Doctor Who (1963) s09e17 Episode Script

Die, overlord, die! 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.
Ky is my enemy! I will destroy him and you too, Overlor! 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? Lead the way.
What the blazes is that? Firestorms.
Firestorms, is that all? It is the wrath of the gods.
It's a simple atmospheric disturbance, Varan, and something very much to our advantage.
Well, now what's the matter? You have no mask.
When the sun rises, you will not be able to breathe the air on Solos.
No Earthman can.
Did I say I was an Earthman? How long do they usually last? The firestorms? First it was a few minutes, now it can go on all night.
Each one longer than the last, terrifying my people.
Surely they're used to these thunderstorms? There were no firestorms on Solos - until the Marshal began his experiments.
Experiments? To make our air breathable for the Overlords but not for the Solonians.
It would mean the end of my people, Miss Grant.
There - look! It's alright.
They're harmless.
But it's horrible! They're people - my people.
Or at least they were before the Marshal's experiments.
Back! I thought you said they were harmless.
I don't understand it.
Perhaps it's the firestorm, usually they're alright.
It'll be safer further back in the cave.
We'd better hide in here.
Don't worry! _.
Be careful, Ky.
Professor Jaeger, one of the Empire's greatest scientific minds foiled by a simple booby trap.
The Doctor said it was an experiment.
A booby trap, Jaeger, so he could escape.
It was a particle reversal - I know it was.
Forget particle reversal - get those rockets ready! You'll have to go ahead on your own now.
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.
Jaeger, will you get this into your maundering egghead? I want the atmosphere on the planet changed and I want it changed now! Clear? Get me Stubbs and Cotton.
I want to see them right away.
I'll be in my office.
This is it then.
Is he on to us? Well, we'll soon find out.
Ah, Stubbs and Cotton - my trusty right-hand men! Sir.
Sir.
Not only have you failed to capture Ky and Miss Grant, you've also let the Doctor escape to Solos.
I tried to stop him, sir.
Professor Jaeger let him get out.
Silence! Prepare to pay a last visit to Solos.
Last visit, sir? For a while, Stubbs.
And there we shall kill three birds with one stone.
Mutts, Varan and the Doctor.
Well, somebody's been here.
I wonder why they left? Look! You saw? Such creatures are evil - diseased! Perhaps but I hope the answer to their mutation is in here.
Come on.
Let's find Ky.
Then you must find him alone, Doctor.
Varan goes no further.
Something's going on in there.
Perhaps it's Miss Grant.
No! No What is it? Varan, the great warrior, afraid of the dark? Varan fears nothing! I'm delighted to hear it.
Come on then.
This way.
No! Listen to me! I am Ky! You know me, my people? I come to find refuge, not to harm you! Leave him alone! Go on! Back! Get back! Get back - leave him be! Go on! Back! Go on! Go on! So, you must be Ky? How do you do? I'm the Doctor.
That's the idea.
Now then, where's Miss Grant? Why are you here, Varan? Did your Overlord masters send you to hunt me? Steady, old chap, he did help to save your life, you know? The Marshal has betrayed me.
The Overlords are my enemies too now, Ky.
At last, Varan, you see the truth.
Now we can work together.
I need no help from you, Ky.
Now I shall return to my people, and lead them in battle against the Overlords.
So, you are the Doctor - the friend of Miss Grant? That's right.
Now where is she? I took her to a place of safety when we were attacked.
Good.
Why did you come here? To find her.
And to give you this.
Tablets! Sketchings! These are not weapons.
Varan is right.
How can these help us in our struggle? Weapons are what we need.
Perhaps these tablets are worth more to you than any weapons? I have seen such signs.
Well read it, man.
Well, what does it say? Read it! Well, I I cannot.
It is the language of the old ones.
No one remembers.
All our culture has been destroyed by the Overlords.
But, you you've seen this kind of writing before? 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.
They must mean something, otherwise why would I have been sent here? Then why indeed? Come.
If we stay here, they will surely attack again.
No, I'm sorry, I can't go yet.
You are fools! I can't go yet - not without Miss Grant.
Is this the way to fight the Overlords? To stay here and be killed by Mutts? If you will not fight, Varan will.
Now, Varan, wait.
Varan - wait! 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! No.
Right, Ky - take me to Miss Grant.
This way, Doctor.
There must be somebody on Solos who understands the old language.
There was a man called er, Sondergaard - a man of learning from Earth.
He came to study our culture.
And? After a while he disappeared.
Oh, it was all arranged by the Overlords.
Our friend, the Marshal, again, eh? Simple operation.
Surveillance reports show they've gone to ground - there.
Now, Jaeger has devised some novel gas grenades.
I want men stationed at every exit.
We set off the grenades, flush 'em out - all of them - Ky, Doctor, Varan, Mutts, the lot.
What if the grenades don't flush them out, sir? Then they'll die anyway.
Well? Well, I left her here.
Perhaps she became frightened, ran off in panic.
Perhaps.
Then we'd better start searching, hadn't we? I've been studying the monitoring reports since the storms.
I am not interested in weather reports! Then you should be.
The reports show a sharp rise in temperature after every one of these storms.
So? 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.
Mmm? 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.
And it may not! That's for you to find out, Jaeger.
My first priority is to wipe out the Mutts.
The reports also indicate a very sudden rise in the mutation rate.
More Mutts than ever, Marshal, and all moving towards your target area.
Good.
Good then.
The more the merrier.
No? No.
But she must be here! Well, we'll we'll just have to search them all over again, won't we? If the torches last - and they don't attack.
What, you heard them? They're watching us all the time.
Yes.
But they don't attack us in the tunnels.
Only in here.
This chamber must be important to them.
I feel it myself.
Feel what? A sensation.
An awareness of being drawn here.
This is a warm, like safe place - a centre.
A sort of instinct.
Yes.
Yes, it's strange.
Still, let's keep searching.
Come on.
Hurry up.
I want those gas grenades here.
Give me those blast packs.
And no one else is to know about this - understood? Everything ready? Yes sir.
Er, excuse me, sir? Well? I think we should do something about finding the Doctor, sir.
Do you now? Professor Jaeger said he was important, sir.
Mmm.
Well Cotton? I agree, sir.
I thought you would.
Very well, Stubbs, you and Cotton - I'll give you fifteen minutes - no more.
Right, sir.
You keep in radio contact all the way.
Sir.
I wanna hear every word.
And if you come across Ky, make sure you make a better job of him than you did of Varan! _! Varan is returned! Varan What has happened? Where are my people? The fire Speak! The firestorms evil, a plague of evil! Fire from the sky! Listen to me - summon my council! Go, beat the war gong! Doctor?! Doctor? Doctor? Doctor?! Doctor?! Doctor?! Overlords! We must abandon the search.
They will trap us here.
Doctor! Doctor! Alright, head back to the chamber.
Let's try this way.
If they attack now Shh! Wait listen.
That's Jo Grant in there somewhere.
Jo?! Jo, are you in there? Jo Jo? Jo, are you alright? Jo? Doctor Yes, it's alright, it's me.
Ah, there you are.
Run, Doctor! No, Ky! It's us, Doctor - Stubbs and Cotton.
Is Miss Grant with you? Yes, she's over here.
She appears to be injured.
Right, prepare the grenades.
But, sir, they're all in there.
Exactly.
Fire the grenades.
Pull out! Everyone out of the cave.
All stations: seal off exits.
Fire grenades.
Hello? Hello? Lost contact.
Why does no one come? Where are my warriors? Your warriors have fled, Varan.
Am I left with nothing but mutants? 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.
Why? Why has this curse come upon us? No! No, no, no, no! Go, Varan go to the place of sleeping the place of darkness and light go, Varan, go go go go I was born to fight.
Varan will not die sleeping! Passageway full of light.
Even the rocks were glowing.
I remember walking towards the light Yes? 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.
Mm hm.
And then there was a figure a silvery figure.
A mutant? I don't know Well, and then what? Well, then I'm sorry, Doctor, I fainted.
Ah, whatever it was, it brought you back here.
I'd better tell His Nibs what's going on.
Here, just a minute.
I don't particularly want to find myself in the Marshal's hands again, thank you very much.
Better off on Skybase than in here.
You'll have to hurry, old son.
The attack's due to start any minute now.
Attack? Gas - the Marshal's solution to what he calls the Mutt problem.
Doesn't he know we're in here? He knows.
I think we ought to move out now, before it's too late.
What's the count? It seems to be swarming with Mutts, sir.
They're attracted to the place.
Mmm, they go there to die.
They have the old idea of the elephant's graveyard.
Right, should be any moment now.
Let me see those tablets again, Ky.
The answer must be here somewhere.
Doctor! Gas! They've started the attack already.
We've got to get out.
We can't get out.
The Marshal's sealed us in.
What are we going to do?