Part Two
[Maidens Point]
PROZOROV: No! We don't want to attract attention (Prozorov fixes his bayonet).
DOCTOR: Do you know what's happening here? Do you think we really killed him?
PROZOROV: It doesn't matter. You know too much. You die.
DOCTOR: We know more than you think. Vozravschayetes ve Norwegious sakrovischem.
ACE: Return to Norway with the treasure.
VERSHININ: Kill them, Prozorov.
PROZOROV: No, we take them back to Captain Sorin.
[Judson's office]
JUDSON: (reads) I am the only one left alive now. I raise these stones to my wife Astrid. May she forgive my sins. The day grows dark, and I sense the evil curse rising from the sea.
[Underwater]
(A claw caresses the dragon head)
JUDSON [OC]: I know now what the Curse of Fenric seeks. The treasures from the Silk Lands in the east.
[Crypt]
(A red hot light burns new runes into a blank stone between the arches)
JUDSON [OC]: I've heard the treasures whisper in my dreams. I've heard the magic words that will release great powers. I shall bury the treasures for ever. Tonight, I shall die, and the words die with me.
(The drowned soldier opens his eyes)
[Maidens Point]
DOCTOR: If, if you attack the camp now, you'll walk straight into a trap. And if you stay here, you'll die just like your comrade.
SORIN: And if I let you go, you betray us.
DOCTOR: It's the only way. It's the only way to destroy the evil that's killing your men.
(Gayev screams)
VERSHININ: His mind's in pieces.
ACE: What's happened to him?
DOCTOR: Whatever killed his comrade, he's seen it. (The Doctor puts his duffel coat over Gayev) What was it? What did you see? Tell us.
VERSHININ: Come on, this is useless.
SORIN: Vershinin.
DOCTOR: Dig down, think back. Maidens Point, the undercurrents. What did you see? Shotividyo?
VERSHININ: He'll never speak again.
(Gayev gives the Doctor the piece of metal, then screams. The Doctor puts his hand on his forehead to silence him.)
DOCTOR: Calm down.
(The Doctor takes Petrossian's piece of metal from his pocket.)
SORIN: We delay our attack until you both return.
VERSHININ: Kapitan, this is madness.
SORIN: We play for high stakes. Victory goes to those who take the greatest risk. Go.
(The Doctor and Ace leave)
[Crypt]
(Judson and Crane are by the new runes)
JUDSON: Why didn't he translate the final inscription? It's always the family idiot that takes the cloth.
CRANE: I don't like it down here.
JUDSON: Then go away.
CRANE: Don't you feel the cold? It's like winter. It's most unsuitable for an invalid.
JUDSON: Oh, shut up, Crane.
CRANE: Oh, come on. Let's have you back in the warm.
(Nurse Crane lifts Doctor Judson into his wheelchair.)
JUDSON: You stupid woman.
CRANE: Language, Doctor Judson. There's a lady present.
[Maidens Point]
(Jean and Phyllis pass a group of Home Guard on the shingle beach)
JEAN: Ooo, I love men in uniform!
PHYLLIS: Don't they look strong?
[Saint Jude's church]
DOCTOR: Why do I feel there's something different about this place?
ACE: Yeah, it doesn't even look like a church.
DOCTOR: What do you mean?
ACE: Well, from the outside, it looks more like a small fortress.
DOCTOR: No, no, no, no, no! Different since we were last here.
ACE: Oh.
[Church vestry]
DOCTOR: I think it's about time we had a proper look at those inscriptions.
[Millington's office]
MILLINGTON: Use the Ultima machine. Use the machine to translate the inscriptions.
JUDSON: But what about the German ciphers?
MILLINGTON: Use it!
[Crypt]
ACE: Can you hear noises from behind the walls?
DOCTOR: Can't hear a thing.
ACE: I definitely heard them.
DOCTOR: Ace, come here. Look at that. What do you notice?
ACE: This one's a slightly different alphabet to the rest.
DOCTOR: Yes?
ACE: And, we, it uses fewer characters.
DOCTOR: And?
ACE: And, that means it's older than all the rest.
DOCTOR: And?
ACE: And er, I don't know.
DOCTOR: And it wasn't here this morning.
ACE: Oh yeah. Hang about, these inscriptions are a thousand years old.
(There are footsteps.)
DOCTOR: Quick, hide!
(Someone enters then disappears.)
ACE: Where is he?
DOCTOR: Those noises you heard this morning.
ACE: A secret door? Yeah, well, I'm sure the noises came from over this side. (The Doctor starts tapping, looking for a hollow) What happens if we do find something?
DOCTOR: Shush.
(Commander Millington comes out of the secret tunnel, armed)
ACE: Professor?
DOCTOR: Ace.
ACE: Professor?
DOCTOR: Ace!
(The Doctor turns, his nose an inch from the gun barrel)
MILLINGTON: I think this is what you're looking for, Doctor.
[Saint Jude's church]
(The Reverend speaks Saint Paul's first letter to the Corinthians chapter thirteen from memory to an empty church.)
WAINWRIGHT: When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. When I became a man, I put away childish things. Now abideth faith, hope, love. These three. And the greatest of these is. And the greatest of these is.
[Maidens Point]
(The Russian soldiers are hiding from the Home Guard patrol which is coming towards them.)
SORIN: No shooting.
(The Russians throw pebbles to send the patrol towards the cliff, then jump them.)
SORIN: Has anyone seen us?
VERSHININ: It's as quiet as the grave.
SORIN: Let's take them to the camp. Move it, move it.
[Laboratory]
(Commander Millington escorts the Doctor and Ace through a brick lined tunnel to a series of rooms, where two men in green overalls are working.)
MILLINGTON: Leave the empty drums. Just take the valuable equipment.
ACE: A laboratory.
[Collection room]
(A small pipe in the wall drips green liquid into a tank)
MILLINGTON: Behold, the end of the war.
DOCTOR: So, this is what brought you here. A natural source of lethal poisons.
ACE: The Curse of Fenric.
MILLINGTON: Once the Nazis see what our planes are dropping on their cities..
ACE: But you can't!
MILLINGTON: It'll mean the end of the war. Save hundreds of thousands of lives.
DOCTOR: More horrible than the Well of Hvergelmir.
MILLINGTON: What did you say?
DOCTOR: The Well of Hvergelmir, deep beneath the ground where broods of serpents spew their venom over the roots of the Great Ash Tree.
MILLINGTON: The Great Ash Tree. The soul of all the Earth.
ACE: Professor?
DOCTOR: Shush.
MILLINGTON: We have seen it, Doctor. You and I. We have seen hell. Come, I'll show you it all.
ACE: What's he on about?
DOCTOR: Norse mythology. It seems that I've persuaded him that I'm on his side.
(Ace takes a long look at the green death dripping into the tank before following Millington and the Doctor back through the underground rooms)
[Maidens Point]
(The Russians are very happy with their glorious victory)
VERSHININ: You should have seen him. With his bare hands. When it comes to killing, the sarge is an expert.
(Prozorov is the only one not laughing.)
SORIN: Prozorov. These things have to be done.
[Saint Jude's church]
(Reverend Wainwright is sitting in a pew when Millington, the Doctor and Ace come out of the vestry)
ACE: Professor.
DOCTOR: Hmm?
ACE: What's wrong with the vicar?
MILLINGTON: No girls. Leave her here.
ACE: What? You're beginning to aggravate me.
DOCTOR: Don't antagonise him, Ace. You'd better stay here.
ACE: Professor.
DOCTOR: Only for a short time. I've got to find out what is going on, and you can find out what's wrong with Mister Wainwright.
ACE: All right.
DOCTOR: Coming, Commander. (to Ace) Give me an hour.
(The Doctor and Millington leave. Ace sits with Wainwright.)
ACE: Funny church, this, isn't it?
WAINWRIGHT: I was just remembering when I was a child. My father was the vicar here then. It seemed such a warm, friendly place in those days.
ACE: Things always look different when you're a child.
WAINWRIGHT: Now I stand in the church every Sunday, I see all the faces looking up at me, waiting for me to give them something to believe in.
ACE: Don't you believe in anything?
WAINWRIGHT: I used to believe there was good in the world, hope for the future.
ACE: The future's not so bad. Have faith in me.
[Decrypt room]
JUDSON: Ah, Millington. I need the central rotor unit unlocking.
DOCTOR: The Ultima machine.
JUDSON: Of course, you haven't seen it, have you? A completely automatic computing machine, the most advanced in the world.
DOCTOR: Remarkable for the nineteen forties.
MILLINGTON: This is just the bait.
DOCTOR: For the Germans?
MILLINGTON: Russians.
DOCTOR: But they're your allies.
MILLINGTON: After the war, when they're no longer allies. This is what the Russians want. The mind of the Ultima machine.
JUDSON: More than a thousand combinations an hour, with automatic negative checking.
MILLINGTON: And we are going to let the Russians steal it. Orders from Whitehall. Look inside, Doctor. Look deep inside.
(At the heart of the computer is a flask of green poison)
[Miss Hardaker's cottage]
(Miss Hardaker has found the damp swimming costumes, and is berating her lodgers.)
HARDAKER: You will burn in the everlasting fires of hell! You wicked, evil girls!
PHYLLIS: Just because you've never been swimming.
HARDAKER: You have black hearts! There's no love in heaven or earth for you. Nothing for you but pitiless damnation for the rest of your lives! Think on it.
(Phyllis and Jean walk out)
[Munitions bunker]
(There is a large number of bombs neatly stacked against the wall, and men in long lab coats working in the background. Millington goes to a containment chamber.)
MILLINGTON: A demonstration, Doctor.
(One man takes a cage of doves into the chamber while Millington uses the thick rubber gloves sealed to the front glass to pick up a vial of green liquid.)
MILLINGTON: This small capsule contains just a few drops of diluted toxin.
DOCTOR: No, don't!
(Millington breaks the vial and gas begins to fill the chamber.)
MILLINGTON: Just think what a bomb full could do to a city like Dresden or Moscow.
DOCTOR: It's inhuman.
MILLINGTON: It could mean the end of the war.
DOCTOR: And Whitehall thinks that Moscow is careless enough to let you detonate one of those things inside the Kremlin?
MILLINGTON: Oh, that's the beauty of it, Doctor. We won't detonate it. They'll do it themselves. They'll use the machine to decrypt our ciphers, but Doctor Judson has programmed it to self-destruct when it tries to decrypt a particular word. And, once the political climate is appropriate, we will include the word in one of our ciphers.
DOCTOR: And the word is?
MILLINGTON: What else could it be, Doctor? Love.
[Tunnel]
(Two marines are working underground, when a humming noise pushes some bricks out of the wall)
SOLDIER 1: What was that?
(The missing bricks reveal a three handled flask in the cavity. The soldier takes it out.)
SOLDIER 1: Is this ours?
SOLDIER 2: Is it marked government property?
SOLDIER 1: No.
SOLDIER 2: Nothing to do with us then. Leave it. (The soldier drops the old flask) Right, let's get this sealed up.
[Maidens Point]
(Prozorov is washing his face in the water when Phyllis and Jean run into the sea, still clothed)
JEAN: I don't care if I've got nothing to wear!
(He leaves without them seeing him.)
PHYLLIS: It's so warm and peaceful.
(A mist begins to drift across the water.)
JEAN: Here, Philly. What's that?
PHYLLIS: What is it?
JEAN: It's a sort of mist.
PHYLLIS: So what? Who cares? It's warm in the water.
JEAN: Yeah. (The mist thickens and the girls disappear from sight.) Philly!
(As quickly as it came, the mist disperses to reveal an empty cove)
[Millington's office]
(Captain Bates enters)
MILLINGTON: Yes?
BATES: I thought you'd like to know, sir. They've finished closing down operations over at the church.
MILLINGTON: Good. Tell me, they didn't find anything unusual, did they?
BATES: Not to my knowledge, sir.
MILLINGTON: I can't take any more risks. I want all radio transmitters and outside telephone lines disabling.
BATES: That may attract attention, sir.
MILLINGTON: Do it.
BATES: Sir!
MILLINGTON: And if there are any chess sets in the camp, I want them burnt.
BATES: Chess sets?
MILLINGTON: Burnt!
BATES: Sir!
(Bates leaves. Millington returns to his sketch of a bottle on War Office stationry)
[Bunk room]
PERKINS: Sorry, girls. Commander's orders. No more chess sets.
DOCTOR: Don't you find the Commander's orders a little peculiar sometimes, soldier?
PERKINS: Peculiar or not, orders is orders. Come on girls, let's have your chess set.
(Kathleen has her baby in her cot on the bunk.)
DOCTOR: Ah. What are you going to do with her?
KATHLEEN: Oh, something will turn up. One of the girls has gone to ask her sister if Audrey can stay with her for a few days, till I sort something out. Do you have any family yourself?
DOCTOR: I don't know.
KATHLEEN: Oh, I'm sorry. It's the war, isn't it? It must be terrible not knowing.
DOCTOR: Yes.
[Decrypt room]
(Judson is writing the final set of runes on the machine when the Doctor enters.)
DOCTOR: You haven't seen Ace at all? I'm getting a little worried.
JUDSON: Quiet! Now, let's see what lies encrypted in these carvings, hmm? (The tickertape printer rattles.) Let the chains of Fenric shatter. Even with an alphabet more than a thousand years old, the Ultima machine can reveal it's meaning.
DOCTOR: It can translate it, but who knows what it might mean?
CRANE: But who cares?
[Maidens Point]
(Prozorov is on the beach, looking at Jean and Phyllis standing up to their waists in the water. Their hair is now loose, their skin deathly pale and their nails a good three inches long.)
PHYLLIS: Look.
JEAN: Yes, a man.(Prozorov approaches the waters edge.) Are you looking at us? (Prozorov wades in.) Yes, he's watching us.
PHYLLIS: He's got to come into the water with us.
JEAN: Yes, you've got to come into the water.
PHYLLIS: It's warm.
JEAN: Blood warm. Nobody's forcing him. Nobody ever forces you to come into the water.
PHYLLIS: But everybody wants to. Deep down, everybody wants to come into the water.
JEAN: Come on. Come play with us.
(As he nears the girls, other creatures reach up and grab him. They drag him under, screaming)
[Judson's office]
JUDSON: Oh yes, yes, I've known Millington since before my accident.
(Ace enters.)
ACE: Hiya.
DOCTOR: Ah, good. Oh, I need to have a word with your two young friends.
ACE: Jean and Phyllis?
DOCTOR: Yes.
ACE: They'll be with the old dragon.
DOCTOR: Good. Back in a mo. I'm just going to requisition some transport.
ACE: Bags I drive!
(The Doctor leaves and Ace starts playing the logic game. The rattle annoys Judson.)
JUDSON: Shut up. I said, shut up!
ACE: I know what it is.
JUDSON: I am trying to work.
ACE: I know what the inscription means.
JUDSON: Yes, yes. I already know. Let the chains of Fenric shatter. I already know that.
ACE: No, no, no. It's a logic diagram.
JUDSON: What?
ACE: Look, this is a logic diagram for the flip-flop thingy, right?
(Judson nods.)
ACE: And this is a logic diagram for something else.
JUDSON: But it's so complex.
ACE: That's because it's not for a small thing like this. It's for a computer.
JUDSON: Crane! Take me to the decrypt room!
ACE: And the half-time score, Perivale six hundred million, rest of the universe nil.
[Miss Hardaker's cottage]
(Miss Hardaker carefully lowers the stylus onto a gramophone record, and smiles at the music. Then a curtain is pulled aside from a doorway, and the smile quickly vanishes. It is the evil Jean and Phyllis.)
HARDAKER: No! No! No, I beg you! No! No! Argh!
(Prozorov floats face down in the sea at Maidens Point)
[Outside Miss Hardaker's cottage]
DOCTOR: Hello? Anybody home?
[Miss Hardaker's cottage]
(The music has long since finished, and the stylus grinds round the middle of the record. The Doctor lifts it off)
ACE: Professor.
(Miss Hardaker is lying back in her easy chair, eyes staring out of a white face, and with scratches on her neck.)
DOCTOR: Looks like the one at Maidens Point. Completely drained of blood.
[Outside Saint Jude's Church]
(Reverend Wainwright stands amongst the gravestones holding a Bible, while Jean and Phyllis slowly creep up behind him)
WAINWRIGHT: I know who you are.
PHYLLIS: You've always known us.
(Wainwright turns around.)
WAINWRIGHT: But vampires are just superstition. Why?
JEAN: We have black hearts. We were lost on the day we were born.
WAINWRIGHT: That's not true. No one is lost.
PHYLLIS: Everyone is lost.
WAINWRIGHT: No further. This is holy. It will destroy you.
PHYLLIS: Objects can't harm us. It's human belief, and you stopped believing when the bombs started falling.
WAINWRIGHT: I'm not frightened of German bombs.
JEAN: Not German bombs, British.
PHYLLIS: On German cities. British bombs killing German children.
WAINWRIGHT: No. No!
(The Doctor runs in between the girls and Wainwright.)
DOCTOR: Stop!
ACE: What's happened to you? What are you doing?
PHYLLIS: You should have come into the water with us. Then we'd have been together.
DOCTOR: Go! Go!
JEAN: We go, but we'll return for you, Wainwright.
[Decrypt room]
MILLINGTON: This is it, Judson.
CRANE: A little respect for the wheelchair, please, Commander. He's an invalid.
JUDSON: I'm not an invalid, I'm a cripple. I'm also a genius, so shut up, the pair of you.
MILLINGTON: All that remains is the flask. The machine can unlock its secrets.
(Down in the tunnel, the discarded flask glows green. Judson pushes a cylinder back into the Ultima machine.)
JUDSON: Now then, Millington. Let's see, shall we?
MILLINGTON: Yes, quick!
[Woodland]
WAINWRIGHT: We must tell Commander Millington.
DOCTOR: No, that's exactly what we won't do. He'll just go around shooting everything. No, as long as Doctor Judson doesn't work out what the inscription is, it'll keep them out of harms way. And he's a typical blinkered scientist.
ACE: Oh no! You should have told me.
DOCTOR: Quick! We'd better stop them!
(They run. The flask glows brighter green and drowned people rise from the sea at Maidens Point, heading for the shore. Some are still human, others are completely transformed)
[Decrypt room]
(The printer is rattling away. Sigvald, Hakon, Fridrek, Wulstan, Badric, Emma.)
MILLINGTON: What does it mean?
JUDSON: I don't know.
MILLINGTON: You built the damn machine!
JUDSON: It's running at four times maximum speed. I mean, it's impossible!
(The creatures, wearing clothes from many different times, reach the shore. The Doctor, Ace and Wainwright burst in.)
DOCTOR: Stop the machine!
MILLINGTON: Get out of here!
DOCTOR: You've got to stop the machine!
JUDSON: I can't!
DOCTOR: Ace, the power!
(Ace grabs the breaker lever.)
ACE: It's stuck!
(Wainwright tries to help.)
DOCTOR: Pull it! Pull it!
ACE: I can't!
(The Doctor joins in the effort.)
MILLINGTON: You're too late, Doctor!
