TEXT: Written by Dennis Spooner (Based on an idea by Terry Nation) 5:50pm - 6:15pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1. DALEK CONTROL ROOM, KEMBEL DALEK 1: Four, three, two, one, zero! (The time machine fades from the Control Room.) DALEK 1: Report to Skaro. Our time machine is now in pursuit. Nothing can match Dalek technology. The universe shall be ours. Conquest is assured. DALEKS: CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! [SCENE_BREAK] 2. DESERT (In the distance is a pyramid. The TARDIS materialises.) [SCENE_BREAK] 3. DALEK TIME-MACHINE (Some DALEKS are running the machine, while the RED DALEK is in charge. Over in a corner, MAVIC CHEN is standing.) RED DALEK: Mavic Chen, the recovery of the Taranium Core is your responsibility. MAVIC CHEN: I welcome it. Guile and cunning will succeed where force would fail. RED DALEK: Once the Taranium core is in your possession, we shall eliminate the humans. MAVIC CHEN: Of course. (He turns to the scanner which is showing the desert landscape.) MAVIC CHEN: And I assume that that is where they've landed? RED DALEK: You are correct, and we shall arrive shortly - in four Earth minutes. MAVIC CHEN: They must have equipment in their ship. Equipment that would inform them of our pursuit. DALEK 1: The time traveller is making no attempt to take off. MAVIC CHEN: That's very strange. Why should they choose to wait... and face us? [SCENE_BREAK] 4. DESERT (The TARDIS is near the pyramid. STEVEN and the DOCTOR have left the ship. The DOCTOR is worried about the damage the MONK has caused to the lock, and has got a toolbox out and is working on the lock.) STEVEN: How long is it going to take you to mend the
SUMMARY:
Missing episode In the year 4000, the Daleks conspire to conquer the Solar System. Their scheme involves treachery at the highest levels and a weapon capable of destroying the very fabric of time. Only the Doctor and his friends can prevent catastrophe - and there is no guarantee they will escape with their lives...