Doctor Who (1963) s11e09 Episode Script

There's your monster-maker, Brigadier - caught in the act! Doctor, you're under arrest.
Overcrowding in man, as in all other animal species, increases hostility and aggression, leading to the greatest crime of all war.
With the development of the atomic bomb, man now has the choice of destroying his planet quickly, through war, or slowly, through pollution.
How are you feeling now? Hungry, tired and I've got a headache.
Sarah, you're in grave danger.
Oh, what's that supposed to mean? The elders are very dedicated to our cause.
They are not going to permit a disruptive influence.
You mean they'll kill me? Perhaps the time that I spent in suspended animation has affected my thinking in some ways? Take me back to the elders.
Let me talk to them again.
Yes, of course.
Sarah! Sarah! Alright, Captain Yates, take this man and lock him up.
Sir, aren't we going to question him first? There's no time for that now.
I must report his capture to the Minister.
Yes, and no doubt he'll be very pleased to hear it Since he arranged the whole thing.
You are in an extremely dangerous position, Doctor.
I advise you to keep silent.
Oh, that's just what you want, isn't it - my silence? We really should interrogate this man now, sir.
Trying to discover his base, the names of his associates All that can come later.
Yes, well now that you've caught me, General, well you can end the evacuation and return your eight million Londoners can't you? That decision doesn't rest with me.
It rests with the Prime Minister.
Captain Yates? Sir? Until further orders, you'll keep that man under close arrest.
Come with me, Brigadier.
Sir? I want you with me when I make my report.
Brigadier? Now listen to me, Mike.
We haven't got much time.
I want you to raise all the men you can muster and some kind of high explosive.
Now I've got a pretty good idea where their base is Sergeant Benton? Sir? Take the Doctor to a cell and lock him up.
Sir? Keep him under constant guard.
He's to talk to no one! So it was you, Mike? I'm sorry, Doctor.
I'll be in the Brigadier's office.
Right, that empty storeroom - fix it up as a temporary cell.
Check the lock on the door and do something about barring the windows.
Oh, and put in a camp bed.
Now move.
Alright, Doctor, what's going on? Captain Yates is the man inside who's working against us.
Oh come on, Doctor.
I'm afraid it's true.
Well, what about the Brigadier? What indeed? Right then, Doctor - you'd better get busy.
What? You'd better start overpowering me, hadn't you? You know a bit of yer Venusian oojah? Thank you, Sergeant Benton.
Are you ready? Yeah! Sorry, Gentlemen.
Well, the Doctor's safely under arrest at UNIT headquarters.
How long will they hold him? Long enough.
Soon the Doctor and his associates and everyone on this planet, except our chosen group will never have existed.
Shall we begin? I've been waiting for you.
As you know, the temporal beam has reached back through time and brought forward objects from the past.
Now, by a completely different application of the same basic principle, I am about to reverse time.
At least, in a limited field.
I shall now activate the time field.
There you are, Minister.
For the space of a few seconds, I rolled back time itself.
The rules of so-called "civilised society" are breaking down as increased protest and disorder calls for stronger and more violent repression from the authorities, which in turn leads to more political violence.
All over Europe Look, Mark, you've got to listen to me! I've got something very important to tell you please! There was nothing I could do, sir.
He attacked me.
Were there no guards? I sent them off to fix up a cell, sir.
What do you mean - he attacked you? There isn't a mark on you? The Doctor uses a rather unique form of unarmed combat, sir.
You'll be court-martialled, Sergeant.
Brigadier? Sir? I'm instituting a full-scale search for the Doctor at once.
I shall want the full cooperation of you and your men.
They are to shoot on sight! Meanwhile, put this man under arrest.
Captain Yates? Well, don't just stand there, Benton, go and put yourself under arrest.
Sir? Where's the Doctor gone? To that underground place, I think, sir.
Then we've got to find him before General Finch does.
Get the men ready.
Right, sir.
Now will you believe me? There must be some explanation? Mark, where is this planet we're heading for? In another solar system close to Earth.
The nearest possible solar system to us is four light years away.
With the most advanced spaceships developed, it would take hundreds of years to reach there.
One of our members invented a new space drive.
Do you see that bruise? I got that just before I was kidnapped and brought here.
Now if I'd been here three months, it would have gone.
You were in suspended animation.
Oh, Mark! I've only been here a matter of hours.
Alright alright, if we're in space, how did I get here? You must have been transferred from one of the other ships.
There aren't any other ships! All this is a fake! We're not on a spaceship at all! Oh, that is ridiculous! I'll prove it to you.
I'm going out through that airlock! That opens directly out into space - you'll be killed! No, I won't - because the whole set-up is a fake.
Now go out there and watch.
Mark? Ah, there you are.
What's the matter? Are you alright? Yes, yes, yes, I'm fine, I'm fine.
Ah, erm, how's our young friend? She's alright.
Ah, I thought I might have a chat with her.
Is she still in the reminder room? Yes, but I think we should leave her there a little bit longer.
I I think that's what she needs.
You know, it might be a good idea for all of us to spend a little time in the reminder room before we arrive.
Well, Professor? That's the first time I've ever seen a Minister lost for words.
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Mmm? We shall need the reactor running at full power.
Oh, it is.
Er, check it again.
The reactor is working perfectly.
The power levels are critical.
I must be assured that they are sufficient to trigger the time-field.
Alright, I'll check it again.
Thank you very much.
Yes? You're car's ready, sir.
Oh, thank you.
Tango one to patrol, over? Patrol, over? He's turned off.
Heading for the common, over.
Roger, out.
Tango one to patrol, over? Patrol, over? He's turned again.
Heading into the trees, I'm positive.
He's somewhere among those trees, over.
Patrol, out.
Right, everybody out.
You - down there.
You - down there.
Tango one to patrol, any luck, over? Hello tango one, patrol here.
It's alright, we've got 'im.
We're bringing 'im in now.
Listen, inform all the other units, will you? Over.
Roger, patrol.
Congratulations.
We'll inform HQ get them to call off the search, out.
I tell you I have got a pass.
Then I must see it, Miss.
I I've got strict instructions.
Well, never mind your instructions I've got to check everybody's pass.
Look, where's the Brigadier.
Well, he's out.
But where? I can't tell you that, Miss.
Please, you've got to tell me! Well, they're out on this big hunt, Miss - looking for the Doctor.
The Doctor? Well, they had him arrested but he escaped.
Well, he made the monsters.
Don't be ridiculous! Well they caught 'im red-handed! Well, where's Captain Yates or Sergeant Benton? All out on this man-hunt, Miss.
Look, I'm going to leave this note for the Brigadier.
Now you see that he gets it, mm? Yes, Miss.
Oh, am I glad to see you.
Miss Smith? What's all this about the Doctor? Er, re-captured.
Where is he now? I'm sorry, sir.
Who, sir? The Doctor! I heard a message over the R/T to say he'd been caught.
Wasn't at my HQ so I thought they must have brought him here.
No, sir, he's not here, sir.
Look, the Doctor isn't behind all this, but I know who is I know everything! Do you now? You Alright.
Dismissed.
Sir? Get out! Now, Miss Smith, what's all this about? Well, you're never going to believe this - it's Grover - the Minister.
He's behind everything.
Oh, come now.
That's impossible.
No, I promise you - it's the truth.
They're operating from a hidden control centre.
It's underground and it's right beneath Grover's office.
Well that's why he stayed in London.
He stayed because he's in charge of the emergency.
He's causing the emergency! You've got to stop him - put him under arrest! Well, you can raid that place with your men.
Oh, come now.
I can't take action against a Minister of the Crown simply on your word.
I can prove what I'm saying is true.
Come to Grover's office with me.
Mmm, well I think your story needs investigating.
Have you told anyone? Well, nobody here to tell.
I'd only just arrived when you turned up.
Have you any idea why the Minister should be doing all this? I don't understand.
The place is absolutely deserted.
Very bad security.
Now where's this special room? Over there.
Shouldn't we have brought some of your men here with us? I mean, might be quite a few of them down there.
There's still no proof of your extraordinary story, Miss Smith.
I must check it myself first.
Delicate business this, you know? It's just a file room.
It's a lift.
The controls are in here.
What's all this bumf? Oh, just a lot of old ministry files.
There.
Oh, boy! I really do choose my friends, don't I? I think you know the way.
Returning your prisoner, sir.
How did you leave the ship? There isn't any spaceship - stop playing.
Did she tell anybody? No, fortunately everyone was out of the way.
I think the Doctor has escaped again.
I did everything you asked me to incriminate him all wasted.
You did very well.
Have you any idea where he is? Well, he's probably on his way here now.
But he needn't worry us.
The countdown is too close.
It's time to go into the final phase.
You, Whitaker, will produce a last wave of apparition monsters all over London to drive out any remaining people.
You will order the complete withdrawal of all your troops, including UNIT.
The Brigadier's bound to protest.
You have final authority - overrule him.
Well, I'll see to it right away.
Er, what about the girl? Leave her to me.
Well don't lose her again.
Now then, what are we to do with you? Just don't put me back on your fake spaceship, that's all.
I don't think that'd be a good idea.
You're rather a bad influence.
What you're doing to those people on there is cruel.
They all believe that they're going to a new world.
And so they are - but their new world is this one.
This world of ours swept clean and returned to its early innocence.
You're going to take them back to the past? We're going to bring the past to them.
I don't understand.
By rolling back time, by taking the Earth back to an earlier, purer age.
Oh oh what about all the people on Earth now? They'll vanish - they and their ancestors will never have been born.
That's horrible! It's worse than murder.
No you don't understand.
But I hope, Miss Smith, when you do understand, you'll want to be with us.
If you're ready, Whitaker? Yes.