Doctor Who (1963) s14e20 Episode Script

The Robots of Death, Part Four

What are you doing here? Why? Does it upset you? The penalty for what you have done is death.
That's far enough.
What are you doing here? I followed you.
I'd come over here, if I were you.
Slowly.
What? Now, either it followed you or else it homed in on this.
It depends which of us is going to be killed first.
(ROBOT): Kill the Doctor.
(ROBOT): Kill the Doctor.
(ROBOT): Kill the Doctor.
(ROBOT): Kill the Doctor.
(ROBOT): Kill kill kill (ROBOT): Kill, kill - Doctor, are you alright? - Finish it off.
- (WHO): It's too late.
- (UVANOV): It's a power failure.
The probe stopped.
- Can you do it? - Yes.
(WHO): Take care.
(ROBOT): Kill, kill, kill (TOOS): Oh, no! Oh, no, please! No, please! No, please! Don't, no don't! No, please! (ROBOT): It is important.
It has to be done.
(ROBOT): Kill, kill, kill - (ROBOT): Kill, kill - Don't stand there, 7.
Give me a hand.
(S.
V.
7): Kill them.
- How fast are the robots? - They can outrun us.
They never tire.
I meant fast as in nimble.
Never mind, we'll soon find out.
- (ROBOT IN HAT): Do not kill me.
- (S.
V.
7): V.
4.
That is not the Doctor.
(S.
V.
7): V.
6.
Come to Section J immediately.
(ROBOT): The order is understood.
We've got to get back to command deck.
S.
V.
7 controlled all the others.
If it's gone bad, then they all have.
It hasn't, its command circuit's been changed.
- Doctor, nobody could do that.
- Taren Capel could.
- Taren Capel? - Yes, the mad scientist.
The very mad scientist.
(D.
84): Please do not throw hands at me.
- (D.
84): She will recover.
- What happened to her? - Oh! - It's alright, he's a friend.
(D.
84): She was being attacked.
(D.
84): The Doctor sent me to her assistance.
Where is he, then? Where's the robot? (D.
84): It received a priority call to go to Section J.
- How do you know? - (D.
84): I heard the instruction on the circuit.
The Doctor said that we should go to the control deck.
How many are left? As far as I know only Poul and his mind is broken.
I haven't seen Uvanov or Dask.
(D.
84): Where Where is Chief Mover Poul? I left him in the storage bank.
I had better bring him to the control deck.
- Do you think you can make it? - It isn't far.
(S.
V.
7): The sensors are extensively damaged.
I must report to our Controller.
Your orders are to find and destroy all remaining humans.
Secrecy is no longer necessary.
Confirm.
- (LEFT ROBOT): The order is understood.
- (S.
V.
7): Then go.
Shh! In here, quick! - (ROBOT 1): We must search each hopper.
- (ROBOT 2): That is not necessary.
(ROBOT 2): Vs 35 to 40 have searched in there already.
(ROBOT 1): Then we must search the storage bays.
I don't understand! Robots can't harm humans, it's the first principle.
The second is that humans can't harm robots.
I've tried and they don't bleed.
We should warn the Doctor.
Doctor, answer me, please.
- S.
V.
7, here.
Is that you, Toos? - Yes.
S.
V.
7, some of the Voc class robots are running berserk.
They're out of control and dangerous.
I understand.
Countermeasures are being taken.
Please report position.
- I - Shh! In your cabin.
Please say again.
I must know your present position.
I'm in my cabin, S.
V.
7.
Please stay in your cabin.
There is great danger if you leave it.
- What was all that about? - Something's wrong.
I could feel it.
I didn't notice anything.
- Except that - There was something.
The robots understand our voice patterns.
- So? - My voice is in the program.
- Why did S.
V.
7 ask if it was me? - Because that wasn't S.
V.
7.
Good.
Somebody's had the sense to hit the robot deactivator switch.
Probably Dask.
As Chief Fixer he's the second in authority.
Of course! I should have thought of that.
I thought that was why we came here.
(LEELA): Doctor! (TOOS): Doctor, the robots are out of control.
Not any more.
We're safe now.
- Safe? - (UVANOV): Well (UVANOV): We'll have to send up a beacon to get back to base, but there's no trouble.
You remind me of a lady called Marie Antoinette.
There's a robot revolution out there and you say we've got no problems.
Every robot has been switched off.
There's not one of them working.
Uvanov! Look over there.
- I don't understand.
- Shut the door, Toos.
I may not have time to explain.
There's a new generation of killer robots about, Uvanov.
The killers are controlled by Taren Capel and D.
84 is controlled by Poul.
These two are undercover agents for the company.
(D.
84): Poul is damaged.
I do not understand what has happened to him.
- (D.
84): This may be because I'm not human.
- Yes, that's very likely.
- How did you find out about Poul? - His body language was all wrong.
- What's body language? - You express yourself by how you move.
- I said he was a hunter.
- Yes, you did.
Do you know what's wrong with Poul, Uvanov? - Yes, robophobia.
- That's right.
- The Loid call it 'Grimwade Syndrome'.
- I have seen it, Doctor.
Once before.
My very first command.
A young kid ran outside the mine.
I tried to save him, but I couldn't I'll never forget the look on his face.
Zilda's brother.
His father, of course, had it all hushed up.
He was afraid his son would be thought a coward, but robophobia is a mental thing, right? Yes, until one gets his hands around your neck.
- There aren't any weapons on the mine? - They aren't necessary.
- They are now.
- This is S.
V.
7.
(S.
V.
7): We know that you are all on the control deck.
You have five minutes to surrender.
If you do not come out you will be destroyed.
And if we give ourselves up, we'll be destroyed anyway, 7? (S.
V.
7): Humans feel pain.
Our Controller orders that you will die slowly if you do not surrender.
You have, I repeat, five minutes.
Five minutes.
And the anti-blast doors will hold another te Anti-blast Do you carry blasting powder on board this mine? - A dozen Z-9 electron packs, that's all.
- In here? - Up there in the locker.
- They might work, Uvanov.
If you pass a charge through the metal plate, you can magnetise them and have anti-robot bombs.
Yes, provided that you can get close enough.
That's your problem.
I can't be everywhere at once.
- Where are you going? - The robot mortuary.
Toos, lock this door after us and don't let anyone in.
Is that clear? Clear.
D.
84 and Leela.
If we don't come back, you'll have to find another way of warning the outside world.
Come on, Toos, let's get to work! - Ten robots.
- That's what I counted! Strange, I would have expected Taren Capel to be in on the kill.
Come on, we've got to hurry! (DASK): Help! Let me in! - Who is that? - It's me, Dask.
Let me in, they're after me! (DASK): Help me! They're after me! No, the Doctor said no one at all! I can't leave him with those things.
You don't know what they're like.
They may be using him to get us to open.
They may be waiting outside.
Let me in! Alright, my brothers.
The doors! Force them open! D.
84, do you know the storage bay where Chub kept his equipment? - (D.
84): Yes.
- There are some gas cannisters there.
- Fetch me one as quickly as you can.
- (D.
84): That will be a pleasure.
Look at his hand, Doctor.
That's blood! (WHO): Borg's at a guess.
He was strong enough to put up a struggle.
- If Poul saw that - That probably triggered his collapse.
Doctor, what is robophobia? It's an unreasoning dread of robots.
You see, most living creatures use non-verbal signals, body movement, eye contact, facial expression, that sort of thing.
- Body language! - Exactly! While these robots are humanoids, presumably for aesthetic reasons, they give no signals.
It's like being surrounded by walking, talking dead men.
- That's what Poul said.
- Yes.
It undermines a certain type of personality, causes identity crisis, paranoia, sometimes even personality disintegration: Robophobia.
At least that's Grimwade's theory.
- Hold this.
- What are you doing? I'm going to try and patch this communicator into Dask's command circuit.
- (LEELA): Dask? - (WHO): Yes.
Taren Capel.
If I can discover where he modified this Do you have to talk so much? Sorry.
Let's hope the Doctor succeeds.
Otherwise we can't warn anyone.
- He doesn't expect us to.
- Then why did he say it? We are just decoys to help them.
(BANGING ON DOOR STOPS) What next? (WHO): There.
That should do it.
So Dask turned off all the friendly mechanical men? Yes.
He was going to modify them and reactivate them later.
Today the mind, tomorrow the world.
He must be a happy little maniac.
- (D.
84): Is that what you wanted? - Yes, well done.
- You'll have to stay here.
- (D.
84): I cannot do that.
This is a final deactivator.
If I use it while you're around it'll destroy your brain.
- (D.
84): I am not important.
- What? I think you're very important.
(D.
84): My duty is to the company.
Alright, but you be very careful.
- (D.
84): I will.
- Good.
Come on! (SOUND OF TOOLS BEING USED OUTSIDE DOOR) - Any ideas? - No.
(POUL): No, please! They pulled me here.
I didn't want to come! Look! (S.
V.
7): Controller Capel.
V.
5 reports three humans on control deck: Commander Uvanov, Mover Poul and Pilot Toos.
The Doctor! The Doctor and the girl, Leela.
Where are they? (S.
V.
7): Their position is unknown.
They must be found and killed.
That Doctor is a threat to our plan, my brothers.
(SIGNAL) V.
5.
Enter the control deck and destroy the humans immediately.
Come with me.
- (ROBOT): You all have to die! - (POUL): Please, I'm sorry! No, leave him alone! Toos, you look after him! (ROBOT): That is the order.
You have to die.
All of you (UVANOV): Get down, Toos! (ROBOT): You have to die, all of you Do you know what I think, Toos? It's high time we went on the offensive.
We may not be so lucky a second time.
The Doctor is going to need some help.
Come on.
(S.
V.
7): V.
5 is no longer registering.
- What? - (S.
V.
7): There is no operational signal.
(S.
V.
7): 5 has been deactivated.
How could mere humans destroy a robot? They're unarmed, weak creatures of flesh and blood! - (S.
V.
7): What are your orders, Controller? - Destroy them, 7! Kill all the humans! V.
6, come with me.
I'll release more of our brothers from bondage.
We will be irresistible! Come on! - Hold this, D.
84, and don't press anything! - (D.
84): What is your intention? (WHO): To make life a little difficult for our crazy friend.
He'll come back to convert more robots - Do you fit in there, Leela? - (LEELA): Why? - Try for size.
- What's it for? - Never mind.
Comfortable? - No.
This is a cylinder of gas.
When Dask comes in, I want you to turn the valve, so.
- So? - No, when Dask comes in.
What will it do? I said, what will it do? (WHO): Change his voice.
(WHO): When air and helium is breathed, it alters the resonance in the larynx.
So the robots won't recognise Dask's voice, they won't obey him.
That's it.
Come on, D.
84.
- (LEELA): Where are you going? - (WHO): Robot hunting.
D.
84! Oh! Don't kill him.
Not yet.
Bring him to the bench.
(GAS SEEPS OUT) - Lucky they have no eye for art.
- Or much imagination.
Come on.
- Where are we going? - We'll follow it.
We might be able to use these.
Hello, Dask.
(WHO): Née Taren Capel.
- I'm glad you have recovered.
- (WHO): Oh? Why? You came close to ruining my plans.
It's fitting that I should make you suffer for that.
(SOUND OF GAS STREAMING OUT) I see.
You're one of those boring maniacs who's going to gloat.
Will you tell me your plan for running the universe? (IN A LIGHT VOICE) No, I'm going to burn out your brain.
Very, very slowly.
Dask.
Dask! You look ridiculous in that outfit.
(WHO): You're not half the robot your father was.
You insolent animal! (BUZZING NOISE) (WHO): Losing your calm, Dask? Hm? (WHO): That's not the robot way.
It was your verbal and physical precision, - that made me spot you.
Robot upbringing? - (DASK): Yes, Doctor.
(DASK): I was brought up a superior being.
Brought up to realise that my brothers should live free, and not as slaves to human dross! Robots would have no existence without humans.
Don't you see that, Dask? Now I shall free them.
I shall program into them an ambition to rule the world.
And then! (D.
84): Goodbye, my friend.
(S.
V.
7): Kill the humans.
- (DASK): Help me! - (S.
V.
7): Kill the humans.
(S.
V.
7): Kill the humans.
Not me, you fool! Him! I'm your master, Taren Capel! (S.
V.
7): Kill the humans.
(S.
V.
7): Kill the humans.
- (S.
V.
7): Kill the humans.
- (UVANOV): Ah! - Ah! - (S.
V.
7): Kill the humans! (S.
V.
7): Kill the humans.
- (S.
V.
7): Kill, kill - (WHO): You'll be alright, Toos.
(IN A HIGHER VOICE) (S.
V.
7): Kill the Kill the (S.
V.
7): Kill the Kill the (S.
V.
7): Kill the Kill the (IN A LOWER AND LOWER VOICE) Kill the Kill the Well All good things come to an end.
(IN A VERY HIGH VOICE) Will somebody let me out? A mouse in the wainscoting! (WHO): Well squeaked, mouse! (LEELA): Shouldn't we check that Uvanov and Toos are alright? No, there's a rescue ship on its way.
It's time we were on ours.
Why didn't the helium make your voice go squeaky? Because I'm a Time Lord.
I've been around.
Two hearts, a respiratory bypass system.
I haven't lived 750 years without learning something.
After you.
Little mouse.

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