The Doctor and Leela encounter the placid and mind-powerful Tesh, the complete opposite of the savage Saveteem. They recognize the Doctor, too, but to them he is Lord; however, when it becomes evident the Doctor threatens their living god, Xoanon, the Doctor becomes a marked man.
THE FACE OF EVIL BY: CHRIS BOUCHER Part Three Running time: 24:40 [SCENE_BREAK] CALEB: Tomas! Tomas! Over here! CALEB: What was it? TOMAS: The Evil One. It's huge. It got Andor. CALEB: So I'm the leader now. TOMAS: How well will you lead us, Caleb? There are more of those things coming. CALEB: But the gun worked? TOMAS: Yes. It revealed the Evil One's face, drove him away. CALEB: Right, we must get back to the village. If we stay quiet it might pass by. TOMAS: I doubt it. [SCENE_BREAK] LEELA: Doctor, what is it? DOCTOR: There's only one way to find out. LEELA: It's gone. Where's it gone? DOCTOR: I remember now. The Mordee expedition. And I thought I was helping them. LEELA: Doctor, what are you doing? Will you please help me find this Tesh? DOCTOR: Tesh? How did you know it was a Tesh? Have you ever seen a Tesh? LEELA: Well, the skin was loose and shiny, as we're told, and it had two heads, one inside the other. DOCTOR: That was a protective suit and helmet. Must be another environment through there. DOCTOR (OOV.): Come on then. LEELA: It's a solid wall! DOCTOR (OOV.): It's an illusion, called a psy-tri projection. Combination of a three dimensional image which acts on the eye. Close your eyes. DOCTOR (OOV.): Both of them. Take one step back. DOCTOR (OOV.): Now walk forward. LEELA (OOV.): Great Xoanon! Where are we? DOCTOR (OOV.): It's called an anti-grav transporter. Just sit in it and it takes us straight to the ship in absolutely no time at all. [SCENE_BREAK] XOANON 2: We are returned. We are here. Voices overlap. XOANON: We are here. We are returned. XOANON 2: Now we shall be one. XOANON 3: We are here. XOANON: We are returned. XOANON 3: We are here. We are returned. XOANON: Now we shall be one. XOANON 2: Now we must destroy us. XOANON: Now we shall be one. XOANON 2: We are returned, we are here. XOANON 3: Now we must destroy us. ALL: One, one, one. [SCENE_BREAK] DOCTOR: Another shrine. Seems the Tesh are as ignorant of their origins as your people are. LEELA: What are their origins? DOCTOR: How does the litany go? That bit about Paradise. Leela, you said you knew it. You said you were taught it as children. LEELA: I do, I do. Wait a minute. The Sevateem were sent forth by God DOCTOR: Slowly, slowly. LEELA: The Sevateem were sent forth by God to seek Paradise. The Tesh remained at the place of land. DOCTOR: Yes, exactly. That means the Sevateem explored the planet, while the Tesh remained to work in the ship in the place where it landed. Here. LEELA: We're the same people? DOCTOR: Yes, the Sevateem were the survey teams and the Tesh were the technicians. You're all human beings from this colony ship. LEELA: So what happened? Doctor, what happened? DOCTOR: I'm rather afraid I did. I misunderstood what Xoanon was. LEELA: Xoanon? You mean DOCTOR: At the time, I didn't think he was a being at all. These terminals are dead. LEELA: What did you think he was? JABEL: Welcome, Lord. DOCTOR: Hello! DOCTOR: Are you doing that? Will you please stop doing that? I said stop! DOCTOR: What have you done to her? JABEL: She is not damaged. My acolytes will attend to her. DOCTOR: But where are they taking her? JABEL: She will be tended. We recognise her value, Lord. DOCTOR: Have you dropped something? JABEL: I do you honour, Lord of Time. We've waited long for your return. DOCTOR: Yes, well, I'm very grateful about the honour, but it's really information I need. Please get up. What's your name? JABEL: I am Jabel, Captain of the people of Tesh. DOCTOR: Ah. DOCTOR: Jabel, do your people have a holy purpose? JABEL: We serve Xoanon and tend the holy places. We guard his tower against the savage. We deny the flesh so that our minds may find communion with Xoanon. DOCTOR: Ah. Well, it has a sort of logic. Outside the barrier, physical courage and strength, inside the barrier, paraphysical achievement and the sort of psi power you used against Leela. It's an experiment in eugenics. JABEL: Yes, Lord. DOCTOR: Shall we get up? The floor's very hard. Didn't anyone ever tell you kneeling stunts the growth? Jabel, do you know where Xoanon is? JABEL: Yes, Lord. DOCTOR: Where? JABEL: He is in no one place, Lord. He is all around us, everywhere. DOCTOR: All right, I didn't think you did. JABEL: You and he are as one. You will show us the way DOCTOR: Do you know what a computer is? JABEL: And in perfect communion with him, we will be free and find Paradise. DOCTOR: Do you know what a computer is? JABEL: Lord? DOCTOR: Now I have to find that thing before it kills us all. [SCENE_BREAK] WOMAN (OOV.): Final warning. Final warning. Particle analyser terminal phase countdown. All personnel clear the area. [SCENE_BREAK] DOCTOR: This whole control room's been disconnected, Jabel. It could take me days to find the complex. DOCTOR: I must be slipping. Jabel, where's the Holy of Holies? JABEL: All the place of Land is holy. DOCTOR: But there must be somewhere on the ship? JABEL: Ship? DOCTOR: Yes. Somewhere where no one's allowed to go. JABEL: Yes, Lord. The Sacred Chamber. DOCTOR: Yes. Where is it? JABEL: It is on level three seven. DOCTOR: Jabel, thank you. I DOCTOR: Jabel. Jabel, that's Leela. JABEL: Yes, Lord. Particle analysis. We will reduce the subject to its constituent atoms. DOCTOR: Particle analysis? JABEL: Yes, Lord. DOCTOR: It will kill her. JABEL: Yes, Lord. She is a savage. DOCTOR: What? That's not a good enough reason! JABEL: The savages have the power to open the barrier. Particle analysis may tell us how they do it. Surely that is why you brought her to us? DOCTOR: The savages don't open the barrier, you lack-brain! Xoanon does. Do you understand that? Xoanon does! JABEL: You lie! DOCTOR: Give the order to stop that particle analyser. JABEL: You are not the Lord of Time come again to save us! DOCTOR: Will you give that order? JABEL: You are not the Lord of Time! DOCTOR: Right, then I'll do it myself. [SCENE_BREAK] LEELA: Doctor? Doctor, wake up. Please, wake up! Please! LEELA: Doctor! DOCTOR: Close your eyes. DOCTOR: Be thankful you're living, and trust to your luck, and march to your front like a soldier. Gertrude Stein LEELA: I think you've broken it. DOCTOR: To be strictly accurate, it broke itself. All I did was reflect some of the power back into it. Still, I don't suppose its owners will see it that way. Come on, we'd better go. [SCENE_BREAK] GENTEK: They have escaped, Captain. JABEL: They must be found and killed. This must take precedence over all other duties and devotions. GENTEK: He is not the Lord of Time, the one who will return. JABEL: He is our enemy, and the enemy of Xoanon. Kill him and the savage. [SCENE_BREAK] DOCTOR: Looking for something. LEELA: Us? DOCTOR: Oh, probably, probably. LEELA: Doctor, what is Xoanon? DOCTOR: A machine that's become a living creature. An old mission computer with schizophrenia. Not a very pretty thought, is it. Not my fault. LEELA: How is it your fault? DOCTOR: When I was here before, I programmed Xoanon for the Mordee. Unfortunately I forgot to wipe my personality print from the data core. Or did I really forget? I forget if I forgot. LEELA: You're not making yourself very clear, Doctor. DOCTOR: It may have been my own egotism. Anyway, now it has a split personality and half of it is mine. Is that clear? LEELA: No. DOCTOR: Well, come on, then. [SCENE_BREAK] XOANON 3: Us within us. We shall make two one. [SCENE_BREAK] TOMAS: Caleb! Caleb! CALEB: What is it? TOMAS: The power's used up. CALEB: Right, we must fall back. Get them moving, Tomas. TOMAS: Right. CALEB: Move! TOMAS: Back! Back to the village. CALEB: Come on. Everybody, quickly. TOMAS: Move! Move! Back, quickly! [SCENE_BREAK] DOCTOR: Shut the door. LEELA: How? Doctor, where are we? DOCTOR: An auxiliary communications room. DOCTOR: Ah. LEELA: It's the village. The creatures must have got through the boundary. DOCTOR: Looks like it. They're psi-tri projections from the dark side of Xoanon's id with enough kinetic energy to kill. Looks as if your friends are running out of time. LEELA: I'm going back to help them. DOCTOR: Don't be absurd. What do you think you can do about it? If I can arrange it, they'll be safer inside the barrier. LEELA: Do you mean here, inside the wall? What about the Tesh? DOCTOR: I didn't say safe, I said safer. DOCTOR: Neeva? Neeva? Neeva, are you there? Come on, wake up! NEEVA (OOV.): Yes, master. DOCTOR: Neeva, this is Xoanon. NEEVA (OOV.): What is your will? DOCTOR: Tell Caleb to lead the tribe through the mouth of the idol. [SCENE_BREAK] NEEVA: Through the mouth of the idol. DOCTOR (OOV.): That is my order. See that it is done. NEEVA: Will Caleb believe me? DOCTOR (OOV.): Say these words to him. I don't believe in ghosts either. NEEVA: I don't believe in ghosts either. [SCENE_BREAK] DOCTOR: Go now, and do my will. NEEVA (OOV.): Yes, Doctor. DOCTOR: I underestimated that man. Come on, we've got an appointment on level thirty seven. [SCENE_BREAK] GENTEK: They cannot be found. JABEL: Continue the search. Gentek, is the guard posted outside the Sacred Heart? GENTEK: Yes, Captain. [SCENE_BREAK] DOCTOR: (silent) Hold that. LEELA: Psst. DOCTOR: Keep watch. LEELA: Can't I come with you? DOCTOR: Xoanon's unstable. He might kill me. He'd certainly kill you. Anyway, we need someone on guard. LEELA: Doctor, be careful. [SCENE_BREAK] CALEB: The tunnel's here. Right, come on. TOMAS: Caleb! CALEB: Where there's one Tesh there's likely to be more. TOMAS: Those creatures, they're moving in on us fast. Now we've got to get the men inside the barrier, and quickly. CALEB: All right, get them moving, Tomas. I'll go on ahead. And you, keep your eyes open! Come on. [SCENE_BREAK] XOANON 3: Who are you? XOANON 2: Who are you? XOANON: Who are you? DOCTOR: I'm the Doctor. I'm the Doctor! XOANON 3: Who are you? DOCTOR: I'm the Doctor. XOANON 2: Who are you? DOCTOR: I'm the Doctor! XOANON: Why have you come? DOCTOR: To correct a mistake I made when I was here before. XOANON: We have made no mistake. XOANON 2: No mistake. XOANON 3: No mistake. DOCTOR: I made the mistake. XOANON: No mistake. DOCTOR: I made the mistake! When the ship was stranded, the computer broke down. I thought the data core had been damaged, so I renewed it by making a direct link with the compatible centres of my own brain. XOANON: The psychian memory transfer. DOCTOR: A variation of it, yes. XOANON: Good. Very good. Go on. XOANON 2: How did he find the ship? XOANON 3: Don't interrupt. You'll spoil it. DOCTOR: This isn't a fairy tale. It actually happened. DOCTOR: For generations, teams of technicians had worked on the computer, trying to extend its power. XOANON: And did they damage the data core? DOCTOR: No. No. Without realising it, they had created life. The computer hadn't failed at all. It had evolved into a living creature, the first of an entirely new species. XOANON 2: A new species? Oh come now. DOCTOR: Yes, a new species. When I arrived, it had just been born. It was in shock. I didn't recognise a birth trauma and that was my mistake. And when I connected my own brain to it, it didn't just take compatible information as a machine should have done. It took everything. XOANON: Fascinating. Can I ask a question? XOANON 3: Shush. Let him finish. DOCTOR: When it woke, it had a complete personality. Mine. It thought I was itself. Then it began to develop another separate self, its own self. And that's when it started to go mad. XOANON 2: And where is it? XOANON 3: This poor mad XOANON: Mad machine creature. DOCTOR: It's here, Xoanon! I'm talking to it! It's you! DOCTOR: Xoanon? Xoanon? XOANON 2: I grow tired. I'm thinking no longer. DOCTOR: No, no, wait, Xoanon. I'm the Doctor. I'm separate, I'm real. You must acknowledge me. XOANON: I will not think you. XOANON 3: We are Xoanon. DOCTOR: And I am the Doctor. XOANON: No. DOCTOR: I'm the Doctor! XOANON 3: No! DOCTOR: I am the Doctor! XOANON 3: No! XOANON (on screen): No! No! No! No! XOANON 4: Who am I? Who am I?
The Face of Evil - part 3