TEXT: The Sensorites By Peter R. Newman 5:15pm - 5:40pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1, INT: CONTROL ROOM (The whistling tone is felt once more in the control room and Susan looks up.) SUSAN: I don't want to go. DOCTOR: My dear what..? BARBARA: They're talking to her again. IAN: What are they saying? SUSAN: Ssh! I-I can't hear them very well....Oh that's better, there-there's just one voice a long way away. DOCTOR: What's the message child? SUSAN: Oh... Oh alright. But none of the others must be harmed. (She glances at the Doctor, Ian and Barbara.) SUSAN: Don't move any of you. Grandfather it was the only way, they knew I'd agree. (She walks to the open doorway to the port corridor. DOCTOR: Agree? To what? SUSAN: To go down with them to their planet. Otherwise we'll all be killed. (Susan walks through the doorway and joins the Sensorites. The shutter closes behind her.) BARBARA: Susan mustn't go with them. DOCTOR: There can't be air outside this spaceship. MAITLAND: You can't stop them. DOCTOR: We must! IAN: Come with me Barbara. RICHMOND: Don't! They'll only harm her or kill her if we try and interfere! IAN: And if we do nothing she'll die. (Ian walks over to the shutter and raises it.) BARBARA: We intend to try out the Doctor's theory that they can't see in the dark? IAN: Why not? It's all we have. (They walk through to the Starboard corridor.) [SCENE_BREAK] 2, INT: STARBOARD CORRIDOR (The Sensorites and Susan turn as they hear Ian And Barbara enter the corridor.) SECOND-SENSORITE: Go back. SUSAN: Don't interfere, please. SECOND-SENSOR
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.