Starring
Patrick Troughton
Serinda Swan
Episode One
(On a cold snow-covered hillside, a wind suddenly erupts. This is not uncommon. What is uncommon, is the gradual appearance of a blue police box, as it materialises on said hillside. As it becomes more solid, the winds become more ferocious, as a whining groaning engine echoes throughout the land, only to be swept away by the howling winds. Then with a thud, the box becomes solid. The Tardis has landed. Inside, the Doctor is darting around the control console eagerly with excitement. Following him is Jamie, wearing his traditional Scottish kilt. Meanwhile, over by a chest, the Princess – in her usual attire with her ever present top hat – is sat with Victoria having some tea. The Doctor is almost giggling to himself now, as he activates the scanner. It shows the peak of a not-so-distant mountain.)
DOCTOR: I don't believe it. Marvellous! After all this time.
(Everyone else looks to the scanner.)
JAMIE: Oh, what's so marvellous about that?
PRINCESS: It's the Himalayas!
JAMIE: The Hima what?
PRINCESS: Oh, we haven't been there since…that time with Marco Polo.
DOCTOR: Yes. Oh, no, no, Princess. That was the Plain of Pamir, remember? This is where Det-Sen is.
PRINCESS: That's right! Wait, is that where we are?
(The Doctor turns his attention back to the console, checking some readouts.)
DOCTOR: Well, I'm just checking.
JAMIE: I don't understand, where are we?
VICTORIA: The Himalayas, Jamie. They're mountains.
JAMIE: Aye, I can see that. But where are these mountains?
VICTORIA: Don't you know where the Himalayas are? They're in India. Well, at least I think so.
PRINCESS: Part of them are in India, Victoria.
VICTORIA: What do you mean?
DOCTOR: (Eagerly) Yes, that's it! I knew it, I knew it, it's incredible.
JAMIE: What is?
PRINCESS: Are we in the right place, Doctor?
DOCTOR: We are, Princess!
JAMIE: And just where is that?
VICTORIA: Yes, where precisely are we?
DOCTOR: Tibet. You see, Victoria, the Himalayas stretch over several countries, a region of which is called Tibet. That's where we are.
VICTORIA: Oh, I see.
DOCTOR: Now, there's no time to be lost. Come along, Princess, we must find the ghanta.
JAMIE: The what?
DOCTOR: The ghanta, the ghanta. Now, if I recall correctly… Did you have it last, Princess?
PRINCESS: No, I gave it to Barbara.
DOCTOR: But then she gave it back to you.
PRINCESS: …So she did! But then I gave it to Vicki… (Looks to chest) Who I think stuffed it in here.
DOCTOR: She what?!
PRINCESS: Oh, relax. I'm sure it's fine.
(The Princess goes to open the chest with the tea set on it.)
VICTORIA: Princess, the–!
(The Princess opens the lid, casting the tea set to the floor where it smashes.)
VICTORIA: …Tea.
(The Doctor joins the Princess by the chest as the two start rummaging around.)
DOCTOR: (To Jamie and Victoria) Well, come over and help you two.
(Jamie comes over, standing over the Doctor and Princess while Victoria remains in her seat.)
JAMIE: What are we supposed to be looking for anyway?
DOCTOR: I told you it's…
(The Doctor pauses, before pulling out a large device with various wires and switches and dials on it.)
DOCTOR: Good Lord, I haven't seen that for years.
JAMIE: Oh, that's the ghanta then?
DOCTOR: No, no, no, no. It's a… Well, whatever it is, it's nice to see it again.
(The Doctor tries to put it down gently but ends up dropping it.)
PRINCESS: Oh, oh, oh, oh!
VICTORIA: What is it, Princess?
PRINCESS: Look!
(The Princess pulls out a deck of cards.)
JAMIE: Och, you've already got a deck of cards!
PRINCESS: But this one might have a three of hearts, Jamie!
(The Princess eagerly starts going through the cards, tossing them over her shoulder once she's looked at them.)
VICTORIA: Oh, Princess, you're making a mess!
PRINCESS: I'll clean it up later.
JAMIE: Hey, Doctor, would you look at these! You never told me you had these!
(Jamie pulls a set of broken bagpipes from the chest.)
DOCTOR: No, Jamie.
JAMIE: Hey, oh, I could fix those easily.
DOCTOR: Yes, I was afraid of that.
VICTORIA: Jamie, you're getting as bad as the two of them.
JAMIE: Hey, I won't have that!
PRINCESS: I don't believe it!
DOCTOR: What is it?
PRINCESS: The three of hearts is missing from this deck too!
JAMIE: Maybe you threw it on the floor behind you?
PRINCESS: Good point… Help me look for it, Jamie.
VICTORIA: Hold on. We haven't found this, 'Ghanta,' that started all this in the first place.
PRINCESS: Well, you and the Doctor look for that, while Jamie helps me find my card.
JAMIE: Why do I have to help?
PRINCESS: Because you lost it in the first place.
JAMIE: No, I didn't! I told you I put it back in that deck of yours!
DOCTOR: That's enough you two. Victoria's right, we must focus on finding the ghanta before anything else.
VICTORIA: Well, it would help us considerably if we knew what we were looking for.
DOCTOR: Ghanta!
VICTORIA: But what is it?!
DOCTOR: Oh, what is it? You don't know?
PRINCESS: It's a bell.
VICTORIA: Oh, it's a bell, Jamie.
JAMIE: Oh, a bell. Oh, well now we know what we're looking for.
DOCTOR: Yes, it's a Tibetan bell, actually. A holy relic.
(The Princess holds her hands apart, to indicate the size.)
PRINCESS: About so big, with a dragon carved into it that goes all the way around.
DOCTOR: It has rather an interesting history. It was…
PRINCESS: Oh!
DOCTOR: Did you find it?
PRINCESS: No. But I found this!
(The Princess pulls a standard black and white tipped magic wand out of the chest.)
JAMIE: What's that?
VICTORIA: It looks like a magic wand.
JAMIE: What, witchcraft?
VICTORIA: No, stage magic.
PRINCESS: You suck all the fun out of it, Victoria.
(The Princess gives it a wave, but nothing happens. She is disappointed.)
PRINCESS: Huh. Thought it would do something more.
JAMIE: Like what?
PRINCESS: Make a noise, open a door, boost a signal, I don't know.
(The Princess moodily discards the wand over her shoulder, to which Victoria cringes.)
VICTORIA: Oh, what a mess.
DOCTOR: Ah ha!
PRINCESS: Found it?
DOCTOR: No, but I'll take this.
(The Doctor pulls out a huge thick fur coat. Standing up, the Doctor pulls on the coat, which seems to almost double him in size once on.)
DOCTOR: Yes, it's just the thing for this climate. How do I look?
VICTORIA: Doctor, you look beautiful.
PRINCESS: And so cuddly.
DOCTOR: Yes, I thought I might. I think I'll go and have a scout around.
PRINCESS: I'll come with you.
DOCTOR: Very well.
(The Princess goes over to the coat stand in the corner of the room, collecting a long leather black coat, which she pulls on over her tuxedo.)
DOCTOR: (To Victoria & Jamie) Now, you two find the bell, it's very important.
VICTORIA: Oh, but why do you want it?
DOCTOR: Because down there it's going to guarantee us the welcome of a lifetime.
(The Doctor then activates the door controls, opening the console room wall to the hillside beyond. Stepping outside, the Princess breathes in the mountain air, as the Doctor pulls the door to the police box shut behind them.)
PRINCESS: Ah! It's so…
(The Princess suddenly frowns, staring off.)
DOCTOR: Yes, Princess?
PRINCESS: Sorry. I was going to say, it's so peaceful up here. But…
DOCTOR: But what?
PRINCESS: But it felt…wrong.
DOCTOR: Well, I shouldn't imagine there's much could go wrong around here.
PRINCESS: That's what you said the last time.
DOCTOR: Did I? I don't remember. Come on, this way I think.
(The Doctor and Princess set off down the hillside, heading towards a nearby ledge. Once there, they smile at the beautiful view.)
DOCTOR: Look at that, I was right.
PRINCESS: It's still so beautiful.
(Looking down into the valley below, the two time travellers are granted a spectacular view of a small monastery resting on the only piece of flat land in sight. Around it the ground either rises sharply up towards the mountain tops or drops down off a cliff into another valley below. And all around are patches of snow.)
PRINCESS: It's been so long since we last laid eyes on it.
DOCTOR: (Chortling) We were differently people back then.
PRINCESS: With different friends. How many years has it been?
DOCTOR: Not that many I should think…
PRINCESS: I mean in relative time, for this place.
DOCTOR: Oh, about three hundred years I think, give or take.
PRINCESS: Everyone we met will be long gone.
DOCTOR: Yes, but the bell will insure we make new friends too. Come on. Let's see if Jamie and Victoria have found it yet.
(The two turn around, heading back up the hill towards the Tardis.)
DOCTOR: You are sure it's in that chest, aren't you?
PRINCESS: I think so. Unless someone else moved it. I'm sure that's the one Vicki put it in.
(Making their way up the hill, the Doctor comes to a stop suddenly.)
PRINCESS: What is it?
DOCTOR: Take a look at this.
(The Doctor bends down, and the Princess comes back to join him. Both looking down at a large paw like print in the ground.)
PRINCESS: A bear?
DOCTOR: No. Too big.
(The Doctor puts his own hand inside the print for comparison.)
DOCTOR: I wonder what could have done this?
PRINCESS: An abominable snowman perhaps?
DOCTOR: Eh?
PRINCESS: They mentioned them the last time we were here. Never saw one though. Oh! I know, move your hand.
(The Doctor removes his hand from the print, making room for the Princess to put her hand in his place. As she does this, she sits herself down on the ground in a meditative like pose, closing her eyes. She inhales deeply.)
DOCTOR: What are you doing?
PRINCESS: Remember, I told you. Victoria helped me generate a premonition back in the Cyber tombs. Well, I'm going to try the same thing now.
DOCTOR: Oh, I'm not sure that's a good idea, Princess.
PRINCESS: But you're here to watch me. And the Tardis is right there. What's the worst that could happen?
DOCTOR: Oh… Oh, very well. But please be careful.
(The Princess resumes her closed eyed meditation with deep breathing. Above the print, her hand begins to tremble a little. Around the Princess the wind and the cold fade away, as the world around her goes black. All is still and silent for a while. Then comes a series of beeps. Persistent beeps, in a rhythmic fashion, which are quite fast. It makes the Princess flinch.)
DOCTOR: Princess? Princess?
PRINCESS: Shh.
DOCTOR: Are you all right?
PRINCESS: Yes. There's just this annoying beeping.
DOCTOR: I don't hear anything.
PRINCESS: I'm trying to focus, Doctor.
DOCTOR: No. No, I don't like this. Please, stop.
PRINCESS: But, Doctor–
DOCTOR: Please, Princess. If you must do this, we can do it back in the Tardis where it's safe.
PRINCESS: We're perfectly–
(Before the Princess can finish she's thrown onto her back, her hands clutching her head as her top hat topples off.)
DOCTOR: Princess!
(Inside the Princess' mind, imagines flash by rapidly, as well as a hundred voices all trying to speak at once. But over them all is that incessant beeping. She sees deep into space, as something reaches out to meet her. Like a hand, or claw, curling itself around her. The Princess screams. Then she's back on the hillside, with large furry creatures surrounding her. Up above is a floating monk, one she strains to remember. A force pressing against her mind has the Princess screaming harder, before the ground gives way beneath her, and she falls even further. Now she's in a tunnel, hot and humid. The furry creatures are there too, hidden in the shadows. But their glowing eyes shine through the darkness, along with the unrelenting beeping noise. The Princess turns to run, only to find a high-ranking soldier before her. Most notable about him is the glengarry on his head and his well-trimmed moustache. Then from behind him appears an older, large man with a shaggy beard, and a young woman with dark hair. The tunnel turns on its axis, now pointing down. But instead of the obvious, everyone falls upwards into space. Everyone is sent hurling off in different directions before the Princess comes face to face with a floating head. A big floating head. Her floating head. And it's getting bigger and bigger, until finally it pops, revealing the space time vortex. The Princess, unable to stop herself, falls into it. More flashing imagines run through her mind. The hillside, the monastery, a battle, a bright light coming down a mountain like lava from a volcano. Then the hot humid tunnel. Cobwebbing, everywhere. A base of some sort, an attack, everyone trying to survive. A helmet with components. Someone switches something from positive to negative. But then someone switches it back. Then a pyramid floating in space above a planet. The Princess feels like she's there, transfixed by this slowly rotating pyramid, from which comes the constant beeping that has been haunting her this whole time. And then a voice…)
VOICE: (Hissing) Intelligence…
(The Princess snaps from her premonition with a gasp, finding herself in the Doctor's arms.)
DOCTOR: It's all right, it's all right. I'm here, Princess, I'm right here, I've got you.
PRINCESS: Doctor?!
DOCTOR: Yes, it's me. Come on, we've got to–
PRINCESS: No! No. Don't move me. I…I need a moment.
(The Doctor hesitates, but remains on the ground, holding the Princess in his arms as she catches her breath. Then after a moment…)
DOCTOR: What happened?
PRINCESS: I…I… Overloaded. Yeah…that's the word...I think.
DOCTOR: What did you see?
PRINCESS: So much. Too much. I don't really know to be honest. It was like…links in a chain.
DOCTOR: A chain reaction, you mean?
PRINCESS: Like knocking over the first domino in a line.
(The Princess clutches her head in pain, as the fast-paced rhythmic beeping returns.)
PRINCESS: Oh, no. Not again!
DOCTOR: What is it?
PRINCESS: The beeping? It's…
(The beeping stops just as suddenly as it started.)
PRINCESS: It's gone.
(The Princess looks around the hillside, but sees nothing out of the ordinary.)
DOCTOR: Perhaps it would be better if you stayed in the Tardis to rest for a while.
PRINCESS: No. No, I'm all right.
(The Doctor helps the Princess to her feet.)
PRINCESS: I just need…
(The Princess looks around, spotting her top hat on the ground. She bends down to retrieve it, but then freezes.)
DOCTOR: Princess?
(Slowly the Princess stands back up, turning to the Doctor with a concerned and paled expression.)
PRINCESS: There's danger here, Doctor. A terrible danger. Perhaps the most terrible thing we've ever faced. But…if we don't stop it… We have to stop it, Doctor. Here. Now.
DOCTOR: What is this danger, Princess?
PRINCESS: (Quietly) It's all around us. I can feel it. It's on the edges of my mind. I don't know if it knows we're here. I don't know if it's trying to reach in…or if it's just so big that it only feels like it's pressing against me.
DOCTOR: All right, all right.
(The Doctor takes the Princess' hand gently.)
DOCTOR: Let's go back to the Tardis and–
PRINCESS: And get the ghanta.
DOCTOR: The ghanta?
PRINCESS: We'll need it for going down to the monastery, won't we?
(The Princess looks back towards the edge of the cliff, where they could see the monastery. The Doctor stares at his friend, unsure for a moment.)
DOCTOR: Yes. Yes, I suppose we will. But first, I'd like to run a quick scan from the Tardis. Come on.
(The Doctor begins to gently pull the Princess back towards the Tardis.)
PRINCESS: Doctor?
DOCTOR: Yes, Princess.
PRINCESS: Do you believe me? You don't think I'm mad or deranged or…broken?
DOCTOR: I might not know what this power of yours is, or how it works, or why it's happening? But I'll always believe you, Princess. And you're certainly not deranged or broken.
(The Princess smiles a little.)
DOCTOR: Mad? Well, we're all a little mad, aren't we?
(The Princess laughs, brushing her eyes.)
DOCTOR: Now, get your hat back on. Or else, Jamie will begin to worry.
PRINCESS: You're not going to bring them with us, right?
(The Doctor ponders this for a moment.)
DOCTOR: No, not this time. I'll ask them to wait in the Tardis for now. At least until we can find out more about what's going on here. I'm not superstitious, but if you feel there's a dangerous presence here, I'm inclined to believe you.
(With that, the Princess puts her top hat back on, and the pair return to the Tardis.)
(Upon entering the Tardis' console room, the Doctor and Princess stamp their feet to remove the collected snow from their boots. While doing this, Victoria and Jamie continue a conversation started in their companions' absence.)
VICTORIA: (Continuing) There's a great deal of difference between the Highlands and the Himalayas, Jamie.
JAMIE: Aye, they're bigger. (To Doctor & Princess) Everything all right out there?
VICTORIA: We found this bell thing you were looking for.
DOCTOR: (Distracted) Oh, splendid, splendid.
PRINCESS: (Distracted) Thank you.
(The Doctor proceeds to the console, where he starts working the controls, the Princess watching from beside him. Victoria and Jamie, stood on the other side of the console, look to one another.)
VICTORIA: Is the monastery far? Can we come too?
PRINCESS: (To Doctor, quietly) Well?
DOCTOR: (Quietly) No. No, I'm not picking anything up.
PRINCESS: But there has to be something, surely?
DOCTOR: I'm sorry, Princess.
VICTORIA: Princess?
PRINCESS: Hmm?
VICTORIA: Well?
PRINCESS: 'Well?'
VICTORIA: Can we come with you?
PRINCESS: (Panicked) Oh, no, no, no. You can't come.
VICTORIA: Why not?
PRINCESS: Well…we haven't found the ghanta yet for a start.
VICTORIA: I told you, I already found it. See.
(Victoria holds up a bag with a bell-shaped item inside, and a tag around its neck.)
PRINCESS: Oh. Thank you.
VICTORIA: Det-Sen, you said that name before. It was on the label. Is that where we're going?
DOCTOR: Det-Sen, yes, that's the name of the monastery. But I'm afraid you're not going. Well, not yet anyway.
VICTORIA: Oh, not you too, Doctor.
DOCTOR: No, I think it'd be better if just the Princess and I went for now.
JAMIE: You've seen something, haven't you? Would it not be better I went with you?
VICTORIA: Is there something dangerous?
(The Doctor and Princess look to each other.)
DOCTOR: (Happily) Oh, good heavens, no! No, there's nothing for you to worry about.
PRINCESS: (Happily) It's just they know us down there, we're familiar to them. And they're not too fond of strangers. Better for us to go first and let you know when it's all right to follow.
DOCTOR: Quite right, now you two, stay here, inside, and we'll be as quick as we can.
(The Doctor and Princess go to leave through the open wall…)
VICTORIA: Oh, er, Princess?
PRINCESS: Sorry, must–
(Victoria holds up the bag with the bell.)
PRINCESS: Oh, silly me. Thank you, Victoria.
(The Princess accepts the bell from Victoria.)
VICTORIA: You don't look well, Princess. Are you sure you should be going?
PRINCESS: Me? No, I'm fine. Be back soon, promise.
DOCTOR: And remember. Stay inside until we send for you.
(With the Princess having tucked the bell into her large leather coat, she and the Doctor set off. As they leave, the walls of the console room close over behind them, leaving a concerned Jamie and Victoria behind.)
(As they descend the mountain, the Doctor and Princess come across a camp. A camp in ruins. One of the tents is relatively unscathed, but the other has been ripped wide open and the remaining material is flapping in the wind. Taking the Princess' hand, the Doctor leads them into the site cautiously.)
PRINCESS: Look.
(Pointing to what was once a campfire, the Doctor and Princess see a bent and broken rifle.)
DOCTOR: Been here a while at any rate. Most likely since early last night.
PRINCESS: (Calling) Hello? Is anybody here? We're here to help.
(But there's no reply. The Doctor ventures towards the non-ripped tent. He looks inside, before coming out with a rucksack full of supplies.)
DOCTOR: They must have been in a hurry to leave this behind.
(The Princess looks in the ripped tent.)
PRINCESS: There's another bag in here. Only it's been torn to bits just like the tent. I wonder if the occupants are all right?
DOCTOR: I'm afraid that at least one of them isn't.
(The Princess looks to see the Doctor pointing down the hill to a body not too far away. The Princess hurries down to him, but the Doctor is slower, having already guessed the status of this man. The Princess rolls the body over, discovering horrible claw like marks and massive bruises all over him.)
PRINCESS: Oh, my…
(The Doctor rolls the body back over, so they don't have to see it.)
PRINCESS: Could it have been an animal?
DOCTOR: Doubtful. A bear, while it could have inflicted these wounds, would have likely done even more damage. Whatever did this stopped once he was dead. A bear would have kept going, and would have taken him away afterwards to eat.
PRINCESS: So, there is something alien here?
DOCTOR: What makes you say, 'Alien?'
PRINCESS: It couldn't be terrestrial. Could it?
DOCTOR: Well, whatever did this to him had more strength than any man, that's for sure. And given the time zone, there's no machine or tools that could have been used either. So no, I don't think it's terrestrial.
PRINCESS: I think we need to get down to the monastery. Make sure they're all right.
DOCTOR: I'm inclined to agree. Come on.
(Picking up the rucksack, the Doctor and Princess continue making their way down the mountain.)
(Having reached the gates to the monastery, the Doctor knocks on the large set of wooden doors. In his other hand he holds the rucksack he found, while the Princess stands alongside him. After a moment of nothing, the Doctor and Princess look to one another in concern. The Doctor knocks again.)
DOCTOR: (Calling) Hello there?
(Still nothing. The Princess holds up her hand–)
DOCTOR: I don't think more knocking is going to help us.
(Instead, the Princess pushes against the door with one finger. The smaller door within the door opens with a creak, revealing the empty courtyard. Again, the Doctor and Princess look to one another. The Doctor then cautiously steps in. The Princess follows, ducking low to avoid having her top hat knocked off. The courtyard is a spacious one, with a two-story building surrounding it, save for the wall behind the time travellers. Opposite them is a large statue of the Buddha in a mediative pose. Around them are many doors leading into the buildings, as well as stairs leading up to the walkways above. It's worn down, with cracks showing in much of the stonework. But it's still functional and attractive. But utterly quiet.)
DOCTOR: (Calling) Hello? (To Princess) Where could everybody be?
PRINCESS: Morning prayers?
(Suddenly the Princess grips her head, as the rhythmic beeping starts again.)
DOCTOR: Princess?
PRINCESS: It's…It's that beeping again.
(It just as suddenly stops, only for the door they came through to shut. Turning around, the Doctor and Princess find a group of monks before them, swords drawn and pointed at them.)
DOCTOR: Oh, there you are. (Nervous chuckle) I thought… I thought for one…moment…
(The monk at the front, with pointed cloth hat over his head and a thin, but sharp, moustache speaks.)
KHRISONG: What do you want here?
PRINCESS: We came to–
(A white man in a thick coat and hat pushes forward, with a shaggy beard and a rifle on his back.)
TRAVERS: Look! He's got my rucksack.
(Travers snatches the bag from the Doctor.)
DOCTOR: Oh, that. We–
TRAVERS: You murderous devils!
KHRISONG: Who are these two?
TRAVERS: I don't know, but this is mine all right.
(One of the other monks, the youngest, with very short dark hair speaks.)
THOMNI: But you said–
KHRISONG: (To Thomni) Be silent. (To Travers) You said it was a beast that attacked you.
TRAVERS: Yes, but it was dark, remember. All I could see was a vague shape, but I felt its hair. Well, it's quite obvious now it's this coat he's wearing!
PRINCESS: My coat's not hairy though?
TRAVERS: No but it's dark. You'd blend in perfectly at night.
(Khrisong considers this for a moment.)
KHRISONG: (To Doctor & Princess) Why did you attack this man?
DOCTOR & PRINCESS: Us?!
PRINCESS: We haven't attacked anyone.
DOCTOR: We found the rucksack on the mountain.
TRAVERS: They're lying!
DOCTOR: We also found a dead man!
TRAVERS: Yes, and you both killed him!
PRINCESS Why would we–?!
KHRISONG: Enough! Seize them.
(The other monks quickly grab the Doctor and Princess by the arms, restraining them.)
PRINCESS: But you can't–
DOCTOR: Hold on a–
KHRISONG: Silence! This man accuses you both of one crime, but there have been many others.
PRINCESS: Well then it couldn't have been us, we've only just arrived, haven't we?
DOCTOR: Yes, exactly.
(Khrisong is not convinced.)
KHRISONG: If you are responsible, be sure you will be punished. Take them away.
DOCTOR: But this is ridiculous!
(The monks begin dragging the Doctor and Princess away.)
PRINCESS: We're not responsible for any of this!
DOCTOR: Why don't you listen to us? Where are you taking us?
(The monks drag the time travellers to the corner of the courtyard and then up some stairs.)
(A short while later, the Doctor and Princess are shoved into a cell, the door locked behind them. The room is bare, with only a single straw bed, a table – containing a jug and bowl with a chair in front of it – and a high barred window.)
DOCTOR: 'The welcome of a lifetime.'
PRINCESS: Really? It feels remarkably like the many other welcomes we've received. Should I tell them about the ghanta?
DOCTOR: Not yet. The way their minds are working, I don't like to think about how they might twist our possession of it. How are you?
PRINCESS: All right, they didn't hurt me.
DOCTOR: I meant about that beeping noise you heard.
PRINCESS: It disappeared when the monks joined us. Didn't you hear it?
DOCTOR: No.
PRINCESS: It was as if it was coming from all around. Almost like it was closing in.
DOCTOR: But it was the same one you heard up on the mountain?
PRINCESS: Yes. Same rhythm and everything. It's really quite annoying. What could be causing it?
DOCTOR: I have no idea so far. And we're certainly not going to learn anything in here.
PRINCESS: Should we start looking for a way out?
DOCTOR: It'll pass the time I suppose.
(Splitting up, the Doctor and Princess being searching around the stone room. The Doctor looks around the walls and under the straw bed, but finds nothing of note. The Princess checks the other two walls and the table. But only finds that the jug and bowl are empty. She can, however, lift up the chair. She takes it over to the window and stands on it, but still can't see out the high up window. The Princess climbs back down.)
PRINCESS: Come and stand on this.
DOCTOR: But I'm shorter than you.
PRINCESS: No, I mean kneel on it. Then I can stand on your back and see out.
DOCTOR: Why don't I stand on your back?
PRINCESS: Because I'm taller.
DOCTOR: Oh, yes…
PRINCESS: Don't worry, your coat will protect you.
DOCTOR: Are you sure?
PRINCESS: …Yes.
DOCTOR: (Reluctantly) Oh, very well.
(The Doctor climbs onto the chair and bends over. The Princess then climbs the chair and the Doctor like they're a ladder, giving her the hight she needs to see out the window…and see the large drop that would await them on the other side.)
PRINCESS: Oh.
DOCTOR: 'Oh?'
PRINCESS: Well, remember how one side of the monastery faces a cliff face, and the other a cliff edge?
DOCTOR: Yes.
PRINCESS: Well, this window faces the edge.
DOCTOR: How big is the drop?
PRINCESS: I don't know. If I were to guess, I'd say…
TRAVERS: One hundred feet.
PRINCESS: Yes, that sounds about right.
(Realising neither of them spoke, the Doctor and Princess look to the cell door. The shutter in the door is now open, and Travers is peering in with a smug gloating face.)
TRAVERS: (Chuckling) There's no way out, you know.
DOCTOR: I didn't think there would be.
TRAVERS: Then why let her climb on top of you?
DOCTOR: She wanted to see the view. And now that she has, perhaps she can get off me.
PRINCESS: Oh, sorry.
(The Princess climbs down off the Doctor's back, so that he can then stand up.)
TRAVERS: How did you track me down?
DOCTOR: We didn't track you or anyone else. Like we said we only just arrived.
PRINCESS: We don't even know who you are.
TRAVERS: Don't play the innocent with me. It won't work. If it wasn't for my expedition, you wouldn't be here. You're from one of those wretched newspapers, aren't you?
DOCTOR: Newspapers?
TRAVERS: Oh, yes. You laughed at me in the press, didn't you? 'Travers, the mad anthropologist.' After that, even my own Society wouldn't finance me. But I know they're here. Twenty years I've been searching.
PRINCESS: Searching for what?
TRAVERS: I've staked my reputation and every penny I own on this expedition. Now, when I'm so close to finding them, you want to steal my glory just for the sake of a cheap headline!
DOCTOR: Finding them? Finding what?
TRAVERS: Don't pretend. They're here, somewhere on these mountains.
DOCTOR & PRINCESS: What are?!
TRAVERS: You know. The Yeti. The Abominable Snowmen.
(The Doctor and Princess look to each other.)
DOCTOR: And you said, something hairy attacked you?
PRINCESS: Did you see it?
TRAVERS: No, but I know it was you two, just look at that coat he's wearing.
DOCTOR: But it could have been the Yeti that attacked you!
TRAVERS: Rubbish! The Yeti are timid creatures. They're shy. They're afraid of men.
PRINCESS: How do you know if you've never met them?
TRAVERS: I just told you I've dedicated twenty years of my life to researching them! I know how they are, what they're like.
DOCTOR: But why us? Why say we did it?
TRAVERS: You tried to scare me off, didn't you? That's what that was last night, attacking us. You even killed my companion.
DOCTOR: For the last time we did not kill anyone!
TRAVERS: Well, you won't stop me! The honour shall be mine. I won't let you take it from me.
DOCTOR: This is ridiculous.
TRAVERS: Is it?
DOCTOR: Whoever killed your friend had enormous strength. Do either of us look like we can bend a gun barrel?
(Travers is silent for a moment.)
TRAVERS: I'm not going to discuss it any further. There's work to be done. The expedition must go on. (Chuckles) Khrisong will find out the truth.
(Travers goes to leave. The Doctor and Princess run to the door, pressing both their faces against the shutter.)
DOCTOR: Travers, wait. You might be right about the Yeti–
TRAVERS: I am right.
DOCTOR: And if you are then there's a murderer out there and it's not us!
PRINCESS: Something dangerous is here, Travers, you can't leave the monastery.
TRAVERS: You honestly expect me to believe you.
PRINCESS: Think of Margaret.
TRAVERS: What did you say?
PRINCESS: Your wife, Margaret. Think of her, at home with Anne, right now. She needs you to come home, Edward.
TRAVERS: I don't know what you're talking about. Neither me, nor my wife, know of anyone called Anne.
PRINCESS: Of course you do, it's your daughter's name!
TRAVERS: I haven't got a daughter! Not yet. My wife's only a few months pregnant.
PRINCESS: Ah…Information's a bit out.
DOCTOR: Premonition?
PRINCESS: Premonition. Ugh, and just when I thought I was getting the hang of them.
TRAVERS: You're both clearly mad, whoever you are.
PRINCESS: Oh, he's the Doctor, and I'm the Princess.
(Travers stares at them both in bewilderment, before then walking away.)
DOCTOR: Travers! Travers, come back here!
PRINCESS: Wait! If you are leaving, remember the name, Anne!
(Seeing as Travers isn't coming back, the Doctor and Princess step back from the door. But then a thought occurs to the Doctor…)
DOCTOR: Oh, dear.
PRINCESS: What?
DOCTOR: Well, like I said, there's clearly a murderer out there on the hillside. One with incredible strength.
PRINCESS: And your worried about Victoria and Jamie.
DOCTOR: Yes.
PRINCESS: But you told them to stay in the Tardis. And they wouldn't…
(The Doctor and Princess share worried looks. Both then suddenly grab the door, trying to open it while simultaneously banging on it at the same time.)
DOCTOR You've got to let us out!
PRINCESS: Our friends are in danger, please!
DOCTOR: We're innocent! Innocent!
PRINCESS: Please, we've got to warn them! Let us out!
(But no one comes. Leaving the Doctor and Princess trapped, while their friends fight a possible Yeti…)