TEXT: "THE INVASION" BY DERRICK SHERWIN FROM A STORY BY KIT PEDLER First broadcast - 21st December 1968 Running time - 23 minutes 52 seconds [SCENE_BREAK] 1. INT. VAUGHN'S OFFICE. DAY (VAUGHN stands before the compartment containing the CYBER-PLANNER. With the destruction of the first invasion fleet, the CYBER-PLANNER has just broken the agreement with VAUGHN.) CYBER-PLANNER: We no longer need you. The Cyber-megatron bomb will be delivered. We must destroy life on earth completely, every living being. DOCTOR: (To VAUGHN.) Is this what you wanted, Vaughn? To be the ruler of a dead world? [SCENE_BREAK] 2. INT. UNIT AEROPLANE (Corporal BENTON and ISOBEL are listening to the exchange between the DOCTOR, VAUGHN, and the CYBER-PLANNER at the R/T console. It continues:) VAUGHN: (OOV.) You can't do that. You can't destroy the world. What about me? CYBER-PLANNER: (OOV.) You are of no further use to us. The Cyber-invasion must succeed. The bomb will be delivered. (BENTON picks up a microphone and opens transmission on a new channel, ISOBEL looking very concerned.) BENTON: UNIT control calling the Brigadier. UNIT control calling the Brigadier. Over. [SCENE_BREAK] 3. INT. HENLOW DOWNS. DAY (The crew of the defence base and the UNIT soldiers are in celebrations following the successful destruction of the Cyberman fleet, thanks to ZOE's programming finesse. The BRIGADIER and Major BRANWELL are the first to congratulate her:) BRANWELL: Every single one of them, knocked right out of the sky. BRIGADIER: Exactly as you predicted, a chain reaction of explosions. BRANWELL: It's fantastic, how
SUMMARY:
The Cybermen have launched their deadly megatron bomb which will destroy all life on Earth unless the Doctor can deactivate the homing signal.