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REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS by Ben Aaronovitch PART THREE Ace continues to flee the Daleks but pauses as she nearly runs over the dead bodies of exterminated soldiers. Next to one is an rocket launcher and rocket which she picks up and starts to load. Her pursuer Dalek catches up with her before she can get it ready and she takes off again. She runs into an open area with no cover and again tries to load the launcher, when three Daleks enter and come right up to her completely surrounding her and screaming their deathly battle-cry: "Exterminate! ExTERminate!! EXTERMINATE!!!!" Suddenly, the Doctor and the RAF personnel run in from outside, and the Doctor raises and activates his new Confuser device. The air between him and the Daleks becomes thick with speckled light and the Daleks suddenly cease to function properly. They scream meaningless words and sway around as if slightly drunk. Mike and some soldiers run into their midst, helping Ace get clear and also attaching plastic explosives to each of the Dalek's casings. They set the fuses and the Doctor switches off the Confuser, amazed that it works. Mike calls out a quick countdown and the explosives go off destroying the top sections of all three Daleks. The Doctor expresses a little regret about the living beings inside the casings that are now no more, then hands the Confuser to Mike so that he and some other soldiers can sweep the building and destroy any others. Rachel, Allison, and the Doctor go to examine the dissected casings, and Rachel finds one with a still-active mutant. The Doctor bends down for a closer look and a hideous clamp-like claw reaches up from inside and puts a strangle-hold on him. Allison picks up Ace's discarded charged baseball bat off the ground and clubs the thing with the blunt thick end of the bat, killing it and then some. Once it's dead, the Doctor points out to them how this mutant is different from the one they saw in the blue casing at Totter's Lane. This one has functional appendages and a mechanical prosthesis grafted into its very body. Rachel feels sick, and they hear explosions from other parts of the building making the Doctor think Mike found some more Daleks. Ace, feeling like a spare part, says "Don't anyone give me a hand" and Allison goes over to check her ankle. The Doctor comes over too and then asks both Rachel and Allison to check the cellar while he looks over (and has a chat with) Ace. R & A leave. As the Doctor plays some kink-tricks with Ace's ankle to untwist the muscles, he chastizes her for coming to the school. She explains she only came to get her tape deck. He asks where it is now and she tells him it's in little bits. She is angry when he says that's good and he goes on to explain what a dangerous anachronism that tape deck was. "If somebody had found it and discovered the principles of its funcion, the whole microchip revolution would take place now, twenty years too early. With uncalculable damage to the time-line." Ace wonders what the big deal about that is and the Doctor tells her what a big deal it is by pointing out how the Daleks could easily vaporize the entire area, but even they, as ruthless as they are, think twice about making such radical alterations to the timeline. On the Dalek mother ship bridge (a large, dark, multi-levelled high- technology control centre), the Dalek Operations Manager sits plugged into the bridge control systems. It reports that the mother ship will maintain Earth geostationary orbit and that all systems are fully operational. It then orders Attack Squad Delta to prepare to enter the transmat. In the school cellar, Rachel and Allison discuss the transmat and its apparent function of matter transmission and how impossible it is. Rachel says after this is over she's going to retire and raise begonias. The Doctor comes down the stairs with Ace's baseball bat on his shoulder. Allison asks how the transmat works, ans he replies, "It's a link with the Daleks allowing them to beam death squads onto Earth without anybody knowing. And I don't want them hear, just , yet..." and he proceeds to completely smash the transmat exterior and innards with Ace's charged bat. At the final hit, the bat breaks in two. The Doctor observes ruefully, "Weapons. Always useless in the end." He turns around to see Rachel and Allison just staring at him with their mouths agape. "Ah," he says, "You look hungry. How about lunch?" He closes their mouths with his hand and beckons them upstairs. Ratcliffe walks through the cemetery, looking around for something, and then he finds what he's after, a freshly-buried grave with a black tombstone bearing the Greek letter Omega. Ace, the Doctor, and the RAF are having lunch at harry's cafe. The Doctor is just staring off into the distance so Ace goes to sit down and eat with Mike and some of his friends. Ratcliffe nicks a long metal rod off another gravesite and forces it into the soft Earth of the new grave. He hits something solid, and something solid hits back as the rod blasts him away with a blue energy that throbs and dances around the metal. He stares in disbelief. The Operations Manager detects a new power source on the planet surface and calls Full Alert. Other Dalek crew members enter the bridge and analyze the data. One declares that it is the Hand of Omega. The Bridge Commander orders that the Emperor Dalek be informed. Rachel and Gilmore get into an argument, as Gilmore is frustrated about how he wishes they were doing something and that Rachel didn't seem to have any suggestions. Rachel explodes at him, "For your information Group Captain, I was not hired, I was drafted. And for another, do you think I enjoy some space vagrant coming along and telling me that the painstaking research I've devoted my life to has been superceded by a bunch of tin-plated pepperpots? ... You dragged me down from Cambridge, you quote the Peacetime Emergency Powers Act at me, and THEN you expect me to advise on something outside the realm of human experience! Bluntly, Group Captain, we're reliant on the Doctor, because ONLY the Doctor knows what is going on!" And the Doctor continues to stare into nothing at all. Ratcliffe is ordering his men around as they dig up the Hand of Omega coffin. He says he wants it back at the warehouse as soon as possible. He turns, and sees the little blonde schoolgirl again, watching them. He asks her what she's staring at, and she looks high up into the sky... "Emperor on the bridge." A lift hoists the Emperor Dalek onto the Dalek mother ship bridge. Like the other Imperials, it has a cream and gold colour scheme, a normal-looking base, but its entire top section is a large sphere with a single white slit of a sensor glowing behind a translucent hexagonal shield. It orders the crew to report. One says that the transmat is no longer operational. Another reports how they have established the position of the Omega device. The Emperor orders the preparation af an assault shuttle, and one of the crew cautions that Renegade Dalek agents are in the area. "They will surrender the Hand of Omega!" promises the Emperor. Ratcliffe asks the little girl to leave, but she just continues to stare at the work-men, now lifting the casket out of the grave. He turns to tell his men to speed up again, and when he turns again, the little girl has vanished... The Doctor looks up from his contemplation at the cafe and asks Gilmore to set up a base at the school. Gilmore agrees and immediately orders preparations to be made. The entire RAF clientele evacuates the cafe, Rachel and Allison being the last to leave. Allison says how she wishes Bernard was here and Rachel tells her the British Rocket Group has its own problems. Ace asks the Doctor what's so important about the school, and the Doctor says absolutely nothing now that the transmat is dead. He explains that as long as the Renegade Daleks have got the Hand, then the Imperial Daleks will be entirely focussed on that. The truck carrying the Hand of Omega, Ratcliffe, and his men arrives back at his warehouse. Ratcliffe climbs out, goes inside, and tells the Dalek-thing-in-the-chair that they have the Hand of Omega out in the yard. He then telephones his "man" who actually found it for him to let him know too. At the school, Allison tells Mike he has a phone call in the Headmaster's office. He goes to answer it. Ace and the Doctor go into the school, Ace demanding explanations as to why they are where they are if its so out of the action. He takes her up the staircase a little ways, where things are a little private, and they sit down on the stairs, and the Doctor explains: "A long time ago, on my home planet of Gallifrey, there lived a stellar engineer called Omega... It was Omega who created the supernova that was the initial power source for Gallifreyan time travel experiments. He left behind him the basis on which Rassilon founded Time Lord society, and he left behind, the Hand of Omega...The hand of Omega is a mythical name for Omega's remote stellar manipulator. A device he used to customize stars with, and didn't we have trouble with the prototype..." Ace realizes that the Daleks want it to recreate the time travel experiments, but is puzzled about this snce both factions can already travel in time. The Doctor explains that they have time corridor technology, but that's rather crude and nasty. What they want is the power that Time Lords have, and they'll get that with the Hand of Omega, "or so they think..." The problem now is keeping Gilmore's troops from getting diced in the crossfire so all this base set-up going on at the school is a massive deception, to let the Daleks grab the Hand of Omega and go and not let anyone get hurt. There is an additional problem in that the Doctor wasn't expecting two Dalek factions, and now he has to make sure that thw rong ones don't get their grubby little protuberances on it. They get up, and the Doctor tells her they're going Dalek hunting. Ratcliffe's Association Men unload the Hand of Omega from the truck and place it on a large table in the garage. From behind another door, a squad of Renegade Daleks led by a larger black-cased Supreme Dalek first observe them unloading and then asdvance on the men, ordering the men to stay where they are. Inside the warehouse, Ratcliffe sits down and starts to relax, telling the Dalek-person-in-the-chair how people really do like a strong leader, someone who knows when to be lenient and when to be harsh. On the word "harsh," he hears Dalek gun-fire from outside, and screams from his men. He runs to the door and looks out, seeing them all being exterminated. He turns back to the Dalek-Chair asking it what it's doing to those men, since they're on their side. It says, "You are a slave, Ratcliffe!" and with an electronic sound, the chair slowly swivells round to face Ratcliffe. The persion in the chair raises two small arms and lifts the helmet off its head. The face underneath is that of........the little blonde schoolgirl, and she speaks, her voice changing from Dalek to her own as she says, "You were born to serve the Daleks!" Ratcliffe (and 99.899% of the audience watching the show) stares at her in utter disbelief, as the wall behind him slides open, admitting the Renegade Dalek squad. The Supreme Dalek orders its squad to patrol the area until the Time Controller is operational. It enters the control area and orders at Ratcliffe, "You will obey the Daleks, or you will be exterminated!!!" It then orders the little girl to activate the Time Controller. She goes to Ratcliffe's desk, opens a drawer and takes out a device controlled by a plasma globe. the globe's interior comes afire and she runs her fingers over the surface, reporting to the Supreme Dalek that the Time Controller was activated and was calculating co-ordinates. the Supreme Dalek orders Ratcliffe to come with them, and all three leave the room. The Doctor and Ace spot Renegade Daleks coming from Ratcliffe's warehouse, hide as they pass, and then attempt to sneak in to the warehouse. Mike returns from a search of the school under Gilmore's orders, having turned up nothing on the whereabouts of Ace or the Doctor. Gilmore orders troops to search the area and find him and bring him back immediately. He then orders Rachel and Allison to come with him,, and they click their heels in Hitler-style salute as they leave. The Doctor and Ace sneak into the garage, and the Doctor shows her the hand's casket. She asks if he's sure he wants the Daleks to have it, and he says absolutely. It bleeps to his presence, and he asks it if it knows what it has to do, and he answers his own question by saying "Of course you do." They further sneak into the control room and Ace asks about the chair the little girl sat in. The Doctor explains it is a battle computer. "The Daleks' major drawback is their dependence on rationality and logic. The solution: get a human, preferably young, imaginative, plug the child into the system, and their imaginativity and creativity are slaved to the battle computer." Next, he turns his attention to the Time Controller. He presses his fingers on the globe himself and with a little push, the fire inside flits out. Ace asks if he's busted it, and he says he's merely put it out-of-phase to slow them down. He then conjures a calling card out of the sky places it on the Controller, and then they hide as they hear Ratcliffe's voice outside. As Ratcliffe, the Supreme Dalek, and the girl come inside, the Doctor and Ace sneak out behind them. The girl finds the dead Time controller and the calling card. She informs the Supreme Dalek that the Time Controller has been disabled. It orders her to tell all Daleks to seek and destroy the intruder. She shows it the card, a small white card with a golden question mark emblazoned on a Gallifreyan seal and alien script. The Supreme Dalek explodes, "Exterminate the Doctor! Crush all resistance!!!" The girl seats herself again in the battle computer and she sends out instructions. the Doctor and Ace run, hide, and generally try to evade the swarms of Renegade Daleks out looking for them. As they do, Ace asks why they just don't give the Hand to the Imperials. The Doctor says with a bit of luck, the Imperials will wipe out the Renegades this way, and also that it would make the Imperials suspicious if he just gave it to them. Ace begins to ask what they'd be suspicious of, and then another Dalek nearly finds them. they hide again, the Doctor nearly giving them away with a sneeze, but as soon as the Dalek is out of sight, they run for it. Mike and a small group of RAF troops start looking for Ace and the Doctor. Ace and the Doctor run back towards the school, passing the TARDIS on the way. Ace asks why they just don't get inside, but the Doctor tells her they have work to do first, and in any case, here comes the military, as Mike and the troops find them. The Doctor asks if Gilmore is still in the school, Mike says yes, and the Doctor runs inside the school. Mike and Ace are alone for a second and Mike asks Ace if she'd like to see a picture when all this is over. her answer is a little in the affirmative, but she doesn't care what movie it is since she's probably already seen it on television. Mike smiles at her and then frowns at two Renegade Daleks coming up the street. They run for it and get behind the school wall as the leading Dalek takes a shot, hitting the wall. Gilmore is a little peeved at the Doctor's little jaunt, and the Doctor explains that it was successful but he seems to have brought back some Daleks with them. Mike enters and wonders out loud why they don't just leave since they already have the hand of Omega. The Doctor asks how Mike knew that, Mike says Ace told him, and Ace says he's a toerag, a lying dirty scumbag. "We're finished," she says. "He's a grass, a dirty stinking grass; he's selling us out to the Daleks!" The Doctor yanks her up the stairs, and Gilmore demands to know what they were talking about to Mike. Mike says he didn't know it was the Daleks, Gilmore isn't happy, but as they are under attack, he lets it slide until later. Troops outside the school hide behind sandbags firing machine guns at three advancing Daleks. The bullets have no effecet whatsoever, and the Daleks destroy the defenses and some of the soldiers. High above the planet, a shuttlecraft descends to the Earth below.... The girl/battle computer at Ratcliffe's warehouse informs the Supreme Dalek that an Imperial Dalek shuttlecraft is entering the atmosphere. The Supreme Dalek orders back all Dalek units to defend the Hand of Omega. Outside the school, the Renegade Daleks are about to enter when they receive the orders from the battle computer to return to base. They reverse course and head away. From the lab classroom window, Ace looks down on the retreating Daleks and calls them "Wimps!" Gilmore, Allison, and the Doctor are also in the room as Rachel enters carrying a teletext report. She says they've had a report of a radar contact on a re-entry curve from low orbit. The Doctor says that'll be the Imperial Dalek shuttlecraft. Gilmore is worried about them landing a spaceship here but the Doctor says they won't, since the school is much too far from the main action. They hear a roar outside and Rachel asks sarcastically if he's sure. Ace is looking out the window at a large, descending dull orange shuttle with four rockets nearing the Earth. The Doctor yells for Ace to get away from the window, and so she runs across lab tables to the other end of the room with the others. He yells for everyone to get down, for as the Dalek shuttle lands, the exhaust gases blow out the windows on the other side of the room and smashes glassware all across the lab. As the Doctor crouches on the floor, he looks up and mutters, "I think I may have miscalculated." END PART THREE The Doctor SYLVESTER McCOY Ace SOPHIE ALDRED Gilmore Mike SIMON WILLIAMS DURSLEY McLINDEN Rachel Allison PAMELA SALEM KAREN GLEDHILL Ratcliffe Harry GEORGE SEWELL HARRY FOWLER The Girl Embery JASMINE BREAKS PETER HAMILTON DYER Emperor Dalek Supreme Dalek Operator ROY TROMELLY HUGH SPIGHT Dalek Operators JOHN SCOTT MARTIN CY TOWN TONY STARR DAVID HARRISON NORMAN BACON NIGEL WILD Voices ROY SKELTON ROYCE MILLS BRIAN MILLER JOHN LEESON Stunt Arranger and Stuntman TIP TIPPING Association Men MATTHEW KING TOMMY CHARLTON ALEC GIFFORD STEVE LITTLE RAF Men ROBERT TERSON JACK TALBOT NORMAN WARREN IAN BODENHAM STUART SMITH IAN JOHNS DEREK VAN WEENAN RICHARD HADDON BILL MALIN TONY ASPIN ROSS MURRAY DAVID SKINNER LEE RYAN CHARLES HUNTER Title Music Composed by RON GRAINER Incidental Music and Theme Arrangement KEFF McCULLOCH Special Sound DICK MILLS Production Managers Production Assistant IAN FRASER ROSEMARY PARSONS MICHAEL McDERMOTT Assistant Floor Managers OB Lighting VAL McCRIMMON IAN DOW LYNN GRANT OB Sound OB Cameramen DOUG WHITTAKER ROBIN SUTHERLAND LES MOWBRAY BARRY CHASTON Vision Mixers Technical Co-Ordinator SHIRLEY COWARD RICHARD WILSON FRED LAW Studio Camera Supervisor Properties Buyer ALEC WHEAL CHRIS FERRIDAY Studio Lighting Studio Sound HENRY BARBER SCOTT TALBOTT Film Cameraman (Model Work) Design Assistant WILLIAM DUDMAN BRIAN SYKES Costume Assistant ANDREW DUCKETT Dressers DEBBIE ROBERTS PIPPA ROWLANDSON MICHAEL JOHNSON DAVID HUGHES DAVID BAILEY Make-Up Assistants Floor Assistant JANE COLE LOUISE PERCIVAL LESLIE ALTRINGHAM Production Operatives LES RUNHAM DAVID DIBDEN JOHN WHELTON MARK EARLES BILLY MULLAN Armourer The Show is Over DOUG NEEDHAM GO DO YOUR HOMEWORK Production Associate Finance Assistant JUNE COLLINS HILARY BARRATT Producer's Secretaries KATE EASTEAL LORRAINE GODDING Graphic Designer Computer Animation OLIVER ELMES CAL VIDEO Video Effects Video-tape Editor DAVE CHAPMAN HUGH PARSON Visual Effects Designer STUART BRISDON Make-Up Designer Costume Designer CHRISTINE GREENWOOD KEN TREW Script Editor ANDREW CARTMEL Designer MARTIN COLLINS Producer JOHN NATHAN-TURNER Director ANDREW MORGAN episode copyright, BBC Tv MCMLXXXVIII this synopsis by Steven Manfred_____________________________________________________________________________________________
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