the BRIGADIER report back to a disbelieving GENERAL FINCH. YATES stands at his shoulder.) GENERAL FINCH: Disappeared? You mean you disappeared when it got too close? DOCTOR: No, sir. GENERAL FINCH: Then what happened? How did you lose it? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I've no idea, sir. One moment we were discussing the possibility of capturing it and the next, it had gone. (The GENERAL tuts and sneers.) GENERAL FINCH: Vanished into thin air, I suppose? DOCTOR: Yes, General Finch. That is precisely what happened. GENERAL FINCH: (To the BRIGADIER.) Did you see this happen? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, not exactly. DOCTOR: The Brigadier and his men couldn't see what happened, sir - they were temporally affected by a time eddy. GENERAL FINCH: A what? DOCTOR: Whenever a creature appears or disappears, the temporal displacement causes a localised distortion in time. Now as far as the people in the immediate vicinity were concerned, time literally runs backwards, so naturally, they'd have no recollection of what had occurred. GENERAL FINCH: (To YATES.) The man's mad! Temporal displacement! Time travel is impossible - we all know that. SARAH: I've travelled through time, General. The Doctor knows what he's talking about. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Sir, suppose we accept the Doctor's theory, for the purposes of discussion? (To the DOCTOR.) What happens next? DOCTOR: Well, we must capture one of the creatures. (He walks over to the map.) GENERAL FINCH: And what good will that do? DOCTOR: Well, I think a study of one of these dinosaurs, General, might lead me to the source. CAPTAIN YATES: It couldn't be a natural phenomenon, could it, Doctor? Something going wrong with time? DOCTOR: Then why are they contained to this one area? These giant reptiles existed all over the planet, Mike. They'd be popping up everywhere. SARAH: Doctor, what about that man we saw in the garage? DOCTOR: Well, I think he was an accident. Whoever's responsible for these apparitions, General, is operating from somewhere in this area. (He taps the map of central London.) CAPTAIN YATES: You're overlooking one thing - this whole zone has been evacuated. DOCTOR: Well, that's where you're wrong, Mike. Someone's there and whoever it is is using vast amounts of power. (The GENERAL stares at the floor, listening intently.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: But all power's been cut off in central London - just minimal emergency supplies. DOCTOR: Then someone, Brigadier, is making their own! 12: INT. CONTROL ROOM (Some distance away, a range of power figures is displayed on a small monitor. A youngish man with blond hair and wearing a white lab coat over a smart suit writes on a clipboard and reports to an older man - PROFESSOR WHITAKER. He has a thin face, thinning black hair, wears glasses, also has a lab coat and is economic with movement and speech. He sits at a central control desk, absorbed in his tasks.) BUTLER: Power output holding steady. PROFESSOR WHITAKER: Good. (The darkened room is filled with electronic equipment, monitors, computers and control panels. The younger man - BUTLER - starts to flick switches on a wall control panel.) BUTLER: The next time transference is due in one hour, Professor. PROFESSOR WHITAKER: It may have to wait. (BUTLER turns in controlled surprise to WHITAKER.) BUTLER: One must maintain the time transference on schedule. The sequence has been carefully calculated. PROFESSOR WHITAKER: (Quietly.) How can I be expected to work on the main project when I have these constant distractions? BUTLER: Well these distractions have emptied London for us. We must keep the authorities off balance. PROFESSOR WHITAKER: Very well, Butler, but it will not be my responsibility if the countdown is delayed. (BUTLER sighs.) 13: INT. SCHOOL SCIENCE LABORATORY (The DOCTOR has set up his own laboratory within one of the school's science rooms. With a small soldering iron, he works on a futuristic-looking w*apon of his design. It has a vague g*n appearance and is filled with electronic circuitry. YATES sits next to him, watching carefully.) CAPTAIN YATES: Do you really think you can knock out a dinosaur with that thing? DOCTOR: Naturally. CAPTAIN YATES: How? DOCTOR: By a simple molecular reaction. (He starts to r*fle through a number of parts on the bench in front of him.) CAPTAIN YATES: I see. DOCTOR: I doubt it. The principle hasn't really been developed on Earth yet. (Not finding what he wants, he moves to another bench with parts laid on top.) CAPTAIN YATES: But what exactly will it do? DOCTOR: Well, temporarily neutralise creatures' brain cells. CAPTAIN YATES: I didn't think these creatures had any brains? DOCTOR: All animals have brains of some sort, Mike. (He returns to his device and carries on working.) CAPTAIN YATES: What'll happen to the dinosaur when you switch this thing on? DOCTOR: It'll faint. CAPTAIN YATES: And what will you do with your monster when you've got it? DOCTOR: Well, surround it with an electrical field and wait for it to disappear. CAPTAIN YATES: And what'll that tell you? DOCTOR: Well, the source of the power that is moving these creatures through time. CAPTAIN YATES: Will you get an accurate fix? DOCTOR: Mmm, pretty accurate - enough for the Brigadier and his merry men to round up the guilty parties anyway. CAPTAIN YATES: Jolly good, Doctor. Well I think I'd better let you get on with it. DOCTOR: Yes, that would be helpful. (YATES is about to leave but SARAH bursts in.) SARAH: Doctor? Listen, Doctor, that General Finch is being impossible. (The journalist in her comes out as she immediately notices the DOCTOR'S device.) SARAH: What are you making? DOCTOR: (Frustrated.) Oh no! Look, ask Captain Yates, there's a good girl. CAPTAIN YATES: Can I help you, Miss Smith? SARAH: Er, yes, a...that wretched General of yours - he's trying to have me evacuated. CAPTAIN YATES: (Smiles.) You're a ci...civilian. You've got no official status. SARAH: Oh, nonsense! I'm the Doctor's assistant, aren't I, Doctor? DOCTOR: (Not listening.) Mmm? Yes, yes, anything you like. SARAH: (To YATES.) There you are. CAPTAIN YATES: Tell you what - I'll fix you up with a temporary pass, but just stay out of sight of General Finch. 'Scuse me. SARAH: Yes, thank you. (He leaves. SARAH returns to her investigation of the DOCTOR'S work.) SARAH: What did you say that thing is? DOCTOR: I didn't. SARAH: Can I help at all? DOCTOR: No. SARAH: Oh, come on, Doctor. I'm supposed to be your assistant. There must be something I can do. DOCTOR: Well, there is. SARAH: What? (He looks up from his work.) DOCTOR: Go away. SARAH: Oh. Alright. I'll go and chat up that nice Captain Yates. DOCTOR: Yeah, I'm sure he'll enjoy that. (She laughs and walks out of the door.) SARAH: I'll leave you in peace then! (The DOCTOR hurriedly shuts and locks the door she has just left by. However the room has two doors and the BRIGADIER chooses that moment to come in by the other.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Ah, there you are, Doctor - now what are you up to? (The DOCTOR, driven to distraction, clamps his hands to his head and looks as though he is about to scream.) DOCTOR: Oh no! 14: INT. CONTROL ROOM (PROFESSOR WHITAKER looks at a small computer print-out and moves over to a control panel. BUTLER walks in, smiles and leans on a control unit.) BUTLER: Our friend from UNIT is here. PROFESSOR WHITAKER: (Surprised.) What? He has strict instructions never to come here. BUTLER: He says there's some kind of an emergency, he must see you. (WHITAKER considers.) PROFESSOR WHITAKER: Alright, bring him in. (BUTLER raises an eyebrow and leaves to escort their visitor in. WHITAKER sighs. A moment later, BUTLER returns.) PROFESSOR WHITAKER: What is it? (The new arrival is CAPTAIN YATES!) CAPTAIN YATES: I'm sorry, Professor, but I thought I'd better warn you... 15: INT. SCHOOL SCIENCE LABORATORY (The DOCTOR also has a visitor who is escorted into the science room by the BRIGADIER. The new arrival is a distinguished looking man wearing a suit and overcoat and carrying an umbrella.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: This is the Doctor, sir, our scientific advisor. Doctor, this is the Right Honourable Charles Grover, Minister with special powers. (The DOCTOR, jeweller's eyeglass fitted, remains absorbed in his task. GROVER does not seem insulted by the behaviour.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: I do apologise for the interruption, Doctor. I realise how busy you are. DOCTOR: (Not looking up.) Well, I'm glad somebody does. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: I understand you may be able to help us find a solution to this crisis? DOCTOR: (Not looking up.) Yes, I sincerely hope so. (Suddenly the DOCTOR looks up at the man, takes out the eyeglass and starts to take an interest.) DOCTOR: Aren't you the chap who started the “Save planet Earth” society? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: I had something to do with it. DOCTOR: You also wrote that book - “Last chance for man”, didn't you? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Yes, that's right. (The DOCTOR puts down his tools, smiles and walks over to shake GROVER'S hand.) DOCTOR: Oh, my dear Grover, I'm delighted to meet you. This planet needs people like you. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, of course. You two have a great deal in common. The Doctor's very keen on this anti-pollution business. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: And so should you be, Brigadier. It affects all our lives. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Oh, quite, sir, quite. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Now I mustn't keep you, Doctor, I just wanted to make your acquaintance. DOCTOR: Oh, nonsense, nonsense, no need to rush away. Come over here, let me explain to you what I'm doing. (The BRIGADIER retains his temper at this sudden show of hypocritical courtesy as GROVER is led over to the bench.) DOCTOR: Now then, in the first place... 16: INT. CONTROL ROOM (YATES has told WHITAKER of the DOCTOR'S intentions...) PROFESSOR WHITAKER: That's absolute nonsense. There's no way he can find us. CAPTAIN YATES: If the Doctor says he can do it, I believe him. He's probably the greatest scientist on this planet. PROFESSOR WHITAKER: That is a matter of opinion. BUTLER: (To WHITAKER.) You realise what'll happen if he's right? It'll be the end of Operation Golden Age - everything we've planned will be ruined. (WHITAKER thinks.) PROFESSOR WHITAKER: (To YATES.) Very well, if he's such a danger to us, you will have to deal with him. CAPTAIN YATES: How? PROFESSOR WHITAKER: Well, you're the soldier. CAPTAIN YATES: I'll do nothing to harm the Doctor, nor will I allow him to be harmed. If we descend to that sort of thing, we're no better than the society we intend to replace. PROFESSOR WHITAKER: Captain Yates, I respect your principles but if the Doctor succeeds in capturing a dinosaur then the whole project may be jeopardised. BUTLER: But what can we do? (WHITAKER looks up at YATES.) PROFESSOR WHITAKER: You must sabotage the Doctor's stun g*n. (YATES' face betrays his shock.) 17: INT. SCHOOL SCIENCE LABORATORY (GROVER looks over the finished device. Blue and silver in colour, it has two barrels at the front, a central round vertical unit from which a power lead emerges and a standard shoulder rest at the rear.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Mmm hmm. Well, I admire your courage, Doctor. I only hope it works. (The DOCTOR smiles and nods.) DOCTOR: I think it will. (He takes the w*apon from GROVER and takes it over to the BRIGADIER who sits waiting at a nearby desk.) DOCTOR: All we need now is a dinosaur to try it out on. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: We're doing our best to get you one, Doctor. All my spotter patrols are on maximum alert. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Tell me, Doctor, have you any theories as to why all this is happening? DOCTOR: Yes. I believe these dinosaurs are being used purely as a terror w*apon in order to clear central London. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: But why? DOCTOR: Well, presumably, so that some vast project can be carried out - something for which people will get in the way. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Yes, but why London? Who not the Yorkshire moors or the highlands of Scotland? DOCTOR: Why indeed? Well, there must be some overriding reason. There must be something that they need that's only available to them here. (BENTON walks in and up to the BRIGADIER.) SERGEANT BENTON: Sir, they've spotted one. Section twelve - power station. The Chief Engineer said if we don't remove it quickly, he'll have to switch off. (The BRIGADIER leaves the room.) DOCTOR: Any idea what kind it is? SERGEANT BENTON: Er, Pato-something? DOCTOR: (To GROVER.) Apatosaurus, commonly known as the Brontosaurus - large, placid and stupid. That's exactly what we need. (The DOCTOR collects his w*apon as the BRIGADIER pokes his head round the door.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Transport standing by, Doctor. DOCTOR: Will you excuse us, Minister? I'll let you know as soon as we've captured it. Come on, Brigadier. (They walk out leaving GROVER alone.) 18: INT. CONTROL ROOM (WHITAKER hands a small metallic disc to YATES.) PROFESSOR WHITAKER: There you are, Captain Yates. Attach this device to the Doctor's stun g*n and it will be rendered completely ineffective. 19: EXT. POWER SUB-STATION (At a small power sub-station, a large Brontosaurus stands somewhat confused between two buildings. UNIT troops have the creature under observation as a jeep with CAPTAIN YATES draws up. The UNIT CORPORAL moves forward to meet him.) CAPTAIN YATES: Where is it? UNIT CORPORAL: It's round that corner, sir. (As YATES gets out of the vehicle, the BRIGADIER drives the DOCTOR up in another jeep. YATES moves over to them and points at the corner of the building.) CAPTAIN YATES: It's round there. DOCTOR: Jolly good. Right, let's go and take a look at it. (He gets out and walks towards the place indicated. The waiting troops stand to attention and both the DOCTOR and the BRIGADIER salute as they pass. YATES eyes the g*n in the back of the jeep.) UNIT CORPORAL: Right, Collins, put this back there. SOLDIER: Right, Corporal. (The Soldier reverses YATES' jeep back out of the way as the CAPTAIN joins the BRIGADIER and the DOCTOR at the corner where they stand observing the dinosaur.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: You sure this is the kind you want, Doctor? It's rather large. DOCTOR: The bigger, the better, Brigadier. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Really, why is that? DOCTOR: Well, the larger the mass, the greater the temporal displacement for my instruments to measure. CAPTAIN YATES: Doctor, suppose this gadget of yours doesn't work? DOCTOR: Then I shall simply turn round and come back - feeling rather foolish. CAPTAIN YATES: Isn't that thing dangerous? DOCTOR: Not unless it's roused, Captain Yates. Mind you I wouldn't like to try it on a Tyrannosaurus Rex. (The BRIGADIER and the DOCTOR move away and the BRIGADIER barks out an order to the soldiers.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, bring the Doctor's, erm...that thing in my jeep. Bring it over here. (Before the CORPORAL can move...) CAPTAIN YATES: It's alright, Corporal. I'll get it. UNIT CORPORAL: Sir. (YATES runs over to the jeep. He checks that he is not being watched and then attaches the metal disc under the barrels of the g*n.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: We'll be ready with covering f*re. DOCTOR: That won't be necessary. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Just in case, Doctor. (To the soldiers.) Stand by! (YATES returns with the stun g*n and its power pack as the soldiers get into position. They set up a small grenade launcher and the BRIGADIER stands with them as the DOCTOR walks down by the side of the sub-station behind a small set of railings with his g*n ready. Not noticing the disc, the DOCTOR crouches down, makes a small adjustment to a control on the g*n and aims at the Brontosaurus. He fires but there is absolutely no reaction. He looks over the g*n in puzzlement and pushes the power lead in further. He then checks his power pack as the BRIGADIER watches in impatience and YATES with some trepidation. As the DOCTOR aims again, the whining sound starts up. The Brontosaurus freezes and the red rays emanate from it. It fades away. The DOCTOR sighs with frustration but suddenly spins round as he hears a loud roar behind him. A Tyrannosaurus has been materialised and looms over the DOCTOR. He swiftly aims his g*n at it and tries f*ring again and again but with no result.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: f*re! (The troops start to launch the grenades at the new arrival as it swoops down towards the DOCTOR...)
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INVASION OF THE DINOSAURS BY: MALCOLM HULKE PART THREE Original Air Date: 25 January, 1974 5:30pm - 5:55pm 1: EXT. POWER SUB-STATION (The DOCTOR suddenly spins round as he hears a loud roar behind him. A Tyrannosaurus has been materialised and looms over the DOCTOR. He swiftly aims his g*n at it and tries f*ring again and again but with no result.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: f*re! (The troops start to launch the grenades at the new arrival as it swoops down towards the DOCTOR. The DOCTOR fires again but once more without effect. He tries to make a run for it, ducking under the railings but an expl*si*n from a grenade is too close and it knocks him forward and slightly stuns him. He staggers forward and falls at a safe distance from any more grenades.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: f*re! (YATES draws his p*stol and runs forward.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (To the soldiers.) ... Captain Yates! (The DOCTOR watches dazed as YATES, immediately under the Tyrannosaurus reaches out for the stun g*n. He takes the disc off the front and aims upwards at the reptile. He fires and the g*n buzzes. The Tyrannosaurus' eyes start to flicker as the sh*t takes effect. YATES gets up and runs over to the DOCTOR. They watch as the dinosaur collapses in an unconscious heap on the ground.) 2: INT. CONTROL ROOM (Some time later, a furious YATES has returned to the control room and taps the returned disc in front of an unfazed WHITAKER.) CAPTAIN YATES: You tried to m*rder him! You deliberately materialised a savage monster knowing it would att*ck him! BUTLER: An unavoidable mistake. CAPTAIN YATES: Oh, that was no mistake. I warned you I wouldn't have the Doctor harmed. BUTLER: Well, you sabotaged the stun g*n. CAPTAIN YATES: I agreed to delay his experiments - not to k*ll him! BUTLER: Captain Yates, may I remind you - you were the one who said he was such a danger to us. (YATES turns to a brooding WHITAKER and pleads.) CAPTAIN YATES: Let me tell him everything, explain to him what we're trying to do? He'll be sympathetic. He might even help us. PROFESSOR WHITAKER: No, that's out of the question. BUTLER: If he doesn't agree with us, what happens then? CAPTAIN YATES: There's no need to k*ll him. PROFESSOR WHITAKER: He must be delayed. Now once the temporal energy has dispersed, the creature will return to its own time...and the Doctor's instruments will lead him straight to us. Now what stage has he reached? CAPTAIN YATES: They've taken the creature to a hanger on the fringe of the zone. BUTLER: Then you'd, er, better get over there, Captain Yates. CAPTAIN YATES: To do what? BUTLER: Er, more sabotage, I'm afraid. (Angrily, YATES turns to walk out.) BUTLER: All you have to do is to ensure that the Doctor's instruments don't function. The creature will return to its own time, the Doctor will learn nothing and we shall have the delay we need. CAPTAIN YATES: And the Doctor won't be harmed? PROFESSOR WHITAKER: Of course not. (YATES considers.) CAPTAIN YATES: I'll do what I can. (YATES almost runs out leaving a brooding WHITAKER.) PROFESSOR WHITAKER: I'm not satisfied with that young man's loyalty. He's far too concerned about this precious Doctor of his. 3: INT. AIRCRAFT HANGER (The Tyrannosaurus Rex lies on its side in the hanger, held down by heavy chains. Its massive bulk gently moves in and out as it breathes. Around it, on stands, are a number of sensors being put in place by the DOCTOR. His work finished, he walks into a side office.) 4: INT. AIRCRAFT HANGER OFFICE (Here the BRIGADIER and SARAH wait. Through a set of observation windows, they can look out on the sleeping dinosaur.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: All set up then, Doctor? DOCTOR: Yes, I think so. (He looks out of the window at the Tyrannosaurus.) DOCTOR: Mind you, that creature isn't what I wanted at all. What I really wanted was a Brontosaurus. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What's the difference? DOCTOR: The difference, Brigadier, is that the Brontosaurus is a placid vegetarian, whereas the Tyrannosaurus is the largest and fiercest flesh eater ever known on your planet. SARAH: It will stay asleep, won't it, Doctor? DOCTOR: Yes, for a while. (He sits at a desk on which he has placed the small console of his monitoring equipment.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Don't you worry, Miss Smith, those chains will hold him down. (He sits at another desk at right angles to the DOCTOR'S.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, Doctor, now what do we do? DOCTOR: Oh, we sit back and wait for it to dematerialise. SARAH: Then perhaps I can have your attention? DOCTOR: Carry on, Sarah, I'm all ears. (Nevertheless he continues working.) SARAH: Well I've been checking up into this whole question of time travel... DOCTOR: Well then, you should have come to me. I know all about time travel. SARAH: Ah, I know you know about it, but what I'm interested in, Doctor, is other people who know about it. DOCTOR: Oh, are there any? SARAH: Oh, one or two have dabbled. DOCTOR: Oh, fascinating. The trouble is the Blinovitch limitation effect. If they could overcome that they're problem's ..... SARAH: (Interrupts.) I think someone has. (The DOCTOR looks at her.) DOCTOR: What - on this planet? SARAH: (Tuts.) This is the only one I've been able to check up on, Doctor! DOCTOR: Oh, yes, yes, of course. Er, let's see now, there was this, er, there was this Chinese scientist called Chun Sen - oh, hang about, he hasn't been born yet, has he? (SARAH interrupts quickly again.) SARAH: Quite, but there is a man called Whitaker. Now he's the leading scientist in this field. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Whitaker - that name rings a bell. SARAH: He claimed to have developed a workable theory of time travel. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I remember - he applied for a big government grant. It was refused. DOCTOR: Oh, why? SARAH: Well, Whitaker was always an outsider, always mixed up in quarrels with other scientists. No one believed his theory would work. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, that's right. All the government scientific advisors said the fellow was a crank. Well what about him? SARAH: He's disappeared. (Both men sit up with interest.) DOCTOR: Has he indeed? SARAH: About six months ago, he completely vanished. I checked with my newspaper contacts up north - no trace. DOCTOR: And you think he could be behind all this? SARAH: Well, it's a possibility. He was a brilliant scientist, and he must have been bitterly disappointed when the government refused that grant. DOCTOR: You could be right, Sarah. It's worth checking up on. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, I'll get on to it. Intelligence records may have something on him. DOCTOR: Yeah, I'd like to see the application for that grant - see the man's working papers. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, they must be on file somewhere. (He heads for the door which leads outside the hanger.) DOCTOR: Oh, Brigadier, have your fellows brought the TARDIS back to UNIT HQ for me yet? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, should be there by now. DOCTOR: Could you give me a run down there? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, of course. DOCTOR: Good, thanks, there's one or two things inside I think I might need. (He gets up and picks up his cloak.) SARAH: Oh, what about your little pet out there? DOCTOR: Oh, he'll be alright for a while. (To the BRIGADIER.) Have you placed guards? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: General Finch has lent me a squad. DOCTOR: Good. SARAH: But suppose it dematerialises while you're not here? DOCTOR: Then my instruments will obtain the necessary readings. Coming? SARAH: Yes, yes. (The DOCTOR strides out.) SARAH: Er, Brigadier? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Mmm? SARAH: Can I bring a camera back here with me? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Whatever for? SARAH: Well, for my story. I'm a journalist, remember? You don't think I'm going to miss an opportunity like this? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I am sorry, Miss Smith. This whole affair's under strict security black-out. You can take your photographs when the crisis is passed. (He walks out, once more leaving a frustrated SARAH behind.) SARAH: Oh! When the crisis is passed, there won't be anything to photograph! (With a last look at the Tyrannosaurus she leaves. After a moment, the door opens from the hanger itself and CAPTAIN YATES enters. He moves over to the DOCTOR'S monitoring equipment.) 5: INT. SCHOOL SCIENCE LABORATORY (The DOCTOR has returned to the science laboratory at the school. The TARDIS has been placed in the corner. The BRIGADIER has shown GROVER and FINCH into the room where the DOCTOR and SARAH are. She has discarded her brown jacket and wears a black leather one instead. She is writing her notes for her story.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: The Minister has some information for you, Doctor - about this elusive fellow Whitaker. DOCTOR: Have you, sir? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: I was chairman of the committee that considered his application for a government grant. DOCTOR: So you've seen his working papers? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Oh, yes, not that I understood them, of course, but my scientific colleagues on the committee assured me that they were utter nonsense. DOCTOR: Oh, so you don't think that he could be behind what's been happening here? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Oh, out of the question. I'm afraid the poor fellow's just a harmless crank. SARAH: Oh, that's not what I've heard, Minister. According to my sources he's a brilliant scientist. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: May I ask what are your sources? SARAH: His colleagues at Oxford, the science correspondent of "The Times" and the editor of "Nature". CHARLES GROVER M.P.: He may be brilliant at other fields, Miss Smith, but as far as his time travel theory is concerned, I was assured it's worthless. (He turns to the DOCTOR, leaving a SARAH annoyed at her contribution once more being ignored.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Doctor, I understand that you have set up an experiment which may give us the answer to all this? DOCTOR: Yeah, well, it's a possibility, Minister, but I can't guarantee it. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: I'd be very interested to hear about it. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, why don't we go to my office, sir? It'll be more comfortable there. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Thank you very much. DOCTOR: That's a good idea. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: General Finch? GENERAL FINCH: I must be getting back to HQ, sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: This way, sir. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Thank you. (The BRIGADIER leads the DOCTOR and GROVER out, leaving SARAH alone with FINCH. He picks up his cap and gloves to leave.) SARAH: Isn't it marvellous! The one real clue to this whole business and they totally ignore it. (FINCH puts his cap and gloves down. He seems to unbend a little towards SARAH.) GENERAL FINCH: I'm interested, Miss Smith. Where is this fellow, Whitaker? SARAH: Well, that's just it, you see. No one knows. GENERAL FINCH: No one? SARAH: He vanished about six months ago. Just upped and left home. GENERAL FINCH: Well, people do disappear, change their names, start a new life for themselves... SARAH: No, it's too big a coincidence. I'm not going to let go of this. GENERAL FINCH: Well, what can you do? SARAH: Keep looking until I find him. I'll make them believe me! (FINCH smiles.) SARAH: The Brigadier's being completely uncooperative. He wouldn't even let me get some photographs of that monster they've got chained down. GENERAL FINCH: Well, you've got a pass, haven't you? SARAH: Oh! I tried! When I got back there, they wouldn't let me in - said I had to have a special pass. GENERAL FINCH: Special army pass from my HQ. SARAH: Er, you couldn't give me a pass, could you? Oh, I wouldn't publish anything until it was all over and I got proper permission. GENERAL FINCH: Oh, don't carry passes about with me, you know? (He thinks, smiles again and picks up a notepad.) GENERAL FINCH: Look, take this to my HQ. (He takes a pen out of his pocket and starts to write.) GENERAL FINCH: See my adjutant. He'll fix you up. SARAH: (Delighted.) Oh, that's marvellous! Where is your HQ? (FINCH carries on writing.) GENERAL FINCH: Show this to my driver. He'll take you there. SARAH: Oh, what about you? (He passes her the note.) GENERAL FINCH: I've got one or two things to settle here. SARAH: Thank you. (She grabs her bag and leaves. FINCH watches her go and smiles...) 6: INT. AIRCRAFT HANGER (YATES walks into the main body of the hanger, towards the stunned dinosaur. Its mouth lies open showing its huge teeth as it roars gently in its sleep.) 7: INT. SCHOOL SCIENCE LABORATORY (The DOCTOR and the BRIGADIER go back into the science laboratory from their meeting with GROVER. The DOCTOR opens a series of bottles, examining pills within them.) DOCTOR: What a charming fellah. You know, it's lucky for you, Brigadier, that somebody with some sense is in charge of this operation. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Unfortunately General Finch is in charge of the military side. DOCTOR: Yes, quite. Where's Sarah? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Maybe General Finch took her out to dinner? DOCTOR: Hmm! Didn't look like the beginnings of a beautiful friendship to me. (The BRIGADIER smiles and starts to leave by the other door.) DOCTOR: Oh, by the way, Brigadier? I've got to get down to the hanger. Can you lend me a jeep? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes. (He comes back into the room and picks up a phone.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone.) Er, Brigadier speaking - lay on a jeep for the Doctor, will you? Oh, and did you see Miss Smith leave here? (He listens.) Oh, thank you. (He puts the phone down.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: She went off in the General's car. (The DOCTOR raises his eyebrows...) DOCTOR: Oh? 8: INT. AIRCRAFT HANGER OFFICE (With a case of camera equipment, SARAH bustles into the hanger office. She looks out of the window at the sleeping monster and smiles. She goes back to the case and takes out a camera with a g*n attached to it. Putting the strap of the camera over her neck, she goes to the observation window, aims and takes a picture.) 9: INT. AIRCRAFT HANGER (Within the main body of the hanger, another flash from the camera causes the eyelids of the Tyrannosaurus to move back. Its head moves slightly and it blinks as another flash hits it.) 10: INT. AIRCRAFT HANGER OFFICE (SARAH checks her camera, adjusts her position and takes another picture. She thinks for a second and then moves through the second door into the hanger.) 11: INT. AIRCRAFT HANGER (The monster's breathing is becoming more pronounced as SARAH walks up to it and aims the lens once more. SARAH takes several more sh*ts of the bulk of the dinosaur's body, thus missing the signs of its rapid recovery. SARAH kneels down to change her film as behind her the Tyrannosaurus tries to rise. The chains easily give way and their clanking alters SARAH to the danger. She screams and runs back towards the office as the Tyrannosaurus roars.) 12: INT. AIRCRAFT HANGER OFFICE (SARAH runs through the office and makes for the second door as the dinosaur roars even louder. She finds the door has been locked shut from the other side. She bangs on the door.) 13: INT. AIRCRAFT HANGER (The Tyrannosaurus rises fully upwards.) 14: INT. AIRCRAFT HANGER OFFICE (SARAH turns and sees the monster roaring through the window at her.) 15: EXT. ROAD (The DOCTOR drives himself in a jeep past some abandoned industrial units. He turns a corner into a deserted residential road.) 16: INT. AIRCRAFT HANGER OFFICE (The Tyrannosaurus continues to roar through the window at SARAH. She again bangs on the door.) SARAH: (Shouts.) Help! Someone! Open the door! Help! Open the door! ... ! (She looks at the monster. It seems to turn and she presses herself into the corner of the door, trying to put herself out of sight.) 17: INT. AIRCRAFT HANGER (The Tyrannosaurus' tail swings round, hitting the walls of the office.) 18: INT. AIRCRAFT HANGER OFFICE (SARAH screams and starts to bang on the door again.) SARAH: (Shouts.) Help! Someone please! (The tail swings again hitting the window frame.) SARAH: Help me! I can't get out! The door's stuck! Help me! (The tail swings again and the glass and frame cave in. The shock causes a lintel above the door also to fall onto SARAH'S head. She falls to the floor unconscious as the dinosaur pokes its massive head through the destroyed window frame. The door to the office opens and the DOCTOR comes in as SARAH starts to come round. He grabs her arm to yank her to her feet.) DOCTOR: Come on, up! Come on! (SARAH is almost sobbing as he leads her from the room.) DOCTOR: Come on, get up, that's it! 19: INT. AIRCRAFT HANGER (Its meal departed, the Tyrannosaurus rears fully upwards, dislodging some of the girders in the room.) 20: EXT. HANGER (The DOCTOR half drags SARAH with him as he runs at full pace along the edge of the hanger and towards his jeep.) 21: INT. AIRCRAFT HANGER (The Tyrannosaurus dislodges more of the roof girders.) 22: EXT. HANGER (The DOCTOR and SARAH carry on running. SARAH is only just managing to stay on her feet.) 23: INT. AIRCRAFT HANGER (The Tyrannosaurus moves forward.) 24: EXT. HANGER (The two reach the jeep. The DOCTOR puts SARAH into the passenger seat. As he runs to the driver's seat, SARAH dizzily puts a hand to her bruised head. She is fully woken as the brick-walled side of the hanger suddenly bursts outwards as the Tyrannosaurus tries to break out of the building. Its head and torso emerging, it roars down at the two as the DOCTOR starts to jeep up.) 25: INT. SCHOOL SCIENCE LABORATORY (Having made it safely back to the school, the DOCTOR puts a compress on SARAH'S head. She is very shaken. The BRIGADIER watches.) DOCTOR: Well, it's a nasty bump. Nothing too serious. How do you feel? SARAH: (Scared.) Do you realise - somebody tried to k*ll me?! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Quietly.) I don't want to seem unsympathetic Miss Smith, but you have only got yourself to blame. SARAH: Well somebody locked that door so I couldn't get out. DOCTOR: Well, she's right, you know, Brigadier - that door was bolted on the outside. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Maybe one of the soldiers didn't realise she was in there? (BENTON comes into the room with another soldier who carries the console of the DOCTOR'S monitoring equipment.) SERGEANT BENTON: Here we are, Doctor. Hasn't been knocked about too much. DOCTOR: Thanks, Sergeant. Put it down there, will you? (The soldier places the console on the lab bench indicated and the DOCTOR immediately starts to look over it.) DOCTOR: When the creature vanished, it was still in the electrical force-field, Brigadier, so we should learn something. (BENTON goes over to the BRIGADIER and holds up the chains from the hanger.) SERGEANT BENTON: We found this, sir. (One of the links has plainly been cut through. The BRIGADIER takes it and starts to look over it.) SERGEANT BENTON: They were all like that - cut clean through. (The DOCTOR turns round from his console.) DOCTOR: And this machine's been sabotaged. There's not a single reading. (Realising the implications, the BRIGADIER calls over to the soldier who came in with BENTON.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Dismissed! (The soldier walks out and BENTON starts to follow.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: No, not you, Benton. (The DOCTOR waits for the departing soldier to shut the door.) DOCTOR: Well, at least we've learnt something, Brigadier - somebody inside this organisation is working against us. SERGEANT BENTON: Yes, but what I can't understand, sir, is why should anyone want to cut those chains? DOCTOR: It was a deliberate attempt on Sarah's life. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Why should anybody want to k*ll her? SERGEANT BENTON: They were probably after you, Doctor. I mean, they expected you to go back there. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, of course, that'll be it. Well, Doctor, any suggestions? DOCTOR: Yes, I shall build another detector. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: We haven't got to capture another dinosaur? DOCTOR: No, no. No, this time I'm going to try something different. I'm going to build a portable device to detect that power source. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well why didn't you do that in the first place? DOCTOR: Because, Brigadier, it cannot be as accurate or as powerful as this would have been. But it could give us the general direction. SARAH: Doctor? Exactly how much energy would be needed to make these things appear? DOCTOR: Oh, something like a small nuclear generator. SARAH: Then why don't we look for one? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Miss Smith, that was one of the first things that occurred to me. I made a thorough check and I can assure you that there are no unaccounted for nuclear generators in the central London area. DOCTOR: No, he's right you know, Sarah. It is pretty unlikely, isn't it? (SARAH looks pale and tired.) DOCTOR: Look, why don't you try and get some rest, uh? SARAH: Alright. (She goes to the door and waits as the DOCTOR goes into the TARDIS.) DOCTOR: Right, I'll be getting on with it. (The BRIGADIER checks his watch.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I've got yet another planning conference with General Finch. Look after Miss Smith, Benton. SERGEANT BENTON: Right, sir. (He opens the door for the BRIGADIER...) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Thank you. (...who leaves.) SERGEANT BENTON: (To SARAH.) Well, would you like a cup of tea or anything? SARAH: Typical! Run away and play while the grown-ups get on with the real work! SERGEANT BENTON: What do you mean? SARAH: The power's coming from somewhere, right? So there must be an independent source? (Her head still sore, she sits at the bench.) SERGEANT BENTON: I suppose so, but where would you start... SARAH: So if it is a nuclear reactor it would have been designed and assembled and all that could be traced - there'd be records. SERGEANT BENTON: The Brigadier's checked all that, Miss. (SARAH hangs her head in a mixture of pain and annoyance.) SARAH: Oh... SERGEANT BENTON: If there was anything there then he would have found it. SARAH: Well maybe it was all secret. SERGEANT BENTON: Too secret for the Brigadier to know about? (This makes sense to SARAH.) SARAH: Yes, why not? Can you get me some transport? SERGEANT BENTON: Oh no, I couldn't do that... SARAH: (Pouts.) Oh, they told you to look after me. Come on! SERGEANT BENTON: Well, where do you want to go and what shall I tell the Doctor? SARAH: Well, tell him... (She smiles.) SARAH: Tell him I've gone out to play, hmm? Come on! (She heads for the door. BENTON closes his eyes, mouths "On no!" and follows.) 26: INT. CHARLES GROVER'S OFFICE (CHARLES GROVER opens the door of his small but ornate and pleasant Whitehall office. SARAH is there.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Come in! What a pleasant surprise. (They shake hands.) SARAH: Erm, I don't suppose you remember, Minister, but we met briefly at UNIT? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: You're far too modest, Miss Smith. Of course I remember. (He closes the door and shows her in.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: I'm sorry you had to find your own way here but I'm down to a skeleton staff. (He pulls forward a chair for her.) SARAH: Oh, thank you. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: However, I can offer you a cup of tea. (On a sideboard in the alcove next to the fireplace is a kettle and several cups.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: We have our own little generator down in the basement - petrol driven. Can I get you a cup? SARAH: Er, no, not at the moment, thank you. (GROVER sits behind his desk.) SARAH: I'm sorry to bother you like this, but you seem to be the only member of the government still in London. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Oh, I am. The rest all sh*t off to Harrogate, but I told the Prime Minister if I'm in charge, I'm going to stay here - on the spot. (He smiles.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Now, what can I do for you? SARAH: Well, you know the Doctor's theory about these materialisations - they must need a tremendous energy force. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Yes? SARAH: Well the Doctor said it would have to be something like a nuclear generator...and that started me remembering something. Wasn't there a plan once to build underground quarters for the government in the event of an atomic w*r? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Yes, back in the cold w*r days. Oh, I see what you're getting at. Oh, I don't think any of them were ever built, you know? SARAH: Are you sure of that? Each of those places was to have its own nuclear generator. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: (Thinks.) That's right. I was a junior backbencher at the time but I remember...plans were made...and then shelved when the situation eased. (SARAH stands, caught up in the excitement of her latest idea.) SARAH: But suppose one was built, right here in London? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: That's a very ingenious theory, young lady. What does the Brigadier think about it, or the Doctor? SARAH: I'm not telling anyone about it - until I can get some evidence. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: I wonder...if it could have happened as you say? SARAH: Oh, I thought if I came to you, you could help me check up on it. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: And so I can. (He nods to a door at the back of his office.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: In there are confidential ministerial files going back years. Let's take a look. (SARAH suppresses her excitement as GROVER shows her to the filing room door. He opens it and ushers her in.) SARAH: Thank you. 27: INT. FILING ROOM (The small room is filled with filing cabinets. SARAH immediately starts to look over them - therefore failing to see an inner door which slides shut across the panelled office door.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Fantastic filing system they have in here. I hardly understand it myself but then of course I've only been a minister for six months. (SARAH smiles politely but is busy looking at an index.) SARAH: Could it be this - "Top secret construction projects"? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: I wonder? Number two, three, nine, five. Now that should be over here somewhere. (He opens a drawer and pulls out a file.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: No, there's nothing here. This is all about building RAF early warning stations in Scotland. SARAH: Well, perhaps one of the other files in the same category? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Oh, we can but look. (He pulls out another file and looks over it in astonishment.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Good lord! You're right - look! (He places the file on top of a cabinet and the two start to look through its contents.) SARAH: They built it twenty years ago, right in the centre of London. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: And there's a map here, showing its exact position. SARAH: Well, there's Whitehall, so this must... (She traces the position on the map.) SARAH: It's here...it's right here! It must be under this building! (GROVER goes and presses a button to open the sliding door. Smiling, SARAH turns to leave...) 28: INT. BUNKER. PASSAGE OUTSIDE FILING ROOM LIFT (...but her smile disappears when she sees that through the door is not the office but instead a passageway of concrete buttresses, brick walls painted red and wall and ceiling lights.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: After you, Miss Smith. (He pushes her out of the lift room and into the passageway.) 29: INT. SCHOOL SCIENCE LABORATORY (The DOCTOR comes out of the TARDIS. He goes to one of the doors and calls down the corridor.) DOCTOR: Sergeant? Sergeant Benton? (BENTON comes in to answer the summons.) SERGEANT BENTON: Yes, Doctor? DOCTOR: Look, I'll need some more electronic equipment. Can you organise it? SERGEANT BENTON: Yes, of course. DOCTOR: Ah, thanks very much. (He goes to the bench to start writing his list of requirements.) DOCTOR: How's Miss Smith? SERGEANT BENTON: Oh, fine, as far as I know. DOCTOR: Er, did you give her somewhere to rest? SERGEANT BENTON: Well, she didn't want to rest. I...I got her some transport and she sh*t off somewhere. DOCTOR: Oh, where? SERGEANT BENTON: She wouldn't say. She said to tell you she'd gone out to play! (The DOCTOR looks sharply at him and sighs.) DOCTOR: You know sometimes that girl baffles me! 30: INT. BUNKER. ROOM (SARAH has been taken to a small square room. Painted red within, it has a small blue light on each of its four walls and a black chair in the middle. Apart from that, it is bare. BUTLER has joined her and GROVER.) SARAH: You're mad - you're absolutely raving mad! CHARLES GROVER M.P.: On the contrary, Miss Smith. My associates and I are on the only ones who are sane. SARAH: Creating monsters in central London? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: There's a very good reason for it - which you'll one day learn. Now I'm afraid I must leave you. (He and BUTLER head for the door.) SARAH: They'll find me, you know? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: I very much doubt it, Miss Smith - not where you're going. (They leave. SARAH tries the door but then sits in the chair to think. After a second, the ceiling lights in the room dim and the blue wall lights start to flash in a hypnotic sequence. Starting to feel overcome, SARAH swings the chair round to face first one wall, then another but she cannot escape the effect of the lights. Her head starts to sway and her eyes become unfocussed...) 31: INT. CHAMBER (SARAH comes round to see a dark-haired good-looking young man staring down at her. He wears a white T-shirt and a blue denim jacket and jeans. He smiles at her.) MARK: Welcome, sister. SARAH: Who are you? (She looks round in confusion. She is on a black leather trolley in a brightly lit control chamber which is predominantly pale blue and white. Screens partition the room and there are comfortable blue leather seats. The whole room has a futuristic but sterile look to it.) SARAH: Where am I? MARK: My name is Mark. I welcome you to the people. (SARAH sits up. Her clothes have been changed and she too wears a blue denim suit.) SARAH: What people? MARK: You'll soon remember. SARAH: And where is this? MARK: (Puzzled.) The spaceship? You see, it's all come true. (SARAH'S voice starts to contain an element of panic.) SARAH: Now what's going on? Where am I? MARK: We're on our way. (MARK walks over to a small hatch in the wall beneath which are a set of controls. He presses one to open the hatch.) MARK: Soon we shall arrive on the planet that's to be our new home. SARAH: Planet? Spaceship? What are you talking about? (Somewhat groggily, SARAH moves over to the hatch and looks out in astonishment.) 32: SPACE (It is a window looking out on to the blackness of space with a small planet in the distance.) MARK: (OOV.) We left Earth three months ago.
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INVASION OF THE DINOSAURS BY: MALCOLM HULKE PART FOUR Original Air Date: 2 February, 1974 5:30pm - 5:55pm 1: INT. CHAMBER MARK: We left Earth three months ago. (Somewhat groggily, SARAH moves over to the hatch.) 2: SPACE (It is a window looking out on to the blackness of space with a small planet in the distance.) 3: INT. SCHOOL SCIENCE LABORATORY (Accompanied by CAPTAIN YATES, GENERAL FINCH comes angrily into the school laboratory where the DOCTOR sits with the BRIGADIER. The DOCTOR sighs with impatience.) GENERAL FINCH: I'd like an explanation of this latest fiasco, Brigadier. (The BRIGADIER stands before his superior officer.) GENERAL FINCH: You capture a dinosaur and lose it again, an aircraft hanger is wrecked and into the bargain, Miss Smith is almost k*lled! Now why is this man allowed to persist in his ridiculous and useless schemes?! (The DOCTOR goes over to another bench to get the cut chains and returns with them.) GENERAL FINCH: You deny that absolutely nothing has been achieved? DOCTOR: Nothing has been achieved, General Finch, because of sabotage! Now the chains holding the Tyrannosaurus were deliberately severed, and somebody attempted to m*rder Miss Smith by locking her in the hanger with the creature. (Behind them, YATES tries to conceal his surprise and anger at this revelation.) DOCTOR: To top it all, my apparatus has been messed about with. However, all that's in the past now. I've got a new scheme, so if you'll excuse me, I'll be getting on with it. (He drops the chains on the bench and picks up a clipboard and two pieces of equipment.) DOCTOR: Brigadier, did you bring over that new car of mine when you moved your headquarters? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yes, I think so. It should be in the garage with the rest of our transport. (The DOCTOR heads for the door and the BRIGADIER follows.) GENERAL FINCH: What are you up to now? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I'll explain in a moment, sir. Better just see the Doctor on his way. (The BRIGADIER leaves. YATES picks up the chains and holds them in front of FINCH.) CAPTAIN YATES: (Angrily.) I'd like to know what's been going on, sir! GENERAL FINCH: (Quietly.) I've no idea what you're talking about. CAPTAIN YATES: I agreed to sabotage the Doctor's apparatus and delay his experiment. But I didn't agree to m*rder! 4: EXT. SCHOOL BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: You'll never get it off the ground, Doctor. (He walks forward to the subject of his comment. It is the DOCTOR'S new car, although car is the vaguest of terms that can be used to describe it. Silver in colour, its 'bonnet' is pointed and the rear of the vehicle rises up into two fins. It has two seats behind a curved windscreen. No wheels can be seen beneath the large fender which drapes to the ground.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Wouldn't you rather have a jeep? DOCTOR: Not a bit of it, Brigadier. This new car of mine is exactly what I need. Speed is of the essence, you know. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, take care. Call in as soon as you have any information. DOCTOR: Right. (He sets off and the car glides smoothly and speedily across the school yard with a sound like a hovercraft. The BRIGADIER watches it go with a smile on his face and a shake of the head. He then goes back into the school.) 5: EXT. LONG LANE (The DOCTOR drives along the frontage of Smithfield Market. He comes to a halt and checks his device. It resembles a black tube with a control box at the base. He takes a reading and checks it against a map of central London he balances on his knee. He starts up the car again and glides off.) 6: INT. SPACESHIP. MAIN CHAMBER (Recovering from the shock of finding out where she is, SARAH is alone in the spaceship's main chamber. She turns over a small primitive clay bowl in her hands. She gets up and walks round in confusion at this development. A door opens at the back of the chamber and MARK returns with a man and a woman.) MARK: Here she is. (The woman is past middle-age but is smart and chic in her looks. She wears a strange two piece fawn and gold tunic. She smiles warmly at SARAH and holds up her arms in welcome.) RUTH: Don't worry, my dear. We'll look after you. (She gives SARAH a kiss on the cheek. The other man is also older than man. He has white hair and a short beard and wears a suede jacket and dark trousers.) ADAM: You're the first to recover. RUTH: You're bound to feel a little strange at first. SARAH: Who are you? ADAM: We're the elders. SARAH: How did I get here? RUTH: You must have been chosen. (SARAH looks at the woman.) SARAH: Wait a minute...I know you - you're Lady Cullingford! RUTH: Here I am Ruth. SARAH: I interviewed you about that Private Member's Bill of yours against the pollution of rivers. (She looks at the man and also recognises him with a smile.) SARAH: And you're Nigel Castle, the novelist. (The man smiles back warmly.) ADAM: Not any more. I have better work for my hands. (SARAH points to MARK.) SARAH: I know you too. You're... MARK: (Nods.) John Crighton. SARAH: The athlete. Er, you jumped... (Thinks.) ...two point three six two metres in the last Olympics. (The three people laugh gently.) ADAM: All that's behind us now. RUTH: And you were a journalist? SARAH: I still am. Where are we going? MARK: I told you - to New Earth. SARAH: Sorry, I...seem to have forgotten. (She sits down, hopelessly confused.) ADAM: A small planet, very much like the Earth we've left behind, but at an earlier stage of development. RUTH: Still pure, undefiled by the evil of man's technology. Air that is still clean to breathe... MARK: Simple pastoral people, innocent and unspoiled. ADAM: It'll be our task to guide them – to see that the evil developed on Earth will not be repeated. SARAH: Our task? Just the four of us? (The three people laugh.) MARK: There are over two hundred of us on this ship. (RUTH and ADAM sit on the leather couches and watch while MARK switches on a monitor screen.) MARK: You see? (It shows a chamber made up of banks of ledges, four high. On each rests a sleeping cocooned human. He presses the switch next to the monitor and the view changes to show two more identical chambers.) MARK: They'll all be recovering soon – just as you did. (SARAH looks in astonishment at the picture. MARK switches it off.) ADAM: And this is only one of the ships of the fleet. Show her, Mark. (MARK presses another switch and the monitor shows four identical spacecraft with engines in a triangular pattern. He switches the monitor off and sits next to RUTH.) MARK: There are seven ships in all. SARAH: Those people...why were they all asleep? ADAM: To save food and oxygen. It was all explained to you. RUTH: It's a three month journey, and almost over. (SARAH'S mouth drops open in astonishment.) SARAH: I've been here on this spaceship for three months? MARK: We all have. SARAH: I can't believe it! (She puts a hand to her forehead...and accidentally touches the very real and sore bruise sustained in the hanger - supposedly over three months ago. She conceals her surprise from her new companions.) SARAH: Three months... 7: EXT. STREET (The DOCTOR glides his car to a halt in a back street. He looks at his 'radar' device again and consults the map once more. A series of areas have been crossed through on the map. This time the reading seems to be stronger. He sets off in the car once more.) 8: EXT. TRAFALGAR SQUARE UNDERGROUND STATION (Outside an underground station, two newspaper hoardings read "MARTIAL LAW DECLARED" and "LONDON EVACUATION ORDER". The DOCTOR draws to a halt in front of the station and its litter-strewn pavement. He switches on the radar device and the needle sh**t upwards. He swings the device round until it points at the station and the needle climbs up towards the highest point on the scale. Satisfied, he switches off his car and climbs out. He picks up a large torch out his car together with his radar device and moves to the locked trellis gates of the station. He examines the lock, takes off his glove and produces a set of skeleton keys out of his pocket. He then makes short work of the lock and opens the gates.) 9: INT. TRAFALGAR SQUARE UNDERGROUND STATION. PASSAGE (The DOCTOR walks down some darkened steps in the passenger tunnel of the station. He pauses to check the readings on his device by torchlight and moves down a side passage. He suddenly stops and looks round hearing the sound of the air-conditioning working. He plays his torch round and spots a grille. He takes a handkerchief out of his pocket and plays it across the draft which emanates from the grille. Before he can take any further action, he hears a noise in the tunnel behind him and hurriedly lies underneath a wall bench together with his torch and radar device. A moment later BUTLER, carrying his own torch, case and another piece of equipment slung over his shoulder, rounds the corner. He goes past the DOCTOR'S hiding place and up to a blue door of a maintenance cupboard. He takes a set of keys out of his pocket, puts them in the lock of the door and then presses one of the slats of the louvered window of the cupboard. The whining sound of a lift can be heard. Both the DOCTOR and BUTLER wait patiently. After a moment, lights appear rising upwards behind the louvered slats and the lift noise stops. BUTLER unlocks the door to reveal an ordinary cleaner's cupboard beyond. He steps in and closes the door behind him. After a moment the lift noise starts up again and the lights behind the slats disappear one by one downwards. The DOCTOR waits...) 10: INT. BUNKER. PASSAGE OUTSIDE LIFT (Down below, a down arrow next to the lift is illuminated blue and switches off as the lift itself arrives and the door opens. BUTLER walks out and down the passage. He goes past a direction sign which points to the right for "CABINET ROOM", "SLEEPING QUARTERS" and "SICK BAY". To the left is pointed "REACTOR ROOM" and "COMMUNICATIONS ROOM" and this is the direction that BUTLER takes.) 11: INT. TRAFALGAR SQUARE UNDERGROUND STATION. PASSAGE (Up above, the DOCTOR has come out of hiding and is examining the louvered slats of the cupboard door. He depresses the correct one.) 12: INT. BUNKER. PASSAGE OUTSIDE LIFT (The lift door closes and the up blue arrow is illuminated.) 13: INT. TRAFALGAR SQUARE UNDERGROUND STATION. PASSAGE (As he waits, the DOCTOR tries several skeleton keys on the door. He manages to unlock it just as the lift arrives. He opens the door and looks in. He sees nothing obvious beyond the mop, overalls and other cleaning equipment. He leaves his torch in the passage and enters the lift.) 14: INT. CUPBOARD LIFT (He pulls the door to behind him. He looks round for a control but can see none. On the wall behind him is a coat rack. He presses what appears to be the head of a screw and finds out that's just what it is. He pulls at one of the coat pegs and then another after taking a cloth cap off it. Again nothing happens. When he pulls at the third coat peg he finds that it twists on its axis to operate the lift. 15: INT. BUNKER. CONTROL ROOM (At the back of the control room is an illuminated map of the bunker. In addition to the sign on the passage wall, this also shows "ROYAL SUITE", "VICTUALS" and "MINISTER DAY ROOM". A blue light starts to flash behind a small box to indicate the lift in use. BUTLER and WHITAKER are there but fail to notice the signal. WHITAKER is looking through the contents of the case that BUTLER has brought.) BUTLER: I trust you now have everything you need, Professor? PROFESSOR WHITAKER: I don't know yet. If I need more equipment, you'll have to provide it. BUTLER: It isn't easy getting this stuff for you. Every time I go into those streets I risk being sh*t as a looter. (BUTLER suddenly spots the flashing light.) PROFESSOR WHITAKER: Well, you could take the Ministry... (WHITAKER looks at BUTLER and seeing the look on his face, follows his line of sight.) BUTLER: Someone's using the blue lift. (The light continues to flash...) 16: INT. BUNKER. PASSAGE OUTSIDE LIFT (...as the lift arrives. The door opens and the DOCTOR steps cautiously out. He reads the sign and decides to go in the direction of the Reactor Room. He fails to see that he has just passed a wall-mounted security camera.) 17: INT. BUNKER. CONTROL ROOM (The image of the DOCTOR in another passage appears on a monitor in the control room.) BUTLER: It's him - it's the Doctor, UNIT's scientific advisor. How did he find us? PROFESSOR WHITAKER: Presumably you led him here. BUTLER: Needn't be such a bad thing. We can deal with him here and now. Let's see. He's going towards the reactor. (BUTLER chooses a button from a large selection on a bank next to the monitor.) 18: INT. BUNKER. PASSAGE (The DOCTOR turns round one corner in a passage, heads along and looks round another corner. He sees a door with "REACTOR ROOM" on it. He heads for it but a steel shutter suddenly falls down before him, cutting him off from the door. He examines the shutter and then turns back.) 19: INT. BUNKER. CONTROL ROOM (BUTLER and WHITAKER watch...) 20: INT. BUNKER. PASSAGE (...as the DOCTOR turns a corner into another passage. Another shutter comes down behind him causing him to jump. He moves off again.) 21: INT. BUNKER. CONTROL ROOM PROFESSOR WHITAKER: He's heading towards the Cabinet room. BUTLER: Right. (He reaches for the buttons again.) 22: INT. BUNKER. PASSAGE (The DOCTOR is back in front of the lift again. He chooses another direction, walks down it and waits at the intersection for a moment. He then takes a pace or two forward, only for another shutter to come down.) 23: INT. BUNKER. CONTROL ROOM (BUTLER starts to quietly laugh but WHITAKER remains stony-faced.) 24: INT. BUNKER. PASSAGE OUTSIDE LIFT (The DOCTOR turns back. He looks down one side passage and sees that the shutter is already down blocking that route and the same is true of the passage in the opposite direction. He is trapped. As he thinks, the lift door behind him hums open. With a look part way between being rueful and embarrassed, he walks into the proffered lift. The door closes on him and the up arrow is illuminated.) 25: INT. BUNKER. CONTROL ROOM (The blue light flashes on the illuminated map once more.) BUTLER: He's in the lift. (He switches off the monitor. WHITAKER is absorbed at another console. This has a large monitor screen and a series of yellow levers with one red lever in the middle. It is the main time transportation device.) BUTLER: Is everything ready? (He rubs his hands together and then sees that WHITAKER is not going to answer. He walks up behind him and sees that on the colour monitor is an image from millions of years ago - a Pterodactyl flapping its arms as it rests on a rock in a prehistoric landscape.) BUTLER: Excellent. (WHITAKER slowly depresses a yellow lever. Far back in time, red rays emanate from the reptile and it fades from view.) 26: INT. TRAFALGAR SQUARE UNDERGROUND STATION. PASSAGE (The DOCTOR has come out of the lift and stands nonplussed in the underground station passage. As he reaches down for his torch and radar device, the Pterodactyl screeches out of the darkness and over his head. As the creature comes back, the DOCTOR runs back into the cupboard.) 27: INT. CUPBOARD LIFT (A mop has fallen meaning that he cannot close the door properly. As he tries to free the obstruction, the Pterodactyl pokes its head through the gap to snap at the DOCTOR. He tries to push it away with his arm but the creature is not so easily repulsed and the DOCTOR is forced to parry its att*ck with the mop. The reptile flies back from the cupboard...) 28: INT. TRAFALGAR SQUARE UNDERGROUND STATION. PASSAGE (...and the DOCTOR comes out with the mop as his only w*apon. The Pterodactyl flies down at him again and again and each time a thrust at it with the mop is the DOCTOR'S only defence. Finally, he abandons the mop and scoots up the stairs leaving the screeching reptile behind him.) 29: INT. SPACESHIP. MAIN CHAMBER (SARAH is still talking to the three people on the spaceship.) SARAH: Don't you think that people have a right to choose what kind of life they want? RUTH: People on Earth were allowed to choose. And see what kind of a world they made - moral degradation, permissiveness, usury, cheating, lying, cruelty. SARAH: Well, there...there's also a lot of love and kindness and honesty. You've got a warped view of things. (The smiles disappear off ADAM and RUTH'S faces.) RUTH: You mustn't say such things. SARAH: I'll say whatever I like. MARK: The strain of reawakening must have disturbed her mind. SARAH: There's nothing wrong with my mind! ADAM: I was assured that everyone had been most carefully selected. (He crosses to SARAH.) ADAM: I don't think you're going to be happy with us. If you feel like this why did you join us? SARAH: No, I didn't join you. I was brought here against my will. RUTH: We shall have to do something about this. She'll be a disruptive influence. ADAM: I think you'd better come with me. (He starts to gently lead her away.) SARAH: Where to? RUTH: You can't be allowed to go about saying these things. You'll have to be re-educated. (RUTH takes SARAH'S other arm and they lead her off. MARK watches them go with some concern.) 30: EXT. TRAFALGAR SQUARE UNDERGROUND STATION (The BRIGADIER in his jeep drives the DOCTOR back to the underground station. The DOCTOR leads him to the trellis gate which opens immediately that he pushes on it. They go inside.) 31: INT. TRAFALGAR SQUARE UNDERGROUND STATION. PASSAGE (Having abandoned his larger torch in the fight with the Pterodactyl, the DOCTOR lights the way down the steps with a small torch.) DOCTOR: Mind the steps, Brigadier. (The BRIGADIER follows him down into the echoing darkness.) DOCTOR: ... It's through here. (He leads the BRIGADIER towards the cupboard, stopping to collect his larger torch from under the bench and pocketing the smaller. He then goes to the cupboard.) DOCTOR: Here it is. (He opens the door. The inside is not illuminated as before. The DOCTOR switches the torch on and walks in.) 32: INT. CUPBOARD LIFT (The BRIGADIER doesn't follow him in but instead pokes his head inside.) DOCTOR: Don't just stand there! Come on in - close the door. (The BRIGADIER does as instructed.) DOCTOR: Now the activating mechanism is right here. (The DOCTOR raises the torch but the row of pegs have disappeared and the wall is blank.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Where? DOCTOR: (Puzzled.) Well, it...it was there, but now...now it seems to have gone. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: You sure we've come to the right place? DOCTOR: Shh! Of course I'm sure! 33: INT. CHARLES GROVER'S OFFICE (The DOCTOR sits with GROVER in his office. The Minister looks at the DOCTOR with a polite smile on his face whilst the BRIGADIER looks out of the window in some embarrassment.) DOCTOR: Look, I tell you that it is there, Minister - somewhere beneath that underground station. Some kind of emergency shelter for the government. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: You must have been talking to Miss Smith. (The BRIGADIER turns from the window, interested in this development.) DOCTOR: Oh, what about? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Well, didn't she tell you? She came to me with the most marvellous theory about such a place having been built under central London. DOCTOR: And had it? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: I'm afraid not. We went through the files together. The place was planned but it was never built. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: You're sure of that, sir? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Well, I had the file here somewhere after we'd looked at it. (He opens his desk drawer and looks in it.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Ah. (He opens the file on the desk for all to see.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: There we are. (As the DOCTOR broods, the BRIGADIER crosses to the file and reads its summary...) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: "Project abandoned. No further action to be taken." See, Doctor? (He pushes the file across to the DOCTOR. He, without taking his eyes off GROVER, shuts the file having taken no interest whatsoever in its contents.) DOCTOR: (Quietly.) You'll forgive me, Minister, if I prefer to believe the evidence of my own eyes. (GROVER looks momentarily concerned and then shuts the file back in the desk drawer.) DOCTOR: Where did Miss Smith go to after she'd...visited you? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Back to UNIT HQ. I sent her in my own car. DOCTOR: You quite certain? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: I can check for you. DOCTOR: Thank you, sir. (GROVER presses an upright intercom on his desk.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: (Into intercom.) My chauffeur still there? (A male voice comes over the intercom.) SECRETARY: (OOV: Over intercom.) Yes, sir. Shall I tell him to bring the car round? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: (Into intercom.) No, tell him to come in here, please. SECRETARY: (OOV: Over intercom.) Yes, sir. (GROVER switches the intercom off and stands up.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Would you two like a cup of tea? I've become quite an expert. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: That's very kind of you, sir. I don't think so just at the moment. (There is a knock on the door.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Come in. (BUTLER walks into the room in a chauffeur's outfit. The DOCTOR glances at him but doesn't recognise him from the darkness of the underground station.) BUTLER: You wanted me, sir? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: The young lady from UNIT who was visiting me - where did you take her? BUTLER: Well, back to UNIT HQ, sir. (The DOCTOR looks up at him.) DOCTOR: You quite sure of that? BUTLER: Oh yes, sir. I saw her go inside. 34: INT. SPACESHIP. REMINDER ROOM (SARAH sits in a bare room in the spaceship. On one wall is a large monitor screen on which is displayed a documentary showing the effects of sewage and industrial waste. The commentary is by BUTLER...) BUTLER: (OOV: Film commentary.) Ever since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, man has continued to pollute the planet which until now has been his only home. Chemical and industrial wastes have caused... (SARAH turns and sits on the chair facing away from the screen. She places her hands over her ears to shut out the sound.) BUTLER: (OOV: Film commentary.) ...widespread poisoning of the air and the rivers. Even the oceans are... (The sound and picture suddenly cut out. The door to the room opens and MARK enters with a tray of food in his hand and a smile on his face.) MARK: I've brought you something to eat. (SARAH looks at the tray. It contains a small cob of bread and a mug of drink.) SARAH: Not going to get overweight, am I? MARK: That's pure bread. SARAH: But not much of it! (She stands up and he puts the tray on the chair.) MARK: Once you've been reminded, you'll eat with the rest of us. SARAH: Reminded? MARK: Of the truth. We all come in here from time to time to be reminded of the purposes of our mission. SARAH: You're here because you want to be, mm? I don't! MARK: You must have been selected, otherwise why would you be here? (SARAH'S voice starts to rise...) SARAH: I was brought here - kidnapped! (MARK points at the screen and starts to leave.) MARK: Watch the film. It'll remind you of the truth. SARAH: Hey! I want to talk to you! (But he has already closed the door on her. This causes the film to re-start automatically.) BUTLER: (OOV: Film commentary.) Dangerous concentrations of cumulative poisons such as mercury are already being found in fish... (SARAH sighs, picks up the bread and starts to eat, placing one hand over her left ear to block out the sound.) BUTLER: (OOV: Film commentary.) ...and when fish start to die, then the very sea's where life began are now becoming life-'less' and stinky. 35: INT. SPACESHIP. MAIN CHAMBER (MARK has reported the lack of progress back to ADAM and RUTH, the latter of whom is doing some sewing.) RUTH: We can't afford this girl's disruptive influence. ADAM: One girl amongst so many of us. Can't do much harm. RUTH: She could corrupt the whole of our group. We can't afford the risk. MARK: What can we do? (RUTH looks saddened.) RUTH: If she doesn't respond the re-education...we shall have to destroy her. (MARK shows concern whilst ADAM tries to put a brave face on the situation.) 36: INT. BUNKER. CONTROL ROOM (YATES, GROVER and FINCH are with BUTLER and WHITAKER in the underground control room.) PROFESSOR WHITAKER: Final tests have all been positive. Now once the power build-up from the reactor is complete, we shall be ready to commence the countdown. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: And when the experiment is over the colonists and their spaceship will be able to emerge onto their new Earth. GENERAL FINCH: How much longer before this countdown begins? PROFESSOR WHITAKER: Oh, a matter of hours. GENERAL FINCH: I'm under great pressure from the government. The whole country's been disrupted by this evacuation of London. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: It won't be for much longer. GENERAL FINCH: They're on to Whitaker, you know? Trying to trace him. BUTLER: (To GROVER.) Remember the Doctor's already discovered the existence of this place. CAPTAIN YATES: I warned you not to underestimate him. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: I agree - he's a very intelligent man. I think he suspects my involvement. GENERAL FINCH: We ought to dispose of him. CAPTAIN YATES: No, sir. We must not descend to those methods. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Quite right, Captain Yates. But perhaps there's another way? GENERAL FINCH: What do you mean? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: You, General Finch, will be able to block the Brigadier from taking positive action from finding this place. As far as the Doctor is concerned - we must discredit him. (YATES looks guilty.) 37: INT. SCHOOL SCIENCE LABORATORY (The DOCTOR sits at the school laboratory bench, almost sulking over the set of cut chains as the BRIGADIER talks to him.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Apart from your story, Doctor - which, forgive me, is pretty unbelievable - there isn't a shred of evidence to suggest this place exists. Now you heard the Minister yourself - it was never built. DOCTOR: Grover was covering up because he's implicated himself. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: And what possible reason could the Minister have for being involved in the apparition of these monsters? DOCTOR: The monsters are a side-issue, Brigadier - a device to clear central London. No, some...some vast scheme is underway, I'm sure of it. And it's rapidly moving towards its climax. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, what do you expect me to do? DOCTOR: Get back to that underground station with expl*sives. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I can't do that without authority. I need permission from General Finch. DOCTOR: (Sharply.) Then get it! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Alright, Doctor, I'll do my best. But he'll probably insist on referring it to the Minister, and if your theory's true, that's not going to get us anywhere. (The BRIGADIER leaves a tired DOCTOR behind. After he has gone, BENTON comes in from the other door.) SERGEANT BENTON: There's a call for you, Doctor. (He moves over to the phone in the science room.) DOCTOR: Who is it? SERGEANT BENTON: He wouldn't give his name. He said he'd only talk to you. (The DOCTOR goes over to the phone.) SERGEANT BENTON: (Into phone.) Hello, would you put the Doctor's call through to here, please? (He listens.) Ah, thank you. (He hands the phone to the DOCTOR.) SERGEANT BENTON: Okay. (He goes back out of the room.) DOCTOR: (Into phone.) Hello? 38: INT. BUNKER. CONTROL ROOM (BUTLER watches as WHITAKER speaks to the DOCTOR...) PROFESSOR WHITAKER: (Into phone.) Is that you, Doctor? DOCTOR: (OOV: Over phone.) Yes, who's that? PROFESSOR WHITAKER: (Into phone.) Er, my name is Whitaker, Doctor. 39: INT. SCHOOL SCIENCE LABORATORY (The DOCTOR'S tiredness disappears...) PROFESSOR WHITAKER: (OOV: Over phone.) I understand you've been trying to trace me? DOCTOR: (Into phone.) Whitaker? The man with the time travel theories. Tell me - are you responsible for these apparitions? 40: INT. BUNKER. CONTROL ROOM PROFESSOR WHITAKER: (Into phone.) Er, well in a way. But I was tricked - i...it's the Minister, Grover. He told me I was working on a government project. But I've escaped and now they're after me. DOCTOR: (OOV: Over phone.) Where are you now, sir? PROFESSOR WHITAKER: (Into phone.) I'm in the hanger where you were conducting your experiments. I hoped you'd be here. 41: INT. SCHOOL SCIENCE LABORATORY DOCTOR: (Into phone.) Well, look, can you get down to UNIT headquarters, it's in a ma... PROFESSOR WHITAKER: (OOV: Over phone.) ... I'm afraid to move. DOCTOR: (Into phone.) Oh, alright. You stay where you are. I'll come to you. 42: INT. BUNKER. CONTROL ROOM PROFESSOR WHITAKER: (Into phone.) Er, can you come alone, Doctor? I don't trust anyone else. 43: INT. SCHOOL SCIENCE LABORATORY DOCTOR: (Into phone.) Yes, alright. I'll be with you as soon as I can. Goodbye. (He puts the phone down, thinks for a second and then leaves.) 44: INT. BUNKER. CONTROL ROOM (BUTLER smiles and nods at WHITAKER. He then moves over to one of the small monitors and switches it on.) 45: INT. AIRCRAFT HANGER OFFICE (A strange device has been placed in the partially wrecked hanger office. A large half-dome sits on a stand, part of which gives off a glow. There is a piece of machinery inside the dome and the whole device gives off a quiet hum. The door which leads to the outside opens and the cloaked DOCTOR enters.) DOCTOR: Whitaker? (He almost immediately spots the addition to the room. He goes over and looks closely at it.) 46: INT. BUNKER. CONTROL ROOM (Part of the device is a camera and the DOCTOR'S face appears on the monitor in the control room. BUTLER watches this while WHITAKER stands at the device which carries out the time transportations.) BUTLER: He's arrived. PROFESSOR WHITAKER: Good. I'm ready for him. 47: INT. AIRCRAFT HANGER OFFICE (The DOCTOR goes over to the wrecked window overlooking the hanger. He shouts into the cavernous space...) DOCTOR: Whitaker?! Whitaker, where are you?! (Suddenly the DOCTOR is alert. He hears a familiar high-pitched whine and watches as a Stegosaurus appears within the series of emanating rays. Suddenly several figures comes through the door - GENERAL FINCH, the BRIGADIER and two regular army soldiers.) GENERAL FINCH: There's your monster-maker, Brigadier - caught in the act!
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INVASION OF THE DINOSAURS BY: MALCOLM HULKE PART FIVE Original Air Date: 9 February, 1974 5:30pm - 5:55pm 1: INT. AIRCRAFT HANGER OFFICE (With a familiar high-pitched whine, a Stegosaurus appears within the series of emanating rays. Suddenly several figures comes through the door - GENERAL FINCH, the BRIGADIER and two regular army soldiers.) GENERAL FINCH: There's your monster-maker, Brigadier - caught in the act! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Doctor, you're under arrest. (The DOCTOR remains calm as he realises the trap he has fallen into.) 2: INT. SPACESHIP. REMINDER ROOM (SARAH is watching the seemingly endless film in the reminder room. It now shows views of cities overcrowded by people and traffic.) BUTLER: (OOV: Film commentary.) Overcrowding in man, as in all other animal species, increases hostility and aggression, leading to the greatest crime of all - w*r. (The image changes to scenes seemingly from the troubles in Northern Ireland. SARAH adjusts her place on the seat. Her face does not look happy.) BUTLER: (OOV: Film commentary.) With the development of the atomic b*mb, man now has the choice of destroying his planet quickly, through w*r, or slowly, through pollution. (The door opens and the film cuts out. It is MARK. SARAH gives him the briefest and most chilling of looks.) MARK: How are you feeling now? SARAH: Hungry, tired and I've got a headache. (MARK shuts the door and speaks earnestly.) MARK: Sarah, you're in grave danger. SARAH: Oh, what's that supposed to mean? MARK: The elders are very dedicated to our cause. They are not going to permit a disruptive influence. SARAH: (Suddenly worried.) You mean they'll k*ll me? (MARK raises his eyebrows in confirmation. SARAH gets up and thinks. She speaks with conviction.) SARAH: Perhaps...the time that I spent in suspended animation...has affected my thinking in some ways? Take me back to the elders. Let me talk to them again. MARK: (Relieved.) Yes, of course. (He goes to the door and opens it for her. She promptly elbows him in the stomach and darts out of the door, pulling it shut behind her and locking MARK in.) MARK: (Shouts.) Sarah! (He bangs on the door.) MARK: (Shouts.) Sarah! 3: INT. SCHOOL CLASSROOM (NIGHT) (It is night. The DOCTOR is led into the headquarters schoolroom by two armed soldiers. Only YATES and BENTON, manning the radio, are there. They stand as they see FINCH and the BRIGADIER follow the DOCTOR and his escort. FINCH waves the two UNIT men to stand at ease with his swagger stick. The DOCTOR has a slight smile on his face.) GENERAL FINCH: Alright, Captain Yates, take this man and lock him up. (The BRIGADIER steps forward.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Sir, aren't we going to question him first? GENERAL FINCH: There's no time for that now. I must report his capture to the Minister. (He heads for the door.) DOCTOR: Yes, and no doubt he'll be very pleased to hear it... (FINCH halts in his tracks.) DOCTOR: Since he arranged the whole thing. GENERAL FINCH: You are in an extremely dangerous position, Doctor. I advise you to keep silent. DOCTOR: Oh, that's just what you want, isn't it - my silence? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: We really should interrogate this man now, sir. Trying to discover his base, the names of his associates... GENERAL FINCH: (Interrupts.) All that can come later. (The DOCTOR sits calmly on a table.) DOCTOR: Yes, well now that you've caught me, General, well you can end the evacuation and return your eight million Londoners - can't you? GENERAL FINCH: That decision doesn't rest with me. It rests with the Prime Minister. Captain Yates? CAPTAIN YATES: Sir? GENERAL FINCH: Until further orders, you'll keep that man under close arrest. Come with me, Brigadier. (The BRIGADIER has been looking at YATES.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Sir? GENERAL FINCH: I want you with me when I make my report. (FINCH heads for the door. The BRIGADIER glances round.) GENERAL FINCH: Brigadier? (His voice has grown dangerously quiet. The BRIGADIER follows the GENERAL with the briefest of glances at YATES and BENTON. Immediately they have gone, the DOCTOR walks over to YATES.) DOCTOR: Now listen to me, Mike. We haven't got much time. (YATES starts to look at the papers in the file in front of him - a look of guilt on his face.) DOCTOR: I want you to raise all the men you can muster and some kind of high expl*sive. Now I've got a pretty good idea where their base is... (YATES ignores him and stands.) CAPTAIN YATES: Sergeant Benton? SERGEANT BENTON: Sir? (The DOCTOR looks as if he has finally realised what has really been happening.) CAPTAIN YATES: Take the Doctor to a cell and lock him up. SERGEANT BENTON: (Amazed.) Sir? CAPTAIN YATES: Keep him under constant guard. He's to talk to no one! DOCTOR: (Quietly.) So it was you, Mike? (YATES looks at him but his manner is filled with discomfort.) CAPTAIN YATES: I'm sorry, Doctor. I'll be in the Brigadier's office. (He leaves quickly. The DOCTOR looks sadly at the door he has gone through. Without revealing any emotion, BENTON starts giving orders to the two soldiers.) SERGEANT BENTON: Right, that empty storeroom - fix it up as a temporary cell. Check the lock on the door and do something about barring the windows. Oh, and put in a camp bed. Now move. (The soldiers quickly leave. BENTON makes sure that they are not being overheard and then turns urgently to the DOCTOR.) SERGEANT BENTON: Alright, Doctor, what's going on? DOCTOR: Captain Yates is the man inside who's working against us. SERGEANT BENTON: Oh come on, Doctor. DOCTOR: I'm afraid it's true. (The DOCTOR looks out into the darkened corridor.) SERGEANT BENTON: Well, what about the Brigadier? DOCTOR: What indeed? (BENTON stands up straight.) SERGEANT BENTON: Right then, Doctor - you'd better get busy. DOCTOR: (Puzzled.) What? SERGEANT BENTON: You'd better start overpowering me, hadn't you? You know - a bit of yer... (He points to his neck.) SERGEANT BENTON: Venusian oojah? (The DOCTOR grins with delight at the show of trust by his old ally.) DOCTOR: Thank you, Sergeant Benton. (BENTON turns his back on the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: Are you ready? SERGEANT BENTON: Yeah! (BENTON shuts his eyes tight. The DOCTOR gently presses the nerves in the back of his neck as the SERGEANT'S face relaxes as he slumps to the ground. The DOCTOR steps over him and runs out of the door.) 4: INT. BUNKER. CONTROL ROOM (NIGHT) (GROVER arrives late for a meeting in the underground control room. WHITAKER and BUTLER are waiting.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Sorry, Gentlemen. Well, the Doctor's safely under arrest at UNIT headquarters. BUTLER: How long will they hold him? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Long enough. Soon the Doctor and his associates and everyone on this planet, except our chosen group...will never have existed. Shall we begin? PROFESSOR WHITAKER: I've been waiting for you. (WHITAKER hands BUTLER a mug which he carries down to the lower level at the front of the control room and holds in the air.) PROFESSOR WHITAKER: As you know, the...temporal beam has reached back through time and brought forward objects from the past. Now, by a completely different application of the same basic principle, I am about to reverse time. At least, in a limited field. (WHITAKER crosses to a unit beside the main control panel and presses a button. A tubular device with a red glowing base descends from the ceiling. It hangs over a stand underneath it. WHITAKER nods to BUTLER who smashes the mug down onto the stand, breaking it into pieces.) PROFESSOR WHITAKER: I shall now activate the time field. (WHITAKER pulls one of the levers on the main transportation unit. The whine of power builds up and the rays emanate outwards. Within the time field, the cup reassembles and flies up into BUTLER'S waiting hand. His own movements also slightly reverse as his hand moves from the smashing position it was in earlier. GROVER watches impressed and smiles at a pleased BUTLER.) PROFESSOR WHITAKER: There you are, Minister. For the space of a few seconds, I rolled back time itself. 5: INT. SPACESHIP. MAIN CHAMBER (From a position hidden behind a panel, SARAH watches as ADAM comes out of a room and moves to a drinks dispenser. She sees him swig back the drink and go back into his room. She then moves to a transparent panel with a button beside it. She presses the button and the panel rises slowly upwards as she waits impatiently. She ducks under the still rising door...) 6: INT. SPACESHIP. SIDE CHAMBER (...and into a side chamber. On one side is the airlock door of the spaceship with a illuminated panel with the words on it: Also within the room are three small control units against another wall. They seem to be a*t*matic as a series of levers on the middle control unit are moving up and down by themselves. She hesitates for a moment and then puts her hand on a lever and yanks it sharply downwards. Nothing happens. She chooses two more levers and moves one up and one down at the same time. Again there is no response. She moves to the right hand unit and presses several buttons. The response is the same. Coming to a decision, she runs out of the room.) 7: INT. SPACESHIP. REMINDER ROOM (MARK, still locked in the reminder room, is forced to watch the re-started film but takes more interest in it than SARAH. The screen shows scenes of riot police and protestors.) BUTLER: (OOV: Film commentary.) The rules of so-called "civilised society" are breaking down as increased protest and disorder calls for stronger and more violent repression from the authorities, which in turn leads to more political v*olence. All over Europe... (The door opens. MARK jumps up but SARAH is ready for him and struggles with him as she pleads.) SARAH: Look, Mark, you've got to listen to me! I've got something very important to tell you - please! (He stops struggling to listen.) 8: INT. SCHOOL CLASSROOM (NIGHT) (BENTON stands to attention before GENERAL FINCH. The BRIGADIER, with an impassive face, and YATES are also there.) SERGEANT BENTON: There was nothing I could do, sir. He att*cked me. GENERAL FINCH: Were there no guards? SERGEANT BENTON: I sent them off to fix up a cell, sir. GENERAL FINCH: What do you mean - he att*cked you? There isn't a mark on you? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: The Doctor uses a rather unique form of unarmed combat, sir. GENERAL FINCH: You'll be court-martialled, Sergeant. Brigadier? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Sir? (YATES looks at BENTON and then lowers his eyes.) GENERAL FINCH: I'm instituting a full-scale search for the Doctor at once. I shall want the full cooperation of you and your men. They are to sh**t on sight! (The BRIGADIER looks sharply at FINCH who nods at BENTON.) GENERAL FINCH: Meanwhile, put this man under arrest. Captain Yates? (YATES follows his co-conspirator out of the room. The BRIGADIER watches them go.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Quietly.) Well, don't just stand there, Benton, go and put yourself under arrest. SERGEANT BENTON: (Puzzled.) Sir? (The BRIGADIER stands in front of him and speaks quietly.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Where's the Doctor gone? SERGEANT BENTON: To that underground place, I think, sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Then we've got to find him before General Finch does. Get the men ready. SERGEANT BENTON: Right, sir. 9: INT. SPACESHIP. SIDE CHAMBER (SARAH has taken MARK into the side chamber. She presses button after button on the right-hand side control unit to show that there is no response.) SARAH: Now will you believe me? MARK: There must be some explanation? SARAH: Mark, where is this planet we're heading for? MARK: In another solar system close to Earth. SARAH: (Smiles.) The nearest possible solar system to us is four light years away. With the most advanced spaceships developed, it would take hundreds of years to reach there. MARK: One of our members invented a new space drive. (SARAH parts her hair to show her bruised forehead.) SARAH: Do you see that bruise? I got that just before I was kidnapped and brought here. Now if I'd been here three months, it would have gone. MARK: You were in suspended animation. SARAH: (Despairing.) Oh, Mark! I've only been here a matter of hours. (Calmer.) Alright...alright, if we're in space, how did I get here? MARK: You must have been transferred from one of the other ships. SARAH: (Shouts.) There aren't any other ships! All this is a fake! We're not on a spaceship at all! MARK: (Shouts.) Oh, that is ridiculous! SARAH: I'll prove it to you. (She pulls open the door and stands in the airlock.) SARAH: I'm going out through that airlock! (She hangs onto the handle of the outer door.) MARK: That opens directly out into space - you'll be k*lled! SARAH: No, I won't - because the whole set-up is a fake. Now go out there and watch. (She pulls the inner door to. MARK moves into the main chamber...) 10: INT. SPACESHIP. MAIN CHAMBER (...and shuts the panel door. He watches through a window which looks onto the airlock. SARAH pushes open the door and then turns and grins at MARK in delight. She then steps out into "space" and closes the outer door after her. MARK is stunned. He is about to reopen the panel when he hears ADAM'S voice.) ADAM: (OOV.) Mark? (ADAM comes out of his room as MARK desperately tries to keep the look of shock off his face.) ADAM: Ah, there you are. (ADAM sees that something is wrong as he approaches MARK.) ADAM: What's the matter? Are you alright? MARK: Yes, yes, yes, I'm fine, I'm fine. ADAM: Ah, erm, how's our young friend? MARK: She's alright. ADAM: Ah, I thought I might have a chat with her. Is she still in the reminder room? (MARK leads ADAM away from the reminder room door.) MARK: Yes, but I think we should leave her there a little bit longer. I...I think that's what she needs. (ADAM looks closely at him.) ADAM: You know, it might be a good idea for all of us to spend a little time in the reminder room before we arrive. (MARK swallows hard.) 11: EXT. INDUSTRIAL ESTATE (It is now daylight and the DOCTOR, having taken a UNIT jeep, is driving along a road. He turns a corner and sees an army jeep parked on the other side of the road with several troops by it. He hurriedly reverses into a three point turn as the soldiers pile into their jeep to pursue him. He sh**t off in the direction he has just come from as the other jeep follows at speed. The DOCTOR drives through the industrial site and into an abandoned and decaying factory. Only the walls and roof girders remain - no actual roof and no windows. The DOCTOR is about to pass an archway in the side of the factory but stops and reverses into it and the darkened chamber beyond. A moment later, the army jeep turns into the abandoned factory and speeds past the DOCTOR'S hiding place. After they have gone, he reverses out and goes back the way he came. He smiles as he drives on through the estate.) 12: INT. BUNKER. PASSAGE (SARAH making her way from the mock spaceship, finds that she has never left the bunker and is in one of its passages. She stands outside the control room as she hears BUTLER and WHITAKER talking within.) BUTLER: (OOV: Inside control room.) Well, Professor? That's the first time I've ever seen a Minister...lost for words. (SARAH moves to the doorway control room.) 13: INT. BUNKER. CONTROL ROOM (She pokes her head round the door and watches the two men.) PROFESSOR WHITAKER: ... BUTLER: Mmm? PROFESSOR WHITAKER: We shall need the reactor running at full power. BUTLER: Oh, it is. PROFESSOR WHITAKER: Er, check it again. BUTLER: (Patiently.) The reactor is working perfectly. PROFESSOR WHITAKER: The power levels are critical. I must be assured that they are sufficient to trigger the time-field. BUTLER: Alright, I'll check it again. (SARAH ducks away from the door...) 14: INT. BUNKER. PASSAGE (...and presses herself against a buttress in the passage.) PROFESSOR WHITAKER: (OOV: Inside control room.) Thank you very much. (BUTLER walks out and in the opposite direction. SARAH follows him. He goes into a side passage while she spots the lift that she came down in ahead. She runs to it and presses the button. The up light illuminates green instead of blue.) 15: INT. CHARLES GROVER'S OFFICE (Up above, GROVER sits at his desk. He leafs through a file then gets up and is about to open the door to his filing room lift when his desk intercom buzzes. He is about to ignore it but it buzzes again. He goes back to his desk and answers it.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: (Into intercom.) Yes? SECRETARY: (OOV: Over intercom.) You're car's ready, sir. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: (Into intercom.) Oh, thank you. (He looks towards the filing room door.) 16: INT. FILING ROOM (Within the filing room lift, SARAH patiently waits to ascend to the surface.) 17: INT. CHARLES GROVER'S OFFICE (GROVER collects his coat and picks up a pen off his desk.) 18: INT. FILING ROOM (The lift arrives. SARAH watches as the inner door slides back and she goes to the conventional panelled door, listens and then carefully opens it.) 19: INT. CHARLES GROVER'S OFFICE (She looks round the door and sees that the office is empty. Being careful to close the filing room door, she crosses to the main door to the office and again listens carefully. She opens it and looks out into the corridor.) 20: EXT. WIMBLEDON COMMON (The DOCTOR drives the jeep down a track through the trees on the edge of Wimbledon Common. He hears a noise and looks up to see an army helicopter overhead. The DOCTOR carries on driving remorselessly as the helicopter turns and starts to follow him. The DOCTOR drives off as fast as he can.) 21: INT. ARMY JEEP (Not far behind is an army jeep with four regular soldiers in it. They receive a radio message which the Corporal in the front passenger seat answers.) HELICOPTER PILOT: (OOV: Over radio.) Tango one to patrol, over? ARMY CORPORAL: (Into radio.) Patrol, over? HELICOPTER PILOT: (OOV: Over radio.) He's turned off. Heading for the common, over. ARMY CORPORAL: (Into radio.) Roger, out. (The soldier points to the driver to pursue.) 22: EXT. WIMBLEDON COMMON (The DOCTOR'S jeep reaches a fork in the track. About to take the left-hand fork, he suddenly stops, reverses into the right-hand fork and sh**t back the way he came - as the army jeep comes down the left-hand fork from the opposite direction. It gives chase. The DOCTOR looks behind him and increases his speed. He looks up and sees the helicopter still overhead and following his every movement. The DOCTOR turns quickly to his left and into the cover of trees. The helicopter loses sight of him.) HELICOPTER PILOT: (OOV: Over radio.) Tango one to patrol, over? 23: INT. ARMY JEEP ARMY CORPORAL: (Into radio.) Patrol, over? HELICOPTER PILOT: (OOV: Over radio.) He's turned again. Heading into the trees, I'm positive. He's somewhere among those trees, over. ARMY CORPORAL: (Into radio.) Patrol, out. 24: EXT. WIMBLEDON COMMON (The DOCTOR'S jeep sits abandoned within the trees. Of him there is no sign. The army jeep comes up the track. The Corporal gets out, his r*fle ready. He looks around him but can see no sign of their quarry. He goes back to his own jeep.) ARMY CORPORAL: Right, everybody out. (The soldiers do so with their r*fle. Up a small rise, in the trees, the cloaked DOCTOR watches impassively as the Corporal gives his orders pointing to one soldier and in one direction.) ARMY CORPORAL: You - down there. (The first soldier runs off and the Corporal turns to the other two soldiers and points in the other direction.) ARMY CORPORAL: You - down there. (Those two soldiers move off. The DOCTOR descends slightly and hides in the ferns as one of the soldiers comes nearer. The soldier goes straight past him and the DOCTOR watches through the shrubbery as he goes. He then moves back towards the jeeps. Overhead the helicopter continues to fly over the woodland trying to get sight of the DOCTOR as back on the ground one of the soldiers, out of the sight of the Corporal, takes advantage of the his absence to sit down on a edge of a brick duct to a stream and light a cigarette. Nearby, and at the base of the rise, the DOCTOR moves slowly out of the ferns and towards the two parked vehicles. The helicopter still hovers over the trees as the DOCTOR gets inside the army jeep and quietly shuts the door. Suddenly, the radio comes to life.) HELICOPTER PILOT: (OOV: Over radio.) Tango one to patrol, any luck, over? (The DOCTOR answers the radio in an accent which is slightly rougher than his usual clipped tones...) DOCTOR: (Into radio.) Hello tango one, patrol here. It's alright, we've got 'im. We're bringing 'im in now. Listen, inform all the other units, will you? Over. HELICOPTER PILOT: (OOV: Over radio.) Roger, patrol. Congratulations. We'll inform HQ - get them to call off the search, out. (The DOCTOR grins and the helicopter flies off. The DOCTOR starts the jeep but suddenly hears a hail of b*ll*ts as the Corporal returns. The DOCTOR speeds off and the Corporal runs down the hill towards the DOCTOR'S abandoned jeep. He gets in and tries to start the engine but, sabotaged, it merely ticks over...) 25: INT. SCHOOL CLASSROOM (SARAH has made her way back to the temporary HQ and goes into the main room, followed by a flustered PRIVATE BRYSON. There is no one else there.) SARAH: I tell you I have got a pass. PRIVATE BRYSON: Then I must see it, Miss. I...I've got strict instructions. SARAH: Well, never mind your instructions... PRIVATE BRYSON: I've got to check everybody's pass. SARAH: Look, where's the Brigadier. PRIVATE BRYSON: Well, he's out. SARAH: But where? PRIVATE BRYSON: I can't tell you that, Miss. SARAH: (Pleads.) Please, you've got to tell me! (BRYSON sighs.) PRIVATE BRYSON: Well, they're out on this big hunt, Miss - looking for the Doctor. SARAH: (Puzzled.) The Doctor? PRIVATE BRYSON: Well, they had him arrested but he escaped. Well, he made the monsters. SARAH: (Cutting.) Don't be ridiculous! PRIVATE BRYSON: Well they caught 'im red-handed! SARAH: Well, where's Captain Yates or Sergeant Benton? PRIVATE BRYSON: All out on this man-hunt, Miss. (At YATES' desk, SARAH grabs a pen and paper and scribbles a note. BRYSON, unsure what to do, sits on another desk and watches her.) SARAH: Look, I'm going to leave this note for the Brigadier. Now you see that he gets it, mm? PRIVATE BRYSON: Yes, Miss. (BRYSON sighs and waits as SARAH completes her note. She puts down her pen and sighs. She looks up and smiles as someone else enters the room.) SARAH: Oh, am I glad to see you. (It is GENERAL FINCH who walks in with a surprised look on his face.) GENERAL FINCH: Miss Smith? SARAH: What's all this about the Doctor? GENERAL FINCH: Er, re-captured. (To BRYSON.) Where is he now? PRIVATE BRYSON: I'm sorry, sir. Who, sir? GENERAL FINCH: The Doctor! I heard a message over the R/T to say he'd been caught. Wasn't at my HQ so I thought they must have brought him here. PRIVATE BRYSON: No, sir, he's not here, sir. SARAH: Look, the Doctor isn't behind all this, but I know who is - I know everything! GENERAL FINCH: (Quietly.) Do you now? SARAH: You... (He holds up a hand for her to be quiet.) GENERAL FINCH: Alright. (To BRYSON.) Dismissed. PRIVATE BRYSON: Sir? GENERAL FINCH: Get out! (BRYSON stands to attention, wheels round and leaves the room. FINCH watches him go and then leans over SARAH'S desk.) GENERAL FINCH: Now, Miss Smith, what's all this about? SARAH: Well, you're never going to believe this - it's Grover - the Minister. He's behind everything. GENERAL FINCH: Oh, come now. That's impossible. SARAH: No, I promise you - it's the truth. They're operating from a hidden control centre. It's underground and it's right beneath Grover's office. Well that's why he stayed in London. GENERAL FINCH: He stayed because he's in charge of the emergency. SARAH: He's causing the emergency! (She stands.) SARAH: You've got to stop him - put him under arrest! Well, you can raid that place with your men. GENERAL FINCH: Oh, come now. I can't take action against a Minister of the Crown simply on your word. SARAH: I can prove what I'm saying is true. Come to Grover's office with me. (She takes a step towards the door as FINCH makes a show of considering her story.) GENERAL FINCH: Mmm, well I think your story needs investigating. (They start to walk out.) GENERAL FINCH: Have you told anyone? SARAH: Well, nobody here to tell. I'd only just arrived when you turned up. GENERAL FINCH: Have you any idea why the Minister should be doing all this? 26: INT. CHARLES GROVER'S OFFICE (GENERAL FINCH and SARAH walk into GROVER'S office.) GENERAL FINCH: I don't understand. The place is absolutely deserted. Very bad security. Now where's this special room? (SARAH points at the door to the filing room.) SARAH: Over there. (FINCH takes a step towards it but SARAH holds him back.) SARAH: Shouldn't we have brought some of your men here with us? I mean, might be quite a few of them down there. (FINCH goes to the door anyway.) GENERAL FINCH: There's still no proof of your extraordinary story, Miss Smith. I must check it myself first. Delicate business this, you know? (He opens the door and the inner door slides back.) 27: INT. FILING ROOM (They enter the room and SARAH closes the door behind them.) GENERAL FINCH: It's just a file room. SARAH: It's a lift. (SARAH opens the filing cabinet that GROVER was in earlier and starts to pull the file hangers back.) SARAH: The controls are in here. (FINCH picks up some of the other files.) GENERAL FINCH: What's all this bumf? SARAH: Oh, just a lot of old ministry files. (SARAH operates the lift but fails to see that FINCH is unholstering his p*stol.) SARAH: There. (She turns and sees the w*apon aimed at her.) SARAH: Oh, boy! I really do choose my friends, don't I? (FINCH stares at her but stays silent.) 28: INT. BUNKER. PASSAGE OUTSIDE FILING ROOM LIFT (The illuminated down light next to the lift goes out.) 29: INT. FILING ROOM (The door opens.) GENERAL FINCH: I think you know the way. (SARAH turns and is led out.) 30: INT. BUNKER. CONTROL ROOM (GROVER sits in the control room with WHITAKER as FINCH leads SARAH in.) GENERAL FINCH: Returning your prisoner, sir. (GROVER is amazed.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: How did you leave the ship? SARAH: There isn't any spaceship - stop playing. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: (To FINCH.) Did she tell anybody? GENERAL FINCH: No, fortunately everyone was out of the way. I think the Doctor has escaped again. PROFESSOR WHITAKER: I did everything you asked me to incriminate him - all wasted. GENERAL FINCH: You did very well. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Have you any idea where he is? GENERAL FINCH: Well, he's probably on his way here now. (He pushes SARAH down into a chair.) GENERAL FINCH: But he needn't worry us. The countdown is too close. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: It's time to go into the final phase. You, Whitaker, will produce a last wave of apparition monsters all over London to drive out any remaining people. (To FINCH.) You will order the complete withdrawal of all your troops, including UNIT. GENERAL FINCH: The Brigadier's bound to protest. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: You have final authority - overrule him. GENERAL FINCH: Well, I'll see to it right away. Er, what about the girl? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Leave her to me. GENERAL FINCH: Well don't lose her again. (FINCH leaves as GROVER stands over SARAH.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Now then, what are we to do with you? SARAH: Just don't put me back on your fake spaceship, that's all. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: I don't think that'd be a good idea. You're rather a bad influence. SARAH: What you're doing to those people on there is cruel. They all believe that they're going to a new world. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: And so they are - but their new world is this one. This world of ours swept clean and returned to its early innocence. SARAH: You're going to take them back to the past? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: We're going to bring the past to them. SARAH: I don't understand. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: By rolling back time, by taking the Earth back to an earlier, purer age. SARAH: (Puzzled.) Oh...oh...what about all the people on Earth now? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: They'll vanish - they and their ancestors will never have been born. SARAH: That's horrible! It's worse than m*rder. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: No...you don't understand. But I hope, Miss Smith, when you do understand, you'll want to be with us. If you're ready, Whitaker? PROFESSOR WHITAKER: Yes. (WHITAKER turns to the main time transportation unit. On the monitor a Triceratops is seen to materialise on a roof-top near to Westminster Abbey. GROVER looks pleased.) 31: INT. EXT. LONDON STREET NEAR WESTMINSTER (On a street near the houses of Parliament, a Brontosaurus eats the leaves of a tree.) 32: EXT. LONDON STREET NEAR ST. PAUL'S (A Stegosaurus stands in another deserted street overlooking St. Paul's Cathedral.) 33: EXT. ANOTHER LONDON STREET (Elsewhere, a Tyrannosaurs Rex roars.) 34: EXT. LINDSAY STREET (Outside Smithfield Market, the DOCTOR pulls to a halt as he sees another Brontosaurs ahead blocking the junction. He whistles in wonder at the sight and turns the jeep round to go back - but at that moment, he comes to a halt as another Tyrannosaurus Rex is materialised in his path...)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "11x09 - Invasion of the Dinosaurs - part 5"}
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INVASION OF THE DINOSAURS BY: MALCOLM HULKE PART SIX Original Air Date: 16 February, 1974 5:30pm - 5:55pm 1: EXT. LINDSAY STREET (The DOCTOR turns the jeep round to go back - but at that moment, he comes to a halt as a Tyrannosaurus Rex is materialised in his path. He tries to put the vehicle into reverse but finds that the gears are stuck. The dinosaur turns to face him. He runs out of the jeep and the shuttered gates of Smithfield Market. He tries desperately to pull them up but finds that they are stuck. He finds however that the Tyrannosaurs has found another interest - that of the Brontosaurus at the other end of the street. The two creatures roar at each other and then close in for the fight. As the DOCTOR watches, they clash with the Tyrannosaurus trying to get its opponents neck in its mouth. The DOCTOR watches to see if the coast is clear as the Brontosaurus cries out in pain as the Tyrannosaurus digs its teeth into the back of its neck and then, letting go, turns slightly and whacks its tail into the creature. The DOCTOR runs for it as the Tyrannosaurus once more moves on the other dinosaur's long neck.) 2: EXT. BACK STREET (The DOCTOR runs down a street at the back of a factory unit. He comes to a tired halt as ahead an army jeep turns a nearby corner and heads straight for him. In the front passenger seat is GENERAL FINCH. A soldier in the back stands with his g*n raised at the DOCTOR but the GENERAL also stands and gently pushes the g*n aside.) GENERAL FINCH: Leave him to me. (Before he can take any action, another jeep comes up from behind the DOCTOR. This one is driven by BENTON and contains the BRIGADIER who stands and confronts a scowling FINCH in his vehicle.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: My prisoner. GENERAL FINCH: Get out of the way, Brigadier! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I'm sorry, General, this man is a UNIT prisoner. I'm taking him into custody. GENERAL FINCH: Get out of my way! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Quietly.) Benton? (BENTON stands up in the jeep and aims his g*n directly at the GENERAL.) GENERAL FINCH: You realise this is mutiny? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: There's no question of mutiny, sir. I'm only doing my job. (The GENERAL considers and then decides to save face...) GENERAL FINCH: You'll place this man under close arrest. I'm holding you responsible for him. (The GENERAL gestures with his swagger stick to the driver of his jeep and then he and the soldier in the back of his vehicle sit. The vehicle moves off past a smiling DOCTOR.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Coming, Doctor? (The BRIGADIER moves into the back of the jeep to allow the DOCTOR to sit in the front.) 3: INT. BUNKER. PASSAGE (BUTLER holds SARAH by the wrist as he unlocks a door in the passage.) 4: INT. BUNKER. STORE ROOM (It leads to a store room filled with shelves, boxes and rope.) SARAH: Oh, you're not going to shut me in there? BUTLER: You won't be there long. (He pushes her in and SARAH tries to stop him closing the door.) SARAH: Where are you lot going? BUTLER: Much further than you'd ever believe. SARAH: You won't just leave me here? BUTLER: Don't worry - you're coming with us. (He pushes her hands off the door, closes and locks it. She tries the handle and then sits down on a box, somewhat disconsolate. As she looks round, she sees a large ventilation grille on the wall. She starts to try and loosen it.) 5: INT. SCHOOL CLASSROOM (The BRIGADIER, the DOCTOR and BENTON arrive back at the temporary HQ.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Doctor, I can get away with holding you here keeping you out of General Finch's hands, but what you're suggesting is mutiny. (He suddenly spots PRIVATE BRYSON taking apart the radio set.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What the blazes are you doing? PRIVATE BRYSON: Orders, sir. We're evacuating. All the others have gone. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Whose orders? PRIVATE BRYSON: General Finch, sir. I thought you knew all about it. (An exasperated BRIGADIER turns to the DOCTOR.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: This is ridiculous. The whole of London crawling with monsters and he deci... (A thought strikes him. He turns back to BRYSON as BENTON starts to put the radio back where it was.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What about the spotter patrols? PRIVATE BRYSON: Well, they've all gone, sir. Everyone's out of the area. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Good grief! DOCTOR: Look, face up to it, Brigadier. General Finch is involved just like Grover. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Is everybody in this conspiracy? DOCTOR: Well, Captain Yates certainly is. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Now that I can't believe. SERGEANT BENTON: Well, he's been pretty odd lately, sir, and he was very keen on locking the Doctor up. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: He was merely obeying orders. (The DOCTOR suddenly spots SARAH'S message on the desk.) DOCTOR: There's a note here from Sarah. Well, there you are. Yes, she says she's got positive proof of Grover's involvement...and the existence of the underground base. Here, see for yourself. (The BRIGADIER reads the note.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Then where the blazes is she? DOCTOR: (To BRYSON.) Er, Private? When was this note left? PRIVATE BRYSON: Well, very early this morning, sir. She went off with General Finch. DOCTOR: Thank you. (The BRIGADIER thinks and reaches a decision...) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Benton, I want a call to Geneva. SERGEANT BENTON: Right, sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (To the DOCTOR.) I'll get on to International UNIT HQ. They must put pressure on the government. DOCTOR: There's no time for that. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, can you suggest anything else we can do? DOCTOR: Yes - att*ck that underground base now. PRIVATE BRYSON: Sir? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Yeah? PRIVATE BRYSON: Excuse me, sir, but, erm, are we evacuating or not? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: No. PRIVATE BRYSON: Oh, well, in...in that case, sir, er, what shall I do? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Impatiently.) Oh, go and make us all a cup of tea. PRIVATE BRYSON: (Smiles.) Oh... (He stands to attention, turns and walks out of the room.) SERGEANT BENTON: (Into radio.) Yes? Yes, put him through now please. (To the BRIGADIER.) Geneva on the line, sir. (He points to a phone on the trestle table through to which he has put the call.) SERGEANT BENTON: There, sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Thank you. (The BRIGADIER picks up the phone but suddenly hears a familiar voice...) CAPTAIN YATES: Put it down, sir. (The BRIGADIER looks up to see YATES entering the room with his p*stol raised and pointed at him. The BRIGADIER calmly does as instructed. At the radio, BENTON tenses and YATES swings the g*n round to point it at him and glances towards where the BRIGADIER is stood.) CAPTAIN YATES: Over there, Sergeant. (BENTON backs away from the radio and YATES picks up the phone receiver connected to it.) CAPTAIN YATES: (Into radio.) Would you cancel that call, please? We won't be needing it now. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: And what do you think you're doing, Captain Yates? CAPTAIN YATES: I'm really sorry, sir. 6: INT. BUNKER. STORE ROOM (Stood on a box, SARAH tugs at the grille over the shaft. Exerting her strength, she manages to prise it off the wall and listens a moment to make sure that she hasn't made too much noise. She lifts herself up into the shaft.) 7: INT. SCHOOL CLASSROOM (The DOCTOR gently questions YATES as the BRIGADIER and BENTON glower at him.) DOCTOR: Just what are they gonna do, Mike? CAPTAIN YATES: They're going to roll back time. (The DOCTOR looks shocked.) CAPTAIN YATES: Er, the world used to be a cleaner, simpler place. It's all become too complicated and corrupt. DOCTOR: Roll back time, I see. Can Whitaker really do that? CAPTAIN YATES: I believe so. All the preliminary experiments have been successful. DOCTOR: Do you realise what'll happen if they succeed? CAPTAIN YATES: We shall find ourselves in the golden age! DOCTOR: There never was a golden age, Mike. It's all an illusion. CAPTAIN YATES: (Passionately.) Not this time! We're going to make it come true! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Scathingly.) Really? How? DOCTOR: Whitaker's machine creates a protective field. Anyone within that field will be unaffected. Anybody outside it will just cease to exist. CAPTAIN YATES: Quite right, Doctor. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (To YATES.) Are we inside this protective field? CAPTAIN YATES: Perhaps, perhaps not. We're on the very edge of the zone here, but it doesn't matter. SERGEANT BENTON: You mean it doesn't matter to you not existing? CAPTAIN YATES: I'm not important. The others'll get there. DOCTOR: Now listen to me, Mike, I w... (The DOCTOR starts to stand and YATES turns his g*n on him. The DOCTOR sits back down.) DOCTOR: Look, I understand your ideals. Well, in many ways I sympathise with them. But this is not the way to go about it, you know? You've got no right to take away the existence of generations of people. CAPTAIN YATES: There's no alternative! DOCTOR: Yes, there is. Take the world that you've got and try and make something of it. It's not too late. (Suddenly...) PRIVATE BRYSON: Oh, I didn't know you were back, Captain Yates, sir... (BRYSON enters the room with tray of tea mugs. YATES spins round in surprise, BRYSON drops the tray in shock and BENTON grabs YATES from behind in a choke hold. The DOCTOR breathes a sigh of relief.) 8: INT. SPACESHIP. MAIN CHAMBER (Various of the sleepers on the ship are starting to come round, having been brought into the main chamber to do so. As MARK talks quietly to one man called ROBINSON, ADAM leans over a woman as she wakes on a couch.) ADAM: Welcome! Welcome to the people. We've revived you because it's almost time for our landing on New Earth. (RUTH enters the main chamber.) RUTH: Adam! That girl's gone. She's not in the reminder room. ADAM: Well, she can't have gone far. (Out of their range of view, SARAH comes back in through the airlock door. MARK sees her through the window which looks onto the airlock.) RUTH: But we must find her! (MARK shakes his head urgently at SARAH and she ducks out of sight into the side room that contains the dummy control machines.) ADAM: Oh, very well, my dear, I'll help you but, erm, all our friends are waking up. Aren't you going to say welcome to them? RUTH: Later. (She walks off. ADAM speaks gently to the woman on the couch.) ADAM: Oh, excuse me. (He follows RUTH. MARK also speaks to the woman.) MARK: I'll be back in a minute. (As RUTH and ADAM move off out of the chamber, MARK goes to the panel door to the side room.) 9: INT. SPACESHIP. SIDE CHAMBER (He opens the panel and joins SARAH who is crouched out of sight on the floor.) MARK: What did you find? Where are we? SARAH: Somewhere under central London. The whole ship is a fake. (MARK looks stunned.) MARK: Why did they cheat us? SARAH: Well, it's too complicated to explain now, but it's something to do with altering the course of time. (MARK glances back to where the woken sleepers are sat.) MARK: Those poor people! What can we do? SARAH: Tell them the truth. (She moves into the main chamber. MARK follows.) 10: INT. SCHOOL CLASSROOM (BENTON, the DOCTOR and the BRIGADIER pack bags of expl*sives as BRYSON makes a radio message...) PRIVATE BRYSON: (Into radio.) Come in mobile patrols. All mobile patrols, come in please, over. (BRYSON only gets interference as a reply.) SERGEANT BENTON: There we are, Doctor. Blow your way into the Bank of England with that lot. DOCTOR: Thank you, Sergeant. PRIVATE BRYSON: (Into radio.) Trap ... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I still think we should wait for reinforcements. DOCTOR: Well, we can't wait. PRIVATE BRYSON: (Into radio.) Please acknowledge, over. DOCTOR: That project's going to be activated any moment now and when that happens, your reinforcements will vanish - and so will you. (He heads for the door with a bag of expl*sives and a rope.) PRIVATE BRYSON: (Into radio.) Trap ... calling all mobile patrols. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Oh, very well... (The BRIGADIER picks up his bag of expl*sives as the DOCTOR waits at the door for him.) PRIVATE BRYSON: (Into radio.) All mobile patrols... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Benton, you stay here. PRIVATE BRYSON: (Into radio.) Please acknowledge, please acknowledge. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Try and collect those mobile patrols. As soon as you've assembled any kind of force, rendezvous with the Doctor and myself at the tube station. SERGEANT BENTON: Right, sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Keep trying, Bryson. (The DOCTOR and the BRIGADIER walk out. BENTON yells after them...) SERGEANT BENTON: Ah, good luck, Doctor! DOCTOR: Thank you! 11: INT. SPACESHIP. MAIN CHAMBER (SARAH tries to make the travellers see reason. RUTH and ADAM have still not returned.) SARAH: Oh, can't you understand? It's all a trick! You're not on a spaceship - you're not going to another planet! ROBINSON: That can't be true! They promised us - we're going to a new world! I went into everything very carefully. I sold my house. (RUTH and ADAM return.) MARK: She's telling us the truth! ADAM: It's alright, Ruth, she's here. MARK: Adam, we've been tricked! RUTH: (To SARAH.) How did you get out of the reminder room? Where have you been? SARAH: Out of the ship. (RUTH scoffs at ADAM as the others start to mutter.) RUTH: The girl's mad! ROBINSON: Look, I don't understand all this! SARAH: You know what's on the other side of that airlock - a flight of steps. RUTH: (Urgently.) Adam, we must lock her up. MARK: I saw her open the airlock. RUTH: And I can see that she's very persuasive. MARK: Adam, she's telling us the truth! RUTH: Now listen to me - all of you. This poor girl is unbalanced. (She lays a gentle hand on SARAH'S arm but it is thrust off.) RUTH: She should never have been selected. Already she's contaminated one of us. MARK: I'm going out through the airlock so you can see. (MARK walks towards the side room to the consternation of the others...) RUTH: Stop him! We'll all be k*lled! (ROBINSON grabs MARK and they start to struggle.) ADAM: Mark! We can't have fighting! RUTH: You see? They're a danger to themselves and to all of us! SARAH: There is no danger! (SARAH tries to head for the airlock...) RUTH: Oh no you don't! (...but RUTH, showing a strength that belies her years, pulls her back. Another woman helps pinion SARAH.) SARAH: Look, the people who organised all this - they've got a machine that's going to affect time itself. It's got nothing to do with space travel. RUTH: (To the woman.) We must lock her up. Come on. (The two women start to drag SARAH back towards the reminder room as she cries out to them all.) SARAH: No, you've got to help me stop them, otherwise the whole planet'll be in danger! Millions of people are going to be wiped out! (ROBINSON starts to pull MARK towards the same destination.) MARK: Adam, that's the truth! Robinson, will you listen? (ADAM looks concerned.) 12: INT. SPACESHIP. SIDE CHAMBER (He goes into the still-open side room. He looks at the controls for a moment and then flicks a switch.) ADAM: (Into radio.) Hello? Hello, can anyone hear me? (A look of panic appears on his face for a moment. He flicks another switch and then looks relieved as BUTLER'S voice comes over the radio.) BUTLER: (OOV: Over radio.) This is spaceship one. We are receiving you. ADAM: (Into radio.) Thank God. I'd like to speak to Charles Grover please? (He flicks another switch to try and reduce the interference over the radio message.) ADAM: (Into radio.) I've got to speak to Charles Grover. Something very disturbing has happened. 13: EXT. ROAD (A tyrannosaurus roars as the DOCTOR and the BRIGADIER drive along another road in a jeep, past an abandoned and slightly crushed vehicle. They speed away from the Tyrannosaurus. Suddenly, the DOCTOR brings the jeep to a halt. In front on them, sideways on across the road, is a Brontosaurus. The DOCTOR looks back at the Tyrannosaurus and then forwards, making up his mind.) DOCTOR: Hang on to your hat, Brigadier. (They drive on forward and under the belly of the reptile.) 14: INT. BUNKER. CONTROL ROOM As WHITAKER makes notes on a clipboard, BUTLER reports the radio message to GROVER.) BUTLER: I don't know how she got away but somehow she's got back into that spaceship and she's stirring them all up. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Can't you reassure them? BUTLER: It's no good, I've tried. Our friend - Adam - insists on talking to you. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Well there's not much time. BUTLER: Well, you'd better talk to them. Adam sounded in quite a state. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: (Snaps.) In that case, I'd better dress for the occasion. 15: EXT. UNDERGROUND STATION (A Stegosaurus stands roaring gently outside an underground station on the Metropolitan and Circle line. On the other side of the road, the DOCTOR and the BRIGADIER wait in the jeep. They get out and the BRIGADIER joins the DOCTOR on his side. He takes the pin out of a grenade and lobs it across the road at the dinosaur, pulling the DOCTOR down with him. The grenade explodes in front of the Stegosaurus and it starts to retreat backwards down the road and the two men get back in the jeep to continue their journey.) 16: INT. SPACESHIP. MAIN CHAMBER (More people in the spaceship have been revived and are sat down on the couches, all anxiously watching the airlock door.) RUTH: (To ADAM.) You had no right to call him. We could have dealt with this ourselves. ADAM: I think he's got a lot to answer for. ROBINSON: How will he reach us from the other ship? RUTH: There's a shuttle. It's just locked on to us. (The illuminated "DANGER DEPRESSURIZED" sign on the airlock door flashes and it opens to reveal GROVER in a spacesuit and helmet. He pulls the outer door closed and activates some controls on the wall as the people watch through the glass panel.) ROBINSON: What's he doing now? ADAM: Equalising the air pressure. (The illuminated sign stops flashing and GROVER steps into the side room and then into the main chamber. ADAM helps him off with his gloves and then GROVER removes his helmet.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Well, Adam, what's the problem? 17: INT. TRAFALGAR SQUARE UNDERGROUND STATION. PASSAGE (The DOCTOR and the BRIGADIER come up to the cleaner's cupboard door with rope, torches and expl*sives.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, I never thought I'd find myself bl*wing up a tube station. If you're wrong, Doctor, I'm going to have a job explaining this to London Transport. DOCTOR: Well, don't worry, Brigadier, I'm never wrong. But if we don't get down there, there won't be a London Transport to explain to. 18: INT. SPACESHIP. REMINDER ROOM (SARAH and MARK are in the reminder room with their hands bound behind their backs as GROVER, alone, sees them.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: You really are a terrible problem to me, Miss Smith. MARK: You cheated us! CHARLES GROVER M.P.: I had to. MARK: Why? Why couldn't you tell us the truth? SARAH: He didn't dare tell you. Don't you understand, Mark? Millions of people will be wiped out. (To GROVER.) That's the truth, isn't it? CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Put that way - yes, I'm afraid it is. 19: INT. SPACESHIP. MAIN CHAMBER (Outside the door, ADAM listens and hears the truth...) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: (OOV: Inside reminder room.) Yet in a sense, these people will come to no harm at all because they will never have been born. I had to tell a story that would be acceptable to people like Adam - the sort of people I wanted to recruit. 18: INT. SPACESHIP. REMINDER ROOM SARAH: Yes, kind, decent people who just might object to the destruction of generations of human beings! CHARLES GROVER M.P.: I'm only deceiving them about the means - not the ends. They will have their new world, but it will be this world returned to an earlier purer age. MARK: The end can never justify the means. What you're doing is criminal! CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Mark, for the sake of the others, can't you accept the situation? MARK: No - never. SARAH: We'll go on telling them the truth - every chance we get. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: In that case, I must see that you don't get the chance. Once this project has been completed, I can only hope that you will adjust to life in the new world. I really am very sorry about all this. I can only hope...that in the future we shall be friends. (He opens the door and walks out of the room.) 19: INT. TRAFALGAR SQUARE UNDERGROUND STATION. PASSAGE (The DOCTOR trails expl*sives wires into the cupboard under the light of a torch held by the BRIGADIER. Suddenly, they hear a gentle rumbling roar. The BRIGADIER swings the torch round to reveal a horned dinosaur at the end of the platform.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: We've got company. DOCTOR: Good grief! It's a Triceratops! Look, Brigadier, try and keep it occupied while I'm finishing this off, will you? (The BRIGADIER looks startled at this request as the DOCTOR takes the torch from him.) DOCTOR: Don't worry - they're none too bright. (He grins to himself as the BRIGADIER fetches his own satchel of expl*sives from within which he pulls a flare. He lights it and heads up the platform towards the dinosaur. He keeps it backed off with the flare.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Alright, Doctor. I think I can cope with it! (The DOCTOR smiles as he continues working on rigging up the expl*sives.) 20: INT. SPACESHIP. REMINDER ROOM (ADAM, looking worried, comes into the reminder room.) MARK: Adam, you've got to help us! (He pulls a penknife out of his pocket and starts to cut SARAH and MARK'S bonds.) ADAM: I know. I overheard. I had to wait until Ruth was out of the way. (SARAH is freed first. She runs for the door as ADAM frees MARK.) ADAM: Now, what are we gonna do? SARAH: Get to the flight deck and open that airlock! (The two men follow her out.) 21: INT. TRAFALGAR SQUARE UNDERGROUND STATION. PASSAGE (The BRIGADIER yells down the platform from his post in front of the Triceratops.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Are you ready, Doctor? This is the last flare. (The DOCTOR is trailing a wheel of expl*sives wire away from the cupboard.) DOCTOR: Yep. Yes, nearly ready, come on. (The BRIGADIER backs off from the dinosaur and both men retreat up the steps with the wire. As the dinosaur continues to roar, they connect the wire to a fuse box, and then the DOCTOR lifts and depresses the plunger. The tunnel is lit up by an expl*si*n.) DOCTOR: Right, let's take a look. (He shines the torch down the exposed lift shaft.) DOCTOR: Ah, there it is. Right, I'm going down there. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I'll come with you. DOCTOR: No, I'd rather go on my own - it's less conspicuous. (He picks up a coil of rope.) DOCTOR: You go and get those reinforcements, will you? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right. (As the BRIGADIER heads off, the DOCTOR shines his torch into the damaged cupboard, looking for something by which to tie the rope to.) 22: EXT. TRAFALGAR SQUARE UNDERGROUND STATION (The BRIGADIER comes out of the underground station and heads for his jeep. He picks up his radio.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Greyhound one to trap two, over? 23: INT. SCHOOL CLASSROOM SERGEANT BENTON: (Into radio.) Trap two - Sergeant Benton here, sir. 24: EXT. TRAFALGAR SQUARE UNDERGROUND STATION BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Now look, we've broken through and the Doctor's inside. What about those reinforcements? 25: INT. SCHOOL CLASSROOM SERGEANT BENTON: (Into radio.) Just one mobile patrol, sir. That's all I could raise. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (OOV: Over radio.) Better than nothing. Bring them along. SERGEANT BENTON: (Into radio.) Yes, sir. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (OOV: Over radio.) Quick as you can, Benton, out. (BENTON sighs and turns. GENERAL FINCH is stood behind him with a p*stol pointed at his head.) SERGEANT BENTON: Look, sir, I've got to send those reinforcements. The Brigadier's in trouble. GENERAL FINCH: You'll do as you're told, Sergeant. SERGEANT BENTON: Sir, I've got to send them. GENERAL FINCH: I'm warning you, Sergeant. (BENTON thinks...) SERGEANT BENTON: Very good, sir. (He turns back to the radio but quickly turns back and grabs the GENERAL'S hand pushing the g*n out of his line of f*re. The two men struggle across the schoolroom and BENTON manages to push the GENERAL back onto a table but he still manages to hold onto the g*n as he scrabbles at BENTON'S face.) GENERAL FINCH: You'll be court martialled for this, Sergeant! SERGEANT BENTON: Yes, sir! (BENTON starts to slam the GENERAL'S knuckles against the table in an effort to make him dislodge the g*n.) SERGEANT BENTON: Very sorry, sir! 26: INT. SPACESHIP. MAIN CHAMBER (SARAH, MARK and ADAM confront the other travellers. RUTH looks furious.) ADAM: I think you should at least listen, Ruth. ROBINSON: That does sound reasonable - to listen. RUTH: Very well. What is it you want me to listen to? SARAH: I think it's best if you just watch. (She heads for the side room.) RUTH: What's she going to do? MARK: Open the airlock. (RUTH tries to run after her. ADAM holds her back.) RUTH: But she'll k*ll herself! She'll k*ll us all! ADAM: If she's wrong, she's the only one that'll suffer. (The travellers watch. MARK nods to SARAH and, within the closed airlock, she thrusts open the door onto "space" and turns round and smiles at the watchers who start to mutter...) TRAVELLER: (Astonished.) What's going on? MARK: You see? FIRST TRAVELLER: (Astonished.) They've been right all along. SECOND TRAVELLER: (Astonished.) ... nothing of it. THIRD TRAVELLER: (Astonished.) But where are we? (SARAH walks back in and up to RUTH.) SARAH: The people who tricked you are out there. Now is your chance to demand an explanation. TRAVELLER: (Mutters.) That sounds sensible. (RUTH gives a curt nod at SARAH and heads off for the airlock. All the others follow.) 27: INT. BUNKER. PASSAGE (The DOCTOR has made it down the shaft and into the bunker. He makes his way along a passage and, hearing someone nearby, ducks into a side passage. A moment later BUTLER appears. He too has heard something. He stops, listens for a second, and then walks towards where the DOCTOR is hidden. When he reaches this point, the DOCTOR jumps out and chops the man in the stomach. As BUTLER doubles up with the pain, the DOCTOR grabs him by the neck, turns him over and pokes a nerve jab into his chest. He then gently lets the unconscious man to the floor and runs off towards the control room.) 28: INT. BUNKER. CONTROL ROOM (There, WHITAKER is at the main bank of controls whilst GROVER switches from view to view on a small monitor.) PROFESSOR WHITAKER: Everything's ready. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: General Finch should be here. PROFESSOR WHITAKER: (Concerned.) I hope you don't propose to wait. The timing is crucial. CHARLES GROVER M.P.: He must be somewhere in the area. So long as he's in the protective field, he'll be alright. (Suddenly...) ADAM: Stop! (ADAM and RUTH walk into the control room.) ADAM: We shall have no part in this. (The other people from the false spaceship follow. WHITAKER makes a run for the teleportation device but MARK is quicker and pinions him. A furious RUTH walks up to GROVER.) RUTH: You've cheated us! CHARLES GROVER M.P.: (Silkily.) My friends, listen to me. I have not cheated you. (He points at one of the levers on the teleportation device.) CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Let Professor Whitaker pull that lever and you shall have the golden age that I promised you. ADAM: You're going to destroy all the civilisations of man. Leaving Earth for another planet - that was one thing - but this is evil! CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Civilisation has already destroyed man. It's time to make a fresh start. If we take the Earth back in time, we can guide man onto a better path. (The DOCTOR reaches the control room.) SARAH: Oh, Doctor! CHARLES GROVER M.P.: Congratulations, Doctor. You're just in time to be present at the most important moment in the world's history. DOCTOR: On the contrary, I'm just in time to prevent an atrocity. (There are yet more arrivals - the BRIGADIER, BENTON and some UNIT troops, all armed, pour into the crowded room.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Don't move - any of you! Benton? (Suddenly, WHITAKER throws MARK off him and makes a grab for the time teleportation device. He yanks the main red lever down. All of a sudden, the room is filled with a bright flaring light which creates multiple images of the people within. There is the sound of a howling wind. All the people stand still and immobile - all except the DOCTOR who forces his way through the wind of the force of time towards the transportation device. He reaches it and pushes the lever back into place. The light and wind die down and the people start to move again, muttering in astonishment. The DOCTOR moves to one of the wall panels and flicks two switches down. Suddenly, GROVER makes a run for the transportation device.) PROFESSOR WHITAKER: No! He's reversed the polarity! (He and GROVER struggle for control of the red lever as the DOCTOR yells to the others in the room...) DOCTOR: Keep back! (GROVER is able to pull the lever back down as WHITAKER struggles against him. As everyone watches, both the two men and the device fade from view, leaving the red painted brick wall as a gap in the control banks where the time transportation device stood.) SARAH: (Astounded.) Well...where've they gone? DOCTOR: Back to their golden age. And I hope they like it. (He smiles.) 29: INT. SCHOOL CLASSROOM (NIGHT) (The DOCTOR, SARAH, the BRIGADIER and BENTON are back at the school. It is night outside.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I still don't understand, Doctor - when Whitaker first pulled that switch, was time reversed or wasn't it? DOCTOR: It was for the world outside the forcefield. Your time was just frozen for a few seconds. SARAH: But what about you? Oh, no - don't tell me! You're a Time Lord. DOCTOR: Quite! (SARAH laughs but suddenly grows saddened.) SARAH: Poor Grover. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: The man was mad. DOCTOR: Yes, well of course he was mad. But at least he realised the dangers this planet of yours is in, Brigadier - the danger of it becoming one vast garbage dump inhabited only by rats. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: It'll never happen, Doctor. DOCTOR: It's not the...the oil and the filth and the poisonous chemicals that are the real cause of pollution, Brigadier. It's simply greed. (For once, the BRIGADIER looks convinced by the DOCTOR'S arguments.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Mmm. Well, I've got work to do, writing my deposition for General Finch's court martial. SERGEANT BENTON: Excuse me, sir? What about Captain Yates? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Extended sick leave - and a chance to resign quietly. Best I could do. DOCTOR: Poor Mike. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Come on, Benton. (The BRIGADIER walks past BENTON who leans over towards the DOCTOR and SARAH grinning.) SERGEANT BENTON: Still I'll say one thing - not many Sergeants get the chance to punch a General on the nose! (The DOCTOR smiles. BENTON turns to find a stony-faced BRIGADIER standing right behind him. SARAH bursts out laughing.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Just don't make a habit of it, Benton. (The two men walk out.) DOCTOR: Well, there you are, Sarah. I told you I'd get you home safely, didn't I? SARAH: Oh! Of all the cheek! DOCTOR: Well, it's not my fault if people'll get up to no good while we were away. SARAH: Alien monsters, robber barons, then dinosaurs! It'll be a long time before I get in that TARDIS again. DOCTOR: Oh...that's a pity that. SARAH: Why? DOCTOR: Well, erm, I was rather thinking of making a trip to Florana. SARAH: Where? DOCTOR: Florana - probably one of the most beautiful planets in the universe. SARAH: Well, count me out! DOCTOR: It's always carpeted with perfumed flowers... SARAH: I'm not listening. DOCTOR: ...and its seas are as warm milk and the sands as soft as swan's down. SARAH: No, Doctor. (He leans over her, smiling.) DOCTOR: And the streams flow with water that are clearer than the clearest crystal... (She clamps her hands over her ears and shakes her head...)
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foreverdreaming
DEATH TO THE DALEKS BY: TERRY NATION PART ONE Original Air Date: 23 February, 1974 5:30pm - 5:55pm 1: EXT. EXXILON (NIGHT) (A spaceman dressed in a blue military tunic pauses at a ledge overlooking a small pool of water. He looks round and then sets off at a run over sandy rocky dunes and through swirling mists that rise from the soil. Exhausted he quickly falls against another dune but quickly recovers himself and moves off again. He runs down a small rise and pauses to get his breath. No sooner has he done so than an arrow thuds into his side. He grunts with pain and grasps the shaft of the arrow. Swaying on his feet, he collapses down an incline next to him which falls to another pool of water. The spaceman tumbles down the incline and splashes into the pool...) 2: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The TARDIS is in flight carrying its occupants towards their holiday on Florana. The DOCTOR swirls a large opened beach umbrella over his head as he sings happily to himself...) DOCTOR: “Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside, I do like to be beside the sea...” (Across the room, SARAH is dressed in a beach outfit and carries several items from on top of a cabinet to a beach bag on a wooden chest. She puts them down as the DOCTOR lowers the umbrella and carries on whistling his tune.) SARAH: Sunglasses, sun lotion, water wings... DOCTOR: Well, you won’t need those for a start. SARAH: Oh, we’re going swimming, you said. DOCTOR: You can’t sink on Florana. SARAH: (Proudly.) I can sink anywhere. DOCTOR: The waters effervescent - the bubbles support you. SARAH: (Smiles.) Like swimming in a glass of ... salts. DOCTOR: Alright, but you wait until you’ve seen Florana. (He carries the umbrella away...) DOCTOR: I always come back from Florana feeling a hundred years younger. (...failing to spot a series of alarm lights flashing on the console.) DOCTOR: Ah, the air is like a magic potion... (However, SARAH has spotted them...) SARAH: Doctor? DOCTOR: And the beauty of it all is... SARAH: (Interrupts.) Doctor, should that red light be flashing? (The DOCTOR rests the umbrella on a wall next to an inflatable beach bed and crosses to the console. The lights in the room start to slightly dim and then flare.) DOCTOR: We seem to have got a mains power... (An expl*si*n on the other side of the console cuts out his words and causes SARAH to scream. The lights within the room all fade to almost total darkness and the hum of power dies away.) SARAH: What is it, Doctor? What’s happening? DOCTOR: I’m not sure. I’ll cut in the emergency units. (He presses several buttons and both the lights and the hum of power returns. They both sigh.) DOCTOR: Well, that’s a relief. If they hadn’t worked, we’d have been in real trouble. (SARAH smiles but her happiness is short-lived as the lights fade once more.) SARAH: Oh...it’s starting again. (There is a sudden crash of an expl*si*n and the TARDIS lurches to one side, throwing the DOCTOR and SARAH to the floor.) SARAH: Oh! 3: EXT. EXXILON. GULLY (NIGHT) (The TARDIS, rocking on its base, materialises in a dark, mist-filled gully, next to a strange still figure...) 4: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (The lights and hum in the room are once more fluctuating. SARAH, grasping onto the console for support, gets to her knees. She looks across the console but, alarmed, can see no sign of the DOCTOR. Suddenly he appears, clambering upwards on the console like SARAH.) DOCTOR: Oh, there you are. (They both get to their feet.) DOCTOR: Well, one thing’s certain - we’ve landed. (The fluctuating hum is starting to sound like a faint cry of pain. SARAH looks across the darkened console.) SARAH: It’s as if the TARDIS...was dying? DOCTOR: Sarah, the scanner - quickly. There could be enough charge to operate it. (SARAH presses the switch and the scanner lights up for a moment, showing the swirling mists outside.) SARAH: Did you see anything, Doctor? DOCTOR: Only fog. Fascinating, isn’t it? SARAH: What’s fascinating about Fog? DOCTOR: Well, perhaps that’s what’s put the TARDIS out of action. (Whatever power remains in the TARDIS to provide light and power dies down. The room is in almost total darkness.) SARAH: Oh... (SARAH, more nervous than ever, crosses to the DOCTOR for support. She watches as the glow of a hexagonal wall light dims to nothing.) SARAH: Don’t...don’t we have emergency storage cells or something? DOCTOR: Yes, of course. (He walks round the console and presses more switches. Power returns...and almost immediately fades away again.) SARAH: Dud battery? DOCTOR: Hardly. Listen... (There is total silence. SARAH speaks, her voice now echoing in the metallic chamber devoid of any life or energy.) SARAH: Can’t hear anything. DOCTOR: Yes, exactly. Not a click, not a tick - nothing. Well the TARDIS is a living thing - thousands of instruments. Its energy sources never stop. SARAH: Well they have now. Everything’s completely d*ad. (The DOCTOR points across the room to the wooden cabinet.) DOCTOR: Sarah, there’s a torch in that cabinet. Get it for me, will you? SARAH: Oh...right. (She feels her way around the console and within the cupboard.) SARAH: Ah, here we are. DOCTOR: Good. (She switches the large torch on. It gives off a glare of light.) SARAH: (Satisfied.) Ah... (Before the DOCTOR can look over the console for the trouble, the power in the torch fades away.) SARAH: Oh! Now what? DOCTOR: Well, don’t worry. I’ve...I’ve got an oil lamp in here. (He turns to the wooden chest and opens its doors.) DOCTOR: That should be alright. Yes, there it is. (He pulls open the chest and takes out the brass base and glass cover of the oil lamp. He also has some matches.) SARAH: Ah, don’t tell me - you’re going to rub it and produce a genie! DOCTOR: On the contrary, I’m going to light it... (He strikes a match.) DOCTOR: ...and illumine us! SARAH: (Happily.) Ah! (The DOCTOR lights the lamp.) DOCTOR: There we are. (The lamp flares but does not go out.) SARAH: Oh, hooray for old-fashioned oil! DOCTOR: (Laughs.) Well, we’ll have to get it adjusted. (He adjusts to flame to a steady light.) DOCTOR: That’s better. Right, now let’s see where we are. SARAH: Florana, you said? (He passes her the lamp.) DOCTOR: Here, hold this for a minute, will you? Normally this door is power operated. We’ll have to work it by hand. Where’s that crank handle? (He looks back in the chest.) DOCTOR: There it is. SARAH: Oh... (He takes the metal crank handle over to the doors.) DOCTOR: Now bring the light over here, please. (SARAH follows him a plays the light over to the wall on the left-hand side of the doors where the DOCTOR inserts the handle into a small hole in the wall. He starts to turn it and behind the doors start to inch open.) DOCTOR: Bit more... (He continues to turn.) DOCTOR: Is that enough? SARAH: Think so. (The mists from the outside start to swirl in through the gap in the doors.) DOCTOR: Good, right, that’s enough. (He starts cranking and takes the lamp from her.) DOCTOR: Oh, now, follow me. Let’s take a look. (He goes first and edges through the gap. SARAH follows.) DOCTOR: Alright? SARAH: Yes. 5: EXT. EXXILON. GULLY (NIGHT) (They move out of the TARDIS and into the misty gully. Strange sounds fill the night air. They look through the gloom and it isn’t long before SARAH starts to shiver.) SARAH: Ooh! It’s cold! DOCTOR: Well, this is no ordinary fog. SARAH: You mean this isn’t the air that’s like a magic potion? DOCTOR: It must be perfectly obvious to you, Sarah, that we’ve gone ever so slightly astray so sarcasm of that... (SARAH suddenly screams, cutting off the DOCTOR’S admonitions. He spins round to see what has caused the alarm and sees the figure near the TARDIS. He moves towards it with the lamp and reveals its true nature...) DOCTOR: Ah, it’s alright - it’s just rock. SARAH: A s...statue? DOCTOR: No...some sort of life form that has become petrified, I should think. SARAH: I was close to becoming petrified myself! (The DOCTOR examines the rocky soil.) DOCTOR: No, I doubt if anything has grown here for centuries. SARAH: Well, unless you’re planning on raising lettuce, it doesn’t seem too important. DOCTOR: Well, if the rest of the planet’s like this, then life here certainly doesn’t depend on photosynthesis. SARAH: What life? DOCTOR: Some power emanating from this planet has stopped the TARDIS’s energy banks. Now logically, that power can hardly be of geological origin. SARAH: (Nervously.) You...you mean somebody...or something...has caused it? DOCTOR: Yes, exactly. SARAH: Right, well let’s fix the TARDIS...and clear out! (She moves back towards the TARDIS but the DOCTOR hardly follows. They fail to see that there is a moving figure in the gully as a hand suddenly grasps a rock as it observes the two new arrivals.) DOCTOR: I’m sorry, I’m afraid we can’t fix it. Not unless we discover the source of the power that’s blocking us. SARAH: Oh, well how are we going to do that? DOCTOR: I’ve no idea. SARAH: (Alarmed.) You mean that we’re...! (She collects herself and lowers her voice.) SARAH: ...we’re trapped? Stuck here for ever? DOCTOR: Until we can discover the source of that energy loss - yes. SARAH: Well, what do you want me to do? DOCTOR: Well, I think to begin with, we must check the immediate area - don’t you? SARAH: Yes, right. Ooh! Not really dressed for this climate, am I? DOCTOR: Well, for heaven’s sake, girl, go and put something warm on. SARAH: Yes, right. (She heads back towards the TARDIS but stops and returns somewhat nervously.) SARAH: You won’t go away, will you? (The DOCTOR shakes his head. She smiles and returns to the TARDIS. Almost immediately, the DOCTOR re-interprets his assurance and starts to wander through the gully. Behind him, two figures follow. They wear long brown cloaks which completely cover their heads and bodies, giving them the appearance of moving rock.) 6: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (SARAH r*fles through the cabinet and pulls out a brown dress which she slips into over her beachwear.) 7: EXT. EXXILON. ANOTHER PART OF THE GULLY (NIGHT) (Lamp held aloft, the DOCTOR moves further and further through the gully. Another figure-like statue is nearby but the DOCTOR ignores it as he bends down to examine more soil. However this statue is very much alive and the cloaked figure starts to run at the crouched traveller. The DOCTOR looks up as the attacker is almost upon him...) 8: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (SARAH puts on a pair of boots and finishes dressing. Still cold and muttering to herself, she crosses the room and edges through the gap in the door.) 9: EXT. EXXILON. GULLY (NIGHT) (Emerging from the TARDIS, the DOCTOR is not to be seen.) SARAH: Doctor? (She gets no reply. She looks round and starts to wander through the gully herself.) SARAH: (Nervously.) Doctor? (Standing near a rock, she calls once more...) SARAH: Doctor? (...and moves off. The “rock” moves and follows her. It is another of the cloaked figures.) 10: EXT. EXXILON. ANOTHER PART OF THE GULLY (NIGHT) (SARAH continues through the thick mists, quietly calling...) SARAH: Doctor? Doctor? (She looks to one side and sees that a “statue” has seemingly just frozen still. She quickly darts off and the “statue” moves and follows. SARAH runs at full pace across the rocky ground and through the mists, seemingly losing her follower. She pauses to look round and sees the abandoned oil lamp on the ground. She goes up to it and picks it up. Feeling something on the side of the lamp, she looks at her hand...) SARAH: (Alarmed.) Blood? (Repulsed, she throws the lamp down with a cry. Nearby two of the cloaked figures turn upon hearing the cry. SARAH sets off back at a run towards the TARDIS, making it back without incident.) 11: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (However, one of the cloaked figures is within the TARDIS and making an exploration of the darkened console room. It hears SARAH’S gasps of relief as she makes it back and squeezes through the gap in the doors. It melts back into the shadows. SARAH stands for a moment, half-gasping, half-sobbing. She looks across the room for any sign of life...) SARAH: Do... (Suddenly she hears footsteps rapidly approaching from outside and looks through the gap in the doors...) 12: EXT. EXXILON. GULLY (NIGHT) (...where she sees the two approaching cloaked figures.) 13: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (Still gasping and sobbing, she goes back into the TARDIS and grasps the crank handle, desperately trying to turn the doors closed. The handle is still but she manages, inch by inch, to close the gap. Taking the handle with her, she examines the doors in the gloom and, seeing that they are closed, rests her head against them in relief. The figure now closed in with her in the room starts to approach from behind, coming nearer and nearer. At the last moment, SARAH turns and screams as she sees the attacker upon her. She starts to rain blows down upon the creature with the crank handle and it grunts in pain as it falls to the floor, seemingly unconscious. More distraught than ever, SARAH puts the handle back into the hole and starts to re-open the doors as the figure on the floor starts to recover, its hand twitching and moving towards her. The doors edge open as the hand moves nearer and then grabs her leg. SARAH screams again and, with all her strength, dashes the handle down upon the creature several more times. It falls once more and SARAH runs out of the TARDIS.) 14: EXT. EXXILON. GULLY (NIGHT) (Such is her speed as she runs away from the police box exterior, the cloaked figures barely have time to react before they start to follow.) 15: EXT. EXXILON. CREVASSE (NIGHT) (The DOCTOR is led through a crevasse. His wrists are bound by a rope which is pulled by a cloaked figure who walks in front, also carrying a flaming torch. Another cloaked figure with a spear follows and completes the group. The DOCTOR suddenly stumbles and falls. The figure following prods him to get back to his feet and then pulls him up...only for the DOCTOR to elbow-jab him to the ground. The DOCTOR, his wrists still bound, then turns on the figure at the front, pulling the torch from him and using it to parry the spear used by the second figure as it recovers. The DOCTOR then uses the torch to club it back down again. The first figure has produced a primitive axe from beneath the folds of its ragged cloak and stalks the DOCTOR. He throws the torch uselessly at it and then edges backwards and falls against a sandy bank. The axe comes down but the DOCTOR rolls out of its way and throws the creature down. It gets to its feet, as does the DOCTOR. The figure brings the axe down again but, with a cry, the DOCTOR grabs the axe and uses aikido to bring the creature to the ground unconscious. The DOCTOR runs off.) 16: EXT. EXXILON (NIGHT) (SARAH carefully makes her way between the rocks. She jumps into hiding behind a rock as her two pursuers move past, not seeing her. After they have gone, SARAH comes out from behind the rock and sets off again. She has not gone many paces before she is aware of a glare of light and a sound like an electronic gong. She stops and looks up, her face filled with wonder. She moves closer towards the subject of her amazement. It is a massive structure made of up many terraces and ramps which, in turn, contain small pyramid-like structures and many free-standing columns. It is pure white in colour with no obvious entrances or windows. Surmounting this stunning structure is a tall column, reaching up into the night sky which is surmounted by a light which illuminates in synchronisation to the electronic gong sound and which lights up all of the city and much of the rocks beyond. SARAH checks once more behind her and then moves through the rocky wastes towards to the structure...) 17: EXT. EXXILON (Night has ended and with it the mists have died down. The DOCTOR, his wrists cut free of the rope, moves through a bleak wasteland of rock and sand. Up above him, one of the figures watches, its cloak almost totally camouflaging it against the rocks. It clambers down the rocks after the DOCTOR has gone past.) 18: EXT. EXXILON. CREVASSE (The DOCTOR spots a narrow crevasse and starts to make his way through it. Above him, a spear carrying figure follows his progress. The crevasse widens out and the DOCTOR strides along but suddenly stops when he sees a taut rope on the ground on which a poor attempt has been made to cover it with sand. It is obviously some sort of trap. The DOCTOR gently fingers more of the sand away and thinks to himself. He creates a slight gap under the rope and picks up a small rock. He steps back a few paces and lobs the rock at the rope. He hears a noise and looks upwards to see a huge boulder tumbling down towards him. He runs back and shelters in a fold in the rock as the boulder crashes into the crevasse, right onto the spot where he was stood. Almost immediately, a human figure comes over the edge of the cliff above him, Kn*fe in hand towards the DOCTOR. It is a grizzled man with dark hair and a beard who wears a blue military tunic. He grabs the DOCTOR and the two men wrestle to the ground, each desperately trying to gain control of the Kn*fe. Another similar figure appears over the cliff edge. This man, clean shaven, carries a bow and arrow and yells down at his fighting companion...) RICHARD RAILTON: Galloway! (The first man looks up at the newcomer.) RICHARD RAILTON: Galloway! (The second man runs down into the crevasse where GALLOWAY has got off the DOCTOR who is getting to his feet.) RICHARD RAILTON: Fool! He’s not one of them! (The second man helps the DOCTOR up as GALLOWAY looks round.) RICHARD RAILTON: Sorry, we’ve been a bit jumpy. We tend to att*ck first and ask questions aft... (GALLOWAY interrupts in a broad Scottish accent.) DAN GALLOWAY: There’s something moving. (They look up. There is no one else in the immediate vicinity.) RICHARD RAILTON: Let’s get back to our base. We can talk there. (The three set off. Up above them, another of the cloaked and perfectly camouflaged figures watches them go...) 19: EXT. MSC BASE (Nearby, a small prefabricated metal structure has been set up at the end of a gully in the rocks. A third human patrols nervously outside it. He too wears a blue military tunic and carries a bow and arrow as his only w*apon. He hears a noise and ducks into hiding behind a rock. The noise is caused by the arrival of the DOCTOR, GALLOWAY and the third man. The latter holds up his hand for them to pause as the young man on patrol rises up out of hiding with the bow and arrow aimed.) RICHARD RAILTON: It’s alright, Peter. He’s quite friendly. (The three move nearer to the metal structure. A dour GALLOWAY mutters to himself.) DAN GALLOWAY: We hope. RICHARD RAILTON: Keep a sharp watch, Peter. Dan heard some movement out there. PETER HAMILTON: Aye aye, sir. (The young man settles back into hiding as the other three go through a flimsy metal foil door into the structure.) 20: INT. MSC BASE (Within there are two more people. An older man lies wounded on a bed. He has cuts on his face and a bandage round his head. He is barely conscious and is tended to by a young red-haired woman. They both wear tunics but the young woman’s is of a lighter blue than the men’s and with a different insignia. The room has a water dispenser, table and chairs and some pieces of scientific equipment of low shelves but little else. The woman goes up to the newcomers.) JILL TARRANT: (Hopefully.) Did you find Jack? RICHARD RAILTON: I’m afraid not. (He looks at the man on the bed.) RICHARD RAILTON: How is he? JILL TARRANT: He’s not good. And we’re down to our last pack of sulphagent tablets, Richard. (The DOCTOR looks across the room at the man on the bed.) DOCTOR: What happened to him? (The young woman looks at the DOCTOR with suspicion. She looks at GALLOWAY who nods his agreement that it is alright to answer the DOCTOR.) JILL TARRANT: The Exxilons took us by surprise, right after we landed. DAN GALLOWAY: These stone knives of theirs have got some sort of...poison on them. They’re dirty wee fighters. RICHARD RAILTON: I’m sorry, perhaps we ought to introduce ourselves. I’m Captain Railton, second in command of the expedition... (He looks at the wounded older man...) RICHARD RAILTON: And this is Commander Stewart. (...and then at the young woman.) RICHARD RAILTON: And that’s Jill Tarrant - our civilian geologist. JILL TARRANT: Are you from Earth? DOCTOR: In a round-about sort of way, yes. (The dour Scottish man holds out his hand.) DAN GALLOWAY: Dan Galloway. RICHARD RAILTON: Lieutenant Galloway is our w*apon officer. DOCTOR: Well, it would have saved me a few bruises if we’d shaken hands the first time we’d met. Hello, how do you do? (They shake hands.) RICHARD RAILTON: The chap outside is Lieutenant Peter Hamilton. DOCTOR: Lieutenant? Are you a military expedition? RICHARD RAILTON: MSC. DOCTOR: (Puzzled.) Master of Science? RICHARD RAILTON: Marine Space Corps. DAN GALLOWAY: Now maybe you’ll tell us about yourselves? Where were you heading when I jumped you? DOCTOR: Er, back to the TARDIS. That’s my spaceship. I have a young companion with me - Sarah Jane Smith. I only hope she had the good sense to stay inside after I was captured. RICHARD RAILTON: Where is the ship? DOCTOR: Well, it’s not far from here. DAN GALLOWAY: Oh, if the lassie stayed in your ship, she should be safe enough. DOCTOR: Yes - if. Sarah’s rather headstrong. By now, I expect she’s out looking for me. RICHARD RAILTON: Well, even if she is, it needn’t be too dangerous as long as she’s careful. The Exxilons seem to be night creatures. JILL TARRANT: We don’t see much of them during the day. Just so long as she didn’t go near that forbidden city of theirs. DOCTOR: What forbidden city? RICHARD RAILTON: Only their high priests can visit it. DAN GALLOWAY: Anyone else they catch near it... (GALLOWAY, Kn*fe in his hand, mimes the cutting of his throat.) DAN GALLOWAY: That’s their lot. JILL TARRANT: They’re sacrificed. DOCTOR: Well, what is this place? Where is it? (The three people look at each other.) RICHARD RAILTON: Pass me the visual file, will you, Jill? We’ve got some pictures. (JILL fetches a file of pictures while the DOCTOR and RAILTON move to the central table.) RICHARD RAILTON: Thank you. (RAILTON starts to go through the pictures of the structure that SARAH saw.) RICHARD RAILTON: It’s a fantastic building. Must have been constructed thousands of years ago. JILL TARRANT: And not by a stone age tribe like the Exxilons either. RICHARD RAILTON: They treat it as a sort of shrine. If you’re caught near it, it’s certain death. 21: EXT. CITY WALL (Blissfully unaware of the danger, SARAH has reached the foot of the forbidden city. She is amazed by its contours and structure. She moves out of the surrounding rocks and up to the base wall. Within an alcove and carved several symbols. SARAH places her hands on the main wall which glows at her touch. Surprised, she repeats the manouevre and then moves into the alcove. She reaches for the symbols which also glow at her touch.) SARAH: No doors...no windows... (Thoroughly caught up in her investigation, she doesn’t see the Exxilon behind her who rushes up, its cloak raised as if to envelop her. She turns and cries out as it reaches her...) 22: INT. MSC BASE (The MSC team are having a meal which they share with the DOCTOR. JILL feeds COMMANDER STEWART as GALLOWAY and the DOCTOR sit at the table. RAILTON carries over trays for himself and the DOCTOR and sits with them.) RICHARD RAILTON: Then as soon as we got within range of Exxilon, we had total malfunction - on all instruments. We managed to touch down without damaging the ship, but we can’t take off again until we find some way of restoring power. DOCTOR: Tell me, what’s the purpose of your expedition? (As he tucks into the food, the DOCTOR doesn’t see the humans look at each other in amazement.) JILL TARRANT: Well, to collect parrinium. DOCTOR: Parrinium? JILL TARRANT: It’s a chemical. It can be found in minute quantities on Earth, but it’s so rare there that it’s virtually priceless. A chemical detecting satellite did a fly-past on this planet and registered that it was as common here as salt. DOCTOR: Well, forgive me, but what do you want it for? (GALLOWAY puts down his spoon in frustration at the DOCTOR’S questions.) DAN GALLOWAY: Och, man! Where have you been hiding? (The meal takes on an embarrassed tone as the DOCTOR looks round the group.) DOCTOR: Well, here and there...one place and another. Well, I am a little out of touch, I’ll admit. JILL TARRANT: Well, the outer worlds are being ravaged by a disease. The colonists are dying in their thousands. Another ten million men, women and children will die unless we help them and help them quickly. Every hour we’re stuck here on this planet, the death toll’s mounting. DOCTOR: Parrinimum will halt this disease? JILL TARRANT: Mmm. RICHARD RAILTON: Well, it can cure and give immunity, but they need it in quantity and they need it fast. JILL TARRANT: If it’s not delivered within a month, it’ll be too late. (The group falls silent at the continuing failure of their mission.) DOCTOR: (Quietly.) I see. (His meal finished, the DOCTOR takes his tray away.) RICHARD RAILTON: We managed to get a message off before we had total power failure - to Earth. We asked them for a relief ship. DOCTOR: Well do you happen to know if that message was received? DAN GALLOWAY: Oh, if it had been I think we’d have had help by now. DOCTOR: Yeah. I think we can safely assume that no help is coming. So, might I make a suggestion...? (Before he can state this, PETER HAMILTON runs into the base, shouting with joy...) PETER HAMILTON: The relief ship is here! Come on, quickly! (He runs out and his amazed team and the DOCTOR follow.) RICHARD RAILTON: The relief ship? DAN GALLOWAY: The relief ship’s here? (STEWART is left behind.) 23: EXT. MSC BASE (The five run out of the base and look up into the sky.) RICHARD RAILTON: Did you see it? PETER HAMILTON: No, I heard it - up in the haze. Over to the north a little bit. DAN GALLOWAY: Probably making a spiral descent. We should hear it again in a moment. (And they do so. JILL runs to one side and looks over the rocky wasteland.) JILL TARRANT: Here she comes! (They see what looks, for all the world, like a flying saucer. It spins across the sky and over the horizon.) RICHARD RAILTON: They’re landing in the next valley - come on! (They run off towards the landing place. Behind them, two Exxilons come out of hiding and move towards the base.) 24: INT. MSC BASE (Within the base, STEWART is barely conscious. His head lolls from side to side. His eyes open and he looks to one side in a panic...) 25: INT. SACRIFICIAL CAVERN (A large group of Exxilons stand in a stone cavern. Their cloaks pushed back, it can be seen that their faces are as brown as their cloaks and look like ghastly parodies of skulls. Their eyes are large, round and an opaque white. One Exxilon looks slightly different to the others in that his face and cloak are a hue of red - as though died by blood. He is the HIGH PRIEST. The cavern is lit by many candles and torches, some carried by the Exxilons. A f*re in a stone well stands in the middle of the floor and to one side of the cavern has been erected a crude wooden cage. Echoing incantations fill the air as the HIGH PRIEST and the Exxilons approach the cage from a mist-covered altar. Within the cage, SARAH stands with her wrists bound by a rope suspended from the ceiling. The HIGH PRIEST holds up a hand and delivers his verdict...) HIGH PRIEST: You have looked upon the sacred place. You have walked where only the chosen may go. You have defiled the place of all power. (He gestures to two Exxilons who enter the cage and approach SARAH as the others return to the altar. SARAH is unbounded and pushed to the cage door. On the other side of the cavern, the HIGH PRIEST stands with his hands raised.) HIGH PRIEST: A judgment has been made. Prepare her for sacrifice! (The Exxilons grunt in pleasure as SARAH starts to cry out and struggle against her captors.) 26: EXT. EXXILON. SHIP LANDING SITE (The new ship lands, sand being thrown up into the air by its exhaust blasts. JILL is the first to reach the spot, running out of the rocks and pointing.) JILL TARRANT: It’s over there! (The others join her and look upon the ship as the engines die down.) PETER HAMILTON: That doesn’t look like an Earth ship, sir. DAN GALLOWAY: Maybe it’s that new Z-47 they’ve been planning. RICHARD RAILTON: She’s not a Space Corps craft. (He walks towards the ship.) DAN GALLOWAY: Well, I hope they haven’t run into the same power block. (The other three people follow with a suspicious DOCTOR bringing up the rear.) DOCTOR: We’ll know soon enough. (The five stand before the closed door of the ship. It hums upwards...) 27: INT. SHIP (...revealing a bare interior. PETER yells into the ship.) PETER HAMILTON: Come on out - the welcome party’s all here! (A familiar shape glides from one side of the interior and out of the ship.) 28: EXT. EXXILON. SHIP LANDING SITE (A shocked DOCTOR recognises it immediately...) DOCTOR: Daleks! (The MSC people retreat backwards, having themselves recognised the creatures from Skaro.) 29: INT. DALEK SHIP (Three more DALEKS glides from the ship.) 30: EXT. EXXILON. SHIP LANDING SITE DALEK: The Earth creatures are to be exterminated - f*re at my command! RICHARD RAILTON: Wait a minute! Wait - you can’t! DALEK: Total extermination - f*re, f*re, f*re! (JILL buries herself in the DOCTOR’S shoulder as the DALEK w*apon extend and f*re...)
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DEATH TO THE DALEKS BY: TERRY NATION PART TWO Original Air Date: 2 March, 1974 5:30pm - 5:55pm 1: EXT. EXXILON. SHIP LANDING SITE FIRST DALEK: The Earth creatures are to be exterminated - f*re at my command! RICHARD RAILTON: Wait a minute! Wait - you can’t! FIRST DALEK: Total extermination - f*re, f*re, f*re! (JILL buries herself in the DOCTOR’S shoulder as the DALEK w*apon extend and f*re. The DOCTOR closes his eyes, ready to receive the onslaught of the rays...but nothing happens. He opens his eyes.) FIRST DALEK: Maximum power! f*re! f*re! f*re! (The DALEKS f*re again but once more with no success.) FIRST DALEK: w*apon malfunction. SECOND DALEK: Total power failure in armament circuits. (The DOCTOR walks forward towards the nervously twitching DALEKS.) DOCTOR: Well, well, well! Daleks without the power to k*ll! How does it feel? FIRST DALEK: (Fearfully.) Keep away! Keep away! DOCTOR: (Smiles.) And if I don’t - what will you do? Your w*apon are totally useless, affected by the same energy blackout that has stranded us. FIRST DALEK: The power failure is temporary. Superior Dalek technology will overcome interference shortly. Meanwhile, you will obey our orders. DOCTOR: You’re not in a position to give any orders. No...no, we’re all in this together - all equal, all powerless. SECOND DALEK: The Daleks are the supreme beings of the universe. Dalek technology is the ... (RAILTON steps forward, interrupting the rant...) RICHARD RAILTON: Spare us the propaganda! I think our best interests will be served by joining forces. SECOND DALEK: Daleks do not require the co-operation of inferior creatures! RICHARD RAILTON: Think about it - there are four of you and five of us, and this planet is swarming with creatures that want to destroy us. That’s a fact that must penetrate even Dalek arrogance. (The DALEKS look at each other.) SECOND DALEK: We will confer. (They glide backwards towards their ship and huddle together in conference. The other party does the same...) DOCTOR: Well...they may agree with your plan, Captain, but I advise you - don’t trust them. RICHARD RAILTON: We need all the help we can get. JILL TARRANT: That’s true. DAN GALLOWAY: (Cutting.) We don’t need the Daleks. There’s nothing they can do that we can’t do on our own... (He gives a smile that is more like a grimace at RAILTON.) DAN GALLOWAY: ...sir. (RAILTON scowls back at GALLOWAY and his sarcasm.) DOCTOR: They’re brilliant technicians. It was their inventive genius that made them one of the greatest powers in the universe - remember that. RICHARD RAILTON: Quite. They might find a way out of this spot. PETER HAMILTON: Well my father was k*lled in the last Dalek w*r, sir. I hate the thought of working with them. RICHARD RAILTON: He was one man - ten million will die if we don’t get off the planet with the medical supplies. DOCTOR: Well, whatever they’re gonna do, I hope they decide quickly. 2: INT. SACRIFICIAL CAVERN (SARAH is held before the f*re well in the cavern. The Exxilons sway and chant their prayers. One Exxilon holds a small bowl of steaming liquid. SARAH stares at the blank eyes of the HIGH PRIEST as it joins in the alien chants.) 3: EXT. EXXILON. SHIP LANDING SITE (GALLOWAY examines his bow as HAMILTON sidles up to him.) PETER HAMILTON: What do you think, Dan? DAN GALLOWAY: Mmm? PETER HAMILTON: About this idea - cooperating with Daleks. DAN GALLOWAY: Well, it might work for the while. PETER HAMILTON: I think the Captain’s gone soft. DAN GALLOWAY: Oh, he’s scared of the wee salt-shakers! I saw his face when they came out of that ship. PETER HAMILTON: Ah, the spokesman’s coming back. (The DOCTOR returns from having spoken to the DALEKS.) RICHARD RAILTON: Well, what did they say? DOCTOR: I think they’ll go for it. Mind you, they haven’t much choice, but I must warn you again - don’t you trust them an inch. JILL TARRANT: Did you manage to find out what they’re doing here? DOCTOR: Yes, several of the planets the Daleks have colonised are suffering from the same disease. They’re dying in millions. Now they need that chemical just as badly as you do - that’s why I think they’ll cooperate. (A short distance away, the four DALEKS have come to their conclusion between themselves.) SECOND DALEK: It is agreed. THIRD DALEK: We will cooperate until they are no further use to us. FIRST DALEK: And the true reason that we need the chemical parrinium must remain secret. THIRD DALEK: It is understood. FIRST DALEK: They must continue to believe there are only four of us. SECOND DALEK: It is understood. (They turn and glide over to their new allies.) DOCTOR: Well, have you decided? FIRST DALEK: Yes, Doctor. The truce exists between our party and yours. DOCTOR: A very wise decision. SECOND DALEK: The truce ends when power is restored. RICHARD RAILTON: We agree. And now I think we should all go over to the mining dome. FIRST DALEK: Mining dome? JILL TARRANT: We’ve located a parrinium strata, and set up a dome nearby where we can refine the ore. RICHARD RAILTON: But it’s pretty slow work without power. Perhaps you can suggest some quicker technique? SECOND DALEK: Very well. Lead the way - lead! Lead! (RAILTON does so and a smiling DOCTOR gestures to the DALEKS to follow. Three of them glide after RAILTON.) 4: INT. MSC BASE (The wind whips the flimsy metal foil door of the dome. Within, all the equipment of the MSC crew lies scattered and damaged across the floor. COMMANDER STEWART’S bed lies askew...and is empty.) 5: EXT. EXXILON (RAILTON leads the way back towards the dome with the three DALEKS, the DOCTOR and his crew behind him. The DOCTOR keeps a careful watch on the ridges above them as they enter a gully. Up above, a skeletal Exxilon hand claws at the soil, causing some of it to trickle down the side of the gully. The DOCTOR is looking round at the silent rock walls when he hears this fall. The entire party, DALEKS and all, stops and looks round warily for their near silent enemy. Suddenly RAILTON cries out as an arrow thuds into his back.) DOCTOR: Take cover! (RAILTON struggles to remain on his feet and cries out as he reaches for the arrow...) DALEK: Locate the enemy! Locate the enemy! (...but falls and dies on the ground. One of the DALEKS glides forward.) DALEK: Locate! Locate! Locate! (JILL runs forward to help RAILTON.) DALEK: Locate! Locate! (Spears raised, the Exxilons have come out of hiding and they stand on the ridge of the gully looking down at the diminished group.) DALEK: Locate! Locate! (The others run towards a small ditch for cover beyond which the three DALEKS wait.) DALEK: Locate! Locate! (JILL calls over to them ... ) JILL TARRANT: Help me with him! Help me! (The DOCTOR runs back and feels under RAILTON for a heartbeat.) DOCTOR: Ah, it’s no good - we can’t help him. JILL TARRANT: But please! We can’t leave him here! (Suddenly, several arrows thud into the sandy ground next to them.) DOCTOR: Quick, come on! Out, come on! (He pulls her towards the ditch where GALLOWAY and HAMILTON wait as several more arrows are fired.) DOCTOR: Come on, down here! (To GALLOWAY.) Which way did they come from? DAN GALLOWAY: I don’t know. (An arrow thuds into the sandy bank next to them.) DOCTOR: Down! (They duck into the safety of the ditch. A hail of arrows are fired which either deflect harmlessly off the DALEK casings or thud into the sand.) DOCTOR: Well our only chance is that it’s a small group...then we might make a break for it. DAN GALLOWAY: Well, I’m next in seniority to the Captain. That puts me in command. DOCTOR: Just a suggestion, that’s all. JILL TARRANT: Alright, Commander, give an order to get us out of this. (She points at the top of the gully where more Exxilons suddenly appear. HAMILTON points to the first group.) PETER HAMILTON: Over there! (Behind the trapped group, another Exxilon fires an arrow which thuds into the bank next to the DOCTOR. He turns and sees that with this group behind them, they are surrounded.) DOCTOR: So it was a large group! (Undaunted, GALLOWAY fires an arrow at the Exxilon who had just fired at them. It grunts as it is h*t and falls back. This enrages the other Exxilons who start grunting and f*ring arrow after arrow at the barely sheltered trapped group. They almost bury themselves into the soil as the Exxilons also throw their spears down at them. One of the DALEKS can remain silent no longer.) DALEK: Exterminate! Exterminate! (It fires uselessly at the Exxilons who start to come down the ridge towards it. The DALEK glides forward to meet them in useless combat.) DALEK: Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! (The Exxilons surround the DALEK and start to batter at its casing.) DALEK: Am losing control! Am losing control! Am loo...am loo...! Am losing control! Am losing control! (Smoke starts to pour out of the casing. The Exxilons retreat as the DALEKS voice starts to become garbled.) DALEK: Am loo...am loo...am loo...am loo... (The smoking DALEK suddenly explodes and f*re pours out of its casing. The people in the ditch stick their heads above the parapet and watch as the victorious Exxilons grunt in triumph and surround the blazing DALEK casing, almost dancing round it. From one side of the gully, another large group of Exxilons arrive with a c*ptive figure held between them. The group round the DALEK moves off and towards these new arrivals.) DOCTOR: What’s going on over there? JILL TARRANT: They’ve got Commander Stewart. (The wounded man is thrown to the ground. He gasps weakly and calls over to the others...) COMMANDER STEWART: Give yourselves up. PETER HAMILTON: (Sighs.) That settles it for me. Jill? JILL TARRANT: Yes. PETER HAMILTON: What about you, Doctor? DOCTOR: Certainly...when the only alternative to living is dying. Alright, come on. Let’s get it over with. (Hands raised in surrender, they climb out of the ditch. GALLOWAY, as dour as ever, watches them go and then throws down his bow and arrow.) 6: EXT. EXXILON. SHIP LANDING SITE (Two DALEKS wait in the doorway of the saucer. One glides out and another glides up to it from among the rocks.) FIRST DALEK: Patrol captured by alien beings. One Dalek destroyed. SECOND DALEK: We will report. (They turn and glide into the ship.) 7: INT. SACRIFICIAL CAVERN (SARAH’S head is held fast as the HIGH PRIEST waves the smoking bowl under her nostrils. She starts to gasp and her eyes close as she is overcome by the fumes from the bowl. She slumps forward, nearly unconscious and is held upright by two Exxilons as the HIGH PRIEST takes the bowl back to the altar. SARAH is then carried forward to the same place where the PRIEST waves his hands before her glazed eyes. At that moment, the other c*ptive are led in. The DOCTOR, held fast between two Exxilons, takes in the situation at a glance.) DOCTOR: Sarah! What are you doing with her?! (The HIGH PRIEST and the Exxilons at the altar turn and face the new arrivals.) HIGH PRIEST: She has defiled the place of our gods. She is to be sacrificed. (The DOCTOR suddenly chops at his two restraining Exxilons. Free from them, he runs at the altar where he elbows the HIGH PRIEST out of the way and tries to get at SARAH. However, there are two many Exxilons surrounding them and they all make a grab at the DOCTOR pushing him to the ground and pummeling him until he falls unconscious...) 8: INT. SACRIFICIAL CAVERN (LATER) (SARAH stands to one side within the wooden cage. She is starting to regain her senses after being under the effects of the Exxilon drug contained within the bowl. Behind her, the DOCTOR lies on a shelf of rock, tended to by JILL. The two DALEKS have been locked in the cage with them. SARAH goes to JILL somewhat unsteadily.) SARAH: Is the Doctor alright? JILL TARRANT: I think so. He’s coming round...but are you okay? SARAH: Mmm. Er, they made me inhale...erm, some sort of incense. Well, what happened? JILL TARRANT: Well I’m not too sure myself, but neither of you is very popular. The Doctor att*cked their high priest. From what we can gather, that’s about the worst crime you can commit on this planet. (COMMANDER STEWART lies on another slab within the cage, looked after by PETER HAMILTON. A scowling GALLOWAY goes up to him and speaks quietly...) DAN GALLOWAY: (Quietly.) Crazy - he must be crazy. He’s blown any chance we ever had a making a deal with these savages. PETER HAMILTON: (Quietly.) We hadn’t much choice, Dan. A couple of minutes more, that girl would’ve been d*ad. DAN GALLOWAY: (Quietly.) So? PETER HAMILTON: (Quietly.) Look, we’re all in this together. It could have been me or you. Do you expect everybody else to stand by and let it happen? DAN GALLOWAY: (Quietly.) The point is it wasn’t us. We have no loyalties to them. They’re not part of our mission. PETER HAMILTON: (Quietly.) So you’ll let them die - just like that? DAN GALLOWAY: (Quietly.) I would so. Our job is to get medical relief that’ll save the lives of millions. If some people we don’t even know have to die in the process, well that’s just too bad! (One of the DALEKS glides up to them.) DALEK: We have decided the action we will take. We will offer the Exxilons our knowledge and technology in return for their assistance. DAN GALLOWAY: Well, anything’s worth a try. (PETER whispers to GALLOWAY...) PETER HAMILTON: What about those two? Do you think they’ll agree to let them go? (...but the DALEK overhears.) DALEK: The Doctor is an old enemy of the Daleks. The girl is unimportant. (It turns and glides up to a watching Exxilon...) DALEK: Guard! I will speak with the high priest. (Across the cage, the DOCTOR is sat up having come round, but his head is in his hands.) JILL TARRANT: I don’t know what they’re up to, but I don’t like it. (The DOCTOR sighs.) DOCTOR: I have a feeling...it might be better if you did not associate yourself too closely with us. I think we’re the flies in a jar of very nasty ointment. SARAH: What do you think will happen? DOCTOR: Well...I’m afraid that what they had planned for you has merely been postponed. I think they’ll be two of us in the next performance. (Meanwhile, the Exxilon guard comes up to the cage and speaks to the waiting DALEK.) EXXILON: The high priest will speak with you. (The cage door is opened and the DALEK glides out.) JILL TARRANT: (To the DOCTOR.) They may be trying to negotiate a way for all of us to get out of this. DOCTOR: No, that’s pure wishful thinking, Jill. No, the Daleks won’t give us any loyalty...and I don’t expect too much help from your space chums either. 9: INT. DALEK SHIP (Within the DALEK ship, a small model of the TARDIS sits on a ledge. Two DALEKS have been fitted with a rapid-fire mechanical g*n and one of them fires sh*t after sh*t at the model until it is pulverised.) FIRST DALEK: Target model destroyed. SECOND DALEK: Substitute w*apon functioning satisfactorily. FIRST DALEK: We will proceed immediately. (They glide out of the silent metal chamber.) 10: EXT. EXXILON. SHIP LANDING SITE (Outside the ship, two Exxilons armed with bows and arrows walk along a ledge that overlooks the DALEK ship. The two DALEKS armed with the new g*n glide out of the ship. The Exxilons aim their arrows at the creatures who immediately f*re back at them. The ricocheting b*ll*ts tear through the Exxilons and the rock wall behind them. The creatures scream as one falls off the ledge and the other slumps to the floor.) SECOND DALEK: Primitive w*apon moderately efficient. 11: INT. SACRIFICIAL CAVERN (Within the cavern, the sacrificial chanting has started again. Two Exxilons enter the cage. They go up to the DOCTOR and silently indicate to him to go with them. He leaves and SARAH is made to follow. The three humans and the DALEKS watch.) PETER HAMILTON: We’ve got to do something! DAN GALLOWAY: Don’t interfere. We’ve got think of ourselves now and what we came here to do. (The DALEK who had been negotiating with the HIGH PRIEST glides back into the cage.) DALEK: It is agreed. The Exxilons will discuss terms when the sacrifices are completed. You will follow and observe. (It turns on the spot and glides back out of the cage. Somewhat warily, PETER and JILL follow with the SECOND DALEK behind them. GALLOWAY is about to follow when COMMANDER STEWART weakly calls him back...) COMMANDER STEWART: (Whispers.) Galloway... (GALLOWAY turns and leans over the coughing, dying man.) COMMANDER STEWART: (Whispers.) G...Ga...you’re not fit to command... DAN GALLOWAY: (Quietly.) I’m doing what’s necessary, sir. I’ll get that chemical to the peoples of the outer worlds whatever it costs. COMMANDER STEWART: (Whispers.) Ah...not for them, Galloway. F...for yourself. Y...you’re a glory seeker. This...this may be the last order that I can give but...I’m appointing Hamilton as... DAN GALLOWAY: (Quietly.) You can’t do that. COMMANDER STEWART: (Whispers.) It’s already done. It’s an order. Pe...Peter’ll take command. (STEWART’S head turns and he falls silent. GALLOWAY leans over the man and sees that he has died. He closes his eyes for him.) DAN GALLOWAY: (Quietly.) I’m sorry, Commander...couldn’t quite hear what you said. (In the main part of the cavern, the DOCTOR and SARAH are held fast before the f*re in the stone well as the bowl of incense is prepared. GALLOWAY comes out of the cage and joins his two colleagues. The HIGH PRIEST carries the bowl towards his two victims. Their heads are held fast in the Exxilon’s hands as the bowl is held in front of them. As they struggle against its effects, chaos breaks out in the cavern as the newly armed DALEKS glide in, f*ring b*llet after b*llet into the crowd. As the Exxilons cry out in panic and start to fall, the DOCTOR grabs SARAH’S hand and runs with her across the cavern. GALLOWAY shouts out to his two companions...) DAN GALLOWAY: Come on! (...and they run into the shelter of the wooden cage. One of the Exxilons falls against this structure, groaning as it slides down to the ground, clutching the poles in its death throes. The DOCTOR has spotted that there is a tunnel beyond the smoking altar and runs with SARAH up to it. They climb onto the ledge of the altar...) DOCTOR: Right, come on - jump! Jump! 12: INT. TUNNEL BEHIND SACRIFICIAL CAVERN (...and jump down the other side. The DOCTOR helps SARAH to her feet.) DOCTOR: Right, come on. (They run a short way down the tunnel out of sight of the cavern and then stop.) DOCTOR: Stay there. (He runs back and peers round the corner into the cavern. He watches for a moment and then returns.) DOCTOR: The Daleks don’t seem to be following us. SARAH: Er, those robot things? Are they locals? DOCTOR: Hardly. They’re probably the most technically advanced and ruthless life form in the galaxy. SARAH: But if they’re robots, how is it their power’s not affected? They can’t half move! DOCTOR: Because they’re only half-robot, Sarah. Inside each of those shells is a living, bubbling lump of hate! SARAH: You mean they’ve got legs? DOCTOR: No, they move by psychokinetic power. SARAH: I see. DOCTOR: Do you? SARAH: No! (SARAH still looks befuddled by the incense.) 13: INT. SACRIFICIAL CAVERN (Within the cavern, the DALEK victory is complete. The two armed DALEKS have taken charge and the Exxilons are being led into the cage where PETER and JILL wait.) SECOND DALEK: All resistance has ceased. (The FIRST DALEK turns to one of its rescued compatriots.) FIRST DALEK: I will speak with the high priest. Bring him to me. THIRD DALEK: I obey. DAN GALLOWAY: (To the FIRST DALEK.) Oh, what do you want to speak to him about? FIRST DALEK: We require the cooperation of the Exxilons. But now they will do so on our terms. DAN GALLOWAY: And if they don’t agree? FIRST DALEK: We will select groups of hostages for extermination until they do. DAN GALLOWAY: Aye, that should bring them around to our way of thinking. One of the first things we should do is to make them supply working parties to mine the parrinium... FIRST DALEK: (Interrupts.) Your advice is not required! DAN GALLOWAY: Now wait a minute - we agreed. We’re working together. FIRST DALEK: (Angrily.) We are in command! You will obey our orders! 14: INT. TUNNEL (The DOCTOR and SARAH are making their way along the tunnel away from the cavern when a thought strikes SARAH.) SARAH: Doctor! Oh, we were just playing the main part in a sacrificial ceremony, weren’t we? DOCTOR: Well that seemed to be the general idea, yes. SARAH: Well how are they going to sacrifice us...just by dumping us down here? DOCTOR: Yes, I knew that thought would occur to you sooner or later. SARAH: You’ve got an idea, haven’t you? DOCTOR: Yes. And it’s not one of my favourites. In fact I don’t care for it at all. (He moves on and SARAH follows.) SARAH: Well you might as well share it! DOCTOR: Oh, very well. I think they expect that sacrifice to be completed by something else - something that lives down this tunnel. (They move further on. As if on cue, they hear a noise ahead. It sounds like an electronic roar. SARAH’S chin wobbles...) SARAH: Next time you get an idea, keep it to yourself, will you? (The DOCTOR looks at her and she gives him a weak smile. He puts his arm round her and they move on.) 15: INT. SACRIFICIAL CAVERN (The HIGH PRIEST stands before the DALEKS. Still out of the cage, GALLOWAY watches.) FIRST DALEK: It is agreed. You will accompany us. (The HIGH PRIEST nods and leaves the cavern with the DALEKS. PETER and JILL are out of the cage and go up to GALLOWAY.) JILL TARRANT: What’s happening? DAN GALLOWAY: Well, it’s...practically all agreed. We’ve done a deal with the Exxilons. PETER HAMILTON: We? DAN GALLOWAY: Well, they’ll provide a working force to help us find the parrinium. We’ll be in charge of that with two of the Daleks. JILL TARRANT: And the other Daleks? DAN GALLOWAY: Well, they’ll investigate the cause of the, er, electrical interference. PETER HAMILTON: And what are the Exxilons getting in return? (GALLOWAY looks guilty and hesitates.) DAN GALLOWAY: Oh, not much. JILL TARRANT: Well tell us? DAN GALLOWAY: Well, apparently the Exxilons have only one enemy - a sort of breakaway group. Well, we’ve agreed to help wipe them out. PETER HAMILTON: (Appalled.) You’ve what?! DAN GALLOWAY: In return we get the parrinium we need. We’ll save millions of lives. JILL TARRANT: And m*rder others? You can’t accept those terms. DAN GALLOWAY: (Harshly.) The creatures on this planet are primitives - they don’t count. PETER HAMILTON: What else have you agreed? DAN GALLOWAY: Aye, well...this is the bit you’re not going to like. JILL TARRANT: I haven’t liked any of it so far. DAN GALLOWAY: That fellow they call “the Doctor” and the girl...they have to be brought back - d*ad or alive. (JILL’S jaw drops.) PETER HAMILTON: You’re totally ruthless, aren’t you, Galloway? DAN GALLOWAY: The Daleks have gone down the tunnel after them - just in case the creatures that live down there don’t...get them first. 16: INT. TUNNEL (The DOCTOR and SARAH continue down the tunnel. There is another roar but it is clearer, nearer and louder.) SARAH: That sounded awfully close. DOCTOR: Yes, some sort of subterranean wind effect, I should think. (They take one step nearer and stop when there is another roar.) SARAH: Who are you kidding? DOCTOR: Myself, chiefly. 17: INT. ANOTHER PART OF THE TUNNEL (Further back in the tunnel, two of the newly armed DALEKS glide onwards.) 18: INT. TUNNEL (The DOCTOR and SARAH move on. After they have gone, the arm of a creature comes out from a crack in the rock. Superficially like an Exxilon, it has streaks, like cuts, down its limbs and body which glow like a f*re from within. It follows the DOCTOR and SARAH.) 19: INT. TUNNEL FORK (Further on, the DOCTOR and SARAH walk through a part of the tunnel which is lit by candles on ledges. They reach a point where there are several side tunnels leading off from the main one. They suddenly hear the roar again.) SARAH: I just heard your wind effect...gnashing its teeth. (She gives a quiet nervous laugh and looks at the various side tunnels.) SARAH: Well, which way now? (The DOCTOR looks down the tunnel that leads straight ahead.) DOCTOR: I think I’ll make a short reconnaissance down this tunnel here - alone. SARAH: (Scared.) Alone? (The DOCTOR comes back to her.) DOCTOR: Look, Sarah, I don’t want anything creeping down behind me and blocking off my retreat, now do I? With you here on watch you can give me a warning. SARAH: Well...well who’s gonna warn me? DOCTOR: You’re in a perfectly safe place here. You’ve got three different ways to run. SARAH: (Sighs.) Oh! (He looks down his chosen tunnel.) DOCTOR: I think I’ll just go down it for about half a mile. If it holds any promise, I’ll be right back - alright? SARAH: (Tuts.) Suppose so. (She manages a smile.) SARAH: Good luck, Doctor. DOCTOR: Thank you. (He sets off. SARAH watches him go and sighs. She looks nervously round but sees nothing to cause alarm. Turning back to face the tunnel that the DOCTOR has walked down, she fails to see the arm of the creature that is following them crawl round a corner of the rock tunnel.) 20: INT. ANOTHER PART OF THE TUNNEL (The two pursuing DALEKS glide on.) 21: INT. TUNNEL FORK (Still waiting, SARAH hears a noise behind her. She calls quietly into the darkness...) SARAH: Somebody there? (Receiving no answer, she goes back to waiting near the DOCTOR’S tunnel. She suddenly turns round and gasps in fright...) 22: INT. SIDE TUNNEL (The DOCTOR makes his way down his chosen tunnel. Suddenly he stops. Something lies on the floor of the tunnel in front of him. Metallic and long, it winds like a gigantic snake into the distance. Its head lifts off the floor of the tunnel and a glowing light appears on the front. It roars at the DOCTOR as it rears up...)
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DEATH TO THE DALEKS BY: TERRY NATION PART THREE Original Air Date: 9 March, 1974 5:30pm - 5:55pm 1: INT. TUNNEL FORK (Still waiting, SARAH hears a noise behind her. She calls quietly into the darkness...) SARAH: Somebody there? (Receiving no answer, she goes back to waiting near the DOCTOR’S tunnel. She suddenly turns round and gasps in fright. The creature that has been following them hangs out of a crack in the rock wall observing her. Somewhat like an Exxilon, it is far smaller and with a grey skin rather than a brown one. It still has the round opaque eyes of the Exxilons which look down upon SARAH.) 2: INT. SIDE TUNNEL (The DOCTOR makes his way down his chosen tunnel. Suddenly he stops. Something lies on the floor of the tunnel in front of him. Metallic and long, it winds like a gigantic snake into the distance. Its head lifts off the floor of the tunnel and a glowing light appears on the front. It roars at the DOCTOR as it rears up and then dives towards him. He jumps out of the way as the nose of the probe touches the rock wall where he was stood, causing it to explode. The DOCTOR lies on the floor where he fell. The probe rears up again and comes down, just as the DOCTOR rolls out of the way. It touches the floor of the tunnel and again there is an expl*si*n of f*re.) 3: INT. TUNNEL FORK (SARAH panics as the watching creature steps down and walks towards her.) SARAH: Oh...keep away from me! Keep back! (She backs off as the little creature holds up an arm and speaks in a pleading, somewhat aged voice. The effect is that of a wizened old man.) BELLAL: Please! SARAH: (Nervously.) Who are you? BELLAL: I am called Bellal. I mean you no harm. I will help you if I can. I do not share the beliefs of those who would have k*lled you. They consider that I and others are like me are their enemies. (SARAH is backed up against a wall and her courage is returning but she still is wary of the little Exxilon.) SARAH: And are you? BELLAL: Oh, no! We seek merely to save the Exxilon race from extinction. We do not share their beliefs and for that reason we are persecuted and driven to live in the secret places beneath the surface. (BELLAL gestures at the tunnels around them.) SARAH: Ah...how...many of you are there? BELLAL: Very few against so many. I... (BELLAL reaches out to her but she is still very wary and side-steps the little creatures attempts to get close with little gasps of fear.) BELLAL: ...will answer all your questions but first, we must go from here. We have a place that is safe. Follow me and I will take you to it. SARAH: I can’t. I’m waiting for the Doctor. BELLAL: Which path did he take? SARAH: That one. (She points down the tunnel and BELLAL recoils with a gasp of fear.) BELLAL: Ahh! SARAH: Well, what is it? BELLAL: That way leads to death. (SARAH spins round and looks down the tunnel. Her fear for the DOCTOR overcoming her fear of the Exxilon, she pleads with BELLAL.) SARAH: Well you’ve got to help him! (BELLAL shakes his head.) BELLAL: (Whispers.) No! SARAH: Oh, please! (Forgetting herself, she grasps his arm but suddenly recoils. They then hear the roar of the metal probe down the tunnel.) BELLAL: It may already be too late, but we will do what can be done. (Suddenly another Exxilon similar to BELLAL runs up towards them.) GOTAL: The creatures from the spacecraft - two of them - coming this way! BELLAL: Machine creatures? SARAH: Daleks! (BELLAL points to a hiding place behind a rock.) BELLAL: Here. (The three run into hiding behind the rock, the two little Exxilon’s colour merging with the grey of the rock. A second later, the two DALEKS glide into the area.) FIRST DALEK: We will search independently. Fugitives are to be exterminated on sight. SECOND DALEK: I obey. (The FIRST DALEK takes the tunnel chosen by the DOCTOR while the SECOND takes another tunnel. SARAH watches the FIRST DALEK go.) SARAH: He’ll be coming up behind the Doctor! I must warn him! (She tries to make a run for the tunnel but BELLAL holds her back. SARAH struggles in his grasp and the other Exxilon - GOTAL - joins him in securing her.) BELLAL: No, no, it will be no use! You must stay silent or you will destroy us all! You must understand! (SARAH stops struggling.) BELLAL: It is beyond our power to help him now. (SARAH looks fearfully down the tunnel.) SARAH: Doctor... 4: INT. SIDE TUNNEL (The DOCTOR edges carefully down the wall of a side tunnel. The probe can be seen waiting beyond through a crack in the rock. The DOCTOR turns his head and spots it. At that moment, the FIRST DALEK turns the corner and sees the probe. It immediately starts f*ring b*ll*ts at it but they have no effect on the metallic device. It dives down and touches the DALEK on its dome and an expl*si*n of f*re erupts from beneath it. The DALEK continues to f*re and the probe dives again, this time touching the front of the casing and causing another expl*si*n. The DOCTOR comes somewhat out of hiding and looks through the crack in the rock wall as the probe dives once more. To his intense approval, a third expl*si*n rips through the DALEK casing.) DOCTOR: Oh, good sh*t, sir! (A fourth dive causes another expl*si*n but the DALEK manages to continue to f*re...) DOCTOR: A h*t! Yes, a palpable h*t! (The DALEK fires several more times but the probe makes a fifth dive with another resultant expl*si*n from beneath the dome.) 5: INT. TUNNEL FORK (SARAH, consumed with thoughts as to what is happening, walks slowly towards the entrance to the tunnel.) BELLAL: No! SARAH: I must. BELLAL: The other Dalek will have heard. He’ll be coming back! SARAH: The Doctor may be hurt. GOTAL: We must hurry! (The two little Exxilons pull SARAH back.) BELLAL: As soon as it’s safe, I’ll have some of my people look for your friend but now... (He stops and gasps.) BELLAL: Something’s coming! GOTAL: Quick! BELLAL: Quick! (SARAH herself cries out...) SARAH: Quick! (...and follows the example of the two Exxilons in running into hiding. She watches from behind her rock as a DALEK g*n pokes out from the tunnel entrance. It hesitates and then moves on - it is the DOCTOR, holding the disembodied DALEK g*n in his hand. SARAH runs out of hiding, barely able to speak...) SARAH: Doctor... (She hugs him in delight and relief as she starts to gabble at him...) SARAH: Oh, you’re safe! Oh, what happened?! Oh, how did you get away from the Dalek? What did you see down there? (The DOCTOR tries desperately to quieten her.) DOCTOR: Alright. Alright, alright, alright, alright, just a moment, just a moment! I’ve just had a face to face confrontation with a rather nasty root. It obviously wasn’t very fond of me but it positively hated the Dalek. SARAH: Did you say “root”? DOCTOR: Yes, it must have been one of those, sort of, underground support systems for the city, I should imagine. SARAH: Well what happened to the Dalek? DOCTOR: The root - one... SARAH: Mmm? DOCTOR: Dalek - nil. In fact, this was about the only part of it that was left undamaged. (He holds up the g*n. BELLAL and GOTAL run out of the tunnel that they hid in. The DOCTOR jumps and aims the g*n at them.) SARAH: No! Doctor, they’re friends. BELLAL: The other Dalek is coming this way! SARAH: Oh! (The two run off and SARAH is about to follow but the DOCTOR pulls her back.) DOCTOR: Sarah! Who are your shining friends? SARAH: Oh, time for that later, Doctor - come on! (She leads him down the tunnel. A moment later, the SECOND DALEK emerges from its tunnel, looks round and then glides off after the fugitives.) 6: INT. TUNNEL (The two Exxilons lead the way down the tunnel. BELLAL waves to the two people to take the lead.) BELLAL: You must move more quickly! The Dalek is coming this way! 7: INT. TUNNEL END (SARAH runs into the end of the tunnel.) SARAH: It’s a d*ad end! (GOTAL points to a crack in the wall as BELLAL keeps watch.) GOTAL: No! We go through there - it widens out after a little. DOCTOR: You first - go on, Sarah. (SARAH climbs up and through the crack in the wall.) GOTAL: (To the DOCTOR.) Now you - give me that. (He takes the DALEK g*n from the DOCTOR as he starts to climb through.) DOCTOR: I really must go on a diet... 8: INT. TUNNEL CHAMBER DOCTOR: ...one of these days. (SARAH squeezes through.) DOCTOR: Give me your hand! SARAH: Oh! (SARAH helps pull him through the narrow crack.) DOCTOR: Come on. 9: INT. TUNNEL END (The SECOND DALEK glides nearer as GOTAL and then BELLAL squeeze through the crack.) FIRST DALEK: Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! (Having made it through, the DALEK glides up to the crack, aims its g*n at it and fires b*llet after b*llet into the chamber beyond.) 10: INT. TUNNEL CHAMBER (Within there, the four shelter down as the b*ll*ts ricochet off the walls.) 11: INT. TUNNEL END (The DALEK ceases f*ring and glides off.) 12: INT. TUNNEL CHAMBER (The four gingerly raise their heads. The DOCTOR peers through the crack.) DOCTOR: Well, it’s alright. He seems to have gone. Is anyone hurt? SARAH: Ah, I don’t think so. BELLAL: We’re safe now. DOCTOR: We can’t sit around underground forever. There are things we must do. SARAH: Such as? DOCTOR: Well, get the power back into our spaceships, for one thing. And for another, do everything we can to help that Earth mission ship. SARAH: Well they’ll be alright. They seemed pretty pally with the Daleks. DOCTOR: Well, you take it from me, Sarah - the moment they cease to be of use to the Daleks, they wipe them out without a qualm. (BELLAL stands.) BELLAL: My people are watching them. They will report immediately what happens. (GOTAL nods in agreement and the four move off.) 13: EXT. EXXILON. DIG (From high on a cliff top, one of the underground Exxilons watches as the c*ptive Exxilons work at mining the parrinium below. They are working rather like gold prospectors, lifting up soil from beneath a pool and sifting through it. GALLOWAY watches them. A DALEK glides up to them and GALLOWAY goes up to meet it.) DALEK: The Exxilons are working too slowly. DAN GALLOWAY: Well, with the primitive equipment they’re using, I’m not surprised. DALEK: Then the workforce must be increased. You will arrange it. DAN GALLOWAY: Look, the high priest wasn’t all that cooperative. We were lucky to get this many workers. (The DALEK glides round GALLOWAY.) DALEK: More workers! More workers! More! Exxilons will obey our commands! DAN GALLOWAY: And if they don’t? DALEK: Their leaders will be exterminated. DAN GALLOWAY: (Shocked.) But...we made an agreement. DALEK: It was expedient. You will advise the high priest that his people will comply with Dalek law - or suffer the consequences. DAN GALLOWAY: I can’t tell him that! DALEK: You will obey! (The DALEK glides off chanting...) DALEK: You will obey! You will obey! You will obey! You will obey! (GALLOWAY returns to the mining Exxilons who have momentarily stopped work.) DAN GALLOWAY: Alright you lot - put your backs into it! Get going! (He glances back at the departing DALEK as the Exxilons slowly return to work.) DAN GALLOWAY: Come on! You’re idle, idle, idle! 14: EXT. EXXILON. SHIP LANDING SITE (Two DALEKS glide into their spaceship.) 15: INT. DALEK SHIP (Three DALEKS meet in one of the darkened metallic chambers within.) DALEK: This planet is now under Dalek control. Our commands will be obeyed. Those who resist will be exterminated! 16: INT. TUNNEL (BELLAL leads the DOCTOR, SARAH and GOTAL down a tunnel lit by many candles arranged on ledges.) BELLAL: Exxilon had grown old before life had even g*n on other planets. Our ancestors solved the mysteries of science, built craft that travelled through space - they were the supreme beings of the universe. DOCTOR: What destroyed their power - w*r? BELLAL: No. They created their own destruction. Using all their knowledge, they built a city that would last through all of time. SARAH: And they succeeded. It looked as though it was built only yesterday. BELLAL: They used their sciences to make the city into a living thing. It could protect itself, repair itself, maintain itself - they even gave it a brain. DOCTOR: I see. So the city became an entity, though greater and more powerful than the many small parts that had created it? BELLAL: Yes, it then had no need of those who had made it. Our people had created a monster. They tried to destroy it, instead it destroyed them and drove out the survivors. Now we, and the other Exxilons you met, are all that remain. SARAH: Well what separates you from the others? BELLAL: They have made the city their god. They worship and fear it. They even make sacrifices to it. SARAH: Yes, we almost qualified for that ourselves. (The DOCTOR and SARAH smile.) DOCTOR: Yet you don’t fear the city, Bellal - why? BELLAL: Yes, we do fear it, but we don’t worship it. Our aim is to destroy it. Unless we succeed, our race will vanish from this planet. DOCTOR: Yes. Well, I think the time has come to do something about this city. 17: EXT. EXXILON. DIG (The underground Exxilon continues to observe the dig from the clifftop. Three DALEKS are positioned at different points at the side of the pool and three Exxilons in the pool, sifting silt which is further but roughly refined by more Exxilons at the water’s edge. JILL and PETER are starting to look a little bedraggled from their efforts. They watch as another DALEK arrives and listen as it reports to one already at the site.) FIRST DALEK: The expl*sive charges will be completed shortly. SECOND DALEK: The charges must be placed on the beacon on the summit of the city and detonated. FIRST DALEK: Agreed. A Dalek patrol will enter the city to investigate scientific installations while the expl*sives are being positioned. (Another DALEK has glided up to the two...) THIRD DALEK: Will destruction of the beacon restore electrical energy? FIRST DALEK: All logical evidence suggests it is the source of interference. (Suddenly there is a disturbance in the pool. A root probe, similar to the one that att*cked the DOCTOR in the tunnel, rises from the water. The Exxilons start to grunt in panic, drawing the attention of both DALEKS and humans. The Exxilons, both in the water and on dry ground, seem rooted to the spot in fear. PETER pushes past them to the water’s edge and yells out...) PETER HAMILTON: Go! Get out of it! (Two of the Exxilons in the water are already near to the edge and wade out easily. The third is on the other side of the pool, nearer to both steeper ground and the rising probe itself. The Exxilon desperately tries to make for safety but swift movement is hampered by the large heavy folds of its cloak. Watching this, JILL runs up to PETER in some distress.) JILL TARRANT: Peter?! (The two watch helplessly as the probe reaches its maximum height and then descends quickly upon the hapless Exxilon. As the probe touches it, the creature explodes into flame. The Exxilon splashes in the water as the flames spread across its cloak. Finally, it plunges d*ad into the water. PETER takes JILL to higher ground away from the pool and the probe which turns looking for another victim. It soon finds one as a DALEK on the cliff edge starts to f*re its ineffectual b*ll*ts at the probe. The snake-like defence turns and moves towards the moving DALEK. It fires its own sh*t at the DALEK whose dome explodes into flames.) DALEK: Exterminate! Am losing control! (The DALEK plunges off the edge and down the cliff.) DALEK: Am losing control! Am...! (It falls into the water and its cries cut out as it floats on top on the pool, watched by the grunting Exxilons and the surviving but unmoved DALEKS. GALLOWAY joins JILL and PETER and they watch as the probe slithers beneath the water’s surface. Nearby, the watching underground Exxilon moves away to report events.) 18: INT. TUNNEL (The DOCTOR, SARAH and GOTAL watch as BELLAL carves some crude markings on the wall of the tunnel with a sharp piece of rock.) DOCTOR: You say that markings like these are cut into the walls of the city? BELLAL: Yes, these are as I remember them. SARAH: I saw them too, Doctor. Do they mean anything to you? DOCTOR: No, not fully. But I do have a rough idea of what they’re intended to convey. You see, I’ve seen them before. SARAH: Seen them before - where? DOCTOR: On the walls of a temple in Peru. SARAH: Oh, that’s impossible! DOCTOR: Yeah, that’s what they said about the Peruvian temple as well. Yeah, it’s one of Earth’s great mysteries that no primitive man could possibly have built such a structure. Well now we’ve solved it. SARAH: (Puzzled.) Solved how a temple was built in Peru? DOCTOR: (To BELLAL.) You say that your ancestors were travelling in space when other worlds were still primitive? BELLAL: Why that is true. DOCTOR: (To SARAH.) Then they almost certainly visited Earth and taught the people there how to build. BELLAL: Our city supports itself in two ways: through roots in the ground and in the air. SARAH: The air? DOCTOR: Yes, th...they must drain their electrical energy from the atmosphere, probably via that beacon. SARAH: So that’s what put the mockers on the TARDIS? DOCTOR: Well, you seem to have a crude grasp of the general idea, yes. (A third underground Exxilon runs into the tunnel and whispers to GOTAL, watched by the others.) BELLAL: What is it? GOTAL: One of the machine creatures has been destroyed by a probe at the diggings. SARAH: (To the DOCTOR, puzzled.) A what - where? DOCTOR: Another of our Dalek friends has had root trouble! (SARAH smiles.) 19: EXT. EXXILON. DIG (A DALEK moves past three others and up to the waiting group of Exxilons.) FIRST DALEK: Mining will recommence in new area immediately - move! (They grunt unhappily but move away harassed by the DALEK.) FIRST DALEK: Move! Move! Move! (Another DALEK glides up to the three humans but talks only to JILL...) SECOND DALEK: You will go with them. (PETER steps forward.) PETER HAMILTON: We stay together. SECOND DALEK: (Angrily.) You will obey! You will obey! JILL TARRANT: It’s alright, Peter. One of us has to select the parrinium from the digging. PETER HAMILTON: But... JILL TARRANT: Don’t worry. I can take care of myself. (She walks off after the Exxilons and their guard. The SECOND DALEK turns to the remaining two DALEKS.) SECOND DALEK: Patrol will leave immediately to enter city and make scientific survey. DALEKS: We obey. (They glide off. The SECOND DALEK turns on the spot to face PETER and GALLOWAY.) SECOND DALEK: You will accompany me to position expl*sive. (PETER turns to GALLOWAY.) PETER HAMILTON: You’re in command. What do we do? DAN GALLOWAY: Exactly as it says. SECOND DALEK: We leave immediately - move! Move! 20: EXT. EXXILON (The DOCTOR, SARAH and BELLAL, now carrying the DALEK g*n, approach the city and its flashing beacon. The DOCTOR whistles in appreciation at the sight of its terraces, columns and buildings.) DOCTOR: Well. Now that must be one of the seven hundred wonders of the universe. SARAH: It’s even more impressive when we get close. DOCTOR: I’m afraid you’re not going any closer. SARAH: What? Oh, now look, Doctor... DOCTOR: (Interrupts.) I’ve got something far more important for you to do. SARAH: (Sulkily.) You just don’t want to be lumbered with me. DOCTOR: Sarah, if that Earth rocket doesn’t get away from here, millions of people are gonna die. (SARAH nods in acceptance.) SARAH: (Quietly.) Alright, Doctor, what do you want me to do? DOCTOR: I want you to make Galloway and his friends understand they’ve got to get the parrinium aboard that ship and be ready for blast-off the moment the power is restored. Now remember the Daleks will be fully powered too and they’ll do everything they can to destroy the Earth ship. SARAH: (Shocked.) You think that’s what they’re intending? DOCTOR: Yes, I’m certain of it. I know the Daleks and they’re not medical missionaries. SARAH: I’ll tell them, Doctor. (BELLAL is shuffling on his feet nervously.) SARAH: Well, Bellal is getting impatient. You’d better go. (The DOCTOR nods and smiles.) DOCTOR: Good girl. Well, take care of yourself, won’t you? SARAH: And you. (He takes a few paces towards BELLAL but stops and turns back to SARAH.) DOCTOR: There’s just one more thing. If I don’t come back... SARAH: Mmm? DOCTOR: You must go with them. (He sees that she is about to say something and quickly places a finger on her lip to stop her. He then strokes her cheek.) DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Alright? (SARAH mouths a “yes” and nods. The DOCTOR moves off with BELLAL.) 21: EXT. EXXILON. CITY (The beacon of the city continues to flash over the surface of the planet...) 22: EXT. CITY WALL (The DOCTOR and BELLAL walk out of the surrounding rocks at the same point at the base of the city that SARAH arrived at earlier. BELLAL, now carrying the disembodied DALEK g*n, warily walks up to the city wall but the DOCTOR’S concentration is taken up by his wonder at the structure.) DOCTOR: It’s beautiful! Beautiful! BELLAL: To you - perhaps. To us, it is evil. (BELLAL walks up to the wall and gestures to the DOCTOR to follow. BELLAL places his free hand on the wall and a section of it starts to glow.) DOCTOR: Touch sensitised. That’s brilliant. BELLAL: You wanted to see the symbols? DOCTOR: Yes. (BELLAL nods and takes his hand off the wall which stops glowing. He scurries into the alcove.) BELLAL: They are here. (He gestures to the DOCTOR to follow him and again places a hand on the wall to make the symbols glow.) BELLAL: I have tried to interpret them many times. DOCTOR: Yes, it’s difficult, very difficult. BELLAL: Do they have any meaning for you? DOCTOR: Vaguely, but I... BELLAL: They continue round here. (He shows the DOCTOR a mass of other symbols on another wall of the alcove. As they examine them, the two DALEKS sent to examine the city glide round a farther corner. Neither party spots the other. Meanwhile...) DOCTOR: I think I have something here. These symbols don’t conform. (BELLAL leaves the DOCTOR to examine the symbols and glances round the corner of the alcove. He jumps when he sees the approaching visitors.) BELLAL: Daleks! (The DOCTOR swiftly joins him.) DOCTOR: Where? BELLAL: There. (BELLAL points but their whereabouts is quickly established when the DALEKS start to f*re at the corner of the alcove.) BELLAL: Get back! (The two dive into the alcove and start to look desperately for a way into the city.) BELLAL: Hurry! (As the DALEKS glide round the corner, there are two electronic whining noises in quick succession, as if a door has opened and closed swiftly. As the DALEKS come upon sight of the alcove, they find that that is exactly the case as the alcove is now empty. The two DALEKS scan round it.) FIRST DALEK: Continue search. (The SECOND DALEK starts to look over the symbols.) 23: INT. CITY. ENTRANCE CHAMBER (The DOCTOR and BELLAL stand immediately inside an entrance chamber in the city. It is perfectly square with bare, off-white walls. Apart from some plain table seats, the only “decoration” are several sinister skeletons dressed in the rags of Exxilon cloaks. Others have been here before and got no further.) BELLAL: Well what did you do? DOCTOR: Well I simply picked out the symbol that appeared to be different and traced its outline on the wall. BELLAL: And that made it slide open? DOCTOR: Well I can’t think what else. (The DOCTOR spots one of the skeletons and walks up to examine it.) BELLAL: Can we get out again? DOCTOR: I should think that is extremely unlikely. He didn’t get out again, did he? BELLAL: We’ve walked into a trap! DOCTOR: No, no. No, that doesn’t just make sense. (He starts to examine the walls of the room.) BELLAL: But these... (BELLAL points at the skeletons.) BELLAL: Some of them must have been here for centuries. DOCTOR: Yeah, that’s right. They got this far then they couldn’t pass the next intelligence test. BELLAL: What test? DOCTOR: I’m not sure yet. Logically, there must be one. (He looks at the wall that they came through and the wall on the opposite side of the room. Deciding that that is the obvious place to progress, he walks over and places a hand on the wall. What faintly appeared to be a series of lines starts to glow like the symbols, revealing a vast maze puzzle covering the entire expanse of the wall.) DOCTOR: Ah, yes. Yes, just as I thought - good. Good, splendid, in fact capital! BELLAL: But...I don’t understand. This is simply a pattern on the wall. DOCTOR: Oh, no, no. It’s much more than that. It’s a maze - a test of skill and logic that we have to pass before we can move deeper into the city. BELLAL: And if we fail? DOCTOR: Well then, we shall simply add to these decorations. (He points to the skeletons to BELLAL’S alarm. The little Exxilon joins him and places his own hand on the touch-sensitive wall to enable the DOCTOR to stand back a little and decide the next step.) DOCTOR: Right, let’s see what we’ve got here. Well, there’s a point of entry here... (The DOCTOR points to a small square on its own in the immediate top right-hand corner of the maze and then to another in the bottom left-hand corner.) DOCTOR: The exit down there. Now as this wall is touch sensitised, simply by moving my finger along the correct route, it should register success or failure. Alright, well...here goes. (He places his finger on the wall and starts to trace a route...) 24: EXT. CITY WALL (In the alcove, the DALEKS have examined the symbols and are reaching the same earlier conclusion as the DOCTOR.) FIRST DALEK: Computer eye indicates the symbols provide a simple logic test. We must deduce which symbol does not conform to all others. SECOND DALEK: I will run computer scan. (A signal sound emits from the SECOND DALEK as the first places its sucker arm on one of the symbols.) FIRST DALEK: Key symbol. 25: INT. CITY. ENTRANCE CHAMBER (The DOCTOR is continuing through the maze.) DOCTOR: Yes...I think we’ve got it. (He is on the last few feet of track.) DOCTOR: I think this is it, Bellal. (His finger reaches the exit point.) DOCTOR: Yes - that’s it. (He stands up and watches as the door glides upwards...) 26: INT. CITY. CORRIDOR (...to reveal a blank corridor. The two step out and start to progress down the corridor and round a corner as the door glides shut behind them. Continuing on, they walk past what appears to be the first true decoration they have found in the city - a trellis wall. They peer round a corner and move on.) 27: INT. CITY. ENTRANCE CHAMBER (The door to the outside glides up and the two DALEKS glide into the city. They pay no attention to the skeletons.) FIRST DALEK: Locate next access point. (Their domes swivel round as they look for the next test.) 28: INT. CITY. FIRST CORRIDOR (The DOCTOR and BELLAL turn a corner and move into what appears to be a d*ad end. Another door glides upwards revealing a long corridor ahead of them. The floor in the middle section of the corridor appears to be covered in a series of red and white triangles and other shapes. The two warily enter the corridor and move on.) 29: INT. CITY. SECOND CORRIDOR (The door glides shut behind them but they continue onwards. Suddenly the DOCTOR catches sight of the floor and holds BELLAL back.) DOCTOR: Stop - don’t move!
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DEATH TO THE DALEKS BY: TERRY NATION PART FOUR Original Air Date: 16 March, 1974 5:35pm - 6:00pm 1: INT. CITY. FIRST CORRIDOR (Another door glides upwards revealing a long corridor ahead of them. The floor in the middle section of the corridor appears to be covered in a series of red and white triangles and other shapes. The two warily enter the corridor and move on.) 2: INT. CITY. SECOND CORRIDOR (The door glides shut behind them but they continue onwards. Suddenly the DOCTOR catches sight of the floor and holds BELLAL back.) DOCTOR: Stop - don't move! BELLAL: What is it? DOCTOR: It's another test, I think. (The DOCTOR gets down on his haunches and looks down closely at the floor.) DOCTOR: The people who built this city...they didn't go in for ornamental floors, did they? BELLAL: I don't understand. DOCTOR: No, neither do I. (He takes his sonic screwdriver out of his pocket. He adjusts it so that it emits a pinging signal and then hovers it over the floor. The instrument gives out a shriller signal over one part of it and the pinging signal over another. The DOCTOR stands and switches the screwdriver off.) DOCTOR: Tell me, have you ever tried Venusian hopscotch? (BELLAL'S limpid eyes look at him in puzzlement and his head turns like a puzzled dog.) DOCTOR: No, it's a silly question. You wouldn't have done. Anyway, now's your chance to learn. I...I want you to do exactly what I do, alright? (BELLAL nods and the DOCTOR switches on the screwdriver again. He runs it over the floor and steps onto the first area where the signal changes. He runs the screwdriver once more in a scanning motion and steps into another area upon resolution of the signal. On his next scan of the screwdriver, the signals indicate that there are two safe parts and, as the patterns in the middle of the floor are smaller than the size of two feet, the DOCTOR has to jump a foot into both of these safe points.) 3: INT. CITY. ENTRANCE CHAMBER (The maze completed, the door glides upwards and the DALEKS glide into the corridor.) 4: INT. CITY. FIRST CORRIDOR (They glide swiftly on.) 5: INT. CITY. SECOND CORRIDOR (The DOCTOR has made it to the other side of the floor pattern and BELLAL has started his journey across, guided by the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: Now jump. (BELLAL jumps into a safe area of the pattern.) DOCTOR: Good. Now the next two white triangles... (BELLAL is about to jump, but...) DOCTOR: No, no, no! Not the red, the white - to the right. (BELLAL makes the move safely and is now in the middle of the floor pattern.) DOCTOR: That's it. And the other foot in the other white triangle Good, don't touch the red. Now stay exactly where you are and give me your hand. (He reaches across and takes the little Exxilon's grey hand in his.) DOCTOR: Now when I count three, you jump, and don't touch any of those squares. One...two...three - right, jump! (BELLAL jumps and the DOCTOR yanks him across.) DOCTOR: Well done, that's rather a jolly game, don't you think? (BELLAL nods but...) BELLAL: Well, was that really necessary, Doctor? DOCTOR: Ah, yes, I think so. Let me show you something. (He reaches into his red waistcoat pockets and pulls out a small coin.) DOCTOR: Five piestas - do I need five piestas? No, I don't think so. Right then - just you watch this. (He throws the coin onto an unsafe area of the floor. Immediately it lands, an arc of electricity descends from the ceiling onto the coin. After a few seconds, the little disc of metal explodes.) DOCTOR: Tilt! Right, let's go and see what other pleasures they have in store for us. (They move off.) 6: INT. CITY. FIRST CORRIDOR (The DALEKS have reached the closed door which glides upwards revealing the corridor with the patterned floor beyond - but no sign of the DOCTOR or BELLAL. They glide onwards and the door slides down behind them.) 7: INT. CITY. SECOND CORRIDOR (They slowly glide onwards.) SECOND DALEK: Proceed with all caution. This territory will be classified as hostile. (The SECOND DALEK glides on.) FIRST DALEK: It is understood. (The SECOND DALEK reaches and glides onto the patterned floor. Immediately, it is covered by a series of electrical arcs, sending the casing spinning and twisting round.) SECOND DALEK: Alert! Alert! Excessive electrical charge received! (It manages to make it to the other side of the floor. The FIRST DALEK fires sh*t after sh*t into the floor, ripping its surface to pieces and causing a series of arcs to descend onto the lodged b*ll*ts. When the activity has ceased, the FIRST DALEK glides safely across to its companion.) FIRST DALEK: Damage report? SECOND DALEK: Non-conductive shielding burnt out. Sensors register receiving seven thousand volt electrical charge. FIRST DALEK: w*apon evidently designed to destroy humanoid tissue. We will continue. (The SECOND DALEK is about to glide on but the FIRST DALEK'S eye-stalk looks down at the floor.) FIRST DALEK: Wait - observe. (They watch as the destroyed sections of the floor fade away until it looks as new.) FIRST DALEK: This evidence suggests that city is indestructible. Proceed. 8: INT. CITY. CHAMBER (Another wall panel glides up and the DOCTOR and BELLAL step into an empty chamber.) BELLAL: An empty room. DOCTOR: Don't be too sure. BELLAL: Moving inside this city is like being inside a living thing. DOCTOR: Yes - its bloodstream rather than its stomach. We're being moved around like... 9: INT. CITY. CONTROL ROOM (In a nearby control room, the DOCTOR and BELLAL appear on a flat, wide monochrome screen. Sat in a chair before the screen is a watching Exxilon.) DOCTOR: (On monitor.) ...microbes, Bellal. And all the time getting closer to the heart. 10: EXT. EXXILON (NIGHT) (Night has fallen. JILL lies asleep among some rocks in a clearing as a DALEK glides past on patrol. SARAH carefully makes her way past a crag and runs quickly across the open ground towards JILL. After crouching down a moment, she takes another short run towards the rock which JILL is next to and hides behind it. She watches carefully as the DALEK glides past and into the darkness. She then raises her head to get JILL'S attention.) SARAH: (Quietly.) Pst! Jill... (There is no response.) SARAH: (Louder.) Pst! Jill! (JILL wakes and sees her with a smile.) JILL TARRANT: Sarah! SARAH: (Whispers.) Shh! Keep your voice down. (SARAH pushes herself back into the rock she is hidden behind. JILL looks round for the DALEK and sits up, pushing herself back also against the low rock which now stands between the two women.) JILL TARRANT: (Quietly.) What happened to you? Where's the Doctor? SARAH: (Quietly.) He's gone into the city. He's going to try and black out the beacon. JILL TARRANT: (Quietly.) What's he want us to do? SARAH: (Quietly.) You must be ready for take-off - the moment the power comes back on. Remember, it comes back on for the Daleks too. JILL TARRANT: (Quietly.) Yes, I know. SARAH: (Quietly.) Right, now, how much parrinium have you found? JILL TARRANT: (Quietly.) Well, there's more than... (She is about to point but quickly feigns sleep as the DALEK glides past. SARAH also ducks down. After the DALEK has gone they resume their conversation.) JILL TARRANT: (Quietly.) More than enough. All those bags are full. (She indicates across the clearing.) SARAH: (Quietly.) Good. Now...we have to find some way of getting it aboard your ship. JILL TARRANT: (Quietly.) With the Daleks standing guard over us? SARAH: (Quietly.) We've got to try somehow! 11: INT. CITY. CONTROL ROOM (NIGHT) (The watching Exxilon sees the DOCTOR and BELLAL making an examination of the walls of the chamber that they are stood in.) DOCTOR: (On monitor.) Nothing, absolutely nothing. A room without a clue, yet everything within this city has...has got a function. This room must be here for a purpose. BELLAL: (On monitor.) Perhaps... 12: INT. CITY. CHAMBER (NIGHT) BELLAL: ...we have come as far as we are permitted. DOCTOR: No. No, we'll have to start all over again. (The DOCTOR points across the room.) DOCTOR: Try in that corner, will you? There's a good chap. (BELLAL moves across the room and starts to examine a wall. As he reaches up and touches it, it starts to pulse with light and sound. BELLAL seems effected by this, his arm remaining upright and rigid in the air. The little Exxilon turns and faces the DOCTOR who is absorbed in looking over the floor with his sonic screwdriver.) DOCTOR: You know, I have a feeling... (He looks up and stops talking. Somehow the city has taken possession of BELLAL and he is pointing the DALEK g*n straight at the DOCTOR. He points the sonic screwdriver and switches it on, producing a signal to counter that from the wall.) DOCTOR: (Urgently.) Bellal - don't! Bellal?! (He stands and slowly starts to walk towards BELLAL.) DOCTOR: (Urgently.) Bellal, don't, now listen to me. Don't f*re that g*n. Now remember why we're here. Remember why we came to this city. (The signal from the wall stops and the DOCTOR also switches off the screwdriver. He continues to slowly walk towards BELLAL who still has the DALEK g*n raised.) DOCTOR: Bellal, I'm your friend. Your friend - you know that. Don't f*re that g*n. (He is now directly in front of the Exxilon.) DOCTOR: Don't f*re! (He grabs the g*n from BELLAL and throws it across the room. BELLAL, the spell broken, mutters something. The DOCTOR holds him.) DOCTOR: What happened? What is it? BELLAL: There was a light that shone in my eyes. (The obstacle overcome, a wall panel rises.) BELLAL: A blinding light... DOCTOR: Yes, well whatever it is, we seem to have qualified for the next test. Do you feel ready to go on? BELLAL: No...but we must. DOCTOR: Yes. Come on, old chap. (The DOCTOR puts an arm across his shoulder and leads him through. The panel closes as, on the other side of the room, the entrance panel rises and the DALEKS glide in.) 13: EXT. EXXILON. CITY (NIGHT) (The beacon flashes through the night sky.) 14: EXT. CITY WALL (NIGHT) (GALLOWAY and PETER, both holding a DALEK b*mb approach the base of the city.) DALEK: You will climb to the summit and place the expl*sives on the beacon. PETER HAMILTON: And if we refuse? DALEK: The girl we are holding as hostage will be exterminated. You will obey! (It glides to one side to allow the two men to start as they look upwards at their task.) DALEK: You will be in range of my f*re at all times. DAN GALLOWAY: (To PETER.) Well, let's...get on with it. (They walk up to the city wall and put the b*mb down. GALLOWAY holds out his cupped hands and PETER steps into them and climbs onto the first ledge. GALLOWAY reaches down for the first b*mb.) 15: EXT. EXXILON (NIGHT) (The DALEK guard glides past JILL. Once it has gone, she lifts her head and speaks to SARAH who is pressed up against the other side of the rock.) JILL TARRANT: (Quietly.) Okay. SARAH: (Quietly.) Jill, are there any empty parrinium bags? JILL TARRANT: (Quietly.) Yes, there are some right over by the workings. Why? SARAH: (Quietly.) I've got an idea. So go over and get them while I keep watch. (JILL looks concerned.) SARAH: (Whispers.) Hurry! (Quietly, JILL runs across the clearing to where the c*ptive Exxilons are. They are not sleeping but are gathered round a small f*re. JILL circles them to get to the empty bags. The Exxilons, much to SARAH'S watching consternation, start to mutter and grunt loudly at her presence. The young girl grabs the bags and runs back to SARAH, throwing them at her. She then quickly resumes her sleeping position just as the DALEK guard glides past once more. Then the two women raise their heads again.) SARAH: (Quietly.) Right. Now, the first thing...we've got to do is get these filled. Anything will do. If the Doctor does manage to restore power, we have to be ready. 16: INT. CITY. CORRIDOR (NIGHT) (The DOCTOR and BELLAL make their way along another long corridor.) DOCTOR: Mmm, we must be getting very close to the centre of the city by now. BELLAL: We've come quite a way without any tests. Perhaps we're safe now? DOCTOR: Ah, I shouldn't be too sure. Have you any idea why the city should be testing us in this way? 17: INT. CITY. CONTROL ROOM (NIGHT) (The watching Exxilon sees their approach...) BELLAL: (On monitor.) Well, what do you mean? DOCTOR: (On monitor.) Well, they could have destroyed us dozens of times. Instead they give us a chance to survive by using our intelligence. BELLAL: (On monitor.) And it has a purpose for this? DOCTOR: (On monitor.) Oh, yes. By passing these tests we've proved that we have an intelligence level that could be useful. We might have some knowledge or science...that they could add to their databanks. (On the screen, they are seen to turn a corner.) 18: INT. CITY. ANTECHAMBER (NIGHT) (They enter a chamber that has no sliding panel entrance. Another dressed skeleton of a previous failed intruder lies on the floor. Suddenly, the lights in the room start to dim and the hum of the city fluctuates.) BELLAL: Now what? DOCTOR: Well, if I'm right...the ultimate test will be an as*ault on our sanity. So be ready for it. (The room's lights suddenly start to flare into a series of colours. BELLAL is immediately affected and grabs his head. The DOCTOR is at first unaffected but the flare grows stronger, distorting the air. His face creases in pain and he puts his hands to his head as a series of revolving bright patterns and sounds burn into his mind...) DOCTOR: Bellal, fight it! (BELLAL moans in pain.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Fight it, Bellal! BELLAL: (Shouts.) No! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Fight it! It's an illusion! It's an illusion! (The mental as*ault grows stronger...) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) You have no substance! No truth! You do not exist! You do not exist! (The lights and sounds slowly die away along with the DOCTOR'S echoing words...) DOCTOR: (Echoes.) Not exist...not exist...not exist...not exist...not exist...not exist...not exist...not exist...not exist...not exist...not exist. (...as the DOCTOR'S hands leave his face. He gasps and looks exhausted by the struggle. He sees that BELLAL is crouched in a corner and moaning to himself. He rushes over to help him.) DOCTOR: Alright, old chap. It's all over now. It's alright. It's all over. That's it. (He sees that BELLAL seems transfixed by something...) DOCTOR: What is it? BELLAL: Look... (BELLAL points to where an entrance is fading into view on one of the walls. Beyond it can be seen the control room and the Exxilon before the monitor screen. The two walk into the room.) 19: INT. CITY. CONTROL ROOM (NIGHT) (The DOCTOR catches sight of the watcher and puts out a hand to stop BELLAL from going any further. They jump back slightly as the Exxilon suddenly starts to slump in his seat and fades away into dust. The watcher was nothing but a centuries old corpse. The two intruders walk forward and the DOCTOR examines the pile of dust which covers the seat.) DOCTOR: Our entrance must have created a current of air which broke the surface tension. (BELLAL looks over the rest of the room. Next to a series of wall panels is a console with a number of transparent boxes of controls on it.) BELLAL: This is the brain of the city? DOCTOR: The brain and the nervous system which we've go to destroy. (The DOCTOR starts to look over the wall panels.) BELLAL: Doctor, the city defies all attempts to destroy it. We can't end its power. DOCTOR: I think I know a way. (He pulls out circuit boards from the wall and, putting them on the console, starts to work on them. BELLAL watches for a moment and then starts to look over the rest of the room. He crosses to an alcove wherein are two small raised platforms. A sound has started in the room as if the city is about to take defensive action. Looking round, BELLAL fails to see that the two platforms are glowing with a red light. He then turns and sees the pulsing glow.) BELLAL: Doctor - here! DOCTOR: Mmm, what is it? BELLAL: Doctor, come here! (The DOCTOR sighs and puts down a tool with which he is working on the boards. He joins BELLAL.) DOCTOR: What is it? BELLAL: Look! (He indicates the platforms on which the outlines of two bi-pedal beings are starting to form.) DOCTOR: We haven't got much time. BELLAL: What is it? What's happening? DOCTOR: The city is creating antibodies. They're trying to neutralise us. Now keep a very close eye on them. Let me know the moment they're complete. (He returns to his circuit board and frantically resumes work.) 20: EXT. EXXILON. CITY (NIGHT) (On the outside of the city...) 21: EXT. CITY. COLUMN BASE (NIGHT) (...GALLOWAY and PETER HAMILTON have reached the base of the column which supports the flashing light. High up, in a howling wind, they hold onto the column for support. They have to shout over the sound of the wind...) PETER HAMILTON: (Shouts.) If we set the charges on this main support, that should be close enough. (GALLOWAY nods and hands one of the charges to PETER who sets the timer and clamps the red box to the side of the column. GALLOWAY picks up the second charge.) PETER HAMILTON: (Shouts.) Right, set the detonator! (GALLOWAY hesitates and looks down at the charge.) PETER HAMILTON: (Shouts.) Well let me do it. DAN GALLOWAY: (Shouts.) No. PETER HAMILTON: (Shouts.) Look, that Dalek down there can see every move we make! Now give me the charge! DAN GALLOWAY: (Shouts.) One charge is enough to damage the beacon. This one we keep. 22: EXT. EXXILON (NIGHT) (The patrolling DALEK glides up to the group of encamped Exxilons.) DALEK: Work to commence at dawn. Move! Move! (They groan and mutter as they move off to obey. The DALEK glides up to where JILL has covered herself with a number of empty bags as she sleeps.) DALEK: Move! Move! (There is no response. The DALEK moves back the bags but JILL is not under them. The DALEK immediately starts to twitch and turn on the spot in a panic...) DALEK: Human female has escaped! I have failed! Female prisoner has escaped! I have failed! I have failed! Self destruct! I have failed - destruct! I have failed - destruct! Failed! Failed! Failed! (Its voice dies away as its eye, arm and g*n drop. It falls silent and d*ad.) 23: INT. CITY. CONTROL ROOM (The DOCTOR is working as fast as he can on the circuit boards. BELLAL watches the forms which are now almost complete. They are crude, unfinished beings covered in the basics of grey clothing. The skin on their faces resembles burnt and decaying flesh. Their arms drop and they flex their hands.) BELLAL: Doctor! I think you should come now! DOCTOR: Yes, alright, I've nearly finished. (BELLAL scurries over to him, therefore failing to see the two antibodies stepping off their respective platforms.) BELLAL: But what are you doing? DOCTOR: Psychological warfare - I'm trying to destroy the city's brain. Engineer what in human terms is called a nervous breakdown. (He slots on the circuit boards back in the wall.) BELLAL: Can it be done? (He returns to the second circuit board. Behind them, the two antibodies approach them.) DOCTOR: The computer is a machine of logic, Bellal, it cannot stand paradoxes. The brain ..... (His words are cut out as he and BELLAL are grabbed by the antibodies on their shoulders and are pushed to one side of the room away from the control panels.) 24: INT. CITY. ANTECHAMBER (The two DALEKS glide through the antechamber...) 25: INT. CITY. CONTROL ROOM (...and into the control room where they see the struggle.) SECOND DALEK: Halt. (The two antibodies turn to face the new arrivals.) SECOND DALEK: Stay where you are - do not move. (The two creatures start to stagger towards the DALEKS.) SECOND DALEK: Halt! Halt! (The DOCTOR and BELLAL use the diversion to scurry away. The DALEKS start to pump b*llet after b*llet into the antibodies but they are unaffected. As the DOCTOR and BELLAL run out of the room, the lights in the city start to dim and flare. Meanwhile, one of the creatures grabs a DALEK g*n and wrenches it out of the casing, tearing the w*apon to pieces.) SECOND DALEK: Halt or you will be exterminated! Assist! Assist! (The two antibodies start to pound blow after blow onto the two DALEKS.) SECOND DALEK: Exxilon mutants must be exterminated! Alert! Evacuate! Evacuate! Evacuate! 26: INT. CITY. SECOND CORRIDOR (The entire city is affected by the DOCTOR'S sabotage and its lights dim and flare. He and BELLAL have reached the corridor which contains the electrified floor pattern. They run towards it but BELLAL stops.) BELLAL: The floor! DOCTOR: It should be safe now - come on! (They tear across it and down the corridor.) 27: INT. CITY. CONTROL ROOM (The battle between the DALEKS and the antibodies continues. The DALEK left with the g*n fires a series of one-off useless sh*ts.) SECOND DALEK: Alert! Alert! Evacuate! Evacuate! Evacuate! Retire to city entrance! (The w*apon DALEK glides out of the control room and the other glides backwards after him, its g*n raised and a level of panic in its voice...) SECOND DALEK: Faster! Faster! I will cover you! I will cover you! Faster! Faster! Faster! Faster! (It fires several sh*ts at and into the antibodies.) 28: INT. CITY. SECOND CORRIDOR (The DOCTOR and BELLAL run round a corner to where there is a door panel which jerks up and down.) BELLAL: Look! DOCTOR: Well the controls are beginning to break down - it's working. Come on. (They duck under the doorway and run along the corridor. A moment later, the two escaping DALEKS glide round the same corner and one of them runs straight into the malfunctioning door as it rises and falls.) 29: EXT. CITY WALL (All other doors in the city behave the same way. The DOCTOR and BELLAL run under the door with the maze and the entrance door with the symbols and into the outside where it is now daylight. They stop to get their breath.) BELLAL: I never thought we would escape. DOCTOR: Well the battle's not over yet. If I know the Daleks, then they'll do everything they can to stop that Earth mission ship from getting away. Come on! 30: EXT. EXXILON. SHIP LANDING SITE (PETER and GALLOWAY return to the DALEK ship from their task with their DALEK guard. They walk up to a waiting DALEK.) FIRST DALEK: Report. SECOND DALEK: expl*sive device in position. Detonation will occur shortly and power circuits will be restored. FIRST DALEK: Prepare for immediate take-off. The prisoners will load the parrinium aboard our ship. PETER HAMILTON: Where is the girl you were holding? Where's Jill? FIRST DALEK: She escaped during darkness. Now our work is complete, she is of no consequence. SECOND DALEK: You will load the parrinium - move! (With GALLOWAY concealing the b*mb in his tunic, the two men move to where a number of sacks lie outside the DALEK ship. They start to pick them up and carry them into the craft. Nearby, the DOCTOR and BELLAL step out from behind a rock and watch events.) DOCTOR: They're getting ready to leave. BELLAL: And we are powerless to stop them. DOCTOR: Yes, if I know the Daleks, they'll cause the maximum havoc and destruction before they go. BELLAL: Why? DOCTOR: It's their scorched planet policy. (Behind them, SARAH and JILL step out from behind a rock.) SARAH: (Delighted.) Doctor! (The DOCTOR shushes her to silence and runs over to them.) SARAH: (Relieved.) Oh! DOCTOR: How did it go? SARAH: Oh, we've just come...from the Earth mission ship. It's all set for take-off the moment we get full power. DOCTOR: Good. JILL TARRANT: But I can't handle the ship. We must free Peter and Lieutenant Galloway. DOCTOR: Well that's not going to be so easy. Come over here and see for yourself, come on. (The DOCTOR leads them back to their place of observation and points to where the two men are loading more bags into the ship.) 31: INT. DALEK SHIP (Within the darkened interior, they put these bags down and PETER checks his watch.) PETER HAMILTON: This is it...five seconds...four...three...two...one... 32: EXT. CITY (The charge at the base of the column explodes, sending the edifice crashing down onto the top of the city.) 33: INT. DALEK SHIP (The lights within the DALEK ship suddenly come to life and the heartbeat sound of DALEK technology reverberates round the cramped control chamber. A DALEK turns and reports to another.) DALEK: All power restored. 34: EXT. EXXILON. SHIP LANDING SITE JILL TARRANT: The beacon! They've destroyed the beacon! (Their attention caught by the sight, the four don't see two approaching DALEKS.) FIRST DALEK: Move! Move! (SARAH sighs and she, JILL and BELLAL look at a rueful DOCTOR. They then carry out the command and move over to the two DALEKS. They join PETER as all but one of the DALEKS enters the ship. This one turns to face the five. A terrified BELLAL cringes against SARAH.) DOCTOR: Well, don't prolong the agony. It's obvious you mean to k*ll us. Why don't you get on with it? DALEK: It is not necessary. You will perish with the rest of the creatures. DOCTOR: Well what had you in mind? DALEK: We have all the parrinium we need. With it, we can force the space powers to accede to our demands. If they do, millions of people on the outer planets will perish. (The noise of the ship's engines starts to rise...) PETER HAMILTON: Don't you think Earth will send another mission? Now that the power barrier has been broken, we can have another ship here in less than a month. DOCTOR: I imagine the Daleks have already taken that into account, Peter. DALEK: Correct. (The DALEK starts to back into the ship, speaking as it goes.) DALEK: When our ship is in space, we will f*re a plague m*ssile on to the surface of this planet. The plague will destroy... 35: INT. DALEK SHIP DALEK: ...all life and make further landings here impossible! (With the DALEK fully within the ship, the external door glides down shut.) 36: EXT. EXXILON. SHIP LANDING SITE PETER HAMILTON: (Shouts.) Galloway, for God's sake, use the b*mb! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Come on, get out of here quick or we'll be caught in the exhaust blast! Come on, out! (He harries the four away.) DOCTOR: Come on, quick - move! (They duck behind rocks. The DALEK ship rises into the air. Once safely out of range, the five come out of cover and watch it go.) SARAH: Well, it's not much consolation but at least they don't have the parrinium. DOCTOR: (Puzzled.) What do you mean? (SARAH realises that she hasn't told the DOCTOR of her and JILL'S success.) SARAH: Oh, of course! Well, the Daleks have only got bags of sand. Jill and I loaded to real parrinium aboard the Earth ship. (Meanwhile, JILL and PETER carry on watching the ship leave.) PETER HAMILTON: I should never have trusted Galloway. Had one of the Dalek b*mb - could have stopped them with it, damaged their ship. If I knew where he was... 37: INT. DALEK SHIP (A DALEK monitors the control panel.) SECOND DALEK: We are free of planet's atmosphere. FIRST DALEK: Prepare to launch plague m*ssile. SECOND DALEK: I obey. (It glides out of the control area and past an alcove where the boxes and bags of parrinium have been stored. GALLOWAY is hidden behind these with the b*mb. He picks it up and sets the detonator. He then presses the main switch.) 38: EXT. DALEK SHIP (In the skies above Exxilon, the DALEK ship explodes...) 39: INT. DALEK SHIP (...k*lling GALLOWAY and all aboard...) 40: EXT. DALEK SHIP (...as the ship is rendered into pieces.) 41: EXT. EXXILON (The five on the surface watch.) PETER HAMILTON: (Quietly.) Galloway... JILL TARRANT: He must have hidden away when we put the bags on board. DOCTOR: Well, he did his duty. Now you must do yours. Get that parrinium to where it's needed. SARAH: Doctor - look! (The DOCTOR runs to her. She points across the planet's surface.) SARAH: Look at the city! 42: EXT. CITY (The Exxilon city is literally melting away. Its terraces and columns dissolve and fall to pieces as it is deprived of the enormous reserves of power needed for its survival. Almost a living being, sounds like cries emanate from the dying structure as it becomes a formless mass on the surface of the planet.) 43: EXT. EXXILON (SARAH watches in wonder. She looks up at the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: That's rather a pity in a way. Now the universe is down to six hundred and ninety-nine wonders...
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foreverdreaming
THE MONSTER OF PELADON BY: BRIAN HAYLES PART ONE Original Air Date: 23 March, 1974 5:30pm - 5:55pm 1: EXT. CITADEL (The citadel of Peladon, scene of a previous visit by the DOCTOR, is unchanged by the passage of time. Lightning and thunder still lash its turrets, walls and towers and a howling wind blows across the mountain from which it has been carved.) 2: INT. MINE TUNNEL (Underneath the citadel, wide mine tunnels honeycomb the interior of the mountain. Primitive torches illuminate the dark passages as a group of four miners make their way along one of the galleries. They are dressed in a combination of fur trousers and leather tunics and their hair is almost of an afro style, streaked white like a badger. They push an incongruous piece of machinery between them. Built onto a chassis with a large balloon wheel at the front and struts at the back, it is futuristic in design with a probe within a mesh dish pointing forwards. One miner, ETTIS, leads the others as they wheel the device along.) ETTIS: Come on, lads. Come on, keep it moving. Mustn't keep our lords and masters waiting. (He points ahead.) ETTIS: Straight through the gallery. (Suddenly they hear a burbling electronic noise rising in tone and they look upwards.) ETTIS: What's that? (As they see something, a look of terror appears on their faces.) ETTIS: Aggedor! It is the spirit of Aggedor! (Two of the miners run off in a panic. The third, stood next to ETTIS, suddenly starts to cry out and falls backwards onto a rock. He screams as the electronic sound reaches a pitch, mixed together with an animal-like roar and a red glow surrounds him, totally vapourising the man. The red glow vanishes and with it the sound. Looking upwards at the roof of the gallery, ETTIS dashes off in a panic...) 3: INT. ANOTHER MINE TUNNEL (Nearby in another tunnel are two very different beings. One is a human dressed in a black leather tunic. The other is totally different in looks. Humanoid in shape, he is of a reddish hue in skin colour with shaggy red hair totally covering the bottom half of his body. His naked chest is flecked with the same hair. His head hair and beard are also red. He has large limpid eyes with a black dot in the middle for an iris and ridged cheeks and forehead. A Peladonian miner is with them and passes the human - ECKERSLEY - a lump of orange crystal. He looks at it through a jeweller's eye glass.) ECKERSLEY: Yes...it's exactly the quality we've been searching for. We're just not producing enough of it. (He gives it back to the Peladonian miner who walks off.) VEGA NEXOS: How can we? We have modern equipment but these..."primitives" refuse to use it. ECKERSLEY: Ah, they'll come round to it. At least they've agreed to use the sonic lance. VEGA NEXOS: Mmm. (Suddenly, the three panicking, escaping miners run past.) ECKERSLEY: What's going on? (ECKERSLEY grabs ETTIS who brings up the rear.) ECKERSLEY: Hey, Ettis! What's all the panic? ETTIS: It's Aggedor! ECKERSLEY: What? ETTIS: (Angrily.) It's the spirit of Aggedor! We took the sonic lance down into the mine as you ordered, and the spirit of Aggedor appeared and slew one of us for blasphemy! (Contemptuously.) Who do you think's gonna use your alien equipment now? 4: INT. THRONE ROOM (The throne room of Peladon is also little changed since the DOCTOR last stood in there with Jo Grant. One change is that a young woman sits on the throne, dressed in purple and silver robes and with a huge purple fur collar and tiara-like crown. She is attended by a handmaiden in a long purple dress and stood over by her champion - BLOR, who is even bigger and more fearsome than Grun. He wears a large fur headdress with a horn at the front in imitation of Aggedor. At the base of the throne, whose steps are now covered in furs, stands the bearded form of the High Priest and Chancellor of Peladon. ORTRON is dressed in similar robes to Hepesh and he, the Queen and the handmaiden have the typical white hair with red streaks of the nobility of Peladon. An audience is taking place. ECKERSLEY and VEGA NEXOS stand before the throne with a very familiar figure - that of the yellow and green, one-eyed ALPHA CENTAURI. ORTRON speaks accusingly to the three aliens...) ORTRON: One of our people has been k*lled. The miners are terrified and refuse to work. What explanation do you offer us? ECKERSLEY: It's not up to me to explain, is it? According to the miners it was the spirit of Aggedor - whatever that's supposed to mean. ORTRON: (Angrily.) Do not blaspheme, alien! (ALPHA CENTAURI twitters forward...) ALPHA CENTAURI: I'm sure no disrespect was intended, Lord Chancellor. (VEGA NEXOS approaches the throne to speak direct to the Queen - THALIRA.) VEGA NEXOS: Your Majesty, we people of the planet Vega are a practical race of mining engineers. We do not propose to accept that this unfortunate incident was brought about by supernatural means. THALIRA: (Coldly.) The miners of Peladon say that Aggedor appeared to them. VEGA NEXOS: Your Majesty, your miners are primitive and superstitious. ORTRON: Then what is your explanation? VEGA NEXOS: Sabotage. ORTRON: And where are these saboteurs? ECKERSLEY: Yes, well sabotage or spooks, the end result's the same. We had just about persuaded your miners to accept the use of the sonic lance and now they won't touch any of the modern equipment. THALIRA: The use of the sonic lance is essential to you? ECKERSLEY: (Warmly.) Oh yes, your Majesty. It will increase the output tenfold. THALIRA: Could you arrange an immediate demonstration of the sonic lance? ORTRON: Your Majesty...! THALIRA: (Interrupts.) If our people see that we have faith in your technology, it may help to calm their fears. VEGA NEXOS: Of course, your Majesty. We will arrange it immediately. ALPHA CENTAURI: Allow me to thank your Majesty on behalf of the Federation. A most helpful gesture! The sooner we can achieve full production of trisilicate, the sooner we can bring this dreadful w*r to a successful conclusion. THALIRA: (Smiles.) Thank you, Ambassador. The audience is at an end. (The three aliens bow...) ALPHA CENTAURI: Thank you, your Majesty. ECKERSLEY: Your Majesty. (...and leave. ORTRON watches them go and then turns to the young Queen.) ORTRON: Your Majesty, I must protest! I can control this situation. I do not want you exposed to danger. THALIRA: You know as well as I, Ortron, it was my father's dream to see Peladon a civilised planet - a full member of the Federation. He signed the treaty - we must honour it. ORTRON: I intend that we should do so. Well from the day Chancellor Hepesh died, I served your father loyally. I worked for the things he believed in - progress, civilisation, the Federation. Now there is w*r with Galaxy Five and our people have to make sacrifices. THALIRA: Yes, but in quarrel not their own. ORTRON: We have to accept the duties of Federation membership, as well as the benefits. 5: INT. TEMPLE OF AGGEDOR (ORTRON stands before the statue of Aggedor in the temple, his arms raised before the idol.) ORTRON: Oh, mighty Aggedor, make known your will! Do not seek vengeance on your servants. (He turns to the font-like bowl behind him from which flames flicker. He throws a small pellet into this and a flare of smoke and flame bursts upwards.) ORTRON: Let your judgment fall on those who have truly offended thee. (He throws in another piece of the flaring substance.) 6: INT. TUNNEL (A patrolling guard makes his way down a tunnel. Suddenly, he hears the sound of the TARDIS materialising and looks round in alarm. He ducks into hiding behind a rock and watches as the blue police box solidifies in the cramped tunnel, its light flashing as it does so. The door opens and the DOCTOR, dressed in a green smoking jacket and green frilly shirt, walks out.) DOCTOR: The citadel of Peladon, Sarah. One of the most interesting and... (He stops d*ad as he sees their less than welcoming surroundings. SARAH, dressed in a black leather jacket over a patterned jumper, black trousers and silver boots is right behind him and instantly takes in the fact that the DOCTOR'S latest promise has not been kept to.) SARAH: Oh no, it isn't - is it, Doctor? DOCTOR: Well, no, not exactly. SARAH: No, it's not your precious citadel at all. It's another rotten gloomy old tunnel! (The DOCTOR closes the TARDIS doors.) DOCTOR: Yes, well, with the scanner still on the blink, there was no way I could really check. SARAH: There's more than the scanner on the blink. (The DOCTOR locks the TARDIS and pockets the key.) DOCTOR: Come on, let's go and see where we are. (They walk off down the tunnel. The guard comes out of hiding, watches them go and heads off back in the direction he came from.) 7: INT. ANOTHER TUNNEL (The DOCTOR leads SARAH down another tunnel.) DOCTOR: Well, I think my spatial coordinates must have slipped a bit too. (He looks around and stops.) DOCTOR: We may not actually be in the citadel, Sarah, but we're very close to it. SARAH: We are? DOCTOR: Yes. Yes, the citadel is built on a mountain, you see, and the mountain is honeycombed with tunnels like this. Come on. (He starts to lead off but SARAH stays where she is.) SARAH: We couldn't just get back in the TARDIS and go home? (He comes back to her.) DOCTOR: Oh, have a heart, Sarah. I've been meaning to pay a return visit to Peladon for ages. SARAH: Oh. I can't think why. DOCTOR: Come along, Sarah Jane. (She laughs and follows him.) 8: INT. MINE TUNNEL (ECKERSLEY is back in the mine tunnel with the device that was abandoned by the miners. As he works on it, he is closely watched by ETTIS and another older miner - GEBEK. VEGA NEXOS and other miners are also there for the demonstration of the sonic lance. A royal procession is led into the mine tunnel. ORTRON leads the way...) ORTRON: This way, your Majesty. (...as THALIRA, BLOR and two guards walk behind him. ECKERSLEY continues his work but the two miners stand as the Queen nears. GEBEK kneels before her and salutes her.) GEBEK: We are honoured by your presence, your Majesty. THALIRA: And we are grateful for yours, Gebek. (She signals to him to stand.) THALIRA: Can you persuade your miners to overcome their fears and use the new Federation tools? GEBEK: The demonstration will help, your Majesty, but there has been a death. Ettis here was... (An excitable ETTIS jumps forward and also kneels in supplication.) ETTIS: I beg of you, your Majesty! Do not permit this blasphemy! I have seen the wrath of Aggedor! VEGA NEXOS: (Calmly.) You have seen enemy spies - agents from Galaxy Five sent here to cause trouble. GEBEK: (To THALIRA and ORTRON.) One of the guards was telling some wild story. He said he saw more aliens, appearing as if by magic in the tunnels. (ORTRON turns to the guards behind him.) ORTRON: Guard. (They step forward.) GEBEK: Since Aggedor's appearance there have been many such stories, your Majesty. ORTRON: (To the GUARD CAPTAIN.) There are alien spies in the tunnels - enemies of the Federation and of Peladon. They must be found and destroyed. GUARD CAPTAIN: My lord. (The guards move off to carry out the command.) 9: INT. TUNNEL (A cynical SARAH follows the DOCTOR through another tunnel. He is looking far less sure than he was of their way. SARAH tries little to hide her amusement.) SARAH: Well, Doctor? (The DOCTOR looks round.) DOCTOR: This way, I think. (He starts to walk off.) SARAH: We're lost. DOCTOR: Mislaid possibly. SARAH: (Whines.) Oh, why don't we just go back to the TARDIS? DOCTOR: Look, for two good reasons; one, that I don't want to leave Peladon without having a word with my good friend, the king... SARAH: Name dropper... DOCTOR: And second... SARAH: What? DOCTOR: We are lost. Come on. (SARAH rolls her eyes, grunts in frustration and follows him.) 10: INT. MINE TUNNEL (ECKERSLEY stands from his preparation on the sonic lance. ALPHA CENTAURI has joined them.) ECKERSLEY: Your Majesty, everything is prepared. May we begin? THALIRA: Please? (ECKERSLEY turns to his fellow-miner.) ECKERSLEY: Nexos? (VEGA NEXOS goes to the controls of the sonic lance whose probes points at a rock wall. ECKERSLEY indicates this.) ECKERSLEY: If you will just keep your eyes on that section of the wall over there. (VEGA NEXOS turns two dials and presses a series of switches. A central column on the sonic lance starts to glow and a humming sound rises. Across the tunnel, the section of the wall indicated starts to ripple and shimmer. The central column of the lance and the probe glow red as the power reaches its peak and the next moment a circular hole is blasted in the wall of the tunnel, creating a small smoking cave filled with seams of trisilicate beyond. A wide-eyed THALIRA looks impressed.) ECKERSLEY: There we are, your Majesty - direct access to the main seam within a matter of moments. Now that would take us weeks to do a job like that by hand. (Suddenly, the same burbling electronic and roaring sound that was heard in the tunnel starts to emit from the newly-created cave. The Peladonians, nobles and miners, all react with shock. VEGA NEXOS walks past them and towards the cave.) VEGA NEXOS: Do not be afraid! Do not be afraid - it is trickery! There is nothing to fear! (He steps into the circular cave mouth. ECKERSLEY, his composure gone, looks strangely perturbed.) ECKERSLEY: Don't be a fool...come back! (Suddenly, a red glow appears in the mouth of the cave and VEGA NEXOS is thrown back with a scream. As he lies still on the ground, the red glow fades and with it, the body of NEXOS. Panic erupts among the miners and once more they start to run off with only GEBEK remaining behind. ETTIS remains long enough to shout angrily at THALIRA and ORTRON...) ETTIS: It is the curse of Aggedor! Now will you believe?! (He runs off, leaving a shocked THALIRA, ORTRON and BLOR looking down at the spot where NEXOS disappeared...) 11: INT. TUNNEL (The DOCTOR turns a corner in the tunnel that he and SARAH are in. He looks ahead and turns to his companion with a smile.) DOCTOR: Cheer up, Sarah. We're nearly there. I recognise this tunnel. (An unimpressed SARAH stops and feels her sore foot.) SARAH: As far as I'm concerned, Doctor, a tunnel is a tunnel is a tun... (She is interrupted by a yell from down the tunnel.) GUARD CAPTAIN: (OOV.) Come on here, lads, down this way! SARAH: What was that? DOCTOR: Well, that'll be the palace guard. We'll be alright now. SARAH: Oh, well, let's not be rash, mm? (The Peladonian guards come into view down the tunnel and the CAPTAIN points at the DOCTOR and SARAH.) GUARD CAPTAIN: There they are! k*ll them! (SARAH screams and runs off.) SARAH: Doctor, come on, quick! (The DOCTOR hesitate only a moment and runs after her.) DOCTOR: Sarah! Sarah! (Pursued by the CAPTAIN and two guards, they quickly reach the end of the tunnel.) SARAH: We're trapped! (The DOCTOR sees a lit torch in its bracket on the wall.) DOCTOR: Oh no, we're not - look. (Remembering his last visit, he pulls the bracket down on its pivot and the rock wall door opens.) DOCTOR: Go on, in you go. 12: INT. TEMPLE OF AGGEDOR (SARAH gasps in some amazement at the purple-rock interior. The DOCTOR adjusts the internal torch bracket to close the door and smiles at the familiar surroundings. SARAH looks up at the huge statue of Aggedor eerily lit by small torches.) DOCTOR: The temple of Aggedor, in the citadel of Peladon. SARAH: (Defensively.) I believed you! (SARAH gets her breath.) SARAH: No, it is...very impressive, Doctor. But what about those guards? I thought you said they were friendly here? DOCTOR: Well, there must have been a misunderstanding - probably startled. SARAH: Oh. (The DOCTOR stands before the statue.) DOCTOR: Ah, look at old Aggedor. There he is, bless him! SARAH: He doesn't look very lovable to me. DOCTOR: Ah, that's just a statue. You wait till you've seen the real animal. SARAH: The real animal? DOCTOR: Yes, didn't I tell you about my first visit to Peladon? SARAH: Oh, no, not properly. DOCTOR: Well, Peladon was just on the point of entering the galactic Federation, you see, when suddenly they started having this trouble... SARAH: Not now, Doctor. DOCTOR: Oh, of course, if you don't want to hear about it... SARAH: It's not that, Doctor. I think we're about to have some trouble of our own. (She looks over his shoulder. The GUARD CAPTAIN and a number of his men have followed them through the secret door and stand with swords drawn.) 13: INT. THRONE ROOM (The DOCTOR and SARAH are led into the empty throne room. SARAH tries to hide her concern.) DOCTOR: Don't worry, Sarah. As soon as King Peladon turns up... GUARD CAPTAIN: Silence! 14: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE THRONE ROOM (From outside the throne room, ORTRON leads THALIRA, her handmaiden and BLOR sweeping in.) 15: INT. THRONE ROOM (The DOCTOR looks for a familiar face and sees the huge shape of BLOR with some concern. THALIRA takes her place on the throne and then the guards push the DOCTOR and SARAH forward and onto their knees.) ORTRON: Aliens - you are accused both of sacrilege and of sabotage. Do you confess? SARAH: No, we don't! I don't know what you're ta... ORTRON: (Interrupts.) Silence! I addressed your master. (SARAH tries to jump to her feet...) SARAH: He is not my master! (...but is pushed back down. ORTRON looks haughtily down at her and then at the DOCTOR.) ORTRON: Well, alien? (The DOCTOR gets to his feet quietly.) DOCTOR: May I first know whom I have the honour of addressing? ORTRON: I am Ortron - High Priest and Chancellor. (He looks at the young woman on the throne.) ORTRON: This is her Majesty, Queen Thalira of Peladon. (The DOCTOR makes a low bow but then looks puzzled.) DOCTOR: Your Majesty. But, er, where is King Peladon? THALIRA: (Surprised.) He was my father. He died when I was a child. DOCTOR: Oh, I see. (To SARAH.) That explains a great deal. ORTRON: Alien - name those who sent you and your life may be spared. DOCTOR: Yes, yes, in a moment, old chap. Your Majesty, I... (The DOCTOR steps nearer to the throne but two guards bar his way with sword and a pike. SARAH gasps. The DOCTOR hesitates and then brushes the w*apon aside contemptuously.) DOCTOR: Your Majesty, your father and I were very good friends before you were born. I am the Doctor. THALIRA: (Smiles.) But I have heard stories of the Doctor - ever since I was a child. ORTRON: (To THALIRA.) Everyone on Peladon knows the story of the Doctor - what better disguise for an alien spy and saboteur? DOCTOR: You really are a suspicious fellow, aren't you? (Suddenly, ALPHA CENTAURI bursts into the throne room.) ALPHA CENTAURI: Your Majesty, I cannot tell you how shocked I was to hear... (All turn to face the new arrival. Only SARAH reacts with shock...) SARAH: Doctor! What's that? DOCTOR: The answer to all our troubles, Sarah. ALPHA CENTAURI: (Amazed.) Doctor?! DOCTOR: Alpha Centauri! (The DOCTOR steps forward with delight and shakes one of ALPHA CENTAURI'S six hands.) ALPHA CENTAURI: It is! It's the Doctor! DOCTOR: Alpha Centauri, my dear fellah, what a very well-timed entrance. (The hysterical hexapod circles the DOCTOR, looking him over and screeching in amazement...) ALPHA CENTAURI: It's like a miracle, Doctor! All these years and you haven't changed a bit! DOCTOR: Neither have you, my dear fellah. A touch of grey around the tentacles perhaps, but still the same old Alpha. ORTRON: (Snaps.) Ambassador! (ALPHA CENTAURI faces the throne.) ALPHA CENTAURI: Oh, forgive me, your Majesty! THALIRA: Ambassador, we take it that these aliens are known to you? ALPHA CENTAURI: Er, not the... (CENTAURI looks SARAH over and looks at the DOCTOR for confirmation of the correct term to use.) ALPHA CENTAURI: Female? (The DOCTOR nods as the smile disappears off SARAH'S face.) ALPHA CENTAURI: (To THALIRA.) Not the female, your Majesty. Still, she's of no importance... (Now SARAH looks really furious as the DOCTOR puts a hand to his mouth to hide his smile.) ALPHA CENTAURI: But this is most certainly the Doctor - a good friend of your father, and of Peladon. ORTRON: (To THALIRA.) The past history of this alien is irrelevant. ALPHA CENTAURI: I'm sure there has been a misunderstanding, your Majesty. I am prepared to vouch for the Doctor. THALIRA: Very well. The charges will be suspended and the aliens released into your custody, Ambassador... (ORTRON leaps forward in protest.) ORTRON: Your Majesty! (The Queen puts up a hand to stop him.) THALIRA: But...we shall expect a full report of their behaviour - and of their presence on Peladon. (CENTAURI bows.) ALPHA CENTAURI: Of course, your Majesty. Thank you, your Majesty. SARAH: Well I don't think that's good enough. (To THALIRA.) What about an apology for the... (She steps towards the throne but the DOCTOR yanks her back.) DOCTOR: Sarah! ALPHA CENTAURI: Doctor, come with me, please. (CENTAURI leads the DOCTOR towards the door. SARAH is left behind.) SARAH: Hey! ALPHA CENTAURI: (To the DOCTOR.) You may bring the female. DOCTOR: (To SARAH, quietly.) Come on. SARAH: Thanks! (A guard shoves SARAH after the DOCTOR and CENTAURI and the three leave the room. ORTRON turns to the Queen.) ORTRON: Your Majesty, it is not wise to trust this alien. Even if he is the Doctor, he was the one who persuaded King Peladon to join the Federation and caused our present troubles. Now why has he come here again? (The Queen stands up angrily.) THALIRA: We shall not learn the Doctor's plans by having him ex*cuted, Ortron. (She walks out of the room followed by BLOR.) THALIRA: If he is our enemy, he will soon betray himself. (A narrow-eyed ORTRON watches them go.) 16: INT. TUNNEL (GEBEK makes his way down a tunnel followed by ETTIS and some other miners.) ETTIS: Gebek, for the last time, listen to me. Even if you do speak to the Queen, it will do no good. She and Ortron are puppets of the Federation. GEBEK: We must try! ETTIS: If talks fail, Gebek, we fight. GEBEK: There will be no fighting. Now, you will all wait for me here. When I've spoken to the Queen, we'll talk again. (He walks off. ETTIS watches him go with a shake of the head.) ETTIS: Gebek's a good man, but he's too patient. (The other miners mutter in agreement.) ETTIS: We'll give him time to get clear, then, while he talks, we'll fight! 17: INT. PASSAGE (ALPHA CENTAURI leads the DOCTOR and SARAH down one of the torch-filled passages of the citadel.) SARAH: Well, I'm sorry, Doctor, but I don't see why I should put up with it. And as for your friend here - "The female is of no importance", indeed! DOCTOR: Oh, I thought that would rankle a bit. SARAH: Well? DOCTOR: Actually, you owe...Alpha Centauri a very great deal of gratitude. Without him you'd have been lucky to have got out of there alive. They go in for rough justice here on Peladon you know? Chop off your head and apologise afterwards. SARAH: Yes, well, if you hadn't...missed the target by about five hundred yards and fifty years, we wouldn't be in this. DOCTOR: Yes, that's a point. (As they move off, one of the wall tapestries behind them suddenly moves and ETTIS looks out from one of the many secret entrances into the citadel. He looks round to check that the coast is clear and then signals to the other miners to follow him into the passage. Armed with primitive w*apon, they move out.) 18: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE THRONE ROOM (A guard follows GEBEK down another passage towards the throne room from where ORTRON steps out.) ORTRON: Gebek, you know the citadel is forbidden to those of your kind. GEBEK: Reserved - for you and your high and mighty nobles...and our real masters, the Federation aliens, of course. ORTRON: Do not be insolent, Gebek. You may have a little authority amongst your miners but you are still one of them. Why did you come here? GEBEK: I must speak with the Queen. ORTRON: You should have requested an audience. GEBEK: Things are too urgent for that. I must speak with the Queen now - for the good of all Peladon! (ORTRON considers.) ORTRON: Very well. (He leads GEBEK into the throne room.) 19: INT. THRONE ROOM (THALIRA is speaking with her handmaiden but resumes her throne as ORTRON approaches and bows.) ORTRON: The miner, Gebek, your Majesty. (GEBEK bows on one knee.) GEBEK: Forgive this intrusion, your Majesty. THALIRA: (Puzzled.) Gebek, why have you come here? GEBEK: (Passionately.) To beg you to send the Federation aliens home! 20: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE ARMOURY (A guard patrols the passage outside the armoury. The entrance to this is a pair of huge wooden doors. As he paces back and forth, ETTIS and another miner sneak up behind him before he turns and hide in an alcove. The guard turns back in his pacing and the two hidden miners jump out and pull the guard to the ground.) 21: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (The DOCTOR and SARAH have been taken to the Federation communications room. This room is far more advanced in style than anything else on Peladon. Lit by electric light, it has a communications console on the right hand side and several other large banks of equipment with controls and monitors on the left. The walls are covered with charts and diagrams and there are comfortable modern leather seats in the room in contrast to the wooden furniture in the rest of the citadel. ECKERSLEY has joined the three in there.) DOCTOR: Well, it seems to me, Eckersley, the Federation has brought a lot of its troubles on itself. ALPHA CENTAURI: That is unfair, Doctor. There have been many difficulties. DOCTOR: Look, it's fifty years now since Peladon joined the Galactic Federation, and what have the miners got to show for it? Harder work for the same rewards. ALPHA CENTAURI: Peladon is a feudal society, Doctor. The court is resistant to any change. ECKERSLEY: And we have got to step up the production of trisilicate. It's essential to our w*r effort. DOCTOR: (Puzzled.) Yes, well that's another thing that concerns me - this w*r. I thought the Federation was dedicated to peace? ECKERSLEY: So it is, Doctor. ALPHA CENTAURI: But we were the victims of a vicious and unprovoked att*ck - by the forces of Galaxy Five. DOCTOR: Well have you tried to negotiate? ALPHA CENTAURI: Many times! They refuse to listen. SARAH: Well, what's so important about this trisilicate stuff? ECKERSLEY: Our whole technology is based on it - electronic circuitry, heat shields, inert microcell fibres, radionic crystals and whoever the tru...supply of trisilicate will win this w*r. SARAH: And you think someone's trying to stop you getting it? ECKERSLEY: That's what Vega Nexos thought - saboteurs, agents from Galaxy Five. DOCTOR: It's possible, I suppose? ECKERSLEY: Then how did they get here, where are they now and how are they staying undetected? (An alarm suddenly sounds. On an illuminated wall chart behind them, a red light begins to glow behind a box marked "ARMOURY".) SARAH: Well, what's all that about? (ECKERSLEY switches on a monochrome monitor. This shows the scene outside the armoury where the attacking miners are desperately prising the huge wooden doors.) ECKERSLEY: Well, well, well... 22: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE ARMOURY (The rebel miners succeed in pulling the wooden doors open - only to reveal a metallic pair of advanced doors behind them.) ETTIS: Alien work! (He turns to one of the miners - PREBA.) ETTIS: In case we can't break it down, Preba, you go and find an alien to open it for us. (PREBA runs off on his errand as ETTIS and the others start to hack uselessly at the metal door.) 23: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (The four in the communications room continue to watch the silent image.) SARAH: (To ECKERSLEY.) You don't seem very worried. ECKERSLEY: They're wasting their time. Solid duralinium that door. Triple security, electronic lock, remotely controlled from here. ALPHA CENTAURI: Just as well. All the modern w*apon on the planet are stored there. SARAH: You'll be in trouble if they do get through. ECKERSLEY: They won't. When Ortron realises what's going on, he'll send some guards to finish them off. (The DOCTOR looks perturbed at this but SARAH is more vocal.) SARAH: Oh, for heaven's sake, man! You just gonna sit there and watch them get cut down? Well can't you stop it? (The DOCTOR heads quietly for the door.) ECKERSLEY: I've told you before - local politics are not my concern. (At the doorway, the DOCTOR suddenly steps back into the room at the point of PREBA'S sword.) DOCTOR: I think you'll find that they are. ECKERSLEY: What? (The three look up and see the intruder.) ALPHA CENTAURI: Oh! SARAH: Doc.. ECKERSLEY: What are you doing here? PREBA: Alien, you will come with me and open the armoury door for us. ECKERSLEY: Not a chance! PREBA: Move! (He jabs his sword towards ECKERSLEY, CENTAURI and SARAH. As PREBA moves towards them, SARAH and CENTAURI jump out of the way.) SARAH: Doctor! (The DOCTOR signals to SARAH to remain calm while PREBA concentrates his thr*at - and the point of his sword - at ECKERSLEY.) PREBA: You will open the armoury, alien, or you will die! (ECKERSLEY looks down at the sword for a moment...) PREBA: Move! (...and then heads for the door. Going past the DOCTOR, PREBA points the sword in warning at him and he raises his arms in a gesture of surrender...only to grab PREBA'S sword arm as he passes and yank it back behind him.) SARAH: Ah, Doctor! (ECKERSLEY leaps forward and grabs the sword from PREBA'S securely held arm.) ECKERSLEY: Thanks. (He points the sword at PREBA and glances at the DOCTOR in admiration.) ECKERSLEY: Pretty handy, aren't you? ALPHA CENTAURI: You see the dangers we face, Doctor? Peladon is still a barbarous and primitive planet! DOCTOR: When miners have to take up arms to protect their rights, they probably have their reasons. Now I'd like to know what those reasons are. ECKERSLEY: He won't talk to you. These people are fanatics, Doctor. DOCTOR: Right then, let's see what he has to say to Queen Thalira. (To PREBA.) Come on. (He pushes PREBA towards the door. ECKERSLEY leads the miner out at sword point. The DOCTOR looks back at CENTAURI and SARAH.) DOCTOR: You two - stay here. (He follows ECKERSLEY and their c*ptive out.) ALPHA CENTAURI: Oh, I'm glad. v*olence is distressing for... (CENTAURI swings round and almost touches SARAH who flinches back with a small cry. She immediately feels guilty for her reaction.) SARAH: I'm sorry. (CENTAURI looks down sadly.) ALPHA CENTAURI: I believe that human beings sometimes find the appearance of my species rather frightening. Yet I assure you, we are an amiable and peace-loving race. (SARAH walks forward, keen to make amends.) SARAH: Oh, I'm...I am sorry. I didn't mean to be rude. I...I'm just a bit jumpy, hmm? Okay? (CENTAURI looks at SARAH who smiles.) 24: INT. THRONE ROOM (In the throne room, ORTRON has lost his temper with GEBEK...) ORTRON: Your rulers have decided to support the Federation! It is not for you to question our decision. GEBEK: (Shouts.) My people have had enough of the Federation and its commands - there will be armed rebellion! THALIRA: (Shocked.) Gebek! Would you rebel against me? GEBEK: (Gently.) Your Majesty, I am loyal to the throne. ORTRON: Gebek, order your miners to return to their work. (The GUARD CAPTAIN runs in, bows on one knee and reports...) GUARD CAPTAIN: Your Majesty, Lord Ortron - the miners have att*cked the Federation armoury. They escaped into the tunnels. ORTRON: The miners? GEBEK: The armoury? (The DOCTOR walks in.) DOCTOR: Not all of them, your Majesty. THALIRA: Doctor? (The DOCTOR gestures to the doorway where ECKERSLEY leads PREBA in at sword point.) GEBEK: Preba? What have you done? ORTRON: So, Gebek, now we have the truth of it! GEBEK: (To THALIRA.) Your Majesty, I knew nothing of this. ORTRON: It is too late for your lies, Gebek! You came here and distracted our attention so they could att*ck! GEBEK: (To PREBA.) I ordered you to wait in the tunnels. ORTRON: (To the guards.) Take them both away! GEBEK: But your Majesty...! DOCTOR: Now just one moment, I brought this man here to talk to the Queen. ORTRON: Be silent, Doctor! The Queen has listened to enough traitors. (He approaches the throne.) ORTRON: They have inv*de the citadel and carried arms against your Majesty. The law demands their execution! (To the guards.) Take them away! (The DOCTOR and GEBEK att*ck one of the guards with karate chops and punches respectively. In the confusion, PREBA makes his escape. GEBEK is quick to follow. The GUARD CAPTAIN is about to follow but the DOCTOR pulls back the pikestaff that he carries, pulling the man himself to the floor. He quickly gets back to his feet and he and his two fellow guards surround the DOCTOR with their w*apon raised.) ORTRON: So, Doctor...since you are in league with the rebels and have helped them escape, you shall die in their place! DOCTOR: You really are remarkably ungrateful, aren't you? ORTRON: What gratitude do we owe you? DOCTOR: I've just saved you from a serious political mistake. (To THALIRA.) May I address your Majesty? THALIRA: You may. Lord Ortron? (ORTRON steps back and the guards raise their w*apon. The DOCTOR approaches the steps of the throne.) DOCTOR: Your Majesty, as you know, the miners are already on the point of armed rebellion. Now how would they react if their leader was k*lled...by the Queen's guards? He would become a martyr - a figurehead for a people's revolution. Revolution and civil w*r, your Majesty - unless you allow me to help you. THALIRA: But how can you help us? DOCTOR: By proving my belief...that the appearances of Aggedor are caused by trickery. (THALIRA glances sharply at ORTRON and then considers.) THALIRA: Very well. (ORTRON, his face stormy, turns away.) THALIRA: We will trust you, Doctor - for the present. Captain? (The GUARD CAPTAIN and his men step away.) DOCTOR: Thank you, your Majesty. Erm, I'd like to begin by inspecting where Aggedor last appeared, so if someone could show me the way? THALIRA: The Queen's champion will escort you. DOCTOR: Thank you. (BLOR steps forward. He towers over the DOCTOR who swallows nervously.) DOCTOR: Yes, splendid. (Smiles.) Well, after you, old chap. (BLOR walks towards the throne room door. The DOCTOR follows, the smile disappearing off his face. ORTRON watches them go and then bows to the Queen with ill grace.) ORTRON: Your Majesty. (He leaves the throne room.) 25: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE THRONE ROOM (The GUARD CAPTAIN is waiting outside.) ORTRON: Send out patrols into the mines and caves. I want Gebek, and anyone with him, captured...or k*lled. 26: INT. MINE TUNNEL (ETTIS is burying several sticks of expl*sives in the sandy soil of the tunnel near to the circular man-made entrance to the cave. With a smile of his face, he starts to reel the wire away.) 27: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (ECKERSLEY is demonstrating on SARAH with the sword what occurred in the throne room as she and CENTAURI listen.) ECKERSLEY: And with that, off they went to take a look at the cavern. (He hands the sword to her. She smiles ruefully.) SARAH: Oh, great! Leaving me to hang about and twiddle my thumbs - as usual. ECKERSLEY: I'll say one thing for your friend the Doctor, he's got quite a knack of talking himself out of trouble. SARAH: Mmm, just as long as he hasn't talked himself into a whole lot more. 28: INT. MINE TUNNEL (His preparations complete, ETTIS watches from hiding as the mute BLOR gestures inside the cave entrance and grunts. The DOCTOR looks through the hole.) DOCTOR: Oh, so this is it, is it? (BLOR grunts again, nods and gestures inside the hole.) DOCTOR: Alright, let's take a look inside. (He walks in but BLOR grunts in alarm and gestures for him to come back. The DOCTOR steps back.) DOCTOR: Well, don't tell me that you're frightened, a big chap like you. Come on. (He goes back inside.) 29: INT. CAVE (The DOCTOR shines a small torch on the walls of trisilicate as BLOR gingerly follows him.) DOCTOR: No wonder the Federation was so keen to mine. (He steps further in and looks at the glowing orange seams of the mineral.) DOCTOR: A typical trisilicate vein that. 30: INT. MINE TUNNEL (ETTIS moves back down the mine tunnel to where another miner is connecting the expl*sives wire to a detonator.) ETTIS: One of the aliens has just entered the cave with the Queen's champion. We must sacrifice them both. (He joins him in fixing up the detonator.) 31: INT. CAVE (The DOCTOR examines a piece of trisilicate.) DOCTOR: Yeah, very high grade too. And you say the light that k*lled Vega Nexos came from in here? (BLOR nods and grunts.) DOCTOR: Then there should be some trace. (He starts to look round the cave.) 32: INT. MINE TUNNEL (GEBEK walks up to ETTIS and the miner as they complete their preparations.) GEBEK: What are you doing? ETTIS: I'm restoring the holy mountain, to appease the spirit of Aggedor! (He turns the switch on the detonator and the cave mouth is racked by a huge expl*si*n.) 33: INT. CAVE (Within, the DOCTOR holds up his arms in protection as part of the roof starts to come down.) 34: INT. MINE TUNNEL (Outside, the entire cave entrance collapses.) 35: INT. CAVE (The DOCTOR lies on the floor of the cave with his hands covering his head for protection. He is covered by sand and soil. He gets to his feet as he hears BLOR grunting.) DOCTOR: Blor, are you alright? (The Queen's champion lies on the floor nearby along the debris of the rocks. The DOCTOR helps him up.) DOCTOR: Come on. That's it. (Suddenly, the cave is filled with a rising burbling electronic sound and a red, ghostly, still image of Aggedor materialises against a far wall. The DOCTOR looks surprised but BLOR screams in terror at the apparition. The DOCTOR silently mouths "What the blazes is that" as the eyes of the spirit glow and a stream of red-hot heat and smoke pours from its mouth as it floats towards them. BLOR is surrounded by a red glow and he screams in agony as he falls to the ground, then fades away along with the glow from the spirit of Aggedor...)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "11x15 - The Monster of Peladon - part 1"}
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THE MONSTER OF PELADON BY: BRIAN HAYLES PART TWO Original Air Date: 30 March, 1974 5:30pm - 5:55pm 1: INT. MINE TUNNEL (ETTIS moves back down the mine tunnel to where another miner is connecting the expl*sives wire to a detonator.) ETTIS: One of the aliens has just entered the cave with the Queen's champion. We must sacrifice them both. (He joins him in fixing up the detonator.) 2: INT. CAVE (The DOCTOR examines a piece of trisilicate.) DOCTOR: Yeah, very high grade too. And you say the light that k*lled Vega Nexos came from in here? (Blor nods and grunts.) DOCTOR: Then there should be some trace. (He starts to look round the cave.) 3: INT. MINE TUNNEL (GEBEK walks up to ETTIS and the miner as they complete their preparations.) GEBEK: What are you doing? ETTIS: I'm restoring the holy mountain, to appease the spirit of Aggedor! (He turns the switch on the detonator and the cave mouth is racked by a huge expl*si*n.) 4: INT. CAVE (Within, the DOCTOR holds up his arms in protection as part of the roof starts to come down.) 5: INT. MINE TUNNEL (Outside, the entire cave entrance collapses.) 6: INT. CAVE (The DOCTOR lies on the floor of the cave with his hands covering his head for protection. He is covered by sand and soil. He gets to his feet as he hears Blor grunting.) DOCTOR: Blor, are you alright? (The Queen's champion lies on the floor nearby along the debris of the rocks. The DOCTOR helps him up.) DOCTOR: Come on. That's it. (Suddenly, the cave is filled with a rising burbling electronic sound and a red, ghostly, still image of Aggedor materialises against a far wall. The DOCTOR looks surprised but Blor screams in terror at the apparition. The DOCTOR silently mouths "What the blazes is that" as the eyes of the spirit glow and a stream of red-hot heat and smoke pours from its mouth as it floats towards them. Blor is surrounded by a red glow and he screams in agony as he falls to the ground, then fades away along with the glow from the spirit of Aggedor. The DOCTOR looks up and sees the "ghost" fade away, leaving him alone and sealed in. He starts to pull at the debris in the blocked-up entrance.) 7: INT. MINE TUNNEL (GEBEK runs up to the cave entrance on the other side. He sighs and turns to the two young hot-heads who have followed him.) GEBEK: First the armoury, and now this. ETTIS: I have given the alien's cave back to the sacred mountain and made a sacrifice to Aggedor! GEBEK: (Puzzled.) Sacrifice? ETTIS: An alien - and the Queen's champion. They both entered the cave just as I set off the charge. (GEBEK looks at the debris.) GEBEK: Which alien, Ettis? ETTIS: I don't know. A new one - tall, white hair. GEBEK: The Doctor - our one friend among the aliens. He saved my life! (He starts to try and pull the debris away, looking back at his men for help. They hesitate and then join him.) GEBEK: Come on. 8: INT. CAVE (Within the cave, the DOCTOR is desperately heaving at one large stone which is the major block in the entrance but after a couple of tries, it proves too much for him.) 9: INT. MINE TUNNEL (The Peladonian miners are having a similar lack of success. ETTIS, gasping after the effort, sits down.) ETTIS: It's impossible. What are we gonna do? (GEBEK spots something across the tunnel.) GEBEK: Open up the cave with that! (He has seen the sonic lance. He crosses to the unfamiliar machinery.) ETTIS: But you don't know how to make it work. GEBEK: Then I'll learn. (He starts to operate the controls.) ETTIS: You make one mistake and you're gonna k*ll your alien friend. GEBEK: Too late now. (They all step back as the sonic lance starts to hum with life. Its central column glows red as the power increases.) 10: INT. CAVE (Inside the cave, the DOCTOR also hears the hum from the lance and hurriedly steps back. The debris in the entrance starts to ripple and distort as the sonic waves h*t it and with a small expl*si*n, a hole is cleared in the rubble. The DOCTOR steps back forward and as he does so, he hears the sound of AGGEDOR materialising again. He looks round and sees the red spectre appear again on the other side of the cave. As the image powers up to deliver another ray of heat, the DOCTOR steps back and then takes a run at the hole.) 11: INT. MINE TUNNEL (He throws himself through it and lands on the ground outside as the ghost "roars" and the red glow of the ray fills the newly-created hole.) 12: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (ALPHA CENTAURI twitters over the machinery in the communications room as SARAH sits on a console, somewhat distracted with concern.) ALPHA CENTAURI: It's a most magnificent installation. If only we can get trisilicate production up to the necessary level, we shall be able to do our own refining. SARAH: Mmm? Oh, yes, yes, I'm sure. The Doctor's been gone an awfully long time, hasn't he? ALPHA CENTAURI: Of course, only Eckersley understands the new refinery fully. I'm sure he'd be glad to explain it to you. SARAH: (Smiles politely.) Oh, I'll look forward to that. (An electronic voice suddenly blares from the main console.) VOICE: Emergency! Emergency! Unauthorised use of expl*sives has produced a rock fall in the cavern area. SARAH: The cavern! That's where the Doctor's gone! VOICE: Emergency! Emergency! SARAH: I knew it! Something's happened to him. I'm gonna find him! (She looks at the illuminated map on the wall.) ALPHA CENTAURI: Really, it would be most unwise. I'm sure a proper rescue operation will be mounted. SARAH: On this planet? I don't trust any of them. Right! (She puts her jacket on and leaves the room at a run.) ALPHA CENTAURI: These Earth females seem to have a distressing tendency to rash action. (CENTAURI takes hold of a microphone in one of its hands.) ALPHA CENTAURI: (Into microphone.) Engineer Eckersley - please return to the communications room immediately! 13: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE TEMPLE (SARAH approaches the doors of the temple in which there are cut-out images of AGGEDOR'S head. She checks back and enters the temple. Again she checks that there is no one within and enters.) 14: INT. TEMPLE OF AGGEDOR (She goes straight to the door by which she and the DOCTOR entered and follows his example of working the torch bracket to open the exit. She goes through and...) 15: INT. TUNNEL (...closes the door from the other side with the opposing bracket. She sets off into the tunnels.) 16: INT. MINE TUNNEL ETTIS: (Awed.) The spirit of Aggedor has k*lled the Queen's champion. (The DOCTOR dusts himself down.) DOCTOR: Yes, well something k*lled him, poor chap. And it would have k*lled me too if you hadn't come to the rescue. GEBEK: I owed you my life, Doctor. Now, we're even. (GEBEK salutes him with a hand across the chest and sets off down the tunnel with ETTIS and the other miner but the DOCTOR calls them back.) DOCTOR: Wait! I think I can help you if you'll let me. ETTIS: Don't trust him, Gebek! You've paid your debt. Now let's get out of here before Ortron's guards find us. GEBEK: (To the DOCTOR.) Why should you wish to help us? DOCTOR: For the good of Peladon. You see, I have a special interest in this planet. GEBEK: What can you do? DOCTOR: Well find out who's using Aggedor to frighten your miners, for one thing. ETTIS: Nobody uses Aggedor! His spirit is angry with us! DOCTOR: Possibly. But if you can persuade your miners to go back to work, I think I can persuade the Federation to improve conditions now and not wait until the w*r is over. ETTIS: The miners will not work while Aggedor is angry. DOCTOR: Exactly - and that's just what somebody wants. Now do you think it's just a coincidence that Aggedor appeared in that cave just as I started my investigations? (The miners suddenly hear noises in the tunnel behind them.) ETTIS: Look out - soldiers! GUARD CAPTAIN: Gebek! There he is! (The guards run forward and a fight of swords, clubs and fists erupts between the DOCTOR and the miners on one side and the guards on the other.) 17: INT. TUNNEL (Somewhat uncertainly, SARAH makes her way down a tunnel. She comes to a choice of two ways, hesitates and then takes the right-hand fork.) 18: INT. MINE TUNNEL (The fight is in full swing. Although the guards have the advantage of swords, there is one more on the other side and that one is the DOCTOR who skillfully uses a long pole like a staff to fell one guard. The guard fighting ETTIS is felled with a rock on his head from the other miner and the third receives a sharp jab in the stomach from the DOCTOR'S staff.) GEBEK: Right - this way! Come on. (The DOCTOR and the miners set off further into the tunnels.) 19: INT. TUNNEL (SARAH is now hopelessly lost in the tunnels. She looks round in confusion and takes one direction.) 20: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (She emerges outside a man-made structure built into the rock. There is a thick metal door and to the left of it an oval frosted window with a light from within and the vague figure of a shape moving beyond. SARAH sighs with relief and runs up to the window.) SARAH: (Shouts.) Hey! Hey, you in there! Er, I'm afraid I'm lost. (The figure within, large, bulky and green, moves across the window and then the light goes out.) SARAH: (Shouts.) Ah, hey look! I know you're in there! Come on, I saw you - please?! I only want to find my way out of these tunnels! (SARAH runs to the door and starts to bang on it. Almost instantly she is enveloped in a maelstrom of light and sound. She cries out in pain and slams her hands to her head in agony.) 21: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (ALPHA CENTAURI paces the communications room as ECKERSLEY runs in.) ECKERSLEY: Alright, chum, here I am! What's all the panic? ALPHA CENTAURI: There's been an expl*si*n in the cavern. ECKERSLEY: What? ALPHA CENTAURI: The Doctor was there and the young female went to find him. (ECKERSLEY looks up at his illuminated alarm board.) ECKERSLEY: Something's happened. ALPHA CENTAURI: Neither has returned. ECKERSLEY: It's the refinery. It must be those miners again. (As the red light flashes behind the indicator marked "REFINERY DOOR", ECKERSLEY switches on a monitor. On it appears SARAH caught in the cacophony of light and sound.) ECKERSLEY: Lord! What's she doing in there? She must have triggered off the a*t*matic defence system. (He switches the system off.) 22: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (As the light and sound dies away, SARAH collapses onto the floor unconscious.) 23: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM ALPHA CENTAURI: How unfortunate! What a catastrophe! Has she been harmed? ECKERSLEY: That depends. If she's been under it too long, her brain will be... (ECKERSLEY suddenly looks intensely worried.) ECKERSLEY: We'd better go and get her out of there. (They rush from the room.) 24: INT. MINE TUNNEL (The DOCTOR and the others have met up with more miners in the tunnels. They sit round a small brazier, sipping drinks.) GEBEK: But our lives have always been the same, Doctor - work and sleep - little else. (The miners mutter in agreement.) GEBEK: We earn barely enough to feed our families. PREBA: The Federation told us things'd be better. So they are for the nobles of the court. We got nothing as usual! (There is more muttering of agreement.) ETTIS: And now, they take the sonic lance down into the mine to rip the heart out of the sacred mountain. No wonder Aggedor's angry with these people. (There are mutters of agreement.) DOCTOR: Yes, well I don't believe all that. I think the Aggedor that we've seen is nothing but technological trickery. (GEBEK is almost amused.) GEBEK: But who's causing it? DOCTOR: I dunno, but I'm determined to find out. ETTIS: And what are we going to do? DOCTOR: Nothing! We don't want any more idiotic tricks like that att*ck on the armoury. (ETTIS, ever the hot-head, leaps to his feet.) ETTIS: But we nearly succeeded, didn't we? MINER: That's right! (The others also mutter their agreement. The DOCTOR also stands.) DOCTOR: You didn't stand a chance! Those armoury doors are electronically controlled from the communications room. (The DOCTOR fails to see the effect this piece of intelligence has on ETTIS.) DOCTOR: Now that sort of thing just gets people k*lled for nothing. Now, please, all of you - just sit tight and give me a chance to work things out, mm? (GEBEK reaches a decision and stands.) GEBEK: Very well, Doctor. We shall take your advice. DOCTOR: Thank you, Gebek. (GEBEK turns to his miners.) GEBEK: I believe the Doctor to be our friend. Now there is to be no more fighting till I give the word - is that understood? (There are unenthusiastic mutters of "yes" from the all the miners except ETTIS.) GEBEK: Ettis? ETTIS: (Brusquely.) Yes. GEBEK: Right, Doctor. DOCTOR: Splendid. Now I'd like to have a talk to Queen Thalira, preferably without Ortron breathing down the back of my neck. GEBEK: There are many secret ways from here to the citadel. Er, Preba knows them all. He shall lead us. (PREBA leads the DOCTOR away.) GEBEK: The rest of you - stay here. (GEBEK follows PREBA and the DOCTOR. ETTIS watches to make sure that they have gone and then turns back fanatically to the remaining miners.) ETTIS: I say...we att*ck again, and this time we shall succeed - now we know how to open the armoury door. 25: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (SARAH comes to and sits up groggily just as ECKERSLEY runs up. He kneels down to help her.) ECKERSLEY: Here, Sarah...are you alright? SARAH: Er...yes. ECKERSLEY: Sure? SARAH: I think so. ECKERSLEY: Good SARAH: But...what was it? ECKERSLEY: You set off the a*t*matic defence system. There's a bit of magic to scare off the natives. SARAH: All that just to protect your precious machinery? You're very keen on security, aren't you? (She gets to her feet helped by ECKERSLEY.) ECKERSLEY: Yes, on planets like this it pays to be. (ALPHA CENTAURI comes shuffling up.) ALPHA CENTAURI: What were you trying to do? SARAH: (Defensively.) Look, I was lost - that's all. There was someone in there and I wanted to ask the way. ECKERSLEY: There's nobody in there. The whole place is on shutdown. SARAH: I tell you I saw someone moving... ECKERSLEY: (Interrupts.) Hallucinations. You're still suffering from my little bag of tricks. SARAH: I tell you I did see someone in there before all the noise and lights started. ECKERSLEY: (Softly.) There's nobody in there...and nobody's getting in there. ALPHA CENTAURI: Are you well enough to move? ECKERSLEY: Can you walk? SARAH: Course. (She takes a step and staggers a little...) SARAH: Oh. (...and is caught by ECKERSLEY.) ALPHA CENTAURI: Then I suggest we return. SARAH: Alright, yes. (ECKERSLEY helps lead her away but a thought strikes her and she turns back to CENTAURI who has been looking at the darkened refinery window.) SARAH: Oh! The Doctor - h...have you heard what's happened to him? ALPHA CENTAURI: No. Let us return to the communications room. By now there may be news. SARAH: Yes. (ECKERSLEY leads SARAH away. CENTAURI turns back to the window.) ECKERSLEY: Are you coming? (CENTAURI follows the two humans. After he has gone, the large bulky green figure moves back to the frosted glass.) 26: INT. TUNNEL (PREBA leads the DOCTOR and GEBEK down a tunnel. He suddenly indicates to them to stop and listens ahead through an arch in the rock.) GEBEK: (Whispers.) What is it? PREBA: (Whispers.) Soldiers. GEBEK: (Whispers.) Searching the tunnels for me. DOCTOR: (Whispers.) Ortron doesn't give up easily, does he? (To PREBA.) Can we lose him? PREBA: (Whispers.) Well, not without blocking the way we wish to follow. GEBEK: (Whispers.) If we...only distract their attention in some way? PREBA: (Whispers.) Well, that's it! I'll lead them off. GEBEK: (Whispers.) Well no, if they catch you... PREBA: (Whispers.) A load of clod-hopping soldiers catch me? I've played in these tunnels since I was a boy. Quick - hide in there. (He points to a small side-cave. The DOCTOR and GEBEK enter it. PREBA walks forward and makes sure that the soldiers catch sight of him.) GUARD CAPTAIN: There he is! After him! (PREBA runs off into the maze of tunnels pursued by the guards. After they have gone, GEBEK emerges from the side cave. He indicates to the DOCTOR to stay where he is and checks ahead through the arch. However, not all of the soldiers have gone after PREBA and two step out with their swords drawn.) GUARD CAPTAIN: Halt, Gebek. You're under arrest. (They walk up to him and push him back through the arch.) GUARD CAPTAIN: Right, back to the citadel. (They go through another arch and the DOCTOR steps out and grabs both of the guards with a nerve pinch on their necks. They cry out and fall to the ground, enabling the DOCTOR and GEBEK to run off.) 27: INT. THRONE ROOM (ORTRON speaks to the Queen...) ORTRON: Blor has been slain by the wrath of Aggedor like the others. All of this trouble began as soon as the Doctor arrived on Peladon. THALIRA: That does not prove that the Doctor is our enemy. If it was the spirit of Aggedor... ORTRON: (Interrupts.) Your Majesty, the Doctor was seen with Gebek and the other rebels. He helped them escape a second time. THALIRA: (Distraught.) But why, Ortron?! Why would he turn against us?! ORTRON: Because he has been sent here to stir up the miners. THALIRA: (Puzzled.) He was my father's friend. He said he wanted to help us. ORTRON: Oh, a trick - to gain your confidence. And anyway, after fifty years, who can be sure it's the same man? (THALIRA ascends the steps of the throne.) THALIRA: What is your counsel, Lord Ortron? ORTRON: The revolt must be crushed and crushed now. The Doctor must be captured and ex*cuted! 28: INT. PASSAGE (SARAH is much recovered as ECKERSLEY and ALPHA CENTAURI lead her down the passages of the citadel and back to the communications room.) SARAH: You're overdoing things. Alright, so...so you need an alarm system. Does it have to be something that drives people out of their minds? ECKERSLEY: You must remember - we're strangers on this planet. (Round a corner, ETTIS waits in hiding.) ECKERSLEY: We're not very popular, therefore we have to protect ourselves. SARAH: Protect yourselves?! ALPHA CENTAURI: Those ... Peladonians are still close to barbarism. They have a great distrust of progress. SARAH: Well maybe that's because they're not getting anything out of it. You've got to show them that progress will give them a better life. ECKERSLEY: It's no good, Sarah. The only thing these people understand... (ETTIS jumps out of hiding and clubs ECKERSLEY to the ground, then grabs SARAH round the neck. ALPHA CENTAURI becomes hysterical...) ALPHA CENTAURI: Help! Help! We're being att*cked! Help! ETTIS: Be silent, alien! You're wasting your breath! (He prods CENTAURI forward to the communications room with his sword.) ETTIS: Inside! ALPHA CENTAURI: Oh! Oh! (They move off leaving ECKERSLEY behind.) 29: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (SARAH and CENTAURI are pushed into the communications room by ETTIS who then shuts the double doors.) ETTIS: Now you won't be harmed...so long as you do what you're told. ALPHA CENTAURI: What is it you want us to do? ETTIS: I want you to open the armoury door. (CENTAURI pompously turns his back on the miner.) ALPHA CENTAURI: That is out of the question. Natives of primitive planets are forbidden access to sophisticated w*apon. (ETTIS throws SARAH across the room...) SARAH: Oh! (...and points his sword menacingly at her.) ETTIS: Open the door! ALPHA CENTAURI: Only Eckersley knows how to operate the controls. I do not. ETTIS: I advise you to try - for your sake and for hers. (He places the sword on SARAH'S throat.) 30: INT. TUNNEL GEBEK: (Whispers.) We must move quietly now, Doctor. The nearer we get to the citadel, the greater the danger. (They move on.) 31: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE ARMOURY (Two soldiers now stand on guard outside the re-closed armoury. However, they are suddenly surprised by a large group of miners armed with swords who rush them. After a short fight, the guards are overcome and the doors re-opened.) 32: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (One of ALPHA CENTAURI'S pincer hands hesitates over the switch controlling the true armoury doors.) ETTIS: Hurry, alien. (He pulls SARAH close to him and holds the sword across her.) ETTIS: Must I prove that I mean what I say? (CENTAURI flicks the switch down.) 33: INT. ARMOURY (The inner doors to the armoury glide open and the exuberant miners pour in. As an alarm blares out, they start to help themselves to the multitude of futuristic w*apon held on the metal shelving.) 34: INT. THRONE ROOM (A worried ORTRON runs into the throne room.) ORTRON: Your Majesty? (He bows.) THALIRA: (Concerned.) Lord Ortron, what is it? ORTRON: There's been another att*ck on the Federation armoury. The inner door has been opened. You see, your Majesty, already the rebellion has g*n. This is what comes of softness with the common people. 35: INT. ARMOURY (The miners finish emptying the shelves and run out.) 36: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE ARMOURY (Immediately they get a chance to use their newly acquired w*apon when a number of guards run up. They are quickly sh*t down by the blasters.) 37: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (ETTIS stands behind one of the closed doors of the communications room and watches more guards run past towards the armoury. He swings round accusingly on ALPHA CENTAURI.) ETTIS: You've betrayed me! You switched on the alarm! ALPHA CENTAURI: I warned you I did not fully understand the control mechanism. (ETTIS raises his sword and runs towards ALPHA CENTAURI.) SARAH: No! (CENTAURI screams as SARAH grabs ETTIS' arm and pushes him back.) SARAH: Can't you see he's telling the truth? Now you've got what you came for - why don't you go while you still can? ETTIS: That's a good idea, alien - and I'll take you with me. (He takes SARAH by the arm.) SARAH: No! ETTIS: As a hostage! (He starts to drag her towards the door.) ALPHA CENTAURI: ... ! SARAH: Ambassador, do something!... ! (He pulls her into the passage.) ALPHA CENTAURI: You leave her alone! (CENTUARI follows them out.) SARAH: (OOV: In passage.) Get off! ALPHA CENTAURI: Come back! Come back! Oh, dear! 38: INT. PASSAGE (ECKERSLEY still lies unconscious in the passage as CENTAURI bustles up to him.) ALPHA CENTAURI: Eckersley! Eckersley, please! Eckersley, please wake up! The armoury has been robbed! (CENTAURI nudges ECKERSLEY'S foot and the engineer starts to come round.) ALPHA CENTAURI: Wake up! The Doctor's friend has been taken hostage! Eckersley, please - wake up! 39: INT. PASSAGE (The newly armed miners run towards the tapestry covering of the secret entrance to the tunnels. ETTIS, still holding SARAH, comes from the other direction.) SARAH: Oh, let go! It won't do you no good - it won't help you! ETTIS: We've got the w*apon! (SARAH manages to pull herself away from ETTIS and runs back towards the communications room. ETTIS is about to follow but hears ORTRON'S voice...) ORTRON: (OOV: Down passage.) Seize her! Do not let her escape! (He therefore quickly runs behind the tapestry and into the tunnels. Meanwhile, SARAH has run from the frying pan and into the f*re as she is held firmly between two guards. She cries out as ORTRON approaches her.) SARAH: But you...you don't understand! I didn't want to go with them - I was trying to escape! ORTRON: Take her to the temple! (Struggling, she is dragged away.) 40: INT. TUNNEL GEBEK: We're almost at the citadel now, Doctor. (Suddenly the newly armed miners run past without stopping. GEBEK and the DOCTOR watch them in surprise but GEBEK manages to stop the final miner in the group - ETTIS.) GEBEK: Ettis! What new folly is this? ETTIS: (Triumphantly.) No folly, Gebek - victory! Now that we've got the new Federation w*apon, we'll see who rules on Peladon! (He runs past GEBEK after his fellow rebels.) GEBEK: I must go with them, Doctor. Perhaps I can prevent more madness. DOCTOR: Yes, don't worry about me, old chap. I think I know my way from now on. Good luck. (The two go their separate ways.) 41: INT. ARMOURY (ECKERSLEY and ALPHA CENTAURI have gone to the armoury. ECKERSLEY helps the GUARD CAPTAIN with one of his downed men while CENTAURI hovers in the doorway.) ECKERSLEY: Yes, well, that's really done it. With modern w*apon in their hands, there's no end to the damage these lunatics can do. ALPHA CENTAURI: I know, Eckersley, and it's all my fault. ECKERSLEY: Yes. ALPHA CENTAURI: I shall resign immediately. The disgrace! ECKERSLEY: Well it's done now. There's no point in going on about it. ALPHA CENTAURI: I think I could have faced death for myself in an honourable cause... (ECKERLSEY steps outside the armoury.) 42: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE ARMOURY ALPHA CENTAURI: But he thr*at the girl. I was unable to stand by and let him inflict v*olence on a fellow creature. ECKERSLEY: Where is she now? ALPHA CENTAURI: Presumably, she's still Ettis' prisoner. 43: INT. ARMOURY (The GUARD CAPTAIN speaks up from inside the armoury.) GUARD CAPTAIN: No, Ambassador, she was recaptured by the guards. ALPHA CENTAURI: Captured? She's a victim, not a criminal. GUARD CAPTAIN: Well Chancellor Ortron said she was helping them. ECKERSLEY: Where is she now? GUARD CAPTAIN: Well, she's been taken to the temple. 44: INT. TEMPLE OF AGGEDOR (SARAH stands before ORTRON...) SARAH: No, no, now look, this is all...a ridiculous mistake. ORTRON: (Accusingly.) You were in collusion with the rebel, Ettis. SARAH: Of course I wasn't! ORTRON: It was because of you that the Ambassador was forced to open the armoury door. Is that not true? SARAH: W...well, yes, in a way, I suppose it was. ORTRON: Then you admit your guilt? SARAH: The Ambassador opened the door because Ettis thr*at to k*ll me. Now you can't say that means I was helping him. 45: INT. TUNNEL (The DOCTOR runs up to the tunnel door behind the temple and listens carefully for sounds within the temple itself.) 46: INT. TEMPLE OF AGGEDOR ORTRON: Your whole plot is clear to me now. You arrived on this planet with only one aim - to stir up the common people... SARAH: That's not true...! ORTRON: (Interrupts.) And overthrow the traditional rulers - the nobility of Peladon. You joined with the rebel, Ettis... (Ranting on, ORTRON turns his back and fails to see the secret door opening and the DOCTOR entering.) ORTRON: ...while the Doctor allies himself with the other traitor, Gebek! SARAH: No! DOCTOR: Do forgive me, old chap, but you've got it all wrong. SARAH: Doctor! (She runs to him.) ORTRON: Arrest him! SARAH: You're safe! They said you'd been blown up in the cavern! (The DOCTOR is held and SARAH is pulled back.) DOCTOR: Well I very nearly was. SARAH: Ettis has just robbed the armoury. DOCTOR: Yes, I know. I've just met him in the tunnels. ORTRON: So, Doctor, you too admit your guilt! DOCTOR: (Sharply.) My dear chap, you're just not listening, are you? No one's admitting anything. But if you'll take my advice, you'll try and get on the right side of Gebek. Without him, you've got a full scale revolution on your hands. ORTRON: I need no advice from spies and saboteurs! DOCTOR: Look, just take me to the Queen. There's a good chap. ORTRON: There's no need to trouble the Queen, Doctor. I shall deal with you myself. Here in the temple, my will is law. I shall consult the judgement of Aggedor. (He signals for SARAH to be pulled back and then stands over the font-like container. He throws in a pellet of the phosphorescent substance.) ORTRON: Oh, mighty Aggedor, make known they will. (He then stands with his arms aloft before the statue to receive his divine guidance...) ORTRON: How shall we punish those who have offended against thee? (SARAH looks at the DOCTOR in concern.) 47: INT. THRONE ROOM (ALPHA CENTAURI has gone with ECKERSLEY to the throne room to plead with the Queen.) ALPHA CENTAURI: Believe me, your Majesty - Chancellor Ortron has totally misinterpreted the facts. THALIRA: Engineer Eckersley, can you confirm the Ambassador's story? ECKERSLEY: I can't confirm anything, your Majesty. I got h*t on the head when it all started. ALPHA CENTAURI: But you know that Sarah is not in league with the rebels? ECKERSLEY: It seems highly unlikely... (Doubtfully.) ...though I suppose...no. THALIRA: Well? ECKERSLEY: (To CENTAURI.) Well, it was because of her that you finally did open the door. I suppose it could have been a put-up job. ALPHA CENTAURI: Nonsense! The whole idea's absurd! The girl was Ettis' prisoner - not his accomplice. You must believe that, your Majesty? THALIRA: I'm prepared to trust your judgement, Ambassador. But what I believe is of little importance. In the temple, Ortron's power is absolute. There is nothing I can do! 48: INT. TEMPLE OF AGGEDOR (ORTRON turns from the statue.) DOCTOR: Well? And what did he say? ORTRON: You have blasphemed in the temple of Aggedor, therefore by Aggedor shall you both be punished! DOCTOR: Both? ORTRON: She shares your guilt - she will share your punishment. (To the guards.) Prepare the pit! 49: INT. THRONE ROOM ALPHA CENTAURI: But your Majesty, whatever your traditions, I beg you in the name of mercy to override them. THALIRA: Oh, I wish that I could, Ambassador. ALPHA CENTAURI: But you are the Queen. (THALIRA gets to her feet in frustration.) THALIRA: Yes, a Queen who's looked upon as little more than a child! ALPHA CENTAURI: Many things have changed on Peladon, your Majesty. Perhaps this too...should change? (THALIRA looks closely at ALPHA CENTAURI, then smiles and makes up her mind.) THALIRA: You will come with me. (She heads for the door and CENTAURI scuttles after her.) 50: INT. TEMPLE OF AGGEDOR (Two of the guards lift and pull aside the heavy stone font revealing a circular hatch in the floor. This, is turn, is lifted to reveal a dark hole in the floor. The DOCTOR takes a pace forward and looks into it but stops SARAH doing the same and looks in a calculating manner at the guards.) 51: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE TEMPLE (THALIRA and ALPHA CENTAURI have reached the temple and stand outside the door which is blocked by a cringing guard.) THALIRA: You will admit us to the temple. 52: INT. TEMPLE OF AGGEDOR (Her words are heard within.) ORTRON: Hurry - cast them into the pit! DOCTOR: Don't be a fool! 53: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE TEMPLE THALIRA: (To the guard.) No doors are barred to the Queen - stand aside! 54: INT. TEMPLE OF AGGEDOR (The DOCTOR is thrown into the pit...) 55: INT. TEMPLE PIT (...where he falls through the darkness with a cry. He lands on soil covered in straw and some scattered bones. He quickly gets to his feet and catches SARAH as she comes down with a scream. They both fall to the ground.) 56: INT. TEMPLE OF AGGEDOR (THALIRA has gained access to the temple. As she and CENTAURI rush in, the guards stand hurriedly back...) THALIRA: Where is the girl?! We dema... (...revealing the open pit. The words die in her mouth. She looks at ORTRON.) ORTRON: The decision is no longer yours or mine, your Majesty. The girl and the Doctor have gone to face the judgement of Aggedor. 57: INT. TEMPLE PIT (The DOCTOR and SARAH get to their feet somewhat unsteadily.) SARAH: Oh...ow... DOCTOR: You alright, Sarah? SARAH: Well, I don't think anything's broken. (She looks up.) SARAH: What are they going to do - just leave us here? DOCTOR: No, I think there's more to it than that. (SARAH sniffs the air.) SARAH: Ooh! That smell - it's...it's sort of musky. Like...like the lion house at the zoo... (The words are barely out of her mouth when they hear a quiet roar in the pitch-black darkness behind them.) SARAH: (Alarmed.) Oh, Doctor, there's something in here with us - something alive! DOCTOR: Yes, I know. Now don't move, Sarah. (As the quiet roars continue, he reaches into his pocket and takes out his pen-torch. Switching it on, he slowly casts it round the darkness. Suddenly the light is cast on the source of the sound - AGGEDOR! The royal beast rears up and screams out a roar through its fanged mouth...)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "11x16 - The Monster of Peladon - part 2"}
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THE MONSTER OF PELADON BY: BRIAN HAYLES PART THREE Original Air Date: 6 April, 1974 5:30pm - 5:55pm 1: INT. TEMPLE OF AGGEDOR ORTRON: Cast them into the pit! DOCTOR: Don't be a fool! 2: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE TEMPLE THALIRA: (To the guard.) No doors are barred to the Queen - stand aside! 3: INT. TEMPLE OF AGGEDOR (The DOCTOR is thrown into the pit...) 4: INT. TEMPLE PIT (...where he falls through the darkness with a cry. He lands on soil covered in straw and some scattered bones. He quickly gets to his feet and catches SARAH as she comes down with a scream. They both fall to the ground.) 5: INT. TEMPLE OF AGGEDOR (THALIRA has gained access to the temple. As she and CENTAURI rush in, the guards stand hurriedly back...) THALIRA: Where is the girl?! We dema... (...revealing the open pit. The words die in her mouth. She looks at ORTRON.) ORTRON: The decision is no longer yours or mine, your Majesty. The girl and the Doctor have gone to face the judgement of Aggedor. 6: INT. TEMPLE PIT (The DOCTOR and SARAH get to their feet somewhat unsteadily.) SARAH: Oh...ow... DOCTOR: You alright, Sarah? SARAH: Well, I don't think anything's broken. (She looks up.) SARAH: What are they going to do - just leave us here? DOCTOR: No, I think there's more to it than that. (SARAH sniffs the air.) SARAH: Ooh! That smell - it's...it's sort of musky. Like...like the lion house at the zoo... (The words are barely out of her mouth when they hear a quiet roar in the pitch-black darkness behind them.) SARAH: (Alarmed.) Oh, Doctor, there's something in here with us - something alive! DOCTOR: Yes, I know. Now don't move, Sarah. (As the quiet roars continue, he reaches into his pocket and takes out his pen-torch. Switching it on, he slowly casts it round the darkness. Suddenly the light is cast on the source of the sound - AGGEDOR! The royal beast rears up and screams out a roar through its fanged mouth.) 7: INT. TEMPLE OF AGGEDOR THALIRA: (Shouts.) Remove them from the pit, Ortron! (ORTRON doesn't move.) THALIRA: We command it! ORTRON: (Smiles.) Too late, your Majesty. 8: INT. TEMPLE PIT (AGGEDOR swipes a huge clawed paw at the DOCTOR which is easily dodged.) DOCTOR: Come on, Aggedor, old chap! That's no way to greet an old friend! (AGGEDOR growls and takes another swipe.) DOCTOR: You remember me, surely? (AGGEDOR lunges forward at the two c*ptive with a roar. SARAH screams as she and the DOCTOR jump out of the creature's way.) SARAH: I don't think he does, Doctor! DOCTOR: ... he and I used to be the greatest of friends! Aggedor! (The monster roars once more and again lunges for them.) DOCTOR: Aggedor! (Suddenly the DOCTOR remembers...) DOCTOR: Yes, of course! (...and lifts up the glinting TARDIS key from the chain round his neck. He starts to spin the key round and sings his haunting refrain...) DOCTOR: "Klokleda Partha Mennin Klatch, Haroon, Haroon, Haroon." (AGGEDOR too remembers and almost immediately starts to subdue...) DOCTOR: "Klokleda Shina Tierra Natch, Haroon, Haroon, Haroon." (AGGEDOR'S head lowers as he starts to sway under the hypnotic effect...) DOCTOR: "Haroon, Haroon, Haroon, Haroon, Haroon, Haroon, Haroon, Haroon, Haroon, Haroon, Haroon, Haroon, Haroon..." (His song dies away and he strokes the animal's head as it gently growls. He continues to twist the TARDIS key before AGGEDOR'S eyes.) DOCTOR: That's better. You remember now, don't you, old chap, mm? SARAH: (Relieved.) You should have been a lion tamer, Doctor. H...how did you manage to do that? DOCTOR: A little bit of light hypnosis. It brings out his sweeter nature, doesn't it, old chap, mm? SARAH: Hmm! DOCTOR: Come and tickle his ears, Sarah! SARAH: Not likely. Now look, Doctor, this reunion is all very touching, but what happens to us now? DOCTOR: Well, as we shoved down here...to receive the verdict of Aggedor, I would say that the result is very much in our favour, wouldn't you? SARAH: Mmm? DOCTOR: Come on, Aggedor, old chap, up you get. (The DOCTOR stands directly beneath the pit opening and shouts upwards.) DOCTOR: Come on! Get us out of here! (THALIRA, ORTRON and ALPHA CENTAURI look down on them.) DOCTOR: Come on! Visiting time's over - get us out of here! 9: INT. TEMPLE OF AGGEDOR (THALIRA looks sternly at ORTRON.) THALIRA: Chancellor Ortron, release them from the pit immediately. (Disappointment and defeat line ORTRON'S face.) 10: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (Later, ALPHA CENTAURI has returned to the communications room and made ECKERSLEY aware of this turn in events. The Engineer sits at the main console, writing down figures on the clipboard.) ALPHA CENTAURI: Now the Doctor is in good standing again, he will help us to clear up our problems. ECKERSLEY: Yes, while I admire your confidence, there's a g*ng of hot-headed miners running around in those tunnels with sophisticated w*apon. How you going to solve that one, mm? ALPHA CENTAURI: Indeed the situation is most deplorable, but what can I do? I am only an observer here. (ECKERSLEY finishes his figures.) ECKERSLEY: Well, I know what I'd do. Still you don't want me interfering, do you? ALPHA CENTAURI: Please, Eckersley, advise me - what would you do? ECKERSLEY: Inform the Federation. Get them to send you a bit of muscle. With Federation troops on the planet, you and your friend, the Doctor, could make both sides see reason. And besides, if things really do blow up on this planet, the Federation could lose the trisilicate, and then they'll want to know why they weren't told how bad things were getting, you see? (Thoughtfully, CENTAURI nods his head.) ALPHA CENTAURI: There is much in what you say. ECKERSLEY: You've had a long and valuable career on this planet. It would be a great pity to see it all end in a...an ugly mess. ALPHA CENTAURI: Perhaps I should discuss it with the Doctor. (A thought suddenly strikes ECKERSLEY.) ECKERSLEY: Hey, just a minute - the sonic lance! That's a pretty handy piece of a*tillery. (He rushes for the door.) ALPHA CENTAURI: Where are you going? ECKERSLEY: I'm gonna get some guards and bring it back here. (He leaves. CENTAURI thinks for a moment and then crosses to the communications console, taking the microphone in his hand.) ALPHA CENTAURI: (Into microphone.) This is the Federation Ambassador on the planet of Peladon. Get the emergency security channel, please - utmost priority. 11: INT. THRONE ROOM (The guards open the throne room door and THALIRA, her authority established sweeps in. ORTRON follows, then the DOCTOR with SARAH and THALIRA'S handmaiden bringing up the rear. As she walks towards the throne, THALIRA harangues her High Priest.) THALIRA: The Doctor and his companion have been most barbarously treated. The behaviour of our chancellor was unforgivable. ORTRON: Your Majesty... THALIRA: (Interrupts, shouting.) You appealed to the judgement of Aggedor! Now you shall accept it. The Doctor is vindicated. (ORTRON flinches his eyes and bows.) ORTRON: With your Majesty's permission. (He turns and stops before the DOCTOR and SARAH. With ill-concealed grave, he stares at them and walks from the room. THALIRA smiles and speaks to the guards and her handmaiden who carries a tray of drinks.) THALIRA: Chairs and refreshments for our guests. (The guards bring a chair for THALIRA and stools for the DOCTOR and SARAH forward.) THALIRA: You will please accept our apologies. DOCTOR: Well, not at all, your Majesty. In fact I was delighted to meet Aggedor again. THALIRA: You may sit. DOCTOR: Thank you. (They all sit and the handmaiden hands round horned cups of drinks and small eats.) THALIRA: Now, what did you discover in your investigation at the mines? DOCTOR: Well, that the miners are on the point of armed rebellion, your Majesty, and that Gebek is your only hope. He's a moderate - civil w*r's the last thing that he wants. SARAH: Well what about Ettis? DOCTOR: Yes, that's the trouble. Ettis has scored a considerable success with that att*ck of his on the armoury. Now all the young hotheads are keen to follow him. THALIRA: What should we do? DOCTOR: Send for Gebek at once, your Majesty. Promise him a better way of life for his miners and see that they get it. That will cut the ground from under Ettis' feet. THALIRA: But Ortron says it is wrong to give in to the miners - that they will want more and more. SARAH: But don't you see, your Majesty? Ortron just wants to make sure that the benefits of joining the Federation go to him and his aristocratic friends. DOCTOR: You've got to convince your people that the Federation means a better way of life for everybody - not just for a few nobles at court. (THALIRA stands and paces. The DOCTOR and SARAH also stand respectfully.) THALIRA: I will try your plan, Doctor. Can you get a message to Gebek for me? DOCTOR: I'll do my best, your Majesty. THALIRA: Tell him to come to the citadel and...meet with me in secret. I would hear the grievances of his people...and do my best to remedy them. DOCTOR: Thank you, your Majesty. THALIRA: Go as quickly as you can. DOCTOR: I'll just have quick word with the Ambassador and then I'll be off. (He turns for the door and hands back his drink to the handmaiden. SARAH does the same but...) DOCTOR: Sarah, why don't you, er, why don't you stay and have a few words with the Queen? I have an idea you could give her some good advice. SARAH: Oh... (He leaves. The Queen looks puzzled and a little haughty.) THALIRA: What advice did the Doctor mean? SARAH: Well, it's going to be rather difficult to explain but I think he was referring to women's lib. THALIRA: And what's that? SARAH: Women's liberation, your Majesty. On Earth it means...well, very briefly, it means that we women don't let men push us around. THALIRA: (Puzzled.) It's not like that on Peladon. The ruler is always a man. I was only crowned because my father had no son. It's Ortron who holds the real power. SARAH: Well, only if you let him. You've just got to stand up for yourself. THALIRA: It would be different if I was a man. But I'm only a girl. SARAH: (Smiles.) Now just a minute! There's nothing "only" about being a girl, your Majesty. Never mind why they made you a Queen, the fact is you are the Queen, so...just you jolly well let them know it! 12: INT. MINE TUNNEL (GEBEK has caught up with the miners and is trying to make them see reason but ETTIS has other ideas.) ETTIS: Capture the citadel! Force the Queen to agree to all our demands! (There are cries of "yes!" from the other miners.) ETTIS: Expel the aliens from the planet! GEBEK: Do you think you can fight the whole of the Galactic Federation with a handful of stolen w*apon? ETTIS: And what's your advice, Gebek - more waiting? GEBEK: The Federation must have the trisilicate. If we refuse to work, they will put pressure on Ortron to grant our demands. ETTIS: Nonsense, Gebek. They don't need us. The Federation will import alien workers and mine the ore with their new machines. (The other mines cry out "That's right!" GEBEK looks concerned.) 13: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (In the communications room, the DOCTOR has learned of the plea for help to the Federation from ALPHA CENTAURI...) DOCTOR: What on Peladon possessed you to do a thing like that? ALPHA CENTAURI: It seemed the advisable course of action, Doctor. Eckersley agreed. DOCTOR: Yes, well Eckersley should have had more sense. (SARAH walks in.) SARAH: Oh, Doctor, I thought you... DOCTOR: (Interrupts.) Yes, in a minute, Sarah. (To CENTAURI.) Sending for Federation troops is the one thing that is certain to make things worse. Well, I only hope I can get things sorted out before they arrive. (He turns for the door.) SARAH: Ah, before you go, Doctor, you know when I was looking for you and got lost in the tunnels? DOCTOR: Yes? SARAH: Well, I landed up at the refinery by mistake. ALPHA CENTAURI: She triggered off the a*t*matic security system. SARAH: Yes, but before all that - I saw someone in the refinery. ALPHA CENTAURI: A hallucination caused by the effect of the alarm system. SARAH: No, no, it was before all that started. Now listen - whoever's faking Aggedor would need a lot of technological equipment, right? DOCTOR: Yes...and a very considerable power source too. SARAH: Well, there's all of that in the refinery. ALPHA CENTAURI: But Eckersley says the refinery is empty. SARAH: Empty as far as he knows, but suppose somebody's in there? The place isn't in use - it'd make the perfect hideout. (The DOCTOR thinks. Behind them, ORTRON and a guard appear in the doorway.) DOCTOR: Yes, well it's certainly worth investigating. But first I've got to contact Gebek. (He heads for the door but, having heard this last comment, ORTRON walks in.) ORTRON: Contact Gebek? You intend to contact your rebel friends. You may have deceived the Queen but you have not deceived me. You will remain in the citadel until my investigations into your background are complete. DOCTOR: Oh, come on, Ortron, get out of my way. (The DOCTOR tries to leave but the guard pushes him back.) ORTRON: You have the freedom of the citadel, Doctor. Be thankful you are not in a prison. (He walks out. The guard sheathes his sword menacingly and follows him.) SARAH: Pompous old idiot! (The DOCTOR hastily signals her to be quiet.) 14: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (ORTRON and the guard hide in an alcove and wait.) 15: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (Still signalling SARAH to keep quiet, the DOCTOR looks out into the passageway. He thinks that all is clear.) DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Right, I'll be off. SARAH: (Quietly.) Good luck, Doctor. DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Bye. (He waves to her and walks out.) 16: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (He looks round carefully and walks off in the opposite direction from ORTRON and the guard. However, they follow him.) 17: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (SARAH and ALPHA CENTAURI see them pass the door in pursuit. Alarmed, SARAH goes to the door, signals to CENTAURI to remain and pursues the pursuers.) 18: INT. PASSAGE (The DOCTOR reaches the tapestry covering to the secret entrance. He checks round then pulls it back. A guard with his sword drawn is on the other side of the covering and he leaps out. At the same time, the guard with ORTRON comes from the other direction, surrounding the DOCTOR.) ORTRON: (OOV: Down passage.) You were warned, Doctor. (The High Priest walks forward.) ORTRON: You were ordered to stay in the citadel. You have disobeyed my command. (To the guards.) Take him to the dungeons. DOCTOR: You're making a very grave mistake, Ortron. ORTRON: Am I, Doctor? (To the guards.) Carry on. (The DOCTOR is led away. ORTRON heads in the other direction, walking straight past another wallcovering behind which SARAH is hidden. She steps out and goes to the tapestry covering that she saw the DOCTOR about to go through. Taking her cue from the torch bracket in the temple, she lifts the similar bracket in the passage and heads through the entrance behind the tapestry.) 19: INT. TUNNEL (She quickly looks round for the similar bracket on the other side of the door. Spotting it, she closes the door and heads off into the tunnels.) 20: INT. MINE TUNNEL (Hidden behind a ledge, GEBEK, ETTIS and other miners watch as ECKERSLEY leads two guards in moving the recovered sonic lance.) ECKERSLEY: Right, bring it onto here - pointing that way. ETTIS: (To GEBEK, whispering.) What is he doing? GEBEK: (Whispers.) Preparing to take it back to the citadel, I think. ETTIS: (Whispers.) He's left it a bit late. GEBEK: (Whispers.) Get down. Someone's coming. (It is SARAH who walks up to ECKERSLEY as he adjusts the lance.) ECKERSLEY: What are you doing here? SARAH: The Doctor thinks the rebels are going to try and capture the lance. ECKERSLEY: Well, there's no sign of them so far. (SARAH looks round. ETTIS grows impatient.) ETTIS: What are we...waiting for, Gebek? Let's att*ck. GEBEK: Just, er...just wait a minute. (He takes one of the stolen g*n from one of the miners and moves off quietly.) 21: INT. THRONE ROOM (ALPHA CENTAURI has an audience with the Queen...) ALPHA CENTAURI: I wish to protest most strongly against the arrest of the Doctor. ORTRON: He was ordered to stay in the citadel. He chose to disobey. THALIRA: Chancellor Ortron, you have again exceeded your authority. We ordered that the Doctor be allowed to continue his investigation. ORTRON: But your Majesty, I myself heard him say that he intended to contact the rebel Gebek. ALPHA CENTAURI: The Doctor is under the protection of the Federation. ORTRON: Is he indeed, Ambassador? Tell me - has he any official rank or position within the Federation? ALPHA CENTAURI: The Doctor's position is unique. ORTRON: Then you can produce his official Federation identity record. (CENTAURI hesitates...) ALPHA CENTAURI: Well... (He coughs in embarrassment.) ALPHA CENTAURI: As a matter of fact, he...seems to be untraceable at the moment. ORTRON: You see, your Majesty? A nameless alien who does not officially exist. ALPHA CENTAURI: But we have chosen to give him our friendship and protection, Ortron. ORTRON: (Quietly.) Then it is the duty of her Majesty's servants to protect her from her errors. The Doctor will remain imprisoned where he can do no further harm, and I shall give orders for the arrest of his female companion. THALIRA: (Shouts.) No, Ortron, that you will not! The girl, Sarah, will remain at liberty. ORTRON: As your Majesty wishes. Since she is only a female, her activities are of little importance. (He bows before his angry Queen.) 22: INT. MINE TUNNEL (ECKERSLEY finishes his adjustments to the sonic lance.) ECKERSLEY: Right, let's get this thing back to the citadel. (ETTIS stands, aims and sh**t one of the guards in the back. The other guards turn to fight.) ECKERSLEY: Quick, Sarah, here - down! (SARAH joins ECKERSLEY in hiding behind the sonic lance. The other guards are easily dispatched by the Federation w*apon. ECKERSLEY switches on the lance with a degree of bloodlust.) ECKERSLEY: Now we'll show them! (The lance powers up and a section of the rock wall near to the rebel miners explodes, denting their triumph. Before any further action can be taken, GEBEK steps up behind ECKERSLEY with his g*n raised.) GEBEK: Eckersley, move away from that lance. ECKERSLEY: It was worth a try. (ECKERSLEY moves away from the controls and SARAH steps up to GEBEK.) SARAH: I've a message for you - from the Doctor. The Queen has agreed to meet you in secret. GEBEK: It may be difficult. I'll come to the citadel when I can. ECKERSLEY: What are you gonna do with us, Gebek? GEBEK: Nothing - you can go. (ETTIS runs forward.) ETTIS: No! What are you doing? k*ll them! GEBEK: There's been too much k*lling. (To ECKERSLEY.) Now go. ECKERSLEY: I'm taking that machine with me. SARAH: Don't argue! Let's go while we still can. (SARAH pulls him away.) ETTIS: You should have k*lled them! You're too weak, Gebek. GEBEK: And you are a fool. Now take that machine away. I've got things to do. (He walks off watched by a smouldering ETTIS.) 23: INT. THRONE ROOM (SARAH and ECKERSLEY have gone to the throne room to report this latest development.) ORTRON: And now the rebels have the sonic lance in their hands! ECKERSLEY: There was nothing I could do! I'm sorry, your Majesty, but they had Federation w*apon, and your troops didn't. SARAH: That's true. THALIRA: How dangerous is this device? ECKERSLEY: Well, if it's properly handled and at full power, it's capable of destroying the entire citadel. (This revelation causes shock...) SARAH: What? ORTRON: Why weren't we told this before?! ALPHA CENTAURI: It would be an unhappy admission to make when the Federation troops arrive! (THALIRA suddenly stands.) THALIRA: Federation troops? ORTRON: We want no alien troops on Peladon! ALPHA CENTAURI: Forgive me, your Majesty, I should have informed you earlier, but the situation had become so bad that I felt forced to send for help. SARAH: Well can't you send them back? ALPHA CENTAURI: Once security troops are summoned, they cannot be recalled. (SARAH thinks.) SARAH: Well what'll make them pack up and go away again? (ORTRON looks puzzled and surprised at this question.) ORTRON: Go away? SARAH: Yes, well, don't you see? Since the troops are coming, the thing to do is get rid of them as soon as possible. We must make them go away. THALIRA: (Encouraging.) Go on, Sarah. SARAH: Well, they'll only go if it looks as if there's no need for them. (Smiles.) Now, if everything was running smoothly... 24: INT. DUNGEON (The DOCTOR sits on a bunk behind bars in an alcove of the dungeon. The GUARD CAPTAIN sits nearby sharpening his sword on a stone.) DOCTOR: Guard? (The GUARD CAPTAIN ignores him. The DOCTOR stands and goes to the bars.) DOCTOR: Guard, could I have a glass of water, please? (The GUARD CAPTAIN puts down the stone and goes to the bars. As he pours the water, the DOCTOR reaches out and tries to take the key from a hook on the guard's belt. The CAPTAIN notices and swings round with a cry and his sword raised.) DOCTOR: Now, now, now, no need to be aggressive! There's no harm in trying, is there? (The CAPTAIN walks away.) DOCTOR: Look, what about my glass of water? (The CAPTAIN returns, pours the beaker of water back into the jug and walks off again with a look at the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: Good health! 25: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE THRONE ROOM (The doors to the throne room open and ECKERSLEY walks out and off. ALPHA CENTAURI and SARAH follow.) ALPHA CENTAURI: A most excellent scheme, Sarah - worthy of the Doctor himself. SARAH: Yeah, even old Ortron seems pretty keen on it. He doesn't want Federation troops here any more than we do. I'll see you. ALPHA CENTAURI: Where are you going, Sarah? SARAH: To try and find this dungeon where they're holding the Doctor. (She walks off. CENTAURI calls after her.) ALPHA CENTAURI: You should use the proper procedures! 26: INT. PASSAGE (GEBEK'S head appears round the edge of the tapestry covering the secret entrance. He looks round and steps out. He walks a small way down the passage then, hearing a noise, hides. SARAH walks round the corner and into the miner.) SARAH: Oh! Gebek! GEBEK: Shh! (He looks round.) SARAH: (Whispers.) How did you get here? GEBEK: (Quietly.) There are many secret ways into this citadel. Well where's the Doctor? SARAH: (Quietly.) Ortron's had him locked up. I must find him! GEBEK: (Quietly.) I know where they'll be keeping him - in the lower dungeons. SARAH: Right - let's go and get him out. GEBEK: Oh, no. No, you must return to the others, or they'll get suspicious. SARAH: (Quietly.) Yeah, but what about the Doctor? GEBEK: (Quietly.) Leave that to me. SARAH: You're sure? (GEBEK nods.) SARAH: Okay. (SARAH moves off. GEBEK checks round and does the same.) 27: INT. DUNGEON (The DOCTOR is amusing himself with a sleight of hand magic trick with a coin. The GUARD CAPTAIN gets up and moves to the jug of water and pours a cup.) DOCTOR: Ah, my glass of water at last, eh? (GEBEK walks quietly into the dungeon and peers round a corner. The GUARD CAPTAIN is drinking the water himself with his back to the new arrival. The DOCTOR sees GEBEK and shakes his head at him to get back out of sight. The CAPTAIN finishes his drink and is about to return to his place but the DOCTOR gets quickly to his feet.) DOCTOR: I say, guard, erm, oh, er, have you seen this? (He holds up the coin.) DOCTOR: Watch very closely. See the coin? Watch. (The DOCTOR makes to snatch the coin and throw it into the air. He then taps his own head and produces the coin on the tip of his tongue. The GUARD CAPTAIN looks amazed.) DOCTOR: It's rather good, innit? Would you like to try it? (GEBEK walks up behind the CAPTAIN.) DOCTOR: Ah, there you are, Gebek. (The CAPTAIN turns...) GUARD CAPTAIN: Hey you! (...and is felled by a blow to the jaw.) GUARD CAPTAIN: Ooh! DOCTOR: Well done. Get his keys. (GEBEK does so and starts to unlock the bars.) GEBEK: Soon have you out of there, Doctor. (The barred door is opened and the DOCTOR steps out.) DOCTOR: Give me the keys. GEBEK: Yep. I'll just tuck him in here. (GEBEK drags the CAPTAIN into the cell.) GEBEK: He won't make such a...mess then. (GEBEK dumps the unconscious GUARD CAPTAIN on the floor of the cell. He steps out and the DOCTOR shuts and locks the door.) GEBEK: (Quietly.) Sarah told me the Queen wants to see me. DOCTOR: (Quietly.) That'll have to wait for a while. Ortron's on the warpath. GEBEK: (Quietly.) Well what now then? DOCTOR: (Quietly.) I'd like you to take me to the Federation refinery. From what Sarah tells me, there's something singularly suspicious going on down there. GEBEK: (Whispers.) Alright, this way, Doctor. 28: INT. CAVE OPPOSITE CITADEL (ETTIS and the miners have wheeled the sonic lance through the tunnels to a cave which overlooks the citadel of Peladon on an opposite mountain. The lance is pointed at the citadel.) ETTIS: Eckersley has given us a fine w*apon. From here we dominate the citadel! 29: INT. TUNNEL (GEBEK and the DOCTOR make their way down a tunnel.) GEBEK: If Federation troops land, Doctor, my people will fight - I promise you. DOCTOR: Well I believe you, Gebek. That's why we've got to expose this Aggedor trickery before they arrive. (GEBEK hears something ahead and holds the DOCTOR back.) DOCTOR: What is it? GEBEK: Someone coming. DOCTOR: Over there. (They hide behind a ledge of rock and watch as a troop of miners with picks and shovels move through the tunnels, escorted by two guards.) GEBEK: They must be mad. My miners won't work with guards standing over them. DOCTOR: Yes, quite so, old chap, but still, we...we've got to think of first things first, eh? Come on, let's get on. (They move down the tunnel that the miners came from.) 30: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (In the communications room, ALPHA CENTAURI receives a message from a Federation trooper who speaks in a whispering breathless voice. SARAH and ECKERSLEY listen in...) VOICE: (Over radio.) Our ship is now in orbit over the planet Peladon. Preliminary detachments will land by scout craft close to the citadel. ALPHA CENTAURI: (Into microphone.) Your message is received and understood. We await your arrival. SARAH: Well, they're on their way. ECKERSLEY: Yes. I don't see how you can hope to fool them for long. SARAH: Well, with any luck they won't be here for long - that's the whole idea. ALPHA CENTAURI: Long enough, I hope, to force Chancellor Ortron to release the Doctor from the dungeon. (SARAH hesitates and smiles.) SARAH: Yes. 31: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (GEBEK and the DOCTOR approach the door to the refinery.) GEBEK: I think this is the place, Doctor, but be careful - there is evil here. DOCTOR: What? GEBEK: Well several of my people have been att*cked by magic, and their minds destroyed. DOCTOR: Yes, well, don't worry, old chap. It's Eckersley's patent alarm system. I'll deal with the magic before we start. (He looks round and spots a locked junction box set into the tunnel wall next to the door.) DOCTOR: Yes, that'll be it. (He takes out his sonic screwdriver, switches it on and the locking nut in the box starts to unscrew.) 32: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM ECKERSLEY: What's Gebek and Ettis and that little lot up to, eh? That's what's worrying me. And where's the sonic lance? SARAH: I don't know. Maybe they just wanted to stop you using it? ECKERSLEY: Yes, maybe. I think I'll just check the area again. (ECKERSLEY starts to looks over camera images from all over the citadel and surrounding tunnels, including the temple.) ALPHA CENTAURI: I estimate that the Federation troops will be here at almost any moment. (The image changes to one of the miners in a tunnel with their guards. ORTRON steps up to them.) ECKERSLEY: Ah, there's Ortron arriving now. SARAH: I only hope he can get the miners to cooperate. (The image is changed to a passage in the citadel, a tunnel and then a view of the DOCTOR opening the junction box with GEBEK watching. ECKERSLEY sits up in alarm.) ECKERSLEY: Hey, the old devil's on the loose! SARAH: (Smiles.) Well, well, well! ECKERSLEY: And that's Gebek with him. What are those two up to? ALPHA CENTAURI: I fear your suspicions were correct after all, Eckersley. SARAH: Uh, what? ALPHA CENTAURI: It appears that he has gone over to the rebel side completely. SARAH: Oh, don't be so ridiculous! ECKERSLEY: Oh, has he? Right! We'll see about that! (He heads for the door but SARAH stands in his way.) SARAH: No, please! You mustn't interfere! No, it isn't sabotage, I promise you. ECKERSLEY: Then what's he up to, eh?! (He tries to push his way past her but SARAH stands her ground.) SARAH: No! Alright, alright. We think the Aggedor trick is being worked from the refinery. (ECKERSLEY smiles.) ECKERSLEY: Well, of all the daft ideas. (He returns silently to the console.) SARAH: No...well, someone is hiding down there without your knowing. Look, if we're wrong, they'll be no harm done. Now don't worry, the Doctor won't damage your precious machinery. (ECKERSLEY looks as if a thousand thoughts are passing through his mind...) 33: INT. MINE TUNNEL (ORTRON is attempting to address the miners but they are all talking at once.) GUARD CAPTAIN: (Shouts.) Silence! ORTRON: (Shouts.) Unfortunately, Federation troops, as a result of the recent v*olence, are about to land on this planet. MINER: (Shouts.) Don't think that'll save ya! (Several other miners yell out in similar fashion.) ORTRON: (Shouts.) I didn't send for them. I don't want them here any more than you do. But they're coming, and we cannot fight them. Now our only hope is to convince them that their presence here is not needed, and the way to do that, is to return the mines to working order. (The miners, unconvinced, mutter between themselves.) ORTRON: Now I appeal to you for the sake of Peladon, go back to work...then when the Federation troops have gone, they'll be a fair hearing for all your complaints. SECOND MINER: Shall we give it a chance? MINER: Alright, Chancellor, we'll trust you this time. ORTRON: Thank you, men of Peladon. I'm glad that good sense has prevailed. (The miners walk off to begin their task. As the go down the tunnel, the image of the royal beast suddenly materialises in front of them. They cry out and run off in alarm but the spirit spits out its deadly heat ray, catching one miner who is vapourised into nothingness.) 34: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (GEBEK hears the miner's cries and runs to the DOCTOR who has the junction box open and is re-fixing the wires within.) GEBEK: Doctor? Can you hear? Back there - down the mine! DOCTOR: Yes, yes, stop worrying. I've just got one more connection to make. 35: INT. MINE TUNNEL (Screaming, both guards and miners run at full tilt down a tunnel.) 36: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY GEBEK: They're coming this way, Doctor! (The DOCTOR wraps two wires together and within the junction box, a red and orange light both flash.) DOCTOR: That should do it. It should open now. (They turn to the refinery door. It opens - and an armed Ice Warrior steps out!)
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THE MONSTER OF PELADON BY: BRIAN HAYLES PART FOUR Original Air Date: 13 April, 1974 5:30pm - 5:55pm 1: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (GEBEK hears the miner's cries and runs to the DOCTOR who has the junction box open and is re-fixing the wires within.) GEBEK: Doctor? Can you hear? Back there - down the mine! DOCTOR: Yes, yes, stop worrying. I've just got one more connection to make. 2: INT. MINE TUNNEL (Screaming, both guards and miners run at full tilt down a tunnel.) 3: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY GEBEK: They're coming this way, Doctor! (The DOCTOR wraps two wires together and within the junction box, a red and orange light both flash.) DOCTOR: That should do it. It should open now. (They turn to the refinery door. It opens - and an armed Ice Warrior steps out! The DOCTOR and GEBEK look at each other in amazement. Another Ice Warrior - SSKEL - steps forward behind the first.) SSKEL: Do not move. You are my prisoners. 4: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (The observers in the communications room see the Ice Warriors on the monitor.) SARAH: What are those things? ALPHA CENTAURI: Natives of the planet Mars. Your friend, the Doctor, calls them Ice Warriors, but... (Behind them, an Ice Lord, AZAXYR, walks into the room, his green glittering cloak billowing behind him.) ALPHA CENTAURI: ...I thought they were still in orbit? AZAXYR: Greetings, Ambassador. (They spin round. SARAH gasps at the sight of this new alien.) AZAXYR: This planet is now under martial law. 5: INT. MINE TUNNEL (ETTIS has returned to the other miners who have now calmed down after the appearance of Aggedor. PREBA has relayed news of the latest events to him...) PREBA: The girl brought him a message. There was to be a secret meeting with the Queen. ETTIS: And he believed her? He's walked straight into a trap. MINER: What are we gonna do? ETTIS: Nothing. PREBA: Nothing? You speak as if he were already d*ad. ETTIS: d*ad, or a prisoner of Ortron, or a prisoner of the Federation - what's the difference? PREBA: Well you're not just going to abandon him? ETTIS: What else should we do? PREBA: We can do for him what he would do for anyone of us - rescue him. MINER: Get him out! (The other miners yell in agreement.) ETTIS: Look - the Federation troops have landed! PREBA: We're not afraid of Federation troops. MINER: Anyway we've got our new w*apon. ETTIS: Oh, alright, alright, it seems that we have to sacrifice our lives just to save Gebek from the results of his own stupidity. I only hope that you think that the price is worth it, Preba. Come on. (They move off.) 6: INT. THRONE ROOM (AZAXYR, the Ice Warriors, the DOCTOR, SARAH, ECKERSLEY, ALPHA CENTAURI, GEBEK and ORTRON have joined THALIRA in the throne room where the Ice Lord is conducting an inquiry into recent events...) AZAXYR: Let us see what has emerged. (He looks at a scowling ORTRON.) AZAXYR: You say that the miners have rebelled against their proper rulers... (He looks towards GEBEK.) AZAXYR: But, Gebek here, says that the nobles have cheated them of their rights. (He turns back to ORTRON.) AZAXYR: You say that the Doctor here is a spy and a saboteur. But the Ambassador says that he is an old and valued friend. (He walks past CENTAURI towards GEBEK.) AZAXYR: You say that your god appeared to you because he is angry, but the Doctor here is sure that the appearances are caused by trickery. DOCTOR: An excellent summing up, Commander Azaxyr. Do you know, you'd have made a very good judge? AZAXYR: You forget, Doctor, I am your judge, your jury and executioner too... (He turns to walk away but hesitates...) AZAXYR: ...perhaps. (SARAH looks concerned but the DOCTOR mouths a quiet assurance to her and smiles as AZAXYR approaches ECKERSLEY.) AZAXYR: Only Engineer Eckersley here says nothing and accuses nobody. ECKERSLEY: Look, all this argy-bargy's nothing to do with me. I came here to do a job. I just wish people would let me get on with it. AZAXYR: Excellent! A splendid example to you all! (He walks to the front of the group.) AZAXYR: Now listen to me - all of you. I am not concerned with the situation here on Peladon. One thing concerns me and one thing only - the Federation must have the trisilicate it needs. DOCTOR: Yes, but it's the situation on Peladon that is stopping you getting the trisilicate. AZAXYR: Precisely, Doctor, and let me suggest a simple solution. (He points a clamped hand at GEBEK.) AZAXYR: Your miners will return to work immediately. And they will work under armed guards... (He swings round and points at ORTRON.) AZAXYR: ...which you will provide. (ORTRON looks shocked.) AZAXYR: And if they refuse to work, they will be k*lled. GEBEK: (Passionately.) My miners are united and will defy you, Commander! ORTRON: (Angrily.) I refuse to allow my troops to k*ll their countrymen at the orders of an alien power! SARAH: (To the DOCTOR, quietly.) He was willing enough to do it on his own account. DOCTOR: (Quietly.) That was different. AZAXYR: (To SSKEL.) Have the hostages been taken? SSKEL: Yes, Commander. (AZAXYR turns to a silent and impassive Queen.) AZAXYR: Until the miners return to work, a number of selected hostages will be ex*cuted...each day. 7: INT. TUNNEL (The miners, armed with the Federation g*n, approach the tunnel door which leads into the passages of the citadel. ETTIS, in the lead, stops and addresses his men...) ETTIS: Right. Now does everyone understand? Once Gebek is safe, we give the Federation an ultimatum; either they agree to all our demands or we destroy the citadel with the sonic lance - agreed? (The miners say "yes".) PREBA: As you say, Ettis, but only when Gebek is safe. (Without indicating his agreement, ETTIS pushes past him and lifts the torch bracket down to open the door. He then leads them through it.) 8: INT. PASSAGE (ETTIS pulls back the tapestry curtain and checks the corridor. Hearing someone approach, he goes back behind the curtain and waits. The GUARD CAPTAIN walks round the corner and ETTIS springs out, pointing the g*n at him.) ETTIS: Silence! (PREBA and the other miners follow ETTIS out.) ETTIS: Now listen - where is Gebek, our leader? (The GUARD CAPTAIN hesitates. PREBA grabs him by the arm and starts to twist it up his back.) ETTIS: Speak or you die! GUARD CAPTAIN: He's in the throne room with the others. ETTIS: Right, take him away. (PREBA and another miner lead the GUARD CAPTAIN away having divested him of his sword. ETTIS and the other miners head for the throne room.) 9: INT. THRONE ROOM (An angry THALIRA is on her feet...) THALIRA: I protest, Commander. You are exceeding your authority. ALPHA CENTAURI: The Federation does not use such methods! AZAXYR: Not in time of peace, Ambassador, but this is w*r. Your Majesty, I have been authorised to use any methods to ensure our supplies of trisilicate. (SARAH speaks an aside to the DOCTOR.) SARAH: Isn't there some way you can help them, Doctor? DOCTOR: Commander Azaxyr? (The Ice Lord swings round and looks at the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: Supposing these terror methods of yours don't work - what then? AZAXYR: Then we shall bring in Federation workers, Federation machinery and mine the trisilicate ourselves. THALIRA: (Firmly.) We will never allow that, Commander! GEBEK: (Shouts.) That's right, your Majesty! (To AZAXYR.) And if your try, every man, woman and child on Peladon will oppose you! ORTRON: To the death! You shall not rob Peladon while a living soul remains to defend it! DOCTOR: Do you see how they unite against you, Commander? It's no easy job holding down a hostile planet. AZAXYR: (Angrily.) If we cannot have the trisilicate, then our space fleet will blast your "hostile planet" into dust! (ORTRON and GEBEK look at each other in concern. The DOCTOR turns to them...) DOCTOR: I just wanted you to see what you were up against. (...and back to AZAXYR.) DOCTOR: Thank you, Commander Azaxyr. (AZAXYR hisses in anger as he realises he has been tricked into revealing his true nature. He recovers his composure.) AZAXYR: Naturally, we should prefer a peaceful... 10: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE THRONE ROOM (Outside the throne room, the armed miners turn the corner and approach the closed doors, listening to the conversation within.) AZAXYR: (OOV: Inside throne room.) ...solution. I hope it would not be necessary to resort to such extreme measures. (The miners push open the doors...) 11: INT. THRONE ROOM (...and rush in, their g*n raised.) ETTIS: Keep still, all of you! Gebek, come with us! AZAXYR: Destroy them! (The four Ice Warriors f*re with their sonic hand w*apon. The waves h*t the miners and the air around them contracts as they scream and fall to the ground d*ad. Only ETTIS remains unharmed as he runs off out of the throne room. The DOCTOR, SARAH and GEBEK rush forward to see if there is anything they can do for the fallen men.) 12: INT. PASSAGE (ETTIS reaches the safety of the tapestry curtain covering the secret entrance and goes through.) 13: INT. THRONE ROOM (AZAXYR goes up to where the DOCTOR and GEBEK are examining one miner. They look up at him with hatred. The Ice Lord turns to the throne where a shocked Queen stands with ORTRON and her handmaiden.) AZAXYR: Your Majesty, please accept my apology. This demonstration of our power was forced upon us. I trust another will not be necessary? (He turns back to the others.) AZAXYR: Sskel, take the Doctor and his companion to the communications room. (SSKEL lumbers towards the DOCTOR and SARAH.) AZAXYR: Ambassador, Engineer Eckersley, will you accompany them? (The two do as requested and follow the others out. AZAXYR walks past a scowling GEBEK and turns to bow to the Queen.) AZAXYR: Your Majesty. (He walks out. THALIRA and GEBEK run forward to be with GEBEK and his fallen men. ORTRON, united with GEBEK at last, looks at the miner.) ORTRON: We will be revenged. 14: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (The group sent to the communications room gather there with SSKEL as ECKERSLEY walks in closely followed by AZAXYR. The Ice Lord walks straight up to the DOCTOR.) AZAXYR: I am not sure what to make of you, Doctor. I think perhaps it would be safer to accept Ortron's theory...and execute you as a spy. SARAH: You can't do that - we're not under your authority! (CENTUARI bustles forward and bravely wags one of its hands at AZAXYR.) ALPHA CENTAURI: Federation regulations do not permit summary execution! AZAXYR: (Harshly.) Must I remind you yet again, Ambassador, here on Peladon, I am the law?! (CENTAURI steps back nervously.) AZAXYR: (To the DOCTOR.) Yes, I think perhaps it would be safer to order your execution at once. DOCTOR: Don't I even get a trial? AZAXYR: Doctor, that was your trial. DOCTOR: Then I think you'd be very foolish to destroy the one person who could help you. AZAXYR: Meaning yourself, Doctor? DOCTOR: Yes, that's right. Gebek is the key...and I happen to be the only man that he trusts. SARAH: It's true. The Doctor saved Gebek's life. They've been working together. AZAXYR: (To ALPHA CENTAURI.) Is this true, Ambassador? ALPHA CENTAURI: (Eagerly.) Oh, yes! Yes, indeed. There was most certainly an association. AZAXYR: What is your opinion, Eckersley? ECKERSLEY: Yes, the Doctor could persuade Gebek to get the miners back to work. (AZAXYR considers for a moment, then...) AZAXYR: Very well then, Doctor. You may endeavour to persuade your friend, Gebek, to see reason - but if you fail, I shall be forced to resort to my original plan. You will be the first of the hostages to be ex*cuted. SARAH: ex*cuted?! (AZAXYR ignores her outburst and turns to ECKERSLEY.) AZAXYR: Is the refinery in working order? ECKERSLEY: It's on shutdown at the moment. AZAXYR: You had better take me there. I wish to make a full inspection. ECKERSLEY: Very well, follow me. (They walk out of the room.) AZAXYR: There must be no further delays once the mines are started. ECKERSLEY: (OOV: In passage.) There won't be any delays... SARAH: (Angrily.) How about that Eckersley? Just as long as he gets his wretched machinery going, he doesn't care how it's done or who suffers! (The DOCTOR strokes her hair, calming her down.) DOCTOR: That's the professional attitude for you, Sarah. SARAH: Oh, why can't we just go home? DOCTOR: And leave all our friends in the lurch? In any case, Commander Azaxyr would never let us reach the TARDIS. SARAH: (Smiles.) Huh! DOCTOR: Even if we knew where it was. SARAH: (Smiles.) No, I suppose you're right. (The DOCTOR casts a look at the doorway where SSKEL has stationed himself as an imposing guard.) DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Erm, Sarah... SARAH: Mmm? DOCTOR: (Quietly.) You remember...the first time that you went down to the refinery? SARAH: Mmm? DOCTOR: (Quietly.) You told me that you saw something? SARAH: (Quietly.) Yes? DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Well, er, go and take a close look at Sskel. SARAH: (Quietly, puzzled.) Sskel? DOCTOR: (Quietly.) The Ice Warrior. SARAH: Okay. (She walks towards the doorway as if to leave the room. SSKEL walks forward to block her.) SSKEL: You will not leave! (A look of revelation appearing on her face, SARAH returns to the DOCTOR.) SARAH: (Quietly.) It was him! ALPHA CENTAURI: (Whispers.) That's impossible. The Commander and his troops have only just arrived. DOCTOR: (Quietly.) No, Sarah is absolutely right. Those two were in the refinery all the time. ALPHA CENTAURI: (Whispers.) Why? DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Because Commander Azaxyr isn't acting on behalf of the Federation at all. He's up to something on his own. ALPHA CENTAURI: (Whispers.) This is appalling! It is treason! DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Yes, that's right. (He raises his voice...) DOCTOR: Right, well I must go and contact Gebek. (He goes towards the door. Again SSKEL walks forward to stop him.) SSKEL: Where are you going, Doctor? DOCTOR: Now come on, Sskel. You heard what the Commander said - I'm to go and see Gebek, and get him to persuade his miners to go back to work. Now he can't talk to them unless I talk to him - can he? (SSKEL considers and then steps back to allow the DOCTOR to leave. However, he follows him down the passage leaving SARAH and ALPHA CENTAURI free to talk.) ALPHA CENTAURI: Commander Azaxyr's behaviour is most reprehensible. (SARAH signals to CENTAURI to keep as quiet as possible.) ALPHA CENTAURI: I shall report him to the Federation. SARAH: Okay. (SARAH steps briskly and closes the doors to the communications room as ALPHA CENTAURI goes over to the communications console.) ALPHA CENTAURI: He will be removed from his position and punished. (SARAH joins CENTAURI as he switches on the unit.) SARAH: It's funny he didn't think of that. (CENTAURI grasps the microphone and almost yells down it, causing SARAH to become extremely nervous.) ALPHA CENTAURI: (Into microphone.) This is the Federation Ambassador on Peladon. I wish to send an urgent message to Federation HQ. (The only reply is a harsh electronic drone.) ALPHA CENTAURI: The circuit is being jammed! It must be Azaxyr's spaceships in orbit round the planet! SARAH: So he did think of it after all. 15: INT. THRONE ROOM (The bodies of the d*ad miners have been taken out of the throne room. GEBEK is still there with THALIRA and ORTRON.) ORTRON: (To THALIRA.) If only they hadn't taken the Doctor off to the commun... (He stops as the DOCTOR walks in escorted by SSKEL.) DOCTOR: Wait there, Sskel, I won't be a moment. (SSKEL waits near to the door as the DOCTOR crosses to the three Peladonians.) GEBEK: Doctor, are you alright? THALIRA: Oh, Doctor! DOCTOR: Your Majesty. (He bows.) DOCTOR: Now listen to me, Gebek, we haven't got much time. I want your miners to cooperate by going back to work. ORTRON: (Outraged.) Why never! We shall fight the inv*de together! GEBEK: Yes, Doctor. Ortron and I are agreed. From the death of the first hostage, it will be w*r. THALIRA: Our people would sooner die than be enslaved! DOCTOR: Well, it's nice to see the Peladonians all on the same side for once. (He steals a glance at SSKEL and then lowers his voice.) DOCTOR: (Quietly.) I don't mean really cooperate. I want the miners to pretend to cooperate to give us time to deal with the Ice Warriors. GEBEK: (Quietly.) Yes, they would if they understood what was happening. DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Then you'll have to make them understand, won't you? Forgive us, your Majesty. (He bows again.) DOCTOR: (To GEBEK.) Come on, we haven't got much time. (He walks towards the door.) DOCTOR: Sskel? 16: INT. MINE TUNNEL (The miners are assembled in one of the mine tunnels as GEBEK, with the DOCTOR stood next to him, addresses them under the watchful eye of SSKEL and the Ice Warriors.) GEBEK: Friends - I'm one of you. I always have been. And believe me, nothing I say now will ever change that. I'm here because Commander Azaxyr knows you trust me and that you'll do whatever I tell you to do - the same way you've always done exactly what Chancellor Ortron tells you to do. (The miners look at each other.) GEBEK: Now, in spite of everything that's been happening, I want you to cooperate with the Federation troops. (The miners mutter between themselves.) GEBEK: We've discussed this matter with our good friend Ortron and he's in complete agreement. We are going to cooperate with Commander Azaxyr, in the same way that we have been cooperating with Ortron. (The miners smile slightly.) GEBEK: Oh, you remember how we cooperated over the Federation armoury, how we cooperated over the sonic lance! (The miner's smiles grow.) GEBEK: Well, that is the kind of cooperation we are now going to give Commander Azaxyr! (The miners mutter "aye".) GEBEK: Are you with me? (There are various cries of "yes!" and "right!" The DOCTOR pats GEBEK on the shoulder.) 17: INT. PASSAGE (AZAXYR walks with the DOCTOR down one of the passages of the citadel back to the communications room. SSKEL follows. AZAXYR'S tone with the DOCTOR is approving.) AZAXYR: Congratulations, Doctor, most satisfactory. The miners are back at work and stocks are building up again. Eckersley tells me that the refinery will soon be in operation. (The DOCTOR pauses.) DOCTOR: I take it my death sentence has been lifted then? AZAXYR: Shall we say...suspended, Doctor? You live while you are useful. DOCTOR: Well, that's something, I suppose. AZAXYR: I still do not trust you, Doctor, but I think you have realised that your only chance of survival lies in full cooperation. DOCTOR: Oh, but of course. I've always been very keen on survival! (AZAXYR looks coldly at the DOCTOR'S smiling face and then carries on down the passage.) AZAXYR: Until I have decided your final fate, you will remain in the communications room. (They reach that room and AZAXYR gestures for him to enter.) 18: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (SARAH, sat down, jumps up in relief at his return.) SARAH: Doctor! AZAXYR: Do not attempt to leave. (The DOCTOR gives AZAXYR a short bow and shuts the doors on him and SSKEL.) DOCTOR: So much for stage one. (He crosses to the main console and a series of switches with thermometer-like gauges marked "HEATING MONITOR SYSTEM".) DOCTOR: Now for stage two, I think. SARAH: You be careful, Doctor. If Azaxyr thinks you're double-crossing him, he'll k*ll you. DOCTOR: My dear Sarah, Azaxyr will k*ll me anyway as soon as he finds I'm no longer useful. Just a question of my getting rid of him before he gets rid of me. SARAH: Well, what are you gonna do? DOCTOR: Warm things up a little. (He presses each of the switches.) DOCTOR: One thing Ice Warriors can't stand...is heat! 19: INT. MINE TUNNEL (With their old-fashioned picks and shovels, the miners toil at the rock under the watchful eye of the Ice Warriors. A thermometer, soon to show a rise in temperature, is attached to a wall. SSKEL is there and he is starting to sway a little on his feet. As a MINER works, ETTIS appears behind him in a supported hole in the rock. He hisses at the MINER and signals to him to join him on the other side of the hole. The MINER checks and then climbs through.) 20: INT. ANOTHER MINE TUNNEL ETTIS: What's happening? Why is everybody working again? MINER: Ah, Gebek told us to. ETTIS: Gebek? MINER: He came down here and made a speech. Said we should all cooperate. ETTIS: I knew it - he's gone soft. MINER: No, you don't understand. See, it's a trick. Gebek's got a plan. ETTIS: (Angrily.) Yes, he's betrayed us! He's gone onto their side! MINER: He'd never do that. ETTIS: Yes, well, I've got a plan as well. I've got the sonic lance hidden in a cave on Mount Megeshra. It overlooks the citadel. MINER: What are you going to do? ETTIS: Destroy it! Blow the whole place up! MINER: (Appalled.) The Queen's there! You'll be k*lling our own people! ETTIS: (Insanely.) That's right! k*ll them! k*ll them all - the Queen, the Chancellor, the guards - they all betrayed us! And k*ll the Ice Warriors - just the way they slaughtered us! MINER: You can't do that, Ettis - I won't let you! You've gone mad! I'm going to tell Gebek. (He turns back to the hole but ETTIS grabs him by the shoulder and thrusts a Kn*fe into his back. The MINER falls to the floor.) ETTIS: You'll tell no one! (ETTIS rushes off to carry out his plan.) 21: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (The temperature gauges on the console are all at a far higher level.) DOCTOR: I think things should be heating up nicely now. SARAH: Well, yes, but...what'll happen to them? DOCTOR: Well, if they don't get out of the mines, they'll get groggier and groggier until... SARAH: They collapse? DOCTOR: (Smiles.) Right! 22: INT. MINE TUNNEL (GEBEK walks down the tunnel. He stops to observe SSKEL who is swaying even more now and then calls out...) GEBEK: Keep at it, lads! Mustn't let the Federation down! (A miner grins at the double-message and wheels a barrow full of rock away. GEBEK looks at another Ice Warrior who is obviously also in some discomfort and then crosses to the waiting GUARD CAPTAIN.) GEBEK: Won't be long now. The men ready? GUARD CAPTAIN: They're ready - just as soon as you give the signal. (GEBEK nods and walks away. As he observes his men at work, SSKEL staggers up to him.) SSKEL: It...is hot. Why is it...so hot? GEBEK: Because we're underground and underground is always hot. We have a saying on Peladon - "If you can't stand the heat, keep out of the mine." (He crosses back to the GUARD CAPTAIN with a grin on his face.) 23: INT. THRONE ROOM (In the throne room, as ALPHA CENTAURI watches, ORTRON reports on the plan to THALIRA.) ORTRON: And as soon as Gebek gives the signal, our troops will join with the miners and att*ck the Federation troops. THALIRA: Will it work? It sounds dangerous. ALPHA CENTAURI: It's been conceived by the Doctor. He has fought the Ice Warriors before. (THALIRA hurriedly changes the subject as AZAXYR walks into the room.) THALIRA: Ah, Commander... AZAXYR: Your Majesty. THALIRA: We have just been informing the Ambassador that we intend to make a formal complaint to the Federation about your violation of our planetary sovereignty. AZAXYR: I regret to hear that, your Majesty. THALIRA: We demand immediate access to Federation authorities. AZAXYR: At the moment, that is impossible. This whole planet is under a communications seal until the emergency is over. THALIRA: But surely it is over now? AZAXYR: I think we will wait a little longer. THALIRA: The miners have returned to work. AZAXYR: (Softly.) Yes, but the settlement has come so easily...that I distrust it. And now, if you will excuse me, your Majesty? (He bows and leaves.) 24: INT. MINE TUNNEL (GEBEK watches the Ice Warriors. They are swaying even more. He picks up a pit-prop.) GEBEK: Now lads! (He swings it at one Ice Warrior while the GUARD CAPTAIN takes on SSKEL. They are joined by the other miners and guards who also att*ck the Martians with picks, shovels and whatever other implements come to hand.) 25: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (The DOCTOR and SARAH watch this on one of the monitors in the communications room.) DOCTOR: Right, it's time we were going, I think. (He heads for the door.) SARAH: (Worried.) Oh, it doesn't look very safe. DOCTOR: Won't be very safe up here once Commander Azaxyr finds out what we've been up to. (He opens the door and shouts into the passage.) DOCTOR: Come in here a minute. (An Ice Warrior comes into the room and the DOCTOR leads him over to the monitor.) DOCTOR: Look, see what's going on down in the mines. (As the Ice Warrior starts to watch the scene down in the mine, the DOCTOR takes SARAH by the hand and they run out of the room.) 26: INT. PASSAGE (They head straight for the tapestry covering to the secret entrance. The DOCTOR adjusts the torch bracket.) SARAH: But he'll go straight to Azaxyr. DOCTOR: Good, the more warriors he sends down the mines, the better. (SARAH goes behind the tapestry first.) 27: INT. TUNNEL (The DOCTOR follows her through and adjusts the bracket on the other side.) SARAH: What do we do when they're all down the mines? DOCTOR: Well, lead a party of Peladonians back up here and recapture the citadel. SARAH: Ah, quite the little Napoleon, aren't we? DOCTOR: Come on. (SARAH laughs as they run off.) 28: INT. MINE TUNNEL (The battle in the mine is in full swing as both guards and miners alike continue to club at the Ice Warriors with whatever w*apon they can lay their hands on. With several Peladonians to each Ice Warrior, the natives are starting to win. The MINER att*cked by ETTIS has crawled through to the main tunnel and lies wounded against the rock face. He manages to call out to GEBEK...) MINER: Gebek...Geb... GEBEK: Rima! (GEBEK runs over to help the little man who is wincing with the pain of his s*ab wound.) GEBEK: Is it bad? MINER: Ah, it was Ettis. He's s*ab me. GEBEK: Ettis? MINER: Oh, he's gone mad. He's got the sonic lance in a cave on Mount Megeshra. He's gonna blow up...the citadel. GEBEK: He must be stopped! Now you rest there. I'll be back as soon as I can. (Meanwhile, the miners club SSKEL into a corner where part of the ceiling caves in on him. The DOCTOR and SARAH enter the area and run up to GEBEK.) GEBEK: You alright, Doctor? DOCTOR: How are we faring? GEBEK: Ettis has the sonic lance in a cave on Mount Megeshra. DOCTOR: (Appalled.) What? GEBEK: He thr*at to blow up the citadel. I've got to stop him. DOCTOR: No, no, you stay here. You're the only one they'll follow - I'll go. GEBEK: Well you don't know the way? DOCTOR: Well tell me. (GEBEK points off into the distance.) GEBEK: Well, continue down to the end of this tunnel... DOCTOR: Yeah. GEBEK: Into the big cavern and the path to the cave is on the other side. DOCTOR: Alright. (GEBEK hands him one of the guard's swords.) GEBEK: You'd better take this. You may need it. DOCTOR: Thank you. Look after Sarah for me. SARAH: What? Oh! (Before she can react further, the DOCTOR has gone.) GEBEK: Come on, Sarah. (He takes her round the corner to where the wounded MINER lies.) GEBEK: You look after, Rima. SARAH: Oh. GEBEK: I must get back to the mine. SARAH: Okay. (She takes off her jacket to lay it across the man as GEBEK walks off.) 29: INT. ANOTHER MINE TUNNEL (Sword in hand, the DOCTOR runs down a deserted tunnel in the direction indicated.) 30: INT. MINE TUNNEL (An Ice Warrior lies on the ground as the Peladonians club at his still form.) 31: INT. ANOTHER MINE TUNNEL (The DOCTOR runs onwards.) 32: INT. MINE TUNNEL (The miner is now unconscious. SARAH tries to keep him warm as a large green form comes up behind her - it is SSKEL, escaped from the battle. He taps SARAH on the shoulder and she gasps as he turns.) 33: INT. CAVE OVERLOOKING CITADEL (ETTIS stands by the sonic lance which is still trained on the citadel.) 34: INT. MINE TUNNEL (The DOCTOR continues towards the cave.) 35: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (SSKEL has taken SARAH back to the communications room and virtually throws SARAH in. AZAXYR and ALPHA CENTAURI are there watching the battle on the monitor.) AZAXYR: Ah, the Doctor's companion. (CENTUARI rushes across to her...) ALPHA CENTAURI: Sarah! Are you alright? (...but SSKEL pushes her back.) ALPHA CENTAURI: Oh... AZAXYR: (To SARAH.) Tell me - where is the Doctor? (SARAH shakes her head in defiance. SSKEL pushes her into a seat and aims his sonic w*apon at her.) AZAXYR: You will tell me! 36: INT. CAVE OVERLOOKING CITADEL (ETTIS is setting the controls on the sonic lance.) 37: INT. TUNNEL (The DOCTOR runs along the last stretch of tunnel...) 38: INT. CAVE OVERLOOKING CITADEL (...and into the cave.) DOCTOR: Ettis! Come away from that thing. ETTIS: No, I'm gonna blow up the citadel! k*ll those Federation butchers! DOCTOR: If you use that sonic lance...you'll be k*lling your own Queen and a lot of your own people. Now most of the Ice Warriors are in that mine. The Peladonians are fighting them, Ettis. Soldiers and miners together - and they're winning! (ETTIS stares at him with a wild look in his eyes.) ETTIS: I don't believe you! It's a trick! (Smiles.) You're working for them! You've sold out! You're like Gebek and the rest of them! (He turns back to the controls of the lance but the DOCTOR slams his sword down in his way.) DOCTOR: Ettis! (ETTIS reaches for his own sword and a fight breaks out between the two. ETTIS proves just as skilful with the blade as the DOCTOR as they each parry thrusts.) 39: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (AZAXYR looms over SARAH.) SARAH: I...I tell you the Doctor's trying to save all our lives! AZAXYR: I do not believe you. SARAH: One of the rebels, Ettis, has a sonic lance trained on the citadel! AZAXYR: I know. (AZAXYR crosses to the monitors.) AZAXYR: Our detection devices pinpointed the position of the sonic lance as soon as we arrived. (SARAH follows him.) SARAH: Well, he's going to blow this whole place up unless the Doctor can stop him. (AZAXYR switches on the monitor. It shows the scene of the swordfight between the DOCTOR and ETTIS.) SARAH: Oh! AZAXYR: Ah. It appears you were telling the truth. Yes, your friend, the Doctor, fights well. ALPHA CENTAURI: But what if Ettis prevails? AZAXYR: Do not distress yourself, Ambassador. The sonic lance has a self-destruct circuit...which I have already pre-set by remote control. If the rebel should try to f*re it, it will destroy itself. It will, of course, k*ll all those in the area. (SARAH looks up from the monitor in shock at the Ice Lord.) 40: INT. CAVE OVERLOOKING CITADEL (The DOCTOR and ETTIS start to grapple with their swords in the middle of the cave. ETTIS kicks the back of the DOCTOR'S leg, knocking him to the ground. He stands on his sword before he can retrieve it and the DOCTOR rolls away to avoid the sudden thrust of ETTIS' free sword downwards. He gets to his feet but unarmed now, he has to avoid each deadly jab of ETTIS'S sword. He manages to grab his arm and throw the man down, dislodging the sword from his grasp and throwing it across the cave.) DOCTOR: Come on, Ettis, this is pointless. (ETTIS starts to clamber up.) ETTIS: Yes, Doctor, you're right. I am a fool! (He head butts the DOCTOR in the stomach. He falls to the ground. ETTIS picks him up and throws him into the rock face of the cave and then throws him over and onto the floor. The DOCTOR staggers to his feet and ETTIS knocks him back with an almighty punch to the face. He then starts to power up the lance. The DOCTOR manages to get back to his feet again...) DOCTOR: No, Ettis, no! (...only for ETTIS to land two more punches on him, once more knocking him to the ground. ETTIS returns to the lance and presses the f*ring switch. The cave is filled with a massive expl*si*n...)
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THE MONSTER OF PELADON BY: BRIAN HAYLES PART FIVE Original Air Date: 20 April, 1974 5:30pm - 5:55pm 1: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM AZAXYR: The sonic lance has a self-destruct circuit...which I have already pre-set by remote control. If the rebel should try to f*re it, it will destroy itself. It will, of course, k*ll all those in the area. (SARAH up from the monitor in shock at the Ice Lord.) 2: INT. CAVE OVERLOOKING CITADEL (The DOCTOR and ETTIS start to grapple with their swords in the middle of the cave. ETTIS kicks the back of the DOCTOR'S leg, knocking him to the ground. He stands on his sword before he can retrieve it and the DOCTOR rolls away to avoid the sudden thrust of ETTIS' free sword downwards. He gets to his feet but unarmed now, he has to avoid each deadly jab of ETTIS'S sword. He manages to grab his arm and throw the man down, dislodging the sword from his grasp and throwing at across the cave.) DOCTOR: Come on, Ettis, this is pointless. (ETTIS starts to clamber up.) ETTIS: Yes, Doctor, you're right. I am a fool! (He head butts the DOCTOR in the stomach. He falls to the ground. ETTIS picks him up and throws him into the rock face of the cave and then throws him over and onto the floor. The DOCTOR staggers to his feet and ETTIS knocks him back with an almighty punch to the face. He then starts to power up the lance. The DOCTOR manages to get back to his feet again...) DOCTOR: No, Ettis, no! (...only for ETTIS to land two more punches on him, once more knocking him to the ground. ETTIS returns to the lance and presses the f*ring switch. The cave is filled with a massive expl*si*n.) 3: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (SARAH watches events on the monitor in horror.) SARAH: You k*lled him! You k*lled the Doctor! AZAXYR: I was defending the safety of the citadel. The death of the Doctor was an unfortunate necessity. (He switches the monitor off.) AZAXYR: You would do well to accept the situation. 4: INT. CAVE OVERLOOKING CITADEL (Aside from the drifting smoke, all is still in the cave. The DOCTOR lies to one side. He is not moving.) 5: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM SARAH: (To AZAXYR.) You still haven't won, you know? The rebels control the mines and you can't go down there because of the heat. AZAXYR: But we have switched off the heating controls. We merely have to wait for the temperature to return to normal. SARAH: Gebek and his miners know every inch of those tunnels. They won't surrender. AZAXYR: Again you underestimate me. The mines... (ECKERSLEY walks into the communications room.) AZAXYR: Ah, Eckersley. ECKERSLEY: Yes? AZAXYR: Just the man I wanted to see. The mines have a ventilation system, have they not, controlled from the refinery? ECKERSLEY: That's right, yes. (AZAXYR crosses to SARAH.) AZAXYR: Your miners can withstand heat, but they cannot live without air. Eckersley, you will go to the refinery at once and you will turn the ventilation system off. (SARAH runs across the room to plead with ECKERSLEY.) SARAH: No! No, tell him you won't do it! If they're forced out of the mines, they'll be massacred! ECKERSLEY: (Laughs.) Of course they won't! SARAH: They will! He's already k*lled the Doctor! (The smile disappears off ECKERSLEY'S face. He looks at AZAXYR.) AZAXYR: The Doctor was too dangerous to live, Eckersley. ECKERSLEY: (To SARAH.) Look, I'm sorry about the Doctor, believe me, but...he should never have got involved in local politics, and I'm not making the same mistake. (He leaves the room.) AZAXYR: Sskel, take her to the throne room and keep her with the others. (SSKEL takes SARAH'S arm roughly in his clamp-like hand and drags her from the room.) AZAXYR: (To ALPHA CENTAURI.) Now, Ambassador, we have work to do. There are several matters I wish to discuss with you concerning the future administration of this planet on more efficient lines. I shall require your help. 6: INT. CAVE OVERLOOKING CITADEL (Within the cave, there is movement. The DOCTOR comes round and slowly gets to his feet, groaning. He looks at the still-smoking remains of the sonic lance and crosses over to it. He looks round further and suddenly a look of concern appears on his face. He runs from the cave.) 7: INT. TUNNEL (He makes his way with some speed down one tunnel...) 8: INT. ANOTHER TUNNEL (...but finds that he is still weak from his battle as he goes further along. He sits down on a rock to rest. No longer has he done so than he hears GEBEK calling from down the tunnel...) GEBEK: (OOV.) Doctor? DOCTOR: Gebek? (GEBEK runs up to him.) GEBEK: Oh, I was just on my way to find you. Well, did you manage to stop him? DOCTOR: Well, something did. The whole g*n blew up. (GEBEK sighs with relief and smiles.) GEBEK: Thank goodness for that. (Puzzled.) But, er, what happened to Ettis? DOCTOR: I'm afraid he's d*ad. (GEBEK looks grim.) DOCTOR: How are thing's going? GEBEK: Oh, not too well. (He sits next to the DOCTOR.) GEBEK: We drove the Ice Warriors out of the mines but we couldn't break through to the citadel. Now the temperature dropping, soon they'll be able to come in after us. And worse than that... (He sniffs.) GEBEK: The air's getting stale. DOCTOR: Mmm, yes, I've noticed. Well they've probably switched the ventilation system off. GEBEK: We'll be gradually forced up to the upper levels. There are Ice wai...Warriors waiting at every exit. DOCTOR: Now where's the ventilation controlled from - do you know? GEBEK: Yes, the, er, refinery. DOCTOR: Well, you'd better take me there straight away. (They get up.) DOCTOR: And by the way, where's Sarah? (GEBEK hesitates.) DOCTOR: Well, answer me, man! Where is she? GEBEK: I left her looking after Rima, Doctor. But when I went back for her, he was d*ad. She was gone. DOCTOR: What? GEBEK: I'm sorry. DOCTOR: Well, it's not your fault, is it? Now don't worry, old chap, we'll find her. 9: INT. THRONE ROOM (SARAH has been taken to the throne room. There, THALIRA and ORTRON attempt to comfort her...) THALIRA: We will never forget him, Sarah. He was a true friend to Peladon. His name will always be honoured. SARAH: (Stunned.) I still can't believe it. I...I can't believe that he's d*ad. You see, he was the most alive person I ever met. ORTRON: (Softly.) Well, perhaps he escaped somehow? There's always a chance. SARAH: That's what the Doctor used to say - "There's always a chance, that while there's life..." (She breaks off, unable to complete the sentence. The awkward silence is broken when a slightly hysterical ALPHA CENTAURI bursts into the room past SSKEL who is stood on guard outside in the passage...) ALPHA CENTAURI: Your Majesty! I have just had an exhausting meeting with Commander Azaxyr, discussing his plans for his future rule of this planet. ORTRON: (Outraged.) His rule? Queen Thalira rules Peladon! ALPHA CENTAURI: In name only from now on. Azaxyr plans an extension of martial law over the entire planet. All able-bodied citizens will be conscripted to work in the trisilicate mines. THALIRA: (Fiercely.) My people will never submit to this! ALPHA CENTAURI: I fear your people will have little choice, your Majesty. ORTRON: But surely the Federation won't approve? SARAH: Then it's up to us to get a message to the Federation and tell them what Azaxyr is up to. ALPHA CENTAURI: I've already tried that. Azaxyr has blocked all the communications circuits. I could activate the spatial distress beacon but it only sends a signal on a pre-set frequency - a general call for help. SARAH: A kind of SOS? Well, let's try it. Was the communications room guarded when you left? ALPHA CENTAURI: No, it was empty. SARAH: Then all we've got to do is get there - but how? ORTRON: (To THALIRA.) There is the secret passage behind the throne. THALIRA: In full view of the guard? SARAH: We've got to get past him. (SARAH jabs at thumb at SSKEL.) THALIRA: If we could entice him from the doorway, he's far too slow to prevent our escaping. ORTRON: Our escaping, your Majesty? THALIRA: Yes, Ortron. We intend to join our people in the mines. ORTRON: Your Majesty, I forbid it! THALIRA: (Fiercely.) What would you have me do, Orton? Stay here to become a puppet queen for Commander Azaxyr? See my people made slaves? (ORTRON drops his eyes.) ORTRON: Your Majesty, you put me to shame. (He turns to a smiling SARAH.) ORTRON: We shall assist you in your escape. SARAH: Well the first thing we need to do is create a diversion. (She looks over towards SSKEL outside the doorway and an idea comes to her.) SARAH: Your Majesty, do you think you could faint convincingly? (THALIRA smiles.) 10: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE THRONE ROOM (LATER) (A short time later, ALPHA CENTAURI bustles out of the throne room and up to SSKEL.) ALPHA CENTAURI: The Queen is ill. (SSKEL swings round and sees THALIRA lying on the steps of the throne with SARAH and ORTRON attending to her.) ALPHA CENTAURI: You must summon medical assistance, immediately. (SARAH gestures to SSKEL who lumbers into the room. CENTAURI remains in the doorway and watches as he gets near to the Queen. SARAH suddenly pushes him from behind.) SARAH: Run everybody! 11: INT. THRONE ROOM (But SSKEL has stepped onto the edge of the Queen's cloak and she is unable to move. She screams. As SARAH and ALPHA CENTAURI run off, ORTRON runs back to help the Queen.) ORTRON: Your Majesty! (He grabs SSKEL'S arm and pulls him off the Queen.) ORTRON: Run, your Majesty! (THALIRA runs with speed for the door but SSKEL has swung round to face ORTRON and blasts the High Priest with his sonic g*n. ORTRON is caught full by the sh*t and falls to the floor. The Queen looks back and sees what has occurred. She runs to the fallen man.) THALIRA: Ortron! (SSKEL raises his g*n at her as she tends to ORTRON, but at that moment, AZAXYR stalks into the room.) AZAXYR: No! (SSKEL lowers his g*n while AZAXYR looks round and sees who is missing.) AZAXYR: (To THALIRA.) The Ambassador...and the Doctor's companion - where are they? (THALIRA thinks desperately.) THALIRA: They went to tunnels. They wanted to join Gebek and...the rebels. AZAXYR: How very convenient. Let there be no more of this foolishness, your Majesty. You can see for yourself the results of defying the Ice Warriors. Guard her. (He leaves. SSKEL stands over her as she takes off her cloak and covers the d*ad man with it.) 12: INT. MINE TUNNEL (GEBEK leads the DOCTOR through a deserted mine tunnel. He suddenly sees something ahead and gestures to the DOCTOR to hide. They run back a short distance and hide behind a pit-prop and a pillar of rock. An Ice Warrior walks along the tunnel from the way that they would have taken and into a side tunnel. When it has gone, the DOCTOR and GEBEK set off again.) 13: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (They come to the outside of the refinery. The junction box with the alarm equipment has been re-locked but someone is already inside. The DOCTOR gingerly approaches the door but the ever-vigilant GEBEK hears another noise and hurriedly signals to the DOCTOR that someone is approaching them from the same direction that they have just come from. The two hide behind a ledge of rock and watch as AZAXYR and an Ice Warrior come out of the tunnel. They both go inside the refinery and shut the heavy metal door behind them.) 14: INT. REFINERY (ECKERSLEY is inside the well-lit refinery, sat at a large bank of controls on the right-hand side of the room. On the left-hand side of the room, next to a curtained alcove, is a smaller control on the wall marked "VENTILATION CONTROL". AZAXYR walks up to this to examine it.) AZAXYR: Good - you have switched off the ventilation system. ECKERSLEY: Yes, it won't be long now. AZAXYR: Excellent. The Ambassador and the Doctor's companion have foolishly taken refuge...in the mines. (ECKERSLEY smiles. Behind them, the door has swung open a few inches...) 15: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (The DOCTOR and GEBEK come out of hiding and silently approach the open door. They stop to listen.) 16: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (SARAH and ALPHA CENTAURI have made it back to the communications room. CENTAURI twitches over the communications console, much to the impatient SARAH'S irritation...) SARAH: Come on, we haven't much time! ALPHA CENTAURI: I am trying to remember the correct circuit. SARAH: Oh, hurry up! ALPHA CENTAURI: Please? You are making me nervous. SARAH: Oh, erm, sorry, I'll...I'll let you concentrate. (She tries to calm down. Smiling, she steps back from the console.) SARAH: I'll check what's going on. (She crosses to the two monitors and switches one of them on, flicking through pictures of empty passages in the citadel and equally empty tunnels. The fourth image shows the inside of the refinery with AZAXYR, ECKERSLEY and the Ice Warrior. SARAH clicks to another image of a tunnel but, interested more in what she has seen in the refinery, flicks back to this picture.) ALPHA CENTAURI: It is done. (CENTAURI crosses to SARAH at the monitor.) ALPHA CENTAURI: Though of course there is no guarantee that anyone will hear it, or that they will act on it if they do. SARAH: Look at this. ALPHA CENTAURI: It's Eckersley and Commander Azaxyr. SARAH: Oh, I know that. (Suspiciously.) Bit chummy though, aren't they? As if they were... (She points at the console.) SARAH: Can you get me sound on this? (CENTAURI flicks a switch and the sound comes through.) AZAXYR: (On monitor.) Yes, but I see no further need for this masquerade, Eckersley. ECKERSLEY: (On monitor.) Well I do. We agreed - till we succeeded, I stay undercover. AZAXYR: (On monitor.) But this planet is almost ours. ECKERSLEY: (On monitor.) Almost isn't quite good enough. Things could still go wrong. If they do - well, I'm just an innocent bystander. AZAXYR: (On monitor.) Very well, just so long as we can soon begin shipping trisilicate to Galaxy Five. (ALPHA CENTAURI almost screams out...) ALPHA CENTAURI: They are both traitors! 17: INT. REFINERY ECKERSLEY: They've agreed our terms? AZAXYR: Subject to a time limit, so we must conclude matters quickly. 18: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (Outside, the DOCTOR and GEBEK are also listening to the conversation...) ECKERSLEY: (OOV: Inside refinery.) Well, I'm ready to get things moving. How soon can you regain control of the mines? 19: INT. REFINERY AZAXYR: Air will run out eventually, and then they must come up. ECKERSLEY: Yes, but that will take time. AZAXYR: And time is short! (ECKERSLEY crosses to the curtained alcove.) ECKERSLEY: Then we'll smoke them out...with Aggedor! (He pulls the curtain aside. Within it is a solid statue manifestation of the spirit that has been wreaking havoc in the mines.) 20: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (The DOCTOR and GEBEK look at each other in surprise and shock.) 21: INT. REFINERY (ECKERSLEY crosses to the main control bank.) ECKERSLEY: That'll get them on the move. (He presses settings on the console and then moves two adjacent levers in opposite directions. He then presses a large red button which is surrounded by six red lights in a hexagonal pattern. The lights come on and, with its rising electronic burbling sound, the statue fades away.) 22: INT. MINE TUNNEL (Red and glowing, it materialises in a mine tunnel. A group of four miners jump back in shock but one of them is too late in running away and he is incinerated into nothing as the "ghost" fires at him. The image fades away...) 23: INT. REFINERY (...and the statue materialises back in the alcove.) 24: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (The DOCTOR mouths to GEBEK "stay there". GEBEK nods and the DOCTOR crosses to the other side of the doorway, ready to sneak a look through.) 25: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (SARAH and ALPHA CENTAURI have continued to watch events in the refinery on the monitor.) ALPHA CENTAURI: It seems the Doctor was right - the appearances of Aggedor were a technological trick...controlled by Eckersley. But, er, why has he been doing this? SARAH: Well, it's obvious, isn't it? He was deliberately making things worse so he could persuade you to call in his Ice Warrior friends. (Suddenly, SARAH looks at the image in shock.) SARAH: Look! (On the monitor, the DOCTOR can be clearly seen looking through the partially opened doorway.) SARAH: Ambassador, look. Look, it's the Doctor! ALPHA CENTAURI: What? SARAH: (Exultantly.) He's alive! He's alive after all! (She thinks rapidly.) SARAH: Erm, you stay here and keep sending that SOS call. I'm going to join him. (Grinning with delight, she runs from the room.) 26: INT. REFINERY (AZAXYR and ECKERSLEY receive a message from SSKEL over the intercom in the refinery as the DOCTOR continues to watch through the gap in the door.) SSKEL: (OOV: Over intercom.) The miners are fleeing from the lower levels. We are destroying them as they emerge. AZAXYR: (Into intercom.) See that all exits are blocked. They must not escape. (The DOCTOR carefully and quietly opens the door a little further in order that he can look round it at the statue of Aggedor. He peeks in.) AZAXYR: It seems that our scheme is working, Eckersley. ECKERSLEY: I'd better keep up the good work then. (Having had his suspicions confirmed, the DOCTOR retreats back outside. He continues to watch through the gap as ECKERSLEY re-sets the coordinates, adjusts the two levers and presses the main red switch.) 27: INT. TUNNEL (Two guards and two miners turn a corner in the tunnel and cry out in fear at the apparition of Aggedor before them. It spits out its deadly f*re and all four are vapourised.) 28: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (The DOCTOR closes the refinery door and re-joins GEBEK.) GEBEK: (Whispers.) What's happening, Doctor? DOCTOR: (Whispers.) I'm afraid that it's Eckersley that has been summoning up Aggedor. And now he's using him to att*ck your miners. GEBEK: Well we must stop him! (GEBEK makes for the door but the DOCTOR holds him back.) DOCTOR: (Whispers.) No. If we show our faces in there, Azaxyr will wipe us out without a qualm. I'm sorry, Gebek. We've got to wait our chance. 29: INT. REFINERY (ECKERSLEY switches the console off.) ECKERSLEY: Well, that should do for the moment. Give them another dose later. (He crosses to the alcove and closes the curtain.) AZAXYR: Excellent. Let us return to the citadel. 30: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (The DOCTOR nods at GEBEK and the two rush to their hiding place behind the ledge of rock. The three within the refinery come out and ECKERSLEY attaches a small device to the top of the alarm junction box.) AZAXYR: You have re-set the alarm? ECKERSLEY: I can't, not from here. The late, lamented Doctor jiggered the control circuits. I'll have to re-set the alarm from the communications room. (He sets off down the tunnels.) AZAXYR: (To the Ice Warrior.) Guard the refinery. (The Ice Warrior nods and stands sentinel and AZAXYR follows ECKERSLEY into the tunnels. The DOCTOR and GEBEK see and hear this.) DOCTOR: (Whispers.) How long will it take them to get back to the communications room? GEBEK: (Whispers.) Five minutes, maybe ten - why? DOCTOR: (Whispers.) Well, that's how long we've got to get rid of our friend here, fix that alarm system and get back into the refinery. GEBEK: (Whispers.) But how? He'll blast us as soon as we break cover. DOCTOR: (Whispers.) Yes, I'm well aware of that. 31: INT. TUNNEL (SARAH quietly makes her way through one of the tunnels.) 32: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (She comes out at the refinery and the Ice Warrior guard swings round to aim at her with its sonic g*n. She gasps and then sees that behind the Ice Warrior, the DOCTOR and GEBEK have come out of hiding and that the Peladonian is grasping a large rock in his hands. SARAH raises her hands in surrender and as a distraction.) SARAH: Don't sh**t! No, I'm...! (GEBEK crashes the rock down onto the back of the Ice Warrior's helmet. The Martian crashes to the floor.) SARAH: Gebek! (She rushes up to the DOCTOR.) SARAH: Oh, Doctor, you...! (She hugs him.) SARAH: Oh, you're alive! I...I thought you'd been blown up in the cave?! DOCTOR: Luckily for me, that was Ettis. SARAH: I don't know, can't you ever stay out of trouble? DOCTOR: My dear Sarah, there's nothing I like more than a quiet life. SARAH: Oh! DOCTOR: Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got something very important to do in a very short space of time. (He crosses to the junction box, having to step over the Ice Warrior to do so.) DOCTOR: Look, can you get him out of the light? SARAH: Yes! GEBEK: Yes, Doctor, we'll take him... (SARAH and GEBEK grab a leg each of the Ice Warrior and start to drag him across the passage.) 33: INT. TUNNEL (ECKERSLEY and AZAXYR reach the secret entrance to the citadel. The traitorous engineer pulls down the torch bracket and the door swings open. They go through it.) 34: INT. PASSAGE (Within the citadel, AZAXYR stalks off towards the communications room while ECKERSLEY re-closes the door.) 35: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (Watched by GEBEK and SARAH, the DOCTOR uses his sonic screwdriver to re-open the junction box.) 36: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (ALPHA CENTAURI watches this on the monitor. Suddenly, AZAXYR and ECKERSLEY walk in and see him in surprise.) AZAXYR: Ambassador! (CENTAURI hurriedly switches off the image before the two new arrivals see it.) AZAXYR: What are you doing here? I was told you had taken refuge in the mines. ALPHA CENTAURI: Nonsense. I was simply trying to keep out of the way. AZAXYR: (Suspiciously.) Yes, but why here? (He looks round and crosses to the communications console.) AZAXYR: Could it be that you are trying to send a message to the Federation? (He spots the setting and hisses in anger.) AZAXYR: The spatial distress beacon! (His clamp-like hand slams down and switches the beacon off.) AZAXYR: You have been very foolish, Ambassador. ALPHA CENTAURI: I merely thought that things were getting out of control, it would be wise... (Coughs.) ...to summon more help for you. AZAXYR: (Angrily.) But things are not getting out of control, Ambassador. This planet is firmly under my command. If you disobey me again, Ambassador, you will take the consequences. ECKERSLEY: (Placatory.) Commander, I'm sure the Ambassador meant it for the best. (AZAXYR calms down.) AZAXYR: Very well, Eckersley. I will give you one last chance, Ambassador. You will come with me to the throne room - now! (AZAXYR storms out with ALPHA CENTAURI behind him. ECKERSLEY is following...) 37: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (The DOCTOR continues his re-sabotage of the junction box as SARAH keeps a wary eye on the tunnel.) SARAH: (Whispers.) How's it going? DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Nearly finished. 38: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (In the doorway of the communications room, ECKERSLEY calls down the outside passage.) ECKERSLEY: I'll catch you up. I forgot to switch the alarm on. (He comes back in and heads for the console.) 39: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY DOCTOR: Well, that's the alarm fixed - now for the door. 40: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (ECKERSLEY switches the alarm on - just too late - and leaves the room.) 41: INT. THRONE ROOM (With SSKEL in attendance, a scowling THALIRA sits on her throne and faces AZAXYR as ALPHA CENTAURI listens.) AZAXYR: Trisilicate production will be resumed immediately, your Majesty, using all available modern tools. I shall expect your Majesty's full cooperation. (THALIRA can barely keep her temper...) THALIRA: When my father signed treaties with the Federation, he could not have known it would lead to nothing but bloodshed! However...we must accept the consequences. AZAXYR: A wise attitude, your Majesty. (ALPHA CENTAURI cannot keep silent any longer and bursts out...) ALPHA CENTAURI: Do not believe him, your Majesty! The Federation has no part in this! Commander Azaxyr is a traitor - Eckersley too! They plan to ship the trisilicate to our enemies of Galaxy Five! AZAXYR: You were warned, Ambassador! (He steps back to enable SSKEL to have a clear sh*t at CENTAURI.) AZAXYR: Sskel! (SSKEL raises his sonic g*n but THALIRA jumps to her feet.) THALIRA: No! (ECKERSLEY, as cool as ever, also steps forward.) ECKERSLEY: No. No, no. Whatever he knows, we still need him. ALPHA CENTAURI: Thank you, Eckersley, but you are still a traitor. THALIRA: (Shocked.) Then this is true, Eckersley? ECKERSLEY: Yes, your Majesty, it's true. But it doesn't make any difference to you, does it? THALIRA: Peladon has never dishonoured a treaty. Our loyalty is to the Federation. (AZAXYR steps back forward, hissing angrily.) AZAXYR: There is your loyalty. (He points to SSKEL'S sonic g*n which the Ice Warrior raises and points at the Queen. She looks down at it coolly.) AZAXYR: You will obey...or perish! ECKERSLEY: (To ALPHA CENTAURI.) Now, Ambassador, you must be a lot brighter than you look. How come you're so well informed, hmm? ALPHA CENTAURI: You were betrayed by your own security system, Eckersley. ECKERSLEY: What? ALPHA CENTAURI: When you were conspiring with the Commander, Sarah and I overheard you on the monitor. ECKERSLEY: Sarah? AZAXYR: The girl! (He turns to THALIRA.) AZAXYR: You said she had joined the rebels in the mines. Where is she? (THALIRA, without taking her sardonic gaze off AZAXYR, resumes her seat on the throne. The Ice Lord turns to ALPHA CENTAURI.) AZAXYR: Where is she, Ambassador? (CENTAURI looks away and blinks. AZAXYR approaches menacingly.) AZAXYR: You will answer...if you value your life. (CENTAURI looks at ECKERSLEY for support but gets none. He turns back simpering to AZAXYR.) ALPHA CENTAURI: She...left before you arrived. When she saw the Doctor on the monitor, she went to the refinery. (AZAXYR hisses in shock at this revelation.) AZAXYR: The Doctor! ECKERSLEY: The refinery! AZAXYR: Sskel! Go to the refinery at once! If the Doctor is there, destroy him! (SSKEL lumbers out on his mission.) 42: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (The DOCTOR re-wires the two connections and once more the lights within the box start to flash.) DOCTOR: Right, that's it. In you go. (GEBEK opens the door and SARAH walks in, followed by the miner. The DOCTOR re-closes the box.) 43: INT. TUNNEL (SSKEL makes his way towards the refinery.) 44: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (The DOCTOR uses his sonic screwdriver to re-lock the junction box.) 45: INT. REFINERY (He then enters the refinery and GEBEK closes the door after him.) DOCTOR: Right, the first thing we've gotta do is ventilation back on. Give those miners of yours some air. (He crosses to the ventilation control, presses a switch and pulls a lever down.) DOCTOR: There, that should do it. (SARAH pulls the curtain back from the alcove, revealing the statue within.) SARAH: How about this, Doctor. DOCTOR: Yes, I've seen it. (He crosses to the console and takes the seat. SARAH follows him and points at the controls.) SARAH: Well, what's that thing then? DOCTOR: Mmm? SARAH: That thing - what is it? DOCTOR: Oh, that's just a simple matter projector, linked to a directional heat ray. Er, the projector sends an image of that... (He points at the statue.) DOCTOR: ...and the heat ray does the damage. GEBEK: The appearances of Aggedor were all done from here? DOCTOR: Yes, that's right - by Eckersley or one of his Ice Warrior friends. Very clever piece of work this. Quite an engineer, our friend Eckersley. 46: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (SSKEL arrives at the refinery. He looks round and sees the fallen Ice Warrior on the floor. He then goes over to the door, aims his sonic g*n and fires...) 47: INT. REFINERY (The DOCTOR is still looking over the controls.) DOCTOR: Directional coordinates are here... (SARAH sniffs the air.) SARAH: Something's burning. (She looks round and sees a tiny pin-point of smoking red on the metal door.) SARAH: Doctor, look! 48: INT. THRONE ROOM (THALIRA and ALPHA CENTAURI are still in the throne room with ECKERSLEY and guarded by two Ice Warriors.) ALPHA CENTAURI: What puzzles me, Eckersley, is your reason for this betrayal. ECKERSLEY: It's simply a matter of business, Ambassador. I'll get a percentage of all the trisilicate mined on Peladon, just to make me the richest and the most powerful man in the galaxy. THALIRA: Most powerful? ECKERSLEY: Yes, your Majesty. When the Ice Warriors have won, I shall be ruler of Earth. ALPHA CENTAURI: And what of Commander Azaxyr? ECKERSLEY: No, it's only military glory he's after. ALPHA CENTAURI: (Puzzled.) But the Ice Warriors have been loyal members of the Federation for many years. ECKERSLEY: Azaxyr's head of some kind of breakaway group. He wants to return to the good old days of death or glory. (AZAXYR walks back in.) ECKERSLEY: Ah, Commander. AZAXYR: It appears that the Doctor is indeed alive. But Sskel has him trapped...in the refinery. (THALIRA lowers her eyes at the inevitability.) 49: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (Two more Ice Warriors join SSKEL as he continues to blast at the metal door.) SSKEL: Help me. (They line up opposite the door.) 50: INT. REFINERY (Within the refinery, the DOCTOR frantically re-sets the controls.) 51: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (As the three Ice Warriors blast at the door, more and more of the metal melts away. A larger and larger hole is being created...) 52: INT. REFINERY (SARAH and GEBEK run back from the door as smoke pours through the gaping hole and over to the DOCTOR.) SARAH: (Shouts.) Hurry, Doctor! There's a whole crowd of them out there now! GEBEK: (Shouts.) They'll be through any minute, Doctor! (Through the hole, the green form of the attacking Ice Warriors can be seen...)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "11x19 - The Monster of Peladon - part 5"}
foreverdreaming
THE MONSTER OF PELADON BY: BRIAN HAYLES PART SIX Original Air Date: 27 April, 1974 5:30pm - 5:55pm 1: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (SSKEL arrives at the refinery. He looks round and sees the fallen Ice Warrior on the floor. He then goes over to the door, aims his sonic g*n and fires...) 2: INT. REFINERY (The DOCTOR is still looking over the controls.) DOCTOR: Directional coordinates are here... (SARAH sniffs the air.) SARAH: Something's burning. (She looks round and sees a tiny pin-point of smoking red on the metal door.) SARAH: Doctor, look! 3: INT. THRONE ROOM AZAXYR: It appears that the Doctor is indeed alive. But Sskel has him trapped...in the refinery. (THALIRA lowers her eyes at the inevitability.) 4: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (Two more Ice Warriors join SSKEL as he continues to blast at the metal door.) SSKEL: Help me. (They line up opposite the door.) 5: INT. REFINERY (Within the refinery, the DOCTOR frantically re-sets the controls.) 6: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (As the three Ice Warriors blast at the door, more and more of the metal melts away. A larger and larger hole is being created...) 7: INT. REFINERY (SARAH and GEBEK run back from the door as smoke pours through the gaping hole and over to the DOCTOR.) SARAH: (Shouts.) Hurry, Doctor! There's a whole crowd of them out there now! GEBEK: (Shouts.) They'll be through any minute, Doctor! (Through the hole, the green form of the attacking Ice Warriors can be seen.) DOCTOR: Right, keep your fingers crossed - here goes. (SARAH literally crosses her fingers as the DOCTOR moves the two opposing levers and presses the main red switch. Across the room the statue vanishes.) 8: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (The Ice Warriors swing round in alarm as the statue materialises in front of them. Its blast catches two of the Martians who vanish within a searing hot red glow. Stood slightly apart from them and therefore unaffected by the att*ck, SSKEL turns with surprising speed and runs down the tunnel away from the refinery. The image of the statue vanishes...) 9: INT. REFINERY (...and rematerialises back in the refinery. SARAH is ecstatic...) SARAH: (Shouts.) It worked! You've done it, Doctor! ... ! GEBEK: (Shouts.) Congratulations, Doctor! They've all gone! (SARAH runs over looks through the melted hole in the door at the empty tunnel outside.) SARAH: Oh! DOCTOR: Right, we've got a chance to win now. Gebek, get back to the mines and rally your men. GEBEK: Oh, I can try, Doctor, but many of them have been k*lled. They think Aggedor's turned against them. DOCTOR: Well, we'll have to make them think differently, won't we? GEBEK: Well, how? DOCTOR: My dear chap, it's perfectly simple. Now all we have to do is to arrange a time and a place between us in advance. Then get all your men together... 10: INT. THRONE ROOM (SSKEL reaches the throne room.) SSKEL: Commander Azaxyr... AZAXYR: Ah, Sskel. (Satisfied and confident, AZAXYR turns to the Queen.) AZAXYR: Your Majesty, the Doctor has been destroyed. SSKEL: No, he is still in the refinery. (AZAXYR swings round in disbelief.) AZAXYR: Alive?! (Hissing angrily, he approaches SSKEL.) AZAXYR: What happened? SSKEL: He used Aggedor as a w*apon against us. AZAXYR: (Furiously.) I shall send more Ice Warriors! SSKEL: We cannot approach the area. The heat from the monster will destroy us. ECKERSLEY: (Confidently.) Don't worry, Commander. I'll get him out for you. I built that refinery. It's got one or two tricks the Doctor doesn't know about. Come on. (He walks out.) AZAXYR: (To SSKEL.) Guard them! (He follows ECKERSLEY.) 11: INT. MINE TUNNEL (GEBEK has reached his men and the guards, but...) MINER: How can we fight on, Gebek? Aggedor's turned against us. GEBEK: No, you are mistaken. MINER: He has slain us! He drove us into the g*n of Azaxyr's warriors! (Several miners say "yes" in agreement.) GEBEK: (Shouts.) That was trickery by your enemies. Aggedor fights for us! (The miners start to jeer him.) GEBEK: Protects the people of Peladon as he has always done! Do you not believe me? MINER: No. (Other miners say "no".) GEBEK: (Shouts.) Then I will show you! (He steps up onto a shelf of rock and points into the air.) GEBEK: (Whispers.) Now...watch... (The miners turn and look towards where he points. But nothing happens. GEBEK looks up expectantly and waits.) 12: INT. REFINERY (The DOCTOR counts down the seconds on his watch.) DOCTOR: Well I hope Gebek's timing's right. Just about...now, I think. (He pulls the two levers and presses the main switch.) 13: INT. MINE TUNNEL (The miners and guards are growing restive...) MINER: Well, Gebek? Why do we wait? GEBEK: Have patience! Have patience! (One miner is saying "come on!" when the electronic burbling sound that heralds the appearance of the "spirit" echoes through the tunnel.) GEBEK: Look! (The ghostly image of the royal beast appears. The observers crowd back in fear but GEBEK speaks warmly and walks toward the manifestation.) GEBEK: Do not be afraid. Aggedor will not harm us. He destroys only our enemies. (The image fades away and GEBEK turns to the men.) GEBEK: Now, lads, will you fight? (The miners and guards raise their arms, smile in delight and yell "yes!") 14: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (ECKERSLEY and AZAXYR watch this on one of the monitors in the communications room.) ECKERSLEY: Looks pretty nasty, doesn't it? AZAXYR: Don't worry. My warriors will soon destroy those primitives. ECKERSLEY: Not while those primitives have got Aggedor working for them. Time for a word with the Doctor, I think. (He turns a microphone towards himself and changes the image to that of the refinery. The DOCTOR is still sat at the console.) 15: INT. REFINERY SARAH: Well, how did you know where to send it? DOCTOR: Oh, there are pre-set coordinates for almost everywhere. Eckersley's worked it out very well. ECKERSLEY: (OOV: Over tannoy.) Thanks for the compliment, Doctor. (The two look round.) SARAH: He...he must be in the communications room. ECKERSLEY: (OOV: Over tannoy.) That's right. You can't see me, but I can see you. DOCTOR: (Into tannoy.) Ah! Then you must know that I'm in complete control of Aggedor? So may I suggest that you give yourself up straight away? 16: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM ECKERSLEY: (Into tannoy.) No, I admire you, Doctor, I really do. But you're the one who's gonna have to give himself up. 17: INT. REFINERY SARAH: What's he talking about? DOCTOR: Ah, he's just bluffing. ECKERSLEY: (OOV: Over tannoy.) Oh no, I'm not. Remember my little security system? It works inside as well as out. (The maelstrom of light and sound that SARAH experienced when she first came across the refinery starts up again but at a lower level than before. SARAH winces in pain and puts her hands to her head. The DOCTOR screws his eyes up a little but is otherwise unbothered.) ECKERSLEY: (OOV: Over tannoy.) Now that's just the lowest level, Doctor. 18: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM ECKERSLEY: (Into tannoy.) Surrender now, or I'll step it up. 19: INT. REFINERY DOCTOR: Sarah, get out of here, straight away. Warn Gebek - they're probably waiting for him. I'll try and help out with Aggedor. SARAH: Well, you can't mean to stay in here?! DOCTOR: Now this sort of nonsense doesn't worry me - you know that. SARAH: No, I can't leave you in here! DOCTOR: Sarah, please, go! (SARAH is unable to take the pain any more...) SARAH: Oh! (...and does as instructed while the DOCTOR starts to operate the equipment again.) 20: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM ECKERSLEY: He won't be able to stand very much more of that. He'll surrender soon - or collapse. AZAXYR: Excellent. I shall go and prepare my warriors for the att*ck. (He leaves the communications room.) ECKERSLEY: (Into tannoy.) Well, Doctor? Escape with the girl while you've still got chance - and don't try sending Aggedor up here. The communication room is shielded. 21: INT. REFINERY (The DOCTOR doesn't slow down his pace of operating the system.) DOCTOR: (Into tannoy.) Sorry, old chap, I can't stop and talk now. I'm rather busy. 22: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (ECKERSLEY is almost admiring...) ECKERSLEY: Obstinate devil! (He adjusts the controls...) 23: INT. REFINERY (...and the swirling vortex of white lights grow stronger and more colourful. Their effect on the DOCTOR though seems negligible. He moves the two opposing levers ready of another transfer.) 24: INT. TUNNEL (Away from the effect of the security system, SARAH runs at full pace down a tunnel.) 25: INT. ANOTHER TUNNEL (Further along, SSKEL patrols a tunnel, walking back and forth between two archways. SARAH steps out but luckily the Ice Warrior's back is turned on her at that point. She hurriedly steps back into hiding. SSKEL walks towards where she is hidden behind one arch and then turns to walk forwards. SARAH silently steps out behind him and follows his pace. As he turns in his lumbering fashion to face the other way, she keeps behind his large bulk and is therefore able to go through the archway unseen and continue her journey.) 26: INT. MINE TUNNEL (GEBEK leads the Peladonians down a mine tunnel. Suddenly he stops and gasps as an Ice Warrior steps out from behind a pit prop, his sonic w*apon raised. The tunnel is suddenly filled with a monstrous roar and the Ice Warrior turns to see that the ghostly image of the transported statue looms over him. Its eyes light up, it spits out its heat ray and the Ice Warrior vanishes in a red glow.) GEBEK: Now do you believe that Aggedor is with us? (The miners and guards cheer.) GEBEK: Come on! (He leads them onwards.) 27: INT. TUNNEL (SARAH runs down another tunnel. She stops briefly to get her breath and then carries on.) 28: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (ECKERLSEY watches the monitor with the view of the refinery. His face betrays his growing concern. A furious AZAXYR enters the room.) AZAXYR: The Doctor is still using Aggedor to att*ck in the mines! ECKERSLEY: I know. AZAXYR: My warriors are being destroyed! You must stop him! ECKERSLEY: (Into tannoy.) This is your last chance, Doctor. Surrender now or I'll step it up to maximum. 29: INT. REFINERY (The vortex of light continues...but so does the DOCTOR.) 30: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM ECKERSLEY: (Into tannoy.) Your brain will be totally destroyed. (ECKERSLEY presses several switches...) 31: INT. REFINERY (...and the maelstrom reaches a peak of intensity. The DOCTOR'S face shows the pain he is feeling but he struggles to complete his task.) 32: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM AZAXYR: He is still resisting. ECKERSLEY: It won't be long now. He'll keel over any minute. (SSKEL comes into the room.) SSKEL: Commander, the miners are almost at the citadel. AZAXYR: Keep up the pressure, Eckersley. I shall prepare an ambush. (He sweeps out.) 33: INT. REFINERY (The DOCTOR is now suffering badly under the effects of ECKERSLEY'S system.) 34: INT. MINE TUNNEL (SARAH runs through one of the mine tunnels. She stops for a moment to get her bearings and then carries on.) 35: INT. TUNNEL (GEBEK, the miners and the guards get nearer to the citadel.) 36: INT. PASSAGE (Within the citadel, AZAXYR leads SSKEL and another Ice Warrior down one of the passages. He chooses a spot on one side of the passage and points to it.) AZAXYR: There. (The second Ice Warrior stands in the spot indicated. AZAXYR points to another point on the other side of the passage.) AZAXYR: There. (SSKEL moves into this position and AZAXYR moves to a point further down the passage nearer to the tapestry covering the secret entrance.) 37: INT. TUNNEL (GEBEK and his men reach the point in the tunnel which is the other side of this opening.) GEBEK: (Whispers.) Now, you understand? First we will make sure the Queen is safe, then we capture the aliens. And remember - Aggedor is with us! (There are whispered cries of "right!" from the men as GEBEK reaches for the torch bracket.) 38: INT. ANOTHER TUNNEL (SARAH continues to make her own way towards the citadel.) 39: INT. TUNNEL (The door in the tunnel swings open and GEBEK signals to his men to follow him through.) 40: INT. PASSAGE (On the other side, GEBEK checks that the way ahead is clear and silently indicates for the others to follow. They fail to spot AZAXYR hidden behind a pillar and the MINER and the Guard Captain, now at the front, walk straight past him, then...) AZAXYR: Destroy them! (They spin round and see AZAXYR. As they turn back round, SSKEL steps out and blasts the two men down.) GEBEK: Back! Back! (GEBEK pulls the other men who have made it through the entrance back into the tunnel.) 41: INT. REFINERY (As the as*ault on him continues, the DOCTOR, now in obvious discomfort, pulls the two levers and presses the main switch. The statue disappears...) 42: INT. PASSAGE (...and reappears in the passage where it spits out its flame at SSKEL and the other Ice Warrior. They are both vapourised. AZAXYR runs off in alarm.) 43: INT. TUNNEL (GEBEK has seen this through the curtain and yells to his men who are running back down the tunnel away from the citadel.) GEBEK: Come on! Aggedor fights for us! (The men cheer and run back.) 44: INT. PASSAGE (They come through the entrance and see that the passage is now clear of the Martians.) GEBEK: On! On! (The men run towards the throne room.) 45: INT. REFINERY (The effect on the DOCTOR of the att*ck reaches its peak. His head starts to judder and twitch. His face covered in sweat, he starts to fall slowly back in his chair and suddenly collapses with his head on the back rest. He is quite still.) 46: INT. TUNNEL (SARAH reaches the entrance to the citadel which is still open from when GEBEK'S men passed through it. She takes the same route.) 47: INT. PASSAGE (Within the citadel, she quickly comes across the bodies of the MINER and the guard. She sees a dropped Federation w*apon on the floor next to the guard and picks it up. She carries on.) 48: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (Despite the DOCTOR'S collapse, ECKERSLEY has not switched the security system off and he watches the swirling light and sound that surrounds the DOCTOR'S prone form on the monitor with a grin on his face. SARAH runs into the room with the g*n pointed straight at ECKERSLEY.) SARAH: Turn it off! ECKERSLEY: You wouldn't use that. (He turns back to the screen.) SARAH: Wouldn't I? (She steps closer and speaks quietly and meaningfully.) SARAH: Turn that alarm off. ECKERSLEY: (Calmly.) Okay, okay. (He switches the system off and on the small monochrome monitor the haze of light around the DOCTOR'S head disappears.) ECKERSLEY: It's served its purpose anyway. The Doctor's d*ad. (SARAH keeps the g*n pointed at him but hesitates.) SARAH: I don't believe you. ECKERSLEY: Well have a look. (SARAH circles round the back of him until he can see the monitor. She looks at the screen and instantly her attention is caught by the sight of the lifeless DOCTOR. ECKERSLEY is waiting his chance and twists her arm. He pushes her across the room, grabbing the g*n from her grasp.) ECKERSLEY: I had a nice little scheme going until you two arrived! I ought to... (He raises the g*n. SARAH looks down its barrel.) ECKERSLEY: Turn round! (SARAH does so.) ECKERSLEY: Put your hands up! (SARAH, her back turned to him, raises her hands and closes her eyes, awaiting the blast from the g*n. Her eyes flicker open and closed in fright. There is a crack and SARAH cries out in fear. She looks round and sees that she is alone. The door is closed and the sound she heard was it being shut. She runs to it and pulls the handles but the doors remain fast.) SARAH: (Shouts.) Oh! Open this door! (She hammers on the doors.) SARAH: (Shouts.) Let me out! (She runs back to the monitor. The image displayed still shows an unmoving DOCTOR.) 49: INT. PASSAGE (ECKERSLEY, the g*n concealed behind his back, runs down a torch-lit citadel passage checking that he is not spotted at every step. He is about to go on when he stops, heads back slightly the way he came and then hides in an alcove. GEBEK, the miners and guards surge past him on their way to the throne room. After they have gone, ECKERSLEY comes out and moves down the passage but a straggling MINER runs towards him after his comrades. He stops when he sees the engineer.) MINER: Eckersley! Gebek has given orders for your capture. ECKERSLEY: Get out of my way. MINER: No, you are my prisoner. (He unsheathes his sword and points it.) ECKERSLEY: Sorry, chum. (ECKERSLEY pulls out the g*n from behind his back and fires at the MINER. As the Peladonian falls, he runs past him.) ECKERSLEY: Got too much to do. 50: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE THRONE ROOM (GEBEK and his men reach the throne room. They burst through the closed doors...) 51: INT. THRONE ROOM (...and past ALPHA CENTAURI but stop in their tracks when they see AZAXYR with his sonic g*n held up to the Queen who sits on her throne. SSKEL stands nearby.) AZAXYR: Surrender, Gebek. (AZAXYR turns the g*n towards them.) AZAXYR: Tell your men to lay down their arms, or the Queen will die. (GEBEK hesitates and then gestures to the miners and guards who lay down their swords and Federation w*apon. AZAXYR approaches GEBEK.) AZAXYR: Very sensible, Gebek. (GEBEK takes slow steps towards the Martian.) GEBEK: It seems we had no choice, Commander. (A guard takes a run at SSKEL as GEBEK and another guard att*ck AZAXYR. SSKEL throws his guard off and turns and blasts him with a sonic wave. The guard screams as he falls and SSKEL turns his w*apon to defend his commander. However, AZAXYR is struggling with both his arms pinioned by the Peladonians. SSKEL hesitates not daring to f*re. GEBEK has AZAXYR'S g*n arm and pulls it up to face the Ice Warrior. He then presses the trigger and SSKEL is h*t. AZAXYR continues to struggle with his attackers and manages to throw them off.) AZAXYR: Now that's enough! (He aims his g*n at one dislodged guard who rushes back and s*ab the Martian in the stomach. AZAXYR staggers on his feet, aiming his w*apon at the Queen but death overtakes him and he falls to the floor. As some of the group rush to the fallen guard, GEBEK runs to the shaken Queen and takes her hand.) GEBEK: Are you harmed, your Majesty? THALIRA: No, Gebek. (She sits on the throne and looks over the battle.) THALIRA: Ambassador? ALPHA CENTAURI: Your Majesty? THALIRA: (Shaken.) I think you should try to contact the Federation as soon as possible...to inform them of our situation. ALPHA CENTAURI: At once, your Majesty. (ALPHA CENTAURI turns...) 52: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE THRONE ROOM (...and scuttles out of the throne room away on the errand.) 53: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (SARAH, still locked inside the communications room, lies with her head slumped down on the console.) 54: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (ALPHA CENTAURI bustles towards the entrance of the room. He unlocks it and pushes the doors open.) 55: INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM (CENTAURI moves swiftly in towards the communications console. He looks round as he does so and sees SARAH.) ALPHA CENTAURI: Sarah! I wondered where you'd got to. (He starts to activate the communications device.) ALPHA CENTAURI: (Brightly.) Good news! The Ice Warriors are defeated and Azaxyr is d*ad. (SARAH doesn't move.) SARAH: Fine. ALPHA CENTAURI: What's wrong? SARAH: Eckersley k*lled the Doctor. ALPHA CENTAURI: (Shocked.) What?! Are you are?! (He bustles towards her and SARAH raises a tear-stained face to look at the monitor image.) SARAH: Take a look. (The DOCTOR is still not moving.) SARAH: I'm going down there. (She hauls herself to her feet and walks out of the room as a shocked CENTAURI continues to look at the monitor.) 56: INT. PASSAGE (A weary SARAH walks down towards the tapestry covered entrance to the tunnels and wearily activates the torch bracket device. She goes through the curtain.) 57: INT. TUNNEL (On the other side of the entrance she reaches up to adjust the adjoining bracket but suddenly cannot be bothered. She heads into the tunnels leaving the entrance open.) 58: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE THRONE ROOM (GEBEK and his men carry the casualties of the fight out of the throne room on stretchers. GEBEK himself and a guard carry AZAXYR'S corpse out. They walk past another tapestry which moves after they have gone, revealing ECKERLSEY concealed behind it.) 59: INT. THRONE ROOM (THALIRA is left inside the throne room with ALPHA CENTAURI who has returned there. The Queen is mournful and shocked.) THALIRA: I find it hard to believe that Eckersley could do something so wicked. ALPHA CENTAURI: He had nothing to lose, your Majesty, and he's totally ruthless. We must not forget that he is still at liberty. (ECKERSLEY suddenly rushes in. His g*n is pointed at the Queen who rises to her feet.) ECKERSLEY: Alright, your Majesty! You're coming with me! ALPHA CENTAURI: Eckersley! What is the purpose of this outrage?! ECKERSLEY: I've got a space shuttle hidden on the other side of the mountain. Her Majesty here is gonna be my safe conduct! ALPHA CENTAURI: I shall summon assistance. (Shouts.) Help! Guards! (ECKERLSEY turns and clubs CENTAURI on the back of the head as THALIRA rushes for the curtained secret entrance at the back of the throne room. As CENTAURI falls, crying out in pain, ECKERSLEY swings the g*n back round on the Queen.) ECKERSLEY: Stay there, your Majesty! Don't move. (He approaches her and pulls back the curtain.) 60: INT. TUNNEL BEHIND THRONE ROOM (He looks into the gloomy tunnel beyond.) ECKERSLEY: Yes...we'll go this way. (He pulls the scared Queen through by the hand and into the tunnel.) ECKERSLEY: Come on! 61: INT. TUNNEL OUTSIDE REFINERY (SARAH runs down the tunnel towards the refinery but, on its threshold, emotion takes over and her pace slows. Hugging herself she approaches the hole melted in the door by the Ice Warriors.) 62: INT. REFINERY (Looking through, she sees that the DOCTOR'S position is still unchanged. He lies back in his chair with his face covered in a film of sweat. SARAH pushes open the door and slowly walks towards him. Her composure starts to break and a tear falls onto the DOCTOR'S face. His eyes sh**t open and SARAH gasps as if in pain.) SARAH: Huh, ow! (As she looks down on him in a mixture of shock and surprise, he wipes the tear off his cheek and lifts his head up.) DOCTOR: Tears? (SARAH is stifling her sobs and surprise.) DOCTOR: Well anyone would think you thought I was d*ad. (He gets up out of the chair. SARAH starts to become defensive.) SARAH: Well...of course I did! You looked d*ad! DOCTOR: Well, even I couldn't stand the row from Eckersley's patent alarm system any longer, so I put myself into a complete sensory withdrawal. (SARAH'S mouth moves silently in her puzzlement, then...) SARAH: What? DOCTOR: Well, a sort of trance, I...shut myself off. SARAH: You did it on purpose? (Shouts furiously.) You mean I had all that worry for nothing?! DOCTOR: Well, don't sound so aggrieved. (He taps her chin and heads for the door.) DOCTOR: Anybody would think you preferred me d*ad. Come on, let's go and find the others. (A still angry SARAH follows him out of the room.) 63: INT. THRONE ROOM (ALPHA CENTAURI lies twitching and helpless on the floor of the throne room. Having deposited the bodies, GEBEK and his men come back. They rush to him.) GEBEK: Alpha Centauri! Well, what happened? (GEBEK looks at the empty throne.) GEBEK: Where is the Queen? 64: INT. MINE TUNNEL (ECKERSLEY still grasps the struggling Queen by the wrist as he drags her down a mine tunnel.) ECKERSLEY: (Shouts.) This way, your Majesty! Come on! 65: INT. PASSAGE OUTSIDE THRONE ROOM (The DOCTOR and SARAH walk towards and into the throne room...) 66: INT. THRONE ROOM (...where ALPHA CENTAURI is being put back on his feet.) GEBEK: Doctor! Thank goodness you've come! Eckersley has kidnapped the Queen. DOCTOR: (Whispers.) What? 67: INT. MINE TUNNEL (ECKERSLEY pulls the Queen with little ceremony along another tunnel.) ECKERSLEY: (Shouts.) Come on! Come on! THALIRA: (Shouts.) No! 68: INT. THRONE ROOM (The DOCTOR looks through the curtain at the back of the throne room and into the passage beyond. He returns to the others.) DOCTOR: How well does Eckersley know these tunnels? ALPHA CENTAURI: (Sadly.) He made a most thorough survey when he first arrived. GEBEK: It won't be easy to find him, Doctor. The mountain's riddled with these tunnels. Even the miners don't know them all. SARAH: He must have quite a start on us too. ALPHA CENTAURI: (Sadly.) We could search for days and never find them. (The DOCTOR rubs his lip in thought.) DOCTOR: Yeah, well don't worry. I think I know a way we can track him down. (He stalks out of the throne room. SARAH and GEBEK look in puzzlement at each other and then they and GEBEK'S men follow.) 69: INT. MINE TUNNEL (GEBEK continues to pull the Queen along.) ECKERSLEY: (Shouts.) Come on! Quickly! 70: INT. ANOTHER MINE TUNNEL (He pulls her into a tunnel littered with the bodies of d*ad Ice Warriors and Peladonians.) ECKERSLEY: (Shouts.) Come on! (THALIRA pulls from his grasp and looks in horror at the corpses.) THALIRA: Look! Look what you've done! ECKERSLEY: Never mind. (He grabs her wrist again and pulls her onwards.) THALIRA: No! 71: INT. ANOTHER MINE TUNNEL (Through an archway in the rock, AGGEDOR, freed from his pit, lumbers after escapee, followed by the DOCTOR, GEBEK, SARAH and the other Peladonians.) 72: INT. TUNNEL FORK (ECKERSLEY drags THALIRA past several side passages...) 73: INT. TUNNEL END (...and into the end of the tunnel. It leads nowhere. THALIRA smiles in satisfaction.) THALIRA: We're trapped. 74: INT. TUNNEL FORK (Nearby, AGGEDOR and the others approach.) 75: INT. TUNNEL END ECKERSLEY: We've come clear through the mountain. My spaceship...is just on the other side. THALIRA: (Shouts.) Well then go! We'll be well rid of you! (She tries to pull her arm out of ECKERSLEY'S grasp but fails.) ECKERSLEY: I still need you for a hostage! Come on! (He pulls her back down towards a small side tunnel when a voice rings out.) DOCTOR: Don't move, Eckersley! (They stop. The DOCTOR walks into view with a gentle hand on AGGEDOR.) ECKERSLEY: So that's how you found me. DOCTOR: Oh, yes. Aggedor may be getting on a bit but he can still sniff out a trail. I'm sorry, old chap, but it's all over. ECKERSLEY: No...unless you want a new ruler on Peladon, you'll stand still. (THALIRA suddenly bites his holding hand. ECKERSLEY cries out in pain and is forced to let go. The DOCTOR pushes AGGEDOR forward.) DOCTOR: Get him! (AGGEDOR lumbers at ECKERSLEY and grabs him. Man and beast swing round in a deadly embrace as ECKERSLEY tries to aim his blaster at the roaring AGGEDOR.) ECKERSLEY: (Shouts.) Help me! Help me! Help me, Doctor! (ECKERSLEY gets an aim and fires. A blue flash illuminates the tunnel and AGGEDOR cries out in pain. Both he and ECKERSLEY fall to the floor at the same time. The DOCTOR runs forward and examines first the engineer and then the animal. He looks up at a saddened Queen and shakes his head.) 76: INT. THRONE ROOM (The DOCTOR and SARAH are before the smiles Queen who is stood on the steps of the throne.) THALIRA: Once again, Peladon owes you a great debt, Doctor - just as in my father's time. But this time, I hope that you'll stay long enough for us to show our gratitude. DOCTOR: Yes, well, as a matter of fact, your Majesty, I... THALIRA: (Interrupts.) I shall want your help and your advice , Doctor. SARAH: Oh, your Majesty! You stood up to Ortron and to Azaxyr and the Ice Warriors - you don't need anyone's help. THALIRA: (To the DOCTOR.) I shall be needing a new chancellor. I had hoped that you might stay. DOCTOR: Well, I know just the man, your Majesty - Gebek. (THALIRA looks shocked at the suggestion. She recovers her composure and smiles.) THALIRA: We have the greatest admiration for Gebek...but he has no title. He's only a miner. SARAH: There's nothing "only" about being a miner, your Majesty, anymore there was about being a girl. (THALIRA smiles at the reminder.) DOCTOR: It's the man that counts, your Majesty. You can always give him a title. THALIRA: It seems that all I can give you is my thanks. DOCTOR: Well, I shall always be grateful for the honour, your Majesty. But I'm quite certain that Gebek is the right man. (ALPHA CENTAURI bursts into the room in excitement and bows.) ALPHA CENTAURI: Your Majesty! THALIRA: Ambassador? ALPHA CENTAURI: I have just heard from Federation HQ. The w*r is over! Once Eckersley and Azaxyr's scheme had failed, Galaxy Five became most anxious to negotiate a peace treaty. DOCTOR: Well, that's splendid news, splendid! (GEBEK comes in and salutes the Queen.) GEBEK: Excuse me, your Majesty. (He turns to the DOCTOR.) GEBEK: Er, Doctor, that blue box you were asking about. DOCTOR: Yes? GEBEK: We've found it. In the, er third gallery off the main cavern. DOCTOR: Thank you, Gebek. Thank you very much. I'll go and check on it straight away. (He turns back to the Queen and gives a short bow.) DOCTOR: Oh, with your Majesty's permission? THALIRA: Of course, Doctor. (He heads for the door with SARAH. THALIRA looks troubled at what she knows is a parting.) THALIRA: Goodbye, Doctor! (The DOCTOR and SARAH stop in their tracks. They look at each other with a smile. They turn and bow to the Queen and then, with a smile at CENTAURI, walk from the room. THALIRA takes her place on the throne.) THALIRA: Gebek? GEBEK: (Puzzled.) Your Majesty? (The new and as yet unaware Chancellor approaches the throne.) 77: INT. TUNNEL (The TARDIS still stands in the tunnel where the DOCTOR and SARAH left it. They approach its Police Box exterior. As the DOCTOR unlocks the door, SARAH adopts a teasing tone...) SARAH: You're sure you don't want to stay and take the job, Doctor? Civil service post, with a pension? (The DOCTOR purses his lips and turns stony-faced to his young companion.) DOCTOR: In you get, Sarah. I think it's time I took you home. SARAH: I mean, I'd hate to stand in the way of your career! (He grabs her right ear and pulls her towards the door.) DOCTOR: (Meaningfully.) In...you...go! (SARAH laughs as she enters. The DOCTOR smiles on the threshold and follows her. With its familiar sound echoing through the torch-lit tunnel, the TARDIS takes its leave of Peladon.)
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PLANET OF THE SPIDERS BY: ROBERT SLOMAN PART ONE Original Air Date: 4 May, 1974 5:45pm - 6:10pm 1: EXT. PATH (Along a pathway that runs down from some stone steps, a young man walks. He looks thoughtful and preoccupied as he strolls in the evening light. It is MIKE YATES - ex-UNIT Captain - his hair growing long and his clothes definitely civilian in tone. He stops and looks round at the pastoral scene of cows in a nearby field. His moment of contemplation over, he moves on.) 2: INT. THEATRE (The DOCTOR and the BRIGADIER, also out of uniform and in a smart suit, are sat in the audience of a small theatre watching a cabaret evening. The two men are the only members of the audience neither applauding nor laughing at the northern "Comedian" on the stage. Indeed, they look bored to tears.) COMEDIAN: (OOV: On stage.) Here's a funny thing! Here's a funny thing! When Archimedes - you've heard of Archimedes - jumped out of his bath and ran down the road without his clothes on, he didn't shout "Eureka", he shouted "I'm a streaker!" (The audience groans appreciatively and there is another smattering of applause. The DOCTOR looks pained and the BRIGADIER sh**t him an accusatory look.) 3: EXT. LAMASERY GROUNDS (MIKE YATES is nearing the end of his walk which terminates in large a country house which can be seen through the trees and across a stretch of unkempt lawn. He approaches the house.) 4: INT. THEATRE (The audience applauds once more, although the contribution from the DOCTOR and the BRIGADIER more closely resembles a slow-hand clap. Some jolly music strikes up...) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Here, Doctor, this is a complete waste of time. (The DOCTOR is about to reply but raises a hand for silence and looks interested as the compère takes to the stage with the next announcement.) COMPÈRE: (OOV: On stage.) And now, ladies and gentlemen, the management takes great pleasure in presenting to you... (The DOCTOR sits up in anticipation.) COMPÈRE: (OOV: On stage.) ...that exotic Turkish delight of the east - Sherezadi! (The DOCTOR looks disappointed and lowers himself down in the seat again. Next to him, the BRIGADIER does the exact opposite and looks interested in proceedings for possibly the first time that evening as the oriental music strikes up...) 5: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY (MIKE walks slowly along a passage of the building. Lamp brackets hang on the wall, pictures on the walls and curtained sash windows look out on the countryside. MIKE reaches the end of the passage and stops suddenly as he hears a chant...) GROUP: (OOV.) Om... (MIKE walks round the corner of the passage and approaches a doorway.) GROUP: (OOV.) Om, Om, Om, Om... (As he reaches for the door handle, there is a clash of cymbals mixed in with the chanting. MIKE quietly reaches for the door handle...) GROUP: (OOV.) Om, Om, Om, Om... (...and pushes open the door.) 6: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR ANTE-ROOM (He is at the top of a short flight of steps into a small room. Down below, through another door, the chanting is clearer and another voice can be heard. It is deep and with a tone that is a strange combination of being both weary and yet alive with greed and wanting...) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (MIKE quietly enters the room...) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (...walks down the steps towards the second door...) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (...and pauses at the second door.) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (He listens at the door for a moment...) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... 7: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR (Within the cellar, there is another clash of cymbals. On the floor is a mandala spread out.) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (Some three foot by five foot, this is a decorated parchment which seems to show a circular map of different oriental scenes and symbols. The map is held by a creature resembling a devil of red skin and snakes for hair. Further snakes writhe near its feet.) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (As would be expected of a large house, the cellar is large and slightly cavernous. It is mostly empty and the wine-racks are unoccupied. Round the mandala are sat five men cross-legged on cushions.) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (At the head of the group is the main chanter - LUPTON. He wears a checked jacket, has greying hair and has looks that mirror his voice - slightly weary and yet with eyes that blaze.) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (Circling to LUPTON'S right sits KEAVER - a tall balding man who holds the cymbals - and MOSS who looks like an ageing hippy student with his beard and glasses.) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (To LUPTON'S left sit BARNES - a man about the same age as LUPTON with a perpetual look of worry on his face - and LAND, a young man prematurely balding.) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (The door to the cellar opens quietly and MIKE looks through, a nervous look on his face...) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... (...as the ceremony continues below.) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (The five men stare intently at the mandala.) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (The chant of the five men grows more intense in tone - especially LUPTON.) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. (MIKE creeps slowly into the cellar and quietly down another flight of stone steps.) LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (The chanting of the group grows even more strident as they reach a crescendo.) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (MIKE stares through a spider's web at the proceedings down below.) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (To his shock, he sees a blue glow appearing in the centre of the mandala.) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... (He leans forward to get a better view...) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (...and his face touches the web.) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... (Recoiling in shock...) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. (...he knocks a lighted candlestick down the stairs. Down below, the group breaks off their chant. LUPTON spins round to see the candlestick as it falls and the open door at the top of the steps but there is no-one there...) 8: INT. THEATRE ("Sherezadi" comes to the end of her act and the smiling BRIGADIER is one of the most enthusiastic applauders in the audience - a fact which does not escape the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: Well...you enjoyed that. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Extraordinary muscular control. Very fit, that girl. I must adapt some of those movements as exercises for the men. DOCTOR: (Smiles.) They'd take some adapting. COMPÈRE: (OOV: On stage.) And now, ladies and gentlemen, a slight contrast - that mind reader extraordinaire, Professor Herbert Clegg! (The DOCTOR leans over to the BRIGADIER.) DOCTOR: This is what we came for. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: And about time. 9: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR (LUPTON has picked up the fallen candlestick. BARNES is also on his feet.) BARNES: Shall we carry on? LUPTON: No, no, no, no. It's too late now. We'll try again tomorrow. (The other three men get up.) LUPTON: Are you sure you saw nothing? BARNES: Oh, it was the wind. Someone left the door open. (Suddenly they hear the roar of a sports car above as it starts up and drives away.) LUPTON: Listen. BARNES: It's a car. LUPTON: Well, there's only one car here. The car belonging to our new friend - Mr. Yates. 10: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (The next day, the doors to the DOCTOR'S laboratory open and the BRIGADIER shows a visitor in. He is a dapper bearded little man dressed in a felt hat, wearing a bow tie, waistcoat and a cloak. He carries a walking stick. The DOCTOR steps forward and shakes his hand.) DOCTOR: Ah, Professor Clegg. How good of you to come. PROFESSOR CLEGG: To be honest, I'm not quite sure why I have come. Your message was, er, somewhat ambiguous. DOCTOR: Yes, that's my fault entirely. I do apologise. Won't you sit down? PROFESSOR CLEGG: Thank you. (The DOCTOR has gestured to a chair next to a wooden writing desk. CLEGG walks over to it and puts hat and stick down.) PROFESSOR CLEGG: You, er, you want me to do my act for you? Oh, some sort of, er, regimental guest night, is it? Cabaret? I do a lot of dinners. (He takes his cloak off as he waits for the answer.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Lord, no! (Hastily.) Er, but clever stuff, mind you, but not really my cup of tea. PROFESSOR CLEGG: (Smiles.) Oh, then, er, what exactly is it you want of me, gentlemen? DOCTOR: Well, you see, Professor, er, I'm doing a little research into ESP. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: That's Extra Sensory Perception, you know? PROFESSOR CLEGG: Ah, yes, as a matter of actual fact, I, er, I did know that. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Oh, really? Well, I can't[say that I did until the Doctor explained this morning. DOCTOR: You see, Professor, my particular field covers, er, psycholotry, telepathy and, er, clairvoyance as well. So I thought perhaps you might be able to help me. (The smile disappears off CLEGG'S face and he starts to look worried.) PROFESSOR CLEGG: Oh. Well, you see, er, I'm afraid I can't - dearly as I'd like to. DOCTOR: You disappoint me, Professor. PROFESSOR CLEGG: (Nervously.) Er, well, there you are - that's just it. I'm, er...well, I'm not a professor at all - that's just for, er, well, you know...professional purposes, do you see? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: You're trying to tell us that it was all a lot of tricks? PROFESSOR CLEGG: Well, er, not to put too fine a point on it...yes. DOCTOR: Just a word code with your assistant, eh? PROFESSOR CLEGG: Ah! Very, er, very perspicacious of you, Doctor. I feel sure that my secret is safe with you. DOCTOR: Oh, indeed it is, Professor. Indeed it is. PROFESSOR CLEGG: Thank you. (Relieved, he turns to pick up his hat and cloak.) DOCTOR: I assure you that I shall tell nobody that you are really a very powerful clairvoyant. (CLEGG spins round.) PROFESSOR CLEGG: I beg your pardon? DOCTOR: That's your real secret, isn't it? PROFESSOR CLEGG: Oh, why ever should you think that? DOCTOR: You made a couple of mistakes last night, Professor. You gave the answer before your assistant had uttered a word. (CLEGG suddenly looks pained.) PROFESSOR CLEGG: Oh... (He sinks into a chair, looking troubled and ill.) PROFESSOR CLEGG: It's happening more and more. I don't want it to! I...I was quite happy as a performer, Doctor, but...I seem to be developing this...this power! (Passionately.) Oh, I hate it! I hate it! (He stares into space.) PROFESSOR CLEGG: The things I can make happen... DOCTOR: Like physical manifestations? Psychokinesis, for example? PROFESSOR CLEGG: Well...yes. DOCTOR: Well that's remarkable. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Puzzled.) Er, would you mind explaining? PROFESSOR CLEGG: Er, psychokinesis? Moving things by the power of the mind. DOCTOR: A very rarely developed faculty in h*m* sapiens. Er, Professor? (Correcting himself.) Er...Mr. Clegg. Would you give us a demonstration? PROFESSOR CLEGG: Well, er... DOCTOR: Please? (CLEGG considers and sighs.) PROFESSOR CLEGG: Oh, very well. (He stands up and looks across the lab at a plastic cup and empty plate on a tray that rests on a lab bench - the remains of the DOCTOR'S last meal. As he concentrates on the tray, it suddenly shakes slightly and rises into the air. It hovers above the bench and floats across the room in front of the astonished eyes of the BRIGADIER. CLEGG looks as if he is undergoing a great effort.) PROFESSOR CLEGG: I can't! I can't keep it up! (The tray and its contents fall to the floor. CLEGG sits again.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: You ought to use that in your act. PROFESSOR CLEGG: (Snaps.) And lose my sanity? It would be a poor exchange. (The DOCTOR bends down next to the little man.) DOCTOR: (Gently.) Mr. Clegg, your powers may seem to be extraordinary, but I assure you that they lie dormant in everyone. They're perfectly natural. PROFESSOR CLEGG: I find that very difficult to believe. DOCTOR: But that's what my experiment's all about, Mr. Clegg. PROFESSOR CLEGG: (Hopefully.) You mean...you mean...you can find out...why I'm different? DOCTOR: Possibly. PROFESSOR CLEGG: Then...very well, I...I'll help you all I can. DOCTOR: Good! 11: INT. LAMASERY. HALLWAY (LUPTON walks down the staircase in the main hall of the Lamasery, protesting to and following a little man in front of him. This is CHO-JE, one of the main monks of the Lamasery. He is dressed in traditional Tibetan robes, wears round pebble glasses and looks and speaks as if he finds perpetual joy in the world...) LUPTON: Not only a journalist - but a woman journalist! We do not want her here. CHO-JE: We cannot shut out the world entirely, my brother. LUPTON: Why not? You used to - in Tibet. CHO-JE: All things pass away, as you will learn in your meditation. This world of samsara, this world of appearance...is the world of change. (He walks through a doorway.) LUPTON: Yes, but... (LUPTON follows him...) 12: INT. LAMASERY. SITTING ROOM (...into an elegantly but cosily furnished sitting room. Resolutely English in style, its only incongruous object is a Tibetan prayer wheel on the other side of the room next to another door.) LUPTON: I came here to get away from the world, so did the others. We came here to find solitude. CHO-JE: One day you will learn to walk in solitude amidst the traffic of the world. (CHO-JE goes to the other door.) LUPTON: It's still not too late to stop her coming. (CHO-JE pauses in the doorway and smiles.) CHO-JE: But it is. Mr. Yates has already gone to the station to fetch her. (He spins the prayer wheel and walks out. LUPTON looks concerned.) 13: EXT. MORTIMER RAILWAY STATION (At the nearby railway station, the train pulls away from the platform as MIKE waits at the gate. SARAH, carrying a small bag, hands her ticket in and greets MIKE. He gestures to his open-topped red MGB sports car and they both get in.) SARAH: What's it all about? (MIKE doesn't answer. He puts the car in gear and they speed up the entrance hill.) 14: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY (An aggrieved LUPTON and BARNES come out of a room and into a passageway.) LUPTON: Of course it's no accident! We heard his car last night, didn't we? He's bringing her here because he suspects something. BARNES: We'll just have to stop for a while - that's all. LUPTON: Stop? Now? On the point of breakthrough? The power in that circle last night ..... (They are interrupted by a loud voice.) TOMMY: Hello, Lupton. (They turn and see a burly, curly haired dressed in a woolly jumper man stood in the passage. He has a childish smile on his face and holds a small flower in his hand up to the two men. This is TOMMY, the simple-minded handyman of the Lamasery.) TOMMY: Look. LUPTON: (Coldly.) Mister Lupton. TOMMY: Yeah, mister. (The simple handyman smiles down at the flower again.) TOMMY: Look...pretty. BARNES: Go and get on with your work, Tommy. You're not wanted here. TOMMY: Finished weeding - look, Barnes. (He holds the flower up to the second man.) TOMMY: Pretty flower... BARNES: Yes, I can see. Now go and find something else to do, will you? TOMMY: Er, gonna have a cuppa. (He grabs BARNES' arm in a friendly but tight hold.) TOMMY: Er, you like a cuppa? (To LUPTON.) Er, you like a cuppa, mister? BARNES: For pity's sake! (He shoves TOMMY away from him and onto the floor. The two men walk off, totally unconcerned about the man they leave behind.) LUPTON: Get the others together. There's no time to be lost. (TOMMY looks sadly at the departing men and then realises his hand is on the flower. He looks down at the crushed specimen.) TOMMY: Pretty...flower...poor pretty... 15: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (MIKE'S car speeds down a leafy lane towards the monastery. SARAH is trying to plug MIKE for information.) SARAH: It's a nice day. MIKE YATES: Yes, isn't it. SARAH: Oh, come on, Mike - out with it! MIKE YATES: Mmm? SARAH: What is it all about? MIKE YATES: I told you - it's a great story for that magazine of yours. SARAH: A couple of refugee Tibetan monks setting up a lamasery in darkest mummerset? MIKE YATES: It's not a lamasery. It's a meditation centre. SARAH: Okay, so maybe meditation's the in-thing. Maybe I can sell it to Percy. I still want to know what it's all about. Look, you'd better start at the beginning. I mean, what are you doing here anyway? MIKE YATES: Trying to sort myself out, I suppose, after that golden age mess. SARAH: Ah. MIKE YATES: I mean, like you said, everybody's going on about meditation of one sort or another, so I thought I'd have a crack at it. Then I saw in the paper about these two Tibetans. 16: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR (LUPTON'S group is sat around the mandala again in the cellar. KEAVER bangs the cymbals to begin the ceremony.) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. 17: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (SARAH and MIKE'S journey continues...) SARAH: Well it sounds to me as if these people are just getting on with their meditation. You know, doing a bit of homework. MIKE YATES: Then why be so secret about it? No, they're up to something. I think they're in touch with some...oh, I don't know - some power. It's definitely a job for UNIT. SARAH: Well then, you must tell the Brig or the Doctor. MIKE YATES: And you think they'd believe me? Last time we met I pulled a g*n on them. (SARAH smiles as she realises why she is there.) SARAH: Oh, now I get it! 18: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. (The chanting gets more intense.) LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. (LUPTON starts to almost shout his chant as he stares into space.) LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. (Through his mind's eye, he seems to see the road and the journey taken by the two people...) 19: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD SARAH: So, you want me to have a look round and then tell the Brig for you? MIKE YATES: That's the general idea. SARAH: (Unimpressed.) Mmm. MIKE YATES: Please? SARAH: Okay. MIKE YATES: Bless you, Sarah Jane. SARAH: You'll have to convince me though. MIKE YATES: Don't you worry. (They both look ahead. Suddenly, where a second ago there was an empty road, there is now a farmer on his tractor. MIKE steps hard on the brakes as SARAH holds up her hands in a reflex. MIKE turns the wheel round as hard as he can and the little sports car spins on the road and onto the verge. SARAH gasps with relief and the two look back at the road. There is no tractor. The road is empty and the only sign of life and movement is birdsong in the trees.) MIKE YATES: There's nothing there. SARAH: So you did see it? MIKE YATES: The tractor? Of course. (SARAH, shaking somewhat, nods her head.) SARAH: I'm convinced. 20: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (CLEGG is sat in a chair with a strange and futuristic pair on headphones attached to his head. From this runs a lead that the DOCTOR plugs into a small unit and then onto a device on the lab bench on which are a series of dials and buttons. On top of this is a monitor screen.) DOCTOR: You see, Brigadier, the electrocephalograph will show us his brainwaves on here as we carry out the tests. Right, let's try a little simple psycholotry, shall we? Er, Lethbridge Stewart, my dear fellow, would you like to give Mr. Clegg some little article of yours? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Mmm? Oh! Yes, yes, rather. (He takes off his wristwatch...) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Hmm. (...and hands it to CLEGG. The DOCTOR turns a dial on the device and three lines of pulse-like readings appear on the monitor.) DOCTOR: Right, ready when you are, Mr. Clegg. (CLEGG turns the watch over in his hands and stares into space with narrowed eyes.) PROFESSOR CLEGG: This watch was given to you...eleven years ago...you received it...in a hotel. Er...a hotel by the sea. Er, Brighton, was it? (The BRIGADIER starts to look uncomfortable.) PROFESSOR CLEGG: From a young lady called...er, Doris. She said it was to mark her gratitude to you... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Hastily.) Yes, all true! Absolutely spot on! (He almost snatches the watch back from CLEGG as the DOCTOR looks on with a little smile on his face.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Mmm. Well surely you've got enough, Doctor? DOCTOR: A little too much perhaps, eh, Alastair? (The DOCTOR grins as the BRIGADIER stalks away. The DOCTOR pulls another device over to CLEGG. It resembles a sort of all-over hairdryer on a large adjustable stanchion.) DOCTOR: Right, this is what we call the IRIS machine... (He switches it on and it gives out a loud humming sound. The DOCTOR crosses to another device next to it – a second monitor screen.) DOCTOR: ...or Image Reproduction Integrating System. It translates your thoughts into pictures on this monitor here. (The DOCTOR reaches into his jacket pocket and pulls out his sonic screwdriver which he gives to CLEGG.) DOCTOR: Try this, will you? (CLEGG turns the screwdriver over in his fingers as the DOCTOR and the BRIGADIER stare at the monitor. For a moment only static appears. Then an image of a fearsome creature from the DOCTOR'S past – a Drashig! The large dragon rears up out of the marshes within a section of Vorg's scope on Inter Minor. CLEGG looks down at the screwdriver, his eyes opening wide in horror. The BRIGADIER looks at the DOCTOR in shock. He smiles and turns back to the screen where he sees himself using the screwdriver to ignite the marsh gas, enveloping the Drashigs in flame. The extraordinary images are intercut with flashes of static.) 21: INT. LAMASERY. SITTING ROOM (SARAH has been introduced to CHO-JE and, with MIKE, they are in the sitting room as SARAH conducts her interview and scribbles on her notepad.) CHO-JE: We can but point a finger along the way. A man must go inside and face his fears and hopes, his hates and his loves and watch them wither away. Then he will find his true self. It is no self. He will see his true mind - which is no mind. SARAH: And...that's what meditation's all about? CHO-JE: Yes! Then old man must die and the new man will discover to his inexpressible joy that he has never existed! (CHO-JE smiles with great glee.) SARAH: (To MIKE.) Well, good luck, mate! MIKE YATES: I think I'm gonna need it! (They join CHO-JE in his giggles.) SARAH: But, if you do start ferreting about in your subconscious, aren't you going to turn up all sorts of nasties? I mean, complexes, phobias and what have you? CHO-JE: Of course, the demons and the divinities? SARAH: Mmm. CHO-JE: But in our way - the Vajrayana Way - we use the powers to help us. If we will excuse me, it's time for the meditation class. (He gets up and heads for the door.) MIKE YATES: But couldn't that be dangerous - if these...these powers were used wrongly. CHO-JE: It could be so, yes, by evil men in their ignorance and craving, it could indeed be most dangerous. MIKE YATES: I see. (CHO-JE gives him a knowing smile.) CHO-JE: Such a thing could never happen here. 22: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (CLEGG still holds the sonic screwdriver with a shocked look on his face.) PROFESSOR CLEGG: I'm sorry, I...I saw...well, just fantasies! BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Don't worry, Professor, you're doing very well. DOCTOR: Indeed you are, Professor - indeed you are. (The DOCTOR takes the screwdriver back off him and pockets it.) DOCTOR: Now - erm, do you feel up to bending the odd fork? (Before the PROFESSOR can answer, SERGEANT BENTON walks in with a small parcel in his hand.) SERGEANT BENTON: Doctor, I... (He fails to see the BRIGADIER but does spot the IRIS device above the PROFESSOR. He smiles.) SERGEANT BENTON: Oh, doing a bit of hairdressing on the side, eh? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Benton... (BENTON turns at the sound of the warning voice.) SERGEANT BENTON: Sorry, sir, I didn't see you there. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What do you want? SERGEANT BENTON: Well this package, sir. It's just arrived by express post. I thought it may be urgent. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, for the Doctor or for me? SERGEANT BENTON: Well, that's just it. It's addressed to the Doctor or Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart or Captain Yates or, er, Sergeant Benton. It's from South America, sir. DOCTOR: Well, from Jo? SERGEANT BENTON: Well, I reckon so. DOCTOR: Well let's take a look. (He takes the package from BENTON and is about to open it when a thought strikes him.) DOCTOR: Well, no, wait a minute. I've got a better idea. Er, Mr. Clegg. Would you like to tell us what's inside this package? (CLEGG takes the proffered parcel from the DOCTOR'S hands. His hands start to feel the wrapping and his eyes narrow in puzzlement.) PROFESSOR CLEGG: This has come a long way... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Smiles.) Yes, of course, from the Amazon. Sergeant Benton just told you. DOCTOR: Brigadier, please! (CLEGG continues...) PROFESSOR CLEGG: From beyond the stars...er...could it be a meteorite? Oh...it's beautiful. A gemstone...a blue jewel... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (To the DOCTOR.) Lord, not that stone of yours? DOCTOR: The crystal from Metebelis Three. Thank you, Mr. Clegg. (He takes the packet from the little man.) DOCTOR: Let's take a look, shall we? (He rips open the packaging and holds up a familiar blue stone.) DOCTOR: Well, well, well. 23: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY (MIKE is showing SARAH around the Lamasery. The tour has ended in the deserted passageway. From beyond a door comes a constant chanting.) MIKE YATES: And that...that's about it. SARAH: Where is everybody though? MIKE YATES: In there, most of them. (He points at the door. On it is hung a sign which reads: MEDITATION ROOM PLEASE BE QUIET SARAH: Well, that's more like it. Can I have a look? (She heads for the door with a smile.) MIKE YATES: Well, I don't think... SARAH: Now, that sweet little lama said to show me everything, didn't he? MIKE YATES: Yes, but he didn't mean you to... SARAH: Well, come on then. MIKE YATES: Alright, but for heaven's sake be quiet. (SARAH shushes him and quietly opens the door.) 24: INT. LAMASERY. MEDITATION ROOM (They peep round the door. In a well-furnished room, the students at the Lamasery are sat in two rows facing each other. MOSS and LAND are among them. At the end of one of the rows is CHO-JE. SARAH notices with a frown that no one in the room is chanting. She looks down and sees that the sounds come from a reel-to-reel tape recorder at her feet. She looks up at MIKE for an explanation.) MIKE YATES: (Whispers.) It helps with the meditation. SARAH: (Whispers.) What are they meditating about? MIKE YATES: (Whispers.) Not about anything, but just...meditating. Watch. SARAH: (Whispers.) So what are they watching? MIKE YATES: (Whispers.) They're ment*lly watching their tummies...go up and down as they breathe. (SARAH smiles.) SARAH: (Whispers.) Like contemplating their belly buttons. MIKE YATES: (Whispers.) You could put it like that. Come on. (They retreat back into the passageway and close the door.) 25: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY SARAH: Well, I hope you all know what you're on about. MIKE YATES: It probably seems a bit daft. SARAH: Oh. MIKE YATES: It's an exercise in awareness really. (He checks his watch.) MIKE YATES: Hey! Come on, it's time we hid in the cellar. SARAH: Oh! Right. (They turn a corner...and walk straight into the sinister forms of LUPTON and BARNES who smile at the pair.) LUPTON: Good afternoon, my brother. MIKE YATES: Good afternoon. (LUPTON looks inquiringly at SARAH who coughs at MIKE to introduce her.) MIKE YATES: Oh, er, this is Sarah Jane Smith. She works for "Metropolitan", you know - the magazine. LUPTON: Yes, I know. Cho-je mentioned that you would be coming. MIKE YATES: (Puzzled.) Did he? When? LUPTON: This afternoon. I trust you had an...informative visit. SARAH: Oh, er, yes. Yes, thank you, most pleasant. (There is an awkward silence as LUPTON stares at SARAH.) SARAH: Well, after a bad start, that is... (LUPTON puts on a frown and a show of puzzlement.) LUPTON: A bad start? SARAH: Yes, well, Mike and I were driving down the road... MIKE YATES: (Interrupts.) Oh, we had a little accident. SARAH: Accident?! A... MIKE YATES: (Interrupts.) The car ran off the road. LUPTON: (In mock concern.) You were lucky to escape. The roads round here can be very dangerous - very dangerous indeed. (MIKE and LUPTON stare at each other.) MIKE YATES: I take your point. LUPTON: (Firmly.) Good. (To SARAH.) You must stay and share our meal with us. SARAH: (Smiles.) Oh, great! MIKE YATES: (Hastily.) I'm afraid that we've no time. LUPTON: Well, at least have a cup of tea. SARAH: (With relief.) Oh, now you're talking! MIKE YATES: Er...no, unfortunately Miss Smith has to leave right away. SARAH: But I... MIKE YATES: (Interrupts.) If you don't go now you'll miss your train. (He takes her arm and almost drags her away.) SARAH: We've got hours yet! MIKE YATES: I think you must have mis-read your timetables. SARAH: Oh! (To LUPTON.) 'Scuse me! ... (As MIKE and SARAH move out of view, LUPTON and BARNES look at each other.) 26: EXT. LAMASERY (The ornate double front door of the country house open and MIKE and SARAH step out.) SARAH: Look, I just don't understand you. (MIKE doesn't reply. He heads towards his sports car and gets in. SARAH has no choice but to follow.) SARAH: You said you want me to see for myself and now you... (MIKE starts the car up.) SARAH: ...suddenly take off. (The car almost does take off as the pebbles off the drive sh**t into the air from under the tyres as the MGB screeches away.) 27: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY (LUPTON steps away from the window from where he has witnessed the departure and turns to BARNES.) LUPTON: I don't think we shall have any more trouble. That young man's scared out of his wits. Warn the others. We carry on as planned. (LUPTON and BARNES head in separate directions down the passageway.) 28: EXT. LAMASERY DRIVEWAY (MIKE drives at speed down the driveway of the house.) SARAH: Look, what's it all about? MIKE YATES: That was Lupton. SARAH: We... Oh, so that's why you pinched me. I'll be bruised for a week. MIKE YATES: You heard what he said - he'd been told you were coming. SARAH: So? MIKE YATES: Well don't you see? He must have been responsible for that hallucination - that non-existent tractor. He tried to k*ll us. 29: EXT. ENTRANCE GATES TO LAMASERY (MIKE drives out of the gates of the house and pulls up. He switches off the engine.) SARAH: So why are we running away? MIKE YATES: We're not. (He gets out of the car and smiles down at SARAH.) MIKE YATES: We're letting him think we're running away. Now we'll go back on foot. (SARAH tuts and smiles.) SARAH: The fiendish cunning of the man! (She gets out and follows him a short distance to where he is able to help her up to the railings, prior to climbing over.) 30: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (EVENING) (As dusk falls, the DOCTOR, frowning, attempts to read Jo's hand-written letter.) DOCTOR: (Reads.) "And we're at our twenty-eighth native village." No, hang about - twenty-ninth. (To BENTON.) Switch on the light, for me, Sergeant, will you? SERGEANT BENTON: Alright. (BENTON switches on the lab light and the DOCTOR continues with the letter.) DOCTOR: (Reads.) "We haven't found our toadstool yet, and we're not likely to if I don't get rid of this crystal." (Intent on the contents of the letter, neither the DOCTOR nor the UNIT men notice CLEGG as he picks up the aforementioned crystal off the bench and starts to look at it.) DOCTOR: (Reads.) "You see, the Indian porters say it's bad magic. Like it goes or they go. So, Doctor, if you're away on a cheap day-trip to Mars, perhaps you could look after it for me, Brigadier? Or if you're away in Geneva, how about it, Mike? Or my lovely Sergeant Benton?" (BENTON grins.) DOCTOR: (Reads.) "I must say I miss you all very much..." (CLEGG continues to stare at the crystal, turning it over in his hands.) 31: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY (EVENING) (MIKE has opened a sash window and he helps SARAH to finish climbing through it.) SARAH: (Whispers.) Thanks. (MIKE lowers the window and they are about to make for the cellar when a voice booms behind them, causing them to jump.) TOMMY: Why are you climbing in the window? MIKE YATES: Er, yes, yes, I... TOMMY: Play games? MIKE YATES: Er, that's right - just playing a little game. (They attempt to move off but TOMMY follows.) TOMMY: Tom likes games. (Hopefully.) Tom play game too? SARAH: (Quietly.) Er...tell you what, Tom... TOMMY: Who are you? SARAH: (Quietly.) Erm, oh, my name is Sarah - Sarah Jane Smith. TOMMY: (Smiles.) Tom likes you, Sarah Jane Smith. SARAH: (Quietly.) Oh, well, you see, Tom, this game...it's called "secrets", and its a secret that I'm here. (She puts a finger to her lips and "shushes". TOMMY smiles and repeats the movement.) SARAH: (Quietly.) Yeah, so, you won't tell anyone, will you? (But TOMMY'S avaricious gaze has fallen, like a magpie, onto a silver broach that SARAH is wearing.) TOMMY: Ah, that's pretty... SARAH: (Quietly.) Would you like it? (She takes the broach off and hands it to TOMMY.) SARAH: (Quietly.) There, now careful not to prick yourself. TOMMY: Oh, it's pretty! (Totally taken with his new trinket, TOMMY lumbers away.) MIKE YATES: (Whispers.) A shameless display of feminine wiles! Come on! SARAH: (Whispers.) Nonsense! MIKE YATES: (Whispers.) Shh! (He goes to the door that leads to the cellar ante-room.) 32: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR ANTE-ROOM (EVENING) (He opens the door and they step in, going quietly down the first short flight of steps.) 33: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR (EVENING) (The enter the cellar. It is empty. The cushions, cymbals and mandala are in place ready for the ceremony.) MIKE YATES: (Whispers.) They're obviously just about to start. Let's find somewhere to hide. (Suddenly, they hear movement above.) LUPTON: (OOV: Outside the cellar.) Well, now ... SARAH: (Whispers.) Listen! MIKE YATES: (Whispers.) Hide behind here, quick! (He pulls her into an alcove behind a pillar.) LUPTON: (OOV: Outside the cellar.) Find out ... (SARAH walks straight into a spider's web and stifles a cry. She realises that she's making too much noise and falls quiet. The two duck down and wait. The door to the cellar opens and the five men walk in. MIKE and SARAH move round the pillar, keeping out of sight of the new arrivals as they take their accustomed places. KEAVER picks up the cymbals and clashes them. The chant starts.) GROUP: Om, Om, Om, Om (MIKE and SARAH watch.) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. 34: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (EVENING) (The DOCTOR is still reading the letter. CLEGG'S eyes narrow in fear as he looks at the crystal in his outstretched hands. A blue glow is starting to emit from it.) DOCTOR: (Reads.) "And the coffee's just about as filthy as UNIT tea - if that's possible. I must go now, or I'll miss the next cleft-stick to civilisation..." (Suddenly a strange force plucks the letter from the DOCTOR'S hands. Before he or the soldiers can react, the room starts to shake throwing them from side to side. A howling wind starts up and jars and bottles fall from the shelves. Interspersed with the wind is a reverberating sound which causes BENTON to try and clamp his hands over his ears as he also struggles to remain on his feet.) 35: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR (EVENING) (The sound is also heard in the cellar but the men round the mandala don't seem to notice it as they continue their chant.) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... padme hum... 36: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (EVENING) (As the BRIGADIER and BENTON struggle to remain upright, the DOCTOR staggers across the lab in the face of the roaring wind towards where CLEGG still sits in his chair, swaying slightly as he stares at the crystal. The DOCTOR reaches the little man, stretches out a hand and grasps the crystal from his hands. CLEGG cries out in pain and falls back in his seat. The wind stops as does the swaying of the room which falls silent as the DOCTOR feels for a pulse from CLEGG.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I'll get the M.O. DOCTOR: You're too late, Brigadier - he's d*ad. 37: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR (EVENING) (SARAH and MIKE are getting nervous as the ceremony continues.) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (LUPTON'S voice rises to a crescendo again...) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (SARAH looks on in open-mouthed shock...) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (...as a blue glow fills the centre of the mandala...) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (...and, as the glow subsides, a twitching, two-foot wide spider materialises in its place...)
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PLANET OF THE SPIDERS BY: ROBERT SLOMAN PART TWO Original Air Date: 11 May, 1974 5:40pm - 6:05pm 1: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR (EVENING) (The ceremony continues...) LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (LUPTON'S voice rises to a crescendo again...) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (SARAH looks on in open-mouthed shock...) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (...as a blue glow fills the centre of the mandala...) GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. LUPTON: Om mani... GROUP: Om. LUPTON: ...padme hum. (...and, as the glow subsides, a twitching, two-foot wide spider materialises in its place. The chanting abruptly stops as SARAH grabs MIKE'S hand. The five men hastily jump up and back from the mandala. KEAVER is most frightened. Crying out is terror, he runs for the steps. A blue arc of energy sh**t out from the spider and hits the fleeing man in the legs. He falls down to the floor, unconscious. Collecting himself, LUPTON holds up his outstretched hands to the manifestation and speaks as sonorously as he can...) LUPTON: Go! I command you - go! (The SPIDER suddenly speaks. Its voice is thin, feminine, slightly resonating and full of menace...) SPIDER: I have come to give you the power you seek. (Any shock that LUPTON feels at the sound of the voice is subsumed by the choice of its words...) LUPTON: Power? SPIDER: Turn around. (LUPTON naturally hesitates.) SPIDER: Turn around, I say! (Slowly, he turns and faces the wall. As the other men – and SARAH and MIKE – watch, the SPIDER flexes on its eight legs...and jumps. It clamps itself to LUPTON'S back and the man gives out a startled cry, causing SARAH to jump. Hanging down off LUPTON'S shoulders, the SPIDER fades away and vanishes. A small smile appears on LUPTON'S face. He flexes his shoulders slightly and turns to face the other men. SARAH watches open-eyed in shock.) 2: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (NIGHT) (It is now night. CLEGG'S body has been taken from the laboratory.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, what did the man die of? Did the crystal k*ll him? DOCTOR: No, I don't see how it could have done. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well he was looking at it when he died. (BENTON enters.) SERGEANT BENTON: The police have gone, sir. The Inspector said he'd give you a ring later. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Right, thank you, Benton. DOCTOR: Well wait a minute. Now there is a chance... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: A chance of what? DOCTOR: Well, Professor Clegg was attached to this IRIS machine when he died. Perhaps it recorded his thoughts? (The DOCTOR steps towards the machine and presses a switch. There is the sound of a tape running backwards for a moment and then the DOCTOR presses a switch to play. The BRIGADIER and BENTON step forward to look at the monitor. On it is shown a writhing, swirling mass of...) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Spiders? 3: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR (NIGHT) (As LUPTON and BARNES watch on, MOSS and LAND help the recovering KEAVER to his feet. SARAH and MIKE are still in their place of concealment and are also watching developments.) KEAVER: What happened? That...spider! (He looks round in fear.) KEAVER: Where is it? LUPTON: Now go to your rooms. (He holds up a hand to forestall further argument.) LUPTON: But remember - not a word of this to a living soul. (The three men go up the steps. LUPTON is about to follow but a concerned BARNES calls him back.) BARNES: Lupton, are you feeling alright? LUPTON: (Confidently.) Of course, I am. Never felt better. (He too goes up the steps and leaves the cellar, followed by BARNES. SARAH listens to them go.) 4: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (NIGHT) (The DOCTOR switches off the IRIS machine.) DOCTOR: Well, there's only one thing to do now. SERGEANT BENTON: Well, what's that, Doctor? DOCTOR: I must look into the crystal myself. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Isn't that rather dangerous? I mean, look what happened last time. DOCTOR: I'll bear it in mind, Brigadier. (The DOCTOR heads towards the crystal on a stand on the lab bench.) SERGEANT BENTON: But, Doctor? DOCTOR: Mmm? SERGEANT BENTON: Well, wouldn't it be best for me to have a go first? I mean, I'm expendable and you're not. DOCTOR: Well I'm already responsible for the death of one man, Sergeant. Thanks just the same. 5: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY (NIGHT) (MIKE helps SARAH through the same sash window that they made their entrance in. She sits on the ledge and makes a last plea...) SARAH: (Quietly.) Look, you're sure you won't come too? MIKE YATES: (Whispers.) And if I went they'd guess I was onto them. No, it's mu...much better you go by yourself. Let the Doc and the Brig know what's going on. SARAH: (Whispers.) Okay. (She slips through the window but leans back in.) SARAH: (Quietly.) Hey, Mike! MIKE YATES: (Whispers.) What? SARAH: (Whispers.) I don't know what is going on. MIKE YATES: (Whispers.) Just tell them everything you saw. Off you go. SARAH: (Quietly.) Well, what are you going to do? MIKE YATES: (Whispers.) I'm going to try and get into the Abbot - tell him all about it. (SARAH sighs in resignation.) SARAH: (Quietly.) Do be careful, hmm? (She ducks out of the window and MIKE closes the sash. He suddenly hears LUPTON'S voice.) LUPTON: (OOV: Down the passageway.) This is only the first stage, you see? (MIKE closes the curtains on the window.) BARNES: (OOV: Down the passageway.) Well, I still don't understand what happened. (MIKE quickly moves off as LUPTON and a shaken BARNES walk down the passageway.) LUPTON: I'm only just beginning to understand myself. BARNES: And, that...that...that spider - what was it? One of those Tibetan demons Cho-je warned us about? LUPTON: Well, that's what he would say - but he'd be wrong. BARNES: Where did it go? LUPTON: It didn't. (He smiles at BARNES.) LUPTON: It's still here. BARNES: (Amazed.) Still there? Do you mean...you can still feel it on your back? LUPTON: Our minds are joined together. If I...concentrate...I can hear it speaking to me. (LUPTON does so and hears the thin, insistent and contemptuous voice...) SPIDER: (OOV.) This man is stupid. Send him away. LUPTON: Very well. BARNES: Was it speaking to you then? LUPTON: It was. BARNES: What did it say? LUPTON: It said you looked tired and you...should be in bed. BARNES: (Sighs.) I'll never be able to sleep a wink. To think I came here to get peace of mind. LUPTON: Well, I'll see you in the morning, and don't worry, I know what I'm doing. (He gives BARNES a friendly pat on the shoulder. Rubbing his eyes, the man walks down the passageway and off to his room. LUPTON watches him go but suddenly twitches as he feels the SPIDER within him do the same. He frowns.) LUPTON: What is it? SPIDER: (OOV: Eagerly.) The crystal! I can feel it! Concentrate, Lupton - concentrate! LUPTON: (Puzzled.) What crystal? SPIDER: (OOV.) It is why I have come - to find the crystal and get it back. It will give us power - the power we both seek - concentrate! (LUPTON takes breath and stares into the distance.) LUPTON: I can see a man...staring into a blue light...the light of a crystal... (In his mind's eye, he sees the blue glow from the Metebelis crystal.) LUPTON: ...a blue crystal... 6: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (NIGHT) (The DOCTOR is indeed staring into the Metebelis crystal which is held up in a lab bench clamp. He is in a deep trance and impervious to the worried entreaties of the BRIGADIER who is stood next to him.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Doctor? (The DOCTOR doesn't move his position.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Good grief! (He calls out into the corridor.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Sergeant Benton? SERGEANT BENTON: (OOV: In corridor.) Yes, sir? (BENTON walks in with a cup of coffee on a tray.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Oh, there you are. Looks as if we have an emergency on our hands. I can't get him to come round. Damn silly idea. Thought so all along. (He picks up the lab phone.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone.) Give me the M.O. - quickly. (Looking worried himself, BENTON moves over to the DOCTOR...) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone.) Oh, is that you, Sullivan? Get over to the lab straight away. (...and puts the cup of hot coffee down in front of him. Suddenly and without moving...) DOCTOR: Absolutely beautiful. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What's that, Doctor? (The DOCTOR takes a deep breath...) DOCTOR: Oh, the smell of that coffee. Thank you, Sergeant. (...and picks up the cup with an appreciative smile.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into phone.) Forget it, Sullivan. (He slams the phone down.) DOCTOR: (To BENTON.) You know, I've always said that next to Mrs. Samuel Pepys you make the finest cup of coffee in the world. SERGEANT BENTON: (Proudly.) Thank you very much, Doctor. Actually the secret of it is, is to get the water... BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Interrupting impatiently.) Yeah, look, never mind the dratted coffee! What about the spiders? (The DOCTOR takes a sip and looks puzzled.) DOCTOR: Spiders? BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Patiently.) The ones in the crystal. DOCTOR: Oh yes. (Pensively.) You know, Brigadier, when I was a young man, there was an old hermit who lived half way up a mountain just behind our house. Well, I spent some of the finest hours of my life with that old man. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: What are you talking about? DOCTOR: And it was from him I first learnt how to look into my mind. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: The crystal, Doctor! DOCTOR: And that's what I'm trying to tell you, Brigadier. When I looked into that crystal, all I could see was the face of my old teacher... 7: INT. LAMASERY. HALLWAY (NIGHT) (MIKE starts to ascend the stairs in the hallway when TOMMY'S hand clamps down on his arm.) TOMMY: Go ta bed, Yates. MIKE YATES: But I must see K'anpo. TOMMY: K'anpo Tommy's friend. He...he like to be alone. Now go ta bed! MIKE YATES: But Tom...! TOMMY: (Interrupts.) I fetch Cho-Je, or I h*t you! (He raises a powerful fist, despite looking sorry to do so.) MIKE YATES: No, no...don't do that. I won't go up. TOMMY: Good. (Smiles gently.) Tommy don't like to h*t you. (Suddenly, his magpie eyes catch the glint of a silver pendant hanging round MIKE'S neck.) TOMMY: (Breathlessly.) Oh, that's pretty! (MIKE takes the pendant off and hangs it over TOMMY'S head.) MIKE YATES: Here you are - yours. TOMMY: For Tommy? (MIKE nods. TOMMY wanders off, seemingly oblivious to anything but his new present.) TOMMY: Oh...ah...that's pretty. (MIKE looks up the stairs but TOMMY swings round.) TOMMY: Go ta bed...mister. (He turns back to his present and wanders off.) TOMMY: Go ta bed. (MIKE waits for him to go out of sight, sneaks a glance round and is about to try and tread the stairs again when another more sinister voice booms out.) LUPTON: What excellent advice! (Smiling, LUPTON rounds the corner.) LUPTON: Time for all good little boys to go to bed - don't you agree? MIKE YATES: Oh... (Coughs.) ...yes, yes. (But he doesn't move. LUPTON nods down the corridor towards MIKE'S room.) LUPTON: Goodnight. MIKE YATES: Goodnight. (MIKE gives up and walks off. LUPTON watches him go.) 8: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (It is the next day. SARAH, wearing a stylish grey jacket and red-check collar and cuffs and a red woollen hat, paces the DOCTOR'S laboratory, trying to put together a coherent story. The DOCTOR, not even half-listening, examines the crystal in his hand.) DOCTOR: Of course I'm listening, Sarah. Go on - what happened next? (He puts the crystal down on the sensor plate of a device and makes notes on a clipboard while the machine beeps away.) SARAH: Well, then we climbed in the building, you see, and went straight down to the cellar. DOCTOR: (Not listening.) Hmm mm. SARAH: Oh, no, not straight down, because of Tommy. Oh, but he's not really mixed up in this. At least, I suppose he isn't. DOCTOR: Oh, that's fascinating. SARAH: Mmm? (The DOCTOR points to an oscilloscope-type screen.) DOCTOR: The crystal lattice is equally balanced from right to left. Remarkable... SARAH: (Annoyed.) You see, you're not listening to a word! DOCTOR: Yes, of course I am. You went down into the cellar to see if Tommy was still there - right? SARAH: Half-right. Oh please, do try to pay attention, Doctor? DOCTOR: Probably analogous to the laser. (SARAH gives a moan of despair.) DOCTOR: Well, go on! I'm listening. SARAH: Right. (But he turns back to his clipboard as SARAH restarts her pacing.) SARAH: So, there they all were in the cellar, chanting away like billy-o, and all of a sudden, this...giant spider appeared and jumped on Lupton's back! (The DOCTOR looks at the read-out again.) DOCTOR: It's coherent thought! SARAH: (Her patience tried.) Oh, Doctor, really! DOCTOR: (Smiles.) A scientific pun. (Suddenly, the smile disappears off his face. He spins round on his chair and faces SARAH.) DOCTOR: What did you say? SARAH: I said "really"! This is important but you're so interested in that wretched...! (He jumps off his chair and crosses to her.) DOCTOR: No, no, no, - be...before that. What did you say before that? Did you say "spider"? SARAH: That's right. (He takes her hands and his voice grows grave.) DOCTOR: Now listen to me, Sarah - this is very important. Tell me the whole story - right from the beginning! SARAH: Oh...! (She rolls her eyes...) 9: EXT. UNIT HQ. CAR PARK (A UNIT SOLDIER is servicing the DOCTOR'S futuristic silver car. Taking a windscreen panel off, something suddenly catches his eye across the car park.) SOLDIER: 'Scuse me, sir. Can I help you? (It is LUPTON, jauntily walking towards the main building.) LUPTON: Oh, thanks very much. Erm, where's the Doctor? SOLDIER: Oh, the medical officer? Well, this time of the day, he'll... LUPTON: No, no, no, no, the...other Doctor. SOLDIER: Oh, yes, of course. In his lab, I should think. (Nods.) It's, er, through that door over there. LUPTON: Thanks very much. (LUPTON turns towards the indicated direction.) SOLDIER: Oh, hang about, sir. May I see your pass? LUPTON: (Puzzled.) Pass? SOLDIER: Didn't they give you one at the main gate, sir? LUPTON: (Smiles.) Oh! Yes, of course, how stupid of me! Here... (He reaches into his pocket as if to get out the pass, but the hand that comes out is empty. LUPTON points his fingers at the SOLDIER and an arc of blue energy, identical to the one that h*t KEAVER in the cellar, slams into the SOLDIER. He clutches his chest and falls to the ground.) 10: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (SARAH has told the DOCTOR her story and sits looking at the crystal on its sensor stand as the DOCTOR finishes his side of the recent events.) DOCTOR: So you see, it's after seeing these spiders that he died. So there must be some connection. SARAH: Where did the crystal come from anyway? DOCTOR: Oh, I brought it back some time ago from a planet called Metebelis Three. SARAH: (Smiles.) I've never heard of it. DOCTOR: Well, you wouldn't have done. It's also called the blue planet because the moonlight is blue, you see? SARAH: Oh. And did you just happen to stumble across the planet and find this crystal, accidental like? DOCTOR: Oh no, I went there deliberately to fetch it. It has strange properties, a Metebelis crystal. It can affect the mind. SARAH: Mind? You mean it could drive someone mad? DOCTOR: No, just the opposite usually. It clears the mind and amplifies its power. SARAH: But it could be used for evil purposes? DOCTOR: Oh, yes, of course - if the mind operating it was motivated by evil. SARAH: So, if the giant spiders on Metebelis Three wanted that crystal back...? DOCTOR: But there aren't any giant spiders on Metebelis Three. At least there weren't any when I was there. 11: INT. UNIT HQ. CORRIDOR (LUPTON quickly moves along a brick-lined corridor but stops at a junction, looking round to get his bearings. SERGEANT BENTON comes up behind him.) SERGEANT BENTON: Excuse me, sir? LUPTON: Yes? SERGEANT BENTON: You have a pass, of course? LUPTON: Oh yes, of course. (He waves an impatient hand and walks on round a corner. BENTON quickly follows.) SERGEANT BENTON: Hey - wait! (LUPTON raises his hand again and blasts the SERGEANT down. He writhes on the ground.) 12: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (The DOCTOR sits on a chair, thinking furiously while SARAH continues to stare at the blue jewel. They fail to see LUPTON moving behind the frosted glass partition towards the window in the door.) DOCTOR: Wait a minute - there could be a time difference. SARAH: Come again? Oh, I get it! You mean the spiders come from an earlier era than your visit? DOCTOR: Or a later one. (LUPTON spots the crystal.) SARAH: Well, what if you're wrong? DOCTOR: No, just...wait a minute. Give me a chance to work this thing out. 13: INT. UNIT HQ. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE LABORATORY (LUPTON steps away from the door and speaks to the SPIDER in his mind.) LUPTON: It's there! The blue crystal - it must be the one! SPIDER: (OOV.) Of course it is! You forget I can see through your eyes. Now...concentrate! Concentrate! (LUPTON does so, screwing up his eyes with the mental effort.) 14: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (SARAH smiles down at the crystal as the DOCTOR continues to think in his chair across the lab.) SARAH: You know, this is barmy! Here am I, calmly discussing fabulous planets with blue moons, giant spiders, magic crystals, as if I was talking about...erm, pussycats, fish and chips and the Liverpool docks! DOCTOR: Well, they're just as real. SARAH: Oh, I know but that's what gets me. (The crystal suddenly fades away.) SARAH: Doctor! (The DOCTOR looks up as SARAH touches the empty space where the crystal once stood.) 15: INT. UNIT HQ. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE LABORATORY (The crystal is in LUPTON'S hand. He comes out of his reverie of concentration, smiles down at his acquisition and moves off.) 16: INT. UNIT HQ. CORRIDOR (BENTON has got somewhat unsteadily to his feet. LUPTON comes round the corner.) SERGEANT BENTON: Here! What are you doing...? (With slightly less finesse than earlier, LUPTON punches the burly man in the stomach. With a cry, BENTON ends up back on the ground. LUPTON runs off. A second later, the DOCTOR and SARAH run up to the fallen man and help him up.) DOCTOR: What happened, Sergeant? Somebody att*ck you? SERGEANT BENTON: Yes, and he's got that crystal of yours, Doctor - come on! (The three rush off down the corridor.) 17: EXT. UNIT HQ. CAR PARK (LUPTON runs out of the main HQ building and across the car park. Suddenly he sees the BRIGADIER walking towards him. He stops and looks round to see BENTON, the DOCTOR and SARAH come out the building behind him.) SERGEANT BENTON: (Shouts, to the BRIGADIER.) Sir! Stop him! (The BRIGADIER instantly pulls his revolver out of his holster and points it at the thief.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Put your hands in the air! (LUPTON ignores him and runs towards the DOCTOR'S silver car. As the three people from the building close in, the BRIGADIER starts f*ring at him but LUPTON gets into the car and drives off at speed. The BRIGADIER rests his sh**ting arm against a UNIT vehicle to steady his arm at the escaping car. He fires a sh*t but the DOCTOR reaches him and pulls his arm down.) DOCTOR: No, no, Brigadier! You'll damage my car! (Behind him, BENTON is in the driving seat of Bessie. He starts the roadster up and screeches up to the DOCTOR.) SERGEANT BENTON: Here you are, Doctor! (SARAH and the BRIGADIER pile into the car.) DOCTOR: Well done, Sergeant! Take me to the airstrip. We'll spot him from the air. (The DOCTOR stands on the running board as BENTON drives off.) 18: EXT. ROAD OUTSIDE UNIT HQ (LUPTON speeds away from UNIT HQ, the perimeter fence on his right.) 19: EXT. AIRSTRIP (Bessie arrives at the deserted airstrip and the DOCTOR climbs down.) DOCTOR: Get after him, Lethbridge Stewart. I'll contact you by R/T. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Move over, Benton. (As the two soldiers swap places, the DOCTOR runs over to a small one-man gyrocopter.) SERGEANT BENTON: Okay, sir. (The DOCTOR picks up a helmet as he climbs into the seat.) 20: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (LUPTON tears down another road, a smile on his face.) 21: EXT. ROAD OUTSIDE UNIT HQ (Bessie and its three passengers speed away from UNIT and the airstrip.) 22: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (LUPTON takes a corner which dips down between some hedged fields at some speed.) 23: EXT. AIRSTRIP (The DOCTOR is helmeted and sat in the gyrocopter. Its blades start to gather speed.) 24: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (Bessie takes the same corner as LUPTON, also at speed.) 25: EXT. AIRSTRIP (The gyrocopter moves down the runway and takes off.) 26: EXT. FORK IN THE ROAD (LUPTON reaches a fork in the country road and takes the right-hand option.) 27: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (Bessie still gives chase.) 28: EXT. GYROCOPTER (Up in the air, the DOCTOR looks down and speaks into a radio.) DOCTOR: (Into radio.) Hello, Brigadier? Look, is this thing working? Can you hear me? Over. 29: EXT. BESSIE BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Into radio.) Loud and clear, Doctor. Have you had a sight of him? Over. 30: EXT. ANOTHER FORK IN THE ROAD (LUPTON comes to another fork and this time goes left.) 31: EXT. GYROCOPTER DOCTOR: (Into radio.) Yes, he's getting away from you. Take the next right fork. Try and cut him off. Out. 32: EXT. ANOTHER FORK IN THE ROAD (The BRIGADIER takes the direction indicated as above the gyrocopter follows.) 33: EXT. ROAD JUNCTION (The route saves precious moments and Bessie has now caught up with the silver car at the next junction. LUPTON suddenly looks concerned and looks behind him to see the yellow roadster on his tail. He puts his foot down but suddenly hears a buzzing sound. He looks up and sees the gyrocopter also in pursuit. Somewhat open-mouthed at his opponents' tenacity, he powers on.) 34: EXT. LAY-BY (A small police panda car sits in a lay-by. The slightly corpulent POLICEMAN within pushes his hat back and picks up the radio.) POLICEMAN: (Into radio.) Panda three to control. I'm at the junction of Mallet Lane with Athenum Road. Nothing to report, over. CONTROL: (OOV: Over radio.) Received, Panda Three. Your message timed at ten-fifteen, out. (The POLICEMAN suddenly sits up as the strange procession of vehicles drives and flies past. He seems to wake up and yells into his radio.) POLICEMAN: (Into radio.) Panda Three to control - I've just spotted a silver hovercraft being chased by an old crock at ninety miles an hour - and there's a little tiny helicopter after them both! I...I'm in pursuit, over! CONTROL: (OOV: Over radio.) Thank you, Panda Three. Signal if you need assistance. (Control suddenly takes note of the message.) CONTROL: (OOV: Over radio.) What did you say? (The POLICEMAN starts up his panda car, screeches round in a circle and gives chase.) 35: EXT. ANOTHER FORK IN THE ROAD (Going at break-neck speed, the silver car turns to the right at another fork and Bessie follows. The police panda car comes up a moment later and takes the right hand road onwards. However, the car comes to a sudden halt. The POLICEMAN looks out of his window, puts his car in a fast reverse and takes the correct route.) 36: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (Bessie is just keeping up enough to be able to keep the silver car in sight. However, once out of sight, LUPTON takes a sudden turn to the right. As the BRIGADIER turns in the swerve in the road, the DOCTOR'S silver car is nowhere to be seen.) 37: EXT. GYROCOPTER (Up above, the Gyrocopter keeps up with the movements of the vehicles on the ground. The DOCTOR speaks into his radio...) DOCTOR: (Into radio.) He's turned off to the right, Brigadier. I say again - he's turned off to the right. 38: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (Bessie takes the correct turn.) 39: EXT. GYROCOPTER (The DOCTOR looks down with satisfaction and starts to bring the Gyrocopter towards the ground.) 40: EXT. COUNTRY ROAD (The POLICEMAN follows the right-hand turn taken by the two strange pursuing vehicles.) 41: EXT. AIRFIELD (The silver car stands deserted on the wet tarmac of what appears to be another airfield. Its top stands open. The gyrocopter has also landed and the DOCTOR has divested himself of his helmet and is running toward his abandoned silver car as Bessie comes up. The panda car is not far behind. The BRIGADIER and the others get out of Bessie and join the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: Look, he can't be far away, Brigadier. We must spread out and search. (The DOCTOR is correct. At the edge of the airfield, LUPTON is crouched down in long grass, watching events on the tarmac. The angry POLICEMAN walks up to the disparate group.) POLICEMAN: Now wait a moment. I want a few particulars. You must have touched ninety back there. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Not now, Constable. Look, Doctor... (As the argument between the group on the tarmac continues, LUPTON hears the SPIDER in his mind...) SPIDER: (OOV.) We must escape in the flying machine. LUPTON: (Protests.) I don't know how to fly it! SPIDER: (OOV.) The principle seems simple. I will guide your hands - come! (LUPTON jumps up to move towards the gyrocopter – the nearest vehicle to him. Back at the group...) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: I think the answer is this... (It is SARAH who sees LUPTON getting into the gyrocopter and putting the helmet on his head.) SARAH: Doctor! (The gyrocopter starts off down the runway. The others make a feeble attempt to run after it but soon give up.) SARAH: He's got away! (The gyrocopter takes off and into the air. Controlled in his movements by the SPIDER, LUPTON has a small smile of satisfaction on his face.) DOCTOR: Oh no he hasn't! (He runs towards his silver car.) SARAH: Hey, you're not going without me! (She runs after him and climbs in the passenger side. The BRIGADIER also runs up.) DOCTOR: Right, fasten your seatbelt. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: But, Doctor, you'll never catch him - he's airborne! DOCTOR: Stand well back, Brigadier. (With himself and SARAH strapped in, the DOCTOR pulls down the hood of the vehicle. It powers up, turns at the edge of the tarmac and starts to travel down the runway. The two soldiers and the POLICEMAN left behind look agape as their heads move upwards, following the movements of the car as it takes to the air. SARAH is astounded as they move higher off the ground.) SARAH: Doctor! We're flying! DOCTOR: (Calmly.) Yes, of course we're flying. (Back on the ground, the BRIGADIER has got over his surprise.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Come on, Benton. (They move back to BESSIE. The POLICEMAN is about to stop them but shrugs and gives up.) 42: EXT. GYROCOPTER (The stolen gyrocopter glides over a mist-covered field. LUPTON seems quite calm in the seat.) 43: EXT. AIRFIELD (The POLICEMAN is back in his car and has picked up the radio.) POLICEMAN: (Into radio.) Panda Three to control. You'll never believe this, Sergeant, but...oh, nothing to report, over. I'm coming in. I don't feel very well, over. 44: EXT. COUNTRYSIDE (The DOCTOR'S car glides over the English countryside.) DOCTOR: Now keep your eyes peeled for the gyroplane. (SARAH does as instructed. After a moment, she spots the little helicopter through the DOCTOR'S window and points.) SARAH: There he is! DOCTOR: Right, hang on! (The car turns towards the gyrocopter, rapidly catching up. Glancing to one side, LUPTON does a double take as he sees his strange pursuer next to him in the air. The two flying machines keep abreast of each other.) SARAH: Well, now you've caught up with him, what are you going to do? DOCTOR: Nothing. He can't last much longer. He must be almost out of fuel. (The SPIDER in LUPTON'S mind has reached the same conclusion...) SPIDER: (OOV.) We must return to the ground. There is very little liquid left to burn. LUPTON: (Nervously.) You mean we've...got no fuel? SPIDER: (OOV.) We have enough. (The gyrocopter turns and starts to descend with the DOCTOR'S car at a constant distance behind.) DOCTOR: Right, here we go. Coming in to land. 45: EXT. FIELD (LUPTON has landed the gyrocopter in a field. He snatches the helmet off his head and runs off. Above, the silver car comes nearer to the ground.) 46: EXT. RIVERSIDE (Below, LUPTON looks round desperately. The field edges onto a wide river which meanders through the countryside. He runs towards the river.) 47: EXT. FIELD (The DOCTOR has brought the car down in the field and glides it up next to the abandoned gyrocopter. The two occupants take off their seatbelts. The DOCTOR pushes up the hood and they get out, running after the thief.) 48: EXT. RIVERSIDE (LUPTON makes his way down some timber shoring which props up a barge in the mudflats of the river. Making his way unsteadily round the edge of the barge, he slips in the mud, regains his feet and runs round the edge of the barge, looking out across the broad expanse of water. He sees a MAN who had just brought a small speedboat to the edge of the river pulling it further ashore. Another man - Mr. HOPKINS – sh**t onto the river bank in a small two-man Skima hovercraft. The MAN WITH BOAT calls out to the new arrival.) MAN WITH BOAT: Fantastic, Mr. Hopkins! If I had enough money, I'd buy twenty of them. (LUPTON rushes out from behind the barge and makes for the MAN WITH BOAT. HOPKINS sees this.) HOPKINS: (Shouts.) Look out! (LUPTON pushes the MAN WITH BOAT into the waters of the river.) HOPKINS: Hey! (LUPTON turns and aims his fingers at HOPKINS. The blue arc of energy hits the overall dressed man in the chest and he falls to the ground. As the MAN WITH BOAT struggles out of the water, the DOCTOR and SARAH reach the shoring timbers and make their way down to the mudflats and round the edge of the barge. They watch the drama on the water where LUPTON has taken the speedboat into deeper water and is struggling with the MAN who is trying to climb aboard and reclaim the craft. LUTPON easily pushes him back into the water. The DOCTOR runs towards the hovercraft while SARAH heads for the fallen HOPKINS. On the water, LUPTON gets the speedboat started after a small struggle. The MAN in the water calls out ineffectually...) MAN WITH BOAT: Come back! (LUPTON starts up the speedboat and sh**t off down the river. On the muddy bank, the DOCTOR is in the hovercraft which he starts up and takes to the water, giving chase with a look of determination on his face.) 49: EXT. RIVER (LUPTON looks back and sees the DOCTOR tenaciously keeping up. The hovercraft very slowly starts to edge closer to the speedboat but not enough to make a difference. LUPTON takes a wide swerve in the river which the hovercraft does not have the turning circle to achieve but the DOCTOR has the advantage of being able to travel over land as well and is able to skim over a bank which juts out into the water. LUPTON looks back over his shoulder and sees that he has not lost his pursuer. The DOCTOR looks ahead and sees that the curves in the river ahead are greater. He adjusts the controls of the hovercraft and takes to the land. On the water, LUPTON looks back and sees that he has the water to himself.) LUPTON: (Triumphantly.) We've lost him! 50: EXT. RIVERBANK (The DOCTOR sh**t over a flat green field, quite close to the spire of a peaceful English church.) 51: EXT. FIELD (In the next field, a TRAMP with his few meager belongings with him, eats a sandwich as sits on a small grass bank.) 52: EXT. DIRT TRACK (The adaptable hovercraft sh**t down a dirt track, throwing up dust as it goes.) 53: EXT. FIELD (The TRAMP stretches and yawns. Taking his hat off, he lies down on the grass to sleep. Suddenly, the noise of a machine grows in volume and the hovercraft appears over the brow of the small bank. Not seeing the TRAMP, the DOCTOR carries on down the bank and over the recumbent form. After the vehicle has passed over, the astonished TRAMP sits up in shock.) 54: EXT. RIVER (The DOCTOR has reached the river again but has cut out a considerably long stretch of the curve in its route by going overland. He skims back onto the surface of the water and finds that he is much closer behind LUPTON'S speedboat and getting nearer all the time. The DOCTOR finds himself buffeted by the churned-up waters from the speedboat and instead goes to one side of the wake of the craft, thereby being able to close up easier. LUPTON hears the drone of the hovercraft and looks back. The look of satisfaction disappears off his face.) LUPTON: He'll catch us! SPIDER: (OOV.) I'll get help from Metebelis. Concentrate! Concentrate! (The two craft are now neck and neck together with both men watching ahead and each others movements as they race through the water. The DOCTOR brings the hovercraft immediately next to the speedboat and lunges himself aboard LUPTON'S craft. LUPTON keeps at the controls as the DOCTOR clambers to his feet. But when he looks down at the driver's seat, it is empty. LUPTON has disappeared into nothingness before an astounded DOCTOR...)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "11x22 - Planet of the Spiders - part 2"}
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PLANET OF THE SPIDERS BY: ROBERT SLOMAN PART THREE Original Air Date: 18 May, 1974 5:40pm - 6:05pm 1: EXT. RIVER (The DOCTOR has reached the river again but has cut out a considerably long stretch of the curve in its route by going overland. He skims back onto the surface of the water and finds that he is much closer behind LUPTON'S speedboat and getting nearer all the time. The DOCTOR finds himself buffeted by the churned-up waters from the speedboat and instead goes to one side of the wake of the craft, thereby being able to close up easier. LUPTON hears the drone of the hovercraft and looks back. The look of satisfaction disappears off his face.) LUPTON: He'll catch us! SPIDER: (OOV.) I'll get help from Metebelis. Concentrate! Concentrate! (The two craft are now neck and neck together with both men watching ahead and each others movements as they race through the water. The DOCTOR brings the hovercraft immediately next to the speedboat and lunges himself aboard LUPTON'S craft. LUPTON keeps at the controls as the DOCTOR clambers to his feet. But when he looks down at the driver's seat, it is empty. LUPTON has disappeared into nothingness before an astounded DOCTOR. The boat starts to drift to a halt.) 2: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY (TOMMY'S secret hideaway in the Lamasery is a cupboard under the stairs. The burly handyman comes out of this private place and immediately a troubled look appears on his face. Sensing something wrong, he peeps round the corner and his eyes widen as he sees LUPTON materialise from thin air, staggering slightly on his feet as he does so.) TOMMY: Clever Lupton! (TOMMY smiles in admiration. He watches as LUPTON reaches into the pocket of his checked sports jacket and brings out the blue crystal. Any feelings of confusion that TOMMY feels over LUPTON'S seeming trick of magic instantly disappear when he sees the jewel in the man's hands.) TOMMY: Pretty! (TOMMY retreats back as CHO-JE walks across the hallway. LUPTON hurriedly pockets the crystal and nods a greeting to the little lama which is returned.) CHO-JE: Mr. Lupton. (CHO-JE passes on and into the meditation room. LUPTON makes sure he has gone and heads towards his own room, not seeing that TOMMY is bumbling along after him.) 2: INT. LAMASERY. LUPTON'S ROOM (LUPTON enters his own room which is on the ground floor. Its fixtures and fittings are basic with a wardrobe, bed washstand and table under the window with one chair nearby. LUPTON shuts the door to and leans against it. He looks shattered and his face is covered in a film of sweat, nevertheless he looks triumphant. He speaks to his unseen companion.) LUPTON: We've done it! LUPTON'S SPIDER: (OOV.) Yes, we've done it - together. (LUPTON takes the crystal out of his pocket and looks down at it as he staggers across the room.) LUPTON: Will...this give us...power? LUPTON'S SPIDER: (OOV.) More power than you dared to dream of. (LUPTON smiles. Suddenly, the SPIDER grows anxious...) LUPTON'S SPIDER: (OOV.) Veil your mind! You must cloak your ambition. I can understand it, perhaps I share it, but if my sisters on Metebelis Three were to have an inkling of your thoughts...they would k*ll you. (The SPIDER cries out.) LUPTON'S SPIDER: (OOV.) Beware! They seek to make the link. (LUPTON feels his surroundings growing fuzzy...) 3: INT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE. COUNCIL CHAMBER (...and he finds himself in mind and partially in body in the Council Chamber of the QUEEN SPIDER on Metebelis Three. The chamber is small, well-lit and in hues of white and blue. A raised platform on two levels which runs half-way round the room contains the many SPIDER members of the council. At the left-hand side of the platform is the dais of QUEEN SPIDER on which she sits, ever-twitching and moving her eight legs. She and the council members are identical in look to LUPTON'S SPIDER but the QUEEN has a regal and imperious tone to her voice. LUPTON himself appears as a disembodied head floating in the air in a corner of the chamber which faces the QUEEN SPIDER. LUPTON'S SPIDER does not appear but her voice is heard clearly and distinctly as LUPTON'S head looks round in some confusion at this sudden transportation. His image constantly cross-fades to an image of itself from a different angle.) QUEEN SPIDER: We are successful? LUPTON'S SPIDER: (OOV.) Totally - the crystal is ours. (There are murmurs and exclamations of surprise and delight from the council members.) QUEEN SPIDER: You have done well. LUPTON'S SPIDER: (OOV.) I thank you, o Queen. QUEEN SPIDER: Now you must prepare to return, bringing the crystal with you. LUPTON'S SPIDER: (OOV.) It shall be done. LUPTON: Look, what about me? I am to be...forgotten? QUEEN SPIDER: (Annoyed.) You are not necessary! LUPTON: Oh, but I am. Without me, you would never have recovered your precious crystal. I...I've been your friend. QUEEN SPIDER: (Amazed.) A friend? A two-leg dares to claim friendship with the eight-legs - the noble ones? LUPTON'S SPIDER: (OOV: Placating.) He means no harm, o Queen, and it is true that he has served us well. (The rest of the council murmur their agreement.) QUEEN SPIDER: Very well. His reward will be to serve us further. We could use him in the great work - the conquest of Earth. LUPTON'S SPIDER: (OOV.) Conquest? QUEEN SPIDER: This is the secret purpose of the Great One. (At the mention of this name, the council members join in a sudden chorus of acclamation which is tinged with fear...) COUNCIL: All praise to the Great One! QUEEN SPIDER: That is why she requires the crystal. We shall return to our rightful home – Earth, as rulers! We have exhausted our power. Be ready to return. Be ready... (The sight of the chamber becomes opaque before LUTPON'S eyes...) 4: INT. LAMASERY. LUPTON'S ROOM (...and he finds himself back in his own room, a little shaken by the experience and still looking sweaty and tired. He moves open to the sash window and pushes it upwards.) 5: EXT. LAMASERY (He leans out of the window, gasping for fresh air. The SPIDER speaks soothingly.) LUPTON'S SPIDER: (OOV.) Rest now. Let the power return to your body, and to your mind. 6: INT. LAMASERY. LUPTON'S ROOM (He turns from the window and stumbles over to his bed, the crystal in his hand. He collapses faces down on the bed.) LUPTON'S SPIDER: (OOV.) Sleep, Lupton, sleep. (As he closes his eyes, the SPIDER materialises on his back. It scuttles off and onto the floor. It heads for the door where it fades from sight...) 7: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY OUTSIDE LUPTON'S ROOM (...and reappears outside the door in the hallway. It moves off through the passages of the Lamasery.) 8: INT. LAMASERY. HALLWAY (CHO-JE has two visitors – the DOCTOR and SARAH have arrived at the Lamasery and are with the lama in the sitting room with MIKE. SARAH has changed into a red striped top and jacket with beige trousers.) CHO-JE: I can understand your distress at losing a valuable piece of equipment, er, er, Doctor? (None of them see that BARNES is in the hallway and listening to the conversation within.) CHO-JE: However, I feel you are mistaken in suggesting that Mr. Lupton had anything to do with it. (Having heard enough, BARNES moves off.) SARAH: But I saw him! I recognised him! CHO-JE: When? How far away from here? 9: INT. LAMASERY. SITTING ROOM DOCTOR: Oh, about eighty miles I should say. SARAH: And we lost sight of him at about half-past-ten or thereabouts. CHO-JE: At half-past-ten I was walking to the meditation class and I saw Mr. Lupton in the corridor. MIKE YATES: But...but, that's impossible. CHO-JE: (Smiles.) Precisely, so one of us is mistaken. You cannot believe he was transported here in the winking of an eye. (The DOCTOR smiles at CHO-JE.) DOCTOR: No, no, of course not. MIKE YATES: Well, stranger things...have happened. SARAH: You can say that again. MIKE YATES: Much stranger. 10: INT. LAMASERY. HALLWAY (Outside the room, the SPIDER approaches across the tiled floor.) CHO-JE: As we both know, such things are child's play to a master of sorcerer, but you cannot believe that Mr. Lupton is a sorcerer. (The SPIDER pauses, watching what is going on in the room.) CHO-JE: We have no magicians here, I do assure you. 11: INT. LAMASERY. LUPTON'S ROOM (BARNES has got to LUPTON'S room and shakes him awake.) BARNES: Lupton? Lupton, wake up! Wake up! LUPTON: (Sleepily.) Mmm? Mmm? (He looks up at BARNES through groggy eyes.) LUPTON: What is it? (He sits up, still holding the crystal.) BARNES: That girl's back. She's brought somebody with her called "the Doctor". LUPTON: Has she indeed? BARNES: Now they're saying that you... (He spots the crystal in LUPTON'S hand.) BARNES: Then it's true? (LUPTON smiles, gets up off the bed and crosses to the window.) BARNES: (Worried.) Lupton, we've gotta stop this. (LUPTON puts the crystal down on table in front of the window.) BARNES: We're meddling in things we don't understand. LUPTON: (Sardonically.) Are we now? BARNES: Now listen to me - i...is that thing on your back at this moment? (LUPTON looks and senses the loss. He seems unconcerned.) LUPTON: How very strange - no it's not. (LUPTON takes off his sports jacket...) BARNES: Right, let's get away from here - now, while the going's good. (...and crosses to the sink, rolling up the sleeves of his polo neck jumper and not listening to BARNES' entreaties.) LUPTON: Barnes, do you know why I came to this place? BARNES: No, not really. LUPTON: All right - potted history coming up. (He takes off his watch, puts the plug in the sink and turns on the tap.) LUPTON: Picture me, bright young salesman, "Salesman of the year", Sales Manager, Sales Director. (Shouts.) I gave them twenty-five years of my life! Are you with me so far? BARNES: Yes, yes. (He turns the tap up, grabs the soap and starts to wash his hands as BARNES listens.) LUPTON: Then the finance boys moved in. Merger, takeover - golden handshake me, out on the streets. (Unseen by either of the two men, TOMMY appears at the window, crouched down so as not to be seen.) LUPTON: They could even have taken that. (LUPTON starts to swill his face, thus missing seeing TOMMY spot the crystal, stretch into the room and take the precious object off the table.) LUPTON: But when I tried...to set-up of my own, they deliberately, cold-bloodedly...broke me. (TOMMY moves away from the window, the re-stolen article in his grasp.) LUPTON: I'm still looking for some of the bits. BARNES: So you came here to get peace of mind? (LUPTON lets off a cry of derision into the towel he is using to dry his face.) LUPTON: Ha! I came here to get power. Do you think I'm going to let go now when it's in sight, when I can see myself taking over that firm, taking over the country...the entire stinking world! Huh! I want to see them grovel, I want to see them breaking their hearts, I want to see them eating dirt! BARNES: (Ruefully.) And I came here just to look for peace of mind. 12: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY (TOMMY runs gasping down a passageway of the Lamasery. He looks round and enters the cupboard under the stairs.) 13: INT. LAMASERY. STAIR CUPBOARD (He switches on the single bulb that hangs on a flex from above. The walls of the limited space hold a series of fuse boxes and a wooden first aid box. There are an assortment of objects stored there including a stepladder and an old ironing board. TOMMY kneels on the floor and opens a battered suitcase. From this he extracts a white shoebox – his treasure chest. Sitting back he takes the lid off the box and looks at the assortment of jewellery, trinkets and junk within. He then looks at his newly 'acquired' treasure.) TOMMY: Ah, pretty! (He places the jewel in the box and stirs his hand through the other objects.) TOMMY: All Tommy's pretties. (Gasping with delight, he puts the lid back on the shoebox and hugs it to himself.) 14: INT. LAMASERY. LUPTON'S ROOM (His wash over, LUPTON puts his jacket back on, a smile on his face.) BARNES: So what are we going to do? LUPTON: When I've learned how to use that crystal, I shan't need the spiders anymore. (BARNES turns and sees the SPIDER materialise in the room in front of the door.) BARNES: Lupton, look! LUPTON'S SPIDER: (To LUPTON.) Your master will come to fetch you soon. LUPTON: My master? You mean Cho-Je? Why? LUPTON'S SPIDER: To talk to the Doctor. BARNES: (To LUPTON.) Is it speaking to you? What's it saying? LUPTON'S SPIDER: Send this fool away! LUPTON: Very well. Off you go, Barnes. BARNES: (Slightly panicked.) What are we gonna do? (LUPTON speaks to him in a condescending fashion.) LUPTON: Later, man, later. BARNES: (Sighs.) Very well. (The weak and confused man heads for the door, carefully walking round the twitching SPIDER with some distaste. He leaves the room.) LUPTON'S SPIDER: We must prepare to meet this Doctor. LUPTON: I see no necessity. LUPTON'S SPIDER: He could be dangerous. LUPTON: So could I. (Firmly.) So...could...I. LUPTON'S SPIDER: You will go to see him. LUPTON: I shall not. LUPTON'S SPIDER: You forget, Lupton - we are linked together now. I can twist your mind as easily as a two-leg boy twists another's arm. (It rears up on its legs.) LUPTON'S SPIDER: Like this! (A reverberating sound echoes through LUPTON'S mind. He clamps his hands to his head in agony.) LUPTON: Oh...oh, stop! LUPTON'S SPIDER: (Goading.) "You won't need the spiders anymore" - isn't that what you said? LUPTON: Stop, I can't bear it! LUPTON'S SPIDER: Say please! LUPTON: Please...please! (The sound diminishes. LUPTON groans as his hands fall away.) LUPTON: Oh... (He staggers over to a chair.) LUPTON'S SPIDER: You will go to see the Doctor and lull his suspicions. In future you will do as I wish. LUPTON: What did you do to my mind? It felt like red-hot needles. Was it... (Sat in the chair, LUPTON closes his eyes.) LUPTON: Was it...this that you did? (Nothing happens.) LUPTON: Or...no...no...was it...this! (He stares down at the SPIDER with eyes ablaze. The positions are reversed and the SPIDER'S mind is filled with the reverberating sound. The SPIDER cries out in agony and writhes on the floor.) LUPTON'S SPIDER: No...no...stop! LUPTON: (Smiles.) Say please... LUPTON'S SPIDER: Please, Lupton! Please! (LUPTON stops the t*rture. The SPIDER groans as it lies flat on the floor.) LUPTON'S SPIDER: You are...cleverer than the two-legs on Metebelis Three. LUPTON: I'm cleverer than most of them on Earth! LUPTON'S SPIDER: Very well, you need not see this man. Come, we must make ready! (LUPTON gets up and looks down at his SPIDER.) LUPTON: I'm not going to Metebelis Three just to become a sl*ve to that Queen of yours. LUPTON'S SPIDER: I like her arrogance no more than you do. You seek power on Earth. I shall seize it on Metebelis. We can help each other. Turn around! LUPTON: (Sniffs.) Very well. (He turns away from the SPIDER and it jumps onto his back and fades away. He hears its voice in his mind.) LUPTON'S SPIDER: (OOV.) Now - the crystal! (He turns to the window and sees that the crystal is not on the table.) 15: EXT. LAMASERY (He turns over books and several other items and looks on the open window-sill.) LUPTON: It's gone! 16: INT. LAMASERY. LUPTON'S ROOM (He turns from the window.) LUPTON: The crystal has gone! 17: INT. LAMASERY. SITTING ROOM (The DOCTOR'S patience, usually so quickly exhaustible, is still being maintained in the face of CHO-JE'S gentility...) DOCTOR: Look, Venerable, may we see this man, Lupton, now? I'm sorry to seem pushy but it is very important. CHO-JE: It is good that we have come to the west. You whip your poor horse too much. He gets up so that he is exhausted and yet, you know, he never leaves his s*ab. SARAH: Now what's that supposed to mean? MIKE YATES: I think he's saying that, er, time is an illusion. DOCTOR: And it'll all be the same in a hundred years. 18: INT. LAMASERY. HALLWAY (Out in the hallway, TOMMY comes down the stairs...) DOCTOR: (In sitting room.) Yes, where have I heard that before? (...and whispers to SARAH through the open doorway into the sitting room.) TOMMY: Hey! CHO-JE: (In sitting room.) There is only the now - the here and the now. The present moment... (SARAH comes out of the sitting room with a broad smile for her friend.) SARAH: Hello, Tommy. TOMMY: Hello, Sarah Jane Smith. Tommy like you. SARAH: Well I like you too. TOMMY: You give Tommy nice presents for his friend. SARAH: Ooh, I haven't got another one, I'm afraid. TOMMY: No, no, Tommy got nice present for Sarah Jane Smith. Y...you come. SARAH: Oh, well, not just now, Tommy. (He takes her hand in an insistent gesture.) TOMMY: You come, Sarah Jane Smith. CHO-JE: (In sitting room.) ...the ocean... (She casts a look back into the sitting room.) SARAH: Okay, okay, but we'll have to be quick. (They move off.) 19: INT. LAMASERY. SITTING ROOM (Meanwhile...) MIKE YATES: Suppose it'll mean something to me in the end. CHO-JE: Ah, the meaning of meaning is the last barrier to understanding. DOCTOR: Yes, er, Venerable, could we see Mr. Lupton now - please? CHO-JE: But of course. Mr. Moss? (MOSS walks into the sitting room from the hallway, having been lurking outside.) CHO-JE: If you would both wait here, this gentleman will find Mr. Lupton for you? (He looks at MOSS who smiles...) MOSS: Of course. (...and hurries away.) CHO-JE: Excuse me, Doctor. (CHO-JE turns and walks quietly from the room, giving the prayer wheel a spin as he goes.) 20: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY (An annoyed BARNES strides ahead of LUPTON as they walk down a passageway.) BARNES: I didn't take it! I wouldn't know what to do with it if I had it. LUPTON: But you saw it? BARNES: Well, of course I did. You put it on the table. (LUPTON hesitates and speaks to his unseen SPIDER as BARNES watches.) LUPTON: Could it have been sent to Metebelis Three? LUPTON'S SPIDER: (OOV.) No, my sisters haven't the power. You remember? The crystal must still be on Earth. LUPTON: Then we must find it. LUPTON'S SPIDER: (OOV: Urgently.) There is no time. The power is building fast. We must be ready! LUPTON: We don't have to go. LUPTON'S SPIDER: (OOV: Urgently.) If the Queen finds out that we have lost the crystal, she'll k*ll us both! LUPTON: Right, we'll bluff them. We'll pretend we've still got it. LUPTON'S SPIDER: (OOV.) But they'll never believe it! LUPTON: We have no choice. (He turns to BARNES who has been listening to the seemingly one-sided conversation with growing concern.) LUPTON: Now listen, Barnes... BARNES: Perhaps you've gone mad? Hearing voices? Talking to yourself? LUPTON: You saw the spider, didn't you? BARNES: Perhaps I've gone mad too? (He walks into a room. LUPTON follows. Round the corner, TOMMY runs hand in hand with a giggling SARAH towards his cupboard under the stairs.) TOMMY: You stay - er, Tommy get present. SARAH: (Nods.) Yes. TOMMY: Secret. (TOMMY puts a finger to his lips and shushes. SARAH repeats the gesture and laughs as a delighted TOMMY goes into his cupboard. Waiting and checking her watch, she suddenly hears two familiar voices...) BARNES: (OOV.) Shall I look for the others then? LUPTON: (OOV.) No, no, no. (She checks that she is not being watched and peeps round the corner where LUPTON and BARNES have come out of the room.) LUPTON: I'll go through the ritual by myself. BARNES: In the cellar - now? LUPTON: Yes, yes. See if you can keep the others away for half-an-hour or so, will you? (MOSS runs up.) MOSS: Lupton, Cho-Je wants you to meet some fellow with Yates. LUPTON: Yes, I know, I know. Tell him, erm...tell him you can't find me. (To BARNES.) I'll need the mandala. (LUPTON and BARNES go back into the room. MOSS sighs and walks off to give his message. SARAH'S head pops out from round the corner. She paces for a moment and thinks to herself, then TOMMY comes back out of the cupboard with is shoebox full of treasures.) TOMMY: Sarah Jane Smith... SARAH: No, not now, Tommy! TOMMY: No, I... SARAH: (Sharply.) No, not now! (TOMMY stops, looking a bit hurt.) SARAH: Hey, Tommy - you know Mike Yates, don't you? TOMMY: (Puzzled.) Yates? (Realises.) He...he give Tommy present! (He starts to delve into his box.) SARAH: Yes, yes... TOMMY: I... SARAH: Well...we, listen, Tommy - now listen carefully. I want you to go and find Mike Yates and tell him...tell him that Lupton has gone down to the cellar... TOMMY: (Struggling to remember.) Cellar... SARAH: ...and that I'm going down there too. TOMMY: You... SARAH: Okay? TOMMY: Cell...you... SARAH: Yes, look... TOMMY: Cell... SARAH: (Impatiently.) I've gotta go. I must get there first. (She starts to walk off.) TOMMY: Er...er... SARAH: Cellar, Tommy! (She runs off...) TOMMY: But Sarah Jane Smith...! (...and therefore misses the sight of TOMMY pulling the sought for crystal out of the box.) TOMMY: Give present! (LUPTON comes out of the room with the mandala rolled up under his arm. He doesn't see TOMMY and heads off for the cellar. TOMMY struggles to remember his errand.) TOMMY: Yates... (He puts the crystal back in his box and heads for the cupboard.) 21: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR (SARAH is the first to reach the cellar. She looks round and goes into her previous hiding place in the alcove behind the pillar and not a moment too soon for LUPTON enters the cellar. He places a cushion in the middle of the floor and spreads the mandala out. He sits down cross-legged on the cushion and starts to chant...) LUPTON: Om mani padme hum, Om mani padme hum... 22: INT. LAMASERY. SITTING ROOM (The DOCTOR and MIKE are still waiting for MOSS to return. The DOCTOR is pacing but it is MIKE who jumps up in impatience.) MIKE YATES: This is ridiculous! Where's that feller got to? (TOMMY runs into the room and points back into the hallway.) TOMMY: Yates! Sarah! MIKE YATES: Not now Tommy. TOMMY: She's in the cellar! MIKE YATES: Not now. TOMMY: I tell you, mister, in...in the cellar. DOCTOR: I think he's trying to tell you something important, Mike. MIKE YATES: It always is. (MOSS enters behind a confused-looking TOMMY.) MIKE YATES: Ah, there you are. MOSS: I'm sorry. I can't find Lupton anywhere. (This prompts another memory recall in TOMMY.) TOMMY: (To MIKE.) Er...Lupton! MOSS: He's not in his room, he's not meditating, he's probably gone for a walk. TOMMY: (To MIKE, insistently.) Lupton in the cellar! (MIKE at last listens.) MIKE YATES: What? TOMMY: Sarah Jane Smith - in the cellar! DOCTOR: Where is this cellar, Mike? MIKE YATES: I'll show you. (They rush off. TOMMY calls after them.) TOMMY: Hey...hey, mister! (TOMMY smiles with pride but MOSS looks concerned.) TOMMY: I tell him. Tommy did it. MOSS: You certainly did. 23: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY (SARAH watches as LUPTON'S chant becomes more intense and aggressive.) LUPTON: Om mani padme hum, Om mani padme hum, Om mani padme hum... (A blue glow surrounds LUPTON...) LUPTON: Om mani padme hum, Om mani padme hum, Om mani padme hum, Om mani padme hum... (...and he and the glow fade away. Seeing that he is alone, SARAH gets up and runs into the centre of the cellar...) SARAH: Doctor! Mike! (...but she is also stood in the centre of the mandala.) 23: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY OUTSIDE CELLAR (MIKE leads the DOCTOR quickly down a passageway and round a corner. BARNES is stood sentinel outside the door that leads to the cellar. Suddenly they hear SARAH'S call...) SARAH: (OOV: In cellar.) Doctor, come quickly! (The DOCTOR shoves BARNES aside...) DOCTOR: Get out of my way! (...and they rush down into the anteroom and the cellar.) 24: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR (SARAH seems rooted to the spot on the centre of the mandala. Her upper body sways as she tries to step off. The DOCTOR rushes down the steps and sees what is happening.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Sarah, get off that mandala! SARAH: (Shouts.) I can't! (He runs towards her but in an instant, her view changes from that of the DOCTOR rushing at her...) 25: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. DESERT (...to that of a rocky and pinnacled desert under a blue sky. Free of the mandala, she regains her balance and looks round in utter shock at her new surroundings. Crags and rocks reach to the sky and there are strange cries of animal and bird life in the air. Suddenly something familiar catches her eye. LUPTON is not far away, also looking round his new environment. She crouches behind a rock to watch...and a hand clamps down over her mouth.) 26: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY OUTSIDE CELLAR (MIKE and the DOCTOR run up to the passageway outside the cellar and see that the 'guard' has disappeared.) MIKE YATES: Barnes? (They look round a corner.) MIKE YATES: He's gone. DOCTOR: (Sighs.) Well, never mind. I doubt if he could have told us very much anyway. Well, there's only one thing for me to do, Mike - I've got to get after her - to Metebelis Three. MIKE YATES: In the TARDIS? DOCTOR: Yes, of course. MIKE YATES: But how can you be sure you'll get there? DOCTOR: Well, the TARDIS may be a little erratic, I'll admit. After all, she is getting on a bit. But Metebelis Three is the one planet I can be absolutely certain of reaching. You see I wired the coordinates into the programmer. (He heads off down the passageway but MIKE stops him.) MIKE YATES: Yes, but, but, Doctor - a planet's a big place. DOCTOR: Yes, well, I always leave the actual landing to the TARDIS herself. She's no fool, you know? MIKE YATES: You speak as if she were alive? DOCTOR: (Smiles.) Yes...yes, I do, don't I? Bye, Mike. (He moves off.) 27: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. VILLAGE (SARAH'S captor is a young, lithe long-haired man dressed in primitive clothing. He drags her into the centre of what appears to be a village made up of a row of flat-roofed one-storey huts, decorated with symbols which sit on a raised terrace. At the end of the row is a raised platform. Several other people are outside the cabins under the blue cloudy sky, dressed in an assortment of clothing that somewhat resembles that of South and Central American peoples.) TUAR: (Shouts.) Hey, I found a spy! SABOR: (Shouts.) Tuar! You're a fool! (The speaker is SABOR, an elderly but still energetic man with white hair and beard who rushes after SARAH and TUAR as he pulls her towards the raised platform at the edge of the village. They stop and the villagers look at the strangely dressed SARAH in puzzlement. One, a young girl called REGA, almost hides behind the old man looking at the c*ptive as TUAR holds her hand up her back.) SABOR: (Shouts.) If she's a spy, you've condemned us all - we're as good as d*ad! TUAR: (Shouts.) Look, I'm tired of waiting! The eight-legs'll k*ll us all anyway - it's time we fought back! SABOR: (Shouts.) It will do us no good speaking treason. Release her! (TUAR scowls, hesitating to obey the old man.) SABOR: Release her, I say! (The young girl speaks to SARAH with suspicion.) REGA: Who are you? How ... you come here? SARAH: Erm... TUAR: Oh, don't waste time, Rega. She's a spy - we must k*ll her! SARAH: Hey? SABOR: (To TUAR.) Already we're in danger - do you want the whole village wiped out? Remember Skorda. SARAH: But I'm not a spy! I don't know who you are or anything. TUAR: You're lying. SARAH: Well anyway, who am I supposed to be spying for - the spiders? (There are gasps and cries of astonishment from the villagers.) TUAR: You see? Who but a spy would dare use a forbidden word? We must k*ll her before she can betray us! (He pulls her towards the platform as she starts to scream out.) SARAH: No, no! SABOR: Tuar, No! TUAR: Stay back! SABOR: No, Tuar, you fool! TUAR: Stay back! (He pulls her towards the edge of the platform which is revealed to be on the edge of a precipice. TUAR tries to push the screaming SARAH over the edge and the others are trying to pull him back when a commanding voice cries out...) ARAK: Stop! (The shouter is another man, but one more swarthy, a little older and more powerfully built than TUAR. He stands in the doorway of one of the huts.) ARAK: Tuar! Stop! (He runs towards the commotion, followed from out of the hut by a scared and feeble woman.) NESKA: Arak! Arak! Come back inside, my son! (The new arrival, ARAK, reaches the group as SARAH'S upper body hangs over the edge.) ARAK: Let her go! She may be telling the truth - let her go. (He looks menacingly at the younger man.) ARAK: You will follow her, my brother. (TUAR reluctantly hangs back, allowing the gasping SARAH to stand. ARAK leads her away from the platform towards the centre of the village.) TUAR: She's a spy. ARAK: Rubbish! She's a stranger - look at her clothes. TUAR: A stranger? Where from? NESKA: Why not ask her? (To SARAH, gently.) Where do you come from, child? SARAH: I'm...I'm from Earth. SABOR: From Earth? But how? Did you come in a starship like your ancestor did? SARAH: (Puzzled and afraid.) Er, no, erm, well, I don't know how I got here actually. TUAR: You see? She's lying. SABOR: Tell the truth, girl. (There is suddenly a distant trumpet sound.) SABOR: How many of you? Where's your ship? REGA: (To NESKA.) Mother! Listen! (She looks terrified.) REGA: The Queen of the eight-legs is coming. NESKA: (To ARAK.) Quickly, my son - get back into hiding! ARAK: (To SARAH.) Come. (He leads SARAH back towards the hut that he ran from as the trumpet sounds get louder. NESKA, SABOR and REGA go with them. TUAR shouts after them...) TUAR: She'll betray you! She'll betray us all! 28: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. HUT (The group enters the dark hut. It is furnished with the most primitive of furniture and tools. Cloths hang over the windows, cutting out most of the light.) SARAH: Well, what is it? What's happening? ARAK: Quiet. NESKA: Keep silent, girl. You will bring death to us all. 29: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. VILLAGE (TUAR enters the hut after the others and shuts the door. A procession enters the village. There are several guards and their GUARD CAPTAIN. They wear identical leather and fur covered tops with wide blue trousers and flat round leather hats. They carry short staves that end in a round blue crystal. Four of the guards carry an elaborate covered stand between them, rather like a squat sedan chair, and place it on the platform. On the stand, twitching on blue velvet cushioning, is the QUEEN SPIDER. The guards push the villagers back and the GUARD CAPTAIN addresses the villagers...) GUARD CAPTAIN: Hear now, Huarth, most noble of the noble ones, Queen of the eight-legs, speaks thus: Arak, male two-leg, having att*cked field guard Draga, leaving him for d*ad, the same Arak will now surrender himself. 30: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. HUT (NESKA looks up at her son ARAK in fear.) GUARD CAPTAIN: (OOV: Outside hut.) If Arak does not come forth, one male two-leg will be taken from each family of the settlement to suffer the retribution due for the foul crime of Arak. ARAK: I must go, Mother. NESKA: No! No! SABOR: I'll speak to the Queen. Maybe she'll listen to me. (NESKA grabs his arm in appeal.) NESKA: No, Sabor, it's too dangerous. SABOR: The people need Arak - they trust him, they listen to him. He's our last chance. TUAR: That's true, Arak. GUARD CAPTAIN: (OOV: Outside hut.) Arak, come forth! 31: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. VILLAGE (The door of the hut opens and SABOR emerges with dignity. He walks up to the QUEEN'S stand and goes down on one knee.) GUARD CAPTAIN: Sabor, where is your son? SABOR: I beg leave to speak to the Queen. QUEEN SPIDER: Speak, Sabor. SABOR: Draga is a bad field guard. He's unfair, he's cruel. He struck Neska, Arak's mother, for no good reason and... QUEEN SPIDER: (Interrupts.) Silence! This is not to the point. Did he or did he not strike my guard? SABOR: He did, but surely there's a... QUEEN SPIDER: (Interrupts.) Then he must die. Where is he? (SABOR scowls at the GUARD CAPTAIN.) SABOR: He's gone to the hills. GUARD CAPTAIN: How do you know? SABOR: Because I helped him 32: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. HUT (ARAK has heard enough.) ARAK: No! (He heads for the door but TUAR stops him.) TUAR: Look, it's no good! If you go out there, they'll k*ll you both. 33: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. VILLAGE (Meanwhile, outside the hut.) QUEEN SPIDER: (To SABOR.) You know the penalty? You know that you will take his place? (SABOR bows his head in resignation.) SABOR: Yes. QUEEN SPIDER: Very well. Justice is satisfied. Let us return. 34: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. HUT SARAH: Well, what's going to happen to him? TUAR: The eight-legs will eat him of course. NESKA: No! (Horrified by this thought, NESKA opens the door.) 35: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. VILLAGE (...and runs out of the hut.) NESKA: No, I shan't! You shan't take him! (She runs up to her husband.) NESKA: Sabor, my husband, my love! Why did you do it? Why? Why? GUARD CAPTAIN: Woman, get back! SABOR: This is the best way - I know. (She hugs SABOR.) NESKA: I shan't let them take you - I shan't, I shan't. GUARD CAPTAIN: Guard! (The guard places his jewelled stave against NESKA'S arm. The end glows blue and the old lady falls to the ground. REGA runs from the hut to the fallen woman.) REGA: Mother, Mother! (SARAH watches from the open door, thereby revealing herself...) QUEEN SPIDER: Wait! There is a stranger here. Guards! 36: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. HUT (SARAH hastily shuts the door and turns to TUAR and ARAK.) SARAH: She saw me – they're coming. The guards are coming! TUAR: (To ARAK.) See? She has betrayed you. ARAK: Quick, you must hide! SARAH: No, they mustn't find you. 37: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. VILLAGE (She bravely steps out as the guards approach.) SARAH: (Lightly.) Okay, okay, I'll come quietly. 38: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (The DOCTOR runs quickly into his laboratory. He takes the key from his pocket and enters the TARDIS. The door shuts, the roof light flashes and it dematerialises from Earth...) 39: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. VILLAGE (...and rematerialises on Metebelis Three. He steps out, closes the door and looks round. Walking round the police box, he sees that he is smack in the middle of the village. All are astonished to see him expect SARAH who, held by a guard, smiles in delight.) DOCTOR: Hello, Sarah Jane. (He walks towards her.) GUARD CAPTAIN: Stop! (The guard places his stave on the DOCTOR'S arm. It glows but instead of knocking him unconscious, he spins round angrily on the man.) DOCTOR: Don't do that! QUEEN SPIDER: Let him approach. GUARD CAPTAIN: You will kneel to the most noble Queen. DOCTOR: The Queen? (He realises who the GUARD CAPTAIN is referring to and smiles.) DOCTOR: Oh, yes. Yes, of course. (He kneels down on one knee, with a touch of mockery in his face.) DOCTOR: Er, greetings, o most noble Queen. Er, may I ask what you intend to do with this young lady? QUEEN SPIDER: You do not speak like a two-leg - where have you come from? DOCTOR: Er, both Miss Smith and I come from Earth, your Majesty. QUEEN SPIDER: From Earth? Then you are the one who...no, no, that cannot be. We shall return. Bring this two-leg. We shall question him with the female. DOCTOR: Well now, just a minute, your Majesty... GUARD CAPTAIN: Over there! (A guard places another stave on the DOCTOR'S back. It glows again but once more has no effect. The DOCTOR'S patience has been tried too much though and he turns and pushes the guard back by the face. One after another the guards start to rush at the DOCTOR but he easily throws each one over his shoulder. One of the few guards left is the one holding SARAH and he joins in the fray. The DOCTOR grabs his arm and throws him as well. Seeing that SARAH is free, NESKA and REGA wrap a red shawl over her shoulders and push her to safety. They then watch as the DOCTOR wards off another two guards by spinning them both over at the same time. He looks round and then makes a run for the TARDIS but the watching GUARD CAPTAIN points a hand and a blue arc of energy crackles out and hits the DOCTOR in the back. This time he is not immune to the effects and he collapses against the police box. He feebly reaches out to the TARDIS but then his head falls to the floor...)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "11x23 - Planet of the Spiders - part 3"}
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PLANET OF THE SPIDERS BY: ROBERT SLOMAN PART FOUR Original Air Date: 25 May, 1974 5:30pm - 5:55pm 1: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (The DOCTOR runs quickly into his laboratory. He takes the key from his pocket and enters the TARDIS. The door shuts, the roof light flashes and it dematerialises from Earth...) 2: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. VILLAGE (...and rematerialises on Metebelis Three. He steps out, closes the door and looks round. Walking round the police box, he sees that he is smack in the middle of the village. All are astonished to see him expect SARAH who, held by a guard, smiles in delight.) DOCTOR: Hello, Sarah Jane. (He walks towards her.) FIRST GUARD CAPTAIN: Stop! (The guard places his stave on the DOCTOR'S arm. It glows but instead of knocking him unconscious, he spins round angrily on the man.) DOCTOR: Don't do that! QUEEN SPIDER: Let him approach. FIRST GUARD CAPTAIN: You will kneel to the most noble Queen. DOCTOR: The Queen? (He realises who the GUARD CAPTAIN is referring to and smiles.) DOCTOR: Oh, yes. Yes, of course. (He kneels down on one knee, with a touch of mockery in his face.) DOCTOR: Er, greetings, o most noble Queen. Er, may I ask what you intend to do with this young lady? QUEEN SPIDER: You do not speak like a two-leg - where have you come from? DOCTOR: Er, both Miss Smith and I come from Earth, your Majesty. QUEEN SPIDER: From Earth? Then you are the one who...no, no, that cannot be. We shall return. Bring this two-leg. We shall question him with the female. DOCTOR: Well now, just a minute, your Majesty... FIRST GUARD CAPTAIN: Over there! (A guard places another stave on the DOCTOR'S back. It glows again but once more has no effect. The DOCTOR'S patience has been tried too much though and he turns and pushes the guard back by the face. One after another the guards start to rush at the DOCTOR but he easily throws each one over his shoulder. One of the few guards left is the one holding SARAH and he joins in the fray. The DOCTOR grabs his arm and throws him as well. Seeing that SARAH is free, NESKA and REGA wrap a red shawl over her shoulders and push her to safety. They then watch as the DOCTOR wards off another two guards by spinning them both over at the same time. He looks round and then makes a run for the TARDIS but the watching GUARD CAPTAIN points a hand and a blue arc of energy crackles out and hits the DOCTOR in the back. This time he is not immune to the effects and he collapses against the police box. He feebly reaches out to the TARDIS but then his head falls to the floor. The DOCTOR'S act of defiance has stirred up the villagers and they some of them struggle feebly with the guards.) FIRST GUARD CAPTAIN: Silence! Silence! (He crouches down next to the QUEEN'S stand.) QUEEN SPIDER: So shall perish all two-legs who would dare to question our power! FIRST GUARD CAPTAIN: (Quietly.) I've never seen them like this before. QUEEN SPIDER: (Quietly.) I think it would be wise to leave. (The CAPTAIN notices who is missing...) FIRST GUARD CAPTAIN: The girl! She's gone! QUEEN SPIDER: Then you will be punished! We cannot wait. It will soon be dark. Bring the male. (As REGA hubs a sobbing NESKA, the guards lead SABOR away. Watching them go are the villagers and amongst them, hidden at the back and wrapped up in her shawl, is SARAH...) 3: INT. LAMASERY. HALLWAY (Back on Earth, MIKE YATES watches round the corner of the hallway as BARNES opens his bedroom door to allow LAND, KEAVER and MOSS in. BARNES follows them in and hangs a "DO NOT DISTURB" sign on the door. MIKE creeps up to the door and starts to listen.) 4: INT. METEBELIS THREE. HUT (REGA leads NESKA into their hut. ARAK follows and shuts the door as REGA takes her quiet mother into her room.) 5: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. VILLAGE (Outside the hut, the village is almost empty. SARAH kneels over the DOCTOR. His head rests on her knees and the shawl has been placed over him. He is quite still. A cynical TUAR is with them.) SARAH: Well can't you do something? TUAR: No, it's no good - he's d*ad! SARAH: (Shouts tearfully.) He can't be! TUAR: They can use their power to give pain, or to stun, or to k*ll. Your friend is d*ad. (SARAH shakes the DOCTOR.) SARAH: (Shouts.) No, Doctor! Doctor! (TUAR reaches down and grabs her arm.) TUAR: Look, leave him. If you stay out here we'll all be d*ad. It's almost time for the curfew. (With some force, he starts to pull her back to the hut. SARAH looks back distraught as she goes.) TUAR: Bury him tomorrow. (SARAH glances back once more and suddenly cries out...) SARAH: Look! He moved! He moved his hand! TUAR: Impossible. (She pulls out of the young man's grasp and runs towards the DOCTOR.) SARAH: I saw him! He's alive! He's alive, I tell you! (Indeed, the DOCTOR is starting to feebly groan as SARAH leans over him.) SARAH: Oh... TUAR: You're right - he is alive. SARAH: (Upset still.) Oh...oh, Doctor! 6: INT. LAMASERY. HALLWAY (MIKE is still listening at BARNES' door.) BARNES: (OOV: Inside room.) He didn't tell me much, but he wouldn't - would he? 7: INT. LAMASERY. BARNES' ROOM (Inside the bare little bedroom, the men are speaking quietly and urgently. Their nerves are obviously almost at breaking point.) MOSS: Where is he? BARNES: I don't know. He seemed to think he'd be taken to the home of that...that creature. LAND: The spider? (BARNES nods. MOSS paces the room as KEAVER chews on a nervous finger.) BARNES: You see, I...I didn't get the chance to...discuss it with him properly - you know what he was. KEAVER: Was? He's not d*ad, is he? BARNES: Well, he may be. How do I know? He's just vanished. LAND: What are we gonna do? MOSS: Get out while the going's good. KEAVER: Why? We haven't done anything criminal. MOSS: Tell that to the police! LAND: (Alarmed.) The police! BARNES: For heaven's sake! It's not that. Nobody need know yet. Perhaps he's trying to get back and can't. (Suddenly, the door handle starts to turn, somewhat loudly and obviously. BARNES quietly moves to the door as one of the men "shushes" for silence. BARNES reaches the door and pulls it open. Outside is TOMMY, a white workman's apron round him neck. He looks startled at being found. He puts on a feeble smile.) TOMMY: Hello, Barnes. BARNES: What are you doing here - spying? Is that it? (TOMMY clamps one hand over his left eye.) TOMMY: I spy - t...that's a nice game. I spy with my little eye... BARNES: Can't you read? (He points at the sign on the door. TOMMY looks at it in confusion.) TOMMY: Tommy's learning to read. M...my mum brought me a book. (BARNES roughly pushes the man back into the hallway and starts the shut the door.) BARNES: Get away from here. If I catch you spying on me again... 8: INT. LAMASERY. HALLWAY (The door is slammed in TOMMY'S face. He stares at the sign on the door and puts a finger up at it, trying to decipher the words.) TOMMY: "D...do...do...don..." (He gives up and thinks.) TOMMY: I'll do some reading. (He hurries away. After he has gone, MIKE comes out of a side room and takes up his post again outside BARNES' door, listening to the conversation within.) 9: INT. METEBELIS THREE. HUT (NIGHT) (The DOCTOR has been taken into the hut of SABOR'S family and lies on a low bed. He is still unconscious as SARAH tends to him. Night has fallen and ARAK peeps put of the curtained window. TUAR stands at the door as REHA brings in a candle to help light the room. A solemn bell tolls outside. SARAH hears it.) SARAH: Why is that bell ringing? ARAK: It's the curfew. It's death to be out after twilight. (The DOCTOR moans gently. His face is covered with a thin film of sweat.) DOCTOR: Ah... SARAH: He seems to be getting worse. DOCTOR: Ah... (ARAK hears the pain in her voice and comes over. He puts a gentle arm across her shoulder.) ARAK: He's dying. SARAH: No, no! (Fighting back the tears, she takes the DOCTOR'S hand in hers.) REGA: He's better d*ad than captured like...like Sabor. (She turns away in tears. TUAR joins his sister and comforts her.) TUAR: We shall be avenged, Rega. REGA: Will vengeance bring my father back to me? ARAK: Rega, he gave his life to save me. He gave his life for the freedom of our people. DOCTOR: (Moans.) Ah...ah... SARAH: Is there nothing we can do? REGA: Nothing - there is no cure. He should be d*ad. (As the curfew bell continues to toll, sounding more like a funeral bell, SARAH continues to try and hold back the tears.) 10: INT. METEBELIS THREE. COUNCIL CHAMBER (NIGHT) (The QUEEN'S stand is brought by her retinue of guards into the middle of the council chamber. LUPTON is sat on the edge of her dais on which is firmly placed his SPIDER. The entire council is present.) QUEEN SPIDER: Stop. Put me down. (The stand placed on the floor. The QUEEN sees who is in her usual dais.) QUEEN SPIDER: Who is this two-leg who dares to sit in the place of Huar, Queen of Metebelis? LUPTON: I have come from Earth. QUEEN SPIDER: Silence! We do not speak with the two-leg. Answer me, sister. LUPTON'S SPIDER: This is Lupton, oh Queen. I have brought him from Earth as the council asked. QUEEN SPIDER: As the council asked? As we commanded. Guards! (The guards step towards the QUEEN'S dais.) LUPTON'S SPIDER: Perhaps the days of the Queen's commands are numbered? QUEEN SPIDER: You would dare to speak treason to my face? (There are mutters from the council.) QUEEN SPIDER: Seize the two-leg! (The guard seizes LUPTON by the arm. He stays calm.) LUPTON: You forget the crystal, oh Queen. QUEEN SPIDER: Wait! (The guard lets go of LUPTON'S arm.) LUPTON: We have the crystal. LUPTON'S SPIDER: It is true. You do not dare to harm us. QUEEN SPIDER: Where is it? Show it to us. LUPTON: We know...where it is hidden. QUEEN SPIDER: But the Great One awaits the crystal. (The council speak as one in their mantra...) SPIDERS: All praise to the Great One! LUPTON: Then the Great One will have to go on waiting until we have received the rewards of our success. (There are gasps of astonishment from the council.) QUEEN SPIDER: And you, sister? What have you to say? LUPTON'S SPIDER: I... (She falters, unable at first to speak such treason. Then...) LUPTON'S SPIDER: (Confidently.) I agree with Lupton. QUEEN SPIDER: I see. It would seem that you are not aware of the extent of your failure. LUPTON: Failure? QUEEN SPIDER: You were followed to Metebelis by two Earth spies. (For the first time, the look of calm detachment on LUPTON'S face disappears. The council again mutter to themselves at this news.) QUEEN SPIDER: The male is d*ad, but the female lives - a danger to the state and our person. I suggest, sisters, that until she has been captured, we refuse to listen to these...these traitors. Do you agree? (The council mutter their assent as LUPTON thinks furiously.) 11: INT. LAMASERY. STAIR CUPBOARD (Back on Earth, TOMMY is within the sanctuary of his cupboard under the stairs. He takes his treasures out of his shoebox one at a time and places them on the floor. When he pulls the crystal out, he reverently places this on a high-stool almost directly in his line of sight. Satisfied, he reaches for a child's Ladybird reading book and starts to read the large and simple text with difficulty...) TOMMY: (Reads.) "Going...to school." (He turns several pages over and traces a finger over the words as he tries to decipher them.) TOMMY: (Reads.) "We...give...the...f...flowers...some..." (Suddenly, as if slightly troubled by something, he looks up at the crystal. Casting it a look, he returns to the page of his book.) TOMMY: (Reads.) "Water." (He turns the page.) TOMMY: (Reads.) "We...say...our..." (He seems to hear a slight buzzing in his mind. He falters and looks up at the crystal. Astonished, he sees that it us burning from within with a bright blue light. TOMMY stares at the glow, unable to tear his eyes away. His face screws up slightly, as if in some small pain. Struggling, he reaches up a hand to move the crystal away but his movements are slow and his eyes widen with an inner turmoil as he tries to grasp the source of his torment. As the power of the crystal reaches a climax, TOMMY manages to grab the jewel and falls to the floor unconscious.) 12: INT. METEBELIS THREE. HUT (NIGHT) (The DOCTOR is still unconscious. SARAH is herself falling asleep but she suddenly jerks awake. She mops the DOCTOR'S brow.) 13: INT. LAMASERY. STAIR CUPBOARD (TOMMY comes to. The crystal is still in his hand which lies on top of his book. He shakes his head and struggles to sit up, looking at the crystal with suspicion. He then glances down at the book and stops short. The words which previously seemed so hard to decipher now seem clear and simple. In a voice which has lost its childish quality and is now firm and adult, he reads the words aloud as he traces a finger over them.) TOMMY: (Reads.) "We...say our...prayers." (He turns the page over. Again he traces a finger and reads the words aloud but in a tone that now conveys his astonishment.) TOMMY: (Reads.) "Then we...write our...news." (He sits up and turns another page.) TOMMY: (Reads.) "We read...in the book corner." (He speaks as if a lifetime of struggle has come off his shoulders like a huge weight. In a voice filled with emotion, he turns the page again and reads without hesitation...) TOMMY: (Reads.) "We measure and we weigh!" (Gasping, he turns another page.) TOMMY: (Reads.) "We buy things at the shop!" (His voice is now an unbelieving whisper as he turns one page after another...) TOMMY: (Reads.) "We have our milk! We play in the playing ground! We dance and...!" 14: INT. METEBELIS THREE. HUT (NIGHT) (REGA has just come out the back room of the hut, looking weary. ARAK and TUAR are back by their places at the window and door.) ARAK: How is our mother? REGA: Well she's asleep now though I'm afraid her dreams will frighten her awake. TUAR: I heard her call. REGA: She calls in her sleep – "Sabor" - although she was searching for him. ARAK: (Angrily.) Those vicious inhuman creatures! REGA: Shh! Keep your voice down if you must speak treason! ARAK: They make keep him alive for a week or more. If only we could rescue him. TUAR: Of course - we must att*ck! ARAK: It would be su1c1de. TUAR: Well is my brother afraid? ARAK: That I am. TUAR: A coward then? (ARAK looks menacingly at his hothead of a brother.) ARAK: Take that word back or I'll stuff it down your throat! TUAR: I'm not afraid of you - or of the eight-legs, but if you won't att*ck, you are a coward. ARAK: Why you...! (ARAK is about to jump at TUAR but REGA stands between them.) REGA: Stop it! Squabbling like herd-boys and your mother half-distracted! How will quarreling bring your father back? (ARAK steps back.) ARAK: We might as well throw ourselves off the cliff as att*ck the eight-legs. (SARAH has been half-listening to the squabble as she sits sentinel over the DOCTOR.) SARAH: If the Doctor were alive and well, he could help you. I know he could. TUAR: (Contemptuously.) How? How could he help? SARAH: (Snaps.) Well I don't know how but he could! (Almost at the end of her tether, she shakes the DOCTOR'S shoulders.) SARAH: Oh, Doctor, please wake up! (The DOCTOR'S head moves. He speaks in a voice as quiet as death...) DOCTOR: (Whispers weakly.) Sarah...? SARAH: (Delighted.) Yes?! Yes, I'm here. (She puts her head closer to listen.) DOCTOR: (Whispers weakly.) Sarah...TARDIS...in the...in the TARDIS...There's a...machine...in...that old...old leather satchel. It's the...only thing...that will save me... SARAH: (Repeats.) Machine in the old leather satchel. DOCTOR: (Whispers weakly.) Yeah... (SARAH looks over him urgently.) SARAH: The key? Doctor, where's the key to the TARDIS? (But he is unconscious again. She suddenly sees the chain peeking out of the DOCTOR'S waistcoat pocket...) SARAH: It's okay...okay... (...and takes it. As SARAH holds the precious and strangely-shaped key, REGA speaks in puzzlement.) REGA: Machine? What kind of machine can save a man's life? SARAH: I don't know, but if he needs it, I'm going to get it for him. (She goes to the door. The others make no move to stop her but ARAK speaks quietly...) ARAK: If they catch you...they'll k*ll you. (SARAH looks concerned for a moment but she glances back down at the DOCTOR and summons up her courage and opens the door.) 15: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. VILLAGE (NIGHT) (The village is in darkness. Illumination is provided by flickering bracket torches as SARAH looks over the quiet square. She steps away from the hut and suddenly sees something. She dashes across the cobbles of the square and hides behind a pile of full sacks. Two guards carrying jewelled-staves march across the square and off into the night. SARAH keeps crouched behind the pile of sacks and she circles round them and then makes a run for the TARDIS. Reaching it, she turns the key and enters the sanctuary of the police box.) 16: INT. METEBELIS THREE. HUT (NIGHT) (The three people in the hut have watched this from gaps in the door and curtains.) ARAK: She has courage. TUAR: She's a fool - risk her life. Nothing can save him. (He glances down coldly at the DOCTOR.) 17: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. VILLAGE (NIGHT) (The TARDIS door opens and SARAH comes out with a heavy leather satchel. She places it on the floor in the shadows as she re-locks the door. Pocketing the TARDIS key, she steps round the corner of the police box and looks up at the sound of a familiar, mocking voice...) LUPTON: Well, well, well... (LUPTON is stood there, smiling at her with his arms crossed.) LUPTON: Our clever young female journalist. You are keen to get your story, aren't you? What a pity it will never be published. (SARAH looks upset as her attempt to save the DOCTOR looks doomed to failure...) 18: INT. METEBELIS THREE. HUT (NIGHT) (Inside the hut, TUAR blocks ARAK'S way as he tries to go out and help SARAH.) ARAK: Let me pass, I say. (ARAK moves forward but TUAR pushes him back.) TUAR: They'll k*ll you. Would you so betray our father's love? Sabor left you here in trust - to lead us in our fight for freedom. ARAK: A fine leader. One by one the eight-legs take us. Soon our settlement will be as empty as Skorda. TUAR: The people of Skorda were cowards. They didn't att*ck the eight-legs. They...they just sat there like...sheep in a slaughter pen, waiting for death. ARAK: But if we att*ck we are as d*ad as the people of Skorda. We must think of something else. (He looks down at the DOCTOR.) ARAK: Wait - the girl said this man could help us. TUAR: How can a d*ad man help us? (REGA remembers what was said earlier.) REGA: The machine! (ARAK peeks out of the curtains.) 19: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. VILLAGE (NIGHT) (SARAH has been taken but the satchel lies forgotten at the base of the TARDIS.) 20: INT. METEBELIS THREE. HUT (NIGHT) ARAK: (To REGA.) There it is - the bag he spoke of. I'm going to get it. (He turns to his brother.) ARAK: If I don't come back - it's up to you. (TUAR makes no protest. They shake hands and ARAK quietly opens the door.) 21: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. VILLAGE (NIGHT) (He steps outside. He glances round and then runs towards the satchel. He picks it up and stands against the bulk of the TARDIS, looking round and making sure that the coast is clear.) 22: INT. METEBELIS THREE. HUT (NIGHT) (REGA steps back from the window and smiles at her brother.) REGA: Arak's not a coward. (TUAR smiles back.) TUAR: No, he's not. 23: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. VILLAGE (NIGHT) (ARAK looks round from the cover of the TARDIS. Seeing that the coast is clear, he runs back for the hut and makes it safely inside.) 24: INT. METEBELIS THREE. HUT (NIGHT) (SABOR'S three children crouch down by the unconscious DOCTOR as ARAK opens the satchel. He opens it up and, in puzzlement, takes out the machine. It has one copper lever attached to a silver metallic base which is in the form of a handle.) TUAR: What should we do? ARAK: I don't know. (The DOCTOR comes round weakly.) DOCTOR: Sar...Sarah Jane... TUAR: She's not here. ARAK: She left this machine for you, but we don't know what we should do. (The DOCTOR'S eyes struggle open.) DOCTOR: (Whispers.) Give it to me. (He holds up his left hand and ARAK places the machine in it. The DOCTOR reaches up and grasps the copper handle in his right hand. As he does so, he seems to connect some sort of circuit and the machine starts to give out a loud buzzing noise, increasing in pitch and tone. The three young people jump back with shock. They watch as the DOCTOR points his right hand down at the ground and a bright burst of energy erupts from his fingers like lightning and sh**t into the ground, as if a poison was being drained from his body. The DOCTOR settles back. He is still weak but his voice has a renewed vigour and energy.) DOCTOR: Thank you. Thank you very much. (He settles back to sleep...) 25: INT. LAMASERY. LIBRARY (NIGHT) (Night has fallen on Earth. TOMMY enters the library of the Lamasery and switches the light on. The dark wooden shelves are well stacked with volumes and TOMMY runs a hand over them until he picks one. He opens it and starts to read William Blake's verse aloud, struggling slightly with some of the unfamiliar words...) TOMMY: (Reads.) "Tiger, tiger, burning bright, In the forests of the night. What...immortal hand or eye, could frame thy...fearful s...symmetry?" (He looks down at the words with wonder.) TOMMY: That's pretty. No, that's beautiful. (He turns back to the shelves and starts to pull down volume after volume.) 26: INT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE. CELL (NIGHT) (SARAH has been taken to the SPIDER'S base. Tow guards throw her into a blue and white chamber. A huge SPIDER hangs in a web that dangles from the ceiling. She looks round. The room is circled with several low-lying shelves and SABOR lies on one. He is wrapped in a cocoon which totally envelopes his body up to his neck. He looks up at the young girl who realises why he is held that way - she is in the SPIDER'S larder.) SARAH: No, no! (She rushes for the door but a guard places his jewelled stave on her shoulder. It glows, SARAH screams and she falls to the ground. LUPTON stands behind the guards. He looks down at her, smiling and nodding in satisfaction.) 27: INT. LAMASERY. BARNES' ROOM (NIGHT) (LUPTON'S former acolytes are still in BARNES' room...) BARNES: But Lupton may not be d*ad. Perhaps he can't get back? MOSS: (Exasperated.) For heaven's sake! What's the point in saying the same thing over and over again?! KEAVER: But what are we going to do? 28: INT. LAMASERY. HALLWAY (NIGHT) (Still listening outside, MIKE YATES decides that that is his cue. He knocks on the door...) 29: INT. LAMASERY. BARNES' ROOM (NIGHT) (...causing a momentary panic within. The other men look to BARNES for direction. He stands up off his bed.) BARNES: (Whispers.) Hide yourselves! (The other men rush off to various places of concealment with MOSS choosing to stand behind the door with a large stick in his hand. BARNES switches off the room light and lies down on the bed with a book in his hand. His reply to the knock affects nonchalance.) BARNES: Come in. (The door opens and YATES comes in. BARNES sits up.) BARNES: Oh, it's you. What do you want? MIKE YATES: It's alright. I heard you all talking. I think we ought to have a little chat. (YATES steps forward beyond the edge of the open door. MOSS takes his chance and clubs MIKE down to the floor. BARNES looks at the twitching MOSS, somewhat stunned by his action.) BARNES: What you do that for? KEAVER: It's a police job now! LAND: Stupid thing to do! MOSS: (Frightened.) Well, you heard him! You heard him! He said he'd been listening. (MIKE lies still on the floor.) 30: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. VILLAGE (Dawn breaks over the village and the bell tolls to signal the end of curfew.) 31: INT. METEBELIS THREE. HUT (Inside the hut, the DOCTOR'S eyes spring open from his place on the floor. He frowns and sits up. TUAR is asleep on the floor near him while ARAK lies slumped over the table next to the curtained window.) DOCTOR: Wakey wakey! Rise and shine! Show a leg, the weather's fine! (The two brothers look at him in astonishment.) 32: INT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE. CELL (SARAH comes round to the sound of the tolling bell. She has been wrapped in a cocoon like SABOR'S and has been placed on a shelf further long from SABOR. She looks round in puzzlement.) SARAH: Where am I? SABOR: You're a prisoner of the eight-legs. (SARAH remembers the true nature of her imprisonment and starts to struggle in the cocoon.) SABOR: It's no good struggling. SARAH: Well...what will they do to us? SABOR: Usually they eat the sheep we breed for them - they prefer human flesh. (SARAH lies back, horrified.) 33: INT. METEBELIS THREE. HUT (The DOCTOR is sat at the table, eating a hearty breakfast out of a wooden bowl. ARAK sits next to him also eating but TUAR prefers to stand at the back of the room as he eats, watching the DOCTOR with his usual blend of suspicion and impatience.) DOCTOR: Mmm, this is good. It's very good - what is it? ARAK: Mutton broth. DOCTOR: Mutton? You have sheep on Metebelis Three? ARAK: Our ancestors brought them with them. (REGA places a rough bowl of shapeless pieces of bread on the table.) DOCTOR: Thank you. ARAK: A few who survived the crash. DOCTOR: So your ancestors were colonists? ARAK: Colonists, explorers - four hundred and thirty-three years ago, their starship came out of its time-jump with no power left, and crashed on Metebelis Three. DOCTOR: Over four hundred years ago? You know the story very well, don't you? ARAK: Sabor, my father, taught it me - just as his father taught him, and his father before. DOCTOR: (Eats.) An oral tradition so detailed - oh, it's fascinating. (TUAR has heard enough...) TUAR: Look, I don't understand you! That girl - your friend, you say, is...is a prisoner of the eight-legs, in terrible danger and you just sit there supping broth and...chattering like a woman at the wash-place! DOCTOR: Oh, Sarah'll be alright for the moment. TUAR: Well how can you tell that? DOCTOR: Because the spiders'll be watching her. They'll want to know how she got here and why. TUAR: And meanwhile my father could be k*lled! We must att*ck and att*ck now! (He paces the room, but ARAK has heard it before and stays calm.) ARAK: The girl said you could help us, Doctor. DOCTOR: Mmm. Yes, I think I can. But first of all I must know what we're up against. How did the spiders get here? 34: INT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE. CELL (In the larder cell, SARAH and SABOR are having much the same conversation from their horizontal positions...) SABOR: The eight-legs? Why they came from Earth too. SARAH: But there aren't any spiders as big as these on Earth? SABOR: Keep your voice down, my child! That word's forbidden here. But you're quite right - an ordinary eight-legs, he must have been blown by the wind out of that crashed ship up in the mountains. There are blue crystals there. They have strange powers. SARAH: Oh, you don't have to tell me that! SABOR: Ah, then you must know that these crystals can enlarge the mind? (SARAH nods.) SABOR: Over the years, these...these spiders became cleverer and cleverer and larger and larger. By the time man found out, it were too late. 35: INT. METEBELIS THREE. HUT (In the hut, ARAK takes the DOCTOR'S empty bowl off him. TUAR sulks by the door.) ARAK: And they've ruled us ever since. A few they take and twist their minds until they become their slaves. The rest of us they rule by fear. DOCTOR: I see. ARAK: They grew angry with the people of Skorda. They kept too much food for themselves, so the eight-legs wiped them out - two hundred and sixty-nine of them, even the children. TUAR: They're quite ruthless. We must att*ck them now! DOCTOR: (Thinks.) Hmm. Go out and get me some stones, will you? TUAR: Stones? DOCTOR: Yes, pebbles... (He holds up his hand with his fingers and thumb in a small circle.) DOCTOR: About that big. Little pieces of rock - as many different kinds as you can. ARAK: But how can pebbles help? DOCTOR: Let's just saying I'm playing a hunch, mm? 36: INT. LAMASERY. BARNES' ROOM (MIKE comes to. He is lying on BARNES' bed, a gag in his mouth and his hands tied behind his back. He struggles to sit up but, still weak from his att*ck, he falls back.) 37: INT. METEBELIS THREE. HUT (In place of the breakfast bowls, a number of small rocks have been collected and are scattered across the table. The DOCTOR sits there, placing each pebble in turn against a sensor on the machine which drained the poisonous energy from him. Each time, the machine emits a low buzz and the DOCTOR tries another rock in its place. REGA watches in puzzlement as the DOCTOR continues.) REGA: What are you doing? DOCTOR: Why should the blue crystal be the only mineral on Metebelis Three with an unusual structure? Now I'm looking for a stone that will absorb the energy of the spider's att*cks. (The machine buzzes as REGA flinches at the use of the forbidden word.) DOCTOR: Oh, I do beg your pardon...the eight-legs' att*cks. (ARAK enters the hut with a sheepskin pouch in his hand.) DOCTOR: Ah, more stones. Thank you. (ARAK starts to empty the stones from the pouch onto the table. The DOCTOR tries two of them but the buzz is the same low one. When he tries a third black stone, the pitch of the buzz is loud and shrieking. ARAK and REGA jump back.) DOCTOR: Ah! That's more like it. (He examines the stone.) DOCTOR: Now we're really getting somewhere. 38: INT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE. CELL (SARAH struggles in her cocoon but it is futile.) 39: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. VILLAGE (The DOCTOR comes out of the hut as the villagers pass on their way to the fields. ARAK and TUAR are with him and he carries the machine in his hand.) DOCTOR: Follow me as soon as you can. ARAK: Do you have a stone to protect you? DOCTOR: No, I've got something much better than that. (He holds up the machine but ARAK nevertheless takes one of the small black stones out of his pocket.) ARAK: Take one, Doctor. DOCTOR: Oh, very well. ARAK: Good luck. (The DOCTOR shakes hands with the two brothers.) DOCTOR: Arak, Tuar. TUAR: Yes. (He sets off.) 40: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE (The SPIDER'S base sits in a valley beneath a mountain of blue rock. The base is made up of several conical and ridged black towers, seemingly unconnected. As they come into his sight, the DOCTOR stops momentarily to look at them, then walks towards them.) 41: INT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE. CELL (SARAH is still struggling in her strange bonds. She is growing increasingly upset at the futile result of her endeavours.) SABOR: Even your young muscles aren't strong enough. Try to get some rest. SARAH: Rest? How can you be so calm?! SABOR: One is only frightened when there's hope of rescue. We have no hope left. We are d*ad, my child. SARAH: No! No, I won't have it! There is hope, there must be! I...might be able to escape...and...the Doctor may come to our rescue! (She lies back, not sounding convinced herself.) 42: INT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE. PASSAGE (The DOCTOR strides along one of the blue and white passages of one of the towers. He comes to a junction, chooses a direction and moves on. He comes to a second junction, and into the sight of the GUARD CAPTAIN who earlier sh*t him down in the village.) FIRST GUARD CAPTAIN: Halt! (He raises his arm and again fires at the DOCTOR who quickly holds his machine up. It absorbs the blue sparks. The GUARD CAPTAIN runs forward and starts to struggle with the DOCTOR. In the fight, the machine is knocked from his hand and skids across the floor. The DOCTOR is thrown after it. He reaches out for it but a foot steps onto his fingers – it is LUPTON who stares coolly at a waiting guard.) LUPTON: Well what are you waiting for? k*ll him! (The guard raises his arm but before he can f*re, the DOCTOR cries out and karate-chops LUPTON'S leg. LUPTON jumps back and the DOCTOR jumps to his feet.) LUPTON: k*ll him! k*ll him now! (A new voice rings out.) SECOND GUARD CAPTAIN: Stop! (A Second Guard Captain has stepped into the corridor.) LUPTON: Obey my order. SECOND GUARD CAPTAIN: You will obey me! LUPTON: You've got no right to interfere! SECOND GUARD CAPTAIN: I have orders from the Queen. You are to be arrested! Captain, take him! (The FIRST GUARD CAPTAIN and the other guard step forward and apprehend LUPTON.) LUPTON: You stupid fool! DOCTOR: Oh, I wouldn't say that. He's a highly intelligent fellow - you can tell at a glance. SECOND GUARD CAPTAIN: Silence! LUPTON: I shall report this! (LUPTON is dragged struggling away.) SECOND GUARD CAPTAIN: You will have your opportunity. Captain, take him to the council. (LUPTON is pulled away down the corridor, crying out as he goes...) LUPTON: No! There must be some mistake! DOCTOR: Ah, poor fellah. Hope they won't be too hard on him. He fell into bad company, you know. Oh well, I must be off. (He turns and walks the other way and round a corner. The Second Guard Captain runs after him.) SECOND GUARD CAPTAIN: Stop! Stop! (He catches up with the DOCTOR and grabs him by the shoulder. The DOCTOR turns, grab his arm and whips him over onto the ground. He turns to run but two other guards with jewelled staves pointed at him walk up.) DOCTOR: Oh dear, this is getting monotonous. SECOND GUARD CAPTAIN: Your execution hasn't been cancelled - just postponed. (The Second Guard Captain gets up from the floor.) SECOND GUARD CAPTAIN: Bring him along. (He strides away and the two guards escort the DOCTOR after him.) 43: INT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE. CELL (SARAH has given up her attempts at freedom and lies calmly in her cocoon.) SARAH: Sabor, how long do you think we've got? SABOR: Who knows? A week, a...a day, an hour. (Suddenly the DOCTOR walks into the cell. SARAH looks at him in astonishment and delight.) SARAH: Doctor! You're alive! I knew you'd come! (The DOCTOR holds up a hand for silence and then gestures behind him. The two guards walk into the cell and SARAH realises that he is as much a prisoner as her. Her head falls back.) SARAH: Oh...Doctor!
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "11x24 - Planet of the Spiders - part 4"}
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PLANET OF THE SPIDERS BY: ROBERT SLOMAN PART FIVE Original Air Date: 1 June, 1974 5:35pm - 6:00pm 1: INT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE. PASSAGE (The SECOND GUARD CAPTAIN runs after the DOCTOR.) SECOND GUARD CAPTAIN: Stop! (He catches up with the DOCTOR and grabs him by the shoulder. The DOCTOR turns, grab his arm and whips him over onto the ground. He turns to run but two other guards with jewelled staves pointed at him walk up.) DOCTOR: Oh dear, this is getting monotonous. SECOND GUARD CAPTAIN: Your execution hasn't been cancelled - just postponed. (The SECOND GUARD CAPTAIN gets up from the floor.) SECOND GUARD CAPTAIN: Bring him along. (He strides away and the two guards escort the DOCTOR after him.) 2: INT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE. CELL (SARAH has given up her attempts at freedom and lies calmly in her cocoon.) SARAH: Sabor, how long do you think we've got? SABOR: Who knows? A week, a...a day, an hour. (Suddenly the DOCTOR walks into the cell. SARAH looks at him in astonishment and delight.) SARAH: Doctor! You're alive! I knew you'd come! (The DOCTOR holds up a hand for silence and then gestures behind him. The two guards walk into the cell and SARAH realises that he is as much a prisoner as her. Her head falls back.) SARAH: Oh...Doctor! 3: INT. METEBELIS THREE. COUNCIL CHAMBER (LUPTON and his SPIDER are before the council. LUPTON is within a dock of two blue-barred struts whilst his SPIDER twitches on a stand behind him.) QUEEN SPIDER: Be silent! You are in no position to protest! Your conspiracy has been discovered. You and your confederate will die! LUPTON: I d...I don't understand. LUPTON'S SPIDER: They know that we did not bring the crystal to Metebelis. I'm sorry, Lupton. LUPTON: (To the QUEEN.) But...how did you find out? QUEEN SPIDER: (Triumphantly.) In the same way that we first traced it - by its vibrations through space and time. The crystal is still on Earth. Do not attempt to deny it! LUPTON: (Hastily.) Why should I deny it? I know where the crystal is hidden. I told you, but I didn't say it was hidden on Metebelis. (The members of the council mutter in agreement. LUPTON regains his confidence.) LUPTON: The situation is unchanged. If you wish to inv*de Earth, you need my help. QUEEN SPIDER: (Warning.) Be careful, two-leg. You may go too far. LUPTON'S SPIDER: But it's true. Once more, oh Queen, your arrogance has endangered the master plan of the Great One. (The council cries out...) SPIDERS: All praise to the Great One! LUPTON'S SPIDER: (Suggestively.) It is not the first mistake the Queen has made. QUEEN SPIDER: (Outraged.) Mistake?! FIRST SPIDER: Maybe the most noble Queen is growing old? SECOND SPIDER: I think the time has come for a coronation. (There are more mutters of assent from the council. The QUEEN SPIDER'S legs twitch uncomfortably.) QUEEN SPIDER: Wait! Wait, my sisters, do not be so hasty. I merely wanted to be sure. LUPTON'S SPIDER: Then what of the att*ck on Earth? QUEEN SPIDER: I shall visit the cave of the crystal and ask the approval of the Great One. (There are some gasps from the SPIDER council.) QUEEN SPIDER: Do you hear me? I shall this very day speak with the Great One herself. (The would-be rebellious council almost reluctantly chant their glorification...) SPIDERS: All praise to the Great One... (While LUPTON licks his lips nervously.) SPIDERS: All praise to the Great One... 4: INT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE. CELL (The DOCTOR has been wrapped into one of the cocoons and placed on the shelf above SARAH. Unlike her and SABOR, he remains cheerful.) DOCTOR: Now I know what a fly feels like. What an absolutely fascinating experience! SARAH: (Sarcastically.) Ha ha! Great... DOCTOR: Yeah...judging by the habits of our captor's Earth cousins, I would say we're probably in the larder. SARAH: Right first time. DOCTOR: I think they'll find I'm rather a tough old bird. SARAH: (Smiles.) An old boiler, in fact. DOCTOR: (Smiles.) Yes! Yes, make a good item on the next agenda of the spider council meeting. (SABOR watches this exchange with an incredulous look on his face.) DOCTOR: Yeah - whether to stew a Time Lord or roast him in a slow oven. SARAH: That'll give them something to chew over. DOCTOR: Yes, something they can really get their teeth into, what? (SARAH giggles, then a thought strikes her...) SARAH: Hey, Doctor, you know I'm still not clear what's going on. I mean, if the spiders wanted that crystal so badly, well why didn't they just take it before you did? DOCTOR: Well they didn't arrive until much later. We're in the future remember, Sarah. SARAH: Oh, of course. Ha! DOCTOR: Now listen to me - both of you, listen. (From his prone position, the DOCTOR tries to look down at SARAH and SABOR.) DOCTOR: Arak is, er, trying to get together some of the men from the other villages. They're gonna try a rescue. SABOR: (Alarmed.) But he mustn't! If they do, they're walking into certain death! DOCTOR: Oh no. No, they know how to protect themselves now. SARAH: Well how? DOCTOR: Well, you see wha... (The DOCTOR falls silent as he hears footsteps approaching. The SECOND GUARD CAPTAIN walks in with one of his guards. He points to SARAH.) GUARD CAPTAIN: The girl. (The guard walks towards her, raising high a Kn*fe he carries in his right hand. SARAH cries out...) SARAH: No! (The guard brings the Kn*fe down...and starts to cut the fibres of the cocoon away. Gasping as her limbs become unrestricted, SARAH tries to get to sit up, her arm held by the guard.) DOCTOR: Where are you taking her? GUARD CAPTAIN: Never you mind. You'll find out soon enough. On your feet, girl! (The guard yanks her upwards, but SARAH'S legs give way beneath her.) SARAH: Ooh! Ah! GUARD CAPTAIN: What's the matter with you? SARAH: I've...pins and needles. (She rubs her legs.) GUARD CAPTAIN: Oh, enough! Come on - bring her. (The guard starts to drag her out of the chamber.) DOCTOR: (Urgently.) Sarah, try and stall them as long as you can. (SARAH shouts as she is pulled away.) SARAH: You bet, Doctor! I'll do my best to give them all indigestion! 5: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. VILLAGE (The villagers are gathering for the att*ck. REGA and ARAK come down from the steps of their hut.) REGA: I must come with you. ARAK: No, Rega. This is man's work. (TUAR calls over from where he is with the village men next to the TARDIS.) TUAR: Why do we wait? We're ready. ARAK: Very well then. (But the elderly NESKA comes running out after them.) NESKA: Wait, Arak, wait. (She runs up to ARAK and looks up at him.) NESKA: My husband has been taken from me. (She crosses to TUAR and looks at him pleadingly.) NESKA: Must I lose my sons as well? I've carried you to the fields at my breast, I've dried your eyes, I've laughed with you through the short years of your boyhood - now you're a man. Must you leave me alone...to mourn? TUAR: But mother... (ARAK joins them and interrupts.) ARAK: We must go, mother. We're not only fighting for Sabor and the two strangers, we're fighting for ourselves - for the freedom of our people. Rega? (He gently pushes his mother towards his sister as ARAK turns to the assembled men.) ARAK: You have nothing to fear. The Doctor has given us protection. Put on the headbands I gave you. (They all tie a strip of material around their heads. Into the centre of these is sewn one of the rocks that the DOCTOR isolated from the others.) ARAK: Are we ready then? VILLAGERS: Yes! VILLAGE MAN: We're ready! ARAK: Death to the eight-legs! VILLAGERS: Death to the eight-legs! VILLAGE MAN: Death! Death! (As NESKA and REGA watch with concern etched on their faces, the men set off.) 6: INT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE. CELL (Within his cocoon, the DOCTOR is wriggling his shoulders as he attempts to pry himself free of its bounds.) SABOR: You're wasting your time. It's impossible to get out of these things. DOCTOR: Look, much as I admire your stoic acceptance of the inevitable, I would appreciate it if you'd shut up for a moment. (Holding his breath, he starts to manoeuvre again.) DOCTOR: What I'm trying to do requires the utmost concentration. SABOR: What are you trying to do? DOCTOR: Compress the muscles. It's an old... (SABOR watches in astonishment as the DOCTOR gets his arms free of the fibres and continues to wriggle the rest of his body out, speaking all the time as he does so.) DOCTOR: A little trick I learned from an old friend of mine, er, Harry, er, what was his name? Erm, er, Hopkins! No, no, that's not right...er, er, Hetherington! No, that's not right either. (By now he has freed all of his upper body and sits up as he tries to move backwards to get his legs free.) DOCTOR: Er...er, it wasn't an English name, erm, er, Hackenschmidt. No, I know it began with an "H". (The DOCTOR'S legs are now almost totally released.) DOCTOR: Houdini! Yes, that was it - Harry Houdini. (He pulls his lower legs out, brushes the fibres off his immaculate trousers and climbs down from the shelf. He makes for the door but stops for a quick word with SABOR.) DOCTOR: Oh, don't worry, old chap. As soon as I've rescued Sarah, I'll find a Kn*fe and come back for you. (He runs off. SABOR is speechless with astonishment.) 7: INT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE. QUEEN SPIDER'S CHAMBER (The guard pushes SARAH into another small chamber and roughly to the floor. There is a raised stand for the QUEEN SPIDER and another long platform for other SPIDERS. It resembles a smaller version of the council chamber.) QUEEN SPIDER: (To the guard.) Leave us. (The guard hesitates, obviously reluctant.) QUEEN SPIDER: (Angrily.) Leave us, I say! (The guard turns and leaves. The QUEEN SPIDER speaks imperiously to SARAH.) QUEEN SPIDER: Rise, child. You have no reason to fear me. I am your friend. (SARAH gets to her feet.) SARAH: Oh, you've a funny way of treating your friends then! QUEEN SPIDER: You are impertinent! I am going to help you. SARAH: (Suspiciously.) Why should you want to help me? QUEEN SPIDER: I do not agree with the plans of the council. The invasion of your planet is a foolhardy venture. It could destroy us! I have lied to the council. I have said I will visit the Great One, but... SARAH: The Great One? QUEEN SPIDER: Never mind. I lied to the council but I had to lie. I desire only peace with you and all two-legs. (SARAH'S fear starts to disappear...) SARAH: Th...then why have you treated them as slaves? QUEEN SPIDER: It...it was necessary... (Exasperated.) Stop fighting me, child! I intend to help you and your Doctor friend to escape - back to Earth. SARAH: (Pleased.) Well, that's more...like it. (Suspiciously.) But why? QUEEN SPIDER: Do you know of the blue crystal? SARAH: Yes - your pal Lupton's got it. QUEEN SPIDER: He has not. (Angrily.) He left it on Earth! SARAH: (Smiles.) So that's it. You want me and the Doctor to get it back for you. QUEEN SPIDER: If you do not, I see only disaster ahead for all of us. SARAH: And what about Sabor - the old man? QUEEN SPIDER: I shall release him. SARAH: And the other... (She hesitates to use the forbidden word "spider".) SARAH: ...the other two-legs on Metebelis? QUEEN SPIDER: I shall listen to their grievance. SARAH: And do something about it, like setting them free? QUEEN SPIDER: Very well. SARAH: Okay, it's a deal. Now what do I have to do? 8: INT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE. PASSAGE (The DOCTOR walks down one of the passageways. He suddenly ducks into a side passage and presses himself against a wall. A moment later, two stave-carrying guards walk past. The DOCTOR watches them go and then carries on.) 9: INT. LAMASERY. BARNES' ROOM (MIKE has recovered from his att*ck but is still tied and gagged. He has managed to sit up on the bed and is making a futile attempt to free his hands from behind his back. The door opens and BARNES walks in. MIKE begins a furious and muffled tirade from behind the gag. BARNES steps over and takes the gag off. MIKE coughs as his mouth is freed but his hands are left tied.) BARNES: Well? MIKE YATES: What are you gonna do? BARNES: Do? MIKE YATES: About Lupton? I told you - I overheard you talking. BARNES: (Sighs.) There's nothing we can do. Just got to wait for him and keep you here until he comes back. MIKE YATES: But as you said yourselves, he may not be able to. BARNES: I know. As I said, there's nothing we can do. MIKE YATES: (Urgently.) Of course there is - re-establish the link, the contact. BARNES: You mean with the mandala, the ceremony? MIKE YATES: He's probably waiting for you to do just that. BARNES: There's only four of us. You have to have five. MIKE YATES: I'll help. BARNES: You? Why should you help? MIKE YATES: Because of Sarah Jane Smith of course. I want her back just as much as you want Lupton. BARNES: (Thinks.) Yes...yes, of course. But how do I know it's not just some sort of trick? MIKE YATES: (Exasperated.) Oh, for pete's sake! Of course it isn't! (He stands and proffers his tied hands to BARNES.) MIKE YATES: Come on, untie me. (BARNES starts to do as instructed.) 10: INT. METEBELIS THREE. COUNCIL CHAMBER (In the absence of the QUEEN, LUPTON'S SPIDER has taken her place on the podium in the council chamber. The council watches and listens as LUPTON leans over her, plotting quietly.) LUPTON: My plan is this: we shall return to Earth and fetch the crystal from its hiding place, then the way will be open for the invasion of Earth. FIRST SPIDER: And what if the Queen returns from the Great One? SPIDERS: All praise to the Great One! FIRST SPIDER: I say what if she returns with a different plan? LUPTON'S SPIDER: The Queen is not to be trusted. FIRST SPIDER: Neither are you - nor the two-leg, Lupton. LUPTON'S SPIDER: No two-leg can be trusted. (LUPTON is angered by this betrayal.) LUPTON: Now, wait a minute! LUPTON'S SPIDER: Silence! My loyalty is to the eight-legs. My loyalty is to this council. You will listen and obey. LUPTON: But it was agreed... LUPTON'S SPIDER: (Interrupts.) You have not been made a sl*ve. Let that be your reward. LUPTON: (Angrily.) You...will put my plan into action! I am the one you will obey! I have the power... (The council suddenly start to ment*lly att*ck LUPTON. The reverberating sound tears into his mind as he clamps his hands to his head and falls to the ground, writhing in agony.) LUPTON'S SPIDER: You will obey. FIRST SPIDER: You will obey. SPIDERS: You will obey, you will obey, you will obey, you will obey, you will obey... LUPTON: I shall obey... LUPTON'S SPIDER: Very well. (The sound dies away but LUPTON lies dazed on the floor.) LUPTON'S SPIDER: If you cooperate, you will be rewarded. FIRST SPIDER: Now, what shall be our action? SECOND SPIDER: We should inv*de. This was the plan. LUPTON'S SPIDER: It must be carried out. 11: INT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE. PASSAGE (The DOCTOR turns a corner in the passage. Behind him is the entrance to what looks like a rocky cave. It is covered over with webs. From this emerges a familiar and panicking voice...) SARAH: (OOV.) Doctor! Doctor, come quickly! (The DOCTOR ducks under the webs and enters the rocky passage.) 12: INT. LAMASERY. STAIR CUPBOARD (TOMMY sits on the floor of his stair cupboard, struggling with the unfamiliar words and difficult text.) TOMMY: (Reads.) "Intelligence...as a concept. The simplistic notion that the intelligence qu...qu...qu...quotient" (He consults the word in another book that lies next to him – a dictionary.) TOMMY: (Reads.) "Quotient - result given by dividing one quantity by another." (He sighs and shuts his first book.) TOMMY: It's no use - I don't understand the words. I'll have to ask someone wha...what's happened to me. (He remembers a name from his foggy past.) TOMMY: Yates. He's my friend, I think. I'll ask Mr. Yates. (He gets up and opens the door to the cupboard...) 13: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY (...but stops as he hears voices round the corner of the passage...) BARNES: (OOV.) Moss may be in the garden - if he hasn't run away altogether, of course. (TOMMY pulls the door to slightly but carefully to the exchange.) MIKE YATES: (OOV.) But we'll meet in the cellar? (TOMMY reacts. The phrase seems familiar.) BARNES: (OOV.) Yes, I suppose so. The sooner we get on with it, the better. I haven't had a moment's peace since Lupton disappeared. (Again TOMMY reacts to this statement. This has penetrated the befuddled memory from his previous life.) MIKE YATES: (OOV.) Ten minutes. BARNES: (OOV.) If I can find them - of course. (The footsteps of the people come nearer. TOMMY pulls the door to...) 14: INT. LAMASERY. STAIR CUPBOARD (...and sinks to the floor, a look of puzzlement and concern on his face. The conversation has triggered so many memories. He remembers the words as they echo in his mind...) BARNES: (OOV.) I haven't had a moment's peace since Lupton disappeared. MIKE YATES: (OOV.) But we'll meet in the cellar? (The words continue to echo...) MIKE YATES: (OOV.) We'll meet in the cellar...in the cellar...in the cellar...in the cellar...in the cellar...in the cellar... (...as TOMMY remembers an urgent message given to him what seems such a long time ago by a girl in a red striped top who he has not seen since.) TOMMY: Cellar? (He sees in his mind's eye the urgent look on SARAH'S face as she implored him to take the message to MIKE.) SARAH: Lupton has gone down to the cellar... Lupton has gone down to the cellar... Lupton has gone down to the cellar...Lupton has gone down...Lupton... Lupton... Lupton... Lupton... Lupton... Lupton... Lupton... Lupton... (And another connection is made from his past...) TOMMY: Lupton! Clever Lupton! (He thinks back and relives the moment when LUPTON appeared out of thin air in the hallway and his own words of admiration from that time.) TOMMY: Clever Lupton... (He remembers another connection with this event and dives for his shoebox. He pulls the sought-after crystal from it and looks over its glowing blue colours as he tries to make sense of these events.) TOMMY: Cho-Je - I'll ask Cho-Je! (He puts the crystal in the ancient first-aid box on the wall, locks it and leaves the cupboard.) 15: INT. METEBELIS THREE. CAVE OF THE BLUE CRYSTAL (The DOCTOR makes his way down a cave of glowing blue crystal. Large circular openings let in the light from the outside. SARAH'S voice echoes again, more urgent than ever...) SARAH: (OOV.) Quickly, Doctor! Quickly! (Suddenly another voice shrieks out. Unmistakably a SPIDER voice, it nevertheless contains a terrifying edge of hysteria within its tones.) GREAT ONE: (OOV.) Stop! If you come any further, Doctor, you will die! (The DOCTOR stops as instructed and frowns as he looks searchingly ahead.) GREAT ONE: (OOV.) Oh, not at once, but gradually every cell in your body will be irretrievably damaged by the crystal rays, and I need you alive! DOCTOR: (Worried.) I heard the voice of my assistant? GREAT ONE: (OOV.) Have no fear - she is quite safe. DOCTOR: (Worried.) But she called out to me for help. (The voice cackles with laughter.) GREAT ONE: (OOV.) Like this? (Again he hears SARAH'S pleading, desperate voice...) SARAH: (OOV.) Doctor! Help me! Come quickly! (He starts towards the sound, but...) GREAT ONE: (OOV.) No! It is an illusion! Listen...! SARAH: (OOV: Singing.) Half a pound of tuppenny rice, half a pound of treacle, that's the way the money goes..." (Then, inexplicably, there is a popping sound and the last line is sung by a voice that sounds like the DOCTOR himself.) DOCTOR: (OOV: Singing.) "...goes the weasel!" (At this sudden demonstration of power, the DOCTOR starts to look extremely wary and puzzled.) DOCTOR: Who...who are you? GREAT ONE: (OOV.) They call me...the Great One! DOCTOR: Why can't I see you? GREAT ONE: (OOV.) You will, Doctor, you will, all in good time - but not until you bring me the crystal you stole from Metebelis. DOCTOR: But why do you want that particular crystal? It's no different from all the others. GREAT ONE: (OOV.) Oh, but it is! You took the one last perfect crystal of power. I searched all time and all space for it. (Shrieks.) I must have it! DOCTOR: (Firmly.) No - no, never! (The cackles again with laughter.) GREAT ONE: (OOV.) You are proud, little man! I see that I shall have to teach you to have respect. (The DOCTOR suddenly flinches as he feels a power take control of his body.) GREAT ONE: (OOV.) Round you go, Doctor... (The DOCTOR'S eyes and twitching face show that he is putting up an almighty battle to retain control of his own body...) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) No...no! (...but the force against him is too great and he starts to stamp round in a circle, his legs raising and slamming down like a guardsman on parade.) DOCTOR: No, I will not! (The voice shrieks with laughter as her "plaything" carries on the circle.) DOCTOR: No! (The DOCTOR struggles on but the force is too great for him.) DOCTOR: No, I will not! No! (The circular turn is completed. The DOCTOR gasps with effort and a look akin to terror appears on his face as the voice starts to mock him.) GREAT ONE: (OOV.) Is that fear I can feel in your mind? You are not accustomed to feeling frightened, are you, Doctor? You are very wise to be afraid of me! Go now - you must hurry back and fetch the crystal! (The control over the DOCTOR'S body ceases. His hands twitch with nerves as the voice shrieks on...) GREAT ONE: (OOV.) I must have it, don't you understand?! I must have it! I must! I must! I must! Go now - go! (The DOCTOR starts to run back the way he came, the voice shrieking after him...) GREAT ONE: (OOV.) Go! Go noooooowwwwwww! 16: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR (LUPTON'S group is assembled in the cellar with BARNES taking the place of their vanished leader. MIKE makes up the quorum and chants with his new allies.) GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: O... 17: INT. METEBELIS THREE. COUNCIL CHAMBER (The power link with Metebelis is made. The SPIDERS hum in unison as LUPTON'S SPIDER twitches on the QUEEN'S podium.) LUPTON'S SPIDER: Contact established. The path is open. FIRST SPIDER: The scout soldiers are ready. (A recovered LUPTON watches nervously from the other side of the chamber.) LUPTON: Wait! Where is this...contact? LUPTON'S SPIDER: (Impatiently.) The place you opened! LUPTON: The monastery? Then the group must be operating, but be careful - they might be hostile now. FIRST SPIDER: Then the approach must be secret. 18: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR (The ceremony continues...) BARNES: Padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. 19: INT. METEBELIS THREE. COUNCIL CHAMBER (In the centre of the floor of the council chamber, a SPIDER is enveloped in a blue glow. As LUPTON watches with concern, the SPIDER fades away.) 20: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR (The chanting in the cellar is growing faster and more urgent...) GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: O... (BARNES breaks off.) BARNES: It's not working! MIKE YATES: (Urgently.) Keep trying! (The group re-starts the chant.) GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. (In a darkened corner of the cellar the blue glow appears and the SPIDER appears.) GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. (It scuttles off into the shadows.) GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. 21: INT. METEBELIS THREE. COUNCIL CHAMBER (Another SPIDER moves across the floor of the council chamber and into the blue glow from whence it fades away.) 22: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR (The blue glow appears in the corner of the cellar where MIKE and SARAH previously hid. The frantically chanting men are oblivious to it.) GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. (The newly transported SPIDER appears in the glow.) GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. (It scuttles away to await further reinforcements.) 23: INT. LAMASERY. SITTING ROOM (TOMMY has found CHO-JE and told the little man all that he knows...) TOMMY: So I thought I'd better come and tell you all about it. CHO-JE: I'm glad you did. (Softly.) Dear me, these foolish fellows. TOMMY: But don't you think we should tell K'anpo? CHO-JE: Indeed we should tell the Abbot when we know...what to tell him. (CHO-JE smiles gently and walks out of the sitting room. TOMMY follows.) 24: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY CHO-JE: Tommy, you go and get this...crystal, and I will go down to the cellar and see what these naughty chaps are about. (TOMMY is about to argue.) CHO-JE: Now off you go now. TOMMY: Yes, Cho-Je. (CHO-JE heads in the direction of the cellar and TOMMY is about to ascend the stairs when he softly calls the little monk back.) TOMMY: Cho-Je? CHO-JE: Yes? TOMMY: Y...you don't seem very surprised to find me changed? CHO-JE: When everything is new, can anything be a surprise? (CHO-JE giggles with happiness. TOMMY smiles back at him.) TOMMY: I see. CHO-JE: Hurry now. (They head off in different directions but the smile has disappeared off CHO-JE'S face.) 25: INT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE. PASSAGE (The DOCTOR has made it back to the main part of the SPIDER'S base. He ducks again under the webs which mask the entrance to the rocky passage, gathers his bearings and moves on.) 26: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR (The group in the cellar continues their chanting, still unaware of the effect that they have had.) GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. GROUP: Om. BARNES: Om mani... GROUP: Om. BARNES: ...padme hum. (With unaccustomed speed, CHO-JE runs down the cellar steps and up behind the seated group. Suddenly his voice rings out in anger.) CHO-JE: You must stop! GROUP: Ohm...! (The group abruptly does so. CHO-JE stares at them in horror.) CHO-JE: You are the most misguided of men. Did I not warn you? Did I not tell you of the risks you ran? (CHO-JE suddenly looks up in fear and even KEAVER grimaces as a SPIDER hangs in mid-air and sh**t a burst of blue crackling energy at the monk. With a scream of pain, he falls to the ground. The others jump up in consternation. MIKE sees what has happened to CHO-JE.) MIKE YATES: No! (He runs over to help the fallen lama but the SPIDER blasts him as well. TOMMY runs down the steps but stops as he sees the other SPIDERS moving out of the shadows towards the other trapped humans. They back off in horror. TOMMY has seen enough and runs back up the steps to the ante-room.) 27: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR ANTE-ROOM (He pulls the door to behind him and stops to collect his thoughts.) TOMMY: K'anpo... I must tell K'anpo. 28: INT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE. CELL (The DOCTOR enters the cell to find SARAH stood there waiting for him, seemingly unharmed. SABOR is still wrapped in his cocoon.) SARAH: Doctor! Where on earth have you been? DOCTOR: Sarah, so you're safe then? SARAH: Yes, of course I am. Now listen, Doctor - we're going to escape. Hold my hands. DOCTOR: Look, there's no time for foolish... (He breaks off as SABOR hears the sounds of commotion outside.) SABOR: Listen! ARAK: (OOV: In passage.) Sabor! Father! Where are you? SABOR: It's my son! 29: INT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE. PASSAGE (Outside the cell, the SECOND GUARD CAPTAIN raises a hand and fires a bolt of blue energy at ARAK. It crackles into the stone in his headband and the burly farmer staggers back slightly but is otherwise unharmed.) SABOR: (OOV: Inside cell.) Here, Arak! 30: INT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE. CELL (SARAH grabs the DOCTOR'S hands.) SARAH: Quickly, Doctor, or it'll be too late! (The two concentrate and they fade away. SABOR looks from his cocoon in astonishment but has no time for further reaction as his two sons run in.) ARAK: Father! (TUAR starts to cut away at the cocoon.) ARAK: Tuar! Behind you! (ARAK runs at a guard who has just entered the cell. ARAK'S Kn*fe is dashed from his hands and he is thrown to the floor. As TUAR continues to free their father, the guard punches down at ARAK who grabs the guards hands and rolls him across the floor.) 31: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. VILLAGE (The DOCTOR and SARAH materialise in the middle of the village. The DOCTOR staggers backwards slightly and gives a "popping" sound with his tongue.) DOCTOR: "goes the weasel!" SARAH: What? DOCTOR: (Amazed.) How did you manage that? SARAH: The Queen taught me. Nothing to it really. (She dashes grinning towards the TARDIS as one of the hut doors opens and NESKA and REGA come running out.) NESKA: Stay girl! Tell us - what has been happening? SARAH: Oh, don't worry, Neska. Sabor is safe - Arak and Tuar are rescuing him at this very moment. Goodbye and thank you for everything! REGA: (To NESKA, delighted.) Can it be true? (SARAH, seemingly in charge of events, yells back at the DOCTOR...) SARAH: Come on, Doctor! (...who is rifling through his pockets with an expression of concern on his face.) DOCTOR: The key! I've lost the key! (She grins cheekily at him having opened the door of the TARDIS.) SARAH: I've got it. (She runs inside.) DOCTOR: Sarah... (The DOCTOR runs in after her.). NESKA: Wait! (She and her daughter run forward but the TARDIS makes its usual dematerialisation sound and fades away before the astonished eyes of the women of the village.) 32: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR (A SPIDER hangs on the shoulders of each of the four conscious men in the cellar. They fade away and the four look over their shoulders at their empty backs. Suddenly, something else takes their attention – the sound of the TARDIS materialising.) BARNES: Quickly, hide! (The four run into the darkness past the recumbent forms of MIKE and CHO-JE. The TARDIS appears in a corner of the cellar and the DOCTOR and SARAH emerge, instantly spotting the two unconscious men on the floor.) SARAH: Doctor, look! (The two bend down to help and the DOCTOR examines them quickly.) SARAH: Are they d*ad? (Then...) BARNES: No. (BARNES steps forward.) BARNES: An unfortunate oversight, Doctor. It won't occur again. (The others step forward. BARNES raises an arm and sh**t a bolt of energy at the two arrivers. They duck down and the bolt slams into the cellar door. The DOCTOR pulls one of the black Metebelis stones out of his pocket and raises it like a talisman. KEAVER sh**t another bolt which is absorbed by the stone and MOSS a third which is likewise ineffectual. TOMMY appears behinds MOSS and pushes the small man to the ground.) TOMMY: Quickly, Doctor! This way! (The DOCTOR deflects another bolt from BARNES and he and SARAH run up the steps past TOMMY. Another bolt hits the handyman. He staggers and a look of pain appears on his face but he is otherwise unharmed. He runs after the two escapees.) 33: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR ANTE-ROOM (SARAH and the DOCTOR wait in the ante-room for TOMMY with SARAH catching her breath. TOMMY is quickly behind them and locks the door to the cellar.) SARAH: But...but what about Mike and Cho-Je? DOCTOR: Oh, they'll be out for quite a time. But as long as they're unconscious, they're quite safe. TOMMY: What happened to the others? (The door starts to rattle from the other side.) DOCTOR: Oh, they've been taken over. SARAH: By the spiders? DOCTOR: Yes. TOMMY: We'd better get out of here. (He goes for the door from the ante-room but SARAH has just realised something...) SARAH: But, Tommy, you're normal! Y...you're just like everybody else! TOMMY: I sincerely hope not. (With the faintest of smiles, he leads the way out. The door to the cellar continues to rattle furiously.) 34: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY (TOMMY leads the other two down one of the Lamasery passageways.) TOMMY: This way. DOCTOR: Where are you taking us? TOMMY: To the Abbot. 35: INT. LAMASERY. ABBOT'S ROOM (K'anpo Rinponche, the abbot of the lamasery, sits in an armchair, his hands folded deep in mediation. His room is comfortably furnished in a mixture of styles – classical English furniture for the most part but with Tibetan hangings on the walls in the place of the usually expected paintings, country prints and their like. The abbot is an elderly man with a white beard. Like CHO-JE, he is dressed in brown and red Tibetan robes. He seems oblivious to the events taking place in the building around him.) 36: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY OUTSIDE ABBOT'S ROOM (TOMMY leads the DOCTOR and SARAH round a corner and to the door to the abbot's room.) SARAH: Doctor! Doctor, the crystal! DOCTOR: Yes, yes, Sarah - all in good time. (TOMMY knocks on the door.) 37: INT. LAMASERY. ABBOT'S ROOM (Inside, the abbot opens his eyes and gives an order in a voice that is as gentle as his face.) K'ANPO: Come in. (The three enter and the DOCTOR shuts the door behind them.) TOMMY: This is the Doctor, K'anpo. K'ANPO: I know. You are welcome. TOMMY: My friend, Sarah Jane Smith. K'ANPO: It is kind of you to come and visit an old man. (The DOCTOR steps forward, places his palms together and bows. He then speaks several words of Tibetan.) K'ANPO: You speak Tibetan? DOCTOR: A little, sir, yes. SARAH: (Smiling.) What did you just say? DOCTOR: I apologised to the Rinpoche for not bringing him a cotton scarf. K'ANPO: (To SARAH.) You friend knows not only our language, but also our customs. The ceremonial gift merely symbolises friendship. (To the DOCTOR.) We have no need for symbols - you and I. (The DOCTOR frowns at the meaningful way in which the abbot says this. TOMMY goes to the door.) TOMMY: I...I think I'd better keep a watch outside. If...if the others get out of the cellar...? K'ANPO: As yet they haven't managed it. They may soon though. Thank you, Tommy. (TOMMY goes out and shuts the door. K'anpo looks at his visitors.) K'ANPO: Pray be seated. DOCTOR: Thank you, sir. (The DOCTOR and SARAH each sit on a couple of low stools. The effect is to place the DOCTOR at the feet of the old man.) K'ANPO: Now, Doctor, you have a story to tell me. DOCTOR: Yes, well, I have a strange feeling that you already know most of it. Erm, you see, I...I found a crystal, a blue crystal... (K'anpo looks at him with twinkling eyes.) K'ANPO: Found? DOCTOR: (Uncomfortably.) Well, perhaps, "stole" might be a better word. (He looks at the old man.) DOCTOR: Forgive me, have we met before? K'ANPO: The recognition of friends is not always easy. (The DOCTOR frowns again but the abbot carries on...) K'ANPO: Tell me about this crystal you... "stole". DOCTOR: Yes, well it didn't occur to me that I had stolen it - at the time. You see... 38: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY OUTSIDE ABBOT'S ROOM (BARNES and the others come running round the corner and see TOMMY standing guard outside the abbot's door. They line up opposite him and hear one of the SPIDERS speaking in their minds.) SPIDER: (OOV.) The crystal is in that room! (BARNES walks up to the handyman.) BARNES: Get out of the way. (TOMMY gently but firmly shakes his head.) TOMMY: You can't go in there. (The two men stare each other out. BARNES walks backwards to his compatriots. TOMMY and BARNES continue to stare each other out.) MOSS: (Urgently.) What are we going to do? We... BARNES: (Interrupts.) Be quiet! (He yells at TOMMY...) BARNES: Stand back you! (...but the burly man stays where he is. BARNES raises a hand and blasts a spark of energy at TOMMY. Again he staggers but doesn't fall.) BARNES: Keaver, Land - get him out of the way! (The two men step forward.) LAND: Come on now, Tommy. (They walk up on either side of the man.) KEAVER: Now! (They jump him but TOMMY easily throws them back. BARNES also jumps TOMMY but his arm is grabbed and twisted behind his back. BARNES yells with pain.) BARNES: No, no! TOMMY: I'm sorry, Mr. Barnes. (TOMMY kicks BARNES away and he falls at the feet of the other possessed men.) BARNES: k*ll him! (MOSS fires a bolt of energy, followed by KEAVER, then LAND and BARNES. The four men continue f*ring, pouring bolt after bolt into TOMMY...)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "11x25 - Planet of the Spiders - part 5"}
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PLANET OF THE SPIDERS BY: ROBERT SLOMAN PART SIX Original Air Date: 8 June, 1974 5:35pm - 6:00pm 1: INT. LAMASERY. ABBOT'S ROOM (K'ANPO Rinponche, the abbot of the lamasery, sits in an armchair, his hands folded deep in mediation. His room is comfortably furnished in a mixture of styles – classical English furniture for the most part but with Tibetan hangings on the walls in the place of the usually expected paintings, country prints and their like. The abbot is an elderly man with a white beard. Like CHO-JE, he is dressed in brown and red Tibetan robes. He seems oblivious to the events taking place in the building around him.) 2: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY OUTSIDE ABBOT'S ROOM (TOMMY leads the DOCTOR and SARAH round a corner and to the door to the abbot's room.) SARAH: Doctor! Doctor, the crystal! DOCTOR: Yes, yes, Sarah - all in good time. (TOMMY knocks on the door.) 3: INT. LAMASERY. ABBOT'S ROOM (Inside, the abbot opens his eyes and gives an order in a voice that is as gentle as his face.) K'ANPO: Come in. (The three enter and the DOCTOR shuts the door behind them.) TOMMY: This is the Doctor, K'anpo. K'ANPO: I know. You are welcome. TOMMY: My friend, Sarah Jane Smith. K'ANPO: It is kind of you to come and visit an old man. (The DOCTOR steps forward, places his palms together and bows. He then speaks several words of Tibetan.) K'ANPO: You speak Tibetan? DOCTOR: A little, sir, yes. SARAH: (Smiling.) What did you just say? DOCTOR: I apologised to the Rinpoche for not bringing him a cotton scarf. K'ANPO: (To SARAH.) You friend knows not only our language, but also our customs. The ceremonial gift merely symbolises friendship. (To the DOCTOR.) We have no need for symbols - you and I. (The DOCTOR frowns at the meaningful way in which the abbot says this. TOMMY goes to the door.) TOMMY: I...I think I'd better keep a watch outside. If...if the others get out of the cellar...? K'ANPO: As yet they haven't managed it. They may soon though. Thank you, Tommy. (TOMMY goes out and shuts the door. K'ANPO looks at his visitors.) K'ANPO: Pray be seated. DOCTOR: Thank you, sir. (The DOCTOR and SARAH each sit on a couple of low stools. The effect is to place the DOCTOR at the feet of the old man.) K'ANPO: Now, Doctor, you have a story to tell me. DOCTOR: Yes, well, I have a strange feeling that you already know most of it. Erm, you see, I...I found a crystal, a blue crystal... (K'ANPO looks at him with twinkling eyes.) K'ANPO: Found? DOCTOR: (Uncomfortably.) Well, perhaps, "stole" might be a better word. (He looks at the old man.) DOCTOR: Forgive me, have we met before? K'ANPO: The recognition of friends is not always easy. (The DOCTOR frowns again but the abbot carries on...) K'ANPO: Tell me about this crystal you... "stole". DOCTOR: Yes, well it didn't occur to me that I had stolen it - at the time. You see... 4: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY OUTSIDE CELLAR (BARNES and the others have made their escape and they stand in the passageway above the cellar. KEAVER carries a crowbar with which, presumably, they used to effect their escape.) BARNES: We must separate. We must search - he can't have gone far. MOSS: (Panicked.) No, no, I don't want anything more to do with this! I'm going! (He only manages a few steps down the passageway before he is brought up short by the reverberating sound of the SPIDER'S t*rture in his head. He gasps as he hears the spindly female voice in his head...) MOSS' SPIDER: (OOV.) You will stay. You will do as I wish. You will obey me! MOSS: (Gasping.) Yes...yes...anything...stop it! Stop it! (The sound dies away. MOSS staggers on his feet while a look of relief crosses his face.) KEAVER: (To BARNES.) What are we supposed to do? (Before BARNES can answer, LAND'S eyes shut and he starts to intone...) LAND: I can see...I can see a blue crystal. LAND'S SPIDER: (OOV.) Yes, we must find the crystal at any cost. Concentrate - all concentrate. (The other three men close their eyes and do as instructed.) KEAVER: I...I can see it too. (His eyes closed, MOSS turns and faces in one direction.) MOSS: It...it's that way. MOSS' SPIDER: (OOV.) Yes! Yes, we can feel the vibrations! It is near! BARNES: Come on then! (He leads the way at speed in the direction indicated.) 5: INT. LAMASERY. ABBOT'S ROOM (The DOCTOR finishes his story. SARAH has vacated her stool and stands with her back to the two men. Although listening, her face has a strange other-worldly look.) DOCTOR: So you see, the crystal was even more important than I thought. They want it very badly. K'ANPO: Then perhaps they should have it. DOCTOR: No, sir, never. Once they get a hold of that crystal, nothing can stop them taking over the Earth. (SARAH turns at this statement and speaks, but in a tone more controlled than usual.) SARAH: Or even the universe itself. (The DOCTOR doesn't seem to notice the difference...) DOCTOR: Or even the universe itself. (To himself.) I wish I knew where that crystal was at this moment. (K'ANPO raises his right hand from under his robes. In the palm of his hand lies the crystal. His eyes smile down at the DOCTOR.) K'ANPO: Tommy brought it to me. It was the crystal which cured him. (SARAH looks down at the crystal as if mesmerised as the DOCTOR stands up.) DOCTOR: Thank heavens it's safe. SARAH: Give it to me! (The DOCTOR looks at his companion. The gravity of the tone in his voice shows that he has at last realised that something is very wrong.) DOCTOR: Sarah, what's the matter with you? SARAH: Give... (Suddenly, SARAH'S voice becomes that of her possessor – the QUEEN SPIDER.) QUEEN SPIDER: (OOV.) ...me the crystal! I must have it! I must! Give it to me! DOCTOR: Sarah, what's come over you?! (SARAH raises her left hand and she sh**t a bolt of blue energy at the DOCTOR. He clutches his chest and falls to the floor. SARAH makes a move towards the old abbot but he raises a Canute-like hand.) K'ANPO: Stay! (The old man's power seems to hold back the QUEEN SPIDER and her stolen body stands still. The gasping DOCTOR looks up from the floor.) DOCTOR: Sarah, what has the Queen Spider done to you? What has she done?! (SARAH looks at them, unmoving and uncomprehendingly.) K'ANPO: It's no use. See through my eyes - look! (K'ANPO takes the DOCTOR'S hands in his own and they concentrate. The QUEEN SPIDER suddenly appears clinging onto SARAH'S back. The DOCTOR is appalled.) DOCTOR: Good grief! 6: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY OUTSIDE ABBOT'S ROOM (BARNES and the others come running round the corner and see TOMMY standing guard outside the abbot's door. They line up opposite him and hear one of the SPIDERS speaking in their minds.) SPIDER: (OOV.) The crystal is in that room! (BARNES walks up to the handyman.) BARNES: Get out of the way. (TOMMY gently but firmly shakes his head.) TOMMY: You can't go in there. (The two men stare each other out. BARNES walks backwards to his compatriots. TOMMY and BARNES continue to stare each other out.) MOSS: (Urgently.) What are we going to do? We... BARNES: (Interrupts.) Be quiet! (He yells at TOMMY...) BARNES: Stand back you! (...but the burly man stays where he is. BARNES raises a hand and blasts a spark of energy at TOMMY. Again he staggers but doesn't fall.) BARNES: Keaver, Land - get him out of the way! (The two men step forward.) LAND: Come on now, Tommy. (They walk up on either side of the man.) KEAVER: Now! (They jump him but TOMMY easily throws them back. BARNES also jumps TOMMY but his arm is grabbed and twisted behind his back. BARNES yells with pain.) BARNES: No, no! TOMMY: I'm sorry, Mr. Barnes. (TOMMY kicks BARNES away and he falls at the feet of the other possessed men.) BARNES: k*ll him! (MOSS fires a bolt of energy, followed by KEAVER, then LAND and BARNES. The four men continue f*ring, pouring bolt after bolt into TOMMY...) 7: INT. LAMASERY. ABBOT'S ROOM DOCTOR: Sarah - listen to me! Struggle against the spider, Sarah - fight it! (SARAH'S lips move...) QUEEN SPIDER: (OOV.) I...am...the Queen! K'ANPO: No! You are Sarah Jane Smith! (SARAH manages to speak in her own voice...) SARAH: I...I... K'ANPO: You are free! You don't have to be dominated! Look into your mind and see that you are free! (SARAH'S eyes move, revealing the turmoil within.) DOCTOR: Sarah...look at the crystal. (SARAH struggles to look down at the crystal held in K'ANPO'S hand.) DOCTOR: Look at it! (She manages to focus her eyes on the jewel...) DOCTOR: Look deep into its blue light. (...which is glowing with its bright, iridescent blue light. SARAH'S head starts to turn away but her eyes hold onto the crystal.) QUEEN SPIDER: (OOV.) No...no! I will not! K'ANPO: See that you are free now! QUEEN SPIDER: (OOV.) I...am...the Queen! (The blue light takes a stronger hold.) SARAH: No, I'm free...free... QUEEN SPIDER: (OOV.) The Queen...must live! (Fearfully.) Help me! I shall die! (SARAH'S face screws up in pain and fear.) SARAH: I'm...frightened! DOCTOR: Concentrate, Sarah! Concentrate! (The grasp of the light on SARAH'S mind reaches its climax...) K'ANPO: You...are...free! (...and she throws her head back and cries out – both in her own voice and that of the QUEEN SPIDER who falls from her back. SARAH stumbles towards the DOCTOR who stands up from the floor.) SARAH: (Tearfully.) Doctor...! (She falls into his comforting hug. On the floor, the QUEEN SPIDER'S legs fold in and the arachnid fades away from Earth.) 8: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY OUTSIDE ABBOT'S ROOM (Another two bolts of energy h*t TOMMY but the man is unmoved from his guard post.) BARNES: Wait! (The men lower their hands.) BARNES: We're not getting anywhere. FIRST SPIDER: (OOV.) I agree. SECOND SPIDER: (OOV.) And I. THIRD SPIDER: (OOV.) And I. SECOND SPIDER: (OOV.) We need more power. Concentrate! Concentrate! (BARNES signals to his men and they stand in a circle. They hold up their arms and touch the outer tips of their fingers together.) GROUP: Om...Om... Om... (TOMMY watches this development nervously...) GROUP: Om... Om... Om... Om... 9: INT. LAMASERY. ABBOT'S ROOM (The DOCTOR helps SARAH to sit on her stool. She is still upset.) SARAH: Oh, I'm sorry! I'm so sorry, Doctor! I... DOCTOR: (Gently.) What have you got to be sorry about? You did very well. You should be proud of yourself. SARAH: To let that...creature take me over like that. I...I mean I actually volunteered. K'ANPO: (Smiling.) We are all apt to surrender ourselves to domination - even the strongest of us. (The DOCTOR frowns and walks over to the old man.) DOCTOR: Do you mean me? (K'ANPO looks up steadily at him with twinkling eyes.) K'ANPO: Not all spiders sit on the back. SARAH: Well, I don't understand. You're not saying they've taken over the Doctor, are you? DOCTOR: Oh no, Sarah, no. No, he's talking about my greed. SARAH: Greed? You? DOCTOR: Yes, my greed for knowledge, for...information. He's saying that...all this is basically my fault. If I hadn't taken the crystal in the first place... (Suddenly he stops. He swings back round to the old abbot.) DOCTOR: I know who you are now... K'ANPO: (Gleefully.) You were always a little slow on the uptake, my boy! (He holds up a wrinkled hand and the DOCTOR reverently takes it in both of his.) DOCTOR: It's been a long, long time. SARAH: You know each other? (The DOCTOR doesn't take his eyes off the old man.) DOCTOR: Ah, yes. Yes, he was my teacher. My...my guru if you like. (He turns back to the watching journalist.) DOCTOR: In another time, another place. K'ANPO: Another life. SARAH: Oh no! (To K'ANPO.) Don't tell me you're a Time Lord too? K'ANPO: I am. But the discipline they serve was not for me. DOCTOR: No, nor for me. K'ANPO: (To the DOCTOR.) I wouldn't have chosen your alternative. (Roguishly.) To borrow a TARDIS was a little... "naughty", to say the least. (SARAH laughs at this admonition.) DOCTOR: Yes, well, I had to get away. I hadn't your power. K'ANPO: Indeed. I regenerated and came to Earth - to Tibet. SARAH: Regenerated? DOCTOR: Yes. Yes, when a Time Lord's body wears out her regenerates - becomes new. K'ANPO: That is why he can live such a long time. SARAH: I see. Well what about Cho-Je? Is he a Time Lord too? K'ANPO: (Laughs.) In a sense. In another sense, he doesn't exist. SARAH: (Laughs.) You've lost me! DOCTOR: Me too, I'm afraid. K'ANPO: Cho-Je is a projection of my own self! (His mouth opens in a silent laugh.) 10: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR (Down in the cellar, CHO-JE has recovered but MIKE has not. CHO-JE grasps his chin and shakes him awake.) CHO-JE: Mr. Yates? Mr. Yates? (MIKE comes to and starts to sit up.) MIKE YATES: Where am I? Oh, that spider... CHO-JE: There's not a moment to lose - come. (He helps MIKE to his feet and pushes up the steps.) 11: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY OUTSIDE ABBOT'S ROOM (BARNES and the others continue their linked chant...) GROUP: Om...Om...Om...Om... 12: INT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE. COUNCIL CHAMBER (Across space, the entire council of SPIDERS hum in affiliation with their sisters and their possessed allies on Earth. LUPTON watches in puzzlement and concern. His SPIDER sits on the QUEEN'S podium.) LUPTON: What's going on? LUPTON'S SPIDER: We are sending power to our sisters on Earth. LUPTON: But...what about that crystal? LUPTON'S SPIDER: Be silent! 13: INT. LAMASERY. ABBOT'S ROOM (K'ANPO sits back in his chair, his eyes closed in concentration as the DOCTOR and SARAH watch.) SARAH: (Quietly.) What's he doing? DOCTOR: Shh! (K'ANPO opens his eyes and looks at the DOCTOR.) K'ANPO: As I thought - the moment approaches. SARAH: What moment? K'ANPO: The moment I have been waiting for - the moment of truth, if you'll forgive a cliché. (To the DOCTOR.) The moment of truth for us both. You know what you have to do? DOCTOR: (Puzzled.) No, I... K'ANPO: I think you do, my son. What is it you most fear? (The DOCTOR'S face drops. He remembers his recent encounter in the cave of the blue crystal.) 14: INT. METEBELIS THREE. CAVE OF THE BLUE CRYSTAL (FLASHBACK) (The DOCTOR gasps with effort and a look akin to terror appears on his face as the voice starts to mock him.) GREAT ONE: (OOV.) Is that fear I can feel in your mind? You are not accustomed to feeling frightened, are you, Doctor? You are very wise to be afraid of me. 15: INT. LAMASERY. ABBOT'S ROOM (The DOCTOR looks at his teacher, the alarm showing in his quiet words...) DOCTOR: I...is...is there no other way? (K'ANPO looks at him sternly.) K'ANPO: None. (The DOCTOR blinks several times and then looks resolved.) DOCTOR: (Quietly.) Very well. (He stands and holds out a hand.) DOCTOR: Give me the crystal. (K'ANPO hands it to him. SARAH also gets up, puzzled at this development.) SARAH: W...what are you going to do? DOCTOR: Take the crystal to the Great One. SARAH: (Alarmed.) But you told me that if you went back there the cave of crystal...would destroy you! DOCTOR: Nevertheless, I have to go. 16: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY OUTSIDE ABBOT'S ROOM (The four men are still ment*lly linked.) GROUP: Om...Om...Om...Om... BARNES: Enough. (They break apart and stand in a line facing TOMMY.) BARNES: Now! (They raise their arms in unison at TOMMY who licks his lips nervously. Bolts of energy sh**t out again. This time they are too much for the man and he staggers back against the door.) 17: INT. LAMASERY. ABBOT'S ROOM (The three people inside the room hear the noise. K'ANPO has raised himself from his chair. The DOCTOR is about to rush for the door but he stops and looks back at the abbot.) K'ANPO: Take my hand! Quickly! (The DOCTOR grasps K'ANPO'S hand.) 18: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY OUTSIDE ABBOT'S ROOM (TOMMY manages once again to recover and stands upright. MIKE and CHO-JE rush up from a side passage.) MIKE YATES: No! (MIKE stands between the four men and TOMMY, his arms out-stretched in protection. A bolt of energy blasts into him.) TOMMY: Yates! (He falls to the ground. TOMMY rushes to help him...) TOMMY: Mr. Yates! (...and the four men use the diversion to run past him and at the abbot's door. TOMMY tries to stop them but KEAVER pushes him to the ground.) 19: INT. LAMASERY. ABBOT'S ROOM (They burst into the room.) SARAH: Doctor! (SARAH and the DOCTOR run back from the door. MOSS sees the crystal in the DOCTOR'S grasp.) MOSS: The crystal - there it is! (Before the four men can do anything, the DOCTOR fades away. BARNES blasts K'ANPO who stands between him and where the DOCTOR stood. The old man gasps and staggers back to his chair, clutching his chest. Once there, he slumps down.) LAND: (To BARNES.) Where's he gone? BARNES: Back to the cellar. KEAVER: Come on! (The four men run out and SARAH runs to help the stricken abbot.) 20: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR (Crystal grasped in his hand, the DOCTOR fades into view in the cellar, stood on the abandoned mandala. He looks round sharply, gaining his bearings. He spots the open door of the TARDIS and jumps inside. Almost immediately the dematerialisation sound begins as BARNES and his men run down the stairs. The TARDIS fades away before them.) 21: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE (The TARDIS rematerialises outside the black towers of the SPIDER'S base. The DOCTOR steps out and pulls the door to behind him. He walks off and almost immediately bumps into TUAR and ARAK who grasps his arm in greeting.) ARAK: Welcome, Doctor. DOCTOR: Arak, Tuar. (He grasps the brother's arm also in greeting.) DOCTOR: Your att*ck was a success then? TUAR: You can see for yourself. ARAK: Thanks to you, Doctor. DOCTOR: Look, I need your help. I want to go into the mountain - into the cave of crystal. TUAR: You will die. DOCTOR: Well nevertheless I have to go. Will you show me the way? ARAK: There's more than one way into the caves - come. 22: INT. LAMASERY. PASSAGEWAY OUTSIDE ABBOT'S ROOM (Outside the abbot's room, CHO-JE and TOMMY examine MIKE.) TOMMY: He's d*ad. CHO-JE: Not quite. Take him to K'anpo Rinpoche. (TOMMY starts to pick MIKE up to carry him into the abbot's room.) 23: INT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE. COUNCIL CHAMBER (The DOCTOR strides ahead of ARAK, TUAR and some of the other villagers. Turning a corner, he finds himself for the first time in the SPIDER'S council chamber with all of the SPIDERS in their places, including the returned QUEEN on her podium. He turns round sharply but finds ARAK and the others blocking the doorway. Their faces are expressionless and it is obvious that they too are now possessed.) DOCTOR: So, you lied. Your att*ck failed. QUEEN SPIDER: Did you really believe these creatures could overcome the eight-legs? They have minds as easily controlled as their own sheep. Why have you come back? DOCTOR: To return the crystal. QUEEN SPIDER: You have the crystal?! Here?! DOCTOR: Yes...yes, of course. (He takes the jewel from his pocket and holds it up.) QUEEN SPIDER: (Eagerly.) Give it to me! DOCTOR: No. I shall return the crystal only to the Great One herself. COUNCIL: All praise to the Great One! DOCTOR: Is there any among you would dare take it from me? (LUPTON darts forward.) LUPTON: I would dare! (He reaches out but is stopped by the SPIDER'S reverberating mental force on him.) QUEEN SPIDER: Stop, Lupton! (He struggles against the force, gasping with the effort while the DOCTOR looks on.) LUPTON: (To the SPIDERS.) Why do you stop me? Everything we've planned, everything we've dreamed of is there - in the palm of his hand! QUEEN SPIDER: We dare not take the crystal. The Great One is all seeing. COUNCIL: All praise to the Great One! QUEEN SPIDER: The Great One is all knowing. COUNCIL: All praise to the Great One! QUEEN SPIDER: The Great One is all powerful! COUNCIL: All praise to the Great One! QUEEN SPIDER: You have beaten us, Doctor. It is good that you will die! (With the gentlest of nods at the council, the DOCTOR turns. ARAK, TUAR and the possessed villagers stand in his way but they soon part and let him through. LUPTON watches him go, aghast, and then turns his venom on the council.) LUPTON: (Shouts.) You superstitious fools! QUEEN SPIDER: Be silent, Lupton! LUPTON: (Shouts.) I will not be silent! I've listened to you for too long! To think that I've lost my chance of power through a spider! (The council audibly gasps at this insolence.) LUPTON: (Shouts.) A spider that I would crush underfoot, without a second thought! A spider! (He raises a fist to bring it crashing down on the body of the QUEEN SPIDER but she is quicker and a blast of energy erupts from her and hits him square in the chest. He falls to the ground, d*ad.) 24: INT. LAMASERY. ABBOT'S ROOM (MIKE lies on the floor of the abbot's room, cradled in SARAH'S lap and with the gentle and healing hand of K'ANPO on his forehead. His eyes start to flutter open.) K'ANPO: His compassion protected him - just as Tommy's innocence was his shield. (MIKE grins upwards into SARAH'S face.) MIKE YATES: Hello, Sarah Jane. SARAH: Hi. (MIKE slowly sits up.) SARAH: Hey, we thought you'd had it! MIKE YATES: Well not this time. Oh, I feel fine. (He smiles, full of life.) SARAH: Yeah? (TOMMY steals a look at the abbot moves to him in alarm.) TOMMY: K'anpo! (The abbot is slumped back, breathing heavily.) K'ANPO: I'm afraid this old body has had it, Miss Smith... (His eyes close and his head falls back. SARAH looks devastated.) SARAH: No! (Watching this, CHO-JE remains as calm and as gentle as ever.) CHO-JE: Dear friends, please don't...please don't... (Both the body and the words of CHO-JE fade away into nothingness.) SARAH: What's happening? (She and the others look at the d*ad abbot and sees that his features are changing. Within seconds, his body has metamorphosed and become that of CHO-JE. His eyes are closed and he is muttering.) CHO-JE: Please...don't...please... (He opens his eyes and looks at the three astonished humans.) CHO-JE: Don't concern yourselves. I am not dying - merely regenerating. TOMMY: Cho-Je? (The abbot holds up a hand of admonition.) CHO-JE: No, Tommy - I am K'anpo. (He breaks into a familiar giggle.) CHO-JE: Will you put this in your magazine, Sarah Jane Smith? (SARAH'S face breaks out into a huge smile of delight.) 25: INT. METEBELIS THREE. CAVE OF THE BLUE CRYSTAL (The DOCTOR has found his way back to the deadly cave of crystal. Walking forward, he is brought to a halt as a familiar mad voice rings out...) GREAT ONE: (OOV.) Stop! Have you brought the crystal to me?! DOCTOR: (Sighs.) Well if I have not, why should I have returned? GREAT ONE: (OOV: Eagerly.) Very well! Very well! Advance! (The DOCTOR walks forward and turns a corner in the cave. He comes before the GREAT ONE. It is a SPIDER, identical to those of the council but huge in size, towering over the DOCTOR and filling the back of the cave. It stands at the top of a long flight of steps and hangs twitching over the puny humanoid below. The DOCTOR is initially stupefied but soon regains his composure.) DOCTOR: I've brought you the crystal. Now why don't you just take it and leave the humans in peace - both here and on Earth? (The GREAT ONE gives a short shriek of insane laughter.) GREAT ONE: (Contemptuously.) You think I care for the puny plans of my subjects? Earth? One paltry planet among millions? (Shouts.) Give me the crystal! I thirst for it! I ache for it! DOCTOR: Well, why is it so important to you? GREAT ONE: You see this web of crystal above my head? (Above the GREAT ONE hangs a lattice of blue jewels. It resembles a glowing upturned mountain with a flat open top – the place waiting for the crystal.) GREAT ONE: It reproduces the pattern of my brain. One perfect crystal and it will be complete. That is the perfect crystal I need! DOCTOR: And then? GREAT ONE: My every thought will resonate within the web, and grow in power until...until...until...! (The enormous SPIDER'S chant dissolves into another mad laugh. The DOCTOR, breathing heavily as his body starts to die under the effect of the crystal in the cave, tries to reason with the insane giant.) DOCTOR: But you've built a positive feedback circuit! You're trying to increase your mental powers to infinity! GREAT ONE: Exactly! I shall be the ruler of the entire univerrrrsssseeee! DOCTOR: Now listen to me...listen. I haven't got much time left. What you're trying to do is impossible. If you complete that circuit, the energy will build up and up until it cannot be contained. You will destroy yourself! GREAT ONE: You waste the little time remaining to you! Even now the cave of crystal is destroying the cells of your body. I will grant you one last favour - you may watch the completion of my triumph before you diiieee! (The crystal is suddenly plucked by invisible forces from the DOCTOR'S hand. He watches helplessly as it floats upwards towards the webbed lattice. Pointed upwards, it easily slots into the socket at the base of the lattice. Triumphant, the GREAT ONE'S voice shrieks across the cave, almost not believing that its ambition has been fulfilled...) GREAT ONE: I...am...com...plete! Now I am...total power! (Shouts.) All praise to the Great One! DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Stop! Stop! Don't you see what's happening to you?! GREAT ONE: (Shouts.) All praise to the Great One! All praise to me! Bow down before me, planets! Bow down stars! Bow down o galaxies and worship the Great One! The me! The Great, all-powerful mmmeeee! (Suddenly, a red glow starts to emerge from the centre of the GREAT ONE'S body. The creature gives a cry of pure pain, its legs flailing about.) GREAT ONE: (Shouts.) I huuuurrrtttt! Help mmmeeee! I am burning! My brain is on firrreee! (Looking weak and terrified, the DOCTOR turns and starts to flee from the cave.) GREAT ONE: (Shouts.) Heeeellllppp mmmeeee! (The very cave is starting to shake as the DOCTOR stops momentarily to gain his bearings and then rushes on.) 26: INT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE. COUNCIL CHAMBER (The death of the GREAT ONE also affects the council. Their intertwined bodies writhing in agony, they moan as they too die. Across the shaking chamber, the villagers eyes suddenly lose their dull look and ARAK puts his hands to his head as he regains control of his mind. ARAK: ... ! TUAR: We're free! ARAK: Are you coming, my brother? (He and the others run from their captivity and back to their farms. Behind them, the death throes of the SPIDERS continue.) 27: INT. LAMASERY. CELLAR (In the cellar of the monastery on Earth, BARNES and the others are once again quietly chanting around the mandala.) GROUP: Om...Om...Om... (They stop as the SPIDERS materialise on their backs and fall off d*ad.) 28: EXT. METEBELIS THREE. SPIDER'S BASE (Weakening rapidly, the DOCTOR has made it back to the TARDIS. He takes the key out of his pocket and unlocks the police box. He enters and shuts the door – just as a series of massive expl*si*n from within the mountain that overlooks the SPIDER'S base rip it apart. Soon, a smouldering crater is all that is left...) 29: INT. UNIT HQ. LABORATORY (Two of the DOCTOR'S many cloaks hangs on the coat-stand in his silent laboratory. SARAH, dressed in a smart pale green jacket and skirt, takes one of them off the peg, momentarily hugs the garment to her and paces the room. The BRIGADIER enters behind her.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Hello, Miss Smith. (Somewhat startled, SARAH turns and tries to put a brave face on.) SARAH: Oh, hello, Brigadier. I'd...I just thought I'd pop in and...well, to tell you the truth, I don't quite know why I did pop in, actually. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: To see if there was any sign of the old fellow, eh? SARAH: Yes. (She hangs the cloak back up.) SARAH: But there can't be, can there? I mean, he's been gone over three weeks now. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Oh, that's nothing. One time I didn't see him for months. And what's more, when he did turn up, he had a new face - could have been a completely different man. SARAH: No - he knew if he went back there he would destroy himself. We'll never see him again. (The room's silence is suddenly broken by the sound of the TARDIS materialising. SARAH and the BRIGADIER watch as the familiar blue box fades into view in its accustomed place in the corner of the room. They wait and watch as the door slowly opens and an arm in a dark blue smoking jacket and ruffled cuff appears round the edge. SARAH runs forward to greet him, somewhat alarmed.) SARAH: Doctor! (The DOCTOR looks pale and grey. He is barely managing to hold onto the edge of the door and his voice is hardly a whisper.) DOCTOR: Hello, Sarah...I...I got lost in the time vortex...the TARDIS...brought me home... (He takes one step away from the support of the door and promptly collapses face down on the floor of the laboratory.) SARAH: Oh! (She rushes to help him as the BRIGADIER quickly grabs a cushion off a chair. Thy turn him over and place the cushion under his head. The DOCTOR'S skin is almost translucent and it is obvious that his end is near.) SARAH: Oh, Doctor, why did you have to go back? (His eyes barely open, the DOCTOR struggles to speak...) DOCTOR: I had to face my...my fear, Sarah. I had to face my fear. That was...was more important...than just going on living. SARAH: (Tearfully.) Please...don't die. (He manages to turn his head slightly and look at her through half-closed eyes.) DOCTOR: A tear...Sarah Jane? (His hand shakes upwards towards her face.) DOCTOR: No, don't cry. While there's life there's... (His voice tails away into a sigh. His head moves and his hand drops down. He is quite still. SARAH suppresses a sob and closes his eyes. She and the BRIGADIER stare at each other, too stunned to say anything. After what seems an eternity of silence, SARAH becomes aware of something happening in the room. There is a slight sound, like an undercurrent of thoughts and she suddenly sees CHO-JE appear like a ghost, cross-legged and perched on a table on the other side of the room. He is surrounded by an ethereal glow. He smiles down at her and speaks, his voice echoing slightly.) CHO-JE: It's all right. He is not d*ad. (SARAH stands up, her voice shaking. The BRIGADIER looks on in amazement.) SARAH: Oh no. I don't think I can take much more. CHO-JE: I am sorry to have startled you, my dear. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Won't you introduce me to your friend, Miss Smith? (SARAH desperately tries to collect her thoughts.) SARAH: Oh, erm, yes. This is the Abbot of...no, it's Cho-Je. I mean, it looks like Cho-Je but it is really K'anpo Rinpoche...I think. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Sardonically.) Thank you. That makes everything quite clear. CHO-JE: The Doctor is alive. SARAH: (Tearfully.) You're wrong - he's d*ad. CHO-JE: All the cells of his body have been devastated by the Metebelis crystals, but you forget - he is a Time Lord. I will give the process a little push and the cells will regenerate. He will become a new man. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: (Concerned.) Literally? CHO-JE: Of course, he will look quite different. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Not again! CHO-JE: And it will shake up the brain cells a little. You may find his behaviour somewhat...erratic? (A smile of relief starts to appear on SARAH'S face and she moves towards the ghostly figure.) SARAH: Well...when will all this happen? CHO-JE: Well there's no time like the present, is there? (He points his hands at the recumbent figure of the DOCTOR.) CHO-JE: Goodbye. Look after him... (The manifestation fades away. The BRIGADIER moves across the room towards where is was.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Now wait a moment! (SARAH is concentrating on the figure on the floor and she grabs his arm.) SARAH: Look, Brigadier, look! I think it's starting. BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Well, here we go again. (On the floor of the laboratory, the features of DOCTOR change. The grey hair is replaced by dark brown wavy locks. The face is younger, the dying skin now looks healthy and glowing. The slightly hooked nose points upward into the air and the eyelids flutter as the DOCTOR is born anew...)
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "11x26 - Planet of the Spiders - part 6"}
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ROBOT By: Terrance Dicks Episode One First Air Date: 28 December 1974 Running time: 24:11 BRIGADIER: Now, just a minute. SARAH: Look, Brigadier! Look! I think it's started. BRIGADIER: All right, here we go again. (On the phone.) Get me the medical officer. Lieutenant Sullivan, emergency. Come to the lab at once, please. DOCTOR: ...human history. BRIGADIER: What's he talking about? SARAH: It's something that happened when we first met. DOCTOR: I tell you, Brigadier, there's nothing to worry about. The brontosaurus is large and placid. HARRY SULLIVAN: This the patient, sir? DOCTOR: And stupid. The square on the hypotenuse equals the sum of the square on the other two sides. Why is a mouse when it spins? Never did know the answer to that one. BENTON: Excuse me, sir. The daily reports. HARRY: Take him to the sick bay, I'll make a proper examination there. BENTON: (To the BRIGADIER.) What's happening, sir? Who's... BRIGADIER: That, Mr. Benton, is the Doctor. BENTON: You mean he's done it again? He's changed? BRIGADIER: Apparently. Saw it happen this time. Lieutenant Sullivan? HARRY: Yes, sir. BRIGADIER: I'm placing the Doctor in your personal charge. He is to have your full attention. HARRY: Right-o, sir. BRIGADIER: Right. Anything urgent, Mr. Benton? BENTON: No, sir, just routine. BRIGADIER: Yes, everything seems pretty quiet. BRIGADIER (On the radio.): The complete set of plans for the new disintegrator g*n. SARAH: Stolen? Who by? BRIGADIER: No one saw them. Probably enemy agents. Small commando squad. They found heavy vehicle tracks. You realize, of course, Miss Smith, all this is top secret? SARAH: Then why are you telling me? BRIGADIER: Well, because... Because there's no one else I can tell. SARAH: The Doctor's still unconscious? Oh, he'll be all right. I know he will. BRIGADIER: He used to drive me mad, but I miss having him about. He'd have been interested in this robbery, there are some very strange features. BRIGADIER: Actually, I want to ask a favour. SARAH: Yes, of course. BRIGADIER: You know t*nk, the Frontiers of Science research place? All the latest in everything under one roof? BRIGADIER: Yes, what about it? SARAH: Well, now and again, exceptionally favoured journalists are allowed to visit it and, well, for ages now, I have been dying... BRIGADIER: You want me to get you a visitors' pass? SARAH: Ooh, please. BRIGADIER: Nothing simpler. Come to my office and I'll fix it straightaway. SARAH: And could I see the Doctor before I go? BRIGADIER: Yes, of course. SARAH: You're sure you've got the right man to look after him? BRIGADIER: Young Sullivan? Oh, he's a very fine chap, first-class doctor. SARAH: Seems a bit old-fashioned. BRIGADIER: Nothing wrong with that, Miss Smith. You may not have noticed, but I'm a bit old-fashioned myself. SARAH: Oh, nonsense, Brigadier. You're a swinger. DOCTOR: Key. Key, key, key, key. Key, key. Yes, of course, obvious place. HARRY: There you are. Now, come along, Doctor, you're supposed to be in the sick bay. DOCTOR: Am I? HARRY: Mmm-hmm. DOCTOR: Don't you mean the infirmary? HARRY: No, I do not mean the infirmary, I mean the sick bay. You're not fit yet. DOCTOR: Not fit? But I'm the Doctor. HARRY: No, Doctor, I'm the doctor and I say that you're not fit. DOCTOR: You may be a doctor, but I am <i>the</i> Doctor. The definite article, you might say. HARRY: Look here, Doctor, you're not fit... DOCTOR: Not fit! Not fit! Of course I'm fit. All systems go! HARRY: I say. Well, look... DOCTOR: Heartsbeat? HARRY: I say, I don't think that can be right. DOCTOR: Both a bit fast, are they? HARRY: Well, I... DOCTOR: Still, must be patient. A new body is like a new house, takes a little bit of time to settle in. As for the physiognomy... Well, nothing's perfect. Have to take the rough with the smooth. Mind you, I think the nose is a definite improvement. As for the ears... Well, I'm not too sure. Tell me, quite frankly, what do you say to the ears? HARRY: I really don't know. DOCTOR: Well, of course you don't. Why should you? You're a busy man. You don't want to stand here burbling about my ears. Neither here nor there. I can't waste any more time. Things to do, places to go. I'm a busy man, too, you know. Thank you for a most interesting conversation. Must be on my way. HARRY: There is absolutely no question of you leaving, Doctor. Now, you go back to the infirmary... I mean, the sick bay, get into bed and stay there until I say that you can get up. DOCTOR: How can I prove my point? HARRY: I... I feel I ought to warn you, Doctor, that there's grave danger of myocardial infarction, not to speak of pulmonary embolism. Yes, I should, I should... DOCTOR: Mother, Mother... # I feel sick # Send for the doctor # Quick, quick, quick # Mother, dear, shall I die? # Yes, my darling, by and by # One, two, three, four... # BRIGADIER: There's only one place he can be. SARAH: I thought you said Doctor Sullivan was looking after him? BRIGADIER: He's supposed to be. SARAH: Cupboard. What are you doing down there? Where's the Doctor? HARRY: Tied me up and hung me in here like a pair of old boots. BRIGADIER: Where is he? Ah, too late. SARAH: No, Doctor, wait! Doctor, listen. Please, it's Sarah. Doctor... DOCTOR: Hello. Come to see me off, have you? Well, I hate goodbyes. I'll just slip away quietly. SARAH: No, Doctor, you can't go! DOCTOR: Can't? Can't? There's no such word as "Can't"! SARAH: Oh! DOCTOR: Why not? SARAH: Well, because you're not... Well, because the Brigadier needs you. Don't you, Brigadier? BRIGADIER: What? Oh, yes, of course, depending on you. DOCTOR: What for? SARAH: There's been this robbery, hasn't there, Brigadier? Some kind of secret w*apon. BRIGADIER: Ah, yes. Very serious business. SARAH: I mean, you are still UNIT's scientific advisor. Remember? Well, you can't go rushing off and leave them in the lurch. DOCTOR: Can't I? Goodbye. HARRY: Excuse me, sir. BRIGADIER: What? HARRY: Could you oblige? BRIGADIER (On the radio.): Oh, yes. HARRY (OOV.): Thank you. DOCTOR: Excuse me. BRIGADIER (On the radio.): What? DOCTOR: Haven't we met somewhere before? No, don't tell me. Alexander the Great? BRIGADIER: No. DOCTOR: Hannibal? BRIGADIER: No. DOCTOR: Ah! Brigadier. Brigadier Alastair Gordon Lethbridge Stewart. How are you? BRIGADIER: Very well, thank you. DOCTOR: And Sarah Jane! Well, now, isn't this... What was that you said about a secret w*apon? BRIGADIER: Doctor, there's been another... Where is he? HARRY: In there. BRIGADIER: He promised he'd... DOCTOR (OOV.): I'm here. BRIGADIER: Doctor, we must get moving... DOCTOR: Is something wrong? BRIGADIER: You've changed. DOCTOR: Oh, no, not again. BRIGADIER: No, no, I didn't mean your face, I meant your clothes. DOCTOR: Don't you like them? BRIGADIER: UNIT is supposed to be a security organization. DOCTOR: Do you think I might attract attention? BRIGADIER: It's just possible. DOCTOR: One moment. DOCTOR: No? BRIGADIER (On the radio.): No. DOCTOR: How about this? BRIGADIER: Much better, Doctor. Now, if you've quite finished with your wardrobe... DOCTOR: I'll try again if you like. BRIGADIER: No, let's settle for that, please. DOCTOR: Time we were off. BRIGADIER: Off? DOCTOR: To visit the scene of the crime. BRIGADIER: The thing is, there's been another robbery! DOCTOR: Tell me on the way, Brigadier. Tell me on the way. You must cultivate a sense of urgency. BRIGADIER: Millions of volts running through the wretched thing. And for all the good it was, it might just... Doctor? Doctor, will you please pay attention? DOCTOR: Oh, but I am, I assure you. Look. BRIGADIER: Doctor, I have every respect for your concern for ecology, but, really, one squashed dandelion... DOCTOR: Not just squashed, flattened. Almost pulverized. Now, how did it get like that? HARRY: Well, I suppose it was stepped on. DOCTOR: Exactly. And according to my estimation of the resistance to pressure of vegetable fiber, it was stepped on by something that weighed a quarter of a ton. BRIGADIER: Funny thing is, they left a lot of valuable and top secret stuff behind. Here's a list of all they actually took. DOCTOR: Just what you need for the control circuitry of one powerful, compact technological device. A disintegrator g*n, for instance? BRIGADIER: What do you know about that? GUARD: Yes, miss? ARNOLD JELLICOE: That journalist girl is arriving, the one with a UNIT pass. Something of a nuisance at the present moment in time. HILDA WINTERS: We shall treat Miss Smith exactly as any other visitor. JELLICOE: I suppose so. I suppose so. SARAH: Hello. You know, it's awfully good of you to allow this visit, Director. HILDA WINTERS: I hadn't expected male chauvinist attitudes from you, Miss Smith. SARAH: I'm sorry? WINTERS: I'm the Director, Hilda Winters. This is Arnold Jellicoe, my assistant. BRIGADIER: So, what are we looking for? DOCTOR: Something that brushes aside chains and electric fences like cobwebs. Something intelligent that takes only what it needs and leaves the rest. Something that kills a man as casually as it crushes a dandelion. BRIGADIER: And what sort of something? Is it human? DOCTOR: I doubt it, Brigadier. More than human, perhaps. BRIGADIER: Well, whatever it is, how do we find it? DOCTOR: By locking the next s*ab door in good time. BRIGADIER: Huh? DOCTOR: It, whatever "it" may be, has stolen the plans for the new disintegrator g*n. It has also in its possession the necessary control circuitry. HARRY: Do you think it wants to build the g*n? DOCTOR: Why else steal the plans and the circuitry? Now, assuming I'm right, and I invariably am, what is the third vital ingredient? BRIGADIER: The focusing generator. DOCTOR: Exactly, Brigadier. Exactly. BRIGADIER (On the radio.): Greyhound Leader to Trap One, over. BENTON (OOV.): Trap One. We read you, Greyhound Leader. Over. BRIGADIER: Mr. Benton, red priority. Emmett's Electronics, a smallish factory in Essex, I want blanket security, every available man. Air cover as well. I'll meet you there in... in one hour. By then, I want that place better guarded that Fort Knox. Out. JELLICOE: As you've seen, we do most of what's called "frontiers of science" research here. WINTERS: As soon as our work reaches a practical stage, it's handed over to someone. Someone with more resources and a bigger budget. JELLICOE: Usually the government. SARAH: Well, like the new disintegrator g*n? Well, you pioneered the research on that, didn't you? WINTERS: Well, yes. I'm not sure you should know about that. SARAH: Whoops, sorry. Talking out of turn. SARAH: What's in here? JELLICOE: There's nothing here. Nothing at all. WINTERS: As you can see, it's empty. SARAH: "J.P. Kettlewell, Robotics Section." He left some time ago, didn't he? That's right. There was all that fuss about it in the press. WINTERS: Yes, indeed there was. As you probably heard, he turned against conventional science altogether. JELLICOE: He spends his time on alternative technology, whatever that may mean. SARAH: Well, what's through there? JELLICOE: His storeroom. Professor Kettlewell left some valuable equipment. We're keeping it till he deigns to come collect it. SARAH: Oh, I see. Ooh, funny, musty sort of... WINTERS: Are you all right? SARAH: Just about. Thank you. WINTERS: Well, let's be on our way, Miss Smith. There's still quite a lot to see, you know. SARAH: Oh, yes, of course. Thank you. BRIGADIER (On the radio.): I tell you, Doctor, I've got the whole place covered. Armed patrols have every inch of the perimeter under observation. Helicopter patrols overhead. Inside that factory is a vault. Not a safe, Doctor, a vault. There's a sentry outside it. BRIGADIER ((On the radio.)): Inside the vault there's a casket. A metal casket containing every focusing generator in the place. BRIGADIER: Believe me, Doctor, the place is impregnable. DOCTOR: Never cared much for the word "impregnable". Sounds a bit too much like "unsinkable". HARRY: What's wrong with "unsinkable"? DOCTOR: Nothing. As the iceberg said to the Titanic. HARRY: What? DOCTOR: (Makes the noise of the Titanic sinking.) BENTON: All patrols posted, sir. BRIGADIER: Everything secure? BENTON: Yes, sir. The lads are so close together they're standing on each others' feet. BRIGADIER: Good. BRIGADIER: See, Doctor, not even a rat could get through that cordon. Protected from every side and from above. DOCTOR: That still leaves one direction. DOCTOR: There seems to be a very large rat about, Brigadier. BRIGADIER: Rat? DOCTOR: Perhaps you should employ the services of a very large cat. PROFESSOR KETTLEWELL: I'm afraid I can't help you, Miss Smith. SARAH: Oh. KETTLEWELL: I don't know why you came to me. SARAH: Well, I'm not too sure myself, to be honest. I just felt something in the atmosphere at t*nk. KETTLEWELL: Yes, I severed all connection with that establishment some time ago, when I became completely disillusioned at the direction all our research was taking. The road to ruination. I'm now devoting my life to alternative energy technologies. SARAH: Solar cells, heat from windmills, that sort of thing? KETTLEWELL: Yes, as you say, "That sort of thing." Oh, sorry. It's a rich and complex field, and I have a great deal of work. SARAH: Oh! I beg your pardon. Well, I just wondered if they might be carrying on your work in robotics? KETTLEWELL: No one is carrying on my work in robotics, Miss Smith, because no one has the ability to do so. Good day. SARAH: Goodbye. KETTLEWELL: Good day, Miss Smith. SARAH: Just going. Thank you. BENTON: We think this is the other end of it, sir. Only... BRIGADIER: Only? Only what? BENTON: Only it's not a proper tunnel. I mean, no props or anything. Just the earth been shoved aside. Whoever went through it wouldn't be able to breathe. DOCTOR: Whoever went through it didn't need to breathe. BENTON: And then there were these, sir. SARAH: I've... I’ve left my notebook in one of the empty labs. I know exactly where it is, I can see myself putting it down. So if you could let me just pop in and get it, I needn't let your director know what an idiot I've been. Oh, please. Look, my pass is still valid for another 10 minutes yet. GUARD: Wait here, miss. I'll check for you. SARAH: Great. SARAH: It was oil. I knew it. ROBOT: Who are you? Why are you here?
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ROBOT By: Terrance Dicks Episode Two First Air Date: 4 January 1975 Running time: 25:00 SARAH: It was oil. I knew it. ROBOT: Who are you? Why are you here? WINTERS: Hello, Miss Smith. SARAH: Look out! There's a robot in there. WINTERS: Yes, I know. Don't worry, my assistant's dealing with it. SARAH: What? WINTERS: I'm sorry if our little joke upset you. SARAH: Joke? WINTERS (OOV.): You were determined to see the robot, and so we arranged it for you. That is what you wanted, isn't it? SARAH: Oh, how very kind of you. JELLICOE: When we heard you were in the building, we guessed what you were up to. So I popped in here ahead of you and I activated it. SARAH: Is it still in there? WINTERS: Oh, yes. Would you like to see it again? SARAH: Thank you, I'd like that very much. BRIGADIER: Well, Doctor, what are we dealing with? Invasion from outer space again? DOCTOR: Why should some alien life form inv*de Earth just to steal a new w*apon? If they were that advanced, they'd have w*apon of their own. Rather a splendid paradox, eh, Brigadier? The only ones who could do it wouldn't need to. BRIGADIER: Enemy agents? DOCTOR: Well, they might steal the plans, but why steal the circuits and the generators? An enemy government would have those resources itself. BRIGADIER: So where does that leave us? DOCTOR: I think your enemies are home-grown, Brigadier. People with access to technological information and a most unusual w*apon. A w*apon that walks and thinks. In a word, anthropomorphic. BRIGADIER: Well, I suppose that narrows the field a bit. Do we know anything else about these people? DOCTOR: Only that they're prepared to k*ll to protect themselves. Where's Sarah? SARAH: Well, what's the hold up? WINTERS: Mr. Jellicoe is checking over the circuits. SARAH: Why is he taking so long? WINTERS: He must be sure that everything's safe. SARAH: Safe? WINTERS: Stop. SARAH: It's very impressive, but what is it for? WINTERS (OOV.): Ask it. It's voice-controlled. SARAH: What do you do? ROBOT: Insufficient data. Please be more specific. JELLICOE: It has a terribly literal mind. SARAH: Oh. What is your purpose, your function? ROBOT: I am experimental prototype Robot K1. My eventual purpose is to replace the human being in a variety of difficult and dangerous tasks. Tasks for which I am programmed are: mining operations of all kinds, operations involving radioactive materials... WINTERS: Terminate. JELLICOE: Would go on for hours. SARAH: Why all the mystery? Why didn't you just show him to me when I first came? WINTERS: My dear Miss Smith, why should we? You were a privileged visitor here. You abused that privilege to pry into matters on the secret list. SARAH: You're right, of course. I'm sorry. JELLICOE: Not a bit of it. You were simply following the instincts of a good journalist. And now, if you've seen enough... SARAH: It isn't dangerous, is it? WINTERS: Of course not. Why should it be? SARAH: Well, it just struck me that it could be a very powerful w*apon if it got into the wrong hands. It could be misused. WINTERS: Like this, you mean? (To the ROBOT.)This girl is an intruder and a spy. She must not leave here alive. Destroy her. (OOV.) Destroy her. ROBOT: I cannot obey. This order conflicts with my prime directive. WINTERS (OOV.): You must obey. You are programmed to obey. ROBOT: I must obey. I cannot obey. I... I... WINTERS (OOV.): Terminate. SARAH: Another of your little jokes? WINTERS: A practical demonstration. You must admit, it was a convincing one. JELLICOE: Prime directive, you see. It's built into the robot's very being that it must serve humanity and never harm it. SARAH: That was a cruel thing to do. WINTERS: Cruel? It isn't human, you know. It has no feelings. SARAH: Oh, it's got a brain, hasn't it? It walks and talks like us. How can you be sure it doesn't have feelings, too? (To the ROBOT.) Are you all right? ROBOT: My functioning is unimpaired. SARAH: But you were distressed, I saw... ROBOT: Conflict with my prime directive causes imbalance in my neural circuits. SARAH: I'm sorry, it wasn't my idea. ROBOT: The imbalance has been corrected. It is not logical that you should feel sorrow. WINTERS: Really, Miss Smith, this is absurd. I think you must be the sort of girl that gives motor cars pet names. (To the ROBOT.) Deactivate. (To SARAH.) You see? It's just a lump of metal. SARAH: Thank you for an interesting demonstration. I think I ought to leave now. WINTERS: One moment, Miss Smith. If I were to make a formal complaint about your behavior here, you might find yourself in a very difficult position. JELLICOE (OOV.): Dangerous thing, curiosity. Can get you into a lot of trouble. WINTERS: So I'll make a bargain with you. Keep quiet about what you've discovered here, and I'll keep quiet about how you discovered it. SARAH: Goodbye, Miss Winters. Mr. Jellicoe. Oh, please, don't bother to see me out. JELLICOE: That was an appallingly dangerous thing to do. Telling it to destroy her. The inhibitor's only just been reset, you know there have been problems. Suppose it had obeyed you? WINTERS: It made an interesting test. BRIGADIER: Where do I start looking for this precious conspiracy? DOCTOR: Oh, it's surely not that difficult, Brigadier. Oh, thank you. There can't be many groups of people in the country with the money and resources to design and build something like... SARAH: An enormous robot over seven feet tall! DOCTOR: Yeah, something like that. However did you guess? SARAH: Guess? I've just seen it. I've been talking to it. Brigadier, there's something very odd going on at t*nk. JELLICOE: Screwdriver. WINTERS: Careful. JELLICOE: Swab. JELLICOE: There. I think that's it. WINTERS: Think? You better be sure. JELLICOE: It's a delicate job. I'm not really trained in this sort of work. WINTERS: Well, we better test it. JELLICOE: This time emphasize the recall instructions. You know, it refused to return after that last business. I found it wandering near Kettlewell's place. WINTERS: How touching. Perhaps Miss Smith was right. JELLICOE: What about? WINTERS: Perhaps it does have feelings. It misses Daddy. (To the ROBOT.) Activate. Prepare for visual scanning. ROBOT: I am ready. WINTERS (OOV.): This man is an enemy of the human race. He must be destroyed. SARAH: Look, it's obvious that that t*nk lot are involved. Why don't you just raid the place and arrest the lot of them? BRIGADIER: I very much doubt if I'd get the authority. And if I did, it'd cause so much fuss they'd have plenty of time to hide the evidence. I must have more to go on. SARAH: More than just my word, you mean? HARRY: You know, you need an inside man. BRIGADIER: What? HARRY: Well, I mean somebody planted on them to keep his eyes and ears open. SARAH: Hey, that's not a bad idea. BRIGADIER: It'd have to be someone they'd accept, someone with the proper scientific qualifications. DOCTOR: Scientific or medical. HARRY: Oh, I say, me? SARAH: Why not? Your chance to be a real James Bond. HARRY: But... BRIGADIER: Might work. We could fix you up with a cover story. HARRY: I could wear a disguise. DOCTOR: I'd like to talk to Professor Kettlewell. KETTLEWELL: I tell you, as I told this young woman, I know nothing about the t*nk and its activities. I severed all connections with them... SARAH: But I saw the robot. KETTLEWELL: What's that? No, that's impossible. I gave orders for him to be dismantled. BRIGADIER: Professor Kettlewell, this is an official inquiry and I... KETTLEWELL: Would you kindly put those papers down, sir? DOCTOR: Plans for a new solar battery. KETTLEWELL: That folder's private and confidential. DOCTOR: This will never do. KETTLEWELL: There are many years... DOCTOR: If theta over X coincides with your disputed factor, you're losing half your output. KETTLEWELL: Oh, rubbish. I checked all the calculations... DOCTOR: The error's in the third part of the calculation. KETTLEWELL: Bless my soul. DOCTOR: But you're doing vital work, Professor. Earth's human race should have started tapping solar power long ago. KETTLEWELL: This new solar battery will provide an endless supply of pollution-free energy at a fraction of the present cost, and they haven't the wit to see it. DOCTOR: Well, there you are. KETTLEWELL: Yes, I've explained it to them over and over and over again till I'm blue in the face. DOCTOR: People never can see what's under their noses and above their heads. BRIGADIER: Concerning this robot... KETTLEWELL (To the BRIGADIER.): You be quiet, young man. (To the DOCTOR.) You know, ever since the days of Galileo... DOCTOR: And Copernicus. KETTLEWELL: And Copernicus, scientists have had to... DOCTOR: Professor, I think you ought to tell us about the robot. Yes. KETTLEWELL: It was the last project I worked upon before I decided to leave. I gave orders for him to be dismantled. It was like putting my own son to death. I thought it was for the best. His power, his capacity to learn, had g*n to frighten me. SARAH: But it wasn't destroyed, was it? KETTLEWELL: I don't know. That woman, Winters, might have countermanded my orders. BRIGADIER: Could the robot have been made to carry out these break-ins? KETTLEWELL: No, no. You say that people were hurt, even k*lled? BRIGADIER: Yeah. KETTLEWELL: Oh, it is out of the question. (To SARAH.)You said he refused to harm you, didn't you? Yes, well... I gave him my own brain pattern. He has my principles, my ideals. DOCTOR: But the circuitry you built could be altered or tampered with. KETTLEWELL: Doctor, not even I could effect such a change. As for Jellicoe and Miss Winters, they're incompetent nincompoops. SARAH: Maybe, but I wouldn't put it past them to try. KETTLEWELL: If they force him to go against his prime directive, they'll destroy his mind. He'll go mad. ROBOT: You are an enemy of humanity. I must destroy you. BRIGADIER: There was a triple-security thermo-lock on that safe, made from case-hardened Dynastreem. It was completely disintegrated. DOCTOR: Disintegrated? SARAH: But there's nothing that could do that. Dynastreem's indestructible. DOCTOR: I think the Brigadier has an idea, eh, Alastair? BRIGADIER: Anyway, the neighbors heard a commotion, but by the time the police arrived, it was all over. The safe was empty. DOCTOR (OOV.): Who was this man? BRIGADIER (OOV.): Joseph Chambers, Cabinet Minister. BRIGADIER: He had certain special responsibilities in the area of security. I've been carrying out a full security check on these t*nk people. DOCTOR: Anything interesting? BRIGADIER: No, not really. They seem to be an exemplary lot. Just one oddity. Quite a few of them were members of something called The Scientific Reform Society. DOCTOR: Oh, really? And who might they be? BRIGADIER: A little tin-pot organization founded years ago. It wants to reform the world on rational and scientific lines, you know that sort of thing. Harmless bunch of cranks if you ask me. Recently... DOCTOR: Yes, go on, then. BRIGADIER: Well, they've had a sudden rush of new members. Quite a few well-known scientists. Younger people, too, computer technicians and so on. SARAH: Is Miss Winters a member? BRIGADIER (OOV.): Apparently, and Jellicoe, too, and quite a few of the t*nk lot. SARAH: Doesn't sound their style, does it? DOCTOR (OOV.): No. SARAH: Oh, well. BRIGADIER: Where you off to? SARAH: Home to bed. Busy day tomorrow. Still a working girl, you know. BRIGADIER (OOV.): Yes, quite right, too. You leave all this business to us. SARAH: One thing about reform societies, they're never adverse to a bit of free publicity. BRIGADIER: Well, Doctor, what do you think... Doctor, what are we going to do? Or shall we leave it all to Miss Smith? DOCTOR: Let's pay a visit to t*nk tomorrow, Brigadier. We can ask them to demonstrate Professor Kettlewell's robot. Good night. KETTLEWELL: Hello? KETTLEWELL: Rats. ROBOT: I... I... I... KETTLEWELL: What's the matter? ROBOT: I have been given orders that conflict with my prime directive. KETTLEWELL: Oh, no. ROBOT: They say there is no conflict. Yet I know there is conflict. I do not understand. Help me. SARAH: As I understand it then, Mr. Short, you advocate rule by a sort of self-appointed elite. SHORT: It's only logical. Superior types should rule, they're the best equipped for it. SARAH: And the inferior types? SHORT: They'd be guided, helped. Kept away from harmful ideas and influences. For instance... SARAH (OOV.): Do go on. SHORT: Your own attire, is it really suitable? SARAH: Trousers? Oh, surely that's a matter for me to decide. SHORT: As things are at the moment, it is. But in a more rationally ordered society... SARAH: I would wear what you thought was good for me? I see. And think what you thought was good for me, too? SHORT: It'd be for your own good. SARAH: Oh, I see you're having a meeting here tonight. Do you think it'd be possible for me to come? SHORT: Sorry, out of the question. Private meeting, members only, no press. SARAH: But if I joined? SHORT: I really don't think you qualify. We have very high standards. SARAH: Well, thank you so much for your time, Mr. Short. And for telling me your most interesting ideas. SHORT: I do hope you'll include us in your article. We have been sadly misrepresented. SARAH: Really? Well, we're covering a number of fringe organizations, and I'm sure we'll find a place for you, somewhere between the flying saucer people and the flat-earthers. DOCTOR: Can't thank you enough for the visit, it's been most amusing. WINTERS: I suppose it all seems very elementary to a scientist of your standing, Doctor. DOCTOR: Yes, it does rather, but never mind. You've got to start somewhere. But there is one thing I'm looking forward to. Professor Kettlewell's robot. It's in here, isn't it? DOCTOR: Come on, then. Where is your Tin Man? WINTERS: I'm afraid I must disappoint you, Doctor. DOCTOR: Oh, dear. I do so hate being disappointed. I was determined to see that robot. WINTERS: We had to dismantle it. DOCTOR: What? And such a harmless creature, too? WINTERS (OOV.): After the visit of your friend, Miss Smith, it became unstable. WINTERS: She introduced it to concepts it was not equipped to deal with. DOCTOR: What? Concern, compassion, useless things like that? WINTERS: We decided it would be safer to follow Professor Kettlewell's original instructions. DOCTOR (OOV.): Now, that is a pity. You see, one of our problems, Miss Winters, is that... DOCTOR: Oh, I say! You haven't still got the bits, have you? Maybe I could put it together again. I'm really rather good at that sort of thing. WINTERS: We have our own furnaces in the basement. The robot has been utterly destroyed. BRIGADIER: I could get authority to search. WINTERS: You might find that difficult, Brigadier, but I won't stand on formalities. Search, by all means, if you wish. DOCTOR: In that case, I'm sure we needn't bother. Come along, Brigadier. Miss Winters has a great deal to do. JELLICOE: Miss Winters, there's a visitor. (To the DOCTOR.)I'm sorry. WINTERS: Would you forgive me? DOCTOR: Please, don't let us detain you. WINTERS: Philips will show you the short cut back to your car. DOCTOR: You know, I have a feeling we shall meet again. Come along, Brigadier. JELLICOE: Did they believe you? WINTERS: Of course not. But it doesn't matter. By the time they can act, it will be too late. JELLICOE: Someone from the Ministry of Health has just turned up. Apparently under some obscure regulation they've just remembered, we have to have a complete check-up on the medical records of our staff here. WINTERS: What an odd coincidence at a time like this. JELLICOE: Director, this is Doctor Sullivan from the Ministry. BRIGADIER: Did you believe them? DOCTOR: No, of course not. They know I didn't. And I know that they know I didn't, and they know that I know that... BRIGADIER: Yes, all right, Doctor. All right. So where is the robot? DOCTOR: Either it's wandered off somewhere by itself or they've hidden it. BRIGADIER: I see. Well, I must be off. Got to try and persuade the Minister to let me raid t*nk. What are you gonna do? Oh, no, don't tell me, more thinking. DOCTOR: I beg your pardon, Brigadier, I was just thinking. (On the phone.) Yes? Yes, of course I'll talk to him. I'll talk to anybody. Professor Kettlewell? Yes, this is the Doctor. KETTLEWELL: Doctor, you've got to help me. The robot has come to my house. I've got him hidden, but he's very unstable. I may not be able to control him. We must keep him out of the hands of those t*nk people, they've driven him almost insane. Yes, at my house. I'll be waiting at the gate. SARAH: Oh, I like that. What is it? BENTON: That's a promotion, miss, to WO1 . SARAH: WO what? BENTON: Warrant Officer. You see, technically speaking, the Brig should have a major and a captain under him. The UNIT budget won't run to it, so they settled on promoting me. SARAH: Congratulations. About time, too. BENTON: Thank you. SARAH: Doctor, I went to see those SRS... Oh, no. (Reading.) "Sarah, Professor Kettlewell tells me that he has the robot hidden at his house. Gone to meet him. PS. It is of course possible that this message is a trap. If it is, I can deal with it. PPS. I'm leaving this note in case I can't." Oh, the idiot! He thinks he can cope with anything. BENTON: Right, we better get after him. I'll get some men. SARAH: I'll see you there. BENTON: Wait for us. We'll go together. DOCTOR: Professor Kettlewell? Professor Kettlewell? Professor? ROBOT: You are the Doctor? DOCTOR: How do you do? I've been so looking forward to meeting you. ROBOT: Please confirm your identity. There must be no mistake. You are the Doctor? DOCTOR: Yes, yes, of course. ROBOT: You are an enemy of the human race. I must destroy you. Please do not resist. I do not wish to cause you unnecessary pain. DOCTOR: How very kind of you. DOCTOR: Prime directive. What is your prime directive? ROBOT: I must serve humanity and never harm it. DOCTOR: Then you mustn't harm me. I'm a friend of humanity. ROBOT: No, you are an enemy. You must be destroyed. DOCTOR Mouths silently.: Extraordinary.
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "12x02 - Robot - part 2"}
foreverdreaming
ROBOT By: Terrance Dicks Episode Three First Air Date: 11 January 1975 Running time: 24:29 DOCTOR: Professor Kettlewell? Professor Kettlewell? Professor? ROBOT: You are the Doctor? DOCTOR: How do you do? I've been so looking forward to meeting you. ROBOT: Please confirm your identity. There must be no mistake. You are the Doctor? DOCTOR: Yes, yes, of course. ROBOT: You are an enemy of the human race. I must destroy you. Please do not resist. I do not wish to cause you unnecessary pain. DOCTOR: How very kind of you. Prime directive. What is your prime directive? ROBOT: I must serve humanity and never harm it. DOCTOR: Then you mustn't harm me. I'm a friend of humanity. ROBOT: No, you are an enemy. You must be destroyed. DOCTOR Mouths silently.: Extraordinary. SARAH: No! No, you mustn't harm him! ROBOT: He is an enemy of humanity. SARAH: No, he isn't. He's a good man. A friend. ROBOT: You were at the laboratory. You were concerned for me. You felt sorrow. SARAH: That's right. And you refused to harm me even when you were ordered to. Those people are evil. They're lying to you. they've altered your programming to make you act all wrongly. ROBOT: I am confused. I do not understand. I feel pain. BENTON: Miss Smith, get down! SARAH: No! No, don't sh**t! BENTON: He okay, miss? SARAH: Yes, yes, I think so. BENTON: We just couldn't stop it. SARAH: What did you have to start sh**ting for? He wouldn't have harmed you. BENTON: You could have fooled me. It was trying to k*ll the Doctor, wasn't it? SARAH: Yes, but that was because... Well, it doesn't matter. It wasn't your fault, I suppose. You did your best. BENTON: Thank you very much! The US Cavalry never got treated like this. SARAH: Listen. BENTON: It's in there. KETTLEWELL: The robot came to find me last night. It was in terrible distress. They'd just forced it to commit another crime. SARAH: Yes. Yes, I know. KETTLEWELL: Altered his circuitry so as to overcome his prime directive. They succeeded, but at fearful cost. SARAH: He became unbalanced. KETTLEWELL: Yes. Then Miss Winters and Jellicoe came along while I was waiting for the Doctor. They programmed the robot to k*ll him. I protested, but... SARAH: Shh. Never mind, you're safe now. KETTLEWELL: You know, when I think of that robot's potential... I invented the metal he's made of, you know. I called it living metal. It actually has the capacity to grow like a living organism. SARAH: It's quite big enough for me now, thank you. KETTLEWELL: That's how I came to make my other discovery, you know. It's the metallic equivalent of a virus. It breaks down metal into easily recyclable form. You can see what that means, can't you? SARAH: Yes. KETTLEWELL: It means that we shall be able to get rid of all the metallic waste that pollutes this planet. BENTON: Professor? KETTLEWELL: Thank you. KETTLEWELL (OOV.): What's that doing there? SARAH: Oh, I went to see them. Rather unpleasant. KETTLEWELL: "Scientific Reform Society." Oh, yes. Just before I left the t*nk, they persuaded me to join it. I remember I went along to one of their meetings once. KETTLEWELL (OOV.): Very odd bunch. Didn't go there again. SARAH: Well now, there's a meeting there tonight. Suppose you were to turn up, Professor, would they let you in? KETTLEWELL: Very probably. I think I've still got my membership card about me somewhere. SARAH: And if I came along too, plus my camera and tape recorder, you could smuggle me in and we could get the goods on them for the Brigadier. BENTON: Hang on, you two. SARAH: What do you say, Professor, shall we try it? Of course, it could be dangerous. KETTLEWELL: If there is anything I can do to help to defeat those people. BENTON: But the Brigadier will go spare, so will the Doctor. SARAH: Well, one's away and the other's asleep. BENTON: I'll go and wake the Doctor and see what he says. SARAH: Don't you dare. He had a nasty knock on the head and he needs to rest. BENTON: In that case, miss, it's just not on. I'm sorry. SARAH: Oh! Mr Benton, are we members of UNIT? BENTON: Well, no, of course not. SARAH: Are we under arrest? BENTON: No, miss. SARAH: Well, what we do and where we go is none of your business, is it? Come along, Professor. BENTON: Wouldn't it be best... SARAH: Just you go and Blanco your r*fle or something. This way, Professor. Come on. SHORT: Professor Kettlewell, how nice to see you again so soon. BRIGADIER: What the blazes were you thinking of, Mr Benton? You should never have let them go. BENTON: Well, maybe you could have stopped them, sir, but I couldn't. As the young lady pointed out, they're not under our jurisdiction. Excuse me, sir, but you did get permission to raid t*nk? BRIGADIER: No, Mr Benton, I did not. DOCTOR: Then you must act without it. I know what they're up to now. Worked it all out while I was having my little nap. It's all tied up with the information stolen from that poor fellow Chambers. He must have been the guardian of some kind of ultimate thr*at. I don't know exactly what it is, just the kind of thing it has to be. Well, am I right? BRIGADIER: A few months ago, the superpowers, Russia, America and China, decided upon a plan to ensure peace. All three powers have hidden atomic m*ssile sites. All three agreed to give details of those sites plus full operation instructions to another neutral country. In the event of trouble, that country could publish everyone's secrets and so cool things down. Naturally, the only country that could be trusted with such a role was Great Britain. DOCTOR: Naturally. The rest were all foreigners. BRIGADIER: Exactly. The destructor codes for f*ring these m*ssile were kept in Chambers' house in a special Dynastreem safe. The robot k*lled Chambers, blasted the safe open with a disintegrator g*n and took the codes. BENTON: So what can they do with them now that they've got them? BRIGADIER: They could set off every atomic m*ssile in the world, Mr Benton. DOCTOR: Yes, and start a nuclear holocaust that would turn this little planet of yours into a radioactive cinder suspended in space. BENTON: You mean... he could use the information to blackmail the world? Do things our way or we light the blue touch paper? DOCTOR: I'm afraid so. BRIGADIER: We think they've been using this Scientific Reform Society as a front, and I've just heard from Mr Benton here that Miss Smith and Professor Kettlewell have just gone off to try to get into one of their meetings. DOCTOR: Kettlewell? You let Sarah go off somewhere with Kettlewell? KETTLEWELL: Miss Smith? Are you there? SARAH: How's it going, Professor? KETTLEWELL: All right, I think. They were a bit suspicious to start with, but I found somewhere for you to hide. SARAH: Great. WINTERS: And as you know, my friends, tonight is a culmination of many years of work and planning. A brilliant and audacious scheme is about to come to its climax. You have all waited long and patiently during the years of scorn and ridicule. The days when we were laughed at as cranks. Well, now a new and better future is almost within our grasp. A future in which we, the elite, will rule as is our right! We owe it all to one man. The man whose unrivalled scientific genius has put us in the commanding position we now hold. Professor Kettlewell! He brings with him the symbol of our movement, the creature whose intelligence and power made him a fitting emblem for our scientific new order. DOCTOR: Where is that pass? It must be somewhere. Freedom to the city of Skaro. No. Pilot's licence for the Mars-Venus rocket run. Galactic passport. (To the GUARD.)Do you travel much? Honorary member of the Alpha Centaurian Table Tennis Club. Very tricky opponents, those chaps. Six arms and, of course, six bats. It really keeps you on your toes. I'll tell you what, I'll just pop outside and try something... Oh, dear. I'm terribly sorry. You just lie there and get some rest. I'll find help. And above all, don't worry. Everything's going to be all right. WINTERS: With the aid of this robot, we shall seek out and destroy all those who try to harm us. ROBOT: Seek out and destroy. WINTERS: She's a spy! Deal with her! DOCTOR: Good evening, everyone. Now, please, stay calm. Everyone keep your seat. Now then, what can I do to entertain you till my friend the Brigadier arrives? A little song? A little dance perhaps? Not just a little dance? Anyone for cards? WINTERS: Don't just stand there, you idiots, get him! DOCTOR: Now for my next trick, I shall require the assistance of a member of the audience. Say, haven't we met somewhere before? Please, let me help you up. Pity. Any other sporting member of the audience? Tell me one thing, Professor Kettlewell. Why? KETTLEWELL: For years I have been trying to persuade people to stop spoiling this planet, Doctor. Now, with the help of my friends, I can make them. DOCTOR: Aren't you forgetting that in science, as in morality, the end never justifies the means? JELLICOE: What are we going to do with them? WINTERS: k*ll them of course. KETTLEWELL: No, no... WINTERS: They're far too dangerous to us. KETTLEWELL: Couldn't we lock them up? And have them escape? It's too late to be squeamish, Professor. DOCTOR: You see what I mean, Professor? WINTERS: Take them away. BRIGADIER: Stay where you are! My men have this building surrounded. WINTERS: Where's the truck? JELLICOE: Still outside. WINTERS: Quick! BRIGADIER (OOV.): Stop! Stay where you are! KETTLEWELL (OOV.): Protect us! Protect us! BRIGADIER: Well, Doctor... DOCTOR: It had to be Kettlewell. Only he could have attempted to reprogram the robot to overcome its prime directive. BRIGADIER: Then all that business about being knocked on the head and pushed in the cupboard... DOCTOR: Faked. Faked to gain your confidence. And they still have the destructor codes and Sarah. And now they'll hide up somewhere and try their blackmail plan, I suppose. BRIGADIER: But how can they? If they start a nuclear w*r, they'll go up with the rest of us. DOCTOR: I rather imagine that has occurred to them. You better find them, Brigadier, and soon. BRIGADIER: I agree. But how? BENTON: Excuse me, sir, there's a call for you from Dr Sullivan. Linked through from HQ. BRIGADIER: Thank you. (On the phone.) Sullivan, are you still at t*nk? Over. HARRY: Yes, sir, but I may not have much time. I've managed to give them the slip and I think they've forgotten about me. They seem to be pulling out, sir. The whole place is being evacuated. BRIGADIER: Listen, Sullivan, this is urgent. Do you know where they're going? Do you have any idea at all? HARRY (OOV.): Well, sir, I heard somebody mention the bunker, but it seemed to be kind of a joke... BRIGADIER: Sullivan, are you still there? JELLICOE: We'll take him with us. He'll be a useful hostage. BRIGADIER: No good. Broken connection. DOCTOR: Or broken head if someone overheard him calling us. BRIGADIER: He said something about them going to a bunker. BRIGADIER: Well, this is the place. An atomic shelter designed and built by the t*nk people back in the Cold w*r days. DOCTOR: So if their bluff is called, they'll stay down there safe and sound and emerge to rule the survivors, if any. BENTON: You really think they're in there, sir? BRIGADIER: We'll soon find out. Right, Benton. BENTON: All out! WINTERS: Activate the a*t*matic defence system. KETTLEWELL: Shouldn't we talk to them first? WINTERS: We'll talk afterwards. First we must show them the strength of our position. WINTERS:Put her with the other one. DOCTOR: Down, Brigadier. Everyone get down! BENTON: Get back. BRIGADIER: Of all the cheek! They've got troops there. DOCTOR: I don't think so, Brigadier. Automated g*n nest, I fancy, activated by body heat when you get within range. DOCTOR: Shh! BENTON: That's not me, Doctor. Someone's trying to get through on our frequency. DOCTOR: Good man. BENTON (OOV.): Greyhound leader receiving you. Over. WINTERS: Let me speak to the Brigadier. BRIGADIER (OOV.): Lethbridge Stewart. WINTERS: Brigadier, can you hear me? BRIGADIER (OOV.): Yes, Miss Winters, I hear you. Come out and give yourselves up, or we shall att*ck. WINTERS: We hold two of your friends as hostages. BRIGADIER: That will not deter me. I repeat, give yourselves up or we shall att*ck. WINTERS: You'll never reach those doors alive, Brigadier. And even if you did, you'd never get through them. By now, the governments of the world will have received our demands. Unless they are agreed to in full, the destructor codes will be used. We have associates standing by all over the world. You have 30 minutes in which to surrender. BRIGADIER: Mr Benton, take a party with grenades, find those g*n nests and knock them out. BENTON: Yes, sir. BRIGADIER: I'll show that wretched woman. ROBOT: Do not move. If you attempt to escape, I must destroy you. HARRY: Oh, I say. (How gallant.) SARAH: James Bond! BENTON: That was the lot, sir. BRIGADIER: Right. Prepare to advance. DOCTOR: Just a moment, Brigadier. DOCTOR: Come along, then. BENTON: Okay, move. BENTON: Shall I get some expl*sives, sir? DOCTOR: Oh, no... BRIGADIER: Yes. DOCTOR: Must you? I really think we've had enough bangs and flashes for a bit, don't you? Hold on. Turns into a miniature sonic lance, you see? BRIGADIER: And what do you propose to do with that? DOCTOR: Cut out the lock for you. It shouldn't take long. JELLICOE: They're getting through. It is impossible! WINTERS: Very well, we shall have to use the destructor codes. Show them we're not bluffing. KETTLEWELL: It'll take too long to set up the sequence. They'll be in here long before that. You said we'd have plenty of time. WINTERS: Then we must gain time. We shall have to use your metal friend, Professor. And this time, he'd better not let us down. (To JELLICOE.) Is the disintegrator g*n ready? JELLICOE: Yes. WINTERS: Right. Then fit it and send him out. Come along, Professor. Start getting those destructor codes operational. Maybe they'll listen when the first few m*ssile are fired. JELLICOE (To the ROBOT.): Enemies of humanity are attacking us. You must take this g*n and destroy them. SARAH: No! No, you mustn't! DOCTOR: Back, everybody back. BRIGADIER: They may be going to surrender. DOCTOR: I very much doubt it. Get you men back, Brigadier, if you don't want them k*lled. BRIGADIER: All right, back. Fall back. MAN: Fall back to the woods. BRIGADIER: Well, I brought along something that will deal with it. DOCTOR: I very much doubt it, Brigadier. ROBOT: Go! Go now, or I will destroy you all!
{"type": "series", "show": "Doctor Who", "episode": "12x03 - Robot - part 3"}
foreverdreaming
ROBOT By: Terrance Dicks Episode Four First Air Date: 18 January 1975 Running time: 24:29 BRIGADIER: Well, I brought along something that will deal with it. DOCTOR: I very much doubt it, Brigadier. ROBOT: Go! Go now, or I will destroy you all. WINTERS: Well, everything seems to be very satisfactory. And how are you getting on, Professor? KETTLEWELL: I've just finished making the preliminary linkups. You don't really intend to use the destructor codes, do you? WINTERS: I want everything in readiness. KETTLEWELL: But if they don't agree, if they call our bluff, we'll surrender, won't we? WINTERS: No. We shall f*re the m*ssile. KETTLEWELL: But you can't. It would mean a nuclear w*r. WINTERS: You want a better world, don't you? We shan't gain it without some sacrifices. Now, start the countdown, Professor. HARRY: How are we doing, Miss Smith? SARAH: Okay. HARRY: Yeah, I think it's coming. WINTERS: What about food and water? How long can we hold out if the worst happens? JELLICOE: I'm not really sure. WINTERS: Then you should be. Take me to the food storage. We must make a proper check. (To KETTLEWELL.) Keep your eye on our friends outside, Professor. JELLICOE: Wait. JELLICOE: What are we going to do with them? WINTERS: They're obviously no use to us as hostages. We can't afford useless mouths to feed. They'll have to be disposed of. Later. HARRY: That was a near one. SARAH: We're nearly there, I think. HARRY: Yeah. SARAH: Okay. BRIGADIER: What's the range and power of that w*apon, Doctor? DOCTOR: Power? Almost unlimited. Range, well, it could drill a hole in the surface of the moon. BRIGADIER: And knock out anything we send against it. DOCTOR: Yes. Well, it's no use staying here. Brigadier, prepare your men for an att*ck. Try and draw the robot away from the door. I'll slip around behind it and finish cutting the lock. BRIGADIER: You don't stand much chance, you know. DOCTOR: I know, but we have to try. BRIGADIER: Right. We'll cover you as long as we can. All right, Benton? KETTLEWELL: Can't... I won't. JELLICOE: Don't attempt to stop it. KETTLEWELL: No, I can't do. I won't do it! JELLICOE: Let it run! KETTLEWELL: Thank heavens you've come. SARAH: Can you cancel what you've been doing? KETTLEWELL: There's no time. I'll punch in the hold signal. HARRY: So, now open the main doors. We're going outside. KETTLEWELL: Yes. SARAH: There. HARRY: All right. DOCTOR: Wait. The doors. Sarah. SARAH: Doctor! (To the ROBOT.) Look, please don't sh**t. We're no danger to you. ROBOT: You must go. The soldiers must go. SARAH: You've got to let him in there. ROBOT: They are enemies of the human race. SARAH: No, they're the enemies in there. They want to start an atomic w*r. k*ll millions of people! ROBOT: You must go or I will k*ll... I must k*ll you. I must destroy you. KETTLEWELL: No, no! He was only telling... ROBOT: I have k*lled the one who created me. DOCTOR: Now's our chance. BRIGADIER: Get away from that keyboard. WINTERS: You won't sh**t, Brigadier. SARAH: Maybe he won't, but I will. Move away! WINTERS: Why not? It's finished. The f*ring instructions have gone out. BRIGADIER: I can still get the major powers to use their fail-safe procedures. WINTERS: Too late, Brigadier. BRIGADIER: Cancel the destructor codes! WINTERS: When that reaches zero, the m*ssile will be fired, and no one can send the cancel codes in time. DOCTOR: She may be right, Brigadier. BRIGADIER: Benton, get them both out of here. BENTON: Miss Winters. BRIGADIER: Go! DOCTOR: The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots. They do exactly what you tell them at amazing speed, even if you order them to k*ll you. So if you do happen to change your mind, it's very difficult to stop them obeying the original order, but... not impossible. HARRY: Congratulations, Doctor. SARAH: Oh, you've done it! BENTON: Well done, Doctor. BRIGADIER (OOV.): Right, that's over. Now for a little mopping up. BENTON: Right, sir. BRIGADIER: Vanished? How can they have vanished? BENTON: We were all pretty busy inside, sir, mopping up the rest of that t*nk lot. We noticed the robot was gone when we came out and everyone assumed that someone else had got it. DOCTOR: And Sarah? BENTON (OOV.): Well, we thought... We thought she'd gone home. DOCTOR: Gone home? You mean not one of you connected the disappearance of Sarah with the vanishing of the robot? BRIGADIER: You're sure there is a connection? DOCTOR: I think so. Don't you? HARRY: Why Sarah? DOCTOR: The robot k*lled Kettlewell, remember? The man who created it. It must be in a state of tremendous emotional shock. What more natural than it should turn to the one person who ever showed it kindness? BRIGADIER: Hmm. Keep looking, Benton. BENTON: Right, sir. SARAH: Honestly, they're bound to find us. ROBOT: Anyone who finds us will be destroyed. SARAH: Why? What's the point of more k*lling? I keep telling you, it's all over. What can you do alone? ROBOT: I can bring about the destruction of humanity. But do not fear, Sarah. You alone will be saved. The bunker is cleared. Come. DOCTOR: Well? BENTON: Still nothing, sir. We're spreading the search radius wider and wider, but the bigger the area to cover, the harder it gets. DOCTOR: There is just one teeny-weeny little thing. BRIGADIER: What's that? DOCTOR: Something else you haven't thought of. What are we going to do with it when we find it? BRIGADIER: Yes. You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to b*ll*ts. BENTON: Excuse me, sir. BRIGADIER: Hmm? BENTON: Well, when Professor Kettlewell was here talking to Miss Smith, he said the robot was made of some kind of living metal. He even said it could grow. DOCTOR: Did he now? BENTON: Yes. And he went on about some kind of metal virus. Something that att*cked the living metal. DOCTOR: The same way disease att*cks animal tissue. BENTON: Well, something like that. Anyway, I just wondered if we could... DOCTOR: Yes? BENTON: I'm sorry. It was probably a daft idea, anyway. DOCTOR: Wonderful, Mr. Benton! Wonderful! Brigadier, I must get to Kettlewell's place at once. You find the robot. BRIGADIER: (To HARRY.): You better go with him. HARRY: Right, sir. BRIGADIER (To HARRY.): Keep in RT contact. SARAH: No! Don't hurt him! Let him go! He's not important enough. (To the SOLDIER.) Don't sh**t. Just leave now. Don't worry about me. Just go. BENTON: Look, sir! SARAH: No! No! Why? Why? ROBOT: I destroyed Kettlewell. I must see that his plan does not fail. SARAH: But... But he changed his mind. He wouldn't want you to continue. ROBOT: Mankind is not worthy to survive. Once it is destroyed, I shall build more machines like myself. Machines do not lie. DOCTOR: Why didn't that silly man write up his experiments properly? BRIGADIER (OOV.): Doctor, this is the Brigadier. Can you hear me? HARRY (On the phone.): This is Lieutenant Sullivan, sir. The Doctor's rather busy at the moment. DOCTOR (To HARRY.): Tell him to stop pestering me. I've found a metal virus and I'm trying to prepare an active solution but he must give me time. BRIGADIER (On the phone.): Sullivan, tell the Doctor we've found the robot. HARRY (OOV.): Well done, sir. Where is it? BRIGADIER (On the phone.): It's shut itself inside the bunker with Miss Smith. DOCTOR: Yes! Yes, of course! Suppressed Oedipus complex, leading to excessive guilt and overcompensation. BRIGADIER (OOV.): Doctor, Oedipus is not... DOCTOR (On the phone.): Brigadier! The robot will try to carry out Kettlewell's plan. Is the computer terminal in the bunker still active? BRIGADIER (OOV.): Far as I know. I don't suppose... DOCTOR (On the phone.): Can you switch off the electricity supply? BRIGADIER (OOV.): Yes... No, no. It's on a special sealed-circuit. DOCTOR (On the phone.): Then warn all the major powers. The emergency is not over. They must operate full fail-safe procedures at once. SARAH: Yes! You see, they've operated the fail-safe mechanism. Give up now. Please! ROBOT: Humanity must be destroyed. It is evil. Corrupt. SARAH: But you can't take on the whole world. Don't you understand? They'll destroy you. ROBOT: Do not fear. I cannot be destroyed. Come. DOCTOR (OOV.): Come along, man. Come along. HARRY: This any good? DOCTOR: We've done it, Harry. We've done it. BENTON: Sir. BRIGADIER: No one is to open f*re. She may find a chance to get clear. ROBOT: Stay here. BENTON: It's going to att*ck, sir. Should we pull back? BRIGADIER: Of course, the very thing. I think just for once, we're not going to need the Doctor. BRIGADIER: Follow me and hold your f*re till ordered. ROBOT (To SARAH.): You will be safe. See how I deal with our enemies. BRIGADIER: She's out of the line of f*re. Launch your grenades. BENTON: Smith, Hampton, get down here quickly with the launcher. BENTON (OOV.): f*re! BRIGADIER: Right, pull back! HARRY: Curiouser and curiouser. DOCTOR: Said Alice. HARRY: Exactly. DOCTOR: I see our little problem seems to have grown. Where's Sarah? BENTON: She's safe enough, Doc. BRIGADIER: I gave it a blast with the disintegrator g*n. BENTON: It left her up on the roof. DOCTOR: Really, Brigadier, you should be more careful with your little toys. You've given it just the infusion of energy it needed. BRIGADIER: Well, I've sent for the a*tillery, and the RAF are on their way. DOCTOR (OOV.): I hope that won't be necessary. BRIGADIER: What on earth is that? DOCTOR: Another piece of brilliance from the late Professor Kettlewell, and one that will solve our problem, I hope. Drive on, Harry. HARRY: Right, Doctor. DOCTOR: Wish me luck, Brigadier. BRIGADIER: Now, just a moment, Doctor! SARAH (OOV.): Hey! Hey, get me down! BRIGADIER: Don't just stand there, Mr. Benton. Go and help Miss Smith. BENTON: Right, sir. BRIGADIER: What was that stuff? DOCTOR: Some of Kettlewell's metal virus in an active solution. BRIGADIER (OOV.): Will it work now the thing's that size? DOCTOR: Oh, even faster I hope. Look. It's thrown the growth mechanism into reverse. HARRY: Oh, well done, Doctor. DOCTOR: Thank you, Harry. BRIGADIER: I'll have it taken away. Broken-up, just in case. DOCTOR: No. No, Brigadier, that won't be necessary. Look. DOCTOR: Sarah. Sarah? Would you like a Jelly Baby? I had to do it, you know. SARAH: Yes, yes, I know. It was insane and it did terrible things, but at first, it was so human. DOCTOR: It was a wonderful creature capable of great good. And great evil. Yes, I think you could say it was human. You know, what you need is a change. How about a little trip in a TARDIS? I'm just off. SARAH: Wait, you can't just go. DOCTOR: Why not? It's a free cosmos. SARAH: The Brigadier... DOCTOR: The Brigadier wants me to address the Cabinet, have lunch at Downing Street, dinner at the Palace, and write 17 reports in triplicate. Well, I won't do it. I won't, I won't, I won't! Why should I? SARAH: Doctor, you're being childish. DOCTOR: Well, of course I am. There's no point in being grown-up if you can't be childish sometimes. Are you coming? HARRY: Hello. Well, what are you two up to now, eh? DOCTOR: We're just going on a little trip. Would you like a Jelly Baby? HARRY: Little trip? What, in that old police box? DOCTOR: Yes, as a matter of fact, in that old police box. HARRY: Come along now, Doctor. We're both reasonable men. We both know that police boxes don't go careering around all over the place. DOCTOR: Do we? HARRY: Of course. The whole idea's absurd. DOCTOR: Is it? Hmm. You wouldn't like to step inside a moment? Just to demonstrate that it is all an illusion. HARRY: If you think it will do any good. DOCTOR: Yes, it'll make me feel a lot better. SARAH: Doctor! DOCTOR: In you go. HARRY: Right-o. HARRY (OOV.): Oh, I say! BRIGADIER: Doctor, about that dinner at the Palace, Her Majesty... Yes. Well, I'll tell them you'll be a little late.
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DOCTOR WHO THE ARK IN SPACE BY ROBERT HOLMES PART ONE Original Air Date: 25 January, 1975 5:35pm - 6:00pm 1: EXT. SPACE (An ark in seen outside space, quite close to an unknown planet. The camera moves in closer to the ark, which wobbles as it does so. The ark starts to move, and the sh*t fades into a sh*t inside the ark.) 2: INT. ARK - BODY ROOM (We see things from the point of view of something green. It sees a body in some sort of chamber; it looks like a futuristic tomb. We move in closer to the body, down and then up. As we move closer we start to see the physical features of the body and the container of the body becomes transparent. The chamber door opens.) 3: EXT. SPACE (We can see the ark in space again, but this time from a different angle and we cannot see the planet. The ark moves further away from us.) 4: INT. ARK - SECONDARY CONTROL ROOM (The TARDIS light flashes. We move away from the TARDIS, and see some sort of white room, but we can't see much yet. The TARDIS de-materialisation noise sounds, and then stops as the light stops flashing.) DOCTOR: You're a clumsy, ham-fisted idiot! (He walks out the TARDIS, carrying a torch.) HARRY: (sincerely) I said sorry! DOCTOR: What? Come out! And don't touch anything! HARRY: I'm only trying to open the door. (He steps out, clearly amazed at where he is.) HARRY: Oh, I say! We've gone! SARAH: (nosily) Who's gone? (She also walks out, holding a candle.) HARRY: (confused) I mean, this isn't, we aren't where we were when... I've gone mad. SARAH: That's how I felt the first time! (Walks towards the DOCTOR) Where are we, Doctor? DOCTOR: (Still trying to study the place) No idea. SARAH: (Slightly annoyed at the DOCTOR) A little trip to the moon, you said, just to prove to Harry... DOCTOR: (Unsympathetic) Well I didn't expect him to start messing with the helmic regulator. (Turns to HARRY) Come away from there, Harry! HARRY: (Walking to the DOCTOR) You could sell that thing, Doctor. DOCTOR: I could WHAT? HARRY: (Trying to be helpful) Jolly useful in Trafalgar Square. (The DOCTOR walks back to TARDIS.) HARRY: Hundreds of bobbies inside. SARAH: (Slightly out of breath) Harry! Stop burbling! (The Doctor looks at them both from the TARDIS.) HARRY: What? (Starts to realise things) Sorry...shock, I suppose. I must say, I feel very strange. DOCTOR: (Walking back) Not much oxygen. Still, nothing to worry about. (He plays with his yo-yo.) SARAH: (Wondering about the DOCTOR) Suffocation is nothing to worry about (?) DOCTOR: (Firmly) We can survive for quite a time yet. SARAH: (Angry) While you play with that yo-yo?! DOCTOR: Just a simply gravity reading, Sarah. Yes, almost certainly we're in some kind of artificial satellite. Now isn't that interesting? SARAH: No, not very. DOCTOR: I think it is. SARAH: (Worried) It's dark, and it's cold and it's getting very airless. DOCTOR: All we have to do is get the power back on. (He shines his torch somewhere else, and starts to walk over to it.) DOCTOR: Let's see what's over here. SARAH: (Slightly out of breath) Might as well go for a look round, I suppose. (To HARRY) Are you coming? HARRY: We better stick with the Doctor. (The DOCTOR flicks a switch and the whole room lights up. Nearly the whole room is white We see a while desk with a futuristic white chair in the middle, and on the side hundreds of switches, all in rectangular blocks.) DOCTOR: (Happily) Yes! That's better. (HARRY looks shocked and looks up, whilst SARAH is still worried.) DOCTOR: Incredible! HARRY: I say! What's all that for? (SARAH bends down to what looks like a door, whilst HARRY walks towards the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: I've never seen anything quite like it. (SARAH manages to open the door, which slides to the right to reveal another white room.) SARAH: (Whispers) Hey, Doctor. DOCTOR: (Ignoring SARAH) Definitely build on Earth, but I can't quite place the period. (SARAH walks into the room, ignored by the DOCTOR and HARRY who are both looking at the various switches.) SARAH: Doctor, look! DOCTOR: (Still ignoring her, now slightly annoyed) In a minute, Sarah! HARRY: None of it seems to work now, anyway! (SARAH is now increasingly annoyed by the DOCTOR and decides to just walk into the room on her own, anyway.) 5: INT. ARK - MEDICAL ROOM? (SARAH walks around, trying to work out what all this is. There is a black thing that is probably a couch, another desk and chair and a few switches to the side. She walks towards a few switches.) 6: INT. ARK - SECONDARY CONTROL ROOM DOCTOR: Judging by the macro-slave drive and that modified version of the Bennett oscillator (at this point HARRY looks very out of breath and is struggling to breathe), I'd say this was built in the...early 30 Century. HARRY: (Breathing heavily) Oh, no... DOCTOR: Don't you agree? HARRY: (Thinking the DOCTOR is talking rubbish) Earth 30 Century?! DOCTOR: Late 29, early 30, I feel sure. 7: INT. ARK - MEDICAL ROOM? (SARAH finishes playing with some switches and walks away from them. She walks towards the doors, and finds them closed. She tries to open them, but to no avail.) SARAH: (Bangs on door) Doctor! (Bangs again) Doctor! (Struggles to breathe) There's hardly any air in here! (Constantly banging on door) Doctor! Please! 8: INT. ARK - SECONDARY CONTROL ROOM (The DOCTOR walks around whilst HARRY sits down trying to get his head round what he's just been told.) HARRY: Doctor, I'm a simple sort of chap. Are you trying to tell me we're now in the middle of the 30 Century? DOCTOR: Good heavens, no! Well beyond that! HARRY: (Stunned, and stands up) Beyond the 30! DOCTOR: You gave that helmic regulator quite a twist, I'm afraid. HARRY: Well, where are we? DOCTOR: (Looks around) It's difficult to say. All this stuff's obviously been here for some time - several thousand years at least. What was that? 9: INT. ARK - MEDICAL ROOM? (SARAH leans against the door, about to collapse.) SARAH: (Bangs on door pathetically) Doctor, I can't...breathe... (Her voice gets quieter as she struggles for breathe.) 10: INT. ARK - SECONDARY CONTROL ROOM DOCTOR: (Worried) Sarah? (Looks round) Where's she got to? HARRY: (Points to TARDIS) In the TARDIS? DOCTOR: Impossible. I've got the key. I've told her time an again about going off by herself. Sarah? HARRY: (Points to the door) Well, there's only one door and she...I swear she didn't get out that way. DOCTOR: (Looks behind him) Must be another exit, then. HARRY: A sort of, hidden deck hatch or something? DOCTOR: Vacuum-tight panel, more likely. They used them a lot in these early space vessels. (He walks to door) Ah! Just as I thought! HARRY: No doorknob? DOCTOR: There must be a remote control... You haven't touched anything have you, Harry? HARRY: Me? DOCTOR: (Sarcastically) Well, there are only two of us here and your name is Harry (!) HARRY: Oh...yeah...(points to switches) I did just...touch one switch. DOCTOR: (Loudly) Which switch? HARRY: Nothing happened... DOCTOR: Which switch? HARRY: (Asking himself) Which switch...? (Walks towards switches) I think it was...Oh no, perhaps it was... DOCTOR: Try to remember, Harry! HARRY: I am! It's awfully difficult! I can hardly breathe! DOCTOR: Think where you were standing. HARRY: Uh. (Points to one of the switches) It was this one. DOCTOR: Sure? HARRY: (Nods) But nothing happened. DOCTOR: Go on! Press it. (He presses the switch, and the door slides open. The DOCTOR steps into the room.) 11: INT. ARK- MEDICAL ROOM? (The DOCTOR finds SARAH lying unconscious on the floor and holds her head up. HARRY walks into the room.) HARRY: Crikey! She's cyanosed. DOCTOR: No air in here. Help me to get her back. HARRY: (Quietly, about to pick SARAH up) Quick! (The DOCTOR and HARRY pick up SARAH and drag her towards the wall. The door shuts and HARRY tries to stop it.) HARRY: Now what'll we do? DOCTOR: There must be a reverse mechanism. HARRY: (Grumbling to himself) I've always hated sliding doors, ever since I caught my nose in one in Pompey Barracks! DOCTOR: How is she, Harry? HARRY: She'll be OK if we can get her out of here. (DOCTOR presses some of the switches, and then looks back at the door.) DOCTOR: (Talking about the door not opening) Must be a broken circuit. HARRY: (Nearly letting SARAH drop) What? DOCTOR: Nothing. (The DOCTOR again presses a switch and then looks back at the door.) DOCTOR: Nothing's working properly. HARRY: (Focusing on SARAH) Oh? DOCTOR: I've found the oxygen supply. HARRY: Well done. (The DOCTOR walks to the wall on the other side and moves a knob.) DOCTOR: No good, Harry. HARRY: No luck, eh? DOCTOR: Why is nothing functioning here? HARRY: Couldn't we smash our way out or something? DOCTOR: With our bare hands? HARRY: (Apologetically) It's all my fault (He turns to SARAH). DOCTOR: I got us into this, Harry. HARRY: (Slightly breathless) I've not got enough puff to argue with you. DOCTOR: (Unsympathetic) Then lie down and conserve the oxygen, while I do what I can. (He fiddles with a cable from the control panel.) DOCTOR: That's odd. HARRY: What? (He pulls two parts of a cable out so they are visible.) DOCTOR: These cables have been sheared clean through. (He drops the cable suddenly and moves away.) DOCTOR: Oxygen-valve servo-mechanism. Yellow, black, green. (He walks to other side of the control panel.) DOCTOR: Yellow, black, green. (He walks back to the other side.) DOCTOR: Yellow, black, green (He bends down back to the cables. HARRY is now leaning on SARAH struggling to breathe. There is a buzzing sound as the DOCTOR uses his sonic screwdriver on the cables. He drops it, but then picks it up and uses it again. He goes back to the knob which he thought controlled the oxygen supply and turns it, he himself now struggling for breath. The oxygen supply is now working.) DOCTOR: Harry. (Worried) Harry! (He walks to HARRY and SARAH and bends down to them. HARRY is now awake.) HARRY: Is she...she OK? DOCTOR: (Taps SARAH's hand) Just in time. Are you feeling better? HARRY: Convalescent. All I need now is a couple of weeks at the seaside. DOCTOR: Good. Give me a hand to lay her on that couch. It's nearer the vents. HARRY: Good thinking. (The two of them pick up SARAH and put her onto the crouch. DOCTOR walks back towards the oxygen supply knob and turns it more, releasing more oxygen, which makes a hissing sounds. HARRY fiddles about with SARAH, trying to get her to wake up.) DOCTOR: I'll just repair some of those cables. HARRY: Sheared, you said? DOCTOR: (Walking towards cables) Or bitten. HARRY: (Surprised) What? DOCTOR: There's a mystery here, HARRY. (He uses his sonic screwdriver on the cables.) DOCTOR: Something happened a long time ago. HARRY: Bitten?! DOCTOR: It looks like it. The interesting question is why. Clearly deliberate, therefore done for a purpose. Therefore, whatever it was had a reasoning intelligence. HARRY: And very large teeth! DOCTOR: (Steps away from cables) Splendid! Now let's see if that panel works. (The DOCTOR closes the door where the cables were and walks towards control panel. He presses a switch, and the main door now opens. He smiles.) DOCTOR: All systems go, wouldn't you say? HARRY: She's coming round. DOCTOR: Good. (SARAH wakes up.) HARRY: Steady-steady on old girl, steady on. SARAH: (Half-awake) Harry...? HARRY: Yes, I'm here. SARAH: Call me "old girl" again...and I'll spit in your eye. (She smiles) DOCTOR: Welcome back, Sarah Jane. SARAH: Couldn't breathe... HARRY: Drop of brandy would be the thing now. DOCTOR: There's some in the TARDIS. HARRY: You'll be as right as ninepence in a minute. We're gonna get you some brandy, alright? SARAH: (Now fully awake) Eugh! I hate brandy! HARRY: Doctor, do you think you could possibly persuade her...? (The DOCTOR steps back into the secondary control room, followed by HARRY.) 12: INT. ARK - SECONDARY CONTROL ROOM (A saucer-like object descends from the ceiling.) HARRY: I say, what's that? DOCTOR: Get down, Harry? (DOCTOR leaps to under the desk with HARRY and HARRY's left shoe comes off in the process. It is shocked by the saucer, and the front of it bends.) HARRY: Crikey! What is it? DOCTOR: (Pushing HARRY's head down under the desk) Keep your head down! 13: INT. ARK - MEDICAL ROOM? (SARAH hears them and gets up.) SARAH: Doctor! (Soothing music plays, and SARAH starts to fall asleep as a light flashes. She lies down on the couch, and fades away.) 14: INT. ARK - SECONDARY CONTROL ROOM (The DOCTOR's hat pokes up from under the desk, but the DOCTOR's not wearing it: it is on a stick. It is shocked by the saucer, and the DOCTOR bangs it on the floor to clear away the ashes and smoke.) DOCTOR: We seem to be trapped, Harry. HARRY: What is it? DOCTOR: Some sort of a*t*matic guard. I hadn't bargained on this when I repaired the circuits. HARRY: I wonder... DOCTOR: Of course! That's why they were cut in the first place! HARRY: What about Sarah (he points to the door) if she comes- DOCTOR: Tell her to stay where she is. HARRY: Sarah! Sarah? Can you hear me, old girl? 15: INT. ARK - MEDICAL ROOM? (The room is now empty as HARRY tries to talk to SARAH, as he doesn't know that she's gone.) HARRY: Keep away from the door! Do you understand? (Speaking slower) Keep away from the door! 16: INT. ARK - TRANQUILLER ROOM (SARAH is lying down, asleep. She wakes up. A bright light is flashing on her.) SARAH: (Asking herself) Where am I? (A male VOICE talks to her, but there is no one there.) VOICE: (Calmly) Welcome, sister. Welcome to Nerva. (SARAH gets up and looks around.) VOICE: No, do not move. It is dangerous to move from the tranquiller couch. Please remain in contact with the biocryonic vibrations. (SARAH starts to fall asleep and lies back down again. We can now see that she in some sort of chamber to lie down in, with lots of controls near to her.) VOICE: In five minutes, the final phase of your processing must commence. If you have any personal possessions that you wish to have preserved, please place them in the casket adjacent to your right hand. (We move closer to SARAH, who wakes up again and looks anxious.) VOICE: Shortly you will hear the recorded voice of the Prime Minister speaking personally to you. At the conclusion of the Minister's message, there will be a two-minute interregnum preceding the commencement of the irradiation. 17: INT. ARK - SECONDARY CONTROL ROOM (The stick used to hold the hat is pushed up again, but now without the hat. It is not att*cked by the saucer, and is pulled back down again.) DOCTOR: Apparently it's not activated by movement unless what moves is organic. HARRY: Hardly helps us, does it? We're organic! DOCTOR: Not down here we're not, Harry! HARRY: Ah, yes! Good piece of logical deduction, Doctor! DOCTOR: (Sarcastically) Thank you (!) (He turns around and gets out his sonic screwdriver, with which he undoes a screw.) 18: INT. ARK - TRANQUILLER ROOM (SARAH is lying down but is slightly awake. The MINISTER's voice descends upon the room.) MINISTER: Greetings, Citizen Volunteer. This is the High Minister speaking on behalf of the World Executive. I salute you who are about to make the supreme sacrifice. In a few minute, you will pass beyond life. In case there is any fear in your heart, any doubt in your mind at this awesome moment, let me remind you that you take with you all our pasts. (SARAH wriggles about.) MINISTER: You carry the torch that has been handed down from generation to generation. (SARAH gets up again.) SARAH: What's happening? (Again, she gets sleepy and lies back down again.) 19: INT. ARK - SECONDARY CONTROL ROOM (The DOCTOR and HARRY move the desk that they're hiding under.) HARRY: (Whispering) Where are we going with it? DOCTOR: To the far wall. HARRY: Right DOCTOR: Inch it round your end. HARRY: OK. (They shuffle along to the wall, still hiding under the desk.) DOCTOR: One slip, Harry, and we'll be charcoal. (After lots of shuffling they make it.) DOCTOR: (Whispering) Psst, there it is. HARRY: (Whispering as well) What? DOCTOR: Trouble is we can't reach it from here. HARRY: What can't we reach? DOCTOR: The auto-guard cut-out. Look, up there, see? Never mind. The faithful old scarf... (The DOCTOR unravels his scarf, and tries to throw it up to the switch he's aiming for, but it is shocked by the saucer. It lands back down, and the DOCTOR catches it. He hits it on the floor, creating a lot of dust.) HARRY: (Sincerely) Bad luck. Jolly good try though. DOCTOR: It isn't a game of cricket, Harry! HARRY: Sorry. Mind you, if I had a cricket ball, I'd jolly soon knock that switch off. (The DOCTOR takes a cricket ball from his pocket.) DOCTOR: Will this do? HARRY: (Taking it off the DOCTOR) Watch this, then! (HARRY rubs the ball on his shirt and then throws it at the switch, but is shocked by the saucer and comes back at him in pieces. He picks up one of the pieces.) HARRY: Organic, of course. DOCTOR: (Looking at another piece) Afraid so. HARRY: Now what? DOCTOR: There's only one thing left. Risky, but it might work. You don't want your other shoe, do you? HARRY: I suppose not. DOCTOR: Slip it off. (HARRY takes off his other shoe.) DOCTOR: Right...Now, I want you to throw it across the room (HARRY starts to throw it, but the DOCTOR grabs his hand) when I give the word. Do you understand? HARRY: All right DOCTOR: I'm going to try and distract it. Let's hope it's not double-barrelled! (He starts to get out from under the desk.) DOCTOR: Ready? HARRY: Ready. DOCTOR: Now! (HARRY chucks the shoe up in the air, and it is shocked by the saucer. The DOCTOR pulls a switch at the same time, and the saucer goes back up to the ceiling. The DOCTOR and HARRY poke their heads up, and notice it is gone. The DOCTOR smiles.) DOCTOR: I think we've done it, Harry! (The two of them get out from under the desk.) DOCTOR: Pity about the scarf. Madame Nostradamus made it for me. A witty little knitter. (Shouts, as the two of them move back towards the door) All right, Sarah, you can come out now. (He picks up his hat and taps it.) DOCTOR: Never get another one like it. HARRY: (Picking up his shoes) Look at my shoes! DOCTOR: Sarah? 20: INT. ARK - TRANQUILLER ROOM (A door on the chamber that SARAH is now asleep in shuts, and the light in the chamber keeps switching from red to orange. Smoke fills the chamber.) 21: INT. ARK - MEDICAL ROOM? (The DOCTOR and HARRY lift up a bit of the couch to reveal lots of circuits.) DOCTOR: What a fool! Of course! HARRY: (Looking at the circuits) What is it? DOCTOR: Why didn't I realise? Short-range matter transmitter. (HARRY looks inside it whilst the DOCTOR goes to the control panel.) DOCTOR: The strange thing is, Harry, it's only for internal relay. HARRY: (Walking towards the DOCTOR) Oh I haven't the foggiest notion what you're on about. DOCTOR: Never mind. It just means Sarah can't be far away. All we've got to do is find her. Come on! (The DOCTOR and HARRY walk out of the room.) 22: INT. ARK - CORRIDOR (The DOCTOR and HARRY step out into a white corridor. There are strange windows at the sides and from these space can be seen.) DOCTOR: I think we'll try this way first. (The DOCTOR and HARRY walk up, to the left of where they came from.) HARRY: I say, what about the armoury? DOCTOR: Not very likely. (They walk further on, and reach a door saying AREA Q in black writing. A horrific MALE voice shouts at them.) MALE: (Viciously) This is a sterile area! Keep out! HARRY: It's just like a hospital. (The DOCTOR manages to open the door, and smiles at HARRY.) HARRY: Well, ought we, do you think? DOCTOR: Don't be nervous, Harry. (They step through the door, into another section of corridor. A slug-like creature slides out of the corridor onto the side.) DOCTOR: (Asking HARRY) What is it? HARRY: I saw something moving. DOCTOR: Nonsense, Harry. HARRY: I'm positive, I saw something move. DOCTOR: A trick of the light HARRY: (Adamantly) It wasn't a trick of the light, I saw something moving! (The DOCTOR and HARRY walk to where the creature was, and there is a green trail left from where it was.) DOCTOR: It's like the trail left by a gastropod mollusc. HARRY: A slug? DOCTOR: Or a snail. HARRY: That size? Impossible! It couldn't have got through this grille. DOCTOR: Very interesting. A multinucleate organism. HARRY: (Confused) Eh? DOCTOR: Let's find Sarah first. Come on. (They get up.) DOCTOR: This looks promising. (They walk into a room, a sign saying on the wall YELLOW BADGE PERSONNEL ONLY, with a yellow light flashing from the room.) 23: INT. ARK - YELLOW ROOM (The doors shut. The room is very small, and a quiet whirring noise can be heard.) HARRY: She's obviously not in here. DOCTOR: Decontamination chamber. Might make you feel a bit dizzy. (HARRY groans as if he's in pain.) 24: INT. ARK - TRANQUILLER ROOM (A door opens and the DOCTOR and HARRY walk into the room, HARRY seemingly having a headache. The DOCTOR goes to the control panel.) DOCTOR: I think we're getting warm, Harry. Animal and Botanic! (He walks towards a door, with a sign of it saying ANIMAL BOTANIC. He looks in a window in the door.) DOCTOR: Of course! That explains everything! Do you realise what this is? Aren't you feeling better? HARRY: No, I'm not! DOCTOR: (Raising his voice) Then pull yourself together man, this is fascinating! This is a cryogenic repository. HARRY: A repository? For what? DOCTOR: Everything...Well, everything they considered worth preserving. Look at this! (He walks towards a wall with switches and numbers on it, from 1-12. He flicks a switch, and a beeping sound is made. He pulls out a drawer from one of the number sections on the wall, and looks inside it with HARRY.) DOCTOR: Microfilm. It's a complete record. Music, history, architecture, literature, engineering. Incredible! The entire body of human thought and achievement. HARRY: Yes, but what's it all for? DOCTOR: Posterity? I don't know. (He pushes the drawer back in.) DOCTOR: Why build all this and send it into space? HARRY: I say, couldn't be some sort of survival kit, could it? DOCTOR: Survival? HARRY: Yes, you know - the sort of thing they shove in lifeboats. DOCTOR: (Smiling) You're improving, Harry! (He pats HARRY on the back.) HARRY: Am I really? DOCTOR: Yes, your mind is beginning to work. It's entirely my influence of course, you mustn't take any credit. Now, what's missing? (He walks back to the control panel.) HARRY: Missing? DOCTOR: Yes. If we are to assume that some great cataclysm struck Earth and that, before the end, they launched this lifeboat, then the one obvious missing element is man himself. What's happened to the human species, Harry? (A door opens behind them, and the DOCTOR and HARRY notice it. They walk over to it.) HARRY: I say, what a place for a mortuary! (They walk into the room.) 25: INT. ARK - BODY ROOM (The camera swings around, revealing lots of chambers with bodies inside them, on three different levels. Each chamber is numbered.) DOCTOR: (Looking up at the chambers.) This isn't a mortuary, Harry. Quite the reverse. HARRY: (Stunned) The reverse? Well, I'd hardly call it a nursery! DOCTOR: Cryogenic chamber. HARRY: What? DOCTOR: Old principle, but I've never seen it applied on this scale. Look at them! (A small corridor is seen, and this links this body room to another body room, supposedly the same size.) DOCTOR: There must be hundreds here. HARRY: Well, when you've seen one corpse, you've seen them all. (He walks towards the other room.) DOCTOR: Corpse? These people aren't d*ad, Harry, they're asleep. The entire human race awaiting the trumpet blast! (The DOCTOR walks into the other room, whilst HARRY looks around in the first room. HARRY opens one of the chambers, and reveals a body lying completely still.) HARRY: (Confidently) d*ad as a doorknocker! 26: INT. ARK - 2 BODY ROOM DOCTOR: (Walking around, looking at the bodies) h*m* sapiens. What an inventive and invincible species. It's only been a few million years since they've crawled up out of the mud and learned to walk. Puny, defenceless bipeds. They've survived flood, famine and plague. They've survived cosmic wars and holocausts and now here they are amongst the stars, waiting to begin a new life, ready to outsit eternity. They're indomitable. Indomitable! (He walks back into the other body room.) 27: INT. ARK - BODY ROOM (HARRY is observing the body he recently found in a chamber.) DOCTOR: What do you think you're doing? HARRY: (Walks away from the body) Sorry to contradict you, Doctor. Not a flicker of life. DOCTOR: Suspended animation. HARRY: But there are no metabolic functions at all. I mean, look at him! I mean, even in the deepest coma, the hair and fingernails continue to grow. The epidermis... DOCTOR: (Dominantly) Total suspension, Harry. You can't survive 10,000 years in a coma. (He shuts the chamber.) HARRY: 10,000 years? DOCTOR: 50,000 years, 100,000 - time is immaterial. It's an amazing sight, isn't it? The entire human race in one room. All colours, all creeds - all differences finally forgotten. HARRY: Are you serious? The entire human race? DOCTOR: Well, it's chosen descendents. The operation must have been meticulously planned. Come on. HARRY: Where are we going now? DOCTOR: First to find Sarah, (He walks towards the second room) then we've got to shut down the systems. We're intruders here, you know. HARRY: Just a minute, Doctor, are you trying to tell that this is where it's all going to end, in here? DOCTOR: Not end, Harry, just a pause. HARRY: But there's only a few hundred corp... bodies in here. I mean, what's happened to the rest of humanity? Some global catastrophe? DOCTOR: Yes, and they saw it coming, and made provision for it, best they could. Don't forget - it's something for you to be proud of. (He taps HARRY's shoulder.)HARRY: Doctor, look. (HARRY points to a slime trail at the air vent, similar to the trail we saw before. The DOCTOR and HARRY walk over to it.) DOCTOR: Oxygen? Radiant heat? But this deep in space? I wonder... HARRY: (Looking up again) Perhaps it's some kind of mould. DOCTOR: Mould? HARRY: That trail we saw in the corridor. DOCTOR: And that thing you saw moving in the corridor? HARRY: Dust! That, er, grille thing was a dust extractor. And then we opened the door after umpteen years and caught a bit of a draught. DOCTOR: (Sarcastically) Mmm, very convincing (!) All the same, I think we'll just check a few of the beds while we're here. HARRY: What are we checking for, exactly? DOCTOR: Just to make sure that everything's in order. HARRY: Right-o. (The DOCTOR and HARRY look around. He spots something odd, and opens the chamber.) HARRY: Doctor? DOCTOR: What have you found? HARRY: Sarah! (Inside the chamber is SARAH, lying completely still.) DOCTOR: Oh, Sarah Jane! HARRY: (Sort of asking) We can't help her now? DOCTOR: No. She'll be like that for 3,000 years, at least. Even if we had a resuscitation unit, it's doubtful that we could revive her now. HARRY: (Walking towards another corridor) There must be something we can do! What's a resuscitation unit look like? (HARRY walks to some cabinets in another corridor. He opens one of the cabinets, which reads MEDIC 2, but doesn't find anything useful.) DOCTOR: Very like an oxygen cylinder. You'll recognise it if there is one. (He opens the cabinet to its left, which reads MEDIC 1. Out of it pops out a green wasp-like creature.) (Cut to closing credits.)
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DOCTOR WHO THE ARK IN SPACE BY ROBERT HOLMES PART ONE Original Air Date: 1 February, 1975 5:30pm - 5:55pm DOCTOR: All the same, I think we'll just check a few of the beds while we're here. HARRY: What are we checking for, exactly? DOCTOR: Just to make sure that everything's in order. HARRY: Right-o. HARRY: Doctor? DOCTOR: What have you found? DOCTOR: Sarah! Oh, Sarah Jane! HARRY: We can't help her now. DOCTOR: No. She'll be like that for 3,000 years at least. Even if we had a resuscitation unit, it's doubtful if we could revive her now. HARRY: There must be something we can do! What would a resuscitation unit look like? DOCTOR (OOV.): Very like an oxygen cylinder. You'll recognize it if there is one. HARRY: Well, it's d*ad, anyway. DOCTOR: Very d*ad. Almost mummified. HARRY: What is it? DOCTOR: That's something we can leave till later. No sign of the resuscitation t*nk? HARRY: I hardly had a chance to look. DOCTOR: Emergency medical kit, wouldn't you say? HARRY: Bit beyond me, I'm afraid. DOCTOR: There must be something there that would help Sarah, but what? What? HARRY: Doctor, look! DOCTOR: Of course! They don't need a t*nk! The resuscitation phase is programmed in! (OOV.)Look, she's starting to breathe! HARRY (OOV.): Yes, I think she is! DOCTOR (OOV.): No doubt about it. HARRY: That means there's hope for Sarah. Yes, look - she's moving. (To the woman.) Something you want? Can't I do that for you? HARRY: Independent sort of bird, isn't she? DOCTOR: Leave her, Harry. HARRY: But she's... DOCTOR: There's nothing you can do. She knows what she's doing. VIRA: Explain yourselves. DOCTOR: Well... there isn't very much to explain. We're just travellers in space like yourself. VIRA: That is not adequate. HARRY: My name's Sullivan. Surgeon Lieutenant Harry Sullivan, actually. And, er, this is the Doctor. VIRA: You claim to be med-techs? HARRY: Sorry? DOCTOR: My doctorate is purely honorary. And Harry here is only qualified to work on sailors. VIRA: My name is Vira. I am a first med-tech. DOCTOR: Well, I'm delighted to hear it! You see, we happen to be in rather desperate need of medical help. VIRA: This female is a stranger. HARRY (OOV.): She's a friend of ours. HARRY: She got caught in the machinery. VIRA: She was not among the chosen. HARRY: Well, she's among the chosen now, isn't she? DOCTOR: Is there any way of reversing the cryogenic process? VIRA: That can be dangerous. How long since she underwent tissue irradiation? HARRY (OOV.): Can't be more than an hour, can it, Doctor? We haven't been here more than an hour altogether. VIRA: Receding neural activity. HARRY: Is there anything you can do for her? VIRA: Is she of...value? HARRY: Of value?! She's a human being, like ourselves! What sort of question is that? DOCTOR: The answer is yes. VIRA: Your comrade is a romantic. DOCTOR: Perhaps we both are. VIRA: I will inject a monod block. HARRY: That'll do the trick, eh? VIRA: Your colony speech has no meaning. HARRY: I mean, it'll bring her around - reverse the process? VIRA: She will either survive or die. The action of the antiprotonic is not predictable. DOCTOR: I see. You've changed her body into a b*ttlefield. VIRA: b*ttlefield? I hypoied in classicals, but you dawn-timers have a language all of your own! DOCTOR (Whispering. To HARRY.): We have a small communications problem. HARRY (Whispering. To the DOCTOR.): I wish there was something I could do. VIRA: It is done. There is nothing further. As she revives, her electrical field will draw power from the bionosphere. VIRA: Here is our Prime Unit. HARRY: Prime Unit? VIRA: Er... our leader, I think you would say. Noah. HARRY: Noah? Oh, I see. As in Noah's Ark, eh? VIRA: It is a name from mythology. His real name...is Lazar. But we called him Noah as an amusement. HARRY: Er...joke? VIRA: Joke? Oh, yes... There was not much joke in the last days. DOCTOR: What happened in the last days, Vira? VIRA: Your colony has no records, no history? Where are you from? HARRY: London, actually... England. The Earth. VIRA: That's not possible. Earth is d*ad. DOCTOR: I'm afraid you're probably wrong about that. VIRA: The solar flares destroyed all life on Earth. DOCTOR: Ah, solar flares? I see... VIRA: Our scientists calculated it would be 5,000 years before the biosphere became viable again. DOCTOR: Oh, the absolute minimum, I'd say. But I'm afraid I have something of a shock for you, Vira. VIRA: Shock? DOCTOR: You've overslept by several thousand years. You see, when we came here, we found a massive systems failure. VIRA: The systems have no capacity for failure! DOCTOR: Possibly not. But a long time ago, when you were dormant, you had a visitor. Come, I'll show it to you. VIRA: Is it from space? How did it get here? DOCTOR: I don't know yet, but observe the size of the brain pan. It had a purpose in coming here, and, once inside, it severed most of the satellite's control systems, including your alarm clock, so to speak. VIRA: What purpose...? HARRY: Still no change, Doctor. DOCTOR: No... For once in my life, I feel surplus to requirements. VIRA: Doctor? DOCTOR: What is it? VIRA: There is a technical fault in the bionosphere. DOCTOR: I don't think the fault's at this end. It's in the main power supply. VIRA: It must be corrected! If his heart stops now, there is nothing I can do. DOCTOR: Don't worry. I noticed the Ark has a secondary power supply. Harry, you stay here and keep an eye on things. HARRY: Right-o. VIRA: Yes, but... The Ark was designed to have a negative fault capacity. HARRY: Gremlins can get into everything, old girl. That’s law of the sea. HARRY: There you are! What did I tell you? The Doctor's a first-class boffin. VIRA: Good. He will revive soon. DOCTOR (OOV. On the intercom.): Harry? HARRY: I say! That was quick! HARRY: Doctor? Doctor, where are you? DOCTOR (OOV.): In the Control Room. Have you got the power back on in there? HARRY (OOV.): Yes, we have. Everything's shipshape now. DOCTOR: Splendid. The fault seems to be in the main solar stack. I'm just going to take a look. HARRY (OOV.): Right-o. HARRY: I say, Doctor, don't be long, will you? NOAH: Vira... VIRA: Welcome, Commander. NOAH: It's over. It's over, Vira. You and I are alive again! VIRA: And together. NOAH: Who is this? HARRY: Lieutenant Sullivan, sir. NOAH: A regressive?! Here? HARRY: I'm no regressive! I'm a Naval officer! Sarah... NOAH: Clearly a regressive! His speech patterns prove it. How did he get here? VIRA: They claim they are travellers in space. NOAH: They? VIRA: There are three of them. Another male called the Doctor and that female. They say she was irradiated by error. HARRY: Vira, she's coming round! NOAH: There was a regressive faction among the volunteers for Colony 9. VIRA: With a zero-zero survival predic. One generation. NOAH: Even so... our genetic pool has been balanced, cross-matched, compat-evaluated. Three random units could thr*at our survival. VIRA: The Council can decide, Noah. The plan had a 7% stretch factor. HARRY: I think she's going to be all right. VIRA: She will revive soon. HARRY: Oh, thank heaven for that! Well done. The Doctor will be delighted. NOAH: Where IS the Doctor? HARRY: Oh, he says you've got a spot of bother in your... Anyway, he's gone to fix it. NOAH: What? HARRY: Er...solar stacks, I think he said. (To VIRA.) Yes, she's breathing! HARRY (To a still unconscious SARAH.): Soon have you up and about, old thing. This won't hurt a bit. SARAH: Urgh! HARRY: Perhaps just a little bit. VIRA: If you are space travellers as you claim, you should leave now. HARRY: I say, that's a bit brusque, isn't it? If it hadn't been for the Doctor... VIRA: Noah will not permit contamination of the genetic pool. All regressive transmitters have been eliminated. HARRY: Oh, come off it! We're not contaminating anybody! VIRA: He has the authority to initiate condign action. Personally, I consider your destruction is not necessary. HARRY: Well, thanks very much... SARAH: Harry... HARRY: Yes. Do you think you can stand? Gently. Mind - there's a step down. SARAH: I feel so muzzy... What's this? What's happening? HARRY: It's all right... SARAH: Ten thousand years? HARRY: Well, according to the Doctor. SARAH: It's unbelievable, Harry! What's...that? HARRY: Don't know. We found it in the cupboard. SARAH: In the cupboard? HARRY: Yeah. It's a sort of...sort of galactic woodworm, I suppose. SARAH: It is d*ad, isn't it? HARRY: Oh, yes, been d*ad for years. It's nothing to worry about. VIRA: Come here! HARRY: What's the trouble? VIRA: What have you done with Dune? HARRY: Dune? VIRA: Where is he? Answer me! DOCTOR: Ah, there you are! Awake at last! NOAH: Move away! DOCTOR: I'm just shutting down the power in the main stack. NOAH: Touch that switch and I'll atomize you! DOCTOR: Noah! NOAH: Earth is ours! DOCTOR: My dear man, if you think for one moment we're laying claim to Earth, you couldn't be more mistaken! We're here to help you. NOAH: By deactivating the main solar stack? DOCTOR: Precisely! There's something trapped in the stack, Noah, but at the rate it's absorbing energy, it won't be trapped for long. The stack must be shut down. Well... if you'd been down there with me you... VIRA: The revivification pattern was inbuilt. Dune was allotted Pallet 3. SARAH: Oh... Well, perhaps he recovered early? HARRY: Yes, that's possible. After all, some people need more sleep than others. NOAH (OOV. On the intercom.): Vira? Hear me. Hear me... VIRA: Yes, Noah? Where are you? NOAH: Main Control. I found the Doctor here about to sabotage the power system. He's been dealt with. VIRA (OOV.): Noah, we have a problem. Pallet 3 is empty. NOAH: Explain. VIRA (OOV.): Technician Dune is missing. There is no explanation. NOAH: The explanation is that the regressives have taken him. Any other problems? VIRA: No, Commander. NOAH: Then, proceed with the schedule. I'm about to check the power stacks. VIRA: Commander Noah will question you on his return. Complete truth is advisable. HARRY (To SARAH.): Cocky bunch, aren't they? SARAH: What do you think's happened to the Doctor? HARRY: I think we better find out, don’t you. SARAH: Yes. HARRY: Come on, then. SARAH: Doctor! What's wrong with him? HARRY: Haven't a clue, Sarah! SARAH: You're supposed to be a doct... HARRY: Sh! He's alive anyway. His hearts are beating. SARAH: Oh, Doctor...! HARRY: Incredible. He's absolutely rigid. SARAH: Harry, do something! HARRY: There's no response at all! DOCTOR: ..you wouldn't find it so amusing. SARAH: Oh, Doctor! DOCTOR: Ah, Sarah! You're back. Splendid! Where's Noah? sh*t me, did he? Cut off in mid-sentence. I might have been saying something important. I WAS saying something important! SARAH: Look, are you all right? DOCTOR: What...? Blinding headache, that's all. I hate stun g*n! Where is he? SARAH: Who? DOCTOR: Noah, of course! Who else? HARRY: We overheard him on the intercom, saying something about checking the solar stacks... DOCTOR: What? The idiot! Quick! There might be still time! HARRY: Are you sure you're all right? DOCTOR: Never mind about me, Harry! There's a man in danger! HARRY: Strange that they ##### the ship. Why didn't Vira try and stop us? DOCTOR: Not her function, Harry. HARRY: How do you mean? DOCTOR: By the 30th century, human society was highly compartmentalized. Vira is a med-tech. And I suspect we're an executive problem. NOAH: Right, Doctor. But not a difficult one. You can easily be eliminated. DOCTOR: Unlike the thing you saw in the solar stack, eh, Noah? NOAH: I saw a pathetic attempt at sabotage. The observation port is damaged. DOCTOR: It's escaped! We're too late. SARAH: What's escaped? NOAH: Turn about. We will return to the Cryogenic Section. DOCTOR: You're absolutely right. There's no time to lose. Come on! LIBRI: Vira. VIRA: Welcome. NOAH: Welcome, Libri. LIBRI: Keep back! Keep back! NOAH (To VIRA.): What's the matter with him? LIBRI: Keep back! NOAH: Is it his mind? VIRA: No, his reactions were normal. LIBRI: Keep away! VIRA: Libri, this is Noah. You remember Commander Noah? LIBRI: I'm sorry... I saw something standing there... DOCTOR: What was it you saw, Libri? NOAH: Silence! You're here to answer questions, not ask them! LIBRI: It was horrible. A shape... I'm sorry... I'm all right now. VIRA: Temporary neuro-ocular confusion. DOCTOR (To HARRY.): The process is much too slow. They're not going to make it. NOAH: No further warnings. HARRY: You'd sh**t too, wouldn't you! (Whimpering.) Nice fellow... NOAH: Libri... Keep these three under guard. k*ll them if they give any trouble. LIBRI: Yes, sir. VIRA (OOV.): Noah? Where are you going? NOAH: The system must be shut down. VIRA: What? NOAH: The revivification must be stopped. VIRA: Why? I don't understand. NOAH: It is an order. I am the commander. VIRA: But the first phase isn't completed. And we need the technical crew, Noah, to operate the station. NOAH: Yes... No! No...the p-plan is changed... Hear me, hear me, the plan is changed! VIRA: No, what is it? Is it something to do with Dune? NOAH: Dune? VIRA: Technician Dune. I reported him missing. NOAH: But I'm here. I am Dune. VIRA: What? NOAH: The system must be shut down! No more aliens! VIRA: Noah, come back. DOCTOR: He must be stopped. VIRA: Something has happened to his mind. There was a power fault during his revival. DOCTOR (To LIBRI.): Get after him, man! LIBRI: No, no...he gave me an order. DOCTOR: Don't be an imbecile. Tell him, Vira! VIRA: There is no procedure for stopping the revivification programme. It could be damaging, Libri. LIBRI: But he is our commander! DOCTOR (OOV.): Can you be sure? LIBRI: What? DOCTOR: When you first saw him, you had a subconscious impression, you said, of something horrible. That wasn't Noah, was it? LIBRI: No. DOCTOR: Believe me, he must be stopped. DOCTOR: Good! VIRA: It's not advisable for you to try and escape. DOCTOR: You take some convincing that we're on your side, don't you? Now, what's all this about a missing technician? VIRA: Pallet 3. I found it empty. SARAH: Noah thinks that we're to blame. HARRY: Chap's jumped ship, that's all. Happens all the time. SARAH: Oh, come on, a space satellite's a bit different from a ship, Harry! HARRY: No Sarah, I bet there's the equivalent of a dinghy missing. DOCTOR: It's not quite empty. SARAH: What's that? DOCTOR: Membrane. SARAH: Membrane? DOCTOR: Part of the eggshell. SARAH: Where's it from? DOCTOR: It's almost too horrible to think about. DOCTOR: The egg tube is empty. SARAH: That thing? DOCTOR: The progenitor. The queen colonizer. SARAH: I don't understand. DOCTOR: Ever heard of the Eumenes? HARRY: Eumenes? One of our frigates. DOCTOR: It's a genus of wasps that paralyses caterpillars and lays its eggs in their bodies. When the larvae emerge, they have a ready-made food supply. SARAH: Oh...! DOCTOR: Strange how the same life patterns recur throughout the universe. HARRY: Doctor, are you saying that slug thing...? DOCTOR: Ciliated larvae, Harry. Dune was power systems technician, I imagine. VIRA: Yes, but how did you know...? DOCTOR: It - or they - went straight to the solar stack. VIRA: You mean Dune's knowledge...? DOCTOR: Has been thoroughly digested, I'm afraid. SARAH: Don't make jokes like that, Doctor. DOCTOR: When I say I'm afraid, Sarah... I'm not making jokes! LIBRI: Commander... NOAH: Give me the g*n! LIBRI: I'm sorry, Commander. NOAH: Give me the g*n! LIBRI: No, you're not well. NOAH (OOV.): I order you! LIBRI: I can't! LIBRI (OOV.): Please, Commander! Stay back! Please... LIBRI: Don't force me to... NOAH: You fool, Libri!
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DOCTOR WHO THE ARK IN SPACE BY ROBERT HOLMES PART ONE Original Air Date: 8 February, 1975 5:30pm - 5:55pm NOAH: You fool, Libri. HIGH MINISTER (OOV. Recorded message on the intercom): Allo, Space Station Nerva... HIGH MINISTER: ...this is the Earth High Minister. The fact that you are hearing my voice in a message... HIGH MINISTER: ...recorded thousands of years before the day in which you are now living, is a sure sign that our great undertaking... HIGH MINISTER: ...the salvation of the human race, has been rewarded with success. HIGH MINISTER: You have slept longer than the recorded history of mankind. And you stand now at the dawn of a new age. You will return to an Earth purified by flame, a world that we cannot guess at. If it be arid, you must make it flourish. If it be stony, you must make it fertile. The challenge is vast, the task enormous, but let nothing daunt you. HARRY (To SARAH.): Sounds like a pre-match pep talk! HIGH MINISTER: Remember, Citizen Volunteers, that you are the proud standard-bearers of our entire race. HIGH MINISTER: Of the millions that walk the world today, you are the chosen survivors. You have been entrusted with a sacred duty - to see that human culture, human knowledge, human love and faith, shall never perish from the universe. Guard what we have given you with all your strength. HIGH MINISTER: And now, across the chasm of the years, I send you the prayers and hopes of the entire world. Godspeed you to a safe landing. HARRY: I bet that did your female chauvinist heart a power of good! SARAH: Why? HARRY: Well, fancy a member of the fair sex being top of the totem pole! NOAH (OOV. On the intercom.): Vira! Vira! VIRA: Yes, Commander? NOAH (OOV.): Vira, hear me. This is an order. Expedite revivification. Commence main phase now. VIRA: But, Noah, the safety checks... NOAH: Ignore safety checks! We... you... are in great danger... Get our... your people to the Earth before... VIRA (OOV.): Noah? NOAH: ...before... the Wirrn... Vira, take command! Hear me! You take command! VIRA: What has happened? Commander, are you there? NOAH: The Wirrn are here... They will... (His voice changes.) We shall absorb the humans... The Earth shall be ours! VIRA: Noah! Noah! NOAH (Whispering.): Vira... Vira... there's no time... They're... in my mind... getting stronger... Libri is d*ad... You will all die... Must save our people... You must! VIRA (OOV.): Noah! HARRY: The chap sounds in a bad way. VIRA: What did he mean - they're in his mind? DOCTOR: Absorb? ''We shall absorb the humans''? Endoparasitism? SARAH (To VIRA): He talks to himself sometimes because he's the only one who understands what he's talking about. DOCTOR: If the Wirrn can do that, we've no chance at all! Complete physical absorption. VIRA: Of us? DOCTOR: They'll literally eat us alive. (To VIRA.) Vira, I must talk with Noah. You’d better come with me. He trusts you. VIRA: My duty is to supervise the revivification. DOCTOR: No! Noah passed command to you. Your duties have been widened. VIRA: What is your intention? DOCTOR: To find out exactly what it is we're facing. And only Noah knows that. VIRA: But I can't leave until the last of our technical section have awakened. DOCTOR: Harry can handle that. (To HARRY.) Can't you, Harry? HARRY: Well, I... DOCTOR: You've watched Vira. You know the procedure. HARRY: Yes, I... VIRA (To HARRY.): One gramme of scropholine when the neural register enters the red zone. HARRY: Right... DOCTOR: He'll be all right. VIRA: The injection must be over the pectoralis major. HARRY: Oh, yes, that I do understand. SARAH (To HARRY.): Good luck! DOCTOR (OOV.): And, Sarah, you stay and help Harry. HARRY: Yes, come along, Nurse Smith. HARRY: See? This chap's in the red zone. SARAH: Hey, there's another one seems to be awake here. HARRY: Well, after 10,000 years, he can't be in that much of a hurry. SARAH: I hope you know what you're doing! HARRY: Oh yes. d*ad simple, really. Medicine by numbers. SARAH: Oh, yes! d*ad simple! HARRY: That’s just a question of fixing a fresh ampoule thing into here. NOAH: Keep back! Don't touch me! VIRA: Noah! NOAH: Keep back, I said! DOCTOR: Tell us one thing. How much time do we have? NOAH: Time? DOCTOR: Before the Wirrn reach their adult form? NOAH: It feels near...very near... The tearing free and then the great blackness rushing through... VIRA: Noah and I were pair-bonded for the new life. DOCTOR: Let's go back. ROGIN: Dune and Libri? And Noah? SARAH: I'm sorry. It must be a terrible shock for you. LYCETT: So there's just two of us to check the ship? SARAH (OOV.): And Vira. She's taken command. LYCETT: Where is she? SARAH: She's gone with the Doctor. They're trying to contact Noah. ROGIN: There's been a snitch-up! Didn't I tell you, Lycett? 5,000 years ago, I said there'd be a snitch-up! LYCETT: 10,000! ROGIN: Oh, beautiful... We should have taken our chance with the solar flares and gone into the thermic shelters! We'd have been happily d*ad by now! LYCETT: What was that that k*lled them? Their lungs, was it? LYCETT (OOV.): Dune and Libri? LYCETT: We were told our lung tissue might atrophy. HARRY: Well, no... SARAH: Something got in here. HARRY: Yes... Some sort of space creature. SARAH: It cut through your alarm clock system. ROGIN: What? SARAH: Look. Oh, it's OK - it's d*ad. DOCTOR (OOV.): But, unfortunately... DOCTOR: ...its larvae are still very much alive! LYCETT: Vira! ROGIN: Vira! Vira, it's gone wrong! VIRA: Welcome, Lycett. Rogin. You feel well? LYCETT: Yes... Commander. HARRY: What are we going to do with it? DOCTOR: How much anatomy do you remember, Harry? HARRY: Quite a lot, I think. But you need a blooming entomologist, for this! DOCTOR: We need to find its weaknesses, and we need to find them quickly. VIRA: Can we help? DOCTOR: Not at the moment, thank you. VIRA: Then, we will commence the main phase. Lycett, Rogin. DOCTOR: What was that she just said? SARAH: They're going to start the main phase. DOCTOR: Carry on with that thoracic incision. Not too deep. LYCETT: But the safety checks? VIRA: We shall over-ride them. ROGIN: Why? LYCETT: We can't! VIRA: That is my decision. Take your operating stations. DOCTOR (OOV.): Vira, the main phase must wait. VIRA: Noah said we should expedite the revivification programme and get our people to Earth. DOCTOR: No, he was wrong. How long would it take? VIRA: 72 hours for complete revivification. Another 24 to evacuate the Ark. DOCTOR: Four whole days? At the rate the Wirrn are developing, they'll have pupated to imago long before that, you know what that means? VIRA: We must try! DOCTOR: You can't do it, Vira! The Ark will be crawling with those creatures within hours! VIRA: Doctor, the fate of all humanity might be decided within the next few hours! DOCTOR: Vira, if you fail, your people will die in pain and fear. If I fail, they'll die anyway, but at least only the six of us will know anything about it. VIRA: You have an alternative plan? DOCTOR: Between the larval and the imago forms, there must be a pupal stage. Now, the Wirrn will be dormant and defenseless. If we can find their weaknesses... VIRA: We might destroy them? DOCTOR: Yes. VIRA (To ROGIN and LYCETT.): Very well. Stand down. DOCTOR: Good. LYCETT: There's a power flutter in Section 4, Commander. VIRA: What does that indicate? LYCETT: Some external fault. Shall I check the stacks? DOCTOR: No! The larvae have taken over the infrastructure. They seem to need solar radiation. ROGIN: We should have stayed on Earth, Lycett! I liked the Earth! I like heat! HARRY: Curious lung structure, Doctor - look at it. DOCTOR: Yes, fascinating. A superb adaptation. SARAH: What is it? DOCTOR: Obviously, the creature's lungs recycle the wastes, almost certainly by enzymes. Quite wonderful. Carbon dioxide back to oxygen. SARAH: You mean the way plants make oxygen? DOCTOR: Exactly right. It must live in space, probably just occasionally visiting a planetary atmosphere for food and oxygen, the way a whale rises from the ocean. HARRY: Judging by the size of his mandibles, this chap doesn't live on plankton! VIRA: Noah spoke of a great blackness... rushing in... He meant space, but how did he know? DOCTOR: He now has the race memory of a Wirrn. Symbiotic atavism, to be precise. I'm going to need your help now, Vira. DOCTOR: Do you have any spare extension leads, Rogin? ROGIN (OOV.): Yes, but what do you want to... DOCTOR: Hurry! Fetch them! VIRA (OOV.): What are you going to do, Doctor? DOCTOR: A little experiment. Circuit display, Lycett. VIRA: It's forbidden to alter those circuits. DOCTOR: I need the neural cortex amplifier. Not for long - don't worry. DOCTOR: Right, switch on the video circuit, Lycett. It'll take a little time to warm up. HARRY: Doctor, what are you trying to do, exactly? DOCTOR: Well, sometimes latent neural impressions can be revived. HARRY (OOV.): Really? DOCTOR: Yes. HARRY (OOV.): I've never heard of that! DOCTOR: Advanced technology. Gypsies used to believe that the eye retained its last image after death. Not so far out. No... It's not going to work. Switch off, Lycett. SARAH: Now what? DOCTOR: It should work! The coil isn't giving a strong enough stimulus. I'll have to link in my own cerebral cortex. That's the only thing. VIRA: That is highly dangerous! DOCTOR: I know. Two more leads, Rogin. VIRA: The power could burn out a living brain! DOCTOR: I agree. An ordinary brain. But mine is exceptional. VIRA: I cannot permit it! The shock might k*ll you. DOCTOR: I think not. Unless, of course, the experiment was interrupted. That could be dangerous. SARAH (OOV.): Do you have to do it? HARRY (OOV.): Yes, why take the risk? DOCTOR: If I find out what it was that k*lled that creature, we might have a chance of fighting the Wirrn. That's our only hope. SARAH: Yes, but do you have to be...? DOCTOR (OOV.): It's not just our...existence that's at stake, Sarah! DOCTOR: It's the entire human race. It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favorite species. Vira... VIRA: Yes, Doctor? DOCTOR (OOV.): Take this. (He gives her NOAH’s g*n.) DOCTOR: Don't hesitate to use it if anything goes wrong. You won't have much time. HARRY: What do you mean? DOCTOR: Switch on, Lycett. Lycett! SARAH (OOV.): Doctor! VIRA (OOV.): He's joining his mind to the Wirrn! VIRA: He could remain a part of it for ever! ROGIN (OOV.): Look! It's working! LYCETT: What was that? ROGIN: We'd better look. LYCETT: Over here! Case-hardened diranium - bent like tin! ROGIN: Look out! Behind you! Shut the door! Shut the door! HARRY: What's going...? ROGIN: Get out, man! Get out! ROGIN: They've k*lled Lycett! There's some sort of huge grub in there! HARRY: Stop the experiment! SARAH: No, can’t, you'll k*ll him! VIRA: The armory, Rogin! Get the fission g*n! ROGIN: Right! HARRY: I'll come with you! VIRA: Hurry, Rogin! SARAH: That door won't hold much longer! VIRA: Dune! NOAH: Fools! Human fools! SARAH: Help me with him, Vira! VIRA: Wait! Come away! DOCTOR: Wirrn... Wirrn... VIRA: Doctor... Doctor! Doctor! DOCTOR: Wirrn! SARAH: No, you can't! I won't let you! DOCTOR: Can't what? Is it time to get up? SARAH: Doctor, you're going to be all right! DOCTOR: Is that noise in my head? HARRY: Doctor, come back! SARAH: Doctor, don't! Doctor! Doctor! DOCTOR: Aim lower! ROGIN: It's gone back through the grille. HARRY: That was a close one! You all right, Sarah? SARAH: Yes. HARRY: Doctor? DOCTOR: Why? Why have they gone on to the att*ck? VIRA: They want to destroy us. DOCTOR: But they've only to wait. In their adult form, they'll be a thousand times deadlier. Fission g*n will have no effect, then. SARAH: How many of them will there be? DOCTOR: At a hatching? A hundred... HARRY: A hundred? We won't stand a chance! How can we fight a hundred of those? DOCTOR: Electricity! Only by electricity! That's the one thing I found out! SARAH: Electricity? DOCTOR: Yes... It was the auto-guard that k*lled the queen - half a million volts. HARRY: We found the queen in the cupboard! DOCTOR: Amazing willpower! I could feel it struggling against death until its task was done. (To ROGIN.) Rogin, is there any way we can electrify the infrastructure? ROGIN: Not from here, Doctor. We'd have to run cables from the Control Centre. DOCTOR (OOV.): Control Centre? DOCTOR: Right, let's go! HARRY: You can't go that way, Doctor. ROGIN (OOV.): Noah's waiting out there. Put one foot inside the transom and you're d*ad! DOCTOR (OOV.): Yes... DOCTOR: I was forgetting Noah's extra mobility. VIRA: We are trapped. DOCTOR: The Wirrn are using Dune's knowledge of the Ark. Perhaps there was something he didn't know. ROGIN (OOV.): Dune was first tech. He knew it all! VIRA (OOV.): He helped design the systems. DOCTOR: Nobody knows it all! Perhaps he's forgotten that these transmats are reversible! ROGIN: Oh oh oh! That's clever! DOCTOR: Isn't it? And as you appreciate it, Rogin, you can go first! I'll give you a hand! Come on. ROGIN: Oh, well... I never liked it here anyway! DOCTOR: You next, Harry! HARRY: I say! ROGIN (OOV.): Are you all right? HARRY: What a marvelous way to travel! ROGIN: It always sets my teeth on edge! DOCTOR: That was a power drain. Hello, Control Centre? ROGIN (OOV. On the intercom.): Hello, Doctor. We've got a power failure. DOCTOR: It's general, then. Do you have a fault reading? ROGIN (OOV. On the intercom.): Section 4... That's the secondary stack. There's no power... (his voice fades.) VIRA: All power systems are self-repairing. DOCTOR: Malicious damage excluded. SARAH: Oh, well, obviously, I am not going anywhere! Help me, Doctor. VIRA: The oxygen pumps have stopped. DOCTOR: Of course! In their pupal stage, the Wirrn don't need oxygen. An easy way of k*lling us. VIRA: Well, suffocation is not the most unpleasant death! DOCTOR: What? We're not finished yet! You two stay here. SARAH (OOV.): Where are you going? DOCTOR: The infrastructure. If they've entered the pupal stage, they'll be dormant. Could be our chance to get down there and switch the power back on. VIRA: You're forgetting Noah. DOCTOR: No, I'm not. I think his job's done now. He'll be metamorphosing, too.
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