42 - 42 minutes, 27 seconds.
The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver on Martha's mobile phone.
"Right, there we go. Universal roaming. Never have to worry about a signal again." The Doctor says that Martha's phone has universal roaming.
"No way. This is too mad. You're telling me I can phone anyone, anywhere in space and time on my mobile?" Martha asks if she can phone anyone.
"Just as long as you know the area code. Frequent flier's privilege. Go on, try it." Sophia tells Martha only if she knows the area code before the Tardis judders.
"Distress signal. Locking on. Might be a bit of..." The Doctor tells her about the distress signal as they get knocked to the floor, "Turbulence. Sorry. Come on, Martha. Let's take a look."
"I would say to follow him, Martha." Sophia tells Martha.
-!-
The area has lots of steam and the place is glowing red.
"Distress signal transmitted."
"Whoa, now that is hot." The Doctor comments.
"Thank you, I changed after we met Lazarus." Sophia says.
"Automated distress signal transmitted."
"It's like a sauna in here." Martha comments,
"Thank you, Martha. I'll stay here then." Sophia tells her.
"Venting systems. Working at full pelt, trying to cool down. Wherever it is we are. Well, if you can't stand the heat." The Doctor explains
-!-
The Doctor opens a bulkhead door and goes through. On the other side, it is labelled Area 30. Two men and a woman come running towards them.
"Oi, you three!" Riley shouts at the Doctor, Martha and Sophia.
"Get out of there!" McDonnell orders them to get out of the "sauna".
"Okay, we just got there a couple of seconds ago." Sophia tells them.
"Seal that door, now!" Riley says to seal the door.
"Who are you? What are you doing on my ship?" McDonnell asks what they are doing on her ship.
"Are you police?" Riley asks if they are police.
"Why would we be police?" The Doctor asks why he and his two companions would be part of undercover police.
"We kind have caught your distress signal." Sophia tells them.
"If this is a ship, why can't I hear any engines?" The Doctor asks why the engines aren't working.
"It went dead four minutes ago." McDonnel notes that it went dead around four minutes ago.
"So maybe we should stop chatting and get to Engineering. Captain." Another man called Scannell says to stop chatting and go to the engineering chamber.
"Secure closure active." The computer notes the next action.
"What?" McDonnell asks what is going on.
"The ship's gone mad." Scannel tells them as another woman comes running towards them, bulkheads slamming shut behind her.
"Who activated secure closure? I nearly got locked in to area twenty seven." Erina, the woman asks who activated the secure closure as the last bulkhead slams shut, "Who are you?"
"He's the Doctor and I'm Martha. Hello." Martha tells her.
"Impact projection forty two minutes twenty seven seconds."
"We'll get out of this. I promise." McDonnell tells them as Martha looks out of a porthole.
"Doctor." Martha asks for the Doctor.
"Forty two minutes until what?" Sophia asks why there is fourty two minutes.
"Doctor! Look." Martha asks the Doctor to look as Sophia comes instead of him.
"Forty two minutes until we crash into the sun." McDonnell explains that they only have 42 minutes until they crash into the sun as the long, thin, but utilitarian spaceship is spinning towards a massive yellow fusion reactor.
"How many crew members on board?" The Doctor asks how many crew members are on board the ship.
"Seven, including us." McDonnell notes the count of the team.
"We transport cargo across the galaxy. Everything's automated. We just keep the ship spaceworthy." Scannel says.
"Call the others, I'll get you out." The Doctor tells them to call the others as he'll get them out as the Doctor runs to the door to area 30.
"What's he doing?" Riley asks what he is doing.
"No, don't!"
The Doctor opens the door and is knocked down by the blast of heat. Erina puts on a welder's mask and shuts it again.
"But my ship's in there!" The Doctor complains.
"In the vent chamber?" Riley asks if it's really in the vent chamber.
"It's our lifeboat." The Doctor says that it's his lifeboat.
"It's lava." Scannell tells him.
"The temperature's going mad in there. Up three thousand degrees in ten seconds, and still rising." Erina explains the temperature.
"Channelling the air. The closer we get to the sun, the hotter that room's going to get." Riley tells them about the channelling air.
"We're stuck here." Martha complains that they are stuck there.
"Martha. He'll do it anyway he can." Sophia tells her
"So, we fix the engines, we steer the ship away from the sun. Simple. Engineering down here, is it?" The Doctor explains the plans that he will do.
"Yes." McDonnell agrees to where the engineering is
"Impact in forty twenty six."
-!-
"Blimey, do you always leave things in such a mess?" The Doctor asks if they alwasys leave things in a mess.
"Never let me be around the Tardis again." Sophia tells him.
"Oh, my God." McDonnell exclaims.
"What the hell happened?" Scannell asks what happened as the engine of the ship is a collection of bits and pieces.
"Oh, it's wrecked." Riley says to Scannell.
"Pretty efficiently too. Someone knew what they were doing." The Doctor notes that the person knew what he was doing.
"Where's Korwin? Has anyone heard from him or Ashton?" McDonnell asks if anyone has seen the members of Korwin or Ashton.
"No." Scannell anwsers no.
"You mean someone did this on purpose?" Martha asks if someone wanted this on purpose as McDonnell goes to the intercom.
"Korwin, Ashton? Where are you? Korwin, can you answer? Where the hell is he? He should be up here." McDonnell asks where the members are.
"Oh, we're in the Torajii system. Lovely. You're a long way from home, Martha. Half a universe away." The Doctor tells Martha about the location of the galaxy.
"Yeah. Feels it." Martha tells him.
"And you're still using energy scoops for fusion? Hasn't that been outlawed yet?" The Doctor asks about the energy scoops.
"We're due to upgrade next docking. Scannell, engine report." McDonnell tells him about their next docking.
"No response." Scannell says about the engine.
"What?" McDonnell asks.
"They're burnt out. The controls are wrecked. I can't get them back online." Scannell explains.
"Oh, come on. Auxiliary engines. Every craft's got auxiliaries." The Doctor reminds them.
"We don't have access from here. The auxiliary controls are in the front of the ship." McDonnell tells him about the location of the auxiliary controls.
"Yeah, with twenty nine password sealed doors between us and them. You'll never get there in time." Scannell explains the discouragement that he will deliver of the 29 sealed doors.
"Can't you override the doors?" Martha asks about a overriding the doors.
"No. Sealed closure means what it says. They're all dead-lock sealed." Scannell tells her otherwise.
"So a sonic screwdriver's no use." The Doctor tells her.
"And that plot was slaughted once he metioned the dead-lock seal." Sophia comments.
"Nothing's any use. We've got no engines, no time, and no chance." Scannell dissapoints everyone.
"Oh, listen to you. Defeated before you've even started. Where's your Dunkirk spirit? Who's got the door passwords?" The Doctor asks about the door passwords before he approves them again.
"They're randomly generated. Reckon I know most of them. Sorry. Riley Vashti." Riley explains about the passwords.
"Then what're you waiting for, Riley Vashti? Get on it." The Doctor tells him to get on the passwords.
"Well, it's a two person job. One, a technish for the questions, and the other to carry this. The oldest and cheapest security system around, eh, Captain?" Riley says about the explaination of the system.
"Reliable and simple, just like you, eh, Riley?" McDonnell comments about Riley always being reliable and simple as he puts a massive backpack on. It contains a portable computer and a keyboard.
"Try and be helpful, get abuse. Nice." Riley says.
"I'll help you. Make myself useful." Martha tells him.
"It's remotely controlled by the computer panel. That's why it needs two." Riley explains.
"Oi. Be careful." Sophia says for Martha to be careful.
"You too." Martha agrees for her to be careful as well.
"McDonnell. It's Ashton."
"Where are you? Is Korwin with you?" McDonnell asks if Korwin and Ashton is with him.
"Get up to the med-centre now!"
The Doctor and McDonnell run out past Martha and Riley.
"Impact in thirty four thirty one." The computer notes the countdown timer.
-!-
A man and a woman are trying to hold Korwin down so they can put him in what looks like an stasis chamber.
"Argh! Stop it!" Korwin shouts.
"Korwin, it's Abi. Open your eyes, I need to take a look at you." Abi asks him to open his eyes and to look at him as McDonnell and the Doctor run in.
"Korwin! What's happened? Is he okay?" McDonnell asks what happened to Korwin.
"Help me! It's burning me!" Korwin tells her that something is burning him.
"How long's he been like this?" The Doctor asks how long this happened.
"Ashton just brought him in." Abi tells the Doctor as he scans Korwin with his screwdriver.
"What are you doing?"McDonnell asks what the Doctor is doing.
"Don't get too close." The Doctor tells McDonnell.
"Don't be so stupid. That's my husband." McDonnell says that Korwin is her husband.
"And he's just sabotaged our ship." Ashton tells her that he sabotaged the ship.
"What?" McDonnell asks him again.
"He went mad. He put the ship onto secure closure, then he set the heat pulse to melt the controls." Ashton explains what Korwin did.
"No way. He wouldn't do that." McDonnell tells them that no-one would ever do that.
"I saw it happen, Captain." Ashton corrects her otherwise.
"Korwin? Korwin, open your eyes for me a second." The Doctor asks for Korwin to open his eyes for a second for him.
"I can't!" Korwin says.
"Yeah, course you can. Go on." The Doctor says that he can.
"Don't make me look at you, please." Korwin says that he can't make himself look at the Doctor as he takes a hypo-gun from a medical tray.
"All right, all right, all right. Just relax. Sedative?" The Doctor says it's all right by also asking if the hypo-gun is a sedative.
"Yes." Abi agrees that it is a sedative whilst the Doctor sedates Korwin.
"What's wrong with him?" McDonnell asks what is wrong with Korwin.
"Rising body temperature, unusual energy readings. Stasis chamber. I do love a good stasis chamber. Keep him sedated in there. Regulate the body temperature. And, just for fun, run a bioscan and tissue profile on a metabolic detail." The Doctor explains the symptons and what they need to do.
"Just doing them now." Abi says that she is doing the scans now.
"Oh, you're good. Anyone else presenting these symptoms?" The Doctor comments that she is good before asking if anyone else is presenting the same symptoms.
"Not so far." Abi tells him.
"Well, that's something." The Doctor says.
"Will someone tell me what is the matter with him?" McDonnell asks about her husband's health.
"Some sort of infection. We'll know more after the test results. Now, allons-y, back downstairs. Hey. See about those engines. Go. Hey. Go." The Doctor explains as McDonnell follows Ashton out.
"Call us if there's news. Any questions?" The Doctor tells Abi to call if there's news and asks for questions.
"Yeah. Who are you?" Abi asks her question.
"I'm the Doctor." The Doctor tells her name as the Doctor leaves. Korwin's hands twitch.
"Heat shield failing. At twenty-five percent. Impact in thirty two fifty." The computer explains the recent news.
-!-
Riley is tapping away at the portable computer.
"Hurry up, will you?" Martha asks Riley to hurry up.
"All right. Fix the clamp on." Riley tells Martha to fix the clamp.
"What are you typing?" Martha asks what he is typing.
"Each door's trip code is the answer to a random question set by the crew. Nine tours back, we got drunk, thought them up. Reckoning was, if we're hijacked, we're the only ones who know all the answers." Riley explains.
"So you type in the right answer..." Martha says
"This sends an unlock pulse to the clamp. But we only get one chance per door. Get it wrong, the whole system freezes." Riley explains.
"Better not get it wrong then." Martha tells him not to get it wrong.
"Okay. Date of SS Pentallian's first flight. That's all right. Go!" Riley asks about the date of SS Pentallian's first flight as the lights on the clamp go green and the bulkhead door opens.
"Yes!" Martha agrees.
"Twenty eight more to go!" Riley shouts about the number left of the doors they have left.
-!-
"Abi, how's Korwin doing? Any results from the bio-scan?" The Doctor asks Abi about Korwin and his results.
"He's under heavy sedation. I'm just trying to make sense of this data. Give me a couple of minutes and I'll let you know." Abi explains to him as Korwin starts to wake up.
-!-
"Martha? Riley? How're you doing?" Sophia asks how Martha and Riley are doing.
"Area twenty nine, at the door to twenty eight." Martha notes the door number.
"Yeah, you've got to move faster." The Doctor complains.
"We're doing our best." Martha says that she is doing her best.
"Find the next number in the sequence three one three ,three three one, three six seven. What?" Riley says about the sequence as he asks himself what that means.
"You said the crew knew all the answers." Martha reminds him.
"The crew's changed since we set the questions." Riley corrects her.
"You're joking." Martha asks him.
"Three seven nine." The Doctor says the number for them.
"What?" Martha asks about the number he just gave.
"It's a sequence of happy primes. Three seven nine." The Doctor tells them.
"Happy what?" Martha asks about the happy primes.
"Just enter it." The Doctor orders her to enter the numbers.
"Are you sure? We only get one chance." Riley reminds him of the one chance.
"Any number that reduces to one when you take the sum of the square of its digits and you continue iterating until it yields one is a happy number. Any number that doesn't, isn't. A happy prime is a number that is both happy and prime. Now type it in! I don't know, talk about dumbing down! Don't they teach recreational mathematics any more?" The Doctor explains all about the happy primes he was metioning about.
"We're through!" Martha shouts.
"Keep moving, fast as you can." The Doctor tells her to move as fast she can.
"Martha, be careful. The Doctor senses that there may be something else on board this ship." Sophia warns Martha about something on board.
"Any time you want to unnerve me, feel free." Martha asks her to always unnevre her if she wants to.
"Sure, will do, thanks." Sophia thanks Martha.
"Impact in thirty fifty."
-!-
"I can't believe our lives depend on some stupid pub quiz. Is that the next one?" Martha complains about the questions before asking about the next one.
"Oh, this is a nightmare. Classical music. Who had the most pre-download number ones, Elvis Presley or The Be-atles? How are we supposed to know that?" Riley tells her the next question.
"We need a backup in case they don't reach the auxiliary engines in time. Come on, think. Resources. What have we got?" The Doctor asks about the back up.
"Doctor?" Martha requires the Doctor's assistance.
"What is it now?" The Doctor asks what she wants.
"Who had the most number ones, Elvis or the Beatles. That's pre-download." Martha explains the question.
"Elvis. No! The Beatles! No! Wait! Er, er. Oh, what was that remix? Er, I don't know. I am a bit busy." The Doctor tries to anwser the question but can't.
"Fine. I'll ask someone else." Martha tells him.
"It's Elvis, Martha." Sophia says to her as Martha puts it in.
"Now, where was I? Here comes the sun. No, resources. So, the power's still working, the generator's going. If we can harness that. Ah!" The Doctor explains.
"Use the generator to jump-start the ship." McDonnell finishes his explaination.
"Exactly. At the very least, it'll buy us some more time." The Doctor says.
"That is brilliant." McDonnell comments.
"I know. See? Tiny glimmer of hope."
"If it works."
"Oh, believe me. You're going to make it work." McDonnell tells Scannell.
"That told him." The Doctor remarks.
"Impact in twenty nine forty six."
"Doctor, these readings are starting to scare me." Abi comments.
"What do you mean?" The Doctor asks her.
"Well, Korwin's body's changing. His whole biological make-up. It's impossible." She explains to him as she hears a noise behind her, and sees Korwin's reflection in a steel bowl above the intercom. He is standing there, eyes shut. "This is Med-centre. Urgent assistance requested. Urgent assistance!"
"Stay here! Keep working!" The Doctor orders them as he runs out, and McDonnell follows him.
"Abi, they're on their way." Erina reminds Abi.
"What's happening to you?" Abi asks Korwin as his voice is not his own.
"Burn with me. Burn with me." Korwin orders her.
Scannell has followed the Doctor and McDonnell.
"Captain?" Scannell asks McDonnell.
"I told you to stay in Engineering." The Doctor reminds him.
"I only take orders form one person round here." Scannell tells him otherwise.
"Oh, is he always this cheery?" The Doctor asks if Scannell is always cheery.
"Burn with me."
"Korwin, you're sick." Abi tells him.
"Burn with me!"
Korwin opens his eyelids, to reveal a blinding white light.
Abi's scream comes over the intercom. Korwin puts on heavy-duty protective gauntlets and a helmet, and lowers the Polaroid filter.
"Doctor, what were those screams?" Martha asks about the screams.
"Concentrate on those doors. You've got to keep moving forward." The Doctor reminds her.
"Impact in twenty seven oh six."
-!-
The Doctor, McDonnell and Scannell run in.
"Korwin's gone." McDonnell says.
"Oh, my God." Scannell relieases as the image of a figure is burnt onto the metal x-ray shield. "Tell me that's not Lerner."
"Endothermic vaporisation. I've never seen one this ferocious. Burn with me." The Doctor explains.
"That's what we heard Korwin say." Scannell reminds him.
"What? Do you think? No way. Scannell, tell him. Korwin is not a killer. He can't vaporise people. He's human!" McDonnell disagrees that Korwin being a killer.
"His bioscan results. Internal temperature, one hundred degrees! Body oxygen replaced by hydrogen. Your husband hasn't been infected, he's been overwhelmed." The Doctor explains.
"The test results are wrong." McDonnell still disagrees.
"But what is it, though? A parasite? A mutagenic virus? Something that needs a host body, but how did it get inside him?" The Doctor asks what's wrong.
"Stop talking like he's some kind of experiment." McDonnell tells him to stop.
"Where's the ship been? Have you made planet-fall recently? Docked with any other vessels? Any kind of external contact at all?" The Doctor asks about the ship.
"What is this, an interrogation?" McDonnell asks if his conversation is an interrogation.
"We've got to stop him before he kills again." The Doctor tells her.
"We're just a cargo ship." McDonnell tells him.
"Doctor, if you give her a minute." Scannell says.
"I'm fine. I need to warn the crew. Everybody, listen to me. Something has infected Korwin. We think he killed Abi Lerner. None of you must go anywhere near him, is that clear?" McDonnell tell him before warning the crew.
-!-
"Understood, Captain. Erina? Get back here with that equipment." Ashton understands before telling Erina to get back with the equipment.
-!-
Erina mutes the intercom.
"Whatever you say, boss. Go there. Come back. Fetch this. Carry these. Make drinks. Sweep up. Please, kill me now." Erina mocks Ashton before asking to be killed as she closes the locker door and Korwin is standing there.
"Burn with me. Burn with me."
Korwin lifts the filter and the white light streams out. Erina screams.
"Impact in twenty four fifty one."
-!-
"Is the infection permanent? Can you cure him?" McDonnell asks the Doctor.
"I don't know." The Doctor tells her.
"Don't lie to me, Doctor. Eleven years we've been married. We chose this ship together. He keeps me honest, so I don't want false hope." McDonnell tells him that she doesn't want any false hope.
"The parasite's too aggressive. Your husband's gone. There's no way back. I'm sorry." The Doctor gives her the truth.
"Thank you." McDonnell thanks him.
"Are you certain nothing happened to provoke this? Nobody's working on
anything secret? Because it's vital that you tell me." The Doctor asks if anything provoked it.
"I know every inch of this ship. I know every detail of my crew's lives. There is nothing." McDonnell says to him.
"Then why is this thing so interested in you?" The Doctor asks why this "thing" is so intrested in her.
"I wish I knew." McDonnell says that she wished that she knew before Riley and Martha have made it through bulkhead 17.
"Doctor, we're through to area seventeen." Martha reminds him.
"Keep going. You've got to get to area one and reboot those engines." The Doctor orders her.
A/N - So, we're all in the head of ending the series. Still, sorry for the wait between TLE and this. I was a bit tired and needed to finish my YouTube stuff.
42, I think is like, maybe the second best episode (third sometimes due to Utopia.) I just love the "24" feel that it has and some episodes like "Journey To The Centre Of The Tardis." have tried to do because it was cool in "42" and they could replicate that perfectly.
Oh and "The Infinite Quest"? I canceled that because it didn't fit right and was too much for me to do.
The Imperial Ghost - October 23rd, 2015.