Orville Toms held Martha's arm with one hand and with the other pressed a gun to her head. As he looked at the Doctor and Rose hauntingly, he warned them loudly, "One step closer and I'll shoot her!"
The Doctor stayed cemented but pleaded, "Don't do this, Orville! What did she ever do to you?"
"You are the Doctor! My sworn enemy and I'll make you pay for it!"
The Doctor couldn't believe it. "What? What do you mean my sworn enemy?" He became slightly frightened on the inside, going over hundreds of scenarios in his head about what had caused this.
He yelled terrorizingly and just as mad, "I don't know! The voice in my head! Exterminate! Exterminate!"
"You're a Dalek!" Martha cried out, horrified for him, while the Doctor and Rose stood in stunned silence still at the door.
After a couple seconds of silence between the four in the room, the Doctor dropped his surprise and pretended to act indifferent. "Alright, you win. I changed my mind, go ahead and kill her then. After all, isn't that what you're programmed to do, right?"
Martha's face dropped. What in the world was he doing?
Orville had noticed the change to but instead of following the order, he went on the offensive, waving the gun and yelling, "I'm not playing around! I will shoot her!"
The Doctor took on an air of annoyance before sighing. "Well, do it then already."
Orville threw Martha away from him right after the Doctor's statement and pointed the gun straight at him. "Why should it be her when you're the one I want?"
The Doctor answered, sounding convincing, "Quite right too, I should say. You Daleks are always trying to kill me, but… but you're not a real Dalek, aren't you?"
With the gun pointed at the Doctor, Orville looked genuinely scared for the first time he'd seen him. "That man - Abel, not only gave me a Dalek lifter. He did… he did something with my mind!" The Dalek-human was self-destructing emotionally but his fear died when he took on one of vengeance again. "Part of me wants you dead right here and now!"
The Doctor noticed Orville's inner conflict too. Maybe, just maybe, he could get through if he got both sides to address the other. "What's the other part feeling?"
The Dalek-human looked a mess emotionally and everyone was on pins and needles knowing that with the wrong word in the wrong place, he might just shoot someone. "I'm scared. Properly scared that I'll fail. Scared that fighting this… this thing in me isn't worth it anymore. It knows what it wants and I don't!"
Rose spoke up hoping to encourage him. "It's worth it, Orville. Its always worth it. Really, though, it's ok to be confused. The Dalek seems like it knows what it wants but its all hate. Hate for the Doctor, hate for me, and even hate for yourself because your not pure either."
He still looked frightened but half smirked at that. "The Bad Wolf is right." Rose raised a very curious eyebrow as Orville continued, "The Dalek is scared so all he wants to do is do what he's been programmed to do; kill the Doctor…but… but I can't let him do it."
Orville moved his arm from pointing at the Doctor to now pointing it at his head. This was it. His head was a swirling of emotions and he thought about what he could become. He was pointing guns at people that meant no threat to him. The Dalek-human could not even control his actions, his thoughts, and even his emotions because he was fighting a losing battle. He had one way out of this hell and he knew what he had to do. It had to be quick and it had to be done without hesitation.
The Doctor yelled, "No!" but Orville pulled the trigger with a loud bang, making him fall to the ground dead.
After all of them had taken a minute to get over the shock and sorrow for the gruesome scene that had just taken place before them, Martha ran over to the Doctor, hugging him, which he returned in earnest. He muttered in her ear, "I'm so sorry, Martha." Martha than went over to Rose and they hugged, not saying a word. Words just didn't feel like they were right for the moment.
After they had parted, Rose asked the Doctor curiously, "Before he seemed normal. Why? Did something change?"
The Doctor's eyes glazed over as he stared at nothing in particular. "It must have been that universal feeling of desperation when his life's work became a disaster. Deep inside, he found a being that he trusted would save himself and make him confident and useful once again, while killing the one person a Dalek will always blame. No matter how many times he forgives it, it will always come after him in the end." When the Doctor finished he felt a hundred years older.
Martha looked at him in understanding while Rose came over to him to grab his hand seeing his current need for it. Martha muttered, "You."
The Doctor answered even though he didn't want to talk about it, "It's hardwired into any Dalek to hate me, and when he saw that I had destroyed his dream he let the Dalek get the revenge it's always sought. I was… I was just trying to help. I always am, but..."
Rose hugged him. "It's not you're fault, Doctor. I'm never going to care what happens or what you do because I know why."
The Doctor smiled sadly only half believing her but still was extremely touched by Rose's admission. He knew she loved him but she could never truly understand. She had said so back on that beach and despite what he may or may not have said, what could he say now? He was the man a Dalek was always after, but that was only the start. He was not a man she should ever love.
Martha had noticed their tender moment, agreeing with what Rose had said. She knew where his heart was too. It was always for what he felt was the right thing to do and it hurt her that he always took the blame, but with all that he's experienced he had every right to. She also was hurt for more personal reasons. The Doctor's hearts were with the blonde and even though she knew it all along, she was seeing it in a new light. Although she knew nothing would ever happen between her and the Doctor, the irrational part of her would never accept that. Until this point she had always had hope and she constantly had buried it citing a multitude of excuses. Martha had told herself that it wasn't important, that she could ignore being around him with Rose, but the truth was staring at her. She realized then and there that she still loved the Doctor and she had absolutely no idea what to do about it.
The Doctor and Rose parted, which made Martha silently rejoice so she wouldn't break down in front of him. Still, there was an unanswered question he might know. "Who do you think Abel is?"
The Doctor shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know. Whoever he is, he's somehow seen a Dalek, which is scary in itself. Still, another adventure, another day, I suppose. Come along, girls."
Rose silently whispered under her breath as she remembered Orville's words, "The Bad Wolf is right…" Her reverie had thankfully gone unheard.
While the time travelers walked out of the building, the Doctor looked back at Orville's dead figure with a sense of a scary foreboding on what was to come for him…