13x12 - Pyramids of Mars - part 4

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What began as an encounter in a London junkyard in 1963 was to become a national institution in the United Kingdom. The crotchety old man - a renegade Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey - who calls himself "The Doctor" has regenerated several times, traveling with several companions for over five decades.
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13x12 - Pyramids of Mars - part 4

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PYRAMIDS OF MARS

BY: "STEPHEN HARRIS" (ROBERT HOLMES AND LEWIS GREIFER)

Part Four


Original Air Date: 15 November 1975
Running time: 24:52




SUTEKH: No, you will not die yet. Identify yourself.

DOCTOR: Just destroy me, Sutekh. Nothing else now is left within your power.

SUTEKH: Identify yourself. It is within my power to choose the manner of your death.

SUTEKH: I can, if I choose, keep you alive for centuries, racked by the most excruciating pain. Since your interference has condemned me for ever to remain a prisoner in the Eye of Horus, it would be a fitting end. You would make an amusing diversion.

SUTEKH: Identify yourself, plaything of Sutekh.

DOCTOR: I'm a traveller.

SUTEKH: From where?

DOCTOR: Gallifrey, in the constellation of Kasterborus.

SUTEKH: Names mean nothing. What is the binary location from galactic zero centre?

DOCTOR: Ten zero eleven, zero zero by zero two.

SUTEKH: I know the planet. Data retrieval.

SUTEKH: So, you are a Time Lord.

DOCTOR: I renounced the society of the Time Lords. Now I'm simply a traveller.

SUTEKH: In time and space. In time and space?

DOCTOR: (screaming) Yes! Yes!

SUTEKH: Ah. Approach closer. What are you called, Time Lord?

DOCTOR: Doctor.

SUTEKH: I offer you an alliance, Doctor. Serve me truly, and an empire can be yours.

DOCTOR: Serve you, Sutekh? Your name is abominated in every civilised world, whether that name be Set, Satan, Sodos

SUTEKH: Serve me, Doctor.

DOCTOR: Never! Argh!

SUTEKH: You pit your puny will against mine? Kneel!

DOCTOR: No!

SUTEKH: Kneel before the might of Sutekh.

SUTEKH: In my presence, you are an ant, a termite. Abase yourself, you grovelling insect.

SUTEKH: Well, speak.

SCARMAN (on monitor): Sutekh, great Master, the servicers have found one of the humans responsible for the destruction of the m*ssile.

SUTEKH: Their leader is my prisoner, Scarman. I have no interest in the humans.

SCARMAN (on monitor): Then this one can be destroyed.

DOCTOR: Sarah!

SUTEKH: k*ll it immediately.




DOCTOR (OOV.): No! No!

SUTEKH (OOV.): Wait.

SUTEKH (OOV.): Keep the human alive, Scarman. It may have some use.

SCARMAN: As you command, Great One, so it shall be.




SUTEKH: You are a Time Lord. What interest have you in humans?

DOCTOR: All sapient lifeforms are our kith, Sutekh.

SUTEKH: Horus held that view. I refute it.

DOCTOR: Because you fear that other intelligent lifeforms may grow to rival you in power, so you k*ll all life wherever you find it.

SUTEKH: Your argument is a cloud, but I see through it into your mind. The human girl. Ah, she travels with you.

DOCTOR: If you can do that by mental force, Sutekh, then nothing can be beyond you.

SUTEKH: Nothing, except to free myself from the Eye of Horus.

DOCTOR: You use your powers for evil.

SUTEKH: Evil? Your evil is my good. I am Sutekh the Destroyer. Where I tread I leave nothing but dust and darkness. I find that good.

DOCTOR: Then I curse you, Sutekh, in the name of all nature. You are a twisted abhorrence. Argh!

SUTEKH: Any further insolence, Doctor, and I shall shred your nervous system into a million fibres. Is that understood?

SUTEKH: Scarman.




SCARMAN: I hear you, Master.

SUTEKH (OOV.): My enemies have brought the means of my deliverance.

SARAH: The TARDIS key!

SUTEKH (OOV.): This allows you entry into the Time Lord's space machine. Take one servicer and travel to the pyramid of Mars.




DOCTOR: He won't find that possible, Sutekh.

SUTEKH: Scarman is my puppet. My mind is in his.

DOCTOR: The controls of the TARDIS are isomorphic.

SUTEKH: One to one. They answer to you alone.

DOCTOR: Yes.

SUTEKH: Then I was wise to spare you. My mind is in yours!

DOCTOR: Master.

SUTEKH: Scarman?




SCARMAN: Master.

SUTEKH (OOV.): I send you the Time Lord. He will control the machine. The human girl will accompany you. If the Time Lord shows the slightest sign of self-will, k*ll her immediately.

SCARMAN: It is understood, Great One.

SARAH: Doctor, what's happened?

SCARMAN: Stand back.

SCARMAN: He is possessed by the Great One. Whom do you serve, Time Lord?

DOCTOR: Sutekh.

SCARMAN: Who holds all life in his hands?

DOCTOR: Sutekh.

SCARMAN: Who is the bringer of death?

DOCTOR: Sutekh!

SCARMAN: Venerate his name and obey him in all things.

DOCTOR: Sutekh is supreme.

SARAH: No.

SCARMAN: Control is established, Great One.

SUTEKH (OOV.): It is well. But the Time Lords are a perfidious species. Dispose of him when you reach the pyramid of Mars.

SCARMAN: It shall be done. Come.







SUTEKH (OOV.): My reading indicates an antechamber under the main pyramid. Seek the control centre.

SCARMAN: Sutekh has no further need for the Time Lord. Destroy him.

SARAH: No!

SCARMAN: Come.

SARAH: Doctor.

SARAH: Ah!

DOCTOR: You're soaking my shirt.

SARAH: Oh, you're alive!

DOCTOR: Respiratory bypass system. Useful in a tight squeeze. Where are we?

SARAH: Er, pyramid of Mars.

DOCTOR: Of course. Sutekh sent Scarman here to deactivate the pyramid. Where is he?

SARAH: I thought you'd become a zombie like Scarman.

DOCTOR: Sutekh didn't need me any more, so he relaxed his grip. Now, did you see where Scarman went?

SARAH: Through that door. It's vanished!

DOCTOR: It can't have vanished. It's just not visible.

SARAH: Same difference.

DOCTOR: Scarman must be stopped. Somehow he must be stopped.




SUTEKH [OC: Stay! I sense danger. That relay switch is a power conductor terminal. Scan.

SUTEKH (OOV.): The bulkhead release will be concealed.

SUTEKH [OC}: There.

SUTEKH (OOV.): Now.




SARAH: Tribophysics.

DOCTOR: Yes.




DOCTOR: Oh.

SARAH: What are you waiting for?

DOCTOR: That's too obvious.

SARAH: What is?

DOCTOR: That is.

SARAH: Well, a door handle usually is.

DOCTOR: Not in a jail. Horus would have laid traps for the unwary.

SARAH: I thought Horus was one of the good guys.

DOCTOR: He was an Osiran, with all their guile and ingenuity. Ah.

DOCTOR: They had dome-shaped heads and cerebrums like spiral staircases. Come on.




SUTEKH (OOV.): Stand back and scan.




SUTEKH: Horus. Think you can confound Sutekh with these childish stratagems?




SUTEKH (OOV.): The floor is charged with expl*sives. Count to the fifth row up. Extreme right solenoid.

SUTEKH (OOV.): Press.

SCARMAN: Come.

SARAH: It's like a Chinese puzzle.

DOCTOR: Yes. And there's a key.

SARAH: Oh, some key. Do you know what it means?

DOCTOR: Yes. Obviously the length of the lines provide a scale of measurement.

SARAH: It reminds me of City of the Exxilons.

DOCTOR: Don't touch anything.

SARAH: I wasn't going to.

DOCTOR: Well, don't. One false move and we could be blown to perdition. Feet and inches one side, metres and centimetres the other. Let's see.

DOCTOR: A hundred and twenty point three centimetres, multiplied by the binary figure ten zero zero. That's a hundred and sixty two point four centimetres, correct?

SARAH: Show-off.

DOCTOR: Hundred and sixty two point four. That's about seven stitches.

DOCTOR: In case I'm wrong.

DOCTOR: I'm right.




SARAH: Which way now?

DOCTOR: A dexadron crucible!

DOCTOR: Keep calm! Keep calm. (quietly) Poor Sarah. I should never have brought you hear.




SUTEKH: The inner chamber. The control centre of the pyramid. Make the sign of the Eye, Scarman. The sign of the Eye.




DOCTOR: I can't do it. I can't do it.

HORUS (OOV.): Intruders, you face the twin guardians of Horus. One is programmed to deceive, the other points truly.

HORUS (OOV.): The two switches control your fate. Instant freedom or instant death. Before you choose, you can ask one guardian one question. This is the riddle of the Osirans. Which is the guardian of life?

DOCTOR: Which indeed. They're both contra-programmed so that one will always give a false indication. One question. If I were to ask your fellow guardian the question, which switch would he indicate?

DOCTOR: I see. So if you're the true guardian, that must be the death switch. And if you're the a*t*matic liar, you'd be trying to mislead me, so that still must be the death switch. Therefore, this has to be the one we want.

DOCTOR: Come on! Come on!




SUTEKH (OOV.): At last, the Eye of Horus! Destroy! Destroy!

SCARMAN: Stand back. Deactivate.

HORUS (OOV.): My servitors obey only the voice of Horus. Drive out the intruders.

SUTEKH: Destroy! Destroy!

SUTEKH: Free!

SCARMAN: I'm free! Free at last!

SARAH: He's won. Sutekh's won!

DOCTOR: No! The time factor!

SARAH: What?

DOCTOR: Come on, run!

SARAH: Doctor!




SUTEKH: I have won my freedom, Horus. Your curse is lifted. Now begins the reign of Sutekh the Destroyer. I shall crush this miserable world, and hurl it into the outermost depths of space. My vengeance starts here!

SUTEKH: My paralysis has left me. I can move again. I can move! Now, Horus, we shall see who rules the cosmos!




DOCTOR: We've got about twenty seconds. Here he comes.

SUTEKH: Who dares to interfere?

DOCTOR: You're caught in a temporal trap, Sutekh.

SUTEKH: Time Lord! I shall destroy you. I shall destroy you!

DOCTOR: How long do Osirans live, Sutekh?

SUTEKH: Release me!

DOCTOR: Never. You're caught in the corridor of eternity.

SUTEKH: Release me, insect, or I shall destroy the cosmos!

DOCTOR: You're a thousand years beyond the twentieth century now, Sutekh. Go on for another ten thousand.

SUTEKH: I'll spare the planet Earth. I'll give it to you as a plaything. Release me!

DOCTOR: No, Sutekh. The time of the Osirans is long past.

SUTEKH: No!

DOCTOR: Go. He lived about seven thousand years.

SARAH: He's dead. Sutekh is dead.

DOCTOR: At last.

SARAH: Look, I know that's the time control from the TARDIS, but what did you do?

DOCTOR: I moved the threshold of the time space tunnel into the far future. He could never have reached the end. After the Eye was broken, I realised that we had little more than two minutes to get back here.

SARAH: But how?

DOCTOR: The time radio waves take to pass from Mars to Earth.

SARAH: Ah. So the Eye of Horus was still holding Sutekh for two minutes after it was broken.

DOCTOR: Yes. You know, the Egyptians called him the Typhonian beast.

SARAH: Doctor!

DOCTOR: That was careless of me. I forgot the thermal balance would equalise.

SARAH: Listen, this priory was burnt to the ground, remember?

DOCTOR: Yes. Perhaps it is time we were leaving. We don't want to be blamed for starting a fire, do we?

SARAH: No.

DOCTOR: I had enough of that in 1666.

SARAH: What?




DOCTOR: Come on, come on.



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