The Enemy Within XIV

7. INT. HALLWAY (NIGHT)

Peri moves cautiously down the corridor. She pauses by the open wardrobe. It contains a heap of junk, including a cricket bat. Picking it up, she weighs it in her hand, and then begins to move down the corridor. She pauses as she passes the staircase. There is no sign of the others.

PERI
Doctor? Doctor?

The battered Pascoe lurches out of the shadows. Peri lifts the cricket bat and swings it inexpertly at the injured butler, catching his wrist. He shouts in pain. Peri charges at him, forcing the bat under his chin. He is slammed against the wall, choking and struggling to push the bat from his throat.

PASCOE
God... damn... you...

Peri jabs the bat further into his neck.

PERI
Oh yeah? Your knife. You can have it back.

She raises the knife, until it is level with his face. Pascoe, foaming at the mouth, continues to struggle. Without changing expression, Peri slams the knife forward (we see nothing else). She then turns and walks off with the cricket bat. Pascoe’s body stays where it is, by the wall. A moment later the doors to the drawing room open, revealing pitch darkness and a strange moan of wind. The Doctor steps through and pulls the doors shut behind him, cutting off the mini gale. He looks surprised.

DOCTOR
You look rather uncomfortable up there.

We see what Peri did – stabbed the knife through the collar of Pascoe’s jacket, effectively nailing him to the wall. His weight pulls his jacket, which prevents his arms from reaching behind him and frees himself. He roars and spits, struggling to be free.

DOCTOR
You’ll forgive me if I don’t release you.

Pascoe laughs psychotically.

DOCTOR
As Peri seems to have been here recently, I best head off while the trail’s hot.

PASCOE
Just wait, Lord of Time. Just wait. There’s a big surprise coming for you. You won’t leave this house in mind, body or soul!

The Doctor gives Pascoe a dangerous look.

DOCTOR
Who said I planned to leave at all?

Pascoe falls silent. The Doctor strides down the hallway after Peri.


8. INT. PANOPTICON (NIGHT) B&W

The Pratt Master stands before a black monolith that has risen out of a dais at the heart of the chamber. The whole building is trembling. Rubble falls from the ceiling to crash into the mist that is blowing around the Panopticon. There is the sound of thunder. The Master is now standing straight, relaxed, voice stronger. Flashes of bright light emerge from the hatchway beneath the monolith. The Pratt Master runs his hands – now far more fleshy and healthy than before – over it’s surface.

PRATT MASTER
Rassilon’s discovery... all mine... I shall have supreme power over the universe! Master of All Matter!

He begins to laugh, mingling with the thunder and lightning. Through the smoke and rubble the Fourth Doctor can be made out. He dives onto the dais and struggles to hang on as the vibration gets worse and worse. The Pratt Master is unaffected, even cheerful.

PRATT MASTER
Doctor! My congratulations – you’re just in time for the end!

FOURTH DOCTOR
You’re insane! You’re insane, do you hear me? YOU’RE RELEASING A FORCE THAT NOTHING CAN STOP!

PRATT MASTER
Excellent talk – you can take it with you to your grave. Except none of you will need a grave.

The Pratt Master starts to undoes one of the two remaining cables connected to the pillar. The other two are already undone and causing the chaos around them.

FOURTH DOCTOR
If you undo that, you’ll die as surely as any of us!

The Pratt Master laughs and shakes his head.

PRATT MASTER
You can do better than that, Doctor, even in extremis. I wear the Sash of Rassilon!

FOURTH DOCTOR
YES! And the President was wearing it when he was shot down! THE SASH WON’T PROTECT YOU! IT’S DAMAGED!

The Pratt Master stares at the Doctor, horrified.

PRATT MASTER
You lie...

Instinctively, the Pratt Master turns to examine the sash around his shoulders. The Doctor lets out a sharp “Hah!” and immediately leaps up and tackles the Pratt Master, knocking him away from the Eye of Harmony. The two foes are fighting amidst the chaos as more masonry falls from the high ceiling and cracks splinter the ground...


9. INT. CORRIDOR (NIGHT)

Peri runs into a T-junction and heads left. The Plasmaton fills the corridor. In one misshapen claw is held a tin of yellow paint. In the other a paint brush. RETSAM is scrawled across the wall. It turns its face towards Peri and roars. She turns and runs back... straight into Maurice, who holds a shotgun casually over his shoulder. Both cry out in surprise, but Maurice calms sooner.

PERI
Maurice...

Peri becomes wary as she remembers he is nuts.

PERI
Where are the others?

MAURICE
Somewhere around. To be honest, I’m not quite sure at the moment. Dear, Peri. Dear, dear, Peri. You’ll never be happy... or comfortable... until you join us in oblivion.

Peri starts to back away.

PERI
I’ll take my chances.

MAURICE
You don’t know WHAT you’re missing! Imagine all the fun we could have, fun and games for ever and ever and ever! Failing that, I could always hack you to pieces with an axe. That’d be all right.

PERI
Why would that be all right?

MAURICE
It’d stop your heart beating. I prefer the quiet, so easier to think.

Maurice begins to stroll towards Peri, who continues to back away.

MAURICE
That’s the trouble with heart beats. Boom-boom. Boom-boom. You can’t get away from it. Follows you everywhere, like a bad smell. Even here, at home, on our own, I can hear it. Coming up from the floor boards. Boom-boom. Boom-boom. Boom-boom. Getting louder and louder... enough to drive a perfectly sane person crazy. Don’t you find?

PERI
Sorry, but I gotta go.

Maurice swings the rifle to cover her, annoyance bubbling over.

MAURICE
GOT TO. You have GOT TO go. Not "gotta" go. Speak English, girl, it’s the language you were taught! I know it sounds petty correcting English, but sometimes the instinct is irresistible. And I so dearly want to... correct you. Like the Dominus has... corrected the Doctor. Am I still being subtle here?

Peri holds up her hands.

PERI
No, no, you’re being crystal clear. But you’re fighting him, Maurice! That’s great, that’s so great!

MAURICE
Fighting the Dominus? The lady surely jesteth!

PERI
Daniel fought him. He destroyed your brother!

MAURICE
My brother... corrected himself.

PERI
You won’t correct me. I know you, Maurice. You’re irritating, unpleasant, cowardly and with the charisma of a Thoros Betan, but you’re not a killer.

MAURICE
Wrong! Time for correction!

He aims the rifle at Peri’s head. She takes a deep breath, trying to stay calm.

PERI
Ah, one problem you should correct first.

MAURICE
What?

PERI
You left the safety catch on.

She points. Maurice frowns.

MAURICE
Oh, no, I haven’t, have I?

He pulls the rifle up to take a closer look. Peri kicks out, smashing the rifle against Maurice's face and knocking him backward. She then swings the cricket bat against the rifle, knocking it out of his hands. She swings the bat again and Maurice slumps to the floor, losing consciousness.

MAURICE
Girls just keeping doing this to me...

He passes out.

PERI
Yeah, I’m sorry about that. Not much, but I’m sorry.

She skips over his concussed body and runs off.


10. INT. MASTER’S TARDIS (NIGHT) B&W

The Fourth Doctor stands, rather disoriented in a dark room marked with roundels. A grandfather clock stands to one side. A huddled figure sits at a bank of controls – a less emaciated, ironically more hideous version of the Master. The BEEVERS MASTER, who stares at the controls before him.

BEEVERS MASTER
Well, Doctor?

He rotates in his chair to look up at the Doctor, who looks back sadly.

FOURTH DOCTOR
Of course. The Master.

The Beevers Masters holds out his hands in mock hospitality.

BEEVERS MASTER
Welcome to my new ship.

FOURTH DOCTOR
I used to know an ancient remedy for mad dogs. I must look it up some time. Good library here, have you?

The Beevers Master rises and reaches out to a control.

BEEVERS MASTER
Unfortunately for you, you will NOT be using it.

The Fourth Doctor reaches out but the Beevers Master has already pressed a control. A sinister buzzing fills the room and the Doctor freezes in place.

BEEVERS MASTER
This whole domain is now keyed to my biological rhythms. If you move a muscle, you will be destroyed.

The Master hobbles over to the Fourth Doctor pats his outstretched arm comfortingly.

BEEVERS MASTER
You will find immobility endurable, Doctor. I speak from experience.

The Doctor cannot turn his to follow the Master, forced to maintain his pose.

FOURTH DOCTOR
I thought you were going to destroy me.

BEEVERS MASTER
That would be irrational – a waste of all the knowledge acquired over so many centuries. You spoke of my library, Doctor? I intend that you shall become part of it; your mind I shall deposit there.

He taps his rotten fingertips to his temples.

BEEVERS MASTER
As for your body...

The Beevers Master gives out a disturbing sigh.

BEEVERS MASTER
I am now nearing the end of my twelfth regeneration.

FOURTH DOCTOR
Then that is the end of a Time Lord.

BEEVERS MASTER
But NOT for the Keeper of Traken. With my new powers ANYTHING is possible!

He lets of a demented giggle and shuffles around behind the Doctor, gleefully stroking the Doctor’s greying curls.

BEEVERS MASTER
Yes... I shall enjoy full mobility again!


11. EXT. OUTSIDE THE MANOR (NIGHT)

Light shines from the windows, but the area is still and silent.


12. INT. UPPER LANDING (NIGHT)

The Doctor jogs into view, looking around, humming the jazzy tune to "Filmation Ghost Busters" to himself as he heads up the stairs. He turns a corner and looks to see Emily and Tracey standing there, as if listening. Theodore is trashing a bedroom, laughing wildly as he throws a suitcase out the door as it strikes an occasional table that collapses. He kicks an urn and it shatters.

TRACEY
What is it?

EMILY
There’s something else... in this house. With us.

Tracey grins the broad grin of madness.

TRACEY
Then let’s make it scream. And bleed.

A hungry-looking Theodore lurches out of the bedroom, grinning.

THEODORE
And die!

TRACEY
Oh yes. Don’t forget that.

The Doctor’s humming trails off and he backs away... only to bump into the Colonel, who smiles broadly at him and draws a pistol from his pocket. The Doctor turns and sees the other three gliding towards him with feral grin.

DOCTOR
Ah. Oh well, here we go again!

The Doctor turns and rushes back towards the women, who are taken by surprise. The Colonel takes aim and fires, but misses – in the sense the shot clips Theodore’s shoulder and send him crashing into a painting. Plaster is knocked from the wall. The Doctor grabs the women and throws them bodily towards the Colonel, who angrily knocks them aside. But the Doctor is already out of sight, racing along the corridor and down a flight of steps. The others run after him as we pan across to see the Ghosts standing beside the doorway. The Second Ghost has a smock and a beret, standing beside a painting on an easel. The words DOMINUS WHO WALKS ALONE AND ALL TIMES WILL OBEY seem to have been typed over the canvas until it is full. The Is have smiley faces above them. The First Ghost stares at it, then the artist.

FIRST GHOST
Your self-absorption borders on the pathological.

SECOND GHOST
Oi. I resemble that remark. What do you think of the bloodstains?

FIRST GHOST
Derivative.

The Second Ghost sighs and shakes his head.

SECOND GHOST
You wound me, Theta, you really do.


13. INT. SALOON (NIGHT)

Peri enters, singing softly to herself as she hurries over to the French Windows and starts shaking them, trying to get them out.

PERI
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused!!

She shakes the doors.

PERI
Come on! Stupid time friction!

The sound of running footsteps. Peri rushes to the gun-rack... and finds it empty. She snatches up the snooker cue and the cricket bat. She assumes a threatening posture as the door bursts open and the Doctor dives in, rolls, leaps to his feet and sways to regain his balance. He spots Peri and grins.

DOCTOR
There you are!

Peri can’t help but grin back.

PERI
Here I am! How are things?

A gunshot shatters a glass casing behind Peri’s head.

DOCTOR
Predictable.

They rush over to the door, close it and then start piling furniture in front of it.


14. INT. KEEPER SANCTUM (NIGHT) B&W

An old bearded man with long grey hair, Tremas reaches out to correct the hands of a grandfather clock which say four minutes to midnight. As his hand touches it, the sinister buzzing from before is heard. Tremas is transfixed. With difficulty he cries out for help as the front of the clock opens like a door.

TREMAS
Help... Nyssa!

The dark hooded shape of the Beevers Master emerges and circles the trapped Tremas.

BEEVERS MASTER
A new body... at last!

Tremas looks at the figure fearfully as the Beevers Master steps behind Tremas, mimicking his pose. Then, he seems to glide forward, becoming a transparent ghost that superimposes itself over Tremas. For a brief moment, the two forms glow brightly and then melt away, leaving the latest form of the Master standing there – his hair shorter, slicked back and darker, his body younger and clad in black clothes. The hand touching the clock is now encased in a black glove. Chuckling, the Master steps back from the clock.

ADRIC (VO)
You mean he’s taken OVER Tremas?

FOURTH DOCTOR (VO)
With the powers of the Keepership still lingering...

MASTER
A new body at last.

Amused, he steps into the clock and pulls the front closed. The clock vanishes from the corner of the chamber with a traditional wheezing groaning sound.


15. INT. LOGOPOLIS PHAROS CENTRE (DAY) B&W

The Master turns to face the Fourth Doctor, ADRIC and NYSSA as they enter the chamber. Nyssa brightens as she sees the familiar face and moves forward to embrace him.

NYSSA
Father...

The Fourth Doctor’s arm shoots out, stopping her from going further. He looks at the Master with undisguised disgust.

FOURTH DOCTOR
He’s not your father. Tremas is dead. Killed by him... The Master.

Nyssa stares at the black clad man, not quite understanding. She speaks in a horrified, lost whisper.

NYSSA
You... killed... my father... ?

The Master smiles affectionately at her.

MASTER
But his body remains useful.

He grins at the Fourth Doctor, who glares back.


14. INT. HALLWAY (NIGHT)

The family are struggling to open the door. Maurice, the Colonel and Tracey are hurling their weight at the door. Emily kicks it and punches the wall in a mindless frenzy. Looking around, Theodore has got a fire axe from somewhere and charges the door. The others barely manage to get out of the way before he swings the axe at the door, biting into the wood. Theodore hauls on the axe, struggling to pull it free for another attempt. As he does so, the others attempt to continue their separate attacks on the door.


16. INT. SALOON (NIGHT)

The Doctor is staring with intense concentration at his sonic screwdriver, which he is partially dismantling. Peri looks fearfully at the door as the pile of furniture starts to shake and tremble.

PERI
How long do you think that’ll hold?

DOCTOR
As the porcupine said to the tortoise, “as long as it can”.

PERI
We’ll be safe then?

DOCTOR
Does it matter? We won't be safe in the long run wherever we go. The Master’s shattered their minds, and he’s feeding off their energy. Once he’s drained them he can head for civilization and start again, shattering the minds of more people. The more energy he gets, the more people he can effect, the more energy for him to get and so on and so on and so on. As of tonight, the entire country, the whole world, in fact, it’s fair to say the universe is at his mercy.

PERI
This is the bit where you say “But”.

DOCTOR
Is it? Oh well, BUT we know what the Master is capable of, we’re incredibly clever, resourceful, fashionable and brave, so we are not going to be defeated. And the easiest way for the Master to defeat us to make us give up hope, strip us down to the very core of what we are and break whatever is left.

PERI
All right. So we don’t give up or surrender. What’re you doing to the screwdriver?

DOCTOR
Bit difficult to explain, Peri. Just...

He pulls out a cable from the screwdriver and ties it round Peri’s wrist.

PERI
What are you doing?

DOCTOR
It’s all part of the plan. By the by, Peri, I don’t actually like this coat.

Peri tries to keep up. The Doctor continues to tinker with the screwdriver.

PERI
Your coat?

DOCTOR
Yes. I don’t like to admit it, but... it’s not very nice is it?

PERI
Why are you wearing it then? I mean, apart from the fact there’s hardly anything else to wear nowadays?

DOCTOR
Because anything is better than what I wore before. Not just the cricket white, but the muted colours, all neat and random. Disgusting! I always faded into the background. But this, well, it clashes with everything in the universe, keeps me acknowledged. Why should I apologize for being a hero who saves the universe, hmmm?

Peri swallows.

PERI
Why are you telling me this now?

The Doctor shrugs, adjusting the head of the screwdriver.

DOCTOR
Nothing better to do.

PERI
You don’t think we’re going to get out of this, do you? That this is worse than all the other times and we won’t make it?

DOCTOR
The Master hasn’t taken over the universe. Not once. But it’s always the collateral damage that’s worst, the innocents who get stepped on when he reaches for godhood and fails. Well, not this time.

PERI
So we’re all right?

DOCTOR
Not we. You.

PERI
Me? Why me and not you?

The Doctor looks at her with absolute seriousness.

DOCTOR
I’m not innocent.

Peri doesn’t know what to say. The Doctor goes back to tinkering with the screwdriver.

PERI
I don’t care.

DOCTOR
Perhaps you should.


17. INT. PHAROS CONTROL CABIN (DAY) B&W

A small, cramped metal room lined with computer banks and screens and few narrow windows. One exit leads to the blue sky outside and a ladder. A hatchway to a gantry to the radio telescope directly outside. Between them stands a sandstone pillar, the Master’s TARDIS. The Fourth Doctor is grimly supervising a lash up of cables and lights. The Master re-enters from the hatchway. Distantly shouts and alarms can be heard.

MASTER
Well?

The Fourth Doctor is concentrating on the displays.

FOURTH DOCTOR
The data’s reached the CVE. It’s stabilizing.

MASTER
So it works. Congratulations, Doctor...

The Master holds out his hand to shake it. The Fourth Doctor automatically goes to shake it but whips his hand back at the last second as if refusing to touch it. The Master arches an eyebrow, but keeps talking without missing a beat.

MASTER
...I always knew you’d do it.

FOURTH DOCTOR
YOU did most of this.

MASTER
Ah, I was but a humble assistant, but I have learned a great deal. And now, I think it is time for you to go and explain the presence of your friends. There’s quite a hubbub outside.

The Fourth Doctor nods thoughtfully and, still looking at the Master with suspicion, heads for the exit ladder and prepares to descend. The Master thoughtfully looks out the window while removing his gloves.

FOURTH DOCTOR
Quite right. One mistake move now could destroy everything.

MASTER
I know that, Doctor. And it could happen so easily.

The Fourth Doctor freezes, turning to stare at the Master, who is fitting a walkman to a speaker lash up. He reenters the cabin.

FOURTH DOCTOR
What do you mean?

MASTER
The universe is hanging by a thread, Doctor. One inversion pulse down that cable and the CVE would close FOREVER.

He gives the Fourth Doctor a fearful look.

MASTER
Even a humble assistant could do it.

The Master reaches out to touch a control. The Fourth Doctor immediately lunges forward, but the Master’s TCE is already aimed at the Time Lord. The Master stabs a control and advances on the Doctor, forcing him back against the hatchway. The tape recording begins.


18. MODEL SHOT B&W

The radio telescope, the huge dish pointing straight up into the blue sky.

MASTER (DIST)
Peoples of the universe, please attend carefully. The message that follows is vital to the future of you all.


19. INT. PHAROS CONTROL CABIN (DAY) B&W

The Fourth Doctor looks up at the ceiling in disbelief as the laughing Master presses the TCE to his chin. The message plays in the background.

MASTER (DIST)
The choice for you all is simple – a continued existence under my guidance, or total annihilation. At the time of speaking the fate of the universe hangs in the balance, and the fulcrum of that balance is the Pharos Project on Earth...

FOURTH DOCTOR
Blackmail.

MASTER
Oh, no, Doctor! I’m merely reporting the state of affairs!

The Master looks out the window with a lustful excitement.

MASTER
I now have the power to save them... or destroy them.

The Fourth Doctor is staring at him, horrified and scared.

FOURTH DOCTOR
You’re mad... You’re UTTERLY MAD!

He makes a move for the controls, but again the Master blocks him.

MASTER
Back, Doctor! The proceedings must not be interrupted!

The Master slowly back over to the console, keeping the TCE trained on the Fourth Doctor. He begins to laugh with delight, at the funniest joke ever.

MASTER
It’s mine... The CVE... it’s all mine!

He continues to laugh louder and louder. The Fourth Doctor is calmer now.

FOURTH DOCTOR
Only while that cable holds.

He turns, pushes open the hatch and jumps out of the cabin, slamming the hatch shut after him. The Master looks up in surprise at this move, and then sprints for the hatch.


20. INT. HALLWAY (NIGHT)

Theodore swings the axe against the door, finally splintering a panel. He aims the axe at the splinter but is no longer able to control himself to such a degree. More by luck than judgement, he manages to strike the splinter on the third go. It grows.

COLONEL
You can’t hide in that rat’s nest for much longer, Time Lord!

TRACEY
Embrace the Dominus!

MAURICE
Or we’ll set the house on fire and we’ll ALL BURN WITH IT!

He bursts out laughing. Emily slaps him.

EMILY
Oh, shut up you pathetic heathen!

Maurice looks shocked. Then he turns and decks her unconscious in one explosive, violent move. He groans and rubs his aching hand.

MAURICE
Why didn’t I think of doing that earlier?

He giggles again, then trails off as the Master appears behind them.

MASTER
Enough of this foolishness.

All the others fall silent and stare him.

MASTER
The time has come. The cosmos has done its worst, but I have suffered. But survived. And I do no longer intend to suffer alone. The time has come for more aggression to be used. And who better for aggression than the beaten underdog?

Pascoe enters, wordlessly taking the axe from Theodore, and then brings it down on the weak spot, splintering the panel. Mechanically, Pascoe repeats the process.

MASTER
I am the Master. You will ALL obey.


21. INT. SALOON (NIGHT)

The Doctor is adjusting the cable to the screwdriver.

PERI
But the TARDIS will sort out the time friction and we can escape!

DOCTOR
The moment the time friction clears, the Master will be free as well. Even if he doesn’t come after us, that leaves everyone on Earth at immediate risk.

PERI
So what do we do?

DOCTOR
Adapt an old plan of mine.

PERI
Did it work last time?

DOCTOR
Sort of.

PERI
Sort of?

DOCTOR
I gave the Master a choice. Conquer the universe or kill me.

PERI
W-what did he choose?


22. INT. PHAROS CONTROL CABIN (DAY) B&W

The Master looks around the room desperately, then sees a bank of controls. Giggling, he very deliberately starts stabbing buttons. Around him there is a clang of servos and the cabin begins to vibrate. Grinning, the Master turns and looks out the open hatchway.


23. EXT. GANTRY (DAY) B&W

The Fourth Doctor is hurrying along the gantry, which is now starting to revolve, slowly at first but with gathering speed to tip him over. The Fourth Doctor holds onto the railings, then falls onto his stomach and shuffles forward. The Master watches, eyes wide with excitement as the gantry moves from forty-five degrees to fifty to sixty.

MASTER (VO)
Killing you ONCE was never enough for me, Doctor...

Now at the end of the gantry and almost lying on his side, the Fourth Doctor brings a heavy spanner down on the junction box. The Master watches as the gantry reaches ninety degrees. The Fourth Doctor twists, now sitting on a shelf that is still tilting. He hauls on the cable and nearly dislodges himself. One hundred. A hundred and ten. The Fourth Doctor rips the cable free, there is an explosion of sparks and the gantry rotates completely. The Fourth Doctor falls.


24. INT. PHAROS CONTROL CABIN (DAY) B&W

The Master disconnects a control panel, snatches it up and ducks behind his TARDIS, chuckling as he does so. Seconds later, the pillar vanishes from the control cabin.


25. INT. SALOON (NIGHT)

One of the armchairs blocking the door is shaken loose. The Doctor glances up at it, but continues to work on the sonic screwdriver.

DOCTOR
Not long now.

PERI
We can both get out of this! We coped with Hexagora, with Varos and the Cybermen...

DOCTOR
The Master is my responsibility, Peri. And I always accept my responsibilities.

PERI
You can’t just hand yourself over to him! He won’t stop just because you’re dead!

DOCTOR
Oh, I’m offering him much more than death. He and I are linked together now, from that neural energy stolen from me. Connected by invisible threads. Imagine what would happen if we both started reeling in those threads?

PERI
Bang?

DOCTOR
No.

PERI
Zap?

DOCTOR
No.

PERI
What then?

The Doctor shoves the sonic screwdriver into Peri’s hand. It is still linked to her wrist by the cable and now beeps softly.

DOCTOR
DONE! Yes! Now, this is important, Peri. No matter what, do not let go of the screwdriver. No matter WHAT. Am I being irrefutably clear on this subject, Peri?

PERI
Crystal.

DOCTOR
Excellent!

PERI
But this plan is...

DOCTOR
Don’t worry Peri. I know what I’m doing. No matter what happens, the Master won’t have much of a future. In fact, this way I can cheat fate! And there’s nothing I love doing more than cheating fate!

PERI
What fate?

DOCTOR
I never did tell you about Necros, did I?

PERI
Necros?

MASTER (VO)
I have made this future.

They both whirl to face the Master as he steps from the shadows.

MASTER
And this future is now.

Behind them, the door splinters apart. Pascoe leers through the gap, reaches in and unlocks the door.

- to be continued...