TEXT: The Krotons By Robert Holmes 5:15pm - 5:40pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1, INT: LEARNING HALL (The Learning Hall is a curious blend of two distinct styles. It is a large, dry subterranean chamber constructed out of primitive stone blocks and pillars, yet it contains numerous bright futuristic machines placed all around. At the front of the room is a ramp leading to a silvery door set into a hexagonal indentation in the wall, the edges of which glitter as though they had been inlaid with diamonds. A small circular results-hatch opens in the wall. The Gond leader Selris stands nearby, dressed in a dark plastic tunic decorated with metal squares as if it were part of a type of armour - it possibly being an honorary badge of office. He withdraws a silvery notation-tablet from within the hatch and reads it to a hall packed with his people.) SELRIS: Class three-one-nine-six in the first grade. The names of the first selected candidates are: Male... Abu-Gond! (A ripple of congratulation goes up from the crowd.) SELRIS: The second name is female... Vana-Gond! (As a similar ripple of congratulation goes up from the crowd a man from the back rushes forward shouting, a single dissenting voice in the entire chamber.) THARA: No! (Selris frowns disapprovingly, but ignores the interruption.) SELRIS: Abu-Gond and Vana-Gond; alone of your generation you have been chosen for the highest honour that can befall a Gond. You are now the companions of the Krotons! (Thara has found his way to Vana and can be faintly heard arguing with her in heated tones from some way away, but still Selris continues with the ceremony.) SELRIS: Our warmest, our most sincere congratulations to you both. You will now...you will now step forward for the investiture of your robes of honour. Eelek? (A young, stern-looking Gond takes a silver clo
SUMMARY:
The TARDIS lands on the planet of the Gonds, a primitive and enslaved people. Every year, two of the finest Gond students are sent to be 'companions' of the mysterious and unseen Krotons. But the Doctor reveals that only death awaits them.