OPENING CREDITS (minus names)
"ROSE"
"Wow got a whole episode named after you." Jack exclaimed.
"You sound surprised." Rose said teasingly.
"Now, now." 10 said pushing his hands down on Rose's. He flashed her one of his famous grins, which she was happy to return. 11 looked on with a bittersweet smile as many lost memories began running through his mind. River noticed and reached across to grab his hand.
"Song's cool though." Mickey said, referring to the theme music. Everyone had to agree on that one.
EXT. SPACE
Camera pans over the planet Earth and zooms right into London.
INT. ROSE'S BEDROOM
Continue zooming into Rose's alarm clock, which reads 7:30. Rose smacks it to stop it beeping and jumps out of bed.
"Wow, not really a morning person are you." Jack said, taking in the image of a sleepy Rose with horrible bed head. Rose turned a bit pink at his comment.
INT. TYLER'S LIVING ROOM
Rose picks up her bag, gives her mother a peck on the cheek and grabs her keys.
"Ah Jackie," 11 said fondly, remembering his encounters with Mrs Tyler. Even 12 managed to smile at the memory. Clara blinked slightly at his smile. It wasn't his usual clever grin, this smile was genuine. So rare for him. Perhaps this would be able to bring down his walls ever so slightly, she mused before turning back to the TV.
ROSE: Bye!
JACKIE: See you later!
Jackie sips her tea and picks up the phone.
INT. STAIRWELL
Rose runs down the stairs of the block of flats where she lives.
INT. LONDON STREET
Rose jumps off a bus. And runs over to the department store Henrik's.
"Oh! I use to love shopping there," Martha said.
"Until it blew up a few years back, that was weird." Donna added. Rose, 10 and Mickey all shared similar glances with each other. River also threw a look at 11 who immediately turned back to the screen, the picture of innocence.
INT. HENRICKS, SHOP FLOOR
Rose carries a pile of clothes, looking rather bored.
EXT. TRAFALGAR SQUARE
Presumably in her lunch hour, Rose and Mickey sit next to a fountain, having a laugh, eating, teasing each other and kissing.
Martha tried to ignore the unfamiliar feeling of jealousy creeping up her spine at seeing her husband with another woman. She knew he had dated Rose before they got married, it wasn't like she hadn't dated guys before but she still couldn't help feeling protective.
They get up to leave.
ROSE: Bye!
INT. HENRICKS, SHOP FLOOR
She is shown back in Henricks.
LOUD SPEAKER: This is a customer announcement: The store will be closing in five minutes. Thank you.
Rose is about to leave.
SECURITY GUARD (hands her a package): Oi!
"Bit rude." Donna huffed, she had no patience for people like that. Rose smiled at her, she was a bit taken aback but smiled also.
Rose takes the package looking non- too- happy and enters a lift.
INT. HENRICK'S, BASEMENT
When the lift pings, she arrives in the basement.
"Aww I was enjoying that," Jack whined, disappointed that the music had cut out.
ROSE: Wilson? (Goes further down the corridor). Wilson, I've got the lottery money. Wilson? (Knocks on a door that says "HP Wilson CEO"). You there? Look, I can't hang about 'cause they're closing the shop. Wilson! (To herself): Uhh, come on!
There is a sudden sound further along the corridor. Rose immediately snaps her head in the direction it has come from.
Everyone leaned forward slightly, they knew something interesting was about to happen.
ROSE (CONT'D): Hello? Hello, Wilson, it's Rose. Hello? Wil... Wilson?
She stops outside a fire door for a moment, and then opens it,
Everyone tensed slightly, between the creepy corridor and ominous music things weren't looking to good. 10 grabbed Rose's hand, instinctively.
"Don't worry, you know what happens next." She whispered to him. He grinned at her, brightened at the prospect of reliving their first meeting.
and find herself in a room that looks as though it is used for storing shop dummies. She turns the light on and walks further into the room.
ROSE (CONT'D): Wilson? Wilson?
She tries another door at the side. The fire door through which she entered closes abruptly.
"Uh oh." Clara said nervously. Everyone in the room thought it at the same moment. Even those that had just met Rose felt worried for her.
Shocked, she runs back and shakes the handles, but they will not open. There is small sound from behind her.
ROSE (CONT'D): Is that someone mucking about?
"I hope so." Martha said.
"I don't," Said Jack. Everyone fixed their stares one him at that. "What?" He said, raising his arms in mock surrender. "It's not fun if there's no danger." He stated.
"Very true," 12 decided to add, causing everyone to look at him and Clara to punch him lightly on the arm.
(Goes back into the room). Who is it?
Behind her, a dummy slowly turns its head of its own accord. Rose turns around just in time to see it step out of its alcove and towards her. She backs away slowly.
"Autons." River realised.
"Yep." 10 and 11 said at the same time.
"I don't think I've ever met any of them," Martha said.
"Me neither," Donna told her.
"What even are they?" Amy asked, turning to 11. He just shrugged and gestured to the screen.
ROSE (CONT'D): Heh... You got me, very funny.
The dummy says nothing and does not stop advancing. Two more join it.
ROSE (CONT'D): Right, I've got the joke! Who's idea was this? Was it Derek's?
"Oh yeah, I would of guessed him to." Mickey laughed. Rose chuckled slightly also.
The dummies still advance. Another comes from behind.
ROSE (CONT'D): Derek, is this you?
All of the dummies are now alive. Rose backs up away and trips over a box. She quickly pulls herself up again and backs against a wall. The dummy lifts its arm to strike her. Rose screws her face up ready for the blow…
Amy's hands flew to her mouth on impulse, then relaxed slightly as she remembered that Rose was here, fine. She hadn't known her long but was already fond of the stubborn, playful girl.
…when a hand grabs hers. Rose opens her eyes and snaps her head to look at the owner of the hand.
A MAN, THE DOCTOR: Run!
"Hey! There I am." 10 called.
"That's you?!" Amy, Martha, Donna and Clara cried.
"Yeah what's up with that?" 11 asked, genuinely confused.
"Well we could start with your ears…" Amy drawled.
"Oi!" 10 yelled. Everyone else laughed while 10 and 11 pouted. 12 didn't seem to mind much.
"Something up?" Amy asked him
"What. No, why?" He asked.
"You don't seem that bothered about us making fun of you," Jack stated.
"Well that's not me, that's old me. Although it's technically me, it isn't." He said. No one argued, no one knew how to.
They run, just in time, through a fire exit. The dummies are in pursuit. The Doctor leads her into a lift.
INT. HENRICKS, LIFT
The doors close on one of the dummy's arms. The Doctor pulls it off and the doors close.
ROSE: You pulled his arm off!
"Good observation." Jack said, sarcastically. Rose huffed, If he hadn't been on another sofa she would have hit him upside the head.
THE DOCTOR: Yep! (Tosses it to her): Plastic.
ROSE: Very clever, nice trick! Who were they then, students? Is this a student thing or what?
THE DOCTOR: Why would they be students?
ROSE: I don't know...
THE DOCTOR: Well, you said it! Why students?
ROSE: 'Cause... to get that many people dressed up and being silly... they gotta be students.
The Doctor grins. He likes her.
"That was fast." River said. Rose smiled at 10 and he grinned back.
THE DOCTOR: That makes sense! Well done.
ROSE: Thanks.
THE DOCTOR: They're not students.
ROSE: Whoever they are, when Wilson finds them, he's gonna call the police.
THE DOCTOR: Who's Wilson?
ROSE: Chief electrician.
THE DOCTOR: Wilson's dead.
"Way to break it to her!" Martha and Amy said, as they simultaneously punched 10 and 11.
"ow!" They cried. Another 'ow!' was then heard, everyone turned to the third sofa where Clara had just hit 12.
"What was that for?" He asked, rubbing his arm.
"You're always being heartless." She cried. His eyes appeared to flicker momentarily, before returning to their stone cold glare.
"Like I said, not me. Different me." He said.
"He is right." 10 said. Everyone cocked their heads at him. "Well that was before I met Rose." He shrugged.
"I'd just come from the time war." 11 said. "I was filled with hatred and loneliness, until she helped me become a better person." Everyone nodded and turned back to the screen. Clara began thinking if that was why her doctor was so cold. Were the effects of the battle of Trenzalore still fresh in his mind. Perhaps he needed her, to help him the way Rose did…
He steps out of the lift. Rose follows him.
INT. HENRICKS, CORRIDOR
ROSE: That's just not funny, that's sick!
THE DOCTOR: Hold on! (Pushes Rose to the side). Mind your eyes.
He disables the lift with his sonic screwdriver.
"It's different!" Amy cried.
"What?" Ten said.
"I don't think you were supposed to tell him that." Rory whispered to her. She sent him a glare.
"No! not my sonic screwdriver! I love my sonic screwdriver." 10 cried, getting out his screwdriver and clutching it protectively. Rose rolled her eyes.
"You've done it now." She groaned.
"Hey it's not that bad." 11 said pulling out his screwdriver. He flicked it open and demonstrated it.
"Wow…" 10 said, he shifted to the other end of the sofa to get a closer look. The two of them immediately began 'fanboying' over their screwdrivers. Everyone sighed and tried to tune them out, apart from 12 who looked on seeming deep in thought. Only Clara noticed though.
ROSE: I've had enough of this now!
The Doctor walks off.
ROSE: Who are you, then? Who's that lot down there? I said, who are they?
THE DOCTOR: They're made of plastic. Living plastic creatures. They're being controlled by a relay device in the roof. Which would be a great big problem if I didn't have this. (Shows her an electronic device). So! (Opens fire exit for Rose). I'm going to go up there and blow it up…
River sighed dreamily at that. Jack looked at her questionably.
"He doesn't really use bombs nowadays, I wish he did." She whispered, Jack nodded with an enthusiastic grin.
…and I might well die in the process. But don't worry about me, no. Go home, go on! Go and have your lovely beans on toast.
"Beans on toast?" Rory asked, giving the doctors a 'really' look. They just shrugged and 10 gave a nervous laugh. Even 12 looked slightly sheepish.
EXT. HENRICKS
Rose goes through the door.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): Don't tell anyone about this, because if you do, you'll get them killed.
He shuts the door. Rose turns away looking slightly bemused. It opens again.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): I'm the Doctor, by the way, what's your name?
ROSE: Rose.
THE DOCTOR: Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life.
He shuts the door again. Rose runs. Outside, nobody knows what is going on. Rose is distracted and nearly gets herself run over by a taxi.
TAXI DRIVER: Watch it!
"You really should be more careful." 10 whispered to Rose.
"I'm not the one blowing up shops." She retorted. Martha, Donna and Amy all laughed at that.
"Why can't you blow stuff up anymore sweetie?" River asked 11.
"Hey I do blow things up." He pouted, crossing his arms.
"Oh do you now?" Jack smirked. Causing 11 and 10 blush, 12 to facepalm and everyone else to laugh.
Rose proceeds to get as far away from the building as possible and looks back just in time to see the top floor blow up.
"Oh I remember that, should have guessed you were behind it." Martha said.
"Yeah I was really disappointed, I loved shopping there." Donna agreed.
She runs home - past a police box.
"Ah. There's my baby." 10, 11 and 12 said.
"He's really attached to it isn't he?" Donna whispered to Martha. Amy also happened to overhear.
"Yeah if he was in a room with his Tardis and a friend he hadn't seen for years. He'd run to the Tardis." She said.
"I would not." 11 cried.
"Sweetie, we all know you would." Said River, rubbing his arm. He just huffed and pouted, eliciting a laugh from Rose.
INT. TYLER'S LIVING ROOM
News 24 is on the television. Rose is sat on the sofa, watching it.
REPORTER: The whole of Central London has been closed off as police investigate the fire. Earlier reports in the...
The dummy's arm is lying on a chair.
"You kept it?" Clara asked, glancing at Rose. She threw her hands up in an 'i don't know' fashion and smiled, sheepishly. 10 snorted, earning himself a smack from his blond companion. It was at this point that Clara happened to glance at 12, she was very surprised to see him watching his younger self and his former companion with a soft smile. It seemed so unlike him, it was kind of shy, warm, almost… human.
Jackie walks in holding a phone to her ear.
JACKIE TYLER: I know, it's on the telly! It's everywhere! She's lucky to be alive! (Hands Rose a mug).
The doctors all laughed. Jackie, ever the dramatic.
Honestly, it's aged her. Skin like an old bible. Walking in now you'd think I was HER daughter! Oh and here's himself...
Mickey appears in the doorway.
MICKEY SMITH (to Rose): I've been phoning your mobile, you could've been dead! It's on the news and everything! I can't believe that your shop went up!
He hugs her.
Martha tilted her head to the side while watching the Mickey on screen.
"What is it?" The Mickey beside her asked.
"You seem, different." She muttered.
"Tell me about it." Rose chuckled slightly. Mickey had certainly changed a lot over the years.
ROSE: I'm alright, honestly, I'm fine! Don't make a fuss.
MICKEY: Well, what happened?
ROSE: I don't know!
MICKEY: What was it though, what caused it?
ROSE: I wasn't in the shop, I was outside, I didn't see anything...
"Oh really…" Mickey said, cheekily. Rose grabbed one of the cushions she was sat by and threw it at him.
"To be fair I told her not to tell anyone." 10 said.
"Yeah or they'll be killed." Martha said dramatically. Everyone laughed.
JACKIE (walking in): It's Debbie on the end, she knows a man from the Mirror. Five hundred quid for an interview!
ROSE: Oh that's brilliant! Give it here!
She takes the phone and hangs it up.
Everyone in the room burst into a fit of laughter at that. 10 and Rose high fived and even 12 couldn't resist chuckling softly. As the laughter died down a bit Clara noticed the, usually angry, arrogant man beside her was actually enjoying himself. It made her feel good.
JACKIE: Well, you've gotta find some way of making money. Your jobs kaput and I'm not bailing you out. (Phone rings again, Jackie answers). Beth! She's alive! (Leaves room). I've told her, sue for compensation! She was within seconds of death...
"Bit dramatic isn't she?" Said Rory.
"You would know." 11 muttered.
"What?!" He huffed.
"Nothing, just let it go." Amy said, rubbing his arm. Although the amused smile creeping on to her face betrayed her slightly.
MICKEY: What're you drinking? Tea? No, no no, that's no good, that's no good. You're in shock, you need something stronger.
ROSE: Why?
MICKEY: You deserve a proper drink, we're going down the pub, you and me, my treat. How about it?
ROSE (smiling): Is there a match on?
"Of course." Martha sighed, throwing her hands up in mock surrender.
"He still does that?" Rose asked. Martha nodded at the same time Mickey shook his head. Rose smiled, she was happy Mickey found someone right for him.
MICKEY: No. no I'm just thinking about you, babe!
ROSE: There's a match on, ain't there.
MICKEY: Well, that's not the point. We could catch the last five minutes.
ROSE: Go on then. I'm fine, really. Go. Get rid of that...
She gestures to the dummy's arm. Mickey points to his lips. Rose gives him a kiss. He pushes her back onto the chair and they laugh. He gets up to go and Rose puts a leg out to trip him up. Mickey picks up the arm and waves with it.
MICKEY: Buh Bye!
Mickey looks slightly embarrassed by his antics, while everyone else snickers. Martha sensed her husband's discomfort and gave him a quick peck on the cheek.
ROSE: Bye!
Mickey pretends to strangle himself with the arm and leaves. Rose shakes her head fondly and turns her attention back to the news.
REPORTER: ... fire then spread throughout the store... there is very little chance of saving the infrastructure...
"Wow, when you blow something up, you really blow something up don't you?" Amy said. 10 grinned madly while 11 gave a small bow.
"You can say that again." Jack mumbled, thinking of the factory his blaster came from. He really did need a new one.
EXT. POWELL ESTATE
Outside, Mickey tosses the arm into a bin as he walks past it. Zoom into the darkness of the bin...
"Cause thats not creepy at all…" Rory drawled sarcastically. A few people rolled their eyes, while others nodded their heads in agreement. Amy just shook her head and smiled fondly.
INT. ROSE'S BEDROOM
...and out onto the red 7:30 on Rose's alarm clock. Rose whacks it to stop it beeping and sits up.
JACKIE (in background): There's no point in getting up, sweetheart. You've got no job to go to.
Rose flops back on her pillow.
INT. TYLER'S LIVING ROOM
Rose is having breakfast, her mother is talking to her.
JACKIE: There's Finches... You could try them. They've always got jobs.
ROSE: Oh, great. The butchers.
"God, where does she get her job idea's from?" Donna said. "She's almost as bad as my mum."
"Almost?" Rose asked, in utter disbelief.
"Yeah I have to agree on that one," 11 spoke up. 10 felt dread creeping into him at the thought of dealing with a mother worse than Jackie. 'Always the mothers' all the doctors thought in sync.
JACKIE: Well it might do you good! That shop was giving you airs and graces. And I'm not joking about getting compensation. You've had genuine shock and trauma! Arianna got two thousand quid off the council just because the old man behind the desk said she looked Greek! I know she IS Greek, but that's not the point, it's a valid claim.
"You know the council really need to sort out their priorities." Amy and Donna said, Rose and Martha thought it at the exact same time. Everyone else was to engrossed in the show at this point to care about things like that.
Rose hears a rattling and stands up.
ROSE: Mum, you're such a liar, I told you to nail that cat flap down. We're going to get strays!
JACKIE: I did it weeks back!
ROSE: No, you thought about it!
Rose discovers that the screws have fallen out onto the floor. The cat flap moves violently. Rose leaps backwards…
Everyone except Rose and the Doctors tensed at that. The further they came in this episode the more everyone was beginning to like Rose and they all couldn't help but worry about her. Some, were a bit surprised at their new found concern for the young ex-shop assistant. However as everyone suddenly took their time to look around the room, they realised that as they had been chatting about their adventures with the doctor and events on the screen, they had all come to like each other a lot. Martha, Donna, Rose and Amy all had similar opinions on these events and kind of enjoyed teasing the boys in the room. Mickey and Rory felt they could relate to each other also, what with how they were sometimes treated a bit like 'tin dogs'. River and Jack were both flirting and messing around, but those two really knew how to enjoy anything. 12 was finally starting to lighten up, he felt good being around his friends again. Clara had noticed his slightly softer side was starting to show a bit, it made her feel good to know he was finally moving on from past events. As for the other doctors, well they were surrounded by their closest friends while watching a great show all about them. Yeah they were pretty good.
…then comes back again and pokes the cat flap open gingerly. The Doctor's face is right outside it. Rose gasps and opens the door.
Everyone released a breath they hadn't realised they were holding. Relived that it was just the doctor loitering outside her door.
THE DOCTOR: What're you doing here?
ROSE: I live here.
THE DOCTOR: Well, what do you do that for?
A few members of the group raised their eyebrows at the doctors. Jack by contrast suddenly decided to start roaring with laughter. River looked at him quizzically but didn't say anything.
ROSE: Because I do! And I'm only at home because someone blew up my job.
The Doctor gets out his sonic screwdriver.
THE DOCTOR: Must've got the wrong signal. You're not plastic, are you? (Knocks on Rose's forehead). No, bonehead. Bye, then!
He makes to go, but Rose pulls him back inside.
ROSE: You, inside. Right now.
She shuts the door.
JACKIE: Who is it?
INT. JACKIE'S BEDROOM
Rose pokes her head into Jackie's bedroom.
ROSE: It's about last night, he's part of the inquiry. Give us 10 minutes.
JACKIE: She deserves compensation.
THE DOCTOR: Huh, we're talking millions.
The Doctor leans against the doorframe, waiting for Rose to come back. Jackie looks at him for a moment and stands up, flirtatiously.
"Oh my god…" Rose moaned turning away from the screen. Jack started laughing so hard there were tears in his eyes while River and Clara also started giggling a bit.
JACKIE: I'm in my dressing gown.
THE DOCTOR: Yes, you are.
JACKIE: There's a strange man in my bedroom.
THE DOCTOR: Yes, there is.
JACKIE: Well, anything could happen.
THE DOCTOR: No.
The Doctor walks off. Jackie pulls a face at his back.
"Good at first impressions aren't you." Jack said, mainly to 10.
"Well what was I supposed to do?" He defended. Jack pulled a face at him and waggled his eyebrows. 10 turned very green, knowing exactly what he was thinking. 11 and 12 knew also, 12 shuddered whilst 11's grip on River's hand tightened slightly.
INT. TYLER'S LIVING ROOM
ROSE: Don't mind the mess. Do you want a coffee?
THE DOCTOR: Might as well, thanks! Just milk.
Rose goes into the kitchen and starts making coffee.
INT. TYLER'S KITCHEN
ROSE: We should go to the police. Seriously. Both of us.
INT. TYLER'S LIVING ROOM
The Doctor picks up a gossip magazine.
THE DOCTOR: That won't last, he's gay and she's an alien.
"Who is?" Donna asked.
"Ah, not really never need important mind." 10, 11 and 12 all started talking over each other.
"Okay, never mind, sorry I asked." She huffed indignantly.
INT. TYLER'S KITCHEN
ROSE: I'm not blaming you, even if it was just some sort of joke that went wrong.
INT. TYLER'S LIVING ROOM
The Doctor picks up a book and flicks through it.
THE DOCTOR: Sad ending.
INT. TYLER'S KITCHEN
ROSE: They said on the news they'd found a body.
"Really?" 10 asked. He hadn't been paying all that much attention to Rose back then.
"Yeah…" She said softly, avoiding his gaze. 10 and 11 both looked at the ground. 12 didn't seem quite as affected but he had the decency to look a tad apologetic.
INT. TYLER'S LIVING ROOM
The Doctor picks up an envelope and reads it.
THE DOCTOR: Rose Tyler. (Looks in mirror). Ahh, could've been worse! (Prods his large ears). Look at me' ears.
Amy and Rory both let out a snort.
"Oi!" 11 cried.
"Sweetie, they are a bit uh…" River trailed off making gestures with her hands. He sunk back into his seat trying his best not to pout.
INT. TYLER'S KITCHEN
ROSE: All the same, he was nice. He was a nice bloke.
INT. TYLER'S LIVING ROOM
The Doctor shuffles a pack of cards.
THE DOCTOR: Luck be a lady!
INT. TYLER'S KITCHEN
ROSE: Well anyway if we are going to go to the police, I want to know what I'm saying.
INT. TYLER'S LIVING ROOM
The Doctor shuffles the cards again and manages to make them all go flying.
INT. TYLER'S KITCHEN
ROSE (CONT'D): I want you to explain everything.
INT. TYLER'S LIVING ROOM
THE DOCTOR (of the cards): Maybe not.
Everyone laughed, even the doctors smiled at their antics.
The Doctor hears scuffling from behind the sofa.
THE DOCTOR: What's that then? You got a cat?
INT. TYLER'S KITCHEN
ROSE: No...
INT. TYLER'S LIVING ROOM
The Doctor leans behind the sofa and the dummy's arm leaps out and grabs him by the neck.
Everyone jumped.
"God, shock of my life." Donna mumbled.
"How does it even do that?" Mickey asked.
"Well it's the Nestenes transmissions, they've probably fixed on the doctor and isolated…" River was in the midst explaining when she noticed the confusion on most peoples faces. She looked to her husband for support.
"It's uh. Timey Wimey thingy." He stuttered.
"Timey Wimey?" 10 asked.
"Yes." It was 12 who answered this time.
ROSE (CONT'D) (wandering in with coffee): We did have, but there's these strays, they come in off the estate...
Behind her, the Doctor is being strangled viciously by the hand while he tries vainly to fight it off. She does not quite seem to register that the Doctor is being harassed by a rubber hand.
"Hey I am being strangled to death over there." 10 complained.
"Sorry, I was new to it, how am I supposed to know the hand's made of living plastic controlled by an orange liquid monster that wants to eat our world." She said defensively. Clara, Amy and Donna had to agree with her, they didn't exactly believe all that stuff the first time round.
ROSE (CONT'D): I told Mickey to chuck that out... (She puts the coffee down on the table). Honestly, give a man a plastic hand... anyway, I don't even know your name, Doctor... what was it?
The Doctor throws the hand off and it flies across the room attaching itself to Rose's face. She screams and the Doctor leaps up and tries to pull it off.
INT. JACKIE'S BEDROOM
Jackie is drying her hair, completely oblivious.
"Of course." Rose threw her hands out, almost hitting 10 in the face.
INT. TYLER'S LIVING ROOM
The Doctor and Rose crash onto the coffee table, breaking it, and roll onto the floor.
"Ooo Doctor…" Jack said grinning at 10. River slapped him across the face.
"Wow so I'm guess you're the jealous type." He said clutching his jaw.
"Nah. Not really." 11 said, defending his wife. Rose looked at this future doctor and his violent wife with interest. She knew she had started developing feeling for her doctor, did this mean she wasn't going to be with him forever.
The Doctor pushes her back onto the sofa and gets out his sonic screwdriver, disabling the hand.
THE DOCTOR: It's alright, I've stopped it. There you go, you see? (Tosses it to her). 'Armless.
"Hilarious." Rory muttered, the sarcasm very evident in his voice. The doctors looked slightly offended, except for 12, he just rolled his eyes and ignored it.
ROSE: Do you think?
She uses it to whack him on the shoulder.
THE DOCTOR: Ow!
Everyone laughed at that, including the doctors. Even 12 managed to crack a smile, it was pretty funny.
INT. STAIRWELL
The Doctor is running down the stairs, Rose hot on his tail.
ROSE: Hold on a minute, you can't just go swanning off.
THE DOCTOR: Yes I can. Here I am, this is me, swanning off. See ya!
"Huh, when did you ever lose that sass of yours?" River sighed, looking dreamily at the screen. Jack laughed whist 11 crossed his arms looking indignant.
ROSE: That arm was moving, it tried to kill me!
THE DOCTOR: Ten out of ten for observation.
ROSE: You can't just walk away, that's not fair! You've got to tell me what's going on.
THE DOCTOR: No I don't.
They reach the bottom of the stairs, go through the doors.
EXT. POWELL ESTATE
ROSE: Alright then. I'll go to the police. I'll tell everyone. You said, if I did that, I'd get people killed. So, your choice. Tell me, or I'll start talking.
"Nice." Amy complimented.
"Thanks," Rose smiled at her. 10 and 11 both exchanged similar glances, they were please their friends were getting along.
THE DOCTOR: Is that supposed to sound tough?
ROSE: Sort of.
THE DOCTOR: Doesn't work.
ROSE: Who are you?
THE DOCTOR: I told you! The Doctor.
ROSE: Yeah. But Doctor what?
"Thank god you didn't say doctor who." 11 said. The people on the first sofa all looked confused as to why he said that.
"Thank god you did." 12 muttered to Clara. She smiled, knowing he was referring to her life as a victorian barmaid/governess. How she'd brought the doctor out of his isolation and helped him find himself again. Perhaps she could do so a second time…
THE DOCTOR: Just the Doctor.
ROSE: The Doctor.
THE DOCTOR: Hello!
ROSE: Is that supposed to sound impressive?
THE DOCTOR: Sort of.
The doctors all frowned/scowled at that. That was not the reason they called themselves the doctor.
ROSE: Come on. You can tell me. I've seen enough. Are you the police?
THE DOCTOR: No. I was just passing through. I'm a long way from home.
Everyone on the first two sofa's visibly darkened at that. Clara glanced cautiously at 12. He gave her a look that clearly said: not yet. She turned back to her old doctor, he looked so depressed at the memory of losing his planet. She wanted desperately to comfort him, but also knew her current doctor was right. They couldn't know, not yet…
ROSE: But what have I done wrong? How comes those plastic things keep coming after me?
THE DOCTOR: Oh! Suddenly the entire world revolves around you! You were just an accident, you got in the way, that's all.
ROSE: It tried to kill me!
"What is that your catchphrase." Jack asked. Rose glared at him and hit 10 on the arm.
"Ow! What was that for?!" He cried.
"Calling me an accident." She replied, dead nonchalant. He huffed and turned back to the screen. Rose smiled, she knew she'd won.
THE DOCTOR: It was after me, not you! Last night, in the shop, I was there, you blundered it. Almost ruined the whole thing. This morning, I was tracking it down, it was tracking me down... the only reason it fixed on you is that you met me.
ROSE: So, what you're saying is, the entire world revolves around you.
THE DOCTOR: Sort of, yeah.
ROSE: You're full of it!
THE DOCTOR: Sort of, yeah.
"Some things never change." River said, smiling fondly at her doctor.
"Sometimes they get worse." Clara laughed.
"And what's that 'sposed to mean?" 12 asked.
"Nothing, nothing." She said innocently, before bursting into a fit of silent laughter the minute his back was turned.
ROSE: But, all this plastic stuff, who else knows about it?
THE DOCTOR: No one.
ROSE: What, you're on your own?
"Never." Everyone in the room said at once. The doctors all smiled gratefully at their respective companions. They were right, no matter how much they felt it, they were never really alone.
THE DOCTOR: Well, who else is there? I mean, you lot, all you do is eat chips, go to bed, and watch telly! When all the time, underneath you, there's a war going on!
Rose takes the arm off him.
ROSE: Okay, start from the beginning.
'Finally listening then." River observed.
EXT. ROAD
ROSE: If you're gonna go with this living plastic, and I don't even believe that, but if we do... how did you kill it?
THE DOCTOR: The thing controlling it projects life into the arm. I cut off the signal, dead.
ROSE: So that's radio control?
"Good guess." River told her. Rose smiled, getting approval from someone good enough to marry the doctor must be a good thing.
THE DOCTOR: Thought control. (Silence) Are you alright?
ROSE: Yeah. So, who's controlling it, then?
THE DOCTOR: Long story.
ROSE: But what's it all for? I mean, shop window dummies... what's that about? Is someone trying to take over Britain's shops?
They laugh.
THE DOCTOR: No.
ROSE: I know.
THE DOCTOR: It's not a price war. (Laugh again. Suddenly serious). They want to overthrow the human race and destroy you. Do you believe me?
ROSE: No.
THE DOCTOR: But you're still listening.
"And asking some good questions, that always helps." Martha said. Many nods of agreement from the other members of the group. Rose blushed slightly at all the compliments she was getting.
She stops. The Doctor walks on.
ROSE: Really though, Doctor. Tell me. Who are you?
"I'm a time lord from the planet Galifrey, I save planets, defeat monsters and love running." 10 said happily.
"And you?" Amy asked 11. He smiled at her remembering their first meeting.
"I'm a mad man with a box." He said. She smiled to, also reminiscing.
"Ooo, that's good, I like that." 10 said. Everyone laughed.
"What about you." Clara said to 12.
"Me, well on a good day I'm an arrogant genius, but most of the time I'm an almost good man." He said, Clara smiled, that sounded about right. The laughter died down a bit as everyone processed what he'd just said, when the TV started up again.
THE DOCTOR (stops): Do you know like we were saying? About the Earth revolving? (Walks back to her). It's like when you were a kid. The first time they tell you the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it because everything looks like it's standing still. I can feel it. (Takes her hand). The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, and the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at sixty-seven thousand miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me. Clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go... (Lets go of her hand). That's who I am. Now, forget me, Rose Tyler. (Takes the arm, waves it in her face). Go home.
"Oh sure, like anyone can just walk away after all that's happened." Rose said. 10 sighed, he really shouldn't have expected her to turn away.
"Yeah, I know I wouldn't," Martha said.
"Or me." Donna piped up, Amy and Clara agreed also.
"It's cause we're, what's that word…" Clara said.
"Human." A loud voice suddenly projected across the room. Everyone jumped in their seats.
"Who's there." Mickey yelled. Then in a flash of blue lightning Scar appeared in front of them.
"Hi, miss me." She giggled, their reactions were priceless.
"Scar!" Everyone exclaimed together.
"Yes hi, I just thought I'd answer your question Clara. The word you were looking for is human." She said.
"Human?" Clara repeated.
"Yes, see all humans are connected physically by our genetic makeup but our souls are also human because they posses similar traits. One of those traits being an irresistible little feeling called curiosity." She stated.
"Oh." said Clara, sinking back down in her chair.
"I don't get it." Donna said.
"Well basically I think all humans explore places and ask so many questions because we're curious. Curiosity is just one of the things that makes us human." Scar told her.
"I see." Martha mused.
"Makes sense." 10 said quickly before hopping up to face Scar. " Now! How did you know to come in here, have you been observing us?" He asked. Scar half expected him to get out his glasses, he appeared to have gone into deduction mode.
"Well of course, it's my room and I like to know what goes on in it. Now let us continue." She said, before snapping her fingers and vanishing once again. everyone stared at the place where she wasn't for a minute, till the TV started playing again. 10 returned to his seat and they proceeded to watch.
He walks away. Rose watches his retreating back and then starts to walk herself.
"Is it me or is this music a bit creepy," Rory whispered to Amy. She nodded but kept her eyes on the screen.
The Doctor steps into a police box. Rose hears the sound of the TARDIS departing. She runs back as fast as she can. The police box is gone. She shields her eyes from the sun, looks around her, then walks away again.
INT. MICKEY'S FLAT
Mickey lets Rose in.
MICKEY: Yahey, there's my woman! (Slaps her bum). Kit off!
ROSE: Shut up. (He gives her a kiss). Mwah!
Martha felt herself going jealous once again. Mickey noticed her tense slightly this time so he put his arm round her. She looked up at him, he smiled at her. She smiled back before leaning up to kiss him. Jack wolf whistled earning a slap from River and Amy.
MICKEY: Coffee?
ROSE: Yeah, only if you wash the mug. And I don't mean rinse, I mean wash. Can I use your computer?
MICKEY: Yeah. Any excuse to get in the bedroom.
Mickey goes into the kitchen. Rose closes the door of his bedroom behind her.
MICKEY: Don't read my emails!
"Ooo, And why not?" Jack leered.
"Non o' your business." Was the sharp reply before Martha coughed and gestured back to the screen.
INT. MICKEY'S BEDROOM
Rose turns on the computer and types "Doctor" into a search engine. No relevant results are found. She types in "Doctor Living Plastic". Still nothing.
"Persistent one you." 10 muttered to Rose.
"Just one of my amazing qualities." She joked, flashing that smile he loved so much. The doctor couldn't deny he had special feelings for Rose, he was strongly dreading the day they would separate.
She types "Doctor Blue Box". The first result reads "Doctor Who - do you know this man? Contact Clive here..." She clicks on it and a webpage with a blurry photograph of the Doctor and the words "Have you seen this man? Contact Clive" are presented to her.
"How'd you find that. I searched through thousands of websites and nothing." Donna complained.
"Err. Sorry bout that." Mickey and 11 said sheepishly. They had, after all, both deleted any mention of the doctor from earth records.
She clicks "Contact Clive".
EXT. CLIVE'S HOUSE
Mickey and Rose are sitting in the car.
ROSE: You're not coming in! He's safe, he's got a wife and kids.
MICKEY: Yeah but who told you that? He did. That's exactly what an Internet lunatic murderer would say.
"He's got a good point." Rory pointed out. He half expected Amy to slap him, fortunately this time she agreed with him. About everyone did. 10 gripped Rose's hand protectively.
"Hey, I'm fine." She told him.
"I know, just you know." He muttered.
"I know what?" She demanded.
"Stop talking to strange men." He said.
"Well, suppose that rules you out then." She mumbled.
"Oi!" He cried, he was then immediately bombarded with 'shhes' as the rest of them were trying to watch.
Rose gets out of the car anyway, grinning. Mickey doesn't look too happy, and gives a man putting out his rubbish the evils. Rose knocks on the door of a house and it is answered by a boy of about 11.
ROSE: Uh, hello, I've come to see Clive? We've been emailing.
CLIVE'S SON: Dad! It's one of your nutters!
Clive appears.
CLIVE: Sorry. Hello. You must be Rose. I'm Clive. Obviously!
ROSE: I better tell you now, my boyfriend's waiting in the car, just in case you're going to kill me!
They laugh.
CLIVE: No, good point. No murders.
He waves to Mickey who nods, still distrustful.
"Hey give him a chance, he was actually very nice," Rose said. "I should introduce you." She said to 10. he smiled at her and nodded.
CAROLINE: Who is it?
CLIVE: Oh it's something to do with the Doctor! She's been reading the website. Please come through, I'm in the shed.
Clive's wife, Caroline, comes down the stairs carrying a washing basket.
CAROLINE: She? She read a website about the Doctor? She's a she?
"Says a lot about you doesn't it." Jack said. Everyone laughed while 10 and 11 blushed. 12 reached over and spiked Jack in the arm.
She smiles ironically and shuts the door. Mickey looks suspicious.
INT. CLIVE'S SHED
Clive is showing Rose around the shed, which is a sort of shrine to the Doctor.
"Wow, got your own stalker." Donna said looking over at 10.
"Plenty actually." 11 said. "Many people have become interested in me."
"I wonder why." Amy said sarcastically.
"I'm an interesting person," 10 said.
CLIVE: A lot of this stuff's quite sensitive, I couldn't just send it to you. People might intercept it, if you know what I mean. If you dig deep enough - keep a lively mind - this Doctor keeps cropping up all over the place. Political diaries, conspiracy theories. Even ghost stories.
"Aw, yeah I love a good ghost story." 11 said, jumping in his seat like a three year old.
"Mm, I hate fairytales, he always turns out to be behind them." Said River. A lot of minds turned back to their favourite fairytale at that…
No first name, no last name. Just "The Doctor". Always The Doctor. And the title seems to have been passed down from father to son, it appears to be an inheritance. That's your Doctor there, isn't it?
He points to a photo of the Doctor on a computer screen behind them.
ROSE: Yeah.
CLIVE: I tracked it down to the Washington public archive just last year. The online photo's enhanced, but if we look at the original...
He shows Rose some photographs of the Doctor standing in a crowd at the time and place of the assassination of JFK.
CLIVE: November the 22nd, 1963. The assassination of President Kennedy.
"Oh I remember that, fun trip." 11 muttered.
ROSE: Must be his father...
CLIVE: Going further back... April 1912. (Brings over a photo album). This is a photo of the Daniels family, Southampton. And friend. (Points to the Doctor, standing with them). This was taken the day before they were due to sail off for the New World. On the Titanic. And for some unknown reason, they cancelled the trip and survived.
The doctors all turned away from the mock stares they were getting from their current partners, namely Rose, Clara and River. River started scolding 11 about messing with time. While 10 was doing his best to ignore Rose's glare. 12 just started explaining to Clara that the Daniels where good friends and did him a favour and so on…
CLIVE (CONT'D): And… (Shows her a sketch). 1883. Another Doctor. And look - the same lineage. He's identical. This one washed up on the coast of Sumatra on the very day Krakatoa exploded. The Doctor is a legend woven throughout history. When disaster comes, he's there. He has a storm in his wake. And he has one constant companion.
ROSE: Who's that?
CLIVE: Death.
The doctor's all looked down at that. Like many of the descriptions they had been given that one was also true. On the more darker side of things they did have a knack for finding disaster. 10 and 11 were trying not to cry, thinking about all the people they couldn't save. Whilst 12 couldn't stop thinking about his desire for danger, he couldn't deny anymore that he enjoyed it when things went bad. It made him continue to question whether or not he wad a good man.
EXT. CLIVE'S HOUSE
Mickey is still waiting outside in his car. He looks around as a bin starts to shuffle its way towards him.
"Uh oh." Martha breathed, subconsciously grabbing Mickeys hand.
"What's up." Rory asked.
"Bins are made of plastic." Amy muttered. That shut him up. Even as she said it realisation crossed everyone's faces, aside from the obvious.
INT. CLIVE'S SHED
CLIVE (CONT'D): If the Doctor's back... if you've seen him, Rose... then one thing's for certain, we're all in danger.
EXT. CLIVE'S HOUSE
Mickey looks at the bin again, but it is stationary. A few seconds later, it starts moving again. He gets out of the car and walks to the bin, looking around it to see what is moving it. Seeing nothing, he places both hands on the lid and opens it dramatically.
MICKEY: Come on then!
The bin is empty.
Everyone laughed despite the tense atmosphere. 'Ah Mickey the idiot'. 10 thought.
INT. CLIVE'S SHED
CLIVE: If he's singled you out... If the Doctor's making house calls... then God help you.
"Oi, I wouldn't endanger Rose." 10 yelled.
"I know, don't worry." She said.
"Why can't you be more like that." Everyone turned to Clara who'd just spoken. She turned away from the screen to find everyone staring at her. "Did I say that out loud?" They nodded. She groaned and flopped down on the sofa.
"What did you mean?" Amy asked.
"Twelvie over here isn't exactly the nicest doctor there is." She said.
"Oh gee thanks." He murmured sarcastically.
"Well you didn't seem to care when Ross was caught…"
"Well can I help it if soldiers get to…"
"You could have at least been nicer…" The two of them started arguing over the doctor's "helping" methods, cutting each other off every five seconds. Everyone else had no idea what they were talking about, so they tuned them out and turned back to the TV.
EXT. CLIVE'S HOUSE
Mickey shuts the bin, confused. He tries to walk away but his hands are stuck to the bin. When he tries to pull away, the bin stretches and won't let him. Eventually, the bin opens its lid and pulls him in backwards, shutting with a satisfied burp.
Clara, who had stopped arguing now, started laughing like crazy. Mickey turned very red as everyone else joined in.
INT. CLIVE'S SHED
ROSE: Who is he? Who do you think he is? CLIVE: I think he's the same man. I think he's immortal. I think he's an alien from another world.
"Wow, of all the stalkers I've had, he's probably one of the closest to figuring out who I am." 11 said.
"Yeah, though it isn't exactly easy when you keep changing every five minutes." Said Clara. The other companions chuckled at the comment.
EXT. CLIVE'S HOUSE
Rose comes back to the car, talking before she's even got in.
ROSE: Alright! He's a nutter! Off his head! COMPLETE online conspiracy freak. You win! Oof.
She gets into the car. The person sitting at the wheel is obviously not Mickey, but a plastic replica of him. Rose seems not to notice.
"Okay that is obviously not me!" Mickey yelled.
"Well I had a lot on my mind." Rose huffed, pouting slightly while 10 shook his head fondly at her.
ROSE: What're we going to do tonight? I fancy a pizza.
MICKEY: Pizzaaa! P-p-p-pizza!
"Okay really? Even I'm not that dim." Donna said, turning to Rose. She sunk down in her seat slightly, a faint tint of pink staining her cheeks.
ROSE: ...or a Chinese...
MICKEY: Pizza!
They drive off in a wobbly line.
INT. RESTAURANT
Rose and Mickey sit at a table for two in a restaurant.
ROSE: Do you think I should try the hospital? Suki said they had a few jobs going in the canteen. That's it then... dishing out chips... I could do A Levels...
"Mickey" stares at her, grinning.
ROSE (CONT'D): I dunno. It's all Jimmy Stone's fault. I only left school because of him, and look where he ended up. What do you think?
PLASTIC MICKEY: So, where did you meet this Doctor?
ROSE: I'm sorry, wasn't I talking about me for a second?
PLASTIC MICKEY: Because, I reckon it started back at the shop, am I right? Is he something to do with that?
ROSE: No...
PLASTIC MICKEY: Come on.
ROSE: Sort of.
PLASTIC MICKEY: What was he doing there?
ROSE: I'm not going on about him, Mickey, I'm not, because, I know it sounds daft but... I don't think he's safe. I think he's dangerous.
10 sighed at that, and 11 looked really downcast.
"I was wrong." Rose whispered to 10, "you're probably the best thing that happened to me." He smiled at her, and she grinned back. Eventually they both started laughing. They stopped when they noticed they weren't the only ones, over on the second sofa 11 and River were also giggling like idiots. Everyone smiled, clearly everything was sorted out.
PLASTIC MICKEY: But you can trust me sweetheart! (In quick succession). Babe, sugar, babe, sugar.
Rose looks confused.
PLASTIC MICKEY (CONT'D): You can tell me anything. Tell me about the Doctor and what he's planning, and I can help you, Rose. Because that's all I really wanna do, sweetheart, babe, babe, sugar, sweetheart.
ROSE: What're you doing that for?
"And captain oblivious still hasn't noticed anything." Jack announced. Rose got up and slapped him across the face, he'd clearly frustrated her too much today. She walked back over to her sofa feeling a lot calmer and sat down next to, a grinning, 10.
A Waiter approaches the table.
WAITER: Your champagne.
PLASTIC MICKEY: We didn't order any champagne. (Grabs Rose's hand). Where's the Doctor?
The Waiter has simply moved to the other side of the table and holds the bottle out to Rose.
WAITER: Ma'am. Your champagne.
ROSE: It's, it's not ours... Mickey, what is it? What's wrong?
MICKEY: I need to find out how much he knows, so where is he?
WAITER: Doesn't anybody want this champagne?
Plastic Mickey, exasperated, raises his eyes to the waiter for the first time.
PLASTIC MICKEY: Look, we didn't order i... (The Waiter is in fact the Doctor).
"Haha!" Jack cried, jumping in his seat.
"Probably should have seen that coming." Martha said.
PLASTIC MICKEY: Ah. Gotcha. The Doctor shakes the bottle.
THE DOCTOR: Don't mind me. I'm just toasting the happy couple. On the house!
The cork pops out and hits Mickey squarely on the forehead. His forehead absorbs the cork and he spits it out of his mouth.
"Eww" Half the women in the room said in disgust at that. Most of the men just snort and continue watching.
It is finally revealed to Rose that Mickey has in fact been replaced with an Auton.
PLASTIC MICKEY: Anyway. (His hands turn into clubs and he smashes the table in. Rose screams and runs out of the way. The Doctor grabs the Auton's head and pulls it off). Don't think that's gonna stop me.
A couple at a nearby table scream, but the Doctor grins.
"Everyone couldn't help but laugh at that, Jack actually fell off his sofa. Even 12 and Clara were leaning on each other in a fit of giggles.
Rose presses the fire bell.
"Nice move," River and 11 say. It was obvious why he picked Rose, she was quick on her feet and good in a crisis.
ROSE: Everyone out! Out now!
Everyone runs for the exit. The Auton stays inside, blindly smashing tables with his club-hands.
ROSE (CONT'D): Get out! Get out! Get out!
Rose and the Doctor run through the kitchen and out of a back exit.
EXT. BACK YARD
With the Auton in hot pursuit. The Doctor locks a metal door with his sonic screwdriver while Rose tries desperately to find an escape out of the yard they are in. She bangs desperately at some locked gates.
ROSE: Open the gate! Use that tube thing, come on!
THE DOCTOR: Sonic screwdriver.
ROSE: Use it!
THE DOCTOR: Nah. Tell ya what, let's go in here.
He approaches a police box in the middle of the yard and unlocks it.
"Ooo. Rosie's first reaction. Can't wait." Jack squirmed in excitement. Everyone laughed lightheartedly.
The Auton is beginning to make dents in the door from the other side. Rose runs to look at it.
ROSE: We can't hide inside a wooden box! (Runs to the gate and rattles the chains). It's gonna get us! Doctor!
"Come on just get in the Tardis!" 12 cried. Everyone turned to him. He immediately shied away, embarrassed by what he just said. Clara tilted her head at him curiously. Was he concerned?
She runs into the police box.
INT. TARDIS
Rose slams the door behind her, takes a few steps in, looks around, then runs straight back out again.
"Ha!" Jack cried. "Oh that was good."
"Yeah, yeah whatever. We all had a hard time dealing with the Tardis at first." Said Rose. The companions, bar Jack and River, all nodded.
"No one more than me." Clara complained.
"What do you mean?" Rose asked her.
"The Tardis didn't really like her at first, she's a bit sensitive." 12 explained.
"Her or the Tardis?" Martha asked.
"Yes." He replied before turning away, unconcerned. Martha was slightly confused by that but she shook it off and continued to watch.
EXT. BACK YARD
She walks once around the police box and arrives back at the front again. The Auton finally makes a hole in the door, so she runs back into the police box.
INT. TARDIS
ROSE: It's gonna follow us!
THE DOCTOR: The assembled hoards of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried.
"Aw I remember that." River laughed winking at 11. He smiled and kissed her hand. Everyone else just smiled as they watched the couple's antics, it was clear they really loved each other.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): Now, shut up a minute.
Rose stands trembling near the door of the TARDIS, looking around at how huge it is compared with the outside. The Doctor is wiring up the head of the Auton.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): You see, the arm is too simple, but the head's perfect.
Rose still looks overwhelmed.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): I can use it to trace the signal back to the original source. Right. (Turns to Rose, gives her his full attention). Where do you want to start?
ROSE: Um... the inside's bigger than the outside?
THE DOCTOR: Yes.
ROSE: It's alien.
THE DOCTOR: Yup.
ROSE: Are you alien?
THE DOCTOR: Yes. (Rose stares). Is that alright?
ROSE (quickly): Yeah.
"Taking it pretty well." Said Rory.
"Should have seen the way Donna took it." 11 laughed.
"Oi! Watch it space man." Donna called. 11 ceased laughing and smiled sadly instead. He really missed Donna calling him that every second.
THE DOCTOR: It's called the TARDIS, this thing. T-A-R-D-I-S, that's Time And Relative Dimension In Space. (A small sob from Rose). That's okay. Culture shock. Happens to the best of us.
ROSE: Did they kill him? Mickey? Did they kill Mickey? Is he dead?
THE DOCTOR: Oh... I didn't think of that.
"That's nice." Amy muttered, not even trying to hide the sarcasm in her voice. 11 gave her a hug.
"I'm sorry, I use to. Well you know." 10 whispered to Rose.
"It's ok." She said, putting her arms round him.
ROSE: He's my boyfriend. You pulled off his head. They copied him and you didn't even think? And now you're just going to let him melt?!
THE DOCTOR: Melt? (Turns around in time to see "Mickey's head melting with a bubbling noise). Oh, no, no, no, no, NO!
He starts running frantically around the console, pressing buttons and pulling levers.
ROSE: What're you doing?!
THE DOCTOR: Reviving the signal, it's fading! Wait I've got it... (Looks at screen). No, No, No, No, No, NO! (The TARDIS shakes as the engines move). Almost there! Almost there! Here we go!
The engines stop and the Doctor runs out the the TARDIS doors without another word.
ROSE: You can't go out there, it's not safe!
Everyone grinned, knowing what was to happen.
She follows him outside.
EXT. THAMES EMBANKMENT, OPPOSITE LONDON EYE
THE DOCTOR: I lost the signal, I got so close.
Rose hops out of the TARDIS, looking confused again.
"I was surprised to." Martha said.
"Who wasn't?" Said Mickey. Jack and River raised their hands only to be met with a barrage of incoming pillows. Well Jack was, any aimed at River got blown up by her Alpha Mezon blaster. The others recoiled as the cushion exploded. River just blew on her gun and flipped it away, smiling. Jack smiled to, he was really starting to like her.
ROSE: We've moved! Does it fly?
THE DOCTOR: Disappears there, reappears here, you wouldn't understand.
ROSE: But if we're somewhere else, what about that headless thing? It's still on the loose.
THE DOCTOR: It melted with the head, are you going to witter on all night?
"That's not fair." Martha scolded.
"I think it was actually a pretty clever thought, thinking about that plastic." River said. 10 and 11 nodded, 10 then apologised to Rose for yelling at her like he did at this point. She smiled and told him he was forgiven.
ROSE: I'll have to tell his mother...
The Doctor looks at her questioningly.
ROSE: Mickey! I'll have to tell his mother he's dead, and you just went and forgot him, again!
The Doctor rolls his eyes, unconcerned.
ROSE: You were right, you ARE alien. She turns to walk away.
THE DOCTOR: Look, if I did forget some kid called Mickey...
ROSE: Yeah, he's not a kid.
"Thank you!" Mickey said.
"Well, no one can be right all the time." Martha muttered.
"Hey!" He cried as she started laughing.
THE DOCTOR: It's because I'm trying to save the life of every stupid ape blundering on top of this planet, alright?
ROSE: Alright!
THE DOCTOR: Yes! It is!
Rose shakes her head disbelievingly.
ROSE: If you are an alien, then how comes you sound like you're from the North?
THE DOCTOR: Lots of planets have a North.
The doctors in the theatre all synchronised with their on screen self. Everyone else just rolled their eyes and laughed appreciatively.
He folds his arms indignantly and looks away.
ROSE: What's a police public call box?
THE DOCTOR: It's a telephone box from the 1950s. (Pats the TARDIS fondly, grinning). It's a disguise.
"You know you could always fix the chameleon circuit by…" River started to say but 11 clamped a hand over her mouth at the same time 10 said he knew that, just didn't want to. The doctor always changed slightly with each regeneration but some things never changed. Like his love for the Tardis' exterior.
Rose smiles and shakes her head.
ROSE: Okay. And this living plastic, what's it got against us?
THE DOCTOR: Nothing, it loves you. You've got such a good planet. Lots of smoke and oil, plenty of toxins and dioxins in the air... perfect. Just what the Nestene Consciousness needs. It's food stock was destroyed in the war, all its protein plants rotted, so Earth... dinner! ROSE: Any way of stopping it?
Grinning, the Doctor produces a tube of blue liquid from his jacket.
THE DOCTOR: Anti-plastic!
ROSE: Anti-plastic…
THE DOCTOR: Anti-plastic!
Most giggled slightly at the former doctor's enthusiasm.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D) But first I've got to find it. How can you hide something that big in a city this small?
ROSE: Hold on... hide what?
THE DOCTOR: The transmitter. The Consciousness is controlling every single piece of plastic so it needs a transmitter to boost the signal.
ROSE: What's it look like?
THE DOCTOR: Like a transmitter. Round and massive, slap bang in the middle of London.
He paces around, agitated, looking around for a clue.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): A huge circular metal structure... like a dish...
He stands facing Rose, his back to the railings of the bridge. Behind him, the London Eye looms 450 foot above them, but he doesn't seem to register.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): ...like a wheel. Close to where we're standing. Must be completely invisible.
"Oh my god." River face palmed as everyone else burst out laughing. 11 laughed sheepishly while 10 blushed and 12 just smiled.
Rose considers the Eye behind him.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): What?
Rose nods towards the Eye. The Doctor turns around, then back to her, completely nonplussed.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): What?
And que increased laughter. 10's face also grew a bit redder and 11 had a slight tint of pink now as well.
"And I'm supposed to be the oblivious one." Rose said between laughs. If anything that made people laugh more and even 12 couldn't resist chuckling at that point.
Rose shakes her head, looking at the Eye still. He turns around but still fails to make the connection.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): What is it? What?
And more laughter, plus more embarrassment for the doctors. Jack and Mickey actually fell out of the sofa's they were laughing so hard.
Rose simply carries on staring at it. The Doctor turns around again and finally, it clicks.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): Oh... fantastic!
"Fantastic!" 10, 11 and Rose all said. Everyone else was slightly confused but was in to good a mood to care.
He grins inanely and runs off.
EXT. LONDON BRIDGE
Hand in hand, the Doctor and Rose run across London Bridge towards the Eye.
"Ah. Starting to enjoy it now." Jack said, noting the smile the screen Rose was wearing.
"Well after a while the doctor has a way of getting to us all." Said Martha. Everyone nodded in agreement.
EXT. LONDON EYE
They come to a halt at the foot of the Eye.
THE DOCTOR: Think of it. Plastic, all over the world. Every artificial thing waiting to come alive. The shop window dummies, the phones, the wires, the cables...
ROSE: The breast implants...
A lot of awkward stares at Rose for that. Her cheeks turned deep red and she curled in on her self slightly.
THE DOCTOR: Still, we've found the transmitter. The Consciousness must be somewhere underneath.
Rose runs off and finds the entrance to a manhole at the foot of the wall she is looking over.
ROSE: What about down here?
The Doctor runs to join her.
THE DOCTOR: Looks good to me.
"Good eye." River complimented her. Rose smiled. 11 did to, he was pleased his ex-crush and wife were getting along so well. As soon as he thought this he realised just how complicated that sounded. But then again pretty much his whole life was complicated.
They run down the stairs to the manhole. The Doctor takes the lid off it, and red light and smoke pours out. They both climb down the ladder underground.
INT. UNDERNEATH LONDON EYE
The Doctor opens the door to another chamber and they go down some steps. The Doctor points to a huge, orange, wobbling mass in the middle of the chamber.
THE DOCTOR: The Nestene Consciousness, that's it, inside the vat. A living, plastic creature.
ROSE: Well, then. Tip in your anti-plastic and let's go.
THE DOCTOR: I'm not here to kill it. I've got to give it a chance.
10 and 11 both nodded. Everyone deserved a chance. 12 agreed with them, he may be a bit harder on the outside nowadays but deep down he was still the doctor. And no matter what he always believed in at least giving things a chance.
They go down some more steps. The Doctor leans over the railings and addresses the Consciouness.
THE DOCTOR: I seek audience with the Nestene Consciousness under peaceful contract. According to convention 15 of the Shadow Proclamation.
The Consciouness flobbles around a bit.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): Thank you. If I might have permission to approach.
Meanwhile, as Rose paces around in the background, she spots Mickey and runs to him. The Doctor rolls his eyes.
ROSE: Mickey. Mickey! It's me! It's okay, it's alright. It's alright!
She squats down next to him.
MICKEY: That thing down there, the liquid, Rose, it can talk!
ROSE: You're stinking! Doctor, they kept him alive!
THE DOCTOR: Yeah, that was always a possibility. Keep him alive to maintain the copy.
ROSE: You knew that and you never said?
THE DOCTOR: Can we keep the domestics outside, thank you?
"What's wrong with domestics?" Rose asked.
"Nothing." 11 said. 10 and Rose both stared at him. "What? I know I use to have a thing against it but it's not that bad. TV's good. Ooo. And jammy dodgers with tea mm. Then there's parties and weddings I love dancing I remember…" He went on and on and on. By now everyone had gotten use to tuning him out when he got like this. Meanwhile 10 was clutching his head and muttering under his breath in worry at the thought of being 'okay' with domestics.
Rose helps Mickey to his feet. The Doctor approaches the Consciousness.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): Am I addressing the Consciousness? Thank you. If I might observe, you infiltrated this civilization by means of warped, shunt technology. So, may I suggest, with the greatest respect, that you shunt off?
The plastic globbers in what appears to be a negative manner.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): Oh don't give me that, it's an invasion! Plain and simple! Don't talk about constitutional rights!
The plastic rears what would appear to be its head angrily.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): I... am... talking!
"So forceful aren't you sweetie." River said. shifting over to sit next to her husband.
"I try." He replied flirtatiously. 10 was looking on in disbelief. Him? Flirting?
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): This planet is just starting. These stupid little people have only just learnt how to walk, but they're capable of so much more. I'm asking you on their behalf - please, just go.
Two Autons approach the Doctor from behind.
ROSE: Doctor!
The Autons grab him. One of them takes the anti-plastic out of his jacket pocket.
THE DOCTOR: That was just insurance! I wasn't going to USE it.
The plastic globbers angrily.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): I was not attacking you. I'm here to help. I'm not your enemy. I swear, I'm not... what do you mean?
Doors above him open to reveal the TARDIS.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): Oh, oh no, honestly, no! Yes, that's my ship. The plastic roars.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): That's not true. I should know, I was there. I fought in the war. It wasn't my fault! I couldn't save your world! I couldn't save any of them!
10 and 11 both sunk down into deep depression at that. They always tried. But sometimes, they couldn't save everyone. Sometimes they couldn't save anyone. Clara and 12 both shared a look, each thinking about Galifrey.
"Couldn't you have saved the other worlds to." She asked softly, still deep in thought.
"No." He said. Clara looked at him but he had 'that face' on again. The one with the scowl and the eyebrows. She knew that look. I will always try, but sometimes not everyone can be saved.
ROSE: What's it doing?!
THE DOCTOR: It's the TARDIS! The Nestene has identified its superior technology. It's terrified! It's going to the final base. It's starting the invasion! Get out, Rose! Just leg it! Now!
Rose dials a number on her mobile.
ROSE: Mum?!
EXT. TOWN CENTRE
Jackie is going down the steps of a police station.
JACKIE: Oh, there you are, I was just gonna phone. You can get compensation. I said so. I've got this document thing off the police don't thank me!
If the previous scene hadn't been so intense they would have laughed. Clara, having been less affected, did manage to smile at how stubborn and high strung Rose's mother was.
INT. UNDERNEATH LONDON EYE
ROSE: Where are you, mum?
EXT. TOWN CENTRE
JACKIE: I'm in town!
INT. UNDERNEATH LONDON EYE
ROSE: Go home! Just go home, right now!
EXT. TOWN CENTRE
JACKIE: Darling, you're breaking up, look, I'm just going to do a bit of late night shopping. I'll see you later. Tara!
"Oh no!" Rose cried.
10 grabbed her hand and gave it a squeeze.
"Don't worry remember this has already happened." He said, soothingly.
She hangs up.
INT. UNDERNEATH LONDON EYE
ROSE: Mum?! Mum!
EXT. TOWN CENTRE
Jackie heads into the Queens Arcade shopping centre.
INT. UNDERNEATH LONDON EYE
The Consciousness sends out a signal.
THE DOCTOR: It's the activation signal! It's transmitting!
EXT. LONDON EYE
The electric blue signal shoots around the Eye.
INT. UNDERNEATH LONDON EYE
ROSE: The end of the world...
"Bit dramatic." Rory said. "The world's come a lot closer than that over the years."
Everyone sighed, either in annoyance or agreement. While Amy smacked her fiancé on the arm, then gave him a kiss on the cheek.
EXT. LONDON EYE
The activation signal transmits from the London Eye.
INT. QUEEN'S ARCADE
Clive is in the shopping centre, talking to his wife.
CLIVE: There's no point creating a spreadsheet if you're going to spend summer money in winter months.
Caroline gasps as she walks past a shop window and the dummy taps the glass.
CAROLINE: Oh my God! I thought they were dummies! I nearly had a heart-attack!
They look around and all the dummies are doing the same. Clive's wife smiles appreciatively... until they punch their way through the glass and step out of the windows. Jackie is coming down an escalator and looks in disbelief at the dummies walking around.
CLIVE: It's true. Everything I read, all the stories! It's all true!
A dummy turns towards him. Its hand comes off and reveals a gun, which shoots him. Clive's wife and son scream.
Rose gave a small sob at that. Clive was such a nice bloke. 10 hugged her and she rested her head on his shoulder. Mickey and Martha as well as Amy and Rory were cuddling at this point. Everyone was sort of relaxed just enjoying themselves.
INT. UNDERNEATH LONDON EYE
The Doctor is still being held hostage.
THE DOCTOR: Get out, Rose! Just get out! Run!
Part of the ceiling falls in.
ROSE: The stairs have gone!
Rose and Mickey try desperately to get into the TARDIS.
ROSE (CONT'D): I haven't got the key!
MICKEY: We're gonna die!
"Now who's being dramatic." Rose teased.
"Hey he mentioned it not me." Mickey complained, pointing at Rory.
"Uh, I have a name you know." He said.
"Aw, shut up, stupid." Amy said. He crossed his arms indignantly.
INT. QUEEN'S ARCADE
The shopping centre is in chaos. Jackie stands at the bottom of the escalator looking confused for a few seconds, then screams and runs, dropping her shopping bag.
INT. UNDERNEATH LONDON EYE
Mickey and Rose are still cowering at the door of the TARDIS.
EXT. STREET
Outside, Jackie finds that there is just as much chaos outside the shopping centre as there is inside. An army of dummies come out of the doors. Jackie runs down the road and ducks behind a car outside a wedding shop. The dummies in the window punch through the glass. Jackie screams.
"She wasn't kidding." Mickey said.
"Sorry?" Rose asked him.
"Well she kept going on about how she was nearly killed. I just thought she was over-reacting, you know how she is." He said. She nodded and smiled.
INT. UNDERNEATH LONDON EYE
Rose watches the Doctor struggle to get to the anti-plastic, then seems to reach some kind of decision. She stands up.
MICKEY: Just leave him!
"Aw thats nice, I love you to." 10 said, sarcastically. Martha shoved her husband lightly but was to relaxed to do anything else. Mickey just rolled his eyes and put his arm round her, resting his head on her's.
EXT. STREET
The wedding dummies advance dangerously on Jackie. All three hold their arms out ready to shoot.
INT. UNDERNEATH LONDON EYE
Rose takes action.
MICKEY (CONT'D): There's nothing you can do!
Rose picks up an axe.
ROSE: I've got no A Levels.
EXT. STREET
The dummies raise their guns.
INT. UNDERNEATH LONDON EYE
ROSE (CONT'D): No job...
EXT. STREET
The hands open to reveal the space where the bullets can be released.
INT. UNDERNEATH LONDON EYE
ROSE (CONT'D): No future.
EXT. STREET
Jackie cowers.
"Is it weird that they did that at the exact same time she spoke?" Rory asked.
"Yeah a bit." Clara muttered, leaning her head on 12's arm. He flinched slightly but made no move to stop her.
INT. UNDERNEATH LONDON EYE
Rose hacks at a chain on the wall, trying to release it.
ROSE (CONT'D): But I tell you what I have got. Jericho Street Junior School under 7s gymnastic team.
The chain comes loose and Rose grabs onto it.
ROSE (CONT'D): I got the bronze!
"Yeah!" Jack yelled punching the air. Everyone smiled this time, they were all thinking it after all.
Rose swings across the gap over the Consciousness. She kicks the Autons holding the Doctor hostage into the Nestene, anti-plastic and all. The Consciousness starts to writhe and scream. Rose lands safely in the Doctor's arms at the other side of the gap.
THE DOCTOR: Now we're in trouble.
"When are you not?" River asked.
"Uh…" 11 tried to think of a time, but none came to mind. Jack couldn't help but laugh at that. 12 rolled his eyes, until he noticed Clara was chuckling also. He looked at her for a moment before he to started to laugh. Everyone else looked at them laughing like idiots, but before they knew it they were joining in. No one knew why really, maybe it was all the emotions they'd been through today, kind of an aftershock.
The Consciousness starts to explode as Rose and the Doctor run off. The signal from the Eye is cut off.
EXT. STREET
The Autons in the high street that were previously attacking people, stop, and start to twitch as if they are doing some kind of dance. Jackie uncovers her eyes warily.
10 felt Rose relax a bit, clearly relived her mother was out of harms way.
INT. UNDERNEATH LONDON EYE
Rose, the Doctor and Mickey all manage to reach the TARDIS. Rose grins at the Consciousness before she goes in and closes the door, as it starts to die. Just before the whole chamber goes up in flames, the TARDIS disappears.
"Yet another last minute get away." 10 said proudly. Rose elbowed him, those close shaves were a bit too close for her liking.
EXT. STREET
The dummies all fall to the ground, twitching at first, but dead.
EXT. ALLEYWAY
Mickey runs backwards out of the TARDIS and falls over, looking terrified.
"And I thought Rose's first reaction was good." Jack laughed. Mickey blushed slightly, embarrassed with how overwhelmed he use to be by all the space, time stuff.
He backs against a wall. Rose, however, steps out and rings her mother on her mobile.
EXT. STREET
JACKIE (answers phone): Rose! Rose! Don't go out of the house, it's not safe!
EXT. ALLEYWAY
Rose laughs in relief to hear Jackie's voice.
EXT. STREET
JACKIE (CONT'D): There were all of these things! And they were shooting! And they...
EXT. ALLEYWAY
Satisfied that Jackie is alive, Rose hangs up on her, smiling to herself.
EXT. STREET
JACKIE (CONT'D): Hello? Hello?
"And you left her hanging." Mickey stated. Rose just grinned at him like she'd given him a christmas present, then looked away like nothing had happened. His face scrunched slightly in confusion, having expected an eye roll, then he just sniffed and turned back the screen.
EXT. ALLEYWAY
Rose runs over to Mickey.
ROSE: A fat lot of good you were!
Mickey whimpers. The Doctor stands in the doorway of the TARDIS.
THE DOCTOR: Nestene Consciousness? (Clicks fingers). Easy.
ROSE (teasingly): You were useless in there. You'd be dead if it wasn't for me.
THE DOCTOR: Yes, I would. Thank you. Right then! I'll be off! Unless, uh... I don't know... you could come with me.
Rose looks at him and puts her hands in her pockets.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): This box isn't just a London hopper, you know, it goes anywhere in the universe free of charge.
MICKEY: Don't! He's an alien! He's a thing!
"Thanks." The doctors sniped. Mickey threw his hands up in mock surrender.
"Sorry bit of a shock for me." He said, trying to justify his past actions. The doctors already knew that but found in fun messing with him. Well 10 did, 11 just enjoyed messing in general and 12 really didn't care.
THE DOCTOR: He's NOT invited. What do you think? You could stay here and fill your life with work and food and sleep, or you could go, uh... anywhere.
ROSE: Is it always this dangerous?
THE DOCTOR (nods): Yeah.
Everyone smiled fondly at that, it was always dangerous. But they wouldn't have it any other way.
Mickey puts his arms around Rose's legs like a little child.
ROSE: Yeah, I can't... I've um... gotta go and find my mum and um... someone's gotta look after this stupid lump... (Small laugh, pats Mickey on the back). So...
THE DOCTOR: Okay. See you around.
Rose looks at him intensely, as if she still hasn't really made up her mind. The Doctor does not take his eyes off her, but closes the door. Rose looks at the closed door. The engines of the TARDIS rev up, and it slowly disappears. Rose stares at the space where it was, lost in thought.
ROSE: Come on, let's go.
Mickey is in absolute shock, staring at the empty space where the TARDIS stood.
"What no you can't leave." Jack complained. How could he, why would anyone let someone like Rose slip away. Donna was nodding her head in agreement. Thinking of the time she let the Doctor fly away from her.
ROSE (CONT'D): C'mon... come on...
She helps him to his feet and they begin to walk away. However, the sound of the engines is heard again. Rose and Mickey spin around. The TARDIS reappears. The Doctor pops his head out.
THE DOCTOR: By the way... Did I mention, it also travels in time?
He grins and goes back in, leaving the door ajar. Rose turns to Mickey.
ROSE: Thanks.
MICKEY: Thanks for what?
ROSE: Exactly.
"What's that supposed to mean." Donna said.
"I think it was her telling me why she was leaving." Mickey said, slightly disheartened. Martha squeezed his hand and whispered to him.
"I'd pick you over the doctor any day." He smiled and kissed her. Rose watched them, she felt a tiny bit jealous, seeing as she hadn't broken up with Mickey yet in her timeline. But she pushed those feelings aside when 10 placed his hand on hers, she remembered that they'd both moved on now.
She kisses his cheek and runs into the TARDIS with a broad smile on her face.
CLOSING CREDITS
"Well that was fun. What do we do now." Jack asked. But before anyone could reply, the screen lit up once again.