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'It is working!' exclaims Varga, a note of triumph entering his rasping voice. Melting ice cascades away as the process to free his fellow Martians from the glacier begins.

Victoria looks on, transfixed with terror, as the now familiar form of a towering alien begins to reveal itself. Penley silently observes the unfolding horror from a safe distance.

At dawn, Victoria's search party begins to assemble. The Doctor warns Jamie to keep a careful eye on Arden, who he thinks has underestimated how dangerous the creature is.

'We don't know how many of them there are,' Arden cautions the others, 'so we'll have to tread carefully.'

'We both know that I'm responsible for what has happened,' he continues. 'If I hadn't brought that creature back here in the first place, none of this would have occurred.'

'I also caused the death of Davis,' he laments. 'I can't forget that either.' Clent struggles to sympathise with the Scientist before the party leaves.

Clent looks for Miss Garrett (refuting the Doctor's suggestion to address her less formally) so she can show the Doctor the ropes.

'Just remember,' the Doctor impresses on the Leader, 'I am not a member of your staff - I'm just a working guest as you might say.' The Doctor's curiosity is aroused when Clent says that adhering to regulations led to Penley's eventual breakdown.

'I assure you,' Penley tells Storr, 'what I saw was very real - and terrifying.'
'You've been out in the mountains too long,' scoffs his fellow scavenger. 'It takes some people that way - especially the brainy ones.'

As Penley continues to prepare their meal, he tells Storr he is determined to discover what is going on. They are soon alerted by a sound outside, which Penley assumes to be someone who tracked him from the base.

He tells Storr to hide. 'We don't want you carted off to Africa yet.'

Going to confront the intruder, Penley is surprised to discover Miss Garrett.

'We're in desperate trouble at the base,' she tells him. 'You're the only one who can help us.'
Penley's reply is dismissive: 'Clent doesn't need me. All he needs is a mirror - preferably rose-tinted.'

'He does need you,' she insists, 'to make the ioniser work again.'
Penley laughs as he imagines Clent being forced to admit failure to World Control. 'Poor old Clent! He never could face the music.'

'It was typical of him to send you instead of armed guards,' he scoffs, still reticent to help.
'He doesn't know I'm here,' she protests. Softening her voice, she puts her hand on his shoulder. 'I'm asking you.'

He is adamant. 'Jane, I chose this existence. I chose it because I refuse to be sucked into that computerised ant-heap you call a civilisation. Machines corrode and rust, but mankind goes on!'

'You leave me no alternative,' she says, brandishing a small gun.

'You will come - and now!' Miss Garrett insists.
'You must be desperate,' he replies, 'but tranquilising me isn't going to make it any easier - you'd never be able to carry me all that way!' Jane is then attacked by Storr, who knocks her gun away.

Penley tells Jane to leave, adding that if the ioniser continues to prove problematical then they should consult his notes on the omega factor. After she leaves, Storr seems more convinced about the 'ice warrior' and Penley decides to investigate further.

At the glacier-face, Varga has succeeded in revitalising his crew. Victoria's pleas to be released are met with immediate refusal.

'Zondal,' Varga addresses his second-in-command, 'you will locate our buried spaceship without delay. You will excavate sufficient space to form a cave - to act as a trap.'

'A trap!' exclaims Victoria. 'Who for?'
Varga tells her not to interfere, as the distraught girl argues that they need not be hostile towards the humans. She asks to know what her fate will be. 'Bait,' hisses Varga, 'for the trap.'

The Martians emit a rasping laugh and Varga orders the activation of their weapons. A deafening shrill fills the air.

Penley silently observes the scene as the cacophony shatters the ice.

Torrents of snow are blasted away to reveal a huge cavity.

The Doctor is thoroughly engrossed in his work on the ioniser, the surrounding area buried under piles of paper. Clent suggests that using a computer would have been easier - the Doctor simply asks to borrow a pencil.

Miss Garrett rushes in to face a harsh admonishment for her absence from Clent. She presents Penley's notes on the ioniser.

'Omega... omega... what does it mean?' mutters the Doctor as he scrabbles through the notes. Realisation soon dawns: 'The omega factor!'

'Your friend Penley's very clever!' the Doctor beams. 'You mean it could possibly work?' enquires Miss Garrett hopefully.

The Doctor congratulates Miss Garrett on looking up Penley's notes. 'It's a pity that he turned traitor...' he adds, expectantly.
'Clent might call him that,' replies Miss Garrett, 'but he's still the most brilliant scientist we have.'

Arden attempts to contact Clent on his wrist communicator.

'The ice face,' he reports, 'it's been excavated into a cave.'

'Is there any sign of a space craft?' asks an anxious Clent as the transmission begins to break up.
'Yes,' replies Arden.

'At the back of the cave there's what looks like a metal door in the ice,' Arden reports.

Arden continues that the area seems deserted, but Clent warns him to be careful nevertheless. 'I don't fancy this place,' says Jamie as Arden begins to measure radiation readings. Varga's squad silently observe them.

One of them activates its side-arm. The air contorts in the wake of the blast as Arden and Jamie collapse.

'You've killed them!' Victoria screams as the Martians emerge.

'It was necessary,' hisses Varga.

'There may be more of them,' Zondal warns his leader. 'If more of them come we will destroy them,' asserts Varga. 'If no more of them come we will know that there are not enough of them to resist us.'

They decide against destroying Victoria on the grounds that she may be useful bait again. Varga orders Zondal to make the ship's propulsion unit functional.

The bodies of Jamie and Arden are forgotten in the ensuing activity.

'Isn't it time Arden and Jamie reported again?' asks the Doctor.
'Yes,' agrees Clent, 'but you know what Arden is with his scientific curiosity.'
'Very human,' adds the Doctor.

Clent attempts to contact the missing Scientist, and both he and the Doctor watch hopefully for a response.

'Jamie - answer me!' implores the Doctor. Arden's wrist communicator lies unattended...

... until it is discovered by Penley. He makes no attempt to communicate with the base, instead turning his attention to Jamie who is lying nearby.

'I'd never forgive myself if anything happened to Jamie,' frets the Doctor. Clent, however, is more concerned about the detrimental effect to the project of Arden's absence.

'I'm not sure I trust your judgement yet, Doctor,' warns Clent.

Miss Garrett intercedes between the two men as they begin to quarrel. She reassures the increasingly fraught Clent that the ioniser will indeed function to plan. The Doctor finds it difficult to share Clent's elation while Victoria and Jamie are still lost outside.

Storr reacts aggressively to having 'another mouth to feed' as Penley arrives back with Jamie. 'You may hate scientists Storr, but there's no need to hate all human beings.'

Jamie wakes suddenly and is surprised and confused at his surroundings. He asks what happened to Arden. 'Arden's dead,' replies Penley. 'You were both shot down by the warriors. They used some kind of ray-gun.'

Arden tells Jamie that Victoria is still alive. The Scotsman desperately tries to rally himself, and the others, into rescuing her. The strain, however, is too much and he collapses back into unconsciousness.

Inside the cave, Victoria's guards let her out of their sight. Seeing an opportunity, Victoria edges towards the body of Arden.

She finds his discarded wrist communicator and struggles to make contact with the base.

'This is Victoria,' she whimpers, her teeth chattering through the cold and sheer nervousness, 'calling the Doctor or Leader Clent.'

Victoria calls for help (montage with audio)

'Please answer me,' she begs. Her transmission is monitored...

...but not only by the base crew. 'Commander,' hisses an anxious Zondal, 'she will betray us.'

Varga examines the screen carefully. 'She has courage, but she must also be stupid to think that we would not watch her every move. She must be stopped.'

'Victoria - where are you?' calls out the Doctor. She tells them that she is inside a cave, and that Jamie and Arden have been shot.

The Doctor makes no attempt to hide his deep concern. Clent, however, seems more interested in getting details of the Martian propulsion units before he activates the ioniser. 'Keep calm girl. Tell us about the space craft first.'

'Arden's dead and Jamie has disappeared!' she screams. 'Don't you understand? They'll stop at nothing!' While she pleads with Clent to listen to her a cannon-like device appears from the door behind her.

Varga and Zondal monitor the scene, carefully training the emerging weapon on the terrified girl. With the huge gun in place, Zondal turns to Varga. 'Ready to fire...'

NEXT WEEK: The Doctor allows himself to be captured.

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