Lily stared at the Human Dalek in horror and terror as he looked at them. "These humans will become like me." He said as he lifted his hand to point at them.

The Doctor quickly slipped away as Dalek Sec ordered: "Prepare them for hybridisation." The Doctor was sneaking behind some equipment as the Daleks and the pig-men reached for the humans.

"Leave me alone! Don't you dare!" Martha screamed, while Lily fought wordlessly against her captors, struggling desperately as terror gripped her heart. The Dalek that had captured them stated: "Report. That human there has superior intelligence."

Shoot. Lily thought as it pointed its eyestalk at her. The Cult of Skaro looked at her, and she froze. Please don't recognize me, please don't recognize me. She begged in her mind to whatever God existed, but her hopes were in vain as Dalek Sec murmured: "I know you."

He stepped forward and Lily's eyes widened with terror as he continued slowly: "You were there, that time when we released the Genesis Ark… with the Enemy. He protected you, you are valuable to him." His eye widened in realization, and Lily was unable to move in fear as the other Daleks started rolling closer.

Suddenly, 'Happy Days are Here Again' started to play from somewhere nearby. Everyone started and Sec's tentacles twitched as he asked in a mix of confusion and apprehension: "What is that sound?"

The Doctor's head popped out from behind some equipment as he said with mock-guilt: "Ah, well, now, that would be me." He said as he turned the music off and placed a radio down by a Bunsen Burner, before he walked up to the middle of the room, saying: "Hello. Surprise. Boo. Et cetera."

"Doctor." Sec murmured, and a Dalek said: "The enemy of the Daleks." Another Dalek rolled forward, saying in its tinny voice: "Exterminate." "Wait!" Sec ordered, raising his arms to stop them and they all paused to stare.

"Well, then." The Doctor said as he walked towards Sec. "A new form of Dalek. Fascinating… and very clever." He admitted as he examined Sec's new head, while Sec sneered: "The Cult of Skaro escaped your slaughter."

"How did you end up in 1930?" The Doctor demanded, scowling a little as he looked around in some distaste, and Sec replied: "Emergency temporal shift."

"Oh, oh!" The Doctor laughed at Sec. "That must have roasted up your power cells, huh?" He looked around at the Daleks. "Time was, four Daleks could have conquered the world, but instead you're skulking away," he looked up and about the room, "hidden in the dark, experimenting. All of which results in you."

The Doctor looked back at Sec, who snapped angrily: "I am Dalek in human form." It was weird for Lily to hear a Dalek speak with some form of emotion- even if it was slightly flat, his voice held more emotion than any Dalek she'd heard before.

"What does it feel like?" The Doctor asked in a low voice. "You can talk to me, Dalek Sec-" he walked right up to Dalek Sec again as he taunted: "it is 'Dalek Sec', isn't it? That's your name? You've got a name and a mind of your own. Tell me what you're thinking right now."

Sec said slowly: "I… feel… humanity." He finished as he turned away. Lily's eyes widened; Daleks didn't feel anything except hate. She glanced at the Doctor's frozen form- he, too, was shocked.

"Good. That's good." The Doctor murmured as they all stared at Dalek Sec's back as he continued: "I… feel… everything we wanted from mankind, which is… ambition, hatred, aggression and war! Such a genius for war."

Lily almost sighed- so typical of a Dalek. The Doctor shook his head as he said sharply: "No, that's not what humanity means."

Dalek Sec interrupted loudly: "I think it does. At heart, this species is so very… Dalek." "I resent that." Lily muttered. Sec started to glance at her but the Doctor quickly interrupted, drawing Sec's attention away from Lily and back to himself.

"All right," he said angrily as he turned to each Dalek in turn, "so what have you achieved then, with this Final Experiment, eh? Nothing! Because I can show you what you're missing with this thing. A simple little radio." He patted the radio, and a Dalek asked: "What is the purpose of that device?"

The Doctor said sarcastically: "Well, exactly. It plays music. What's the point of that?" Then his voice changed as he said lightly: "Oh, with music, you can dance to it, sing with it," he looked directly into a Dalek's eyestalk, "fall in love to it. Unless you're a Dalek of course. Then it's all just noise."

He finished sharply, pointing his sonic at the radio. The radio released a high-pitched noise that made the humans in the room wince, but its effect was much more noticeable on the non-humans. The noise hurt the Daleks and the pig-men, making the Daleks roll slightly back and forth in agitation while Sec and the pig-men clutched their heads in pain.

"Run!" The Doctor yelled, and the group of humans all did as he said, running for their lives as a Dalek cried above the noise: "Protect the hybrid!"

The other Daleks copied the order: "Protect. Protect. Protect." They huddled in around Dalek Sec, allowing all the prisoners to escape. Martha ran at the front, and the others dashed after her, Lily and the Doctor bringing up the rear, the Doctor clasping Lily's hand as they ran.

"Come on!" The Doctor yelled as the group paused at a junction. He pushed through, still holding Lily's hand as he took the lead, ordering: "Move, move, move, move, move!"

They ran down the tunnels, and Lily gaped to see Tallulah standing there. "What-?" She began but the Doctor cut through her as he ordered: "And you, Tallulah! Run!"

The Doctor and Lily dashed past as Tallulah shrieked after him: "What's happened to Laszlo?" Martha simply grabbed her and hauled her along as they all ran after the Doctor. The Doctor led them to the ladder where he let go of Lily's hand. She immediately climbed it as he ordered: "Come on! Everyone up! Come on!"

Martha was right behind Lily, Tallulah and Frank slightly behind, and the Doctor urged them all up before climbing up last, and slamming the lid behind him. He turned and checked Lily immediately.

"Are you alright?" He demanded, and Lily nodded.

"I'm fine, thanks for the rescue." She sighed and he nodded. He hugged her briefly before glancing over the group, checking everyone.

"Come on." He told them, clasping Lily's hand again as he led them all away. Lily glanced back, reaching for Martha. The other girl took her hand, still holding Tallulah's hand as well. Lily glanced around for Frank, and spying the man she nodded at him, unable to reach him. He nodded back as the Doctor led them through the night to Hooverville.


"These Daleks," Solomon said slowly as he and the Doctor stood in the middle of the town, "they sound like the stuff of nightmares. And they want to breed?"

The Doctor nodded grimly as he said: "They're splicing themselves onto human bodies, and if I'm right, they've got a farm of breeding stock right here in Hooverville. You've got to get everyone out." He advised. Lily glanced up from where she was sitting with Martha and Tallulah by a fire near the two men.

"Hooverville's the lowest place a man can fall. There's nowhere else to go." Solomon protested, and Frank glanced up from where he'd been sitting just behind Solomon. The Doctor urged: "I'm sorry, Solomon. You've got to scatter. Go anywhere. Down to the railroads, travel across state. Just get out of New York."

Solomon glanced at the girls, as he said: "There's got to be a way to reason with these things." "There's not a chance." Martha said flatly, and Frank piped up as he stood up: "You ain't seen them, boss."

Lily added quietly: "Daleks have no sense of morals or rights, they are creatures that worship hate and violence." Solomon glanced at all of them, frowning a little, and the Doctor said in a dark voice: "Daleks are bad enough at anytime, but right now they're vulnerable. That makes them more dangerous than ever."

Suddenly a man's voice yelled while a whistle blew: "They're coming! They're coming!" They all looked toward the voice in alarm, Solomon muttering: "A sentry. He must have seen something."

He drew his gun as the sentry ran through the town yelling: "They're here! I've seen them! Monsters! They're monsters!"

People began to panic, screaming and running, and the Doctor murmured darkly: "It's started." Lily urged Tallulah up, ushering her towards Solomon and the Doctor as Frank cocked his own gun while Martha dashed after Lily.

"We're under attack!" Solomon yelled. "Everyone to arms!" He ordered and Lily watched as rifles were handed out. She stood behind the Doctor where he'd pulled her, Tallulah behind Solomon and Martha behind Lily and the Doctor.

Frank called: "I'm ready, boss, but all of you-" he shouted at the crowds of people around them, "find a weapon! Use anything." Some people were just running away, screaming in panic and Solomon called after them urgently: "Come back! We've got to stick together! It's not safe out there! Come back!"

It was then that the pig-men arrived, and began to attack, grabbing all the people running. The ones with Solomon all started to back into a circle, crowding around to protect those who didn't have weapons, like the girls in the middle.

"We need to get out of the park." Martha said as they heard the squeals of the pig-men and the screams of their victims.

"We can't." The Doctor stated as he turned around, watching the pattern. "They're on all sides. They're driving everyone back towards us." He returned to the girls as Tallulah said, her voice shaking in horror: "We're trapped."

The Doctor gripped onto Lily's hand and he held on tightly as Solomon shouted: "Then we stand together. Gather round. Everybody come to me."

Lily flinched as a pig-man appeared from the shadows. Solomon continued to yell: "You there, Jethro, Harry," another two pig-men arrived from another side, "Seamus, stay together."

The armed men all formed a tight circle, around the women and those unable to fight, by the fire. Guns cocked, and Lily gripped the Doctor tightly as he shielded her as best he could. Martha and Tallulah were behind them, closer inside the circle.

"They can't take all of us." Solomon finished firmly, encouraging his men, and at that the men started shooting. Pig squeals filled the air as some were shot, falling down but more came still. Lily gripped the Doctor's hand, looking around worriedly.

"Where are the Daleks?" She whispered, and the Doctor glanced up. Lily also looked up and then closed her eyes in fear. "If we can just hold them off till daylight." Martha said desperately, and the Doctor sighed.

"Oh, Martha, they're just the foot soldiers." The Doctor murmured. Martha gasped and so did some men as they saw what the Doctor and Lily had seen. Soon, all of them were looking at the sky.

"Oh, my God." Martha bit out in terror as they saw a Dalek flying towards them before stopping right above them. "What in this world is…?" Solomon asked, and a man bit out: "It's the devil. A devil in the sky. God save us all. It's damnation."

Frank raised his gun as he shouted: "Oh yeah? We'll see about that!" "Uh, Frank, that-" Lily tried but Frank fired his gun at the Dalek. The shot just bounced off, and it looked down immediately while people gasped. The Doctor let go of Lily's hand dashed over, shoving Frank's gun down as the young man looked terrified.

"That's not going to work." The Doctor finished Lily's sentence. As the Doctor stepped away from Frank, Martha came up and clutched his arm, whispering in fear: "There's more than one of them."

They watched as a second Dalek joined in and suddenly it flew about the town, shooting at tents and blowing them up, including anyone who was hiding inside. The circle started yelling in fear, all of them crouching and watching the carnage, unable to do anything.

"No!" Lily screamed, horrified, and the Doctor grabbed her, pushing her down next to Martha and Tallulah. The circle watched in horror and terror as the Dalek shot around, killing people. Lily watched with wide eyes as people screamed their last, unable to run from the deadly shots.

"The humans will surrender." The Dalek that had first arrived announced, and the Doctor stepped forward. He pushed Lily to keep her back as he shouted at the Dalek: "Leave them alone. They've done nothing to you!"

Lily clutched the back of his jacket in fear as the Dalek announced: "We have located the Doctor."

Solomon also stepped forward, and the Doctor turned to him in alarm. "No, Solomon. Stay back." He tried to push the man back, but Solomon resisted, calling up: "I'm told that I'm addressing the Daleks. Is that right?"

The Doctor tried to push the man back but he resisted as he shouted: "From what I hear, you're outcasts too." Lily watched with terrified eyes and the Doctor warned harshly: "Solomon, don't!"

Solomon snapped at him: "Doctor, this is my township. You will respect my authority. Just let me try." He pushed the Doctor away, and the Doctor stood shaking his head but unable to further stop the man.

They all watched in fear as Solomon turned back to the Dalek, walking forward bravely as he said: "Daleks, ain't we all the same? Underneath, ain't we all kin?" He slowly placed his rifle on the ground and Lily whimpered.

"Solomon, please don't, just come back." She said softly, but he ignored her as well. The Doctor threw Lily a helpless look as Solomon continued to address the Dalek: "Right. See, I've just discovered this past day, God's universe is a thousand times the size I thought it was."

The Dalek began to turn its eyestalk, turning this way anad that as Solomon continued. "And that scares me. Oh yeah, terrifies me right down to the bone." The Doctor watched the Dalek's actions darkly as Solomon continued. "But surely it's got to give me hope. Hope that maybe together we can make a better tomorrow."

Lily begged to the heavens above for a miracle, any miracle, that Solomon would be saved. Tallulah had her hands clasped tightly, also looking like she was in silent prayer as Solomon finished: "So, I beg you now, if you have any compassion in your hearts, then you'll meet with us and stop this fight."

The Dalek twisted its eyestalk, and Solomon pleaded: "Well? What do you say?" Lily and the Doctor glanced up at the Dalek.

"Exterminate." It replied and Lily screamed: "No!"

But the Dalek shot Solomon, and he was surrounded in a burst of green energy. Lily screamed as Solomon screamed in pain, turning back to his normal physical form. The crowed also screamed in terror, and Frank yelled in despair: "Oh, no!"

They watched, horrified, as Solomon died screaming in pain and Lily raised her hands to her mouth, tears threatening to spill. "No! Solomon!" Frank yelled as he ran to the fallen man.

Martha said, her voice breaking with horror and sadness: "They killed him. They just shot him on the spot." Martha's voice cracked again but this time with anger. "It's what they do" Lily spat, hugging Martha, and the girls held each other in fear, despair, and anger as they stared up at the Dalek.

"Daleks." The Doctor bit out in anger before he turned to the Daleks. "All right, so it's my turn!" He yelled as he walked forward, spreading his arms wide. "Then kill me!"

Martha's breath stopped in shock while Lily's heart stopped in horror. The Doctor continued, spitting the words furiously: "Kill me if it'll stop you attacking these people!" "Doctor." Lily whispered, and the Dalek said: "I will be the destroyer of our greatest enemy!"

Martha, Tallulah, and everyone else watched in shock as the Doctor shouted angrily: "Then do it!" He screamed in anger, almost taunting the Daleks: "Do it! Just do it! Do it!"

"Doctor!" Lily screamed, darting forward as the Dalek cried: "Exterminate."

Lily collided with the Doctor, making him stagger a little to the side in shock. He stumbed a little, before grabbing her and crying in alarm: "Lily!" Lily had her eyes closed tightly, expecting pain, but nothing happened and she blinked at him in confusion.

"What happened?" She asked, and they both turned to the Dalek in the sky. It was twisting its eyestalk in confusion.

"I do not understand. It is the Doctor." It said, and the Doctor stared in disbelief and shock. It paused, before it said, its eyestalk pointed at the Doctor. "The urge to kill is too strong."

The Doctor pulled Lily behind him, but she clutched onto him. "Lily-" "No." She snapped, refusing to move away. They waited as the Dalek paused again, and it answered: "I… obey."

"What's going on?" The Doctor shouted at it, confused and the Dalek replied: "You will follow." "No!" Martha shouted. She ran out towards the Doctor and Lily as they stood in complete shock. The Doctor, for once, looked at a complete loss.

"You can't go." Martha begged from a little behind the pair. "Doctor, no…" Lily whispered, agreeing with Martha but she knew he wouldn't agree. The Doctor turned to her and Martha, speaking to them both urgently as he alternated looking at them.

"I've got to go." He said in a low voice. "The Daleks just changed their minds. Daleks never change their minds." Lily bowed her head but Martha tried again, her voice breaking: "But what about us?"

She indicated herself and Lily, and then the group of people still huddled in a circle. The Doctor looked at the group, turned back to Martha and glanced down at Lily. He turned back to the Dalek and Lily couldn't hold back the sob as he yelled: "One condition! If I come with you, you spare the lives of everyone here! Do you hear me?"

The Dalek paused, and then agreed: "Humans will be spared. Doctor… follow." Martha darted forward, standing next to the Doctor while Lily gnawed her lip.

"Then I'm coming with you." Martha begged but Lily knew it was futile. Sure enough, the Doctor replied: "Martha, stay here. Do what you do best. People are hurt. You can help them. Let me go." He said softly, and Martha let go of his arm. Lily looked up slowly, and the Doctor met her gaze.

"Stop." The Dalek said suddenly, and they all tensed, looking at it in alarm. "The human will follow." They all blinked, startled and confused by the Daleks strange actions.

"What?" Martha asked, and the Dalek said: "The human that is important to the Doctor. She will be the Dalek's hostage." Martha frowned, confused, while Lily looked at Martha in alarm, but the Doctor's hearts sank. He really hoped this wasn't going to turn out as he thought it might.

Martha stepped forward, but the Dalek said: "Not you."

Martha paused, puzzled, when the Dalek raised its eyestalk to look at Lily. "That one." It stated. Lily looked perplexed, Martha frowned and the Doctor's face darkened.

"The human the Doctor protected against the Gensis Ark." The Dalek declared and the Doctor shouted angrily: "Lily's part of no deal!" "Then we will exterminate all the humans. Choose, Doctor, choose!" The Dalek shouted, and the Doctor's face twisted.

"Shut up! I'm coming!" Lily shouted at the Dalek, and it twisted its eyestalk to her. Lily held her ground as she glared up at it. "But I will have the Daleks' word that the others here-" she gestured at Martha and the group, "will not be harmed!"

The Dalek paused, before it agreed although it sounded reluctant. "Humans will be spared." "Your word!" Lily shouted angrily, and the Dalek paused. "Dalek… word." It said very reluctantly.

Lily took a deep breath before she stepped after the Doctor. He was frowning deeply as he glanced at her. "Sorry, this is all my fault." He whispered, and she shook her head. "No, you had to choose, and all those people couldn't die. At least I'm not dead yet." She murmured back.

She then glanced at his hand and nodded back at Martha. "Martha, take care. See you soon." Lily whispered, and the Doctor nodded at Martha. "I just want to say, thank you very much."

He took Martha's hand, and as she blinked a little in surprise he have her a sly wink before he moved away. He and Lily followed the Daleks. The Doctor grasped Lily's hand as they went silently, each squeezing the other's reassuringly. Martha waited until it was safe and then opened her hand to see the Doctor had handed her his psychic paper.


They were led back into the Dalek lab, and the Doctor snapped when he saw the Cult of Skaro. "Those people were defenceless!" He shouted as he approached Dalek Sec, when the Dalek in front ordered: "Exterminate the human."

The Doctor immediately tensed, narrowing his eyes at the Dalek. "I don't think so, leave her out of this, she's got nothing to with it! I'm the one you want!" He yelled at the Dalek.

"Doctor!" Lily cried in alarm as the Dalek turned its eyestalk on the Doctor. She then yelped as the Dalek beside her turned its eyestalk to her. The Doctor spun around at the sound, and when he saw Lily in danger, he turned back to the Dalek before him, saying furiously: "I said, let her go!"

"The human is important to the Doctor. She is the Dalek's hostage." The Dalek said and the Doctor's eyebrows knit. "Since when did Daleks recognize caring?" He asked darkly, and Dalek Sec ordered: "Enough."

The Daleks backed away a little from Lily and the Doctor. Lily frowned in surprise, but the Doctor didn't notice as he regained his former anger and he spat at Dalek Sec: "You only wanted me, but no, that wasn't enough for you. You had to start killing, because that's the only thing a Dalek's good for." He finished in disgust.

"The deaths… were wrong." Dalek Sec said, and Lily's mouth dropped open. The Doctor's anger also dissipated as his eyebrows shot up and he asked in complete disbelief: "I'm sorry?"

Sec approached the Doctor as he said slowly: "That man, their leader, Solomon. He showed courage." "And that's good?" The Doctor asked, and Sec replied: "That's excellent."

Lily blinked in surprise, and the Doctor's brow furrowed slightly as he asked tentatively: "Is it me or are you just becoming a little bit more human?" Sec replied, not really answering the question: "You are the last of your kind, and now I am the first of mine."

The Doctor frowned and he asked: "But what do you want me for?" Sec answered as he walked forwards, heading to the experiments laid out behind Lily: "We tried everything to survive when we found ourselves stranded in this ignorant age."

He turned back to face the Doctor and Lily as he explained: "First we tried growing new Dalek embryos," he indicated a set of chemicals, "but their flesh was too weak."

The Doctor folded his arms in disgust as he sniped: "Yeah, I found one of your experiments. Just left to die out there in the dark." Lily's face paled. "You mean that green…" she was unable to finish and the Doctor nodded.

Sec ignored them as he continued: "It forced us to conclude what is the greatest resource of this planet. Its people." Sec pulled a leaver, and lights switched on above them. They all looked up at the ceiling, the Doctor remaining impassive with his arms folded but…

"Oh, my God." Lily whispered in horror as she saw the hundreds of stretchers hanging above them. Each was covered but the shape was undeniably human. Lily felt ill as Sec pulled another lever to bring one down for them to examine.

The stretcher lowered right above Lily's head and she backed away in horror. She bumped into the Doctor who had walked forward to look closer, and he pulled her in tightly behind him as he leant down to look at the covered body.

Sec stood on the other side of the stretcher, and he told them: "We stole them. We stole human beings for our purpose." He gestured down at the sheet. "Look inside."

The Doctor reached forward and slowly uncovered a man's body. He looked like he was sleeping… or dead. Sec told him: "This is the true extent of the Final Experiment."

"Is he dead?" The Doctor asked flatly, and Sec replied: "Near death, with his mind wiped," he stroked the man's head, "ready to be filled with new ideas." Lily whimpered and the Doctor held her to his back tightly, hiding her from view and shielding her eyes.

Sec looked up, but the Doctor's face had remained impassive and he said simply but darkly: "Dalek ideas." "The Human Dalek race." Sec corrected and the Doctor looked up as he asked: "All of these people. How many?"

Sec replied: "We have caverns beyond this storing more than a thousand." Lily clutched the Doctor's jacket as angry tears threatened to spill, while the Doctor looked down at Sec, horror and blankness warring on his face for a moment.

"Is there any way to restore them? Make them human again?" The Doctor asked and Sec replied as he stroked the almost-dead man's face: "Everything they were has been lost."

The Doctor said in a lighter voice: "So they're like shells. You've got empty human beings ready to be converted. That's going to take a hell of a lot of power. This planet hasn't even split the atom yet. How're you going to do it?" He asked, while Lily's hand tightened on his jacket unbelievably.

Sec turned to to the other Daleks, ordering: "Open the conductor plan." The Daleks turned to do his bidding, and the Doctor used the moment to surreptitiously reach back and touch Lily's back, soothing her as he briefly hugged her. "Stay close to me Lily. Don't let go." He whispered, before letting her go as the Daleks returned.


The Doctor and Sec stood before the monitor, staring at an image of the Empire State Building. Lily stood a little behind the Doctor, clutching his jacket firmly as he said with mock-boredom: "Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Empire State Building. We're right underneath that. I worked that out already, thanks. But what, you've hijacked the whole building?" The Doctor asked blankly.

"We needed an energy conductor." Sec answered and the Doctor asked confusedly: "What for?"

Sec looked at him as he explained: "I am the genetic template. My altered DNA was to be administered to each human body." He indicated to the screen where a picture of the human DNA strand and a Dalek DNA strand showed up side by side.

"A strong enough blast of gamma radiation," he explained while the screen showed his words as images, the two DNA strands combining into one, "can splice the Dalek and human genetic codes, and waken each body from its sleep."

"Gamma radiation? What are you-" The Doctor asked with a frown but Lily prodded him, nodding at the screen. It had changed to show the Earth and a large yellow orb of fire far away.

"Oh, the sun. You're using the sun." The Doctor realized. Sec explained, the monitor showing his words in action: "Soon the greatest solar flare for a thousand years will hit the Earth. Gamma radiation will be drawn to the energy conductor and when it strikes-"

"The army wakes." The Doctor said flatly. The stared at the monitor for a moment, and the Doctor said bluntly: "I still don't know what you need me for." The monitor disappeared and Sec replied: "Your genius."

The Doctor raised his brows, torn between pleasant surprise and horrified surprise. "Oh, way to boost his ego." Lily muttered, and the Doctor grinned at her over his shoulder. Sec continued: "Consider a pure Dalek, intelligent but emotionless."

The Doctor's face became impassive again as he said in a low voice: "Removing the emotions makes you stronger. That's what your creator thought, all those years ago." He was hiding his disgust and hate, when Sec said something unexpected.

"He was wrong." Sec said and the Doctor asked, squinting a little at Sec, unable to believe his ears: "He was what?"

Sec said: "It makes us lesser than our enemies. We must return to the flesh," Lily saw the Daleks behind them nodding their eyestalks at each other. She wondered briefly if it was because they agreed with Sec, but something in her gut said it wasn't, "and also the heart." Sec was finishing and the Doctor said with a frown: "But you wouldn't be the supreme beings anymore."

"And that is good." Sec replied. The Doctor didn't even have time to be surprised as a Dalek interrupted: "That is incorrect."

They all turned to see the Daleks had turned to them menacingly. Another Dalek chimed in: "Daleks are supreme." The Doctor narrowed his eyes while Sec snapped: "No, not anymore."

"But that is our purpose." A Dalek protested, and Sec said angrily: "Then our purpose is wrong. Where has our quest for supremacy led us? To this. Hiding in the sewers on a primitive world, just four of us left."

The Doctor stared at him as Lily glanced between Sec and the other Daleks uncertainly. The other Daleks were looking at each other as well, looking uncertain or as if they were communicating.

"If we do not change now then we deserve extinction." Sec said darkly and the Doctor asked incredulously: "So you want to change everything that makes a Dalek a Dalek."

"If… you can help me." Sec replied sincerely to him, and the Doctor looked absolutely flabbergasted. Sec led them back to the covered body, saying to the Doctor while Lily trotted behind him, still clutching his jacket: "Your knowledge of genetic engineering is even greater than ours. The new race must be ready by the time the solar flare erupts."

Lily and the Doctor frowned. "But you're the template." The Doctor pointed out. "I thought they were getting a dose of you." He looked at Sec, who said: "I want to change the gene sequence."

The Doctor asked in complete surprise: "To make them even more human?" Sec bowed his head as he admitted: "Humans are the great survivors. We need that ability."

The Doctor smiled sarcastically suddenly as he realized: "Hold on a minute. There's no way this lot," he jerked a finger back at the other Daleks, "are going to let you do it."

"I am their leader." Sec declared as he looked back at them, and the Doctor also addressed them as he asked: "Oh, and that's enough for you, is it?"

One of the Daleks replied: "Daleks must follow orders." Another Dalek rolled forward as it said: "Dalek Sec commands, we obey."

Sec said quietly to the Doctor: "If you don't help me, nothing will change." The Doctor stared at him with wide eyes. "There's no room on Earth for another race of people." He said sincerely, and Sec simply replied: "You have your Tardis. Take us across the stars."

Sec walked to stand before the Daleks, saying as he faced the Doctor. "Find us a new home," the Doctor glanced at the other Daleks before looking back at Sec with fearful eyes, "and allow the new Daleks to start again."

Lily clutched the Doctor's back. "When's that solar flare?" He asked as he examined the Daleks before him.

"Eleven minutes." Sec replied. "Right then." The Doctor said slowly, still glancing at the other Daleks for a moment before he turned to Sec and said cheerfully: "Better get to work then."

He darted off to start the work, and Lily trailed behind. They had one moment when Sec was busy and the other Daleks weren't looking and Lily whispered: "Do you really think this'll work? That those lot will let it happen?"

The Doctor glanced briefly at the Daleks, before the returned his gaze to his work. "We'd better hope so… this could be the real end of the Daleks." He whispered back. Lily nodded and fell silent as Sec joined them once more.

The Doctor addressed Sec as he said while showing him the vial of chemicals he'd been working on: "There's no point in chromosomal grafting, it's too erratic." He tugged on Lily's hand as he raced to the other side of the lab, saying to Sec: "You need to split the genome and force the Dalek human sequence right into the cortex."

"We need more chromatin solution." Sec ordered a Dalek, and it replied: "The pig slaves have it." The Doctor and Lily turned as pig-men walked in, carrying a large crate. The Doctor wandered back to Sec and he asked: "These pig slaves, what happens to them in the grand plan?"

Sec replied: "Nothing. They're just simple beasts. Their lifespan is limited. None survive beyond a few weeks." Lily noticed the Doctor was looking at a particular pig-man. He glanced at Sec's back, and then wandered closer to the pig-men as Sec ordered: "Power up the line feeds."

He indicated to Lily to stay put behind a large piece of equipment where she would be shielded before he approached Laszlo. He said softly so that they would not be heard: "Laszlo, I can't undo what they've done to you, but they won't do it to anyone else."

Laszlo glanced at him, and then at Sec. "Do you trust him?" He asked, and the Doctor whispered back: "I know that one man can change the course of history." Neither of them saw a Dalek see them together, narrowing its eyestalk at them. "Right idea in the right place at the right time, it's all it takes."

Lily glanced over to see the Dalek but it continued on its way. "I've got to believe it's possible." The Doctor finished quietly. Laszlo hesitated before he asked quietly: "Would you trust him with her life?"

He jerked his head a little at Lily behind them, and the Doctor stiffened. He glanced down at Laszlo, who saw his hesitation and nodded. "No," the Doctor murmured but he added before Laszlo could answer: "but I wouldn't entrust anyone with her life."