TEXT: THE WEB PLANET BILL STRUTTON 5:40pm - 6:05pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1: EXT. VORTIS (IAN is pulled into the cleft as the roof collapses...) [SCENE_BREAK] 2: INT. CHAMBER (IAN and VESTRIN lie at the base of the chasm that they have fallen into. Their landing place is a rock chamber whose walls are covered with primitive decorations. IAN coughs in the dust.) VRESTIN: It seemed as if we fell a long, long way. IAN: Yeah, (He shakes his head.) oh, ah... (He sees the wall decorations.) IAN: Oh look. Where are we? (Before they can move, they find themselves surrounded by several small beings who carry sharp crystalline spears...) [SCENE_BREAK] 3: EXT. CRATER OF NEEDLES (The Crater of Needles is, as its name implies, a huge depression in the surface of Vortis. Its floor is covered with tall thin rock formations. Around the base of these needles grows a dark vegetation, rather like seaweed, that is being collected by wingless Menoptra slaves under the guard of the ZARBI and their larvae guns. BARBARA, struggling in the thin atmosphere, is here with HROSTAR. Exhausted, she sits down.) HROSTAR: You are breathing too fast, Harbara? BARBARA: (Rubbing her eyes.) Oh, my eyes are so sore. Everything seems to...to flare when I look at it. HROSTAR: It is...the atmosphere of this planet. Rest, I will watch for Zarbi. (BARBARA gets her breath, then looks at HROSTAR with concern and sympathy.) BARBARA: Are your wings healed? HROSTAR: (With sadness.) I...shall never fly again. BARBARA: No... (HROSTAR, upset, turns away. BARBARA tries to change the subject.) BARBARA: Er, why...why do they make us do... (A ZARBI scuttles up
SUMMARY:
On the planet Vortis, the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki are swept up in the struggles of the butterfly-like Menoptera, the original denizens of Vortis who were forced to flee the planet for the moon Pictos to escape the encroaching web of the Animus and its mind-controlled minions, the ant-like Zarbi and their living weapons, the larvae guns.