The Regeneration Of The Daleks Episode One ***Scene 1 SET IN TARDIS Adric: (calls to doctor who is in another room) Doctor!? (no answer) DOCTOR! Dr: mmmm? Adric: Aren't you finished with that antiquated junk yet? Dr: Mmmm. Adric: I really don't think you've much chance of getting it working again. Dr: Mmmmm. (pause, bursts into room) What did you say? Antiquated Junk!!? Adric: Yes. Look at it. Most planets in this solar system have advanced to some type of tri-genic V-discs, and you're fiddling around with old gramaphone records. Dr: (disbelief!) Gramaphone records! My dear Adric, have you heard Beethoven's Tenth? Adric: No, I can't say.. Dr: Yes. Well. There you are. Completely ignorant of the whole matter, eh? Trigenic V-Discs indeed! It so happens that the only format I have this on IS a gramaphone record..(muses)... and if I could just repair this pre-amp circuit... (grunt...) there!... Let's give it a whirl... (puts on record. we hear the Beatles come from the record player...) Adric: Gosh. And THAT's Beethoven's Ninth? Dr: (corrects) Tenth. And no, it's not. Can't be doing with Beethoven myself. Too much brass! I tried to tell him, but he wouldn't listen... Adric: (sighs in despair!) Adric: What's that? It sounds like some kind of voice. Dr: (concerned.) Yes it does, and I'm not so sure it should be happening. (examines the record player) The record player seems to be inducting some external signal. (flips a couple of console switches) Let's see if we can't track it on the scanner. (scanner opens and distance voice of a time lord can be heard) Hmmm. If I didn't know better I'd say that is the Lord High Chancellor of Gallifrey. Adric: And why do you know better? LHC: Ah Doctor!! A clear signal at last! Dr: (snaps) Because I know that the Timelords wouldn't dare disturb me again! What is it THIS time?? LHC: Doctor, we thought you might be interested. Dr: Interested in what? LHC: The Matrix, doctor. It's behaving most strangely. Dr: (ironic) Well that makes a change. Always such a reliable source of.. LHC: Doctor, if you would still your sarcasm for just one moment and allow me to explain. We need you to investigate. Strange things have been going on inside the matrix. Information going missing. Data-links are going haywire. And the source of this trouble seems to be the area relating solely to that planet you are so fond of.. Dr: (seriously) Earth? LHC: The same. I'd hate to alarm you, Doctor, but without further investigation we cannot guarantee it's safety. Someone must be needing all the information that is being tampered with.. Dr: Yes. I see what you mean. (sigh of resolve). Very well. Expect us soon. Goodbye. (shuts down the scanner). Adric: (little peeved) Does this mean we're going back to Earth again, Doctor? Dr: Yes. (corrects himself.) Er.. no! No, no. (flicking console switches) Gallifrey. SCENE 2 Dr: (steps out) Well, here we are. Do you like it? Adric: (thrown.) er .. well, yes. It's very... different. Dr: Yes. I must say I rather agree with you Adric. Never really rated the timelords sense of decor. But where's our welcoming party? Adric: The place is deserted. Are you sure you set the co-ordinates properly. Dr: Yes, of course I'm sure. You think I don't know the location of my own home-planet!? Adric: (sigh) well, I was just asking. How about we have a look round then, see if we can find someone. Dr: mmm. Good thinking. Dr: (to himself) The lights are on, but no one's at home... Adric: (chatting as they walk) Doctor? Dr: Yes? Adric: Why exactly do you dislike the timelords so much? Dr: Dislike? Oh, I don't know about dislike. They are only doing their job, I guess, but they have a nasty habit of involving me in their politics. Adric: But you ARE a time lord..?! Dr: Er. Well, yes. I suppose in the strictest sense. But the pompous affairs of Gallifey have long since lost my interest. I'm... er.. what you might call.. Freelance. LHC: (as if by magic!) An excellent description, Doctor! (chuckles to self). Dr: Aha! The welcoming party! LHC: Indeed.If you would follow me please. Time IS of the essence. We would like to hook you up to the matrix as soon as possible. Dr: Woah, woah, woah! Wait a minute. No one said anything about my entering the matrix before.. LHC: But of course, Doctor. How else would you investigate the problem. We need to access the core of the matrix, and you are the person with the most experience in the... Dr: Experience!! You almost got me killed the last couple of times. LHC: (matter of factly) A calculated risk. However the danger should be minimal this time. Dr: (snort!) And how minimal is minimal. LHC: If you would follow me, doctor... (incidental music) SCENE 3 LHC: You are familiar with the machine. Take a seat , and my assistants will connect you up. Dr: Ooh, its quite comfy really, isn't it? LHC: Of course Doctor. Your physical body will be kept in a state of deep relaxation, so your comfort is of utmost importance. ... Now if you could place your head .. here... and your arms ... here. Good. Now I would ask you to relax and gear your thought waves to a theta level. Dr: Mmm. ok. LHC: The machine will now take you down to the lowest sychronisation rates and interface your subconscious with the matrix. .... Are you there yet, Doctor? Dr: (very slowly) yes, .. yes. I can see ... Wind. ... rain... Earth! That's it, it appears to be somewhere on Earth. LHC: Excellent! Then you have arrived exactly where we intended. Search around Doctor. See if you can find the source of the disturbances. It's vitally important (echoes swirl away..) SCENE 4 Outside. Wind is blowing. Dr: Oooh it's a bit nippy out here. Now where are we... Looks like a village somewhere on Earth. Possibly England. LHC: Is there anything you can see? Buildings? People? Dr: Well, theres some kind of stone over there. LHC: Go closer examine it. Dr: (walks across.) Aha! A war memorial, I guess. Brrr LHC: (very crackly) Examine it closer doctor. It may be important. Dr: Brrr... I could really do with a cup of warm cocoa right now, you know... LHC: Doctor, please. Test the stone for ion emissions. Dr: uses instruments (beep,beep) Yes. I'd say it was some kind of reconnaissane probe. Disguised of course. (reads from stone) To the honourable memory of those who died valiently in battle. May they forever rest in peace. Odd though. The dates don't seem to correspond to any war I've heard of... LHC: Can you extract the probe circuit? Dr: Well, it doesn't look like it was really made to be disassembled, to be quite honest... LHC: Very well. Then send back the matrix co-ordinates and I'll have our workers reverse- engineer a back-trace to it. This is good work, Doctor. You may return, for the time being. Dr: Oh, and just when I was getting to like it... Very well.. Odd that stone, don't you think? Dr: To the honourable memory of those who died valiently in battle. (Confused) (switch to distant scanner view..) But there WAS no war of those dates.. Davros: (evil laugh to himself!) No doctor! (savours every word!) The war is yet to come... (music) SCENE 5 BACK IN A RELAXATION ROOM (gentle music in background) Adric: Has that fixed the problems then, Doctor? Dr: Well not yet, I don't think. It's just a matter of waiting for the timelords to complete their traceback on the probe I found. Adric: And how long will that take? Dr: Why? Are you so eager to go? Adric: (embarressed) well, no . Not really. Dr: I am. Can't wait to get out of here. Adric: (chuckles) Look, here comes the Lord High Chancellor again, perhaps he's got some news. Dr: (to LHC) How now, brown cow? LHC: Salutations, Doctor. We have completed our anaylsis of the probe circuits. Dr: And? LHC: It seems to be of Trilusion manufacture, a simple gamma-force feedback loop incorporating a rather unusual timing crystal of... Dr: No! No! No! Haven't you connected it up yet, that's what I mean... (no answer) Oh, very well. (gets up and goes to lab) (muttering) Must I do everything myself.. LHC: Doctor... I really think you should leave this to the experts... Dr: Nonsense! Here, just connect the co-ordinates up to the scanner here... LHC: Doctor. This really isn't wise.. you might... (scanner crackles into life) Adric: There! On the screen. You've made contact... Dr: oh, I'm getting a sinking feeling about this... Davros: Doctor! We meet again. Dr: DAVROS! Davros: You look surprised. Dr: Yes, you could say that. I thought you'd be dead by now! Davros: No, Doctor. As you can see, I am very much alive. Dr: Well, anyway, it looks like we've foiled your mischief with the matrix,eh? Really, probes hidden in stones, Davros. It's all a bit amateur, even for you.. Davros: (Laughs) That one probe you discovered was just one of hundreds scouring the matrix for my information. Dr: WHAT information? Davros: Information that will give me ultimate power to change history, (rants) And when I find that information nothing will be able to prevent my inevitable domination of the UNIVERSE!! END THEME. CREDITS The Regeneration Of The Daleks by Howard Richardson Starring Andy Haynes as The Doctor, Jon Greenwood as Adric and Howard Richardson as the Chancellor and Davros. Effects and music were by the Richardson Radiophonic Workshop. This has been a FloorTen Audio production.