PLANET OF f*re

BY: PETER GRIMWADE

Part Two

Original Air Date: 24 February 1984
Running time: 24:20

MALKON: Release the unbelievers!

TIMANOV: No!

MALKON: It is not necessary. By sending us the Outsider, Logar has shown his favour.

TIMANOV: The f*re god demands sacrifice.

MALKON: I cannot order the deaths of three innocent people. Not now. There will be no burning. Release them!

PERI: Look, I just want to get out of here. Please.

K-MASTER: You will remain in the TARDIS.

PERI: We'll see about that!

MASTER: Resist. The girl. Resist. Obey control. Resist. Obey.

PERI: Who are you? What are you?

KAMELION: Help me.

DOCTOR: Snap.

TURLOUGH: The Misos Triangle.

DOCTOR: Oh, is that what it's called.

TURLOUGH: It means there are people from Trion here. My home planet. This must be an old Trion colony.

DOCTOR: Very old. By the look of it, deserted.

TIMANOV: A blue box?

LOOKOUT: It came from nowhere, with a flashing light.

TIMANOV: There's no recorded history of a blue box, and every visitation's different.

LOOKOUT: Perhaps we've been sent another Chosen One? The boy is weak, the heretics walk free.

TIMANOV: No, no. No Chosen One has appeared on the Time of f*re. It can only be the Outsider. Yes.

PERI: What has happened to Howard? Who is the other man? What's going on?

KAMELION: Howard is safe on Earth. His appearance was a projection of your own energy, which overwhelmed my personality circuits.

PERI: Circuits? You really are some kind of robot?

KAMELION: I am Kamelion. Was Kamelion. But I must help you. Leave the TARDIS at once and find the Doctor. You must Argh!

MASTER: My dear Doctor. So relentlessly predictable.

K-FOSTER: Give this to the Doctor and warn him that the Master Argh.

PERI: The Master? Who is the Master?

MASTER: Kamelion, my sl*ve, resist the girl. Her mind is strong, but you will obey only the Master.

K-MASTER: My dear Peri, do not be confused by my shifting appearance. The transfer is now s*ab. I am immutably the Master.

MASTER: Now quickly, to my TARDIS. Release me.

K-MASTER: Come.

PERI: I've changed my mind. I'm waiting here for the Doctor.

K-MASTER: You will come with me or you will remain in the TARDIS, d*ad.

PERI: Oh, well, since you put it that way.

K-MASTER: I deplore such unsophisticated coercion, but your cooperation's necessary to me.

K-MASTER: I think not. I think not, Miss Brown.

MASTER: We must not lose the girl!

SORASTA: Look at the dials! They're going mad.

ROSKAL: Every time the volcano becomes active, these instruments react. They must be controlling the mountain somehow.

AMYAND: If only we could work out how.

DOCTOR: We should get back to the Professor and the girl.

TURLOUGH: Peri.

DOCTOR: Peri.

TURLOUGH: Just a bit further, Doctor, please.

DOCTOR: There's no one alive on this planet.

TURLOUGH: I have a feeling there is.

DOCTOR: Let's get a move on. The TARDIS computer may be confident the volcano isn't about to blow, but instinct tells me otherwise.

MASTER: Quickly, Kamelion, go to the Doctor's machine and materialise that preposterous box inside my TARDIS.

TIMANOV: I'm going to the place of arrival. You will attend me. It might be a chance for you to redeem yourself.

MALKON: The unbelievers do no harm.

TIMANOV: Sarn was a thriving and prosperous planet until the existence of Logar was questioned. Now look at us! A primitive settlement on the verge of extinction. No harm? Those heretics must be ex*cuted.

K-MASTER: The comparator's missing.

MASTER: The girl must have removed it while my control was weak. You must find her before she rejoins the Doctor.

PERI: Doctor!

ECHO: Doctor.

PERI: Turlough!

ECHO: Turlough.

PERI: Oh, no.

DOCTOR: Why have you never mentioned your home planet before?

TURLOUGH: No particular reason.

DOCTOR: Are you in trouble?

TURLOUGH: What makes you think that?

DOCTOR: Instinct. And the fact I've never seen you so nervous before.

AMYAND: Hey, you there!

TURLOUGH: And you said the planet was deserted.

AMYAND: Greetings. I am known as Amyand.

SORASTA: And I am Sorasta.

TURLOUGH: This is the Doctor. I am Turlough.

AMYAND: Where are you from?

DOCTOR: Here and there.

AMYAND: You're not from Logar?

DOCTOR: I'm afraid not.

SORASTA: Then you are welcome, strangers.

TURLOUGH: Are there any more of you here?

SORASTA: Yes, our group is sheltering down here.

TURLOUGH: Why didn't they send a rescue ship from Trion?

AMYAND: Trion?

TURLOUGH: You are from Trion? The home planet?

AMYAND: We are from Sarn. This is our planet.

DOCTOR: Please forgive my friend. He seems to have made a mistake. I would like to know more about Logar.

AMYAND: In due course.

PERI: Where could they have gone?

K-MASTER: My dear Peri. How positively evanescent you've become. In fact your disappearance has given me a great deal of trouble.

PERI: You keep away from me.

K-MASTER: You've removed a component from the Doctor's TARDIS. Return it to me instantly.

PERI: One step nearer and you'll never get this back.

K-MASTER: If you damage that comparator, the Doctor's TARDIS is useless.

PERI: So keep your distance or I drop it.

K-MASTER: Give me that component immediately!

PERI: This thing belongs to the Doctor, so it's the Doctor I give it to and no one else.

K-MASTER: You will obey me.

PERI: No.

K-MASTER: I am the Master!

PERI: So what? I'm Perpugilliam Brown and I can shout just as loud as you can.

K-MASTER: Peri, be reasonable. Without the comparator, you will never return to Earth. Do you wish to stand here till the planet's destroyed? Well? Answer!

PERI: Kamelion! Where are you, Kamelion? Come on, show me your real self. Come on!

K-MASTER: No.

PERI: Yes, Kamelion, your real self. Come on. If you can't manage that, show me Howard, please!

MASTER: Kamelion, my sl*ve, resist the girl. Have I travelled a billion light years through time and space to be thwarted by this brat? Resist the girl! k*ll her immediately.

PERI: Stay where you are, Kamelion. I'm your friend.

AMYAND: This is the Doctor and Turlough.

DOCTOR: Look, I know it isn't polite for a stranger to take over a party, but you really must get away from here. The volcano isn't s*ab.

AMYAND: We're safe enough underground.

DOCTOR: Oh, far from it. The tunnel we've just come along is a vent for the volcano.

SORASTA: The planet's covered in them. We use them as shortcuts.

DOCTOR: It's the same route the molten lava will take to burn you alive. I have a ship. I can get you away from here. Think about it.

DOCTOR: Is this from Trion?

TURLOUGH: Yes.

DOCTOR: Yes. Your Trion settlers must have tapped the volcanic gas. It's a very complex control mechanism. A seismic energy converter for powering a city.

ROSKAL: Do you know how this machine works?

DOCTOR: In principle, yes.

ROSKAL: I thought if I learnt how to manipulate it, I could control the volcano.

DOCTOR: Not from here, you won't.

AMYAND: Doctor, we accept your offer of help.

DOCTOR: Good.

ZUKO: Timanov has gone to greet the Outsider.

AMYAND: Doctor, your ship. Would there be a shining light? The sound of a great wind?

DOCTOR: Possibly.

SORASTA: The lookout wasn't lying.

AMYAND: That old fox Timanov. He'll have a long search for his messengers from Logar. We have them here.

TIMANOV: Grateful as I am for the visitation of the Outsider, I wish he'd come nearer to the settlement.

MALKON: Timanov. Shining is well-documented.

MASTER: There's energy around you. Use it. Come, my sl*ve, be at one with me.

TIMANOV: Outsider, welcome to the settlement.

K-MASTER: Who are you?

TIMANOV: Timanov, chief elder of the Sarns. I've been struggling to keep the faith.

TIMANOV: I never thought I'd be alive to see this day. Logar is just. He sent you to help us through the Time of f*re.

ZUKO: Don't anyone move. Stay where you are and no one will get hurt.

AMYAND: Citizens, listen to me. You're here to see the Outsider. You won't be disappointed, because we've found him. In fact, we found two of them. Doctor? Turlough?

AMYAND: Look at them. But they're not who you think they are. They're not messengers of Logar, but men like us. They will tell you that Logar is d*ad. Logar never existed.

MALKON: I hope you bring proof of your statement.

SORASTA: Doctor, this is our leader, Malkon.

DOCTOR: How do you do.

MALKON: You're welcome to Sarn.

DOCTOR: Not a very hospitable planet at the moment.

MALKON: You will hear out the Doctor.

DOCTOR: Er, yes. Well, what Amyand said is right. What you call the spirit of the mountain is f*re itself, and that f*re will pour down onto your settlement destroying everything in its path.

MALKON: It has happened before, but do you have knowledge that will help us?

DOCTOR: I can't save your planet, but I can get you away from here.

TURLOUGH: Where did you find these? Tell me, please.

MALKON: They are gifts of Logar.

TURLOUGH: This equipment is relatively new. It comes from a Trion spacecraft. Now where are the crew?

AMYAND: Malkon speaks the truth. Timanov says they're gifts of Logar.

DOCTOR: Whoever your benefactor, they provided you with a transceiver unit, even if somewhat incomplete.

ROSKAL: What is transceiver unit?

DOCTOR: Er, it's a way of communicating with other people. Possibly a more effective way of getting you settled on another planet. The Trions must have a form of colony or something, eh, Turlough? If you could get a message to the Trion, they could send a rescue ship.

TURLOUGH: Contact Trion and you ruin everything.

DOCTOR: What are you talking about?

TURLOUGH: Where did you find that?

MALKON: It is nothing. A Chosen One has many gifts.

TURLOUGH: There are more like this? Show me.

DOCTOR: Turlough?

TURLOUGH: Doctor, you don't understand. I think this equipment came from my father's ship.

PERI: Will someone help me, please?

TURLOUGH: Why do they call you the Chosen One?

MALKON: I carry the mark of Logar, at least that's what Timanov says.

TURLOUGH: Show me.

TURLOUGH: The Misos Triangle.

MALKON: Timanov also says I came from the f*re. That is always how the Chosen One arrives.

TURLOUGH: From the f*re?

MALKON: I was found in the wilderness by the volcano.

TURLOUGH: Do you know precisely where?

MALKON: Yes.

TURLOUGH: Take me there.

MALKON: I can't. It's in the forbidden land.

TURLOUGH: Please, take me there.

MALKON: No. Unbelievers are not allowed. If you are caught, you would be sent to the burning.

TURLOUGH: Come on, no one's going to burn us. I order you!

MALKON: No one can order a Chosen One.

TURLOUGH: Except another Chosen One. Now please, take me to where you were found.

MALKON: Where did you get that?

TURLOUGH: Probably the same place as you. Trion. It's a unique custom they have.

PERI: Doctor!

ECHO: Doctor.

DOCTOR: Ow! We need more power.

SORASTA: Doctor, Timanov has returned.

DOCTOR: Good, good, I need to speak to him. We've a full-scale exodus to organise.

TIMANOV: Seize the enemies of Logar. Arrest all unbelievers. Obey me!

DOCTOR: Look, be a good fellow. We're trying to help. The volcano could erupt at any moment.

TIMANOV: You must be the Doctor. It is the Outsider's wish that you go to the f*re.

DOCTOR: There is no Outsider.

TIMANOV: Do as the Outsider has instructed!

ZUKO: No!

DOCTOR: Oh, no.

TURLOUGH: This was your f*re. The ship crash-landed.

MALKON: I travelled from Trion in this?

TURLOUGH: And you weren't alone.

PERI (OOV.): Turlough!

TURLOUGH: Peri?

PERI: Oh, am I pleased to see you. Who's this?

TURLOUGH: Malkon. Peri is a friend, another traveller.

PERI: Have I seen everything today. A transgalactic payphone, a stepfather who turns into a robot, and a robot who turns into a gangster.

TURLOUGH: That must be Kamelion.

PERI: That's him. I sure prefer him to the Master.

TURLOUGH: Master? Kamelion turned into the Master?

PERI: Yes. Why, do you know him?

TURLOUGH: Come on, we have to get back to the Doctor.

PERI: Oh no, please, no.

K-MASTER: Wretched citizens of Sarn, you turned your backs on the lord of the f*re mountain and listened to his enemy.

DOCTOR: The man's an imposter.

K-MASTER: Save your breath, Doctor, to tell me but one thing. Where is the girl from your TARDIS? She's joined you here? Where's the comparator?

TIMANOV: Outsider, sacrifice the enemy.

K-MASTER: Not yet. Burn the others first.

DOCTOR: No!

K-MASTER: The comparator, if you please, Doctor.

SORASTA: Only Malkon can order a burning!

TIMANOV: It is the will of the Outsider that you all die. The messenger of Logar has supreme authority.

DOCTOR: I don't know where the girl is. I don't have the comparator!

K-MASTER: Commence the burning!

DOCTOR: No!

ROSKAL: Doctor, help us!

DOCTOR: You must believe me!

K-MASTER: Oh, but I do believe you. Commence the burnings!

SORASTA: No!

DOCTOR: Stop this!

K-MASTER: You are quite powerless. Continue the sacrifices. See that this Doctor burns slowly.

ROSKAL: Doctor!
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