Showing posts with label Pluribus. Show all posts
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Sunday, 4 January 2026

E Pluribus Unum



Leela

You mean there's 

NOTHING we can do?


Tom

I didn't SAY that —


(gets down on The Floor to do

The Toulouse Latrec-bit —)


K9 -- Now Listen to Me, K9 :

Do you think you could poleaxe...

Do you think you could 

poleaxe Marius?


K9

Poleaxe?


Tom

Yes -- knock him out.


K9

Affirmative. My photon-beam weaponry 

has Four Levels of Intensity, Doctor. 

Kill, paralyse --


Tom

No, no, no, not kill -- 

Not kill; Just knock out.


K9

Affirmative.


Tom

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.)


Prof. Marius

All senior staff, report to Reception. 

[ because he wants to infect them ]

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.)


Tom

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.)


Tom

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?


Tom

I had The 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.)


Tom

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?


Tom : 

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?


Tom

Come on, one thing at a time. 

One thing at a time.