Doctor Who (1963) s10e04 Episode Script

Those who oppose the will of Omega shall not live! Destroy him! No, Omega! Destroy him and you destroy your only chance of freedom! Thank you, Omega.
A most interesting demonstration.
Be warned! You have seen my power.
You and your friends will learn it is useless to defy me! But our friends do not defy you! Oh, yes.
They, too, are trying to escape! Where are we going? - UNIT HQ.
- What? It's nearer than you think.
You have willed singularity to create all this for you.
- Exactly! - I say So you just think of a thing, rub your magic lamp and shally-mi-gally-mi-zoop, there it is? That's jolly clever! Are you sure that you and he are of the same intelligence? Could you run me up a recorder? It's about this long with holes in.
It's not much to ask, a small recorder! - SILENCE! - Please ignore him.
He's incorrigibly frivolous.
- Just because you're not musical! - Please stop interrupting! Continue.
Continue while you play stupid games?! You face annihilation - your entire race, your precious terrestrials, everything - and you babble of pipes! - It's not a pipe! - What are you trying to do? Testing the limits of his self-control.
Not very good, are they? No, they're not, but it'll be dangerous to push him too far.
We'll take a risk.
That temper is his only weakness.
Do you plot against me? I was telling my associate he should show you more respect.
I am thoroughly repentant.
You mentioned some task? Yes.
I created this world through the power of my will.
I created the organisms which brought you here.
This is the source of the light stream you travelled along, and I created it! I ALONE! OMEGA! And it is not enough! None of it is enough! I am still trapped! As trapped as I was the moment I arrived in this, this desolation, huh! Ironic, is it not? But if you can transmit matter to Earth down that light stream, - you could transmit yourself anywhere.
- Yes, so I imagined, but no, there was no way out.
- No escape.
- But why? So long as I control singularity, I can make it do my will.
All these things exist because I will them to exist! Without me and the unceasing pressure of my will, the work of thousands of years would collapse into chaos in micro seconds! I am, if you like, the Atlas of my world.
So, the moment you abandon control, you cannot escape, and you cannot escape without abandoning control.
Exactly! I am a prisoner of my own power, my own creation; or rather, I was until now.
And that is your task - to take over my burden so that I may escape! Well? Your answer? - We will obey you, Omega.
- We have no choice.
Then you will help me make my preparations.
You must first remove this mask.
Now you, too, will need such masks.
The light stream has a slow, corrosive effect due to the acceleration of the particles, but you are in no immediate danger - the process takes time.
Come, the mask! What is it? Why do you not obey me? Take off the mask! What are you doing? I am in haste to be gone! We We cannot remove the mask, Omega, because Because beneath that mask there is nothing left of you.
The corrosion has already done its work.
What?! You exist only because your will insists that you exist.
Your will is all that is left of you.
It is not true! I am Omega! CREATOR OF THIS WORLD! AND I CAN ALSO DESTROY! THEREFORE, I MUST EXIST! But don't you see? You can only exist here! If I exist only by my will, then my will is to DESTROY, and all things shall be destroyed! All things! All things! All things! All things! - I said he had no self-control! - Come on! Out! Brigadier, mind that rock! - There it is over there! - How did it get there? That's a very good question, Miss Grant.
Come on! - I thought I left Bessie here.
- You did.
The tracks lead that way.
- Jo and Benton! - They're making for UNIT HQ.
Let's get a move on! Just one moment, if you please! Wait a moment! This may be a somewhat unusual situation, but you two are still members of UNIT! - Yes, sir.
- Sorry, sir.
The question is, what offensive action can we take against this chap Omega? Sir, listen! - Sounds like a full-scale attack.
- Maybe they're not firing at us.
It's the Doctors! Quickly! Come on! Tardis, everybody! Into the Tardis! Quickly! Come on.
Inside.
Come on, Brigadier! Inside! Inside! - Force field on.
- It's on.
Fools! Do you think to deny the might of Omega? Soon you will come crawling to me for mercy, but by that time, your universe will no longer exist! Well? Energy's almost completely exhausted, sir.
And the latest transference? No contact since we tried to pass him through the black hole.
The power level was so low that he may only be able to advise, not to act.
- There, they can't get in.
- And we can't get out.
- We're besieged.
- Oh, great If only I could find my recorder, I could play you something to pass the time.
We must be thankful for small mercies! This Tardis is a real marvel, Doctor! I still don't understand how we all got inside it, but I don't wish to spend the rest of my life in it.
We can't just stay here for ever.
With two of you, there should be twice as many ideas! Surely you can think up something to nobble this Omega bloke! Nobble him? You're talking about one of the most powerful blokes in the cosmos! Nobble him? Excuse me.
Someone wants to get through to us.
You don't think? I hardly think so.
Who are they? What's all this? A mass meeting? It wasn't safe outside.
In a pretty pickle, aren't you? - Trapped in your own Tardis! - You're trapped in your own bubble! - You can talk! - Unfortunately, talk's all I can do, and not much of that.
The transference isn't stable.
- Let's get on with it, eh? - On with what? Putting our heads together and finding a solution! Ready? - Ready! - Ready! - Contact! - Contact! We're all agreed, then.
Risky, but it could work.
I'll report back.
We'd have to strip down the force field.
That would leave the Tardis defenceless! - Yes, but we'll have to risk it.
- It's worth a try! Come on! - What's all that about? - Another telepathic conference, I think.
- That old chap? - 'Fraid so! Three of 'em! I didn't know when I was well off! - Doctor! - Yes? Would you tell us laymen what you scientists are so excited about? - We may be able to beat Omega.
- Mind telling me how? - Later, if there's time.
- Splendid! How do we know that he'll take the generator? - What if he should refuse? - Ah! I've found it! - Found what? - My recorder! It was right in the corner of the force field! - Don't touch it! - I wasn't going to! Don't you see? It's far better than the force field generator! - Oh, no, not my recorder! - I'll get you another one! I'll get you a thousand! Come on! I've got a contact, sir.
The Doctor.
Did you find them? Did you make contact? For a while.
We can't hold out much longer! What's happening? There's a possible solution.
I'll let you know as soon as I can.
Here we are, then! This should do the trick! Would it be too much to ask for someone to tell us what all this means? It means that we can now strike a bargain with Omega.
- With that box of tricks? - And a flute? This is a kind of portable force field.
And the recorder is considerably more than just a recorder.
Yes.
Right Ready? - If you'd just hold - Right, switch on On! Omega, we want to talk with you.
I hear you, brother Time Lords.
We think we have discovered a way to give you back your freedom.
Will you now free the Tardis so that we can come to you? Is this some deceit?! You cannot escape my world unless I will it! No, old chap, we just want to avoid a long, tiring walk, that's all.
Very well.
Come to me you shall! Listen to me.
You are to do exactly as you are told.
- Why? What's going to happen? - Jo, please do as I ask.
- Do as you're told.
Do you promise? - All right.
I promise.
Good.
Are you ready? Stand by.
Here we go.
Do you think this trickery will save you for long? We have come to set you free - on one condition.
I make the terms, Time Lords! Omega, if you send these people back, we will stay and help you.
We think we have a way of restoring your freedom.
What way? I know now that you cannot give me my freedom, but you CAN keep me company in the endless empty years that lie ahead! If you will both stay here willingly and share my exile, then I will spare your friends, and their universe.
We shall give you that promise, Omega.
We will not attempt to leave this world before you do.
Jo! You promised! Go, then.
Back to your planet! Be gone, and give thanks that Omega is merciful! Doctor, what shall we do? Brigadier, I want all of you to step through that column of smoke.
What?! Don't be alarmed.
It won't harm you.
On the contrary, it will take you back home.
Please, Brigadier! It's the only way! I don't know what you're up to, but all right.
Now, Mr Ollis? Not me! I'm not going in there! Dr Tyler? Are you sure it's all right? Yes, of course I'm sure.
Now then, Mr Ollis.
Sergeant Benton.
- Sir, I'd sooner - Move, Benton! Now then, Miss Grant.
No! I want to stay with the Doctor! - Jo, please.
- Come on, Jo.
Trust me.
You'll be all right.
Goodbye, Doctor Doctors.
So, brother Time Lords, I have played your game.
Now it is your turn to play mine, and there can be no escape for any of us! You are wrong, Omega.
You CAN have your freedom.
It is here.
What is this childish contraption? The only freedom you can ever have! Take it.
Take it, Omega! TAKE IT! Commands?! YOU command ME?! This is MY world! I command! - And you pester me with trinkets! - RUN! Another source of energy.
Once again, Omega.
- We're back! - Well, we certainly seem to be! But we're REALLY back! But the Doctors! Oh, I dare say they'll turn up as usual.
Wonderful chap both of him.
The Tardis! I told you he had no self-control, didn't I? - How did you manage it? - By the skin of our teeth! Where's Mr Ollis? Where's Mr Ollis? Back where he came from, I imagine.
So there you are.
Omega's will was like the tension in the elastic.
Once the will was broken, everything snapped back into its proper place.
- Why were you in the Tardis? - That's the proper place for us.
Tell us about the flute.
It fell into the force field of the Tardis, so when we were transformed into anti-matter, it wasn't processed.
When Omega made it fall out of the force field, the atoms and anti-atoms annihilated one another.
So Big Bang, and the black hole becomes a supernova! Pity, though.
I think it had a lovely tone.
Everything OK? - We're back safe and sound.
- Quite a party! Yes, well, the party's over now.
Your friend and I go back to our time zones.
Though considering the way things have been going, I shudder to think what you will do without me! Goodbye! Well, goodbye, everybody.
Goodbye.
It's been so nice to meet me! Yes, I see what you mean.
- I hope I don't meet me again! - Ah! Hmm, hmm! Now I've seen it all! Pity.
He was so sweet! Yes, wasn't I? Yes, well, as far as I'm concerned, Doctor, one of you is enough.
More than enough! - Sergeant Benton! - Sir? We'd better make a full inventory of the HQ.
It's all got to be accounted for, you know! - Sir? - Yes? Excuse me, sir, but if anything is missing, where do we say it's gone? Come along, Benton! Well, I think I'd better be on my way, too.
Thank you for a fascinating trip, Doctor.
- Goodbye.
- Goodbye.
- Goodbye.
- Goodbye.
I don't think I'll write it up in the university journal, not if I want to keep my job! What's the matter? Everything worked out all right, didn't it? Yes For us.
I know what it is.
It's because you had to trick Omega.
I didn't exactly trick him.
I promised him his freedom and I gave it to him the only freedom he could ever have.
What else could you do? It was either him or everything.
The Time Lords! They've sent me a new dematerialisation circuit.
And my knowledge of time travel law and all the dematerialisation codes - they've all come back.
They've forgiven me! They've given me back my freedom.
I suppose you'll be rushing off, then.
Not straight away.
I've got to build a new force field generator first.
And where do you think you've been, Arthur Ollis?! I've been worried sick about you! Where have you been? Soldiers were looking for you! You didn't come home for your dinner! Well? You'd never believe me, woman.
Supper ready?