(DOCTOR WHO THEME)
(BEEPING)
Going to manual.
What for?
Why not? If we're going to be slammed around, I'd sooner do it myself.
- It's still telling you what to do. - Yes, but at least I'm doing it.
Come on, Meeker.
(BEEPING RAPIDLY)
You're off course.
Sorry, skipper.
Put it back on automatic. Please.
(BEEPING STOPS)
Eh? I can't!
Titan shuttle, Captain. New course for Titan, please.
(BEEPS)
- All right, Meeker, that is enough. - What?
Off watch. Please.
Look, I qualified for exploration eight years ago and what am I?
Glorified garage attendant on some planetary filling station.
Your turn'll come.
You'll be glad enough of refuel bases then.
All I'm saying is that I want a real...
COMPUTER: Unidentified organism. Changing course to avoid.
What was all that about?
There's nothing there.
Titan shuttle, Captain.
(BEEPS)
Report, please.
(BEEPS)
NUCLEUS: Contact has been made.
Contact?
- We've never been in here before. - You've never been in here before.
What is it?
Number two control room been closed for redecoration. I don't like the colour.
White isn't a colour.
That's the trouble with computers, always think in black and white.
No aquamarines, no blues, no imagination!
Have we stopped?
No, we haven't stopped.
- Have we materialised? - Yes.
Where?
Solar system between Jupiter and Saturn.
About 5,000 AD...
5,000 AD? We're still in the time of your ancestors.
- Ancestors? - Yes.
That was the year of the great breakout.
- The great what? - Mmm.
When your forefathers went
leapfrogging across the solar system on their way to the stars.
Asteroid belt's probably teeming with them now.
New frontiersmen, pioneers,
waiting to spread across the galaxy like a tidal wave
or a disease.
Why "disease"? I thought you liked humanity.
Oh, I do, I do. Some of my best friends are humans.
When they get together in great numbers, other life forms sometimes suffer.
(BEEPING)
(BEEPING STOPS)
(BEEPS)
COMPUTER: Docking. Docking. Contact. All locked.
MAN ON INTERCOM: Hey, are we glad to see you.
Welcome to Titan. You're welcome to it.
We're in the mess, come on down.
(MEN LAUGHING)
Come on in, join the party.
Our last supper on Titan.
Well, come on. Get your gear off and relax.
You're going to be here for...
Hey, what kind of a joke is...
(LASER GUNS FIRING)
There is one other. The station supervisor.
We must find him, destroy him,
then we can make this the ideal place in which to breed and multiply.
(FLICKS SWITCH)
Shuttle relief crew. Shuttle relief crew.
Come in, please.
Shuttle relief crew, this is Supervisor Lowe.
Please report.
Relief crew, this is the supervisor.
Where are you?
Oh, my God, what's happened? Hello! Hello!
What is it? What's gone wrong?
Wrong? There is nothing wrong.
This is most suitable for our purpose.
What? What purpose?
Safran? Safran, is that you?
What has happened?
Who is this Safran?
Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! This is Titan Base!
Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!
(ALARM BEEPING)
The supervisor has escaped.
Leave him. Let him suffocate.
(ALARM STOPS)
DOCTOR: Soon as I have reset these coordinates,
we'll go somewhere really interesting.
(ALARM BEEPING)
LOWE ON RADIO: Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! This is Titan Base!
Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!
What was that?
Distress call.
From Titan.
That message took half an hour to get here.
- Is Titan really interesting? - What does that matter?
What's important is that someone needs help.
Quadrant 62.
WHI1 212.
9990EX41 ...
- What's the matter? - I'm troubled.
About what?
- I can feel something. - Hey...
SAFRAN: Titan, this is Titan Base.
All vessels, repeat, all vessels disregard mayday.
I say again, disregard mayday.
All under control.
- There we are. -Our apologies.
- That's it! - That's what?
- That's something evil. -Titan Base out.
- What? - It was not a human speaking.
It wasn't?
What was that?
Static. Nothing important.
There was a sort of glow all around you.
There was? Oh.
Well, a kind of St Elmo's fire. It happens at sea.
St Elmo's?
Yes, it causes a sort of halo effect around the masts of ships.
Halo?
Why do you keep repeating everything I say?
- You're not a parrot, are you? - Parrot?
Yes. A parrot's a bird that repeats things. Move over.
- Move over! - That's it.
(EXPLOSION)
I thought you said there was nothing wrong.
Well, there isn't anything wrong.
Well, there isn't anything important wrong.
But I've got to check it, haven't I?
I can still feel it.
Come on, old thing. Come on.
NUCLEUS: Contact has been made.
Incubation will start here.
NUCLEUS: Contact has been made.
The Nucleus has found a host.
Prepare for his coming.
(WHOOSHING)
Doctor, wake up.
We've landed. We've materialised.
There is one other with the host. She has been rejected.
We must destroy her and dispose of her body with the rest.
Take up your positions.
- Hello, Lalee. - Are you all right?
- Rightly perfect. Thank you, yet, Lalee. - What did you say?
I said I'm perfectly all right, thank you, Lalee.
- My name is Leela. - Hmm?
I know your name. Leela.
What happened?
- Must have had a bot of a shick. - What?
A bot of a shick.
Doctor, what is it? What's the matter?
- A voice or something in my head. - The evil thing.
Nonsense. Just a nasty turn.
Come on. We're on Titan.
Let's take a look.
That was odd.
Doctor, don't go out.
- What? - It's out there.
Evil!
- We must go. We've had a mayday. - No, I can feel it is wrong.
What? Intuition?
I don't care what you call it, Doctor.
I knew. I knew before that... Before you were affected.
What are you talking about, "affected"?
Well, before you were knocked out!
Leela, listen to me! I'm perfectly all right. Move over.
Drop your weapons. I'm arresting you. All of you!
Close the door. Turn off the oxygen supply.
(WHISTLING)
Nobody around.
Not a soul.
(BLOWING DUCK CALL)
Anyone home?
Doctor, look!
"Disregard mayday." He said, "Disregard mayday." Why?
It is still warm.
- Don't be gruesome. - I am a hunter.
- You're a savage. - Perhaps.
I'm not ashamed of what I am and I tell you, Doctor,
I can smell danger.
- What did you say? - I said I can smell danger.
- Evil again? - Everywhere.
- Mmm. - In this place.
- We better find it before it finds us. - Right.
- Stay here. - I'm no coward.
Now, listen. Whatever...
Set temperature and humidity rate for optimum breeding conditions.
(CLEARS THROAT)
Excuse me, you don't know me.
- Let me introduce myself. - There is no need.
We are preparing the hives now.
People call me the...
Hives?
For the Nucleus which you carry within you.
Are you all right? I answered your mayday.
You answered the call?
That's right, that's right. Has someone been hurt?
It is of no consequence.
The physical envelope is of no importance.
Of no importance.
What do you mean, "Of no importance"? I just found a dead body out there.
Now that you have arrived...
I have arrived.
SAFRAN: All that matters is that the reject should be destroyed.
Reject should be destroyed.
And breeding begin.
And breeding from my Nucleus begin.
Leela, the reject, will not suspect me.
- One of us will follow. - That is not necessary.
The Nucleus within you must not be harmed.
Must not be harmed.
Very well.
(COUGHS)
- Who are you? - We answered your mayday.
They tried to kill me. The relief crew.
They're insane.
They've already killed these poor devils.
But why?
- Are they your enemies? - No.
I know them. At least I thought I did. But they've changed.
- How changed? - Their eyes.
Their manner, their whole behaviour is different.
- One of them said something. - What?
Their purpose.
"This place will be suitable for our purpose."
"For our purpose", whatever that is.
The Doctor will know. He'll be here soon.
Leela. Leela, where are you?
- That's him! That's the Doctor. - No, wait.
It could be a trap if they've caught him.
What are we going to do?
(WHISPERING) Hide.
DOCTOR: Don't worry, Leela. It's only me.
Listen to me, Leela.
There's nothing wrong with this place, it's most suitable.
It's a good place. A good place.
Come on, Leela, I'm waiting.
Please leave me.
Please.
I can't do it. I can't do it.
Think of the purpose. She is a reject. She must die.
I can't!
- Think of the purpose! - I can't.
The purpose is all important!
(CLATTERING)
The reject is here.
Stay.
The Nucleus does not wish to be harmed. I shall destroy her.
Yes. Kill her.
Kill her.
Meeker, this purpose, what is it?
Leave it to me. I know this place.