Doctor Who (1963) s06e08 Episode Script
The Mind Robber, Part Three
Doctor Who Season 6 The mind robber 3 of 5 - It's coming straight for us.
Run.
- No.
But we haven't got a chance.
It's my dream all over again.
- It's real.
- No, it's not real.
It's a legend.
You mustn't believe in it.
Say it doesn't exist.
Say it.
It doesn't exist.
What happened? Another test.
- But it was alive.
We all saw it.
- It was terrifying.
- He challenged us to believe in it.
- Who? The Master? Whoever's setting up these conjuring tricks.
I don't understand.
The unicorn appeared to be real until you said it wasn't.
Then we were safe.
- But we believed in it, Jamie and I.
- That was just the danger.
Your belief was affecting me.
Who would think up a crazy notion like this? I don't know.
A fantastic mind.
Too kind.
And if I may, I'd like to return the compliment.
He's obviously supremely intelligent.
He's learning the rules here with admirable speed.
Yes, we were right to choose the good Doctor.
- Doctor.
- The soldiers.
Stop.
Let them go.
Wherever they run, whatever they do, every step they take will only bring them nearer.
The trap is set.
Let them walk into it.
Oh, how much further? There's no sign of the toy soldiers now.
- We've got to get out of this place.
- Look.
There's a house.
You again.
I'll sort you this time.
Creag an tuire.
Jamie.
- Doctor.
- It's all right, Zoe.
Well, come on.
If you want to play games, let's get on with it.
What's that? Well, I have to make up his face again.
- You did this before.
- Yes.
That's how Jamie's face got changed.
- You got it all wrong.
- What? No, no.
Well, I was rushed.
Now, then There we are.
All right, I know.
There we are.
One Now, then Yes, that's his nose.
You can't mistake his nose, can you? And There you are, you see.
Jamie.
Thank goodness you're back.
- I haven't been anywhere.
- You've got your face back.
- I have? - Yes.
Look.
You're right, I have.
That's much better.
- The house.
- Yes.
Come along.
Let's go inside.
Well, there must be somebody here.
These candles are alight.
Hello there.
One, two, three, four tunnels leading off.
- We could easily get lost in there.
- Just a moment.
What's he found? A ball of twine.
Oh, yes, this must have been an invitation.
Why? It's the classical way of getting through a maze.
Jamie, tie that to the door, will you? It's locked.
- Then we are meant to go on.
- Yes, I think we are.
But that means that wherever we go, at any time, they know.
They're expecting us.
Yes.
Don't break the thread.
Come along.
At last.
The Doctor is commendably prompt.
I wonder how long it will take him to get to the heart of the mystery.
- Which way, do you think? - To the right.
They look equally unattractive to me.
It must be to the right.
I've been working it out.
- Doctor.
- How? It soon fell into a clear pattern.
One left, two right, three left, four right and so on.
A simple arithmetical progression.
- Doctor - Shh, Jamie.
What it is to have an arithmetical brain.
What do you want? The thread's run out.
Should we not go back? No.
You stay here and Zoe and I will explore a little further.
There must be another way out of this maze.
I need to find it.
They don't want us to find a way out, only a way in! Go on.
Go on.
You're almost there.
I was right.
This isn't the way out.
We're in the middle of the maze.
- Doctor, I don't like it.
Let's go.
- Just a moment.
I was rather expecting a welcoming committee, but perhaps I was wrong.
I hope you were.
Someone was here, not so long ago either.
Look.
There's some tracks of an animal too.
Let's go.
- It couldn't be.
- What? I know it's silly, but do you remember the story of the Minotaur? Half-man, half-bull, yes.
And he lived in the heart of a labyrinth.
And there were human sacrifices.
Exactly, but I don't think we need be too alarmed.
As long as we're quite certain that the Minotaur is only a Doctor, look.
Doctor? Are you all right? What's happening? So that's how you can see, is it? With that wee lighthouse of yours.
No.
Brainless idiot.
Get yourself free.
Don't let the boy escape.
Forward.
Forward.
Doctor, it's moving.
It's coming closer.
It's going to attack.
It's a legend.
Another mythical beast, like the unicorn.
- But it's there.
- No.
The Minotaur is a mythical beast.
Say it.
The Minotaur is a mythical beast.
It doesn't exist.
It's gone.
Yes.
I'm afraid we made it too difficult for it to stay.
Come on.
Let's go and find Jamie.
- I think this is the place.
- Yes.
There's no sign of him.
I'm sure he wouldn't have gone off without - What's that? - His jacket.
- Well, he must be around here somewhere.
- Jamie.
Who's that? - My dear sir.
- Your servant, sir.
- You keep turning up unexpectedly.
- Have you seen Jamie? I walked alone but saw no sign of any inhabitants.
Are you positive? I would not impose any falsities upon you.
- I adhere strictly to truth.
- Of course.
This person who controls this place - The Master? - The Master.
Yes.
Have you seen him? Upon occasion he has been pleased to grant me an audience.
Where might I find him? The Master's palace is a citadel, a walled town at the top of a hill or cliff, the highest in the kingdom.
Now I think I understand.
May I ask, sir, where you come from? Would it not be Nottingham? My father had a small estate in Nottingham.
I was the third of five sons.
He sent me to Emmanuel College in Cambridge at 14, where I applied myself to learning navigation and mathematics.
Useful for those who intend to travel, as I always believed it would be my fortune to do.
Now I know who you are, sir.
- Your name is Lemuel Gulliver.
- Your servant, sir.
- Gulliver? - Yes.
Yes, all right.
I'm looking forward to a long talk with you.
I should like that above all things, but it would not be proper to trouble you with the particulars of my adventures.
I wouldn't dream of detaining you.
Having been condemned by nature to an active life, I must take my leave of you.
Farewell.
Farewell.
Why does he talk in such an extraordinary way? He can only speak the words that Dean Swift gave him to say.
That's ridiculous.
There never was a Gulliver.
- He's a fictional character.
- Of course he is.
Don't you undertand? This world that we've tumbled into is a world of fiction, unicorns, Minotaurs, Gulliver's Travels.
They're all alive here.
Then what are we doing here? What do they want with us? I'm not sure I understand that yet.
Come along.
Let's find Jamie.
You'd better put this on.
Oh, no.
I'd need to be a human fly to get up that lot.
I can't go back, though.
What I really need is a Who says wishes don't come true? So far, so good.
Some sort of castle.
Well, Jamie, now where? Well, you don't have much choice, do you? I suppose you know that hurts? - You mean this is your hair? - Of course.
I don't object to people climbing it, I'm quite used to it, actually.
- But you would keep tugging so.
- I'm sorry.
- Are you a prince? - No.
Why? You're supposed to be.
I'm a princess, but I suppose you knew that.
My name's Rapunzel.
You're not a woodcutter's son, by any chance? - No.
I'm the son of a piper.
- How very disappointing.
You'd better go.
Goodbye.
- Wait.
- Well? I can't go back there.
It's a sheer drop.
I'll have to climb in through the window.
- I don't know if that would be allowed.
- I won't stay long.
Just passing through, you might say.
- Please.
- It's a great pity you're not a prince.
You'd have made rather a good one.
Well, I suppose you'd better come inside.
For goodness' sake, be quiet.
Rapunzel.
Your Highness, where have you gone? Don't be silly.
I'm not going Hey, this doesn't look like the inside of a princess's castle to me.
"Christmas won't be Christmas without presents.
" "Grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
" "It's so dreadful to be poor.
" "Sighed Meg, looking down to" The Doctor and Zoe unable to find their companion in the labyrinth, decided to return to the cave in search of him, where a new terror awaited them.
I imagine there must be at least one more test.
I wonder what it'll be.
I believe you're actually beginning to enjoy all this.
That wasn't there before, was it? - A statue.
- Like the unicorn.
Yes, only the unicorn was alive first and then became a statue, only this time - What? - Have a care, Zoe.
I have a feeling the situation is going to be reversed.
It is coming to life.
Medusa.
The Doctor and Zoe were face to face with Medusa.
One glance from her eyes would turn them to stone.
- Now we know what we have to do, Zoe.
- Yes.
She's moving.
She's going to look at us.
- We have to say Medusa does not exist.
- But she does.
Zoe, Medusa is a myth.
If you believe in her, she can turn us both to stone.
Now, Zoe, say it.
The Medusa is a myth.
Say it.
- But she's alive.
She's real.
- No.
Don't look in her eyes.
Don't look.
Run.
- No.
But we haven't got a chance.
It's my dream all over again.
- It's real.
- No, it's not real.
It's a legend.
You mustn't believe in it.
Say it doesn't exist.
Say it.
It doesn't exist.
What happened? Another test.
- But it was alive.
We all saw it.
- It was terrifying.
- He challenged us to believe in it.
- Who? The Master? Whoever's setting up these conjuring tricks.
I don't understand.
The unicorn appeared to be real until you said it wasn't.
Then we were safe.
- But we believed in it, Jamie and I.
- That was just the danger.
Your belief was affecting me.
Who would think up a crazy notion like this? I don't know.
A fantastic mind.
Too kind.
And if I may, I'd like to return the compliment.
He's obviously supremely intelligent.
He's learning the rules here with admirable speed.
Yes, we were right to choose the good Doctor.
- Doctor.
- The soldiers.
Stop.
Let them go.
Wherever they run, whatever they do, every step they take will only bring them nearer.
The trap is set.
Let them walk into it.
Oh, how much further? There's no sign of the toy soldiers now.
- We've got to get out of this place.
- Look.
There's a house.
You again.
I'll sort you this time.
Creag an tuire.
Jamie.
- Doctor.
- It's all right, Zoe.
Well, come on.
If you want to play games, let's get on with it.
What's that? Well, I have to make up his face again.
- You did this before.
- Yes.
That's how Jamie's face got changed.
- You got it all wrong.
- What? No, no.
Well, I was rushed.
Now, then There we are.
All right, I know.
There we are.
One Now, then Yes, that's his nose.
You can't mistake his nose, can you? And There you are, you see.
Jamie.
Thank goodness you're back.
- I haven't been anywhere.
- You've got your face back.
- I have? - Yes.
Look.
You're right, I have.
That's much better.
- The house.
- Yes.
Come along.
Let's go inside.
Well, there must be somebody here.
These candles are alight.
Hello there.
One, two, three, four tunnels leading off.
- We could easily get lost in there.
- Just a moment.
What's he found? A ball of twine.
Oh, yes, this must have been an invitation.
Why? It's the classical way of getting through a maze.
Jamie, tie that to the door, will you? It's locked.
- Then we are meant to go on.
- Yes, I think we are.
But that means that wherever we go, at any time, they know.
They're expecting us.
Yes.
Don't break the thread.
Come along.
At last.
The Doctor is commendably prompt.
I wonder how long it will take him to get to the heart of the mystery.
- Which way, do you think? - To the right.
They look equally unattractive to me.
It must be to the right.
I've been working it out.
- Doctor.
- How? It soon fell into a clear pattern.
One left, two right, three left, four right and so on.
A simple arithmetical progression.
- Doctor - Shh, Jamie.
What it is to have an arithmetical brain.
What do you want? The thread's run out.
Should we not go back? No.
You stay here and Zoe and I will explore a little further.
There must be another way out of this maze.
I need to find it.
They don't want us to find a way out, only a way in! Go on.
Go on.
You're almost there.
I was right.
This isn't the way out.
We're in the middle of the maze.
- Doctor, I don't like it.
Let's go.
- Just a moment.
I was rather expecting a welcoming committee, but perhaps I was wrong.
I hope you were.
Someone was here, not so long ago either.
Look.
There's some tracks of an animal too.
Let's go.
- It couldn't be.
- What? I know it's silly, but do you remember the story of the Minotaur? Half-man, half-bull, yes.
And he lived in the heart of a labyrinth.
And there were human sacrifices.
Exactly, but I don't think we need be too alarmed.
As long as we're quite certain that the Minotaur is only a Doctor, look.
Doctor? Are you all right? What's happening? So that's how you can see, is it? With that wee lighthouse of yours.
No.
Brainless idiot.
Get yourself free.
Don't let the boy escape.
Forward.
Forward.
Doctor, it's moving.
It's coming closer.
It's going to attack.
It's a legend.
Another mythical beast, like the unicorn.
- But it's there.
- No.
The Minotaur is a mythical beast.
Say it.
The Minotaur is a mythical beast.
It doesn't exist.
It's gone.
Yes.
I'm afraid we made it too difficult for it to stay.
Come on.
Let's go and find Jamie.
- I think this is the place.
- Yes.
There's no sign of him.
I'm sure he wouldn't have gone off without - What's that? - His jacket.
- Well, he must be around here somewhere.
- Jamie.
Who's that? - My dear sir.
- Your servant, sir.
- You keep turning up unexpectedly.
- Have you seen Jamie? I walked alone but saw no sign of any inhabitants.
Are you positive? I would not impose any falsities upon you.
- I adhere strictly to truth.
- Of course.
This person who controls this place - The Master? - The Master.
Yes.
Have you seen him? Upon occasion he has been pleased to grant me an audience.
Where might I find him? The Master's palace is a citadel, a walled town at the top of a hill or cliff, the highest in the kingdom.
Now I think I understand.
May I ask, sir, where you come from? Would it not be Nottingham? My father had a small estate in Nottingham.
I was the third of five sons.
He sent me to Emmanuel College in Cambridge at 14, where I applied myself to learning navigation and mathematics.
Useful for those who intend to travel, as I always believed it would be my fortune to do.
Now I know who you are, sir.
- Your name is Lemuel Gulliver.
- Your servant, sir.
- Gulliver? - Yes.
Yes, all right.
I'm looking forward to a long talk with you.
I should like that above all things, but it would not be proper to trouble you with the particulars of my adventures.
I wouldn't dream of detaining you.
Having been condemned by nature to an active life, I must take my leave of you.
Farewell.
Farewell.
Why does he talk in such an extraordinary way? He can only speak the words that Dean Swift gave him to say.
That's ridiculous.
There never was a Gulliver.
- He's a fictional character.
- Of course he is.
Don't you undertand? This world that we've tumbled into is a world of fiction, unicorns, Minotaurs, Gulliver's Travels.
They're all alive here.
Then what are we doing here? What do they want with us? I'm not sure I understand that yet.
Come along.
Let's find Jamie.
You'd better put this on.
Oh, no.
I'd need to be a human fly to get up that lot.
I can't go back, though.
What I really need is a Who says wishes don't come true? So far, so good.
Some sort of castle.
Well, Jamie, now where? Well, you don't have much choice, do you? I suppose you know that hurts? - You mean this is your hair? - Of course.
I don't object to people climbing it, I'm quite used to it, actually.
- But you would keep tugging so.
- I'm sorry.
- Are you a prince? - No.
Why? You're supposed to be.
I'm a princess, but I suppose you knew that.
My name's Rapunzel.
You're not a woodcutter's son, by any chance? - No.
I'm the son of a piper.
- How very disappointing.
You'd better go.
Goodbye.
- Wait.
- Well? I can't go back there.
It's a sheer drop.
I'll have to climb in through the window.
- I don't know if that would be allowed.
- I won't stay long.
Just passing through, you might say.
- Please.
- It's a great pity you're not a prince.
You'd have made rather a good one.
Well, I suppose you'd better come inside.
For goodness' sake, be quiet.
Rapunzel.
Your Highness, where have you gone? Don't be silly.
I'm not going Hey, this doesn't look like the inside of a princess's castle to me.
"Christmas won't be Christmas without presents.
" "Grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
" "It's so dreadful to be poor.
" "Sighed Meg, looking down to" The Doctor and Zoe unable to find their companion in the labyrinth, decided to return to the cave in search of him, where a new terror awaited them.
I imagine there must be at least one more test.
I wonder what it'll be.
I believe you're actually beginning to enjoy all this.
That wasn't there before, was it? - A statue.
- Like the unicorn.
Yes, only the unicorn was alive first and then became a statue, only this time - What? - Have a care, Zoe.
I have a feeling the situation is going to be reversed.
It is coming to life.
Medusa.
The Doctor and Zoe were face to face with Medusa.
One glance from her eyes would turn them to stone.
- Now we know what we have to do, Zoe.
- Yes.
She's moving.
She's going to look at us.
- We have to say Medusa does not exist.
- But she does.
Zoe, Medusa is a myth.
If you believe in her, she can turn us both to stone.
Now, Zoe, say it.
The Medusa is a myth.
Say it.
- But she's alive.
She's real.
- No.
Don't look in her eyes.
Don't look.