The Regeneration Of The Daleks By Howard Richardson Episode Four Scene One In the cell. Davros: The time has come Doctor. The preparations are complete and your degeneration can begin. Dr: You can't go through with this, Davros!! Davros: It is too late, Doctor, there is no going back. Dr: It won't work I tell you. It is impossible for the Timelords regenerational powers to be passed on to another species... Davros: (Shouts) You are WRONG, Doctor. Dr: ...as a scientist Davros you should recognise the fact that... Davros: (Rants) Noooooooooooo, take him to the machine. Scene Two In the TARDIS Tim: You still intend to rescue your Doctor friend? Adric: Whatever it takes... Tim: So, you know the TARDIS well. What would you say are its weakest points? Adric: Prrrrr.. I'm not really sure. Tim: Don't you have some kind of computer in here where you can find out? Adric: Not really. The Doctor's the only one who can work this console. (pause) ... No hold on.. how blind am I being?!! Tim: Are you? Adric: Yes. We have the best computer ever built on board... (calls) K9!! Tim: Sorry? K9: (enter) Master. Tim: Ha! A robot dog!! Adric: K9, we have a little puzzle for you. How might one attack another TARDIS? Tim: ...Some hole in its defences, maybe...? K9: Consulting memory banks.. (beeps) Preliminary evaluation suggests dimensional stabiliser would be best target. Adric: Yes, the stabiliser.. (to tim) that's what keeps the two concurrent matter streams separate. Tim: So what would happen if it were attacked? (pause) Adric: Tricky... it.. K9: (butts in) Disruption of stabilisation circuits may result in implosion of TARDIS dimensions. Adric: Quite. It could be disasterous. The whole fabric of the TARDIS could cave in upon itself. Tim: But if you knew what you were doing...? Adric: It might be possible to disrupt one of the dimensions in some way. Cause a distraction maybe. I don't quite know. Tim: Could you disrupt all of them? K9: Negative. Danger of implosion rises exponentially according to number of dimensions affected. Adric: He MEANS just the one would be the safest... Depth, Width, Height or Time. Tim: Time! You could adjust time in Davros' TARDIS? Adric: Potentially. Hmmmm.. String time backwards... and... K9: Sequence of events would be reversed. The Doctor would be returned to our dimension. Tim: He'd be 'uncaptured'!!! K9: Checking...(sound) Adric: (laughs!) That's crazy!! Tim: But feasible? Adric: It's our best hope - and with K9's electronic expertise, it might just work ... K9: ...Memory banks indicate word 'uncaptured' not present in dictionary. Awaiting definition... (fx) Scene Three The Machine Room Davros: I am ready to start the process! Where is the machine operator? Dalek: In his cell. Davros: Then fetch him immediately! Dr: Ah, well at last I get to find out which monkey you had built this ridiculous contraption. Davros: Silence Doctor! I do not require his services to start the machine, only to control the regeneration transference rate. You will see the 'monkey' soon enough - it will be the last thing you do see! (Whirring sound as machine warms up) Dr: AAAGGHHH!! Davros: (Shouting angrily) WE HAVENT STARTED YET!!! Dr: Oh... Oh, I do beg your pardon. Marok: (Coughs) Ah-hum.. Davros. Davros: Maroc. My hour has come. You will supervise the transfer of the Doctor's powers into my body.... Scene Four In TARDIS Tim: Is is finished now? Adric: Almost. I've used some of the TARDIS schematics, only reversed the time control element of the stabiliser. Tim: ...which means time in their TARDIS will run backwards when it's activated? Adric: Well, that or the whole TARDIS will collapse on our heads crushing down to a thickness of a few molecules! Tim: Ah. Adric: Don't worry. I'm pretty sure it'll work. K9: Negative. Chances of success are approximately 231.3 to one against, master. Adric: (getting annoyed) Rubbish. Don't you trust me K9? K9: Trust is irrelavent. Evidence suggests that... Adric: Oh, quiet K9... (boots him!) K9: Ouch! Tim: Well I trust you. Ready to go? Adric: For better or worse, yes. Scene Five Machine Room Davros: Well, Maroc! What are you waiting for! Start the transference process!! Maroc: Tell your Daleks to leave. They make me nervous... Davros: Sigh. Very well... Dalek, you are dismissed. Dalek leaves..Door whirrs shut. Davros: It is gone. NOW BEGIN!! Maroc: (draws gun, shoots door lock) I don't think so, Davros. Davros: What! You dare to defy me! Put that weapon back down immediately! Maroc: No, Davros. You have served my purpose, I no longer have any need for you! Davros: YOU WILL NEVER GET AWAY WITH THIS!! My daleks will exterminate you! Maroc: Your daleks are outside Davros, and I've rendered the door disfunctional. They cannot disturb us now, and I have an alternative escape route already prepared... Dr: (laughs) Ohh, Davros. Had you have said who your accomplice was from the start I might have been able to warn you. I know Maroc here of old. What is it, Maroc? Thirteenth Life coming to an end, hmm?? Maroc: Ha! You guess well, Doctor. I have just a few weeks left of life, but for this machine here, which Davros has so kindly help me research and build. Davros: NOOO!!! Dr: Yes, Davros. How is it to be betrayed? Now you know how your people felt when you abandoned them to the mercy of your daleks.. Davros: But... what about my timelord powers. Maroc: A practical impossibility, right from the start. Davros: (screams!) You will pay for this!! Maroc: Silence!!! My thirteenth regeneration can now begin... Scene Six: In the Church Tim: So this is a safe distance to activate it from, then Adric? Adric: I've no idea. I've never made one of these before. Let's hope so, eh Tim? Tim: All in place? Adric: YEp! (pause) right, here goes.... (flips switch..) [below in the church] **disturbance effect** Maroc: What was that?? Doctor: It sounded like a problem with your dimensional stabiliser, Maroc. I do presume it's your TARDIS we're in? Maroc: But of course, Doctor. Doctor: You should have had it serviced more often, then Maroc. Maroc: No!! The disturbance is external... Doctor: External?? [above] Tim: Nothing. Are you sure it's working Adric? Adric: (sigh, hits machine) Pah! Useless junk... (machine moves to higher pitch and works properly) [below] Doctor: (slow)T...T....Time... it's reversing... (whole scenes run backwards.......) (Maroc & Davros scream!! Whirlwind of sound...) [above] Tim: Look at it in there!! It's a swirling mass. Adric: (in awe) Reversal of time... any second now we can expect the doctor to emerge from those stairs as he entered hours ago.. Tim: But backwards?!! Adric: Haha! Yes, should be quite a sight! Doctor: That's very clever Adric. I can see you've been learning from me!! Adric: Doctor! You're back. Doctor: No time for reunions yet, we've still got Davros to deal with. Where's your device? Adric: Here. Doctor: Aha... just change the impedance of this.. THere! Adric: What have you done? Doctor: Speeded up the time reversal. By the time Davros and Maroc come to land, they should be in time to witness the coming of the Jurassic period!! Adric: So they'll have a few centuries to sort out their differences, eh Doctor? Doctor: Ha! Just a few... Well, shall we leave... Scene Seven: Outside. Doctor: Well, goodbye Tim. Tim: Goodbye Doctor. Good to meet you Adric: Yes, goodbye Tim. It's time for us to go, but we're most grateful for your help. Aren't we, Doctor?... (prompt) Dr: Grateful. MMmm.. Yes.. Adric: Doc-tor... Dr: (wakes up) Yes??! Adric: Humph! Where are we off to now then? Dr: Why, the Jurassic period of course! Adric: (worried) WHAT!!?? Dr: I left my jelly babies in Maroc's TARDIS!! Adric: sigh! (both laugh) Come along doctor. Bye Tim!! Dr: Bye Tim!! (TARDIS doors shut... TARDIS Dematerialises) CREDITS Regeneration of the Daleks Andy Haynes as the Doctor, Howard Richardson as Tim and Davros, Jon Greenwood as Adric. Music & FX were by the Richardson Radiophonic Workshop. This has been a FloorTen audio production..