After a while the TV came back to life. By this time they had stopped obsessing over Ten and Rose. Everyone was looking at the screen. It held the words: The Woman Who Fell To Earth.

[YouTube channel]

RYAN: So today I want to talk about the greatest woman I ever met. Smart, funny, caring, special. Proper special. Er, where do I start? Okay, I've mentioned this on here before. I'm pretty much not an idiot. I'm actually a capable guy, considering. But I'm 19, and cos of the thing I told you before, I can't yet ride a bike.

Ryan looked put off. Thirteen squeezed his hands. "You'll get it one day." She comforted.

"I know." He smiled at her. "For me nan."

[Moors]

(Probably Froggatt Edge, overlooking Sheffield, home of the world's best cutlery.)

GRACE: Who says you can't?

RYAN: Me, Nan. We keep trying this.

GRACE: And we'll go on trying till it's done. Now keep your eye on Grandad.

RYAN: You mean Graham.

Graham looked upset and Ryan felt horrible. "Hey, grandad, you know I didn't mean it the wrong way. Right?" Graham just smiled at the younger man.

"I know son." Ryan smiled at him. Graham smiled back.

GRACE: Keep your eye on Graham, then. Three, two, one, go! Go on!

(She gives him a push and he peddles unsteadily along the grass towards Graham.)

GRAHAM: Go on, Ryan! You're doing it, mate!

(Then Ryan falls off.)

GRACE: Nearly.

RYAN: No, not nearly. I'm sick of coming up here, I'm sick of falling, and I'm sick of this stupid bike.

GRACE: Ryan Sinclair, don't you dare!

(Ryan throws the bike over the cliff edge. Later, sitting on the same precipitous edge.)

"So that really was the reason you were down there?" Yaz asked.

"Yea." The answer was curt. But she knew that his snappiness wasn't directed at her.

She heard the uttered sorry that was never said. It was on his face. "It's fine." Yaz smiled, unaware of Thirteen eyes gazing at her. Her eyes looked as if they were staring at the most beautiful thing in the universe.

GRAHAM: Mate, you rode it for a second.

RYAN: Can you stop calling me mate? Anyway, a second's not enough.

GRACE: You'll do it, if you keep on trying.

RYAN: I just want to make you proud.

GRACE: You make me proud every day.

Graham and Ryan tried not to feel the pang of hurt that accompanied the comment. Thirteen curled into herself, going unnoticed by everyone but Twelve. She looked as if she was going to be sick.

She caught him looking and immediately unfurled herself, glaring at the man. He silently tried to look into her head.

Thirteen felt it and put up her metal walls. She glared at the man accusingly and he shrugged his shoulders.

He finally decided to just mouth, "You okay?" to the younger looking woman. She gave her answer wordlessly, inclining her head slightly. An ode to saying yes.

Twelve didn't believe it for a second. He decided to wait until her walls went down, so he could be more discrete, to check out whether she really was okay.

GRAHAM: Anyway, you're on your own getting that bike, cos our train leaves in twenty minutes. Come on, love.

Graham winced at his own words. Right now, he wished they had missed the train.

(So Ryan carefully picks his way down the slope and finds himself in what looks like Padley Gorge, all dank and mossy. The bike is hanging up in a tree.)

(There's a whoosh and lines that form a glowing diamond shape appears behind him, which multiply and rotate into smaller squares with a dot in the middle. He touches it and it whizzes away.)

"Why would you touch it?" Twelve berated exasperatedly.

"I didn't know what is was. I was curious!" Some people scoffed in disbelief. Thirteen ducked her head whispering a quick 'I would've done it too.' to her team. To which they just shook their heads fondly.

(Then something appears in a bright light, which settles down to reveal it is blue with pock marks on it. Best way to imagine the shape is - a drop of very viscous liquid has just touched a flat surface then hardened instantly.)

(Once again, he touches it, then pulls his hand away in pain and gets out his phone.)

RYAN: Hi. Er, Police, maybe.

[Street]

(A young Police Constable approaches two squabbling women. Her attitude to policing seems to channel Annie from Life On Mars.)

SONIA: She smashed it with a hammer!

JANEY: Cos you keyed me nearside door!

SONIA: Because you parked in my spot!

JANEY: It's not your spot. There are no spots.

YAZ: Ladies, please! Thank you. Can I suggest a simple solution? You pay for her cracked window, you pay for her scratched door, and we all agree that parking round here is a nightmare but that grown-ups really shouldn't need to call the police to sort it out for them. Now, if we're all agreed on that, there's no need for me to take any further police action and we can all get on with our lives. What do you reckon?

"You're a police officer?" Eleven asked intrigued. Amy had been a police officer -er.. sort of.

"Probationary, but yeah. I am." She smiled at the man. He grinned back. Thirteen watched jealously.

[Police car / Police station]

YAZ: I'm just saying, I am capable of more than parking disputes.

RAMESH: And I keep telling you don't run before you can walk. You're a probationer, Yaz. Learn the basics.

YAZ: I want to do more. Can you not get them to give me something that'll test me? Something a bit different.

RAMESH: There is something that just came in, if you want different.

[Woods]

(Gazing at the blue thing.)

YAZ: And you say you just found it here?

RYAN: No, I said it appeared, out of nowhere.

YAZ: Right.

RYAN: I swear, this isn't a prank. I came down here to get me bike.

YAZ: And where's your bike?

RYAN: In that tree.

YAZ: Name, sir?

RYAN: Ryan Sinclair.

YAZ: Wait. Redlands Primary?

"Bit freaky. Why do you know his primary?" That was Nardole.

"We went to the same one." It was a simple.

RYAN: Yeah.

YAZ: Yasmin Khan.

RYAN: Oh my God. Yaz. Wow.

YAZ: I know.

RYAN: Look at you. You're a Fed.

YAZ: Yeah. We don't call it that. I'm still training, second year probation. What about you, what are you up to?

RYAN: Warehouse worker.

YAZ: Oh. Right. Like it?

RYAN: Hate it. It's cash while I study for my NVQ. I'm trying to be a mechanic.

YAZ: That's good. You have to take this away, though, seriously. It's going to be dark any minute. You can't dump this here.

RYAN: I didn't. I can't even lift it.

YAZ: Oh, come on, Ryan. It's me.

RYAN: Touch it.

YAZ: What?

(She does.)

RYAN: See? It's freezing.

"How cold was it?" Thirteen questioned her friends.

"You could get frostbite from it."

[Train carriage]

ANNOUNCEMENT: The next station is Grindleford.

GRAHAM: Do you ever think he's going to call me Grandad?

GRACE: Give him time.

GRAHAM: Three years we've been married.

GRACE: And you've never been happier!

(She kisses Graham then speaks to the lad with the earbuds in across the aisle, the only other person in the carriage.)

GRACE: Can't keep his hands off me, love.

GRAHAM: Behave yourself.

GRACE: Never.

Team TARDIS smiled sadly at the interaction. The rest of the room felt that something would happen to the woman.

(Up in the cab, the driver sees something sparking, then gets thrown off her 'dead man's handle'. The train comes to a sudden halt. Graham is thrown out of his seat. Then the lights go out.)

GRAHAM: You all right, love?

GRACE: Think so, yeah. What just happened?

GRAHAM: Where you going?

GRACE: Just having a look.

(She puts her head out of a door to see people getting off the train.)

GRACE: What're you doing? Don't go on t'track, it could be live.

KARL: Get off of there!

(Clang!)

GRACE: Graham, the doors just locked. We're shut in. I can't get them open. Summat's wrong.

KARL: I think something's coming down the train.

(There's a flash of bright light from the next carriage.)

Graham tensed, so did Thirteen. Though they tensed for different reasons. Graham tensed in anger, whereas Thirteen was tensed in anticipation. She would come in soon.

GRAHAM: Right, get away from the door. Grace, get to the back of the carriage. Get to the back.

(They close the interconnecting doors behind them.)

[Woods]

(Night has fallen. Ryan's phone rings.)

RYAN: Wait, one sec. Hiya, Nan.

GRACE [OC: Ryan, love. Our train's stopped between Hathersage and Grindleford, and something really weird's going on. (Static)

YAZ: Everything all right?

RYAN: Nan?

(A police car speeds down a country lane.)

Thirteen looked put off a little. Yaz looked at her exasperatedly. "We have the lights and sirens on there because it was an emergency. You wanting them on was not." She said sternly when the other woman went to ask a question. Thirteen visibly deflated, a frown on her face.

[Train carriage]

GRAHAM: Grace, get back.

(An interconnecting door is blown apart. A multi-tentacled thing moves slowly towards them.)

GRAHAM: What is it?

GRACE: I've no idea.

(Electrical discharges from the thing trap them against the final and locked door. Suddenly, someone falls through the carriage roof with a cry.)

DOCTOR: What?

"Wait, you're the Doctor?" Twelve pointed a finger at Thirteen his eyebrows going up judgementally.

"Well yes. But hear me out. Basically you knowing I'm your future self could mess something up. Like, what if now you know that you become me. You don't carry the bottle of peroxide that makes my hair this colour. Or you don't regenerate into me in the first place? Then where would we be? I might never have met Ryan or Graham or Yaz!" She sounds most scared at the last possiblity.

The unspoken 'I might not have existed' earnt her a few sympathy looks from the other Doctors.

They rest just stared at her. Thirteen knew she had a gob on her, but she didn't realize it was that big.

(They point at the being behind her. She grabs a dangling electrical cable and thrusts it into the thing, which stop sparking. I think that's what she does, it's very dark then very bright and hard to tell.)

DOCTOR: Should buy us a few seconds. (looks at the hole in the roof) Oh yeah, Long story. Tell you later. Doors?

"You never did tell us." Graham laughed.

Thirteen glared at him indignintly. "Yes I did!"

"Saying 'I've lost my TARDIS' doesn't count, Doc." Thirteen pouted.

GRACE: Locked shut.

DOCTOR: We'll see about that. No sonic. Empty pockets. Oh, I hate empty pockets.

KARL: It's coming back!

DOCTOR: What are you? Okay, you don't like questions. More the private type, I get that.

"Well I'll say." Graham joked. Thirteen raised her eyebrow at him in a silent challenge. The man gulped. She smiled brightly.

(It somehow gets Karl separated from the group.)

KARL: Get it away from me!

DOCTOR: All of you, stay very still.

KARL: It's going to kill us.

DOCTOR: It could've done that already.

"Way to make them feel safe." Clara commented sarcastically. Thirteen smiled sheepishly.

"Wasn't my best move..."

RYAN: Nan!

GRACE: Ryan, stay away!

YAZ: Oh, my God.

(Electrical discharges, then it disappears through the hole in the roof.)

DOCTOR: You three, relax, but stay put. I'll check the rest of the train. Fat lot of use you two were.

Thirteen had an 'Am I really that rude?' look on her face. Yaz laughed and told her that she was only rude when they first met.

(Walking through the train.)

YAZ: Hey! Hold on there please, madam. I need you to do as I say. This could be a potential crime scene.

DOCTOR: Why are you calling me madam?

YAZ: Because you're a woman.

DOCTOR: Am I? Does it suit me?

"How did you not realise that you were a woman?" Some people in the room chuckled at Bill's question.

"A lot of other things were going on. They were more important."

YAZ: What?

DOCTOR: Oh yeah, I remember. Sorry, half an hour ago I was a white-haired Scotsman. When's the next train due?

"Well I guess we know now that you weren't joking." Ryan chuckled.

"You didn't believe me?" Thirteen looked downtrodden. Yaz gave Ryan a look. He felt guilty for upsetting Thirteen.

RYAN: This is the last one back.

DOCTOR: But the doors are locked. How did you both get in?

YAZ: Driver's window was smashed in.

DOCTOR: What's your name?

YAZ: PC Khan, Hallamshire Police. (1)

DOCTOR: Name, not title.

The companions gave her a look of silent judgement. "What a hypocrite!"

YAZ: Yasmin Khan. Yaz to my friends. Can I have your name, please?

DOCTOR: When I can remember it.

YAZ: You don't know your own name?

DOCTOR: Course I know it. I just can't remember it. It's right there, on the tip of my... What's that?

"You seriously forgot your name?" Clara asked in shock.

"It tends to happen." Was the only response she got.

RYAN: Tongue?

DOCTOR: Tongue! Smart boy. Biology. What did she call you? Ryan?

RYAN: Yeah. Ryan Sinclair.

DOCTOR: Good name. Are you a doctor, Ryan?

RYAN: No.

DOCTOR: Shame. I'm looking for a doctor.

Everyone laughed (even Twelve!). Thirteen was redder than a Zygon.

[Driver's cab]

DOCTOR: Power, lights, doors. Poor woman.

RYAN: That thing must've killed her as it came through.

DOCTOR: Must it? It didn't kill anyone else. Looks more like she died of shock when it smashed through the window.

"Do you always give the benefit of the doubt?"

"When I can."

YAZ: Either way, a woman has died here.

DOCTOR: But no more creatures, and no other passengers left on board. Let's get back to the others.

[Train carriage]

YAZ: Wait. Can you stop, please? This could be a major incident. I'm the one in charge here.

"Are you though?" There was doubt in Rose's voice.

"Only when the Doctor let's her be." Yaz glared at Ryan. Thirteen had a small smile on her face.

DOCTOR: What are you going to do?

YAZ: Call it in to my station.

DOCTOR: What are you going to tell them?

YAZ: The facts.

DOCTOR: Which are?

YAZ: The train was attacked.

DOCTOR: By what?

YAZ: I need to take a look at CCTV footage.

The Doctors all asked why she needed to at the same time as the Thirteen on-screen.

DOCTOR: And why do you need to check CCTV when we all saw it with our own eyes?

RYAN: Was it an alien? Because it looked like an alien to me.

"Did I give you points for that Ryan?" Thirteen looked perplexed.

"Not that I recall." Ryan honestly didn't care.

"Okay, you get ten points for that." She smiled: proud of herself.

"Do you even know how many points we all have?" Yaz interjected.

Thirteen tried to remember then slumped. "No." She sulked.

YAZ: Oh, come on.

DOCTOR: What, you think he's wrong?

YAZ: No, I dunno, but...

DOCTOR: But you're worried about how you'll explain all this to a superior officer who won't believe you.

YAZ: I can't not report it.

DOCTOR: You could hold off until we get the answers to the bigger questions.

YAZ: Which are?

DOCTOR: What was it? Why is it here? Where's it going next? And, most importantly, how do we stop it? 'Cos whatever it is, I don't think it's done. Come on, Ryan. Come on, Yaz. I'm calling you Yaz, cos we're friends now.

"Ship." Bill whispered to Twelve. He looked confused.

(Later, Yaz is taking witness details.)

KARL: It's er Karl Wright. Middle name's Brian. 52 Northover Street.

YAZ: Telephone number?

DOCTOR: Right then, troops. No, not troops. Team, gang, fam? I'm distracting myself.

GRACE: You came crashing through that roof.

DOCTOR: I was thrown out of my TARDIS. Oh, I've lost my TARDIS. It was exploding and then it dematerialised. Don't panic. Not the end of the world. Well, it could be the end of the world, but one thing at a time.

"So she finally threw us out then?" Twelve questioned. Thirteen laughed and nodded her head. She really was lucky number Thirteen.

GRAHAM: Are we supposed to understand anything you're saying?

"No." Eleven smiled at the group. They all laughed.

RYAN: She thinks that thing is an alien.

GRAHAM: Don't be daft. There's no such thing as aliens. Anyway even if there was, they ain't going to be on a train in Sheffield.

DOCTOR: Why not? I'm alien and I'm here.

"I thought you were drunk when you said that." Graham revealed. Thirteen pouted.

GRAHAM: Grace, we're going.

GRACE: No, we're not. She just saved our lives.

Everyone could see who wore the pants in that relationship.

DOCTOR: Don't be scared. All of this is new to you, and new can be scary. Now we all want answers. Stick with me, you might get some.

KARL: Actually, I don't want answers. I just want to get to work and forget all about this. If that's all right with everyone. Even if it isn't. Thank you.

YAZ: Would you like me to...

KARL: No! Thank you. I er, just want to be on my own. I'll walk. I need the air. And I'm with him. We don't get aliens in Sheffield.

"I am a bit confused as to why they weren't in London. Everyone else always is." Thirteen commented. Everyone looked at her strangely. "What?"

GRACE: I think he's still in shock, bless him.

DOCTOR: Obvious question, but has anyone noticed anything else out of the ordinary tonight?

(Ryan slowly raises his hand.)

[Police car]

YAZ: I'm going to be in such trouble if they find out I were there.

DOCTOR: Can we have the lights and siren on?

YAZ: No! (The Doctor looks disappointed) I shouldn't be doing any of this.

"You look so disappointed." Thirteen has an expression that mirrors her on-screen counterpart.

"I still am." She sulked. Yaz rolled her eyes.

"We can have them on next time if you stop sulking. Deal?" Yaz offered.

"Deal!" The Time Lady was like an overactive puppy and a child on Christmas day.

DOCTOR: So you three know each other?

GRACE: I'm his Nan. Graham's me husband.

RYAN: Second husband.

Ryan winced at his former self's cold tone. Graham noticed and patted him on the back.

DOCTOR: And you two know each other?

RYAN: Yeah, Yaz and I were at school together.

DOCTOR: Oh.

GRACE: Not Yasmin Khan?

YAZ: Hello, Ryan's Nan.

GRACE: Haven't you done well for yourself, love.

DOCTOR: And you say you just found it there, this thing?

RYAN: Yeah, pretty much. I took pictures.

DOCTOR: Oh, good lad. (looks at the pictures) That's exciting. No, not exciting. What do I mean? Worrying. Fast as you can, Yaz.

"What does exciting mean if you were able to mix it up with worrying?" Clara joked.

"It means worrying."

"And what does worrying mean?"

"It means exciting."

"And what does both mean?" Bill joined in, realising what Thirteen was doing.

"It means I'm there."

"And what does it mean if you're there?" Clara was getting frustrated.

"It means it's exciting and worrying."

This went on for a few minutes.

"We're going round in circles. I give up." Thirteen smiled victoriously.

Yaz whispered. "You are a child."

To which Thirteen nodded in agreement.

[Woods]

RYAN: There's my bike.

DOCTOR: Why's it in a tree?

RYAN: We were up top and I chucked it over.

GRAHAM: He gets cross cos he can't ride it.

GRACE: We're giving him lessons. He's got dyspraxia. It's a coordination disorder.

RYAN: Anyway, enough about me. The tree's to the left so it should be...

YAZ: It was definitely there.

DOCTOR: So where's it gone?

"The important question." Everyone jumped whenever Nardole spoke. He was like a monk. But not killer monks. Just a silent one.

(Rahul has it.)

[Industrial unit]

(Two men have unloaded the thing safely.)

ANDY: Rahul, if you're right about that, should we not tell someone?

RAHUL: What good would that do?

ANDY: I'm worried for you, mate.

RAHUL: I've finally got it. Go on, mate, have a pint on me. I'll see you Monday. Pick you up at eight.

(Andy leaves. Rahul tapes video cameras to concrete posts around the thing, then sits down to watch it.)

[Sheffield]

DOCTOR: Two weird things, one city, same night, makes me nervous.

The other Doctors hummed in agreement.

YAZ: I'll see if there have been any more reports on that object.

DOCTOR: Good, cos we need all the information we can get. Meet us back here.

GRAHAM: I could have a word with some of my old pals from work. If you want to know what's happening, ask a bus driver.

RYAN: He always says that.

GRAHAM: Yeah, that's cos it is true. I'd still be doing it now if I could.

RYAN: I can search for weird stuff on social media.

GRACE: I'll check in with my nurses group on WhatsApp.

GRAHAM: Seriously though. Aliens?

DOCTOR: Yep.

GRAHAM: Yeah, maybe I won't mention that bit.

DOCTOR: Suddenly I feel really tired.

GRACE: That was a big fall you had, love. We should get you checked out at AE.

DOCTOR: No, no, no. I never go anywhere that's just initials.

"I feel like there's a story behind that." Clara stated. Thirteen just smiled knowingly.

DOCTOR: Although... (sticks a finger up her nostril) Ah. Can one of you catch me?

"Gross."

RYAN: You're going to fall over?

DOCTOR: In 2 minutes, 19 seconds. Wait. Forget the 2 minutes 19. (Sarcastically.) Oh, this new nose is so reliable.

(She falls into Ryan's arms.)

[Police station]

RAMESH: Yaz, you've done your shift. Stop pestering me for more interesting shouts.

YAZ: It's not that. I'm just wondering whether there's been anything else out of the ordinary tonight.

RAMESH: It's the night shift in Sheffield. Everything's out of the ordinary.

"Point." Bill said.

"At what?" Thirteen replied.

Yaz was suddenly wishing that she had her phone.

[Bus station]

GRAHAM: I've got to ask you, any talk of weird stuff or strange creatures out tonight?

GABRIEL: My wife's out with her mates at karaoke, if that's what you mean.

(The men laugh.)

GRAHAM: Yeah, yeah.

"You look really uncomfortable."

"I was."

[Graham's home]

GRACE: Ryan, look.

(The Doctor is spark out on the sofa. Regeneration energy is still coursing through her veins.)

"Has it ever done that before?" Thirteen asked everyone. They all looked at her exasperated.

"No. It hasn't. At least not from what we've seen." Clara and Rose answer for the rest.

RYAN: Whoa.

GRACE: She's got two separate pulses.

"Yeah, that one was a shock."

(A piece of golden energy floats away from her.)

RYAN: Oh my God, what is that?

GRACE: I have no idea.

(Over in Rahul's industrial unit, the lights flicker, then the flask thing cracks. Steam rises and yellow light streams out.)

(On a rooftop, the multi-tentacled thing scans the city. Rahul's video cameras burst in to flames and he leaps back, crowbar at the ready to defend himself.)

(The Doctor wakes up, gasping on Grace's sofa.)

DOCTOR: Ah! Ah! Oh! Who woke me up? I'm not ready, still healing, still... oh. Can you smell that? No, not smell, not hear, feel. Can you feel...? Stay still, Ryan.

"Well if that wasn't a mood I don't know what is." Bill added unhelpfully.

Twelve sighed and began to ask his student a question. "Bill, what do you-"

"She means she agrees with it." Graham recited without thought. Twelve stared at him in amazement.

"I've been trying to figure that out for half of the year. How did you do that?" He questioned intently.

"Practice."

RYAN: What is it? What's the matter?

DOCTOR: Ah. Show me your collarbones.

(Little red lights flickering by their clavicles.)

DOCTOR: Oh, you've all got them.

RYAN: So have you.

DOCTOR: Yeah, I have. Okay. Really sorry. Not good news. DNA bombs. Micro-implants which code to your DNA. On detonation, they disrupt the foundation of your genetic code, melting your DNA. Fast and nasty and outlawed in every civilised galaxy.

RYAN: How did we get them?

GRAHAM: Never mind that, are they going to go off?

DOCTOR: Quiet, I'm trying to think. It's difficult. I'm not yet who I am. Brain and body still rebooting, reformatting.

(Sees the picture of the thing on the train on Ryan's phone.)

DOCTOR: Oh, reformatting. Can I borrow that?

RYAN: Yeah, I guess so. But what for?

"Mistake of the century. Never let the Doctor even look at your phone." Clara smiled as Eleven pouted. "Oh shut up. You know that you shouldn't. Something is bound to happen to it."

DOCTOR: That creature, on the train when you two came on board, it zapped us all with these. Simple plan to take out witnesses. Very clever. Merciless, but clever. I reformatted your phone.

RYAN: No! All my stuff's on there!

DOCTOR: Not any more. (She grins)

"Only you could say that while still looking innocent."

"I don't know what you mean." Thirteen grinned.

(The Doctor triggers her new app and is thrown backwards into the wall.)

There were a few cries of shock from the companions and even a few Doctors. Twelve sat up straighter. This version of himself was a lot more reckless than the others.

DOCTOR: Oh! That nap did me the world of good. Very comfy sofa. (grabs her jacket) Come on, keep up.

[Industrial unit]

(A bipedal metal-clad creature stands up.)

RAHUL: Where's my sister?

TZIM-SHA: Ask me again.

RAHUL: Where's my sister?

TZIM-SHA: You will never know.

"That was just cruel. He didn't need to do that." Thirteen glared at the screen.

(It puts its gauntlet on Rahul's head and he screams.)

[Car]

DOCTOR: Next left.

YAZ: Where are we driving to?

RYAN: I reckon she's using my phone to track the origin signal for the DNA bombs.

"Smart. How'd you figure that out?" Twelve inquired.

"I just guessed."

"It was a good guess." Twelve had given a rare compliment that wasn't followed by an insult. It was a miracle.

GRAHAM: Again, how long till they go off?

DOCTOR: Don't know.

GRAHAM: Well, can't we just defuse them?

DOCTOR: Not without the right equipment. Left again.

(The elderly Volvo comes to a halt in the industrial unit area. They all get out.)

[Business park]

DOCTOR: We're close.

(Explosion a little way off.)

DOCTOR: Bingo. Oi!

(The metal man appears.)

DOCTOR: I was expecting a tentacle-y thing. (shouts) Don't you move!

"In what reality did you think that would work?" Nine questioned cynically. Thirteen glared at him.

"Well it's better than showing someone a bomb the first time they meet you, isn't it?" Nine opened his mouth to say something, then snapped it shut and looked away.

(It turns away, she chases after it.)

RYAN: Wait, is that another alien?

GRACE: Looks like it!

(They chase after the Doctor.)

GRAHAM: Why is she running at another alien?

YAZ: Don't just stand there, come on!

GRAHAM: Now you're all running at it!

"Graham you would make a brilliant Captain Obvious." Finally, Twelve was normal again.

(Further on.)

DOCTOR: Oh, lost it. It's fast. I'm slower cos of all this... fizzing inside.

RYAN: In here!

[Industrial unit]

GRAHAM: Got a man down over here.

GRACE: That thing must've killed him. I've never seen injuries like these.

DOCTOR: Not a weapon blast, more of an ice burn.

GRACE: It broke his jaw open too.

DOCTOR: Looks like it took one of his teeth. What sort of creature kills someone and then stops to pull out a tooth? I'm sorry you all had to see this.

Something in the younger Doctors' hearts broke. Thirteen had only been there a few hours and already had to save the planet. At least they'd gotten a chance (however small it was) to get their bearings.

GRACE: I'll find something to cover the body.

DOCTOR: Thank you, Grace. I'm sorry any of this is happening. I'm sorry that thing on the train planted these bombs inside you, and I'm sorry I haven't figured out what's going on yet.

RYAN: This is it. This is the thing.

YAZ: It was all sealed up earlier. Looks like it's been broken.

DOCTOR: Or it's done what it came here for. It's some sort of transport chamber, presumably for that thing we just saw in the alley. But why here? Why tonight?

RYAN: Actually, that might have been me.

DOCTOR: Why? What did you do?

RYAN: When I went to get me bike, there were this line in the air. And then it moved, and there were shapes.

DOCTOR: And?

RYAN: And I touched one.

GRACE: Ryan.

RYAN: You all would've done the same.

GRAHAM: I wouldn't.

DOCTOR: (she puts her hand up) I would've.

"Of course you would've."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Nothing."

RYAN: Right, the shapes disappeared. A few seconds later, that appeared. What've I done?

DOCTOR: Hard to say, really.

GRAHAM: I suppose you'll be blaming this on the dyspraxia as well. Can't ride a bike, started an alien invasion.

Graham grimaced as he got looks from around the room. Thirteen and Yaz glared at everyone until they turned away.

Ryan smiled at Graham and assured him that he had nothing to apologise for. He'd been scared and just said the first thing that came to mind.

GRACE: Graham.

GRAHAM: What?

GRACE: Enough, love.

RYAN: All right, I made a mistake. But why did that guy move this thing from the Peaks to here? And how did he even know it were there?

DOCTOR: Good questions.

YAZ: Let's take a look round here, see what we can find.

DOCTOR: Can't follow it. The tracking's been blocked, like it figured out what I was doing.

GRACE: If we were tracking bomb signals from that creature from t'train, why did they lead us here?

DOCTOR: Another good question. I dunno. If I could analyse that. Course, what I really need is my... Oh! I could build one I'm good at building things. Probably.

The Doctors looked at each other.

(Runs off.)

"You are a hyperactive maniac. How are you even staying still right now?"

"I'm not." Thirteen showed her hands which had been fiddling with her coat sleeves. Everyone saw small bits of thread from the coat's stitching.

YAZ: It's not your fault, all this.

RYAN: Yeah, it basically is.

YAZ: You couldn't have known that was going to happen.

RYAN: Maybe tell Graham that.

YAZ: He knows, really. Do you believe she's an alien?

RYAN: Yeah, I think I do, yeah. Is that mad?

Thirteen tilted her head, "Why would that be mad?"

YAZ: No. I think I do too.

RYAN: Hey, look in here.

[Office]

(A file of strange happenings over Sheffield, and a missing persons poster. Ryan goes to the computer.)

RYAN: Hey, look at this.

(In the centre of the screen is a vid.file icon - If I Die Click Here.)

"Because that's normal." Bill was full of sarcasm.

"Could be." Thirteen was given strange looks. "What? The Davarians do it. So do the Manlthod. They leave a message for their families, in case they die in battle, the video will automatically play when those it's addressed to is present. Very clever, and a good way to say goodbye." Thirteen smiled slightly on her last sentence. (No clue what these are but just pretend. My mind just picked random names... So kinda like the Doctor Who writers when they write their scripts.)

[Industrial unit]

(At a workbench, assembling components.)

GRAHAM: You don't look like an alien.

DOCTOR: You should've seen me a few hours back. My whole body changed. Every cell in my body burning. Some of them are still at it now. Reordering, regenerating.

GRACE: Sounds painful, love.

DOCTOR: You have no idea. There's this moment when you're sure you're about to die and then... you're born. It's terrifying. Right now, I'm a stranger to myself. There's echoes of who I was, and a sort of call towards who I am, and I have to hold my nerve and trust all these new instincts. Shape myself towards them. I'll be fine, in the end. Hopefully. Well, I have to be because you guys need help. And if there is one thing I'm certain of, when people need help, I never refuse. Right, this is going to be fun!

Everyone looked at Thirteen with sympathy. She squirmed in her seat, refusing to meet anyone's eyes. They eventually stopped staring at her.

(The Doctor works. She smiles at a Sheffield Stainless Steel spoon, then puts it and a whole load of other cutlery into a bucket and melts them. Then she builds circuit boards until finally -)

DOCTOR: Ta-da! (the sonic screwdriver lights up, then goes bang) Oh. Should be fine.

RYAN: Hey, we found a load of stuff.

"Ryan wins explanation of the year award." Came a laugh from Ten's side.

[Office]

RAHUL [on screen: It's come back. The thing I saw the night my sister... Everyone always says disappeared, but I know she was taken. Seven years now, tracking energy signals, building predictive programmes so that I'd know when the atmospheric disruptions matched what happened that day. And tonight it came back again and I've got it. I am going to find out what happened to my sister. If anything happens to me, her name was Asha. Don't let anyone else go through this.

RYAN: He knew what he was doing might kill him.

DOCTOR: She was his family.

(Later, sonicing the remains of the container.)

RYAN: Did you just make that?

DOCTOR: Sonic screwdriver. Well, I say screwdriver, but it's a bit more multi-purpose than that. Scanner, diagnostics, tin opener. More of a sonic Swiss Army knife. Only without the knife. Only idiots carry knives.

RYAN: What are you doing with it?

DOCTOR: Mapping the distance this object has travelled. It looks like it started over 5,000 galaxies away.

YAZ: How can you tell?

DOCTOR: That bit there. Recall circuitry. It's designed for a return journey.

GRAHAM: So whatever killed that bloke will have to come back here?

DOCTOR: Question is, why did it leave? What's it looking for?

GRACE: What's your best guess, love?

DOCTOR: Two aliens, one city, one night. Best guess? Two species at war, using Earth as a battleground.

"That's what you decided on telling them?" Twelve scolded.

"It's better than what you would have done, Mr. I'm-gonna-run-around-Victorian-London-after-a-dinosaur-because-I-brought-it-here-and-now-people-want-to-kill-it." Twelve looked at her sternly. For some reason, unknown to her companions, Thirteen backed down.

YAZ: Are you joking?

"Definitely not."

DOCTOR: No, sorry.

GRAHAM: So... so you're saying that the creature on the train and the thing that came out of here, they're now looking for each other spoiling for a scrap?

DOCTOR: Bit more than a scrap.

YAZ: What are we going to do? Cos this is my home, and I'm not having it being an alien battleground.

(The Doctor is gathering supplies.)

DOCTOR: We stop them meeting. Capture them, send them home. Away from each other, and away from Earth.

RYAN: How do we do that?

DOCTOR: Well, give me a minute. I'm working on it.

GRAHAM: Not to sound like a stuck record, but can I just ask about these DNA bombs? Like, how long have we got left?

DOCTOR: Enough questions! You lot, you love to chat. I get it. Lots to do. I'm working on it all. And I haven't forgotten about your collarbones, Graham. Give me nine minutes, a bit of quiet, and I'll be ready to roll. Scout's honour.

(Graham answers his phone.)

GRAHAM: Hello? Yeah, Kevin. No, no mate. That's exactly the sort of thing.

"Well, you've got this sorted, haven't you?" Clara smiled at the older man, he was right. You really should ask a bus driver.

[Alleyway]

(A drunk is throwing the unwanted bits of salad out of his takeaway box when the bipedal alien steps in front of him.)

DEAN: Halloween's next month, mate. (throws salad at him) Eat my salad, Halloween!

"Bad idea." Eleven uttered under his breath. Clara hit his shoulder.

(Tzim-Sha grabs Dean's head, and he screams. It removes a tooth from the corpse.)

[Rooftop]

(With the multi-tentacled electric thing.)

DOCTOR: Hi. Us again.

"That's the way you introduced yourself?" Eleven tried to confirm; flabbergasted. (That's a funny word.)

"Yes."

(She clamps a crocodile clip attached to a car battery to a fire escape ladder.)

DOCTOR: Now!

(Grace jabs it with what looks like an electric drill.)

RYAN: Get in! It actually worked!

DOCTOR: Of course it worked. I'm not an amateur. Overloaded its socket, stunned it for a bit. Not sure for how long though. Best be quick. And thank you to Kevin the bus driver for location intel.

GRAHAM: See? Always ask a bus driver.

DOCTOR: (scanning it) Half organic, half machine. Starts to make sense now. Wait. It's a Gathering Coil. No, dozens of Gathering Coils. These tentacle-y things, they're creatures which gather information. They've been lashed together and augmented into one super-creature. But why? What data are they gathering? Unless...

YAZ: So that's an alien species?

DOCTOR: Not really. More of a semi-species. Weaponised bio-tech.

YAZ: You said there were two aliens in a battle.

DOCTOR: You're right, I did, but now I think I'm wrong and I'm trying to catch up with what that might mean. If I can access the data it's gathered...

(She sticks the screwdriver into the coils and an image is projected.)

GRAHAM: It's Karl from the train.

DOCTOR: Karl's the data. That's what it was gathering on the train.

GRAHAM: But what would the alien want with him?

"Maybe it was just trying to find out more about him?" Nardole offered. Twelve glowered at him.

"Nardole, it probably wasn't."

"May I remind you sir I have full authority to kick your arse given to me by one Professor River Song. So I'd be careful if I were you."

Thirteen and Eleven both caught their breath after the statement. Thirteen hadn't seen River in a long time. Likewise, although a shorter amount, Eleven hadn't really seen her for a while either.

Yaz and Clara looked at their respective Doctors in concern. "You alright?" They asked at the same time.

"I'm fine." Seriously, these guys needed to stop acting like siamese twins all the time. It freaked Graham out how in sync they were.

TZIM-SHA: Which one of you shall I kill first?

DOCTOR: I'm voting none of us. Get behind me now. Stop right there. Come any further and we'll blast whatever that thing is.

TZIM-SHA: You're interfering in things you don't understand.

DOCTOR: Yeah, well, we all need a hobby.

The companions laughed and the Doctors just nodded in agreement with the statement.

"I'll bet that confused your friends." Ten laughed at Thirteen. She just raised an eyebrow at him, put her finger on her lips and mouthed 'Spoilers'. Ten frowned and turned away.

TZIM-SHA: You're not human. Who are you?

DOCTOR: Me? I'm... Oh, it's gone again. I had it a minute ago. So annoying. Same question back at you. No, in fact, before that, because it's really bugging me, actually not bugging me, offending me. Why the teeth? Bad enough you kill, why take a tooth from the victim?

(It removes its faceplate to reveal that its head is studded with teeth.)

TZIM-SHA: A Stenza warrior wears his conquests. You may tell your children you were once privileged to encounter Tzim-Sha of the Stenza.

DOCTOR: Tim Shaw?

TZIM-SHA: Tzim-Sha.

DOCTOR: Tim Shaw?

TZIM-SHA: Tzim-Sha! (The Doctor steps backwards) Soon to be leader of the Stenza warrior race, conquerors of the Nine Systems.

DOCTOR: When you say soon to be leader, what are you now, the office junior?

GRAHAM: Eh? No, don't wind him up.

"Is Graham the only one with sense in your group?" Twelve was the one who asked; much to everyone's surprise.

"Pretty much. Grandad was the only one who was against her winding him up." Ryan laughed at the memory.

TZIM-SHA: Tonight is my challenge. Trace and obtain the selected human trophy.

DOCTOR: It's a hunt. You're on a hunt.

TZIM-SHA: Well done. Your tiny mind must be burning with such effort.

"Mate, you just declared war on the Doctor."

DOCTOR: Did he just say I had a small mind?

"Of course that's what you picked up on." Thirteen felt offended by Bill's words.

"Well I don't have a small mind. His facts were incorrect. I resent that." Thirteen's argument was that of a petulant child's, but she didn't care.

TZIM-SHA: The challenge is simple. Our leaders randomly designate a selected human. I'm sent here, alone, no weapons, no assistance. I must locate and obtain the trophy and return home with it, victorious. By doing this, I ascend to leader. This is the ritual of the Stenza.

YAZ: And it's happened before. Rahul's sister.

DOCTOR: Earth is not a hunting ground.

TZIM-SHA: Access was granted.

RYAN: No, it wasn't. It was a misunderstanding. Access revoked as of now, by me.

DOCTOR: Just to pick up on one thing. You don't mind, do you? You said the rules were no weapons, no assistance.

TZIM-SHA: Correct.

DOCTOR: How did you kill them? What caused the ice burns?

TZIM-SHA: We Stenza live at temperatures far below this planet, one touch of my cold skin will kill a human.

DOCTOR: So, this super-powered Gathering Coil right here, you're not meant to have it, are you?

TZIM-SHA: The creature is irrelevant.

DOCTOR: I don't think it is. I think you smuggled it ahead of you. I think it located the randomly designated human for you. I think you broke the rules. Some leader you're going to make. Tim Shaw is a big blue cheat!

"Why did you have to aggravate him?" Graham complained.

"I think that's just the Doctor's special talent." The companions nodded in agreement and Thirteen just shrugged.

(Tzim-Sha raises its hand, palm glowing with cold energy.)

DOCTOR: Okay, fine, have it.

"Did your survival instinct kick in at last?" Rose joked.

"Nah, after how long I've been alive; I don't really 'ave one anymore." The statement made everyone in the room question how old this woman really was. "More worried for their safety." The woman added quickly.

Everyone seemed to forget her previous statement and find her worry for people she didn't even know cute.

(Tzim-Sha crouches by the Coil and energy flows into him.)

RYAN: What's it doing?

DOCTOR: Total transference. If you've finished, let's be really clear. You're not taking any human from Earth tonight. Leave now or we're going to stop you.

TZIM-SHA: Good luck.

(A blinding flash of light.)

DOCTOR: No! Short-range teleport. Double cheat!

"Such Cheat, Much Annoy."

"Bill. I don't understand. What are you saying?"

"Such Misunderstood, Much confused."

"Bill, please explain."

"Such Confused, Much Explained."

"I give up."

"Gen Z."

YAZ: Where have they gone?

DOCTOR: To hunt.

RYAN: Hunt who?

DOCTOR: Isn't it obvious?

[Crane cab]

(Karl is listening to You Are Valued motivational audio on his phone.)

RECORDING: I am special.

KARL: I am special.

RECORDING: I am valued.

KARL: I am valued.

RECORDING: Somebody out there wants me.

KARL: Somebody out there wants me.

"Well, prob'ly not in the way you'd want them to Karl." Thirteen muttered. Twelve heard and laughed silently, smiling at her.

(He sets his crane moving on the building site.)

[Security hut]

DENNIS: You stay up too late, madam. Let your mum get some sleep. She works very hard for you. Mind you, I like it that you call me. Not every grandad's this lucky.

Thirteen lowered her head, wanting to pretend that what happened to that man never did.

The rest of the room noticed her somber mood and instantly the excitement they had turned into dread.

(Flash outside.)

DENNIS: Daisy love, I've got to go now. Love you loads. (He hangs up and walks outside) What do you think you're... Argh!

(Tzim-Sha takes another trophy.)

There was a moment of Silence for Dennis.

[Car]

YAZ: Karl's number's going straight to voicemail.

RYAN: Got him. Karl Wright, operator for Skylark Building Services.

GRAHAM: I know where their site is. It ain't far. Grace, next right, love!

[Crane cab]

(Karl spots Tzim-Sha climbing up the outside of the crane, and gets on the radio.)

KARL: Dennis, there's someone climbing up to me cab. Dennis? Dennis, it's Karl!

"He never guessed?"

"No. Not at all."

[Building site]

(The Volvo parks outside the building site, and the Doctor runs up to the hole Tzim-Sha has made by walking through the security fencing. They find Dennis and hear Karl on the radio.)

KARL [OC: Dennis, I need help! Somebody's on my crane!

DOCTOR: Oh, great. Karl's a crane operator. He would be, wouldn't he?

"You sound really inconvenienced that he's a Crane Operator." Clara laughed.

"Well, I was. I mean. Imagine how much simpler it would have been if he was just a manual worker." The Time Lady complained.

RYAN: It's over there.

GRAHAM: And that creature's guarding the bottom of it.

DOCTOR: Graham, Grace, need you to take this equipment and get everybody off this site. Don't care how. Use your initiative. Do not come back in, understand? Ryan, Yaz, how are you with machinery, and heights?

[Crane]

DOCTOR: That tentacle-y thing is guarding Karl's crane, so we go up this one.

YAZ: What do we do when we get up there?

DOCTOR: Don't worry, I've got a plan.

YAZ: Really?

DOCTOR: Well, I will have by the time we get to the top.

"Honesty."

(She starts up the ladders.)

YAZ: Are you all right with this? Cos if it's a problem, you don't have to do it.

RYAN: I do. I can do this.

[Building site]

(Graham and Grace have found florescent vests and clipboards.)

GRAHAM: Thank you very much. Total site shutdown. Quick as you can, please. Thank you. Major power issues, very serious, emergency services on their way.

GRACE: Off site immediately, please. Matter of urgency.

[Crane cab]

KARL: You can't come up here. Turn around please! Go on!

DOCTOR: Oi! Karl from the train. Up and over! Up and over!

KARL: You have got to be kidding. I am valued. I am special.

(Karl climbs out of the hatch on the top of his cab. The anemometer is going like the clappers.)

[Crane]

(Ryan's foot slips on a rung and he drops his torch.)

Thirteen leaned forward as if to help him then realised that it was just on the screen.

YAZ: Ryan! You okay?

(He nods and they keep going.)

[Karl's crane]

(Karl crawls out along the horizontal long jib. Tzim-Sha reaches his cab and punches his way in.)

KARL: I am confident. I achieve my goals. I achieve my goals.

(He crawls past a sign - Danger Damaged Handrail.)

[Crane]

RYAN: We made it! Oh! Oh, no, no, no, no, no. It's way too high up here.

"You made it all the way up though son." Graham smiled at the younger man.

YAZ: What's the plan? You said you'd have a plan.

DOCTOR: Nearly. Nearly, nearly... I got one. I climb onto the arm of this crane, you swing the arm round next to Karl's crane.

RYAN: Oh no, you're kidding.

DOCTOR: Karl steps across, you swing the arm away, I get him back in here, all back down for a cuppa and a fried egg sandwich. I'm really craving a fried egg sandwich. Simple, no?

"No." "Yes." The Doctors and companions looked at each other before laughing.

YAZ: Not really.

DOCTOR: All right, it's a work in progress, but so is life. It'll be fine. Oh! I got these downstairs. One must work.

Everyone smiled.

(A large collection of keys.)

Everyone groaned.

DOCTOR: You can figure out how to work a crane, right? Go.

(She heads out along the horizontal long jib.)

DOCTOR: Yep, way too high.

"Glad you admit it. Now only if you'd admit that your plan was stupid." Graham smiled smugly. Thirteen definitely did not pout, no matter what Ten said.

[Building site]

GRAHAM: Grace, she explicitly said not to come back. It's not safe.

(The Gathering Coil is partway up the second crane.)

GRACE: Look, it's swapped cranes. It's trying to bring it down. We have to stop it.

(She hands her florescent vest to Graham and storms off.)

Everyone looked at each other. Then to team TARDIS. Graham was hugging Ryan and Yaz was consoling Thirteen, who was promptly trying to ignore the eyes staring at the group.

[Crane cab]

(Karl has reached the far end of the jib. Yasmin has been trying all the keys in the ignition.)

YAZ: Last one. (it works) Get in. Okay, so now we just need to swing the arm round to meet that one.

(Ryan has been doing searches on his phone.)

RYAN: Right, I think this shows us. Ready?

YAZ: Every day's a learning day.

[Crane jib]

DOCTOR: Wrong way! Wrong way!

[Crane cab]

RYAN: Wrong way. Wrong way!

YAZ: I know. Shut up.

"I like you." Thirteen glared at Nine. She seemed to convey a message through it. It was clear.

Back off, you have a companion.

[Crane jibs]

DOCTOR: Hiya, again.

RYAN: What's going on?

DOCTOR: When the arms line up, just step across.

"Really?"

"Best thing I could think of." Thirteen shrugged.

(The Gathering Coil manages to short-circuit the crane, and the jib halts about two metres lower than Karl's jib.)

KARL: How am I supposed to get across there now?

DOCTOR: When I said step, obviously I meant jump. Jump across.

"Of course you did."

KARL: I can't do that!

DOCTOR: Of course you can. Stand up, quick jump. Chop chop, I'll catch you.

KARL: I dunno. I'm not great with heights.

DOCTOR: What?

KARL: It's my dad's company.

(Tzim-Sha is now on his jib.)

People looked at the screen in exasperation.

DOCTOR: Pop on over.

KARL: Okay. I am special.

DOCTOR: Yes, you are.

KARL: I am brave, and I am gonna jump.

DOCTOR: No time like the present.

(But just as Karl has launched himself into the air, Tzim-Sha grabs him by the collar.)

Everyone groaned again.

DOCTOR: Let him go!

(Karl is dragged away.)

KARL: I'm sorry!

DOCTOR: If you want something doing...

KARL: Please! Help!

(The Doctor takes a run up, and just manages to grab onto Karl's crane.)

Everyone gasped, concerned for Thirteen's safety.

ALL: Oh, my God.

DOCTOR: These legs definitely used to be longer.

(She hauls herself onto the jib.)

DOCTOR: Oi, Tim Shaw, you stop right there.

(Tzim-Sha takes off his faceplate.)

Thirteen's companions were glaring at the screen, it wasn't at her on-screen self, but at Tim Shaw.

KARL: Oh, he's got a face of teeth!

DOCTOR: I know. I've got this. Let him go... or I destroy this.

(Searches pockets.)

DOCTOR: Really need a new coat. This.

(A glowing red gizmo.)

DOCTOR: The recall from the pod you travelled in. I took it out. Without this, you can't get home. Yeah, see? Now you're worried. If I fall, this falls with me. Then you're stuck.

"You wouldn't..." Clara looked at Thirteen.

"I could've."

"But you didn't." Twelve smiled. "And that's what's important."

[Building site]

(Graham and Grace unpack the cables, battery and stuff they used on the roof top against the Gathering Coil.)

GRACE: Yeah?

GRAHAM: Yeah. Come on.

Everyone was looking at each other.

[Crane jib]

DOCTOR: What do you do with them, your human trophies?

TZIM-SHA: They're held in stasis in our trophy chambers, on the cusp between life and death.

DOCTOR: Left to rot? How completely obscene.

TZIM-SHA: They're not important.

"Everyone's important!" Thirteen objected.

KARL: Hey! I'm important.

DOCTOR: If I don't stop you, your people will keep doing this.

TZIM-SHA: Give me the circuit or I detonate the bombs placed in your friends.

DOCTOR: More weapons. Did your pet put one in Karl too?

KARL: What?

TZIM-SHA: There was no need. He was tagged. He is the trophy.

DOCTOR: I thought as much. Right, you detonate the bombs, I'll destroy the recall. So, what are we going to do?

"Something stupid."

[Building site]

(They break into the high voltage shed.)

GRACE: Right, you rewired the house, so you sort things out this end, I'll climb up.

GRAHAM: I don't want you doing that.

GRACE: Graham, Ryan's in danger. We don't have time to argue. Give me t'signal when you're ready.

GRAHAM: Okay.

(Grace kisses him.)

GRACE: Is it wrong to be enjoying this?

GRAHAM: Yes!

'Oh Grace.' Graham thought. 'You were always so good.'

[Crane jib]

DOCTOR: Poor Tim Shaw. The wannabe leader who has to cheat because he knows he's unworthy. See, that's why I know you won't detonate. Although, you could prove me wrong cos we're all capable of the most incredible change. We can evolve while still staying true to who we are. We can honour who we've been and choose who we want to be next. Now's your chance. How about it?

TZIM-SHA: Who are you?

DOCTOR: Yes. I'm glad you asked that again. Bit of adrenaline, dash of outrage, and a hint of panic knitted my brain back together. I know exactly who I am. I'm the Doctor. Sorting out fair play throughout the universe. Now please, get off this planet while you still have a choice.

Everyone cheered.

"Finally!" Nardole laughed.

TZIM-SHA: I choose to win.

(Tzim-Sha presses an activation button, and a few moments later drops his faceplate and starts to scream in pain.)

DOCTOR: Sorry. I removed those nasty little things from my friends - Swiss Army sonic, now with added Sheffield steel - And I implanted them back in your creature. Your transference wasn't just data, it was physical. You got everything transferred to you, including five tiny bombs. You had a choice. You did this to yourself. Go home.

(The Doctor throws the recall circuit to Tzim-Sha, who has started to melt. Karl kicks at him and Tzim-Sha falls through the broken hand-rail, putting the recall circuit onto his chest and vanishing.)

KARL: I am important!

DOCTOR: You had no right to do that.

"You were killing him, you hypocrite!" Thirteen recoiled slightly, hurt by Rose's reaction. Yaz glared at the other girl, "She didn't kill him! He set off the bombs. That's not her fault. She saved the rest of us! I don't know if you understand or appreciate that, but I know the rest of us do." It was then that Rose realised that Ryan and Graham were also glaring at her. It was obvious that they were protective of her.

[Building site]

(Grace has climbed up to the Gathering Coil.)

GRACE: Put a bomb in me, would you? Now, Graham!

(Graham throws the master switch and electricity surges, starting to short out the Coil.)

GRACE: It's working!

(But when the Coil falls apart and drops, it knocks Grace down to the ground too, and it is not a short fall. Graham rushes to her.)

Everyone stared at the screen sadly, the woman had been a good person and she seemed full of love and life. There were tears on everyone's faces. Thirteen refused to look at the screen, keeping her eyes turned down in silent respect.

GRACE: Don't be cross with me.

GRAHAM: I'm not cross, baby. I'm not cross.

GRACE: Promise me... you won't be scared.

GRAHAM: What do you mean?

GRACE: Without me.

GRAHAM: Grace. Grace...

(Ryan and Yaz run over, then the Doctor.)

Everyone had grim looks on their faces. Thirteen absolutely refused to look at the screen.

[YouTube channel]

RYAN: So, today I want to talk about the greatest woman I ever met. Smart, funny, caring. Proper special. My nan. Because... she died.

Thirteen smiled sadly at the screen whilst Graham leant on her shoulder a tear snaking a path down his face.

[Ryan's bedroom]

RYAN: First me mum six years ago, and now me nan. It's like the best people get taken first. I had a lot to learn from her and I were looking forward to that. She died like she lived, trying to help other people. I love you, Nan, and tomorrow I'm going out there for you.

[Moors]

(Amazingly, the bike is still rideable - but Ryan still keeps falling off, bless.)

RYAN: Three, two, one...

(The Doctor watches from a distance as Ryan keeps trying and falling and trying again.)

"Stalking people again, are we?" Twelve teased.

"Obviously." She joked.

[Chapel]

DOCTOR: What time did your dad say he'd get here?

RYAN: Two hours ago.

DOCTOR: If he said he'll come...

RYAN: He says a lot of things. He's never been the best at being reliable. I mean, how can he not be here? She's his mum. She would've wanted him here. I want him here.

Some people glared whilst Ryan frowned at the screen.

(The memorial service has started.)

GRAHAM: Lots of you knew Grace longer than me, so I can't stand here and pretend to know everything about her. I wasn't her first husband, but she said I would do for a second attempt. I can only tell you about the Grace I met, when I thought I didn't have much time left. The... the Grace that showed me life had more to offer, and... And I know if she was here now, she'd tell us not to be so sad. You see, I can hear her saying to me, Graham, we had three glorious years, what're you complaining about? I'm complaining because I wanted more. You see, Grace was a better person than I could ever be. And I should have gone and... Grace should still be here.

[Outside Ryan's home]

DOCTOR: What did you mean in your speech, you thought you'd run out of time?

GRAHAM: Oh, well, er, I had cancer and er... Well, strictly speaking, I'm still in remission, three years gone. And Grace was my chemo nurse. That's where we met and fell in love. So by rights, I shouldn't even be here.

People gave sympathetic looks to Graham who merely smiled back, The Doctors, however, looked as if they understood his mind set.

YAZ: Have you got family?

DOCTOR: No. Lost them a long time ago.

Nine, Ten and Eleven assumed she meant Galifrey but Twelve assumed that she meant her long-gone past companions; like Susan and River. Thirteen actually meant both.

RYAN: How do you cope with that?

DOCTOR: I carry them with me. What they would've thought and said and done. I make them a part of who I am. So even though they're gone from the world, they're never gone from me.

GRAHAM: That's the sort of thing Grace would have said.

YAZ: So everything we saw, everything we've lied to people about, is this normal for you?

DOCTOR: I'm just a traveller. Sometimes I see things need fixing, I do what I can. Except right now, I'm a traveller without a ship. I've stayed too long. I should get back to finding my TARDIS.

YAZ: Doctor. Can I just say, you really need to get out of those clothes.

"That could be taken the wrong way." Bill added.

"Shut up. She's pure. Don't ruin that!" Yaz retorted. Bill turned her gaze to Thirteen who looked downright confuddled. (Another strange word. I never realised how many strange words I've been using all my life.)

DOCTOR: Right, yeah. It's been a long time since I bought women's clothes.

"You've bought women's clothes?!?!" Came the confused exclamations. The Doctors turned to Eleven.

"I didn't mean to." Eleven defended himself.

[Charity shop]

(Lots of stuff being thrown out from behind the changing room curtain.)

DOCTOR [OC: Not that. Not that, not that. Ah, not that. Oh! Yes! Now, that's what I want.

(She comes out wearing a really weird ensemble of a top with two horizontal stripes across her biggest part, a pair of half-mast flares held up by braces, and a pale grey long coat with hood. She has new shoes too, a pair of darkish-lightish brown ankle boots.)

"Really? That's what you went with?" Nine mocked his future self.

"At least I don't dress like I regenerated in a GAP outlet!" Way too many people were laughing at that.

YAZ: That's what you're going with?

DOCTOR: Yep! Got any cash? Empty pockets. Also, I've been thinking about my TARDIS. So you think you guys might be able to help me?

"You always have empty pockets. It's like a staple of your character."

[Industrial unit]

(The Doctor is putting the final touches to a very Heath-Robinson lash-up. Graham is clutching a car battery.)

GRAHAM: How long have we got to stand here for? I'm getting cramp.

DOCTOR: Seriously, Graham, trying to concentrate here.

RYAN: Do you understand what she's doing?

DOCTOR: My ship uses a particular type of energy. I've tracked that energy trail from the moment I lost it to where it is now. Now, given this is a transport pod, I'm configuring it to send me to the planet where my ship seems to have ended up.

YAZ: You're going to another planet?

"You can translate The Doctor?" A few companions seemed shocked. Bill took an opportunity she couldn't miss.

"Teach me."

Yaz had watched the film when it came out and simply responded; "No."

DOCTOR: Well, trying to. Except Stenza technology's really annoying and super hard to decipher. 139 layers, seven of which don't make sense. Right. Graham.

GRAHAM: Yeah?

DOCTOR: Clamp those onto there.

(Crocodile clips onto the battery terminals.)

GRAHAM: All right.

DOCTOR: Yaz, thread the cable onto the top. Ryan, you turn on the switch. Okay, you three, I'm almost gonna miss ya.

"Almost?" Clara teased.

"Well, I didn't know them that much then, did I?" Thirteen grumbled. Her friends smiled at her.

(A microwave beeps.)

DOCTOR: That's it. It's connected up. It should work.

(She sets the timer on the microwave.)

DOCTOR: Moment of truth, then. Wish me luck. And goodbye. Oh, deep breath. Not you lot. Me.

(She inhales, holds it and activates the Sheffield Sonic. The microwave timer reaches zero, power surges through cables... and they all disappear.)

(The Doctor opens her eyes to find she is floating in the vacuum of space - with her three new companions close by.)

"And that was when she knew; she fucked up." Those present burst out laughing at Bill's comment.


(1) Note for the curious, Hallamshire Police is the old name for South Yorkshire Police, which is now mainly Sheffield.

Hope you enjoyed this Chapter. The gang will have some surprise guests joining them soon.

Also sorry about the long wait. I've been procrastinating a lot by doing things in the outside world. I've also been sick again lately, so yeah. Anyways the new series; How are you guys finding it?

Personally I love it. I think the Spyfall episodes redeemed the bad episode of last year. Though I didn't like Orphan 55, it was too political for my taste. But I got the point and I agree with it.