The Doctor, Sarah and Laurence try to find a way to sever Sutekh's link to the mummies while poacher Ernie Clements finds the priory surrounded by a forcefield.
PYRAMIDS OF MARS BY: "STEPHEN HARRIS" (ROBERT HOLMES AND LEWIS GREIFER) Part Two Running time: 23:53 [SCENE_BREAK] LAURENCE: Marcus! DOCTOR: Shush. [SCENE_BREAK] SCARMAN: Take up the generator loops. SCARMAN: Place them in position at the compass points. Activate at ground strength. [SCENE_BREAK] DOCTOR: Quick, hide. SARAH: Where have they gone? DOCTOR: To set up a deflection field around the house. He's obviously planned every step. LAURENCE: Who, Marcus? DOCTOR: No, Sutekh. [SCENE_BREAK] DOCTOR: Sutekh is breaking free from his ancient bonds. If he succeeds, he'll destroy the whole world. SARAH: You mean Sutekh is still alive? DOCTOR: He destroyed his own planet, Phaester Osiris, and left a trail of havoc across half the galaxy. Horus and the rest of the Osirans must have finally cornered him on Earth. SARAH: In Egypt? DOCTOR: The wars of the gods entered into mythology. The whole of Egyptian culture is founded upon the Osiran pattern. LAURENCE: I'm afraid this is beyond me. SARAH: It's beyond me, too. DOCTOR: Ah! Found it. SARAH: What? DOCTOR: The lodestone that drew the TARDIS off course. LAURENCE: That's not a lodestone, that's just a sarcophagus. DOCTOR: No, it isn't. It's the entrance to a time-space tunnel. SARAH: Leading where? DOCTOR: To Sutekh. (The Doctor activates a cartouche on the case and it starts to do its multicoloured effect. SARAH: Doctor! DOCTOR: Keep back! [SCENE_BREAK] SARAH: Doctor! Doctor, come on. Wake up, please. LAURENCE: It's no good. He took the full force of the blast. SARAH: They're bound to come back soon. We're trapped! Where are you going? LAURENCE: There's a priest hole here somewhere. Marcus and I discovered it when we were boys. LAURENCE: There. It isn't very large, I'm afraid. SARAH: No, well, he is though, so come and give me a hand. [SCENE_BREAK] CLEMENTS: Holy Moses. [SCENE_BREAK] WARLOCK: Is that you, Laurence? WARLOCK: Marcus! Marcus, my dear fellow, you're back. SCARMAN: Why are you here? WARLOCK: Huh? What's the matter? For goodness sakes, old chap, don't you recognise me? SCARMAN: Warlock. WARLOCK: That's right. We've all been dreadfully worried about you. SCARMAN: I came to find the other Scarman. WARLOCK: The other? You mean your brother, Laurence? SCARMAN: The human. WARLOCK: Look here, old chap. If this is some kind of macabre joke? SCARMAN: Where is the other Scarman, Warlock? WARLOCK: Laurence went up to the house. That Egyptian servant of yours took a potshot at me! Laurence and the Doctor and some very plucky young girl went off to deal with the brute. They've been gone a devil of a time, mind you. I hope nothing's amiss. SCARMAN: Who is the Doctor? WARLOCK: One of Laurence's friends, I imagine. Some sort of scientist. SCARMAN: Why does he interfere? WARLOCK: Interfere? Now look here, Marcus SCARMAN: All humans inside the deflection barrier will be destroyed. WARLOCK: For heaven's sake, Marcus, what's wrong with you? SCARMAN: Destroy this human. WARLOCK: No, no, no! Laurence! Laurence! No! [SCENE_BREAK] CLEMENTS: Murdering swine. [SCENE_BREAK] SARAH: He's coming round. DOCTOR: A parallax coil. LAURENCE: What? DOCTOR: I never expected that. A simple trap. Blew up in my face. Clever. LAURENCE: He's delirious. SARAH: No, shush. DOCTOR: Never underestimate Sutekh. Thinks of everything. DOCTOR: Where are we? SARAH: Hiding. DOCTOR: Where? LAURENCE: A priest hole. DOCTOR: In a Victorian gothic folly? Nonsense. SARAH: You're so pedantic at a time like this. Does it matter? DOCTOR: If only I knew the exact physical location of Sutekh. Where was your brother's expedition bound? LAURENCE: Saqqara, I think. He wrote to say he'd discovered a blind pyramid in that region and believed it contained a mastaba. SARAH: What? LAURENCE: An underground burial chamber. DOCTOR: Saqqara. Too vague, yet it might be our only chance. SARAH: To do what? DOCTOR: Sutekh is controlling operations here by mental force. With the equipment at the lodge, I could transmit a jamming signal. SARAH: And block his power? DOCTOR: With an etheric impulse projected along precisely the right axis, yes. Otherwise SARAH: No good. DOCTOR: The Egyptian's ring! LAURENCE: What? DOCTOR: It's a slave relay. Calculating the reverse polarisation should be child's play. Why didn't I think of it? SARAH: Shush. Listen. [SCENE_BREAK] SCARMAN: Remove this carcass. (sniffs) There are other humans within these walls. Seek and kill them. [SCENE_BREAK] SARAH: He's coming over. LAURENCE: Marcus! [SCENE_BREAK] CLEMENTS: Professor Scarman! SCARMAN: Seek and kill. DOCTOR: All right, all clear. LAURENCE: Where are we going? DOCTOR: Shush. To find that Egyptian. [SCENE_BREAK] SARAH: We can't search the whole priory. There's no need to. Look. [SCENE_BREAK] SCARMAN: Follow me. SARAH: What do you think they're doing? DOCTOR: I'm not sure yet. LAURENCE: This is exceedingly interesting, Doctor. It appears to be some kind of machinery. DOCTOR: You're right. Yes, that's resonating tuner. Part of an anti-gravity drive. Oh! They must be building a rocket. SARAH: Egyptian mummies building rockets? That's crazy. DOCTOR: They're not mummies, they're service robots. SARAH: Huh? DOCTOR: Machines. SARAH: Machines? All right then, why are machines building rockets? DOCTOR: So that Sutekh can escape from the power of Horus. SARAH: Where's Sutekh now? DOCTOR: Exactly where Horus left him seven thousand years ago. Trapped beneath a pyramid and powerless to move. [SCENE_BREAK] LAURENCE: Great heavens! This is unbelievable. Totally unbelievable! DOCTOR: You're going to say it transcends all the normal laws of physics. LAURENCE: I am, yes. I mean, it does. It's preposterous! DOCTOR: Isn't it. I often think dimensional transcendentalism is preposterous, but it works. Would you like to look around? LAURENCE: May I? DOCTOR: Please. SARAH: Well now we are here, why don't you tune up 1980 and we can, well, leave. DOCTOR: I can't. SARAH: Ah. Why can't you? DOCTOR: Because if Sutekh isn't stopped, he'll destroy the world. SARAH: But he didn't, did he. I mean, we know the world didn't end in 1911. DOCTOR: Do we? SARAH: Yes, of course we do! DOCTOR: All right. If we leave now, let's see what the world will look like in 1980. LAURENCE: I say, this is like something by that novelist chap, Mister Wells. DOCTOR: 1980, Sarah, if you want to get off. SARAH: It's a trick! DOCTOR: No. That's the world as Sutekh would leave it. A desolate planet circling a dead sun. SARAH: It can't be! I'm from 1980. DOCTOR: Every point in time has its alternative, Sarah. You've looked into alternative time. LAURENCE: Fascinating. Do you mean the future can be chosen, Doctor? DOCTOR: Not chosen, shaped. The actions of the present fashion the future. LAURENCE: So a man can change the course of history? DOCTOR: To a small extent. It takes a being of Sutekh's almost limitless power to destroy the future. Well? SARAH: We've got to go back. DOCTOR: Yes. DOCTOR: Keep below the level of the window. [SCENE_BREAK] SCARMAN: Three humans within the deflection barrier have been destroyed. There are others. SUTEKH (OOV.): Eliminate them. SCARMAN: The servicers are searching for them, but assembly of the rocket is being delayed. SUTEKH (OOV.): Destruction of the humans must not be allowed to delay the completion of the missile. That is of paramount importance. SCARMAN: Your orders will be executed, Sutekh. I will recall two of the servicers to the rocket assembly. [SCENE_BREAK] LAURENCE: I can't believe that my brother. He and Doctor Warlock were the closest of friends. DOCTOR: Well, if you can stop thinking of him as your brother it'll make it a great deal easier for you. LAURENCE: But he is my brother! DOCTOR: From the moment he entered Sutekh's tomb he became subject to Sutekh's will. LAURENCE: What does that mean? DOCTOR: As a human being, Marcus Scarman no longer exists. He is simply the embodiment of Sutekh's power. He's given the paralysed Sutekh arms and legs, a means to escape. SARAH: If Sutekh is so totally evil, why didn't Horus and the other Osirans destroy him? DOCTOR: It's against their code. To have killed him would have meant that they were no better than he, so they simply imprisoned him. SARAH: How? DOCTOR: A forcefield, controlled from a power source on Mars. LAURENCE: Mars? DOCTOR: Yes. That's where the signal was beamed from, remember? LAURENCE: But how? DOCTOR: When your brother stumbled into Sutekh's tomb, the monitoring system on Mars detected the fact and triggered off an alarm signal. SARAH: The rocket those robots are building! DOCTOR: Yes. Will be aimed at the power source on Mars. If those warheads reach their target, Sutekh will have released himself. LAURENCE: To destroy the world. DOCTOR: Not only this world. Anywhere that life is found. Right. All I need now is a magneto. LAURENCE: A magneto. Of course. SARAH: What are you going to do? DOCTOR: If I can block the mental beam, Scarman will collapse. SARAH: You mean die? DOCTOR: Well, he's not alive now in any real sense. Only Sutekh animates him. Deprived of his outside contact, Sutekh'll be as powerless as the day Horus left him. LAURENCE: Here you are, Doctor. DOCTOR: Splendid. LAURENCE: What was that? DOCTOR: Quick, Sarah, switch on the power. LAURENCE: No, no, you'll destroy my brother! DOCTOR: Switch on! [SCENE_BREAK] SUTEKH: Stop them! [SCENE_BREAK] SARAH: Doctor! Doctor!
Pyramids of Mars - part 2