SHADA
PART
SIX
by DOUGLAS ADAMS
would have been
transmitted - 23rd February 1980
1. MAIN CHAMBER, SHADA (NOT MADE)
SKAGRA: No Salyavin, I have you here. I have
everything I need!
PROFESSOR: Do not force me to use my power on
you, Skagra.
(Suddenly the DOCTOR notices that the sphere has
been idly drifting towards the PROFESSOR and it begins to settle on his
head.)
DOCTOR: K-9! The sphere! Shoot it!
(K-9 immediately shoots the globe full blast with
his nose laser. The sphere shatters into pieces, but each piece seems to form
into a new, smaller, sphere. One of them swiftly attaches itself to the
PROFESSOR, who drops to the floor with a howl of pain. The other spheres cut
off the DOCTOR's path.)
SKAGRA: Now, Doctor, stay very, very
still.
(The Krarg deliberately tightens his grip on ROMANA
who yelps with pain.)
Now, Doctor, you shall see the beginning of the
Universal Mind!
(The sphere that had attacked the PROFESSOR now
leaves him and joins the other spheres. The room glows as though in a
thunderstorm as vast amounts of electric-looking, strangely coloured power
crackles between the spheres. Then each sphere attaches itself to one of the
nearby prisoners. SKAGRA smiles in triumph..... as do the prisoners.....
SKAGRA turns to face the Doctor..... as do the prisoners..... The Doctor backs
off, lost for any and all words.....)
2. CORRIDOR, SHADA (NOT MADE)
(CHRIS and CLARE arrive and watch the link-up of the
prisoners and the start of the march towards the DOCTOR. Chris sees what's
going on and rushes forward to help before CLARE can stop him.)
CHRIS: (shouting) No!
3. MAIN CONTROL, SHADA (NOT MADE)
(CHRIS runs into the middle of the chamber. SKAGRA
and the prisoners glare at him as if one.)
SKAGRA: Sphere!
(Before CHRIS can move, a sphere zooms over and
attaches itself to his forehead. In an instant, he is taken over. His
expression matches that of the others, and together all the prisoners,
including CHRIS, advance on the DOCTOR.)
SKAGRA: (promises evilly) NOW DOCTOR, WE
WILL DEAL WITH YOU!!!!
(The prisoners, including CHRIS, get the DOCTOR
trapped in a corner of the room. Hands outstretched in claws, they march like
one towards the DOCTOR.)
TOM: (by the "Pyramid Of Mars" Coffin.)
Skagra ordered the sphere to drain Salayvin's mind but K-9 blasted it into
pieces. Each fragment reformed into another small sphere. One of which settled
on the old man. Skagra was exhilarated - "You shall see the beginning of the
universal mind" he cries as the spheres came together, discharging vast
amounts of energy. And then, each of them attach themselves to one of the
prisoners who turned towards me. Chris and Clare entered the chamber and the
young man rushed forward trying to help. A sphere absorbed his mind in an
instant. The prisoners, including Chris, marched menacingly towards
me.....
(The DOCTOR backs away from the advancing prisoners
and looks around for something to help.)
DOCTOR: K-9!
(K-9 fires at the prisoners, and one falls to the
ground. The others keep coming, however. The Krarg that was guarding ROMANA
turns and faces K-9 instead.)
No, K-9, don't fire at it!
(As the DOCTOR makes a move for the door, the Krarg
picks up K-9 and hurls him past the DOCTOR into the corridor.)
Romana! Run!
(ROMANA sees her chance, breaks free, and rushes
after the DOCTOR. They pick up K-9 and head back to the PROFESSOR's TARDIS.
With nothing but a thought, SKAGRA sends the spheres after them.)
4. CORRIDOR, SHADA (NOT MADE)
(As ROMANA and the DOCTOR tear down the corridor,
they almost run over a very frightened CLARE.)
DOCTOR: (fiercely) I told you to stay in
the room.
CLARE: Yes but.....
DOCTOR: Come on.
CLARE: But Chris.......
DOCTOR: Come on!
(ROMANA sets K-9 back on his tracks.)
K-9: Thank you, Mistress.
DOCTOR: To the TARDIS!
(They run as fast as they can towards the reception
area, passing the wooden door on the way. As they near the end of the
corridor, the two Krargs that were guarding the TARDIS are now coming back to
investigate what is going on. All four of them head back for the wooden door
and get inside it just before the Krargs hurl bolts of energy at
it.)
TOM: (over the K-9 model.) K-9 was quick
to the rescue. He fired at one of the prisoners who collapsed. One of the
Krargs lumbered over to K-9, picked him up and hurled him through the door.
Seizing my chance I made a run for it with Romana and Clare in tow and with
K-9 burst through the nearest door.
5. PROFESSOR'S ROOM
(The four enter the room.)
DOCTOR: (holding the door open.) Quick, come in, come in.
Come on, K-9!
(he slams the door.)
(To the girls) Sit down!
(ROMANA politely points to a chair and CLARE sits in it while ROMANA
sits in other. The DOCTOR joins them briefly to think, then slams his hand
against his head.)
DOCTOR: Got it!
(...then he gets up and walks into the back hall into the PROFESSOR's
dressing room/bedroom.)
CLARE: (to ROMANA) Well, what are we going to do?
ROMANA: (shrugs) So far he beaten us on ever point.
CLARE: He's even got Chris.
ROMANA: Yes.....
(The DOCTOR returns, coming in from the kitchen, and he paces
madly.)
DOCTOR: Quiet! I'm thinking.
(He kneels down between them.)
I've been thinking..... and it depresses me. Skagra's little zombie gang
have got the brain power of the greatest intellects of the Universe shared out
among them, the Think Tank.
CLARE: Who?
DOCTOR: Never mind about that. Just believe me. All the minds that
Skagra's stolen are now in the melting pot along with his own, and they are
all operating as one. And with the Professor's..... I mean with Salyavin's
mind in there too, they can control anyone.... They can control everyone.
They'll be invincible.
(ROMANA has stood during the middle of this as a thought occurred.)
ROMANA: (quietly) Doctor?
DOCTOR: Yes?
ROMANA: May I just remind you of something?
DOCTOR: Yes.
ROMANA: All the minds that Skagra's stolen are in the melting pot.
DOCTOR: (impatiently) Yes.
ROMANA: That means yours is in there too.
DOCTOR: Yes.
(....And then he lights up. He gets up.)
Romana?
ROMANA: Yes Doctor?
DOCTOR: Romana,
(Crossing over to her.)
I want you to do something for me. Stand there. Romana, I want you to where
this.
(The DOCTOR reaches into one of his voluminous pockets and takes out a
colourful little medal of honour, which he pins onto ROMANA's dress. He tells
her he wants her to wear this. He then mimes kissing her on each cheek, and
the two salute each other smartly. [On the script - the
medal says "I AM A GENIUS"])
DOCTOR: (Takes a deep breath.) Well, now I can think.
6. CORRIDOR, SHADA (NOT MADE)
(In the corridor outside, SKAGRA has his band hurry
along towards the reception area. Along the way they meet the two Krargs
attempting to batter down the door to the PROFESSOR's TARDIS
unsuccessfully.)
SKAGRA: What is this?
KRARG: The Doctor is in there, My Lord.
SKAGRA: In there?
KRARG: We think it is some kind of travelling
machine. We have tried to open it, but it stands up to everything.
SKAGRA: (A bit bemused. He ponders this for a
moment, and then smiles.) The Doctor. A poor little man. A pin prick of an
irrelevancy. Let him amuse himself with his tricks. They are merely the tiny
antics of an insect threatened with inevitable extinction. We will go.
(He leads the way off, followed by the Krargs and
about a dozen of zombie-like people including CHRIS.)
7. RECEPTION AREA, SHADA (NOT MADE)
(Without hesitation, SKAGRA and his minions enter
the waiting TARDIS in the reception area.)
SKAGRA: Come.
(They all enter.)
8. TARDIS, CONSOLE ROOM (NOT MADE)
(SKAGRA and his lot enter.)
SKAGRA: We will return to the carrier ship. From
there a fleet of small craft will take each of us to selected centres of
population and the great mind revolution will begin.
(He turns to the Console.)
9. RECEPTION AREA, SHADA (NOT MADE)
(The TARDIS dematerialises, leaving silence to once
more take control of the darkly lit room.....)
TOM: Skagra and his assemblage of prisoners
returned to the TARDIS where he announced his intention to will return to the
Carrier Ship. From there each of them will be taken by small craft to various
populations centres. The great mind revolution was about to begin.
10. CORRIDOR, SHADA (NOT MADE)
(A close-up of the wooden door.)
11. PROFESSOR'S ROOM
(In the PROFESSOR's rooms, the DOCTOR and ROMANA are forming a dangerous
plan.)
DOCTOR: It'll be tricky.
ROMANA: And dangerous.
DOCTOR: A touch.
ROMANA: Doctor, it'll be terribly terribly dangerous for you. You'll
stand as much chance as.....
DOCTOR: As what?
ROMANA: Well, as of anything that stands as little chance as you
will out there.
DOCTOR: Really? Well, I have to.... I have to be very brave won't I.
ROMANA: Doctor, it isn't funny.
DOCTOR: Listen, I can do your part if you can do mine.
ROMANA: I'll try.
DOCTOR: You're a hero. Remember?
(ROMANA nods.)
Clare?
CLARE: Yes, Doctor?
DOCTOR: Hold on very tight.
12. TARDIS, CONSOLE ROOM (NOT MADE)
(SKAGRA is manipulating the controls.)
TOM: Skagra realised something was wrong.
13. SPACE
(The TARDIS approaches SKAGRA's carrier ship.)
14. PROFESSOR'S ROOM
(The DOCTOR and ROMANA have the controls humming nicely.)
DOCTOR: Ready?
ROMANA: Yes.
DOCTOR: Clare?
CLARE: Ready Doctor?
DOCTOR: Hold tight.
(CLARE grips the handles of the wooden chair she's in very tightly as
the DOCTOR and ROMANA operate large levers.)
Now!
15. VORTEX
(With the background like the first fourth Doctor's title sequence the
two TARDIS spin through the vortex and the Room TARDIS started to expand a
black force field around the police box TARDIS.)
16. TARDIS, CONSOLE ROOM (NOT MADE)
(One of the controls on the TARDIS console suffers a
minor explosion. Normally this wouldn't worry the pilot, but in this case
SKAGRA is the pilot and he immediately checks the other controls.)
SKAGRA: Something's wrong.
(He tries a few more controls.)
Something's interfering with these controls. They're
jammed.
KRARG: What is the cause, my Lord?
(SKAGRA thinks.)
SKAGRA: There must be something out there in the
Space/Time Vortex with us. Something.....
(He opens the shutter screen. PROFESSOR's college
room is floating beside them in the Space/Time Vortex.)
The Doctor! In that absurd machine!
TOM: I was travelling through the Space/Time
Vortex in the College Room TARDIS which was generating a force field.
17. PROFESSOR'S ROOM
DOCTOR: Ha Ha. Got them. Well done Romana.
ROMANA: We haven't got to the hard bit yet.
DOCTOR: You're right. We haven't got long. Clare!
CLARE: Yes, Doctor, still holding on.
DOCTOR: Come over here and hold onto this.
(CLARE takes over the controls as the DOCTOR slowly lets go.)
Now don't let go whatever happens as we are in for a very rough ride.
18. VORTEX
(In the Space/Time Vortex, the bizarre sight of a spinning Police Box
has been shrouded with a dark force field being generated by the hovering
brick college room. The Police Box is bucking about trying to escape.)
19. TARDIS, CONSOLE ROOM (NOT MADE)
SKAGRA: A foolish attempt Doctor. The force
field is weakening already. In two minutes it will break and you will have
achieved nothing.
20. PROFESSOR'S ROOM
(ROMANA and CLARE are holding on to their controls tightly as the DOCTOR
lectures them.....)
DOCTOR: And twenty-thirdly, our there in the Space/Time Vortex, time
and distance have no meaning, but here in this little, little room.....
ROMANA: Oh get on with it!
DOCTOR: Romana!
ROMANA: Yes Doctor?
DOCTOR: I want you to turn off the vortex shields in this small area
here.
(ROMANA frowns nervously at him, but the DOCTOR urges her on.)
Come on, you can do it, I showed you how to do it. Just one little bit of
timelessness and spacelessness. Over there behind the tea trolley.
(ROMANA presses the buttons and the centre of the room appears to
shimmer. The sofa disappears into it, and the tea trolley shifts.)
I said behind the tea trolley, not in the middle of it.
ROMANA: I'm sorry. But it's very difficult.
DOCTOR: Focus it! Just one steady line, just one. Hold it.
(A sort of whirlwind blows up and another piece of furniture disappears
through the crack.)
Hold it!
ROMANA: I'm trying! Doctor, I'm trying!
(Finally the area focuses into one steady line.)
DOCTOR: (breathes heavily) Right, the next bit is a little
trick I learnt from a space/time mystic in the Quantox. He made it seem very,
very easy.....
(As he says this, he edges up to the line and appears to slide through
it.)
CLARE: (cups her hand to her mouth and gasps) He did it!
ROMANA: HOLD THAT SWITCH DOWN!
21. VORTEX
(In the space/time vortex, between the two TARDISes, the image of the
Doctor appears. [A frozen
picture of him in the chair in the Prof's room from part one.] He spins silently and screams in pain. He slowly orients
himself and faces toward the police box TARDIS. He half-crawls, half-swims up
the force fielded tunnel.)
TOM: The College Room TARDIS was just holding
the Police Box in the force field as I appeared in it. Slowly I half-crawled /
half swam up the tunnel - in great pain.
22. TARDIS, CONSOLE ROOM (NOT MADE)
(SKAGRA is watching the force field on the scanner
screen.)
SKAGRA: The field is field is fading fast. This
is a futile exercise Doctor.
23. PROFESSOR'S ROOM
(ROMANA looks over the controls.)
ROMANA: It won't hold much longer. It's fading even faster than the
Doctor said it would. K-9! K-9, wake up and come here.
(ROMANA opens the base cupboard, exposing the machinery inside.)
K-9, check out the sub neutron circuits.
(K-9's probe extends from between his eyes and connects with the
circuits.)
K-9: Detect circuit malfunction, Mistress.
(ROMANA and CLARE exchange looks.)
24. VORTEX
(The DOCTOR seems to be in increasing difficulty. He is trying to reach
a shimmering line on the Police Box similar to the one that was in the
PROFESSOR's room. Its a short distance up the tunnel, and after what seems
like an eternity, he manages to just get part of his arm through the
seam.)
TOM: With increasing difficulty, I was able to
reach the TARDIS in the time tunnel. I just managed to get part of my arm
through it.
25. PROFESSOR'S ROOM
(K-9 pulls his probe out of the equipment.)
K-9: Impossible to effect repairs in time available, Mistress.
ROMANA: Well, hold it K-9. Stop it deteriorating.
K-9: Impossible to stop it, Mistress. I can only slow down circuit
deterioration.
ROMAMA: The Doctor needs every second we can give him.
(K-9 goes back to work. CLARE begins holding her switch
tentatively.)
CLARE: This switch is growing very hot.
ROMANA: You must hold it down.
CLARE: I can't. It's getting hotter.
26. VORTEX
(The DOCTOR seems unable to keep up the effort and he begins to slide
backwards.)
TOM: I seemed unable to get any further. In fact
I started to slide backwards.
27. PROFESSOR'S ROOM
(CLARE struggles with her control.)
CLARE: It's burning me.
ROMANA: Hold it down with a pencil.
CLARE: I haven't got one.
(ROMANA turns and strains to reach a pencil lying on a table just out of
her reach. She's only a few centimetres away from reaching it when she reaches
the point of maximum stretch of her arm.)
ROMANA: I can't reach it!
CLARE: (casually) Oh, I'll get it.
(She lets go of her control as though forgetting what they're doing and
the control board explodes. Everyone in the room is thrown about.. K-9 backs
away from the controls and coughs.)
K-9: It's broken.
28. VORTEX
(In the space/time vortex, the force field vanishes, the two TARDISes
spin wildly away from each other, and the DOCTOR appears to fall wildly as the
Vortex seems to change colour. He slowly vanishes.)
TOM: And I vanished as the room and the TARDIS
spin wildly away from each other.
29. TARDIS, CONSOLE ROOM (NOT MADE)
(SKAGRA fights with the TARDIS controls to maintain
an even keel, but he does at last succeed with the help of some of the other
prisoners (one of whom is CHRIS) operating controls on other panels. The
TARDIS emerges from the Vortex under control.)
SKAGRA: (smiling, and the prisoners all smile
in unison,) Good, we make an excellent team. A concert of the mind. Now
that the Doctor has finished wasting their times with his foolish tricks, we
can continue. We will shortly materialise in the carrier ship.
30. SPACE
(The TARDIS spins towards the carrier ship.)
31. PROFESSOR'S ROOM
(ROMANA and CLARE look very worried as ROMANA wraps CLARE's hand with a
bandage.)
CLARE: What about the Doctor?
ROMANA: I don't know. It was a very dangerous idea trying to make
that crossing, and he didn't get as much time as he wanted.
CLARE: What should we do?
ROMANA: Well, we'll just go ahead as planned.
(She finishes wrapping CLARE's hand and asks for approval.)
How's that?
CLARE: Oh, that's fine. Thank you. It wasn't a bad burn. Do you
think the Doctor will be alright?
ROMANA: (without much confidence.) We'll just go ahead as
planned.
32. TARDIS, EQUIPMENT STOREROOM (NOT
MADE)
(Deep inside the TARDIS, inside what appears to be a
small equipment storeroom, the unconscious form of the Doctor begins to stir.
Slowly his eyes open. He looks about the room and says aloud)
DOCTOR: Good!
(He gets up and starts rummaging around in drawers,
shelves, and cabinets for pieces of equipment he needs. He finds everything
he's looking for.)
(Gets a bit) Good.
(and another) Good
(and another) Good.
(but is distressed to watch the final piece falling
apart in his hand as he grips it. [In earlier
versions of the script, this room was not to be made clear that this was part
of the TARDIS.])
Oh bad.
33. COMMAND DECK, CARRIER SHIP [NOT
MADE]
(The TARDIS materialises on board the
command/carrier ship. The prisoners and Krargs are the first to exit, followed
by SKAGRA. He looks at them with satisfaction and then turns to look at the
majestic view on the wall screen of the galaxy.)
SKAGRA: And soon, an infinite concert of the
mind.....
TOM: Then I regained consciousness in a small
equipment room in the TARDIS. I rummaged through the equipment. In the carrier
ship, the TARDIS arrived. Skagra planned an infinite concert of the mind -
unaware of my presence on board.
34. TARDIS, EQUIPMENT STOREROOM (NOT
MADE)
(The DOCTOR has almost finished constructing what
looks like an electronic helmet. The only piece left to add is the one that
fell apart on him earlier.)
DOCTOR: If I can't get this bit to work I may as
well say good-bye to the whole idea.
(He takes out his trusty sonic screwdriver, and it
doesn't do anything at all.)
Now. Once more.
(Despondently, he tosses the piece of equipment on
the table, where it instantly begins to beep at him. He is ecstatic, and he
picks the piece of equipment up.)
Ah, hello again!
(It stops beeping. The DOCTOR's face falls
again.)
Oh.
(He fiddles with the device without
result.....)
You're just trying to irritate me aren't you?
(.....and discards it on the table
again.)
Now why won't the wretched thing work? I'll have to see
if there's anything else that will do.
(It starts to beep again. The DOCTOR picks it up,
and it stops beeping. He rapidly goes through this cycle several times and
concludes that sitting on this table is what makes the device
work.)
Of course, Zinc and lead oxide.
(He rummages around in the equipment again, finds a
small laser gun, and starts attacking the table with it.)
35. PROFESSOR'S ROOM
(K-9 withdraws his probe from the interior of the golden console)
K-9: Repairs completed Mistress.
ROMANA: Let me see.
(examines his work)
Good boy, K-9.
(to CLARE) Now we can go. Although I dread to think what we're
walking into if..... Let's just do it.
(She takes a breath and with CLARE operates the console.)
36. TARDIS, EQUIPMENT STOREROOM (NOT
MADE)
(The DOCTOR has finished the device. It now looks
like an electronic helmet with a jagged piece of table attached to
it.)
DOCTOR: With that on my head it won't matter
whether it works or not, They'll all be paralysed laughing at me.
(He turns and warily walks out of the equipment room
into the TARDIS corridors.)
37. TARDIS, CORRIDOR (NOT MADE)
(Cautiously the DOCTOR moves along it, clutching his
helmet.)
38. COMMAND DECK, CARRIER SHIP (NOT
MADE)
(On the command deck of the carrier ship, all the
prisoners are lined up in front of SKAGRA, who is addressing them but we don't
heard what he is saying to them. The KRARG COMMANDER approaches.)
SKAGRA: Are the ships ready?
KRARG COMMANDER: They are my Lord.
SKAGRA: (intones) Then from this moment,
mark the beginning of the new life, the new Universe.....
(He is interrupted by the sound of the PROFESSOR's
TARDIS materialising as the wooden door in a nearby wall.)
Doctor! This man is like an itching flea on my skin. We
will eliminate him once and for all! Come. We will meet him.
(SKAGRA forms the centre of a semi-circle the
prisoners form around the door.)
Out you come, Doctor, Out you come.
39. TARDIS, CORRIDOR (NOT MADE)
(Cautiously the DOCTOR moves along it, clutching his
helmet. He reaches a door and opens it.)
40. TARDIS, CONSOLE ROOM (NOT MADE)
(The DOCTOR enters from the side door.)
DOCTOR: Hello old girl! How've you been keeping?
Sorry I had to barge in through the back door like that. Have you any idea
what it's like to travel through the space time vortex? Of course you do, you
do it all the time. But at least you're built for it. Now. Let's see what's
happening outside shall we?
(The DOCTOR watches the meeting committee on the
scanner screen. He laughs to himself and then like in a "sing song"
voice)
Look out behind you.
(He puts the helmet on and opens the main
doors.)
Let's go and say hello.
41. COMMAND DECK, CARRIER SHIP (NOT
MADE)
(On the command deck, the door opens..... and K-9
emerges.)
K-9: Hostile force, My Master commands that you
cease your activities immediately and surrender to him.
SKAGRA: (laughs) He sends his dog out to
me! Stop hiding in there Doctor. Come out and meet your fate.
TOM: (in a chair) I managed to lash-up a
helmet-like affair made with bits of electronic equipment and a chunk of a
table-top. The Professor's TARDIS, now back in its usual form as a door,
materialised on the command deck. An unpleasant welcome committee was prepared
for me but it was K-9 that emerged from the door. I was watching all this on
my own TARDIS screen and emerged wearing the strange helmet.....
[This is the big link as most of the rest of Part
Six is missing so will be transcribed in chunks so not to spoil
surprises.]
(The DOCTOR does emerge from the TARDIS, but rather
the one behind SKAGRA instead of the one he expects.)
DOCTOR: Did someone call?
(SKAGRA and the others spin around to see the Doctor
emerging with the helmet on his head.)
SKAGRA: (in shocked surprise) Doctor! How
did you get in there?
DOCTOR: What do you mean how did I get in there?
It's mine, I belong in there!
SKAGRA: As of now Doctor, You don't belong
anywhere at all. There is no place for you in my new Universe. You shall die
now.
(SKAGRA looks sharply around at the DOCTOR, as do
all the prisoners identically.)
DOCTOR: Well Skagra, That's a very interesting
little theory. Let's try putting it to the test, shall we?
(The DOCTOR presses a button on the side of the
helmet and looks directly at SKAGRA and smiles. All the prisoners follow suit,
turning to SKAGRA and smiling with the same goofy grin the DOCTOR is using.
SKAGRA is horrified.)
SKAGRA: (panic) Doctor! What have you
done?!
(He concentrates intensely and manages to get the
prisoners to turn back to face the DOCTOR.)
DOCTOR: No, what have YOU done? You used your
deranged billiard ball once too often. You forgot. I have a brain in there
too, don't I?
(He concentrates and the faces all turn back on
SKAGRA. The prisoners was started to become like a crowd at a tennis
match.)
Think about it.....
(SKAGRA concentrates, and with both men at nearly
the same ability, the prisoners become confused. The ones nearest the DOCTOR
obey his instructions, the ones nearest SKAGRA obey his, and the ones in the
middle (this lot has CHRIS) don't know what to do.)
But not too hard old chap. You might strain yourself.
So what was that you've been talking about, a new Universe, a new single mind.
I think your little bunch are in two minds about that already, aren't
they.
(With a stalemate achieved, SKAGRA suddenly snaps
his fingers and the far idle Krarg swings itself toward the DOCTOR. The DOCTOR
is alarmed and loses his concentration for a moment. All the prisoners swing
around to face him and start to advance. The DOCTOR concentrates and is able
to stop them again, but he has lost his advantage as the Krarg is still
bearing down on him. After a moment of indecision)
K-9!
K-9: Master?
DOCTOR: Fire!
K-9: But Master you instructions were....
DOCTOR: Fire!!
(K-9 blasts his nose laser at the Krarg and stops it
right in front of the door to the generation annex. The Krarg is paralysed,
but like its brother before it, it is beginning to gain strength from the
beam.)
Now Skagra, Let's see the quality of your mind!
(The prisoners now clearly break into two
equal-sized groups, one for SKAGRA, and one for the DOCTOR. They close in on
each other and start wrestling as though choreographed. During this, the
DOCTOR nervously eyes the Krarg which is gaining strength.)
A little warm for the time of year wouldn't you say
Skagra? Off K-9!
(K-9's beam turns off. The DOCTOR starts maneuvering
the field such that SKAGRA and his group are being forced towards the burning
Krarg. SKAGRA becomes alarmed at this, until at last he has to order the Krarg
to move off)
SKAGRA: (To the KRARG) Back! Back I
say!
(It backs into the generation annex and keeps going
as SKAGRA doesn't tell it to stop.)
Back!
(The DOCTOR smiles until he sees several more Krargs
entering the room from further in the ship, all ready for action.)
DOCTOR: K-9!
(K-9 starts firing at the new arrivals.)
42. GENERATION ROOM, CARRIER SHIP (NOT
MADE)
(The Krarg continues into the generation annex
stupidly, until it topples itself into the generation vat and dissolves in the
green gas.)
TOM: All the prisoners turned to face me as
Skagra threaten my life. I pressed a button on my helmet and look hard at
Skagra - as did all of the prisoners - in unison. With intense mental effort
Skagra tried to control the prisoners but I told him that he had forgotten
something. That a deranged billiard ball had been used once too often and that
my brain was in there as well. Skagra stained for control. The prisoners
nearest him turned to face me, the ones in the middle of the hall were
confused and the one near were firmly fixed at Skagra. A mighty battle of
wills took place with me gaining the upper hand. Momentary, distracted by a
Krarg I lost control and the prisoners swung towards me. "Fire K-9!" I called
and the metallic computer held the Krarg in a beam near the door to the
Generation Annex. The prisoners split into two groups as I regain some lost
ground. The two groups wrestled with each other obeying mental orders from
their two leaders. I maneuvered Skagra to the dangerously overheated Krarg.
The evil genius ordered it to back off. It did....... and fell backwards into
its generation vat where it dissolved.....
43. COMMAND DECK, CARRIER SHIP (NOT
MADE)
(K-9 stalemates the Krargs again with his nose
laser, but SKAGRA seems to be getting the upper hand in the battle. Cautiously
and unnoticed by SKAGRA, ROMANA comes out of the wooden door. She sees the
Krargs and gets an idea. She edges herself into the generation
chamber.)
44. GENERATION ROOM, CARRIER SHIP (NOT
MADE)
(Inside the chamber, ROMANA watches the death of the
Krarg in the vat. Once it has completely dissolved, she tips the vat of heavy
gas over and watches as the gas pours over the floor quickly and out into the
command deck. She then yanks a pair of wires out the main vat and pulls the
trailing ends out into the command deck.)
45. COMMAND DECK, CARRIER SHIP (NOT
MADE)
(The tables have been turned on the DOCTOR and his
group as SKAGRA is maneuvering him towards the Krargs. ROMANA enters from the
generation annex, pulling the two wires along as she does so. She calls at the
door: )
ROMANA: Clare! Clare!
(....for CLARE, who nervously comes out. ROMANA
gives her one of the wires and gives her some precise instructions. (But we
don't hear them.) Both women head for opposite ends of the room. Now desperate
from the heat, the DOCTOR is forced to tell K-9.....)
DOCTOR: K-9! Stop firing!
(As soon as he does so, the Krargs begin to move
toward him. SKAGRA laughs triumphantly. The green gas has now flooded the
floor of the entire room, and it swirls about the feet of the combatants.
ROMANA shouts out to CLARE.)
ROMANA: Now!
(Both of the women plunge their wires into the gas.
The circuit completes, and the Krargs start to dissolve. SKAGRA is appalled,
and loses all concentration. The prisoners now all turn around in a solid wall
towards SKAGRA. SKAGRA tries to re-exert some control, but he is exhausted and
cannot.)
DOCTOR: Want to call half time Skagra? We can
have a short break if you like, few slices of lemon, perk you up no
end!
(SKAGRA gives up his struggle, turns, and runs into
the corridors.)
46. CORRIDORS, CARRIER SHIP (NOT
MADE)
(SKAGRA runs through the corridors, until at last he
reaches an airlock.)
47. CARRIER SHIP
(Skagra's ship docked on the side of the
carrier.)
48. SHIP, CORRIDOR (NOT MADE)
(SKAGRA enters the main corridor of his old ship,
and he shouts out in near panic: )
SKAGRA: Ship! Take off instantly! Instantly, do
you hear?
(And suddenly a block of light engulfs him, and he
vanishes.)
TOM: K-9 was firing relentlessly at the
reinforcements of Krargs arrived. Skagra thought victory was within his grasp
as Romana emerged cautiously from the Door and into the generation annex where
she tipped over the vats of heavy gas which poured into the main Command Deck.
She examined the wires of the main vat, pulled them out of their sockets and
trailing the wire marched forward to Clare. The girls made for opposite sides
of the room which was now swimming in the green gas. Skagra had turned the
tables on me. I was being forced toward burning Krargs. Romana and Clare
plunged their wires into the gas. The Krargs started to dissolve. As Skagra
looked appalled, I took mind control and the prisoners, in a solid phalanx,
turned on Skagra and he ran for his ship. On board, he ordered it to take off
instantly but a block of light engulfed him and he vanished and was deposited
in the Ship's brig.
49. BRIG, SHIP
(The block of light appears in the Ship's brig, and SKAGRA within it. He
solidifies and turns in horror as he surveys his surroundings.)
SKAGRA: Ship! Let me out of here! I am your Lord Skagra! Let me out!
(The Ship's voice calls at him from above.....)
SHIP: I am very much afraid I can no longer accept your orders. You
are an enemy of my Lord the Doctor.
SKAGRA: (screams) I AM YOUR LORD! I BUILT YOU! RELEASE ME I
COMMAND YOU!
(He waves his arms)
And launch instantly!
SHIP: Do you know the Doctor well? He is a wonderful, wonderful man.
He has done the most extraordinary things to my circuitry.
SKAGRA: RELEASE ME!
SHIP: Truly wonderful.
(SKAGRA sinks to his knees and rubs the scar on his forehead as though
he has a headache concentrated in that spot.)
If you like, I will tell you all about him.
SKAGRA: Let me out!
(He was now like a child sent to his room without supper.)
Let me out.....
{SHIP: Let me start at the beginning.......}
[This last line was in some original scripts but not
in the Video or the script book.]
50. COMMAND DECK, KRARG CARRIER (NOT
MADE)
(CLARE looks over the unconscious CHRIS while ROMANA
looks over the other prisoners, who are all now unconscious.)
CLARE: He'll be alright. How are the
others?
ROMANA: They're all in shock, but no serious
damage, though I hates to think what could have happened to them if the tug of
war had carried on much longer.
(The DOCTOR has dissected two of the spheres and has
their bits spread out in front of him on a control desk.)
DOCTOR: They wouldn't have been the only ones in
trouble. This is a fearful mess.
ROMANA: Can you unscramble them all?
DOCTOR: Yes. It'll take a few hours before
they'll get their mind back.
ROMANA: What'll you do with them then?
DOCTOR: Take them back to Shada of
course.
ROMANA: What, put them back in a forgotten
prison?
DOCTOR: Let the Time Lords sort it out. I'm not
going to play judge and jury. It was only forgotten about because Salyavin
made us forget. He didn't want his escape to be discovered. That must be why
he stole the book when he left Gallifrey.
ROMANA: And he called you to take it back
because he thought he was near the end of his own life. Do you suppose he is
still alive?
DOCTOR: We'll find out. In Shada. Come on, I
need your help with this.
TOM: Romana and Clare was attending to the
prisoners, who were in shock, while I dissected the spheres to restore the
genius's minds to them. I intended to take them back to Shada as I refused to
act as judge and jury. I informed them that Shada was only forgotten about
because Salyavin made the Time Lords to forget. He didn't want his escape to
be discovered. Hence he stole the book when he left Gallifrey.
51. COURTYARD, ST. CEDD'S COLLEGE, EARTH
(In the peaceful courtyard of St. Cedd's College, Cambridge, the Porter
WILKEN and a CONSTABLE of the police are walking slowly in the direction of
the former location of the PROFESSOR's rooms.)
CONSTABLE: (with a small smile on his face.) Stolen a room?
WILKEN: That is the only way I can describe it.
CONSTABLE: Well you see sir, in my experience people don't usually
steal rooms very much. They may steal from rooms, but steal the rooms
themselves, very rarely. In fact I think, uh, never is probably the word I'm
looking for here sir, I mean, where's the advantage in it? Not much of a black
market in rooms, is there? Wouldn't get much for it!
(WILKEN leads the disbelieving CONSTABLE through a doorway into another
courtyard as he tells him.)
WILKEN: I know it's very difficult to understand. It's also very
easy to be sarcastic.
CONSTABLE: Sarcastic sir? I don't know the word. Now why don't you
run over the salient points again?
WILKEN: Well, when I got to the door of the room and I opened and
beyond it there was nothing.
CONSTABLE: Absolutely nothing at all, sir?
WILKEN: Absolutely nothing at all except for some sort of blue haze.
CONSTABLE: Ah, well, the blue haze may be the vital clue we're
searching for.
WILKEN: (angrily) And I was not drinking.
TOM: (by the Krarg model again.) Romana
wondered wherever Professor Chronotis or Salyavin was still alive on Shada,
considering the reason the Professor had called me to Earth in the first place
was because he thought he was nearing the end of his life.
52. CORRIDOR
(The pair arrive in the hallway outside Chronotis' rooms.)
CONSTABLE: So this is the famous door, is it sir?
WILKEN: Yes.
CONSTABLE: Behind which you saw your blue haze?
WILKEN: Yes.
(The CONSTABLE knocks on the door, and to WILKEN's surprise, the DOCTOR
calls from inside...)
DOCTOR: (oov) Come in!
(The CONSTABLE opens the door and the outside of the PROFESSOR's room -
hat, coat etc are there.)
CONSTABLE: Well, whoever took it sir seems to have brought it back.
(He and WILKEN go inside.)
53. PROFESSOR'S ROOM
(Inside the study, PROFESSOR Chronotis is carrying a tea tray and
offering it to a quite cozy-looking little group sitting in a circle in front
of him composed of CHRIS, CLARE, ROMANA, and the DOCTOR. As the CONSTABLE and
WILKEN enter, the DOCTOR reads from one of the PROFESSOR's many books.)
DOCTOR: ''.....her little homely dress, her favourite,' cried the
old man, pressing it to his breast and patting it with a shrivelled hand.
'She'll miss it when she wakes.''
PROFESSOR: (looks up at the police officer in a little surprise.)
Hello? Can I help you?
CONSTABLE: Routine inquiry, sir. Report that this room had been
stolen.
(The PROFESSOR and the others all smile with surprise as the PROFESSOR
asks about this: )
PROFESSOR: Stolen!! I don't think so!
(He offers the last of the tea to CHRIS, along with some aspirin.)
Cup of tea and some aspirin.
CHRIS: Thank you, Professor.
CONSTABLE: Aspirin, sir?
CHRIS: Yes, headache.
CONSTABLE: Bad night last night, sir?
CHRIS: Yes, you could say that.
(The CONSTABLE turns and looks at WILKEN.)
CONSTABLE: A lot of celebrating going on in college, was there sir?
Last night?
WILKEN: Nothing out of the ordinary.
CONSTABLE: Big normal hijinks that would be then sir, would it?
Students roaming the streets stealing policeman's helmets, ballads, and.....
(The CONSTABLE stops suddenly as he spots the Police Box in the corner
of the room. He turns and asks Prof. Chronotis with an accusing tone.)
CONSTABLE: Might I ask where you got that, sir?
(The DOCTOR gets up with a somewhat disgusted look on his face.)
DOCTOR: Yes, it's mine.
(The CONSTABLE laughs at this and starts to take out his note pad and
pen.)
CONSTABLE: Oh really sir?
DOCTOR: Yes, really.
(to ROMANA.) Come on Romana.
(He takes the book he was apparently reading with him, and we see now
that it was in fact the Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey, and says to
everyone...)
Bye Wilken, Bristol, Keightley, goodbye Professor, we'll keep your secret.
ROMANA: Bye everybody.
(Everyone mentioned says goodbye as the DOCTOR and ROMANA climb inside
the police box.)
CONSTABLE:Secret sir? And what secret would that be?
(Suddenly the blue light on the top of the TARDIS rotates into action,
the sound of dematerialisation begins, and the police box disappears..... The
CONSTABLE and WILKEN boggle at the sight, while the PROFESSOR slowly steps up
to the CONSTABLE with the tea tray and asks...)
PROFESSOR: Cup of tea?
CONSTABLE: Where did that police box just go?
PROFESSOR: (with total innocence) What police box that would
be, Officer?
(The Constable has had enough. He puts his pad and pen away and speak
angrily to everybody...)
CONSTABLE: Right. Right. Coats on everyone. You're all taking a
little walk with me down to the Bridewell.
[NOTE: For non-UK readers = Bridewell = Cambridge
Police Station.]
(WILKEN turns to the door in amazement and the last look we get of
CLARE, CHRIS and the PROFESSOR is a look of amazement and surprise. But this
should be simple to them after the adventure they have been through.)
54. CONSOLE ROOM, TARDIS (NOT MADE)
(The DOCTOR at the controls.)
ROMANA: How did Skagra manage to find out so
much about the Time Lords? Where was he from?
K-9: My metabolic analysis reveals that he was
from the planet Dronid.
DOCTOR: Ah, There's your answer. Remember your
history. There was a schism in the College of Cardinals. The rival President
set up shop on Dronid. They forced him to come back by totally ignoring
him.
ROMANA: And the Professor was the great
Salyavin. It seems hard to believe. He's such a nice old man. I wonder if the
stories of Salyavin were exaggerated?
DOCTOR: More than likely. The Time Lords over
react to everything. Look at the way they treat me. I expect that one day in a
few hundred years someone will meet me and say, 'Is that really the Doctor?
How strange. He seems such a nice old man.'
(And the DOCTOR smiles and pulls the control for the
Randomiser as ROMANA and the DOCTOR grin at each other.....)
55. SPACE
(The TARDIS police box spins on its axis to another place the DOCTOR
will not know beforehand, but which he'll probably want to explore
anyway.....)
TOM: Romana explained that she found it hard
that the Professor was the great Salyavin. He seem to be a nice old man. And I
speculated that in a hundred years someone will meet me and say, 'Is that
really the Doctor? How strange. He seems such a nice old man.'
[And TOM lowers his face while still looking at us
with a small grin on his face as we close the story.]
Doctor Who
TOM BAKER
Romana
LALLA WARD
Skagra
CHRISTOPHER NEAME
Professor Chronotis
DENIS CAREY
Chris Parsons
DANIEL HILL
Clare Keightley
VICTORIA BURGOYNE
Porter
GERALD CAMPION
Voice Of Ship
SHIRLEY DIXON
Voice Of Krargs
JAMES COOMBES
Voice Of K-9
DAVID BRIERLEY
Title Music by
RON GRAINER
and the BBC RADIOPHONIC
WORKSHOP
Incidental Music
(DUDLEY SIMPSON)
KEFF McCULLOCH
Special Sound
DICK MILLS
Production Assistant
RALPH WILTON
Production Unit Manager
JOHN NATHAN-TURNER
Director's Assistant
OLIVIA BAZALGETTE
Assistant Floor Manager
VAL McCRIMMON
Visusal Effects Designer
DAVE HAVARD
Electronic Effects Operator
DAVE CHAPMAN
Vision Mixer
JAMES GOULD
Videotape Editor
ROD WALDRON
Studio Lighting
MIKE JEFFERIES
Studio Sound
JEFF HARTSHORN
Costume Designer
RUPERT ROXBURGHE-JARVIS
Make-Up Designer
KIM BURNS
Script Editor
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Designer
VICTOR MEREDITH
Producer
GRAHAM WILLIAMS
Directed by
PENNANT ROBERTS
(c) BBC MCMLXXIX (1979)
(c) BBC Video MCMII (1992)
Here are the credits for that and other post-production work
done both on the shot material for the Video and for Tom Baker's host
segments.
SHADA
Presented by
TOM BAKER
Links Recorded at the Museum of the Moving Image, London.
Cameraman
GERRY ELLIS
Sound
DAVE HILL
Make-Up
ERIKA WAREING
Lighting
IAN DOW
Krarg Supplied by
LORNE MARTIN
Incidental Music
KEFF McCULLOCH
Special Sound
DICK MILLS
Sound Dubbing
GEMINI AUDIO
Researcher
ROSS McGINLEY
Video Tape Editor
SIMON ASHCROFT
Additional Effects
ACE EDITING
Producer
JOHN NATHAN-TURNER
SHADA
Transcribed by
LEE
HORTON