SCENE ONE
Opening Theme Tune
into recap of part one
DOCTOR
You’re not alone now.
ADAM
(upset again)
You abandoned me and now you’re haunting me.
DOCTOR
Tell me what happened?
ADAM
(breaks down again
and cries)
You know what happened.
I killed you.
DOCTOR
(sounding tougher
with Adam)
Come on, this isn’t you Adam. You need to snap out of this mental funk. Come on, snap out
of it Adam. You have to calm down.
ADAM
I killed you Becky, I’m sorry. I’m sorry.
Sound of the Doctor
slapping Adam
ADAM
Ow.
DOCTOR
Calm down Adam, you’re hysterical.
ADAM
Doctor? I
thought you were resting.
DOCTOR
You were shouting, when I found you…well let’s
just say it wasn’t what I was expecting?
ADAM
We’re going to die in here, aren’t we?
DOCTOR
We’ll be rescued.
If there’s one thing we can rely on it’s the human empathy, the ability for those up there to put themselves
in the place of us and do the right thing. It’s just a matter of time.
ADAM
I don’t feel so good.
Splashy sounds of
Adam throwing up
DOCTOR
Let it go, get it all out.
ADAM
I didn’t have much for lunch.
DOCTOR
Well you will insist on feeding Kitty at the table.
ADAM
That’s because she likes me more.
DOCTOR
She’s a good judge of character.
ADAM
I shifted some rocks
DOCTOR
I can see. You’ve
used up a lot of unnecessary air however. You must return and rest.
ADAM
I must do something.
DOCTOR
Perhaps, but right now you need to rest. You don’t want to pull something now, do you?
ADAM
There’s plenty of air in the TARDIS
DOCTOR
We can talk about it once you’ve rested.
Footsteps as they
walk back along the passage way and the constant drip, drip of water
ROBERT
(still in the distance)
Is the boy hurt?
DOCTOR
(Calls out)
No, we’re on our way back
JOHN
How long do you think it’ll take them to shift that
lot?
ROBERT
(sounding closer
now)
Can’t say for sure.
Depends on how soon they can shore up the parts they excavate. Shouldn’t
be too long I expect.
DOCTOR
Here we are. Lie
down there Adam.
ADAM
Mmmph, either this mattress is lumpy or it’s my back
JOHN
(laughs briefly)
You’ll have to take that up with his Lordship.
ADAM
I might just do that.
I’ll tell him to put more comfortable beds down here, maybe with room service or at least a mini bar.
DOCTOR
It’s nice to see your sense of humour returning Adam.
The slow drip, drip
of water and the sounds of breathing
ROBERT
(breaks the silence
with a cough)
I don’t want to pry Adam, but who’s Becky?
ADAM
(defensive)
Who told you about her?
DOCTOR
We couldn’t help but overhear you shouting before.
ADAM
I don’t want to talk about it.
JOHN
We could play I spy again.
DOCTOR
It was my go as I recall.
I spy with my little eye, something beginning with the letter C.
JOHN
Crocodile
ADAM
Where?
DOCTOR
Sorry John. Adam,
you have to use you imagination.
ADAM
With your imagination it could be anything.
DOCTOR
Can’t you get into the spirit of things?
ROBERT
Camel?
DOCTOR
Another no.
ADAM
Clouds.
DOCTOR
Well done. How
did you guess?
ADAM
It’s what I’m thinking about right now. A big blue open sky with clouds of all different shapes and sizes.
The slow drip, drip
of water and the sounds of breathing
DOCTOR
Your go Adam
ADAM
I don’t want to play anymore.
JOHN
It keeps the spirits up Adam
ROBERT
I’ll take your turn if you like, lad.
DOCTOR
What’s the matter, Adam.
ADAM
This isn’t like last time.
DOCTOR
You’ve been down a mine before, in a cave in?
ADAM
No, not exactly.
It was a school trip, a day out (beat) pot holing.
DOCTOR
Ah, I’m beginning to understand now.
JOHN
We’ll be fine Adam, won’t we Robert?
ROBERT
Of course we will.
DOCTOR
You heard them Adam, what more can you ask of two experts
on mining?
JOHN
I’ve only been working down here about six years,
I’m hardly an expert.
ROBERT
You’re more of an expert than you realise lad.
JOHN
I never thought about it like that before.
The slow drip, drip
of water and the sounds of breathing
ADAM
I was ten, I was too young but there was a spare place
and my sister Kate said she’d look after me.
DOCTOR
I thought you said Becky before.
ADAM
She was in Kate’s class at school. They were nearly best friends or something daft like that. (beat)
She offered to keep an eye on me as well.
DOCTOR
Tell us what happened Adam (beat) in your own time.
ADAM
There was an accident, a rock fall. Cut me and Becky off from the rest of the group. We’d
just explored a side passage and were returning to the main corridor. One of
the falling rocks hit my head, it hurt so bad.
DOCTOR
Take your time Adam, breathe in, relax, let the calmness
return.
The slow drip, drip
of water and the sounds of breathing
ADAM
Becky put some sort of bandage on my head, kept the blood
out of my eyes. She said she was leaving me to try and find another way out. I was scared. I begged her not to leave
me alone. I was a child and she was leaving me on my own.
JOHN
That’s not right.
Never leave your mate if he’s injured, carry him with you.
ROBERT
I don’t think two children would think that way. It would seem reasonable for the girl to try and find a way out.
DOCTOR
Adam, I can understand why you were scared.
ADAM
Scared? I
was hurt, I was selfish. She was right to go and find help.
DOCTOR
We can discuss what if later. Please continue.
The slow drip, drip
of water and the sounds of breathing
ADAM
I was alone and scared.
I started to dig my way out. I moved the rocks away. There was a small way out. Just enough for me to get through. I shouted for Becky to come back, I waited for what felt like hours but I never saw
her again. I thought she was being spiteful because I dug us a way out. So I left, to get help.
DOCTOR
You followed the main corridor back to the surface?
ADAM
Eventually. I
got lost a few times but eventually I reached the surface. I told them what happened. They sent a team down to fetch Becky.
The slow drip, drip
of water and the sounds of breathing
DOCTOR
What happened Adam?
JOHN
You can tell us.
ROBERT
What happened to Becky?
ADAM
(starts to choke up)
They found her body by the hole I made. They said a large stone fell and broke her spine. They said
she never suffered but I saw a glimpse of her face when the wind caught the blanket covering her face. She died in pain, so much pain, she must have been screaming in pain in the dark for hours while I was
alive and safe. If I hadn’t of gone off she’d be alive.
DOCTOR
I’m so sorry Adam.
We will get out of this.
ROBERT
It’s only a matter of time before they clear though
the rock fall and find us.
JOHN
There’s nothing to be scared of, really.
ADAM
(becomes angry)
Don’t you get it?
She was a fool, she shouldn’t have gone off alone, she should have stayed and escaped with me. (beat) I promised myself I’d never be trapped like this again. I’d
do what ever it took to get out.
JOHN
You left that girl alone?
ROBERT
She left him first
ADAM
I was just a kid, I was scared and I wanted my mother. I never should have gone along, but my sister insisted
DOCTOR
Adam, you survived but you’re making the same mistake
again. You need to learn from your mistake.
Don’t just think of yourself, think of the rest.
ADAM
I’m the one who asked you to help me. You gave up on your life, I’m not going to die because of you.
Distant tap, tap
sounds, barely audible over the constant, watery drip, drip
DOCTOR
You’re giving into your fears again Adam. You got lucky last time, you won’t always get so much luck in the future. We are going to get out of this, we will get out of here.
ADAM
What’s the point?
You’re getting rid of me anyway. Am I such an embarrassment to you? Is it the way I dress? Or maybe my clothes? Perhaps it’s the way I talk to people?
You never let me do the talking and you always have to have the last word on everything, as if your point of view is
the only one that can possibly matter. (getting
angry) Everyone else is too young or too stupid or too Adam to know any better.
DOCTOR
I’ve never said anything like that. I just felt you had learned everything from me that you could learn.
ADAM
So you tried to dump me.
You just have us around the ship as long as we amuse you with our stupidity and foolishness. Then as we learn things and you become bored with us and get rid of us.
Is that it?
DOCTOR
I thought our time together was over, I can see now that
I was wrong, very wrong.
ADAM
You still need me?
DOCTOR
I think we need each other.
I thought we’d grown apart, didn’t need each other and I was wrong.
I’d like you to stay.
ADAM
Just like that. You
choose when I stay and when I go? I have to keep my mouth shut and do as you
say all the time?
DOCTOR
You’ve never done that before, there’s no reason
to think you’ll start now.
ADAM
Damn straight there isn’t. I’ll interfere and get into trouble and make a mess and feed Kitty at the table, because that’s
who I am.
DOCTOR
Now you’re starting to talk like the Adam I remember.
ROBERT
I think we should save our air for a while.
JOHN
Yes, we could use some quiet time right now.
The tap, tap gets
louder
DOCTOR
What’s that sound?
ROBERT
What sound?
The tap, tap gets
even louder
JOHN
I hear it now. It’s
the rescue party.
ROBERT
That’s quick.
Must be a good team of lads hard at work.
DOCTOR
Shouldn’t we signal we’re here?
ADAM
Anyone got a handy metal hammer?
JOHN
Metal tools are kept away from blasting fuses.
ROBERT
That torch contraption of yours might help.
DOCTOR
I have something better, in my jacket pocket Adam.
ADAM
No way, the last time I nearly lost a finger.
DOCTOR
There’s a ginger pop bottle opener in there. It’s solid stainless steel. It’ll
do the job.
ADAM
What the hell is in here?
This is gross. What sort of person keeps silly putty in their pockets?
DOCTOR
You never know when anything might come in useful.
ADAM
This is my favourite stone.
You know I collect them, little souviners of the places we visit.
DOCTOR
(picks up a rock from the floor)
Here’s another one for your collection.
ADAM
This is coal.
DOCTOR
I know,
ADAM
There’s none left nowadays
DOCTOR
Well, that makes this piece of coal all the more special. It’s a link to this time, when coal mining was a huge part of tens of thousands
of peoples lives.
ROBERT
What do you mean, was?
DOCTOR
Ah, that’s an even longer story that can wait until
another time.
ROBERT
I’ll hold you to that Doctor.
ADAM
Ah, here it is.
DOCTOR
Good, now pass it over it over to John.
JOHN
There’s some weight in this. Good. Now what do I do Doctor?
DOCTOR
I want you to go over to the collapsed rocks and tap on
the largest one you find. Tap firmly but not too hard. Make it sound unnatural, them must know we’re here and alive.
Footsteps as John
walks off
ROBERT
Is there anything I can do Doctor? Maybe we can play I Spy again? Or something else perhaps?
DOCTOR
Why don’t you tell me about yourself?
ADAM
Yeah, I rambled on like an idiot, it’s someone else’s
turn now, it’s only fair
DOCTOR
You needed to speak, now its Robert’s turn.
ROBERT
Not much to say, been down one mine or another since I
was a child. They used to let kids down here, the smaller the better. Now we just use them to guide the ponies. Lucky we’re
blasting, they’re on the surface out of the way.
The slow drip, drip
of water, breathing and tap, tapping
DOCTOR
They’ve stopped tapping, on the other side.
ADAM
They’ve given up?
They’re leaving us for dead?
Closing theme tune
