We also had a very good interview there.
Masha?
My TARDIS.
Sherman.
Sheriff's Deputy.
Chesterton!
Are you all right, boy?
Just a little.
Oh, let me.
Are you all right, boy?
Ah!
Oh, my face!
My face!
What's the matter with it?
It's a little blistered.
Oh, it feels as if I fell into a bed of stinging nettles.
What happened to that weed?
I don't know.
It just went.
Went where?
It just went into the air, the ground.
Oh, what a cursed place this is.
Yes, cursed place.
It's your barren.
True.
I wonder.
Yes, cursed.
Come on, Doctor.
Let's get back to the charges.
Get something for my face.
Something for my face.
Unfortunately, I can't help you at the moment, dear boy.
What?
And I have a shock for you.
The ship's gone.
Vanished.
There must be an answer to it, my boy.
There must be an answer!
I can't even get in the ship, let alone operate it.
Interior of my ship is inviolable.
What's the matter?
Can't you breathe?
Oh, yes.
What's wrong with you?
These herses, they take coats.
No use after about an hour.
They're useless.
Can we live without them?
Just about.
Let's take them off, shall we?
Get used to the atmosphere.
Eh?
All right?
Certainly tell a difference, can't you?
Better breathe slowly.
Deeply.
I can't breathe.
Deeply.
Like a diver.
Oh, that's...
It's possible.
Hm.
Eh?
This is those ridges.
What are those ridges in the sand there?
Have a look.
Hm?
It's a TARDIS.
I heard a TARDIS.
Been dragged away.
A TARDIS?
Well?
What are you doing?
I don't know.
I'm trying to follow the wind.
Come on, let's go.
I don't know.
Come on.
I don't know.
What's a TARDIS?
Oh!
Oh, I said a TARDIS.
A TARDIS?
A TARDIS, a TARDIS...
No, a TARDIS...
It's over there.
Over there.
A TARDIS.
We'll see if we can get off that TARDIS.
We'll see.
We'll see if we can get off that TARDIS.
My bracelet! I was...
evolves into a pocket market identity that
Who are you?
What do you want?
Stay where you are.
Ah, the tracks have disappeared.
It seems far back here.
No sign of it.
Oh, it's all so strange, so unnatural.
I've never experienced anything in my life before like this.
But we must continue with our search.
Take a look over there.
Well, that's odd.
Those are not track marks.
That's more like claw marks.
Chesterton!
Doctor, I think we're on the right track.
Never mind about that.
Look at this.
Good gracious.
It's hollow.
Yes, well preserved.
Yes, a vertebrate creature.
Highly developed.
It's got its skin, it's more like a chrysalis.
A noctra.
Yes. Does that word mean anything to you?
No, nothing.
You mean you've been here before?
No, no, my boy, no.
But it's this rock formation and now this creature, this object, it suggests the planet Vortis.
Vortis?
What galaxy is that in?
The Ice-Up Galaxy.
Yes, many light years from Earth.
And yet the Vortis hasn't a moon.
And here there are several.
Look, you see, you can see for yourself.
Hmm?
Yes.
Can't a planet attract satellites to itself, Doctor?
Oh, yes, yes, yes, but it would need a galactic explosion, you know, some kind of new force.
Whether this Vortis planet has that or not, I can't be sure.
I can't be sure. Come on, over here.
Help me.
After we landed, two of our party went to explore.
The last thing I remember was being in the ship, the doors opening, and then, well, then you came.
Kill her.
No.
A stranger must not be trusted.
You chose ill when you chose to land on Vortis?
I keep telling you we didn't choose. Our ship was forced here.
The Zabi will treat them as enemies. If we refuse to help them, they will not survive.
Her future is no concern of ours.
Rasta, she was under the force of the Zabi. Why did you break it?
Look, all we want to do is get away from here.
This Zabi that you seem frightened of, maybe we could help you.
Have you any weapons?
No, but we want to watch her.
If we let her go, she may tell the Zabi where they can find us.
No.
Even if she does not wish to betray us, they will extort it from her.
There are few of us, and many of the Zabi. She offers help.
She is not to be trusted. I say kill her.
For Rasta, the Minotra do not act without thought.
Minotra do not act without thought.
Strange lights in the sky.
Hmm, pulsating.
Do you think they could be natural, like the Aurora Borealis?
No, look down there, my boy.
Now that's where they've taken the ship to.
Apparently so. We've got to get down there.
I wish I had more knowledge of what we were up against.
This wilderness.
Doctor.
Resistance, we must stay calm.
We can talk to them, make them understand.
Apart from rubbing our legs together like a grasshopper.
I doubt we can get on speaking terms with them.
Stand still.
These creatures on this bench are completely unknown to me.
Just stand still and obey.
Remember those claw marks?
Yes.
Ian?
Doctor?
Is there anybody there?
Ian?
Doctor?
Look at this.
It's growing.
It's a matter of reproducing itself.
Fantastic.
I wonder how long it's taken to grow that size.
A hundred or two hundred years?
Doctor, if your assumption was correct, and this is Vortis, what do you know of its history?
History doesn't mean anything when you travel through space and time.
All right, all right, don't push, don't push.
My ship!
The door's locked!
All right, Vicky, don't worry.
Where's Barb?
I don't know. I was asleep.
She must have left the ship.
What's the meaning of this, child?
Who tried to get in here?
I don't know, Vicky.
What do you creatures want?
No!
Use that and we shall all be destroyed.
The Zabi are all around us.
If you break communicator silence, they will know where they may find us.
If we do not contact our forces, they face destruction.
We must warn them of the power of the Animus.
And of the strength of the Labai Gan.
The Zabi are massed together against us.
Pilot party to Menoptera invasion force.
This is Verestin. Urgent report. Urgent report.
They are in reach of the enemy locators.
They will not break communicator silence.
They will. They can echo their signals to us off satellite Taren.
Menop spearhead. Acknowledge reception.
Verestin, it's no use. The cave is cutting off our signals.
Yes. We must try again from outside the cave.
If they catch us, we must break the transmitter.
Verestin, Rastala, the Zabi.
Verestin, smash the crystals. Smash the crystals, Verestin.
Verestin, run. Get away. Get away.
We are safe for the present.
How did I get back here?
You were morphatized. Look.
I don't understand.
The Zabi can control everyone. Even us, the Menoptera.
When they use that metal.
It's gold.
Don't touch it.
I see. So it was the bracelet.
What will they do to us?
We are to be taken to the crater of needles.
And then?
They will put us to work.
Once there, you might well wish that you had not been spared.
The doctor is not getting through to them.
That sounds like an alarm.
Why did you come now?
To be continued...