Doctor Who (1963) s13e15 Episode Script

(DOCTOR WHO THEME) Get back, Doctor.
I knew at once.
You see, the real Sarah, wasn't wearing a scarf.
(GUNSHOT) What have you done with Sarah? Where is the real Sarah? (GUNSHOTS) CHEDAKI: A foolish experiment, Styggron.
The Doctor is at large.
STYGGRON: There is no way of escape.
He can do no harm.
He is a Time Lord! At the end of his time.
The androids are now fully trained.
Both the village and the Doctor will be destroyed in precisely nine minutes.
-Nine minutes? -The invasion countdown has begun.
There can be no variation in the schedule.
I understand.
Is there a safe method of destroying the training ground? A matter dissolving bomb, which I shall place in position.
Good.
The Earth female.
She is still alive? Yes, Marshal Chedaki.
-She has been preserved.
-Why? Another of my foolish experiments.
The virus which our androids will use to cleanse the Earth of its human population has only been proved in laboratory conditions.
I wish to test it on a living human organism.
Ah.
Good, good.
That's a good idea, Styggron.
STYGGRON: Praise indeed, from a soldier.
Nine minutes.
Come on now.
Hurry along! Quickly now! -Any more? -We're the last, sir.
Right.
(DOOR SHUTTING) See all the blast doors are closed.
You have four minutes.
Yes, sir.
Look here, we haven't been introduced, have we? This is no time for niceties.
-DOCTOR: Well, well, well.
An MD bomb.
-(DEVICE WARBLING) In exactly three minutes, our simulated Earth village will evaporate, and you with it! You're really enjoying this, aren't you? Don't go.
Stay.
Just for a few minutes.
Then we can all go together.
(WARBLING INCREASES) SARAH: Doctor? Doctor? DOCTOR: I'm over here! Listen, this place is going to be blown sky high.
Well, don't just sit there, come on! I'm not just sitting here, I'm tied up.
Knife in my right hand pocket.
It won't cut.
It's as strong as steel.
Of course.
It's their artificial ivy.
Try the sonic screwdriver.
Set it to Theta Omega.
ROBOTIC VOICE: 30 seconds.
-(WARBLING) -25 seconds.
Hang on! I know one of the ways out! nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero! (LOUD ELECTRONIC WARBLING) (WIND HOWLING) A bit close.
Wouldn't have cared to have been any closer.
Escort them to the cell.
I must report this to Styggron.
-Styggron? Who's Styggron? -SULLIVAN: Move! I prefer our Harry.
KRAAL ON INTERCOM: Leader, rocket ship in launch phase.
Time to lift-off, 90 minutes.
Have the pre-launch checks been completed? Yes, the androids are being loaded now.
Styggron! We have recaptured the girl.
She was with the Doctor.
-STYGGRON: The Doctor? -It seems she helped him to escape.
He must be destroyed at once.
Have him killed.
Why, Styggron? There's really no need.
Oh, you're singing a different song now, Crayford.
''They must be eliminated,'' isn't that what you said? That was because they were a danger to the plan, Styggron.
I mean, what harm can they do now, locked away in a cell? The Doctor is no longer of any use.
But he would make a valuable subject for analysis.
Analysis? Yes, the knowledge and experience of a Time Lord would make, well, a useful addition to the Kraal data banks.
You were happy for him to die, provided I killed him.
You are squeamish, Crayford.
A puny minded weakling, like all your race.
Oh, very well, very well.
Thank you, Styggron.
We shall analyse his brain, and then he shall die.
''Not on Earth?'' What do you mean? Of course we're on Earth.
Harry and Benton and the rest are not the real thing.
-Not real? -Fakes, copies.
Electronic androids with well programmed computers instead of brains.
(ELECTRONIC WARBLING) It all makes sense now.
If I'd had my wits around me, I'd have known it from the start.
Remember that high level of radiation I'd noticed when we left the Tardis? Yes, you thought there'd been a leak from the Defence Station.
That was natural radiation.
The Kraal planet Oseidon is the only planet in the galaxy with a level that high.
(WARBLING CONTINUES) This is no good.
Won't that radiation make us ill? Well, It's not that bad, yet.
All the same, the sooner we get away from here, the better.
Quite right.
Any level of radiation is too high, and it's getting worse all the time.
Won't be long before the place becomes uninhabitable.
That's why the Kraals are planning to leave and take over Earth.
So, everything we've seen has been a fake.
Yes.
-But the village.
-Yes, and the woods, and the Defence Station.
Every last detail copied down, including the inhabitants.
Like a sort of training ground.
DOCTOR: Exactly.
And they've hardly made a slip.
One or two, perhaps, like mint-fresh money all the same date.
Otherwise, they've got everything right.
I've, uh, been listening to your conversation.
Well, nobody's perfect.
I hear you're impressed by the thoroughness with which this operation has been planned.
Well, it is impressive, but doomed to fail in the end.
Oh, no, Doctor.
No, shortly I shall leave for Earth.
The Kraals will project me through the space-time warp and my ship will make a normal re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
A normal re-entry? Crayford, you've been gone two years, assumed dead.
Ah, yes, Doctor, but I have recently re-established radio contact with Earth.
They know about the stabiliser failure that sent me into orbit around Jupiter.
They know how I've rationed my provisions, particularly drinking water, my recycling experiments.
Already, every telescope on Earth is trained on that little patch of sky where my XK-5 will reappear.
A gigantic hoax.
Exactly, Doctor, yes! And all brilliantly planned by Styggron, the chief scientist of the DOCTOR: But helped by you.
He couldn't have done it without your knowledge and memory.
CRAYFORD: Yes, the Kraals have superb technology Why did you do it? What made you betray Earth? Well, didn't Earth betray me? I was written off, wasn't I? Left to die in space.
It was the Kraals who saved me.
I mean, I was dying, wasn't I? I was being torn apart by gyro failure.
And they reconstructed me, Miss Smith, in every detail.
Except the one eye that for some reason couldn't be found.
Oh, no, I owe them everything.
And that's what they want.
Everything.
They want the world.
Look, the increasing radiation here means that they're a doomed race.
They just have to leave, don't they? I mean, why should a people with such skills be allowed to die? The human race has a few skills of its own.
Yes, I know, I know.
But the Kraals have promised me that no humans will be harmed as long as they obey the ultimatum that's been prepared.
You see, the Kraals are going to take over the northern hemisphere and live in peace! I have their word for it.
You've been brainwashed, Crayford.
Before my spaceship lands, the space shells with the androids inside will be launched.
Now, if anyone sees them, they'll just be taken for meteorites, you see? And then the androids will take over the key positions in the Defence Complex and the way will be clear for Marshall Chedaki to bring in the main invasion fleet without a shot being fired! I see, I see.
Tell me, if your Kraal friends are so unviolent, why did Styggron try to vaporize me? Oh, yes.
Yes, well, they thought you were a danger.
-Oh.
-You see, Miss Smith's memory prints had shown up your intense past involvement in the defence of Earth.
But I have persuaded them to utilize that knowledge.
It won't be wasted.
See, Styggron's machine extracts and feeds into a computer the memory and entire intelligence of any living being.
It's painful, I know, but it's better than dying.
KRAAL ON SPEAKER: Service mechanics move to leader rocket loading bay now.
I'm sorry, I have to go now.
Now, trust me.
I know what I'm doing.
We have to warn Earth.
How? We don't even have the Tardis.
STYGGRON: Only one drop.
Launch countdown commences in 60 minutes, Styggron.
Careful how you handle it! You are testing the culture.
Yes, Marshal.
That small phial contains a death sentence for the entire human race.
Be careful! Is it safe to test it here? As long as only the androids have contact with the virus.
No, no, no, no, no! Place it in the sterilizer.
Good.
Now take the tray to the detention cell.
(WARBLING) Yes.
I think this has possibilities.
What are you going to do? Well, if we can somehow lure that guard in, give him a good stiff jolt.
Electrocute him? Well, randomize him, to be accurate.
Remember, he's only a machine.
-(DOOR OPENING) -Someone's coming.
Food and drink.
How thoughtful.
Bread and water.
It's better than nothing, I suppose.
I'm dying for a drink.
You will come with me.
Careful! You androids don't know your own strength.
Where are you taking him? Doctor! Don't worry, Sarah.
And don't waste the water.
Remember, it's an excellent conductor.
So this is where you put Crayford together.
Careless of you to lose his eye.
Hurry, I have little time.
Going somewhere, are you? -Yes, Doctor.
-Yes, well.
Secure his limbs! In a moment, Doctor, the knowledge and experience of your entire life will be transposed into our data bank.
That's stealing.
While you are making your small contribution to Kraal culture, I shall be on my way to destroy the humans that you have so often defended.
This time, you will be powerless to help them.
So you do intend genocide.
Earth's resources are limited.
They cannot be wasted supporting an inferior species.
How do you intend to destroy the humans, Styggron? If you use nuclear weapons, you'll raise Earth's radiation level beyond your own point of tolerance.
Nothing so crude as fission weapons.
The androids will disseminate a virus.
It will cause a contagion so lethal the Earth will be rid of its human population within three weeks.
Then it will burn itself out, and the world will be ours.
Where will you be all this time? Crayford's rocket will prove an effective quarantine chamber.
I shall remain inside until the virus has done its work.
Then I shall signal Marshall Chedaki to bring in our invasion fleet.
The best laid schemes of mice and Kraals gang aft agley.
STYGGRON: What? Something will go wrong, Styggron.
Nothing will go wrong! (ELECTRONIC WARBLING) (GRUNTING) (CIRCUITS CRACKLING) In eight minutes, Doctor, the Analyser will have completed its recording.
Unfortunately, I shall not be here to turn it off.
Your brain tissue will expand under the stimulation until eventually, your skull bursts.
I imagine it will be a most disagreeable death.
We shall see.
Defiant to the end, Doctor.
But you will soon be screaming for mercy and there will be no one here.
(GASPING) Doctor! Come on! Come on! Wake up, Doctor, come on.
Doctor, please.
Come on! I am awake, I think.
(SHUSHING) Once upon a time, there were three sisters, and they lived in the bottom of a treacle well.
Their names were Olga, Masha, and Elena.
-Are you listening, Tilly? -I'm Sarah.
-What? -Sarah! I feel disorientated.
This is the Disorientation Centre.
-That makes sense.
-Come on! KRAAL ON SPEAKER: Clear the launching area.
Where are we going? Crayford's ship.
It'll be leaving in a moment.
-Right, right.
-Doctor! The Earth female has escaped.
Find her! We're going into that rocket, Sarah.
What? I said, you and I are going into that rocket! KRAAL ON SPEAKER: Time to lift off, Sarah.
We need protection.
The G-force will crush us on blast off.
It's all right.
It's not activated.
Come on! KRAAL ON SPEAKER: nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, In you go, quick! -It's okay, I'm in.
Hurry! -Three, two, one, zero.
(GRUNTING) Crushing me, Doctor.
(GASPING)