Part 20 (1/2)

The central column was slowing its rise and fall.

'Jo,' said the Doctor gently, 'we're about to land in England - in your time. That all happened three thousand five hundred years ago...'

Once again Stuart was calling out the readings, 'Three five, four zero...'

'Increasing power,' said Ruth.

Suddenly another sound drowned out the TOMt.i.t noise, and a blue police box appeared in a corner of the lab. The Doctor and Jo Grant stepped out.

'Suffering monkeys!' said Stuart faintly.

Ruth was too absorbed in her experiment to notice. 'Now concentrate, Stu!' she called. 'Isolate matrix scanner.'

'Check!' He returned to the power readings. 'Six zero, six five, seven zero...'

'See if it's working, Stu!'

Stuart ran to the window and Saw that the Brigadier and his men were back to normal. He could hear the Brigadier shouting orders. Stuart turned back from the window. 'Yes, it is!'

'Good!'

The Doctor studied the power readings. 'It to be working a bit too well.'

'It's running away,' shouted Ruth.

'Everybody get down!' shouted Stu. 'It's going to go up!'

They all took cover as the TOMt.i.t console overloaded and blew up.