(A disc shaped weapon extends from the main body of the MECHONOID.) (IAN and the DOCTOR join BARBARA in trying to reassure VICKI as STEVEN continues to prepare the cable.) CONSOLE ROOM
(Several centuries later, the DOCTOR and VICKI watch this scene on the Time and Space Visualiser. DALEK LANDING SITE
(The DOCTOR, BARBARA and VICKI wait nervously outside the DALEK time machine. FIRST DALEK: Exterminate them! From Earth? I've tried for two years to get you both home! IAN: Fifty years ago? IAN: Well, that's out paid to the Daleks time travelling for a while. IAN: Who are you? LANDING
(...to reveal the DALEK with the perceptor approaching a MECHONOID.) Let's get on with this. Like something in a zoo? MECHANUS. MECHONOID: Stop. One DALEK is grasped in the MECHONOIDS arms. ROOF
(The DOCTOR, IAN, BARBARA and STEVEN pull the cable out of the junction box whilst VICKI stands on the edge of the roof looking in terror at the jungle down below.) STEVEN TAYLOR: (His voice trailing off.) TARDIS. The travellers also step out.) They want to be back in their own time. Where've you been? Who are you?
Plan: A: The travellers; Q: Who is taken prisoner by the Mechonoids? A: the Moroks' 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 the Moroks' 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.