STORY TWO
“Fury”
The TARDIS materialises near Uluru, (Ayres Rock) Australia in November 1988 as part of the Doctor showing alice how her home country develops over time.
During the sightseeing the pair encounter a minor earth tremor. Puzzled the doctor remarks:
“That should not have happened, not here”
Returning to the TARDIS the Doctor consults the Library-Computer Database (LDB)* and discovers that there is geological turbulence nearby. Someone is digging down.
“Digging where? Asks Alice.
“I don't know” replies the Doctor.
That night the Doctor and Alice land the TARDIS closer to the source of the turbulence. Exploring the area the pair are astonished to see a scientific research station at the base of the rock.
Suddenly the pair are captured by armed security guards and manhandled inside the station where there are met by Security Chief Anderson. A mean, cruel man. Anderson takes an instant dislike to the doctor.
Alice protests against their capture. Anderson lunges for her but the Doctor employs his knowledge of Ju-jitsu * to floor Sanderson. This leads to the other guards aiming their guns at the pair.
A tannoy demands to know what is happening. Sanderson says that there are two intruders and is ordered to bring them to “control”.
The Doctor and Alice are escorted to a central complex inside the rock. There a huge laser drill is burning its way down through the Earth.
The operation is being overseen by Professor Thorn. A small, bespectacled arrogant man, he demands who the intruders are and what they are doing there.
The Doctor corrects him saying that he and Alice are sightseers and that the intruders are Thorn etc.
This riles Thorn who orders Anderson to restrain the pair. The doctor takes up a defensive stance and Anderson backs down.
The Doctor then asks Thorn what is the purpose of the drilling. This placates the scientist who informs the Doctor that they are drilling through the Earth's surface to tap the huge resources of Geothermal energy.
The Doctor asks Thorn if he is aware that the drilling has caused an earth tremor? Thorn dismisses him saying “these things happen all the time”
The Doctor is angered by this response calling this “an abomination”
This is too much for Thorn who orders Anderson to imprison the duo.
The Doctor and Alice are taken to a cell where they encounter a young aboriginal man called Billy. Billy tells the Doctor and Alice that he has been imprisoned by Thorn for several days for trespassing.
The Doctor devises an escape plan. Using his Sonic Screwdriver his overrides the key lock on the electronic alarm and the trio creep out of the cell. On the threshold of escape the doctor is captured telling Alice and Billy to run.
Alice tries to help the Doctor but is restrained by Billy who says they need help.
The doctor is escorted back to “control” and another confrontation with Thorn. This time however Thorn is intrigued by the Doctor's interest in the project. Recognising another scientist. Thorn explains to the Doctor that he is trying to solve the world's energy crisis.
The doctor seeing a chance to sabotage the project offers his “services”. Thorn is mollified by this and accepts.
Meanwhile Alice and Billy escape to a nearby aboriginal town where Billy is reunited with his family. Alice explains what is going on and asks the villagers for help. The town elders are very suspicious of Alice and her story. Yet Billy is able to persuade them by showing the villagers where the entrance is to the complex.
Back at the complex The doctor pretends to assist Thorn on the drilling. Thorn then tells the doctor that the next stage of the plan is to go ahead immediately. The drill is to bury 15 feet into the earth's surface.
The doctor realising the enormity of the damage uses his sonic screwdriver to short circuit the machinery. His is spotted by Anderson who pulls a gun on him. At the same time a band of villagers break into the complex.
Thorn activates a manual override and the drill starts again at speed but the doctor's fears are realised. The complex starts to shake and fall apart. He disarms Anderson and races up to the control gantry.
There Anderson pulls another gun on The doctor and decrees that no-one will stop him. As he does so the planet reacts in rage. The Doctor reacts by saying.
“Do you hear that? Thats the planet erupting in fury! Thou art become the destroyer of worlds!”
As Anderson's plan falls apart he tries to kill the Doctor but is himself killed by a shot from one of the villagers who have entered the control room.
The Doctor, Alice, Billy, the villagers and many of Anderson's cronies flee the complex which is destroyed in a huge fire causing considerable damage to Ayres rock.
By this time Australian authorities have been alerted and the Army and Police have arrived outside.
During the hubbub The Doctor and Alice dpart in the TARDIS after saying goodbye to Billy and thanking him.
On board the TARDIS Alice asks the doctor why would people want to do such horrible thing. He quotes Gandhi:
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
He then goes on by saying that Thorn wasn't driven by good but by greed and that greed inevitably with destruction.
As we see the TARDIS fly through space-time we hear the doctor lament on the project by quoting Roosevelt:
“To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”
Transmission Dates: 21st February to 14th March 1970