The Executioners

(Inside one of the many rooms of their ship, the Doctor is stood behind a large dish like device, with a screen in the centre of it, and many dial and switches along the bottom – the Time and Space Visualiser. Nearby, the Princess stands, her arms folded, with a look of concern. After a moment, the Doctor comes out from behind the device, screwdriver in hand, to stand beside the Princess.)

DOCTOR: And you're sure of this, my dear?

PRINCESS: Yes. She said, 'Beware the Daleks. They are coming for you.'

DOCTOR: You specifically, or all of us in general?

PRINCESS: I'm not sure.

DOCTOR: Well, it seems unlikely, Princess. The course I've laid isn't taking us anywhere near Skaro.

PRINCESS: Yes, but they were on Earth, remember? And we were hardly expecting to find them there.

DOCTOR: Yes, but I've accounted for that too. In relative time, to when we first encountered the Daleks, we're behind that point. If they do exist, they'll still be confined to their planet of origin, as they were the first time we encountered them. I appreciate the warning, my dear, but I don't think it's warranted.

PRINCESS: I just thought I should tell you.

DOCTOR: Oh, I quite appreciate it, but I think we're fine as is. (Goes back to working on the Time & Space Visualiser with the screwdriver) Yes, we've been doing rather well on our own so far, don't you think?

PRINCESS: We've had our ups and downs.

DOCTOR: True, but that's the case anywhere in the universe.

PRINCESS: Except back home.

(The Doctor is now down on his knees, working on a lower part of the Time and Space Visualiser.)

DOCTOR: One would think it a dreary place when you put it like that.

PRINCESS: That was rather the point.

DOCTOR: Ah.

(Vicki enters the room.)

VICKI: Hello.

PRINCESS: Good morning, Vicki.

DOCTOR: Yes, good morning, child, good morning.

VICKI: And what are you two up to?

PRINCESS: The Doctor's playing with his toy.

VICKI: The one he got from the museum?

PRINCESS: Yes.

DOCTOR: It is not a toy and I am not playing with it. As you can clearly see, I am trying to fix it.

VICKI: Need any help?

DOCTOR: No, no. I have it well in hand.

(Vicki wonders around, looking at the large machine. As she does, she begins to whistle. She then stops, standing over the Doctor who tries to continue working until…)

DOCTOR: Don't whistle, dear, please.

VICKI: Well, have you nearly finished, Doctor?

DOCTOR: (Continuing to work) I have no idea, child.

(Vicki watches the Doctor continue to work for a moment…before starting to whistle again.)

DOCTOR: I said stop whistling.

VICKI: Well, can I do anything?

DOCTOR: Buzz off.

PRINCESS: Doctor!

DOCTOR: Well, she's distracting me! All these bothersome distractions. Whistling children…hearing voices… If it wasn't for all of them, I'd be finished by now.

VICKI: Fine, I'll go and see what Ian's do.

DOCTOR: Yes, please do.

PRINCESS: Vicki…

(Vicki walks out of the room and out into the corridor.)

PRINCESS: (To Doctor) There was no need for that.

DOCTOR: Oh, I'll make it up to her once I've finished fixing this.

(The Princess huffs and shakes her head. Then, from the still open door…)

VICKI: (To Ian, from down the corridor) What are you reading?

IAN: (From down the corridor) Monsters from Outer Space.

VICKI: Is it good?

IAN: Yes. A bit far-fetched. The Princess is lending it to me, thought I'd get a chuckle out of it.

(Then silence for a moment.)

VICKI: (Annoyed) Oh, all right!

(The Princess hears Vicki stomping about in the corridor before entering another room.)

VICKI: (From down the corridor) I am redundant around here!

BARBARA: (From down the corridor) Oh, nonsense. Come and sit down and talk to me.

VICKI: I am a useless person–

(A sharp clattering noise of something falling, which has the Princess frown and looking towards the door.)

BARBARA: Oh, Vicki!

VICKI: Sorry!

DOCTOR: (Getting up) Whatever has that child done now?

PRINCESS: I'll go and see.

(The Princess is about to leave the room, while the Doctor goes around the back of the Time and Space Visualiser. But before the Princess leaves, a horrible shrieking tone starts to come from the Time and Space Visualiser – so badly the Princess stumbles and has to cover her ears.)

PRINCESS: Doctor?!

DOCTOR: Yes, yes, I hear it too!

PRINCESS: What did you do?!

DOCTOR: I'm fixing it, I'm fixing it!

(The Doctor starts banging on the back of the Time and Space Visualiser as Ian enters the room.)

IAN: What's the matter?

PRINCESS: What?!

IAN: What's the trouble?!

PRINCESS: The Doctor's done something–

(The Doctor has stopped banging on the back of the Time and Space Visualiser and is coming around the front. As he does, he nudges the Princess aside so he can get past.)

DOCTOR: Out of the way! Out of the way!

(Barbara then enters, covering her ears as she does.)

BARBARA: Doctor?! Doctor, what's happening?!

DOCTOR: It's the audio output, something's come loose!

BARBARA: Well, can't you fix it?!

DOCTOR: What do you think I'm trying to do?!

(The Princess fiddles with the controls on the Time and Space Visualiser, before pulling a switch near the top. And as she pulls it, the horrible shrieking tone fades away.)

BARBARA: (Sighing) Oh, that's better. Thank you, Princess.

PRINCESS: Your welcome.

IAN: What was that?

DOCTOR: Oh, just an unfortunate juxtaposition of the sonic rectifier with the lineal amplifier.

IAN: Oh, of course. I should have known.

PRINCESS: He's just saying it's been a while since the thing was turned on, Ian. The result was a rather unpleasant sound which required a minor adjustment of the audio output.

IAN: So…you turned down the volume.

PRINCESS: If you like.

BARBARA: But what is this…

DOCTOR: A Time and Space Visualiser.

BARBARA: Yes, what's it supposed to do – apart from making that dreadful noise?

DOCTOR: It converts neutrons of light energy into electrical impulses.

IAN: Oh, wonderful! I've always wanted one.

(The Princess and Barbara share amused smiles, while Ian sits down in a nearby chair and Vicki enters the room.)

DOCTOR: Do I detect a hint of sarcasm, dear boy?

IAN: I'm sorry, Doctor, but you rattle off explanations that would have baffled Einstein and you expect Barbara and I to know what you're talking about.

DOCTOR: The Princess and Vicki seem capable of keeping up, I don't see why I shouldn't hold you two to the same standards.

PRINCESS: Doctor, stop being rude and provide the man with an explanation we can all understand.

DOCTOR: Very well then, I shall quote you Ven Der Haff's law. Mass is absorbed by light, therefore light has mass and energy.

VICKI: The energy radiated by a light neutron is equal to the energy of the mass it absorbed.

(Barbara and Ian stare at Vicki, still not understanding, but amazed that Vicki does.)

DOCTOR: Splendid child, splendid.

VICKI: (To Barbara & Ian) It's quite simple. It just means that anything that ever happens, anywhere in the universe, is recorded in light neutrons.

DOCTOR: I couldn't have put it better myself, child.

PRINCESS: You seem to be learning faster than we can teach you, Vicki.

(Vicki smiles and blushes.)

VICKI: So, does Haff's law have something to do with this Time and Space Visualiser?

DOCTOR: Yes, it does as a matter of fact, young lady. You see, this machine here, (Taps the Time & Space Visualiser) can convert energy from light neutrons into electrical impulses.

PRINCESS: Which can then be shown to us on this screen here.

VICKI: You're kidding!

BARBARA: Do you mean it's a sort of…Time television?

PRINCESS: I suppose that's one way of putting it, yes. We had one very much like it back home. Almost identical in fact.

VICK & BARBARA: You had one?!

PRINCESS: Yes. My mother got it as a present for us when we were young.

DOCTOR: (Chuckling) The privileges of royalty.

VICKI: Somebody's jealous.

DOCTOR: Why should I be jealous, child, I've got my own now.

VICKI: Yes, but it doesn't work–

DOCTOR: On the contrary, my child, I have in fact this moment fixed it. Now, my dear Chesterton, do you mind if I distract you from your alien invasions for a moment?

IAN: (Closing his book) Oh, all right.

DOCTOR: I want to give a little demonstration. Will you think of an event in history?

(Ian thinks for a moment.)

IAN: All right, I've thought of one.

DOCTOR: Well, first the place.

IAN: Oh, Earth, that's easy.

DOCTOR: Now the geographical location, date and time.

IAN: Nineteenth of November 1863. The place, Pennsylvania, USA.

DOCTOR: Good! Don't go away.

(The Princess starts operating the Time and Space Visualiser confidently.)

PRINCESS: I've got it, Doctor.

(A few more seconds of turning dials and pushing levers. Then a final slow pull of the last lever… The time travellers all gather around, as the screen in the centre of the Time and Space Visualiser flickers to life. On the screen is a bearded man, dressed smartly, who is stood before hundreds of people on a platform with other smartly dressed men sat behind him.)

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: (Fading in) …Conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition, that all men are created equal…

BARBARA: (To Ian) Lincoln… Abraham Lincoln!

IAN: Yes, that's what I asked for! The Gettysburg address!

VICKI: Quiet!

(The time travellers all watch the screen and listen, captivated.)

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: (Continuing) …testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We've come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who gave their lives that that nation might live. That is altogether fitting and proper that we should do so. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate – we cannot consecrate – we cannot hallow this ground…

(The picture begins to blur, and the sound fades away.)

VICKI: Is that it?

IAN: No, there should be more.

(The Princess begins fiddling with the controls.)

PRINCESS: It's lost the signal. Probably because it hasn't been used in so long, sorry.

IAN: Oh, don't apologise, that was incredible! To see it right before our eyes as if someone had been there to record it.

DOCTOR: That is what the Visualiser does, my boy.

BARBARA: Doctor, can I have a go?

VICKI: (Quickly) Can I? Can I? Please?!

DOCTOR: Yes, yes, yes, yes, now, all in good time, my dear, all in good time. Now, Barbara, you first.

(Barbara whispers it to the Doctor.)

DOCTOR: Splendid! My I, Princess?

PRINCESS: By all means.

(The Princess steps back and this time the Doctor operates the controls of the Time and Space Visualiser. Only as he does, the horrible shrieking tone returns. Barbara, Ian and Vicki cover their ears, while the Princess, unseen by the Doctor, adjusts the volume control again. The tone fades away, and another image appears on the screen. This time it's an older woman who appears on screen, in a chamber of some kind. The woman is fancily dressed, with a puffy white collar around her neck and a crown on her head.)

QUEEN ELIZABETH: We are well aware of what–

IAN: It's Queen Elizabeth the first!

PRINCESS: So, it is.

DOCTOR: Shh!

(The screen pans over to a man beside Queen Elizabeth, dressed in similar style with a tall hat on his head – Francis Bacon.)

VICKI: Who's that man?

BARBARA: Oh, wait and see.

(The time travellers all watch with interest, as the man in the tall hat cross over to a nearby doorway. At the doorway, an impatient man. He has thinning hair, with a goatee – Shakespeare.)

SHAKESPEARE: (To Bacon) Look, it was only a jest, I don't see–

FRANCIS BACON: Her Majesty has graciously granted you an audience. I suggest you hold your tongue. For your own sake.

(Shakespeare shakes his head before entering the chamber. He strides confidently up to Queen Elizabeth, taking her hand and kissing it, before only then bowing down to her.)

SHAKESPEARE: Your Majesty!

QUEEN ELIZABETH: (Coldly) Master Shakespeare, you are aware of the concern your character of Falstaff has caused to Sir John Oldcastle?

(Francis Bacon moves to stand by the Queen's side.)

FRANCIS BACON: It was so obviously he.

SHAKESPEARE: (Boldly) Well, of course, that was the point of it.

QUEEN ELIZABETH: So, you admit it then?

SHAKESPEARE: Yes, your Majesty.

QUEEN ELIZABETH: Good. Give it no more thought. We found it very amusing!

(Francis Bacon is taken aback.)

SHAKESPEARE: (Chuckling) Really?

QUEEN ELIZABETH: Tell me, have any plans to write a further play on him?

SHAKESPEARE: No.

QUEEN ELIZABETH: Oh…

SHAKESPEARE: Forgive me, your Majesty, but I follow my muses.

QUEEN ELIZABETH: Yes, I've heard about your muses… Still, it's a pity. But it does not matter.

SHAKESPEARE: Then if that is all, your Majesty, I shall return to my important work.

QUEEN ELIZABETH: Actually, master Shakespeare, we did have one or two ideas of which may be of service–

SHAKESPEARE: Forgive me, your Majesty, but my ideas come from me. I have no need to take them from others.

QUEEN ELIZABETH: Very well. Be off with you then. I eagerly await your next play.

SHAKESPEARE: I'll be sure to save you a seat.

(Shakespeare heads out of the chamber, just as confidently as he enters. Queen Elizabeth does not seem amused. Meanwhile, Francis Bacon sneaks away after Shakespeare. But before anything more can be seen, the screen turns to static and the sound stops again. The Doctor gives the Time and Space Visualiser a whack.)

DOCTOR: Hmm, I wonder what's the matter with this thing.

PRINCESS: It's just old, Doctor. Like you and me.

DOCTOR: Speak for yourself, my dear.

IAN: Well, Barbara, did you find out what you wanted to know?

BARBARA: I didn't really want to know anything, I just wanted to see Elizabeth's court.

PRINCESS: Shakespeare must have been a nice addition.

BARBARA: Oh, yes, definitely.

IAN: I never would have imagined him to be so…bold.

VICKI: Can I have a shot now?!

PRINCESS: Yes, of course, Vicki, when would you like to see?

VICKI: Can I try putting it in?

DOCTOR: Well, you can try, child, but I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than…

(Vicki confidently fiddles with the Time and Space Visualiser controls.)

ANNOUNCER: This is BBC One. The next programme is due to start in just under one minute.

VICKI: Where's the picture?

DOCTOR: Here let me.

(Vicki stands aside as the Doctor adjusts a few dials and switches for Vicki.)

BARBARA: Vicki, what year have you got on there?

VICKI: 1965.

(The time travellers are all staring at the screen waiting…)

DOCTOR: Come along…

(The screen comes to life, showing a television host.)

IAN: It's a television show.

VICKI: Shh! (Quietly) I want to watch it.

HOST: Here singing their latest number one hit it's the fabulous wait for it… (Music starts playing) It's the fabulous Beatles!

VICKI: Yes!

(The four adults start laughing as Vicki stares starry-eyed at the screen. On the screen appears the Beatles rock band as they perform in a studio to screaming fans. The Beatles are playing, 'Ticket to Ride,' to which Ian happily dances to, waving his hand through the air. The others laugh and continue to watch the show, until Barbara accidentally leans on the controls and the picture and sound disappear.)

IAN: Oh, Barbara.

DOCTOR: Now you've squashed my favourite Beatles!

(The Time travellers all laugh.)

IAN: Vicki, I had no idea you knew about the Beatles.

VICKI: Of course, I know about them. I've been to their Memorial Theatre in Liverpool.

(Ian and Barbara look to one another, taken aback.)

BARBARA: Well–Well, what do you think of them, Vicki?

VICKI: Well, they're marvellous, but I didn't know they played classical music.

BARBARA: Classical music?!

IAN: (Clears throat) Yes, get with it, Barbara, get with it. Styles change, styles change.

(A beeping noise starts going off from outside the room.)

BARBARA: Oh, what's this latest noise, Doctor?

DOCTOR: Just an alarm I rigged up for while I was working. It's signalling we're about to materialise. Princess, turn that off, will you?

PRINCESS: Of course.

(The Princess turns off the Time and Space Visualiser. The time travellers all then file out of the room and into the corridor. But unbeknownst to them, after leaving the room, a golden energy begins to seep from the Time and Space Visualiser. The aura of energy surrounds the machine, as the power switch is flicked back on, and the screen flickers back to life. The golden energy then dissipates, leaving the Time and Space Visualiser to tune in…)

(Meanwhile, the ship has finished materialising, and the Doctor is at the console, checking the readouts.)

DOCTOR: Well, everything appears to be all right. Yes. The oxygen's high, and the gravity is a little greater than Earth.

(The Doctor activates the door controls and the wall of the console room opens up, revealing a barren landscape of desert dunes. The time travellers all step outside, each shielding their eyes as they do.)

BARBARA: Oh, it's hot!

DOCTOR: Well, it's no small wonder. Look up there, my dear. Look.

(The time travellers all look up to see two suns in the sky.)

DOCTOR: Two suns moving very quickly. I expect the days and nights are very short here.

VICKI: Are we going to explore now then?

BARBARA: I shouldn't think there is anything to explore. Just miles and miles of sand.

VICKI: You never know. Over that sand-dune there might be a city or a space-station or anything.

DOCTOR: (Chuckling) The child's just like me, you know. Always wants to know what's on the other side of the hill.

PRINCESS: I'd argue her knack for getting into trouble is more akin to you.

(The Doctor laughs this off.)

VICKI: I'm just going up for a look.

(Vicki runs off towards the dune in front of them.)

PRINCESS: Vicki, wait…

BARBARA: To late, she's gone again.

IAN: I'd better follow her.

DOCTOR: No, no, no, no, Chesterton, here, here.

IAN: What?

(The Doctor takes out a compass like device and hands it over to Ian.)

DOCTOR: Look here, you'd better take this Tardis magnet with you. Watch that little green light in there – and don't drop it, otherwise you'll get lost.

BARBARA: Ian, you'd better get after her before she's out of sight.

IAN: All right, we won't go any further than the ridge.

VICKI: (Calling) Come on!

IAN: (Calling) All right, Christopher Columbus! Hang on.

(Ian then takes off after Vicki, running up the dune before both vanish over it.)

BARBARA: Well, I don't know what we're going to do until they get back.

PRINCESS: Well, with two suns there's only one thing comes to mind.

BARBARA: What's that?

PRINCESS: Sunbathing.

(A short while later, the Princess, Barbara and the Doctor are laid out on a blanket before the blue police box, sunbathing. All are content, their eyes closed and soaking up the rays. That is until the Doctor starts singing…and a horrible shrieking tone starts to emit from within the police box. Barbara and the Princess suddenly sit up, while the Doctor, unaware of the horrible tone, keeps singing.)

BARBARA: (To Princess) What's that awful noise?

DOCTOR: I beg your pardon – awful noise? That's no way to talk about my singing!

PRINCESS: No, Doctor, not that awful noise, the other one.

BARBARA: Listen.

(They stop talking so the Doctor can hear the horrible shrieking tone coming from the blue box.)

DOCTOR: Oh, it sounds like the Visualiser. You must not have turned it off properly, Princess.

PRINCESS: I thought I did…

DOCTOR: Well, evidently you didn't. So, would you mind shutting it off properly for me?

PRINCESS: (Getting up) Very well.

BARBARA: (Getting up) I'll come with you. I've had enough sun anyway.

(The Princess then unlocks the ship's door before she and Barbara enter. They head through the console room and then through the door at the back, taking them into a corridor. As they walk, the horrible shrieking tone gets louder, until they enter the room with the Time and Space Visualiser. The Princess is about to turn it off when Barbara grabs her arm.)

BARBARA: Wait a minute, something's coming through.

PRINCESS: You're right. Let me see if I can clear it up.

(The Princess adjusts a few dials on the Time and Space Visualiser before then pulling one of the levers. The picture is still fuzzy, but a voice comes through clearly…)

DALEK 1: The Supreme Dalek is ready to receive your report.

(The screen of the Time and Space Visualiser adjusts, showing several Daleks in a control room.)

DALEK 2: The report is ready.

(Barbara is in shock at the sight, while the Princess looks alarmed.)

PRINCESS: Doctor! Doctor!

DOCTOR: (Calling from outside) Yes, all right, my dear, all right, all right. (Enters the room) What is it now? Gracious me, can't I even relax for five… (Sees the screen of the Time & Space Visualiser) The Daleks!

BLACK DALEK: Give your report.

DALEK 2: Our time machine has been completed.

BLACK DALEK: The operation will proceed at once. The movement scanners have located the enemy time machine, Tardis.

ALL DALEKS: Tardis! Tardis! Tardis! Tardis! Tardis!

BARBARA: Doctor…he said the Tardis. And look, on their screen, that's us!

DOCTOR: What is more important, is he referred to the Tardis, as the enemy time machine.

PRINCESS: But the Daleks can't have time travel. They just can't!

DOCTOR: Evidently, my dear, they do, somehow.

PRINCESS: Could it be because of us? Something we did when we met them last?

DOCTOR: Shh! We must listen.

BLACK DALEK: At present, the enemy time machine, Tardis, lies in the Segaro desert of the planet Aridius.

DALEK 1: We await command.

BLACK DALEK: The Doctor, Princess, and the three humans delayed our conquest of Earth.

DALEK 2: Daleks cannot be defeated!

DALEK 3: To defy Daleks is death!

DALEK 1: They will pay for their crime!

ALL DALEKS: Annihilate! Annihilate! Annihilate! Annihilate! Annihilate!

BLACK DALEK: The assassination group will embark at once in our time machine. They will pursue the humans through all eternity. They must be destroyed! Exterminate them! Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!

(Several Dalek enter their time machine, which looks like a large cylinder, before the door closes shut. With all the Daleks aboard, their time machine disappears. The Doctor switches off the Time and Space Visualiser.)

DOCTOR: The Time and Space Visualiser can only pick up things that have happened in the past, correct?

PRINCESS: I…I believe so, yes.

BARBARA: Then they're on their way here.

DOCTOR: Or worse, already here, and you heard their orders. We are to be exterminated!

BARBARA: But Doctor, can't we get away from them?

DOCTOR: Of course, we can, but–

PRINCESS: Vicki and Ian!

DOCTOR: Exactly! Come, we must find them, before the Daleks do! Hurry!

(The Doctor, Princess and Barbara run from the room.)

(A short while later, the suns have set, and the Princess and Barbara are stood on top of one of the dunes, as the wind howls by.)

PRINCESS: (Calling) Vicki!

BARBARA: (Calling) Ian!

PRINCESS: Vicki!

BARBARA: Nothing. I can't see them, can you?

PRINCESS: It's too dark to see anything. If only we'd been quicker!

BARBARA: Come on, let's see if the Doctor's found anything.

(Barbara takes the Princess' hand and the two head down the dune to where the Doctor is searching the ground.)

BARBARA: Doctor, any trace of them?

DOCTOR: No. This wretched wind has wiped out all their tracks.

PRINCESS: (Shivering) Is it just me or is it starting to get cold?

DOCTOR: That'll be the setting of the suns, resulting in a quick a sudden temperature drop.

BARBARA: Well, maybe the cold will encourage Ian and Vicki to return to the Tardis.

DOCTOR: You know, that's a very good point, Ms. Wright.

PRINCESS: All right then, let's go back for now.

DOCTOR & BARBARA: (Pointing in opposite directions) It's this way.

DOCTOR: I assure you, it's this way.

BARBARA: No, no, no, it's that way. I remember–

DOCTOR: I have the directional instincts of a homing pigeon. Now, come along. Follow me.

PRINCESS: If that were true, we'd never get lost.

DOCTOR: Oh, stop back talking and hurry up!

(The Doctor, Princess and Barbara hurry through the darkness back towards the ship. But then a sandstorm hits. Each of the time travellers' pulls up their clothes to cover their mouths and noses, as they cling to one another. They are lost, wondering across the desert and stumbling as they do. They can't see, they have no understanding of direction, and as one trips, they all go down, collapsing into the sand as the storm rages around them…)

(The next morning, as the two suns rise over the horizon, the Doctor, Princess and Barbara come to. They slowly lift their heads, sand falling from them as they do. They are half buried, but are thankfully able to free themselves with ease, as they brush the sand from their faces. Then Barbara looks around and realises…)

BARBARA: It's changed… The whole landscape's changed!

PRINCESS: (Coughing) What about the ship?

BARBARA: It's gone! There's no sign of it!

DOCTOR: It probably got buried in that sandstorm.

BARBARA: But where?! All these stretches of sand look exactly alike! For all we know, we could be miles from where we arrived.

DOCTOR: Yes, well, wait a minute, wait a minute. I've got an idea. Let's have a look at the Tardis magnet.

PRINCESS: We can't, Doctor.

DOCTOR: Why ever not?

PRINCESS: Because you gave it to Ian, remember?

DOCTOR: Oh, yes, so I did…

BARBARA: Well, what are we going to do?!

DOCTOR: Well, it's no good us staying here. With those suns rising, we won't last long without water or shelter. (Getting up) We must–

(The Princess suddenly pulls the Doctor back down.)

PRINCESS: (Hissing) Get down!

DOCTOR: Would you unhand–!

PRINCESS: Quiet!

BARBARA: (Quietly) What is it?

PRINCESS: (Pointing) Look!

(From up ahead, something rises out of the desert sands. It comes up straight, with an eyestalk sticking out. Then, as the sand falls away, a clear shape is formed. The shape of a Dalek…)

Next Episode – The Death of Time