Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks s01e02 Episode Script
Episode 2
(DOCTOR WHO THEME) BEN: Doctor, look! - (POLLY SCREAMS) A light.
A torch outside.
- Did you see it? - Quickly, Ben, quickly! What was it? (SCRAPING) (RUSTLING) Can you answer me? It was a sort of disembodied hand.
A sort of claw.
It was horrible! No.
No, there's nothing.
You were right.
There were three Daleks.
Do you know what it was? Hm If there were three, who moved it? Don't ask me.
- Lesterson? - But he hadn't opened the capsule.
Now he said he hadn't opened it.
Let's get our facts straight.
DOCTOR: Ah-ha! Excellent.
Good thinking.
Good thinking.
Does that mean you think he's been inside? Perhaps he's been experimenting on the Daleks Ah! - (LOCK CLICKS) - But But they're things.
I mean, they're dead, they must be.
This light is dead.
Now the watch! Do you mean, these things just need power? Now, Lesterson is a fanatic.
The Governor is jealous of his own position.
What does that suggest to you? Dunno.
Haven't thought about it.
That all is not well with this colony! Add to that one Dalek.
Oh, blimey, you don't half make mountains! One Dalek? Yes! All that is needed to wipe out this entire colony.
Examiner? Examiner? Bragen, don't you ever knock before you enter a room? I'm sorry if I disturbed you.
I was expecting to find the Examiner here, not you, Quinn.
Well, he's not here.
You'll probably want to start snooping under the bed.
- So I'll leave you to it.
- One moment.
Don't try your luck with me, Bragen.
On the contrary, I'm trying to avoid trouble.
The Governor gave instructions that you were not to contact the Examiner.
I find you here.
I'm sure you can offer some suitable explanation.
I can.
But not to you.
Before you go Oh! Don't ever try to block my way again.
Guard! The Examiner is missing.
He must be found immediately.
Of course, the real Doctor was always going on about the Daleks.
- The real Doctor? - The real Doctor? - Oh, you mean the real Doctor.
- Yeah, now I've seen that claw thing Well, I wouldn't want to shake hands with it.
Doctor, look, if they're that dangerous, what are you going to do about it? Save my breath.
Would Lesterson listen? Ha! Lesterson listen, Lesterson listen, Lesterson listen.
Exercises the tongue.
Try it.
Lesterson listen, Lesterson listen.
Look, they think you're the Examiner.
Order them to destroy the Daleks.
Well, chuck your weight about.
Lesterson listen, Lesterson listen, Lesterson listen.
BOTH: Lesterson listen.
What do you think you're doing in here? - Who gave you permission? - Read this.
Aloud! "Accord every access.
" Exactly.
It doesn't say "except your laboratory" anywhere, does it? Unless it's in microprint.
I should have been asked first.
What was the first thing you noticed inside that capsule? Th-th-the Daleks.
- You were astounded? Amazed? - Yes.
You didn't even give them a glance! Why? Because you'd been in there and seen them.
- Where is the third Dalek? - I don't know what you're talking about.
You opened up the capsule without permission.
You found the inner compartment containing three Daleks.
You took one of them away and you hid it.
Hid it? What What nonsense.
May I ask what all this is about? We opened an inner compartment in the capsule and Lesterson had already I don't deny that.
- And he's nicked a Dalek! - A Dalek? It's the name the Examiner has given to two metal creations that I've discovered inside the capsule.
- And they're dangerous, evil! - Lumps of metal! - Quite inactive.
- That's what you think.
If you'd seen (RECORDER SQUEAKS) - Sssh.
- I consider it my duty as a scientist, to examine and investigate these objects.
Now please, all of you, keep out of my laboratory.
Keep your hands off my experiments.
These "lumps of metal", Daleks, I want them broken up or melted down.
Up or down.
I don't care which, but destroyed.
I refuse to allow it.
I'm an Earth Examiner.
I demand it.
You're exceeding your authority.
Perhaps we should ask the Governor about that.
I wish to see him immediately.
- That might be difficult.
- But not impossible.
Ben.
Polly.
- Could he stop the experiments? - I don't know.
It's none of your business.
You go and get Janley and then come back here.
We haven't got any time to waste.
Now, go on, man.
Quickly.
Quickly.
(DOOR CLOSES) He won't stop me experimenting.
There must be some way to bring you back to life.
And I'm going to find it.
And, of course, you do have the right of any access.
Which is why I have a badge which says so.
Lesterson watches over his ideas like a mother hen.
If there was a bomb under this floor timed to go off in five minutes, would you ask my permission before you ripped up the floorboards? - Ah-ha! Fruit.
- Examiner POLLY: Thank you.
It's up to you, of course, but I'd advise a little discretion in your investigations.
It's not a very good time just now.
Thank you.
With all these disturbances - Disturbances? - Yes.
Minor acts of sabotage.
Rebel cliques.
Secret newspapers.
Nothing important, you understand, but it keeps the Governor busy.
I've no doubt he'll tell you all about it when I arrange your meeting with him.
- When will that be? - Er He's going on a tour of the perimeter of the colony.
I'll I'll find out if he can see you before he goes.
Thank you.
It's things like this that make it difficult to believe you're the Doctor.
- Ah! - The other one.
I mean, the proper one.
Oh, nuts, you know what I mean.
Nuts? Yes.
Certainly.
Here we are.
Crackers? You, my old china, are an out-and-out phoney.
China? Ahem.
Yes.
I went there once, I believe.
I met Marco Polo.
No, not China! China.
"China and plate.
" Mate.
Friend.
Marco Polo a friend? I believe he was.
Don't listen to him, Doctor.
I know who you are.
Sssh! Sssh! (GASPS) It's a Well, well, a touch of the bugs! Microphones.
Someone's been listening to what we were saying.
So that's why you were messing about and talking nonsense.
- I never talk nonsense.
- Ahem.
Well, hardly never.
Well, they certainly believe in making us feel at home.
At first, I thought there might be more than one.
(LAUGHTER) - Here, I bet old Charlie Bragen did it.
- Charlie? Well, "Fred" wouldn't suit him.
If he did do it, do you think it was his own idea? - He could have been under orders.
- From the Governor? Er, dunno.
What do you think, Doctor? Oh, yes.
Yes, of course.
Let's Let's consider this button for a moment.
It's the only clue we've got to the murderer of the Examiner, the real Examiner.
Mm, and who asked for him to come? Lesterson is crackers about the capsule.
He wouldn't want anyone nosing about.
Bragen said the Governor's been having trouble.
Nah, rule him out.
Governors are all the same.
He wouldn't ask for help.
It would look as if he couldn't do the job properly.
Yes.
Oh, well, I vote we go back to the TARDIS.
- I've had enough of this dump.
- Have you? - What about the Daleks? - Well, they're dead.
Well, what about that thing we saw in the capsule? That was alive, all right.
- Yeah, well, I can't explain that.
- I can.
And that's why we have to stay.
Ugly-looking brutes, aren't they? Hey, what's he want to muck about with them for? Leave well alone, I say.
You're a fine one to be a research assistant.
Leave well alone? There'll be no progress on this planet with people like you.
We're doing all right as we are.
Or we were, until your lot came along, stirring things up.
You won't get away with it, you know.
The Governor knows all about you rebels.
He'll smash the lot of you when he's ready.
- The Governor? - Yeah, the Governor.
- He couldn't smash - Will you be quiet? Where do you both think you are? This is a scientific laboratory.
Kindly keep your politics out of it.
Come on, Resno, man, get on with it! We haven't got all day.
We've got to get this working before the Examiner stops us.
He's got some phobia about these these Daleks! I know the misery they cause, the destruction.
But But there's something else more terrible.
Something I can only half remember.
Doctor, what was it? (KNOCK AT DOOR) Well? Where is the Governor? What did he say? He sends his apologies, Examiner.
He can't see you tonight, but he hopes to see you first thing in the morning.
Well, it might not wait that long, Char, er, Bragen.
It will have to.
- Excuse me.
BEN: Where are you going? - To see the Governor, of course.
- I'm afraid that's not possible.
Once his door is closed, no-one, not even you, Examiner, is allowed into his room.
Very well.
Thank you.
Until the morning, then.
What happens now? I shall radio Earth.
Governor or not, Hensell will have to listen to them.
I'll get Earth to back me.
(DISTANT RUSTLING) That's funny.
I could have sworn You stay here.
I shan't be long.
(LAUGHTER) Connecting now.
(MACHINE HUMS) All connections responding.
- Nothing at all? RESNO: No.
- Are you sure? - There's nothing wrong here.
- Well, let's see.
- If you can't trust me to read a dial! Be quiet.
All right.
We'll try again.
This time, we'll take it up to 3.
24.
- Got that, Janley? - 3.
24.
(HUMMING RISES IN PITCH) RESNO: It's moving! LESTERSON: Now, note this, Janley.
Number one attachment with sucker stick responding.
Number two attachment not moving.
Number three attachment with lens responding.
- Watch these meters, Resno.
- Still responding.
Now, it's reasonable to assume that this sucker stick acts like some kind of a hand.
- (SHRIEKS) - It's all right.
Don't be alarmed.
We've only introduced temporary power.
We shall have to be able to open it up before we could find out how it works permanently.
- It's a bit frightening.
- Yes.
Now, I cannot think what this short, stubby arm is for.
- Could the lens attachment be an eye? - Yes, yes, yes.
Yes.
Now it's quite possible that this Dalek Now there must be some kind of directing influence.
There may even be a simplified brain.
Positronic, I shouldn't wonder.
Oh, if only we could open it up! - Now what? - Everything functioning here.
Yes, well, perhaps the power is leaking away somewhere.
We'll We'll try again.
(HUMMING RISES IN PITCH) Look at the eye-stick! It's watching us! - Don't be absurd.
- It was.
I saw it.
You can't use the phrase "watching us".
You'll have us believing that the thing has intelligence next.
Now, get on with your work, man! I know you're there.
Examiner, thank goodness it's you.
I've been trying to talk to you ever since you got here.
What's happening here? - You again? - What do you want? I found the operator unconscious.
So did I.
I was just looking at him when I heard someone move.
It must have been you.
And those? I picked them up.
What is all this? - The cables have been cut.
- What? This is serious.
It's not just our own communications.
We're cut off from Earth, as well.
The only people who would want to do that are the rebels.
If those muscle boys of yours had any brains, they'd stop things like this.
Bragen, I was attacked just after I landed.
This is a small souvenir I collected.
This button belongs to you, doesn't it? - Well, yes.
- And you say you picked these up? I suggest that you were sabotaging the communications.
- That's a lie! - Having attacked one of the engineers.
I'd detain the Governor on evidence like that.
I hope you're not thinking of detaining me, Bragen.
I've no option.
I could hardly let you run around loose after this, could I? - All right, guards.
- I warn you, Bragen! All right.
You win this round, Bragen.
We'll see what it looks like in front of the Governor.
The Governor will want an inquiry.
May I ask what you were doing here? Right.
I've redirected the power, this time, working up to 4.
68.
Er, now, Resno, you will have to dodge between the camera and your meters.
Ready.
Connecting now.
- (HUMMING RISES IN PITCH) - All connections responding.
- Excellent.
JANLEY: It's working! Excellent.
Film it.
Film it now, Resno.
And note the readings, Janley.
It seems to be interested in you, Resno.
What's the matter with you, man? I tell you, it's intelligent.
It's watching me, Lesterson.
- Weighing me up.
I can sense it.
- Don't be a fool.
I don't like it.
- I don't know what these things can do.
- No.
And we never shall know, shall we? Unless we take a film of every reaction.
Now get on with your work, man.
- Aah! - Resno! (MACHINE POWERS DOWN) It's all right.
He isn't dead.
- What happened? - Knocked out by the shock wave.
We must get him to the hospital.
I'll go and get help.
(FOLK SONG ON RECORDER) But we've got to defend Quinn.
Yeah, I know, he's innocent until he's proved guilty, but he is guilty.
- He's the Deputy Governor.
- So what? I had a headmaster once who got nicked for not paying his bus fare.
And then there's the motive.
Don't forget the motive.
- Like what, for instance? - Well, he's the Deputy Governor.
Right? Maybe he wants to be Governor.
- Oh, that's ridiculous! - Well, the jacket button wasn't! And he was caught red-handed in the communications room with pliers.
Don't tell me he was plucking his eyebrows! There are some people you know are all right.
You just know by looking at them.
- Good morning.
- (MUSIC STOPS) The inquiry is about to begin.
I've been sent to escort you.
- Ah, Janley.
- Is it time? Yes.
Yes, I think so.
- I feel quite excited.
- So you should.
- It's a wonderful achievement.
- Yes, yes.
But the wonderful thing, Janley, is that we don't know the full scope of this experiment.
Who knows where we may go from here? Who knows what this Dalek may do? - It's harmless now? - Yes.
Yes, yes, I've removed Oh, Resno.
Have you been to see him today? Yes, yes.
He's had medical attention.
- He's going to be all right.
- Oh, good.
No-one must find out about this accident.
It might give the Examiner just the excuse they want and he could stop the whole project.
Well, yes.
Yes, yes, yes, you're right.
Well, ready? Yes.
Let's go and surprise them! I am sorry I couldn't see you earlier, Examiner.
Please sit down.
Well, Quinn I don't like this any more than you do.
(SIGHS) What have you been up to? Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
Well, what about Bragen's report, then? These are facts, Quinn.
- Now, what have you got to say about it? - Does the engineer say I hit him? How could he if he was hit from behind? Then it's circumstantial evidence.
The Examiner was also attacked, in the mercury swamp.
We have a button from your jacket, found in the Examiner's hand.
I can't explain that.
I'm sure you can't.
Examiner you seem to be in two minds.
Yeah, and two bodies.
You mentioned to Bragen that these machines of Lesterson's - What do you call them? - I call them what they are.
Daleks.
Ah, yes, yes, yes.
Daleks.
You say they could be a motive for destroying our communications.
I do.
Lesterson! This is a special inquiry.
Now, please.
This won't wait.
You won't be disappointed.
Governor, I've just completed an experiment, which could revolutionise the whole colony.
Bear with me.
Lesterson, what have you done? What have you done? I'll show you.
Janley, now! It recognised the Doctor.
It recognised him! What's the matter, Doctor? Are you all right? The fools.
The stupid fools.
BEN: You're scared.
What can it do? Nothing yet.
It knew who you were.
It sounds ridiculous, but it did.
- It knew who I was.
- I have given it electrical power.
- The Dalek knows who you are.
- It is capable of storing it.
Moreover, it responds to orders.
Turn around.
Move that chair.
Stop! You see? Well, just think what this could do for our mining programme, our processing, packaging, dozens of labour jobs, Governor.
It may even supply the end to all this colony's problems.
Yes, it will end the colony's problems, because it will end the colony! I am your ser vant.
It It spoke! Janley, did you hear it? It can actually talk! It can do many things, Lesterson, but the thing it does most efficiently - is exterminate human beings.
- I am your servant.
It destroys them without mercy, without conscience.
- I am your servant.
- It destroys them utterly, completely! - I am your servant.
- It destroys them! I am your servant.
I am your servant.
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)
A torch outside.
- Did you see it? - Quickly, Ben, quickly! What was it? (SCRAPING) (RUSTLING) Can you answer me? It was a sort of disembodied hand.
A sort of claw.
It was horrible! No.
No, there's nothing.
You were right.
There were three Daleks.
Do you know what it was? Hm If there were three, who moved it? Don't ask me.
- Lesterson? - But he hadn't opened the capsule.
Now he said he hadn't opened it.
Let's get our facts straight.
DOCTOR: Ah-ha! Excellent.
Good thinking.
Good thinking.
Does that mean you think he's been inside? Perhaps he's been experimenting on the Daleks Ah! - (LOCK CLICKS) - But But they're things.
I mean, they're dead, they must be.
This light is dead.
Now the watch! Do you mean, these things just need power? Now, Lesterson is a fanatic.
The Governor is jealous of his own position.
What does that suggest to you? Dunno.
Haven't thought about it.
That all is not well with this colony! Add to that one Dalek.
Oh, blimey, you don't half make mountains! One Dalek? Yes! All that is needed to wipe out this entire colony.
Examiner? Examiner? Bragen, don't you ever knock before you enter a room? I'm sorry if I disturbed you.
I was expecting to find the Examiner here, not you, Quinn.
Well, he's not here.
You'll probably want to start snooping under the bed.
- So I'll leave you to it.
- One moment.
Don't try your luck with me, Bragen.
On the contrary, I'm trying to avoid trouble.
The Governor gave instructions that you were not to contact the Examiner.
I find you here.
I'm sure you can offer some suitable explanation.
I can.
But not to you.
Before you go Oh! Don't ever try to block my way again.
Guard! The Examiner is missing.
He must be found immediately.
Of course, the real Doctor was always going on about the Daleks.
- The real Doctor? - The real Doctor? - Oh, you mean the real Doctor.
- Yeah, now I've seen that claw thing Well, I wouldn't want to shake hands with it.
Doctor, look, if they're that dangerous, what are you going to do about it? Save my breath.
Would Lesterson listen? Ha! Lesterson listen, Lesterson listen, Lesterson listen.
Exercises the tongue.
Try it.
Lesterson listen, Lesterson listen.
Look, they think you're the Examiner.
Order them to destroy the Daleks.
Well, chuck your weight about.
Lesterson listen, Lesterson listen, Lesterson listen.
BOTH: Lesterson listen.
What do you think you're doing in here? - Who gave you permission? - Read this.
Aloud! "Accord every access.
" Exactly.
It doesn't say "except your laboratory" anywhere, does it? Unless it's in microprint.
I should have been asked first.
What was the first thing you noticed inside that capsule? Th-th-the Daleks.
- You were astounded? Amazed? - Yes.
You didn't even give them a glance! Why? Because you'd been in there and seen them.
- Where is the third Dalek? - I don't know what you're talking about.
You opened up the capsule without permission.
You found the inner compartment containing three Daleks.
You took one of them away and you hid it.
Hid it? What What nonsense.
May I ask what all this is about? We opened an inner compartment in the capsule and Lesterson had already I don't deny that.
- And he's nicked a Dalek! - A Dalek? It's the name the Examiner has given to two metal creations that I've discovered inside the capsule.
- And they're dangerous, evil! - Lumps of metal! - Quite inactive.
- That's what you think.
If you'd seen (RECORDER SQUEAKS) - Sssh.
- I consider it my duty as a scientist, to examine and investigate these objects.
Now please, all of you, keep out of my laboratory.
Keep your hands off my experiments.
These "lumps of metal", Daleks, I want them broken up or melted down.
Up or down.
I don't care which, but destroyed.
I refuse to allow it.
I'm an Earth Examiner.
I demand it.
You're exceeding your authority.
Perhaps we should ask the Governor about that.
I wish to see him immediately.
- That might be difficult.
- But not impossible.
Ben.
Polly.
- Could he stop the experiments? - I don't know.
It's none of your business.
You go and get Janley and then come back here.
We haven't got any time to waste.
Now, go on, man.
Quickly.
Quickly.
(DOOR CLOSES) He won't stop me experimenting.
There must be some way to bring you back to life.
And I'm going to find it.
And, of course, you do have the right of any access.
Which is why I have a badge which says so.
Lesterson watches over his ideas like a mother hen.
If there was a bomb under this floor timed to go off in five minutes, would you ask my permission before you ripped up the floorboards? - Ah-ha! Fruit.
- Examiner POLLY: Thank you.
It's up to you, of course, but I'd advise a little discretion in your investigations.
It's not a very good time just now.
Thank you.
With all these disturbances - Disturbances? - Yes.
Minor acts of sabotage.
Rebel cliques.
Secret newspapers.
Nothing important, you understand, but it keeps the Governor busy.
I've no doubt he'll tell you all about it when I arrange your meeting with him.
- When will that be? - Er He's going on a tour of the perimeter of the colony.
I'll I'll find out if he can see you before he goes.
Thank you.
It's things like this that make it difficult to believe you're the Doctor.
- Ah! - The other one.
I mean, the proper one.
Oh, nuts, you know what I mean.
Nuts? Yes.
Certainly.
Here we are.
Crackers? You, my old china, are an out-and-out phoney.
China? Ahem.
Yes.
I went there once, I believe.
I met Marco Polo.
No, not China! China.
"China and plate.
" Mate.
Friend.
Marco Polo a friend? I believe he was.
Don't listen to him, Doctor.
I know who you are.
Sssh! Sssh! (GASPS) It's a Well, well, a touch of the bugs! Microphones.
Someone's been listening to what we were saying.
So that's why you were messing about and talking nonsense.
- I never talk nonsense.
- Ahem.
Well, hardly never.
Well, they certainly believe in making us feel at home.
At first, I thought there might be more than one.
(LAUGHTER) - Here, I bet old Charlie Bragen did it.
- Charlie? Well, "Fred" wouldn't suit him.
If he did do it, do you think it was his own idea? - He could have been under orders.
- From the Governor? Er, dunno.
What do you think, Doctor? Oh, yes.
Yes, of course.
Let's Let's consider this button for a moment.
It's the only clue we've got to the murderer of the Examiner, the real Examiner.
Mm, and who asked for him to come? Lesterson is crackers about the capsule.
He wouldn't want anyone nosing about.
Bragen said the Governor's been having trouble.
Nah, rule him out.
Governors are all the same.
He wouldn't ask for help.
It would look as if he couldn't do the job properly.
Yes.
Oh, well, I vote we go back to the TARDIS.
- I've had enough of this dump.
- Have you? - What about the Daleks? - Well, they're dead.
Well, what about that thing we saw in the capsule? That was alive, all right.
- Yeah, well, I can't explain that.
- I can.
And that's why we have to stay.
Ugly-looking brutes, aren't they? Hey, what's he want to muck about with them for? Leave well alone, I say.
You're a fine one to be a research assistant.
Leave well alone? There'll be no progress on this planet with people like you.
We're doing all right as we are.
Or we were, until your lot came along, stirring things up.
You won't get away with it, you know.
The Governor knows all about you rebels.
He'll smash the lot of you when he's ready.
- The Governor? - Yeah, the Governor.
- He couldn't smash - Will you be quiet? Where do you both think you are? This is a scientific laboratory.
Kindly keep your politics out of it.
Come on, Resno, man, get on with it! We haven't got all day.
We've got to get this working before the Examiner stops us.
He's got some phobia about these these Daleks! I know the misery they cause, the destruction.
But But there's something else more terrible.
Something I can only half remember.
Doctor, what was it? (KNOCK AT DOOR) Well? Where is the Governor? What did he say? He sends his apologies, Examiner.
He can't see you tonight, but he hopes to see you first thing in the morning.
Well, it might not wait that long, Char, er, Bragen.
It will have to.
- Excuse me.
BEN: Where are you going? - To see the Governor, of course.
- I'm afraid that's not possible.
Once his door is closed, no-one, not even you, Examiner, is allowed into his room.
Very well.
Thank you.
Until the morning, then.
What happens now? I shall radio Earth.
Governor or not, Hensell will have to listen to them.
I'll get Earth to back me.
(DISTANT RUSTLING) That's funny.
I could have sworn You stay here.
I shan't be long.
(LAUGHTER) Connecting now.
(MACHINE HUMS) All connections responding.
- Nothing at all? RESNO: No.
- Are you sure? - There's nothing wrong here.
- Well, let's see.
- If you can't trust me to read a dial! Be quiet.
All right.
We'll try again.
This time, we'll take it up to 3.
24.
- Got that, Janley? - 3.
24.
(HUMMING RISES IN PITCH) RESNO: It's moving! LESTERSON: Now, note this, Janley.
Number one attachment with sucker stick responding.
Number two attachment not moving.
Number three attachment with lens responding.
- Watch these meters, Resno.
- Still responding.
Now, it's reasonable to assume that this sucker stick acts like some kind of a hand.
- (SHRIEKS) - It's all right.
Don't be alarmed.
We've only introduced temporary power.
We shall have to be able to open it up before we could find out how it works permanently.
- It's a bit frightening.
- Yes.
Now, I cannot think what this short, stubby arm is for.
- Could the lens attachment be an eye? - Yes, yes, yes.
Yes.
Now it's quite possible that this Dalek Now there must be some kind of directing influence.
There may even be a simplified brain.
Positronic, I shouldn't wonder.
Oh, if only we could open it up! - Now what? - Everything functioning here.
Yes, well, perhaps the power is leaking away somewhere.
We'll We'll try again.
(HUMMING RISES IN PITCH) Look at the eye-stick! It's watching us! - Don't be absurd.
- It was.
I saw it.
You can't use the phrase "watching us".
You'll have us believing that the thing has intelligence next.
Now, get on with your work, man! I know you're there.
Examiner, thank goodness it's you.
I've been trying to talk to you ever since you got here.
What's happening here? - You again? - What do you want? I found the operator unconscious.
So did I.
I was just looking at him when I heard someone move.
It must have been you.
And those? I picked them up.
What is all this? - The cables have been cut.
- What? This is serious.
It's not just our own communications.
We're cut off from Earth, as well.
The only people who would want to do that are the rebels.
If those muscle boys of yours had any brains, they'd stop things like this.
Bragen, I was attacked just after I landed.
This is a small souvenir I collected.
This button belongs to you, doesn't it? - Well, yes.
- And you say you picked these up? I suggest that you were sabotaging the communications.
- That's a lie! - Having attacked one of the engineers.
I'd detain the Governor on evidence like that.
I hope you're not thinking of detaining me, Bragen.
I've no option.
I could hardly let you run around loose after this, could I? - All right, guards.
- I warn you, Bragen! All right.
You win this round, Bragen.
We'll see what it looks like in front of the Governor.
The Governor will want an inquiry.
May I ask what you were doing here? Right.
I've redirected the power, this time, working up to 4.
68.
Er, now, Resno, you will have to dodge between the camera and your meters.
Ready.
Connecting now.
- (HUMMING RISES IN PITCH) - All connections responding.
- Excellent.
JANLEY: It's working! Excellent.
Film it.
Film it now, Resno.
And note the readings, Janley.
It seems to be interested in you, Resno.
What's the matter with you, man? I tell you, it's intelligent.
It's watching me, Lesterson.
- Weighing me up.
I can sense it.
- Don't be a fool.
I don't like it.
- I don't know what these things can do.
- No.
And we never shall know, shall we? Unless we take a film of every reaction.
Now get on with your work, man.
- Aah! - Resno! (MACHINE POWERS DOWN) It's all right.
He isn't dead.
- What happened? - Knocked out by the shock wave.
We must get him to the hospital.
I'll go and get help.
(FOLK SONG ON RECORDER) But we've got to defend Quinn.
Yeah, I know, he's innocent until he's proved guilty, but he is guilty.
- He's the Deputy Governor.
- So what? I had a headmaster once who got nicked for not paying his bus fare.
And then there's the motive.
Don't forget the motive.
- Like what, for instance? - Well, he's the Deputy Governor.
Right? Maybe he wants to be Governor.
- Oh, that's ridiculous! - Well, the jacket button wasn't! And he was caught red-handed in the communications room with pliers.
Don't tell me he was plucking his eyebrows! There are some people you know are all right.
You just know by looking at them.
- Good morning.
- (MUSIC STOPS) The inquiry is about to begin.
I've been sent to escort you.
- Ah, Janley.
- Is it time? Yes.
Yes, I think so.
- I feel quite excited.
- So you should.
- It's a wonderful achievement.
- Yes, yes.
But the wonderful thing, Janley, is that we don't know the full scope of this experiment.
Who knows where we may go from here? Who knows what this Dalek may do? - It's harmless now? - Yes.
Yes, yes, I've removed Oh, Resno.
Have you been to see him today? Yes, yes.
He's had medical attention.
- He's going to be all right.
- Oh, good.
No-one must find out about this accident.
It might give the Examiner just the excuse they want and he could stop the whole project.
Well, yes.
Yes, yes, yes, you're right.
Well, ready? Yes.
Let's go and surprise them! I am sorry I couldn't see you earlier, Examiner.
Please sit down.
Well, Quinn I don't like this any more than you do.
(SIGHS) What have you been up to? Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
Well, what about Bragen's report, then? These are facts, Quinn.
- Now, what have you got to say about it? - Does the engineer say I hit him? How could he if he was hit from behind? Then it's circumstantial evidence.
The Examiner was also attacked, in the mercury swamp.
We have a button from your jacket, found in the Examiner's hand.
I can't explain that.
I'm sure you can't.
Examiner you seem to be in two minds.
Yeah, and two bodies.
You mentioned to Bragen that these machines of Lesterson's - What do you call them? - I call them what they are.
Daleks.
Ah, yes, yes, yes.
Daleks.
You say they could be a motive for destroying our communications.
I do.
Lesterson! This is a special inquiry.
Now, please.
This won't wait.
You won't be disappointed.
Governor, I've just completed an experiment, which could revolutionise the whole colony.
Bear with me.
Lesterson, what have you done? What have you done? I'll show you.
Janley, now! It recognised the Doctor.
It recognised him! What's the matter, Doctor? Are you all right? The fools.
The stupid fools.
BEN: You're scared.
What can it do? Nothing yet.
It knew who you were.
It sounds ridiculous, but it did.
- It knew who I was.
- I have given it electrical power.
- The Dalek knows who you are.
- It is capable of storing it.
Moreover, it responds to orders.
Turn around.
Move that chair.
Stop! You see? Well, just think what this could do for our mining programme, our processing, packaging, dozens of labour jobs, Governor.
It may even supply the end to all this colony's problems.
Yes, it will end the colony's problems, because it will end the colony! I am your ser vant.
It It spoke! Janley, did you hear it? It can actually talk! It can do many things, Lesterson, but the thing it does most efficiently - is exterminate human beings.
- I am your servant.
It destroys them without mercy, without conscience.
- I am your servant.
- It destroys them utterly, completely! - I am your servant.
- It destroys them! I am your servant.
I am your servant.
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)