TEXT: THE WEB PLANET BILL STRUTTON 5:40pm - 6:05pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1: INT. CARSENOME. CONTROL ROOM (On a nearby wall, a gun-like tendril rises up and spits a ray at the DOCTOR and VICKI with a hissing noise. VICKI screams. She and the DOCTOR are enclosed in a thick mass of web...) [SCENE_BREAK] 2: EXT. CARSENOME ENTRANCE (The Menoptra raiding party and BARBARA rise from their places of concealment behind some rocks. Their possessed ZARBI stands in the open...) [SCENE_BREAK] 3: INT. CARSENOME. CONTROL ROOM (VICKI falls to one side and on the floor. The DOCTOR seems cold and stunned by the attack but they are otherwise unharmed. As the communications tendril tube descends from the ceiling, VICKI crawls towards the astral map. The tube falls over the head of a nervous looking DOCTOR and the sibilant voice of the ANIMUS addresses him...) ANIMUS VOICE: You attempted escape? DOCTOR: (Still shivering.) We have been on a slight...explortation. ANIMUS VOICE: You have been brought back...to me. DOCTOR: Brought back? We came...of our own free will. We are not to be subjected like the Zarbi's, or terrorised like the Menoptra! We are... ANIMUS VOICE: (Interrupting.) You are of no further use except for the way you think. I need your intelligence. You will be brought to the centre, to mmeee...! (The DOCTOR feels his face as the tube rises back into the ceiling. VICKI is under guard near the astral map as the DOCTOR struggles to his feet.) VICKI: What do they want now? DOCTOR: Oh, we...we shall be taken to the...centre, child. Try,
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.