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The blue police-box shape of the TARDIS rushes forward through the space-time vortex.
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The Doctor's face, wide eyed and curly haired, forms in the tunnel of onrushing light; then is replaced by the words DOCTOR WHO in a diamond-shape logo.
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The Sontaran Experiment.
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By Bob Baker and Dave Martin.
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Part 2.
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Roth and Sarah are held captive.
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A powerful, squat figure emerges from the ship.
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The figure wears flexible metallic armour with a dome shaped helmet.
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It removes its helmet from the wide locking collar.
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Underneath are the lumpy, troll-like features of a Sontaran!
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Harry watches from cover as the Sontaran stalks toward Sarah and looms over her.
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He grasps Sarah’s neck, scrutinising her features.
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Releasing her, he taps a device on his belt. The cords retract into the robots carapace, freeing Roth and Sarah.
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(FAST) Styre speaks into a device.
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Panicking, Roth runs. The Sontaran shoots him.
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Roughly, he examines Sarah again.
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Harry slips quietly away.
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The ravine. The Doctor is trying to climb the steep slope using a tree branch.
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The three Galsec men stand at the top, weapons drawn.
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Harry explores the rocks.
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He discovers a man wearing a GalSec uniform manacled to the rocks. He’s bearded, emaciated and dirty.
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Harry examines him clinically, checking his eyes.
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The ravine. The doctor hauls himself slowly and carefully up over the edge.
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(FAST) The Doctor looks past him.
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The silver, insect-like robot, comes up behind the men.
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Surprised, they turn, and unleash a barrage of blaster fire.
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But the Robot is immune to their weapons and advances on them. They are trapped between the robot and the ravine.
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The cords whip out and catch Krans, then Vural, then Erak, pinning their arms.
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At the rocks, Harry puts a wet cloth into the manacled mans mouth.
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Weakly, the man sucks the water. Harry tugs ineffectually at the manacles.
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Harry removes the cloth so the man can speak.
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He mops the mans brow with the cloth.
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The man nods weakly.
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The ravine. The Doctor explores, working his way along the rocks and checking the tangled vegetation.
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He discovers the cave entrance and sniffs at it.
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He brushes back the foliage and crawls inside.
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(FAST) Elsewhere among the rocks.
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Sarah is sitting, manacled to a rock-face.
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Styre licks his lips
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Styre takes a device from his belt and presses a button.
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He then stalks away throught a gap in the rocks.
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Sarah tests her bonds.
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Nearby, Harry, now equipped with a stout branch, jumps from rock to rock.
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He sees Styre coming and takes cover.
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He crouches behind an edifice of lichen-encrusted rock, branch held ready.
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The Sontaran moves off in another direction.
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In the cave, the Doctor squeezes through the narrow gap, and then emerges, wide-eyed, into the daylight.
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He sets off towards the weathered granite outcrop.
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Harry explores the rocks.
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He bounds over the boulders and finds her, sitting, strapped to a rock face.
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Harry recoils in pain.
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He pushes his hands ineffectively against thin air.
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Nearby, the Doctor climbs up the rocks.
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Elsewhere among the rocks, Styre operates controls on a yellow globe with an inset screen.
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He terminates the communication and speaks into his recording device.
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Styre operates a control.
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On the monitor, Sarah is waiting for Harry to return.
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On her forehead is an alien device, a white oval, lined with red veins, with a metal protuberance like an extruded metal cog.
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Her eyes suddenly notice movement down and to her left.
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A snake, mottled green and brown, wraps its coils around her wrist.
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Sarah shudders, but forces herself to look away.
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When she looks back, there is no snake, just the ropes binding her wrist.
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She looks up.
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The top of the cliff looms over her. It seems like the boulders may topple at any time.
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Now, the ground at her feet softens into thick, gelatinous mud. It heaves and swallows her legs ...
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She is paralysed, eyes wide with fear, gasping for air, as it oozes higher, and higher ...
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He burns out the forcefield generator in the rock with his sonic-screwdriver, and snatches the device from her forhead.
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Sarah falls unconscious. The Doctor cradles her head.
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(FAST) Styre emerges from a passage between the rocks.
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(FAST) Styre swats the Doctor away.
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He draws his gun.
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Styre spins, but it’s a trick! The Doctor shoves him.
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Styre raises his gun.
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The Doctor dodges and runs. Styre adjusts his aim.
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The Doctor falls.
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Later, the robot drags the three GalSec men to the Sontaran space-craft
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The door in the spherical craft opens and Styre emerges.
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Styre stalks down the slope from his ship toward them.
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Now at the rockface, Harry examines the unconscious Sarah.
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Troubled, he gets up.
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He nimbly jumps down and across the boulders to the body.
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Seething, he grasps his heavy branch and stalks away to check on the galsec man nearby.
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The pale man is unresponsive. Harry checks for a heartbeat.
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Harry quickly takes cover, pressing himself against a rock-face.
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Styre, still not wearing his helmet, emerges from a dark passage between the rocks.
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He approaches the Galsec man.
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The troll-like Sontaran roughly examines him.
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He speaks into the wedge-shaped device.
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Harry, gripping his club tightly, sneaks up on Styre as he dictates.
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But before he can strike a hand clamps over his mouth.
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It is the Doctor, who leads him quietly away.
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He throws it away.
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Leaving Harry, the Doctor clambers up the blocky granite boulders.
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He makes his way along the top of the outcrop.
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Meanwhile, Styre begins a new experiment.
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Vural is lying shackled to a rock. Erak and Krans hold each end of a flattened bar above him.
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Erak and Krans struggle with the bar as it changes weight.
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Forced to their knees, they struggle to stop it crushing Vural.
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The Doctor meanwhile warily approaches the iron-grey globe of the Sontaran space ship nestled in the rocks.
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Alerted, the robot approaches and scans him.
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Calmly he holds up his sonic-screwdriver.
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The robot shudders, its articulated legs collapsing awkwardly, its head waving too and fro.
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He looks towards the distant cry.
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They struggle with the gravity bar.
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The bar returns to normal and they lift it clear of Vural.
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Styre stalks angrily away.
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Erak strains against his bonds to reach his machete laying discarded nearby.
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Styre meanhwile is at the communicator in the rocks.
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Hidden, the Doctor eavesdrops.
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The Doctor slips quietly away.
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Later:
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He takes Harry’s stout branch.
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Styre has resumed his sadistic experiment.
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Styre throws his gun down and grabs Erak’s machete.
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The Doctor jumps down.
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Styre lunges with the machete, but the Doctor parries and lands a blow as Styre stumbles into the rock face.
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Styre spins and takes wild swipes, but the Doctor defensively guards himself with the branch.
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The Doctor grins, goading Styre. Styre strikes again, and misses. The Doctor whacks Styres arm.
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Meanwhile, Sarah and Harry rush in to help Erak and Krans lift the gravity bar from Vurals chest.
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Styre, on the offensive, chases the Doctor, who climbs to higher ground on the giant boulders.
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Harry now scrabbles over the rocks toward the Sontaran Space ship.
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Styre, growing more enraged, strikes wildly at the Doctor and misses.
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Meanwhile, Harry, armed with the Doctor’s sonic-screwdriver, points it at the Sontaran ship.
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The door swings open.
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Meanwhile, Styre's movements are increasingly laboured, his blows erratic.
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The Sontaran staggers away, but the Doctor leaps from above, knocking him down.
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They wrestle, but the powerful alien easily shrugs off the Doctors attack, and raises the machete.
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Vural runs down the slope, followed by Erak and Krans.
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He grabs the Sontarans arm. Styre turns and lands a lethal blow on Vurals neck.
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Once again, the Doctor launches himself at Styre, knocking him to the ground.
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Harry leaves the ship, carrying a mechanical component.
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Using the Doctor's momemtum, Styre flips the Doctor over and throws him to the ground.
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He staggers away, towards his ship.
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With laboured steps he staggers into his ship.
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The three of them run and take cover behind a boulder.
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Smoke billows from the Sontaran scout ship, and Styre emerges, staggering, clutching the back of his neck.
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He falls awkwardly.
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As they watch, his golem-like face crumples like a balloon with the air let out, the tissues within collapsing.
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The ship explodes in a magnesium white flash.
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Sarah peeps up from behind a rock.
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Then Harry and the Doctor.
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Later, the Doctor finds Styres communication module, nestled in the rocks, and operates a control.
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He grins, cat like.
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At the transmat station, the Doctor, Sarah and Harry prepare to leave.
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Erak and Krans step back to the edge of the circle.
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The three dissapear …
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… and he's gone.
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Doctor Who was played by Tom Baker. Sarah Jane Smith, Elizabeth Sladen. Harry Sullivan, Ian Marter.
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Styre and The Marshall, Kevin Lindsay.
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Vural, Donald Douglas.
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Krans, Glyn Jones. Erak, Peter Walshe.
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Roth, Peter Rutherford. Prisoner, Brian Ellis.
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Written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin.
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Title Music by Ron Grainer, arranged by Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
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Music, Dudley Simpson. Sound, Vic Godrich.
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Script Editor, Robert Holmes.
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The producer was Philip Hinchcliffe, and it was directed by Rodney Bennett. Copyright BBC 1975.
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Independent description written by Brett Coulstock.