Sorry it took so long but between replacing all the pluming and my brother having a clasped lung it took a while but the next one should be up by next week.
Daleks in Manhattan
Please read and review, I would like to know how I'm doing and I wouldn't mind your input for future story arcs. Here we go series three with Rose Tyler. Evolution of the Daleks next.
As Before I don't own Doctor Who just a Fans story of how I see it playing out in my head. Enjoy.
Martha is sitting in the kitchen of the Tardis drinking a cuppa tea when Rose come in and sits down right across from her.
Rose "I guess I owe you a few answers of my own, first of all I wasn't all ways a time lady like you I was born human."
Martha looking socked not knowing what to say but manages to blurt out "How!"
Rose "Long story short, I did something stupid and this was the consequence. But I was not lying to you when I said I lost my friends and family and what little family I have left back on Earth believes me dead. Better that way. My true name is on the list of the dead at Cannery Warf. It is too painful for me to use that name because it reminds me of everything I have lost."
Martha "I know you look about eighteen or nineteen but your eyes look older, so how old are you?"
Rose "I'm in my thirties. Now I can see you need some sleep, you look tired."
Martha "Yeah, but how do you do it. You don't even look tired.
Rose "Time Lady remember, all I need is one or two hours a night. But in a pinch I can go fourteen days with no sleep before I'd collapse. Come on let's find you a room." They leave the kitchen and head off to find Martha a room.
On Bedloe's Island the Tardis materializes in one of the corners of an eleven pointed Army base exterior wall. Our three time travelers exit through the blue doors.
Martha "Where are we?"
Doctor "Ah, smell that Atlantic breeze. Nice and cold. Lovely. Martha, Wolf love, have you met my friend? Both women turn around and looks up.
Martha "Is that? Oh, my God. That's the Statue of Liberty."
Doctor "Gateway to the New World. Give me you tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath free."
Rose "So, the real New York this time."
Martha "That's so brilliant. I've always wanted to go to New York. I mean the real New York, not the new, new, new, new, new one."
Doctor "Well, there's the genuine article. So good, they named it twice. Mind you, it was New Amsterdam originally. Harder to say twice. Now wonder it didn't catch on. New Amsterdam, New Amsterdam."
Martha "I wonder what year it is, because look, the Empire State Building's not even finished yet."
Doctor "Work in progress. Still got a couple floors to go, and if I know my history, that makes the date somewhere around-"
Rose "November first 1930" She picks up a copy of the New York Record which is lying on a bench nearby.
Doctor "You're time since is really intune."
Martha "Eighty years ago. It's funny, because you see all those old newsreels all in black and white like it's so far away, but here we are. It's real. It's now. Come on then, you. Where do you want to go first?"
Rose "I think our detour just got longer." She hands the paper she was reading to her husband.
Doctor "I think your right, Love."
Martha reads the headline over the Doctor's shoulder "Hooverville Mystery Deepens. What's Hooverville?"
As our trio walks into Central Park Martha walking next to Rose who has her left hand intertwined with the Doctors right. The Doctor is explaining. "Herbert Hoover, thirty first President of the United States, came to power a year ago. Up till then New York was a boom town, the Roaring Twenties, and then."
Martha jumps in "The Wall Street Crash, yeah? When was that, 1929?"
Rose not wanting to look stupid adds "Yeah. Whole economy wiped out overnight. Thousands of people unemployed. All of a sudden, the huddled masses doubled in number with nowhere to go. So, they ended up here in Central Park."
Martha "What, they actually live in the park? In the middle of the city?"A shanty town overlooked by Manhattan skyscrapers.
Doctor "Ordinary people lost their jobs. Couldn't pay the rent and they lost everything. There are places like this all over America. No one's helping them. You only come to Hooverville when there's nowhere else to go." They come across two men fighting.
BLACK MAN "You thieving lowlife!" A fight breaks out. Unintelligible. "For a single loaf!"
WHITE MAN "I didn't touch it!"
BLACK MAN "Somebody stole it.!" A black man comes out of a tent.
Solomon "Cut that out! Cut that out right now!" He get in between the two men puts an arm on each of them and holds them in place, breaking up the fight.
BLACK MAN "He stole my bread!"
Solomon "That's enough! Did you take it?"
WHITE MAN "I don't know what happened. He just went crazy."
Solomon "That's enough! Now, think real careful before you lie to me."
WHITE MAN "I'm starving, Solomon." Soloman holds out his hand, and the white man takes the bread out from inside his coat.
Solomon "We all starving. We all got families somewhere." He does the judgment of Soloman and gives each man half of the loaf. "No stealing and no fighting. You know the rules. Thirteen years ago I fought in the Great War. A lot of us did. And the only reason we got through was because we stuck together. No matter how bad things get, we still act like human beings. It's all we got." The two fighters walk away.
Doctor "Come on." They go over to Solomon. "I suppose that makes you the boss around here."
Solomon "And, er, who might you be?"
Martha "He's the Doctor. That's his wife the Bad Wolf and I'm Martha.
Solomon "A doctor. Huh. Well, we got stockbrokers, we got a lawyer, but you're the first doctor. Neighbourhood gets classier by the day."
Martha "How many people live here?"
Solomon "At any one time, hundreds. No place else to go. But I will say this about Hooverville. We are a truly equal society. Black, white, all the same. All starving. So you're welcome, all three of you. But tell me. Doctor, you're a man of learning, right? Explain this to me. That there's going to be the tallest building in the world. How come they can do that, when we got people starving in the heart of Manhattan?"
Our trio go over to Solomon's tent. Solomon is making coffee on his hot plate.
Rose "So, men are going missing. Is this true?"
Solomon "It's true all right."
Doctor "But what does missing mean? Men must come and go here all the time. It's not like anyone's keeping a register."
Solomon "Come on in. This is different."
Martha "In what way?"
Solomon "Someone takes them, at night. We hear something, someone calls out for help. By the time we get there, they're gone like they vanished into thin air."
Doctor "And you're sure someone's taking them?"
Rose "Doctor, when you grow up with next to nothing, you hold on to the little you got. Your knife, blanket, you take it with you. You don't leave bread uneaten, fire still burning."
Solomon "You're absolutely right young lady."
Martha "Have you been to the police?"
Solomon "Yeah, we tried that. Another deadbeat goes missing, big deal."
Doctor "So the question is, who's taking them and what for?"
Frank from a distance. "Solomon!" He enters the tent. "Solomon, Mister Diagoras is here."
Outside in Hooverville everyone is gathered around a man who is standing on a crate, they move to the front of the crowd.
Diagoras "I need men. Volunteers. I've got a little work for you and you sure look like you can use the money."
Frank "Yeah. What is the money?"
Diagoras "A dollar a day."
Solomon "What's the work?"
Diagoras "A little trip down the sewers. Got a tunnel collapsed needs clearing and fixing. Any takers?"
Solomon "A dollar a day? That's slave wage. And men don't always come back up, do they."
Diagoras "Accidents happen."
Doctor "What do you mean? What sort of accidents?"
Diagoras "You don't need the work? That's fine. Anybody else?" The Doctor and Rose raise their hands.
Diagoras "Enough with the questions."
Doctor "Oh, no, no, no. I'm volunteering. I'll go."
Rose "I've always wanted to see the sewers of New York." She turns to the Doctor. "Fantastic!" Martha raises her hand.
Martha "I'll kill you for this."
Diagoras "Anybody else?" Frank and Solomon raise their hands.
Down in the sewers everyone is standing around the entrance waiting for instruction.
Diagoras "Turn left. Go about a half a mile. Follow tunnel two seven three. Fall's right ahead of you, you can't miss it."
Frank "And when do we get our dollar?"
Diagoras "When you come back up."
Rose "And what if we don't come back up?"
Diagoras "Then I got no one to pay."
Solomon "Don't worry, we'll be back."
Martha "Let's hope so." The Doctor stares into Diagoras' eyes for a few moments, Rose standing next to him, then they turn and follow the others.
Frank "We just got to stick together. It's easy to get lost. It's like a huge rabbit warren. You could hide an army down here."
Martha "So what about you, Frank? You're not from around these parts, are you?"
Frank "Oh, you could talk. No, I'm Tennessee born and bred."
Martha "So how come you're here?"
Frank "Oh, my daddy died. Mama couldn't afford to feed us all. So, I'm the oldest, up to me to feed myself. So I put on my coat, hitched up here on the railroads. There's a whole lot of runaways in the camp, younger than me, from all over. Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas. Solomon keeps a lookout for us. So, what about you? You're a long way from home."
Martha "Yeah, I'm just a hitcher too."
Frank "You stick with me, you'll be all right."
Doctor "So this Diagoras bloke, who is he then?"
Solomon "A couple of months ago, he was just another foreman. Now, it seems like he's running most of Manhattan."
Rose "How'd he manage that then?"
Solomon "These are strange times. A man can go from being King of the Hill to the lowest of the low overnight. It's just for some folks it works the other way round."
Doctor "Whoa!" A luminous green jellyfish thing is lying on the ground in front of them. The Doctor and Rose bend down to examine it. The Doctor puts on his brainy spec. and picks it up.
Martha "Is it radioactive or something? It's gone off, whatever it is. And you've got to pick it up."
Rose "Love, just don't lick it."
Doctor "Shine your torch through it. Composite organic matter. Martha? Medical opinion?"
Martha "It's not human. I know that."
Doctor "No, it's not."
Rose looking around "We must be at least half a mile in. I don't see any sign of a collapse, do you? So why did Mister Diagoras send up down here?"
Martha "Where are we now? What's above us?"
Doctor "Well, we're right underneath Manhattan." The Doctor puts the thing in his pocket. They are walking again and come by a handy manhole cover that is shedding some light.
Solomon "We're way beyond half a mile. There's no collapse, nothing."
Martha "That Diagoras bloke, was he lying?"
Doctor "Looks like it." At the same time Rose says "Oh yeah."
Frank "So why'd he want people to come down here?"
Doctor "Solomon, I think it's time you took these two back. Me and my wife will be much quicker on our own." Pig squeals echo around them.
Solomon "What the hell was that?"
Rose "Sounded like pigs."
Frank "Hello?"
Martha "Shush."
Solomon "Frank."
Frank "What if it's one of the folk gone missing? You'd be scared and half mad down here on your own."
Doctor "Do you think they're still alive?"
Frank "Heck, we ain't seen no bodies down here. Maybe they just got lost." More squeals.
Solomon "I know I never heard nobody make a sound like that."
Rose "Again pigs." She mutters something that only the Doctor hears but chooses to leave it alone for now. "Stupid Apes!"
Frank "Where's it coming from? Sounds like there's more than one of them."
Doctor "This way."
Solomon "No, that way." Solomon's torch lights up a figure crouched in a corner.
Martha "Doctor?"
Solomon "Who are you?"
Frank "Are you lost? Can you understand me? I've been thinking about folk lost down-"
Doctor "It's all right, Frank. Just stay back. Let me have a look. He's got a point, though, my mate Frank. I'd hate to be stuck down here on my own. We know the way out. Daylight. If you come with us-" Then he sees that the man is a pig. "Oh, but what are you? Wolf you were right as all ways."
Solomon "Is that, er, some kind of carnival mask?"
Doctor "No, it's real. I'm sorry. Now listen to me. I promise I can help. Who did this to you?"
Rose "Love? I think you'd better get back here." More pigmen have entered the tunnel.
Martha looking scared "Doctor!"
Doctor looks up. "Actually, good point." He returns to the group grabs Roses hand.
Martha "They're following you."
Doctor "Yeah, I noticed that, thanks. Well then, Wolf, Martha, Frank, Solomon.
Martha "What?"
Rose "Basically, run!" The pigmen chase them back to a junction.
Martha "Where are we going?!"
Rose "Away from them." She looks back toward the pigmen.
Doctor "This way!" He spots a ladder down a side passage. "It's a ladder! Come on!" The Doctor climbs up and uses the sonic screwdriver to open the cover at the top. Frank grabs an iron T bar to ward off the pigmen as Rose and Martha climb up.
Solomon "Frank! Frank!" Solomon climbs to safety, then Frank runs to the ladder. "C'mon, Frank! C'mon!" The pigmen grab Frank's legs. Solomon and the Doctor try to grab his hand.
Doctor "I've got you. C'mon! Come on!" Frank is pulled down by the pigmen.
Solomon "Frank!"
Doctor "No!"
Our group found themselves in a Props room of some kind. Solomon pushes the Doctor away as the pigmen start to climb the ladder, and slams the lid shut.
Solomon "We can't go after him."
Doctor "We've got to go back down. We can't just leave him."
Solomon "No, I'm not losing anybody else. Those creatures were from Hell. From Hell itself! If we go after them, they'll take us all! There's nothing we can do. I'm sorry." Tallulah steps out from behind a rack and points a revolver at them.
Tallulah "All right, then. Put them up." Martha's hands shoot up, everyone else take their time. "Hands in the air and no funny business. Now tell me, you schmucks, what have you done with Laszlo?"
Martha "Who's Laszlo?" Tallulah motions for them to move in the direction of her dressing room. Once there Tallulah still has the revolver but she is sitting at her makeup stand.
Tallulah "Laszlo's my boyfriend. Or was my boyfriend until he disappeared two weeks ago. No letter, no goodbye, no nothing. And I'm not stupid. I know some guys are just pigs but not my Laszlo. I mean, what kind of guy asks you to meet his mother before he vamooses?"
Rose "Stupid apes and their guns."
Doctor "Your starting to sound like me, Love. Yeah she's right. It might, might just help if you put that down."
Tallulah "Huh? Oh, sure. Oh, come on. It's not real. It's just a prop. It was either that or a spear." They all lower their hands.
Martha "What do you think happened to Lazlo?"
Tallulah "I wish I knew. One minute he's there, the next, zip. Vanished."
Doctor "Listen, ah—what's your name?"
Tallulah "Tallulah."
Doctor "Tallulah."
Tallulah "Three L's and an H."
Doctor "Right. We can try to find Laszlo, but he's not the only one. There are people disappearing every night."
Solomon " And there are creatures. Such creatures."
Tallulah "What do you mean, creatures?"
Doctor "Look, listen, just trust me. Everyone is in danger. I need to find out exactly what this is." The jellyfish thing.
Rose "In your pockets! I just cleaned them out!"
Doctor "Because then I'll know exactly what we're fighting."
Tallulah "Yuck."
Back in the Props room, the Doctor is scavenging for parts to build a gizmo. Solomon brings a small Art Nouveau radio.
Solomon "How about this? I found it backstage."
Doctor "Perfect. It's the capacitors I need. I'm just rigging up a crude little DNA scan for this beastie. If I can get a chromosomal reading, I can find out where it's from."
Solomon "How about you, Doctor? Where are you and your wife from? I've been all over. I never heard anybody talk like you. Just exactly who are you two?"
Doctor "Oh, we're just sort of passing by."
Solomon "I'm not a fool, Doctor."
Doctor "No. Sorry." Solomon goes to the NYC sewer entrance.
Solomon "I was so scared, Doctor. I let them take Frank because I was just so scared. I got to get back to Hooverville. With these creatures on the loose, we got to protect ourselves. Ain't no one else going to help us."
Doctor "Good luck."
Solomon "I hope you find what you're looking for, for all our sakes."
In Tallulah's dressing room, Tallulah is at her dressing table getting ready for her next show.
Tallulah "Laszlo. He'd wait for me after the show. Walk me home like I was a lady. He'd leave a flower for me on my dressing table. Every day, just a single rose bud."
Martha "Haven't you reported him missing?"
Tallulah "Sure. He's just a stagehand. Who cares? The management certainly don't."
Martha "Can't you kick up a fuss or something?"
Rose "No, not without loosing everything."
Tallulah "Yeah. Okay, so then they fire me."
Martha "But they'd listen to you. You're one of the stars."
Tallulah "Oh, honey, I got one song in a back street revue and that's only because Heidi Chicane broke her ankle. Which had nothing to do with me whatever anybody says. I can't afford to make a fuss. If I don't make this month's rent, then before you know it, I'm in Hooverville."
Martha "Okay, I get it." She looks at Rose.
Tallulah "It's the Depression, sweetie. Your heart might break, but the show goes on. Because if it stops, you starve. Every night I have to go out there, sing, dance, keep going, hoping he's going to come back."
Rose "I'm sorry."
Tallulah "Hey, you're lucky, though. You got yourself a forward thinking guy with that hot potato in the sharp suit. Still, you got to live in hope. It's the only thing that's kept me going because, well, look. On my dressing table every day still." A white rose bud.
Martha "You think it's Laszlo?"
Rose "I'm going to check on my husband before he gets into trouble." Rose leaves in search of her husband.
Tallulah "I don't know. If he's still around, why is he being all secret like he doesn't want me to see him?"
Up in the Lighting gallery the Doctor aims a spotlight onto the jellyfish, which is pinned inside his gizmo, which in turn is powered by the sonic screwdriver. Rose is standing in the door way. "Almost finished, Love."
Doctor "That's it. We need to heat you up." The Doctor puts on his glasses and starts to examine it.
Back backstage Martha was getting ready to watch the show.
Tallulah "Girls, it's showtime!"
Myrna "Lois, you spoil my chasse tonight, I'm going to punch you."
Lois "Aw, quick complaining, Myrna. Go buy yourself some glasses."
Tallulah "Come on, honey. Take a look. Ever been on stage before?"
Martha "Oh, a little bit. You know, Shakespeare."
Tallulah "How dull is that? Come and see a real show."
Back to Rose and the Doctor.
Doctor "This is artificial." He is looking at a makeshift screen. "Here have a look"
Rose moves in closer to get a good look. "Genetically engineered. Fantastic someone tried to create something living and failed, Doctor did I ever tell you that you're clever." The Doctor gets out a stethoscope from his jacket pocket and starts to listen to the jellyfish.
Doctor "Fundamental DNA type four six seven dash nine eight nine. Nine eight nine. Hold on, that means planet of origin. Skaro."
Rose "Skaro, as in Daleks, Oh! Great let's find Martha and get this sorted."
Back on the stage the curtains open to show the chorus line in their red devil dresses, who pull back their red feather fans to reveal Tallulah, the angel in white. \
TAallulah is singing "You lured me in with your cold grey eyes, your simple smile, your bewitching lies. One and one and one is three. My bad, bad angel, the Devil and me. You put the devil in me. You put the devil in me. You put the devil in me. My bad, bad angel, you put the Devil in me." From the wings just offstage, Martha spots a pigman in the opposite wings. She tries to sneak across the back of the stage, unnoticed but fails.
Myrna "What are you doing?" Martha accidentally grabs a devil's tail and they both fall.
Tallulah "What are you doing?"
Lois "You're on my tail. Get off my tail!" The audience are laughing at the chaos.
Tallulah "Get off the stage. You're spoiling it!"
Martha "But look. Over there!" She points at the pigman. Tallulah screams and it runs. "Hey!" Martha chases the pigman backstage.
A few moments later the Doctor and Rose come down to the stage.
Myrna "It was like something out of a movie show."
Lois "Oh, that face. I ain't never going to sleep."
Doctor "Where is she? Where's Martha?"
Tallulah "I don't know. She ran off the stage." Martha screams. The Doctor, Rose and Tallulah run towards the sound.
Doctor and Rose together. "Martha!" The sewer entrance lid hasn't been put back properly. The Doctor puts his coat on.
Tallulah "Where are you going?"
Doctor "They've taken her."
Rose "Does this all ways happen to companions on every trip because this is twice know? Did this used too always happen to me?"
Tallulah "Who's taken her? What're you doing?" The Doctor and Rose go down into the sewers. "I said, what the hell are you doing? Crazy couple." Tallulah puts on a fur coat and goes down the ladder.
Down in the Sewers.
Doctor talking to Tallulah "No, no, no, no, no way. You're not coming."
Tallulah "Tell me what's going on."
Rose "Sweetheart, there's nothing you can do. Please go back."
Tallulah "Look, whoever's taken Martha, they could've taken Laszlo, couldn't they?"
Doctor "Tallulah, you're not safe down here."
Tallulah "Then that's my problem. Come on. Which way?" Tallulah goes down a tunnel.
Doctor "This way." He and Rose start down in one direction hand in hand, Tallulah comes back and follows them.
In a different part of the Sewer.
Martha "No! Let me go!" She is pushed against a wall and a line of men is escorted past.
Frank "Martha."
Martha "You're alive! Oh! I thought we'd lost you." A pigman pushes Frank. "All right, all right, we're moving."
Frank "Where are they taking us?"
Martha "I don't know, but we can find out what's going on down here."
The Doctor, Rose and Tallulah walk under a portcullis.
Tallulah "When you say, they've taken her, who's they exactly? And who are you anyway? I never asked."
Doctor "Shush."
Tallulah "Okay, okay."
Doctor "Shush, shush, shush, shush, shush, shush, shush." The shadow of a Dalek is cast on the wall ahead of them.
Tallulah "I mean you're handsome and all-" Rose puts his hand over her mouth and drags her back into a service alcove, and the Doctor follows and tells Rose Thank you through their bond, until the Dalek is safely past and away.
Doctor "No, no, no, no, no, no, no. They survived."
Rose "They always survive while we lose everything."
Tallulah pulling Roses hand off "That metal thing? What was it?"
Doctor "It's called a Dalek. And it's not just metal, it's alive."
Tallulah "You're kidding me."
Rose "Does it look like he's kidding? Inside that shell is a creature born to hate, whose only thought is to destroy everything and everyone that isn't a Dalek too. It won't stop until it's killed every human being alive."
Tallulah "But if it's not a human being, that kind of implies it's from outer space." The Doctor and Rose give her a look. "Yet again, that's a no with the kidding. Boy. Well, what's it doing here, in New York?"
Doctor "Every second you're down here, you're in danger. I'm taking you back right now." A pigman is round the corner. Tallulah screams and it tries to hide.
Doctor "Where's Martha? What have you done with her? What have you done with Martha?"
Laszlo "I didn't take her."
Rose steps forward "Can you remember your name?"
Laszlo "Don't look at me."
Tallulah "Do you know where she is?"
Laszlo "Stay back! Don't look at me."
Doctor "What happened to you?"
Laszlo "They made me a monster."
Rose "Who did, sweetheart?"
Laszlo "The masters."
The Doctor and Rose answered together "The Daleks. Why?"
Laszlo "They needed slaves. They needed slaves to steal more people so they created us. Part animal, part human. I escaped before they got my mind, but it was still too late."
Doctor "Do you know what happened to Martha?"
Laszlo "They took her. It's my fault. She was following me."
Tallulah "Were you in the theatre?"
Laszlo "I never. Yes."
Tallulah "Why? Why were you there?"
Laszllo "I never wanted you to see me like this."
Tallulah "Why me? What I got to do with this? Were you following me? Is that why you were there?" Laszlo turns around so that Tallulah can finally see him.
Laszlo "Yes."
Tallulah "Who are you?"
Laszlo "I was lonely."
Tallulah "Who are you?"
Laszlo "I needed to see you."
Tallulah "Who are you?"
Laszlo "I'm sorry."
Tallulah "No, wait. Let me look at you. Laszlo? My Laszlo? Oh, what have they done to you?"
Laszlo "I'm sorry. So sorry."
Doctor "Laszlo, can you show me where they are?"
Laszlo "They'll kill you."
Rose "Fantastic! They've already tried."
Doctor "If I don't stop them, they'll kill everyone."
Laszlo "Then follow me."
Further down the in the sewer.
Frank "What are they keeping us here for?"
Martha "I don't know. I've got a nasty feeling we're being kept in the larder." Laszlo brings the Doctor, Rose and Tallulah to where they can see Martha and Frank but are still hidden in the shadows, but still able to watch. The pigmen start getting nervous.
Frank "What're they doing? What's wrong? What's wrong?" A Dalek appears.
Dalek1 "Silence. Silence." Laszlo hides.
Martha "What the hell is that?"
Dalek 1 "You will form a line. Move. Move."
Martha "Just do what it says, everyone, okay? Just obey."
Dalek 1 "The female is wise. Obey." The pigmen push everyone to the wall in a line. Another Dalek appears.
Dalek 2 "Report."
Dalek 1 "These are strong specimens. They will help the Dalek cause."
Martha "Dalek?"
Dalek 1 "What is the status of the Final Experiment?"
Dalek 2 "The Dalekanium is in place. The energy conductor is now complete."
Dalek 1 "Then I will extract prisoners for selection." A pigman drags an older black man forward. "Intelligence scan, initiate." The Dalek puts its sucker onto the man's face. "Reading brain waves. Low intelligence."
MAN "You calling me stupid?"
Dalek1 "Silence! This one will become a pig slave. Next."
MAN "No, let go of me. I'm not becoming one of them. No! No." He is dragged away by a few of the pigmen.
Dalek 1 "Intelligence scan. Initiate."
Laszlo explaining to the three of them "They're divided into two groups. High intelligence and low intelligence. The low intelligence are taken to become pig slaves like me."
Tallulah "Well, that's not fair."
Doctor "Shush."
Tallulah sotto "You're the smartest guy I ever dated."
Rose "And what about the others?"
Laszlo "They're taken to the laboratory."
Doctor "Why? What for?"
Laszlo "I don't know. The masters only call it the Final Experiment." The Dalek has scanned Frank.
Dalek 1 "Superior intelligence." Martha's turn. "Intelligence scan, initiate. Superior intelligence. This one will become part of the Final Experiment."
Martha "You can't just experiment on people. It's insane! It's inhuman!"
Dalek 1 "We are not human. Prisoners of high intelligence will be taken to the transgenic laboratory."
Doctor "Look out, they're moving!" Laszlo leads Tallulah away, but the Doctor and Rose stay.
Laszlo "Doctor. Wolf, quickly!"
Doctor "We're not coming. I've got an idea. You go."
Tallulah "Laszlo, come on."
Laszlo "Can you remember the way?"
Tallulah "Yeah, I think so."
Laszlo "Then go, please."
Tallulah "But Laszlo, you got to come with me."
Laszlo "Where would I go? Tallulah, I'm begging you. Save yourself. Just run. Just go. Go." Tallulah leaves. Laszlo, Rose and the Doctor let the Daleks glide past then join with the humans following.
Doctor "Just keep walking."
Martha "Oh, I'm so glad to see you."
Doctor "Yeah, well, you can kiss me later. You too, Frank, if you want."
Rose "Oi! That's my job." Meanwhile, Tallulah gets lost in the sewer tunnels.
They reach the Dalek laboratory and go on in and the prisoners are all cornered in one side of the lab pigmen on all sides. The Daleks don't realise they have two extra prisoners.
Dalek 1 "Report."
Dalek Thay "Dalek Sec is in the final stage of evolution."
Dalek 2 "Scan him. Prepare for birth."
Doctor looking over at Rose "Evolution?"
Martha "What's wrong with old Charlie boy over there?"
Doctor "Ask them."
Martha "What, me? Don't be daft."
Rose "If you haven't noticed my and the Doctor are Dalek enemies one and two and would most likely be shot on site so we can't be seen just yet. Ask them what's going on."
Martha "Daleks, I demand to be told. What is this Final Experiment? Report!"
Dalek 1 "You will bear witness."
Martha "To what?"
Dalek 1 "This is the dawn of a new age."
Martha "What does that mean?"
Dalek 1 "We are the only four Daleks in existence, so the species must evolve a life outside the shell. The Children of Skaro must walk again." Sec's shell stops smoking and the light goes out in its eye stalk. The casing opens and a biped struggles out. The casing shuts and the biped straightens.
Martha "What is it?" It has the one-eyed head with six tentacles and claw hands of a Dalek blob, but is wearing Mister Diagoras' suit. It takes a deep breath and speaks with Diagoras' accent.
Sec "I am a human Dalek. I am your future."
To Be Continued
