Doctor Who (1963) s01e05 Episode Script

Well, I suggest before we go outside and explore, let us clean ourselves up.
Yes.
Now, what does the radiation read, Susan? It's reading normal, Grandfather.
There's been a forest fire.
Everything's sort of white and ashen.
Funny mist.
The heat must have been indescribable.
Look at this soil here.
Look at it.
It's all turned to sand and ashes.
Extraordinary.
How can shrubs or trees grow in soil like that, hm? Something else that's strange.
There's quite a breeze blowing.
Well? Well, look at the branches and things.
- SUSAN: They don't seem to be moving.
- They're not.
They're absolutely still.
Huh! Like stone, look.
Very brittle stone.
It crumbles when you touch it.
Look.
It's petrified.
How fascinating, a petrified jungle.
Hm.
Extraordinary.
Yes, I must really investigate that.
Couldn't have been heat, then, and age would merely decay.
What could have caused it, Grandfather? I don't know, I don't know, but I intend to find out.
Well, I'm coming, too.
- Lan, where are we? - I don't know.
Well, why doesn't he take us back? - I'm not sure that he can.
- What, ever? I hate it as much as you.
I'm just as afraid.
But what can we do? - Well, we could at least stay near the ship.
- The ship's no good without him.
We better keep an eye on him.
He seems to have a knack of getting himself into trouble.
- You think there's any danger? - Not necessarily.
But don't be too complacent.
No, you're right, I suppose.
I just wish - We'll be all right.
- Yes.
Well, I suppose we'd better make sure he doesn't fall down and break a leg.
Don't you ever think he deserves something to happen to him? Yes! Oh, Grandfather, look! It's a flower.
A perfect flower.
Well, it's even kept some of its colour.
Yes, very pretty, very pretty.
Hmm.
Hey, look! Look what I've found.
- Oh, that's beautiful.
- Isn't it? I'm going to try and pick it and keep it all in one piece.
Oh, be careful, it'll be very fragile.
- There we are.
- Beautiful.
- When I get it back to the ship - lan! I'm going to put it into a glass - lan! Coming! Coming! What is it? What's the matter? No! It's all right.
Like everything else in this place, solid stone.
- It's hideous.
- Yes, it is.
It's also significant.
Nothing on Earth could look like this.
It looks like some sculptor's nightmare.
Yes, it's certainly alien to anything on your planet.
But you're wrong about one thing, Chesterfield.
This isn't like everything else.
The animal is solidified certainly, but it's not crumbly stone.
It's metal.
Yes, it always was.
Even when it was alive? But that's impossible.
Why? Can't you imagine an animal unless it's flesh, blood and bone, hm? No, I tell you this is an entirely different formation.
I should say originally it was some pliable metal held together by a magnetic field, or an inner magnetic field rather, and it may have had the ability to attract its victims towards it, if they were metal, too.
- We're not on Earth, then? - No, certainly not.
- Are you sure? - Oh, certain.
And you needn't look at me like that, young man.
We started this journey far too hurriedly to make any calculations.
You know that as well as I do.
However, we're alive.
Hey, Grandfather, look.
The jungle ends over there.
Try not to be too upset.
I counted so much on just going back to things I recognise and trust.
- But here there's nothing to rely on, nothing.
- Well, there's me.
Barbara all I ask you to do is believe, really believe, we'll go back.
We will, you know.
I wish I was more like you.
I'm afraid I'm a very unwilling adventurer.
Well, I'm not exactly revelling in it myself.
Grandfather's talking about fixing our position by the stars.
- Good.
Where is he? - Just over there.
- Susan? - Hmm? Don't you have anything in the ship that records the journeys? Oh, yes.
There's a meter fixed to a great big bank of computers.
If you feed it with the right information, it can take over the controls of the ship and deliver you to any place you want to go.
Then why don't we know where we are? Well, it's a question of the right information, you see.
I don't say that Grandfather doesn't know how to work the ship, but he's so forgetful, and then he will go off and Well, he likes to work on his own.
So I've noticed.
Anyway, he's only got to do some computations back in the ship and we can move on.
It can't be too soon for me.
DOCTOR: Well, are we ready? Oh, Doctor, have you worked out yet how all this happened? No, not really, not really.
Whatever it was destroyed everything that was living, but the planet is dead, totally dead.
IAN: Barbara! Doctor! Over here! DOCTOR: What is it, Chesterton? We really must get back to Most fascinating.
A city.
A huge city.
Well, Doctor, can you see anything? Any sign of life? DOCTOR: No, sign of life.
No, just the buildings.
- Magnificent buildings, I - Oh, let me have a look.
It's fabulous.
Here, you have a look.
- What do you think, Doctor? - I don't know, I don't know.
Whatever it was destroyed the vegetation here certainly hasn't damaged the city.
But there's no sign of life.
No movement, no light, no No, I shall know more about it when I've been down there.
Down there? Oh, no.
We're going back to the ship.
Now, don't be ridiculous.
That city is a magnificent subject for study and I don't intend to leave here until I've thoroughly investigated it.
Well, it's too late to talk about it now.
It's getting dark.
We'll discuss it when we get back to the ship.
Yes, whatever you decide, it's too late to get down there now.
Yes, yes, all right.
But I assure you, I'm determined to study that place.
You can do what you like, as long as you don't endanger the rest of us.
Very well, then, I shall look at it myself, alone.
You're the only one who can operate the ship.
I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Doctor.
Your glasses.
IAN: I think this is the way we came.
Oh! Who's there? All right, Susan, it's all right.
You're safe now.
- Did Susan tell you what frightened her? - Yes, yes.
She's convinced that someone touched her, and I tried to make her see it wasn't possible, but I'm afraid she wouldn't listen to me.
- I wonder, would you have a talk with her? - Yes, of course I will.
Yes, you know, sometimes I find the gulf between Susan's age and mine - makes difficult understanding between us.
- I'll see what I can do.
Oh, would you? Thank you, thank you very much.
I'd be grateful.
- Hello.
- Hello.
- What are you doing? - Just drawing.
Well, can I see? It's the flower I saw in the jungle.
What happened out there? Nothing.
Well, lan said you were terrified.
Well, something must have frightened you.
It's not that so much.
It's just that I'm - I'm fed up no one believes me.
- Believes what? Oh, I don't know.
That there was someone out there and they touched you on the shoulder? - There was someone there.
- But you didn't see who it was? No.
It was like that.
A light touch on the shoulder.
- I couldn't have been mistaken.
- Well, I believe you.
But Grandfather says that it's impossible for anyone to live out there.
Oh, Susan, it isn't that he doesn't believe you.
It's just that he finds it difficult to go against his scientific facts.
I know.
Oh, look, why don't you just try and forget it for the moment? For the moment.
What's this one for? - I don't know how you make sense of any of this.
- You're quite right, quite right.
Can you find out where we are? - Well, Doctor? - Hm? Oh.
- I was wondering if perhaps - My dear boy, these eternal questions of yours.
Do I know where we are, I suppose? Doctor, I don't want to argue with you.
We're fellow travellers whether we like it or not.
But for heaven's sake, try and see it from our point of view.
- You've uprooted us violently from our own lives.
- You pushed your way into the ship, young man.
All right, I admit it, a small part of the blame is ours.
- Oh, small? - But naturally we're anxious.
What are we going to do? Can we live here? What do we eat? - There are millions of questions - A very good idea.
I'm hungry.
Oh, what's the matter? Oh, I've suddenly got this terrible headache.
Oh dear, dear, how irksome for you.
Oh, this stuff is very good.
This should cure it.
- Now, not too much, dear, not too much.
- No.
Oh, Grandfather.
I'm sorry I was so silly just now.
- Here, try this.
- Thank you.
- Ooh, it's very nice.
- Let's hope it does you some good.
Oh, did you want something to eat? What would you like? - I'd like some bacon and eggs.
- All right, bacon and eggs.
- Bacon and eggs.
- But - This is fully automatic.
- Yes, certainly, certainly.
J62.
J-6-2.
L6.
L-6.
- I hope mine doesn't taste of engine grease.
- Now, now, don't be ridiculous.
- Shall I get plates and things? - No, there's no need to.
- Here we are, then.
- SUSAN: Right.
- Eggs and bacon.
- Thank you.
- Bacon and eggs.
- What, this? Go on, try it.
DOCTOR: Well? Hmm, not bad.
- What do you think, Barbara? - I think it's delicious.
- My bacon's a bit salty.
- It shouldn't be.
It's English.
No, seriously, Doctor, this is remarkable.
I mean, one bite and I taste the bacon, another and I taste the egg.
How do you do it? Food has component parts, dear boy.
Flavours are rather like primary colours, you know, you blend two to achieve a third, a fourth and etc.
- Well, I think it's wonderful.
- How's your headache now? Oh, it's much better.
I don't usually get them at all.
- Susan, would you like something to eat? - No, thanks.
I'm not hungry.
Oh, child.
That's unusual.
I do hope your affects outside the ship hasn't affected you too much? - No.
I think I'll go to bed now, anyway.
- Right.
- Do you want to know where you can sleep? - Oh, yes.
IAN: What's that? The scanner.
There was somebody there.
IAN: Nothing.
Not a thing.
SUSAN: But something must've made that noise.
I've had enough of this.
Please, can't we get out of here? - Ah, but the city, I must see the city.
- But why? I will not be questioned.
Uninvited passengers.
I didn't invite them to the ship.
I shall do what I want to do.
- Why endanger the rest of us by staying here? - Grandfather, please.
Please.
Stone trees are all very well but the next forest I walk through, I want them all to be made of wood.
- What's the matter? - I don't know.
The power take-up was rising normally and - IAN: What's wrong? - Oh, don't distract me, please.
- Shall I trace it on the fault locator, Grandfather? - Yes, I think you'd better, child.
SUSAN: K7.
K7? Yes, of course, the fluid link.
Yes, yes, yes.
Yes.
Yes, there we are, you see.
The end of it's unscrewed itself and the fluid has run out.
- Have you got a spare? - Oh, no, no need for that.
This is easily repaired.
All we have to do is refill it.
- What liquid do you need? - Mercury.
Mercury.
Can I get it for you? No, I'm afraid you can't.
We haven't any at all.
- What? Don't you carry a supply? - No, it hasn't been necessary.
- This hasn't happened before.
- But you must have some somewhere, surely.
- No, no, we shall have to get some from outside.
- But where? There isn't anything outside because Yes.
There's the city.
Yes, the city, of course.
Of course, we're bound to get some mercury there.
Yes, we're bound to.
Well, I mean, what else can we do, hmm? It seems we have no alternative.
We have to go to the city.
Yes, indeed.
At first light, then? Well, it's light enough and there doesn't seem to be anything out there.
We might as well get started.
And, Doctor, remember we're going to this city to find mercury and once we've found it, we're coming straight back here.
Is that clear? Oh, quite so, quite so.
- Well, shall I lead? - Yes, by all means.
- Look! - BARBARA: Don't touch it, it might go off.
Be careful.
- What is it, Chesterton? - I don't know.
Stand back, all of you.
I think it's all right.
A metal box.
It's a box of glass phials.
Look.
Let me see.
Then there was somebody here last night.
They must've dropped them.
- I knew I was right.
- Yes.
Sorry, Susan.
Yes, I'd like to run a few tests on those.
Susan, would you take these into the ship, please? - Yes.
- Thank you.
Oh, and by the way, did you remember the food supplies? Yes.
A day's supply for four.
That's enough, isn't it? - Yes, ample, ample.
- I trust we won't be more than a couple of hours.
- You ready, Susan? - Yes.
Come on, then, off we go.
Do you mind if I sit down for a minute? I feel a bit exhausted.
- You all right? - Oh, yes, I'm just a bit tired.
It was a long journey and my legs are rather weak.
Why don't you rest here? Lan and I will look around and see if we No, no, I want to look around, too.
I shall be all right, thank you.
I must say, I don't feel too good myself.
Look, why don't we get this over with quickly? Look for instruments, gauges, anything like that.
Ideally, what we want is a laboratory.
Ian, look! Why don't we separate and go different ways and meet back here in, say, 10 minutes, all right? Fine.
I'll go this way.
- Would you lend me your arm, would you, Susan? - Thank you.
SUSAN: Let's try this one.
There's no light.
- Ah, there you are.
Any luck? - No.
How about you? No, no luck.
Barbara should be here by now.
Barbara! Barbara! We'll give her a couple of minutes more and then if she's not back, we'll have to go and look for her.
We've waited long enough for her.
We must go and find her.