Doctor Who (1963) s10e18 Episode Script

It's lifting! It's beginning to lift! Hang on tight! -Hang on! That's right Escape from this section is impossible.
The prisoners are hiding.
Locate and destroy.
They are to be exterminated! -How far have we come? -It's hard to tell.
Let's hope we're high enough to be out of range.
Prisoners located! Prisoners located! Yes, we are out of range.
That's a relief.
-You all right, Rebec? -I can't stand heights.
I daren't look down.
Just keep your eyes closed and hang on tight.
You'll be all right.
Any idea how far to the surface? Miles, I should think.
Don't forget we started at the lowest level of the city.
Should be a long, slow haul.
A patrol will ascend to surface level and proceed immediately to the point where the shaft emerges.
Patrol will require to travel at maximum speed to reach the point before prisoners escape.
An anti-gravitational disc is to be brought here at once.
I obey.
Explosives located.
Assist.
The explosives are equipped with detonating mechanisms.
We will detonate them here.
Activate mechanism.
All mechanisms primed.
The bombs will self-detonate.
We will return to the city.
You know, after this, I think I must take up hot-air ballooning.
It really is most exhilarating.
I'd prefer a rocket to take me off this planet.
Ah, cheer up, my dear.
Just you hang on tight, we're perfectly safe.
Anti-gravitational disc in position.
Energy level building to lift-off capacity.
Prepare for ascent.
Lift off.
We are nearing the top of the shaft.
Central command reports prisoners still in shaft.
Doctor, there's something coming up after us.
Well, its rate of ascent doesn't seem much faster than ours.
We should reach the surface before it can catch up with us.
Doctor, look! The whole thing's going.
Get on the side! Hang on! Taron, quickly! The Dalek's only just below him.
He can't reach it.
-I'll try mine.
Right! Go to the step.
Got it? Give me your hand.
Come on, Doctor, that's it.
-We've done it! -Well done, Rebec.
-We've made it! -Thanks to the Doctor.
Yes, well, I think we ought to postpone the celebrations until we're in a slightly safer area.
Come on.
Yeah.
Whilst the aliens are at liberty, a full state of emergency will be maintained.
Normal operations will be suspended.
Spiridon slave workers will cooperate with Dalek patrols in saturation level search.
The aliens must be located and destroyed! -Doctor! -Jo! Oh, Doctor, I thought I thought you were dead! I thought Oh, I don't know what I thought.
I'm so pleased to see you.
Jo, you were in that Thal spaceship? I saw it destroyed.
-No, I wasn't.
-But you were.
No, I wasn't.
Look, Doctor, what's been happening? -Where've you been? -Well, it's a long story and there were a few moments that were a trifle worrying A trifle worrying? -You know Codal and Taron, don't you? -Yes.
I don't think you've met Rebec? -Hello.
-Hello.
Look, Doctor, the last I heard about you, you'd been captured by the Daleks, right? -Yeah, but -And I was told that they were going to take you because they're doing -all these experiments -All right, Jo.
and then I thought you were going to be in I didn't know what I was going to do.
Jo! Jo! Jo! Please.
Look, will you excuse us for a moment? My friend has rather a lot to talk about.
Of course.
Doctor, wait till you hear what happened to me.
It was terrible and then I got rescued by this bowl.
You might say you're glad to see me? I might.
Why did you come? I was part of the back-up crew.
I was trained and ready.
I had no choice.
That's not true.
There were dozens of other people trained to the same state of readiness as you.
-You could have backed out.
-Why should I? I wanted to come on the first landing, but you made sure I was kept out of your crew.
So when the chance came, I took it.
Look, I think one of us ought to keep watch.
I'll take the first stretch.
You shouldn't have come.
Now I'm here, we're together again.
And there's nothing you can do about it.
But don't you realise what you've done? Can't you see the position you've put me in? I mean, not counting Jo and the Doctor, there's only five of us left now.
Five of us out of two missions! And somehow we've got to achieve what we set out to do.
We must destroy the Daleks! And how does my being here change that? Because Because I love you.
I can't convert you into a cypher.
But from now on, every judgement I make will be clouded.
I'll even hesitate to take the right risks because I'll be worrying about you.
I'm sorry.
I didn't think of it like that.
I didn't understand.
Well, you might understand this, your being here might be the very reason the Daleks win.
Our patrols report no contact with the aliens.
Temperatures falling rapidly.
The search will continue.
I obey.
Supreme Command has decreed that we prepare a bacteriological culture that will destroy all living tissue.
Daleks and Spiridon slave workers will be given immunity to the disease.
If the aliens are not taken, the bacteria is to be released.
Without immunity, no living thing can survive the disease.
All will be exterminated! But, Jo, why on earth didn't you stay in the TARDIS? We'd have been safe there.
Well, Doctor, you didn't look very safe.
I thought you were dying and I went out to try and find some help for you.
On a planet full of Daleks? Well, surely I warned you? Well, Doctor, you didn't tell me anything.
You just rushed into the TARDIS, you rattled off some sort of a message and -Well, then you flaked out.
-Did I? Uh-huh.
Oh, I'm sorry, Jo.
I'm afraid I wasn't myself.
-Doctor? -Hmm? What did you say to the Time Lords in your message? Well, I told them about the Dalek spaceship leaving the Ogron planet and told them to send the TARDIS after it.
But what are the Daleks doing on this planet? They've got an army based here, Jo.
The mightiest army of Daleks there's ever been.
But, when we were on the Ogron planet, we put a stop to their plan to sort of cause a war? Well, evidently that was only part of their plan, to make their conquest easier perhaps.
Well, with an army this size, we now know they intend to invade the galaxy anyway, unless we can stop them.
-Just us? -And our Thal friends.
Oh, dear.
Perhaps a female shoulder to cry on might come in handy.
- Right.
-Give it a try, will you? Yes.
The load getting a little heavy? I don't think I'm equipped to handle all this any more.
Oh, why? Just because you've found out that you're not made of stone? This job doesn't allow for human weakness.
Then they should have sent a machine, shouldn't they? I thought they had.
I was wrong.
Good, because the business of command is not for a machine, is it? The moment that we forget that we're dealing with people, then we're no better off than the machines that we came here to destroy.
When we start acting and thinking like the Daleks, Taron, the battle is lost.
Someone coming! Look who I found.
-What happened to you? -What happened to you? We saw the ice eruption and assumed you hadn't made it.
We went to the entrance of the city anyway.
I wanted to take a chance, make a rush, but we found our bomb was faulty.
So we had to go back to get the other bombs, to find some Daleks had been there before us and blown themselves up.
Well, I managed to get two of the bombs before that.
-I've hidden them.
-Well done, Jo.
If those two are all right, we at least have a chance.
We must move on.
It'll be dark soon.
And cold.
You haven't experienced a full Spiridon night, Doctor.
You don't know what cold is until you have.
-Then we must find shelter.
-Right, but not here.
There are Daleks and Spiridon slave workers making a terrific sweep across the jungle, not that far behind us.
Well, prepare to move.
-We'll go to the Plain of Stones.
-Plain of Stones? It's an area of huge boulders.
They absorb the heat of the sun and discharge it at night.
You know, this planet never ceases to amaze me.
First, we find a gigantic refrigerator and now night storage heaters.
-It really sounds quite luxurious.
-Not exactly, Doctor.
All the animal life from the jungle goes there as well.
Oh, that's nice.
Right, let's get going.
-Jo, where did you hide the bombs? -I'll get them.
-Let me help you.
-They're here.
We haven't met properly.
I am Latep.
I'm Jo.
How do you do? Uh-oh.
You don't know about a handshake? Well, you see, it's an old Earth custom.
We clasp hands like that and it shows that we're good friends and that we're pleased to meet one another.
Come on.
What are those animals? They're not animals, Doctor.
Spiridons.
They wear those furs against the cold.
That's good.
At least we can see them now.
Did you notice anything peculiar about the Daleks, Jo? Not particularly.
Why? Only that their movements seem to be slower.
Well, fast enough to kill us on sight, Doctor.
Almost as though their mechanical reflexes weren't functioning properly.
Yes, but the reason? The reason is the important thing.
They're out of range now.
I think we can chance a move.
Come on, let's do it.
I'm freezing.
-What was that? -I don't know.
We've heard them before, never seen them.
Latep, take first guard.
-Doctor? -Yes.
-Yes, of course.
Do you mind? Come on, Jo.
Come and keep me company.
All right.
I hate this running and hiding.
We need to attack and soon.
I'll decide when and how.
You've been putting off this attack since we got here.
What do you want? A guarantee of safety? No, I just want the best possible guarantee of success.
Any attempt that fails is worth nothing.
Codal, that giant refrigeration unit, what did you make of it? -It was neutron powered.
-Yeah.
Could run for 1,000 years.
I'm convinced that somehow it's vital to the Dalek's survival.
Why do they need such low temperatures? I can't answer that.
But I am sure that refrigeration unit is the key to our attack.
Are you saying if we destroy the refrigeration plant, we destroy the Daleks? Yes.
Yes, I think it would wipe them out.
Then that's it.
That's the way we do it.
We go in through the shaft you came out of.
But better still, we lower the bombs down.
The Daleks wouldn't have left the top of that shaft unguarded.
We think about that when we get there.
If we leave now, we can be there before light.
We'll attack, but this has to be planned.
Until it is, we'll wait.
Wait, wait! That's all we've heard from you! Why don't you face it, Taron? Admit what we all know, be honest, you're afraid.
Miro would have taken action by now, he was a real commander, and he wouldn't have had her hanging around our necks.
Latep! I am still in command here and, like it or not, you will obey orders.
And believe me, Vaber, if you don't, I shan't hesitate to kill you.
Now, let's all get some rest.
Latep, go back to your post.
The bacteria are multiplying.
We have calculated that after the release of the culture into the atmosphere, it will totally contaminate the planet within the space of one Spiridon day.
All plant life will wither and die.
All un-immunised animal life will die within one hour of inhaling the contaminated air.
Approved.
Continue with preparations.
The most virulent form of the bacteria will be ready for release in half a Spiridon day.
Report.
Spiridon slaves report aliens believed to be hiding at the Plain of Stones.
Order all search units into that area.
I obey.
Latep! Doctor! Codal! Codal! -Where's Vaber? -He was sitting over there.
-Doctor, the bombs have gone.
-What? He left this.
"I'll do what I have to do alone.
" He doesn't stand a chance.
That's the last of the explosives.
We've got to stop him.
I intend to.
-Codal, will you come with me? -Hmm.
Doctor, would you stay here? -If that's what you want.
-Thanks.
He'll be heading for the ventilator shaft.
Yeah.
We'll be back as soon as we can.
Latep, stay here.
Come on.
Be careful, Taron.
-Have you still got your guns with you? -Yes.
That's good.
Keep them handy, will you? Look around you.
Take him to the Daleks.