TEXT: The Sensorites The Unwilling Warrior By Peter R. Newman 5:40pm - 6:05pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1, INT: CONTROL ROOM CAROL: I can sense them all around us now. MAITLAND: Shh. (There is silence. Maitland and Carol appear to be frozen in position. Ian wanders back to the screen. He looks at it and his eyes widen.) IAN: Doctor! Doctor... (Through the main porthole a bald, bulbous, salmon-coloured face peers in at them with two completely black eyes. It's ears are long and pointed and a small mouth is hidden beneath a wiry tangle of white whiskers. Oddly enough, although it is in the vacuum of space it appears to have no kind of a pressure suit, possibly some device built into it's jumpsuit is projecting a transparent energy-bubble which is enough to keep pressure in and radiation out. It is also likely that the same device serves to propel it from the planet and short distances through space.) DOCTOR: Steady Chesterton, steady...the calmer you are, the stronger. (The Doctor, Maitland and Carol Richmond all appear transfixed by the Sensorite at the porthole as if it has some kind of mesmeric influence.) IAN: Doctor, look at these two. DOCTOR: Mm? (The Doctor is torn from his reverie, and he gets up to examine the others.) DOCTOR: Maitland? Maitland! Can you hear me? (It appears to have no effect.) DOCTOR: Fear my boy. It's loosened his mind and it gives the Sensorites the chance to control it. IAN: Doctor, that thing's still out there. DOCTOR: Oh ignore it! Maitland! (The Doctor gives Maitland a gentle shake, and blinking a few times, he appears to become a little more lucid.) MAITLAND: Yes... I hear you. DOCTOR: There's work to be done my boy! Work, understand? MAITLAND: Work... IAN: He's
SUMMARY:
The Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan arrive in the TARDIS on board aspaceship. Their initial concern is for the ship's human crew, who are suffering from telepathic interference from the Sensorites, but Susan communicates with the Sensorites and finds the aliens fear an attack by the humans and are just defending themselves. Travelling to the Sense Sphere (the Sensorites' planet) the Doctor seeks to cure an illness to which the Sensorites and Ian have succumbed, but finds it has been caused by deliberate poisoning. The political manoeuvring of the Sensorite City Administrator poses another threat to the TARDIS crew as he seeks to discredit and implicate them.