TERMINUS

BY: STEPHEN GALLAGHER

Part Four

First Air Date: 23 February 1983
Running time: 24:49

DOCTOR: We must stop the sequence.

KARI: Do you know how?

DOCTOR: Not yet.

KARI: What, then?

VALGARD: Where are the others?

OLVIR: What?

VALGARD: Spies!

OLVIR: Oh, no. Nyssa!

TEGAN: Are you all right?

TURLOUGH: I think so.

TEGAN: What happened?

TURLOUGH: I don't know.

TURLOUGH: Look!

TEGAN: We must make it materialise fully.

TURLOUGH: It won't move.

TEGAN: Let me help. It's not going to defeat us now.

VALGARD: I wouldn't. The radiation'll k*ll you. Get much closer and you're d*ad, unless you can get to a decontamination unit.

OLVIR: You're lying.

VALGARD: Please yourself, then, but in my day we were better trained.

OLVIR: What?

VALGARD: You're not from the Company. You're combat trained. Colonel Pereira, was it? The one they call the Chief?

OLVIR: How do you know?

VALGARD: Recognise the moves. Taught the same ones to me. I was with him for five tours, till he turned me in for the reward.

OLVIR: And how did you get here?

VALGARD: sl*ve labour. That's how Terminus works. You couldn't pay anyone enough to work here.

OLVIR: Where are the guards?

VALGARD: Don't need them. If we don't work, we don't get the Hydromel we need to stay alive. Help me, please. Oh, come on. Look at me. I'm a danger to no one. I'm finished. I'm dying.

OLVIR: Where did that thing take Nyssa?

VALGARD: Nyssa? Oh, is that her name? I've no idea. This is my first time in the Zone.

OLVIR: Will he harm her?

VALGARD: No. He's curing her. That's what he's here for.

OLVIR: How can that thing cure anyone?

VALGARD: Help me. I'll show you.

OLVIR: I'll find her myself.

VALGARD: Don't leave me.

KARI: Why won't it move?

DOCTOR: It's controlled by the computer, and the computer's uncontrollable.

TEGAN: I don't think I've got any skin left on my hands.

TANNOY: Primary ignition is now beginning. All systems running on test. Departure sequence is beginning now.

TEGAN: What's happening?

TURLOUGH: The liner's preparing to move.

TEGAN: No, wait! You can't leave yet!

TANNOY: All drones to designated assembly points. Countdown to secondary ignition follows.

TEGAN: No!

TURLOUGH: The ship's on a*t*matic, Tegan. There's nothing you can do.

TEGAN: I've got to try.

TANNOY: Departure sequence is now underway. Countdown to docking disengagement now beginning.

TANNOY: Preparing to blow clamps and withdraw all lines.

TEGAN: Can anyone hear me?

TANNOY: Countdown to primary burn is now underway.

TEGAN: You must stop!

TANNOY: Countdown to primary burn is now underway.

TANNOY: Test mode on all systems is now disengaged.

TANNOY: All systems operating within permitted tolerances.

TEGAN: Shut up!

TANNOY: Emergency, emergency. Launch abort. Launch abort.

TEGAN: I don't believe it.

TANNOY: Launch abort.

TANNOY: Launch abort. Launch abort.

KARI: How can this ship still be operational after all this time?

DOCTOR: The technology here is phenomenal, unfortunately. There must be a way to reset that handle.

KARI: He must have had the strength of a giant.

DOCTOR: A giant.

KARI: Of course.

DOCTOR: The Garm.

KARI: But will there still be enough time?

DOCTOR: Well, we can only hope there is.

GUARDIAN (on scanner): The Doctor still lives.

TURLOUGH: He's trapped. He's powerless, probably d*ad already.

GUARDIAN (on scanner): You represent a poor investment of my time and energy, and for such an investment there is only one course to follow.

OLVIR: I'm unarmed. Can you understand me?

GARM: Perfectly.

OLVIR: Why are you doing this? You're torturing people.

GARM: I draw the disease from them. All would die but most survive.

OLVIR: And the last one you treated, Nyssa, did she survive?

GARM: She is recovering.

OLVIR: Where?

GARM: Follow me.

BOR: If only I could remember.

SIGURD: Try to relax.

BOR: It doesn't matter. In a couple of hours there won't even be a Terminus or a Company or anything. I found some information in a computer.

SIGURD: What's going to happen?

BOR: That's the trouble. I can't remember.

SIGURD: But Bor, you must.

BOR: Short term memory is always the first to go.

SIGURD: Look, I'll get some Hydromel. There's a case of it through there.

BOR: Eirak won't release any.

SIGURD: Who said I was going to ask him?

BOR: It really isn't worth the trouble, you know.

DOCTOR: You ready?

KARI: Call him.

TEGAN: Turlough? Turlough?

KARI: He's coming. What do we do now?

DOCTOR: Let's just get into the control room. I'll do the rest.

KARI: And if he won't cooperate?

DOCTOR: We'll humour him. Right, let's go.

KARI: It's not working.

GARM: Deception is unnecessary. You have given the signal, I must obey.

NYSSA: Olvir!

OLVIR: Nyssa! You came through the cure.

NYSSA: Just about.

OLVIR: What happened?

NYSSA: I was simply exposed to a massive dose of radiation. There's no proper diagnosis, no control, and this is supposed to be someone's idea of decontamination.

OLVIR: Well, let's go. The sooner we can put Terminus behind us

NYSSA: You don't understand. There must be thousands of people who've passed through here and think they're cured. It's all just h*t and miss. No one cares.

OLVIR: Let's go, Nyssa.

NYSSA: Listen to me. The cure works, but it needs to be controlled, otherwise you just trade one k*ller for another. Radiation induced diseases that may take years to show.

OLVIR: Let's just concentrate on getting away, shall we?

NYSSA: It could all be changed.

OLVIR: I've no doubt you're right, but we can argue your case later. Now come on, quickly.

EIRAK: Who took it? Who took the signal box? Someone will suffer for this.

DOCTOR: You understand what we need you to do?

DOCTOR: I'd appreciate it if you'd hurry.

GARM: Is this necessary?

DOCTOR: If you can return the lever, I can disconnect the computer controlling it.

GARM: And if I fail?

DOCTOR: It's the end of the universe.

BOR: Beginning of the end, boys.

KARI: Nothing's happening.

DOCTOR: It must. You must push harder. It's the only way.

KARI: Please.

KARI: It's working!

DOCTOR: That's it!

GARM: Have I served you well?

DOCTOR: Indeed you have.

GARM: Do something for me. Destroy the box. Set me free.

DOCTOR: Rest. You've earned it. Come on.

KARI: What now?

DOCTOR: Disconnect the control lines to the engines.

DOCTOR: Look, whoever you are, we haven't got time for

VALGARD: Silence. Move.

DOCTOR: You're taking a very narrow view of all this.

NYSSA: It's the Doctor.

VALGARD: I want to stay alive. If that's a narrow view, then you're right.

DOCTOR: You're quite happy to see things go on as they are.

VALGARD: Happy? This is Terminus. No one's happy here. Staying alive is all that counts.

DOCTOR: Things could change.

NYSSA: Over here!

OLVIR: Here!

KARI: Freeze!

DOCTOR: Nyssa, I've been so worried.

NYSSA: I'm fine. Doctor, I've made a fantastic discovery. The cure for Lazar disease works.

DOCTOR: How do you know?

NYSSA: Because I've been cured myself.

OLVIR: It seems I was wrong.

NYSSA: The system is far from safe.

DOCTOR: Well, you think it could be?

NYSSA: With the Garm's help, yes. It's only his lack of free will which has prevented him from doing anything about it.

DOCTOR: Well, he has it now.

VALGARD: She's sick. She doesn't know what she's talking about.

NYSSA: With changes, Terminus could work, become a proper hospital.

VALGARD: The Company isn't interested.

NYSSA: Are you, though? And the other Vanir?

VALGARD: Even if we were, it's not possible without Hydromel, and it's the Company who control that.

NYSSA: But if you had an endless supply of it, you'd be free of their control, wouldn't you?

BOR: Am I d*ad yet?

SIGURD: No.

BOR: Oh, funny, I could have sworn that. But still, it's a relief. I am hoping for something rather better on the other side. Sigurd

SIGURD: Try to sleep.

BOR: Sleep? It's all I can do to keep awake for more than a minute.

SIGURD: Valgard!

VALGARD: Shush. I've got some people with me.

SIGURD: What's going on?

VALGARD: Come in.

DOCTOR: Where is it?

VALGARD: Here.

SIGURD: Now wait a minute.

VALGARD: They say they can free us from the Company.

SIGURD: You believe that?

VALGARD: You know anybody harder to convince?

DOCTOR: It's locked. Olvir, may I borrow your laser?

SIGURD: Now if this is just some madcap scheme for getting back at Eirak, then you've got another thing coming.

VALGARD: Wait.

DOCTOR: You're the expert, what do you think?

DOCTOR: Look, er, while we're sorting things out here, perhaps you'd be so good as to cut the control lines to the engines. I'd hate anyone to start the sequence manually.

KARI: Of course. Come on.

NYSSA: It's crude stuff, probably organic.

DOCTOR: Think you can synthesise it?

NYSSA: I might even improve on it.

SIGURD: Well, how's this supposed to free us from the Company?

NYSSA: Terminus Incorporated only control you because they supply you with Hydromel, but if you produced your own

VALGARD: Here on Terminus.

SIGURD: Is it possible?

NYSSA: Of course.

SIGURD: But the Company would send troops. They'd destroy us.

NYSSA: With the current reputation Lazar disease has, would any sane soldier come here?

VALGARD: Of course they wouldn't.

SIGURD: I suppose not.

NYSSA: Then help.

SIGURD: All right. Why not?

BOR: Oh, Sigurd.

SIGURD: I'm with you.

OLVIR: Are you sure these are the right cables?

KARI: According to the Doctor.

OLVIR: It's what you said about this ship. I'd hate to end the universe by mistake.

KARI: Give me the g*n.

OLVIR: No, no, I'll, I'll do it. Just wanted to be certain.

EIRAK: I want it found. Without the signal box we've got no control over the Garm.

VALGARD: Pleased to see me? I want you to meet some people.

DOCTOR: How do you do? I'm the Doctor, and this is Nyssa.

EIRAK: All right, Valgard, what do you think you're doing?

VALGARD: I think you owe me something.

SIGURD: A small matter of your position here.

VALGARD: If I bring back the intruders, your position is mine, remember? There he is.

BOR: We all think it's time for a little chat.

DOCTOR: Yes, well, before you start, perhaps one of you could show us the way to the damaged engine. There's still a great deal to be done.

KARI: Terminus will never move again.

OLVIR: Have you given any thought as to how we're going to get home?

KARI: I'm about to.

DOCTOR: It'll be good to see the TARDIS again.

NYSSA: And Tegan.

DOCTOR: Yes, well, it'll be nice to know she's safe. Tegan!

TEGAN: Doctor.

DOCTOR: What are you doing?

TEGAN: I was trying to reach you. Turlough went back to the TARDIS on his own.

DOCTOR: I told you not to follow me.

NYSSA: Doctor, say you're pleased to see her.

DOCTOR: Yes, well, I'm pleased to see her but she shouldn't have followed us.

TEGAN: You don't understand.

DOCTOR: Yes, well, we'll talk about it later. Valgard?

TEGAN: Why does he never listen?

NYSSA: He has a great deal to do.

TEGAN: There always is.

NYSSA: Tegan, I have to tell you something.

DOCTOR: Now it's important you inform the authorities about what's been going on here. Make it impossible for Terminus Incorporated to retaliate. For example, you must make contact with the pick-up ship.

VALGARD: What ship?

DOCTOR: The one that takes the cured Lazars away. Well, the Garm will know all about it.

VALGARD: We no longer have any control over him.

DOCTOR: Then speak to him, win his confidence. You'll find him very agreeable.

TEGAN: Doctor? Doctor, talk to Nyssa.

DOCTOR: What is it?

NYSSA: I'm not coming with you.

DOCTOR: What?

NYSSA: There's too much to be done here.

TEGAN: Tell her she must.

DOCTOR: Well, you can't stay. It isn't safe. Certainly not until the Vanir have sorted out how they're to run Terminus.

NYSSA: And with my skills, I can help them.

TEGAN: We need you, too.

NYSSA: I've enjoyed every moment of my time on the TARDIS, and I'll miss you both, but here I have a chance to put into practice the skills I learnt on Traken.

TEGAN: Please, Nyssa.

NYSSA: I'm adamant. Please, let us part in good faith.

DOCTOR: You do fully understand the commitment you'll be undertaking?

NYSSA: Yes.

DOCTOR: And that life here will be very hard.

NYSSA: I am fully aware of that, but I want to stay.

DOCTOR: Then you're a very brave person. I wish you every luck.

TEGAN: She'll die here.

NYSSA: Not easily, Tegan. Like you, I'm indestructible.

GUARDIAN (on scanner): Turlough. Can you hear me?

TURLOUGH: What?

GUARDIAN (on scanner): The Doctor is returning.

TURLOUGH: I feel ill.

GUARDIAN (on scanner): This is your last chance, boy.

TURLOUGH: What did you do to me?

GUARDIAN (on scanner): You will recover.

TURLOUGH: I can't go on. k*ll the Doctor yourself. Blame me for it, I don't care. I can't do it.

GUARDIAN (on scanner): You have little choice.

DOCTOR (OOV.): Turlough? Turlough!

GUARDIAN (on scanner): He's coming, boy. This is your last chance. I shall not say that again. k*ll the Doctor!
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