"(DOCTOR WHO THEME)" "I don't understand." "Lord Palmerdale, what is happening?" "Nothing, my dear." "Absolutely nothing is happening here." "(REUBEN SCREAMS)" "What the devil was that?" "Reuben?" "It must have taken Reuben, like the other." "Don't talk to any strangers." "But what was that ghastly scream?" " Oh, control yourself!" " There's no cause for alarm." "Something terrible has happened, I know it!" " It was in my stars." " Oh, come, now." "That's absolute nonsense." "You're overwrought." "Pull yourself together." "We'll be all right." " Harker, where are you going?" " Below." "Insubordinate ruffian!" "If there is something here, we should stick together." "What?" "On the principle that it may satisfy its appetite before it reaches you?" "Oh, stop it!" "Fool!" "Now look what you've done." "Doctor?" "Where are you?" "Hello?" "Doctor, are you there?" "Doctor?" "Reuben?" "Is something wrong?" " Reuben?" " Leave me be." "Are you all right, man?" "Doctor?" "Ahoy there!" "(FOGHORN BELLOWS)" "There." "They've repaired the lights." "It's all right." "Nothing to worry about." " Listen!" " What?" "There's someone outside." " Oh, Colonel, please..." " Shh!" "Hello?" "Doctor?" "Harker?" "Oh." "It's all right." "It's just the old chap." " Eh?" " The keeper." " What was that cry?" "Did he say?" " He went straight up." "Looked done in." "Adelaide, you ought to lie down." "Up in that room?" "Alone?" "Have you taken leave of your senses?" " Nothing." "Were you calling?" " Yes, sir." " Know what I think?" " The creature killed Reuben." "Probably." "Probably." " Reuben's all right." " What did you say?" " I just seen him." " Are you certain?" "Got it!" " U by Q over R." " Did you hear?" " Shh!" " What are you doing?" "I'm thinking." "(CRACKLING)" "Yes." "It's certainly been here." "In the space surrounding an electrically charged body is an electric potential proportional to the charge Q and inversely proportional to the distance R from the centre." " Where is he?" " What?" " Who?" " Reuben." "You've seen him." "Yes, looking as if he'd seen a ghost." " Why didn't you tell me?" " I told miss." " Why am I wasting time working out its size?" " I don't know." " Reuben can tell us." " That is what I thought, but I'm a savage." "Come on, savage." " Harker?" " Yes?" "Find some way to secure that door, hmm?" "I don't suppose in your service they taught you anything useful, like how to operate one of these?" "Do you suppose I'd send a message for you?" " We'd make a killing." "I'd split the profit." " I'd be ruined, and you know it." " Where's Reuben?" " Who?" "He was out there a short while ago." "Looked a bit groggy." " Groggy?" " Yes." " Doctor, what was that terrible cry?" " Thank you very much." "Come on, Leela." "Well, really!" "His manners are quite insufferable." "Things on his mind, eh, Henry?" "We all have." "The girl's tied to him by a piece of string." "Where do you suppose His Lordship's gone?" "Is it important?" "None of us can leave this dreadful place." "Some men make me nervous when I'm with them" " Salisbury, Bonar Law." "With your employer, it's when he's out of my sight." " Colonel, don't leave me all alone." " It's all right." "Back in a tick." "(KNOCKS)" "Reuben?" "Reuben, are you in there?" "Can you hear me?" "(KNOCKING)" "Reuben, open the door." "I want to talk to you." " Solid oak." " Why does he not answer?" "Because he's not listening." " Not listening?" " Shock can close the mind, Leela." "He could be like that for hours." "Days, even." "Days?" "What are you going to do?" "Someone's got to keep this place running." "Tell Harker to keep the boiler pressure up." "Keep the boiler pressure up." "Keep the boiler pressure up." "Keep the..." " So, it's a lonely life you chaps lead, eh?" " You get used to it." " I suppose they don't pay too well." " It's not so bad." "It's steady work." "Still, you'd not be averse to earning a little extra, say 50 pounds?" " 50 pound?" "!" " I have to get a message to London urgently." "Do you know how to use that equipment downstairs?" "Yes, but it's the official telegraph." "Look, when I say 50 pounds, I mean 50 pounds now." "It's all I happen to be carrying." "There'll be as much again for you when I get to London." "100 pound?" "!" "That's a fortune." "I won't get mixed up in nothing wrong." "Look, I'm a businessman." "How could there be anything wrong?" " Here's the message." "It's in code..." " (DOCTOR) Vince?" " Don't worry." "Nothing's wrong." " Vince?" " Yes, sir?" " Remember, say nothing." "(FOGHORN BELLOWS)" " All right." " I'm fine." "Good." "I want to talk to you, Vince." "There." "That ought to do the trick, eh, miss?" " Solid oak." " Hickory, more likely, miss." "Harker, I have a message from the Doctor." "He said Reuben will not answer, so you must stay here and keep the boy pressure up." "Er, boiler pressure, miss?" " That is what I said." " Right you are, miss." "What do you reckon Reuben saw?" " I don't know." "We'll find out by sunrise." " If it's the beast come back, last time they found two keepers dead and t'other mad." "Ben's dead, Reuben's mad..." "There's only me left now." " That's superstitious nonsense." " What about Ben?" "There are eight of us here." "If it attacks again, we'll be ready." "The advantage is ours." "Eight to one." "(INAUDIBLE)" "(PULSING)" "You've no right to say such things." "Lord Palmerdale has always been the kindest and most considerate of employers." "To you, no doubt, though my experience of him is somewhat different." "You have enjoyed his friendship." "Indeed, more than just friendship." "He's been most generous to you." "A sprat to catch a mackerel." " What does that mean?" " He intends to make far more money from me." " Nonsense!" " It's true." "Lord Palmerdale is already a millionaire." "How could you possibly bring him further financial advantage?" "Because your precious employer is a crook, my dear, with no scruples about destroying my honour." "How dare you?" "!" "I refuse to listen to another word." "Furthermore, I shall find His Lordship and tell him just what a perfidious so-called friend you are." "(CHUCKLES) I thought you might." "Reuben?" "Reuben, hear me." "If you do not unlock this door now, I shall smash it down." "Do you understand?" " Reuben!" " (BANGING)" "So you stay on the siren." "If you think that's best." "Should I talk to Reuben?" " No." "Stay here." " (THUD )" "Stay here, Vince." "(THUD )" "(THUD )" "Come out, old one." "(GASPS)" " You do not want him?" " He'll come out when he's ready." " Is His Lordship up here?" " No." "There's no one there." "Return to the crew room." "I must find him." "Get back to the crew room!" "The Malicious Damage Act 1861 covers lighthouses." " What?" " Nothing." "He's gone, sir." "Your Lordship?" "We'll get Harker, then find Palmerdale." " The cowardly one?" " Yes." " Doctor..." " Shh!" " What's this all about, Doctor?" " Survival, Colonel." "Yes." "Yours, mine, all of us." "Oh, this mysterious beast that eats lighthouse keepers." "Do you find that difficult to accept?" "Doctor, I'm a man of intelligence." "Quite." "I don't believe in mythical sea creatures either." "Then why are we in danger?" "Because somewhere out there is a hostile alien from a distant planet, and it intends to destroy us." " A hostile alien from a distant planet?" "!" " Yes." "You call yourself a doctor?" "That's the most insane suggestion I've ever heard." "Doctor, I cannot find the cowardly one." "I've never been more serious, Colonel." "We are facing greater power than you can dream of." "I do appreciate the scientific romanticism of Mr Wells..." " (WHISTLING)" " Herbert may have some facts wrong," " but his basic supposition is sound." " Doctor." "You think your little speck in the galaxy's the only one with intelligent life?" "Yes?" "How very interesting." " What's interesting?" " That was Vince." "What's happened?" "He thinks Lord Palmerdale's fallen from the lamp gallery." " (SCREAMS)" " Fallen?" "Off the railing?" "You can't..." "He can't have fallen." "I agree." "The question is, do we go and see?" "Well, of course." "I mean..." "You really believe in this thing, don't you?" "I do." "Leela, stay here." "Come on." "I told him we shouldn't have come." "But he wouldn't listen." "He laughed when I said Miss Nethercott had seen tragedy in my stars." " In your stars?" " If only we'd stayed in Deauville!" "I knew something ghastly would happen." "Her predictions are never wrong." "I understand." "She is your shaman." "What...?" "No, Miss Nethercott is an astrologer." "The finest." "I consult her every month." "A waste of time." "I, too, used to believe in magic, but the Doctor has taught me about science." "It is better to believe in science." "Harker..." "Secure the door." "Come with me, Skinsale." "(FOOTSTEPS)" "(ADELAIDE) Oh, no!" "Quiet!" "Has she never seen death before?" " I can't bear it!" " Adelaide." " You must be brave." "Adelaide..." " Take your hands off me!" " You did it!" "You killed him!" " Me?" "!" "Don't be ridiculous!" "You went out after him, then you pushed him." " I wasn't there." " Where were you?" " I only went to see what he was up to." " You did it!" " Enough!" " And what was he up to?" "He was trying to bribe that young keeper to telegraph a message to his brokers." "And so you came down here and wrecked the telegraph." "It was the only way I could think of stopping him." "I'd have been ruined." "Of course." "So to protect your honour, you've put all our lives in danger." " What?" " We've no way of contacting the mainland?" "Oh, no." "We're on our own now." "Hello, shipmate." "How are you feeling now?" "(MUFFLED BELLOW)" "(SILENCE)" "I did not harm him, I swear." " Then who did?" " I don't know." " Harker, perhaps." " Harker?" "Why not?" "He attacked Henry." "Blamed him for wrecking the ship." " That's absurd!" " No more absurd than thinking I..." "Murdered him?" " I wish you had." " What do you mean?" "Well, if you had, everything would have been so much simpler." " He was dead before he hit the ground." " What?" "Electrocuted." "He was killed by a massive electric shock, like the keeper was." "In the lamp gallery?" "That's not possible." "That would mean that this creature can climb sheer walls." "Oh, not only can it climb sheer walls, it's amphibious." "It has some affinity with electricity and can adapt its environment to optimum thermal lev..." " Are you following me?" " No." " It likes the cold." " (WHISTLING)" "Not enough data to place the species, but heat might be a method of defence." "That was Vince." "He said the boiler pressure has fallen, and the siren will not sound." "Harker." " Oh, no!" " (DOCTOR) Get her out of here!" "Like the others?" "Yes." "Rigor mortis." " What is that?" " He's been dead for hours." " That is not possible." "He was in his room." " Not Reuben." "He was." "I saw him." "The chameleon factor, sometimes called lycanthropy." "Leela, I've made a terrible mistake." "I thought I'd locked the enemy out." "Instead I've locked it in with us."