TEXT: THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMEN by MERVYN HAISMAN and HENRY LINCOLN first broadcast - 7th October 1967 [SCENE_BREAK] 1. CAVE (JAMIE runs back into the cave.) JAMIE: Keep back, Victoria! I can't stop it! (He knocks one of the wooden beams which shakes and causes the roof to shake.) VICTORIA: Jamie, the roof. (JAMIE grabs a stone and starts to knock the beam with the stone.) VICTORIA: What are you doing? JAMIE: We've got to stop that thing somehow! VICTORIA: You'll bury us alive! JAMIE: It's our only chance! Now get back! (The beam prop out of place to bring part of the roof down on the pursuing Yeti, burying it under rubble. Dusting themselves off, the two stand up after JAMIE shielded VICTORIA from the rubble. They both stare at the claw that poke out of the rubble.) JAMIE: You all right? VICTORIA: That horrible thing. What was it? JAMIE: I don't know. Did you see what it did to my sword though? Broke it like it was a piece of wood. No human's as strong as that. VICTORIA: What is this place? (She turns to the collection of spheres at the back of the cave.) VICTORIA: And what are those? JAMIE: Some sort of metal? They're all glowing. VICTORIA: Oh, let's get away from here, Jamie. (JAMIE picks up a sphere from the collection and puts it in his satchel that he has on him.) JAMIE: Aye, if we can. I don't think that tunnel's completely blocked. Come on. Oh, don't worry about that, it's quite dead. (They pass the rubble covering the Yeti and move towards the entrance of the cave. Behind them, the claw starts to move...) VICTORIA: (Staring at the claw.) Eah! JAMIE: What's
SUMMARY:
Jamie and Victoria make their way to the monastery shortly before it is attacked by the Yeti.