The Rescue

Original Airdate: Jan 2, 1965

Episode One - The Powerful Enemy

(The TARDIS materialises in a darkened cave.)
(Spaceship 201 is down in the valley. It has a Union Flag on
it's tail and is broken in half. It's radar dish is working)
[Spaceship living quarters]
(a young girl rushes in, delighted to hear the beep of a contact
on the screen)
VICKI: Bennett!
[Spaceship corridor]
VICKI: Bennett! The rescue ship’s landed! Bennett, let me in!
BENNETT [OC]: Come in.
[Bennett's quarters]
(a man is lying on the bunk)
VICKI: Bennett, the rescue ship's landed. It’s arrived. We’re
being taken back. Isn’t it marvellous?
BENNETT: It can’t be the ship.
VICKI: Its quite clear on the detector. Listen.
(They can hear the radar contact.)
BENNETT: It must be a fault. Must be. Did you talk to them
by radio?
VICKI: No. I was going to, but I thought I’d tell you first. I
thought you’d be pleased, Bennett.
BENNETT: The rescue ship's not due for another three days. It
can’t even find Dido unless we guide it down. You know that.
VICKI: But it's showing on the screen. Come and look. I’ll
help you.
BENNETT: Did you hear it land?
VICKI: No. No, I didn’t, but it
BENNETT: The rescue ship can’t land silently.
VICKI: It must have done. It’s just got here early that’s all. It
is here. It’s as plain as anything on the screen.
BENNETT: What’s its location?
VICKI: I don’t know. Somewhere on the mountain.
BENNETT: Look, Vicki. I know how badly you want to get
off this planet. We both want to get away but its no good
building up our hopes. Go and radio the rescue ship. You’ll
find your mistake… And Vicki, watch out for Koquillion.
VICKI: I haven’t seen him today.
BENNETT: He’ll be around somewhere. And remember he
knows nothing about the rescue ship.
VICKI: I know.
BENNETT: So be careful. If he finds out, he’ll kill both of us.
[Spaceship living quarters]
VICKI: Planet Dido to rescue ship. Planet Dido to rescue ship.
Come in please. Over.
CAPTAIN [OC]: Rescue ship to planet Dido. Receiving you
on strength two. Over.
VICKI: Is it true? Have you? Have you landed? Over.
CAPTAIN [OC]: Landed? We’re still sixty nine flying hours
away. We’re proceeding on a normal course. We shall
VICKI: But you, you can’t be. I mean…
CAPTAIN [OC]: Now don’t worry. We’ll be there. Try to hold
on just a bit longer. We’ll contact you for directions in
seventeen hours from now. Repeat, seventeen hours. Breaking
contact now.
VICKI: No!
CAPTAIN [OC]: Over and out.
VICKI: No! Dido to rescue! Dido to rescue!
(no reply)
VICKI: Sixty nine hours away? Who’s landed on the
mountain?
[Tardis]
(The DOCTOR is asleep in his chair)
BARBARA: And you know how the ship has a faint sort of
trembling while we’re moving? Well, I suddenly realised that it
had stopped.
IAN: I believe you’re right, Barbara. I think we have landed.
But the Doctor’s never slept through a landing before.
BARBARA: Doctor. Doctor!
IAN: Doctor!
BARBARA: Wake up.
DOCTOR: Hmm? What’s the matter? What is it? What is it?
Oh good gracious me! Don’t tell me I went off to sleep.
IAN: Yes, you did.
DOCTOR: Oh!
IAN: At a very critical time. Oh well, I suppose it did you a
world of good.
DOCTOR: Deep in the arms of Morpheus, hey my boy? Well,
I feel a bit sticky. I must go and have a wash.
BARBARA: Oh, but Doctor, the trembling’s stopped.
DOCTOR: Oh, my dear, I’m so glad you’re feeling better.
BARBARA: No, not me, the ship.
DOCTOR: Oh, the. Oh my dear, I’m so sorry.
IAN: Doctor, we appear to have landed while you were asleep.
DOCTOR: What? Oh, I say, I must never allow this sort of
thing again now, must we? No. Well, all we have to do is to
turn the power off.
BARBARA: Then we have landed.
DOCTOR: Yes, er, excuse me, materialised, I think, is a better
word. Well now, lets have a look and see what’s doing. Yes,
the air's very good. The temperature. Yes, wherever we are, I
think its nice and fine. (Yawns) Oh, do pardon me. Forgive me,
I’m so sorry. Yes. Well, I must say, this looks most promising.
Now, lets have a little look shall we?
(The scanner shows the cave.)
IAN: Very dark. Can’t really make out anything at all. It looks
very rocky, whatever it is.
DOCTOR: Yes. It does somewhat. Might be a cave, or…even
perhaps underground.
BARBARA: You mean we could be trapped down here?
DOCTOR: Oh. It doesn’t necessarily mean anything my dear
Barbara. We can, of course, always travel through…solid
matter in flight… and all, again, we can, we can take off again
quite easily. No, I do think we ought to step outside and have a
look. I will too. Susan, er
BARBARA: Doctor, why don’t you show me how to open the
doors?
DOCTOR: Hmm? Yes, yes, yes, my dear. Of course, yes, yes,
how silly of me. Yes, number four switch.
(and the doors open)
DOCTOR: Very good, very good. You won’t, of course, try to
do that during transit, will you?
[Cave]
IAN: It is a cave. You were right Doctor.
BARBARA: Strange funny smell. Doesn’t smell like anything
on Earth.
DOCTOR: No, it doesn’t my dear. No, no. But I do know that
smell.
IAN: You recognise it?
DOCTOR: Yes, yes, more or less. Oh, have a look round, I
should, but don’t go too far away. Remember we haven’t had
much luck with these caves during our travels.
BARBARA: What are you going to do?
DOCTOR: Oh, I think I’m going to have a nap.
(The Doctor returns to the Tardis)
IAN: A nap? Huh. Well that’s a new one, isn’t it? He’s usually
the first one to be up and dashing off for a look.
BARBARA: Maybe we’re going to see a new side to the
Doctor.
IAN: Yes, well, he isn’t getting any younger is he. You know,
it’s the first time he’s been to sleep during a landing. Barbara,
I’ve got an idea he’s getting a bit (hand gesture for senile)
DOCTOR: Remember I can hear what you’re saying. Pick up
that stone for me, would you?
IAN: This one, Doctor?
DOCTOR: Yes.
IAN: Certainly.
DOCTOR: Thank you.
(The Doctor goes back inside)
BARBARA: Look, Ian, all the old associations are still in the
ship. You can’t expect him to say goodbye to Susan and then
forget about her the next minute.
IAN: No, I suppose not. I wonder what she’s doing now?
BARBARA: If I know any…anything about David, she’s
learning to milk cows.
IAN: Yes, he’s a nice chap, David.
BARBARA: Come on.
IAN: There may be a way over here, you know.
BARBARA: Yes, but I think the sun is coming through that
way.
IAN: Ah, so it is. (Ian and Barbara leave the cave, and
something with spikes around its neck, bug eyes and antennae
is seen inspecting the Tardis)
[Ledge]
(Ian and Barbara come out onto a ledge in front of a sheer cliff)
IAN: Barbara, look!
BARBARA: It’s a spaceship.
IAN: Yes… broken in two.
IAN: Can you see on the side? A flag! It’s from home!
BARBARA: Yes! You know it must have crashed.
IAN: Yes, although you see those buildings? It might have
been destroyed at the same time as they were on the ground.
BARBARA: There’s no movement. No sign of life at all.
IAN: No. No, there isn’t, is there? Well, there must be people
or things on this planet.
BARBARA: Ian.
IAN: Hmm?
BARBARA: Are you going to tell the Doctor about this?
IAN: Yes. Why not?
BARBARA: Well, knowing the Doctor, he’ll want to go down
there and investigate.
IAN: Well, for once I’d agree with him, Barbara. If there are
any of those crew members left we should get in touch with
them.
BARBARA: Ian!
(The thing that had been looking at the Tardis is behind them)
KOQUILLION: You are strangers here. Answer my question.
Do you come from Earth?
BARBARA: Yes. Yes, we do.
KOQUILLION: Where is your rocket ship?
IAN: You’ve just come out of the cave. You must have seen it.
KOQUILLION: You landed here…in that box?
BARBARA: Well I know it sounds fantastic, but we have no
reason to lie to you.
IAN: Well, obviously you’ve had a good look around. Did you
see any sign of another ship having landed?
KOQUILLION: Are there any other crewmembers?
IAN: Yes, there is. There's one more and he’s back in the ship.
KOQUILLION: I would like to meet him. Go and fetch him. I
will take you all to the city.
IAN: Coming, Barbara?
BARBARA: Yes.
(But the creature actually blocks her way, holding something
like a wrench)
KOQUILLION: Why are you frightened?
BARBARA: Keep away.
KOQUILLION: I am your friend. You can trust me.
BARBARA: Can I? (The creature pushes Barbara over the
ledge)
[Tardis]
(The Doctor is examining the rock and making notes)
DOCTOR: Oh, my writing gets worse and worse. Dear, dear,
dear, dear, dear. Well, undoubtedly we’ve landed on the planet
Dido. How remarkable. Well, I must say. it’ll be rather nice to
meet these friendly people again after all these years. Fancy
landing back here again. I wonder if I were to tell Ian that it
was deliberate, whether he’d believe me or not? Oh no, of
course, I was asleep. Oh, pity, pity, pity.
[Ledge]
(Koquillion uses his wrench, and there is an explosion in the
passage to the cave)
[Cave]
DOCTOR: Chesterton! Chesterton! Where are you, my dear
boy? Oh, I can’t, oh, I can’t see anything.
(The Doctor goes back inside the Tardis.)
(Meanwhile, Barbara is unconscious at the bottom of the cliff,
holding a broken branch. The shadow of another person falls
over her)
(The Doctor comes out of the Tardis with a torch)
DOCTOR: Chesterton! Oh, my dear fellow, are you all right?
IAN: Barbara.
DOCTOR: Where is she?
IAN: Barbara. I thought she was with me. I, I heard her
scream…
DOCTOR: Steady, steady, steady.
IAN: I went back and an explosion.
DOCTOR: Come on, come on, get your breath back. Now,
now then, you all right?
IAN: Yes…
DOCTOR: well, let's try and look for her, shall we?
IAN: Yes, it's…this way.
DOCTOR: Be careful now, be careful. Oh, good gracious, the
whole roof’s fallen in!
IAN: This blocks the cave! Barbara!
(Ian tries to move the rocks)
DOCTOR: Oh, I hope we shan’t get another fall. I don’t think
the Tardis is likely to
IAN: No use. Doctor, this wasn’t an accident.
DOCTOR: What are you talking about, my boy?
IAN: Oh it was a…thing, a repulsive thing with a…hideous
face.
DOCTOR: With hands and feet like claws?
IAN: Yes, that's it. How do you know?
DOCTOR: Well, this is the planet Dido. I’ve been here before,
I know them very well.
IAN: What?
DOCTOR: They’re very friendly people.
IAN: Friendly?
DOCTOR: Yes.
IAN: Oh, it certainly wasn’t friendly to us. Must have kept
Barbara back. That scream. Barbara!
DOCTOR: Oh don’t for heavens sake start scratching there.
Try and find another way out. This thing, was it armed?
IAN: No, no, it wasn’t. Wait a minute, it was carrying some
sort of jewelled club. About so long.
DOCTOR: With a big head, resembling a spanner?
IAN: Yes.
DOCTOR: Yes.
IAN: I don’t know why you bother to ask.
DOCTOR: Yes, that may account for this.
IAN: What?
DOCTOR: When I was here last time, if I remember rightly,
they’d just perfected this thing. It’s a ray, used in construction
work.
IAN: Ahh.
DOCTOR: Now look here, what about Barbara, are you all
right? Are you capable?
IAN: Yes, I’m not too bad.
DOCTOR: Come along. Don’t just sit there, my dear boy,
stand up, stand up. Come along, that’s it, mind your head. It’s
only dust. No bones broken.
IAN: Thank you. Doctor. The most thorough-going medical
I’ve ever had.
DOCTOR: Yes, it’s a pity I didn’t get that degree, isn’t it?
Excuse me.
IAN: You say these people were friendly?
DOCTOR: Really. Very friendly people.
IAN: If that’s a sample, I’ll take the Daleks anytime.
DOCTOR: Now look here, you take yourself off there and try
and find Barbara.
IAN: Yes.
DOCTOR: Come along and be careful.
IAN: Yeah, we need to be careful. These people are dangerous.
DOCTOR: But why? What could have happened to changed
them? I wonder.
[Spaceship living quarters]
(Vicki is making a bed when she hears a noise. She grabs some
stones and pretends to be examining them when -)
KOQUILLION: You have been outside. Stand up! What were
you doing?
VICKI: Walking.
KOQUILLION: In future, you will go no further than fifty
yards from this ship. Do you understand? You were dragging
something. A sack.
VICKI: Oh, just some stones, I collect them. They’re very
beautiful.
KOQUILLION: I’m going to talk to Bennett. Remember you
both owe your lives to me.
VICKI: I heard a sound from the mountain. An explosion.
KOQUILLION: A space machine has arrived.
VICKI: People?
KOQUILLION: A warlike people. They wanted to pillage the
ship! I could not save them from my people, as I do Bennett
and yourself. They’re walled up in a cave. If they’re not dead
already, they will die of hunger and thirst.
VICKI: I bet you never gave them a chance, you could have
(he raises the club) I’m sorry.
KOQUILLION: Remember, I am the only one who can save
you from my people. You should be grateful. I am your only
protection!
[Spaceship corridor]
BENNETT [OC]: You can’t come in.
KOQUILLION: It is Koquillion! Open the door.
[Spaceship living quarters]
(Vicki listens at the door to the corridor, then goes back to the
bed she made and removes blankets to reveal Barbara)
VICKI: Koquillion has just seen me helping you here. I knew
he would. I knew. He knows everything. Everything!
BARBARA: Well, tell me
VICKI: Shh! He’ll hear you.
BARBARA: Oh, all right.
VICKI: Please, stay there. He might come back. You don’t
know him like I do.
BARBARA: Yes, but listen, what’s your name?
VICKI: Vicki.
BARBARA: Is that short for Victoria?
VICKI: No, just Vicki. V,I,C,K,I.
BARBARA: I’m Barbara. Look, tell me more about this
Koquillion.
VICKI: He just keeps us here, Bennett and me. There’s a
rescue ship on the way. He doesn’t know about that. But he’ll
find out. I know he will.
BARBARA: But why does he keep you here?
VICKI: They, they killed all the crew. We, when we landed,
we made contact here. Everyone on board was invited to a
grand sort of meeting. I couldn’t go, I was ill, a fever or
something. I stayed here that night. I remember waking up. A
thunderstorm, I thought, but it was an explosion. Bennett.
Bennett dragged himself back. I was ill for days, I didn’t know
about it til later. I came around and…found Bennett. He can’t
walk. We just wait, and then Koquillion.
(she falls sobbing into Barbara's arms)
BARBARA: Well, if his people killed all your crew, why did,
doesn’t he kill you.
VICKI: We don’t know. My father was taking me. My father.
(she dries her eyes) Your ship. Is your ship still here?
BARBARA: Yes.
VICKI: I’ve just remembered. He told me. Didn’t you hear
him? They, they've killed all your crew too.
[Cave passage]
IAN: Oh, I wonder how much further, Doctor?
DOCTOR: Oh, I can’t understand it. I just can’t understand it.
Violence is totally alien to people on this planet.
IAN: Oh, well, people change, Doctor. New leader, different
set of circumstances.
DOCTOR: No, no, no, my dear Chesterton, no. All the more
reason for people on this planet to hate death and destruction.
My dear boy, when I was here before, the, what, the total
population amounted to, a handle of people. Merely a hundred.
IAN: Is that all?
DOCTOR: Yes, exactly. All the more reason for holding onto
life. Peace, friendship, happiness. This means everything to the
people here.
IAN: Yes. Yes, I see what you mean. Well, you ready to carry
on?
DOCTOR: Me? Carry on? My dear fellow, it was you that
stopped.
[Spaceship living quarters]
VICKI: Sorry, Barbara, I forgot all about your cuts and bruises.
BARBARA: Oh it could be worse. It’s the arm mainly. I must
have strained it catching hold of that tree to break my fall.
VICKI: There. How’s that?
BARBARA: That feels much better.
VICKI: I wonder if Koquillion's gone?
BARBARA: What are the other people like?
VICKI: Mmm? Oh, he’s the only one we see. They live quite
near here, I believe but, well, I don’t know. This fires a flare.
BARBARA: Is that for the rescue ship?
VICKI: Yes, I always keep it ready. There’s room to land
round here, you know.
BARBARA: It’ll all be ending for you soon then.
VICKI: Yes.
BARBARA: Well, you don’t sound very sure.
VICKI: There’s always Koquillion. He could stop us. He could
keep me here forever. What are you looking like that for?
BARBARA: Like what?
VICKI: You’re sorry for me, aren’t you? I’m perfectly all
right, you know. I don’t care if nobody ever comes, I’m fine.
I’m perfectly all right. (They hear a noise)
VICKI: Quick!
(She hides Barbara under the blankets again)
VICKI: Oh, Bennett.
BENNETT: He’s gone. He tried to get things out of me but I
didn’t tell him.
VICKI: No.
BENNETT: I didn’t tell him about the rescue ship.
VICKI: No.
BENNETT: He told me about the people on the mountain.
He’s killed them. We’ve got to stick together, Vicki. He’s
killed them.
VICKI: No, he hasn’t, Bennett. Not all of them anyway.
(And she reveals Barbara)
[Cave passageway]
IAN: The ledge is narrowing out now, Doctor.
DOCTOR: What’s that, my boy, What? What’s that?
(The Doctor slips, and Ian grabs him.)
IAN: Oh, oh, careful!
DOCTOR: Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you! I say, look,
have you noticed the ledge? It’s narrowing out.
IAN: Yes, Doctor.
DOCTOR: Wait, wait.
IAN: Huh?
DOCTOR: Point the torch, shine it down there. You see that?
It’s quite a chasm.
IAN: Yes. It certainly is. Not very much to hold onto here
either. We'll just have to keep ourselves…pressed against the
rock face.
DOCTOR: My dear boy, if I pressed myself any harder against
this thing I would be doing myself an injury.
(There's a roar)
IAN: What was that?
DOCTOR: Well, it’s not me, is it. Shine the torch down there!
(The torch reveals another one of Koquillion's race, but with no
legs)
DOCTOR: What…
IAN: What’s that nightmare?
DOCTOR: Isn’t it sufficient that it…it’s down there and we’re
up here? Hmm?
IAN: Yes. It’s got eyes. I saw them. Green. Used to daylight.
Must have come in from the outside.
DOCTOR: Oh. Very good, yes. Very intelligent reasoning. So
good I might have said the same thing myself.
IAN: Got to get out of here. What we need are some good
handholds. Oh, here we are, all provided.
(There are carvings with rings in them)
IAN: You're right, Doctor. Somebody’s been this way before.
DOCTOR: Well, now, be careful.
IAN: Yes I will, just hold onto that. (the torch.) Try this. It’s all
right.
IAN: Yes. Give me the torch. Swing yourself over. All right?
Okay?
DOCTOR: Yes.
(Ian reaches for the third handle.)
IAN: Watch this one. It’s loose. Oh! hurry up, I’ve pulled it
out!
DOCTOR: What?
IAN: Oh, I’m over. Can you manage?
DOCTOR: Chesterton, it's oil. It’s got oil on it.
IAN: What’s that noise?
DOCTOR: Come back here. They’ve trapped you into pulling
this thing out.
IAN: What’s that noise, Doctor? I
(Ian is trapped between two lots of horizontal metal spikes
coming straight out of the wall in front and behind him)
DOCTOR: Don’t go any further!
IAN: What? I can’t go either way!
(More spikes come out of the wall, from ground to hip level)
IAN: Doctor, They’re pushing me towards the edge!
Episode Two - Desperate Measures
[Cave passageway]
(Ian puts a hand on the spikes)
IAN: Doctor, they’re razor sharp!
DOCTOR: Take your coat off, my boy, and throw it over the
blades.
IAN: Hold the torch for me please.
DOCTOR: Right. Now swing yourself round.
IAN: Give me a hand.
DOCTOR: Come on, come on, come on.
(Ian manages to swing round the spikes)
IAN: Thanks. I thought I’d had it. What do you think this is
for?
DOCTOR: I’ve no idea. I’ve never seen it before in my life.
IAN: I suppose this operates the knives.
DOCTOR: Yes, quite so. We’ve got to get this thing back in its
place.
IAN: The executioner sounds disappointed.
DOCTOR: Yes, never mind about all that. Come on, give me a
hand. Barbara’s still outside. She might be in grave danger.
[Spaceship living quarters]
(Bennett is on the bunk with Barbara checking for a heartbeat)
VICKI: Is he, is he dead?
BARBARA: No, it must have been the strain of walking out
here made him collapse. How do you feel?
VICKI: This is Barbara, Bennett.
BENNETT: Koquillion told me of your arrival. He’s killed
your friends.
BARBARA: I don’t think so. I’m sure they’re all right.
BENNETT: Koquillion doesn’t make mistakes.
BARBARA: Well he did about me. You know, the next time
he visits us, we might be able to surprise him. He doesn’t know
I’m here, does he, so we could set a trap and overpower him.
BENNETT: No, no.
VICKI: It’s a marvellous idea, isn’t it, Bennett.
BENNETT: No!
BARBARA: Well, surely it’s worth a try? You wouldn’t be
any worse off than you are now.
BENNETT: The Mir rescue ship is due to arrive, or hasn’t
Vicki told you that. We have to sit still, do as he says. Maybe
we’ll have a chance of escaping, get back to Earth.
VICKI: We could still go.
BENNETT: You’re just a child, you don’t know what you’re
talking about. We get rid of Koquillion, we gain nothing. If the
plan fails, he kills us.
VICKI: Bennett’s right, Barbara.
BENNETT: Course I’m right. Just because I lie on that bed all
day doesn’t mean I’ve lost the use of my brain. Help me to my
room, please.
[Spaceship corridor]
BENNETT: You will do as Koquillion says, won’t you? Now
you do understand the consequences? Thank you.
BARBARA: I’ll help you to your bed.
BENNETT: I’m all right. I said, I’m all right! I can manage.
(Bennett slams the door in Barbara's face)
VICKI: I’d better go and collect the water, it gets dark early on
Dido. Will you lay the table, Barbara?
BARBARA: Yes. Yes, all right.
VICKI: I’ll show you where the things are.
[Cave passageway]
DOCTOR: There you are. I think that’s got it back. Watch!
(The blades retract)
IAN: Yes. You’ve done it, Doctor. There they go. Well, lets
hope there aren’t any more surprises like that waiting for us.
Come on.
(The doctor stops to examine the rock carving where the blades
had come out.)
IAN: Well, come on, Doctor. (Meanwhile, Vicki is carrying
jerry-cans of water whilst being watched by a Didonian, again
with no legs)
IAN: Daylight, Doctor! We must be nearly there.
DOCTOR: Yes, I think you’re right. Chesterton!
IAN: Look out, Doctor. Don’t go too near the edge.
DOCTOR: Oh, right. Look, there’s a door.
IAN: What?
DOCTOR: Now that must lead somewhere.
IAN: Yes, it is.
DOCTOR: Yes, but there’ll be no time to open that. No, come
on, let's go the obvious way.
IAN: All right.
DOCTOR: Go on, go on.
IAN: Now mind this edge.
DOCTOR: Just so long as nobody starts creeping up behind us.
[Spaceship living quarters]
(Through the porthole, Barbara spots a Didonian about to
pounce on Vicki. She grabs the flare gun from the cupboard
and runs outside)
[Outside the spaceship]
BARBARA: Vicki!
VICKI: No! No don’t! No!
(Barbara shoots the Didonian)
[Cave passageway]
(Ian and the Doctor hear the shot and death cry echoing)
DOCTOR: What was that?
IAN: Horrible.
DOCTOR: What is it?
IAN: Come on.
[Spaceship living quarters]
VICKI: You killed Sandy. Why? What made you?
BARBARA: He was almost on top of you!
VICKI: How could you do it? Sandy only wanted some food.
BARBARA: But he was going to attack you!
VICKI: Sandy only ever eat plants. I trained him to come here
for food.
BARBARA: Well, I didn’t know that did I? I mean, how could
I?
VICKI: I shouted, you wouldn’t listen.
BARBARA: Look, all I could see was its jaws. Anyway it
suddenly started screeching I thought that
VICKI: You killed him! You killed him!
(The Doctor and Ian enter)
DOCTOR: Barbara!
BARBARA: Doctor!
DOCTOR: My dear Barbara!
IAN: Barbara!
BARBARA: Oh Doctor, you’re all right!
DOCTOR: Oh, I’ve never felt better in my life!
(Koquillion comes out of the door in the cave passageway,
follows their footprints to the ledge, and looks down on the
spaceship)
[Spaceship living quarters]
DOCTOR: That’s better, that’s better. Now blow your nose
and wipe your face. That’s it. I don’t like saying it, my dear,
but you do look a bit of a mess, you know.
IAN: Yes, cheer up, Vicki. And don’t forget, if old Kokylikin
comes round, I’ve always got this.
VICKI: You mustn’t, Ian. I keep telling you why we did what
he said. You'll spoil it, you’ll spoil everything.
DOCTOR: Now, now, now. It’s going to be all right. We’re
not going to jeopardise your safety or your rescue. Now, first
of all, I’d like to have a talk with this Mister Bennett of yours.
VICKI: Oh, I keep
DOCTOR: Will you take me to him?
VICKI: I keep telling you, the rescue ship's on its way. It’s
going to take us back to Earth. Can’t you understand?
DOCTOR: Yes.
BARBARA: Look Vicki, I know you’ve been here a long time,
but you're underestimating what Koquillion can do.
VICKI: Yes, you’re right. I’ve been here a long time. I know
what it’s like here. You’ve only just come and you’re trying to
ruin things. It was all right before. It was. The rescue ship's
coming and nobody asked you to come here. Nobody.
DOCTOR: Now, Vicki.
VICKI: Go away.
(Ian and Barbara leave)
DOCTOR: Vicki, my dear. Sit down. You don’t mean that, do
you? Well, do you? Mmm? Good, good. Now, I’ve listened to
all you’ve said and I’ve thoroughly understood. We’re here to
help you. This is all we’re going to try to do. You know, we’re
not going to ruin things for you.
VICKI: Bennett says that when we get back we’ve got to tell
them on Earth what they did to us here. He thinks this planet
should be wiped out.
DOCTOR: Yes.
VICKI: He says Koquillion shouldn’t be made to get away
with what he’s done to us.
DOCTOR: I think I agree with Bennett, at least about
Koquillion. But don’t you think there’s just a chance, just a
little chance that my ideas might prove the better ones? Hmm?
Good, good. Now, I’ll go and have a talk with Mister Bennett
and I promise you, I’ll listen to everything he says. Hmm?
VICKI: I’ll take you to him.
DOCTOR: Splendid.
[Spaceship corridor]
DOCTOR: Yes, well now, I don’t think you need to wait, my
dear. You go back with Ian and Barbara. Hmm?
VICKI: Barbara.
DOCTOR: Oh, now, now, now, You mustn’t be like that.
You’re not giving her much of a chance, are you? She’s nice,
you know. You’ll like her.
VICKI: She killed Sandy.
DOCTOR: Yes, well, so might I have done!
VICKI: No.
DOCTOR: Hmm?
VICKI: Well, you haven’t got the sort of face that kills things
DOCTOR: And Barbara has, I suppose. Ay? You know she
was frightened, frightened for your safety. She thought you
were going to be hurt. Good gracious me, you mustn’t behave
like that. Now, look here, I think the best thing for you to do is
to pop along back there, don’t you, hmm? Eh? You must
believe what Barbara did, try and understand my dear, and why
she did it. Just for me, eh?
(The Doctor knocks on Bennett's door)
DOCTOR: Mister Bennett?
BENNETT [OC]: You can’t come in.
(The Doctor forces the door open, but it sticks)
DOCTOR: I want to talk to you. Oh dear.
(He finds a piece of girder and uses it as a battering ram)
[Spaceship living quarters]
(Ian and Barbara enter)
IAN: The Doctor gone to see Miser Bennett?
VICKI: Yes, I took him.
IAN: Good, good.
VICKI: Barbara?
BARBARA: Yes?
VICKI: I’m sorry. Really I am.
BARBARA: I’m sorry too, about Sandy.
VICKI: Well, you didn’t know. I’m afraid I’ve got rather used
to being on my own.
IAN: We know how you feel Vicki. We felt the same way
ourselves at first.
VICKI: At first? I don’t understand. You’re from Earth too,
aren’t you?
BARBARA: Yes, but it goes a bit deeper than that.
VICKI: How do you mean?
BARBARA: Well, what was the year when you left Earth?
VICKI: 2493, of course. My mother had just died and Daddy
wanted to get away so he took a job on the planet Astra.
IAN: You were on your way there and you crashed here?
VICKI: Yes. But why did you ask me the year? What year did
you leave?
IAN: Well, you see Vicki, our space ship, well, isn’t like this
one. It travels through time.
BARBARA: We left in 1963.
VICKI: 1963! But that means you’re about five hundred and
fifty years old.
BARBARA: Why, yes, I suppose I am. Yes, it’s a way of
looking at it, but I’ll try not to look at it too often.
VICKI: They didn’t have time machines in 1963, they didn’t
know anything then.
IAN: Oh, we weren’t entirely ignorant, young lady. Even the
Doctor thought it was worth paying us a visit. That’s how we
got mixed up with him in the first place.
BARBARA: The Doctors from a different age, a different
planet altogether.
VICKI: I don’t believe you at all, you’re joking with me. The
Doctor, a time traveller?
IAN + BARBARA: Yes!
[Bennett's quarters]
(The Doctor finds the room is empty, so he does a search)
DOCTOR: What have we here? Tape recordings for what?
(He presses play)
BENNETT [OC]: You can’t come in.
(Then he turns up the volume on a receiver)
VICKI [OC]: Oh yes, I like the Doctor.
[Spaceship living quarters]
VICKI: Its funny, but as soon as he walked in, I felt that you
could trust him. But why does he wear those funny clothes?
And that long white hair.
BARBARA: Vicki, I’ve told you, the Doctor comes from
another time.
[Bennett's quarters]
VICKI [OC]: Oh, don’t start that again.
DOCTOR: Silly child, silly child.
DOCTOR: Intercom systems, tape recordings. Now, I wonder
what else, hmm?
(He finds a lever that opens a trap door in the floor)
DOCTOR: Yes, I see, an easy way to get out of a locked room.
[Spaceship living quarters]
IAN: They’re taking a long time aren’t they?
VICKI: I don’t think we should disturb them.
IAN: Well, they can always tell me to go away.
[Spaceship corridor]
IAN: Doctor? Mister Bennett? Can I come in? Doctor? Doctor!
[Bennett's quarters]
IAN: They’ve gone!
(Barbara and Vicki run in. The trapdoor is closed)
[Cave passageway]
(The Doctor goes through a door in the wall into)
[Chamber]
(Incense burning on pillars, decorated table, and altar and a
chest full of vestments)
[Spaceship living quarters]
BARBARA: But where could they have gone to?
VICKI: Perhaps Koquillion came.
IAN: No, we would have heard him. Anyway, the Doctor
would surely have warned us.
BARBARA: He wouldn’t go off without telling us. What do
you think we ought to do?
VICKI: I think we should stay here.
IAN: No. Go back to the Tardis. In the end, the Doctor’ll make
for that. Come on, quickly.
[Chamber]
DOCTOR: Come in. Come in, won’t you? I’ve been waiting to
talk to you.
(Koquillion enters behind the Doctor)
DOCTOR: This used to be the Peoples’ Hall of Judgement.
Fitting, in the present circumstances don’t you think, hmm?
Mister Bennett, may I remind you that masks and robes such as
you are wearing are only used on absolutely ceremonial
occasions, hmm?
(Bennett removes the mask)
BENNETT: Are you finished?
DOCTOR: Yes, I had hoped that you would continue. This
elaborate plan must have been conceived for some reason.
What, hmm?
BENNETT: To save my life. I killed a crewmember on the
spaceship to Astra. I was arrested. The ship crashed. My crime
hadn’t been radioed to Earth. I knew if I could get rid of the
other crewmembers.
DOCTOR: Get rid of the other crewmembers and blame their
deaths on the Dido people, hmm?
BENNETT: When we crash landed, the inhabitants invited us
all to a grand meeting. It was simple. I just arranged an
explosive, using the ships armaments. The whole thing went
up. All the inhabitants, the crew, the whole race.
DOCTOR: You destroyed a whole planet to save your own
skin. You’re insane.
BENNETT: The girl didn’t know I’d been arrested. When we
get back to Earth, she’d support my story. I dressed up as
Koquillion to show her how terrible the people here were.
DOCTOR: If that happened, your guilt would have been
hidden forever, hmm?
BENNETT: If it happened? Nothing's changed. There’s only
three more people for Koquillion to kill, that’s all.
(They struggle for the club, and there is an explosion. The club
is broken in the fall. The Doctor and Bennett fight, with
Bennett easily overpowering him and starting to choke him
when two people dressed in white appear)
BENNETT: No! I thought I’d killed all of you!
(Bennett flees, and there's a scream. Presumably he fell off that
narrow ledge outside. The Doctor passes out)
[Tardis]
BARBARA: He’s coming round.
DOCTOR: Oh, Barbara, Ian. We’re back in the ship, eh?
IAN: Yes, I took the liberty of borrowing your key.
BARBARA: Doctor, we found you outside.
DOCTOR: Yes, that’s, they left me outside.
IAN: They? Who?
DOCTOR: Oh, er, two strangers. Yes, Bennett’s dead. Bennett
was Koquillion, you know.
IAN: What? Bennett Koquillion?
DOCTOR: Yes.
IAN: What, well, why, why, Doctor?
BARBARA: No, no, no, no, not now Ian, He’s in no condition
to answer questions.
DOCTOR: The girl, Vicki, now. Did you, did you bring her?
BARBARA: Yes.
DOCTOR: Where?
BARBARA: She’s waiting outside.
DOCTOR: Oh, I must get some fresh air. Yes, I want to have a
talk with that child.
IAN: Are you all right?
DOCTOR: Yes, now don’t fuss especially, I’m quite all right,
my boy. I’m quite all right.
(The Doctor leaves)
BARBARA: Ian, what about Vicki? I wish we could take her
with us. Hmm? Well, we can’t leave her here, can we?
[Cave]
DOCTOR: That’s about what happened, and that’s all.
VICKI: Then Bennett murdered my father. Then I’ve got
nobody.
DOCTOR: My dear. My dear, why don’t you come with us,
hmm?
VICKI: In that old box?
DOCTOR: We can travel anywhere and everywhere in that old
box as you call it. Regardless of space and time.
VICKI: Then it is a time machine?
DOCTOR: And if you like adventure, my dear, I can promise
you an abundance of it. Apart from all that, well you’ll be
amongst friends. Hmm? Well? Now, suppose I leave you here
for a moment to think about it, hmm?
[Tardis]
BARBARA: Doctor?
DOCTOR: Yes?
BARBARA: We were talking about Vicki and we were
wondering whether
IAN: Yes, do you think er, Vicki
DOCTOR: Yes, yes, yes, I can see that we’ve all reached the
same decision. Now, I suggest we try and get the answer from
the child, hmm? Vicki? Vicki, my dear, come in.
VICKI: But its huge! And, well, the outside is just, well
BARBARA: Vicki, are you going to come with us?
VICKI: Oh I, I’d like to. Yes, if you’ll have me.
[Spaceship living quarters]
CAPTAIN [OC]: Rescue ship to Dido. Rescue ship to Dido.
Come in please. This is rescue ship calling Dido. Rescue ship
calling Dido.
(The men in white enter)
CAPTAIN [OC]: Come in please. Dido, can you hear me? This
is rescue ship calling
(The men smash the radio.)
[Tardis]
(in flight)
IAN: So there were survivors on Dido? Bennett didn’t kill
them all?
DOCTOR: They have their planet back to themselves again.
And somehow I don’t think they will allow that rescue ship to
land. Well.
IAN: Hmm. That isn’t why you brought Vicki along with us, is
it Doctor?
DOCTOR: No, Chesterton, no, it wasn’t the reason. We shall
be materialising quite soon. Perhaps we shall be able to get a
rest this time.