Showing posts with label Black Widow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black Widow. Show all posts

Friday 21 October 2022

Threat






Yeah, "Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!".....
Fuck 'em.
If They had not DONE 
What I Told Them NOT to Do --

They'd still be alive.

Mr. Blonde, 
The Psychopath.

Tony Stark threatens Loki "We have a Hulk"

It's not The Gunbut 
The Hard Heart that Kills.

-- Kubrick.

One cannot Change 
what one Does Not Accept.

-- Jung.








Loki
Please Tell Me 
You're going to appeal 
to My Humanity

Tony Stark : 
Uh, actually I'm planning 
to threaten you.

Loki : 
You should have left 
Your Armor on for that.

Tony Stark : 
Yeah. It's seen a bit of mileage and You got 
The Glow-Stick of Destiny, over there -- 
Would you like a drink?

Loki : Stalling me won't change anything

Tony Stark : 
No, no no, threatening
No drink? You sure? I'm having one.



Dr. Stephen Strange
Thank you for the books 
and for the horrifying story and... 
for the threat upon my life.


Steve Rogers : 
Big man in a suit of armour. 
Take that off, what are you?

Tony Stark : 
Genius, billionaire, 
playboy, philanthropist.

Steve Rogers : 
I know guys with none of that worth ten of you. I've seen the footage -- The only thing you really fight for is yourself. 
You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play, 
to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you.

Tony Stark : 
I think I would just cut the wire.

Steve Rogers : 
Always a way out... 
You know, you may not be a threat, 
but you better stop pretending to be a hero.

Tony Stark
A Hero? Like you? You're a lab rat, Rogers. 
Everything Special about you 
came out of a bottle!

Steve Rogers
Put on The Suit. 
Let's go a few rounds.



Natasha Romanoff
[all arguing in the lab]  
Are you really that dense? 
S.H.I.E.L.D. monitors potential threats.

Bruce Banner
Captain America is on threat watch?

Natasha Romanoff
We ALL are!

Tony Stark : [to Rogers]  You're on that list? Are you above or below angry bees?

Steve Rogers : I swear, Stark, one more wisecrack out of you...

Tony Stark : Verbal threat! Threatening! I'm being threatened!

Thursday 10 March 2022

An Actual Person

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Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Yes!
I need some help up here!
Oh, that was exciting.

Oh, I'm so proud of you girls.
Oh, you can't hear me --
Okay.
(Puts on a Headset)

Okay.
(The Women are intentionally ignoring him.)
Why The Aggression
Is it your Time of The Month?

The Other Widow :
I don't get my period, dipshit. 
I don't have a uterus.
Or ovaries.

Yeah. That's What Happens when 
The Red Room gives you 
an involuntary hysterectomy.

They kind of just go in and they rip out
all of your reproductive organs.
They just get right in there 
and they chop them all away.
Everything out, so you can't have babies. 

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Okay, okay. 

The Other Widow :
Okay! 

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Okay!
You don't have to get 
so clinical and nasty.

The Other Widow :
Oh, well, I was about to talk about 
fallopian tubes, but okay.

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
It means so much to me 
that you came back for me.

The Widow :
No. No. You're gonna tell us 
how to get to The Red Room.

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Look at You. All Business.

The Widow :
Trust me, this isn't Pleasure.

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Little Natasha, all indoctrinated 
into The Western Agenda.

The Widow :
chose to Go West to become an Avenger.
'Cause they treated me like Family.

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Really? Family?
Well, where are they now?
Where is that Family now?

The Widow :
Tell me where The Red Room is.

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
I have no idea. Okay?

The Widow :
Come on. 
You and Dreykov were like...

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Dreykov? 

The Widow :
Yeah.

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
General Dreykov, My Friend, huh?
Gives me Glory... 

Soviet Union's First 
and Only Super-Soldier.

I could have been more famous 
than Captain America.

Then he buries me in Ohio 
on that stupid mission.

Three years!

So Tedious, boring me to tears.
(Yelena glares in his direction)
No offense.

Then puts me in prison 
for the rest of my life. Why.
Why? Why would he put me in... 
You know why?
'Cause maybe I want to talk about 
The Withering of The State.

Or maybe I don't like his hair or something
and I say something casually about that.

Maybe, you know,
I want The Party 
to feel actually like A Party
instead of this sourpuss 
organization.

But instead, no.
He puts me in prison 
for the rest of my life.

He just runs off and hides --
I'm not even the one 
who, uh, you know...

I'm not The One Who 
Killed His Daughter.

The Other Widow :
Can we throw him out the window now?

The Widow :
I think we should wait till 
we get to a higher altitude.

The Other Widow :
All right.

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Lets go ask Melina.

The Widow :
Wait, Mom Melina?
We thought she was dead.

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
You cannot kill 
A Fox that swift.

The Widow :
What?

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
She was The Scientist, 
The Strategist. I was The Muscle.
She worked directly for Dreykov 
far more than I ever did.

The Widow :
Wait. Are you telling me that Melina 
is working for The Red Room, present day?

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
She works remotely outside St. Petersburg.

The Other Widow :
I don't think we have enough fuel 
for St. Petersburg.

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
No, we're good. 
We'll make it.

The Other Widow :
Okay.

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
You should've brought 
the Avengers' superjet.

The Other Widow :
I swear, if I hear one more word from him,
I will kick him in the face. 

The Widow :
He's The Worst.

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Natasha.
Natasha. Natasha.
Come here, I want to ask you something.
Come, it's important. 

The Widow :
What?

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Did He talk to you about me?

The Widow :
What?

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Did He talk to you about me? 
You know, trading War Stories?

The Widow :
Who? What are you talking about?

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Captain America.

My Great Adversary in this 
theatre of Geopolitical Conflict.

Not so much A Nemesis.
More like a contemporary
you know? Coequal.
I always thought there was 
a great deal of mutual respect...

The Widow :
Wait. You haven't seen 
either one of us in 20 years
and you're gonna ask me about you?

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
What is with this tension?
Did I do something wrong?

The Widow :
Is that a serious question?

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
I only ever loved you girls.

I did My Best to make sure 
you would succeed, to achieve 
Your Fullest Potential,
and everything worked out. 

The Widow :
Everything worked out?

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Yes. For you, yes.

We accomplished 
Our Mission in Ohio.

Yelena, you went on to become 
The Greatest Child Assassin
The World has ever known.

No one can match 
your efficiency, 
your ruthlessness.

And Natasha, not just a spy
not just toppling regimes,
destroying empires 
from within,
but an Avenger.


You both have killed 
so many people --
Your Ledgers must be 
dripping, just gushing red.

I couldn't be more 
proud of you.

The Other Widow :
Okay. You can... No.
Let go of me now.
You smell really bad.

So, are we there yet? 

Red Guardsman










The Other Widow :
 This would be a cool way to die.


Tell me that's a good sign for us!

The Widow :
Move your ass!
Get us outta here!

Wait!


Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Yes!
I need some help up here!
Oh, that was exciting.

Oh, I'm so proud of you girls.
Oh, you can't hear me --
Okay.
(Puts on a Headset)

Okay.
(The Women are intentionally ignoring him.)
Why The Aggression
Is it your Time of The Month?

The Other Widow :
I don't get my period, dipshit. 
I don't have a uterus.
Or ovaries.

Yeah. That's What Happens when 
The Red Room gives you 
an involuntary hysterectomy.

They kind of just go in and they rip out all of your reproductive organs.
They just get right in there 
and they chop them all away.
Everything out, so you can't have babies. 

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Okay, okay. 

The Other Widow :
Okay! 

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Okay!
You don't have to get 
so clinical and nasty.

The Other Widow :
Oh, well, I was about to talk about 
fallopian tubes, but okay.

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
It means so much to me 
that you came back for me.

The Widow :
No. No. You're gonna tell us 
how to get to The Red Room.

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Look at You. All Business.

The Widow :
Trust me, this isn't Pleasure.

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Little Natasha, all indoctrinated 
into The Western Agenda.

The Widow :
I chose to Go West to become an Avenger.
'Cause they treated me like Family.

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Really? Family?
Well, where are they now?
Where is that Family now?

The Widow :
Tell me where The Red Room is.

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
I have no idea. Okay?

The Widow :
Come on. 
You and Dreykov were like...

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Dreykov? 

The Widow :
Yeah.

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
General Dreykov, My Friend, huh?
Gives me Glory... 

Soviet Union's First 
and Only Super-Soldier.

I could have been more famous 
than Captain America.

Then he buries me in Ohio 
on that stupid mission.

Three years!

So Tedious, boring me to tears.
(Yelena glares in his direction)
No offense.

Then puts me in prison 
for the rest of my life. Why.
Why? Why would he put me in... 
You know why?
'Cause maybe I want to talk about 
The Withering of The State.

Or maybe I don't like his hair or something
and I say something casually about that.

Maybe, you know,
I want The Party 
to feel actually like A Party
instead of this sourpuss 
organization.

But instead, no.
He puts me in prison 
for the rest of my life.

He just runs off and hides --
I'm not even the one 
who, uh, you know...

I'm not The One Who 
Killed His Daughter.

The Other Widow :
Can we throw him out the window now?

The Widow :
I think we should wait till 
we get to a higher altitude.

The Other Widow :
All right.

Lets go ask Melina.

The Widow :
Wait, Mom Melina?
We thought she was dead.

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
You cannot kill 
A Fox that swift.

The Widow :
What?

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
She was The Scientist, 
The Strategist. I was The Muscle.
She worked directly for Dreykov 
far more than I ever did.

The Widow :
Wait. Are you telling me that Melina 
is working for The Red Room, present day?

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
She works remotely outside St. Petersburg.

The Other Widow :
I don't think we have enough fuel 
for St. Petersburg.

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
No, we're good. 
We'll make it.

The Other Widow :
Okay.

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
You should've brought 
the Avengers' superjet.

The Other Widow :
I swear, if I hear one more word from him,
I will kick him in the face. 

The Widow :
He's The Worst.

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Natasha.
Natasha. Natasha.
Come here, I want to ask you something.
Come, it's important. 

The Widow :
What?

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Did He talk to you about me?

What?

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Did He talk to you about me? 
You know, trading War Stories?

Who? What are you talking about?

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Captain America.

My Great Adversary in this 
theatre of Geopolitical Conflict.

Not so much A Nemesis.
More like a contemporary
you know? Coequal.
I always thought there was 
a great deal of mutual respect...

The Widow :
Wait. You haven't seen 
either one of us in 20 years
and you're gonna ask me about you?

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
What is with this tension?
Did I do something wrong?

The Widow :
Is that a serious question?

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
I only ever loved you girls.

I did My Best to make sure 
you would succeed, to achieve 
Your Fullest Potential,
and everything worked out. 

The Widow :
Everything worked out?

Red Guardsman 
(a.k.a., "Dad") :
Yes. For you, yes.

We accomplished Our Mission in Ohio.

Yelena, you went on to become 
The Greatest Child Assassin
The World has ever known.

No one can match 
your efficiency, 
your ruthlessness.

And Natasha, not just a spy
not just toppling regimes,
destroying empires 
from within,
but an Avenger.


You both have killed 
so many people --
Your Ledgers must be 
dripping, just gushing red.

I couldn't be more proud of you.

The Other Widow :
Okay. You can... No.
Let go of me now.
You smell really bad.

So, are we there yet? 

Tuesday 27 April 2021

I think a lot about Meteors



noetic (adj.)

"pertaining to, performed by, or originating in the intellect," 1650s, from Greek noÄ“tikos "intelligent," from noÄ“sis "a perception, intelligence, thought" (see noesis). 


Related: Noetical (1640s).


noesis (n.)

"intellect, intelligence," 1820, from Greek noēsis "intelligence, thought," from noein "to see, perceive, have mental perception," from noos "mind, thought" which is of uncertain origin.





( Leela has just helped to transfer The Flag — The TARDIS hatstand — back to the main control room )


LEELA: 

We've never been 

in here before!


DOCTOR: 

You've never been 

in here before. 


LEELA: 

What is it? 



DOCTOR: 

Number Two control room — 

 been closed for redecoration. 

I Don't Like The Colour.


LEELA: 

White isn't a colour. 


DOCTOR:

 That's The Trouble 

with Computers. 


Always Think in Black and White

No aquamarines, no blues, 

no imagination. 


(The time rotor stops.


LEELA:

Have we stopped? 


DOCTOR: 

No, we haven't stopped. 


(The viewscreen opens.


LEELA: 

Have we materialised? 


DOCTOR: 

Yes. 


LEELA: 

Where? 


DOCTOR: 

Solar System, between 

Jupiter and Saturn. 

About 5000 AD. 


5000 AD? 

We're still in the time of your ancestors. 


LEELA: 

Ancestors? 


DOCTOR: 

Yes. That was the year of the great breakout. 


LEELA: 

The great what?

DOCTOR: 

Mmm. When your forefathers went 

leapfrogging across the solar system 

on their way to the stars. 


Asteroid belt's probably teeming with them now. 

New Frontiersmen, Pioneers 

waiting to spread across The Galaxy 

like a tidal wave. 


Or a disease. 


LEELA:

Why 'disease'? 

I thought you 

liked Humanity?

DOCTOR: 

Oh, I do, I do

Some of my best 

friends are humans. 


But when they get together in great numbers

other lifeforms sometimes suffer.




(Andred tries to activate the scanner.)

 

ANDRED: 

It's jammed.

 

DOCTOR:

Yes. And it's going to stay jammed until the invaders have gone. 

You see, while I'm in here, 

they can't touch me, 

and they can't read my thoughts.

 

ANDRED: 
You mean, They can Travel along any form 
of broadcast wavelength?
 
Tom
Yes, and materialise at the end of it. 
But until They do materialise, 
can't identify their planet of origin 
and time-loop it.

 

ANDRED: 
But You have access to 
The Greatest Source 
of Knowledge in The Universe.

 

Tom : 
Well, I do talk to myself 
sometimes, yes.
 
ANDRED: 
I mean, The Matrix.

 

DOCTOR: 
Oh. Oh, that old thing. 
Yeah. There's a problem there. 
I've been under a bit of a strain recently. 
You see, The Matrix has 
been invaded.

 

ANDRED: 

The Matrix has been invaded?

 

DOCTOR: 

Yes.

 

ANDRED : 

Why haven't you explained this to 

The Supreme Council?

 

DOCTOR: 
Shush
Because They can read thoughts
Even encephalographic patterns. 
That's why I've plugged K9 
into The Matrix instead of Me --
He's got no brains, you see.
 Sorry about that, K9.

 

ANDRED: 
Can you Trust A Machine?
 
DOCTOR: 
This one I can --
He's My Second-Best Friend.



Ultron: 
[as Natasha becomes conscious

I wasn't sure you'd wake up. 

I hoped you would
I wanted to show you something. 

I don't have 
anyone else. 


I think a lot about meteors, 
the •purity• of them. 

!BOOM! 

The End, start again. 
The World made clean for The New Man to rebuild. 

I was meant to be new. 
I was meant to be beautiful

The World would've looked to the sky 
and seen Hope, seen Mercy. 

Instead they'll look up in horror because of YOU

You've wounded me. 
I give you full marks for that. 

But, like The Man says, 
"What doesn't kill me…" 

[a much bigger, all-vibranium body of Ultron's rips the previous one in two.

"…just makes me stronger." 

[he locks Natasha in a cell]







[Titan base]

LOWE: Drop your weapons. I'm arresting you. All of you! 
(The three spacemen spin round. Lowe kills Silvey then runs. He hides behind a door labelled Kryogenics Sexshun. Safran and Meeker follow him.) 

SAFRAN: 
Close the door. Turn off the oxygen supply. 

(The Doctor briefly looks out of the Tardis, goes back inside then comes out again a few moments later. Leela follows slowly, knife ready.) 

DOCTOR: 
Nobody around. Not a soul. 

(The Doctor sounds a duck call.) 

DOCTOR: 
Anyone home? 

LEELA: 
Doctor, look. 

(They go to Silvey's body.) 

DOCTOR: 
Disregard mayday. 
He said disregard mayday. Why? 

LEELA: 
It is still warm. 

DOCTOR: 
Don't be gruesome. 

LEELA: 
I am a hunter. 

DOCTOR: 
You're a savage. 

LEELA: 
Perhaps. I'm not ashamed of what I am 
and I tell you, Doctor, 
I can smell danger. 

DOCTOR: 
What did you say? 
LEELA: 
I said, I can smell danger. 

DOCTOR: 
Evil again? 

LEELA: 
Everywhere. In this place. 

DOCTOR: 
We'd better find it before it finds us. 

LEELA: 
Right. 

DOCTOR: 
Stay here. 

LEELA: 
I'm no coward. 

(The Doctor moves off. Leela runs in another direction. The Doctor returns, walking backwards.) 

DOCTOR: 
Now listen, whatever happens. 

(He realises she has already gone, and leaves.)

[Base control]

SAFRAN: 
Set temperature and humidity rate 
for optimum breeding conditions. 

MEEKER: 
Set temperature and humidity rate 
for optimum breeding conditions. 

(The Doctor enters.

DOCTOR: 
Excuse me, you don't know me. 
Let me introduce myself. 

SAFRAN: 
There is no need. 
We are preparing the hives now. 

DOCTOR: 
People call me the D...
Hives? 

SAFRAN: 
For the nucleus which you carry within you. 

DOCTOR: 
Are you all right? 
I answered your mayday. 

(Safran and Meeker turn, and the Doctor sees the silver growths on their faces. He backs away a little.) 

SAFRAN: 
You answered the call? 

DOCTOR: 
That's right, that's right. 
Has someone been hurt?

SAFRAN: 
It is of no consequence. 
The physical envelope is of no importance. 

MEEKER: 
Of no importance. 

DOCTOR: 
What do you mean, of no importance? 
I just found a dead body out there. 

(Energy passes between Meeker and the Doctor.) 

MEEKER: 
Now that you have arrived. 

DOCTOR: 
I have arrived. 

SAFRAN: 
All that matters is that the reject should be destroyed. 

DOCTOR: 
Reject should be destroyed. 

SAFRAN: 
And breeding begin. 

DOCTOR: 
And breeding from my nucleus begin. 

(Leela finds the Kryogenics door and opens it. Lowe topples out, covered in ice. She drags him away. Meanwhile, Safran gives the Doctor his weapon.) 

DOCTOR: 
Leela The Reject will not suspect me. 

SAFRAN: 
One of us will follow. 

DOCTOR: 
That is not necessary. 

SAFRAN: 
The nucleus within you must not be harmed. 

MEEKER: 
Must not be harmed. 

DOCTOR: 
Very well. 

(The Doctor and Meeker leave.)

[Mess]

(Leela gives the recovering Lowe a hot drink.) 

LOWE: 
Who are you? 

LEELA: 
We answered your mayday. 

LOWE: 
They tried to kill me. The relief crew. 
They're insane. They've already killed these poor devils. 

LEELA: 
But why? Are they your enemies? 

LOWE: 
No. I know them. At least, I thought I did. 
But they've changed. 


LEELA: How changed? 
LOWE: Their eyes, their manner, their whole behaviour is different. One of them said something. 
LEELA: What? 

LOWE: 
Their purpose. 
"This place will be suitable for our purpose. 
For our purpose", whatever that is. 

LEELA: The Doctor will know. He'll be here soon.


[Titan base]

DOCTOR: 

Leela? Leela, where are you?


[Mess]


LEELA: 
That's him. That's The Doctor. 

LOWE: 
No, wait. 
It could be a trap, if they've caught him. 

LEELA: 
What are we going to do? 

LOWE: 
Hide. 
(Leela stands beside the door and Lowe picks up his weapon.) 

DOCTOR [OC]: 
Don't worry, Leela, it's only me. Listen to me, Leela. 
There's nothing wrong with this place. 
It's most suitable. 

It's a good place. 
A good place.

[Titan base]


DOCTOR: 
Come on, Leela. I'm waiting. 

Please leave me. Please. 
I can't do it. I can't do it. 

MEEKER: 
Think of the purpose. 
She is a reject. She must die. 

DOCTOR: I can't. 

MEEKER: 
Think of the purpose! 

DOCTOR: 
I can't. 

MEEKER: 
The purpose is all important! 

(Lowe knocks over a plant.) 

DOCTOR: 
The reject is here. 

(They walk to the Mess door.) 
MEEKER: 
Stay. The nucleus does not wish to be harmed. 
I shall destroy her. 

DOCTOR: 
Yes. Kill her. Kill her.

[Mess]


(Meeker enters and shoots the gun out of Lowe's hand. Leela throws her knife into his back. Meeker falls over a chair. Leela grabs her knife back and runs out, also carrying a gun.) 

LOWE: 
Meeker, this purpose, what is it? 

(Energy transfers from Meeker to Lowe, then he dies. Lowe runs after Leela.)

[Titan base]

LOWE: 
Leave it to me. 
I know this place. 

(Lowe runs off. The Doctor comes up behind Leela, holding a gun in his very hairy hand.)

Part Two

[Titan base]

NUCLEUS [OC]: 
Destroy. The Reject must be destroyed. 
Kill. Kill. 

DOCTOR [OC]: 
I can't. I won't

NUCLEUS [OC]: 
You must

DOCTOR: 
Leela. 

LEELA: 
Doctor! 

(She turns and sees the gun.) 

DOCTOR: 
Leela, I can't stop it. 

(Leela ducks as he fires.) 

DOCTOR: 
Got to fight it. 
Got to fight it. 

(The Doctor curls up into a ball.) 

LEELA: 
Doctor, what's wrong? 

(He lets go of the gun, and the long silver hairs on his hand disappear.) 

LEELA: 
Doctor, what was all that? 

DOCTOR: 
I'm fighting for my mind. 
Whatever it was that attacked Safran and the others is also affecting me. 

LEELA: 
Why not me? 

DOCTOR: 
Perhaps because...Oh! 
I can feel it gathering strength to attack again. 

LEELA: 
The Evil One? 

DOCTOR: 
Some kind of organism that attacks 
the mind, the intelligence. 
It's trying to take me over, Leela. 
It's trying to change me. 


LEELA: 
No, Doctor, please. 

DOCTOR: 
I need help. 
I must withdraw into myself, save strength. 

(The Doctor becomes very still.) 

LEELA: 
Why not me?

[Titan base airlock]


(Safran has just pressed the button when Lowe comes round the corner. Safran draws his gun.) 

LOWE: 
No, wait. 
Contact has been made. 

(Lowe has the silver scales around his eyes.) 

LOWE: 
We are one, Safran. 

SAFRAN: 
Then why pursue me? 

LOWE: 
For The Purpose. 
The Doctor has not yet succumbed to 
The Power of The Nucleus. 
You will prepare the tanks for incubation. 

They do not suspect me yet. 
I will stay with them to guard The Nucleus 
and to destroy the reject. 

(Leela is running along the corridor. Lowe snatches a pair of goggles from Safran and puts them on.) 

LOWE: 
Give me those. Get down! 

LEELA: 
Did you get him? 

LOWE: 
Yes, but he almost got me. 
My eyes caught a flash from his blaster. 

LEELA: 
Come with me. 
The Doctor's ill, very ill. 
He told me to get help.

LOWE: 
But there are no facilities here. 

LEELA: 
Well, where, then? 

(Lowe and Leela leave, and Safran gets up again.)

[Titan base]


(The Doctor is still sitting very still. The Nucleus speaks inside Lowe's head.) 

NUCLEUS [OC]: 
You must protect The Host. 

LOWE: 
The nearest place is the Centre for Alien Biomorphology. 
But that's in the asteroid belt. 

LEELA: 
We'll take the TARDIS. 
Doctor, we're taking you somewhere to get help, 
but we need the TARDIS. 
Now, where are we going? 

LOWE: 
The Bi-Al Foundation, 
asteroid K four zero six seven. 

LEELA: 
What are the coordinates? 
Doctor, what are the coordinates? 

DOCTOR: 
Vector one nine, 
quadrant three. 
Seven four three. 

LEELA: 
Seven four three.

(They help him up.

DOCTOR: 
Eight zero zero.

[Bi-Al Foundation]

The asteroid has been completely hollowed out, and has lots of groups of windows in its surface. 
There is also a Red Cross logo, a tall antenna and a space ambulance on a landing pad. 

Inside, a patient swathed in gold foil has been strapped to a gurney and is being wheeled away down a corridor on level 2X. 

It is The Doctor. 

He is put inside a frosted compartment in the wall, 
the attendant presses a button and leaves. 

At the reception desk, 
Leela is checking him in. 

The TARDIS is neatly parked nearby, next to a potted palm.

WOMAN: 
Patient's name? 

LEELA: 
Er, just The Doctor. 

WOMAN: 
Place of origin? 

LEELA: 
Gallifrey. 

WOMAN: 
Ireland? 

LEELA: 
Oh, I expect so. 

WOMAN: 
Thank you, that's all we need for now. 

LEELA: 
But where is he? 

WOMAN: 
Level X4, Isolation, 
being datalysed. 

LEELA: 
Being what? 

WOMAN: 
Datalysed. 
Treatment is already underway. 
Are you next of kin? 

LEELA: 
Oh, no. Er, yes. 
I don't know. I expect so. 

(Lowe enters, wearing the goggles of course.

LOWE: 
Where's The Doctor?
 
LEELA: 
They've taken him away to level X4. 

LOWE: 
X4? 

WOMAN: 
Isolation. 
What's your trouble? 

LOWE: 
Blaster flash. 
Accident. 

WOMAN: 
Eye section straight through. 
They'll deal with you there. 


LOWE: (to Leela) 
I'll find you later. 

(Lowe leaves.) 

LEELA: 
Can I be with the Doctor? 

WOMAN: 
Not until Professor Marius 
has had a chance to examine him. 

LEELA: 
Marius? 

WOMAN: 
He's our specialist in extraterrestrial pathological endomorphisms. 

LEELA: Oh. 

WOMAN: 
Wait over there, please.

[Isolation ward]


(A wild-haired man takes a paper readout from a mobile computer built in the shape of a dog, and turns to his assistant. He speaks with a teutonic accent.) 

MARIUS: 
Blithering idiots, the pair of you. 
This man is in a self-induced coma. 
There's absolutely nothing wrong with the fellow. 
Oh, look at him. 

(The Doctor is lying on the examination table.) 

MARIUS: 
He's probably one of those good-for-nothing spaceniks. 
Now, why have I been sent for? 
Tell me that. Why? 
Complete and utter waste of time. 

(The dog-computer is producing another printout from its 'muzzle'.)

PARSONS: 
Excuse me, sir. 

MARIUS: 
What, what, what, what, what? 

PARSONS
K9 indicates that the, The Patient 
is not a member of The Human Race!

MARIUS
Nonsense

PARSONS
Well, see for yourself.
Look, Two Hearts. 
Symbiotic, self-renewing 
cell structure. 

MARIUS
Is this right, K9? 

K9: (for it is he
Affirmative, Master. 

MARIUS: 
Is he now. Point of origin? 

K9: 
Beyond the solar system. 

MARIUS: 
Thank you, K9. 

K9: 
Master. 

MARIUS: 
Nurse, let's get an encephalograph out on him, hmm? 

(The Doctor is slid underneath a scanning device. K9 beeps.) 

MARIUS: 
Well, well, what is it? 

K9: 
Unidentified viral type infection with noetic characteristics, 
at present seated in the mind-brain interface 
and therefore having no ascertainable mass or structure, master. 

MARIUS: 
Interesting. Most interesting. 
It isn't every night that we come up with a brand new infection, is it, Parsons? 

PARSONS: 
No, sir. 

(The Doctor sits up.) 

DOCTOR: 
Hello. 

MARIUS: 
Good evening. 

DOCTOR: 
Find anything? 

MARIUS: 
Not yet, my boy, 
but we will, we will. 

(Marius lies the Doctor back down again. An image of the Doctor's head comes up on the scanner.) 

MARIUS: 
Ah, Doctor, I see. 

DOCTOR: 
Yes. What have you found? 

MARIUS: 
Cataleptic trance? 

DOCTOR: 
Yes. 

MARIUS: 
Self-induced. 

DOCTOR: 
Yes. 

MARIUS: 
Ha. Why? 

DOCTOR: 
Self-preservation. 

Whatever it is I'm suffering from 
seems to thrive on intellectual activity

MARIUS: 
Oh, I see. 

You mean that the harder you think, 
the more of a grip it seems to take? 

DOCTOR: 
Yes. Non-thinking is the only way to shake it off, 
but I can't stay mindless for eternity, can I.

MARIUS: 
Oh, no, I take your point, I take your point. 
Now my computer here, he's —

DOCTOR: 
Ah. Hello. 

K9: 
Hello. 

DOCTOR: 
How are you? 

MARIUS: 
Well, he seems to think that it's noetic in character, 
that means it's only detectable during consciousness. 

DOCTOR: 
I know what noetic means. 

MARIUS: 
I'm sorry. 

DOCTOR: 
Mind-brain interface. 

MARIUS: 
Well, if it exists. 

DOCTOR: 
But of course. 
How stupid. 

That's why it attacked The 
TARDIS Computer first. 

It was showing the greatest 
amount of mental activity. 
I was just idling, so to speak. 

MARIUS: 
When was this? 

DOCTOR: 
When we were first attacked.
We were on our way to Titan. 

I assumed it was just a static build-up. 

Then when I checked The Computer, 
it jumped into my mind, 
and that explains why Leela was —

MARIUS: 
Hmm? 

DOCTOR: 
Why Leela was unaffected. 
Have you met Leela? 

MARIUS: 
No. 

DOCTOR: 
She's all Instinct and Intuition

MARIUS: 
Oh. 

DOCTOR:
That's why The Virus rejected her. 
Of course. I begin to see it all now. 

MARIUS: 
Well, it's possible, it's possible. 
Was anyone else exposed to it? 

DOCTOR: 
Yes. The entire crew on Titan. 
Well, one exception. 
The Supervisor, man called Lowe. 

K9: 
Supervisor Lowe has been 
seen in The Eye Section. 

MARIUS: 
Are you sure? 

K9: 
Affirmative. 

(The Doctor goes back into his coma.

MARIUS: 
Are you sure that he was the, oh. 
Oh dear, he's gone again. 

I want him kept under 
constant observation. 
See to it, K9. 
Full monitoring. 

K9: 
Affirmative, Master.