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THE HENDERSON PROJECT

A DR. WHO SCRIPT

By Huw Davies and Paul Johnson

EPISODE 1

FX GMT time signal

Radio Announcer

This is Dermot Shaunessy and this is the Today Programme on Radio 4. The Government today have announced new changes to the tax laws and a volcano has errupted in the South Pacific, but first the news, today read by Timothy Smythe.

Smythe

The Henderson Project is continuing to attract controversy. Today, the leader of the Opposition called it morally unsound and suggested that those responsible may be putting pressure on the NHS to attract more volunteers. The executive in charge, Mr Gryte-Phype Moriarty of Shelfish Laboratories has just given us this press release.

Moriarty

A number of allegations have been made against our organisation and in particular against Professor Henderson's project. This has been seen by both the Prime Minister and his opposite memberr in the house today. I wish to state that these allegations are ALL unfounded. At no time has there or will be any form of harrasment or financial reward imposed on any of the medical profession.

It should be said however, that there have been a great number of break throughs in the treatments of both cardiac and cerebal diseases due to this research which has meant in future that diseaeses such as Cardiac Thrombosis and Altzheimer's disease will be problems no more.

Smythe

Opposition groups are calling for an independant investigation into why volunteers who have had the Henderson treatment have all come out "changed people".

In other news, the police are still at a loss over the recent electronic factory break ins and a number of exhibits from the last South Pole expedition which have also gone missing. A spokesman today said that they had no leads at present.

GRAMS Dr. Who theme music.....

FX Hospital noises, bleepers (carry on throughout hospital part until otherwise indicated, though muted)

FX Chimes

P.A.

Would Doctor Forester please contact extension 3501 please.

FX Chimes

P.A.

Would Doctor Forester please contact extension 3501 please.

FX Chimes, telephone rings (4 rings)

Receptionist

Nurses station, Ward B4. No. No. No. The xrays have'nt yet arrived. Yes. No. Sorry I could not be any more help.

FX Papers shuffling, footsteps approach, pass

Receptionist

(calls) Dr. Cartwright. Dr. Cartwright.

FX Footsteps stop, turns, comes back.

Receptionsist

You have a memo here from Jacobson. Something about fiscal prudence, another about the Henderson thing and

Cartwright

(interupts) Any test results or anything important?. (Irate) Don't these jumped up Yuppies think I have anything better to do? - this is a hospital for Christ's sake, not a research centre for human guinea pigs.

Receptionist

You're a bit tetchy this morning! Bad night was it?.

Cartwright

(apologetically) No, not really. I'm sorry, it's just all these beurocrats making mine and other Doctors lives a mess. Take Jacobson, he's onto a right earner. Sixty four K a year, plus what he gets from Shelfish.

Receptionist

They're the mob behind the Henderson thing aren't they?.

Cartwright

They're the Charlies. Apparently Jacobson was one of Henderson's students before he got mixed up with Shelfish. While he doesn't get anything from Shelfish, he is still pushing us to get volunteers for (sininsterly) treatment.

Receptionist

You make it sound dead sinister. Stop it, your making my skin crawl.

Cartwright

And what's worse is what the people who come out are like.

Receptionist

I haven't noticed any problems.

Cartwright

No problems. Remember Jake Simons, back case a few months ago?

Receptionist

Yeah, go on.

Cartwright

Went there, came back, no problems. When I checked his back, he became very defensive and clouted me one.

Receptionist

That shouldn't have mattered much, he was about as strong as a wet paper bag! (giggles)

Cartwright

In that case, he should get a patent on the bags. He broke one of my ribs and my nose, then left. Of course, I complained to Jacobson, but he just said that it was my own fault and what did I expect? Afterall, I was the one who had been treating him since his accident. He probably thought I was going to reinjure him.

Receptionist

Fancy.

FX Phone rings

Receptionist

'Scuse me. Got to answer the phone.

FX Phone stops ringing, phone gets picked up.

Receptionist

Nurses station, ward B4. Oh hello 'arry. What am I doing to night?, hold on, Dr. Cartwright, I'll chase up those results and don't worry about the project, it's not that bad!. Just relax and try not to get so worked up!.

Cartwright

Thanks

FX Walks away.

Receptionist

Sorry about that 'arry. Look, I can't talk. It's Cartwright, he's getting suspicious. We must act soon or he might find something out.

FX Football match, cheers, hooters etc. A goal is scored, massive cheer!.

Rachel

Doctor? Doctor? Did you see that?

Doctor

See what Rachel?

Rachel

That goal.

Doctor

No, I was trying to figure something out. My dimensional stabiliser circuit is playing up again. I was nearly squashed today when it failed.

Rachel

How?

Doctor

Visiting the toilet. Can we get out of here, all this running about is making me feel uneasy. It's like the time I was on Mechanos. Everything was rushing about either eating or being eaten. I just don't want to be eaten!!

Rachel

But Doctor, there's only another five minutes until full time. And it is a cup match.

Doctor

In that case, I'm off to the gents.

Rachel

That funny little man!.

FX Cheers etc muffled.

Doctor

Ah, the toilets. This looks to be a simple enough device. No tranducer powered syncronisers to worry about, no antimatter protection beams or even multi neuron identifiers, just a handle. Turn and push.

FX Handle turning, door creaks open. Steps to another door, opens, closes, slides lock across, zip undoes, Doctor sighs.

Doctor

A newspaper, how considerate. (reads) How odd. Says here that Pliscies have been broken into again, but only a few thyristors and the odd chip have gone missing. Police are baffled. How odd. It goes on to say that it has been mostly small radio spare shops which have been hit and that is the only (turns page) Damn. Some swine has messed up the rest. Oh well.

FX Toilet flushed, opens door, washes hands, goes back to the match.

P.A.

Would the Doctor please go to the front of the stadium. His niece Rachel is waiting for him.

Doctor

Niece? Niece?. Were does that girl get her ideas from!

GRAMS Sinister riff from theme music (used in Paradise of Death/N Space etc)

FX Buzzer

Intercom

Proffersor Henderson, a Dr. Jacobson on line one for you.

Henderson

Patch him through Jane.

FX Buzzer, phone, picked up.

(NOTE Jacobson is on the phone, therefore, not a real voice.)

Henderson

Frank, what can I do you for?

Jacobson

James, we may have some trouble at the hospital. A few of the staff are getting suspicious when the patients come back with increased strength. What are you doing with them?

Henderson

Curing them my dear fellow, just curing them.

Jacobson

I don't know how you are doing it, but you are certainly raising a few eyebrows.

Henderson

Really Frank, you do worry so. Personally, I don't understand why you have to have them re-examined. Is it not enough to tell you that they are fine?

Jacobson

It is for me. My collegues are a different matter.

Henderson

Then allay their suspicions. Authorise a decree or some other red taped rubbish. I don't care how, just get them off my back.

Jacobson

(resigned) Alright, leave it to me.

FX Phone clicks. Buzzer

Henderson

Jane, my dear. Could you get me another cup of tea. I find that man, most trying.

Intercom

Yes Sir. Anything else?

Henderson

No. No. Wait, yes. No more calls for the next half hour, excepting for my tea. Anybody wanting me, I am out of the office.

Intercom

Okay.

FX Heavy goods noises, docks, trains.

Guard 1

Check

Guard 2

Check?

Guard 1

You heard, check. Your King is in check.

Guard 2

Yeah, easily sorted. King's knight 4

FX Heavy doors creak open. HGV reversing into building.

Guard 1

Pawn to knight 4, check.

FX Engine stops, cab door opens, jumps to floor, steps approach, slowly

Guard 2

Rook to bishops 3.

Driver

Who's in charge here?

Guard 2

You'll want the gaffer, but he's not here at the moment.

Guard 1

What's up then mate?

Driver

Got a consignment of crates for Selfish Products. Want them anywhere?

Guard 2

Leave them over there, we'll move them in a minute.

Driver

Okay, sign this. Thanks

FX Steps to distance, HGV starts, short drive, engine idles, door crane drops, rises, HGV goes.

Guard 2

Swine, he hasn't shut the door. I'll go.

FX Steps to distance, door closes. Steps to fore.

Guard 2

Let's go and shift those crates.

Guard 1

I'll do it, you lost after all! (laughs)

Guard 1

Wonder what's in 'em.

Guard 2

Probably dead bodies or stolen treasures or stuff

Guard 1

Could be - it's 'eavy enough

FX Dragging noises.

Guard 1

(grunts, groans) Jim, come and give us a hand shiftin' it then.

Guard 2

Alright.

FX Heavy footsteps. Stops

Guards 1 & 2

(grunts, groans) (shifting noises)

Guard 2

You're right. This is bloody heavy. On the count of 3, lift. One, two, three, (strained) lift.

Guard 1

(quickly, out of breath) Shift it to the rest of their stuff.

FX Fast heavy steps

Guard 2

(out of breath) Phew! I could do with a drink.

Guard 1

So could I. Come on, my turn to brew up.

FX Scuffling.

Guard 1

(quiet) Jim, what was that?

Guard 2

(quiet) Dunno, came from over by the Shelfish crates.

Guard 1

(quiet) Go an have a look then, I'm making the drinks.

Guard 2

(quiet) No chance. I went last time.

Guard 1

Go on, it might be one of your bodies.

Guard 1 & 2

(laughs)

Guard 1

Go on then!

FX Steps to the distance. Stops

Guard 2

(distant) Any one there?. I know you're there, come out.

Guard 1

Anything?

Guard 2

No. Nothing. Wait a mo, there is something there.

Guard 1

Well?

Guard 2

Shurrup.

FX Laser shot (build up power, loud shot, fade off). Scream.

Guard 1

Jim? Jim?. You alright?. (shouts) Jim!

FX Heavy steps coming to the fore

Guard 1

Jim is that you?.

FX Steps continue. Stop

Guard 1

What the he (interupted)? Who are you? What on earth are you?

Voice

The new rulers.

FX Another laser shot. Body falls to the floor.

GRAMS Eiree music.

FX Shop door rings.

Waiter

Yes Sir?

Doctor

Two glasses of water please.

Waiter

(disgusted) Just water?

Doctor

Yes. Just water, clean fresh water.

Waiter

Water? Just water?

Doctor

Yes. Water. Formula, H-2-O : conductivity at 25 degrees Celcius, 1.3 Siemens per meter, a polar solvent. (annoyed) Yes, just water.

FX 2 sets of feet. Stop. Chairs pulled.

Rachel

So what did you think about the match?

Doctor

Is that all you go on about?. I am nearly killed by the dimensional stabiliser and all you can go on about is a primitive game twixt two teams, the object of which is to get a spheroid into a net through skill, judgement and not to mention, a few dodgy manouvers!.

Rachel

Doctor

Yes "oh". I have more urgent things to worry about.

Rachel

Your dimensions thingy

Doctor

Yes, but not just that. This Henderson Project.

FX Footsteps fade in. Stops.

Waiter

Your waters Sir. And bill.

FX Footsteps fade out.

Doctor

Yes. The Henderson project. I don't understand it. Earth scientists don't discover the cures for most of the ailments until 2163AD, just in time for the Daleks attempt at invasion.

Rachel

Daleks?

Doctor

Yes, horrid machines created in the distant future by Davros. They try and mine out the core of the Earth and shift it back to were Skaro was.

Rachel

Was?

Doctor

Yes, Davros destroyed it in 1963.

Rachel

I thought you said they were from the future.

Doctor

I did. Time plays tricks like that you know!. (laughs)

Rachel

About this Henderson thing. I wouldn't worry about it.

Doctor

Why not?

Rachel

It's probably just some overhyped thing by some jumped up loony company trying to cash in on misfortune.

Doctor

Maybe. Look, it's almost 5pm, switch on the radio.

FX Radio crackles into life.

Announcer

And now on Radio 5 Live, the news.

Newsreader

Good evening. First tonight, two security guards have been found horrifically murdered in a north London warehouse today. The injuries to the men look as if they have been caught in a blast but without external damage. The police are treating this suspiciously as none of the normal terrorist groups have claimed responsisibilty and no other damage has been caused.

St. Jamesbrook hospital today announced a new partnership with Shelfish Laboratories. The deal, worth 3.5 million pounds over two years is to help in the development of the Henderson Project. Hospital chief, Doctor Francis Jacobson, has said that this will be a great step forward.

Cartwright

A great step forward indeed.

FX Radio switched off. Door opens, steps in. Stops

Jacobson

....so you'll agree.

Cartwright

(angrily) Agree to what?

Jacobson

Nothing. I must be going now Mrs Jones. Farewell.

FX Steps to distance, door open and close.

Mrs Jones

Byee love. Hello Dr. Cartwright. Any news for me?

Cartwright

Yes, your test results are back.

Mrs Jones

(pensive) And?

Cartwright

Not good. I'm sorry.

Mrs Jones

How long do you think I've got?

Cartwright

Six months tops.

Mrs Jones

(sadly) No hope then.

Cartwright

(quietly) None. I'm afraid that you'll get gradually more and more tired from here on in.

Mrs Jones

Dr. Jacobson was telling me about this Henderson Project. Couldn't that help? He reckons that this was just the sort of ailment that they are currently researching into.

Cartwright

I don't know about that. Personally, I think that the cures they give are not pleasant and quite un-ethical.

Mrs Jones

You suprise me. I'd have thought that anything to advance medicine would have been good. Anyway, I don't see an alternative. I have six months to live, this is a way out. A chance for a few more months of life. Get me the forms and I'll sign up. Dr. Jacobson says that there is money for research volunteers.

Cartwright

Sounds more like for guinea pigs if you ask me. I shall get the forms for you. The last I heard was that you filled in the forms and someone from the lab picks you up the same day.

Mrs Jones

Thank you Doctor.

FX Steps walking away, door open and close.

FX Cars and traffic.

Rachel

(out of breath) Doctor, Doctor, hold on!

FX Running, slows to a brisk walk. This walking effect should be kept up until otherwise indicated.

Rachel

(out of breath, but getting it back) Now what are you up to?

Doctor

I'm going to that warehouse. Two deaths by what looks to be a bomb blast, but no evidence of an explosion. There is something not right there.

Rachel

Sounds a bit dangerous to me.

Doctor

It could well be. The only thing that can kill like that would be a focused energy beam of some description.

Rachel

Wouldn't that be a bit dangerous?

Doctor

What, the energy beam?. No, not if you are the one fireing it. Perfectly safe then. It's if you're the one who gets hit by it that you need to worry!.

Rachel

Would it kill?

Doctor

(getting irritated) Yes. Now stop asking questions about focused energy weapons. It's only the Daleks who have that sort of technology, and so far, the TARDIS has not give any sort of mention to them. Now shush, we have arrived.

FX Footsteps stop. Small door creaks open. Steps enter. Voices now have a slight echo.

Doctor

Hello, anyone here?

Rachel

Doctor, should we be in here?

Doctor

(irritated) Yes, no, probably not, no, who cares? There's nothing here except for us, those two bodies over there and a load of very large crates.

Rachel

And a couple of large rats, yeck!

FX Footsteps moving about.

Doctor

I'm going over to the bodies, you amuse yourself in whatever way you wish. Just (stresses) be careful.

FX Two steps of steps, one going to fore, the other to distance.

Doctor

(to self) I don't understand this. They have been hit by something, but what?

FX Steps (only a few). Stops

Doctor

Chess? Ha. A game of inspired logic.

Rachel

(calls) You what Doctor?

Doctor

(calls) I said Chess.

Rachel

(calls) What about it?

Doctor

(calls) A game of pure logic. I remember one time....

GRAMS Build up sinister music over the next few lines.

Rachel

(screams) Doctor. Come over here - quickly.

FX Running to distance then to fore.

Doctor

What is it? What's the matter?

Rachel

(upset) There, behind the box.

Doctor

An arm?

Rachel

(crying) Oh Doctor, let's get out of here.

Doctor

No wait, there is something else here.

FX Boxes moving.

Doctor

The boxes say "Property of Shelfish". I wonder what's in them?

GRAMS Music really building up

FX Wooden crate being opened.

Doctor

(suprised) Oh my giddy aunt.

FX BIG crash of falling boxes.

Rachel

Doctor? What is it?

Doctor

A cyberman. When I say run, make like the wind.

FX Feet turning.

Rachel

(screams) Another one.

Cyberman

Doctor. You are expected. Follow me. Resistance is useless.

Doctor

(shouts) RUN

GRAMS Fast suspense music

FX Running

Cyberman Fire.

FX Laser build up, explodes as shot. Body falls to the ground.

Rachel

(screams) Doctor? Doctor?. Get up.

Cyberman

Now the girl.

FX Laser build up

Rachel

(screams) NO!

FX Explodes as shot.

GRAMS (at same time as shot is heard) Outro music.

THE HENDERSON PROJECT

A DR. WHO SCRIPT

By Huw Davies and Paul Johnson

Episode 2

GRAMS Dr. Who intro

GRAMS Music really building up

FX Wooden crate being opened

Doctor (suprised) Oh my giddy aunt!

FX Big crashes of falling boxes.

Rachel

Doctor? What is it?

Doctor

A cyberman. When I say "run", make like the wind.

FX Feet turning, small click

Rachel

(screams)Another one.

Cyberman

Doctor. You are expected. Follow me. Resistance is useless.

Doctor

(shouts) RUN

GRAMS Fast suspense music

FX Running

Cyberman Fire.

FX Laser build up. Explode as shot. Body falls to the ground.

Rachel

(screams) Doctor? Doctor? Get up.

Cyberman

Now the girl.

FX Laser build up

Rachel

(screams) NO!

FX Explodes as shot. Doors fall to the ground

Major

Fire at will. Aim for the heads. Don't touch the girl. We need her, and the man on the ground.

FX Shots, rockets, general melee!.

Cyberman

Your weapons cannot harm us.

Major

No?. Get out the special weapons.

FX Cases being opened. Guns being taken out.

Cyberman

No weapon you have will even scrape us.

Major

Load weapons.

Cyberman

To try is futile. We will destroy you. Fire at will

Major

(shouts) FIRE!.

FX Lasers going off, the odd scream with body thud. Single shot. Simple tinkle sounds.

Cybermen

(scream in agony).

Cyberman

Retreat. They have gold. All cybermen retreat.

FX Heavy steps turning sluggishly. Warp.

Major

Corporal, get the girl and see to the man.

Corporal

Sir. You two, follow me. You and you, get the girl.

FX Five sets of feet, two to distance, three to distance and then to fore.

Corporal

You grab the legs, I'll get the arms. You take the head. (shrill) Move!.

FX Small running.

Corporal

On three lift. One, two, three lift.

FX Body being picked up.

Corporal

Back to the truck. On the double. By the left, one two, one two, one two (fades)

FX (with fades) Doubletime march. Bring to fore. Slow steps to fore (three pairs)

Rachel

(sobbing) What have they done to the Doctor? They shot and he fell. What have they done?

Major

Don't worry miss. He's going to be alright.

Major

(quietly) Get her in the truck. Give her a cup of tea or something. I'll call base.

Corporal

Sir.

FX Climbing into truck.

Major

Greyhound to trap one. Greyhound to trap one. Do you receive me?

FX Static

Major

Greyhound to trap one. Come in trap one.

FX Static, bustling.

Doctor

You'll never get through in here. To much kinetic disturbance. Try outside.

Major

(shocked) You!. You're supposed to be back there.

Doctor

(cheery) I know. I could never resist giving advice to the military. Their minds are so one tracked, it would make a Politico flinch!.

Major

What do you know?

Doctor

More than I could ever tell. Now are we getting out of here or what?

Major

Alright. (shouts) Move out.

FX Vans starting, drives off.

FX Hospital noises. Tannoys etc.

Cartwright

There are the forms Mrs Jones. I must ask you a few questions before you sign through.

Mrs Jones

Go ahead.

Cartwright

Do you have any internal metals?. The likes of false hips, bone splints and the such.

Mrs Jones

No.

Cartwright

(to self) No. (normal) Have any of your family either worked in or around a nuclear installation?

Mrs Jones

Does a tin mine count?

Cartwright

I don't think so.

Mrs Jones

In that case, no.

Cartwright

Just jot that down, no. Finally, have you ever had any dental surgery involving either gold or any other precious metal?

Mrs Jones

Not as far as I know. These are silly questions aren't they?

Cartwright

The whole thing, Mrs Jones, could be considered silly. Anyway, it is you choice. Just sign here. (pause) Thanks.

Mrs Jones

What'll happen now?

Cartwright

It'll be processed. You'll be taken to the Shelfish place within the hour.

Mrs Jones

(suprised) That quickly?

Cartwright

(depressed) That quickly.

FX Door opens and closes. A click.

Jacobson

That Cartwright is suspicious. He must be dealt with.

FX Intercom buzzer

Jacobson

Miss Forster?

Intercom

Yes, Doctor Jacobson?

Jacobson

Could you send for Doctor Cartwright please?

Intercom

Certainly.

Jacobson

Thank you.

FX Intercom buzzer, different pitch.

Background

(quiet PA) Doctor Cartwright to see Dr. Jacobson. Doctor Cartwright to Doctor Jacobson's office.

Jacobson

Now to stop him.

FX Phone picked up, phone number dialled.

Jacobson

It's Jacobson. I have two for today. A Mrs. Jones and another.

Voice

(semi cyber) Has the paper work been done?

Jacobson

Don't worry about that. They'll be ready in a minute.

FX Phone replaced.

GRAMS Atmosphere music, pace build up.

FX Door knock, open, close. Steps in.

Cartwright

What now?. I have thirt(stops)

FX Crackle of static x 2

GRAMS All music stops suddenly.

Jacobson

Listen to me. You will sit down and say nothing.

FX Chair scraped.

Jacobson

In a minute, you will be taken from here to Shelfish. There, you will assist in all that is asked of you. Do you understand?

Cartwright

(monotoned) I understand.

Jacobson

There, you will ask nothing and say nothing other than to a direct question. To any externals, when questioned, you answer - no comment. Do you understand?

Cartwright

(monotoned) I understand.

Jacobson

Now wait here. I'll be back in a moment.

FX Heavy chair scrapes. Steps, door opens and shuts.

Jacobson

Miss Forster. When the men from Shelfish arrive, tell them that the woman in room 3, Ward B4, Mrs Jones and Doctor Cartwright are to be taken.

Miss Forster

(taken aback) Doctor Cartwright?

Jacobson

Yes. He has (thinks) volunteered to help the researchers there as part of our multi-million pound deal with them.

Miss Forster

Where should I say you are, if they ask?

Jacobson

I'll be at lunch with the Director of Finance.

FX Steps to fade.

Miss Forster

Okay. (calls) Have a good lunch!.

FX Truck on a road.

Major

So what were they back there?

Doctor

(dismissive) Them, nothing.

Major

Didn't much look like nothing to me. Our weapons had no effect on them. Bazookas, grenades, armour rounds - nothing.

Doctor

They wouldn't.

Major

(laughingly) Those special weapon things did though. Stopped them in their tracks.

Doctor

They would.

Major

Contain some sort of chemical weapon, did it?

Doctor

You could say that. (a tad annoyed) Were are we going?

Major

R.T.U.

Doctor

To unit?. Look just who are you?

Major

I'm Major Strife, part of the United Nations

Doctor

(happy) Inteligence Taskforce. Well I never. Who sent you?

Major

(suprised) Why, the Brigadier did!.

Doctor

Good old Lethbridge Stewart.

Major

Lethbridge Stewart passed away two weeks ago. This is Brigadier Cyril Lemmington.

Doctor

Well, I'll be glad to see him when we get there.

Major

That shouldn't be to long. Another five minutes or so

FX Truck fades to distance. Space ship workshop. Wubbing noise

Cyber 1

Has the primitive Cyberman responded yet?

Cyber 2

No. I have tried power up to ratio 3

Cyber 1

Try ratio 3.6

Cyber 2

I understand. Power up.

FX Wubbing noise increases.

Cyber 2

Ratio 3.6 and holding.

(NOTE The Cyber Mondasians are the types from Tenth Planet. They require different voices. Script denoted as CM x.)

What is happening? Who are you? What are you doing?

Cyber 1

It is responding. Should I answer the questions?

Cyber 2

No. It would not serve any purpose at the present time. Keep it alive.

Cyber 3

(intercom) How are the experiments progressing?

Cyber 1

The Mondasian is recovering. We have life signals from all cerebal cortexes. Some of the motor functions are lost.

Cyber 3

(intercom) And the humans?

Cyber 2

They are converting well.

Cyber 3

(intercom) We have just had news from Earth. The Doctor was there. Our troops shot him before being attacked by forces.

Cyber 1

Their primitive weaponary can not harm us.

Cyber 3

(intercom) They had glitter guns.

Cyber 2

Gold.

Cyber 1

That will soon be of no threat. Our protectors are due for testing soon.

Cyber 3

(intercom) Good. Then the Earth shall be our new Mondas and all mankind will be as us - if they like it or not.

Cyber 1

What is to be done with the Mondasian?

Cyber 3

(intercom) I will come down and see to it myself. Out.

You are not like us, but you act like us. Are you us?

Cyber 1

It is as if it was confused. We are the Cybermen.

FX Noises fade. Fade into truck on gravel path. Brakes scream to a halt *with gravel!*. Many feet running. Near door opens. Three sets of feet jump onto gravel.

FX Feet walking on gravel.

Doctor

(sad) Old Lethbridge Stewart gone. A sad loss. How did it happen?

Major

Old age. Come on. Through here.

FX Walking stops. Door opens, walk through, door closes. Walking along corridor (echos)

Rachel

Doctor, what happened to you back there?

Doctor

This.

Rachel

A watch?

Doctor

Not quite. Watch what happens when I press the top switch.

FX Faint buzz

Rachel

Nothing's happened.

Doctor

Try and touch me.

FX Spark

Rachel

(shocked) Ouch!.

Doctor

Exactly, the Cyberweapon just bounced off me. I fell to the ground to let our friends in.

Rachel

How did you know they were coming?

Doctor

I didn't.

Rachel

(amazed) What!?!. You went there on the off chance?

Doctor

Yes. I knew they would arrive after hearing that news broadcast about the security guards who were killed and not externally touched.

Major

A bit stupid if you ask me. Very dangerous.

Doctor

(annoyed) Dangerous? Dangerous!. Of course it was dangerous. Everything is dangerous. Breathing is dangerous, walking is dangerous - you get the idea - life is dangerous!!.

Major

(calm) Quite. Wait here.

FX Steps to door (close). Knocks. Opens, closes door.

Rachel

Who are these people?

Doctor

Friends.

Rachel

Yes, but who are they?

Doctor

UNIT are a bunch of people who have nothing better to do than march around looking at the skies and when something they don't know about or expect comes up to them, they try and blow it out of existance. Childish really.

Rachel

They sound like normal militaria to me.

Doctor

They are. Predictable to the last. That's why I knew they would appear sooner or later.

FX Door opens, close. Steps (few)

Major

The Brigadier will see you now.

Rachel

Thanks

FX Steps. Door opens, closes. Hospital noises.

Man

Is this Ward B4?

Receptionist

Yes. You from Shelfish?

Man

That's right luv. Which ones Jones?

Receptionist

Second on the left. Here's her papers.

FX Rustle of paper

Man

(to self) 48 (to receptionist) A bit old. Still, ours not to reason why

Man and Receptionist

(coldly, together, monotoned) Ours but to do or die.

GRAMS Cold, sinister note.

FX Steps away, door open, enter, close.

Man

Mrs Jones?

Mrs Jones

That's me. You from Shelfish?

Man

Sure am!. If you'd like to sit in this chair, I'll wheel you out of this place to the lab where you will get a whole new lease of life.

Mrs Jones

(pleased) Lovely.

FX Getting out of bed. Few unsteady steps to chair, "whumph" from cushions as she sits.

Man

Comfortable?. The let's go.

FX Steps, Door opens

Brigadier

Close the door, Doctor.

FX Door closing.

Brigadier

We thought you'd be somewhere behind all this mess. Now what is it today?. Yeti in the undergrowth, another dinosaur invasion or could it be the Orkrons again? (laughs)

Doctor

No. None of them. I really would have thought that after all of this time, and the experience old Lethbridge Stewart would have imparted upon you, would make you realise that mockery will cost lives. (darkly) To be more exact, yours.

Rachel

Don't mock the Doctor. He knows a thing or two.

Brigadier

I know. We have the files. Early 1970 to 1977 I believe. It looks to me like Lethbridge Stewart had a whale of a time in your elaborate hoaxes.

Doctor

(very annoyed) Elaborate hoaxes?!

Brigadier

Yes, hoaxes. Who ever would believe things suchs as plastic people from another planet? The abominable snowmen in England? And the utterly ridiculous story of people from the future coming back to destroy a man who saved the world from nuclear holocaust only to be met by some form of alien who look like pepper pots with, and I quote, "eyes and hands which look like sink plungers". The words of retired D.S.M. Benton, I believe.

Rachel

(suprised & annoyed) What is he on about, Doctor. He's making you sound like a real bad egg.

Doctor

(whispered, calmly) Later Rachel, later. Keep your eye on the Brigadier

Rachel

(whispered) Okay Doctor.

Brigadier

And now our troops find you at a murder scene with an accomplass, claiming to have seen some form of aliens to my Major!. What do you have to say for yourself?

Doctor

Firstly, (emphasised a la McCoy) Brigadier, I would have thought that after this length of time and the knowledge of your forebears, that you would have a more open and receptive mind than you appear to have. (gasps for air), secondly, I don't know where you received your information from, but I never mentioned anything about seeing aliens to your Major and thirdly, (change of tone), do you have the time?

Brigadier

The time? What do you mean, have I got the time?.

Doctor

Well, my watch seems to have stopped, and I need to reset it. It must have been the jolting of that truck on gravel.

Rachel

(confused) You said that your watch could never, OUCH!

Brigadier

Well its, let me see, fifteen forty seven hours in three, two, one

FX Click, pow, electric hum

GRAMS Dick Barton fast build up music

Doctor

(quietly) Rachel, we have forty five seconds to get out of here before the effect wears off.

FX Chairs scrape quietly, move to door, turn handle, static shock

Rachel

(screams)

FX Body falls to the floor. Turns handle. Door opens, body pulled, door closed.

Doctor

You can get up now. It was only a little jolt.

Rachel

(stunned) What was it?

Doctor

A static shock. Now let's get out of here.

FX Running

GRAMS Continue exciting music

Rachel

Why did you want me to observe the Brigadier?

Doctor

You didn't notice anything about him?

Rachel

Something about his eyes. He made me want to water my eyes for him.

Doctor

Exactly. It's an old trick to put you off your guard. This way.

Rachel

I thought these were your friends?

Doctor

They are, or were or will be. Depends what is happening. What is happening now though is not much good. We have to get out of here and back to that warehouse. I have a feeling something bad is about to happen.

Rachel

(nervous) I don't like it when you say things like that. Gives me goose bumps on my legs!.

Doctor

Don't worry. Ah, a door.

FX Stop running. Turn handle, open and close door.

GRAMS Music end

Brigadier

(with a start) Now. Doctor? Doctor?. Blast.

FX Intercom buzz

Intercom

Sir?

Brigadier

Full scale security alert. Code red. Two hostiles on UNIT grounds. One male, red hair, dressed like something out of a 20's play, one female, late teens, blonde, wearing a Liverpool strip and track suite bottoms. Consider hostile and dangerous. Shoot to kill.

GRAMS Dramatic chords. Restart movement music

Doctor

Quick, the jeep

FX Running over gravel. Starts up jeep.

Rachel

Let's get out of here.

Doctor

I agree. Keep your head down an...

Rachel

And your foot. Let's move!

FX Jeep moves off - fast!

Rachel

(screamed) Look out, that man there!.

Doctor

I'm going to hit him.

Rachel

(screams) No!. Look out!

Guard

Stop or I'll fire.

FX Gunshots, jeep swerves, gravel splatters. Jeep stops.

Guard

Get out you two. The Brigadier say's to shoot on sight. That's what I am going to do.

FX Cocks rifle.

Doctor

(commands) Halt. As a bona fide member of UNIT and under the terms therewith and withholding, I demand the right to a fair hearing and trial.

Rachel

(strained) What about me?

Doctor

And my companion, being in my care, must be held until such time as my hearing and any such sentence has been given.

Guard

(nastily) Very pretty. Alright you two, come with me. Consider yourself under arrest.

FX Ambulance pulls up. Door opens, chair lift to ground.

Man

I'll take you into the reception. There, one of our trained personel will take you for your pre-treatment.

FX Electric doors open.

GRAMS Annoying entrance lobby muzak.

Man

If you'll just wait here.

P.A.

Will the doctor looking after Mrs Jones please attend to her in the foyer.

Receptionist

One lump or two?

Mrs Jones

(taken aback) Eh?

Receptionist

In your tea. One lump or two?

Mrs Jones

(stutters) W,w,w,w, one thank you.

Receptionist

Milk?

Mrs Jones

Yes, please. Very nice place this.

Receptionist

I should think so. It cost more than two million pounds on just the front, foyer and one operating room. Proffessor Henderson is a genius.

Mrs Jones

(amazed) With some very rich backers.

Receptionist

Quite. Ah. Here is your doctor now.

Mrs Jones

Why, it's Doctor Cartwright. I would never have expected you here. Especially after what you said about it!.

Cartwright

(voice slightly monotoned) Yes. It was a bit silly of me now. The facilities here are unsurpassed by any I have seen before.

Mrs Jones

(amazed) Wow.

Cartwright

Now I shall take you to your room.

Mrs Jones

(a bit woozy) Thank you. I could do with a nap.

Cartwright

Don't worry about feeling tired. It is quite normal in your state. Now onto the automated floor.

FX Buzz, traction buzz, accelerates. Stops (five seconds later).

Cartwright

And this is your room.

FX Electronic door opens, hums, closes.

Mrs Jones

A bed. Just what I need. Sleepy times now.

FX Gets out of chair, stumbles across floor, slumps on bed. Snores. Intercom ping

Cartwright

Doctor Jacobson, the patient is asleep.

Jacobson

(over intercom) Good. We shall be along in a moment.

Cartwright

Okay. Mrs Jones? Mrs Jones?

Mrs Jones

(snoring), (stirs).

FX Vomit hitting the floor. Doors slide open. Heavy steps enter.

Cartwright

There she is.

Mrs Jones

Oh, Doctor Jacobson, thank god it's you. I don't really feel well.

Jacobson

Don't worry. Professor Henderson here will soon sort that all out, won't you.

Cyberman

Yes. Soon you shall be like us, you will ALL be like us

GRAMS Build up

FX Steps approaching

Jacobson

(consoling) Don't worry. They are our friends.

Mrs Jones

(stiffled screamed) Get them away from me. Get them away!

Cartwright

You did say you wanted to get better!

General laughter of humans, insanely.

Mrs Jones

They're too close. In the name of the Holy Ghost, get them away, (starts to scream)

GRAMS Outro music played from over the end of the scream

THE HENDERSON PROJECT

A DR. WHO SCRIPT

By Paul Johnson

Based on ideas by Huw Davies and Paul Johnson

Episode 3

GRAMS Dr. Who intro

Mrs Jones

Oh, Dr. Jacobson, thank God it's you. I don't really feel well.

Jacobson

Don't worry. Professor Henderson here will soon sort that all out, won't you.

Cyberman

Yes. Soon you shall be like us, you will ALL be like us.

GRAMS Build up

FX Steps approaching

Jacobson

(consoling) Don't worry. They are our friends.

Mrs Jones

(stiffled scream) Get them away from me. Get them away!

Cartwright

You did say you wanted to get better!

General laughter of humans, insanely.

Mrs Jones

They're too close. In the name of the Holy Ghost, get them away (starts to scream)

Cyberman

To resist is useless.

FX Thump, thud. Body falls to the ground.

Cyberman

You're methods are crude. They are illogical.

Jacobson

(cynical) What do you care?. You're only here for one thing. (deadly) Gold.

Cyberman

What do you know of Gold?

Jacobson

You can't get enough of it. I have studied you, you need Gold to survive.

Cyberman

You are a fool. Come, take this human away.

FX Doors open, body dragged. Doors close. Trapse on gravel.

Guard

(commands) HALT!. Prisoner and companion, two steps, forward.

FX Two sets step forward.

Guard

HALT!. Prisoner, open door and enter.

FX Door open, feet in.

Guard

HALT!.

Sargent

What is it now Honner?

Guard

Two prisoners Sarge.

Sargent

Prisoners?

Guard

Escaped from the Brigadier's custody.

Sargent

The instruction was to shoot on sight.

Guard

Couldn't. He is a member of UNIT, has been for years. Claims that he has the right to a fair trial an' all.

Sarge

A wise guy eh?. Well, what have you to say?

Doctor

Any chance of a cup of tea? Or coffee?

Sarge

(scream) Silence. Wait here. I'll have to send for the Brig.

FX Door opens, steps out, door closes

Rachel

(quiet) So what happens now?

Doctor

(quiet) The Sargent there will get the Brigadier, he'll question me, I'll tell him some things, and then it's anyones guess.

Rachel

(quiet) Oh.

Doctor

(quiet) Either that or he'll come back and shoot the pair of us.

Rachel

(quiet, shocked) Why?

Doctor

(quiet) Let's just say that the last time I had any dealings with UNIT, we left in slightly, mmmm, (not sure) uneasy terms.

FX Door opens, steps in, door closes.

Brigadier

I'll take them from here.

Guard

Do you need an escort?

Brigadier

No. I am capable of taking them from here.

Guard

Yes sir. Permission to return to duty, sir.

Brigadier

Granted.

FX Stomps (attention), door opens, march out, door closes, march across gravel, fade.

Brigadier

Now, Doctor, Rachel, go infront. Through the door and turn left.

Doctor

Have we a choice?

Brigadier

None. Now move.

FX Door opens, three sets through, door closes, feet to fade. Heavy feet to fore. Cyberlab.

Cyber 2

The Mondasian is restless. It asks too many questions.

Cyber 3

It is confused. I shall speak to it.

FX Feet across metal floor.

Cyber 3

You have questions. After this time, it is only logical.

What has happened?. I do not know you or of you, yet you are as I.

Cyber 3

Much time has passed since your Polar invasion attempt. It has been written in the ArcHives about you. We are Cybermen, you are we.

Your transformation is not logical. You have the appearance of future projections, yet have retained the weakness of emotions.

Cyber 3

We do not have emotions. We have logic.

Your logic has become perverted, you are no longer what we, the Mondasians, set out to irradicate. You are weak.

Cyber 3

You are confused. Our logic is pure. It has been tempered with time. Time is the limiting factor. Time and energy.

You have energy. Time is beyond all but the Timelords of Galifrey. They have the knowledge, the mastery of time and travel.

Cyber 3

What do you know of Timelords?

They are known through out the galaxies as keepers of what they call "Truth". Their truth is not our truth. They are weak. They care.

Cyber 3

To feel for others is weak. To care is weak. We are not weak. The logic is that we do not care.

Where am I?

Cyber 3

You are on board the CyberScience ship. Our earth agents rescued you. You are safe.

And the Doctor?

Cyber 3

You know the Doctor?

He is a man who through logic, destroyed Mondas and stopped our invasion. He is pure logic, yet not a cyberman.

Cyber 3

The one called the Doctor is a Gallifrayan.

FX Sparks, crackles, pops, power drone down.

(slows down) Malfunction, I cannot operate, power loss. Close

FX Pop

(v. slow, slurred, quiet) Malfunctioning, system shock, close down.

FX Power drain to stop.

Cyber 3

What is happening?

Cyber 2

We have solar power loss. The earth satallite is crossing the sun. Time to power regain, two point seven.

Cyber 3

Good.

FX Door opens, steps though, door closed.

Brigadier

Sit down. Don't try any of your petty tricks. This room will nullify any attempts to activate an aggressive or non-earthly item.

FX Chairs scrape.

Doctor

(annoyed) Look, just who do you think you are. First, you bring us here, then try to shoot us!.

Brigadier

(strained) LET (normal) me explain, Doctor.

Doctor

Please do!

Brigadier

You are here on sufferance. It is mildly annoying to me that you are here at all!.

Doctor

(sarcastically) You DO suprise me.

Brigadier

None the less, you do have the right to a trial. I admit that my actions may have been a bit hasty

Rachel

(interupts) Hasty!. Listen mush, the Doctor is the only person here who knows the first thing about those machine people back here. Without him, you'll all die - or worse!

Doctor

Rachel, shush.

Brigadier

Elloquently stated, yet entirely wrong.

Rachel

Eh?

GRAMS Eiree quiet music

Brigadier

The Doctor here, is not the only person with knowledge of the Cybermen, or metal people, as you put it. I too, have knowledge of them.

Rachel

You can't!.

Brigadier

But I can. You see, I am not from this miserable little planet. I originate off the remenants of a long dead planet. A planet, which the Doctor here, destroyed.

Doctor

(taken aback) Rot!. I never destroyed a planet in my lives, to do such a thing is aborant to every fibre of my being.

Brigadier

Then the material is growing thin.

Doctor

Unless, that is, unless you come from, no, you can't have.

Rachel

Can't have what?

Doctor

Space travel. Well, not after the dereliction of the planet by the Cyber forces. Before, yes. After, nah.

Brigadier

The planet may not have, but our scientists had. The "tuned in" to the Nerva Beacon transmat to Earth. I survived while you killed the rest of my planet.

Doctor

You mean Voga?

Brigadier

(hissed) Yes. Voga. The planet of Gold. Inventors of the Glitter guns, destroyer of the Cyberwars. Voga.

Rachel

(bemused) Voga?

Doctor

Yes. It was a planet of great wealth. It traded for centuries, then it fell foul of the Cybermen. They ripped half the planet away before it could escape. The cybermen persued it relentlessly. Then I appeared on the scene.

Rachel

Oh.

Brigadier

Oh indeed. Now Doctor, I cannot try you for the slaughter of the inhabitents of a different planet, but you can be tried of the lesser offence of going AWOL.

Doctor

AWOL?

Brigadier

Lethbridge Stewart wrote of a number of times you disappeared in something called a TARDIS, without the express permission of either Geneiver or UNIT command.

Doctor

I was, sorry, I am the scientific advisor.

GRAMS Music build up

Brigadier

You are a fool.

Doctor

(shouts) The fool is not the one who gives the advice, it is the one who recieves then ignores the advice.

Brigadier

Advice which lead to the death of a number of service personnel.

Doctor

(heated) Service personnel who would not have died if my advice had been carried out to the letter.

Brigadier

Doctor.

Doctor

(sharply) What?

Brigadier

I charge you with the wanton abandonment of duties, going absent without leave on a number of occasions, abduction and being party to the death of a number of service personnel.

Doctor

(bemused) Abduction?

Brigadier

Yes. Do you deny ever leaving in your TARDIS with either a Miss Josephine Grant, Miss Sarah Jane Smith or Lt. Harold Sullivan RN?

Doctor

No. I mean yes. I mean they came with me of their own free will.

Brigadier

None the less, the court will hear all of this evidence. Until then, you shall be taken from this place unto a place of detention. You will recieve all respect to your rank.

Doctor

(frumpy) Thanks a bundle

Brigadier

(nasty) And on a personal note, I hope they throw away the key and your final regenerations go slowly and painfully - as painfully as my exile on this little planet has been. Sargent Williams

FX Door open, march in.

Williams

Sir?

Brigadier

Take them to the detention cells, then report back to me. They are to have twenty four hour guards on them.

Williams

Sir. (instructs) Prisoner and companion, this way.

FX Chairs scrape, walk out.

Brigadier

Oh and Doctor.

FX March stops

Doctor

Yes?

Brigadier

Don't try anything silly.

Doctor

Like what you're doing?

Brigadier

Pardon?

FX Marching

Doctor

(away) Nothing. (laughs to fade)

FX Door closes.

Brigadier

Grey hound to trap one? Come in trap one.

Voice

(over walky talky) Trap one here.

Brigadier

Get down to the Shelfish place. See what's going on.

Voice

Will do. Over.

FX Fade to marching.

Rachel

(quiet) So what now?

Doctor

(quiet) The Brigadier has it in for me.

Rachel

(quiet, sarcastically) Tell me something I don't know.

Doctor

(quiet) Did I ever tell you of the ancient Maurinus trick of Coomancha?

Rachel

(quiet) Will it help?

Doctor

(quiet) Only if you do what I say.

Rachel

(quiet) Go on.

Doctor

(quiet) Did you see the window we passed back there?

Rachel

(quiet) Yes.

Doctor

(quiet) When I nudge you, bend down suddenly and make to tie your show lace. Stay down until I say otherwise.

Rachel

(quiet) And if I stand up?

Doctor

(quietly sings) Good bye brain cells, I am leaving.

Rachel

(quiet) Oh.

Williams

Quiet in the ranks there. Keep moving.

Doctor

(quiet, to self) Nearly, nearly. (hissed, quiet) Rachel, now.

FX Marching stops suddenly

Williams

What are you doing down there?

Rachel

Tieing my shoelace

Doctor

Sargent Williams?

Williams

Yes?

FX Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo

Doctor

(slowly) You will stop and return to the Brigadier.

Williams

(slowly) I will return.

Doctor

(slowly) You will say we are in cell H2O.

Willams

(slowly) Cell H-2-O

Doctor

(slowly) You will act normally and forget this ever happened after seeing the Brig.

Williams

(slowly) Act and forget

Doctor

(slowly) On your way then man!

Williams

(slowly) On my way.

FX Woo-woo stops. Turns and single march away, normal pace.

Rachel

Can I get up now?

Doctor

Yes, and lets get to the window. I can hear a truck starting up. We might hitch a lift out of this mad house!

Rachel

I'm right behind you.

FX Running, fade.

Doctor

(strained) Almost there, (grunt) that's it, we're out. Run for the truck.

FX Running across gravel. Truck starts, slowly moves off. Claxion starts

Rachel

Quick Doctor, jump for the tail gate.

Doctor

I AM trying!. Here goes.

FX Thud on tail gate. Truck thunders off.

Doctor

Made it. Now I wonder were we are off to?

Rachel

Doctor?

Doctor

Yes?

Rachel

What is that claxion for?

Doctor

The Brigadier has probably not been taken in by my elaborate bluff.

Rachel

Won't that annoy him?

Doctor

Probably (giggles)

FX Truck off gravel onto road. Claxion fades. Phone rings.

Receptionist

Shelfish Laboratories, Claire speaking. How may I help you?

Voice

It's Klieg. Put me through to Jacobson

Receptionist

Just transferring you.

FX Muted phone ring

Jacobson

(over phone) Jacobson. What's up?

Receptionist

Corporal Klieg on the line for you sir.

Jacobson

(over phone) Put him through

FX Click

Voice

(over phone) I haven't got much time, but I do have information for you.

Jacobson

(normal) Well, tell on.

Voice

(over phone) Normal terms?

Jacobson

Normal terms, plus bonus if the information is good enough.

Voice

(over phone) UNIT is on full alert. Some bloke and girl fitting your description have just escaped.

Jacobson

Any idea where they are now?

Voice

They disappeared. Watch out though, the Brig is onto you. You should see the file he has on Shelfish and Henderson. It's massive.

Jacobson

(intrigued) Really?

Voice

(over phone) Yeah!. I've had a squint at it and the thing goes back to before Shelfish was even set up. There's a bit on some character called the Doctor. Looks like a nice bloke.

Jacobson

He is a fool. A meddler who will always try his best to ruin everything for anyone - especially us.

Voice

(over phone) Well look out for a truck heading your way. Gotta go - there's someone coming.

FX Phone hangs up. Phone replaced. Buzzer

Jacobson

Did you get that?

Henderson

Yes, but it does not matter. Our experiment is complete. Come to the laboratory door and press the orange button. Do not question what happens.

Jacobson

I'll be with you in a moment. May I bring Cartwright?

Henderson

Yes. He should attend. Out.

FX Buzzer

Jacobson

Doctor Cartwright to go to the main laboratory door. Wait for me there. Out.

FX Truck pulling up in middle of road, truck idles, backflap falls down. Jump down

Doctor

Okay Rachel. Walk away from the truck. We are at the back of some lab or other.

Rachel

So?

Doctor

There is something wrong. Can't quite put my finger on it. Something about this wall.

Rachel

(semi ignored) It's a wall.

Doctor

This one isn't. Try looking at it sideways on.

Rachel

Eh?

Doctor

Look at the wall out of the corner of your eye. There is something not quite right about the wall.

Rachel

Okay. No, no, nothing, ah!

Doctor

See what I mean?

Rachel

Yeah. It sort of shimmers at the edges.

Doctor

Rachel, I don't think this wall is here at all.

Rachel

When is a door not a door?

Doctor

Sorry?

Rachel

It's a joke. When is a door not a door?

Doctor

Go on.

Rachel

When it's ajar. This wall might be the same. Try touching it.

Doctor

No. I have a better idea.

FX Russling inside of clothes.

Doctor

My electroscope. It detects current and static. Here goes.

FX Whizzing noise. Low frequency.

Rachel

Is that good?

Doctor

No. It means that the wall is a temperal distortion.

Rachel

A temperal what?

Doctor

Distortion. It is here, but not. It is a projection of something which was here.

Rachel

I see, or rather, not.

FX Steps, getting closer.

Doctor

Now what can be the best way through this?

GRAMS Dramatic chords, quiet raising to cresendo when marked *. * indicates cres. level. The more the merrier!

Rachel

Doctor?

Doctor

(ignores) I could try running at it, but I don't think it will work.

GRAMS **

FX Steps getting closer

Rachel

(getting anxious) Doctor? Doctor - hurry up.

Doctor

(ignores) It is a puzzle in logic. The wall is there but not there. This is not logical unless the wall is there at a time when it not being there is either starting or ended.

FX Steps stop

GRAMS ***

Rachel

(shouts) Doctor!

Doctor

(annoyed, shouts) What? Can't you see I am trying to get through this?. Now how do I get through this wall?

Cyberman

Why don't you walk through it at an angle?

Doctor

Thank you. Walk through at an (dawning) angle. Rachel?

Rachel

(hushed) Yes Doctor?

Doctor

Is the person who answered my question about six foot six, built like a brick outhouse and has a naturally silver complexion with an aversion to gold?

Rachel

Yes.

Doctor

Then why didn't you warn me?.

Cyberman

Doctor. You will walk straight forward. Do not stop or turn around.

Rachel

Sounds familiar.

FX Steps forward. A couple of steps, whizz-oop sound per being (3)

Cartwright

You sent for me?

Jacobson

Yes. In a moment, you will see what all of the work by Henderson and the Shelfish laboratories has culminated in. No doubt you will be frightened by some things in the main laboratory, but do not fear. This is the way forward. Now step onto this plate.

FX Steps. Stop. Hollow clonk.

Jacobson

And away we go.

FX Click. Whizz-oop (2). Metal door opens.

Henderson

Doctors Jacobson and Cartwright. You are priveliged to be the first non altered humans to see the inner sanctum of our work.

Cartwright

Is this where our patients went?

Henderson

Yes. They were here. They are now all back out in the community. When the signal is given, they will become active to our commands. Their strength will become ours.

FX Struggle in the background.

Cyber 3

Why have you brought these two into our laborartory?

Cyber 4

It is the Doctor and his companion. They were seen on my cameras. The controller should be told.

Cyber 3

The controller is busy. Put them by the Mondasian.

Cyber 4

I obey. You will go to the Mondasian. Move.

Rachel

The Mondasian? What's that?

Doctor

They mean the other Cyberman over there.

FX Steps on a metal floor.

Doctor

(fascinated) A Mondasian. I haven't seen one of those since 1986 at the South Pole!.

Rachel

Is it dangerous?

Doctor

Not really. The Cyber Mondasians need power. Originally, it was from Mondas. Now, it looks like it has the power from the Cybermen's own plant.

Rachel

Why is it so different?

Doctor

Evolution?. Need?. I don't know or particularly care. What we must do is get out of here and quick. First, let's see what can be done with a little bit of metal!

Rachel

Doctor!.

FX Clicks of metal against metal.

Doctor

That should give it a bit of a head ache. Now for escape.

Cyber 3

Controller?

Henderson

Yes?

Cyber 3

We have the Doctor.

Henderson

I shall be with you in a minute. Let me finish off here.

Jacobson

I believe you said something about your experiments being over?

Henderson

Yes. For many years, we have had an allergy to Gold. It has cost us many of our warriors lives. Now, with your help, we have over come our aversion to Gold.

Cartwright

How?

Henderson

The human lung and circulatory system does not have a problem with many substances, including Gold. We have adapted them for our needs.

Cartwright

How will that help you?

Henderson

We will now be the ultimate survivors. Nothing can stop the Cybermen now. Meet the newest form of the Cyber-race.

FX Door opens. Heavy human steps enter.

Cartwright

(startled) Mrs Jones!.

Mrs Jones

(normal) Yes. You had no faith in the Henderson treatment did you. For that, you should die.

FX Gun cocks, laser fires. Explode as shot. Body falls.

Jacobson

(shocked) Why did you do that?

Henderson

He posed a threat. Your control was faltering. The man had to go. Now you will see how the changes are made.

Jacobson

I don't think I want to.

Henderson

You have no choice. Follow me.

GRAMS Build up music

FX Door opens. Walk through. Door closes.

Henderson

Bring me the Doctor and his friend

Cyber 3

At once.

FX Steps away. Steps back, with two normal sets.

Cyber 3

What should I do with them, Controller?

Rachel

Jacobson!

Doctor

You know him?

Rachel

He was my

Henderson

(interupts, commands) Silence!. Put them in the cyber-convertor.

Cyber 3

At once.

FX Steps to machine. Lock noise

Rachel

Doctor? What is this?

FX Frquency increases

Doctor

(strained) Very bad. (scream) Ahhhhhhhh

GRAMS Outro music fade intoscream

THE HENDERSON PROJECT

A DR. WHO SCRIPT

By Paul Johnson

Based on ideas by Huw Davies and Paul Johnson

Episode 4

GRAMS Dr. Who intro

Henderson

Now you will see how the changes are made.

Jacobson

(unsure) I don't think I want to.

Henderson

You have no choice. Follow me

GRAMS Build up music

FX Door opens. Walk through. Door closes.

Henderson

Bring me the Doctor and his friend

Cyber 3

At once.

FX Steps away, steps back, with two normal sets

Cyber 3

What should I do with them, Controller?

Rachel

Jacobson!

Doctor You know him?

Rachel He was my

Henderson

(interupts, commands) Silence!. Put them into the cyber-convertor.

Cyber 3

At once.

FX Steps into the machine. Lock noise.

Rachel Doctor?. What is this?

FX Frequency increases

Doctor

(strained) Very bad. (scream) Ahhhhhhhhhh

FX Frequency decreases. Stops

Henderson

What has happened?

Cyber 2

The power has dropped again Controller.

Henderson

Again?

Cyber 3

Yes Controller. The levels dropped while we were conducting experiments on the Mondasian.

FX Quiet steps. Locks click.

Jacobson

(quickly and quietly) Rachel. Rachel, wake up.

Rachel

(groggy) Urgh.

Jacobson

Come on, we have to get you out of here.

Rachel

(groggy) I can't walk.

Jacobson

Take a few breaths in.

FX Breaths

Jacobson

Better?

Rachel

No.

Jacobson

Good. Now get out of here.

Rachel

How? And what about the Doctor?

Jacobson

Don't worry about him. Go and hide by those crates.

Rachel

Okay. You sure about the Doctor?

Jacobson

Trust me.

Rachel

Were have I heard that before?

FX Quiet steps to fade.

Cyber 2

The power is restoring.

Henderson

Good. Now we will resume the conversions.

FX Steps to fore.

Henderson

Power the cyber-convertor back up. To full.

FX Power resumes, high frequency oscillation

Doctor

(screams) Ahhhhhhh!

Henderson Wait.

FX Power down

Henderson

Where is the girl?

Jacobson

I don't know.

Henderson

You lie.

Jacobson

I have no reason to do such a thing

Henderson

What you say is of no importance. I saw the girl recognised you.

Jacobson

She was a student of mine at Ipswich university. I had her in Human Biology.

Henderson

A place of learning?

Jacobson

(dejectedly) It was.

FX BIG Crash

Cyber 2

(over intercom) Controller, controller?

Henderson

Yes?

Cyber 2

The Mondasian has escaped.

Henderson What?

Cyber 2

When the power was dropped, a short circuit occured. The Mondasian was repowered and escaped.

Henderson

He will not get far. Release the Cybermats

Cyber 3

You cannot do that.

Henderson

Release the Cybermats. That is an order.

Cyber 3

No. It is illogical.

Henderson

Illogical?. Do you question an order?

Cyber 3

The Cybermats are programmed not to attack any other cyberman. They have a blocker on Cyber brain waves.

FX Body slumps

Jacobson

What was that?

Cyber 2

The Doctor has collapsed.

Henderson

It is of no importance. The Mondasian must be found and destroyed.

FX Heavy stomps, various wails, varied pitch.

Cyber 2

We have found the Mondasi (cut off)

FX Small explosion

Henderson

What has happened?

Jacobson

Looks like you have problems with the in-laws!. (laughs)

Henderson

Silence. The Mondasian must be stopped.

FX Heavy steps to fade. Light steps to fore.

Jacobson

Now to get you free, Doctor. Then away from this place.

FX Click, body falls to the floor. Body pulled across floor.

Jacobson

(out of breath) There. (calls quietly) Rachel? Rachel?. Get over here, come on. (urgently) Before they get back - come on girl!.

FX Quiet steps to fore.

Rachel

(shocked) What have they done to the Doctor?. He looks terrible. He looks, like, like

Jacobson

(suggests) The start of a Cyberman?. We must get you out of here.

Rachel

What about you?

Jacobson

Don't worry about me. My work is not over here yet. There is a slight problem to deal with.

Rachel

Now to get out.

Jacobson

How do you suggest this?

Rachel

I found some empty crates. Looked like the ones from that warehouse.

Jacobson

That'll do. Help me with the Doctor

Rachel

Are you sure we should move him?

Jacobson

Any better ideas?

Rachel

(dejectedly) No.

Jacobson

Shut up then and help me move him.

FX Body pulled along floor. Crate opened. Body heaved into crate. Crate closed.

Rachel

I just have one question

Jacobson

(anxious) What?

Rachel

Why the Cybermen?

Jacobson

A very large laboratory and a larger research grant.

Rachel

(cynically) The root of all evil - money.

Jacobson

(annoyed) Shush and get in.

FX Crate opened and closed. Steps away and fore. Heavy steps in.

Jacobson

(smuggly) And your Mondasian?

Henderson

Still at large. It has ruined our communciations equipment.

Jacobson

Does that alter your invasion?

Henderson

No. It did not damage the transponders.

Jacobson

(miffed) Oh.

Henderson

There is still much work to be done. You have seen in here and must now be either destroyed or made into one of us.

Jacobson

(annoyed) What?. That was never the deal!.

Henderson

Cybermen do not make deals. Such an idea is affable.

Jacobson

(scared) I will be better as I am.

Henderson

Explain.

Jacobson

As a Cyberman, I will not be as useful in research and keeping UNIT away as I am now.

Henderson

True. Yet as a Cyberman, you would be a great asset. Your mind would not need much conditioning and the human emotion weakness is not present.

Jacobson

So?

Henderson

YOU WILL BE AS US.

FX Laser build up. Explode as shot. Body falls to floor. Truck. Bumpy road. Crate opens.

Rachel

(relieved) Phew!. That was stuffy. (realises) The Doctor.

FX Out of crate. Opens crate.

Rachel

Doctor? Doctor? Can you hear me? (upset, cries) Doctor, wake up.

FX Rustle of clothes.

Doctor

(groans)

Rachel

(relief) Doctor?. Doctor, you're alright.

FX Sits up

Doctor

(Hartnell) Alright? Alright? Of course I'm alright young woman. Now stop fussing so.

FX Falls down.

Rachel

Doctor, you're talking gibberish. Come on, (pleads) Doc....

FX Sits up

Doctor

(Troughton) Gibberish, my dear Zoe, is just a way to be wrong with authority.

Rachel

Who's Zoe?

Doctor

(coldly) We are the Cybermen. We ARE logic.

FX Falls down

Doctor

(very weakly) Rachel. Come close.

FX Slight movement

Rachel

Go on

Doctor

(weakly). Get me to the TARDIS. The TARDIS or the Brigadier. He will know what to do.

Rachel

The Brigadier?. He'd kill you as soon as look at you.

Doctor

Give him this. He will know what to do with it (fades out towards the end of sentence)

Rachel

(sobs quietly).

FX Truck slows. Heavy doors open. Truck drives in.

Rachel

Must hide.

FX Crates close. Truck stops. Crane.

Man

Over the top with these, 'Arry. Dunt matter where you lobs 'em

FX Crates crash to ground. Explosion. Cyber-convertor oscillations

Henderson

The Mondasian is causing us some problems

Cyber 3

It will be dealt with Controller.

Henderson

Jacobson will soon be ours. Then the girl, the Doctor and finally, the Earth.

Cyber 2

Agent Klieg has contacted us.

Henderson

What does he say?

Cyber 2

UNIT have a dosier on us.

Henderson

That is to be expected.

Cyber 2

They know about us, Shelfish and the hospital

Henderson

How can they know this?

Cyber 3

The Doctor must have told them.

Henderson

No. We have tracked the Doctor for the past thirty Earth years. He could not have told them of us.

Cyber 2

There is no other explaination, Controller.

FX Cyber-convertor powers down. Lock opens automatically. Heavy steps out.

Henderson

There must be.

Jacobson

(cyberman) The Brigadier knows.

Henderson

How could he know?

Jacobson

He is not of this planet. Klieg knows of this. He is a threat.

Henderson

How do you know this?

Jacobson

Who do you think employed Klieg then sent him to UNIT?

Cyber 2

This would explain a great deal.

Cyber 3

Why?

Jacobson

He is from Voga.

Henderson

The Gold planet. He must have escaped.

Cyber 3

This accounts for the glitter guns. He must be destroyed.

Jacobson

I shall go.

FX Steps fade. Whoop. Heavy doors open. Steps run out. Telephone box door opens, reciever lifted, operator dialled.

Rachel

Hello, operator?. Can you put me through to UNIT HQ, Brigadier Lemmington, reversed charges? Thanks. (waits) Hello, Brigadier?

Brigadier

(over phone) Yes. Who is this?

Rachel

It's Rachel, the Doctor's friend.

Brigadier

You are in serious trouble.

Rachel

(bored, taunted) Yeah, go on. AWOL or something.

Brigadier

Yes, or something.

Rachel

Look. The Doctor is ill. We are at the warehouse you originally found us in. Help!.

Brigadier

Help?. Why should we help?

Rachel

We know about the Cybermen's plans. Besides, the Doctor is still on trial and is still UNIT's scientific advisor. If you leave him, you will be responsible for his death - without cause.

Brigadier

Okay. I'll send a jeep. Now is there anything else?

Rachel

No. Just hurry. I don't think that this place will be free of our silver friends for very much longer.

FX Phone replaced. Cyber laboratory.

Cyber 2

Mondasian?

(voice distorted) What do you want?

Cyber 3

You are trapped. We want to help.

Help? Help?. You want to help?

Cyber 2

Yes.

Such a process is illogical. If one is injured through battle, it is lost. Help is not given or recieved. Help is a weakness

Cyber 3

We know of your problem

I have no problem

Cyber 2

You do not know what is happening.

I know that I have to irradicate your weakness.

Cyber 3

Irradicate? How?

By this.

FX Two loud pops. Cyber falls to floor.

They have weakness. I will alter them.

FX High speed dentist drill. Clunk. Unclunk, drill - twice.

They are converted. Do you still want to help me?

Cyber 3

(voice modulated as CM) Help? Why should I help? I do not understand.

And you?

Cyber 2

(voice as Cyber 3) To help is to waste time. Time is precious. Time is life.

Then we should irradicate the Controller. It is weak. It feels.

Cyber 2 & 3

Irradicate the Controller. Irradicate, irradicate.

FX Jeep pulls up

Major

(calls, distant) Miss Rachel, Miss Rachel?

Rachel

Over here.

Major

Can you get to the door?

Rachel

Not with the Doctor like this. Help me.

FX Jeep starts. Drives to fore. Stops

Major

Let me help you up with him.

Rachel

Thanks.

FX Body being lifted, grunts etc., flopped into jeep.

Rachel

Now let's get out of here.

FX Jeep skids, drives away, to fore. Stops

Rachel

(scared) What have you stopped for?

Major

That. It's one of those Cyber things.

Rachel

So, put your foot down. I think our chances in four tonnes of high speed metal are better than one Cybermen!.

Major

Wilko.

FX Jeep revs us, speed off. Distant crash (metal on metal) then crash (metal on brick), jeep carries on.

Rachel

That was close.

Major

So what happened back there to the Doctor?

Rachel

(exasperated) It's a long, long story.

FX Jeep to fade. Fade in Cyber laboratory.

Henderson

It is not logical that after the years, you should be in command of the Cybership. You are confused.

Why should it not be logical?. You are not fit to command. You sent your troops to give help.

Henderson

They were sent as a trap.

Traps are not required. All things yield to logic, that is what the Cyber-race was built on. That and survival.

Henderson

You are weak. You require our power to live. Without our power, you cannot survive.

Again, you show your illogical stance. You threaten. You talk. To do such a thing wastes time. Subjugation is not required, we are the Cybermen, we rule by power.

Henderson

I do not have to take this from an ancestor, brought back from the dead as a play thing. Guards, crush the Mondasian

FX Lasers cock and warm up.

Henderson

Why do you point your weapons at me?. I am your Controller.

Cyber 2

You are no longer our Controller.

Cyber 3

The Mondasian is our Leader.

Henderson

Leader?. Leader?. This is mutiny. I order you to destroy the Mondasian.

Cyber 2

We obey the Mondasian. You will immobilise yourself.

Henderson

To do so would make me vulnerable.

Cyber 3

Do that or you will be the one destroyed.

Henderson

Mondasian, what have you done to my troops?

They have had theweaknesses removed. They are now governed by the purest of logic. I am now their leader. Destroy him.

FX Lasers shoot, explode as fired. Various explosions.

Henderson

(screams, in pain, very strained) I must survive.

FX Heavy thud on floor. Jeep fade in.

Major

So it was Doctor Jacobson who rescued you?

Rachel

Yes. He was my old Human Biology lecturer at Ipswich Uni.

Major

(suprised) And I had him down as a bad egg.

FX Jeep slows to stop.

Guard

(commands) UNIT halt or I shall fire.

Major

Let us through. It's me and two passengers.

Guard

Come forward and be recognised.

FX Steps.

Guard

Oh it's you. Okay sir, go straight through. The Brigadier is expecting you.

Major

Thanks

FX Steps, jeep carries on onto gravel, slowly. Drives, comes to a halt.

Major

(bus inspector style) All out that's getting out. Next stop, Blackpool North Pier (sniggers to self).

FX Out of jeep.

Rachel

Help me with the Doctor then.

FX Grunts, door opens, closes.

Corporal

The Brigadier says to go through to Conferance room 3.

Major

Thank you.

FX Steps to fade. Steps to fade in. Door opens, closes

Brigadier

Put him on the table.

Rachel

He's ill. Help him.

Brigadier

Major Strife, you may leave us.

Major

Sir.

FX Steps, door opens, closes.

Brigadier

(angrily) Why should I help the man who destroyed MY planet.

Rachel

I don't know. He said to give you this. Said you'll know what to do with it.

Brigadier

A time player. Been a long time since I saw one of these.

FX Click. Buzz. Fast forward/high speed play tape. Buzz. Click

Rachel

Well?

Brigadier

It certainly paints a different picture. Voga is still there, in orbit around Jupiter. Looks like they have been trading for a good ten years with Telos rebels against the Cybermen who invaded.

Rachel

(hopeful) So you'll help.

Brigadier

(thinks) Yes.

Rachel

(relieved) Good.

Brigadier

(interupts) On one condition. You promise that he takes me back to Voga on the day I left.

Rachel

He will. I'll see to that.

Brigadier

Right. Prop his head up. Wait here.

FX Intercom buzz.

Brigadier

Major Strife?

Major

(over intercom) Sir.

Brigadier

Go into my office and behind the portrait of Lethbridge Stewart you will find a small bottle of Gin. Bring it here.

Major

Is it wise to be drinking this time of the morning?

Brigadier

Do not question my orders. The Doctor prescribed it.

Rachel

Very droll!.

FX Cyber laboratory

The Controller had set up a number of Cyberhumans. They are to be destroyed. Humans are weak. They feel and care. They are of no use to us.

Cyber 2

There is a destruct button on the console. This will cause the Cyber parts to attack the human parts and utterly destroy the organic material.

Cyber 3

The Cyber material will then self destruct.

What is the purpose of your mission.

Cyber 2

We are to discover a cure for our problem with Gold.

Has this been solved?

Cyber 3

Yes Leader. We are using human lungs. Their breathing systems are not adversly influenced by Gold.

Cyber 2

There is a problem with Earth lungs.

Explain

Cyber 3

They have become damaged by mankinds own air destruction.

I do not understand why you have done this. I have no problem with Gold.

Cyber 2

Then what has happened with us?

That I cannot explain.

Jacobson

(injured) I can. Assistance is required. My internal structures are damaged.

We do not give assistance. Your information will be unreliable. You are still mainly human. I can detect your hatred for me.

Jacobson

(injured, stammers while speaks) The Gold problem was due to the years of exile on Telos and a great war with the Varrn and the Daleks. You ran short of materials and synthesised a new plastic immune to Dalek fire power and the Varrn's fire shots.

Cyber 2

The Cyberhuman is telling the truth.

Destroy him.

FX Laser warm up.

Jacobson

(quicker, short of breath) The Cyber scientists thought they had cracked the problem but was unaware that gold had the correct structure to coat the plastic due to the static built up and stick. They had not tested the material against gold before it was adopted as the new Cyber apperatus.

Destroy him

Jacobson

(cries) Yes, destroy me. I have betrayed my own kind. I have help murder them for a hand full of, of, of, (shouts) GOLD!. (laughs)

FX Explode as shot. Body flops.

Cyber 3

Remove them both. We have new plans.

FX Door opens. Steps in.

Major

The gin, Sir.

Brigadier

Thank you. Dismissed.

FX Steps, open close.

Rachel

What now?

Brigadier

We must give him this. It is a Molybdenum-Gold complex which should restore him back to health.

Rachel

But he is unconcious.

Brigadier

(amazed). Didn't they teach you anything?. Swallowing is a reflex action. Watch.

FX Glug, swallows. Spits.

Doctor

Blek! I knew that stuff was bad, but not THAT bad!.

Rachel

(relieved) Doctor, you're alright.

Doctor

'Course I'm alright Polly. Now we must get back to Shelfish.

Brigadier

Welcome back Doctor.

Doctor

I can take it that you watched the vidi-cube.

Brigadier

Yes, and I owe you an apology.

Doctor

No time for that. I need a hand full of your best men, a pile of glitter guns, some smoke grenades and a chess board. (slyly) I'll teach those plastic idiots something about logic.

Brigadier

You have a plan?

Doctor

Yes I do. This time they'll wish they had never tried it on with the Doctor and his friends. Victoria?

Rachel

Doctor?

Doctor

Get Ben and Jamie. Tell them to meet me outside the TARDIS. I have a job for those two lay-abouts. Oh and Susan?

Rachel

Doctor?

Doctor

Do have a hair cut. You look most unbecoming for a Victorian lady!.

Brigadier

(aside) Don't worry. It may take a while for his brain to become normalised.

Doctor

You Lethbridge Stewart. Arm the men and go to the Shelfish place. On no accounts enter. Come on Liz, we must go.

FX Jumps off table. Walks into door.

Doctor

Ouch!.

FX Door open close. Steps to fade.

Brigadier

Strife. Get the C team together. (circus style). It's showtime!!

FX Highstreet noises. Steps.

Doctor

Right. This is where you get off.

Rachel

(amazed) Off?

Doctor

Yes. I don't want you getting hurt.

Rachel

Me, a scouser. Hurt by those rubber coated robots? Nahhh.

Doctor

On your own head then.

Rachel

So what are you going to do?.

Doctor

I'll send in the Brigadier and his men through the front, while I

Rachel

(corrects) We

Doctor

(corrects) I go through the front.

Rachel

So what do I do?

Doctor

Go to the warehouse. Make sure that no Cybermen get through that way. You will find a glitter gun behind a crate which I threw when the Major picked me up.

Rachel

Right-o. I'll leave you here then.

FX Set of steps fade. Pedestrian crossing bleeper.

Doctor

Ah, a lift. Trust UNIT to be there when wanted.

FX Jeep door opens and closes. Drives off (fade) (bring back). Stops

Doctor

So you are sure what to do?

Brigadier

Our men stay in the foyer and make sure no one enters or leaves. A small number will position themselves at the back wall and destroy anything that appears from a brick wall. Are you sure you feel alright?

Doctor

I've never felt better. Now off you go. I'll take the men around the back.

FX Door opens.

Doctor

Men, follow me. Double time, around the back. GO!.

FX Four sets, boots double time, fade.

Brigadier

On the mark, the rest of you will enter. No one in, no one out. Anyone leaving must be shot. Do not engage the enemy, the special weapons should only be used on my order. Now go.

FX Truck door open, jumps out. Foyer doors open, run through, closes.

Brigadier

Stay frosty men. (to self) Good luck Doctor.

FX (fade in) boots halt.

Doctor

You lot, find somewhere to hide. Make sure you can see all around. If you see anything silver come through that wall, fire the special weapons at it. Do not use your rifles, the rounds will just bounce off them. Stay alert. I'm going in.

FX Runs, whoop.

Cyber 2

We are under attack. The foyer is full of UNIT men.

Send out the Cyberguards. They will not fire at their own kind.

Cyber 2

Should I go with them?

Yes.

Cyber 3

I have seen the Doctor. He will be here soon.

Prepare a welcome. Put the ship on stand by for invasion.

Cyber 3

I understand Leader.

FX Heavy steps away.

Cyber 2

(over intercom, back round firing). Leader.

Yes.

Cyber 2

The UNIT men are attacking and killing the guards. I request back up.

I shall send them.

FX Buzzer

Send one dispatch group to the Earth Foyer. Crush all resistance.

Cyber 3

The Doctor is here. I shall bring him in.

Is he armed?

Doctor

(struggling) Me, armed?. Never.

You are the Doctor?. I do not remember you like this.

Doctor

No, I've changed a bit since then.

I see your brain, you are the Doctor. I am told you are a sworn enemy of the Cyber-race. You were responsible for my planet's destruction.

Doctor

No, your own kind destroyed Mondas. Over loaded it with power, if I remember.

Now you will be destroyed.

Doctor

Now, now. I think you should look at your monitor.

Cyber 3

Something is going wrong.

FX Lasers, explode as shot. Bodies falling to ground. Gun fire.

Brigadier

(muffled, over clearish comms system) Hold fire.

FX Firing ceases.

Brigadier

At three, fire the special weapons. One, Two, Three, FIRE

FX Gentle tinkle.

Cybermen

(screaming in agony).

Brigadier

Keep an eye on the doors.

FX Buzz stops.

Doctor

You see, your attempts to defeat gold have failed.

Cyber 3

They have not failed.

Then why do our troops die?

Doctor

Mankind is a resourceful bunch. Always finding better ways to kill each other, or anything else for that matter. They have "played" with the gold!.

Cyber 3

That will not help you. You are trapped.

Doctor

Your logic is impecable. Now, who's for a game of chess?

A game of logic.

Doctor

The purest sort. Let's make it interesting.

Interesting?. Do you mean to bargain?. Such notions hold no meaning to the Cybermen.

Doctor

This one will. If I win, you leave this planet alone. You go, in peace, to a new planet. There, you do what you want.

And if we win?

Doctor

The Earth and it's people are yours. Shall we begin?. You to start.

GRAMS Dramatic chords.

Rachel

(hollow) Hello?. Anyone in here? Hello?

FX Cautious steps, echos.

Rachel

Now where is the gun? The Doctor said something about behind a crate.

FX Steps

Henderson

(injured, but sudden) Are you looking for this?

Rachel

(shocked) Professor Henderson!. How did you get here?

Henderson

I have my ways. You are now my prisoner.

Rachel

(strongly). Me a prisoner of Mr Rubber Boot Man. Ha.

Henderson

Why do you laugh?

Rachel

The state you are in, you couldn't take a condemmed man prisoner!. Let me help you.

Henderson

Cybermen do not need help. It is a weakness.

Rachel

Alright then. By the look of the foam coming from your chest panel, you won't be here much longer anyway. (whistles). Now let me help you.

Henderson

No.

FX Sparks, small explosions.

Rachel

(screams) Let me help.

Henderson

Never. Survive, I must survive.

FX Loud explosion. Gurgle.

Rachel

(scared) Are you alright? Hello?

FX Steps closer.

Rachel

Are you okay? Are you

FX Clank

Rachel

(screams) You never die.

Henderson

No, but you will.

FX KAPOW! Body falls to the floor.

Henderson

Now to drain her life force. I will survive, but she will die.

GRAMS Dramatic Chords

Brigadier

Alright men, hang fire. You two, go around the back of the reception desk. You and you, to the side of that far door. You, cover the enterance. I shall stay here. Cover that wall and door, now move.

FX Running, various lengths, stops. Cocking of weapons.

Brigadier

I just hope the Doctor knows what he is doing.

GRAMS Build up music

You will lose in four moves Doctor. Then, I shall take this planet.

Cyber 3

Leader, the UNIT people are holding defensive positons in the foyer. We cannot escape. The only escape will be through the Trans-Wall.

We do not need to escape. The Doctor will lose. His logic is weakening. Defeat will be inevitable.

FX Chess piece moves.

Doctor

Your move.

Two moves to death Doctor.

FX Chess piece moves.

Doctor

I think not, Mondasian.

FX Chess piece moves.

Doctor

Check, I think.

That cannot be. You have not been logical in that move. You are cheating.

Doctor

(afronted) I never cheat. I have done something you Cybermen would consider weak, sacrifice of the Leader for the better of their kind. And you are still in check.

Cyber 3

Leader, our sensors show the Controller is still living.

Do not disturb me. Destroy the Controller.

FX Piece moves.

Doctor

Mate next move.

FX Piece moves. Wumpf.

GRAMS Different eiree build up

Cyber 3

Controller, reveal yourself.

Henderson

You find me. I am waiting. (quietly) I am nearly through with the human.

FX Heavy stomps. Laser blast

Cyber 3

You cannot survive. You are weak, you mind has become perverted and corrupt.

Rachel

(very weakly) Doctor, help me.

FX Heavy stomps, close.

Cyber 3

The human has given you away. Now you will die.

Henderson

Never.

FX Dual weapon load, both fire, explode as shot

Cyber 3 & Henderson

(screams as hit).

Cyber 3

I must

Henderson

(continues) survive.

FX Bodies fall to the floor. Dragging noise.

Rachel

(very weak) I must get help, I must...

FX Body slumps to the floor

GRAMS Dramatic chords

FX Piece moves.

You're move, Doctor.

Doctor

If you insist.

FX Piece moves.

Doctor

Check mate. You lose Cyberman. Now leave, and take your kind with you.

Never. Cybermen never promise inferior species.

Doctor

(afronted) A species which is more logical than a species based on logic is NEVER inferior. Now leave.

FX Weapon cocked.

Cyber 4

Should I kill him now?

No. Release him. He deserves to live.

FX Wumph.

Activate the Cyber-humans.

FX Mains hum. Hospital noises.

Receptionist

No, I'm afraid that Doctor Jacobson and Cartwright are no longer with us

FX High pitched noise.

Receptionist

(disembodied) I obey. Destroy the humans.

FX Chair scrapes, slowly walk off.

Brigadier

Doctor, what has happened?

Doctor

They're insane. I fear that the cybermen are about to do something very daft - daft and dangerous. They will activate the Cyber humans.

Brigadier

So?

Doctor

When they do so, you'll have a mass of very strong, bullet resistant and throughly evil people walking this country, destroying all those in their paths.

Brigadier

What can we do?

Doctor

Storm the building, what else!. Take five crack shots to that door, press the orange button and then expect anything. I'm going after Rachel.

Brigadier

You heard the Doctor, move.

FX Running. Stops. Buzz, Wumph!

Brigadier

Move out, destroy any Cybermen with the special weapons, then meet back here.

FX Running off, to fade. Heavy door creaking open. Motor running in the background

Doctor

(calls, echo) Rachel, Rachel my girl. Where can she be?. Rachel, (sharply) Rachel, answer me. (annoyed) Rach (stops).

FX Running, stops.

Doctor

(concerned/worried) Rachel, what have they done. I must get you back to the TARDIS.

FX Drags to the jeep. Drives off. Fades to distance, brings to fore. Screams to a halt. Yale lock opening. Door opens, drags through door. TARDIS console room hum

Doctor

(almost crying) Rachel, wake up. (cries out) NO!. They are responsible. They will pay. (vengeful) Now to do what should have been done centuries ago - Cyber irradication.

FX TARDIS take off. TARDIS lands. Cyber laboratory. Door opens. Faint crashes, tinkles and Cyber screams.

Doctor

(shouts) Mondasian, you're time is numbered. I press this switch and your power goes. Then one minute later, your whole Earthly empire goes. It will be as if you where never here.

No. No. No.

Doctor

(evil, hissed) Yes, yes, yes. You have killed one of my close friends, your race has reeked destruction on places and people through-out time. That is a crime to which (staccato) YOU MUST PAY.

FX Click, power down. Heavy fall to the floor. Clock counter clicks

Doctor

(calls) Brigadier, Brigadier.

FX Running. Stops

Brigadier

(puffed) Yes Doctor

Doctor

Get your men here. The place will blow in about forty seconds.

Brigadier

Calling all UNIT personnel. Disengage the enemy and get to the main laboratory. I repeat, disengage and get to the main laboratory, at the double.

FX Running.

Doctor

Right, all here? Yes? Good. Now into the TARDIS. This place will go in about 10 seconds.

FX Doors close. TARDIS takes off as massive explosions. Hospital noises

Receptionist

I must kill, I must kill, I must, hanargh.

FX Body falls to the floor. TARDIS lands. Door opens. Men disembark.

Doctor

Well Brigadier, this is the parting of the ways, I think. I have to tend Rachel. She needs help and Galifrey is the only place that has the facilities.

Brigadier

She promised that you would take me to Voga.

Doctor

A promise is a promise. I shall return soon and take you back.

Brigadier

Well mind you do. By the way, why are you not upset about Lethbridge Stewart.

Doctor

(laughs) It was a lie. I have lunch with him tomorrow!. (laughs)

GRAMS Theme music outro plays into laughter.

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