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Why do you not give up, Earthman?
I'd rather face the Chumleys than you any day.
That will not work, now. The presser has locked the door.
You must surrender or die.
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He cannot live much longer, Margaret. Soon he will die.
We do not wish him dead.
But he is our enemy.
We must spare our hostages.
Machine with bomb approaching. Quick, take cover.
Stand clear.
All right, it's safe now.
Come along, my boy.
Come along.
Put your head down.
Bring your feet, please.
Come on, let's get away from there.
Come on, baby. Take it easy.
You're with me.
The facts of Islam, as they did the Sikhs,
they don't know what those drivings are going to think.
Come on, keep breathing.
Keep breathing. In and out. In and out.
Come on.
Guns ready.
Go.
After them. And kill.
Stop. If you do not, all of us will fire.
Do not mistake our intentions.
You will not interfere.
Doctor, please lead your party away.
I certainly will.
Can you walk? Come on, my boy.
On your feet.
Come on.
That way, that way.
Come on, keep breathing out.
In and out.
Maga, you will take your soldiers back into the ship
and you will stay there.
Until now we have spared you,
although you have attacked us time and time again.
But we will always defend our friends.
We will prevent any attempt on your part to leave the ship.
I have resolute.
Now go back into your spaceship.
You have polluted the air with your bomb.
It will have cleared by now.
The ammonia bomb is only a warning.
Go inside.
Come.
It is still there.
We can not escape.
Quiet.
But Maga.
We can not escape yet.
But we will.
The main weapon is defeated until dead.
Is that so?
Yes, Maga.
We are still alive.
Depends how long that machine will be.
You failed in your mission of patrol.
I was outnumbered.
You will be dealt with.
Failure is never tolerated.
You.
Does the forward hatch still work?
Yes, Maga.
Silently?
Yes, Maga.
It is now dim light.
Soon it will be night.
Last night this planet will never know.
We must capture the Rule spaceship before then.
When I give the order,
you will steal silently through the forward hatch.
You will then creep round behind the Rule's machine.
Understood?
Yes, Maga.
And you will destroy it.
The Patrimoniac Gatsby was telling you about me.
Brother, how are you?
Me?
Doctor?
Can not be a lot of time left now.
It is about to drive, Charles.
Have you finished that conversion?
Yes, we have.
But it will take some time to transfer the power of your ship to ours.
Oh, nonsense, Doctor. We are concerned for your safety.
And we are concerned for yours.
Oh, excuse me. That is very noble of you all.
This is a matter of emergency.
Come along. Let's have the cable in, please, at once.
Very well.
Quickly, quickly.
We should be down here.
Yes, General.
Well, yes. What are you doing, Doctor?
What are you trying to do?
I am going to transfer the power from my ship into the interior of the Rule ship here.
Oh.
Now, if you suspect there is any trouble whilst I am working,
I want you to contact me at once.
Understood.
But you want me to stay here?
Yes. I want you to stay here with the leader of the Rules and try and have some rest.
Yes, sir.
So contain yourself.
Now then, go.
I will, Doctor.
Yes, Charles, if you wish.
Come along. Hurry, hurry, hurry.
Go along.
You have not gone with your friend.
No.
You are interested in our place?
Yes, quite.
Well, does he trust you?
Why shouldn't he?
No reason.
I suppose you gave the right ethical reasons for him, so naturally he does trust you.
We rescued you from the Dravens, but you still don't trust us.
You could be the same as them, using us for your own salvation.
The Doctor offered to help us. We needed his help.
So did the Dravens.
What are you getting at?
Nothing.
Yes, you are.
All right.
You said it would take hours to charge this ship properly.
The Doctor said he could do it in time.
Yes, but supposing just this once.
You're right and he's wrong.
Would you take us with you, or would you allow us to leave in our own ship?
In your own ship, if possible.
Come off it.
I mean, if you don't get discharged in time, you aren't going to let us go just like that.
We are strange beings to you.
You've never met anything like us.
You come from Earth, a planet we don't know.
But clearly it is a planet which still knows conflict.
So?
If we are right and the power charge is going to take too long a time,
then the Doctor, the girl, and you must leave.
We believe in self-preservation.
Oh, yeah, sure.
But if there is a choice, the Doctor must go.
He travels further than we can.
And everything he has shown his stance for is what we believe in.
So it is better that he go.
I'm sorry.
You can't blame me, though, for being suspicious.
In that case, there's something you ought to know.
Whilst I was in the driving ship, they said they intended to leave this planet in yours.
We are prepared to take them with us.
Well, that's not what they mean.
They save your ship, you stay here.
We must hope they do not succeed.
Yes, well, so little time left, they're going to be desperate.
I'll tell you what, why not let me fix the cable for you at this end?
Thank you.
The machine will help you.
It will be quicker.
Talk to me!
I'm ready, Mother.
Then go.
And do not fail.
I shall not.
It's getting darker, Doctor.
Good.
There's nothing to worry about, my dear.
I think the evening's last here for about four hours.
Strange to think that at dawn all this will explode into nothing.
No, not just nothing, child.
Hydrogen gas that sprays itself out like molten silver against the surface of the Earth.
It sprays itself out like molten silver against the other stars in the same galaxy.
Yes, well, let's have the cable, please.
She's out of sight.
She will die willingly.
She will not die until she has destroyed the machine.
Will we escape, Marga?
Yes, when we have destroyed the machine, we will escape.
What is happening is the performance of the explosion.
We have only five hours left.
She must act quickly.
Perhaps we can help each other, Doctor.
We must survive.
They will live.
Now, don't you worry.
No one has ever died.
It's all fixed up here, Doctor.
Any snags at the target?
Everything under control, my dear lawyer.
Switch on your motors, please.
They're controlled.
Full intake.
Cable guard, stand by.
Doctor, you're all being very quiet.
Yes, it is like that.
How long will it take?
Oh, three to four hours, I think.
The planet's due to explode in less than five hours.
I fully appreciate that fact, young man.
There's that alarm again, Tom.
What's happened?
Quiet, please.
Emergency message coming through.
The Dardens have escaped and destroyed the chamber outside their spaceship.
Oh, no.
And the chamber outside my target.
In the position, sir.
We're going to have to go back to the ship.
I'm afraid so, sir.
I'm afraid so.
I'm afraid so, Doctor.
I'm afraid so.
Oh, do stop worrying, dear boy, and stand still.
Stand still!
But, Doctor, I know exactly what the Intensa do.
And as soon as they see this cable, they're going to destroy it!
Do not worry. I am prepared for that.
Stand it, stand it. Is the power still coming through?
It is.
And how long's it going to take?
Another two hours, at least.
That should be enough?
Yes.
Look, isn't it possible to charge any faster?
Actually impossible, dear boy.
It's just James and the panel glowing.
Well, we're going to be lucky to get back to the parties in time, too.
But the Dravins are still off to get us.
Do not worry. We will ensure that you return safely to your ship.
The Dravins are after us!
Well, they don't waste time, do they?
Stand still!
You have escaped once. You will not do so again.
And me too.
Death does not frighten me.
I die a warrior Dravin.
Oh!
What have you done?
Do not worry.
She is completely paralyzed.
I told you there would be no further incidents.
Doctor, where's the doctor?
Oh, there he is.
Hello! I'm in here. Come in, come in.
You may enter, but be prepared for a shock.
We ought to go.
Come along, come along, come along.
Where is my brother?
Might have set it on fire.
But we have not destroyed one.
Don't worry. We will.
More machines! Again!
The End
Now you know what we look like.
I do. And I for one am glad of it.
We apologize for the glass partition, but you will understand we must keep our atmosphere in here.
Yes, of course, of course.
Our appearance shocks you?
Not now. I must admit it did at first, but I don't see why the dravins should hate you.
No, I mean, after all, we must look just as strange to you.
To the dravins we are ugly, so they become frightened.
You are different from us, of course, but at least you are intelligent.
Yes, what difference does it make what your form is?
The importance lies in the character to what use you put this intelligence.
We respect you as we respect all life.
Doctor, what's the matter, my child?
Something has been terribly ill.
The ammonia gas escape.
You have better return to the other chamber. Our atmosphere is not good for you.
Ah, yes, thank you. Young man, young man.
I suppose we won't meet again.
It is improbable.
Goodbye.
How much longer, Doctor?
One hour.
And how long to the explosion?
One hour and a half.
Let's hope no more dravins get in here.
Oh, it's no good. Our guns can't harm them.
Then we refuse fire. As three did.
No, we will go that way. Head for the spacious part of the building. We must concentrate on that.
Come on.
It can't take much longer.
Oh, patience, dear boy, patience.
Dawn will be here in half an hour now.
Yes, and when dawn comes, this planet explodes like a bomb.
Really, you too?
What's that? What is it?
Ah, that's the control that the spaceship is now fully charged.
We must be careful, unless I am very much mistaken.
You are right, Doctor. We are ready to disconnect.
Oh, good, good. Now, you have sufficient power.
Enough to get us well out into space where we can recharge from a charge.
Splendid, splendid. And I don't think there's any more for us to do.
We will go.
A chandelier will escort you back to your ship.
And yourself?
We will wait until you are safely there.
Oh, we shall be quite all right. It is you that needs to be out of range, not us.
The moment I start my motors, we shall be out of range in time. We don't need space.
Go now, please.
Very well. In a moment, we shall leave here and enter the ship.
From that time, we will not be able to talk with you.
The chandelier with you will escort you back to your ship.
He will protect you and obey your commands.
Once you have gone, he will destroy himself.
No!
It will be painless, merely putting himself out of action.
Yes, I think I understand, and thank you very much.
It is easy to help others when they are so willing to help you.
Though we are beings of separate planets, you from the solar system and we from another space,
our ways of thought at times do not seem all that different.
It has been an honor to know you and serve you.
Good luck.
Thank you.
We shall give you time to get clear before we take off.
Now we are going.
Goodbye.
We wish you well.
It's starting to bolten.
Yes, and we've got less than half an hour, Doctor.
Yes, yes, quite, quite. Quickly, quickly.
Run, run.
Where are the machines?
I don't know.
Listen.
They're escaping.
There they go.
This is an amazing, what a wonderful sight.
Can we catch them?
Yes, yes, of course.
Yes, people, we can catch them.
Come on, Doc.
They've come.
Do you see the disintegration on the scanner, Doctor?
No, I'm afraid not, dear boy.
We've dematerialized from that galaxy a long time ago.
What's the matter, child?
That hurt my ankle.
Oh, yes, I'm afraid we shall, yes, we'll have to put a cold compass on that.
Oh, dear, dear, dear.
You know, I wish we could stop somewhere for a while and take shock of ourselves
instead of being surrounded by dangers all the time.
Would you put that third switch forward, would you?
Thank you.
Look at that planet.
I wonder what's going on there.
Yes.
Yes, I wonder.
Oh, dear.