ASHLEY
Doctor!
I can't go either way.
Doctor!
They're pushing me towards the edge.
Doctor, their rays are sharp.
Take your coat off, my boy, and show them the blades.
Hold the torch for me, please.
Now, swing yourself round.
Look!
Give me a hand!
Thanks.
All right, hang it.
What do you think this is for?
I've no idea. I've never seen it before in my life.
I suppose this operates the knives.
Yes, quite so.
We've got to get this thing back in its place.
The executioner sounds disappointed.
He doesn't mind about all that. Come on, give me a hand.
Barbara's still outside. She might be in great danger.
Is he...
Is he dead?
No.
It must have been the strain of walking out here made him collapse.
How do you feel?
This is Barbara, Bennett.
Requillian told me of your arrival.
He's killed your friends.
I don't think so.
I'm sure they're all right.
Requillian doesn't make mistakes.
Well, he did about me.
You know, the next time he visits us, we might be able to surprise him.
He doesn't know I'm here, does he?
So we could set a trap and overpower him.
No, no.
It's a marvellous idea, isn't it, Bennett?
No.
Surely it's worth a try. You wouldn't be any worse off than you are now.
The way a rescue ship is due to arrive.
Why hasn't Vicky told you that?
Just sit still, do as he says.
Maybe we'll have a chance of escaping, get back to Earth.
We could still go.
You're just a child. You don't know what you're talking about.
If we get rid of Requillian, we gain nothing.
If the plan fails, he kills us.
Bennett's right, Bob.
I've been lying in my bed all day.
It doesn't mean I've lost the use of my brain.
Help me to my room, please.
You will do as Requillian says, won't you?
And you do understand the consequences.
Thank you.
I said I'm all right.
I can manage.
I'd better go and collect the water.
It gets dark early on Dido.
Will you lay the table, Barbara?
Yes.
Yes, all right. I'll show you where the things are.
I think that's got it back.
Watch.
Yes.
You've done it, Doctor.
There they go.
Well, let's hope there aren't any more surprises like that waiting for us. Come on.
Come on, Doctor.
Daylight, Doctor. We must be nearly there.
Yes, I think you're right.
Here.
Test it.
Look out, Doctor. Don't go too near the edge.
Look, there's a door.
What?
Now, that must be somewhere.
It's a door.
What?
Now, that must be somewhere.
Yes, it is.
Yes, but there'll be no time to get it. Do you open that? No? Come on. Let's go the obvious way.
Go on.
Come on this edge.
Just so long as nobody's touch.
Vicki! No! No, don't! No!
No!
What was that?
Mara, what is it?
Come.
You killed Sandy! Why? What made you?
He was almost on top of you.
How could you do it? Sandy only wanted some food.
Look, he was going to attack you.
I fed him with dead plants. I trained him to come here for food.
Well, I didn't know that, did I?
I mean, how could I?
I shouted. You wouldn't listen.
Look, all I could see was its jaws.
And then when it suddenly started screeching, I thought...
You killed him.
Doctor!
Oh, doctor, are you all right?
Oh, I've never felt better in my life.
That's better.
Now blow your nose and wipe your face.
I don't like saying it, my dear, but you do look a bit of a mess, you know.
Yes.
Cheer up, Vicki.
And don't forget, if old cocky licking comes around, I've always got this.
Oh, you mustn't, Ian.
I keep telling you why we did what he said.
You'll spoil it. You'll spoil everything.
Now, now, now, it's going to be all right.
We're not going to jeopardize your safety or your rescue.
Now, first of all, I'd like to have a talk with this Mr. Bennett of yours.
Will you take... take me to him?
I keep telling you, the rescue ship's on its way.
It's going to take us back to Earth. Can't you understand?
Look, Vicki, I know you've been here a long time,
but you're underestimating what Coquillion can do.
Yes, you're right.
I've been here a long time.
I know what it's like here.
You've only just come and you're trying to ruin things.
It was all right before it was.
The rescue ship's coming and...
Nobody asked you to come here. Nobody asked you to come here.
Nobody asked you to come here.
Nobody asked you to come here. Nobody.
Now, Vicki.
Go away.
Vicki, my dear.
Sit down.
You don't mean that, do you?
Well?
Do you? Hmm?
Good, good.
Now, I've listened to all you've said
and I've thoroughly understood.
We are here to help you.
This is all we're going to try to do.
You know, we're not going to ruin things for you.
Bennett says that when we get back
we've got to tell them on Earth what they did to us here.
He thinks this planet should be wiped out.
Yes, I...
He says Coquillion shouldn't be made to get away with what he's done to us.
I think I agree with Bennett.
At least about Coquillion.
But don't you think there's just a chance,
just a little chance
that my ideas might prove the better ones?
Hmm?
Good, good.
Now, I'll go and have a talk with Mr. Bennett
and I promise you I'll listen to everything he says.
Hmm?
I'll take you to him.
Splendid.
Well, now, I...
I don't think you need to wait, my dear.
You go back with Ian and Barbara.
Barbara?
Oh, now, now, now, you mustn't be like that.
You're not giving her much of a chance, are you?
She's nice, you know.
You like her.
She killed Sandy.
Yes, well, so might I have done.
No.
You haven't got that sort of face that kills things.
Barbara has, I suppose.
You know, she was frightened.
Frightened for your safety.
She thought she was going to be hurt.
You mustn't behave like that.
Now, look here.
Uh, um, I think the best thing for you to do
is to pop along back there, don't you?
Hmm?
Eh?
You must believe what Barbara did.
Try and understand, my dear,
and why she did it.
Just for me, eh?
Mr. Bennett?
You can't come in.
I want to talk to you.
Oh, dear.
The doctor gone to see Mr. Bennett?
Yes, I took him.
Good, good.
Barbara?
Yes?
I'm sorry.
Really, I am.
I'm sorry, too.
About Sandy.
Well, you didn't know.
I'm afraid I've got rather used to being on my own.
We know how you feel, Vicki.
We know ourselves at first.
At first?
I don't understand.
You're from Earth, too, aren't you?
Yes, but it goes a bit deeper than that.
How do you mean?
Well, um, what was the year when you left Earth?
2493, of course.
My mother had just died,
and Daddy wanted to get away,
so he took a job on the planet Astra.
You were on your way there,
and you crashed here.
Yes.
Vicki, our spaceship,
well, it isn't like this one.
It travels through time.
We left in 1963.
1963?
But that means you're about
550 years old.
Well, yes, I suppose I am.
This is a way of looking at it,
but I'll try not to look at it too often.
They didn't have time machines in 1963.
They didn't know anything then.
Oh, we weren't entirely ignorant, young lady.
Even the doctor thought it was worth paying us a visit,
so we got mixed up with him in the first place.
The doctor's from a different age,
a different planet altogether.
I don't believe you at all.
You're joking with me.
The doctor, a time traveler?
Yes.
Ah!
Hmm.
What have we here?
Tape recordings for what?
Come in.
Oh, yes, I like the doctor.
It's funny, but
as soon as he walked in,
I felt that you could trust him.
But why does he wear those funny clothes
and that long white hair?
Vicki, I've told you,
the doctor comes from another time.
Oh, don't start that.
Ha ha ha!
Silly child, silly child.
Intercom systems,
tape recordings,
now I wonder what else.
Hmm?
Ha ha ha!
Yes, I see,
an easy way to get out of a locked room.
Hmm.
They're taking a long time, aren't they?
I don't think we should disturb them.
You always tell me to go away.
Doctor?
Mr. Bennett?
Can I come in?
Doctor?
They've gone.
But where could they have gone to?
Perhaps Quilliam came.
We would have heard him.
Anyway, the doctor would surely have warned us.
He wouldn't go off without telling us.
What do you think we ought to do?
I think we should stay here.
No, go back to the TARDIS.
In the end, the doctor will make for that.
Come on, quickly.
Come in, come in, won't you?
I've been waiting to talk to you.
Come in.
This used to be the people's hall of judgment.
Fitting in the present circumstances, don't you think?
Hmm?
Mr. Bennett, may I remind you that masks and robes such as you are wearing are only used on absolutely ceremonial occasions?
Hmm?
Are you finished?
Yes, I had hoped that you would continue.
This elaborate plan must have been conceived for some reason.
What?
To save my life.
I killed a crew member on the spaceship to Astra.
I was arrested.
The ship crashed.
My crime hadn't been radioed to Earth.
I knew if I could get rid of the other crew...
Get rid of the other crew members and blame their deaths on the Dido people.
Hmm?
When we crash-landed, the inhabitants invited us all to a grand meeting.
It was simple.
I just arranged an explosive.
Using the ship's armaments, the whole thing went up.
All the inhabitants, the crew...
The whole race.
You destroyed a whole planet to save your own skin.
You're insane.
The girl didn't know I'd been arrested.
When we get back to Earth, she'd support my story.
I dressed up as Kequillion to show her how terrible the people here were.
If that happened, your guilt would have been hidden forever.
Hmm?
If it happened?
Nothing's changed.
There's only three more people for Kequillion to kill.
That's all.
No!
I thought I killed all of you!
He's coming round.
Oh, Barbara.
Ian, we're back in the ship, eh?
Yes, I took the liberty of borrowing your key.
Doctor, we found you outside.
Yes, they left me outside.
They? Who?
Oh, two strange...
Yes, Bennett's dead.
Bennett was Kequillion, you know.
What? Benny Kequillion?
Yes.
What? Why? Why, Doctor?
No, no, no, not now, Ian.
He's in no condition to answer questions.
The girl Vicky, now.
Did you bring her?
Yes.
She's waiting outside.
I must get some fresh air.
Yes, I... I want to have a talk with that child.
Are you all right?
Yes, now, don't ask.
I'm quite all right, my boy, I'm quite all right.
Ian, what about Vicky?
I wish we could take her with us.
Hmm?
Well, we can't leave her here, can we?
That's... that's about what happened.
That's all.
Then... Bennett murdered my father.
Then I've got nobody.
My dear...
My dear, why don't you come with us, hmm?
In that old box?
We can travel anywhere and everywhere in that old box, as you call it, regardless of space and time.
Then it is a time machine.
And if you like adventure, my dear, I can promise you an abundance of it.
Apart from all that, well, you'll... you'll be amongst friends.
Hmm? Well?
Now, suppose I leave you here for a moment to think about it, hmm?
Doctor, we were talking about Vicky.
Yes, do you think that Vicky could...
I can see we've all reached the same decision.
Now, I suggest we try and get the answer from the child, hmm?
Vicky! Vicky, my dear, come in!
But it's huge!
And...
The outside is just...
Well, Vicky, are you going to come with us?
Oh, I... I'd like to.
Yes.
If you'll have me.
Rescue ship to Dido. Rescue ship to Dido. Come in, please.
This is rescue ship calling Dido. Rescue ship calling Dido. Come in, please.
Dido, can you hear me?
This is rescue ship calling...
So there were survivors on Dido. Bennett didn't kill them all.
They have their planet back to themselves again.
And somehow I don't think they would allow that rescue ship to land.
Hmm. That isn't why you brought Vicky along with us, is it, Doctor?
No, Chesterton, no, it wasn't the reason.
We shall be materializing quite soon.
Perhaps we shall be able to get a rest this time.
Here we are, safely down.
What's that movement, Doctor?
Hmm?
Well, surely you can feel it.
Doctor, what's happening?
Take off again, Doctor!
Hold on! Hold on! Hold on! Hold on!