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'Come in my child,' beckons Padmasambhava. 'You have no alternative.' Victoria nervously enters the inner sanctum.

'I'm sorry to intrude,' says Victoria, as she gazes at Padmasambhava's lined face. He interrupts her to position the Yeti effigies on the board in front of him.

'Come closer,' he tells her. 'Look...' Victoria sees the miniature Yeti on the map.

'It's one of those horrible creatures,' she says. 'Indeed,' replies Padmasambhava. 'But you have not seen it.' He places his hand on her forehead and she falls into a trance.

Padmasambhava moves the Yeti effigies onto the part of the map representing the monastery courtyard. The huge robots duly march through the gate.

Accompanied by an electronic burbling noise, they split up and head for different parts of the monastery.

The Yeti's sound

Travers regains consciousness and resumes his hysterical rambling. 'What happened?' asks the Doctor. 'Where did you go to?'

'A blinding white light and a noise - a piercing noise that went right through my head - I can't remember any more,' Travers rambles.

Thonmi reminds Travers that he mentioned a pyramid when he returned. 'Evil,' continues Travers, 'A feeling of evil... a shadow on my mind.'

The Great Intelligence

A distant crashing noise brings Jamie rushing to the door. Rinchen announces that the Yeti have broken in. He blames Victoria, and renews his pledge to find and stop her. The Doctor, meanwhile, consults his tracking device.

Khrisong apologises to Abbot Songsten for failing to defend the monastery. The Abbot replies that recent events are destiny.

Khrisong is furious that Rinchen is refusing to take cover with the others and is instead searching for the girl. Ralpachan reports that the Yeti are turning back.

In the courtyard, the Yeti continue to devastate the monastery.

The Yeti's sound

Rinchen confronts the Yeti. 'Stop! Stop!' he shouts in defiance.

'She-devil, wherever you are,' he cries, 'call off these monsters! Spare us!' The Yeti topple the statue of Buddha, which crashes down on Rinchen. The robots turn away, marching through the gate and back towards the mountain.

Khrisong discovers Rinchen's body. 'He's dead – the monastery of Detsen is accursed.'

Padmasambhava removes the last Yeti effigy from the map. 'Now the monks will leave,' he addresses the Great Intelligence. 'By nightfall the monastery will be emptied, the mountain yours.'

The Great Intelligence

'And now,' he turns to Victoria, 'we must consider the problem of you and your friends.' He recruits the hypnotised Victoria into helping him ensure the Doctor leaves.

The Doctor is close to discovering the source of the transmissions. Travers awakes, still with no recollection of the traumatic events in the cave.

The Abbot instructs Sambhota and Ghentun to take Rinchen's body.

The Abbot announces that, following meditation, they and the strangers will evacuate the monastery. Padmasambhava, however, will remain.

Victoria appears, holding the holy ghanta. The monks drop to their knees before it.

The Detsen Monks

Victoria speaks with Padmasambhava's benevolent voice. 'This is a time of much danger. I have chosen to speak to you myself through the lips of this maiden.'

'She bears the holy ghanta. Bear it away to safekeeping. Treat this child with kindness. She and the strangers are innocent of any malice towards you.'

The monks listen in hushed silence as Padmasambhava insists, 'Detsen must be abandoned.'

Sapan asks if they will ever return to Detsen, but Victoria collapses before there is an answer. The Abbot arranges care for her, and orders the strangers to be freed.

Victoria is reunited with the Doctor and Jamie, but behaves strangely. She repeats that there is great danger, and begs to be taken away.

Thonmi explains Victoria's encounter with Padmasambhava, and how she subsequently spoke with the master's voice. The Doctor realises that the man he last met hundreds of years ago is still alive.

Aware that Victoria is reacting to his voice, the Doctor tells Jamie to wait while he pays a visit to a very old friend.

'Oh, Intelligence,' says a weary Padmasambhava. 'You promised to release me, yet still I feel your grasp upon this frail body.'

The Great Intelligence

'What is happening?' he asks, in response to an unheard instruction. 'This was not your plan?' Realisation dawns on Padmasambhava that if the Great Intelligence continues to expand then the world will come to an end.

The discharge from the pyramid engulfs the cave, which resonates with a piercing buzzing noise.

The Great Intelligence

The Doctor cautiously enters the inner sanctum. 'It's good to look upon your face again,' says Padmasambhava. 'So many years...' The Doctor draws nearer. 'So it's true,' he says. 'But how?'

'I have been kept alive so many years,' says Padmasambhava. He tells the Doctor that during an astral projection he made mental contact with an intelligence in space. 'It used my mind... it controls my body...'

'But why?' asks the Doctor. The tormented old man does not answer, but pleads for the Doctor's help.

The Doctor promises to help, but says he first needs to know why the monks are being driven away, the purpose behind the robot Yeti and the location of their control source.

Padmasambhava struggles against an unseen force and, exhausted, slumps forward. The Doctor is unable to revive him.

The Doctor sadly turns away and leaves the inner sanctum.

As soon as the door closes behind him, Padmasambhava opens his eyes and snaps back to life.

The Doctor tries to reassure Jamie, who is anxious about Victoria's trance-like condition.

The Doctor attempts to break Victoria's relentless insistence that she be taken away. He hypnotises her, convincing her that she is in fact safe in the TARDIS.

'Look at my eyes,' he tells her. 'You're very tired, very sleepy.'

Victoria falls into a deep sleep at the Doctor's command. He tells Jamie that the important thing now is to remove the growing fear that has been planted in her mind.

The Doctor tells the hypnotised Victoria to forget everything that happened after she was locked in the cell with Thonmi. 'You're feeling happy, but a little tired,' he tells her.

The Doctor counts to three and clicks his fingers. Victoria opens her eyes.

'Oh, I must have dropped off,' says Victoria with an expansive yawn. A relieved Jamie smiles at her. 'What are you grinning at?' she asks.

The Doctor and Travers head for the mountain to get the reading the Doctor needs to discover the source of the Yeti transmissions.

The dormant Yeti are oblivious to their presence.

Travers gets an uneasy sense of déjà vu. The Doctor assembles the equipment and asks Travers to take some readings.

Travers offers to 'stir things up a bit' instead, leaving the Doctor with the tracking equipment.

The Yeti lurch into life, and head towards the Doctor and Travers.

The Doctor takes his final reading and hurries back to the monastery with Travers. In the courtyard the Doctor reveals that the transmissions emanate from the monastery itself.

The realisation that Padmasambhava may be at the heart of the transmissions uncovers buried memories for Travers.

The Great Intelligence

'It's all coming back to me! There was this cave,' he begins. As he explains, glowing discharge from the pyramid spews out from the cave and pours down the mountainside...

Next Week: Will the Great Intelligence absorb the monastery - and the Earth?

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