Steven, look!
The Doctor's reached move 902!
We'll have to hurry.
Tom, where's the next game we have to play?
Ya-roo! It's right over here!
You won't find it so easy this time, you know.
Because you see, you'll be playing against me.
Well, here we are. Here's the next game.
Card is hopscotch.
What are we supposed to do with it?
Well, it's very simple, really.
See, each player takes one of these dice and throws them onto the triangles.
And the number that you've thrown will appear up at the end there, on the dice indicator.
That's to make absolutely certain that no one can cheat.
And you move forward the number that you've thrown.
The first one to reach triangle 14 is the winner.
Easy, isn't it?
It's too easy. What's the catch?
No catch. First one home is the winner.
That gives us a two to one chance over you.
Why, so it does.
Well, there you are.
You just jump from triangle to triangle and the first one home wins.
Why do I have to jump?
Well, you can walk if you like, but I shouldn't if I were you.
Why not?
Well, you see, all the area between the triangles is electric.
You'll be killed.
I don't think your friends will do so well now, Doctor.
Cyril hates to lose, so he makes sure that he never does.
Oh, don't stop playing, Doctor.
You're so near the end.
Soon you'll discover whether or not you've got the sequence right.
I think you need help.
Go for a move.
Nine hundred and thirty.
At this rate, you'll finish your game long before Stephen and Dodo find the TARDIS.
It will be fun having you here.
And your friends will make charming dolls.
It may interest you to know that their chairs are ready and waiting for you in the dollhouse.
Now, you all know what we have to do.
Yes.
Ladies first, if you don't mind.
Three.
Careful, Dodo.
One.
Two.
Three.
You're next.
You're just too good to be true, aren't you?
Four.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
It says go on to number seven.
Do I?
Yes, go on.
One.
Two.
Oh, by the way, I should have told you.
If you land on a triangle that's already occupied, the first player has to go back to the starting post.
Now I see why you let us go first.
All right, go on. Don't keep us in suspense.
It's all part of the game, chap.
One.
Two.
One.
Two.
Now it's my turn.
I think I'm going to enjoy this game.
Three.
Oh, I'm sorry, Stephen.
Do I have to send you back to the start?
Look, surely we can't send each other back.
We're supposed to be playing together.
If you don't abide by the rules, you can't possibly win the game.
He's right, Stephen.
We must play fair.
After all, we are two to one.
All right.
Watch him.
What's that mean?
He's pretending he doesn't understand the rules.
Wizard's sense of humour.
You go back a turn.
My turn now, I think.
Oh, a three.
Three.
I'm still right behind you.
Only 72 moves to go.
Cyril seems to have the game well in hand.
Your friends are tiring, Doctor.
I don't think they're going to get your tardies back.
As you are certainly going to lose, I feel I should be kinder to you.
You're no longer under the ban of silence.
There.
I have given you back your voice.
Now you're sulking.
Or have you forgotten how to speak?
Throughout this game, you have spent a great deal of trouble in trying to break my concentration.
And it's very unlikely that you will succeed now.
It's only me, Cyril.
Look, I told you before about these idiotic jokes.
She nearly fell off.
It's all part of the game, old chap.
Now you can go back to the start, the cheating.
That's not fair, is it?
Certainly he moved out of his triangle and it wasn't his turn.
And I've landed on your triangle, so you can both go back to the start.
I've had enough of this.
He makes up the rules as he goes along.
Come on, Dodo, I'm going to the finish line.
I want to see if that's the real tardis or not.
Don't you like my little game?
No, I don't.
What a pity to give up now, having overcome so many obstacles.
We're not giving up.
Are you sure?
I just want to get to the end of this.
It's no good.
Some sort of invisible barrier.
Precisely.
A barrier that yields only to those who play the game according to the rules.
So perhaps you go back to the platform where you started.
Come on, Dodo.
Yeah!
One up to me.
My turn now, I think.
Ah, a two.
One.
Two.
I'm going to see if there's any invisible barrier around his backside.
Better not.
Mine.
Ah, that's better.
Six.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
Six.
Do I get a second turn for a six?
Certainly not.
No, I thought not, somehow.
I think they'll abide by the rules now, Doctor.
Don't you agree?
There was no point in giving you back your power of speech if you're going to just sit there, silent and sullen.
You seem to say quite enough for both of us.
In any case, I'm busy.
Your friends are not doing very well.
I think your friend Cyril won't do so well when Stephen catches up with him.
Poor Stephen, little does he know.
You're playing too slowly, Doctor.
Go for a move, one thousand.
Only twenty-three moves to go.
And look, your friend Stephen has had to miss a turn.
Oh, no, not another miss a turn.
You can't possibly win now.
Why don't you both give up?
It's up to you now, Dodo.
Come on, give it a good shake.
Six.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
Six.
Now I only need four to get home.
And I only need a three and it's my turn now.
Too bad, isn't it?
Two.
One.
Two.
Stephen, look, he has to go back to nine.
Come on.
Look who's trying to cheat now.
You'll never get a chance to do up his shoelace, will you?
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
That's better.
Now come on, Dodo, you must throw a four.
Stephen, do you think he's really hurting himself?
It's another trick, roll the dice.
No, he's bleeding, he's hurt, he's swollen.
We can't just leave him.
Twain!
No, I'm going to help him.
Dodo!
Look, you'd better take your sock off.
Hey, that's red ink.
Of course it is.
You're so easy to fool, you are.
Now you can go back to the start for getting out of your triangle and miss a turn.
That means it's my turn now.
Well, of all the spiteful things.
Teach you to think you can beat me at a game.
A five.
Hooray, I've won!
Rob me, Yarrow!
What happened?
I don't know.
Poor old Cyril.
Hey!
This triangle's covered in slippery powder.
He must have put this here himself and forgotten all about it.
He's caught in his own trap, it serves him right.
Come on, Dodo, the game's over.
No, we've got to play the game to the end.
You heard what the toy maker said.
I'm sure I can throw that four.
All right, well, hurry, look at that tally.
The doctor's almost finished his game.
Four, we've won, Stephen!
Dodo, I told you about the powder, now take it easy.
We mustn't lose now.
Now go on, I'll follow you over.
Perhaps it's just another fake.
Well, I was right.
Make the last move, Doctor.
No, not yet.
Excuse me.
Yes, I see Stephen and Dodo have found the TARDIS.
One little trick and your little trick is broken.
I am now visible.
You are indeed, Doctor.
Well done.
The three of you have won your little games.
I am glad you take it so calmly.
Well, now, if you will excuse me, I will go and see if the TARDIS is all right.
Just suppose this isn't the real one.
It must be.
If it wasn't, something would have happened by now.
Listen.
What?
It's humming.
Only the real TARDIS does that.
Are you sure the toy maker couldn't have made one of his a humming one?
Why didn't he make the others do it?
Well done, my boy.
Doctor!
Yes, I'm back with you.
Well done, I'm very glad to hear that you're bringing logic into your guesses.
Oh, you're safe, you've won your game.
Yes, my dear, and I think it was high time that we were off.
I can't wait to leave this place.
I don't want to play another game ever.
Well, I don't think that's going to be likely, dear boy.
I hope I do not interrupt the council of war.
Oh, my dear friend, don't waste our time on trivial formalities.
You have been defeated, so now leave us alone.
You know you must lose in the end.
Only I can win.
If I lose, the Doctor and I go down together.
Now, don't start red herrings, you charlatan.
Go on, young people.
Go on, ask your elderly friend if he can win completely.
Is it true, Doctor? Are we bound to fail?
No, my dear boy.
He's just tricking us into despair.
Take no notice of him.
Tell them the truth, Doctor. Hide nothing.
You must tell us. We ought to know.
Well, I am compelled to tell the truth.
It is possible that the toy maker can drag us down in defeat with him, unless...
Unless what?
Well, it's all very simple.
It's a matter of the battle of our brains.
Do we have a chance to escape?
Yes, we still have a chance, but we must proceed with cunning.
An impossible chance.
Look, as long as we defeat you, that's all I care.
You can't beat us now.
We shall see.
Well said, my boy. Well said.
Well said?
He doesn't even know what he is saying.
These adolescent expressions of loyalty.
Before you make pure our promises, remember the past.
Your little adventures.
Remember my power.
Your power?
We won through, didn't we?
Perhaps.
But would you dare to play those little games again?
Not until I've laid hands on you.
Oh, it's no use, Stephen. Leave him.
Are you all right?
I couldn't touch him.
He's using his mind to turn your strength against yourself.
Now, go back into the TARDIS. I will deal with him.
Doctor, I offer you power.
Power to corrupt, to destroy.
Think of the exhilaration of that power.
Serve me and live.
Never. Never, my friend.
You have been defeated.
We will see, old man.
The game is not yet over.
We shall see.
What have you done? Stop meddling with my ship!
It isn't what I have done, but what you have not done.
You must finish the game.
You cannot leave here until you have.
Your infantile behavior is beyond a joke.
I will not leave until you have.
Your infantile behavior is beyond a joke.
No.
Of course I mustn't.
You very nearly caught me then.
Make your last move, Doctor. Make your move.
But if I do, this place vanishes.
And then you have won completely?
And if this place vanishes, then the TARDIS and the rest of us will vanish also.
That is the price of success.
Make your last move, Doctor. Make your last move.
What can be keeping him?
Something the Toymaker has done to the TARDIS.
The Doctor has to persuade the Toymaker to let us go.
We won his games. We have the right to go. The Toymaker said that.
Now I'm here, I don't mind. I know I'm safe.
I think I'm going to take... Oh, here he is.
Close the doors, my boy.
What's happened?
It's no use.
What's he done?
If we destroy the Toymaker, we destroy this world.
Well, is that bad?
Surely that's a good thing.
This is really a very sad place.
I don't think neither of you understand.
As the games are over and won by us, everything outside the TARDIS disappears.
And if we are there, we disappear also.
But we have won and it hasn't happened yet.
But it will, my dear, the moment I go out there and make the final move of the Trelotic game.
Why doesn't he just let us go? He can't want to be destroyed.
No, he won't be.
But if everything disappears, why not him?
If the Toymaker loses the game, his world will vanish.
But he has the power to build a new one.
How?
The Toymaker is immortal. He's lasted for thousands of years.
Very occasionally, of course, he loses the game and then he has to pay the price.
That price is the loss of his world?
Yes, but he himself is not destroyed. He goes on forever.
So we can't leave.
There must be a way.
Will you leave my ship alone?
Do you hear me? Will you leave my ship alone?
Let me have it, Doctor. It would be such an amusing toy.
Let me have the Trelotic game in here.
Of course not. Be reasonable, Doctor.
If I allow you to make the last move in there,
then you can pre-set your controls and dematerialize at the same moment that my world vanishes.
Then you will escape.
It will make no difference to me.
Then you will escape. It will make no difference to you.
You can build a new world.
Of course. And I look forward to that. I'm bored with this one.
But I'm a bad loser, Doctor. I always destroy the destroyer.
I will not come out and make that final move.
Then you must stay there forever.
Doctor, let me go out and make that move for you.
Oh, nonsense, dear boy. You don't want to disappear.
At least you and Toto would get away.
Well, that's very noble and kind of you, but I absolutely forbid it.
You've done quite enough in getting the TARDIS back.
All right. But something's got to be done.
We can't just stand here and talk our way out of this.
We can. That's just it. That's just what we can do.
Listen to me. I will make that final move.
How sensible of you, Doctor.
Go back to the Trilogic Gate.
Are you ready?
Whenever you are, Doctor.
Very well.
Pre-set for dematerialization.
Go to move 1023.
Go from move 1023.
Master switch.
You did it. You did it. We won.
How was it done, Doctor? How was it done?
Oh, dear boy. It was your very idea. Your very idea.
Don't you see? When the Toymaker wanted to move the pieces,
he had to command them in a certain tone of voice to make them move at all.
But you had to do it twice.
Yes, but in the first place, you see, I couldn't because I used my own voice.
I don't see.
I do. The Toymaker wasn't playing.
Exactly, dear boy. Exactly.
Therefore, I had to imitate the Toymaker's voice to make them obey me.
And they did.
We'll never see him again, will we, Doctor?
Oh, my dear.
Don't talk too soon.
The mind is indestructible.
So is the Toymaker.
What, you mean he can never be destroyed?
But you defeated him.
Yes, just at this moment.
But there will be other meetings in an other time.
Then your battle with him will never end.
Yes, you're quite right, my dear.
But anyway, let us cheer up. After all, we did win the game.
Hey, let's celebrate with these.
With what?
Here, these.
What are those?
They're Cyril's sweets.
He gave them to me just before the race game.
Oh, throw them away, Dodo.
I only told you to take them so that we wouldn't waste any more time.
Oh, all right.
Ah, this is really interesting.
The last present from the Toymaker.
I wonder.
Oh!
Doctor, what's wrong?
The End