PLANET OF EVIL
BY: LOUIS MARKS
Part Three
Running time: 23:50
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SARAH: Doctor! Do something.
SORENSON: There is nothing to be done.
VISHINSKY: He has disappeared into the vortex between this universe and the next.
SARAH: No, not the Doctor! He can't be dead.
SORENSON: He has ceased to exist. Controller, it is nearly night. We must prepare to launch.
SALAMAR: I agree. Vishinsky, see the Professor Sorenson's mineral samples are removed.
SORENSON: No. No, you can't leave those canisters behind.
SALAMAR: Those minerals are endangering the safety of my command. They must be jettisoned.
SORENSON: You arrogant young fool. The whole purpose of your command was to get me and that positron material back to our cosmos.
SALAMAR: So that you can be hailed as the saviour of civilisation? No, Professor. My orders were simply to find your party and get back.
SORENSON: If you abandon that material, you destroy years of my life's work.
SALAMAR: You are a civilian aboard a military vessel. There will be no further argument.
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DE HAAN: Carry them in, carry them out. That ought to be the Space Service motto.
MORELLI: Yes, well, they've changed their minds.
DE HAAN: Yeah, well they could have changed their minds first, couldn't they? I mean, just for a change.
MORELLI: Listen, de Haan. The Controller simply wants us to take these canisters outside the take off forcefield area, right?
DE HAAN: Right.
MORELLI: Right.
DE HAAN: It's only another fifty yards multiplied by ten.
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DE HAAN: Half my service I spend flying one way, the other half I spend flying back again. They should pay me for staying in one place.
MORELLI: Come on.
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SARAH: Doctor! Doctor! Doctor.
DOCTOR: Sarah, Vandervelt's equation of knowledge. Quite wrong.
SARAH: Doctor, come on. Come on. The spaceship, it's leaving. Doctor! Doctor! Doctor, wake up. Doctor!
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DE HAAN: All the canisters are off the ship, Controller.
SALAMAR: Good. We'll go for immediate take off, Vishinsky.
VISHINSKY: Commence pressurisation and pre-ignition checks.
REIG (OOV.): Pre-ignition checks commenced.
SALAMAR: Recall the oculoid.
VISHINSKY: Cancel that!
SALAMAR: What?
VISHINSKY: The oculoid picture. Look!
VISHINSKY: Cut the forcefield.
SALAMAR: Are you taking command, Vishinsky?
VISHINSKY: He's alive, Salamar.
SALAMAR: There are higher priorities than recovering corpses.
VISHINSKY: I'm going out for them.
SALAMAR: We must leave this planet before night. Prepare the sick bay.
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SORENSON: No.
SORENSON: While still on the surface of Zeta Minor, and within the stable environment of the space probe, positron elements showed a twenty, a twenty percent increase in flux activity. This would seem to indicate a substantially greater, a greater, argh.
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VISHINSKY: Electro-function almost non-existent.
SARAH: But he's still alive.
VISHINSKY: Raise the stimulation intensity twelve degrees.
DE HAAN: But that's way over safety margins.
VISHINSKY: Do it!
SARAH: He moved!
DE HAAN: Don't expect too much.
SARAH: What?
DE HAAN: They often move under stimulation. It's the nervous system.
VISHINSKY: He's breathing.
SARAH: He's coming round. Doctor. Doctor?
SALAMAR (OOV.): Stand by for take off. Vishinsky to command area.
VISHINSKY: He'll be all right. Stay with him.
SARAH: Vishinsky. Thanks for helping us.
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MORELLI: Pressurisation complete, Controller.
SALAMAR: Activate cyclostimulators.
MORELLI: Power jets locked in.
SALAMAR: Prepare for ignition. Take the countdown, Vishinsky.
VISHINSKY: If we don't make it this time, we never will.
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SARAH: Doctor.
DOCTOR: What's the noise?
SARAH: You're all right. We're taking off.
DOCTOR: What? But the canisters. I promised.
SARAH: It's all right. They've been dumped. Your promise as a Time Lord? Well, what happened?
DOCTOR: It's difficult to explain.
SARAH: Well try. What did you do, enter another universe and have a chat with it?
DOCTOR: I communicated.
SARAH: We seem to be having trouble again.
DOCTOR: Oh! Come on.
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VISHINSKY: We're not going to make it.
SALAMAR: Activate secondary boosters.
REIG (OOV.): Secondary boosters activated.
VISHINSKY: The syncronisers are hitting red.
MORELLI: Gravity drag increasing.
SALAMAR: I want ten seconds of maximum fuel burn.
VISHINSKY: That's crazy! You
SALAMAR: You heard me. Ten seconds.
MORELLI: Gravity drag still increasing. Height only thirty miles.
VISHINSKY: That's more than gravity. There's antimatter still aboard!
SALAMAR: All the canisters were removed.
DOCTOR: Except for this.
SALAMAR: What's that?
DOCTOR: Antimatter. How else do you think I survived that pool?
SALAMAR: Is there enough there to hold us back?
DOCTOR: Yes.
SALAMAR: You idiot. Morelli, get that to the jettison hatch fast.
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DE HAAN: Hey, Morelli, when are we going to get some lights down here? Do you think the command area's the only place anyone's working?
DE HAAN: Morelli? Morelli!
DE HAAN: Morelli.
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REIG: Height, two hundred miles.
VISHINSKY: We're in free space, but we're losing speed again.
SALAMAR: Drag is still increasing. I don't understand it.
DOCTOR: Then I suggest you search the ship.
SALAMAR: Oh? Why?
DOCTOR: Because there must still be antimatter aboard. It's the only explanation.
SALAMAR: Impossible.
VISHINSKY: Salamar, we're burning fuel at thirty units over norm. At this rate we'll never make the stellar systems.
SARAH: But that means we'll be marooned in space!
DOCTOR: If we're not vapourised first.
SALAMAR: Vapourised? What do you mean?
DOCTOR: Antimatter in collision with matter causes radiation annihilation. A release of energy more powerful than nuclear fission.
SALAMAR: There is no antimatter aboard this ship!
DOCTOR: And I tell you there is.
DE HAAN: Controller! Controller, Morelli's dead.
SALAMAR: Dead?
DE HAAN: He's been killed by some sort of an animal.
VISHINSKY: Animal?
DE HAAN: I saw it in sector three.
VISHINSKY: Restore all walkway lights. All right, de Haan, come on. Show us.
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SORENSON: It's all gone so wrong.
SORENSON: Yes?
REIG (OOV.): Report at once to sector three. Controller Salamar wants to see you.
SORENSON: What for?
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DOCTOR: Well?
VISHINSKY: The pathology readout is identical to the others. Total dehydration. Even the bone marrow.
SARAH: But how could that thing get on board?
VISHINSKY: I don't know. The forcefield was operating all the time the hatch was open. It was phased to cut in automatically.
DOCTOR: I wonder.
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SALAMAR: You're a scientist. You must have formed some theory.
SORENSON: All the deaths appear to have been caused by a technology unknown to us. That would seem to implicate the Doctor and the girl.
SALAMAR: Why?
SORENSON: Well, they're aliens.
SALAMAR: But they were in the command area when Morelli was killed.
SORENSON: That machine in the quarantine berth might contain the answer.
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VISHINSKY: Crew records. What denomination was Morelli?
DOCTOR: Can I see the printout?
VISHINSKY: Of course.
REIG (OOV.): Morelli was Morestran Orthodox.
VISHINSKY: Oh, one of those.
SARAH: What are you doing?
VISHINSKY: Disposal procedure. We may have to play the last rites but we don't have to listen.
VISHINSKY: Another good soldier gone to the greatest army of them all.
SARAH: Out into space to drift forever.
VISHINSKY: It's clean and tidy.
SARAH: It's horrible.
DOCTOR: Vishinsky, I'd like a medical check on everybody aboard the ship.
VISHINSKY: Why?
DOCTOR: Because someone is contaminated.
SALAMAR: Yes, Doctor, and we want to examine that space machine of yours.
DOCTOR: Why?
SALAMAR: We believe you to be responsible for all the deaths. Unless you cooperate, I shall kill you and the girl without compunction.
SARAH: Oh, great. That's the thanks you get for helping people.
DOCTOR: What is all this?
VISHINSKY: The Doctor risked his life on our account.
SALAMAR: That was a ruse to gain our confidence. His real intention is to destroy us.
DOCTOR: Why? For what reason?
SORENSON: There are other civilisations as desperate as we are for new energy sources. My discoveries on Zeta Minor would be of immense value to them.
DOCTOR: Professor Sorenson, has it ever occurred to you that you might be mistaken? That there is no practical method of exploiting antiquark energy?
SORENSON: Oh no, you're wrong. I've spent my life discovering alternative energy.
REIG (OOV.): Controller Salamar. Calling the Controller.
SALAMAR: What is it, Reig?
REIG (OOV.): We're in trouble, sir. The ship's stopped moving.
SALAMAR: That's impossible.
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REIG: Sir, the progress register has stopped. We're making no headway.
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SALAMAR: I'm coming up. Professor, watch the girl. You, come with us.
SARAH: There's no need to. I'm not going to jump out, am I.
SORENSON: What is your friend's field of science?
SARAH: Oh, everything. He's brilliant.
SORENSON: And he's wrong. He has to be wrong. Antiquarks come in three configurations, exactly as I predicted. All my theoretical calculations have proved this! We shall find a way of discovering the energy!
SARAH: All right. I'm not arguing.
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VISHINSKY: We're stationary. Suspended in space.
SALAMAR: It's crazy. The thrusters are still at full power.
DOCTOR: The answer's really very simple. You've come to the end of your piece of elastic.
SALAMAR: What are you talking about?
DOCTOR: It won't stretch any further. In fact, very soon it will start to pull you back.
SALAMAR: Nothing can do that.
DOCTOR: Antimatter can. There's still some aboard and this proves it.
VISHINSKY: You mean the ship will be dragged back to Zeta Minor?
DOCTOR: Yes, faster and faster. Until, of course, we reach the surface, then we'll stop with a bang. The only way to prevent it is to find the antimatter.
SALAMAR: You're diverting attention from what's really causing the trouble. You! You and whatever's in that machine of yours. Something that's draining the power from this ship.
DOCTOR: Salamar, you're wrong again.
SALAMAR: We'll see. Vishinsky, take charge here.
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SORENSON: Antimatter is simply matter composed entirely of antiparticles. Therefore, the hypothetical energy available, available, is, is stupendous.
SARAH: What's wrong? Are you all right?
SORENSON: Yes. Yes, I'm
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DE HAAN: Oh, Professor, I
DE HAAN: Argh!
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DOCTOR: Usually I only entertain friends in the TARDIS.
SALAMAR: Shut up. Open it.
DOCTOR: Externally, as you can see, it resembles a London police box.
SALAMAR: Open it!
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DOCTOR (OOV.): Sarah!
DOCTOR: Sarah, what happened?
SARAH: I caught a glimpse of that thing. It was horrible.
DOCTOR: Antiman.
SARAH: Antiman?
DOCTOR: A hybrid creature running amok.
SALAMAR: Don't move! De Haan. You've killed de Haan!
DOCTOR: Oh, now listen, Sa
SARAH: Doctor!
SALAMAR: No! They killed de Haan.
VISHINSKY: Some thing killed de Haan.
SALAMAR: Let's get rid of them before they kill us all. Take them to the ejector chamber. Hurry!
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SALAMAR: Prepare to eject.
SARAH: You can't do this! It's murder!
VISHINSKY: She's right. You have no evidence. You cannot do it.
SALAMAR: How much evidence do you want? The whole crew dead? Eject! Eject.
VISHINSKY: No, Salamar.
Plan: A: The Doctor; Q: Who makes a deal with the Anti-Matter Beast? A: the Anti-Matter Beast; Q: Who does the Doctor make a deal with to return all the anti-matter to the planet? A: his research; Q: What is Sorenson determined to continue? Summary: The Doctor makes a deal with the Anti-Matter Beast to return all the anti-matter to the planet but Sorenson is determined to continue his research.