TEXT: PAUL ERICKSON & LESLEY SCOTT 05:15pm-05:50pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1: INT. ARK. CONTROL DECK MONOID ONE: Two! Are you there? Two! Answer me! [SCENE_BREAK] 2. EXT. REFUSIS II. JUNGLE. LAUNCHER LANDING SITE (The DOCTOR and DODO stand over the smouldering remains of the Launcher.) DODO: Doctor, what'll we do now? DOCTOR: Nothing, my dear. We shall just have to wait until the next party lands. DODO: But what if they don't come? What if they decide to find another planet? DOCTOR: Well, in that case we shall just have to stay here, mm? [SCENE_BREAK] 3: INT. ARK. CONTROL DECK MONOID THREE: What has happened? Why does Two no longer give us his report? MONOID ONE: I don't know. It could be a simple break in communications - or that he was attacked! MONOID THREE: But his report of conditions on the planet Refusis started favourably. MONOID ONE: Yes... MONOID THREE: Then what do we do, One? (MONOID ONE walks across the control deck, considering their next action. He stops on one side of the chamber and turns to address his people.) MONOID ONE: We will proceed with our plans. We will prepare ourselves for the main landings! (MONOID TWO turns to the other MONOIDS.) MONOID THREE: One has spoken. Get the launchers ready and prepare the Monoid population trays for the journey. (MONOID TWO walks off. One of the MONOIDS, numbered "4" turns to one of its compatriots, numbered "6".) MONOID FOUR: The leader has said that we must go but supposing he is wrong? We still don't know what Refusis is like. (Across the room...) MONOID ONE: (Pointing into
SUMMARY:
The Doctor and his companions Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet arrive some ten million years into the future, on board a generation starshipwhich is carrying the last of humanity away from an Earth that is about to fall into the Sun. However, the cold that Dodo has could prove devastating to these future humans and their servants, the Monoids.