Doctor Who (1963) s13e12 Episode Script

(''DOCTOR WHO'' THEME) Agh! (SUTEKH) No You will not die yet.
Identify yourself.
Just destroy me, Sutekh.
Nothing else now is left within your power.
Identify yourself! It is within my power to choose the manner of your death.
Agh! I can, if I choose, keep you alive for centuries, racked by the most excruciating pain! Since your interference has condemned me for ever to remain a prisoner in the Eye of Horus, it would be a fitting end.
You would make an amusing diversion.
Identify yourself, plaything of Sutekh (!) I'm a traveller.
From where? Gallifrey, in the constellation of Kasterborus.
Names mean nothing.
What is the binary location from galactic zero centre? (DOCTOR) 10-0-11, 0-0 by 0-2.
I know the planet.
Data retrieval.
Soyou are a Time Lord! I renounced the society of the Time Lords.
- Now I'm simply a traveller.
- In time and space? - In time and space? - (SCREAMS) Yes! Yes! Approach closer.
What are you called, Time Lord? Doctor.
I offer you an alliance, Doctor.
Serve me truly, and an empire can be yours! Serve you, Sutekh? Your name is abominated in every civilised world, whether that name be Set, Satan, Sados - Serve me, Doctor! - Never! Agh! You pit your puny will against mine.
- Kneel! - No! Kneel before the might of Sutekh! In my presence, you are an ant, a termite.
Abase yourself, you grovelling insect! (ORGAN MUSIC) Well? Speak! Sutekh, Great Master, the servicers have found one of the humans responsible for the destruction of the missile.
Their leader is my prisoner, I have no interest in the humans.
Then this one can be destroyed.
- Sarah! - Kill it immediately.
(DOCTOR) No! (SUTEKH) Wait! Keep the human alive, Scarman, it may have some use.
As you command, Great One, so it shall be.
You are a Time Lord.
What interest have you in humans? - All sapient life forms are our kith, Sutekh.
- Horus held that view.
I refute it.
You fear that intelligent life forms may grow to rival you in power, so you kill all life wherever you find it! Your argument is a cloud, but I see through it into your mind! The human girl Ah! She travels with you! If you can do that by mental force, then nothing can be beyond you.
Nothing, except to free myself from the Eye of Horus.
- You use your powers for evil.
- Evil? Your evil is my good.
I am Sutekh the Destroyer! Where I tread, I leave nothing but dust and darkness.
I find that good! Then I curse you, Sutekh, in the name of all nature.
You are a twisted abhorrence Agh! Any further insolence, Doctor, and I shall shred your nervous system into a million fibres.
Is that understood? - Scarman! - I hear you, Master.
My enemies have brought the means of my deliverance! (TRILLING) The Tardis key! This allows you entry into the Time Lord's space machine.
Take one servicer and travel to the pyramid of Mars.
He won't find that possible, Sutekh.
- Scarman is my puppet.
My mind is in his.
- The controls of the Tardis are isomorphic.
One to one.
They answer to you alone.
Yes! Then I was wise to spare you.
My mind is in yours! Master.
- Scarman.
- Master.
I send you the Time Lord.
He will control the machine.
The human girl will accompany you.
If the Time Lord shows the slightest sign of self-will, kill her immediately.
It is understood, Great One.
(TRILLING) - Doctor, what's happened? - Stand back! He is possessed by the Great One.
Whom do you serve, Time Lord? (DOCTOR) Sutekh.
- Who holds all life in his hands? - Sutekh.
- Who is the bringer of death? - Sutekh.
Venerate his name and obey him in all things.
Sutekh is supreme.
- No! - (SCARMAN) Control is established, Great One.
It is well, but the Time Lords are a perfidious species.
Dispose of him when you reach the pyramid of Mars.
(SCARMAN) It shall be done.
Come! (WHOOSHING) (SUTEKH) My reading indicates an antechamber under the main pyramid.
Seek the control centre.
Sutekh has no further need for the Time Lord.
- Destroy him.
- No! Come.
Doctor (SOBS) Agh! You're soaking my shirt! You're alive! Respiratory bypass system.
Useful in a tight squeeze.
Where are we? Pyramid of Mars.
Of course.
Sutekh sent Scarman here to deactivate the pyramid.
Where is he? - I thought you were a zombie! - Sutekh didn't need me, so he relaxed his grip.
- You saw where Scarman went? - Through a door.
It's vanished! It can't have vanished.
It's just not visible.
Same difference! Scarman must be stopped.
Somehow he must be stopped! (SUTEKH) Stay! I sense danger.
That relay switch is a power conductor terminal.
Scan.
The bulkhead release will be concealed.
There! Now! Tribophysics! Yes.
- Oh! - What are you waiting for? - That's too obvious.
- What is? - That is.
- Well, a door handle usually is.
Not in a jail.
Horus would have laid traps for the unwary.
He was an Osiran, with all their guile and ingenuity.
They had dome-shaped heads .
.
and cerebrums like spiral staircases.
Come on.
(SUTEKH) Stand back and scan.
Horus! Think you can confound Sutekh with these childish stratagems? The floor is charged with explosives.
Count to the fifth row up.
Extreme right solenoid.
Press! (SCARMAN) Come.
- It's like a Chinese puzzle! - Yes.
And there's a key.
Some key (!) Do you know what it means? Yes.
The length of the lines provide a scale of measurement.
- It reminds me of City of the Exxilons.
- Don't touch anything.
One false move and we could be blown to perdition.
Feet and inches one side, metres and centimetres the other multiplied by the binary figure 10-0-0 That's 162.
4 centimetres, correct? Show-off! In case I'm wrong.
I'm right! Which way now? A Decadron crucible! (SHOUTS) Keep calm! Keep calm! (QUIETLY) Poor Sarah.
I should never have brought you here.
The inner chamber.
The control centre of the pyramid! Make the sign of the Eye, Scarman.
The sign of the Eye! I can't do it.
I can't do it! (ECHOING VOICE) Intruders, you face the twin guardians of Horus.
One is programmed to deceive.
The other points truly.
The two switches control your fate.
Instant freedom or instant death.
Before you choose, you can ask one guardian one question.
This is the riddle of the Osirans.
Which is the guardian of life? Which indeed? They're contra-programmed so that one will always give a false indication.
One question.
If I were to ask your fellow guardian the question, which switch would he indicate? I see.
So if you're the true guardian, that must be the death switch, and if you're the automatic liar, you'd mislead me, so that must still be the death switch.
This has to be the one we want.
Come on! (SUTEKH) At last! The Eye of Horus! Destroy! Destroy! Stand back.
Deactivate! (HORUS) My servitors obey only the voice of Horus.
Drive out the intruders! Destroy! Destroy! Free! I'm free! Free at last! He's won! Sutekh's won! No! The time factor! Come on, run! I have won my freedom, Horus.
Your curse is lifted! Now begins the reign of Sutekh the Destroyer.
I shall crush this miserable world, and hurl it into the outermost depths of space.
My vengeance starts here! (WHOOSHING) My paralysis has left me.
I canmove again.
I can move! Now, Horus, we shall see who rules the cosmos! We've got about 20 seconds.
(TRILLING) (DOCTOR) Here he comes.
(SUTEKH) Who dares to interfere? You're caught in a temporal trap, Sutekh! Time Lord! I shall destroy you.
I shall destroy you! (DOCTOR) How long do Osirans live, Sutekh? - Release me! - Never! You're caught in the corridor of eternity.
Release me, insect, or I shall destroy the cosmos! You're 1,000 years beyond the 20th century now, Sutekh.
Go on for another 10,000.
I'll spare the planet Earth.
I'll give it to you as a plaything.
Release me! No, Sutekh.
The time of the Osirans is long past.
- (SUTEKH) No! - Go.
(ECHOING, FADING CRY) He lived about 7,000 years.
He's dead.
Sutekh is dead! At last.
I know that's the time control from the Tardis, but what did you do? I moved the threshold of the time-space tunnel into the far future.
He'd never have reached the end.
After the Eye was broken, we had little more than two minutes to get back here - the time radio waves take to pass from Mars to Earth.
So the Eye of Horus was still holding Sutekh for two minutes after it was broken.
Yes! The Egyptians called him the Typhonian beast.
- (BANG) - Doctor! That was careless.
I forgot the thermal balance would equalise.
- This priory was burnt to the ground, remember? - Yes.
Perhaps it is time we were leaving.
We don't want to be blamed for starting a fire, do we? - I had enough of that in 1666! - What?! (WHOOSHING)