Doctor Who (1963) s24e13 Episode Script

Hang on.
Are you sure this is the right way? Course I'm sure.
Don't you trust me? It's not that.
Well the dragon and all that The dragon? That's just to frighten little children! It's like witches and goblins.
There ain't no such thing! Mega! Get down! That's not a real dragon.
And it's not breathing real fire! It's not just Doctor.
I've located the Ice Garden there was a distinct absence of dragon and treasure.
I sympathise with your disappointment.
But I'm about to plummet to my death! I suppose you'll be wanting me to risk my neck and come and help you.
Glitz! All right, all right.
Don't get your delicates in a twist! Glitz! Below you astound me! These two girls should be search when you arrested them! You seem to be taking advantage of my former feelings for you.
Be warned the past is an empty slate.
I demand absolute loyalty, now and forever.
And I do not forgive those who betray me.
The two girls must be stopped, before they reach Glitz and the Doctor.
They must be eradicated.
What could be more appropriate than to despatch Glitz's former crew after the girls? He betrayed his crew, now they can have their revenge! Every one must be allowed his moment of revenge It's no use, Doctor.
Even if we do find it, it's take us more than seventy-two hours.
And Belazs said that if I don't return Kane's money within seventy-two hours, they'll confiscate my spacecraft.
Perhaps if you were to explain the problem to Kane He'd slice his mother up to make a point.
If he was a mortician, the corpses would keep their eyes open.
In fact, if he knew we was after the Dragon's Treasure.
Your life expectancy wouldn't be looking too clever at the moment.
He's a cold man, Doctor.
Cut him open, and you won't find a heart, just a lump of ice These types never seem to have any sense of fair play.
Exactly.
And that's why I have come to the conclusion that playing by the rules is a mug's game.
I've decided to hijack the Nosferatu, which is where you, Doctor.
Now a moment, Glitz.
I'm engaged in a project of scientific curiosity.
The dragon, or whatever it turns out to be, may be an undiscovered species.
Look, I'll do you a good deal.
If you'll help me get the Nosferatu, back, I'll give you the treasure map so that you and Mel can go looking for this dragon.
Now I can't say no fairer than that, can I? I don't have my dear Glitz.
Without the map, I can't find the creature.
You're a man of rare insight and logic, Doctor.
All right, then.
Where's the Nosferatu berthed? It's in the Lower Docking Bays.
A work of artistry my friend, incandescent artistry.
I could almost believe that Xana lives again.
The unique beauty, yes But more than that The criminal genius also.
What a waste It should have been I who was killed escaping arrest, not you You're joking! I'm not going down there! Look it's the Doctor's brolly! We must be on the right track! What did he have to come this way for? I could break my neck! How are get down here? ***** It's only one guard.
Do you think you can keep him occupied, while I sneak on board? I'll do my best.
Go then, off you go.
Excuse me what's your attitude towards the nature of Existence? For example: do you hold any strong theological opinions? I think you'll find most educated people regard mythical convictions as fundamentally animistic.
I see That's a very interesting concept Personally, I find that most experiences border on the existential.
Ah.
But how would you reconcile that with the empirio-critical belief, that experience is at the root of all phenomena? I think you'll find that a concept can be philosophically valid, even if theologically meaningless.
So, what you're saying is that before Plato could exist, someone had to have the Idea of Plato? You've no idea what a relief it is for me to have such a stimulating philosophical discussion.
There are so few intellectuals about these days.
Tell me what are your views on the assertion that the semiotic thickness of a performed text varies according to the redundancy of auxiliary performance codes? Yes.
Oh, my ship.
Soon be light years away from this place.
I wouldn't touch those controls, if I were you.
Wicked! And Bilgebag said this was too dangerous for girls! This spacecraft is mine! Hang about! The seventy-two hours isn't up yet.
You said, if I could get hold of the jumbo, I could have the Nosferatu back.
In that case, I shall just have to make sure you don't manage to find the money in time.
I shall have to make very sure.
Hello! Not interrupting anything, am I? What are you doing here? A very difficult question.
Why is everyone around here so preoccupied with metaphysics? I think she's going to kill us, Doctor.
Ah, an existentialist Quiet! Only one the boss can live Iceworld about the Nosferatu.
** And one where the other is going to be me.
What about the boss Mr Kane? Does he know about this little enterprise? Kane doesn't own me! Oh, I think he does.
I think he bought you just like he buys everything in Iceworld.
What do you know about it? I think he bought you a long time ago.
He paid seventeen crowns each for Glitz's crew.
How much did he pay for you? Was it worth it? Were you worth it? That's what I sold myself for! Kane's mark! I should cut my hand off for doing it! Go on, then.
Kill me! Come on, Doctor.
We've got the Nosferatu.
Let's get away from here.
No, Glitz.
You'd be like her.
Everithing I want.
Like ***** moster.
Pay Kane back is debt.
Even if it costs a thousand crowns.
Even ten thousand.
Pay off the debt.
Please you.
Your debt to Kane, I don't think you can ever pay off ever.
The whole of eternity has held its breath for this moment.
But no one must ever see your work.
It exists, that is enough.
No one can ever be allowed to look on it and live.
Gaze on it, and die fulfilled What's the matter? Did you hear that? Hear what? I'm sure I heard something.
What kind of something? I don't know.
Can you see anything? Look out! Gordon Bennett! I think we go straight on.
Either that, or we don't.
Well, now that we've found the Dragonfire, what's next on the list of tourist attractions, Doctor? Ah, I'm not absolutely certain that this one is over yet It must be generating a spot temperature in excess of 1500°C.
Right cover your ears! Mega! Go on, Doughnut, throw the other one! Yeah! Go for it, Doughnut! That was well brill! I don't we're clear yet.
They can't believe.
Not after two cans of nitro.
That's all there was.
Come on, then let's shift! Doughnut.
Come on.
Come on wake up.
What happened? It's all right, Doughnut.
It's going.
Get back, Doctor.
No, Glitz, don't! Why? Because not right to kill.
Why didn't it kill us? Perhaps we'd better ask it Can't sleep, Belazs? How old do you think I am, Kracauer? Thirty-three thirty-four And how old do you think I was when I first agreed to join Kane? Sixteen That was a long time ago.
You see this? Yes, the mark of the sovereign.
You'd have thought would begin to disappear after twenty years.
We sold ourselves.
We knew what we were doing.
We had a choice.
I was sixteen! Even at sixteen, we had a choice.
You kill us.
You find someone ***** until kill us unless with kill him first.
How do you propose to kill him? With heat! Even here in Iceworld, it's too warm for him.
I've seen inside the Restricted Zone.
That's where he keeps his refrigeration unit.
He has to return there whenever his body temperature rises too high.
***** coffee? Oh, thanks.
You know I did for a job when they threw me out of school? No.
I worked as a waitress in a fast-food cafe.
Day in, day out, the same boring routine.
The same boring life.
It was all wrong.
It didn't feel like me that was doing it at all.
I felt like I'd fallen from another planet, and landed in this strange girl's body, but it wasn't me at all.
I was meant to be somewhere else.
Each night, I'd walk home, and I'd look up at the stars through the gaps in the clouds.
And I'd try to imagine where I really came from.
A dream that one day everything would come right.
One day something would come and take me back home.
Back to my real home.
Then it really happened and I ended up here.
Ended up working as a boring waitress again.
Only this time, I couldn't dream of going nowhere else.
There wasn't nowhere else to go.
One day, when we return home, I shall erect colossal statues in your honour.
Ambient cabinet temperature: minus Cabinet temperature dropping There's something I've never told anyone.
Do you promise not to laugh, and not tell no one? Of course.
It's my name it's not really Ace.
My real name's Dorothy.
That's how I knew they couldn't be my real Mum and Dad.
My real Mum and Dad would never have given me a naff name like Dorothy.
Come on.
minus 150°C minus 160°C minus 170°C Cabinet temperature rising minus 160°C - Down there? - I suppose so.
Ah, Mel, you've brought my umbrella! - Doctor! - Professor! - Bilgebag.
- Sprog.
No now squabbling.
There's no place for animosity in a serious scientific undertaking.
You mean the dragon? It doesn't seem to be a dragon to be more of a semi-organic vertebrate with a highly developed cerebral cortex.
And it's got laser beams in its eyes, and it tried to kill us! Did it really? Hmm, I wonder what you did to annoy it? It just came at us, Professor! No warning! Well, let's see what this vertebrate with laser beams in its eyes has got to say for itself.
Ah! Hello, and where might you have popped up from, then? They've been sent by Kane, Doctor.
He's got masses of them frozen in his deep freeze! Cryogenics, eh? Hang about.
I'd recognise this mutinous rabble anywhere! Friends of yours, are they? ***** all time.
You won't idea how pleased I am to see you again.
It's no good, Glitz.
Ace says they've been cryogenically frozen.
What about that time we captured a space freighter, and then it was carrying natural fruit alcohol? We got well dehydrated that night, eh? It's no use.
Deep cryogenesis causes neural pathways.
Oh, come on, *****, it's me, ***** Glitz.
It's completely impossible for them to recall any events prior to cryogenesis.
I remember.
And that's in the case of overpowering anger and hatred! I remember how you always got the best of our pickings.
I don't recall I remember, I remember how you sold us to Kane, to be frozen as mercenaries.
Come on a joke's a joke.
I thought they were friends of yours? Well, more acquaintances actually.
We don't intend to harm you.
You understand? It's friendly.
It wants us to go with it, Professor.
Well, let's see what our new friend wants to show us, then.
Warning.
Defrost threshold crossed.
Cabinet temperature rising.
plus 1°C plus 2°C plus 3°C plus 4°C What is happening? Can't breathe I'm too hot Kracauer What is this? No Not my statue! No.
Who has desecrated the monument? Who? Belazs! Target temperature minus 193ºC.
Temperature cabinet 0ºC, minus 10°C, minus 20°C This is beautiful, Doctor.
Here, I can hear singing! Where's it coming from, Professor? I think it wants us to watch.
What's it doing, Professor? So that's what all this is for! It's a polydimensional scanning imager.
And our friend the Creature is using itself as the energy source.
Planetary archives.
Criminal history, segment 93-12-03.
Two of the most vicious examples of the criminal mentality have been the leaders of the notorious Kane-Xana Gang.
Until its demise, this gang carried out systematic violence and extortion, unequalled in its brutality.
In view of the sheer evil of his crimes, Kane is to be exiled from the planet Proamon and never allowed to return home.
He will be banished to the barren planet of Svartos, which has a permanently frozen dark side on which he can survive.
Ah! My dear Belazs.
You know, I've been thinking I've been thinking over your request to leave me.
You've been with me a long time now.
I'm very fond of you.
But I've been thinking it over very carefully and I've decided, you may leave me.
Leave? Whenever you wish.
Go, in fortune and happiness.
You traitor! I've been planning my revenge for three thousand years! You stand in my way, now that I am so close? Kane's partner, the woman Xana, killed herself during the final siege of the gang's headquarters, to avoid being arrested and tried for her crimes.
Fascinating.
That explains about Kane.
But where does the Creature come from? And what about the fabulous treasure? Is this it? No, no.
We may be deep beneath Iceworld, but Kane could find this easily enough.
No, the treasure must be somewhere else.
Somewhere beyond Kane's reach.
What does fear most? Heat.
It'll kill him.
Precisely.
So what better way of protecting the real treasure than to leave a fire-breathing dragon to guard it? What better protection than if the dragon is the treasure? The Creature, the treasure? Am I right? Is it you that everyone has been looking for? Treasure.
It's worth a fortune.
Look past the fabulously valuable crystal, Glitz.
Look at the fire inside it.
A source of intense optical energy.
Look at it through Kane's eyes.
See it as an evil mind would see it At last, after three thousand years, the Dragonfire shall be mine!