Disclaimer: this disclaimer is for all future chapters I do not own the Doctor Who universe the only thing I own is my OC character
AN: I'm looking for a beta reader
(PS: I'm copying the transcript and not writing it out myself because I am crap at spelling and right now my beta reader is my cat and I will repeat I do not own the transcripts; I only own my OC's POV.)
[Thoughts]
[Thought Speech]
[Stuff I Wrote]
[Transcript]
-Twas A Line-
[TARDIS]
(The new Doctor dashes to the console and flicks a few switches, checking the monitor.)
DOCTOR: 6 PM... Tuesday...
(Rose watches, half concealed by a pillar. The Doctor turns a knob.)
DOCTOR: October... 5006... On the way to Barcelona!
(Straightens up and faces Rose, grinning as if extremely pleased with himself).
DOCTOR: Now then... what do I look like?
(Gives her no chance to reply before holding up a hand to silence her)
DOCTOR: No, no no, no no no no no no no. No. Don't tell me.
(Rose looks completely bemused.)
DOCTOR: Let's see... two legs, two arms, two hands...
(Tests his wrist, circling it).
DOCTOR: Slight weakness in the dorsal tubercle.
(Hands fly to his head).
DOCTOR: Hair! I'm not bald!
(Rose now looks shocked. The Doctor runs his hands through his hair gleefully.)
DOCTOR: Oh, Oh! Big hair!
(Feels his sideburns, looks and sounds delighted)
DOCTOR: Sideburns, I've got sideburns! Or really bad skin. Little bit thinner...
(Slaps his stomach).
DOCTOR: That's weird. Give me time, I'll get used to it.
(With the air of someone making a most wonderful discovery)
DOCTOR: I... have got... a mole. I can feel it.
(Rose is breathing heavily. She looks scared. The Doctor seems not to notice.)
DOCTOR: Between my shoulder blades, there's a mole.
(Rotates his shoulders).
DOCTOR: That's all right. Love the mole.
(Grins at Rose).
DOCTOR: Go on then, tell me.
(Stands straight up before Rose, ready for assessment. His hair is all ruffled)
DOCTOR: What do you think?
ROSE (quietly, timidly): Who are you?
DOCTOR (crestfallen, slightly surprised): I'm the Doctor.
ROSE (shakes her head, not believing him): No... Where is he? Where's the Doctor? (Voice rising). What have you done to him?
DOCTOR: You saw me, I, I changed... (Indicates over his shoulder, the spot where he regenerated) ... right in front of you.
ROSE: I saw him sort of explode, and then you replaced him, like a... a teleport or a transmat or a body swap or something.
(The Doctor does not interject. He seems lost for words. Rose takes a few steps towards him. At arm's length, she pushes him in the chest.)
ROSE : You're not fooling me.
(The Doctor rocks back on his heels as though he cannot believe what he is hearing.)
ROSE : I've seen all sorts of things. Nano genes... Gelth... (Looks darkly at him). Slitheen...
(The Doctor raises his eyebrows.)
ROSE : Oh, my God, are you a Slitheen?
DOCTOR: (calmly): I'm not a Slitheen.
ROSE (voice rising to a shout): Send him back. I'm warning you; send the Doctor back right now!
DOCTOR (pleadingly): Rose, it's me.
(He leans forward in his urgency to make her believe him.)
DOCTOR: Honestly, it's me.
(Rose stares at him, her chest rising and falling very fast.)
DOCTOR: I was dying. To save my own life I changed my body. Every single cell, but... it's still me.
ROSE (whispers): You can't be.
(The Doctor takes a few steps closer to her, looking straight down into her eyes.)
DOCTOR: Then how could I remember this? Very first word I ever said to you. Trapped in that cellar. Surrounded by shop window dummies... oh...
(Looks away for a moment, reminiscing. Then he looks back into her eyes) ...
DOCTOR: such a long time ago. I took your hand...
(To emphasize this point, he takes her hand... just like he did when Rose first asked who he was. Rose glances briefly down at their joint hands and then back up at his face.)
DOCTOR: I said one word... just one word, I said... "Run".
(He gazes at her. Rose looks into his eyes, her own full of tears.)
ROSE: (whispers): Doctor.
(The Doctor grins.)
DOCTOR (gently): Hello.
(Rose sighs in an almost exasperated fashion and stumbles backwards as the impact of what has just happened hits her. The Doctor takes off around the other side of the console.)
DOCTOR: And we never stopped, did we? All across the universe. Running, running, running...
(Flicks a few switches on the console).
DOCTOR: One time we had to hop. Do you remember? Hopping for our lives.
(He hops madly up and down on the spot. Rose has her back against the pillar and is just watching him.)
DOCTOR: Yeah? All that hopping? Remember hopping for your life? Yeah?! Hop? With the...
(The wild enthusiasm ebbs from his voice at Rose's lack of reaction. His hopping subsides)
DOCTOR: No?
ROSE: Can you change back?
DOCTOR: Do you want me to?
ROSE: Yeah.
DOCTOR: Oh.
ROSE: Can you?
DOCTOR: No.
(He seems rather disappointed. He glances briefly down at the floor)
DOCTOR: Do you want to leave?
ROSE (shocked): Do you want me to leave?
DOCTOR (quickly): No! But... your choice... if you want to go home...
(Rose still looks upset. He goes to the console again.)
DOCTOR: Cancel Barcelona. Change to... London... the Powell Estate... ah... let's say the 24th of December. (Looks at her). Consider it a Christmas present.
(Rose is edging slowly closer the console.)
DOCTOR: There.
(He steps back, his arms tucked under his armpits in an almost defensive manner. Rose looks at him, then back at the console. The TARDIS shudders as it changes direction.)
ROSE: I'm going home?
DOCTOR: Up to you. Back to your mum... it's all waiting. Fish and chips, sausage and mash, beans on toast... no, Christmas! Turkey! Although... having met your mother... nut loaf would be more appropriate.
(Rose looks down quickly, to hide a smile.)
DOCTOR: Was that a smile?
ROSE: No.
DOCTOR (knowingly): That was a smile...
ROSE: No, it wasn't.
DOCTOR (teasingly): You smiled...
ROSE: No, I didn't.
DOCTOR: Oh, come on, all I did was change, I didn't...
(He suddenly gags as the TARDIS shudders. Rose looks at him questioningly.)
ROSE: What?
DOCTOR: I said I didn't...
(The same thing happens again, more violently. He makes nasty retching noises.)
DOCTOR: Uh oh.
(Rose edges cautiously around the console.)
ROSE: Er... is you alright?
(A piece golden time vortex issues from the Doctor's mouth.)
ROSE: What's that?
DOCTOR: Oh... the change is going a bit wrong and all.
(He gags again. He falls to his knees, his face contorted.)
ROSE: Look... maybe we should go back. Let's go and find Captain Jack, he'd know what to do.
DOCTOR (impatiently): Gah, he's busy! He's got plenty to do rebuilding the Earth!
(A lever on the console suddenly catches his eye).
DOCTOR: I haven't used this one in years.
(He flicks it. The TARDIS shudders violently and they are both nearly knocked to their feet.)
ROSE: What're you doing?!
DOCTOR (crazily): Putting on a bit of speed! That's it!
(He turns more knobs while Rose tries to maintain a more secure grip on the console.)
DOCTOR: My beautiful ship! Come on, faster! That's a girl!
(Rose looks distinctly alarmed. The Doctor looks and sounds violent, crazed.)
DOCTOR: Faster! Wanna to break the time limit?!
ROSE: (angry and scared): Stop it!
DOCTOR (slightly nastily and still crazed): Ah, don't be so dull... let's have a bit of fun! Let's rip through that vortex!
(Catches her eye for a moment. His voice calms for a moment)
DOCTOR: The regeneration's going wrong. I can't stop myself. (Grimaces in pain). Ah, my head...
(He violently springs up into standing position again, and his voice has gone back to being crazed.)
DOCTOR: Faster! Let's open those engines!
(A bell rings.)
ROSE: (looking around, frightened): What's that?
(The Doctor's face appears next to her.)
DOCTOR: (sounding delighted): We're going to crash land!
(He laughs manically.)
ROSE: (shouting over the sound of the bell): Well then, do something!
DOCTOR: (voice rising hysterically): Too late! Out of control! (Runs around the console, giggling). Oh, I love it! Hot dawg!
(He hops in the air excitedly.)
ROSE: You're going to kill us!
DOCTOR: Hold on tight, here we go!
(Their eyes meet across the console, the Doctor grinning madly, Rose looking scared.)
DOCTOR: Christmas Eve...!
[Clancy's garage]
(In the Tyler's flat, Jackie is decorating the white plastic Christmas tree and putting presents under it. She looks at the one for Rose and gazes wistfully into the distance.
Meanwhile, at Mickey's work, Noddy Holder is screaming 'Merry Christmas' on the radio when another sound can be faintly heard above it and John's hammering.)
MICKEY: Hey, turn that down. Turn it off, Stevo. Turn that off! John, shut up!
(It's a familiar whooshing sound. Mickey runs out.)
[The Tyler's flat]
(Jackie hears it too.)
JACKIE: Rose!
[Powell Estate]
JACKIE: Mickey!
MICKEY: Jackie, it's the Tardis!
JACKIE: I know, I know, I heard it. She's alive, Mickey. I said so, didn't I? She's alive!
MICKEY: Just shut up a minute.
JACKIE: Well, where is it then?
(The Tardis comes out of the vortex in midair and bounces off one block of flats, a second and a third before avoiding a post office van and finally crashing into a set of waste bins. The Doctor opens the door, still in t-shirt and leather jacket.)
DOCTOR: Here we are then, London. Earth. The Solar System. We did it. Jackie. Mickey. Blimey! No, no, no, no, hold on. Wait there. I've got something to say. There was something I had to tell you, something important. What was it? No, hold on, hold on. Hold on, shush, shush, shush, shush. Oh, I know! Merry Christmas!
(The Doctor collapses. Rose comes out of the Tardis.)
ROSE: What happened? Is he all right?
MICKEY: I don't know, he just keeled over. But who is he? Where's the Doctor?
ROSE: That's him, right in front of you. That's the Doctor.
JACKIE: What do you mean, that's the Doctor? Doctor who?
[The Tyler's flat - bedroom]
(The Doctor has been dressed in pajamas and put to bed. Jackie comes in with a stethoscope.)
JACKIE: Here we go. Tina the cleaner's got this lodger, a medical student, and she was fast asleep, so I just took it. Though I still say we should take him to hospital.
ROSE: We can't. They'd lock him up. They'd dissect him. One bottle of his blood could change the future of the human race. No! Shush!
(Rose listens to both sides of the Doctor's chest.)
ROSE: Both working.
JACKIE: What do you mean, both?
ROSE: Well, he's got two hearts.
JACKIE: Oh, don't be stupid.
ROSE: He has.
JACKIE: Anything else he's got two of?
ROSE: Leave him alone.
(Rose and Jackie leaves. The Doctor exhales some of the Tardis's golden energy, which flies off into space.)
[Back in the TARDIS]
The Healer sits up and holds her head as a sharp pain go's though it, she coughs and blood pores out of her mouth instead of vortex energy.
Healer: Damn its going very wrong, my regeneration is killing me. Because I'm no longer compatible with my own Timelord/Error%#Unknown DNA, do I not exist anymore? But I have Physical form how can I not exist?
She reaches out to the doctor though the bound all Timelords share and found tattered strands of fevered thought, sighing she lets go of them and gets up and goes to the wardrobe to change out of her now bloody initiation robes.
[Wardrobe]
The Healer hums as she looks though thousands of clothes to find just the right outfit for her, she finely picks black and charcoal grey suit (A.N. Think 10's brown suit but with a TARDIS blue vest and a bit more formal.) she pairs it with a long black coat that flares out when she spins, for shoes she picks up a pair of steel toed dress shoes and she braids her long wavy RED hair into a French braid.
The Healer: Now time to be off, I've got no more time to waste Darling has probably gotten himself into trouble again!
She runs out to the console room only stopping for moment to lay her hand on Sexies controls.
The Healer: Don't worry Sexy I'll be back before you know it with our Timelord!
she then leaves the TARDIS.
[ Meanwhile The Tyler's flat - kitchen]
(Rose investigates the fridge.)
JACKIE: How can he go changing his face? Is that a different face or is he a different person?
ROSE: How should I know? Sorry. The thing is I thought I knew him, Mum. I thought me and him were. And then he goes and does this. I keep forgetting he's not human. The big question is where'd you get a pair of men's pajamas from?
JACKIE: Howard's been staying over.
ROSE: What, Howard from the market? How long's that been going on?
JACKIE: A month or so. First of all, he starts delivering to the door and I thought, that's a odd. Next thing you know, it's a bag of oranges
ROSE: Is that Harriet Jones?
(Rose goes into the living room.)
JACKIE: Oh, never mind me.
[The Tyler's flat]
ROSE: Why's she on the telly?
JACKIE: She's Prime Minister now. I'm eighteen quid a week better off. They're calling it Britain's Golden Age. I keep on saying my Rose has met her.
ROSE: Did more than that. Stopped World War Three with her. Harriet Jones.
MAN [on TV: Prime Minister, what about those calling the Guinevere One Space Probe a waste of money?
HARRIET: [on TV: Now, that's where you're wrong. I completely disagree if you don't mind. The Guinevere One Space Probe represents this country's limitless ambition. British workmanship sailing up there among the stars.
LLEWELLYN [on TV: This is the spirit of Christmas, birth and rejoicing, and the dawn of a new age, and that is what we're achieving fifteen million miles away. Our very own miracle.
NARRATOR [OC: The unmanned probe Guinevere One is about to make its final descent. Photographs of the Martian Landscape should be received by midnight tonight.
(Out in space, the probe bumps into presumably either Phobos or Deimos. A hatch opens in the Martian moon and the probe is sucked inside.)
[Street]
(A brass band dressed in Santa robes plays God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen.)
MICKEY: So, what do you need? Twenty quid?
ROSE: Do you mind? I'll pay you back.
MICKEY: Call it a Christmas present.
ROSE: God, I'm all out of synch. You just forget about Christmas and things in the Tardis. They don't exist. You get sort of timeless.
MICKEY: Oh, yeah, that's fascinating, because I love hearing stories about the Tardis. Oh, go on Rose, tell us another one because I swear, I could listen to it all day. Tardis this, Tardis that.
ROSE: Shut up.
MICKEY: Oh, and one time the Tardis landed in a big yellow garden full of balloons.
ROSE: I'm not like that!
MICKEY: Oh, you so are.
ROSE: Mmm, must drive you mad. I'm surprised you don't give up on me.
MICKEY: Oh, that's the thing, isn't it? You can rely on me. I don't go changing my face.
ROSE: Yeah. What if he's dying?
MICKEY: Okay.
ROSE: Sorry!
MICKEY: Just let it be Christmas. Can you do that? Just for a bit. You and me and Christmas. No Doctor, no bog monsters, no life or death.
ROSE: Okay.
MICKEY: Promise?
ROSE: Yes!
MICKEY: Right! What're you going to get for your mum?
(They walk around the market.)
MICKEY: I'm round there all the time now, you know. She does my dinner on a Sunday, talks about you all afternoon, yap yap yap.
(The band, which is wearing plastic masks, starts to follow them. Rose notices. They stop playing and one fires a flame out of his trombone, starting a panic. Mickey and Rose hide behind a stall.)
ROSE: It's us! They're after us!
(The tuba fires a blast which demolishes a large tree, sending it crashing onto him. Mickey and Rose flee.)
MICKEY: What's going on? What've we done? Why are they after us?
ROSE: Taxi!
[Taxi]
ROSE: They're after the Doctor.
MICKEY: I can't even go shopping with you. We get attacked by a brass band. Who're you phoning?
ROSE: My mum.
[The Tyler's flat]
(But Jackie is already on the phone to a friend.)
JACKIE: She turns up, no warning. I've got nothing in. I said, Rose, if you want a Christmas dinner of meat paste, then so be it.
[Taxi]
ROSE: Get off the phone!
MICKEY: Who were those Santa things?
ROSE: I don't know. But think about it. They were after us. What's important about us? Well, nothing, except the one thing we've got tucked up in bed. The Doctor.
[The Tyler's flat - bedroom]
JACKIE: Oh, no. Don't come round, darling. No, flat's all topsy turvy. Yeah, she just barges in and litters the place. Yeah. No, I'll come round and see you on Boxing Day.
(Jackie puts a mug of tea by the Doctor's bed and leaves. More golden energy is exhaled.)
[The Tyler's flat]
(Rose and Mickey burst in.)
JACKIE: So, save us a chipolata.
ROSE: Get off the phone.
JACKIE: It's only Bev. She says hello.
ROSE: Bev? Yeah. Look, it'll have to wait. Right, it's not safe. We've got to get out. Where can we go?
MICKEY: My mate Stan, he'll put us up.
ROSE: That's only two streets away. What about Mo? Where's she living now?
JACKIE: I don't know. Peak District.
ROSE: Well, we'll go to cousin Mo's then.
JACKIE: No, it's Christmas Eve! We're not going anywhere! What're you babbling about?
ROSE: Mum. Where'd you get that tree?
(The Christmas tree is now green.)
ROSE: That's a new tree. Where'd you get it?
JACKIE: I thought it was you.
ROSE: How can it be me?
JACKIE: Well, you went shopping. There was a ring at the door, and there it was!
ROSE: No, that wasn't me.
JACKIE: Then who was it ?
(The tree lights up by itself and starts playing Jingle Bells.)
ROSE: Oh, you're kidding me.
(Sections of the tree start to rotate in different directions, creating a strong wind. It starts to move, chopping through a coffee table.)
MICKEY: Get out! Go, go! Get out!
(Mickey picks up a chair to fend it off as Jackie and Rose run for the door.)
ROSE: We've got to save the Doctor.
JACKIE: What're you doing?
ROSE: We can't just leave him.
JACKIE: Mickey!
(The spinning tree shreds the chair legs.)
JACKIE: Leave it! Get out! Get out!
ROSE: Mickey!
JACKIE: Get out of there!
[The Tyler's flat - bedroom]
JACKIE: No, leave him. Just leave him!
MICKEY: Get in here!
(Jackie does as the tree heads for them. She and Mickey pull a wardrobe across the door.)
ROSE: Doctor, wake up!
(Rose gets the sonic screwdriver from the jacket pocket and puts it in the Doctor's hand. The tree smashes through the door.)
JACKIE: I'm going to get killed by a Christmas tree!
(Rose speaks into the Doctor's ear.)
ROSE: Help me.
(He suddenly sits up, and the tree explodes.)
DOCTOR: Remote control. But who's controlling it?
[Outside the flat]
(Dressing gown on, the Doctor leads the trio out. Down on the ground, three Santa's are in pieces and a RED headed woman with a radio controller looks up with a grin. her grin disappears when she sees the Doctor standing with the humans)
MICKEY: That's them. What were they?
ROSE: Shush!
MICKEY: What kind of rubbish were they? I mean, no offence, but they're not much cop if a slight redhead reduce them to ruble.
DOCTOR: Pilot fish.
ROSE: What?
DOCTOR: They were just pilot fish.
(The Doctor is in pain.)
The Healer: What are you doing you're supposed to be sleeping off your regeneration, not chasing Pilotfish around!
ROSE: What's wrong?
DOCTOR: You woke me up too soon. I'm still regenerating. I'm bursting with energy.
(He exhales the golden energy.)
The woman caught the golden energy as it left his mouth, the energy wiggled for a moment then seemed to sink into her skin.
Doctor: It's not supposed to do that! What is she?
DOCTOR: You see? The pilot fish could smell it a million miles away. So they eliminate the defense, that's you lot, and they carry me off. They could run their batteries on me for a couple of ow!
JACKIE: Oh! Oh! Oh!
DOCTOR: My head! I'm having a neuron implosion. I need
Healer: Sleep
JACKIE: What do you need?
DOCTOR: I need
Healer: Sleep
JACKIE: Say it. Tell me, tell me, tell me.
DOCTOR: I need
Healer: You need sleep (this caries on for a while)
JACKIE: Painkillers?
DOCTOR: I need
JACKIE: Do you need aspirin?
DOCTOR: I need
JACKIE: Codeine? Paracetamol? Oh, I don't know, Pepto-Bismol?
DOCTOR: I need
JACKIE: Liquid paraffin. Vitamin C? Vitamin D? Vitamin E?
DOCTOR: I need
JACKIE: Is it food? Something simple. Bowl of soup. A nice bowl of soup? Soup and a sandwich? Soup and a little ham sandwich?
DOCTOR: I need you to shut up.
JACKIE: Oh, he hasn't changed that much, has he?
DOCTOR: We haven't got much time. If there's pilot fish, then. Why's there an apple in my dressing gown?
JACKIE: Oh, that's Howard. Sorry.
DOCTOR: He keeps apples in his dressing gown?
JACKIE: He gets hungry.
DOCTOR: What, he gets hungry in his sleep?
JACKIE: Sometimes.
DOCTOR: Argh! Brain collapsing. The pilot fish. The pilot fish mean that something, something, something is coming.
Healer: Yes, I know, and you are not getting involved this time, I will take care of the problem and you will rest!
(The Doctor passes out.)
The Healer picks the Doctor up bridle-style and caries him back into the apartment while the humans stared after her, upon entering the apartment she immediately went to the room the Doctor had been sleeping in. Gently laying him on the bed she removed his housecoat tossing it over a chair by the bed, she pulled the blankets up to his chin and placed her hand on his forehead. Rose, Mickey and Jackie came running in to the room, Rose is steaming.
Rose: Who the Hell Are You!
The Healer ignores her for a moment instead turning to address Jackie and Mickey.
Healer: "Jackie, Mickey. " She exclaimed excitedly, before grabbing first Jackie then Mickey in a big hug. "I'm sorry I can't answer all the questions, you no doubt want to ask. Unfortunately, I've got to get back to what I was doing before this idiot woke up when he's supposed to be sleeping it off. "
Spinning on her heel she leaves the flat, grabbing Mickey on her way-out leaving Jackie and Rose behind.
Mickey: Who are you? Where are you taking me?
Healer: Some people don't have to die because I'm now a part of this timeline, and there are a few things I am going to tell you because otherwise you will keep on pining for Rose, and she will keep stringing you along as a backup plan. So, interdictions you are Mickey Smith you currently love one Rose Tyler who is in love with the Doctor, in your future you will travel to a parallel universe stay there when Rose Leaves with the Doctor. Help out a lot with that worlds Cybermen problem come back using a big yellow button, help save the world Rose gets trapped in the parallel universe when the Doctor sends the Cybermen and Daleks into the void. Come back over with Jackie, meet your future wife who traveled with the Doctor and of course she fell in love with him as well, but she makes the choice to leave.
Mickey: You didn't tell me who you are, besides why are you telling me this? Aren't you telling me going to affect the timeline?
Healer: No, that timeline is already mostly dead, I think? Because I was not a part of it, I'm here so that timeline should be almost obsolete but I'm going to try and maintain it as much as I can with me being here. As for who I am, I'm a Time Lady from the planet Gallifrey, I'm more than 1500 years old my title is The Healer, but for now I can't let The Doctor to know who and what I am, so just call me Elethea.
The Healer let him go and opened the TARDIS, stepping inside she walked around the console. going down a hallway that most definitely was not there before, Mickey followed her. She eventually led him to a kitchen and opened a cabinet pulling out a large porcelain bowl and started to fill it with some kind of chopped black, purple, and yellow fruity smelling stuff she then turned and opened another cabinet which turned out to be some kind of fridge. Reaching in she pulled out tupperware container red meat cubes, adding that to her bowl she reached in again and pulled out a bottle of green/gray sludgy looking stuff. Poring it on top she then put everything back that she was done with, pulling open a drawer she then seemed to study the spoons inside she picked one and closed the drawer. She then led him back to the console room bowl and spoon in hand, she set her bowl on the captain's seat and turned to address him.
The Healer: "You should go back to the flat to help Rose and Jackie, bring The Doctor here. "
[Press conference]
LLEWELLYN: Yes, we had a bit of a scare. Guinevere seemed to fall off the scope, but it, it was just a blip. Only disappeared for a few seconds.
[The Tyler's flat]
LLEWELLYN [on TV: She is fine now, absolutely fine. We're getting the first pictures transmitted live any minute now. I'd better get back to it, thanks.
JACKIE: Funny sort of rocks.
NEWSREADER [on TV: The first photographs
ROSE: That's not rocks
NEWSREADER [on TV: This image is being transmitted via mission control, coming live from the depths of space on Christmas morning.
(It's an red-eyed ugly alien with a head like a goat's skull. It growls and gurgles at the screen.)
NEWSREADER: The face of an alien life form was transmitted live tonight on BBC1.
NEWSREADER 2: (USA) On the 25th of December, the human race has been shown absolute proof that alien life exists.
NEWSREADER 3: These remarkable images have been relayed right across the world.
[Tower of London]
(A cortege of black cars drive past the White Tower. Llewellyn is let out by a Secret Service officer and greeted by a man in Army uniform with a troop of Red Berets.)
BLAKE: This way, sir.
[UNIT HQ]
(Basement level 11 is a hive of industry.)
BLAKE: Mister Llewellyn.
(He is taken to a quieter room.)
LLEWELLYN: Mister Llewellyn, ma'am.
(Harriet flashes her ID.)
HARRIET: Harriet Jones. Prime Minister.
LLEWELLYN: Oh. Well, yes, I know who you are. I suppose I've ruined your Christmas.
HARRIET: Never off duty. Now, we've put out a cover story. Alex has been handling it.
ALEX: We've said it was a hoax. Some sort of mask or prosthetics. Students hi-jacking the signal, that sort of thing.
HARRIET: Alex is my right hand man. I'm not used to having a right hand man. I quite like it, though.
ALEX: I quite like it myself.
LLEWELLYN: I don't suppose there's any chance it was a hoax?
HARRIET: That would be nice. Then we could all go home. I don't suppose anyone's offered you a coffee?
LLEWELLYN: No.
HARRIET: But, no, the transmission was genuine. And this seems to be a new species of alien. At least, not one we've encountered before.
(Harriet gives him a cup of coffee.)
LLEWELLYN: You seem to be talking about aliens as a matter of fact.
HARRIET: There's an Act of Parliament banning my autobiography.
BLAKE: Prime Minister?
HARRIET: I'm with you.
(They go out into the main area.)
BLAKE: Miss Jacobs can explain.
HARRIET: I don't think we've been introduced. Harriet Jones, Prime Minister.
SALLY: Yes, I know who you are. The transmission didn't come from the surface of Mars. Guinevere One was broadcasting from a point five thousand miles above the planet.
BLAKE: In other words, they've got a ship and the probe is on board.
LLEWELLYN: But if they're not from the surface, then they might not be from Mars itself. Maybe they're not actual Martians.
BLAKE: Of course not. Martians look completely different. We think the ship was in flight when they just came across the probe.
SALLY: And they're moving. The ship's still in flight now. We've got it on the Hubble array.
HARRIET: Moving in which direction?
SALLY: Towards us.
HARRIET: How fast?
SALLY: Very fast.
HARRIET: What was your name, again?
SALLY: Sally.
HARRIET: Thank you, Sally.
[UNIT HQ]
(The alien leader is speaking a softer version of Klingon.)
BLAKE: Translation software.
ALEX: Yes, sir.
[The Tyler's flat]
ROSE: I don't understand what they're saying. The Tardis translates alien languages inside my head, all the time, wherever I am.
Mickey:So, why isn't it doing it now?
ROSE: I don't know. Must be the Doctor. Like he's part of the circuit, and he's, he's broken.
[UNIT HQ]
BLAKE: I'm getting demands from Washington, ma'am. The President's insisting that he take control of the situation.
HARRIET: You can tell the President, and please use these exact words, he's not my boss, and he's certainly not turning this into a war.
(She goes to Alex.)
HARRIET: What have we got?
ALEX: Nothing yet. Translating an alien language is going to take time.
BLAKE: How far off is the ship?
ALEX: About five hours.
-Tis A Line-
[The Tyler's flat - bedroom]
NEWS READER 2 [on TV: Despite claims of an alien hoax, it's been reported that NATO forces are on red alert.
JACKIE: Oh, come on, sweetheart. What do you need? What is it you need? Tell me.
NEWSREADER [on TV: Speaking strictly off the record, government sources are calling this our longest night.
[UNIT HQ]
HARRIET: I don't suppose we've had a Code Nine? No sign of the Doctor?
BLAKE: Nothing yet. You've met him, haven't you? More like the stuff of legend.
HARRIET: He is that. Failing him, what about Torchwood?
BLAKE: I
HARRIET: I know I'm not supposed to know about it, I realise that. Not even the United Nations knows. But if ever there was a need for Torchwood, it's now.
BLAKE: I can't take responsibility.
HARRIET: I can. See to it. Get them ready.
ALEX: Prime Minister.
HARRIET: Has it worked?
ALEX: Just about. People. That could be cattle. You belong to us. To the Sycorax. They seem to be called Sycorax, not Martians. We own you. We now possess your land, your minerals, your precious stones. You will surrender or they will die. Sycorax strong, Sycorax mighty, Sycorax rock, as in the modern sense, they rock.
LLEWELLYN: They will die? Not you will die, they will die? Who's they?
ALEX: I don't know, but it is the right personal pronoun. It's they.
HARRIET: Send them a reply. Tell them, this is a day of peace on planet Earth. Tell them, we extend that peace to the Sycorax. And then tell them, this planet is armed and we do not surrender.
SALLY: Come on.
[The Tyler's flat - bedroom]
(Jackie has fallen asleep by the Doctor's bedside.)
ROSE: The Doctor wouldn't do this. The old Doctor, the proper Doctor, he'd wake up. He'd save us.
MICKEY: You really love him, don't you?
(Rose turns to Mickey and they hug.)
[UNIT HQ]
(Dawn breaks.)
SALLY: They got the message. Here comes the response.
(The Sycorax leader holds out his hand and a blue energy plays over it.)
HARRIET: What was that? Was that a reply?
ALEX: I don't know. It looked like some sort of energy, or static?
LLEWELLYN: Almost like someone casting a spell.
(Blue energy plays over Sally's head.)
LLEWELLYN: Maybe it's a different form of language, some sort of ideogram or pictogram.
(Two more woman and a man have the energy over their heads. They start to walk out.)
LLEWELLYN: What the hell? It's the light. It's the same light, Sally, what're you doing? Sally?
HARRIET: Oh, leave her. You'll hurt her.
BLAKE: Let them pass!
LLEWELLYN: Where are they going?
[Outside the flat]
(A blank faced man is walking along outside the Tyler's flat.)
SANDRA: What is wrong with you? Jason? Jason?
(Rose and Mickey come out.)
ROSE: Sandra?
SANDRA: He won't listen. He's just walking. He won't stop walking! There's this sort of light thing. Jason? Stop it right now! Please, Jason, just stop.
(Rose and Mickey look down to see lots of people walking through the estate.)
[UNIT HQ]
(Level 2 corridor, apparently.)
HARRIET: They're all heading in the same direction.
LLEWELLYN: It's only certain people. Why isn't it affecting us?
ALEX: Prime Minister, it's happening all over the country.
[Residential street]
WOMAN: Alan, come on, now stop this. It's not funny anymore. Come on, Alan, come back inside the house. Katrine. Katrine, listen to mummy. You come back inside now. And you, Jonathan. You come back in with mummy. Jonathon, come back in with mummy. You're scaring me now! Come on! Alan, help me out here, please.
(Somewhere else, a policeman is reporting in.)
POLICEMAN: As far as I can tell, they're heading for any sort of high-rise building. Anything with stairs, anything with steps.
[Staircase]
LLEWELLYN: They're going all the way up. They're going to the roof.
POLICEMAN: Just making my way to the front of the building now. There's hundreds of them. Oh, God. They've gone right to the edge. They're going to jump. They're all going to jump!
[Tower rooftop]
LLEWELLYN: Sally, stop it. It's Danny Llewellyn. Daniel Llewellyn. Sally, just concentrate. Listen to me. You're being controlled. We need you! Stop it, Sally!
[Flats rooftop]
SANDRA: Jason, I'm talking to you! Just stop!
(The controlled people all line up along the edge of the roofs.)
[UNIT HQ]
ALEX: It's not just the whole country. It's the whole world.
(Along the edge of the Coliseum, on apartment buildings.)
[Street level]
POLICEMAN: They've stopped. They've all stopped. They're just standing there, right on the edge.
[UNIT HQ]
ALEX: According to reports, it's like a third. One third of the world's population. That's two billion people ready to jump.
[Tower rooftop]
LLEWELLYN: Surrender or they will die.
[Flats rooftop]
MICKEY: What do we do?
ROSE: Nothing. There's no one to save us. Not anymore.
[UNIT HQ]
ALEX: Wait a minute. There is a pattern. All these people tend to be father and son, mother and daughter, brothers and sisters. Family groups, but not husbands and wives.
LLEWELLYN: Oh, my God. It's Guinevere One. Have you got medical records on file for all your staff?
ALEX: Of course, we have, yes.
(Harriet takes Major Blake to one side.)
HARRIET: What about Torchwood?
BLAKE: Still working on it. Bear in mind they have just lost a third of their staff.
HARRIET: But do they have what we need?
BLAKE: Yes, ma'am.
HARRIET: Well, tell them to hurry up.
LLEWELLYN: Here it is. Sally Jacobs, blood group A Positive. Who else walked out?
ALEX: Luke Parsons.
LLEWELLYN: Luke Parsons, A Positive.
ALEX: Jeffery Baxter.
LLEWELYN: Baxter, A Positive. That's it. They're all A Positive.
BLAKE: How many people in the world are A Positive?
LLEWELLYN: No idea, but I bet it's one third.
BLAKE: What's so special about that blood group?
LLEWELLYN: Nothing, but it's my fault. Guinevere One. It's got one of those plaques identifying the human race. A message to the stars. I mean, you don't expect anything to come of it, but I put on maps and music and samples. There are wheat seeds, and water, and, and blood. A Positive. The Sycorax have got a vial of A Positive. And, well, I don't know how, but through that.
HARRIET: They control the blood.
LLEWELLYN: Oh, my God.
HARRIET: There's only one more thing I can try. Major, with me.
[Studio]
(With Union flags draped either side, Harriet Jones, PM, sits in a paneled room at a desk with a photograph of Her Majesty on it for her broadcast to the nation.)
HARRIET: Ladies and gentlemen, if I may take a moment during this terrible time. It's hardly the Queen's speech. I'm afraid that's been cancelled. (to an aide) Did we ask about the royal family? Oh. They're on the roof.
[The Tyler's flat]
HARRIET [on TV: But, ladies and gentlemen, this crisis is unique, and I'm afraid to say, it might get much worse. I would ask you all to remain calm. But I have one request. Doctor, if you're out there, we need you. I don't know what to do. If you can hear me, Doctor. If anyone knows the Doctor, if anyone can find him, the situation has never been more desperate. Help us. Please, Doctor. Help us. God help us.
(Rose bursts into tears.)
ROSE: He's gone. The Doctor's gone. He's left me, mum. He's left me, mum.
JACKIE: It's all right. I'm sorry.
(Suddenly, all the glass in the block of flats shatters. The Gherkin (St Mary Axe) also shatters, indicating that it is at least city-wide.)
[UNIT HQ]
LLEWELLYN: Sonic wave! It's the spaceship. It's hit the atmosphere!
(All the non-possessed people turn to look. Rose and Mickey go outside amongst the glass shards to watch this big, powered rock with nasty pointy bits glide overhead, as big as Westminster.)
[The Tyler's flat - bedroom]
ROSE: Mickey, we're going to carry him. Mum, get your stuff, and get some food. We're going.
MICKEY: Where to?
ROSE: The Tardis. It's the only safe place on Earth.
JACKIE: What're we going to do in there?
ROSE: Hide.
JACKIE: Is that it?
ROSE: Mum, look in the sky. There's a great, big, alien invasion and I don't know what to do, all right? I've travelled with him, and I've seen all that stuff, but when I'm stuck at home, I'm useless. Now, all we can do is run and hide, and I'm sorry. Now, move. Oh, lift him up.
[UNIT HQ]
LLEWELLYN: They're transmitting. Onscreen.
(The Sycorax leader speaks, and Alex translates.)
ALEX: Will the leader of this world stand forward.
HARRIET: I'm proud to represent this planet.
ALEX: Come aboard.
HARRIET: Well, how do I do that?
(Harriet, Blake, Alex and Llewellyn are enveloped in light.)
LLEWELLYN: What's happening?
HARRIET: I would imagine it's called a teleport.
[Spaceship]
(The four are beamed aboard into a massive cavern. More aliens are lined up in galleries. The leader walks up to them and starts to remove -)
LLEWELLYN: It's a helmet. They might be like us.
(The face underneath is flatter, but still bony.)
LLEWELLYN: Or not.
[Outside the flat]
(Rose and Mickey carry the Doctor while Jackie struggles with half a dozen carrier bags.)
ROSE: Mum, will you just leave that stuff and give us a hand?
JACKIE: It's food! You said we need food.
ROSE: Just leave it!
[Spaceship]
(The leader speaks.)
ALEX: You will surrender, or I will release the final curse and your people will jump.
LLEWELLYN: If I can speak.
BLAKE: Mister Llewellyn, you're a civilian.
LLEWELLYN: No, I sent out the probe. I started it. I made contact with these people. This whole thing's my responsibility. With respect sir. The human race is taking its first step towards the stars, but we are like children compared to you. Children who need help. Children who need compassion. I...
Llewellyn trailed off as a woman with red hair appeared facing the humans, in a flash of blue light very much like the teleport that brought them onboard. Elethea looked up from the bowl in her hands saw where she was and sighed, then handed the bowl to the closest human which happened to be Llewellyn. Turning to face the Sycorax she stared at them for a moment then started to rant.
Healer Elethea: "Really? I mean honestly, what do you think you are doing? This is a level 5 planet! You utterly incompetent Aliens, complete morons did you think no one was paying attention? You're so very very unlucky, you got me instead of Darling. He's much nicer than me!
[TARDIS]
MICKEY: No chance you could fly this thing?
ROSE: Not anymore, no.
MICKEY: Well, you did it before.
ROSE: I know, but it's sort of been wiped out of my head, like it's forbidden. Try that again and I think the universe rips in half.
MICKEY: Ah, better not, then.
ROSE: Maybe not.
MICKEY: So, what do we do? Just sit here?
ROSE: That's as good as it gets.
JACKIE: Right, here we go. Nice cup of tea.
(Jackie has brought a flask.)
ROSE: Mmm, the solution to everything.
JACKIE: Now, stop your moaning. I'll get the rest of the food.
(Jackie leaves.)
MICKEY: Tea. Like we're having a picnic while the world comes to an end. Very British. How does this thing work? If it picks up TV, maybe we could see what's going on out there. Maybe we've surrendered. What do you do to it?
ROSE: I don't know. It sort of tunes itself.
[Spaceship]
ALEX: The noise. The bleeping. They say it's machinery. Foreign machinery. They're accusing us of hiding it. Conspiring. Bring it on board.
[Powell Estate]
JACKIE: Rose?
(The Tardis is beamed up.)
JACKIE: Rose!
[Tardis]
(There's an odd pattern on the scanner.)
MICKEY: Maybe it's a distress signal.
ROSE: A fat lot of good that's going to do.
MICKEY: Are you going to be a misery all the time?
ROSE: Yes.
MICKEY: You should look at it from my point of view, stuck in here with your mum's cooking.
ROSE: Where is she? I'd better give her a hand. It might start raining missiles out there.
MICKEY: Tell her anything from a tin, that's fine.
ROSE: Why don't you tell her yourself?
MICKEY: I'm not that brave.
ROSE: Oh, I don't know.
(Rose steps outside and is grabbed by a Sycorax. She screams.)
MICKEY: Rose?
(Mickey drops the open flask of tea near where the Doctor is lying.)
[Spaceship]
ROSE: Get off! Get off me!
(Mickey runs out.)
ROSE: The door! Close the door!
(He gets there just before a Sycorax. The tea drips down onto Tardis workings underneath the time console. The Sycorax cheer.)
HARRIET: Rose. Rose! I've got you. My Lord. Oh, my precious thing. The Doctor, is he with you?
ROSE: No. We're on our own.
(Tea vapour rises through the floor grating and the Doctor breaths it in, exhaling more golden energy.)
ALEX: The yellow girl. She has the clever blue box. Therefore, she speaks for your planet.
HARRIET: But she can't.
ROSE: Yeah, I can.
MICKEY: Don't you dare.
ROSE: Someone's got to be the Doctor.
HARRIET: They'll kill you.
ROSE: Never stopped him. I, er, I address the Sycorax according to Article Fifteen of the Shadow Proclamation. I command you to leave this world with all the authority of the Slitheen Parliament of Raxacoricofallapatorius, and er, the Gelth Confederacy as er, sanctioned by the Mighty Jagrafess and, oh, the Daleks! Now, leave this planet in peace! In peace.
(The Sycorax all burst into laughter.)
ALEX: You are very, very funny. And now you're going to die.
HARRIET: Leave her alone!
MICKEY: Don't touch her!
HARRIET: Leave her alone.
(Harriet and Mickey are held back as the leader walks up to Rose.)
ALEX: Did you think you were clever with your stolen words? We are the Sycorax, we stride the darkness. Next to us you are but a wailing child. If you are the best your planet can offer as a champion
SYCORAX: Then your world will be gutted.
The Healer starts to herd the humans to the Tardis, "Ok that's enough of that, time for the humans to get safely out of the way. " She opens the Tardis doors to reveal The Doctor, who was about to make his grand cheeky entrance. "Move. " She said pushing him to the side and grabbing the nearest humans and shoved them into the Tardis, she turned around to find that surprise surprise Rose didn't listen and was still trying to talk the Sycorax out of invading. Elethea marched up behind Rose and tossed Rose over her shoulder, she grabbed Mickey and almost dragged him to the Tardis with Rose kicking and on her shoulder. "Let Me Go You Crazy Bint! " Elethea calmly pulls the Tardis doors open again and toss's Rose inside, Mickey didn't need any prompting and stepped into the Tardis without any fuss turned around and spoke. "Are you going to be, okay? " Elethea turn and looked at him "Yes! Don't worry about me. " She said with a grin she closed the door, the Tardis starts dematerializing with the classic whooshing sound once it disappears completely, she turned to face the aliens. "And now to deal with you morons! " Elethea reaches into her coat pocket and pulls out a gasmask and some smoke grenades, puts on the mask and pops the smoke grenades releasing an airborne paralytic agent. Knocking the Sycorax out as she heads to the control room, tossing the grenades as she went. Elethea found the control room and wiped two weeks of travel history from the navigation system and input new coordinates setting the flight drive to autopilot. She turned around and ran for the exit, dropping and tossing more as she went having insured that the Sycorax would never find their way back to earth. Digging through her pockets to find something useful, for jumping out of a fleeing spaceship safely without dyeing horribly! Elethea gave a little shout of triumph, as she pulled a space trooper parachute, quickly pulling it on over her coat and making sure to fasten it correctly she lunged forward though an open porthole turning mid fall to point her sonic to close it behind her. Elethea did not fall far before five strands of bright green lightning arced though the sky to meet and then destroying the ship, she had just jumped from. The shockwave sent her careening down to earth far faster than she had accounted for with the parachute, she would survive but she would have to deal with some broken bones.
[Road]
ROSE: Where are we?
MICKEY: We're just off Bloxom Road. We're just round the corner, we did it!
DOCTOR: Wait a minute, wait a minute.
(The spaceship flies away.)
MICKEY: Go on, my son! Oh, yeah!
ROSE: Yeah! Don't come back!
MICKEY: It is defended!
(Rose and Mickey hug, then Rose hugs Alex.)
HARRIET: My Doctor.
DOCTOR: Prime Minister.
(They hug.)
HARRIET: Absolutely the same man. Are there many more out there?
DOCTOR: Oh, not just Sycorax. Hundreds of species. Thousands of them. And the human race is drawing attention to itself. Every day you're sending out probes and messages and signals. This planet's so noisy. You're getting noticed more and more. You'd better get used to it.
JACKIE: Rose!
ROSE: Mum!
DOCTOR: Oh, talking of trouble.
JACKIE: Oh, my God! You did it, Rose! Oh!
(Alex answers a phone call.)
ROSE: You did it too! It was the tea. Fixed his head.
DOCTOR: That was all I needed, cup of tea.
JACKIE: I said so.
ROSE: Look at him.
JACKIE: Is it him, though? Is it really the Doctor? Oh, my God, it's the bleeding Prime Minister!
DOCTOR: Come here, you.
(Group hug.)
JACKIE: Are you better?
DOCTOR: I am, yeah.
ALEX: It's a message from Torchwood. They say they're ready.
JACKIE: You left me.
ROSE: I'm sorry.
JACKIE: I had all the food.
HARRIET: Tell them to fire.
ALEX: Fire at will.
(Five green beams streak up into the sky, meet and fire out into space. The Sycorax asteroid ship goes KaBOOM!)
ROSE: What is that? What's happening?
DOCTOR: That was murder.
HARRIET: That was defence. It's adapted from alien technology. A ship that fell to Earth ten years ago.
DOCTOR: But they were leaving.
HARRIET: I'm sorry, Doctor, but you're not here all the time. You come and go. It happened today, Those were going to jump. In which case we have to defend ourselves.
DOCTOR: Britain's Golden Age.
HARRIET: It comes with a price.
The woman from the ship came crashing down nearby with the disturbing sound of braking bones, she reached up and fiddled with her chute harness causing it to retract the parachute. She then reaches into her pocket and pulls out a cane, forcing herself to her feet leaning heavily on the cane she ROARED. "WHO'S STUPID FLUFFLING IDEA WAS THAT!? Attacking a ship of DEFENSELESS Aliens?! Because they just made it on my shite list! "
HARRIET: That was defence. It's adapted from alien technology. A ship that fell to Earth ten years ago
DOCTOR: I should have stopped you.
HARRIET: What does that make you, Doctor? Another alien threat?
Elethea: Laughing says. "You think Hes an alien threat? Lady The Doctor too much and effort, into protecting your planet to an actual threat to it. Me on the other hand would gladly watch this planet burn, if Darling didn't love it so much. "
The DOCTOR continued like he didn't hear her: Don't challenge me, Harriet Jones, because I'm a completely new man. I could bring down your government with a single word.
HARRIET: You're the most remarkable man I've ever met, but I don't think you're quite capable of that.
DOCTOR: No, you're right. Not a single word, just six.
HARRIET: I don't think so.
DOCTOR: Six words.
HARRIET: Stop it!
DOCTOR: Six.
(The Doctor goes over to Alex and whispers in his ear.)
DOCTOR: Don't you think she looks tired?
(The Doctor, Rose, Mickey and Jackie leave.)
HARRIET: What did he say?
ALEX: Oh, well, nothing, really.
HARRIET: What did he say?
ALEX: Nothing. I don't know.
HARRIET: Doctor! Doctor, what did you? What was that? What did he say? What did you say, Doctor? Doctor! I'm sorry.
Elethea: looked into Harriet's eyes and spoke. "All the aliens on that ship were unconscious and would not where they had been, I wiped their navigation system so they would be unable to retrace their steps. You just killed them all for no reason! " Turning away she limped over to the Tardis, opened the door she went inside and closed it behind her. Elethea turned to face the console with a sad sigh and winced as she shifted her weight around, she started across the room to the hallways beyond. "It's okay Sexy I'll get over it eventually. No, I can't wait for darling to help me! He can't know what I am. I'm not what Hes looking for. I'm only a third Time Lord, Tardis, and Moonwatcher. Please move the med bay closer Sexy. " She limped into the hallway and turned left, opened the first door and stepped in and locked it. Sexy then moved it out of the Doctors reach.
[The Tyler's flat]
(The Doctor is picking himself a new outfit in the Tardis wardrobe, and considers David's Casanova costume. We hear the specially written Song For Ten by Murray Gold sung by Tim Phillips.)
SINGER: When I woke up today and the world seemed a restless place, it could have been that way for me.
(Mickey, Rose and Jackie are back at the flat having Christmas dinner. Mickey carves the turkey.)
SINGER: Then I wandered around and I thought of your face that Christmas looking back at me.
(The Doctor finds a brown pinstripe suit and long brown coat. He leaves the wardrobe past the old hat stand with a long scarf on it.)
SINGER: I wish today was just like every other day. Cause today has been the best day.
(The Doctor is back to a nice suit and tie after his recent aberration.)
SINGER: Everything I ever dreamed. Then I started to walk, pretty soon I will run. And I'll be running back to you. Because I followed my star, and that's what you are. I've had a merry time with you.
(The Doctor enters. The dinner progresses to the crackers.)
SINGER: I wish today was just like every other day.
DOCTOR: Oh, that's yours.
ROSE: It's pink! Mum, it should be yours. Look, it's Harriet Jones.
(That television is never switched off BBC24, it seems.)
MAN [on TV]: Prime Minister, is it true you are no longer fit to be in position?
HARRIET [on TV]: No. Now, can we talk about other things?
MAN [on TV]: Is it true you're unfit for office?
(The Doctor puts on a pair of spectacles to watch the interview.)
HARRIET [on TV]: Look, there is nothing wrong with my health. I don't know where these stories are coming from. And a vote of no confidence is completely unjustified.
MAN [on TV]: Are you going to resign?
(The telephone rings.)
HARRIET [on TV]: On today of all days, I'm fine. Look at me, I'm fine. I look fine, I feel fine.
JACKIE: It's Beth. She says go and look outside.
ROSE: Why?
JACKIE: I don't know, just go outside and look. Come on, shift!
[Powell Estate]
(The ground is covered with white flakes falling from the sky. Streaks of light cris-cross the sky.)
ROSE: Oh, it's beautiful. What are they, meteors?
DOCTOR: It's the spaceship breaking up in the atmosphere. This isn't snow, it's ash.
ROSE: Okay, not so beautiful.
DOCTOR: This is a brand new planet Earth. No denying the existence of aliens now. Everyone saw it. Everything's new.
ROSE: And what about you? What are you going to do next?
DOCTOR: Well, back to the Tardis. Same old life.
ROSE: On your own?
DOCTOR: Why, don't you want to come?
ROSE: Well, yeah.
DOCTOR: Do you, though?
ROSE: Yeah!
DOCTOR: I just thought, because I changed.
ROSE: Yeah, I thought, because you changed you might not want me anymore.
DOCTOR: Oh, I'd love you to come,
ROSE: Okay.
MICKEY: You're never going to stay, are you?
ROSE: There's just so much out there. So much to see. I've got to.
MICKEY: Yeah.
JACKIE: Well, I reckon you're mad, the pair of you. It's like you go looking for trouble.
DOCTOR: Trouble's just the bits in-between. It's all waiting out there, Jackie, and it's brand new to me. All those planets, and creatures and horizons. I haven't seem them yet! Not with these eyes. And it is going to be fantastic.
ROSE: That hand of yours still gives me the creeps.
(She takes hold of it anyway.)
ROSE: So, where're we going to go first?
DOCTOR: Er, that way. No, hold on. That way.
(He points up.)
ROSE: That way?
DOCTOR: Hmm?
ROSE: Yeah, that way.
(A.N. Elethea – A name of English and Australian origin and it means 'healer.' Moonwatcher the name of her father's species, it's not an official Doctor Who species but something I made up to fill the third gap)