(As the DALEK chant continues, the DOCTOR grabs his machine and the time travellers walk towards the chamber...) (To BARBARA.) ...and that we are ready for the Daleks, come on. A robot the Daleks made. BARBARA: (To IAN.) CAVE (NIGHT)
(As the three sleep inside the cave, a probe with a camera on the end descends from the ceiling and monitors the three sleepers. Come on. Contact has been lost. DALEK LANDING SITE (NIGHT)
(Two DALEKS are in the jungle, next to another fungoid. DALEK TIME MACHINE. MECHANUS. Robot? She is lying in a faint with a fungoid hovering over her.) Take a position amongst the boulders and cut off any attempt to escape. The DOCTOR, IAN - holding the DOCTOR'S machine - and BARBARA come across several of the mushroom creatures as they explore outside the TARDIS.) They stop in their tracks at the sight above them.) They told it to "infiltrate and kill". Watch him! Well Doctor, with this... (Points at the DOCTOR'S machine.) Where? Why did he try to kill me?
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.