The TARDIS arrives in Little Hodcombe, Tegan wants to visit her Grandfather while they are there. Also, a war re-enactment is going on that starts to get more and more out of hand and realistic for unknown reasons.
THE AWAKENING BY: ERIC PRINGLE Part One First Air Date: 19 January 1984 Running time: 25:18 [SCENE_BREAK] JANE: Ben? Ben? Are you there, Ben? JANE: Careful! You'll kill someone. [SCENE_BREAK] JANE: Don't touch me! Get off! WOLSEY: It's only me. JANE: Ben. Ben, you're mad! WOLSEY: Nonsense, my dear. Just a bit of fun. JANE: Fun? JANE: Sir George, you must stop these war games. HUTCHINSON: Stop them? Why, Miss Hampden, you of all people, our school teacher, should appreciate the value of reenacting actual events. It's a living history. JANE: It's getting out of hand. The village is in turmoil. HUTCHINSON: So there's been a little damage. That's the way people used to behave in those days. It's a game. You must expect high spirits. JANE: Not when people can get hurt. It must stop. HUTCHINSON: And so it shall. We have but one last battle to fight. Join us. See the merit of what we do. [SCENE_BREAK] TURLOUGH: Is that any better? DOCTOR: Er, no. No, no, still some time distortion. TEGAN: Is there a problem? We are going to Earth? DOCTOR: Date, time and place asked for. How else could you visit your grandfather? TURLOUGH: We're nearly there. DOCTOR: See? DOCTOR: Hmm. Well, we've arrived. TURLOUGH: We've hit an energy field. DOCTOR: Unexpected aura for a quiet English village. TEGAN: Let's get out of here. TURLOUGH: Quickly, Doctor. Relocate the TARDIS. TEGAN: Hold on! There's something out there. DOCTOR: He's trapped. If there's another fall, he'll be killed. TURLOUGH: We can't go out there! TURLOUGH: Doctor! [SCENE_BREAK] TEGAN: He's gone. DOCTOR: Hello? Hello! DOCTOR: Wait, please. TEGAN: Did you see his clothes? We're in the wrong century. TURLOUGH: We're not. I checked the time monitor. It is 1984. DOCTOR: Let's have a look around. [SCENE_BREAK] HUTCHINSON: I don't understand you. Every man, woman and child in this village is involved in these war games except you. Why? It's great fun. An adventure. JANE: I understand that. HUTCHINSON: Then join us. Your influence could temper the more high-spirited, prevent accidents. JANE: Look, I don't care if a few high-spirited kids get their heads banged together. It's gone beyond that. Suppose what happened to me happens to somebody else, a stranger, a visitor to the village. HUTCHINSON: There will be no visitors to the village. It's been isolated from the outside world. No one can enter or leave. JANE: You can't do that! HUTCHINSON: Can't I? It's been done. [SCENE_BREAK] TEGAN: Where'd he go? TURLOUGH: Well, if he can move that quickly, he can't be hurt very badly. DOCTOR: Interesting. TEGAN: I don't like it. DOCTOR: Then admire the craftsmanship. Seventeenth century. Probably of a man being chased by the devil. Must admit I've never seen anything quite like it before. TEGAN: Looks as though a bomb's hit the place. TURLOUGH: Maybe it did. TEGAN: Can we find my grandfather? TURLOUGH: What was that? DOCTOR: A ghost. [SCENE_BREAK] TURLOUGH: Why'd they build the church so far from the village? TEGAN: Perhaps they were refused planning permission. DOCTOR: Behave yourselves. We have company. TURLOUGH: We should go back. DOCTOR: Too late. WILLOW: Where do you think you're going? This is Sir George Hutchinson's land. DOCTOR: If we're trespassing, I apologise. WILLOW: Little Hodcombe, for your own safety, is a closed area. We're in the middle of a war game. TEGAN: We're here to visit my grandfather. WILLOW: You'd better see Sir George. He'll sort it out. Move out! [SCENE_BREAK] TEGAN: Stop it! Leave me alone! WOLSEY: What's going on here? WILLOW: Trespassers, Colonel. I've arrested them. JANE: I don't believe this. WOLSEY: Are you sure you should be doing this? WILLOW: Sir George has been informed. WOLSEY: I'm sorry about this. Some of the men do get a bit carried away. We'll soon have the business sorted out and you safely on your way. DOCTOR: Thank you. It's a very impressive room, Colonel. WOLSEY: My pride and joy. DOCTOR: Seventeenth century. WOLSEY: Yes, perfect in every detail. TEGAN: What is going on? JANE: I'm sorry, I don't know. I think everyone's gone mad. TEGAN: Look, we don't want to interfere. We're just here to visit my grandfather. WILLOW: Oh yes? And who might he be? TEGAN: Andrew Verney. WILLOW: Verney? TEGAN: What's wrong? JANE: He disappeared a few days ago. TEGAN: Well, has anything been done to find him? JANE: Ben? TEGAN: Well? DOCTOR: Now calm down, Tegan. I'm sure we can sort this out. TEGAN: Oh, for heaven's sake! DOCTOR: Tegan, come back! Turlough, fetch her, will you? DOCTOR: Please. WILLOW: You! Stay where you are! [SCENE_BREAK] TEGAN: What are you doing? Give me that back! [SCENE_BREAK] HUTCHINSON: What's this? WILLOW: He tried to escape, sir. HUTCHINSON: He isn't a prisoner, Sergeant Willow. You must treat visitors with more respect. DOCTOR: What is going on? HUTCHINSON: A celebration. On the thirteenth of July, 1643, the English Civil War came to Little Hodcombe. A Parliamentary force and a regiment for the King destroyed each other, and the village. DOCTOR: And you're celebrating that? HUTCHINSON: Why not? It's our heritage. JANE: It's a madness. HUTCHINSON: Yes. Miss Hampden, you see, disagrees with our activities. DOCTOR: Hmm. I can understand why. HUTCHINSON: Who are you? DOCTOR: I'm known as the Doctor. HUTCHINSON: Are you a member of the theatrical profession? DOCTOR: No more than you are. HUTCHINSON: Ah. Ha, ha! How did you get to the village? DOCTOR: Through the woods, via the church. WILLOW: That's where I found him, sir. HUTCHINSON: I would avoid the church, if I were you. It's very dangerous. Could fall down at any minute. DOCTOR: Hmm, so I'd noticed. HUTCHINSON: However, since you're here, you must join in our games. It's our final battle. DOCTOR: Do you know, I'd love to, but first I must find Tegan and Turlough, and Tegan's grandfather. I gather he's disappeared. Good day! HUTCHINSON: Wait, wait, wait. WILLOW: Tegan is Verney's granddaughter. HUTCHINSON: Double the perimeter guard. He mustn't get out of the village. And help him find Verney's granddaughter. WILLOW: Right. HUTCHINSON: I've something rather special in mind for her. JANE: Detaining people against their will is illegal, Sir George. The Doctor and his friends included. HUTCHINSON: I shouldn't let that bother you, Miss Hampden. As the local magistrate, I shall find myself quite innocent. [SCENE_BREAK] TEGAN: Oh, no! Come on! Help! TEGAN: Oh, it's you. TURLOUGH: What's happening? TEGAN: Later. Let's get away from here first. [SCENE_BREAK] DOCTOR: Turlough! Tegan! DOCTOR: Wait! Come back! DOCTOR: How could he get so far? WOLSEY: We'll never find her. She could be anywhere. WILLOW: Ask for more men. WOLSEY: Hutchinson won't allow it. He's got everyone guarding the perimeter. WILLOW: We're wasting our time with only four searching. If he wants her so badly, he's got to find more men. WOLSEY: Ring him. WILLOW: Not allowed. I'll have to go back to the house. WOLSEY: All right. Carry on searching, you two. Try Verney's cottage again. She might be there. I'll come with you. [SCENE_BREAK] DOCTOR: Hello? I saw you enter. All I want is Tegan's bag. What have you done with her? I know you can hear me. DOCTOR: Gunpowder. CHANDLER: Sorry it took me so long. Thought he'd never eat. DOCTOR: Who are you? I'm the Doctor. CHANDLER: Doctor? That don't be a proper name. Will Chandler be a proper name. DOCTOR: I won't hurt you. CHANDLER: I will hit 'ee. My hand's hurting. DOCTOR: Show me. DOCTOR: What were you doing in there? CHANDLER: It's a priest hole, innit. I hid from fighting. DOCTOR: What fighting? CHANDLER: What fighting? Ere, where you been then? DOCTOR: What year is this? CHANDLER: Ah, I knows that one. Year sixteen hundred and forty three. DOCTOR: Sixteen hundred and forty three. CHANDLER: Is the battle done? DOCTOR: Er, yes, Will. Battle's done. DOCTOR: Ah, just in time. TEGAN: Time? We almost didn't make it. TURLOUGH: We have to get out of here. TEGAN: There's something very strange going on. DOCTOR: Yes, I know. TURLOUGH: Who is that? DOCTOR: Will Chandler. CHANDLER: Sir? TEGAN: Where did he come from? DOCTOR: Ah, well, that's something we're going to have to talk about. [SCENE_BREAK] MAN (OOV.): We lost them through the woods. HUTCHINSON: Where is she? WOLSEY: We can't find her. We need more men. HUTCHINSON: I want Tegan, not excuses, Wolsey. JANE: Don't listen to him, Ben. HUTCHINSON: Miss Hampden, you are beginning to bore me with your constant bleating. WILLOW: She doesn't understand. We must have our Queen of the May. HUTCHINSON: Precisely. Think of it as the resurrection of an old tradition. JANE: Not the way you'd like to celebrate it. I know the old custom of this village. I know what happens to a May Queen at the end of her reign. WOLSEY: We're not going to harm her. JANE: You might not. I'm not so sure about them. HUTCHINSON: The tradition must continue. Something is coming to our village. Something very wonderful and strange. WOLSEY: We must find Tegan. JANE: You're so gullible, Ben. You'll do anything he says. JANE: Right, I'm going to the police. I'll soon put a stop to this. WILLOW: Shut up! Just be grateful it is the stranger who is to be crowned Queen of the May. It so easily could have been you. WILLOW: And it still might be if we don't find her. [SCENE_BREAK] DOCTOR: There's been a confusion in time. Somehow 1984 has become linked with 1643. TURLOUGH: What about the apparitions? DOCTOR: Psychic projections. TEGAN: The man we saw when we arrived? He was real enough. DOCTOR: Still a psychic projection, but with substance. TURLOUGH: Matter projected from the past? That would require enormous energy. DOCTOR: An alien power source. TEGAN: What about Will? DOCTOR: A projection, too, and at the moment a benign one. TURLOUGH: This crack has got larger. DOCTOR: Yes. Ominous, isn't it? As is the fact your grandfather has disappeared. I think it's time I sought some answers. TEGAN: Where? DOCTOR: The village. TEGAN: Always so scientific. DOCTOR: Come on, Will. You're coming with me. TEGAN: What about us? DOCTOR: You'll be safer in the TARDIS. And don't argue. Will! TURLOUGH: You heard the Doctor. [SCENE_BREAK] CHANDLER: This ain't possible. DOCTOR: Look at the others. DOCTOR: Will, in here. [SCENE_BREAK] TURLOUGH: We're too late. TEGAN: We must tell the Doctor. [SCENE_BREAK] DOCTOR: Strange. Will, come and see. DOCTOR: What's the matter? Will? Will, what happened in 1643? CHANDLER: Troopers come. DOCTOR: No. No, no. Something else. CHANDLER: Malus come. Malus's got to war, ain't he? He makes fighting worse. He makes them hate more. DOCTOR: The Malus is just a superstition. CHANDLER: No, no, no. I've seen Malus. I seen it. [SCENE_BREAK] TURLOUGH: Now where? TEGAN: He said he was going to the village. TURLOUGH: Let's go, but watch out for those horsemen. [SCENE_BREAK] DOCTOR: Will, tell me what happened? How did it appear? CHANDLER: It was Roundheads and Cavaliers, and they were fighting in church. And there was a wind coming. Such a wind. And then Malus, he came from nowhere. DOCTOR: What did it look like? Like this? Did it look like this? CHANDLER: Yes! DOCTOR: It's all right, it's all right, it's all right. DOCTOR: Interesting. Come on, Will. [SCENE_BREAK] TEGAN: It's eerie. TURLOUGH: Where is everyone? TEGAN: Oh, no! TURLOUGH: Split up! TEGAN: Let me go! WILLOW: Not yet, my dear. WOLSEY: Do you have to enjoy this sort of thing quite so much? WILLOW: Just obeying orders, Colonel. WOLSEY: That's what they all say. WILLOW: Ha! [SCENE_BREAK] HUTCHINSON: After her! You'll need some light. Get a candle. [SCENE_BREAK] DOCTOR: Stay close, Will. DOCTOR: Quickly. HUTCHINSON (OOV.): Come on, hurry yourselves. Through here. DOCTOR: In here. HUTCHINSON: Keep that light near. We'll catch her before the church. Move yourselves! I don't want this to take all day. CHANDLER: They be troopers. DOCTOR: No, no, just twentieth century men playing a particularly nasty game. [SCENE_BREAK] WILLOW: Change into that. TEGAN: Why? WILLOW: Just do as you're told. Unless you want me to do it for you. [SCENE_BREAK] HUTCHINSON: She won't get far. The village is sealed. Get me Sergeant Willow. I must see how the preparations are going. And see my horse is brought round immediately. I'll spend no more time on this. JANE: It's not like Sir George to give up so easily. DOCTOR: Be grateful. Where do the steps lead? JANE: Colonel Wolsey's house. This must be the passage Andrew Verney discovered. He's our local historian. DOCTOR: Yes, Tegan told me. DOCTOR: Just a minute. JANE: What is it? DOCTOR: It's metal. JANE: It can't be. It's all squashy. DOCTOR: It's tinclavic. JANE: Tinclavic? What is it? Where has it come from? DOCTOR: The planet Ragga. Let's get back to the church. [SCENE_BREAK] TEGAN: Don't you ever knock before entering a room? WILLOW: You'd better be careful. You're beginning to annoy me. TEGAN: What are you doing? WILLOW: Those are your clothes now, compliments of Sir George Hutchinson. You're our Queen of the May. TEGAN: What? [SCENE_BREAK] JANE: Oh, slow down. What do you mean, this is from the planet Ragga? DOCTOR: Precisely what I said. The Tereleptils mine tinclavic for more or less the exclusive use of the people of Hakol. That's in the star system Rifta, you know. JANE: Oh, no. I've escaped from one madman to find another. Do you expect me to believe what you're saying? DOCTOR: Well, you take that sample to any metallurgist and they'll confirm it isn't from this planet. JANE: You're serious. DOCTOR: Never more so. JANE: Very well, then. For the sake of argument, I'll accept what you say, but how did it come to Little Hodcombe? DOCTOR: As part of a space vehicle. JANE: A space ship from Hakol landed here? Is that what you're trying to say? DOCTOR: Well, more likely a computer-controlled reconnaissance vehicle. JANE: How silly of me not to know. DOCTOR: Tell me, was Andrew Verney engaged in any research concerning the Malus? JANE: I believe he was, yes. DOCTOR: That's what must have led him to the tunnel and the remains of the Hakol probe. CHANDLER: See? I seen the Malus. DOCTOR: I believe you, Will. My sincerest apologies for ever doubting you. JANE: Doctor, the Malus is a myth, a legend. Some mumbo-jumbo connected with apparitions or something. DOCTOR: That's precisely what Will saw. You see, on Hakol, psychic energy is a force that's been harnessed in much the same way as electricity is here. JANE: But what has that got to do with the Malus legend? DOCTOR: The thing you call the Malus was on board the Hakol probe. JANE: Oh. I see what you mean. It's still here. Doctor, that wasn't there the other day. CHANDLER: Don't touch it.! JANE: He's right, Doctor. There's suddenly a very strange atmosphere in here. DOCTOR: No, come and have a look at this. CHANDLER: No! No! JANE: Look out! Doctor!
The Awakening - part 1