The Daleks' Masterplan

Season 3, 1965-66; 12 episodes

The longest Doctor Who story at a mammoth 12 episodes, The

Daleks' Masterplan formed the backbone of the programme's third season, and was inspired by the
phenomenal success of the previous Dalek stories.
It featured three companions, only one of whom lasted the whole story; an excellent megalomanic villain,
superbly played by Kevin Stoney; the brief return of the Meddling Monk; and of course, the Daleks. The
adventure is set on 5 different planets, and even has time for a one-off Christmas special in the
middle!

The story was transmitted after 'The Myth Makers', in which the Doctor
picked up a new companion, the Trojan Katarina, to join Steven Taylor.
The first episode, though, recalls the events of 'Mission to the Unknown', broadcast 5 weeks earlier.
Set in 4000AD, the story opens with two Space
Security agents, Bret Vyon (Nicholas Courtney, later to play the Brigadier) and Kurt Gantry (Brian
Cant), investigating the disappearance of Marc Cory's expedition. The script writing for the serial was
shared between Terry
Nation and Dennis Spooner because of the sheer length involved.

Episode 7 was scheduled to be broadcast on Christmas Day 1965, so as
the story had by this point reached a natural break, a light-hearted special
('The Feast of Steven') was shown. Part 8, shown on New Years Day 1966, also had a more light-hearted
feel to it.

Only episodes 5 and 10 of the story survive on video today, along with
several clips of various lengths from the first four parts. Rumours abound about the existence of other
episodes (see the article by Michael Phillips on the Missing
Episodes), but none have yet surfaced. Parts 8-10 and 12 were the first to be recorded on 'crystal-clear
audio', and the remaining episodes do exist on audio in reasonable quality.

The Daleks' Master Plan (1)

THE DALEKS' MASTER PLAN

Written byTERRY NATION

EPISODE 1THE NIGHTMARE BEGINS

first broadcast - 13th November 1965running time

- 22mins 55secs

1. TARDIS - INTERIOR

(The Doctor and Katarina are watching over an unconscious Steven.)

KATARINA:  He has a strange sickness. Can you not help
him?DOCTOR:  I'm doing the very best I can, my child. Oh dear,
dear, dear. It is such a worry. This poison seems to be spreading throughout   the whole of his system.
Yes, we need a special drug. I shall have to land   somewhere.
(Lights on the console start flashing.)

KATARINA:  What's that?DOCTOR:  Oh, we're
slowing down, my dear. We're going to land in a moment.KATARINA:

Can we have reached the place of perfection so soon?DOCTOR:

Ah, well, I rather doubt it. At least, that is, we will be stopping at a   lot of places before that.
Now, I want you to look after Steven, if you will.
And, see that you keep that wound healed. Please, hmm. That's a good girl.

2.  JUNGLE ON KEMBEL

(Deep in the Kembel jungle are two Space Security agents, Kert Gantry and

Bret Vyon.  Both are in rough shape, especially Gantry, who has a shattered leg.  Vyon is speaking into
a radio transmitter.)

VYON:  Five Zero Alpha to Charlo Charlo Egan, Five Zero Alpha
to Charlo Charlo Egan, come in!  (pauses)  Charlo Charlo
Egan, this is Five Zero Alpha, can you read me?  Come in!
(Vyon pauses, then turns to Gantry.)

VYON:  Nothing!  When we get back to earth, I'll have
every fool at CCE court martialed!GANTRY:  If we get back to
earth.  If Central Communications has gone dead on us we have no   hope!VYON:  We're not dead
yet.GANTRY:  Don't
fool yourself.  They're out there looking for us right now.  They'll   find us, and then...VYON:  All
right then, they will find
us!  But we've got to get through to Earth first or the whole solar   system is finished!GANTRY:  I
know. I know.  Try them
again.VYON:  Five Zero Alpha to Charlo Charlo Egan, come in!

Five Zero Alpha to Charlo Charlo Egan, come in!

3.  COMMUNICATIONS ROOM

(Back on Earth at Central Communications, agents Roald and Lizan are
monitoring the switchboards.)

ROALD:  So it's checkmate, isn't it?  I want to see the

Venus-Mars games. You want to see your hero, Mavic Chen.LIZAN:

I just happen to admire him, that's all.  Well, I'm going to do some   work now, even if you
aren't.ROALD:  I... I tell you
what.  If we tune into Channel 403, we'll get the news.  That should   cover both our requirements.
Agreed?LIZAN:  Ah, but we may
only get a report of what Mavic Chen said, not actually see   him.ROALD:  That's hardly likely.  The
Guardian of the

Solar System is going away on holiday.  He will, no doubt, say a few   well-chosen words.  Every well-
chosen word will no doubt be   transmitted.LIZAN:  And what about the routine
calls?ROALD:  Oh, you worry too much.  The next one is

Five Zero Alpha.LIZAN:  Five Zero Alpha?ROALD:

It's not for another twenty minutes.  Well, what about
403?LIZAN:  Bring up 403 please.  Five Zero Alpha?

Is that the patrol out looking for Marc Cory?ROALD:  Yes,
the... uh... agent who disappeared near the planet Kembel.  Probably   crashed, so they think.  Hey,
bring up the sound!  It's Mavic Chen   on holiday.
(The attention turns to the interview on television.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Yes. The mineral agreement with the fourth galaxy
proved a little more complicated than at first   expected.INTERVIEWER:  And  concluded successfully, I'm
sure that no one will begrudge your little time off.  What are you going   to do on this trip?MAVIC
CHEN:  That I am keeping a
secret.  I hope to be able to get away from more interviewers.
(The interviewer laughs.)  So I'm just going to climb aboard my
Spar and drift about the solar system.LIZAN:

.:   doesn't matter to
me.INTERVIEWER:  Anywhere  beyond our solar
system?MAVIC CHEN:  No, not really.

(The attention returns to Roald and Lizan.)

ROALD:  What? Become a galactic politician?  And who
knows.  Maybe one day you will.  As far as I'm concerned, give me   terra firma any day.LIZAN:  You are
in a rut, my friend.

Now if I had to make this trip...ROALD:  It's a trifle rash,
isn't it?  There are other space vessels, you know.LIZAN:

You mean the Spar 740?ROALD:  Yes.  If I had to
travel around outer space, I'd take the 740.  Elegance, plus the ultimate   technology.LIZAN:  It hasn't
got the speed.ROALD:

Speed isn't everything.
(Both return to watching the television.)

INTERVIEWER:  Is there anything you would like to say to the
citizens before you depart?MAVIC CHEN:  Yes.  It is my
honest hope that the solar system may continue along this path of peace, this   path that was laid by
the signing of the non-aggression pact of 3975.
Now, in the year of 4000, we can feel justly proud of that pact.  May the   past twenty-five years prove
that they are the dawn of an everlasting peace   which will spread throughout the universe.  Let us go
forward together,   secure in our knowledge that the life ahead is built on the cornerstone of   richer
understanding, not only of the past or the present, but also the   future.  And may it be this
cornerstone, so firmly laid deep in the power   of brotherhood, bring peace, progress and prosperity to
each and every one of   us.INTERVIEWER:  Thank you sir.  I'm sure that all
throughout the system echo your thoughts.
(The attention returns to Roald and Lizan.)

LIZAN:  Even you must agree he's an impressive
man.ROALD:  Yes, it's nice to hear his speech
again.LIZAN:  Bennett...

(He stops as a light on the switchboard blinks for a moment.)

LIZAN:  Was that a flash?ROALD:  Where?

(pauses)  There's nothing coming through.LIZAN:  I
thought I saw one.ROALD:  You're imagining
things.LIZAN:  Okay, so I'm imagining things.

4.  JUNGLE

(Gantry and Vyon stop to rest by an outcrop of rock in the jungle.)

GANTRY:  They're out there.  I know it!  And they're
getting closer.VYON:  You're imagining things.  Now shut
up!GANTRY:  Do you think I'm a fool?  There's something
out there and it's close!VYON:  Look, I tell you...

(A faint noise is heard in the background.)

GANTRY:  Listen!

(He pauses, as the noise is heard again.)

GANTRY:  There.VYON:  Shh!GANTRY:

You heard it!VYON:  Yes.  Come on, we've got to get
out of here.GANTRY:  I stay.VYON:  But you
know we can't fight against those things!  Now we must move   out.GANTRY:  How can I keep on the move
with this?  Have
you got any more bright ideas?  All that will happen is I'll hit one of   those spiked plants.  I nearly
fell on one before.VYON:

We won't go fast, just keep moving.  I'll make sure we avoid the
Varga plants.GANTRY:  Then I'll fall and hit one. You know
what happens then!VYON:  Don't be a fool!GANTRY:

That could be what happened to Cory.  He tripped, pricked himself on   a thorn, and then he turned into
one!VYON:  You're letting
your imagination run riot again.  Besides, we haven't seen any Varga that   look like him.GANTRY:
killed Cory. But, you know I'm
right. There's been no trace of Marc Cory anywhere.VYON:

Perhaps they took him prisoner.GANTRY:  You know they
don't take prisoners.VYON:  All the more reason for you to
come with me.  Now come on!GANTRY:  This is no time for
phony heroics.  I'll just slow you down, and then we'll both get   it.  Now without me you've got a
chance.  It's not a good one, but   it's a chance.  Just stay alive and get that message   through!VYON:
I'm not going without you, is that
clear?GANTRY:  Get out!  Get out of here or I'll kill you
now!
(Vyon reluctantly turns to go.)

GANTRY:  Bret. Good luck.

(Vyon leaves Gantry, who aims his blaster up in defence, looking all around
him.)

GANTRY:  (speaking into the jungle)  All right, I'm
ready for you now!  (whispers)  Where the devil are   you?  (silence)  Come on. Come on!
(As Gantry looks around frantically, he hears a rustling sound in front of
him, and sees a Dalek emerge from the jungle.  Gantry aims his blaster, but the Dalek fires first.
Gantry screams and falls back, dead, as a second
Dalek appears.)

DALEK 1:  One man remains.  Find and destroy
him!DALEK 2:  I obey!

5.  JUNGLE CLEARING

(The TARDIS materialises in the jungle.)

6.  TARDIS - INTERIOR

(The TARDIS doors open and the Doctor, Katarina and a wounded, unconscious

Steven exit.)

DOCTOR:  Hmm.KATARINA:  See anything? Can you
find help here?DOCTOR:  I don't know my dear, but I must
try.  Now I want you to stay here and look after Steven.  I shall be   as quick as I can, hmm?KATARINA: 
I'll do as you
ask.DOCTOR:  Splendid.  Now you know which switch to pull
to close the doors, don't you?  So I want you to do that straight   away.  I have my key to let myself
in, hmm?
(The Doctor shows a puzzled Katarina the TARDIS key.)

KATARINA:  Key?DOCTOR:  Yes.  This, child.

Key.  This opens the door from the outside, hmm?  Now go in please   and shut the door.

7.  TARDIS - EXTERIOR

(The door closes and the Doctor begins exploring in the jungle.  Looking
through the trees, he catches sight of a city in the distance.)

DOCTOR:  Hmm. Charming. Ah. A city or perhaps a town.

Hmm.  I wonder where we are?  Hmm. Heh. All I have to do is get   through that jungle and perhaps then I
can get some help.  I must say   it's a strange place to put a city. Hmm.
(The Doctor feels the end of a blaster against his back.)

VYON:  Keep absolutely still.DOCTOR:  What is
it you want?VYON:  The key.DOCTOR:  What
key?VYON:  Give me that key or I'll kill you.

8.  TARDIS - INTERIOR

KATARINA:  The Doctor will return very soon.  He will get
help.STEVEN:  Where are we?KATARINA:  On our
way through the underworld.STEVEN:  What? Look, I don't
understand. Vicki. Troy. Agh. Ohh. You helped me when that
Trojan's...KATARINA:  Be calm. You must
rest.STEVEN:  Did the Doctor bring you on
board?KATARINA:  Yes.  We all make the journey
together.STEVEN:  Who are you?KATARINA:

Katarina.  I served as handmaid for the High Priestess
Cassandra.  But you must rest.  The Doctor will bring help.
Don't ask any more questions.STEVEN:  I... I...

(The TARDIS doors open and Bret Vyon enters.)

STEVEN:  Who...?KATARINA:  The Doctor sent
you?VYON:  That's right. The old man sent
me.KATARINA:  Are you here to help?VYON:

(looking around)  This is fantastic. Umm... You. What's your   name?KATARINA:  Katarina.  Did the Doctor
send you to
cure the sickness?VYON:  Yes. We must shut the door first...
the old man said you knew the switch.KATARINA:  Here.

(She pulls a lever and the doors close.)

VYON:  What sort of craft is this?  I've seen most, but
nothing like this. From outside it looked so small. How do you work this   thing?KATARINA:  Only the
Doctor works his
temple.VYON:  His what?KATARINA:  You must
help Steven!VYON:  Yes. Yes, of course I'll help Steven. But,
we must get back to Earth first.  I explained this to the old man. The...   uh... Doctor.KATARINA:  We
can't go back to Earth, we've left
it.VYON:  That means we can't get back?  Katarina, are
you sure you don't know how to work this?KATARINA:  How could

I know?  It belongs to the Doctor.VYON:  The old man said
this was no ordinary ship, and he was right.

9.  TARDIS - EXTERIOR

DOCTOR:  So, you'd use physical violence, would you?  Hmm,
hmm, hmm.  You don't know what you've let yourself in for.  Hmm,   hmm, hmm, hmm.  Ahh... Here. You've
left the key in the door!  Oh,   hmm, hmm, hmm.  That's the first big mistake, isn't it?  Yes, very
foolish. Very foolish indeed, young man.  Well now, it's brain, or brawn   rather, versus brain?  Heh,
heh. I've got you beaten from the start,   young man!  Heh, hmm, hmm.

10.  TARDIS - INTERIOR

(Inside the TARDIS, Steven manages to overpower the weakened Vyon.)

KATARINA:  (shocked)  Steven!

11.  TARDIS - EXTERIOR

(The Doctor watches through the jungle as a spaceship lands on a pad in the
city.)

DOCTOR:  Ahh. I wonder if that spaceship has any... anything to
do with that violent young man. Or any connection with that city below.
Yes, those are two questions I must have answered. Hmm, hmm, hmm.

12.  DALEK CONTROL ROOM

(In a control room in the city, two Daleks monitor instruments.)

DALEK 2:  Control reports space vessel 111 in landing
circuit.DALEK SUPREME:  Is all prepared?DALEK 2:

Everything is ready.

13.  TARDIS - INTERIOR

(The Doctor has now entered, and places Bret Vyon in a chair.)

DOCTOR:  Heh, heh. Hmm. I don't think he'll be able to get out
of there. Now, do you, my friend?  Heh. Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm. Heh,   heh. Hmm.VYON:  (trying to move)
What is
it?DOCTOR:  Oh, it's a little invention of mine, I call it the
magnetic chair.  It has a force field strong enough to restrain a herd of   elephants, so I wouldn't
waste your energy trying to escape, hmm?  You   will stay there until I direct otherwise.  Heh, heh.
hmm. (to

Katarina)  How is he my dear, hmm? KATARINA:  He's
feverish.DOCTOR:  Yes, but...  By the way, I've found a
city.  And just as I was about to ascertain a way down, that young   ruffian set upon me.KATARINA:  Can
you get help for

Steven?DOCTOR:  Yes, I hope so. Heh, heh. Ah, just a minute.

(He takes Katarina aside.)

DOCTOR:  That, um... young man. Did he say anything?

Hmm?KATARINA:  No.DOCTOR:  Hmm. That's
strange.  Yes, I shall have to cross-examine him when I get back.
But don't worry.  He's quite safe. He... our guest is quite unable to   move until I press that little
switch at the back.  So you're quite safe.
Heh, heh, heh. Hmm. Whilst he's there, he's quite harmless. Hmm, hmm, hmm. Oh,   and quite comfortable I
hope, hm? Heh. Hmm. Oh, ho, ho.
(The Doctor leaves the TARDIS.)

14.  TARDIS - EXTERIOR

DOCTOR:  Very odd. I wonder. Is this the solar system?

Hmm? It's very strange. Hah. Hmm. Very strange indeed. Well. Heh, hmm.

15.  DALEK CONTROL ROOM

(The Doctor wanders through the corridors of the city.  Hearing voices,
he approaches the control room.)

DALEK 2:  Space vessel 111. Touch-down completed.DALEK

SUPREME:  Excellent. I will await our guest here.DOCTOR:

(watching)  Daleks!

16.  TARDIS - INTERIOR

(Bret Vyon looks towards Steven, who is again unconscious.)

VYON:  What's the matter with him?

(Katarina ignores him.)

VYON:  I said, what's the matter with
him?KATARINA:  He is sick.  The Doctor says he's poisoned
in the blood.VYON:  There are some tablets in the pouch of my
belt.  Give him two.KATARINA:  But, you're an
enemy.  The Doctor has gone to get help.VYON:  He won't
find any on this planet, believe me.  So why not try the tablets?  I   hate to see anyone die through
stupidity.KATARINA:  I do not
understand you.VYON:  For heaven's sake, girl!  Take the
tablets and give them to him!KATARINA:  All
right.VYON:  Now you're showing some
sense.KATARINA:  Here?VYON:  Yes.  It's
all right. I won't harm you.  This chair of the Doctor's seems to be   everything he claimed.  All
right. The tablets are in that tube.
(Katarina finds the tube, opens it, and looks at the tablets inside.)

KATARINA:  Are these tablets?VYON:  Well, what
do they look like?  Take two and put them in his mouth.  They   dissolve quickly and take effect almost
immediately.
(He watches as she hesitantly carries out his instructions.)

VYON:  (muttering to himself)   nursing me!

(to Katarina)  It's all right.  He'll be all right
now.  You can leave him alone.KATARINA:  If you're wrong,
the Doctor will be angry.  I've disobeyed him.VYON:  If

Steven, or whatever his name is, recovers, you will be forgiven.  and   that the Doctor gets back here
soon.

16.  DALEK CITY

(The occupant of the newly arrived spaceship approaches the Dalek control
room.  The Daleks turn to greet him.)

DALEK 2:  Our new ally approaches!DALEK SUPREME:

We welcome you as we welcome all allies of the Daleks!
(The newcomer steps forward.)

MAVIC CHEN:  I am honoured to be here.  And to be part of
your plan to conquer Earth and all the planets in the solar system!

17. JUNGLE

(The Doctor returns from his vantage point of the Dalek city, towards the

TARDIS. Along the way, he notices a small object on the jungle floor. He picks it up; it is the tape
recorder left behind by Marc Cory months before. He pockets the recorder and continues through the
jungle.)

18. TARDIS - EXTERIOR

(As the Doctor returns to the TARDIS, he sees the ship's door is open. He
watches from the undergrowth as a Dalek emerges from around the TARDIS. The
Doctor looks horrified.)

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The Daleks' Master Plan (2)

THE DALEKS' MASTER PLAN - EPISODE 2
first broadcast - 20th November 1965
running time - 24mins 25secs

DAY OF ARMAGEDDON

Written by

TERRY NATION

1.  DALEK CITY

(The occupant of the newly arrived spaceship approaches the Dalek control
room.  The Daleks turn to greet him.)

DALEK 2:  Our new ally approaches!

DALEK SUPREME:  We welcome you as we welcome all allies of the Daleks!

(The newcomer steps forward.)

MAVIC CHEN:  I am honoured to be here.  And to be part
of your plan to conquer Earth and all the planets in the solar system!

2.  JUNGLE

(The Doctor returns from his vantage point of the Dalek
city, towards the TARDIS.  Along the way, he notices a small object on the jungle floor.  He picks it
up; it is the tape recorder left behind by Marc
Cory months before.  He pockets the recorder and continues through the jungle.)

3.  TARDIS - EXTERIOR

(As the Doctor returns to the TARDIS, he sees the ship's door is open.  He
watches from the undergrowth as a Dalek emerges from around the TARDIS. The
Doctor looks horrified.)

DALEK 1:  Inform base security that a further intruder craft
has been located!

DALEK 2:  I obey!

DALEK 3:  Security patrols five and seven will converge on this area.  Priority alert.  Invaders to be
located and destroyed!

(The Dalek pauses.)

DALEK 3:  A message from the Dalek Supreme.  Operation

Inferno to be put into execution at once!

DALEK 1:  Inform all units.  Evacuate patrols to safety areas.  Confirm with units in position.  On
confirmation, start abbreviated countdown for Operation Inferno.

4.  RECEPTION AREA

(A room in the Dalek city.  Zephon, one of the delegates, greets

Mavic Chen.)

ZEPHON:  Mavic Chen, Guardian of the Solar System?

MAVIC CHEN:  Yes?

ZEPHON:  I am Zephon, Master of the Fifth Galaxy.

MAVIC CHEN:  Of course.  I had hoped to meet you once before.
At the Intergalactic Conference of Andromeda.

ZEPHON:  I did not attend, and now you know the reason.
The Daleks held a separate council at the same time.  None of us of the outer galaxies went to yours.

MAVIC CHEN:  Ahh... Except... Who landed?

ZEPHON:  We agreed to send a delegate.  In order the conference should not become suspicious.

MAVIC CHEN:  I  until some  meeting here.  The Daleks have evolved a most interesting plan.

ZEPHON:  We of the outer galaxies have contributed to it also.

MAVIC CHEN:  Of course.  But you must admit the Daleks have a... a genius for war.

ZEPHON:  That is so.  However, one thing surprises me.
That you, Guardian of the Solar System, have agreed to become one of us.

MAVIC CHEN:  Why the surprise?  As you say, I am Guardian of the Solar System.  But that is nothing more
than a part, however influential, of one galaxy.  Would you be satisfied with just a part of a galaxy?

ZEPHON:  The solar system is exceptional.  In its power lies influences far outside its own sphere.
Surely by joining with the forces determined to destroy that power, you mark yourself up as a supreme
traitor?

MAVIC CHEN:  Traitor?  Hahaha.  An archaic word for so advanced a... man as yourself.  Considering that
the planet Haita Vita and the Emorian and Gresh have both, at different times, tried to depose you, do
you still maintain that you're the master and have brought peace to your own galaxy?

ZEPHON:  I do... now that I am all-powerful with my position.

MAVIC CHEN:  True.  But then you do not understand the competing powers in our solar system.  Now let us
go and take some air.  This is hardly the time and place for so serious a discussion.

ZEPHON:  But first we must...

MAVIC CHEN:  Some air!

(They leave.  Two Daleks emerge from the shadows.)

DALEK SUPREME:  Report.

DALEK 2:  Guardian of the Solar System Chen must be watched.
His ambitions exceed his usefulness.

DALEK SUPREME:  When he has served his purpose, he, like the others, will be eliminated!  No power in
this universe can stop the
Daleks!

5.  JUNGLE

(Katarina watches as Steven begins to recover.)

STEVEN:  Where's the Doctor?

KATARINA:  He will be here soon.

STEVEN:  I don't understand... where are we... I can't think straight.

KATARINA:  You must rest.  The tablets I gave you have made you better.  But you must still rest.

STEVEN:  Tablets?  What's going on here?  What are we doing out here in the jungle?

KATARINA:  We had to leave the temple, the TARDIS.  The evil ones came.

STEVEN:  Evil ones?

KATARINA:  He called them the Daleks?

STEVEN:  Daleks!

(The Doctor appears.)

DOCTOR:  Katarina!

KATARINA:  I know...

STEVEN:  Doctor!  Doctor!

DOCTOR:  What are you both doing here?

KATARINA:  The evil ones searched for us but Bret helped us.
He said they were evil!

DOCTOR:  Yes... well whoever this Bret is, he's quite right!
The Daleks are evil things.

KATARINA:  Bret is the man you put in your magic chair.

DOCTOR:  What?  That young ruffian?

KATARINA:  But he helped us!

DOCTOR:  And you released him?

KATARINA:  Was I not right to do so?

DOCTOR:  Aughh...

KATARINA:  When the evil ones came, he said we had to flee from your temple!

DOCTOR:  Child, my TARDIS.  Child, my TARDIS.  Yes, you... you were right.  I mean... He wasn't to know
that you were quite safe away from the Daleks in there.

(He looks at Steven.)

DOCTOR:  How is this young man?

STEVEN:  I'll be all right in a minute, Doctor.

DOCTOR:  Good, good, good.

KATARINA:  Bret says the time is four thousand, and he came here and then he just got away from the evil
ones.  He gave Steven some white tablets, and he's almost well again.

DOCTOR:  Ah... I see, I see.  Hmm.  Yes, and I helped him in that chair, haha.

STEVEN:  So he's the very fellow with the anti-toxin.

DOCTOR:  Well, young man, you better pull yourself together.
We've got some work to do.

STEVEN:   Augh.

6.  JUNGLE

(A Dalek patrol lines up in the jungle.)

DALEK 1:  Operate pyro-flames!

DALEKS 2 & 3:&nbsp; We obey!

(The Daleks all have torches protruding from their sucker sticks.

They light the torches and start moving through the jungle, setting light to trees and undergrowth as
they go.)

7.  JUNGLE

(Nearby, the Doctor is helping a still weakened Steven to walk.)

DOCTOR:  Aren't you feeling better, hmm?

STEVEN:  Look, Doctor, I think I can manage on my own.

DOCTOR:  Carefully, carefully.  Now, just rest for a minute.
Take a few deep breaths, hmm?  Try to run before you can walk, hmm, hmm?

(Bret Vyon appears from the jungle.)

VYON:  I'm evading my caputre.

DOCTOR:  Oh, it's Bret, isn't it?

VYON:  Yes, thank you.

DOCTOR:  Tell me what's happening, hmm?

VYON:  It's the Daleks, they're using flame guns.  I think they're gonna burn down the jungle!

DOCTOR:  Oh, good gracious me!  We must try to get back to the TARDIS!   danger here.

STEVEN:  Doctor, don't you see it's a trap?  That's exactly what they want us to do!

DOCTOR:  Yes, yes, yes, possibly.

STEVEN:   to come back without thinking.

DOCTOR:  I never do, I never shall.

STEVEN:  But you're all set to go straight back to the TARDIS.

KATARINA:  You said we should never have left it.

DOCTOR:  Yes, you're quite right my dear.  It's the safest place.

STEVEN:  Oh, yes.  If the Daleks waiting outside for us, it will be suicide.

DOCTOR:  Oh, not necessarily, not.

STEVEN:  Who's going to play the scapegoat?

KATARINA:  Supposing Steven were right?

DOCTOR:  Well, in this instance, child, he might be, but I know the Daleks!

STEVEN:  Don't you worry, Doctor!  Look, I think we should stay here until we know exactly what we're
going to do!

DOCTOR:  ...Track us down at any time?

STEVEN:  We hear them.

DOCTOR:  No...

STEVEN:  I mean the... the Mechanoids?

DOCTOR:  No, they were robots...

STEVEN:  So what?

DOCTOR:  These are Daleks. Now you listen to me, young man, I am in charge of this situation.

VYON:  Quiet!  Will you shut up!

(He points his blaster at the Doctor.)

VYON:  At least I've stopped you arguing.

DOCTOR:  What about my so...

VYON:  Look, I won't care what happens to you, but I've got to warn Earth!

DOCTOR:  Yes, and you have to do far more than that!
If the Daleks are doing something drastic, then we have to stop the Daleks!
Now will you shut up, sir. Hmm?

8.  JUNGLE

(The Daleks continue to move through the jungle, burning everything
in their path as they go.)

9.  JUNGLE

VYON:  One, we learn the Dalek plan...

DOCTOR:  No, young man...

VYON:  ...and two, get the information back to Earth.

DOCTOR:  Now just listen, listen, listen!  Think back for the moment.  Just think back!  If the Daleks
were going to attack Earth, which you seem to fear, then you must tell Earth to look back in the history
to the year 2157, and that the Daleks are going to attack again.  History will show how to deal with
them.

VYON:  Who cares about history?

(As they argue, the Doctor catches glimpse of smoke coming from nearby
in the jungle.  He looks, and sees a large area of jungle burning nearby.)

STEVEN:   fire and smell smoke!

VYON:  Yes, look!

DOCTOR:  Yes, you're quite right, young man. They've got a trap up.

KATARINA:  Doctor, it's like a wall of fire.

DOCTOR:  Oh, no no no! Not quite, not quite my dear. We've got to get out of here! Come on, this way!

(Vyon realises with surprise which direction the Doctor is pointing
out.)

VYON:  The Dalek city!

DOCTOR:  Of course, that's the last place they would expect us to go.  Come along!

?:  Arghh.

10.  EXTERIOR, DALEK CITY

(Chen and Zephon stand just outside the walls of the city, watching
the blazing jungle.)

MAVIC CHEN:  The magnificent power of the flame.  Primitive,
but efficient.

ZEPHON:  You too would have used ultrasonics?

MAVIC CHEN:  Hmm, If I had nothing better.

?:  The meeting must start soon.

ZEPHON:  You appear so keen to be a model delegate one might think you are afraid of the Daleks.

MAVIC CHEN:  A dangerous statement.  Remember where you are.

ZEPHON:  The solar system is so far behind that it believes the Daleks need to eavesdrop?

MAVIC CHEN:  Of course not.

ZEPHON:  The Daleks needed me.  Without my help, they would never have got the co-operation of the
masters of Celation and Beaus.
We are on equal terms.

MAVIC CHEN:  Really?  Three galaxies for the price of one.

ZEPHON:  I do not understand you!

MAVIC CHEN:  Perhaps I'm the one of those who knows my place.
Are you coming in to take your seat?

ZEPHON:  They will not start the meeting without me.
I feel like waiting... here.

(Mavic Chen departs, leaving Zephon alone.  Nearby, out of earshot,
two Daleks emerge from the shadows.)

DALEK SUPREME:  Report.

DALEK 2:  It was expected.  His usefulness is over.

11.  EXTERIOR, DALEK CITY

(The Doctor, Steven, Katarina and Vyon arrive at the edge of the jungle.

The Dalek city is ahead of them; next to it, a landing pad is home to a number of ships of various
designs.  The city and spacecraft make a strange contrast to the primitive jungle.)

VYON:  Look at that!

STEVEN:  Just look at those ships. Beautiful, aren't they?

(Vyon is concerned at one ship in particular, a squat round craft with
six pads protruding from its belly.  His face is puzzled.)

VYON:  That one in the middle... that's from Earth.

That's Mavic Chen's!

DOCTOR:  You know that spaceship?

VYON:  Yes, I do.  I belongs to the Guardian of the Solar
System!

DOCTOR:  Oh, then you'll know how to fly it, hmm?

VYON:  Yes, of course I do, but...

DOCTOR:  Well, that's the one to go for, isn't it? Hmm, hmm.

VYON:  ...Can't believe it... it doesn't make sense!

STEVEN:  If you know how to use it, what's the worry?

VYON:  The Guardian, don't you understand?

STEVEN:  So what?  We don't want him, just his ship.

VYON:  He's the ultimate head of the solar system!  Now what's he doing here with the Daleks?

STEVEN:  That's what we want to find out!

DOCTOR:  Would you both be quiet, please!  We're going to take that spaceship if we've got to warn
Earth!

?:  .

12.  EXTERIOR, DALEK CITY

(Zephon broods alone just outside the city.  Vyon creeps up behind
him and knocks him out with the butt of his blaster.)

13.  CONFERENCE ROOM

(The Galactic Delegates wait impatiently for Zephon.)

DALEK SUPREME:  Where is the master of Zephon?

MAVIC CHEN:  He will be here... eventually.

DALEK SUPREME:  Search for him!

14.  EXTERIOR, DALEK CITY

(The Doctor, Steven and Katarina have joined Vyon.  Steven looks
at the prone body of Zephon.)

STEVEN:  What is it?  I've never seen anything like
this, it's hideous!

DOCTOR:  Well, obvious or not my boy, it's quite obvious he's one of the representatives, hmhm.

VYON:  That creature we managed to find , now we can get to the ship.

DOCTOR:  Oh, no... not yet, not yet!  Not until we find out exactly what the Daleks are planning.  And
this may be our only chance!

VYON:  I don't understand.

(He puts on Zephon's helmet.)

DOCTOR:  I'll agreed to that conference.

VYON:  Doctor, that's crazy!

DOCTOR:  Oh...

STEVEN:  You can't go to that conference!

DOCTOR:  Why not?  If I wear his cloak, why not?

STEVEN:  Should they find you, they'll kill you!

DOCTOR:  Oh, nonsense!  You three can take over a spaceship, and I can join you later.

KATARINA:  Are you sure you will be safe?

DOCTOR:  Oh yes, now don't you worry my child, don't worry! Augh, augh.

(He pulls out the tape recorder.)

DOCTOR:  I, uh... I found this, and I don't know whether it's revelant
or not, but hold onto it safely.

VYON:  Where did you find it?

DOCTOR:  Oh, in the jungle.  Now I want you... I want you to give me enough time to get to that meeting
and find out exactly what's going on.  And then I will head back to Chen's spaceship.

VYON:  How long will that take?

DOCTOR:  Well, I must leave that to your own judgment.
If, of course, you hear any kind of uproar, then you'll have to get into the spaceship and go off
without me.

VYON:  Doctor, we can't leave you.

DOCTOR:  Nonsense, nonsense!  Earth must be warned about the Daleks and about Chen.

VYON:  You're a very brave man.

DOCTOR:  Rubbish, rubbish my boy!  I'm only doing what has to be done.  Now come on and help me on to
this .  Be quick about it!  Come along!

(He prepares to don Zephon's cloak.)

15.  CONFERENCE ROOM

DALEK SUPREME:  Has the representative Zephon found his
way?

DALEK 2:  He and the Earth creature went to the reception area.

DALEK SUPREME:  Has he returned?

DALEK 2:  Only the creature from Earth returned this way.

DALEK SUPREME:  Zephon must still be there.  Come with me.  He has to be found!

16.  CORRIDOR

(The Daleks locate the Doctor, and are fooled by his disguise.)

DALEK 2:  Representative Zephon, the meeting is about to
begin.  You will follow me.

(Saying nothing, the Doctor follows the Dalek.)

17.  EXTERIOR, DALEK CITY

VYON:  The old man certainly has got nerve.

KATARINA:  The strange ones will not hurt him?

STEVEN:  I hope not.  Anyway, he's doing his part, we must do ours.  Let's get that ship.

18.  CONFERENCE ROOM

(The Doctor is escorted in by the Daleks.  The other delegates
are all in position around the semi-circular raised platform.)

TRANTIS:  The master of the Fifth Galaxy has been fit
to join us.

DALEK SUPREME:  Take your place.

(The Doctor moves hesitantly over towards the other delegates.)

MAVIC CHEN:  You seem lost, representative Zephon.

There's your place, next to me.

DALEK SUPREME:  This seventh meeting is now in session.  Representatives,
I have important news.  The time destructor is now completed.
It only requires the core to be fitted.

(The delegates applaud.)

DALEK SUPREME:  Mavic Chen, Guardian of the Solar System,
will address the meeting.

MAVIC CHEN:  As your most recent ally, and the newest member to stand in this great universal council, I
am delighted to be able to make so significant a contribution to our conquest of the universe.  I now
present you with... the core of the time destructor!

(He holds up a small, metallic object, cylindrical in shape.)

MAVIC CHEN:  A full emm of taranium, the rarest mineral
in the universe.  It's taken fifty Earth years to acquire even this amount.

TRANTIS:  If it has taken so long for the solar system to acquire it, why was not one of us of the outer
galaxies asked to provide it?

MAVIC CHEN:  As the Daleks know, taranium can only be found on one of the dead planets of the solar
system.  Without this, the time destructor is useless!  All the plans made here could not succeed.
I, Mavic Chen, give you the core of the time destructor!

19.  SPAR SHIP

(Vyon, Steven and Katarina enter Mavic Chen's Spar ship.  The airlock
leads into a large circular control room, with computer banks and controls around the walls.  Several
technicians are inside; Vyon's blaster soon gets their attentions.)

VYON:  I'm taking over this spaceship.  Over there.

(He motions with his blaster, and the technicians obey.  Vyon turns
to Steven.)

VYON:  Tie them up.

KATARINA:  The men will not be found?

STEVEN:  No, not unless the Daleks patrol the landing area.

VYON:  That's the one place they won't be patrolling.

STEVEN:  Let's hope not, otherwise it's the end of the Doctor!

KATARINA:  He must come, he must come!

20.  EXTERIOR, DALEK CITY

(Just outside the walls of the city, Zephon awakes.  Realising
what has happened, he quickly pulls an alarm cord.)

21.  CONFERENCE ROOM

(The air is filled with the sound of the alarm siren.  The Daleks
react immediately.)

DALEK 1:   intruder!  intruder!

DALEK 2:  .

DALEK 3:  Check the last position.

DALEK 4:  Report!  Alarm!  Report!

(The delegates look around in confusion.  While everyone's attention
is distracted, the Doctor runs to Mavic Chen, grabs the tarranium core from his hands and runs out of
the Conference chamber.)

?:  .  That's him! Stop him!

TRANTIS:  Stop the creature!

MAVIC CHEN:  Stop the creature!

(The Daleks leave in hot pursuit.)

22.  SPAR SHIP

(Vyon reacts with alarm to the sound of the sirens and the increasing
activity from the city.)

VYON:  We've got to go!

STEVEN:  We mustn't leave him!

(Katarina mutters to the Trojan Horse-god.)

KATARINA:  Great One, don't leave us!  Don't let the
strange beings catch him!

VYON:  He's been caught!  We've got to leave!

STEVEN:  No!  He said we had to...

(Vyon tries to operate the controls for take-off.  Steven pulls
him away.)

VYON:  No!

(He turns and knocks Steven to the floor, then resumes preparations
for take-off.)

KATARINA:  Stop!  We can't ... We can't leave  with the Doctor!

VYON:   we're going without him!

Next Episode

DEVIL'S PLANET

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Zephon

Katarina

Bret Vyon

Steven

Trantis

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KEVIN STONEY

JULIAN SHERRIER

ADRIENNE HILL

NICHOLAS COURTNEY

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PETER HAWKINS

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Beaus

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The Daleks' Master Plan (3)

THE DALEKS' MASTER PLAN - EPISODE 3
first broadcast - 27th November 1965
running time - 24mins 30secs

DEVIL'S PLANET

Written by

TERRY NATION

1.  SPAR SHIP

(Vyon reacts with alarm to the sound of the sirens and the increasing
activity from the city.)

VYON:  We've got to go!

STEVEN:  We mustn't leave him!

(Katarina mutters to the Trojan Horse-god.)

KATARINA:  Great One, don't leave us!  Don't let the
strange beings catch him!

VYON:  He's been caught!  We've got to leave!

STEVEN:  No!  He said we had to...

(Vyon tries to operate the controls for take-off.  Steven pulls
him away.)

VYON:  No!

(He turns and knocks Steven to the floor, then resumes preparations
for take-off.)

KATARINA:  Stop!  You cannot leave this place!

We must wait for him!

VYON:  No, we're going without him!

STEVEN:  Please, he said that we have to, he meant...

VYON:  NO!

(The countdown continues.  Suddenly Steven points to a light winking
on the hatch panel.)

STEVEN:  What's that?

VYON:  The outer door!  It's not fully shut.  Quick, or we'll be sucks out!

(As he adjusts the automatic switch, Steven shouts at him.)

STEVEN:  How the countdown!  The Doctor.

(Through the clear panel of the control room door he can see the Doctor
in the airlock doorway.  The hatch to the outside slides shut and
Steven pulls the Doctor to safety.)

DOCTOR:  Get us off, Bret!  Get us off!  Get us
off!  Take-off, man!

VYON:  Stand by, everyone!  Take off!

(They all desperately grab hold of anything close, as the rocket rises
swiftly into the air, leaving the planet of Kembel far below.  As equilibrium returns, the Doctor eyes
Vyon with austere reproof.)

DOCTOR:  That was rather large acceleration, young man.

(Vyon's expressionless face twists into a wry smile as the rocket ship
blasts into space.)

2.  DALEK CONTROL ROOM

(In the Dalek Communications Control Room, the Black Dalek joins the
watchers around the main monitor.  Outside, the aliens are being shepherded back to the Conference.  The
Communications Dalek [Comm. Dalek] is watching the scanners and the communicators.)

COMM. DALEK:  Attitude 5 seconds.  Speed 3000.

Vessel attained gravitational escape velocity.

BLACK DALEK:  Cut in automatic trackers.

COMM. DALEK:  All is ready for space extinction.

BLACK DALEK:  (in panic)  Do not destroy!
That vessel must not be destroyed.

COMM. DALEK:  Trackers operating.

BLACK DALEK:  Prepare Neutron Randomiser.

COMM. DALEK:  Stand by Randomiser.

BLACK DALEK:  The intruders must be caught alive.

3.  SPAR

(Through the observation window of the SPAR, the Doctor watches Kembel
grow smaller and smaller.)

DOCTOR:  Well done, Bret, Well done.  You got us off
very well.

VYON:  (curtly)  Thanks.  I thought you weren't going to make it.

(The Doctor gives an irascible snort.)

DOCTOR:  Of course I was.  You're far too pessimistic.

Now.  Where is that new box of mine?

(Steven picks up the cylinder holding up the Taranium Core.)

STEVEN:  This one?

(The Doctor takes the cylinder.)

DOCTOR:  Splendid, splendid.  The Daleks' plans are
utterly useless without this.

(He holds it out for all them to see.)

STEVEN:  What did you find out at the Council meeting?

DOCTOR:  They've allied themselves with the rules of the outer galaxies to take over the Universe!

VYON:  (sharply)  Universe?

DOCTOR:  Yes, their first objective being Earth and then the solar system.

STEVEN:  (pounding the table)  Then we've got to warn Earth and fast!

VYON:  But what about Mavic Chen?

DOCTOR:  Oh, he's one of them, my friend.  By sacrificing the Solar System, he hopes for more power.
Oh, a foolish thing therefore we must get back to Earth before him.

(This causes Katarina to approach the Doctor in puzzlement.)

KATARINA:  (timidly)  But how can we return
to Earth?  We already left it.

(The Doctor puts an encouraging hand on her shoulder.)

DOCTOR:  Yes, I know, my dear, but this is not Earth.

At least, don't think it is.  It's something very different.

(Vyon draws Steven aside.)

VYON:  What's the matter with the girl?  Where is she
from?

(Steven glances mischievously at the Doctor and Katarina.)

STEVEN:  (casually)  It's all right - she helped
us in Troy.  She doesn't really understand.

VYON:  (puzzled)  Troy?

STEVEN:  Yes.

(He goes over to join the others.)

STEVEN:  Yes, come on, Doctor, what's so special about that

'bottle'?

DOCTOR:  Well, as I said before my boy, the Daleks' plans are utterly useless without this.

STEVEN:  (pleased)  Then we won!

(Steven picks up the Core and is about to open it when the Doctor stops
him.)

DOCTOR:  Tut, tut, tut.  Don't open it, please.

STEVEN:  Why not?

DOCTOR:  It will burn your eyes - you'll be totally blind!
That is a full emm of Taranium!

VYON:  (shocked)  What?

DOCTOR:  Taranium.

VYON:  That can only be found on the planet Uranus.  A full measure would take years to mine!

DOCTOR:  Fifty years, to be precise, to be precise.  Mavic
Chen has given this lot to the Daleks, the complete the most evil weapon ever devised.  A Time
Destructor.

4.  CONFERENCE ROOM

(Zephon stands before the Black Dalek. Mavic Chen is also present.)

BLACK DALEK:  Representative Zephon!  You deny that
your negligence caused the loss of the Taranium Core?

ZEPHON:  (vindictively)  Had the Daleks made full security arrangements, the invaders would never have
reached the city.

MAVIC CHEN:  Has the master of the Fifth Galaxy been less arrogant, he would have gone with me to the
meeting. Instead he kept us all waiting.

ZEPHON:  I believe the intruders came from the Solar System.

MAVIC CHEN:  Did you see them?

ZEPHON:  No.

MAVIC CHEN:  Did they speak and tell you so?

ZEPHON:  No.

MAVIC CHEN:  Then your accusation is preposterous.

ZEPHON:  How did the intruders knew that the Taranium was here and that it was to be handed over, if
they did not come from the Solar
System?  None of others knew what Representative Mavic Chen was bringing here!

(All eyes are now on Mavic Chen.)

BLACK DALEK:  Have you nothing to say?

MAVIC CHEN:  This is absurd.  Why would I arrange for fifty years to be spend secretly mining to acquire
this mineral - only to have it stolen?

ZEPHON:  The quest for power.  Perhaps you wanted to use the Core for yourself!

MAVIC CHEN:  HOW?  Only the Daleks know how to assemble the Time Destructor.  I only provided the vital
ingredient of the
Core.

ZEPHON:  (to the Black Dalek)  I didn't know about the Core.  How come I?

BLACK DALEK:  You knew about the intruders.

ZEPHON:  We all did.  You were going to deal with them.
I thought you said...

BLACK DALEK:  Silence!  It is agreed that you are guilty of negligence.

(Zephon looks about him in fury.)

ZEPHON:  You can't do without me.  If I go, the Masters
of Celation and Beaus go with me!

BLACK DALEK:  (warningly)  You threaten our unity.

ZEPHON:  I have nothing to say.  I will leave now.

(Zephon starts to walk from the room, but he is stopped by Daleks closing
in from each side of the doorway.  Quietly, Mavic Chen rises and hurries away down the hall.  Zephon
trembles violently as he looks round for an escape route.)

BLACK DALEK:  Execute!

(Caught in the cross-fire at close range, Zephon crumples to the floor.

The other Daleks ignore the lifeless body and head for the Control Room.)

5.  DALEK CONTROL ROOM

(The Black Dalek enters.)

BLACK DALEK:  Where is the ship?

COMM. DALEK:  Course 707.  It is approaching the influence of the planet Desperus.

BLACK DALEK:  Prepare pursuit ships.  Stand by Randomiser.

6.  SPAR

(Having found special guards for their eyes, the Doctor, Steven, Katarina
and Vyon are looking at the Taranium.  A brilliant white flare shimmers around the mineral inside the
open container.  Katarina hides from it.)

DOCTOR:  That is Taranium.  Yes, the rarest mineral
in the universe!

STEVEN:  You're right.  It hurts your eyes even with these on.

(Steven indicates their eye-guards.)

STEVEN:  It's like looking into the sun for too long.

(They all remove their glasses and rub their eyes.)

DOCTOR:  Oh, you're a very privileged young man.  Do
you realise very few people have seen this in this universe.

STEVEN:  All right, Doctor.  But now that we got it what are we going to do with it?

DOCTOR:  Well, for the moment, nothing.

STEVEN:  That doesn't make sense.  You said yourself that the Daleks have the most dangerous weapon ever
devised.

DOCTOR:  We have the Taranium, so for the moment we'll do nothing.
And by doing nothing, we do everything.  Do I make myself clear?

STEVEN:  No, it doesn't.  What's that supposed to mean?

DOCTOR:  My dear young man, you ask too many questions.
(looking at Katarina)  Look at Katarina over there.  She doesn't ask questions, she just looks and
learns.  Now, why don't you try the same thing, hmm?  (to himself)  You know I find this very
fascinating. A little premature of course - but it's still very fascinating.

VYON:  (sardonically)  I'm sorry, but can't we do anything?

DOCTOR:  (taking no notice of the tone)  Yes, Bret, can you find me something to play that tape, hmm?

VYON:  Yes.

(He hunts about and finds a tape player.  The Doctor pounces on
it.)

DOCTOR:  Yes, Bret, my dear fellow, that is magnificent.

Very convenient!  That can play that tape I gave you, before the Dalek conference?

VYON:  What tape is that?

(Vyon produces the capsule from his uniform pocket.)

DOCTOR:  I found it by a skeleton.  It might be able
to tell us something.

(He notices Katarina who is still hiding from the Taranium.)

DOCTOR:  Katarina!  Come over here, my child.

(She does so.)

DOCTOR:  Now, have a look at another wonder.

(Katarina looks about her.)

KATARINA:  What is this place?  It isn't like your

TARDIS.

DOCTOR:  No, my dear, no.

STEVEN:  But Doctor surely.  Are the Daleks aren't going to leave a tape around with their plans on it?

DOCTOR:  No, no!  Bret here was searching for someone and as the skeleton I found was humanoid, well
whoever it was they learned something that we haven't.

VYON:  (exclaiming)  Marc Cory!  You found him!?  Kert and I searched the jungle but we could find no
trace.

DOCTOR:  Well, did you search that terrain, hmm, twice?

VYON:  What do you mean?

DOCTOR:  Well, it so happens that kind of jungle would bring you back to the same place all at once.

VYON:  We were as methodical as the Daleks.

DOCTOR:  No doubt, you were, no doubt, no doubt.  I suppose
I just lucky.  Now come on, come on, let's play that tape.

(The tape begins to play and Marc Cory's long-dead voice comes from
the speaker.  In the background of the recording the sound of the jungle can be heard.)

CORY:  (oov)  This is Marc Cory, Special Security

Agent, reporting from the planet Kembel.  The Daleks are planning the complete destruction of the
Galaxy.  Together with the powers of the outer galaxies, a war force is being assembled and...

(The voice breaks off.)

STEVEN:  That's all?

(The Doctor looks at the tape and then nods.)

VYON:  Poor Marc.  He never got through.

(The Doctor squares his shoulders.)

DOCTOR:  But we must!  The Daleks will stop at anything
to prevent us.

(Katarina shivers.)

7.  DALEK CONTROL ROOM

(The Black Dalek and the Comm. Dalek are watching the instruments which
are tracking the SPAR.)

COMM. DALEK:  Ship now at closing point to planet Desperus.

BLACK DALEK:  Activate Randomiser!

8.  SPAR

(A strange buzzing noise starts up, but nobody on board notices it.)

DOCTOR:  Yes, Bret, you must find someone who you can trust.

Someone in a high enough position to call on for help.

VYON:  Well, Karlton is the man in charge of all Space Security.
But he's very close to Chen.

STEVEN:  Yes, this chap Karlton may be part of the plan with the Daleks.

DOCTOR:  It's possible...

(By now the buzzing sound is ringing from the control banks and all
four look in surprise at the panels.  Bret, with an oath, rushes to the console and Katarina holds onto
the Doctor in fright.)

DOCTOR:  We're changing course.

(Vyon wrestles with the controls.)

VYON:  The steering boosters won't fire!  I can't get
her off.

STEVEN:  Switch to manual control!

(He works with Vyon, both men's fingers flying over the console buttons.)

VYON:  I can't... we're picking up speed!

(The Doctor peers at the monitor screen.)

DOCTOR:  I believe we're approaching the gravitation pull
of that planet.

(He points at the screen.  Vyon casts a glance at the rapidly narrowing
gap between them and a planet showing on the scanner.)

VYON:  (snaps)  Desperus!

DOCTOR:  Has it any kind of atmosphere?

VYON:  Yes.  But we can't get off there, we're never get off again.

STEVEN:  Why not?  What's wrong with it?

VYON:  Desperus is a penal planet of the Solar System.

DOCTOR:  Well, if it's one of your prison planets, surely there would guards and walls to help us.

VYON:  They're aren't any.  The only craft which stop are prison ships, being another criminals.  If we
crash there, we'll be left there to rot for the rest of our lives away.

DOCTOR:  You must try to land softly.

VYON:  I can't!  This vessel is out of my control!

(They all look at the planet on the scanner which is growing larger
and larger.)

9.  DALEK CONTROL ROOM

COMM. DALEK:  Space vessel instruments now randomised.

(Another Dalek chips in.)

DALEK 2:  On course for planet Desperus.  Impact in

6.  Remote control standing-by.

BLACK DALEK:  Cut in remote control.

COMM. DALEK:  Now under Dalek control.

BLACK DALEK:  Reduce escape velocity.  Vessel must make rough landing.

COMM. DALEK:  I obey.

(Mavic Chen has been watching from the doorway.  He approaches
the Black Dalek.)

MAVIC CHEN:  A highly efficient operation.  May I congratulate
you?

BLACK DALEK:  Dalek technology is the most advanced in the
Universe.

(This annoys Mavic Chen.)

MAVIC CHEN:  You haven't recovered the Taranium.

(The Black Dalek advances slowly.)

BLACK DALEK:  We shall.

(The Black Dalek's eye swings to look straight at Chen.)

BLACK DALEK:  It is strange that the intruders took your
space-vessel.  Perhaps they were indeed creatures from Earth.

(Chen quickly moves to disprove the accusation.)

MAVIC CHEN:  My SPAR was the last to arrive here, and consequently
was in the best position to leave quickly.  But set your mind at rest.
I will return to Earth now, and if I find that they do come from there, they will be dealt with, quickly
- and without arousing any suspicion.

BLACK DALEK:  Very well.  A vessel similar to your own craft will be placed at your disposal.

MAVIC CHEN:  I will return here as soon as all final preparations for the take-over are completed.

BLACK DALEK:  All will be in readiness.

(The Black Dalek turns back to the monitors.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Good.  We don't want any more mistakes.

(Chen stalks from the room, with an arrogant smile on his face.)

10.  SPAR

(The Doctor joins Vyon as the Space Agent looks over the controls in
puzzlement.)

DOCTOR:  What's the matter now?

VYON:  We'll going to be able to make a soft landing.
I don't understand it.

(The Doctor's face clears.)

DOCTOR:  Yes, I'm afraid I do - only too well.

STEVEN:  Daleks?

DOCTOR:  Somewhat of remote control, I suppose.

STEVEN:  We better prepare for landing.

DOCTOR:  You're quite right, my boy.

VYON:  If it's the Daleks, it can only mean one thing.

DOCTOR:  Yes, it means that they coming after us again.

11.  DESPERUS

(Desperus is an inhospitable place.  Its broken surface is covered
with rocks and dense forests of stunted trees, which are filled with bat-like creatures that the
prisoners call screamers.&nbsp; The convict's survival depends on them being able to band into tribes.
One such tribe lies in a cave, out of the cold night air.  Kirksen, whose long, tangled white hair and
beard cover a face ravaged by suffering, watches the sleeping forms of his tribesmen.  In the warmest
place, lies Bors, leader of the tribe.  He is the only one with a knife.  Also here is Garge. Kirksen
unwraps his filthy bedding and rises to his knees, watching Bors all the time.  As Kirksen stretches out
his claw-like fingers for the knife, Bors leaps at his throat in one violent movement and throws Kirksen
on his back.  With Bors' weight holding him down,
Kirksen screams in fright, waking Garge.  Garge crouches down, ready to spring.)

BORS:  You fool!  Not very smart of you.  (spotting

Garge)  The rest - stay where you are!

GARGE:  With the sort of life you lead, I'll beat you one day.

(With that, Garge lies down and pretends to sleep again.  Bors
jerks his head towards the black night outside, and looks venomously at
Kirksen.)

BORS:  Out on guard!

KIRKSEN:  Why is it always me?

BORS:  I'm the leader and I have the knife.  (pointing the end of the knife at Kirksen)  Do you want to
argue about it?

(Kirksen slinks away, avoiding Garge.  With another curse, Bors
rolls down into his bedding and replaces the knife beside his head.
Silence falls and gradually the small fire dies down.  Garge raises his head and looks at the cave mouth
- Kirksen is out of sight.  Turning on one elbow, Garge looks towards Bors.  Steady breathing reassures
Garge, and he silently repeats Kirksen's attempted theft - only to be caught as well.)

BORS:  And you can build up the fire.  Like the knife,
would you?  Then you'd be leader and you could tell the guards what to do, like me.  (threathening Garge
with the knife)  And tell ME what to do!

(He drags Garge up by the hair.)

GARGE:  I get it next time!

(Bors shrugs.)

BORS:  Who knows, perhaps you will.  Now, get out and
get the fuel.

(Garge pauses in the cave entrance.)

GARGE:  Why don't you send someone else?

BORS:  (screams)  GET!

(The sound of a space-ship reverberates in the small cave.  Garge
turns a worried face to Bors.)

BORS:  Yes, I can heard it, now GET OUT!

(Kirksen runs through the entrance.)

KIRKSEN:  That's not a prison ship!

(The two other prisoners started forward to join him at the entrance.)

KIRKSEN:  It's strange.  I haven't seen one like it
before!

BORS:  Where's it landing?

KIRKSEN:  Over by the river-bed.  It's a strange ship.
(grabbing Bors)  We can kill the crew and take it over.

BORS:  Possibly.

KIRKSEN:  We can use it to get away.

BORS:  (sharpish)  It might be a crash landing.

KIRKSEN:  You can kill the crew with your knife.

(Bors shoves Kirksen off him.)

BORS:  Shut up!  We'd better get right away.

Others will have seen it too!  Now, hurry away!

(Bors gives Kirksen and Garge a shove.  He snatches up some branches
and lights them from the fire.  Kirksen does the same.  Then they run down a hill into the darkness.)

KIRKSEN:  (at the back of the group)  What about
me?  If you're leaving this filthy planet, then so am I.

12.  SPAR

(Katarina stands in the airlock doorway, gazing at the dark landscape.

She sees three bright lights moving towards the ship.  Meanwhile, the Doctor is supervising Vyon as they
check for damage.)

DOCTOR:  (to Vyon)  Now, you're sure that you
have spare parts for this, hmm?

VYON:  Certain.  It's safely regulations.

DOCTOR:  (holding some circuits)  Hmm, look at this worse of these.  Out-of-date and primitive
spaceships.
One little bump and they fall to bits.

VYON:  Doctor, what are you talking about?  This is a
SPAR - the technically perfect craft in the history of the space-craft.

DOCTOR:  Yes, quite so.  That's why we are stranded on this pimple of a planet, whilst you fool with the
fuse box!

(Steven comes to the rescue.)

STEVEN:  Oh, come on, Doctor.  The TARDIS isn't exactly
perfect is it?  I mean, you can't even control where's we're going.

DOCTOR:  Now, you listen to me, young man.  Don't you start to criticise my TARDIS.  And as for space-
travel, you're still wet behind the ears.  Oh do carry on with it, hmm.

(He storms off to join Katarina.)

VYON:  What's the matter with Grandpa?

STEVEN:  (smiling)  Oh nothing, we all have our pet obsessions, don't we?  Now come on, Are we going to
have enough drive-force to lift off here and get back to Earth?

VYON:  We've got to.  Now, as the Doctor said, let's get on with it.

(Over at the airlock door, Katarina shivers with cold.)

DOCTOR:  What are you doing out here, my child?  I
thought I told you to keep those doors closed.

(Katarina points out into the night.)

KATARINA:  There are lights out there.

(The Doctor spots the lights too.)

DOCTOR:  Good grief, so there are.  Two - no - three.

Yes, we must get on with the repairs to the ship and get away from here.
Hmm, Hmm, Hmm.  Yes, those men will be vicious out there.  We're liable to come under attack.

(The Doctor surveys the area lit by the red glow from the airlock.)

DOCTOR:  That's marshy ground.  Very interesting.

Hmm Hmm.

(They both re-enter the ship.)

13.  DALEK CONTROL ROOM

(The Comm. Dalek turns to the Black Dalek.)

COMM. DALEK:  The exact location of the ship has been calculated.

BLACK DALEK:  Inform the pursuit fleet.

COMM. DALEK:  I obey.

(It turns to the communicator, but at that moment a Dalek voice comes
over the speaker.)

VOICE:  (oov)  Pursuit Fleet.  Commander
calling control.  We land on Desperus at one hundred.

BLACK DALEK:  (into communicator)  When the Taranium is recovered, the fugitives are to be eliminated.
Is that understood?

VOICE:  (oov)  I obey.

14.  DESPERUS

(Bors, Kirksen and Garge soon arrive at the crash site.  Reaching
the soft edges of the swamp which separates them from the Spar, they halt.
They proceed slowly through the swamp, grimacing as the ice cold mud slides up their legs.  Once through
the swamp, they peer over a grass-covered bank.  The SPAR stands on hard ground some way ahead.  Nothing
moves in the pool of light cast by the red lights in the open hatchway.)

BORS:  We're the first.

KIRKSEN:  Let's go and get it!

(He tries to force his way past.  Bors grabs Kirksen's hair.)

BORS:  Keep quiet!  This part of the swamp is tricky.

Put out the torches.

KIRKSEN:  What about the screamers?

BORS:  (hissing)  Shut up and do as I say!
They're only bats.

KIRKSEN:  Bats have wings and teeth.

BORS:  Oh, follow us or go back to the cave.

(Bors and Garge move gingerly along firmer ground.  Kirksen follows,
shrieking and waving his arms over his head to ward off the screamers.)

15.  SPAR

(Katarina spots the prisoners, and calls out to the Doctor, who is fixing
the rocket housing under the main control room.)

KATARINA:  Doctor!

(In the control room, Bret and Steven hold a complex piece of circuitry.)

STEVEN:  If you hold that reading steady, I think that I
can it fixed.

VYON:  Good.

KATARINA:  Come on, Doctor.

DOCTOR:  Thank you, my child.

(She helps the Doctor climb up and then to replace the cover.

The Doctor strides across to Vyon.)

DOCTOR:  Where is your cactic power, or rather, the outlet?

VYON:  What?

DOCTOR:  Outlet, where?

VYON:  There.

(Vyon points to a panel on the bulkhead and returns to his work with

Steven.)

DOCTOR:  Oh, thank you, thank you.

(The Doctor opens the panel and calls to Katarina.)

DOCTOR:  Come here, my dear.  Now, come, poor child

(The Doctor unravels a large coil of covered wire, fixed one end to
a plug and carries the coil towards the hatch.  As Katarina runs to help, he points to a switch.)

DOCTOR:  Do you see that switch?  I'll tell you when
to pull it.

KATARINA:  What are you doing?

DOCTOR:  Oh, don't ask questions, my dear girl, otherwise you'll become like the other two.  You just do
as you're told.

(Crestfallen, she crosses to the control panel and waits.  The

Doctor carefully unrolls the coil, and lays the wire over the bottom step of the automatic ladder.  He
hurries back up the stairs, grinning.)

DOCTOR:  Hmm, Hmm, Hmm.  That should repel any boarders.

Hmm, Hmm, Hmm.

16.  DESPERUS

(Bors and Garge climb the short bank and part the long, rank grass to
look at the ship.)

BORS:  There.  We'll nearly there.

GARGE:  How many do you think are on board?

BORS:  How do I know?  Difficult to say, with a ship that size.  But we've got surprise on our side.

(Garge glances back over his shoulder - the swamp is still and quiet.)

GARGE:  Have you seen Kirksen?

BORS:  The fool probably gone back to the cave.  Frightened by the screamers.  Probably just the two of
us.

(Garge points at the bit of land in front of the ramp of the SPAR.)

GARGE:  That's a piece of swamp.

BORS:  (hissing)  Yes, so go carefully.

17.  SPAR

(The Doctor and Katarina flatten themselves against the bulkhead in
the airlock, looking out into the shadows.)

KATARINA:  Ah! Doctor, something moved!

(The Doctor nods.)

DOCTOR:  Yes, I think you're right my dear.  You go
in and stand by that switch and wait until I'll gave the order, hmm.

(Bors and Garge creap up to the steps.)

DOCTOR:  NOW!

(As Katarina pulls the switch, the ladder is electrified and a loud
humming buzzes through the ship.  Bors and Garge are flung from the step and fall to the ground.  Their
ragged bodies lie still in the red glow.  Steven and Vyon come over.)

STEVEN:  What's going on?

VYON:  What do you think you're playing at?

DOCTOR:  (with a superior air)  Oh you two go back in there and get on with your repairs.  Katarina and
I are trying to repel any type of boarders.

(Vyon observes the cable.)

VYON:  But cactic power isn't strong enough to kill anyone.

DOCTOR:  But, of course not.  But it will knock them unconscious.
Just you remember, young man, that I have no desire to kill anyone!
Now go on and get on with those repairs.  I want to leave this place quickly.  Hurry up please.

(Steven and Vyon turn on their heels and march off back to work.

The Doctor comes back to Katarina.)

DOCTOR:  Hmm.  I think that should do the trick my
dear.  Come along, let's get this cable back.

(Together they roll up the coil and stow it away.)

DOCTOR:  (smiling at Katarina)  There we are.

KATARINA:  You show me so many strange mysteries.  With you I know I am safe.

DOCTOR:  (smiling even more)  I hope so, my dear,
I hope so.

(A tremendous roar of rockets sounds over Desperus.  The Doctor
darts to the scanner.)

DOCTOR:  The Dalek Spaceship!  Hurry up Bret!

(Steven and Vyon are already cramming circuits back into the panels.)

VYON:  (savagely)  This take time!

DOCTOR:  Get off, get off, get off!

(Steven shuts the last panel with a bang.)

STEVEN:  That's it!

(Steven rushes into the co-pilot's space next to Vyon, who starts flicking
switches as light springs up on the monitors.)

VYON:  Right, stand by everyone.  As this take-off
is on now manual, it might not be quite so smooth.

(Figures for take-off race over the screens.  Vyon shuts the internal
door leading to the airlock.  A light still glows on his panel.)

VYON:  Doctor, did you close the outer door?

(The Doctor moves towards the airlock.)

DOCTOR:  Oh I'm so sorry, I'm not used to this type of craft.

(The light on the console goes out.)

VYON:  It's all right, it doesn't matter.

(The newly repaired guidance system lights up on cue and all four smile
in relief.  Power builds up in the SPAR, as the craft slowly takes off.  The Doctor is watching the
scanner.)

DOCTOR:  (joyfully)  Look!  Look!

The Daleks' ship made a bad landing.  That's gives us the time we need.

STEVEN:  (also joyfully)  We made it!

VYON:  Next stop Earth.

DOCTOR:  Oh, I'm so glad to hear that, young man.  Now, you got some thinking to do.  (to KATARINA)
Katarina, get up on that door and see that it is secure.

(Katarina goes up to the door.)

STEVEN:  Do you realise...

(Katarina screams as Kirksen bursts through the internal door.

He seizes her with one hand, and pulls her round in front of him like a shield.  In his other hand he is
brandishing Bors' knife...)

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The Daleks' Master Plan (4)

THE DALEKS' MASTER PLAN - EPISODE 4
first broadcast - 4th December 1965
running time - 24mins 42secs

THE TRAITORS

Written by

TERRY NATION

1.  SPAR

(Power builds up in the SPAR, as the craft slowly takes off.  The

Doctor is watching the scanner.)

DOCTOR:  (joyfully)  Look!  Look!

The Daleks' ship made a bad landing.  That's gives us the time we need.

STEVEN:  (also joyfully)  We made it!

VYON:  Next stop Earth.

DOCTOR:  Oh, I'm so glad to hear that, young man.  Now, you got some thinking to do.  (to Katarina)
Katarina, get up on that door and see that it is secure.

(Katarina goes up to the door.)

STEVEN:  Do you realise...

(Katarina screams as Kirksen bursts through the internal door.

He seizes her with one hand, and pulls her round in front of him like a shield. In his other hand he has
Bors' knife.  Katarina screams in terror and Steven leaps to his feet.  He stops short as Kirksen smiles
wickedly, wrenching Katarina's head so that her neck is arched back, the knife edge pressed against her
skin.)

DOCTOR:  Release her!  We'll give you what you want

- let her go!

KIRKSEN:  Never mind that!  Who's in charge of this thing?
ANSWER ME!

VYON:  I am!

KIRKSEN:  Where are you heading?

VYON:  Earth.

KIRKSEN:  Change course.

(Vyon hesitates.)

KIRKSEN:  CHANGE IT!

VYON:  Where to?

(Kirksen scowls.)

KIRKSEN:  Not Earth.  Got to planet Kembel.

VYON:  KEMBEL?

KIRKSEN:  DO AS I SAY!

VYON:  Kembel is a hostile planet.  It's as bad as Desperus.

KIRKSEN:  Nowhere is as bad as Desperus!

(He shakes with maniacal laughter.)

STEVEN:  (trying to stall for time, warning)  The

Daleks are on Kembel!

(Kirksen steps back, hauling Katarina with him into the airlock.

He hits the door switch, locking them in.  He peers out at the others through a glass panel in the
door.)

DOCTOR:  The Daleks are no help!

(Kirksen's voice echoes over the intercom.)

KIRKSEN:  So?

DOCTOR:  The Daleks are no help to you, I swear!

(An insane look comes over Kirksen's face.)

KIRKSEN:  Then I shall be sent back to the Devil's planet!

No, whoever the Daleks are, they'll help me.

(Katarina begins to struggle, but Kirksen, glancing down, laughs at
her efforts and twists her hair more cruelly.  She gives a scream of fear and pain and, hearing this,
Steven strides towards the airlock doors.)

STEVEN:  You don't know that!  Now, look here...

(Kirksen's places the point of the knife under Katarina's ears and Steven
stops moving.)

KIRKSEN:  (in a mad snarl)  Just do as I say!

To Kembel!  KEMBEL!

2.  DALEK CITY CONTROL ROOM, KEMBEL

(Meanwhile, the Black Dalek hears a report from the Daleks that he sent
to chase the SPAR, who have now crash-landed on Desperus.)

DALEK VOICE:  (oov)  Only slight damage was
subtained.  We are ready to continue of Earth Vessel.

(The Black Dalek turns to the Comm. Dalek.)

BLACK DALEK:  What is course of Earth Vessel?

COMM. DALEK:  (checking its instruments)  Back on course - 707.  Heading for Earth.

BLACK DALEK:  Contact Mavic Chen using the communication band.
He must recapture the Taranium and exterminate creatures who took it.

COMM. DALEK:  I obey.

(The Black Dalek speaks, via the communicator, to the Pursuit ship himself.)

BLACK DALEK:  Pursuit ship, return to base.

DALEK VOICE:  (oov)  We obey.

(The Black Dalek turns to another Dalek, who is monitoring its controls.)

BLACK DALEK:  Destroy Pursuit ship.  They have failed
in their mission.

(The second Dalek moves to destroy the Pursuit Ship.)

BLACK DALEK:  WE WILL NOT TOLERATE MISTAKES!

3.  SPAR

(Vyon moves his hands over the controls and nods to the Doctor.)

DOCTOR:  (to Kirksen)  We're changing course.

Now, release that girl.

(Kirksen waves the knife in the air.)

KIRKSEN:  Do you think me a fool?

(Vyon tries speaking over the intercom.)

VYON:  Course is changed.  We'll heading for Kembel.

KIRKSEN:  (muttering)  It doesn't feel as if we're changed.

(Katarina, at the mention of Kembel, starts fighting again to get herself
free.)

STEVEN:  Well, look up at the screen and see.

(While Kirksen battles to keep Katarina under control, Steven rushes
over to Vyon.)

STEVEN:  Open the outside door from the controls and I'll
push him out.

(He stands tensed and ready for action beside the inner doors to the
airlock, but the Doctor shouts a warning.)

DOCTOR:  The girl will be dead before the doors half open!

(Kirksen has already subdued Katarina, and he holds his knife ready
to slash her throat again.  The Doctor goes over to Vyon.)

DOCTOR:  Can we talk to him in there?

(Vyon signals the Doctor to stand beside the intercom.)

VYON:  It'll take a bit of convincing.

DOCTOR:  Let's try a little bluff.

(He pulls the lever for the intercom and speaks loudly through the speaker.)

DOCTOR:  Now, then!  Listen to me, whoever you are.

Bring that girl in here, or we'll press a button and you will go outside the door - into space.

KIRKSEN:  Then the girl dies too!  If you open the outer door, then I'll open the inner door and we'll
be dead!

(Katarina tries to cry her protests to the Doctor, who looks on in fury
and agony at the situation.  Steven turns round to face Vyon, who turns off the intercom.)

VYON:  We can't seem to get through to him - he's crazy.

STEVEN:  And he's got Katarina!

(He realises what Vyon has done.)

STEVEN:  Stop that!  Turn the sound back on again!

(Vyon shrugs.)

VYON:  There's no point.

STEVEN:  Turn it on again, before he really hurts her!

VYON:  He won't kill her - or he has no hostage.

(Furiously, Steven turns the switch himself and then rushes over to
the airlock and shouts through it.)

STEVEN:  YOU... ANIMAL!

(Kirksen pulls Katarina'S arm further up her back and she screams out
again in great pain.)

KIRKSEN:  That's just for starters.  NOW, DO AS I SAY!

(The Doctor turns to Vyon with a disgusted look on his face.)

DOCTOR:  CHANGE COURSE!

(Kirksen looks out of the airlock and sees the stars beginning to change.)

KIRKSEN:  Now, that's more like it!

DOCTOR:  (banging the console with his hand in fury)
Take him back to Kembel.  Take him back to Kembel!  Let the
Daleks deal with him.

STEVEN:  Yes, and us.

DOCTOR:  Don't worry, dear boy, We'll find a way.

(Kirksen is getting fed up with Katarina's fighting.)

KIRKSEN:  STOP THAT OR YOU'LL DEAD!

(Vyon doesn't like this.)

VYON:  I can't sacrifice everything for the sake of that
one girl!

STEVEN:  Without us you wouldn't have got off Kembel at all, and nothing would be worth worrying about!

VYON:  All right, so we all go back together.  But without me, I doubt that you would have got this far
either.

STEVEN:  Yes, all right, but I won't let you hurt Katarina.
We'll head back for Kembel, if the Doctor said, on the way we may find a way to get her out of there.

(Kirksen hears this.)

KIRKSEN:  You won't.

(Katarina wrenches her hand free and reaches for the airlock switches.

Kirksen, seeing this, tries to get hold of her hand.  Outside, Steven and Vyon watch this, and see which
control Katarina is reaching for.)

STEVEN:  No, not this one!  Katarina!

(It is too late.  The outer airlock doors open, and Katarina and

Kirksen are swept into space to their deaths.)

STEVEN:  KATARINA!

(Vyon's hand flashes to the controls and the outer door closes again,
as Steven tries to open the inner door.  All three men are in total shock.)

STEVEN:  (softly)  She pressed the wrong button,

Doctor.

(He hits the lock in despair, leaning his head against the glass.

The Doctor moves over and puts a shaking hand on Steven's shoulder.)

DOCTOR:  She may have wanted to, dear boy.  She wanted
to save our lives.

VYON:  (awkwardly)  It must have been quick.

(The Doctor stares out into space.)

DOCTOR:  I hope she's reached her Place of Perfection.

(Steven stares at the airlock.)

STEVEN:  Yes, but not that way.

(The Doctor pats Steven's shoulder again.)

DOCTOR:  She didn't understand.  She wouldn't understand.

She wanted to save our lives.  And perhaps the lives of all other beings of the Solar System.  I hope
she found Perfection.

(He stares into space again.)

DOCTOR:  Oh, how I shall always remember her as one of the

Daughters of the Gods.

STEVEN:  (softly)  Yes.

DOCTOR:  One of the Daughters of the Gods.

4.  SPACE

(The bodies of Katarina and Kirksen float away into space. The SPAR
turns back towards Earth.)

5.  DALEK CITY CONTROL ROOM, KEMBEL

(Trantis, one of the delegates, fed up with not hearing any news, marches
into the Control room and right up to the Black Dalek.)

TRANTIS:  (with a mocking smile)  Dalek Supreme,

You have failed to get back the Core of the Time Destructor.

BLACK DALEK:  (staring at the new arrival)  We shall get it back.

TRANTIS:  You show too much trust in Mavic Chen.

BLACK DLAEK:  Mavic Chen is hungry for power.  We have offered him more power than he has ever thought
of.  He will return to us the Taranium Core.

TRANTIS:  (in mock alarm)  But suppose he fails?

BLACK DALEK:  He will not.  He had been given instructions.

TRANTIS:  (eagerly)  What instructions?

BLACK DALEK:  It is not necessary for you to know.

TRANTIS:  (snarling)  As Representative of the largest of the outer galaxies, I have the right to know!

BLACK DALEK:  Representative Trantis.  The Daleks will not fail and neither will any of the allies.

(Trantis retreats, step by step, as the Black Dalek moves towards him.)

BLACK DALEK:  If anything tries to stop us we will destroy
it.

(Trantis now looks terrified.)

BLACK DALEK:  Nothing will be allowed to stand in the way
of our plan to conquer the Universe.

6.  SPAR

(Some time later, the Doctor is looking at the scanner.)

DOCTOR:  Hmm, Judging by the position of those planets,
we will land quite soon.

VYON:  Hmm, that's the problem.  It won't be easy.

(The Doctor turns to Vyon in concern.)

DOCTOR:  Haven't we sufficient power to land safely, hmm?

VYON:  We can't land at the main landing-area - remember, this is Chen's vessel!

DOCTOR:  Yes, you've got a point there.  Where can we land, Hmm?

(Vyon points out a grid pattern on a computer screen, one finger tapping
a particular mark.)

VYON:  The Experimental Plant - a little way out from Central

City.  I have a friend there I think will help us.

(The Doctor, Steven and Vyon look at each other.)

7.  GUARDIAN'S OFFICE

(In his beautifully appointed office, Mavic Chen's curved desk separates
him from his Security Chief, Karlton.  Below Karlton are the workplaces of his two main agents, Lizan, a
female and Teknix.  Lizan is standing in front of Mavic Chen's desk with a sheaf of papers, while Chen
himself looks at a monitor.  On the monitor revolves an identity projection of Bret Vyon.  Karlton is
standing next to Lizan. )

MAVIC CHEN:  (staring at the screen)  So that's
out traitor.

LIZAN:  (reading through the papers)  Bret Vyon.
Bred on Mars Colony 16.  Joined Space Security Service 3990.
Gained First Rank 3995.  Gained Second Rank 3998.

MAVIC CHEN:  (beams at her)  You have a good memory.

LIZAN:  (blushing)  Thank you, Guardian.

MAVIC CHEN:  (nods at the monitor)  And he looks like that?

LIZAN:  Exactly like that, how can he look otherwise?
Guardian, have you no faith in computerised data?

MAVIC CHEN:  (laughing)  Every faith.  But this information is vital.  The man is dangerous and must be
caught.

(He turns his chair and stares balefully at Lizan.)

MAVIC CHEN:  I should hate there to be any mistake!

LIZAN:  (soothing)  A mistake is impossible.
Our computer network contains precise chemical details of every man, woman, and child in our Solar
System.

(Mavic Chen gives a slight smile at this.)

MAVIC CHEN:  There are forty billion people in the Solar

System.  Doesn't take provide some scope for error?

LIZAN:  (positive)  There is no scope for error.

(Mavic Chen thinks about it for a little while and then leans forward
to address the two agents.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Very well, have it sent out to all section.

Now, What about Gantry, the other traitor?

LIZAN:  We're working on his Identity Projection now!
It should be here shortly.

(Karlton speaks for the first time.)

KARLTON:  Since Vyon is in command, I gave priority to his

Projection.

(Lizan makes a note of this on her papers.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Excellent!  EXCELLENT!  Vyon and

Gantry never reported from the planet, Kembel, am I right?

LIZAN:  Yes, Guardian.

(Mavic Chen sighs.  Lizan, a great admirer of Chen, gazes at him
with sympathy.  Mavic Chen catches her gaze.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Then they are the two who took over my SPAR.

It's possible.  They may be in association with other creatures.
But we don't know, where from.

(He looks at Karlton, who replies.)

KARLTON:  When you catch Vyon and Gantry, you catch them,
too.

(Mavic Chen turns off the monitor and Lizan waits for orders.)

MAVIC CHEN:  You've done well.  I want all Space Security
agents called back to Earth.  If the traitors are not caught at the landing zone, then Central City must
be cordoned off until they are found.

(Lizan nearly runs from the room to carry out the orders but Mavic Chen
calls her back.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Lizan!  They will be killed on sight.

Give out the instructions.

LIZAN:  Yes, Guardian.

(Lizan makes another note of this and leaves the room.  Mavic Chen
and Karlton look at each other in satisfaction.)

MAVIC CHEN:  I think that takes care of that!  You
know, Karlton, some of your agents are too good - we don't want to spoil things for ourselves at this
stage.

KARLTON:  They won't.  I've already insisted that all future operations be cleared with me.

(Mavic Chen stares at Karlton with a stern face.)

MAVIC CHEN:  If you had done that in the first place, we
wouldn't be in this spot.

KARLTON:  (defensively)  Cory's mission was one that he kept to himself, without official sanction of
any kind!

(This seems to please Mavic Chen.)

MAVIC CHEN:  And you could hardly have stop the others,
after Cory's distress signal.  (sardonically)  You must do better than that.  I would hate to lose you.

(Karlton makes a gesture of apology and steps back.)

KARLTON:  You know you can trust me!

(Mavic Chen looks away and a faint smile appears over Karlton's face.)

8.  SPAR

(Vyon looks worriedly over the controls .)

VYON:  The drive force is very weak.

STEVEN:  Can we land?

VYON:  Yes, but I don't know what would happen if it hit it too hard, we could crash now!

STEVEN:  We better try to prevent it.  Remember, Bret, we got some valuable cargo on board.

VYON:  The Taranium.

STEVEN:  And the Doctor.

(The Doctor appears, carrying the core - he heard Steven's last words.)

DOCTOR:  Yes, I heard that!  Now, don't you concern
yourself over me! I've can look after myself.  The most important factor is this Taranium.

VYON:  (checking the instruments)  Right, stand by!

(The ship powers down as they touch down at the Experimental Station,
but unfortunately they damage the controls.)

9.  GUARDIAN'S OFFICE

(Mavic Chen turns round to confront Karlton, as the Security Chief enters
his office.)

MAVIC CHEN:  (hissing)  Why haven't you recovered
the Taranium!  I'll call a Council!

KARLTON:  (with icy calm)  It will be returned.

MAVIC CHEN:  (staring into space, hissing)  It's got to be.

(He walks across the room.)

MAVIC CHEN:  I want that position, right beside the Daleks.

I'll govern the Universe!

KARLTON:  But surely, Trantis will be first beside the Daleks?

(Mavic Chen stops pacing and explodes.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Trantis...  TRANTIS!  They don't
like him.  Agreed that his is the largest galaxy, but he's already demanding too much say in what goes
on.  They'll want him out of the way, and I have a plan which may help them to achieve just that!

(His features turn into a wicked leer.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Then it will be me, Mavic Chen, who'll be next
in line.

(Chen stalks past Karlton triumphantly, and Karlton bows his head.)

KARLTON:  (solemnly)  And I will be there, behind
you.

MAVIC CHEN:  Of course!

KARLTON:  (drily)  Of course.

(Something about Karlton's tone brings Mavic Chen's attention to the
present crisis.)

MAVIC CHEN:  (sharply)  Is your Special Force
dealing with Bret Vyon?

KARLTON:  Not completely.  I thought it best to use some of the ordinary Security men.

(Mavic Chen thinks about this.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Hmmmm - very good.  We'll need your men
next time.  Who's in command?

(Karlton gave Mavic Chen a significant look.)

KARLTON:  Kingdom.

(Mavic Chen's face changes to one of absolute delight.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Kingdom!  Ruthless, hard, efficient!

And does... exactly as ordered.

(Karlton bows.)

KARLTON:  Quite.

(A buzzer arouses them.  Karlton crosses to the door, where a series
of buttons operate communicators.  He presses one and listens to the information issuing from a special
ear-piece.)

KARLTON:  Uh hum!  I see.  Carry out Emergency

Plan B.

(He presses another button to disconnect.)

KARLTON:  (blandly)  The traitors have arrived.

MAVIC CHEN:  Good.

KARLTON:  But not at the landing area.

(Mavic Chen's pleased expression vanishes.)

MAVIC CHEN:  WHAT!?

KARLTON:  They have crash-landed at the Experimental Station.

10.  EXPERIMENTAL STATION

(The place looks deserted as the three men disembark.)

VYON:  No-one here.  We'll have to wait.  Come
on!

(They hurry through the plant in search of Vyon's friend, Daxtar.)

11.  GUARDIAN'S OFFICE

(Mavic Chen waits alone for the next development, writing on some papers
at his desk.  Soon, the door buzzes and Karlton appears.)

KARLTON:  Kingdom is here.

MAVIC CHEN:  (in a hearty voice)  Good.  Come in, Kingdom, come in!

(A young, beautiful, red-haired woman enters the room.  Sara Kingdom
has fascinating green eyes and high cheekbones.  She stands to attention in front of Mavic Chen.  Her
SSS uniform fits her like a glove and the long, well-polished boots add to the trim figure.)

MAVIC CHEN:  (seriously)  You know what happened?

(Sara's voice is clear and as cold as ice.)

SARA:  Yes.

MAVIC CHEN:  Do you know how many there are?

SARA:  Three.  Bret Vyon and two strangers.  They look as through they come from Earth but are oddly
dressed.  None of them can leave the planet.

MAVIC CHEN:  Good.

SARA:  There are in the main block.  I'm going to capture them myself.

(Mavic Chen raises his hand with the little finger extended, beckoning
her to stand beside him.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Before you do that, there is something you
have to know.

12.  EXPERIMENTAL STATION

(The Doctor, Vyon and Steven now stood in the central plant.)

STEVEN:  Look, where on earth is this Daxtar?

VYON:  He shouldn't be long.

DOCTOR:  I think we're wasting valuable time sitting about here waiting for this man, Daxtar or Daxtor
or whatever he call himself, hmm.

VYON:  Doctor, Daxtar is in a position to help us.

DOCTOR:  Surely everyone must know that Chen's space-ship has crash-landed here, only a short distance
from here.  There must be hundreds of people looking for us!  Hm.

VYON:  Doctor, there are very few people allowed near this place, it's a restricted area.

(The Doctor hurrumphs absently, still pacing around the room.)

VYON:  Don't you understand that Chen will have returned
to Earth by this time.  He realised that I was on man on the planet
Kembel and we're simple wanted men with this time.

DOCTOR:  But this is an Experimental Station, No scientists, no staff, nobody!  We may just as well have
landed on an empty planet.
What on Earth is happening?

VYON:  I don't know more than you do.

DOCTOR:  Have it occurred to you, by any chance, that we might deliberating be walking into an ambush.

STEVEN:  What's the point in standing here waiting to be caught?

VYON:  (exasperated)  Because Daxtar is the only man who will believe our story.

(A door opens and a man in his early fifties enters the room.)

DAXTAR:  What story?

13.  GUARDIAN'S OFFICE

(Mavic Chen finishes giving his instructions to Sara.)

MAVIC CHEN:  So you understand that it's absolutely essential
that this ebb of Taranium is returned to me.

SARA:  Of course, every precaution for it's safety will be taken.

MAVIC CHEN:  Good. See to it.

(Sara turns and marches from the room.)

KARLTON:  She actually believed you.

MAVIC CHEN:  Of course.

KARLTON:  I thought for a moment that you were really going to tell her about the Daleks.

MAVIC CHEN:  Oh come!  I need that Taranium back, but we can't have any more people to know the plan.

KARLTON:  I was watching her all the time.  She never doubted anything, even momentarily.

MAVIC CHEN:  A good security agent.  A heroic war cry to an apparent peaceful end is one of the most
greatest weapons a politician has.

14.  EXPERIMENTAL STATION

(Daxtar has been briefed over the situation.)

DAXTAR:  (incredulously)  Mavic Chen!?

The Daleks!?  I can't believe it!

VYON:  The Doctor saw it.

DOCTOR:  Quite true.  And then he gave a rather pompous speech of self-satisfaction and handed over the
Core of the Time Destructor to the Daleks.

STEVEN:  They intend to capture or destroy the Solar System
- and Chen is helping them.

(Daxtar raises his hands in an uncomprehending gesture.)

DAXTAR:  But why?

DOCTOR:  A lust for more power than he already has - Universal power!

(Daxtar shakes his head.)

DAXTAR:  It's incredible.

STEVEN:  Oh don't worry about incredulity!  We got to do something to stop him.

DOCTOR:  Yes, quite so.  But, whatever plans you have, it's essential that Steven and I return to the
planet Kembel.  I want to recover something of unique value.

(Daxtar whips round to face the Doctor.)

DAXTAR:  (urgently)  You didn't leave the Taranium
there?

STEVEN:  (laughing)  Oh no! The Doctor has it.

(Daxtar whistles with relief.)

DAXTAR:  Good.  That gives us a little time.

(He looks at his watch.)

VYON:  Very little.  We've got to move fast.

(Busily, Daxtar gets up and hurries towards the door.)

DAXTAR:  Of course.  We must get down to the Security

Building at once.  (looking at VYON)  The Planets must be alerted.  A combinated Task Force must be sent
to Kembel immediately.

(Daxtar is about to open the door.)

DOCTOR:  NO!

(Vyon turns and stares in annoyed astonishement at the Doctor, who stands
erect, looking straight at Daxtar.)

VYON:  What do you mean, Doctor?  What are you playing
at?

DOCTOR:  (still staring at Daxtar)  I suggest you ask Daxtar what's he is playing at.

DAXTAR:  (look bewildered)  I don't understand.
Look, this situation must be dealt with at once!

DOCTOR:  What price is Mavic Chen paying you for your treachery, hmm?

VYON:  Treachery?  I know this man all my life.
He's no traitor.

DOCTOR:  Long acquaintance is no guarantee for honesty.
Ask him!  Ask him how he came to know that the Core of their Time
Destructor is Taranium!

(Vyon stares at Daxtar.)

DAXTAR:  Don't be so ridiculous!  One of you mentioned
when you told me.  Why you, yourself, mentioned it when you said that
Chen handed the stuff over.

DOCTOR:  I did not, sir!  How long have you been in this conspiracy?

(Both men are now nearly shouting.)

DAXTAR:  WHAT CONSPIRACY?

(Vyon reaches for the gun in his belt.)

DAXTAR:  You're making a stupid mistake!

DOCTOR:  There is you, and Chen, and HOW MANY OTHERS!?
OR WHAT OTHERS ARE INVOLVED?!

(Daxtar turns to Vyon for help.)

DAXTAR:  Look, Bret.  You've known me for many years,
you know I wouldn't be mixed up in anything like this?!

VYON:  (coldly)  How did you know about the Taranium?

(Daxtar points at the Doctor.)

DAXTAR:  He told me!  For heaven's sake, you must have
heard him... you two!

VYON:  Traitor!

(He pulls his gun out.  Daxtar freezes with horror and then Vyon
fires.  The blast catches Daxtar full in the chest and, with a scream, he falls.  Steven and the Doctor
look on, appalled.)

DOCTOR:  (fumed)  You brainless idiot!

How many times have I told you about taking lives?

(Vyon looks at him as he returns his gun to the holster, unmoved.)

DOCTOR:  We have other ways of dealing with evil doers.

VYON:  (unmoved)  He deserved worse.

DOCTOR:  Possibly.  But now we shall never know whom we can trust!

15.  DALEK CITY CONTROL ROOM, KEMBEL

(The Comm. Dalek turns from his console.)

COMM. DALEK:  A signal from the planet Earth.

BLACK DALEK:  Report.

COMM. DALEK:  Mavic Chen has almost recaptured the Taranium
Core and will be returning with it to land here in two Earth days.

BLACK DALEK:  Have the fugitives been exterminated?

COMM. DALEK:  The report does not say.  But it is believed that they come from the tenth galaxy under
the leadership of Trantis.

(Trantis, hearing this, is furious.)

TRANTIS:  This is not true.  It is a plot by Mavic

Chen to discredit me!  He is jealous of my power in the outer galaxies.

BLACK DALEK:  We shall see.  Has the report been confirmed?

COMM. DLAKE:  No.  It was a suspicion by the Earth people.

TRANTIS:  It IS Chen!  He is trying to undermine the balance of the Galactic Council.

BLACK DALEK:  When Mavic Chen returns we shall discover the truth.  By then those that stole the
Taranium will have been identified and exterminated.

16.  EXPERIMENTAL STATION

(Vyon picks up Daxtar's body and dumps it in a corner.)

VYON:  I'm going to get into the Security Building and send
out the warning myself.

DOCTOR:  And how do you propose to do that?

STEVEN:  Yes, we're probably being searched for now by other friends of Chen.  Daxtar clearly knew about
the disappearance of the
Core...

DOCTOR:  Yes.  Possibly.  We filled in the story long before he gave himself away.

VYON:  I could try to bluff my way out.

(The Doctor looks deep in thought.)

VYON:  Well, it's worth a try!

(Silence.)

VYON:  You haven't thought of a better idea.

DOCTOR:  Yes, possibly.  If you have not killed Daxtar, there would be no need for to.

STEVEN:  Of course there would.  We wouldn't have been able to believe anything he said.

DOCTOR:  Well, there's not much point standing here, discussing it.  We shall have to try your scheme,
but I really much doubt, about the success of your plan...

(They turn to leave but before they leave, the door burst opens and

Sara bursts in.)

VYON:  Sara!

SARA:  (icy calm)  Yes.

VYON:  You're just the person we need.

SARA:  I doubt that.

(She pulls out her gun and covers each of the three men.)

SARA:  What one of you had the Taranium?

(Vyon takes a step forward, and Sara covers him.)

VYON:  (shouting)  RUN FOR IT!

(Sara's back is to the door and the Doctor and Steven manage to run
out of the room.  However, Vyon isn't so lucky and he manages to get himself covered again with the
gun.)

SARA:  (icily)  Give me the Taranium!

VYON:  (pleading)  Sara!  Please listen...

SARA:  GIVE ME THE TARANIUM!

VYON:  (in shock)  You too?!

(He reaches for his gun but Sara fires and hits Vyon in his heart.)

VYON:  (in total agony)  SARA!

(Vyon collapses on the floor.  Sara sighs and then runs out the
door.)

17.  CORRIDOR

(Sara Kingdom runs into view.)

SARA:  (calling)  Borkar!  Borkar, where
are you.

(Borkar, another security guard, comes running in from the other end
of the corridor.)

BORKAR:  Yes?

SARA:  The two fugitives are escaped.  All exits from the main building are to be guarded.

(Borker points his gun at the body of Bret Vyon.)

BORKAR:  That's Bret Vyon!

SARA:  Yes, he's dead.

(Sara says this with a little sadness in her voice.)

SARA:  The others must be killed as well.  They will
be shot on sight but aim for the head.

(They part.)

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COUNTER PLOT

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Steven

Katarina

Kirksen

Trantis

Mavic Chen

Karlton

Lizan

Sara Kingdom

Daxtar

Borkar

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The Daleks' Master Plan (5)

THE DALEKS' MASTER PLAN - EPISODE 5
first broadcast - 11th December 1965
running time - 24mins 03secs

COUNTER PLOT

Written by

TERRY NATION

1.  A CORRIDOR

(Sara Kingdom runs into view.)

SARA:  (calls)  Borkar!  Borkar, where
are you.

(Borkar comes running in from the other end of the corridor.)

BORKAR:  Yes?

SARA:  The two fugitives are escaped.  All exits from the main building are to be guarded.

(Borker points his gun at the body of Bret Vyon.)

BORKAR:  That's Bret Vyon!

SARA:  Yes, he's dead.

(Sara says this with a little sadness in her voice.)

SARA:  The others must be killed as well.  They will
be shot on sight but aim for the head.

(They part.)

2.  ANOTHER CORRIDOR WITH A DOOR

(The Doctor and Steven run down the corridor and stop by the door.)

DOCTOR:  Where's Brett?

STEVEN:  Right, behind us I think.  Probably dealing with that girl.

DOCTOR:  Oh, irritating man!  Come along in here, quickly.

3.  EXPERIMENT CHAMBER

(This is a room that is completely empty except for a small satellite-like
device in the middle of the room.  Mice can be seen in the middle of it.)

STEVEN:  Strange room.

DOCTOR:  Now I wonder what that is?

(They have a look at it)

STEVEN:  There are mice inside.  Funny sort of cage
for mice.

DOCTOR:  Yes, it could be some kind of transmitter.  Hmm.

STEVEN:  How will Brett find us?

DOCTOR:  Well I suggest that you stand by that door and if you hear any noise outside it's bound to be
him.

STEVEN:  Yes, if he moving fast enough.

(Steven moves to the edge of the room listening for noise while the

Doctor has a closer look at the mice.)

DOCTOR:  Mice.  Yes.  Perhaps it is some kind
of experiment.

4.  EXPERIMENT CONTROL ROOM

(In this room two scientists - Froyn and Rhynmal.  They are performing
final checks before their experiment.)

FROYN:  Are they ready yet?

RHYNMAL:  Pressure count seems to be rising again.

FROYN:  We have to go ahead anyway.  All Continuum readings are perfect.

RHYNMAL:  Wait, just a moment.

(Two security men - Borker and Karlton, the second in command to Mavic

Chen, enter the room.)

BORKER:  Have you seen two strangers?

FROYN:  Get out!

BORKER:  We are looking for two men who were heading in this direction.

FROYN:  I don't care who you are looking for.  We are in the middle of a highly complicated experiment -
now get out of here!

RHYNMAL:  All right now.  All readings registering normal.

FROYN:  Good.  (to the security men)  Once again, will you get out of here.

(The two security men leave.  Froyn goes back to his console.)

FROYN:  Starting distemunation countdown in ten seconds
from now.

(A bleeping noise is heard.)

5.  EXPERIMENT CHAMBER

STEVEN:  I think I just heard someone.

6.  CORRIDOR WITH DOOR

(Sara is sliding up to the door with a gun in her hand.  She opens
the door and enters the door.  Behind her we can see Borker.)

SARA:  (oov)  You will stay right where you
are, both of you.

(Borker runs off.)

7.  EXPERIMENT CHAMBER

(Sara keeps the Doctor and Steven covered with her gun.)

SARA:  I give you five seconds to hand over that Taranium.

DOCTOR:  Let me speak, please...

SARA:  The Taranium...

(Her face is filled with pain as the room starts to flash with a brilliant
light.  We also see that the Doctor's and Steven's faces are filled with pain also.)

8.  CORRIDOR WITH A DOOR

(We see Borker and Karlton rush up to the door.)

BORKER:  Open up!

(They open the door.)

9.  EXPERIMENT CHAMBER

(The chamber is completely empty; not the Doctor, Sara, Steven or the
satellite-like device is there.  What is heard is a high-pitched humming noise.)

10.  EXPERIMENT CONTROL ROOM

(Both Froyn and Rhynmal are checking readings from their instruments.)

FROYN:  Time Molecule Absorption.  Planet-side power
falling.

(They both touch some controls.)

RHYNMAL:  Projection overlie for zero, zero sigma.

Instruments report perfect distemunation.

FROYN:  Good.

(He crosses to another panel.)

FROYN:  Cut in computer control.

(The noise stops.)

RHYNMAL:  Perfect.  Absolutely perfect!

FROYN:  Just as I thought.

(A light flashes on the panel.)

RHYNMAL:  Someone opened the door.

FROYN:  Hey?

(He dashes to the panel.)

FROYN:  Quick!

(They both leave the room.)

11.  CORRIDOR WITH A DOOR

(Froyn and Rhynmal run down the corridor and enter the room.)

12.  EXPERIMENT ROOM

(Froyn and Rhynmal find the two security men there.)

FROYN:  (angry)  What do you think you are doing?

BORKER:  What is going on in this room?

FROYN:  We have been carrying out a Molecule distemunation.
And if you Space Security people would stop interfering we be able to get along a lot faster.

RHYNMAL:  Looks it was perfect.

BORKER:  You don't understand.

FROYN:  Have you touched anything in this room?

RHYNMAL:  No.

FROYN:  But there were three people in here.  Where are they?

13.  SPACE

(We see the bodies of Steven and Sara moving about in space.  The
satellite is going around and around and the faces of the passengers are first filled by nothing and
then by great pain as they move faster and faster away from Earth.)

14.  EXPERIMENT CONTROL ROOM

RHYNMAL:  There can't have been.  There was only my
mice.  I know.  I set them here myself.

BORKER:  You got to get them back.

FROYN:  Get them back.  But we can't.

BORKER:  What do you mean, you can't.  You must.

FROYN:  You don't seem to understand.  Anyone or anything that was in this room at the time of the
experiment is now being transmitted through space.

RHYNMAL:  Yes, my friend.  They are many light years away from Earth by now.  Moving towards a strange
planet, in a strange galaxy.  The nature of which we can only guess at.

15. MIRA

(The planet is called Mira.  It is a lot like Kembel with its jungle
and wildlife.  The ground is covered by a small blanket of fog and pool of some strange liquid bubbles
in certain areas.  We pan across the landscape to show how lonely and jungle-filled it is.)

16.  DALEK CITY CONTROL ROOM, KEMBEL

(The Dalek Supreme enters the room to hear the reports from one of its
aides.)

DALEK SUPREME:  Has any message been received from Earth?

DALEK 1:  No.

DALEK SUPREME:  Contract Mavic Chen and ask for a report.
He should be bringing the Taranium Core by this time.

DALEK 1:  I obey.

17.  EXPERIMENT CONTROL ROOM

(Rhynmal and Froyn are trying some controls under the eye of Karlton.)

KARLTON:  How long will it take before you know that your
experiment is successful.

FROYN:  We don't know.  Once the instruments reform on the planet Mira, they should start transmitting
immediately.

KARLTON:  Would it be wiser to have chosen a nearer planet than Mira?

FROYN:  The whole point was the distance.  We already know that certain small objects can be sent by
cellular fragmentation over some short distances.

KARLTON:  And these people arrive safely?

FROYN:  We don't know.  We never tried to transpose people in this way before.

KARLTON:  Why didn't you stop when Space Security came in.

FROYN:  The experiment had already started.  We couldn't stop.

KARLTON:  You're a fool.

(He turns to Borker.)

KARLTON:  Why didn't you make them stop?

BORKER:  There wasn't time.  And we didn't know who these people were.

(Karlton turns back to Froyn.)

KARLTON:  Inform me as soon as you know that your mechanism
has reached Mira.

FROYN:  Of course.

(Karlton storms out with Borker following.  Froyn goes back into
the centre of the room to find Rhynmal working on the control panel.)

FROYN:  Is there no sign of anything yet?

RHYNMAL:  No, No.  Ah,

(A bleeping sound is heard.)

RHYNMAL:  I think something is coming through.

(Froyn dashes over to the console.)

FROYN:  Hey... yes.

18.  MIRA

(We still pan across the jungle lands of Mira until we come across the

Satellite.  It is slightly damaged with one piece of it broken but the mice are in there and are alive.)

19.  GUARDIAN'S OFFICE

(Karlton walks into the room softly.)

KARLTON:  The instruments reassembled successfully and the
mice were alive.

(Mavic Chen takes his hands away from his face.)

MAVIC CHEN:  You know that might mean nothing.  You
realise of course that the Daleks might just assemble a force and conquer us.  And there would be
nothing we can do.

KARLTON:  We still have the power...

MAVIC CHEN:  Where?  They are expecting me now to arrive with the Taranium.

KARLTON:  Calm down.  Mira is not far from Kembel is it?

MAVIC CHEN:  Nearer Kembel then Earth is.  But what help is that?

KARLTON:  Tell the Daleks that you have trapped the fugitives in the Cellular Projector and sent them to
Mira on purpose.

MAVIC CHEN:  You're mad!

KARLTON:  Am I?  It was a safety measure.  Unwelcome attention was being paid to the fugitives so you
send them to Mira on purpose.

(Mavic Chen sees the logic in this.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Ahh, we could attribute it to a too efficient
security system.  It'll show concludingly that I am completely allied to the Daleks.  They would trust
us... with more.

KARLTON:  Exactly.

MAVIC CHEN:  Wait.  How do we know that the Taranium wasn't destroyed on the way.

KARLTON:  We don't.

MAVIC CHEN:  But...

KARLTON:  No buts.  The only reason that you as Guardian of the Solar System was admitted to the
Universal Council was because of our superior knowledge of mineralogy.  Without us they cannot get
Taranium.

MAVIC CHEN:  Without me, their plan cannot completely work.
Without me, they are nothing.  NOTHING!!!!

(He throws open his arms.)

MAVIC CHEN:  When I am next to the Daleks, only they stand
between me and the highest position in the universe.  Then would be the time for me to take complete
control.

(He sees that Karlton is watching him.)

MAVIC CHEN:  You are a fortunate man, Karlton.  You
will have a high place in galactic history.

(He walks out with his usual arrogance.)

KARLTON:  The highest... next to you.

20.  MIRA

(We pan down some trees and we come to the Doctor.  His eyes open
and he focuses on where he is.  He checks all over his body for any bruises and suchlike before standing
up.  He next checks his hand as if he isn't sure what has happened to him and next checks in his pocket
for the Taranium Core.  Luckily it is still in there and he brings it out to have a look at it.  He
thinks on what has just happened.)

DOCTOR:  The mice couldn't have done that.

(He moves on.)

21.  ANOTHER PART OF THE JUNGLE

(Nearby, Sara is just coming round.  She raises her arms to try
and get some feeling back into them.  Next to her is Steven.
He comes round more quickly.  He stands up, and after seeing Sara's still mostly-unconscious body he
crosses over to it and takes her blaster from her.  He attempts to wake her up properly but fails.)

22.  JUNGLE

(The Doctor has found the mice and is checking them over.)

DOCTOR:  Most extraordinary.

(He goes behind some jungle and hears some noises.  He tries calling
out.)

DOCTOR:  Steven?  Steven, my boy, where are you?

23.  JUNGLE FLOOR

(On the ground we can see some pawprints being made but we can't see
who or what is making them.  It seems that it is following the Doctor for some reason.)

24.  ANOTHER PART OF THE JUNGLE

(Steven is holding the blaster while looking at Sara's body.)

STEVEN:  (calls)  Doctor!

(The Doctor appears from the jungle.)

STEVEN:  Doctor.

DOCTOR:  All right, all right, all right.

STEVEN:  What's going on?  Where are we?  What on
Earth happened?

DOCTOR:  Calm down, calm down.  I don't know where we are.  We're safe and sound that's the main thing.

(He sees Sara.)

DOCTOR:  Oh, I suppose she had to come along, hey.

STEVEN:  What happened?  All I know is she is about to shoot us and there was this fantastic noise.

DOCTOR:  Yes, I very glad that you took that gun away from her.

(Sara groans.)

DOCTOR:  She all right?

STEVEN:  She hasn't come round yet.

(Sara is opening her eyes.)

DOCTOR:  Pull yourself together, Madam.  I want to
ask you some few questions.

(to Steven)  Take a good look round, dear boy.  And find a place to hide.  We've got a lot to sort out.

(Sara sits up and sees who is with her while Steven moves away.)

SARA:  You!  The traitors!

DOCTOR:  You feel cold.  Get on your feet.

(He helps Sara to her feet.)

DOCTOR:  You're lucky to be alive.  Now you come with
me, and don't try any tricks.  Come along.

(He puts his arms around Sara's and helps to steady her walk.)

25.  DALEK CITY CONTROL ROOM, KEMBEL

DALEK 1:  The pursuit ship reports that they have landed
on the planet Mira.

DALEK SUPREME:  Have they located the fugitives?

DALEK 1:  The detectors register strong readings.

DALEK SUPREME:  When the fugitives have been captured, report at once.

DALEK 1:  I obey.

26.  JUNGLE

(Sara and Steven are now arguing.)

STEVEN:  Feeling better?

SARA:  I'll be a lot better when we get out of this place.

DOCTOR:  Getting away from this place presents quite a problem.

SARA:  Where are we?

DOCTOR:  At the moment, I haven't got the faintest idea.

SARA:  Oh!  How did we get here?

DOCTOR:  Cellular distemunation.

SARA:  Cellular what?

DOCTOR:  To put it in lay language, Cellular distemunation means that our bodies were broken up by some
purpose or other, shot through into the fourth dimension and at a given point reassembled again on this
planet.

STEVEN:  That's fantastic.

SARA:  Impossible.

DOCTOR:  Fantastic it may be my boy, but impossible no.
For that is precisely what's happened.

STEVEN:  Yes, but Doctor what about that transmitter thing?
You know the one with the mice in it.

DOCTOR:  Yes, that came along too and I believe that it is sending a signal to Earth.  That would mean
that Mavic Chen would know precisely where we are.  Therefore, the Daleks will attack once again.

27.  SATELLITE

(The Daleks have found the mice and are wondering what do about them.)

DALEK 1:  Detector indicates beings at close range.

DALEK 2:  An alien device.  There are small white creatures inside.  They may be hostile.

DALEK 1:  It is sending out signals.

DALEK 2:  It may belong to the fugitives and may register our presence here.

DALEK 1:  Destroy it.

(They move away and then blast it.  The mice die and it stops bleeping.)

DALEK 1:  Detectors still registers being is very close.

(They turn and have a look around.)

DALEK 2:  I can see nothing.

DALEK 1:  There is a being near us.  Fire at any movement.

(The leaves near the Daleks start to move and obeying orders, the Daleks
fire.  There is a roar and the leaves stop moving.)

DALEK 2:  The beings appear to be invisible.  We must
continue the search for the fugitives.  Keep constant detector readings.
Open fire when it registers close proximity.

DALEK 1:  I obey.

(They move on.)

28.  EXPERIMENT CONTROL ROOM

(Froyn is not getting any more signals from Mira and is being watched
by an impatient Karlton.)

FROYN:  I don't understand it.  It was giving off a
powerful signal and then nothing.

RHYNMAL:  A technical fault?

FROYN:  It couldn't be, just like that.

RHYNMAL:  These criminals must have damaged it.

FROYN:  Why didn't they do it when they first arrived?

KARLTON:  Perhaps they have only just found it.  You are certain that there are no natural beings on
Mira?

FROYN:  Not to our knowledge.  Our probes haven't shown any.

RHYNMAL:  That's why we sent the mice.  I was hoping that they would...  Oh dear.  Perhaps we should
send some more mice.

KARLTON:  No.  Send nothing further to Mira.  Inform me if you get any form of contact.  In the meantime
send no further matter to that planet.

29.  JUNGLE

(The Doctor, alone, moves forward and he hears a noise.  With his
walking stick up he moves slowly forward when suddenly the leaves near him start to move.  The Doctor
attacks whatever is there with his stick and with a roar the creature backs off.)

DOCTOR:  The planet Mira.

30.  MORE JUNGLE

STEVEN:  But he was the one person who could have warned

Earth.

SARA:  So you say.

STEVEN:  You killed Brett!  You shot him down.

SARA:  He was a traitor.  Between the three of you, you have stolen the Taranium, the most valuable
mineral in the universe.
It is needed desperately to spread the peace that was advancing, founded in the solar system, to reach
the whole galaxy.

STEVEN:  What was the Taranium going to do?

SARA:  How should I know?  I had my orders.

STEVEN:  (disgusted)  Your orders!  Even though that it meant killing one of your own people, you obeyed
them blindly, without question!

SARA:  One does not question the orders of the Guardian.

STEVEN:  Oh you didn't stop to think how it came to happen.
That a space security agent, one of your own people, was a traitor.

SARA:  No!

STEVEN:  You didn't give him a chance.  You couldn't question
Chen and you wouldn't question Brett.

SARA:  Look, what do you want me to say?  That I believe your fantastic story?

STEVEN:  It's true.

SARA:  (tearfully)  It mustn't be.

(The Doctor appears.)

DOCTOR:  I'm afraid it is, my dear.

STEVEN:  (horribly)  But Bret had to be killed.

SARA:  Shut up!  Bret Vyon was my brother.

(She runs off.  Steven starts to follow her but the Doctor stops
him.)

DOCTOR:  Leave her, my boy.  There's nothing we can
do.  She finally believes us.

(With a cry, Sara runs back.)

SARA:  Something... touched me.

(Steven takes the blaster and starts to move forward.)

DOCTOR:  Steven!

(Steven comes back.)

DOCTOR:  Now listen to me, both of you.  This is the
planet Mira.  And the only beings on here are the Visians.  We can't see them but they are very vicious.
We must try to get away from here as soon as possible.

SARA:  But how?

DOCTOR:  I don't know yet.

(Steven goes up a small hill and with the others following him sees
a large bunch of leaves moving and smoke rising from the ground.)

STEVEN:  Is that them?

DOCTOR:  And it appears we're trapped!

31.  GUARDIANS' OFFICE

(Karlton is back with Mavic Chen.)

KARLTON:  I am certain that the Daleks have already reached

Mira.

MAVIC CHEN:  That means I must return to Kembel at once.

KARLTON:  Of course, everything is arranged.

MAVIC CHEN:  Good.

(He drops the pen that he was using.)

MAVIC CHEN:  It's look like the Daleks have believed my
story.  I must be there before the Taranium is bought back.

KARLTON:  If it is?

MAVIC CHEN:  Wait until you hear from me then take your party to Venus.  Whatever happens we shall
defeat the Daleks.  We should be able to destroy Kembel with help from the rest of the solar system.

KARLTON:  But that would mean mastery of only this galaxy.

(Mavic Chen raises his eyes heavenwards.)

MAVIC CHEN:  But a start, Karlton, a start.

32.  JUNGLE

DOCTOR:  I don't think that they have fathomed us out yet.

STEVEN:  Yes, but when we beat our way through, we've got to stick together.

DOCTOR:  And you remember my boy, aim high, these Visians are eight feet tall.

(The monsters start to move forward but blasts from a Dalek kills them.)

STEVEN:  Daleks!

SARA:  You're right Doctor, they've come.

(The Dalek covers them.)

DALEK:  You are surrounded.  You will come with us.

DOCTOR:  I'm afraid, my friends, that the Daleks have won.

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Back to The Daleks' Master Plan index.

The Daleks' Master Plan (6)

THE DALEKS' MASTER PLAN - EPISODE 6
first broadcast - 18th December 1965
running time - 24mins 45secs

CORONAS OF THE SUN

Written by

DENNIS SPOONER

From an idea by

TERRY NATION

1.  JUNGLE

(The Visians start to move forward towards the Doctor, Steven and Sara,
but blasts from a Dalek patrol kill them.  The Daleks surround them.)

DALEK:  You are surrounded.  You will come with us.

DOCTOR:  I'm afraid, my friends, that the Daleks have won.

2.  OVERVIEW OF THE JUNGLE

(The episode titles are shown over a panning view of the jungle.)

3.  JUNGLE

(The Doctor leads Steven and Sara out to stand before the squad of Daleks.

The patrol Dalek advances.)

DALEK:  You will hand over the Taranium Core.

(The Doctor draws himself up.)

DOCTOR:  And if I do, what guarantee is there that you won't
fire your gun afterwards, eh?

DALEK:  There is NO guarantee.

(Another Dalek, with a metal device replacing the usual sucker-hand,
reports.)

DALEK 2:  Semantic detector shows that the object that he
is carrying IS the Taranium!

DALEK:  You will surrender it!

(Sara strides forward to stand beside the Doctor.)

SARA:  He will not!

(She is menaced by the Dalek's guns.)

DALEK:  Silence!  You will not speak!

(The Doctor assumes his most haughty air.)

DOCTOR:  You dare not fire, because of this Taranium!

To end this statemate, may I suggest...

DALEK:  There will no more discussion!  The Core is to be handed over.  (to the rest of the DALEKS)  Re-
form line!  Prepare to exterminate them!

(As the Dalek swings out of the line of fire, a roaring cacophony erupts
behind the group.)

DALEK:  What is that noise??

DALEK 2:  The invisible creatures are attacking in force!

(The Daleks start to spin about trying to locate the Visians.)

DALEK:  Patrol alert!  Patrol Alert!  Annihilate
them!  Annihilate them!

(All the Daleks fire their blasters, and the Visians briefly become
visible as some of them die in the Dalek's rays.  Meanwhile, the Doctor,
Sara and Steven sidle along the rocky outcrop, climb the tumbled rocks and elude both sets of alien
creatures.)

DOCTOR:  Round the bend!

(The Doctor, Steven and Sara humans disappear from view.  The battle
is short and sweet. The Visians are no match for the Daleks.)

DALEK 2:  The invisible creatures have been exterminated.

DALEK:  Search for the fugitives!  They must not escape.

DALEKS:  We obey!

(They move off.)

4.  DALEK CITY CONTROL ROOM, KEMBEL

(The Black Dalek enters as one of the control room Daleks turns from
its communications panel.)

COMM. DALEK:  Communication received from the planet Mira.

BLACK DALEK:  Are the fugitives still evading capture?

COMM. DALEK:  Yes.  There has been no further contact.
Reforcements can be dispatched.

BLACK DALEK:  Our force already there is sufficient for the task.  Contact them and order the Taranium. 
FAILURE WILL NOT
BE TOLERATED!

5.  DALEK SHIP, JUNGLE

(The heavy casing of the Dalek ship has sunk several inches into the

Miran mud.  The ship is a classic saucer shape, with a raised dome, and stands on long legs.  A central
pod hangs below the body - the exit door is still open.  From the door, a ramp leads to the ground, and
at the top a Dalek stands on guard.  Looking through the leaves at the ship, the Doctor and Steven
complete the final stages of a plan.)

DOCTOR:  Only one guard.  (to STEVEN)  You
know what to do?

STEVEN:  (whispering)  Yes.

(The Doctor moves away from the group, allowing Sara to move next to

Steven.)

SARA:  It will never work.

STEVEN:  It will!  It's got to!

SARA:  The other Daleks will be back here before we can get started.

STEVEN:  Why should they?  They're looking for us, they wouldn't expect us to come back here.

SARA:  Look, they are not complete fools!  They know we got to get off Mira and their ship is our only
chance.

STEVEN:  Don't worry.  As most of the Doctor's plans, this one is simple, it won't take long.

(Sara looks around herself at the jungle.)

SARA:  Well, why doesn't he get started then?

STEVEN:  Give him time.  He got to get about there.
Look, you must learn to trust him.  He's had dealing with the Daleks before.

SARA:  I got no choice.  Let's hope you're right.

(Steven looks round at the jungle.)

STEVEN:  He should be in position by now.  Come on.

(Both Steven and Sara start to move forward in their stage of their
plan.  The Dalek guard has moved near the Pursuit ship, protecting the ramp.  The sentry sweaps the
immediate area with his eyepiece, which stops to focus on the Doctor, walking towards the ship, with his
hands raised in the air.)

GUARD:  Remain where you are.

DOCTOR:  (obligingly)  I certainly will, I've come to give myself up.

(The guard slowly advances to face the Doctor, some way from the ramp.)

GUARD:  Do you have the Taranium?

DOCTOR:  I have.  I realise I am no match for the Daleks, so I hand it over, will you help me and my
friends get away from this planet?

GUARD:  (eye-piece still focused on the Doctor)  Where are the others?

DOCTOR:  Oh, they will come when I call them.

(He carefully extracts the Core and displays it to the guard.)

DOCTOR:  The Taranium.  Shall I give it to you or would
you prefer me to hand it to you in your ship, hm?

(Behind the guard, Steven and Sara steal forward, Steven holding a large
rock in both hands.)

GUARD:  You will wait there until the Patrol returns.

The others are to join you.  If you try to escape...

(The Doctor raises his voice to cover Steven's approach.)

DOCTOR:  Escape!  Oh, my dear tin friend.  Never!

You must forget that I came here from my own free will.

(This allows Steven to get close enough, undetected, to bring the rock
crashing down onto the Dalek's eyestalk.  The Doctor, Steven and Sara all dive to the floor and up the
ramp into the Dalek ship.  Blinded, the guard swings from side to side.)

GUARD:  Ahhh, Ahh, Help, Help, Loss of vision, Loss of vision,

I am under attack!  I am under attack!  Patrol alert!  Patrol alert!

(The Dalek guard starts firing randomly.  It is in danger of exterminating
its leader, when the full Dalek patrol arrives at the Pursuit ship's site.)

DALEK:  Cease fire!  Before we sustain damage.

Report!

(Through the open hatch the Doctor and Steven are visible, desperately
trying to close the doors.)

DALEK:  The fugitives are boarding the Pursuit ship!

6.  PURSUIT SHIP

(Sara is anxiously looking round the vessel.  Outside, the Daleks
shout orders to each other.)

SARA:  Can you work it, Doctor?

DALEK:  (oov)  Board ship immediately!  Board ship immediately!

DALEKS:  (oov)  We obey!

DOCTOR:  Of course I can, my child.  I'm quite accustomed to Dalek technique. Now, close the hatches.

(Sara studies the strange controls, telling him.)

SARA:  The vacuum-lock reading is now 2.24.

(The Doctor is busy with a bank of switches.)

DOCTOR:  The power build-up is far too slow.  Feed
in that extra energy.

SARA:  3.85 and rising.

(Sara throws the levers that the Doctor points to.)

DOCTOR:  It should activate at five, zero, zero.

(The Doctor looks over at Steven, who is guarding the ramp.)

STEVEN:  They're lying up to attack.

DALEKS:  (oov)  We obey!

SARA:  Four, Four, Three, Two, still rising.

DOCTOR:  Splendid!

DALEK 2:  (oov)  Prepare the board the ship!

DALEK:  (oov)  EXTERMINATE THEM!  EXTERMINATE
THEM!

(The battle-cry grows louder and the first of the Daleks leads the way
up the ramp into Steven's defending fire, which is swiftly returned.
Steven backs out of range and suddenly the meter reading on the lock reaches five hundred and the doors
close - right in front of the leading Dalek.)

STEVEN:  That was close!  Too close!

(The Doctor reads off some dynopower readings to Sara.)

SARA:  Coding nine, two.  Red, Blue, Blue.

(The Doctor presses an array of switch keys.)

DOCTOR:  Light charge.

SARA:  Coding one, zero, zero.  All Blue reading, take off... now!

DOCTOR:  Hold tight!

(They grip the bolted-down safety rails and the Dalek Pursuit ship blasts
off Mira's surface, leaving the Daleks stranded.)

7.  DALEK CITY CONTROL ROOM, KEMBEL

(Mavic Chen, is getting a hostile reception on Kembel.)

BLACK DALEK:  Mavic Chen, you have failed in your task.

MAVIC CHEN:  Failed!  Is this my greeting?  I agreed that my mission was to return to Earth and recover
the Taranium.
This I have not done.

BLACK DALEK:  Failure will not be tolerated!

MAVIC CHEN:  But I did notify you of the fugitives' whereabouts.
The planet Mira.  There the vital Core can be taken from them, without suspicion.  Their presence on
Earth was a constant danger!  At anytime they could have contracted forces um-sympathetic to our plans.

(Mavic Chen folds his arms at this.)

BLACK DALEK:  You make your incompetence sound like an achievement.

MAVIC CHEN:  (furious)  Incompetence now, is it?
You forget that the original blunder was not of my doing. I journeyed to and from Earth to correct a
failing your security forces should have dealt with.  The Core was stolen from here!  My actions will
allow you to recover the missing Taranium easily and safely.  If that is failure, then I have failed.

(Mavic Chen out-stares the Black Dalek as he explains his logic.

Soon, the Black Dalek swings towards a group of Daleks as news of the Doctor's escape starts to come
through.)

BLACK DALEK:  Report.

COMM. DALEK:  The fugitives have stolen our Pursuit ship and have left the planet Mira.

(The Black Dalek's voice rises a couple of tones.)

BLACK DALEK:  Stolen!  Left the planet Mira!

Is their course being computed?

COMM. DALEK:  It is.

BLACK DALEK:  What news of our forces?

COMM. DALEK:  They are standed on the planet and under constant attack from the invisible creatures that
inhibit it.

BLACK DALEK:  Dispatch a rescue ship to their aid.  They will be dealt with on their return.  Meanwhile,
I will personally supervise recovery of the Core.

COMM. DALEK:  I obey.

(This humiliation of the Daleks spurs Mavic Chen onto the offensive.)

MAVIC CHEN:  And you had the audacity to accuse ME, Mavic

Chen, of incompetence!

BLACK DALEK:  It is...

MAVIC CHEN:  A Dalek ship stolen...

BLACK DALEK:  It is not...

MAVIC CHEN:  Really.

BLACK DALEK:  (swinging his gold top from side to side)
IT IS NOT AN EMERGENCY!

MAVIC CHEN:  No.  More like a catastrophe!

BLACK DALEK:  (nearly screaming)  They may believe that they have successfully escaped from us, but we,
the Daleks, are still in command!

8.  PURSUIT SHIP

(The Doctor and Steven help Sara remove the special eye-shade, having
shown Sara the Taranium Core.  The Doctor has a plan - to make an exact double of the Taranium Core in
case they are captured again.)

STEVEN:  Will it work?

DOCTOR:  No, oh course not, dear boy.  That's the whole point.

STEVEN:  (sighing)  I mean your plan.

DOCTOR:  No, we still have to make a copy.  A copy so exact that it would deceive the Daleks.  (looking
at Steven and
Sara)  They still want this Taranium back, you know.  They won't rest until they do.

STEVEN:  Yes, but suppose...

SARA:  There isn't time for suppose.  I'm sure that the
Doctor can copy it well enough.

DOCTOR:  (smiling)  Yes, thank you, thank you my dear.  I'll have a good try.  It should give us
sufficient breathing space.

(A bleeping noise comes from the controls.)

DOCTOR:  What's that funny noise?

(Sara rushes to the console and reads the instruments.)

SARA:  We've changed course!  We're moving away on
a selected course!

(The Doctor examines the controls.)

DOCTOR:  (shocked)  Good gracious, we're on
course for the planet Kembel.  You know, I'm very much afraid we're under Dalek influence.

(Steven joins the others and looks at the automatic controls.)

STEVEN:  It's obviously that causing the damage.

(He picks up a piece of pipe from a desk and hits the automatic controls,
which explode with a small bang.)

SARA:  (in dismay)  Isn't that a rather a drastic
way of dealing with things?

STEVEN:  (laughs)  Sara, the technology of my age may be hundreds of years behind yours and the
Doctor's, but there are some still things that I can handle.

DOCTOR:  Yes, of course, dear boy, of course there is.
Come along, young lady, let's get on with our mineral while we still have the time.  Hm.

9.  DALEK CITY CONTROL ROOM, KEMBEL

(The Comm. Dalek turns from its readings.)

COMM. DALEK:  Pursuit ship has broken free of our control.

BLACK DALEK:  Activate Magnetise Beam.

(A 'shaking' bleeping noise starts up in the room.)

COMM. DALEK:  Magnetise Beam activated.

MAVIC CHEN:  I sincerely hope there has been no further bungling?

BLACK DALEK:  We have temporarily lost control, but once the
Magnetise Beam reaches them it will pull them to Kembel, where they will be exterminated!!

MAVIC CHEN:  (in a dry voice)  After we have the
Core of the Time Destructor in our possession, I trust.

BLACK DALEK:  Of course!  Of course!

(The Black Dalek moves off swiftly, leaving Mavic Chen laughing quietly
under his beard.)

10.  PURSUIT SHIP

(The Doctor appears from the laboratory carrying another cylinder, with
what looks like another Taranium Core.  There is, however, one final problem - the copy doesn't glow
like the real Core.)

DOCTOR:  Yes, yes, there - that's a good copy, if I do say
so myself, hm.

SARA:  There's still the problem of charging it.  The
Daleks will know immediately that this isn't the real Taranium.

DOCTOR:  I appreciate that young lady, but this is the right balance and the right weight.

STEVEN:  (still at the controls)  We're still on our own course.  The Daleks haven't attempted to divert
us yet.

DOCTOR:  Oh good, good, good.  You keep watching, there's a good fellow.

(Steven spots the copy.)

STEVEN:  Hey!

(He picks it up.)

DOCTOR:  No, I should try that one.

(Steven examines the two cylinders.)

STEVEN:  This is excellent.

DOCTOR:  (grinning)  Hm, hm.  Isn't it.

STEVEN:  How do you suppose to activate it?

DOCTOR:  Oh, we're working on that.  Yes, hm.

(The Doctor's puzzled face gives Steven an idea.)

STEVEN:  We could use the Gravity-force from the ship's
power centre.

(He points to a control bank.)

STEVEN:  There's an outlet, here.

SARA:  (laughing scornfully)  What?

STEVEN:  (belligerently)  Well, what's wrong with that?

DOCTOR:  (picking up the real Core)  Too primitive, my boy, too primitive and far too dangerous.

(The Doctor walks off into the lab as a grinning Sara turns to Steven.)

SARA:  Gravity-force as a source of energy was abandoned,
centuries ago.

STEVEN:  We were still using it!

(She turns on her heel, her hair tossed back jauntily.)

SARA:  Oh yes, and the Romans had treadmills.

(Sara saunters off, leaving Steven glowering after them both.)

STEVEN:  I still think G-force would do the trick.

(Meanwhile, over at the controls, Sara reads the dials again.)

SARA:  We're changing course again.

(The Doctor hurries over to join her and examines the instruments.)

DOCTOR:  Back to the planet Kembel but what, hm?  Oh
it appears that we'll been affected by magnetication.  We're been held in a very strong beam, hm.

SARA:  That will take us right back to the Daleks!

DOCTOR:  Let's try to break it, child, come on!

(Steven quickly picks up the false Core.)

STEVEN:  Let's see about those trade levels.

(He opens up a panel containing the Gravity-force outlet.  He pulls
all the switches on to maximum and carefully places the Core inide the panel.  As he closes it, a loud
crackling buzz sounds and a brillant flash leaps from the outlet, engulfing Steven in an expanding beam
of light.
With a scream, he collapses unconscious on the floor.  Hearing this, the Doctor and Sara rush over to
him from the controls.)

SARA:  Steven!

DOCTOR:  My dear boy!  What is it?  What's happened?

(The Doctor listens for Steven's heart-beat.)

DOCTOR:  He's still breathing.

(Sara points to the pulsating G-Force outlet and they both realise what

Steven has done.)

SARA:  (angrily)  The fool!  He tried to
do his experiment, with G-force and reliance power!

(The Doctor sits back on his heels and mops his brow with a large handkerchief.)

DOCTOR:  He's still alive, and lucky at that.

(Sara closes off the switches and opens the G-Force panel.  She
removes the Core cylinder and carefully begins to open it.  A bright glow radiates from it and she
closes the cylinder quickly.)

SARA:  It worked!  Look, Doctor.  It's just like
real Taranium!

(The Doctor gets to his feet, looking down at Steven with a mixture
of sorrow and jubilation.)

DOCTOR:  Isn't that wonderful.  It's worked!

Steven's theory has proved successful.  Hm, Hm, Hm.  But - what about that poor boy?  Hm?

11.  DALEK CITY CONTROL ROOM, KEMBEL

(The Comm. Dalek turns from the security panel.)

COMM. DALEK:  Dalek pursuit ship has entered the atmosphere.

Reducing speed.  Ten degrees of light... eight... six...

(Mavic Chen is watching the scanners.)

MAVIC CHEN:  It appears that you have at last succeeded
in getting the Taranium back.

BLACK DALEK:  Of course.  And we shall deal with these fugitives as with all others who oppose us.

MAVIC CHEN:  (intensely)  No!

BLACK DALEK:  Do you challenge us?

MAVIC CHEN:  Of course not.  But might it not be advisable for me to return them to Earth for trial?

BLACK DALEK:  Why?

MAVIC CHEN:  They will be found guilty as traitors to the Solar
System.  After all, the woman is from Earth.

(The Black Dalek's eyepiece almost prods Mavic Chen as it advances angrily
upon the traitor.)

BLACK DALEK:  The Daleks will deal with them, there is no
need for delay in their extermination.

MAVIC CHEN:  Some people on Earth know that their traitors were transported to Mira.  If they disappear
for good, those people will be curious and ask what happened to them?  It's possible that they might
find out the Daleks executed them then your plans could be hindered.

BLACK DALEK:  It is essential that you do not allow your Earth people to become curious.

MAVIC CHEN:  Human curiosity is something I can have no control over!

BLACK DALEK:  You must forestall their questions until it is too late.

MAVIC CHEN:  Too late?

BLACK DALEK:  Yes!  We would have conquered the Solar
System before our presence here is discovered.

MAVIC CHEN:  It is possible.

BLACK DALEK:  Once we have the Taranium, there is nothing to stop us!

MAVIC CHEN:  Very well.  I will leave their fate to you.

BLACK DALEK:  The Dalek reception force should now be in position at the specified landing point.

MAVIC CHEN:  Yes, they should.  And I think it's about time we left to join them.  Don't you.

(The two leave.)

12.  PURSUIT SHIP

(Sara watches the Pursuit ship's instruments as it prepares for landing.)

SARA:  Height and speed reducing.

DOCTOR:  Yes, we should be landing in about five minutes.

SARA:  I go and see how Steven is.

(Steven is now propped up in a corner, his eyes wide open but unseeing,
his whole being now shielded within the field generated by reliance power and G-Force.)

SARA:  I think the effect is wearing off.

DOCTOR:  No, my dear.  It is acting fluid.

(He raises his voice to Steven.)

DOCTOR:  Can you talk, my boy?  Hm.

(There is no answer.)

DOCTOR:  No.  He's still under the influence from that
force field.  (to Steven again)  Nothing further will happen to you, now don't worry, hm.

(He pulls Sara away so that they can talk privately.)

DOCTOR:  Yes, nothing further will happen to him but I must
confress I have no cure for that condition.

SARA:  Steven's enclosed in a force-field.

DOCTOR:  Yes, yes, I'm afraid so.  Hm.  Sara, bring me that fake Taranium.  Hm.

(Sara does so.)

DOCTOR:  Yes, yes, yes.

(He shows the Core to Steven.)

DOCTOR:  Now, listen to me, Steven.  Try to understand,
this is very important.  You must trust me.  You do understand?

(Steven tries to move his head.)

DOCTOR:  Just try to indicate.

(Steven manages to close his eyes.)

13.  LANDING POINT

(A bunch of Daleks including the Black Dalek and Mavic Chen is standing
in front of a landing pad.)

BLACK DALEK:  Pursuit ship is landing at precise point calculated.

MAVIC CHEN:  Well it appears that everything is going co-ordinating to plan.

(The noise of the Pursuit ship's drive starts to fill the air.)

BLACK DALEK:  The Taranium will be recovered.

MAVIC CHEN:  I hope you're right.

BLACK DALEK:  This time, there will no error.

(The Pursuit ship comes down and lands on the site with a loud bang.)

14.  PURSUIT SHIP

(The final stages of a plan was being put into operation.)

DOCTOR:  Well, we're here.  Hm Hm.  Now, we got
to face the Daleks.  Open the doors, please.

(Sara throws the switches.  The inner door to the outside opens.)

DOCTOR:  Steven will lead the way.

(Steven starts forward at a very slow pace, carrying the fake Core.)

DOCTOR:  This way, Steven.

(Steven slowly moves towards the door.)

SARA:  But it won't... it can't work!

DOCTOR:  (softly)  It's our only chance, my dear.
But remember, I will do all the talking, hm.

15.  LANDING PAD

(The outer door opens and the ramp lowers itself to the ground.

Sara stares at Mavic Chen, who is surrounded by Daleks.  Steven moves forward first, behind him stand
the Doctor and Sara.  Mavic Chen looks at the fake Core, and he stretches out his hand.)

MAVIC CHEN:  The Taranium!

(Nothing happens.  Steven stands perfectly still.)

MAVIC CHEN:  I suggest that you give that to me, young man.

DOCTOR:  No.

(The Daleks move forward.)

DOCTOR:  (to the Daleks)  And remember, you
cannot fire due to the Taranium.  (to Mavic Chen)  You'd have another fifty years work, hm?

MAVIC CHEN:  Possibly, But you are in no position to bargain.

DOCTOR:  (grandly)  I will hand over the Taranium outside my ship, the TARDIS.

MAVIC CHEN:  (looking at the Black Dalek)  You have heard the conditions.

BLACK DALEK:  (enraged)  It is not acceptable!

MAVIC CHEN:  You heard what the Dalek Supreme said.

DOCTOR:  (adamantly)  Outside my ship, the TARDIS, or nowhere.

MAVIC CHEN:  (with total assurance)  He seems determined.
Does it really matter?

BLACK DALEK:  Very well.  In front of his ship.

DOCTOR:  (pushing Steven forward)  Thank you!
Steven!

(As Steven leads the Doctor and Sara down the ramp, the Doctor gives

Mavic Chen a look of total disgust.  As Sara passes Mavic Chen, he speaks to her.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Kingdom?

SARA:  TRAITOR!

(Sara, with a contemptuous glance at Mavic Chen, takes Steven's arm.

The Doctor leads the way from the landing site through the remaining jungle, to the TARDIS.)

16.  JUNGLE

(By the TARDIS, the Doctor gives Sara the key to the TARDIS.)

DOCTOR:  Sara, open the door please.

(Sara does so and steps just inside the police box and watches the Doctor.)

DOCTOR:  (to Mavic Chen)  The young man will
give you the Taranium when the girl and I are safely inside my ship, the
TARDIS.

MAVIC CHEN:  (ruefully)  Making sure of your escape, eh, Doctor?

DOCTOR:  Remember to do exactly as I say, Steven.  I will give you further instructions from inside my
TARDIS.

(The Daleks ranged behind Mavic Chen and the Black Dalek aim their guns
at the trio, as the Doctor steps inside, joining Sara.  He closes the door behind him but doesn't lock
it.  The disembodied voice of the Doctor comes from the TARDIS.)

DOCTOR:  (oov)  Steven, hand the box over to

Chen.  Then, come inside the TARDIS.

(Stiffly, Steven walks towards Mavic Chen, extending his hand with the
cylinder.  Eagerly, Mavic Chen seizes the fake Core then, quickly shielding his eyes, opens it and peers
inside.  The fierce glow that comes from the interior satisfies the Guardian.)

MAVIC CHEN:  (triumphantly)  This is it!

The Core of the Time Destructor!

(The Black Dalek swings towards his troops.)

BLACK DALEK:  EXTERMINATE HIM!

(All the Daleks fire at Steven.  To Mavic Chen's and the Black

Dalek's total amazement, Steven continues to walk stiffly into the TARDIS, which immediately starts to
dematerialise from Kembel.  Steven's gravity force-field has saved his life.)

BLACK DALEK:  (in amazement)  The ray guard
did not take effect!

DALEK:  All were operating at full power.

BLACK DALEK:  No human being could withstand our fire.

MAVIC CHEN:  What happened is unimportant!  We have the
Taranium!  The invasion can go ahead.  (shouting to the heavens)
THE UNIVERSE WILL BE OURS!

17.  TARDIS, CONSOLE ROOM

(The Time Rotor is moving up and down.  While the Doctor throws
switches and pushes the TARDIS to go faster and faster, Sara checks on
Steven, as he stands leaning against the closed doors.)

SARA:  Are you all right?

(Steven shakes his dazed head.)

STEVEN:  Yes, more or less.

DOCTOR:  The Daleks gun must have destroyed that force-field completely.  It's a good thing they didn't
try a second time.

STEVEN:  I don't really know what happened.

SARA:  You were enclosed in a field of Gravity power and reliance power.

DOCTOR:  You had a shield about you.  You know, similar to that one that protects the TARDIS.  Oh,
that's remind me.
Where is that genuine Taranium, hm.

SARA:  Over here.

(Steven muses over the situation.)

STEVEN:  Pity I blanked out.  I mean, if we knew the
ratio readings, we could use the same force again, to protect us from the
Daleks.

DOCTOR:  (crossly)  Certainly not!  What you did was very dangerous and extremely stupid.

STEVEN:  Oh, come off it.  It worked.

DOCTOR:  (furious)  One more 'experiment' like that, and you really will be dead.

STEVEN:  Oh, nonsense...

DOCTOR:  (nearly shouting)  Now, now, now, you listen to me, young man.  I warned you it was dangerous
before you even tried it.  You might have killed yourself and blown up the space-ship.
Then, where would we all be?  Hm, hm.

STEVEN:  (trying to calm him down)  I know where
I'll be.  I don't know about you.

(It doesn't work.)

DOCTOR:  Now, now, now, now...  Look...

STEVEN:  Look, if it haven't been for me, how would you have charged the Taranium, and carried out the
hand-over?  I think that we should experiment further.

DOCTOR:  (shouting)  I don't care what you think.
We're not going to repeat it.  Why did Science turn down your discovery.
Hm?  BECAUSE IT ISN'T SAFE?  So perhaps in future you're pay attention to what I say and remember that I
am the leader of this 'expedition' and I don't like repeating myself.

STEVEN:  (pleading)  Doctor...

DOCTOR:  Never mind the buts!  If you don't like it, you can get off!  (grabbing his lapels)  Hm...
Hm...

STEVEN:  All right, I promise that I won't experiment with it any further.

DOCTOR:  (calming down)  I hope not.

(Sara, meanwhile, has been watching the unfamiliar time column which
is slowly coming to rest.)

SARA:  Something's gone wrong.

DOCTOR:  What's the matter, hm?

SARA:  It's stopped going up and down.

STEVEN:  Oh, that's means that we're landed.

(The Doctor presses the scanner switch and the picture appears - totally
covered in static.)

DOCTOR:  Oh, tut, tut, tut.  That's scanner not working.

SARA:  Can you fix it?

DOCTOR:  I can repair it, of course, yes, yes, but it seems checking the whole circuit.

STEVEN:  Well, let's get on with it.

(He puts his hand on the door control lever.)

DOCTOR:  Ah,ah,ah.  Don't you dare touch that.

STEVEN:  Why not?

DOCTOR:  Well, just look at those dials...  Look here.

(Steven looks at the dials on the console, peering at the readings.

Sara hurries to see for herself.)

DOCTOR:  Look here, Sara.  Do you know what that means?

If either of you went outside, it would be extremely dangerous.

(He pulls a grim face.)

DOCTOR:  The whole atmosphere is poisonous.

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The Daleks' Master Plan (7)

(The series theme music begins. The series title appears.)

DOCTOR

WHO

(The series title fades out.)

1. TARDIS INTERIOR

DOCTOR:  ...dials?  Now, you know what that means?  If either of you went outside, it would be extremely
dangerous.  The whole atmosphere is entirely poisonous.

2. AN ENGLISH STREET, 1965

(A snowy English street is seen.  On it is the back door of a police station, as well as a few shops.
The serial title appears on the screen over the street scene.)

THE FEAST OF STEVEN

(The serial title fades out. The writer credit appears.)

by

TERRY NATION

(The writer credit fades out. The view falls back to the snowy
English street where the TARDIS stands.)

STATION SERGEANT:  What in the name of... Who put that there?

(Two policemen, in their car, are singing simultaneously as they pull up to their police station.)

FIRST POLICEMAN (the driver) and SECOND POLICEMAN (the passenger):
...when a poor man came inside, gathering winter fuel. (then they laugh together)

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Here, I bet we'd charm the birds of the trees.

SECOND POLICEMAN:  I'd settle for some from the coffee bars.

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Here, what about 'While Shepherds Watch'?  ____ hear that?

SECOND POLICEMAN:  Hey, now here's the Sergeant.  Come on.

__?__:  Oh.

(The policemen get out of their car and greet the STATION
SERGEANT.)

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Hello Sergeant, what you doing out here?

STATION SERGEANT:  Hey, come and have a look at this.

SECOND POLICEMAN:  Well! Where did that come from?

STATION SERGEANT:  You tell me.

SECOND POLICEMAN:  Oh, perhaps someone sent it to the Inspector as a Christmas box.

STATION SERGEANT:  And perhaps you'll both just stay out here and watch it.

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Why? Do you think it's going to fly away?

STATION SERGEANT:  Just you stay there and keep an eye on it, right?

3. TARDIS INTERIOR

STEVEN:  And just why, if it isn't safe for us, is it safe for you?

DOCTOR:  Will neither of you understand?

SARA:  For heaven's sake, let's go out and fix the scanner!

DOCTOR:  No!  Where you come from, in both places, the air is pure.  Outside there is the worst kind of
pollution I've met in years!

STEVEN:  Right. Then you shouldn't go out there, either.

DOCTOR:  Ah, my dear boy, I'm used to all sorts of atmospheres.
Won't affect me.  I shall have to go out and do the repairing myself.

SARA:  But suppose something happens to you?

DOCTOR:  Then, and only then, you can come out. But you must be very, very careful because...

STEVEN:  And how are we supposed to know that something has happened to you?

DOCTOR:  My dear young man, just give me a few minutes and, if all is well, I shall be back inside again
to tell you.

STEVEN:  And if not, we're to come out and find you?  I seem to have been through all this before!

DOCTOR:  Now, look here my boy. You will do as you're told!  Why, you just open the doors and remember
to close them after I've gone.

STEVEN:  Yes, sir!

4. TARDIS EXTERIOR-AN ENGLISH STREET

(In the background, a group of children can be heard singing the
Christmas carol The First Noel.)

(The DOCTOR pokes his head out the TARDIS door)

DOCTOR:  Good evening.

SECOND POLICEMAN:  Good evening.  Hey, you!

(The DOCTOR ducks back into the TARDIS and closes the door.)

SECOND POLICEMAN:  Uh?!

(SECOND POLICEMAN runs over to his friend a short distance away.)

FIRST POLICEMAN:  What's up?

SECOND POLICEMAN:  (to FIRST POLICEMAN) See that?

FIRST POLICEMAN:  See what?

SECOND POLICEMAN:  (pointing at the TARDIS) That then!

FIRST POLICEMAN:  What when?

SECOND POLICEMAN:  That door!

FIRST POLICEMAN:  That door?

SECOND POLICEMAN:  It opened!

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Did it?

SECOND POLICEMAN:  There's a bloke in there.

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Oh, Aye.

SECOND POLICEMAN:  A bloke with (stutters) long white hair.  I just saw him.

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Did ya?

SECOND POLICEMAN:  Aye.

FIRST POLICEMAN:  It's locked.

SECOND POLICEMAN:  But, I've just saw him!

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Oh, aye.

5. TARDIS INTERIOR

DOCTOR:  (to SARA) Oh, police. P-O-L-I-C-E.

SARA:  Oh, I see.  We've landed on your own planet.

DOCTOR:  Oh, nonsense child.  We're back on Earth.

SARA:  But, that's what's written outside the TARDIS.

DOCTOR:  Oh, never mind.  Never mind.  I shall have to go outside and try and distract them.  Meanwhile,
you can stay here for a while, then come out and do the scanner.

STEVEN:  Yes. But, you said the air out there was so bad, that if we went out...

DOCTOR:  (cutting STEVEN off) Never mind what I said, my dear boy.
Do as you're told.  Now open the doors and remember to open them.
Shut them after I've gone.

STEVEN:  Yes, sir.

6. TARDIS EXTERIOR-AN ENGLISH STREET

(The DOCTOR peers out the TARDIS, and as he exits the two policemen grab him from either side of the
TARDIS, which they had just been hiding behind.)

DOCTOR:  (as he gets grabbed) Hmm.

SECOND POLICEMAN:  It wouldn't be father Christmas would it?

FIRST POLICEMAN:  All right lad. It's a fair cop.

DOCTOR:  Hmm.

7. POLICE STATION INTERIOR

STATION SERGEANT:  All right. What can I do for you?

MAN IN MACKINTOSH:  I've got a complaint.

STATION SERGEANT:  Well, the doctor's just around the corner.

MAN IN MACKINTOSH:  No, no, no, no.  I... I mean, I want to make a complaint.

STATION SERGEANT:  Oh, I see.  Well, let's have your name then.

MAN IN MACKINTOSH:  They keep moving me house.

STATION SERGEANT:  Moving your what?

MAN IN MACKINTOSH:  House!

STATION SERGEANT:  They keep moving your house?

MAN IN MACKINTOSH:  Yes.  Me greenhouse.  It's the rebels.

STATION SERGEANT:  The rebels?

(The policemen walk in with the DOCTOR.)

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Anyone in C.I.D.?

STATION SERGEANT:  Oh, straight through.

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Good.  Come on.

DOCTOR:  (to MAN IN MACKINTOSH) Haven't I seen your face before somewhere, hmm?

MAN IN MACKINTOSH:  Where?

DOCTOR:  Hmm, hmm.  Yes, of course, I remember now, yes.  The marketplace at Jaffa.  Ho, ho.  Hmm, hmm,
hmm, hmm.

MAN IN MACKINTOSH:  The young chap said I should come to see you.

STATION SERGEANT:  He what?

MAN IN MACKINTOSH:  About me greenhouse.  It's the rebels.

8. TARDIS EXTERIOR-AN ENGLISH STREET

(STEVEN peeks his head out of the TARDIS to see what is outside.
He sees the policemen in their uniforms and the DOCTOR inside the police station.)

9. DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR'S OFFICE

(The DOCTOR is in the Inspector's office where the policemen have led him to be questioned.)

DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR:  I've heard of a housing shortage, but I never knew it was so bad you'd have to
spend Christmas in a Police Box.

DOCTOR:  Oh, Christmas.  Oh yes. Yes, of course. Yes, yes, yes, yes!  That accounts for the holly in the
hall.  Hmm, hmm, hmm.

DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR:  You mean you didn't know?

DOCTOR:  Well, of course I didn't know!  I travel about too much.

DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR:  And why is that?

DOCTOR:  Well, a quest of knowledge, dear boy.  I mean, you have a saying in this country, have you not,
eh... travel broadens the mind?

DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR:  You mean you're not English?

DOCTOR:  (laughing) No.  Gracious no!

DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR:  Scottish?

DOCTOR:  No. Hmm, hmm.

DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR:  Are you Welsh, then?

DOCTOR:  Oh, you'll have to think in a far bigger way than that!
Your ideas are too narrow, too small, too crippled!  Heh, heh.

DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR:  All right, all right.  What are you then?

DOCTOR:  Well, I suppose you might say that I am a citizen of the universe and a gentleman to boot.

SECOND POLICEMAN:  He's having us on a bit, isn't he sir?

DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR:  Now, look lad...

10. TARDIS EXTERIOR-AN ENGLISH STREET

(STEVEN emerges from the TARDIS dressed as a policeman, presumably after having found a uniform inside
the TARDIS wardrobe room somewhere.  He turns and heads to the police station where the
DOCTOR was taken.)

11. POLICE STATION INTERIOR

MAN IN MACKINTOSH:  And now they've been and gone and moved it again.

STATION SERGEANT:  Oh, where to this time?

MAN IN MACKINTOSH:  I don't know.  That's why I came to see you.
__ _...

STATION SERGEANT:  You shouldn't look out there along this side.
Oh. Here, just a minute.

(STEVEN enters the police station.)

STEVEN:  Ah. E... E... Excuse me.

STATION SERGEANT:  Ah. You must be the new bloke from G Division, come to help us out.

STEVEN:  I... I beg your pardon?

STATION SERGEANT:  I said you must be the new bloke from G
Division.

STEVEN:  Must I?  Oh!  Oh, yes.  Yes, that's right.  Um.  Yeah,
I've... ah... I've called about the old man.

STATION SERGEANT:  Old man?  What old man?

STEVEN:  Well, he was brought in here a minute ago.

STATION SERGEANT:  Oh, he's with C.I.D.  You'd better wait until they're finished with him.

STEVEN:  Fine, yeah.  Well, I've got to get to him.

STATION SERGEANT:  Well, you'll have to wait, lad.  He'll be out here again soon.  Now wait over there.

MAN IN MACKINTOSH:  Now, what about my greenhouse?

STATION SERGEANT:  Oh, yes.  Now where was this you said?

MAN IN MACKINTOSH:  Well, for a start, it's not in me garden.

12. DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR'S OFFICE

DOCTOR:  I don't think you really understand.  That object in the yard out there isn't really a police
box.

DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR:  No. No, of course it's not.  It's the new
Brighton Ferry.

DOCTOR:  It is a machine for investigating Time and Relative
Dimentions in Space.  Hmm, hmm.

FIRST POLICEMAN:  (to the DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR) He's a nutter.

DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR:  He's straight from a funny-farm, if you ask me.

DOCTOR:  Do I take it that you gentlemen are imputing that I am mentally deranged, hmm, hmm?  Hmm.

FIRST POLICEMAN:  I told you.  He's a nutter.

DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR:  Was he the only bloke in the box?

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Well, how should I know?

DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR:  Well didn't you check?  There might be a whole army of (stutters) them in there,
living like gypsies in one of Her Majesty's police telephone boxes!

(FIRST POLICEMAN leaves to go outside and check the TARDIS for more people.)

SECOND POLICEMAN:  And just how many people do you expect to come out of one box?

13. TARDIS EXTERIOR-AN ENGLISH STREET

(SARA exits the TARDIS and looks around.)

SARA:  Where have they gone to?

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Hello, Hello.  What are you doing, hanging around here on Christmas Day?

SARA:  Nothing.

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Surprised to see a police box here, I suppose?

(Children start to sing Christmas carols in the background.  They might be singing Good King Wenceslaus
looked out, on the feast of Steven...)

SARA:  Oh!  You think it's yours.

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Well, not mine exactly.  Well, let's say it belongs to us, eh? Ah, so why don't you
leave it where it is and just move along, eh?

SARA:  I've got to fix it.

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Fix what?

SARA:  The scanner eye!

FIRST POLICEMAN:  The scanner eye?

SARA:  Yes.

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Oh, you do?

SARA:  Yes.

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Oh. Well, we usually get the jokers around here at Christmas time, but we have to be
lenient.  So, eh, just move along, eh?

SARA:  I can't.

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Oh, yes you can, young lady.  That's enough of joking.  I'm sure your going to enjoy
yourself at that party your going to, so why not go down there now.

SARA:  I'm not going to a party.

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Well, wherever you are going dressed up in them fancy clothes, you leave now and there
won't be no trouble.

SARA:  I've got to stay here.

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Now you take my advice, young lady, and leave now.  Otherwise, I might have to run you
in for loitering or something like that.  I wouldn't like to have to do that.  We've had a bit of
trouble like that already tonight.  You see, eh, we don't like people hanging around.  But at Christmas
time we have to be lenient, and we don't want to be too difficult for you.

SARA:  But... Oh, very well.

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Have a...Have a... Have a swinging time!

(The Christmas carol singing in the background ends as the policeman watches SARA walk away.)

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Funny girl...

(Slowly walking away SARA thinks out loud to herself.)

SARA:  The idiots.  They've obviously got themselves into some kind of trouble.

14. POLICE STATION INTERIOR

STATION SERGEANT:  Why don't you sit down lad.  You're making the place look untidy.

(The DOCTOR is escorted out of the DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR's Office into the station.  STEVEN rushes over to
him.)

DOCTOR:  Hmm.

STEVEN:  (quietly to the DOCTOR) It's all right?

DOCTOR:  Of course, of course.  And what are you doing here, hmm?

DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR:  (to STEVEN) Who are you?  Do you know this man?

(The DOCTOR coughs, possibly signaling STEVEN)

STEVEN:  Yes.  I... I mean aye.

STATION SERGEANT:  He's just a bloke from G Division, sir.

STEVEN:  Oh, yeah. It's... It's all right.  Ah, I'll look after him.

DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR:  Well, if you know him, perhaps you can tell us what he's doing in a police box.

STEVEN:  (feigning surprise) A what?!

DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR:  That police box across the yard. He claims to live in it.

STEVEN:  Hold on, just a minute.  It'll be all right.  Just a minute.

(STEVEN crosses over to the DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR and speaks to him quietly aside.)

STEVEN:  Oh. Ah, it's all right.  Ah, you see he's a funny fellow.
But I know how to handle him. We're used to him down in G
Division.

DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR:  Very well.  Well, get him out of here, and see that he steers clear of that police
box.

STEVEN:  Right. I'll do that, Sir.

STEVEN:  (to DOCTOR) Right. Ah, come on there old man.

DOCTOR:  (clears his throat first) I'm a  old man.  What's all this funny accent?

STEVEN:  Everybody else is doing it.

STATION SERGEANT:  I'll  so you can manage.

(In the police station, everyone starts to talk as the DOCTOR and
STEVEN walk to the station door.)

STEVEN:  The door    .

(The DOCTOR can be heard giggling as he and STEVEN exit the police station followed by the policemen.)

15. TARDIS EXTERIOR-AN ENGLISH STREET

(Voices from inside the police station can be heard.  SARA climbs down from a ladder which is placed
against the back of the
TARDIS.)

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Hey you.  Hey you, what you playing at?

(The group continues to talk all at the same time.)

STEVEN:     reach the TARDIS.  Hurry!

DOCTOR:  Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Oh.

(The policeman walks over holding onto SARA's arm.)

FIRST POLICEMAN:  I don't know what it is about that police box, but first of all, the old bloke comes
out of it.  Now I catch this lass climbing about on it.

STEVEN:  It's all right.

SARA:  Let me go!

STEVEN:  It's all right. I know her too.

STATION SERGEANT:  Aye.  You seem to know all the queer people.
Well, who is she?

STEVEN:  Well, she's a... she's a friend of the old man's!

SARA:  Let me go!

(SARA pulls free of the policeman, knocking the policeman over.)

SARA:  Come on, Steven.

(SARA, STEVEN and the DOCTOR run to the TARDIS, and quickly get inside slamming the doors behind them.
The TARDIS dematerializes as the policemen recover.)

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Hello.

SECOND POLICEMAN:  Hello. What have we ___.

FIRST POLICEMAN:  Ah, Ian.  Ian, it's gone.

SECOND POLICEMAN:  What?

FIRST POLICEMAN:  That telephone box is gone.

SECOND POLICEMAN:  What ____.

16. TARDIS INTERIOR

STEVEN:  I found this jacket, so they thought I was one of their group.  (to SARA) And when you appeared
on the scene they were completely mystified.

DOCTOR:  (to STEVEN) Well, even I, dear boy, must admit that I enjoyed myself.

DOCTOR:  (to SARA) Did you fix the scanner?

SARA:  I did.  And no help from either of you.

DOCTOR:  Oh.

STEVEN:  At least it's working.

DOCTOR:  Have you checked it?

SARA:  Of course not.  After that man grabbed me I didn't have a chance.

DOCTOR:  Never mind, never mind.  Is the taranium safe?

STEVEN:  Yes. (motioning) Over there.

(The DOCTOR clears his throat.)

SARA:  Oh, I'd forgotten about the Daleks.

DOCTOR:  Now, that's one thing you mustn't do, my dear.  Remember, they have the same type of machines
and they can follow us.

STEVEN:  Yes. But, they won't have found out about the switch yet.

DOCTOR:  No, I sincerely hope not.

SARA:  And while we have the Taraniam their plan cannot work.

DOCTOR:  I don't think the Daleks will attack the Sos... the Solar
System until they check their time destructor.

STEVEN:  Then what can we do?

DOCTOR:  Well, I think we might, perhaps, be able to destroy the taranium before they catch us up.

SARA:  I think we've stopped again.

DOCTOR:  Yes, we might. He... We might still be on Earth.  Wait a minute.

(The DOCTOR checks the TARDIS console.)

DOCTOR:  Oh, no.  The atmosphere has improved considerably.  Yes, let's have a look at the scanner. It
might tell us something.

(The DOCTOR flips the scanner switch revealing on the scanner screen an evil looking man with long black
mustache busily tying a young girl to a log with a piece of rope.  The log is slowly moving towards a
huge revolving saw wheel.   The woman screams!)

DOCTOR:  The door!

17. TARDIS EXTERIOR-OLD BARN SET, 1920s

(The room the TARDIS stands in is an old logging and saw company barn with wooden walls and interior.
The woman screams as the mustached man taunts her.  Piano music fills the air.)

BLOSSOM LEFAVRE:  (screaming) Oh, No!  No!  No!

DARCY TRANTON:  And now my secret will be safe forever. Ha, ha, ha, ha.

BLOSSOM LEFAVRE:  (screaming) No! Help me! Somebody help me, please!

DARCY TRANTON:       . Ha, ha.

(STEVEN and SARA exit the TARDIS suprised by the sight.)

BLOSSOM LEFAVRE:  (screaming) No!

STEVEN:  (to the mustached man) What are you doing?

(STEVEN runs over and starts to losen the woman's ropes.)

BLOSSOM LEFAVRE:  Oh!  Somebody!  Oh!  Stop!  Oh!  Stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it!

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  Stop!  Stop!  Who let those bums in here?

BLOSSOM LEFEVRE:  Oh,  Steinberger! They've hurt my scene!  Oh!

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  It's that guy, DeMille.  He's going to sabotage me!  (pointing to STEVEN and the
DOCTOR) Get those bums outta here!

(The studio is full of noise as the actress continues to cry and the film crew chases STEVEN and SARA
from the set.  The various people present all talk over each other.)

__?__:  Come on!

__?__:  Out.

(To escape the mayhem, STEVEN punches two of the men closing in on them and SARA punches another before
they can be detained.
The group rush off as STEVEN adds a punch to the resulting melee before they get clear.)

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  (to STEVEN and SARA) ____  . Come back here!  (to the remaining actors and crew)
Did you see those two?  Wait.  I want them back here.

BLOSSOM LEFAVRE:  Oh, Steinberger, what are you going to do about it?

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  Pipe down now.  There's no camera running now. Save it for later.

DARCY TRANTON:  Steinberger, look at my eye.

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  (to a crewman) Hey you!

DARCY TRANTON:  Look what they've done to my eye.

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  I want those two fine dears.  He's great!

DARCY TRANTON:  Am I, or am I not, the star of this picture?

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  ...bigger than Broadway!  Well, don't just stand there,...

DARCY TRANTON:  Look what they've done to my eye. Look at my eye!
Look at my eye!

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  ...go get them!

DARCY TRANTON:  Oh!

(The screen is filled with a full screen caption, written in the style of old fashioned silent films.
Accompanied by piano cliffhanger-esque music, it reads...)

AND SO THE HUNT WAS ON...

(The caption disappears and the action returns to...)

18. STUDIO WARDROBE ROOM

DOCTOR:  Oh, ch, ch, ch, ch.  Where's Sara?

STEVEN:  I... I must've lost her.  Where are we?

DOCTOR:  In here quick.

STEVEN:  Oh, oh.

(STEVEN and the DOCTOR duck into the studio wardrobe room to hide.)

(The screen is filled with a full screen caption, written in the style of old fashioned silent films.
Accompanied by Middle
Eastern sounding piano music, it reads...)

MEANWHILE IN THE SHEIKH'S TENT...

(The caption disappears and the action returns to...)

19. SHEIK'S TENT SET

(SARA hides.)

ARAB SHEIK:  ...and then I will come to you on my camel, and sweep you away across the desert.

INGMAR KNOPF:  No. No. Terrible!

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR:  OK, Harry. Cut down at 23   (other words are drowned out as he continues the stage
instructions)...

INGMAR KNOPF:  You've got to give it more feeling.  She's not a sack of potatoes.

VAMP:  No. He is the sack of potatoes.  Where did you find him on a rubbish dump?

ARAB SHEIK:  I resent that!

(Steinberger P. Green enters set.)

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  Iggy. Iggy! Did you see them?

INGMAR KNOPF:  Who?  Who?

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  A guy and a gal.  They just beat the living daylights out of my camera crew.  It
was great!

INGMAR KNOPF:  Perhaps you like your film interrupted, but I do not.  Please do not interrupt me when I
am creating.

__?__:  (obviously saying Mr. Knopf's name wrong in an American accent)  Mr. Ke-noff? Mr. Ke-noff?

INGMAR KNOPF:  (correcting the stagehand with the German pronunciation) Knopf.  Ingmar Knopf.

__?__:  (Now saying the name properly)  Mr. Knopf. Ah, Professor
Webster is here, sir.

INGMAR KNOPF:  Ah, good.  Send him to me at once.  I need him in this next scene.

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  You should have seen him! He was great!
Bigger than Fairbanks!  I've got to find a name for him!
Something suave!

INGMAR KNOPF:  Do whatever you like, but leave me alone!  Get off my set! I'm trying to make a film!

(Rhere is much more busy conversation noise in the studio.)

INGMAR KNOPF:  Who's this girl?  If she's one of the harem, why is she wearing that __ _ clothing?

__?__:  (background) I don't know.  You stupid...

INGMAR KNOPF:  Tell her to get them off!

__?_:  (background) Oh, shut up .   I like  , 
_.

__?__:  All right, all right.

__?__:  (background) OK, darling, what about you?

__?__:  All right.

(The screen is filled with a full screen caption, written in the style of old fashioned silent films.
Accompanied by dramatic piano music, it reads...)

MEANWHILE IN THE WARDROBE DEPARTMENT

(The caption disappears and the action returns to...)

20. STUDIO WARDROBE ROOM

DOCTOR:  Look.  We must find Sara.

STEVEN:  You think she's still in this place?

DOCTOR:   there first.  You wait here.

(The DOCTOR walks off looking for SARA.  A moment later a man in a police uniform walks up to STEVEN.)

KEYSTONE COP:  Oh, there you are!  Everybody's waiting.

STEVEN:  No. Not...

KEYSTONE COP:  Don't argue. Come on.

STEVEN:  No.  You... You're making a terrible mistake.

KEYSTONE COP:  We're looking and there you are.

STEVEN:  I'm... I'm not who... (screams) Doctor!

STEVEN:  No. No, please.  This is quite ridiculous.  I 
.  I have nothing to do with the _ __.  Please.

STEVEN:  Put... Put me down!  Put me down!!  I have never _
_ __ __ __ _.

(STEVEN is befriended by a group of Keystone cops who take him and pull him onto their car.  They start
it up and drive it around out of control.  The Keystone cops car honks its horn twice as STEVEN is
thrown around on the set.  As soon as the shot is over STEVEN jumps off the car and runs away off the
set.)

CAMERAMAN:  Now where's he got to?  We need to do that scene again.

(The screen is filled with a full screen caption, written in the style of old fashioned silent films.
Accompanied by Middle
Eastern-styled piano music, it reads...)

MEANWHILE BACK IN THE SHEIKH'S TENT...

(The caption disappears and the action returns to...)

21. SHEIK'S TENT SET

ARAB SHEIK:  And then *I* will come to you.  And then I will
*come* to you.  And then I will come to *you* on my camel and
I will sweep you away across the desert.

INGMAR KNOPF:  All right. All right.

(More crew members start talking on the set.)

INGMAR KNOPF:  Professor Webster isn't here yet, so please don't exhaust your capabilities.

ARAB SHEIK:  Now look here, Mister Ke-Noff!

INGMAR KNOPF:  (correcting his pronunciation) Knopf. Ingmar Knopf.

ARAB SHEIK:  Ke-Nerve.  You can't talk to me like that.  I am an actor!

VAMP:  What!  He's not an actor.  You are a cheap pig.

ARAB SHEIK:  Get lost, fraulein.

__?__:  (background) Hey did you find your sword?

__?__:  (background) No, I didn't, Mike...

__?__:  (background) I...

__?__:  (background) All right.  All right.

__?__:  (background) Saw it a little...

__?__:  (background)  .

__?__:  (background) ...saw it just down here.

INGMAR KNOPF:  (to the DOCTOR) Professor Webster! Where have you been all this time?

DOCTOR:  Hmm?

INGMAR KNOPF:  We've been waiting for you.  As our expert on
Arabian customs we need your help.

DOCTOR:  Certainly, certainly.  My help?  Oh, I shall be delighted.  Yes    .

INGMAR KNOPF:  How very good Professor.

DOCTOR:  Doctor, please.

INGMAR KNOPF:  Oh, Doctor!

__?__:  (background) 23.

__?__:   background) Oh, we'll fix it up for you.

INGMAR KNOPF:  This is, um, a rich Sheik's tent.

DOCTOR:  Oh, yes. And who's this?

(the DOCTOR points to the Arabian dressed actress.)

INGMAR KNOPF:  She's an Arabian princess.

DOCTOR:  Nonsense!  You put some more clothes on, child.  Go along.

(Lots of studio talking is taking place.  Ingmar Knopf knocks on the dressing room door where SARA is
inside.  She reluctantly exits.)

INGMAR KNOPF:  (to SARA) What are you doing in there?  Please, get out.  You are in the next scene.  The
harem scene, please.

DOCTOR:  (to SARA) Come on. To the wardrobe.  The wardrobe. Quick.

INGMAR KNOPF:  (to the DOCTOR) Where are you going?

(The screen is filled with a full screen caption, written in the style of old fashioned silent films.
Accompanied by dramatic piano music, it reads...)

BUT WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO STEVEN?

(The caption disappears and the action returns to...)

22. STUDIO WARDROBE ROOM

STEVEN:  Sara, where have you been?

SARA:  I don't know.  But a strange man kept telling me to take my clothes off.

DOCTOR:  Now, come along.  We must go back to the TARDIS.  This is a madhouse. It's all full of Arabs.
Come along.

(The screen is filled with a full screen caption, written in the style of old fashioned silent films.
Accompanied by mellow piano music, it reads...)

MEANWHILE, ALL WAS NOT WELL AT THE OLD BARN

(The caption disappears and the action returns to...)

23. TARDIS EXTERIOR-OLD BARN SET

(Lots of talking on the set)

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  ...sure, baby, sure.  I know it was a bit of a shock.

BLOSSOM LEFAVRE:  You're trying to get rid of me.  You don't want me as your star any more.

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  Of course I do, baby.  You're great.

__?__ :  (background)       those cops!

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  I don't want those kids for your kind of a picture.

BLOSSOM LEFAVRE:  But, you said you were going to make him bigger than Fairbanks.  I suppose you're
going to make her _ _
__ __.

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  (background) No, Charlie. I mean saw!

(Blossom Lefavre starts to cry.)

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  No, honey, no.  She's not that kind of girl.  You're the one I'm gonna make
great.  Now look.  You're gonna... You're gonna take one more take, huh. Please?

BLOSSOM LEFAVRE:  Oh, all right.     .

__?__:  It's yours.

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  Quiet everybody.  Shut up for a take!

(Someone blows a whistle in the background.)

__?__:  (background) Shut up for a take!

__?__:  (background, echoes down the line) Shut up for a take!

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  Makeup!

__?__:  (background) Makeup!

(There is background shouting on the set as the DOCTOR, STEVEN and SARA return to the barn set.  Seeing
that they are wanted,
SARA and STEVEN run off as stagehands follow them.)

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  No.  No.  Stop!  Stop those two!

__?__:  Hey, you two! Come back here!

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  Stop those two!

BLOSSOM LEFAVRE:  No!  No, no, no, no. No.

(The screen is filled with a full screen caption, written in the style of old fashioned silent films.
Accompanied by piano chase music, and the sounds of the chase, it reads...)

THE CHASE WAS ON...

(The caption disappears, but the piano music continues as the action returns to...)

24. VARIOUS SETS IN THE STUDIO

(Various studio people chase SARA and STEVEN through the
Hollywood studio.  The whole scene is a slapstick chase that includes Keystone cops, a cowboy, a saloon
bar girl, and even
Charlie Chaplin.)

STEVEN (?):  Come on!

__?__:  (background) Stop those two!

__?__:  (background) Stop 'em!

__?__:  (background) Stop those two!

__?__:  (background) Stop those two!

__?__:  (background) Stop those two!

25. TARDIS EXTERIOR-OLD BARN SET

DOCTOR:  (yelling at STEVEN and SARA who run past) Come back, you two!

CLOWN:  Typical.  When you're new around here, they chase you.
But after a while, you're off.

DOCTOR:  What's that?

CLOWN:  All the time they want something new.  New jokes. There aren't any.

DOCTOR:  Aren't there?  Well,      
.  Hmm, hmm, hmm.

CLOWN:  Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. ha, ha, ha, ha.

(There is more piano music as people run past chasing STEVEN and
SARA.  The whole scene is chaotic slapstick.)

26. SHEIK'S TENT SET

(STEVEN and SARA and their pursuers run through the Sheik's tent set interrupting the filming.)

INGMAR KNOPF:  What are you doing?  Get them out of here.  And will you please tell those girls to get
changed?

__?__ :  (background)  .

(The screen is filled with a full screen caption, written in the style of old fashioned silent films.
Accompanied by the continued piano music, it reads...)

MEANWHILE BACK AT THE TARDIS

(The caption and the piano music disappears and the action returns to...)

27. TARDIS EXTERIOR-OLD BARN SET

(The DOCTOR and the CLOWN continue to talk, on the old barn set where the TARDIS had materialized.)

CLOWN:  Custard pies have been done by Chaplin, so I'm not allowed.

DOCTOR:  Hmm, quite, quite.  Now would you mind...

CLOWN:  A drink of water, done by Chaplin.  A ...

CLOWN:  (joined by the DOCTOR) ...all done by Chaplin.

DOCTOR:  (together with the CLOWN) ...all done by Chaplin.  Hmm, hmm.

28. SHEIK'S TENT SET

__?__:  Now we start in close.  See?  And then we'll dolly down along there.

INGMAR KNOPF:  Hey, where's Webster?

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  A , which way did they go?

INGMAR KNOPF:  What are you up to?  Please, where's Webster?

(One can hear the whistles of the Keystone cops in the background as the conversation continues.)

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  They came through here!  Where did they go?

INGMAR KNOPF:  Two fools rushed over there somewhere.

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  Wait!

__?__:  Where's Webster?  Where is Webster?!

29. TARDIS EXTERIOR-OLD BARN SET

CLOWN:  They... They won't even let me do the wallpaper and paste routine.  You know why?

DOCTOR:  Done by Chaplin.

CLOWN:  Yeah.

DOCTOR:  Hmm, hmm.  Now, would you excuse me?

CLOWN:  I'll tell you something. That little Englishman has done it.  I think I'll give it up and take
to singing.

DOCTOR:  Yeah.

CLOWN:  But, who'd do good singing with a name like Bing Crosby?

DOCTOR:     with Bing Crosby! Ha!

(STEVEN and SARA run past.)

STEVEN:  Doctor!

(The DOCTOR, STEVEN and SARA dash into the TARDIS and dematerialize as everyone pursuing them from the
Hollywood studio  rushes back onto the old mill set talking and yelling.)

BLOSSOM LEFAVRE:  Steinberger, just when are we going to do my scene, huh?

(There is lots of talking and confusion on the set.)

STEINBERGER P. GREEN:  Great!  Great!  They just disappeared!
     .

(More and more screaming continues on the set as the crew members debate the disappearance of the TARDIS
crew.)

INGMAR KNOPF:  Webster!  Come back!  Come back, Webster!  Come back!

PROF. WEBSTER:  Excuse me.

INGMAR KNOPF:  What do you want?  Can't you see I'm busy?

PROF. WEBSTER:  I'm professor Webster.

(All the crewmembers on the whole set go quiet.)

__?__:  (background) Huh?

INGMAR KNOPF:  Who you?

PROF. WEBSTER:  Yes, Professor Webster.

INGMAR KNOPF:  Why me?!

(The screen is filled with a full screen caption, written in the style of old fashioned silent films.
Accompanied by piano music, it reads...)

AND SO THEY ALL LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER.

(The caption disappears and the action returns to...)

30. TARDIS INTERIOR

SARA:  Whatever was that place?

STEVEN:  Oh, I've no idea.  I'm glad we got away.

SARA:  What were they doing?

STEVEN:  Your guess is as good as mine.  Let's hope we never land there again.

SARA:  Oh.

DOCTOR:  Here we are.

STEVEN:  What's this?

DOCTOR:  Well, we so rarely get a chance to celebrate.  But this time we must.

SARA:  Celebrate?

DOCTOR:  Yes.  It's Christmas.  Don't you remember?  The police station.  Christmas.

STEVEN:  So it was, yes.

DOCTOR:  Here's a toast.  A Happy Christmas to all of us.

SARA:  Oh.

STEVEN:  Same to you, Doctor, Sara.

DOCTOR:  Incidentally, a ...

(STEVEN and SARA raise their glasses.)

STEVEN:  (with SARA as the DOCTOR says happy) Hey!

SARA:   (with STEVEN as the DOCTOR says happy) Hey!

DOCTOR:  ... happy Christmas, to all of you at home!

(The series theme music begins. White credits scroll up over the ending scene. The scene fades to a
black background as the white credits continue to scroll up.)

Dr. Who

WILLIAM HARTNELL

Steven

PETER PURVES

Sara

JEAN MARSH

Station Sergeant

CLIFFORD EARL

First Policeman

NORMAN MITCHELL

Second Policeman

MALCOLM ROGERS

Detective-Inspector

KENETH THORNETT

Man in Mackintosh

REG PRITCHARD

Blossom Lefavre

SHEILA DUNN

Darcy Tranton

LEONARD GRAHAME

Steinberger P. Green

ROYSON TICKNER

Ingmar Knopf

MARK ROSS

Assistant Director

CONRAD MONK

Arab Sheik

DAVID JAMES

Vamp

PAULA TOPHAM

Clown

ROBERT G. JEWELL

Professor Webster

ALBERT BARRINGTON

Prop Man

BUDDY WINDRUSH

Cameraman

STEVE MACHIN

Fight Arranger

DAREK WARE

Title Music by

RON GRAINER
and the BBC

RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP

Incidental Music Composed by

TRISTRAM CARY

Designer

RAYMOND CUSICK

(After the designer credit rolls up and off the black screen, the producer credit fades in.)

Producer

JOHN WILES

(The producer credit fades out. The director credit and BBC logo fade in.)

Directed by

DOUGLAS CAMFIELD

BBC tv 1965

(The BBC logo fades out to the black background. The series theme music ends.)

The Daleks' Master Plan (8)

THE DALEKS' MASTER PLAN - EPISODE 8
first broadcast - 1st January 1966
running time - 24mins 42secs

VOLCANO

Written by

DENNIS SPOONER

From an idea by

TERRY NATION

1.  DALEK BASE, THE PLANET KEMBEL

DALEK 1:  Inform the Dalek Supreme that the Time Destructor
is ready for testing.

DALEK 2:  Are all circuits operational?

DALEK 1:  Yes, the Taranium core has been fitted.

2.  DALEK CONTROL ROOM - KEMBEL

(Three members of the Dalek Alliance, Mavic Chen, Celation and Trantis,
are discussing recent events.)

CELATION:  (to Chen)  Having had your contribution
to this great weapon stolen, it must be a relief to you now that the Daleks have managed to recover it.

MAVIC CHEN:  Without my help, it is unlikely that they'd have got it back.

TRANTIS:  At least that absurd story that it was my people from Trantis who stole the Taranium has been
discredited.

CELATION:  Yes; they were from Earth, I believe.

MAVIC CHEN:  Only two of them: and they are under the influence of some creature from another galaxy.

TRANTIS:  He looked like an Earth creature.

MAVIC CHEN:  That's only a disguise.  The Daleks know of him.  He is some kind of time and space
traveller.

CELATION:  Then he is nothing to do with me.  We have not yet conquered the dimension of time.

MAVIC CHEN:  I hear your experiments in that field are progressing,
Trantis.

TRANTIS:  We have not yet succeeded.  Only the Daleks know how to break the time barrier.

CELATION:  And this other creature, from wherever he comes?

MAVIC CHEN:  Oh he's of no importance now.  After all, we're here to witness the testing of the Time
Destructor, are we not?

(On the other side of the room, the Dalek Supreme receives a report.)

DALEK SUPREME:  All is ready?

DALEK:  It is.

DALEK SUPREME:  Program it for testing.

DALEK:  All that is needed is a subject.

DALEK SUPREME:  The subject has been selected.

(The Dalek Supreme's eye-stick swivels and focuses on Trantis.)

3.  INSIDE THE TARDIS

(One of the TARDIS instruments is registering.  The Doctor, Steven
and Sara are studying it.)

SARA:  What do you mean, you don't know?

THE DOCTOR:  My dear, this machine can only tell us we're being followed.  Not who by.

STEVEN:  It must be the Daleks.

THE DOCTOR:  Yes, a hasty conclusion, although probably right.
Although I don't understand how they could have tested that Taranium so quickly.

SARA:  We must get back to the planet Kembel.

THE DOCTOR:  Oh, nonsense, my dear.

SARA:  We must.  We've got to destroy the Daleks' invasion fleet.

4.  THE TESTING ROOM - THE DALEK BASE ON KEMBEL

(Trantis has been secured in position for the test of the Time Destructor.

Mavic Chen and Celation are discussing him.)

CELATION:  I wonder why they chose him.

MAVIC CHEN:  It was his own choice really.

CELATION:  What do you mean?

MAVIC CHEN:  He was so eager to make a contribution to the
Time Destructor that they've let him make one.  His life.

DALEK SUPREME:  Prepare to activate the Time Destructor.

DALEK:  Are the other two creatures to be present at the destruction?`

DALEK SUPREME:  Yes, their greed for power is so great that they can be trusted.  Activate the machine.

DALEK:  I obey.

(The Dalek activates the Time Destructor.  The device immediately
begins to pulse with light. Trantis cowers away in fear.)

MAVIC CHEN:  So, that's what's supposed to happen.

A kind of abject insanity.

CELATION:  I do not know, though I always thought Trantis was a little unstable anyway.

(The machine continues to operate but appears to have no effect on Trantis.

The delegates watch with concern.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Nothing's happening to him.

CELATION:  The Time Destructor does not work.

MAVIC CHEN:  But that's impossible.  It must work.
It must.

DALEK SUPREME:  The destructor is having no effect.

DALEK:  The mechanism is functioning perfectly.

(The Dalek checks the controls of the machine.)

DALEK:  The fault is in the Taranium.

(The Dalek Supreme moves to Mavic Chen.)

DALEK SUPREME:  The Taranium core has failed.

MAVIC CHEN:  It can't be true; there must be some mistake.

DALEK SUPREME:  The Daleks do not make mistakes.  You have lied to us, you have not given us the
Taranium.

MAVIC CHEN:  Why should I lie?  I can only benefit from my alliance with you.  I brought you Taranium,
the real Taranium.

DALEK SUPREME:  The core is worthless.

MAVIC CHEN:  No, no it can't be.  It came from Uranus,
I know it did.

DALEK SUPREME:  We fitted the core you gave us.  It has failed to activate the Time Destructor,
therefore it is not Taranium.

MAVIC CHEN:  It was the old man, that time-traveller.

TRANTIS:  What?

MAVIC CHEN:  He must have changed it.

CELATION:  But it was you who said that what he gave you was theTaranium core.

MAVIC CHEN:  I know, but I didn't check.  How could I?
The old man fooled us.  The Daleks should have checked before they fitted it - before they let the old
man go.

DALEK SUPREME:  Report to Skaro.  They must send a time machine to us immediately.

DALEK:  I obey.

DALEK SUPREME:  You will both wait here.

CELATION:  But this is nothing to do with me.  I was invited as an observer.

DALEK SUPREME:  Very well, you can return to your section.
You, Mavic Chen, will wait here for the arrival of the time machine.

MAVIC CHEN:  Yes.

DALEK:  What about the subject?

DALEK SUPREME:  The subject?  (pauses to think)
Exterminate him.

(Trantis is exterminated.)

5.  INSIDE THE TARDIS

(Steven is studying the time curve indicator.)

STEVEN:  It's still following us.

THE DOCTOR:  Yes, yes.

SARA:  When are we going to land?

THE DOCTOR:  Pretty soon, my dear, pretty soon.

SARA:  And I thought you knew what you were doing.

THE DOCTOR:  I know full well what I'm doing, child, now don't get so excited.

STEVEN:  They're getting closer, Doctor.

THE DOCTOR:  Yes, I see.  Yes, I must do something drastic.

(The Doctor moves to the controls and operates a switch.)

SARA:  What are you doing?

THE DOCTOR:  Landing, my dear.  That's what you wanted, wasn't it?

6.  LORDS CRICKET GROUND

(In the radio commentary box, two commentators, Trevor and Scott, are
watching England play a test match against Australia.)

TREVOR:  Well, the English batsmen are really fighting against
the clock now, Scott.

SCOTT:  My word, yes.  Seventy eight runs in forty five minutes to win.

TREVOR:  It really has been an exciting game, hasn't it, Scott?

SCOTT:  Very exciting.

TREVOR:  Well, let's have a look at the scoreboard, shall we?

(The TARDIS materialises on the outfield.)

TREVOR:  Now, you'll see...  Goodness me, take a look
at that, Scott.

SCOTT:  Take a look at what, Trev?

TREVOR:  There's a Police Telephone Box on the pitch.

SCOTT:  My word, yes.

TREVOR:  Well this really is extraordinary.  You don't remember anything like this happening before, do
you, Scott?

SCOTT:  No.  (pauses to think)  No.

TREVOR:  (looks behind him to where a researcher is hastily poring over cricketing manuals)  Well,
anyway, Ross is looking through the record books and if there has been anything like it before,
I'm sure he'll find it for us.

SCOTT:  You know, Trev, this puts a new light on the game.

TREVOR:  What light's that, Scott?

SCOTT:  Well, I know your ground staff are excellent, but even assuming they get rid of it in say, ten
minutes, England will still have to get their seventy eight runs in... thirty five minutes.

TREVOR:  Yes; yes well I think we can safely say this has been a very bad break for England.

SCOTT:  A very bad break.  Especially as the weather's been holding off so well.

TREVOR:  Yes it has, hasn't it.  Been holding off remarkably well.  Well, let's have another look at the
scoreboard shall we, although not very much has been happening.

SCOTT:  It's making a funny noise.

TREVOR:  What's that, Scott?

SCOTT:  A funny noise coming from the Police Box.

(The TARDIS dematerialises.)

SCOTT:  It's gone again, Trev.

TREVOR:  Yes, so it has.  Well that wasn't too bad was it, Scott?

SCOTT:  Two and a half minutes, I make it, Trev.

TREVOR:  Yes, well there's the position.  England needing seventy eight runs in forty two and a half
minutes to win.

7.  INSIDE THE TARDIS

THE DOCTOR:  Yes, it's definitely some sporting occasion.

SARA:  Oh, I hardly think so, Doctor.

STEVEN:  Was it on Earth, do you think?

THE DOCTOR:  Oh, possibly, my dear fellow, possibly.

(Steven looks at the time curve indicator.)

STEVEN:  Yes, well, wherever it was, there's still someone
on our tail.  Hey, look at this.

(All three study the time curve indicator.)

THE DOCTOR:  Yes; my plan hasn't worked.  It's following
us closely.

8.  DALEK CONTROL ROOM, KEMBEL

(A Dalek time machine materialises and a Dalek emerges from it.)

DALEK:  Your order has been carried out.  The time
machine is ready to commence operations.

DALEK SUPREME:  Excellent.  Organise a task force for the pursuit of the time-travellers.

DALEK:  I obey.

DALEK SUPREME:  Ascertain their position on the space-time scope.

DALEK:  I obey.

(The Dalek Supreme turns to address Mavic Chen.)

DALEK SUPREME:  Mavic Chen, you will accompany the task
force.  You will ensure that the Taranium core is returned to Kembel.

MAVIC CHEN:  Of course, I shall do everything in my power.

DALEK SUPREME:  If you fail, or if we find that you have deceived us, you will suffer the same fate as
the time-travellers - annihilation!

9.  THE PLANET TIGUS

(The TARDIS materialises on the volcanic planet of Tigus.  All
around, volcanoes are erupting.)

10.  INSIDE THE TARDIS

(The Doctor, Steven and Sara are looking at the picture on the scanner.)

SARA:  Where are we, Doctor - do you know?

STEVEN:  It doesn't look very pleasant, does it?

THE DOCTOR:  No, we must take off quite soon.

(The time curve indicator stops registering.)

SARA:  It's stopped.

STEVEN:  What does that mean, Doctor?  Have we shaken it off?

THE DOCTOR:  No, my boy, we haven't shaken them off.
Whoever it was following us has landed, they've landed out there.

(On the surface of Tigus, a large rock materialises near the TARDIS
and a familiar figure emerges:  the Meddling Monk - laughing to himself.)

11.  ON THE SURFACE OF TIGUS, NOT FAR FROM THE TARDIS

STEVEN:  You know, Doctor, it would help if we knew what
we were looking for.

SARA:  I still say it was madness to come out here.  We should have taken off again - or tried to get
back to Kembel.

THE DOCTOR:  My dear young girl, what good would it be to run away.  The sooner we find who's pursuing
us the better.

(Steven absent-mindedly kicks a rock - then wishes he hadn't!)

STEVEN:  Hey - hey, this is hot.

THE DOCTOR:  Yes, well I can well imagine that.  This is a new planet, my boy - it's cooling down,
cooling down.

(As Steven and Sara move away, the Doctor ponders the situation.)

THE DOCTOR:  Fascinating, yes extremely fascinating.

I wonder; I wonder who would take the time and trouble to follow us, hmmmm?&nbsp;
Yes, I think there is an explanation, but unlikely.  Possible, very possible.

(The Monk, meanwhile, has found the TARDIS and sets to work on the lock,
with his bag of tools.  The Doctor stands on a rock and calls out.)

THE DOCTOR:  Hello there.  Hello.  Don't you think
we should meet and talk it over?

STEVEN:  Doctor, who are we waiting for?

THE DOCTOR:  Oh, you'll see, my boy, you'll see.

STEVEN:  Oh come on, tell us, otherwise you'll say you were right whoever we meet.

THE DOCTOR:  You lack one quality of all the others my boy, and that is patience.

SARA:  (pointing)  Doctor, look!

(Standing over them is the Monk, a rock raised above his head, ready
to be thrown.)

THE DOCTOR:  Ah, tch, tch, tch; my dear Monk.  Don't
be so ridiculous.  Put that down at once.

MONK:  Well, hello Doctor.  Keeping well?

THE DOCTOR:  Oh, no complaints, no.  And you?

MONK:  Oh, so so, you know, just so so.

SARA:  (to Steven)  Who is it?

MONK:  (to Steven)  Delighted to see you again, young man.

STEVEN:  Thanks.  I wish I could say the same for you.

THE DOCTOR:  I suppose congratulations for your escape are quite in order.

MONK:  Oh thank you.  Most kind of you Doctor.  Yes, it took a bit of time, but I finally managed to by-
pass the dimensional controller.

THE DOCTOR:  Yes, a very, a very interesting solution, though
I think it would make for rather an uncomfortable ride, however I don't suppose it affected you very
much, being an amateur.

MONK:  Yes, it was rather uncomfortable.  But then, we can't have everything, can we.  And as for being
an amateur, we shall see.  Anyway, it was better than 1066.

THE DOCTOR:  Yes, I suppose so.

SARA:  What's he talking about, 1066?

STEVEN:  It's alright.  We've met the Monk once before.
I'll explain later.

THE DOCTOR:  And you returned here for one obvious reason, did you not?

MONK:  I'm afraid so, Doctor.  Revenge is a strange thing, isn't it?

THE DOCTOR:  Yes, yes, quite, quite.  Tell me, any plans?

MONK:  Ho, ho.  And they're all carried out as well.
Doctor, you remember you left me in 1066?  Now I've marooned you on the planet Tigus, look.

(The Monk bursts out laughing, and the others join in.)

MONK:  Oh, I'm sorry.  Forgive me laughing, Doctor,
but I don't seem to be able to control it.  Well, goodbye, Doctor.
Perhaps I'll come back one day and rescue you.

STEVEN:  Hey, wait a minute.

THE DOCTOR:  Don't waste your breath, young man.  The most important thing is, is to find out what he's
done to the TARDIS.

12.  OUTSIDE THE TARDIS

(The Doctor finds he is unable to open the TARDIS door.)

THE DOCTOR:  He probably used some kind of ray.

SARA:  What does that mean?

THE DOCTOR:  That means we cannot get back into the TARDIS, child.

(Nearby, out of sight, the Monk is watching and chuckling to himself.

Steven is attempting to pick the lock.)

THE DOCTOR:  Oh, you will achieve nothing, dear boy, nothing.

SARA:  Yes, perhaps.  But it's better than just accepting everything.

THE DOCTOR:  Yes, like I am, I suppose?

STEVEN:  Well, you don't seem to be taking much interest.

THE DOCTOR:  Oh, why not, dear boy, why not?  Because
I am using my brain, I'm trying to solve this problem.  Now just stand back,and cover your eyes, please.

(The Doctor removes the large ring from his finger.)

STEVEN:  What does that do?

THE DOCTOR:  Perhaps nothing, perhaps everything.  Will you do as you're told at once, cover your eyes -
please.

(The Doctor holds the ring near the lock and reflects the sunlight onto
the lock.  The ring becomes hot and he drops it with a gasp.
Sara pushes the door, which remains shut.)

SARA:  It hasn't worked.

THE DOCTOR:  Wait a moment, child.

(The Doctor unlocks the door with his key.)

THE DOCTOR:  Now try.

(Sara pushes the door open.)

STEVEN:  You're a genius, Doctor.

THE DOCTOR:  Yes - I know, my boy, I know.

(The TARDIS dematerialises.)

MONK:  Oh, no.  Don't think I'm going to leave it at
this.  You haven't heard the last of me, Doctor.  You haven't heard the last of me!

13.  INSIDE THE TARDIS

STEVEN:  If you ask me, we haven't heard the last of that
monk.

THE DOCTOR:  Quite so, dear boy.  He'll be on our trail again as fast as he can get going.

SARA:  Yes, but next time we'll be expecting him.

THE DOCTOR:  Exactly, my dear, exactly.  Now, Steven, there's something I want you to do.  Go to that
indicator and let me know the instant the Monk's TARDIS registers.

STEVEN:  Yes, all right, but first you tell us something.
How did you break that lock?

THE DOCTOR:  Oh, that's all very simple, dear boy.  The sun in that particular galaxy has very unusual
powers.  I merely reflected its powers through that ring.

SARA:  Is there something special about it?

THE DOCTOR:  Yes, it has certain properties.  The combined forces of that sun together with the stone in
that ring was sufficient enough to correct the Monk's interference.

STEVEN:  Yes, but what properties has it?

THE DOCTOR:  Now, I don't want to discuss this any further.
About turn, and do as you're told.

14.  DALEK CONTROL ROOM, KEMBEL

(A Dalek reports to the Dalek Supreme.)

DALEK:  The task force is now aboard.

DALEK SUPREME:  Commence count-down.

(An audible Count-down is heard.)

DALEK SUPREME:  Ninety nine, ninety eight, ninety seven,
ninety six...

(Nearby, a Dalek is monitoring the path of the TARDIS.)

DALEK:  The enemy ship is preparing to land.

DALEK SUPREME:  Compute their bearing and advise task force.
Task force will use the homing beam.

DALEK:  Enemy ship located. Space-time bearing; planet Earth,
London, 1966.

15.  INSIDE THE TARDIS

(The TARDIS has materialised in Trafalgar Square, London, on January

1st 1966, just after midnight.  All around, people are celebrating the New Year.  The Doctor, Steven and
Sara are watching the revelry on the scanner.)

STEVEN:  Well, you won't be able to carry out your repairs
here, Doctor.

THE DOCTOR:  No.

SARA:  Some sort of celebration, isn't it?

THE DOCTOR:  I don't quite know, you just listen, my dear, you just listen.

(They listen to the bells pealing.)

16.  DALEK CONTROL ROOM, KEMBEL

(The Count-down continues.)

Twenty two, twenty one, twenty, nineteen, eighteen...

17.  INSIDE THE TARDIS

THE DOCTOR:  Yes, I've seen that place before.

SARA:  What do you think they're celebrating?

THE DOCTOR:  Well, as far as I can remember, I've seen them behave in a fashion like that on a formal
occasion.

STEVEN:  What was that?

THE DOCTOR:  The relief of Mafeking.

18.  DALEK CONTROL ROOM, KEMBEL

(The Count-down reaches its climax.)

Four, three, two, one, zero.

(The Dalek time machine dematerialises.)

DALEK SUPREME:  Report to Skaro.  Our time machine
is now in pursuit.  Nothing can match Dalek technology.  The universe shall be ours.  Conquest is
assured.

(The cry of Conquest rings out from all Daleks.)

Next Episode

GOLDEN DEATH

Dr. Who

Steven

Sara

Mavic Chen

Trantis

Celation

The Meddling Monk

Trevor

Scott

Daleks

Dalek Voices

WILLIAM HARTNELL

PETER PURVES

JEAN MARSH

KEVIN STONEY

ROY EVANS

TERENCE WOODFIELD

PETER BUTTERWORTH

ROGER BRIERLEY

BRUCE WIGHTMAN

GERALD TAYLOR

KEVIN MANSER

JOHN SCOTT MARTIN

ROBERT JEWELL

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The Daleks' Master Plan (9)

THE DALEKS' MASTER PLAN - EPISODE 9
first broadcast - 8th January 1966
running time - 24mins 38secs

GOLDEN DEATH

Written by

DENNIS SPOONER

From an idea by

TERRY NATION

1.  DALEK CONTROL ROOM, KEMBEL

DALEK 1:  Four, three, two, one, zero!

(The time machine fades from the Control Room.)

DALEK 1:  Report to Skaro.  Our time machine is now
in pursuit.  Nothing can match Dalek technology.  The universe shall be ours.  Conquest is assured.

DALEKS:  CONQUEST!  CONQUEST!  CONQUEST!  CONQUEST!
CONQUEST!  CONQUEST!

2. DESERT

(In the distance is a pyramid.  The TARDIS lands with its usual
sound.)

3.  DALEK TIME-MACHINE

(Some Daleks are running the machine while the Red Dalek is in charge.

Over in a corner, Mavic Chen is standing.)

RED DALEK:  Mavic Chen, the recovery of the Taranium Core
is your responsibility.

MAVIC CHEN:  I welcome it, Guile and cunning will succeed where force has failed.

RED DALEK:  Once the Taranium core is in your possession, we shall eliminate the humans.

MAVIC CHEN:  Of course.

(He turns to the scanner which is showing the desert landscape.)

MAVIC CHEN:  And I assume that this is where they have landed?

RED DALEK:  You are correct and we shall arrive shortly - in four Earth minutes.

MAVIC CHEN:  They must have instruments in their ship.
Equipment that would inform them of our pursuit.

DALEK 1:  The time traveller is making no attempt to take off.

MAVIC CHEN:  That's very strange.  Why should they choose to wait.... and face us?

4.  DESERT

(The TARDIS is parked near the pyramid. Steven and the Doctor have left
the ship.  The Doctor is worried about the damage the Monk caused to the lock, and has got a tool box
out and is working on the lock.)

STEVEN:  How long will it take you to mend the lock, Doctor?

DOCTOR:  Well, it's hard to say my boy.  I think that it going to be a little bit difficult than I
thought.

STEVEN:  Oh yes, the other time machine is still registering.

DOCTOR:  Yes, I don't think so for much longer.  It's about time you know that... that wretched Monk
landed and I think he will quite soon.

(Steven looks at the pyramid.)

STEVEN:  Pretty impressive isn't it?

DOCTOR:  Well... oh yes the pyramids are the seventh of the seven wonders of the ancient world, I think
the word impressive is rather something of an understatement.

(They both laugh.)

STEVEN:  Yes, you could be right.

(They both look at it for a moment.)

STEVEN:  Well, have they finished it you think?  There's
nobody around.

DOCTOR:  (working at the lock)  Would you mind passing the distrab dear boy please.

(Steven isn't sure which one to choose so for a moment he thinks which
one to take.  He chooses one and passes it over.)

DOCTOR:  I said the distrab.

(He tries again.)

DOCTOR:  I SAID THE DISTRAB!

(The Doctor gets it himself.)

DOCTOR:  Hmph!

STEVEN:  There's not all that much cover, is there?  If the Monk's TARDIS lands on this side of the
pyramid, we should be able to see him easily whatever it disguises itself as.

(He sees a small ramp of earth on the side of the pyramid.)

STEVEN:  I think I'll climb up there, It'll give me a better
view.

(With no answer from the Doctor, Steven shakes him head in amusement,
and then heads off towards the ramp.)

DOCTOR:  It would be a good idea if you keep a eye on the

Monk so if you climb higher...

(He looks up and sees that he is alone.)

DOCTOR:  Talking to myself, hmph...

5.  DALEK TIME MACHINE

DALEK 1:  Stand-by for materialisation.

DALEK 2:  Continuum stabiliser reading four, three, two, one... zero!

DALEK 1:  Materialisation... NOW!

(The whispering, humming noise is heard as the Time Machine lands.)

6.  DESERT

STEVEN:  (calling)  DOCTOR!  I can see
it, I saw it land!  DOCTOR!

(He runs back, as Sara comes out of the TARDIS.)

STEVEN:  Doctor...

DOCTOR:  Tut, Tut, Tut, Calm down.  Calm down.  What's all the fuss?  Is that you bawling your head off?

STEVEN:  (out of breath)  Yes, I saw it land.
Over here!  (he points)

SARA:  Doctor, whatever was following us has stop registering on the time curve indicator.

STEVEN:  It's here Sara - about a quarter of a mile away.

DOCTOR:  That's very good.  Now, please excuse me.

(He turns back to the lock.)

STEVEN:  Shouldn't we take the initiative, and go and meet
the Monk?

DOCTOR:  Oh my dear young man, I have no intention of leaving the TARDIS unlocked.  And another thing
you should know - you realise
I've have to strip the whole mechanism down before I could put it right.

STEVEN:  How long are you going to be?

DOCTOR:  (snaps)  I don't know.  Anyway I dare say that I will catch you up somewhere but be careful you
know.
That Monk can be very hard when he wants to.....

STEVEN:  Don't worry Doctor, we watch him.

(They move away leaving the Doctor to work on the lock not knowing that
an Egyptian, Tuthmos, is watching him.)

7.  KHEPREN'S WORKSHOP

(Khepren is the designer of the new type of tomb which is in the pyramid
and is having breakfast with Hyksos (the swarthy captain of the local guards) when Tuthmos comes running
in.)

TUTHMOS:  Master!  Strangers - at the tomb!

(Hyksos and Khepren leave their food and follow the slave.)

TUTHMOS:  Come!

8.  ANOTHER PART OF THE DESERT

(Sara and Steven have arrived at the part of the Desert with the time-machine
which simply sits in the sands.  It is a featureless box.)

STEVEN:  Well, it didn't work this time, did it?

SARA:  What hasn't?

STEVEN:  The Monk's TARDIS.  It usually blends in with it's surroundings like the Doctor's should.

SARA:  Maybe the Monk didn't bother this time.

STEVEN:  Maybe - I thought it was automatic.  Anyway, let's take a look.

(They start to move forward but stop when the door to the machine opens
and Mavic Chen steps out, followed by a Dalek.)

STEVEN:  Daleks!

SARA:  I knew that we should have tried to get back to Kembel.

STEVEN:  It's a bit late for that now.  We got to warn the Doctor.  Come on.

(They turn around but are grabbed by some guards.  The guards under
the command of Hyksos have been watching the whole thing and waited to grab both Steven and Sara.  It
happens so fast that Sara doesn't get the chance to use her judo skills.  They are both knocked
senseless.)

HYKSOS:  Take them away!  The rest of you follow me!

(The guards move forward while four drag Steven and Sara away.

Hyksos sees Mavic Chen and the Daleks.)

HYKSOS:  More of them.  Seize them!

(Some guards run forward.  Seeing a dozen or more Egyptian warriors
racing towards him, Mavic Chen dodges for the cover of a limestone rock.
The guards stop in front of the Daleks not knowing what to do.)

HYKSOS:  Seize them, you cowards!

RED DALEK:  Exterminate the creatures.

(The Daleks start opening fire on the soldiers, some of whom die horribly.

The rest run for their lives.)

RED DALEK:  Pursue and exterminate.

9.  PYRAMID

(Some of the Daleks move forward obeying the order.  A chase then
ensues around the Pyramid as the soldiers are trying to get away.
Some aren't so lucky and we hear the Daleks firing and the soldiers dying.)

10.  DALEK TIME MACHINE LANDING SITE

DALEK 1:  Did we sustain damage?

DALEK 2:  No.  It was only inhabitants of this time and planet.

DALEK 3:  Unimportant.

DALEK 2:  Exterminate them on sight.

11.  TARDIS LANDING SITE

(The Doctor has finished the repairs and has returned the tool box to
the TARDIS and picked up his stick.  He carefully looks at the lock with measure of pride at his work.)

DOCTOR:  (laughing to himself)  Well, that's
finished now I must go.  I wonder where the other two have got to.
(calling)  Sara!  Steven!

(He tuts at the non-appearance of the companions and walks on.)

12.  PYRAMID

(The Doctor is walking about, having a look at the pyramid.  He
wanders through different parts of the Pyramid and we see that even though the Pyramid is nearly
complete there are still bricks and large slabs still to be built.  He is impressed with what he sees
and is marvelling at the size when a strange but familiar sound reaches his ears - a racket which
heralds the arrival of a huge building block.  It is the Monk's
TARDIS.  The Doctor laughs to himself.  The Monk steps out still wearing his robe and habit and after
seeing the sun and the strong sunlight he blinks and goes back inside and pops out a few seconds later
with a pair of mirrored sunglasses!  The Monk moves off looking for the Doctor's
TARDIS.  The Doctor moves forward into the open and is looking at the Monk's TARDIS when he remembers
the other ship.)

DOCTOR:  Who was it that landed here before then?

(There was only one answer.)  Daleks!

13.  KHEPHREN'S WORKSHOP

(Steven and Sara's bodies are bought into the house.  The guards
dump them on the ground.  They both start to come to. Tuthmos, Khephren and Hyksos are here too.
Tuthmos and Khephren raises a eye at Hyksos.)

HYKSOS:  (to Tuthmos and Khephren)  Plunderers!

Murderers!

KHEPHREN:  What of the others?

HYKSOS:  I will journey to the next encampment.  We shall need an army to battle with their fire-
throwing machines.  Yes.

KHEPHREN:  And I will take my slaves to the Tomb.  The treasures that the Pharaoh ha sent for his
journey to the after- life will be placed inside.  There they will be easier to guard.

(Steven has recovered consciousness and is feigning unconsciousness.

He is watching everything and is testing his bonds.)

HYKSOS:  I shall return when the sun is above us.

(He leaves with Khepren. Steven, seeing that there was no point in further
pretending he is unconscious, sits up.)

STEVEN:  How long are you going to keep us here?

(Sara sits up as well.)

SARA:  Yes.

TUTHMOS:  Until your friends have been brought to join you then you will answers for your crimes.

STEVEN:  We haven't done anything to answer for.  We're no interested in your treasures.

TUTHMOS:  Not even the old man?

STEVEN:  (warily)  Not even the old man.

TUTHMOS:  Then why did he examine so carefully that large blue box?

STEVEN:  Probably because that old blue box was his.

TUTHMOS:  (triumphantly)  Now, I know you lie!
Everything that the slaves hauled here across the desert belongs to the
Pharaoh!

(He leaves.  Steven feels Sara tugging at his bonds.)

STEVEN:  What are you doing?

SARA:  While you were talking, I managed to find a piece of broken pottery.  With a bit of time I think
that I can get though these bonds.

STEVEN:  Great.  Keep sawing!

14.  PYRAMID

(The Monk marches happily through the sand, half-wishing he remembered
to bring a bucket and spade.  He has no idea at all that the Doctor is following him with a big grin on
his face.  He moves forward and passes a being.  He has an plan, if you looked innocent, nine times out
of ten you'd be left alone!  He places his hand piously together and keeping his head low moved by the
being.)

MONK:  Good morning, my son.

(Unfortunately the being is a Dalek who trains his gun on him.)

MONK:  A DALEK!

(The Dalek is ready to fire when...)

MAVIC CHEN:  Wait!

(He pushes the gun-stick aside.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Don't fire!

DALEK:  Dalek exterminations will not be questioned!

MAVIC CHEN:  This could help us to recover the Taranium core.

DALEK:  Explain.

MAVIC CHEN:  In a moment.

(He turns to the Monk.)

MAVIC CHEN:  So, you have heard of the Daleks.

MONK:  Yes, by reputation only.

MAVIC CHEN:  Then you are certainly not of this time.

MONK:  No, certainly not no.  Just a passing time-traveller.
Anxious to be on his way so if you excuse me I'd...

(He starts to move away.)

DALEK:  (gun-stick back up)  HALT!

MAVIC CHEN:  Three time machines in one infinitesimal speck of space and time!  Of course, a coincidence
is possible - but hardly likely.  You would agree?

MONK:  (trying to keep an eye on the Dalek)  Yes.
I would agree.

MAVIC CHEN:  Then why have you arrive here?

MONK:  (twiddling his fingers with nervous movement)
Three time-machines.  Yes, well... the odd one out belongs to a certain
Doctor...

DALEK:  The enemy ship!

MONK:  Yes, that's right.  The enemy.  I have an old score to settle with him.  But I'm sure yours is
the prior claim.

MAVIC CHEN:  (politely)  He is a friend of yours?

MONK:  (with an expression of horror on his face)
Friend?  No, no.  An enemy!  An enemy to end all enemies!

(He raises his voice to be sure that the Dalek behind him can hear him.)

MONK:  I came here to inflict a terrible vengeance on him!

I mean, we are all on the same side aren't we.

(It is clear that Mavic Chen is toying with the Monk and it is also
clear that the Monk is desperate to get away with his life.)

MAVIC CHEN:  But he knows you?

MONK:  Well... in a manner of speaking yes and in another manner of speaking no.

MAVIC CHEN:  Could you gain his confidence?

MONK:  Certainly, certainly - if you wanted me to.  No question about it!  No doubt at all.

MAVIC CHEN:  (smoothly)  Then you may have a slight chance of saving your life.  The Doctor and his
friends have in their possession a full ebb of Taranium.

MONK:  A full ebb of Taranium.

MAVIC CHEN:  It belongs to the Daleks.  You will recover this and return it to us within one Earth hour.

MONK:  Oh I will, I promise!

MAVIC CHEN:  I need hardly remind you that the Daleks would reward failure on your part with
elimination.

MONK:  (nodding)  Elimination.  Thank you.
You get it back, have no fear.

MAVIC CHEN:  Then you better leave at once, and waste no more of your valuable time.

(The Monk nods, and starts to retreat.  Chen raises a eyebrow and
points in the direction of the Doctor's TARDIS.  The Monk gives a watery smile and strikes himself
rather theatrically on the head and then moves off in the right direction.)

15.  DESERT

(We see the Monk moving about with some kind of TARDIS locator looking
for the Doctor's TARDIS.  The machine bleeps at him and he looks down and follows its directions.)

16.  MONK'S TARDIS LANDING SITE

(The Doctor moves over to the Monk's TARDIS and is able to open the
doors since the Monk didn't lock them properly.)

DOCTOR:  (to himself)  You given me a chance

I didn't have before.

(With a small laugh he moves inside.  With a hum the Monk's TARDIS
starts to change shape to the following:  a tall Ionic column, a stagecoach, a small tree, an igloo, a
small one-man rocket-ship, a Camel and then finally a tall blue British Police Telephone Box - a copy of
the Doctor's!
The Doctor comes out holding up some kind of circuit or unit.  And still laughing walks away.)

17.  KHEPREN'S WORKSHOP

STEVEN:  How's it going?

SARA:  I think I done it.  Yes.

(Steven shakes the rope off him and then unties Sara.)

STEVEN:  Now for those guards.

(He hides behind the door where two guards are waiting outside.)

SARA:  (calls)  Come on!

(The guards with another come into the house and start fighting with
them.  The guards start to fight back but with the aid of Sara's judo,
Steven is able to knock them unconscious.)

SARA:  Remind me to teach you a few tricks sometime.

STEVEN:  Remind me never to have a fight with you.  Come on.

(They leave the hut.)

18.  TOMB

(Nearby Khephren has got his slaves to bring the TARDIS into the tomb
and then leaves going for some more of the Pharaoh's treasures.)

19.  OUTSIDE THE TOMB

(The Monk follows the locator which seems to be leading him straight
towards the opening in the pyramid.)

20.  TOMB INTERIOR

(The tomb is filled with treasures and a sarcophagus where the Pharaoh's
body is going to be laid to rest.  In the corner by the wall lies the TARDIS. Putting the locator way in
one of his pocket, the Monk moves forward and tries to open it not knowing that the Doctor is right
behind him.)

DOCTOR:  You're wasting your time.  You won't get in.

(The Monk spins about and tries to smile.)

MONK:  Doctor, You're been following me!

DOCTOR:  For a time yes.  For a time.  I forget you.
You know, I don't think that I would have found my TARDIS without the help of that energy counter.

MONK:  No.  Come in very handy, hasn't it.

DOCTOR:  Hmm..

MONK:  You know Doctor, if your machine would blend in with its surroundings, people wouldn't be able to
find it.  And then we wouldn't have all this trouble.

DOCTOR:  Yes, like your machine, I suppose hmm.

MONK:  Exactly Doctor, like mine.  I could teach you a thing or two.

DOCTOR:  Well, you know my way has its advantages.  The
Egyptians thought that it was a very good idea, otherwise they wouldn't have brought it in here.  As for
your machine, well, it probably disguised as a... what... a block of stone?  Hmm... Hm...

(The Monk's face is a picture.  Complete and utter shock.

Then he composes himself.)

MONK:  Now Doctor, it's a pity that we are having this feud
you know.  By the way, you didn't track me on your time curve indicator this time did you?

(He laughs.)

DOCTOR:  Not your machine no.  I didn't realise it
at the time.

MONK:  I jumped across the track.

DOCTOR:  Really?

MONK:  It's really quite simple really.  It's up to you.
If you like to come inside I show you how it is done.

DOCTOR:  (smiling)  And then you would be able to see the Taranium too.

MONK:  Yes, I...

(He realises that the Doctor must have heard his conversation with Mavic

Chen.)

MONK:  You know, I knew there was something I had to tell
you.  I came here to warn you about the Daleks.

DOCTOR:  Warn me?

MONK:  Yes, I played them with their own game of course for quite a time but they don't like you.  They
don't like you at all.

DOCTOR:  Then why didn't you?

MONK:  What?

DOCTOR:  Warn me.

MONK:  Oh... you were talking at the time.  I didn't want to interrupt.

(The Doctor raises his eyes to the roof at this thin ploy.)

DOCTOR:  You know, I think before I go, I shall put you
safely out of the way.

(He moves forward toward the Monk raising his walking stick menacingly.)

MONK:  Come now, Doctor. you surely didn't think I was going
to help the Daleks did you?

DOCTOR:  (laughing)  I did.

MONK:  (backing away)  Now Doctor, can't we talk this over?  Like civilised time-travellers?  It the
Taranium they want, not you.  Why don't you give it to them then we can be all on our way.

DOCTOR:  (still laughing)  If you believe that, my friend, you will believe anything!

(The Monk is now wedged in the corner, with nowhere left to retreat
to.  The Doctor's laughter is still going on.)

MONK:  Don't do anything you'll regret.  Doctor?

DOCTOR!

21.  DALEK TIME MACHINE

(Inside, the Red Dalek moves to the main communications panel where
there is another Dalek.)

RED DALEK:  Give your report.

DALEK:  The time-traveller has not made contract.

RED DALEK:  He has betrayed us.  Prepare a task force to attack.  All the humans will be exterminated.

DALEK:  I obey.

(The Dalek turns back to the control panel.)

22.  TARDIS LANDING SITE

(Steven and Sara have arrived where the TARDIS used to be.  All
that is there is the skid marks of where the Egyptians have dragged it.)

SARA:  The TARDIS!  It's gone!

STEVEN:  The Egyptian must have taken it into the tomb already.
Come on!

23.  TOMB, OUTSIDE

(Steven tries calling out.)

STEVEN:  Doctor!  Doctor!

(They next move inside the tomb.)

24.  TOMB, INTERIOR

(It's exactly the same but the Monk and the Doctor are not in slight.)

STEVEN:  Doctor!

(He turns to Sara.)

STEVEN:  No Doctor.

(Sara spots the TARDIS.)

SARA:  I bet he's inside.

(They try to open the TARDIS door but it is still locked.)

STEVEN:  Doctor!  DOCTOR!

(Sara sees something behind them.  She calls to Steven.)

SARA:  Steven.  Steven!

(He turns around.  The lid of the coffin is being slowly lifted
from within by a bandaged hand...)

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The Daleks' Master Plan (10)

THE DALEKS' MASTER PLAN - EPISODE 10
first broadcast - 15th January 1966
running time - 23mins 37secs

ESCAPE SWITCH

Written by

DENNIS SPOONER

From an idea by

TERRY NATION

1.  TOMB

(The tomb is big, filled with the pharoah's treasure and also his coffin.

By the coffin is the TARDIS.)

STEVEN:  (oov)  Doctor?  DOCTOR?!

(Steven and Sara comes into view.)

STEVEN:  Doctor?  DOCTOR?!  (turning to Sara)

No Doctor.

(Sara sees the TARDIS.)

SARA:  Perhaps he's inside.

(They rush over and start hammering on the TARDIS doors.)

STEVEN:  DOCTOR!

(He turns and shouts through his cupped hands.)

STEVEN:  DOCTOR!

(Sara has turned her back on the TARDIS and notices something.)

SARA:  Steven!  Look!

(Steven turns and looks.  A bandaged hand has opened the lid of
the coffin and is moving about.  The coffin lid fully opens and a near fully bandaged person rises.  He
spots Sara and Steven and starts trying to talk, but the bandages muffle the sound.)

STEVEN:  He is trying to say something.

(Sara and Steven move over to the mummy and start to unravel the bandages.

When all of the bandages have been removed from the face they see that it is the Monk.)

MONK:  Well, thank goodness for that!

2.  DALEK TIME SHIP

(Mavic Chen and two Daleks are waiting inside the ship for the Monk
to bring them the Taranium Core from the Doctor.)

RED DALEK:  The plan has failed.

MAVIC CHEN:  We can't be certain.  Although the time travelling
Monk has not yet contracted us.  We don't know what difficulties he had to face.

RED DALEK:  The Earth hour allowed has expired.

MAVIC CHEN:  In the present situation we can't afford to measure time exactly.

RED DALEK:  The time traveller has deceived us!

MAVIC CHEN:  I don't think so.  He DARE not!  Will the Daleks never learn that all things do not work to
a pattern?
That flexibility can also lead to conquest.

RED DALEK:  Silence!  All Daleks will disembark!
All forms of life will be treated as hostile!

DALEKS:  We obey!

(The Dalek moves to Mavic Chen.)

RED DALEK:  You, Chen, will come with us.

MAVIC CHEN:  But recovery of the Taranium Core was made my responsibility...

RED DALEK:  Orders will not be questioned!

MAVIC CHEN:  If you insist on this approach, I fail to see how I will be able to answer for the
consequences!!

(With that, Chen hits the Dalek eyepiece causing the Dalek to be disoriented
for a brief moment.  Then Chen and the Daleks leave their time ship.)

3.  TOMB

(By now the Monk has been totally freed from his bandages and is telling

Steven and Sara what he has been up to.)

STEVEN:  So it was the Doctor who did this?!

MONK:  Yes.  Unbelievable isn't it.  Absolutely unbelievable.
I admit that I succumbed to temptation...

SARA:  What did the Doctor say?

MONK:  Well, he didn't say anything really, nothing.
There I was, trying to warn him of the Daleks and suddenly there I am in the sarcophagus!

SARA:  Well, I sure he apologise when he hears your story.

MONK:  Well, I am... I am not one to bear a grudge.  We all know what the Doctor's like.  No, I think
that it was just one of those things.

STEVEN:  Where do he go?

MONK:  I'm afraid I don't know.  Unfortunately, immediately after this brutal attack, the next thing I
remembered is...

SARA:  He probably gone looking for us.

STEVEN:  Well then, what do we do?  Go out again and take a chance on missing him?  Or just stay here?

SARA:  If he meet the Daleks he will need our help.

MONK:  Stay here.  Definitely.

(The Monk hasn't realised that Steven and Sara aren't listening to him.)

MONK:  I got a terrible headache.

STEVEN:  What happens if we meet them?

SARA:  We just have to take that chance.

MONK:  No doubt, the Doctor has got some some drug or other.

STEVEN:  All right.  But I won't even pretend that I like the idea.

MONK:  Well, if you give me the key to the TARDIS I can go and get something out...

(Sara finally gives her attention to the Monk.)

SARA:  What about him?

STEVEN:  He can come with us.  That way, we can keep an eye on him.

SARA:  Come on then.

MONK:  Oh dear.

(Sara and Steven start to leave the tomb, but Steven realises that the

Monk isn't following them.)

STEVEN:  What are you waiting for?

MONK:  Well, are you going to let me into the TARDIS or not?

STEVEN:  I couldn't, even if I wanted to.  The Doctor's the only one with a key.

MONK:  (disappointed)  Oh.

(It's obvious that the headache was a fake and the Monk wanted to search
the TARDIS for the Core.  His face falls and Steven misunderstands this as worry for the Doctor.)

STEVEN:  Don't worry, we'll find him.

MONK:  (quietly)  That's what I'm worried about.

4.  BASE OF THE PYRAMID

(We hear Steven calling and also we see Mavic Chen and the Daleks moving
about.  Mavic Chen and Daleks can hear Steven's shouting.)

STEVEN:  (oov)  DOCTOR!  DOCTOR!

5.  ANOTHER CORNER AT THE BASE OF THE PYRAMID

(Steven, Sara and the Monk move into view.)

STEVEN:  (yelling)  DOCTOR!  Where are
you?

(The Monk, not wanting to find the Doctor, tries to call out for the

Doctor through his hands but makes it so that most of the shout is caught is his hands.)

MONK:  (muffled)  DOCTOR!  DOCTOR!

(then normally)  There you are, you see.  You'll wasting your time.

(Sara tries now.)

SARA:  DOCTOR!  It's hopeless.

STEVEN:  I know it is.  But what else can we do?

(The Monk, seeing that Steven and Sara are busy talking, tries to slip
about the corner but runs straight into two Daleks.)

MONK:  (trying to cover himself)  Ah...

There you are.  I'm been looking for you.

(Sara, surprised at the distance of the Monks voice, turns and trys
to see what happened to him.)

SARA:  What was that?

(Suddenly a Dalek appears.)

DALEK:  You will join the other human.  Move!

(With no choice, Sara and Steven crosses the corner to join the Monk.)

RED DALEK:  Prepare to exterminate them!

MONK:  Exterminate!  When I fulfilled our part of the bargain?

(With these words, Mavic Chen rushes forward and seizes the Monk.)

MAVIC CHEN:  GIVE ME THE TARANIUM Core!!

MONK:  I... I haven't actually got the Core.  But... I brought you hostages!

STEVEN:  (in total disgust)  Hostages!

MAVIC CHEN:  Hostages?

(He thinks for a moment.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Yes.  That could work.  The Doctor's
loyalty to his friends is beyond question.

RED DALEK:  No more discussion.

MAVIC CHEN:  In exchange for their lives, the Doctor would hand us the Core of the Time Destructor.

RED DALEK:  (to Steven)  Is that true?

(Steven says nothing and stares ahead.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Their silence confirms that it.  They
know that it is true.

RED DALEK:  Take them back to the Time Machine.

DALEK:  I obey.

(The Dalek moves Steven and Sara off who moves reluctantly.  The

Monk says behind.)

MONK:  Well, now that little problem's settled.  I'd
better be...

RED DALEK:  You will return with us!

MONK:  Return with you.  That was what I was going to say.

(With more reluctance than Steven and Sara, he moves off with Mavic

Chen and the Red Dalek.)

6.  WORK SHANTY

(Khephren is waiting by the Work Shanty.  Suddenly Tuthmos appeared.

He is lightly stunned and has a big bruise on his neck.)

TUTHMOS:  Master.  (rushing over to Khephren)

Prisoners... escaped...

KHEPHREN:  (in shock)  Escaped?  (thinks)
We left the tomb unsealed.

TUTHMOS:  We must take the men and go after...

KHEPHREN:  No!  The war machines will destroy us all.
Hyksos said he would return when the sun is above us.  See.
(points up)  We do not have long to wait...

7.  SKY

(We see the sun.)

8.  DALEK TIME SHIP

(The glare from the sun fades so that it becomes a light bouncing off
a Dalek as we move into the Time Ship.  Sara, Steven, and the Monk are bundled into a corner, guarded by
a single Dalek.  The Red Dalek and some other Daleks are over by the communications part of the time
ship and Mavic Chen is standing in another part of the ship doing what he does best - planning.)

COMM. DALEK:  The voice audio has been adjusted.

RED DALEK:  What is its present range?

COMM. DALEK:  Seven earth miles.

RED DALEK:  Mavic Chen can issue the ultimatum.  Bring
Chen to the voice audio.

DALEK:  I obey.

(The Dalek moves off obeying the order.  The Monk tries talking
to Steven and Sara.)

MONK:  Well now, there seems to be some activity going on...

(Steven and Sara stare at him coldly.)

MONK:  What's the matter?  Was it something I said?

STEVEN:  (with barely contained anger and disgust)
Don't you think that you've done enough?

MONK:  Yes, yes - I suppose that saving your life...

SARA:  (amazed)  What?

MONK:  Well, we're all here, aren't we?  Yes, it was very quick thinking on my part.  Very quick.

STEVEN:  (amazed too)  I don't believe it!

MONK:  Just a minute... you don't actually think I meant what
I said to the Daleks?  (acts like he is in total shock)  My dear fellow, it was a desperate gamble,
risking my own life to save yours.

STEVEN:  We can trust him as much as we can trust the Daleks.

MONK:  You mean, my performance was that good?  I knew
I had to fool the Daleks, but I thought you would see right through it.

SARA:  (dubiously)  He could be telling the truth,
Steven.

MONK:  Only could be?  You don't think I take the side with those creatures against you, do you?  You
do!  This baffles me...  It destroys my faith in human nature.

STEVEN:  (nastily)  Well, you can have your faith destroyed.

(A door opens and Mavic Chen moves into view.  He moves across
the room towards the communications section.)

RED DALEK:  Speak the ultimatum into the voice audio.

(Mavic Chen moves over to the microphone.)

MAVIC CHEN:  (into microphone)  Doctor?

Doctor, you should be able to hear me now, wherever you are.

(He stops and checks that the machinery is working.)

RED DALEK:  Continue, voice audio is functioning.

(In their corner, the prisoners watch.)

SARA:  (thinks)  Some sort of loudspeaker system.

STEVEN:  Maybe it would be better if the Doctor couldn't hear it.

9.  OUTSIDE

(We see the whole of the area including the pyramid in the background.

Next we move in and we see the Doctor walking about, wearing his hat and his walking stick.  His face is
grim as he listens to Mavic Chen's message.)

MAVIC CHEN:  (oov)  Doctor, listen carefully
to what I have to say.  It is useless to try to fight us any more.
Your two young friends are held prisoner by the Daleks.  You know why we have pursued you through Time
and Space.  We want the Taranium that you stole.  You are to proceed to the Dalek time-machine, south of
the Great Pyramid and receive your instructions.  The vital Core will be returned to us.  Failure will
mean the death of your friends.

10.  WORK SHANTY

(Tuthmos and Khephren are amazed that a large voice is speaking all
about them.)

TUTHMOS:  Master, It is the voice of the gods.

KHEPHREN:  No, Tuthmos.  The gods would speak words that we would understood.

TUTHMOS:  Who else but the gods could speak in a voice like thunder?

KHEPHREN:  (grim)  The same mortals who would build war machines that throw fire.  When Hyksos returns,
you will see the end of your gods!

11.  DALEK TIME SHIP

(The Daleks start to leave the ship.  As Mavic Chen prepares to
leave he turns to the prisoners.)

MAVIC CHEN:  (presently)  For your sake, I hope
that the Doctor does not keep us waiting long.

(He leaves.)

SARA:  We might try to warn the Doctor.

MONK:  Warn him.  Whatever for?

SARA:  (ignoring the Monk)  If one of us could get to that microphone.

STEVEN:  No, Sara, it wouldn't stop him coming here.
In fact it would probably make him more determined!

(Suddenly they hear the Doctor's voice outside.)

DOCTOR:  All right - I'm here.  Tell me what you want
me to do.

12.  OUTSIDE THE DALEK TIME SHIP

(The Doctor is outside the ship calling out.  He is leaning on
his walking stick and seems to have no apparent fear.)

DOCTOR:  (half angry and half business-like)

I'm here.  Can you hear me?

(Mavic Chen fully leaves the ship with the Daleks.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Yes Doctor.  We heard you.

DOCTOR:  Where are they?

MAVIC CHEN:  Now come Doctor...

DOCTOR:  (more annoyed)  WHERE ARE THEY??!!

MAVIC CHEN:  (to Red Dalek)  It seems that the
Doctor requires proof of what we say.

RED DALEK:  Put the prisoners on view.

(The Daleks move Sara, Steven and the Monk on view in front of the Doctor.)

MAVIC CHEN:  We want the Taranium Core back Doctor, and
there is nothing you can do to stop us now.

MONK:  (waves to the Doctor)  Hello Doctor...

DALEK:  Silence.

(The Monk clams up.)

DOCTOR:  Very well, I will hand over the Taranium Core.

MAVIC CHEN:  Oh...  Very wise!

DOCTOR:  But on MY terms.

MAVIC CHEN:  (shouts)  You are in no position to make demands, Doctor.  A Dalek escort will accompany...

DOCTOR:  No escort!  And on my terms!

RED DALEK:  We could exterminate you now.

DOCTOR:  Yes, indeed, indeed you could, but then you'd never get back the Taranium Core, hm, would you?

MAVIC CHEN:  What are your terms, Doctor?

DOCTOR:  You will release your prisoners.  I also include that Monk fellow too, although I don't know
why I should bother with him.
Bring all three to the place of rendezvous and handed them over at the same time.

MAVIC CHEN:  Why can't you come here?

DOCTOR:  (in disgust)  You should know the answer to that as well as I do.  (shaking his stick at Mavic
Chen and the Daleks)  None of you can be trusted.  You  (points to Mavic Chen)  and one Dalek - by the
west angle of the Great
Pyramid.

RED DALEK:  We accept - take the prisoners inside.

(The prisoners are prodded back inside the ship.)

MAVIC CHEN:  I should go now Doctor, before the Daleks change
their minds.

(The Doctor returns this with his most withering glances.  Then
he marches off.)

DOCTOR:  Hmph!

(The Doctor leaves.)

MAVIC CHEN:  I surprised that that you met his terms so
readily.

RED DALEK:  One Dalek is capable of exterminating all!!

13.  WORK SHANTY

(Hyksos and some men arrive.  Khephren and Tuthmos are very happy
to see them.)

HYKSOS:  Khephren!

KHEPHREN:  Have you enough men?

HYKSOS:  Yes.  They are already moving into position and waiting for my command.  Have the war machines
been seen?

KHEPHREN:  No.  But we have heard them speak in a mighty roar!

HYKSOS:  (in anger and grim)  My men will destroy them!  COME!

(They all move forward, ready to attack.)

14.  DALEK TIME SHIP

RED DALEK:  It is time for the rendezvous.

(Mavic Chen nods and indicates to the prisoners that they should follow
him.)

MAVIC CHEN:  (to prisoners)  You heard what
the Dalek said.

(Before moving off Steven grabs the Monk's arm.)

STEVEN:  If you try any more of your funny business, I'll
exterminate you myself.

MONK:  (acting injured innocence)  Funny business?
Me?

(They leave.)

15.  OUTSIDE THE DALEK TIME SHIP

(Hyksos had a man watching the time ship who signalled that the Daleks
are moving.  Hyksos gives some last minute advise to his troops.)

HYKSOS:  Be on your guard!  The war machines will kill
and destroy without warning.  Follow me!

16.  WEST ANGLE OF THE PYRAMID

(The Red Dalek, Daleks, Mavic Chen, and the prisoners arrive at the
meeting point.)

RED DALEK:  Halt.  This is the location.  Mavic

Chen, you will receive the Taranium.

MAVIC CHEN:  Yes, of course.

RED DALEK:  (to prisoners)  There will no movement from you until the hand over is completed.

MONK:  (softly)  It's not being done on your terms,
Why don't you shut up?

(The Doctor's voice comes over to them.)

DOCTOR:  (oov)  Stay where you are.  You
will move when I tell you.

(The Doctor moves into view.)

DOCTOR:  Mavic Chen!  Walk towards me.

(Mavic Chen starts to move forward to the Doctor but he sees the Red

Dalek trying to follow.)

DOCTOR:  Dalek, halt!

(The Red Dalek stops.)

DOCTOR:  Mavic Chen!  You have disregard my conditions.

I said one Dalek.

MAVIC CHEN:  But I am not their master!

DOCTOR:  Before we go any further, you will now release your hostages!  Then, and only then, will I hand
you the Taranium Core.

STEVEN:  Don't trust them, Doctor!

(The Red Dalek turns to the prisoners.)

RED DALEK:  You are released!

DOCTOR:  (waving his stick at them)  Away, all of you.

(The prisoners dash off towards the stones.)

DOCTOR:  Mavic Chen, join me at the back here.

(Mavic Chen moves forward and meets the Doctor.)

DOCTOR:  I am now about to hand over the Taranium Core to

Mavic Chen!  (to Mavic Chen)  Follow me.

(Mavic Chen moves forward for a moment towards the Doctor, but then
turns as the Doctor is halfway through handing over the core.  At this point Hyksos yells to his troops
to attack.  Using this opportunity,
Mavic Chen tugs hard at the Core and it is pulled from the Doctor's grasp.
Mavic Chen then dives for cover.)

RED DALEK:  (to Daleks)  Attack formation.

Attack formation.

(The soldiers turn and as they attack the Daleks, most of them are killed
by the Dalek guns.  As the killing go on, the Red Dalek manages to kill a guard but it becomes trapped
as some of the remaining soldiers starts to build stones about it blocking it in.)

RED DALEK:  Help!  Help!

(Meanwhile, the Monk is separated from Steven and Sara and dashes off
while Steven dives in and grabs the Doctor pulling him and Sara towards the tomb.)

17.  TOMB

(The Doctor, Steven and Sara rest inside the tomb.)

STEVEN:  (happy)  You did it, Doctor.

We got away again.

DOCTOR:  (grim)  I'm afraid not, young man.

SARA:  Why not, Doctor?  What went wrong?

DOCTOR:  I had to hand the real Taranium Core over to Mavic
Chen.  I know I should try to get in but it would have been hopeless.
There is so much chaos going on... and now it is too late.

SARA:  That means that the Daleks have won!  There's nothing to stop them now.

DOCTOR:  Except this...

(He holds up the circuit that he stole from the Monk's TARDIS.)

SARA:  (in wonder)  What's that?

DOCTOR:  That is the directional unit from the Monk TARDIS.

STEVEN:  Directional...  Then with this we can get back to Kembel!

DOCTOR:  Perhaps, Perhaps!

SARA:  But that's marvelous, Doctor!

DOCTOR:  Yes, I suppose it is.  But that isn't all...

STEVEN:  (interrupts)  No, I sure it isn't Doctor.
But this is hardly the time or place to tell us about it.  I mean, the Daleks will be here soon.

DOCTOR:  I think not, dear boy.  I had to take precautionary measures in case my plan didn't work.  Now
while, I was collecting that unit, I changed the Monk's TARDIS into a police telephone box.

SARA:  (giggles)  Like yours?

DOCTOR:  Yes, yes, exactly like mine.  Of course, the
Daleks will be on our track.  But I think should my plan succeed, they would find the Monk.

(Sara giggles more.)

STEVEN:  By the way, what happened to him?  He was
with us.

DOCTOR:  I don't care if he is in Timbuktu.

(The Doctor turns and opens the TARDIS doors and they all enter the
craft.)

18.  MONK'S TARDIS

(The Monk has escaped and made it back to his TARDIS.)

MONK:  Ha ha.  I got away from that Steven and Sara.

(He continues laughing until he sees that his TARDIS is in the form
of a police telephone box.)

MONK:  Oh.

(He moves about banging it.)

MONK:  No.  The Doctor.  He transformed my TARDIS.

DALEK:  (oov)  There is one of the time travellers.
Stop his escape.

(As the Daleks come into view the Monk dashes inside his TARDIS.)

PATROL LEADER DALEK:  Exterminate him!  Exterminate
him!  Whole company, fire!

(Too late, the Daleks fire, just as the Monk's TARDIS takes off.

As the TARDIS fades from view, Mavic Chen appears and starts to move towards the Dalek group.)

PATROL LEADER DALEK:  They have escaped!  We shall
pursue them through eternity.  The Taranium core must be recovered!

MAVIC CHEN:  This patrol is obviously out of touch with events.

PATROL LEADER DALEK:  What do you mean?

(Mavic Chen is clearly showing off to the Daleks.)

MAVIC CHEN:  All this hysteria is unnecessary...  The
operation is a complete success.  I have the Taranium!  Here.

(He brings it out for the Daleks to see.)

PATROL LEADER DALEK:  You have done well.  Patrol,
return to the time-machine.  We must leave for Kembel at once.

(They move away.)

19.  DOCTOR'S TARDIS INTERIOR

(Sara and Steven are standing while the Doctor is busy wiring the Monk's
circuit in his own systems.)

STEVEN:  Yes, well I hope that the Daleks don't catch the

Monk.

SARA:  After all he has done.

STEVEN:  Yes, after all that.

DOCTOR:  Well, I shouldn't worry any more, my dear boy.
There's no doubt about it.  He's well away by now.

STEVEN:  Do you think he will be going for revenge again?

DOCTOR:  Perhaps.  Perhaps, yes, perhaps one day.
But at the moment, I should say he has quite enough for us for a while.
Having taken his directional unit is going to take him quite a time to make the necessary repairs to his
ship.

SARA:  What about our repairs?  Will the unit work?

DOCTOR:  Well I am not certain.  It's a Mark IV remember.
There are two possibilities. One - it would work...

STEVEN:  Go on, Doc...

DOCTOR:  Number Two, the increased energy rate will certainly destroy the centre column.

SARA:  (hopefully)  But we do have a chance?

DOCTOR:  Yes, my dear.  A chance.  A slim one.

20.  DALEK TIME SHIP

(Mavic Chen is standing holding the Core.  The Patrol Leader Dalek
is currently in charge.)

DALEK:  Course for Kembel has now been computed.

PATROL DALEK:  Has all preparations for take-off being made?

DALEK:  They have.

PATROL DALEK:  Prepare to dematerialise...  NOW!

(He moves forward touching the controls.)

21.  PLANET OF ICE

(We see a snowstorm and then a close view on a iceberg which wasn't
there a moment ago.  It's the Monk's TARDIS.  The door opens and he steps out.  His mouth opens at the
sight.)

MONK:  A planet of ice.  I didn't set course for this.

Unl...  The Doctor again...  The Doctor...

(He dashes back inside his craft and a brief moment comes out again,
very angry.)

MONK:  He stolen my directional unit.  Now, I would
have to wander through time and space as lost as he is!

(He shouts up to the sky.)

MONK:  I get you for this, Doctor!  I get you one day!

(He dashes back inside and closes his door.)

22.  TARDIS INTERIOR

DOCTOR:  They we are.  That's finished.  It's
a pity we haven't got a more reliable way of testing it.  Wel...

SARA:  Well, come on, I thought you said that it's was finished.

DOCTOR:  Oh yes, it is finished my dear.  But...

STEVEN:  Oh come on, Doctor.  We haven't got time for buts!  This is our only hope.

DOCTOR:  You realize, of course, we're taking a terrible chance.

STEVEN:  Then you can save your breath.  We got to try it!

(The Doctor gasps his lapels and turns away.)

DOCTOR:  Very well, my boy.  Pull the main switch!

(Steven halts for a moment and then pulls the lever.  The sound
of take-off can be heard but then a massive explosion flings them to the floor...)

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Back to The Daleks' Master Plan index.

The Daleks' Master Plan (11)

THE DALEKS' MASTER PLAN - EPISODE 11
first broadcast - 22nd January 1966
running time - 24mins 34secs

THE ABANDONED PLANET

Written by

DENNIS SPOONER

From an idea by

TERRY NATION

1.  TARDIS CONSOLE ROOM

(The Doctor has just wired in the Monk's directorial circuit which hopefully
would take them back to the planet Kembel.)

DOCTOR:  That's finished.  It a pity that we haven't
got a more reliable way of testing it.

SARA:  Well.  Come on.  I thought that you said that it was finished.

DOCTOR:  Oh yes, it's finished my dear, but...

STEVEN:  Oh come on Doctor, we haven't got time for buts.
This is our only hope!

DOCTOR:  Yes, you realise of course that we are taking a terrible chance.

STEVEN:  You can save your breath.  We've got to try it!

(The Doctor thinks about it for a moment.)

DOCTOR:  Very well, my boy.  Pull the main switch!

(Steven reaches across and pulls the switch on the console.  In
the background the usual dematerialisation sound is heard but a second later a explosion rocks the room
throwing all of them to the floor...)

2.  DALEKS' CONTROL ROOM, KEMBEL

(With its strange humming and whistling noise, the Daleks' Time Machine
materialises in a corner.  The Time Machine's doors open, and the
Daleks that have survived the trip and Mavic Chen step out of the machine to be greeted by the
Administrator-Dalek.  Mavic Chen is carrying the Taranium Core.)

MAVIC CHEN:  The mission has been completed successfully.

With guile and cunning, I have been able to reprocess the Taranium.

(The Administrator-Dalek totally ignores this and speaks to the Patrol

Leader.)

ADMINISTRATOR-DALEK:  Are you certain that it is the real
core?

(Mavic Chen typically assumes that the Administrator-Dalek is talking
to him, since he believes that he is the most important being in the room.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Of course.  I had it examined before we
arrived here.  It is ready to be fitted into the Time Destructor.
I hope that the Daleks will not suffer any more setbacks which could upset the plan for our conquest of
the universe.

ADMINISTRATOR-DALEK:  The final conference of the remaining members of the Galactic Council await you.

MAVIC CHEN:  (arrogantly)  I shall go and address them... presently.

(He walks out of the room with the total arrogance of someone who doesn't
even know what arrogance means.)

PATROL LEADER:  (to the Administrator-Dalek)  The
task force has disembarked.

ADMINISTRATOR-DALEK:  Excellent.  Is the core fitted into the Time Destructor?

PATROL LEADER:  That is being done.  Do we now deal with
Mavic Chen?

ADMINISTRATOR-DALEK:  No.  His arrogance and greed have a further use for us.  Alert the council to
attain their final conference.

3.  TARDIS CONSOLE ROOM

(The Doctor, Steven and Sara have picked themselves up but they are
still a little bit shaken by the explosion.)

DOCTOR:  Well, fortunately, there's no damage done to the
control panel itself.

STEVEN:  But the directional unit?

DOCTOR:  Useless, my boy, useless.  Take a look for yourself.

(The unit is a charred wreck.)

SARA:  What happened?

DOCTOR:  Well, the unit required a much higher energy rate then we process.

SARA:  Then why did it burn out and not the TARDIS controls?

DOCTOR:  An important safely measure, my dear.  You see, the excess energy must have vaulted itself back
into the directional unit and that means that our plan to return to Kembel has failed.

STEVEN:  That means that the Daleks can invade the universe and conquer it.

DOCTOR:  Yes, and there is nothing that we can do about it.

SARA:  (frantic)  There must be something that we can do, Doctor.  You must try and think of some way.

DOCTOR:  Well, the only chance is to capture the Monk's Time
Machine or that of the Daleks.

(Both Steven and Sara started to speak but the Doctor tuts them quiet.)

DOCTOR:  Have patience, dear boy.  It's highly probable
that they have all left by now.  And I should think that there are a lot of those Egyptians about.
Let's take a look on the scanner.

(The Doctor touches the scanner switch and the screen flares into life.

The picture it shows is one of a jungle and not the tomb that the crew is expecting.)

SARA:  But that's not ancient Egypt.

STEVEN:  It's...  It's more like Kembel!

DOCTOR:  Yes.  It's very familiar.  It might be Kembel.
And that means that that directional unit must have burned itself out after we have dematerialised!  (to
Steven)  I wonder, if you can bring that impulse compass.

STEVEN:  What this one?

(The Doctor nods his agreement and Steven goes and get it.)

DOCTOR:  (to Sara)  Well, now, young lady?

Perhaps you will have more faith in me in the future, hmm.  I thought that something would work out.

SARA:  (shocked and a little angry)  But it was you who said that we failed!

DOCTOR:  Oh, nonsense, nonsense.

SARA:  But it wasn't me!

DOCTOR:  Of course it was...

(Steven comes back into the room and sees what is happening and steps
in before it becomes a fight.)

STEVEN:  Oh come on Doctor, you have to forgive her.

After all, she hasn't known you for very long.

DOCTOR:  Oh well, perhaps, perhaps.  Anyway, now that we are here we have better make a plan.

STEVEN:  How far do you think that we are from the Dalek city?

DOCTOR:  I've no idea.  But I think that we might be able to make it on foot.  Perhaps I should go out
and take some bearings.
Open the door, dear boy.

STEVEN:  Yes.

(As Steven opens the main doors, the Doctor puts on his cloak and goes
outside.)

SARA:  (almost furious)  That man!  He
was as much in the dark as we were and he has the gall to...

STEVEN:  All right, all right, you are getting to know him quite well.

(Sara starts up again but Steven hushes her.)

STEVEN:  Save it for the Daleks.

(And they both leave the room.)

4.  GALACTIC COUNCIL ROOM

(Much has changed in the time since the council first met.  All
that is left of the Council now are Gearon, Malpha, Sentreal, Beaus &
Celation, and they are not happy about the way that they have been treated and the preferred treatment
of Mavic Chen by the Daleks.)

BEAUS:  There has been too much time wasted through the
folly of the representative from Earth.  Surely, it is only right that on his return he be removed from
this council.

CELATION:  But without him there would be no Taranium!

BEAUS:  The Daleks have assured us that they would recover the core of the Time Destructor.

CELATION:  Then we do not need Mavic Chen?

BEAUS:  Exactly!  He no longer merits a place on this
Galactic Council.  I present the motion.

(The Council bangs on the table stating their agreement but none of
them has noticed that the Black Dalek has entered the room.)

BLACK DALEK:  SILENCE!

(The Council, in shock, stops banging.)

BLACK DALEK:  The final conference is now in session.

Mavic Chen, representative from the Solar System will now address the meeting.

(Mavic Chen marches into the room like he owns the place.  The
other members looks at him with barely hidden dislike.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Fellow delegates.  Even as we sit here,
the great war force, assembled under the Daleks is awaiting the final order to set out and conquer the
universe!

BEAUS:  Why is Mavic Chen speaking for the Dalek Supreme?

(Mavic Chen, enmeshed in his tirade, totally ignores the question.)

MAVIC CHEN:  The final checks are being made.  And
in a very short time, that final order will be given!

BEAUS:  Why is it that Mavic Chen is in possession of information denied to the rest of this Council?

(Again Mavic Chen ignores the outburst.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Although we are all equal partners to the Daleks
on this great conquest...  Some of us far more equal than others.

BEAUS:  (banging his fist on the table and barely able to hold in his anger)  Representative speaks out
of verse!

MAVIC CHEN:  No!  My contribution, the ebb of Taranium, is greater than all of yours put together.  You
have been dwarfed, dwarfed!

(This is met by total outrage from the other representatives and the
table rocks with the banging that it is getting.)

BEAUS:  This violates the agreement between him and this

Galactic Council assembled here.

MALPHA:  Arrest him!

MAVIC CHEN:  You are nothing!  Do you hear me?  Nothing!

BEAUS:  Your greed only deserves one reward!  Your death!

DELEGATES:  Death!  Death!

(Total uproar and then Mavic Chen draws out his blaster and fires at

Beaus.  Beaus screams and dies and falls to the floor.  This makes all of the other Delegates quiet down
and no-one notices the Black
Dalek leaving the room.)

MAVIC CHEN:  (smiling)  Before this conference
began, the Dalek Supreme and I spoke together.  This Council is now under my power.  I will give the
orders and you will obey them!

(Total shock from the other delegates.)

5.  JUNGLE

(Steven and Sara are moving slowly forward through the jungle.

The Jungle is filled with strange noises and Steven is ever watchful for the Varga plants.  The Doctor
is nowhere in sight.)

STEVEN:  Are you all right?

SARA:  Yeah.  But this jungle is hardly the place I choose for a gentle scroll.

STEVEN:  Just be careful of the Vargas.

SARA:  Vargas?  I haven't seen any Varga plants.

STEVEN:  They've all over the...

(He notices that there are no Varga plants in sight - a change since
his last visit and the planet was populated with hundreds of Varga plants.)

STEVEN:  To think about it, neither have I.  I thought
that the Daleks scattered them all over Kembel.

SARA:  Steven!  You are sure that we are on Kembel?

STEVEN:  Of course I am!  The Doctor said when we took these rea...

(He notices that the Doctor isn't with them.)

STEVEN:  Where is he?

6.  GALACTIC COUNCIL ROOM

(The delegates are still arguing about Mavic Chen's speech.)

CELATION:  We have all served the common cause!  All
of us!

MAVIC CHEN:  Indeed we have.  But I, Mavic Chen, was solely responsible for the recovery of the Core of
the Time Destructor.
Because of this, I...  (points to himself with total arrogance) naturally precede anyone here.  For
without my power, the Daleks cannot succeed.  You do appreciate the point!

(Malpha has noticed that the Black Dalek is missing.)

MALPHA:  There remains one question.  Where is our
co-ruler - the Dalek Supreme?

(Mavic Chen is throw off a little by this.)

MAVIC CHEN:  He...  He was...  Oh.

(They look about the room and the Black Dalek is not there.)

MAVIC CHEN:  It is clear that he can see that I can run
this meeting without his aid.  Now, gentlemen, we come to the main discussion before this meeting.  The
apportioning of the government of the universe after the conquest.  All of you will be allowed to
oversee your own galaxies.  BUT... all of you will be responsible to the Dalek Supreme... and me!

(Some Daleks enter the room with their guns pointed at each of the Delegates
including Mavic Chen.)

DALEK:  This meeting is over!

MAVIC CHEN:  But it's isn't...

DALEK:  There will be no more discussion.  All representatives will come with us.

7.  JUNGLE

(Steven and Sara are looking for the City and are trying to use the
compass.  There is still no sign of the Doctor.)

STEVEN:  How are we going to beat them?

SARA:  Anywhere you like out there.

(She points to the jungle.)

STEVEN:  Wait a minute.  Perhaps the Daleks have caught
him.

SARA:  Then now they would be looking for us.  Look Steven, with or without the Doctor we have got to
get into the Dalek city and find a way or putting it out of action.

STEVEN:  Sara, what about the Doctor?  He can't have vanished into thin air.  We got to find him.

SARA:  No.  Not yet.  Mavic Chen will return with the Taranium and that means that the Daleks plan are
ready to go ahead and we got to stop them!

STEVEN:  I understand that!  We can't just leave the Doctor wandering about lost in this jungle.

SARA:  If I know anything about him he has already reached the city.  If we go and then we can stop the
Daleks and find the Doctor.

STEVEN:  Yes, all right.

(They move on.)

8.  MORE JUNGLE

(Steven is looking at the compass.)

STEVEN:  The stronger signal is on bearing 242.  According
to the Doctor the Dalek city is over there.

(They move on again.)

9.  ANOTHER PART OF THE JUNGLE

SARA:  Where to now?

STEVEN:  I just take a reading...

SARA:  What exactly is that...

(Steven hushs her and moves the compass about trying to get a reading.)

STEVEN:  So far, so good.  We are on the right track.

The source of power is still on 242.

SARA:  Would you mind telling me how that thing works?

STEVEN:  What now!?

SARA:  Yes now.

STEVEN:  Look Sara, this is no time for a lesson on the power impulse compass.

SARA:  What if something happens to you?

STEVEN:  What are you talking about?

SARA:  I'll have to go ahead and reach the city alone.
Don't you think that you better show me how it works in case of accidents?

STEVEN:  (slightly put out)  Oh you are so cheerful aren't you.

10.  DALEKS' CONTROL ROOM

(The room is filled with Daleks working and the Black Dalek.)

DALEK 1:  The Galactic Representatives have been detained
as you instructed.

BLACK DALEK:  They will be destroyed at the same time as the headquarters at the start of the conquest
of the planet Earth.  Commence invasion count-down!

11.  LANDING PAD

(Steven and Sara are reached the landing pad where the Representatives
space-ships are parked.)

STEVEN:  Take-off area.

SARA:  Yes.  Are those the Daleks ships?

STEVEN:  No.  Those belong to the other representatives.

SARA:  Where is the Daleks landing area?

STEVEN:  There too, possibly.  But those representative ships will have to take off first to collect
their forces for the invasion.

SARA:  (starting forward)  Right, let's get them.

STEVEN:  (holding on to her)  Just a minute!

SARA:  Why?  We got to defeat the Daleks.

STEVEN:  We have got to TRY and defeat the Daleks.  If you and I just charged in there what chance would
you think we got against the greatest war force ever assembled.

SARA:  (a little annoyed)  Oh, for heaven's sake, we go carefully.  Listen Steven, just because the
Doctor isn't here don't think that you are the only one that can out-think that Daleks.

STEVEN:  I don't think that.  As you said, in any case he probably be here already.

SARA:  Come on!

12.  A CORRIDOR IN THE DALEK CITY

(Steven and Sara move forward slowly and carefully ready to jump for
cover in case a Dalek makes an appearance but there is no sign of them.)

STEVEN:  It's uncanny!  I mean, where has the Daleks
gone to?

SARA:  It's like the city of the dead.

STEVEN:  Let's see if there is any sign of life along here.

(They move forward - not a Dalek in sight.)

STEVEN:  We should have been challenged by now!

SARA:  Hmm, we haven't come very far yet.

STEVEN:  What that got to do with it?

SARA:  They are probably making final preparations for the invasion.

STEVEN:  Well, they still need guards.

SARA:  Well, maybe they are not frightened.

STEVEN:  Well, they ought to take some precautions.

SARA:  Alright, you think of an explanation.

STEVEN:  Suppose...  Suppose that the Doctor did come here and they did caught him...

SARA:  And now they will be looking for us.

STEVEN:  Probably not.  What if he said that he was alone.

SARA:  Hardly, I would think so.

STEVEN:  Why not?  We weren't anywhere around.

SARA:  Steven.  This could be a trick.  They have caught the Doctor and they could be waiting for us.

STEVEN:  If they have caught the Doctor they won't worry about us.  We got to find him.

13.  DALEKS' CONTROL ROOM

(Steven and Sara move into the Control Room which surprises both of
them by being completely empty - not a Dalek in sight.)

STEVEN:  This place is empty too.

SARA:  Then it must be a trap.

STEVEN:  It might...

SARA:  But it looks like a control room.  The Daleks wouldn't leave a place like this unguarded.

STEVEN:  Yes, that's true.  They must have the Doctor to be sure of themselves.

(He sees the Daleks' Time Machine.)

STEVEN:  There's their time machine.

SARA:  We can get back to Earth and warn them.

STEVEN:  Except that none of us knows how to work it.
We could bluff them...

SARA:  How?

STEVEN:  If we could lock ourselves into that Time Machine unless they let the Doctor come to us and he
could work it.

SARA:  It's worth a try.

(She turns to the controls.)

SARA:  Now we have got to contract the Daleks.

(She touches some controls.)

SARA:  Steven!  That's the Daleks loudspeaker system.

(She speaks into the microphone on the control panel.)

SARA:  This is Sara Kingdom of Space Security.  Send
the Doctor to the control room.

STEVEN:  I better get inside that Time Machine.

(Suddenly, Mavic Chen's voice speaks from the loudspeaker.)

MAVIC CHEN:  (oov)  Hello, Kingdom, Where are
you?

SARA:  That's Mavic Chen!

STEVEN:  He must still be working with them!  (to the microphone)  Mavic Chen, can you hear me?

14.  A CELL

(The Daleks have moved the Representatives to a small cell.  The
voices of Steven and Sara can be heard.  All of the other Representatives now don't trust Mavic Chen an
inch after the speech in the Council Chamber.)

STEVEN:  (oov)  Let us speak to the Doctor.

MALPHA:  (to Mavic Chen)  Is this more treachery?
Who are these people?

MAVIC CHEN:  There are the people who stole the Taranium!

MALPHA:  Why have they come back?

MAVIC CHEN:  (screaming)  I DON'T KNOW!  YOU
MUST LET ME SPEAK TO THEM!

MALPHA:  NO!  Already you have betrayed us.  This could be another trick.

STEVEN:  (oov)  Mavic Chen!  Let me speak to the Doctor.

15.  DALEK CONTROL ROOM

SARA:  Here they come.  They must be on their way to
us by now.

STEVEN:  If they don't bring the Doctor with them the plan's useless.

MALPHA:  (oov)  Listen to me.

SARA:  (into microphone)  Who's that?

MALPHA:  Through the treachery of Chen we are being imprisoned.

SARA:  (into microphone)  Who are you?

MALPHA:  (oov)  We are the Galactic Council.
Will you release us?

STEVEN:  (into the microphone)  Where are you?

MALPHA:  (oov)  In a detention cell.

STEVEN:  (shouting into the microphone)  BUT WHERE?

MALPHA:  (oov)  We do not know!

(Steven starts to move towards the door.)

STEVEN:  We got to find them!

SARA:  No, wait!  This could be all part of the trick.

STEVEN:  No, I don't think so.  Look, if there was any
Daleks around they would be here by now.  They must have gone.
Maybe the Doctor's with the Council!  Come on!

(Both of them rush out.)

16.  CELL

MALPHA:  Mavic Chen, if this is a further trick we shall
destroy you before they could destroy us.

MAVIC CHEN:  (frantic)  It's not a trick!
They would not have come back!  If you would only think!  Is there no sense in the outer galaxies?  It
is clear that they have lost their leader - the one they call the Doctor.  The girl have bought the
young man here to look for him.  Maybe the girl have come back out of loyalty to me.  To ensure my
safety as the Guardian as the
Solar System.

17.  ANOTHER CORRIDOR

(Steven and Sara are running.)

SARA:  Now where?

STEVEN:  How should I know.  Just look at this place.
It's fantastic.

SARA:  Come along, no time for sightseeing.  Let's try along here.

(They go on.)

18.  CELL

MAVIC CHEN:  The efficiency of our security system is one
of the main reasons of our natural supremely.

(The others looks like they don't know or don't care.)

MALPHA:  What about the Daleks?!

MAVIC CHEN:  Once we are out of here, we can destroy the Daleks.
Between we muster a greater force than theirs.  We can form our own galactic council.

MALPHA:  Insane!

19.  CORRIDORS

(We see Steven and Sara running down them.)

20.  CELL, EXTERIOR

(They pull up outside the cell and open the shutters.  Inside the

Representatives look up at the new arrivals.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Kingdom!  You done well.  Now let
us out of here.

STEVEN:  No.

MAVIC CHEN:  What do you mean no?!

STEVEN:  Where is the Doctor?

MALPHA:  If he is your leader he is not with us.

STEVEN:  (shouting)  Where is he?

MAVIC CHEN:  I don't know.  Now let us out of here!

STEVEN:  So you can re-join the Daleks!  Not likely.

MALPHA:  Absurd!  The Daleks have betrayed us!

CELATION:  Betrayed!

MALPHA:  Look about us and you can see this!

SARA:  If we let them out, there's just a chance that some of them can immobile a force to defeat the
Daleks.

CELATION:  Of course we will!

(Steven looks undecided.)

MALPHA:  You must!  The Daleks must be destroyed or
our galaxies are in danger!

SARA:  We have no choice.

(Steven thinks about this.)

STEVEN:  Very well.

(He turns to the prisoners.)

STEVEN:  The Daleks have already left Kembel.  It's
probable that their invasion plans have already that their invasion plans have already going ahead and
the universe will be taken by surprise because of your greed!

MAVIC CHEN:  Must you moralise...

(But Steven cuts him off.)

STEVEN:  You're only chance is to go back to your own people
and warn them.

CELATION:  Our people will kill us!

MALPHA:  Not if we save them.  We will destroy the Daleks.

OTHERS:  Destroyed!

(Mavic Chen doesn't say this.)

MALPHA:  We agree to go and defend our galaxies and to organise
a search force for the Dalek invasion force.

(Sara is convinced.)

SARA:  Let them out Steven.

(Steven thinks about this long and hard.)

STEVEN:  Yes, all right.

(He unlocks the door and all of the prisoners exit.  With his usual
style Mavic Chen turns to Sara.)

MAVIC CHEN:  You are a sensible woman, Kingdom.  I
shall see that you are justly rewarded.

(Sara stares at him with a look of pure hatred.)

21.  JUNGLE

(The ships of the now-freed prisoners are powering up.  On the
out-skirts of the city, Steven and Sara are watching.  Malpha's ship leaps straight into the sky.)

SARA:  There they go.

STEVEN:  Let's hope that they'll be in time.  Every ship has installisation at best.

(The other three take off leaving the Spar still on the ground.)

SARA:  Chen's ship is still there.

STEVEN:  Must be the last one to take off.

(A powering up humming noise can be heard.)

SARA:  What about the others?

STEVEN:  They must belong to the other representatives.

SARA:  Chen's taking his time to get off.

STEVEN:  There he goes.

(A small jet of flame shoot from the after burners of the Spar.)

STEVEN:  Something goes wrong.

(The Spar explodes into millions of tiny pieces What left of it collapsed
back onto itself.  The fact that the city was constructed of metal prevented it from catching fire.)

SARA:  Now he won't be able to get back to Earth and warn
them.

STEVEN:  Let's hope that the others can immobiles fast enough and warn them.  There must be something
that we can do.

SARA:  Yes.  Find the Doctor.

(They move forward.)

22.  JUNGLE

(They are moving forward when a noise reaches them from further down
the track.)

SARA:  The Doctor?

STEVEN:  No!

(They hide behind one of the relatively safe tree- like growths.

After a moment, the vegetation parts, and into sight came a Dalek.
It pauses for a moment and then moves off down the path that the travellers have been taking.)

SARA:  They're still here.

STEVEN:  We must follow it!  Quick!

(They run forwards after it.)

23.  SIDE OF A MOUNTAIN

(They follow the Dalek and watch it enter a cave at the entrance of
the mountain.)

STEVEN:  It went down there - right into the heart of the
mountain.

SARA:  Underground - why didn't we think of that before.

STEVEN:  It's possible that the invasion hasn't started yet.
Maybe the rest of the force are down there.

SARA:  Or part of them.  There must be hundreds of places like that.

STEVEN:  Yes, but that Dalek must know that their representatives have got away.

SARA:  They might even know that we're on Kembel.

STEVEN:  The representatives gone and the Doctor disappeared.
We have to put them out of action ourselves.

SARA:  Can we?

STEVEN:  We got to.  Earth will still be invaded.

(A familiar voice rings out behind them.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Certainly.  Thanks to you.

(He stands covering them with a blaster looking very alive and very
smug.)

SARA:  Chen!  But you're dead!

MAVIC CHEN:  Not yet, my innocent one.  No I am delighted my pyrotechnic display impressed you.  No, I
am alive and soon shall be master of the universe!  Perhaps, Kingdom, you like to lead the way.

(He gestures at the tunnel with his blaster.)

SARA:  Down there?

MAVIC CHEN:  Of course.  I certain that the Daleks will be delighted to see you.

(Faced with no alternative, Sara leads the way into the tunnel.

Steven and Mavic Chen follow behind her.)

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The Daleks' Master Plan (12)

THE DALEKS' MASTER PLAN - EPISODE 12
first broadcast - 29th January 1966
running time - 23mins 31secs

THE DESTRUCTION OF TIME

Written by

DENNIS SPOONER

From an idea by

TERRY NATION

1.  BASE OF THE MOUNTAIN

(Mavic Chen is covering Sara and Steven with a blaster.)

MAVIC CHEN:  No I am alive and soon will be master of the
universe!  Perhaps Kingdom you would like to lead the way?

(He waves his blaster towards the cave in the cave that the Dalek entered.)

SARA:  Down there?

MAVIC CHEN:  Of course!  I certain that the Daleks would be delighted to see you.

(Faced with no alternative Steven and Sara make their way towards the
cave with Mavic Chen behind them.)

2.  A METAL CORRIDOR

(A door opens and Steven, Sara and Mavic Chen enter.  The cave
has lead them to a metal corridor.)

STEVEN:  Don't you understand.  By bringing us down
here you are doing exactly what the Daleks want.

MAVIC CHEN:  (puffed up)  Of course.

SARA:  He's mad!

MAVIC CHEN:  Take care Kingdom.  I could easily forgo the pleasure of giving you to the Daleks.  I could
kill you myself.

STEVEN:  Why do you come back?  This couldn't have been planned.  You weren't to know that we were
coming back to set you all free.

MAVIC CHEN:  I'm not a fool.  I guessed your plan.

SARA:  Our only plan is to destroy the Daleks.

MAVIC CHEN:  You were able to fool the others but you can't fool me.  Where is the old man, the one you
call the Doctor?

SARA:  (half-believing tone)  Yes, of course.
And that's why you came here.

MAVIC CHEN:  (then snaps)  And do stop this masquerade!
I know that he is trying to usurp my position with the Daleks.

STEVEN:  That is absurd!  The Doctor always fought the
Daleks.  Why don't you believe me?  We don't know where he is.

MAVIC CHEN:  Yet, I find you by the entrance of the Daleks secret headquarters.  I know that the Doctor
is here and he is trying to take my place.  Well I soon change that.

STEVEN:  Why can't you understand the Daleks do not make allies?

SARA:  Save your breath Steven, you will never convince him.
I tell you, he's mad!

MAVIC CHEN:  The Daleks need me.

(He states this as if it is a fact.)

MAVIC CHEN:  And now I will be able that the Doctor will
betray them.

(Steven starts to speak but Mavic Chen shouts at him to be quiet.

He waves the blaster onwards.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Lead on!

(They carry on.)

3.  MAIN DALEK CONTROL ROOM

(This is much bigger than the city control room.  It is obvious
that this is the main headquarters for the invasion force.  All about
Daleks are running about making the final checks all under the eye stick of the Dalek Supreme.  By him
is the Time Destructor with the core fitted.)

DALEK 1:  Assault division of five thousand Daleks await
orders.

DALEK SUPREME:  The Time Destructor will be placed in the lead ship.

(A second Dalek turns from the communication console.)

DALEK 2:  Prisoners have been taken at entrance five.

DALEK SUPREME:  Prisoners?

DALEK 2:  Dalek guard reports that the group consist of Mavic
Chen and two of the time travellers.

DALEK SUPREME:  Have them bought here to main central control.

DALEK 2:  I obey.

4.  ANOTHER METAL CORRIDOR

(By now, a Dalek guard has arrived and are covering all three of the
humans.  Mavic Chen naturally assumes that the guard is there to help him not seeing that the guard is
covering him as well.)

MAVIC CHEN:  (to guard)  Your assistance, although
welcome, is entirely unnecessary.  I demand to take them to the Dalek
Supreme alone.

GUARD:  Central control has been advised.

MAVIC CHEN:  Well advise them again.  Until you realise that these people are my prisoners, I shall
refuse to hand them over.

GUARD:  I will verify my orders.

MAVIC CHEN:  Good.

SARA:  There is still no proof that the Doctor is here.

MAVIC CHEN:  Whatever else is thought about you, one can't help but admire the way that both continue
with your absurd bluff.

GUARD:  Representative Chen.  New orders have been received.
You are to escort the prisoners to the Dalek Supreme.

MAVIC CHEN:  Excellent!  (to Steven &amp; Sara)
After you.

(They move on the guard stays and another Dalek appears from another
tunnel.)

DALEK:  (with a grimness in his voice)  But
we are still to assist him.

5.  MAIN DALEK CONTROL ROOM

DALEK 2:  The prisoners have arrived.

DALEK SUPREME:  Bring them in.

DALEK 2:  I obey.

(The door opens.)

DALEK 2:  (to the Daleks outside)  Bring in
the prisoners.

(..and the two Daleks with the humans arrive with the prisoners.

Both Sara and Steven look about with amazement at the size of the control room.  Mavic Chen on the other
hand with his usual way marches into the room like he owns the place.)

MAVIC CHEN:  (declaring)  Once again, I - Mavic

Chen - Guardian of the Solar System - have helped the Daleks with their conquest plan.

(The Dalek Supreme doesn't even look at him.)

DALEK SUPREME:  (coldly)  Our alliance has ended.

MAVIC CHEN:  (shocked)  What!?  But I have helped you time and time again with your absurd incompetence!
I - Mavic
Chen - will decide when the Alliance is at an end.

(He moves forward.)

MAVIC CHEN:  You, Dalek Supreme - tell them to take their
orders from me.

(Not a noise is heard as all eyes - human and Dalek - are on Mavic Chen.)

MAVIC CHEN:  I assume that this silence means that the orders
have been passed.  Good.  (to a Dalek)  You!
Bring me the invasion reports.

(The Dalek doesn't move.)

MAVIC CHEN:  It is essential that I know what stage have
reached.  Now, move!

(Again the Dalek doesn't move - all eyes are still on Mavic Chen.)

MAVIC CHEN:  You haven't passed on my order - why?

(Not a sound.)

MAVIC CHEN:  Failure to obey the orders of your ruler brings
only one reward.

(He opens fire with his blaster at the Dalek and the beam bounces off
the Dalek.  With horror he sees that he doesn't have the power to destroy them at all.  He tries
throwing the gun at the Dalek which just also bounced off.  This was what the Daleks wanted.  If they
have fired the blast will have damaged the Time Destructor as well as the Dalek Supreme.)

DALEK SUPREME:  Take him away and exterminate him.

But do not fire in here.  You will damage us and some of the controls.

MAVIC CHEN:  (shouting madly)  Exterminate me?!
I - Mavic Chen - master of the universe am immortal.

(Still screaming he turns and runs from the room.)

DALEK SUPREME:  Pursue and exterminate in safe area - repeat

- in safe area.

(Meanwhile while the Daleks are all following Mavic Chen, the Doctor
taps Steven on the shoulder.)

STEVEN:  Doctor...

DOCTOR:  Don't say anything.  Just do what I tell you.
Take that.

(He passes something over to Steven.)

STEVEN:  The key to the TARDIS.

DOCTOR:  Yes.  Now when I tell you I want you to take
Sara back to the TARDIS.  You still have that power impulse compass.

STEVEN:  Yes.

DOCTOR:  Good.  Now follow bearing 627 to the TARDIS.

SARA:  (a little loud)  But what about you Doctor.

DOCTOR:  Shhh...  There is no use us both taking risks.
You must do what I say.

STEVEN:  How did you get here?

DOCTOR:  I followed a Dalek here of course.  Now let me get on.

(He moves to the Time Destructor.)

DOCTOR:  I am going to activate the Time Destructor.

6.  ANOTHER CORRIDOR

(Mavic Chen gets himself hemmed in by Daleks.)

MAVIC CHEN:  You will pay for your crimes against your ruler.

(The Daleks blast him and at last the so-called ruler of the universe
dies screaming.)

MAVIC CHEN:  You cannot kill me!!

(But they do.)

7.  MAIN DALEK CONTROL ROOM

STEVEN:  Be quick!  I sure they are coming back.

DOCTOR:  Aha that it!  Hmm, Hmm.

(A ticking noise can be heard from the Time Destructor.  The door
opens to admit the Daleks who sees the Doctor with the Time Destructor.)

DALEK 1:  Move back, all of you.

DOCTOR:  I am afraid you are too late.  The Time Destructor is activated.

DALEK SUPREME:  (to the other Daleks)  Do not fire!

DOCTOR:  No, you cannot fire can you?  You dare not.
If you were you could kill us but you will totally destroy your equipment.
I think that it is checkmate.  Hmm.  Send one of your Daleks over here.  Remember that the Time
Destructor is working.  Working slowly but if you disobey me I can accelerate it.

DALEK SUPREME:  Do what he says.

(A Dalek moves forward with its gun stick lowered.)

DOCTOR:  (to the Dalek)  Turn about.

(The Dalek does so.)

DOCTOR:  (to Steven and Sara)  You two behind
it.

(Both Steven and Sara get behind the Dalek.)

DOCTOR:  Steven, take my stick and clamp it down on his
gun.

(Steven does so.)

DOCTOR:  (to the Dalek)  Forward!

(The Dalek moves forward with Steven and Sara hiding behind it.

The Doctor follows with the Time Destructor.  They reach the door.)

DOCTOR:  (to Steven and Sara)  Now, both of
you, back to the TARDIS.

STEVEN:  What about you Doctor?

DOCTOR:  Do as I say.

STEVEN:  (grabing Sara)  Come on!

8.  A CORRIDOR

(Steven and Sara are running when Sara stops.)

SARA:  Wait!  Steven, we just can't leave him.

STEVEN:  The Doctor knows what he is doing.  At least,
I think he does.

SARA:  All we are doing are running to save our own lives.
If anything goes wrong and if the Daleks recapture the Time Destructor we have failed forever.

STEVEN:  I know what you are saying.  I go back too if
I thought that it would help.  But whatever he doing he's doing it because he thinks that it is the best
way.  Now come on!

(They both carry on.)

9.  CORRIDOR OUTSIDE MAIN CONTROL ROOM

(The Doctor takes off his cloak and drops it on the floor and pushes
the Dalek back into the room.  He then closes the door and runs as fast as possible.)

DALEK SUPREME:  (oov)  Pursue and recapture.

Pursue and recapture.  Activate alarm!  Activate alarm!

DALEK:  (oov)  Door control jammed.  Contract broken.

(It's because the door has been caught on the cloak.  The Daleks
are trying to open a door which to its own senses states that it is already open hence nothing happens.)

DALEK SUPREME:  (oov)  Correct fault immediately
and then pursue and recapture.

10.  ANOTHER CORRIDOR

(Running the Doctor comes across Sara who has somehow lost Steven.)

DOCTOR:  What are you doing here?

SARA:  I came to help you.

DOCTOR:  Remember my child this machine is now working.
It's working slowly because it's range is rather small at the moment but it is working.  Now, if you
feel strange you must let me know at once.

SARA:  Yes all right, but what about them?

DOCTOR:  First back to the TARDIS.  Steven not with you?

SARA:  No.  I came back alone.

DOCTOR:  Hurry, my child, hurry!

(They run on.)

11.  JUNGLE

(Steven is moving but he notices that Sara isn't with him.  The
effect of the Time Destructor can be heard by a roaring wind.)

STEVEN:  Sara!  Sara!

12.  ANOTHER PART OF THE JUNGLE

SARA:  Hurry Doctor, Hurry!

DOCTOR:  My dear, are you beginning to feel strange?
Hmm.

(Sara begins to speak but finds it difficult to say the words.)

SARA:  Listen... the wind...  Can you hear it?

I never heard that on Kembel.

DOCTOR:  Yes, well perhaps it is this Time Destructor.
Have an effect on the elements, hmm.

SARA:  Then destroy it!

DOCTOR:  No, no!  That's impossible my dear.  There is one thing that I know about this machine.  It
will continue until the Taranium have finally burn itself out.  Our only chance is to get back to the
TARDIS and then I can neutralise it.

SARA:  Hurry.

13.  DALEK CONTROL ROOM

DALEK 1:  Secondary door circuit completed.

DALEK SUPREME:  Operate!

(The Daleks try the door control and the door opens and a Dalek pushes
the cloak aside.)

DALEK 2:  Obstacle clearing.

DALEK SUPREME:  Pursue and exterminate!

(Seven Daleks race out of the room.)

14.  JUNGLE

(The Doctor and Sara are still running.  However, the effects of
the Time Destructor are causing the Doctor to run more slowly and Sara's hair has grown white with age. 
The wind has stepped up to gale force.)

DOCTOR:  Not far now.  Sara!

(Sara now looks almost an old woman.)

SARA:  Keep going!  The Daleks must be after us by
now!

DOCTOR:  The Time Destructor...

(The rest of the words are roared out by the gale.)

SARA:  You think I don't know.

15.  JUNGLE OUTSIDE MOUNTAIN

(Meanwhile the seven Daleks have reached the outside and are starting
the chase across the jungle.  The jungle is falling under the effects of the Destructor as each plant
and tree dies of old age.)

16.  JUNGLE NEAR THE TARDIS

(The Doctor and Sara are almost walking now.  Both have aged horribly

- Sara is now a old woman who is just barely able to run and the Doctor looks much older than his
already advanced years.)

17.  TARDIS CONSOLE ROOM

(Steven has entered the TARDIS and is looking at the scanner screen
for sign of his friends.  Seeing no sign of them he bangs his fist on the console in exasperation.)

18.  JUNGLE

(Still gliding forwards at a set speed the Daleks are moving through
the jungle at a faster rate than the Doctor and Sara.)

19.  JUNGLE OUTSIDE TARDIS

(The wind is at hurricane force and both the Doctor and Sara are now
just barely to walk.  Luck is with them as they arrive in the area where the TARDIS is parked just a few
feet away.  However both are moving so slowly and for Sara it is too far and she is getting too old to
move let alone walk.)

SARA:  (weakly)  Doctor...

(Sara struggles to make it.  The Doctor too, for all of his years,
is moving too slowly.  The Time Destructor has aged him terribly and he can barely move.)

20.  TARDIS CONSOLE ROOM

(Steven is overjoyed to see them, but then see the effects of the Time

Destructor.)

STEVEN:  DOCTOR!  SARA!

(Seeing that they need help, he opens the TARDIS doors.)

21.  JUNGLE OUTSIDE TARDIS

(The Doctor has a few feet to go when he collapses, the Time Destructor
still pulsing away.  Sara, now too old to even stand, collapses on the jungle floor.  She stares into
the Time Destructor and can see something - her brother's spirit perhaps?)

SARA:  I understand...

(But it is too much.  She is too old.  She tries and move
forward one final time - collapses and then dies of old age.  Within a few seconds Sara becomes a
skeleton and a few seconds later she is gone.)

(Steven rushes outside and sees Sara dying.)

STEVEN:  Sara!

(But Sara has gone and the effect starts on him and he moves forward
at a walk fighting the wind until he reaches the Doctor.  By the time that he does Steven's hair has
grown grey.)

STEVEN:  Come on Doctor.

DOCTOR:  (in a very old voice)  No, don't touch me.

STEVEN:  I must help you.

DOCTOR:  Get back to the ship!

(He cries with the effects.  Steven tries some of the controls
on the Time Destructor and causes it to stop beeping.  While it seems to be doing something Steven
rushes over and grabs the Doctor and both of them struggle into the TARDIS.)

22.  TARDIS CONSOLE ROOM

(When the Doctor and Steven get inside and the effect wears off and
they have returned to their old selves and ages.  Steven closes the door.)

DOCTOR:  Thank you my friend.  By chance you reversed
the Time Destructor.  Instead of Time rushing forward, it is now racing back.

(He looks about the room for the other companion.)

DOCTOR:  Sara?  Do realise she came to look for me
to see if I am all right?  Hmm.

STEVEN:  We were forcing our way through the jungle.
I didn't even see her go.

(On the scanner the Daleks arrive in the clearing.)

23.  JUNGLE OUTSIDE TARDIS

(The Daleks arrive into the clearing.  The Time Destructor still
working and beeping.  The Daleks see this and try firing at it.
Their blasts have no effect and the effect of the Time Destructor causes them to lose control and crash
into each other and somehow start to come apart.  For a second the creatures' insides are shown but
these too start to change as Time runs back.  At the end they start to become something humanoid but
then they are gone too.  The Time Destructor is beeping alone as the jungle for a few moment dying is
now re-growing back into seeds.)

24.  JUNGLE OUTSIDE TARDIS

(A little while later, the jungle is gone.  Nothing but dust everywhere

- the only thing on the planet is the TARDIS and what's left of the Time
Destructor.  Steven and the Doctor step out onto the planet.)

DOCTOR:  Oh, dust.  Nothing but dust!  (He
coughs.)

(Steven finds the remains and pick it up.)

STEVEN:  (softly)  The Time Destructor.

What's left of it.

DOCTOR:  Mavic Chen's Taranium Core has finally burned itself out.

(Steven throws it on the ground.)

STEVEN:  I wish Sara could have been here.

DOCTOR:  Yes, my boy.  So do I.  You know Steven, the one thing that Sara lived for was to see the total
destruction of the
Daleks.  Well, now it all over.  Without her help this could never have been achieved, hmm.

(He starts to chuckle to himself.)

STEVEN:  What is it?

(The Doctor points to a burn on the ground.  This is where one
of the Daleks was.)

DOCTOR:  Million of years of progress.  Reversed back.

That's all that remains of a Daleks.

(He continues chuckling to himself.)

STEVEN:  (weightily)  Lets go Doctor, I've seen
enough.

DOCTOR:  (a little happy)  Well, my boy we finally rid this planet of Daleks!

(Steven is upset that the Doctor is celebrating their victory.)

STEVEN:  (in a slightly crying and slightly angry tone)

Brett!  Katarina!

DOCTOR:  Sara.

(He thinks while Steven goes back on board the TARDIS.)

DOCTOR:  A waste.  What a terrible waste.

(Without another word he turns and boards the TARDIS and with its usual
sound the TARDIS leaves Kembel.)