"He's gone!" "Good morning, my dear!" "Captain Hart here?" "No, sir, he's at sea." "Well, I suppose that's the right place for a sailor, eh?" "What's your name?" "Blythe, sir." "Walker." "Parliamentary Private Secretary." "Any chance of any breakfast?" "I'll call the steward, sir." "Excellent!" "And, er, who are you?" "Leading Telegraphist Bowman, sir." "Jolly good!" "Nothing very elaborate, my dear." "Just eggs, bacon, toast, coffee..." "Oh, and a little rough-cut marmalade if they've got it." "How long is he likely to be?" "Captain Hart, I mean." "I don't know, sir." "Oh, well, now, I tell you what." "You get him on your jolly old wireless and ask him to come over here at the double, will you?" "Send a signal to Captain Hart." "Tell him that a Mr Walker is here to see him." "Parliamentary Private Secretary." "Er, aye, aye, sir." "I'll call the steward." "Ah, and get me the morning papers, will you?" "There's a good girl." "If I may ask, sir, what is the purpose of your visit?" "Why, all those ships sinking." "I've come down to clear it up for you." "The Minister's put me in full charge." "This is our planet." "My people ruled the Earth when man was only an ape." "Your people went into hibernation and abandoned Earth to its fate." "Our astronomers predicted that a great catastrophe would end all life on the face of the Earth." "Yes, but the catastrophe that you predicted never happened." "And the apes that you left behind on the surface to die became man." "You know our history?" "Yes." "Yes, I've encountered your people before." "That is why I want to prevent a conflict that can only end in your destruction." "We shall destroy man and reclaim the planet." "Already we have begun to sink his ships." "Yes, and already more ships are being sent to hunt you down." "The submarine?" "We have captured it." "You may win a few victories to begin with, but eventually you're bound to lose." "There are many thousands of our people in hibernation in this base." "We have other colonies hidden all round the world." "We shall be the victors in the war against mankind." "But there's no need for a war." "Why can't you share the planet?" "That would be impossible." "The depths of the sea and those areas on Earth where man cannot live can be yours." "And man would agree to that?" "There's a chance." "Wouldn't it be better to try for a peace, than to launch yourself into a war that you cannot possibly win?" "I will consider what you have said." "Let me return to the humans, and I will endeavour to make a peace for you." "Perhaps it would be possible." "No!" "The Doctor is your deadly enemy!" "He must be destroyed!" "Captain Hart, there's only one way to deal with this problem." "You have to attack." "Mmm." "Oh, pass me the sugar, my dear, will you?" "My submarine is missing in that area." "There's a chance that some of the crew may still be alive." "And what about the Doctor?" "He may still be alive down there, too!" "Yes." "Well, this is war, my dear, and war calls for sacrifice." "Any chance of any more toast, my dear?" "Yes, sir." "Now, I've had a look at the UNIT file about the creatures that your friend the Doctor encountered in those caves." "And do you know what happened?" "Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart blew the whole lot up." "Maybe, but I bet he didn't do it by risking the lives of his own men." "Well, that's as may be, but our line is quite clear." "Immediate retaliation with everything that we've got." "I'm sorry, sir." "I don't agree." "Your opinion is quite immaterial, Captain Hart." "The order's already been given." "Ships are converging on this area from ports all over England." "You're throwing away the lives of the men in that submarine, sir!" "And you'll probably kill the Doctor!" "Look, do you realise that that's murder?" "Murder?" "War always is, my dear." "Where on Earth's that girl with my toast?" "Make this to Ministry of Defence, Navy." "Special Task Force will be in position at 1 350." "That's all, thank you." "I beg you not to listen to this man." "He's the personification of evil!" "The Master is our friend." "He wants only to provoke a war." "I do not!" "I came here to help you revive your people." "Why should you need his help?" "Our hibernation unit is faulty." "And I can now repair it for you." "But why revive your people only to have them killed?" "Let me try and negotiate that peace for you." "As you did before, Doctor?" "The last time this man encountered your race, he tricked them." "The humans destroyed them all." "Is that true?" "Yes." "I tried to make peace but I failed." "You see?" "He admits it." "Man is weak!" "Your conquest will be easy." "Believe me, man is not weak!" "He's only too proficient at devising weapons of annihilation, and using them!" "He says man is weak." "He says man is strong." "He's lying!" "He's trying to frighten you!" "No." "I do not think he lies." "Perhaps it would be better to make peace." "I shall consider what you have said." "Don't trust him!" "Inform Ministry of Defence." "Task Force now in position and ready to attack." "Aye, aye, sir." "Roger Task Force." "Over and out." "What is it?" "The Task Force is in position, sir." "Excellent! "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war," hmm?" "Well, tell them to carry out their orders." "The attack will go ahead now." "No!" "Look, please!" "You've got to do something!" "Can't you stop him?" "I wish you'd reconsider, sir." "Captain Hart, I have full authority." "Now, are you going to carry out my order or must I replace you with someone who will?" "I'm sorry, Jo." "Commence attack." "Urgent attack." "You will negotiate a truce between my people and the humans." "If you'll release the submarine and its crew, yes, as a gesture of good faith." "Very well." "You are throwing away the control of this planet!" "The humans will never make peace with you!" "Is this the promised peace?" "Can't you see that the humans are determined to wipe you out?" "You are right!" "These apes cannot be trusted!" "Take him away and kill him!" "Destroy the ships!" "Send your people down to the lower levels." "They'll be safe there." "We must retaliate." "Not yet." "If I'm to revive your people, I need time." "What would you have us do?" "Convince the humans that their attack has been a success." "Sir." "Roger, Task Force." "Sir?" "Signal from Task Force." "They report bodies and debris coming to the surface." "Bodies?" "Did they say..." "No, miss, just the lizard things." "We can call off the attack now, sir." "Well, I'm not sure." "Look, you've probably killed the Doctor and all those sailors." "Aren't you satisfied?" "There is a chance there might be some survivors." "Would you want it said that you unnecessarily endangered the lives of naval personnel, sir?" "All right." "Have it your own way." "Make to Task Force." "Abandon attack." "Aye, aye, sir." "Cease fire." "You see?" "My plan has worked." "We could still destroy their ships before they are out of range." "No, let them go." "Let them think that they have won." "You will now revive the rest of my people." "Yes, but first the trigger mechanism on your reactivation unit is faulty." "I need electronic equipment to build a new one." "And where will you obtain this?" "The humans will provide it." "We shall attack their base." "Optimistic, Number One, but I admire your pluck." "Give it to me." "Would you like to try, sir?" "Good afternoon, gentlemen." "Erm, look, would you mind keeping back for a moment?" "That is, if you want to get out." "Thank you." "Who the blazes are you?" "I've no time to explain now." "Where are the rest of your men?" "Still in the submarine." "Is the submarine still operational?" "Should be." "They've ripped out the communicators and the escape gear, as you can see." "But left the engines alone." "Yes." "Where's the sub now?" "In a kind of undersea harbour." "Can you find the way?" "I think so, yes." "Right, you'd better lead on." "Here, take this." "It's a gun." "Now come on, let's hurry." "What about you, Chris?" "I'll stick." "You?" "Twist." "I'll stick." "Right." "Ha!" "Pay twenties." "Eighteen." "Nineteen." "Well, that's it, then." "You've cleaned me right out." "What about you?" "Do you want to go on?" "Not bothered." "What's that?" "Erm, loose rigging." "Rigging?" "Yeah, what about a game of consequences?" "Yeah, I'll start." "Right, it's your turn." "Er, you've got to do what it says there." "That's not how you play consequences." "It's the way we play." "Oh." "What's the matter with him?" "He's throwing a fit!" "Here!" "Can't you see?" "He's not well!" "No, no!" "Don't kill him!" "There's no need to have done that!" "Any more of them, Summers?" "There's some more on guard up top, sir." "We've dealt with them already." "Right, action stations!" "We're getting underway." "Aye, aye, sir." "The humans have escaped!" "The submarine!" "They'll try to recapture it!" "Activate the force field!" "Sir, we've stopped moving." "Increase revolutions." "Maximum revs, sir." "They're holding us back with some kind of force field." "They cannot escape us now." "There must be something we can do." "Well, you could try firing your torpedoes at the cave wall and blasting yourselves free." "We're still halfway in the cave, sir!" "We could blow ourselves up!" "That's a risk you'll have to take." "Forward ends, this is the Captain." "Load all bow tubes." "Open one and two bow caps." "Increase the force field." "The engines." "We're losing power." "Well, hurry up and fire those torpedoes." "Or we'll be drawn back into the cave." "All bow heads open." "Ready to fire, sir." "Well, come on, then, you've got to risk it!" "Stand by bow salvo." "Standing by, sir." "Fire one." "Fire two." "Increase the force field." "They must not escape." "It's no use." "You're already too late." "Any damage forward, Chief?" "No damage to tell, sir." "Thank you." "All right, stand by to surface, Number One." "Aye, aye, sir." "We're going home." "They can tell the humans how to find our base." "It's of no importance." "Before they can attack us, we shall attack them." "Doctor!" "I thought you were dead!" "Dead?" "No, I don't think so." "When I saw that thing come up empty, I thought I'd never see you again." "Well, well, well, so the heroes have returned." "Captain Hart, what idiot ordered an all-out attack just as I was on the verge of finding a peaceful solution?" "But it wasn't Captain Hart's fault." "It was this..." "I'm terribly sorry." "This is Mr Walker." "He's the Parliamentary Private Secretary in charge of this business." "I'm the idiot you've just been talking about." "Absolutely splendid lunch, old man." "You ordered the attack?" "I did." "Did you give any thought at all, sir, as to what you were doing?" "Our duty is to destroy the Queen's enemies." "Don't you know your national anthem?" ""Confound their politics, frustrate their knavish tricks. "" "That, sir, is an extremely insular point of view!" "At the precise moment of the attack, I was negotiating a peace." "Peace?" "Huh!" "What, when they've been attacking our shipping and heaven alone knows what?" "I think you've got it all wrong, old man. "Seek and destroy. "" "That's what you chaps say, isn't it?" "But the point, Mr Parliamentary Private Secretary, is that you have not destroyed!" "You have just made them angry, very, very angry!" "I'm going to get on to the Minister, and I'm going to ask him to seek approval for an immediate attack with nuclear weapons." "But that, sir, would be tantamount to murder." "Oh, come, come, Doctor." "You speak as if these creatures were human." "We're not going to hand over the world to a lot of lizards, you know." "You can share it with them, surely?" "Oh, come, really, Doctor!" "Look, let me make one final attempt to negotiate." "Well, you didn't get very far last time, did you?" "Just you think of it, sir." "Think of it." "Wouldn't you like to be the man behind a peaceful settlement?" ""Walker, the peacemaker", they'd call you." "Or would you prefer to be known as the man responsible for launching a full-scale war?" "You can actually communicate with these creatures?" "Yes." "And you'd be willing to undertake the preliminary negotiations yourself?" "Just leave it to me." "Doctor, you're not thinking of going down there again?" "Jo, it's the only way." "But, Doctor, it's far too dangerous!" "Don't you understand, Jo?" "I've got to go down there of my own free will as a gesture of good faith." "Captain Hart, is that diving vessel still alongside?" "Yes, but I must say that I agree with Miss Grant." "Then with your permission, Mr Walker." "Doctor, do you think you're doing the right thing?" "I'm doing the only thing possible, Captain Hart, if we're to avoid a major conflict." "Suppose they won't listen to you?" "Doctor!"