MEGLOS

BY: JOHN FLANAGAN AND ANDREW MCCULLOCH

Part Two

Original Air Date: 4 October 1980
Running time: 21:24

DOCTOR: It's no good. Every time we try to

ROMANA: Oh blast, here we go again.

DOCTOR: What's the matter?

ROMANA: Well, now his probe circuit's jammed.

DOCTOR: Well, that's easy. Just waggle his tail.

ROMANA: All right. We've tried everything else.

K9: Thank you, mistress. Repairs complete.

ROMANA: What can we try now? K9, is there any way out of a chronic hysteresis?

K9: Negative, mistress. No known technological procedure.

DOCTOR: We're still looking.

ROMANA: What if we stop the time rotor?

DOCTOR: Yes. No. That's a terrible idea.

ROMANA: I'm only trying to help.

DOCTOR: There's no known technological procedure. I'm sorry to whisper. There's no known technological procedure. There's no known technological procedure.

ROMANA: Oh blast, here we go again.

BROTADAC: Tigella, twenty seconds to atmospheric entry. Activating heat shields.

MEGLOS: Ha. Heat shields. How fascinating.

GRUGGER: They work. If it wasn't for us you'd still be in Zolfa-Thura.

BROTADAC: I've got a geographical fix on the main entrance. You want to land there?

GRUGGER: No. Jungle landfall a little to the north.

BROTADAC: Stand by for landing. Entering foliage now.

ZASTOR: Well, Lexa?

LEXA: You will not be pleased.

ZASTOR: So your prayers have not been answered?

LEXA: The Time Lord may visit us.

ZASTOR: Then you will allow him to inspect the Dodecahedron?

LEXA: On one condition. He must take the Deon oath.

ZASTOR: Take the Deon? No, Lexa. That would be an insult to our guest.

LEXA: Your guest.

ZASTOR: You cannot make a Time Lord swear allegiance to Ti.

LEXA: Once again, Zastor, you can impress us with your diplomacy.

GRUGGER: Right, we'll wait here for about an hour.

MEGLOS: One hour exactly.

GRUGGER: And we'll come and get you if anything goes wrong.

MEGLOS: Goes wrong? General, you know sometimes I think you forget who I am.

BROTADAC: That man could do anything. What a mind! Anything.

GRUGGER: Don't think too hard, you'll burst something.

BROTADAC: And I like his coat.

DEEDRIX: The moment he arrives, Caris will bring him to us.

LEXA: Having filled his head with scientific nonsense, I presume.

MAN (OOV.): Temperature rising in food store.

DEEDRIX: I hope your friend the Doctor will appreciate our difficulties.

ZASTOR: The Doctor has the maturity to respect many points of view.

CARIS: We could inhabit the surface again. If this Doctor fails us, we may have to.

MEGLOS: I'm the Time Lord. The Doctor. You were expecting me?

CARIS: Oh, yes, indeed. You're most welcome. Please, follow me.

MAN (OOV.): Central storage banks overloading. Shall I close off receptor panels?

DEEDRIX: No, not yet. Reroute surplus to section five. They have spare capacity.

LEXA: The oath-taking ceremony is prepared.

DEEDRIX: What? You're making him take the oath? Zastor, this is ridiculous.

ZASTOR: It's got to be done, Deedrix.

CARIS: Zastor.

ZASTOR: Doctor! It is good to see you again.

MEGLOS: Again?

ZASTOR: It's been a long time. I'm Zastor, now the Tigellan leader.

MEGLOS: Oh yes, of course, yes, I remember you very well.

ZASTOR: You haven't changed much, Doctor. A little older, a little wiser.

MEGLOS: Oh, much wiser. I gather your energy source is behaving somewhat capriciously.

DEEDRIX: Capriciously? It's out of control.

MEGLOS: Excuse me. Excuse me.

MEGLOS: An absorption system, I presume?

DEEDRIX: Yes, there's a series of receptor panels placed above the Dodecahedron and radiated energy is measured there.

MEGLOS: And these screens can be closed down?

DEEDRIX: Well, yes, the central storage banks would contain enough energy for one hour, but it is extremely dangerous.

MEGLOS: One hour is all I'll need. Turn them off.

DEEDRIX: Close down receptor panels until further notice.

MEGLOS: Good. Now show me the Dodecahedron.

ZASTOR: Surely you remember the way, Doctor?

MEGLOS: Ah. Yes, of course. But now that you're leader, I'll follow you.

LEXA: Before entering the Power room, you must take the Deon oath.

ZASTOR: A mere formality, Doctor.

LEXA: Will you swear allegiance to Ti, Doctor?

MEGLOS: I, swear allegiance to Ti? I'll swear allegiance to Ti with great pleasure. I'm flattered to be so honoured. Please, lead the way.

ROMANA: Oh blast, here we go again.

DOCTOR: What's the matter?

ROMANA: Well, now his probe circuit's jammed.

DOCTOR: Well, that's easy. Just waggle his tail.

ROMANA: All right. We've tried everything else.

K9: Thank you, mistress. Repairs complete.

ROMANA: We can't get out of it. We've tried everything.

DOCTOR: Yes. That's what you said when you were repairing K9. You'd tried everything. Tried everything. We've tried everything. Of course!

ROMANA: What?

DOCTOR: Can you remember the rest of what you said?

ROMANA: I should think so, we've been through it enough times.

DOCTOR: K9?

K9: Master?

DOCTOR: Then that's how we'll do it. Throw it out of phase.

ROMANA: You mean go through the motions deliberately?

DOCTOR: Yes, yes, yes, before the cycle comes back again.

ROMANA: Well, you were over there.

DOCTOR: What?

ROMANA: Over there.

DOCTOR: Yes, yes, of course. Good. Off you go, then.

ROMANA: Oh blast here we go again.

DOCTOR: What's the matter?

ROMANA: Now his probe circuit's jammed.

DOCTOR: Ah. That's easy. Just waggle his tail.

ROMANA: All right. We've tried everything else.

K9: Thank you, mistress. (echoes) Repairs complete.

ROMANA: Phase cancellation. We've done it!

DOCTOR: Well done. You know, for one awful moment I thought you'd forgotten your lines.

LEXA: Neither to transgress the laws of the Dodecahedron.

MEGLOS: Neither to transgress the laws of the Dodecahedron.

LEXA: Thanks be to Ti.

ALL: Thanks be to Ti.

LEXA: You are now free to enter the Power room.

DEEDRIX: Thanks be to Ti.

MEGLOS: People of Tigella, what I have to do is extremely dangerous.

ZASTOR: In what way?

MEGLOS: To control the output, it will be necessary to increase the v*olence of the emissions.

DEEDRIX: Then you'll be in danger yourself.

MEGLOS: Well, hardly. I'm a Time Lord. Having lived in the future I can hardly die in the present.

DEEDRIX: That can't be true. That's a philosophical paradox.

MEGLOS: No, it's merely beyond your comprehension. However, all of your lives are in danger.

ZASTOR: Then we must leave.

MEGLOS: Precisely. (ecstatic) Only I, only I must enter the Power room.

LEXA: But it was agreed that I should accompany him, on the god's behalf.

MEGLOS: But now I have the protection of Ti himself, we must not appear to mistrust that blessing.

LEXA: So be it.

DOCTOR (OOV.): Well, according to my calculations, this should be sector eight of the city.

ROMANA (OOV.): Ah.

DOCTOR: Yes.

ROMANA: Well, if this is the city, I can only assume we're in some sort of park.

K9 (OOV.): Master?

DOCTOR: This place has grown up a bit since I was last here.

ROMANA: Where is the city, then?

DOCTOR: That way.

K9: Twenty two degrees north, thirty six point four degrees west.

DOCTOR: Right.

ROMANA: Doctor.

DOCTOR: Yes? Ah, yes, well, anyone can make a mistake.

MEGLOS: Ten thousand years.

DOCTOR: Well, I only got the direction wrong because of Tigella's anticlockwise rotation.

K9: Anomaly.

ROMANA: What is it, K9?

K9: Partial incineration of vegetation evident.

ROMANA: Nonsense, K9. These leaves are burnt.

K9: Mistress.

DOCTOR: Come on, there's no time for botany.

ROMANA: Now what would cause that? Thinness of the atmosphere?

K9: Negative, mistress. Projection of Dodecahedron power insufficient. Foliation scanning period now terminated, mistress. Expedition necessary.

LEXA: What are you doing here, Caris?

CARIS: Let go. Look, it's vital we understand what's happening inside there.

LEXA: You were ordered to stay out of this area.

CARIS: And so were you, Lexa.

LEXA: Get back.

CARIS: What's happened to the light?

LEXA: What!

DOCTOR: Hello there, I'm the Doctor. I'm expected.

GUARD: I didn't see you go out.

DOCTOR: What?

GUARD: This is the second time you've been in here.

DOCTOR: I say, you've got a marvellous memory. It must be fifty of your years since I was last here. Romana? K9, do you know where she is?

K9: Master.

DOCTOR: Then run and fetch her, and tell her to hurry.

K9: Master.

CARIS: It's not possible.

ROMANA: Urgh, bell plants. Very nasty. Now I see why they live underground.

ROMANA: More scorching.

ZASTOR: Vanished?

CARIS: We watched the Doctor leave and, the Power room's empty!

ZASTOR: But that's inconceivable!

DEEDRIX: This is Control. Activate receptor panels.

DEEDRIX: It's d*ad. It's d*ad. There's no power down there.

ZASTOR: Where's the Doctor?

LEXA: He's betrayed us.

ZASTOR: Now wait a minute. Tell me exactly what happened.

LEXA: No, there isn't time. Out of my way.

LEXA: This is a Control command. This is a Control command.

LEXA (OOV.): Arrest the Time Lord. Stop him at all costs. He must not be allowed to leave the city.

DOCTOR: That's odd. I could have sworn Central Control was this way. Ah. Excuse me, I'm the Doctor. I'm expected.

DOCTOR: Well, will you just tell people I've arrived?

DEEDRIX (OOV.): Stop the Time Lord. Stop the Doctor. Take him at all costs.

DOCTOR: That's very impressive. It's not exactly what I expected, but it's very impressive.

LEXA: There he is. Take him.

DOCTOR: No, no, it's all right, I'm a doctor.

LEXA: Where is the Dodecahedron.

DOCTOR: I don't know. I don't even know where Central Control is. Zastor, how good to see you. Will you tell them who I am?

LEXA: I know who you are.

ZASTOR: Doctor, what's happened?

DOCTOR: Please, please, stay calm. I'm sorry I'm late. We could have been here earlier, but for the chronic hysteresis. That's a sort of time loop, you see.

LEXA: We?

DOCTOR: Yes, my assistant. She'll be along in a minute. Anyway Zastor, how are you?

ZASTOR: Baffled, Doctor.

DOCTOR: Ah.

ZASTOR: You'd better come with us.

DOCTOR: But what about Romana?

LEXA: Oh, never mind about them. Take him away!

ROMANA: So that's what caused the burning.

ROMANA: Oh! I do beg your pardon.

K9: Mistress? Mistress? Response negative. Batteries require recharge. Returning to the city.

BROTADAC: She's seen too much. k*ll her!
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