TEXT: THE WEB PLANET BILL STRUTTON 5:40pm - 6:05pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1: EXT. VORTIS (The DOCTOR reaches the point where he knew the TARDIS to be. He stops dead in his tracks and looks around himself in disbelief.) DOCTOR: (Stunned.) My ship...my TARDIS... [SCENE_BREAK] 2: EXT. VORTIS (BARBARA gets nearer and nearer to the pool of acid. A small distance away, one of the giant ants waves one of its arms and makes its chirruping noise. As if on command, BARBARA stops, turns to the right, walks a few steps past the pool, turns left, skirts the pool, left again and onwards...) [SCENE_BREAK] 3: EXT. VORTIS (IAN lies face down on the sandy surface, unconscious. There is no sign of the stinging web. As the DOCTOR approaches, his shouts can be heard.) DOCTOR: (OOV.) Chesterton!...Chesterton! (The DOCTOR comes into view. He looks down at IAN, then reaches towards him. He suddenly pulls back and looks round for the web. Seeing that it has definitely gone, he again reaches for IAN. As he touches him, IAN starts and cries out with pain.) IAN: Ahh! Don't touch me! DOCTOR: Are you all right, boy? IAN: (Sitting up.) Ahh...ahh.. (IAN starts to brush off himself some thin transparent tendrils that cover his head and shoulders. He suddenly grabs his face.) IAN: Oh, my face...my face. (He takes his hands away and looks towards the DOCTOR.) IAN: What's the matter with it? DOCTOR: It's a little blistered. IAN: Ahh! Oh, it's feels as is...I fell into a...bed of stinging nettles. DOCTOR: What's happened to that weed, h
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.