TEXT: THE ROBOTS OF DEATH by: CHRIS BOUCHER PART TWO Running time: 24:15 [SCENE_BREAK] 1. INT. hopper (Having opened a hopper door, the DOCTOR steps inside. It is dark. He shines a torch around the hopper interior and lights on a dead body curled in the corner. He steps across to investigate, crouching by the body and turning it over - the body has eye makeup like the sandmine crew, but it is not a person we have met. Suddenly, the door and the hatch close behind the DOCTOR, and ore begins to rain down on his head from a chute in the ceiling. The ore buries the dead body. It looks like it will soon bury the DOCTOR too... ) [SCENE_BREAK] 2. INT. corridor (V9 and D64 walk along the corridor to the forward storage locker.) [SCENE_BREAK] 3. INT. forward storage locker (Inside, V9 and D64 go to the gurney on which CHUB's body lies. LEELA looks on, hiding crouched behind a shelf. The robots wheel the gurney out of the room... ) [SCENE_BREAK] 4. INT. corridor (... and into the corridor.) [SCENE_BREAK] 5. INT. forward storage locker (LEELA watches them go and gets up to follow.) [SCENE_BREAK] 6. INT. hopper (Ore continues to rain down on the head of the DOCTOR. It completely buries him. As the torrent subsides, a metal pipe emerges from the ore pile, forging upwards. Once the ore stream stops, grains of ore are blown out of the pipe - the DOCTOR can breathe!) [SCENE_BREAK] 7. INT. corridor (V9 and D64 wheel the gurney down another corridor. LEELA emerges from the forward storage locker, wielding her knife. She watches where the robots go, and then heads in another direction.) [SCENE_BREAK] 8. INT. crew room (UVANOV toys with a pale marble ches
SUMMARY:
As the strangulations continue and the humans aren't sure who to blame, Leela meets up with an anomaly among the robot crew - an inquisitive, supposedly mute single-function labor robot capable of independent reasoning. Meanwhile the Doctor starts looking into the possibility that the murderer is a robot, and another crew member is targeted for death.