TEXT: THE CURSE OF PELADON BY: BRIAN HAYLES 5:50pm - 6:15pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1: INT. PIT (ALPHA CENTAURI screams and PELADON and the DOCTOR both look round sharply to see what is wrong. SSORG fires his sonic gun and ARCTURUS explodes. JO and PELADON look at what remains of the twitching skull-like creature underneath the shattered globe. HEPESH and the GUARD CAPTAIN exchange a hurried glance at each other and quietly move away. JO, looking at the destroyed alien, realises what this means...) JO: So, Arcturus was behind everything. [SCENE_BREAK] 2: INT. THRONE ROOM (The DOCTOR, JO, PELADON, GRUN and the remaining delegates have returned to the citadel where the DOCTOR takes up the story...) DOCTOR: Arcturus and Hepesh. PELADON: But what about the attack on Arcturus? DOCTOR: Faked, your Majesty. He told Hepesh what to do. IZLYR: That is what I suspected. JO: And the things I found on the balcony and in Izlyr's room? DOCTOR: Planted by Hepesh...or one of his agents. (The DOCTOR glances at GRUN who lowers his eyes, almost in shame. PELADON doesn't notice this.) PELADON: (To the DOCTOR.) An...and the manifestation of Aggedor? DOCTOR: Well, that's simple, your Majesty. Hepesh found that on a high mountain a few still existed. So he captured one, trained it and kept it hidden in the tunnels beneath the citadel. Ready to pop out whenever he needed a bit of haunting. PELADON: (Astounded.) But why did he do all this? What did he hope to gain? DOCTOR: The entire planet of Peladon - or
SUMMARY:
Hepesh's plan has been exposed but he is still determined to prevent Peladon joining the Galactic Federation by leading a rebellion against the King.