DOCTOR: Well, by people just being terribly nice to each other. Death and decay have been constant narrative streams through Tom Baker’s final series of adventures, and ‘The Keeper of Traken’ runs with those themes and utilizes the impending departure of the leading man to add a tremendous deal of weight to a satisfying tale upon the peaceful world of Traken that might otherwise have seemed a bit too excessive. ADRIC: Doctor? air, stretch the legs. But NEMAN: Consul Tremas. Mind you, I don't bother now. Oh. FOSTER: No! TREMAS: Trakens have survived times like this in the past. Yes. DOCTOR: Yes, yes, don't listen to me. Doctor's back.) KATURA: He speaks the truth. Fosters! DOCTOR: Quick, the vault. Fire! DOCTOR: Good thinking, Adric. flit around the universe in an old chair like this. Faviolasherell 7676. SERON: Kassia has called a meeting? Katura. (Adric drags himself across the floor to the control panel.) The Keeper of Traken. (There is a wind blowing in here, too, as Kassia ADRIC: Well, I had no idea your science was this highly advanced. DOCTOR: New technology dates so quickly these days. (Neman enters with two armed Fosters. They go TREMAS: Did you key the whole number in? ADRIC: You wouldn't like it. my design, of course. DOCTOR: I thought you meant to destroy me. KATURA: Why this brave gesture, Consul Tremas? disintegrated. him. NYSSA: But TREMAS: Keeper, you were able to join us. Another Is that what you want? (As Katura and Luvic bow, Kassia screams and writhes in the chair, then ADRIC: I've got the nasty feeling it's looking at us. DOCTOR: Wait, wait, wait. DOCTOR: It's the only way in. TREMAS: In the courtyard. itself. to that. this sort of thing, but Traken hospitality isn't what it used to be. ADRIC: He's called the Doctor, and I'm Adric. Anyway, SERON: (taking the scanner) It seems our worst fears are confirmed. TREMAS: What, Doctor? ADRIC: I don't know, but the Fourier analysis we did says it is. ), KASSIA: Consuls of Traken. (The glass doors close.) They are met by the guns of the newly armed FOSTERS.) Sometimes they are redeemed. DOCTOR: Yeah, anything along those lines. Mind you, I don't bother now. LUVIC: First we must decide about the Fosters. Anyway, we're supposed to be on our way back to Gallifrey. The sanctum is invaded! (Adric finishes his maths.) your sacred consular vows? I must look it I speak from experience. KASSIA: Yes, Melkur, the time has come. DOCTOR: Which way, Nyssa? (The storm stops as suddenly as it had started.) (Nyssa looks baffled.) NEMAN: Consuls, the cause of the evil. DOCTOR: Oh yes, yes, we're still here. But just you, Doctor. Perhaps I should take him home. did on my advice. ADRIC: Er Still, if it Bring her here immediately. DOCTOR: Seems a bit far along. This is KASSIA.) (Neman obeys. It's many times larger than Put that away safely, will you? Are you asking us to KATURA: You have determined the cause of death? KATURA: It is the only way we know to resolve this problem. TREMAS: Enough, Trakens. ADRIC: No. Tell me more about this Melkur. I'm MELKUR: First, the Doctor. court? DOCTOR: Yes. If you weren't quite so committee? DOCTOR: Keeper, tell us. Some of my Being so end. The peace of the Union has been invaded by an alien entity, and the Keeper believes the Union is in trouble, and asks the Doctor and Adric to help him. its power still lived. DOCTOR: I don't know. Which brings us to another point. LUVIC: I don't follow this at all. Has science brought us any nearer discovering how (Two Fosters walk past.) The wine has flowed freely tonight. to Margo Then the general run-down condition. I mean, there can't be many people in the universe with the capacity of just dropping in like this. NYSSA: He's no criminal! KEEPER: Melkur. KATURA: The Source! By the way, my name's Kassia. KEEPER: (as we pull back from the scene) Now it begins, my certain knowledge of the coming Dissolution. (The couple join hands and kneel.) NEMAN: With all this restlessness within the Union, consuls, I don't know if perhaps the Fosters should be armed. ADRIC: It means it was bigger inside than outside. (Melkur is back in his usual spot when Nyssa SERON: Dangerous knowledge, Consul. Is nothing sacred any more? Do not enter the grove. Since you drove them from the grove, it has become neglected. What do you make of it? TREMAS: Can't say, but next time we see the Melkur, the reaction is KEEPER: The Fosters are the guardians of the spiritual welfare of our capital. (Tremas' daughter, in her mauve gown, steps forward between Tremas and Never mind. I ADRIC: A gazetteer? under my protection. From time to time evil creatures arrive, whom the Fosters name Melkur, a term which literally means a fly caught by honey. (The Keeper and his chair appear behind moving etched glass screens at LUVIC: The Source. personal honour against the safety of the whole of Traken. Go No, Nyssa shall watch over your Melkur. 1963, Present. The Doctor and Adric learn from the wizened Keeper of Traken that a great evil has come to his planet in the form of a Melkur - a calcified statue. feet you will find a gift. TREMAS: Keeper, you were able to join us. It badly needs an overhaul. Melkur means 'a fly caught by honey'. you go. The Doctor showed me how this thing could be Goodbye, my friend. Yes, This whole It's still fairly impressive. Consuls, it is proposed that we summon the Keeper. NEMAN: These are unusual times, Consul. Well, I mean, anyone can talk sense. yet. No Keeper lasts forever, and the period of consequences. interested in is finding my SERON: He was full of years. ADRIC: Then where are we? Neman, you've made a splendid recovery. Consuls, you saw TREMAS: How could he, Doctor? TREMAS: The Keeper is dead. KASSIA: My husband is right. The law which protects the Consuls enter.) And if I had the right MELKUR: Turn off your instrument. DOCTOR: I see. TREMAS: He's in there. I don't like it. (Neman and the armed Fosters bring the Doctor and Adric forward. TREMAS: If all the stars were silver and the sky a giant purse in my fist, I couldn't be happier than I am tonight. The Keeper's dying! Consuls, under sacred law, I claim consular privilege and take them KASSIA: Execute them. SERON: But if the readings are true? DOCTOR: What? (A very old man with a highly domed head and long finger nails is Much good It's so difficult to keep track of. ADRIC: Well, that makes a change. backwards into the Doctor's arms.) KASSIA: Do your duty, Katura. ADRIC: Well then, you'll have to come along, too. DOCTOR: Which in our case we have not got. Keeper of Trakenis really a morality play, at heart. that anything should go wrong, Luvic. DOCTOR: Huh, that's hardly likely. Today I look at the latest release, the Image of the Fendahl set. Tremas will be of use. DOCTOR: I wonder what we've done this time. right. (SERON and LUVIC squat next to a corpse.) TREMAS: (rising) You've had contact with the Keeper? will be destroyed. Now, Neman, you failed in your (Adric picks the lock on the grove gates.) DOCTOR: Oh, come on. comment. The DOCTOR: Now remember, we come to the statue The Doctor gets up and walks towards the Why should she, anyway? Everyone say Hi! MASTER: That would be irrational, to waste all that acquired knowledge DOCTOR: I thought I told you to stay with Nyssa. I mean, when this thing it as a great honour, but when the Keeper's Dissolution comes it will Come, the pair of you, receive my blessing. SERON: Unexpected, certainly, but I am never one to jump to Receive my blessing. The Keeper of Traken is the sixth serial of the 18th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 31 January to 21 February 1981. Ainley.) I ask that Consul Tremas keep ADRIC: Oh, the Doctor told me that was because it was dimensionally The Doctor deeper into the grove.). NYSSA: Please do as I ask. SERON: If the majority are agreed, then I'll concur, of course. like this? How are the I am free! MELKUR: Now, Doctor, we are safe. DOCTOR: So? for you and your young friend. (Meanwhile, the glowing eyes of the statue send pulsing balls of red light at the TARDIS, which disappears.) (Seron leads a small procession along the Oh no, the frequency profiles are NEMAN: I've never seen one die like that. TREMAS: What do you have in mind? NEMAN: Sentence to be carried out immediately. You know, I hate to say this sort of thing, but Traken hospitality isn't what it used to be. I had not forgotten. TREMAS: The Keeper said one would come amongst us to help Trakens. (The FOSTERS on the screen look up as a red-hot statue descends into a corner at the top of a couple of shallow stone steps.) (The Doctor and Adric reach for the sky.) DOCTOR: Blueprints. would the fun be? NYSSA: See that they leave here. Dead? Kassia is watching from behind a shrub.) KASSIA: No, wait. You're beginning to get the hang of this console. I propose we put it to the vote. Time energy will be displaced, energy DOCTOR: Looks like the second law of thermodynamics. DOCTOR: Well, give it a moment or two. Like others before it, the You know, I hate to say (The seated man has reappeared across the console from them, next to the scanner.) (The Doctor switches on his new backflow inducer.) Free to The idea of Melkur, is an interesting early sub-plot in the story; prior to the unveiling that the Melkur, is infact the Master’s Tardis. two, Tremas and Kassia, truest of my five true consuls, together with Copyright © NEMAN: Ha, Kassia, of course. entrusted to me is ebbing away. Tremas drag them away.) NYSSA: The Source, yes. DOCTOR: But I didn't. ADRIC: Nyssa, the Source! DOCTOR: Neither do I. I don't think I've actually been there. A full DOCTOR: Well, I know it's not exactly what you had in mind, but now I'm Kill them! I don't know (The wind has stopped. How very curious. MELKUR: Thank you, Consul Katura. (A globe sits in the middle of some lovely Celtic DOCTOR: Yes. MELKUR: The punishment for failure is death. DOCTOR: Really? MELKUR: Through the resources of the Keepership, and through you, chamber, his eyes blank.) you. me. Kassia Time reveals everything, Adric. Wait, wait. console and is working on it.) ninepence now. NYSSA: Adric, I can't see Traken. I mean, there can't be many people in the universe with the capacity of just dropping in like this. (Melkur vanishes.) Now, Consul Tremas, who do you obey. great temptation to people less principled than ourselves. (Kassia sits down and stays quiet.) (Melkur and his chair materialise.) that transition may be completed. powers as Keeper. DOCTOR: Adric. MELKUR: Now then, Doctor. Pain on his face, and fear DOCTOR: Shush. Consuls and have them confined to quarters. powers as Keeper. Just an idea that Adric and I had. KEEPER: All-pervading evil, and somehow nurtured in those three good It is clear now he must be destroyed. MELKUR: Hold it out, Neman. And she must share in the informed. ADRIC: It means if we have to leave in a hurry, we're in very serious KASSIA: We are honoured, Keeper. Doctor Who 04 S18E21 The Keeper of Traken Pt 1. You're beginning to get the hang of this console. Has science brought us any nearer discovering how the Foster died? FOSTER: Up against the wall. These they did say I had a very sophisticated prose style. (Tremas puts the weapon to his head. KASSIA: The Doctor and his young friend. The Fourth Doctor and Adric learn from the wizened Keeper of Traken that a great evil has come to his planet in the form of a Melkur - a calcified statue. To be a consul and a father I thought were duties enough, but now once again to be a husband, and to Kassia. KASSIA: I cannot. TREMAS: Goodbye. There is nothing more than you of this magnitude in an ordinary Type Forty. ADRIC: No. will it do you now. Yes, Melkur. LUVIC: You knew too? down.) (Adric fits it to the panel he has been working on.) Traken once had a monarchic system of government. ADRIC: Universal harmony? DOCTOR: All this and that too? DOCTOR: Why, thank you, Adric. NEMAN: You will die for this, lady. unimaginable hazard, confront power that would obliterate even a Time ADRIC: Not if they've already searched there. have a little time. know. KATURA: No, no KATURA: With Consul Tremas under suspicion too, that is hardly the best (Nyssa leaves, and Kassia goes over to Melkur.) quite a bit yet. The Doctor has his back to him.) Kassia and Neman arrive and look (In the grove, the Melkur's eyes glow red.) MASTER: But not for the Keeper of Traken. Did I? TREMAS: Consul Tremas on special mission for the Keeper. Far too late. I am only the organising principle. Fosters.) NEMAN: His happiness is like the stars, he says. I'm not a magician, you know. These things must be ensured. The law permits it. (The doors part, and NEMAN enters, followed by the DOCTOR, ADRIC, and some FOSTERS.) (Tremas holds up his tricorder.) DOCTOR: Fiddlesticks. Huh. confession to satisfy the Traken people and then. He's covered in moss. Melkur zaps it and it bursts into flames.) DOCTOR: What does that mean? TREMAS: Consul Seron. LUVIC: So this man's death was natural, you think? (She runs over to the second one and drags him into the shrubs, then (The Tardis has arrived close to Melkur. NEMAN: I'm sorry, lady, that is impossible. ADRIC: Thought what? Manipulator? DOCTOR: Melkur? They kiss as the crowd applaud.). The reports I hear of your intelligence are true, I see. The sanctum is invaded! TREMAS: You understand these things? Literally a fly caught by honey. He and I have discussed the subject together. May I look at that? Ahhh. Or at least Part Two (Overlap from 'Bring the strangers forward') [INT. dying. everyone, even with Melkur. All will be as it should be. KEEPER: I am fearful even to involve the Doctor. NYSSA: The servo shut-off. Adric entertainment purposes only. you mad. Power of Melkur. Take Nyssa No Keeper lasts forever, and the period of transition is always difficult. Crystal Spires and Togas: Traken (though in this case it's more of an Elizabethan throwback combined with high technology). Argh! (Neman starts backing away. DOCTOR: Yes? We thought we'd walk the rest of the way. DOCTOR: Yes, and Kassia will be the next Keeper unless we make the It's too dangerous. Who said so? MELKUR: Wear it as a token of your allegiance. How and why it happened I cannot say. NYSSA: Come on, father. Very well, Keeper? sure. DOCTOR: Adric, Tremas, don't look at its eyes. (The Doctor retrieves his new equipment.) Adric, I give you a privileged insight into the Nyssa. DOCTOR: And you criticise my logic. The web pages on this site are for educational and DOCTOR: So do I. The CONSULS step down toward the DOCTOR and ADRIC, on whom the FOSTERS' guns are trained. The statue dematerialises from the grove. (to the others) Consuls, I sense some great danger coming to us all. SERON: Open the door. ADRIC: Yes. He's covered in moss. (LUVIC, laughing, leaves, entering the building while SERON and TREMAS remain.) If I knew everything that was going to happen, where would the fun be? ADRIC: Oh, all sorts of things. grove. NEMAN: Consul Kassia. Seron. SERON: What do these readings mean? vault, where there wasn't one before.) SERON: And landed in the grove? DOCTOR: Ha, ha. TREMAS: No, Doctor. TREMAS: It's so fantastic I hardly know whether to believe it myself. close guard.) Fosters, The means that DOCTOR: Well, pff, just the interesting ones. circuits. I am now nearing the end of my twelfth regeneration. No one except the Doctor can get in. up for that sort of thing. KEEPER: Kassia was right, Tremas. And Doctor, try to leave, try to gain access to the Tardis, and Luvic and Katura stagger in. The Fosters have appointed me to look after you. DOCTOR: Hello. KASSIA: I accept. DOCTOR: Eh? (The statue's eyes adopt that red glow.) It's just been displaced slightly by the current He'll speak when the time is right. By the way, my name's Kassia. Let it be. TREMAS: Doctor, these chaps are r (The TARDIS is seen slowly rotating amidst the bodies that make up the Traken Union.) ADRIC: That goes for me, too. (Traken breakfast appears to be fruit and bread.) Even my father couldn't have done better. (A little further on, they meet two armed Fosters.) What are you going to do? Yes, and Kassia will be the next Keeper, unless we make the sanctum. Mind you, She promised to tend the Melkur while its power still lived. after all. As you see, the passing ages have taken Reviews There are no reviews yet. ADRIC: We've gone into orbit round one of the planets. KATURA: They can't be known to the Keeper, or we would have been informed. I mean, I couldn't flit around the universe in an old chair like this. The current Keeper is nearing the end of his thousand-year tenure, however, and asks the Doctor and Adric -- who have escaped from E-Space -- to go to Traken and stop an evil he believes is plotting to destroy the Union. DOCTOR: Well, that particular evil seems to be well under control. TREMAS: An error. If you move a muscle, you Now Let's try and make that a permanent arrangement, shall we? NEMAN: I see. should become a part of it. soon. (Tremas's daughter, NYSSA, steps forward, kneeling between the two.) TREMAS: Where to, Doctor? ADRIC: No! Old men die. Soon. matter. None of you has. DOCTOR: Citizen trouble there? DOCTOR: Metulla Orionsis, I'd say. KEEPER: Think carefully before you agree. (Nyssa holds the rod as a weapon.) NYSSA: There was nothing like that there. NEMAN: Well, they were last seen headed towards the grove. DOCTOR: Ah, well, I'm afraid your luck's just run out. KATURA: Seron, and your father. It's only a bit of paper, MELKUR: Do what must be done. KEEPER: Its baleful influence will not extend beyond the grove, and even here it will only produce a few weeds. ADRIC: Yes. TREMAS: You wait here. The control panel goes bang!) DOCTOR: Whatever happens, Melkur must not be allowed to make contact Tremas. be painful. DOCTOR: (to Adric) It's our only chance. DOCTOR: Exactly. He cannot become Keeper now. While he lives, the cause of Melkur is in doubt. MELKUR: Yes, Consul. TREMAS: But I swore an oath, Doctor. SERON: Your judgement, Keeper? We can't use the sanctum entrance, they've taken my the boy not know of this? MELKUR: But it's too late, Doctor. TREMAS: Proctor Neman, send some of your brothers to confirm this. They say the atmosphere there was so full of goodness that Seron's murder proves the Keeper's power is It is our clear DOCTOR: I don't know. DOCTOR: That's a very popular delusion. DOCTOR: Its limitless organising capacity refined to a single frame and his right. DOCTOR: No, not at all. either side of the Keeper's screens.) DOCTOR: The Keeper's not dead yet, so we still May I borrow your With the Source Can't it wait? SERON: Then your craft should still be there. TREMAS: Melkur? SERON: Rapport with the Keeper? DOCTOR: I thought you might appreciate it if I gave you the impression LUVIC: Seron, and now you, Tremas? MELKUR: Your failure is irrelevant. A whole empire held together by... DOCTOR: He should be all right. The Lady Nyssa. ADRIC: Do you know them all? DOCTOR: Oh please, Keeper, please. must be, it must. DOCTOR: What is it? LUVIC: The sooner, the better. (They go over to the technology alcove and talk quietly there.) The knowledge will be taken from you atom by atom, and what is But the demise Imagination. (Kassia leaves quietly.) point for Traken. (It is now dark out. There is rumour KASSIA: The nature of these emissions. DOCTOR: Going to Traken? (The Tardis appears. Oops. TREMAS: It's impossible to say. 21:03. KASSIA: What is there to fear, Seron? (A crowd has gathered at the gate to the grove.) She promised to tend the Melkur while (A gong sounds.) ADRIC: I don't know. (Her eyes and collar glow red.) No, I'm just saying that a lot of the time you don't really make sense. Written by Johnny Byrne . TREMAS: I wasn't thinking of state duties, Proctor. brooch? neat cylinder with prongs.) DOCTOR: Metulla Orionsis, I'd say. NEMAN: Unfortunately for you, yes. ADRIC: No! DOCTOR: Well, you know, Traken, Keepers, all-pervading evil. We? knowledge. Kassia. LUVIC: So this man's death was natural, you think? You've changed your tune. DOCTOR: Well, unless he's in the habit of soliciting help, yes. DOCTOR: I thought so. TREMAS: And you have found it. We keep running into You have interfered with the succession. Nyssa, how are the Melkur turns off the monitor.) They can't be far away. KASSIA: Sacred law decrees that the Keeper has contact only through his DOCTOR: Whatever it was that was here last time. If I knew everything that was going to happen, where Literally a fly caught by honey. MELKUR: Only a beginning, Doctor. KASSIA: No! ), ADRIC: The wave loop pattern's unmistakable. TREMAS: The Keeper said one would come amongst us to help Trakens. Fosters, Tremas. we'll stop you. Just remember three, three, DOCTOR: E-space, wasn't it? FOSTER: Halt, or I'll fire. And those are NYSSA: It's too late, Adric. The Doctor gazes at his trusty screwdriver.) TREMAS: Who asked you here? Under your zealous eye we may be (They struggle against the gale.) TREMAS: We don't know that it was murder, Consul Katura. Now Consuls, you will excuse me. is possible. evil is here before you, before your eyes! may see them. DOCTOR: Sshhh. KATURA: May you bring peace and blessing for all your time, Keeper. (There's a curious modern wooden long-case clock by the entrance to the DOCTOR: Well, I think that one head's better than three. I'd like to take another look, but KEEPER: Kassia was right, Tremas. I think that one of you TREMAS [on screen]: Yes, and with good reason. His power comes and goes at first. I am impatient, For ages past, the Union of Traken has lived in peace and harmony thanks to the power of the Source, controlled by generations of Keepers. Seron is DOCTOR: What? DOCTOR: Well, she seems to be going right as DOCTOR: If you ask me, poor old Kassia didn't have much say in the TREMAS: It's impossible to say. DOCTOR: Well, it involves an awful lot of recalculation, and this TREMAS: Will the court permit an exchange of scientific views? He must see this, Nyssa. (Ouch, what a pun.) (The Doctor gets out his Tardis homing device. ), DOCTOR: Consuls, you're making a big mistake. Come on, quickly. system? Corrupt Cop: Neman is pretty morally flexible when it comes to accepting bribes, something both heroes and villains take advantage of. Sadly we must show that our intentions are firm. DOCTOR: I wondered when you were going to ask. close behind him. KASSIA: Brave words, husband, but no great comfort to a people being Something the autosystems can home in on. SERON: Tremas has clearly fallen under Kassia's spell in more ways than Consuls, this man is known to Adric, we have a full of the Source. Nyssa, now daughter to you both. The Consuls are confined to their quarters and the But the demise of any living thing is painful to us. DOCTOR: Yes. SERON: (drawing LUVIC to the side) Tremas has clearly fallen under Kassia's spell in more ways than one. The CONSULS all insert their rings into the holes for them in equipment where they stand.) TREMAS: Wait. prepare myself. DOCTOR: Quite! sit for thousands of years in a chair, but it is magnificent. LUVIC: I don't understand what's going on. ADRIC: I've got the nasty feeling it's looking at us. you. Who would have thought its demise could be so protracted? ADRIC: Over the page says it did happen, but many years ago. SERON: Should you infringe the law here in any way, then his life too Being so evil, you can't even speak. cunning enemy. DOCTOR: It's all right, Adric. DOCTOR: Right! The Fosters must be armed. swiftly in gratitude for all you have accomplished. carefully and obey without question. (Tremas and Kassia link hands and kneel.) DOCTOR: So? TREMAS: Yes, stalling opposition until his power's secure. SERON: You say, Doctor, that you arrived here in some kind of craft? SERON: Already you've begun to pamper him, Kassia, like that Melkur of DOCTOR: Well, that particular evil seems to be well under control. I stepped up the ion rate. NYSSA: You know what to do? Stephanie Reacts. NYSSA: What are you doing? NYSSA: I know what I am doing. LUVIC: I thought it was natural. Warp crossover connected there, shutdown element there and We last saw this disintegrating LUVIC: Oh, I do not have such greatness in me. MELKUR: You still do not recognise me, Doctor, but KEEPER: Listen closely, Doctor. that's the theory. KEEPER: Bring the strangers forward. ADRIC: You aren't serious, are you? like that? is a matter of hours. NEMAN: You may count on me, Keeper. (reaching up to brush bits of foliage from its shoulder) Looks pretty well calcified to me. comes out first and sees the statue staring straight at them.) DOCTOR: I thought so. The full reaction process NYSSA: But my father. KEEPER: Well guessed, Doctor. NEMAN: Consul, there's no sign of them. You say Tremas is unfit to Tremas groans at the sight.) SERON: You're sure it's not an error? DOCTOR: Well, the first thing we ought to do is find my Tardis. up some time. (Melkur materialises. I know one or two shortcuts. TREMAS: Starting with my quarters. (The Doctor and his group leave the area of Melkur's vision. Doctor. Melkur laughs.) NYSSA: How can all this be like Melkur? DOCTOR: Yes. NEMAN: Fire! say about that? the four part keeper of traken episode of doctor who accompanied by "the keeper of traken" by Matt Chadra from the album soup or scoop. Adric, I give you a privileged insight into the mystery of time, yes? what happened. must not become Keeper. Manipulator. Right, now let's see what this place really looks like. raise your hands. cells for some time now. protracted. (Kassia puts her ring into a console and flicks a switch. DOCTOR: What? (The DOCTOR carries two largish, old-looking books in from the interior of the TARDIS.) KASSIA: No, Tremas. we'll help them. KASSIA: And Tremas? work. There's no need to show off your Cool Chair: The Keeper's throne. NYSSA: I'll do it. ADRIC: The prime circuit bank, Nyssa. KEEPER: It's baleful influence will not extend beyond the grove, and TREMAS: Consul Seron. (He looks across the console.) TREMAS: Keeper of Traken, by unanimous consent, your consul summons ), SERON: Keeper of Traken, the Consul's integrity is DOCTOR: Come in. (Kassia's eyes become flat and blank, with pinpoint pupils.) At my KATURA: Since she was a child. Hmm. ADRIC: I think so, except it's impossible. will obey, just as you will. Neman NYSSA: But it's going to blow any minute! I'll think of (The screens slide open.) LUVIC: (a slightly younger man, also bearded) I hope she looks after Tremas better than she looks after the Melkur. KATURA: (an older woman) People have begun to think she was married to the statue, all these years she's been tending him. See for yourself. Not my eyes. Tremas goes over to the clock, which says NEMAN: By order of the Keeper Nominate, you are all sentenced to death. regret it. (Kassia sees a dead Foster.) KASSIA [on screen]: I shall not rest till it is done. I intend that you ), The above notes, transcription, etc. The story was scheduled as the last-but-one in the 1980-81 season – but it had since become clear that leading man Tom Baker would leave the series at the end of the run. place you both under the protection of Consul Tremas. DOCTOR: Oh, yes. looks like. Yes, very clever. ADRIC: Universal harmony? (Melkur disappears.) KATURA: That is for him to prove, and the sooner the better. interest in The Aztecs.) we have enjoyed for a thousand years, is dying. (The Keeper reappears on the other side of the console, by the It'll soon be dawn. DOCTOR: Hmm? KATURA: Consular privilege? later. KASSIA: Oh, where could they be? DOCTOR: Well, just the interesting ones. Kassia is as good a name Time reveals everything, Adric. (A gale has broken out again. ADRIC: Doctor, look! This mustn't be discovered. KATURA: He is gone! as Tremas. KASSIA: Nothing is normal at such a time. (The doors open.) (The KEEPER vanishes.) KASSIA: (joining him) My husband is right. KASSIA: Leave them. Dangerous thoughts. MASTER: Unfortunately for you, you will not be using it. ADRIC: Have you tried a Fourier analysis? compassion for these poor distorted creatures seems to attract them LUVIC: It's dangerous. are true, I see. DOCTOR: Yes. TREMAS: You know another way to destroy Melkur? men made contact, but they got away. afraid you're rather stuck with him. KEEPER: But, unlike you, my time of Dissolution is near and the power entrusted to me is ebbing away. MELKUR: Excellent. TREMAS: What are you thinking, Doctor? But she should be with you, surely? TREMAS: Not much, Doctor. (Adric picks up two bundles of unconnected wires.). But I do hope we know what we're doing. TREMAS: That could be the crucial circuit. Farewell. ADRIC: But we can't get out. of the centuries. SERON: Intended, Kassia? KASSIA: Don't look. reason. KASSIA: You spoke to me! KASSIA: My husband and his friends have betrayed the Keeper. MELKUR: Consul Luvic, you may now summon Proctor Neman. Here, take that and make yourself benches by the wall, then leave. KASSIA: You spoke to me! What about my handwriting? Melkur. himself to the bioelectronic system. DOCTOR: Come on. MELKUR: There is much that you do not understand, Kassia. The Keeper uses the TARDIS scanner to show a grove on Traken, where the Fosters guard the spiritual welfare of the capitol. Entry to it is possible only through consular agreement. A whole TREMAS: Kassia. (He switches on their device.) KATURA: And the Keeper? She (The Doctor enters with two large books under his We have found them. (A gong sounds.) Call off the search. KASSIA: The strangers must die. DOCTOR: Oh, he's not local. Keeper Nominate. DOCTOR: Shhh-sssh. A strong wind blows up. DOCTOR: Yes. DOCTOR: Yes, yes, I know that feeling. DOCTOR: Well, it's a good place if you fancy a spot of gardening. anything you're used to.
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