TEXT: 5:30pm - 5:55pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1: EXT. TUNDRA (IAN and BARBARA are in a frozen tundra with snow on the ground. It is obviously freezing, a howling wind blows and they huddle together for warmth as they fall to the ground.) IAN: Get up, Barbara! We must keep moving! If we don't find shelter, we don't stand a chance. BARBARA: It's no good Ian, I... I can't... I'm too tired... Sleep... IAN: No! BARBARA: (Falling forward.) I must sleep... (She collapses and lies still. IAN slowly crawls over to her.) IAN: No... no, Barbara, no! We'll freeze to death... We... (The cold overcomes him and he collapses too.) [SCENE_BREAK] 2: EXT. TUNDRA. (A SHORT TIME LATER) (BARBARA sits up slowly. She sees a large, bearded MAN in a hood standing over them and faints. The MAN holds her wrist and pulls off the travel dial.) [SCENE_BREAK] 3: INT. HUT (The sound of howling wind is heard from outside a wooden hut as a fire is burning. The MAN from the tundra returns through the door and bolts it behind him. He checks on BARBARA who is sleeping in on a bed. He taps her on the shoulder. She sits up in alarm.) MAN: Don't be afraid, you're safe now. BARBARA: How... How did I...? Ian, where's Ian? (The MAN glances at IAN'S still form on another bed.) MAN: Ah, your friend is here. He still sleeps. (He takes her hand.) MAN: Your hand is slightly frost-bitten. Put it in mine. We must help your friend like this, too. Rub the hand slowly, like this. (He does so.) MAN: Yes? Understand? You afraid of me? BARBARA: (Nervously.)
SUMMARY:
The TARDIS arrives on the planet Marinus on an island of glass surrounded by a sea of acid. The travellers are forced by the elderly Arbitan to retrieve four of the five operating keys to a machine called the Conscience of Marinus, of which he is the keeper. These have been hidden in different locations around the planet to prevent them falling into the hands of the evil Yartek and his Voord warriors, who plan to seize the machine and use its originally benevolent mind-influencing power for their own sinister purposes.