The Silver Bullets
ACE! :
What am I supposed
to be listening for?
(There is a loud beep, beep, and
The Doctor turns it off.)
Time's Champion :
-- That.
Cybermen communicating.
ACE! : (frowns)
-- I don't like Cybermen.
Time's Champion :
You should see the ones
They're communicating with.
There are
serious consequences
on planet Earth for
people not liking you.
Huge ones.
We like to talk a big game
now about the fact that
"....it's it's only the way
that they think!" -- you guys!
People do terrifying things
when they don't Like You, and
don't want you somewhere --
You know that at some visceral level.
We all know that at some visceral level
that there are huge consequences.
Rather than gaslight ourselves all day long
about the fact that it's not so bad
to be rejected. No, actually sometimes
it's absolutely dangerous.
We can actually think about, well,
is it worth the consequence?
Now, you know how people say,
"I went out and I got rejected so
many times to see that it wasn't
so bad --"
They didn't
put themselves
in circumstances where
the consequence could
be so bad.
So, all they really did was to say,
I put myself in a situation where I
already decided that the consequence
wasn't so bad. In fact, it wasn't worth
me holding myself back or whatever."
Why am I saying this?
I don't want you to
gaslight yourselves.
It's a big deal to
be rejected. It is.
Rejection only
happens when people
think poorly of you.
People thinking
poorly of you is not safe.
########
The Avoidant is in control of
the relationship and some of you
who are on this end of The Spectrum,
you know how horrible this feels --
The relationship is always
controlled by the person who
can pull away because a relationship,
it's like I want you to
imagine there's a kitty pool
in between us of water --
To have a relationship,
I have to, with my free will,
step into that kitty pool and
you have to step into --
I'm totally at the mercy of that;
so if what I need is your closeness --
that's what a relationship is right?
Then I'm at the mercy
of your capacity to GO
and The Avoidant is the one
that can Do it -- so we basically
sit here at The Castle Door,
that's mostly closed, waiting
for you to open --
The Silver Bullets
CyberLieutenant :
The remaining Validium
approaches, Leader.
CyberLeader :
As predicted. Activate
communications unit.
CyberLieutenant :
But The Doctor and Peinforte
are still to be destroyed.
CyberLeader :
Our Victory is inevitable. The Doctor
will come to us, and Peinforte
is a simple savage accompanied
by a terrified peasant.
[Windsor Great Park]
(The two thugs have been bound, gagged and are hanging by their heels from a large tree branch while their clothes burn nearby.
Elsewhere, Ace sets up
the tape deck as an aerial.
ACE! :
What am I supposed
to be listening for?
(There is a loud beep, beep, and
The Doctor turns it off.)
Time's Champion :
-- That.
Cybermen communicating.
ACE! : (frowns)
-- I don't like Cybermen.
Time's Champion :
You should see the ones
They're communicating with.
ACE! :
Reinforcements?
Time's Champion :
Yes. But if we could
only jam Their signal.
....Have you got A Tape?
ACE! :
Yeah. You mean this
thing transmits?
(She puts her Courtney Pine Jazz
Tape into the tape-deck.)
Time's Champion :
Of course it does. I built it.
[Crypt]
CyberLeader : Commence transmission.
CyberLieutenant : Leader, I must repeat the objection to the transmission of incorrect information. Our forces do not yet hold all three units of validium.
CyberLeader : You are outside your function.
(The communications globe glows.)
[Windsor Great Park]
(The Doctor and Ace are lying on the slope listening to Courtney Pine's tape.)
Time's Champion : Are we having fun?
ACE! : Yeah.
[Crypt]
CyberLieutenant : Interference, origin unknown.
CyberLeader : Open the monitor channel.
(Jazz blares out.)
[Windsor Great Park]
ACE! : That'll keep them busy. Time to go?
Time's Champion : Oh, I do love a jam session.
(As the jazz sounds out across the galaxy, the Doctor and Ace start walking again. Eventually they come across the skinheads still hanging from the tree. The Doctor gives Ace the bow and runs over to them.)
Time's Champion : This is ridiculous. Who did this to you?
SKINHEAD: Social workers.
[Outside the Crypt]
(A strange growling yowling noise can be heard.)
RICHARD: My lady.
PEINFORTE: Of course I heard it. Am I deaf?
RICHARD: It sounds like a bear, but worse.
(Lady Peinforte's silver bow glows.)
PEINFORTE: See, we're near the Nemesis. Come. The bear will not pursue us. Such things happen only in the theatre.
RICHARD: What creatures are these?
(They are llamas.)
PEINFORTE: I know not.
RICHARD: They will eat us. I beg you, my lady, return us to our own time. The England now is full of terrors.
PEINFORTE: You're mad! Return without the Nemesis? Never. And without my knowledge, you cannot return at all. I tell you, Richard, either you assist me to regain it or I leave thee here forever. Now, come. I think they are peaceful.
RICHARD: What place, what place is this?
PEINFORTE: The piece of ground on which you stand? Well, I will tell thee. It is thy grave, Richard.
RICHARD: What?
PEINFORTE: I ordered you to be buried here when I planned my tomb. See, there's thy stone.
(Here Lyeth the Body of Richard Maynarde, departed this life ye 2nd November 1657 in the 51st year of his Age. He saw worlds end and begin.)
PEINFORTE: If the dogs would not eat thee, I ordered you put out here to attend me in the next world as in this. There you see is my burial place, and aptly the silver creatures there do hold the Nemesis. We shall attack.
(We pull back to see a sign near the llamas which reads - Stay in your car while in the safari park.
(The Doctor and Ace look round the trunk of a large tree.)
Time's Champion : Just in time.
[Crypt]
RICHARD: There's nothing here, my lady.
PEINFORTE: See the arrow? The statue's here, depend upon it.
[Outside the Crypt]
CyberLeader : Now our plan begins to operate. She will find that her crypt has weathered with age. The fact of her death will drive her insane.
[Crypt]
RICHARD: This is your tomb?
PEINFORTE: Rather fine, is it not? But where is the statue of Nemesis?
[Outside the Crypt]
PEINFORTE [OC]: Where is it? Where?
CyberLieutenant : Is this the human condition of madness, Leader?
CyberLeader : It is. Kill them.
PEINFORTE [OC]: It must be here. It must be!
[Crypt]
(Richard stands guard with his bow.)
RICHARD: My lady!
PEINFORTE: It is here! The arrow tells me. How can this be? Where? Where is it?
(Richard looses an arrow at the returning Cybermen.)
[Outside the Crypt]
(A Cyberman touches the arrow with a detector.)
CyberLieutenant : Gold!
(They withdraw. Richard's second shot hits its chest unit and kills it.)
[Van]
(De Flores consults a map.)
DE FLORES: This was once the estate of the infamous Lady Peinforte, in the 17th century.
KARL: Lady Peinforte? But Herr De Flores, we've seen a woman in 17th century dress today, firing arrows at us and at men of silver.
DE FLORES: Shut up.
[Outside the spacecraft]
(The Doctor and Ace observe the Cyber spacecraft from underneath a hedge. It is guarded by the two headphone wearing men who knocked them into the river. Ace sneezes, so the Doctor shakes a branch and whistles like a bird. The men decide not to investigate.)
Time's Champion : I don't suppose you've completely ignored my instructions and secretly prepared any Nitro Nine, have you?
ACE! : What if I had?
Time's Champion : Naturally you wouldn't do anything so insanely dangerous as to carry it around with you, would you?
ACE! : Of course not. I'm a good girl. I do what I'm told.
Time's Champion : Excellent. Blow up that vehicle.
(Ace grins, and picks up her rucksack.)
[Outside the Crypt]
CyberLeader : Destroy them. Destroy them!
CyberLieutenant : We cannot sustain these losses, Leader. We must withdraw.
CyberLeader : No. We must hold the statue and retrieve the arrow from them.
CyberLieutenant : If we are overcome, the entire strategy fails. The Cyber race will cease to exist.
CyberLeader : Your logic is correct. Their supply of gold is limited. Retreat.
[Crypt]
PEINFORTE: Of course. Help me, Richard. Tis in my tomb. Help me!
[Outside the spacecraft]
(The Doctor emerges from the hedgerow.)
Time's Champion : Hello, I'm the Doctor! I believe you want to kill me.
(The Doctor runs and the men follow. Ace runs to the spacecraft, throws the rucksack inside then runs back to the hedgerow. KaBOOM! Karl and De Flores see the fireball and drive towards it. Ace rejoins the Doctor as the men go to the Cybermen.)
[Outside the Crypt]
CyberLeader : Betrayal. Kill them.
ACE! : They killed them, just cos I blew up the ship.
Time's Champion : They were dead already. The Cybermen had transformed them. They were no longer human beings.
ACE! : Is that why the Cybermen saved my life, so they could do that to me too?
Time's Champion : Probably. They were like people themselves before they turned themselves into Cybermen. Quite a lot of human beings are trying to follow their example.
[Crypt]
(Richard has opened the top of the sarcophagus.)
RICHARD: My lady, where are your bones?
PEINFORTE: What matter?
[Windsor Great Park]
Time's Champion : Are we still jamming them?
ACE! : Tape's still running.
Time's Champion : Good. Let's see who's listening to it.
(He turns up the volume.)
Time's Champion : Ah, sweet.
[Clearing]
(Karl and De Flores meet the Cybermen in a clearing.)
DE FLORES: We want to talk to you. I don't know if you're familiar with Wagner's Ring das Nibelungen. Now we, we are the supermen, but you, you are the giants. They are wonderful creatures.
CyberLeader : Of course, but why should we form an alliance with you?
DE FLORES: We had a leader once. He predicted your coming. Now together we shall fulfil his vision and reign over this world.
CyberLeader : Together? The Cyber race requires no help from humans.
KARL: But a woman who is almost less that human now holds the statue.
DE FLORES: And she's armed with the most primitive toys.
CyberLeader : You insult us.
DE FLORES: Of course not. Whatever your unfortunate vulnerability doesn't affect us. We can remove her for you.
CyberLeader : We accept. Destroy the woman and her servant, and we will divide the planet into your slave groups and ours.
DE FLORES: Good.
CyberLeader : But remember, betrayal will be fatal. We are invincible to your weapons.
DE FLORES: Come with me.
(De Flores and Karl leave.)
CyberLeader : Once they have the arrow and the statue, destroy them.
[Windsor Great Park]
(The hologram above the tape deck is empty.)
Time's Champion : Anything there?
ACE! : Why am I doing this?
Time's Champion : That handful back there aren't the only Cybermen in the universe. We've got to find out where the others are.
ACE! : Look, this is where the signal's being received, right?
Time's Champion : Right.
ACE! : But according to the scanner there's nothing there.
Time's Champion : Then the scanner's wrong. That lot were only the advance party. Out there somewhere's the entire Cyberforce, and they want the Nemesis more than anything else in space.
ACE! : How can you be so sure?
Time's Champion : Because it's 1988.
ACE! : Huh. That makes sense.
Time's Champion : Listen, Ace. The Nemesis generates destruction. It affects everything around it. I launched it into space, but unfortunately with an orbit that brings it back to Earth every twenty five years. Take the 20th century. It appeared in 1913.
ACE! : The eve of the First World War.
Time's Champion : Twenty five years later?
ACE! : 1938.
Time's Champion : Hitler annexes Austria.
ACE! : 1963?
Time's Champion : Kennedy assassinated.
ACE! : 1988.
Time's Champion : Check the scanner again.
(Elsewhere - )
DE FLORES: Unfortunately, Wagner must be rewritten. The supermen must control the giants. Only two illiterates stand between ourselves and the Fuhrer's dream. Come.
[Crypt]
(The statue is uncovered in the sarcophagus.)
PEINFORTE: How perfect you are. Immaculate beauty carved in absolute evil.
RICHARD: But your bones, my lady? They should be buried
PEINFORTE: What matter? They are dead, but I live, and soon I shall have the bow and my Nemesis shall be complete.
(A gunshot makes Richard duck.)
PEINFORTE: We are attacked! Quickly, arrows.
RICHARD: We have but one left, my lady. I doubt that our arrows can stop these weapons anyway.
PEINFORTE: Nonsense. Make it count. They killed the silver creatures.
(More shots hit the stonework.)
RICHARD: See, lady, we have no chance!
PEINFORTE: Nonsense. No man shall take the Nemesis. Her might is mine!
(Richard fires the last poisoned arrow.)
PEINFORTE: Not for nothing did I design my own tomb. Death is but a door.
(She presses a carving and a door opens in the wall.)
PEINFORTE: I always knew I'd cheat it. Here, help me with the statue.
RICHARD: We can't lift it, my lady. We must fly!
KARL: Put up your hands.
PEINFORTE: Never!
RICHARD: You want the statue, master? Here, take it. Take it.
PEINFORTE: No!
(Richard snatches the silver arrow from Lady Peinforte.)
RICHARD: Give her the arrow. See!
(Richard throws the arrow into the sarcophagus.)
RICHARD: Forgive me, my lady.
PEINFORTE: Unhand me now!
(Richard drags Lady Peinforte out through the new door. Karl fires and misses.)
PEINFORTE [OC]: No!
DE FLORES: No matter, Karl, no matter. They are of no importance. We have the statue, the arrow, and the bow.
(The Nemesis's hand reaches for the arrow.)
KARL: And the Cybermen?
DE FLORES: Gold overcomes them. We have no such weakness. See how it prepares for life. Your first task must be to take control of the extraterrestrials.
(The Cyber Leader enters behind them.)
CyberLeader : Unfortunately, that will not be possible.
DE FLORES: Keep away. I possess the entire statue of Nemesis. All power is mine. The life and death of everything in existence is in my hands.
CyberLeader : Then where is the bow?
(De Flores opens the case and discovered that it is empty.)
[Windsor Great Park]
(Ace is still staring at the scanner. The Doctor spots a lizard amongst the foliage.)
Time's Champion : Of course. It's so simple. They're shrouded.
ACE! : You what?
Time's Champion : Shrouded. They don't show up. But we must try and force them into revealing themselves. Treble. Bass. Please let me be right. Is anyone listening? Balance.
(The scanner fills with the Cyber fleet.)
ACE! : What are they?
Time's Champion : Cyber warships. Thousands of them. They were invisible.
Part Three
[Windsor Great Park]
(The Doctor turns off the scanner.)
ACE! : What can we do?
Time's Champion : I think our best move is to go to the crypt, unarmed, with the bow.
ACE! : Professor, are you losing your marbles?
(The Doctor takes a handful of marbles from his pocket and pours them into Ace's hands.)
Time's Champion : We've got to get the bow into the statue's hands in order to activate the validium.
ACE! : Is this the only way?
Time's Champion : I believe in the direct approach. You can always go back to the Tardis.
ACE! : Are we going or what?
[Crypt]
(De Flores tips some gold dust into his palm then turns around to face the Cybermen.)
DE FLORES: Surely we, er, we can negotiate this er, this misunderstanding?
CyberLeader : Our understanding is perfect. You thought you had all three components of the statue, and naturally wished to destroy us.
KARL: You are completely mistaken.
CyberLeader : Silence.
CyberLieutenant : Validium activity indicates proximity of the bow, Leader.
CyberLeader : Excellent. Kill them.
(De Flores throws the gold dust at the Leader, but is aiming at its head, not chest unit. It staggers back briefly as De Flores and Karl walk out.)
[Outside the Crypt]
(A Cyberman follows them.)
KARL: Herr De Flores.
DE FLORES: You fool, they're going to kill us.
KARL: Your day is over.
DE FLORES: You betray me? Have I taught you nothing?
KARL: Everything. Which is why we now part company. I'm afraid you failed to understand history in addition to Wagner.
DE FLORES: I?
KARL: Supermen are all very well, but the giants are the master race.
(The Cyber Leader comes outside.)
KARL: Here he is. Now make me one of you.
CyberLeader : You show potential. Very well. Have them programmed at once.
(Two Cybermen take Karl and De Flores back inside the tower.)
CyberLeader : We must complete the statue immediately. Locate the bow. Destroy the Doctor and his young friend.
(Richard leads the Lady Peinforte up some steps from below the base of the tower.)
RICHARD: How is it with you, my lady?
PEINFORTE: I understand not.
RICHARD: What's to understand?
PEINFORTE: Always I have treated you badly. I have done you no service, shown you no kindness, and yet you risk your life to save me. Why so?
RICHARD: Should I not?
PEINFORTE: I do not live in the world of what should. But you're a good man, Richard, and I am evil.
RICHARD: My lady, we have no more weapons.
PEINFORTE: No, you're wrong. I have one more yet that will not fail. My knowledge. I will have the statue of Nemesis.
[Windsor Great Park]
ACE! : Doctor.
Time's Champion : Ace?
ACE! : Look, let's be honest, right? I've never really bottled out of anything before, have I, but I'm really, really scared, Doctor.
Time's Champion : Oh, Ace. I'm sorry. Forgive me. Why don't you go back to the Tardis? You'll be safe there, whatever happens.
ACE! : No chance, Doctor. No chance.
[Crypt]
(De Flores and Karl have been fitted with headphones.)
CyberLieutenant :
The CyberFleet are still not receiving
Our Transmission, Leader.
CyberLeader :
Is there any pattern to
The Jamming-signal?
(The Cyberman turns on the monitor
channel, and jazz is heard.)
CyberLieutenant :
IT - IS -
MEANINGLESS..!!
(As the Doctor and Ace run
towards The Tower, The Tape stops.
The communications unit light comes on.)
CyberLieutenant : Communication channels to the Cyberfleet are clear again, Leader.
CyberLeader :
Excellent. Their arrival is imminent.
DE FLORES:
You fool. Without the bow the statue's power is nothing.
CyberLeader : We will shortly obtain The Bow.
DE FLORES: From the Doctor? Don't delude yourself. He is no common adversary. Do you think he'll simply walk in here and hand it over?
Time's Champion :
Good afternoon.
CyberLeader :
Doctor --
Time's Champion :
Yes, here we are. I'm sorry we
couldn't have been here earlier,
but we were held up on the way.
I don't believe you've
met my friend ACE! --
CyberLeader : Give me the bow.
Time's Champion :
Cyberleader moves pawn to discover check.
ACE! :
ACE! replies by neatly
ACE! replies by neatly
castling with The Bow.
CyberLeader :
Give me the bow.
Time's Champion :
Doctor en passant
behind CyberLeader.
CyberLeader :
Give me the bow!
(The Doctor grabs the bow
with his umbrella.)
Time's Champion :
Doctor supports
combination-gambit.
CyberLeader :
Take the bow from him.
Time's Champion :
Middle game Development
with Cybermen.
(The Doctor pirouettes to the sarcophagus,
putting his hat over a Cyberman's gun.)
CyberLeader :
Kill him!
Time's Champion :
Endgame -- Illegal move,
but Checkmate!
(The Doctor gives the bow to Nemesis to activate it, then takes it back.)
Time's Champion : That seems to be in order.
(The Doctor takes back his hat.)
Time's Champion : Run!
[Outside the Crypt]
Time's Champion : The Tardis.
ACE! : No statue?
Time's Champion : Now it's awake, it'll follow the bow.
(The glowing silver statue stands up and there are small explosions around her. A piercing scream splits the air as fire blows out of the windows of the tower.)
[Windsor Great Park]
(Lady Peinforte hears it.)
PEINFORTE: Fear not, Richard. It is the Nemesis come alive.
RICHARD: Alive?
PEINFORTE: Why, yes. Which means it is complete, and now it shall be mine.
(The Tardis dematerialises.)
PEINFORTE: All power, all power past, present and future, shall be mine. Why, I shall be mistress of all of that is, all that shall be, all that ever was. Yes, all! All!
RICHARD: My lady, let us find some shelter.
PEINFORTE: How dare you! I shall lead and you follow!
[Lady Peinforte's home]
(The Doctor is staring at the chess board in 1638 while Ace rolls up the mathematicians papers.)
ACE! : Hey, why are we here? What's going on, Professor?
Time's Champion : Unfinished business. We don't want those to fall into the wrong hands, just yet.
ACE! : How's the game going?
Time's Champion : Black's losing.
ACE! : What happens to these calculations?
Time's Champion : Bishop takes rook. Someone steals them.
ACE! : The same person who steals the bow? I mean, the same person who steals it in 1788?
Time's Champion : How should I know, Ace? Questions, questions. Queen takes bishop.
ACE! : Who brought validium to Earth in the first place?
Time's Champion : But pawn takes queen.
ACE! : What's really going on, Doctor?
Time's Champion : Checkmate. Black wins. Time to go. Take those gold coins. We may need them.
[Road]
