PART FOUR
Written by Ben Aaronovitch
Original air date: 26th October, 1988
Run time: 24:36
School science lab
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!
School playground
Dalek: Advance. We must capture the Hand of Omega from renegade Dalek faction. Proceed to area two five zero six immediately.
School science lab
Gilmore: Right, out of here. Everybody downstairs.
Gilmore: Is that the mothership?
The Doctor: No, that's a shuttle. The mothership's much larger. Are you willing to cooperate with me now?
Gilmore: Do I have a choice?
The Doctor: Well, you could go down there and make a gloriously futile gesture, yes.
Gilmore: What do we do?
The Doctor: A little bit of piracy.
School corridor
Mike: Ace.
Ace: Go away.
Mike: Ace, I didn't know it was the Daleks. I was just doing Mister Ratcliffe a favour.
Ace: Do me a favour and drown yourself.
Mike: I thought it was the right thing. Mister Ratcliffe had such great plans. Ace, I never really wanted to hurt anybody. It's just you have to protect your own, keep the outsiders out just that your own people can have a fair chance.
Ace: I said shut up! You've betrayed the Doctor, you betrayed me. I trusted you. I even liked you, and all you...
Gilmore: Sergeant Smith.
Mike: Sir.
Gilmore: Attention! I'm placing you under close arrest under suspicion of offences contrary to the Official Secrets Act.
Mike: Yes, sir.
Street
Dalek: Scout seven reporting area two five zero nine clear.
Dalek: Retreat! Squad Delta under att*ck from renegade Daleks. Retreat!
Mothership
Dalek: Mothership bridge to shuttle force controller. Receiving your signal.
Emperor: We must recover the Hand of Omega without delay.
Dalek: Shuttle force has encountered heavy resistance from renegade Daleks.
Emperor: Order Special Weapons Dalek into position.
School science lab
Allison: Why are we doing this?
The Doctor: Elementary piracy, my dear Allison. Dalek shuttles have massive ground defences and an unguarded service hatch on top. Now once I'm down there, I'll attempt to open that hatch. Ace, you come after, then Gilmore, followed by Allison and Rachel. Any questions? No? Good.
Imperial shuttlecraft
Dalek: Emergency! Emergency! Unable to disengage from control position.
Dalek: Humans on the bridge.
The Doctor: I'm not human.
Dalek: You are the Doctor.
The Doctor: Yes.
Dalek: You are the enemy of the Daleks.
The Doctor: Correct.
Dalek: You must be exterminat...
The Doctor: Goodbye.
The Doctor: You can come down now!
School cellar
Corporal: Tea?
Mike: Yeah.
Corporal: Come on, Sarge.
Imperial shuttlecraft
Ace: What did you do to it?
The Doctor: I shorted it out. Daleks are such boring conversationalists.
Rachel: It's very functional.
The Doctor: Yes, they're not known for their aesthetic sense. Let's see what they were up to.
The Doctor: Ah, the planet Skaro. So, the Daleks are returning to their ancestral seat. I think we've seen enough. Time to leave. Er, get off the grill.
The Doctor: We'll go back through the playground.
Allison: What about the massive ground defences?
The Doctor: Oh, I've turned those off. Come on, jump.
Ratcliffe's yard
Dalek: Exterminate.
Dalek 2: Exterminate.
Mike: No, no, don't. Look, I have a message for Ratcliffe. Understand? A message for Mister Ratcliffe.
Dalek: You are my prisoner. You will obey all instructions or you will be exterminated.
Mike: You said it, mate.
School yard
The Doctor: I rigged the communications relay to the shuttle control system. We can monitor the Daleks on the transmat in the cellar.
Ace: You can't do that. You mashed up the transmat, remember?
The Doctor: I can do anything I like!
Ratcliffe's office
Black: Kneel!
Girl: Repairs on time controller almost complete.
Black: Good.
Ratcliffe: (quietly) Without that thing, they're stuck here. Someone in possession of that would have something to bargain with.
Mike: For what, our lives?
Ratcliffe: Nothing so mundane. If we get that, we can demand anything.
Mike: You never give up, do you.
School corridor
Allison: What happened?
Corporal: Sergeant Smith.
Rachel: Is he all right?
Allison: I've no idea, I'm a physicist.
The Doctor: He'll be fine. Rachel and Allison, I need your help.
Rachel: Sorry?
Allison: He said he needed our help.
Rachel: That's what I thought he said. Get your hands off his scalp and come on.
Gilmore: You all right, Corporal?
Corporal: Sir.
Gilmore: Come with me. We'll search the building.
Ratcliffe's yard
Girl: Time controller repaired and ready.
Girl: Departure imminent.
Black: Destroy human captives.
Mike: No!
Ratcliffe: No!
Ratcliffe: Now! Run!
Black: Recover the time controller.
School cellar
Rachel: When he said he needed our help, I had hoped it meant more in a technical area.
Allison: It was a vain hope.
The Doctor: Ah, you brought it then. Put it down there.
Rachel: Now, Doctor, will you please answer one question?
The Doctor: Yes?
Rachel: Why are two Dalek factions fighting each other.
The Doctor: Ace.
Ace: It's simple, isn't it. Renegade Daleks are blobs.
The Doctor: Blobs?
Ace: Imperial Daleks are bionic blobs with bits added. You can tell that Daleks are into racial purity. So, one lot of Daleks reckon the other lot of blobs are too different. They're mutants. Not pure in their blobbiness.
The Doctor: Result?
Ace: They hate each other's chromosomes. w*r to the death.
The Doctor: Well, er, Ace, let's go and see which blobs are winning.
Allison: Doctor, how do you do that?
The Doctor: Do what?
Allison: How do you just rewire a piece of alien machinery?
The Doctor: It's easy when you have nine hundred years experience.
Mothership
Dalek: Force leader has recovered the Hand of Omega.
Emperor: Excellent. Order all forces to make immediate withdrawal.
Outside Ratcliffe's yard
Ace: It's Mike.
The Doctor: He's got the time controller. Typical human. You can always count on them to mess things up. Get after him. Stay with him. See where he's going.
Ace: Right.
The Doctor: Oh, Ace.
Ace: What?
The Doctor: No heroics. I've got enough problems already.
Ace: Trust me.
Mothership
Emperor: Prepare to place the Hand of Omega into the control circuit.
Dalek: I obey.
School cellar
Allison: What are you going to do after all this is over?
Rachel: Retire to Cambridge and write my memoirs.
Gilmore (O.C.): Professor!
Rachel: Subject to security vetting, of course.
Gilmore: The shuttle seems to be leaving.
Allison: Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Street
Ace: Oh, wicked.
School cellar
Gilmore: Well, Doctor, are we out of the woods?
The Doctor: Provided everything goes according to my plan.
Rachel: Plan?
Allison: I, er, I don't suppose you could let us know what your plan is?
The Doctor: It's a surprise.
Rachel: Good. I love surprises.
Mothership
Dalek: Prepare for shuttle docking.
Emperor: Lock the Hand of Omega into the control circuit.
Dalek: Omega device is now locked in and running.
School cellar
The Doctor: How do I look? Don't answer. Do you mind? You're in my sh*t.
The Doctor: Hello, hello, hello? Dalek mothership, come in please. Come in, please.
The Doctor: Ah, there you are. This is the Doctor, President Elect of the High Council of Time Lords, Keeper of the legacy of Rassilon, Defender of the Laws of Time, Protector of Gallifrey. I call upon you to surrender the Hand of Omega and return to your customary time and place.
Mothership
Emperor: Ah, Doctor. You have changed again. Your appearance is as inconstant as your intelligence. You have confounded me for the last time!
The Doctor (on screen): Davros. I should have known. I see you've discarded the last vestige of your human form. Still no improvement.
Davros: Save your insults for the weak-minded, Doctor.
The Doctor (on screen): Will you return the Hand of Omega or not?
Davros: Are you threatening me? If so, it is most unwise.
The Doctor (on screen): Every time our paths have crossed, I have defeated you.
Davros: You flatter yourself, Doctor. In the end, you are merely another Time Lord.
School cellar
The Doctor: Oh, Davros, I am far more than just another Time Lord.
Boarding house - front room
Mike: Hello, Ace.
Ace: Would you really sh**t me?
Mike: If I had to.
Ace: You might have to.
Mothership
The Doctor (on screen): Davros, the Hand of Omega is not to be trifled with.
Davros: I think I am quite capable of handling the technology.
The Doctor (on screen): I sincerely doubt that.
Davros: Does it worry you, Doctor, that with it I will transform Skaro's sun into a source of unimaginable power? And with that power at my disposal, the Daleks shall sweep away Gallifrey and its impotent quorum of Time Lords!
School cellar
Davros (on screen): The Daleks shall become Lords of Time! We shall become all...
The Doctor: Powerful. Crush the lesser races. Conquer the galaxy. Unimaginable power. Unlimited rice pudding, et cetera, et cetera.
Davros (on screen): Do not anger me, Doctor. I can destroy you and this miserable, insignificant planet.
The Doctor: Oh, wonderful. What power, what brilliance. You can wipe out the odd civilisation, enslave the occasional culture, but it still won't detract from the basic fundamental truth of your own impotence!
Rachel: Careful, Doctor.
The Doctor: Don't worry, I know what I'm doing.
Mothership
Davros: I will teach you the folly of your words, Doctor. I will destroy you and demonstrate the power of the Daleks!
The Doctor (on screen): Davros, I beg of you, don't use the Hand.
Davros: Ah, Doctor, now you begin to fear.
The Doctor (on screen): You're making a grave mistake.
Davros: Activate the Omega device!
Dalek: Omega device activated.
Dalek 2: Plotting course to home planet Skaro.
Davros: Now the Daleks shall become the Lords of Time!
Dalek 2: Entering Skaro time zone. First stage expansion. Primary neutrino release.
Dalek: Core collapse instigated.
Dalek 2: Danger! Instability! Reaction out of control.
Davros: No, this cannot be correct!
Dalek: Home planet Skaro about to vapourise.
Davros: You have tricked me!
The Doctor (on screen): No, Davros. You tricked yourself.
Dalek 2: Omega device returning.
Dalek: Impact minus twenty five.
The Doctor (on screen): Do you think I would let you have control of the Hand of Omega?
Davros: Do not do this, I beg of you.
The Doctor (on screen): Nothing can stop it now.
Davros: Have pity on me.
The Doctor (on screen): I have pity for you.
Dalek: Fifteen.
The Doctor (on screen): Goodbye, Davros. It hasn't been pleasant.
Dalek: Emperor abandoning bridge.
Dalek 2: Eight, seven...
Dalek: Emperor activating escape pod.
Dalek 2: Four, three...
Dalek: Escape pod leaving mothership.
Dalek 2: Two, one.
School cellar
Rachel: What happened?
The Doctor: I programmed the Hand of Omega to fly into Skaro's sun and turn it supernova.
Gilmore: Super what?
Allison: He blew it up.
The Doctor: The resulting expl*si*n destroyed Skaro, and the feedback destroyed the mothership. The Hand of Omega is now returning to Gallifrey.
Boarding house - front room
Mike: You stay there.
Ace: It might be the Doctor. Put the g*n down, Mike. It's too late for that. Come on, Mike, who are you going to sh**t with it, anyway?
Mike: Just stay there.
Outside Ratcliffe's yard
Gilmore: This is the last Dalek left. I'll call for reinforcements.
The Doctor: Not this time. I started this.
The Doctor: Dalek, you have been defeated. Surrender. You have failed.
Black: Insufficient data.
The Doctor: Your forces are destroyed. Your home planet a burnt cinder circling a dead sun.
Black: There is no data.
The Doctor: Even Davros, your creator, is dead.
The Doctor: You have no superiors, no inferiors, no reinforcement, no hope, no rescue.
Black: You are lying. There is insufficient data.
The Doctor: You're trapped a trillion miles and a thousand years from a disintegrated home.
Black: Out of control!
The Doctor: I have defeated you. You no longer serve any purpose.
Black: Cannot compute. Unstable.
Black: Unstable.
Boarding house - front room
Ace: It's all right. Don't worry. It's all over now.
Outside Ratcliffe's yard
The Doctor: Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Cemetery
The Doctor: Time to leave.
Ace: Yes. Doctor?
The Doctor: Yes?
Ace: We did good, didn't we?
The Doctor: Perhaps. Time will tell. It always does.
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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