Doctor Who (1963) s08e05 Episode Script

Doctor Who Season 8 The mind of Evil 1 of 6 It looks like Dracula’s castle.
Well you’re right about the castle bit.
It used to be a fortress in the Middle Ages.
Doctor? You’ll need this.
Thank you, Jo.
- Smile, Jo.
- What? You’re on camera.
Good morning.
Observers from UNIT.
My admission pass.
Right, passes checked and satisfactory.
Right, open the gates.
Abandon hope all ye who enter here.
Green, settle down.
The Governor’s on his way.
- Morning Chief, everything all right? - Will be, sir.
Good, good.
Keep that noise down.
Why do they always have to make that stupid row? It always happens when sentences are being carried out.
George Patrick Barnham No, you’re not going to take me anywhere.
- by a court of law - Get away from me.
the time has come for that sentence to be carried out.
Go on.
Get out.
All of yer.
I’ll give him something to calm him.
You won’t give me nothing, mate.
Get out.
All of yer.
Pack it in, Barnham, you’re just being stupid.
- You’re not going to get me out there.
- Get him.
All right, coming out.
You’ll break me arm.
Sorry about the noise, ladies and gentlemen, just a temporary disturbance.
- Now, if you’d like to take your seats.
- It sounds like a full-scale riot.
Morbid lot of sensation seekers.
Then why did you insist on coming here? - Scientific curiosity, my dear.
- Oh, yes.
Something’s been worrying me about this Keller process ever since I first heard about it.
The curtain is about to go up.
Ladies and gentlemen, good morning.
Good morning.
May I introduce Professor Kettering, who will explain the process you’re about to see demonstrated.
Well, as you’re no doubt aware, we no longer execute our hardened criminals and killers.
Modern society has progressed far beyond that primitive form of retribution.
- It depends what you mean by progress.
- Today, science Science has abolished the hangman’s noose and substituted this infallible method.
- Professor Emil Keller - People who go on about infallibility are usually on very shaky ground, I think.
For the benefit of the less sophisticated members of my audience, I will explain in very simple terms.
Professor Emil Keller, the inventor of this process, discovered that anti-social behavior was governed by certain negative or evil impulses.
Now this machine, the Keller machine, extracts these impulses and leaves a rational, well-balanced individual.
- It doesn’t.
- What? May I be permitted to continue? - Oh yes.
Yes, please, do.
- Thank you.
The condemned man is placed here, after being tranquillized with his head under this dome.
A series of probes are attached to his skull so as to connect with the neural circuits.
The extraction process is controlled here.
The negative impulses are stored in that reservoir box there.
And where do they go after that? Nowhere, sir.
I repeat they are stored in the box.
Which is now full of these negative or evil impulses.
Not full.
The indicator registers only sixty- five percent at this time.
The machine has been used very successfully in Switzerland.
A hundred and twelve cases have been processed to date and today we shall witness the one hundred and thirteenth.
Thank you, Doctor Summers.
Come on, old chap, up you get.
When the process is completed the negative impulses that made this man a criminal, will have been removed.
He will take his place as a useful if lowly member of society.
- Are you ready, Doctor? - Yes.
Let the sentence of the court been carried out.
I knew there was something evil about that machine.
- Kettering, look at the dial.
- What of it? It’s never registered so high before.
Mr.
Kettering, what’s happening? Well? A minor malfunction.
The machine compensated.
The process is completed satisfactorily.
Satisfactorily.
Be blowed.
The subject will be taken away to recuperate and within an hour or two he will be perfectly normal.
I admire your confidence, sir.
Thank you.
That is all, gentlemen.
I take it everything was all right, Mr.
Kettering.
Yes, of course, Governor.
Then would you kindly explain, sir, that unfortunate man’s reaction? An excess of negative particles.
The machine overreacted.
In other words, you don’t know.
May I ask who you are, sir? The Doctor is scientific advisor to UNIT, Mr.
Kettering.
UNIT? United Nations Intelligence Taskforce.
How interesting, though I fail to see what concern it is UNIT, sir, was set up to deal with new and unusual menaces to mankind.
and in my view, this machine of yours is just that.
Jo.
Right.
Well? Nothing much wrong physically.
Respiration normal, pulse rates a little high but that’s usual after the process.
Exactly.
A completely successful treatment.
The reaction was unusually violent.
Really, my dear Summers, you’re as bad as that interfering fool from UNIT.
Excuse me.
Medical wing.
Yes.
What? Have you told the Governor? I’ll be right over.
Come with me.
- You stay with the patient.
- Anything the matter? There’s been some kind of an accident, in the process room.
They think the man’s dead.
- Who is he? - I don’t know, sir.
- What happened? - I don’t know, sir.
I was coming along the corridor and I heard him screaming.
- Is he dead? - Yes, he’s dead.
Probably a heart attack, delayed shock from seeing the process.
Perhaps, but I doubt it.
Might I suggest an immediate investigation into his past medical history and a post mortem.
Yes.
Yes, a good idea.
I’ll see to it right away.
Get a stretcher, will you? Doctor? Did you see his face? He looks terrified.
And those marks, like Bites and scratches.
Yes, I know.
Look, I think we’d better get onto the Brigadier.
Yes, I agree, Jo, but not just yet.
Now, let me get that post mortem first.
It’ll give me more to go on.
All right.
Anyway, I don’t think he’d thank us for disturbing him right now.
He did tell you all about it, Doctor.
All about what? Today’s the first ever world peace conference.
UNIT’s handling all the security arrangements.
Yes, that’s all very well, sir, but in my opinion Yes, I see, sir.
Of course, sir.
I take it that is your final decision.
Very well, sir, goodbye.
Trouble, sir? That was the ministry.
UNIT’ll be responsible for the safe transport of the missile.
It’s been cleared with Geneva.
Well, that’s all we needed.
What with the peace conference on our hands as well.
Yes.
I want you to take charge of this escort detail, Captain Yates.
I’ve got quite enough on my plate as it is.
I’ll get onto it right away.
- Is the Doctor back from Stangmoor yet? - No, sir.
What exactly is he doing down there? Observing new development in the treatment of criminals, I believe.
Well, I suppose it will keep him out of mischief.
By the way, how are things at the conference? - All running smoothly, sir.
- I only hope it lasts.
All right, Corporal Bell.
Yes, Captain Chin Lee, what can I do for you? Brigadier, an outrage has been committed against the Chinese people’s delegation.
As you are in charge of security arrangements, we hold you directly responsible.
What is it now, Captain? Important state documents have been stolen - from General Cheng Teik’s suite.
- That’s impossible.
There’s a twenty-four hour guard on all the delegate’s suites.
Nevertheless, the theft has occurred.
Your guards are inefficient.
Perhaps they take bribes? That is an insulting suggestion, Captain.
I will not tolerate any Very well, Captain, I’ll investigate the matter immediately.
I must warn you that this puts the success of the peace conference in grave jeopardy.
We suspect the imperialist Americans of this crime.
Naturally.
I assure that every effort will be made to locate the missing papers and punish whoever is responsible.
Any further trouble and our delegation will withdraw from this conference.
More trouble.
Pity, she’s quite a dolly.
But you are still convinced this Keller process is working normally? Yes, of course it is.
I mean, you’ve just seen Barnham.
Yes.
Yes, I’ve seen him.
Look, Emil Keller himself installed it here.
I worked closely with him.
I know every facet of the process.
Yes, I know.
- But I still don’t like it.
- What? Interfering with the mind, Governor.
It’s a dangerous business.
Well, it’s hardly your concern, is it? Professor Kettering, it is everyone’s concern.
After you.
Doctor Summers, any news for us? I’ve got the post mortem report.
Well? The deceased’s name was Arthur Linwood, a medical student in his final year Yes, yes, yes, but what did he die of? Heart failure.
Watching the process was too much for him.
But he didn’t have a weak heart, Mr.
Kettering.
Anything in his medical history? Yes, I called his hospital.
He suffered from a fear of certain animals.
Which ones? Well, apparently in the laboratory.
He was absolutely terrified of - Rats.
- Yes.
Yeah.
Tell me, these marks on his face and neck, these bites and scratches, could they have been caused by rats? Certainly they could, yes.
But there are no rats in this room.
There’s none in the entire prison.
Yet all the indications are that he was attacked by a hoard of them - and the shock killed him.
- You must be mistaken.
- But Linwood is dead.
- Because of heart failure.
No, Professor Kettering, because of this machine.
I tell you that man’s death had nothing to do with this machine and if you were a scientist you’d understand.
If I were a scientist? Let me tell you, sir, that I am a scientist and I have been for several thousand - Jo.
- The man’s mad.
On the contrary, sir, he happens to be a genius.
I do wish you’d listen to him.
Victor? I think you’d better give this machine a thorough check, Professor Kettering.
Yes, of course, Governor.
But I assure you there’s no reason for anxiety.
All the same, better safe than sorry, hmm? I’ll give you the final security schedules just as soon as I’ve had a chance - to clear them with the Brigadier.
- A call for you on line one, sir.
Put it through, will you? Right, right, I’ll ring you back within 20 minutes.
UNIT HQ.
Good morning, Captain.
Yes, certainly Captain, I’m just Lethbridge Stewart.
I see.
You’re sure? Very well, continue the search.
Captain Yates, will you come in for a moment please? Yes sir.
Sit down.
Well, there’s no trace of Chin Lee’s missing papers.
Our people have turned the place inside out.
It wouldn’t surprise me if she lost them herself.
Excuse me, sir.
Captain Chin Lee on the phone.
- Do you want to speak to her? - Yes, I’ll speak to her.
Hotline.
I wonder what she’s complaining of this time.
Yes, good afternoon, Captain Chin Lee, what can I do for you? Yes, I see.
No, don’t touch anything.
I’ll be over at once.
More stolen papers, sir? - Get my car ready at once.
- Right away, sir.
We’ve got real trouble this time, the Chinese delegate’s dead.
All right in there, keep the noise down.
- Starting up again, are they? - Just like before, I don’t what it is.
Dead.
You know how it happened, Roland? I’m not sure.
- It’s incredible.
- Well, come on man, come on.
From the position of the body, tint of the skin Well? All the symptoms are consistent with death by drowning.
- But that’s ridiculous.
- Like the rats? Shall I go and check on his medical record? Yes, it’s a good idea.
How long would you say he’d been dead? A matter of minutes, five at the outside.
That must have been about the time the riots started.
Yes, exactly.
Are you suggesting there’s some connection? This machine has the power to affect men’s minds, Governor.
And it’s growing stronger.
Oh, come now, Doctor.
t’s only a machine.
Yes, maybe.
but nevertheless it’s dangerous and it should be destroyed now.
Well, huh.
I’ve no authority to do that.
I’ll report your recommendations to the Home Office but they’ll have to decide.
And I wonder, how many deaths it’ll take to convince them? First theft, Brigadier.
Now murder.
What are you going to do about it? Who else knows about this? No one.
I called you at once.
Shall I call the police, sir? Yes, just a courtesy call, but tell them we’ll handle this ourselves.
And I want a full check on all movements in and out of this suite before Cheng Teik’s death.
- And no press.
"D" notice.
- Right, sir.
And get the Doctor back from Stangmoor, will you? I want him here.
Yes sir.
Now then, Captain, I’d like you to tell me exactly what happened please? In detail.
My appointment with the General was for twelve p.
m.
There was some details to discuss about the conference.
And you were punctual? I am always punctual.
I showed my pass to your UNIT sentry and entered as the clock was striking twelve.
Go on.
There is nothing more to tell.
I saw the General’s body and phoned you.
Immediately? Of course.
Excuse me a moment, will you? Corporal Bell.
I’d like you to I want you to make an exact check on the time of Chin Lee’s phone call.
Right, sir.
I am sorry, Doctor.
That’s my final word.
I’ll suspend further use of the Keller process.
I’ll put this room out of bounds.
But that’s all I can do, without higher authority.
Yes.
Yes, all right.
Well, I’d better make this machine safe.
- Can I help? - On my own.
- Is that wise? - Perhaps not.
- Well, then I - But I prefer to work that way.
Tell me, how long has this machine been installed? Nearly a year, Emil Keller came over from Switzerland to supervise the installation.
I see.
Did he have an assistant? A rather attractive Chinese girl.
Yes.
Yes, right, thank you.
Thank you.
You telephone me immediately? Yes.
No Captain, you didn’t.
You telephoned me at exactly twelve-twenty four.
You must be mistaken.
You called me on a security line.
All security calls are logged.
Well, Captain.
Why did you wait for nearly half an hour before reporting the crime? How do you feel? Fine.
Fine.
- Why, have I been ill? - Yes.
But you’re all right now.
Are you a Doctor? Don’t you remember? I’m Doctor Summers.
Just try and rest.
You’ll be all right.
Anything you say, Doctor.
Well, he seems fully recovered physically.
And mentally? Well, his memory’s a bit hazy, but it’s only to be expected.
And has the process harmed him? I don’t know, Miss Grant.
The Doctor was wondering about Mr.
Kettering’s medical history.
Oh yes, I’ve got the post mortem report through there.
What’s the verdict? Kettering’s lungs were full of water.
He drowned in the middle of a perfectly dry room.