THE AWAKENING
BY: ERIC PRINGLE
Part One
First Air Date: 19 January 1984
Running time: 25:18
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JANE: Ben? Ben? Are you there, Ben?
JANE: Careful! You'll kill someone.
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JANE: Don't touch me! Get off!
WOLSEY: It's only me.
JANE: Ben. Ben, you're mad!
WOLSEY: Nonsense, my dear. Just a bit of fun.
JANE: Fun?
JANE: Sir George, you must stop these war games.
HUTCHINSON: Stop them? Why, Miss Hampden, you of all people, our school teacher, should appreciate the value of reenacting actual events. It's a living history.
JANE: It's getting out of hand. The village is in turmoil.
HUTCHINSON: So there's been a little damage. That's the way people used to behave in those days. It's a game. You must expect high spirits.
JANE: Not when people can get hurt. It must stop.
HUTCHINSON: And so it shall. We have but one last battle to fight. Join us. See the merit of what we do.
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TURLOUGH: Is that any better?
DOCTOR: Er, no. No, no, still some time distortion.
TEGAN: Is there a problem? We are going to Earth?
DOCTOR: Date, time and place asked for. How else could you visit your grandfather?
TURLOUGH: We're nearly there.
DOCTOR: See?
DOCTOR: Hmm. Well, we've arrived.
TURLOUGH: We've hit an energy field.
DOCTOR: Unexpected aura for a quiet English village.
TEGAN: Let's get out of here.
TURLOUGH: Quickly, Doctor. Relocate the TARDIS.
TEGAN: Hold on! There's something out there.
DOCTOR: He's trapped. If there's another fall, he'll be killed.
TURLOUGH: We can't go out there!
TURLOUGH: Doctor!
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TEGAN: He's gone.
DOCTOR: Hello? Hello!
DOCTOR: Wait, please.
TEGAN: Did you see his clothes? We're in the wrong century.
TURLOUGH: We're not. I checked the time monitor. It is 1984.
DOCTOR: Let's have a look around.
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HUTCHINSON: I don't understand you. Every man, woman and child in this village is involved in these war games except you. Why? It's great fun. An adventure.
JANE: I understand that.
HUTCHINSON: Then join us. Your influence could temper the more high-spirited, prevent accidents.
JANE: Look, I don't care if a few high-spirited kids get their heads banged together. It's gone beyond that. Suppose what happened to me happens to somebody else, a stranger, a visitor to the village.
HUTCHINSON: There will be no visitors to the village. It's been isolated from the outside world. No one can enter or leave.
JANE: You can't do that!
HUTCHINSON: Can't I? It's been done.
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TEGAN: Where'd he go?
TURLOUGH: Well, if he can move that quickly, he can't be hurt very badly.
DOCTOR: Interesting.
TEGAN: I don't like it.
DOCTOR: Then admire the craftsmanship. Seventeenth century. Probably of a man being chased by the devil. Must admit I've never seen anything quite like it before.
TEGAN: Looks as though a bomb's hit the place.
TURLOUGH: Maybe it did.
TEGAN: Can we find my grandfather?
TURLOUGH: What was that?
DOCTOR: A ghost.
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TURLOUGH: Why'd they build the church so far from the village?
TEGAN: Perhaps they were refused planning permission.
DOCTOR: Behave yourselves. We have company.
TURLOUGH: We should go back.
DOCTOR: Too late.
WILLOW: Where do you think you're going? This is Sir George Hutchinson's land.
DOCTOR: If we're trespassing, I apologise.
WILLOW: Little Hodcombe, for your own safety, is a closed area. We're in the middle of a war game.
TEGAN: We're here to visit my grandfather.
WILLOW: You'd better see Sir George. He'll sort it out. Move out!
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TEGAN: Stop it! Leave me alone!
WOLSEY: What's going on here?
WILLOW: Trespassers, Colonel. I've arrested them.
JANE: I don't believe this.
WOLSEY: Are you sure you should be doing this?
WILLOW: Sir George has been informed.
WOLSEY: I'm sorry about this. Some of the men do get a bit carried away. We'll soon have the business sorted out and you safely on your way.
DOCTOR: Thank you. It's a very impressive room, Colonel.
WOLSEY: My pride and joy.
DOCTOR: Seventeenth century.
WOLSEY: Yes, perfect in every detail.
TEGAN: What is going on?
JANE: I'm sorry, I don't know. I think everyone's gone mad.
TEGAN: Look, we don't want to interfere. We're just here to visit my grandfather.
WILLOW: Oh yes? And who might he be?
TEGAN: Andrew Verney.
WILLOW: Verney?
TEGAN: What's wrong?
JANE: He disappeared a few days ago.
TEGAN: Well, has anything been done to find him?
JANE: Ben?
TEGAN: Well?
DOCTOR: Now calm down, Tegan. I'm sure we can sort this out.
TEGAN: Oh, for heaven's sake!
DOCTOR: Tegan, come back! Turlough, fetch her, will you?
DOCTOR: Please.
WILLOW: You! Stay where you are!
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TEGAN: What are you doing? Give me that back!
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HUTCHINSON: What's this?
WILLOW: He tried to escape, sir.
HUTCHINSON: He isn't a prisoner, Sergeant Willow. You must treat visitors with more respect.
DOCTOR: What is going on?
HUTCHINSON: A celebration. On the thirteenth of July, 1643, the English Civil War came to Little Hodcombe. A Parliamentary force and a regiment for the King destroyed each other, and the village.
DOCTOR: And you're celebrating that?
HUTCHINSON: Why not? It's our heritage.
JANE: It's a madness.
HUTCHINSON: Yes. Miss Hampden, you see, disagrees with our activities.
DOCTOR: Hmm. I can understand why.
HUTCHINSON: Who are you?
DOCTOR: I'm known as the Doctor.
HUTCHINSON: Are you a member of the theatrical profession?
DOCTOR: No more than you are.
HUTCHINSON: Ah. Ha, ha! How did you get to the village?
DOCTOR: Through the woods, via the church.
WILLOW: That's where I found him, sir.
HUTCHINSON: I would avoid the church, if I were you. It's very dangerous. Could fall down at any minute.
DOCTOR: Hmm, so I'd noticed.
HUTCHINSON: However, since you're here, you must join in our games. It's our final battle.
DOCTOR: Do you know, I'd love to, but first I must find Tegan and Turlough, and Tegan's grandfather. I gather he's disappeared. Good day!
HUTCHINSON: Wait, wait, wait.
WILLOW: Tegan is Verney's granddaughter.
HUTCHINSON: Double the perimeter guard. He mustn't get out of the village. And help him find Verney's granddaughter.
WILLOW: Right.
HUTCHINSON: I've something rather special in mind for her.
JANE: Detaining people against their will is illegal, Sir George. The Doctor and his friends included.
HUTCHINSON: I shouldn't let that bother you, Miss Hampden. As the local magistrate, I shall find myself quite innocent.
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TEGAN: Oh, no! Come on! Help!
TEGAN: Oh, it's you.
TURLOUGH: What's happening?
TEGAN: Later. Let's get away from here first.
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DOCTOR: Turlough! Tegan!
DOCTOR: Wait! Come back!
DOCTOR: How could he get so far?
WOLSEY: We'll never find her. She could be anywhere.
WILLOW: Ask for more men.
WOLSEY: Hutchinson won't allow it. He's got everyone guarding the perimeter.
WILLOW: We're wasting our time with only four searching. If he wants her so badly, he's got to find more men.
WOLSEY: Ring him.
WILLOW: Not allowed. I'll have to go back to the house.
WOLSEY: All right. Carry on searching, you two. Try Verney's cottage again. She might be there. I'll come with you.
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DOCTOR: Hello? I saw you enter. All I want is Tegan's bag. What have you done with her? I know you can hear me.
DOCTOR: Gunpowder.
CHANDLER: Sorry it took me so long. Thought he'd never eat.
DOCTOR: Who are you? I'm the Doctor.
CHANDLER: Doctor? That don't be a proper name. Will Chandler be a proper name.
DOCTOR: I won't hurt you.
CHANDLER: I will hit 'ee. My hand's hurting.
DOCTOR: Show me.
DOCTOR: What were you doing in there?
CHANDLER: It's a priest hole, innit. I hid from fighting.
DOCTOR: What fighting?
CHANDLER: What fighting? Ere, where you been then?
DOCTOR: What year is this?
CHANDLER: Ah, I knows that one. Year sixteen hundred and forty three.
DOCTOR: Sixteen hundred and forty three.
CHANDLER: Is the battle done?
DOCTOR: Er, yes, Will. Battle's done.
DOCTOR: Ah, just in time.
TEGAN: Time? We almost didn't make it.
TURLOUGH: We have to get out of here.
TEGAN: There's something very strange going on.
DOCTOR: Yes, I know.
TURLOUGH: Who is that?
DOCTOR: Will Chandler.
CHANDLER: Sir?
TEGAN: Where did he come from?
DOCTOR: Ah, well, that's something we're going to have to talk about.
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MAN (OOV.): We lost them through the woods.
HUTCHINSON: Where is she?
WOLSEY: We can't find her. We need more men.
HUTCHINSON: I want Tegan, not excuses, Wolsey.
JANE: Don't listen to him, Ben.
HUTCHINSON: Miss Hampden, you are beginning to bore me with your constant bleating.
WILLOW: She doesn't understand. We must have our Queen of the May.
HUTCHINSON: Precisely. Think of it as the resurrection of an old tradition.
JANE: Not the way you'd like to celebrate it. I know the old custom of this village. I know what happens to a May Queen at the end of her reign.
WOLSEY: We're not going to harm her.
JANE: You might not. I'm not so sure about them.
HUTCHINSON: The tradition must continue. Something is coming to our village. Something very wonderful and strange.
WOLSEY: We must find Tegan.
JANE: You're so gullible, Ben. You'll do anything he says.
JANE: Right, I'm going to the police. I'll soon put a stop to this.
WILLOW: Shut up! Just be grateful it is the stranger who is to be crowned Queen of the May. It so easily could have been you.
WILLOW: And it still might be if we don't find her.
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DOCTOR: There's been a confusion in time. Somehow 1984 has become linked with 1643.
TURLOUGH: What about the apparitions?
DOCTOR: Psychic projections.
TEGAN: The man we saw when we arrived? He was real enough.
DOCTOR: Still a psychic projection, but with substance.
TURLOUGH: Matter projected from the past? That would require enormous energy.
DOCTOR: An alien power source.
TEGAN: What about Will?
DOCTOR: A projection, too, and at the moment a benign one.
TURLOUGH: This crack has got larger.
DOCTOR: Yes. Ominous, isn't it? As is the fact your grandfather has disappeared. I think it's time I sought some answers.
TEGAN: Where?
DOCTOR: The village.
TEGAN: Always so scientific.
DOCTOR: Come on, Will. You're coming with me.
TEGAN: What about us?
DOCTOR: You'll be safer in the TARDIS. And don't argue. Will!
TURLOUGH: You heard the Doctor.
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CHANDLER: This ain't possible.
DOCTOR: Look at the others.
DOCTOR: Will, in here.
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TURLOUGH: We're too late.
TEGAN: We must tell the Doctor.
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DOCTOR: Strange. Will, come and see.
DOCTOR: What's the matter? Will? Will, what happened in 1643?
CHANDLER: Troopers come.
DOCTOR: No. No, no. Something else.
CHANDLER: Malus come. Malus's got to war, ain't he? He makes fighting worse. He makes them hate more.
DOCTOR: The Malus is just a superstition.
CHANDLER: No, no, no. I've seen Malus. I seen it.
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TURLOUGH: Now where?
TEGAN: He said he was going to the village.
TURLOUGH: Let's go, but watch out for those horsemen.
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DOCTOR: Will, tell me what happened? How did it appear?
CHANDLER: It was Roundheads and Cavaliers, and they were fighting in church. And there was a wind coming. Such a wind. And then Malus, he came from nowhere.
DOCTOR: What did it look like? Like this? Did it look like this?
CHANDLER: Yes!
DOCTOR: It's all right, it's all right, it's all right.
DOCTOR: Interesting. Come on, Will.
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TEGAN: It's eerie.
TURLOUGH: Where is everyone?
TEGAN: Oh, no!
TURLOUGH: Split up!
TEGAN: Let me go!
WILLOW: Not yet, my dear.
WOLSEY: Do you have to enjoy this sort of thing quite so much?
WILLOW: Just obeying orders, Colonel.
WOLSEY: That's what they all say.
WILLOW: Ha!
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HUTCHINSON: After her! You'll need some light. Get a candle.
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DOCTOR: Stay close, Will.
DOCTOR: Quickly.
HUTCHINSON (OOV.): Come on, hurry yourselves. Through here.
DOCTOR: In here.
HUTCHINSON: Keep that light near. We'll catch her before the church. Move yourselves! I don't want this to take all day.
CHANDLER: They be troopers.
DOCTOR: No, no, just twentieth century men playing a particularly nasty game.
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WILLOW: Change into that.
TEGAN: Why?
WILLOW: Just do as you're told. Unless you want me to do it for you.
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HUTCHINSON: She won't get far. The village is sealed. Get me Sergeant Willow. I must see how the preparations are going. And see my horse is brought round immediately. I'll spend no more time on this.
JANE: It's not like Sir George to give up so easily.
DOCTOR: Be grateful. Where do the steps lead?
JANE: Colonel Wolsey's house. This must be the passage Andrew Verney discovered. He's our local historian.
DOCTOR: Yes, Tegan told me.
DOCTOR: Just a minute.
JANE: What is it?
DOCTOR: It's metal.
JANE: It can't be. It's all squashy.
DOCTOR: It's tinclavic.
JANE: Tinclavic? What is it? Where has it come from?
DOCTOR: The planet Ragga. Let's get back to the church.
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TEGAN: Don't you ever knock before entering a room?
WILLOW: You'd better be careful. You're beginning to annoy me.
TEGAN: What are you doing?
WILLOW: Those are your clothes now, compliments of Sir George Hutchinson. You're our Queen of the May.
TEGAN: What?
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JANE: Oh, slow down. What do you mean, this is from the planet Ragga?
DOCTOR: Precisely what I said. The Tereleptils mine tinclavic for more or less the exclusive use of the people of Hakol. That's in the star system Rifta, you know.
JANE: Oh, no. I've escaped from one madman to find another. Do you expect me to believe what you're saying?
DOCTOR: Well, you take that sample to any metallurgist and they'll confirm it isn't from this planet.
JANE: You're serious.
DOCTOR: Never more so.
JANE: Very well, then. For the sake of argument, I'll accept what you say, but how did it come to Little Hodcombe?
DOCTOR: As part of a space vehicle.
JANE: A space ship from Hakol landed here? Is that what you're trying to say?
DOCTOR: Well, more likely a computer-controlled reconnaissance vehicle.
JANE: How silly of me not to know.
DOCTOR: Tell me, was Andrew Verney engaged in any research concerning the Malus?
JANE: I believe he was, yes.
DOCTOR: That's what must have led him to the tunnel and the remains of the Hakol probe.
CHANDLER: See? I seen the Malus.
DOCTOR: I believe you, Will. My sincerest apologies for ever doubting you.
JANE: Doctor, the Malus is a myth, a legend. Some mumbo-jumbo connected with apparitions or something.
DOCTOR: That's precisely what Will saw. You see, on Hakol, psychic energy is a force that's been harnessed in much the same way as electricity is here.
JANE: But what has that got to do with the Malus legend?
DOCTOR: The thing you call the Malus was on board the Hakol probe.
JANE: Oh. I see what you mean. It's still here. Doctor, that wasn't there the other day.
CHANDLER: Don't touch it.!
JANE: He's right, Doctor. There's suddenly a very strange atmosphere in here.
DOCTOR: No, come and have a look at this.
CHANDLER: No! No!
JANE: Look out! Doctor!
Plan: A: The TARDIS; Q: What vehicle arrives in Little Hodcombe? A: Tegan; Q: Who wants to visit her Grandfather while they are in Little Hodcombe? A: unknown reasons; Q: Why does the war reenactment get more out of hand? Summary: The TARDIS arrives in Little Hodcombe, Tegan wants to visit her Grandfather while they are there. Also, a war re-enactment is going on that starts to get more and more out of hand and realistic for unknown reasons.