TEXT: 5:40pm - 6:05pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1: INT. MECHANUS. CAVE MECHONOID:...Hundred...thirty...Mechonoid...English...input...enter. (Two arms come out of the centre of the robot, almost in a gesture of welcome. The voices of the DALEKS are heard outside the cave...) DALEKS: (OOV.) Advance. Advance and attack! Attack and destroy! Destroy and rejoice! IAN: You heard what the gentleman said - let's go! (As the DALEK chant continues, the DOCTOR grabs his machine and the time travellers walk towards and into the chamber...) [SCENE_BREAK] 2: INT. MECHANUS. LIFT (They walk into the chamber. A door slams down behind them. The travellers have to stand around the very edge of the room as the robot nearly fills the chamber.) VICKI: We're going up. BARBARA: Yeah, it's a lift. (After a pause, the DOCTOR addresses the robot.) DOCTOR: Yes you...you got us out of a nasty situation there. I supposed you'd like to know who we are and why we're here, mmm? (In answer, the instrumentation on top of the ROBOT falls back within the casing.) IAN: You're not getting through to him, Doctor, you're not getting through. BARBARA: Doctor, ask him where he's taking us. DOCTOR: Mmm. IAN: He's taking us up to the city, obviously. [SCENE_BREAK] 3: INT. MECHANUS. CAVE (The DALEKS sweep into the cave, firing as they go. They halt as they see that the cave is empty.) FIRST DALEK: They have escaped. SECOND DALEK: Not possible. Perceptor readings indicated they were here. FIRST DALEK: Subject walls to seismic detector tests. (The SECOND DALEK, who has the perceptor, glides up to the back wall. There is a bleeping
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.