"Help me!" "Can't you help me?" "!" "Are you all right?" "Yes." "Who are you?" "What are you doing here?" " I thought you were on their side!" " Is that what they all think?" " Well, you HAVE been helping them." " I had to!" "They'd have killed me!" " Where are the other Ice Warriors?" " At their ship but they'll be back." " We must get out of here!" " How?" "I can get you back to Earth." "T-Mat is working again." "I'll tell the others the good news!" "Oh, Victoria..." "Jamie..." "Oh, well done, Jamie!" " Are you all right?" " Yes, I think so." "Ooh, I'm a bit dizzy!" "It's so hot in here." "Lucky for us!" "Zoe and Phipps turned the heating up just in time." " Where are they?" " They used the maintenance tunnel." "Doctor!" "Are you all right?" " I think so." " Where's Phipps?" "He's dead." "An Ice Warrior killed him." "How did you escape?" " That man helped me." " Fewsham?" "Isn't he working for them?" " He saved my life." " Doesn't sound like Fewsham." " He's got T-Mat working." " Can we get back to Earth?" " I think so." " Let's not waste any time!" " Well, that's all we need!" " What is it?" " Gregson's here." " Gregson, eh?" "Sir James Gregson, Minister with special responsibility for T-Mat." " Your boss, in other words!" " Oh, don't!" "Radnor, I can't make head nor tail of your report." "Who's this?" "Professor Eldred, sir." "He's helping me, sir." " What is the position with T-Mat?" " Still no contact with Moonbase." " What are you doing about it?" " We've got people up there." " How did they get there?" " We sent a rocket, sir." "Professor Eldred's an expert in rocketry." " What happened to the rocket?" " It's difficult to say." " We lost radio contact." " Is that all you've done?" "Chief technician Miss Kelly has gone to Moonbase." " Oh, more rockets." " She went by T-Mat." "But T-Mat isn't working." "It began to function, so Miss Kelly went to Moonbase with a repair team." " So you had a report from her." " No, sir." "T-Mat has ceased to function again." "This is ridiculous " "T-Mat out of action, an outbreak of some sort of crop blight, as for this story about some monster from outer space..." " I think I owe you an explanation." " What about this creature?" "Any news?" "It seems to have completely disappeared." "It was reported here, then here, and the last sighting was by the Weather Control Bureau there." "I had to help them or they would have killed me!" "There'll be a full inquiry on Earth." "We've no time to waste." "We must T-Mat back to Earth now." " Who is going to dispatch us?" " There's a way of doing that." "This time switch delays transportation by ten seconds." "I'll dispatch you and follow using the time switch." "Zoe, Jamie, come along." "This could be quite fun!" "The maintenance report said that time switch was inoperable." "We repaired it!" "In you get." "I'll use the time switch." "Hurry." "Those Ice Warriors will be back any minute." "Do you know, I find T-Mat travel rather disappointing." "There's no sensation at all!" "Where have you been all this time?" "Where's Miss Kelly?" "Miss Kelly!" "What's happening up there?" "Will someone tell me what's happening down here?" "!" "Who are these people?" "Is T-Mat working?" "Please!" "One question at a time!" "Do you know there's been an alien here?" " An Ice Warrior HERE?" "!" " Jamie, I am not surprised." "They have taken over Moonbase." " What about the crew?" " All dead except Fewsham." " You left him there?" " He said he'd follow using the time switch." "He should be back." "What's happening?" "I thought so!" "The time switch is out of order." " He said he would repair it." " He lied." " Why?" " Because he's working for them!" "Then why did he let us escape?" "What has happened here?" "The others, they got in through the grille and turned up the heating." "Where are they now?" "They went back to Earth by T-Mat." "Why did you not go with them?" "I refused." "That's why they attacked me." "Refused?" "Why?" "If I'd gone back to Earth, I'd have been executed as a traitor." "So you hope to live longer by staying here." "You value your life." "That is good." "You will live if you help us when the invasion fleet arrives!" "You're going to land on Earth?" "No, our Warriors will land here, on the moon." "When the seed pods have done their work on Earth, it will be time to commence the second stage of our plan." "The invasion of Moonbase, the taking over of T-Mat, the seed pods, the arrival of the Ice Warrior, they're part of the same plan." "Plan?" "What plan?" "This fungus everywhere, what's that got to do with it?" "I'm not sure." "What do your people make of it?" "It's indestructible." "We've attacked it without success." "Yes, but have you tried to understand it?" "You mean we should psychoanalyse it?" "Rather than destroy it, you should find out its composition and purpose." "I have some laboratory equipment in my workshop." " Good." "Then we need a sample." " The gardens are full of the stuff." " Fine." " I'll get some equipment for you." "Do be careful." "Those pod things are deadly." "I've already had experience." "I'll be careful." "Why did Fewsham stay on the moon?" "He was too afraid to come back and face an inquiry." "But he wasn't afraid to stay with the Ice Warriors." "I know which I'd choose!" "We've no time to worry about Fewsham." "We must get T-Mat working." " I thought it was working now." " It's still controlled from the moon." "We must find a way to control it from Earth." "Don't you need the moon as a relay?" "There might be a way." "I must talk to Commander Radnor about it." "Do you think the Doctor knows what he's doing with that foam stuff?" " Don't worry." "He'll be all right." " Oh, yes." " Could it work?" " It's less effective than Moonbase." "Instead of two million microwave channels, the satellite would take a few thousand." "That's enough for food supplies." "The communications satellites aren't programmed for T-Mat." " We'd send up a programmed one." " I thought no one used rockets now." "Not manned rockets, but we use satellites for communications." " How soon can you do it?" " If we get top priority..." "Yes..." "It's organic." "It's alive." "It's definitely a fungus composition." " Are you sure this is correct?" " As far as I can make out, it is." "A molecule of five atoms... absorbs oxygen." "A complete blanket of this would reduce the oxygen content of the Earth's atmosphere drastically." "According to my calculations, to one twentieth normal." "It would make the Earth's atmosphere uninhabitable to the human race, but exactly like the atmosphere of Mars!" "Look at that." "Even without vegetation to feed on, it's still active." "Oh!" "If it explodes, the fumes will kill us!" "Just a minute." "There must be some way of..." "Come on!" "Sulphuric acid!" "Hydrochloric acid!" "Acetic acid!" "You've done it!" "Well, what was it?" "What did you throw on it?" "Extensive search by security forces reveals no trace of alien creature." "Message ends." "So that Warrior's still roaming around somewhere." "Why did they only send one?" "Perhaps it's got to report back somehow." "Is Commander Radnor there, please?" " Oh, Zoe, is Radnor there?" " He's in conference with Sir James Gregson." "Oh, I see." "Zoe, there's the most wonderful news!" "We've found a way of destroying the fungus!" " What is it?" " Water!" "Ordinary water!" " Surely..." " There's no time to explain." "Apparently, there is a Weather Control Bureau here." "I want you to contact them." "Can't you reach them on the video phone?" " I tried." "There's no answer." " What do you want me to do?" "Ask Commander Radnor to get hold of the Weather Control Bureau people and to make as much rain as possible over the entire country!" "All right, Doctor, I'll tell him." " We're coming back now." "Bye!" " But suppose..." "How do we get hold of Commander Radnor?" " We'll ask the computer." " Do you know how it works?" "Yes, of course." "Put me in touch with Commander Radnor at once." "Commander Radnor engaged in top level T-Mat conference with chief technician Kelly and Sir James Gregson." "But I must talk to him at once!" "Commander Radnor not available." " Now what do we do?" " We go to the Weather Bureau!" " We don't know where it is!" " We'll have to try and find it!" "There!" "What is it?" "A communications unit from our ship." "Connect it to the solar batteries!" "What's this section for?" "That does not concern you!" "I can't connect equipment unless I know its purpose." "It transmits a directional beam signal." "A homing device!" "You'll use it to guide your armada onto the moon?" "You will not ask questions!" "You will do as you are told!" " Hadn't we better close the door?" " Why?" "In case that Warrior's still out there." "That should keep him out." "Come on!" " Well, where is everybody?" " I don't know." "Let's find the main control room." "So that's why no one answered the video phone." "And look at that!" "It's no good." "They're locked in position." "Don't you see?" "It's what the Doctor said - water, rain!" "It all makes sense now." "They don't want it to rain on the fungus." "Well..." "Sssh!" "It's a Warrior!" "Hide!" "Are all the preparations complete?" "Yes, Grand Marshal." "The seed pods have been dispatched to the cities of the Earth, and the Moonbase is in our hands." "Good." "Our fleet is approaching the gravitational field of the moon." "Is all prepared?" "Everything is ready." "I shall guide our ships in on the homing beam signal." "Fuel supplies are at marginal level." "There must be no misjudgements!" "Final check now underway." "I hope they get it right." "It's been years since we sent up a satellite." "Will the communications aspects function?" "Yes." "Once that satellite is up," "T-Mat will handle 2,000 microwave channels." "Is someone sending up a rocket?" "What the devil's happening?" "I don't know..." "It's Moon Control!" "The sound, can you turn it up?" "Shouldn't we test the directional beam?" " It is not necessary!" " But it's operating on Moonbase power." "I can't guarantee the pulsing rate will be the same." "Very well." "Test it!" "Can this be recorded?" " Yes." " Quickly!" "It's vital!" "Record any transmission on the video machine!" "Understood." "Transmission will be recorded." "The device is operating." "Wait a moment!" "Um..." "I must check the connections." "If the power fails, we won't be able to guide the fleet onto the moon." "There must be no failures!" "I realise the importance of that." "If we overshoot the moon, nothing will stop them from going straight into an orbit around the sun." "They will not overshoot!" "Of course not, but since their fuel supplies are at a marginal level, if anything did go wrong, they'd never be able to regain moon orbit." "This video device is operating!" "You have betrayed us!" " Every word has been heard on Earth!" " Kill him!" "Countdown in minus three minutes." "Cancel the launch!" "We can use that satellite to mislead the Martian fleet!" "Poor Fewsham let us overhear their homing signal." "We can imitate that signal with a homing device in the satellite!" "Commander Radnor, top priority message to satellite launching site!" " Cancel launch!" "Cancel launch!" " Message understood." "If we can deflect their armada, half our battle is won!" " But that fungus is everywhere." " We solved that with H20 - water!" "Water?" "Well, all we need to do is to make it rain!" "Haven't you contacted the Weather Control Bureau?" " You've only just told me!" " I sent a message an hour ago via Zoe!" " An hour ago we were in conference." " Oh, I see." "Perhaps Zoe went to the Weather Control Bureau herself." "That's the last place the Warrior was sighted!" " What?" "!" " I'll get guards over there right away!" "Hadn't you better wait, Doctor?" "Get me Security!" "ZOE!" "ARE YOU IN THERE?" "Zoe!" "Zoe!" "Jamie!" "Let me in!" "ZOE!" "JAMIE!" "Oh, no!" "ZOE!" "Let me in!" "Zoe!" "Jamie!" "If you're there, let me in!" "Oh, no!"