TEXT: The War Games By Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks 5:15pm - 5:40pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1, EXT: BEHIND THE CHATEAUX (Against a wall the Doctor is trussed up like a prize guinea-fowl waiting for the oven. Before him a line of soldiers stands with their rifles raised.) RANSOM: Aim! (Ransom draws in a breath to issue his final order. There is the sound of gunfire and the Doctor tenses himself, and then relaxes for a moment opening his eyes. He is still very much intact, but one of the soldiers is not so lucky. Ransom rushes over to him as he falls to the ground blood seeping from a hole in his shoulder. Ransom pulls out his service revolver and looks around, keeping low. A strangely dressed sniper at a high window adjusts his aim. Another rifle shot explodes singing past the Captain, he turns to a soldier.) RANSOM: Run back! (Ransom and the others rush forwards and engage the man in a firefight. Another man drops, and Zoe rushes over to him, but he is dead. She swiftly moves over to the Doctor and attempt to untie him.) DOCTOR: Phew! Well done Zoe! Can you undo it? ZOE: Oh Doctor! (She struggles a little.) ZOE: Oooh!...Come on! (The Doctor and Zoe run off while Ransom and his men are engaged.) [SCENE_BREAK] 2, INT: SMYTHE'S ROOM (General Smythe faces his video link.) SMYTHE: I am leaving for the conference now. (He turns the link off and closes the hinged picture of the King. There is a faint breeze as dimensions blur and air is displaced with a rich sparkling sound. In the corner of the room is a tall featureless green box the size of a wardrobe which wasn't there before. With a dry mechanical scraping the front section of the box extends outwards like a vertical drawer revealing a dark
SUMMARY:
The Doctor and Zoe manage to escape from Ransom and attempt to rescue Jamie from the military prison.