BY BOB BAKER AND DAVE MARTIN
Part Two
Original Air Date: 8 October 1977
Running time: 25:13
Behind Leela, the Doctor approaches silently pointing a blaster at her back, his hand covered in wispy tendrils.
NUCLEUS (OOV.): Destroy. The reject must be destroyed. k*ll. k*ll.
DOCTOR (OOV.): I can't. I won't.
NUCLEUS (OOV.): You must.
DOCTOR: Leela.
LEELA: Doctor!
DOCTOR: Leela, I can't stop it.
He fires but Leela ducks.
DOCTOR: Got to fight it. Got to fight it.
His sh*ts go wild as he struggles against the nucleus' willpower.
LEELA: Doctor, what's wrong?
He collapses to the floor and drops the blaster.
On his hand, the tendrils disappear. Leela runs to him.
LEELA: Doctor, what was all that?
DOCTOR: I'm fighting for my mind. Whatever it was that att*cked Safran and the others is also affecting me.
LEELA: Why not me?
DOCTOR: Perhaps because. Oh! I can feel it gathering strength to att*ck again.
LEELA: The evil one?
DOCTOR: Some kind of organism that att*cks the mind, the intelligence. It's trying to take me over, Leela. It's trying to change me.
LEELA: No, Doctor, please.
DOCTOR: I need help. I must withdraw into myself, save strength.
He goes limp and silent.
LEELA: Why not me?
She runs off, blaster in hand.
Lowe approaches Safran who raises his blaster.
LOWE: No, wait. Contact has been made.
LOWE: We are one, Safran.
SAFRAN: Then why pursue me?
LOWE: For the purpose. The Doctor has not yet succumbed to the power of the Nucleus. You will prepare the tanks for incubation. They do not suspect me yet. I will stay with them to guard the Nucleus and to destroy the reject.
Leela comes running down the corridor. Lowe reacts.
LOWE: Give me those. Get down!
He takes Safran's goggles and pushes him to the floor.
LEELA: Did you get him?
LOWE: Yes, but he almost got me. My eyes caught a flash from his blaster.
LEELA: Come with me. The Doctor's ill, very ill. He told me to get help.
LOWE: But there are no facilities here.
LEELA: Well, where, then?
NUCLEUS (OOV.): You must protect the host.
LOWE: The nearest place is the Centre for Alien Biomorphology. But that's in the asteroid belt.
LEELA: We'll take the TARDIS. Doctor, we're taking you somewhere to get help, but we need the TARDIS. Now, where are we going?
LOWE: The Bi-Al Foundation, asteroid K four zero six seven.
LEELA: What are the coordinates? Doctor, what are the coordinates?
DOCTOR: Vector one nine, quadrant three. Seven four three.
LEELA: Seven four three.
DOCTOR: Eight zero zero.
They carry him off.
The base is on a tiny natural satellite honeycombed with cavelike openings, a shuttle pad and a large transmitter/receiver tower. There is a medical shuttle sitting on the pad.
Inside, the Doctor is already on a gurney wrapped in gold foil, and the attendants wheel him through the corridor to a body lift marked "Level 2X". They open the horizontal door and place the gurney into the lift.
In the lobby Leela is attempting to handle the paperwork with the ultra- efficient nurse in green plastic entering frantically into the computer.
WOMAN: Patient's name?
LEELA: Er, just the Doctor.
WOMAN: Place of origin?
LEELA: Gallifrey.
WOMAN: Ireland?
LEELA: Oh, I expect so.
WOMAN: Thank you, that's all we need for now.
LEELA: But where is he?
WOMAN: Level X4, Isolation, being datalysed.
LEELA: Being what?
WOMAN: Datalysed. Treatment is already underway. Are you next of kin?
LEELA: Oh, no. Er, yes. I don't know. I expect so.
Lowe hurries in, his eyes still covered by his visor.
LOWE: Where's the Doctor?
LEELA: They've taken him away to level X4.
LOWE: X4?
WOMAN: Isolation. What's your trouble?
LOWE: Blaster flash. Accident.
WOMAN: Eye section straight through. They'll deal with you there.
LOWE: (to Leela) I'll find you later.
LEELA: Can I be with the Doctor?
WOMAN: Not until Professor Marius has had a chance to examine him.
LEELA: Marius?
WOMAN: He's our specialist in extraterrestrial pathological endomorphisms.
LEELA: Oh.
WOMAN: Wait over there, please.
Inside the lab, Marius rises from K9.
MARIUS: Blithering idiots, the pair of you. This man is in a self-induced coma. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the fellow. Oh, look at him.
MARIUS: He's probably one of those good-for-nothing spaceniks. Now, why have I been sent for? Tell me that. Why? Complete and utter waste of time.
PARSONS: Excuse me, sir.
MARIUS: What, what, what, what, what?
PARSONS: K9 indicates that the, the patient is not a member of the human race!
MARIUS: Nonsense.
PARSONS: Well, see for yourself. Look, two hearts. Symbiotic, self-renewing cell structure.
MARIUS: Is this right, K9?
K9: (for it is he) Affirmative, master.
MARIUS: Is he now. Point of origin?
K9: Beyond the solar system.
MARIUS: Thank you, K9.
K9: Master.
MARIUS: Nurse, let's get an encephalograph out on him, hmm?
MARIUS: Well, well, what is it?
K9: Unidentified viral type infection with noetic characteristics, at present seated in the mind-brain interface and therefore having no ascertainable mass or structure, master.
MARIUS: Interesting. Most interesting. It isn't every night that we come up with a brand new infection, is it, Parsons?
PARSONS: No, sir.
DOCTOR: Hello.
MARIUS: Good evening.
DOCTOR: Find anything?
MARIUS: Not yet, my boy, but we will, we will.
He pushes the Doctor back down.
MARIUS: Ah, Doctor, I see.
DOCTOR: Yes. What have you found?
MARIUS: Cataleptic trance?
DOCTOR: Yes.
MARIUS: Self-induced.
DOCTOR: Yes.
MARIUS: Ha. Why?
DOCTOR: Self-preservation. Whatever it is I'm suffering from seems to thrive on intellectual activity.
MARIUS: Oh, I see. You mean that the harder you think, the more of a grip it seems to take?
DOCTOR: Yes. Non-thinking is the only way to shake it off, but I can't stay mindless for eternity, can I.
MARIUS: Oh, no, I take your point, I take your point. Now my computer here, he's
DOCTOR: Ah. Hello.
K9: Hello.
DOCTOR: How are you?
MARIUS: Well, he seems to think that it's noetic in character, that means it's only detectable during consciousness.
DOCTOR: I know what noetic means.
MARIUS: I'm sorry.
DOCTOR: Mind-brain interface.
MARIUS: Well, if it exists.
DOCTOR: But of course. How stupid. That's why it att*cked the TARDIS computer first. It was showing the greatest amount of mental activity. I was just idling, so to speak.
MARIUS: When was this?
DOCTOR: When we were first att*cked. We were on our way to Titan. I assumed it was just a static build-up. Then when I checked the computer, it jumped into my mind, and that explains why Leela was
MARIUS: Hmm?
DOCTOR: Why Leela was unaffected. Have you met Leela?
MARIUS: No.
DOCTOR: She's all instinct and intuition.
MARIUS: Oh.
DOCTOR: That's why the virus rejected her. Of course. I begin to see it all now.
MARIUS: Well, it's possible, it's possible. Was anyone else exposed to it?
DOCTOR: Yes. The entire crew on Titan. Well, one exception. The supervisor, man called Lowe.
K9: Supervisor Lowe has been seen in the eye section.
MARIUS: Are you sure?
K9: Affirmative.
MARIUS: Are you sure that he was the, oh. Oh dear, he's gone again. I want him kept under constant observation. See to it, K9. Full monitoring.
K9: Affirmative, master.
MARIUS: Now let's see if we can find this chap Lowe, just in case he's a carrier. Come along, Parsons.
PARSONS: Coming, sir.
They exit the room. In the eye sekshun.
OPHTHALMOLOGIST: How did this happen?
LOWE: Accident, on Titan.
OPHTHALMOLOGIST: Accident? What sort of accident?
He doesn't answer.
OPHTHALMOLOGIST: Well, let's have a look at you.
LOWE: Certainly.
Slowly Lowe lifts his visor, then turns to the ophthalmologist. He zaps him with his eyes.
OPHTHALMOLOGIST: Contact has been made.
Leela is standing in the corridor near the body lift. She is still carrying her blaster, and she prowls the corridor as if she is looking for something.
Back in the lab, K9 is performing his work. Leela comes running in.
LEELA: Doctor!
K9: Negative, negative, negative. No entry. No entry.
LEELA: Look, whatever you are, I
K9: I am K9 and I am warning you.
LEELA: Look, I came to see the Doctor. I arrived with him.
K9: I too have offensive capability. You have been warned. Retreat. Retreat. Patient in total isolation. Contagion risk. Retreat. Retreat.
MARIUS: Who are you?
LEELA: I am Leela.
MARIUS: Ah, yes, of course. The Doctor's aide.
LEELA: I think so.
MARIUS: K9, memorise. Friend.
K9: Memorised. Friend.
LEELA: Is that tin thing something to do with you?
MARIUS: That tin thing is my best friend and constant companion. He's a computer. You see, on Earth, I always used to have a dog. But up here, the weight penalty, well, it's just not possible. So I had K9 made up. He's very useful. He's my own personal data bank. He knows everything that I do, don't you, K9?
K9: Affirmative, and more, master.
MARIUS: I'm afraid there's not much I can tell you about the Doctor, yet. You know, I should like to have you scanned and datalysed, just to see why you're immune. You see, if we can isolate that factor, we can inoculate against it. You get it?
LEELA: Sorry?
MARIUS: Yes, perhaps it is a matter of intelligence.
MARIUS: Right. Well, what about this Lowe chap?
PARSONS: He was in the eye section, sir, but now he's disappeared. And the consultant.
The ophthalmologist pushes Lowe down the corridor on a gurney.
LOWE: Who are they?
OPHTHALMOLOGIST: Doctors. Cruikshank and Hedges.
LOWE: Get them here.
OPHTHALMOLOGIST: Cruikshank? Hedges? Interesting case here. Come and have a look.
The two come down the corridor to see.
HEDGES: What is it?
LOWE: Now!
Lowe and the ophthalmologist sh**t them with their eye lightning.
CRUIKSHANK: Contact has been made.
HEDGES: Contact has been made.
LOWE: A place has been found, most suitable for our purpose. Titan is being prepared as a hive. Meanwhile, our duty here is twofold. To guard the Nucleus, which is in the mind of one called Doctor, and to make contact with the best minds. When we leave for incubation on Titan, all rejects will be destroyed.
OPHTHALMOLOGIST: Do you understand?
HEDGES: (or Cruikshank) We understand.
CRUIKSHANK: (or Hedges) Contact must be made.
LOWE: For the purpose.
Together they all stroll off.
MARIUS: Virus contamination would seem to be instant and total. If there's anything unique in her metabolism, the scan will detect it.
K9: Negative on immunity, master.
MARIUS: There must be something!
PARSONS: What if there isn't?
MARIUS: But he's our only guinea pig. He's the only one with any resistance to it. I can't allow him to be taken over like those poor devils on Titan. No, if there's no immunity factor in Leela, I will just have to operate.
Out in the corridor, Lowe and his party approach.
MARIUS: No anaesthetics, but keep them handy. K9, monitor the brain. If he shows signs of emerging from the coma, warn me immediately. Otherwise the shock might k*ll him.
K9: Affirmative, master.
Out in the corridor.
NUCLEUS (OOV.): Lowe. Lowe, I am endangered. The host is threatened.
LOWE: We must act before it is destroyed.
Out in space, another nearby shuttle is att*cked by the webby nucleus thing.
In Marius' lab, the reception nurse appears on screen.
WOMAN: Emergency, all stations. All stations, emergency. Shuttle approach on collision course, out of control. All medical personnel stand by. Emergency, emergency.
MARIUS: Now? Why now?
PARSONS: We'll have to go, sir.
MARIUS: Yes, yes, I know we have to go. K9, stay in charge. You stay with him. No one is to come into contact. Have you got that? No one.
LEELA: All right.
K9: Affirmative.
MARIUS: Come along, Parsons!
PARSONS: Coming, sir.
Outside, the incoming shuttle speeds toward the tiny Bi-Al satellite. It draws closer until its nosecone comes into contact with the satellite. The impact produces an enormous sprinkly expl*si*n.
In the lab, Leela doesn't notice as the sudden jolt knocks the Doctor off the bed. He gets back into it unassisted. He rests for a moment, then jumps to attention.
DOCTOR: What was that?
LEELA: There's been a crash. A shuttle. They've gone to help.
K9: On level below. This level now completely cut off.
DOCTOR: What!
Marius, Parsons and others are clearing debris from the impact area without work gloves which probably makes their hands hurt, except that it's really polystyrene and not CMU.
Nearby, the ophthalmologist comes around the corner upon Lowe and the others. They raise their blasters until they realize who it is.
OPHTHALMOLOGIST: That way is blocked.
LOWE: We have to get to level X4. There must be other ways.
HEDGES: The service shaft here.
CRUIKSHANK: It will take longer.
LOWE: Then hurry.
Back in the lab the nurse appears again on screen.
WOMAN: All available personnel to X3, to X3 accident zone.
DOCTOR: I don't think that was an accident.
LEELA: Why?
DOCTOR: It must be something to do with whatever's in my head. (to K9) Can I have a word with you? (to Leela) Where are you going?
LEELA: I think I'm needed elsewhere.
DOCTOR: K9. Cloning techniques. Give me a rundown, state of the art so far.
K9: Cloning. Cloning is replication, making a copy of an individual from a single cell of that individual. Clones. Clones retain characteristics of original organism.
DOCTOR: Go on, go on.
K9: Successful experiments first carried out in the year thirty nine twenty two.
DOCTOR: Thirty nine twenty two. Oh good.
MARIUS: If these two unfortunates have contracted the virus, we must assume that they all have. But if we attempt treatment, the disease will spread like wildfire and wipe out the entire Foundation. Everybody back. Clear the area. Get everybody out of here. I want the whole section cryogenically cocooned until we find out more about the nature of this virus. Get out the helium pumps.
MAN: Yes, sir.
They exit.
MARIUS: Parsons, come with me.
Elsewhere, Lowe's party climb off the lift to find Leela waiting. They exchange blaster fire.
LOWE: Destroy her! That's the reject!
LEELA: Reject yourself.
Inside the lab .
DOCTOR: Hurry, K9, hurry.
K9: At present, cloning procedure is possible, but unreliable.
Outside, Marius' people arrive outside the lab.
LEELA: It's Lowe. He's got the disease. Get inside quick. I'll cover you.
Back inside.
K9: Replicants do not maintain their existence for long because of possible unsolved psychic stress problems.
DOCTOR: How long? How long?
K9: Longest recorded clone life, ten mi...
Marius switches off K9.
MARIUS: Ten minutes, fifty five seconds.
DOCTOR: Professor Marius, could you clone me?
MARIUS: Certainly. The Kilbracken technique is very simple. But it's a circus trick. It's of no medical value.
DOCTOR: Could you clone me now?
MARIUS: Now?
DOCTOR: Yes. Because if you don't clone me now and the virus gets to me, it'll take the whole centre with it.
Leela is pinned down. She throws her Kn*fe to distract them. Lowe signals to go around the corridor, and Leela surprises them by tumbling quickly past and straight into the lab. The door closes behind her.
LEELA: Can't hold them off any more. Out of amm*nit*on.
MARIUS: K9?
K9: Master.
MARIUS: Ka lay lee!
K9: Affirmative.
LEELA: What does that mean?
MARIUS: He knows.
K9 approaches the infected crewmembers, takes a few sh*ts of blaster fire, and fires his own nose at one of the specialists who falls to the floor.
LOWE: We'll never get through this way. Is there a visiphone?
OPHTHALMOLOGIST: In my office.
DOCTOR: Hurry, Marius. Hurry.
MARIUS: Now, you must realise, Doctor, this is not in any real sense a clone, but a short-lived carbon-based imprint. A sort of three dimensional photograph.
DOCTOR: Leela. I shall need Leela.
MARIUS: Leela? Why? Why Leela?
LEELA: What does he mean, he needs me?
MARIUS: Ah, it must be because you are immune. I think he wants you cloned as well.
LEELA: But what will happen to me? The real me?
MARIUS: Nothing. Nothing at all.
LEELA: But you said it was just short-lived.
MARIUS: Oh, yes. A permanent clonal copy is theoretically possible, but it would take years to achieve because of the experiental gap. Now, you see, in this way, we manage to transfer both heredity and experience, but the transfer is unstable.
LEELA: What?
MARIUS: Well, it means that your photocopy twin will deteriorate and expire after a maximum life of ten or eleven minutes.
LEELA: Oh, well, in that case, if you do not mind, I will not stay to see.
MARIUS: Just as you wish.
LEELA: Oh, Professor?
MARIUS: Yes? Now what?
LEELA: If you need me, I shall be with K9.
MARIUS: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
He goes into the chamber, puts something on the floor. Parsons operates a switch and inside the chamber appear clones of the Doctor and Leela. The Doctor clone opens the chamber door and exits, and heads for the lab door.
MARIUS: Doctor, where are you going? Where are you going?
The Doctor stands and doesn't say a word.
MARIUS: Where are you going?
He stops by the door and rubs his head.
DOCTOR: Just you trust me, Professor. Just trust me.
Leela sits out in the corridor next to K9. The Doctor walks by.
LEELA: Doctor? Which one was that?
K9: That was the Doctor two.
LEELA: Can you explain?
K9: Affirmative. The Kilbracken cloning technique replicates from the single cell as a short-lived carbon copy. Efficacy of individuation not completely guaranteed.
LEELA: Can you explain simply?
K9: Negative.
Lowe comes upon an uninfected medic.
OPHTHALMOLOGIST: Medic.
He turns and they zap him with lightning.
Back in the lab the Doctor's face is now covered in scales, and his body is strapped to the bed.
NUCLEUS (OOV.): Release this body. You cannot prevail. I am the One. It is my purpose. It is my destiny. Let me go, you fools.
NURSE: Shall we sedate him?
MARIUS: Not yet, not yet.
PARSONS: But the danger of contagion, sir.
MARIUS: No, Parsons, we would all have caught it by now.
PARSONS: But if the Doctor's right, sir, and the virus has intelligence, there must be some reason for choosing him.
MARIUS: Yes, yes. I think we could be dealing with some kind of leader.
NUCLEUS (OOV.): My purpose. You must not delay my purpose. The place of the hive is ready. Release me!
The Doctor comes out of the TARDIS.
Back in the lab, Lowe appears on the screen.
LOWE: Professor Marius, listen to me. You must release the Doctor.
MARIUS: Never!
LOWE: I warn you. We are in control of the entire centre. If you do not do as I say, I shall destroy your Foundation!
In the corridor the Doctor passes Leela again.
LEELA: That was Doctor two.
K9: Affirmative.
Back in the lab.
LOWE (on screen): You have two minutes in which to decide. Either give us the Doctor, or your Foundation will be wiped out.
The Doctor comes in carrying a device.
MARIUS: Ah, Doctor, what are you doing? We've just had an ultimatum.
DOCTOR 2: Don't you worry, Professor. If this doesn't work, the whole place'll be destroyed anyway.
MARIUS: What is it?
DOCTOR 2: It's a Relative Dimensional Stabiliser. RDS.
PARSONS: What does it do?
DOCTOR 2: It's part of a TARDIS control system, the part that allows me to cross the dimensional barrier. It's quite simple, really. It means I can change shape, large or small, as I wish. Yes. Won't keep you a moment.
He opens the booth door briefly and talks over Leela's protest.
LEELA 2: Why have I been left
DOCTOR 2: Now listen, Professor. You operate the RDS. We'll be reduced to micro-dimensions. You'll then scoop us both up and inject us into my master-print there. Any questions?
MARIUS: Yes. Why are you taking Leela?
DOCTOR 2: Because she's immune and because she's a huntress.
MARIUS: Of course, of course. Well, get on with it. There's not much time. Is there anything that we can do meanwhile?
DOCTOR 2: Yes. Just stay here and hope we come back with the antidote. And Professor?
MARIUS: Yes?
DOCTOR 2: When we emerge, we'll be coming out through the tear duct.
MARIUS: Right. Good luck.
DOCTOR 2: Thank you.
LEELA: K9, do I really look like that?
K9: Affirmative.
Inside the booth the clones grow smaller until they are no longer seen. Marius switches off the device, then takes a syringe from Parsons. He enters the booth and uses the syringe to collect the clones. Preparing the injection, he aims for the neck.
MARIUS: Well, here we go.
LOWE (on screen): Your time is up. Surrender the Doctor!
MARIUS: Pleasant journey, Doctor.
He pushes the plunger.
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The Doctor
Tom Baker
Leela
Louise Jameson
Voice of K9
John Leeson
Lowe
Michael Sheard
Safran
Brian Grellis
Meeker
Edmund Pegge
Silvey
Jay Neill
Crewman
Anthony Rowlands
Nucleus
John Scott Martin
Voice of Nucleus
John Leeson
Professor Marius
Frederick Jaeger
Parsons
Roy Herrick
Cruikshank
Roderick Smith
Marius' Nurse
Elizabeth Norman
Reception Nurse
Nell Curran
Opthalmologist
Jim McManus
Hedges
Kenneth Waller
Medic
Pat Gorman
Assistant Floor Manager
Tony Garrick
Christabel Albery
Costumes
Raymond Hughes
Designer
Barry Newbery
Film Cameraman
Nick Allder
Film Editor
Glenn Hyde
Incidental Music
Dudley Simpson
Make-Up
Maureen Winslade
Producer
Graham Williams
Production Assistant
Norman Stewart
Production Unit Manager
John Nathan-Turner
Script Editor
Robert Holmes
Special Sounds
d*ck Mills
Studio Lighting
Brian Clemett
Studio Sound
Michael McCarthy
Theme Arrangement
Delia Derbyshire
Title Music
Ron Grainer
Visual Effects
Tony Harding
Ian Scoones
Tom Baker
Leela
Louise Jameson
Voice of K9
John Leeson
Lowe
Michael Sheard
Safran
Brian Grellis
Meeker
Edmund Pegge
Silvey
Jay Neill
Crewman
Anthony Rowlands
Nucleus
John Scott Martin
Voice of Nucleus
John Leeson
Professor Marius
Frederick Jaeger
Parsons
Roy Herrick
Cruikshank
Roderick Smith
Marius' Nurse
Elizabeth Norman
Reception Nurse
Nell Curran
Opthalmologist
Jim McManus
Hedges
Kenneth Waller
Medic
Pat Gorman
Assistant Floor Manager
Tony Garrick
Christabel Albery
Costumes
Raymond Hughes
Designer
Barry Newbery
Film Cameraman
Nick Allder
Film Editor
Glenn Hyde
Incidental Music
Dudley Simpson
Make-Up
Maureen Winslade
Producer
Graham Williams
Production Assistant
Norman Stewart
Production Unit Manager
John Nathan-Turner
Script Editor
Robert Holmes
Special Sounds
d*ck Mills
Studio Lighting
Brian Clemett
Studio Sound
Michael McCarthy
Theme Arrangement
Delia Derbyshire
Title Music
Ron Grainer
Visual Effects
Tony Harding
Ian Scoones