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DOCTOR WHO
LOGOPOLIS

Written by
Christopher H. Bidmead

Part Four

(Overlap from 'Look, we want to help you')

[EXT. Logopolis]

(The MASTER tries to put his arm around the DOCTOR's shoulder. The DOCTOR shakes him off.)
DOCTOR: Monitor? He's gone.
MASTER: You do realise he's no chance of survival without our help?
DOCTOR: The Monitor wouldn't abandon us.
MASTER: He's trying to salvage the research team's work. He must have gone to the Central Register, yes?
DOCTOR: Yes, maybe. It was the last addition to Logopolis. It might be the last one to survive. We need his knowledge. Come on.
(They head in that direction. TEGAN and ADRIC promptly leave the TARDIS.)
ADRIC: We all want to help the Doctor, but we've got to do as he says.
TEGAN: Listen. The Doctor's my ticket back to London Airport, so I'm going after him.
ADRIC: Tegan!
TEGAN: Have a nice trip.
(ADRIC returns to the TARDIS, which dematerialises.
Outside, the DOCTOR and the MASTER find the buildings further collapsing in front of them.)
DOCTOR: The rot is spilling outwards into the universe from this point, after aeons of constraint. (picking past the rubble) Come on. Let's collect the Monitor and get out.

[EXT. Outside the Central Register]

MASTER: In my TARDIS?
DOCTOR: There's no other way.
MASTER: You're assuming a lot, aren't you, Doctor?
DOCTOR: Yes, aren't I?

[INT. Central Register]

(The MONITOR is working intently at the room's main console.)
DOCTOR: Monitor?
MASTER: Logopolitan maths on a computer?
DOCTOR: Monitor, the stability of-
MONITOR: This is the program we were developing to take the burden from our own shoulders. (he refers to some printouts) A series of data statements to keep the Charged Vacuum Emboitments open of their own accord.
DOCTOR: What, do you mean the advanced research project?
MONITOR: The computer holds a complete log of the research.
(The MASTER heads to the printer.)
MASTER: Then the answer's here.
(He switches it on, and it begins to print.)
MONITOR: Take care. The research is far from complete.
DOCTOR: Monitor, were you on the right track? You must tell us about the project in every detail.
MONITOR: There is nothing to tell. It's all there for you to read. Now, I must get on with my work.

[EXT. Logopolis]

TEGAN: (stepping over rubble) Doctor! Doctor!

[INT. Central Register]

MONITOR: I've done what I can, with the registry in ruins. We must now realign the aerial, beam the program out to space. There is a CVE close by we might still be able to reopen.
TEGAN: Doctor!
DOCTOR: Yes.
TEGAN: Doctor!
DOCTOR: Tegan, I told you to get out of here.
TEGAN: No, thanks, Doctor. I'm staying with you. You're the only insurance policy I've got.
DOCTOR: As safe as houses, eh?
(The ceiling of the Central Register building starts to collapse.)
MASTER: Doctor, we must form a plan. I propose, 1, we withdraw to a position of temporary security; 2, we reconfigure our two TARDISes into time-cone inverters; 3, we create a stable safe zone by applying temporal-inversion isometry to as much of space-time as we can isolate.
TEGAN: Look!
(Parts of the MONITOR go translucent. He groans as he raises his arms and fades away.)
MASTER: Horrible.
TEGAN: Hardly more horrible than shrinking people.
MASTER: No. Do what you like, Doctor. Logopolis is yours.
TEGAN: (after following the MASTER to the door) Doctor, stop him. He's getting away.
DOCTOR: No, no, no, no, listen. Reconfigure the two TARDISes into time-cone inverters? It would work. What a brilliant mind.
TEGAN: And what a waste of two more brilliant minds if we don't do something soon.
DOCTOR: The Monitor's program. You can help me.
TEGAN: I can?
DOCTOR: Yes. I want this in pieces.
(They start taking apart the equipment at the computer workstation.
Outside, the MASTER returns to his TARDIS, a column of stone inside an alcove. He enters this house, and the roof begins caving in.
Back in the Central Register, the DOCTOR is examining circuit boards.)
DOCTOR: As I thought.
TEGAN: What?
DOCTOR: Bubble memory.
TEGAN: Bubble memory.
DOCTOR: Yes. You realise what this means?
TEGAN: No - as a matter of fact, I don't, Doctor.
DOCTOR: Bubble memory is non-volatile. Remove the power, and the bit patterns are still retained in tiny magnetic domains in these chips. The research team's final project is still here.
TEGAN: Which would be great if we had a computer to run it on.
DOCTOR: I've an idea where we could find one. On Earth.
TEGAN: (running to the door after him, with the stack of circuit boards) Earth.

[EXT. Outside the Central Register]

TEGAN: Earth?
DOCTOR: Yes. The Master's TARDIS. Come on.

[INT. TARDIS corridor]

(From behind the interior door, NYSSA and ADRIC watch the WATCHER operate the TARDIS controls.)
ADRIC: He's unsetting the co-ordinates. He's disconnecting the entire co-ordinate subsystem. But he can't do that. No!
NYSSA: What's the matter?
(ADRIC shuts the door. Behind it, he falls to his knees.)
ADRIC: Down!
(The scene goes negative and shrinks to a point.)
NYSSA: What's happening?
ADRIC: We're being taken right out of time and space.

[EXT. Outside the Master's TARDIS]

(The MASTER is on the ground, under rubble.)
DOCTOR: One good lift deserves another, don't you think?
(The MASTER groans. With effort, the DOCTOR rolls the offending piece of masonry away.)
MASTER: I'm very grateful.
DOCTOR: Earth, please.

[INT. TARDIS corridor]

(The scene returns from a point and, after a moment, goes positive again. ADRIC peeks into the console room again and closes the door.)
ADRIC: We're hovering.
NYSSA: Outside space and time.
ADRIC: But the TARDIS isn't supposed to do that.
NYSSA: We seem to be safe.
ADRIC: Safe. Yes. The Doctor told the Watcher to look after us.
NYSSA: I'd rather be with the Doctor.

[INT. Pharos Project control room]

(The TECHNICIAN on duty at the radio telescope is using a pencil to conduct the music he is listening to on headphones. Next to him sits a plastic drink cup. He lifts it, crumples it, and leaves the room. The Master's TARDIS materialises. Out step the DOCTOR and the MASTER.)
MASTER: The Pharos computer room.
DOCTOR: Yes. I envy you your TARDIS, Master.
MASTER: Excellent, Doctor. Envy is the beginning of all true greatness.
DOCTOR: Ssssh.
(They look through the door from the control room and see the TECHNICIAN getting a replacement drink from a vending machine. As he returns, the Time Lords hide behind the Master's TARDIS. The TECHNICIAN relaxes in his chair, and the MASTER slowly raises a device, which the DOCTOR instantly grabs.)
DOCTOR: (sotto) No!
MASTER: It's the light-speed overdrive, Doctor. You'll need that to accelerate the signal from the transmitter.
DOCTOR: I'm so sorry. I thought you meant to shoot him.
MASTER: Oh, Doctor. You can explain.
DOCTOR: Yes.
(The DOCTOR walks up behind the TECHNICIAN and clears his throat.)
DOCTOR: Good morning. Good evening.
(The TECHNICIAN is still listening to the music. The DOCTOR turns toward the TARDIS and sees the MASTER with weapon extended. The DOCTOR quickly drags the chair to the side, sending the man to the floor as the weapon activates.
TEGAN exits the TARDIS and runs to the man.)
DOCTOR: He's unconscious.
MASTER: Never mind. (returning the headphones to the desk) I feel we've been spared a very difficult conversation.
(The DOCTOR gives the MASTER a look.)

[INT. Cloister room]

ADRIC: When all this began, the Doctor wanted to reconfigure the TARDIS so it'd work like the Master's.
NYSSA: What's wrong with it?
ADRIC: It's getting old.
NYSSA: Entropy again. You can't get away from it.
(The WATCHER beckons.)
ADRIC: He wants to talk to us.
(The WATCHER points.)
NYSSA: To you.

[INT. Pharos Project control room]

(TEGAN feels for the TECHNICIAN's pulse. The DOCTOR is placing the circuit boards in the computer.)
MASTER: What makes you think this program of the Monitor's is going to work, Doctor?
DOCTOR: Oh, I don't know. It's a sort of vague faith in the nature of things, I suppose.
MASTER: (stepping to his side) It's in the very nature of things for entropy to win.
DOCTOR: Yes, well, it's the age-old battle, isn't it? Entropy versus structure. Still, while there's life there's six of one and half a dozen of the other.
MASTER: Woolly thinking, Doctor.
DOCTOR: Yes, but very comforting when worn next to the skin.

[INT. Cloister room]

(ADRIC is done speaking with the WATCHER and slowly walks back over to NYSSA.)
NYSSA: Well, what did he want? What did he say to you?
ADRIC: It's as if he knows what's going to happen.
NYSSA: But what did he say to you, Adric?
(The WATCHER walks away.)
ADRIC: Come on. We've got work to do.

[INT. TARDIS console room]

NYSSA: But where are we going?
ADRIC: The Pharos Project on Earth. Now, I've got to set the exact co-ordinates. Earth is in sector eighty twenty-three of the third quadrant. The temporal settings are laid in on this panel. It always looks so easy when the Doctor does it.
(NYSSA operates the scanner, which shows a bunch of galaxies packed in together.)
NYSSA: Adric, the scanner. Adric...
ADRIC: The whole universe. Of course. We're beyond space and time.
NYSSA: (referring to the dimming that is spreading in from the upper right) That must be the entropy field. Where's the Earth?
ADRIC: I can't see it.
(The scanner zooms in. We see Saturn and its neighbours.)
NYSSA: It's there.
ADRIC: Earth's galaxy has a few more hours left.
NYSSA: (still watching the scanner as planets fade away) Adric, I can't see Traken.
ADRIC: (stepping next to her) Traken should be...
NYSSA: I can't even see Metulla Orionsis. The Master killed my stepmother, and then my father, and now the world that I grew up in - blotted out forever.

[INT. Pharos Project control room]

(TEGAN looks out the window blinds and at the end of the corridor, and she returns to the Pharos Project control room, at the other end.)
TEGAN: Dawn's coming up. There are security guards outside.
DOCTOR: Any good?
MASTER: It's still not running. The program's useless. It's time to abandon this line of reasoning.
DOCTOR: Of course. The program's not being fed into the core.
MASTER: Well?
DOCTOR: We start again.

[INT. TARDIS console room]

ADRIC: Right, hold on. We're going back.
(Things go negative again.)
ADRIC: Now!
(They brace as the effect from earlier repeats and the TARDIS materialises. It lands amongst some bushes below a large radio telescope, intended to represent Jodrell Bank.)
NYSSA: Just like Logopolis.
ADRIC: The Earth people use it to beam messages to the stars. The Doctor calls it reiterated invitation to alien intelligences in deep space.
NYSSA: And that's us.
ADRIC: They'll be very pleased to see us.
(ADRIC and NYSSA step out of the TARDIS and soon crouch down in the brush, out of the sight of the two GUARDS on patrol beyond them.)

[INT. Pharos Project control room]

DOCTOR: It's running.
MASTER: If you call this alien gibberish a program.
DOCTOR: Well, we'll just have to wait until the data reaches the CVE.
MASTER: First, we must reach the transmitter and connect up the light-speed overdrive.
DOCTOR: Yes.
TEGAN: What about the guards?
DOCTOR: I suggest we use your TARDIS.
MASTER: Impossible. The light-speed overdrive's disconnected.
DOCTOR: We've still got to get across to the antenna control room.
MASTER: I agree.
TEGAN: I agree too, for what it's worth.
DOCTOR: Good.
(We watch ADRIC and NYSSA running through the scrub in the overgrown field near the TARDIS before we return to the radio telescope, where our party leave the control room. The DOCTOR pauses in the corridor to look out between the slats of the blinds. The WATCHER is below, standing in the doorway of the TARDIS.
The DOCTOR then follows the others.)

[EXT. Field]

(ADRIC and NYSSA make their way along a shed and watch as the others enter the field of view. GUARDS are on patrol. The DOCTOR's group run to cover behind the base of a fallen tree, with ADRIC and NYSSA following their lead at a distance. ADRIC and NYSSA watch as the MASTER holds out his weapon toward the GUARDS and the DOCTOR grabs the weapon and throws it behind him. A GUARD hears the noise.)
GUARD: Intruders! After them!
(The DOCTOR's group run from the trio of guards and hide behind an outbuilding. ADRIC and NYSSA watch for a time and then move, as the patrols join up.)
MASTER: Sentimental fool. Thanks to you, we're now weaponless.
ADRIC [OC]: Nyssa and I have heard your message across the universe and have come to answer your call.
GUARD: (coming into view) Message? What? Now who are you?
(TEGAN runs out to meet them.)
NYSSA: We are the alien beings who-
TEGAN: Listen. Here, you fellows, you've got this all topsy-turvy.
(The diversion allows the DOCTOR and the MASTER to creep away.
We see the WATCHER re-enter the Doctor's TARDIS.
As he and the DOCTOR run back to the telescope, the MASTER picks up his discarded weapon.
The DOCTOR begins ascending the ladders toward the antenna's control room.
The MASTER enters the computer room, removes the TECHNICIAN's tape player, and laughs as he heads into his TARDIS.)

[INT. Antenna control room]

(The DOCTOR has climbed all the way up and enters the room from the last ladder. We can hear the wind. He looks at the wires and circuit boards sitting out before him. We hear the MASTER laughing.)
MASTER: From here, Charged Vacuum Emboitment is in line with the constellation Cassiopeia.
DOCTOR: Three C four six one.
MASTER: Mm. I decided to use my TARDIS after all. (he gestures toward it, then starts entering numbers) Three C four six one, three zero four four.
(The dish begins to move.)
MASTER: You see, Doctor, I overlook nothing.
DOCTOR: You overlooked the light-speed overdrive. (He holds the instrument out.)
MASTER: (taking it) I gave you this to demonstrate my trust.
DOCTOR: Thank you.
(The MASTER throws the device out the open door and starts to laugh as the DOCTOR makes to head down after it.)
DOCTOR: What?
MASTER: But I don't take foolish risks. The real light-speed overdrive is here.
DOCTOR: What? And powered up, I see.
MASTER: We have only to connect this cable from the computer room and the job is done. The aerial's now aligned to the CVE. As you devised the plan, I think the honour should be yours, Doctor.
(Having handed the cable to the DOCTOR, the MASTER heads toward another door. The DOCTOR joins the two connectors.)

[EXT. Antenna gantry]

(The MASTER steps out onto a walkway extending parallel to the antenna dish, which is pointing straight up. He speaks into the technician's tape recorder.)
MASTER: Peoples of the universe, please attend carefully. The message that follows is vital to the future of you all.
(We hear an alarm and see two GUARDS running rapidly.)

[INT. Antenna control room]

MASTER: (re-entering) Well?
DOCTOR: The data's reached the CVE. It's stabilising.
MASTER: So it works. Congratulations, Doctor. (he holds out his hand, and the DOCTOR pulls his own hand back quickly) I always knew you'd do it.
DOCTOR: You did most of this.
MASTER: Oh, no. I was little more than a humble assistant, but I have learned a great deal. And now I think it's time for you to go and explain the presence of your friends. There's quite a hubbub outside.
DOCTOR: (as we hear barking dogs) You're quite right. One mistake now could ruin everything.
MASTER: I know that, Doctor, and it could happen so easily. (He removes his gloves.)
DOCTOR: What do you mean?
MASTER: The universe is hanging on a thread. A single recursive pulse down that cable and the CVE would close forever. Even a humble assistant could do it.
DOCTOR: You're mad!
(The DOCTOR lunges for the controls in front of the MASTER, who pulls out his weapon, then with his other hand hits 'Play' on the tape recorder.)
MASTER [OC]: Peoples of the universe, please attend carefully. The message that follows is vital to the future of you all. The choice for you all is simple. A continued existence under my guidance or total annihilation. At the time of speaking, the [continuing over the dialogue that follows] fate of the universe hangs in the balance, and the fulcrum of that balance is the Pharos Project on Earth. As I speak...
DOCTOR: Blackmail.
MASTER: No, Doctor, I'm merely reporting the state of affairs. I have it in my power now to save them or destroy them.
DOCTOR: You're utterly mad.
MASTER: Back, Doctor. The proceedings must not be interrupted. (laughing) It's mine. The CVE. It's all mine.
DOCTOR: Only while that cable holds. (He heads outside while the MASTER continues laughing.)

[EXT. Antenna gantry]

(The MASTER notices that the DOCTOR is gone. He stops laughing and opens the door to follow. He trips over the Doctor's scarf, which has been tied across the gantry. In the ensuing struggle, the DOCTOR forces open the MASTER's hand and the weapon falls. The MASTER gives a heave and pushes the DOCTOR back. The MASTER heads back toward the control room.
NYSSA, ADRIC, and TEGAN watch from below. TEGAN draws in a sharp breath.
Above, the MASTER runs into the control room. He punches in a new alignment for the antenna and laughs.
Outside, the DOCTOR is standing on the gantry as it begins to tilt. Now on his belly, he grabs hold of the side of the walkway as the dish tilts further. He drags himself slowly toward the opposite end of the walkway and produces a wrench, to arrest the movement.
Meanwhile, GUARDS begin climbing the ladders.
The DOCTOR is working on the actuator box as the antenna nears vertical alignment. He is almost standing on the narrow shelf formed by the side of the walkway. The MASTER watches with glee. The DOCTOR takes hold of the cable from the actuator box. When it comes free, with a spark and flames, he falls and ends up dangling from the cable, swinging in the air. As he swings, his current life - or at least the enemy part of it - flashes before his eyes.)
MASTER: (as played by Peter Pratt) Predictable as ever, Doctor.
DALEK: Doctor.
PIRATE CAPTAIN: Doctor!
CYBERLEADER: Doctor.
DAVROS: Doctor.
SONTARAN: Doctor.
ZYGON: Doctor.
BLACK GUARDIAN: Doctor, you shall die for this!
(The DOCTOR is losing purchase on the cable. As the GUARDS climb up, he swings near a piece of scaffolding and grabs hold. He loses his hold with one hand, then the other.
TEGAN and the others look down.
The MASTER sees the fall and goes back inside, where he grabs his equipment and returns to his TARDIS, which dematerialises. The GUARDS reach the control room.)

[EXT. Ground below the antenna]

(With GUARDS following them, ADRIC, NYSSA, and TEGAN run to the unmoving DOCTOR. who stares upward.)
NYSSA: Doctor?
TEGAN: Doctor?
SARAH JANE: (from the DOCTOR's eyes) Doctor?
HARRY: Doctor.
BRIGADIER: Doctor.
LEELA: Doctor.
K9: Doctor.
ROMANA 1: Doctor.
ROMANA 2: Doctor.
ADRIC: Doctor. Doctor!
DOCTOR: (smiling for a moment) It's the end. But the moment has been prepared for.
(The DOCTOR reaches a hand out, above his head, and the semi-translucent pale figure of the WATCHER walks toward him.)
ADRIC: The Watcher.
(As he approaches, the WATCHER merges downward into the DOCTOR.)
NYSSA: He was the Doctor all the time.
(The face of the DOCTOR becomes that of the WATCHER and then a youthful, light-haired figure whose eyes blink as hid body solidifies. He sits up.)

The above notes, transcription, etc. by Anna Shefl

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