TEXT: THE BRAIN OF MORBIUS BY: "ROBIN BLAND" (TERRANCE DICKS REWRITTEN BY ROBERT HOLMES) Part Three Running time: 25:07 [SCENE_BREAK] SOLON: What are you doing here? SARAH: Oh! I heard a voice. Someone SOLON: You shouldn't be in here. Nobody's allowed in here. You could do untold damage. Now, get out! [SCENE_BREAK] MORBIUS (OOV.): Solon, have you lied to me again? SOLON (OOV.): I, Morbius, lied? SARAH: (quietly) Morbius. [SCENE_BREAK] MORBIUS: You said we were alone here. SOLON: The Doctor and the girl have only been here a few hours. Morbius, his head is perfect for the purpose. Once I have it, we can begin our final operation. MORBIUS: If the head is suitable, why haven't you already started? SOLON: I think he suspects MORBIUS: There are two of you! Your servant, Condo, has the strength of a giant. SOLON: There might be a struggle, and the brain could suffer irreparable damage. It must be in perfect condition! MORBIUS: Do you think I care about my ultimate appearance? Just to walk again, to feel, to see! SOLON: Naturally, that is how you think now, my lord, but when you are once more a physical entity, imagine how you will see yourself then. Think how it will be then. MORBIUS: Solon, I think of nothing else! Trapped like this, like a sponge beneath the sea. Yet even a sponge has more life than I. Can you understand a thousandth of my agony? I, Morbius, who once led the High Council of the Time Lords and dreamed the greatest dreams in history, now reduced to this, to a condition where I envy a vegetable. SOLON: You must endure for only a little while longer. I swear it. I
SUMMARY:
The Doctor attempts to restore the Sacred Flame to prove his good intentions to the Sisterhood, while Solon prepares to connect the brain of Morbius to his body.