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AUDIO ADVENTURES IN TIME AND SPACE
TRANSCRIPTION: "THE SPACE WAIL" (AV1)
PART: 2 OF 2
DURATION: 16:22
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THIS FILE WAS ORIGINALLY CREATED FOR MY OWN USE AS A RESEARCH DOCUMENT.
WHILE I FEEL THE WORDS ARE ACCURATE ENOUGH FOR THIS PURPOSE, I DO
RECOGNIZE THAT IT ISN'T PERFECT.
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MUSIC: THEME 1 [UP AND OUT]
SCENE 17: IN THE CORRIDORS OF DESPAIR
SFX: BG: A HIGH MECHANICAL THRUMMING SOUND
DOCTOR: Stop a minute. I don't think they saw which way we
came.
GREG: Next time, Doctor, try choosing somewhere more inviting
to land, okay?
DOCTOR: This could have been quite interesting, if it wasn't for
that trigger-happy thug, Lotin.
GREG: Commander wasn't exactly a Butlin's receptionist,
either.
DOCTOR: True. How did you know about Homeworld?
GREG: It was written on a plaque next to the fire alarm.
DOCTOR: I didn't see that. Anyway, let's find out what's making
that din.
GREG: Can't we just get into your flying police box, and go
for a swim?
DOCTOR: Don't you want to find out what's going on?
GREG: I *know* what's going on. We're on a space ship with
some prisoners due to die, and two trigger-happy guards.
A dead man and a brain drain called BABE. Great stuff!
For all I know you're a mad man who likes trouble, and
I'm not going to get home safely.
SFX: APPROACHING FOOTSTEPS
GREG: Oh, and there's a girl running towards us.
DOCTOR: So there is. Pretty young thing.
SFX: THE FOOTSTEPS STOP SUDDENLY
DOCTOR: [TO NADIA] Hey, watch out, young lady! You nearly
knocked Greg over!
NADIA: Who are you?!
GREG: Hello there. My name's Greg. He's the Doctor.
DOCTOR: What's wrong?
NADIA: The computer! My mother!
DOCTOR: Quick! This way!
NADIA: I'm not going back. I'll die!
GREG: But, your mother?
NADIA: She's probably dead. The computer uses the mind drain
very effectively.
DOCTOR: A moment ago you were quite upset. Now you don't seem
to be worried at all. Why not?
NADIA: You're not from Homeworld. You're space pirates. You
must have killed the crew. Where's your ship?
DOCTOR: It's in the bay. The crew aren't all dead. Lotin and
Gryc are still alive.
NADIA: We must go!
DOCTOR: That noise has stopped.
GREG: Shouldn't we find her family?
SFX: THE NOISE STOPS
NADIA: No. They're now dead. No longer part of my life. My
father was a fool, my mother evil.
GREG: How did you survive?
NADIA: You ask too many questions. Where is your ship?
GREG: Hey, look! You might not care about your family, but we
still *ought* to check.
NADIA: Go, then. But, beware Gryc. I do not trust him.
SFX: NADIA RUNS OFF
GREG: Funny girl! Is she quite all right in the head? Is
anyone?
DOCTOR: I haven't a clue. Probably not after BABE finished with
her. Let's take a look.
MUSIC: BRIDGE
SCENE 18: THE COMPUTER CONTROL CENTRE
LOTIN: Both drained, Commander.
GRYC: The look on their faces. Joba looked the same. He
wasn't electrocuted. He was drained. But how?
DOCTOR: Why not ask your computer?
LOTIN: You two! I should have got you!
DOCTOR: Well, Mr. Lotin, you didn't. Here's your gun back.
GREG: Hey, Doctor!
LOTIN: You're crazy. You realize I can kill you now.
GRYC: No you can't, Lotin. Drop the gun.
LOTIN: Commander?
DOCTOR: I think he means it, Junior Commander. I think your
Commander knows more than he's letting on.
SFX: BABE ACTIVATES ITSELF
BABE: Welcome Timelord. And an earthman. Two new minds of a
breed I have not tasted before. Such important new
additions to our mind.
DOCTOR: What are you?
BABE: I am but a segment of the Brainwave Absorption
Biological Experiment. The master computer is based on
Homeworld.
My function is to navigate this ship, once the human
crew have departed, and detonate the ship in deep space.
GREG: And the prisoners? Like Nadia?
BABE: They were sentenced to execution. *That* is their
execution.
DOCTOR: That's obscene, immoral, and savage! I Presume it makes
your human creators happy: they don't have to do the
dirty work themselves.
BABE: I'm sorry, Doctor - I may call you Doctor? - but the
colonists on Homeworld have little stomach for such
drastic measures.
GRYC: Our society is calm and ordered. It is our duty to keep
it that way. All felons ought to be eradicated. It is
for the good of the colony - the good of our community.
Leave us to our ways, Doctor. We know you are not
guilty of Guard Joba's death, so you're free.
LOTIN: But, sir?
GRYC: Free to leave Despair and continue on your journey.
DOCTOR: I didn't want to be here in the first place. But, now I
am, I'm not leaving. I refuse to sit back and allow
other people to suffer this mind drain; like these poor
souls. Or let other inmates be blown up in the middle
of nowhere.
GREG: Doctor! The Commander is offering us freedom! Let's
go!
DOCTOR: Somehow I don't trust him. Beware of Grycs bearing
gifts. Why did you pull a gun on your junior?
GRYC: You're not part of the plan. You're interfering with
all this. Your death would have to be recorded by BABE.
And that I can't have.
DOCTOR: In other words, we walk out of this computer room, and
halfway down the corridor, Lotin guns us down, just out
of sight, or whatever, of BABE. Very good try,
Commander, but no. I'm staying where I am.
BABE: I'm sorry to intervene in your conversations, gentlemen,
but the Doctor is *not* going anywhere. I want - *need*
the Doctor's mind. Such power would make the master
BABE at Central Base all-powerful.
DOCTOR: Gryc. Did your people programme their computer with
this megalomania, or has it grown over the last few
years?
BABE: Doctor, you understand nothing. The populace of
Homeworld didn't programme me or create me. *I* am
creation. *We* are creation.
LOTIN: Commander, what's going on? I don't understand.
DOCTOR: No, Lotin. I don't think you're supposed to. Something
tells me that BABE doesn't just drain people's minds,
but stores them, and maybe returns them, eh, Commander?
BABE: Very clever, Timelord. Commander Gryc died
approximately thirty-three point eight minutes after
coming aboard. His mind drained. All I had to do was
return it to him, adjusted in the appropriate manner.
He then arranged for the prisoners to escape, and I was
able to take their minds; just as all other BABEs have
been doing for many years.
DOCTOR: Do you mean that master computer back on Homeworld is
full of criminal minds? All those immoral thoughts
rolling round, getting jumbled together. What a
thoroughly confused bunch of thoughts you must have.
You need help. I've got a screwdriver somewhere.
BABE: Commander Gryc. Prepare them.
GREG: Get away from me!
DOCTOR: Well, I thought I had a screwdriver.
LOTIN: Commander, something's wrong here.
DOCTOR: Lovely one, really. [It had] a little plastic handle.
BABE: I want their minds.
DOCTOR: Perhaps this pocket.
GRYC: Lotin....
BABE: We cannot have too many minds
GREG: Doctor! Do something! That noise!
DOCTOR: I picked it up in a hardware shop in Bolton.
LOTIN: Commander, you have betrayed Homeworld.
GRYC: Never! My loyalty is beyond question.
LOTIN: To Homeworld? Or that computer?
BABE: Do not let him provoke you, Commander. I need him
alive. Put down the laser, or I shall retrieve your
mind.
DOCTOR: Only two-and six in those days.
LOTIN: Commander, I....
BABE: Put down the gun, Commander, or I will not keep you
alive.
GREG: AHHHHHH!!! Doctor! I... CANNOT!
DOCTOR: Now [? ? ? ?] Whoops!
SFX: BABE SHORT-CIRCUITS CUTTING THE MIND-DRAIN AND THE BABE
EFFECTS IN ONE GO.
GREG: Oh, my head! What happened?
DOCTOR: I'm afraid I dropped my screwdriver into the circuits.
What a shame. I'll have to buy another.
GREG: Commander Gryc!
LOTIN: Like Joba, and the others. Drained.
DOCTOR: Quick, Lotin. Are there any more people aboard?
LOTIN: I can't see the two daughters of Niton. Nor Dag
Solomon. That's all.
GREG: Nadia said her sister was dead.
LOTIN: How?
DOCTOR: I imagine for all its superiority, BABE has a back-up
system. Probably a laser of some sort.
GREG: Well, let's get this Solomon person, find Nadia, and
leave.
DOCTOR: Best idea you've had, Greg. Joining us, Lotin?
LOTIN: Let's go.
SFX: THEY WALK OFF
BABE: [WHISPERING] Commander Gryc? Follow them!
GRYC: Yes.
BABE: Only the Doctor is of any *real* importance. The others
are superfluous. I managed to obtain some pieces of
brain power. Now, Niton, I return life to you. Locate
your friend, Solomon, and bring him here.
MUSIC: BRIDGE
SCENE 19: STORAGE BAY FOUR
DOCTOR: Here's the TARDIS!
LOTIN: *This* is a space craft?
DOCTOR: Do you want to see inside?
LOTIN: Not really.
DOCTOR: Good. I don't want to show you around, anyway. I don't
really know why I asked.
GREG: Don't sulk, Doctor, there isn't time. Nadia isn't here.
NADIA: Don't move, any of you!
DOCTOR: I'm not showing you around either.
GREG: Nadia! It's me, Greg, and the Doctor. We *want* to
help you.
NADIA: And him?
LOTIN: If I didn't need you, felon, I'd kill you now.
NADIA: Then we've teamed up to escape?
DOCTOR: Well, not in *my* ship we're not. Come on Greg.
GREG: What? We can't go!
DOCTOR: You were all for it ten minutes ago. And I don't intend
to let BABE get a grip on my mind, again, thank you.
Are you coming?
GREG: We can't just up and go, Doctor. BABE will kill them.
DOCTOR: And us! No. We're off. Bye bye, Lotin. I doubt
you'll live for long. Nadia, it's a shame when a young
girl like you doesn't have a heart. Even the strongest
of us feel a little saddened when our entire family has
been murdered. Running away is the last thing I'd do.
LOTIN: But you are.
DOCTOR: Are? But my families haven't been slaughtered by a
power-mad computer. I presume, Nadia, that your father
escaped because Gryc left the cell door open. Yes?
NADIA: Together they planned to fly this ship to other planets
and start another community elsewhere. Gryc did not
like life on Homeworld.
DOCTOR: So, that's the story BABE fed him. And your father fell
for it. More likely that BABE would fly around, sucking
the minds dry of various planetary inhabitants.
LOTIN: But that's evil!
GREG: So is sending prisoners into space and blowing them up.
LOTIN: But BABE wanted to kill innocents!
DOCTOR: Lotin, in many ways, you and your kind are just as evil
as the criminals you are transporting. The difference
is the point of view. A criminal is always right, as
far as he's concerned.
GREG: What about that Solomon person?
DOCTOR: Oh. I suppose we'd better go and find him.
GREG: And I thought you weren't staying.
NADIA: I believe the Doctor wants to help me destroy BABE.
DOCTOR: I think you might just be right, young lady. Lotin?
LOTIN: This way.
SCENE 20: OUTSIDE THE COMPUTER CENTRE
NITON: [ECHOING] Dag Solomon. Are you there?
SOLOMON: Niton, you old dog! Where do you think I am?
NITON: My family are free. Let's go.
SOLOMON: We are free. Now how do we escape?
NITON: You are the engineer. How are these things designed.
SOLOMON: Are you all right, old friend? You sound odd.
NITON: Just tired. Come on. Sukki and the girls are up here.
SOLOMON: Sukki and the girls? There's something wrong. It's
always been `my family' before.
NITON: Oh, come on. We have to escape before Gryc sets his men
on us.
SOLOMON: But you said Gryc would help us.
NITON: Stop talking. Let's go.
SOLOMON: Where?
SFX: ELECTRONIC DOOR OPENING
NITON: Through that door.
SOLOMON: Sukki. Are you all right? Hey! Niton! Sukki,
she's... I think dead. Niton. Are you all right?
Niton!
MUSIC: BRIDGE [IN AND UNDER]
SCENE 21: IN AND AROUND THE COMPUTER CENTRE A LITTLE LATER
LOTIN: We're too late. Solomon's in there.
NADIA: We must save him.
GREG: Is there time?
DOCTOR: Of course, let's go in.
LOTIN: Drag Solomon down. I'm going in shooting.
GREG: In?
SFX: THE DOOR TO THE COMPUTER CENTRE IS OPENED
SFX2: TWO LASER BLASTS
BABE: Gryc! Kill!
GREG: Lotin! Behind you!
DOCTOR: Shoot the computer!
BABE: Niton! Kill!
SFX: ANOTHER LASER BLAST
GREG: Doctor, the man's throttling Nadia!
DOCTOR: I'm busy. Stop him.
LOTIN: That's Niton taken care of. Get down!
BABE: Die human.
SFX: BABE FIRES ITS LASER
LOTIN: [GROANS IN PAIN]
DOCTOR: Greg! Grab his gun! Go for the computer banks!
GREG: But Nadia?!?
DOCTOR: She'll cope.
BABE: [TO DOCTOR] I need your mind.
DOCTOR: And I need my screwdriver. And you've got it.
BABE: Screwdriver?
NADIA: He's dead. And mother.
GREG: So is Lotin.
DOCTOR: Solomon and Gryc?
GREG: Lotin killed Gryc. Solomon's gone.
BABE: Doctor?
DOCTOR: Yes, BABE.
BABE: I have failed in my duty to further the progress of the
master computer.
DOCTOR: That's very true, BABE. [SOTTO VOCE] Greg. Take Nadia
back to the TARDIS. Door's open. Go in. And stay in.
Take Solomon if you find him. [TO BABE] Now, BABE,
what can I do for you?
BABE: I have to self-destruct. I would feel very honoured if
you would stay and be destroyed with me. There are but
thirty-five seconds to go.
DOCTOR: Now. What can I do?
SFX: THE DOCTOR STARTS FIDDLING ABOUT WITH BITS OF BABE
BABE: What are you doing? Please, Doctor. Let me die slowly.
Die with me. Don't survive.
DOCTOR: Sorry BABE, but what I'm doing is reversing your
polarity. The shockwaves of your destruction will
reverberate back to Homeworld, destroying the master
computer as well. The citizens will have to cope for
themselves in future.
BABE: Doctor, I am superior to humanity. Try to save me, not
destroy everything.
DOCTOR: Ah! My screwdriver! Thanks! Goodbye BABE. You have
three minutes.
BABE: I cannot be destroyed! BABE! Master computer is...
totally indestructible! Must not... die!
SCENE 22: THE TARDIS CONSOLE ROOM
GREG: He'll be here soon! He must!
NADIA: Can't you fly this thing?
GREG: Fly it? I don't even believe in it!
NADIA: Dimensionally transcendental, I would think. Wouldn't
you?
GREG: Yes. Undoubtedly.
NADIA: You know you're not quite as intelligent as you look.
GREG: Well, I have got nine O-levels!
NADIA: I presume that an O-level is an Earth qualification.
GREG: Spot on.
DOCTOR: Aha! Morning people. We've just got about a minute and
a half.
GREG: Couldn't find Solomon.
DOCTOR: Found me. He's dead, I'm afraid.
NADIA: He was the last of my Father's clan.
DOCTOR: No, Nadia. You are. I'm sorry. Your family died. But
that's a fact. You must carry on. Where would you like
to go?
GREG: Uh, Doctor?
NADIA: Anywhere except Homeworld.
GREG: Doctor, I....
DOCTOR: Well, I've got to drop Greg off on Earth, so how about
there for a start?
GREG: Doctor! I think our time is up!
DOCTOR: AH! Well, dematerialize then!
GREG: I don't know how!!!
SFX: THE TARDIS DEMATERIALIZES JUST AS....
SFX2: A HUGE EXPLOSION RIPS THROUGH THE SHIP, TEARING IT APART
[DISSOLVE TO]
SFX3: A STRANGE, SOUND; AS IF SPACE ITSELF WERE CRYING FOR THE
LOSS.
DOCTOR: Here. Look, Nadia. On the screen. That's your
Homeworld.
NADIA: What's that?
DOCTOR: Interesting. I reprogrammed BABE computer to send a
shockwave back to destroy the main computer. Must be
like a sonic boom.
GREG: It sounds as if it's in tears.
DOCTOR: A sort of space wail.
NADIA: Doctor! Look!
SFX: A BONE RATTLING EXPLOSION
DOCTOR: I... what happened?
NADIA: The master computer control turnaround. Didn't you
realize? It was internally linked. It kept society
ordered. I think in destroying it, you blew up the core
of the planet.
DOCTOR: [STUNNED] You mean... I've destroyed an entire planet?
All those people?
GREG: Well, BABE did.
DOCTOR: But, Greg. I caused it.... I forced it to happen. I
could have left BABE just to blow up on its ship.
NADIA: At least the main computer's been destroyed. All those
drained minds have been freed; including my mother and
father's, and all the others over the years. It *was* a
worthwhile sacrifice.
DOCTOR: I'm not convinced. I'm sorry.
GREG: Well, let's get away from here, then. How about that
place you mentioned, where I could swim without sinking?
Let's go there.
NADIA: Oh, Cassiopeia, you mean? I've been told about that.
It would be worth a visit.
DOCTOR: I'm supposed to be getting you back to school, young
man.
NADIA: I thought you came from Earth?
GREG: I do.
NADIA: Then where is school?
DOCTOR: It's a special building where young humans go to learn -
to get an education.
NADIA: Oh, he certainly needs one of those.
GREG: I like you. No holds barred. Why don't we take you
back home?
NADIA: Because it no longer exists. Just a smouldering lump of
rock.
GREG: All the more reason to take you back, then.
DOCTOR: That does it! Cassiopeia, here we come! I hope you can
swim, Nadia.
NADIA: Of course I can!
GREG: Of course she can! After all, what can't she do?
NADIA: Be as stupid as you, it seems.
DOCTOR: Right! We're off on a holiday!
MUSIC: UP AND OUT DISSOLVING INTO THEME 1 [UNDER]
BABE: "Doctor Who And The Space Wail" was written by Warren
Martyn, directed by Gary Russell, and produced by
William Baggs.
Recorded and edited by Nick Layton, and Chris Corney.
The Doctor was played by Stephen Payne.
Greg: Richard Marson.
Nadia: Sally Baggs.
Commander Gryc: Dominic May.
Junior Commander Lotin: Robert Moubert.
Niton: Graz Woods.
Sukki: Marilyn Layton.
Alana: Sally Baggs.
Dag Solomon: Chris Corney.
Guard Joba: Gary Russell.
Cell Guards: Nick Layton and William Baggs.
And the voice of BABE by BABE.
(END OF SIDE TWO)
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