BY: GERRY DAVIS AND ROBERT HOLMES
Part Three
Original Air Date: 3 May 1975
Running time: 24:32
KELLMAN: You haven't k*lled them?
LEADER: Of course not. We have neutralised them. They are necessary to our plan. What are you doing, Kellman?
KELLMAN: This is the stranger I reported. He calls himself the Doctor.
LEADER: And because of him, our plan was advanced?
KELLMAN: It had to be. He was interfering. I'd just like to know who and what he is.
TYRAM: I am Tyram, Chief Councillor of Voga.
HARRY: How do you do. I'm Harry Sullivan, and this is
SARAH: Sarah Jane Smith.
TYRAM: What's your mission here?
SARAH: Mission? We don't have any mission. We just sort of came here by accident, didn't we, Harry.
HARRY: Yes, that's right. It's nothing to do with us, really.
TYRAM: Explain.
SARAH: We'd better start at the beginning. Well, our plan was to find the TARDIS
LEADER: Once our landing is detected, the Vogans will attack in force.
KELLMAN: Oh, they have only light armaments. Nothing that can affect your Cybermen.
LEADER: This is the main shaft?
KELLMAN: Yes, this is a shaft I explored for you. It runs right to the core of Voga.
LEADER: How far from the shaft entrance is the transmat receptor area?
KELLMAN: Just a matter of yards. I set the receptors as close as possible.
LEADER: Excellent, Kellman. You have done well. The humans will carry the expl*sives into the shaft.
DOCTOR: What's your cut, Kellman? Voga's gold?
LEADER: There will be no gold. Voga is to be utterly destroyed, and this time we shall not fail.
DOCTOR: Oh, really.
LEADER: And you, Doctor, and your two friends will help us in this task. That is why your lives have been spared.
STEVENSON: I was wondering why you hadn't k*lled us.
LESTER: We don't have to help them. They can't force us.
LEADER: Oh, you are mistaken.
LESTER: You'll discover who's mistaken, chum.
LEADER: The heart of Voga is almost pure gold. Gold is hostile to our function, therefore Kellman was asked to preserve three animal organisms for this purpose.
DOCTOR: Isn't it wonderful to feel needed, Commander?
LEADER: Kellman, on our approach run, we detected an operational discharge from the transmat area. Explain that.
KELLMAN: That was his doing. He beamed his two friends down to Voga. I tried to put the transmat out of action, but he managed to fix it somehow.
LEADER: And how much do these humans know?
SHEPRAH: Vorus, leader of the Guardians, I have a message.
VORUS: Stay where you are!
VORUS: Well, Sheprah?
SHEPRAH: Tyram has given fresh orders. My troops will hold their present positions and will not attack your guild chambers.
VORUS: He has shown sense. Your city scum would be badly beaten.
SHEPRAH: Unless we are provoked, Vorus. Then we shall sweep you aside.
KELLMAN: Look, I've done everything I can to help. I set up the transmat, I directed the Cybermen. You might never have found Voga if it hadn't been for me.
LEADER: That is true, and you have been promised great rewards for your assistance.
KELLMAN: That's why I must go down to Voga to make sure that nothing goes wrong with the transmat.
LEADER: Very well. But return as soon as possible. Once the detonator cycle commences, it cannot be stopped.
TYRAM: You know something, or he thinks you do, that would incriminate him.
HARRY: Incriminate him in what?
TYRAM: Some plot against the state, against me.
SARAH: But we only met Vorus for ten minutes.
TYRAM: It's something to do with the Beacon. My suspicions about Vorus are hardening into certainty. He's always had great ambition. This city we're in was once the survival chamber for our people. We've lived here ever since, unseen, and safe from further attack from the Cybermen. You know of the Cybermen?
SARAH: Well, yes, I've heard of them, but they're meant to have been wiped out ages ago.
HARRY: I remember the Doctor saying that the thing that att*cked Sarah was a cybermat.
TYRAM: I wonder. Has Vorus in the madness of his vanity brought down the vengeance of the Cybermen upon us again? You'll come with me.
HARRY: Where to?
SARAH: Where are we going?
TYRAM: Hmm? Oh, to the gold mines. It's time that Vorus accounted for himself.
DOCTOR: What great rewards have you promised Kellman?
LEADER: The matter is of no interest to you.
DOCTOR: Everything's of interest to me, and Cybermen possess nothing that a human might want.
LEADER: You are incorrect.
DOCTOR: Then what is it? You've no home planet, no influence, nothing. You're just a pathetic bunch of tin soldiers skulking about the galaxy in an ancient spaceship.
LEADER: You speak unwisely. We are destined to be rulers of all the cosmos.
DOCTOR: No, I don't think so, somehow. You tried that once and you were nearly wiped out.
LEADER: Because of Voga and its gold. If humans had not had the resources of Voga, the Cyber w*r would have ended in glorious triumph.
DOCTOR: It was a glorious triumph, for human ingenuity. They discovered your weakness and invented the glitter g*n, and that was the end of Cybermen except as gold-plated souvenirs that people use as hat stands.
LESTER: Watch it, Doctor. I think you've riled him.
LEADER: That is why Voga must be destroyed before we begin our second campaign.
DOCTOR: Oh, there's to be a second campaign, is there?
LEADER: We have enough parts in our ship to build an entirely new Cyber Army, and this time, Doctor, it will be invincible. Cybermen function
LEADER: More efficiently than animal organisms. That is why we will rule the galaxy.
DOCTOR: Loose thinking. The trouble with Cybermen is they've got hydraulic muscles, and of course hydraulic brains to go with them.
LEADER: Put that down!
DOCTOR: Thank you. Now, if I'm correct about what this contains, and should accidentally drop it.
DOCTOR: Now, I want some information from you, Cyber Leader.
DOCTOR: What's Kellman expecting to get out of all this?
LEADER: Kellman wants power. He will be ruler of this solar system when we have conquered it.
DOCTOR: Your puppet dictator
DOCTOR: In exchange. I wouldn't have thought his ambitions lay in that direction.
STEVENSON: Look out, Doctor.
LEADER: Do not k*ll them.
SHEPRAH: Another human.
KELLMAN: Take me to Vorus.
SHEPRAH: Vorus?
KELLMAN: Quickly, man. It's vital I see Vorus immediately.
SHEPRAH: Vorus is no longer in charge here.
KELLMAN: What?
SHEPRAH: Take him away.
KELLMAN: Oh, no, you don't understand. I must see Vorus! You're in danger, all of you!
LEADER: Cyberbombs, the most compact and powerful expl*sive devices ever invented.
DOCTOR: Yes, and their use was banned by the Armageddon Convention.
LEADER: Cybermen do not subscribe to any theory of morality in w*r, Doctor. Our calculations indicate that two bombs placed in the central fissure of Voga will fragmatise the planet.
DOCTOR: Fragmatise? Oh well, I suppose we can't expect decent English from a machine.
LEADER: Prime the buckles. Two bombs should be sufficient. Three will make certain.
STEVENSON: Now what have they done?
LEADER: The buckles are now primed. Any attempt to remove the harness before the countdown reaches the red zone will cause a secondary expl*si*n. Do you understand?
LESTER: You mean, if we attempt to release the harness before then, we'll get blown up.
LEADER: Correct. It is as well to keep that thought in your minds.
DOCTOR: And when we reach the centre of Voga, we'll be fragmatised, as you put it.
LEADER: Incorrect. You will have fourteen minutes, the time period of the red zone, to reach your surface and save yourselves by the transmat beam.
STEVENSON: That is not long enough.
LEADER: Fourteen minutes is considered adequate.
DOCTOR: Anything else before we go?
LEADER: Yes, Doctor. Your progress will be followed by radar. Any attempt to deviate from the planned course will be immediately detected and the bombs exploded by means of these manual controls.
DOCTOR: Thank you.
LEADER: Countdown has commenced. You, Doctor, will leave first.
DOCTOR: Careful, careful. I might explode.
DOCTOR: Someone's trying to attract your attention. Come on, let's get out of here!
DOCTOR: If only they knew about the use of gold.
STEVENSON: You mean as a w*apon?
DOCTOR: Yes. It's the only thing that's effective against Cybermen.
LESTER: Do you believe all this guff about giving us time to escape?
DOCTOR: Not a word of it. Once we've reached the expl*sive zone we'll have outlived our usefulness.
LESTER: So what do we do now?
DOCTOR: Keep moving. Give their radar scope something to follow.
CYBERMAN: Our warriors report all initial opposition has been crushed.
LEADER: Excellent. They are now one hundred metres below the surface.
CYBERMAN: Kellman has not returned.
LEADER: He is of no importance now. His part in our operation is at an end.
TYRAM: What's your connection with Vorus?
KELLMAN: We were working together. We wanted to lure the Cybermen into a trap.
TYRAM: What trap?
KELLMAN: We're wasting time. The Cybermen are planning to blow Voga apart.
TYRAM: What trap!
KELLMAN: The Beacon, of course. Vorus has a rocket aimed at the Beacon.
SARAH: What? Harry, we've got to warn the Doctor!
SHEPRAH: Councillor, the Cybermen are here!
TYRAM: What?
SHEPRAH: They've landed on the first level. We've suffered heavy casualties and need reinforcements.
TYRAM: How many Cybermen are there?
SHEPRAH: Two, at least. Our weapons have no effect on them.
KELLMAN: You'll never stop them that way. Vorus' rocket is your only chance. That Beacon has to be blasted out of the sky.
SARAH: No.
TYRAM: We must attack the Cybermen with every w*apon we have.
SHEPRAH: Very well.
TYRAM: The rest of you, come with me. We must speak to Vorus.
LESTER: Why don't we just wait here?
DOCTOR: I think my idea's better.
LESTER: What is your idea?
DOCTOR: I don't know yet. That's the trouble with ideas. They only come a bit at a time.
TYRAM: Do you not recognise Tyram, Chief Councillor of Voga! Stand aside!
KELLMAN: We've got to see Vorus.
TYRAM: Stand aside, I say.
HARRY: Sarah, can you try and reach the transmat?
SARAH: And warn the Doctor. Right.
HARRY: I'll see if I can do something about this lot.
SARAH: Take care.
HARRY: And you.
TYRAM: Vorus, call off your guards!
VORUS: Enough. You should know better, Tyram, that to try to use force.
TYRAM: Our planet is being att*cked, Vorus. At this hour, Vogans should fight together, not against each other.
KELLMAN: Vorus, is the rocket ready to fire?
VORUS: The b*mb head is being fitted now.
KELLMAN: Too late. The Cybermen have already landed.
VORUS: What! Have you betrayed us?
KELLMAN: I tried to warn you. Once they were on the Beacon, I couldn't delay them any further.
TYRAM: What's this rocket that you speak of, Vorus?
VORUS: Very well, I'll show you.
KELLMAN: Where's the girl?
HARRY: She's gone to warn the Doctor, of course. If people are going to start firing missiles at him, what do they expect?
KELLMAN: If that girl reaches the Beacon and starts blabbing about the rocket, the Cybermen will explode their bombs.
CYBERMAN: Average progress rate is fifty metres per minute.
LEADER: Excellent. They will be in the central chamber of Voga.
LEADER: In seventeen minutes.
CYBERMAN: Distortion on our radar scope is increasing. The three humans who are carrying our bombs can no longer be identified by separate signals.
LEADER: That is of no importance now. Even the Doctor believes they will be given time to escape before our bombs explode. They do not know the detonators will fire when the countdown enters the red zone.
VORUS: Magrik and his team have been working on it for two years, and now we've lost the race by minutes.
KELLMAN: There might still be a chance if that rocket can be fired before the Cyberbombs are in position.
VORUS: Magrik reports a delay in fitting the b*mb head. No, we've lost our gamble, Kellman.
TYRAM: You're insane, Vorus. You've brought about the destruction of our race.
VORUS: I wanted to bring them freedom, Tyram. Freedom from fear, freedom to live as Vogans should, on the surface, not cowering like worms in the earth.
TYRAM: And this great plan was conceived in the company of such as he, a double agent, a despicable traitor, a m*rder of his own kind? A man whose only loyalty is to himself and the gold he hopes to win.
VORUS: The plan would have worked. I just needed more time.
HARRY: Look, all this recrimination's pretty pointless, isn't it. What we've got to do is get down into that central shaft and stop the bombs being planted.
KELLMAN: The Cybermen hold the entrance. There's no way past them.
HARRY: I should think there's another way down, wouldn't you, Kellman?
KELLMAN: Only the central shaft runs that deep, and the galleries don't connect with it.
TYRAM: Wait. When it was widened, a cross shaft was bored to provide ventilation. I've seen it in our records.
HARRY: Well, let's go and take a look.
DOCTOR: Steady.
STEVENSON: I'm getting a bit old for this sort of thing.
DOCTOR: We'll rest for a moment.
LESTER: Had any more bits of that idea, Doctor?
DOCTOR: The deeper we go, the heavier the concentration of gold. Before long, it must start affecting their radar picture.
LESTER: Then what?
DOCTOR: Well, it's an outside chance, but if we can get back without being detected, and take the Cybermen from behind. All right now, Commander?
STEVENSON: Yes, I think so.
DOCTOR: Let's go.
TYRAM: It runs for about fifty metres, and the rock's friable. It'll be very dangerous after all these years.
HARRY: Well, in that case, we'll send our expert on ahead. In you go, Kellman.
STEVENSON: I'm sorry, Doctor. I'm a bit whacked.
DOCTOR: Sit down a moment. Actually, I think we're very near the centre now. This is pretty well solid gold.
LESTER: I wonder if these buckles really would explode.
STEVENSON: I shouldn't put it to the test. They'll explode, all right.
KELLMAN: It's blocked.
HARRY: Let's see it.
KELLMAN: It's no use. We'll have to turn back.
HARRY: They're giving a bit.
DOCTOR: Look out! Get back!
KELLMAN: Look out!
HARRY: Doctor. Just a bump on the noggin, Doctor. Nothing to worry about. Let's get you out of this thing.
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The Doctor
Tom Baker
Sarah Jane Smith
Elisabeth Sladen
Harry Sullivan
Ian Marter
Commander Stevenson
Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Lester
William Marlowe
Kellman
Jeremy Wilkin
Tyrum
Kevin Stoney
Vorus
David Collings
Warner
Alec Wallis
Magrik
Michael Wisher
Sheprah
Brian Grellis
Cyber-Leader
Christopher Robbie
First Cyberman
Melville Jones
Assistant Floor Manager
Rosemary Hester
Russ Karel
Costumes
Prue Handley
Designer
Roger Murray-Leach
Film Cameraman
Elmer Cossey
Film Editor
Sheila S Tomlinson
Incidental Music
Carey Blyton
Peter Howell
Make-Up
Cecile Hay-Arthur
Producer
Philip Hinchcliffe
Production Assistant
John Bradburn
Production Unit Manager
George Gallaccio
Script Editor
Robert Holmes
Special Sounds
d*ck Mills
Studio Lighting
Derek Slee
Studio Sound
Norman Bennett
Theme Arrangement
Delia Derbyshire
Title Music
Ron Grainer
Visual Effects Designer
James Ward
Tom Baker
Sarah Jane Smith
Elisabeth Sladen
Harry Sullivan
Ian Marter
Commander Stevenson
Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Lester
William Marlowe
Kellman
Jeremy Wilkin
Tyrum
Kevin Stoney
Vorus
David Collings
Warner
Alec Wallis
Magrik
Michael Wisher
Sheprah
Brian Grellis
Cyber-Leader
Christopher Robbie
First Cyberman
Melville Jones
Assistant Floor Manager
Rosemary Hester
Russ Karel
Costumes
Prue Handley
Designer
Roger Murray-Leach
Film Cameraman
Elmer Cossey
Film Editor
Sheila S Tomlinson
Incidental Music
Carey Blyton
Peter Howell
Make-Up
Cecile Hay-Arthur
Producer
Philip Hinchcliffe
Production Assistant
John Bradburn
Production Unit Manager
George Gallaccio
Script Editor
Robert Holmes
Special Sounds
d*ck Mills
Studio Lighting
Derek Slee
Studio Sound
Norman Bennett
Theme Arrangement
Delia Derbyshire
Title Music
Ron Grainer
Visual Effects Designer
James Ward