Twin War Gods come to Their Father, seeking Magic and Weapons to eliminate The Monsters of The World.

“ Dear Son,

I hope this letter finds you well. I get reports of you from time.

I know these letters come as a surprise. You must wonder about me.

I remind myself of a Navajo story. Twin War Gods come to their Father, seeking Magic and Weapons to eliminate The Monsters of The World.

My Hope is the same for you, and that we might reconcile the differences between us.

Your Loving Father, “

But no name is printed. 

The paper is pulled out of the typewriter. 

Cut to the boy. 

Trudging through the white snow, he reaches a cabin and knocks hard on the door. 

The door opens, and a MAN, whose face remains unseen, hands the boy a red envelope containing the letter he just typed, and some money. 

The boy takes both.

BOY: 

Thanks, mister. I'll mail it right off.

The man closes the door, and the boy looks at the envelope and reads the address aloud to himself, querying it.

BOY: 

"Federal Bureau of Investigation?"

SCENE 6

Cut to a sign on a wire fence which reads:

WIEKAMP AIRFORCE BASE 

NO TRESPASSING 

BEYOND THIS POINT 

BY AUTHORITY OF 

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

Moving over the fence, topped with barbed wire, we hear the steady whooshing of an aircraft, and suddenly, a huge fireball plummets into the ground and erupts in a gigantic explosion which illuminates the entire area. 

The aircraft is a UFO, now set ablaze, burning. 

After a while, we see a man dragging another man from the wreckage, and we hear the faint wailing of army trucks in the background. 

Four or five of them. 

From the trucks emerge men with guns, and they point them straight at the man dragging the body - a FACELESS MAN, 

with another faceless man lying dead on the ground. 

Cut to pictures of the Ruskin Dam. 

They are being held by Scully, 

who is still laying in her hospital bed. 

Mulder is by her bedside.

SCENE 7 

SCULLY'S HOSPITAL ROOM

SCULLY: 

I don't know what to say. I mean, I - 

I don't have the first clue. There's nothing here.

MULDER: 

Well, at least you're not alone. 

None of the other survivors have been able 

to give a cogent account, either.

SCULLY: 

Mulder, I have never been here. 

I couldn't tell you how to get here, let alone drive it.

MULDER: 

Do you remember when you last saw Cassandra Spender?

SCULLY: 

She was there, too?

Mulder nods.

MULDER: 

I ran more x-rays. 

I haven't told anybody yet what I found, though.

SCULLY: 

You found more implants?

Again, Mulder nods.

MULDER: 

That would explain How you were directed to the site, 

and Why you can't remember. 

It would explain the sensation 

Cassandra Spender was describing, 

her abduction fantasies. 

It would explain Skyland Mountain.

SCULLY: 

Yeah, but it wouldn't explain why They would want to kill me. And it doesn't explain why I survived.

MULDER: 

It all comes down to A Question, Scully. 

One that hasn't been answered 

or I don't even think honestly addressed. 

Who made that chip in your neck? 

That chip was found in a military research facility. 

Our Government made that chip, 

implanted it in your neck 

as part of a secret military project 

to develop a biochemical weapon, 

to monitor your immunity, 

or to destroy you like a lab rat, 

if The Truth were to be exposed. 

Your Cancer ... Your Cure ... 

Everything that's happening to you now - 

it all points to that chip. 

The Truth I've been searching for? 

That Truth is in you.

SCULLY: 

Mulder, when I met you five years ago, 

you told me that Your Sister had been abducted 

... by aliens. 

That that event had marked you so deeply, 

that nothing else mattered. 

I didn't believe you, but I followed you, 

on nothing more than Your Faith 

that The Truth was Out There, 

based not on Facts, not on Science, 

but on Your Memories 

that Your Sister had been taken from you. 

Your memories were all that you had.

MULDER: 

I Don't Trust those memories now.

SCULLY: 

Well, whether you Trust them or Not, 

they've led you here. And me. 

But I have no memories to either Trust nor Distrust, 

and if you ask me now to follow you again, 

to stand behind you in What You Now Believe, 

without knowing What Happened to Me out there, 

without those memories, I can't. I won't.

[Mulder stands and looks out the window.]

MULDER: 

If I could give you those memories, 

if I could prove that I Was Right 

and that What I Believed for so long was wrong ...

SCULLY: 

Is that what you really want?

From his expression, 

we know that he's not sure. 

We then cut to a black and white photo of the captured faceless man, along with two military officers 

(one who looks amazingly like Adolf Hitler!) 

The photo is being held by the First Elder, 

who then passes it along to the Second Elder. 

The members of the Syndicate (ie. the "Elders") are standing around a circular table, through which they can see the comatose Marita Covarrubias.

SCENE 8 

MEDICAL FACILITY

FIRST ELDER: 

The facial scarrings appear to be 

self-mutilation done as protection.

THIRD ELDER: 

Protection against what?

FIRST ELDER: 

Infection by The Black Oil. 

He was the lone survivor of a crashed spacecraft 

at a military base in West Virginia.

THIRD ELDER: 

What the hell is he?

WMM: 

An alien Rebel. This is what the boy saw in Russia. 

The last face The Dead saw at Skyland Mountain, 

and most surely who killed Our Man at the dam in Pennsylvania. 

He's a resistance fighter against the alien colonists. 

This is what Alex Krycek knew - 

That a War had begun.

FIRST ELDER: 

What good was that knowledge? 

Without The Vaccine against The Black Oil, 

no one can survive.

WMM: 

We have A Vaccine. 

Developed by the Russians, 

stolen by Krycek, given to me.

They watch as, below, Marita's doctor 

prepares The Vaccine for injection.

WMM: 

Do you see what this means? 

Resistance is Possible. 

We have The Weapons and The Magic in hand.

FIRST ELDER: 

We don't know The Vaccine works.

WMM: 

It will. And if it doesn't, 

we have a new alliance to be made.

FIRST ELDER: 

Side with The Resistance?

THIRD ELDER: 

Suicide.

FIRST ELDER: 

They'll squash us as They do Them. 

We must turn The Rebel over.

WMM: 

But first, 

wait till we know The Vaccine works.

The Well Manicured Man taps on the glass, indicating for the doctor to open Marita's eyes to see The Black Oil. 

It is still in her, and The Doctor carefully injects the vaccine. 

Liberty Will Never Perish

The aeroplane and the radio 

have brought us closer together

The very nature of these inventions 

cries out for the goodness in men - 

cries out for universal brotherhood - 

for the unity of us all

Even now my voice 

is reaching millions throughout The World - 

millions of despairing men, 

women, and little children - 

victims of a system that 

makes men torture 

and imprison innocent people.

To those who can Hear Me, 

I Say - 

“Do Not Despair.”

The Misery that is now upon us 

is but the passing of Greed - 

the bitterness of men 

who fear the way of human progress

The hate of men will pass, 

and dictators die, 

and the power they took from The People 

will return to The People

And so long as men die, 

Liberty will never perish

Emma Lazarus's poem specifically made the statue part of the immigrant story. She was an American Jewish poet who had initially refused the offer, but after working with refugees from European pogroms, came to understand what America meant to people who were outcasts of society:

“Bartholdi's gigantic effigy was originally intended as a monument to the principles of international republicanism, but The New Colossus reinvented the statue's purpose, turning Liberty into a welcoming mother, a symbol of hope to the outcasts and downtrodden of the world.”

Paul Auster

The Geometry of Mass Infection

 
The Geometry of Mass Infection presents certain 
Conceptual Reevaluations for us 
about Our Place in the Colonisation.

"Until Dallas we believed The Virus would simply control Us, 

that Mass Infection would 

make Us a Slave Race. 

Imagine our surprise 
when They began to gestate. 

Survival is The Ultimate Ideology. 

Your Father Wisely 
Refused to Believe This...."


SCENE 13
NORTH TEXAS (BLACKWOOD)

(The camera pans up with a child as he climbs a slide and stands at the top, looking over a fence. The music swells again as we see the other side of the fence. Three large white domes stand in what appears to be endless desert. Next we see under one of the domes as someone removes a silvery tube from a hole (oxygen pump, I believe) as a person-sized container is swung over the hole via a winch. Bronschweig appears in a bio-hazard suit and looks at some gauges at the top of the container. He speaks to the men moving the container.)
BRONSCHWEIG: 
I want all of these settings checked and recalibrated. 
I want a steady, negative two degrees Celsius throughout the transfer of the body after I've administered the vaccine.
(Bronschweig's hood is pulled up. Next we see him with his head fully covered by a see-through helmet at the bottom of the ladder leading into the hole. He walks down the stairs he led Cancer Man down, picks up the vaccine and turns to face the fireman's body. The chest area is empty, the alien entity once encased there is gone! Bronschweig's eyes swell to twice normal size and the music alerts us to his horror. He looks anxiously around the room for the alien, then whips off his headgear to get a better view. Finding nothing, he races towards the ladder and yells up to the men at the top.)
BRONSCHWEIG: 
It's gone!
ONE OF THE MEN AT THE TOP: 
What?!
(Bronschweig begins climbing the ladder.)
BRONSCHWEIG: 
It's left the body, I think it's gestated!
(He stops climbing as he hears a noise and looks off to the side.)
ONE OF THE MEN AT THE TOP: 
What's the matter?
BRONSCHWEIG: 
Wait ... I can see it. (he climbs back down and stands at the bottom. We can see a figure glistening in the darkness.) Oh ... Jesus .... Lord ....
ONE OF THE MEN AT THE TOP: 
Ya, ya see it?!
BRONSCHWEIG: 
So much for Little Green Men. 
(he begins to fumble with a pouch on his hip, taking out the needle and a small bottle with the green liquid vaccine.) 
I need you down here!
(The two men at the top of the ladder look at each other, one nods and the other races away from the hole, we assume he's going for a bio-hazard suit. Down in the hole, Bronschweig fills the needle with the vaccine and stands looking for the alien, but he keeps hearing noises and is not sure where they're coming from. He twists his head from side to side, trying to narrow it down. Suddenly we see a clear view of the alien, behind him, straight out of a '50's B-movie, looking like a guy in a cheap suit, missing only the zipper up its back. Personal opinion, natch. Its claws appear from out of its hand, somewhat like a cat. Bronschweig sees him, he hears the alien's blood-curdling and hair-raising screech and in a flash the alien is all over him like a cheap suit, slicing his face with his claws. Bronschweig manages to stab the alien with the needle, it screams again and then Bronschweig drags himself back to the ladder and holds onto to it for dear life. A group of the men have now gathered at the top of the hole, one in a bio-hazard suit.)
BRONSCHWEIG: 
Help! I need help!
(Suddenly the top part of the ladder is pulled aside, the cover is placed on and Bronschweig, who has begun climbing his end of the ladder, looks up.)
BRONSCHWEIG: 
What are you doing?!
(The hole starts to be covered with dirt.)
BRONSCHWEIG: 
What are you doing?! Ohhh ....
(From the darkness, the alien grabs him and pulls him down. We hear a scream ....)



SCENE 14
SOMERSET, ENGLAND
(The scream was the playful yell of a small child playing in a lovely British garden with his friends. They run around for a moment or two then a woman, possibly the nanny, claps her hands as they run off. The camera pans to a man seated on the terrace of what appears to be a huge mansion, watching with a smile. It's the Well-Manicured Man (WMM). He sips his tea and gives a small chuckle at the goings-on. A servant appears from out of the mansion.)
SERVANT: 
Sir, you have a call.
(WMM looks disappointed. He walks inside and picks up a phone.)
WMM: Yes?
CSM (voice on the phone): We have a situation. The members are assembling.
WMM: Is it an emergency?
CSM: Yes. A meeting has been set, tonight in London to determine a course.
WMM: Who called this meeting?
CSM: Strughold. He just got on a plane in Tunis.
(From the garden comes a child's yell, not a playful one and WMM turns towards the window to look. He hangs up the phone and runs over to the window. One of the children is lying down and holding his leg. Concern on his face, WMM begins to quickly go outside to see what has happened.)



SCENE 15
LONDON, ENGLAND
(We see the outside of a building, The Royal Albert Hall, in the background. A black car pulls up in front and WMM gets out. A servant holds the car door open for him.)
WMM: 
Has Strughold arrived?
SERVANT: 
Yes, they're waiting in the library, sir.
(They enter the building and walk into a room where a group of men, usually known as The Consortium but now called The Syndicate since the movie's release, are gathered. In front of them, a monitor is showing a frozen image of Mulder and Scully as they entered the morgue. Strughold stands up.)
STRUGHOLD: 
We began to worry. 
Some of us have travelled so far and you are the last to arrive.
WMM: 
I'm sorry. 
My Grandson fell and broke his leg.
(Pregnant pause while nobody answers "Gee, sorry to hear that.")
While we have been made to wait, we watched surveillance tapes which have raised more concerns.
WMM: 
STRUGHOLD: 
We have been forced to reassess our role in Colonisation by New Effects in Biology which have .... 
....presented themselves.
FIRST ELDER: 
The Virus has Mutated.
WMM: 
Into what?
STRUGHOLD: 
A new Extraterrestrial Biological Entity.
WMM: 
My God!
STRUGHOLD: 
The Geometry of Mass Infection presents certain Conceptual Reevaluations for us about Our Place in the Colonisation.
(WMM begins to walk towards Strughold, barely containing his anger and amazement at their foolishness. Well, just a guess there!)
WMM: This isn't Colonization, this is spontaneous repopulation! All our work! .... If it's true, they've been using us all along! We've been labouring under a lie!
BARNEY MILLER GUY: It could be an isolated case.
WMM: How can we know?!
STRUGHOLD: We're going to tell them what we've found, what we've learned by turning over a body infected with the gestating organism.
WMM: In hope of what? Learning that it's true? That we are nothing but digestives for the creation of a new race of alien life-forms?! By cooperating now, we are but beggars to our own demise.
STRUGHOLD: 
Cooperation is the only chance of saving ourselves.
CSM: 
They still need us to carry out their preparations.
STRUGHOLD: 
We'll continue to use Them as They do Us. 
If only to play for more time, 
to continue work on our vaccine.
WMM: (shakes his head) 
My lateness might just as well have been absence. 
A course has already been taken!
CSM: 
There are complications. 
(he looks at the surveillance video and WMM looks as well)
 Mulder saw one of the infected bodies that we destroyed in Dallas. 
He's gone back there again. 
Someone has tipped him.
WMM: 
Who?
CSM: 
Kurtzweil, we think.
WMM: 
No one believes Kurztweil or his books. 
He's a toiler, a crank.
FIRST ELDER: 
Mulder Believes.
CSM: 
Then Kurtzweil must be removed.
STRUGHOLD: 
As must Mulder.
WMM: 
Kill Mulder, we take the risk of turning one man's quest into a crusade.
STRUGHOLD: 
Then you must take away what he holds most valuable. That with which he can't live without.
(The scene cuts to Scully, looking out on a vast desert.)

STRUGHOLD: 

More concerns on what?

Other Carriers

The Virus :

I am The Virus of The Nucleus of The Swarm. 

For millennia we have hung dormant in Space waiting for the right carriers to come along.

 

DOCTOR 2:

 Carriers?!? 

What do you mean, carriers?!

I'm not A Porter!!

 

NUCLEUS: 

Consider the Human Species. 

They send hordes of settlers across space to breed, multiply, conquer and dominate. 

We have as much right to conquer you as you have to strike out across the stars.

 

 

WMM: 

A Weak Vaccine against The Virus Agent Scully has been infected with. 

It must be administered within 96 hours. 

That leaves you little time to reach those coordinates.

 

MULDER: 

You're lying.

 

WMM: 

No. Though I have no means to prove otherwise. 

 

The Virus is Extra-Terrestrial. 

 

We know very little about it

except that it was

the original inhabitant of This Planet.

 

MULDER:

(unbelieving) 

A virus...

 

WMM: 

What is A Virus, but a colonizing force that cannot be defeated? 

Living in a cave, underground, until it mutates ... and attacks.

 

 

MULDER: 

This is what you've been conspiring to conceal?

A Disease?

 

WMM: 

No! For God's sake,

you've got it all backwards! 

 

AIDS, the Ebola virus, on an evolutionary scale they are newborns. 

This Virus Walked The Planet long before The dinosaurs.

 

MULDER:

(smiling in disbelief) 

What do you mean “walked"?

 

WMM: 

Your aliens, Agent Mulder. 

Your little green men arrived here millions of years ago. 

 

Those that didn't leave have been lying dormant

underground since the last ice age

in the form of an evolved pathogen,

waiting to be reconstituted by the alien race

when it comes to colonize the planet -- using us as hosts.

 

 Against this we have no defense,

nothing but a weak vaccine. 

 

Do you see why it was kept secret? 

 

Why even The Best Men,

Men like Your Father,

could not let The Truth be known. 

 

Until Dallas we believed The Virus would simply control us,

that mass infection would make us a slave race. 

 

Imagine our surprise when They began to gestate. 

 

My group has been working cooperatively with the alien colonists,

facilitating programs like the one you saw,

to give us access to the virus

in The Hope that we might be able to secretly develop A Cure.

 

MULDER: 

To save your own asses.

 

WMM: 

"Survival is The Ultimate Ideology" 

Your Father wisely refused to believe this.

 

MULDER: 

But he sacrificed My Sister. 

He let them take Samantha.

 

WMM: 

Without a vaccination, the only true survivors of the viral holocaust

will be those immune to it - human-alien clones. 

 

He allowed your sister to be abducted,

to be taken to a cloning program, for one reason...

 

MULDER: 

So she would survive. 

As a genetic hybrid.

 

WMM: 

Your Father chose Hope over Selfishness. 

Hope in the only future he had, his children.

 

His Hope for you was that you would uncover 

The Truth about The Project. 

 

That you would stop it, 

that you would Fight The Future.

 

 

Mulder lets it all sink in.

The driver's eyes look at him through the rear-view mirror.

Darn good driver if he ain't watching the road!

 

MULDER: 

Why are you Telling Me This?

 

WMM: 

For the sake of My Own Children. 

 

Once it's learned What I Have Told You, 

My Life will be over.

 

 

[The Doctor's Brain]

 

Mini-Lowe gets to connection seven and through the gunky bit.

 

NUCLEUS [OC]:

Hurry! Hurry! They are closing in. Hurry, hurry, hurry!

 

Over in the other half of the brain.

 

LEELA 2:

Is this your Land of Dreams and Fantasies?

 

DOCTOR 2:

Well, on the way to it.

 

LEELA 2:

The Evil Thing. Very close. And another.

Doctor, we're going to be trapped.

 

The Doctor goes a little further on,

and finds a three foot high pile of yuk

with a single clawed tentacle flailing around.

 

DOCTOR 2:

Who are you?

 

NUCLEUS:

I am The Nucleus.

 

DOCTOR 2:

You're trespassing, you know.

Treading on my unconscious, affecting my metabolism --

 

Nucleus of what?

 

NUCLEUS:

The Nucleus of The Swarm.

 

DOCTOR 2:

Oh. Oh, I see.

Why did you choose my brain?

 

NUCLEUS:

Because of your intelligence

.

DOCTOR 2:

Oh, well, I can understand that,

but do you realise you have No Right --

 

NUCLEUS:

I have every Right!

 

It is The Right of every creature across The Universe to Survive,

Multiply and Perpetuate it's Species.

 

How else does The Predator exist?

We are all Predators, Doctor.

We Kill, we Devour, to Live.

 

Survival is All, you agree?

 

DOCTOR 2:

Oh yes, I do, I do. And on your argument,

I have A Perfect Right to dispose of you.

 

NUCLEUS:

Of course. The Law is,

'Survival of The Fittest'.

 

DOCTOR 2: Touch�.

 

NUCLEUS:

Your time is running short.

How do you intend to dispose of me?

 

You have no weapons,

and in minutes you will cease to exist.

 

I am The Virus of The Nucleus of The Swarm --

For millennia we have hung dormant in space waiting for the right carriers to come along.

 

DOCTOR 2:

Carriers? What do you mean, ‘carriers'?

I'm not A Porter!!?

 

NUCLEUS:

Consider The Human Species :

They send hordes of settlers across space

to breed, multiply, conquer and dominate.

 

We have as much Right to Conquer you

as you have to strike out across the stars.

 

DOCTOR 2:

But you intend to dominate both worlds,

The Micro and The Macrocosm.

 

NUCLEUS:

We have waited, waited in the cold wastes of space.

Waited for Mankind to come.

 

And now we have not only Space but Time Itself within our grasp.

 

DOCTOR 2:

Time?

NUCLEUS: Through you, Time Lord.

 

Meanwhile, mini-Leela has found mini-Lowe and snuck up behind him.

They grapple briefly. He shoots her then she stabs him.

Phagocytes arrive and attack mini-Lowe as the injured Leela makes her escape.

 

NUCLEUS:

So, Doctor, how can you puny creatures compare yourselves to Us,

The Swarm, The New Masters of Time, Space and The Cosmos.

 

DOCTOR 2:

New Masters?

Not if I can help it.

 

NUCLEUS:

But you cannot. Your time is up.

You have fallen for my stratagem.

Already you cease to exist.

 

Leela arrives.

 

DOCTOR 2:

Get out of My Brain.

 

[Isolation ward]

 

Marius collects something from the Doctor's left tear duct onto a microscope slide.

 

LOWE:

Destroy them!

Destroy them now!

 

MARIUS:

No, no, we must find out What Happened.

We must restore them to their full size and interrogate them.

 

Marius puts the slide in the cubicle and activates the RDS.

Whatever is growing in there, it isn't the Doctor and Leela.

 

[The Doctor's brain]

 

DOCTOR 2:

Get Out of My Brain!

 

There's a flash and the Doctor, Leela and the nucleus vanish.

 

DOCTOR [OC]:

The tear duct. The tear duct. The tear duct. The tear duct. The tear duct. Tear duct.

 

Leela's knife and leather clothes remain.

 

[Isolation ward]

 

The scales disappear from around The Doctor's eyes,

and from his skin.

 

The thing in the cloning cubicle is fully grown,

with several pairs of claws and lots of bristles, but no feet.

 

It's a prawn, sort of.

 

NUCLEUS:

Help me out.

 

DOCTOR:

Professor Marius.

Oh no, not you too.

 

MARIUS:

Yes, Doctor.

Contact Has Been Made.

Now I serve The Purpose.

DOCTOR:

What? That pathetic crustacean, your leader?

MARIUS: You are speaking of the Nucleus, the Nucleus of the Swarm.

NUCLEUS: Take me to him.

DOCTOR: Finding the macro world difficult?

NUCLEUS: It suits me well.

DOCTOR: I thought I'd got rid of you.

NUCLEUS: You were mistaken. I made use of your escape route through the eye.

DOCTOR: Yes, you'd have known about that, wouldn't you.

 

NUCLEUS:

Another mistake, and a costly one, Time Lord, because now, thanks to your dimensional stabiliser, I am no longer forced to exist in the micro world to breed and multiply.

 

My Swarm, when it is hatched on Titan, will no longer be invisible microbes prey to all,

but mighty and invulnerable creatures, invincible.

 

The Age of Man is over, Doctor.

The Age of The Virus has begun.

 

DOCTOR:

— I've heard it all before.

You megalomaniacs are all the same.

 

NUCLEUS:

Bring him with us to Titan,

to be consumed by the Swarm.

 

[Bi-Al Foundation]

 

Elsewhere, Leela has got dressed up in a green nurses uniform,

and applied silver makeup around her eyes.

 

LEELA:

How do I look?

 

K9:

Friend, mistress.

 

LEELA:

If I can just get close enough to that Nucleus,

we'll see how friendly I am.

 

K9:

Hostiles approaching with The Doctor.

 

LEELA:

Come on.

 

(In a corridor.)

 

NUCLEUS:

Hurry, hurry. It is time for The Spawning.

I must get to the place prepared on Titan.

 

MARIUS:

Nurse, take over here.

I must assist The Nucleus.

 

NUCLEUS:

Hurry!

 

MARIUS:

Come with me.

 

NUCLEUS:

Breeding time approaches.

 

Marius and Lowe leave the Doctor's gurney in the hands of the nurse, Leela, and go on ahead.

Leela cuts the Doctor's restraints with her knife.

The party are assembled at Shuttle airlock entrance when Leela wheels him past.

MARIUS:

Nurse, not that way.

The Doctor rolls off the gurney.

 

MARIUS:

Stop them!

The Doctor pushes the gurney at Lowe as Leela takes cover and starts shooting, then they run.

 

LOWE:

They're getting away!

 

NUCLEUS:

No, they are simply trapped.

 

K9 enters.

 

NUCLEUS:

Marius, stay here to make sure the Doctor doesn't escape,

and Make Contact with all other staff in The Foundation.

Bring The Doctor to us later. Hurry!

 

[TARDIS]

 

The Doctor and Leela watch on the scanner. K9 has joined them.

LEELA: Now what?

 

DOCTOR:

Now nothing.

 

LEELA:

Doctor, if we get to Titan first, we can still beat That Thing.

 

DOCTOR:

No, we can't.

The Dimensional Stabiliser's still in the isolation ward.

Without it, The TARDIS won't move an inch.

 

LEELA:

You mean there's nothing we can do?

 

DOCTOR:

I didn't say that.

 

K9. Now listen to me, K9.

 

Do you think you could poleaxe,

do you think you could poleaxe Marius?

 

K9:

Poleaxe?

 

DOCTOR:

Yes, knock him out.

 

K9:

Affirmative.

My photon beam weaponry

has four levels of intensity, Doctor.

Kill, paralyse --

 

DOCTOR:

No, no, no, not kill.

Not kill. Just knock out.

 

K9:

Affirmative.

 

DOCTOR:

Good Dog.

 

The Doctor opens the doors and K9 leaves.

 

[Bi-Al Foundation]

 

Marius activates the tannoy, as seen on the scanner in the previous scene.

 

MARIUS:

All senior staff, report to Reception.

This is Professor Marius speaking.

All senior staff report to Reception.

 

Ah, K9. K9, I no longer require you to obey --

 

K9 shoots him. Marius falls at the base of the TARDIS.

 

DOCTOR:

You're A Good Dog, K9.

Good Dog.

 

The little ambulance spaceship leaves the asteroid.

 

[Isolation ward]

 

Marius is on the examination table.

Leela is back in her leathers.

 

DOCTOR:

Come on, Leela, quickly. We haven't got a moment to spare.

Not frightened of blood, are you? You, The Mighty Huntress.

 

LEELA:

Just hurry up.

 

The Doctor pricks her finger and puts the sample into the scanner.

 

LEELA:

Haven't we been through all this before?

 

DOCTOR:

I had a virus then. I'm immune now.

Something Must Have Happened while you and I

were inside my head.

 

I want to find out what.

 

Ah, that's interesting.

You see that?

 

An image of the blood sample is on the screen.

 

DOCTOR:

That little fish-hook is the only thing that you and I have in common.

It wasn't there before, so it must be the antibody,

The Immunity Factor.

 

LEELA:

How did What I Have

get into your bloodstream?

 

DOCTOR:

Quite simple. Your clone was absorbed into my bloodstream

and passed on the immunity to me.

All we've got to do is isolate it, analyse it, duplicate it

and inject it into Marius here,

and he in turn will be able to cure all the others.

 

LEELA:

What about the Nucleus?

What about Titan?

 

DOCTOR:

Come on, one thing at a time.

One thing at a time.

 

[Shuttle]

 

NUCLEUS:

Faster, faster.

 

LOWE:

We can't. We'll burn out the motors.

 

NUCLEUS:

Let them burn out.

Once we reach Titan and the breeding tanks,

our job is finished.

 

THE PHYSICAL ENVELOPE IS OF

NO CONSEQENCE

 

LOWE:

What about The Doctor?

 

NUCLEUS:

He will follow.

Marius will make sure of that, Whatever Happens.

 

 

It’s been inside his head --

It knows What Marius Will Do,

regardless of whether he still remains infected or not.

 

Faster. Use all the fuel. Faster!

 

[Isolation ward]

 

LEELA:

Doctor, look! It's working.

 

Marius' scales vanish.

 

DOCTOR:

Sometimes my brilliance astonishes even me.

Come on, Marius. Wake up, wake up. Come on.

 

MARIUS:

Where's Parsons?

What Happened?

 

DOCTOR:

He's dead, I'm afraid.

Do you remember anything?

 

MARIUS:

I remember Lowe coming in, and then Parsons,

and then a flash and then nothing.

 

Did The Experiment work?

 

DOCTOR:

Yes and No.

Unfortunately the Nucleus got away by means of the Dimensional Stabiliser.

It's on its way to Titan to breed.

 

MARIUS:

Was I taken over?

 

DOCTOR:

Yes, it got to you.

 

MARIUS:

But we found The Immunity Factor,

so we're safe here for a while. What was it?

 

DOCTOR:

It was something in Leela.

Something we all missed. This is it.

 

You'll have to cultivate a great deal more.

 

MARIUS:

Yes.

 

DOCTOR:

If those antibodies can confer immunity,

they can be used to attack the Nucleus.

 

MARIUS:

Attack The Nucleus?

Oh, that's dangerous.

 

DOCTOR:

Of course it's dangerous.

If we allow the Nucleus to breed and swarm,

it'll go through the entire Solar System like a plague of giant locusts.

 

MARIUS:

But will you get to Titan on time?

 

DOCTOR:

Yes, by means of the Dimensional Stabiliser.

 

[Base control]

 

SAFRAN:

Safran on Titan. Safran on Titan. The Hive is prepared.

The breeding tanks are ready. Temperature and humidity are set.

I await your arrival for The Generation of the Swarm.

 

[Shuttle]

 

LOWE:

Maximum speed. We have reached maximum speed.

 

NUCLEUS:

Faster! We must go faster!

Now the time for spawning is very close.

 

[Isolation ward]

 

Marius has enlisted help to cultivate the antibodies.

 

LEELA:

How much longer?

 

DOCTOR:

We can't rush these things.

They're breeding as fast as They can.

 

K9 will tell us when they've got the most powerful strain.

 

LEELA:

Doctor, why don't we just blow up Titan?

Nucleus, breeding tanks, everything.

 

DOCTOR:

That's Your Answer to everything, isn't it,

Knock it on The Head.

 

LEELA:

Effective, isn't it?

Smash it once and for all. Well?

 

DOCTOR:

With what?

This is A Hospital, not an arsenal.

 

LEELA:

All right, what are you going to do?

 

K9:

Confirm. Confirm strain C five three one has lethal capacity.

 

MARIUS: 

Doctor, we've done it! Congratulations.

There isn't a moment to be lost. Cultivate C five three one.

DOCTOR:

Thank you, K9.

 

LEELA:

And?

 

DOCTOR: 

Now, just get it into the tanks

and wait for it to attack the Nucleus in the same way it attacked us.

Microscopically. It's neat, don't you think?

 

 

LEELA: 

Is that all?

If we can get to Titan on time,

if we can get past Lowe and the others,

if it works when we get it in there. If. 

 

I thought you didn't like Killing?

 

DOCTOR:

I Don't.

 

LEELA: 

Then why are you doing all this?

 

DOCTOR: 

The Virus has A Perfect Right to Exist as A Virus,

not as a Giant Storm threatening The Entire Solar System. 

 

Everything Has its Place. 

 

Otherwise The Delicate Balance of The Whole Cosmos is Destroyed.

 

LEELA:

I still say we should blow it up.