(Next to them, the DOCTOR sits, wafting himself with his Panama hat as the other Aridian, RYNIAN, who is sat next to him, continues with the story...)
RYNIAN: Then...then the sea's dried up and all the creatures that lived within their waters perished. (The DALEK turns.) (The DOCTOR takes off his coat.) (The two ARIDIANS try to flee in a panic but the DALEKS spin round and blast them. ARIDIUS (NIGHT)
(The SECOND DALEK glides up to the two DALEKS guarding the TARDIS.) BARBARA: (To VICKI.) But before they can move on, they are stopped in their tracks by the sight of two alien beings who stand before them. CHAMBER
(The DOCTOR and BARBARA sit on some steps in a darkened stone chamber in the Aridian city. FIRST DALEK: The enemy time machine is beneath the sand at this point. IAN: It's for the Dalek, not for me! Look where...? SECOND DALEK: Destroy the enemy time machine. TUNNEL (NIGHT)
(The time travellers have escaped from the Aridians and the DOCTOR and BARBARA follow VICKI as she guides them down a tunnel. That puts a different complexion on the matter. Then we will help you search for your time machine. They are to be exterminated. Tracks of the humans. Use full power. With a cry, they fall to the ground, dead.)
Plan: A: The travellers; Q: Who is taken prisoner by the Mechonoids? A: theMoroks' museum; Q: Where did the travellers get the Time-Space Visualiser? A: their own time machine; Q: What do the Daleks have that the Doctor and his companions need to escape? A: the TARDIS; Q: What do the Doctor and his companions flee in? A: The chase; Q: What begins on the desert planet Aridius? A: stopping-off points; Q: What does the chase take in a number of? A: a spooky haunted house; Q: What is actually a futuristic fun-fair attraction? A: a futuristic fun-fair attraction; Q: What is the haunted house on Aridius actually? A: the jungle planet Mechanus; Q: Where do the Daleks try to kill the Doctor's party? A: the Mechonoids - robots; Q: Who takes the Doctor's party prisoner? A: landing sites; Q: What were the Mechonoids sent to prepare for colonists who never arrived? A: human colonists; Q: Who were the Mechonoids sent to prepare landing sites for? A: Steven Taylor; Q: Who is the stranded astronaut who has been the Mechonoids' captive for the past two years? A: The Daleks; Q: Who is on the Doctor's trail? A: a fierce battle; Q: What does the Daleks and Mechonoids engage in that ends in their mutual destruction? A: The Doctor; Q: Who reluctantly helps Ian and Barbara to use the Daleks' time machine to return home? Summary: The travellers learn from the Time-Space Visualiser taken from theMoroks' museum that Daleks equipped with their own time machine are on their trail with orders to exterminate them. They flee in the TARDIS. The chase begins on the desert planet Aridius and takes in a number of stopping-off points, including a spooky haunted house which is actually a futuristic fun-fair attraction. Eventually both time machines arrive on the jungle planet Mechanus, where the Daleks try to infiltrate and kill the Doctor's party with a robotic double of him. The travellers are taken prisoner by the Mechonoids - robots sent some fifty years earlier to prepare landing sites for human colonists who never arrived - and meet Steven Taylor, a stranded astronaut who has been the Mechonoids' captive for the past two years. The Daleks and the Mechonoids engage in a fierce battle which ends in their mutual destruction. The Doctor's party seizes this opportunity to escape. The Doctor reluctantly helps Ian and Barbara to use the Daleks' time machine to return home.