"(DOCTOR WHO THEME)" "(WHOOSHING)" "Hello, Sarah Jane." "GUARD:" "Stop!" "Don't do that." "QUEEN SPIDER:" "Let him approach." "GUARD:" "You will kneel to the most noble Queen." "The Queen?" "Oh, yes." "Yes, of course." "Greetings, O most noble Queen." "May I ask what you intend to do with this young lady?" "QUEEN SPIDER:" "You do not speak like a two-leg." "Where have you come from?" "Both Miss Smith and I come from Earth, your Majesty." "From Earth?" "Then you are the one who..." "No." "No, that cannot be." "We shall return." "Bring this two-leg." "We shall question him with the female." "DOCTOR:" "Now just a minute, your Majesty." "GUARD:" "Over there!" "(DOCTOR SHOUTING)" "(SARAH SCREAMS)" "(CROWD CHATTERING)" "(GUARD GRUNTING)" "Silence!" "Silence!" "QUEEN SPIDER:" "So shall perish all two-legs who would dare to question our power." "I've never seen them like this before." "QUEEN SPIDER:" "I think it would be wise to leave." "GUARD:" "The girl." "She's gone!" "QUEEN SPIDER:" "Then you will be punished!" "We cannot wait." "It will soon be dark." "Bring the male." "Well, can't you do something?" "No, it's no good." "He's dead." "He can't be!" "They can use their power to give pain, or to stun, or to kill." "Your friend is dead." "No." "Doctor!" "Doctor!" "Look, leave him." "If you stay out here we'll all be dead." "It's almost time for the curfew." "Bury him tomorrow." "Look!" "Look, he moved!" "He moved his hand!" "Impossible." "I saw him!" "He's alive!" "He's alive, I tell you!" "Oh, oh, Doctor." "BARNES:" "He didn't tell me much, but he wouldn't, would he?" "Where is he?" "I don't know." "He seemed to think he'd be taken to the home of that, that creature." "The spider?" "You see, I didn't get the chance to discuss it with him properly." "You know what he was." "Was?" "He's not dead, is he?" "Well, he may be." "How do I know?" "He's just vanished." "What are we going to do?" "Get out while the going's good." "Why?" "We haven't done anything criminal." "Tell that to the police." "The police?" "For heaven's sake!" "It's not that." "Nobody need know yet." "Perhaps he's trying to get back and can't." "(MOSS SHUSHING)" "Hello, Barnes." "What are you doing here?" "Spying, is that it?" "I spy." "That's a nice game." "I spy with my little eye..." "Can't you read?" "Tommy's learning to read." "My mum bought me a book." "Get away from here." "If I catch you spying on me again..." "(ENUNCIATING) D..." "Do..." "Do..." "Don..." "Go and do some reading." "(BELL TOLLING)" "Why is that bell ringing?" "It's the curfew." "It's death to be out after twilight." "(DOCTOR MOANING)" "He seems to be getting worse." "He's dying." "No, no!" "He's better dead than captured like..." "Like Sabor." "We shall be avenged, Rega." "Will vengeance bring my father back to me?" "Rega, he gave his life to save me." "He gave his life for the freedom of our people." "(GROANS)" "Is there nothing we can do?" "Nothing." "There is no cure." "He should be dead." "QUEEN SPIDER:" "Stop." "Set me down." "Who is this two-leg who dares to sit in the place of Huar, Queen of Metebelis?" "I have come from Earth." "QUEEN SPIDER:" "Silence!" "We do not speak with the two-leg." "Answer me, sister." "SPIDER:" "This is Lupton, O Queen." "I have brought him from Earth as the council asked." "QUEEN SPIDER:" "As the council asked?" "As we commanded." "Guards!" "SPIDER:" "Perhaps the days of the Queen's commands are numbered?" "QUEEN SPIDER:" "You would dare to speak treason to my face?" "Seize the two-leg!" "You forget the crystal, O Queen." "QUEEN SPIDER:" "Wait." "We have the crystal." "SPIDER:" "It is true." "You do not dare to harm us." "QUEEN SPIDER:" "Where is it?" "Show it to us." "LUPTON:" "We know where it is hidden." "But the Great One awaits the crystal." "ALL:" "All praise to the Great One." "Then the Great One will have to go on waiting until we have received the rewards of our success." "And you, sister?" "What have you to say?" "SPIDER:" "I..." "I agree with Lupton." "QUEEN SPIDER:" "I see." "It would seem that you are not aware of the extent of your failure." "Failure?" "You were followed to Metebelis by two Earth spies." "The male is dead but the female lives, a danger to the state and our person." "I suggest, sisters, that until she has been captured, we refuse to listen to these, these traitors." "Do you agree?" "(SPIDERS MUMBLING IN AGREEMENT)" "(ENUNCIATING) "Going to school." ""We give the f... flowers some..." ""water." ""We say our..."" "(DOCTOR MOANING SOFTLY)" "(GASPS)" "(READING FLUENTLY)" "(CONTINUES READING)" ""We read in the book corner." ""We measure and we weigh." ""We buy things at the shop." "(WHISPERING) "We have our milk." "We play in the playground." ""We dance and..."" "ARAK:" "How is our mother?" "She's asleep now, though I'm afraid her dreams will frighten her awake." "I heard her call." "She calls his name, Sabor, as though she was searching for him." "Those vicious inhuman creatures!" "REGA:" "Shush!" "Keep your voice down if you must speak treason." "They may keep him alive for a week or more." "If only we could rescue him." "Of course." "We must attack." "It would be suicide." "Well, is my brother afraid?" "That I am." "A coward then?" "Take that word back or I'll stuff it down your throat." "I'm not afraid of you, or of the eight-legs, but if you won't attack, you are a coward." "Why you..." "Stop it!" "Squabbling like herd boys and your mother half-distracted." "How will quarrelling bring your father back?" "We might as well throw ourselves off the cliff as attack the eight-legs." "If the Doctor were alive and well, he could help you." "I know he could." "TUAR:" "How?" "How could he help?" "Well, I don't know how, but he could." "Oh, Doctor, please wake up!" "(SOFTLY) Sarah." "Yes, yes, I'm here." "Sarah." "The Tardis." "(WEAKLY) In the..." "In the Tardis there's a machine in that old..." "Old leather satchel." "It's the only thing that will save me." "Machine in the old leather satchel." "Yes." "The key?" "Doctor, where's the key to the Tardis?" "It's okay." "Okay." "REGA:" "Machine?" "What kind of machine can save a man's life?" "I don't know, but if he needs it, I'm going to get it for him." "If they catch you, they'll kill you." "She has courage." "She's a fool to risk her life." "Nothing can save him." "LUPTON:" "Well, well, well." "Our clever young female journalist." "You are keen to get your story, aren't you?" "What a pity it will never be published." "Let me pass, I say." "They'll kill you." "Would you so betray our father's love?" "Sabor left you here in trust to lead us in our fight for freedom." "A fine leader." "One by one the eight-legs take us." "Soon our settlement will be as empty as Skorda." "The people of Skorda were cowards." "They didn't attack the eight-legs, they just sat there like sheep in a slaughter pen waiting for death." "But if we attack we are as dead as the people of Skorda." "We must think of something else." "Wait." "The girl said this man could help us." "TUAR:" "How can a dead man help us?" "The machine." "There it is." "The bag he spoke of." "I'm going to get it." "If I don't come back, it's up to you." "Arak's not a coward." "No, he's not." "What should we do?" "I don't know." "Sarah." "Sarah Jane." "She's not here." "She left this machine for you, but we don't know what we should do." "(SOFTLY) Give it to me." "(WARBLING)" "(WARBLING INTENSIFIES)" "Thank you." "Thank you very much." ""Tiger, tiger, burning bright" ""In the forests of the night" ""What immortal hand or eye" "(STUTTERS) "Could frame thy fearful" ""symmetry?"" "That's pretty." "No," "(CHUCKLES) that's beautiful." "No, no!" "But Lupton may not be dead." "Perhaps he can't get back." "For heaven's sake, what's the point in saying the same thing over and over again?" "But what are we going to do?" "(WHISPERING) Hide yourselves." "Come in." "Oh, it's you." "What do you want?" "It's all right, I heard you all talking." "I think we ought to have a little chat." "What did you do that for?" "KEAVER:" "It is a police job now." "LAND:" "Stupid thing to do." "Well, you heard him!" "You heard him!" "He said he'd been listening." "(BELL TOLLING)" "Wakey, wakey!" "Rise and shine!" "Show a leg, the weather's fine." "Where am I?" "SABOR:" "You're a prisoner of the eight-legs." "(GRUNTING)" "It's no good struggling." "What will they do to us?" "Usually they eat the sheep we breed for them." "They prefer human flesh." "Mmm, this is good." "Very, very good." "What is it?" "Mutton broth." "Mutton?" "You have sheep on Metebelis 3?" "Our ancestors brought them with them." "Thank you." "But few survived the crash." "Your ancestors were colonists?" "Colonists, explorers." "Four hundred and thirty-three Earth years ago, their starship came out of its time jump with no power left and crashed on Metebelis 3." "Over 400 years ago?" "You know the story very well, don't you?" "Sabor, my father, taught it me, just as his father taught him, and his father before." "An oral tradition so detailed." "Oh, it's fascinating." "Look, I don't understand you." "That girl, your friend, you say, is a prisoner of the eight-legs, in terrible danger, and you just sit there supping broth and chattering like a woman at the wash place." "Oh, Sarah'll be all right for the moment." "Well, how can you tell that?" "Because the spiders will be watching her." "They'll want to know how she got here and why." "And meanwhile, my father could be killed!" "We must attack, and attack now!" "The girl said you could help us, Doctor." "Mmm." "Yes, I think I can." "But first of all I must know what we're up against." "How did the spiders get here?" "The eight-legs?" "Why they came from Earth, too." "But there aren't any spiders as big as these on Earth." "Keep your voice down, my child." "That word's forbidden here." "But you're quite right." "An ordinary eight-legs, he must have been blown by the wind out of that crashed ship up in the mountains." "There are blue crystals there." "They have strange powers." "Oh, you don't have to tell me that." "Ah, then you must know that these crystals can enlarge the mind." "Over the years, these, these spiders became cleverer and cleverer and larger and larger." "By the time man found out, it were too late." "And they've ruled us ever since." "A few they take and twist their minds until they become their slaves." "The rest of us, they rule by fear." "I see." "ARAK:" "They grew angry with the people of Skorda." "They kept too much food for themselves, so the eight-legs wiped them out." "Two hundred and sixty-nine of them, even the children." "They're quite ruthless." "We must attack them now." "Hmm." "Go out and get me some stones, will you?" "TUAR:" "Stones?" "Yes, pebbles." "You know, about that big." "Little pieces of rock." "As many different kinds as you can." "But how can pebbles help?" "Let's just say I'm playing a hunch, hmm?" "(WARBLING)" "What are you doing?" "Why should the blue crystal be the only mineral on Metebelis 3 with an unusual structure?" "Now, I'm looking for a stone that will absorb the energy of the spiders attack." "Oh, I do beg your pardon." "The eight-legs' attacks." "Ah, more stones." "Thank you." "(WARBLING CONTINUES)" "(HIGH-PITCHED WARBLING)" "Ah, that's more like it." "Now we're really getting somewhere." "Follow me as soon as you can." "Do you have a stone to protect you?" "No, I've got something much better than that." "Take one, Doctor." "Oh, very well." "Good luck." "Arak." "Tuar." "Yes." "SABOR:" "Yes." "Even your young muscles aren't strong enough." "Try to get some rest." "Rest?" "How can you be so calm?" "One is only frightened when there's hope of rescue." "We have no hope left." "We are dead, my child." "No!" "No, I won't have it." "There is hope." "There must be!" "I might be able to escape and the Doctor may come to our rescue." "GUARD:" "Halt!" "Well, what are you waiting for?" "Kill him." "(SHOUTS)" "Kill him." "Kill him now!" "GUARD CAPTAIN:" "Stop!" "Obey my orders." "You will obey me!" "LUPTON:" "You've got no right to interfere." "I have orders from the Queen." "You are to be arrested." "Captain, take him." "You stupid fool!" "Oh, I wouldn't say that." "He's a highly intelligent fellow." "You can tell at a glance." "GUARD CAPTAIN:" "Silence!" "I shall report this." "GUARD CAPTAIN:" "You will have your opportunity." "Captain, take him to the council." "LUPTON:" "No, there must be some mistake." "Ah, poor fellow." "I hope they won't be too hard on him." "He fell into bad company, you know." "Oh, well, I must be off." "Stop!" "Stop!" "(DOCTOR EXCLAIMS)" "Oh, dear, this is getting monotonous." "Your execution hasn't been cancelled, just postponed." "Bring him along." "Sabor, how long do you think we've got?" "Who knows?" "A week, a day, an hour." "SARAH:" "Doctor!" "You're alive!" "I knew you'd come!" "Oh, Doctor!"