Doctor Who (1963) s02e02 Episode Script

As I said my dear, it's fortunate for all of us that everything is dead Grandfather! Don't move, any of you.
And whatever you do, don't look into the cat's eyes.
Close your own if you want to.
Doctor, I think the cat's losing interest.
Don't relax! One swipe of it's paw would smash us to pieces! Well we can't get back to the ship just yet, and you know how fast cats can move.
And another thing, we could be mistaken for mice and I don't fancy being part of the cat's diet! Oh it gets more horrifying every moment! Look, couldn't we make contact with the people here somehow? No, I'm afraid not.
Well why not, they might be able to help us.
It's out of the question my dear, how could we possibly communicate with them? Imagine a record played at the wrong speed, Susan.
We'd sound like a little squeak to them, and they'd sound like a low growl to us.
Anyway, even if we could communicate, what would they do to us? We're freaks.
They'd put us in a glass case and examine us through a microscope! Oh that's a thought isn't it.
And I would add another and more important factor.
The people that live in this house are murderers, or one of them is.
Therefore, we can't expect sympathy and understanding from an insane or a criminal mind! Yes, what about that dead man? Oughtn't we to do something about it? Well what can we do my dear? I mean, surely this is the question.
Normally I wouldn't hesitate, but the destruction of the life-force is frightful, but there it is! I mean, what can we do as we are? Well, I can't see any sign of that cat, however much safety that gives us.
Well, shall we proceed? I can see a huge leg coming, run! Thisthis way! Go on Susan.
Go on.
Sorry.
It's alright, this way quickly.
Oh they're alright, they're alright.
It's a pity they didn't come this way though.
Well shall we go over to them? No, no, it's dangerous! Let's go over to that pipe there! Barbara, quick in the briefcase, it's our only chance! Are you sure he's dead? Of course I'm sure! You know he had a gun? He didn't seem the sort of man who'd need one.
He'd pulled it out of his pocket and told me he was stealing the formula! I struggled with him, the gun must have been turned to his body, it went off! I wouldn't try telling that story to the police if I were you.
Oh, why not? Oh don't be a fool, he's been shot through the heart from some feet away! Even I can see that, and I'm no expert! No powder burns around the bullet hole.
You're very detached about it.
Well what did you expect, hysterics? I've seen more death than you can imagine, people dying of starvation all over the world.
What do you think I started on research for? What puzzles me is how cool you are.
I don't feel guilty if that's what you mean.
I'm too busy working out what the implications are.
Destroying the last years work that's what it means.
And if that seems callous, well alright, it is! Farrow was pushed onto me and he was a nuisance and a fool.
Always checking every minor detail I worked fifteen, sometimes sixteen hours a day every day on this experiment Yes I know You don't know anything! All you care about is how much money you can make! Why did you have to kill him?!! Couldn't you have given him money, bought him off? Oh, what's the use Look, Smithers, I know what you've put into the experiment, but this doesn't mean the end of everything.
Of course it does.
You've ruined everything, it's all finished, wasted.
Not necessarily Farrow was going on holiday, he has a boat.
He was going to cross to France by himself in it.
It's anchored about ten miles away.
Yes, I know.
If the police were to find an overturned boat and a body out at sea somewhere But.
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! Don't worry, you can leave it all to me.
I'll tow an outboard with me and come back in that.
Well I That's your business.
I don't want to know about it.
You say all I want out of the experiment is money, but you want something too, don't you? You want to see it finished, be known as the inventor of it.
If the truth came out about Farrow, you can say goodbye to all that.
The experiment must go through, it's too important! Nothing else matters, not if we can save people from dying of starvation! That's what I care about Forester! Alright we'll move the body.
As far as you're concerned Farrow left here to go to his boat.
I'll put his briefcase in the lab first.
Come on Barbara, get out of here before it moves again.
Ohthat was worse than the big dipper.
It was.
You know we were lucky this case was full.
Course, it had to happen to us, of all the places to pick, hah, we had to choose one that was movable! Have you any idea where we are? That's a ceiling up there.
That means we're indoors and the Doctor and Susan are outside.
You've hurt your ankle? Oh It's alright, I didn't hit it badly.
Oh, I also banged my knee against a large piece of metal.
Yeah, well there were a lot of things flying around in there, we were very lucky.
Yes, but you know what the metal was What? It sounds ridiculous, it was a paperclip.
Hah.
Yes, well, the only thing to do is to keep in the open.
If we must hide, hide behind things.
Do you think we could find some water? I wouldn't mind bathing my ankle for a bit.
Yes, alright.
I'll.
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I'll go and have a look over here.
Let's move the body.
Where can we put him? In a store room.
They've gone Its better when they're a long way away, isn't it? Are you sure you saw one of them pick up the briefcase and go into that building behind us? Well I definitely saw him pick up the briefcase.
Well when he walked past us it was just like a mountain just a blur, you know.
But he must have gone inside the house! Careful Grandfather, well don't fall down there will you? Oh-hah-Ooh POO! FAWF! An awful smell of chemical in there! Oh yes.
Foof! Oh, hm.
It's not just an ordinary drainpipe is it? Now, I wonder if that pipe extends into the room where that briefcase went.
Are you thinking of climbing up the inside of it? Yes, yes of course my dear, there's no other way.
If you go in there you'll see it's all corroded so there's plenty of hand and foot holds.
And that chemical smell means that it's germ free.
Oh, but it's too far for you grandfather! Well If it is, then I shall have to give up, and I'm not going to give up before I've tried.
And remember you must think of the other two, they must be constantly reminding themselves they're only one in five! There's only the two of us to help them! Alright, but you let me go first.
Yes-yes yes go-on Nothing much that way, except what I took to be a gas tap.
No water though Barbara, sorry.
Oh it's alright, seems to be better now.
I'll have a shocking bruise on my knee though.
Oh, I wish I could do something to help you.
Do you think we ought to try in this direction? Yeah Wait a minute Well it's the only one we haven't explored, unless we go further afield.
Now let's see Alright? Yes that's fine.
Sure? Right.
Let's try that way.
Are you alright down there Grandfather? Yes I'm alright my dear, I can manage very well.
Good.
Oh it's just as well this pipe's corroded isn't it, there are plenty of footholds.
Good.
Well, onwards and upwards my dear, eh? Yeah Look at those enormous test-tubes! Ian look at this! Mm, yeah.
What do you suppose it is, corn, wheat? Wheat.
Still haven't thought of a way of getting out of this place Oh yes, you're right it is wheat.
Ooh, it's all covered in some sticky stuff, like toffee.
Hey Barbara, look at this Give me your handkerchief will you? Do you see what this is? A book of litmus papers, hah! How often have I held a piece of litmus paper in my fingers.
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? Oh well, it's a handy seat.
Yeah You realise what this place is? Ooh it's some sort of a laboratory.
Yes, I think it must explain those dead insects and things.
They must be doing some experiments.
Course it makes it all the more dangerous for us.
Why do you say that? Well, whatever killed those insects could easily kill us.
The Doctor said something like that, I I'd forgotten.
Well don't touch anything, eh? ButbutIan I mean, look at the way these seeds are coated.
They're obviously samples.
Yes, I think they must be inventing a new insecticide and they've sprayed these seeds with it.
Oh surely I I mean, couldn't it be just preserving oil? I doubt it, anyway, you keep away from it.
Got a very distinctive smell, that's one good thing.
I think we should find the others and get back to the ship Yes I know.
I've been racking my brains, we're so high up here.
Have you got any ideas? No I haven't I I wish I had.
Hey Barbara, we can get back you know.
Yes.
All we've got to do is find a ball of string and get down to ground level! String would be too thick for us.
What we really need is a reel of cotton.
A reel of cotton It's all so ridiculous Ian! Barbara we must concentrate on getting back, just forget how absurd things are, concentrate on getting back, do you understand? Yes alright.
Hey, that briefcase.
Barbara, if we could find enough of those paperclips we could string them together and some sort of a ladder! Yes, that's an idea.
Let's do it, eh? Come on, don't let's give up.
I'm not giving up.
Good, because the next problem is how to open the flap of the briefcase.
I don't fancy struggling around there in the dark.
Well, yes We might find something in the briefcase which would tell us more about that stuff That insecticide or whatever it is.
Well maybe but, hah, the other things are much more important.
Are you sure you're alright Grandfather? UhyeahI'm alrightI'm coming my childI'm fiiine Can you get the flap open? I'm just going to try.
Can I help? No I'm alright, just give me a moment to think this out Well it doesn't push downwards, that's sure.
Try right to left then Great minds think alike.
No, it doesn't move that way either.
I'll have to try it from the other side.
Ah, success I'VE DONE IT BARBARA! You don't have to watch everything I do.
I like to know what's going on.
There's blood on the flagstones, you don't seem to have noticed that! I shan't forget this Smithers.
Oh yes you will, you'll forget all about it.
Killing Farrow, and whatever you do with the body.
You'll rub it right out of your mind! Well of course.
And don't think that I'm doing this for you! But if there's one chance in a million of the experiment going through, of making it work, then I must do it, I must! That's sensible.
Practical.
Practical It's very practical, making me an accessory! Making? Yes making! You knew perfectly well how I felt about DN6! How much I'd put into it, what it meant to me You knew I'd help you! That's why you took me out and showed me Farrow's body, wasn't it? You'd do anything to get what you want wouldn't you? Wouldn't you? Aren't you? GrandfatherGrandfather? Grandfather we made it! Grandfather we made it, we got to the top! Uh uh-uh.
Oh just leave me for a minute, I'll, I'll be alright in a little while.
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oh, very nearly overpowered me! Grandfather, I think I head some people talking just now.
I heard a sort of low growling sound, you know, like Ian said, you know.
Ahhyehh.
Well well, come to think of it our voices sound rather odd, it's this, this sink of course.
It's all working like a, like an echo chamber! I think we should try and find them, don't you? Yehhh.
Do you think there's a chance of them being here somewhere? I dunno child, I don't know.
Now take it easy Ian! You alright? You gave me the fright of my life when I saw you lying there.
Did you see it? The fly you mean? Yes I did.
It flew off, got frightened when those men came into the room.
I just turned around and there it was, it's whole body was quivering.
Well don't worry about it now, it's all over.
It's dead.
I thought you said it flew away? Well it did, but it landed on those seeds, it died instantly.
Are you sure? Well of course I'm sure! I want to have a look! What? Why? It's alright, I'm alright now.
You can see the insecticide glistening on it's legs.
Pretty lethal stuff.
That fly must have died the moment it landed! Oh stop it, stop it! Barbara! Ian I I-AN! BAR-BARA! CAN YOU HEAR ME??!! Susan! Susan, where are you? CAN YOU HEAR ME, I'M DOWN HERE! It's coming from over there! Yeah.
What was it you wanted to say to me? Oh never mind, that's not important right now.
Listen if Susan's found a way in that means we can all get out! I know! I-AN BAR-BARA! Why is her voice so loud? I dunno, it's coming from over here You mustn't expect to hear their voices in reply my dear.
This sink acts as a sound box, it's increasing the volume of your voice.
Well how far can we expect our voices to go? I don't know, I don't know Susan.
Well if we shout very loud will the people here hear us? No, no, Susan, no.
Our voices are much too high, it's a different frequency altogether, my child! Dogs might be able to, well perhaps But.
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well, try it again.
I-AN! BAR-BARA! There they are, can you see them Barbara? Doctor, Susan we're up here! Hello up there! What uncanny good luck! Oh ha-ha Grandfather, we've found them! Yes, I know my dear, I know! Did they really climb up that sink pipe? Yeah, they must have done.
I wonder if we can get down it? Climb down the plug-chain, to us! Yes alright we will! Here, it's about thirty feet or thereabouts, do you think you can make it? Yes, I'll make it somehow, it'll be worth it to see them two again.
Alright, let me go first.
Good, he's started.
Now the sooner we get out of here the better.
Can we climb back down the pipe again Grandfather? It was difficult enough getting up.
Oh well, it's a sure way back to the garden, I do know that.
Oh Barbara's started, look! Oh, how're you doing? Oh, I'm alright, there's plenty to hold on to.
Alright, lets go and get this muck off our hands.
There's a sink in the lab.
Listen, there's someone in the room.
There was some Someone's come back into that room! Go on up, move! Look out, someone's here! Quick, down the sink again! Look at this! That fly died instantly, the moment it landed on the seed.
Which you sprayed with DN6 But this is wonderful! Think what will happen with locusts! DN6 will wipe them out! You don't have to keep on persuading me, I've seen the report of every test you've made.
But I I can't see how Farrow thought he'd get away with lying about the effects of DN6! He had us over a barrel, he'd written a report.
Now don't keep on about it.
Alright he was a fool, he thought he could get away with it.
You say he'd written a report? Yes, it's in his briefcase.
It'll have to go to his head of department, but with some slight amendments Well, I don't want to know about that, I don't want to listen! Barbara, he's standing at the sink.
I can see him standing at the sink.
He's turned the tap on!