"Transcripts from novels and synchro: wyxchari Corrections:" "Lucife, craimez" "It's weird." "I don't understand." "Nasty little booby trap that." "That is if it is a booby trap." "Still, there's only one way forward." "Is it a well?" "Only one way to find out." "That eye." "I've seen it before." "Of course." "It was all over the kites in the entrance hall." "Fascinating." "Somehow somewhere down there is the answer to all that's been going on in the Psychic Circus." "Awfully sorry to butt in like this, old boy." "But I'm afraid you're wanted." "You're the next one due on in the ring." "Why did you bring them here?" "Survival of the fittest, old girl." "Don't tell me you never came across that on the planet Vulpana." "But we were on the edge of discovering the secret of the Psychic Circus." "Doesn't that interest you at all?" "Frankly, no, old chap." "Anyway, what's going on seems pretty clear to me." "Anybody dumb enough to get into the ring gets killed." "Just 'cos I said I don't like clowns doesn't mean I'm scared of clowns, OK?" "Got that, tin-head?" "I said, got that, tin-head?" "Oh, I'm sorry." "That shouldn't have..." "I must have fallen asleep." "We've met before." "Don't you remember me?" "Mags, no!" "Please!" "Not now!" "Not yet!" "I don't think much of this, father." "Nothing's happening, is it?" "Not that I can see." "Mum, mum..." "What is it?" "I'm bored." "There's no point in going on, dear." "We're all bored." "Something has to happen soon." "After all I've done for you." "The Doctor gets away and you and I are going back under guard." "You were lucky." "Yes, I suppose you're right, I'm still in one piece." "You could have given us the full works." "Still, the old team of Mags and the Captain stuck together as usual." "As a matter of fact it reminds me of the time on Fagiros when the Architrave of Batgeld was showing me his collection of early Ganglion pottery..." "Of course, of course." "Things are beginning to get out of control quicker than I expected." "No." "No." "Fun for all the family." "I don't know how they got the nerve." "Flowerchild." "They murdered you..." "With a robot I made..." "You're sure that's what happened?" "There can be no doubt." "Every robot, every clown in the circus I made and maintained." "For this." "And even now they won't let me die." "They need me." "You mean, no one else knows how?" "Each of us.." "Each of us in the Circus.." "We all had one circus skill we learned and..." "Mine was this." "This control unit is brill." "Have it." " Really?" " Yes." "It controls that." "And the full scale version I made of it." "Careful." "That activates the laser eyes." "It was to have been my masterpiece." "But, like everything else, it was abused and went wrong." "We had such high ideals when we started." "We shared everything and we enjoyed making people happy." "If we had problem, we don't just sit around and talk it through." "We were so happy." "At least I think we were." "Hallo, Deadbeat." "Fancy meeting you here." "Small world, isn't it?" "It frightened you to see that eye, didn't it?" "It means the powers behind it are on the move again." "Something happened to you here." "You can't always have been like this." "Did you try to find something out?" "Were you punished?" "Can you understand anything I'm saying?" "Well, there's one thing I do know, Deadbeat." "You're not going to give me away to the others, are you?" "Follow... follow the track..." "Lead on, Deadbeat." "You know, I can get quite cross about this." "Wow, is that Captain Cook, the famous intergalactic explorer?" "Quiet!" "Where's the Doctor?" "He gave us the slip." "He did what?" "He gave us the slip." "A very similar thing happened to me once in the Bay of Paranoia on Golobus." "I don't care what happened on Gololbus." "Your loss, old boy." "Anyway, it was all her fault." "I imagine you'll have to put her in the ring next as some sort of punishment." "No." "Oh." "Found someone else, have you?" "Yes." "Really." "May I enquire who?" "You." "Excuse me." "But you are Captain Cook, the famous intergalactic explorer?" "I'ye got maps at home showing all your journeys and a piece of one of your old shoes" "I bought in a souvenir shop on..." "Will you leave me alone?" "Hey, hey, Morgana, Morgana." "Maybe you were long gone..." "Look!" "It's here now." "What you mind?" "What we found." "What we serve." " It'll always be here now." "Waiting for us to fail." " Don't come with all that now." "Don't pretend you don't see." "We have an empty circus tent in there." "I don't want to talk about anything else." "Well, send in another act!" "I will, baby, just as soon as I can!" "The Doctor's escaped." "Your idiot of a Captain failed us." "All right." "Send him in the ring." "It's arranged already." "But I'm more worried about the Doctor." "He's dangerous." "Let's go find him then." "I'll go find him." " You get back in the ring." " Just a minute!" "Quiet, both of you!" "Look!" "It's shown him to us." "An he's with Deadbeat!" "He must be stopped, at once!" "Kites, she made beautiful kites." "Every colour of the rainbow." "All shapes and sizes." "They used them to watch us and trap us and keep us here." " So, they destroyed her work, and then, they destroyed her." " It'll be alright, Bellboy." "We're getting you out of here." "Why should I want to get out of here?" "It's gone, the fun, the freedom, the being what you want to be." "All of it." "Don't you understand?" "Yes." "I'm sorry." "We can't stay here forever, can we?" "I've got to find the Doctor, for a start." "It took everything that was brightand good about what we had and buried it where it will never be found again." "I don't understand." "Who's they?" "The ones who run the Circus." "The ones you've met." "But there wasn't just them..." "There was..." "Flowerchild and Peacepipe and Juniper Berry and..." "And Deadbeat." "Except, no, he wasn Deadbeat then, he was..." "No, it's gone." "They're coming to take me of to the ring, Bellboy." "They may need you to repair the robots." "I'm just trouble." "Making a bit of a mess about opening the door, aren't they?" " It can't be that difficult!" " Maybe it is the end after all?" "Doctor." "Deadbeat, I take it all back." "You're absolutely right." "Clowns can be creepy." "Kingpin, that was your name." "Kingpin." "So you're always been interested in the Psychic Circus?" "Have your sit there." "Oh yes, of course, I've never been able to visit it before now, but I've got all sorts of souvenirs." "Copies of all the advertising satellites that have ever been sent out." "All the posters." "I had a long correspondence with one of the founder members too, soon after it started." "Of course, although I never saw the early days," "I know it's not as good as it used to be, but I'm still terribly interested." "Two minutes Captain." "Thank you ***** master." "No doubt you dream of having the ultimate Psychic Circus experience as soon as possible?" "Sorry." "You ache for the moment when you do your own act within that sawdust covered magic circle?" "Oh, yes, of course." "I mean, there's no real danger is there?" "Only to those without resource or imagination or panache." "I am sure you have all those qualities." " Well, well, I really don't know.." " Come, come, don't be so absurdly modest." "Don't listen to him." "This is one of my heroes!" "Captain Cook, the intergalactic space explorer." "Exactly, and shall I tell you what I'm prepared to do for you?" "As a special favour?" "What?" "Postpone my brief moment of glory in the ring so that you may enjoy the unforgettable experience before me." "Far beyond the Bouncing Upas Trees of Boromeo or the Singing Squid of Anagonia." "Are you sure you can bear to let me go first?" "It is a sacrifice I am prepared to make." "Sift the dreams, sift the dreams..." "When the mind's divided, the body screams..." "Some of it is coming back now." "Not all of it, but.." "When he was Kingpin, he was one the one who persuaded us to come here." "There was something he wanted." "Something he knew about." "We all trusted him." "But something went wrong?" "Yes." "Something went very wrong." "It's this place, you see, it does things to you." "And so a friendly hippy circus became a trap for killing people?" "Yes." "Even our own kind." "But that was after Kingpin was no longer Kingpin." "Something went..." "Something went with him." "And..." "And the well?" "What well?" "do you know anything abot the well with an eye peering out from the inside" "An eye!" "Like the one on the kites." "Oh, not anymore." "Look, look, look in the well..." "The eye gives you promises..." "Promises of heaven or hell..." "He's off." "He's gone." "I knew people like him in Perivale." "Listen, Ace!" "What to?" "The answers!" "You know what happenned, don't you, Deadbeat?" "At last." "Now welcome, folks, and I'm sure you'd like to know," "We've a brand new act for your circus show." "Now welcome, please, with all the warmth you can," "The Psychic Circus's greatest fan..." "This is the most exciting day of my life, my dream, come true." "I am standing in the ring of the Psychic Circus." "You sent that boy out to his death." "Nonsense." "He may be a great success." "So it's just goes to show, never can be certain!" "As I say..." "Survival of the fittest." "Deadbeat." "I we take you to the well.." "Can you show us what you did?" "How do we know it's not all a con, Professor?" "He has led me here to you and Bellboy." "He must have done that for a purpose." "Not if his brains are that scrambled." "I know there's something in there, Ace." "I saw it when he looked into the crystal ball." "You're just an ageing hippy, Professor." ""You might be falling in love", yes." "Anyway, we're got to be going." "Are you coming, Bellboy?" "No." "Come on, Bellboy." "No." "I think the Chief Clown will be here after you." "I can delay him for a while." "I would be pleased to make myself useful." "But Bellboy..." "You still don't understand, do you." "Everything I loved has gone." "What's the point of living on to do work I hate?" "So be it, then, Bellboy." "And come on, Deadbeat." "Or should I call you Kingpin?" "We have work to do." "Bye now, Bellboy." "All the best." "Oh, and, er, thanks for this." "Goodbye, Ace." "Goodbye, Kingpin." "Doctor." "The acts will keep on coming now." "We promise." "And no one will ever go near the bus again." "Those who remain are your servants, to do with as you wish." "No." "I never wanted to resist your power!" "Where are they?" "I don't know." "I don't care." "It's all destroyed." "You know that." "You were a wonderful Clown once." "Funny, inventive..." " Quiet!" " I'm not helping you any more, you see." "Don't be a fool, Bellboy." "Come on, come on." "Deal with me as you dealt with Flowerchild!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "No." "I can't do it." "Come on Kingpin, we're nearly there!" "Hold on, please." "Now, Kingpin." "Show us what you did, when you first saw the eye." "Great stuff, Kingpin!" "He must have used that trying to summon the powers that lurk here." "It did this to him." "Yes." "I wish i had some nitro-nine to lock down there" "Hang on a bit." "The mirror here is an eye!" "Yes, that eye!" "It seems to plague us everywhere!" "I winder why's eyeball removed by someone or something." "And hidden." "In the pass." "Where Flowerchild died trying to get it!" "We shall be free... we shall be free..." "we shall be free..." "Calm down, Mags." "There'll be some more contestants along soon." "We're doing very well." "That poor boy." "Us or him, Mags." "And before you get too high and mighty, remember where you'd be without me." "Dead with a bullet in you on the planet Vulpana." "A silver bullet." "I know that Captain." "But you didn't do it for me." "You did it for yourself." "I only wish I knew what you were after." "All in good time, Mags, all in good time." "It's so tantalizing!" "We're so close to understanding it all and yet so far." "We'll have to get hold of that other bit of mirror." "Exactly." "You take Kingpin back to the bus and find it, but be careful." "Hang on a bit, Professor!" "This is all going a bit too fast for me." "I'll fetch it, no problem, but what about you?" "Oh, I'm going back to the ring." "Are you off your head?" "The Psychic Circus needs acts." "If they got me, than perhaps they won't worry about you two for the moment." "Sometimes I think it's you that's crazy, not Deadbeat here." "Everybody remotely interesting is mad in some way or other." "I don't know where they find these acts, do you, mother?" "Never seem to get any better, do they, father?" "I believe you've been looking for me." "I wandered backstage." "Greatings Captain Cook." "Mags." "You will he pleased to know that the greatest act in the galaxy has returned to the fold." "Jolly good show." "Doctor, I helped you to escape." "I know, Mags, but I have not wasted the time you bought me." "And I've returned with an idea." "I suggest this time we all free work together." "Meaning?" "Up to now, the people in the cage have been played off against each other." "And, of course, some people are more clever at preserving themselves than others." "Luck of the draw, old boy." "Not entirely, but what I am proposing is we all three go into the ring." "Three for one and one for three." "That, should throw a very big spanner in the works." "I'm with you, Doctor." "And so's he." "Now wait a moment Mags..." "Aren't you, Captain?" "And now welcome folks not one act but three" "To the Greatest Show in the Galaxy!" "Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, but before we start," "I would like to make one small request of stage management." "A special lighting effect." "No." "Could you perhaps, give us that old devil moon effect?" "No." "You really were extremely stupid this time, Doctor." "I told you she was an unusual specimen." "The growling; the snarling;" "the reaction to the moon." "Surely you should have guessed."