A parody of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Captain Jack and The Doctor
My name is Jack Harkness. I am the Captain of Torchwood and thus it is my duty to protect what can't be saved. But recently, I have been convinced that there is a way to separate good from evil in each of us. I have the chemicals; all I need is the approvement of the governors. I need to know why everyone plays this strange double game…
I need to know
The nature of the demons that possess
Man's soul!
I need to know
Why man's content to let them make him less
Than whole.
Why does he revel in murder and madness?
What is it makes him be less than he should?
Why is he doomed not to reach his potential?
His soul is black
When he turns his back
Upon good.
I need to find
A way to get inside the tortured mind of man.
I need to try
To separate the good and evil - if I can.
One thing is certain - the evil is stronger.
Good fights a hopeless and desperate fight.
I must find ways of adjusting the balance
To bring him back from the empty black
Edge of night!
I need to go
Where no man has ventured before
To search for the key to the door
That will end all this tragic and senseless decay!
But how to go?
I need to know!
I need to learn
The secrets of the mind that we cannot discern.
I need to learn
The things that make men pass the point of no return.
Why does a wise man take leave of his senses?
Where is that fine line where sanity melts?
When does intelligence give way to madness?
A moment comes
When a man becomes
Something else...
I need to know
Why man plays this strange double game!
His hand always close to the flame!
It's a deal with the devil he cannot disclaim!
But what's his aim?
I need to know!
Dear God, guide me!
Show me how to succeed!
With your wisdom inside me,
Jack Harkness will follow wherever you lead!
I need to see
The truth other men cannot see
To be things that others can't be!
Give me courage to go
Where no angel will go!
And I will go!
I need to know!
I was cut off by someone knocking at the door. I walked over and opened it to be greeted by my fiancée Lisa Carrew. "Jack why are you still down here? It's your engagement party." I smile and step out into the hallway. "Right, let's go. I needed to talk to Monte Rainbow anyways so why not?" I walk upstairs and I find Monte Rainbow immediately. "Captain at last! What could possibly be more important than your own engagement party?" I laugh slightly at that remark. "Monte I am close to discovering the key to duality, I must continue on this dream... All I need is the governors to approve." Monte Rainbow just shrugged it off and spoke as he walked with me to a table. "Captain Harkness, you're a devil. You have robbed us of the world's most lovely girl. But I must say that they will not approve of this one." I lean forward in my chair. "Yes they will. If I can get them to approve, I can get this experiment done and over with than I can focus on other things." I say with a definite look and a daring smile. Monte laughs and nods. "Your trial is tomorrow. I shall escort you there and hope for the best."
It was the next morning when I was walking to the room where my fate would be decided. Will I be able to continue with this or not? That is the question here.
RECORDING SECRETARY
The Board of Governors of St. Jude's Hospital is now in session.
Master Koschei, KBE, Chairman.
His Grace, The Bishop of Basingstoke.
General Amy Pond.
The Right Honorable Miss Donna Noble, Q.C.
Lady Rose Tyler
Lord Savage.
The Order of business will be conducted by the Secretary to the Board of Governors,
Mr. Monte Rainbow.
MONTE RAINBOW
Proposition No. 929 - Presented by Captain Jack Harkness.
GENERAL AMY
Harkness, you're all talk an' no result!
MISS DONNA NOBLE
Forever asking us to endorse empty promises!
MASTER KOSCHEI
What's all the mystery? Much ado about nothing, if you ask me...
LADY ROSE TYLER
You're the laughing stock of your profession and polite society!
The mad scientist!
MONTE RAINBOW
Order! Order!
HARKNESS
Distinguished Governors,
I have glimpsed the future.
Seen miracles that stun the mind
And marvels only science can find
To shape tomorrow for mankind.
And I can show them to you
If you wish me to.
Friends, you're aware there are two sides to each of us
Good and evil, compassion and hate.
If we could extract all the evil from each of us
Think of the world that we could create!
A world without anger or violence or strife
Where man wouldn't kill anymore!
A world of compassion, where passion for life
Would banish the madness of war!
I'm close to finding the key to duality
Chemical Formulae which could and would
Alter the patterns of man's personality
Guiding him either to evil or good!
Weigh the potential, the great possibilities
Colleagues - dear friends, understand!
We have a chance to make history here in our hand!
Each of us is the embodiment of two distinct and opposing forces -
Good and Evil - each fighting for supremacy inside us.
If we could separate these two forces,
we could control and ultimately eliminate all evil from mankind.
My experiments with animals have led me to believe
that the day is not far off when this separation will be possible. To achieve it,
I must be allowed to try my formula on a living human being!
LADY ROSE TYLER
And what if you're right, Harkness? And you do manage to separate
Good from Evil - What happens to the evil?
HARKNESS
There are doomed, broken souls in a thousand asylums
I defy you to say you don't care if you can!
In the name of compassion and medical science,
I can save many lives if you give me one man!
BISHOP OF BASINGSTOKE
I tell you now - the Church will never sanction it!
VARIOUS
Sacrilege! Lunacy! Blasphemy! Heresy!
MISS DONNA NOBLE
You seem to be treading on dangerous ground.
In legal terms, I'd say, extremely unsound!
BISHOP OF BASINGSTOKE
The whole thing's un-Christian, barbaric and odd!
You're playing with fire when you start to play God!
MONTE RAINBOW
The Bishop speaks for all of us, when he says you're playing God!
There's such a thing as ethics over which you ride rough-shod!
You're a Captain, not a savior,
Captain Harkness, for a start!
But I judge from your behavior
You can't tell the two apart!
HARKNESS
Dear Monte Rainbow, I am simply a scientist.
I have a code to which I remain true!
I don't presume to the stature of moralist.
I leave pretension like that, Sir, to you!
MASTER KOSCHEI
Jack, I've always encouraged your enterprise
And I've been hopeful that you would succeed!
But in the face of these powerful arguments,
I see no choice but for you to concede!
HARKNESS
I know my fate is yours to choose
But if they win, the world would lose
I am on the brink of great success!
I beg you, Governors, you must say "Yes!"
LADY ROSE TYLER
Captain Harkness, enough of this ranting, Sir!
This is a hospital, here to save lives!
GOVERNORS
Do you think we would let you play havoc
With all the high principles for which it strives?
Do you expect us to compromise all that we stand for
Indulging your dangerous games?
How many rules should we break for your dubious games?
HARKNESS
Can't you see?
I am not playing games!
Just give me the opportunity!
GENERAL AMY
This whole thing's too bizarre!
MASTER KOSCHEI
Open up your eyes and see!
MISS DONNA NOBLE
This man has gone too far!
HARKNESS
Unless you listen to me...
MONTE RAINBOW
Captain, please watch your tone!
Dammit, man, can't you see?
You're on your own!
HARKNESS
FOOLS! YOU FOOLS! GOD DAMN YOU ALL!
MASTER KOSCHEI
Captain!
MONTE RAINBOW
Harkness!
HARKNESS
Oh damn your rules!
GENERAL THETA
Blasphemy!
HARKNESS
Look at yourselves civilized!
MONTE RAINBOW
Harkness!
HARKNESS
Why can't you see?!
MONTE RAINBOW
Order, order!
HARKNESS
If I ever needed further justification for my experiments, gentlemen,
You have just provided it!
Just look at what has happened here!
Mix anger with a touch of fear
The danger's all too crystal-clear
Just look at you!
Our darker side keeps breaking through
Observe it now - in me and you!
The evil that all men can do must be controlled!
I beg of you
I'll show you all it can be done!
Here is a chance to take charge of our fate
Deep down you must know that tomorrow's too late!
One rule of life we cannot rearrange
The only thing constant is change
The only thing constant...is change
MONTE RAINBOW
Distinguished colleagues, your verdict, please.
All those is favor say "Aye"
All those opposed, "Nay"
GOVERNORS (except Master Koschei)
Nay! Nay! Nay! Nay!
Positively - Absolutely - Nay!
MONTE RAINBOW
Master Koschei?
MASTER KOSCHEI
Abstain.
MONTE RAINBOW
By five votes to none - with one abstention
Proposition 929 is rejected
Thank you for your time, Captain Harkness.
I walk out with Monte Rainbow. I sigh heavily and lean on the wall. "I'm so sorry Jack." I speak in a way that I never have before. Defeat. "It's not your fault…. It was mine. I ruined what I did by saying that….."
HARKNESS
How can I continue on?
When they can block each step I take?
MONTE RAINBOW:
Jack, you have come too far -
Remember what you have at stake!
HARKNESS:
Monte, I know I'm right!
I must let my vision guide me!
I'm so weary of the fight!
There's so little left inside me!
MONTE RAINBOW:
If you know that you are right,
Then you've got to see it through,
You've got to see it through!
HARKNESS:
Seven years ago,
I started out on this alone,
And it's alone I'll see it through
To its conclusion!
Who are they?
To judge what I am doing?
They know nothing
Of the endless possibilities I see!
It's ludicrous I'm bound by their decision!
MONTE RAINBOW:
Seems vision
Is a word
They never heard!
HARKNESS:
If it mattered less,
I'd treat them with derision -
It's absurd!
MONTE RAINBOW:
And yet, the fact remains,
Those bastards hold the reins!
Lisa's POV
Monte Rainbow:
Lisa Carew,
Can this be you?
What kind of man
Is this you've taken?
Can you not see
The kind of life
That this would be?
You are mistaken!
Time to awaken,
Before it's too late,
Before you forever
Determine your fate!
LISA:
But, Monte, you knew
I had to be free.
What I choose to do
Is decided by me!
From the day my mother died,
My father , full of good intentions,
Treated me as though I were a young child.
Maybe his idea was just to wait
Until I grew up,
And then look at me
And hope that I'd be her.
It's easy to accept that
From a father
He'd rather
Things remained the way they were.
But when it comes to marriage,
I must pick whom I prefer!
I am not the weak young thing
You're seeking, Monte,
Someone seventeen, obedient and sweet.
I am not the protégé
To waste your time on.
I'm complete -
In Jack's eyes I see
What I am meant to be!
I sigh and just walk upstairs hearing the door shut behind me as I think about my life and my lover Captain Jack Harkness.
Jack's POV
It was late at night when I got home. "Don't do anything stupid. And for God's sake man, go straight to bed." I laugh as Monte leaves and I know in order to do this experiment I had to go against the Governor's word. I look towards the red liquid in the glass container and walk towards it.
This is the moment!
This is the day,
When I send all my doubts and demons
On their way!
Every endeavor,
I have made - ever -
Is coming into play,
Is here and now - today!
This is the moment,
This is the time,
When the momentum and the moment
Are in rhyme!
Give me this moment -
This precious chance -
I'll gather up my past
And make some sense at last!
This is the moment,
When all I've done -
All the dreaming,
Scheming and screaming,
Become one!
This is the day -
See it sparkle and shine,
When all I've lived for
Becomes mine!
For all these years,
I've faced the world alone,
And now the time has come
To prove to them
I've made it on my own!
This is the moment -
My final test -
Destiny beckoned,
I never reckoned,
Second Best!
I won't look down,
I must not fall!
This is the moment,
The sweetest moment of them all!
This is the moment!
Damn all the odds!
This day, or never,
I'll sit forever
With the gods!
When I look back,
I will always recall,
Moment for moment,
This was the moment,
The greatest moment
Of them all!
I knew that I had to continue on and use myself as the subject of the experiment. "September 13th 11:54 PM. I have started this alone, and I must finish it alone. There is no longer a choice….."
I must be wise,
I must try to analyze
Each change in me,
Everything I see -
How will it be?
Will I see the world
Through different eyes?
Like a warning light,
Glimmering in red,
Like crimson bloodshed,
Shimmering in red,
Beautiful and strange,
See the colors change
Before my eyes!
See how they dance
And they sparkle,
Like diamonds at night -
Leading out of the darkness
And into the light!
"11:58 p.m. It is done. I have injected 5 centiliters of the newly fused formula. A slight feeling of euphoria. Light-headedness. No noticeable behavioral differences."
Now the die is cast!
Nothing left to do...
Time along can prove
My theories true...
Show the world..."
I stop writing and look up from my notebook; I feel the pain rising more and more until I finally scream.
Dear God! What is this?
Something is happening -
I can't explain -
Something inside me -
A breathtaking pain -
Devours and consumes me -
And drives me insane!
I fall to the floor trying to get back to the notebook and continue writing but can't.
Suddenly -
Uncontrolled -
Something is
Taking hold!
Suddenly -
Agony -
Filling me!
Killing me!
Suddenly -
Out of breath!
What is this?
Is this death?
Suddenly –
Doctor's POV
I get up, looking in the mirror. My appearance has changed… my hair is a mess, my face is now one that strikes fear….
Look at me! -
Can it be?
Who is this?
Creature
That I see?
Free!
I walk out of the lab laughing…. My name is not Captain Jack Harkness… but it's The Doctor. I know who to go after now…. I feel evil, I feel… alive…..
DOCTOR:
What is this feeling
Of power and drive
I've never known?
I feel alive!
Where does this feeling
Of power derive,
Making me know
Why I'm alive?
Like the night, it's a secret,
Sinister dark and unknown.
I do not know what I seek,
Yet I'll seek it alone!
I have a thirst
That I cannot deprive.
Never have I felt so alive!
There is no battle
I couldn't survive -
Feeling like this -
Feeling alive!
Like the moon, an enigma,
Lost and alone in the night
Damned by some heavenly stigma,
But blazing with light!
It's the feeling of being alive!
Filled with evil, but truly alive!
It's the truth that cannot be denied!
It's the feeling of being
The Doctor!
I run until I see a young woman, a beautiful lady that made my mind reel. My other personality identified her as Rose Tyler… "Wait, what's this? Sweet miss, I thought I had lost you. It's fate, but bliss. Sweet miss, your folly will cost you dear, my dear, you'll see. You'll never escape me. I'm here, I fear, and you will pay dear, my dear….." The wind causes a lantern to go out causing Miss Rose Tyler to start looking around with fear as I circle around and appear right beside her. She jumped slightly and began backing away from me. I kept walking forwards and she met a wall. I smiled and got closer, preventing her from escaping. She turned her head away from mine and tears began streaming down her face in fear.
DOCTOR:
Animals trapped behind bars at the zoo
Need to run rampant and free!
Predators live on the prey they pursue!
This time the predator's me!
Lust, like a raging desire,
Fills my whole soul with it's curse!
Burning with primitive fire,
Berserk and perverse!
Tonight I'll plunder heaven blind,
Steal from all the gods!
Tonight I'll take from all mankind,
Conquer all the odds!
And I feel I'll live on forever,
With Satan himself by my side!
And I'll show the world
That tonight and forever,
The name to remember's
The name The Doctor!
What a feeling to be so alive!
I have never seen me so alive!
Such a feeling of evil inside -
That's the feeling
Of being
The Doctor!
Okay! This took a long time to do. Even trying to get the characters for Board of Governors… oh well! Please leave a review and I will update soon!
Master Hyde.