116 - doctor who - the faceless ones

DOCTOR WHO THE FACELESS ONES DOCTOR WHO THE FACELESS ONES Based on the BBC television serial by David Ellis a nd Malcolm Hulke by arrangement with the British Broadcasting Corporation TERRAN GE DICKS Number 116 in the Doctor Who Library A TARGET BOOK published by the Pap erback Division of W. H. ALLEN & CO. PLC A Target Book Published in 1987 By the Paperback Division of W. H. Alien & Co. P LC 44 Hill Street, London W1X 8LB First published in Great Britain by W. H. Alie n & Co. PLC 1986 Novelisation copyright © Terrance Dicks, 1986 Original script cop yright © David Ellis and Malcolm Hulke, 1967 'Doctor Who' series copyright © British Broadcasting Corporation, 1967, 1986 The BBC producers of The Faceless Ones wer e Innes Lloyd and Peter Bryant, the director was Gerry Mill The role of the Doct or was played by Patrick Trough ton Printed and bound in Great Britain by Anchor Brendon Ltd, Tiptree, Essex ISBN 0 426 20294 5 This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hi red out or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any for m of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a sim ilar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchase r. Contents 1 Obstruction On Runway Five 7 2 The Suspects 17 3 Man Without A Face 2 7 4 The Transfer 37 5 The Missing 47 6 The Trap 55 7 The Abductors 64 8 The Secr et Of The Chameleons 75 9 Death Ray 85 10 Captured 93 11 Spaceship 100 12 The Tr aitor 105 13 Flight Into Peril 113 14 The Bluff 122 15 The Deal 131 1 Obstruction On Runway Five The jet airliner screamed down out of the sky. The captain, tense at the controls — all landings are tricky until you're actually on the ground - checked the rows of instrument dials in front of him, glanced auto- matically at the clear runway unrolling ahead - and then suddenly froze in horr or. The runway wasn't clear any longer. Sitting there, impossibly, at precisely the point where the wheels should touch ground was a square blue shape with a fl ashing light on top. A police box. . . For a fraction of a second longer the pil ot stared unbelievingly at it. Then, instincts and training taking over, he pull ed the nose of the great plane skywards again, clearing the obstruction, and the heads of those emerging from it by what felt like a matter of inches. . . The b rawny young man in kilt and roll-necked sweater ducked down instinctively as the huge shape roared overhead. 'Look out, Doctor, it's a flying beastie!' he cried . Beside him, a rather disreputable-looking figure in baggy checked trousers and shabby frock-coat was staring skywards with an expression of eager interest. 'N onsense, Jamie,' he began - and broke off as two young people came out of the po lice box to join them. The first was a tough-looking young man in jeans and 7 a check shirt. The second was a far more striking figure: a very pretty girl wit h long blonde hair. She wore a very long jacket and a very short skirt in some l ight-coloured material, the outfit completed by high white boots. The young man was a cockney sailor called Ben, and the girl's name was Polly. Some time ago th ey had been caught up in the adventures of that mysterious traveller in time and space known only as the Doctor, who had carried them off in the TARDIS to a var iety of terrifying adventures. On one of them, a visit to Scotland at the time o f the Jacobite rebellion of 1746, they had been joined by the young Highlander J ames Robert McCrimmon, Jamie for short. Oddly enough, it was Jamie, the most pri mitive of them all, who had adjusted best to life with the Doctor. Coming as he did from a time when battle, murder and sudden death were the common events of e veryday life, Jamie took in his stride the dangerous events which seemed to foll ow the Doctor - just as he did alien planets, spaceships and assorted monsters. To Jamie the Doctor was an interesting sort of mad magician, so it was only natu ral that monsters and marvels should surround him. Polly and Ben however felt di

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