054 - Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils by Malcolm Hulke

Author:Malcolm Hulke
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-07-12T01:18:32+00:00

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Trenchard felt that he was making no impression on the Master at all. Here he was, telling the man that he’d been spotted when he was at the Naval Base, and the Master wasn’t making any reaction at all. He seemed to be totally absorbed in drawing a diagram of electrical circuits, something quite beyond Trenchard’s understanding.

‘Will you listen to me?’ said Trenchard, aware that he was going red in the face. ‘They know everything!’

At last the Master turned away from his work. ‘They think they know something, that’s all,’ he said. ‘Why not ask the Doctor to come down here and see me for himself?’

‘Of course I can do that,’ said Trenchard, ‘but it won’t make any difference. I wish you’d told me about that man you nearly killed. You shouldn’t have kept that to yourself!’

‘You’d only have panicked,’ said the Master, which Trenchard knew was probably true. ‘Send the Doctor down here and I’ll tell him what we’re doing.’

Trenchard was outraged. ‘You mustn’t! You said yourself it must be kept a secret until we can prove that what we are doing is right.’

‘The Doctor is a very intelligent man, Mr. Trenchard,’

said the Master. ‘He’ll understand, and he may be willing to help us.’

‘And if he doesn’t?’ Trenchard asked.

The Master shrugged. ‘People can only leave this place with your permission—Governor.’ His voice acquired a rough hard edge: ‘Now send him down here by himself. No prison officers present. Leave the rest to me. I’ll win him over.’

Trenchard left to carry out the Master’s order. All his time in the army had taught him that the simplest solution to any problem was to carry out an order given by someone else. Once Trenchard had gone, the Master quickly put away the diagram he was working on. Then, just to be on the safe side, he took a cushion and rammed it in the front of the television camera eye that continuously overlooked him. Satisfied that he could not be observed, he banged on the door. It was immediately opened by the prison officer on guard.

‘Would you come in here a moment,’ said the Master. ‘I think something’s wrong with the air-conditioning.

There’s no air coming in up there.’ He pointed to one of the grilles near the ceiling.

The prison officer looked up towards the grille, taking his eyes off the Master for a moment. With a flashing karate chop, the Master knocked the officer unconscious and took his gun.

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