Intelligence

 

 

 

 

[Meeting room]

 

(Khrisong brings in Victoria.) 

 

KHRISONG: 

Are you recovered? Child? 

 

JAMIE: 

There you are, I've been worried sick. 

Where have you been? Victoria? 

What have you done to her? Doctor? 

Doctor, I think she's ill. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Let me see. 

 

VICTORIA: 

Doctor. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Yes, Victoria. 

 

VICTORIA: 

There is great danger. 

You must take me away. 

Take me away. Take me away! 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Yes, yes of course. 

 

JAMIE: 

Victoria, what's happened? Tell us? 

What's the matter with her? Victoria, it's me, Jamie. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo : 

How long has she been like this? 

 

VICTORIA: 

Doctor. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Yes, Victoria. 

 

VICTORIA: 

There is great danger. 

You must take me away. 

Take me away. Take me away! 

 

KHRISONG: 

The child is still in a state of trance. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Still? What do you mean? 

 

KHRISONG: 

She spoke to us with 

The Voice of The Master. 

 

THOMNI: 

Ah. Then she did reach the holy sanctum. 

 

JAMIE: 

What are you talking about? 

 

THOMNI: 

She was certain that Padmasambhava 

would recognise the Doctor. 

 

JAMIE: 

Recognise The Doctor? 

 

THOMNI:

Yes, he has been here before. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

But that was three hundred years ago. It's the same man….

 

RALPACHAN:

Khrisong, the Abbot Songsten wishes us to join our brothers in prayer. 

 

KHRISONG:

Very well. You will prepare to leave.

Is Mister Travers ready? 

 

RALPACHAN:

He is in the courtyard. 

 

KHRISONG: 

Come, Thomni, to prayer. 

 

THOMNI: 

Khrisong, will you forgive me? 

 

KHRISONG: 

We have both of us strayed 

from the path of obedience. 

 

(The Monks leave.) 

 

The Cosmic Hobo : (sotto) 

Jamie, there is something I have to do. 

 

JAMIE: 

Right. Hey, why are we whispering? 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

It's My Voice. She reacts to My voice. 

 

JAMIE: 

Oh, it's that hypnotism thing. 

Can you not do anything about it? 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Yes I can, but I need more information. 

Now, you wait here. 

 

JAMIE: 

Where are you going? 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

I'm going to see a very old friend.

 

[Inner sanctum]

 

(There is a cloth over the model on the table.) 

 

PADMASAMBHAVA: 

Oh, Intelligence. You promised to release me, 

yet still I feel your grasp upon this frail body. 

Why? What is happening? This was not your plan. 

But if you continue to expand? 

I have brought The World to its end. 

 

(In the cave the gunk is still coming from the pyramid,

filling the chamber and the tunnel,

and approaching the cave mouth.)

 

PADMASAMBHAVA: 

Come in, Doctor. Good to look upon 

your face again. So many years...

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Padmasambhava. So it's True. 

 

PADMASAMBHAVA: 

I have been kept alive so many years, 

but now our time left is very, very short. 

Listen carefully. Perhaps you can --

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Kept alive? I don't understand. 

 

PADMASAMBHAVA: 

I didn't know. I didn't realise….

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

What? Try to tell me. 

 

PADMASAMBHAVA: 

Intelligence. Formless in space. 

I astral travelled. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

I see. You made mental contact 

with this intelligence? 

 

PADMASAMBHAVA: 

It used my mind. 

It controls my body. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

But why? 

 

PADMASAMBHAVA: 

Experiment. Wished material form. 

A Voice, it said. I believed. 

Experiment. But now. 

Help. You must Help Me. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Yes, of course I will help you. 

But first you must tell me things :

Why are the monks being driven away? 

What is the purpose of these robots, the Yeti? 

Where is their control? 

Padmasambhava? 

Padmasambhava? 

 

(The old man's head has slumped forward. 

The Doctor listens for a heartbeat, then leaves the room. 

Then the eyes open and glare after him.)

 

[Meeting room]

 

JAMIE: 

I wish there was something I could do. 

 

(Jamie goes behind Victoria, picks up a broken stool 

and throws it to the floor. She doesn't even twitch.) 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

What on earth was that? 

 

JAMIE: 

Oh, it was just an idea. 

 

VICTORIA: 

Doctor — There is great danger. You must take me away. 

Take me away. Take me away! 

 

JAMIE: 

Doctor, you've got to do something. 

Did you find out what you wanted to know? 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Not about Victoria, no. 

But I found some very interesting clues 

as to what's been happening. 

 

JAMIE: 

Oh, never mind about that. 

It's Victoria you ought to be worrying about. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Yes. Yes, you're quite right. Victoria must come first. 

Trouble is I really need more information. 

However, I'll just have to take a chance. 

It may just be simple post-hypnotic suggestion. 

On the other hand....

 

JAMIE: 

Yes. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

It may be something worse. 

 

JAMIE: 

What if it is? 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Well, let's just hope it isn't.

 

(The Doctor takes Victoria's face in his hands.) 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Victoria. 

 

VICTORIA: 

Doctor. There is great danger. 

You must take me away. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Yes, Victoria. 

 

VICTORIA: 

Take me away. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Listen to me. You've been taken away. 

You're no longer in the monastery. 

You're safe in the TARDIS. 

 

Now do you understand? 

You're safe. In the TARDIS. Yes. 

Well, look at me. Look at my eyes. 

 

You're feeling tired, very sleepy. Drift away. 

Let yourself drift away into sleep. Deeper. Deeper. 

Sleep. Sleep. Sleep. Sleep.

 

Oh, not you Jamie --

 

JAMIE: 

Hey, what? 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

So far, so good. 

 

JAMIE: 

Hey, I never knew you could 

do that sort of thing. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

No. Neither did the person 

who hypnotised Victoria. 

 

JAMIE: 

What now? 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Well, I'm tempted to ask her What Happened, 

but I don't think I dare probe too deeply. 

The important thing is to get rid 

of this implanted fear. 

It's growing every minute. 

 

JAMIE: 

What if you can't? 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Well, we shall just have to do as she asks 

and take her away. If we don't....

 

JAMIE: 

Yes. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

She'll go out of her mind. 

 

JAMIE: 

What? 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Well, that's the object of the exercise. 

To get us away from the monastery. 

But I'm not beaten that easily. 

 

JAMIE: 

Hey, you're taking an awful risk. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

I know what I'm doing, Jamie. Victoria? 

Now, Victoria, you can hear my voice, can't you? 

 

VICTORIA: 

Yes. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Oh, good. Now I'm going to take you 

a little way back in the past, Victoria. 

You're in the cell with Thomni. 

Do you understand? 

 

VICTORIA: 

Yes. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Good. Now you're going to 

forget everything after that. 

You went to sleep. Is that clear? Good. 

Jamie and I have come back to the monastery 

and you are in the meeting room with us. 

You're feeling happy, but a little tired. 

 

Do you understand? 

 

VICTORIA: 

Yes. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Good. Now, when I count three, 

you're going to wake up. 

One, two, three. 

 

VICTORIA: (yawning) 

Oh, oh dear. Oh, I must 

have dropped off. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Yes, I believe you did. 

I've got work to do. 

 

VICTORIA: 

What are you grinning at?