PART FOUR

Written by Ben Aaronovitch

Original air date: 27 September, 1989
Run time: 24:14

Gore Crow Hotel

Morgaine: Surrender to me what is mine by right of conquest. Give me Excalibur.

Ace: Never!

Morgaine: Then you shall be given over to the Destroyer.

Morgaine: And become his handmaidens in hell. Bwahahahaha!

Dig site

The Doctor: Tell Morgaine to call off the Destroyer.

Mordred: Surrender to our justice and the children will live.

The Doctor: Your justice? Tell her to call it off or I will decapitate you.

Gore Crow Hotel

Morgaine: Now we shall see what is happening. Oh. He must care for you very much to thr*at my son so. Fear not. It is a deception.

Dig site

Morgaine (O.C.): He is bluffing.

Mordred: We know you of old, Merlin. You will not k*ll.

The Doctor: I wouldn't count on it.

Mordred: Come then, look me in the eye. End my life.

Mordred: It is a weakness, this lack of spirit.

Brigadier: Try me.

Gore Crow Hotel

Morgaine: Ware this man, Mordred. He is steeped in blood.

Dig site

The Doctor: Brigadier, this is not the way.

Brigadier: I'm sorry, Doctor. Can Morgaine hear me?

Mordred: Yes.

Brigadier: Listen to me, Morgaine. Leave my world or your son dies.

Mordred: Deathless Morgaine.

Gore Crow Hotel

Mordred (O.C.): Save me!

Morgaine: Die well, my son.

Dig site

Mordred: Mother!

Gore Crow Hotel

Morgaine: Knight Commander.

Above the dig site

Commander: Your Majesty.

Morgaine (O.C.): Recommence your att*ck.

Gore Crow Hotel

Morgaine: Take no prisoners.

Ace: No!

Above the dig site

Commander: We shall make honour our standard. Put down your g*n, draw your swords. Good steel will be our conscience. Do them honour. k*ll them all.

Dig site

Ancelyn: This is our path, to fight and die.

Bambera: That's what we're paid for, so let's do it with some style!

Mordred: My mother will destroy you.

Brigadier: Just between you and me, Mordred, I'm getting a little tired of hearing about your mother. Get in.

The Doctor: Hold tight.

Gore Crow Hotel

Morgaine: Your friends will soon be d*ad.

Morgaine: Now, give me Excalibur.

Ace: If you're so powerful, why don't you come and get it?

Morgaine: An excellent suggestion.

Morgaine: The sword is protecting you.

Ace: The Doctor was right. You can't touch us while we're in the circle. Not while we've got the paper Kn*fe.

Morgaine: This is true. I cannot break such an enchantment.

Destroyer: But I can.

Ace: If you're so bad, why haven't you done anything yet?

Destroyer: First I must be freed. This mortal has me chained.

Morgaine: With silver.

Destroyer: It burns.

Morgaine: Good.

Destroyer: She fears me.

Morgaine: I fear nothing.

Destroyer: Then free me, and let me claim this world.

Morgaine: Perhaps.

Ace: What does he want the world for?

Destroyer: Why, to devour it. What else?

Outside Gore Crow Hotel

The Doctor: Ace!

Brigadier: Doctor, no!

The Doctor: Morgaine! If they're d*ad...

Brigadier: Decisions, decisions.

Gore Crow Hotel

The Doctor: Ace!

Brigadier: Doctor, I'm afraid that Mordred m...

The Doctor: Ace? Shou Yuing?

Ace: We're here, Professor.

The Doctor: What happened?

Shou: The hotel fell on us.

Ace: There was this woman with a pet demon, and I seem to remember a chalk circle that was supposed to protect us from harm.

The Doctor: Yes, I get the idea, Ace. Where's Excalibur?

Shou: Er, the woman seemed to want it very badly.

Ace: Very, very badly.

Shou: So we gave it to her.

The Doctor: Good.

Ace: But it's not our fault. I mean, if I'd had some Nitro, then maybe I could. What do you mean, good?

The Doctor: Exotic alien swords are easy to come by. Aces are rare.

Brigadier: Doctor? What do you make of this?

The Doctor: I don't know. Which way did Morgaine leave?

Ace: A flash of light and gone.

The Doctor: I wonder.

Castle

Morgaine: Where is my army?

Destroyer: Gone the way of all flesh.

Dig site

Ancelyn: A good fight.

Ancelyn: You are hurt, my lady.

Bambera: I told you not to. Oh, never mind.

Gore Crow Hotel

Ace: Where is she now?

The Doctor: At the other end of that interstitial vortex.

Ace: So what's our next move?

The Doctor: Well, first we go through this. Brigadier, I'll go first. Ace...

Ace: Stay here.

The Doctor: Correct. And you. Now, high drama is very similar to comedy. It's all a matter of...

The Doctor: Timing.

Chou: They're going to be k*lled. You saw the Destroyer.

Ace: Morgaine could control the Destroyer. She had it chained up with silver chains. Get it?

Shou: The silver b*ll*ts!

Ace: Keep an eye on the vortex.

Shou: It's fading.

Ace: Got them!

Shou: It's going. What're you going to do, throw them through?

Ace: Do me a favour. Geronimo!

Castle

Destroyer: You would do well to release me, Morgaine.

Morgaine: Release you?

Destroyer: Merlin is mighty and cunning. I cannot destroy him while I am chained.

Morgaine: What matter? I have Excalibur. Without it, Arthur sleeps forever. Merlin cannot find me ere I leave. See! The gateway home is almost complete.

Destroyer: He comes even as we speak.

Morgaine: How? He cannot come through the vortex. You have allowed him access. Why?

Destroyer: So that you would be forced to release me.

The Doctor: Morgaine.

The Doctor: Brigadier.

Brigadier: Well, nothing ventured, Doctor.

Destroyer: Nothing gained.

The Doctor: That was uncalled for.

Morgaine: Your move, Merlin.

The Doctor: You haven't won the game yet, Morgaine.

Morgaine: I could always defeat you at chess, Merlin.

The Doctor: Who said anything about playing chess? I'm playing poker.

The Doctor: And I have an Ace up my sleeve.

Ace: Very funny.

Morgaine: Destroy him.

Destroyer: Release me.

The Doctor: What is it to be, Morgaine? Who do you fear more?

Morgaine: This is no idle thr*at, Merlin. Give me Excalibur or I will loose the Destroyer upon the world.

The Doctor: Don't be a fool.

Ace: Nice work, Doctor.

The Doctor: But I thought she was bluffing.

Outside the castle

Mordred: Where is she?

Brigadier: To whom are you referring?

Castle

Destroyer: Free!

The Doctor: You fool, Morgaine.

The Doctor: Do you think this'll solve anything?

Morgaine: Yes. Too late, Merlin. The gateway is open. I am gone and you have lost.

Ace: Doctor, I've got a silver b*llet!

Mordred: Mother!

Morgaine: Mordred?

The Doctor: About time.

Morgaine: You live.

Mordred: In spite of thee, false parent. Witch!

Morgaine: I thought you d*ad.

Mordred: Thought? Or wished it so.

Morgaine: Mordred, no. That was not the way of it. No.

Ace: Doctor, can I have a word?

Brigadier: Doctor?

The Doctor: Brigadier, you're going the wrong way. Ace!

Destroyer: At last.

Outside the castle

Destroyer: Devour.

Brigadier: What was that?

The Doctor: That, Brigadier, was the beginning of the end of the world.

Brigadier: Same as ever, eh, Doctor?

Castle

Destroyer: I hunger.

Outside the castle

The Doctor: It's no good. It's not good at all.

Brigadier: I can have an air strike here in minutes.

The Doctor: It's no good, Brigadier. Conventional w*apon won't harm it.

Brigadier: No, I didn't think so.

The Doctor: Ace, give me the silver b*ll*ts.

Ace: How did you know?

The Doctor: Silver b*ll*ts'll do the trick.

Ace: How did you know I had them?

The Doctor: It's all a matter of timing, Ace. Give me your g*n.

Brigadier: What, those will stop the Destroyer? What, you just sh**t the b*ll*ts into it?

The Doctor: Simple, isn't it? Just like most killings.

Brigadier: Good lord, is that a spaceship?

Ace: You scumbag!

Brigadier: Sorry, Doctor, but I think I'm rather more expendable than you are.

Castle

Destroyer: This world shall be mine. And then another, and another.

Destroyer: Ah, little man. What do you want of me?

Brigadier: Get off my world.

Outside the castle

The Doctor: We've got to stop him.

Castle

Destroyer: Pitiful. Can this world do no better than you as their champion?

Brigadier: Probably. I just do the best I can.

Outside the castle

Ace: No chance. He's had it.

Dig site

Bambera: Sergeant, where's that coffee? Sergeant!

Mordred: The battle's not over yet.

Outside the castle

The Doctor: You stupid, stubborn, pig-headed numbskull. You were supposed to die in bed. I could have handled it, done your job.

Brigadier: Nonsense, Doctor.

The Doctor: You're supposed to be d*ad.

Brigadier: Oh, really, Doctor. You don't think I'd be so stupid as to stay inside, do you?

The Doctor: Well...

Brigadier: Really, Doctor, have a little faith. Ace?

Ace: Yes, Brigadier.

Brigadier: I'm getting too old for this sort of thing. He's all yours from now on. I'm going home to Doris.

The Doctor: Doris?

Brigadier: Yes, my wife.

The Doctor: Ha, ha, ha. So she caught you in the end.

Brigadier: Yeah.

Ace: Oi, shouldn't we be getting back?

Brigadier: Yes, Ace is right. I suspect there's some clearing up to be done.

The Doctor: Yes, just a small nuclear m*ssile bogged down in a nature reserve.

UNIT Mobile Command post

Bambera: It's a nuclear m*ssile. The blast will k*ll you as well.

Morgaine: We shall be long gone ere that happens. Now tell me, what is the secret incantation?

Bambera: I don't know what you're talking about.

Morgaine: The magic words. The failsafe release code.

Bambera: I've no idea.

Morgaine: Oh, I doubt that. What is the code?

Spacecraft

The Doctor: Ancelyn, replace Excalibur and Arthur will arise.

Ancelyn: I think the honour belongs to the Brigadier.

Brigadier: Oh, the Doctor should do it.

Ancelyn: No, my lord. You were the victor.

Ace: Give me that.

The Doctor: Ace, have you no sense of occasion?

Ace: No.

Ancelyn: Listen, she is alive.

Ace: Which is more than can be said for Arthur the freeze-dried.

The Doctor: This is very odd.

Ace: Well, you put him there.

The Doctor: I will put him there.

Ace: What's wrong, Doctor?

Ancelyn: Where is the King?

Ace: Doctor, this is for you.

The Doctor: What does it say?

Ace: Dear Doctor. King died in final battle. Everything else propaganda.

The Doctor: Who signed it?

Ace: The Doctor.

The Doctor: Ah well, that sorts that out.

Ace: PS, Morgaine has just seized control of the nuclear m*ssile.

The Doctor: Tut. I could have given myself more warning. Brigadier, you and Ace see to this ship.

Brigadier: expl*sives, Doctor.

Ace: Now you're talking.

The Doctor: Yes, we'll give Arthur a warrior's burial.

UNIT Mobile Command post

Morgaine: Too late, Merlin.

The Doctor: Is it? Not while there's an abort button.

The Doctor: If this m*ssile explodes, millions will die, you will die.

Morgaine: I shall die with honour.

The Doctor: All over the world, fools are poised ready to let death fly. A spark could turn into an inferno.

Morgaine: What do I care? This is w*r.

The Doctor: Is it? Death falling from the sky, blind, random, anywhere, anytime. No one is safe, no one is innocent? Machines of death, Morgaine, are screaming from above, of light brighter than the sun. Not a w*r between armies nor a w*r between nations, but just death, death gone mad. The child looks up in the sky, his eyes turn to cinders. No more tears, only ashes. Is this honour? Is this w*r? Are these the w*apon you would use? Tell me!

Morgaine: No.

The Doctor: Then put a stop to it, Morgaine. End the madness.

Morgaine: Then tell Arthur to face me with honour in single combat. Tell him to show himself. It's time he ceased hiding behind your coat tails, Merlin.

Dig site

Ace: And you said two kilos wouldn't be enough.

Brigadier: Hey, mind you don't get your feet wet.

UNIT Mobile Command post

The Doctor: Arthur is d*ad.

Morgaine: No.

The Doctor: He's d*ad, Morgaine.

Morgaine: Merlin, prince of deceit. Another trick.

The Doctor: No.

Morgaine: I don't believe you.

The Doctor: Don't you?

Morgaine: It can't be.

The Doctor: He died over a thousand years ago.

Morgaine: Arthur, who b*rned like star f*re.

The Doctor: Gone.

Morgaine: And was as beautiful. Where does he lie? I would look at him one final time.

The Doctor: He's gone to dust.

Morgaine: Then I shall not even have that comfort. I shall never see him again. Arthur. We were together in the woods of Celadon. The air was like honey.

The Doctor: I'm sorry, Morgaine. It's over.

Dig site

Ancelyn: I do not fear death, Mordred. You have slain my beloved. There is no life without her.

Mordred: So be it. Tis time!

The Doctor: Time and Time Lords wait for no man.

The Doctor: Ah, Brigadier. Before Mordred recovers, lock him up. And while you're at it, lock up his mother.

Lethbridge-Stewart's garden

The Doctor: Peaceful, isn't it?

Ancelyn: The silence after a battle, Doctor.

Brigadier: I'm sorry, I'm not being a very good host. Are you all right out here?

The Doctor: Oh, just admiring the garden.

Brigadier: I don't suppose you've seen Doris, have you?

Doris: Bye!

The Doctor: I think the battle may be about to begin.

Brigadier: You going somewhere, dear?

Doris: Out.

Brigadier: Out?

Doris: Out, with the girls.

Lethbridge-Stewart's driveway

The Doctor: I thought you said this was a piece of antiquated junk?

Ace: Did I say that, Professor?

The Doctor: Yes.

Shou: We'll try not to break too many speed records.

Bambera: Or traffic laws.

Doris: Hey, what's that?

Ace: Do you want to drive, Doris?

Doris: Oh, no. Er, I'll drive on the way back, okay?

The Doctor: Allow me.

Doris: Thank you, Doctor. Whee!

Brigadier: Er, exactly how far are you intending to go, Doris?

Doris: Well, I don't know, but there's lots of work to be done in the garden. Roll the grass.

Brigadier: What about supper?

Doris: Oh, that's a good idea. Have something really delicious ready for us when we get home, okay?

Doris: Oh, wicked!

Ancelyn: Ah, are they not magnificent?

Brigadier: Yeah. Are you any good with a lawn mower, Ancelyn?

The Doctor: I'll cook supper.
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