TEXT: INFERNO by: DON HOUGHTON 5:15pm - 5:40pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1: INT. CENTRAL CONTROL COUNTDOWN VOICE:...minus ten seconds... (The DOCTOR runs back another way but there is another soldier.) COUNTDOWN VOICE: Nine... (He pushes back the soldiers gun and then runs into the main body of central control where STAHLMAN picks up the fallen gun...) COUNTDOWN VOICE: Eight... (...and aims it at the DOCTOR.) COUNTDOWN VOICE: Seven, six... (The DOCTOR slowly backs off.) COUNTDOWN VOICE: Five, four... (as STAHLMAN'S finger is on the trigger.) COUNTDOWN VOICE: Three, two, one...zero. We have Penetration Zero! (An enormous explosion rocks the complex and everyone is thrown to the ground. As the crashing rumbling continues, screaming technicians get to their feet and run out of central control.) DIRECTOR STAHLMAN: Don't panic! Get back to your posts! (GREG gets up but so does BENTON and holds him against a console. He has his rifle in his other hand. GREG calls over to the BRIGADE LEADER over the constant roar that now pervades the complex.) GREG SUTTON: Look, I've got a job to do here! BRIGADE LEADER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Never mind him! Stop those technicians! (The BRIGADE LEADER and his men run out of the room after the fleeing technicians. STAHLMAN gets to his feet and steps up to the higher level where PETRA is at a console.) DR. PETRA WILLIAMS: Are you all right, Director? DIRECTOR STAHLMAN: Yes, yes. Check all the other systems. DR. PETRA WILLIAMS: Yes. (She runs off to carry out the order. The DOCTOR is the last to get up from the floor. Slightly dazed, he turns round and sees that GREG is getting
SUMMARY:
The earth's crust has been penetrated and, while the Doctor and Greg try to contain the disaster, the Doctor begins to realise the planet has passed the point of no return.