Doctor Who (1963) s18e02 Episode Script

Doctor.
Doctor? Fascinating.
Fascinating.
Doctor? Doctor! Doctor! Aagh! Doctor! Doctor! - There's one of them.
- The Doctor's in there.
- How did he activate it from inside? - Get him out.
- It's jammed.
- Switch off the power.
- I can't! - There must be something.
- You could try shorting the servo lock.
- Of course.
Well, it's just a thought.
Something wrong? Attention.
Earth shuttle arriving.
Earth shuttle arriving.
Earth Scientist Hardin to the boardroom.
Earth Scientist Hardin to the boardroom.
Handsome fellow, isn't he? One of your tachyon images.
It'll disappear soon.
Look.
See? - How did you get out? - Through a hole in the back.
- There isn't one.
- There is now.
A common fault with tachyon particles is that they can induce temporal instability What can I do for you? Come on, Romana.
Quick! - Have you ever seen him before, Hardin? - No, Madam Chairman.
- Such formality? - I must respect your new position.
- Not that Ithat there was ever - Not that there was ever any disrespect.
For all your genius, you're young.
But you're right.
My new responsibilities will put a distance between us.
This scientist seems to understand tachyonics to a very advanced level.
He mentioned temporal instability.
How much does he know? I'll have to question him.
Of course, he may be useful.
- Useful? - If he understands the instability.
But the work's done.
The problem's solved, thanks to you.
Well, there may be adjustments on the full-scale run with the Generator.
- But you said the problems were solved.
- Yes, Madam Chairman.
I merely suggest - Ah.
Where do you come from? - Gallifrey.
- I've never heard of it.
- It's just an obscure little planet.
- I think we should be on our way.
- Wait.
Have you ever experimented with time? Yes, but in a purely academic way of no interest to anyone.
Hardin thinks you might help with his experiments.
Well Gallifrey abandoned tachyonics when we developed warp engineering.
- Sorry.
- You saw the time experiments? - Just a glimpse - Based on negative tachyon displacement.
- I'd like you both to take another look.
- Then can we go? We are a peaceful people, but you are unidentified visitors.
Our decision will depend on your conduct.
All right, but we'd better rerun the experiment, don't you think, Mr Hardin? - It's beautiful.
- Yes.
Radon 222 decays rapidly.
But not the heavy metal dust.
It won't be habitable for three centuries.
Really? Why? How long did the war last? - 20 minutes.
- As long as that? - Now you understand the purpose of the Hive.
- To keep out the atmosphere.
The physical reason, yes, but the purpose is to promote understanding between life forms of all culture and genetic type.
- There must be no more such wars.
- So it's not just a recreation centre.
Even the games in our Experiential Grid explore alien environments.
Each race learns to understand what it is like to be ''the foreigner''.
- Like learning the language.
- Language and thought.
Let me show you.
This simulation is a high-gravity planet with a life form - Not again.
This is intolerable.
- What happened? Inter-fibral malfunction.
A line's gone down.
- Faults, accidents.
The death this morning.
- You think the Hive's been interfered with? The fibre-optic transmission system has a mean time between failure of 2,000 years.
- We could do with that.
- It's far in excess of our needs.
Future generations will appreciate it.
The few of us who survived the war have our own price to pay.
- There will be no future generations.
- The fault has been identified.
- Show me.
- Does she mean they're sterile? Yes.
This Leisure Hive is the Argolin farewell gesture.
What is it? Please don't worry.
This is quite normal.
Normal? But you're ill.
- I'll recover in a moment.
- You look older.
Yes.
The war has done this to us too.
A slow, steady metabolism for most of our lives and then This has come to me sooner than I thought.
But, Hardin, this idea of yours could be the saving of the Hive.
It'll give the Argolins a few more years.
Think of the visitors.
The Experiential Grid leaves them older and wiser, but they could be younger and wiser.
- I cannot demonstrate it now.
- Something wrong? No.
It takes time.
Oh, it's a time experiment.
We'll be back.
Don't lose your nerve.
Why did I ever let you talk me into faking this? Fake? It's a breakthrough in tachyon technology.
Your dreams come true.
- Success was so close.
- It still is.
- But this isn't science.
- You'll do it my way.
Proceed as planned.
I can't.
Mena wants to bring in the Doctor.
What? You blind idiot.
- These people could have the answer.
- If they find this is a fake, we're ruined.
All right.
I'll find a way.
I'll persuade Mena not to let them in here.
- Get them to watch on the viewer.
- All right.
- Are the preparations complete? - Soon, Madam Chairman.
- A Schrodinger oscillator.
- Stay back.
- Why? - A question of radiation hazard.
- Really? - We've got to make this work.
- Can't you see what's happening? - That's the woman we saw on Earth? - When will it be ready? - Soon, Madam Chairman.
The adjustments have to be exact.
You'll all get a better view from up top.
Can I help you, Mr Hardin? Thank you.
Now, this is a wafer wave inducer, is it? Yes.
It feeds direct from the tachyon drive.
- And what do you do for inversion? - It doesn't invert.
The divider circuit automatically dephases.
Mena's dying.
Nothing can stop that cellular degeneration once it starts.
This could.
Come on, Hardin.
How do you lock the phase? I can't.
It doesn't.
It doesn't really work, you know.
Can I help you, Mr Stimson? It's imperative I leave for Earth now.
All the shuttles are full, unless you can obtain clearance from one of the directors.
Thank you.
Mr Brock? Mr Brock.
Anyone there? Aaagh! Switch on.
Right.
Hold it there.
Stasis.
- Looks like it.
- We've brought time to a stop.
But can we wind time back? Return the sand to where it was before it fell.
I don't get this.
In theory, it should function perfectly.
We'll have to check it all.
That's one thing I've learnt from the Doctor.
Where is he? Override fail-safe.
Override fail-safe.
Eliminate intruder.
Eliminate intruder.
Ah.
So that's how it's done.
- Doctor? - Oh, thank you.
This is your scarf, isn't it, Doctor? Yes.
- The murderer? - His scarf killed Stimson.
- Arrest the scarf, then.
- The court is sitting, Doctor.
- Sorry.
- The court, Doctor.
We Argolins have a sacred reminder of the evil that dwells in violence.
The Helmet of Theron, who led Argolis into the war that wiped it out.
Can you swear your innocence before the Helmet of Theron? Yes.
Let me hear the facts of the case.
- Ready? - Ready.
Start the recording now.
- Recorder running.
- Increase the power slowly.
We don't want a sudden surge.
Increasing.
Stable at 435.
Nothing.
Increase the power.
- It's not going to work.
- We must keep trying.
Yes, you're right.
Stable at 448.
Try 450.
- Stable at 450.
- Nothing.
Wait a minute.
Yes.
Yes! - We've done it! - Come on.
- And those are the facts.
- Does that conclude the evidence? Evidence? You couldn't hang a hat on that.
- I'm the judge, Doctor.
- I'm sorry.
- The murderer must be found.
- Justice is what matters.
Theron would throw a man into fire or water.
Let the elements try him.
These superstitions are not for us.
There's a blue box down the hall.
You could imprison us in that.
- MenaMadam Chairman.
It works.
- What? Romana has solved the wave equations.
- You really can rejuvenate? - Probably.
Then I'm prepared.
No.
No.
There must be one more test.
A test? Are you sure about this, Romana? The most it'll do is knock off 10 or 12 years.
Right.
Then I'll take my chance.
- We should be recording this.
- I forgot to switch it through.
- You'll be needed here.
- Think what this will mean.
- A few years' gain for an individual.
- We're ready, then? I'll start the warm-up now.
Doctor.
Stop! We forgot something.
- What? It's too late.
- Get the Doctor out.
I can't!