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AUDIO ADVENTURES IN TIME AND SPACE
TRANSCRIPTION: "CONGLOMERATE" (AV4)
PART: 2 OF 2
DURATION: 15:30
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MUSIC: SERIES' THEME 1
SCENE 12: ON THE TRAIN
TANNOY VOICE: We are nearing the Centre. Arrival is imminent. We are
nearing the Centre. Arrival is imminent.
GREG: You've *got* to listen to me, Doctor!
DOCTOR: Consultation with the workforce is standard procedure.
All suggestions are noted.
GREG: You have to remember! The TARDIS!
DOCTOR: Obsolete mode of transport.
GREG: No, it isn't. It's your pride and joy. Remember?
DOCTOR: And totally undesirable for a board member's personal
vehicle.
GREG: Board member? You're not a board member. You're the
Doctor. You're a traveller. You want to explore. To
learn.
DOCTOR: Lifestyle undesirable.
GREG: You *are* an undesirable! You're always in trouble. You
attract it. You go around looking for it. All this
board member rubbish is something this place has done to
you.
DOCTOR: I *must* get to the Centre.
GREG: Why? Why must you?
DOCTOR: I mustn't be late.
GREG: Why not?
DOCTOR: Selection complete. Conglomerate executive rating:
recommended. Proceed to Centre.
GREG: You've been selected?
DOCTOR: Yes! I have been selected.
GREG: For what? What is Conglomerate?
DOCTOR: The Centre!
GREG: I see. The centre of the city?
DOCTOR: Of everything!
GREG: And that's where we're going?
DOCTOR: I am summoned to meet the Chairman of the Board.
Board room appointment process!
GREG: So we're going to the board room?
DOCTOR: That is where I am going. You are deselected.
Non-executive potential. Species type incompatible.
SFX: THE TRAIN ARRIVES AT THE CENTRE.
TANNOY VOICE: This is the Centre. This is the Centre. Please Proceed
to the board room.
DOCTOR: What of the deselected one?
TANNOY VOICE: He will accompany you to the examination room.
Conglomerate drudgers are arriving to restrain him.
GREG: Restrain?!? Doctor, come on. Let's make a run for it!
DOCTOR: We must go to the examination room!
GREG: No! You must break free from this Conglomerate rubbish!
DOCTOR: Let *GO* of me!
SFX: THE DRUDGERS COME HOVERING INTO VIEW
GREG: Doctor! Over there!
SFX: THE DRUDGERS COMMUNICATE IN A SORT OF HUMMING BUZZ.
GREG: Hovering robots!
DOCTOR: Conglomerate drudgers. Restrain the non-executive.
SFX: THE DRUDGERS COMPLY
GREG: No! Get these things off me! Doctor!
SFX: THE FIRST DRUDGER RESTRAINS GREG
GREG: Ow!
SFX: THE SECOND DRUDGER CAPTURES GREG AS WELL.
GREG: Ah!
DOCTOR: Do not struggle! The Chairman is waiting.
SCENE 13: THE BOARD ROOM
DOCTOR: [TO THE DRUDGERS] Where is the Chairman?
GREG: Look, Doctor, this is getting a little out of hand,
don't you think? Just get these marauding hovercrafts
off of me, and bring me back up there. Doctor! Doctor,
can you hear me? Doctor!
DOCTOR: [CONFUSED] Wh...what...what happened... what happens to
the... to the non-executive?
TANNOY VOICE: He awaits judgement.
SFX: AN ELECTRONIC BELL SOUNDS
TANNOY VOICE: Exam time begins. Look at the display panel.
SFX: THE PANEL EMITS A LOW BUZZING.
TANNOY VOICE: Speak your answers.
SFX: THE PANEL BEEPS TWICE.
DOCTOR: Problem. I see. This is a plan of the city.
SFX: EXPLOSIONS CAN BE HEARD THROUGH THE PANEL'S SPEAKER.
DOCTOR: What's happening? Now, it must be those aeroplanes
bombing the city. Yes.
SFX: WORDS APPEAR ON THE PANEL WITH A LOW SQUELCHING SOUND.
DOCTOR: [READING] City devestated by foreign agressor. Begin
solution. [TO PANEL] Right. Uhhh... redevelopment.
SFX: THE PLAN IS ALTERED.
DOCTOR: No. Not like that.
SFX: THE DISPLAY PANEL ERASES THE ALTERATIONS.
DOCTOR: Relocate workforce dwellings on factory perimeters.
Establish outer green belt area, followed by executive
dwellings. Nope. Bigger. Good.
SFX: THE PANEL FOLLOWS THE DOCTOR'S DIRECTIONS EMITTING
VARIOUS ELCTRONIC SOUNDS AS IT DOES SO.
DOCTOR: Eliminate elected city authority buildings. Establish
central committee linking all areas of industrial and
commercial management. Move workforce dwellings
*closer* to places of work. Reduce public transport
network. Good. Now, estimate maximum cost of all
factors outlined in preliminary plan.
MUSIC: BRIDGE
SCENE 14: THE CITY...
GREG: I don't believe it. I feel worse than I ever did
after... house rugby. [HE EXHALES] This is where I
start wondering where I am all over again. Time
travelling gets distinctly *tedious* sometimes.
Doctor? Doctor? No. I didn't expect *him* to be
around, just when I needed him. He's probably just got
his first enormous wage packet. Hold on. This is
weird. It looks as if I'm in some sort of huge
three-dimensional map. Oh. I am. And what's more, it
looks like a map of that city we were in.
SCENE 15: THE BOARD ROOM
SFX: THE PANEL FINISHES ITS CALCULATIONS.
DOCTOR: Plan complete.
TANNOY VOICE: Top score!
DOCTOR: Excellent!
SFX: THE PANEL EMITS A FEW MORE BEEPS
SFX2: MORE EXPLOSIONS CAN BE HEARD THROUGH THE PANEL'S
SPEAKER.
DOCTOR: Wait a minute! No. You... you're destroying my work.
The perfect corporate state, and you've destroyed it!
No! Stop!
SFX: THE EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE TO DECIMATE THE PLAN.
SCENE 16: THE CITY...
SFX: EXPLOSIONS ERUPT ALL ABOUT GREG.
GREG: Ah! Ooh! Now I know what a Space Invader feels like!
Someone's demolishing the map! Uh, stop! I
surrender.
SFX: A RATHER LARGE EXPLOSION IS THE ONLY RESPONSE.
GREG: AHHHH!!!
SCENE 17: THE BOARD ROOM
DOCTOR: Who is responsible for this?
SFX: THE PANEL BLEEPS A REPLY.
DOCTOR: Foreign agressor? But my plan included impregnable
defence shields!
SFX: THE PANEL STICKS ITS VIRTUAL TONGUE OUT AT HIM....
DOCTOR: Stop this bombing! Stop!
SFX: THE PANEL DOES SO.
SCENE 18: THE CITY...
GREG: Phew! At last! Can anyone hear me? Can anyone... hear
me?
SCENE 19: THE BOARD ROOM
SFX: THE PANEL BLEEPS OUT A FEW MORE WORDS.
DOCTOR: [READING] Saboteur leaks defence codes to foreign
agressor. [TO PANEL] Sabotage?!? By a spy?
SFX: THE PANEL INDICATES THIS TO BE THE CASE.
DOCTOR: Who is this traitor? I demand to know. Tell me.
SFX: THE PANEL RESPONDS WITH A FEW BEEPS.
SFX2: GREG APPEARS ON THE PANEL.
GREG: [THROUGH THE PANEL SPEAKER] Hello? Anyone there?
SFX: BLEEPS A FEW MORE TIMES.
DOCTOR: Is this the traitor?
SFX: THE PANEL INDICATES `YES'.
DOCTOR: But, it's... Greg. Gr...Greg Holmes! I.... The
saboteur must die. Mm...my... my friend... I...
Impliment Drudger anti-espionage operation. All
drudgers, seek, destroy saboteur.
SFX: THE PANEL ACKNOWLEDGES THE ORDERS
DOCTOR: Ident programmed. He must be destroyed.... He must...
I... I mm..mm.....must not dest... destroy!
[CALLING TO HIM] Greg?
SCENE 20: THE CITY.
DOCTOR: [THROUGH THE TANNOY] Greg? Greg?
GREG: Doctor? Doctor, is that you? Where are you? Are you
all right?
DOCTOR: [THROUGH THE TANNOY] Run, Greg. Run. Get back to...
[STRUGGLING TO FORM THE WORDS] to... the...
TAR...DIS.... Be...fore....
GREG: Before what? Doctor! Anyway, the TARDIS is back at
that tube station.
DOCTOR: [THROUGH THE TANNOY] ....before I...
SFX: THE DRUDGERS ARRIVE.
GREG: Oh no, drudgers! Doctor, the drudgers are here.
DOCTOR: [THROUGH THE TANNOY] Too late. Confirm ident.
Excellent. Destroy the saboteur. Greg? Run!
GREG: I don't know where to run to. Everything looks the
same! I suppose.... Oh, look!
SCENE 21: THE BOARD ROOM
SFX: THE PANEL EMITS SOME BEEPS
DOCTOR: What is that? Confirm ident. Confirm!
SFX: MORE WORDS ARE PRINTED ON THE PANEL.
DOCTOR: [READING] Alien body discovered in tube train network?
A sabotage machine!
GREG: [THROUGH THE PANEL SPEAKER] Doctor? They've brought the
TARDIS here. It's the TARDIS.
DOCTOR: The... TARDIS? Ident confirmed. Destroy the sabotage
machine.
GREG: [THROUGH THE PANEL SPEAKER] No, Doctor! No! Remember,
it's your pride and joy! Not a sabotage machine! It's
the TARDIS! The TARDIS!!!
DOCTOR: TAR DIS? I...I...I must carry out company policy.
Sabotage machine and saboteur to be destroyed
immediately.
GREG: [THROUGH THE PANEL SPEAKER] Doctor, you can't! It's me,
Greg! And this is the TARDIS! You can't let them make
you do this! Remember Nadia.
DOCTOR: Nadia? Who...
GREG: [THROUGH THE PANEL SPEAKER] She was killed. Remember?
DOCTOR: Killed. The TARDIS. Greg. I... remember! [INTO THE
PANEL] Drudgers, return to control. Drudgers, return to
control.
TANNOY VOICE: You have failed the exam, Doctor. The Chairman wishes
to see you.
SFX: THE YELLOW BLOB SUDDENLY REAPPEARS.
DOCTOR: No! No! Keep... keep... keep away!
SFX: IT COVERS THE DOCTOR.
SCENE 22: THE CITY
GREG: What now? This place is just *full* of surprises. If
only I had the key to the TARDIS. The Doctor did say it
was indestructible. I would have been safe in there.
SFX: THE DOCTOR JINGLES THE TARDIS KEY IN FRONT OF GREG.
DOCTOR: Is this what you want?
GREG: Doctor! The TARDIS key! But how did you get away?
SFX: SEVERAL DRUDGERS COME FLYING IN.
GREG: Doctor! Behind you! Drudgers!
DOCTOR: Remain still, and they won't hurt you. Good. Now,
carefully.... catch!
SFX: HE TOSSES THE KEY TO GREG, WHO CATCHES IT.
DOCTOR: Good. Well done, Greg. Now back up slowly to the
sabotage machine.
GREG: Sabotage machine? Oh no.
DOCTOR: Shut up. You will not undermine my loyalty to
Conglomerate this time. I have one chance to redeem
myself in the eyes of the Chairman. Drudger, give me
the disintegrator.
SFX: THE DRUDGER COMPLIES.
DOCTOR: Thank you. Now, saboteur, you, your machine, and its
key will be disintegrated.
GREG: No chance. This thing's indestructible, and I'm getting
into it.
SFX: GREG PUTS THE KEY INTO THE LOCK.
DOCTOR: Well done, Greg!
GREG: What? Doctor?
SFX: THE DOCTOR FIRES THE DISINTEGRATOR GUN.
SFX2: ONE OF THE DRUDGERS IS DISINTEGRATED.
SFX3: THE OTHER DRUDGERS BECOME CONFUSED.
GREG: Doctor! You are back to normal!
DOCTOR: Normal? What an insult! I'm *never* normal!
SFX: THE YELLOW BLOB SUDDENLY REAPPEARS.
TANNOY VOICE: Treachery! Treachery! Destroy the saboteur! Treachery!
Treachery! Destroy the saboteur!
GREG: It's that stuff again!
DOCTOR: That's the Chairman of the Board. Have you gotten that
door open yet?
GREG: I have.
DOCTOR: Well, come *on*, then!
SFX: THE DOCTOR AND GREG ENTER THE TARDIS.
SFX2: AS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD ATTEMPTS ITS HOSTILE
TAKEOVER, THE TARDIS DEMATERIALIZES OUT FROM UNDER IT.
SCENE 23: THE TARDIS - CONSOLE ROOM.
SFX: BG: THE FAMILIAR HUM OF THE TARDIS IN-FLIGHT.
GREG: I know I'm going to regret asking this, but you couldn't
enlighten me as to what on Earth has been going on for
the past hour or so, could you?
DOCTOR: Oh, business as usual for the multi-galactic
Conglomerate empire.
GREG: Oh, they do that every day then, do they?
DOCTOR: Oh, yes. We have been a couple of unexpected trainees
at the Conglomerate Training School For Aspiring
Executives. I'm afraid you didn't make the grade. You
were the lucky one.
GREG: You mean, you knew all the time?
DOCTOR: Gracious, no. Not even I'm *that* clever. No, the
Chairman of the Board had a friendly, headmasterly
gurgle in my ear. He said that if I destroyed my past
life, he'd overlook my little flirtation with treachery,
since I was such a promising student, and he had a nice
little middle-management job lined up for me on Altair
Saurus.
GREG: Good prospects?
DOCTOR: Oh, excellent. Unsophisticated, willing workforce,
badly-managed competition. I could have been a
millionaire.
GREG: And all you had to do was kill me, and destroy the
TARDIS.
DOCTOR: Yes. That's all. I mean to say, what's friendship and
contentment when there's money at stake?
GREG: You're sure you're fully recovered?
DOCTOR: Yes. You know, there's something reassuringly simple
about a monster that wants to just blast you into
oblivion. Things get needlessly complicated and sordid
when it wants to bribe you into a change of lifestyle.
GREG: Uh, I think I'll go and have a lie-down.
MUSIC: LOW AND MYSTERIOUS
ANNOUNCER: "Conglomerate". An Audio Adventure in Time And Space,
written by Arthur Wallis.
The Doctor: Nicholas Briggs.
Greg Holmes: Richard Marson.
Recording: Nick Layton.
Editing: Nick Briggs.
Incidental music composed and created by Graham Woods.
Producer: William Baggs.
"Conglomerate" was directed by Nicholas Briggs, and
Richard Marson.
MUSIC: SERIES' THEME 1
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