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[theme music]

[guitar music]

-Are Starkey and K9 back?

[beeps]

[guitar music]

-Much better.

I wish you'd use that effect all the time.

-Me-- I--

[bad guitar music]

-Oh, this sucks.

What have you done, eh?

-Me?

[radio]

[screech]

JUNE: Yes, Inspector Drake.

What?

Just excuse me one second.

Jorjie, turn that racket off.

All right, we can talk about this when I get in.

How can people enjoy music like that?

-I'd like to know too.

[sigh]

-I've got to go into work.

Drake's raving about something.

This room is a complete disaster area.

[thunder]

It sounds like a storm's brewing.

You'll be all right?

[music playing]

[humming]

-Will you desist with that trite repetitive dit dit.

-Me?

You're the one I got from.

-What are you talking about?

-The other night, you were fast asleep.

Next thing I know, you're humming that tune.

-I don't sleep.

-I know.

-[TOGETHER] In downtime, my memory banks reorganize

themselves automatically.

-Yeah, I know, K9.

[thunder] [humming]

-No more.

-What the-- what's happening?

-Powerful winds and extreme force,

otherwise known as a hurricane.

-In London?

-Incoming projectile.

REPORTER: [ON TV] Hurricanes are being reported at Hampstead,

Hereford, Herefordshire and Halifax

and flooding in Folkestone, Falmouth, Frome, and Finchley.

-Severe weather conditions all over the country.

Hurricanes in Hartford, Hereford, and Hampshire.

-But they never happen here.

-Well, hardly ever.

And the worst storm the North Sea has seen in over a century.

Communications are down all over the country.

-So what's causing it?

-No one knows what causes weather.

Even I know that.

-Actually in this case, I think I do.

[beeps] What do you think, K9?

-Well, that is astonishing.

-Yes, exactly.

-Astonishing, what's astonishing?

-So what are we looking at here, Professor?

-I think this weather is being caused by music.

[laugh]

-I'm sorry, did you say music?

GRYFFEN: Vocal music to be precise.

-Singing is doing that.

GRYFFEN: Singing and music are very

similar to weather, alternating bands

of high and low pressure in a meaningful sequence.

-But music doesn't have that power.

-Sopranos can shatter crystal.

[howls]

-That's somebody singing?

-Well, they better not give up their day job.

[howling]

[screech]

[whimpers]

[music playing]

-Look [inaudible], I know you've got all sorts of degrees

and stuff, but I just don't buy that the weather out there

is music.

-Darius, please pay attention.

A meteorological event and a musical one are very similar,

the rarification and condensation of air.

-So if I built a humongous speaker

and hooked my guitar up to it, I could

unleash a typhoon of sound?

K9: Now you're getting it.

-Wicked!

-But who, or what, is creating such incredibly powerful music?

K9: I checked my database.

There is one creature, the Aeolians.

They were masters of amplification

and were able to create resonances so powerful,

they could pulverize distant stars.

-Yeah, that's what it will be.

Silly old me, why didn't I think that?

Those pesky little-- what did you call them?

-Aeolians.

The only problem being, they were all

wiped out over 1,000 Earth years ago

in the Sontaran Catastrophe.

-So if it's not them doing it, who is?

Some other alien force?

-Possibly.

-Then why are they doing it?

-Well, we're about to find that out.

I've located the epicenter of the sound waves.

It's the Holy Cross Cathedral.

-That's not far from here.

Is that where they play all the classical music?

-They're renowned for their Bach concerts.

[screech]

-That's what I've been saying all along.

Classical music is going to destroy the world.

When will people learn?

-Our top scientists are completely baffled.

Thames Valley has been turned into Cyclone Alley.

A tornado has just destroyed the Royal Albert

Hall and Hyde Park.

Does this remind you of anything?

-Teenager's bedroom.

-Come on, it's got Gryffen's fingerprints all over it.

-Why drag him into this?

-Because he almost single handedly

caused the Great Cataclysm.

-Well, that's hardly fair.

He was one of a group of eminent scientists

who all agreed with the experiment.

-Yeah, a crazy, irresponsible experiment,

exactly like what we seem to have here.

I'm going to pull him in.

-On what grounds?

-For being a mad scientist. [gasp]

-That wasn't an offense last time I looked.

[music playing]

[humming]

GRYFFEN: Can you quit that?

It's dangerous out there.

Better take these-- emergency medical kit,

bacteria decontaminator, thoracic inflator,

emergency sedative, emergency reviver red reviver,

blue sedative.

-It'll be safer going via the sewers.

-Home, sweet home.

K9: Take extreme care.

An Aeolian chooses a planet with an atmosphere

which is conducive to amplification.

And your Earth, with an air pressure

of 14.7 pounds per square inch, is

perfect for amplifying musical frequencies.

-K9, I've loaded a schematic of the cathedral for you

to look at.

K9: Now I see, of course.

-Of course, what?

K9: It has the dimensions of a perfect resonating chamber.

GRYFFEN: Have a look at the spiral on top.

K9: Yes, it's like the cone of a loudspeaker.

-It's like a gigantic voice coil.

-Can you dumb this down a bit?

-The whole building is like the sounding well in a guitar.

-And with the help of some sort of alien application booster,

the sound is magnified 1,000 times.

-Yes, this is exactly how an Aeolian works.

-I thought you said they died out.

-Perhaps one of them survived.

[crash]

-And he's not happy, by the sounds of it.

[music playing]

[inaudible] have turned a church into a loudspeaker

to create hurricanes.

What is that?

-We're still working through the science.

-Yeah, what's science ever done for me?

[beep]

-That's Jorjie.

-She must be in trouble.

-I'll go check on her.

-No, I'd better go.

She came through on my dog whistle.

-Starkey, I really think we should press on.

-Jorjie need help.

-I'll handle it, Starkey.

[crash]

-Master, let's go.

[music playing]

DARIUS: Jorjie, Jorjie!

-I'm here. I'm here.

Darius, am I glad to see you.

-Are you OK?

[whimper]

-Oh, what a mess.

-Darius please, you need to move this thing now.

[groaning]

[music playing]

-OK, I'm going to call someone.

-I'm so scared.

-Hey, I've got you now.

It's going to be all right.

-I rang the bell-- [thunder]

But you were obviously busy.

-Ah, this is just so fascinating, June.

-Gryffen, I need to ask you something straight away.

Is this your doing?

-My doing?

-Drake thinks this is the Great Cataclysm, Chapter Two.

-Drake is a dunce.

-I know he can get carried away, but do I have your word?

You're not causing this?

-This is better than my word.

-What are you saying?

-That this, all of this sound and fury,

is the mating call of the female Aeolian.

-They're extinct.

-Not this one.

She's alive and well, and she's very angry.

-Why is she angry?

-Why are any of us angry?

She can't get what she wants.

-Which is?

-She just wants to be listened to.

[howls]

-The amplitude of the sonic waves is increasing.

We're getting nearer.

-Tell me about it.

[music playing]

-I can't lift it.

I'm sorry.

-It's not your fault.

-I'll call Starkey. [inaudible]

[static]

Jorjie, Jorjie, Jorjie, Jorjie--

[music playing]

-Was it blue?

-Not the blue one.

-Oh, which one's the reviver?

-The red one.

-Darius, do you compute?

-Red for danger, blue for hope.

-No, red!

GRYFFEN: [VOICEOVER] Emergency reviver.

Red reviver, blue sedative.

-All righty.

[music playing]

[whirring]

-Oh, at last.

[music playing]

[moans]

-Don't worry, Jorjie.

You'll feel better soon.

It will take away the pain.

-I don't understand why there's such a variation in sound.

-Because you would think that a mating call

is like a bird's song, always the same.

-Exactly, but these weather patterns are so chaotic.

There's harmony, and then the wind drops.

And then discord, and then the wind blasts us again.

[music playing]

Oh no.

-What is it?

-The harmonics are phasing into a Mandelbrot loop.

It's like infantry marching across a bridge.

It will feed back on itself, and vibrate the planet to dust.

[music playing]

-When it came down and hit me, my whole life

actually flashed before my eyes.

-So that really does happen.

-And I had this awful feeling that I'd

left a lot of things unsaid.

-What kind of things?

-Uh, to thank my mom for always looking after me.

And to tell certain people how much I like them.

-People?

-Yeah, people I've got really close to.

-Recently?

-Ever since I started coming to the mansion,

I've grown really fond of someone.

-Must be something about that place.

Me too.

-It's kind of strange because we're really un-alike.

-But then, they say opposites attract.

-Yeah, I guess that's what's going on.

-The thing that I like about this girl

is-- she's got a secret.

Like there's this outside layer, but there's

something mysterious underneath that.

-Aren't they the most interesting type of people?

You have to dig to find out who they really are.

-My problem is we never seem to be together long

enough for me to talk to her.

You know, seriously.

-Same.

So we kind of just say nothing things.

When really, I'm bursting to come out with it and say,

do you want to go out sometime?

As more than friends, I mean.

-Well, I guess we've both just got to be a bit braver.

What have we got to lose?

-OK, you're on.

I dare you.

-Ladies first.

-All right.

As soon as I get back to the mansion, I'll tell him.

-Tell who? -Starkey.

Uh, what's your girlfriend's name?

-Uh, Jorj-- um, um Jorj-- Georgette.

-Ow.

Georgette?

Is she French?

-Yeah.

Yeah, of course, really French.

-She sounds lovely.

-Yeah, she is really lovely.

-Emergency called Chief.

What's all this thing guv?

[howls]

-This is impossible.

-The tunnel is magnifying the sound.

-So what do we do?

-Find another tunnel which doesn't concentrate the sound.

[howling]

-Hold on, Miss.

-Careful.

-There you are, Miss. All in a day's work.

-Thanks for standing by me, Darius.

-Hm.

-Well, uh, we'll be running along then.

[music playing]

-Ground zero.

-Young master, let's rock and roll.

[music playing]

-That is definitely an Aeolian.

And that's her mating call, if I'm not mistaken.

-Gryffen was right.

She's playing the weather.

K9, you've got to tell her to stop.

-My Aeolian is a little rusty, but here goes.

[speaking aeolian]

-She says, "You would be doing me a favor

since I was separated from my mate

in the Sontaran Catastrophe, which also destroyed my memory.

I've been entirely alone in the universe."

-K9, how come the music continues

even though she stopped playing?

[speaking aeolian]

-She said, "Because my energy is so low,

I've initiated the self replicating

feedback loop, which derives its power by harvesting gravity."

-Which means what?

-We are in big trouble, young master.

She is gravity boosting sound, like a hammer, which

will smash the Earth like an egg.

-Tell her she'll kill six billion people.

[speaking aeolian]

-"Aeolians will do anything to survive, just like the humans,

so it seems a fair trade to me."

-Is there any way to stop the feedback loop?

[speaking aeolian]

-"The only thing that can reverse it is if my mate pulses

me, but I fear he is dead."

-Incoming.

-What is it?

-It's a signal coming in from the Orpheus Constellation.

-That's 10,000 light years away.

-It's very faint.

It's her mate.

He's calling from across the universe.

[aeolian song]

-What's happening?

[speaking aeolian]

-She's saying, "It's my husband, my husband."

-So everything's going to be all right now?

-She's got to get the exact sequence right,

otherwise he won't recognize her.

She's frustrated because the signal is scrambled.

[inaudible]

-What's going on in here?

What is that?

-An Aeolian.

-And it is responsible for all this chaos?

K9: It's a she.

-Either way, she must be neutralized.

-She's just looking for her mate.

-How touching.

Stun her. -No!

-I wouldn't do that.

-Fire at will.

Take her out.

-You kill her, and you'll kill us all.

K9: That is most unfortunate, Inspector.

When the feedback loop hooks up with gravity,

the Earth will shatter like a wine glass.

-I'm not going to listen to a robot

dog and a juvenile delinquent.

-Somehow, we must contact the Aeolian

in the Orpheus Constellation.

-How can we do that?

-You're going to have to play the organ.

-But play what?

-Play that tune you've been humming.

Play, Starkey.

[organ music]

DRAKE: What are you doing?

-Anything that comes into your head--

DRAKE: Had your 15 minutes of fame, then?

-Sorry.

-You stunned the Aeolian.

Someone has to play.

Your annoying tune, that's it.

-Prepare to take her down.

-If you proceed, I will liquidate you

and your gangsters without a second thought.

Are you feeling lucky, Inspector?

-Stand down.

[organ music]

STARKEY: What's happening?

K9: Her mate has arrived.

They are one again.

[speaking aeolian]

-She says, "Thank you for the music."

[music playing]

GRYFFEN: Well, I'm glad that's over with.

JUNE: It was touch and go there for a while.

GRYFFEN: Well, well done.

Mission accomplished.

-My ears will never be the same again.

-I, too, will need aural circuits replaced.

-Let me have a look.

-Ah, you two missed all the excitement.

-Mom, you know how you said my room was like a disaster area?

-What?

-I'll tell you later.

So the Aeolians found love?

-Jorjie, so glad to see you're in one piece.

I'll be with you in a minute.

DARIUS: I'm available, Jorjie.

-Something's been puzzling me.

What is love?

-Oh, it's--

-It's--

-Um, it's--

K9: It's?

-Um, it's, uh--

-It's--

-Well, thanks for clearing that up for me.

[laughter]

[theme music]