TEXT: The Sensorites By Peter R. Newman 5:15pm - 5:40pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1, INT: AQUEDUCT ENTRANCE IAN: Is this it? SCIENTIST: Yes, take this. It's a radio-electric light. (Susan takes the torch.) SUSAN: Thank you. Ian, how do you feel? If you don't want to go any further just say. IAN: No, I'm-I'm fine. Come on. (They walk through the curtain of darkness.) [SCENE_BREAK] 2, INT: AQUEDUCT (The Doctor walks along the tunnel the light casting a slim pool of light in the all encompassing inky blackness.) DOCTOR: Is it? (He stoops to examine the base of one of the pipes and pulls out a tiny growth, examining it under a magnifying glass.) DOCTOR: Yes, I thought so. Atropa Belladonna - Deadly Nightshade! (He looks up in shock as he hears a bellowing roar somewhere close. Further along the aqueduct Ian and Susan are cautiously making their way.) SUSAN: What is it Ian? IAN: I don't know. SUSAN: Are you alright? IAN: Yes. SUSAN: Lean on me. DOCTOR: Keep away! Keep away! (There is another bellowing roar.) SUSAN: Grandfather! (They rush forwards through the gloom and comes across the prone form of the Doctor. Ian stoops to examine him.) IAN: He's unconscious. Here, help me to get him out of here. SUSAN: Oh, look at the state he's in! (As Ian tries to lift the Doctor the back of his frock coat is revealed to be torn to shreds.) IAN: No, don't worry about that, collect up his things. We don't want to hang around here. (The bellow begins to recede.) IAN: It's going away. (As Susan stoops to pick up the
SUMMARY:
The Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan arrive in the TARDIS on board aspaceship. Their initial concern is for the ship's human crew, who are suffering from telepathic interference from the Sensorites, but Susan communicates with the Sensorites and finds the aliens fear an attack by the humans and are just defending themselves. Travelling to the Sense Sphere (the Sensorites' planet) the Doctor seeks to cure an illness to which the Sensorites and Ian have succumbed, but finds it has been caused by deliberate poisoning. The political manoeuvring of the Sensorite City Administrator poses another threat to the TARDIS crew as he seeks to discredit and implicate them.