TEXT: WARRIORS OF THE DEEP BY: JOHNNY BYRNE Part Four First Air Date: 13 January 1984 Running time: 24:48 [SCENE_BREAK] DOCTOR: How do you do? I'm the Doctor. Haven't we met before? [SCENE_BREAK] TURLOUGH: What's this? BULIC: A ventilation shaft. [SCENE_BREAK] TARPOK: The Sea Devil warriors have captured the reactor room. ICHTAR: Excellent. VORSHAK: Allow my crew to surrender. ICHTAR: It is they who insist upon fighting. SCIBUS: The damage is assessed, Ichtar. The computer can be restored to normal functioning. ICHTAR: Perfect. DOCTOR: Ichtar. TEGAN: You know him? DOCTOR: Yes. I thought he'd been killed. ICHTAR: Remove these people from the bridge. DOCTOR: You do not recognise me now, but we are known to each other. ICHTAR: You are mistaken. Take him away. DOCTOR: No, wait, wait, please. In an earlier regeneration you knew me as the Doctor. ICHTAR: The Doctor? You can prove what you say? DOCTOR: I know that you are Ichtar, the surviving leader of the noble Silurian Triad. When we last met I tried to mediate between you and the people of Earth. ICHTAR: So it is you. DOCTOR: May we speak? ICHTAR: The Doctor and Commander Vorshak will remain. Remove the others. ICHTAR: I will listen to what you say, but I should tell you that the Silurians have long since abandoned the way of mediation. DOCTOR: So it seems. Why? A civilised race like yours, waging unprovoked war? ICHTAR: Defensive war, Doctor. There is a distinction. Silurian law forbids any other. DOCTOR: Defensive? There's no such thing. When we last met, your supreme wish was to live at peace with the other inhabitants of this planet. Now, why change such an enlightened policy now? ICHTAR: Our policy has always been
SUMMARY:
The Doctor is presented with a moral dilemma when Icthar reveals his plans to get rid of the human race so the Silurians can take back what was once theirs.