Devil's Planet
| Screenplay |
Michael Winder |
| Director |
Tom Clegg |
| Script title "Devil's Moon" |
Final shooting script 9th September 1976
Double Up Koenig script |
Titles
| Martin Landau |
John Koenig |
| Barbara Bain |
Helena Russell |
| Catherine Schell |
Maya |
In Show Credits
| featuring |
Tony Anholt |
Tony Verdeschi |
| guest star |
Hildegarde Neil |
Elizia |
|
Roy Marsden |
Crael |
End Credits
| Dora Reisser |
interrogator |
| Cassandra Harris |
sares/controller |
| Angus Macinnes |
jelto |
| Arthur White |
kinano |
| Michael Dickinson |
blake maine |
| John Hug |
bill fraser |
| Alibe Parsons |
alibe |
| Sam Dastor |
dr ed spencer |
Uncredited
| Robert Reeves |
Command Center Operative (Peter Reeves) |
| Jenny Cresswell |
Alphan |
| Katya Wyeth,
Vida Taylor,
Vilna Riley,
Beulah Hughes,
Felicity York,
Rikki Howard |
Other Guards |
| Peter Brayham |
Garth |
| Geoffrey Greenhill |
Phirly |
| Del Baker |
Hunted man |
| Alan Harris |
Entra prisoner |
Int. Command Centre
Int. Eagle Pilot Section
Int. Eagle Passenger Section
Ext. Planet Surface: Ellna transbeam station
Ext. Planet Surface: Area Of Sanctuary Column
Ext. Planet Surface: Outside Prison
Ext. Planet Surface
Int. Entra Reception Chamber
Int. Entra Security Ward
Int. Entra Cell
Int. Entra Cell Block B
Int. Entra Corridor
1. EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Eagle.
HELENA (VO): "Moonbase Alpha Status Report. Twenty three hundred and six days after leaving Earth orbit."
Another angle (sc 1)
HELENA (VO): "Doctor Helena Russell recording. Five days ago we detected two planets "
Eagle under nebula (sc 1).
HELENA (VO): " in our East Quadrant which may be capable of supporting life."
Eagle to 2 planets (sc 2)
HELENA: "Commander John Koenig has lifted off in Eagle One on a reconnaissance mission. With him is Blake Maine of the Medical Rescue Team."
3.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
-Koenig & Maine.
-Eagle viewport (SFX): planet horizon & Ellna beyond.
KOENIG (VO): "Sensor reads vegetation. No other life forms."
-Koenig & Maine.
-Eagle viewscreen (SFX): six satellite photos, (sc 6)
MAINE (VO): "Through the clouds, Commander. That looks like a city down there."
-Koenig looks in space warp locator. (sc 7)
-POV: geometric design. Then another. (SFX) (sc 8)
KOENIG (VO): "Yeah. It is a city. Buildings. Streets. Some form of transportation system."
-Koenig & Maine (sc 9)
KOENIG: "And little coloured dots which could be human beings. Check the atmosphere."
MAINE: "Atmosphere- nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, breathable."
KOENIG: "Let's take a look."
-Eagle viewport (SFX): view through clouds to landscape.
-Koenig & Maine (sc 9)
MAINE: "I'm picking up a life form signal. And it's..in a clearing, some miles north of what seems to be the city."
KOENIG: "It's alright. Home in on that signal."
12.EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Eagle flies over alien towers in forested surface.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
KOENIG: "Alright, let's set her down in that clearing."
EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Eagle lands.
13.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
The 2 walk through rocks & vegetation. Maine's hand held unit bleeps, then stops.
MAINE: "Commander. Life form signal's cut out."
KOENIG: "Let's find out why." ((they walk into a clearing & find the transbeam station)) "What have we got here?" ((walk round & see corpses: Maine scans one. Koenig goes to him)) "Dead?"
MAINE: "No life signs. No wounds. No injuries, internal or external. Body perfectly preserved. Time of death indeterminate."
KOENIG: "Cause of death?"
MAINE: "That's a good question."
15.INT. COMMAND CENTRE
Ed sat at desk, Fraser leaning on it.
ED: "Any theories, Blake?"
MAINE (VO): "Tough to diagnose, Ed. Could have been a sonic beam, a high potency ray, something that would have killed instantly."
ED: "Can you give me a close up of one of the victims?"
16.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
Koenig aims his comlock at the face of one corpse.
17.INT. COMMAND CENTRE
-Big Screen (SFX): close on face (sc 17)
-Ed (sc 18)
ED: "Closer."
-Big Screen (SFX): close on face (sc 19)
-Close on Ed.
-Big Screen (SFX): close on eyelid- hand moves over.
-Close on Ed: distaste. Girls look away & Fraser squirms. (sc 20)
ED: "Whatever it was, it hit the central nervous system. It must have caused tremendous pressure to explode those blood vessels. A form of nerve gas."
23.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
ED (VO): "A lethal pathogen that invaded their bodies. Or bacteria released in the atmosphere."
A noise is heard: the transbeam booth glows & a man appears. Koenig & Maine stand.
INT. COMMAND CENTRE
-Big Screen (SFX): Man seen in booth.
-Alphans stand up as they watch.
-Big Screen (SFX): Man emerges from booth.
23.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
Koenig & Maine approach the man.
25.INT. COMMAND CENTRE
ED: "No! Don't touch him!"
EXT. PLANET SURFACE
ED (VO): ", don't go near him!" ((they stop))
25.INT. COMMAND CENTRE
ED: "He could be contagious."
20.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
ED (VO): "Get out. Get off that planet!"
The alien clutches his stomach & falls.
FADE OUT
DEVIL'S PLANET
featuring Tony Anholt
guest stars Hildegarde Neil, Roy Marsden
production executive Reg Hill
associate producer F. Sherwin Green
technical director David Lane
lighting cameraman Frank Watts BSC
production designer Keith Wilson
special effects designed and directed by Brian Johnson
writer Michael Winder
director Tom Clegg
26A.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Horizon of Ellna, Entra beyond.
EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Eagle rises above trees.
28.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
KOENIG (looking in warp locator): "The city too.. Every body on that planet is dead."
ED (on screen): "If it was a nerve killing pathogen our systems must have a built in immunity to it."
MAINE: "Sensor readings show satellite of mother planet has same atmosphere... vegetation..."
KOENIG: "Let's make a pass over that Moon and see what else we can pick up."
31.INT. COMMAND CENTRE
ALIBE: "We'll track you, Eagle One, over and out."
27.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Eagle rises over Ellna horizon. Credits over.
32.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
KOENIG: "Let's take a closer look at that surface."
-Eagle viewscreen (SFX): two satellite photos. A bleep starts. (sc 33)
MAINE (VO): "Malfunction."
-Maine & Koenig. (sc 34)
MAINE: "Main drive."
KOENIG: "Go to auxiliary."
MAINE: "Malfunction, secondary drive."
KOENIG: "Emergency booster drive?"
MAINE: "Not functioning."
KOENIG: "Koenig to Moonbase Alpha. Eagle One to Moonbase Alpha. We're out of control."
37.INT. COMMAND CENTRE
All hurry to their desks.
KOENIG (VO): "Koenig to Moonbase Alpha. Repeat, out of..." ((static))
ALIBE: "Alpha to Eagle One. Come in Eagle One."
FRASER: "I want exact computation of time, distance and location of Eagle One's last transmission. Call it in to me on Eagle Four."
ALIBE: "Bill. I could do better if I was with you."
38.EXT. PLANET ATMOSPHERE (SFX)
CU Eagle command module smoking & swaying as reenters.
39.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
MAINE: "Retro rockets?" ((Koenig moves lever))
KOENIG: "Not functioning."
40.EXT. PLANET ATMOSPHERE (SFX)
CU Eagle command module swaying.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
CU Koenig's face distorted by pressure. CU Maine's face distorted.
EXT. PLANET ATMOSPHERE (SFX)
CU Eagle command module swaying.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
-Pilots fell strain.
-Eagle viewport (SFX): view through clouds to landscape.
-An 'Active' light illuminates (sc 42)
KOENIG: "Retros functioning. Vertical thrusters maximum burn." ((pushes levers))
43.EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
View under Eagle to landscape.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
43.EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
View under Eagle to landscape.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Pilots struggle with controls.
EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
POV wooded landscape
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
43.EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Eagle flies low between trees: one tree is hit, with an explosion.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Shaken.
46.EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Eagle flies through trees, with a trailing explosion.
47.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Shaken.
48.EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Eagle throws up dust as flies low between trees.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Shaken.
EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Eagle ploughs through trees, with explosions.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Shaking comes to abrupt stop; Maine slumps to the side.
51.EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Disturbed dirt falls on the now still Eagle.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Koenig breathes, still stunned.
EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Explosion over command module.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
-Spot explosion.
-View in through hole in Koenig's side of section: Koenig unstraps himself & gets up.
-Koenig goes to Maine & helps him up & out.
KOENIG: "Come on. Let's get out of here. This thing's liable to blow."
53.INT. EAGLE PASSENGER SECTION
Branches penetrate section & spot explosions as they leave.
54.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
View out Eagle door as they hurry into the vegetation.
EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Crashed Eagle steaming.
55.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
-They hurry on. They hear whips & advance.
-A running man jumps down a bank & runs under trees. 3 girls in red run after him. The Alphans leave their watching place. The man runs on; the girls jump down the bank & split up.
-Area of Sanctuary Column. The man approaches the column, but two girls appear in front & the third behind. He tries to climb the rock to the column but the whips catch round each leg & his arm. He strains, but is pulled down. Koenig runs up & pushes a girl away. Maine runs up a bank & is caught in a forcefield. Koenig is shocked to see only the burnt remains of Maine's Alphan uniform remains. Sares snaps her whip round Koenig's neck to pull him to her, then clubs him with her whip handle. She smiles.
56.EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Pan over trees to Entra tower.
Closer view of prison tower.
57.INT. RECEPTION CHAMBER
Crael stands pleading before Elizia in her throne. A small selection of prisoners stand behind him, with one man by Crael. Two guards stand before Elizia.
CRAEL: "And I must submit to you, Elizia, that the only crime for which the prisoner can justly be accused is his use of the freedom of speech. To strip a being of this right, be he incarcerated here on the penal planet of Entra, or be he a free man on the mother planet of Ellna, is to destroy one of the basic principles for which civilisations of all galaxies have fought. If you condemn the prisoner then you condemn all life - everywhere."
ELIZIA: "I am touched by your eloquence, Crael. And I too as Mistress of Entra embrace one's right to the freedom of speech. I have made this clear to you, and to each and every prisoner who has ever been sentenced to Entra from our mother planet. But I have also heard testimony from others. Of how the prisoner arranged secret meetings." ((murmurs of discontent from prisoners)) "And tried to stir this colony to insurrection."
PRISONERS (murmur): "No, no.. That's not true..."
Guards snap their whips & murmurs stop.
ELIZIA: "To overthrow the forces of authority. And so long as I am the ruling force..I will not tolerate any abuse of the freedom of speech. Not by anyone."
-Section of wall disappears: (SFX) Sares enters.
-Sares goes to Elizia & gives her a stun gun.
SARES: "The alien's weapon."
ELIZIA: "And the alien?"
SARES: "In Security Ward, with the interrogator."
ELIZIA: "You shall be rewarded for your capture of the alien, Sares."
SARES: "Thank you."
ELIZIA: "What of the Hunt, the prisoner?"
SARES: "He almost made the Sanctuary Column."
ELIZIA: "Almost." ((aims & fires stun gun at prisoner. The other prisoners look shocked: Crael hurries to him)) "Dead?"
CRAEL: "Unconscious. Stunned."
ELIZIA: "The Hunt for him."
CRAEL: "It's inhuman."
ELIZIA: "Inhuman? The chance for freedom, to return to Ellna?"
CRAEL: "One out of a hundred survive the Hunt." ((moves to her, but guards step in front, holding their whip handles to him)) "I call that inhuman."
ELIZIA: "Offer any one of them the challenge and none will refuse." ((others look submissive)) "They all want the chance to go home."
58.INT. SECURITY WARD
Interrogator with Koenig asleep on a bed.
A section of wall disappears & Elizia enters (SFX)
Elizia goes to Interrogator.
ELIZIA: "Well, how is he?"
INTERROGATOR (puts on headband): "Subject's name John Koenig, Commander of Moonbase Alpha."
ELIZIA: "Where and what is Moonbase Alpha?"
INTERROGATOR: "Moonbase Alpha was a satellite of a planet called Earth. It broke out of orbit and is floating in space, there are two hundred and ninety eight people aboard." ((removes headband)) "He was caught in our atmospheric force field. He sent a message."
ELIZIA: "Then his people will be searching for him. Well, they can have him."
INTERROGATOR: "He knows. He has been to Ellna. He knows that everybody there is dead. That everybody sent there dies."
ELIZIA: "Extract everything from his brain."
INTERROGATOR: "That might kill him."
ELIZIA: "Ah, well, we'll give him a handsome funeral."
Elizia leaves & Interrogator puts head band back on.
FADE OUT
59.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Eagle.
ALIBE (VO): "We're approaching the quadrant."
60.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
ALIBE: " of the Commander's last message."
FRASER: "Try to pick up Eagle One on your sensor."
61.INT. RECEPTION CHAMBER
Crael & Beron walk up to Elizia.
ELIZIA: "You have been a model prisoner, Beron. And have earned the right to return to our home planet. One year off for good behaviour." ((Elizia walks down to them)) "See, Crael. There is justice when one earns it. Step into the transbeamer." ((Beron enters it & closes door)) "Goodbye."
CRAEL: "Goodbye, Beron."
ELIZIA: "Whenever you are ready you may activate."
Beron waves his hand over a panel. A white aura forms round the cabinet & Beron disappears.
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Whip pan from Entra to Ellna- close on Ellna.
62.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
Booth glows and Beron appears. He steps out of the cabinet & looks round the clearing. He clutches his stomach & head, then falls dead.
63.INT. RECEPTION CHAMBER
CRAEL: "May I speak, Elizia?"
ELIZIA: "To deny you that would be to deny you the freedom of speech, would it not?"
CRAEL: "We have released many prisoners. Not only have we never heard from them again, but Ellna has stopped beaming up any new prisoners."
ELIZIA: "The acts of crime for being sent to Entra must have dropped." ((she walks away))
CRAEL: "I'm not the only one to ask. I speak for many others."
ELIZIA: "Everyone listens to the weekly reports beamed here. They hear news from their home, their families. What is there to wonder about?"
CRAEL: "Hearing news is not seeing news. There was a time when a man could see his wife on the screen. And his children. Not anymore."
ELIZIA: "You prisoners are political troublemakers. It's your nature to be discontent, to cause trouble."
CRAEL: "We cause no more trouble. You've beaten us down, siphoned the militancy out of us."
ELIZIA: "It's not torture that has neutralised your militancy. It's the yearning in all of you to leave this sterile satellite to return to our beautiful Ellna."
CRAEL: "A yearning very few of us have realised."
ELIZIA: "There are two ways to realise it. To complete the term of imprisonment on good behaviour. Or to beat the Hunt." ((the guards by her throne snap their whips))
CRAEL: "I applaud you for your understanding of human rights." ((claps sardonically; as turns away a guard snaps her whip round his neck))
ELIZIA: "How fortunate for you that you never cease to amuse me, Crael."
64.INT. SECURITY WARD
INTERROGATOR: "I put his thoughts on the screen."
-CU screen: (SFX) Eagle being moved through hanger (from 'Space Warp')
-Elizia & Interrogator watch
ELIZIA: "Spacecraft engineering."
-CU screen: (SFX) Eagle being set down between 2 others in hanger (from 'Space warp'). In foreground Elizia, Interrogator & Koenig. (sc 64)
ELIZIA: "Friends. Let us observe his friends."
-Interrogator touches a panel.
-CU screen: (SFX) Stock footage of: 1. Helena; 2. Tony at Command Centre desk3. Maya jumping, cut to panther leaping through Power Room (from 'The Exiles') (sc 65)
-Elizia & Interrogator watch (sc 66)
ELIZIA: "A metamorph."
-CU screen: (SFX) Maya becomes an owl & appears on Tony's arm (from 'New Adam New Eve') (sc 67)
ELIZIA (VO): "He's very attractive."
-Elizia & Interrogator watch Koenig. (sc 68)
ELIZIA: "But this one I find especially appealing. Does this species know passion?"
-CU screen: (SFX) Koenig kisses Helena (sc 69; from 'The Bringers Of Wonder pt 1')
-Elizia & Interrogator watch (sc 70)
ELIZIA: "Yes, very interesting."
INTERROGATOR: "Which, his spacecraft, his friends or his romances?"
ELIZIA: "Have you tapped his brain for medical knowledge? Does he know how to produce immunity to the nerve bacteria on the home planet? Why didn't he die?"
INTERROGATOR: "I don't know yet. I can't tell how much he knows. His brain resists certain questions. He has a strong will."
ELIZIA: "Weaken it."
INTERROGATOR: "His brain composition differs from ours in certain areas."
ELIZIA: "A leader, treats people as equals. Bends to their will on occasions."
INTERROGATOR: "So should we all, on occasion."
ELIZIA: "Meaning what?"
INTERROGATOR: "Unrest. The prisoners are beginning to wonder about things on the home planet."
ELIZIA: "You're beginning to sound like Crael."
INTERROGATOR: "Tell them the truth now about Ellna and they might understand."
ELIZIA: "They would become ungovernable."
INTERROGATOR: "They will learn the truth some day."
ELIZIA: "If they learn the truth then we're all doomed. I am our barrier against disaster."
INTERROGATOR: "He has seen our home planet. He will tell them."
ELIZIA: "They won't believe him. Their minds have been programmed to think my way."
INTERROGATOR: "If they break through that programming...?"
ELIZIA: "I fear nothing. My guards are loyal to me. Cease interrogation. Send him to block B. But do nothing to disfigure him." ((leaves))
71.INT. CELL BLOCK B
Koenig awakens on bunk. Three prisoners approach him. He sits up with a start.
JELTO (hostile): "Where are you from, alien?"
Beat.
KOENIG: "I'm from Moonbase Alpha."
KINANO: "Never heard of it."
KOENIG: "My Eagle..my spacecraft crashed on your planet."
72.INT. SECURITY WARD
-Screen shows cell block.
JELTO: "Elizia never tires of sending spies."
KOENIG: "Now wait a minute, nobody sent me..." ((starts to stand, but pushed down again))
-Elizia & Interrogator watch
KINANO (VO): "Now you tell her we're not plotting an insurrection."
JELTO: "All we plan "
-CU screen: (SFX) (sc 73)
JELTO: " is how to outwit the hunters."
KINANO: "And that kind of plotting is permitted."
74.INT. CELL BLOCK B
KOENIG: "The Hunt? You mean...you want to be hunted?"
JELTO: "That's right. Spy, alien, whatever you are. We volunteer for the Hunt. If we reach the Sanctuary Column, without being killed first, we get to go free. To go home." ((shocked Koenig stands))
KOENIG: "You mean...down there?"
KINANO: "To Ellna. Home planet."
KOENIG: "Everybody's dead down there."
75.INT. SECURITY WARD
-Elizia & Interrogator watch
INT. CELL BLOCK B
JELTO: "You liar."
KOENIG: "Wait a minute, I was there. I saw all the people. All of them are dead."
KINANO: "But my family's on Ellna..."
Kinano puts his hands round Koenig's neck. Koenig breaks free, turns him & pushes away.
JELTO: "She sent you to lie!" ((Koenig throws him away))
KOENIG: "Now hold it!" ((punches third man off)) "Now hold it! Stop! Listen to me. I was on that planet. I saw a man transported there. He died, instantly."
INT. SECURITY WARD
-Elizia & Interrogator watch
-CU screen: (SFX) cell.
KINANO: "What killed him? What killed all of them? And how come you didn't die?"
KOENIG: "I don't know what killed him, maybe...maybe some sort of a plague."
76.INT. CELL BLOCK B
KOENIG: "And I don't know why I didn't die, maybe...maybe I have some sort of immunity."
A bell rings.
COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER (VO): "Attention all prisoners. Attention all prisoners. This is your weekly news from home planet. The wife of prisoner Branik "
77.INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM
COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER: " gave birth to a son at midtime on Solarday. Both are doing well. Congratulations, "
INT. SECURITY WARD
-Elizia & Interrogator watch screen.
COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER (VO): " prisoner Branik. There was a large party given by the family and friends of Strat Beron, celebrating his beam back "
-Elizia & Interrogator.
COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER (VO): " from the penal colony at Entra."
JELTO (VO): "So."
78.INT. CELL BLOCK B
A body in foreground holds a metal bar behind his back, hidden from Koenig.
JELTO: "Everyone's dead on Home Planet?"
KOENIG: "I don't understand. I know what I saw."
JELTO: "And poor old Beron died the minute he stepped out of the transbeamer?"
79.INT. SECURITY WARD
-Elizia & Interrogator watch.
JELTO (VO): "But only you've got immunity...spy."
80.INT. CELL BLOCK B
JELTO: "I wonder how immune you'll be to a noose around your neck."
The iron bar is shown & Jelto tightens a cloth strip between his hands.
FADE OUT
EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Prison tower.
82.INT. CELL BLOCK B
KOENIG: "You've been brainwashed! They're all dead down there!"
Koenig kicks Jelto away. Koenig leaps but is caught by Garth. Kinano brings the bar into Koenig's stomach & Jelto puts the cloth around his neck. Koenig kicks Kinano away, & the bar drops. Kinano goes to pull a bunk up. Garth hits Koenig in the stomach & puts him on the bunk.
A section of wall disappears & 2 guards enter & snap their whips.
A whip captures Kinano by the neck. Jelto & Garth run to cower in the corner as the girls snap their whips.
KOENIG: "Thanks."
ELIZIA (appearing in door): "Well, it would have been such a waste."
KOENIG (getting off bed): "I agree."
ELIZIA: "I am Elizia. Overseer of this penal colony."
KOENIG: "Elizia. They thought you sent me up here to spy on them."
ELIZIA: "Which only goes to prove my contention. The prisoners who try to think are dangerous." ((gestures him out. He goes & the girls follow))
83.INT. CORRIDOR
KOENIG (as they walk): "If you'll permit me, I'd like to contact my base. Have someone come and pick me up."
ELIZIA: "I cannot allow any aliens to land here."
KOENIG (stops): "Well, I don't understand, I mean... We're no threat to you. My name is John Koenig, I'm Commander of Moonbase Alpha."
ELIZIA: "Yes, I know about you. We've probed your brain." ((walks on))
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Eagle flies to 2 planets (opening shot)
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
ALIBE: "E T A precisely three hours."
84.INT. SECURITY WARD
The wall disappears & Koenig & Elizia enter. Koenig sees the Interrogator & her equipment.
KOENIG: "You say you probed my brain. Then you know of course you won't be able to keep me here."
ELIZIA: "You overestimate yourself."
KOENIG: "My people know where I am. They'll come for me."
ELIZIA: "Why should you wish to rush from my presence? Stay with me. And you will experience undreamed of pleasure. Well, until I tire of you."
KOENIG: "What's your boredom quotient?"
ELIZIA: "Well, that will be determined by you."
SARES (after bell rings)(VO): "Alien spaceship "
-CU screen: (SFX) (sc 85) Sares
SARES: " is within our outer quadrant. On a direct course "
-Them (sc 86)
SARES (VO): " for us."
ELIZIA: "Put him behind the screening panel."
The guards snap their whips & Koenig retreats into an alcove. A field appears, sealing him in. The girls turn & leave.
Wall section disappears & girls leave.
87.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Eagle to Entra horizon.
ALIBE (VO): "Sensors pinpoint site of wreckage at left "
88.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
ALIBE: " zero eight three degrees."
FRASER: "Got it. Zero eight "
ELIZIA (VO): "You are approaching the penal colony of Entra. Stay clear. You are in danger, stay clear."
FRASER: "Our scanner shows the wreckage of one of our spacecraft. We request permission to land."
ELIZIA (on screen): "Permission refused. No ship is permitted to land on this planet."
FRASER: "Two of our pilots are in that."
89.INT. SECURITY WARD
ELIZIA: "They died in the crash."
Focus beyond on Koenig, staring out helplessly.
91.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Shocked moment.
FRASER: "Then we must land to return them to Moonbase Alpha."
ELIZIA: "Your ship will be unable to penetrate our defence shield."
FRASER: "We're coming in to land. Shooting if we have to."
92.INT. SECURITY WARD
ELIZIA (to Interrogator): "Do they have that capability?"
93.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Spotlight passes over panel to Alibe.
ALIBE: "We're being scanned."
Spotlight passes to Fraser.
94.INT. SECURITY WARD
INTERROGATOR: "They carry missiles. But not powerful enough to penetrate our defence shield."
95.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
ELIZIA (on screen): "If you try to come through our defensive screen, your electronic systems will burn out."
FRASER: "We have contacted our base. They know we intend to land. If we don't make it, Alpha will send more powerful weapons to blast your planet."
ELIZIA (on screen): "Your philosophy will not permit you to do that."
FRASER: "Try us. You have one minute to decide."
96.INT. SECURITY WARD
ELIZIA (to Koenig): "You lied."
KOENIG: "No, I didn't."
ELIZIA: "You said it was not in your character to commit violence."
KOENIG: "We're not like you. We do not commit mindless violence."
ELIZIA: "How you do deprive yourselves of pleasure."
99.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
ALIBE: "One minute."
FRASER: "You okay?"
ELIZIA (on screen): "You are cleared to land. Go on automatic, our controller will see that you touch down safely."
100.INT. SECURITY WARD
INTERROGATOR: "When they find out?"
ELIZIA: "They will only find evidence of two deaths. The one who has already died. And his."
102.EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Crashed Eagle. Whip pan to -
103.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
Near column. 2 girls stand on rocks whipping, overseeing as a male & female prisoner brush the path between the rocks. Beyond Crael helps a man put on Koenig's uniform.
EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
The prison.
INT. CELL
Koenig feels his new prison garb, near a window.
103.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
Near column. The 2 finish brushing the path.
CRAEL: "The boots are important because we need the footprints, right? Ready? Okay, now you go straight ahead."
PHIRLY: "Up to the fence, that's it?"
CRAEL: "To the fence. Into the middle. What's the matter?"
PHIRLY: "Not that I don't trust you. But I have my rights. And one of them is to stay alive."
CRAEL (amused): "The fence is switched off. Just go into the middle and take your clothes off."
PHIRLY: "You first."
Amused, Crael walks over rocks to the clearing.
INT. SECURITY WARD
-Elizia & Interrogator watch.
-CU screen: (SFX) View from Crael to Phirly walking up the path. Crael leaves, satisfied. (sc 104)
-Elizia smiles & touches a unit in her hand. (sc 105)
106.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
A searing sound. Crael looks back & sees Koenig's uniform smoking on the ground. He uses his communicator.
CRAEL: "Elizia."
ELIZIA (VO): "Yes, Crael?"
CRAEL: "You promised you wouldn't do this. It's worse than the Hunt."
108.INT. SECURITY WARD
ELIZIA: "The choice between a promise and self preservation, Crael. What choice would you have made?"
EXT. PLANET SURFACE
Crael.
108.INT. SECURITY WARD
ELIZIA (to Interrogator): "As you said. How could I risk all that I have worked for?"
110.EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Eagle lowers over trees.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
110.EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Eagle lowers into trees.
109.INT. CELL
Koenig looks out the window.
112.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
POV: high angle over outside of prison. Elizia & guards going out to meet Alphans approaching.
115.INT. CELL
KOENIG: "Fraser! Fraser! Alibe! Can you - "
116.EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Pull back from tower. No sound or sight of window.
114.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
Outside prison. Alphans & Ellnans meet.
ELIZIA: "I am Elizia, keeper of the penal colony of Entra. I trust you had a smooth landing."
FRASER: "Very smooth. Thanks to your controller. I'm Fraser of Moonbase Alpha."
ALIBE: "Alibe, Communications Officer, Moonbase Alpha."
ELIZIA (of Interrogator): "This is my head of Security. We have refreshments waiting."
FRASER: "Thanks, but we'd like to get to the scene of the crash as soon as possible."
ALIBE: "Under the circumstances, refreshments are not our top priority."
ELIZIA: "Oh no, of course not. I do understand." ((leads them off))
117.EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Crashed Eagle.
118.INT. EAGLE PASSENGER SECTION
They enter.
119.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
They look in at the empty seats & check the controls.
FRASER: "The pilot section isn't totalled! They survived!"
ELIZIA: "Yes, they did survive the crash. But unfortunately after your spacecraft crashed...and before we could reach them they stumbled into one of our "
120.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
Near column as they walk up to Maine's uniform.
ELIZIA (VO cont from above): " boundary defences."
INTERROGATOR: "And walked into it here." ((reach Maine's uniform)) "As you can see, Commander Koenig's footprints..go to here."
She leads them up to path to Koenig's uniform. Fraser & Alibe are shocked.
EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Prison.
121.INT. CELL
Koenig paces & hears Eagle engines.
122.EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Eagle rises over trees.
125.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Fraser flies, still shocked, as Alibe cries.
128.INT. CELL
Koenig looks away, shaking his head in defeat.
129.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
POV: high angle over outside of prison. Interrogator & four guards returning, followed by Elizia.
INT. CELL
Koenig looks down.
129.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
POV: high angle over outside of prison. Continuation of above. Elizia looks up.
130.EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Close on prison.
132.INT. CELL
Koenig looks out, frustrated.
FADE OUT
EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Prison.
133.INT. CORRIDOR
Two girls march Koenig along, & through a door.
134.INT. RECEPTION CHAMBER
The girls & Koenig enter. Koenig sees the transbeamer & looks at it.
ELIZIA: "The Transbeamer. The magic door to the home planet. Attaining it is the dream of every prisoner on Entra."
KOENIG: "The magic door to certain death."
ELIZIA: "A failing of your race is your inability to see the positive in the negative."
KOENIG: "Double think."
ELIZIA: "Double think?"
KOENIG: "Your game with words. On my planet we'd call it double think."
ELIZIA: "Oh, but you are on my planet. And I call it hope."
KOENIG: "Hope? What kind of hope ends in extinction?"
ELIZIA: "Philosophical hope. Psychological hope. The hope without which there would be nothing but despair. The hope that makes them eager to be the quarry in the Hunt. The hope that they will reach the sanctuary column before they are taken."
KOENIG: "And what is the prize? To enter the transbeamer? So you can send them 'home'?"
ELIZIA: "They send themselves."
KOENIG: "Another example of double think." ((he strides to door))
ELIZIA: "Similar to your situation. You are alive, but your people are convinced that you are dead. And remaining alive is dependant on your entertainment quotient. You have a half life until you irritate or bore me."
Koenig goes to the door but she stuns him with a weapon. In pain he turns & drops to his knees. She laughs.
ELIZIA: "This promises to be more enjoyable than I had anticipated." ((they move to kiss))
KOENIG: "In front of an audience?"
ELIZIA: "Of course."
They close to kiss. She drops the stun stick, & Koenig throws her back into a guard, picking the stick up. A whip curls round his hand & the stick, but he pulls on it & pushing the girl into Elizia's throne. He runs to the door but the other guard stands in his way. He pushes her away & leaves. Elizia recovers her stun stick & calls to the guards as they are about to follow him.
ELIZIA: "No. Let him get a good start. After all, we always give the hunted a fair chance."
135.INT. CORRIDOR
Koenig reaches the exit to the vegetated surface.
EXT. PLANET SURFACE
Koenig runs through the undergrowth.
136.INT. RECEPTION CHAMBER
The guards are lined up before Sares, Interrogator, Crael & Elizia.
ELIZIA: "And when he is cornered he must not die quickly. He must suffer more than an Entran. He is an alien who has shown contempt for our culture and our authority. After him, then. For the glory of Entra and rewards beyond your dreams."
The guards, Elizia & Sares leave. Crael and the Interrogator remain.
137.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
-Koenig runs on.
-Elizia leads the guards on.
-Koenig runs up a bank, jumps off it & sees his uniform. He pauses then continues.
-Guards run on.
-Koenig runs on and sees...
138.EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Crashed Eagle (POV)
139.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
-Koenig runs on.
-Girls run up bank.
-Girls jump down by Koenig's uniform.
140.INT. EAGLE PASSENGER SECTION
Koenig enters & finds the weapons rack: the lasers are burnt.
EXT. PLANET SURFACE
Elizia leads the others on.
141.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Koenig looks out a hole.
142.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
POV through hole.
152.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
KOENIG: "Koenig to Moonbase Alpha. Eagle One to Moonbase Alpha."
153.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
Elizia & Sares pause, hearing Sares' receiver.
KOENIG (VO): "Eagle One to Moonbase Alpha. Are you receiving me?" * "Eagle One to Alpha, come in Alpha. Alpha, are you receiving me, come in, Alpha." ((* - in background as Elizia speaks over))
ELIZIA: "No communication can penetrate the defence shields surrounding this satellite."
The girls run on.
143.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Koenig presses button 1 on the 'Laser Control' panel.
144.EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
CU laser turret rising on top of Eagle.
148.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Koenig looks out hole.
149.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
POV through hole at girls running up.
The guards stop & Elizia looks up. (sc 145)
146.EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Laser turret turns to them.
147.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
ELIZIA: "It has been made harmless."
They continue on.
150.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Koenig presses button: no reaction.
155.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
POV through hole as girls run up.
INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Koenig gets up.
156.INT. EAGLE PASSENGER SECTION
Koenig takes a box labelled 'Distress- Homing Transmitters' from under the Weapons Rack. He takes one out & briefly activates it. Then he sees an extinguisher.
157.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
Koenig enters & opens a hatch in the floor to drop the extinguisher through. Elizia & the girls appear behind: he drops down.
159.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
Koenig lands under the scaffolding under the Eagle & runs off.
160.INT. EAGLE PASSENGER SECTION
The girls leave.
161.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
-Sares leads the girls past the scaffolding.
-Koenig runs on.
-Girls run on.
-Koenig runs on.
-Sares & girls run on. Sares sends the others off.
-Koenig runs up rocks as two girls come up to him. He fires the extinguisher at them. A third girl comes up behind him & whips the extinguisher out of his hands. Koenig jumps on her. She pushes her chin up, but he hits her & runs off. She chases & jumps on him. He rolls on his back & kicks her off. As she comes again he hits her & she falls. He recovers his transmitter, but Sares appears, holding her whip handle round his neck.
SARES: "There's no use trying to contact your people, your signal cannot get through our defence shield."
Koenig takes her neck & throws her over him. He picks up the transmitter.
162.EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Prison tower.
163.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
Koenig puts the transmitter in his jacket & moves off.
164.EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Close on prison.
167.INT. CELL
The tower guard looks out the window.
TOWER GUARD: "He is walking in the direction of the Main Complex."
168.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
POV: high angle over outside of prison. Koenig pauses as the huntresses chase up after him, but they hang back. Other girls move over the rocks.
ELIZIA: "Interrogator. The alien is returning to our custody, permit noone to interfere with his progress."
169.INT. CORRIDOR
Koenig passes guards as he goes to the Reception Chamber door.
170.INT. RECEPTION CHAMBER
Koenig enters to find Crael & Interrogator. Koenig walks to the transbeamer.
INTERROGATOR: "You will wait until Elizia arrives."
KOENIG: "Agreed. Mind if I wait over here?"
INTERROGATOR: "No, you may not. Remain where you are."
KOENIG: "I'm just making it more convenient for Elizia to transport me."
INTERROGATOR: "Transportation is for those who outwit the hunters."
ELIZIA (entering): "And you have not."
KOENIG: "What's more important, Elizia.." ((enters cabinet)) "..I've outwitted you."
ELIZIA (aims stun stick): "If you attempt to activate the Transbeamer you will be disintegrated."
KOENIG: "Yes, I will be. But if she fires, she'll also disintegrate this Transbeamer. And none of you will ever see home again." ((girls look at each other))
INTERROGATOR: "Wait, Elizia. If there's no hope for the prisoners we will be unable to control them."
ELIZIA: "We will find another way."
SARES: "But what about us? Some of us are completing our tour of duty. We want to go home."
CRAEL: "The alien is full of surprises."
ELIZIA: "Yes, Crael. He is treacherous and devious. Drag him out of the Transbeamer."
CRAEL: "Hear me first. There is talk among the prisoners that the alien claimed all are dead on Ellna. Is that so, alien?"
KOENIG: "Yes, that's true. Everybody on Ellna is dead."
ALL GUARDS (chorus): "No."
KOENIG: "Elizia knows it. But she's lied to you."
Beat.
ELIZIA: "He lies. If everyone were dead on Ellna why would he want to go there?" ((Guards side back with her)) "Take him."
KOENIG: "Wait! Wouldn't you prefer death to torture? To Elizia's brand of torture?"
ELIZIA: "Sares, order your guards to do their duty or you end up in a cell."
KOENIG: "Elizia's lies are your only prison. Make her tell you the truth."
ELIZIA: "There is no death on Ellna."
KOENIG: "If there's no death on Ellna, Elizia can follow and bring me back."
He waves his hand over the panel. An aura appears & he disappears.
171.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
Ellna clearing. Koenig materialises in cabinet.
172.INT. RECEPTION CHAMBER
ELIZIA: "I let him go. He has a criminal mind. Ellna will send him back."
CRAEL: "Unless he's telling the truth."
FADE OUT
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Ellna's horizon, Entra beyond.
173.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
Koenig leaves cabinet & holds up his transmitter.
174.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Eagle leaves two planets.
175.INT. EAGLE PILOT SECTION
ALIBE: "Code numbered Eagle One!"
FRASER: "It's impossible."
ALIBE: "Let's find out."
176.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Eagle turns.
177.INT. RECEPTION CHAMBER
The guards close in a circle round Elizia.
ELIZIA: "You doubt me and believe an alien? He lies, I tell you!" ((to Interrogator)) "Tell them he lies."
INTERROGATOR: "I'm not political." ((she leaves circle, which tightens about her))
ELIZIA: "Tell them, Crael."
CRAEL: "I know you relish a challenge. Prove to them that Ellna is what you said it is, otherwise they'll flay you alive."
ELIZIA: "And when I come back, they will worship me again."
CRAEL: "And if you don't come back, they will curse you as a tyrant."
ELIZIA: "Which do you desire it to be, Crael?"
CRAEL: "Whichever gives us most hope."
Elizia enters the cabinet & transports.
178.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
Ellna clearing. Elizia appears & leaves the cabinet behind Koenig.
ELIZIA: "At least I'll take you with me."
She fires two shots at Koenig, but he dives away from the explosions. Then she opens her mouth & falls. Koenig bends over her. He looks up at the sound of Eagle engines.
179.EXT. PLANET SURFACE (SFX)
Eagle flies over Ellnan buildings.
180.EXT. PLANET SURFACE
As the sound of the Eagle landing is heard Koenig leaves Elizia in the clearing.
FREEZE FRAME
producer Fred Freiberger
from ITC Television c ITC -Incorporated Television Company Ltd MCMXXVI
Dora Reisser interrogator
Cassandra Harris sares/controller
Angus Macinnes jelto
Arthur White kinano
Michael Dickinson blake maine
John Hug bill fraser
Alibe Parsons alibe
Sam Dastor dr ed spencer
music by Derek Wadsworth
production manager Donald Toms
casting director Lesley de Pettitt
editor Alan Killick
sound supervisor Roy Baker
sound editors Peter Pennell, Jack T Knight GBFE
music editor Alan Willis
sound recordist Brian Marshall
camera operator Neil Binney
costume designer Emma Porteous
assistant director Robert Lynn
continuity Doris Martin
construction manager Bill Waldron
make-up Basil Newall
hairdresser Michael Lockey
wardrobe Eileen Sullivan
asst. art director Michael Ford
SPECIAL EFFECTS
lighting cameraman Nick Allder
camera operator David Litchfield
electronics Michael S. E. Downing
Processed at Rank Film Laboratories
SPACE: 1999
created by Gerry & Sylvia Anderson
Filmed at Pinewood & Bray Studios, England
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