TEXT: "THE INVASION" BY DERRICK SHERWIN FROM A STORY BY KIT PEDLER First broadcast - 30th November 1968 Running time - 23 minutes 25 seconds [SCENE_BREAK] 1. LABORATORY (Staccato tones rise in pitch as the webbed cocoon writhes in agitation. Its surface tears at its top, and two metal hands part the fabric to free its head, a head with a blank face, no nose, a slit for a mouth, featureless eyes, metal for skin, and jug-handle-shaped stiff hoses replacing ears. The figure struggles out of its berth, revealing stiff metal limbs, a complex bank of lights and equipment affixed to its chest, and a looming stature. It could only be one thing.) JAMIE: (Whispering.) The Cybermen. DOCTOR: Shh... JAMIE: Where do they come from? DOCTOR: I don't know, Jamie, but they're here, aren't they?! Come on, let's go back to the canoe. (They both quietly leave the warehouse, heading back for their canoe.) [SCENE_BREAK] 2. RIVER (JAMIE and the DOCTOR paddle through the canal in the same manner they came - up the river in the canoe.) [SCENE_BREAK] 3. UNIT AEROPLANE (ISOBEL, ZOE and Captain TURNER gather about the command table.) ZOE: And what do you think will happen? TURNER: Well, it's not really a military matter now. ISOBEL: You'll simply hand this over to the police? TURNER: More or less. ISOBEL: Pity. I could have got some great pictures and made a bomb selling them to the papers. Oh well. TURNER: Look, perhaps I can compensate by buying you dinner. ISOBEL: (Looks surprised and delighted at the thought.) That would be nice. (A thought suddenly occurs to her.) ISOBEL: Hey are you stinking rich? TUR
SUMMARY:
The Doctor and Jamie tell the Brigadier about the Cybermen but with Rutledge under Vaughn's control he is powerless to act.