PYRAMIDS OF MARS

BY: "STEPHEN HARRIS" (ROBERT HOLMES AND LEWIS GREIFER)

Part Two

Original Air Date: 1 November 1975
Running time: 23:53

LAURENCE: Marcus!

DOCTOR: Shush.

SCARMAN: Take up the generator loops.

SCARMAN: Place them in position at the compass points. Activate at ground strength.

DOCTOR: Quick, hide.

SARAH: Where have they gone?

DOCTOR: To set up a deflection field around the house. He's obviously planned every step.

LAURENCE: Who, Marcus?

DOCTOR: No, Sutekh.

DOCTOR: Sutekh is breaking free from his ancient bonds. If he succeeds, he'll destroy the whole world.

SARAH: You mean Sutekh is still alive?

DOCTOR: He destroyed his own planet, Phaester Osiris, and left a trail of havoc across half the galaxy. Horus and the rest of the Osirans must have finally cornered him on Earth.

SARAH: In Egypt?

DOCTOR: The wars of the gods entered into mythology. The whole of Egyptian culture is founded upon the Osiran pattern.

LAURENCE: I'm afraid this is beyond me.

SARAH: It's beyond me, too.

DOCTOR: Ah! Found it.

SARAH: What?

DOCTOR: The lodestone that drew the TARDIS off course.

LAURENCE: That's not a lodestone, that's just a sarcophagus.

DOCTOR: No, it isn't. It's the entrance to a time-space tunnel.

SARAH: Leading where?

DOCTOR: To Sutekh.

(The Doctor activates a cartouche on the case and it starts to do its multicoloured effect.

SARAH: Doctor!

DOCTOR: Keep back!

SARAH: Doctor! Doctor, come on. Wake up, please.

LAURENCE: It's no good. He took the full force of the blast.

SARAH: They're bound to come back soon. We're trapped! Where are you going?

LAURENCE: There's a priest hole here somewhere. Marcus and I discovered it when we were boys.

LAURENCE: There. It isn't very large, I'm afraid.

SARAH: No, well, he is though, so come and give me a hand.

CLEMENTS: Holy Moses.

WARLOCK: Is that you, Laurence?

WARLOCK: Marcus! Marcus, my dear fellow, you're back.

SCARMAN: Why are you here?

WARLOCK: Huh? What's the matter? For goodness sakes, old chap, don't you recognise me?

SCARMAN: Warlock.

WARLOCK: That's right. We've all been dreadfully worried about you.

SCARMAN: I came to find the other Scarman.

WARLOCK: The other? You mean your brother, Laurence?

SCARMAN: The human.

WARLOCK: Look here, old chap. If this is some kind of macabre joke?

SCARMAN: Where is the other Scarman, Warlock?

WARLOCK: Laurence went up to the house. That Egyptian servant of yours took a potshot at me! Laurence and the Doctor and some very plucky young girl went off to deal with the brute. They've been gone a devil of a time, mind you. I hope nothing's amiss.

SCARMAN: Who is the Doctor?

WARLOCK: One of Laurence's friends, I imagine. Some sort of scientist.

SCARMAN: Why does he interfere?

WARLOCK: Interfere? Now look here, Marcus

SCARMAN: All humans inside the deflection barrier will be destroyed.

WARLOCK: For heaven's sake, Marcus, what's wrong with you?

SCARMAN: Destroy this human.

WARLOCK: No, no, no! Laurence! Laurence! No!

CLEMENTS: m*rder swine.

SARAH: He's coming round.

DOCTOR: A parallax coil.

LAURENCE: What?

DOCTOR: I never expected that. A simple trap. Blew up in my face. Clever.

LAURENCE: He's delirious.

SARAH: No, shush.

DOCTOR: Never underestimate Sutekh. Thinks of everything.

DOCTOR: Where are we?

SARAH: Hiding.

DOCTOR: Where?

LAURENCE: A priest hole.

DOCTOR: In a Victorian gothic folly? Nonsense.

SARAH: You're so pedantic at a time like this. Does it matter?

DOCTOR: If only I knew the exact physical location of Sutekh. Where was your brother's expedition bound?

LAURENCE: Saqqara, I think. He wrote to say he'd discovered a blind pyramid in that region and believed it contained a mastaba.

SARAH: What?

LAURENCE: An underground burial chamber.

DOCTOR: Saqqara. Too vague, yet it might be our only chance.

SARAH: To do what?

DOCTOR: Sutekh is controlling operations here by mental force. With the equipment at the lodge, I could transmit a jamming signal.

SARAH: And block his power?

DOCTOR: With an etheric impulse projected along precisely the right axis, yes. Otherwise

SARAH: No good.

DOCTOR: The Egyptian's ring!

LAURENCE: What?

DOCTOR: It's a sl*ve relay. Calculating the reverse polarisation should be child's play. Why didn't I think of it?

SARAH: Shush. Listen.

SCARMAN: Remove this carcass. (sniffs) There are other humans within these walls. Seek and k*ll them.

SARAH: He's coming over.

LAURENCE: Marcus!

CLEMENTS: Professor Scarman!

SCARMAN: Seek and k*ll.

DOCTOR: All right, all clear.

LAURENCE: Where are we going?

DOCTOR: Shush. To find that Egyptian.

SARAH: We can't search the whole priory. There's no need to. Look.

SCARMAN: Follow me.

SARAH: What do you think they're doing?

DOCTOR: I'm not sure yet.

LAURENCE: This is exceedingly interesting, Doctor. It appears to be some kind of machinery.

DOCTOR: You're right. Yes, that's resonating tuner. Part of an anti-gravity drive. Oh! They must be building a rocket.

SARAH: Egyptian mummies building rockets? That's crazy.

DOCTOR: They're not mummies, they're service robots.

SARAH: Huh?

DOCTOR: Machines.

SARAH: Machines? All right then, why are machines building rockets?

DOCTOR: So that Sutekh can escape from the power of Horus.

SARAH: Where's Sutekh now?

DOCTOR: Exactly where Horus left him seven thousand years ago. Trapped beneath a pyramid and powerless to move.

LAURENCE: Great heavens! This is unbelievable. Totally unbelievable!

DOCTOR: You're going to say it transcends all the normal laws of physics.

LAURENCE: I am, yes. I mean, it does. It's preposterous!

DOCTOR: Isn't it. I often think dimensional transcendentalism is preposterous, but it works. Would you like to look around?

LAURENCE: May I?

DOCTOR: Please.

SARAH: Well now we are here, why don't you tune up 1980 and we can, well, leave.

DOCTOR: I can't.

SARAH: Ah. Why can't you?

DOCTOR: Because if Sutekh isn't stopped, he'll destroy the world.

SARAH: But he didn't, did he. I mean, we know the world didn't end in 1911.

DOCTOR: Do we?

SARAH: Yes, of course we do!

DOCTOR: All right. If we leave now, let's see what the world will look like in 1980.

LAURENCE: I say, this is like something by that novelist chap, Mister Wells.

DOCTOR: 1980, Sarah, if you want to get off.

SARAH: It's a trick!

DOCTOR: No. That's the world as Sutekh would leave it. A desolate planet circling a d*ad sun.

SARAH: It can't be! I'm from 1980.

DOCTOR: Every point in time has its alternative, Sarah. You've looked into alternative time.

LAURENCE: Fascinating. Do you mean the future can be chosen, Doctor?

DOCTOR: Not chosen, shaped. The actions of the present fashion the future.

LAURENCE: So a man can change the course of history?

DOCTOR: To a small extent. It takes a being of Sutekh's almost limitless power to destroy the future. Well?

SARAH: We've got to go back.

DOCTOR: Yes.

DOCTOR: Keep below the level of the window.

SCARMAN: Three humans within the deflection barrier have been destroyed. There are others.

SUTEKH (OOV.): Eliminate them.

SCARMAN: The servicers are searching for them, but assembly of the rocket is being delayed.

SUTEKH (OOV.): Destruction of the humans must not be allowed to delay the completion of the m*ssile. That is of paramount importance.

SCARMAN: Your orders will be ex*cuted, Sutekh. I will recall two of the servicers to the rocket assembly.

LAURENCE: I can't believe that my brother. He and Doctor Warlock were the closest of friends.

DOCTOR: Well, if you can stop thinking of him as your brother it'll make it a great deal easier for you.

LAURENCE: But he is my brother!

DOCTOR: From the moment he entered Sutekh's tomb he became subject to Sutekh's will.

LAURENCE: What does that mean?

DOCTOR: As a human being, Marcus Scarman no longer exists. He is simply the embodiment of Sutekh's power. He's given the paralysed Sutekh arms and legs, a means to escape.

SARAH: If Sutekh is so totally evil, why didn't Horus and the other Osirans destroy him?

DOCTOR: It's against their code. To have k*lled him would have meant that they were no better than he, so they simply imprisoned him.

SARAH: How?

DOCTOR: A forcefield, controlled from a power source on Mars.

LAURENCE: Mars?

DOCTOR: Yes. That's where the signal was beamed from, remember?

LAURENCE: But how?

DOCTOR: When your brother stumbled into Sutekh's tomb, the monitoring system on Mars detected the fact and triggered off an alarm signal.

SARAH: The rocket those robots are building!

DOCTOR: Yes. Will be aimed at the power source on Mars. If those warheads reach their target, Sutekh will have released himself.

LAURENCE: To destroy the world.

DOCTOR: Not only this world. Anywhere that life is found. Right. All I need now is a magneto.

LAURENCE: A magneto. Of course.

SARAH: What are you going to do?

DOCTOR: If I can block the mental beam, Scarman will collapse.

SARAH: You mean die?

DOCTOR: Well, he's not alive now in any real sense. Only Sutekh animates him. Deprived of his outside contact, Sutekh'll be as powerless as the day Horus left him.

LAURENCE: Here you are, Doctor.

DOCTOR: Splendid.

LAURENCE: What was that?

DOCTOR: Quick, Sarah, switch on the power.

LAURENCE: No, no, you'll destroy my brother!

DOCTOR: Switch on!

SUTEKH: Stop them!

SARAH: Doctor! Doctor!

SARAH: Doctor! Doctor!
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