TEXT: SNAKEDANCE BY: CHRISTOPHER BAILEY Part Three First Air Date: 25 January 1983 Running time: 24:29 [SCENE_BREAK] CHELA: I brought you some food. DOCTOR: How long am I to be locked up here? CHELA: Do you want it? DOCTOR: Well, come on, surely at least you can tell me that? CHELA: You're to be kept here until after the ceremony this afternoon. DOCTOR: That will be too late. Whatever is to happen will happen at the ceremony. [SCENE_BREAK] LON: What about him? TEGAN: He's not important. Only the Great Crystal is important. I need the Great Crystal. LON: Well, I'll have to see what I can do. TEGAN: You must not fail me. LON: No. No, I understand. [SCENE_BREAK] DOCTOR: Do you think I'm inventing all this? What would I have to gain? CHELA: I don't know. DOCTOR: But you're not sure it is all nonsense, are you. CHELA: Yes, of course I am. DOCTOR: Why did you tell me about the Crystal? CHELA: Because you're not the first. Dojjen, the Director before Ambril, he too was convinced that the Mara would return. DOCTOR: What happened to Dojjen? CHELA: It doesn't matter. The Great Crystal is safe. Ambril has charge of it. [SCENE_BREAK] TANHA: Lon, where have you been? LON: Out. TANHA: Come here. LON: Whatever for? TANHA: I want to look at you. TANHA: When I realised your room was empty, I very nearly raised the alarm, but I didn't want to embarrass you. LON: Embarrass me? TANHA: Yes, if you were out somewhere having fun. Were you? While your poor mother was stuck at the official dinner being bored into tiny pieces. I shall never forgive you. LON: No, mother, I wasn't. TAN
SUMMARY:
Possessed Tegan and Lon try to find the location of the Great Crystal. The Doctor finds himself in prison with only Nyssa to get him out while Chela tells the Doctor about Dojjen and gives him Dojjen's journal.