PART THREE
Written by Ben Aaronovitch
Original air date: 19th October, 1988
Run time: 24:30
School corridor
Dalek: Human female is now leaving building.
School
Dalek 2: Stay where you are. Do not move.
Dalek: Exterminate. Exterminate.
Dalek 3: Exterminate.
Daleks: Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate.
Mike: You, move in.
Mike: Fall back. Fall back!
The Doctor: It works. It works!
Mike: Fall back! Three, two, one, down!
The Doctor: There were living beings in there.
Mike: Not any more.
Gilmore: Come on, Sergeant. We'll search upstairs.
Mike: Yes, sir. Doctor, may I?
The Doctor: Yes, Sergeant.
Gilmore: Right.
Mike: Stay sharp. Follow me.
Rachel: Doctor?
The Doctor: Hmm?
Rachel: This one's still active.
The Doctor: Oh? Let's see, Professor.
The Doctor: Allison, it's dead. Thank you.
Rachel: What was that?
The Doctor: They've mutated again. Here, come and have a look. Compare that to the destroyed Dalek at Totter's Lane. Note the difference.
Rachel: The other Dalek was underdeveloped, with vestigial limbs and sensory organs almost amoeboid. Allison, look. This is altogether different. It has functional appendages and some kind of mechanical prosthesis grafted into its very body. I think I'm going to be sick.
The Doctor: Sergeant Smith must have found some more Daleks.
Ace: Don't anyone give me a hand.
Allison: Ace, you're hurt.
Ace: I had an argument with a window.
The Doctor: You two go down and check the cellar, but don't touch anything. I'll look after Ace.
The Doctor: When I say stay put, I mean stay put, not take on an entire Dalek as*ault squad single-handed. What were you doing here, anyway?
Ace: I came to get my tape deck.
The Doctor: Where is it?
Ace: It's in little bits.
The Doctor: Good.
Ace: Good? Ow. What do you mean, good. Where am I going to get another one?
The Doctor: That tape deck was a dangerous anachronism. If someone had found it and discovered the principles of its function, the whole microchip revolution would take place now, twenty years too early, with incalculable damage to the time line.
Ace: So?
The Doctor: So? Ace, the Daleks have a mothership up there capable of eradicating this planet from space, but even they, ruthless though they are, would think twice before making such a radical alteration to the time line.
The Doctor: There, you ought to be able to get up and walk about now.
Ace: Cheers, Professor.
Mothership
Dalek: Bridge reporting. Mothership will maintain Earth geostationary orbit. All systems fully operational. att*ck squad Delta prepare to enter transmat.
School cellar
Allison: The subject obviously is placed on that dais. Then what?
Rachel: The Doctor called it a transmat. What's that imply to you?
Allison: Matter transmission? But that's impossible.
Rachel: Impossible. You know, after this is over I'm going to retire and raise begonias.
The Doctor: Lovely flowers, begonias.
Allison: Doctor, how exactly does this thing work?
Rachel: Don't bother.
The Doctor: It's a link for the Daleks, allowing them to beam death squads onto Earth without anybody knowing. And I don't want them here just yet.
The Doctor: Weapons. Always useless in the end. Oh, you look hungry. How about lunch?
Cemetery
Cafe
Ace: Professor, what are you doing?
The Doctor: Concentrating.
Ace: Harry, I wanted some toast.
Harry: Coming, coming.
Ace: May I?
Mike: Hello, Ace.
Ace: Hi.
Mike: You've met Paul, John.
Ace: Hello.
Cemetery
Ratcliffe: Argh!
Mothership
Dalek: Power source detected. Alert! Power source detected. Full alert!
Dalek 2: It is the Hand of Omega.
Dalek 3: Inform the Emperor Dalek.
Dalek: I obey.
Cafe
Gilmore: I just feel we should be doing something.
Rachel: Frankly, I wouldn't advise it, Group Captain. We're in way over our heads.
Gilmore: You were hired as a Chief Scientific Advisor. One tends to expect advise from one's advisors.
Rachel: For one thing, Group Captain, I was not hired, I was drafted. And for another, do you think I am enjoying having some space vagrant come along and tell me that the painstaking research I've devoted my life to has been superceded by a bunch of tin plated pepperpots?
Gilmore: Steady on.
Rachel: Steady on? You drag me down from Cambridge, you quote the Peace Time Emergency Powers Act at me, and then you expect me to advise on something outside the realm of human experience. Bluntly, Group Captain, we're reliant on the Doctor because only the Doctor knows what is going on.
Cemetery
Ratcliffe: Get on with it. I want that coffin back at the warehouse.
Man: Guv.
Ratcliffe: What are you staring at?
Mothership
Dalek: Emperor on the bridge.
Emperor: Report.
Dalek: The transmat is no longer operational.
Dalek 2: We have established the position of the Omega device.
Emperor: Prepare the as*ault shuttle.
Dalek 2: Renegade Dalek agents are in the area.
Emperor: They will surrender the Hand of Omega.
Cemetery
Ratcliffe: Haven't you got a home to go to? Come on, lads, put your backs into it. We haven't got all day.
Cafe
The Doctor: Group Captain, we need to establish a forward base at the school. Can it be done?
Gilmore: Of course.
The Doctor: Thank you for your cooperation.
Gilmore: Only a fool argues with his doctor. Sergeant!
Mike: Sir?
Gilmore: Get Embery. Set up a command unit. Forward command on the third floor, defensive positions on the ground floor and the roof. Get a move on.
Mike: Yes, sir. All right, men, fall out. Follow me back to the school.
Gilmore: Professor Jensen, Miss Williams, follow me.
Allison: Jawohl. Coming, Professor Jensen?
Rachel: Of course, Miss Williams.
Allison: I wish Bernard was here.
Rachel: The British Rocket Group's got its own problems.
Ace: Harry, toast.
Harry: Coming, coming.
Ace: What's so important about the school?
The Doctor: Well, now that I've disabled the transmat, absolutely nothing. As long as the renegade Daleks have got the Hand of Omega, then the Imperial Daleks' attention will be focused on that.
Ace: So there are two sets of Daleks.
The Doctor: Yes.
Ratcliffe's office
Ratcliffe: We have the Hand of Omega. It's out in the yard.
Computer: Excellent.
Ratcliffe: Good. I'll tell my man. After all, he found it.
School corridor
Allison: Mike? There's a phone call for you in the Headmaster's office.
Mike: Thanks.
School yard
Ace: Professor?
The Doctor: Yes?
Ace: If this place is so out of the way of the action, what are we doing here?
The Doctor: Keeping an eye on Group Captain Chunky Gilmore. Although why his men call him Chunky, I've no idea.
School corridor
Ace: They're really going for it.
The Doctor: That's the general idea. I want to keep the m*llitary fully occupied and out of the way.
Ace: Out of the way of what? Oh, Professor, you promised me, remember?
Staircase
The Doctor: A long time ago, on my home planet of Gallifrey, there lived a stellar engineer called Omega.
Ace: Stellar? As in stars? You mean he engineered stars?
The Doctor: Ace!
Ace: Sorry. Go on.
The Doctor: It was Omega who created the supernova that was the initial power source for Gallifreyan time travel experiments. He left behind him the basis on which Rassilon founded Time Lord society, and he left behind the Hand of Omega.
Ace: His hand? What good was that?
The Doctor: No, no, not his hand literally. No, no, it's called that because Time Lords have an infinite capacity for pretension.
Ace: I've noticed that.
The Doctor: The Hand of Omega is a mythical name for Omega's remote stellar manipulator, a device used to customise stars with. And didn't we have trouble with the prototype.
Ace: We?
The Doctor: They.
Ace: And the Daleks want it so they can recreate the time travel experiments? But you said that both Dalek factions can already travel in time.
The Doctor: Oh yes, Daleks have got time corridor technology, but it's very crude and nasty. What they want is the power that Time Lords have, and they'll get that with the Hand of Omega, or so they think.
Ace: And you have to try and stop them.
The Doctor: No, Ace, I want them to have it.
Ace: Eh?
The Doctor: My problem is trying to stop Group Captain Gilmore and his men getting diced in the crossfire.
Ace: So, all this is...
The Doctor: A massive deception, yes.
Ace: Oh, well devious. So the Daleks grab the Hand of Omega and go, and no one gets hurt. Brilliant.
The Doctor: Just one thing.
Ace: What?
The Doctor: I didn't expect two Dalek factions, and now I've got to make sure the wrong ones don't get their grubby little protuberances on it.
Ace: Shouldn't we take Mike?
The Doctor: No. Dalek hunting is a terminal pastime.
Ace: So what are we doing?
The Doctor: Dalek hunting.
Ratcliffe's yard
Black: Advance.
Black: Stay where you are.
Ratcliffe's office
Ratcliffe: It's been a long and difficult struggle for myself and my men. Now we can afford to relax and reap the rewards. As I said, people need a firm hand. It's in their nature. They feel more comfortable with a strong leader, someone who knows when to be lenient and when to be harsh.
Ratcliffe: What have you done to those men? They were on our side!
Computer: You are a sl*ve, Ratcliffe.
Girl: You were born to serve the Daleks.
Black: Patrol the area until the time controller is operational.
Greys: We obey.
Black: You will obey the Daleks or you will be exterminated. Activate the time controller.
Girl: Time controller activated. Calculating coordinates.
Black: You will come with us.
Outside Ratcliffe's yard
The Doctor: This way.
The Doctor: The main staging area must be in that warehouse.
Ace: Are we going to have a look?
The Doctor: Might as well.
School corridor
Mike: I've checked the whole building, sir. There's no sign of Ace or the Doctor.
Gilmore: Right, deploy lookouts, take a squad and sweep the area. I want the Doctor found and brought back here.
Mike: Yes, sir. Okay, men, follow me.
Gilmore: You two, follow me.
Ratcliffe's yard
The Doctor: Daleks.
The Doctor: Be quiet.
Ace: Is that it?
The Doctor: The Hand of Omega's inside this box. The most powerful and sophisticated remote stellar control manipulator device ever constructed.
Ace: Are you sure you want the Daleks to have it?
The Doctor: Absolutely. You know what you've got to do, don't you?
The Doctor: Yes, of course you do.
Ace: Is it alive?
The Doctor: In a manner of speaking, yes.
Ratcliffe's office
Ace: What is it?
The Doctor: Some kind of biomechanoid control system, for a small human. Of course, it's a battle computer!
Ace: But why would a human need to sit in it?
The Doctor: The Dalek's major drawback is their dependency on rationality and logic. The solution? Get a human, preferably young, imaginative, plug the child into the system, and their ingenuity and creativity are slaved to the battle computer.
Ace: That's well boggling.
The Doctor: It's obscene. Ah, now for the time controller.
Ace: Hey, is this it?
Ace: What is it?
The Doctor: It's a device the renegade Daleks use to travel through time. They've come a long way.
Ace: Have you busted it?
The Doctor: No, no, no, I don't want to lumber Earth with a load of desperate Daleks. I've merely put it out of phase. They'll be able to fix it, but it'll slow them down.
Ratcliffe (O.C.): What are you going to do to me?
Black (O.C.): Remain silent.
Girl: The time controller has been disabled!
Black: Instruct all Daleks to seek and destroy the intruder.
Black: Exterminate the Doctor! Crush all resistance!
Girl: I obey.
Street
Ace: Why didn't you just run off with the Hand of Omega and give it to the other Daleks?
The Doctor: With a bit of luck, the Imperial Daleks will wipe out the renegade faction. Besides, I can't just roll up and give it to them. They get suspicious.
Ace: Suspicious of what? You still haven't told me w...
The Doctor: Shush!
Outside Coal Hill School
Mike: All right, follow me and keep your eyes peeled for Ace and the Doctor. Move.
Outside the TARDIS
Ace: Hey, Doctor!
The Doctor: Yes?
Ace: Couldn't we just get in...
The Doctor: No, no, no, we've got work to do. Anyway, here come the m*llitary.
Mike: Where've you been?
The Doctor: Dalek hunting. Now it's the other way around. Is Gilmore back at the school?
Mike: Yes.
The Doctor: Good. We'll go back and smooth his troubled brow.
Mike: Ace, when we're finished with this lot, do you fancy going to the pictures?
Ace: You're confident. Why, what's on?
Mike: I don't know.
Ace: Doesn't matter. I've probably seen it on television anyway.
Mike: Huh? Daleks! Move it!
School corridor
Gilmore: Well, Doctor, I trust your little jaunt was successful.
The Doctor: Moderately so. I'm afraid we've brought back some Daleks with us.
Mike: I don't get it. They've got the Hand of Omega. Why don't they just leave?
The Doctor: How did you know that, Sergeant?
Mike: Ace told me.
Ace: You toe rag. You lying dirty scumbag.
The Doctor: It can wait.
Ace: You're finished. He's a grass, a dirty stinking grass! He's selling us out to the Daleks!
Gilmore: What's going on, Sergeant? What are they talking about?
Mike: I didn't know it was the Daleks, sir.
Ratcliffe's office
Computer: Imperial Dalek shuttlecraft entering atmosphere.
Black: We must defend the Hand of Omega. Withdraw all units. Return to base immediately.
Computer: I obey.
School yard
Computer (O.C.): Battle computer to all units. Withdraw immediately.
Dalek: Return to base.
School science lab
Ace: They're retreating, all of them. Wimps!
Rachel: Doctor, we've had a report of a radar contact.
The Doctor: On a re-entry curve from low orbit?
Rachel: Yes.
The Doctor: That'll be the Imperial Dalek shuttlecraft.
Gilmore: What? They're not landing a spaceship here.
The Doctor: Here? No. We're much too far from the main action.
Rachel: You're sure?
Ace: Cor!
The Doctor: Ace, get away from the window! Down!
The Doctor: I think I might have miscalculated.
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The Doctor
SYLVESTER MCCOY
Ace
SOPHIE ALDRED
Davros
TERRY MOLLOY
Group Captain Gilmore
SIMON WILLIAMS
Professor Rachel Jensen
PAMELA SALEM
Mike Smith
DURSLEY MCLINDEN
Allison Williams
KAREN GLEDHILL
Ratcliffe
GEORGE SEWELL
Headmaster
MICHAEL SHEARD
Harry
HARRY FOWLER
The Girl
JASMINE BREAKS
Embery
PETER HAMILTON DYER
Battle Computer
JOHN LEESON
Vicar
PETER HALLIDAY
John
JOSEPH MARCELL
Martin
WILLIAM THOMAS
Kaufman
DEREK KELLER
Dalek Operators
HUGH SPIGHT
JOHN SCOTT MARTIN
TONY STARR
CY TOWN
Dalek Voices
ROY SKELTON
BRIAN MILLER
ROYCE MILLS
Himself
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Himself
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Himself
CHARLES DE GAULLE
Assistant Floor Managers
VAL MCCRIMMON
LYNN GRANT
Costumes
KEN TREW
Designer
MARTIN COLLINS
Incidental Music
KEFF MCCULLOCH
Make-Up
CHRISTINE GREENWOOD
OB Cameraman
ROBIN SUTHERLAND
BARRY CHASTON
Producer
JOHN NATHAN-TURNER
Production Assistant
ROSEMARY PARSONS
Production Associates
JUNE COLLINS
HILARY BARRATT
Script Editor
ANDREW CARTMEL
Special Sounds
d*ck MILLS
Studio Lighting
HENRY BARBER
Studio Sound
SCOTT TALBOTT
Stunt Arranger
TIP TIPPING
Theme Arrangement
KEFF MCCULLOCH
Title Music
RON GRAINER
Visual Effects
STUART BRISDON
SYLVESTER MCCOY
Ace
SOPHIE ALDRED
Davros
TERRY MOLLOY
Group Captain Gilmore
SIMON WILLIAMS
Professor Rachel Jensen
PAMELA SALEM
Mike Smith
DURSLEY MCLINDEN
Allison Williams
KAREN GLEDHILL
Ratcliffe
GEORGE SEWELL
Headmaster
MICHAEL SHEARD
Harry
HARRY FOWLER
The Girl
JASMINE BREAKS
Embery
PETER HAMILTON DYER
Battle Computer
JOHN LEESON
Vicar
PETER HALLIDAY
John
JOSEPH MARCELL
Martin
WILLIAM THOMAS
Kaufman
DEREK KELLER
Dalek Operators
HUGH SPIGHT
JOHN SCOTT MARTIN
TONY STARR
CY TOWN
Dalek Voices
ROY SKELTON
BRIAN MILLER
ROYCE MILLS
Himself
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Himself
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Himself
CHARLES DE GAULLE
Assistant Floor Managers
VAL MCCRIMMON
LYNN GRANT
Costumes
KEN TREW
Designer
MARTIN COLLINS
Incidental Music
KEFF MCCULLOCH
Make-Up
CHRISTINE GREENWOOD
OB Cameraman
ROBIN SUTHERLAND
BARRY CHASTON
Producer
JOHN NATHAN-TURNER
Production Assistant
ROSEMARY PARSONS
Production Associates
JUNE COLLINS
HILARY BARRATT
Script Editor
ANDREW CARTMEL
Special Sounds
d*ck MILLS
Studio Lighting
HENRY BARBER
Studio Sound
SCOTT TALBOTT
Stunt Arranger
TIP TIPPING
Theme Arrangement
KEFF MCCULLOCH
Title Music
RON GRAINER
Visual Effects
STUART BRISDON