"(DOCTOR WHO THEME)" "(OSCILLATING DRONE)" "(OSCILLATING DRONE)" "Ah, Doctor." "Are you coming or going?" "Or going or coming?" "I feel a bit like a Morse message." "Slightly scrambled." "Yes." "Well, let's get on with it." "These must be the refractors." "Doctor?" "Yes?" "I can see you're busy, but what about Sarah?" "Sarah?" "SARAH:" "Help!" "That sounds like Sarah." "SARAH:" "Help me!" "(YELPS)" "It's not only oscillating, it's ellipsing as well." "You'd better give her a hand, Harry." "Righty-o." "Hmm, I see the problem." "Focus gone a bit fuzzy." "(GRUNTING)" "Okay, old thing?" "Harry, I'm not a thing." "Doctor says it's the refractors." "Is it?" "Ow!" "Say, you're not hurt, are you?" "Only my dignity." "(SARAH CLEARING THROAT)" "Ah, Sarah." "You're looking well." "Look, it's going to take some time to do the whole lot." "Why don't you two make the most of it?" "Make the most of what?" "Glorious day." "Beautiful unspoilt countryside." "No one has set foot here for thousands of years." "What you're trying to say is that you're busy and you'd like us to push off." "I'd phrase it more elegantly myself, of course." "Yes." "Oh, well." "Might as well have a recce while we're here." "Coming, old th...?" "Coming, Sarah?" "(ELECTRONIC BUZZING)" "Enjoy yourselves." "Trafalgar Square should be that way." "Trafalgar Square?" "If this is Piccadilly." "You're joking." "Aren't you?" "Mind the traffic." "(ELECTRONIC BUZZING)" "Trafalgar Square, my foot." "Not a pigeon in sight." "Well, I don't suppose many of our feathered friends survived, you know." "Not much in the way of life, is there?" "It's rather creepy." "It doesn't seem like Earth at all." "I don't know." "Nice and tidy, anyway." "No lolly sticks." "It's not what I expected." "Well, it'll all change when they get down from Nerva." "Their animal botanic section's packed with stuff." "What's that?" "What?" "Shh." "Listen." "I can't hear anything." "(FAINT WHIRRING)" "It's over there!" "Oh, come on, Sarah." "You're imagining things." "Look, Sarah, there's been no life on Earth, not of any size, for 1 0,000 years." "Now, look, we don't know that, do we?" "There could be anything here." "Such as what?" "I don't know." "Mutations." "Creatures." "Come on." "(DOCTOR HUMMING)" "Keep him covered, Zake." "I'll get the others." "Hey, Sarah, come and have a look at this." "Whoops!" "SARAH:" "Harry!" "Harry, are you all right?" "Hey, Krans!" "Krans!" "I've just seen some guy." "A stranger." "What?" "Zake's watching him, down by that circle." "I thought maybe Vural ought to know." "No, no, no, he's out looking for grub." "Down by the circle, eh?" "Yeah." "Hey." "Could be it's something to do with this mess, eh?" "Well, we'll soon find out." "No bones broken, I don't think." "All the same, I'm stuck, aren't I?" "Harry!" "Harry, there's something wrong here!" "The edge of this hole's been covered." "Well, of course it has." "That's why I fell..." "Oh, yes." "I see what you mean." "A deliberate trap, eh?" "Shh." "I'm going to fetch the Doctor." "All right, well, I'll..." "I'll wait here then." "(WHIRRING)" "(BEEPING)" "(SCREAMS)" "Harry?" "Hold it." "Is he a friend of yours?" "He's killed Zake!" "No... (FIRING)" "Doctor!" "Doctor?" "Sarah?" "Hey, who's there?" "Hey!" "Look here!" "Doctor!" "Harry!" "Harry, I can't find him..." "Harry?" "How long before the dope wears off?" "KRANS:" "He's coming round now." "Cut him loose, Erak." "But leave his hands tied, eh?" "Right." "All right." "Now talk." "Certainly." "What would you like me to talk about?" "What have you done with our crewmates?" "(FAINT WHIRRING)" "(MUFFLED SCREAM)" "(BEEPING)" "What on earth..." "Shh!" "Who are you?" "Where are you from?" "That's just what I was going to ask you." "Okay, my name is Sarah." "What's yours?" "Sarah." "What's your name?" "Roth." "Do you live here, Roth?" "No, those are space clothes, aren't they?" "I covered this, you understand, to catch the machine." "Tell me about the machine." "No!" "Why are you so frightened of it?" "The machine serves him." "Captures my crewmates." "Well, serves who?" "The thing in the rocks." "I'll not get caught." "No, not again." "No, wait." "What thing in the rocks?" "The alien in the rocks." "The machine captures us." "Takes us for torture." "I got away." "See?" "Those are burns, aren't they?" "Did the alien do that?" "Is that what you're saying?" "He killed Heath and Splear." "I got away." "You understand?" "I think I'm beginning to." "Look, take me to these rocks." "No." "Oh, look, Roth, you've got to help me." "I came here with two friends and they both vanished, you understand?" "I mean, you understand?" "I saw." "Then it was you following us?" "One of your friends is with Vural." "Vural?" "He was in the circle." "I saw them take him." "Then you know where the Doctor is?" "Yeah." "I told you, I just got here." "How, eh?" "We've seen no ship." "I didn't use one." "I came by transmat beam." "That's a lie." "That's the truth." "Who are you?" "Vural." "I'm the leader of this party." "Ah." "Now, where'd you find him?" "We first saw him creeping about that circle." "Not creeping, I was repairing..." "KRANS:" "Shut up." "By the time we caught up with him he was bent over Zake." "ERAK:" "He killed him." "I didn't kill him." "I heard a cry and found him with his neck broken in the gully." "An accident, I imagine." "You say you came here by transmat beam?" "That's right." "There's no transmat system on this planet." "The Earth's been junked." "Temporarily abandoned perhaps, but not junked." "Oh, no." "It's worn out, useless and too far from the freight routes." "Nobody comes here, so there's no transmat system." "Check?" "KRANS:" "Check." "So you better start telling the truth or you might find things getting a little rough." "I'm sorry to keep contradicting you, but there is a transmat beam from Space Station Nerva." "From where?" "Space Station Nerva." "Is he crazy?" "Ajoker." "You don't expect us to believe that." "Nerva, transmat beam, Earth." "It's as simple as that." "Why don't you believe me?" "Because Nerva doesn't exist, that's why." "There's no such place." "Fascinating." "You don't believe it exists, yet you've obviously heard of it." "Everybody's heard of the lost colony." "Lost colony?" "Ah." "You mean it's become a legend, like lost Atlantis?" "Like what?" "Lost Atlantis." "It's a legendary city." "A go..." "Never mind." "This is extremely interesting." "Are you going to cut me loose?" "No, we're going to get the truth out of you first." "ERAK:" "Too right." "Very colonial." "You are from a colony, I take it?" "GalSec." "Of course, on Nerva they know that various colony ships left Earth." "They'll be delighted to know that they're not the sole survivors of the human race." "You are human?" "What do you mean?" "Of course we are." "Oh, no offence, no offence." "Do you mind if I take a close look at that?" "DOCTOR:" "Hmm." "I'd say it's not a product of human technology, eh, Vural?" "You're a freak." "(SHRILL BEEPING)" "(BEEPING)" "(HUMMING)" "I say let's get rid of him now, and save ourselves the trouble later." "Krans?" "If he had landed by ship, we'd have heard." "Maybe he did come by transmat beam." "From Nerva?" "Maybe." "Aye, I remember the old story." "Back in the days of the expansion, a bunch of survival sleepers went to the Space Station Nerva to wait for the Earth to cool down again." "So?" "Earth's cooled down and they've never come back." "And Nerva's never been found." "It's just a story." "Yeah." "I reckon if it ever existed, it got burnt up in the sunburst." "You know what makes me half-believe him?" "It's such a crazy story, that's what." "You mean, if he was making it up he'd think of something better?" "Check." "Never." "I'll question him again." "No." "I'll handle this." "(EXCLAIMS)" "(ROTH SHUSHING)" "It's just a ways down there." "Well, what are we waiting for?" "No, no." "Look, Roth, if you're in Vural's crew, why are you so frightened of him?" "He's been to the rocks." "I saw." "I saw!" "Well, what do you mean, "you saw"?" "The alien let him go." "You understand?" "Vural's hooked." "Right." "How long have they been in deep freeze on Nerva?" "Oh, 1 0,000 years." "(SCOFFS)" "And you woke up before the others?" "Well, no." "I'm a sort of travelling time expert." "As you can see, Earth's been habitable for several thousand years, but they didn't wake up." "Why?" "Clock stopped." "Overslept." "So here I am." "Clock expert?" "Well, horologist, actually." "And chronometrist." "I just love clocks." "Atomic clocks, wall quartz clocks, grandfather clocks..." "He's still lying." "VURAL:" "Shut up, Erak." "...cuckoo clocks." "You got any proof?" "Well, no." "But then I didn't expect to meet anybody." "I understood Earth wasn't inhabited." "Yes, that's what we thought until we got a distress signal from around here." "A mayday?" "Then you're a military expedition, I take it." "Yeah, one of our GalSec fighters went missing." "We picked up a distress call and came down for a look-see." "Soon as we stepped from the ship, it was vaporised." "Nine of us were stuck here." "Nine?" "Where are the rest?" "Vanished." "And we reckon that that circle of yours has got something to do with it." "Oh, rubbish." "That's just the reception point for the transmat beam." "Let's kill him now and get it over with." "KRANS:" "No." "VURAL:" "That's wild talk, Erak." "Apart from killing me, you should treat me as an honoured guest." "Why?" "Well, you don't want to be stuck here forever, do you?" "Go on." "I might consider helping you." "And how do you reckon to help us?" "Simple." "I finish refocusing the matter beam, then we all pop up to Nerva, you get in touch with your headquarters and they send a ship for you." "Listen, if you are one of the old people, we're not taking any orders from your lot." "While you were dozing away, our people kept going and they made it." "We've got bases all across the galaxy now." "You've done nothing for 1 0,000 years while we made an empire." "You understand?" "Oh, absolutely." "We're not taking any of that Mother Earth rubbish." "Hey, look." "It's Roth." "Hey, Rothy." "Hey!" "Hey, Rothy." "It is Roth!" "Come on!" "(ERAK YELLING)" "KRANS:" "Roth." "ERAK:" "Hey, Roth." "Good girl, Sarah." "Who's your fast friend?" "Come on, Doctor." "I'll explain later." "Roth." "I've got cramps." "He's bunked." "I saw him." "Plain as daylight." "Oh, why'd he run like that?" "Why'd he run from us?" "He must have gone bush." "(VURAL SCOFFS)" "VURAL:" "Hey." "That freak." "He's got away." "All right, get your guns." "Doctor, the pit's this way." "I've lost my sonic screwdriver." "I feel absolutely lost without it." "I found your sonic screwdriver." "Doctor, the pit." "Shh." "What would I do without you?" "Any luck?" "Nothing." "Keep your eyes peeled." "He can't have got far." "He couldn't have climbed out." "Not without help." "That machine you told me about, could that have lifted him?" "No, he'd already gone by the time the machine came." "Excuse me." "Terullian drive." "What?" "The machine." "Now, that's very interesting, because there's no terullian to be found in this galaxy." "Yeah, yeah." "Who..." "Alien." "Alien." "You understand?" "Yes, don't you worry about it, old chap." "He's half-demented with shock." "He's been tortured, badly by the look of it." "He's terrified of everyone now." "Especially his old crewmates." "Yes." "And I can't say I blame him for being wary of friend Vural, at any rate." "You know, it's absolutely typical of Harry." "How anyone in his proper mind could fall down a whacking great subsidence like..." "That's it." "What's it?" "Subsidence." "A sewer or something." "Maybe it's the Central line." "I'm not with you." "I mean, there must be some way out at the bottom." "Hang on, Sarah." "I'll just go down and take a look." "You be careful, Doctor." "Don't you worry, Sarah." "You break a leg or something, we'll never get you out." "DOCTOR:" "It's perfectly...safe!" "(SARAH SCREAMS)" "SARAH:" "Doctor." "Doctor!" "(BOTH GASPING)" "(BEEPING)" "Sarah?" "Sarah?" "Sarah, are you there?" "(ROTH PANTING)" "(STYRE GROWLING)" "Linx."