The Doctor makes a deal with the Anti-Matter Beast to return all the anti-matter to the planet but Sorenson is determined to continue his research.
PLANET OF EVIL BY: LOUIS MARKS Part Three Running time: 23:50 [SCENE_BREAK] SARAH: Doctor! Do something. SORENSON: There is nothing to be done. VISHINSKY: He has disappeared into the vortex between this universe and the next. SARAH: No, not the Doctor! He can't be dead. SORENSON: He has ceased to exist. Controller, it is nearly night. We must prepare to launch. SALAMAR: I agree. Vishinsky, see the Professor Sorenson's mineral samples are removed. SORENSON: No. No, you can't leave those canisters behind. SALAMAR: Those minerals are endangering the safety of my command. They must be jettisoned. SORENSON: You arrogant young fool. The whole purpose of your command was to get me and that positron material back to our cosmos. SALAMAR: So that you can be hailed as the saviour of civilisation? No, Professor. My orders were simply to find your party and get back. SORENSON: If you abandon that material, you destroy years of my life's work. SALAMAR: You are a civilian aboard a military vessel. There will be no further argument. [SCENE_BREAK] DE HAAN: Carry them in, carry them out. That ought to be the Space Service motto. MORELLI: Yes, well, they've changed their minds. DE HAAN: Yeah, well they could have changed their minds first, couldn't they? I mean, just for a change. MORELLI: Listen, de Haan. The Controller simply wants us to take these canisters outside the take off forcefield area, right? DE HAAN: Right. MORELLI: Right. DE HAAN: It's only another fifty yards multiplied by ten. [SCENE_BREAK] DE HAAN: Half my service I spend flying one way, the other half I spend flying back again. They should pay me for staying in one place. MORELLI: Come on. [SCENE_BREAK] SARAH: Doctor! Doctor! Doctor. DOCTOR: Sarah, Vandervelt's equation of knowledge. Quite wrong. SARAH: Doctor, come on. Come on. The spaceship, it's leaving. Doctor! Doctor! Doctor, wake up. Doctor! [SCENE_BREAK] DE HAAN: All the canisters are off the ship, Controller. SALAMAR: Good. We'll go for immediate take off, Vishinsky. VISHINSKY: Commence pressurisation and pre-ignition checks. REIG (OOV.): Pre-ignition checks commenced. SALAMAR: Recall the oculoid. VISHINSKY: Cancel that! SALAMAR: What? VISHINSKY: The oculoid picture. Look! VISHINSKY: Cut the forcefield. SALAMAR: Are you taking command, Vishinsky? VISHINSKY: He's alive, Salamar. SALAMAR: There are higher priorities than recovering corpses. VISHINSKY: I'm going out for them. SALAMAR: We must leave this planet before night. Prepare the sick bay. [SCENE_BREAK] SORENSON: No. SORENSON: While still on the surface of Zeta Minor, and within the stable environment of the space probe, positron elements showed a twenty, a twenty percent increase in flux activity. This would seem to indicate a substantially greater, a greater, argh. [SCENE_BREAK] VISHINSKY: Electro-function almost non-existent. SARAH: But he's still alive. VISHINSKY: Raise the stimulation intensity twelve degrees. DE HAAN: But that's way over safety margins. VISHINSKY: Do it! SARAH: He moved! DE HAAN: Don't expect too much. SARAH: What? DE HAAN: They often move under stimulation. It's the nervous system. VISHINSKY: He's breathing. SARAH: He's coming round. Doctor. Doctor? SALAMAR (OOV.): Stand by for take off. Vishinsky to command area. VISHINSKY: He'll be all right. Stay with him. SARAH: Vishinsky. Thanks for helping us. [SCENE_BREAK] MORELLI: Pressurisation complete, Controller. SALAMAR: Activate cyclostimulators. MORELLI: Power jets locked in. SALAMAR: Prepare for ignition. Take the countdown, Vishinsky. VISHINSKY: If we don't make it this time, we never will. [SCENE_BREAK] SARAH: Doctor. DOCTOR: What's the noise? SARAH: You're all right. We're taking off. DOCTOR: What? But the canisters. I promised. SARAH: It's all right. They've been dumped. Your promise as a Time Lord? Well, what happened? DOCTOR: It's difficult to explain. SARAH: Well try. What did you do, enter another universe and have a chat with it? DOCTOR: I communicated. SARAH: We seem to be having trouble again. DOCTOR: Oh! Come on. [SCENE_BREAK] VISHINSKY: We're not going to make it. SALAMAR: Activate secondary boosters. REIG (OOV.): Secondary boosters activated. VISHINSKY: The syncronisers are hitting red. MORELLI: Gravity drag increasing. SALAMAR: I want ten seconds of maximum fuel burn. VISHINSKY: That's crazy! You SALAMAR: You heard me. Ten seconds. MORELLI: Gravity drag still increasing. Height only thirty miles. VISHINSKY: That's more than gravity. There's antimatter still aboard! SALAMAR: All the canisters were removed. DOCTOR: Except for this. SALAMAR: What's that? DOCTOR: Antimatter. How else do you think I survived that pool? SALAMAR: Is there enough there to hold us back? DOCTOR: Yes. SALAMAR: You idiot. Morelli, get that to the jettison hatch fast. [SCENE_BREAK] DE HAAN: Hey, Morelli, when are we going to get some lights down here? Do you think the command area's the only place anyone's working? DE HAAN: Morelli? Morelli! DE HAAN: Morelli. [SCENE_BREAK] REIG: Height, two hundred miles. VISHINSKY: We're in free space, but we're losing speed again. SALAMAR: Drag is still increasing. I don't understand it. DOCTOR: Then I suggest you search the ship. SALAMAR: Oh? Why? DOCTOR: Because there must still be antimatter aboard. It's the only explanation. SALAMAR: Impossible. VISHINSKY: Salamar, we're burning fuel at thirty units over norm. At this rate we'll never make the stellar systems. SARAH: But that means we'll be marooned in space! DOCTOR: If we're not vapourised first. SALAMAR: Vapourised? What do you mean? DOCTOR: Antimatter in collision with matter causes radiation annihilation. A release of energy more powerful than nuclear fission. SALAMAR: There is no antimatter aboard this ship! DOCTOR: And I tell you there is. DE HAAN: Controller! Controller, Morelli's dead. SALAMAR: Dead? DE HAAN: He's been killed by some sort of an animal. VISHINSKY: Animal? DE HAAN: I saw it in sector three. VISHINSKY: Restore all walkway lights. All right, de Haan, come on. Show us. [SCENE_BREAK] SORENSON: It's all gone so wrong. SORENSON: Yes? REIG (OOV.): Report at once to sector three. Controller Salamar wants to see you. SORENSON: What for? [SCENE_BREAK] DOCTOR: Well? VISHINSKY: The pathology readout is identical to the others. Total dehydration. Even the bone marrow. SARAH: But how could that thing get on board? VISHINSKY: I don't know. The forcefield was operating all the time the hatch was open. It was phased to cut in automatically. DOCTOR: I wonder. [SCENE_BREAK] SALAMAR: You're a scientist. You must have formed some theory. SORENSON: All the deaths appear to have been caused by a technology unknown to us. That would seem to implicate the Doctor and the girl. SALAMAR: Why? SORENSON: Well, they're aliens. SALAMAR: But they were in the command area when Morelli was killed. SORENSON: That machine in the quarantine berth might contain the answer. [SCENE_BREAK] VISHINSKY: Crew records. What denomination was Morelli? DOCTOR: Can I see the printout? VISHINSKY: Of course. REIG (OOV.): Morelli was Morestran Orthodox. VISHINSKY: Oh, one of those. SARAH: What are you doing? VISHINSKY: Disposal procedure. We may have to play the last rites but we don't have to listen. VISHINSKY: Another good soldier gone to the greatest army of them all. SARAH: Out into space to drift forever. VISHINSKY: It's clean and tidy. SARAH: It's horrible. DOCTOR: Vishinsky, I'd like a medical check on everybody aboard the ship. VISHINSKY: Why? DOCTOR: Because someone is contaminated. SALAMAR: Yes, Doctor, and we want to examine that space machine of yours. DOCTOR: Why? SALAMAR: We believe you to be responsible for all the deaths. Unless you cooperate, I shall kill you and the girl without compunction. SARAH: Oh, great. That's the thanks you get for helping people. DOCTOR: What is all this? VISHINSKY: The Doctor risked his life on our account. SALAMAR: That was a ruse to gain our confidence. His real intention is to destroy us. DOCTOR: Why? For what reason? SORENSON: There are other civilisations as desperate as we are for new energy sources. My discoveries on Zeta Minor would be of immense value to them. DOCTOR: Professor Sorenson, has it ever occurred to you that you might be mistaken? That there is no practical method of exploiting antiquark energy? SORENSON: Oh no, you're wrong. I've spent my life discovering alternative energy. REIG (OOV.): Controller Salamar. Calling the Controller. SALAMAR: What is it, Reig? REIG (OOV.): We're in trouble, sir. The ship's stopped moving. SALAMAR: That's impossible. [SCENE_BREAK] REIG: Sir, the progress register has stopped. We're making no headway. [SCENE_BREAK] SALAMAR: I'm coming up. Professor, watch the girl. You, come with us. SARAH: There's no need to. I'm not going to jump out, am I. SORENSON: What is your friend's field of science? SARAH: Oh, everything. He's brilliant. SORENSON: And he's wrong. He has to be wrong. Antiquarks come in three configurations, exactly as I predicted. All my theoretical calculations have proved this! We shall find a way of discovering the energy! SARAH: All right. I'm not arguing. [SCENE_BREAK] VISHINSKY: We're stationary. Suspended in space. SALAMAR: It's crazy. The thrusters are still at full power. DOCTOR: The answer's really very simple. You've come to the end of your piece of elastic. SALAMAR: What are you talking about? DOCTOR: It won't stretch any further. In fact, very soon it will start to pull you back. SALAMAR: Nothing can do that. DOCTOR: Antimatter can. There's still some aboard and this proves it. VISHINSKY: You mean the ship will be dragged back to Zeta Minor? DOCTOR: Yes, faster and faster. Until, of course, we reach the surface, then we'll stop with a bang. The only way to prevent it is to find the antimatter. SALAMAR: You're diverting attention from what's really causing the trouble. You! You and whatever's in that machine of yours. Something that's draining the power from this ship. DOCTOR: Salamar, you're wrong again. SALAMAR: We'll see. Vishinsky, take charge here. [SCENE_BREAK] SORENSON: Antimatter is simply matter composed entirely of antiparticles. Therefore, the hypothetical energy available, available, is, is stupendous. SARAH: What's wrong? Are you all right? SORENSON: Yes. Yes, I'm [SCENE_BREAK] DE HAAN: Oh, Professor, I DE HAAN: Argh! [SCENE_BREAK] DOCTOR: Usually I only entertain friends in the TARDIS. SALAMAR: Shut up. Open it. DOCTOR: Externally, as you can see, it resembles a London police box. SALAMAR: Open it! [SCENE_BREAK] DOCTOR (OOV.): Sarah! DOCTOR: Sarah, what happened? SARAH: I caught a glimpse of that thing. It was horrible. DOCTOR: Antiman. SARAH: Antiman? DOCTOR: A hybrid creature running amok. SALAMAR: Don't move! De Haan. You've killed de Haan! DOCTOR: Oh, now listen, Sa SARAH: Doctor! SALAMAR: No! They killed de Haan. VISHINSKY: Some thing killed de Haan. SALAMAR: Let's get rid of them before they kill us all. Take them to the ejector chamber. Hurry! [SCENE_BREAK] SALAMAR: Prepare to eject. SARAH: You can't do this! It's murder! VISHINSKY: She's right. You have no evidence. You cannot do it. SALAMAR: How much evidence do you want? The whole crew dead? Eject! Eject. VISHINSKY: No, Salamar.
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