Script Draft 1
Scene 1
Victorian Era-manor house. Scene in a Children's Nursery. PAN across room slowly. During pan, a woman's voice can be heard. She's reading her children a bedtime story so the room should be dimly lit.
MARY: And so the Doctor flew off in his magical blue box, the world safe once more.
At the end of story, the pan ends up on the woman, MARY, mid 20's. Her 2 CHILDREN a young GIRL and BOY. Are lay on either side of her.
BOY: Can a blue box really fly?
MARY: Of course not. How many flying blue boxes do you see?
All laugh.
GIRL: A man such like the Doctor, must exist somewhere. I would love to meet him. I'd fly off in his wonderful blue box, and have such wonderful adventures.
MARY: Far off Yes Darling. But such a man doesn't exist. Snaps back How many men do you know that have flying blue boxes, and can defeat foreign beings?
GIRL: But still, wouldn't he be wonderful?
MARY: I suppose...
BOY: Mama? What would you do if you could ever meet the Doctor?
MARY: Well I suppose I would...run up to him, hug him and thank him for being so wonderful.
GIRL: Mama! What about Papa!
MARY: I'm not sure he would even care. Papa wouldn't believe in such a man, even if the Doctor did exist.
GIRL: Sorrowfully Which he doesn't.
MARY: I'm sorry darlings. Tucks her children in. Well, you can all dream of travelling with him tonight can't you? Off to bed now. Night night.
Leaves the room. A sudden change in personality comes across. She's weary, tired, stressed. She leans against the door. Suddenly a whirring noise starts loudly and a blue glow fades in and out. The TARDIS appears and the door opens.
MARY: Who are you?
DOCTOR: I'm the Doctor....Hello!
Mary is insulted by this man mocking her. Too shocked to even think that he just appeared out of thin air.
MARY: Get out. Leave this family alone.
DOCTOR: Well that's the rudest welcome I've ever had. But suit yourself.
TARDIS leaves. Mary realises her mistake and begins to cry.
Cut to.
Scene 2
In Mary's bedroom. Mary in bed asleep. Suddenly in the corner of the room, a blue glow appears and the TARDIS appears. Mary's awake and gaping at the TARDIS. Door opens and the DOCTOR is stood in the doorway with his arms open wide.
Pause.
DOCTOR: Well come on, I can't stand here like this forever...well actually I can, but that's beside the point.
MARY: It's you again. What? Who are you? How did you get in here?
DOCTOR: You don't know who I am?
MARY: No.
DOCTOR: ...You mean I've travelled all this way to see someone who wants to hug me and tell me I'm brilliant, you insulted me last time...and you don't know who I am.
Pause.
DOCTOR: Well this is brilliant. Brilliant.
MARY: How did you appear? How did you know what I said?
DOCTOR: Because I'm the Doctor.
MARY: But you can't exist. I only said to my children the other night: How many blue...Doctor cuts in.
DOCTOR: ...flying boxes have you ever seen. I know.
MARY: But you're not how I imagined. I though you would look different.
DOCTOR: Nope. This is the way I look. The way I will look for some time. Not changing now.
MARY: No but the illustrations. You look...different.
Pause.
Doctor looks shocked.
DOCTOR: .....AMYYYY!
Amy appears in the TARDIS doorway.
AMY: What? What is it?
DOCTOR: Have I....have I changed? I still look the same now as I did yesterday. No extra hair. Cant get any longer. A mole....is there a mole on my face.....no, no, NO. I'm not a woman am I? Tell me I'm not. Coz if I am, I'll be sooooo mad....Amy cuts in.
AMY: Doctor....you're fine.
DOCTOR: Good. That's great...good. Turns to Mary. For a minute then, you had me worried....starts laughing I thought I was a woman.
Mary on bed, slowly realising.
MARY: It is you. You're the Doctor. Oh my gosh.
Gets out of bed and slowly walks towards him.
DOCTOR: Finally. Now she gets it.
Mary in tears.
MARY: Oh Doctor. I've been praying for someone like you to come to me for so long....
DOCTOR: Mirrors.
MARY: ...what? I'm sorry. What?
DOCTOR: It's the mirrors isn't it.
MARY: How did you know? How did you know to come here? Everything we do is kept secret.
DOCTOR: It's because...well because I'm the Doctor...sorry I love to say that.
Doctor brings out psychic paper.
DOCTOR: It's because of this. Every single story you've read, every cry for help, every silent prayer you have ever made has been projected on to this. And I want to know why. So then Mary Berlington, mirrors. Why are they covered up?
Focus on a mirror in the background, that is covered in a black curtain.
MARY: The mirrors, they take things. Vases, tables, patterns.
DOCTOR: Sounds like a right party pooper. Show me.
MARY: I really don't think you'd want to be bothered with something like that...
DOCTOR: Show me.
Scene 3
Library in house. Smashed vases on floor. Things don't look quite right, furniture missing, pattern on wallpaper is odd.
DOCTOR: Well this was one heck of a party. Shame about the vase.
MARY: It started with that vase. One morning it was there on the table. By the evening, it was gone.
AMY: Mary, I don't think it's anything to do with your mirror. I think you have burglars.
MARY: It's not just the missing of the objects. Look.
Mary pulls the curtain off a mirror. Slow motion, funny dramatic. Nothing obvious.
AMY: Mary, that's a reflection.
DOCTOR: Or lack of. Look at where the vase used to be in the mirror.
In the reflection we can still see the vase, and all the furniture and wallpaper is as it would have been before disappearing. Vases not smashed, wallpaper patterns fine etc. But everything normal e.g people still reflected.
DOCTOR: Well that's new. Very new. When did this all start.
MARY: About 3 months ago.
DOCTOR: So it takes anything?
MARY:...yes.
DOCTOR: There's something you're not telling me. What happened?
Mary: Crying. I..I...
DOCTOR: Tell me.
MARY: It took my house maids, and husband. I don't know what to do. Help me Doctor.
DOCTOR: Now you see. That's an offer I can't refuse. I am the Doctor....I never get tired of saying that.
Doctor straight into action.
DOCTOR: So what we're dealing with here is a mirror thingy, that takes anything in its sight. Correct? Don't answer that...I know it is. Sooo.....we need to....
Door opens.
GIRL: Mama!
Mary quickly closes the door.
MARY: Just a moment. Aside to Doctor. You'd better hide. I can't be dealing with anymore at the moment.
Doctor and Amy hide in the cupboard. Girl comes in.
MARY: What is it love?
GIRL: It's Matthew. He's gone.
The Doctor sprints out the cupboard and the room. Everyone else follows. Matthews bed is empty, but the duvet and pillow are as if someone is still sleeping in it.
AMY: Doctor, what happened? Where'd he go?
DOCTOR: If I'm right in thinking...he should be...
The Doctor pulls off the curtain over the mirror. Matthew is on the other side, crying and banging on the glass. Nothing can be heard though. Mary begins weeping.
MARY: Oh my sweet child.
DOCTOR: Mary look at me. You have to trust me completely. I will do everything I can to bring your son back, but right now I have to put the curtain back over, so that nothing else can be taken.
Curtain is put back over the mirror, and Mary holds her girl close.
DOCTOR: Now everyone follow me.
All march out the room and head towards Mary's bedroom.
DOCTOR: Amy, you have to keep Mary's daughter safe, and I don't want anything happening to you either. I'm taking you to the TARDIS.
Everyone enters the room.
DOCTOR: Oh come on...that's not fair. Why that?
The TARDIS has gone, but its reflection is still in the mirror.
DOCTOR: Why the TARDIS? You could have taken a bed...or a lamp...but no, the most useful object in this room bar the chamber pot. Aside. Once saved the world with a chamber pot.
DOCTOR: Right Amy. Find a room where there is no mirror and take...to the girl actually what is your name?
GIRL: Charlotte.
DOCTOR: Right. Take yourself and Charlotte to a room with no mirror. Stay there. I want you both safe.
AMY: But...
DOCTOR: NOW!
Amy leaves with the children.
DOCTOR: Right Mary. Mirrors. All of them. In one room. Now. Hop to it. Aside. Always wanted to say that by the way.
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