NIGHTMARE OF EDEN

BY: BOB BAKER

Part Three

Original Air Date: 8 December 1979
Running time: 24:06

DOCTOR: Well, how do you like Eden?

ROMANA: I don't.

DOCTOR: Might give us a few answer, though.

ROMANA: Which way?

DOCTOR: Let's go east.

ROMANA: How do you know which way is east?

DOCTOR: Well, I don't. We'll go that way and we'll call it east.

ROMANA: Why not call it north?

DOCTOR: All right, we'll call it north.

ROMANA: North-east?

DOCTOR: (quietly) Can we go, please?

FISK: Doctor!

FISK: Come on, you may as well give yourself up.

COSTA: There must be another way out of here.

DYMOND: I don't know.

FISK: There's got to be. What's that?

DYMOND: It's a door.

FISK: It's locked. Get Tryst.

ROMANA: How did you know we could get into the projection?

DOCTOR: The same way I knew we could get into the TARDIS. Tryst doesn't realise what he's stumbled on. At least, I don't think he has.

ROMANA: A relative dimensional field?

DOCTOR: Yes. All this is recorded on laser crystal. When it's played back

ROMANA: It's restructured on an intradimensional matrix.

DOCTOR: Yes, well, roughly speaking.

ROMANA: So without the dimensional osmosis damper, everything gets mixed up together and we can just walk straight into the projection.

DOCTOR: Yes.

ROMANA: And anything else can just walk straight out.

DOCTOR: Yes.

ROMANA: I've never met such idiots as those customs men.

DOCTOR: Idiots? They're worse than idiots, they're bureaucrats. They just exist to tangle people up, wrap them round and round in red tape until they can't move. Romana?

ROMANA: Yes?

DOCTOR: I can't move.

DOCTOR: Don't wriggle, don't wriggle. It'll realise it's got dinner.

ROMANA: Dinner?

DOCTOR: Yes. It eats people.

ROMANA: Doctor!

DOCTOR: Quick, over there. The root.

ROMANA: Root?

DOCTOR: Root, root!

ROMANA: Are you all right?

DOCTOR: Yes.

ROMANA: Let's get out of here.

DOCTOR: You know, that didn't taste at all bad.

TRYST: I can't turn it off. The selector's gone. It's difficult to believe the Doctor would do this. Why?

FISK: The man is a criminal, that's why.

TRYST: I don't see the logical connection.

FISK: Well, criminals are like that.

TRYST: Oh.

FISK: Now, this other exit, can you open it?

TRYST: It leads to the first class bathroom. The Doctor couldn't open it, it opens by personal key.

FISK: It's the only way he can

TRYST: I think the Doctor is in serious trouble, Dymond. It's a pity. Such a brilliant mind.

ROMANA: Doctor?

DOCTOR: Shush. It's waiting for us to make any kind of sound.

DOCTOR: (quietly) It's gone. Now take care.

ROMANA: What was that?

DOCTOR: I don't know. Hello there, thank you very much. We're terribly grateful to you for saving our lives.

ROMANA: Who are you?

STOTT: The name's Stott.

DOCTOR: Stott! Stott of the Tryst expedition?

STOTT: Yes.

DOCTOR: Yours, I believe. I'm the Doctor, this is Romana. We're travellers and

DOCTOR: Come on, this way.

STOTT: I know a safe place. Follow me.

DOCTOR: Not bad, not bad at all. How long have you been here?

STOTT: A hundred and eighty three days. They left me for d*ad on Eden. I tried to get back here to call the ship, and I got caught up in the event transmuter.

ROMANA: How did you get those marks?

STOTT: A mandrel. The thing I saved you from.

ROMANA: Mandrel. Doctor, they're called mandrels.

DOCTOR: Well, Stott, you've got some explaining to do. A hundred and eighty three days here?

STOTT: Yes. I thought I was going to be stuck here for the rest of my life. There were a few times when I felt like bl*wing my brains out. The hardest thing was being able to look out and see Della.

DOCTOR: Yes, yes, quite. Tell me, when did you first discover you could get out of the projection?

STOTT: After the accident. Something must have gone wrong with the CET machine. The edge of the projection was shimmering.

DOCTOR: Really?

STOTT: I decided I had nothing to lose, so I walked straight through it and found myself on the Empress. Then I took one of the passenger coveralls so I could walk about unnoticed.

DOCTOR: Why didn't you tell Tryst and Della you'd got out?

STOTT: Because of what I am and what I'm doing.

DOCTOR: Really?

STOTT: I'm a Major in the Intelligence section of Space Corps, on a special assignment to find out who's drug running.

DOCTOR: Ah ha. You thought it was me, didn't you.

STOTT: For a while. Then I overheard you and Romana talking in the lounge.

ROMANA: Tryst thought it was you, and now he thinks it's Della.

STOTT: Tryst's a fool. He knows nothing. He didn't even realise his expedition was being used to transport a new sort of Vrax that someone had found.

ROMANA: Yes, if you store in on crystal in the CET machine, it can't possibly show up on a molecular scan.

STOTT: He must have arranged somewhere along the line for a pick-up. They'd have to get the stuff out of the projection and pass it on.

DOCTOR: Yeah. You've got the stuff I had?

STOTT: Just a tiny sample. Secker must have found it. He may even have been involved himself.

DOCTOR: Yes, but more important is where the main supply is hidden and where it comes from.

STOTT: All I know is that it's in Eden somewhere. I've been searching all this time. No result.

DOCTOR: Then we've got to get the dimension projection sealed off again, which means doing what we first came to do.

STOTT: And what's that?

DOCTOR: Separate the ships. Tell me, if we go out of the projection in that direction, do we come to the power unit?

STOTT: Yes, you can get out of the projection any way you want.

DOCTOR: Good, good. Then that's what we'll do. Come on. Well, come on.

K9: Identify.

STOTT: Look out, Doctor.

DOCTOR: It's all right, he's mine.

STOTT: What is it?

DOCTOR: It's just a perfectly ordinary electric dog.

K9: Master, I have located the power unit.

DOCTOR: Good, good. Now listen, K9. This is Stott. He's a friend. All right?

K9: Affirmative.

DOCTOR: Good. Let's get to work.

DOCTOR: Liquid hydrogen, turbopump exhaust, reactor core, pressure shell. Right.

ROMANA: Doctor, do you really know how to get this thing going?

DOCTOR: Of course I do. I can start anything from a steam engine to a TARDIS. Have you got a match?

ROMANA: What for?

DOCTOR: I want to jam this switch down.

ROMANA: Would a toothpick do?

DOCTOR: Perfect.

K9: Master, during your absence I encountered alien creatures in this area.

ROMANA: Mandrels, K9.

K9: Name noted, mistress.

DOCTOR: You'd better guard the door, K9. How many were there?

K9: Five units, master.

DOCTOR: Five! I'd better get a move on or they'll be all over the ship.

ROMANA: Hadn't we better deal with them first?

DOCTOR: No, no, no. Until the ships are separated and the projection is s*ab, it'd be like trying to bail out a small boat with a

ROMANA: Sieve?

DOCTOR: Yes.

ATTENDANT: We're doing everything we can. The skipper's got

WOMAN 2: We should have been on Azure hours ago. My passengers asked me to represent them, to take our complaint to the Captain.

ATTENDANT: You must understand, he's very busy in the emergency. He's doing everything possible to get you to Azure.

COSTA: What's going on, Captain?

RIGG: Nothing much, nothing much.

COSTA: What's happening? What are those things?

RIGG: They're a sort of judgment on us all.

COSTA: What? I'll have you sh*t for this, Captain.

COSTA: Bridge here. Emergency. The passengers on pallet sixty seven are under att*ck. All armed crewmembers proceed to pallet sixty seven immediately! (to Rigg) I shall be charging you with gross neglect of duty. The passengers should be your first concern, yet I find you drunkenly looking on as they are att*cked and k*lled! Well?

RIGG: They're only economy class. What's all the fuss about?

DOCTOR: Is that the one, Romana? Romana, was that

ROMANA: Mandrel!

DOCTOR: K9!

DOCTOR: K9, quickly!

STOTT: Doctor, they're coming from both ways.

DOCTOR: I've got to get this finished. Romana, did you check the cable to the reactor?

ROMANA: Yes, I'm pretty sure it was that one.

DOCTOR: Well, check it. I need to be absolutely sure.

DOCTOR: It's perfectly all right. It's quite d*ad.

ROMANA: If you say so.

DOCTOR: Was it the one?

ROMANA: No, sorry. It's the one below.

DOCTOR: It's a good thing you checked. I could have caused a spectacular expl*si*n.

ROMANA: All ready to go now?

DOCTOR: Nearly. Two things. One, I need to know whether the power on the bridge is on maximum. Two, the demat has to be switched on from the TARDIS at exactly the same time I switch on this old gas oven. All right?

ROMANA: All right.

DOCTOR: Good.

FISK: Captain, this ship is a disaster area. I'm placing you under arrest for gross neglect of duty.

RIGG: Hey, it's really nice being arrested.

FISK: Now, about the, er, mandrels?

TRYST: Yes.

FISK: Mandrels. We need to seal them off and then destroy them. I'll send for heavy w*apon.

TRYST: I'd rather if they're not k*lled, if that's possible.

FISK: The things are k*lling our people, man. What do you suggest?

TRYST: Some sort of tranquillising drug?

FISK: We haven't got time for pussyfooting around! I can't think why you care so much about such ugly, disgusting things.

TRYST: It's all a matter of conservation. If they are k*lled, the whole species will have gone.

FISK: Look, I'm in charge here. I'll do what I think is best.

CREWMAN (on monitor): Level B. Two mandrels have got into the fuel section.

FISK: Then k*ll them.

CREWMAN (on monitor): Well, we're worried about hitting the fuel t*nk if we f*re.

FISK: You see what I mean, Tryst? Keep them under surveillance, and if they move out of there, destroy them.

CREWMAN (on monitor): Aye, aye, sir.

FISK: Has the Doctor been seen in that sector?

CREWMAN (on monitor): No, sir.

FISK: Yes, well, pass the word around that if he offers the slightest resistance to arrest, sh**t him.

CREWMAN (on monitor): sh**t him, sir?

FISK: He's a criminal, isn't he? What else do you do with criminals?

CREWMAN (on monitor): Sir.

DOCTOR: Stott, I want you and Romana to go back through the jungle. K9, I want you to go back the way you came.

K9: Negative, master. Blurred zone still operative. These zones are matter interfaces.

DOCTOR: Will you listen to me, please? Stott and I came through one. It's perfectly all right if it's on the edge of a hull. All you need is a little determination.

K9: Affirmative. Determination, master.

DOCTOR: Good. Now, when you get through, I want you to go back to the demat machine set up near the TARDIS, and when I whistle, you switch it on. Right?

K9: Affirmative.

DOCTOR: Good.

ROMANA: What about you? You're not going to be here when the power unit comes on, are you?

DOCTOR: No, no. I'm going to rig myself a little time device. Could I borrow your watch, please?

STOTT: Certainly.

DOCTOR: Good. Is that on ship's time? Right. Now, I'll give you till 20:25 to reach the bridge and put the power on. I'll set my device so I can escape in good time.

ROMANA: What about the mandrels? You won't have K9 or a g*n.

DOCTOR: I'll have to use my wits. Off you go. Take care. Look out for excisemen. I don't think they like us very much. Off you go then.

DOCTOR: Twenty oh one.

FISK: I want this ship searched from top to bottom. If you see the Doctor or his lady companion, arrest them. If they resist, k*ll them. Right, get on with it.

DYMOND: Shall I put it on destruct?

TRYST: I think not. We'll see how things develop. We'll keep in touch.

ROMANA: Look out!

DOCTOR: Plenty of time.

ROMANA: You go back and guide the Doctor through.

STOTT: What about the excisemen?

ROMANA: I'll manage.

STOTT: Right.

DOCTOR: No! No!

DOCTOR: Vraxoin. Of course! So that's it.

COSTA: How much longer do we have to stay up here?

FISK: Until the job's finished. How many casualties so far?

COSTA: Here's the list. Twelve d*ad, twenty nine injured. Enough for a small w*r.

FISK: You know what this means?

COSTA: What?

FISK: Almost certain promotion.

COSTA: Promotion?

FISK: It's bound to be, a situation as big as this. It'll sort itself out and in the end we'll have two tailor-made suspects, the Doctor and the girl. We'll be the golden boys of the day.

COSTA: We don't actually know anything about those two.

FISK: You found the traces of Vrax in the Doctor's pocket. What more do you want?

K9: In position. Waiting.

DOCTOR: Twenty twenty-one? I'll never do it.

ROMANA: The Doctor's got into the power unit.

RIGG: Good, good.

ROMANA: We're going to separate the ships now.

RIGG: Have you got something for me? Something I need?

ROMANA: I must put full power on. Please, let me pass, Captain.

RIGG: I must have something for this terrible feeling, don't you understand?

ROMANA: I haven't got anything.

RIGG: You're lying. I know you've got the stuff, now tell me where it is.

ROMANA: Please, let me just set the controls and I'll help you. Now let me go.

RIGG: I don't care about the stupid ship, woman. I want something for this feeling! Now you can help me. Please, I'll give you money. I've got money. How much? How much?

ROMANA: Let me just get the ship operating, and then I'll see that you get medical help.

RIGG: Just a little bit. I know you've got it. Now let me have some or I'll k*ll you!

ROMANA: I haven't got anything!

RIGG: Give it to me!

ROMANA: Oh, thank you. He was going to k*ll me.

FISK: Well it wouldn't have mattered much, since you're going to die anyway. tr*ffick in drugs is punishable by death on Azure.

ROMANA: Whereas bureaucratic m*rder is rewarded with promotion.

FISK: I didn't invent the rules, I just enforce them. Don't touch those controls.

ROMANA: But you don't understand. The Doctor is in the power unit. We're going to separate the ships now. I must operate the drive.

FISK: I don't know what you're up to, but I intend to stop you. Touch those controls and I sh**t!

ROMANA: I thought you were going to k*ll me anyway.

FISK: Don't touch them!
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