TEXT: THE ROBOTS OF DEATH by: CHRIS BOUCHER PART THREE Running time: 23:51 [SCENE_BREAK] 1. INT. control deck V16: All readings are eighty five percent above safety. TOOS: (Cries out.) She's going! (LEELA blocks her ears. The DOCTOR and DASK continue to struggle.) DASK: ______ DOCTOR: You've got to cut the zeta links! (The DOCTOR breaks free of DASK and grabs a huge pair of industrial-sized cutters. He has a brief stand-off with DASK, who once more gets in his way, but then takes the cutters and turns towards the panel. DASK cuts a cable and there is a flash and a blast.) DOCTOR: Good man. Now the other one. (DASK, resigned to it, cuts another cable, wincing away from the resultant flash and blast.) [SCENE_BREAK] 2. EXT. desert (The huge sandminer grinds to a stop.) [SCENE_BREAK] 3. INT. control deck V16: All motive units closing down. All readings falling to safety. DOCTOR: Well good. Now our troubles really begin. [SCENE_BREAK] 4. EXT. desert (Storm Mine 4 begins to sink into the sand.) [SCENE_BREAK] 5. INT. control deck (V14 still stands on the raised platform.) V14: Surface scanners inoperative. DASK: We're sinking. (DASK checks readings on the forward console.) DASK: Rate of descent... two metres a second. DOCTOR: I like a man who stays calm, Dask. But this isn't the Titanic. DASK: I do not understand the allusion, Doctor. DOCTOR: Well if the damaged motive units can be repaired, the mine can float itself. DASK: I'll see what I can do. (DASK walks towards the door. The DOCTOR follows him.) DOCTOR: I'll give you a hand with the
SUMMARY:
Hearing about a man who grew up only around robots and who has threatened to start a robot revolution, and who may be aboard the sandminer under an assumed name, the Doctor takes D.84 to seek out a possible secret workshop where he would be restructuring robot programming. Meanwhile, as one crew member suffers a complete mental breakdown, reprogrammed robots are ordered to kill all remaining humans.