Doctor Who · Season 13, Episode 3
“Pyramids of Mars” · Season 13, Episode 3
In this episode: Fourth Doctor (16), Sarah Jane Smith (8), Sutekh (2)
What's the matter? You should be glad to be going home!
The Earth isn't my home, Sarah. I'm a Time Lord.
Oh, I know you're a Time Lord.
You don't understand the implications. I'm not a human being; I walk in eternity...
What's that supposed to mean?
It means I've lived for something like 750 years.
All right, so you're middle-aged!
Yes! About time I found something to do than run around after the Brigadier!
Something's going on contrary to the laws of the universe. I must find out what!
[The Doctor is attempting to open a lock.]
French pick-lock? Never fails. Belonged to Marie Antoinette, charming lady. Lost her head, poor thing...
[The Doctor and Sarah have landed in the location of UNIT headquarters, but in an earlier time period.]
Of course this would be a perfect headquarters for some paramilitary organization. This room could easily be turned into a laboratory.
Something's interfering with time, Mr. Scarman. And time is my business.
[Sarah finds a box of gelignite]
This looks like it. (throws it down to the Doctor)
Ah!
What's the matter? Not enough?
Sweaty gelignite is highly unstable... One good sneeze could set it off. (puts the box on the floor gently)
Did you find any fuses?
No...(with a straight face) perhaps he sneezed.
(The Doctor glares at her.)
Yes... perhaps it is time we were leaving. Don't want to be blamed for starting a fire, do we?
No!
There was enough of that in 1666.
(laughing) What?
[The Doctor is disguising himself as one of Sutekh's "mummies" after disabling one.]
How do I look?
(smirking) Hmm. Must have been a nasty accident!
(Annoyed) Don't provoke me.
Oh you're not fooling me sir, you came with Dr. Warlock didn't you?
Did we?
He asked you to scout 'round while he kept His Nibs busy.
Who?
The Egyptian, sir.
Ah, Egyptian eh? Is this where he keeps his relatives?
Well, Mr Scarman, I really must congratulate you for inventing the radio telescope 40 years early.
That, sir, is a Marconiscope. Its purpose is...
...is to receive radio emissions from the stars.
[beat] How could you possibly know that?
Well, you see, Mr Scarman, I have the advantage of being slightly ahead of you. Sometimes behind you, but normally ahead of you.
I see.
I'm sure you don't but it's very nice of you to try.
Where are we?
[whispered] A priest hole.
In a Victorian Gothic Folly? Nonsense!
Oh, so pedantic at a time like this!
Door. Key.
As simple as that?
No, not really.
I didn't think so.
No, you will not die yet. Identify yourself.
Just destroy me, Sutekh. Nothing else now is left within your power.
[more forcefully] Identify yourself. It is within my power to choose the manner of your death.[Sutekh's eyes light up and the Doctor screams in pain] I can, if I choose, keep you alive for centuries, racked by the most excruciating pain. Since your interference has condemned me forever to remain a prisoner in the Eye of Horus, it would be a fitting end. You would make an amusing diversion. [slowly lifting his powers] Identify yourself, plaything of Sutekh.
I'm a traveller.
From where?
Gallifrey, in the constellation of Kasterborus.
Names mean nothing. What is the binary location from galactic zero centre?
Ten zero eleven, zero zero by zero two.
I know the planet. Data retrieval. [the monitor shows Gallifrey's location and its details in Osiran] So, you are a Time Lord.
I renounced the society of the Time Lords. Now I'm simply a traveller.
In time and space. [his eyes light up and he asks more aggressively] In time and space?
[screaming] Yes! Yes!
Ah. Approach closer. What are you called, Time Lord?
Doctor.
I offer you an alliance, Doctor. Serve me truly, and an empire can be yours.
Serve you, Sutekh? Your name is abominated in every civilised world, whether that name be Set, Satan, Sados--
Serve me, Doctor.
Never! Agh!
[laughing] You pit your puny will against mine? Kneel!
NO...!
[laughing] Kneel before the might of Sutekh! In my presence you are an ant, a termite. Abase yourself, you grovelling insect!
You are a Time Lord. What interest have you in humans?
All sapient lifeforms are our kith, Sutekh.
Horus held that view. I refute it.
Because you fear that other intelligent lifeforms may grow to rival you in power, so you kill all life wherever you find it.
[amused] Your argument is a cloud, but I see through it into your mind. The human girl - she travels with you.
[The TARDIS is shown on the monitor]
If you can do that by mental force, Sutekh, then nothing can be beyond you.
Nothing... except to free myself from the Eye of Horus.
You use your powers for evil!
Evil? Your evil is my good. I am Sutekh the Destroyer. Where I tread, I leave nothing but dust and darkness... I find that good!
Then I curse you, Sutekh, in the name of all nature. You are a twisted abhorrence! [Sutekh's eyes glow again, making him collapse and cry out in pain]
Any further insolence, Doctor, and I shall shred your nervous system into a million fibres. Is that understood?
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