Doctor Who (1963) s01e24 Episode Script

The Snows of Terror (The Keys of Marinus, Part Four)

(DOCTOR WHO THEME) (WIND HOWLING) Get up, Barbara! We must keep moving.
If we don't find shelter, we don't stand a chance.
(PANTING) It's no good, Ian.
I can't.
I'm too tired.
-Sleep.
-No.
-I must sleep.
-No.
No, Barbara.
We'll We'll freeze to death.
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING) Don't be afraid.
You're safe now.
How How did I Ian.
-Where's Ian? -Oh, your friend is here.
He still sleeps.
Your hand is slightly frostbitten.
Put it in mine.
You must help your friend like this, too.
Rub the hands slowly, like this.
Like this, understand? Are you afraid of me? No.
Last year, I broke the back of a wolf with my bare hands.
I'm Vasor.
Most men fear me.
So I have few visitors.
There.
See? The blood is beginning to return.
-Thank you.
-I'll get a warm drink for both of you.
Ian, wake up.
(IAN MOANING) How are you feeling? (EXCLAIMING) Oh, my hands! Yes, they're swollen with frostbite.
No, no, no.
You mustn't put them near the fire.
You have to bring back the circulation slowly.
(MOANING) (IAN SIGHING) -Oh, where are we? -I don't know.
I don't even know how we got here.
Ah, you're awake.
Good.
Here, drink this.
Oh, thank you.
Mmm.
Oh, it's better.
Do we have you to thank for saving us on the mountain? Ha! I found you when I was resetting my traps.
I had a difficult journey getting you back to the hut.
Or we would have frozen to death.
Ah, the wolves would have eaten you first.
-Wolves? -Yes.
There are more than ever of them this winter.
I've counted a dozen packs.
Twenty in each.
They're hungry.
They're even raiding the villages at night.
Are we in a village? No.
The nearest village is three miles away.
I stay out here to look after me traps.
Well, we're grateful to you for getting to us before the wolves.
Well, one of you would have died anyway if it hadn't been for the stranger.
-I couldn't have carried you both.
-Stranger? -What stranger? -Oh, madman.
He came in here early last night, raving and ranting.
I couldn't talk to him.
Gave him some furs and went with him up the mountain.
He was searching for a couple of girls.
-Altos.
-Where is he now? In the village, I think.
After he got you back here, I think he went out.
Did he say he was coming back? Yes.
But, uh It's getting nearly dark.
(SNIFFS) He won't be able to get over the ledge at night.
We must go and help him.
There's a storm coming up.
You've already done so much for us.
I can't ask you to risk coming with me.
-But will you lend me warm clothing? -Lend you? (LAUGHING) My furs are my living.
I'm a poor man.
Wouldn't stand much chance of getting them back if you fell down a crevice.
Look, I can't pay you for them.
I haven't got any money.
The thing on your wrist looks valuable.
IAN: Yes, all right.
Now, please, hurry.
All right.
Coat and gloves over there.
I'll get you a lantern.
Ian, Susan and Sabetha, do you think you'll find them? I don't know what to think, Barbara.
I'll know more when When and if I find Altos.
Here you are.
-Ah.
-The village lies that way.
When you get through the fir forest, you'll see the lights.
Well, thank you.
Ian.
I'll be back as soon as I can.
(WIND HOWLING) There, we're alone.
Oh, he'll be back.
I know he will.
We'll see.
Well, I'll go and get us some food.
We must fatten you up, eh? (VASOR CHUCKLING) (WIND HOWLING) (WOLF HOWLING) (WOLVES HOWLING IN THE DISTANCE) -They sound so close.
-(LAUGHING) You're safe here.
That door will keep anything out.
Or in.
Well, you clear those things away, will you and I'll get rid of these.
(VASOR CHUCKLING) BARBARA: Sabetha's chain.
What are you doing in that drawer? Where did you get these? One of the girls was wearing this.
You give me those.
They're worth money.
-How did you get them? -There's a cave on the mountain where I store my traps.
I found the two girls hiding there.
Oh, so they're alive.
Well, maybe.
That was yesterday.
I gave them food and flint in return for these.
-And I left them there.
-But why? Why didn't you bring them back? Ah, don't keep annoying me with accusations.
(SCOFFS) I can't afford to look after every fool that gets lost on the mountains.
They gave you all those things in the drawer.
(SCOFFING) Trinkets.
Well, what about Altos? The young man who He forced me to go up the mountain to look for these girls.
Instead we found you.
And when we brought you back here, he wanted to go out again.
I don't believe you.
You stole those things.
Oh, did I? They might have given you the wrist bracelets, but the keys and the chain, Sabetha would never have parted with them.
Yes, I thought they were valuable.
What have you done with them? You didn't kill them? (CHUCKLING) You don't kill anybody in this country.
The cold and the wolves do that.
Well, when Ian gets back (VASOR CHUCKLING) What makes you think he will get back? He doesn't know what's in that bag I gave him.
(CHUCKLING) What did you put in it? Tell me! (WOLVES HOWLING) They're getting closer.
We can't stay here.
How are your legs? Feeling is beginning to return, I should be able to walk in a minute or two.
You haven't yet told me who tied you up.
-The trapper.
-What? But he rescued us.
Only because I forced him to.
He's utterly ruthless.
Barbara's back there with him, alone.
Well, then we must get back there as quickly as we can.
(GRUNTING) Come on.
Help me up.
-All right? Can you stand? -Yes.
IAN: Will you look at this? Raw meat.
What on earth would Vasor want to give that to me for? (WOLVES HOWLING) There's your answer.
Those beasts could scent meat a couple of miles away.
It draws them like a magnet.
Vasor was making certain that you wouldn't get back.
Well, he's got a surprise coming to him, hasn't he? (WOLVES HOWLING) Come on.
-There's nowhere you can run.
-Keep away.
(BARBARA PANTING) (VASOR LAUGHING) -Put that down.
-Don't you dare come near me.
All right.
I'm in no hurry.
There's no one coming to help you.
I can wait.
(WOLVES HOWLING) They're catching up.
Look.
About a quarter of a mile, I make it.
I think we've got a chance.
But we'll have to run, Altos.
-All right, I'll try.
-IAN: Come on.
(VASOR SCREAMING IN PAIN) All right.
I'll wait no longer.
(VASOR GRUNTING) (BARBARA SCREAMING) (BANGING ON DOOR) IAN: Barbara, open the door.
VASOR: Come back! IAN: Open the door! (VASOR SCREAMING IN PAIN) Open the door.
Open the -You all right? -Yes.
The girls are all right.
They're in a cave in the mountain.
I meant them no harm.
I swear it.
I gave them food and flint to light a fire.
-You treacherous -No, Altos.
We want him unharmed.
He's going to show us where the cave is.
SUSAN: There's no paper, Sabetha.
It doesn't matter.
There was hardly any wood left.
Look.
There's no point in us just waiting here.
We must go out there and take a chance.
In these clothes? We wouldn't last an hour.
How long do you think we'll last here without any fire? -I suppose you're right.
-Come on, then.
That wasn't the way we came in.
It was the tunnel on the right.
Well, I was sure it was this one.
I could have sworn it Well, if you're certain Well, I thought I was certain.
You've made me doubtful now.
Come on, let's try it.
(WIND HOWLING) How much further? It's just beyond the next ridge.
When we get there, can I go back? You're getting no promises out of me.
Now, come on.
(SABETHA SIGHING) Now, we've got to go back.
I'm sorry, Sabetha.
It's not you're fault.
Don't worry.
We'll just go back the way we came.
Come on.
They're not here.
Look.
There's been a fire.
I told you I helped them.
This ash is still warm.
They can't have been gone long.
Is there another way out of these caves? -No, this is the only one.
-How far do these tunnels go? Oh, right through the mountain.
Then they must have gone in deeper.
Lead on, Vasor.
No, no.
No, we mustn't! There are demons in there.
I won't go on.
I am not asking you.
I'm telling you.
Now, move! (VASOR EXCLAIMING) It's no good, Sabetha.
We're just going deeper into the mountain.
If we keep going, we must find a way out.
Now, come on.
Oh, look where there's a rope bridge.
Be careful.
Careful.
Isis it safe? I think so.
Don't look down.
(BRIDGE CREAKING) Come on.
Let's move quickly.
I just realised.
This wall isn't rock, it's solid ice.
Oh, please.
We mustn't go on.
I told you the truth when I said there were demons here.
There are men who have seen them.
Well, who knows? You might be a man who's seen them, too.
You're not going back, anyway.
Come on.
Get on.
ALTOS: Stop.
Go ahead.
-All right? -BARBARA: Yes.
-Right.
Over you go.
Come on.
-No, no.
Please let me stay.
-SUSAN: Barbara.
-Susan.
Oh, Barbara.
(ALL EXCLAIMING) -Hang on.
I'm coming over.
-BARBARA: Ian.
IAN: Thank you.
Oh, Susan.
Here.
Put this around you.
I thought we'd never get out of there.
(CHUCKLING) Well, you're all right now.
-What happened? -What was it that frightened you? Down there.
There's somebody down there.
We almost ran into them.
Ian, stop him! Vasor, wait! No, you wait.
Wait there forever.
There's no other way out.
(LAUGHING MANIACALLY) What a fool I was.
-How do we get across? -I don't know.
It's too wide to jump.
Well, maybe we could find some planks and logs and lay them across.
-Yes.
All right, let's go and look.
-Shall I lead the way? -Yes.
-Sabetha, keep close behind me.
(IAN EXCLAIMING) -Look out for this slope.
-IAN: Yes.
Mind the slope.
(SCRUNCHING) Right.
Altos! Look out.
This rock's the only thing that's supporting this block of ice.
-It might have crushed us to death.
-Yes.
But the only thing to do is to keep away from it.
Keep down as you go under.
-Right down.
-Can't we go back? No, Susan.
We must find the key.
Susan, we must search all these tunnels properly.
That key's probably hidden somewhere here, inside the mountain.
(SOBBING) Oh, must I? We have no alternative.
Is this what you saw, Susan? Yes.
But they seem so lifelike.
These must be the demons that Vasor talked about.
Well, they're certainly the stuff that make legends.
Look.
Right in the middle of the ice.
-It's the key.
-IAN: Yes.
ALTOS: It couldn't be better protected, could it? A solid block of ice.
And four dead warriors to guard it, eh? Each perfectly preserved.
They certainly look frightening enough, don't they? There's a pipe here.
It runs right round the block of ice.
Yes, look.
It comes out over here.
You can see it running underneath the ice.
Ian, over here.
There's a sort of valve or something.
Hey, well, steady on.
What is it? Go on turning it.
It's getting warmer.
But how could it be? Where could the heat come from? It must be a volcanic spring buried deep in the bowels of the Earth.
It's like the hot springs in Iceland.
Iceland? Where's that? In our own planet, far away.
-It's melting.
-Quite quickly.
(WATER DRIPPING) Well, while we're waiting for it to melt, let's go and see what we can do about that bridge.
(IAN GRUNTING) With any luck, they'll freeze together.
(IAN EXCLAIMING) It's cold on the hands, isn't it? Well, now, let's get it over.
Be careful.
We don't want it to break.
(IAN EXCLAIMING) Right.
Now slide it along that one gently.
Right.
Now, be careful when it comes off the end.
(MEN GRUNTING) Careful! (ICE CRACKING) (ALTOS SIGHS) (CHUCKLING) Didn't break.
Right.
(IAN GRUNTING) Let's get some more and pile them round.
Where are the girls? I asked them to go and see how the melting process was coming along.
(WATER DRIPPING) The key.
Ian, Altos, it's all right, it's all melted.
Hey, look at these weapons.
Wouldn't like to come across one of these in a battle.
(SUSAN SCREAMING) (STUTTERING) He's alive.
He's alive! What's the matter? Get out of here.
Run! Have you got the key? -Yes.
-IAN: Then run! (SABETHA SCREAMING) Come on! (IAN GRUNTING) BARBARA: Susan.
(ICE CREAKING) It can never take her weight.
It can't have frozen solid yet.
(ICE CRACKING) (IAN GRUNTING) (CLANKING) (ICE CRACKING) (BARBARA GASPING) (ICE CREAKING) Well done, Susan.
Come on, Sabetha.
Get ready.
You first.
Right.
You carry on.
I'll catch you up.
(ICE SOLDIER SCREAMING) VASOR: Yes.
(DOOR OPENING) What How did you get We've come to collect our things, Vasor.
No, no, no, no, no! Here, Sabetha.
Put those round your neck.
Susan.
Now, put the travel dial on.
If we've all got our travel dials on, we'll keep our date with the Doctor.
They're coming! They're coming! The devils from the mountain.
They're coming here! I'm afraid you'll have to entertain them alone, Vasor.
We have to leave you.
No! (SUSAN SCREAMING) You'll stay, you hear? You'll stay or I'll kill her.
(BANGING ON DOOR) -Take your hands off her.
-I'm going out the back way.
(VASOR GASPING) (BANGING ON DOOR CONTINUES) He's dead.
(DOOR BREAKING OPEN) (METALLIC CLANKING) The dials.
Twist the dials! (HUMMING) (ALARM SOUNDING)
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