Tooth and Claw
*&* is the scene break.
Italics is the Galifrayen speech.
EDIT: Alissia is not played by Natalie Porman butThe Walking Dead's Lauren Cohan.
The Tardis has already been set in motion for it's flightRose has changed into denim mini-dungarees.
"What do you think of this? Will it do?" Rose asks about her denim mini-dungarees.
"In the late 1970s? You'd be better off in a bin bag. Hold on, listen to this." The Doctor explains as he puts a CD into the Tardis player. "Ian Dury and the Blockheads. Number One in 1979."
"I played this one time with a friend who loved Ian Dury and the Blockheads. Let's say he had... musical abilities." Sophia mentions, the Doctor smiles at her. It's been a trip
"You're a punk." Rose comments in a jokey way.
"It's good to be a lunatic." The Doctor quotes the lyrics of the song.
"That's what you are. A big old punk with a bit of rockabillly thrown in." Rose continues to comment.
"What's wrong with being a punk?" Sophia says.
"Would you like to see him?" The Doctor asks.
"How'd you mean? In concert?" Sophia inquires. "I don't really know."
"What else is a Tardis for? I can take you to the Battle of Trafalgar, the first anti-gravity Olympics, Caesar crossing the Rubicon or Ian Dury at the Top Rank, Sheffield, England, Earth, 21st November, 1979. What do you think?" The Doctor explains to the two women as he asks them if they want to go see Ian Dury in concert.
"Sheffield it is." Rose says.
"Hold on tight." The Doctor warns Rose and Sophia.
The Doctor beats the rhythm of the song on the console as they travel.
"Come on, Doctor. Don't beat up the Tardis." Sophia tells the Doctor not to do as they stop suddenly, and get thrown to the floor.
"1979. Hell of a year. China invades Vietnam. The Muppet Movie. Love that film. Margaret Thatcher. Urgh. Skylab falls to Earth, with a little help from me. Nearly took off my thumb." The Doctor explains about 1979. "And I like my thumb. I need my thumb. I'm very attached to."
Rifles are cocked at the trio.
"My thumb."
They are surrounded by Redcoats. The officer in charge is on a black horse.
"1879. Same difference." The Doctor finishes.
"You will explain your presence. And the nakedness of the second girl." Captain Reynolds asks the trio.
The Doctor starts to talk in a Scottish accent.
"Are we in Scotland?" The Doctor asks.
"How can you be ignorant of that?" Captain Reynolds inquires.
"Oh, I'm, I'm dazed and confused. I've been chasing this, this wee naked child over hill and over dale. Isn't that right, ya timorous beastie?" The Doctor asks Rose.
"Och, aye! I've been oot and aboot." Rose tries to put on a Scottish accent but fails.
"No, don't do that." Sophia tells Rose not to do.
"Hoots mon." Rose continues to doing her failing Scottish accent.
"No, really don't. Really." The Doctor agrees with Sophia's asumptions.
"Will you identify yourself, sir and madam?" Captain Reyonlds inquires.
"I'm Doctor James McCrimmon, from the township of Balamory." The Doctor introduces himself.
"And I'm his wife, Miss Sophie McCrimmon." Sophie says.
"I have our credentials, if I may." The Doctor says.
He gets out his psychic paper.
"As you can see, a Doctorate from the University of Edinburgh. I trained under Doctor Bell himself." The Doctor explains.
An upper-class English accent comes from a carriage nearby.
"Let them approach." Queen Victoria asks Captain Reyonlds.
"I don't think that's wise, ma'am." Captain Reyonlds argues.
"Let them approach." Queen Victoria repeats.
"You will approach the carriage, and show all due deference." Captain Reyonlds tells the trio.
A footman opens the door to reveal the Imperial Widow.
"Rose; Sophia, might I introduce her Majesty Queen Victoria. Empress of India and Defender of the Faith." The Doctor introduces Queen Victoria to the two women.
"Sophia McCrimmon. Again, wife of Doctor James." Sophia tells Queen Victoria.
"Rose Tyler, Ma'am. And my apologies for being so naked." Rose apoligizes.
"I've had five daughters. It's nothing to me. But you, Doctor. Show me these credentials." Queen Victoria says.
He hands her the psychic paper.
"Why didn't you say so immediately? It states clearly here that you have been appointed by the Lord Provost as my Protector." Queen Victoria explains.
"Does it? Yes, it does. Good. Good. Then let me ask - why is Your Majesty travelling by road when there's a train all the way to Aberdeen?" The Doctor asks.
"A tree on the line." Queen Victoria says.
"An accident?" Sophia asks.
"I am the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Everything around me tends to be planned." Queen Victoria anwsers.
"An assassination attempt?" The Doctor says.
"What, seriously? There's people out to kill you?" Rose inquires.
"I'm quite used to staring down the barrel of a gun." Queen Victoria tells Rose.
"Sir Robert MacLeish lives but ten miles hence. We've sent word ahead. He'll shelter us for tonight, then we can reach Balmoral tomorrow." Captain Reynolds explains.
"This Doctor, his wife and his timorous beastie will come with us." Queen Victoria explains.
"Yes, Ma'am. We'd better get moving - it's almost nightfall." Captain Reynolds tells Queen Victoria.
"Indeed. And there are stories of wolves in these parts. Fanciful tales intended to scare the children. But good for the blood, I think. Drive on!" Queen Victoria says as she asks to drive on with the Doctor, Sophia and Rose walk with the soldiers behind the carriage.
"It's funny though, because you say assassination and you just think of Kennedy and stuff. Not her." Rose says.
"1879? She's had, oh, six attempts on her life? And I'll tell you something else. We just met Queen Victoria!" The Doctor tells her.
"I know!" Rose comments.
"1879 is better than 1979 because of that!" Sophia agrees.
"What a laugh!" The Doctor says.
"She was just sitting there." Rose comments.
"Like a stamp." The Doctor finishes her comment.
"I want her to say we are not amused. I bet you five quid I can make her say it." Rose asks the two Time Lords.
"Well, if I gambled on that, it'd be an abuse of my privileges of traveller in time." The Doctor explains.
"Ten quid?" Rose says.
"Done." Sophia tells them.
Sir Robert comes out to meet Queen Victoria. The rest of the monks are also dressed as indoor servants.
"Your Majesty." Sir Robert greets Queen Victoria.
"Sir Robert. My apologies for the emergency. And how is Lady Isobel?" Queen Victoria asks.
"She's indisposed, I'm afraid. She's gone to Edinburgh for the season. And she's taken the cook with her. The kitchens are barely stocked. I wouldn't blame Your Majesty if you wanted to ride on." Sir Robert tells Queen Victoria.
"Oh, not at all. I've had quite enough carriage exercise. And this is charming, if rustic. It's my first visit to this house. My late husband spoke of it often. The Torchwood Estate. Now, shall we go inside? And please excuse the naked girl." Queen Victoria explains.
"Sorry." Rose apoligizes.
"She's a feral child. I bought her for sixpence in old London Town. It's was her or the Elephant Man, so." The Doctor describes Rose.
"Thinks he's funny but I'm so not amused. What do you think, Ma'am?" Sophia asks.
"It hardly matters. Shall we proceed?" Queen Victoria tells her.
"So close." Sophia whispers.
Queen Victoria goes inside.
"Makerson and Ramsey, you will escort the property. Hurry up." Captain Reynolds commands the two soldiers.
"Yes, sir." The soldiers respond.
They take a small locked box from the carriage and carry it into the house.
"So what's in there, then?" The Doctor asks.
"Property of the Crown. You will dismiss any further thoughts, sir. The rest of you go to the rear of the house. Assume your designated positions." Captain Reynolds tell him.
"You heard the orders. Positions." A Soldier tells another.
"Sir."
The shadows of the solders pass the cellar lights. A cloaked figure in the cage makes the shush gesture to the captives.
"This, I take it, is the famous Endeavour." Queen Victoria says.
A massive bronze telescope.
"All my father's work. Built by hand in his final years. Became something of an obsession. He spent his money on this rather than caring for the house or himself." Sir Robert explains.
"I wish I'd met him. I like him. That thing's beautiful. Can we?" The Doctor asks Sir Robert.
"Help yourself." Sir Robert says.
"What did he model it on? Because the model seems familar." Sophia asks.
"I know nothing about it. To be honest, most of us thought him a little, shall we say, eccentric. I wish now I'd spent more time with him and listened to his stories." Sir Robert tells her.
"It's a bit rubbish. How many prisms has it got? Way too many. The magnification's gone right over the top. That's stupid kind of." The Doctor comments "Am I being rude again?" He asks Rose and Sophia.
"Yes, if you haven't noticed." Sophia tells him. "Okay, just stop it - Theta."
"But it's pretty. It's very pretty." The Doctor finishes his comment as he corrects himself. "There. Is that better, Alisia?"
"Of course. Anyway, let us stop talking in our lost language before the human's pick it up." Sophia says.
"And the imagination of it should be applauded." Queen Victoria interrupts.
"Mmm. Thought you might disapprove, Your Majesty. Stargazing. Isn't that a bit fanciful? You could easily not be amused, or something? No?" Rose asks Queen Victoria.
"This device surveys the infinite work of God. What could be finer? Sir Robert's father was an example to us all. A polymath, steeped in astronomy and sciences, yet equally well versed in folklore and fairytales." Queen Victoria explains.
"Stars and magic. I like him more and more." The Doctor says.
"Oh, my late husband enjoyed his company. Prince Albert himself was acquainted with many rural superstitions, coming as he did from Saxe Coburg." Queen Victoria tells them.
"That's Bavaria." Sophia comments.
"When Albert was told about your local wolf, he was transported." Queen Victoria says.
"So, what's this wolf, then?" The Doctor asks.
"It's just a story." Sir Robert says.
"Then tell it." Sophia asks.
"It's said that." Sir Robert starts.
"Excuse me, sir. Perhaps her Majesty's party could repair to their rooms. It's almost dark." Father Angelo says.
"Of course. Yes, of course." Sir Robert agrees.
"And then supper. And could we find some clothes for Miss Tyler? I'm tired of nakedness." Queen Victoria asks.
"It's not amusing, is it?" Rose says.
"Sir Robert, your wife must have left some clothes. See to it. We shall dine at seven, and talk some more of this wolf. After all, there is a full moon tonight." Queen Victoria explains.
"So there is, Ma'am." Sir Robert says.
Rose explores the contents of a wardrobe. Downstairs in the kitchen, the monks are making a brew with mistletoe, under the watchful gaze of Father Angelo. Rose finds a blue velvet dress that is to her liking. The monks serve mugs of their special brew to the soldiers on guard. Rose opens another cupboard and discovers a soldiers fall down. The monks take their weapons.
"They came through the house. In the excitement they took the Steward and the Master, and my Lady." Flora tells Rose.
"Listen. I've got a friend. He's called the Doctor. He'll know what to do. You've got to come with me." Rose mentions.
"Oh, but I can't, Miss." Flora says.
"What's your name?" Rose asks.
"Flora." Flora says.
"Flora, we'll be safe. There's more people arrived downstairs, soldiers and everything, and they can help us. I promise. Come on. Okay? Come on." Rose explains to her.
Around the corner they find one of the soldiers lying on the floor.
"Oh, Miss. I did warn you." Flora tells Rose.
"He's not dead. I don't think, he must be drugged or something." Rose explains.
Father Angelo grabs Flora from behind and drags her away. Another takes Rose and a third removes the soldier.
"Your companion begs an apology, Doctor. Her clothing h
as somewhat delayed her." Father Angelo tells him.
"Oh, that's all right. Save her a wee bit of ham." The Doctor jokes.
"I'll agree." Sophia says.
"The feral child could probably eat it raw." Queen Victoria tells them.
"Very wise, Ma'am. Very witty." Captain Reynolds jokes.
"Slightly witty, perhaps. I know you rarely get the chance to dine with me, Captain, but don't get too excited. I shall contain my wit in case I do you further injury." Queen Victoria explains.
"Yes, Ma'am. Sorry, Ma'am." Captain Reynolds apolgizises.
"Besides, we're all waiting on Sir Robert. Come, sir. You promised us a tale of nightmares." The Doctor says.
"Indeed. Since my husband's death, I find myself with more of a taste for supernatural fiction." Queen Victoria agrees.
"You must miss him. Every person has that feeling." Sophia says to her.
"Very much. Oh, completely. And that's the charm of a ghost story, isn't it? Not the scares and chills, that's just for children, but the hope of some contact with the great beyond. We all want some message from that place. It's the Creator's greatest mystery that we're allowed no such consolation. The dead stay silent, and we must wait. Come. Begin your tale, Sir Robert. There's a chill in the air. The wind is howling through the eaves. Tell us of monsters." Queen Victoria explains as she asks Sir Robert to begin his story.
The young monk in the cage is sitting quietly.
"Don't make a sound. They said if we scream or shout, then he will slaughter us." Isobel says.
"But he's in a cage. He's a prisoner. He's the same as us." Rose comments.
"He's nothing like us. That creature is not mortal." Isobel tells Rose.
The young man opens his eyes. They are completely black.
"The story goes back three hundred years. Every full moon, the howling rings through the valley. The next morning, livestock is found ripped apart and devoured." Sir Robert begins her story.
"Tales like this just disguise the work of thieves. Steal a sheep and blame a wolf, simple as that." Captain Reynolds tells Sir Robert.
"But sometimes a child goes missing. Once in a generation, a boy will vanish from his homestead." Sir Robert anwsers Captain Reynold's propostion.
Rose gets up and moves towards the crate, as far as the chain will let her.
"Don't, child." Isobel tells Rose.
"Who are you?" Rose asks the werewolf.
"Don't enrage him." Steward says.
"Where are you from? You're not from Earth. What planet are you from?" Rose inquires the werewolf.
"Oh, intelligence." The werewolf comments.
"Where were you born?" Rose still asks.
"This body? Ten miles away. A weakling, heartsick boy, stolen away at night by the brethren for my cultivation. I carved out his soul and sat in his heart." The werewolf anwsers.
"Are there descriptions of the creature?" The Doctor asks.
"Oh, yes, Doctor. Drawings and woodcarvings. And it's not merely a wolf. It's more than that. This is a man who becomes an animal." Sir Robert tells him.
"A werewolf?" Sophia says.
"All right, so the body's human. But what about you, the thing inside?" Rose asks.
"So far from home." The werewolf tells her.
"If you want to get back home, we can help." Rose tells it.
"Why would I leave this place? A world of industry, of workforce and warfare. I could turn it to such purpose." It explains to her.
"How would you do that?" Rose inquires.
"I would migrate to the Holy Monarch." The Werewolf says.
"You mean Queen Victoria?" Rose asks.
"With one bite, I would pass into her blood, and then it begins. The Empire of the Wolf. Many questions." The werewolf explains.
The young man lunges at the crate.
"Look. Inside your eyes. You've seen it too." The werewolf tells her.
"Seen what?" Rose says.
"The Wolf. There is something of the Wolf about you." The werewolf mentions the Bad Wolf.
"I don't know what you mean." Rose tells it.
"You burnt like the sun, but all I require is the moon." The werewolf explains.
The full moon hangs high in the sky.
"My father didn't treat it as a story. He said it was fact. He even claimed to have communed with the beast, to have learned its purpose. I should have listened. His work was hindered. He made enemies. There's a monastery in the Glen of Saint Catherine. The Brethren opposed my father's investigations." Sir Robert continues with his stories.
Father Angelo gazes out at the moon and starts chanting lupus deus est.
"Perhaps they thought his work ungodly." Queen Victoria says.
"That's what I thought. But now I wonder. What if they had a different reason for wanting the story kept quiet? What if they turned from God and worshipped the wolf?" Sir Robert asks the others.
"And what if they were with us right now in the room?" Sophia says.
The cellar doors are flung open, and the light shines in on the crate.
"Moonlight." The werewolf says.
The young man removes his cloak as an unnatural wind starts to blow through the cellar.
"All of you! Stop looking at it! Flora, don't look. Listen to me. Grab hold of the chain and pull! Come on! With me! Pull!" Rose tells the others.
The young man begins his transformation.
"I said pull! Stop your whining and listen to me! All of you! And that means you, your Ladyship. Now come on, pull!" Rose commands the others.
"What is the meaning of this?" Queen Victoria inquires.
"Explain yourself, Sir Robert!" Captain Reynolds tells him.
"What's happening?" Queen Victoria asks.
"I'm sorry, Your Majesty, they've got my wife." Sir Robert tells Queen Victoria.
"Rose! Where's Rose? Where is she? Sir Robert, come on!" The Doctor says as Sophia and Rose go out with him.
Captain Reynolds keeps his revolver trained on the chanting monk.
The young man becomes more vulpine.
"One, two, three, pull! One, two, three, pull!" Rose shouts.
The werewolf is fully formed, and examining its paws.
"One, two, three, pull!" Rose still shouts.
The end of the chain breaks free of the wall. The Doctor, Sophia and Robert kick their way in.
"Where the hell have you been?" Rose asks.
"Having dinner with Queen Victoria, which you should have been there for!" Sophia says.
The Doctor sees the occupant of the crate.
"Oh, that's beautiful." The Doctor describes the werewolf.
"I suppose." Sophia agrees.
"Come on, go. Get out!" Sir Robert commands the people.
The werewolf breaks out of the crate.
"Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out!" The Doctor shouts as he repeats the word out.
"Come on." Rose tells him.
The Doctor stares in admiration, then ducks as it throws a piece of crate at him. He runs out and locks the door with the sonic screwdriver.
The Steward hands out the contents of the gun cupboard to the men.
"Arms, and you five. Ready, everyone?" The Steward asks.
"Take the girls. Get them out through the kitchen." The Steward tells Lady Isobel.
"I can't leave you. What will you do?" Lady Isobel asks.
"I must defend her Majesty. Now, don't think of me, just go." Sir Robert reassures his wife.
"All of you, at my side. Come on!" Lady Isobel tells the maids.
The Doctor is removing the shackles with the sonic screwdriver.
"It could be any form of light modulated species triggered by specific wavelengths. Did it say what it wanted?" The Doctor explains as he asks Rose on what it's plan is.
"The Queen, the Crown, the throne - you name it." Rose tells him.
There is a crash of something bursting through a wooden door. The Doctor goes out to investigate and sees the werewolf at the other end of the passageway. He runs back in and grabs Rose.
"Fire! Fire!" The Steward shouts.
"All right, you men. We should retreat upstairs. Come with me." The Doctor commands.
"I'll not retreat. The battle's done. There's no creature on God's Earth that could survive such an assault." The Steward argues with the Doctor.
"I'm telling you, come upstairs!" The Doctor shouts at him, trying to get sense into the Steward.
"And I'm telling you, sir, I will sleep well tonight with that thing's hide upon my wall." The Steward dismisses.
The Steward steps into the corridor then looks back.
"It must have crawled away to die." The Steward comments.
The Steward is hoisted up to the ceiling.
"There's nothing we can do!" The Doctor shouts.
Sounds of snarling and wet meat ripping.
"Your Majesty? Your Majesty!" Sir Robert asks for where Queen Victoria is.
"Sir Robert? What's happening?" Queen Victoria inquires.
Victoria comes down the stairs.
"I heard such terrible noises." Queen Victoria lies.
"Your Majesty, we've got to get out. But what of Father Angelo? Is he still here?" Sir Robert asks.
"Captain Reynolds disposed of him." Queen Victoria lies more.
"The front door's no good, it's been boarded shut. Pardon me, Your Majesty. You'll have to leg it out of a window." The Doctor explains.
"Excuse my manners, Ma'am, but I shall go first, the better to assist Her Majesty's egress." Sir Robert explains.
"A noble sentiment, my Sir Walter Raleigh." Queen Victoria comments.
The Doctor regains his London accent.
"Yeah, any chance you could hurry up?" The Doctor complains.
"You're using your London accent, Theta. She'll notice you." Sophia corrects him.
Robert opens the window and the monks outside open fire.
"I reckon the monkey boys want us to stay inside." The Doctor jokes.
"Do they know who I am?" Queen Victoria asks.
"Yeah, that's why they want you. The wolf's lined you up for a, a biting." Rose explains.
"Stop this talk. There can't be an actual wolf." Queen Victoria dismisses Rose as the werewolf howls through out the house.
"What do we do?" Rose asks.
"We run." The Doctor tells her.
"Is that it?" Rose complains.
"You got any silver bullets?" The Doctor asks.
"Not on me, no." Rose tells him.
"I did have them... somewhere." Sophia whispers.
"There we are then, we run. Your Majesty, as a Doctor, I recommend a vigourous jog. Good for the health. Come on!" The Doctor commands Queen Victoria.
They all head up the staircase.
The werewolf smashes its way out of below stairs and follows them.
"Come on! Come on!" The Doctor shouts.
The werewolf is nearly upon them when Reynolds turns and shoots. It retreats.
"I'll take this position and hold it. You keep moving, for God's sake! Your Majesty, I went to look for the property and it was taken. The chest was empty." Captain Reynolds explains.
"I have it. It's safe." Queen Victoria says.
"Then remove yourself, Ma'am. Doctor, you stand as Her Majesty's Protector. And you, Sir Robert, you're a traitor to the crown." Captain Reynolds explains more.
"Bullets can't stop it!" The Doctor warns him.
"They'll buy you time. Now run!" Captain Reynolds tells him otherwise.
Reynolds empties his revolver at the werewolf before it pounces and rips him apart.
"Rose!" Sophia shouts for her.
Sophia drags her inside the room.
"Barricade the door." Sir Robert says as they do.
"Wait a minute. Shush, shush, wait a minute." The Doctor tells everyone.
There is one lonely howl.
"It's stopped." The Doctor says.
The werewolf sniffs at the door, then leaves.
"It's gone." The Doctor whispers.
"No. Wait, just listen." Sophia corrects the Doctor.
There are footsteps and growls from outside the walls as it walks around the room.
"Is this the only door?" The Doctor inquires.
"Yes. No!" Sir Robert firstly says.
They quickly barricade the other door.
"Shush." Rose shush's the Doctor.
The noises continue outside the walls.
"I don't understand. What's stopping it?" Rose asks.
"Something inside this room. What is it? Why can't it get in?" The Doctor explains to her.
"I'll tell you what, though." Sophia says.
"What?" The Doctor responds.
"Werewolf." Rose mentions.
"I know. You all right?" The Doctor asks.
"I'm okay, yeah." Rose says.
"I'm sorry, Ma'am. It's all my fault. I should have sent you away. I tried to suggest something was wrong. I thought you might notice. Did you think there was nothing strange about my household staff?" Sir Robert explains.
"Well, they were bald, athletic. Your wife's away, I just thought you were happy." The Doctor says.
"I'll tell you what though, Ma'am, I bet you're not amused now." Sophia asks Queen Victoria.
"Do you think this is funny?" Queen Victoria inquires.
"No, Ma'am. I'm sorry." Sophia apoligizes.
"What, exactly, I pray tell me, someone, please. What exactly is that creature?" Queen Victoria asks.
"You'd call it a werewolf, but technically it's a more of a lupine wavelength haemovariform." The Doctor explains.
"And should I trust you, sir? You who change your voice so easily? What happened to your accent?" Queen Victoria inquires.
"I told you not use the accent because you'll never stay with it." Sophia dismisses her.
"I'll not have it. No, sir. Not you, not that thing, none of it. This is not my world." Queen Victoria tells them.
A carving of mistletoe on the door.
"Mistletoe. Sir Robert, did you father put that there?" Sophia comments.
"I don't know. I suppose." Sir Robert says.
"On the other door, too. No, a carving wouldn't be enough. I wonder." The Doctor says as he licks the woodwork. "Viscum album, the oil of the mistletoe. It's been worked into the wood like a varnish. How clever was your dad? I love him. Powerful stuff, mistletoe. Bursting with lectins and viscotoxins."
"And the wolf's allergic to it?" Rose asks.
"Well, it thinks it is. The monkey monk monks need a way of controlling the wolf, maybe they trained it to react against certain things." The Doctor explains.
"Nevertheless, that creature won't give up, Doctor, and we still don't possess an actual weapon." Sir Robert tells him.
"Oh, your father got all the brains, didn't he?" The Doctor comments.
"Being rude again." Sophia points out.
"Good. I meant that one. You want weapons? We're in a library. Books! Best weapons in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have." The Doctor explains.
He throws some books to Rose and Sophia, who tries not to drop the book.
"Arm yourself." The Doctor commands them all
"Biology, zoology. There might be something on wolves in here." Rose says.
"Hold on, what about this? A book on mistletoe." The Doctor tells her.
"A book on magic." Sophia disagrees.
"Some form of explosive." Sir Robert mentions.
"Hmm, that's the sort of thing." The Doctor mumbles.
"Wolf's bane, what about that?" Rose tells them.
"Look what your old dad found. Something fell to Earth." The Doctor says.
"A spaceship?" Rose whispers.
"More a shooting star." Sophia corrects her.
"In the year of our Lord 1540, under the reign of King James the Fifth, an almighty fire did burn in the pit. That's the Glen of Saint Catherine just by the monastery." Sir Robert reads from the book.
"But that's over three hundred years ago. What's it been waiting for?" Rose asks.
"Maybe just a single cell survived. Adapting slowly down the generations, it survived through the humans, host after host after host." The Doctor describes.
"But why does it want the throne?" Sir Robert inquires.
"That's what it seem to want. The Empire of the Wolf." Sophia figures out.
"Imagine it. The Victorian Age accelerated. Starships and missiles fueled by coal and driven by steam, leaving history devastated in its wake." The Doctor explains.
"Sir Robert. If I am to die here." Queen Victoria says.
"Don't say that, Your Majesty." Sir Robert tells Queen Victoria.
"I would destroy myself rather than let that creature infect me. But that's no matter. I ask only that you find some place of safekeeping for something far older and more precious than myself." Queen Victoria explains.
"Hardly the time to worry about your valuables." The Doctor complains.
"Thank you for your opinion, but there is nothing more valuable than this." Queen Victoria tells the Doctor which she shows him a finest white 105.6 carat diamond.
"Is that the Koh-I-Noor?" Rose inquires.
"The greatest diamond in the world that people say." Sophia comments.
"Given to me as the spoils of war. Perhaps its legend is now coming true. It is said that whoever owns it must surely die." Queen Victoria explains.
"Well, that's true of anything if you own it long enough. Can I?" The Doctor agrees with the statement as he asks to hold the Koh-I-Noor. The Doctor then examines the diamond.
"That is so beautiful." Sophia describes.
"How much is that worth?" Rose asks.
"They say the wages of the entire planet for a whole week." The Doctor explains.
"Good job my mum's not here. She'd be fighting the wolf off with her bare hands for that thing." Rose jokes.
"And she'd win." Sophia goes along with the joke.
"Where is the wolf? I don't trust this silence." Sir Robert says.
"Why do you travel with it?" The Doctor asks Queen Victoria.
"My annual pilgrimage. I'm taking it to Helier and Carew, the Royal Jewellers at Hazelhead. The stone needs recutting." Queen Victoria explains.
"Oh, but it's perfect." Sophia says.
"My late husband never thought so." Queen Victoria disagrees,
"Now, there's a fact. Prince Albert kept on having the Koh-I-Noor cut down. It used to be forty percent bigger than this. But he was never happy. Kept on cutting and cutting." The Doctor explains the fact.
"He always said the shine was not quite right. But he died with it still unfinished." Queen Victoria corrects him.
"Unfinished. Oh, yes." The Doctor repeats as he then throws the stone back to Victoria. "There's a lot of unfinished business in this house. His father's research, and your husband, Ma'am, he came here and he sought the perfect diamond. Hold on, hold on. All these separate things, they're not separate at all, they're connected. Oh, my head, my head. What if this house, it's a trap for you. Is that right, Ma'am?"
"Obviously." Queen Victoria agrees.
"At least, that's what the wolf intended. But, what if there's a trap inside the trap?" The Doctor corrects her.
"Explain yourself, Doctor." Queen Victoria says.
"What if his father and your husband weren't just telling each other stories. They dared to imagine all this was true, and they planned against it, laying the real trap not for you but for the wolf." The Doctor explains as plaster dust falls from the ceiling. They look up to the domes skylight. "That wolf there."
The glass in the skylight cracks.
"Out! Out! Out!" The Doctor shouts.
The Doctor shuts the mistletoe doors on the werewolf.
"Your Majesty!" Sir Robert calls for Queen Victoria.
"Get to the observatory!" The Doctor shouts.
The werewolf catches up with Sophia. She screams then a pan of liquid is thrown over it. It retreats.
"Good shot." The Doctor admires.
"It was mistletoe." Flora tells him.
"Isobel!" Sir Robert says to Lady Isobel. Sir Robert and Lady Isobel then kiss.
"Now, get back downstairs." Sir Robert calls Lady Isobel.
"Keep yourself safe." Lady Isobel says.
"Now go." Sir Robert tells her.
"Girls, come with me. Down the back stairs, back to the kitchens. Quickly!" Lady Isobel commands the other girls.
"Come on!" The Doctor shouts.
"The observatory's this way." Sir Robert tells the trio as they carry on up the staircase as the werewolf recovers.
"No mistletoe in these doors because your father wanted the wolf to get inside. I just need time. Is there any way of barricading this?" The Doctor explains as he asks Sir Robert if there is anyway to barricade the observatory.
"Just do your work and I'll defend it." Sir Robert tells the Doctor.
"If we could bind them shut with rope or something." The Doctor continues his aquisations.
"I said I'd find you time, Sir. Now get inside." Sir Robert ignores the Doctor.
"Good man." The Doctor says.
"Your Majesty, the diamond." The Doctor asks.
"For what purpose?" Queen Victoria asks.
"The purpose it was designed for." The Doctor reminds her.
Sir Robert takes a sword from a display on the wall and stands ready as the werewolf comes up the stairs. Victoria hands over the diamond.
"Rose. Sophia, help me." The Doctor asks for the two women's help.
They go to the control wheels and start raising the telescope up.
"Lift it. Come on." The Doctor tells her.
"Is this the right time for stargazing?" Rose asks.
"Yes it is." Sophia anwsers that question.
"You said this thing doesn't work." Rose reminds him.
"It doesn't work as a telescope because that's not what it is. It's a light chamber. It magnifies the light rays like a weapon. We've just got to power it up." The Doctor explains.
"It won't work. There's no electricity. Moonlight. But the wolf needs moonlight. It's made by moonlight." Rose says.
"You're seventy percent water but you can still drown." Sophia disagrees.
The moon shines down into the telescope lens and bounces between the prisms, magnifying as it goes. The werewolf breaks in and goes for Queen Victoria. The Doctor slides the diamond over to where the light hits the floor. It refracts upwards, catching the werewolf in its beam and lifting it up off the floor. The wolf turns back into a young man, hanging as if crucified in mid air.
"Make it brighter. Let me go." The werewolf asks.
The Doctor adjusts the magnification on the eyepiece. The man turns back into a wolf shape, howls and vanishes. Victoria looks at a small scratch on her wrist.
"Your Majesty? Did it bite you?" The Doctor asks.
"No, it's, it's a cut, that's all." Queen Victoria corrects him.
"If that thing bit you?" Sophia points out.
"It was a splinter of wood when the door came apart. It's nothing." Queen Victoria explains.
"Let me see." The Doctor asks.
"It is nothing." Queen Victoria dismisses the cut.
Morning. In the presence of the whole household, the Doctor, Sophia and Rose kneel before Queen Victoria, who is armed with a sword..
"By the power invested in me by the Church and the State, I dub thee Sir Doctor of Tardis.
By the power invested in me by the Church and the State, I dub thee Dame Sophia of the Tardis. By the power invested in me by the Church and the State, I dub thee Dame Rose of the Powell Estate. You may stand." Queen Victoria explains as she knights the two Time Lords and Rose.
"Many thanks, Ma'am." The Doctor says.
"I thank you, Ma'am." Sophia tells Queen Victoria.
"Thanks. They're never going to believe this back home." Rose says.
"Your Majesty, you said last night about receiving no message from the great beyond. I think your husband cut that diamond to save your life. He's protecting you even now, Ma'am, from beyond the grave." The Doctor explains.
"Indeed. Then you may think on this also. That I am not amused." Queen Victoria tells them.
"Yes!" Rose and Sophia say in unsion.
"Not remotely amused. And henceforth I banish you." Queen Victoria continues.
"I'm sorry?" The Doctor asks.
"I rewarded you, Sir Doctor, and now you are exiled from this empire, never to return. I don't know what you are, the two of you, or where you're from, but I know that you consort with stars and magic and think it fun. But your world is steeped in terror and blasphemy and death, and I will not allow it. You will leave this shores and you will reflect, I hope, on how you came to stray so far from all that is good, and how much longer you will survive this terrible life. Now leave my world, and never return." Queen Victoria explains to them.
The Doctor, Sophia and Rose get off the back of a cart.
"No, but the funny thing is, Queen Victoria did actually suffer a mutation of the blood. It's historical record. She was haemophiliac. They used to call it the Royal Disease. But it's always been a mystery because she didn't inherit it. Her mum didn't have it, her dad didn't have it. It came from nowhere." The Doctor explains about Queen Victoria's Royal diisease.
"What, and you're saying that's a wolf bite?" Rose asks.
"Well, maybe haemophilia is just a Victorian euphemism." Sophia says.
"For werewolf?" Rose says.
"Could be." The Doctor agrees.
"Queen Victoria's a werewolf?" Rose inquires.
"Could be. And her children had the Royal Disease. Maybe she gave them a quick nip." Sophia says.
"So, the Royal Family are werewolves?" Rose conjures up.
"Well, maybe not yet. I mean, a single wolf cell could take a hundred years to mature. Might be ready by, oh, early 21st century?" The Doctor explains to her.
"Nah, that's just ridiculous! Mind you, Princess Anne." Sophia jokes.
"I'll say no more." The Doctor agrees.
"And if you think about it, they're very private. They plan everything in advance. They could schedule themselves around the moon. We'd never know. And they like hunting!" Rose explains.
The Doctor, Sophia and Rose go inside the Tardis.
"They love blood sports. Oh my God, they're werewolves!" Rose continues to joke.
The Tardis dematerialises.
A/N - I have got to say, TOOTH AND CLAW is my favourite episode of Series 2. Oh, some details on Alissia. She's 886, about twenty years ish lower than the Doctor. Again, eighth incarnation. Also, she doesn't like to talk a lot in Galifrayen. Well, until after Rose's death, maybe in THE LAST OF THE TIME LORDS. But that is a A LONG WAY BEYOND.
BATTLEOFDUTY - MAY: THE TWENTY SIXTH - TWO THOUSAND AND FIFTEEN or May, 26th 2015.