NEXT TIME…
INT. EXHIBIT ROOM
Rows of cases with Aliens in them appear on screen.
ROSE: A great big museum.
Zoom out as the museum is illuminated.
THE DOCTOR: An alien museum, someone's got a hobby.
"Woah…" Said Amy at the sight of the museum.
"Someone's a bit obsessive." Rory muttered, followed by murmurs of agreement from the others.
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Close up of Van Statten's face.
VAN STATTEN: The cage contains my one living specimen.
"Cage!" Donna cried, angrily. Everyone turned to see her fuming in complete anger. 11 almost smiled, so many fond memories resurfacing. But he couldn't. For one thing she was right, it was awful to keep aliens in cages, even if it had been a Dalek. For another, well… He was always sad when thinking about Donna.
INT. DALEK CELL
The doctor walks into the cage.
INT. LIFT
Close up of the doctor's face.
THE DOCTOR: Must've fallen through time, the only survivor.
"Ooo… Only one of it's kind eh…" Amy mused, fully interested. Rory rolled his eyes, Amy had always been overly curious and willing to accept anything, plus she didn't scare easy.
"I wish…" 11 muttered, but of course the Daleks went on. They survive, they always survive. 10 and Rose were think along the same lines, the Daleks had caused an awful lot of pain, the two had witnessed so many deaths at their hands.
INT. OUTSIDE DALEK CELL
Rose rushes out, panicked.
ROSE: It's killing him do something.
"Of course it would be hostile, can't get one of the nice one's on earth now and then." Clara grumbled.
"Well, I expect most aliens would be hostile if they'd been locked up in a cage." Donna defended, "Who knows what they could have done to it."
Rose's eyes darkened. The Dalek might have been evil, but she'd know doubt Van Statten would have tortured it the way he did regardless. Why did so many people have to be so judgmental and greedy?
INT. EXAMINATION ROOM
Close up of the doctor, looking pained.
THE DOCTOR: I swear no one on this base is safe!
"Oh god!" Rose gasped, hand flying to her face.
"What did they do to you?" Martha cried, concern lacing through her voice. It was visible on every else's faces as well, as they looked to the doctors for answers.
"Don't worry, I've been through worse." 11 assured.
"Yea, it was just some kind of autopsy Van Statten did to find out more about me." 10 explained, Everyone scowled. "Slightly painful but it subsides pretty quick."
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
The doctor rushes in and addresses the monitor showing Rose.
THE DOCTOR: You've got to keep it in that cell.
Close up of the screen, Bywater is now stood next to Rose.
BYWATER: It can't get out that locks got a billion combinations.
"Something tells me that won't be enough." Donna murmured gravely.
"How can you tell?" Rory asked.
"It never is." She replied.
Rory hadn't been aboard the Tardis long, he'd read up on the doctor and seen a pretty good example of his lifestyle in Ledworth and Venice. He thought he had a good idea of how dangerous and exciting it all was. But he was starting to wonder if he knew the full extent of it. Everyone in this room who'd been with the doctor a while, seemed to have moments where'd they'd space out or act so solemn and cold. Did some of the things they'd seen really scar them that much. Was he safe? Was Amy safe?!
Rose backs away as guns fire around her.
INT. VAULT CORRIDORS
Rose and Adam run past another bunch of security guards, led by De Maggio.
DE MAGGIO: Civilians! Let them through!
THE DOCTOR V.O.: That thing downstairs is gonna kill every last one of us.
As the doctor talks Bywater is shot, his entire skeleton illuminated by a laser.
Everyone gasped, they knew a Dalek laser beam when they saw one. Some felt themselves tense in fear, others in anger, but either way, the ominous cloud of tension had once again set over the room.
INT. CORRIDOR
Rose and Adam hear the sound of the exterminator beam and De Maggio's scream. They run down the corridor terrified.
"This looks like one intense episode." Jack said, his voice completely void of emotion. Everyone could only nod silently, not once taking their eyes off the screen.
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
THE DOCTOR: What's the nearest town?
VAN STATTEN: Saltlake city.
THE DOCTOR: Population?
VAN STATTEN: One Million.
THE DOCTOR: All dead.
"That's the Daleks for you, can't stop them, can't reason with them." 11 sighed.
"Don't say that." Martha reassured. "You've defeated them hundreds of times."
"Yeah, hundreds…" 10 muttered. Martha realised her mistake, but knew if she tried to fix it she'd probably end up making things worse.
INT. WEAPONS TESTING AREA
Rose and Adam run into the room as the doctor is speaking again.
THE DOCTOR: If you want order's follow this one.
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
The doctor shouts, spit flying from his mouth in his passionate hatred.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): Why don't you just die!
All lot of people were shocked. Some had never seen the doctor so full of hatred before, and those that had didn't see it very often. It was somewhat scary actually.
INT. CORRIDOR
Rose and Adam round a corner on floor 46.
ROSE: We're nearly there, give us two seconds.
INT. DALEK CELL
THE DOCTOR: I've come to help, I'm the doctor.
Lights suddenly come on, illuminating the Dalek.
DALEK: Exterminate!
THE DOCTOR: Impossible!
DALEK: Exterminate!
Run!" Donna and Martha cried, as if the doctor on the screen could hear them.
"Don't worry, I was fine." 10 assured them, flashing one of his famous grins, Rose also decided to lean forward from behind him and give a quick wink. The two girls smiled at them, whilst the others looked on, pleased at how friendly with each other everyone on the first sofa was being.
INT. EXHIBIT ROOM
The TARDIS materialises and the Doctor and Rose step out.
ROSE: So, what is it? What's wrong?
THE DOCTOR: Don't know, some kind of signal drawing the TARDIS off course...
"Oh, yep had my fair share of that." Amy deadpanned.
"And me," Martha cut in. "Gosh, Messaline, am I right?" she nudged Donna lightly.
"Yea," said Donna, "Man that was one weird trip. Oh and the signal you sent." she pointed at River, shaking her head and rolling her eyes. River looked slightly confused at first, but then realised Donna must be referring to a time in her future so she decided it would be safer if she didn't look any further into the matter.
They look about themselves.
ROSE: Where are we?
THE DOCTOR: Earth, Utah, North America. About half a mile underground.
ROSE: And... when are we?
THE DOCTOR: 2012.
ROSE: God, that's so close, so I should be... 26.
The Doctor flicks a switch and lights flood the museum.
ROSE: Blimey! It's a great big museum!
Everyone was still shocked at seeing such a place. Who would collect so many alien artefacts? Then again, who wouldn't?
THE DOCTOR: An alien museum. Someone's got a hobby. They must've spent a fortune on this. Chunks of meteorite, moon dust... that's the milometer from the Roswell Spaceship.
"Another story there doctor?" Clara prompted.
"Oh yeah," 10 said, nodding. "The Nedenah, the American military, the Waro… What an adventure that was…"
"Everyone was interested in this so called "adventure", but the sound of Rose's voice on the screen reminded them there was another adventure for them to watch at the minute.
He passes the exhibits as he names them. They notice a Slitheen arm in one case.
ROSE: That's a bit of Slitheen! That's a Slitheen's arm, it's been stuffed.
"Woah, weird coincidence you were just fighting them." Amy commented.
"Actually…" Rose said. "We didn't go straight to Van Statten's base from home, there was that trip to Italy, and that weird planet with the trees that…"
"Oh, those ones with the leaves that…" 10 jumped in.
"Yeah…" Rose agreed. Both smiling as the reminisced.
"It seems this thing only shows your most interesting of adventures." Clara said.
"Most dangerous more like." Rory grumbled, still against the doctor's reckless way of life.
The Doctor notices something else.
THE DOCTOR: Ah! Look at you!
Inside the glass case he is approaching, is the head of a Cyberman. The Doctor stares through the glass at it. Rose stands behind him.
"Amazing, I've never seen such an old model before." said River, excitedly, carefully studying it.
"What is it?" Donna asked, having never net cybermen before.
"I expect this'll show you if your patient." 12 said, turning back to the screen. Donna scowled but didn't comment on his lecturing.
ROSE: What is it?
THE DOCTOR: An old friend of mine... well, enemy. The stuff of nightmares reduced to an exhibit. I'm getting old.
12 snorted. He found it amusing that he'd ever thought himself old at 900. Now that he was 2000 it seemed almost youthful. Plus, he was quite sure he'd live to be much, much older than this. For all the scraps he got in to, he seemed to have quite the knack for survival. The thought that it might be dumb luck passed briefly through his head, but his ego sent it packing a few seconds later. He was the doctor, there was no way he got by on luck alone.
ROSE: Is that where the signal's coming from?
THE DOCTOR: Nah, it's stone dead. This signal's alive. Something's reaching out. (Stares intently through the glass). Calling for help.
"Nice way of putting it." Donna said, sarcastically. The rest of the group snickered, minus the doctors, who were fighting the urge to huff at her remark.
"You must admit you were rather ominous." Rose said to 10. He just shook his head and ignored it. 11 and 12 did to, glad they weren't targeted directly.
He places the tip of his finger gently on the glass. Immediately, an alarm goes off and they are promptly surrounded by soldiers all pointing their guns at them.
River, Jack, Amy, Clara and several others face-palmed.
"Museum glass has alarms, how do you not know that." Clara cried, looking pointedly at 12.
"I don't know," He answered truthfully.
"What do you mean?" She asked, frustration draining out of her voice.
"This was about 1000 years ago Clara, I can't remember what I was thinking at the time, time lord's have longer memory spans than humans but they're similarly structured, so I'll remember the important stuff from my life but other things will just… sort of… fade after a while."
Clara listened intently to him, and found she had nothing else to say when he was finished, nor did anyone else, even 10 and 11 had felt something in his words, and those were going to be their words, eventually.
ROSE: If someone's collecting aliens, that makes you Exhibit A.
The Doctor flashes the soldiers a grin.
The previous tension in the room faded with the old doctor's smile. Everyone began to wonder if the doctor actually found some pleasure in having a gun pointed at him or if it was just a habit now, he seemed to have to deal with this sort of thing every other day.
OPENING CREDITS (minus names)
"DALEK"
Everyone shook their heads at the bluntness the title, whoever wrote this sure had no intention of being tactful about it.
INT. CORRIDOR
A helicopter lands.
BYWATER (over intercom): Attention all personnel! Bad wolf one descending. Bad wolf one descending.
"That phrase sure does show up a lot doesn't it." said Clara.
"Spoilers." 12 whispered to her. Everyone else who was beginning to notice was getting use to waiting for the answers to their questions at this point, so they just carried on watching.
Inside a corridor, men with guns line the walls. Henry van Statten alights from a lift with a few others - they begin to walk briskly down the corridor.
POLKOWSKI: On behalf of all of us, I wanna wish you a very happy birthday, sir. (No reply). And the President called to convey his personal best wishes.
"Henry Van Statten, why am I not surprised." said Jack, hints of frustration and sarcasm making their way into his tone.
"You know him?" asked Rose, shocked.
"He's in the Torchwood files," Jack explained. "Well someone had to take care of his collection after he disappeared, or at least that's the official story…"
"What do you mean?" Rose asked, having never discovered Van Statten's fate. Jack just grinned and waggled his eyebrows at her suggestively. Rose shook her head and looked away, deciding she'd find out later.
VAN STATTEN: The President is 10 points down. I want him replaced.
"What? You can't just replace the president." said Amy, "Can you?" she continued after a thought.
"Not normally, but Henry Van Statten held a lot of power at that time, plus he was smart. He was sort of one of those extremely rich and powerful business men that could manipulate the world without anyone knowing." Jack explained.
POLKOWSKI: I don't think that's very wise, sir...
VAN STATTEN: Thank you so much for your opinion. You're fired. (To the soldiers): Get rid of him.
POLKOWSKI: Wha...?
The soldiers drag him off. Van Statten keeps on walking.
"He works fast." Martha said, still stunned by the way he just got rid of someone like that.
"Not very fair though." Donna growled.
VAN STATTEN: Wipe his memory, put him on the road someplace, Memphis, Minneapolis - somewhere beginning with 'M'.
Everyone scowled, he said that like he did it everyday, and if he was making a little game out of it, he probably did. Seriously, you're wiping someone's memory and having a little fun deciding where to just leave them. Seriously, the only thing more cruel than doing something horrible to another person, is enjoying it.
Another woman named Goddard hastens to take Polkowski's place.
VAN STATTEN (CONT'D): So, the next President, what do you think? Republican or Democrat?
GODDARD: Democrat, sir.
VAN STATTEN: For what reason?
GODDARD (a pause): They're just so funny, sir?
"Excellent reason." 11 said, smiling happily. Everyone else grinned at the childishness he displayed, even in the simple gesture. It was often hard to remember how old the 11th doctor was, he acted like a child so frequently.
Meanwhile, Clara was observing 11's smile with some more serious thoughts. She was comparing the doctors, something everyone had been unconsciously doing since they got here. She was thinking about the way 10 always grinned, whereas 11 smiled and 12 smirked. Was there a reason for that, a hint to their slightly different personalities? It crossed her mind she might be overthinking things, but then again, traveling with the doctor had taught her many things, like never ignore a coincidence.
They all stop. Van Statten looks at her.
VAN STATTEN: What is your name?
GODDARD: Goddard, sir. Diana Goddard.
VAN STATTEN: I like you, Diana Goddard. (Resumes walking). So, where's the English kid?
The "English Kid", Adam, hurries up to him.
ADAM: Sir! Sir! I bought ten more artefacts at auction, Mr Van Statten.
VAN STATTEN: Bring 'em on, let me see 'em.
GODDARD: Sir, with respect, there's something more urgent. We arrested two intruders 54 floors down. We don't know how they got in.
VAN STATTEN: I'll tell you how they got in. In'tro the window. In'tro the window, that was funny! (Polite laughs). Bring 'em in, let's see 'em, and tell Simmons I wanna visit my little pet. Get to it!
Everybody shook their heads. Martha was right, he did move fast.
He goes through a door.
GODDARD (into mouthpiece): Simmons? You'd better give me good news. Is it talking?
INT. DALEK CELL
From the alien's point of view, we see Simons attacking it with some sort of chainsaw. It is screaming.
\A lot of people were appalled by what they saw. Especially Donna and Rory, who as of right now were the only two in the room to have not met the Daleks. Everyone else was slightly less angered, knowing the Dalek probably deserved it, but knew that Van Statten would have tortured it whether it was evil or not, and that sickened them. The thought of an innocent creature having been captured instead of a Dalek was one that sent a shiver down their spines. Some even felt sorry for the Dalek, despite what it had done. Only those who'd had little to no experience with them though. Others, that had seen to much death and destruction caused by the race, couldn't bring themselves to be upset.
SIMMONS: Not exactly "talking", no.
GODDARD: Then what's it doing?
SIMMONS: Screaming. Is that any good?
He applies the chain saw again.
"He doesn't seem very upset." Donna grumbled. Rose clenched her fists at the memory of Simmons and how easily he found tormenting the Dalek. At the time she'd been upset about his death, but now she couldn't bring herself to care anymore.
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Van Statten is sitting at a table while Adam shows him the artefacts.
ADAM: And this is the last... paid $800,000 for it.
The Doctor, Rose and Goddard enter.
VAN STATTEN: What does it do?
Takes it from Adam.
ADAM: Well you see, the tubes on the side must be to channel something, I think maybe fuel...
"Incorrect, that's a Hyphonian harmonica." said River. "Good try though."
THE DOCTOR: I really wouldn't hold it like that.
GODDARD: Shut it.
THE DOCTOR: Really, though, that's wrong.
"You just can't resist showing of can you." Clara sighed, shaking her head with a smile. "Even if there's loads of guns trained on you."
"Well I find people don't really want to shoot me when they realise how impressive I am." 11 laughed, 10 and 12 nodding along.
ADAM: Is it dangerous?
THE DOCTOR: No. Just looks silly.
Everyone laughed, of course the doctor would point that out. River and the doctors knew it was true of course, if he'd held the instrument that way on it's home planet, he'd have gotten seriously laughed at.
He holds his hand out for the artefact. Security ready their guns. Van Statten holds up a hand to stop them and hands the object to the Doctor.
"And you've won him over already." Rory said, dramatically.
"I'll never understand how you do that." said Amy, looking at 11. "It's like you have some kind of psychic… whatchamacallit that makes people like you."
"It's simple," 10 said. "If I'm confident, people will either trust me, be impressed by me or annoyed by me. Either way they'll want to find out if I have the skills to back up that confidence."
Donna rolled her eyes at what he said, while Amy nodded and everyone else just shook their heads fondly.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): You just need to be...
He runs his fingers gently over the artefact and it plays a note, rather like a harmonica.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): ... delicate.
Everyone looks suitably impressed. The Doctor beams around at them all whilst playing it.
VAN STATTEN: It's a musical instrument.
THE DOCTOR (nods): And it's a long way from home.
VAN STATTEN (stands): Here, let me.
He grabs it off the Doctor, who raises his eyebrows.
THE DOCTOR: I did say "delicate". Reacts to the smallest fingerprint.
Van Statten cannot make it play at first and it makes a series of bleeping noises.
Everyone was a bit surprised that he was having such trouble; the instrument didn't look that hard to play. Though appearances could be deceiving and some things were harder than they looked. The doctor seemed to have a way of making everything he did look easy, though they knew that was just the surface. The doctor was a far more complex individual than anyone could comprehend. Even himself.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): It needs precision.
Van Statten touches it more gently and it plays a few notes. The Doctor smiles.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): Very good. Quite the expert.
VAN STATTEN: As are you.
"Aw… Look you've bonded." Amy said, cheekily. 11 rolled his eyes and gave her a playful shove, while 10 and 12 both looked appalled. They refused to be associated with that horrible man, after all the destruction he helped to cause.
He tosses the instrument aside, where it lands somewhere on the floor. The Doctor's and Adam's eyes follow it, slightly alarmed.
River and the doctors scowled. Hyphonian artefacts were very delicate, they were a delicate race after all, how dare he toss it around like that.
VAN STATTEN (CONT'D): Who exactly are you?
The Doctor looks back at Van Statten with a new, slightly disdainful look in his eye.
10 sighed. "I always like to give people a chance, but they often prove themselves to be nothing short of idiots."
"Well," 11 cut in. "There are exceptions." He gestured to everyone in the room. The all smiled, 10 and 12 to.
THE DOCTOR: I'm the Doctor. And who are you?
VAN STATTEN: Like you don't know. We're hidden away with the most valuable collection of extra-terrestrial artefacts in the world and you just stumbled in by mistake.
THE DOCTOR: Pretty much sums me up, yeah.
"You can say that again." Martha laughed.
"What's that supposed to mean?" 12 asked.
"Well you must admit." Clara said. "Stumbling into trouble's pretty much the story of your life."
VAN STATTEN: The question is, how did you get in? 53 floors down. With your little cat burglar accomplice. (Looks at Rose). Quite a collector yourself, she's rather pretty.
Rose growled angrily, she wasn't just some trophy companion to the doctor, she was a person, with thoughts and feelings like everyone else. She hated the way Van Statten was referring to her as a object.
ROSE: She's gonna smack you if you keep calling her "she"
VAN STATTEN (eyes on the Doctor): She's English too! (To Adam). Hey, little Lord Fauntleroy, got you a girlfriend.
ADAM: This is Mr Henry Van Statten.
ROSE: And who's he when he's at home?
ADAM: Mr Van Statten owns the Internet.
"Nobody owns the internet." Clara, Donna, Amy and Rory said simultaneously.
"Actually the internet was owned by Van Statten for a short period of time, he made money of the advertising used on it, like a lot of free websites." Jack explained.
"Yeah, but when he disappeared his ownership was divided up among organisations like our." Mickey added, referring to UNIT and Torchwood.
ROSE: Don't be stupid, no one owns the Internet.
VAN STATTEN: And let's just keep the whole world thinking that way, right kids?
THE DOCTOR: So you're just about an expert on everything except the things in your museum. Anything you don't understand, you lock up.
VAN STATTEN: And you claim greater knowledge?
THE DOCTOR: I don't need to make claims, I know how good I am.
"Too true." 10, 11 and 12 all said. Their companions either rolled their eyes or shook their heads. To them, the doctor's ego was only fun when he was showing up his enemies.
VAN STATTEN: And yet, I captured you. Right next to the Cage. What were you doing down there?
THE DOCTOR: You tell me.
VAN STATTEN: The cage contains my one living specimen.
THE DOCTOR: And what's that?
VAN STATTEN: Like you don't know.
THE DOCTOR: Show me.
VAN STATTEN: You wanna see it?
ROSE: Blimey, you can smell the testosterone
"Couldn't have said it better myself." Martha laughed, reaching over to give Rose a quick fist bump.
VAN STATTEN: Goddard, inform the Cage. We're heading down.
Goddard nods.
VAN STATTEN (to Adam): You, English. Look after the girl. Go and canoodle or spoon, or whatever it is you British do.
All the British people in the room -which was the majority- huffed angrily at his comments. It was clear this Van Statten character didn't care much for the people of their country. They didn't just 'canoodle or spoon' as he put it.
VAN STATTEN (CONT'D): And you, Doctor with no name... (Ready by the lift). Come and see my pet.
"Someone should of warned him." Said Jack. "Daleks make really bad pets."
Amy, Clara, Rose and a few others burst out laughing at him comment. It was somewhat satiric and they figured they really shouldn't be laughing, but they just couldn't resist.
INT. OUTSIDE DALEK CELL
Van Statten leads the Doctor to the cage.
VAN STATTEN: We've tried everything. The creatures has... shielded itself but there's definite signs of life inside.
He has entered a code to enter the Cage. The door to the Cage opens behind him.
THE DOCTOR: Inside? Inside what?
SIMMONS (to Van Statten): Welcome back, sir. I've had to take the power down, the Metaltron is resting.
THE DOCTOR: Metaltron?
"Interesting term, I can see where he'd get that from, considering Daleks just love to be sealed away behind a prison of metal." Said River.
VAN STATTEN: Thought of it myself. Good, isn't it? Although I'd much to prefer to find out its real name.
SIMMONS (to the Doctor): Here, you'd better put these on. (Offers the Doctor a pair of gloves). The last guy that touched it... burst into flames.
"Mmm…" 11 hummed. "That happens when Daleks get defensive, their armour senses they're in danger and creates a protective barrier, plus combined with all the chemicals leaking from it's damaged shell, well… The results are obvious."
THE DOCTOR: I won't touch it then.
Goddard smirks.
"Ah, the beautiful sass once again…" Jack sighed dramatically, while 10 and 11 both blushed. 12 just did that criss-cross movement with his eyebrows, that he did when he annoyed or exasperated.
VAN STATTEN: Go ahead, Doctor. Impress me.
Goddard looks at the Doctor. With a placid expression on his face, he steps into the Cage. Van Statten steps away.
VAN STATTEN (CONT'D): Don't open that door until we get a result.
Everybody scowled. How dare Van Statten lock the doctor in a room with a potentially (or definitely in their case) dangerous alien life-form and expect 'results'.
He and Goddard bend down to look at the monitor showing surveillance footage from the Cage. It is pitch dark inside - they watch the Doctor enter.
INT. DALEK CELL
The door shuts behind the Doctor. He looks at some of the instruments Simmons was using to torture the alien. Through the darkness, the Doctor sees a blue light giving away the alien's location in the Cage.
THE DOCTOR: Look, I'm sorry about this. Mr Van Statten might think he's clever, but never mind him. I've come to help. I'm the Doctor.
DALEK: Doc-tor.
THE DOCTOR (absolute shock): Impossible.
DALEK: THE Doctor?
The Doctor watches, his eyes wide, his mouth slightly open. Lights suddenly come on, illuminating the Dalek.
DALEK (CONT'D): Exterminate! Exterminate!
The Doctor bangs on the door of the cage, rattling it.
THE DOCTOR: Let me out!
It hurt most people to hear the genuine fear in the doctor's voice. It wasn't often that anything scared the doctor, in fact they usually only saw such things when one of them was in danger. For the doctor didn't really fear his enemies, he feared the pain and destruction they tried, and sometimes succeeded, to cause.
DALEK: Exterminate!
INT. OUTSIDE DALEK CELL
GODDARD: Sir, it's gonna kill him!
VAN STATTEN: It's talking!
Rose, Clara, Amy, Donna and Martha growled angrily. The doctor's life was in danger, and all he cared about was that his little 'pet' was talking!
INT. DALEK CELL
DALEK: You are an enemy of the Daleks! You must be destroyed!
It waves its gun around helplessly. The Doctor stops looking terrified and his face breaks into a huge grin.
THE DOCTOR: It's not working!
The Dalek's eyepiece looks down at its gun. The Doctor laughs manically.
His laughter scared some people, especially Amy and Rory, who were only really familiar with the doctor's loveable self. Those that had met the doctor's darker side knew how ruthless he could be sometimes; but that didn't mean it didn't still give them goosebumps.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): Fantastic! Oh, fantastic! Powerless! Look at you. The Great Space Dustbin. How does it feel?
He lunges at the Dalek. The Dalek strains against its chains.
DALEK: Keep back!
The Doctor runs at the Dalek, looking straight into its eyepiece.
THE DOCTOR: What for? What're you going to do to me? (silence). If you can't kill... then what are you good for, Dalek? What's the point of you?
He circles the Dalek. The Dalek follows his progress with its eyepiece.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): You're nothing.
Rose grabbed 10's hand out of instinct, as Clara did with 12.
"I'm sorry." 10 whispered in Rose's ear. "I know I scared you."
All three doctors let their eye's fall to the floor, feeling ashamed of the way they acted, even towards a Dalek. The hadn't acted like a doctor.
INT. OUTSIDE DALEK CELL
Van Statten, Goddard and Simmons watch the proceedings, intrigued.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): What the hell are you here for?
Goddard glances at Van Statten.
"I wonder how they're taking this?" Amy sniggered.
"Probably doesn't make a bit of sense." Rory said, taking her question seriously.
"Oh thanks captain obvious." She said, sarcastically. Rory pulled a face at her, causing her to laugh. He laughed to, and the laughter turned to smiles, which lead to a loving hug, and smiles all round.
INT. DALEK CELL
DALEK: I am waiting for orders.
THE DOCTOR: What does that mean?
DALEK: I am a soldier. I was bred to receive orders.
THE DOCTOR: Well you're never gonna get any. Not ever.
DALEK: I demand orders!
10 shook his head. "Dalek's of the time war were bred and raised specifically to follow orders, see Daleks are living creatures but they're a hybrid race, connected together in a network, they think and act as one, a race sharing hatred and a thirst for destruction. Which is why they can be bred for specific purposes and made to be extremely loyal."
Everyone listened quietly to his little explanation, soaking up his words and pondering over what they knew of the Dalek race. They all realised it was far more complicated then they first thought.
THE DOCTOR (voice rising): They're never gonna come! Your race is dead! You all burnt, all of you. Ten million ships on fire, the entire Dalek race wiped out in one second.
DALEK: You lie!
THE DOCTOR: I watched it happen. I MADE it happen!
DALEK: You destroyed us?
The Doctor's expression changes. He walks away, his back turned on the Dalek.
THE DOCTOR (quietly): I had no choice.
DALEK: And what of the Time Lords?
INT. OUTSIDE DALEK CELL
Van Statten, Goddard and Simmons watch the monitor avidly. The Doctor pauses.
INT. DALEK CELL
THE DOCTOR: Dead. They burnt with you. The end of the last great Time War. Everyone lost.
10 and 11 both clouded over in depression and slumped forward in their chairs, their friends doing what they could to comfort them. While Clara and 12 had a whispered conversation over whether it was time yet.
"What are you two talking about?" Rory asked, having noticed their little chat.
"Um.. Well… It's…" They both began stuttering, trying to come up with an excuse. By this time they had grabbed everyone's attention, and 12 could take no more. He knew this moment would come, he just wasn't sure if he was prepared for how everyone would react.
"Tell them." He said. Everyone turned their gazes towards him, most in confusion, Clara in shock.
"Are you sure?" She asked, uncertainly. He nodded.
"We were going to have to eventually, I just wasn't sure when. Now seems as good a time as any."
Clara smiled, seeing he was finally ready to let everyone in on their little secret about the doctor's people.
"Tell us what!" Donna demanded, growing impatient.
"Well you see, a few years ago." Clara began. "When I was still with this doctor." She gestured to 11, "He and I were attacked by Zygons and—"
She was suddenly interrupted by a flash of blue, and there stood Scar once again.
"Sorry to interrupt." She said, smiling smugly at them.
"Oh, hello." Said 10. "And what are you doing back?"
"Just here to tell Clara we're going to watch that particular adventure later and she mustn't spoil too much."
"Oh, does that mean they can't know—"
"That you saved Gallifrey?" Scar interrupted.
"WHAT!" 10 and 11 both cried, while the others gasped in shock, the only people not surprised were Clara, 12 and River.
"That I will allow." Scar continued.
"No wait back up." 10 said, waving his hands around. "Saved Gallifrey."
Scar nodded. "They'll explain." She gestured to 12 and Clara. "But no spoilers."
Another blue flash happened and Scar was gone once more. Everyone stared at where she had been for a moment, then turned to 12 and Clara, eager for answers.
"She speaks the truth." 12 finally said, "We went back in time and saved Gallifrey."
The companions in the room just stared with their mouths open, trying to comprehend what he'd said.
"But how?" 11 asked, like he couldn't really believe it.
"Well we can't say." Clara reminded.
"Spoilers." 12 added.
"But it's true?" Rose pressed. "Gallifrey's really safe."
Clara and 12 looked at each other, smiled and nodded. Rose gasped in happiness, while Jack jumped out of his seat releasing a cry of joy. Amy and even Rory joined him, pulling 11 up, the three of them hugging and laughing in pure happiness. Martha and Mickey cried out in celebration to, then pulled each other into a kiss. Donna was feeling a bit lonely as she didn't have a relationship of any kind with anyone in the room at this point, but Jack and Amy soon made her feel better by pulling her up with the rest of them. Rose and 10 got up and hugged each other happily to, then got so caught up in the celebrating, they actually kissed each other! Those around them, who had seen the obvious attraction between the two from the beginning, all cheered even more. Both of them blushed heavily as they pulled apart, finally realising what they just did. 11, not wanting to be left out, suddenly grabbed his wife and pulled her into a passionate kiss of their own. More cheering and clapping followed, Rory pulled Amy into a kiss to, as did Mickey and Martha.
Ah screw it. Rose thought, grabbing 10 and kissing him again, feeling like she was on cloud nine when he kissed back. The various couples in the room broke apart after a few minutes and went back to their seats, still very elated. Only the sound of the television starting again pulling them from their happy thoughts.
DALEK: And the coward survived.
THE DOCTOR (mockingly): Oh, and I caught your little signal... help me... poor little thing (resumes normal tone). But there's no one else coming 'cos there's no one else left.
DALEK (lowers eyepiece): I am alone in the Universe.
THE DOCTOR (smiles): Yep.
DALEK: So are you.
"Not anymore." Said Clara, giving 12 a hug. Everyone else sighed happily and hugged the person closest to them, still not quite able to comprehend what they'd been told.
The Doctor's smile fades.
DALEK (CONT'D): We are the same.
The Doctor spins around to face the Dalek angrily.
THE DOCTOR (furious): We're not the same, I'm not... (Stops). No, wait. Maybe we are. You're right, yeah, okay. You've got a point. 'Cos I know what to do. I know what should happen. I know what you deserve. (Raises eyebrows). Exterminate.
He pulls a lever on the control panel and the Dalek is immediately engulfed by electricity. It starts screaming again.
DALEK: Have pity!
THE DOCTOR: Why should I? You never did.
He turns up the voltage.
The doctor's companions all tensed, still scared by the his dark side. The doctors all lowered their heads, it hurt for their friends to see them this way. This side of himself, the vengeful side, was not one he was proud of.
INT. OUTSIDE DALEK CELL
VAN STATTEN (to soldiers): Get him out.
INT. DALEK CELL
DALEK: Help me!
Security burst in and grab the Doctor before he can lunge for the control panel again. Van Statten addresses the Dalek.
VAN STATTEN: I saved your life, now talk to me! Goddamn it, talk to me!
THE DOCTOR (as he is dragged away): You've got to destroy it!
"Quite right," Jack said, "That thing could destroy the entire world if it fully repairs itself."
VAN STATTEN: The last in the Universe. And now I know your name. Dalek. Speak to me, Dalek. (Silence). I am Henry van Statten, now recognise me! (Silence again. To Simmons): Make it talk again, Simmons.
Simmons approaches the Dalek with a greedy look in his eye.
VAN STATTEN (CONT'D): Whatever it takes.
A large number of people suddenly felt sick to their stomachs. These people were truly cruel, torturing an alien just to get it to talk was wrong, Dalek or not.
INT. ADAM'S WORKSHOP
Adam shows Rose into his workshop. Rose looks around.
ADAM: Sorry about the mess. Mr Van Statten sort of lets me do my own thing. So long as I deliver the goods...
Rose prods a few things on the surfaces.
ADAM (CONT'D): What do you think, that is?
He hands Rose an object.
ROSE: Er... a lump of metal?
ADAM: Yeah. Yeah, but I think... well, I'm almost certain, it's from the hull of a spacecraft.
Rose finishes examining the lump of metal and places it down carefully.
ADAM (CONT'D): The thing is, it's all true. Everything the United Nations tries to keep quiet, spacecrafts, aliens, visitors to Earth, they really exist.
ROSE: That's amazing.
"Playing the innocent, clueless card eh?" Jack hinted, wagging his eyebrows at Rose, who folded her arms and pretended she hadn't heard him. She was still embarrassed that she'd thought Adam was cute for a bit, for a genius he hadn't half been an idiot.
ADAM: I know it sounds incredible, but I honestly believe that the whole universe is teeming with life.
ROSE (smiling slightly): I'm gob-smacked, yeah. And you do what? Sit here and catalogue it?
ADAM: Best job in the world.
ROSE: Imagine if you could get out there. Travel amongst the stars and see it for real.
ADAM: Yeah... I'd give anything. But I don't think it's ever gonna happen, not in our lifetimes.
ROSE: Oh, you never know... what about all those people who say they've been inside spaceships and things and talked to aliens?
ADAM: I think they're nutters.
ROSE: Yeah, me too. (Both laugh).
"So you think you're a nutter?" Donna asked, snickering.
"Course not, I said those that said they were inside spaceships were nutters." Rose defended. "I never told anyone, those that do are nutters whether they have or have really met aliens, cause they actually expected people to believe them."
ROSE (CONT'D): So, how'd you end up here?
ADAM: Van Statten has agents all over the world looking for geniuses to recruit.
ROSE: Ah, right, you're a genius.
ADAM: Sorry, but yeah... I can't help it, I was born clever.
Rose smiles.
"Not exactly modest is he." 10 said, shaking his head with a smile.
"Talk about pot calling the kettle black." Clara laughed.
"Oi!" 10 and 11 cried. 12, by contrast, burst out laughing. He didn't really mind her insulting him at this point, it was just nice to hear her familiar humour again.
ADAM (CONT'D): When I was eight, I logged onto the US Defence System, nearly caused World War Three.
ROSE: What, and that's funny is it?
ADAM: Well you should've been there! Just to see them running about! Fantastic!
ROSE: You sound like the Doctor.
The doctors all grimaced at being compared with Adam. They'd never really forgiven him for his idiocy and selfishness.
ADAM: Are you and him...?
ROSE (quickly): No, we're just friends.
ADAM (nods): Good.
ROSE (smiling, a little shy): Why's it good?
"Is it bad?" Mickey asked.
"No." Said Rose.
"Well then it must be good."
"Oh shut up."
"She laughed and gave him a shove while he grinned cheekily.
ADAM: Just is.
A pause.
ROSE (breaking the moment): So... wouldn't you rather be downstairs? I mean, you've got these bits of metal and stuff, but Mr Van Statten's got a living creature down there.
ADAM: Yeah... yeah well I did ask but he keeps it to himself. Although, if you're a genius, it does take long to patch in on the comms system.
ROSE (laughs): Let's have a look then. Adam turns to the computer and taps some keys and Rose observes over his shoulder.
ADAM: It doesn't do much, the alien. It's weird, it's kind of... useless, it's just like this... great big pepper pot.
Almost everyone laughed, amused at the thought of a Dalek being compared to a pepper pot, which they had to admit, was pretty accurate.
They access the screen that surveys the Cage. They watch Simmons approach the Dalek and begin to torture it with one of the devices. The Dalek screams again.
ROSE (alarmed): It's being tortured! Where's the Doctor?
ADAM: I don't know.
ROSE: Take me down there. Now.
She strides from the room.
The doctors all felt both proud and sorry for Rose. They thought it was lovely that she wanted to help another species when it was being tortured. They just felt bad that she hadn't known the alien she wanted to help was one of the most evil and destructive in the universe. She could be so innocent sometimes. They shook their heads with some bittersweet smiles.
How human…
INT. LIFT
The Doctor, Van Statten, Goddard and the security guards step into the lift.
THE DOCTOR: The metal's just battle armour. The real Dalek creature's inside.
VAN STATTEN: What does it look like?
THE DOCTOR: A nightmare. It's a mutation. The Dalek race was genetically engineered, every single emotion was removed except hate.
VAN STATTEN (impressed): Genetically engineered... by whom?
THE DOCTOR: By a genius, Van Statten. By a man who was king of his own little world, you'd like him.
11 had to bite back a snarl at the mention, or rather insinuation, of Davros. It wasn't long ago for him that the creator of the Daleks had tried to atomise the entire universe, resulting in the loss of many innocent people, and one of his closest friends… He glanced sideways at said friend, to find she was watching the screen intently with a relaxed smile. He smiled to, she hadn't forgotten him just yet, and he felt he should enjoy that while he could.
GODDARD: It's been on Earth for over fifty years, sold at a private auction moving from one collection to another. Why would it be a threat now?
THE DOCTOR: Because I'm here. How did it get to Earth? Does anyone know?
GODDARD: Records say it came from the sky like a meteorite. It fell to Earth on the Ascension Islands, burnt in its crater for three days before anybody could get near it and all that time it was screaming. It must've gone insane.
"She's good…" Jack mused, and the others nodded their heads. Rose suddenly wished she'd gotten to know Goddard a bit better, she seemed like a pretty cool person, but she'd been too busy running for her life that day.
THE DOCTOR: Must've fallen through time. The only survivor.
GODDARD: You talked about a war?
THE DOCTOR: The Time War. The final battle between my people and the Dalek race.
VAN STATTEN: But you survived too.
THE DOCTOR: Not by choice.
Rose, Amy and Clara all punched their respective doctors.
"Ow!" All three of them cried. "What was that for?"
"Don't you dare say things like you just did." Rose lectured
"You said you didn't survive by choice, like you wanted to die." Amy continued.
"Don't ever think it would have been better for you to die, because that couldn't be further from the truth." Clara finished, pulling 12 into a hug. He smiled and hugged her back, while 11 and 10 were tackled into hugs of their own until the whole room was filled with laughter.
VAN STATTEN: This means that the Dalek isn't the only alien on Earth, Doctor, there's you. The only one of your kind in existence.
INT. EXAMINATION ROOM
Lights flash on, illuminating the Doctor. They have chained him up against a rack and striped his torso. Van Statten stands behind an instrument pointing at the Doctor.
The happiness that previously filled the room was sucked away and scattered in the wind, replaced by a feeling of silent rage. The doctors tried to assure everyone they were fine, but their friends were having non of it, constantly fussing over them and making death threats against Van Statten.
VAN STATTEN: Now, smile!
The instrument runs some sort of scan over the Doctor's torso. The Doctor moans slightly in pain, grimacing. The scan image shows the Doctor's ribcage with two hearts beating within it.
VAN STATTEN (CONT'D): Two hearts! Binary vascular system! Oh, I am so going to patent this.
THE DOCTOR: So that's your secret. You don't just collect this stuff, you scavenge it.
"That's sick!" Said Martha, "how dare he hoard alien tech, probably even steal it to, just so he can put a few millions in his pockets."
The others all nodded and glowered at the screen.
VAN STATTEN: This technology has been falling to Earth for centuries. All it took was the right mind to use it properly. Oh, the advances I've made from alien junk, you have no idea, Doctor. Broadband? Roswell. Just last year my scientists cultivated bacteria from the Russian Crater, and do you know what we found?
The Doctor looks at him angrily but questioningly.
VAN STATTEN (CONT'D): The cure for the common cold. Kept it strictly within the laboratory of course, no need to get people excited. Why sell one cure when I can sell a thousand palliatives?
He smiles smugly.
Donna gasped. "You mean he's found ways of advancing humanity and just been keeping them to himself."
"Well it's a good business strategy." 12 said, in an unreadable tone. A lot of people looked at him like they couldn't believe he just said that. Well a lot of them couldn't.
"Sorry," Clara apologised. "He can be a bit… brutally honest… sometimes."
The others still looked on in shock, while 11 and 10 were trying to realise if he was really a future regeneration, would they really turn out so harsh someday?
THE DOCTOR: Do you know what a Dalek is, Van Statten?
Van Statten's smirk fades, he looks and the doctor questioningly.
THE DOCTOR(CONT'D): A Dalek is honest. It does what it was born to do for the survival of its species, that creature in your dungeon is better than you.
"It is true." River decided to say. "One of the only good things about Daleks is their honestly and loyalty."
The others wanted to protest, particularly the doctors, but couldn't. Since deep down they knew he was right.
VAN STATTEN: In that case, I will be true to myself and continue.
He walks back to the scanner.
THE DOCTOR (frantic): Listen to me, that thing downstairs is going to kill every last one of us!
VAN STATTEN: Nothing can escape the Cage.
He runs the scan again. The Doctor writhes with pain.
Rose, Martha, Donna, Amy, Clara and some of the others all gasped in horror and turned away from the screen, unable to watch anymore.
THE DOCTOR: But it's woken up! It knows I'm here! It's gonna get out! Van Statten, I swear no one on this base is safe! No one on this planet!
The scan is run again. The Doctor groans in pain and throws his head back.
Suddenly, River jumped from her seat with her gun in her hand and shot at the screen several times over, seething angrily. The picture paused but the screen remained undamaged, something else that surprised everyone.
"Don't worry, everything's fine." 11 reassured, taking River's hand and rubbing it soothingly. She took a few deep breaths and sat back down again, now she'd gotten that out of her system. "I'm okay, I've been through much worse." 11 said, hoping to calm her down. Although saying he'd been through worse things might not have been the best…
INT. OUTSIDE DALEK CELL
Adam enters the lobby outside the Cage, followed by Rose.
BYWATER: Hold it right there!
ADAM (flashes ID): Level three access. Special clearance from Mr Van Statten.
They pass Simmons and enter the Cage.
INT. DALEK CELL
Rose stares at the Dalek.
ADAM: Don't get too close...
Rose walks slowly up to the Dalek and peers into its eyepiece. It watches her.
ROSE: Hello?
The Dalek simply continues to watch her. Rose is innocently concerned.
ROSE (CONT'D): Are you in pain? My name's Rose Tyler. I've got a friend, he can help. He's called the Doctor. What's your name?
DALEK: Yes.
"His name's Yes?" Donna asked, causing everyone to burst into some much needed laughter.
ROSE: What?
The Dalek raises its eyepiece to look into her face.
DALEK (slowly and wearily): I am in pain. They torture me. But still they fear me. Do you fear me?
ROSE: No.
"You should." Jack advised.
"Yes I know that now." Rose huffed.
"It's okay, you couldn't have know." 10 assured her, she smiled at him and blushed.
The Dalek lowers its eyepiece.
DALEK: I am dying.
ROSE: No, we can help!
DALEK: I welcome death. But I am glad... that before I die... I met a human who was not afraid.
Rose looks overwhelmed with sadness and pity.
"No it's a trap!" Jack cried, like he thought the Rose on the screen could hear him.
ROSE: Isn't there anything I can do?
DALEK: My race is dead. I shall die alone.
Rose has tears in her eyes. She places a hand gently on the Dalek.
"A trap it may be, but that is still true." Clara murmured. She's spoken softly, but it was so quiet everyone still managed to catch it. A lot of them began to feel somewhat sorry for the Dalek, even if it was evil. The doctors felt as though they should feel bad, but couldn't actually bring themselves to; their hatred wouldn't let them.
ADAM (too late): Rose, no!
The place where Rose has put her hand suddenly burns bright orange and she snatches her hand away from the heat. The Dalek's tone changes.
DALEK: Genetic material extrapolated, initiate cellular reconstruction!
It bursts out of its chains with a new lease of life. Sparks fly from it.
Oh no. Everyone thought, but didn't voice it. They didn't want to make Rose feel worse than she already did.
Simmons enters the room.
SIMMONS: What the hell have you done?
He approaches the Dalek. It points a sucker at him.
SIMMONS (CONT'D): Whatcha gonna do? Sucker me to death?
The Dalek proceeds to do just that. It places the sucker over Simmons face and we hear his skull cracking as it sucks inwards.
Most didn't even flinch, they'd seen it coming. It was a little amusing that he'd been so cocky about it, but no one really felt like laughing. They didn't exactly feel sorry for Simmons either, he had gotten what he deserved.
Rose and Adam rush outside.
INT. OUTSIDE DALEK CELL
ROSE (to Bywater): It's killing him! Do something!
BYWATER (over intercom): Condition red! Condition red! I repeat this is not a drill!
INT. EXAMINATION ROOM
Van Statten, still with the Doctor, looks up, as does the Doctor, who is sweating with the pain.
THE DOCTOR (wearily): Release me if you want to live.
"Nice." Jack complimented.
"Yeah, I'd wanted to say that for a while." 10 laughed.
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
The Doctor, Van Statten, Goddard and Van Statten's security guards exit the lift and enter Van Statten's office. The Doctor addresses a monitor where there is a communication link to the lobby.
THE DOCTOR: You've got to keep it in that cell.
ROSE: Doctor, it's all my fault.
"I'm really sorry." Rose apologised.
"Don't worry, like I said you couldn't have known, you were trying to help." 10 said. She nodded and chuckled a bit, feeling very happy.
BYWATER: I've sealed the compartment. It can't get out, that lock's got a billion combinations.
"Donna was right, that's not enough." Said River.
THE DOCTOR: The Dalek's a genius. It can calculate a thousand billion combinations in one second flat.
INT. DALEK CELL
Inside the cage, the Dalek places its sucker to the code lock and begins to run through all the combinations.
"Wow that is good." Said Amy, sounding genuinely impressed.
"Don't need to sound so happy, it's about to kill them." Rory said, only to get another "shut up stupid" thrown his way.
INT. OUTSIDE DALEK CELL
Rose and Adam stand before the door with security, who are pointing their guns at the door. In no time at all, the door opens.
BYWATER: Open fire!
They shoot at the Dalek.
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
VAN STATTEN: Don't shoot it, I want it unharmed!
Everyone growled once again. He cared more about his little pet than his men about to be killed by it. Yet another example of selfish rich people only looking to please themselves, not to stereotype, of course some wealthy people were great. But as far as that stereotype goes, Van Statten certainly fit the picture.
THE DOCTOR: Rose, get out of there!
INT. OUTSIDE DALEK CELL
The Dalek advances upon them, the bullets having no affect at all. Bywater turns to the female guard.
BYWATER: De Maggio, take the civilians and get them out alive. That is your job, got that?
DE MAGGIO (to Rose and Adam): You, with me.
They follow her. The Dalek approaches the screen displaying the Doctor, Van Statten and Goddard and smashes right through it. Then electricity starts to course through it. It wails as the peeling metal bends back into shape, the rust fades away. It looks perfect again.
It was quite a sight to see really, the Dalek's repairing process was somewhat mystifying, with all the sparks and the soft golden glow it seemed to emit. It took a moment for them to snap out of it and remember the Daleks were their enemies. It made them all realise how relaxed they were watching the danger and excitement rather than living it.
BYWATER (into mouthpiece): Abandoning the cage, sir.
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Goddard is tapping into a computer as Van Statten and the Doctor look over her shoulder.
GODDARD: We're losing power. It's draining the base. Oh, my God. It's raiding entire power supplies for the whole of Utah.
THE DOCTOR: It's downloading.
VAN STATTEN: Downloading what?
"Current information." Jack said seriously. "The Daleks never like to be uninformed."
GODDARD: Sir, the entire West Coast has gone down.
THE DOCTOR: It's not just energy. That Dalek just absorbed the entire Internet. It knows everything.
"Well that can't be good." Said Donna. Nobody responded, they didn't have to, everyone knew what they would have said.
INT. OUTSIDE DALEK CELL
The Dalek finally backs away from the computer.
DALEK: The Daleks survive in me!
"This is just like a 'rise from the ashes scene in a film'." Said Mickey. A few people gave him pointed glares, to which he shrugged innocently with a sheepish smile.
The Dalek fires its exterminator beam randomly around the room, as though to test it.
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
GODDARD: The cameras in the vault have gone down.
THE DOCTOR: We've only got emergency power, it's eaten everything else, you've got to kill it now!
GODDARD: All guards to converge in the Metaltron cage, immediately.
INT. VAULT CORRIDORS
Rose and Adam run past another bunch of security guards, led by De Maggio.
DE MAGGIO: Civilians! Let them through!
Rose and Adam run out of sight. The guards point their guns ready in the direction they anticipate the Dalek will approach from. Bywater runs into view.
BYWATER (shouts): Cover the north wall: Red division, maintain suppressing fire along the perimeter, Blue Division hold.
He is exterminated by the Dalek behind him.
Donna, Martha, Clara and Amy gasped as he was suddenly struck down. The others were not so surprised, for a number of different reasons.
Meanwhile, Martha, once the shock had worn off, began to think back to her first encounter with the Daleks in the slums of manhattan. She'd seen there and then what they were capable of, and how heartless they could be, and it still haunted her, even today.
The guards immediately start firing at the Dalek, but the bullets melt before they can even touch the armour. The Dalek is surrounded - but it simply exterminates them, one by one, the bullets having no effect.
Everybody was filled with a mixture of horror and slight impress. They were mostly sickened to see those people get struck down, unable to even defend themselves. As well as a touch of impressment at the way the Dalek was getting shot at from all sides and was just standing there, if it had been any other creature (well most other creatures) it would have been heroic, but the Daleks didn't really have a sense of fear, and knew the bullets wouldn't hurt them, so it was pretty natural.
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
VAN STATTEN (to Goddard): Tell them to stop shooting at it!
GODDARD: But it's killing them!
VAN STATTEN: They're dispensable, that Dalek is unique. (Into intercom): I don't want a scratch on its body work? Do you hear me? Do you hear me?
The sound of the gunshots fade into silence.
A depressing silence fell over the room, perfectly in sync with the silence on the film. A cold acceptance of the deaths that had happened that day, after all the destruction they'd seen, it was something they were all familiar with doing.
INT. VAULT CORRIDORS
Every single soldier lies dead. The Dalek proceeds up the corridor.
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Goddard shows the Doctor a map of the base on the computer screen.
GODDARD: That's us right below the surface. That's the cage, and that's the Dalek.
She indicates a blue light moving along a corridor.
THE DOCTOR: This museum of yours, have you got any alien weapons?
GODDARD: Lots of them, but the trouble is the Dalek's between us and them.
VAN STATTEN: We've got to keep that thing alive. We could just seal the entire vault, trap it down there.
THE DOCTOR: Leaving everyone trapped with it? Rose is down there. I won't let that happen. Have you got that?
Van Statten stands up. The Doctor turns back to the computer screen and Goddard.
THE DOCTOR: It's got to go through this area. What's that?
GODDARD: Weapons testing.
THE DOCTOR: Give guns to the lawyers, technicians, anyone. Everyone. Only then have you got a chance of killing it.
Goddard nods and gets up. The Doctor takes her place in front of the computer.
"You really think that'll work?" Rory asked. "Didn't seem very effective the first time."
Amy slapped him hard on the arm, knowing what he said would greatly upset the doctors, for all their pride and courage, they weren't half sensitive.
"It was worth a try." 11 answered. "I couldn't let the Dalek kill everyone without putting up a fight, besides, Daleks have weak spots you know."
"Really?" He asked, genuinely interested.
"Mm, but I can't tell you."
"Why not?"
"Spoilers." River cut in.
Rory almost wanted to call himself stupid for not seeing that coming.
INT. STAIRCASE
Rose, still running, finds herself at the foot of a flight of stairs.
ROSE: Stairs! That's more like it!
Adam runs up behind her.
ROSE (CONT'D): It hasn't got legs, it's stuck!
"First time!" Rose yelled, as Jack opened his mouth. He snapped it shut again with the most innocent expression he could muster. Rose simply shook her head and turned back to the screen, blushing ever so slightly.
DE MAGGIO (joining them): It's coming! Get up!
They run up the stairs and look over the banisters to watch the Dalek. It stops at the foot of the stairs. Adam breathes a small sigh of relief. It runs its eyepiece over the stairs.
ADAM (mockingly): Great big alien death machine. Defeated by a flight of stairs.
The Dalek's eyepiece rests on them. De Maggio still has her gun pointing at it.
DE MAGGIO: Now, listen to me. I demand that you return to your cage. If you want to negotiate, then I guarantee that Mr Van Statten will be willing to talk. I accept that we imprisoned you and maybe that was wrong. But people have died, and that stops. Right now. The killing stops, have you got that?
The Dalek merely watches her, saying nothing.
DE MAGGIO (CONT'D): I demand that you surrender, is that clear?
"She was so strong…" Rose whispered, sounding almost like she might cry. The others were feeling a bit watery-eyed as well, when they caught the terrified tone in De Maggio's voice, and the way she was trying to hide it.
Short pause.
DALEK: El-ev-ate.
The Dalek levitates in the air and floats up the first few steps of the stairs.
ROSE: Oh my God.
The Dalek proceeds up the stairs. Adam looks gob smacked.
DE MAGGIO: Adam, get her out of here.
ROSE (urgently): Come with us, you can't stop it!
DE MAGGIO: Someone's got to try. Now get out!
She pushes them away.
"She really was good," 11 said. He, 10 and 12 all shared a nod with each other, in a silent vow to remember her. They always remembered the brave ones.
DE MAGGIO (CONT'D): Don't look back, just run!
Adam and Rose go up the rest of the stairs. The Dalek advances. De Maggio shoots at it without avail.
INT. CORRIDOR
Moments later, Rose and Adam hear the sound of the exterminator beam and De Maggio's scream. They run down the corridor terrified.
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
VAN STATTEN: I thought you were the great expert, Doctor.
The Doctor, still staring at the monitor, does not answer.
VAN STATTEN (CONT'D): If you're so impressive, then why not just reason with this Dalek? It must be willing to negotiate, there must be something it needs, everything needs something.
THE DOCTOR: What's the nearest town?
VAN STATTEN: Saltlake City.
THE DOCTOR: Population?
VAN STATTEN: One million.
THE DOCTOR: All dead. If the Dalek gets out, it'll murder every living creature, that's all it needs.
VAN STATTEN (furious): But why would it do that?!
THE DOCTOR Because it honestly believes they should die. Human beings are different, and anything different is wrong. It's the ultimate in racial cleansing and you, Van Statten, you've let it loose!
"If you put it like that, it isn't really their fault." Clara decided to say.
A lot of people turned to look at her like she was insane, prompting her to elaborate.
"I mean, the Daleks were born with this in their minds, and are physically incapable or thinking or feeling otherwise, so at least… You know… They don't destroy because they enjoy it, they do it because it's all they know."
Everyone who had glared at her, immediately softened their gazes, knowing what she said made some sort of sense. In fact, it forced some of them to completely rethink the way they looked at Daleks.
INT. WEAPONS TESTING AREA
The soldiers position themselves.
THE DOCTOR (through intercom): The Dalek's surrounded by a force field. The bullets are melted before they even hit home but it's not indestructible. If you concentrate your fire, you might get through.
The soldiers wait apprehensively.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): Aim for the dome, the head, the eyepiece. That's the weak spot.
COMMANDER: Thank you, Doctor, but I think I know how to fight one single tin robot. Positions!
"Why does no one ever listen…" 10 moaned. If people just listen to him now and then instead of trying their own reckless ideas, maybe things wouldn't get messed up so much.
They ready their guns and wait. After a few moments, Rose and Adam run into view, right in the middle of the open area.
Everyone tensed, seeing Rose and Adam right in the line of fire.
COMMANDER (CONT'D): Hold your fire!
Rose and Adam stop.
They all relaxed again, thanking whatever they believed in that Rose, and to a lesser extent Adam, hadn't been shot.
COMMANDER (CONT'D): You two, get the hell out of there!
Rose and Adam make it outside the door the moment the Dalek slowly comes into view. They stop for a moment to watch it. The Dalek also stops, and it focuses on them. It then zooms right in on Rose's face and turns in their direction. Adam grabs Rose's hand and pulls her away, but she stops again.
ROSE: It was looking at me.
ADAM: Yeah, it wants to slaughter us!
Rose pulls her hand away.
ROSE: No, but it was looking right at me.
"Yeah, that was weird, why would it be so interested in Rose?" Amy asked, wracking her brain for answers. She'd been making notes on everything she saw, just as the doctor taught her, but nothing was coming to mind. River, Rose and the doctors were already well aware of what had sparked the Dalek's interest in Rose, but chose to keep it to themselves. Like Scar said, no spoilers.
ADAM (impatiently): So? It's just a sort of metal eye thing, it's looking all around!
ROSE (shakes her head): I don't know... it's like… it's like there's something inside looking at me, like... like it knows me.
"Well you were the one who revived it." Jack pointed out. Rose caught his eye and put a finger to her lips, hinting at him to keep his mouth shut. He nodded, realising they wanted everyone to figure it out for themselves.
The Dalek makes its way towards the door.
COMMANDER: On my mark...
The Dalek looks up at them.
COMMANDER (CONT'D): Open fire!
They all start shooting at the Dalek. Like before, the bullets have no effect.
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
GODDARD: We've got vision.
The Doctor stands up and looks at the monitor, showing the weapons testing area.
THE DOCTOR: It wants us to see.
"Daleks aren't usually ones to taunt their opponents so much as just exterminate them, but with me they can't resist." 12 said gravely, and yet so acceptingly. It scared everyone how 12 seemed to be so accepting of all the suffering and evil surrounding him. He was the oldest of all the doctors… Had he been the one to finally just accept his constant pain? It scared them to think of such things… But the signs were there.
The Dalek is looking straight at the camera, completely unperturbed by the volley of gunshots.
INT. WEAPONS TESTING AREA
The Dalek slowly levitates into the air until it is hovering near the ceiling. It fires it's exterminator beam at the fire alarm, causing the fire sprinkles to rain water from the ceiling. The bullets keep coming, but the Dalek pays no heed. It aims at a man who has his feet firmly rooted to the wet ground and fires its exterminator beam at him. The rest of the team fall like flies except from the Commander and one of his men who are sheltered from the sprinklers.
COMMANDER: Fall back! Fall back!
The Dalek exterminates both of them and then observes the tens of lifeless forms lying on the wet ground with their useless bullets scattered on the floor.
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
There is a silence in Van Statten's office. The Doctor looks down, breathing heavily in shock.
Most in the theatre do the same as the doctor on screen.
"I knew it would be difficult to defeat…" 11 said, looking at his hands. "But I didn't expect… That."
River pulled him into her embrace, whispering calming words into his ear. Rose did the same to the similarly upset 10. As for Clara, she took a glance at 12, but seeing his usual indifferent look plastered on his face, decided it would be a waste of time to try comforting him.
VAN STATTEN (stunned): Perhaps it's time for a new strategy, maybe we should consider abandoning this place.
GODDARD (quietly furious with him): Except there's no power to the helipad, sir. We can't get out.
THE DOCTOR: You said you could seal the vault.
"You're not mad?" Donna asked. She was so use to seeing the doctor furious with idiots like Van Statten.
"Well I probably would have been, but I was a bit more focused on other things." 10 said, giving Rose's hand a squeeze.
VAN STATTEN (going to the computer): It was designed to be a bunker. In the event of nuclear war, steel bulkheads...
GODDARD (to the Doctor): There's not enough power, those bulkheads are massive.
THE DOCTOR: We've got emergency power, we can re-route that to the bulkhead doors.
GODDARD: We'd have to bypass the security codes, that would take a computer genius!
VAN STATTEN: Good thing you've got me, then.
THE DOCTOR: You want to help?
VAN STATTEN: I don't want to die, Doctor, simple as that. Nobody knows this software better than me.
"Man he's not even afraid to admit he's selfish." Clara said.
"Well he was selfish but he was smart, I'll give him that." 12 added.
The screen showing the footage of the basement suddenly flashes back into life. The Dalek is still standing in the middle of the open area. At first, only Goddard notices.
GODDARD: Sir...
The Doctor and Van Statten also look round at the screen.
DALEK: I shall speak only to the Doctor.
The Doctor slowly straightens up, not taking his eyes off the Dalek.
THE DOCTOR: You're gonna get rusty.
A sharp pang suddenly tugged at Clara and 12's hearts. A lot of things this episode had made them think of their new friend Rusty, but that was just ridiculous. There were so many similarities between the two Daleks, in the way they both acted strangely, got left alone, broken, confused etc.
DALEK: I fed off the DNA of Rose Tyler. Extrapolating the biomass of a time traveller regenerated me.
THE DOCTOR: What's your next trick?
DALEK: I have been searching for the Daleks.
THE DOCTOR: Yeah, I saw. Downloading the Internet. (Walks around the table to be nearer the screen). What did you find?
DALEK: I scanned your satellites and radio telescopes.
THE DOCTOR: And?
DALEK: Nothing. (Voice rising). Where shall I get my orders now?
THE DOCTOR: You're just a soldier without commands.
DALEK: Then I shall follow the primary order, the Dalek instinct to destroy! To conquer!
THE DOCTOR (exasperated): What for? What's the point? (Silence). Don't you see? It's all gone. Everything you were, everything you stood for.
DALEK: Then what should I do?
THE DOCTOR: All right then. If you want orders... follow this one: kill yourself.
DALEK: The Daleks must survive!
THE DOCTOR (angrily): The Daleks have failed. Why don't you finish the job and make the Daleks extinct? Rid the Universe of your filth, why don't you just die?
The companions all tensed. Seeing the doctor in one of his rages was the scariest thing ever. Even scarier than the monsters and the death and destruction.
He shouts this last word, spit flying from his mouth in his passionate hatred. The Dalek is silent for a few seconds, then...
DALEK: You would make a good Dalek.
All the doctors visibly flinched at his words, and found themselves being once again comforted by their friends. Something the group had to do a lot throughout this particular episode. What nobody realised though, was that the doctors had each flinched for a different reason.
10 because he couldn't believe he was being compared to his greatest enemy. He wasn't anything like them, he'd only been angry at the time and spoken in a fit of rage. He hated the Daleks, of that he was certain, but he would show them mercy when the moment called for it, plus it was only the Daleks, he was fine with other species. Well most other species…
11 because he heard the truth in the words. He'd tried for so long to deny that he was anything alike he greatest enemy, but he just couldn't ignore the similarities anymore. But just because he acknowledged them, didn't mean he accepted them, he would never be okay with this.
And 12. 12 was almost instantly reminded of what Rusty had told him a little while ago. That "he was a good Dalek". While the Dalek on screen had said he'd become one, Rusty said he was one… Did that mean the Daleks had always been able to see his potential and now he'd finally achieved it. To tell the truth he'd fully accepted being similar to Daleks when Rusty had told him he was a good one, because he knew what that meant. Really meant. He was like his enemies, but better, not the best. He was no hero, never would be, but he was better than worst, and that was a good start. At least he thought so.
The screen goes blank. The Doctor stares, dumbstruck.
THE DOCTOR: Seal the vaults.
INT. WEAPONS TESTING AREA
The Dalek elevates its way out of the room.
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Van Statten and the Doctor are busy tapping into the computer.
VAN STATTEN: I can leech power off the ground defences, feed it to the bulkheads. God it's been years since I've had to work this fast.
THE DOCTOR: Are you enjoying this?
"Wouldn't be a surprise." Rory scoffed, everyone else nodding along.
GODDARD: Doctor, she's still down there.
INT. STAIRWELL
Adam is running up a flight of stairs in a stairwell, followed by Rose who is on her mobile to the Doctor.
ROSE: This isn't the best time.
Really wasn't." Rose said. "When you're running for your life, stopping for a quick chat's not the best thing to do."
10 rolled his eyes and she giggled. It was kind of a cute giggle, not that any of the doctors would admit that thought.
THE DOCTOR: Where are you?
ROSE: Level 49.
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
THE DOCTOR (working on the computer): You've got to keep moving, the vault's being sealed off, up at level 46.
ROSE: Can't you stop them closing?
THE DOCTOR: I'm the one who's closing them. I can't wait and I can't help you. Now for God's sake, run.
INT. STAIRWELL
Rose and Adam run up the stairs, the Dalek in pursuit.
"How did it catch you? I mean it's moving incredibly slowly." Martha pointed out. Some opened their mouths to answer her, but realised they couldn't. Taking another look at the screen, they saw she had a good point; the Dalek did move incredibly slowly.
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
VAN STATTEN: Done it. We've got power to the bulkheads.
GODDARD: The Dalek's right behind them.
INT. CORRIDOR
Rose and Adam round a corner on floor 46.
ROSE: We're nearly there, give us two seconds.
Everybody remembered this moment from the promo, but back then they hadn't really known the full extent of the situation. Now they all sucked in a breath, knowing it would be close. They might not make it.
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
VAN STATTEN: Doctor, I can't sustain the power. The whole system is failing.
The Doctor looks at him.
VAN STATTEN (CONT'D): Doctor, you've got to close the bulkheads.
Focused on the Doctor's eyes. He pauses for a few moments, trying to summon the courage, observed by Van Statten and Goddard.
THE DOCTOR: I'm sorry.
He hits the enter key.
10 and 11 whispered in time with the doctor on screen. 12 thought it rather than spoke aloud, being the least 'open' doctor in the room.
"I know it was all you could do, you know I never blamed you." Rose said to 10, He smiled, relaxing slightly.
INT. CORRIDOR
The bulkhead begins to lower, Adam's nearly there but Rose is falling behind a little.
ADAM: Come on!
The bulkhead is only about a foot away from the ground when Adam manages to roll underneath it.
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
The Doctor stares intently at the screen, waiting.
VAN STATTEN: The vault is sealed.
The Doctor leaps out of his seat.
THE DOCTOR: Rose, where are you? Rose, did you make it?
INT. CORRIDOR
Rose leans against the wrong side of the bulkhead, taking a few steadying breaths before answering.
ROSE: Sorry, I was a bit slow.
The tension in the room releases. Replaced by sadness and regret. In fact the doctors all looked so defeated it was almost heartbreaking.
"I could have killed you." 10 said sadly, it was quiet, but so was the rest of the room, allowing everyone to catch it.
"But you didn't." Rose reassured. "Look at me, I'm fine." She gestured to herself with a smile. It made the doctors all feel relieved, but still the guilt wouldn't go away.
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Horrible shock spreads across the Doctor's face.
INT. CORRIDOR
Rose glances behind her to see the Dalek round the corner. She turns away.
ROSE: See you then, Doctor.
It crushed everyone's hearts more to see Rose being so brave, when she was obviously terrified.
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
The Doctor is silent, just staring, horrified.
INT. CORRIDOR
ROSE (voice trembling): It wasn't your fault. Remember that, okay? It wasn't your fault. And do you know what? (Chokes up). I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
Rose turns slowly around to face the Dalek as it approaches her.
"I really wouldn't have." Rose said.
"Or me." Martha agreed.
"Or me." Said Amy
"Or me." From Clara this time. Until eventually everyone keep jumping in saying they wouldn't have missed traveling with the doctor for anything. It brought a strong warmth to the doctors' hearts. It made them feel less… Alone in the universe.
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
DALEK: Exterminate!
The Doctor hears the sound of the death ray and he tears the earpiece off. There is a stunned silence in Van Statten's office.
THE DOCTOR (blank): I killed her.
VAN STATTEN: I'm sorry.
THE DOCTOR (turns to him): I said I'd protect her. She was only here because of me, and you're sorry? I could've killed that Dalek in its cell. But you stopped me.
VAN STATTEN: It was the prize of my collection!
THE DOCTOR (furious): Your collection? But was it worth it? Worth all those men's deaths? Worth Rose? (Silence). Let me tell you something, Van Statten. Mankind goes into space to explore. To be part of something greater.
VAN STATTEN (standing in enthusiasm): Exactly! I wanted to touch the stars!
THE DOCTOR (contemptuously, full of hate): You just want to drag the stars down and stick them underground underneath tons of sand and dirt. And label them. You're about as far from the stars as you can get.
"I think you just accurately summed him up." Jack said, with slight caution in his voice, knowing everyone in the room had been pretty shaken by what just happened.
The Doctor's face, contorted with fury suddenly softens into a sad, grief-stricken expression.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): And you took her down with you. (Stares into space). She was nineteen years old.
INT. CORRIDOR
Rose has her eyes closed, ready for the Dalek to kill her. The Dalek approaches but does nothing. It just stares at her as Rose opens her eyes cautiously and looks round.
ROSE: Go on then, kill me. (Silence. Angrily): Why are you doing this?
DALEK: I am armed. I will kill. It is my purpose.
ROSE: They're all dead because of you!
DALEK: They are dead because of us.
The present Rose lowered her head, knowing it was all her fault for reviving the Dalek.
"You didn't know." Martha said, placing a hand on Rose's arm. Rose smiled, knowing no one was mad at her.
Rose is shaken into a short silence.
ROSE: And now what? What're you waiting for?
DALEK: I feel your fear.
"Wait! What?" Amy cried. A Dalek, feeling fear. Wasn't that impossible?
ROSE: What do you expect?!
DALEK: Daleks do not fear. Must not fear.
It shoots its death ray wildly at the wall either side of Rose.
DALEK (CONT'D) (slightly hysterical, even scared): You gave me life. What else have you given me? I am contaminated!
"He accidentally absorbed Rose's DNA with the time energy." 11 explained. Realisation and understand showed on everyone's face as it finally clicked at being revived by Rose caused the Dalek to be infected with her DNA. Probably connecting the two somehow, seeing as it was Rose's fear that Dalek said it could feel.
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Adam steps out of the lift into Van Statten's office. The Doctor rounds on him.
THE DOCTOR: You were quick on your feet, leaving Rose behind.
ADAM (indignantly): I'm not the one who sealed the vault!
The screen springs into life. It shows Rose standing by the Dalek's side.
DALEK: Open the bulkhead or Rose Tyler dies.
The Doctor takes a few steps towards the screen, an expression of joy and relief breaking out onto his face.
THE DOCTOR: You're alive!
ROSE: Can't get rid of me.
THE DOCTOR: I thought you were dead.
DALEK: Open the bulkhead!
ROSE: Don't do it!
DALEK: What use are emotions if you will not save the woman you love?
10 and Rose both blushed heavily. Jack wolf whistled, prompting them to pummel him with pillows. The others just shook their heads fondly at the scene, it was obvious to all of them that Rose and 10 had an attraction to each other, they even kissed earlier, although they seemed pretty keen on pretending they hadn't.
River thought she should, but found she couldn't bring herself to be jealous, she had her doctor, the former one just wasn't… Well he wasn't… The right doctor. Not yet anyway.
The Doctors is stunned. He turns to Van Statten, who is looking at him, shocked.
THE DOCTOR: I killed her once. (Goes to the computer). I can't do it again.
He hits the return key.
"Never again." 10 whispered in Rose's ear, giving her a quick kiss on the cheek when he was sure no one was looking. She blushed again, but smiled to.
INT. CORRIDOR
The bulkhead opens and the Dalek and Rose slowly go through it.
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
VAN STATTEN (desperate): What do we do now? You bleeding heart, what the hell do we do?
The Doctor stares at him wordlessly.
ADAM: Kill it when it gets here!
GODDARD: All the guns are useless, and the alien weapons are in the vault.
ADAM: Only the catalogued ones.
Van Statten turns to him, eyebrows raised. Adam looks back at him apologetically.
A lot of snickers surrounded the room seeing the look on Van Statten's face. They were all secretly impressed with Adam. Not only did he break the rules, but he provided the doctor with a weapon he could actually use.
INT. ADAM'S WORKSHOP
The Doctor is in Adam's workshop, going through a basket of Adam's un-catalogued weapons.
THE DOCTOR (takes one out): Broken. (Chucks it aside, takes another). Broken. (Chucks it aside, takes another). Hairdryer.
ADAM: Mr Van Statten tends to dispose of his staff, and when he does he wipes their memory. I kept this stuff in case I needed to fight my way out one day.
THE DOCTOR: What, you in a fight? I'd like to see that.
ADAM (mildly offended): I could do.
THE DOCTOR: What're you gonna do, throw your A-Levels at 'em? (Finds a suitable weapon). Oh, yes. Lock and load.
Some more snickers as the doctor fired his famous 9th self sass at Adam. Probably his best weapon in everyone's books.
INT. LIFT
Rose and the Dalek are in the lift going up to Van Statten's office. The atmosphere is very tense. Rose watches the Dalek's exterminator arm twitch slightly.
ROSE: I'm begging you, don't kill them, you didn't kill me.
The Dalek spins its eyepiece around to look at Rose so fast she has to duck out of the way to avoid having her eye poked out.
DALEK: But why not? Why are you alive? My function is to kill. What am I? What am I?
The very question on everyone's mind (aside from the obvious). What had Rose changed that Dalek into? And by how much? Would it be enough?
INT. VAN STATTEN'S EXECUTIVE OFFICE
The lift door opens and Van Statten is standing there, waiting.
ROSE: Don't move! Don't do anything, it's beginning to question itself.
The Dalek advances on Van Statten.
DALEK: Van Statten. You tortured me. Why?
VAN STATTEN (backing away, terrified): I wanted to help you, I just... I don't know, I, I was just trying to help. I thought if we could get through to you, if we could mend you... I wanted you better, I'm sorry.
Goddard watches, looking terrified. The Dalek still advances, backing him against the wall.
VAN STATTEN (CONT'D) (voice rising shrilly): I'm so sorry! I swear! I just wanted you to talk!
DALEK: Then hear me talk now. Exterminate! Exterminate!
Van Statten winces.
Nobody felt anything. After everything he'd done, it was impossible. He was such a horrid, greedy man.
DALEK (CONT'D): Exterminate!
ROSE (rushing over): Don't do it! Don't kill him!
The Dalek spins to face her. Rose looks right into its eyepiece.
That shocked a few people. Even after all the stuff Van Satten had caused she still chose to save his life. But the shock wore off when a lot of people realised that, had they been in her position, they would have done the same thing. Well most thought this, some people like Jack and River wouldn't have been quite so merciful.
ROSE (CONT'D): You don't have to do this anymore. There must be something else. Not just killing... what else is there? What d'you want?
The Dalek turns back to Van Statten. Then back to Rose.
DALEK: I want freedom.
It was such a simple request. Something any being trapped underground for years would have asked for. However, coming from a Dalek, it was just extraordinary. But then again, this Dalek wasn't a pure Dalek anymore.
INT. STAIRWELL
The Doctor runs up the stairs, holding the alien weapon.
INT. WIDE, OPEN CORRIDOR
Rose and the Dalek are on floor 01 in the base. The Dalek fires its death ray at the ceiling, making a hole through which the sunlight floods, shining on the Dalek.
ROSE: You're out. You made it. (Smiles). Never thought I'd see the sunlight again.
DALEK: How... does... it... feel?
Before an astonished Rose, the Dalek opens up its casing to reveal the mutated creature inside. It stretches its feelers out to the sunlight.
It shocked everyone to see such a sight. It was so peaceful. Even under the influence of human DNA, it still surprised everyone to see a Dalek so relaxed and content.
Rose gazes at it until a voice behind her makes her jump.
THE DOCTOR: Get out of the way.
He is holding the gun, pointing it at the Dalek. Rose stares at him in shock. She does not move.
Once again the audience was being treated to a look at the doctor's darker side. The doctors themselves hung their heads, ashamed of allowing their hatred to consume them to the point of aiming a gun at their friend.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): Rose, get out of the way, now!
ROSE: No! 'Cos I won't let you do this!
THE DOCTOR: That thing killed hundreds of people.
ROSE (coldly): It's not the one pointing the gun at me.
Woah… Almost everyone thought. Quite a way of putting things in perspective.
THE DOCTOR: I've got to do this. I've got to end it. The Daleks destroyed my home, my people. I've got nothing left.
ROSE: Look at it.
She stands aside and gestures to the Dalek who feeling the sunlight.
THE DOCTOR (confused): What's it doing?
ROSE: It's the sunlight, that's all it wants!
THE DOCTOR (voice shaking): But it can't...
ROSE: It couldn't kill Van Statten, it couldn't kill me, it's changing. What about you, Doctor? What the hell are you changing into?
The Doctor finally lowers the gun. He looks completely lost.
THE DOCTOR (close to tears): I couldn't...
Rose stares at him.
THE DOCTOR (CONT'D): I wasn't... (Looks at the Dalek, then back at Rose). Oh, Rose. They're all dead.
"Not anymore." Clara said, smiling at 12. Everybody else smiled to, and the doctors felt like jumping for joy again. Still hardly able to believe their beloved home was safe and sound again.
DALEK: Why do we survive?
THE DOCTOR: I don't know.
DALEK (speech an effort, now): I am the last of the Daleks.
THE DOCTOR: You're not even that. Rose did more than regenerate you. You've absorbed her DNA. You're mutating.
DALEK: Into what?
THE DOCTOR: Something new. I'm sorry.
ROSE: Isn't that better?
THE DOCTOR: Not for a Dalek.
"Daleks must remain pure." River muttered.
DALEK: I can feel so many ideas. So much darkness... Rose... give me orders! Order me to die.
It closes its eye. The Doctor looks from the Dalek to Rose.
ROSE: I can't do that.
DALEK: This is not life. This is sickness.
Rose's face contorts with pity and disgust.
DALEK (CONT'D): I shall not be like you. Order my destruction! Obey! Obey! Obey!
ROSE (after a moment): Do it.
DALEK: Are you frightened, Rose Tyler?
ROSE: Yeah.
DALEK: So am I. (Feebly). Exterminate.
There was so much power in that one word. All the times the Daleks had murdered the innocent with that word. Now it was used to strike one down out of fear and sickness. It was so… Pitiful.
Rose stumbles backwards, and runs to the Doctor's side as the Dalek replaces its armour. It levitates into the air and the golden knobs detach themselves to surround the Dalek in a perfect sphere. The Dalek glows briefly, and then explodes inside the sphere, vanishing into nothing. The Doctor stares at the place where it disappeared, stunned.
INT. CORRIDOR
Goddard walks slowly up to Van Statten, who has several guards standing behind him. She nods her head to them and they grab him by the shoulders and push him backwards. Goddard follows them at a brisk walk.
VAN STATTEN: What the hell are you doing?!
GODDARD: Two hundred personnel dead, and all because of you, sir. Take him away, wipe his memory, and leave him by the road someplace.
"So that's what happened to him then." Amy said. Jack, Mickey and Martha nodded.
"Yep, ended up just another homeless idiot on the streets, committed suicide in 2014 I believe." Said Jack.
VAN STATTEN: You can't do this to me! I am Henry Van Statten!
GODDARD: And by tonight, Henry Van Statten will be a homeless, brainless junkie living on the streets of San Diego, Seattle, Sacramento. (Turns away with a flourish and a satisfied smile). Someplace beginning with 'S'.
No one could hold back their laughter. The irony of the situation was just too strong. All those time's Van Statten had, had fun disposing of his staff, and now he was the one being left somewhere beginning with 'S'.
INT. EXHIBIT ROOM
Rose and the Doctor stand by the TARDIS. The Doctor has his hand on it, looking up at it pensively.
THE DOCTOR (sadly): Little piece of home. Better than nothing.
"The Tardis is worth way more than nothing." River said, lightly hitting 11 on the arm.
"Don't have to tell me." He replied. All the doctors were then consumed with thoughts of how much they loved their Tardis.
ROSE: Is that the end of it? The Time War?
THE DOCTOR: I'm the only one left. I win. How about that.
ROSE (consolingly): The Dalek survived... maybe some of your people did too.
THE DOCTOR: I'd know. In here. (Gestures his head). Feels like there's no one.
If only he'd known just how wrong he was… Clara thought.
ROSE: Well then, good thing I'm not going anywhere. (Smiles).
THE DOCTOR (smiles back): Yeah.
Adam jogs up to them.
ADAM: We'd better get out. Van Statten's disappeared... they're closing down the base.
The Doctor faces him with his arms folded.
ADAM (CONT'D): Goddard says they're going to fill it full of cement! Like it never existed!
ROSE: About time.
ADAM: I'll have to go back home.
THE DOCTOR: Better hurry up then. Next flight to Heathrow leaves at 1500 hours.
Everybody rolled their eyes at the doctor's jab at their dialect. As if he didn't slip into British mannerisms now and then.
ROSE (hinting): Adam was saying that all his life he wanted to see the stars...
Rose sighed. How she regretted suggesting he tag along.
THE DOCTOR: Tell him to go and stand outside, then.
ROSE: He's all on his own, Doctor. And he did help.
THE DOCTOR: He left you down there!
ROSE: So did you!
ADAM: What're you talking about? We've got to leave!
THE DOCTOR (eyes on Rose): Rose, he's a bit pretty.
ROSE (innocently): I hadn't noticed.
I wish I hadn't noticed. She thought now.
The Doctor raises his eyebrows skeptically and turns to the TARDIS.
THE DOCTOR: On your own head.
ADAM: What're you doing? She said 'cement'. She wasn't joking, we're going to get sealed in.
Both the Doctor and Rose disappear into the TARDIS, leaving Adam standing outside.
ADAM (CONT'D): Doctor? (Sounding genuinely concerned for their sanity). What're you doing standing inside a box? (Pauses). Rose?
He peers through the doors and steps inside. The engines start up and the TARDIS dematerialises.
"Wow, taking him along for the ride eh?" Jack said.
"Yeah, kind of like we did to you." Rose shot back. Jack looked innocently shocked, while everyone else just chucked happily. Relaxing into their respective sofas and waiting for the next episode to start.
THE END