TEXT: EARTHSHOCK BY ERIC SAWARD Part One Running time: 24:22 [SCENE_BREAK] Long shot of the quarry. Some people in coveralls rappel up the side of a hill. Lieutenant Scott reaches out to help Professor Kyle over the top. She gasps. They run away from the camera towards another hill where some other troopers are standing guard. They run past an oval-shaped, blue tent to where some other troopers are standing, and stop. Scott looks around a bit, the moves forward again. He heads towards a "tunnel" entrance where some more troopers are standing. Kyle and Snyder are looking into the entrance as Scott walks up. SNYDER: Nothing. Kyle turns around and walks away from the tunnel entrance very slowly. PROF KYLE: How does this thing work? WALTERS: It focuses upon the electrical activity of the body-heartbeat, things like that. LT SCOTT: But only of mammalian life form. Everything else is excluded. Scott walks off and Kyle follows... slowly again Scott stands near Walters, who begins to operate a futuristic, high-tech scanner. Walters switches on the scanner and it begins to hum. He types on the futuristic keyboard, and looks intently at the screen There's nothing on it. WALTERS: Nothing. LT SCOTT: Could they have been shielded from the scanner in any way? WALTERS: A lead screen. Some of the newer alloys. PROF KYLE: There isn't anything like that in the cavern. Kyle walks away distraught, wringing her hands, PROF KYLE: They're dead, aren't they? LT SCOTT: It does seem likely. PROF KYLE: Such a pointless waste. LT SCOTT: We'll find out. PROF KYLE: They can't be far. I radioed immediately I left the cavern. LT SCOTT: You've done all you can. Don't upset yourself. Walters, scan again. Maximum amplification. WALTERS: Right, sir. PROF KYLE: How many of you were down there? PROF KYLE: Eight of us. PROF KYLE
SUMMARY:
The Doctor lands the Tardis in an underground cavern on 26th century Earth. Then the Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa and Adric become embroiled in the search for a team of missing scientists being preformed by the military.