Saturday, 26 July 2025

They've Mutated again



Dalek Mutant Attacks the Doctor | Remembrance of the Daleks | Doctor Who




Time's Champion
.... They've mutated again. Here, come and have a look
Compare that to the destroyed Dalek 
at Totter's Lane. Note the difference.

RACHEL
The other Dalek was underdeveloped, with vestigial 
limbs and sensory organs almost amoeboid
Allison, look -- This is altogether different. 
It has functional appendages and some kind of 
mechanical prosthesis grafted onto its very body. 
.....I think I'm going to be sick --

(Boom.)

Time's Champion
Sergeant Smith must have 
found some more Daleks.

ACE!
Don't anyone give me a hand.

ALLISON
Ace, you're hurt --

ACE!
I had an argument 
with a window --

Time's Champion
You two go down and check the cellar
but don't touch anything --
I'll look after Ace.

(Rachel and Allison leave.)

....(sigh) When I say 'stay put', I mean 'stay put', not 'take on 
an entire Dalek assault squad single-handed' -- 
(he begins manipulating and healing her injured leg)
What were you doing here, anyway?

ACE!
I came to get my tape deck.

Time's Champion
Where is it?

ACE!
In little bits.

Time's Champion
Good.

ACE! :
  Good?! Ow. What do you mean,' good'?!
Where am I going to get another one?

Time's Champion
That tape deck was a dangerous anachronism. 
If someone had found it and discovered The Principles 
of its function, the whole microchip revolution 
would take place now, twenty years too early, 
with incalculable damage to The Timeline....

ACE! : 
So?

Time's Champion
'So"? Ace, The Daleks have a mothership up there 
capable of eradicating this planet from space -- 
but even They, ruthless though They are, would think twice 
before making such a radical alteration to The Timeline.

(The Doctor finishes check Ace's leg then tweaks her ear.)

Time's Champion
There, you ought to be able to 
get up and walk about now.

(she stands up, and it has worked)

ACE! : (smiles)
 Cheers, Professor!

[Mothership]

DALEK Watch-Commander 
Bridge reporting. Mothership will maintain Earth geostationary orbit. 
All systems fully operational. Attack squad Delta prepare to enter Transmat.

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