TEXT: THE ROBOTS OF DEATH by: CHRIS BOUCHER PART FOUR Running time: 23:42 [SCENE_BREAK] 1. INT. corridor outside MODIFICATION ROOM (UVANOV, a nasty red welt on his forehead, sneaks down a staircase and crosses the corridor into the Modification Room.) [SCENE_BREAK] 2. INT. MODIFICATION ROOM UVANOV: What are you doing here? (The DOCTOR stands up from examining the work bench.) DOCTOR: Why? Does it upset you? UVANOV: The penalty for what you have done is death! DOCTOR: That's far enough! What are you doing here? UVANOV: I followed you. (V4 appears in the corridor behind UVANOV.) DOCTOR: Ah. I'd come over here if I were you. Slowly. (UVANOV turns to see V4, which is holding up a corpse marker. He backs away towards the DOCTOR.) DOCTOR: Now either it followed you or else it homed in on this. It depends which of us it's going to kill first. (V4, red eyed, charges towards the DOCTOR with arms outstretched.) V4: Kill the Doctor! Kill the Doctor! (It grabs the DOCTOR's throat and begins to strangle him...) V4: Kill the Doctor! (UVANOV grabs a Laserson Probe from the rack.) V4: Kill the Doctor! (UVANOV stabs V4 in the head with the probe.) V4: Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! (V4's vision is damaged, as seen from its POV. It lets go of the DOCTOR's throat and grasps the probe, which remains stuck in its head. It dances around, out of control.) V4: Kill! Kill! Kill! (UVANOV goes to the DOCTOR, who groggily recovers.) UVANOV: Doctor, are you all right? DOCTOR: Finish it off before it's too late. (The lights in the room fluctuate dim them bright.) UVANOV: There's a power failure!
SUMMARY:
With secrecy no longer necessary for the robot revolution, Controller Taren Capel shuts down all friendly robots and gives the remaining humans an ultimatum, or else their deaths will be slow and painful. With no conventional weaponry aboard their commercial vessel, the humans do what they can to resist while giving the Doctor time to work out a permanent solution.