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THE DOOMSDAY CAUSE

By Richard H. Wilden.


EPISODE SIX:

The Doctor

Kerri

Paskin

Prof. Ruscoe

Mr Phillips

Dr. Harker

Lt. Sorcha

Cybermen

INTERIOR. ARCADIA.

Paskin: He’s a traitor. They both are!

Phillips: This is war, we have to carry out protocols.

Ruscoe: What are you saying? You can’t do this?

Paskin: Can’t we? Do you want to join them? No? Then stand aside- this is war!

Phillips: Take no prisoners. As senior official I sentence you both to death!
Stand back. At my order Paskin!

Paskin: Right!

Phillips: At the count of three. One… Two… Three!

Ruscoe: Stop!

Phillips: Hold you fire. Get out of the way you old fool!

Ruscoe: You can’t condone this execution? It’s inhumane! You can’t shoot them on the spot!

Phillips: And why not? They have sabotaged this station, inside and out, cut off and vulnerable!

Ruscoe: Well we imprison them then?

Dr. Harker: And where do you suggest we put them?

Ruscoe: Well perhaps a cabin then?

Paskin: But if they escape?

Ruscoe: Well we’ll have to keep watching them.

Phillips: No, it’s better to keep them in confinement. If they attacked Sorcha then you or even you could be next!

Dr. Harker: Sound decision. It looks like I unfortunately agree with Barclay here. You can lock him in my cabin; it’s the closest!

Paskin: Fine. Come along you two, move it!

The Doctor: Please could someone give me a hand with Kerri? She’s still a bit sleepy.

Ruscoe: Very well, but no tricks.

Paskin: Don’t worry Ruscoe I’ve got him well covered!

The Doctor: Where do I go?

Ruscoe: This way, over here.

The Doctor: Please. It’s vital you listen to me? Your very lives may depend upon it!

Paskin: Quiet!

The Doctor: Professor Ruscoe, please listen to me? What I tell you now is the truth!

Ruscoe: We know the truth, you sabotaged the base.

The Doctor: Why would I? I’ve only just arrived here.

Paskin: Quiet you, Ruscoe get the door open.

Ruscoe: Do not think you can boss me around Paskin!

{The door slides open.}

Ruscoe: In you go? Easy does it.

Dr. Harker: Wait! Shouldn’t you search him?

Paskin: Yes, all right raise your hands, Harker take this gun. If he tries anything, shoot him!

The Doctor: I wouldn’t dream of it old chap. However you may be surprised at what you find?

Paskin: I’ll be the judge of that! What have we got here? What are these things?

The Doctor: Oh, that’s a catapult, a bag of marbles, two green pears, a mirror, a GPS and a… hello? What do we have here?

Paskin: An orb, is that supposed to be a bomb of some sort?

The Doctor: No! I mean no I don’t think so? Never seen it before?

Paskin: Heard that one before, I’ll keep hold that. He’s got no weapons on him, people? Funny kind of saboteur we got here?

The Doctor: I’m not a saboteur, please?

Phillips: Lock him up securely, we don’t want him escaping and causing further bouts of damage.

The Doctor: No wait, please wait? Ruscoe, just one question?

Ruscoe: Very well but be quick about it!

The Doctor: Thank you. This communications breakdown, how long has it lasted?

Ruscoe: Thirteen hours. Good bye Doctor.

The Doctor: No wait, please? One more minute, please?

Ruscoe: Well?

The Doctor: I could only have sabotaged the antennae if I knew pass code. Barclay told me it, less than a ten minutes ago. Therefore logically: I couldn’t have sabotaged the antennae.

Ruscoe: Yes and if you had been here we would have seen or heard you?
But what about your friend here?

The Doctor: Look at her. No one told her the code; she is not faking this. She is sleeping but not naturally. She’s been given a series of light instructions to fall asleep.
And knowing what your relationship with Phillips is… Is he known for good streak?

Phillips: That’s enough! Close the door!

The Doctor: Professor! Professor your problem is: 300% efficient * 48 circuits+54 Microns equals your answer!

{The door slides closed.}

Dr. Harker: What was all that about?

Ruscoe: What? Oh he was just rambling.

Phillips: Paskin, what are you going to do now?

Paskin: Try to get Max fixed and fully operational, with his sensors I’ll be able to find the firearms that our guests have taken.

Phillips: You think you should risk it? The storms could be increasing all the time perhaps even to a dangerous limit.

Paskin: Thanks for your considerations Phillips but it’s my neck!

{He leaves for the lift in the background he types in the pass code and enters the lift.}

Dr. Harker: Well I can’t hang around here! I have important work to fulfil. Get out of my way!

Phillips: Careful my dear Helen. Let us hope nothing further will delay our work.

Dr. Harker: And how are you going to proceed with your work after we cut the cable?

Phillips: You forget my dear Helen I possess back up power lines in case of such an incident to occur. My work will continue unhindered and should you feel to disrupt my work I will tell you they are secure within my laboratory away from any accessible maintenance grid.

Dr. Harker: No matter I am almost finished therefore your experiments will interfere with mine.

Phillips: I am much relived by this. See you later Helen, Ruscoe are you all right?

Ruscoe: What?

Phillips: Standing outside the cell. Come on, your work is waiting for you!

Ruscoe: If three hundred…. By the height of the…. Multiplied by square root of 54 metrons would equal the balance… yes. Yes! It might work, yes! Excuse me Barclay I have much to do! Yes!

{He runs off down the corridor.}

Phillips: For all the good it will do you. All of you!

CUT TO:

{Cyber-Base. Freighter.}

Cyberman: All forces now assembled Commander.

Cyber Com: Divisions One to three will utilise the skimmers and join Division Five at the Human research station.

Cyberman: Yes Commander.

{There is a sudden blip from a console}

Cyber Com: Report?

Cyberman: Division Five are reporting to control.

Cyber Com: Activate network.

{The screen hums with interference then another Cyber-voice speaks.}

Cyberleader: This is Cyberleader Xact to control. We have the station in visual range. Await further instruction?

Cyber Com: Report status on research station?

Cyberleader: Our sensors indicate that the humans are located one hundred point six metres below the surface. Our scans detect no weapon signatures or defensive capabilities.

Cyber Com: Excellent. According to the human there are seven humanoids. They are defenceless and suitable for conversion.

Cyberleader: Understood. Additional, we have visual contact with a cuboid object located ten metres from the station.

Cyber Com: It is the TARDIS you must contain it immediately! Begin drilling immediate.

Cyberleader: Understood. Prediction: We will enter the base within forty minutes.

Cyber Com: Secure the humans, the Doctor is among them. He will attempt to interfere, restrain him.

Cyberleader: Yes Commander.

{The screen powers down.}

Cyber Com: Contact the Cyber Co-ordinator aboard the warcraft.

Cyberman: Yes Commander.

{He keys in the co-ordinates and soon the communicator clicks on.
Displaying an image of a strange mechanism, which hums with an eerie electronic pulse.
In an even deeper monotone voice speaks the Co-ordinator.}

Co-ordinator: Make your report.

Cyber Com: We are beginning the invasion of the research station. The remaining humanoids have undergone cyber-conversion. The Doctor is involved.

Co-ordinator: What action have you taken?

Cyber Com: We have captured the Doctor’s TARDIS, he is within the research station, he is defenceless and will be captured within forty minutes.

Co-ordinator: You will order the Doctor to pilot the TARDIS to Telos and induce interrogation supervised by the Cyber Controller.

Cyber Com: Understood.

Co-ordinator: The reports suggest that these devices are aimed at the war weapons. You will assimilate the data of these weapons, which will be used to aid the Cyber Race. Discussion terminated.

Cyber Com: Understood.

{The image vanishes.}

Cyber Com: Continue the drilling process. Any further reports from the human?

Cyberman: None Commander.

Cyber Com: I will go the research station, you will remain here and monitor the systems.

Cyberman: Yes Commander.

CUT TO:
Arcadia. Interior. Ruscoe’s Laboratory.

{The doors slide open and in rushes Ruscoe.
Immediately there are very excited blips and bleeps.}

Ruscoe: Yes, it’s me! No one else. Now quiet I must concentrate! Just tear off this sheet of paper, pencil, pencil ah here we are!
Now then three hundred times the…. Of the root of forty-eight by the decimal place of fifty-four would create the formula to… by the range of the power! Yes that’s the answer!
Oh my beauties! Oh how I love you!

{He kisses and hugs the containment grid.}

The Doctor! Of course but first must check with Phillips?

{The door behind him opens.}

Phillips: Looking for me Ruscoe?

Ruscoe: Yes, I have good news. With these new calculations I now have the power to build my control device.

Phillips: Really, congratulations! How did you come by them?

Ruscoe: The… I just worked it out with a bit help from my friends here. On another note Doctor. That mad man- the Doctor is it true he threatened you?

Phillips: Twice. In my opinion he must be shot!

Ruscoe: Why? What’s he ever done to you?

Phillips: He threatened me! Sabotaged this base, attacked Sorcha! These are enough reasons I think?

Ruscoe: How did he get roof access? As you know the code changes hourly.

Phillips: He threatened me. Remember?

Ruscoe: How did he do this? He had no weapons on him?

Phillips: He was going to strangle me, so I told him the code.

Ruscoe: But why would he go up there? If the problems have been going on for sometime than him going up the ladder is purely a coincidence?

Phillips: Yes I see what you mean? But he still attacked Sorcha!

Ruscoe: That man? I can’t see it, eccentric perhaps not dangerous?

Phillips: Are you calling me a liar?

Ruscoe: No, confused yes.

Phillips: Of all the infuriating…

{He leaves the room quickly.}

Ruscoe: How very strange? He’s afraid of something? I must tell the Doctor.

{He slowly leaves the room and walks down the corridor.
Stopping outside the room he presses a series of buttons and the door is released.}

The Doctor: Thank Goodness! It was becoming a little cramped in there?

Ruscoe: Doctor I must speak with you.

The Doctor: Of course. Come on Kerri?

Ruscoe: She is feeling better.

The Doctor: Oh a lot better. The influence has worn off her but we have other problems. Quickly we must get to the control centre.

Ruscoe: Doctor, it’s about Phillips, I think I scared him?

The Doctor: Good. That’s definitely put the cat among the pigeons!

Kerri: Doctor, what do you mean?

The Doctor: He’d planned this all out! Now that we’re free he’s bound to act unwisely, thereby granting us an advantage.

Ruscoe: What do you mean act unwisely?

The Doctor: If we didn’t remove those weapons someone else did!

Ruscoe: You mean Phillips? But why? And the aerial cables?

The Doctor: It all starts to come back to me, regeneration after regeneration and it gets quite cluttered up there but I’m getting the hang of it now. Come on, this way to the control centre.

Ruscoe: It’s this way Doctor.

The Doctor: Thank you. Come on then. No dilly-dallying!

CUT TO:
Interior. Medical Bay.

{Sorcha is still lying on the bed in a trance-like sleep.
As Phillips enters he turns and locks the door. The bolts hiss closed.}

Phillips: So Doctor, you have escaped my trap? Now you are free to work your way, to bring down my plans as easily as knocking the central pillar. But no my destiny will not be interrupted! This will have to call for drastic action!
Sorcha awake!

{Sorcha stirs slowly.}

Phillips: Listen to me Sorcha, listen to me? There is a problem in the base, Two intruders, traitors, spies have incited the others to mutiny, do you understand?

Sorcha: Mutiny, yes mutiny.

Phillips: It is our right to re-take control of the situation.

Sorcha: Re-take control?

Phillips: Yes, to gather them together before the others arrive. The Doctor will do that therefore you Sorcha will arrest them all, keep them well trained, you are after all the security officer here.

Sorcha: Yes must crush the mutiny!

Phillips: Easy my dear Sorcha. One more thing, you will obey only me, anyone at all who attempts to stop you, kill them. You understand, nod your acceptance.
Thank you. {He clicks his fingers.} Now get up! {She slides off the bed.} Take this gun. You understand your instructions? {He unlocks the door.} Very well, proceed!
And now for humanity’s destiny.

{He walks out of the room.}

CUT TO:
Interior. Control Bay.

Kerri: So this is the control centre? Small isn’t it?

Ruscoe: What we make up for in size we make better service. Paskin is the real expert here.

Kerri: Where is everyone else?

Ruscoe: This is it. We’re a small group unit. Paskin is the engineer and helper, Myself, Harker and Phillips are the scientists, Sorcha is the security and Max is the dogs’ body.

The Doctor: Small and convenient. Now then perhaps I can make head or tale of these controls?

Ruscoe: He’s an engineer? I thought you were a scientist?

The Doctor: Oh I dabble here and there! No wonder they’re not working, someone’s accessed the maintenance panels beneath. Excuse me, just carry on talking, I’ll pick up the conversation at some point?

Kerri: But why are you here? What are you doing here?

Ruscoe: We’re a specialist team. Isolated to ensure our work continues quicker without interruption.

Kerri: What work?

Ruscoe: For the war effort of course. Our work will finally put an end to our enemies the Krells!

Kerri: Who are they?

Ruscoe: You’re joking surely?

The Doctor: Emily and I have been out of circulation for some time.

Ruscoe: Where? On the outer limits?

The Doctor: Something like that? Kerri, the Krells are a monstrous group of bipedal, reptilian beings. They are savage in nature and warrior like dressing in tight, heavy armour, impervious to most weapons. Their domain or rather hunting ground is expanding to challenge the Empire.

Ruscoe: That’s it! You seem to know a great deal about a war you claim you know nothing about?

The Doctor: Yes well, Emily has been away on another colony, I heard from others about it, last time I heard Earth was doing rather well.

Ruscoe: Are you joking also Doctor, the war hasn’t seen any sign of peace since the four-dawn break.

The Doctor: I believe that was it?

Ruscoe: Well they attacked without warning so the Empire attacked the home world with Delta Five, a mistake we still regret to this day! Many died but they brought in their allies the Grakites and we were greatly forced back.
Our team was created to halt their advance! With a major military base stationed far from here and remote satellite weapons.

The Doctor: There that should just about do it? Only one way to find out?

Kerri: What have you done?

The Doctor: I hope I’ve fixed the outside scanners?

{The instrument bank comes to life with a low reverberating hum.}

Kerri: Well?

The Doctor: I’ve only got a small outside camera working, with all the mess down here I’m surprised I even got that working?

Ruscoe: Doctor, what’s that?

The Doctor: What? Blast this screen I can’t get a clear picture. Hang on, let me just have another go at these circuits?

Kerri: Yes on the screen, looks like movement?

The Doctor: Hold on? Just connect this large cable to this port and…

{The bank glows and all the screens come to life.}

Kerri: Doctor, you’ve done it!

Ruscoe: All the cameras are working now and with no interference too.

The Doctor: Ah, much better.

Ruscoe: There on the screen!

Kerri: Yes I see them too and that one as well.

Ruscoe: They look like men?

The Doctor: Oh no!

Ruscoe: What are they?

The Doctor: Trouble!

{Just then the door opens and Paskin enters.}

Paskin: What the devil? Get back!

Ruscoe: Paskin drop that gun.

Paskin: Ruscoe they are traitors! Get away from them!

Ruscoe: It’s all right. They’re harmless, we have been deceived Paskin! Framing these two to cover his tracks!

Paskin: What are you saying?

Ruscoe: These people aren’t the saboteurs, Phillips is!

Paskin: What?

Kerri: It’s true! He hypnotised me and framed the Doctor!

Paskin: What?

The Doctor: I’m afraid Phillips is the least of our problems.

Paskin: What do you mean?

The Doctor: Look.

Kerri: They look like Cybermen?

The Doctor: They are. It must be another invasion force; they’re purpose I should imagine is to get inside this base.

Paskin: Another invasion? What these Cybermen, are they robots of some kind?

Ruscoe: No far worse. I don’t understand Doctor I thought they were all extinct?

The Doctor: Apparently not it seems. They seem to be trying to get in?

Paskin: They can’t. The lift can be controlled from here, allow me.

{He presses a control. There is a deep grating as the control closes over.}

Paskin: There, the lift is immobilised.

The Doctor: I’m afraid that won’t keep them out!

Paskin: Are they really that dangerous?

Ruscoe: More than you can possible imagine!

Paskin: We haven’t got any weapons either?

The Doctor: Phillips would have dealt with those! That robot of yours I imagine had weaponry and sensors. It would have detected the Cybermen approaching!

Kerri: Then what do we do?

The Doctor: Get everyone into the safest part of the base, where would that be?

Ruscoe: Barclay’s Laboratory, it’s the lowest room in the base.

The Doctor: Right, get everyone there as soon as you can! Kerri that means you too, Professor will you look after her?

Ruscoe: Of course Doctor.

Kerri: But Doctor please?

The Doctor: Kerri go with him!

{They leave.}

Paskin: What can we do Doctor?

The Doctor: Well what defences does this place have?

Paskin: The Firearms and a deflection shield except it doesn’t work.

The Doctor: In other words nothing. No matter, you have that side arm now try and get to that laboratory.

Paskin: Wait a moment? Phillips would only have hidden the guns surely? We have no real method of destroying any materials.

The Doctor: All right, we’ll conduct a search but we must go to that laboratory immediately after. Come on!

CUT TO:
Interior. Corridor.

{Ruscoe is helping Kerri.}

Ruscoe: This way. Tell me Emily is the Doctor always right about everything?

Kerri: Virtually always, I always hope that one day he isn’t.

Ruscoe: Great! Now we turn left. Here’s the service lift down to the next level.

Kerri: What’s wrong?

Ruscoe: The code bar… it’s deactivated.

Kerri: We can’t use the lift?

Ruscoe: Not without release from the main locking control.

Kerri: And where’s that?

Ruscoe: The control bay.

Kerri: Great! Well let’s get over there!

{Phillips suddenly appears behind them.}

Phillips: I’m afraid you two are going nowhere.

Ruscoe: Phillips what are you doing? The Cybermen will be here soon!

Kerri: I think he’s the one who signalled them here, what now? Lock us up and open the drawbridge?

Phillips: How very astute of you Miss Kerri? A shame that you did not work it out soon enough!
Sorcha keep them well covered.

{Sorcha appears zombie-like holding the carbine aimed at both of them.}

Ruscoe: What is going on?

Phillips: Poor pathetic Ruscoe! Life is what is going on. All around you but for me, for my people and I will not be deprived a second time of their fate! You two are going to help me as Sorcha is!

Ruscoe: What have you done to her?

Phillips: Like to know wouldn’t you? Well then listen and I will tell you all! Listen to me, there is nothing to be frightened about, you trust me Professor, I am your colleague, Mr Phillips.

Kerri: No! Professor, don’t listen to him! Hum, concentrate on my voice; just don’t listen to him!

Phillips: Ah hah, so you have learnt to better yourself?

Ruscoe: Why have you turned off the lift power?

Phillips: To stop you pathetic humans wriggling away like the maggots that you are!

Kerri: Maggots? You monster! You’ve killed us all, that’s what you’ve done.

Phillips: How awfully pleasant and polite, you once were. You think you’re going to die? No, I require an audience, since I am the speaker the entertainment has yet to arrive so I shall have to take care of that.

Ruscoe: Phillips, why are you doing this?

Phillips: Simply because I have to, I have lost so many good people, the result of the Doctor’s interference in my affairs and I will not allow this time to fall into his control.

Kerri: He’s mad Professor! He’s lost it, he’s lying. The Doctor would never harm anyone!

Phillips: Choose your words carefully girl or Sorcha might just unleash a few rounds and that would be such a waste? Your problem girl, is that you take in every word that he speaks but he lies as easily as we breathe. Your Doctor has cost me greatly and this time I will triumph!
Sorcha, bring them.

Ruscoe: Where are we going?

Phillips: To await your betters. Please take your seats in the de-briefing room, the cabaret will arrive shortly!

Kerri: What do you hope to gain from this?

Phillips: I’ve all ready told you that part, my people will be returned to me and your race will finally pay for their crime.

Kerri: So they’re dead? Has anyone ever told you that the dead stay dead, you can’t bring them back no matter how hard you try?

Phillips: You seem to know so much for someone so young? I on the other hand know better, my people will be restored to me and I will be content with that.

Kerri: You do realise that those Cybermen are going to tear this place apart? You’re as doomed as we are!

Phillips: You really have no idea, do you? I am not human; I alone orchestrated this entire stratagem! From the moments of Barclay’s departure, this invasion force, the buyers all ready for this glorified auction. All loose ends tied up, cut communication, dispose of all weapons and wait patiently.

Ruscoe: What? You were responsible for all the problems we have had?

Phillips: Correct Ruscoe. Everything to ensure these final moments! And then as luck would have it you and the accursed Doctor turn up in the TARDIS.

Ruscoe: Tardis? What is this Tardis?

Kerri: Our Time and space ship.

Phillips: We’re here now, please enter and wait. We apologise for the discomfort you’re feeling but pretty soon you shall feel nothing more.

Ruscoe: The de-briefing hall?

Phillips: According to correct calculations, this is where it begins and the Doctor is nowhere to be seen, always late for the party.

Kerri: You know the Doctor don’t you?

Phillips: Oh dear, he honestly hasn’t told you about me has he? Always one step behind but it seems this time, many!

Ruscoe: Why are the Cybermen here? Why did you bring them here?

Phillips: I required help to ensure that no one would interfere. The base’s personnel have become Cybermen therefore they have been taken care of. And with your weapons the Cybermen will ultimately become the superior power in this galaxy and it’s all thanks to my work!

Kerri: All this death, destruction. All of this for a crummy experiment?

Phillips: Crummy? Oh no my dear Miss Kerri, all this for me and my people the Vrellans. Humanity’s error was crushing them from existence but now nineteen years before the great desolation I will be supreme and stop humanity once and for all!

Ruscoe: What kind of a scientist are you?

Kerri: One with a death wish; that’s for certain!

Phillips: Quite the opposite, inside both of you! Utilising Barclay’s technology and my own knowledge I have been able to complete my purpose and my world will be re-born and the Doctor will be delivered into the custody of the Cybermen, and to think I couldn’t have done it without a human’s help?

CUT TO:
Interior. Control Bay.

{The Doctor is busy working on the systems. Just then the intercom bleeps on.}

The Doctor: Yes?

Paskin: Paskin here Doctor. I’ve searched nearly all the stores; there’s no sign of the weapons. How’s it coming up there?

The Doctor: Well I’ve fixed as many systems as possible. Phillips’ done a good job down here. In fact I’ll have a rather primitive scanner set up in a jiffy?

Paskin: Well you better hurry it up Doctor?

The Doctor: I’m going as fast I can, this isn’t a rush job.

Paskin: Ruscoe must have got everyone to shelter, I can’t find anyone around here.

The Doctor: Well soon enough I’ll be able to tell you exactly where everyone is. Hang on a mo? One slight tweak here and there and there we have it!

{There is a small explosion.}

Maybe not? Where did I go wrong? You remind me of the TARDIS. You’re both very stubborn!

{He hits the instrument bank hard with his fist, instantly the bank comes to life again spewing out new power.}

Paskin: What’s going on up there?

The Doctor: Slight problem but it’s working well now!

{There is a sudden alarm.}

Paskin: What’s that noise?

The Doctor: Well it’s the internal sensor warning? And I’ve found everyone.

Paskin: They all got to the shelter than?

The Doctor: No. I’ve the weapons though; they’re down in his laboratory the others aren’t?

Paskin: Well where are they then? Am I close by?

The Doctor: You’re not far off, at least four of them seem to be within a large room three corridors to your left?

Paskin: That sounds like the de-briefing room? What could they possibly want in there?

The Doctor: I don’t know. Hello? No wonder they couldn’t gain entrance to the lower levels, the master control to the second lift has been shut down. This should rectify the problem?
{The handle clicks on.}
The lift can now be accessed perhaps you better head over there and tell them?

Paskin: Right, over and out Doctor.

{The link closes.}

The Doctor: Now then, lets see what’s on the external cameras? What are those Cybermen up to?
That’s odd? They seem to have gone? This isn’t like them at all and that’s starting to worry me!

CUT TO:
Interior. Laboratory.

{The room is noisy with machinery. A long wind tunnel block with a strange engine being tested.
Along side there is a small bock where Doctor Harker is working carefully.}

Harker: Good, good. All readings indicate no defects. Performance: Brilliant, say eighty percent successful.
Resistance to temperature- fair, streamlining could be improved upon?
There is no overall sign of leakage from the probe? Good!

{The hum of power stutters.}

Harker: That’s odd? The lights are fading? The power’s dropping. Power drain? Phillips!
Computer, shut down experiments 2 to 5 to conserve power.

Computer: Confirmed.

{The power pitch drops completely until there is silence.}

Harker: Watch out Phillips, here I come!

CUT TO:
Interior. De-briefing room.

Kerri: Crime? What crime is this?

Phillips: The annihilation of my people, the Vrellans from recorded history. My wife and my family and friends wiped out by your race! I have tried time and time again to bring them back but always have I failed due to the meddling machinations of the Doctor!

Ruscoe: Your race? Humanity wiped out your race? When? How?

Phillips: In the next nineteen years your race will launch an unprovoked attack upon my people, my innocent people, they will murder everyone and steal their culture, their technology and leave my world dead. I will bring them back!

Kerri: Spoken like a true nutcase. You’d cause a paradox and then what?

Phillips: So you do hold an intelligence beneath that fiery manner? No, Vrellans are different thankfully, to humans. We are more closely linked to the Eternals, to beings who commune with time itself, we do not need time machines, we regenerate our bodies. We are immeasurably superior to you!

Kerri: Oh so if you’re so high and mighty why the Cybermen?

Phillips: When this deed is done and my world lives again I have found a fitting end or a beginning for the human race, new direction for your pathetic race to go. Cybermen can have you all, a new future awaits.
They are relentless, unstoppable and totally superior! Anyone who opposes them will be converted and serve their race forever!

Ruscoe: How did you find them? If memory serves, they were wiped out in the Vogan wars?

Phillips: Barclay found them, lying in the depth of space. Without purpose far from their home planet, he offered them a proposal merely to come to this world to eradicate them all; I merely altered the deal’s outcome. Now the Cybermen will truly receive what they want- complete control of humanity’s future, humanity is finished, roll on Cybermanity!

Ruscoe: You monster! You would go that far? You are inhuman!

Phillips: But that is exactly what I am. A superior being not like you, foolish creature! But now the Doctor is loose and things are not going as I wish?

Kerri: My heart bleeds for you.

Phillips: Oh it will my dear, as will the rest of your pathetic carcass when you undergo alteration. The Doctor however is the added bonus! My ‘allies’ are old acquaintances of him I understand and his capture is worth a lifetime of knowledge to their leaders.
He will be interrogated until his mind is exhausted and his body host for a new Cyberman, possibly a new Controller?
You see I have made counter plans for every such an occasion! This time I will not fail!

Ruscoe: But why are you condemning us? We haven’t done anything…?

Phillips: Enough questions! Time is almost up for all of you! I must go now, Sorcha keep them well covered.

Ruscoe: Running away Mr Phillips?

Phillips: On the contrary Professor, I have greater things at stake: I must prepare the equipment for all system checks then, the end of days is certain!

Kerri: We’ll see about that Mr Phillips.

Phillips: We shall probably not meet again. If they attempt to escape, kill them Sorcha!

{He leaves slowly.}

Ruscoe: What do we do now?

Kerri: Leave this to me. Hey Sorcha? Can I please…?

Sorcha: Get back, raise your hands and remain silent!

Ruscoe: That worked well.

Kerri: Okay, okay well you think of something?

Ruscoe: What if we rush her together?

Kerri: But with what? That gun she’s carrying is aimed right at us and we’ve got no cover here nor anything to defend ourselves.

Ruscoe: What we need is a diversion?

Kerri: Oh right, hold on a sec I think I’ve got one right here in my pocket!

Ruscoe: There’s no need for sarcasm Kerri?

Kerri: Then what do you suggest we do? Sit here like a lemon until the Cybermen turn up?

{Meanwhile outside the hall Paskin is creeping along slowly, cautiously! Then someone leaves quickly he backs away as Phillips passes by.}

Paskin: There goes Phillips, I wonder where he’s going? Then if he’s in there, who else is?

{The door slides back slowly.}

Paskin: Hello? Anyone in there?

Kerri: What do we do now?

Ruscoe: We must warn him, he doesn’t know about Sorcha?

Paskin: Anyone there?

Ruscoe: Paskin! Whatever you do don’t move!

Paskin: What’s the matter? Who’s in there with you?

Kerri: Sorcha and she’s packing heat too!

Paskin: Can’t you get away from her?

Ruscoe: If we move she’ll kill us!

Paskin: Sorcha, it’s me Paskin?

Kerri: She didn’t even flinch?

Ruscoe: Then she’s not programmed to attack him! Paskin! Sorcha is being controlled by Phillips; she has orders to kill us if we move!

Paskin: Controlled?

Ruscoe: Hypnotised, influenced? Call it what you will? She has orders against us not you!

Kerri: You mean she won’t hurt him?

Ruscoe: It’s a theory.

Paskin: All right I’m coming in.

{He enters the room slowly.}

Kerri: She’s not taking any notice of him.

Ruscoe: Let’s just hope she doesn’t start to?

Paskin: Right, when I give you the signal grab her gun!

Ruscoe: Easy, bit closer?

Paskin: Now!

{He grabs her.}

Sorcha: Desist immediately! Desist!

Paskin: Come on, I can’t hold her on my own?

Ruscoe: Just take this gun, thank you my dear. She’s struggling still!

Paskin: We’ll have to knock her out, it’ll keep her quiet!

Ruscoe: But she can’t help it! I won’t hit a lady. It’s beyond everything I stand for.

Kerri: Well allow me?

{She punches Sorcha knocking her out cold.}

Ruscoe: Whoa, you punch pretty well?

Paskin: I’d hate to end up in a fight with you? Look, we’ve got most of the system operational and we know where the guns are!

Ruscoe: Good. What about the Cybermen?

Paskin: We don’t know? The Doctor’s up in the control bay. Where’d that snake Phillips go?

Ruscoe: To his laboratory presumably? He said he had work to do?

Paskin: Great! That’s where the guns are stacked! Wait till I get him!

Kerri: Mr Paskin, have you got a communicator on you?

Paskin: Yes, it’s here.

Kerri: It’s important I reach the Doctor with it!

Paskin: Sure, Professor can you help me with Sorcha?

Ruscoe: Of course. I’ll take the legs, you the arms, that table over there, should be comfortable enough?

{Kerri dials the communicator.}

The Doctor: Yes Paskin?

Kerri: No it’s Kerri, Doctor.

The Doctor: Kerri. Are you all right?

Kerri: Fine, look I’ve got something important to tell you. That Phillips guy, he’s lost it! Completely around the bend! He was holding us prisoner by Sorcha! He was controlling her mind!

The Doctor: Go on?

Kerri: Doctor, he knew about the TARDIS and you! He’s says humanity killed his race, is that true?

The Doctor: Phillips? Ah hah, I remember it all now. Yes I’m very much afraid it is true, he’s a desperate fellow playing a misguided game and he’s up to his eyeballs with the Cybermen. Where is he now?

Kerri: He said he had work to do. We think he’s gone back to his laboratory?

The Doctor: Thank you Kerri. Is Paskin there?

Kerri: Yes. Do you want to speak to him?

The Doctor: Yes put him through.

{Meanwhile not far away the Cybermen have completed their drilling.}

Cyber Com: Report?

Cyberman: Our drills have stopped at five feet from the base.

Cyber Com: You two set the charges on the rock face.

Cybermen: Yes Commander.

{They take the bleeping charges and press them close to the rock face, causing dust to pour on to them.}

Cyberman: Charges are set Commander.

Cyber Com: Prime them.

{Immediately there is a steady, deep resonating hum.}

Cyberman: Commander, our sensors indicate that four humanoids will be close to blast impact?

Cyber Com: That does not matter. Prepare to detonate!

CUT TO:
Exterior. De-briefing room.

{Phillips, sometime later arrives back, just in time to spy Harker coming towards him.}

Harker: There you are you miscreant, stupid, pompous, half-wit! You’ve meddled with my life for long enough.

Phillips: I’m pleased to see you too Doctor Harker.

Harker: Don’t you dare think you can sweet mouth me Mister Phillips!

Phillips: ‘Stupid, pompous half-wit’? I’m afraid you me confused with some other miscreant?

Harker: You don’t quit do you? Think you’re so superior strutting around everywhere! Next minute you’re insulting people and acting like a…

Phillips: Like a what, Doctor Harker?

Harker: Like… like a total head-case, who should have been locked up ages ago!

{He chuckles evilly.}

Harker: Find something funny do you, loony?

Phillips: I can firmly see why Barclay always hated you. You stupid, foolish old trout! Get out of my way or you will die! Oh well?

{He grabs her savagely forcing her back towards the de-briefing room but she struggles so!}

Harker: Get your hands off me! I shall scream!

Phillips: Take care for this gun, you useless creature!

Harker: Help? Help?

{The door to the de-briefing hall opens.}

Paskin: What’s going on here? Phillips leave Harker alone!

Phillips: Paskin? I see that Sorcha has failed me but don’t you move or I will break the woman’s neck!

Ruscoe: Oh no, not you again!

Phillips: Professor Ruscoe, you there at the back, foolish girl please come here?

Kerri: No… I will not!

{Over the radio the Doctor is trying to help.}

The Doctor: Kerri don’t you listen to him! Don’t even look at him instead concentrate on my voice. Kerri fight him! Fight him! You have inner strength! You aren’t weak you’re strong! Fight him!

Phillips: You there Ruscoe, please bring her to me?

Ruscoe: Yes Phillips… I… You don’t control me… I shall not!

Phillips: Oh well, never mind. The time has come has finally come.

Paskin: What do you mean? What time?

Phillips: Here Paskin, take your precious friend!
{He tosses Paskin Harker.}
Now get back all of you! Destiny comes, prepare yourselves, for these will be the last moments of your lives!

{On the radio there is a louder alarm, which klaxons all throughout the base.}

The Doctor: Oh no! Kerri, get everyone out of that section now!

Kerri: We can’t Phillips has got a gun!

The Doctor: If you don’t get out of there you’re all be finished!

{In the tunnel. Chaos erupts!}

Cyber Com: Detonate!

{There is a large explosion! Knocking people to the floor. In the Control bay the Doctor is knocked to the floor.
As the sound dies down all can be heard is Phillips’ mocking}

Phillips: Welcome to my humble abode, Gentlemen.

{Then as loose rock clatters to the ground, the Cybermen enter the base. Their metallic footsteps echoing off all the walls.}

Ruscoe: No, it’s too late! They’re in!

Paskin: God! They’re huge!

Harker: What are these things?

Phillips: Your betters. Come freely go safely and leave behind some of the happiness you bring!

Kerri: Doctor? Doctor?

{There is nothing but static.}

Kerri: Doctor?

{The Cybermen in the meantime spread out.}

Paskin: Hey what’s going on?

Ruscoe: They seem to be bunching us all up?

{Then the Cyber Commander approaches them.}

Cyber Com: You will remain still. Who is in command here?

{Phillips steps forward.}

Phillips: I am, Commander. I am the one who has aided you all this time.

Cyber Com: And these humanoids?

Phillips: Mere scientists. Everyone is here bar the Doctor; he is in the control bay. I present you the research station Arcadia and the excellent treasures that lie within its walls!

Cyber Com: You four will remain here and guard these humans. The remainder will search the station for the Doctor.

Paskin: You won’t get away with this!

Phillips: Won’t we? Of course not. You don’t know the real power of the Cybermen do you Mr Paskin? Then watch.
This is one of many weapons I have hidden from these people. However most of them still resist your power, a demonstration would help to prove to them that resistance is quite useless.

Cyber Com: Your weapons are ineffective against us. Continue to resist and you will be damaged.

{He takes the gun and crushes it in his hand.}

Harker: He crushed the gun! It’s not possible?

Phillips: There now! Resistance is very much…useless! I believe we have much to discuss Commander?

Cyber Com: The matter is of no further interest. Take him!

Phillips: Now wait a moment? You think I brought you here because of weapons? Advanced weapons, which will aid your cause? I have something much better for your motley group.

Cyberman: He is lying. Emotional weakness.

Phillips: It is the truth you metallic misfit! Commander, allow me to show you this device, if then you are not convinced then you may do as you like?

Cyber Com: Do not attempt to deceive us or I will damage you!

Phillips: Deceit? I wouldn’t dream of it. Shall I lead the way?

Cyber Com: Remain here. Should the humans attempt to escape? Restrain them!

Cybermen: Yes Commander.

{They return to guarding them, while Kerri has managed to remain concealed in the de-briefing room.}

Phillips: This way Commander, you do realise that the Doctor would have left the control bay at your arrival?

Cyber Com: He will be captured alive. His knowledge will aid the Cyber cause.

Phillips: Believe me when I say that one look at this proposal and you’ll think twice about the Doctor’s mind.

{They walk off slowly, Phillips leading.}

Paskin: What do we do now?

Harker: I don’t know but you saw how they crushed that gun?

Ruscoe: Great! Back to square one.

CUT TO:
Interior. Control bay.

{The monitors continue to blink and flash when the door open and two Cybermen enter.
They step around the room.}

1st Cyberman: The Doctor is not here.

2nd Cyberman: The instruments have been fixed recently. Scan this room for any other way to escape.

{The first Cyberman steps forward and holds out a long rod, which bleeps loudly.}

1st Cyberman: Scan negative.

2nd Cyberman: What is that?

1st Cyberman: It appears to be a small metallic cuboid object attached to a metallic coil.

2nd Cyberman: The scan indicates that the device is not connected to these control systems, remove it.

{The first Cyberman moves to pick up the object when suddenly there is a crackling, electricity arcs across the Cyberman’s body.}

1st Cyberman: What is… what is… what is, what is, what is….?

{There is a small explosion and the Cyberman’s form crumples to the ground.}

2nd Cyberman: Unknown object generating massive electrical current. Destroy!

{He fires; the football rattled weapon discharges.
There is a small chuckle behind.}

The Doctor: That won’t work you know?

Cyberman: Where are you?

The Doctor: He’s behind you! That’s typical of you Cybermen isn’t it? You may be immune to sickness, cold, hunger even death. But no matter how superior you presume you are, you never look behind the door!

Cyberman: You will come with me. Resistance is useless.

The Doctor: Somehow I knew you were going to say that? Trouble is I’m going nowhere.

Cyberman: You will come with me or…

The Doctor: …Die? I don’t think so… your leader will want to speak to me, unharmed.

Cyberman: Resistance is useless.

The Doctor: Whoa! Wait! If you take one more step you’ll regret it! Believe me?

Cyberman: You will come… come, come, come withme, withme… come, come…

{The electrical bolts entwine around the Cyberman who slumps and falls to the ground, followed by a small explosion.
The machine continues to hum.
The Doctor tuts over their bodies.}

The Doctor: I warned you!

{He comes forward, gingerly stepping over the two prone Cybermen and reaches out for the control.
Immediately the hum dies down.}

The Doctor: Now that’s what I call a neat little machine. Practical and compact. A shame it’s not mobile? Now there’s a thought? I wonder?

{He begins to search through the compartments.}

CUT TO:
Interior. Harker’s laboratory.

{Phillips is leading the Cyber Commander through the various laboratories.
In this, he is acting like a tour guide while the massive Cyberleader is as expected: Not amused!}

Phillips: Hello and welcome to Cyber Tours Incorporated. To start off this little auction, ladies-no well gentleman on the left of us, we have a long air tunnel for studying the construct of weapon number one.
Here are the blue prints and documents all placed on this holo-disk. All writings, concept and creation created by Doctor Helen Harker.
The Device is streamlined to deflect…

Cyber Com: Cease this irrelevant information. Show me the device or I will destroy you!

Phillips: Of course, right to the point and here it is Commander.

{He almost drags the huge figure towards the weapon.}

Phillips: It’s an armoured projectile powered by nuclear fusion containing gamma fifteen caplets. Range of effectiveness: Eighteen hundred metrons.
Sensor proof on most ships, everything has been masked so that it won’t show up on any conventional sensor array.

Cyber Com: You will now show me the remaining weapons.

Phillips: But don’t you want to see a demonstration. It won’t take that long?

Cyber Com: Show me the weapons or I will kill you!

Phillips: Fine. We shall visit Ruscoe’s laboratory next. That way we’ll save the best for last. This way Commander!

{Together they leave the room.}

CUT TO:
Interior. De-briefing room.

{Kerri is standing very still as she is very close to the doors and any motion will trigger it!
Outside the Cybermen continue to guard the others.
Slowly, very slowly she starts to turn away.}

Kerri: Come on me, just a few more inches? Now then all I do now is dive to the tables without making any noise? Oh yeah! I’ll need a miracle to pull this one off!
On the count of three! One, two, three!
Yaah!

{She throws herself to the side when the door slides back and then closes again.}

1st Cyberman: What was that?

Paskin: Don’t look at me?

1st Cyberman: You will answer!

Ruscoe: It must be an echo effect?

Paskin: What?

{Ruscoe elbows him.}

2nd Cyberman: Explain?

Ruscoe: Well it’s… rare, very rare when…

Harker: When someone opens a door somewhere else in the base and it triggers another door opening.

Ruscoe: Yes, like sound travelling down pipes, it’s very rare. Almost never happens…?

2nd Cyberman: Someone is there.

Ruscoe: No, it’s a temporal fault, which develops from time to time.

1st Cyberman: Remain still!

Ruscoe: There’s really no need for this…

Paskin: Yes, besides who else is left when we’re all here?

2nd Cyberman: Investigate.

1st Cyberman: Yes.

Ruscoe: Look there’s really no… aah! Aaarrgghh!

{Bones crack and flesh is crushed!}

Ruscoe: My hand! My hand! You monsters! My hand!

Cyberman: You will remain still.

Ruscoe: My hand! You’ve broken my hand!

Cyberman: Remain silent or you will be damaged!

Ruscoe: My hand!

{The door opens as the Cyberman enters. Its metallic rasping fills the air.}

Kerri: Oh no!

{The Cyberman starts to search the room.}

Harker: What do we do now? That girl if it finds her?

Ruscoe: We, we’ll have to rethink our strategy!

Paskin: But where can we go? These things may look like statue but you saw what it did to that gun, Ruscoe’s hand.

Harker: Phillips’ laboratory! It’s secure and I’m sure that there are none of these Cyber-things there?

Paskin: And how do you suggest we get there without alerting their attention?

Harker: But we have to try!

Ruscoe: What… we need is another diversion?

Paskin: But who’s going to stick their neck out this time?

{In the de-briefing room, the Cyberman continues his relentless search while Kerri scrambles across the floor.
Slowly she reaches the far off table where Sorcha lies.}

Kerri: Sorcha, Sorcha are you awake?

{Instead she lies there.}

Kerri: Well you’ve got a pulse and you’re breathing. Hey Sorcha! Get down here? Where are you Mister Cyberman? Okay Kerri pop up quickly for a quick look, two seconds right!
Okay, over there, back to me! Now I’ll just bring you down here?

{She reaches over and pulls Sorcha’s form down behind the tables.}

Kerri: Come on Sorcha!

{She smacks Sorcha’s face.}

Kerri: Come on, I didn’t hit you that hard? Wake up!

Cyberman: Resistance is useless. Do not move!

Kerri: Uh Oh he’s heard us. Come on Sorcha, wake up! Wake up!

{He upturns tables and crates as he gets closer!}

Kerri: Three metres and still coming! Come on wake up?

{Sorcha mumbles and her eyes flicker.}

Kerri: That’s it! Come on quickly!

Sorcha: Must… Must…

Kerri: Yes we must get out of here quickly!

Sorcha: Must stop rebels. I must stop the rebels, intruders! Traitors to the Empire!

Kerri: No you must get out of here now!

Cyberman: Resistance is useless. You will come with me.

Kerri: Oh no too late!

Sorcha: I must obey my… orders.

Kerri: What? No we have to get out of here… now!

Sorcha: You are a spy! You have created mutiny! You must die.

Cyberman: Move now, attempt to escape and I will kill you.

Kerri: I’m not your enemy, they or rather he is! What are you doing?

Sorcha: In the name of the Earth empire I sentence you to death!

Kerri: Déjà vu? No please kill them not me? We’re here to help you.

Cyberman: Drop your weapon immediate.

Sorcha: Surrender spy or I will kill you!

Kerri: Funny how I preferred you unconscious?

{She pushes Sorcha back and sprints back to the door. Sorcha rises to her feet as the Cyberman bears down on her.}

Sorcha: Traitor!

{She fires. The carbine spews bullets into the Cyberman.}

Cyberman: Your weapon cannot harm me.

Kerri: The chest unit! Aim for the chest unit!

{Sorcha fires again, this time right at the chest unit causing the Cyberman to sway and stutter.}

Cyberman: Resistance… is… useless… You… will… surrender…

{The Cyberman’s chest section crackles and sparks leaving the Cyberman to collapse to the ground followed by the explosion.
Sorcha whirls round and aims her gun at Kerri.}

Sorcha: Your friend is dead. Now you will join him, Spy!

{She fires but after a few seconds the gun stalls.
Meanwhile outside the de-briefing room gunfire can be heard.}

Harker: What the devil? What’s going on in there?

Ruscoe: Sorcha! You don’t think?

Paskin: Hey you there? Shouldn’t you check on your friend?

{The Cyberman remains still.}

Paskin: He could need help?

{This time the Cyberman acts.}

Cyberman: Guard these humans. We will investigate.

{The two Cybermen turn to the doors and are about to step through.}

Harker: One left! Well you asked for a diversion Paskin and here it is!

Ruscoe: What’s the plan…? Rush him?

Harker: The three of us?

Paskin: I’m in there. As soon as those two goons step in we grab him, take his gun and use it!

{Suddenly the doors slide open and Kerri runs through straight into the waited arms of a Cyberman.}

Cyberman: Resistance is useless.

Kerri: Fine but you try telling her that!

{The door opens again and framed within it is Sorcha.}

Sorcha: Traitors! You will die for your race!

Ruscoe: Sorcha?

Paskin: She must be under that man’s influence still?

Cyberman: Surrender immediately. Resistance is Useless. Resistance is…

{But at that moment Sorcha fires! Bullets slam into the Cyberman who collapses backwards in a spasmodic cry of agony.}

Kerri: Excuse me but could someone get this thing off me?

Paskin: Come on you two! Get that crazy woman! Three now!

{Harker and Ruscoe try to pry Kerri free while Paskin grabs the gun.}

Paskin: I’ve got his gun!

Harker: Watch out for Sorcha!

Sorcha: Desist immediately! Desist!

{She fires again.}

Ruscoe: He’s too strong for us!

Paskin: Get out of the way man, let me have a go?

Ruscoe: With that thing? You’ll hit Kerri!

Paskin: The head! Kerri, duck!

{He fires the Cyber-gun. The familiar rattle breaks the air and the explosion from the impact.}

Harker: It’s still alive!

Paskin: It can’t be? Not after that shot to the head?

Ruscoe: Keep firing!

{The Cyberman is rasping and groaning in pain.}

Kerri: It’s crushing me! Help!

Sorcha: For the good of the Empire, you must die!

{Paskin fires the gun again.}

Harker: It’s released her! Come on Miss whoever you are? Give me your hand?

Ruscoe: It’s coming this way!

Paskin: Run!

{The Cyberman is dented and ripped and spewing internal fluid as it swaggers along. Half of its head remaining intact but trailing wires and metal behind it.
Its breathing, now hoarse and broken, coughing up internal fluids as it speaks.}

Cyberman: Resistance… Useless. You… willl… ….fyvdgygvcfc… Destroy… Resistance… Useless.

Ruscoe: Come on quickly it’s trying to catch up with us!

{Sorcha strides down the corridor screaming:}

Sorcha: Mutiny! Death to traitors!

Harker: Almost there! Wait, I think she’s going to fire again?

Ruscoe: Down!

Paskin: What’s she doing?

Ruscoe: Oh my! The Cyberman! Sorcha look out!

Cyberman: Resistance… Useless…

Sorcha: What?

{She screams as the Cyberman beats her to the ground.}

Ruscoe: Sorcha!

Paskin: Piece of filth!

{He fires the gun once more at the Cyberman, who cries out gutturally, choking on its own fluid and collapses forward onto the ground. For a moment it weakly rasps then it lies still.}

Ruscoe: Sorcha! No not you too?

Harker: Come on man? That blast will alert all of those things for miles!

Kerri: Wait a mo! We don’t know where the Cybermen are do we?

Harker: She’s got a point there! One could be lurking around the corner?

Paskin: Well let me go first? If there’s any chance of seeing them fall back as far as you can go and let me take care of them!
All right this place is clear, this way!

CUT TO:
Interior. Ruscoe’s Laboratory.

{Phillips enters followed by the Commander.}

Phillips: Over here Commander. Observe this box, transparent is it not? Empty or full? If I were to say it was full what would you say to that?

{The Cyberman remains silent.}

Phillips: As I thought. This is the second weapon, as the first was chemically induced this one is synthetically induced: Nano technology! Think of it? Your Cyber-Conversion process could be programmed into these tiny wonders, spread them in the atmosphere of a planet and they will all become Cybermen in a matter of hours. Any repairs to your systems can be done by these marvels, no need to resort to hibernation in the future!

Cyber Com: This technology has been used before. It is unstable and therefore irrelevant! These weapons are of no value to the Cyber-Race! You will be Converted. Resistance is Useless.

Phillips: Wait! Hold on Commander, there is a greater weapon I have here, Not even a weapon but something infinitely useful to your race, to safeguard your future. I guarantee it will impress you. Won’t you follow me?

{Phillips and the Commander step out into the corridor.}

Phillips: It’s not far from here, compared to mine the others are a rain drop into the sea, I can assure you Commander, you will take it! Commander?

{The Cyberman has stopped.}

Phillips: Feeling under the weather are we? Quite unlike your usual way is it not?

{Instead the Commander reaches to his chest unit and removes a short, metal box.}

Phillips: I assume that’s communicator and not another gun of some sort?

Cyber Com: Report?

{From the box comes strange rattling sounds.}

Phillips: Is something wrong?

Cyber Com: We have lost contact with group two sent to detain the Doctor and group five guarding the scientists. You have deceived us. Why?

Phillips: Whatever do you mean by that? I’ve been here the whole time no one would dare oppose you except the Doctor.
Don’t you see? He has incapacitated your Cybermen, not me.

Cyber Com: The Doctor must be captured! All units seek out the Doctor and contain him.

Phillips: And what of these scientists?

Cyber Com: Unless this machine is of use to the Cyber Race you will be converted like the others.

Phillips: You have to find them first. Where would they go when this place is crawling with your Cybermen? They would go somewhere safe free without detection, dark, quiet and safe…? My Laboratory! Oh no Doctor. You’re not going to stop me this time not when I’m so close!

{Just out of earshot range is the Doctor.}

The Doctor: Oh dear that didn’t sound good! Anyway clever old Kerri! But I have to get there before both of them! What is he doing here? What can he possibly want out here? Oh dear more tin soldiers!

{He runs down the corridor just as two rasping figures pass by.}

CUT TO:
Interior. Lift corridor.

{Phillips and the Cyber Commander appear down a side corridor.}

Phillips: Hmm no sign of the Doctor or indeed his meddlesome friends? Better signal your Cybermen to guard this place, we wouldn’t need any uninvited guests?

Cyber Com: Show me this device or I will kill you.

Phillips: Of course Commander, the pass code is… all ready displayed? Interesting? I simply press the button and the doors open.

{There is a ‘Ping’ and the doors slide back.
As they step into the lift and the doors shut Paskin and the others turn up.}

Paskin: It’s clear.

Ruscoe: Well what are we waiting for?

Paskin: No, we go back!

Kerri: What? Correct me if I’m wrong but we’ve been creeping around here all this time to get here and now you say no way?

Paskin: It looks too easy for me? It’s all unprotected for now!

Kerri: So we get down there ASAP!

Paskin: Unless it’s an ambush and we go charging in there and get caught unaware with all our defences down!

Kerri: Oh right, sorry.

Harker: But we can’t hang around here the whole time we’re bound to be seen!

Ruscoe: Agreed! So where do we go now?

Paskin: Another room? But where?

Harker: Over here. This one reads storage. I doubt they’d search in here?

Paskin: Hurry up and open it then! I’ll keep you well covered!

Kerri: You’ve only got one gun! Suppose a hundred come along?

Paskin: Then you’d better get that door open then!

Ruscoe: It’s stuck! The door lock doesn’t seem to be working properly?

Paskin: What do you mean?

Harker: Phillips has put in grid out factor throughout all of these systems!

Paskin: Great! Can you crack it?

Ruscoe: Given time!

Kerri: I take it’s not good news?

Paskin: He’s encrypted all the locks. It will take time to crack the code but by that time we’ll probably be dead!

CUT TO:
Interior. Phillips’ Laboratory.

{Phillips leaves the dais and walks to the control panel.}

Phillips: You might have to wait for bit for this thing to warm up but I promise you, you will not be disappointed at the results!

{The controls blink and flash, and power starts to hum.}

Phillips: Observe those orbs in that room, I’m feeding through electrical power now, now watch them react.

{The power hums into action. All instruments come to life with power. The pitch grows.}

Cyber Com: What is happening?

Phillips: Virtually nothing on the scale. But you can feel the power, can’t you? Feel it in the air, the ground and walls but this mere spark is an ice crystal on the tip of an iceberg!
When fully activated, your greatest cause will be yours to control- destiny of the Cyber race, you can avoid premature extinction, the loss of Mondas, efficient conquest of Earth and nothing can stop you in this, watch!

Cyber Com: What are you doing?

Phillips: I am accessing the power grid, programming this device to accept the correct programme arrangements. Soon it will be fully operational and then nothing will stop the Cyber race and I will have won!

Cyber Com: This weapon, what is its function?

Phillips: Weapon? No, this is something beyond your puny comprehension! Time is the lock to your race, this is a key, it will give your race everything!
Look at the orbs in there. Isolating control booth, that’s here by the way, so there’s no need to panic.
Those orbs are the very key to your power, when placed within the focus they can generate enormous quantities of temporal energy, you have experienced such an event so there is no need for a demonstration. Unfortunately your troops won’t be immune and neither will that meddling Doctor!

{Just then as if on cue the lift slides down again and out steps the Doctor.}

The Doctor: Unfortunately that won’t be the case?

Phillips: Ah Doctor, I wondered where you were all this time? No doubt skulking elsewhere in the past?

The Doctor: Very funny Phillips, whatever happened to your plan to cease humanity? The last time I saw you, you were trapped in Anno Domini Sixteen hundred and thirteen, Italy?

Phillips: You think I would let something as minuscule as a time pocket stand in me? Nevertheless Doctor I have returned and unlike before I shall succeed, thanks to the CyberCommander here!

Cyber Com: You will surrender immediately Doctor. Resistance is useless.

The Doctor: Ah, hah! So you’re the one in charge Cyberleader?

Cyber Com: My rank is designated Commander, Doctor.

The Doctor: Oh I am sorry, though I’m wasting my apologies on you Commander and I see that you’ve been aided by this… scoundrel?

Phillips: How very droll Doctor.

Cyber Com: This humanoid has aided us. You will pilot my Cyber-force to Telos where your mind will be scanned. Your intelligence will aid our cause.

The Doctor: I don’t think so somehow Commander, you think this man would lure you here to take me away without a price?

Phillips: He’s not taking any notice Doctor, save your breath for your last gasp!
Oh how I wish I could see your face as you become totally Cybernised?

The Doctor: Now that’s a point? Your Cybermen seem different somehow?

Cyber Com: We have undergone further evolution since we last encountered you Doctor.

The Doctor: That would explain it. Yes a new model, what do you get besides better suspension, four-wheel drive and a better dialogue: ‘Resistance Denied’ and ‘Superior’! Completely unlike you lot at all to revise your life styles to scare us all!

Cyber Com: Fear is irrelevant Doctor, you possess knowledge of our time travel, which will be of value to the Controller. We will remove every emotion from your brain and you will be come like us!

The Doctor: Can I think it over Commander?

{The Cyber Commander raises his gun.}

Cyber Com: Resist and you will be restrained.

The Doctor: Well when you put it like that I suppose I’ve got no choice! By the by. What’s going to happen to your erstwhile ally over there?

Cyber Com: He will be like us.

Phillips: Commander I think you’re forgetting yourself. You promised me that if I show you this device, show you how it will aid your race then you would spare my life?

Cyber Com: Promises are irrelevant. You will be like us, Superior.

Phillips: You stupid machine, I would have thought that you Cybermen would have preferred my way? This weapon, is no weapon, this is a means to ensure Cyber victory. Humanity is a pathetic race, all ready their animal aggression dares direct these creatures to madness, they destroy all life they find, crush lesser races into slavery, burn up planets. Cowering behind xenophobia and a vicious superiority complex they condemn all to destruction!
With this device you Commander can return the Cyber race to what it is, your rhetoric declares you are the future, so what better place? Earth!

The Doctor: No! You mentioned weapon, now Commander that is no weapon! Whatever this man has promised you has been lies. That thing in there is more dangerous than you could imagine? To name it a weapon would be just dropping it lightly!

Cyber Com: It does not matter. This device is now ours. You two will come with me!

The Doctor: I have a question for you Commander. If I said to you that I have seen your future and I have seen your past but I saw the future first but then I glimpsed your past. Would you then kill me now because if you did being where I am now in your past but in my future, my effects on this period might affect your future having all ready been there or I might do?
Would you then, logically kill me?

Cyber Com: You are the enemy of the Cyber race, you will like us.

The Doctor: No, but would you kill me?

Cyber Com: You are known to the Cyber race. You have been present on many worlds yet you are present here now. You have conflicted in our race yet you are conflicting there are many Doctors; there is only one. You will be like us, all of you will be like us, one of you will be like us, one of you is interfering in Cyber events. We must be superior; we are the future you will be like us…

Phillips: Very neat Doctor, a nice little logic puzzle. The answer is impossible to reply to?

The Doctor: Precisely, which leaves me with you.

Phillips: True but with it still there, I feel a bit uneasy. Watch!

{He pulls free something from his pocket, a capsule of some sort?}

The Doctor: That looks nasty, what is it?

Phillips: Good things come in small packages, take a look at the Cyber Commander, payment for trying to annihilate me!

{He throws the capsule to Commander, which shatters against the figure.}

Cyber Com: You will be like us Doctor! Resistance is…

Phillips: What’s the matter Commander? Cat got your tongue?

Cyber Com: What is hap…pening? You have… Deceived…

{He started to grate and groan, choking on fluid. He staggers and stumbles and crashes to the ground.}

Cyber Com: You…surrender… Resistance…

Phillips: Denied? What do you know? These things actually work!

The Doctor: He’s just… melting away? How?

Phillips: Here Doctor, catch!

{He tosses the Doctor a capsule.}

Phillips: Do not fear Doctor, they’re quite safe with us.

The Doctor: What is it? Some kind of capsule holding liquid? Fragile, yet the liquid’s movements is more controlled, what is this stuff?

Phillips: Ruscoe’s nano creatures. I had my thoughts it wouldn’t work but lo and behold, humanity’s ingenuity surprises me even more so.

The Doctor: Incredible! Which is more than I can say for your apparent return from that time eddy?

Phillips: I’m back now Doctor, your attempts have merely delayed my work not destroyed it, it merely took longer to create but finally here I have the means!

The Doctor: Opposites tend to attract it seems?

Phillips: Again, we meet.

The Doctor: Face to face.

Phillips: Black and white, almost like the sun and moon but never are they seen together unless there’s an eclipse!

The Doctor: But this is no eclipse! Why are you meddling with the fabric of time?

Phillips: Meddling Doctor? Oh you don’t really know what my agenda is? Do you? Allow me to demonstrate my purpose and should you get to excited? I shall have no qualms on using this!
I assume you recognise it?

The Doctor: Well, a metal tube connected to a large oblong box doesn’t really ring any bells.

Phillips: Then allow me to remind you of its power. Ah see that crate of guns over there, now you see it!

{He triggers the gun and immediately it vanishes.}

The Doctor: Rapid temporal decay. A temporal disrupter!

Phillips: Now you remember. It might have been jammed before but now it’s working perfectly! Now get back!

The Doctor: That thing in there… it looks like its distorting time?

Phillips: Bravo Doctor! In all this time, you’ve forgotten none of your observant qualities that make you so unique Doctor. Yes that device, originally a temporal cannon has now been reconfigured to serve a much better purpose. Unlike before where it takes the charge from Chronon crystals and uses that energy expanded out, the focus pushes the power back into the crystals.

The Doctor: What? But that would create unstable temporal particles centred within the crystals. It would destabilise the charge created within its centre.

Phillips: But the charge’s temporal field would be expanded inwards, not outwards thus cutting through time, I believe you felt the bumps?

The Doctor: Bumps? I’ve seen the damage, time pockets of destructive energy, turning the tapestry of all recorded history into Swiss cheese! But those co-ordinates, you’ve got it set on Mondas!

Phillips: Well done, Mondas, an integral event in humanity’s history but what if that world was not destroyed? Could the Time Lords stop me? I would do nothing; this field would change recorded history!

The Doctor: You don’t know that future? You can’t have seen it?

Phillips: I have, I am not a Time Lord, I am not restrained by your pathetic laws. Would you like to know the future? Your future?

The Doctor: No, no you can’t tell me, I won’t listen to you!

Phillips: Humanity’s far future is a dead one, they poison their planet, wreck the environment for all species, poison the gene pool. Wars erupt as humanity becomes factions, fighting for freedom, for space and resources long since burnt out. They can no longer survive the acidic world they and their ancestors created. Earth is dead and so humanity, cheating, stealing as they go, gamble away. Utilising technology of an extinct race they recreate themselves into… a polished silver species surviving everything. Yes Doctor, Humanity becomes Cyberhumans!

The Doctor: No, I won’t believe it? You’re lying, every word is a lie and I should know from you Phillips!

Phillips: Your race turns away, ignores them, humanity’s place in the universe is no more, what remnants not on earth evolve and mutate into other species. The Cybermen die out completely, their technology is used as a template by dying scientist Xos Ryffton as the perfect means to survive.
What better way to aid myself and the Cybermen then by changing the balance, what if I make that future now? Make humans Cyberhumans, thus the Cybermen control Earth, the human race is theirs, their clay and at nineteen years before the incident on my world. I will succeed!
Computer? Enter the programme co-ordinates into the focus, initiate immediate activation in three minutes!

Computer: Confirmed. Programme countdown running, three minutes and counting.

The Doctor: You can’t do this? This is madness Phillips! That temporal spillage will just continue to unravel time itself! Strands pulled free from the tapestry like it was in the hands of a deranged child! Phillips, for any good that lies in you do not do this?

Phillips: Too late Doctor, the human race has long served its place in the universe, now there’s a change to our programme, a new series to begin. The Future is bleak, the future is now!

The Doctor: No, no it can’t end here? I won’t let you do this Phillips!

{They struggle but Phillips throws the Doctor against the wall, pulling free his disrupter}

Phillips: Dare you defy me Doctor? Then witness my supreme triumph! Activate temporal shielding.

Computer: Temporal shielding has activated. Two minutes remaining.

The Doctor: Please, I’m begging you? Don’t do this Phillips, there has to be another way? Genocide on such a scale! Humanity has touched the lives of millions of races, to snuff them out like that- you’d be causing untold damage to all time, everyone in existence will be affected!

Phillips: Exactly, humanity’s stain has seeped deep into the lives of all the universe, would the worlds be better off this blight upon our lives? My people would be alive; Xsaskhana would still stand by my side… Now she is gone. Nineteen years before I will stop them. Witness the final end to your precious humans, Doctor! The final chapter unfolds!