TEXT: THE GREEN DEATH BY: ROBERT SLOMAN 5:50pm - 6:15pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. CAVERN GALLERY (The DOCTOR gets nearer.) DOCTOR: (Shouts.) Jo?! Jo - are you there?! JO: (OOV: Ahead in the cavern.) Doctor - here quickly! (The DOCTOR moves on at speed and soon he and JO bump into each other in the green gloom.) JO: Doctor! Doctor - it's horrible! (She points back where she has come from.) DOCTOR: What is it? (He moves on to look. He reaches the cavern and sees the lake of giant maggots.) DOCTOR: Good grief! (He goes back to her.) DOCTOR: Come on! (They start to set off back the way they have come but all of a sudden there is a rumbling sound. The long-disused tunnel, disturbed by their movements, starts to collapse. Dust and rocks fall down, totally blocking their route back. To make matters worse, several maggots suddenly emerge from gaps in the debris. JO looks on in horror as the creatures start to shuffle towards them. One of them hisses at the pair with its small mouth filled with razor-sharp teeth. The DOCTOR pulls JO back in the direction of the lake in the cavern.) JO: There's no way out. DOCTOR: Nil desperandum, Jo. JO: But, Doctor, those things crawling around in that green stuff - you saw what happened to the others. DOCTOR: Then we mustn't let them touch us, must we? Now, how do we get out of here? (JO points to some wheeled coal carts nearby.) JO: What about those - they any good? (One cart is slightly de-railed.) DOCTOR: Lift it up. (They strain to lift the cart...) DOCTOR: Right...now, push it over. (...and then to lift it back onto the rail
SUMMARY:
The Doctor and Jo manage to escape from the mine with a maggot egg but Stevens is determined to stop them analysing it.