The Regeneration Of The Daleks Episode Three Scene Zero Back on gallifrey LHC: Order! Order! (silence) The right honourable timelord, Yaffle Minor. Yaffle: I would like to ask the chancellor, how he dealt with the recent matrix disturbences caused by Davros? All: Hear! Hear!! LHC: Ahem!! I thank my right honourable friend for that question, and I am pleased to be able to report that our erstwhile friend The Doctor is currently investigating the problem. I'm sure he has the skill to draw this situation to a satisfactory conclusion... Sidgin: The man's a clueless buffoon! LHC: Silence Sidgin! I will not tolerate this insubordination! others: Yeah, shuttup theta! LHC: Order!! Order!!! Scene One Davros' Prison Cell Dalek: You will remain here. (FX:Prison door glides shut) Dr: Well, it really doesn't look like I can go anywhere. (Enter Davros with music) Davros: This time Doctor, your luck has run out. I wouldn't count on that humanoid friend of yours to rescue you. You are quite safe here. Dr: (remembering) Adric! Where is he? Davros: Again you show your weaknesses Doctor. It really doesn't benefit you to concern yourself with such pitiful fancies as friendship. Dr: You won't go after him, Davros, I know. You daren't draw attention to your little project until it's finished. And if I'm correct, you still lack the most vital element... Davros: (Angry!) No!! That information is within my grasp!! In a matter of hours I shall know how to construct the final component, and then... Dr: Pah! And then WHAT?... I don't even believe your machine will work. The whole premise is fundamentally flawed. Davros: You lie!! Dr: (obstinate) No, Davros! This whole crackpot idea of yours is just one big waste of all of our time... Davros: (to dalek) SILENCE HIM!! (Fx: dalek fires warning shot at Doctor) Dr: Hey, hey! Watch it, that was close... Davros: (calmer) You will remain here for the rest of your days, Doctor. Prey my machine will grant you a merciful death, for if not, I will personally ensure a slow and agonzing end to your pathetic life.. (music) Scene Two Ourside Adric: (to self) (panting from running) Oh no.. what can I do now...? They've got the Doctor. (pause) Now, come on, pull yourself together Adric, and think laterally... I'll have to rescue him, somehow... (sighs) Oh.. but it's hopeless.. I don't know where to start... Tim: (approaching) Start at the beginning! It's the best place, I find. Adric: Oh, hello? Who are you? Tim: Tim's the name. I live in the vicarage across the road there. I couldn't help noticing you dash out of the church like that. Is everything alright? Adric: No, far from it. They've got the Doctor in there .. captive.. and I've no idea what... Tim: (interrupts) Sorry? No, you're mistaken. I just saw Dr. Bagpuss in the grocers and he's fine... Adric: No, I mean.. THE Doctor.. Oh, never mind. A friend of mine. He's locked up in the vaults. Tim: Vaults? But there are no vaults in that church. Adric: Through the door next to the organ... Tim: But that door just leads round to the back of the organ, so the repairmen can access it easily. The door's always locked of course, but I assure you there ARE no vaults. I should know, my dad's been Vicar in this parish since I was born. Adric: But that's impossible! I mean, I saw it with my own eyes.. steps leading down into a dark room... (sigh) Something very strange is happening here. (thinks) Do you by any chance have access to plans of this church? Architectural plans? No? Tim: Well, maybe my dad has. But it's a very old church. Unless it's been recently surveyed... Adric: Can we just check, at least? Please! Tim: Yes, Okay. I don't see why not. Come with me then... see if we can't solve your strange puzzle... Adric: Just one thing, I'd just like to pop back to the TARDIS and pick up a couple of tools I might need. Tim: TARDIS? Adric: (realises Tim is from Earth) Ah! Erm... Tim,(pause) have you heard of dimensionally-transcendental physics? Tim: Uh? Adric: (to self) No, thought not.. Hah! Well, have I got a surprise for you! (both leave) Scene Three Davros' Room Dalek: I BRING NEWS FROM CONTOL CENTRE. Davros: Yes? Dalek: WE HAVE LOCATED THE CRITICAL INFORMATION. Davros: Excellent! Now the plans for my machine are complete! Has the prisoner built the final component yet? Dalek: Negative. Davros: He is stalling for time! I know it! Tell him I will not tolerate his games! Dalek: I OBEY!! Scene Four In TARDIS Tim: I don't believe it! Adric: Yes, most people say that when they first see it! But believe me, it's quite real!! Tim: But... Adric: Oh, it's not mine of course. Belongs to the Doctor. Luckily he cut me a spare key for emergencies like this. Tim: Oh my god.. this is ... incredible... Adric: Mmm, yes, isn't it. (Rummages around in cupboard) Ah yes, here we are. Tape measure, sonic screwdriver.. Tim: Sonic what? Adric: Screwdriver. Sort of an electronic lock-pick. Tim: I give up. Can we go to the Vicarage now please, my brain's beginning to ache! Scene Five: Davros' Prison Cells Davros: Doctor, you will be pleased to know that I have finally located the information I sought. Doctor: Yes, Davros, I'm delighted for you. Let's throw a party eh? Davros: (angry) Party? Doctor: Yes, you know. Bi-centenery of Davros' insanity, congratulations on two hundred years of madness, that kind of thing... Davros: I warn you, Doctor. You tread a very thin line. Do not think you are indispensable. I assure you I will not hesitate to have you eliminated, if you persist in opposing me. Doctor: (Shouts!) OPPOSING YOU! Yes, of course! I'll oppose anyone who wants to take over the universe by hooking me up to some half-built regenerational abacus!! Davros: My machine is the pinnacle of engineering excellence, and WILL work, as you shall soon discover! Doctor: Davros, if that machine does anything other than splutter and go up in smoke then I'm no Time Lord. Davros: Which is exactly what you will be, Doctor, in three hours from now. Even as we speak the finishing touches are being added.. Doctor: Yes, and that's another point. Just WHO are you getting to build this machine, eh? I don't see your daleks being particularly adept at weilding spanners.. Davros: That need not concern you Doctor. If I was you I would be a lot more worried about your impending death... (music..) Scene Six: In the Vicarage. Tim: (opens drawer) If they're anywhere, they'll be in here... (removes folders) Hmmm. accounts... fund raising... repairs... plans.. Plans for what, I wonder... (opens folder and flicks through the pages)... Yes, what about this? (hands Adric sheet) Adric: No, this is just of the vicarage... what about the church? Tim: Church... hmmmm. aha! Here... Adric: (mumbles) Yes, I do believe this is what we're looking for. (turns page around) Look, here is the main entrance door, ... and the organ is ...here... which would mean the doors leading down are here... Tim: What does it say? Adric: The plans continue on the other side... hold on... (turns over page) (Despair)No! I don't believe it. Tim: Sorry? Adric: You're right. There is no room where I described. Tim: Hm! Well, looks like you did just imagine it... Adric: (slowly, thinking) No... no.. I know I didn't. But something is terribly wrong here. Tim: (contemplating) Just how big would you say this room you saw was? Adric: Well, I couldn't quite see, as it was rather dark, but at a conservative estimate I would say at least 40 foot square. Tim: Well, that clinches it! Look here on the plans. The door is only 10 foot away from the graveyard outside. Any room that large couldn't fit in the space there. It's physically impossible. You know, sort of like that TORDIS thing of yours.. Adric: (double take) What did you say? Tim: I said that there is only ten foot of space at that level before you'd encounter the graveyard. It would be impossible to have foundations for a room that size. There just isn't the space. Adric: (penny drops) Oh NO! Please don't let it be true! Tim: Let WHAT be true? Oh, you really aren't making any sense. Adric: Fitting a large room in a small space... don't you see? The only explanation is that Davros has got his own TARDIS beneath your little church.. with the use of that he'd be unstoppable. I hope to God you're wrong Tim, or this could be the beginning of the greatest dalek conquest the universe has ever seen... (END TITLES) The Regeneration of the Daleks by Howard Richardson. Episode Three with Andy Haynes as The Doctor and Dalek voices, Howard Richardson as Davros, Tim and the Lord High Chancellor and Jon Greenwood as Adric and Yaffle Minor. Music and FX were by the Richardson Radiophonic Workshop. This has been a FloorTen Audio Production.