Doctor Who (1963) s07e10 Episode Script

Doctor Who Transcript Project Doctor Who Season 7 Doctor Who and the Silurians 6 of 7 Is he dead? Yes.
The first one.
- What's going on here? - Keep back.
What do you mean, "keep back"? This man is ill.
This man is dead.
He was killed by an alien disease.
Alien? Inside.
Come on.
You'd better get this place quarantined.
I'm going back to the laboratory.
Right.
I'll stay here.
UNIT leader to base.
UNIT leader to base.
Have you finished with those prophylactic injections yet? Yes, nearly.
Do you think pumping broad-spectrum antibiotics into everyone is going to do any good? It's all we can do at the moment.
Will you roll up your sleeve, please, Doctor? Well, now, wait a minute, Liz.
Now, you have been exposed to the infection just as much as everyone else.
I know all about your different biochemistry, but we don't know if it makes you immune.
Now roll up your sleeve.
Come on.
Alright, alright, have it your own way.
Did it hurt? Did what hurt? Yes, it was agony.
Have you managed to identify the bacterium? No not yet, I'm still waiting for that scanning microscope.
It's supposed to be on its way.
- It'll be here, Doctor.
- Well, I'm glad to hear it.
Now then, how about that hospital? - I've got the entire place cordoned off.
- Good, and your own men? They've all been treated.
We've sent in a medical team to help Dr.
Meredith in the hospital.
Splendid.
Has anybody else gone down with the infection? Yes, Miss Dawson.
She collapsed half an hour ago.
Yes, and the doctor and the nurse we saw at the hospital and the ambulance man who took Baker there.
- Now has everyone here been inoculated? - Yes, they've all been taken care of, except Doctor Lawrence.
I can't find him anywhere.
Yes, well I'd be very happy to lose him.
What about that chap from London? Masters.
Haven't seen him either.
Better go and find both of them.
Do you think we'll be able to contain this disease, Doctor? We may be able to contain it.
The question is, can we cure it? Excuse me.
We were in contact with Baker.
Does that mean that we're infected too? Can't be sure, Brigadier.
Can't be sure of anything.
- I'd better let you get on with it.
- Thank you.
- Masters is gone.
- Gone? Where? He caught the London train.
He must be nearly there by now.
Right, I'll get onto it.
Maybe we can get him at the station.
- Will you come with me, Miss Shaw? - I'm helping the Doctor.
I'll need help manning the phones.
I am a scientist, not an office boy.
You're a member of UNIT, Miss Shaw, and you'll do as you're told.
I will not be spoken to in that way.
- Liz? - Doctor.
Go with him, please.
Anyone who's been in contact with Masters has got to be quarantined.
He may spread that disease all over the country.
- Where to, sir? - Ministry of Science, please.
Look, please, hurry, this is very important, you know.
I'm being as quick as I can, sir.
- Everything alright, Doctor? - Yes, I think so.
Now then, have they found Masters? Not yet, they've sent a police car to the station.
Yes, well, he's gotta be found and put into quarantine at once.
- Doctor, suppose I'm a carrier? - No, I don't think you are.
So far the antibiotics have kept the disease in check.
Have you finished? Good, splendid.
- Yes.
- Thank you.
What do you think the Silurians will do now, Doctor? Well, it's hard to say really.
I think they'll lie low for a while, and let the disease really get to work.
Well I've got men at all the cave mouths and I've sent for reinforcements so we'll be ready for them if they do try anything.
Brigadier, at all costs we must avoid a pitched battle.
You don't still think we can co-exist with the Silurians, do you? Well, don't forget that one of them released me, which is giving us our only chance of defeating this disease.
Maybe one of the Silurians is friendly, but the rest seem determined to wipe us out.
Yes.
Look, Brigadier, I've got a great deal of work to do.
Yes, of course.
Remove the body.
I am the leader now.
I am the leader now.
Has the disease reduced the numbers of these apes? Their resistance may be stronger.
They may even develop a cure.
The disease will be beyond the understanding of their science.
We cannot be sure.
That Doctor, the one who took the sample of bacteria, was a highly intelligent specimen.
They're only apes.
They will not develop a cure.
Time hanging heavy on your hands, Miss Shaw? - We're waiting to hear from London.
- A matter of life and death, no doubt.
Exactly that.
Where's the Brigadier? He's with the Doctor.
The scanning microscope has arrived.
How pleasant to be able to obtain expensive pieces of scientific equipment so easily.
- Can I help you at all, Dr.
Lawrence? - I doubt it.
I have a complaint to bring to the Brigadier.
- A complaint? - Yes.
My establishment has been brought to a complete standstill.
My staff are suffering the ill-effects of a series of compulsory injections, and You haven't had your own injections yet, have you? No, nor do I intend to.
But you've got to have them.
It's for your own good.
Rubbish.
Why should I waste my time having useless injections against an imaginary epidemic? Dr.
Lawrence, it is quite clear that the disease exists.
Major Baker is dead.
He may have been ill for some time.
I should be interested to see the results of the post-mortem.
- Dr.
Lawrence, you must admit there - I will admit nothing.
- There is no epidemic.
- Dr.
Lawrence, please listen to me.
You will excuse me, Miss Shaw.
Now what's the matter with him? Lethbridge-Stewart.
Yes.
When? I see.
Alright, alright, I suggest you get on with it.
Yes, I know London's a big place.
Police just missed Masters at the station.
Well, did anyone see him? A ticket collector remembers someone who might have been Masters.
Said he looked very ill.
Anyway, he got a taxi and drove off.
Well, then they're sure to find him.
Do you know how many taxis there are in London? And how many men who look more or less like Masters? Seven and six, please, sir.
Are you alright, sir? Are you sure you're alright, sir? Wait a minute, sir.
You've forgotten your change, sir.
Who's that? Who's that? Wright, gallery five, over.
Come in, gallery five.
Come in, gallery five.
- No good, sir.
The line's gone dead.
- Well, what did he say? Just gave his name and the gallery number, sir.
Then, we'd better go in after him.
Brigadier's orders were to stay here, sir.
I want to know what happened to that man.
- Corporal.
- Sir.
- Take over here.
- Come on, Sergeant.
Wright! Wright! Wright! Look, soldiers are guarding the exits from the caves.
Perhaps the humans can resist the bacteria.
We must recapture the one that took the sample.
Without him, the others will die from the disease.
Come with me.
That's excellent, thank you.
That's quite a collection.
One of those drugs, maybe a combination of them, will probably cure this disease.
The question is, which? Where are you going to start? By finding out more about that bacterium.
I've already analysed it.
I need to know more about its effect.
Can you get me a blood specimen from someone who's been infected? Yes, of course.
I only hope I shan't be too late.
"Attention, please.
" "Attention, please, this is a police message.
" "Stay where you are.
" "Do not attempt to leave the station.
" "If you feel ill, assistance will be brought to you.
" Here's the blood specimen.
Good, splendid.
Who did you take it from? That ambulance man you had brought back to the sick bay.
- How is he? - Getting worse.
- How are you getting on? - No idea.
We may be getting somewhere now, though.
They've sent you just about every drug in existence.
Surely there must be something? My dear girl, some of these drugs are so new they don't even know their properties, yet.
Right.
Here goes.
Nope, that's no good, let's try the next one.
The Doctor and Miss Shaw have been working flat out for a very long time.
They're tackling an immensely difficult task, under conditions of great pressure and I do not propose to make it worse for them by breathing down their necks.
Excuse me, will you? Will you hold on, please.
Yes, of course I'll let you know as soon as I get any result that's at all positive, goodbye.
No, that's no good.
You know,I'm beginning to lose confidence for the first time in my life.
And that covers several thousand years.
Well, at least you've narrowed it down to forty possible drugs.
Have you considered the addition of A-thirty-seven in the presence of Z-nineteen might well be effective? Yes, that's a possibility, let's try.
Liz, watch out.
- You all right? - Sorry.
I feel dizzy.
Yes, well, I expect those antibiotics are wearing off.
You'd better get down to the sick bay and have another jab.
- What about you? - I'm all right.
- Come on, Doctor, I think - Liz, I am all right.
Yes.
Could hardly be worse, could it? Right.
Who was that? The Ministry.
Masters? He's dead.
Outbreaks of the disease are being reported all over London.
Dr.
Lawrence.
His face.
Dr.
Lawrence, you really must report to the isolation ward at once.
I've had enough of you.
I really must insist, sir.
You're endangering all of us.
You insist.
Oh, you do insist! - Now, listen - Before you people came, I was director of an important research establishment.
Now the place is shut down, my career's in ruins - and you are to blame.
- You're talking absolute nonsense.
Don't argue with him, I'll go and get one of the medical orderlies.
You think I don't know what's going on, don't you? This whole business has been a plot to get rid of me.
No really, Dr.
Lawrence.
You think I know I've got enemies in the Ministry? - Even Masters.
- All right, Dr.
Lawrence, - we want to help you.
- You can clear out of here all of you.
And take that crazy Doctor with you and all of your military rubbish.
I'm in charge of this place.
Well, are you going or do I have to throw you out myself? He's dead.
Eureka! All right, thank you.
Bad news, Miss Shaw.
The first one abroad.
Paris.
If we can't contain it in Britain, what chance has the world got? If only we'd prevented Masters from leaving here.
- I think I've found it.
- You've found the antidote? Well, it works in the laboratory, now let's see whether it works in practice.
Hello! Get me Dr.
Crawford.
This is the closest point to the human's base.
Then, we will penetrate from here.
- You wanted to see us, Liz? - Yes, his temperature's dropped - and his pulse is normal.
- That's excellent, excellent.
Yeah, there's a good chap.
That's it.
Now, you'll want to telephone that formula to London.
I'll go and write it out for you straight away.
Thank you.
Will the medical team be able to mass produce enough in time? Well, they've been standing by for hours.
- All they need is the formula.
- I'll get a line open to them.
Sir, the Silurians have killed Sergeant Hart.
- Any sign of a major attack? - Yes, they've broken out of their base - and are advancing everywhere.
- Right.
Lethbridge Stewart? The Daily what? How did you get hold of this number? Look, I have no comment to make, now will you please get off this line.
What's keeping the Doctor? You leave him alone, he's got a complicated formula to transcribe.