THE AWAKENING

BY: ERIC PRINGLE

Part One

First Air Date: 19 January 1984
Running time: 25:18

JANE: Ben? Ben? Are you there, Ben?

JANE: Careful! You'll k*ll someone.

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 w*r 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.

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 h*t 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 k*lled.

TURLOUGH: We can't go out there!

TURLOUGH: Doctor!

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.

HUTCHINSON: I don't understand you. Every man, woman and child in this village is involved in these w*r 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.

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 b*mb's h*t the place.

TURLOUGH: Maybe it did.

TEGAN: Can we find my grandfather?

TURLOUGH: What was that?

DOCTOR: A ghost.

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 w*r game.

TEGAN: We're here to visit my grandfather.

WILLOW: You'd better see Sir George. He'll sort it out. Move out!

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!

TEGAN: What are you doing? Give me that back!

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 w*r 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.

TEGAN: Oh, no! Come on! Help!

TEGAN: Oh, it's you.

TURLOUGH: What's happening?

TEGAN: Later. Let's get away from here first.

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.

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: g*n.

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 h*t '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.

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.

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.

CHANDLER: This ain't possible.

DOCTOR: Look at the others.

DOCTOR: Will, in here.

TURLOUGH: We're too late.

TEGAN: We must tell the Doctor.

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 w*r, 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.

TURLOUGH: Now where?

TEGAN: He said he was going to the village.

TURLOUGH: Let's go, but watch out for those horsemen.

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.

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!

HUTCHINSON: After her! You'll need some light. Get a candle.

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.

WILLOW: Change into that.

TEGAN: Why?

WILLOW: Just do as you're told. Unless you want me to do it for you.

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.

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?

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!
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