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1 DOCTOR WHO
2SERIES 9 EPISODE 1
3"The Magician's Apprentice"
4BLUE SCRIPT
5by STEVEN MOFFAT
6(SHOOTING BLOCK 2)
7(c) BBC Wales 2015
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9 DW9: "The Magician's Apprentice" by Steven Moffat - BLUE SCRIPT - 19/02/15 1.
101 EXT. BATTLEFIELD - DAY 1 No Man’s land. Mud, craters, barbed wire, drifting hellish
11fog.
12The dull stomp and crump of distant explosions. The rattle of gunfire.
13Raising up now. The drone of engines. A flying formation, heading towards us. Now energy beams blasting down at the battlefield below -
14- it’s a strafing run!
15Now, as they zoom overhead, we see these are not X-wing fighters, they’re biplanes! Biplanes firing lasers!
16Now, below we see a troop of SOLDIERS - muddied uniforms, gas masks - scattering as the energy beams zap down among them.
17On one of the SOLDIERS (KANZO) as he does a commando roll, scrambles to his feet again, weapon levelled at the biplanes as they drone away -
18- and we see his weapon is a bow and arrow! He relaxes, doesn’t fire, no point.
19As he turns to rejoin the others - also scrambling to their feet - he sees something racing through the fog. Another SOLDIER joins him.
20 SOLDIER What’s wrong?
21KANZO Was that a child?
222 EXT. BATTLEFIELD - DAY 2 POV of someone running - desperate, panting, terrified. Now
23skidding, slipping in the mud, and filthy water!
24KANZO (Calling from off)
25Hey! You there, stop! Stop running!!
26On the runner, stumbling to a halt, turning.
27A ten year old BOY. Face spattered with mud, eyes terrified. He sees:
28Emerging from the fog, KANZO. His hands are raised, placatory, calming. He’s about twenty feet away from him.
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35KANZO (cont’d)
36It’s okay. Not going to hurt you.
37Just don’t run.
38The other SOLDIER’s voice, calling from the fog.
39SOLDIER
40Kanzo?
41KANZO I’ll catch up!
42SOLDIER
43There are clam drones two miles
44away -
45KANZO
46I know, I’ll be fine - just go.
472
48Reluctantly, the SOLDIER disappears into the fog. KANZO turns back to the BOY.
49KANZO (cont’d)
50What are you doing out here? Did
51you get lost? The BOY: fearful, nods -
52- and as he does so, the mud beneath them seems to ripple, move. Like there’s something underneath.
53KANZO (cont’d)
54Stay still, stay absolutely still!
55KANZO has pulled a little gadget from his jacket - like a fairly primitive meter.
56KANZO (cont’d)
57I’m just scanning the ground, I think we’ve got company. Do you
58know what hand mines are? The BOY nods.
59KANZO (cont’d)
60Well in that case you know you’ve
61got to stand absolutely still, right?
62KANZO (cont’d) Ever seen a hand mine?
63KANZO (cont’d) A beat - and the BOY just points -
64Nods.
65Nods.
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67Where?
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712 CONTINUED: 2 - at KANZO’s foot.
72KANZO looks down. In horror.
73Reaching up from the mud, and almost the same colour as it, is what looks like a human hand. The fingers are wrapped around his boot.
74He takes a breath. Calms himself. Got to ride this out, play it calm -
75KANZO (cont’d)
76Okay. Everything’s going to be f-
77And whoosh! With shocking suddenness, KANZO is just sucked down into the mud, gone in a terrifying fraction of a moment. The mud slaps together over his head, and writhes briefly, like there’s a terrible struggle below.
78The BOY: staggers back a step in shock, breathing hard, horrified -
79- and that movement is enough!!
80All around, little patches of mud twitch and quiver -
81- and then, slowly rising up, fingers ...
82A little forest of muddied hands are slowly growing around him, fingers sluggishly flexing.
83On one of the hands, as it turns towards us -
84- in the centre of the palm, is a single, unblinking eye.
85All the hands, revolving now, like radar masts, as if trying to detect something. On each palm, that staring eye ...
86The little BOY - so still, so terrified.
87One of the hands, seems to fix its gaze on the BOY. The palm tilts back as if looking him up and down.
88Another hand stops to survey him, again as if locking on to a target.
89Another! Two more!!
90The BOY, terrified, calling now.
91BOY
92Help me! Please, help me! Help me!!
93As he looks round in despair, he sees something arcing through the air towards him, glittering and spinning.
94It slaps into the mud, right at his feet. He stares at it.
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992 CONTINUED: 2 The sonic screwdriver.
100A moment -
101- and now THE DOCTOR's voice. It sounds like he’s standing right next to us, but we can’t see him anywhere.
102THE DOCTOR (V.O.)
103Your chances of survival are about one in a thousand - so here’s what you do. Forget about the thousand. Concentrate on the one.
104The BOY, looking around. Who’s talking?
105THE DOCTOR (cont’d) Pick it up.
106The BOY, looking round - who spoke?
107THE DOCTOR (cont’d) I said, pick it up.
108Nervously, the BOY picks up the screwdriver.
109THE DOCTOR (cont’d) (V.O.)
110I’m straight ahead of you. About fifty feet. Can you see me?
111The BOY, squinting now.
112Through the fog, he can just make out the dim figure of THE DOCTOR, and the TARDIS a few feet behind him. The sky flares, explosions boom, machine guns chatter - but THE DOCTOR speaks quite calmly.
113THE DOCTOR (cont’d)
114The device in your hand is creating
115an acoustic corridor so we can talk. Do you understand?
116BOY ... who are you?
117THE DOCTOR
118Just a passer-by. I was looking for
119a bookshop. How do you think I’m doing?
120BOY
121This isn’t a bookshop.
122THE DOCTOR
123No, this is a war. A very old one,
124going by the mix of technology. Which war is it? I get them all muddled up.
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130BOY Just ... the war.
131THE DOCTOR
132Where am I? What planet is this?
133BOY
134I don’t understand.
135THE DOCTOR
136Me neither. I try never to
137understand, it’s called an open mind.
138BOY
139... what are you doing here?
140THE DOCTOR Saving your life.
141BOY
142Why?
143THE DOCTOR Because I like you.
144BOY You’ve never met me.
145THE DOCTOR
146Well how am I ever going to meet
147you if I don’t save your life?
148Despite himself, the BOY gives a tiny little laugh.
149THE DOCTOR (cont’d)
150Oh, a laugh, that’s good. Humour is
151the decadence of reason, so that means you’ve stopped panicking, and started thinking. Now you’ve got to make a choice.
152BOY A choice?
153THE DOCTOR
154You have to decide you’re going to
155live. Survival is just a choice - choose it now.
156The BOY, looking around those dreadful, clutching hands.
157BOY
158If I move, they’ll get me.
159THE DOCTOR
160I told you, you have one chance in
161a thousand - and one is all you ever need. What’s your name?
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1672 CONTINUED: 2 The BOY looks round the hands. So scared.
168THE DOCTOR (cont’d) Come on. Faith in the future!
169Introduce yourself! Tell me the name of the boy who isn’t going to die today.
170On the BOY - he makes a decision. Controls his breathing. Steals himself.
171BOY
172Davros. My name is Davros.
173We stay on him as there is silence. Nothing from THE DOCTOR.
174BOY (cont’d) Hello? Are you still there?
175Now, tracking fast through the fog, on the distant figure of THE DOCTOR.
176BOY (cont’d) Please, you’ve got to help me.
177Right on to THE DOCTOR's face - Horrified.
178That information still impacting.
179BOY (cont’d)
180You said I could survive, you said
181you were going to help me!
182THE DOCTOR's face, filling the screen. What the hell does he do now??
183Help me!!
184OPENING TITLES
185BOY (cont’d)
1863 EXT. SPACE PORT - NIGHT 3
187Superficially (or even actually) this resembles Dorium Maldovar’s outpost in The Pandorica Opens. Shuttles and spaceships are buzzing around.
188Over this, the words:
189The Maldovarium.
190An alley - along it moves a robed, hooded figure. A strange motion.
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198There is no apparent movement from under the robe, the figure just slides along, almost Dalek-like. This is COLONY SARFF.
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2004 INT. DIVE - NIGHT 4
201The lowest, scummiest dive of a dock-side space-pub ever. Shadowed and grimy with a grille round the bar. Creatures (from our back catalogue) lurk and quiver in every corner.
202Panning round this to:
203The big, bad door.
204SLAM!
205The door flies open, and SARFF comes sliding into the room.
206The whole place convulses, tables knocked over, weapons seized -
207 - then a terrible hissing voice -
208SARFF
209We are Colony Sarff. We bring harm.
210SARFF now raises his head, peering out of the appearance, and yet -
211The face: a sickly white, like the belly of a
212faintest suggestion of scales, there are four
213indented lines slicing horizontally across the face, evenly spaced, the flesh bulging out between them, as if his head were wound in twine, like a stringed joint of meat. The effect is a little as if his head were built out of stacked rings of flesh.
214SARFF (cont’d) Where isss the Doctor?
215Silence.
216SARFF glides a couple of feet forward. The whole place takes a pace back.
217SNAKE
218Where isss the Doctor?
219Again, silence.
220SARFF looks glassily round the room -
221- and something seems to ripple under his robe, a complexity of movement, as if he’s changing shape -
222- now cutting to SARFF's POV, as he seems to rear up over the others with a terrible hissss.
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224hood. A human
225reptile, the heavily
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230Where isss the Doctor??
2314
232SARFF A sideways wipe (Star Wars
2335 EXT. SPACE
234A space station, sprawling
235seen in The Stolen Earth.) Words overlay on this: The Shadow Proclamation
2366 INT. SHADOW PROCLAMATION Gleaming marble corridors,
237style) taking us to:
2385 over a system of asteroids (as
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241 but with starfields in the windows - imposing, like a space-age Old Bailey.
242Walking rapidly along, the SHADOW ARCHITECT (an albino woman, alien) and a helmeted JUDOON. They are discussing the business of the day.
243SHADOW ARCHITECT Deploy the under-regiment, across
244both sectors. That number of suicide moons cannot be ignored -
245She has come to halt, staring.
246Ahead of her, among the pillars and the gathering shadows, a robed and hooded figure. COLONY SARFF!!
247SHADOW ARCHITECT (cont’d) (To the Judoon)
248Apparently we have a security breach. Stay close.
249She approaches SARFF. They face each other, in the shadows.
250SHADOW ARCHITECT (cont’d) I won’t ask how you got in here.
251But I will demand to know your business, Colony Sarff.
252SARFF
253Where isss the Doctor?
254SHADOW ARCHITECT I have no idea. He’s not our
255concern, and he’s certainly not your employer’s.
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262SARFF
263The Doctor is required.
264SHADOW ARCHITECT Why? For what?
265Silence. The SHADOW ARCHITECT steps forward, grave and troubled.
266SHADOW ARCHITECT (cont’d) Colony Sarff, you need to tell me -
267what does Davros want with the Doctor??
268Another sideways wipe.
2697 OMITTED 7
2708 EXT. SPACE 8 A red and stormy planet, hanging in the void. Over this: Karn.
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2729 EXT. ROCKY LANDSCAPE - NIGHT 9 A rocky landscape, illuminated by flashes of lightning.
273Closer on: among the rocks and boulders, COLONY SARFF makes his eerie way.
274Suddenly, fiery light is flaring up around him. The SISTERHOOD OF KARN - red-robed women, carrying flaming torches - are stepping from among the rocks. They block his path. A voice rings out, but none of the sisters appears to be talking...
275OHILA (From off)
276Welcome, Colony Sarff. We are the Sisterhood of Karn. If you do not leave our world immediately, we will take your skin.
277SARFF Where is the Doctor?
278SARFF is looking round now, trying to tell which of the SISTERHOOD is talking.
279OHILA (From off)
280Where he always is. (MORE)
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287OHILA (cont'd) Right behind you, and one step
288ahead. Tread carefully when you seek the Doctor, Colony Sarff ...
289And she steps form the shadows, suddenly right in front of SARFF. OHILA, from Night Of The Doctor.
290OHILA (cont’d)
291- or he will be the last thing you
292find.
293SARFF
294Davros ... creator of the Daleks,
295dark Lord of Skaro ...
296OHILA What of him?
297SARFF Davros is dying.
298OHILA
299Davros is ancient. He should have
300been dust centuries ago.
301SARFF
302He has a message for the Doctor.
303OHILA
304Then you will give it to me.
305SARFF looks at her, impassive. Although his mouth doesn’t move, there is a terrible hissing. Something seems to shift beneath his robes, as if his body was changing shape.
306OHILA, dismisses this with a wave of her hand
307OHILA (cont’d)
308Your powers mean nothing here. Give
309me the message and leave. SARFF: a moment. Then the hissing stops.
310SARFF
311Tell the Doctor - Davros knows.
312Davros remembers.
313And now SARFF simply backs away, sliding backwards into the night, letting the darkness swallow him.
314SARFF (cont’d)
315Tell him, he must face Davros one
316last time. SARFF is gone.
317OHILA stares into the gloom, so grave. Frowns.
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324OHILA
325What does Davros remember?
326(Turns to look off) Doctor?
327Pulling back:
328- standing in the shadow of a rock, his back to us, the familiar outline of THE DOCTOR.
329OHILA (cont’d) What have you done?
330On THE DOCTOR's shadowed face. His head is bowed as if penitent.
331DISSOLVE TO:
3329A EXT. ROCKY LANDSCAPE - NIGHT
333A few minutes later. OHILA and THE DOCTOR, talking - the rest
334of the Sisterhood are gone.
335THE DOCTOR is pacing, agitated. OHILA, patient, observing him.
336OHILA Will you go?
337Now, clearer on the other figure - THE DOCTOR. Troubled and grave.
338No.
339go?
340No!
341THE DOCTOR OHILA
342THE DOCTOR OHILA
343THE DOCTOR
344OHILA
345Why do you always lie?
346THE DOCTOR
347Why do you always assume I’m lying?
348OHILA
349It saves time. The truth - will you
350When?
351Soon.
352Why? Did something happen?
353THE DOCTOR
354No.
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361OHILA Was it recent?
362THE DOCTOR
363Yes.
364OHILA
365Whatever it was, you owe Davros
366nothing.
367THE DOCTOR
368Davros and I have known each other
369a long time.
370OHILA
371You’ve been enemies for all of it.
372THE DOCTOR
373An enemy is just a friend you don’t
374really know yet. Sorry, was that cynical?
375OHILA
376Aren’t we friends, Doctor?
377THE DOCTOR
378That’s different, I don’t like you.
379OHILA
380Which means you can trust me.
381THE DOCTOR
382Exactly.
383He tosses her something - a gold disk. OHILA looks at it in her hand (the Confession Dial, in its fully closed version.) It clearly means something to her.
384THE DOCTOR (cont’d) You know who to give that to. I
385won’t go straight away. I’ll hang out for a bit. Probably meditate on a rock somewhere, get myself ready.
386OHILA
387You are embarking on an enterprise
388which will end in your destruction.
389THE DOCTOR
390You could say that of being born.
391OHILA
392Wherever you go, there are people
393who care enough to find you.
394THE DOCTOR
395Look after the universe for me. I’ve put a lot of work into it.
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402With that, he heads away. OHILA, staring after him. Calls out.
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408OHILA
409Anyone can hide from an enemy,
410Doctor - no one from a friend.
411And then, in a whisper, the familiar voice of ...
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413DAVROS (V.O.)
414Doctor ...
41510 EXT. SPACE
416An ancient space ship. Rusting, dark, clustered with spires
41710
41811 INT. DAVROS HOSPITAL SHIP
419A rusting, ancient iron corridor - bottle green gloom, like a
420Close on what is clearly medical equipment - scanners etc. A heartbeat is being monitored - as it flashes we hear that strange pulsing Dalek beat (see any Dalek story.)
421Tracking now. A huge circular chamber, darkened.
422A hanging forest of drip feeds, all lead, in a baroque tangle to a central point in the chamber, obscuring the patient at the very centre.
423All we can see is a hunched figure, and single, glowing blue flickering in the darkness. This is, of course:
424DAVROS Doctor ...
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427 and towers - like Mordor hanging in space. Closing in on this ...
428DAVROS (V.O.)
429Doctor ...
430DISSOLVE TO:
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433 long abandoned battle ship. We creep along it.
434DAVROS (V.O.)
435Doctor ...
43612 INT. THE SICK ROOM
437DISSOLVE TO:
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442A figure passes through the foreground - the now familiar figure of COLONY SARFF.
443SARFF
444You are dreaming, Lord Davros.
445He kneels.
446DAVROS remains a flickering blue eye, among the mass of cables keeping him alive.
447DAVROS
448No. I am anticipating.
449Cutting closer - in DAVROS’s metal hand is gripped - - the sonic screwdriver.
450SARFF
451He cannot be found.
452DAVROS
453Of course he can. He has a
454weakness. If you seek the Doctor, first seek his friends...
455On DAVROS’s blue eye, we fade to back. In the blackness we hear:
456CLARA (V.O.)
457Take the gum out of your mouth and put it in the bin.
45813 INT. CLARA’S CLASSROOM - DAY
459CUT TO:
460RYAN, a sulky thirteen-year-old, is on his feet at his desk.
461CLARA is holding a wastepaper bin sternly in front of him.
462RYAN dutifully spits his gum into the waste bin. It splats among several others.
463RYAN
464Will I get it back at the end of
465school?
466CLARA
467How will you know which one’s
468yours? He just shrugs.
469CLARA (cont’d)
470Fine then.
471(Turns, heading back to
472her desk) (MORE)
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479CLARA (cont’d) Now where was I? Jane Austen.
480Amazing writer, brilliant comic observer, and strictly among ourselves a phenomenal kisser ...
481CLARA has come to halt, now staring out of the window. We hold on her face - neutral, but concentrating.
482ALISON
483Miss?
484On ALISON. She hears a strange hiss for a moment, looks round.
485ALISON (cont’d)
486Miss, I think I saw a snake ... !
487CLARA
488That’s nice, don’t frighten it,
489everybody hush.
49013
491CLARA's POV: the window. We can see the rooftops of London, the sky, distantly a plane - nothing remarkable.
492On CLARA - the tiniest frown. She’s noticed something. RYAN
493Miss? CLARA doesn’t reply -
494- just steps to her desk, picks up a marker pen. She now draws a quick circle on the window.
495Steps back, seemingly to inspect it. Her frown deepens. The KIDS, now exchanging glances. What??
496CLARA
497Everybody turn on their phones.
498CLARA is opening the window, pushing it up. She cranes out, looking up at the sky.
499CLARA's POV: a clear sky, a couple of jet trails far above.
500She ducks back into the classroom - the KIDS all have their phones out!
501CLARA (cont’d) News websites and twitter.
502RYAN Twitter?
503CLARA starts pulling down the window again.
504CLARA Hashtag -
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50913 CONTINUED: 13 The window slams into the place -
510- bringing the circle CLARA drew into place over the distantly seen plane.
511CLARA (cont’d) - the planes have stopped.
512And now we see what she has seen. The plane, seen through the circle, is entirely stationary. Just hanging there, impossibly motionless, in the sky.
513Now, a blizzard of cuts, fast, choppy. News reports - various NEWSREADERS with pictures and footage of weirdly halted planes behind them.
514BBC NEWSREADER Reports are coming in of planes
515hanging apparently motionless in the sky -
516Iphone footage: a beach somewhere. Everyone stands and stares at a plane frozen right above them, as it comes in to land (Maho beach, St. Maarten - the real footage is terrifying.)
517AMERICAN NEWSREADER
518- footage of passenger jets, which
519have seemingly come to a complete stand-still in midair -
520Iphone footage: Hong Kong, a plane suspended just above the buildings (again the real footage is terrifying.)
521Iphone footage: now cutting round various startling images of planes frozen mid-flight.
522CHINESE NEWSREADER
523- people should remain calm and
524make no attempt to -
525Iphone footage: more planes - New York, Paris, Rome.
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52714 INT. CLARA’S CLASSROOM - DAY 14 CLARA moving calmly from phone to phone, watching the news
528footage - the KIDS all chattering, alarmed -
529A phone is buzzing - from CLARA's jacket hanging over her chair.
530ALISON
531Miss, I think your phone’s ringing.
532And you’re getting lots of texts.
533At the door, Mr. DUNLOP (the Deputy Head) comes tumbling through. He’s clearly been running. He’s flustered, a bit freaked.
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539MR. DUNLOP
540Miss Oswald - there’s a call at the
541office -
542CLARA
543Yeah, that would probably be UNIT.
544MR. DUNLOP
545They’re telling me you’re needed.
546They were going to put me through to the Prime Minister.
547CLARA (Grabbing her jacket)
548Sorry, Mr. Dunlop, I have to take the rest of the day off owing to a personal crisis.
549And she races off, pulling on her jacket.
550Mr. DUNLOP looks in bewilderment at the class - - who look in bewilderment at him.
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55215 EXT. COAL HILL SCHOOL - DAY
553CLARA comes racing out the doors, heading to the car park,
554phone at her ear.
555CLARA
556Yes, yes, I’m coming!
557Now racing along the line of cars -
558CLARA (cont’d)
559No, don’t send a helicopter - think
560it through! - till she comes to -
561- her motorbike (as seen in The Bells Of Saint John and The Day Of The Doctor.) She leaps on, revs up the bike.
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565 16 INT. CLARA’S CLASSROOM - DAY / EXT. COAL HILL SCHOOL - DAY 16 Mr. DUNLOP, in front of the KIDS, slightly flustered.
566MR. DUNLOP
567Well. As you can see, there is
568something of a very minor crisis going on, but I’m sure the authorities have got their very best people -
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574Beeping from outside.
575Mr. DUNLOP steps to the window, shoves it open. CLARA, on her motorbike, down below.
576CLARA
577Homework - page 27 to 30. Due in
578tomorrow. She roars off.
579Mr. DUNLOP turns to the class.
580MR. DUNLOP Um. Miss Oswald -
581A beat. Thinks. A helpless little laugh.
582MR. DUNLOP (cont’d) Is awesome.
58316
584The roar of the motorbike. Now we can see CLARA belting along past the school fence.
585MR. DUNLOP (cont’d) Miss Oswald is awesome.
58617 EXT. LONDON STREETS - DAY
587Now on CLARA from above, racing along.
588CUT TO:
589CLARA Exciting, isn’t it?
590GIRL I’m frightened.
591CLARA
592Same thing. Different word.
593(Shoots them a look) Shouldn’t you two be at school?
594And off she roars.
595BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
596CUT TO:
59717
598 We cut higher as she races along - we can see the shadow of a frozen plane spread motionless across the streets.
599CLARA screeches to halt at the very edge of the shadow, looks up at the halted plane, hanging eerily above.
600Two school KIDS, on the pavement, also staring up - a GIRL and a BOY, clearly bunking off.
601
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60318 EXT. TOWER OF LONDON - DAY 18 CLARA, on her motorbike, zooming through the entrance.
604CUT TO:
60519 INT. UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS ROOM - DAY 19
606High tech and sleek - like the Incident Room in The West Wing. Screens, maps, consoles. Images and schematics of all the planes in flight all over world.
607KATE STEWART moving from console to console (a slight parallel with Clara moving among her desks) phone at her ear. Conspicuously, she’s wearing gardening clothes. Even a pair of grubby rubber gloves.
608KATE
609- the planes are not responding,
610none of them, radio silence - Glances over -
611- at the back of the room, CLARA is arriving, setting down her motorbike helmet, looking around.
612KATE (cont’d)
613Gotta go. (Hanging up)
614Clara!
615CLARA How’s the garden?
616KATE
617(Notices her gloves,
618starts pulling them off) Missing me, I hope. He’s not answering his phone, have you tried?
619CLARA
620We don’t know enough yet, he
621doesn’t appreciate gossip. KATE
622Gossip??
623CLARA moves into the room, KATE follows.
624We hold briefly on a heating grille in the wall - - and there’s a hiss, like a snake...
625CLARA How many planes?
626  BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
627(CONTINUED)
628
629 DW9: "The Magician's Apprentice" by Steven Moffat - BLUE SCRIPT - 19/02/15 20.
63019 CONTINUED: 19
631JAC, sitting at one of the consoles. Mid-fifties, slightly grumpy. Functionally, she’s Osgood’s replacement. There’s a huge glass display in front of her.
632JAC
633Counting everything, 4,145 aircraft
634currently airborne.
635KATE
636That’s a lot of passengers.
637CLARA It’s a lot of fuel.
638KATE
639... oh dear God, yes it is.
640CLARA
641So what could you do with four
642thousand flying bombs?
643JAC is already typing. On the glass display, various locations start flashing.
644JAC
645439 nuclear power stations
646currently active -
647KATE What else?
648CLARA
649I dunno, fault lines. Could they
650trigger an earthquake, a tsunami?
651JAC
652Running simulations now ...
653KATE
654So this is an attack?
655CLARA
656What kind of an attack advertises??
657Why show us what they can do, why not just do it?
658(To Jac)
659What’s actually happened to the planes - what are the pilots saying?
660KATE
661We can’t contact them.
662JAC
663The planes haven’t just stopped -
664they’re actually frozen. Like they’re frozen in time, pardon my sci-fi. This is beyond any human technology.
665BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
666(CONTINUED)
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66919 CONTINUED:
670KATE
671Okay, so we need the Doctor.
672CLARA
673We can’t phone the Doctor and just
674bleat - he’ll go Scottish. Come on, what have we got, what do we know? It’s not an attack, it’s not an invasion - because those don’t come with fair warning. Somebody wants our attention. Somebody who needs to put a gun to our heads to make us listen -
675(New thought!!) - oh!
676KATE
677Oh?
678One of the staff - MIKE - turning from a console.
679MIKE
680We’ve got a message. The Doctor
681channel.
682CLARA and KATE, now hurrying over.
683CLARA The what??
684KATE
685He never uses it - I doubt he
686remembers it exists -
687CLARA Then who’s this?
688MIKE
689Decrypting - we’re getting text
690through, I think.
691CLARA
692Texting - definitely not the
693Doctor.
694On the screen, now three words:
695YOU SO FINE.
696They all blink, stare.
697KATE Is there more?
698MIKE Coming.
699The words clear, replaced by: YOU BLOW MY MIND.
70019
701BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
702(CONTINUED)
703
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70519 CONTINUED: 19 Their faces: what??
706Now text streaming across the screen.
707HEY MISSY YOU SO FINE YOU SO FINE YOU BLOW MY MIND HEY All the text disappears to be replaced by
708MISSY!!!
709KATE and CLARA, horrified.
710CLARA, for the first time thrown. Knocked back a step.
711A familiar voice, as the screen clears to reveal, smiling angelically:
712MISSY
713Today, I shall be talking to you
714out of -
715Shock moment: MISSY's face explodes out the monitor, as if the screen itself has extruded into a ballooning monster, now rearing up over the terrified KATE!
716MISSY (cont’d)
717- the square window!
718There is barely a second for the room to convulse -
719- and the monster MISSY disappears, snapping back to just an image on a screen.
720MISSY splutters, pats her chest.
721MISSY (cont’d)
722Oh, excuse me! Those refried beans
723... !
724KATE
725What the hell was that?? How did
726she do that??
727JAC is frantic at her console.
728JAC
729It was, I dunno - a psychic
730projection, or - ... something.
731KATE Great, thanks.
732On screen, MISSY is sipping an espresso. She’s clearly outside somewhere.
733MISSY
734Okay, cutting to the chase - not
735dead, back, big surprise, never mind.
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737(CONTINUED)
738
739 DW9: "The Magician's Apprentice" by Steven Moffat - BLUE SCRIPT - 19/02/15 23.
74019 CONTINUED:
741MISSY (cont'd)
742I’m in a lovely little square in, I
743don’t know, one of your hot countries. There’s a light breeze from the east, this coffee is a buzz-monster in my brain, and I’m going to need eight snipers.
744A silence. Exchange of glances. KATE
745Eight what?
746MISSY
747Three for each heart, and two for
748my brain stem - you’ll have to switch me off fast, before I can regenerate. How fast can you get here? Oh I better arrange you a flight corridor.
74919
750She picks up her little gadget (similar to the one she had in Dark Water, scrolls on the screen.)
751KATE
752Why do you need snipers?
753MISSY
754It’s the only way she’ll feel safe
755enough to talk to me. KATE
756Who?
757Shall we say four o’clock?
758MISSY
75920 EXT. THE SQUARE - DAY 20 A vaguely Italianate square - sun-dappled, faintly
760dilapidated.
761A clock tower is chiming four o’clock.
762Wider. MISSY sits at a little cafe in the centre of the Square. Still sipping her espresso, at peace with the world.
763As the clock chimes, she glances at it.
764She looks idly round the square.
765There’s a sniper moving into position on a rooftop. Another at a high window.
766Now glances down. Approvingly, she sees -
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769(CONTINUED)
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77220 CONTINUED:
77320
774- three laser sights, settling into the correct position over each heart.
775She smiles.
776Saucy!
777MISSY
778She pulls a little make-up mirror out, checks behind her. Two more laser sights flare in the reflection.
779Splendid!
780She hears vehicles drawing up, glances over.
781A couple of limos, drawing up on the far side of the square.
782SECURITY MEN, in suits and shades already scrambling out, all with guns trained on MISSY -
783- who just smiles.
784One of the SECURITY MEN opens the rear door of one of limos.
785Now climbing out:
786CLARA.
787She looks coldly across the square at:
788MISSY. Who just toasts her with her espresso -
789- and gestures her to the chair opposite.
790A SECURITY MAN whispers in CLARA's ear, a last minute briefing. She nods -
791- and starts towards MISSY.
792On MISSY, smirking as CLARA approaches.
793On CLARA, walking on, grim.
794CLARA now stands a few feet from where MISSY is sitting - it’s a Spaghetti Western confrontation!
795MISSY gestures to the other chair, across the little table from her.
796As cold as ice, CLARA sits.
797MISSY (cont’d) How’s your boyfriend? Still
798tremendously dead, I expect.
799CLARA
800Still dead, yes. So how come you’re
801alive?
802BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
803(CONTINUED)
804
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80620 CONTINUED:
807MISSY
808Death is for other people. Would
809you prefer to sit in the shade? I know how you humans burn.
81020
811She picks up her little device - similar to the one from Dark Water/Death In Heaven, and scrolls down the screen with her finger.
812The distant whine of an aircraft briefly from above -
813- a shadow of a plane wing slides over them, and stops there.
814MISSY (cont’d)
815Better?
816CLARA’s face: resolutely unimpressed, giving her nothing.
817MISSY (cont’d)
818I expect you’ve tried to contact
819him by now. You should know, I can’t find him either. No one can.
820CLARA
821That happens now and then.
822MISSY Not like this.
823She reaches inside her jacket, tosses something on to the table.
824An huge, brass coin clatters there, spins, topples. CLARA just looks at it. Isn’t going to ask.
825MISSY (cont’d) It’s a Confession Dial.
826Close on the dial - it appears to be opening, very slowly. One thin triangle of the interior workings is exposed.
827CLARA
828A what?
829MISSY
830In your terms, a will. The last
831Will and Testament of the Time Lord known as the Doctor, to be delivered, according to ancient tradition, to his closest friend on the eve of his final day.
832On CLARA, stares at the coin. Now looks coldly at MISSY.
833CLARA
834Why would the Doctor make a will?
835BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
836(CONTINUED)
837
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83920 CONTINUED:
840MISSY
841Why would anyone? Wherever he is,
842whatever he’s doing, the Doctor clearly believe he’s about to die.
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845(CONTINUED)
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84820 CONTINUED:
849CLARA looks at the coin. Takes a breath. Okay, let’s do this.
850She reaches for the coin -
851- and it sparks at her hand. She snatches her hand away.
852MISSY (cont’d) What are you doing??
853CLARA
854You said - I thought -
855MISSY
856No, no, no! It was delivered to me.
857CLARA
858You??
859MISSY
860Of course, me. What have you got to
861do with it? I’m his friend - you’re just -
862CLARA I’m just what??
863MISSY
864You see that couple over there?
865She points to an elderly couple pottering round the edge of the square, walking a bouncy little puppy.
866MISSY (cont’d) You’re the puppy.
867A cold look from CLARA: so not rising to it.
868CLARA
869So. The Doctor gave you this?
870MISSY
871Of course not. He isn’t vulgar. The
872sisterhood of Karn were his chosen messengers. If he’s relying on that demented knitting circle, he’s in a lot of trouble.
873CLARA
874Since when do you care about the
875Doctor?
876MISSY
877Since always. Since the Academy,
878since the Cloister Wars! Since the night he stole the moon and the President’s wife. Since he was a little girl.
879(Smirks)
880One of those was a lie - can you guess which?
881BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
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88620 CONTINUED:
887CLARA
888You’re not his friend - you keep
889trying to kill him.
890MISSY
891He keeps trying to kill me - it’s
892sort of our texting. We’ve been at it for ages.
893CLARA
894Oh, it must be love.
895MISSY
896Don’t be disgusting - we’re Time
897Lords, not animals! Try, nano- brain, to rise above the reproductive frenzy of your noisy little food chain, and contemplate friendship. A friendship older than your civilisation and infinitely more complex.
898CLARA
899Okay. So the Doctor’s your bessie
900mate and I’m supposed to believe you’ve turned good?
901MISSY Good? Language!
902Casually, MISSY raises her little gadget and shoots the nearest SECURITY MAN dead, blasting him into nothingness.
90320
90421 OMITTED
90522 OMITTED
90621 22 23
907CLARA, stumbling to her feet.
908CLARA
909No, don’t, why did you - !!
910CUT TO:
911  23 INT. UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS ROOM - DAY
912KATE and the others, watching this on the big screens. KATE
913 has lunged forward to the console.
914KATE
915Don’t shoot her. Do not shoot her!!
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917CUT TO:
918
919 DW9: "The Magician's Apprentice" by Steven Moffat - BLUE SCRIPT - 19/02/15 28.
92024 EXT. THE SQUARE - DAY 24 MISSY is giving a little cat-like stretch - she enjoys a
921little murder.
922MISSY
923By the ring on his finger, he was
924married, and I think I detected a trace of baby leakage on his jacket, so he had a family. No, I haven’t turned good.
925MISSY raises her little gadget and blasts one of the SECURITY MEN ringing the square.
926 MISSY (cont’d)
927I’m on a roll, thanks for bringing
928spares.
92925 INT. UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS ROOM - DAY 25 KATE, again yelling:
930KATE
931Don’t fire! Nobody fire!
932CUT TO:
93326 EXT. THE SQUARE - DAY 26 CLARA, frantically trying to placate MISSY -
934CLARA
935Stop it - just stop it. Don’t
936shoot, anybody else.
937MISSY
938(Calling over to another
939security man)
940Sweaty one, on your knees, take a goodbye selfie for your kids -
941CLARA
942Nobody else!
943MISSY
944Say something nice!
945CLARA
946No!
947MISSY
948I’ll kill everyone in this square.
949CUT TO:
950  BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
951(CONTINUED)
952
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95426 CONTINUED:
955CLARA
956Start with me. Then what? You came
957here for my help.
958MISSY
959Because the Doctor is in danger.
960CLARA Make me believe you.
961MISSY
962How?
963CLARA Release the planes.
964MISSY
965The planes are keeping me alive.
966There are eight snipers ready to kill me.
967CLARA Yeah. On my command.
968(Raises her hand, as if to give a signal)
969Your best friend is in danger - show me how you care. Make me believe.
970On MISSY. Regards CLARA, coolly. She lowers the weapon -
971- then with a quick movement, she scrolls on the screen. A whine of aircraft engines from above and the plane shadow slips away!
97226
97327 INT. UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS ROOM - DAY JAC spins from her console -
974JAC
975The planes - they’re all moving
976again.
97728 EXT. THE SQUARE - DAY MISSY yawning, stretching. MISSY
978It was only a basic Time Stop - parlour trick, I couldn’t really have done anything with them. Might want to step out of the splash zone, unless you’ve got a change of frock.
979CUT TO:
980CUT TO:
98127
98228
983  BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
984(CONTINUED)
985
986 DW9: "The Magician's Apprentice" by Steven Moffat - BLUE SCRIPT - 19/02/15 30.
98728 CONTINUED: 28
988She’s leaning back, spreading her arms, as if providing a better target.
989MISSY, head thrown back, eyes waiting for the end. Point made.
990CLARA
991... What does it say?
992MISSY What does what say?
993CLARA His confession.
994MISSY
995It will only open when he’s dead.
996A click from the dial. The opened wedge has just widened a fraction.
997They both look to the dial, then to each other.
998CLARA
999Then it won’t open. Will it?
1000MISSY leans forward, levels her gaze at CLARA. All business now. A look held between the two of them. A decision now made.
1001MISSY
1002Question: if the Doctor had one
1003last night to live - if he knew for certain he was facing the end of his life ... where, in all of space and time, would he go?
1004CUT TO:
100529 EXT. CASTLE - NIGHT 29 A castle rearing above us, lit by flaming torchlight. And
1006another loud clap!
1007CUT TO:
100830 EXT. SQUARE - DAY 30 MISSY and CLARA, still in confrontation over the table, but
1009now the SECURITY MEN are setting up a laptop for them.
1010CLARA
1011And on that, a sudden roar of many voices, like at a football
1012Here.
1013match, and a great almighty clap!
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1015(CONTINUED)
1016
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101830 CONTINUED: 30
1019MISSY
1020Well, yes, Earth, obviously! But
1021where, when?
102231 EXT. CASTLE COURTYARD - NIGHT 31 On a row of hands on one synchronised clap!!
1023Wider: the courtyard is being used like an arena. The audience looks 12th Century, and they’re swaying like they’re at a rock concert.
1024Clap!!
1025CUT TO:
102632 EXT. SQUARE - DAY 32 CLARA, now tapping away at the computer.
1027CUT TO:
1028  CLARA
1029How long do we have?
1030MISSY No idea.
103133 EXT. CASTLE COURTYARD - NIGHT 33 Clap!
1032In the centre, playing to the crowd, flailing with an enormous axe, is BORS. Huge, bit thick, ready for battle.
1033Clap!
1034BORS, turning on the spot wielding his axe. BORS
1035Magician! Magician!!
1036Clap!
1037Now on a big pair of wooden doors, facing him. Two MEN have run to start hauling open the doors - someone’s about to make a big entrance!
1038CUT TO:
103934 OMITTED 34
1040CUT TO:
1041  BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
1042
1043 DW9: "The Magician's Apprentice" by Steven Moffat - BLUE SCRIPT - 19/02/15 32.
104435 INT. UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS ROOM - DAY KATE, the room buzzing around her.
104535
1046 Panning, we see CLARA on the screen, Skyping from the laptop in the square.
1047KATE
1048We’re starting the algorithm, but
1049this may take a while.
1050CUT TO:
105136 EXT. THE SQUARE - DAY / INT. UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS ROOM - 36
1052DAY
1053CLARA, on the laptop (we now intercut as required.)
1054 Clap!!
1055KATE
1056Why are we assuming he’s in the
1057past, not the future?
1058CLARA
1059Because we can’t search the future.
106037 EXT. CASTLE COURTYARD - NIGHT
1061The double doors are open, something is rumbling out there in
1062the shadows.
1063The clapping, building in momentum now. Clap!
1064BORS
1065Clap!
1066CUT TO:
106738 INT. UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS ROOM - DAY / EXT. THE SQUARE - 38
1068DAY
1069KATE and JAC, standing in front of a huge glass screen. It’s a timeline of Earth history -
1070CLARA has the same image on her laptop screen, MISSY now craning over her shoulder.
1071- various flashing dots start popping up all over it.
1072BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
1073Magician!!
1074CUT TO:
107537
1076  (CONTINUED)
1077
1078 DW9: "The Magician's Apprentice" by Steven Moffat - BLUE SCRIPT - 19/02/15 33.
107938 CONTINUED:
1080JAC
1081The algorithm generates
1082probabilities, based on crisis points, anomalies, anachronisms, keywords - blue box, Doctor ...
108339 EXT. CASTLE COURTYARD - DAY It’s a clap and a stamp now!
1084Clap! Stamp!
1085BORS swinging his axe. BORS
1086Face me, Magician. Face me!! Clap! Stamp!
1087The doors, standing open.
1088CUT TO:
108938
109039
1091 CUT TO:
109240 INT. UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS ROOM - DAY / EXT. THE SQUARE - 40
1093DAY
1094KATE, still studying the display on the screen. More and more dots appearing.
1095 JAC
1096San Martino, Troy, multiples for
1097New York, three possible versions of Atlantis -
109840A EXT. CASTLE COURTYARD - NIGHT Clap! Stamp!
1099Dry ice is now pouring through.
1100CUT TO:
1101CUT TO: 40B INT. UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS ROOM - DAY / EXT. THE SQUARE - 40B
1102DAY
1103BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
1104JAC
1105It’s easier than you’d think. He
1106makes a lot of noise. And he loves to make an entrance.
1107CUT TO:
110840A
1109  
1110 DW9: "The Magician's Apprentice" by Steven Moffat - BLUE SCRIPT - 19/02/15 34.
111140C EXT. CASTLE COURTYARD - NIGHT 40C Clap! Stamp!
1112Now acrobats come tumbling through the smoke!
1113CUT TO:
111441 OMITTED 41
1115  42 INT. DAY.
1116UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS ROOM - DAY / EXT. THE SQUARE - 42
1117 43 EXT.
1118Clap! Stamp!
1119KATE
1120But which of these is the one?
1121Where is he now?
1122CLARA (Looks to Missy)
1123How is a Time Lord supposed to die?
1124CASTLE COURTYARD - NIGHT
112543
1126CUT TO:
1127 - the acrobats have now lined up either side of the entrance- way -
1128CUT TO:
112944 INT. UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS ROOM - DAY / EXT. THE SQUARE - 44
1130 DAY
1131MISSY Meditation!
113245 EXT. CASTLE COURTYARD - NIGHT Clap! Stamp!
1133Closing on the entrance!
113446 INT. UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS ROOM - NIGHT
1135MISSY Repentance and acceptance.
1136Contemplation of the absolute -
1137CUT TO:
1138CUT TO:
113945
114046
1141  BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
1142(CONTINUED)
1143
1144 DW9: "The Magician's Apprentice" by Steven Moffat - BLUE SCRIPT - 19/02/15 35.
114546 CONTINUED:
1146CLARA Great, thanks.
1147(to Jac)
1148Change the algorithm. Eliminate crisis points. Where’s the Doctor making the most noise, but there isn’t any crisis?
1149(Shoots a look at Missy) We’re looking for a party!
1150JAC, rattling away at the keyboard.
115146
1152On the screen, all THE DOCTOR moments are disappearing, winking out in rapid succession - leaving one flashing alone.
1153CLARA (cont’d)
1154There he is. Look at him. “Do not
1155go gentle into that good night.”
1156MISSY You go, girl!
1157Apparently, congratulating her she put her hand over CLARA's - - but in fact she’s slapped a leather wrist band on to her. A vortex manipulator.
1158CLARA What - what is that?
1159MISSY Say whee!
1160She operates the vortex manipulator on her own wrist and -
1161- they vanish!!
116247 OMITTED
116348 EXT. CASTLE COURTYARD - NIGHT Clap! Stamp!
1164CUT TO:
1165We’re behind the top row of the audience, as MISSY and CLARA crash down through the frame, landing with a whump! Just out of frame.
1166MISSY shoots up instantly, reeling, clutching her head.
1167MISSY
1168Wowzah!! Mummy, do it again!
1169CLARA now stumbling to her feet, coughing like she’s going to be sick.
1170BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
1171(CONTINUED)
117247 48
1173  
1174 DW9: "The Magician's Apprentice" by Steven Moffat - BLUE SCRIPT - 19/02/15 36.
117548 CONTINUED:
1176MISSY (cont’d) Vortex manipulators - yours is
1177slaved to mine. Cheap and nasty time travel.
1178CLARA
1179I know what they are.
1180MISSY
1181You probably want to throw up -
1182pick a local. According to you, this is where the Doctor is.
1183Looking around: a stone wall one side, a row of backs the other. The cheering and stamping and clapping.
1184MISSY and CLARA now framed so we can see the opened doors down in the arena behind them.
1185CLARA
1186How do we find him? What are we
1187looking for?
1188MISSY Anachronisms. The tiniest,
1189slightest ...
1190And now, shockingly, there is loud blast of - - electric guitar!
1191The crowd roars with approval.
1192MISSY (cont’d) ... anachronism.
1193BORS tenses, readies his axe!
1194CLARA and MISSY turn slowly, looking down into the arena -
1195- and now - as the guitar riffs on and on and ever wilder - something rumbling into the arena, through a storm of dry ice, is --
1196-- a Centurian tank!!
1197And standing astride the tank, in cool shades, and playing the hell out of an electric guitar is:
1198THE DOCTOR!!
1199He finishes his riff with a giant flourish. Waves to the crowd, a happy Time Lord.
1200BORS just stares, plaintive, fed up with this. BORS
1201Dude!
1202On CLARA and MISSY, staring.
120348
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1206
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120848 CONTINUED:
120948
1210BORS, standing, slack-jawed. He points a little feebly at the guitar.
1211BORS (cont’d) What is that?
1212THE DOCTOR
1213You said you wanted an axe fight.
1214He looks round expectantly. Blank looks.
1215THE DOCTOR (cont’d) Yeah, in a few hundred years that
1216will be really funny. It’s a slow- burner.
1217BORS
1218A musical instrument is not an axe.
1219THE DOCTOR
1220And a daffodil is not a broadsword,
1221but I still won the last round. What do you think of my tank? Don’t worry, it isn’t loaded.
1222BORS I don’t like it.
1223THE DOCTOR
1224Neither do I, I bought it for my
1225fish.
1226BORS Your fish??
1227THE DOCTOR
1228I may have ordered online.
1229(Looks around)
1230Fish, tank, honestly, this stuff will be hilarious in a very few hundred years, stick around.
1231On CLARA and MISSY.
1232CLARA
1233What’s the matter with him - he’s
1234never like this.
1235MISSY
1236Oh, you really are new, aren’t you?
1237On THE DOCTOR - he stiffens - almost as if he
1238CLARA
1239He didn’t hear that, did he? He
1240doesn’t know we’re here.
1241heard that.
1242THE DOCTOR - very deliberately, he starts picking out Pretty Woman.
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1245
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124748 CONTINUED:
1248CLARA rolls her eyes - oh for God’s sake.
124948
1250- and THE DOCTOR is looking directly at her, over his shades.
1251Half pleased, half humiliated, CLARA starts making her way down through the crowd.
1252THE DOCTOR (Still playing)
1253Now, you lot. I’ve been here all day, and it’s been a great day - ...
1254BORS
1255You’ve been here three weeks!
1256THE DOCTOR
1257Three weeks?? It must be nearly bed
1258time. We’ve partied. I’ve helped you dig a well, with a first class, child-friendly visitor’s centre. I’ve given you some top notch maths tuition in a fun, but relevant way. I’ve introduced the word Dude several centuries early. Let me hear you!
1259They all roar Dude!
1260THE DOCTOR (cont’d) But tonight, I’m sorry, I have to
1261leave. Before I do, though, I’d like you to meet a couple of friends of mine.
1262On MISSY! Oh! Her too. She starts making her way down. CLARA is now walking across the arena to THE DOCTOR.
1263CLARA
1264How did you know I was here? Did
1265you see me?
1266THE DOCTOR
1267When do I not see you? CLARA
1268One face in all that crowd?
1269THE DOCTOR Was there a crowd, too?
1270CLARA
1271Oh, we’re doing charm now, are we?
1272Which one of us dying?
1273And THE DOCTOR's smile drops a notch. CLARA: the same. Remembers.
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127848 CONTINUED:
127948
1280And - unexpected - he throws his arms around her. What a hug. Catcalls and wolf-whistles from the crowd.
1281CLARA (cont’d)
1282Oh, and now you’re doing hugging -
1283I can’t keep up.
1284THE DOCTOR
1285Well, you know what they say.
1286Hugging is a great way to hide your face!
1287CLARA
1288I guessed a party - but not like
1289this. This isn’t you.
1290THE DOCTOR
1291I spent yesterday in a bow tie. Day
1292before in a long scarf. It’s my party and all of me’s invited.
1293Now looking over CLARA's shoulder to see - - MISSY, approaching.
1294He grabs his guitar, plays a few bars - Hey MISSY, you’re so fine, you’re so fine you blow my mind -
1295MISSY
1296What the hell are you up to??
1297THE DOCTOR (To the crowd)
1298It’s the wicked stepmother. Everybody hiss.
1299He plays some corny dramatic chords on his guitar. MISSY is holding up the Confession Dial!
1300MISSY
1301Apparently you think you’re going
1302to die tomorrow.
1303THE DOCTOR
1304Well I’ve got some good news about
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1306that.
1307What?
1308CLARA
1309THE DOCTOR
1310It’s still today!
1311On the guitar he makes the wah-wah punchline noise - - and on that, a sudden throttling cry.
1312They spin.
1313(CONTINUED)
1314
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131648 CONTINUED: 48
1317BORS is clutching at his throat, now falling to his knees, his face turning red.
1318THE DOCTOR (cont’d)
1319Bors!
1320THE DOCTOR races to his side, starts trying to help him.
1321- but now throws it
1322A snake!!
1323THE DOCTOR (cont’d) Is it a marble again? Did you
1324swallow one of the marbles I gave you?? Don’t swallow the marbles!
1325he yanks something from around BORS’s neck, and to the ground.
1326on the ground for a moment, then shoots away,
1327It spasms
1328disappearing under the robe of -
1329COLONY SARFF.
1330He stands there, staring at THE DOCTOR.
1331SARFF
1332Doctor. You are found. You will
1333come.
1334THE DOCTOR, facing him, defiant.
1335THE DOCTOR Says you and whose army?
1336On SARFF’s face. Now something horrific happens. The twined sections of his face start to move independently, his eyes rotating away, his mouth the same, all with a dreadful slithering sound -
1337- until we realise we are looking at the stacked coils of a giant snake!
1338The head of the snake - SARFF's real face - now rears up with a terrible hiss! The fangs!!
1339Now the robe falls from him and we see the terrible, disgusting truth - SARFF's body is a mass of interlocked, intertwined snakes, all sliding around one another.
1340A hundred, fanged snakeheads all snap and hiss at once.
1341The crowd screams - people start running. BORS backs away. THE DOCTOR, now stepping forward.
1342Furious. Blazing away.
1343THE DOCTOR (cont’d) Nobody dies here. Not one person,
1344not one of my friends, do you understand??
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134948 CONTINUED: 48
1350The snake lowers its swaying, gliding head to THE DOCTOR's eye-level.
1351SARFF
1352Davros, creator of the Daleks, dark
1353lord of Skaro ... is dying. THE DOCTOR
1354So I hear.
1355SARFF
1356He would speak with you again, on
1357the last night of his life.
1358THE DOCTOR
1359Then you will harm nobody in this
1360place. Not one person. Are we very, very clear?
1361A beat, a moment of stand-off.
1362Then, SARFF starts reassembling into humanoid shape.
1363SARFF
1364Are you so dangerous, little man?
1365THE DOCTOR
1366You want to know how dangerous I
1367am? Davros sent you. You want to know how stupid you are? You came!
1368A huge hissing and rattling from beneath SARFF’s robes.
1369THE DOCTOR (cont’d) Oh, look, he’s trying to frighten
1370me! Snake nest in a dress! The hissing, fading.
1371THE DOCTOR (cont’d) Now! Explain! Politely. Davros is
1372my arch-enemy - why would I want to talk to him?
1373MISSY (Instantly offended)
1374Sorry, what? Davros is your arch- enemy??
1375THE DOCTOR
1376Hush!
1377MISSY
1378I’ll scratch his eye out.
1379SARFF
1380Davros knows. Davros remembers.
1381SARFF reaches inside his robe, draws something out. Drops it at THE DOCTOR's feet ...
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138648 CONTINUED: 48 A silence: then -
1387... the sonic screwdriver. The one THE DOCTOR threw to the Boy in the first scene. It looks ancient, battered and corroded by the years.
1388CLARA That’s yours.
1389It was. Was?
1390THE DOCTOR CLARA
1391THE DOCTOR
1392I don’t have a screwdriver any more.
1393And he kicks the screwdriver, pointedly, back to SARFF. But his eyes remained fixed on it, lying there in the dirt.
1394MISSY, watching him, fascinated.
1395MISSY
1396Oh! Never seen that before. Doctor,
1397the look on your face - what is that?
1398CLARA too has moved round so she can see THE DOCTOR's face.
1399CLARA Shame. You’re ashamed.
1400On THE DOCTOR: not meeting her eye. Still staring at the screwdriver, like it’s everything bad in the world.
1401CLARA (cont’d) Doctor? What have you done?
1402THE DOCTOR: still staring at the screwdriver ... Then, a voice. The Boy’s voice from the beginning ...
1403BOY (V.O.)
1404Please, you’ve got to help me.
140549 EXT. BATTLEFIELD - DAY As at the beginning.
1406DISSOLVE TO:
1407On the little BOY clutching the screwdriver, looking around, desperate.
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1409(CONTINUED)
141049
1411 
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141349 CONTINUED: 49
1414BOY
1415You said I could survive, you said
1416you were going to help me!
1417The Hand Mines - twitching, grasping, a few more pop up!
1418BOY (cont’d)
1419Help me!!
1420And then, distantly, a terrible sound.
1421A slammed door! The grind of ancient engines!
1422The BOY, peering through the mist -
1423- to see the police box shape of the TARDIS slowly fading away.
1424The BOY - tears standing in his eyes, all hope dying.
1425CUT TO:
142650 EXT. CASTLE COURTYARD - NIGHT 50 On THE DOCTOR's face: lost in his memories, so troubled -
1427He looks to SARFF. Decision made.
1428THE DOCTOR Is your ship in orbit?
1429MISSY It’s a trap.
1430SARFF
1431Prepare yourself for teleport.
1432MISSY
1433Doctor, listen to me - I know
1434traps, traps are my flirting - this is a trap.
1435THE DOCTOR I’m prepared.
1436MISSY
1437You sent me your confession dial,
1438you threw yourself a three week party, you know what this is!
1439THE DOCTOR just looks at her.
1440THE DOCTOR Yes. Good bye.
1441(Turns to Clara) Good bye, Clara.
1442Close on his hands as he crosses them behind him. With a hiss a SARFF snake binds itself around them.
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1445
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144750 CONTINUED:
1448CLARA steps forward.
1449CLARA
1450We’re coming with him. Both of us,
1451her and me.
1452THE DOCTOR
1453No. No, under no circumstances!
1454Another great hissing from beneath SARFF's robe.
1455THE DOCTOR (cont’d) What are you doing now??
1456SARFF
1457Voting. We are a democracy.
145850
1459Suddenly, the dust around MISSY's and CLARA's feet kicks up for a moment, as if something has thrashed through, the dirt and then, with a hiss, their hands snap behind them (they’ve been cuffed by snakes, without CGI.)
1460SARFF (cont’d) (The hissing dies down)
1461It is agreed.
1462THE DOCTOR
1463No! I forbid this, no!! Both of
1464you, no.
1465Too late - all four of them glow and sparkle - and with THE
1466DOCTOR still protesting, they all fade away. From the shadows, someone is watching - BORS.
1467He steps into the light. For a moment he has a comically confused frown -
1468- then somehow, the comedy drops, his face turns cold. He turns and starts marching away, into the castle ...
1469THE DOCTOR (cont’d) (V.O.)
1470Davros is the child of war.
147151 OMITTED
147252 INT. SARFF’S SPACE SHIP
1473CUT TO:
1474Narrow, contained, grungy, there is something scaly about it all - and yet it barely seems larger than a camper van.
1475THE DOCTOR, MISSY and CLARA sit in the back, their hands still are now tied, too. From the way they are sitting - relaxed, resigned - it might seem they’ve been here a while.
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147952
1480  
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1483Beyond them we can see SARFF at the controls of the ship, flying it.
1484THE DOCTOR
1485A war that wouldn’t end - a
1486thousand years of fighting, till no one could remember why. So Davros created a new kind of warrior - one who would never bother with that question. A mutant in a tank that would never, ever stop. And they never, ever did.
1487CLARA The Daleks.
1488THE DOCTOR (Nods)
1489How scared do you have to be? To seal every one of your own kind inside a tank?
1490THE DOCTOR, frown, blinks - like a memory is impacting on him. Hurting him.
1491FLASHBACK: we see the little BOY in the battlefield:
1492BOY
1493You said I could survive, you said
1494you were going to help me!
1495THE DOCTOR
1496Davros made the Daleks. But who
1497made him?
1498A rushing sound. The ship shakes, the whine of the engines lowers...
1499MISSY
1500We’re coming out of hyperspace.
1501They look to the screens in front of SARFF:
1502The picture is clearing - an image of the space station we saw DAVROS in before.
1503THE DOCTOR
1504So. That’s where he ended up.
1505On the screen, the station growing closer and closer, filling the screen ...
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151053 EXT. CASTLE - NIGHT 53 Establisher of the castle The Doctor was in earlier. A
1511crashing sound.
1512CUT TO:
151354 INT. CASTLE/WORKSHOP - NIGHT
1514A workshop somewhere in the castle, crammed with appropriate
1515equipment.
1516BORS is searching for something. Overturning tables, throwing open chests. Now he’s ripping back a curtain - to reveal the TARDIS.
1517BORS steps back from it, like he understands what he’s looking at. He presses something on his chest plate. When he speaks, his voice is flat and lifeless.
1518BORS
1519Inform high command - it is
1520located.
1521He turns his head slightly as he speaks -
1522- and we now see the DALEK eyestalk that has broken through this forehead.
1523BORS (cont’d) The TARDIS is located.
1524Now a crackle of open communications and the familiar dread voice of a:
1525DALEK (V.O.)
1526The TARDIS will be procured.
1527DALEK voices take this up. Procure the TARDIS! Procure! Procure!
1528DISSOLVE TO:
152955 INT. DAVROS HOSPITAL/WAITING ROOM 55 The same bottle green, rusting gloom as the rest of the
1530station.
1531Two doors - one goes on to the corridor, the other is clearly an airlock. A glass panel looks out on to the stars.
1532MISSY and CLARA sit on the floor, their hands still snake- tied behind them. THE DOCTOR - hands also tied - paces.
1533CLARA
1534How long have we been waiting?
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1538
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154055 CONTINUED:
1541THE DOCTOR
1542Who knows. Always the way, with
1543hospitals.
1544MISSY
1545Tied up and locked in a cupboard.
1546It’s like your wedding all over again.
1547CLARA Wedding?
1548THE DOCTOR
1549That wasn’t my wedding. That was my
1550stag night.
1551MISSY
1552No, hang on, wasn’t it the faculty
1553dance?
1554THE DOCTOR
1555No, that was the laser slugs.
1556MISSY
1557Of course, yes, the slugs.
1558THE DOCTOR
1559We were friends then. What
1560happened?
1561MISSY Nothing.
1562A hiss as the door opens, revealing SARFF.
1563SARFF You will come.
1564THE DOCTOR moves towards the door, the others start scrambling to their feet.
1565SARFF (cont’d) (To Clara and Missy)
1566You will stay.
1567CLARA and MISSY subside. THE DOCTOR looks to them.
1568THE DOCTOR
1569Obviously this could be goodbye.
1570Can’t stand those.
1571CLARA
1572Doctor ... you sent Missy your
1573confession dial.
1574THE DOCTOR
1575We’ve known each other a long time,
1576she’s one of my own people -
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1579(CONTINUED)
1580
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158255 CONTINUED:
1583CLARA
1584My point is, we both saw her die.
1585On earth, ages ago. But obviously you knew it wasn’t real. Or worse, you hoped it wasn’t. I think, one way or another, you’ve been lying.
1586THE DOCTOR ... I’m sorry.
1587CLARA
1588Don’t apologise - make it up to me.
1589(Smiles)
1590There - now you have to come back.
159155
1592THE DOCTOR. A beat. A smile, a nod. Then he’s following SARFF out. As the door hisses shut, he looks directly at MISSY.
1593THE DOCTOR
1594Gravity.
1595MISSY
1596I know. The door clunks shut.
1597CLARA Gravity?
1598MISSY bangs her heels on the floor
1599MISSY
1600You know what’s wrong with the
1601gravity in here? CLARA
1602No.
1603MISSY Nothing. It’s perfect.
1604She’s struggled to her feet, now jumping on the spot.
1605MISSY (cont’d)
1606But this is a space station, the
1607gravity should be artificial - all coppery smelling round the edges, a tiny bit sexy. This feels real. Like a planet.
1608CLARA
1609How can you and the Doctor be
1610friends?
1611MISSY
1612Why shouldn’t we be?
1613CLARA
1614You spend all your time fighting.
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161955 CONTINUED:
1620MISSY Exactly.
1621CLARA You kill people.
1622MISSY So does he.
1623MISSY has strolled over to the airlock, is now sniffing at it, fascinated.
1624CLARA It’s different.
1625MISSY
1626No, I just enjoy it more. He’s a
1627farmer, I’m a hunter. You know, this airlock doesn’t make sense.
1628CLARA
1629You’re a maniac. You’re a
1630psychopath!
1631MISSY, now straining at her snake bonds.
1632MISSY
1633No, no - I’m your worst nightmare.
163455
1635A sound like a wet slap, and a dying squeal - as MISSY pulls her hands apart.
1636MISSY (cont’d)
1637I’m a perfectly sane recreational
1638killer.
1639(She looks at her hands,
1640speckled with green blood - licks it up)
1641Hmm! Not bad! I’ll probably kill you one day. I hope so, I’m looking forward to it.
1642(She’s moved back to the airlock, examining it again)
1643And when you’re used up and dead and blown away, the Doctor and I will still be friends. And probably playing with a new toy. You know what this airlock is? I’ll tell you.
1644(Turns dramatically to Clara)
1645It’s pants. CLARA
1646... what do you mean?
1647MISSY
1648I mean today might be the day.
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1650(CONTINUED)
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165355 CONTINUED:
1654CLARA What day?
1655MISSY The day I kill you.
165655
1657She starts working at the controls on the airlock - there are hisses and clunks.
1658CLARA
1659What are you doing?? Are you
1660opening it?
1661MISSY
1662Of course I’m opening it.
1663CLARA We’ll get sucked out.
1664MISSY
1665You and me together, off we go!
1666(Yanking round the wheel)
1667Let’s make jam!
1668Hiss, clank, and the door starts to open --
166956 INT. DAVROS HOSPITAL STATION. CORRIDOR 56 SARFF and THE DOCTOR walking round the curved corridor. Now
1670coming to the door to the sick room. SARFF passes his hand over a panel -
1671- and the door hisses open. SARFF leads the way in. THE DOCTOR follows.
1672CUT TO:
167357 INT. SICK ROOM 57 The room as we saw it before -
1674- the hanging gardens of drip feed cables obscuring the room’s one occupant, sitting on the central dais.
1675SARFF and THE DOCTOR stand before him. A moment. Then, that voice ...
1676DAVROS ... Doctor?
1677A whine of hydraulics -
1678- and all the cables rise into the ceiling, still attached but now unveiling ...
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1681(CONTINUED)
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168457 CONTINUED: 57 DAVROS!!
1685Still in his chair, much as we last saw him. But now even more cadaverous and ancient. It’s as if even raising his head is a pain and an effort.
1686Doctor!
1687DAVROS (cont’d)
1688THE DOCTOR
1689Davros!
1690DAVROS cocks his head, inspecting this new man.
1691DAVROS
1692I approve of your new face - so
1693much more like mine.
1694DAVROS affects to notice that THE DOCTOR's hands are still tied.
1695DAVROS (cont’d) Colony Sarff - untie our guest’s
1696hands.
1697SARFF steps behind THE DOCTOR - a hiss and his hands are released.
1698THE DOCTOR rubs his wrists.
1699DAVROS (cont’d) I trust you are undamaged.
1700THE DOCTOR (Checking his hands)
1701One hand, two hands, yep. Look at that - four fingers and a thumb, but oh no, let’s stick on a sucker instead. Be honest, was it really late on a Friday?
1702DAVROS
1703Sarff, you may leave us.
1704SARFF nods, glides out.
1705DAVROS (cont’d) You came then?
1706THE DOCTOR
1707Clearly.
1708DAVROS
1709Did you suspect a trap?
1710THE DOCTOR I still do.
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171557 CONTINUED:
1716DAVROS
1717Then why are you here? Did you miss
1718our conversations?
1719He flicks a switch. And we hear some of the old shows, the old Doctors arguing with DAVROS, all chattering together.
1720THE FOURTH DOCTOR (V.O.)
1721Davros if you created in your laboratory ...
1722THE FIFTH DOCTOR (V.O.)
1723I’m not here as your prisoner, Davros - but your executioner!
1724THE SEVENTH DOCTOR (V.O.)
1725Unlimited rice pudding!
1726The other Doctors mixing in now, a cacophony!
1727THE DOCTOR
1728Yes, okay, you’ve made your point.
1729DAVROS
1730Have I?
1731DAVROS snaps another switch -
173257
1733- now just one Doctor voice, from many years ago. The Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) from Genesis Of The Daleks.
1734THE FOURTH DOCTOR
1735If someone pointed out a child to
1736you, and told you that child would grow up totally evil - to be a ruthless dictator who would destroy millions of lives, could you then kill that child -
1737THE DOCTOR has stepped forward, snapped the switch back.
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1739THE DOCTOR Yes! I get it!
1740DAVROS
1741Do you know why you came, Doctor?
1742You have a sense of duty. Of guilt, perhaps. And certainly of shame.
1743THE DOCTOR You flatter me.
1744DAVROS
1745A pity. I intended to accuse.
1746CUT TO:
1747
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174958 INT. DAVROS HOSPITAL SHIP / EXT. STARFIELD 58 The airlock door is open - on to space. CLARA and MISSY,
1750 peering out.
1751CLARA It doesn’t make
1752MISSY (Sticks her Warm, isn’t it?
1753any sense.
1754hand out)
1755For deep space
1756anyway.
1757Very tentatively, she starts to step out.
1758CLARA What are you doing?
1759MISSY Treading softly!
1760Impossibly, MISSY is now standing in space, as if on an invisible floor.
1761CLARA There’s a floor?
1762MISSY, moving around. Now touching the invisible floor.
1763MISSY
1764No. There’s ground. This is the
1765ground, it’s sandy!
1766She’s picked up a handful of invisible sand, now runs it
1767through her fingers.
1768CLARA, now tentatively stepping out into space. It works! She’s standing there, in space!!
176959 INT. SICK ROOM
1770DAVROS and THE DOCTOR, as we left them.
1771DAVROS
1772I believe, for the ultimate good of
1773the universe, I was right to create the Daleks.
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1776THE DOCTOR You were very wrong.
1777DAVROS This is the argument
1778since we met.
1779THE DOCTOR It ended in the Time
1780we’ve had
1781War.
1782CUT TO:
1783 (CONTINUED)
1784
1785 DW9: "The Magician's Apprentice" by Steven Moffat - BLUE SCRIPT - 19/02/15 54.
178659 CONTINUED:
1787DAVROS
1788It survived the Time War, but it
1789will end tonight. This is why you are here.
1790THE DOCTOR
1791If you’re dying, it will end
1792whether I’m here or not.
1793DAVROS
1794True. But I would appreciate your
179559
1796company. Why?
1797THE DOCTOR
1798DAVROS
1799We do not choose the people who
1800understand us, Doctor. We have been generals on the opposite sides of a war - we understand each other as no two others can.
1801A beeping. DAVROS swivels, snapping switches.
1802DAVROS (cont’d)
1803It seems your friends have gone
1804exploring.
1805A screen, flickering into life on the wall ...
180660 EXT. STARFIELD
1807MISSY and CLARA, seemingly space-walking. CLARA’s hands are
1808free now and she’s rubbing her wrists.
1809CLARA
1810This doesn’t make any sense.
1811MISSY
1812Oh, but it does! The gravity - I
1813said it was like a planet! We’re on a planet! That’s not a space station, it’s a building - the rest of the planet, the whole thing, is invisible.
1814CLARA That’s ridiculous.
1815MISSY
1816Well of course it is. How would you
1817ever find your glasses? Or the little girl’s room. What if you kissed an ugly??
181860
1819CUT TO:
1820 BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
1821(CONTINUED)
1822
1823 DW9: "The Magician's Apprentice" by Steven Moffat - BLUE SCRIPT - 19/02/15 54A.
182460 CONTINUED: 60
1825MISSY breaks off, looking at her hand. There’s a smear of sand now visible there.
1826BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
1827(CONTINUED)
1828
1829 DW9: "The Magician's Apprentice" by Steven Moffat - BLUE SCRIPT - 19/02/15 55.
183060 CONTINUED: 60
1831MISSY (cont’d) Unless, when you’re part of the
1832atmosphere, you start syncing with the spectrum ...
1833She looks around - mistily, shapes are forming.
1834CLARA
1835But why would anyone hide a whole
1836planet?
1837On MISSY - for the first time ever, we start to see her looking afraid.
1838MISSY
1839That would rather depend on the
1840planet ...
1841Shapes forming, solidifying. Glittering cities, huge mountains ...
1842And now MISSY and CLARA are standing on ...
1843CUT TO:
184461 EXT. DESERT PLANET - DAY
1845A sweep of desert. Behind them, the Hospital Space station is
1846revealed as one part of a mighty city!
1847A DALEK City, rising out of the desert, towering over them. Glittering, huge and impossible (as seen in The Dead Planet, and more detailed in the TV21 comic strips.)
1848No!!
1849MISSY
185062 INT. SICK ROOM - DAY
1851THE DOCTOR, staring at the screen, his face the same mask of
1852CUT TO:
185361
1854 horror.
1855No!!
1856THE DOCTOR
185763 EXT. DESERT PLANET - DAY 63 MISSY turning on the spot, taking it in, the horror, the
1858CUT TO:
185962
1860  horror!
1861again! No!! BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
1862(CONTINUED)
1863MISSY
1864They brought it back. They built it
1865
1866 DW9: "The Magician's Apprentice" by Steven Moffat - BLUE SCRIPT - 19/02/15 56.
186763 CONTINUED: 63
1868BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
1869CLARA
1870What is it? Where are we?
1871MISSY This is -
187264 INT. SICK ROOM - DAY 64 THE DOCTOR, staring in horror, completes the sentence.
1873CUT TO:
1874 THE DOCTOR
1875- Skaro!!
1876(Rounds on Davros)
1877You’re brought me to Skaro!
1878DAVROS
1879Where does an old man go to die,
1880but with his children?
188165 EXT. DESERT PLANET - DAY MISSY and CLARA.
1882CLARA What’s Skaro?
1883MISSY
1884The beginning. Where it all
1885started. This is the planet of the Daleks!!
1886DALEK (From off)
1887Correct!
1888MISSY and CLARA spin round.
1889A row of DALEKS, their weapons levelled at them.
189066 INT. SICK ROOM - DAY
1891THE DOCTOR, watching, powerless.
1892THE DOCTOR
1893Clara!!
1894DAVROS
1895You cannot help her now!
1896CUT TO:
1897(CONTINUED)
189865
1899 CUT TO:
190066
1901 
1902 DW9: "The Magician's Apprentice" by Steven Moffat - BLUE SCRIPT - 19/02/15 57.
190366 CONTINUED:
190466
1905THE DOCTOR has raced to the door - won’t open. Batters at it, nothing.
190667 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL - DAY
190767
1908CUT TO:
1909 A split-level riot of sixties TV21 glory. This is the central control room of the DALEK city, and it is glacial and gold and magnificent. Everywhere DALEKS glide and hum. Screens glow, consoles flicker.
1910The SUPREME DALEK stands on a raised platform, facing -
1911The TARDIS! The big blue box has just been moved into position. Two Daleks glide back from it.
1912Now, stumbling through the door, prodding by a DALEK - - MISSY and CLARA.
1913CLARA
1914The TARDIS! How did that get here?
1915SUPREME DALEK It has been procured.
1916A massive, powerful looking probe now lowers from the ceiling, just above the TARDIS. It starts to glow.
1917CLARA
1918If you’re trying to get inside, you
1919can’t. Nothing can enter the TARDIS.
1920SUPREME DALEK
1921The TARDIS will not be entered. The
1922TARDIS will be destroyed.
1923CLARA
1924Yeah, well good luck, cos it’s
1925indestructible.
1926MISSY
1927Did the Doctor tell you that?
1928Because you should never believe a man about a vehicle.
192968 INT. SICK ROOM - DAY
1930THE DOCTOR has given up his assault on the door, now staring
1931CUT TO:
1932 at the screen, watching this play out.
1933THE DOCTOR
1934What are they going to do? Tell me,
1935what?
1936BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
193768
1938(CONTINUED)
1939
1940 DW9: "The Magician's Apprentice" by Steven Moffat - BLUE SCRIPT - 19/02/15 58.
194168 CONTINUED: 68
1942DAVROS
1943Who can say? You know what children
1944are like.
1945MISSY (On screen)
1946Daleks, pay attention! THE DOCTOR tenses at this.
1947THE DOCTOR Don’t. Just don’t.
194869 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL - DAY 69 MISSY striding to the centre of the room, lording it.
1949CUT TO:
1950 MISSY
1951You know what this is? This thing
1952you’re about to destroy? I’ll tell you! It’s the dog’s unmentionables.
1953(Taps a Dalek on its bumps)
1954And you know all about those, right? This is a TARDIS. With this you can go anywhere, do anything, and kill anyone. With this, the Daleks can be more powerful than ever before. You only need one thing.
195570 INT. SICK ROOM - DAY THE DOCTOR, watching.
1956THE DOCTOR No. Missy, no!
195771 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL - DAY MISSY twirling, chatting, top of her game.
1958MISSY
1959Me! You need me! A Time Lady to
1960show you how it works. With this and with me, everything can be yours, and you can burn it all, forever and ever and ever.
1961(She pauses for effect - smiles)
1962Or would you rather just kill me?
1963BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
1964CUT TO:
1965CUT TO:
196670
196771
1968  (CONTINUED)
1969
1970 DW9: "The Magician's Apprentice" by Steven Moffat - BLUE SCRIPT - 19/02/15 59.
197171 CONTINUED: 71 A throbbing moment.
1972DALEK SUPREME Maximum extermination.
1973All the Daleks fire at once. And fire and fire.
1974MISSY twists and burns and screams, her skeleton burning through her flesh. She disintegrates.
1975Silence.
1976CUT TO:
197772 INT. SICK ROOM - DAY 72 THE DOCTOR, horrified, lost. He turns to DAVROS.
1978 THE DOCTOR
1979Please. Save Clara. I’m begging
1980you.
1981DAVROS looks at him, cocks his head. A grotesque parody of sympathy.
1982DAVROS
1983I gave the Daleks life. But I do
1984not control them.
198573 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL - DAY The terrible silence continues.
1986CLARA, just standing there -
1987- as every DALEK eyestalk swivels to look at her. On the silence goes. On and on. Unbearable.
1988CUT TO:
198974 INT. SICK ROOM - DAY / INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL - DAY 74 THE DOCTOR, tears in his eye, staring. (We now intercut with
1990above.)
1991BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
1992THE DOCTOR Clara. Oh, my Clara.
1993DAVROS
1994See how they play with her. See how
1995they toy!
1996CUT TO:
199773
1998  (CONTINUED)
1999
2000 DW9: "The Magician's Apprentice" by Steven Moffat - BLUE SCRIPT - 19/02/15 60.
200174 CONTINUED: 74
2002CLARA, rooted to the spot, terrified. Every DALEK eye- stalking is swivelling to look at her. Guns clicking and twitching.
2003DAVROS (cont’d)
2004They want her to run. They need her
2005to run. Can you feel their need, Doctor?
2006The DALEK heart-beat, throbbing louder and louder. All those eyestalks fixed intently on CLARA ...
2007DAVROS (cont’d) Their blood is screaming. Kill!
2008Kill! Kill! Hunter and prey, held in the ecstasy of crisis. Is this not life at its purest??
2009CLARA, waiting, waiting.
2010The DALEK heart beat, louder, louder.
2011- and she breaks!!
2012She starts to run, racing for the door -
2013- and every DALEK gunstalk swivels and fires. CLARA, caught in the beam, her skeleton blazing - - disintegrates.
201475 OMITTED
201576 INT. SICK ROOM - DAY
2016CUT TO:
2017THE DOCTOR. Staring and staring. Tears streaking his face. He rounds on DAVROS.
2018THE DOCTOR
2019Why have I ever let you live??
2020DAVROS
2021Compassion, Doctor. It has always
2022been your greatest indulgence. Let this be my final victory. Let me hear you say it, just once. Compassion ... is ... wrong.
202377 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL - DAY 77 The SUPREME DALEK looks back to the TARDIS - the work in
2024CUT TO:
202575
202676
2027   hand.
2028BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2029(CONTINUED)
2030
2031 DW9: "The Magician's Apprentice" by Steven Moffat - BLUE SCRIPT - 19/02/15 61.
203277 CONTINUED: 77
2033DALEK SUPREME Destroy the TARDIS!
2034A beam shoots down from the ceiling probe -
2035- the TARDIS glows a fierce and terrible brightness.
2036CUT TO:
203778 INT. TARDIS - DAY 78 The central column starts to glow with the same dreadful
2038light. Brighter, brighter.
2039CUT TO:
204079 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL - DAY 79 The police box glowing brighter and brighter, staring to
2041disintegrate.
2042DALEKS
2043Destroy! Destroy!! Destroy!!
2044The TARDIS explodes, in operatic slow motion.
2045Close on a detail - the door panel, the FREE FOR USE OF PUBLIC SIGN - as it is torn in two by the force of the blast.
2046  DALEK
2047Destroy! Destroy!! Destroy!!
2048A slow fade to black... In the blackness -
2049BOY (V.O.)
2050Please, you can’t leave me, you promised, you did!
205180 EXT. BATTLEFIELD - DAY 80 The BOY, as we last saw him, pleading with the departed
2052FADING IN ON:
2053 Doctor.
2054BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2055BOY
2056You said I had a chance!!
2057A movement from behind him - the scrape of a foot. He startles, spins, What??
2058And now he’s staring up at someone ...
2059(CONTINUED)
2060
2061 DW9: "The Magician's Apprentice" by Steven Moffat - BLUE SCRIPT - 19/02/15 62.
206280 CONTINUED:
2063BOY (cont’d) Who are you?
2064The BOY’s POV. THE DOCTOR!
2065He is bruised and battered, his clothing torn. He’s been through a hell we haven’t seen.
2066He looks at the BOY.
2067BOY (cont’d)
2068I don’t understand. How did you get
2069there?
2070THE DOCTOR From the future.
2071The BOY - just not understanding.
2072BOY
2073... are you going to save me?
2074THE DOCTOR. So grim.
2075THE DOCTOR
2076I’m going to save my friend. The
2077only way I can.
2078And THE DOCTOR draws something beneath his coat, a bulky apparatus. We now see that it is a Dalek gunstalk, clearly extracted from a Dalek unit.
2079He levels it (seemingly) at the BOY. On THE DOCTOR's face! Grim, unreadable.
2080THE DOCTOR (cont’d) Exterminate!
2081END TITLES
208280
2083BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2084
2085
2086 DOCTOR WHO
2087SERIES 9 EPISODE 2
2088"The Witch's Familiar"
2089PINK SCRIPT by
2090STEVEN MOFFAT
2091(SHOOTING BLOCK 2)
2092(c) BBC Wales 2015
2093
2094 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 1.
20951 EXT. SKARO - DAY 1 Spinning, blurry.
2096A faint impression, of blue sky, mountains and a dark figure rotating past us - but all upside down!
2097The spinning, slowing. Becoming gentle revolutions.
2098The upside-down figure, silhouetted against the blazing sun - it is clearly MISSY.
2099MISSY Consider the Doctor.
2100CUT TO:
21012 DARK FIELD 2 - a flash of -
2102  THE DOCTOR's eyes snap open, blaze straight at us (as in The Day Of The Doctor.)
2103CUT TO:
21043 EXT. SKARO - DAY
2105Slower revolutions, less blurry.
2106MISSY, still talking, but now we can see that she is casually sharpening a stick.
21073
2108 MISSY
2109The Doctor, trapped. The Doctor,
2110alone.
2111(Looks directly into the
2112camera)
2113You all right there, dear?
2114Out on the plains of Skaro, the Dalek city glittering far distance. MISSY, sharpening a stick with a little
2115CLARA:
2116branch, and revolving slowly. Blinking awake. (The above was her POV.)
2117Wider. in the knife.
2118BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2119she’s trussed up, hanging upside down from a tree
2120CLARA
2121... where ..? how did we ..?
2122MISSY
2123Shh, now, Mummy’s talking. Okay,
2124the Doctor. On the run, no TARDIS, no friends, no help. In other words, the Doctor happy.
2125CUT TO:
2126
2127 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 2.
21284 INT. EXOTIC BUILDING - DAY 4 A place of marble columns and gantries. Looks exotic, could
2129even be alien.
2130There is zap sound and a glow from behind one of the columns -
2131MISSY (V.O.)
2132This was a long time ago.
2133A figure flits between the columns, wearing a floppy hat and a long scarf - clearly the TOM BAKER DOCTOR. He’s only briefly glimpsed before he darts behind another column.
2134MISSY (cont’d) (V.O.)
2135Doesn’t matter which face he was wearing -
2136- the figure flits between the next two columns, this time much smaller, with long white hair - the WILLIAM HARTNELL DOCTOR -
2137MISSY (cont’d) (V.O.)
2138They’re all the Doctor to me.
2139Now moving closer on the CAPALDI DOCTOR, as he races from behind the next pillar, now flattens himself against a wall. Looking around - hunted, haunted, a man on the run!
2140 MISSY (cont’d) (V.O.)
2141So let’s give it to the eyebrows.
21425 EXT. SKARO - DAY 5 CLARA, slowly revolving to a halt, still blinking in
2143CUT TO:
2144 confusion.
2145BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2146CLARA
2147... I don’t ... where are we?
2148MISSY
2149A few miles from where we were.
2150CLARA
2151But ... the Daleks ...
2152MISSY I’m coming to that.
2153CLARA
2154Shouldn’t we be ... I don’t want to
2155say dead?
2156(CONTINUED)
2157
2158 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 3.
21595 CONTINUED: 5 MISSY
2160Hush!
2161CUT TO:
21626 INT. EXOTIC BUILDING - DAY 6 Close on THE DOCTOR, eyes darting around, frantically.
2163Cutting round details - shadows, columns, flickers of movement.
2164MISSY (V.O.)
2165The City of the Screaming Lakes. Abandoned for over two-thousand years. He got in by teleporter - doesn’t matter why.
2166On THE DOCTOR, frantically jabbing at a wrist unit that looks like a big elaborate watch.
2167MISSY (cont’d) (V.O.)
2168What matters is that his teleporter is now out of power.
2169THE DOCTOR, frustrated - slamming the teleport bracelet against a wall. Damn it, damn it!
2170Now - Zap! Zap! Zap! Zap!
2171From all around, in every corner, behind every pillar, the
2172same zaps and glows that accompanied his own arrival. MISSY (cont’d)
2173(V.O.)
2174Also worth mentioning - he’s being stalked by, oh, say about fifty android assassins.
2175CUT TO:
21767 EXT. SKARO - DAY 7 CLARA hanging, MISSY whittling. She shoots a grin at CLARA.
2177  MISSY
2178I may be rounding up.
2179She tests the point on the stick. Ow!
2180BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2181CUT TO:
2182
2183 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 4.
21848 INT. EXOTIC BUILDING - DAY 8 Close on THE DOCTOR, staring, narrowing his eyes, squinting
2185at something.
2186THE DOCTOR's POV. A flicker of distortion speeds along a wall, as if something not quite visible is moving rapidly past it.
2187MISSY (V.O.)
2188Fifty invisible android assassins. THE DOCTOR ducks, dives, rolls out of sight.
2189MISSY (cont’d) (V.O.)
2190Fifty invisible indestructible, android assassins. All exclusively programmed to kill him.
2191THE DOCTOR's head pops over a low wall, ducks out of sight again -
2192- just as dozens of energy beams blast into the pillar behind him.
2193 MISSY (cont’d) (V.O.)
2194State of the art disintegrators, 100 percent regeneration proof. Hilarious in a crowded place, ideal if you don’t like queuing.
21959 EXT. SKARO - DAY 9 CLARA, hanging there, watching MISSY's stick sharpening, in
2196CUT TO:
2197 increasing apprehension.
2198CLARA
2199... why are you sharpening that
2200stick?
2201MISSY
2202No idea how long we’ll be stuck out
2203here, I might have to go hunting.
2204CLARA
2205Okay, so why am I tied up?
2206MISSY
2207In case there’s nothing to hunt.
2208(Winks at her, smacks her lips)
2209The Doctor then!
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2211CUT TO:
2212
2213 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 5.
221410 INT. EXOTIC BUILDING - DAY 10
2215THE DOCTOR, making a bolt for it across the open space -
2216- now skidding to a halt.
2217THE DOCTOR's POV. A shimmer of movement across the scene in front of him. INVISIBLE ANDROID ASSASSINS!!
2218He spins, starts racing the other way -
2219THE DOCTOR's POV - another shimmer across the view.
2220Surrounded!!
2221On THE DOCTOR, skidding to a halt again -
2222- as the action grinds into ultra slow motion, freezing him mid-skid.
2223 MISSY (V.O.)
2224Surrounded!
222511 EXT. SKARO - DAY 11 MISSY, inspecting the sharpened end of her stick.
2226MISSY Outnumbered. Outgunned.
2227CUT TO:
222812 INT. EXOTIC BUILDING - DAY 12 On the freeze-frame Doctor. A building whine -
2229- and all the invisible guns circling him, start firing.
2230CUT TO:
2231  Still in ultra-slow motion visible energy beams from the invisible guns, and start converging, sluggishly, on THE DOCTOR.
2232MISSY (V.O.)
2233Nanoseconds to live. Four, I’d say, being generous.
223413 EXT. SKARO - DAY
2235MISSY, now swishing her stick around.
2236CUT TO:
2237BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2238(CONTINUED)
223913
2240 
2241 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 6.
224213 CONTINUED:
2243MISSY
2244Now, even if the Doctor, by some
2245miracle, survives the blast, that won’t save him. The androids are indestructible, immortal, unstoppable. They’ll just keep on killing him until they think he’s dead enough.
2246Rounds on CLARA, marches up to her. Stands there, slapping the stick against the palm of her other hand.
2247MISSY (cont’d)
2248My question is this. How did he
2249survive?
2250On CLARA, watching the slapping stick, getting the uncomfortable feeling she’s talking to avoiding being lunch!
2251MISSY (cont’d) Come on, Clara! You know him.
2252Consider the Doctor.
2253Close on CLARA, thinking frantically!
225414 INT. EXOTIC BUILDING - DAY 14 On the frozen DOCTOR, surrounded by the frozen energy beams
2255converging on him -
2256- pulling out to reveal CLARA hanging upside down in the foreground, staring at him (she’s picturing the scenario.)
2257How did he escape?
2258Close on the frozen DOCTOR. Impossibly (in CLARA's imagination) he turns to look at CLARA, grins, winks at her.
2259On CLARA: grins back. Got it!
2260CUT TO:
226115 EXT. SKARO - DAY 15 MISSY waiting, CLARA grinning.
2262CLARA
2263Where did he get the teleport
2264thingie?
2265MISSY
2266Oh good, very good. He stole it
2267from one of the androids.
2268CUT TO:
226913
2270  BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2271(CONTINUED)
2272
2273 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 7.
227415 CONTINUED:
2275CLARA
2276So, I’m guessing it works off the
2277same power source as the android weapons, right?
2278MISSY
2279Excellent! I’m not seeing you as
2280sandwiches now.
2281CLARA Okay then!
228215
228316 INT. EXOTIC BUILDING - DAY
2284On the frozen DOCTOR - the ultra-slow motion starts up again.
2285THE DOCTOR starts dropping down, holding the teleport bracelet aloft, with the sonic screwdriver jammed against it.
2286The slow-motion beams of energy start converging on the screwdriver and bracelet.
2287CUT TO:
228816
2289 CLARA (V.O.)
2290He uses the energy wave from the weapons, to recharge the teleport bracelet.
2291THE DOCTOR flickers out of existent.
2292CLARA (cont’d) (V.O.)
2293At the exact moment he’s supposed to disintegrate, he actually teleports!
229417 EXT. SKARO - DAY 17 On CLARA - getting it!
2295CLARA
2296Hang on - that’s how you did it.
2297FLASHBACK: From Death In Heaven: MISSY apparently shot and disintegrated by the CYBERMEN.
2298FLASHBACK: From The Magician’s Apprentice: in quick succession, MISSY and CLARA shot and disintegrated.
2299CLARA (cont’d)
2300That’s how we escaped the Daleks.
2301CUT TO:
2302 BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2303(CONTINUED)
2304
2305 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 8.
230617 CONTINUED:
2307MISSY
2308I modified the same principle for
2309our vortex manipulators, yes. Blew them out, I’m afraid.
2310(She indicates the charred mark on her wrist)
2311But the Doctor improvised it. He must have got through several thousand calculations in the time it takes to fire a disintegrator. Seriously, what a swot.
231218 INT. EXOTIC BUILDING - DAY
2313THE DOCTOR races along, a free man.
2314CLARA (V.O.)
2315So the androids think he’s dead and the Doctor escapes.
2316MISSY (V.O.)
2317Well -
231817
2319CUT TO:
232018
2321 THE DOCTOR just drops out of frame, straight down, as if he’s fallen through a trapdoor.
2322MISSY (cont’d) (V.O.)
2323That city always was full of traps!
232419 INT. DARKNESS 19 Blackness - the buzz of the screwdriver, illuminating THE
2325CUT TO:
2326 DOCTOR's face.
2327MISSY (V.O.)
2328- he fell into a nest of vampire monkeys -
2329All round THE DOCTOR glittering pairs of eyes are snapping open in the darkness.
233020 EXT. SKARO - DAY
2331- but that’s another story!
233220
2333CUT TO:
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2335MISSY
2336(CONTINUED)
2337
2338 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 9.
233920 CONTINUED:
2340MISSY reaches up and, with her knife, slices the rope suspending CLARA. She crashes to the ground.
2341MISSY (cont’d)
2342Why does the Doctor always survive?
2343CLARA, picking herself up.
2344CLARA Because he’s clever.
2345MISSY
2346There are lots of clever dead
2347people. I love killing clever- clogs, they make the best faces.
2348FLASHBACK: THE DOCTOR winking at CLARA.
2349CLARA
2350Because he always assumes he’s
2351going to win - he always knows somehow there’s a way to survive -
2352FLASHBACK: THE DOCTOR teleporting away, as the beams converge.
2353CLARA (cont’d)
2354- so all he’s got to do is find it.
2355MISSY
2356Except this time, he made a will,
2357and threw a goodbye party. When the Doctor assumes he’s going to die - what happens then?
2358CLARA considers for a moment -
2359- looks to the Dalek city glittering in the distance.
2360Closer. The metal spires and minarets - flying DALEKS buzzing around them.
2361CLARA
2362We do.
2363MISSY follows her look. Yep.
2364MISSY
2365He’s trapped at the heart of the
2366Dalek empire. Between us and him is everything the deadliest warrior race in the history of the universe can throw at us. We, on the other hand, have a pointy stick. How we do we start?
2367CLARA
2368We assume we’re going to win.
2369A little nod from MISSY. Almost a smile.
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2371(CONTINUED)
237220
2373
2374 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 10.
237520 CONTINUED:
2376MISSY
2377Pity really. I was actually quite
2378peckish.
2379She starts walking towards the Dalek city, swishing her stick, utterly confident.
2380CLARA: God, she’s mad! Then she’s running to catch up. We hold on them a moment, heading off together ...
238120
2382CLARA
2383Can I have a stick, too?
2384MISSY Make your own stick.
2385OPENING TITLES
238621 EXT. BATTLEFIELD - DAY
2387CUT TO:
2388And now he’s staring up at someone ... BOY (cont’d)
2389Who are -
239022 INT. SICK ROOM - DAY
2391- on the adult DAVROS. His head is bowed, the blue light in
2392his forehead dimmed -
2393- as we cut to him his head is rising, the blue light flickering on.
2394A moment of disorientation, looking around. Alone in the room, except for -
2395THE DOCTOR, standing there, staring at him. That hatchet face, baleful. Silent. Never looked more ominous.
239622
2397CUT TO:
239821
2399 The BOY, as we last saw him, pleading with the departed Doctor - the sound of the TARDIS, dematerialising...
2400BOY (V.O.)
2401Please, you can’t leave me, you promised, you did! ... ... You said I had a chance!!
2402The scrape of a foot from behind him. He startles, spins, What??
2403 BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2404(CONTINUED)
2405
2406 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 11.
240722 CONTINUED:
2408DAVROS
2409Forgive an old man, Doctor ... so
2410often I grow weak. The past rises up to obscure the present ... as the future closes its doors.
2411THE DOCTOR: silent.
2412DAVROS (cont’d)
2413It took me so long to understand it
2414was you. You, all along. But old age is a time for memories, and there you were - standing at the gates of my beginning.
241522
2416THE DOCTOR: nothing.
2417You taught me the most valuable
2418BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2419DAVROS (cont’d) lesson of all. We are alone.
2420THE DOCTOR still saying silent. Now looking round the chamber.
2421DAVROS (cont’d) In life the only reality is
2422yourself. So I filled the world with me!
2423He flicks a switch. All around, screens illuminate. The Dalek city, all the DALEKS buzzing around it.
2424Now on the screens, scenes of DALEK conquest and destruction! DAVROS glories in it - the good old days.
2425DAVROS (cont’d)
2426The universe turned on a helpless
2427child - and found itself outnumbered.
2428THE DOCTOR has gone to what looks like on old, abandoned work bench. Loads of old Dalek technology. He starts rooting through it.
2429Now on the screens - the screaming victims! Endless exterminations. DALEK slaughter!
2430DAVROS (cont’d) Look at them run. Look at them
2431scream. Look what they made me do.
2432THE DOCTOR: he’s found what he’s looking for amid all the
2433junk. He pulls something free --
2434-- a Dalek exterminator gun. Just like the one we saw him holding at the end of the last episode.
2435DAVROS, still in raptures at all the screams, and exterminations.
2436(CONTINUED)
2437
2438 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 12.
243922 CONTINUED:
2440DAVROS (cont’d)
2441See them plead for my forgiveness -
2442but my conscience cannot allow it. Exterminate! Exterminate!!
2443- and the Dalek gun is pressed against the back of his neck. He stiffens.
2444DAVROS (cont’d) ... Doctor?
2445THE DOCTOR, now moving round, keeping the gun trained on him. DAVROS looks at the gun, withering.
2446DAVROS (cont’d) Ancient. Inoperable.
2447THE DOCTOR twiddles briefly with a couple of settings, bangs it against DAVROS's chair. A building whine of energy. It is switching on.
2448THE DOCTOR
2449Genius.
2450DAVROS
2451You would threaten a dying man?
2452Have I not suffered enough?
2453THE DOCTOR clicks something on the exterminator gun.
2454THE DOCTOR
2455Get out.
2456DAVROS
2457I cannot leave this chamber. It
2458sustains me.
2459THE DOCTOR
2460Get out.
2461Over this the sound of a terrible, blaring alarm -
2462CUT TO:
246323 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL - DAY
2464DALEKS gliding about their appointed tasks. The SUPREME DALEK
246522
246623
2467 presiding -
2468- as one DALEK spins from its work station.
2469DALEK 1
2470Alert! Alert! The infirmary is
2471breached.
2472SUPREME DALEK Protect Davros. Davros must be
2473assisted.
2474BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2475(CONTINUED)
2476
2477 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 13.
247823 CONTINUED:
2479The DALEK is looking at a schematic of the infirmary on its screen. A glowing dot is moving out of the sick room.
2480DALEK 1
2481Davros is leaving the infirmary.
2482SUPREME DALEK
2483Davros must remain. Davros cannot
2484leave.
2485Now DAVROS's voice echoing round the room.
2486DAVROS (V.O.)
2487My children! Help me!
2488SUPREME DALEK
2489You must return to the infirmary.
2490Now on various smaller screens we can see the familiar silhouette of DAVROS making his way through the shadows of the infirmary.
2491DAVROS (V.O.)
2492The Doctor is escaping. Find him - find the Doctor.
2493SUPREME DALEK Find the Doctor! Seek,
2494locate, destroy!
2495DAVROS (cont'd) (V.O.)
2496Find him! Stop him!
2497CUT TO:
249824 INT. DALEK CITY/CORRIDORS/CONTROL ROOMS - DAY 24 Cutting round the gleaming spaces of the Dalek city. DALEKS
2499everywhere taking up the cry - a cacophony -
2500DALEKS (Various, overlapping)
2501Seek, locate, destroy. Locate the Doctor. Exterminate the Doctor! Exterminate!!
250225 EXT. DALEK CITY - DAY 25 Now the exterior of the city - the gleaming towers and
2503CUT TO:
250423
2505  monorails. Flying DALEKS rising into the air.
2506DALEKS Exterminate the Doctor.
2507Exterminate! Exterminate! Seek, locate, exterminate!
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2509CUT TO:
2510
2511 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 14.
251226 EXT. SKARO - DAY
2513Longer shot of the city. Even from this distance, we can hear
2514the screams and cries of the Daleks.
2515Now on MISSY and CLARA - they’ve come to a halt, staring at the city.
2516CLARA What’s happening?
2517On the wind:
2518DALEKS
2519Seek, locate, destroy. Exterminate!
2520Exterminate! Exterminate! MISSY smirks.
2521MISSY
2522Who do you think? Bless!
2523CLARA
2524He’s in the middle of that?
2525MISSY
2526Where else? Ah, that’s what we
2527need!
2528She starts scrambling up a slight hill, towards what looks like a cave entrance.
2529CLARA looks up - the sun is setting over the Dalek city. The shadows are lengthening ...
2530CUT TO:
253127 INT. DALEK CITY. CORRIDOR - DAY 27 DALEKS gliding along.
2532DALEKS Seek, locate, destroy!
2533CUT TO:
253428 INT. DAVROS HOSPITAL STATION. CORRIDOR - DAY 28 DALEKS, now entering the hospital area, prowling the gloom.
253526
2536   BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2537DALEK
2538Locate the Doctor! Exterminate the
2539Doctor!
2540CUT TO:
2541
2542 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 15.
254329 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL - DAY
2544A blaze of activity - DALEKS in crisis. Davros's voice still
2545wheedling over the speakers.
2546DAVROS (V.O.)
2547Help me. Assist me!
2548DALEK 1 Davros approaches.
2549SUPREME DALEK
2550Admit Davros! Admit the creator.
2551One of the doors - the one leading to the Infirmary Section - starts slowly sliding up, revealing the Dalek base of Davros’s chair.
2552DAVROS (V.O.)
2553Help me. I require assistance. Help me!!
2554DALEKS now gathering round the opening door.
2555SUPREME DALEK Assist Davros! Assist! Assist!
255630 INT. SICK ROOM - DAY 30 Two DALEKS gliding round the Sick Room, their eyestalks
2557spinning -
2558DALEKS Seek, locate, destroy!
2559One DALEK comes to a halt, staring down at the floor! Close on the DALEK iris, widening in shock.
256031 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL - DAY
2561The door, sliding up, reveals ...
2562THE DOCTOR!! He’s sitting in Davros's chair!! The DALEKS, all sliding backwards. Oh dear God! THE DOCTOR, now gliding forwards.
256331
2564CUT TO:
2565CUT TO:
256629
2567   BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2568(CONTINUED)
2569
2570 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 16.
257131 CONTINUED:
2572THE DOCTOR
2573Admit it. You’ve all had this exact
2574nightmare.
257532 INT. SICK ROOM - DAY
2576The two DALEKS staring down at: DALEK's POV.
257731
2578Lying on the floor, reaching up with a single clawed hand, is half a man. DAVROS, stripped from his Dalek base. Below the waist, he is nothing but tangle of cables and wires ...
2579DAVROS Sarff! Get me Sarff!
2580SARFF I am here.
2581CUT TO:
2582CUT TO:
258332
2584 33 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL - DAY 33 THE DOCTOR sitting calmly in the DAVROS chair. Encircled by
2585 DALEKS.
2586THE DOCTOR So! Anyone for dodgems?
2587A silence. Then.
2588SUPREME DALEK Exterminate!
2589The encircling DALEKS all blast at once -
2590- the chair disappears in a blast of white light!
259134 EXT. SKARO - DAY 34 CLARA and MISSY stand at the cave mouth, looking down into
2592it. Clearly it’s a precipitous drop.
2593CLARA
2594Okay. It’s a hole in the ground.
2595MISSY
2596Your entire life is heading towards
2597a hole in the ground - you should take more of an interest.
2598CUT TO:
2599 BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2600(CONTINUED)
2601
2602 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 17.
260334 CONTINUED: Why?
260434
2605BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2606CLARA
2607MISSY
2608Because we need to get into the
2609Dalek city.
2610CLARA
2611What, and this is the back door?
2612MISSY
2613Back doors are for amateurs.
2614CLARA
2615What’s for professionals?
2616MISSY
2617Sewers.
2618CLARA Daleks have sewers?
2619MISSY
2620With one significant difference.
2621CLARA
2622Being?
2623MISSY They’re ever so
2624CLARA They’re what?
2625MISSY (cont’d) Twenty feet!
2626slightly alive.
2627MISSY
2628Just a smidge. How much of a drop
2629would you say that is? Can you see the bottom?
2630CLARA
2631Too dark. We could chuck a stone
2632down, or something.
2633MISSY Good idea.
2634MISSY reaches over and shoves CLARA into the cave. She topples, crying out -
2635- disappears into the darkness. A moment, then a crash as she hits the rock below.
2636CUT TO:
2637
2638 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 18.
263935 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL - DAY The encircling DALEKS, staring at:
2640Close on a detail - a tea cup and saucer on Davros's dashboard. A hand picks up the tea cup.
264135
2642 Wider: THE DOCTOR, unharmed, unruffled, sipping a cup of tea as he sits in Davros’s chair.
2643THE DOCTOR
2644The real question, of course, is
2645where did I get the cup of tea? Answer: I’m the Doctor - just accept it.
2646SUPREME DALEK You are unharmed.
2647He starts gliding forward. Instinctively, the DALEKS part to let him through.
2648THE DOCTOR
2649Proposition - Davros is an insane,
2650paranoid genius who has survived among several billion trigger-happy mini-tanks for centuries. Conclusion - I’m definitely having his chair.
2651He sets down his tea, and lifts up the Dalek gun unit, which is sitting on the dash. He levels it at the SUPREME DALEK.
2652THE DOCTOR (cont’d)
2653- I’m guessing his personal force- field only works in one direction.
2654Shall we see?
2655SUPREME DALEK
2656The Doctor does not use weapons.
2657THE DOCTOR
2658The Doctor? The Doctor in the
2659TARDIS, with Clara Oswald? Well you killed Clara and you destroyed the TARDIS.
2660Clicks the gun, the building whine of energy. On THE DOCTOR: incandescent!
2661BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2662(CONTINUED)
2663
2664 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 19.
266535 CONTINUED:
2666THE DOCTOR (cont’d)
2667So do I still look like the Doctor to you?
2668The SUPREME DALEK: silence.
2669Silence in the whole room - just the throb-throb DALEK noise. THE DOCTOR: his most evil grin.
2670THE DOCTOR (cont’) (cont’d) Oh, listen to your little hearts
2671beat!
267236 INT. CAVE. TUNNELS - DUSK 36
2673On CLARA, flat on soft, black mossy ground, stirring, muttering. Now sitting up. She is dishevelled, there is a cut on her forehead.
2674Woozily looking around.
2675A long, low cavern. Rusty old pipes running the length of it. There are hanging lights. Some kind of organic residue coats the walls, like a tangle wet black seaweed.
2676Also running the length of the corridor, is a raised platform, like a walkway.
2677MISSY is a few feet away, inspecting one of the pipes. Hearing something, she turns.
2678MISSY
2679Oh, hello. Awake, are we?
2680CLARA, staring - rage, disbelief.
2681CLARA sees the carved stick lying on the ground. Snatches it up, levelling it at MISSY.
2682MISSY (cont’d)
2683Oh, poppet! Do you really think you
2684could?
2685CLARA First chance I get.
2686MISSY
2687You won’t survive down here on your
2688own.
2689CLARA
2690You won’t survive turning your
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2693 BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2694back.
2695How exciting.
2696MISSY
2697(CONTINUED)
2698
2699 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 20.
270036 CONTINUED:
2701And MISSY simply turns her back, waits.
2702CLARA - doesn’t move.
2703MISSY looks over her shoulder.
2704MISSY (cont’d) God, you’re dull.
270536
2706And with extraordinary speed and dexterity, she spins round and whisks the stick from CLARA's hand.
2707MISSY (cont’d)
2708In future, if you’re going to take
2709my stick, do me the courtesy of killing me. Team-work is all about respect.
2710CLARA We’re not a team.
2711MISSY
2712Of course we are. Every miner needs
2713a canary. Now, hush, and look around. Bit of mess, isn’t it?
2714MISSY gently prods at the squelching black tangle.
2715CLARA
2716You said it was a sewer...
2717MISSY
2718The Daleks don’t generate much in
2719the way of waste - everything’s recycled. Any time you think a Dalek is full of it, you’re substantially correct.
2720CLARA
2721So what’s all that?
2722MISSY
2723Daleks can’t die. The mutant
2724creature inside the mechanical shell is functionally immortal. Genetically hard-wired to keep on living, whatever happens. But they still age, the poor loves. Over time, the body breaks down, rots, liquefies.
2725(Stamps in puddle)
2726Step in a puddle - if you’re lucky you can hear it scream. Interestingly, the Dalek word for sewer is the same as their word -
2727She swings back the stick, and swings it hard at the mossy, muddy wall. Whack!!
2728MISSY (cont’d) - for graveyard.
2729BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2730(CONTINUED)
2731
2732 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 20A.
273336 CONTINUED: 36
2734And the wall twitches and writhes. There is a dreadful, unearthly squealing. And now MISSY - gleeful, savage - is hacking and slashing at the seaweedy mass, as it howls.
2735MISSY (cont’d)
2736Come on, little shrivelly Daleks!
2737Let’s do the Time War again!
2738BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2739(CONTINUED)
2740
2741 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 21.
274236 CONTINUED:
2743CUT TO:
274437 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL - DUSK
2745THE DOCTOR, gliding round the Dalek Control, lording it over
2746them.
2747BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2748THE DOCTOR Ask me what I want.
2749SUPREME DALEK Irrelevant. You will not prevail.
2750You will not succeed.
2751THE DOCTOR
2752Do you remember the battle of Skull
2753Moon? You sent four Dalek fleets to hunt me down in the Heaven cluster. I sent you back one eyestalk - it was all anyone could find. I’ve been at the heart of your empire for 42 minutes, and I own it - and I haven’t even got out of my chair. Ask me what I want.
2754SUPREME DALEK What do you want?
2755THE DOCTOR flicks a switch. Now his voice, booming over the speakers, everywhere.
2756THE DOCTOR Clara Oswald.
2757CUT TO:
275838 EXT. DALEK CITY. VARIOUS LOCATIONS - DUSK
2759Cutting round various locations in the city, as DALEKS listen
2760to THE DOCTOR's booming voice.
2761THE DOCTOR (V.O.)
2762I want Clara Oswald, safe, alive and returned to me, immediately.
2763The camera moving down, down through the depths of the city (some model shots here, maybe?) as DALEKS stop and listen, swaying around their eye-stalks. The voice of their ancient enemy.
2764THE DOCTOR (cont’d) (V.O.)
2765I came here of my own free will. I did not expect to survive.
2766(MORE)
2767(CONTINUED)
276836
276937
277038
2771*
2772  
2773 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 22.
277438 CONTINUED:
2775THE DOCTOR (cont’d) That’s fine. Everybody’s got to die
2776some day. But when you harm my friends, you make a mistake that I will make you regret forever.
2777Down, down ...
277839 INT. CAVES. TUNNELS - DUSK Down, down ...
277938
2780Now down into the tunnels, another section of them (redress!)
2781MISSY and CLARA making their way along, also hearing The Doctor.
2782THE DOCTOR (V.O.)
2783If any of you know where Clara is, you bring her back, you do that. Do that now.
2784Was that a crack of emotion in his voice? It wounds CLARA. It seems to thrill MISSY.
2785THE DOCTOR (cont’d) (V.O.)
2786Unharmed, unhurt, alive.
278740 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL - DUSK THE DOCTOR, the DALEKS.
2788SUPREME DALEK Your associate was extermin
2789THE DOCTOR Unharmed, unhurt, alive.
2790SUPREME DALEK Your associate -
2791THE DOCTOR
2792I saw it happen. I saw what
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2795you did. And I’m hoping, for all our
2796sakes, that it was a trick.
2797SUPREME DALEK It was not a deception.
2798THE DOCTOR
2799Because if Clara Oswald is really
2800dead, be very, very careful how you tell me.
2801CUT TO:
2802(CONTINUED)
280339
2804 40
2805 -
2806
2807 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 23.
280840 CONTINUED:
2809Silence. The throbbing Dalek heartbeat.
281040
2811CUT TO:
281241 INT. CAVES. TUNNELS - DUSK / INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL 4-1
2813DUSK
2814Intercutting as required.
2815CLARA, heart-broken - MISSY, fascinated. Almost a little unnerved.
2816MISSY
2817Well listen to that. The Doctor
2818without hope.
2819CLARA (Looks at her)
2820... are you scared? MISSY
2821Listen to him.
2822THE DOCTOR
2823Well. Who wants to tell me? Who
2824wants to go first?
2825MISSY Nobody is safe now.
2826THE DOCTOR
2827All the power Davros had, is mine.
2828Everything he had, I have. So! Who wants to tell me if Clara’s really dead?
2829MISSY
2830He’ll burn everything. Us too.
2831CLARA
2832Then you need to get me to him.
2833MISSY
2834What, one look at a dumb animal,
2835and he’ll stop? CLARA
2836Yes!
2837MISSY’s eyes have flashed - resenting CLARA’s confidence. And maybe is already forming a plan.
2838MISSY We’ll see.
2839 BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2840(CONTINUED)
2841
2842 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 24.
284341 CONTINUED:
284441
2845steely.
2846SUPREME DALEK (V.O.)
2847Clara Oswald is not alive.
284842 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL - DUSK
2849On THE DOCTOR, digesting the news. Calm - but under that, so
2850THE DOCTOR
2851... you should never have let me in
2852here, you know?
2853He swings the chair round to look at a set of screens - schematics of the city flow across them.
2854THE DOCTOR (cont’d) Schematics of your city. I already
2855know the central weakness of the entire Dalek empire. And it’s funny!
2856From off, that voice:
2857DAVROS
2858This urge for conquest, Doctor ...
2859THE DOCTOR spins to see -
2860- on the largest of the screens, DAVROS's face.
2861DAVROS (cont’d)
2862It is gratifying to see you learn.
2863THE DOCTOR
2864Davros. You’re up. Sorry, this
2865seat’s taken.
2866DAVROS Indeed. But not by you.
2867A hissing. THE DOCTOR looks down. A snake has coiled round his arm. As we watch, snakes come squirming up from down inside the chair, swarming round him, trapping him.
2868DAVROS (cont’d) You’ve met my head of personal
2869security, I think? Colony Sarff? His agents are everywhere.
2870THE DOCTOR: struggling, trapped - almost disappearing in a mass of snakes.
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2872DAVROS (cont’d)
2873Bring him!!
2874CUT TO:
2875CUT TO:
287642
2877 
2878 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 25.
287943 INT. SICK ROOM - DUSK 43 On DAVROS, still helpless on the floor. He cranes round,
2880looking up.
2881DAVROS Are you ready?
2882Panning to:
2883COLONY SARFF, standing there, waiting.
2884SARFF Of course.
2885The coils of his face start to move around, his eyes sliding off to one side ...
2886 DAVROS
2887Be subtle, Colony Sarff - tonight
2888we entrap a Time Lord.
288944 EXT. DALEK CITY - NIGHT 44 The night sky, over the Dalek city.
2890CUT TO:
289145 INT. CAVES. TUNNELS - NIGHT 45
2892MISSY and CLARA rounding a corner, into another (redressed) section of tunnel. They are both tired and filthy - they’ve clearly been down here a while.
2893CLARA
2894How long are we going to be down
2895here? What are we even looking for? MISSY's face has already lit up. She points!
2896MISSY
2897That?
2898She points. Some distance down the tunnel, the raised walkway ends at what is clearly a set of elevator doors.
2899CLARA What is it? A lift?
2900MISSY
2901Never mind the lift, see that
2902thing, sticking out the wall?
2903She’s pointing to what looks a little like a Dalek eyestalk sticking out the wall, just a few feet in front of them, much nearer than the lift doors.
2904DISSOLVE TO:
2905  BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2906(CONTINUED)
2907
2908 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 26.
290945 CONTINUED:
2910CLARA What about it?
2911MISSY Take a look!
2912CLARA (Stepping to it)
291345
2914What is
2915Closer.
2916What am
2917it? MISSY
2918CLARA
2919I looking for?
2920MISSY
2921Nothing. I’m giving it a good look
2922at you!
2923As CLARA looks at the eyestalk, we see the iris suddenly expand, registering her!
2924The lights start flashing red. Alarms blare.
2925DALEK VOICE (Echoing, distant)
2926Intruder alert! Intruder alert!
2927CLARA
2928Why the hell did you do that??
2929MISSY
2930Ever ring a door bell and run away?
2931MISSY moves like lightning - in a flash, she has handcuffed her to the eyestalk.
2932MISSY (cont’d) Not this time.
2933CLARA
2934What are you doing??
2935MISSY
2936They’ll send one Dalek down, at a
2937guess - it’s a routine extermination, and you’re only little. You’ll go up like chip fat.
2938CLARA
2939For God’s sake, why are you doing this??
2940MISSY
2941We need to trap and kill a Dalek -
2942you’re the bait, I’m the hook. (She’s pulled off her
2943brooch, opened the little pin on the back)
2944(MORE) BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2945(CONTINUED)
2946
2947 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 27.
294845 CONTINUED:
2949MISSY (cont'd) Dark star alloy, goes through
2950armour plating, like a knife through people -
2951CLARA Uncuff me - now!
2952MISSY
2953(Showing her the brooch
2954part)
2955Pretty, though, isn’t it? From the old days on Gallifrey. The Doctor gave it to me when my daughter -
2956A beep from the lift. We hear a clanking from above.
2957MISSY (cont’d)
2958Keep it talking. We need to draw it
2959out of the lift.
2960MISSY now darting out of sight, among the pipes.
2961CLARA
2962You can’t kill a Dalek with a
2963brooch!!
2964MISSY darts away, out of sight.
2965CLARA spins, looks down the lift. Her eyes widen.
2966The doors are opening on the glowing blue light of a Dalek eye ... !
2967DALEK
2968Humanoid detected. Remain still. Do
2969not move, do not move. Humanoid detected.
2970Now out of the lift, trundling along the walkway, a DALEK. One of the bronze ones, a little beaten up. Like maybe the sewer DALEKS aren’t the top tier.
2971On CLARA, what the hell does she do??
2972DALEK (cont’d) Scan in progress. Humanoid
2973unauthorised in restricted area. Sterilisation proceeding.
2974On the DALEK gun, zeroing in on CLARA.
2975Through the fish-eye of the DALEK lens. CLARA, thinking frantically - what the hell does she say??
2976CLARA Exterminate!
2977On the DALEK. It almost double-takes.
297845
2979BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
2980(CONTINUED)
2981
2982 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 28.
298345 CONTINUED:
2984CLARA (cont’d)
2985You are disobeying orders. You will
2986be exterminated. CLARA's eyes flick to one side -
2987- MISSY is slipping through the shadows, manoeuvring round the DALEK. Keep talking, keep talking.
2988DALEK
2989You are not a Dalek.
2990CLARA
2991You are not obeying. Check your
2992orders, or you will be exterminated.
2993DALEK I have no orders.
2994CLARA Exterminate!
2995A fast moving shadow slips behind the DALEK - MISSY.
2996MISSY Hey you!
2997The DALEK spins its eyestalk to look at MISSY -
2998- and in flash, MISSY simply pricks the side of the DALEK with her brooch pin.
2999MISSY (cont’d)
3000Guess what! I put a hole in you.
3001And another! And another!
3002CLARA What are you doing?
3003MISSY
3004Murdering a Dalek. I’m a Time Lady,
3005it’s our golf.
3006DALEK
3007Damage levels insignificant -
3008The DALEK breaks off - from all around that screeching and gibbering again.
3009MISSY
3010You just got a puncture in a bad
3011neighbourhood - have you met the locals? Blind and squelchy and out of their tiny minds - but they can still smell!
3012The seaweedy mass is starting to grapple round the DALEK’s base, as if holding it still. The DALEK rocks, as if there’s some terrible internal upheaval -
3013BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3014(CONTINUED)
301545
3016
3017 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 29.
301845 CONTINUED:
3019MISSY (cont’d)
3020Ooh, here they come! I think they
3021want to steal your motor.
3022- and now the murky, gloopy waters of the sewer, starting to drip out of the Dalek’s grille! It’s filling up.
3023DALEK (Gurgling)
3024Emergency! Emergency!
3025Close on the DALEK iris - it is filling up with filthy water.
3026DALEK (cont’d) (Gurgling)
3027My vision is impaired! Exterminate! Exterminate!
3028The DALEK now blasting away, as filthy sewer water streams from its grille and eyestalk.
3029MISSY
3030Here they come, the older
3031generation! Young folks today - they’re so tasty!
3032As she speaks, she’s grabbed CLARA, uncuffed her -
3033- as the tunnel is engulfed in a fireball, they shelter in an alcove.
3034The flames, the roars, the screaming.
3035MISSY (cont’d) Wheeeeeeee!!!!!
303646 INT. SICK ROOM - NIGHT 46 Close on THE DOCTOR. His eyes flicker open.
3037Resolving into focus. DAVROS, back in his chair. He sits by the window, looking out over the night landscape of Skaro.
3038He’s no longer hooked to all the life-support cables we saw earlier, but moving freely around the room. The cables now just hanging - an eerie, shadowed mass. (Now and then it might seem as though they move a little.)
3039Registering that he’s awake, DAVROS rotates his chair to look at THE DOCTOR.
3040DAVROS
3041I hope you are grateful. It wasn’t
3042easy to procure.
3043THE DOCTOR, drowsy, unsure. What the hell is he talking about?
3044CUT TO:
304545
3046 BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3047(CONTINUED)
3048
3049 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 30.
305046 CONTINUED:
3051DAVROS (cont’d)
3052And very nearly unique, of course.
3053You should feel privileged.
3054He gestures - to where THE DOCTOR is seated.
3055DAVROS (cont’d)
3056The only other chair on Skaro.
3057THE DOCTOR registering where he is, what’s happening?
3058DAVROS (cont’d) Don’t get up.
3059THE DOCTOR You neither.
3060THE DOCTOR has sprung to his feet, now goes to the walls, checking them. Examining the door.
3061DAVROS
3062The chamber is sealed. And I
3063believe you are not carrying your sonic device.
3064THE DOCTOR Gave it up. Bad memories.
3065DAVROS
3066I am dying, Doctor -
3067THE DOCTOR
3068You keep saying that, you keep not
3069dying. Give it some welly.
3070DAVROS
3071- and it is time for us to conclude
3072our business together.
3073THE DOCTOR, now moving cautiously round the cables - keeping his distance, but interested.
3074THE DOCTOR We have no business.
3075He moves closer to DAVROS as he speaks - and we see a pair of eyes on one of the cables (the cable is the Sarff snake that makes up the “eyes” part of his face.) The cable revolves the eyes out of sight.
3076DAVROS
3077We have nothing but. We have
3078opposed each other all our lives.
3079BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3080All that remains is discussion. You and of science, face to of right and wrong.
3081our last
3082I, Doctor. Men face, talking
3083THE DOCTOR What’s the point?
3084(CONTINUED)
308546
3086
3087 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 31.
308846 CONTINUED:
3089DAVROS
3090Look again at the cables, Doctor.
3091Understand what they are, and what they can do. Just step a little closer.
3092Again, behind THE DOCTOR, we see the cables move ever so slightly - but hang still, as THE DOCTOR turns to look.
309346
3094THE DOCTOR
3095You’re very anxious for me to play
3096with your toys.
3097DAVROS
3098Why aren’t you? Look a little
3099closer. Tonight the Time War is just you and I. And this is the only weapon ...
310047 INT. CAVES. TUNNELS - NIGHT
3101The smoke of an explosion, clearing.
3102Stepping through it, MISSY. Then CLARA.
3103CUT TO:
3104Peers into the empty shell, looks to CLARA. MISSY
3105Get in. On CLARA: what??
310648 INT. SICK ROOM - NIGHT
3107CUT TO:
3108THE DOCTOR, still strolling round the cables, keeping a slight distance. He talks lightly, but his eyes are hungry, devouring information. (All the time he stays out of reach of the cables - like he doesn’t trust them.)
3109THE DOCTOR
3110They don’t have that much respect
3111for you, do they, your kids? Have you seen the state of this place??
3112(MORE)
3113BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3114(CONTINUED)
311547
3116 MISSY steps forward. The DALEK we saw before, now dormant. The dome is flipped back, as if it has been wrenched open.
3117All around, smoke and charred remnants.
3118MISSY peers into the DALEK. Now reaches in, wrenches something. She is now pulling out a disgusting, seaweedy mass. Dumps it.
311948
3120 
3121 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 32.
312248 CONTINUED:
3123THE DOCTOR (cont'd) This is exactly where you dump a
3124smelly old uncle slash family pet slash genius scientist who couldn’t invent legs. Seriously, how do your boys take it, when everybody else has two eyes?
3125DAVROS
3126(Gesturing to the cables)
3127You know what it is, of course.
3128THE DOCTOR
3129Hyperspace relay. With some kind of
3130genetic component...
3131DAVROS
3132I am connected to the life force of
3133every Dalek on this planet. It is what has kept me alive. As their hearts beat, so does mine.
3134THE DOCTOR
3135Nice. Vampiring off your own
3136creations, just to eke out your
313748
3138days. I’m allow it.
3139They have afflicted
3140surprised the Daleks
3141DAVROS
3142no choice. My Daleks are with a genetic defect.
3143THE DOCTOR What defect?
3144DAVROS
3145Respect. Mercy for their father.
3146Design flaws I was unable to eliminate.
3147But THE DOCTOR is no longer listening - his head has whipped round. Staring at the cables - new thought.
3148DAVROS (cont’d) And now he sees it. Now he
3149understands. The cables, Doctor! Touch them! Imagine! To hold in your hand the heartbeat of every Dalek on Skaro.
3150THE DOCTOR takes a step forward. As if enthralled.
3151DAVROS (cont’d)
3152They send me life. Is it beyond the
3153wit of a Time Lord to send them death. A little work, and it could be done.
3154THE DOCTOR
3155Why would you tell me this?
3156BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3157(CONTINUED)
3158
3159 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 33.
316048 CONTINUED:
3161DAVROS
3162Genocide in a moment, Doctor. Such
3163slaughter. Not in self-defence, not a simple act of war - genocide as a choice. Are you ready, Doctor?
3164DAVROS reaches out, takes THE DOCTOR's hand.
3165DAVROS (cont’d)
3166So many backs with a single knife!
3167Are you ready to be a God?
3168A long silence. THE DOCTOR's face. Is he tempted? A step closer to the cables. But no further.
3169DAVROS (cont’d)
3170Why do you hesitate?. No one will
3171know. Clara Oswald is dead.
3172A flash of pain and anger on THE DOCTOR’s face -
3173- but somehow this pain makes him step back not forward.
3174DAVROS (cont’d)
3175Is this the conscience of the
3176Doctor - or his shame? The shame that brought you here.
3177THE DOCTOR There’s no such thing as the
3178Doctor. I’m just a bloke in a box, telling stories. I’m not here because I’m ashamed. Bit of shame never hurt anyone. I came because you’re sick and you asked - and sometimes, on a very good day, when I try very hard, I’m not just some old Time Lord who ran away ... I’m the Doctor.
3179DAVROS Compassion then.
3180THE DOCTOR
3181Always.
3182DAVROS
3183It grows strong and fierce in you -
3184like a cancer.
3185THE DOCTOR
3186I hope so.
3187DAVROS
3188It will kill you in the end.
3189THE DOCTOR
3190I wouldn’t die of anything else.
319148
3192BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3193(CONTINUED)
3194
3195 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 34.
319648 CONTINUED:
3197You may rely on it.
319849 INT. CAVES. TUNNELS - NIGHT
319948
320049
3201DAVROS
3202The DALEK. The front sections have been opened up, the panels have split and opened up, like the petals of a flower (exactly like the DALEK opened up in Dalek, from the first series.)
3203Where the Dalek Mutant should sit, CLARA is now sitting, a little apprehensive. MISSY is busy wiring her into the machinery. She seems to be attaching electrodes to CLARA's head.
3204CLARA
3205How am I supposed to make it go -
3206are there pedals?
3207MISSY
3208Telepathic control. Open wide!
3209CLARA opens her mouth.
3210MISSY (cont’d)
3211No, I meant your skull. Never mind.
3212MISSY makes an effort, CLARA screams out in pain.
3213MISSY (cont’d)
3214Hush now, don’t worry. There’s
3215loads of nano-tech repairing any damage as the feed goes in.
3216CLARA
3217What about when it comes out?
3218MISSY
3219Nobody knows. To control the unit,
3220you just have to think. Try it - move forwards.
3221CLARA
3222I don’t know how to -
3223But the DALEK unit just slides forward anyway.
3224MISSY You see?
3225CLARA How did I do that?
3226MISSY Circle right.
3227BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3228CUT TO:
3229 (CONTINUED)
3230
3231 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 35.
323249 CONTINUED:
3233CLARA I don’t -
3234But the DALEK simply revolves on the spot.
3235MISSY Circle left.
3236The DALEK revolves on the spot in the other direction. MISSY (cont’d)
3237There you go - that skirt is you.
3238MISSY has reached into the DALEK, clicked a switch. The whine of machinery, the hiss of hydraulics, as the DALEK starts clunking shut around CLARA.
3239CLARA
3240No, please, no, don’t, don’t!
3241Clunk! Shut! Silence!
324250 INT. DALEK - NIGHT 50 Terrible darkness. In the faint glow of technology, we can
3243just make out CLARA, her terrified face.
3244CUT TO:
324551 INT. DALEK - NIGHT / INT. CAVES. TUNNELS - NIGHT
3246We now intercut between CLARA in the DALEK, and MISSY in the
3247tunnel.
3248The head-lights of the DALEK slowly flicker on, then the iris light.
3249MISSY
3250Good girl, very good. Are you okay?
3251On CLARA in the dark. When she speaks, a strange thing happens. We hear her voice and - like simultaneous translation - we hear the DALEK voice.
3252CLARA DALEK Fine, I think. Fine, I think.
3253(NB The DALEKS voice is always a tiny fraction behind CLARA's. Also we only hear CLARA if we’re INSIDE the DALEK. While outside the DALEK, we just hear the DALEK voice.)
3254CLARA registers the double voice.
3255CLARA (cont'd) DALEK (cont'd) Okay - Okay -
3256CUT TO:
325749
3258 51
3259 BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3260(CONTINUED)
3261
3262 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 36.
326351 CONTINUED: 51 Now cutting outside the DALEK.
3264DALEK (cont’d) - that’s a bit weird.
3265(NB When the CLARA DALEK speaks it is the usual, monotone, grating voice.)
3266MISSY Now say your name.
3267DALEK
3268Why?
3269MISSY Just say it.
3270Inside the DALEK. CLARA
3271Clara.
3272CLARA frowns. What?
3273MISSY Try again.
3274CLARA Clara Oswald.
3275MISSY One more time!
3276CLARA
3277(Visibly frustrated now)
3278I am Clara Oswald. I am Clara
3279Oswald!
3280Outside the DALEK.
3281DALEK
3282DALEK (cont’d)
3283I am a Dalek!! I am Dalek!!
3284And the DALEK fires its gun.
3285Effortlessly, MISSY slips out of the way of the beam.
3286MISSY
3287Don’t get emotional. Emotion fires
3288Inside:
3289I don’t understand.
3290DALEK
3291I do not understand.
3292BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3293the gun.
3294CLARA
3295MISSY
3296Say “I love you”. Those exact words
3297- don’t ask why, just do it.
3298Dalek.
3299DALEK Dalek. Dalek.
3300DALEK
3301I am a Dalek. I am a Dalek.
3302(CONTINUED)
3303
3304 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 37.
330551 CONTINUED: I love you.
3306What??
330751
3308CLARA
3309DALEK
3310MISSY
3311Say “You are different from me.”
3312CLARA DALEK
3313You are different from me. Exterminate! Exterminate!
3314MISSY's face: incandescent with fascination and delight.
3315MISSY Say exterminate!
3316CLARA hesitates, then: CLARA
3317Exterminate!
3318DALEK Exterminate! Exterminate!
3319Exterminate!!
3320As the DALEK squawks, it spins round and round, firing and firing -
3321- MISSY, so fluid, and fast, just dances and pirouettes out of the way, laughing all the time.
3322The firing stops.
3323In the DALEK, CLARA flops, exhausted, freaked out.
3324MISSY
3325Cybermen suppress emotion - Daleks
3326channel it. Through a gun. That’s why they keep yelling Exterminate - it’s how they reload.
3327(Big grin)
3328So let’s go and kill them!!
332952 INT. SICK ROOM - DAY 52 THE DOCTOR, agitated, moving round the chamber, like he’s
3330searching for something.
3331DAVROS
3332What are you looking for?
3333THE DOCTOR
3334I don’t know. A way out? Maybe a
3335packet of mints.
3336DAVROS
3337What are you running from?
3338Temptation, perhaps.
3339Exterminate.
3340CUT TO:
3341 BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3342(CONTINUED)
3343
3344 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 38.
334552 CONTINUED:
3346THE DOCTOR
3347I just run, it’s a habit.
3348DAVROS
3349Which brings me to a question. One
3350I have longed to ask you.
3351THE DOCTOR
3352If you’re going to put a hand on my
3353knee, it isn’t going to go well.
3354DAVROS
3355Why did you leave Gallifrey?
3356THE DOCTOR - caught out, by the question. Did not expect that.
3357THE DOCTOR ... because I did.
3358DAVROS
3359You stole a TARDIS, and ran and
3360ran. Why?
3361THE DOCTOR, moving away from DAVROS again, evading.
3362THE DOCTOR
3363Boring place, Gallifrey, I was
3364going out of my mind.
3365DAVROS
3366Yet you long to return.
3367THE DOCTOR I’m inconsistent.
3368DAVROS
3369But it’s always the same lie.
3370THE DOCTOR
3371What lie?
3372DAVROS
3373You weren’t bored. No one runs the
3374way you have run, for so small a reason.
3375THE DOCTOR
3376I do.
3377DAVROS No, you don’t.
3378THE DOCTOR: saying nothing.
3379DAVROS spins his chair, goes to table. There is a little box, containing -
3380Oh!
3381BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3382(CONTINUED)
338352
3384
3385 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 39.
338652 CONTINUED:
3387- THE DOCTOR's confession dial. Lying next to it, incidental, are THE DOCTOR's sunglasses.
3388DAVROS (cont’d) Colony Sarff confiscated these
3389items on your arrival. A Time Lord confession dial, I believe. Your confession. Tell me. Send me to my grave with this precious knowledge. What is the Doctor’s confession?
3390THE DOCTOR: cold now, serious. DAVROS reaches into the box. THE DOCTOR
3391Don’t you dare!
3392DAVROS looks to THE DOCTOR - pleased.
3393DAVROS
3394Is it possible I have touched a
3395nerve?
3396THE DOCTOR
3397Some things matter to me, Davros.
3398Not many things, but a few. And you don’t put your fingers anywhere near them.
3399THE DOCTOR reaches into the box, takes out his sunglasses, pops them on. Checks out his reflection in steel wall.
3400THE DOCTOR (cont’d) And they better not be scratched,
3401these are my best ones.
3402DAVROS
3403Still you play the fool.
3404THE DOCTOR
3405By now, that should make
3406nervous.
3407DAVROS
3408Of what? This is already
3409night of my life.
3410THE DOCTOR I don’t believe you.
3411you
3412the last
3413DAVROS
3414So indulge me. Confess. Why did you
3415really leave Gallifrey?
3416On THE DOCTOR's face, still staring at the reflection. But the glasses hide his eyes ...
3417CUT TO:
3418BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
341952
3420
3421 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 40.
342253 INT. DALEK CITY. CORRIDOR / INT. CLARA DALEK - NIGHT 53 DALEKS gliding to and fro -
3423- and then, MISSY, her hands up. Walking along in front of CLARA/DALEK.
3424Inside the DALEK: in the darkness, CLARA. Scared but keeping it together.
3425As they walk on, Dalek eyestalks turn to follow, watching them go.
3426Now, a DALEK gliding up to halt CLARA/DALEK. DALEK
3427Halt!
3428CLARA/DALEK comes to a halt.
3429DALEK (cont’d)
3430Report.
3431On MISSY, is CLARA going to keep this together?
3432Inside the DALEK: CLARA tenses, keeping it together. Starts to speak -
3433CLARA/DALEK
3434Humanoid intruder found on lower
3435levels.
3436DALEK
3437Why has the intruder not been
3438exterminated?
3439Inside DALEK: CLARA, what does she say??
3440DALEK (cont’d) Explain! Explain!
3441MISSY barely manages to conceal her irritation.
3442MISSY
3443I’m a prisoner of special
3444significance. Count the hearts. The DALEK, now scanning MISSY.
3445DALEK
3446You are a Time Lord.
3447MISSY
3448Time Lady, thank you - some of us
3449can afford the upgrade. Is it the same old Supreme Dalek these days? I fought him once on the slopes of the Never Vault. Tell him the bitch is back.
3450 BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3451(CONTINUED)
3452
3453 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 41.
345453 CONTINUED:
3455She gives the DALEK a saucy wink.
345654 INT. SICK ROOM - NIGHT
3457CUT TO:
345853
345954
3460 THE DOCTOR, glasses still on, at his most enigmatic. He’s strolling round DAVROS's chair, forcing the old man to turn on the spot.
3461THE DOCTOR
3462How long has it been, you and I?
3463DAVROS
3464Long enough. Galaxies have burned.
3465THE DOCTOR
3466And now you ask me a personal
3467question?
3468DAVROS
3469You have slaughtered billions of my
3470children, as I have slaughtered billions of your race - we have exhausted the conventional means of communication.
3471THE DOCTOR
3472My people are alive. They didn’t
3473die, I brought them back. I found a way.
3474DAVROS ... Is this true?
3475THE DOCTOR
3476Oh, it’s true. Gallifrey is back in
3477the sky. I don’t know where, I may never know. But Gallifrey is back and it is safe. From both of us.
3478He’s leaning right at him now. Aggressive, triumphant, in his face! Making a damn point.
3479DAVROS
3480Doctor ... my most sincere
3481congratulations.
3482A moment, on THE DOCTOR. What?
3483THE DOCTOR ... I’m sorry?
3484DAVROS
3485But this is wonderful news. Beyond
3486all hope! Oh, I congratulate you!
3487And it’s almost like his voice is cracking emotion.
3488BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3489(CONTINUED)
3490
3491 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 42.
349254 CONTINUED:
3493THE DOCTOR
3494Why are you ... saying that?
3495DAVROS
3496A man should have a race - a
3497people, an allegiance. A man belong. Doctor - believe me,
3498- I am happy for you. So happy.
3499THE DOCTOR, backing away now, completely thrown.
3500THE DOCTOR
3501... I don’t understand. Why are you
3502-
3503He breaks off. Staring at an impossible sight.
3504From the outer edges of DAVROS's withered eye sockets, two faint lines of tears are trickling slowly down.
3505THE DOCTOR: what? What?
3506DAVROS
3507Come closer again. Let me see your
3508face.
3509THE DOCTOR
3510You’ve seen it often enough.
3511DAVROS
3512I have never seen your face, Doctor
3513- with my own eyes. As THE DOCTOR stares ...
3514The glowing blue eye in DAVROS's forehead flickers into darkness.
3515Then, a movement beneath those withered-shut eyelids. Two lines of light, as those lids strain open.
3516And then a pair of very human, very old watery eyes are staring out at THE DOCTOR. Frightened, timid. Ordinary. Worse - vulnerable.
3517THE DOCTOR - almost wounded at the simple humanity of this.
3518DAVROS (cont’d) Closer. Please.
3519THE DOCTOR, moving closer. This time, by instinct, he kneels by DAVROS - in the time-honoured, visiting-elderly-relative pose.
3520DAVROS (cont’d)
3521If you have redeemed the Time Lords
3522from the fire, do not lose them again. Take the darkest path into the deepest hell, but protect your own - as I sought to protect mine.
3523BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3524should please
3525(CONTINUED)
352654
3527
3528 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 43.
352954 CONTINUED:
3530DAVROS now fixing THE DOCTOR with such a simple, human stare. He covers THE DOCTOR's hand, with his. A grotesque parody of grandfatherly advice.
3531DAVROS (cont’d) Did I do right, Doctor?
3532THE DOCTOR: silent.
3533DAVROS (cont’d) Tell me - was I right?
3534Still silence.
3535DAVROS (cont’d)
3536I need to know, before the end - am
3537I a good man?
3538On THE DOCTOR, as these words hit home.
3539THE DOCTOR
3540You really are dying, aren’t you?
3541DAVROS
3542Look at me. Did you doubt it?
3543THE DOCTOR
3544... yes.
3545DAVROS
3546Then we have established one thing
3547only.
3548What?
3549You are not a good doctor.
3550A beat: for THE DOCTOR, a hanging moment of astonishment.
3551What?? Did DAVROS make a joke? Involuntarily, he smiles. And laughs.
3552And in a moment, the inconceivable: THE DOCTOR and DAVROS, laughing together. More than the joke was worth - this is about the release.
3553As DAVROS laughs, he starts to cough, to choke.
3554On THE DOCTOR, registering this: the tiniest look of compassion.
3555DAVROS: the closest he can come to a sad smile. He looks to the window.
3556Over the mountains, we can just see the sky starting to lighten.
3557BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3558THE DOCTOR
3559DAVROS
3560(CONTINUED)
356154
3562
3563 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 44.
356454 CONTINUED:
3565DAVROS (cont’d)
3566A pity. I had hoped to see the sun
3567one last time - with the eyes of my true self.
3568THE DOCTOR follows his look to the window. Sighs.
3569He looks to the hanging cables, of DAVROS’s life support. Looks back to DAVROS.
3570THE DOCTOR Let me have a look.
3571What he doesn’t see, behind him: some of the cables flex and shimmer as if in anticipation.
3572Now THE DOCTOR turns and walks towards the cables...
3573CUT TO:
357455 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL / INT. CLARA DALEK - DAWN 55
3575The DALEKS, waiting. At their centre, the SUPREME DALEK.
3576Now, entering through the arch -
3577MISSY! She is followed by the DALEK they just spoke to, and the CLARA/DALEK.
3578MISSY
3579Oh, hello! Look at you all, with
3580your shiny domes, loving this. (Aside to one Dalek)
3581You’re my secret favourite - don’t tell the others.
3582SUPREME DALEK
3583You are an enemy of the Daleks.
3584MISSY
3585Well anyone who’s not a Dalek is an
3586enemy of the Daleks, so that was an easy guess -
3587SUPREME DALEK You will be exterminated.
3588MISSY
3589Oh, please do. I’ve been on my feet
3590all day. But before you get all exterminatey - two things. One. I want to see Davros. And two, I’ve got a little gift for you all, if you take me to him right now.
3591SUPREME DALEK We do not negotiate.
359254
3593 BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3594(CONTINUED)
3595
3596 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 45.
359755 CONTINUED:
3598MISSY Clara Oswald.
3599Inside the DALEK: CLARA tenses! Why did she do that? Why did she mention her??
3600MISSY (cont’d)
3601You heard the Doctor talking about
3602her. You know what she means to him. I brought you complete control of the Doctor, gift-wrapped. Better! Canned.
360356 INT. SICK ROOM - DAWN 56 The row of mountains, the sky brightening beyond ...
3604On DAVROS, staring at this view from his window. Beyond and behind, THE DOCTOR is working among the hanging cables.
3605DAVROS
3606It is beautiful, my world, is it
3607not?
3608THE DOCTOR How did you get it back?
3609DAVROS
3610The Daleks remade it. Like you,
3611they have a strong concept of home.
3612THE DOCTOR
3613No, like you. Everything you are,
3614they are.
3615DAVROS
3616Like both of us, perhaps. How far
3617we have come, to go home again.
3618THE DOCTOR now pulls a cable to DAVROS's chair - starts wiring it in.
3619THE DOCTOR
3620I’m trying to pep this up, but you’ve been going a long time.
3621CUT TO:
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3623 BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3624Every Dalek on Skaro any more.
3625DAVROS
3626It is so good of you
3627THE DOCTOR I’m not helping you.
3628isn’t enough,
3629to help me.
3630I’m helping a little boy I abandoned on a
3631battlefield. I think I owe him a sunrise.
3632(CONTINUED)
3633
3634 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 46.
363556 CONTINUED:
3636THE DOCTOR (cont’d)
3637Chin up.
3638(Glances at the window)
3639Any minute now...
3640DAVROS raising his head - so painful, such effort.
3641DAVROS
3642... I have always admired you,
3643Doctor. I have never said so ... (Coughs, splutters)
3644... but I have always held you in the utmost ... regard ...
3645His head drops again. THE DOCTOR, working at the cables. Doesn’t notice a few twitch behind him, as he glances towards the window.
3646The window: the sun is just peeping over the mountains now...
3647THE DOCTOR Here it comes.
3648DAVROS forces his head back up. But his eyes are flickering shut now ...
3649DAVROS
3650... I wish ... just once ... we had
3651been on the same side.
3652THE DOCTOR
3653Look. The sun’s coming up. We’re on
3654the same side now.
3655On DAVROS's ancient face. It is bathed in the orange glow of dawn - but he can’t see it.
3656DAVROS
3657I regret ... I cannot open my eyes
3658...
3659His breathing, laboured now. The end is coming. THE DOCTOR - moved, in spite of himself.
3660THE DOCTOR
3661Okay. Don’t ever tell anyone I did
3662this.
3663He looks at his hand - it is starting to glow, with regeneration energy.
3664THE DOCTOR (cont’d) Tiny little bit of regeneration
3665energy - probably cost me an arm or a leg, somewhere down the line. Or I’ll just be really little ...
3666Close on DAVROS - and, oh, a change!
3667BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3668(CONTINUED)
366956
3670
3671 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 47.
367256 CONTINUED:
3673A smile twitches at the corner of his ancient mouth - a malevolent smile -
3674- and the blue forehead light flickers on again.
3675With his glowing hand, THE DOCTOR grasps several of the
3676cables.
3677THE DOCTOR (cont’d) Should be enough, just to -
3678And his words are silenced by his cry of pain.
3679Several of the hanging cables - the ones that are a secretly snakes - lash out at him, grab him by both wrists, violently spreading him out. The golden glow is now pulsing from both his hands, and along the cables.
3680DAVROS, now rotating in his chair to face him.
3681DAVROS Hold him firm, Colony
3682precious to us now. THE DOCTOR, crying out in pain. THE DOCTOR
3683What ... what are you
3684DAVROS Regeneration energy -
3685Sarff. He is
3686doing ...
3687the ancient magic of the Time Lords. I thought I’d have to tear you apart to take
3688it from you - but as always, your compassion is your downfall.
3689THE DOCTOR No!! No, please!
3690DAVROS
3691You have opened your veins of your
3692own free will, and now all Daleks shall drink the blood of Gallifrey. They shall rise stronger than ever.
3693A scream is torn from THE DOCTOR - terrible pain.
3694DAVROS (cont’d)
3695You see, Doctor. Just as I dreamed
3696it. You and I, on the same side at last.
3697THE DOCTOR screaming and screaming...
369857 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL / INT. The SUPREME DALEK and MISSY, still in
3699CUT TO:
3700CLARA DALEK - DAY 57 confrontation.
370156
3702 BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3703(CONTINUED)
3704
3705 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 48.
370657 CONTINUED:
3707SUPREME DALEK Where is Clara Oswald?
3708MISSY is making a great pantomime of going from one DALEK to another.
3709MISSY
3710Now, hang on, was she in this one?
3711Maybe it was this one?
3712Inside the DALEK: CLARA, listening. Oh my God!!
3713SUPREME DALEK You will tell us!
3714MISSY
3715Okay, here’s an idea - everybody
3716strip!
3717SUPREME DALEK
3718You will tell us!! YOU WILL TELL US!! YOU WILL -
3719The SUPREME DALEK's voice just cuts dead. Every DALEK eyestalk in the room just drops. All the iris lights go out. (The CLARA DALEK is the only exception.)
3720MISSY, looking around in confusion.
3721MISSY
3722Sorry, was I boring you?
3723But now her eyes are widening in horror. No! No!!
3724The golden glow of regeneration is drifting through their
3725grilles.
3726done?? Inside the DALEK:
3727CLARA What’s happening?
3728DALEK What is happening?
3729BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3730MISSY (cont’d)
3731No! Doctor, no, what have you
3732MISSY
3733I have to find the Doctor.
3734She is racing from the room - CLARA/DALEK starts to follow. Inside the DALEK:
3735CLARA
3736No, stop, you can’t leave me
3737here. Help me!
3738DALEK Exterminate! Exterminate!
3739Exterminate!
3740CUT TO:
374157
3742
3743 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 49.
374458 INT. SICK ROOM - DAY 58 DAVROS, still exulting. THE DOCTOR, still trapped, agonised.
3745 DAVROS
3746There was a prophecy, Doctor, on
3747your own world.
3748THE DOCTOR
3749Please ... you must ... stop this.
3750DAVROS
3751It spoke of a hybrid creature. Two
3752great warrior races forced together to create a warrior greater than either. Is that what you ran from? Your part in the coming of the Hybrid? Half Dalek - half Time Lord!
3753THE DOCTOR Stop. Please. Stop!
375459 INT. DALEK CITY. HOSPITAL CORRIDOR - DAY MISSY racing along -
3755- past a DALEK, which is whirling on the grip of regeneration energy.
3756She shoves past, gets to the door of the
3757Inside, we hear THE DOCTOR's screams!!
3758Next to the door, propped up -
3759- the DALEK gun-arm we saw THE DOCTOR using earlier. She snatches it up, starts to fire at the door -
3760CUT TO:
376159
3762spot, clearly in the Sick Room.
3763 60 INT. SICK ROOM - DAY
3764THE DOCTOR, gripped by the cables, screaming -
3765- and blam! Blam! Blam!
376660
3767CUT TO:
3768 MISSY, in the doorway, blasting at the cables, they flame and
3769fall.
3770One of the snakes - the one with Colony Sarff’s mouth - thrashes. The mouth is screaming.
3771THE DOCTOR, now dropping to the floor. On MISSY, turning to look at ... DAVROS.
3772BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3773(CONTINUED)
3774
3775 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 50.
377660 CONTINUED: 60 DAVROS revolves to look at her.
3777At last - THE DOCTOR's greatest foes, face to face!
3778DAVROS
3779It is too late. The work is done.
3780But she is already turning to tend to THE DOCTOR -
3781CUT TO:
378261 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL / INT. DALEK CITY. VARIOUS 61 LOCATIONS / INT. CLARA DALEK - DAY
3783Silence. Dormant DALEKS, their eyestalks drooping, their lights extinguished.
3784Then - quietly at first, growing stronger - the DALEK heartbeat starts up.
3785Iris-lights now flickering, eyestalks raising. Finally, the SUPREME DALEK speaks.
3786SUPREME DALEK
3787We are renewed. We are more
3788powerful. The experiment has succeeded. All praise Davros.
3789The DALEKS now take up the cry.
3790DALEKS
3791All praise Davros! All praise
3792Davros!
3793Now cutting round the city. DALEKS every where, chanting the same.
3794DALEKS (cont’d) All praise Davros! All praise
3795Davros!
3796Now on the one DALEK not joining in, as it glides along a corridor - the CLARA/DALEK.
3797Inside the DALEK: CLARA's sweating face. What the hell does she do now??
3798  DALEKS (cont’d) All praise Davros! All praise
3799Davros!
380062 INT. SICK ROOM - DAY 62 We can still hear the distant cries of the DALEKS.
3801CUT TO:
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3803(CONTINUED)
3804
3805 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 51.
380662 CONTINUED:
3807On THE DOCTOR's face - stirring, muttering. MISSY helping him up.
3808MISSY
3809Well, dear, you’ve saved Davros’s
3810life, lost a fight with a snake, and accidentally made the Daleks more powerful than ever. Morning!
3811THE DOCTOR, staring at MISSY now.
3812THE DOCTOR Where’s Clara?
3813MISSY Hello to you, too.
3814THE DOCTOR
3815You’re alive, so she is too - where
3816is she??
3817MISSY
3818I’m fine, since you ask.
3819DAVROS You are not fine.
3820MISSY and THE DOCTOR turn to DAVROS.
3821DAVROS (cont’d)
3822Thanks to you, Doctor, my creations will grow to yet greater supremacy,
3823and my own life is prolonged. This is the final defeat of the Time Lords. Have you nothing to say, Doctor??
3824THE DOCTOR has to got to his feet. But strangely, he is utterly composed. He looks at DAVROS. Cool, utterly calm. Flicking dust off his clothing. And he just says:
3825THE DOCTOR
3826Three.
3827DAVROS
3828Are you listening to me? Do you
3829understand what has happened? Hear my children sing.
3830Distantly - all praise DAVROS! THE DOCTOR
3831Two!
3832He picks his sunglasses off the floor, polishes them on his sleeve, pops them in his top pocket.
3833MISSY
3834(Eyes on the Doctor)
3835Oh! I know that face!
3836BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3837(CONTINUED)
383862
3839
3840 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 52.
384162 CONTINUED: 62
3842DAVROS
3843All praise Davros! All praise
3844Davros! Creator, and saviour, of the Daleks.
3845THE DOCTOR has picked up his confession dial, pocketed it. THE DOCTOR
3846One!
3847Right on cue, the whole room shakes. A huge violent impact.
3848BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3849DAVROS What is that?
3850Again! Again??
3851What is happening?
385263 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL - DAY
3853The whole room shaking, too - DALEKS sliding about
3854DAVROS (cont’d)
3855CUT TO:
3856CUT TO:
385763
3858 everywhere.
3859SUPREME DALEK
3860We are under attack. Explain!
3861Explain!!
386264 INT. SICK ROOM - DAY
3863THE DOCTOR, DAVROS, MISSY.
3864THE DOCTOR
3865I knew exactly what you were doing,
3866and I let you do it. You transmitted regeneration energy into every Dalek on this planet. Every single one.
3867DAVROS
3868What ... have you done?
3869THE DOCTOR
3870One word. No, actually, two. Two
3871words. First word - (Points at Davros)
3872Moron. Second word ...
3873CUT TO:
387464
3875 
3876 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 53.
387765 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL - DAY 65 The DALEKS still panicking, shrieking as the room rocks and
3878rumbles -
3879The floor, cracking, bulging!
3880CUT TO:
388166 INT. SICK ROOM - DAY 66 Pushing in on THE DOCTOR for the hero moment.
3882THE DOCTOR
3883Sewers.
3884DAVROS
3885No! No!! This cannot be correct!!
3886How can this be??
3887THE DOCTOR Generations of Daleks, all just
3888woke up, very cross. And they’re coming up the pipe! Or to put it another way - bye!
3889And he turns on his heel and walks out. DAVROS
3890Help me! Doctor, you must help me!! MISSY
3891Hey! Davros!
3892DAVROS turns to look at MISSY -
3893MISSY (cont’d) Good to meet you at last.
3894- and she pokes him in his single eye, and strides out. CUT TO:
389567 INT. DALEK CITY. HOSPITAL CORRIDOR - DAY 67 THE DOCTOR, racing along. Another eruption, he’s flung
3896against the wall. He looks up -
3897- through a ventilation grille on the wall, gloopy dark liquid is trickling down.
3898CUT TO:
3899   BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3900
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390268 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL - DAY 68 The floor is cracked. A few DALEKs are entangled in a
3903 seaweedy mass ...
3904Close on one, as the black liquid spews from it.
3905DALEK
3906My vision is impaired. I cannot
3907see. My vision is impaired. I cannot see.
390869 INT. CAVES. TUNNELS - DAY 69 The tunnels as before - but the seaweedy mass is alive,
3909swarming. The elevator doors are engulfed.
3910CUT TO:
391170 INT. DALEK CITY. HOSPITAL CORRIDOR / INT. CLARA DALEK - DAY 70 THE DOCTOR pulls himself to his feet, about to run for it -
3912CUT TO:
3913  Doctor!
3914He looks.
3915A DALEK is approaching down the corridor. THE DOCTOR straightens up, facing it.
3916A silence.
3917THE DOCTOR
3918This city is about to be sucked
3919into the ground. Your own sewer is about to consume you. There’s no way you can win now, nothing you can do. So just tell me - where is Clara Oswald?
3920DALEK I am a Dalek.
3921THE DOCTOR
3922I know you’re a Dalek, where’s
3923Clara?
3924DALEK I am a Dalek.
3925THE DOCTOR
3926Yes, you’re a Dalek. Where is Clara
3927Oswald??
3928BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3929DALEK
3930(CONTINUED)
3931
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393370 CONTINUED: 70
3934Now, cutting inside the DALEK - it is, of course, CLARA, yelling at the top of her lungs -
3935- but being translated by the DALEK.
3936CLARA DALEK
3937It’s me, Clara. Doctor, it’s I am a Dalek! I am a Dalek! me, I’m Clara, I’m in here!!
3938MISSY Doctor, stop!
3939THE DOCTOR turns - MISSY has arrived at the far end of the corridor. Now joining him.
3940MISSY (cont’d) (To the Dalek)
3941It’s you, isn’t it. No offence, you all look alike - but it is you, isn’t it?
3942Inside the DALEK:
3943CLARA Yes, it’s me, it’s me.
3944DALEK Affirmative.
3945Please, it’s me!
3946Clara’s dead, Doctor. And this is
3947MISSY
3948the one that killed her.
3949DALEK
3950Do not listen to her. I am a Dalek,
3951I am a Dalek.
3952MISSY
3953I got her out of the city, but this
3954one caught us. Shot her down, there was nothing I could do.
3955DALEK I am a Dalek.
3956THE DOCTOR, devastated, staring at the DALEK. Subtly, insidiously, MISSY is slipping the DALEK gun into THE DOCTOR's hands.
3957MISSY
3958She ran, she screamed. Oh, I’m glad
3959you didn’t have to see that.
3960DALEK
3961I am a Dalek, I am a Dalek.
3962MISSY
3963Oh, it’s a mad one, isn’t it?
3964Almost like it’s proud.
3965BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
3966(CONTINUED)
3967
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396970 CONTINUED:
3970DALEK
3971I am a Dalek, I am a Dalek, I am a
3972Dalek!
3973MISSY, now leaning into THE DOCTOR's ear.
3974MISSY
3975Kill it, Doctor. They’re all going
3976to die anyway. Indulge yourself, go on, kill the Dalek.
3977DALEK
3978Do not kill me! Do not kill me!
3979THE DOCTOR, insensibly, raising the gun, levelling it at the DALEK.
3980THE DOCTOR Is Clara dead?
3981Inside the DALEK:
3982CLARA
3983I’m Clara, I’m not dead, I’m
3984right here.
3985DALEK
3986I am a Dalek. I am alive.
3987Those words cause a savage look of anger to cross THE DOCTOR's face.
3988Inside the DALEK:
3989CLARA (cont'd) DALEK (cont'd)
3990I’m your friend. Your friend! I am your enemy. Your enemy. THE DOCTOR steps forward, jamming the exterminator against
3991the eyepiece.
3992CLARA (cont'd) No, please, not don’t.
3993... and THE DOCTOR pauses. What? Frowns. What??
3994THE DOCTOR
3995... you shouldn’t be able to say
3996that.
3997Mercy.
3998DALEK
3999THE DOCTOR
4000That word shouldn’t exist in your
4001vocabulary. How could Davros have taught you that?
4002DALEK
4003THE DOCTOR's eyes flick to the DALEK's gun.
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4005Mercy.
4006DALEK (cont'd) Mercy. Mercy.
4007(CONTINUED)
400870
4009
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401170 CONTINUED:
4012THE DOCTOR
4013Why aren’t you trying to kill me?
4014DALEK
4015Mercy. Inside the DALEK:
4016CLARA
4017Because I’d never kill you. You are
4018the last person I would ever kill.
4019A buzzing and clicking - like the DALEK is taking longer to translate into its own terms.
4020DALEK
4021I ... show ... mercy.
4022THE DOCTOR steps back, lowers his gun.
4023THE DOCTOR
4024I’m not pointing a gun at you. Open
4025your casing. Inside the DALEK:
4026How?
4027CLARA DALEK How?
4028THE DOCTOR: there’s something very odd here, and he’s starting to suspect what it is.
4029THE DOCTOR
4030Just think the word “open”. It’ll
4031work.
4032The whine and hiss of machinery, and the DALEK is opening -
4033- to reveal CLARA trapped, terrified, inside it. Sobbing, tear-streaked.
4034He just stares. Oh dear God, what did he nearly do??
4035MISSY
4036Oh, look. There’s a surprise.
4037THE DOCTOR Missy - run.
4038CLARA
4039(Exhausted, so relieved)
4040Doctor ...
4041THE DOCTOR doesn’t even look MISSY. His voice low and deadly. And THE DOCTOR steps to the DALEK, starts tearing at the machinery, trying to rip CLARA free of it.
4042MISSY
4043In a way, this is why I gave her to
4044you in the first place. (MORE)
4045BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
4046(CONTINUED)
404770
4048
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405070 CONTINUED:
4051MISSY (cont'd)
4052To make you see! The friend inside
4053the enemy. The enemy inside the friend.
4054THE DOCTOR
4055I’m sorry, Clara. I’m so sorry!
4056MISSY Everyone’s a bit of both.
4057Everyone’s a hybrid.
4058She hits that word. THE DOCTOR looks at her in shock. Finds
4059his voice.
4060THE DOCTOR I said run!
4061MISSY just smirks, turns, swaggers away.
4062MISSY
4063It wasn’t me who ran, Doctor. That
4064was always you.
406571 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL - DAY 71 The room, shaking, slanting. The floor a seaweedy mass. DALEKS, shrieking, panicking.
4066DALEKS
4067Emergency! Emergency! Dalek control
4068is compromised.
4069Now, racing through the door, THE DOCTOR and CLARA. (THE DOCTOR is still clutching the DALEK exterminator.)
4070THE DOCTOR
4071Right, where was the TARDIS? Over
4072here, wasn’t it?
4073SUPREME DALEK What is happening?? Explain!
4074Explain!!
4075THE DOCTOR
4076Dalek Supreme - your sewers are
4077revolting.
4078He’s grabbed CLARA, and now they’re standing on the exact spot where the TARDIS was when it exploded.
4079THE DOCTOR (cont’d) Told you your empire had a fatal
4080flaw - and see, it is funny!
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4085
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408771 CONTINUED:
4088SUPREME DALEK
4089You will assist or you will be
4090exterminated.
4091THE DOCTOR Go on then.
4092CLARA Doctor ... !
4093The SUPREME DALEK fires at THE DOCTOR -
4094- and the ray is deflected, as if it bounced off an invisible wall.
4095THE DOCTOR
4096Oops, sorry. TARDIS forcefield is
4097still here. We get in, you don’t.
4098SUPREME DALEK
4099The TARDIS has been destroyed!
4100THE DOCTOR
4101Oh, don’t be silly, of course it
4102hasn’t. It just redistributed itself for a moment - Hostile Action Dispersal System. Just a quick blast from my sonic, and the real time envelope will reassemble right here.
4103CLARA
4104You don’t have your screwdriver.
4105THE DOCTOR
4106Yeah, I’m over screwdrivers. They
4107spoil the line of your jacket. These days, I’m all about ...
4108With great ceremony, and rather too much pride, THE DOCTOR puts on his sunglasses.
4109THE DOCTOR (cont’d) ... wearable technology.
4110CLARA ... no! Seriously?
4111The smuggest smile as he presses the side of his glasses - we hear the familiar buzz of the sonic.
4112A tremendous whooshing -
4113- and the police box starts to reassemble around them. It’s not a normal materialisation. It’s as if tiny particles of TARDIS are flying in from all around, assembling the TARDIS where it stood.
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411671
4117
4118 DW9: "The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15 60.
411971 CONTINUED:
4120SUPREME DALEK What is happening. Explain!
4121Explain!
4122THE DOCTOR
4123Oh, same old, same old. Just the
4124Doctor. And Clara Oswald. In the TARDIS.
4125Slam! The Police Box is back. The engines start to grind ...
4126CLARA
4127Sonic glasses, an electric guitar,
4128and a tank. You realise this is a mid-life crisis?
4129THE DOCTOR
4130Mid-life?? I’m only two-thousand.
4131And I am going to love being a teenager.
4132The DALEKS all blasting away with their guns, but it’s far too late! The TARDIS roars away.
4133CUT TO:
413472 INT. DALEK CITY. WIDER SPACE - DAY 72 Another area of the city, a wider section. MISSY is racing
4135through, as the floor shakes and then rumbles -
4136- and suddenly several DALEKS are in front of her.
4137She turns to bolt the other way.
4138- and several more DALEKS are behind her.
4139Now more DALEKS piling into the space, surrounding her. She is encircled. Escape impossible.
4140Now the floor is cracking at her feet. Sections of ceiling are crashing around her. The DALEKS are preparing to fire.
414173 EXT. SKARO - DAY 73 The city of the Daleks, ablaze.
4142Pulling back, see THE DOCTOR and CLARA watching it burn.
4143CUT TO:
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4145 And suddenly MISSY grins.
4146MISSY
4147You know what? I’ve just had a very
4148clever idea!
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4151
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415373 CONTINUED:
4154CLARA looks at him -
415573
4156- to see that he is now looking at the confession dial in his hand. It has closed now - the opened triangle no longer visible.
4157CLARA
4158No chance you’re going to tell me
4159what’s in there, I suppose?
4160THE DOCTOR pockets the dial - nope, no chance.
4161THE DOCTOR It doesn’t make sense.
4162CLARA What doesn’t?
4163THE DOCTOR
4164When you were in the Dalek, you
4165made it say “mercy”. It shouldn’t have understood the concept, it shouldn’t have been able to say it. How did a tiny piece of mercy get into the DNA of the Daleks?
4166A thought seems to strike him. He looks down at the exterminator in his hand.
4167And suddenly he’s striding to the TARDIS. CLARA
4168Doctor?
416974 EXT. BATTLEFIELD - DAY 74 The BOY, as we last saw him, pleading with the departed
4170CUT TO:
4171 Doctor.
4172BOY
4173You said I had a chance!!
4174The scrape of a foot from behind the BOY. He startles, spins, What??
4175And now he’s staring up at someone ...
4176BOY (cont’d) Who are you?
4177The BOY’s POV. THE DOCTOR!
4178Exactly as we last saw him on Skaro. This time we can see the TARDIS in the distance.
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4181
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4184BOY (cont’d)
4185I don’t understand. How did you get
4186there?
4187THE DOCTOR From the future.
4188The BOY - just not understanding.
4189BOY
4190... are you going to save me?
4191THE DOCTOR. So grim.
4192THE DOCTOR
4193I’m going to save my friend. The
4194only way I can.
4195And THE DOCTOR draws something beneath his coat, a bulky apparatus. We now see that it is a Dalek Gun Arm, clearly extracted from a Dalek unit.
4196He levels it at the BOY.
4197On THE DOCTOR’s face! Grim, unreadable.
4198THE DOCTOR (cont’d) Exterminate!
4199- and THE DOCTOR fires. Blasting all the hand mines, one after the other, till they’re all gone. The BOY is safe.
4200THE DOCTOR (cont’d) Come on. I’ll take you home.
4201BOY
4202Which side are you on? Are you the
4203enemy?
4204THE DOCTOR
4205Friends, enemies - I’m not sure any
4206of it matters.
4207(Puts out his hand, to
4208take the boy’s)
4209So long as there is mercy. Always mercy.
4210He takes the boy’s hand.
4211We hold on them, as they walk away through the battlefield, together.
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