Post by Refugee on Jun 12, 2006 16:47:25 GMT
It has been a while since I posted a fan fiction on here and although this isn't really War of the Worlds, Mars is involved, and there are WOTW refferences. so here we go.....
Harmony
(A marble room darkened and lit with red flashing lights and echoing with the sound of sirens. Computer terminals line the walls and technicians bustle about. The Castellan and counsellor Prylek enter.)
Castellan
Only a time ship can breach the transduction barrier.
Counsellor Prylek
It’s the Daleks, they survived, and they’ve found us!
Castellan
Get me visual confirmation now!
Tech
Yes sir!
(Enter the president)
President
I trust there is a good reason for this commotion Castellan?
Castellan
Indeed Madame President, a breach has occurred in the barrier.
Tech
Visual coming through now sir.
Castellan
What is it?
Counsellor Prylek
It is Dalek, I knew it.
President
I’m afraid it’s somewhat worse than that counsellor.
Castellan
You recognise the vehicle Madame President?
Tech
What could be worse than the Daleks?
President
The on coming storm…
(An image of the TARDIS solidifies on the main view screen as sub windows open displaying the doctor’s previous incarnations, a cloister bell sounds. Cut to opening titles.)
(The TARDIS, in a cave, a door occupies the far side, flaming torches stand against the walls)
Doctor (Stepping out of the TARDIS)
It’s a rock.
Rose
I saw something
Doctor
Hair in your eyes
Rose
On the scanner screen
Doctor
Background E M,
Rose
Well if there’s nothing here what’s all this about.
Doctor
The scanner doesn’t pick up flaming torch readings
Rose
No but it means there’s someone here.
Doctor
Or was someone here
Rose
Just admit it, I’m right
Doctor
Ok, I’m right.
(The pair laugh)
(Back in the marble control room)
Castellan
Dispatch the guards to that section at once!
President
Wait!
Castellan
Madame President we must/
President
/Not yet. Have them….guided to the plaza, we will greet them there in person.
Castellan
Is that wise m’am.
President
Did I not suggest it. Carry out your orders Castellan.
Castellan
Yes Madame President.
(Back in the cave, at the door)
Rose
Can you open it?
Doctor
Of course, I can open anything.
Rose
Apart from/
Doctor
/almost anything.
(The doors swing open)
Rose
That was quick
Doctor
It wasn’t me, they just opened.
Rose
Someone’s sending us an invite
Doctor
Well it would be rude of us to leave without saying hello. Miss Tyler, would you care to accompany me for this hop?
Rose
I thought you’d never ask.
(Rose takes the doctor’s arm and the pair walk off down the corridor beyond the door.)
(The 2 enter a large marble hall, a giant seal of Rassilon occupies the floor.)
Rose
Maybe the doors are automatic
Doctor
Maybe.
Rose
Wow, that’s like, that’s like nothing else.
Doctor
They’ve certainly got a passion for metamorphic rock.
(Noticing the seal)
Doctor
Rassilon.
Rose
This thing, you recognise it?
Doctor
It’s the seal of Rassilon.
Rose
And who’s he?
Doctor
He is, well was, a hero among my people, he founded our society, was a great inventor.
Rose
Well what’s it doing here?
Doctor
Good question.
Rose
Do you want to leave?
Doctor
Not yet.
(The doctor steps into the centre of the seal and is surrounded by a force field)
Rose
Doctor!
Doctor
No! Don’t touch the beams.
(The hall is filled by Gallifreyan guards)
Doctor
This isn’t possible.
Rose
Who are you?! Let him out of there!
(Rose is seized)
Doctor
Let her go!
President (out of sight)
Take her to my apartments; take that to the holding cells of the Panopticon. Impound the type 40.
Rose (being dragged away)
Let go of me! Doctor!
Doctor
It’ll be alright! Don’t struggle!
President
You have your orders commander.
(The force field deactivates, a guard approaches the doctor)
Doctor
How?
(The guard punches the doctor, knocking him out)
(We see the doctor wake on the floor of a cell, it is dark, a tear trickles down the doctors face, catching the light from outside, the camera follows a spec of dust out of the barred window and we ascend quickly the outside of the Panopticon to the large windows of the presidential apartments where Rose is being escorted through the door. The guards remain outside.)
President(in full regalia)
Do come in, please, sit down.
Rose
Who are you? What’s going on? Where’s the doctor?
President
So many questions
Rose
Not many answers though.
President
I am the president of the high council of the time lords, keeper of the legacy of Rassilon and defender of the laws of time.
Rose
Nice hat
President
It came with the shoes.
Rose
But who are you really?
President
I’m sorry?
Rose
You’re not kidding me, the time lords are dead, they were wiped out, you’re just sick.
President
I assure you I am not.
Rose
Well if you are a time lord prove it
President
Come on boy!
K9
Mistress
Rose
It can’t be. He belongs to Sarah-Jane Smith.
President
Not this model, he’s all mine.
Rose
Then you know/
President
/the Doctor, oh yes.
Rose
Who are you?
President
My name is Romanadeveratnalunda.
Rose
Blimey.
President
You are Rose Tyler yes?
Rose
Yes.
President
The Doctor is in a great deal of trouble
Rose
What’s new? He’ll manage.
President
This time he won’t.
(Back in the cell, the Castellan and 2 guards enter)
Guard
The traitor will stand
(The 2 guards lift the doctor to his feet)
Castellan
A little late for recriminations now would you not think, Doctor.
Doctor
This is an illusion, a trick, you were all/
Castellan
/Destroyed? Perhaps, no thanks to you.
(Back in the presidential apartments)
Rose
Then how?
President
I wasn’t president then, I parted company with the Doctor to start a new life, in another universe. We saw the explosion tearing through the vortex and rescued as many Time Lords into the new universe as we could.
(In the cell)
Castellan
And there we survived until the vortex healed, before finally returning to this space, to start a fresh, from the tattered ruins that you left us.
Doctor
So all this, this building/
Castellan
/An exact replica of the original Panopticon.
Doctor
And Romana?
(Apartments)
President
They practically forced me to take office after that, since then we’ve been hiding here, trying to regain what we lost, in secret, in silence. But for one thing.
Rose
What’s that?
President
The Eye of Harmony
Rose
And what’s that?
K9
The Eye of Harmony is the crystalline nucleus of a black hole which has been the basis of Time Lord power through generations. Also called Rassilon’s Star.
President
When our home world, Gallifrey, was obliterated the Eye vanished, and we have since been unable to find it.
(In the cell)
Castellan
Which concludes a brief account of the many charges against you. Have you anything to say?
Doctor
You can’t hold a candle to your predecessor
(The Castellan hits the doctor across the face)
Castellan
Take him away!
(The guards carry the doctor out, the Castellan follows)
(The apartments)
Rose
I don’t understand, why is the Doctor in trouble?
President
Because he is responsible for all of this, he not only came close to destroying our race but wiped out countless others in the process, the Gelth, the Sintals, caused the Silver Devastation! And now he will pay the price!
Rose
He defeated the Daleks, saved all time and space from them, doesn’t that count for something?
President
But he didn’t do did he? We’ve scanned his TARDIS’s memory banks, they survived!
Rose
And how many others did because of what he did, hundreds!
President
How can you defend him? The Nestines were forced to try and invade Earth as a result of what he did!
Rose
Because I’ve seen what he has been through as a result of what he did. It tore him apart, he thought he’d lost you all, he’s been punishing himself for long enough.
President
Sadly, the high council disagrees with you Miss Tyler.
Rose
You can’t keep him locked up forever!
President
We don’t intend to.
Rose
Then/
President
/He will be dispersed, and his atoms scattered on the solar winds. The Doctor will be exterminated.
Rose
You can’t!
(The president leaves)
Rose
You can’t!
(A metal archway in the centre of an auditorium, time lords in full garb occupy a gallery above, the President takes her centre seat as the doctor is brought out and restrained within the arch way.)
(Back to Apartments)
Rose
Open this door! Let me out of here! Open this door!
K9
Do not distress yourself Mistress Tyler.
Rose
How can you just sit there?! The Doctor built you.
K9
I must follow the orders of the mistress.
Rose
What about your master? What about the Doctor?
K9
Negative
Rose
Don’t you care?
K9
Negative. I am an automaton; it is beyond my capacity to care.
Rose
Well then it’s a shame he wasted his time caring about you.
(pause)
K9
Shield your eyes Mistress Tyler.
(K9 opens fire on the door)
(In the auditorium)
Castellan
You have heard the charges brought against you Doctor, reflect on them in your last moments, execution will take place as soon as the council indicates.
Doctor
Aren’t you meant to ask me for my plea
Castellan
Would there be any point?
Doctor
One last Jelly Baby then?
(The Castellan turns away to look at the Time Lords in the gallery, they begin to show their hands, outstretched, palms to the floor)
(In a corridor K9 and Rose search for the auditorium)
K9
The Doctor Master’s Bio readings are emanating from the chamber at the end of this corridor.
Rose
He’s alive
K9
Affirmative
(Guards approach)
Guard
I’m sorry miss but you aren’t alowed to be here.
(In the chamber more Time Lords give their signal, The president remains still)
(Outside)
Rose
But, I’ve got to get in there.
Guard 2
Right under his spell
Guard
I’m sorry Miss, you will be returned to your proper time and place until then please wait in the presidential rooms.
K9
We will be alowed to pass.
Guard
Your authority does not extend that far sir.
(In the auditorium)
(More Time Lords signal, now all but the President. Energy begins to pulse through the arch way.)
(In the Corridor)
Rose
Let us in!
(She struggles with the guards)
K9
Stand aside or I will fire.
(Rose is thrown to the floor, K9’s gun appears)
(Auditorium)
(The energy of the archway begins to spike off as sheet lightning into the surrounding air, the Doctor grits his teeth)
Castellan
Any last words Doctor?
(K9 shoots the guards)
Doctor
I can find it.
President (standing)
Deactivate arch, Presidential override 1.
(The energy of the archway dissipates and a mumble rises from the now disgruntled Time Lord audience. The president descends a spiral staircase into the lower auditorium and moves close to the Doctor.)
Castellan
Madame President this is most/
President
/Quiet!
(To Doctor)
President
Don’t do this to me.
Doctor
Come on Romana, you know if anyone can do it, it’s me. Just give me my TARDIS and Rose and/
President
/and we’ll never see you again, no Doctor, not this time.
Doctor
You think that I should die?
President
Of course not, I never did, but the high council/
Doctor
/Are a bunch of /
President
/and the people would not permit it.
Councillor Chronin
This delay is outrageous, not to mention intolerable.
(A groan of “yes” comes from the other Time Lords)
Councillor Chronin
The traitor’s execution is long overdue!
President
The Doctor will be released and given access to his TARDIS.
Time Lords
NO!
(The main doors of the auditorium, which face the Time Lords’ gallery are blown off their hinges and Rose runs in through the smoke followed by K9)
Rose
Release the Doctor now!
Castellan
Or what?!
K9
Or you will be stripped of your powers and title.
Castellan
That isn’t within your power.
(K9 fires a warning shot at the wall behind the Castellan)
President
But I do. The Doctor will be given his TARDIS and/
Councillor Lomal
/And if he disappears as you say?
President
He won’t!
Councillor Lomal
Why not?
President
Because I will accompany him.
(Silence)
(Return to large seal of Rassilon hall, TARDIS now in centre surrounded by guards, guards fill the chamber, a path remains between the main doors and those of the TARDIS. Enter the Doctor and Rose followed by K9, then the President (In casual wear) and the Castellan, followed by high Councillors.)
(A guard spits at the Doctor)
Rose
Are you starting something?
Doctor
Leave it Rose.
Rose
No, he wants to make trouble, I’ll give him some.
Doctor
It isn’t worth it, come on.
(The Doctor opens the TARDIS and he and Rose enter)
Castellan
Are you sure about this Madame President?
President
Meaning?
Castellan
The council are concerned that your personal feelings for the Doctor may be clouding your judgement in this matter.
President (So that the Time Lords behind can hear)
Really! Well if they know of another way to recover the Eye of Harmony they can always speak up! We can’t go on like this Castellan, we need the eye.
Castellan
Good luck Madame president.
President
And to you.
(The President enters the TARDIS, guards salute as the vehicle dematerialises)
Counsellor Prylek
Do you think that they will return?
Castellan
I sincerely hope not.
(Console room)
Romana
What have you done to this poor machine?!
Doctor
It was the only way I could get her to run without the eye.
Rose
Okay what is this eye?
K9
The Eye of Harmony is/
Rose
/Yeh but why is it so important?
Doctor
It powered the whole of Gallifrey.
Romana
And every TARDIS.
Rose
But the TARDIS draws its power from the universe
Romana
So that’s how you did it.
Doctor
This one does yes, after some careful rewiring prior to…
Rose
To?
Romana
The destruction of Gallifrey.
Rose
I know it’s….but you’ve never actually told me. I mean you’ve never said, what actually happened.
Romana
Yes Doctor, what did happen?
Doctor
You know what the brief was, Rassilon himself prophesied it all those millennia ago, stop the darkness at all costs.
Romana
Well you’d know all about that.
Rose
So?
Doctor
The Daleks declared all out war shortly after they realised they could never have the power of the time lords.
Romana
They decided to either take it from us or destroy it.
Doctor
They redesigned themselves and their ships to fight war within the vortex itself. Our fleet met theirs and the fighting raged from one end of time to the other.
Rose
Then what stopped it?
Doctor
The big bang.
Rose
What?!
Romana
He took his TARDIS back to where it all began/
Doctor
/Put an inverse temporal field around the TARDIS/
Romana
/And punched a hole in the Vortex/
Doctor
The wave of the explosion swept straight through the Vortex, occasionally breaking into normal space.
Romana
For instance the Silver Devastation.
Doctor
This TARDIS was thrown clear into temporal sync. with real time, somewhere beyond Zeta Minor.
Romana
Meanwhile 10 million ships, Dalek and Gallifrey burned in the Vortex.
Doctor
And countless others outside it.
Rose
The end of the last great Time War.
Doctor
A reprieve.
Rose
And this eye was lost when Gallifrey…
Romana
Exactly. How do you intend to find it?
Doctor
By going home.
(We see the TARDIS flying through the vortex, the vortex turns from red to blue then there is a flash and the TARDIS moves, almost in slow motion, through a heavenly white vortex. Then with a flash the TARDIS is moving through normal space, in the vicinity of an asteroid field)
Romana (at the consol)
You got rid of an interfacing hologramatic scanner for an LCD botch job.
Doctor
It serves its purpose, besides, the hologram still works. Here.
(The doctor activates a control on the console and the wall panels melt away one by one to reveal the exterior view of space.)
Rose
That definitely puts LCD into perspective.
Romana
That asteroid field, is that/
Doctor
/Home
Romana
It’s strange, it seems so real. I knew, obviously I did, but, seeing it.
Rose
I felt the same when I saw the Earth destroyed in the year 5 billion. You never think it’s coming until it happens.
Doctor
K9, begin a complete astrometric scan of the area, I want to see every spec of dust out there.
K9
Affirmative master.
Rose
What are you going to look for?
Doctor
The eye was the centre of a black hole, something that powerful doesn’t disappear without leaving a trace.
Romana
And if it has?
Doctor
Then we ask the locals.
Romana
The what?
Doctor
When did you last visit the planet Karn?
Rose
Karn?
Doctor
Home of a religious sect, the sisters of the flame, long time friends of the Time Lords and owe me a favour or 12.
Rose
Is there anyone who doesn’t?
Romana
I can name one or 12.
K9
Analysis complete.
Doctor
And?
K9
5000 particles carbon triaxilate per/
Doctor
/Gravity wells, time distortion.
K9
Negative master.
Romana
Time to go knocking on doors.
Rose
That’s what we do best, the domestic approach.
(Back on Gallifrey, in the presidential apartments the Castellan is trying on the presidential head dress when someone enters un-announced.)
Lady Leela
Doesn’t quite fit around the ears pale-face.
Castellan
Ah, Lady Leela, so good of you to come, I suppose you have heard the news.
Lady Leela
Of course, I told you he would come, I told you he would save us again I/
Castellan
/Yes, yes, yes I remember the first 20 times you told me thank you.
Lady Leela
Well, why have I been called here?
Castellan
Our illustrious president has chosen to accompany the Doctor on his mission.
Lady Leela
And?
Castellan
And in the resulting instability/
Lady Leela
/What instability, the council are not that stupid/
Castellan
/I am taking the precaution of having certain potential trouble makers locked away quietly.
Lady Leela
What has that got to do with me?
Castellan
I hear the lower areas of the Panoptican can be rather draughty, I hope you will be warm enough in those…rags.
Lady Leela
You/
(She is cut short when the Castellan uses a device on his wrist, transmatting Lady Leela away. He then activates a communicator on his other wrist.)
Castellan
Commander Pronie?
Commander Pronie
We have her Castellan.
Castellan
Good. Is all in readiness.
Commander Pronie
All is prepared sir.
Castellan
Excellent then… Pronie.
Castellan
Yes sir?
Castellan
Send me the presidential tailor. This hat will definitely require some adjustment.
Commander Pronie
Very good sir.
Harmony
(A marble room darkened and lit with red flashing lights and echoing with the sound of sirens. Computer terminals line the walls and technicians bustle about. The Castellan and counsellor Prylek enter.)
Castellan
Only a time ship can breach the transduction barrier.
Counsellor Prylek
It’s the Daleks, they survived, and they’ve found us!
Castellan
Get me visual confirmation now!
Tech
Yes sir!
(Enter the president)
President
I trust there is a good reason for this commotion Castellan?
Castellan
Indeed Madame President, a breach has occurred in the barrier.
Tech
Visual coming through now sir.
Castellan
What is it?
Counsellor Prylek
It is Dalek, I knew it.
President
I’m afraid it’s somewhat worse than that counsellor.
Castellan
You recognise the vehicle Madame President?
Tech
What could be worse than the Daleks?
President
The on coming storm…
(An image of the TARDIS solidifies on the main view screen as sub windows open displaying the doctor’s previous incarnations, a cloister bell sounds. Cut to opening titles.)
(The TARDIS, in a cave, a door occupies the far side, flaming torches stand against the walls)
Doctor (Stepping out of the TARDIS)
It’s a rock.
Rose
I saw something
Doctor
Hair in your eyes
Rose
On the scanner screen
Doctor
Background E M,
Rose
Well if there’s nothing here what’s all this about.
Doctor
The scanner doesn’t pick up flaming torch readings
Rose
No but it means there’s someone here.
Doctor
Or was someone here
Rose
Just admit it, I’m right
Doctor
Ok, I’m right.
(The pair laugh)
(Back in the marble control room)
Castellan
Dispatch the guards to that section at once!
President
Wait!
Castellan
Madame President we must/
President
/Not yet. Have them….guided to the plaza, we will greet them there in person.
Castellan
Is that wise m’am.
President
Did I not suggest it. Carry out your orders Castellan.
Castellan
Yes Madame President.
(Back in the cave, at the door)
Rose
Can you open it?
Doctor
Of course, I can open anything.
Rose
Apart from/
Doctor
/almost anything.
(The doors swing open)
Rose
That was quick
Doctor
It wasn’t me, they just opened.
Rose
Someone’s sending us an invite
Doctor
Well it would be rude of us to leave without saying hello. Miss Tyler, would you care to accompany me for this hop?
Rose
I thought you’d never ask.
(Rose takes the doctor’s arm and the pair walk off down the corridor beyond the door.)
(The 2 enter a large marble hall, a giant seal of Rassilon occupies the floor.)
Rose
Maybe the doors are automatic
Doctor
Maybe.
Rose
Wow, that’s like, that’s like nothing else.
Doctor
They’ve certainly got a passion for metamorphic rock.
(Noticing the seal)
Doctor
Rassilon.
Rose
This thing, you recognise it?
Doctor
It’s the seal of Rassilon.
Rose
And who’s he?
Doctor
He is, well was, a hero among my people, he founded our society, was a great inventor.
Rose
Well what’s it doing here?
Doctor
Good question.
Rose
Do you want to leave?
Doctor
Not yet.
(The doctor steps into the centre of the seal and is surrounded by a force field)
Rose
Doctor!
Doctor
No! Don’t touch the beams.
(The hall is filled by Gallifreyan guards)
Doctor
This isn’t possible.
Rose
Who are you?! Let him out of there!
(Rose is seized)
Doctor
Let her go!
President (out of sight)
Take her to my apartments; take that to the holding cells of the Panopticon. Impound the type 40.
Rose (being dragged away)
Let go of me! Doctor!
Doctor
It’ll be alright! Don’t struggle!
President
You have your orders commander.
(The force field deactivates, a guard approaches the doctor)
Doctor
How?
(The guard punches the doctor, knocking him out)
(We see the doctor wake on the floor of a cell, it is dark, a tear trickles down the doctors face, catching the light from outside, the camera follows a spec of dust out of the barred window and we ascend quickly the outside of the Panopticon to the large windows of the presidential apartments where Rose is being escorted through the door. The guards remain outside.)
President(in full regalia)
Do come in, please, sit down.
Rose
Who are you? What’s going on? Where’s the doctor?
President
So many questions
Rose
Not many answers though.
President
I am the president of the high council of the time lords, keeper of the legacy of Rassilon and defender of the laws of time.
Rose
Nice hat
President
It came with the shoes.
Rose
But who are you really?
President
I’m sorry?
Rose
You’re not kidding me, the time lords are dead, they were wiped out, you’re just sick.
President
I assure you I am not.
Rose
Well if you are a time lord prove it
President
Come on boy!
K9
Mistress
Rose
It can’t be. He belongs to Sarah-Jane Smith.
President
Not this model, he’s all mine.
Rose
Then you know/
President
/the Doctor, oh yes.
Rose
Who are you?
President
My name is Romanadeveratnalunda.
Rose
Blimey.
President
You are Rose Tyler yes?
Rose
Yes.
President
The Doctor is in a great deal of trouble
Rose
What’s new? He’ll manage.
President
This time he won’t.
(Back in the cell, the Castellan and 2 guards enter)
Guard
The traitor will stand
(The 2 guards lift the doctor to his feet)
Castellan
A little late for recriminations now would you not think, Doctor.
Doctor
This is an illusion, a trick, you were all/
Castellan
/Destroyed? Perhaps, no thanks to you.
(Back in the presidential apartments)
Rose
Then how?
President
I wasn’t president then, I parted company with the Doctor to start a new life, in another universe. We saw the explosion tearing through the vortex and rescued as many Time Lords into the new universe as we could.
(In the cell)
Castellan
And there we survived until the vortex healed, before finally returning to this space, to start a fresh, from the tattered ruins that you left us.
Doctor
So all this, this building/
Castellan
/An exact replica of the original Panopticon.
Doctor
And Romana?
(Apartments)
President
They practically forced me to take office after that, since then we’ve been hiding here, trying to regain what we lost, in secret, in silence. But for one thing.
Rose
What’s that?
President
The Eye of Harmony
Rose
And what’s that?
K9
The Eye of Harmony is the crystalline nucleus of a black hole which has been the basis of Time Lord power through generations. Also called Rassilon’s Star.
President
When our home world, Gallifrey, was obliterated the Eye vanished, and we have since been unable to find it.
(In the cell)
Castellan
Which concludes a brief account of the many charges against you. Have you anything to say?
Doctor
You can’t hold a candle to your predecessor
(The Castellan hits the doctor across the face)
Castellan
Take him away!
(The guards carry the doctor out, the Castellan follows)
(The apartments)
Rose
I don’t understand, why is the Doctor in trouble?
President
Because he is responsible for all of this, he not only came close to destroying our race but wiped out countless others in the process, the Gelth, the Sintals, caused the Silver Devastation! And now he will pay the price!
Rose
He defeated the Daleks, saved all time and space from them, doesn’t that count for something?
President
But he didn’t do did he? We’ve scanned his TARDIS’s memory banks, they survived!
Rose
And how many others did because of what he did, hundreds!
President
How can you defend him? The Nestines were forced to try and invade Earth as a result of what he did!
Rose
Because I’ve seen what he has been through as a result of what he did. It tore him apart, he thought he’d lost you all, he’s been punishing himself for long enough.
President
Sadly, the high council disagrees with you Miss Tyler.
Rose
You can’t keep him locked up forever!
President
We don’t intend to.
Rose
Then/
President
/He will be dispersed, and his atoms scattered on the solar winds. The Doctor will be exterminated.
Rose
You can’t!
(The president leaves)
Rose
You can’t!
(A metal archway in the centre of an auditorium, time lords in full garb occupy a gallery above, the President takes her centre seat as the doctor is brought out and restrained within the arch way.)
(Back to Apartments)
Rose
Open this door! Let me out of here! Open this door!
K9
Do not distress yourself Mistress Tyler.
Rose
How can you just sit there?! The Doctor built you.
K9
I must follow the orders of the mistress.
Rose
What about your master? What about the Doctor?
K9
Negative
Rose
Don’t you care?
K9
Negative. I am an automaton; it is beyond my capacity to care.
Rose
Well then it’s a shame he wasted his time caring about you.
(pause)
K9
Shield your eyes Mistress Tyler.
(K9 opens fire on the door)
(In the auditorium)
Castellan
You have heard the charges brought against you Doctor, reflect on them in your last moments, execution will take place as soon as the council indicates.
Doctor
Aren’t you meant to ask me for my plea
Castellan
Would there be any point?
Doctor
One last Jelly Baby then?
(The Castellan turns away to look at the Time Lords in the gallery, they begin to show their hands, outstretched, palms to the floor)
(In a corridor K9 and Rose search for the auditorium)
K9
The Doctor Master’s Bio readings are emanating from the chamber at the end of this corridor.
Rose
He’s alive
K9
Affirmative
(Guards approach)
Guard
I’m sorry miss but you aren’t alowed to be here.
(In the chamber more Time Lords give their signal, The president remains still)
(Outside)
Rose
But, I’ve got to get in there.
Guard 2
Right under his spell
Guard
I’m sorry Miss, you will be returned to your proper time and place until then please wait in the presidential rooms.
K9
We will be alowed to pass.
Guard
Your authority does not extend that far sir.
(In the auditorium)
(More Time Lords signal, now all but the President. Energy begins to pulse through the arch way.)
(In the Corridor)
Rose
Let us in!
(She struggles with the guards)
K9
Stand aside or I will fire.
(Rose is thrown to the floor, K9’s gun appears)
(Auditorium)
(The energy of the archway begins to spike off as sheet lightning into the surrounding air, the Doctor grits his teeth)
Castellan
Any last words Doctor?
(K9 shoots the guards)
Doctor
I can find it.
President (standing)
Deactivate arch, Presidential override 1.
(The energy of the archway dissipates and a mumble rises from the now disgruntled Time Lord audience. The president descends a spiral staircase into the lower auditorium and moves close to the Doctor.)
Castellan
Madame President this is most/
President
/Quiet!
(To Doctor)
President
Don’t do this to me.
Doctor
Come on Romana, you know if anyone can do it, it’s me. Just give me my TARDIS and Rose and/
President
/and we’ll never see you again, no Doctor, not this time.
Doctor
You think that I should die?
President
Of course not, I never did, but the high council/
Doctor
/Are a bunch of /
President
/and the people would not permit it.
Councillor Chronin
This delay is outrageous, not to mention intolerable.
(A groan of “yes” comes from the other Time Lords)
Councillor Chronin
The traitor’s execution is long overdue!
President
The Doctor will be released and given access to his TARDIS.
Time Lords
NO!
(The main doors of the auditorium, which face the Time Lords’ gallery are blown off their hinges and Rose runs in through the smoke followed by K9)
Rose
Release the Doctor now!
Castellan
Or what?!
K9
Or you will be stripped of your powers and title.
Castellan
That isn’t within your power.
(K9 fires a warning shot at the wall behind the Castellan)
President
But I do. The Doctor will be given his TARDIS and/
Councillor Lomal
/And if he disappears as you say?
President
He won’t!
Councillor Lomal
Why not?
President
Because I will accompany him.
(Silence)
(Return to large seal of Rassilon hall, TARDIS now in centre surrounded by guards, guards fill the chamber, a path remains between the main doors and those of the TARDIS. Enter the Doctor and Rose followed by K9, then the President (In casual wear) and the Castellan, followed by high Councillors.)
(A guard spits at the Doctor)
Rose
Are you starting something?
Doctor
Leave it Rose.
Rose
No, he wants to make trouble, I’ll give him some.
Doctor
It isn’t worth it, come on.
(The Doctor opens the TARDIS and he and Rose enter)
Castellan
Are you sure about this Madame President?
President
Meaning?
Castellan
The council are concerned that your personal feelings for the Doctor may be clouding your judgement in this matter.
President (So that the Time Lords behind can hear)
Really! Well if they know of another way to recover the Eye of Harmony they can always speak up! We can’t go on like this Castellan, we need the eye.
Castellan
Good luck Madame president.
President
And to you.
(The President enters the TARDIS, guards salute as the vehicle dematerialises)
Counsellor Prylek
Do you think that they will return?
Castellan
I sincerely hope not.
(Console room)
Romana
What have you done to this poor machine?!
Doctor
It was the only way I could get her to run without the eye.
Rose
Okay what is this eye?
K9
The Eye of Harmony is/
Rose
/Yeh but why is it so important?
Doctor
It powered the whole of Gallifrey.
Romana
And every TARDIS.
Rose
But the TARDIS draws its power from the universe
Romana
So that’s how you did it.
Doctor
This one does yes, after some careful rewiring prior to…
Rose
To?
Romana
The destruction of Gallifrey.
Rose
I know it’s….but you’ve never actually told me. I mean you’ve never said, what actually happened.
Romana
Yes Doctor, what did happen?
Doctor
You know what the brief was, Rassilon himself prophesied it all those millennia ago, stop the darkness at all costs.
Romana
Well you’d know all about that.
Rose
So?
Doctor
The Daleks declared all out war shortly after they realised they could never have the power of the time lords.
Romana
They decided to either take it from us or destroy it.
Doctor
They redesigned themselves and their ships to fight war within the vortex itself. Our fleet met theirs and the fighting raged from one end of time to the other.
Rose
Then what stopped it?
Doctor
The big bang.
Rose
What?!
Romana
He took his TARDIS back to where it all began/
Doctor
/Put an inverse temporal field around the TARDIS/
Romana
/And punched a hole in the Vortex/
Doctor
The wave of the explosion swept straight through the Vortex, occasionally breaking into normal space.
Romana
For instance the Silver Devastation.
Doctor
This TARDIS was thrown clear into temporal sync. with real time, somewhere beyond Zeta Minor.
Romana
Meanwhile 10 million ships, Dalek and Gallifrey burned in the Vortex.
Doctor
And countless others outside it.
Rose
The end of the last great Time War.
Doctor
A reprieve.
Rose
And this eye was lost when Gallifrey…
Romana
Exactly. How do you intend to find it?
Doctor
By going home.
(We see the TARDIS flying through the vortex, the vortex turns from red to blue then there is a flash and the TARDIS moves, almost in slow motion, through a heavenly white vortex. Then with a flash the TARDIS is moving through normal space, in the vicinity of an asteroid field)
Romana (at the consol)
You got rid of an interfacing hologramatic scanner for an LCD botch job.
Doctor
It serves its purpose, besides, the hologram still works. Here.
(The doctor activates a control on the console and the wall panels melt away one by one to reveal the exterior view of space.)
Rose
That definitely puts LCD into perspective.
Romana
That asteroid field, is that/
Doctor
/Home
Romana
It’s strange, it seems so real. I knew, obviously I did, but, seeing it.
Rose
I felt the same when I saw the Earth destroyed in the year 5 billion. You never think it’s coming until it happens.
Doctor
K9, begin a complete astrometric scan of the area, I want to see every spec of dust out there.
K9
Affirmative master.
Rose
What are you going to look for?
Doctor
The eye was the centre of a black hole, something that powerful doesn’t disappear without leaving a trace.
Romana
And if it has?
Doctor
Then we ask the locals.
Romana
The what?
Doctor
When did you last visit the planet Karn?
Rose
Karn?
Doctor
Home of a religious sect, the sisters of the flame, long time friends of the Time Lords and owe me a favour or 12.
Rose
Is there anyone who doesn’t?
Romana
I can name one or 12.
K9
Analysis complete.
Doctor
And?
K9
5000 particles carbon triaxilate per/
Doctor
/Gravity wells, time distortion.
K9
Negative master.
Romana
Time to go knocking on doors.
Rose
That’s what we do best, the domestic approach.
(Back on Gallifrey, in the presidential apartments the Castellan is trying on the presidential head dress when someone enters un-announced.)
Lady Leela
Doesn’t quite fit around the ears pale-face.
Castellan
Ah, Lady Leela, so good of you to come, I suppose you have heard the news.
Lady Leela
Of course, I told you he would come, I told you he would save us again I/
Castellan
/Yes, yes, yes I remember the first 20 times you told me thank you.
Lady Leela
Well, why have I been called here?
Castellan
Our illustrious president has chosen to accompany the Doctor on his mission.
Lady Leela
And?
Castellan
And in the resulting instability/
Lady Leela
/What instability, the council are not that stupid/
Castellan
/I am taking the precaution of having certain potential trouble makers locked away quietly.
Lady Leela
What has that got to do with me?
Castellan
I hear the lower areas of the Panoptican can be rather draughty, I hope you will be warm enough in those…rags.
Lady Leela
You/
(She is cut short when the Castellan uses a device on his wrist, transmatting Lady Leela away. He then activates a communicator on his other wrist.)
Castellan
Commander Pronie?
Commander Pronie
We have her Castellan.
Castellan
Good. Is all in readiness.
Commander Pronie
All is prepared sir.
Castellan
Excellent then… Pronie.
Castellan
Yes sir?
Castellan
Send me the presidential tailor. This hat will definitely require some adjustment.
Commander Pronie
Very good sir.