Doctor Who (1963) s19e16 Episode Script
The Visitation, Part Four
(''DOCTOR WHO'' THEME) - A final visitation! - Then who will serve you? With your Tardis, we can travel the universe and acquire androids.
- This carnage isn't necessary.
- It's survival, Doctor.
Just as these primitives kill lesser species to protect themselves, so I kill them.
That's hardly an argument.
It's not supposed to be an argument.
It's a statement! If you try to escape or interfere with this cage, your friends' controlled minds have but one thought - to kill you.
Tegan, I know you never listen to a word I say, but please put the cover back on the cage.
You can do it! Concentrate and you can override the control.
Think hard! Cover the cage! No, don't! Listen to me.
It's the Doctor! Don't open it.
If you do, it's the end for us all! Agh! Tegan! We haven't got time tofight! How are you feeling? What happened? - Steady.
You'll be all right.
- How do you know that? I'm the Doctor.
Take it easy.
Go! Search for the Tardis! When you find it, pilot it to the base yourself.
- How do you feel now? - Groggy, sore and bad-tempered.
Oh, almost your old self! That's not very funny.
I feel awful.
Why is he so full of beans? I am a man of iron.
It's more likely the electric charge I gave him.
So what am I to do about these? Have no fear, I am at hand.
Have you a piece of wire? Will this be any good? Interesting device.
Perfect.
I once knew a French acrobat.
He wasn't very good at tumbling, but his skill with a piece of bent iron was phenomenal.
He passed his skill on to me, which enabled me to extricate my fee from the strongboxes of more than one disreputable theatre manager.
Eureka! Return to the laboratory.
You have my instructions.
Can the Terileptil really do what he said? - Open the cage and find out.
- I meant on such a scale? Oh, yes.
But to kill all those people It's monstrous! The Terileptils find it disturbingly easy to justify themselves.
- How are you doing with that lock? - Gently, sir.
Picking a lock is an art.
Can't you use your screwdriver? - What about the gun? - No, no.
That would be heard.
- Can't we risk it? - Just a moment more.
I'm nearly there! It's impossible! You can't pick a lock with a safety pin! - I released the Doctor.
- Yeah, but that was handcuffs.
This is a door lock.
The Terileptil and the android could be miles away by now.
You're right.
Stand back.
- Five seconds longer.
- I said stand back! You missed! You wasted our only shot.
- I never miss.
- There's your shot.
There is the lock.
A span separates them both.
Try the door.
You see? Impossible.
I must have picked it! (HUMMING) Done it! Not again! A master control is overriding the switch.
Stack some of these empty boxes up along here.
Now what are you up to? (TRILLING) G'day! - Is he all right? - Just stunned.
- They've gone.
- But where? A nearby city.
Which is the nearest city? - London.
- We'll never find them there! See what papers you can find.
- You think they've left a forwarding address (?) - Will you Just look around.
There might be something.
(MEN SCREAM) I can't make head nor tail of this.
You wouldn't.
It's all mathematical formulae.
Or Terileptian script.
I didn't realise their technology was so advanced.
- I'm so glad you're impressed (!) - What? Oh, yes.
We can't even read them.
It doesn't matter.
Ah, this is it.
Let's see them replace this in a hurry! It's the control panel.
I've disconnected it.
Great (!) You've liberated the villagers.
What about the base? - Oh, we'll find it.
- Just like you found Heathrow (?) Let's get back to the Tardis.
(ADRIC) Look out! (HUMMING) (INTENSE, VIBRATING HUMMING) (HUMMING STOPS) - You did it! - I did it.
- You're all right? Not hurt? - I'm fine.
Just a little sad.
- It was such a magnificent machine.
- That machine tried to kill you! It was a slave.
It was only doing what it was told.
I think we should check how much damage has been done to the Tardis.
What about the Doctor and Tegan? Where do we look? Tegan will still be at the house.
Now you've destroyed the android, it's safe to go there.
It's beginning to get dark.
The woods are still full of your friendly villagers! - We could go in the Tardis.
- No, Adric.
You move this ship and we could finish up anywhere! And if we don't .
.
the Doctor and Tegan could finish up dead! It's still locked.
So's this.
(DOCTOR) Ah! We'll try this one.
(TEGAN) Not again! That exit is impossible.
I could never get through it.
If you abandoned that junk you might.
This is our insurance! Looks more like overkill to me.
- It's stuck.
- It can't be.
It's been sealed.
We'll have to find the back door.
(WHOOSHING) - What is that? - Help, if we're lucky.
(WHOOSHING FADES) - What's wrong? - I don't know.
Not the android! Stay calm! Why won't it work? Perhaps I'm pushing the wrong buttons.
Maybe she WAS damaged by the booster.
(WHOOSHING) What is this? It may be the only glimpse you ever get of my Tardis! Try and think what the Doctor would do if he were here.
- He'd get angry.
- I said empathise, not be silly! Got it! Brilliant! At last! You really should get this crate serviced, you know! We made it! Doctor! Tegan! You're safe! So you got here at last.
Come on, be grateful! If nothing else, it's saved us a long walk! I like long walks! It worked! - Anyway, I'M pleased to see you.
- I, too, my friend.
- Where's the Terileptil? - Ask the Doctor.
I knew the booster would work in theory, but practice is another matter.
(NYSSA) Thank you.
This isn't possible! - That's what I thought at first, but it is.
- It's amazing! Quite amazing.
- Where are we going? - In search of our Terileptil.
- You know where he is? - Yes, that's why I'm searching (!) (PULSING BEEP) (BEEP CONTINUES) Will you please tell me why we're doing this? Wait and see! (RAPID BEEPING) - That's it! - What is it? - The Terileptil base.
- How do you know? - Something's there.
- How do you know it's their base? It's an electrical emission - not something you'd expect to find on 17th-century Earth! Why didn't you say that's what you were looking for? Because I wasn't looking for it until I found it! (WHOOSHING) (GULPING BREATHS) Enough! - Here's an old friend.
- Where are the Terileptils? When a miller's wagon stands outside the bakery, it isn't hard to deduce where the miller is! Almost as if we were expected.
(CLATTER) Quickly! The door! Where are they? - Good evening.
- Welcome, Doctor.
You were expecting me? I was expecting my android, but if you have brought the Tardis here yourself, so be it.
- I've brought the android as well.
- And your friends.
Please come in, but first put away your gun.
You jest, sir! No.
See? I mean you no harm.
I have obviously underestimated you all! Now! (BEEPING) What's that? The gun's about to explode! Quick! Everyone out of here! (GROANS) (ANGUISHED CRY) We should help them! Too late.
That's the soliton machine exploding.
Wait! Quick! Everything into the flames! Nightwatchman! Fetch a squirter! Arouse the street! We must go.
We'd raise too many awkward questions.
Can we drop you anywhere? I'm afraid your pace of life is a little too fast for me, sir.
I shall stay here and fight the fire.
A much, much quieter occupation! - Into the Tardis! - Goodbye, Doctor.
A keepsake! Good luck! Won't it confuse the archaeologists? (MACE) Goodbye, Doctor! (HUMS ''LONDON'S BURNING'') Shouldn't we have helped put out the fire? We ARE partially responsible.
I have a sneaking suspicion this fire should be allowed to run its course.
- How do you mean? - I'll explain someday!
- This carnage isn't necessary.
- It's survival, Doctor.
Just as these primitives kill lesser species to protect themselves, so I kill them.
That's hardly an argument.
It's not supposed to be an argument.
It's a statement! If you try to escape or interfere with this cage, your friends' controlled minds have but one thought - to kill you.
Tegan, I know you never listen to a word I say, but please put the cover back on the cage.
You can do it! Concentrate and you can override the control.
Think hard! Cover the cage! No, don't! Listen to me.
It's the Doctor! Don't open it.
If you do, it's the end for us all! Agh! Tegan! We haven't got time tofight! How are you feeling? What happened? - Steady.
You'll be all right.
- How do you know that? I'm the Doctor.
Take it easy.
Go! Search for the Tardis! When you find it, pilot it to the base yourself.
- How do you feel now? - Groggy, sore and bad-tempered.
Oh, almost your old self! That's not very funny.
I feel awful.
Why is he so full of beans? I am a man of iron.
It's more likely the electric charge I gave him.
So what am I to do about these? Have no fear, I am at hand.
Have you a piece of wire? Will this be any good? Interesting device.
Perfect.
I once knew a French acrobat.
He wasn't very good at tumbling, but his skill with a piece of bent iron was phenomenal.
He passed his skill on to me, which enabled me to extricate my fee from the strongboxes of more than one disreputable theatre manager.
Eureka! Return to the laboratory.
You have my instructions.
Can the Terileptil really do what he said? - Open the cage and find out.
- I meant on such a scale? Oh, yes.
But to kill all those people It's monstrous! The Terileptils find it disturbingly easy to justify themselves.
- How are you doing with that lock? - Gently, sir.
Picking a lock is an art.
Can't you use your screwdriver? - What about the gun? - No, no.
That would be heard.
- Can't we risk it? - Just a moment more.
I'm nearly there! It's impossible! You can't pick a lock with a safety pin! - I released the Doctor.
- Yeah, but that was handcuffs.
This is a door lock.
The Terileptil and the android could be miles away by now.
You're right.
Stand back.
- Five seconds longer.
- I said stand back! You missed! You wasted our only shot.
- I never miss.
- There's your shot.
There is the lock.
A span separates them both.
Try the door.
You see? Impossible.
I must have picked it! (HUMMING) Done it! Not again! A master control is overriding the switch.
Stack some of these empty boxes up along here.
Now what are you up to? (TRILLING) G'day! - Is he all right? - Just stunned.
- They've gone.
- But where? A nearby city.
Which is the nearest city? - London.
- We'll never find them there! See what papers you can find.
- You think they've left a forwarding address (?) - Will you Just look around.
There might be something.
(MEN SCREAM) I can't make head nor tail of this.
You wouldn't.
It's all mathematical formulae.
Or Terileptian script.
I didn't realise their technology was so advanced.
- I'm so glad you're impressed (!) - What? Oh, yes.
We can't even read them.
It doesn't matter.
Ah, this is it.
Let's see them replace this in a hurry! It's the control panel.
I've disconnected it.
Great (!) You've liberated the villagers.
What about the base? - Oh, we'll find it.
- Just like you found Heathrow (?) Let's get back to the Tardis.
(ADRIC) Look out! (HUMMING) (INTENSE, VIBRATING HUMMING) (HUMMING STOPS) - You did it! - I did it.
- You're all right? Not hurt? - I'm fine.
Just a little sad.
- It was such a magnificent machine.
- That machine tried to kill you! It was a slave.
It was only doing what it was told.
I think we should check how much damage has been done to the Tardis.
What about the Doctor and Tegan? Where do we look? Tegan will still be at the house.
Now you've destroyed the android, it's safe to go there.
It's beginning to get dark.
The woods are still full of your friendly villagers! - We could go in the Tardis.
- No, Adric.
You move this ship and we could finish up anywhere! And if we don't .
.
the Doctor and Tegan could finish up dead! It's still locked.
So's this.
(DOCTOR) Ah! We'll try this one.
(TEGAN) Not again! That exit is impossible.
I could never get through it.
If you abandoned that junk you might.
This is our insurance! Looks more like overkill to me.
- It's stuck.
- It can't be.
It's been sealed.
We'll have to find the back door.
(WHOOSHING) - What is that? - Help, if we're lucky.
(WHOOSHING FADES) - What's wrong? - I don't know.
Not the android! Stay calm! Why won't it work? Perhaps I'm pushing the wrong buttons.
Maybe she WAS damaged by the booster.
(WHOOSHING) What is this? It may be the only glimpse you ever get of my Tardis! Try and think what the Doctor would do if he were here.
- He'd get angry.
- I said empathise, not be silly! Got it! Brilliant! At last! You really should get this crate serviced, you know! We made it! Doctor! Tegan! You're safe! So you got here at last.
Come on, be grateful! If nothing else, it's saved us a long walk! I like long walks! It worked! - Anyway, I'M pleased to see you.
- I, too, my friend.
- Where's the Terileptil? - Ask the Doctor.
I knew the booster would work in theory, but practice is another matter.
(NYSSA) Thank you.
This isn't possible! - That's what I thought at first, but it is.
- It's amazing! Quite amazing.
- Where are we going? - In search of our Terileptil.
- You know where he is? - Yes, that's why I'm searching (!) (PULSING BEEP) (BEEP CONTINUES) Will you please tell me why we're doing this? Wait and see! (RAPID BEEPING) - That's it! - What is it? - The Terileptil base.
- How do you know? - Something's there.
- How do you know it's their base? It's an electrical emission - not something you'd expect to find on 17th-century Earth! Why didn't you say that's what you were looking for? Because I wasn't looking for it until I found it! (WHOOSHING) (GULPING BREATHS) Enough! - Here's an old friend.
- Where are the Terileptils? When a miller's wagon stands outside the bakery, it isn't hard to deduce where the miller is! Almost as if we were expected.
(CLATTER) Quickly! The door! Where are they? - Good evening.
- Welcome, Doctor.
You were expecting me? I was expecting my android, but if you have brought the Tardis here yourself, so be it.
- I've brought the android as well.
- And your friends.
Please come in, but first put away your gun.
You jest, sir! No.
See? I mean you no harm.
I have obviously underestimated you all! Now! (BEEPING) What's that? The gun's about to explode! Quick! Everyone out of here! (GROANS) (ANGUISHED CRY) We should help them! Too late.
That's the soliton machine exploding.
Wait! Quick! Everything into the flames! Nightwatchman! Fetch a squirter! Arouse the street! We must go.
We'd raise too many awkward questions.
Can we drop you anywhere? I'm afraid your pace of life is a little too fast for me, sir.
I shall stay here and fight the fire.
A much, much quieter occupation! - Into the Tardis! - Goodbye, Doctor.
A keepsake! Good luck! Won't it confuse the archaeologists? (MACE) Goodbye, Doctor! (HUMS ''LONDON'S BURNING'') Shouldn't we have helped put out the fire? We ARE partially responsible.
I have a sneaking suspicion this fire should be allowed to run its course.
- How do you mean? - I'll explain someday!