Dream-Eaters (TV story)

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Dream-Eaters was the ninth episode of Series 1 of K9.

Synopsis

An ancient stone obelisk is unearthed by the Department, unleashing an alien force that makes everyone sleep and dream. Starkey, Darius and Jorjie face their worst nightmares and Gryffen tries to find a way to communicate with the alien and stop the nightmares from destroying life on Earth. The Bodach feed on brain waves. What better entree than human nightmares?

Plot

Starkey is being chased by a Jixen in a mysterious, misty place containing plants and a strange stone obelisk. He finds Jorjie and then Darius, who is terrified. He points to a strange creature behind them. Starkey wakes up, but he is still in the nightmare when he is attacked by a Jixen. He runs to K9, who identifies an alien threat. It is not the Jixen K9 is talking about, but himself. K9 fires and Starkey wakes up. K9 tells him it is the afternoon.

Starkey discovers Gryffen talking in his sleep. He wakes up Gryffen, who had a bad dream. Darius is dreaming he is in Mariah surrounded by Clowns, pleading with her to let him out. She says she is taking him to the Circus. As K9 spots Darius sleeping and begging to be let out of the car, he records it in his memory banks. At Jorjie's house, she is woken up by her dog whistle. She has been contacted by K9, who remotely recalibrated the whistle.

Jorjie admits she had a nightmare. When she calls the gang clowns, Darius' grows fearful. Gryffen tries to phone her mother but she doesn't respond. No one does. Gryffen shows the gang a view of an empty street. Everyone is asleep. Starkey faints when he hallucinates that Gryffen has turned into a strange alien. K9 wakes him. Gryffen's Psychrotron detects that London is being bombarded by psychic energy and that everyone is being made to sleep and dream, save K9,who, as a robot, does not sleep. Gryffen suggests wearing tin-foil hays to shield them.

On her way to the mansion, Jorjie spots many sleeping people on the street. She arrives but an alien is behind her. The alien keeps trying to get into the mansion, demanding the Eye of Oblivion. Starkey recognises the alien from his dream. The alien is a Bodach; it has come to feast. When Darius threatens to go out, the Bodach leaves. Gryffen looks up the Bodach. They feed on nightmares. Starkey recognises the stone obelisk in the book as the one he saw in his dream, but he didn't see the eye, just the eye socket. Gryffen gets out a package holding Department Artefact 781 (the Eye of Oblivion), This is what's inducing everyone to sleep.

K9 confirms the disturbance of the Eye brought the Bodach to Earth and it wants it back. The Bodach takes control of everyone who has been walking in their sleep. Gryffen enters a hypnotic state tp enter the dreamscape. The team finds that the sleepwalkers are at the door and K9 is asleep. Starkey tries to use an alarm clock to wake K9 but fails. Darius starts to feel drowsy. K9 enters the dreamworld with Gryffen.

The Professor says that if the Eye is put in the obelisk, everyone on Earth will fall asleep . K9 suddenly leaves. Starkey and Jorjie try to keep the main door closed while Darius, now asleep and under the Bodach's control, opens the back door for it. Darius takes the Eye. Gryffen wakes up and notices it is gone. Gryffen alerts Jorjie and Starkey to the Bodach, whose sleeping army surrounds them. Darius gives the Eye to the Bodach. K9 flies past the it and takes off its mask. It is June, in the same trance as the rest of the Bodach's army.

Gryffen says the Bodach have no physical form. They control others through their sleep. June is their avatar. She attacks K9 with the Eye. The army falls asleep when she departs. K9 goes to destroy the obelisk, the Bodach's link to Earth, but June puts the Eye in. K9 tries to ram the obelisk but it is protected by a force field that knocks out his weapons. Jorjie puts on the helmet and enters the dreamworld. She shows June a fake love tattoo for Darius. June grows angry and wakes. K9 tells June to remove the Eye and leave, then destroys the obelisk.

Cast

Production crew

References

  • In Darius' dream of being surrounded by clowns whilst being locked in Mariah, he pleads for her to let him out. She says "I'm sorry Darius but I can't do that", a reference to the line by the computer Hal 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that".
  • In the dream world, K9 encounters a sheep, which his scanner verifies as being 'electric'. This is a nod towards the Phillip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Story notes

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Ratings

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Myths

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Filming locations

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Production errors

  • Connor Van Vuuren is credited as Drake even though he didn't appear in this episode.

Continuity

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.

Home video releases

Official Boxset Cover.
  • This episode is featured in the Series One complete box set, released in Australia on 29 September 2010. [1]
The Bounty Hunter Official Cover.

External links

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