PART SIX (MINDWARP)
Written by Philip Martin
Original air date: 11th October, 1986
Run time: 24:45
Operating room
Sil: Doctor, we have the means to instill cooperation. There's the technology to alter how brains think. Would you like to try the helmet on for size?
The Doctor: Not just now, thanks.
Sil: But I insist, Doctor. Our warrior king must have completed his advancement cycle. You must replace him so we may coax the truth from your devious brain.
The Doctor: I am sufficiently advanced already.
Sil: Silence! Or you will be obliterated.
Sil: Now, the Raak didn't att*ck you, did he.
The Doctor: Yes, it did.
Sil: Can you use the helmet to extract the truth of what happened?
Crozier: I've never tried. It could be fatal, used as a means of interrogation.
Sil: The Doctor won't mind donating his sanity to the advancement of science, will you, Doctor?
Yrcanos: You there!
Sil: Don't sh**t him! We need him alive sign contracts!
Yrcanos: m*rder me, do you? Slime! Demon! Sorcerer!
Yrcanos: Don't be afraid. I've taken the brain purge and survived.
Sil: Stop him! Stop him! Stop him!
Yrcanos: Die!
Yrcanos: Rombrom ssssssss sabaluma.
Tunnel
Peri: Can we rest a moment? Oh, Doctor. Doctor!
Yrcanos: Open a vein. Let out the evil those devils have put into him.
Peri: Oh, it's Peri. Peri!
The Doctor: So far up above myself on the table down below.
Yrcanos: Sorcerers. Evil demons. Soul stealers. They have my equerry Dorf in a dungeon somewhere. We must release him or die in the attempt. Were you captured by the slugs who rule this ball of mud and water?
Peri: Yes.
Yrcanos: We must find some weapons. Some of those that turn one's enemies to slime. We must k*ll all who stand between us and victory. We'll grind every last slug beneath our feet, yes?
Peri: Yes. Look, I just want to get out of here.
Yrcanos: We must raise an army and att*ck and destroy the Mentors, yes?
Peri: Yes, sure, anything you say.
Yrcanos: Come on. Your mind will soon clear. We'll pile the heads of our enemies before us, like melons in a heap.
The Doctor: I would enjoy that.
Peri: What?
Yrcanos: I like him. We will campaign together. But first, we must march. What is his name?
Peri: The Doctor.
Yrcanos: Rrrrrrrsssssssss! I am Yrcanos, King of the Krontep, Lord of the Vingten, Conqueror of the Tonkonp Empire. But you no doubt know this.
Peri: Well, we caught some of it about round seven.
Yrcanos: Your name and title?
Peri: Perpugilliam, of the Brown.
Yrcanos: The Brown, eh? And where is this place?
Peri: Earth. Oh, you'd like it there. Lots of madmen playing at warriors and actors playing over the top in politics.
Yrcanos: Politics?
Peri: Yakety-yak. Talk.
Yrcanos: Ah. (whistles) You mean w*r councils.
Peri: Yes, I suppose so. I don't know, or want to know.
Yrcanos: I would like to meet the mighty warriors of Earth.
Peri: Yeah, well, you'd get on pretty well, Yrcanos.
Yrcanos: You are promised to such a one? Him?
Peri: Certainly not.
Yrcanos: Hmm. That is good.
Peri: Well, I must help the Doctor.
Peri: Come on, Doc. Wake up.
Trial room
The Doctor: I don't remember that. I can't recall anything after the power flooded through my brain.
Valeyard: That is your defence now, is it? Amnesia, forgetfulness. This is a tactic, Sagacity, because the Doctor knows what the Matrix will show.
Inquisitor: Is that your defence, Doctor?
The Doctor: What?
Inquisitor: Amnesia.
The Doctor: No, er...
Inquisitor: Your mind has cleared from being taken out of time?
The Doctor: As far as I can tell.
Inquisitor: Then obviously there must be some other reason .
Valeyard: He lies, Sagacity.
The Doctor: I do not!
Valeyard: Then you're in for a surprise, aren't you, my dear Doctor. An exceedingly nasty one, if your memory is as fallible as you pretend.
Operating room
Kiv: We must have the transformer operable. How can we rule without its influence?
Crozier: Everything will be fixed well before your servants begin to understand their situation.
Kiv: Never mind them, what of my predicament? The pain in my head increases.
Crozier: I've told you it will. Your brain will continue to grow until...
Kiv: What?
Crozier: Your skull is not designed to allow for increase in brain power and size. That's the trouble with mutations and hybrids like you. Your cranium is too thick. It lacks elasticity, hence the pain.
Kiv: Yes.
Crozier: Unless I can operate soon, you will suffer fatal brain compression in a few days.
Kiv: You were brought to Thoros Beta to rectify that, to give me new life.
Crozier: My lord, the Doctor has the answers I need. Did the Raak att*ck them, or did they slaughter the creature first? If the Raak did att*ck, he must have reverted on my cerebral transfer experiment and the surgery I hoped to apply to you, Lord Kiv, will not be successful.
Kiv: Words! Excuses! This is a conspiracy to stop my life being prolonged.
Sil: The intruders will be caught. They will answer Crozier's questions or be k*lled.
Kiv: Or I will, thanks to your bungling, Sil.
Sil: Not mine, Magnificence. His! All I want is to share in the light of your intelligence and profit from its shining wisdom.
Kiv: Please...
Sil: The Mentors of Thoros Beta need your genius for cosmic mega-profit. Those Alphans, whose stars have decreed that they serve you, simply adore the sight of you...
Kiv: Enough, Sil! What, do you intend to talk me to death?
Sil: I will pray to the Great Morgo for your immediate recovery, Magnificence.
Kiv: You will do better than that. If the Doctor has the answers, you will find him, or you both will share my death with me. I can only stand this pain for one more day. One day! That is all you both have. Now do something!
Sil: At once, Magnificence. Bear me away. Bear me away! Come on, faster! Bear me away faster, faster.
Induction centre
Computer: Subject accepted. Proceed with implantation.
Sil: Well, have they been caught yet?
Frax: No, Mentor.
Outside the Induction centre
Yrcanos: Stay, stay.
Induction centre
Computer: We need a new recipient. Reject.
Outside the Induction centre
Peri: What's going on?
Yrcanos: They bring all new slaves here, but what is more important, my lady, they have weapons.
The Doctor: Weapons!
Peri: Shush.
Yrcanos: Liquefiers that we must obtain quietly.
Peri: We? That includes me, huh?
Yrcanos: On my planet of Krontep, a warrior queen fights alongside her king.
Peri: We're not on your planet.
Yrcanos: It doesn't matter, the rule still applies.
Induction centre
Sil: Which corridors and tunnels have not yet been searched?
Frax: Only those that lead to the Sea of Turmoil.
Sil: Then search them, profitless fool!
The Doctor: Look out behind you.
Yrcanos: Traitorous Doctor!
Peri: Doctor, come here.
The Doctor: No thanks.
Peri: Doctor!
Sil: Charge her down!
Sil: Doctor, the pleasure of your company is, of course, infinite, but why have you chosen to warn us rather than help your friends?
The Doctor: The odds were against us. Why should I risk my life for a savage and a stupid girl?
Sil: So you betrayed your friends. How wonderfully wise, Doctor.
The Doctor: I think so.
Sil: You are planning some trickery, of course. This is a ploy, yes?
The Doctor: Why should I follow a mad w*rlord of Thordon? What's in it for me, huh?
Sil: You value your life?
The Doctor: I'm no hero.
Sil: I could have sworn you belonged to that stupid breed.
The Doctor: Not any more. Now, I'm just like you, Sil.
Sil: How nice for you, Doctor. Inform Crozier and the Lord Kiv that I have captured the Doctor.
Sil: The turncoat Doctor, it seems.
Trial room
The Doctor: No! That is not me!
Valeyard: Oh yes, it is. You were overcome by terror, Doctor. You had interfered yet again, and this time your one aim was to escape unscathed. You. You only. Your friends didn't matter.
The Doctor: Never!
Valeyard: You realise the Matrix of Time cannot lie.
The Doctor: Can't it?
Valeyard: I suggest you confess to your crimes and throw yourself on the mercy of this court.
Inquisitor: Doctor?
The Doctor: What? Mercy? No. No, there's something wrong. Of course. Sil was right. It was a ploy to fool the Mentors. Yes, clever old me. Let the Matrix show what it will. A clever ploy. You'll see.
Laboratory
Sil: He is lying. I do not trust him.
The Doctor: Believe me, I'm telling the truth. I wouldn't lie, it's not in my nature.
Crozier: He cannot know the reasons of our concern.
The Doctor: The Raak att*cked us first.
Crozier: I believe him. I must redesign the behaviour modifier before I transfer the brain of Lord Kiv.
Sil: Do you have time?
Crozier: Not really.
Sil: If the Lord Kiv dies, his bodyguards have instructions to destroy us. You must operate to save his life and ours. There's no more time for research. I will find a donor and you must operate.
Crozier: What with? The w*rlord destroyed most of the transference circuitry. If it's repaired, I might attempt a temporary transplant.
Sil: Kiv has allowed us only one more day!
Crozier: I know.
Sil: We pay you enough. We have given you a whole race of people to play with.
The Doctor: Excuse me, I understand a little of your transference unit principle and I have some knowledge of technological malfunction. Is there a microcircuitry diagram?
Sil: Guards, stop him! It's a trick!
Crozier: Let him look. We've nothing to lose.
Sil: Be certain that you are right, Crozier.
The Doctor: Is there a module unit replacement or are these ganglion separators adaptable?
Crozier: It's multifunctional.
The Doctor: Ah, good. Hmm. Ah ha. Did you test the endrodyacen?
Crozier: Not yet.
The Doctor: Try it. Should respond to the lexifier now.
Crozier: Well done!
Sil: I find this anxiety to assist us, Doctor, highly suspicious.
Crozier: Look, Sil, with both of us working on the BTU, we might just be able to operate on Kiv tomorrow.
Sil: Or on someone else first. After all, we will need a body donor. Yes, Doctor?
Tunnel
Frax: I see you have found the heart of our energy supply.
Peri: It's very impressive, although I would have thought it warranted a guard.
Frax: As a rule, intruders never get this far, although I shall put your suggestion to the Great Kiv.
Peri: You do that. And while you're about it, pass this on as well.
Yrcanos: Down, dog!
Dorf: Your majesty. Your majesty.
Yrcanos: Dorf? My equerry Dorf? Not you. What have they done? What?
Dorf: Help me. Help me.
Yrcanos: Yes. Still. Still. Hold.
Yrcanos: We will k*ll the sorcerers. I swear by the great jewelled sword of Krontep, you will be revenged. Come.
Corridor
Yrcanos: This way, Dorf!
Room
Matrona: Did they reject you at the induction centre, or did you escape? I should inform the guards, have you sent to Thoros Alpha.
Peri: There's an alternative?
Matrona: You were to serve the Mentors and their favoured creatures. Now, I control the women servants, and for that I need help. Loyal help.
Peri: I'd serve you? Why?
Matrona: I prefer some individuality in my household. However, should you be discovered as an escaped reject, I'll deny this meeting took place. What is your name?
Peri: Peri.
Matrona: Do you wish to serve me, Peri?
Peri: What have I got to lose, huh?
Matrona: You must call me Matrona.
Peri: Matrona.
Matrona: Come, let us prepare you.
Tunnel
Yrcanos: We've lost them.
Dorf: k*ll me! k*ll me!
Yrcanos: k*ll you? You are Dorf of Kanval. Whatever's happened to your body, your spirit must remain the same. Now, die if you must, but do it in battle. Keep that hatred burning within you for when you find the man who has done this to you. There is one who has betrayed me.
Dorf: No!
Yrcanos: Yes! I have a special death reserved for him. He's a traitor known as the Doctor.
Outside the Commerce room
Matrona: You will enter when summoned, but not before. The rest of you, come with me.
Commerce room
Crozier: Matrona, bring Lord Kiv's ambiotic fluid immediately.
Outside the Commerce room
Matrona: Come, you have the medication.
Peri: I can't go in there.
Matrona: Do you wish me to denounce you? Then obey the call. There's nothing to fear. I shall go first.
Commerce room
The Doctor: You, girl. Here. I don't like this drink. Bring me another.
Matrona: Say yes, my lord.
Peri: Yes, my lord.
Kiv: That is better. The pain eases. Stay near me. You I trust.
Matrona: The Lord Kiv does me great honour.
Kiv: Tomorrow I must trust my life to the man of science, Crozier.
Matrona: I'm sure the operation will be successful, my lord.
Kiv: Ha. Equal odds to live or die. I have no choice.
Sil: Matrona Kani, see that the Lord Kiv is served only the most wrigglesome of youthful sand snakes.
Matrona: I don't need you to tell me that, Sil.
The Doctor: What is in this drink?
Peri: I was just given it. Something different, you said, Doctor.
Kiv: What has happened? How does this servitor know of your title?
The Doctor: An enemy, my lord. The girl who ran away earlier. She may have been trying to poison us all.
Peri: Doctor...
Sil: Of course! The repulsive one. Arrest her. She must be interrogated thoroughly. Take her to the Rock of Sorrows.
Peri: Doctor, help me!
The Doctor (O.C.): That's the ploy. I remember now.
Trial room
The Doctor: The ploy was to remove us both from the heart of the Mentor's control section. I gambled that after I'd helped them fix the cerebral transference unit, they might trust me to question Peri alone.
Valeyard: To what end?
The Doctor: Escape, I should imagine.
Inquisitor: Did the interrogation take place?
Valeyard: It did, Sagacity.
Inquisitor: I should like to see that sequence.
Rock of Sorrows
Peri: What do you want?
The Doctor: The Mentor Sil fears a conspiracy against the Lord Kiv. You are a spy for the Alphans.
Peri: What? No, stop this!
The Doctor: It's all right, we're alone now. We can talk.
Peri: Oh, Doctor, I thought that brain transference pulse had made you crazy.
The Doctor: I'm your friend, you know that.
Peri: I was beginning to wonder.
The Doctor: I'm here to help you.
Peri: How do I get out of this?
The Doctor: By telling me who the Alphans are that are leading the unrest and where they can be annihilated.
Peri: What?
The Doctor: Tell me!
Peri: But I don't know anything!
The Doctor: Answer me. The tide is on the turn. Unless you want to add your own despair to the Sea of Sorrows, I suggest that you tell me everything.
Commerce room
Sil: Just like in the old days. There's nothing more enjoyable that watching people suffer.
Rock of Sorrows
The Doctor: Confess.
Peri: Confess? Confess to what?
The Doctor: Your guilt, your bungling, your Alphan friends. Everything! You must help the Mentors, Peri. You must help me.
Peri: Doctor, what's wrong with you?
The Doctor: I see my own interests. I place myself first.
Peri: But what about me?
The Doctor: You are expendable. You have no value. Tomorrow, they intend to take the brain of the Lord Kiv and transplant it into my body. He will possess my body! To prevent that, I must please the Mentors, Peri. If that means sacrificing you in my place, then that is the way it must be.
Crozier (O.C.): Enough! Do not damage her! We have more effective ways of interrogation.
Trial room
The Doctor: It was never like that.
Valeyard: How can you be certain? You have no clear memory of the incident. And as we all know, the Matrix never lies.
The Doctor: I wonder.
Inquisitor: May we continue? I do grow tired of these constant interruptions.
The Doctor: But it was never like that.
Inquisitor: Enough, Doctor. The Matrix does not lie. It cannot lie. You are aware of that fact, so why persist in these silly statements?
Inquisitor: Let us proceed.
Tunnel
Dorf: The Doctor. Do we att*ck?
Yrcanos: Of course. That dreg helping the Mentor's warriors is my enemy.
Corridor
Peri: What's happened to you, Doctor? Why do you hate me so?
The Doctor: I must do what I think is best.
Peri: I used to think that you were different, that you cared for justice and truth and good. I can't bear to look at what you are now.
Yrcanos: Now, Doctor, it is your turn to die.
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The Doctor
COLIN BAKER
Peri
NICOLA BRYANT
The Valeyard
MICHAEL JAYSTON
The Inquisitor
LYNDA BELLINGHAM
King Yrcanos
BRIAN BLESSED
Sil
NABIL SHABAN
Kiv
CHRISTOPHER RYAN
Crozier
PATRICK RYECART
Matrona Kani
ALIBE PARSONS
Frax
TREVOR LAIRD
The Lukoser
THOMAS BRANCH
Tuza
GORDON WARNECKE
Mentor
RICHARD HENRY
Assistant Floor Manager
ANNA PRICE
Costumes
JOHN HEARNE
Designer
ANDREW HOWE-DAVIES
Incidental Music
RICHARD HARTLEY
Make-Up
DORKA NIERADZIK
Producer
JOHN NATHAN-TURNER
Production Assistant
KAREN JONES
Production Associate
ANGELA SMITH
JUNE COLLINS
Script Editor
ERIC SAWARD
Special Sounds
d*ck MILLS
Studio Lighting
DON BABBAGE
Studio Sound
BRIAN CLARK
Theme Arrangement
DOMINIC GLYNN
Title Music
RON GRAINER
Visual Effects
PETER WRAGG
COLIN BAKER
Peri
NICOLA BRYANT
The Valeyard
MICHAEL JAYSTON
The Inquisitor
LYNDA BELLINGHAM
King Yrcanos
BRIAN BLESSED
Sil
NABIL SHABAN
Kiv
CHRISTOPHER RYAN
Crozier
PATRICK RYECART
Matrona Kani
ALIBE PARSONS
Frax
TREVOR LAIRD
The Lukoser
THOMAS BRANCH
Tuza
GORDON WARNECKE
Mentor
RICHARD HENRY
Assistant Floor Manager
ANNA PRICE
Costumes
JOHN HEARNE
Designer
ANDREW HOWE-DAVIES
Incidental Music
RICHARD HARTLEY
Make-Up
DORKA NIERADZIK
Producer
JOHN NATHAN-TURNER
Production Assistant
KAREN JONES
Production Associate
ANGELA SMITH
JUNE COLLINS
Script Editor
ERIC SAWARD
Special Sounds
d*ck MILLS
Studio Lighting
DON BABBAGE
Studio Sound
BRIAN CLARK
Theme Arrangement
DOMINIC GLYNN
Title Music
RON GRAINER
Visual Effects
PETER WRAGG