WER-KING

.....well, The TARDIS is more than A Machine, Tegan, it's like A Person; it needs coaxing, persuading, encouraging...

-- You mean, it's just as unreliable.

Star Trek Voice First Computer

Let This Be Our Last Battlefield

 

[Castle]

(Lightning flashes around The Tower and 

battlements of a empty building nearby, 

with boarded up windows. 

Played by Wolthorpe Towers, 

Stamford, Lincolnshire.)

MORDRED: 

Here is The Convocation. 

This we make the meeting place. 

The point between two worlds.

(Two globes either side 

of Mordred light up.)

MORDRED: 

Two universes. 

Two realities.

[Gore Crow Hotel]

(Night has fallen. The scabbard is quivering on the wall 

as The Doctor looks out of the curtains in the bar.)

Time's Champion : 

No one's to go outside.

ELIZABETH: 

I heard gunshots earlier.

Time's Champion : 

Exactly.

PAT: 

Why not?

Time's Champion : 

There are things out there 

in The Dark you wouldn't 

want to meet. (Bang!)

WARMSLY:

 What was that?

(Bambera brings Ancelyn in 

from the grounds, handcuffed.)

Bdr. BAMBERA: 

Come on, move it, will you. 

Get in. Brigadier Bambera.

Time's Champion : 

What happened to you?

Sir ANCELYN: 

….She vanquished me, and 

I threw myself on her mercy.

Bdr. BAMBERA: 

(flashes creds) As of now, I'm in charge. 

Everyone remain calm. We'll soon 

have everything under control.

(The Doctor notices the scabbard, rattling)

Time's Champion : 

I doubt that.

[Castle]

MORDRED: 

By this sword, Brother to Excalibur, 

I part the curtain of night —

[Gore Crow Hotel]

WARMSLY: 

What's that noise?

PAT: 

What noise?

(The scabbard flies across the room and

sticks point first into the upright timber 

by Warmsly. Glasses fall off the 

shelves behind the bar.)

WARMSLY: 

That noise!

Time's Champion : 

Which way does that wall face?

WARMSLY: 

Excuse me, but three 

inches to the left —

PAT: 

North, towards 

The Lake.

[Helicopter]

(The Brigadier is taking a nap.)

ATC [OC]: 

Docklands ATC to 

Uniform November niner zero. 

Clear for final approach. Over.

LAVEL: 

Roger, Docklands ATC. 

Commencing approach now. 

We'll be landing in 

London shortly, sir.

[Castle]

MORDRED: 

Across The Abyss, Life calls to Life, 

biomass to biomass, energy to energy.

 To Avallion I summon thee from 

beyond the confines of this universe.

(Mordred stabs his sword into the floor. There is a small explosion. 

The Brigadier suddenly wakes. Mordred laughs. A Lot.)

[Gore Crow Hotel]

(More glasses fall and the lights flicker.)

Bar. BAMBERA : 

Another storm. 

Just what we need.

Time's Champion : 

Stay where you are —

(The chandelier is swinging in 

a circle. A few more glasses fall.)

WARMSLY: 

An earthquake?

(Ace and Shou run in.)

SHOU: 

Doctor!

BAMBERA: 

What's going on, Doctor?

Time's Champion : 

I don't know, but I've got 

some nasty suspicions.

(The Doctor pulls the scabbard from the post and tries to hold on to it. 

Mordred finishes his long laugh and walks out of the circle of light.)

SHOU: 

An earthquake? In England?

Time's Champion : 

No. Someone is creating a rip in 

the fabric of Time and space.

Sir ANCELYN:

She is coming.

BAMBERA: 

What are you talking about? 

Who's coming?

ACE! : 

You can feel it?

Time's Champion : 

Yes. I'm uniquely 

sensitive. Argh! Gah!

(The Doctor falls to his knees, still 

clutching the scabbard for dear life.)

ACE! : 

Doctor! What is it?

[Castle]

(Morgaine appears in the circle 

vacated by Mordred.)

MODRED: 

Immortal Morgaine, 

ageless and deathless.

MORGAINE: 

Mordred.

MORDRED: 

Mother, Merlin is here.

MORGAINE: 

Yes, I can feel his presence.

MORDRED: 

He has a new countenance.

MORGAINE: 

He has worn many faces. 

Merlin -- Hear Me.

[Gore Crow Hotel]

Time's Champion : 

(through gritted teeth) 

I hear you.

[Castle]

MORGAINE: 

Do not stand against me this time, 

for your soul's sake.

[Gore Crow Hotel]

Time's Champion : 

I cannot allow 

your interference.

[Castle]

MORGAINE: 

Then, Merlin, let this 

be our last battlefield.

(She raises her arms, the lightning flashes, and over 

in the hotel the lights go out and people scream.)

Orbiting The Planet at Maximum Velocity.

Orbiting The Planet 

at Maximum Velocity.

The Moon with 

The Rebel Base 

will be in range 

in 30 minutes.

This will be A Day long remembered.

It has seen The End 

of Kenobi... it will 

soon see The End 

of The Rebellion.

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Release The Hounds

Out on the trail at last, Custer was in high spirits, and 

despite Terry's orders to remain with the group, 

he and his brothers repeatedly disappeared 

on impulsive hunting and exploring jaunts. 

Nathaniel Philbrick, Author, The Last Stand: 

Almost as soon as the march starts, he's doing 

everything he can to stray from the column. 

He and his brothers are having 

a great time raising hell on the Plains. 

And, and Terry's getting increasingly frustrated 

until finally Terry chastises Custer and says, 

"Look, you got to stay with the column." 

Narrator: 

By June 9th, the expedition had followed the Yellowstone 

to its confluence with the Powder River. 

Then, perhaps to punish Custer for his skylarking, 

Terry sent Major Reno and half the regiment south to scout 

the Powder River basin in search of Sitting Bull's band. 

The decision to put Reno in charge stunned the rest of the regiment. 

"It has been a subject of conversation among the officers 

why General Custer was not in command," one lieutenant 

confided to his journal, "but no solution yet has been arrived at." 

Nathaniel Philbrick, Author, The Last Stand : 

Custer is left to lead the rest of the regiment towards a rendezvous, 

but on the way they come across an abandoned Lakota winter camp where 

hundreds, perhaps thousands of Lakota had spent the winter. 

And there he finds evidence of A Soldier who had apparently 

been beaten to death, tortured to death 

and his body eventually burned. 

And Custer sees the skull, looks down 

on it and is clearly moved in some way. 

And it's at that point that they camp right 

beside this Indian burial ground. 

And Custer seems to have been in the mood 

for revenge and he leads his brothers 

and some other officers in a systematic 

desecration of this burial ground. 

He and his brothers had a great old time. 

They would write letters about the 

great stuff that they had gotten. 

But for some of the other officers and soldiers, 

this was pretty horrifying stuff. 

Narrator: 

Four days later Reno rejoined the regiment with exciting news. 

Contrary to his orders, and against everyone's expectations, 

he had crossed over to the Rosebud and found a large trail 

that could only have been made by Sitting Bull's village. 

Reno had followed the tracks for several miles, but 

with his provisions dwindling, he had eventually 

decided to turn around and rejoin the column. 

Nathaniel Philbrick, Author, The Last Stand: 

Custer was outraged. He said, 'Reno if you see 

this village why didn't you pursue?' 

He thought it was an expression of cowardice 

this was one of those things that military people did. 

If you knew you would get a great victory, even 

though it was contrary to orders, you did it. 

And Reno after thinking about it for a while decided NOT 

to pursue The Lakota. Custer couldn't understand this. 

Narrator: 

That night, Custer was so insulted by Reno's caution, that 

he penned an anonymous letter to the New York Herald, impugning 

Reno's courage. "Faint heart never won fair lady," he wrote, 

"neither did it ever pursue and overtake an Indian village." 

On June 21st, at the confluence of the Yellowstone and the Rosebud, 

Terry gathered his officers in his cabin on 

the Far West, and unveiled his revised plan. 

Major Marcus Reno was not invited to the meeting. 

Terry ordered Custer to pick-up the Indian trail that Reno had found, 

but then, instead of following it, to loop south, until he and 

Gibbon could converge on the Indians from the north. 

Nathaniel Philbrick, Author, The Last Stand: 

Custer was a known quantity. You knew what you had with him. 

And to expect him to delay for a day and a half while Terry 

and the rest of the column positioned themselves was an absurdity. 

What Terry was doing was making sure that if everything went well, 

he was in a good position because it was a great victory. 

If everything went poorly, he was covered, because 

Custer had to break orders to attack the Indians 

in the way that they all knew he would. 

Paul Hutton, Historian:

 Terry absolutely knew that if he let Custer loose, 

Custer was going to find the Indians and 

Custer was going to attack the Indians. 

Custer didn't slip the leash, the leash 

was released and he was, off he went. 

He's just like one of those wolf-

hounds that he loves so much. 

He's absolutely on the scent 

and he's going 90 miles an hour, 

nothing is going to stop him, everybody 

knew that, that's why he's there. 

Narrator: 

As Gibbon's chief of scouts recorded in his diary, "if Custer is to arrive first 

he is at liberty to attack at once if he deems prudent... 

He will undoubtedly exert himself to the utmost to get there first 

and win all the laurels for himself and his regiment." 

Richard Slotkin, Historian: 

The assumption with fighting the Plains Indians 

was that they weren't very good at fighting. 

That is, they won't stand and fight. 

They'll snipe at you, they'll hold you off 

and then they'll scatter and run. 

Charging into the village from 

a number of different directions 

was army doctrine at the time. 

Since the Indians have no command system, 

they don't know which way to run to fight you. 

And therefore they'll become demoralised and they'll flee 

or surrender, so you should be able to defeat a much 

larger Indian force with a smaller force of cavalry.

Custer's column found the trail of Sitting Bull's 

village on June 23rd, and began following it.

 "There's a lot of them," Custer said at one point to 

his orderly, John Burkman, "more than we figured." 

Burkman asked if there were too many. Custer smiled and replied, 

"What The 7th can't lick, the whole U.S. Army couldn't lick."

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.

The Spinning Beach-Balls of Doom.

 

 

Look at his eyes. They're spinning-

beach balls of doom. 

KRYTEN :

His hard disk must have crashed. 

The Cat :

Mmm. 

KRYTEN :

He's completely helpless.

What are we going to do? 

The Cat :

I say we draw a 

moustache on him. 

Lister :

What? 

The Cat :

It's a once-in-a-

lifetime opportunity. 

Then we fix it. But, first, 

get out the felt-tips. 

Who's this?

Lister :

Oh, look, you can't do this. 

The Cat :

You got who it is yet?

Lister :

Oh, look, this is so wrong. 

You can't do this.

It's so... It's so... It's Salvador Dali. My God! 

It Says, ‘Dig Hole Here’.

[Dig Site]

(The broken down UNIT convoy is very 

close to the open archeological trenches.) 

Time’s Champion: 

And you excavated all this yourself?

WARMSLY: 

Labour of Love, really.

Time’s Champion: 

Impressive. 

WARMSLY: 

And I did have some 

help from Shou Yuing. 

Time’s Champion: 

And where did you find The Scabbard? 


WARMSLY: 

By that marker. 


ACE: 

How long did it take? 


WARMSLY: 

Oh, about ten years so far. 


ACE: 

Ten years? 


WARMSLY: 

Archeology is a precise and delicate skill. 

History has to be eased out of The Earth 

one painstaking layer at a time. 


ACE: 

I still think ten years 

is a bit of a long time. 


(She squats in a trench and uses a brush to remove some soil from carved stones.) 


ACE: 

What's this? 


WARMSLY: 

Ah, now that's a bit of 

A Mystery. 

No one's been able to 

decipher the carving. 


Time’s Champion : 

It says, ‘Dig Hole Here’. 


WARMSLY: 

Extraordinary. 

What does it say that in? 


Time’s Champion: 

My Handwriting. 

Ace, We Need a HOLE. 


(Ace gets a canister of Nitro Nice from her jacket pocket.) 


ACE: 

Right. How long? 


Time’s Champion : 

Er, sixty seconds should be long enough. 


WARMSLY: 

Long enough for what? 


(The Doctor leads Warmsly away as Ace sets the timer.) 


Time’s Champion : 

Nothing to worry about. 

My Young Friend's something of An Expert. 


WARMSLY: 

What, in Archeology? 


Time’s Champion: 

No, explosives. 


WARMSLY: 

What? 
(Ace runs up to them.) 


Time’s Champion : 

Down! 


(Boom! as they dive into another trench.) 


Time’s Champion: 

Ace…? 


ACE: 

…I think the timer needs work. 


Time’s Champion : One of these days we're going to have a nice long talk — about acceptable safety standards.

[Helicopter]

BRIGADIER: Has Major Husak reported in yet? 
LAVEL: No, sir. London says that the area of radio interference is expanding. 
BRIGADIER: Well, see if you can raise him from here. Can you speak Czechoslovakian? 
LAVEL: Only when I'm drunk, sir.

[Woods]

(Bambera and Ancelyn are jogging through the trees.) 
BAMBERA: He'd better not be gone when we get there. 
ANCELYN: You cannot hold the Doctor. He goes where he will. 
BAMBERA: Shut up and run, Ancelyn. 
ANCELYN: My lady. 
BAMBERA: You call me my lady once more and I'll break your nose.

[Helicopter]

LAVEL: I can't see anybody around. 
BRIGADIER: Looks like some damage to that barn. 
LAVEL: I can see a possible landing zone. Everything looks peaceful. 
BRIGADIER: Yes, very peaceful. Are you armed, Lieutenant? 
LAVEL: Yes, sir. 
BRIGADIER: Well, check it's loaded and take us in.

[Churchyard]

(Morgaine and Mordred are standing amongst the graves of Saint Andrews Church, Hambleton.) 
MORGAINE: What can you see? 
MORDRED: A flying machine. Tis like an ornithopter but with whirling blades for wings. 
MORGAINE: The people of this world are obsessed with machinery. 
MORDRED: It would seem so. 
MORGAINE: Well then, let us teach them the limitations of their technologies. 
(Morgaine fires energy bolts from her claw-like fingernails and the helicopter starts smoking.)

[Helicopter]

(Smoke comes into the cockpit.) 
LAVEL: Malfunction, sir. 
BRIGADIER: What? 
LAVEL: It felt like something hit us. This could be rough. 
(The helicopter flies downwards.)

[Dig site]

(Ace peers into the massive hole she has made.) 
ACE: What's down there? 
WARMSLY: Don't ask me. I've only been excavating this site for ten years. 
DOCTOR: With a bit of luck, a tunnel. 
ACE: A dark, mysterious one? 
DOCTOR: Probably. 
ACE: Leading to unknown dangers? 
DOCTOR: Indubitably. 
(They slither down the side of the pit.) 
ACE: Oh, wicked! 
DOCTOR: Peter, Ace and I are going to investigate this tunnel. You stay here and guard it. Don't let anyone come in here. 
WARMSLY: What am I supposed to do, lecture them on archeology? 
DOCTOR: Yes.

[Helicopter]

BRIGADIER: Can you get us down? 
LAVEL: Down is not the problem. 
(The helicopter is close to the tree tops.)

[Tunnel]

ACE: It's damp. 
DOCTOR: Well, we are under the lake. 
ACE: And this wall's made of concrete. 
DOCTOR: Hmm. It's gone soft with age. This was built in the eighth century. 
ACE: But they didn't have concrete in those days. 
DOCTOR: No, they didn't. 
ACE: Thought so. 
(The tunnel seals behind them.) 
ACE: Doctor? 
DOCTOR: Don't worry, Ace. It's only a trap.

[Clearing]

(The Brigadier and Lavel run from the helicopter, which then explodes.) 
BRIGADIER: Five million pounds worth of aircraft, and we've lost it. 
LAVEL: If they make us pay for that 
BRIGADIER: We'll be poor for the rest of our lives. 
(Lavel's leg hurts.) 
BRIGADIER: Pulled a ligament? 
LAVEL: Oh good. I thought it might be something serious. 
BRIGADIER: I'll see if I can get some help from the village. 
LAVEL: But sir, we don't know what the situation is here. 
BRIGADIER: The situation, Lavel, is normal. It doesn't get much worse than that. You know, I think I'm rather enjoying this. 
(The Brigadier takes his service revolver from its holster and heads off.)

[Churchyard]

(Mordred is reading the names on the war memorial.) 
MORDRED: Tis a shrine to those fallen in battle. 
MORGAINE: So, they are not the savages you led us to believe. You fought on their soil without proper respect for the dead. 
MORDRED: Mother, I 
MORGAINE: You have dishonoured us, Mordred. What is victory without honour? Leave us! 
(Mordred walks through two lines of knights. The Brigadier walks up the road by the church.) 
MORGAINE: What manner of man are you? 
(Morgaine and the Brigadier meet at the church gate. The Brigadier points his revolver at her.) 
MORGAINE: A warrior, no less. How goes the day? 
BRIGADIER: I've had better. 
MORGAINE: I am Morgaine, the sun killer. Dominator of the thirteen worlds and Battle Queen of the S'Rax. What say you? 
BRIGADIER: I am Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. Surrender now, and we can avoid bloodshed.

[Dig site]

(Bambera and Ancelyn arrive.) 
BAMBERA: Where's the Doctor? 
WARMSLY: Did you know that it takes one year to uncover one centimetre on a site this big? But now, delay not. Take the sword and fling him far into the middle mere. Watch what thou seest and lightly bring me word. 
(Arthur, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King.)

[Spacecraft entrance]

(Ace is sitting in a giant carved fishes mouth, which is the entrance to the rest of the craft but has a metal door across it.) 
DOCTOR: Ancelyn's people must have built this tunnel. 
ACE: Looks fishy to me. 
DOCTOR: This is no place for humour. 
ACE: Professor? 
DOCTOR: Hmm? 
ACE: Where does Ancelyn come from? 
DOCTOR: Another dimension. Sideways in time from another universe. 
ACE: Not a local boy, then. 
DOCTOR: The question is, how do we get through here?

[Graveyard]

BRIGADIER: Let me see if I've understood you correctly. You are holding a Remembrance ceremony for the dead of our World Wars, a ceasefire to remain in force for the duration of said ceremony, right? 
MORGAINE: Your words are strange, but that is the meaning, yes. 
BRIGADIER: Right. What must I do?

[Spacecraft entrance]

ACE: No coded pattern? 
DOCTOR: No hidden switches. 
ACE: Well, how are we going to get through the door, then? 
DOCTOR: Open up. It's me. 
(The door rises.)

[Graveyard]

MORGAINE: I wish you to know that I bear you no malice. 
BRIGADIER: I understand. 
MORGAINE: But when we meet again, I shall kill you. 
(And she does/did, in The Dalek's Master Plan. The knights follow Morgaine out into the village.)

[Spacecraft entrance]

ACE: I refuse to ask how you did that. How did you do that? 
DOCTOR: Well, it came to me that it wasn't Ancelyn's people who built this tunnel. It was Merlin. 
ACE: But everyone thinks that you're Merlin. 
DOCTOR: Exactly. Door keyed to my voice pattern. Just the sort of thing I would do. 
ACE: Are you Merlin? 
DOCTOR: No. But I could be, in the future. That is, my personal future. Which could be the past. 
ACE: Right.

[Outside Gore Crow Hotel]

(Shou Yuing comes out to her car as the Brigadier runs up.) 
BRIGADIER: I'm commandeering this car, miss. 
SHOU: Sorry? 
BRIGADIER: The keys, please 
SHOU: What? 
BRIGADIER: The keys. Thank you. 
SHOU: Hey, just a moment. This is my car. 
(Shou gets into the passenger seat as the Brigadier starts the engine.)

[Spacecraft]

(The Doctor leads the way up a spiral staircase.) 

ACE: This is a spaceship? 

DOCTOR: More than that. It's a craft for travelling between dimensions. 

ACE: It's more like being in some huge animal. Who built it? 

DOCTOR: It wasn't built, it was grown. 

ACE: Who grows spaceships? 

DOCTOR: Very advanced bioengineers. 

ACE: Ask a stupid question. Well, if they're grown, how do they fly? 

DOCTOR: Magic. 

ACE: Oh, be feasible, Professor. 

DOCTOR: What is Clarke's law? 

ACE: Any advanced form of technology is indistinguishable from magic. 

DOCTOR: Well, the reverse is true. 

ACE: Any advanced form of magic is indistinguishable? 

(They arrive at the chamber with the knight and the sword in the stone.) 

ACE: From technology. 

ACE: Seen one spaceship you've seen them all. 
DOCTOR: Don't be so cynical, Ace. 
(They have reached the main chamber with the sword.) 
ACE: Wow. 
DOCTOR: Impressive. 
ACE: That's Arthur, King of the Britons, isn't it? 
DOCTOR: The legendary Arthur, yes. From another dimension, where the man was closer to the myth. But what is he doing here? 
ACE: Not a lot. Is he in suspended animation? 
DOCTOR: Who knows? 
ACE: In eternal sleep until England's greatest need. 
DOCTOR: Ace, don't touch that. 
ACE: Oh, it's all right, Professor. It's not like I'm King of the Britons, is it? 
(Ace pulls the sword from the stone and falls backwards.) 
DOCTOR: No, Ace! 
ACE: Gordon Bennett! 
DOCTOR: I hope you haven't disturbed anything. 
ACE: It disturbed me. 
DOCTOR: Well, I only hope you haven't disturbed anything else! 
ACE: Like what? 
DOCTOR: Like that. Look! 
ACE: Where? 
DOCTOR: I think I saw something over there. 
(A green thing with a snake's head glides into the room.) 
DOCTOR: Ace, I think it's time for plan B. 
ACE: We run? 
DOCTOR: Yes, run! 
ACE: There's no way out! 
DOCTOR: Now is not the time to panic! 
(The energy snake knocks the Doctor across the room.) 
ACE: Doctor! 
DOCTOR: Now we panic! 
ACE: It's some sort of automated defence system, isn't it. 
DOCTOR: Yes. When I say run, run! 
(The snake hits the Doctor again, and Ace runs to what looks like an escape hatch.) 
DOCTOR: Not that way! 
ACE: Doctor, it's a dead end! 
(The door closes, trapping Ace inside.) 
ACE: (silent) Doctor! 
DOCTOR: Hang on, Ace. 
(Water floods into the escape hatch. Ace is screaming for the Doctor and hammering on the door.) 
DOCTOR: I'm coming! 
(The water is up to Ace's chin.) 
ACE: Doctor! 
(The snake hits the Doctor again, this time knocking him out.)

Part Three

[Spacecraft]

(The Doctor wakes, and staggers to the control panel. He pulls out a small pyramid with seaweed on the end, and Ace is ejected out through the top of the escape hatch as the snake knocks the Doctor down once again.)

[Dig site]

(Warmsly is giving Ancelyn a tour of the site.) 
WARMSLY: Yes, this site is where Arthur is supposed to have met Mordred in the final battle, and this lake, where Bedivere threw Excalibur. 
ANCELYN: What do you know of Excalibur? 
WARMSLY: King Arthur's sword, Excalibur, wrought by the lonely maiden of the lake, who rose up out of the water holding the sword Excalibur aloft. 
ANCELYN: This lake? 
WARMSLY: Thou rememberest how, in those old days, one summer noon, an arm rose up from out the bosom of the lake clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful, holding the sword. And how I rode across and took it, and have worn it, like a king. It's all a myth, really. Honestly, women in water holding swords?
(Bambera stares as a sword rises point first from the waters, followed by an arm clothed in black nylon belonging to a spluttering Ace.) 
BAMBERA: Look! 
WARMSLY: It's that wretched girl! 
(Ace runs onto the shore.) 
BAMBERA: What are you doing in the lake? 
ACE: Drowning. Here, you can be King of England. 
(Ace hands the sword to Ancelyn. 
ANCELYN: It's Excalibur. 
ACE: That's what I said, Shakespeare. 
BAMBERA: Where's the Doctor? 
ACE: In a spaceship, down there! He's in trouble. We've got to help him. 
(The Brigadier and Shou arrive in her 2CV.) 
SHOU: Oi! 
ANCELYN: Truly, the time of restitution has come.

[Spacecraft]

DOCTOR: Come out, come out, wherever you are, you little tapeworm. 
(The energy snake knocks the Doctor over and he drops the control unit. He makes a grab for it and ends up lying next to Arthur. Then someone's foot treads on the control unit, breaking it, and the green snake vanishes.) 
DOCTOR: (cough) Oh. 
BRIGADIER: I just can't let you out of my sight, can I, Doctor? 
DOCTOR: Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. So you recognise me, then? 
BRIGADIER: Yes. Who else would it be?

[Gore Crow Hotel]

(Elizabeth's white stick hits a foot. She feels up the chain mail arm to the steel plated shoulder.) 
ELIZABETH: Who are you? What do you want? Pat! Come quickly, Patrick!

[Dig site]

(Gazing down at the tunnel entrance.) 
BAMBERA: Two people were down there and you didn't tell me. 
WARMSLY: Well, I 
BAMBERA: Down there, in a trap. 
ACE: Yeah. Let's you in but it doesn't let you out. 
WARMSLY: Yes, well, Ace got out all right. 
BAMBERA: But the Doctor is still down there. 
SHOU: And the Brigadier. 
BAMBERA: I am the Brigadier. 
BRIGADIER: So am I. 
(The Brigadier comes out of the tunnel.) 
ACE: Hey, I thought it let you in but it doesn't let you out. 
DOCTOR: It let me out. 
BAMBERA: Brigadier, I thought you'd retired. 
BRIGADIER: So did I, Brigadier. Now, is the perimeter secure? This whole area is crawling with armed extra-terrestrials and they're hostile. 

DOCTOR: Same as ever, eh, Brigadier?

[Churchyard]

MORGAINE: He has possession of Excalibur. Knight Commander. 
COMMANDER: My lady. 
MORGAINE: Take your men along that road. Seek out those who hold Excalibur and take the sword from them. 
COMMANDER: And if they resist? 
MORGAINE: Give them an honourable death.

[Dig site]

ANCELYN: My lord Merlin. 

BRIGADIER: Merlin? 

ANCELYN: Oh, he has many names. 

BRIGADIER: He has many faces. And he has many companions. This must be the latest one. 

BAMBERA: We've checked the perimeter. Doctor Warmsly is staying with the vehicles. 

BRIGADIER: Oh, thank you, Bambera. Oh, see if you can get a blanket for this young lady, will you? 

BAMBERA: Yes, sir. Perhaps I should make some tea, too. 

(Bambera leaves.) 

BRIGADIER: Well, are you all right, Miss? 

ACE: Just call me the latest one, and I can get my own blanket. 

(Ace and Shou Yuing leave.) 

BRIGADIER: Oh dear. Women. Not really my field. 

DOCTOR: Don't worry, Brigadier. People will be shooting at you soon.

[Gore Crow Hotel]

(Mordred sips at a pint of beer. There are already 5 empty beer jugs on the bar. Pat brings an empty barrel up from the cellar.) 
PAT: Elizabeth? 
ELIZABETH: Pat, is that you? 
PAT: You all right? 
ELIZABETH: Yes, I'm fine. I'm all right. 
MORDRED: Your wife? 
PAT: Yes. 
MORDRED: With your aspect, it is well that she is blind. 
(Mordred walks away from the bar with his drink, laughing, as Lavel enters.) 
LAVEL: Do you have a phone? 
MORDRED: So, what have we here? 
(Lavel turns and draws her pistol.) 
MORDRED: Ah, there is light in this grey world. 
LAVEL: Don't move. 
MORDRED: Am I to do nothing? 
LAVEL: Yeah, you can get the tab if you like. 
MORDRED: Light and fire. Come, drink with me! 
LAVEL: I said, don't move. 
MORDRED: Oh, I would wish for kinder words. 
(Morgaine enters.) 
MORGAINE: Mordred. Who is this? 
MORDRED: A warrior maid. 
MORGAINE: A warrior? Good. I would learn the strength of their forces. 
LAVEL: Stay back or I'll shoot. 
(Lavel fires and Morgaine catches the bullet, crushes it and drops the dust onto the floor.) 
MORGAINE: Be silent. 
(Lavel drops her gun, hypnotised.) 
MORGAINE: Rest here and tell me. 
(Lavel kneels at Morgaine's feet and the sorceress puts her hands on Lavel's head.) 
MORGAINE: Ah. 
(Lavel screams.) 
MORGAINE: Quietly, my child. 
(Morgaine releases Lavel, who collapses.) 
MORGAINE: Now we know, Mordred. 
PAT: You can't leave her like that. 
(Morgaine zaps Lavel and turns her to ashes.) 
MORGAINE: Did my son drink well? Oh, I see that it is so. I must get the tab. 
PAT: Get away from here, you 
(Morgaine places her hand in front of Elizabeth's eyes.) 
ELIZABETH: I can see. Patrick, I can see!

[Dig site]

(The Brigadier, the Doctor, Warmsly, Ace and Shou take the Carbury Range Rover.) 
BRIGADIER: Oh, Bambera, take the other car, will you? 
BAMBERA: Yes, sir. Come on, Ancelyn. Looks like we get the deck chair. 
ANCELYN: My lady is vexed. 
(The Range Rover drives off.) 
DOCTOR: We might run into trouble. 
BRIGADIER: Oh really, Doctor? You do surprise me. 

ACE: Winifred isn't following. 
BRIGADIER: Good lord, is that her name? 
(In the 2CV.) 
BAMBERA: Now I'm vexed. 
ANCELYN: What do you seek? 
BAMBERA: Stay out of this. You don't even live here. 
(Ancelyn holds up the car keys.) 
ANCELYN: Perhaps these? 
BAMBERA: (snatching them) No.

[Carbury Range Rover]

(The Knight Commander deploys his men either side of the track as the Brigadier drives up.) 
DOCTOR: Something's wrong. 
BRIGADIER: What? 
DOCTOR: We haven't been attacked yet. 
(A knight throws a grenade which explodes next to the Range Rover. The vehicle swerves but keeps going. The Knight Commander signals his men to open fire.) 
BRIGADIER: Down! 
(He drives through two knights on the track. They shoot out the rear window but the Brigadier keeps going.) 
SHOU: Are they gone? 
WARMSLY: Who were they? 
BRIGADIER: Now, Doctor, we've been attacked. Happy? 
DOCTOR: Yes. 
BRIGADIER: Oh, good. 
DOCTOR: As long as Morgaine's people are shooting at us, she won't be using more obscure methods of attack. 
BRIGADIER: Such as? 
DOCTOR: I don't know, and I don't want to find out.

Anticipation

REBECCA

So, being The Boss

isn't just about reacting to situations.

It's also about anticipating them as well.

You need to be three, four steps ahead

of everyone else around you.

Good morning, Higgins.

This is my goddaughter, Nora.

She's going to be shadowing me today.

HIGGIBOTTOMS

Outstanding! Welcome aboard.

And Miss Welton, I received your email.

And once again your suggestion 

fixed everything.

I mean, brilliant as always.

REBECCA

What are you talking about?

HIGGIBOTTOMS

…..I was just trying to make you look good.

(Higgins grins and leaves)

NORA

You blew that.

REBECCA

— Yeah, I did.