Part Three
[Decrypt room]
(Bates enters)
MILLINGTON: Captain, no one is to touch the Ultima machine. It must complete it's task.
BATES: Sir.
DOCTOR: Just one problem. You've weakened the bases' defences precisely so some Russians could steal it.
MILLINGTON: Captain, radio for reinforcements.
BATES: Sir, you've just ordered that all radio transmitters be disabled. I've just set Perkins onto it now.
MILLINGTON: What!
[Command room]
(Perkins is obeying his orders with an axe when Millington enters.)
PERKINS: Sir. Radio transmitters disabled, as ordered, sir.
DOCTOR: Splendid work, Perkins. Splendid work. Now put them back together again.
[Naval camp]
(The Doctor, Ace and Reverend Wainwright leave building 49. It is raining hard, and the Doctor's umbrella gets put to conventional use.)
DOCTOR: We haven't got much time.
ACE: But Jean and Phyllis?
WAINWRIGHT: Dark legends. In the story of Dracula, this is where he came ashore.
ACE: Vampires?
DOCTOR: No, not vampires, haemovores. They are what Homo sapiens evolve into thousands of years in the future. Creatures with an insatiable hunger for blood.
WAINWRIGHT: I don't understand. The future? How can you know?
DOCTOR: I've seen it. How good are your parish records?
WAINWRIGHT: Oh, they go back as far as the eighteenth century.
DOCTOR: Good. Now for a little local history.
WAINWRIGHT: Right.
(Ace hesitates.)
DOCTOR: What's the matter?
ACE: I was just thinking. If these vampires, I mean haemovores, if they come here. Well, Kathleen and her little baby.
DOCTOR: Look, once upon a time you'd have dropped everything just for a little bit of excitement.
ACE: Yeah, but I just want to make sure they're all right.
DOCTOR: Catch us up.
ACE: Thanks.
(Ace leaves.)
WAINWRIGHT: Doctor.
DOCTOR: Hmm?
WAINWRIGHT: Those two girls. They said they'd come back for me.
DOCTOR: Do you want to stay here?
WAINWRIGHT: No. No, no I can't. Come, Doctor, the parish records.
[Maidens Point]
(Prozorov is lying on the beach, dead. Sorin closes his eyes and takes the identification papers from the man's tunic.)
VERSHININ: I'm sorry, Kapitan. I know you and the sergeant had been friends a long time. Kapitan. Kapitan! (Haemovores are coming along the beach towards them.) On your command.
SORIN: Save your bullets. Everyone pulls back, and don't turn away from them or you're dead. Take him. Come on! Move, move!
(The Russians carry Prozorov away.)
[Bunk room]
(Kathleen is packing her suitcase when Ace enters.)
ACE: Hiya. How's the little horror?
KATHLEEN: (sotto) Well, I've just fed her and put her down.
ACE: Oh, I'm sorry. You should have told me. (The baby wakes.) Where will you go?
KATHLEEN: Oh, I'll manage. Frank's got shore leave in a few weeks.
ACE: Who's Frank? Your boyfriend?
KATHLEEN: No, my husband.
ACE: Oh, I didn't know you were married.
KATHLEEN: I've got a baby.
ACE: Yeah, I just thought that..
KATHLEEN: Well, you can stop thinking it, all right?
ACE: Oh, I, I didn't know.
KATHLEEN: It's okay. It's okay.
ACE: Where is he?
KATHLEEN: He's in the Merchant Navy, Atlantic convoys.
ACE: I used to think I'll never get married, but now I'm not so sure. There's a lot of things I'm not sure about now.
KATHLEEN: It's the war, Ace.
ACE: Yeah. Look, take care, won't you?
KATHLEEN: Thanks, you too.
ACE: No, I mean really take care.
[Millington's office]
JUDSON: We're wasting our time on some superstition.
MILLINGTON: The Viking legends will come true. The treasure will be brought to us, and with it all the dark powers of Fenric shall be ours.
JUDSON: Oh yes, I know. Let the chains of Fenric shatter. Well, what about my chains?
MILLINGTON: That was over twenty years ago. Why must you remind me? I offer you everything.
[Maidens Point]
(The Russians watch from the top of the cliff as Jean and Phyllis lead the haemovores along the beach)
VERSHININ: Kapitan, what are they?
SORIN: Six months ago, a small sabotage team was sent into German occupied Romania. Only one survived. He talked about dead men coming out of a black fog. The official report said he'd been listening to too much local gossip about vampires.
VERSHININ: But vampires don't exist.
SORIN: Of course not.
(Sorin starts sharpening a wooden stake)
[Church vestry]
(The Doctor and Reverend Wainwright are looking through a pre-1837 Church Register when Ace enters)
ACE: Why does your bell tower look like a fortress? Like the people who built it were expecting trouble.
WAINWRIGHT: I don't think there's a record of any battles taking place here.
DOCTOR: Today's events haven't been written down yet. Now, you're looking for the descendants of the early Viking settlers, about two hundred years ago. Ace, you help me.
[Underground rooms]
ACE: So what exactly are we looking for?
DOCTOR: The Viking inscriptions said they were carrying treasures from the Orient.
ACE: You might give me something to go on. I mean, a few hints might be useful.
DOCTOR: Well, just look for something evil.
(The Doctor tips up a box then drops it on his foot. Ace finds the flask next door.)
WAINWRIGHT [OC: Doctor! Doctor!
(Ace puts the flask in her rucksack then follows the Doctor to find out what Wainwright wants)
[Church vestry]
WAINWRIGHT: Doctor, I've found it. Exactly as you said.
ACE: What you got, vicar?
WAINWRIGHT: There's your Vikings, or descendants of them at any rate. (reads) Joseph Sundvik, Florence Sundvik, wife. Daughters Sarah, Martha, Jane, Clara, Annie.
DOCTOR: The curse of Fenric, passed down through the generations.
(The mist swirls around the Sundvik family tombstone, and the transformed Joseph and Florence rise up from their grave.)
DOCTOR: Find out which daughters married, and what their new surnames are.
ACE: Professor, what's this water doing here?
WAINWRIGHT: Oh, it's the roof. It leaks. It always seeps in like that when it's raining and there's an east wind.
DOCTOR: The problem is, it's not raining. There's a west wind.
(Clawed hands reach around the wooden door. The Doctor and Ace push it shut, but more try to come in from the outside door. Wainwright tries to keep them out, then a haemovore smashes the small window that looks into the church and grabs Ace. The Doctor pulls her free as the creatures start to smash down the door and grab her again. She gets free and grabs a pair of candlesticks.)
ACE: Vicar!
(Ace hands one to Wainwright, who uses it to hit the grasping hands, and uses the second on some haemovores, before she loses it and runs up the steps to the bell tower.)
[Outside Saint Jude's church]
(More haemovores are clawing at the main church door, and still more coming along the church path. Ace gets her metal ladder out of her rucksack, and rolls it out over the side of the tower, then climbs down only to fall into the clutches of more haemovores on the roof of the vestry. Sorin and his two troops arrive and see her fighting.)
SORIN: Follow me!
[Vestry roof]
(One haemovore pins Ace's arms while the second prepares to slash her. Sorin climbs up and over the battlement.)
SORIN: Takes two against one, does it? How about a little Cossack blood, eh? (The haemovores push Ace behind them and face the fresh meat.) Fire! (Several bullets finally knock the haemovores down) Up the ladder, quick! (The haemovores get up, and the impact of more bullets knocks them down again. Ace climbs the ladder) Go, quick!
[Church vestry]
DOCTOR: Hold them! Hold them!
WAINWRIGHT: I don't know that I can!
DOCTOR: You've got to have faith! Have faith. Faith. Faith.
(The Doctor steps back into the middle of the room and concentrates. The haemovores enter from the church, then clutch their heads and scream. They all leave. Ace comes back down the bell tower steps. There is the sound of gunshots, and then thuds on the roof.)
[Vestry roof]
(Sorin and his men have stuck wooden stakes through the hearts of their attackers, who have promptly melted like good little vampires.)
SORIN: We won't have any more trouble from those two. Quick, up the ladder.
[Church vestry]
(Sorin and his men make their way between the bells with Ace's rucksack, and join them. The Doctor finally relaxes.)
DOCTOR: Ah. Any more up there?
SORIN: Only those creatures.
DOCTOR: Quick, you and your men, down to the crypt.
SORIN: Down.
DOCTOR: Get the record books.
WAINWRIGHT: Right.
DOCTOR: Hurry up!
WAINWRIGHT: Yes!
[Crypt]
DOCTOR: Jam the door.
ACE: Professor, that noise you were making. Like singing, only it wasn't.
DOCTOR: Ah, just a little something to frighten off haemovores.
ACE: I thought vampires were scared of crucifixes.
DOCTOR: No, no, it's not the crucifix that frightens them, it's the faith of the person carrying it. It creates a psychic barrier, just like I did.
SORIN: Door's secure.
WAINWRIGHT: We're trapped.
DOCTOR: Ace?
ACE: The mine shaft.
DOCTOR: Correct. (The Doctor opens the secret doorway.)
SORIN: Listen, I must go back to my men.
WAINWRIGHT: You can't go back that way. Those creatures, they're, they're inhuman.
SORIN: I must try. If I fail, I fail. These two will stay with you.
ACE: Professor, show him how to make the singing.
DOCTOR: I can't. Either he believes absolutely, or he doesn't.
SORIN: I believe in the Revolution.
DOCTOR: Complete faith? No doubts?
SORIN: Go. If we meet again, you will have your answer. Go.
(The Doctor, Wainwright and the soldiers leave. Ace touches Sorin's arm. He takes off his white silk scarf and ties it loosely around her neck.)
SORIN: Be careful.
[Underground rooms]
DOCTOR: I hope we're not too late.(The Doctor discovers the two soldier's handiwork.) Oh no!
WAINWRIGHT: What's happened?
DOCTOR: You two, break that wall down. Quick, quick!
ACE: If you want a job doing properly, get a girl to do it. Out of the way, boys.
DOCTOR: Ace! Oh, don't antagonise her. It'll only make things worse.
(Ace takes two cans of Nitro Nine and primes them.)
ACE: Five seconds and you're yesterday's breakfast, sunbeam.
DOCTOR: Take cover!
(They all hide behind the wall in the next room. Boom!)
ACE: Wicked.
DOCTOR: Quick, get in the tunnel! (to Ace) I'll talk to you later.
(Upstairs in the vestry, Sorin is confronted by Jean and Phyllis. He removes his red star and holds it. The girls and the other haemovores clutch at their heads and scream. He walks through them unharmed)
[Tunnel]
ACE: How much further?
DOCTOR: Three or four hundred metres.
ACE: Oh, we'll never make it.
(Ace takes the flask from her rucksack, but the Doctor doesn't look at it.)
DOCTOR: What's the matter?
ACE: Well, if I get the top off this, then I can make up some more nitro.
DOCTOR: Another explosion might bring the roof down on top of our heads.
ACE: Oh, just a small one?
DOCTOR: No!
WAINWRIGHT: If only we could slow them down for a few moments.
(The soldiers cock their rifles.)
DOCTOR: Two minutes, then follow us. (The soldiers go back up the tunnel. The Doctor finally notices the flask.) Where did you find that?
ACE: It was just lying around.
DOCTOR: That's the Oriental treasure we've been looking for.
ACE: Oh.
(Now safely outside the church, Sorin breathes again when the haemovores walk away from him. Jean and Phyllis lead their group into the tunnel)
[Maidens Point]
(Sorin joins Vershinin and the rest of his men overlooking the cove.)
VERSHININ: What's happening? The air, it's so still and so warm.
SORIN: There is a storm coming on.
[Tunnel]
MILLINGTON [OC]: Come on! You're almost here.
(Ace takes back the flask. Behind them comes the sound of rapid gunfire.)
[Naval camp]
(Ace, the Doctor and Wainwright run out of a pair of metal doors)
MILLINGTON: Right, seal it.
DOCTOR: But there are two people following us.
MILLINGTON: You're here, that's all I'm interested in. And I'll have those.
(Millington takes the church registers while the Doctor tussles with the marines and the Russians hammer on the closed doors.)
DOCTOR: Open those doors!
MILLINGTON: Many years ago, when I was Chief Petty Officer on board ship, we had an explosion in an engine room.
DOCTOR: But the Russians are our friends, our allies!
MILLINGTON: I had to seal it off to save the ship, keep the flames restricted to one section.
WAINWRIGHT: Please, Commander. Those two men won't stand a chance against those creatures. They're inhuman!
ACE: So's he.
MILLINGTON: We could hear men screaming behind the bulkheads for nearly an hour, and then the screaming stopped.
WAINWRIGHT: But, but..
[Perimeter fence]
(The Russians cut the barbed wire. Sorin swaps his tin lid for his uniform cap)
SORIN: Okay. You stay here. If I'm not back in ten minutes, abort the mission. Take this.
(Sorin hands Vershinin a backpack)
VERSHININ: Take cover.
(Vershinin and the soldiers don't quite hide behind a small tree, as Sorin goes through the gap in the fence.)
SORIN: Commander Millington! Commander Millington, I want to talk with you, officer to officer!
[Decrypt room]
MILLINGTON: Here we are, Judson. I said it would be brought to us. Release the power.
(Judson takes the flask)
BATES: Sir, the house guests have arrived.
MILLINGTON: What?
BATES: The house guests. There's one outside. He wants to talk to you.
MILLINGTON: Talk?
[Naval camp]
SORIN: We must talk, Commander Millington.
MILLINGTON: I'm afraid you have me at a disadvantage. You seem to know my name, but I don't know yours. (A lot of weapons are aimed at Sorin from a distance.) However, that hardly seems to matter at the moment. You will tell your men to put down their weapons and surrender.
SORIN: I come alone. Very well. (shouts) Lay down your weapons and come in peacefully, like the wolves of winter.
[Perimeter fence]
VERSHININ: Move! Move back! Move it! Let's get out of here!
[Naval camp]
MILLINGTON: Lock him up. (Sorin is taken away. The Doctor arrives.) You'll be pleased to know, Doctor, everything is under control.
DOCTOR: The Russians aren't your problem, those creatures are. They devour humans the way you eat fruit.
MILLINGTON: I doubt if any creatures can walk through iron shutters.
(The Doctor holds up the piece of metal from Maidens Point.)
DOCTOR: They can weld metal beneath the sea with their bare hands.
(The metal doors to the tunnel are starting to melt)
[Bunk room]
(Kathleen is sitting silently on a bed, holding a letter.)
ACE: You all right? What is it? What's wrong? Tell me. What's the matter? I'll do anything (Kathleen gives the letter to Ace.) What's this? (reads) It is with deepest sorrow that I write to inform you that the ship on which your husband, Frank William Dudman, was serving, was struck by enemy torpedoes. Your husband was trapped in the fire and has been listed as missing, presumed dead. Please accept our sincere condolences. I'm sorry.
(The two women weep in each others arms as the Ultima machine prints out more names. Estrid, Sigvald, Hakon, Fridrek, Wulfstan.)
[Naval camp]
(Ace confronts the Doctor in the open.)
ACE: You know what's going on, don't you?
DOCTOR: Yes.
ACE: You always know. You just can't be bothered to tell anyone. It's like it's some kind of game, and only you know the rules. You knew all about that inscription being a computer programme, but you didn't tell me. You know all about that old bottle, and you're not telling me. Am I so stupid?
DOCTOR: No, that's not it.
ACE: Why then? I want to know.
DOCTOR: Evil. Evil since the dawn of time.
ACE: What do you mean?
DOCTOR: Will you stop asking me these questions?
ACE: Tell me!
DOCTOR: The dawn of time. The beginning of all beginnings. Two forces only, good and evil. Then chaos. Time is born, matter, space. The universe cries out like a newborn. The forces shatter as the universe explodes outwards. Only echoes remain, and yet somehow, somehow the evil force survives. An intelligence. Pure evil!
ACE: That's Fenric?
DOCTOR: No, that's just Millington's name for it. Evil has no name. Trapped inside a flask like a genie in a bottle.
ACE: Can we stop it?
DOCTOR: We need to get that flask.
ACE: We can release Captain Sorin to help us. I can distract the guard.
DOCTOR: How?
ACE: Professor, I'm not a little girl.
(Reverend Wainwright watches the metal doors to the tunnel melting)
[Guard room]
LEIGH: Are you looking for someone?
ACE: No. You.
(Ace walks away and Sergeant Leigh follows her)
[Outside the guard room]
ACE: There's a wind whipping up. I can feel it through my clothes. Is there a storm coming?
LEIGH: I wasn't expecting one.
ACE: The question is, is he making all the right moves or only going through the motions?
(Ace leads Leigh away around the corner, and the Doctor runs across the open space unseen into the guard room. The keys to the cell are in a desk drawer. The Doctor frees Sorin and they leave.)
LEIGH: What are you doing here?
ACE: You have to move faster than that if you want to keep up with me. Faster than light.
LEIGH: Faster than the second hand on a watch?
ACE: Much faster. We're not even moving yet. Hardly cruising speed. Sometimes I move so fast, I don't exist any more.
LEIGH: What can you see?
[Underwater]
ACE [OC]: Undercurrents, bringing things to the surface.
[Outside the guard room]
ACE: I can't stay.
LEIGH: You promised.
ACE: I can't.
[Naval camp - tunnel exit]
(Jean, Phyllis and the haemovores break out of the tunnel.)
WAINWRIGHT: I'm here.
(He holds out his Bible.)
JEAN: The book won't do you any good. You don't believe.
WAINWRIGHT: We'll see.
(They take a step back and scream as Wainwright looks heavenwards and prays)
[Naval camp]
(Ace joins the Doctor and Sorin.)
DOCTOR: You all right?
ACE: Yeah, nothing out of my depth.
DOCTOR: Come on.
ACE: How are we going to stop Fenric?
DOCTOR: Evil needs a body. It hasn't found one yet.
SORIN: Thank you.
[Naval camp - tunnel exit]
PHYLLIS: It's not true. You don't believe it.
JEAN: Look at us. There's no good in us.
WAINWRIGHT: No! I believe in good.
(But the seed of doubt has been sown.)
PHYLLIS: Look in yourself. There's no good in you.
WAINWRIGHT: No! No! (The haemovores stop screaming and move forward.) No! No! No! (He disappears beneath their claws)
[Decrypt room]
(The printer is still rattling. Now it is one word - Ingiga.)
JUDSON: What's it doing?
(A bolt of electricity sends Judson rolling back across the floor, screaming, then he falls out of the wheelchair. Lightning flashes outside and rain pours down as more haemovores come out of the tunnel past Wainwright's lifeless, bloodless corpse. The Doctor bursts in as Nurse Crane goes to help Doctor Judson.)
DOCTOR: Don't touch him! Don't touch anything!
CRANE: He's an invalid. He can't even stand without someone to support him.
DOCTOR: He's dead.
MILLINGTON: The time is now. The chains of Fenric are shattered. The gods have lost the final battle.
ACE: We're too late. It's him!
MILLINGTON: The dead men's ship has slipped its moorings, and the Great Ash itself trembles to its roots. Fenric!
(Judson stands up behind the Doctor and opens his glowing green eyes.)
JUDSON: We play the contest again, Time Lord.
