TERMINUS

BY: STEPHEN GALLAGHER

Part One

First Air Date: 15 February 1983
Running time: 24:58

TURLOUGH: I'm scared. This place is like a maze. Where am I supposed to be going?

GUARDIAN (OOV.): Your function is to obey, not question.

TURLOUGH: I may not have must time. I don't think they trust me, especially Tegan.

GUARDIAN (OOV.): The roundel behind you.

GUARDIAN (OOV.): That one. Open it.

GUARDIAN (OOV.): Operate the blue switches. Now you'll be able to remove the space-time element from beneath the console.

TURLOUGH: Which switches will release the TARDIS to my control?

GUARDIAN (OOV.): Do only as I say.

TEGAN (OOV.): Turlough!

GUARDIAN (OOV.): Quickly, close the roundel.

TURLOUGH: Now what do I do?

GUARDIAN (OOV.): Go to the console room.

TURLOUGH: And? Where have you gone?

TEGAN: Who were you talking to?

TURLOUGH: Oh, no one. I was singing. Not very well, I'm afraid.

TEGAN: Why didn't you answer when I called?

TURLOUGH: I'm very sorry, I didn't hear you.

TEGAN: You're up to something, I can feel it.

TURLOUGH: I'm simply looking around. The TARDIS is so very large.

TEGAN: What have you been doing? Have you touched anything?

TURLOUGH: You look so sweet when you get angry.

TEGAN: I'm being serious. What have you been doing?

TURLOUGH: Nothing. You're being foolishly and unjustifiably suspicious. Tegan, why do you dislike me so much?

TEGAN: You're unreliable.

TURLOUGH: You hardly know me.

TEGAN: I heard the way you were talking to the Doctor.

TURLOUGH: Being friendly hardly makes me unreliable.

TEGAN: It's the way you were doing it.

TURLOUGH: Oh, you would prefer I used your sledgehammer tactics?

TEGAN: At least I'm honest.

TURLOUGH: Being rude isn't honest. Neither is overreacting. If I choose to smooth the way with a smile and a soft phrase, that doesn't make me unreliable. Charm, the way I use it, is to disagree agreeably.

TEGAN: You were using it to deceive.

TURLOUGH: Oh, you're so typical of your planet, reduced to shouting if you can't have your own way.

TEGAN: I am not!

TURLOUGH: No? You seem unable to grasp that there are other approaches. To smile before asking.

TEGAN: Don't patronise me, Turlough.

TURLOUGH: I'm simply relating what I think.

TEGAN: Turning an argument around is something you're very good at.

TURLOUGH: Listen to yourself. You're so concrete in the way you think. Why can't you just agree to differ?

TEGAN: I think you're dangerous.

TURLOUGH: I think we should try and be friends.

TEGAN: I'm going to tell the Doctor about the roundel.

TURLOUGH: Do so, but you'd only make a fool of yourself. I travel in the TARDIS too, now. I have no desire to k*ll myself. I had no reason to open that roundel. Where are you going?

TEGAN: To show you to your room.

TURLOUGH: We're friends?

TEGAN: Not yet.

TURLOUGH: Looks like a kid's room.

TEGAN: It was Adric's.

TURLOUGH: Who?

TEGAN: Doesn't matter.

TURLOUGH: I've had enough of children, what with that awful school on Earth.

TEGAN: You can change things if you want.

TURLOUGH: Right, all this can go for a start.

TEGAN: It's your room. Do what you like.

TEGAN: He's got the manners of a pig.

NYSSA: The Doctor?

TEGAN: The brat, Turlough.

NYSSA: He'll settle down.

TURLOUGH: It's repaired itself.

GUARDIAN (on scanner): Concentrate. You have work to do.

TEGAN: What are you doing?

NYSSA: Synthesising an enzyme. I seem to need the practice.

TEGAN: You've done it before.

NYSSA: Adric did the calculation for me. My own figures aren't as good, as you can see.

TEGAN: I'll see if I can find his notes, before Turlough destroys them.

TURLOUGH: What will this do?

GUARDIAN (on scanner): You are touching the heart of the TARDIS. Rip it free!

TURLOUGH: What happens to me?

GUARDIAN (on scanner): You will be safe. I am ready to lift you away.

TEGAN: Turlough?

TEGAN: Turlough?

TURLOUGH: It's stuck.

GUARDIAN (on scanner): Continue.

TURLOUGH: I'm trying. It won't move.

GUARDIAN (on scanner): The break-up is beginning. I can sense it. Remove the space-time element!

TEGAN (OOV.): Turlough?

TEGAN: Turlough? Oh, no. Doctor!

DOCTOR: What is it?

TEGAN: Quickly!

TEGAN: What is it?

DOCTOR: We're in trouble. I'll explain later.

DOCTOR: What was Nyssa working on?

TEGAN: Nothing that could have caused this.

DOCTOR: The rotor's jamming. Well, there's a safety cut out.

TURLOUGH: Is Nyssa safe?

DOCTOR: Well, we'll see. I'm trying to refocus the exterior viewer on the interior of the TARDIS.

TEGAN: It's just a mess.

DOCTOR: Dimensional instability, that's the danger. Nyssa!

DOCTOR (OOV.): Nyssa, can you hear me?

NYSSA: Yes!

DOCTOR (OOV.): Stay well back. There's nothing you can do. Nyssa?

TEGAN: What's that? I saw something just for a moment.

DOCTOR: Oh, no. The outside universe is breaking through.

TEGAN: Look!

DOCTOR (OOV.): Look behind you, Nyssa.

DOCTOR: Go through, Nyssa. It's your only chance.

TEGAN: Where are you sending her?

DOCTOR: I don't know, but if she stays in the room, she'll die.

DOCTOR: Nyssa, if you can hear me,

DOCTOR (OOV.): Keep moving. Keep moving, Nyssa. Stay ahead of it. If you don't, it will k*ll you.

TEGAN: What's that?

DOCTOR: I don't know.

TURLOUGH: Where does that door lead to?

DOCTOR: Another spacecraft.

TEGAN: Look!

TEGAN: Where did the other spacecraft come from?

DOCTOR: The TARDIS found it. There's a fail-safe. On impending break-up, it seeks out and locks onto the nearest spacecraft.

TEGAN: You never mentioned it before.

DOCTOR: Well, it never worked before.

TEGAN: Well?

DOCTOR: She's gone. Stay there.

TEGAN: Nyssa's gone.

TURLOUGH: What was that?

TEGAN: The Doctor!

TEGAN: Doctor? Doctor?

GUARDIAN: Follow them.

TURLOUGH: I can't.

GUARDIAN: Follow, and k*ll him!

TURLOUGH (OOV.): Tegan?

TURLOUGH: I wonder how that happened.

TEGAN: It seems we have no choice. We go on.

DOCTOR: What have I sent you into, Nyssa?

TEGAN: Come on, we can catch up with the Doctor. Come on!

DOCTOR: Nyssa.

NYSSA: Doctor!

NYSSA: Where are we?

DOCTOR: I think it's some sort of old passenger liner.

NYSSA: And those things?

DOCTOR: Yes, well, some people have the strangest ideas about decor. Come on, let's get back to the TARDIS.

KARI: Check the air seal.

OLVIR: Secure.

TEGAN: I'm positive that was Nyssa calling.

TURLOUGH: You heard something. Your imagination did the rest.

TEGAN: Maybe.

TURLOUGH: Let's go back.

TEGAN: No!

TURLOUGH: Oh, no.

KARI: The whole ship's rigged to run on a*t*matic, yet there's atmosphere. It doesn't fit the briefing at all.

OLVIR: So what? We're only here for the cargo.

KARI: Would it really surprise you if there weren't any? This ship is d*ad.

DOCTOR: Ah. I don't remember this. We must have taken a wrong turn.

NYSSA: What is it?

DOCTOR: A massive plug. The hull must have been damaged at some time.

NYSSA: It's still soft.

DOCTOR: Yes, I know. Come on, we'll try, er, this way.

KARI: Advance party to raider. We're coming back. This isn't the ship you described.

OLVIR: We can't go back if he doesn't link with the airlock.

DOCTOR (OOV.): Er, this way.

NYSSA: We're lost, aren't we.

DOCTOR: Certainly not.

DOCTOR: Oh, dear. So sorry, I didn't know it was private.

KARI: That's all right. We're in the mood for company.

VOICE (OOV.): Help me.

TURLOUGH: Over there.

VOICE (OOV.): Help me.

TEGAN: That's Nyssa!

OLVIR: k*ll them. We've enough problems.

KARI: Be quiet. If you're not members of the crew, how did you get here?

DOCTOR: We have a ship of our own.

OLVIR: So they're after the cargo, too.

KARI: Are you?

DOCTOR: Unarmed?

OLVIR: Kari.

KARI: Watch them.

OLVIR: That's our ship! He's running out on us!

KARI: Shut up.

KARI: Advance party to raider. Come in, raider. Come in. ... Is this your work?

DOCTOR: Hardly.

DOCTOR: Neither is that.

TURLOUGH: Engines.

VOICE (OOV.): Please help me.

TEGAN: Hold on, Nyssa. We must find something to lever the door open.

TURLOUGH: Let's get out of here.

TEGAN: Find a pry bar. Now!

TEGAN (OOV.): Turlough, it's moving!

TURLOUGH: On my way.

TEGAN (OOV.): Turlough!

TURLOUGH: I'm coming!

TEGAN (OOV.): Turlough!

TEGAN: Turlough

TEGAN: Help me!

TURLOUGH: Are you all right? I found the doorway to the TARDIS.

TEGAN: Where?

TURLOUGH: This way. Come on.

NYSSA: Who are they?

DOCTOR: Raiders, by the look of it. Probably an advance party to open the airlocks.

KARI: You say you have a ship?

DOCTOR: Yes.

KARI: I'm commandeering it.

DOCTOR: I think not.

DOCTOR: Stop bluffing. You haven't got a chance. Listen to the engines. Alignment manoeuvres. We're docking with another ship.

KARI: Then I'm asking you, will you take us off this ship?

DOCTOR: If you put the g*n away, please.

DOCTOR: Thank you.

TANNOY: All decks stand by. All decks stand by. This is a special announcement from Terminus Incorporated.

DOCTOR: I think we should get out of here. Follow me.

TANNOY: Primary docking alignment procedures are now complete. Passengers with mobility should prepare to disembark.

TANNOY: Anyone failing to disembark will be removed. Sterilisation procedures will then follow.

TANNOY: There is no return. This is Terminus.

OLVIR: Wait a minute.

KARI: Olvir?

OLVIR: I know where we are.

KARI: Where?

TEGAN: They're everywhere.

TURLOUGH: Give me a hand. Come on, quickly.

OLVIR: Now we know, don't we? Now we know what its all about.

OLVIR: This is Terminus, where all the lazars come to die.

OLVIR (OOV.): We're on a leper ship! We're all going to die!
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