by GEOFFREY ORME

first broadcast - 21 January 1967

1. OPERATING ROOM

(DAMON prepares a syringe while POLLY gasps and whimpers, struggling lightly on the operating table, held down by ASSISTANT 2. DAMON turns to POLLY.)

DAMON: One tiny jab, and you'll know nothing more about it until it's all over.

(POLLY’s frightened breathing grows more rapid, barely holding back from screaming.)

2. ZAROFF'S LAB

(Two scientists are working at a table full of petri dishes, bottled solutions, and mechanisms. The DOCTOR is examining a panel of levers, buttons, and wires. One scientist gets up and goes off screen. The DOCTOR wanders to the empty station to examine the remaining scientist’s work.)

ZAROFF: And so you see my friend it is all so simple. When Atlantis was submerged, at the time of the flood, some life continued in air pockets in the mountain's caves, thanks to the natural air shaft provided by the extinct volcano. 

(As he speaks, the DOCTOR leans down for a better look at the scientist’s petri dishes, and slowly reaches for a pair of wire cutters on the table. He slips them into his sleeve and hides his hands behind his back as he backs toward the panel he was inspecting earlier.)

ZAROFF: You, ah, like my laboratory, yes? You find all this very impressive, No?

DOCTOR: No, not a bit, not a bit.

ZAROFF: What do you mean?

DOCTOR: I expected nothing less from the great Professor Zaroff.

(As the DOCTOR speaks, he cuts some wires behind his back, hampering power to the Operating Room.)

3. OPERATING ROOM

(POLLY continues to whimper, horrified, as the lights dim and brighten.)

DAMON: The lights are playing up again. Go and see what's wrong. 

(ASSISTANT 1 hands POLLY’s arm and the syringe to DAMON and walks around the table. POLLY cringes as the cold metal touches her arm.)

DAMON: No wait. I'd better go myself. Zaroff might listen to me. Look after the girl.

(DAMON walks around the table and hands the syringe back to ASSISTANT 1, then moves off screen. ASSISTANT 1 suddenly aggressively goes for POLLY’s neck instead of her arm, causing her to cry out.)

4. ZAROFF'S LAB

ZAROFF: Yes, we have come a long way in our research, and luckily the riches of Atlantis have provided ample means.

(He goes over to the fish t*nk.)

ZAROFF: Ah! So you are hungry today? Did I forget to feed you? He is beautiful, no?

(ZAROFF begins to pour food into the t*nk as DAMON enters.)

DAMON: Zaroff!

ZAROFF: Not now, Damon, can't you see I am talking with my friend here. (gesturing toward the fish)

DAMON: This won't wait. If I am to operate on the girl, I must have light!

ZAROFF: One operation, one girl, you are making an unnecessary fuss.

DAMON: I know what's going on. You're using so much voltage on the project that all civil use is curtailed.

ZAROFF: Ridiculous. I will show you. 

(ZAROFF moves away. No one follows. ZAROFF points to DAMON.)

ZAROFF: You follow me. Open the panel. 

(The DOCTOR and DAMON follow him to a large fuse box.)

ZAROFF: Ridiculous. There's nothing wrong with the civil supply, there's never anything wrong. Look. The supply to your clinic is always adequate and cannot be affected by demands elsewhere.

DAMON: Zaroff...

ZAROFF: The fault must lie at your own intake.

DAMON: It's easy to make excuses.

ZAROFF: Excuses! Who taught you, Damon? Everything you know, I taught you. Yes, I made you so I can break you.

(As he speaks, the DOCTOR quietly slips by them and approaches the fuse box. He cuts a wire and, being noticed, holds up the wire-cutters and touches his mouth like a young schoolboy feigning innocence.)

5. OPERATING ROOM

(The lights are out. POLLY is breathing heavily, but calming down.)

ASSISTANT 1: Zaroff won't listen to him. You'd better go and get some light from somewhere. You'll find some in the old quarters. 

(ASSISTANT 2 leaves.)

ASSISTANT 1: Don't worry prisoner, we won't keep you waiting long.

(ARA enters.)

ASSISTANT 1: Ah, you, girl, come here. Keep watch on the prisoner while I search for fuses. (to POLLY) And don't try any tricks, understand? Or it will be worse for you.

POLLY: I understand.

(ASSISTANT 1 leaves.)

ARA: Girl?

POLLY: What?

ARA: Don't speak, just follow me.

(ARA walks away as POLLY sits up.)

POLLY: I can't see anything!

ARA: Hold my hand. I'm used to the dark. Hurry before they get back!

(POLLY reaches for her hand and finds it. They rush off. The operation table is empty.)

6. ZAROFF'S LAB

DOCTOR: (holding the wire cutters and the cut wire) I can't think of how I came to be so clumsy. I must have bumped into it.

DAMON: You're not clumsy, Doctor, you did it on purpose. But you won't save the girl.

(DAMON rushes off. The DOCTOR turns to leave, but ZAROFF stops him.)

ZAROFF: Oh no Doctor, you are staying here with me.

DOCTOR: As your prisoner?

ZAROFF: Let us say as my guest.

7. TUNNEL

(ARA appears with a torch.)

ARA: It's all clear, come on.

(POLLY stumbles in and holds her stomach, breathless.)

POLLY: Ooo. Whew. I feel as though I've run a hundred miles. What now?

ARA: I know where to hide you. Come on.

(ARA leads the way.)

8. ZAROFF'S LAB

(The DOCTOR is pointing after DAMON, apparently having asked about him.)

ZAROFF: Damon? Ah. A certain Atlantean, a primitive. Clever, but no vision.

DOCTOR: Professor, you have offered these people a very big sugar-coated pill to make them accept you, yes?

ZAROFF: I turn their dreams and prophecies to my own means.

DOCTOR: The dreams of a people living on a drowned continent must be...

ZAROFF: To lift Atlantis from the ocean. Make it dry land again.

DOCTOR: Exactly! But- now, how are you going to do it? Even a genius like you?

ZAROFF: Look.

(He leads the DOCTOR to a model.)

ZAROFF: Atlantis underwater.

DOCTOR: A very large mass to lift.

ZAROFF: If I can't lift it then I must lower the water level. You see the valve there?

DOCTOR: Oh yes, may I?

ZAROFF: Please.

(The DOCTOR turns the valve. The water drains away.)

ZAROFF: Simple, isn't it?

DOCTOR: Yes, but you haven't got a drain big enough to take an ocean.

ZAROFF: Then I will make one.

DOCTOR: (scratching his hair) Forgive me, I'm a little lost. The crust of the Earth is more than a hundred miles thick. (holding his hands above each other, demonstrating its thickness) Below that is believed to be a white-hot molten core. Now where is your ocean going to go?

ZAROFF: That is my secret.

DOCTOR: Oh, now you're making fun of me, Professor.

ZAROFF: No, no.

DOCTOR: Even supposing you could drill to the depth of a hundred miles-

ZAROFF: There is a place where a fissure reduces the distance to less than fifteen miles.

DOCTOR: It's still an enormous obstacle.

ZAROFF: But not insurmountable! We have been working on it for many years.

DOCTOR: Even if-

ZAROFF: Excuse me, I have been interrupted.

(ZAROFF approaches his fish with a look of joy and pours its food into the t*nk.) 

DOCTOR: But Professor?

ZAROFF: Yes?

(The DOCTOR approaches.)

DOCTOR: Even supposing you succeeded, you know what will happen, don't you?

ZAROFF: You tell me, Doctor.

DOCTOR: Well, the water will be converted into superheated steam, the pressure will grow, and crack the crust of the Earth. Destroy all life, maybe even blow the planet apart.

ZAROFF: (watching his fish) Yes. And I shall have redeemed my promise to lift Atlantis from the sea. Lift it to the sky! It will be magnificent.

DOCTOR: Yes. (claps) Bang!

ZAROFF: (energetically) Bang! Bang, bang! That's all.

(The DOCTOR realizes he’s talking to a mad scientist, his smile of faked agreement changing subtly to one of fear and pity.)

DOCTOR: Yes. Just one small question. (casually) Why do you want to blow up the world?

ZAROFF: Why? You, a scientist, ask me why? (staring into nothing) The achievement, my dear Doctor. The destruction of the world. The scientists' dream of supreme power!

9. MINE

(An OVERSEER with a clipboard speaks to a miner standing beside a large rock. An irritating ringing is prevalent.)

OVERSEER: Only four loads today? You'll have to increase output or you'll be joining our fish friends. Alright, get on with it. 

(As the OVERSEER looks through his clipboard, he is joined by a GUARD.)  

GUARD: I've another two for you. 

(BEN and JAMIE are brought in. The ringing increases in volume and a buzzing element is added as the pitch warps down, then back up.) 

OVERSEER: Alright, this way, follow me.

(The OVERSEER leads BEN and JAMIE through the mine as the strange sound continues to fluctuate. The OVERSEER finds two miners, SEAN and JACKO, sitting by a minecart.) 

OVERSEER: What's this?

SEAN: Huh?

OVERSEER: Slacking?

(SEAN and JACKO quickly stand. SEAN holds a hand to his ear.)

SEAN: Oh I'm sorry I can't hear a word you're saying. Splitting with the noise.

OVERSEER: What have you got there?

JACKO: Who, me?

(JACKO quickly passes an object to SEAN behind his back.)

OVERSEER: Guard! Search that man.

(JACKO raises his arms as the GUARD pats him down.)

GUARD: Nothing here.

OVERSEER: Search the other.

(SEAN pauses before stepping in and raising his arms. The GUARD pats him down, but SEAN pretends to be ticklish and backs away, giggling.) 

GUARD: Nothing on this one either.

OVERSEER: Alright, this time you're lucky. These two have just joined us. Teach them to be useful.

(The GUARD and the OVERSEER leave. The four men watch them go.)

JACKO: (to SEAN) That was close. Where is it?

(JAMIE reaches into his tartan and pulls out a compass, which he passes to SEAN. SEAN tosses it in his hand happily.) 

BEN: What's the secret about a compass?

SEAN: It's as important as eyes down here. Thanks chum. If they had found that on us we'd have been for the high jump, I tell you.

JAMIE: Why d'ye pass it on to me though? Suppose they'd caught me with it?

SEAN: Ha ha. Well they didn't, did they?

BEN: Are you planning something, then?

JACKO: That's our business.

JAMIE: What's the matter with you? Are we not all in the same boat?

JACKO: That's right, Jock, and we don't want no one to rock it.

(JAMIE passes his pickaxe to his other hand and licks his lip as he approaches JACKO, ready for a fight.)

JAMIE: The name happens to be Jamie and I’ll just thank you to-

SEAN: Now now now now, take no notice, he's a bit like that, you see.

BEN: (points) Hey, watch it, there's a guard looking this way.

SEAN: Oh, make out we're working.

(SEAN grabs the pickaxe from JAMIE and leads the group away.)

10. ZAROFF'S LAB

(ZAROFF is looking at a clipboard with a scientist, while the DOCTOR studies test tubes in the background.)

ZAROFF: Your calculations cannot be correct. Let me see.

(DAMON rushes in.)

DAMON: Professor?

ZAROFF: Not now, Damon. (to the scientist) Come with me.

(They walk off screen.)

DOCTOR: Ah, Mr. Damon, you're back. Did your operation go well?

DAMON: The girl escaped.

DOCTOR: (smiling broadly) Oh dear. How very frustrating for you.

DAMON: We'll get her back.

DOCTOR: Oh yes, yes of course you will. 

(The DOCTOR walks around him and puts the test tubes away.)

DOCTOR: Very important to you, isn't it? I mean you er... you want all the human labour you can get, don't you?

(As the DOCTOR speaks, he pulls out his handkerchief and picks up a bottle of solution. He removes the cork with the handkerchief and smells it before putting it down.)

DAMON: Yes. But it's cheap and plentiful. 

(The DOCTOR stops what he’s doing to look at DAMON, disapproving of the concept. He continues to drip some solution onto his handkerchief and smells it again before stuffing it back in his pocket.) 

DAMON: We pick up survivors from shipwrecks who would otherwise be corpses and convert them to fish people.

DOCTOR: (holding a test tube) Amazing. The Professor leads the field in scientific discoveries.  (clears throat as he shows DAMON the test tube) What a fantasting conception. To control the world from a test tube.

(Patrick paused a moment after saying fantasting, I think he knew he messed it up and decided not to correct himself. :) )

DAMON: That's right.

DOCTOR: Well two can play at that game, have you ever seen this?

(The DOCTOR pours the solution into another solution, causing the release of a large amount of gas. DAMON coughs and gasps as another scientist tries to help him with the smoke and the DOCTOR uses the distraction to escape.)

DAMON: (coughing) Stop him! Stop him! Don't let him get away!

11. TEMPLE OF AMDO

ARA: You understand, you must hide and wait until I can fetch you. Don't be worried.

POLLY: Yes, but...

ARA: Don't make a sound.

POLLY: No, alright.

(ARA rushes off. POLLY looks nervously at the giant mask, the face of AMDO, taking up much of the far wall. She skirts a post and climbs up the large stone steps to the idol. She spins as she hears something and quickly jumps down to hide behind a wall.)

12. MINE

(BEN fingers his plate of slimy white plankton. He and JAMIE crouch beside SEAN and JACKO. The obnoxious ringing is mercifully absent.) 

BEN: Don't you ever get sick of this seafood?

JACKO: You learn to live with it.

SEAN: Just watch it though, they haven't found any way of keeping it fresh. In a few hours it's putrid.

JAMIE: Tell me, why do you need a compass?

SEAN: Well, there's no point in making a break without one, is there?

JACKO: Why don't you shout it out to the guards?

BEN: Look mate, do yourself a favour and stop treating us as if we're one of them.

(They look back and watch a group of guards pass by.)

BEN: Look, Jamie and I don't intend to stop here, either.

SEAN: See, I told you. Now come on boys, will you cheer up?

JACKO: Alright, alright.

BEN: How do you intend going about it?

JAMIE: Aye, how? There's guards all over.

BEN: Well come on, give.

(JACKO nods to SEAN.)

SEAN: Right. Well while I was mining a shaft, um, I came along the, ah, entrance to a little underground tunnel like this, you see?

BEN: Yup.

JAMIE: Where does it lead, though?

SEAN: Well we haven't been able to explore it, we'll jast have to take the chance. Now if we go, there'll be no turning back. You understand?

JACKO: We make it or we don't.

SEAN: Are you with us, then?

BEN: Yeah, count me in.

JAMIE: Aye, when do we go?

JACKO: When the chance comes.

SEAN: And we jump fast, do y'hear me?

(A beep signals the arrival of the OVERSEER. The four men quickly stand up. The OVERSEER approaches SEAN and JACKO.) 

OVERSEER: They need extra labour up at the project. You two join the lineup for selection.

(The infernal ringing starts up again as lunch break is over and work continues. The OVERSEER moves past BEN and JAMIE. SEAN and JACKO make to follow him, but BEN stops them.) 

BEN: Right, now's our chance, we're off.

SEAN: By Christopher you're right. If we disappear now they'll think we've gone to the project work g*ng. (claps JACKO’s shoulder) OK, Jacko?

JACKO: Oh it'll give us a start anyway.

BEN: Right now look, you go first Jacko, that'll show Jamie and me where the entrance is, then you go Sean-

JAMIE: And then you, then me.

(A whistle sounds.)

JAMIE: Scatter.

(The group scatters. The miners, including JAMIE, form a lineup. BEN signals to him. The OVERSEER comes down the line, choosing workers.) 

OVERSEER: Right, you... you... you...

JAMIE: How about me, sir?

(JACKO uses the distraction to slip into the tunnel, unnoticed.)

OVERSEER: You're too new. Get out of my way.

(The OVERSEER shoves JAMIE, who goes to stand at the corner by the tunnel.)

OVERSEER: You... you...

(BEN steps in.)

BEN: I volunteer sir.

(SEAN slips into the tunnel with the OVERSEER’s focus on BEN.)

OVERSEER: Too new.

BEN: Oh, but sir I-

OVERSEER: Go and join your friend.

(The OVERSEER pushes him toward JAMIE. JAMIE leans obstructively against the wall, allowing BEN to slip into the tunnel behind him.)

OVERSEER: You...

(The OVERSEER points at the last miner in the lineup and decides against it. He goes back down the line, but bumps into JAMIE, still leaning beside the tunnel.)

OVERSEER: I thought I told you to get out of my way.

JAMIE: (bending down, grabbing a lamp) Aye, sir, I'm just going, sir.

(JAMIE rejoins the miners as the OVERSEER leaves.)

JAMIE: (to miners) Thanks, boys.

(JAMIE rushes into the tunnel. The miners, realizing what’s up, collect around the tunnel and begin talking, further aiding the four escapees.)

13. TUNNEL

(BEN and SEAN crouch in a claustrophobic tunnel, with JACKO off screen.)

BEN: Come on now, we haven't got all day.

SEAN: Take a long time isn't he?

JACKO: Is that you?

(JAMIE comes down the tunnel with the lamp, bent double.)

JAMIE: Aye.

BEN: Come on, hurry up.

SEAN: And bring the light.

(They all squeeze down the tunnel.)

JAMIE: Alright?

BEN: (aside, to JACKO) Look, suppose this don't lead anyplace, and we want to come back?

JACKO: (cheerily) Oh you won't mate. They'll k*ll runaway workers on sight.

14. PASSAGE OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE

(The DOCTOR is running down a passage and passes a random cupboard.) 

GUARD [OC]: We better try the small chamber. 

(The DOCTOR quickly opens the cupboard, slips inside, and closes it. A guard in a tight, shiny black uniform, almost like a wet suit, passes through. The DOCTOR comes out of the cupboard with a guard’s outfit and begins to quickly put it on, watching out for more guards.)

15. ROOM OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE

(A guard approaches another guard.)

GUARD: Nothing here. Compression chamber next.

(The two guards walk toward a doorway. ARA comes through, carrying a basket. She keeps her head down and tries to walk fast, but the guard grabs her arm.)

GUARD: Seen any strangers, girl?

ARA: No sir, nobody.

(The guard lets her go and they continue through the doorway. ARA continues on, just to find herself face to face with another guard with an unkempt uniform.) 

DOCTOR: (hisses) Ara? 

(ARA runs. The DOCTOR quickly takes off his head covering, revealing his unmistakable hair, as he chases her.) 

DOCTOR: No wait, Ara! Its me.

ARA: Oh, it's you.

DOCTOR: Where's Polly?

ARA: Safe. I'm taking her some food and clothes.

DOCTOR: Good girl. Well done, Ara. Where can I find your Chief of State?

ARA: In the council chamber, why?

DOCTOR: I want to talk to him. Can you take me to him?

ARA: Yes, but he'll hand you over.

DOCTOR: I'll have to take that risk.

DAMON [OC]: I'll be outside. 

(The DOCTOR and ARA quickly hide behind two posts. The DOCTOR pulls his head covering back on as DAMON and RAMO, the priest, enter.)

DAMON: Keep your eyes skinned for escaped prisoners.

RAMO: Well where are the others now?

DAMON: The two young men are at the mines. The girl is still at large. So is the Doctor. But we'll find them. They cannot get away.

RAMO: Now what does Zaroff think of it all?

DAMON: Oh he's furious, of course. Could upset his plans.

RAMO: He should not have interfered with the temple sacrifice.

DAMON: You've always hated him, haven't you?

RAMO: He's a destroyer. He appeals to all that is base in our people. He should never have come to Atlantis.

DAMON: But without him, Atlantis will never rise again from the sea.

(The DOCTOR slips over to ARA’s post and takes off his guard hat.)

DOCTOR: (whispers) Can you to get Damon away? I want to talk to the priest alone.

ARA: I'll try.

(ARA approaches DAMON and RAMO.)

ARA: If you please? Master?

DAMON: (annoyed at the interruption) Yes, yes?

(He keeps talking to RAMO.)

ARA: I believe I have seen the girl you are looking for.

(DAMON stops in the middle of a sentence and turns to her.)

DAMON: Where?

ARA: Down by the market.

DAMON: Show me.

(DAMON pushes her in front of him as they leave. RAMO walks through the room slowly, deep in thought, until he is beside the DOCTOR’s hiding spot.) 

DOCTOR: Can I have a word with you, Ramo?

RAMO: Doctor! Dam...!

DOCTOR: We're both on the same side, Ramo. You distrust Zaroff out of instinct, I distrust him because I know the truth.

RAMO: Why should I trust you?

DOCTOR: That's a very good question. I wish I could think of a good answer.

RAMO: (pauses) Alright, tell me what you know.

(Suddenly there is a guard behind them. The DOCTOR senses his presence.)

DOCTOR: (whispers) Can we talk here?

RAMO: I know a place where we shan't be interrupted.

(RAMO walks away and the DOCTOR puts on his guard hat and follows.)

16. A FORK IN THE TUNNEL

(The tunnel is high enough for them all to stand upright, with plenty of space on all sides.)

BEN: Which way now? Thisaway, or thataway?

(JAMIE shines the light down one, then the other.)

JACKO: Oh one is as good as the other.

JAMIE: Well let's try fifty paces up each tunnel, then turn back.

BEN: Yeah.

JAMIE: Jacko? I suppose I'll go with you. We'll take the high road.

JACKO: Oh, let's go then.

(JAMIE and JACKO move off.)

BEN: Which leaves us with...

BEN & SEAN: ...the low road.

(BEN and SEAN take the other path.)

17. TEMPLE

(POLLY moves away from her hiding spot, watching smoke rise from a flame in the center of the room.)

RAMO [OC]: Come this way. 

(POLLY runs and finds a new hiding spot off camera, probably outside the room. RAMO and the DOCTOR enter. The DOCTOR has removed his unfashionable guard outfit.)

RAMO: We shall not be interrupted here.

(RAMO pauses to bow to the idol across the room before turning to the DOCTOR.)

RAMO: Now, tell me what you found out about Zaroff.

DOCTOR: He says that he's going to raise Atlantis, yes? That's not quite true, he intends to destroy Atlantis.

RAMO: A difficult task.

DOCTOR: It's easier than raising it.

RAMO: How will he destroy us?

DOCTOR: (gesturing drilling and draining) He intends to drill a hole through the earth's crust, and drain away the ocean, yes?

RAMO: Yes.

DOCTOR: Have you any idea what will happen if he does that?

(RAMO is clueless.)

DOCTOR: I'll show you. 

(The DOCTOR goes to the table full of ceremonial jars and something like a bunsen burner. He reaches for a jar, then realizes it may be considered sacred.)

DOCTOR: Oh. May I?

(RAMO nods. The DOCTOR, foreshadowing 10’s enjoyment of making a mess, excitedly grabs a clay jar and pulls off the lid.) 

DOCTOR: This pot is the earth. This is the ocean. (a pitcher of water) The ocean drains into the earth. 

(The DOCTOR pours the water into the jar and replaces the lid.) 

DOCTOR: Now- but the centre of the earth is hot, far hotter than this f*re.

(He places the clay pot on the bunsen burner.)

DOCTOR: So what happens?

RAMO: But this is child's play. What has this to do with Zaroff's project?

DOCTOR: But this pot is Zaroff's project. Watch. 

(The DOCTOR moves away and pulls RAMO back.)

DOCTOR: Now the pot begins to boil, but the steam can't get out, and so... I think we better stand a little further back... get down!

(They duck behind a post. The steam pressure blows the pot apart. The DOCTOR wipes his hands on his coat and stands, looking at the broken pieces on the ground. RAMO goes around the post to stand in front of him.)

RAMO: This is what will happen?

(The DOCTOR bends down and picks up some shards.)

DOCTOR: Zaroff intends to raise Atlantis... but in little pieces.

RAMO: You swear this is true?

DOCTOR: Well I thought I might mention it, of course if you don't mind being blown up...

RAMO: Can you stop him?

DOCTOR: Could I? I am not the ruler of Atlantis.

RAMO: If I took you to our ruler Thous, could you convince him?

DOCTOR: I might.

RAMO: Wait here.

(RAMO leaves. The DOCTOR drops the shards and blows a tune on his recorder as he waits.) 

18. TUNNEL

BEN & SEAN: Thirty eight, thirty nine, forty.

BEN: Well what beats me is why Atlantis hasn't been discovered before.

SEAN: Oh, maybe it has, but nobody got back home to tell the tale.

BEN: Oo yeah, could be. Hey!

(They hear someone else in the tunnel and hide on either side of the opening. JACKO appears with a torch. SEAN grabs him.)

JACKO: Hey! It's me.

SEAN: (chuckles) I'm sorry, can't be too careful these days.

BEN: Yeah but where's Jamie? He went with you.

JACKO: He's gone on, I came back to collect you and Sean.

BEN: Now what do we do, we're not even at the end of this one yet.

SEAN: I think the best thing to do, is you go back to Jamie and I'll go on and meet you in ten minutes.

(SEAN walks past BEN and JACKO.)

BEN: Oh yeah, but where?

SEAN: Where, at the, uh... at the fork. Okay?

BEN: Right.

(SEAN goes on while BEN and JACKO turn back.)

19. TEMPLE

(RAMO returns carrying a priest's robe.)

RAMO: Put this on, could you?

(The DOCTOR’s face lights up like a Whovian being given the chance to wear 4’s authentic scarf.)

DOCTOR: Could I?

(He quickly puts on the robe.)

RAMO: With these robes, no one will challenge you.

(The DOCTOR laughs his deep, almost menacing chuckle as he puts on the hat. The hat is like RAMO’s, with the coral tendrils spreading outward, but with a spiral shell in the middle instead of a flat shell. He stands with poise, his hands folded in front.)

DOCTOR: How do I look?

RAMO: What?

DOCTOR: (disappointed) Never mind.

(He wraps the robe around his front and walks away. RAMO follows.)

20. TUNNEL

BEN [OC]: JAMIE!

JAMIE [OC]: (faintly) I'm here.

(BEN and JACKO emerge from a tunnel onto a ledge along a straight cliff. BEN cups his hands around his mouth to call out.)

BEN: JAMIE!

JAMIE: Down here!

(JAMIE has fallen off the ledge and lies on a pile of rocks. BEN and JACKO scramble to the edge.)

BEN: Okay, mate. We're with you. Are you hurt?

JAMIE: No, but watch it, the rock's slippery.

BEN: Don't worry about us, just cling on.

JACKO: How far down is he?

BEN: About ten feet, I'd say.

JACKO: What's that in metres?

(BEN tosses a rock over the side to test the distance of the drop.)

BEN: Why don't you get further along there.

(They crawl further along the ledge as it grows narrower. BEN makes sure he has a good hold on a rock and reaches as far down as he can.) 

BEN: Can you reach it?

(JAMIE’s hand reaches up and grips a protrusion in the wall. He reaches higher and they clasp fingers. They grunt as JAMIE’s fingers slip and he catches the wall.) 

BEN: Try again. 

(JAMIE manages to grab BEN’s wrist.)

BEN: Right, now the other hand.

(JAMIE swings his arm and grabs BEN’s wrist with his other hand, both men grunting. JAMIE is pulled slowly up. BEN almost falls.) 

BEN: Argh, Jacko!

(JACKO jumps in and helps BEN back up and takes one of JAMIE’s hands.)

JAMIE: I think I got a foothold now.

(JAMIE is high enough to reach one arm over the ledge. JACKO pulls him by his hand and elbow. JAMIE manages to get his other arm over the side and BEN grabs his shoulder. They slowly pull him up, until JAMIE finds a foothold and jumps onto the ledge. They all collapse with exhaustion, breathing hard.) 

21. TEMPLE

(POLLY returns to the temple and approaches the mask of the goddess AMDO. She grunts with her hands on her hips.)

POLLY: You needn't think I'm afraid of you, you stupid thing.

(A hidden door beside the idol clicks open and POLLY hides behind the same wall as before. BEN whispers to the others as he emerges from the door.)

BEN: Come on, quietly.

(He stands up and looks around in dismay. JAMIE emerges next.)

BEN: Blimey, look where we are.

JAMIE: Back at the temple!

(SEAN emerges next.)

SEAN: Somebody down there.

(They stand closer together, defensively, and look down.)

POLLY: Boo.

BEN: (laughs) It's Polly! Alright.

JAMIE: Polly!

(BEN and JAMIE run down to greet her as JACKO emerges.)

JACKO: You know her?

BEN: Yeah of course I do, she's one of our lot.

POLLY: But what happened to you?

BEN: Well we found a tunnel in the mines that led into this idol.

JAMIE: So here we are.

(BEN notices POLLY's Atlantean dress.)

BEN: What's this rigout in aid of?

POLLY: They were going to turn me into a fish.

BEN: (laughing) Into a fish?

POLLY: It's not funny!

JAMIE: (pointing) We have friends with us.

SEAN: I'm Sean, this is Jacko.

JAMIE: (points at Polly) Have you seen the Doctor?

POLLY: Not since he went off with Professor Zaroff. Why, haven't you?

BEN: No, but I'd love to know what he's up to.

22. THOUS' CHAMBER

DOCTOR: Ramo, this ruler of yours, is he-

RAMO: His name is Thous. He believes Zaroff to be the deliverer of Atlantis.

(The doors open and THOUS enters, two guards in front and two behind. The two in front step aside for THOUS to approach his throne. The DOCTOR moves to his place beside RAMO.)

THOUS: Good evening, Brothers of the Temple. 

(THOUS, RAMO, and the DOCTOR bow ceremoniously.)

THOUS: Please be seated. 

(The DOCTOR and RAMO wait for THOUS to sit on his throne, which isn’t much more than a stool, before sitting themselves. THOUS does not face them, as they sit to his side.)

THOUS: What is this important business you want to tell me about?

RAMO: Most excellent Thous, this is a matter of life and death. Under no other circumstances would I have brought a stranger to you in temple garb.

(THOUS looks at the DOCTOR as he removes his priest hat.)

THOUS: A stranger? Who are you?

DOCTOR: A man of science.

THOUS: Science? Ah, I see, one of Professor Zaroff's colleagues. Perhaps we should ask him to join us.

(The DOCTOR quickly stands up and steps toward him.)

DOCTOR: Oh no, no I- I er, (clears throat) I wouldn't do that if I were you, in fact um, I er, I wanted to speak to you alone, Excellency.

(THOUS waves RAMO away. RAMO gets up and steps away.)

THOUS: Well, speak.

DOCTOR: Excellency, the Professor is a wonderful man.

THOUS: Wonderful.

DOCTOR: A worker of miracles.

THOUS: Indeed, you speak the truth.

DOCTOR: But, have you noticed his eyes lately?

THOUS: No.

DOCTOR: When he talks of his project, have you noticed his eyes, they light up like this! (raising his voice and giving him a fierce stare)

THOUS: What does this mean?

DOCTOR: The Professor is as mad as a hatter.

(The DOCTOR turns and steps away.)

THOUS: Mad? Zaroff?

DOCTOR: Completely. 

(The DOCTOR faces THOUS. He knocks his own head with his knuckles and cups his hand behind his ear, as if listening.)

DOCTOR: No answer. Sad.

THOUS: I do not understand.

RAMO: We... (approaches) we believe Zaroff to be working toward the destruction of Atlantis, not it's resurrection.

THOUS: (angrily) I have heard such words from you before, Ramo.

RAMO: This man has proved it to me. Zaroff's plan will split the world in two, this is not the action of a sane man.

THOUS: But your own priests proclaimed him to be the prophet who would raise us above the sea.

RAMO: Lolem, he is old and superstitious.

THOUS: (rising angrily) And your superior, Ramo, remember that!

(RAMO turns away in reluctant submission.)

DOCTOR: So you will not listen to us?

THOUS: I did not say that. I have heard your arguments.

DOCTOR: We've only just g*n.

THOUS: I've heard enough. (waves hand) Now leave me, and I will consider what you have said.

(THOUS looks ceremoniously at nothing. RAMO and the DOCTOR slowly walk away.)

RAMO: I know you will choose well for all our sakes.

(THOUS raises his hand again, ordering them to leave. The DOCTOR and RAMO bow slightly while THOUS takes a seat.)

23. TEMPLE

(POLLY, sitting on a stone, looks up in delight when ARA runs in and puts down the basket.) 

ARA: Oh, I'm sorry I'm so long, here's some food.

BEN: Ah, food.

(BEN takes some and hands it to JAMIE. POLLY rummages through the contents.)

POLLY: And clothes. Super. Thanks, Ara. 

(She gasps with delight as she pulls out a hat just like ARA’s.)

POLLY: Look at this! Why are you doing all this for us?

(She tries on the hat.)

ARA: You were kind to me, and I hate Zaroff.

(POLLY continues to study the hat.)

JAMIE: You hate Zaroff?

ARA: We are not all his slaves. He will find out one day.

(POLLY pulls out a dress and examines it.)

SEAN: Let's hope we find out soon. Do you want all that food for yourself, Ben?

BEN: Oh, sorry. 

(He hands some to SEAN.)

BEN: Look, Ara, have you seen anything of the Doctor?

ARA: Yes, I'll take you to him later.

(They all look toward a sound.)

BEN: What's that?

ARA: Oo, quickly, we must hide. They're coming.

JAMIE: Back where we came from, Ben.

(They all jump up and rush up to the tunnel beside the idol, except SEAN.)

BEN: Right, the safest place in the whole of Atlantis.

(SEAN gently takes ARA’s arms as she sinks to her knees.)

SEAN: There's no need to be afraid, girl.

(He follows the others.)

POLLY: Aren't you coming with us, Ara?

(She stands.)

ARA: No, I must stay here, I'll be missed.

(JAMIE reaches impatiently toward SEAN and POLLY.)

JAMIE: Are you two gonna remain here all night, come on!

(SEAN and POLLY squeeze through the doorway as ARA leaves.)

24. THOUS' CHAMBER

(The DOCTOR and RAMO stand before THOUS.) 

THOUS: I have given much thought to your words, and I have come to a decision.

(THOUS stands and points to something behind them.)

THOUS: There, is your answer. 

(The DOCTOR and RAMO turn to see ZAROFF stride into the room.)

THOUS: Do with them what you will!

(ZAROFF stands menacingly over the DOCTOR and RAMO.)
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