The New Doctor! A Doctor Who Alternate History Story

Part 3 - The Monsters of Ness, synopsis - Part One

SYNOPSIS

OPENING shot on the sterile corridors of a research laboratory. There's an alarm underway, the corridors are awash in red, scientists and female assistants in white coats are rushing back and forth. Among them are a scattering of military and security personnel. 

There are sounds of panic, a shouted 'they're coming... bullets don't stop them'

Then the monsters come into view. They are hunchbacked dragon-like bipeds. They lurch across the screen, swaying and hunchbacked. Zippers and fastenings betray the costume. The camera zooms in on one toothy face as the monster opens its mouth and roars. The monsters lurch off with computers and pieces of equipment, walking into the ocean.

Back at the ruins of the lab, people are tidying up the wreckage. The camera dwells on a red phone booth, located incongruously in a corner. A man steps out - tall, blond, balding, with a white suit and an open necked red shirt. He surveys the chaos, as two teen age girls step out behind him. "This looks like a job for..." he announced, and then turns directly to the camera and winks "...you know who!"

ROLL TITLES - THE NEW DOCTOR WHO! - Disco style musical theme, with visual fireworks.

The Doctor is confronted by security. He advises that he and his companions, Heart and Diamond, are here to investigate the break ins. The security guard arrests them but takes him to the heads of the research center: the Director, Supervisor and Security Chief. 

The Security Chief accuses him of working for the invaders. The Doctor points out that he's not a giant lizard, but he does have experience dealing with them. With the intersession of Heart, they decide to cooperate.

The Security Chief argues that since giant lizards are impossible, the attackers are clearly criminals or terrorists who have disguised themselves as monsters. 

The Doctor mocks this, suggesting aliens or prehistoric reptilian survivals are more likely. 

A cleaning woman interrupts that the village has a long history of reptile men, abducting people and stealing objects and artifacts of all sorts. The Director is dismissive, but the Doctor is very interested.

The Doctor goes to the site of the raid and begins by searching the wreckage, trying to determine what the reptile men were stealing. The Doctor determines that it appears to be specialized high energy components.

Heart advises that they are alone. While the Doctor searches, Diamond starts to ask what the creatures look like - he provides a description, including glowing eyes and a hunchback, which the Doctor claims is not accurate. Diamond accepts this. A moment later, the Doctor asks why. 

Diamond replies that there's one standing behind them.

The monster chases the Doctor and his friends around the lab, until finally they set a trap for it. The monster is injured but vanishes before their eyes. After it has departed, the Doctor finds the creatures head, which he pronounces as clearly the helmet of a costume. It really is a man in a monster suit. But why couldn't Heart detect it? And how did it vanish? There are mysteries to solve. The Doctor produces a deerstalker, looking directly at the camera.

Cut away to a shot of a fog filled interior. The man in the lizard costume, minus the head piece, hands an electronic object over to essentially green glowing pseudopods/tentacles. The thing, mostly unseen, chortles with glee. This is just what it needed. Soon, its great machine will be complete.

A viewscreen opens up, the image greenish and distorted to show that the alien thing is watching a scene.  On the screen, the the Doctor is holding the lizard helmet and discussing it.