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"Alright, so no more fights unless we absolutely need one, okay? That goes for all three of the Doctors, Mickey, River, Donna, Amy, and Rose. This next episode is kinda funny, shit happens though... The episode after this is pretty emotional for Rose, and the Doctor will get pissed. Enjoy this one, though."

"Great." Donna responded sarcastically.

[Observation deck]

(A traffic report is on a public viewscreen.)
WOMAN [OC]: Solar flare activity has increased across space lanes five, five, six and all commercial flights are advised to avoid
(The Tardis materialises, and the Doctor and Rose step out.)
DOCTOR: So, it's two hundred thousand, and it's a spaceship. No, wait a minute, space station, and er, go and try that gate over there. Off you go.

"The Doctor is going to help Rose with her new boyfriend!" Martha squealed.

Mickey was affronted. "I'm her boyfriend. We never broke up!"

Rose chuckled. "Mickey, she's just joking. I'm probably just trying to impress him so he stays and travels. Nothing more."

"You don't know how you're going to act in the future."

"I know I'd never cheat on you. With anyone. Ever."

"Alright, I believe you."

ROSE: Two hundred thousand?
DOCTOR: Two hundred thousand.
ROSE: Right.
(Rose opens the Tardis door.)
ROSE: Adam? Out you come.
(Adam comes out, and his jaw drops.)
ADAM: Oh, my God.

"Oh, I love people's reactions to the TARDIS." 11 smiled, satisfaction from the shock on screen was evident, despite already having been there.

10 nodded in agreement. "It's the best part. If it takes them too long, though, I get annoyed."

"The longer it takes the funnier it is!"

"And the more sarcastic I get to be."

9 rolled his eyes. "I'm pretty sure the best part is them reacting to our regeneration."

10 cringed and 11 laughed. "Yeah, tell that to him."

"It wasn't as fun as I thought it would be."

ROSE: Don't worry, you'll get used to it.
ADAM: Where are we?
ROSE: Good question. Let's see. So, er, judging by the architecture, I'd say we're around the year two hundred thousand. If you listen
ADAM: Yeah.
ROSE: Engines. We're on some sort of space station. Yeah, definitely a space station. It's a bit warm in here. They could turn the heating down. Tell you what - let's try that gate. Come on!
(Rose leads the men through the metal gate to a massive viewing window.)
ROSE: Here we go! And this is. I'll let the Doctor describe it.

9 was immediately bewildered. Despite getting on better terms with Rose and watching the interactions on screen, he still didn't understand why he let her get away with saying and doing those things. He looked over to his regenerations, and mouthed: 'Let me?'

10 just shook his, wondering the same thing, and 11 sat perfectly still, obviously holding in his laughter at his regenerations confusion about humans.

DOCTOR: The Fourth great and bountiful Human Empire. And there it is, planet Earth at it's height. Covered with mega-cities, five moons, population ninety six billion. The hub of a galactic domain stretching across a million planets, a million species, with mankind right in the middle.
(Adam faints.)
DOCTOR: He's your boyfriend.
ROSE: Not anymore.

Mickey pouted and Rose and gestured to the screen. Rose let out a huff of laughter put her head on his shoulder, wrapping one arm around him. Mickey, slightly surprised, draped an arm around her shoulders put his head on hers.

[Floor 139]

(The space station has a central hub with three wheels turning.)
DOCTOR: Come on, Adam. Open your mind. You're going to like this. Fantastic period of history. The human race at its most intelligent. Culture, art, politics. This era has got fine food, good manners.
MAN: Out of the way!
(Suddenly there are a lot of people bustling around, opening up food vending stations and serving customers at their counters.)
CHEF: Thank you very much indeed. Somebody there? That's great. What do you want, love? All right, keep moving. I'll be with you lot in a minute. Here you are. One at a time. What now, what was it? Kronkburger with cheese, kronkburger with pajatos. Do you want a drink? Oi, you, mate. Stop pushing. Get back. I said, back.
ROSE: Fine cuisine?
DOCTOR: My watch must be wrong. No, it's fine. It's weird.

"Oh no, the Doctor's watch is wrong." Amy said, pretending that it was the end of the world.

9 scoffed. "Oh, ha-ha. My watch being wrong could actually mean the end of the world."

Amy smirked. "Well, maybe you shouldn't get your watch wrong, then."

9 opened his mouth, then closed it, remembering Zachariah's warning. As much as he hated listening to other people telling him what to do, he would listen this one time. At least to get out of this room sooner.

ROSE: That's what comes of showing off. Your history's not as good as you thought it was.
DOCTOR: My history's perfect.
ROSE: Well, obviously not.
ADAM: They're all human. What about the millions of planets, the millions of species? Where are they?
DOCTOR: Good question. Actually, that is a good question. Adam, me old mate, you must be starving.
ADAM: No, I'm just a bit time sick.
DOCTOR: No, you just need a bit of grub. Oi, mate - how much is a kronkburger?

Martha giggled slightly. "Now, that is not a word you hear come out of the Doctor's mouth everyday."

10 groaned. "Why are you all bullying me today?"

"You just make it so easy, Pretty Boy." River responded.

"Wha-I-What? What did you just call me? Pretty boy? I'm not... Pretty."

11 placed aa hand on his shoulder and said in a low voice, "You'll get used to it."

10 groaned again and fell back into his seat.

CHEF: Two credits twenty, sweetheart. Now join the queue.

Donna looked around, hoping someone else had heard the chef call the Doctor sweetheart, but found that they all seemed to ignore it to watch the rest of the episode.

DOCTOR: Money. We need money. Let's use a cashpoint.
TANNOY: Attention all staff. All coverage of the Glasgow water riots being transferred five through nine.
(The Doctor goes to a Credit Five cashpoint and does something clever with his sonic screwdriver. It produces a plastic card which the Doctor hands to Adam.)
DOCTOR: There you go, pocket money. Don't spend it all on sweets.
ADAM: How does it work?
DOCTOR: Go and find out. Stop nagging me. The thing is, Adam, time travel's like visiting Paris. You can't just read the guide book, you've got to throw yourself in. Eat the food, use the wrong verbs, get charged double and end up kissing complete strangers. Or is that just me? Stop asking questions, go and do it. Off you go, then. Your first date.

"Doctor. How often are you kissing complete strangers?" Amy asked, amused.

11 just slumped and pouted. "It's not like I want to. Most of the time they force me into it even when I've tried to deny and move away."

9 shivered. "It gets worse every time. Some people I don't mind, but that's very few."

At hearing their answers, Amy lost her amused face and became concerned. "You do know that's sexual assault, right?"

10 considered this for a few seconds before shaking his head. "No. I've usually lead them on before they kiss me. It's uncomfortable, but I also kind of deserve it for playing them. If it were anyone else, yeah it'd be sexual assault. But I think I would know if I were being assaulted like that."

Mickey was silent during the conversation, but found himself growing disgusted with how the Doctor was treated by horny people he didn't even know, and even when he tried to stop their advances, he couldn't do anything.

ROSE: You're going to get a smack, you are.
(Rose and Adam leave the Doctor, who approaches a pair of smartly dressed young women.)
DOCTOR: Er, this is going to sound daft, but can you tell me where I am?
CATHICA: Floor One Three Nine. Could they write it any bigger?
DOCTOR: Floor one three nine of what?
CATHICA: Must've been a hell of a party.
SUKI: You're on Satellite Five.

Jack tensed at the name. He was really hoping to forget what had happened there, but it seemed that that wasn't going to be the plan. He took a breath and forced himself to relax, hoping not to alert anyone. He was glad that he could see what the Doctor had gotten up to the first time he had been there.

What Jack hadn't known is that River had seen Jack's troubled expression and tense shoulders. She decided then to try and not harp on him much this episode, obviously he had gone through some trauma and he just needed to be himself for a bit.

DOCTOR: What's Satellite Five.
CATHICA: Come on, how could you get on board without knowing where you are?
DOCTOR: Look at me. I'm stupid.

Jack smiled and stood. "Everyone! Remember and savor this moment. The Doctor has just said he was stupid and he was not talking to himself. This is not a drill, it's really happening."

River rolled her eyes, but didn't refute Jack, or shoot him.

Rose laughed and took out her phone. "Hey, can you rewind that? I want to get it for my ringtone."

SUKI: Hold on, wait a minute. Are you a test? Some sort of management test kind of thing?
DOCTOR: You've got me. Well done. You're too clever for me.
(The Doctor holds up his psychic paper ID card.)
SUKI: We were warned about this in basic training. All workers have to be versed in company promotion.
CATHICA: Right, fire away, ask your questions. If it gets me to Floor five hundred I'll do anything.
DOCTOR: Why, what happens on Floor five hundred?
CATHICA: The walls are made of gold. And you should know, Mister Management. So, this is what we do.
(She goes over to a wall monitor.)
CATHICA: Latest news, sandstorms on the new Venus archipelago. Two hundred dead. Glasgow water riots into their third day. Space lane seventy seven closed by sunspot activity. And over on the Bad Wolf channel, the Face of Bo has just announced he's pregnant.

"Bad Wolf-"

"The Face of Bo is going to get pregnant?" 10 cut off Martha, not having payed attention the last time he had been there.

Jack felt his face go red. "Uh-w-well the Face of Bo... He uh-he's a head? How would he get pregnant, then?"

9 and 10 looked at each other, confused, before turning to 11, who was laughing as though he had never heard a joke before. 9 especially, was confused. He didn't know anyone and everything he was watching was new to him. "What? What's so funny?"

11 breathed heavily, trying to keep himself from laughing more. "He's not-he's not pregnant. The Face of Bo doesn't get pregnant, don't worry."

Jack released a relieved breath and tried to make himself less noticeable.

Martha glared at everyone. "So, is no one going to talk about Bad Wolf?"

"No, Martha. They decided to talk about something else less important." River responded.

DOCTOR: I get it. You broadcast the news.
CATHICA: We are the news. We're the journalists. We write it, package it and sell it. Six hundred channels

[Floor 500]

CATHICA [on monitor]: All coming out of Satellite Five, broadcasting everywhere.
(A pale-skinned man with white hair and goatee watches from a very cold location. There is frost on the walls.)
EDITOR: Something is wrong. Something fictional. Those people.
CATHICA: Nothing happens in the whole human empire without it going though us.
(The Editor instructs a very still, frost encrusted console operator.)
EDITOR: Security check. Go deep.

"Ew. That's gross. And creepy, but mostly gross." Donna shuddered.

Mickey looked disgusted. "Yeah, why's it look frozen?"

Rose thought for a second before sighing. "Maybe they were? I think there's an alien or something... It needs to be cold but there are also people there, and they can't handle the cold? Maybe."

[Floor 139]

TANNOY: All staff are reminded that the canteen area now operates a self cleaning table system. Thank you!
ROSE: Try this. It's called Zaphic. It's nice, it's like a, er, Slush Puppy.
ADAM: What flavour?
(Rose takes a suck at the straw.)
ROSE: Sort of beef?
ADAM: Oh, my God. It's like everything's gone, home, family, everything.
(Rose takes out her mobile phone.)
ROSE: This helps. The Doctor gave it a bit of a top-up. Who's back home, your mum and dad?

ADAM: Yeah.
ROSE: Phone them up.
ADAM: But that's one hundred and ninety eight thousand years ago.
ROSE: Honestly, try it. Go on.
ADAM: Is there a code for planet Earth?
ROSE: Just dial.
(The phone rings in a house with a For Sale sign outside.)

"Aw, that's sad." Amy put her hand on Rory's leg. He blushed slightly before clearing his throat and responding.

"Yeah, it's be terrible if it had been sold already and someone else was going to live there."

Martha sighed, she did feel bad, but she couldn't help but think that something bad was going to happen, either to the kid, or it was the kid that did the bad thing.

MACHINE: I'm sorry we're not in. Please leave a message. Thanks. Bye
ADAM: It's er. Hi. It's me.

[Adam's home]

(A little dog runs in.)
ADAM: I've sort of gone travelling. I met these people and we've gone travelling together.

[Floor 139]

ADAM: But, er, I'm fine, and I'll call you later. Love you. Bye. That is so
(An alarm sounds. Everyone grabs their things and starts to leave. The vendors close up shop.)
DOCTOR: Oi! Mutt and Jeff! Over here!

"Oi! That's a bit rude!" Rose admonished.

10 sighed in relief. "Alright, so I was rude before. That's a relief."

"No, he's sarcastic. You're just rude." 11 grinned. 10 elbowed his arm and glared at the floor. "Don't be like that, Rose loves having you around."

10's face morphed into anger. "Rose is gone."

11 shrugged. "I mean, by the looks of it, you just came from you first adventure with Martha on the moon. It's not like you'll never see Rose again."

"What?" 10 felt his eyes begin to fill up with tears. He would see Rose again.

(Adam keeps Rose's phone.)

[Floor 500]

COMPUTER: Security check cleared.
EDITOR: No, something's wrong. I can taste it. A tiny little shift in the information. Someone down there shouldn't be here. Double check. Triple check. Follow them.

[Newsroom]

(Seven people are seated at an octagonal desk around a central chair with wires coming out of it. The Doctor, Rose and Adam stand to one side, observing.)
CATHICA: Now, everybody behave. We have a management inspection. How do you want it, by the book?
DOCTOR: Right from scratch, thanks.
CATHICA: Okay. So, ladies, gentlemen, multi-sex, undecided or robot,- my name is Cathica Santini Khadeni. That's Cathica with a C, in case you want to write to Floor five hundred praising me, and please do. Now, please feel free to ask any questions. The process of news gathering must be open, honest, and beyond bias. That's company policy.
SUKI: Actually, it's the law.
CATHICA: Yes, thank you, Suki. Okay, keep it calm. Don't show off for the guests. Here we go.
(Cathica settles into the central chair.)
CATHICA: And engage safety
(The seven hold their hands over palm print on the table in front of them. Lights start to come on around the room. Cathica clicks her fingers and a portal opens in her forehead. The seven put their hands into the palm prints.)

Donna gagged, and placed a hand over her mouth. "You can see her brain-!"

Jack placed a hand on her shoulder. "Hey, it's not that bad. At least it isn't completely exposed."

She shook his hand off her. "That's worse!"

CATHICA: And three, two, and spike.
(A beam of light shines into her portal.)
DOCTOR: Compressed information, streaming into her. Reports from every city, every country, every planet, and they all get packaged inside her head. She becomes part of the software. Her brain is the computer.
ROSE: If it all goes through her, she must be a genius.
DOCTOR: Nah, she wouldn't remember any of it. There's too much. Her head'd blow up. The brain's the processor. As soon as it closes, she forgets.
ROSE: So, what about all these people round the edge?
DOCTOR: They've all got tiny little chips in their head, connecting them to her and they transmit six hundred channels. Every single fact in the Empire beams out of this place. Now that's what I call power.

9 frowned as he watched. The technology was amazing, but it wasn't... Right. Technology shouldn't be worked and used like that. There was something going on and it wasn't right... And it had to do with floor five hundred.

[Floor 500]

COMPUTER: Analysis confirmed. Security breach.
EDITOR: I knew it. Which one? It's someone inside that room. Which one?
COMPUTER: Isolating breach.
EDITOR: Come on, show me. Who is it?

"It's probably the Doctor. Actually, I would not be surprised if it were the Doctor." Mickey said tiredly. He was getting a little bored with this episode.

10 turned around and grinned at Mickey. "Well, get ready to be shocked, Mickey the Idiot."

All Mickey did was sigh and groan.

ROSE [on monitor]: You all right?
ADAM [on monitor]: I can see her brain.

[Newsroom]

ROSE: Do you want to get out?
ADAM: No. No, this technology, it's amazing.
DOCTOR: This technology's wrong.
ROSE: Trouble?
DOCTOR: Oh, yeah.

"Ugh, finally! Something interesting." Amy leaned forward.

Rory rubbed her back, massaging her slightly. "Yeah, I was about ready to fall asleep."

"I think we all were." Martha added.

Donna rubbed her forehead. "Speak for yourselves. I thought I was about to puke for a second."

[Floor 500]

EDITOR: That's it! Oh yes, she's the liar. Intercept and scan.
(The monitor zooms in on Suki.)

Mickey was actually surprised to find that the Doctor wasn't the "security breach."

EDITOR: Gotcha.
(Suki pulls her hands away as if she has just received an electric shock. The other six lift their hands and the information beam shuts down. Cathica's portal closes.)
CATHICA: Come off it, Suki. I wasn't even halfway. What was that for?
SUKI: Sorry. It must've been a glitch.
CATHICA: Oh.

[Level 500]

EDITOR: Her information's been tampered with. There's a second biography hidden underneath.
(Snarl from above.)
EDITOR: Yes, sir. Absolutely, sir. Yes, well, her data was encrypted, so there's no way we could have found her sooner.
(Snarl, growl.)
EDITOR: I'm sorry, I. Yes, sorry, sir. Absolutely. Get her up here. Now.

"I was right! There is an alien up there. Ha!" Rose folded her arms over her chest with pride.

11 leaned over to 10. "My memory is a little fuzzy after the regeneration, it'll clear up soon, but was Rose always so clever?"

"Yes, of course! How could you even doubt it?" 10 responded.

9 leaned over to them, looking as though he had something important to add. Instead saying, "Shut up."

[Newsroom]

TANNOY: Promotion.
(A wall lights up with the word.)
CATHICA: Come on. This is it. Come on. Oh God, make it me. Come on, say my name, say my name, say my name.
TANNOY: Promotion for Suki Macrae Cantrell. Please proceed to Floor five hundred.
SUKI: I don't believe it. Floor five hundred.
CATHICA: How the hell did you manage that? I'm above you.
SUKI: I don't know. I just applied on the off chance and they've said yes.
CATHICA: That's so not fair. I've been applying to Floor five hundred for three years.
ROSE: What's Floor five hundred?
DOCTOR: The walls are made of gold.

[By the lift]

SUKI: Cathica, I'm going to miss you. Floor five hundred, thank you.
DOCTOR: I didn't do anything.
SUKI: Well, you're my lucky charm.
DOCTOR: All right. I'll hug anyone.

Jack scoffed, offended. "What the hell? You'll hug anyone, but you won't hug me whenever? This is so rude!"

9 rolled his eyes. "Well, maybe I knew something shady is going on and I was trying to be of comfort before she went to her certain death."

"I just-I just can't believe you would betray me like this!" Jack feigned crying.

"I don't even know who you are, why am I defending myself to you?"

Jack stopped. "Oh yeah." He turned to 10. "I can't believe you would betray me like this!"

10 put his hands up in surrender. "Hey, I'm a different regeneration than him! Don't attack me!"

Jack turned to 11, before slumping in defeat. He was not going to try and argue with a regeneration that already seemed crazy.

ROSE: Come on, it's not that bad.
ADAM: What, with the head thing?
ROSE: Yeah, well, she's closed it now!
ADAM: Yeah, but. It's everything. It freaks me out. And I just need to. If I could just cool down. Sort of acclimatise.
ROSE: How do you mean?
ADAM: Maybe I could just go and sit on the observation deck. Would that be all right? Soak it in, you know. Pretend I'm a citizen of the year two hundred thousand.
ROSE: Do you want me to come with you?
ADAM: No, no, you stick with the Doctor. You'd rather be with him. It's going to take a better man than me to get between you two. Anyway, I'll be on the deck.
ROSE: Here you go. Take the Tardis key. You know, just in case it gets a bit too much.

"Alright, before anyone gets really mad... I am a 19 year old trying to comfort a guy that has barely been above ground. And it hasn't even happened for me yet." Rose cringed slightly, expecting some sort of insults to come her way.

"Well, convincing argument, but I'm still angry that you're going to give one of the TARDIS' keys without consulting me." 9 responded, more civilized than he felt.

"Hasn't even happened." Rose mutters to herself before speaking to the Doctor. "That's fair. I'm sorry for the future."

ADAM: Yeah, like it's not weird in there.
TANNOY: All staff are reminded that the sixteen forty break session has been shortened by ten minutes. Thank you.
(Adam leaves with the key, grinning to himself.)
SUKI: Oh, my God, I've got to go. I can't keep them waiting. I'm sorry. Say goodbye to Steve for me. Bye!
(The lift door closes.)
CATHICA: Good riddance.
DOCTOR: You're talking like you'll never see her again. She's only going upstairs.
CATHICA: We won't. Once you go to Floor five hundred you never come back.
(They walk back through the cafeteria.)
DOCTOR: Have you ever been up there?

Mickey breathed in slightly, excited about this opportunity to finally get on the Doctor's nerves. "Yeah, she has been up there. That's why she said that anybody who goes up to Floor five hundred never comes back and why she's been trying to get up there for what, three years? Makes perfect sense."

10 rubbed his temples, disappointed in his past self, while 9 was thought about everything leading up to this moment, realizing he allowed Mickey to get a shot at him. 11 sighed and shook his head in defeat.

"Alright, Mickey. That's... Fair." 10 said, finding it difficult to say it at all.

"Oh, the poor Doctor. Finally a fight ha can't win." Jack sympathized, putting a hand on his heart and sniffing loudly as if he was stood at the Doctor's grave. "Doctor? Do you have anything you'd like to say at this terrible loss?"

11 decided to play along. "I'd just like to apologize to everyone who has supported me and that has been there for me. This is... Difficult for me to accept, but I wil take it with grace. Mickey the Idiot, congratulations."

10 leaned over to 11 with a serious look on his face. "Are we not getting revenge?"

"Of course we are, don't be daft."

CATHICA: I can't. You need a key for the lift, and you only get a key with promotion. No one gets to five hundred except for the chosen few.

[Floor 500]

(The lift door opens onto an empty, frost covered area. Suki picks up her bag and walks out, and the lift closes behind her. She gets a torch from her bag and starts to explore. There are other footprints in the rime on the floor. Behind some shredded plastic curtains she finds a corpse with its forehead portal open and other skeletons seated around it, just like in the broadcast area down on floor 139. A doorway opens and she walks into the light.)
SUKI: Who're you?
EDITOR: I'm the Editor.
SUKI: What's happening? There are bodies out there. What's going on?

Amy sank down in her seat. "I'm starting to get bored again."

"How are bored? It's literally just started picking up." Rose turned to face the red-head.

"Well, compared to the other episodes this is really boring."

Donna looked up. "Well the last episode there was a lot going on cause of Mr. Emo and his anger issues with pepper pots."

"We should fast forward."

"Amy, do you really want to skip over the Raggedy Man's life? This is his entire life story... Do you really want to miss some of it just cause you're bored?" Rory asked, knowing full well he was manipulating her.

Amy huffed, but stopped complaining and turned to the T.V.

EDITOR: While we're asking questions, would you please confirm your name.
(He snaps his fingers, and a holographic monitor appears in mid air.)
SUKI [on monitor]: My name is Suki Macrae Cantrell. I was born one nine nine apostrophe eight nine in the Independent Republic of Morocco.
EDITOR: Liar.
SUKI [on monitor]: Hobbies include reading and archeology. I'm not an expert or anything, I just like digging.
EDITOR: Liar.
SUKI [on monitor]: I want to work for Satellite Five because my sister can't afford university, and the pay scheme is really good
EDITOR: Liar! Let's look at the facts, shall we?
(The image of a woman in camouflage fatigues and brandishing a weapon appears on the holo-monitor.)
EDITOR: Ah, hidden behind a genetic graft, but that's still you. Eva Saint Julienne, last surviving member of the Freedom Fifteen. Hmm, self declared anarchist, is that right?

"Now this is drama!"

11 smirked ever so slightly, before feeling like someone was glaring at him, telling him not to do what he what he thinking of doing. He pouted and took his attention from his thoughts to the screen.

(Suki points a hand gun at the Editor.)
SUKI: Who controls Satellite Five?
EDITOR: There's the truth!
SUKI: The Freedom Foundation has been monitoring Satellite Five's transmissions. We have absolute proof that the facts are being manipulated. You are lying to the people.
EDITOR: Ooo, I love it. Say it again.
SUKI: This whole system is corrupt. Who do you represent?
EDITOR: I'm merely a humble slave. I answer to the Editor in Chief.
SUKI: Who is he? Where is he?
EDITOR: He's overseeing everything. Literally everything. If you don't mind, I'm going to have to refer this upwards.
(Click, and he points upwards. Something growls.)
SUKI: What is that?
EDITOR: Your boss. This has always been your boss, since the day you were born.
(Suki fires her small pulse energy gun at whatever is coming down from the ceiling. She screams.)

"Oh! Is that thing killing them and then freezing them and forcing them to work at the consoles as a freakish computer?" Martha excitedly asked, before realizing that maybe she shouldn't've sounded so excited.

"I don't know, maybe. This is one of the adventures I try to block out." 10 replied, obviously lying to cover up the fact that he was trying to keep the ending secret.

11 gave an awkward laugh. "Is this a bad time to mention that I completely forgot about this and I have no idea what's going on?"

"Sweetie, there's never a good time."

[Observation deck]

(Adam puts his hand on a palm print on a vertical console.)
ADAM: Give me access.
(The console lights up.)
ADAM: Give me
(A mild electric shock.)
ADAM: I can learn anything.
(He puts his hand back. Let's try computers. From the twenty first century to the present date, give me the history of the microprocessor.
(Data scrolls down the monitor.)
ADAM: Oh my God.

"That is an asshole if I've ever seen one. Tricking poor Rose over here." Donna shook her head in disappointment.

"She will be avenged." Amy agreed.

Mickey put a hand on Rose's shoulder in mock comfort. "You sit here while we go deal with him."

"I'm a nurse so I'll let you all know what you need to hit to cause the most pain without death." Rory added.

Rose just laughed at them, not really hurt by what had happened on screen.

[Newsroom]

CATHICA: Look, they only give us twenty minutes maintenance. Can't you give it a rest?
DOCTOR: But you've never been to another floor? Not even one floor down?
(The Doctor sits in the broadcast chair.)
CATHICA: I went to floor sixteen when I first arrived. That's medical. That's when I got my head done, and then I came straight here. Satellite Five, you work, eat and sleep on the same floor. That's it, that's all. You're not management, are you.
DOCTOR: At last. She's clever.
CATHICA: Yeah, well, whatever it is, don't involve me. I don't know anything.
DOCTOR: Don't you even ask?
CATHICA: Well, why would I?
DOCTOR: You're a journalist. Why's all the crew human?

River's face lit up with realization. "The crew's all human, but they're in space. There should be some sort of alien immigration."

Jack looked serious for a second, before shaking his head and returning his attention to the show.

CATHICA: What's that got to do with anything?
DOCTOR: There's no aliens on board. Why?
CATHICA: I don't know. No real reason. They're not banned or anything.
DOCTOR: Then where are they?
CATHICA: I suppose immigration's tightened up. It's had to, what with all the threats.
DOCTOR: What threats?
CATHICA: I don't know all of them. Usual stuff. And the price of space warp doubled so that kept the visitors away. Oh, and the government on Chavic Five's collapsed, so that lot stopped coming, you see. Just lots of little reasons, that's all.
DOCTOR: Adding up to one great big fact, and you didn't even notice.
CATHICA: Doctor, I think if there was any kind of conspiracy, Satellite Five would have seen it. We see everything.
DOCTOR: I can see better. This society's the wrong shape, even the technology.

Rory sighed, before looking at the Doctors. "Alright, what do you mean the wrong shape?"

11 shrugged. "It's just... Wrong. It isn't the right shape. I can't explain it better than that. Hold on, I think it have a better way. The society is built wrong, it isn't the way society should be acting. That better?"

"Sure, why not?"

CATHICA: It's cutting edge.
DOCTOR: It's backwards. There's a great big door in your head. You should've chucked this out years ago.
ROSE: So, what do you think's going on?
DOCTOR: It's not just this space station, it's the whole attitude. It's the way people think. The great and bountiful Human Empire's stunted. Something's holding it back.
CATHICA: And how would you know?
DOCTOR: Trust me, humanity's been set back about ninety years. When did Satellite Five start broadcasting?
CATHICA: Ninety one years ago.

"Wonderful." Rose stated dryly.

"Not surprised." Martha smiled sarcastically.

[Observation deck]

(Adam phones home again.)
ADAM: Mum, Dad, keep this message, okay?

[Adam's home]

ADAM [OC]: Whatever you do, don't erase it. Save it. You got that?

[Observation deck]

ADAM: The microprocessor became

[Adam's home]

ADAM [OC]: Redundant in the year two thousand nineteen, replaced

[Observation deck]

ADAM: By a system called SMT. That's Single Molecule Transcription
(The display is replaced by a message - Floor 16.)
ADAM: No, no, no, no, no! What're you doing? Come back! Why are you doing that? What's Floor sixteen? What's down there?

"I honestly didn't think he was this much of a bitch."

"Rose.. Are you alright?" Mickey looked at her with concern.

Rose smiled playfully hit him. "Yeah, I was joking. Jeez, can't a girl make a joke around here?"

[Floor 16]

(The lift doors to reveal Adam. He walks to the one desk where there isn't a conversation going on.)
ADAM: Sorry, er, floor sixteen, that's, er. What do you cover?
NURSE: Medical non-emergency.
ADAM: Right. Yeah, wrong floor. I'm having technical difficulties. My screen keeps freezing, blocking me out.
NURSE: No, that's medical. There must be something wrong with your chip.
ADAM: Yes. Yeah, of course, yeah. I haven't got one.
NURSE: No wonder you can't get a screen to work. What are you, a student?
ADAM: Yes. Yeah, I'm er, I'm on a research project from the University of Mars.
NURSE: The Martian boondocks. Typical.

9 huffed. "Martians are a wonderful species. Disrespectful."

Donna thought for a moment before looking over at her Doctor. "Can we go to Mars?"

"I am not bringing you to Mars! Martians are a great species of alien, but you being there would just anger them."

"What? Why?"

"1) You called me a Martian just because I'm alien. That's racist. 2) They watch Earth and they do not like humans very much."

Donna frowned and glared at him. He just rolled his eyes and laughed slightly.

ADAM: Yeah.
NURSE: Well, you still need chipping.
ADAM: So, does that mean like brain surgery?
NURSE: That's an old fashioned phrase, but it's the same thing, yes.
ADAM: Oh. Okay, never mind. But if I get a chip that means I could use any computer.
NURSE: Absolutely. You'll have to pay for it. They've stopped subsidising.
ADAM: Oh! Right. Sorry. Wasting your time. Thanks.
(Adam walks away, then goes back.)
ADAM: Hold on. Can I use this?
(He holds up the card from the cashpoint.)
NURSE: That'll do nicely.

"You should not have given the card to him." Rory told the Doctors quietly.

9 took a breath. "Really? I hadn't noticed. Thank you so much for that."

Rory frowned, but didn't want to take the disrespect. "You're very welcome, Doctor."

He's annoying.

Hey, you don't get to say that about Rory. You can insult his nose all you want but don't you dare call him annoying.

He does have a pretty big nose doesn't he?

Alright, only I'm allowed to insult Rory now.

Aw.

Damn.

[Operating room]

(Adam is sitting in an operating chair. The nurse puts a circular device above his head.)
NURSE: It all comes down to two basic types. Type one, the head chip inserted into the back of the skull, one hundred credits. There's the chip. Tiny. Invisible. No scarring. Type two is the full info-spike.
ADAM: Oh, that's the
(He points to his forehead.)
ADAM: Thing.
NURSE: That's the one. It does cost ten thousand.
ADAM: Oh, well, I, er, I couldn't afford it then.
NURSE: Not at all. It turns out you've got unlimited credit.
ADAM: No, but I couldn't have it done, I mean, that's got to hurt, hasn't it?
NURSE: Painless. Contractual guarantee.
ADAM: No, my mate's waiting upstairs, I can't have major surgery.
NURSE: It takes ten minutes. That sort of money buys a very fast picosurgeon.
ADAM: No, but I, I couldn't. No, no, it's

"Well, at least he's trying not to do something completely stupid." Mickey smirked, knowing full well that the kid was going to something completely reckless and idiotic.

"Yeah, I honestly just thought he went for it, no questions asked."

NURSE: Type one, you can interface with a simple computer. Type two, you are the computer. You can transmit any piece of information from the archive of Satellite Five, which is just about the entire history of the human race. Now, which one's it going to be?

Amy clapped her hands once. "Manipulation. I love it."

[Outside the computer cupboard]

(The Doctor is using his sonic screwdriver on a pair of double doors.)
CATHICA: We are so going to get in trouble. You're not allowed to touch the mainframe. You're going to get told off.

Donna laughed before growing serious. "Doctor. How could you do something so reckless that it gets you told off?"

"Well, uhm... I wanted to?" 10 responded, confused.

She just glared at him while 10 tried to think about what she was so angry at.

After a minutes he gasped softly. "Oh..."

"You are the dumbest person I've ever met."

"And you've met yourself, have you?"

I'm going to get my revenge you stupid Space Man.

I may have done a thing. A very bad thing.

DOCTOR: Rose, tell her to button it.
CATHICA: You can't just vandalise the place. Someone's going to notice!
(The doors open.)

[Floor 500]

(The Editor is watching all this on the monitor. Suki has joined the ranks of the undead computer operators.)

Martha was proud of herself. "I just want to say: I kind of figured out how they do that."

EDITOR: I don't understand. We did a full security scan. That man was there when we found Suki Macrae Cantrell. There were no indications about him. And yet here he is, clearly acting outside the parameters. Fascinating.
(Snarl, growl.)
EDITOR: Yes, sir. Absolutely. At once. Check him. Double check him. Triple check him. Quadruple. (The creature makes noises)

[Outside the computer cupboard]

(The Doctor is having fun making things go sput amongst the mare's nest of wiring.) {Of all the things they could write...}
CATHICA: This is nothing to do with me. I'm going back to work.
DOCTOR: Go on, then. See you!
CATHICA: I can't just leave you, can I!
ROSE: If you want to be useful, get them to turn the heating down. It's boiling. What's wrong with this place? Can't they do something about it?
CATHICA: I don't know. We keep asking. Something to do with the turbine.
DOCTOR: Something to do with the turbine.
CATHICA: Well, I don't know!
DOCTOR: Exactly. I give up on you, Cathica. Now, Rose. Look at Rose. Rose is asking the right kind of question.

Rose nodded and sobbed. "It is the highest honor, Doctor, to be used as an example."

Jack wiped away false proud tears. "I'm prod of you , Rose Tyler. Maybe one day I will get the privilege of the Doctor using me as an example."

ROSE: Oh, thank you.
DOCTOR: Why is it so hot?
CATHICA: One minutes you're worried about the Empire and the next it's the central heating!
DOCTOR: Well, never underestimate plumbing. Plumbing's very important.

[Floor 500]

COMPUTER: Security scan complete.
EDITOR: Well, who is he?
COMPUTER: He is no one.
EDITOR: What does that mean?
COMPUTER: He is no one.
EDITOR: What, you mean he has a fake ID?
COMPUTER: He has no identification.
EDITOR: But everyone's registered. We have a census for the entire Empire.
COMPUTER: He is no one.
EDITOR: What, he doesn't exist? Not anywhere?
COMPUTER: He is no one.
EDITOR: What about the blonde?
COMPUTER: She is no one.
EDITOR: Both of them? Well, we all know what happens to non-entities. They get promoted. Bring them up.

9 grinned. "Time travel. It's beautiful."

Donna raised her eyebrow. "You mean confusing."

"No I mean beautiful. I guess to humans it would be confusing. Especially the duller ones."

"You're going to get a smack for that. And I won't tell you when you're going to get it."

The Doctor weighed his options before realizing there's no way to get out of this. "Fuck."

"Oh, Dear. You just swore out loud." River let him know, before laughing at the puzzled expressions on everyone's face.

"Raggedy Man, I don't think you've ever cursed before."

"Of course I have! I do it all the time."

"Sweetie, turning off the translator for the TARDIS and cursing in Gallifreyan so quietly no one but you can hear doesn't count."

[Outside the computer cupboard]

(The Doctor produces a monitor with a schematic on it.)
DOCTOR: Here we go. Satellite Five, pipes and plumbing. Look at the layout.
CATHICA: This is ridiculous. You've got access to the computer's core. You can look at the archive, the news, the stock exchange and you're looking at pipes?
DOCTOR: But there's something wrong.
CATHICA: I suppose.
ROSE: Why, what is it?
CATHICA: The ventilation system. Cooling ducts, ice filters, all working flat out channelling massive amounts of heat down.
DOCTOR: All the way from the top.
ROSE: Floor five hundred.
DOCTOR: Something up there is generating tons and tons of heat.

"The alien?" Rory guessed.

"Wouldn't be surprised." Mickey responded.

"I don't remember asking you but okay." Rory murmured.

"What was that?"

"Nothing."

ROSE: Well, I don't know about you, but I feel like I'm missing out on a party. It's all going on upstairs. Fancy a trip?
CATHICA: You can't. You need a key.
DOCTOR: Keys are just codes, and I've got the codes right here. Here we go. Override two one five point nine.
(The monitor shows 215.9976/31)
CATHICA: How come it's given you the code?

[Floor 500]

DOCTOR [on monitor]: Someone up there likes me.

"Or hates you."

"It's synonymous."

[Operating room]

NURSE: I told you it was painless. No scarring, you see? Perfect success.
ADAM: How do I activate it?
NURSE: It's a personal choice. Some people whistle. I know one man who triggers it with O, Danny Boy. But you're set on default for now. That's a click of the fingers.
ADAM: So you mean, I just
NURSE: Click.

"Please tell me you're going to bully him." Amy basically begged the Doctor.

"Don't worry, I'm sure I did. Maybe. I forgot how he thinks." 11 replied, pointing towards the 9th version of him.

[Outside the lift]

ROSE: Come on. Come with us.
CATHICA: No way.
DOCTOR: Bye!
CATHICA: Well, don't mention my name. When you get in trouble, just don't involve me.
(Cathica leaves.)
DOCTOR: That's her gone. Adam's given up. Looks like it's just you and me.
ROSE: Yeah.
DOCTOR: Good.
ROSE: Yep.

"The best duo."

10 glared at his new face. "That's really rude."

11 just grinned at him. "Good! I really don't like you. You do have the best face though, I will say."

"Oh, really? I didn't know if you like that one more, or if you still thought 4 and 5 were the best. Also, I don't like you much either."

"One thing we have in common."

"Are we becoming friends?"

"No. Maybe." 11 thought for a few seconds. "He's our mutual friend."

9 just shook his head. "I don't want to be in the middle of this."

[Operating room]

(Adam clicks his fingers and the portal in his forehead opens to reveal his brain. He clicks it shuts again.)
ADAM: Oh, my God. I'm going to be sick.
(He leans forward and retches, then pulls a pale ice cube out of his mouth.)
NURSE: Special offer. We installed the vomitomatic at the same time. Nano-termites have been placed in the lining of your throat. In the event of sickness, they freeze the waste.

"That's disgusting." Rose gagged.

Jack shuddered. He couldn't even imagine what it would be like to puke out ice cubes.

[Floor 500]

DOCTOR: The walls are not made of gold. You should go back downstairs.
ROSE: Tough.
(They find the Editor and his staff.)
EDITOR: I started without you. This is fascinating. Satellite Five contains every piece of information within the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. Birth certificates, shopping habits, bank statements, but you two, you don't exist. Not a trace. No birth, no job, not the slightest kiss. How can you walk through the world and not leave a single footprint?
ROSE: Suki. Suki! Hello? Can you hear me? Suki? What have you done to her?
DOCTOR: I think she's dead.
ROSE: She's working.
DOCTOR: They've all got chips in their head, and the chips keep going, like puppets.

"I'm getting more right." Martha stated, still proud of herself.

EDITOR: Oh! You're full of information. But it's only fair we get some information back, because apparently, you're no one. It's so rare not to know something. Who are you?
DOCTOR: It doesn't matter, because we're off. Nice to meet you. Come on.
(Suki grabs Rose's arm. Two other zombies grab the Doctor.)
EDITOR: Tell me who you are.
DOCTOR: Since that information's keeping us alive, I'm hardly going to say, am I.
EDITOR: Well, perhaps my Editor in Chief can convince you otherwise.
DOCTOR: And who's that?
EDITOR: It may interest you to know that this is not the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. In fact, it's not actually human at all. It's merely a place where humans happen to live.
(Growl, snarl.)
EDITOR: Yeah. Yeah, sorry. It's a place where humans are allowed to live by kind permission of my client.
(Who we finally see is a giant lump hanging from the ceiling, with a very nasty set of teeth in a mouth on the end of a pseudopod.)

Jack looked disgusted by the alien. "I'm so glad I didn't have to meet that when you came back there with me, Doctor."

9 sighed. "Repeat trips? Boring."

"Trust me, it was not boring. At all. Like, it was actually kind of terrifying."

"Great, looking forward to living it once we get out of here."

"You don't have to be sarcastic."

"Yes I do."

ROSE: What is that?
DOCTOR: You mean that thing's in charge of Satellite Five?
EDITOR: That thing, as you put it, is in charge of the human race. For almost a hundred years, mankind has been shaped and guided, his knowledge and ambition strictly controlled by it's broadcast news, edited by my superior, your master, and humanity's guiding light, the Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe. I call him Max.
(Down on Floor 139 Adam avoids Cathica as she goes to take another look at the schematic that the Doctor called up. Then she goes to the lift and punches in the code for Floor 500.
Meanwhile, the Doctor and Rose have been placed in hefty sets of manacles.)
EDITOR: Create a climate of fear and it's easy to keep the borders closed. It's just a matter of emphasis. The right word in the right broadcast repeated often enough can destabilise an economy, invent an enemy, change a vote.
ROSE: So all the people on Earth are like, slaves.
EDITOR: Well, now, there's an interesting point. Is a slave a slave if he doesn't know he's enslaved?
DOCTOR: Yes.
EDITOR: Oh. I was hoping for a philosophical debate. Is that all I'm going to get? Yes?
DOCTOR: Yes.

"Always so blunt. Captain Jack Harkness, I think I'll let you keep him. We can share the 10th, but I want 11 all to myself." River stood and held out a hand.

Jack grinned. "Yes, ma'am. And we will be sharing the 10th Doctor, thanks." They shook.

Our love love life is being decided right now. What the hell?

I mean, I get River all to myself, and you have to have Jack. A little jealous of him though, cause he gets both.

Just a second ago you said you didn't want Jack and you wanted River to yourself.

I never said I wasn't curious about how good Jack is-

That is disgusting. Why would you even think that? It's gross.

He's cute. All I said was that I'm curious. I know River a bit, she gets me, but do I really not get a hint of Captain Jack Harkness?

Stop it. This conversation is over.

EDITOR: You're no fun.
DOCTOR: Let me out of these manacles. You'll find out how much fun I am.
EDITOR: Oh, he's tough, isn't he. But, come on. Isn't it a great system? You've got to admire it, just a little bit.
ROSE: You can't hide something on this scale. Somebody must have noticed.
EDITOR: From time to time, someone, yes, but the computer chip system allows me to see inside their brains. I can see the smallest doubt and crush it.
(Cathica arrives on Floor 500. Adam goes to the broadcast room on 139.)
EDITOR: Then they just carry on, living the life, strutting about downstairs and all over the surface of the Earth like they're so individual, when of course, they're not. They're just cattle. In that respect, the Jagrafess hasn't changed a thing.
(The Doctor and Rose spot Cathica behind the Editor's back.)
ROSE: What about you? You're not a Jagrabelly
DOCTOR: Jagrafess.
ROSE: Jagrafess. You're not a Jagrafess. You're human.
EDITOR: Yeah, well, simply being human doesn't pay very well.
ROSE: But you couldn't have done this all on your own.
EDITOR: No. I represent a consortium of banks. Money prefers a long-term investment. Also, the Jagrafess needed a little hand to install himself.
DOCTOR: No wonder, a creature that size. What's his life span?
EDITOR: Three thousand years.
DOCTOR: That's one hell of a metabolism generating all that heat. That's why Satellite Five's so hot. You pump it out of the creature, channel it downstairs. Jagrafess stays cool, it stays alive. Satellite Five is one great big life support system.

"Doctor, why do you keep switching the way you refer to the Jagrafess?" Martha asked.

"Brain thinks too quick. Can't decide if it deserves to be called a he or an it, but I've got to keep the Editor distracted. So, keep talking and my brain will slow down eventually." 9 answered. He shook his head slightly, as if it were a nervous tick, and turned back to the screen.

[Adam's home]

(Adam settles in the broadcast chair and opens his portal, then phones home.)
ADAM [OC]: It's me again. Don't wipe this message. It's just going to sound like white noise, but save it because I can

[Newsroom]

ADAM: Translate it, okay? Three, two, one and spike.
(Information beams into Adam.)

"Why are we still paying attention to this prick?" Donna snapped. She was tired of seeing this guy on screen, he was so annoying and he screwed everything over.

Amy nodded. "I hate him so much."

[Floor 500]

EDITOR: But that's why you're so dangerous. Knowledge is power, but you remain unknown. Who are you?
(The Editor snaps his fingers and energy surges through the manacles. Back in the now, the little dog watches energy encircling the telephone answering machine.)
DOCTOR: Leave her alone. I'm the Doctor, she's Rose Tyler. We're nothing, we're just wandering.
EDITOR: Tell me who you are!
DOCTOR: I just said!
EDITOR: Yes, but who do you work for? Who sent you? Who knows about us? Who exactly
(He stops. The Jagrafess growls.)
EDITOR: Time Lord.
DOCTOR: What?
EDITOR: Oh, yes. The last of the Time Lords in his travelling machine. Oh, with his little human girl from long ago
DOCTOR: You don't know what you're talking about.
EDITOR: Time travel.

"And now the Doctor either gets panicked or angry. Or even sad. Which will it be?" Uninterested sarcasm unmistakeable in Mickey's tone.

Rose hit his arm roughly. "Be nice."

[Newsroom]

(Adam screams as information is sucked out of his brain.)
ADAM: Help!

[Floor 500]

DOCTOR: Someone's been telling you lies.
EDITOR: Young master Adam Mitchell?
(The Editor calls up the holo-monitor showing Adam in the broadcast chair.)
ROSE: Oh, my God. His head!
DOCTOR: What the hell's he done? What the hell's he gone and done? They're reading his mind. He's telling them everything.
EDITOR: And through him, I know everything about you.

Amy lets out a short, disbelieving laugh. She knew for a fact that the Doctor hadn't told Adam a thing about himself. Only the general knowledge.

EDITOR: Every piece of information in his head is now mine. And you have infinite knowledge, Doctor. The Human Empire is tiny compared to what you've seen in you S. Tardis.
DOCTOR: Well, you'll never get your hands on it. I'll die first.
EDITOR: Die all you like. I don't need you. I've got the key.
(The Tardis key rises from Adam's pocket.)
DOCTOR: You and your boyfriends!
EDITOR: Today, we are the headlines. We can rewrite history. We could prevent mankind from ever developing.
DOCTOR: And no one's going to stop you because you've bred a human race that doesn't bother to ask questions. Stupid little slaves, believing every lie. They'll just trot right into the slaughter house if they're told it's made of gold.
(The Jagrafess snarls, and Cathica leaves.)

[Floor 500 news room]

(Cathica throws the corpse off the broadcast chair and sits down.)
CATHICA: Disengage safety.

"Oh, she's useful." 9 commented, shock obvious in his tone.

Jack huffed a laugh. "Only you, Doctor, can be blunt and shocked at the same time."

"Well, she didn't look useful."

"Now that's just rude."

[Floor 500]

EDITOR: What's happening?

[Floor 500 newsroom]

CATHICA: Maximum access. Override Floor one three nine.
(Adam is disconnected. The Tardis key falls to the floor.)
CATHICA: And spike!

[Floor 500]

EDITOR: Someone's disengaged the safety. Who's that?
(He calls the image up on the holo-monitor.)
ROSE: It's Cathica.
DOCTOR: And she's thinking. She's using what she knows.
EDITOR: Terminate her access.
DOCTOR: Everything I told her about Satellite Five. The pipes, the filters, she's reversing it. Look at that.
(The icicles are starting to melt.)
DOCTOR: It's getting hot.
EDITOR: (to Suki) I said, terminate. Burn out her mind.

[Floor 500 newsroom]

CATHICA: Oh no, you don't. You should have promoted me years back.

Martha's mouth fell open ever so slightly. How can that girl still think about getting promoted when she know what promotion really means? Some people...

[Floor 500]

(The consoles explode and the dead operators collapse. Alarms sound in the rest of Satellite Five and people panic. Rose gets out of her manacles.)
DOCTOR: She's venting the heat up here. The Jagrafess needs to stay cool and now it's sitting on top of a volcano.

"Alright, I wasn't completely right, but I was close."

"Yes, you're very clever, Martha."

EDITOR: Yes, I'm trying, sir, but I don't know how she did it. It's impossible. A member of staff with an idea.
(The Editor takes Suki's seat while Rose tries to free the Doctor. She gets the sonic screwdriver from his pocket.)
ROSE: What do I do?
DOCTOR: Flick the switch! Oi, mate, want to bank on a certainty? Massive heat in a massive body, massive bang. See you in the headlines!
(Finally free, the Doctor and Rose leave.)
EDITOR: Actually, sir, if it's all the same to you, I think I'll resign. Bye, then!
(Suki grabs his ankle and he falls.)

"Freaky, but fair." Donna gagged, but tried to keep herself from actually puking.

Jack put a hand one her shoulder. "Hey, you need water or something? We've still got a snack table, I can get you a drink."

She blushed, before leaning away from him. "I'm alright now, thanks."

He smiled, causing her to blush even more before hitting his arm. "Ow! You're welcome, by the way."

EDITOR: Let go of me!
(The Doctor and Rose run for the broadcast as chunks of ice fall from the ceiling, the satellite shudders and the Jagrafess growls.)
EDITOR: Let go of me! Let go of me!
(The Jagrafess explodes. The Doctor snaps his fingers and closes Cathica's portal.)

[Floor 139]

(As dawn rises over Mother Earth, the people on level 139 are helping the injured.)
DOCTOR: We're just going to go. I hate tidying up. Too many questions. You'll manage.
CATHICA: You'll have to stay and explain it. No one's going to believe me.
DOCTOR: Oh, they might start believing a lot of things now. The human race should accelerate. All back to normal.
CATHICA: What about your friend?
DOCTOR: He's not my friend.
ROSE: Now, don't
ADAM: I'm all right now. Much better. And I've got the key. Look, it's. It all worked out for the best, didn't it? You know, it's not actually my fault, because you were in charge.
(The Doctor pushes Adam into the Tardis.)

9 raised his eyebrow. "He's got some nerve."

River smiled, though she was more focused on imagining how she would kill Adam for blaming the Doctor like that.

[Adam's home]

(And out of the Tardis.)
ADAM: It's my house. I'm home! Oh, my God, I'm home! Blimey. I thought you were going to chuck me out of an airlock.
DOCTOR: Is there something else you want to tell me?
ADAM: No. What do you mean?
(The Doctor picks up the answering machine.)
DOCTOR: The archive of Satellite Five. One second of that message could've changed the world.
(The Doctor sonic screwdrivers the poor defenceless telephone. It explodes.)

"The poor telephone." Rory placed a hand over his heart.

Amy smirked. "Top 10 saddest deaths, number 1 may shock you."

Martha laughed. "I understood that reference."

Donna rolled her eyes. "And I honestly don't know how anyone is supposed to miss that reference."

9, 10, and 11, confused, began talking with each other.

"I have no idea what they're referencing. I've watched one human movie and read hundreds of human books, and I don't understand what they're saying."

"Yeah, cause they're going to reference The Lion King."

"What's The Lion King?"

"Sh, they're probably talking about other human movies."

"It could be a book."

"I doubt it."

"Seriously, what is The Lion King?"

"You'll watch it with Rose at her insistence, you'll just have to wait."

DOCTOR: That's it, then. See you.
ADAM: How do you mean, see you?
DOCTOR: As in goodbye.
ADAM: But what about me? You can't just go. I've got my head. I've got a chip type two. My head opens.
DOCTOR: What, like this?
(The Doctor clicks his fingers.)
ADAM: Don't.
(He closes it.)
DOCTOR: Don't do what?
(Open.)
ADAM: Stop it!
(Close.)
ROSE: All right now, Doctor, that's enough. Stop it.
ADAM: Thank you.
(Rose clicks her fingers.)
ADAM: Oi!
ROSE: Sorry, I couldn't resist.
(Adam closes it again.)

"Yay, you bullied him about it!" Martha clapped, proud of her newly found friend.

Rose nodded graciously. "I didn't deserve all the credit. The Doctor bullied him, too."

"Thank you, thank you. Really, this is the best praise I've ever recieved."

11 shook his head.

"Oh, uh- Not the best praise I've ever received then, but still very good."

11 nodded.

DOCTOR: The whole of history could have changed because of you.
ADAM: I just wanted to help.
DOCTOR: You were helping yourself.
ADAM: And I'm sorry. I've said I'm sorry, and I am, I really am, but you can't just leave me like this.
DOCTOR: Yes I can. 'Cause if you show that head to anyone, they'll dissect you in seconds. You'll have to live a very quiet life. Keep out of trouble. Be average, unseen. Good luck.
ADAM: But I want to come with you.
DOCTOR: I only take the best. I've got Rose.

Rose stood and turned and looked at everyone, except the Doctors. "It's been proven. I'm the Doctor's favorite. You may all be jealous."

River stood, angry. "You're wrong. It's me, I'm the Doctor's favorite."

Jack, also stood, not realizing that River was being serious. "It's definitely me."

Bang. Jack fell over.

"Jesus, River. We were just joking. I get you and the Doctor have some weird sexual tension going on, but let us joke. Really takes the fun out of stuff."

"Oh. I'm sorry, usually I'm better at social interactions than this. I just love the Doctor so much. I have a bit of a hard time realizing he cares about other people platonically instead of romantically."

11 turned to the other two of him. "I'm sure you'll get your answer soon. Maybe. I don't have all of them."

Jack gasped back to life. "You really need to stop doing that. You do know I still feel like I'm dying right? I just don't stay that way."

(Adam's mum comes in the front door.)
ADAM: Rose, Rose. Oh, my God.
MUM [OC]: Who's that? Geoff, is that you?
ADAM: It's me, mum. Don't come in. Wait there a minute.
MUM [OC]: Oh, my Lord. You never told me you were coming home! Hold on, I'll just take my coat off. You should've told me you were coming home. I would've got your favourite tea in.
ADAM: Rose, take me with you.
(The Tardis engine starts up. Rose goes inside and it dematerialises.)
MUM [OC]: Hey, what's that noise? Have you left the back door open? Blimey, there's a draft.
(She enters the front room.)
MUM: What a surprise. Oh, let me look at you. Oh, six months. It's like I saw you yesterday. Isn't it funny? The time goes by like that.
(She clicks her fingers. Oops.)

"Now that is good. I love it. I wonder what happens to him."

"Us too. It's always been in the back of my mind, but I really could care less. He kinda... Betrayed my friend and me as well. So."

Donna walked up to 9. He looked at her hesitantly. She pulled her hand back and slapped him across the face. "There, that's my revenge. We're all good now."

11 laughed and put his hands on both his regenerations shoulders. "You'll get used to that, I think."

10 held his face. "I can still feel it when she slapped me. Twice."

9 grimaced and rubbed his cheek. "Is it red?"

"You're fine, relax."


Yay, the next episode is angst and anger!