TEXT: [ Le Verrier Lab ] [SCENE_BREAK] ( White noise ) Professor Rasmussen (O.C.): You must not watch this. Professor Rasmussen: I'm warning you; you can never unsee it... but if you do watch, Gagan Rasmussen... I'm Gagan Rasmussen. This is Le Verrier lab in orbit around Neptune. ( Eerie groaning ) I've put things together into some kind of order so that you can understand, so you can have some idea. There are bits missing. Sorry about that. I don't fully understand what's been going on here. But, er... This is what happened. ( Roaring ) [SCENE_BREAK] [ Rescue ship ] [SCENE_BREAK] Chopra: Stop staring! Rasmussen (O.C.): They came from Triton. This is Chopra. Bit of an attitude, in my opinion. Nagata: Calm down, pet! Chopra: Well, it's ridiculous! That thing's meant to be a lethal fighting machine and it just moons around like a love-sick puppy! Deep-Ando: I could hear you ranting from inside the pod, Chopra, for the Gods' sake! Nagata: Feel better? Rasmussen (O.C.): Commander Nagata. Young, for the responsibility. Quite a baptism of fire, I'm afraid. Deep-Ando: Marvellous, ma'am. All hail, Morpheus, eh? Rasmussen (O.C.): Deep-Ando. Conscript. Likes to think of himself as the joker of this little group. Well...he did... Chopra: Morpheus, Morpheus, Morpheus... Sleep's the one thing left to us. The one thing they couldn't get their filthy mitts on. Now, they're even grabbing that! Colonising it. Nagata: Spoken like a true Rip! Chopra: Don't call me that. Nagata: "Don't call me that, ma'am
SUMMARY:
A four-person rescue team from Triton arrives at Le Verrier Lab, a space station in the 38th century in orbit around Neptune which has fallen silent. They meet the Doctor and Clara, who claim to be assessors. They then meet Gagan Rassmussen, the last survivor of Le Verrier and creator of large pods called Morpheus, which reduces the time a person sleeps to allow them to work more but also mutates the rheum in the corner of the eye into a carnivorous life form called the Sandmen. Chopra, Deep-Ando, and 474 are killed during their escape. Rassmussen plans to use the rescue ship to return to Triton and release Morpheus there with a Sandman, which he says is now spread by spores. The Doctor destroys the gravity shields, sending the station and ship into Neptune. The Doctor comments that the inconsistencies in how Morpheus is spread seems to be contrived like a story. The Doctor, Clara, and Nagata escape in the TARDIS. Rassmussen, revealed to be a Sandman himself, orchestrated the events to use footage collated from people's vision to create a video that people would watch to transmit the Morpheus signal across the solar system to create more Sandmen.