TEXT: THE SAVAGES 5:35pm - 6:00pm [SCENE_BREAK] SCENE 1 - SENTA'S LABORATORY (The Doctor is undergoing the transference process. The assistants continue to shout out the readings, as Senta supervises the operation. Senta calls out for confirmation of a reading.) 1st ASSISTANT: Negative. SENTA: Vitality is dropping - watch it carefully. Adjust cutout at 25 - don't reduce any lower or he may not recover. (The assistants bustle around the control room and laboratory, checking various monitoring devices. Amidst the activity, Jano enters.) JANO: Senta! Your message was passed on to me. You are to be congratulated. SENTA: It's a perfect transfer. JANO: Remarkable. How is the Doctor? SENTA: Reduced nervous tension of course, but in good condition. Given time, he will recover, and like the others, we'll be able to use him again. JANO: You realise what this means, Senta. If we are able to achieve this transfer successfully, we will be able to do the same with the other time travellers. SENTA: The young man and the girl? JANO: (Nodding.) As it is, they are a danger to us. But as a source of energy, they could be of great value. (Calling out.) Captain Edal. Send out patrols. The two young people who arrived with the Doctor must be brought in. [SCENE_BREAK] SCENE 2 - OUTSIDE THE CITY (Chal's people have led Steven and Dodo through the scrubland and into a small valley. One of the savages lies dazed on the ground nearby, having just undergone the transference process. Steven approaches the savage to help.) CHAL: Leave him. We have brought you here only for your safety. STEVEN: What have you done for the Doctor? CHAL: We can do nothing for him. STEVEN: If you don't fight them, you'll always suffer. CHAL: Obviously
SUMMARY:
Missing episode The TARDIS has arrived on a far-distant and seemingly idyllic world. Yet the Doctor, Steven and Dodo learn it hides a terrible secret: the apparently civilised Elders maintain their advanced society by draining and transferring to themselves the life-force of the defenceless Savages. Outraged at this exploitation, the Doctor is seemingly helpless to prevent it when some of his own life-force is tapped by the Elders' leader, Jano. In the process, however, Jano also acquires some of the Doctor's attitudes and conscience. Turning against his own people, he enlists the Savages to destroy the Elders' transference laboratory - a task with which the time travellers gladly assist. Steven agrees to remain behind on the planet to become leader of the newly united Elders and Savages.