TEXT: BILL STRUTTON 5:40pm - 6:05pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM DOCTOR: I wouldn't had thought it possible but somehow we've materialised for a split second of time...and been imprisoned in some kind of force. I simply can't break its hold. Somewhere, somehow, the...we're being slowly dragged down. Hmm (Laughs nervously.) IAN: Dragged down? DOCTOR: Hmm... IAN: To what? (The DOCTOR looks straight at IAN. He has no answer...) [SCENE_BREAK] 2: EXT. VORTIS (The planet is bleak and desolate. Crags and craters sparsely populate the surface. A large number of moons hang in the cloudless, dark, star-filled sky. Webs hang between the crags and a strange mist is permanently in the soundless air. With a roar of its engines the TARDIS materialises...) [SCENE_BREAK] 3: INT. TARDIS. CONSOLE ROOM (This is the un-welcoming sight that appears on the TARDIS scanner. The DOCTOR, changed out of his toga and back into his normal clothes, stands before the screen. With his finger tips together and a stern look on his face, he contemplates the TARDIS'S latest landing place.) DOCTOR: All responses...negative. Air thin and static. Hmm! (The DOCTOR turns back to the console as BARBARA, also changed, comes out of the living area. She carries one of the Roman goblets in her hand which she is drinking out of. She too looks up at the scanner.) BARBARA: Crags and pools... (She walks over to a corner of the console room where an alcove contains several pieces of instrumentation. IAN sits before it as he finishes changing by putting on a pair of shoes.) BARBARA: Oh, it's like a cemetery, it's so quiet. IAN: Yeah, no vegetation and I
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.