Doctor Who (1963–1989): Season 9, Episode 17 - The Mutants: Episode Three - full transcript
The Doctor and Varan travel down to Solos to search for Jo and Ky but the Marshal orders his men to pursue them.
(DOCTOR WHO THEME)
(ALARM BLARING)
Die, Overlord! Die!
(GROANING)
You listen to me, Varan.
For the last time, I tell you,
I am not an Overlord.
I've come to help your people,
but I must find Ky.
Ky is my enemy.
I will destroy him, and
you, too, Overl...
You will take me to Ky or I will
leave you here for the guards to find.
Now, do you give me your word
as a warrior?
Right.
Lead the way.
(LOUD WHOOSHING)
-What the blazes is that?
-Firestorms.
-Firestorms? Is that all?
-It's the wrath of the gods.
It is a simple
atmospheric disturbance, Varan,
and something very much
to our advantage.
-Well, now what's the matter?
-You have no mask.
When the sun rises, you will not be able
to breathe the air on Solos.
No Earthman can.
Did I say I was an Earthman?
How long do they usually last?
The firestorms?
At first, it was a few minutes,
now it can go on all night,
each one longer than the last,
terrifying my people.
(LOUD WHOOSHING)
Surely they're used
to these thunderstorms.
There were no firestorms on Solos
until the Marshal began his experiments.
Experiments?
To make our air breathable
for the Overlords,
but not for the Solonians.
It will mean the end of my people,
Miss Grant.
(ROARING)
(SCREAMING)
There, look!
It's all right, it's harmless.
But it's horrible.
They're people, my people.
At least they were
before the Marshal's experiments.
Perhaps it's the firestorm.
Usually they run away.
It will be safer
further back in the cave.
(ROARING)
We'd better hide. In here.
(ROARING CONTINUES)
Don't worry.
-I'll drive them away.
-Be careful, Ky.
(KY SHOUTING)
Professor Jaeger,
one of the Empire's
greatest scientific minds,
foiled by a simple booby trap.
The Doctor said it was an experiment.
A booby trap, Jaeger,
so he could escape.
It was a particle reversal,
I know it was.
Forget particle reversal,
get those rockets ready!
You'll have to go ahead on your own now.
Marshal, you don't realise.
I am just not ready.
Without particle reversal,
the whole process is too dangerous.
It could get completely out of hand.
Jaeger, will you get this
into your maundering egghead?
I want the atmosphere on the planet
changed, and I want it changed now.
Clear?
Get me Stubbs and Cotton.
I want to see them right away.
I'll be in my office.
-This is it, then.
-Is he on to us?
Well, we'll soon find out.
Ah, Stubbs and Cotton.
My trusty right-hand men.
-Sir.
-Sir.
Not only have you failed
to capture Ky and Miss Grant,
you've also let
the Doctor escape to Solos.
I tried to stop him, sir.
Professor Jaeger let him get...
Silence!
You'll prepare to pay
a last visit to Solos.
Last visit, sir?
For a while, Stubbs.
While you're there,
we shall kill three birds
with one stone.
Mutts, Varan and the Doctor.
Well, somebody's been here.
(GROWLING)
-I wonder why they left.
-Look!
(ROARING)
You saw?
Such creatures are evil, diseased.
Perhaps.
But I hope that the answer
to their mutation is in here.
Come on. Let's find Ky.
Then you must find him alone, Doctor.
Varan goes no further.
Something's going on in there.
Perhaps it's Miss Grant.
No. No.
What, is Varan, the great warrior,
afraid of the dark?
Varan fears nothing.
I'm delighted to hear it. Come on, then.
(KY SHOUTING)
This way.
(GASPING)
Listen to me!
I am Ky!
You know me, my people.
I come to find refuge, not to harm you.
(SHOUTING)
(CRYING OUT)
Leave him alone! Go on, back! Get back!
Get back, leave him be.
-Go, back!
-Hah! Hah!
Go on.
So, you must be Ky.
How do you do? I'm the Doctor.
That's the idea.
Now then, where's Miss Grant?
Why are you here, Varan?
Did your Overlord masters
send you to hunt me?
Now steady, old chap.
He did help to save your life, you know.
The Marshal has betrayed me.
The Overlords are
my enemies too now, Ky.
At last, Varan, you see the truth.
Now we can work together.
I need no help from you, Ky.
Now I shall return to my people,
and lead them in battle
against the Overlords.
So, you are the Doctor,
the friend of Miss Grant?
That's right. Where is she?
I took her to a place of safety
-when we were attacked.
-Good.
-Why did you come here?
-To find her.
And to give you this.
(PULSING)
Tablets. Sketchings.
These are not weapons.
Varan is right.
How can these help us in our struggle?
Weapons are what we need.
Perhaps these tablets are worth
more to you than any weapons.
I have seen such signs.
Well, read it, man.
-What does it say? Read it.
-I... I cannot.
It is the language of the Old Ones.
No one remembers.
All our culture has been destroyed
by the Overlords.
But you've...you've
seen this kind of writing before?
Signs like these are carved
in rocks all over Solos.
But no one knows. No one remembers.
As far as we are concerned, Doctor,
they are meaningless squiggles.
They must mean something.
Otherwise, why would
I have been sent here?
Why indeed? Come.
If we stay here,
they will surely attack again.
No. I'm sorry, I can't go yet.
-You are fools!
-I can't go yet, not without Miss Grant.
Is this the way to fight the Overlords?
To stay here and be killed by Mutts?
If you will not fight, Varan will.
Now, Varan, wait. Varan, wait!
(PULSING)
He will go back to his village
and he and his men,
for all their valour, will be wiped out.
Swords are no use against the Overlord.
No.
Right, Ky. Take me to Miss Grant.
This way, Doctor.
There must be somebody on Solos
who understands the old language.
There was a man called, uh, Sondergaard.
A man of learning from Earth.
He came to study our culture.
And?
After a while, he disappeared.
Oh, it was all arranged
by the Overlords.
Our friend the Marshal again, huh?
(GROWLING)
A simple operation.
Surveillance reports show
they've gone to ground there.
Now, Jaeger has devised
some novel gas grenades.
I want men stationed at every exit.
We set off the grenades, flush them out.
All of them.
Ky, Doctor, Varan, Mutts. The lot.
What if the grenades
don't flush them out, sir?
Then they'll die anyway.
Well?
I left her here.
Perhaps she became frightened,
ran off in panic.
Perhaps.
Then we better
start searching, hadn't we?
I have been studying
the monitoring reports since the storms.
I am not interested in weather reports.
Then you should be.
The reports show
a sharp rise in temperature
after every one of these storms.
-So?
-There is no corresponding decrease.
Marshal, Solos is getting
hotter and hotter.
We are moving into something
which none of us have ever experienced.
The Solonian summer.
Ever since we've been here, 500 years,
it's been spring. Now, summer.
It may become too hot
for any human being to live here.
And it may not.
That's for you to find out, Jaeger.
My first priority
is to wipe out the Mutts.
The reports also indicate
a very sudden rise in the mutation rate.
More Mutts than ever, Marshal.
And all moving towards your target area.
Good.
Good, then. The more the merrier.
KY: No?
-No.
-But she must be here.
Oh, well,
we'll just have to search them
all over again, won't we?
If the torches last
and they don't attack.
What, you heard them?
They're watching us all the time.
-(GROWLING)
-Yes.
But they don't attack us in the tunnels.
Only in here.
This chamber must be important to them.
I feel it myself.
Feel what?
A sensation.
An awareness of being drawn here.
This is a warm, safe place.
A centre.
A sort of instinct.
Yes.
Yes, it's strange.
Still, we must keep searching. Come on.
MARSHAL: Hurry up.
I want those gas grenades here.
Give me those blast packs.
No one else is to know about this,
understood?
(CLEARING THROAT)
-Everything ready?
-Yes, sir.
-Uh, excuse me, sir.
-Well?
I think we should do something
about finding the Doctor, sir.
Do you now?
Professor Jaeger said
he was important, sir.
Mmm-hmm.
-Well, Cotton?
-I agree, sir.
I thought you might.
Very well, Stubbs. You and Cotton,
I give you 15 minutes, no more.
-Right, sir.
-And keep in radio contact all the way.
-Sir
-I want to hear every word.
And if you come across Ky,
make sure you make a better job of him
than you did of Varan!
Ho! Varan has returned.
(MOANING)
(WEAKLY) Varan.
What has happened? Where are my people?
-The fire... The firestorm.
-Speak!
Evil. A plague of evil.
Fire from the sky.
Listen to me. Summon my council.
Go! Beat the war gong.
STUBBS: Doctor!
COTTON: Doctor!
STUBBS: Doctor!
COTTON: Doctor!
Doctor!
(DISTANTLY) Doctor!
Overlords. We must abandon the search.
They will track us here.
-COTTON: Doctor!
-All right. Quick, back to the chamber.
Let's try this way.
(GROANING)
-If they attack now...
-Shh! Wait.
-Listen.
-(GROANING)
That's Jo Grant in there somewhere.
Jo? Jo, are you in there?
Jo?
Jo? Jo, are you all right?
Jo.
-Doctor.
-Yes, it all right. It's me.
STUBBS: Ah, there you are.
-Run, Doctor!
-No, Ky.
KY: Overlord swine.
STUBBS: It's us, Doctor.
Stubbs and Cotton.
Is Miss Grant with you?
DOCTOR: Yes, she's over here.
She appears to be injured.
Right. Prepare the grenades.
-But, sir, they're all in there.
-Exactly.
Fire the grenades.
Pull out! Everyone out of the cave.
All sections, seal off exits.
Fire grenades.
Hello?
Hello?
Lost contact.
Why does no one come?
Where are my warriors?
Your warriors have fled, Varan.
-Am I left with nothing but mutants?
-They, too.
It is the way with us all,
old and young.
Those who can walk have gone
to the mines, Varan, to the mines.
Why?
Why has this curse come upon us?
(EXCLAIMING IN DISGUST)
No! No! No! No! No!
MAN: Go, Varan.
Go to the place of sleeping,
the place of darkness and light.
Go, Varan.
Go.
-Go. Go.
-No. No.
I was born to fight.
Varan will not die sleeping!
A passageway full of light.
Even the rocks were glowing.
I remember walking towards the light.
Yes?
And then there was
this noise in my head.
I couldn't hear.
I couldn't see properly.
-Then I started to get dizzy.
-DOCTOR: Mmm-hmm.
And there was a figure,
-a silvery figure.
-A mutant?
-I don't know.
-DOCTOR: Well, and then what?
Well, then, I'm sorry, Doctor,
I fainted.
Well, whatever it was,
it brought you back here.
I'd better tell
his nibs what's going on.
DOCTOR: Here, just a minute.
I don't particularly want to find myself
in the Marshal's hands again,
thank you very much.
Better off on Skybase than in here.
We'll have to hurry, old son.
Attack's due to start any minute now.
-Attack?
-Gas.
The Marshal's solution
to what he calls the Mutt problem.
Doesn't he know we're in here?
-He knows.
-I think we ought to move out now,
before it's too late.
-What's the count?
-Seems to be swarming with Mutts, sir.
They're attracted to the place.
Mmm, they go there to die,
they have the old idea
of the elephant's graveyard.
All right. Should be any moment now.
Let me see those tablets again, Ky.
The answer must be here somewhere.
STUBBS: Doctor! Gas!
They've started the attack already!
-We've got to get out!
-We can't get out!
-The Marshal's sealed us in.
-What are we going to do?
(ALARM BLARING)
Die, Overlord! Die!
(GROANING)
You listen to me, Varan.
For the last time, I tell you,
I am not an Overlord.
I've come to help your people,
but I must find Ky.
Ky is my enemy.
I will destroy him, and
you, too, Overl...
You will take me to Ky or I will
leave you here for the guards to find.
Now, do you give me your word
as a warrior?
Right.
Lead the way.
(LOUD WHOOSHING)
-What the blazes is that?
-Firestorms.
-Firestorms? Is that all?
-It's the wrath of the gods.
It is a simple
atmospheric disturbance, Varan,
and something very much
to our advantage.
-Well, now what's the matter?
-You have no mask.
When the sun rises, you will not be able
to breathe the air on Solos.
No Earthman can.
Did I say I was an Earthman?
How long do they usually last?
The firestorms?
At first, it was a few minutes,
now it can go on all night,
each one longer than the last,
terrifying my people.
(LOUD WHOOSHING)
Surely they're used
to these thunderstorms.
There were no firestorms on Solos
until the Marshal began his experiments.
Experiments?
To make our air breathable
for the Overlords,
but not for the Solonians.
It will mean the end of my people,
Miss Grant.
(ROARING)
(SCREAMING)
There, look!
It's all right, it's harmless.
But it's horrible.
They're people, my people.
At least they were
before the Marshal's experiments.
Perhaps it's the firestorm.
Usually they run away.
It will be safer
further back in the cave.
(ROARING)
We'd better hide. In here.
(ROARING CONTINUES)
Don't worry.
-I'll drive them away.
-Be careful, Ky.
(KY SHOUTING)
Professor Jaeger,
one of the Empire's
greatest scientific minds,
foiled by a simple booby trap.
The Doctor said it was an experiment.
A booby trap, Jaeger,
so he could escape.
It was a particle reversal,
I know it was.
Forget particle reversal,
get those rockets ready!
You'll have to go ahead on your own now.
Marshal, you don't realise.
I am just not ready.
Without particle reversal,
the whole process is too dangerous.
It could get completely out of hand.
Jaeger, will you get this
into your maundering egghead?
I want the atmosphere on the planet
changed, and I want it changed now.
Clear?
Get me Stubbs and Cotton.
I want to see them right away.
I'll be in my office.
-This is it, then.
-Is he on to us?
Well, we'll soon find out.
Ah, Stubbs and Cotton.
My trusty right-hand men.
-Sir.
-Sir.
Not only have you failed
to capture Ky and Miss Grant,
you've also let
the Doctor escape to Solos.
I tried to stop him, sir.
Professor Jaeger let him get...
Silence!
You'll prepare to pay
a last visit to Solos.
Last visit, sir?
For a while, Stubbs.
While you're there,
we shall kill three birds
with one stone.
Mutts, Varan and the Doctor.
Well, somebody's been here.
(GROWLING)
-I wonder why they left.
-Look!
(ROARING)
You saw?
Such creatures are evil, diseased.
Perhaps.
But I hope that the answer
to their mutation is in here.
Come on. Let's find Ky.
Then you must find him alone, Doctor.
Varan goes no further.
Something's going on in there.
Perhaps it's Miss Grant.
No. No.
What, is Varan, the great warrior,
afraid of the dark?
Varan fears nothing.
I'm delighted to hear it. Come on, then.
(KY SHOUTING)
This way.
(GASPING)
Listen to me!
I am Ky!
You know me, my people.
I come to find refuge, not to harm you.
(SHOUTING)
(CRYING OUT)
Leave him alone! Go on, back! Get back!
Get back, leave him be.
-Go, back!
-Hah! Hah!
Go on.
So, you must be Ky.
How do you do? I'm the Doctor.
That's the idea.
Now then, where's Miss Grant?
Why are you here, Varan?
Did your Overlord masters
send you to hunt me?
Now steady, old chap.
He did help to save your life, you know.
The Marshal has betrayed me.
The Overlords are
my enemies too now, Ky.
At last, Varan, you see the truth.
Now we can work together.
I need no help from you, Ky.
Now I shall return to my people,
and lead them in battle
against the Overlords.
So, you are the Doctor,
the friend of Miss Grant?
That's right. Where is she?
I took her to a place of safety
-when we were attacked.
-Good.
-Why did you come here?
-To find her.
And to give you this.
(PULSING)
Tablets. Sketchings.
These are not weapons.
Varan is right.
How can these help us in our struggle?
Weapons are what we need.
Perhaps these tablets are worth
more to you than any weapons.
I have seen such signs.
Well, read it, man.
-What does it say? Read it.
-I... I cannot.
It is the language of the Old Ones.
No one remembers.
All our culture has been destroyed
by the Overlords.
But you've...you've
seen this kind of writing before?
Signs like these are carved
in rocks all over Solos.
But no one knows. No one remembers.
As far as we are concerned, Doctor,
they are meaningless squiggles.
They must mean something.
Otherwise, why would
I have been sent here?
Why indeed? Come.
If we stay here,
they will surely attack again.
No. I'm sorry, I can't go yet.
-You are fools!
-I can't go yet, not without Miss Grant.
Is this the way to fight the Overlords?
To stay here and be killed by Mutts?
If you will not fight, Varan will.
Now, Varan, wait. Varan, wait!
(PULSING)
He will go back to his village
and he and his men,
for all their valour, will be wiped out.
Swords are no use against the Overlord.
No.
Right, Ky. Take me to Miss Grant.
This way, Doctor.
There must be somebody on Solos
who understands the old language.
There was a man called, uh, Sondergaard.
A man of learning from Earth.
He came to study our culture.
And?
After a while, he disappeared.
Oh, it was all arranged
by the Overlords.
Our friend the Marshal again, huh?
(GROWLING)
A simple operation.
Surveillance reports show
they've gone to ground there.
Now, Jaeger has devised
some novel gas grenades.
I want men stationed at every exit.
We set off the grenades, flush them out.
All of them.
Ky, Doctor, Varan, Mutts. The lot.
What if the grenades
don't flush them out, sir?
Then they'll die anyway.
Well?
I left her here.
Perhaps she became frightened,
ran off in panic.
Perhaps.
Then we better
start searching, hadn't we?
I have been studying
the monitoring reports since the storms.
I am not interested in weather reports.
Then you should be.
The reports show
a sharp rise in temperature
after every one of these storms.
-So?
-There is no corresponding decrease.
Marshal, Solos is getting
hotter and hotter.
We are moving into something
which none of us have ever experienced.
The Solonian summer.
Ever since we've been here, 500 years,
it's been spring. Now, summer.
It may become too hot
for any human being to live here.
And it may not.
That's for you to find out, Jaeger.
My first priority
is to wipe out the Mutts.
The reports also indicate
a very sudden rise in the mutation rate.
More Mutts than ever, Marshal.
And all moving towards your target area.
Good.
Good, then. The more the merrier.
KY: No?
-No.
-But she must be here.
Oh, well,
we'll just have to search them
all over again, won't we?
If the torches last
and they don't attack.
What, you heard them?
They're watching us all the time.
-(GROWLING)
-Yes.
But they don't attack us in the tunnels.
Only in here.
This chamber must be important to them.
I feel it myself.
Feel what?
A sensation.
An awareness of being drawn here.
This is a warm, safe place.
A centre.
A sort of instinct.
Yes.
Yes, it's strange.
Still, we must keep searching. Come on.
MARSHAL: Hurry up.
I want those gas grenades here.
Give me those blast packs.
No one else is to know about this,
understood?
(CLEARING THROAT)
-Everything ready?
-Yes, sir.
-Uh, excuse me, sir.
-Well?
I think we should do something
about finding the Doctor, sir.
Do you now?
Professor Jaeger said
he was important, sir.
Mmm-hmm.
-Well, Cotton?
-I agree, sir.
I thought you might.
Very well, Stubbs. You and Cotton,
I give you 15 minutes, no more.
-Right, sir.
-And keep in radio contact all the way.
-Sir
-I want to hear every word.
And if you come across Ky,
make sure you make a better job of him
than you did of Varan!
Ho! Varan has returned.
(MOANING)
(WEAKLY) Varan.
What has happened? Where are my people?
-The fire... The firestorm.
-Speak!
Evil. A plague of evil.
Fire from the sky.
Listen to me. Summon my council.
Go! Beat the war gong.
STUBBS: Doctor!
COTTON: Doctor!
STUBBS: Doctor!
COTTON: Doctor!
Doctor!
(DISTANTLY) Doctor!
Overlords. We must abandon the search.
They will track us here.
-COTTON: Doctor!
-All right. Quick, back to the chamber.
Let's try this way.
(GROANING)
-If they attack now...
-Shh! Wait.
-Listen.
-(GROANING)
That's Jo Grant in there somewhere.
Jo? Jo, are you in there?
Jo?
Jo? Jo, are you all right?
Jo.
-Doctor.
-Yes, it all right. It's me.
STUBBS: Ah, there you are.
-Run, Doctor!
-No, Ky.
KY: Overlord swine.
STUBBS: It's us, Doctor.
Stubbs and Cotton.
Is Miss Grant with you?
DOCTOR: Yes, she's over here.
She appears to be injured.
Right. Prepare the grenades.
-But, sir, they're all in there.
-Exactly.
Fire the grenades.
Pull out! Everyone out of the cave.
All sections, seal off exits.
Fire grenades.
Hello?
Hello?
Lost contact.
Why does no one come?
Where are my warriors?
Your warriors have fled, Varan.
-Am I left with nothing but mutants?
-They, too.
It is the way with us all,
old and young.
Those who can walk have gone
to the mines, Varan, to the mines.
Why?
Why has this curse come upon us?
(EXCLAIMING IN DISGUST)
No! No! No! No! No!
MAN: Go, Varan.
Go to the place of sleeping,
the place of darkness and light.
Go, Varan.
Go.
-Go. Go.
-No. No.
I was born to fight.
Varan will not die sleeping!
A passageway full of light.
Even the rocks were glowing.
I remember walking towards the light.
Yes?
And then there was
this noise in my head.
I couldn't hear.
I couldn't see properly.
-Then I started to get dizzy.
-DOCTOR: Mmm-hmm.
And there was a figure,
-a silvery figure.
-A mutant?
-I don't know.
-DOCTOR: Well, and then what?
Well, then, I'm sorry, Doctor,
I fainted.
Well, whatever it was,
it brought you back here.
I'd better tell
his nibs what's going on.
DOCTOR: Here, just a minute.
I don't particularly want to find myself
in the Marshal's hands again,
thank you very much.
Better off on Skybase than in here.
We'll have to hurry, old son.
Attack's due to start any minute now.
-Attack?
-Gas.
The Marshal's solution
to what he calls the Mutt problem.
Doesn't he know we're in here?
-He knows.
-I think we ought to move out now,
before it's too late.
-What's the count?
-Seems to be swarming with Mutts, sir.
They're attracted to the place.
Mmm, they go there to die,
they have the old idea
of the elephant's graveyard.
All right. Should be any moment now.
Let me see those tablets again, Ky.
The answer must be here somewhere.
STUBBS: Doctor! Gas!
They've started the attack already!
-We've got to get out!
-We can't get out!
-The Marshal's sealed us in.
-What are we going to do?