Doctor Who (1963) s11e23 Episode Script

He'll catch us! I'll get help from Metebelis.
Concentrate! Concentrate! Clever Lupton! Pretty! Mr.
Lupton.
We've done it! Yes, we've done it - together.
Will this give us power? More power than you dared to dream of.
Veil your mind! You must cloak your ambition.
I can understand it, perhaps I share it, but if my sisters on Metebelis Three were to have an inkling of your thoughts they would kill you.
Beware! They seek to make the link.
We are successful? Totally - the crystal is ours.
You have done well.
I thank you, o Queen.
Now you must prepare to return, bringing the crystal with you.
It shall be done.
Look, what about me? I am to be forgotten? You are not necessary! Oh, but I am.
Without me, you would never have recovered your precious crystal.
I I've been your friend.
A friend? A two-leg dares to claim friendship with the eight-legs - the noble ones? He means no harm, o Queen, and it is true that he has served us well.
Very well.
His reward will be to serve us further.
We could use him in the great work - the conquest of Earth.
Conquest? This is the secret purpose of the Great One.
All praise to the Great One! That is why she requires the crystal.
We shall return to our rightful home – Earth, as rulers! We have exhausted our power.
Be ready to return.
Be ready Rest now.
Let the power return to your body, and to your mind.
Sleep, Lupton, sleep.
I can understand your distress at losing a valuable piece of equipment, er, er, Doctor? However, I feel you are mistaken in suggesting that Mr.
Lupton had anything to do with it.
But I saw him! I recognised him! When? How far away from here? Oh, about eighty miles I should say.
And we lost sight of him at about half-past-ten or thereabouts.
At half-past-ten I was walking to the meditation class and I saw Mr.
Lupton in the corridor.
But but, that's impossible.
Precisely, so one of us is mistaken.
You cannot believe he was transported here in the winking of an eye.
No, no, of course not.
Well, stranger things have happened.
You can say that again.
Much stranger.
As we both know, such things are child's play to a master of sorcerer, but you cannot believe that Mr.
Lupton is a sorcerer.
We have no magicians here, I do assure you.
Lupton? Lupton, wake up! Wake up! What is it? That girl's back.
She's brought somebody with her called "the Doctor".
Has she indeed? Now they're saying that you Then it's true? Lupton, we've gotta stop this.
We're meddling in things we don't understand.
Are we now? Now listen to me - i is that thing on your back at this moment? How very strange - no it's not.
Right, let's get away from here - now, while the going's good.
Barnes, do you know why I came to this place? No, not really.
All right - potted history coming up.
Picture me, bright young salesman, "Salesman of the year", Sales Manager, Sales Director.
I gave them twenty-five years of my life! Are you with me so far? Yes, yes.
Then the finance boys moved in.
Merger, takeover - golden handshake me, out on the streets.
They could even have taken that.
But when I tried to set-up of my own, they deliberately, cold-bloodedly broke me.
I'm still looking for some of the bits.
So you came here to get peace of mind? Ha! I came here to get power.
Do you think I'm going to let go now when it's in sight, when I can see myself taking over that firm, taking over the country the entire stinking world! Huh! I want to see them grovel, I want to see them breaking their hearts, I want to see them eating dirt! And I came here just to look for peace of mind.
Ah, pretty! All Tommy's pretties.
So what are we going to do? When I've learned how to use that crystal, I shan't need the spiders anymore.
Lupton, look! Your master will come to fetch you soon.
My master? You mean Cho-Je? Why? To talk to the Doctor.
Is it speaking to you? What's it saying? Send this fool away! Very well.
Off you go, Barnes.
What are we gonna do? Later, man, later.
Very well.
We must prepare to meet this Doctor.
I see no necessity.
He could be dangerous.
So could I.
So could I.
You will go to see him.
I shall not.
You forget, Lupton - we are linked together now.
I can twist your mind as easily as a two-leg boy twists another's arm.
Like this! Oh oh, stop! "You won't need the spiders anymore" - isn't that what you said? Stop, I can't bear it! Say please! Please please! Oh You will go to see the Doctor and lull his suspicions.
In future you will do as I wish.
What did you do to my mind? It felt like red-hot needles.
Was it Was it this that you did? Or no no was it this! No no stop! Say please Please, Lupton! Please! You are cleverer than the two-legs on Metebelis Three.
I'm cleverer than most of them on Earth! Very well, you need not see this man.
Come, we must make ready! I'm not going to Metebelis Three just to become a slave to that Queen of yours.
I like her arrogance no more than you do.
You seek power on Earth.
I shall seize it on Metebelis.
We can help each other.
Turn around! Very well.
Now - the crystal! It's gone! The crystal has gone! Look, Venerable, may we see this man, Lupton, now? I'm sorry to seem pushy but it is very important.
It is good that we have come to the west.
You whip your poor horse too much.
He gets up so that he is exhausted and yet, you know, he never leaves his stable.
Now what's that supposed to mean? I think he's saying that, er, time is an illusion.
And it'll all be the same in a hundred years.
Yes, where have I heard that before? Hey! There is only the now - the here and the now.
The present moment Hello, Tommy.
Hello, Sarah Jane Smith.
Tommy like you.
Well I like you too.
You give Tommy nice presents for his friend.
Ooh, I haven't got another one, I'm afraid.
No, no, Tommy got nice present for Sarah Jane Smith.
Y you come.
Oh, well, not just now, Tommy.
You come, Sarah Jane Smith.
the ocean Okay, okay, but we'll have to be quick.
Suppose it'll mean something to me in the end.
Ah, the meaning of meaning is the last barrier to understanding.
Yes, er, Venerable, could we see Mr.
Lupton now - please? But of course.
Mr.
Moss? If you would both wait here, this gentleman will find Mr.
Lupton for you? Of course.
Excuse me, Doctor.
I didn't take it! I wouldn't know what to do with it if I had it.
But you saw it? Well, of course I did.
You put it on the table.
Could it have been sent to Metebelis Three? No, my sisters haven't the power.
You remember? The crystal must still be on Earth.
Then we must find it.
There is no time.
The power is building fast.
We must be ready! We don't have to go.
If the Queen finds out that we have lost the crystal, she'll kill us both! Right, we'll bluff them.
We'll pretend we've still got it.
But they'll never believe it! We have no choice.
Now listen, Barnes Perhaps you've gone mad? Hearing voices? Talking to yourself? You saw the spider, didn't you? Perhaps I've gone mad too? You stay - er, Tommy get present.
Yes.
Secret.
Shall I look for the others then? No, no, no.
I'll go through the ritual by myself.
In the cellar - now? Yes, yes.
See if you can keep the others away for half-an-hour or so, will you? Lupton, Cho-Je wants you to meet some fellow with Yates.
Yes, I know, I know.
Tell him, erm tell him you can't find me.
I'll need the mandala.
Sarah Jane Smith No, not now, Tommy! No, I No, not now! Hey, Tommy - you know Mike Yates, don't you? Yates? He he give Tommy present! Yes, yes I Well we, listen, Tommy - now listen carefully.
I want you to go and find Mike Yates and tell him tell him that Lupton has gone down to the cellar Cellar and that I'm going down there too.
Okay? Yes, look I've gotta go.
I must get there first.
Cellar, Tommy! But Sarah Jane Smith! Give present! Yates Om mani padme hum, Om mani padme hum This is ridiculous! Where's that feller got to? Yates! Sarah! Not now Tommy.
She's in the cellar! Not now.
I tell you, mister, in in the cellar.
I think he's trying to tell you something important, Mike.
It always is.
Ah, there you are.
I'm sorry.
I can't find Lupton anywhere.
Er Lupton! He's not in his room, he's not meditating, he's probably gone for a walk.
Lupton in the cellar! What? Sarah Jane Smith - in the cellar! Where is this cellar, Mike? I'll show you.
Hey hey, mister! I tell him.
Tommy did it.
You certainly did.
Om mani padme hum, Om mani padme hum, Om mani padme hum Doctor! Mike! Doctor, come quickly! Get out of my way! Sarah, get off that mandala! I can't! Barnes? He's gone.
Well, never mind.
I doubt if he could have told us very much anyway.
Well, there's only one thing for me to do, Mike - I've got to get after her - to Metebelis Three.
In the TARDIS? Yes, of course.
But how can you be sure you'll get there? Well, the TARDIS may be a little erratic, I'll admit.
After all, she is getting on a bit.
But Metebelis Three is the one planet I can be absolutely certain of reaching.
You see I wired the coordinates into the programmer.
Yes, but, but, Doctor - a planet's a big place.
Yes, well, I always leave the actual landing to the TARDIS herself.
She's no fool, you know? You speak as if she were alive? Yes yes, I do, don't I? Bye, Mike.
Hey, I found a spy! Tuar! You're a fool! If she's a spy, you've condemned us all - we're as good as dead! Look, I'm tired of waiting! The eight-legs'll kill us all anyway - it's time we fought back! It will do us no good speaking treason.
Release her! Release her, I say! Who are you? How ___ you come here? Erm Oh, don't waste time, Rega.
She's a spy - we must kill her! Hey? Already we're in danger - do you want the whole village wiped out? Remember Skorda.
But I'm not a spy! I don't know who you are or anything.
You're lying.
Well anyway, who am I supposed to be spying for - the spiders? You see? Who but a spy would dare use a forbidden word? We must kill her before she can betray us! No, no! Tuar, No! Stay back! No, Tuar, you fool! Stay back! Stop! Tuar! Stop! Arak! Arak! Come back inside, my son! Let her go! She may be telling the truth - let her go.
You will follow her, my brother.
She's a spy.
Rubbish! She's a stranger - look at her clothes.
A stranger? Where from? Why not ask her? Where do you come from, child? I'm I'm from Earth.
From Earth? But how? Did you come in a starship like your ancestor did? Er, no, erm, well, I don't know how I got here actually.
You see? She's lying.
Tell the truth, girl.
How many of you? Where's your ship? Mother! Listen! The Queen of the eight-legs is coming.
Quickly, my son - get back into hiding! Come.
She'll betray you! She'll betray us all! Well, what is it? What's happening? Quiet.
Keep silent, girl.
You will bring death to us all.
Hear now, Huarth, most noble of the noble ones, Queen of the eight-legs, speaks thus: Arak, male two-leg, having attacked field guard Draga, leaving him for dead, the same Arak will now surrender himself.
If Arak does not come forth, one male two-leg will be taken from each family of the settlement to suffer the retribution due for the foul crime of Arak.
I must go, Mother.
No! No! I'll speak to the Queen.
Maybe she'll listen to me.
No, Sabor, it's too dangerous.
The people need Arak - they trust him, they listen to him.
He's our last chance.
That's true, Arak.
Arak, come forth! Sabor, where is your son? I beg leave to speak to the Queen.
Speak, Sabor.
Draga is a bad field guard.
He's unfair, he's cruel.
He struck Neska, Arak's mother, for no good reason and Silence! This is not to the point.
Did he or did he not strike my guard? He did, but surely there's a Then he must die.
Where is he? He's gone to the hills.
How do you know? Because I helped him No! Look, it's no good! If you go out there, they'll kill you both.
You know the penalty? You know that you will take his place? Yes.
Very well.
Justice is satisfied.
Let us return.
Well, what's going to happen to him? The eight-legs will eat him of course.
No! No, I shan't! You shan't take him! Sabor, my husband, my love! Why did you do it? Why? Why? Woman, get back! This is the best way - I know.
I shan't let them take you - I shan't, I shan't.
Guard! Mother, Mother! Wait! There is a stranger here.
Guards! She saw me – they're coming.
The guards are coming! See? She has betrayed you.
Quick, you must hide! No, they mustn't find you.
Okay, okay, I'll come quietly.
Hello, Sarah Jane.
Stop! Don't do that! Let him approach.
You will kneel to the most noble Queen.
The Queen? Oh, yes.
Yes, of course.
Er, greetings, o most noble Queen.
Er, may I ask what you intend to do with this young lady? You do not speak like a two-leg - where have you come from? Er, both Miss Smith and I come from Earth, your Majesty.
From Earth? Then you are the one who no, no, that cannot be.
We shall return.
Bring this two-leg.
We shall question him with the female.
Well now, just a minute, your Majesty Over there!