TEXT: THE CAVES OF ANDROZANI BY: ROBERT HOLMES Part Two Running time: 25:00 [SCENE_BREAK] CHELLAK: Check weapons. [SCENE_BREAK] CHELLAK (on screen): Dismiss. MORGUS: Whatever his defects as a Commander, Chellak certainly brings a certain style to these things, does he not? PRESIDENT: Indeed, though I feel the decision to execute was precipitative. Some useful information might have been extracted from them. MORGUS: They were merely ignorant handlers, Excellency. The stews of the city are full of such unemployed riff-raff. PRESIDENT: Most of them unemployed, Trau Morgus, because you have closed so many plants. It's caused great unrest. MORGUS: Easily settled. Those without valid employment cards will be shipped off to the eastern labour camps. PRESIDENT: Yes, we might make that seem morally justifiable. I'll put your interesting suggestions to the Praesidium tomorrow. MORGUS: Naturally, should any special funding be required? PRESIDENT: Most generous. Of course, the irony is while you've been closing plants here in the west, you've been building them in the east. So if the unemployed were sent to the eastern labour camps, a great many of them would be working for you again, only this time without payment. MORGUS: I hadn't thought of that. PRESIDENT: Of course you hadn't. [SCENE_BREAK] DOCTOR: Ahem. JEK: Ah, Doctor. And Peri. Welcome, indeed. I've been so looking forward to this meeting. DOCTOR: Sharaz Jek, I presume. JEK: What remains of him. JEK: Sit down. You must be tired. DOCTOR: Thank you. [SCENE_BREAK] CHELLAK: Androids! But so lifelike. I could have sworn they were human. SALATEEN: Sharaz Jek is improving. CHELLAK: His creatures? Do you think he's using them now for gun-running? SALATEEN: He must be, sir.
SUMMARY:
Sharez Jek and his androids save the Doctor and Peri from execution when he rescues them. Then he takes a shine to Peri and wants her with him forever. Later the Doctor and Peri find out they are dying from Spectrox Toxemia, having been poisoned when they handled the Spectrox nest upon first entering the cave system.