Doctor Who (1963) s26e09 Episode Script
The Curse of Fenric, Part Two
Yes.
Not very pleasant.
What's he holding? No! We don't want to attract attention.
Do you think we really killed him? It doesn't matter.
You know too much.
You die.
We know more than you think.
- ''Return to Norway with the treasure.
'' - Kill them, Prozorov.
No.
We take them back to Captain Sorin.
''I am the only one left alive now.
''I raise these stones to my wife Astrid.
''May she forgive my sins.
''The day grows dark, and I sense the evil curse ''.
.
risingfrom the sea.
''I know now what the Curse of Fenric seeks ''.
.
the treasures from the silk lands in the east.
''I've heard the treasures whisper in my dreams.
''I've heard the magic words that will release great powers.
''I shall bury the treasures for ever.
''Tonight I shall die ''.
.
and the wordsdie with me.
'' If you attack the camp, you walk into a trap.
- If you stay here, you'll die.
- I should let you betray us? It's the only way to destroy the evil that's killing your men.
His mind's in pieces.
- What's happened to him? - Whatever killed his comrade, he's seen it.
What was it? What did you see? Tell us.
- Come on.
This is useless.
- Vershinin.
Dig down.
Think back.
Maidens' Point, the undercurrents.
What did you see? He'll never speak again.
- We delay our attack until you both return.
- Kapitan, this is madness.
We play for high stakes.
Victory goes to those who take the greatest risk.
Go.
Why didn't he translate the last inscription? The family idiot always takes the cloth.
- I don't like it here.
- Then go away.
Don't you feel the cold? It's most unsuitable for an invalid.
- Oh, shut up, Crane.
- Come on.
Let's have you back in the warm.
- You stupid woman! - Language, Doctor.
There's a lady present.
- Ooh, I love men in uniform! - Ooh! Don't they look strong? Why do I feel there's something different about this place? - It doesn't look like a church.
- What do you mean? From outside, it looks like a fortress.
No, no, no! Different since we were last here! Oh.
I think it's time we had a proper look at those inscriptions.
Use the Ultima Machine.
Use the machine to translate the inscriptions.
- What about the German ciphers? - Use it! Can you hear noises from behind the walls? - Can't hear a thing.
- I definitely heard them.
Ace, come here.
Look at that.
What do you notice? - This one's a slightly different alphabet.
- Yes.
And umit uses fewer characters.
- And? - Andthat means it's older than the rest.
- And? - And er - I don't know.
- And it wasn't here this morning.
Oh, yeah! Hang about.
These inscriptions are 1,000 years old.
Quick! Hide! Who is it? - These noises you heard? - A secret door? - Hmm - The noises came from over this side.
What happens if you do find something? Shh! - Professor? - Ace - Professor? - Ace! I think this is what you're looking for, Doctor.
''When I was a child, I spake as a child.
''I understood as a child.
''I thought as a child.
''When I became a man, I put away childish things.
''Now abideth faith, hope ''.
.
love.
''These three.
''And the greatest of these is'' No shooting.
- Has anyone seen us? - It's as quiet as the grave.
Leave the empty drums.
Just take the valuable equipment.
A laboratory! Behold, the end of the war.
So this is what brought you here.
A natural source of lethal poisons.
The Curse of Fenric.
Once the Nazis see what our planes are dropping - You can't! - It'll mean the end of the war.
Save hundreds of thousands of lives.
More horrible than the Well of Hvergelmir.
- What did you say? - The Well of Hvergelmir, deep beneath the ground, where serpents spew their venom over the Great Ash Tree.
The Great Ash Tree.
The soul of all the earth.
- Professor.
- Shh! We have seen itDoctor.
You and I we have seen hell.
Come on.
I'll show you it all.
- What's he on about? - Norse mythology.
I've persuaded him that I'm on his side.
You should have seen him.
With his bare hands.
When it comes to killing, sarge is an expert.
Prozorov These things have to be done.
Professor, what's wrong with the vicar? - No girls.
Leave her here.
- What? You're beginning to aggravate me.
Don't antagonise him.
You'd better stay here.
- Professor - Only for a short time.
I've got to find out what's going on.
Talk to Mr Wainwright.
- All right.
- Coming, Commander.
Give me an hour.
Funny church, this, isn't it? I was just remembering when I was a child.
My father was the vicar here then.
It seemed such a warm, friendly place in those days.
Things look different when you're a child.
Now I stand in the church every Sunday, I see all the faces looking up at me, waiting for me to give them something to believe in.
Don't you believe in anything? I used to believe there was good in the world, hope for the future The future's not so bad.
Have faith in me.
Ah, Millington, I need the central rotor unit unlocking.
- The Ultima Machine.
- Of course! You haven't seen it, have you? A completely automatic computing machine.
The most advanced in the world.
- Remarkable for the 1940s.
- This is bait.
- For the Germans? - Russians.
- But they're your allies.
- After the war, when they're not allies.
This is what the Russians want.
The mind of the Ultima Machine.
More than 1,000 combinations an hour, with automatic negative checking.
And we are going to let the Russians steal it.
Orders from Whitehall.
Look inside, Doctor.
Look deep inside.
You will burn in the everlasting fires of hell! You wicked, evil girls! - Just because you've never been swimming.
- You have black hearts.
There's no love in heaven or earth for you! Nothing for you but pitiless damnation for the rest of your lives! Think on it.
A demonstration, Doctor.
This small capsule contains just a few drops of diluted toxin.
No, don't! Just think what a bombful could do to a city like Dresden or Moscow.
It's inhuman.
It could mean the end of the war.
Whitehall thinks that Moscow will let you detonate one of those inside the Kremlin? That's the beauty of it, Doctor.
We won't detonate it.
They'll do it themselves.
They'll use the machine to decrypt our ciphers, but Dr Judson has programmed it to self-destruct when it tries to decrypt a particular word.
Once the political climate is appropriate, we will include the word in one of our ciphers.
- And the word is? - What else could it be, Doctor? Love.
What was that? - Is this ours? - Is it marked ''government property''? - No.
- Nothing to do with us.
Leave it.
Right.
Let's get this sealed up.
I don't care I've got nothing to wear! It's so warm and peaceful.
Here, Phylly, what's that? - What is it? - It's a sort of mist.
- So what? Who cares? It's warm in the water.
- Yeah.
Phylly? Yes? They've finished closing down operations at the church.
Good.
Tell me, they didn't find anything unusual, did they? Not to my knowledge, sir.
I can't take any more risks.
I want all radio transmitters and outside telephone lines disabling.
- That may attract attention, sir.
- Do it.
- Sir.
- And any chess sets in the camp I want them burnt.
- Chess sets? - Burnt.
Sir.
Sorry, girls.
Commander's orders.
No more chess.
Don't you find the Commander's orders peculiar, soldier? Orders is orders.
Come on, girls, let's have your chess set.
Aah.
- What will you do with her? - Oh, something'll turn up.
One of the girls is asking her sister if Audrey can stay till I sort something out.
Do you have any family yourself? - I don't know.
- Oh, I'm sorry.
It's the war, isn't it? - Must be terrible not knowing.
- Yes.
- Have you seen Ace? I'm getting worried.
- Quiet! Now, let's see what lies encrypted in these carvings, hmm? ''Let the Chains of Fenric shatter.
'' Even with an alphabet more than 1,000 years old, the Ultima Machine can reveal its meaning.
It can translate it, but who knows what it might mean? Look.
Yes.
A man.
Are you looking at us? Yes.
He's watching us.
Come into the water with us.
Yes.
You've got to come into the water.
- It's warm.
- Blood-warm.
Nobody's forcing him.
Nobody ever forces you to come into the water.
But everybody wants to.
Deep down, everybody wants to come into the water.
Come on.
Come and play with us.
Oh, yes.
I've known Millington since before my accident.
Hiya.
Ah, good.
Oh, I need a word with your two young friends.
- Jean and Phyllis? Try the old dragon.
- Good.
I'll just requisition some transport.
Bags I drive! Shut up.
I said shut up! - I know what it is.
- I am trying to work.
- I know what the inscription means.
- ''The Chains of Fenric shatter.
'' - I already know that.
- No, no, no.
It's a logic diagram.
- What? - Look.
This is a logic diagram for the flip-flop thingy, right? And this is a logic diagram for something else.
- But it's so complex.
- It's not for a small thing like this.
It's for a computer.
Crane, take me to the decrypt room! And the half-time score Perivale, 600 million.
Rest of the universe, nil.
No! No, I beg you! No! No! Hello? Anybody home? Professor.
Looks like the one at Maidens' Point.
Completely drained of blood.
I know who you are.
You've always known us.
But vampires are just superstition.
Why? We have black hearts.
We were lost on the day we were born.
That's not true.
No one is lost.
Everyone is lost.
No further.
This is holy.
- It will destroy you.
- Objects can't harm us.
It's human belief, and you stopped believing when bombs started falling.
- I'm not frightened of German bombs.
- Not German bombs.
British.
On German cities.
British bombs killing German children.
No No! - Stop! - What's happened to you? You should have come into the water with us, then we'd have been together.
Go! Go! We go .
.
but we'll return for you, Wainwright.
- This is it, Judson.
- A little respect for the wheelchair.
- He's an invalid.
- No, I'm a cripple.
I'm also a genius, so shut up.
All that remains is the flask.
The machine can unlock its secrets.
Now, then, Millington.
- Let's see, shall we? - Yes.
Quick.
- We must tell Commander Millington.
- He'll just go round shooting everything.
As long as Judson doesn't work out what the inscription is, he's safe from harm.
- He's a typical blinkered scientist.
- Oh, no! - You should have told me.
- Quick! We'd better stop them! - What does it mean? - I don't know! - You built the damn machine! - It's running at four times maximum speed! It's impossible! - Stop the machine! - Get out of here! - You've got to stop it! - I can't! Ace! The power! - It's stuck! - Pull it! Pull it! I can't! You're too late, Doctor!
Not very pleasant.
What's he holding? No! We don't want to attract attention.
Do you think we really killed him? It doesn't matter.
You know too much.
You die.
We know more than you think.
- ''Return to Norway with the treasure.
'' - Kill them, Prozorov.
No.
We take them back to Captain Sorin.
''I am the only one left alive now.
''I raise these stones to my wife Astrid.
''May she forgive my sins.
''The day grows dark, and I sense the evil curse ''.
.
risingfrom the sea.
''I know now what the Curse of Fenric seeks ''.
.
the treasures from the silk lands in the east.
''I've heard the treasures whisper in my dreams.
''I've heard the magic words that will release great powers.
''I shall bury the treasures for ever.
''Tonight I shall die ''.
.
and the wordsdie with me.
'' If you attack the camp, you walk into a trap.
- If you stay here, you'll die.
- I should let you betray us? It's the only way to destroy the evil that's killing your men.
His mind's in pieces.
- What's happened to him? - Whatever killed his comrade, he's seen it.
What was it? What did you see? Tell us.
- Come on.
This is useless.
- Vershinin.
Dig down.
Think back.
Maidens' Point, the undercurrents.
What did you see? He'll never speak again.
- We delay our attack until you both return.
- Kapitan, this is madness.
We play for high stakes.
Victory goes to those who take the greatest risk.
Go.
Why didn't he translate the last inscription? The family idiot always takes the cloth.
- I don't like it here.
- Then go away.
Don't you feel the cold? It's most unsuitable for an invalid.
- Oh, shut up, Crane.
- Come on.
Let's have you back in the warm.
- You stupid woman! - Language, Doctor.
There's a lady present.
- Ooh, I love men in uniform! - Ooh! Don't they look strong? Why do I feel there's something different about this place? - It doesn't look like a church.
- What do you mean? From outside, it looks like a fortress.
No, no, no! Different since we were last here! Oh.
I think it's time we had a proper look at those inscriptions.
Use the Ultima Machine.
Use the machine to translate the inscriptions.
- What about the German ciphers? - Use it! Can you hear noises from behind the walls? - Can't hear a thing.
- I definitely heard them.
Ace, come here.
Look at that.
What do you notice? - This one's a slightly different alphabet.
- Yes.
And umit uses fewer characters.
- And? - Andthat means it's older than the rest.
- And? - And er - I don't know.
- And it wasn't here this morning.
Oh, yeah! Hang about.
These inscriptions are 1,000 years old.
Quick! Hide! Who is it? - These noises you heard? - A secret door? - Hmm - The noises came from over this side.
What happens if you do find something? Shh! - Professor? - Ace - Professor? - Ace! I think this is what you're looking for, Doctor.
''When I was a child, I spake as a child.
''I understood as a child.
''I thought as a child.
''When I became a man, I put away childish things.
''Now abideth faith, hope ''.
.
love.
''These three.
''And the greatest of these is'' No shooting.
- Has anyone seen us? - It's as quiet as the grave.
Leave the empty drums.
Just take the valuable equipment.
A laboratory! Behold, the end of the war.
So this is what brought you here.
A natural source of lethal poisons.
The Curse of Fenric.
Once the Nazis see what our planes are dropping - You can't! - It'll mean the end of the war.
Save hundreds of thousands of lives.
More horrible than the Well of Hvergelmir.
- What did you say? - The Well of Hvergelmir, deep beneath the ground, where serpents spew their venom over the Great Ash Tree.
The Great Ash Tree.
The soul of all the earth.
- Professor.
- Shh! We have seen itDoctor.
You and I we have seen hell.
Come on.
I'll show you it all.
- What's he on about? - Norse mythology.
I've persuaded him that I'm on his side.
You should have seen him.
With his bare hands.
When it comes to killing, sarge is an expert.
Prozorov These things have to be done.
Professor, what's wrong with the vicar? - No girls.
Leave her here.
- What? You're beginning to aggravate me.
Don't antagonise him.
You'd better stay here.
- Professor - Only for a short time.
I've got to find out what's going on.
Talk to Mr Wainwright.
- All right.
- Coming, Commander.
Give me an hour.
Funny church, this, isn't it? I was just remembering when I was a child.
My father was the vicar here then.
It seemed such a warm, friendly place in those days.
Things look different when you're a child.
Now I stand in the church every Sunday, I see all the faces looking up at me, waiting for me to give them something to believe in.
Don't you believe in anything? I used to believe there was good in the world, hope for the future The future's not so bad.
Have faith in me.
Ah, Millington, I need the central rotor unit unlocking.
- The Ultima Machine.
- Of course! You haven't seen it, have you? A completely automatic computing machine.
The most advanced in the world.
- Remarkable for the 1940s.
- This is bait.
- For the Germans? - Russians.
- But they're your allies.
- After the war, when they're not allies.
This is what the Russians want.
The mind of the Ultima Machine.
More than 1,000 combinations an hour, with automatic negative checking.
And we are going to let the Russians steal it.
Orders from Whitehall.
Look inside, Doctor.
Look deep inside.
You will burn in the everlasting fires of hell! You wicked, evil girls! - Just because you've never been swimming.
- You have black hearts.
There's no love in heaven or earth for you! Nothing for you but pitiless damnation for the rest of your lives! Think on it.
A demonstration, Doctor.
This small capsule contains just a few drops of diluted toxin.
No, don't! Just think what a bombful could do to a city like Dresden or Moscow.
It's inhuman.
It could mean the end of the war.
Whitehall thinks that Moscow will let you detonate one of those inside the Kremlin? That's the beauty of it, Doctor.
We won't detonate it.
They'll do it themselves.
They'll use the machine to decrypt our ciphers, but Dr Judson has programmed it to self-destruct when it tries to decrypt a particular word.
Once the political climate is appropriate, we will include the word in one of our ciphers.
- And the word is? - What else could it be, Doctor? Love.
What was that? - Is this ours? - Is it marked ''government property''? - No.
- Nothing to do with us.
Leave it.
Right.
Let's get this sealed up.
I don't care I've got nothing to wear! It's so warm and peaceful.
Here, Phylly, what's that? - What is it? - It's a sort of mist.
- So what? Who cares? It's warm in the water.
- Yeah.
Phylly? Yes? They've finished closing down operations at the church.
Good.
Tell me, they didn't find anything unusual, did they? Not to my knowledge, sir.
I can't take any more risks.
I want all radio transmitters and outside telephone lines disabling.
- That may attract attention, sir.
- Do it.
- Sir.
- And any chess sets in the camp I want them burnt.
- Chess sets? - Burnt.
Sir.
Sorry, girls.
Commander's orders.
No more chess.
Don't you find the Commander's orders peculiar, soldier? Orders is orders.
Come on, girls, let's have your chess set.
Aah.
- What will you do with her? - Oh, something'll turn up.
One of the girls is asking her sister if Audrey can stay till I sort something out.
Do you have any family yourself? - I don't know.
- Oh, I'm sorry.
It's the war, isn't it? - Must be terrible not knowing.
- Yes.
- Have you seen Ace? I'm getting worried.
- Quiet! Now, let's see what lies encrypted in these carvings, hmm? ''Let the Chains of Fenric shatter.
'' Even with an alphabet more than 1,000 years old, the Ultima Machine can reveal its meaning.
It can translate it, but who knows what it might mean? Look.
Yes.
A man.
Are you looking at us? Yes.
He's watching us.
Come into the water with us.
Yes.
You've got to come into the water.
- It's warm.
- Blood-warm.
Nobody's forcing him.
Nobody ever forces you to come into the water.
But everybody wants to.
Deep down, everybody wants to come into the water.
Come on.
Come and play with us.
Oh, yes.
I've known Millington since before my accident.
Hiya.
Ah, good.
Oh, I need a word with your two young friends.
- Jean and Phyllis? Try the old dragon.
- Good.
I'll just requisition some transport.
Bags I drive! Shut up.
I said shut up! - I know what it is.
- I am trying to work.
- I know what the inscription means.
- ''The Chains of Fenric shatter.
'' - I already know that.
- No, no, no.
It's a logic diagram.
- What? - Look.
This is a logic diagram for the flip-flop thingy, right? And this is a logic diagram for something else.
- But it's so complex.
- It's not for a small thing like this.
It's for a computer.
Crane, take me to the decrypt room! And the half-time score Perivale, 600 million.
Rest of the universe, nil.
No! No, I beg you! No! No! Hello? Anybody home? Professor.
Looks like the one at Maidens' Point.
Completely drained of blood.
I know who you are.
You've always known us.
But vampires are just superstition.
Why? We have black hearts.
We were lost on the day we were born.
That's not true.
No one is lost.
Everyone is lost.
No further.
This is holy.
- It will destroy you.
- Objects can't harm us.
It's human belief, and you stopped believing when bombs started falling.
- I'm not frightened of German bombs.
- Not German bombs.
British.
On German cities.
British bombs killing German children.
No No! - Stop! - What's happened to you? You should have come into the water with us, then we'd have been together.
Go! Go! We go .
.
but we'll return for you, Wainwright.
- This is it, Judson.
- A little respect for the wheelchair.
- He's an invalid.
- No, I'm a cripple.
I'm also a genius, so shut up.
All that remains is the flask.
The machine can unlock its secrets.
Now, then, Millington.
- Let's see, shall we? - Yes.
Quick.
- We must tell Commander Millington.
- He'll just go round shooting everything.
As long as Judson doesn't work out what the inscription is, he's safe from harm.
- He's a typical blinkered scientist.
- Oh, no! - You should have told me.
- Quick! We'd better stop them! - What does it mean? - I don't know! - You built the damn machine! - It's running at four times maximum speed! It's impossible! - Stop the machine! - Get out of here! - You've got to stop it! - I can't! Ace! The power! - It's stuck! - Pull it! Pull it! I can't! You're too late, Doctor!