TEXT: THE REIGN OF TERROR by DENNIS SPOONER first broadcast - 12th September, 1964 5:30pm - 5:55pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1. SITTING ROOM, JULES RENAN'S HOUSE (Ian, Barbara and Jules are waiting for the Doctor to arrive at the house. They hear a noise at the outside door.) IAN: Here they are. (He looks as the door from the hall opens. In walks the Doctor, still in his official uniform; behind him is the tall figure of Lemaitre!.) BARBARA: Lemaitre! JULES: Your friend has betrayed us! [SCENE_BREAK] IAN: (To the Doctor.) You brought the soldiers! LEMAITRE: No, I came alone and unarmed. Ask your friend. DOCTOR: We came alone, my boy. We made a bargain. Let him speak. He holds Susan prisoner. JULES: (To Lemaitre.) What can you have to say to us? LEMAITRE: Please! I come as a friend. BARBARA: (Incredulously.) A friend? LEMAITRE: Ian will tell you that what I say is true. IAN: I will? LEMAITRE: Well, surely you realise that your escape from prison was arranged? I saw to it that you got the key and I took care of the jailer. IAN: Why? Why should you do that? LEMAITRE: I was certain in my own mind that Webster gave you a message to deliver. You had to have the opportunity to deliver it. Unfortunately, I don't have enough time to wait now. I have to collect. BARBARA: Collect? LEMAITRE: Yes. I am James Stirling. IAN: Stirling? You? STIRLING: Is it so surprising? You must have already decided that to be of any use I would have to hold some position of authority. JULES: Why have you not made yourself known here before? Webster had been told about me. STIRLING: I've been in France several years. When I came over you must have been unknown to us, although I'm not sure I
SUMMARY:
Missing episode The TARDIS materialises not far from Paris in 1794 - one of the bloodiest years following the French Revolution of 1789. The travellers become involved with an escape chain rescuing prisoners from the guillotine and get caught up in the machinations of an English undercover spy, James Stirling - alias Lemaitre, governor of the Conciergerie prison.