(DOCTOR WHO THEME)
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MEGLOS: Flies trapped in amber.
Not even the Doctor can escape a chronic hysteretic loop.
GRUGGER: A what?
MEGLOS: I've caught him inside a fold of time.
Oh, uh-huh, that's good.
MEGLOS: His only respite
is the short period when he loops back to the start.
BROTADAC: Round and round, for all eternity!
(CIRCUIT BUZZING)
Oh, blast. Here we go again.
(CHUCKLES)
- What's the matter? - Well, now his probe circuit's jammed.
Well, that's easy. Just waggle his tail.
All right. I've tried everything else.
(WHIRRING)
K9: Thank you, Mistress. Repairs complete.
That's the third time. What's happening?
The Tardis appears to be functioning normally.
Yes, then what? Repeated time cycles?
Oh, no.
It couldn't be a chronic hysteresis, could it?
Chronic hysteresis?
I hope not.
If it is, we'll be stuck here forever.
Yes.
- This Meglos can bend time? - Right. In a loop.
BROTADAC: I've never heard of that, have you?
GRUGGER: Doesn't matter how it's done.
The point is the Doctor doesn't get to Tigella.
MEGLOS: Oh, but he does, gentlemen. He does.
We mustn't disappoint the Tigellans.
It's no good. Every time we try to...
(CIRCUIT BUZZING)
Oh, blast. Here we go again.
(CHUCKLES)
What's the matter?
Well, now his probe circuit's jammed.
Well, that's easy. Just waggle his tail.
All right. I've tried everything else.
(WHIRRING)
K9: Thank you, Mistress. Repairs complete.
What can we try now?
K9, is there any way out of a chronic hysteresis?
Negative, Mistress. No known technological procedure.
We're still looping.
- What if we stop the time rotor? - Yes!
- No! That's a terrible idea. - Well, I'm only trying to help.
There's no known technological procedure.
Sorry to whisper.
There's no known technological procedure.
(CIRCUIT BUZZING)
Oh, blast. Here we go again.
All right, get up.
Twenty seconds to atmospheric entry.
Activating heat shields.
Ha! Heat shields. How fascinating.
They work! If it wasn't for us, you'd still be in Zolfa-Thura.
I've got a geographical fix on the main entrance.
Do you want to land there?
No, jungle. Land further to the north.
Stand by for landing!
Entering foliage now!
- Well, Lexa? - You will not be pleased.
So your prayers have not been answered?
(DISTANT RUMBLING)
The Time Lord may visit us.
Then you will allow him to inspect the Dodecahedron?
- On one condition. - Mmm-hmm?
He must take the Deon oath.
Take the Deon... No, Lexa. That would be an insult to our guest.
Your guest?
You cannot make a Time Lord swear allegiance to Ti.
Once again, Zastor, you can impress us with your diplomacy.
Right. We'll wait here for about an hour.
One hour exactly.
And we'll come and get you if anything goes wrong.
- Goes wrong? - (GRUGGER CHUCKLES)
General, do you know, sometimes I think you forget who I am.
That man could do anything. What a mind! Anything!
Don't think too hard, you'll burst something.
And I like his coat.
Oh!
The moment he arrives, Caris will bring him to us.
Having filled his head with scientific nonsense, I presume.
MALE TIGELLAN ON INTERCOM: Temperature rising in food store.
I hope your friend the Doctor will appreciate our difficulties.
The Doctor has the maturity to respect many points of view.
We could inhabit the surface again.
If this Doctor fails us, we may have to.
(ELECTRONIC HUMMING)
I'm the Time Lord. The Doctor. You were expecting me?
Oh, yes indeed!
Oh, you're most welcome! Please, follow me.
MALE TIGELLAN ON INTERCOM: Central storage banks overloading.
- Shall I close up receptor panels? - No! Not yet!
Re-route surplus to section five, they have spare capacity.
The oath-taking ceremony is prepared.
What, you're making him take the oath?
- Zastor, this is ridiculous. - It's got to be done, Deedrix.
Zastor!
ZASTOR: Doctor! It is good to see you again.
- Again? - It's been a long time.
I'm Zastor, now the Tigellan leader.
Oh, yes, of course! Yes, I remember you very well.
You haven't changed much, Doctor.
- Little older, little wiser. - Oh, much wiser.
I gather your energy source is behaving somewhat capriciously.
DEEDRIX: Capriciously? It's out of control.
Excuse me.
An absorption system, I presume?
Yes, there's a series of receptor panels placed above the Dodecahedron
and the radiated energy is measured there.
And these screens can be closed down?
Well, yes. The central storage banks will contain enough energy for one hour,
but it is extremely dangerous.
One hour is all I'll need. Turn them off.
DEEDRIX: Close down receptor panels until further notice.
Good. Now show me the Dodecahedron.
Surely you remember the way, Doctor.
Ah! Yes, of course. But now that you're leader I'll follow you.
Before entering the power room, you must take the Deon oath.
A mere formality, Doctor.
Will you swear allegiance to Ti, Doctor?
I, swear allegiance to Ti?
I'll swear allegiance to Ti with great pleasure.
I'm flattered to be so honoured. Please, lead the way.
(CIRCUIT BUZZING)
Oh, blast. Here we go again.
(CHUCKLES)
What's the matter?
Well, now his probe circuit's jammed.
Well, that's easy. Just waggle his tail.
All right. I've tried everything else.
(WHIRRING)
K9: Thank you, Mistress. Repairs complete.
We can't get out of it.
We've tried everything.
Yes. That's what you said when you were repairing K9,
you tried everything.
We've tried everything.
- We've tried everything. Of course! - What?
Can you remember the rest of what you said?
I should think so, we've been through it enough times.
- K9? - Master?
Then that's how we'll do it, throw it out of phase!
You mean go through the motions deliberately?
Yes, yes, yes. Before the cycle comes back again.
- Well, you were over there. - What?
- Over there. - Yes. Yes, of course.
Good! Off you go, then.
Uh...
Oh, blast. Here we go again.
What's the matter?
Now his probe circuit's jammed.
(MOUTHING)
Ah! That's easy. Just waggle his tail.
All right. We've tried everything else.
(WHIRRING)
K9: (ECHOING) Thank you, Mistress. Repairs complete.
Phase cancellation.
- We've done it! - Well done.
You know, for one awful moment, I thought you'd forgotten your lines.
Neither to transgress the laws of the Dodecahedron.
Thanks be to Ti!
You are now free to enter the power room.
DEEDRIX: Thanks be to Ti.
People of Tigella, what I have to do is extremely dangerous.
- ZASTOR: In what way? - To control the output,
it will be necessary to increase the violence of the emissions.
- Then you'll be in danger yourself. - Well, hardly. I'm a Time Lord.
Having lived in the future, I can hardly die in the present.
That can't be true, that's a philosophical paradox.
No, it's merely beyond your comprehension.
However, all of your lives are in danger.
- Then we must leave. - Precisely.
Only I...
Only I must enter the power room.
But it was agreed that I should accompany him, on the god's behalf.
But now I have the protection of Ti himself.
We must not appear to mistrust that blessing.
So be it.
(WHOOSHING)
DOCTOR: Well, according to my calculations,
this should be sector eight of the city.
ROMANA: Ah!
Yes.
Well, if this is the city,
I can only assume we are in some sort of park.
- K9: Master. Master. - Good heavens.
This place has grown up a bit since I was last here.
- Well, where is the city then? - That way!
Twenty-two degrees north. Thirty-six point four degrees west.
Right!
- Doctor? - Yes?
Ah! Well, anyone can make a mistake.
Ten thousand years.
Well, I only got the direction wrong
because of Tigella's anti-clockwise rotation.
- Anomaly. - ROMANA: What is it, K9?
Partial incineration of vegetation evident.
Nonsense, K9. These leaves are burnt.
Mistress?
DOCTOR: Come on, there's no time for botany.
Now, what would cause that? Thinness of the atmosphere?
Negative, Mistress. Projection of Dodecahedron power insufficient.
Foliation scanning period now terminated, Mistress.
Expedition necessary.
(CHIRPING)
(ALIEN JUNGLE HOWLS)
(GROANING)
(GASPS)
- What are you doing here, Caris? - Let go.
Look, it's vital we understand what's happening in there.
You were ordered to stay out of this area.
And so were you, Lexa.
(WHISPERING) He's coming back.
- What's happened to the light? - What?
Hello there, I'm the Doctor. I'm expected.
- I didn't see you go out. - What?
This is the second time you've been in here.
I say, you've got a marvellous memory.
It must be 50 of your years since I was last here.
Roma...
- K9, do you know where she is? - Master.
Then run and fetch her, and tell her to hurry.
Master!
It's not possible!
(GRUNTING)
(GROANING)
(COUGHING)
Ugh! Bell Plants. Very nasty.
Now I see why they live underground.
More scorching.
Vanished?
We watched the Doctor leave, and the power room's empty!
But that's inconceivable!
This is control! Activate receptor panels.
(MACHINERY POWERING DOWN)
It's dead!
It's dead! There's no power down there.
Where's the Doctor?
He's betrayed us.
Now wait a minute, tell me exactly what happened.
No, there isn't time. Out of my way.
This is a control command! This is a control command!
(OVER PA SYSTEM) Arrest the Time Lord! Stop him at all costs!
He must not be allowed to leave the city!
That's odd. I could have sworn central control was this... Ah!
Excuse me!
I'm the Doctor. I'm expected.
Well, will you just tell people I've arrived?
MALE TIGELLAN ON PA: Stop the Time Lord! Stop the Doctor!
Take him at all costs!
That's very impressive.
It's not exactly what I expected, but it's very impressive.
- There he is. Take him! - No, no! It's all right. I'm a Doctor.
Where is the Dodecahedron?
I don't know. I don't even know where central control is.
Zastor, how good to see you. Will you tell them who I am?
I know who you are.
- Doctor, what's happening? - Please, please, stay calm.
I'm sorry I'm late. We could have been here earlier.
But for the chronic hysteresis, that's a sort of time loop, you see.
- "We"? - Yes, my assistant,
she'll be along in a minute.
- Anyway, Zastor, how are you? - Baffled, Doctor.
- Ah! - You'd better come with us.
But what about Romana?
Oh, never mind about them. Take him away!
So that's what caused the burning.
(GASPS)
I do beg your pardon.
Mistress?
(SCANNERS BEEPING)
Response negative.
(DISTORTED) Batteries require recharge.
Returning to the city.
(PANTING)
She's seen too much!
Kill her!
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