TEXT: SPEARHEAD FROM SPACE BY: ROBERT HOLMES 5:15pm - 5:40pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1: SPACE (The place: Earth, which hangs peacefully in its appointed place in the blackness of the solar system. Far off stars and dust clouds are the only other objects to be seen. But something is approaching the planet - something which gives out a trilling, signalling sound...) [SCENE_BREAK] 2: EXT. RADAR STATION (Down on one small part of the planet, a radar dish on top of a tower circles quickly round.) [SCENE_BREAK] 3: INT. UNIT TRACKING STATION (The results are relayed to a bored young TECHNICIAN from UNIT who sits at the radar screen in a small room filled with electronic tracking equipment. He is covered in a film of sweat as he yawns but suddenly, he becomes more alert. On the top left-hand corner of the circular orange screen, the sweep of the radar is picking up a thin white arrowed line as a series of objects approach Earth. The TECHNICIAN picks up a trimphone attached to the side of his radar console.) TECHNICIAN: Duty Officer, please - urgent! (He slams the phone back down.) [SCENE_BREAK] 4: EXT. RADAR STATION (The radar dish continues to turn.) [SCENE_BREAK] 5: INT. UNIT TRACKING STATION (A UNIT OFFICER enters the room. A brisk young woman, smartly dressed in a uniform with the UNIT badge affixed to her green tie.) UNIT OFFICER: What is it? TECHNICIAN: I've got something on the air, ma'am. Something strange. (She joins him at the console.) UNIT OFFICER: Are you sure it's not just interference? Something to do with the heatwave? TECHNICIAN: No, ma'am. There's something on there. (She sees the thin white line.) UNIT OFFICER:
SUMMARY:
As the newly-regenerated Doctor arrives on Earth, so does the Nestene too.