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(DOCTOR WHO THEME)

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(WIND HOWLING)

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Come on, Charles,
we've got enough samples, surely.

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This isn't ice. This is something else.

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Have a look.

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-What is it?
-Don't know.

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Let's get it back to camp.

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(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

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Ah, there you are.

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Well, animal, vegetable or mineral?

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-Vegetable.
-Yes, that's what we thought.

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The cutaneous creasing is unmistakable.

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When it's properly thawed out,
I can confirm it with a cytology test.

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The skin looks as hard as iron.

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Yes, it is a bit of a cannonball.
How deep in the permafrost was it?

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I guess about the ninth layer.

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That means it's been there for,
oh, 20,000 years?

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-Well, what do you make of it, John?
-Nothing at all yet.

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Oh, and I thought you were
meant to be a botanist.

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I've not seen anything remotely like it.

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It looks tropical to me, like a gourd.

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Oh, rubbish, Charles.

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If it's from
the late Pleistocene period,

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it can't be tropical.

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It's a few million years since
this part of Antarctica was rainforest.

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That's the accepted theory.

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Discoveries like this have destroyed
accepted theories before now.

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Isn't that right, John?

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John?

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Hmm? Sorry.

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Is something wrong?

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-JOHN: Don't you feel it?
-Feel what?

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I don't know, there's something...
Something odd. Something...

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You don't feel it?

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(LAUGHING) It must be that
rice pudding you had for lunch.

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I'm not joking.

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It's alive. That's it, it's alive.

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-Are you serious?
-Yes.

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But how can you tell?

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I don't know. But I'm certain that
this is a living organism.

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Yes, well, I think we should have
some coffee.

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Coffee and a game of three-handed crib.
Good idea. Come on.

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I'll transmit pictures to London.
They might have some idea, actually.

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John, come on.

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Sir Colin insists that
I show you these photographs

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which have just been received
from my expedition.

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Personally, I don't think
you can help us.

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Don't you? Well...

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Do sit down, Mr Dunbar.

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These pictures have baffled
all the experts.

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The only reasonable explanation
seems to be

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that the pod is from some
extinct species of plant.

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Have you considered
an alternative explanation?

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Name one.

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Well, that it might have originated
in outer space?

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My dear Doctor, if you've seen
anything like that before,

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you must have a very powerful telescope.

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Mr Dunbar, how long is it since
there was vegetation in Antarctica?

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I thought you were the expert
in these matters.

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Well, as a matter of fact,
that's one of the things

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our expedition is trying to discover.

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It was found fairly deep
in the permafrost, say,

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20, 30,000 years under the ice.

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Shh.

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-It might still be ticking.
-What?

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A time bomb, Mr Dunbar, a time bomb.
Are you in contact with the expedition?

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My superior, Sir Colin Thackeray,
has a daily video link.

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-Ten minutes of satellite time.
-Good.

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Tell them to keep a constant guard
upon the pod

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and not to touch it till I arrive.

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-You're leaving immediately?
-Why not? I've got my toothbrush.

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Remember, no touch pod.
Could be dangerous.

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Sir Colin? Dunbar here.

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That chap you called in from UNIT.
Is he quite sane?

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Incredible.

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-Charles?
-Yes?

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-Come in here a minute.
-What's up?

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-It's growing.
-Eh?

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It's growing, five centimetres
since this morning.

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Are you sure?

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Check it yourself
if you don't believe me.

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But it doesn't seem possible.

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I knew there was still life there.
I said so, didn't I?

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But it's just a pod.
I mean, no root system.

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How can it grow without feeding?

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Sunlight, Charles.
Ultraviolet radiation.

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But plants need nitrogen.

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I believe this is
fundamentally different.

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We may be cultivating something

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that's going to shatter
all our ideas about plant growth.

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Yes, well, don't get carried away, John.

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-Remember what London said.
-What do you mean?

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About leaving this thing alone.

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Until this Doctor character arrives,
why should we? It's our pod.

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John, we're working for
the World Ecology Bureau.

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Oh, he's probably some old crank that
Thackeray's dug up out of retirement.

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He'll have no more idea about the pod
than we have.

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We'll soon find out.
He's due in tomorrow.

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And who needs him? It's our discovery.

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The less said about it the better.

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Mr Dunbar of
the World Ecology Bureau, sir.

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I don't think I've had the pleasure.

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And what is your bureau doing
about bonsai?

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Bonsai, Mr Chase?

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Mutilation and torture, Mr Dunbar.

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The hideous, grotesque Japanese practice
of miniaturising shrubs and trees.

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What is your bureau doing about that?

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Well, I...

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No answer.

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You are concerned about the fate of
the blue whale and the natterjack toad,

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but the loveliest,
most defenceless part of creation,

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the great kingdom of plant life,
receives no protection at all.

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We try to conserve
all the endangered species.

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I'm delighted to hear that, Mr Dunbar.

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Of course, you know of my concern,
my mission,

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to protect the plant life
of Mother Earth?

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I do, Mr Chase. Which is why
I've come to show you something.

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A totally new kind of plant.

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Hybrids. A crime against nature.

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No, not a hybrid.

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It's a mysterious, unidentified pod

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recently discovered
by one of our expeditions.

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Where was this found?

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There's a theory that
it's floated through space

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from some other biosphere.

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The really important thing is it may be
still viable and able to germinate.

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Mr Dunbar, I asked you
where this pod was found.

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In the Antarctic.

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Now, in our violent and uncertain world,
Mr Chase,

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anything could happen.

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Such a valuable specimen
could easily disappear...for a price.

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Where in the Antarctic?

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I should want to know
the precise location.

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Hargreaves?

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<i>-Yes, sir?</i>
-You and Mr Scorby, please.

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<i>Certainly, sir.</i>

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X marks the spot.

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Forethought and initiative, Mr Dunbar.

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Two excellent attributes.

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We shall meet again very soon to discuss
your remuneration.

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You're very kind.

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-(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
-Come.

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-Yes, sir?
-Hargreaves, show Mr Dunbar out.

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HARGREAVES: This way, Mr Dunbar.

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You wanted to see me, Mr Chase?

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Yes, Scorby.
I'm sending you on a little errand

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and I want you to take
Mr Keeler with you.

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(GRUNTING)

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(GROANING)

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Derek.

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Was that Charles?

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What? Here, what's happening?

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Charles.

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This telex from Stevenson.
What do you make of it?

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''Pod carries infection.
Winlett seriously ill.

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''Medicaid needed urgently.''

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Could have been more informative,
Sir Colin.

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He probably doesn't know any more.

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I have ordered a medical team
to go to the base,

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but I understand
weather conditions are bad.

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It's bound to take at least
a day or two.

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The people from UNIT should be
arriving now. Perhaps they can help.

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Hello. So you made it.

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Welcome to the loneliest spot on Earth.

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-You must be the Doctor.
-Yes.

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We were expecting someone much older.

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I'm only 749.
I used to be even younger.

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Derek Moberley.

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Sarah Jane Smith,
the young Doctor's assistant.

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How many of you live here?

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Anything up to a dozen, but of course,
we're down to three at the moment.

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Let's get inside.

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-Yes.
-Where are the others?

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Out at South Bend, about 60 miles away,
measuring the ice cap.

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If they're getting this kind of weather,
they're welcome to it. Come on.

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-How do you stand it?
-Oh, sometimes it gets quite warm.

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Ten degrees below freezing.

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Crikey, I feel as though
I've got frostbite already.

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I'll get you something hot to drink
in a tick.

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Uh, are you okay dressed like that?
You don't seem to notice the cold.

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I haven't come 1 0,000 miles
to discuss the weather, Mr Moberley.

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Can I see the sick man?

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-Yes, of course. Down this way.
-Thank you.

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He seems to be conscious, but he hasn't
spoken a word since last night.

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What's his body temperature?

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Well, that's the amazing thing.

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I've been trying to keep him warm,
but it's dropping hourly.

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And the pulse rate?

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Well, his body temperature is 46,
his pulse rate is 1 8 a minute.

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I'm no medical expert,

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but on those figures
he should be dead, shouldn't he?

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I wonder.

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JOHN: Good grief. It wasn't like that
an hour ago.

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Then it's accelerating. How long before
the medical team arrives?

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Well, it's difficult to say
in these conditions. Hopefully tomorrow.

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I don't think that's going to be
soon enough, Mr Stevenson.

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-There, that ought to warm you up.
-Thanks.

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-Better?
-Mmm. Mmm.

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Ah. So, you say you just found this pod
lying there empty.

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Yes, and Charles in that state.

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Now does that make
any kind of sense to you?

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(BEEPING)

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-Would you excuse me?
-Yes.

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-Radio.
-Oh, sure.

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Have you any idea
what it can be, Doctor?

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Yes, that's why I came here.

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I thought you came here to see the pod.

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Exactly. Before anything happened.

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Unfortunately, it already has.
Where's the lab?

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I'll show you.

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Okay, Mike, but try to get
something moving.

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His condition's pretty desperate. Over.

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MIKE: <i>Understood. Out.</i>

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Bad news, John.
That was Mike Wilson at South Bend.

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The medical team's turned back.

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What about Charles?
Did you tell them how bad he is?

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They were in white-out conditions and
their snowcat's fallen into a crevasse.

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But Mike is in touch with
the Royal Marine Survival Team.

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They might be able to help.

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They'll try again
as soon as the weather lifts.

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That'll be too late. He's dying.
Isn't he, Doctor?

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-No.
-I thought you said in the sick bay...

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It's more serious than death,
Mr Stevenson. He's changing form.

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-Changing form?
-Yes. We need a blood test.

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I'm a zoologist. I could prepare
a specimen slide if it'll help.

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-DOCTOR: Yes, it would help, thank you.
-Right.

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-Pod.
-It's over here.

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Why did it open? Why?

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Well, that... That could be my fault.

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It was frozen stiff
when we took it out of the ice.

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I was certain
there was still life there.

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I put it under a lamp
and it started to expand.

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Mr Stevenson, what you have done

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could result in the total destruction
of all life on this planet.

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Charles?

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We're trying our best, Charles.

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Help's on its way.

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Doctor? Doctor, what are we looking for?

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Are you sure
this is the place, Stevenson?

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Yes, and if you told us what
you were doing, perhaps we could help.

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DOCTOR: Yes, just as I thought.

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Another pod.

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How did you... Will there be any more?

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No. They travel in pairs,
like policemen.

245
00:17:06,287 --> 00:17:09,597
Well, what are we going to do with it,
buy it a truncheon?

246
00:17:09,687 --> 00:17:12,679
No. Take it into custody
and keep it in the freezer.

247
00:17:21,687 --> 00:17:23,245
Well, that ought to keep it cool.

248
00:17:23,327 --> 00:17:25,716
Who sold you that, an Eskimo?

249
00:17:25,807 --> 00:17:28,037
I know a freezer seems
superfluous out here,

250
00:17:28,127 --> 00:17:31,563
but we do need it to keep
snow samples in until they're analysed.

251
00:17:31,647 --> 00:17:33,524
-DEREK: Doctor?
-Hmm?

252
00:17:33,727 --> 00:17:36,195
Take a look at this blood sample.

253
00:17:38,847 --> 00:17:39,916
How's Winlett?

254
00:17:40,007 --> 00:17:42,521
Winlett? He's barely recognisable.

255
00:17:42,607 --> 00:17:45,440
It's as if he's turning into
some sort of a hideous monster.

256
00:17:45,527 --> 00:17:47,324
That's exactly
what is happening, Moberley.

257
00:17:47,407 --> 00:17:49,125
Yes, but there must be an answer.

258
00:17:49,207 --> 00:17:52,119
If I can just increase
the magnification.

259
00:17:52,567 --> 00:17:54,444
Ah. Yes.

260
00:17:56,207 --> 00:17:58,118
Take a look at that.

261
00:18:02,287 --> 00:18:03,800
These aren't blood platelets.

262
00:18:03,887 --> 00:18:05,843
Do you recognise them?

263
00:18:12,847 --> 00:18:15,122
-Schizophytes.
-DOCTOR: Exactly.

264
00:18:16,447 --> 00:18:18,756
I don't believe it. It's not possible.

265
00:18:18,847 --> 00:18:21,998
Would someone mind explaining
what these schizophytes are, please?

266
00:18:22,087 --> 00:18:25,875
The smallest known living organisms.
Plant bacteria.

267
00:18:26,887 --> 00:18:29,242
Plant bacteria in someone's bloodstream?

268
00:18:29,327 --> 00:18:30,601
Interesting, isn't it?

269
00:18:30,687 --> 00:18:33,963
A human being whose blood
is turning into vegetable soup.

270
00:18:34,047 --> 00:18:35,924
-(WHIRRING)
-Listen.

271
00:18:37,087 --> 00:18:38,600
That's very low, by the sound of it.

272
00:18:38,687 --> 00:18:41,645
It's the medical aircraft. Quick, Derek,
get the landing strip lights on.

273
00:18:41,727 --> 00:18:44,958
DEREK: They won't see anything
in this blizzard.

274
00:18:46,287 --> 00:18:47,402
Should we come out and help you?

275
00:18:47,487 --> 00:18:50,081
No, John and I know our way around
out there. It's easy to get lost.

276
00:18:50,167 --> 00:18:51,680
-Okay.
-You ready?

277
00:18:51,767 --> 00:18:53,280
-Ready.
-Right.

278
00:18:58,847 --> 00:19:01,315
Will they be able to help that man?

279
00:19:01,647 --> 00:19:05,117
I don't know, Sarah.
He's halfway towards becoming a Krynoid.

280
00:19:05,207 --> 00:19:07,767
-A Krynoid?
-Yes. A progression of the pod.

281
00:19:07,847 --> 00:19:09,360
So you've recognised it?

282
00:19:09,447 --> 00:19:12,041
Yes, I was fairly certain when I saw
the photographs. Now I'm sure.

283
00:19:12,127 --> 00:19:15,437
Well, what is a Krynoid?
I mean, what does it do?

284
00:19:15,687 --> 00:19:18,201
I suppose you could call it
a galactic weed,

285
00:19:18,287 --> 00:19:20,562
except it's deadlier
than any weed you know.

286
00:19:20,647 --> 00:19:22,046
In what way?

287
00:19:22,847 --> 00:19:25,600
Well, on most planets,
the animals eat the vegetation, hmm?

288
00:19:25,687 --> 00:19:27,040
Mmm-hmm.

289
00:19:27,127 --> 00:19:29,402
On planets where
the Krynoid gets established,

290
00:19:29,487 --> 00:19:31,955
the vegetation eats the animals.

291
00:19:32,367 --> 00:19:34,039
Oh, that's terrifying.

292
00:19:34,127 --> 00:19:37,164
-Yes.
-Well, how did it get through space?

293
00:19:37,447 --> 00:19:41,235
An obvious question.
I wish I knew the answer.

294
00:19:41,327 --> 00:19:43,682
Possibly their planet of origin
is turbulent from time to time,

295
00:19:43,767 --> 00:19:45,519
that internal explosions could cause
surface matter

296
00:19:45,607 --> 00:19:47,757
to go shooting into space.

297
00:19:49,007 --> 00:19:51,237
So what do we do about Winlett?

298
00:19:51,327 --> 00:19:54,080
I'm thinking, Sarah, I'm thinking.

299
00:19:55,407 --> 00:19:57,443
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

300
00:19:58,567 --> 00:20:00,319
Down this way here.

301
00:20:05,327 --> 00:20:08,285
-Right, into the chair. There you are.
-(SCORBY COUGHING)

302
00:20:08,367 --> 00:20:09,516
Let me take that.

303
00:20:09,607 --> 00:20:12,838
-Come on, sit yourselves down.
-Come on, sit down over here.

304
00:20:12,927 --> 00:20:14,963
JOHN: Brandy, Derek?
DEREK: Right.

305
00:20:15,087 --> 00:20:18,682
-Is this the medical team?
-They were flying a private plane.

306
00:20:18,767 --> 00:20:21,235
They just got themselves lost.
Here, brandy.

307
00:20:21,327 --> 00:20:22,806
Oh, thanks.

308
00:20:26,567 --> 00:20:28,125
(CHOKING)

309
00:20:28,287 --> 00:20:30,562
Sorry to be such a nuisance.

310
00:20:31,807 --> 00:20:33,718
We were nearly out of fuel
when we saw your lights.

311
00:20:33,807 --> 00:20:36,879
Oh, you were very lucky.
Lights are few and far between out here.

312
00:20:36,967 --> 00:20:38,958
I'd like to take another look
at the patient.

313
00:20:39,047 --> 00:20:41,402
-What, now?
-Now. Yes, come on.

314
00:20:43,327 --> 00:20:47,115
JOHN: You just relax and thaw out.
SCORBY: All right, thanks.

315
00:20:49,487 --> 00:20:51,921
Do you think they swallowed it?

316
00:20:52,887 --> 00:20:55,685
If they start asking
too many questions...

317
00:20:55,767 --> 00:20:59,282
Why worry, Keeler? What can they do?

318
00:21:04,527 --> 00:21:07,485
It's horrible. Horrible.

319
00:21:09,847 --> 00:21:12,077
The process is almost complete.

320
00:21:12,167 --> 00:21:14,635
DEREK: We can do nothing
except just watch it happen.

321
00:21:14,727 --> 00:21:16,843
There is something you can do,
but it's drastic.

322
00:21:16,927 --> 00:21:18,724
JOHN: Well, what?

323
00:21:18,927 --> 00:21:20,121
Amputate the arm.

324
00:21:20,207 --> 00:21:23,085
What good would that do? Can't you see
the infection's all over his body?

325
00:21:23,167 --> 00:21:24,839
Yes, but the arm's the source of
the infection.

326
00:21:24,927 --> 00:21:25,996
It might stop it spreading.

327
00:21:26,087 --> 00:21:28,157
You say ''might''.
What you mean is, you don't know.

328
00:21:28,247 --> 00:21:30,238
Well, of course I don't know.

329
00:21:30,327 --> 00:21:32,841
But it'd give you a breathing space
while you try and find an antidote.

330
00:21:32,927 --> 00:21:35,043
That's a chance worth taking, isn't it?

331
00:21:35,127 --> 00:21:38,085
And who's going to perform
this operation?

332
00:21:38,447 --> 00:21:41,757
Oh, you are, Moberley.
You're the only one who can.

333
00:21:43,087 --> 00:21:46,636
But I'm not a surgeon. What about you?
You're a doctor.

334
00:21:46,967 --> 00:21:49,003
You must help yourselves.

335
00:21:49,727 --> 00:21:51,445
He's not a doctor of medicine.

336
00:21:51,527 --> 00:21:53,757
Stevenson's a botanist,
you're a zoologist.

337
00:21:53,847 --> 00:21:56,486
Ask yourself
who's most qualified among us.

338
00:21:56,567 --> 00:21:59,479
But I can't operate on Winlett.
It's absurd.

339
00:21:59,567 --> 00:22:01,285
Oh, at least you could try.

340
00:22:01,367 --> 00:22:04,120
You've studied physiology,
you know how to handle a scalpel.

341
00:22:04,207 --> 00:22:06,675
To dissect dead specimens, yes,
but Charles is a human being.

342
00:22:06,767 --> 00:22:09,156
He won't be much longer
if you don't operate.

343
00:22:09,247 --> 00:22:10,680
Look, have you got a medical kit?

344
00:22:10,767 --> 00:22:12,280
We've a full medical kit in the lab.

345
00:22:12,367 --> 00:22:15,996
Well? Well, what about it?
You're his last chance.

346
00:22:19,967 --> 00:22:22,925
Derek, we'll help you
in every way we can.

347
00:22:29,927 --> 00:22:31,519
I'll do my best.

348
00:22:31,607 --> 00:22:35,156
You're a good man, Moberley.
Come on, let's get started.

349
00:22:35,247 --> 00:22:37,681
SARAH: Right.
DOCTOR: Hot towels.

350
00:22:51,367 --> 00:22:53,722
I'll take these down to the sick bay
and start setting up.

351
00:22:53,807 --> 00:22:57,243
-You'll need more lights in there.
-I can fix that.

352
00:22:58,367 --> 00:23:00,562
Winlett's still got a chance.

353
00:23:07,567 --> 00:23:08,966
Charles.

354
00:23:15,687 --> 00:23:17,086
(GRUNTS)