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DOCTOR WHO
THE ARMAGEDDON FACTOR
Written by
Bob Baker and Dave Martin
Part Five
(Overlap from 'Doctor, the time loop...')
[INT. Shadow's domain]
SHADOW: And you shall be my eyes and ears.
K9: Affirmative, Master.
SHADOW: Go now. (K9 does so.)
[INT. TARDIS console room]
DOCTOR: Well, here we are. We've tracked him to his lair.
ROMANA: Yes, we've got him exactly where he wants us.
DOCTOR: All we have to do is find the sixth piece and stop the Shadow taking those other five.
ROMANA: How can we get the sixth piece without using the tracer? Or had you forgotten the tracer's holding the key together, and if we take the tracer out, we break the time loop, and without the time loop, millions of people on Zeos and Atrios will die, to say nothing of ourselves. And the time loop's stretching already. (she watches the scanner) It's up to six seconds now. That's four seconds left. And how long will that thing last?
DOCTOR: Diagonal thinking, that's what's required. Isn't it, Astra?
ASTRA: What? I'm sorry. I was lost.
DOCTOR: Astra, we need you to help us to find the Shadow.
ASTRA: I shall stay here.
DOCTOR: No, no, Astra, no. You're the only one who's ever been to the third planet before. Come on.
ASTRA: I want to stay here.
ROMANA: Astra, you said you wanted to come with us. Don't you want to save Atrios?
ASTRA: My destiny no longer lies on Atrios.
ROMANA: What do you mean?
SHADOW [OC]: (in her head) Go with them. Bring me Romana.
ASTRA: I understand.
ROMANA: What did you say? Are you all right?
DOCTOR: Yes, yes, everything's perfectly all right. Everything's wonderful, isn't it, Astra?
ASTRA: What? Oh, I'm sorry. I was thinking about Merak. Yes, of course, we must do everything we can to destroy the Shadow.
ROMANA: Do you know where he is?
ASTRA: I think so.
(The DOCTOR opens the door to let ASTRA and ROMANA out.)
DOCTOR: Go on. I'll catch you up.
ROMANA: Right.
(After they have gone, the DOCTOR picks up the two-tone beeping that K9 had heard.)
DOCTOR: Intergalactic computer distress signal? How very odd. How strange. Here? K9.
(The DOCTOR too leaves the TARDIS.)
[INT. Tunnel]
(ASTRA and ROMANA walk down a rocky tunnel. K9 appears from near us, following them loosely.)
K9: Master.
[INT. Shadow's domain]
(The SHADOW watches ASTRA and ROMANA from the screen we saw earlier.)
SHADOW: Leave her to Astra. Follow the Doctor.
K9 [OC]: Affirmative, Master.
[INT. Outside the TARDIS]
(The DOCTOR locks the door. He fiddles with a red-headed device in his hands and picks up the distress signal beeping.)
DOCTOR: Two six zero. (beep) Ah.
[INT. Cavern in the Shadow's domain]
(The DOCTOR sees ASTRA and ROMANA standing in front of him.)
DOCTOR: Ah. Ah, girls.
(He turns around, and the pair vanish instantly.)
DOCTOR: Shhh. I think someone's trying to play tricks on us. You girls better stick with me, or we'll all get lost. I-
(He turns back and they're clearly gone. The signal from his device starts to wind down. He leaves the cavern-like space. We see K9 in the corridors before we return to the DOCTOR.)
ROMANA: (ahead of him) Doctor! (This echoes.)
(A second version of her appears. We soon have several ROMANAS, in various poses, all calling for him.)
ROMANAS: Doctor. Doctor. Doctor. Doctor.
(He turns away, and they vanish while he counts them on his fingers.)
ROMANA [OC]: Doctor.
[INT. Tunnel]
ROMANA: Doctor. Doctor! (giving up on chasing him down) Oh, what does he think he's doing, going that way? I shouted at him. He must have seen us.
ASTRA: I think I remember now. Yes, all these passages link up further on. Come on, Romana. We shall meet him.
(The DOCTOR sees himself going the other way. The image waves at him. He notices a pair of red lights almost like eyes, set into the wall, glowing.)
DOCTOR: Ah, I see what you're at, splitting us up. Divide and conquer, is that it? You didn't really imagine we were taken in by Astra, did you? (we now see him as viewed on the Shadow's screen) No. She's in your power, your employ. Little something on the neck, is it, eh? Very crude, technically. (we return to the view of him in the tunnel) Like all this amusement-arcade rubbish. (we now see from the Shadow's area again) No, Shadow, or whatever you're called. I'm sorry to tell you (back to the tunnel view) that Romana can look after herself. We are Time Lords. (the screen is shown) Not like those innocents back on Atrios, you know. Time Lords sent by the Guardian to recover the Key to Time.
SHADOW: I know who you are, Doctor.
[INT. Tunnel]
SHADOW [OC]: I have always known.
(A large image of his face appears in front of the DOCTOR.)
SHADOW [OC]: I have been waiting for you. I too serve a Guardian, a Guardian equal and opposite in power to the one who sent you. The Black Guardian, he who walks in darkness, and you are in the valley of the Shadow.
DOCTOR: No, no, no! No!
(He seemingly falls as Merak did.)
[INT. Shadow's domain]
K9 [on screen]: The Doctor is captured, Master.
[INT. Tunnel]
ASTRA: Come, Romana. (creepily) You'll be safe here.
(The wall behind ASTRA slides open. They enter, and a MINION comes up behind ROMANA as she notices the wall closing again.)
[INT. The Doctor's prison]
(The DOCTOR wakes to the sound of beeping. The red head of his device is glowing. He picks it up. Next to it is the beacon that had been left for K9. He hits it against the ground a couple of times, and it goes silent. He hears tapping on the wall, and a portion starts to swing open as he has his head against it. A man looks through. The two heads stare at each other.)
DRAX: (East End stylie) Hello, Theet. How you been, boy?
DOCTOR: What?
DRAX: It is Theet, innit? (checks out the DOCTOR's face) Theta Sigma? Yeah, 'course it is. Remember me, ay?
[INT. Shadow's domain]
(As ASTRA watches, ROMANA stands in an interrogation booth similar to the one that held the Doctor earlier, on Zeos.)
SHADOW: Begin.
(Static electricity crackles around her - a little horizontal white line this time.)
[INT. The Doctor's prison cell]
DRAX: Drax is the name.
DOCTOR: Drax?
DRAX: Come on, Theet. Class of ninety-two?
DOCTOR: Not-
DRAX: Yeah?
DOCTOR: Drax.
DRAX: Yeah. We was on the tech course together. Long time ago now, Theet, eh? Must be what, four hundred and fifty years? And a long way from Gallifrey.
DOCTOR: Yes, Gallifrey. Of course! Ha-ha! Drax.
DRAX: Yeah, I was all right at practical, remember?
DOCTOR: Yeah.
DRAX: Temporal theory did me. Still, you did well, mind, getting your doctorate and all that.
DOCTOR: What happened to you?
DRAX: I failed, didn't I? Still, not to worry. I was doing all right till this lot. I went into repair and maintenance. Do anything, any time, anywhere. I've been all over the galaxy. Buy a bit, do it up, sell it.
DOCTOR: Yeah. What sort of things?
DRAX: Cybernetics, guidance systems, you name it.
DOCTOR: Armaments?
DRAX: Yeah, and that. Not on a regular basis, of course.
DOCTOR: Drax, I was introduced to a computer on Zeos. Called itself Mentalis. Did you by any chance have anything to do with the installation?
DRAX: Strictly under duress. That's why I'm here. The minute I finished the job, wham. Feet never touched the ground.
DOCTOR: The Shadow?
DRAX: I didn't know who he was, did I? Just another customer, I thought. And then he puts the heavy word on. Do it or die. I mean, what would you have done?
DOCTOR: Yes, very tricky.
DRAX: Yeah. (he sees the, less happy now, distress beacon) So that's where it was. I thought somebody'd nicked it. Hmm, not a lot of bottle now, is it?
DOCTOR: Did you make that?
DRAX: Knocked it up, yeah. Well, you gotta do something. There's always a chance some geezer would pick up the distress call.
DOCTOR: You made this here?
DRAX: Well, I never go nowhere without me tools. Fat lot of good it did, though, eh? Got us both in nick together.
DOCTOR: Drax, I don't want to pry, but where did you acquire this peculiar vocabulary?
DRAX: Brixton, weren't it?
DOCTOR: Brixton?
DRAX: Brixton. London. Earth.
DOCTOR: I've been to Earth.
DRAX: Yeah, me transport broke down. Hyperbolics, as usual. And I was investigating certain possibilities with regard to replacements. I got done, didn't I? Ten years I got. Well, I had to learn the lingo, didn't I, to survive? Why, is there something funny about the way I talk?
DOCTOR: No, no, ha! It's very colourful. Very demotic.
DRAX: Yeah, well thanks, Theet.
DOCTOR: Doctor.
DRAX: Oh yeah.
DOCTOR: No offence.
DRAX: None taken.
DOCTOR: Drax?
DRAX: Doctor?
DOCTOR: Drax?
DRAX: Yes?
DOCTOR: That hole in the wall?
DRAX: Yeah?
DOCTOR: Might that, might it lead to a way out?
DRAX: No. Not yet, anyway. I dunno, I've got tunnels all over the place, but I can't seem to find it.
DOCTOR: Find what?
DRAX: The transmat shaft. They all use it. The Shadow and all his horribles. The trouble is, ya see, my TARDIS is back on Zeos.
DOCTOR: Yes, but where does it lead?
DRAX: Have a look.
[INT. Drax's prison cell]
DRAX: Well, Doctor, welcome to my world.
(His world is a bit of a mess. The DOCTOR examines some bits and bobs.)
DOCTOR: Aren't they stabiliser components?
DRAX: Yeah, they are.
DOCTOR: But you said your TARDIS was parked on Zeos.
DRAX: Yeah, well, I took the stabiliser out. Needs a bit of work.
DOCTOR: How long have you been here?
DRAX: About five years. After the war started.
DOCTOR: Five years? For five years you've had a dimensional stabiliser virtually intact and you haven't managed to escape?
DRAX: I told you it needed work.
DOCTOR: Oh, come on, Drax! You could have repaired that and long-dogged it out of here years ago.
(The DOCTOR moves his head to peer under DRAX's collar.)
DRAX: Here, what's the game? Oh, I get it. You think I'm in with the Shadow, don't you?
DOCTOR: Aren't you?
DRAX: Now would I?
DOCTOR: Yes, you would. What's he offered you?
DRAX: Nothing.
DOCTOR: Are you about to suggest that you and I make a run for it out of here in my TARDIS?
DRAX: Well, it's a good idea.
DOCTOR: Oh yes, it's a very good idea, you and me in my TARDIS. And what happens then when we're inside, eh? Sock full of sand, lead pipe, and you away with the Key to Time - am I right, Drax?
DRAX: Look, I didn't know it was going to be you, did I? He threatened me with the chop, didn't he? He said I was the only one who could get hold of it.
DOCTOR: If you had, do you think he'd let you get away? You'd be in for the chop too.
DRAX: Yeah, I would, wouldn't I?
DOCTOR: Of course you would. So why don't you help me? I mean, together we stand a slight chance. And after all, we are Time Lords, you and I. Class of ninety-two. If we don't stick together, who will?
[INT. Shadow's domain]
(ASTRA still looks on as ROMANA gets zapped, with higher intensity now.)
SHADOW: Enough.
(The doors open, ROMANA pulling them apart. She falls to the ground outside the interrogation booth.)
SHADOW: She has told me everything she knows, and it is not enough. Still the cursed Doctor stands between me and the key. We shall see what the Doctor is prepared to offer for your life.
ROMANA: I'm not afraid to die.
SHADOW: K9?
K9 [on screen]: Master.
SHADOW: To the Doctor.
K9 [on screen]: Affirmative, Master.
ROMANA: No, K9! (She lowers her head.)
[INT. Drax's prison cell]
(DRAX tries to repair the distress beacon. The DOCTOR watches.)
DOCTOR: Try synaptic adhesion.
DRAX: Synaptic adhesion? It's the chronostat. Always is.
DOCTOR: I think it's synaptic adhesion.
DRAX: Look, I've done thousands of these. Thousands.
DOCTOR: All right. Got to be synaptic adhesion. All right, all right, I'll leave it to you, shall I?
DRAX: Yeah.
(The DOCTOR finds the entrance to another tunnel.)
DOCTOR: Drax, where does this lead?
DRAX: Upper level. Watch out for the mutes.
DOCTOR: Yeah. Yeah, of course.
(The DOCTOR sets off through the tunnel. He can't quite stand upright.)
[INT. Small tunnel]
K9 [OC]: Doctor? I have you on scan, Doctor.
DOCTOR: Doctor?
[INT. Tunnel]
K9: Turn left now. Turn right now.
[INT. Small tunnel]
(The DOCTOR reaches a grille in the wall.)
K9: Doctor.
DOCTOR: Yes, old friend?
K9: I have a message for you.
DOCTOR: I can't hear. Can you come a bit closer?
(When K9 is close, the DOCTOR hits the grating, which whops K9 on the 'nose'.)
K9: Such actions warrant immediate death, which I shall execute.
DOCTOR: Oh, K9.
K9: Here is a message for you. Doctor, Romana is with my master.
DOCTOR: Ah.
K9: He wishes to know if you will exchange the Key to Time for the life of Romana. End of message. Your reply, please. Waiting.
DOCTOR: Tell your master I shall give his offer serious consideration.
(He pushes away the grating and gives K9 a shove from behind. The mechanical dog, electronically gibbering, is sent down the small tunnel and into Drax's cell.)
DRAX [OC]: Hey!
DOCTOR: Yes?
DRAX [OC]: What's this heap of junk?
DOCTOR: That's my computer.
DRAX [OC]: Eh?
DOCTOR: Drax, I've got no time to explain. Remove the control device from under his chin, all right?
DRAX [OC]: Oh, er, yeah, ah, right. Done it. Now what?
DOCTOR: Now nothing. Carry on with the stabiliser. I'll be back soon, I hope. Bye.
(It isn't long before the DOCTOR is approached by a MINION and taken captive again.)
[INT. Drax's prison cell]
K9: (on his side) Attention! Attention!
(DRAX jumps up onto his work table.)
DRAX: What's that?
K9: Malfunction in drive systems. Attention required immediately.
DRAX: (jumps down and returns to work) Oh, it's you. I'm busy.
K9: Essential restored to vertical position. Alternative is your obliteration.
DRAX: Leave me alone.
(K9 starts making an annoying alert noise.)
DRAX: All right, all right. (he rights K9) That better?
K9: Affirmative. (His laser emitter retracts.)
DRAX: Blimey, it's a dog. Who's a little tin dog, then? (He laughs.)
K9: Your silliness is noted. Drive systems regenerating.
(DRAX continues his work.)
DRAX: I don't get it. It's the chronostat. It always is.
K9: Negative. It is a question of synaptic adhesion.
DRAX: Not you an' all.
[INT. Shadow's domain]
(ASTRA watches from the background.)
SHADOW: The Key to Time, Doctor. (silence) Then you can watch your assistant suffer.
DOCTOR: I refuse to negotiate in an atmosphere of threat.
(ROMANA, back in the interrogation booth, is zapped again. The torture is blue lightning-bolt-style this time.)
DOCTOR: No, no, stop! Stop!
ROMANA: Doctor, no. Don't give in to him. It doesn't matter what happens to me.
DOCTOR: Well, of course it matters. You have the sixth piece, I take it?
SHADOW: It is here.
DOCTOR: Well, I'd like to see it, if it's possible.
SHADOW: You have already seen it.
DOCTOR: Ah. Yes. If I bring the other five pieces-
SHADOW: Yes?
DOCTOR: What is it you have in mind? I mean, what do you intend to do?
SHADOW: Come now, Doctor, you know who I am.
DOCTOR: Yes. I suppose you realise I've rigged things so that Atrios and Zeos are protected.
SHADOW: Your puny time loop.
DOCTOR: Yes, my pu-. Well, it may be puny, but it works. If you break that, millions of people will die.
SHADOW: That has always been our intention. This pathetic little war is but a rehearsal for our grand design.
DOCTOR: Our?
SHADOW: You have your Guardian, and I have mine. You and I are on the same quest, Doctor, but, whereas you have been scavenging across space and time, I have located the sixth piece here.
DOCTOR: Oh.
SHADOW: You are inferior, just as your powers are inferior. Once we have the Key to Time, we shall set not two small planets but the two halves of the entire cosmos at war, and their mutual destruction will be music in our ears. Unlike others, it is not power we seek but destruction that we glory in. Fetch the key.
DOCTOR: Very well.
ROMANA: No! Doctor!
SHADOW: Bwahaha! Muahahahahaha!
[INT. Drax's prison cell]
(DRAX has finished his task.)
DRAX: It's working. You were right, Doc. Synaptic adhesion.
K9: Correct.
DRAX: You don't know what the Doctor wants it for, do you?
K9: Negative.
DRAX: Well, I'd better go and find out. Stay, boy.
[INT. Shadow's domain]
(The DOCTOR hurries through corridors.)
SHADOW: Now, my princess, your work is done. Your destiny is at hand.
(The SHADOW removes the black control device from her throat. She gasps.)
ASTRA: Who are you?
ROMANA: The Shadow.
SHADOW: The Shadow that accompanies you all.
(We see DRAX follow the DOCTOR and his MINION guard after they pass the entrance to the small tunnel. He carries his project with him.)
[INT. Outside the TARDIS]
(The DOCTOR unlocks the time-space machine.)
DOCTOR: (to the MINION) I suppose you realise that, once I give the Shadow the Key to Time, that you and your colleagues will be superfluous, hmm?
(DRAX creeps closer and motions for the other Time Lord to get out of the way.)
DOCTOR: What I meant was that, you see, after I've given the Shadow the Key to Time, he'll kill you and then he'll kill me, and perhaps you don't care.
DRAX: Right, Doctor, I'm ready for you. (He readies the device he's made with the dimensional stabiliser.)
DOCTOR: No, Drax, no. No!
(DRAX fires, and the DOCTOR disappears in a 'shadow' effect in a large ray emanating in a green pattern. The MINION struggles to aim his weapon at him, but DRAX is gone.)
The above notes, transcription, etc. by Anna Shefl
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