TEXT: THE GREEN DEATH BY: ROBERT SLOMAN 5:50pm - 6:15pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. LIFT AREA (The cage descends into the ground.) [SCENE_BREAK] 2: EXT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY (As it does so, the wheels of the lifting gear at the top of the shaft turn. The occupants of Bessie see this as they draw up.) BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE STEWART: Someone's going down! (The DOCTOR brakes the car.) DOCTOR: We must stop them! (They run into the pit head.) [SCENE_BREAK] 3: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. ENGINE ROOM (They see DAVE at the gear levers in the engine room and run up to him.) DOCTOR: (Urgently.) Who's in the cage? DAVE: Oh...it...it's Bert Pritchard and the young lady from UNIT. DOCTOR: Well, stop winding! DAVE: No, I can't do that. They've gone down below to help Dai Evans. DOCTOR: Stop winding, I said! (DAVE looks at the DOCTOR and pulls the brake lever. There is no response except a scraping noise from the machinery.) DOCTOR: Quickly, man, quickly! DAVE: (Horrified.) I can't! The brake won't work! [SCENE_BREAK] 4: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. LIFT SHAFT (BERT and JO are thrown across the cage as it drops like a stone down the shaft.) BERT: (Shouts.)...! Hang on! Try and hang on! (BERT grabs JO and they fall to the floor of the cage.) [SCENE_BREAK] 5: INT. LLANFAIRFACH COLLIERY. ENGINE ROOM (A huge flywheel on one side of the engine room
SUMMARY:
The Doctor and the Brigadier attempt to rescue Jo and Bert from the mine but Global Chemicals prove distinctly uncooperative.