Jubilee Episode Four Scene 1 Scout: Leader. The CEB is correctly aligned for the destruction of the Cathedral building. Leader: Very good. Begin the demolition process in two Earth hours once the Earthlings have been made aware of our intentions via their communications network... Scout: And the building known as the Millenium Dome? Leader: We will annihilate that in a further two hours if we do not get the response we wish from the other Earth governments. Arrange it! Scout: At once leader. Scene 2 Dr: (testing echo) Day-O! (pause) Day-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-O! Romana: (scowl) Doctor! Will you be quiet! Dr: It's all right - there's no one here to hear us! Romana: Yes, and we want it to stay that way. Dr: Great acoustics, Romana. It's even better if you stand bang in the middle -all the sound waves are bounced back symetrically and you get this fascinating kind of quadrophonic "tunnel" effect. Romana: (sigh). I'm off to have a look round, Doctor. Try not to get in any trouble, okay? Dr: Right you are! See you back at the TARDIS in an hour.. You come with me, Mr Mason. We're going exploring... Mason: Doctor... Dr: Yes? Mason: Is this really the time for visiting exhibitions. If you hadn't noticed there's thousands of Cybermen swarming around the London planning to take over the World... Dr: Which is why we need a plan. Mason: Couldn't agree more. Dr: But for a plan we need inspiration.... and you'll find, Mr Mason, that inspiration can spring from the unlikliest of places. Mason: Yes.. but... I mean... here... the tunnel of dreams? Dr: Even that. Not a bad idea actually... I wonder how you start it up.... hmmmm.. Mason: You're mad. It's a damn fairground ride if you hadn't noticed Doctor.... Doctor! Dr: (distant) Here we are - the control cabin's up here. Quick burst of the sonic screwdriver (whirr) and we're in! Hurrah! (over PA) Please take your seats ladies and gentlemen - the next tunnel of dreams ride will be leaving in approximately... now! (ride starts - music) (dashes back down again) come along, come along - what are you waiting for - jump in! Mason: Mad. Quite mad. Scene 3 Cyber HQ Scout: Leader. I regret to report that stores of Uridium 32 are now at a critical level and that our soil tests have been unsuccessful in locating further deposits. Leader: Has an import cargo been secured yet? Scout: Affirmative leader, but the cargo must be transported from another continent. Phase Two of Jubilee would have to be postponed. Leader: Then it is vital that new deposits are found. Step up soil scanning efforts twofold. We must divert all units possible into locating more Uridium. Scout: Very well leader. Scene 4 On Ride Dr goes on ride... brings back memories... Ride: (runs constantly in background, fading down when anyone speaks) Of course not all dreams are helpful prophicies... Brace yourself as we enter the ... Nightmare Zone... Dr: I say! This is good fun isn't it?! Mason: (Sarcy) I'm gripped. Ride: The dark reaches of the mind where ogres and demons still reside... (evil roar)... The Siberian Yeti.... Dr: Yeti! Ha, doesn't look a bit like that! I think the chap who designed this ride had been watching too much TV! Ride: ... The Venusian Woggle-Rat... (eek eek eek!) Dr: Pah! No such thing! Doesn't exist! Ride: ... And the hideous Slime Beast of Basildon Five... Mason: Slime Beast indeed! How much longer is.... Dr: Shhhh! Slime is interesting stuff, Mason. You evolved from it for a start... Mason: (impatient) Did I? Dr: Yes.. you and the rest of your race... Hmmmm ...slime... Mason: (angry) What's so damn fascinating about slime? Dr: No. Not slime in general. Some particular slime I've got in mind... quite forgot about it to tell you the truth... Mason: Oh? Ride: (in background) ... and the terrifying Bogie Man who attacks us in our dreams.... (screams etc)... but now you're safe... for the time being as we head back up towards consciousness and that twilight state of hypnosis between sleep and awake... Dr: It was on the walls near the weather machine at Canary wharf. Didn't think it was too important at the time, but it all kind of fits together now, given what you said earlier.... Mason: What was that again.... Dr: Hmmm.. tell you later. Let me just mull it over for a while... Scene 5 In TARDIS Mason: Uridium Five? Come off it- there's no such element! Dr: No, it's not an element... more a compound. Highly radioactive, and just the sort of fuel needed to generate such high levels of chaotic probability needed to affect the weather. Mason: I see. That's what you found on the wall, and that's what the Cybermen are currently short of... Dr: No, it wasn't what we found on the wall. That was just a simple sulphurous phosphoresent cooling substance.. Mason: Eh? I thought you said... K9: [enters] Negative. Substance identified on wall was carrier substance for radioactive Uridium isotope. Mason: Oh god, a talking dog. This just gets stranger... K9: Affirmative. Mason: Okay...So if we can stop the Cybermen laying their hands on more of this fuel we can at least stop the spread of their domination. What do you think Colin? Colin: That alone is not enough to stall them. To fully succeed we need more than that. The cybermen have set up mines all over london in the underground train network searching for this substance... So far they have been unsuccessful and have only found enough to launch one attack with their weather device, but I estimate they're only waiting for new supplies before they lauch a weather attacks against the other countries of this world... Mason: Fair assumption... Dr: Hmmm... (door open) Ah you're back. See anything interesting? Romana: Not really. A few displays - time capsules, that kind of thing... Dr: Oh? Romana: You know.. buried things from the past... Dr: The past... hmmmm.... Romana: Yes. The past. It wouldn't really work if they were from the future now would it? Dr: Hold it right there! Romana: Sorry? Dr: I've got it! Romana: What's that, Doctor? Dr: A plan. I've got a plan, Romana. And it's so cunning you could stump a fox with it! (music break) Romana: That's insane. I mean you've come up with some nutty ideas before, but this one just takes the... Dr: No time to lose. K9, Colin and I'll set about making the capsule. You and Geoff head off to UNIT and warn them about what's to come... Romana: Okay, but I don't know how they're going to take the news that you're planning to flood the whole of London. Dr: Not the whole of London, Romana - just the underground lines where the Cybermen and their mines are. I'll find you later back at UNIT HQ.. Romana: Aren't you going to give me a lift? Dr: Yes Okay. But after we've dropped you off we'll have to come back here to plant that time capsule... Scene 6 Brig: A time capsule from the future, you say? Mason: Yes. Not too convincing really is it? I tried to tell him but he's so stubborn... Brig: Tell me about it. Still, the Doctor has got a reasonable track record when it comes to helping us out. Let's hope he hasn't lost his old touch eh? Mason: Let's hope so, Brigadier. The whole of Earth is counting on the rather flimsy premise that the cybermen will believe the time capsule is genuine. Though how it's supposed to have got there God only knows. Brig: He didn't say then? Mason: Muttered something about pretending it had fallen through a wormhole in the (tentatively) space/time vortex... Brig: (knowingly) Aaah, that old chestnut. Mason: Yes. And he's counting on the fact that they are desparate for this fuel. Brig: I see. Well, let's hope the Doctor and his Cyberman friend make a good job of this then. If they really can be fooled into mining next to the river Thames, then it should just take a little blast in the shafts to open the floodgates, so to speak. (aside) ..though I hate to think what the repair bill'll do to the tube fares next year... Mason: Blast? Oh, the Dr didn't mention anything about that. Brig: Did he not? Odd. It's unlike him to overlook anything. Let's just hope he has thought it all through. It doesn't bear thinking about what would happen should he fail.. Our troops would be slaughtered... Mason: What? Are you anticipating a battle? Brig: Almost certainly. The Doctor may be able to help with those underground but there's still a substantial ground presence to deal with, once their headquarters is taken out of action. Mason: And that CEB.. er... ray gun thing up the top of Big Ben? Brig: I'm counting on that being controlled from underground. Otherwise we'll all be fried alive once the rebellion begins... Mason: Ah. Brig: Anyway, can't hang around nattering to you all day. My troops are assembling outside now. All of them. We've got to be prepared for the worst... Scene 7 Tardis dematerialises and soon after three guards arrive. (footsteps) Guard1: (fade in) I'm telling you - I heard one of the rides going. Guard2: How long has it been, Jack? Guard1: What? Guard2: How long has it been since you slept properly? Guard1: Well, last thursday when I had that shift off, but... Guard3: Yeah. You're overtired. John's right.. All that coffee you've been drinking - I think it's been stimulating your mind just a bit too much. Guard1: I didn't imagine it, all right? Guard2: I see. Like you didn't imagine that pig over by the bushes, eh? Guard1: Well, it looked like a pig. Could've been a weasel, I suppose. Guard3: A weasel? Yeah, right. Guard1: Yeah, weasel or a fox.... And anyway you heard that wheezing groaning noise just now, didn't you? Guard2: Probably just the heating system. Guard3: Can't say *I* heard a thing.. Guard1: Yeah, well, we'll see eh... go on - open it up... Guard2: Righty-O! (enters keycode... nothing)... (confused) Uh? Guard3: Did you type it in right? Guard2: Yeah. Course. Battle of Hastings - 1966. Guard3: No it's 1066, you Neanderthal - Come here.... (types it - door opens) (in the background as they walk forward: Guard2: You sure of that. I could've sworn it was... Guard3: Course I'm sure. Shut up and follow me... (Inside the dome:) Guard2: Go on then. Find your intruder. Guard3: It's empty.... Go to bed Jack. You need some sleep... Guard1: No, I tell you... (sigh) oh... this is all too odd. Guard2: It's very simple Jack... You imagined it. Just like you imagined that pig outside. Guard3: (chuckle) Guard1: Well it wasn't necessarily a pig... could've been a stoat... Guard3: You said fox just now.. Guard1: (distant) Look! Over here. There's something new by this display... Guard2: Oh really?? (walks across) Guard3: A metal box. It was probably there already. Guard1: No it wasn't. I'm sure. It's appeared since I locked up... Guard2: Well if it has then we'd better get out of here. It could be a bomb.... (creak of metal box opening) (Dies out once he realises it's safe) No! Stoooo..oop!! What's inside? Guard1: A CD - "Earth under the Cybermen - A retrospective 2003-2013"... Looks like some kind of documentary, I guess. Hmmm... Guard3: Did you say "2013"? Guard1: That's what it says. And there's a written note with it (unfolds...) Guard2: (very sarcastic) Yeah right - so, what? - it fell from the future through a wormhole in the space/time vortex, eh? Guard1: Ahem! (Reads aloud): Dear Human, please accept this exibit for your Time Exhibition. It fell from the future through a wormhole in the space/time vortex. Yours sincerely.... Question Mark. Guard3: (bewildered) Well now I've heard it all! Guard2: (to self) Odd name... Guard1: We better bring this to our Informer. The Cybermen'll want to know about this - you know what the rule is - Any lost property becomes... Guards 2&3: (chorus) Yes, we know. Guard2: Can't we just listen to it first? Wouldn't hurt would it? Guard1: Err.. ummm. Well, I don't see why not. Come on - let's get back to the Lodge and run this through the computer... Guard3: Good idea... Scene 8 CD: ... and was finally conquered by the Cybermen in 2004 after massive Uridium reserves were located beneath the river Thames. The Uridium, so vital for the Cybermen's ingenious weather controlling weapon, codenamed Butterfly, was discovered entirely by accident along the north Embankment ... Informer: (stops CD) Guard2: Ah! Informer. Informer: Come along you lot. Hand that over now. You know the rules.. Guard1: Oh, um... right. (opens CD) there you go. Informer: Thank you. Hmmm.. 2013 eh? Looks like some kind of hoax to me, but we'll let the Cybermen decide. They can test for it's authenticity. If it's just kids having a lark, we'll soon find out... Guard1: I'm sure you will. Is that all, Informer? Informer: That'll be all. Good day. All guards: (half-heartedly) Good day. Scene 9 K9: Negative master. Flood pressure will be sustained by safety bulkhead. Dr: What?!! K9: Flood pressure will be sustained by safety bulkhead, master. Dr: Now you tell me. Did you hear that, Colin? Now he tells us. Colin: Does this mean your plan will fail Doctor? Dr: Well it does unless we can get down there and find some way of disabling that safety bulkhead door. Are there any others K9? K9: Scanning maps.... affirmative master. There are 12 safety bulkheads, but only 2 of them would be effective against a flood from that location. Dr: Just two doors to fix, eh? Shouldn't be too hard. Time's our only enemy. Potentially the cybermen might act on our disinformation within the hour and mining just where we said would cause floods almost instantaneously. It's a very thin barrier between the river bed and the upper train tunnels.... Reenforced of course, normally quite safe, but the advanced mining tools of the Cybermen should be able to cut through it in five minutes... There's no time to lose. Colin, you see if you can radio UNIT HQ to update them. I have to set the coordinates of the TARDIS to the Embankment straight away... (taps) (dematerialise) Dr: Right! We're here. I won't be long, but you must stay inside Colin. It's very dangerous out there... Colin: Ok Doctor. Good Luck! Scene 10 Leader: This is most difficult to believe. Scout: I agree leader. But it is not impossible and our tests show the disk to be of foreign origin. Leader: If this is the case, then this could be the information we need. Send mining troop J to investigate Uridium deposits where the disk reported them to be. Scout: Is it safe to mine in that position Leader? Leader: The barrier walls are thin, but we need not worry. Even if there is a leakage then the safety bulkheads will contain it. Go at once.... Scene 11 At unit Soldier: Hmmm...There's a storm brewing out there for sure. Better batten down the hatches, eh Brigadier? Brig: Capital thinking, Mr Muller. (window shuts). (pause) Hmmm. Don't worry Romana. The Doctor knows how to look after himself. He'll be out of those tunnels before the floods start. The main worry is that if the Cybermen do start mining in that area then they might easily contain the floods. That could prove disasterous for us up here. Romana: I see... Brig: I wouldn't like to say but I think the Doctor may have bitten off a bit more than he can chew this time... If he knows what's good for him he'll have taken some explosives with him just to be on the safe side.... Scene 12 In tunnel. Scout: Mining is progressing well, Leader. But we have still not located the Uridium reserves expected. Leader: (over intercom) Very well. Continue mining deeper until you find the isotope is discovered. We must have it by sunset - is that understood? Scout: Yes, leader (mining sounds....) (Doctor approaches, footsteps, fade in...) Dr: Bulkhead 3a... no, no... I want 3e... No, no, no that shouldn't be here... Oh don't say I'm lost... I don't have time to be lost! Scout: That was a sound of a human intruder. Scout2: I heard nothing.. Continue mining... Scout: I do not believe it to be safe to continue mining. Peripheral leaks have already developed further along the shaft. Scout2: This is of no importance. We must locate the Uridium. Scout: Very well... (mines...) SCout2: Watch out!! (walls break...screams as is swept away in flood) (Switch to Doctor:) Dr: (distant roar) Oh no! That roar better not be what I think it is... Scene 13 (Outside: Storm breaks) Soldier: (running up) Sir. Intelligence reports sounds of mass flooding advancing underground from the river area... Brigadier: Superb! He's done it! This is the beginning of the end for the cybermen, but let's not count our chickens just yet. Corporal, upon my word, forces are to advance and attack the ground-based presence with the gold ammunition. Is that understood? Soldier: Yes sir. Brigadier: Good. May God be with you all. Advance! (troops advance) Brigadier: (to self) We'll smash those little blighters yet, eh Miss Romana? Romana: Yes. I just hope the doctor's safe, that's all... Scene 14 Big flood battle. (By the river. Storm.) Soldier: Over here! Come and look. Hundreds of them being washed out into the river!! (cyber-screams....) Soldier: (mutters) It's the end for you, my silver friends... (lets fire) (more fighting...) In tardis: (Opens Scanner) Colin: I fear for the Doctor's life, K9. I want to go and assist him... K9: Negative. Danger! Danger! Colin: I don't care. The doctor could be in trouble. I must help.... (door open) K9: Negative. Negative. Negative. Stay inside... (Outside in battle) Colin: I must find the entrance to the railway station... Excuse me, Where is the entrance to the Embankment.... (sound of guns, battles rages on for half a minute, crossfades slowly into peaceful guitar music, birds singing, gentle breeze...) Scene 15 Calm after the storm. Brig: It's all over. All over now. For good, let's hope. What's the damage, Corporal? Soldier: 500 Civilian, 300 Military, 8000 Cybermen casualties is the going estimate, Brigadier... Mason: You should see the river. Thousands of dead cybermen just floating there on the surface. It's eerie... Dr: Look at it round here. Carnage. Debris - the price of war. Brig: War is never a pretty thing Doctor. You of all people have seen enough to appreciate that. Still I owe you a debt of gratitude. In fact the whole of Earth does. We couldn't have done it without you. Oh look... here come's your assistant... Romana: Oh Doctor! Thank god you're safe. The general said he'd got word that you were trapped in the underground when the floods began... Dr: No. Not me. I try to stay clear of water if at all possible. Colin: (groan) Doctor... Dr: There on the ground! I don't think that's any ordinary Cyberman. Colin... is it... is it you? Colin: Yes Doctor. I'm sorry. My curiosity got the better of me. Dr: You didn't step outside of the TARDIS? Colin: I'm sorry Doctor. I went to look outside. They shot me. The Earth soldiers shot me in the chest - golden.... bullets... Dr: Oh no. Don't die! Don't die! K9! Prognosis: K9: Scanning... Cyberman no longer operative, master.. Dr: No... Romana: Poor old colin. Don't blame yourself, Doctor. You couldn't have saved him - you were busy elsewhere. And... well, perhaps it's better this way. What kind of life would he have had on this planet being the only sole survivor of an extinct race of its mortal enemies... Dr: Welll... Mason: Romana does have a point, Doctor. Romana: Come along. We should say our goodbyes and be heading off.. Dr: Yes. Yes. Stiff upper lip eh? That's what it's all about... Mason: That's the attitude... Will you be staying around much longer? Dr: (sigh) No.. I've had enough. I think Romana and I will finish our little holiday elsewhere in the Galaxy. Be seeing you... Brig: Humph! I don't *doubt* it Doctor. Mason: Goodbye doctor. Romana. Romana: Goodbye. Goodbye Brigadier. Brig: Goodbye Miss Romana. (tardis door, dematerialise) Jubilee by Jon Greenwood and Howard Richardson starring Andy Haynes as the Doctor, Sarah Chaney as Romana, Jon Greenwood as Colin, Howard Richardson as Mason and K9, Damian Brookes as the Cyber Leader. Daniel Whittle as the Brigadier, with additional voices by Chib Chima-Okereke and Alex Turner. Other parts were played by members of the cast. Jubilee Episode Four was written and produced by Howard Richardson. Digital Editing,Music and Effects were by the FloorTen Radiophonic workshop, with additional sounds from the BBC sound effects library. This has been a FloorTen Audio Production.