Saturday, 5 July 2025

UNSINKABLE

Hmm. Never cared much 
for the word 'Impregnable'.
Sound too much like 'Unsinkable'

What's wrong with "Unsinkable'?

Nothing -- As The Iceberg 
said to The Titanic....

What's that?

Descending into his seat 
inside The Land-Rover
.....glug-glug-glugg-glugg --

Martha Leaves The Doctor | Last Of The Time Lords | Doctor Who

[Tardis]

TEGAN: 
Doctor? I am free of The Mara, aren't I?

The Chorister : 
(sigh) ......Tegan, Tegan, Tegan.

TEGAN: 
I'm scared.

The Chorister : 
There isn't any need to be.

TEGAN: 
I'm still having terrible dreams.

The Chorister : 
It's your mind's way of coping with the experience. You've suffered a great deal.

TEGAN: 
That could have been prevented if that Dojjen 
person had destroyed The Great Crystal.

The Chorister : 
No, he couldn't. The Mara could only 
be destroyed during the process of 
its becoming -- It had to be trapped 
between modes of its being.

TEGAN: 
The feelings of hate. Doctor, I couldn't go through it again.
The Chorister : Well, you're completely free of it now, Tegan. For you, the Mara is dead forever.
NYSSA: For all of us, I hope.
(Nyssa has changed the gaudy outfit of the previous story for a denim mini-dress and flat mid-calf boots.)
The Chorister : Indeed.
TEGAN: Can you take me back to Earth?
NYSSA: You want to leave us?

TEGAN: 
I want to rest
I want to be surrounded 
by familiar things.

NYSSA: 
You'll forget the Mara, Tegan. 
It won't always be as painful as it is now.

(The TARDIS jerks, throwing them sideways.)

The Chorister
(checks The Console)
Warp-ellipse cut-out?

NYSSA
Can't be — That would mean we were 
near an object in a FIXED orbit in 
TIME as well as SPACE.

The Chorister
And what's the probability of that?

NYSSA
(Does The Calculation
Several BILLION 
to one, against.

TEGAN
Are you trying to scare me, 
or is this your way of telling me 
we've broken down AGAIN?

The Chorister
I'm afraid it's MUCH 
more serious than THAT.

NYSSA : 
Are we safe?

The Chorister : 
There's a chance something's 
on a collision course 
with the TARDIS.

TEGAN: 
Don't you KNOW?

(Nyssa turns on the scanner.)

The Chorister : 
Well, there's a chance of anything;
Statistically speaking, 
if you gave typewriters 
to a tree full of monkeys
they'd eventually produce the 
works of William Shakespeare --

NYSSA
Doctor!

The Chorister : 
Now, you and I know that at 
the end of the millennium they'd still 
be tapping out gibberish --

TEGAN: 
-- And you'd be tapping it out right 
alongside them. I only asked 
you a simple question.

NYSSA
Doctor, something's 
coming straight for us!

(The sharp prow of a spaceship is 
bearing down on the Tardis.)

NYSSA
We've GOT to get 
OUT OF The WAY!

The Chorister
We can't. We've converged 
with The Warp Ellipse.

NYSSA
Doctor!

The Chorister
Hold this steady.

TEGAN
We're going to crash.

The Chorister
I'll try and materialise 
on board The Ship
Hold tight!

(The Tardis materialises on the 
marble floor of a very posh room.)

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