TEXT: THE MASQUE OF MANDRAGORA BY: LOUIS MARKS Part One Running time: 24:31 [SCENE_BREAK] SARAH: Where are we now? DOCTOR: The TARDIS, where else? SARAH: I know we're in the TARDIS, I just don't know this bit. DOCTOR: I'll give you a guided tour someday. SARAH: What's in there? DOCTOR: Boot cupboard. Not very interesting. SARAH: Boot cupboard? It's enormous! DOCTOR: Oh, I've seen bigger boot cupboards. SARAH: Just how big is the TARDIS? DOCTOR: Well, how big's big? Relative dimensions, you see. No constant. SARAH: That's not an answer. DOCTOR: How big are you at the moment? SARAH: Five four, just, and that's still not an answer. DOCTOR: Listen, listen. There are no measurements in infinity. You humans have got such limited little minds. I don't know why I like you so much. SARAH: Because you have such good taste. DOCTOR: That's true, that's very true. [SCENE_BREAK] SARAH: Oh, this looks good. DOCTOR: What? SARAH: Hey. DOCTOR: Yes, yes, it is good. Do you know, this is the second control room. You know, I could run the TARDIS just as easily from here as I could from the old one. Come to think of it, this was the old one. SARAH: That looks like a shaving mirror. DOCTOR: Yes, it is. DOCTOR: Ah ha. SARAH: What? What's that? DOCTOR: It's the Mandragora Helix. I thought we'd avoided it. SARAH: Oh. What's the Mandragora Helix? DOCTOR: It's a spiral of pure energy that radiates outwards in ways no one understands, though at its centre there's a controlling intelligence. SARAH: Intelligence? DOCTOR
SUMMARY:
The Doctor and Sarah are drawn into the Mandragora Helix, an entity which exists among the stars and which transports the TARDIS to 15th century Italy.