TEXT: The Space Pirates 5:15pm - 5:40pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1: SPACE (The Pirates' Beta Dart detaches from the beacon and moves off.) [SCENE_BREAK] 2: INT. V-SHIP FLIGHT DECK (PENN calls up to the commanding officers on the upper deck.) TECHNICIAN PENN: They're leaving Beacon Alpha Four, sir. [SCENE_BREAK] 3: SPACE (The Beta Dart continues to speed off.) [SCENE_BREAK] 4: INT. V-SHIP FLIGHT DECK MAJOR IAN WARNE: It's exactly what happened before. GENERAL HERMACK: What is our arrival time? TECHNICIAN PENN: Still ninety minutes to go, sir. GENERAL HERMACK: (Furiously.) We are going to be too late again! (They suddenly hear the detonation radio signal.) MAJOR IAN WARNE: The beacon should blow any second now. [SCENE_BREAK] 5: SPACE (Space Beacon Alpha Four explodes.) [SCENE_BREAK] 6: INT. SPACE BEACON ALPHA FOUR. COMPARTMENT (The TARDIS crew is thrown to the floor screaming, as smoke fills the exploding beacon.) [SCENE_BREAK] 7: SPACE (The huge V-Ship continues its journey.) [SCENE_BREAK] 8: INT. V-SHIP FLIGHT DECK (HERMACK and WARNE have come down to the lower deck where they walk over to PENN'S station where the soldier is furiously adjusting controls on his console.) GENERAL HERMACK: Penn! Give me a bearing on that pirate ship. TECHNICIAN PENN: I can't pick her up, sir. GENERAL HERMACK: (Furiously.) What? (No signal now shows on the radar sweep.) TECHNICIAN PENN: The debris from that beacon's jammed the signals. GENERAL HERMACK: Oh, Penn
SUMMARY:
With the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe trapped on a beacon segment, Hermack becomes suspicious of the unruly prospector Milo Clancey.