'Um. Doc.'

Her head snapped up like a jack-in-the-box – God, he'd always found those so creepy, with their overdone, painted grin – the other side of the console, and her smile was bright, genuine. 'Yah. That's me.'

He pointed. 'There's a light-'

'Don't go into it.' Ryan interrupted. 'You're too young.'

Graham glared. 'Purple, flashing light. Or maybe its red? My eyesight isn't what it used to be. Yaz, is this red or purple?'

'It's mauve.' The Doctor slithered under the console and popped up, almost crashing into Yaz, who had started moving over. 'Sorry, sorry. Soz? Nah. Sorry. I've got no spatial awareness. Who needs it!' She shoved her goggles off her face and into her mess of blonde hair. 'Right. Mauve. Universal colour for danger, see, cos everything has a receptor for mauve, except for things that don't know what danger is apart from "is that going to eat me". It's an alarm. Maybe false. Last time I got one- hah! My voice has gone weird. Higher. I'm excited! No, no, it's not that – I'm nervous. Why am I nervous? Because the TARDIS is telling me there's danger, and that Her fam isn't safe. ("Are we ever?" Ryan muttered.) Maybe, maybe not. Though you're my fam, of course, but She's – what's mine is hers. My house shares my home. Not House. Urgh. Rambling.'

'Not knowing what danger is.' Yaz said. 'Must be nice.'

'Oi!' Graham said. 'It's fun with the Doc, getting into trouble – keeps us feeling alive! Wouldn't have it any other way.'

Yaz grunted, and Ryan shoved in beside them, just as the light began to click, a slow, methodical ticking a little slower than the second, the difference indiscernible to everyone but the Doctor.

'Anyone else getting sleepy?' He asked, head drooping slightly. The Doctor was tapping along to the rhythm, almost unaware she was doing it.

'Little bit, yeah.' Graham said. He wanted to look about, but he was fixated on the bobbing purple light.

All four dropped painlessly to the floor as the ticking lulled them to sleep.

'They're awake.'

The Doctor peeled open her eyes, finding them stuck together as if she'd had a nine-hour nap, something she hadn't needed to do since she was a child in the Academy. Maybe Yaz was right. She did need more sleep. But the Universe didn't wait for her to sleep! Empires could fall in nine hours-

With all the things a Time Lord has seen, everything they've lost, they must surely have bad dreams.

Well. She thought. I am having a very good one right now.

Above her was a woman – hell in high heels – with crazy, blonde hair, hair in a ponytail, dressed in a typical cleric uniform, all camouflage and guns, strapped to her waist. The Doctor frowned. Then she shot upwards as a stabbing pain seized her head, yelping. Nausea – it took her a few moments to place the horrible sensation – twisted in her stomach, and just as she was panicking, River shoved a bowl rather unceremoniously under her nose.

'Sorry.' She said weakly. Her body was shaking slightly.

'We've all done it.' River said lightly. 'Teleportation – or whatever this is – is hard on the body. You've just been yanked through the Vortex without a vessel, other than your own,' her eyes brightened, 'Admittedly, gorgeous skin – of course, you're going to feel creepy.'

The Doctor screwed her face up. 'Cheap and nasty.'

River removed the bowl. Behind her, she could hear Yaz, Graham, and Ryan reacting to it the same way she had, and sympathy curled in her chest. She hoped they would be okay. Humans were somewhat more fragile than Time Lords.

'You travel with the Doctor, then?' River said, offering her a mint, which she took and stuck in her mouth – and almost spat out again at the bitter taste. She didn't think her wife would appreciate that. Her wife…she twisted her bare hands. She'd lost the ring – not on purpose, but still. Of course, with where River was, they weren't married yet – or were they? – but still. Shame flushed at her neck.

'Yeah. Yeah, I do.' She said softly. 'Been brilliant so far. Wait! We've all done it? Who else is here?'

As if she didn't already know. She could feel him – hear him – the extra heart, thundering in his chest.

Her past self – two lives ago – was crouched against the white wall, screwdriver buzzing against the floor. Brown hair flopping over his face, he hummed to himself in time with the sonic.

'Sweetie.' River said, voice high with false patience. 'We've got humans here.'

He spun on his heel to glance over them all briefly. 'Don't recognise them.'

She stood up, shaking her head at the Doctor. 'You must do, otherwise they wouldn't be here.'

He ran a hand through that ridiculous floppy hair, and marched over to study them. 'Nope!' He popped the "p" with an air of frazzled ease. 'They must be from my future. Do you know the Ponds?'

The Doctor barely had a moment to collect herself before they were being shoved in front of her, and a lump formed in her throat, so thick she could barely breathe. Yaz's hand was on her arm in an instant, sensing her reaction.

"The Ponds" Yaz saw, were a man and a woman, in their mid-twenties, the man with scruffy, dirty-blond hair and dressed in blue nurses' slacks, the woman in a short, denim skirt and a bright red top, hair a bright reddish-ginger. They were clutching at each other.

The Doctor seemed unable to speak, so Yaz jumped in. 'Hello. I'm Yazmin Khan. This is Ryan Sinclair, Graham O'Brian and,' She felt the Doctor's sweaty palms, and made a split-second decision. 'Jodie. Jodie Whittaker.' The name came from nowhere – just popped into her head.

Jodie grasped at her hands, a little tighter.

'Er, hi.' The nurse Pond said, a little uncertainly.

'Yeah, hi. Amy Pond. This is my boyfriend, Rory. The man licking the floor over there is the Doctor. He'll get us out of here, or at least, he better.' She glared at him, and he waved a hand over his shoulder. 'Course, Pond. I can get out of anything.'

'How are you all feeling?' Rory said.

'Fine.' Graham said stoically, and the Doctor couldn't help but smile. They were tough, her fam. Ryan nodded too. 'Been better.'

'Yeah.' Yaz said.

'Jodie?'

She swallowed. 'Yeah, I'm good. Splendid. It would take more than an impromptu zap into somewhere I don't know but is maybe a game show or a pocket universe to get me down. Splendiferous! Is that a word? It's a good one…' She trailed off. 'The Doctor told me about those. Pocket universes. Not words. He couldn't teach me about words. He makes them up.'

'Humany-wumany.' Amy said, and grinned. They settled into one of the large grey sofas the Doctor and her Fam had woken up on, Amy tucking her legs close to her, and Rory even closer.

The room was suddenly flooded with purple light, and everyone pressed their eyes together at the brightness

'What's happening?' Ryan yelped. They all blinked away the light as two figures stumbled into the room – a man, with closely-cropped brown hair and – blimey, the ears stuck out – the nose too, rather – wearing a slightly too large leather jacket and a plain t-shirt. Clutching at his arm was a pretty young girl in jeans and a t-shirt with a union flag on the chest, and a leather jacket as well, half-zipped up. Her bottle-blonde hair was beautifully curled, hanging about her shoulders. She smiled nervously around at them all.

'Is this a space-ship?' She said. 'Doctor? I'm Rose Tyler, and this is the Doctor. We're…travellers.'

The Doctor curled miserably in on herself a little further. The other Doctor – the one with the bowtie – let out a yell that had everyone cowering, save River, who looked like she could take anything in her stride, and flew up to Rose, and enveloped her in a hug that was just a bit too tight to be cool. Not that he cared about that. He spun her around while she spluttered, and then shoved him off.

'Ohh…kay.' She said slowly. 'Do I know you?'

'I'm the Doctor!' He said excitedly. 'Oh, Rose, Rose, Rose. Rose Tyler. I've missed you.' He went as if to hug her again, but she held up her hands to ward him off.

'No, you're not. This is the Doctor.'

'Hang on.' Graham said, but Yaz shot him a look that dared him to say more. He lowered his voice to a whisper. 'There's three of them?'

Yaz shrugged.

'Rose.' Leather jacket doctor took her arm. 'I can do a thing. A Time Lord thing. When I die – well, I don't. I can sort of cheat death, by changing every cell in my body. I just look a little different by the end of it.' He eyed the bowtie. 'A lot different.'

'So he's you.' Rose said, her voice a touch monotone. 'You're him.' She whirled and smacked him lightly. 'You died?'

He grinned at her. 'Guess so. Turned out all right though! I'm still kicking about, making trouble.' His smile was delightful – all teeth, wide in his face, and filled with such genuine delight.

'Er, right.' The bowtie Doctor cut in, and he hugged Rose again, kissing her forehead – and she let him, this time. 'The one with the legs is Amy, the nose is Rory, the scary one is River Song. Then we have Yaz, Graham, Ryan, and Missy.'

'Well, it seems I need no introduction then. Pity. I've come to enjoy the dramatics. Screaming. Running away.'

Every single head snapped to the side, to behold the woman there, who drove the end of her umbrella into the floor, and dipped her head in a beautiful curtsey. She was wearing a Victorian-style petticoat and jacket, and ankle boots, with impeccable black leather gloves. Her dark, wavy hair was piled neatly atop her head.

The Doctor – yellow suspenders – staggered upright, before anyone could think to stop her, and walked up to Missy. The two drew level, the Doc a few inches shorter – something she wasn't used to.

'I'd rather hoped you'd grown out of these. It looked oh so hopeful with your last body.' She pinged the suspenders, and the Doctor flinched.

'Koschei.' The Doctor murmured, too quietly for the others to hear. She gazed at her, chest a whirlwind. Ah, hope. She'd drowned in it. Hope that she could be good. Without hope, without witness, without reward. Except perhaps their friendship back. But Missy – the Master – had always wanted, needed more than that.

Kneel.

'Thete.' She said warily.

She opened her mouth but found out she had nothing to say. For once. Her mind fizzed, but her mouth refused to answer. So she smacked Missy, hard as she could in her stupid female body, because fuck her for carrying it so well – for carrying everything so well. She might have done it again, but Yaz's arms were around her, yanking her backwards. Missy's mouth was wide in fake anguish, and she massaged her cheek.

Another rush of purple light flooded the room, dumping a few more figures – a tall man with greying hair, dressed like a magician, in a red smoking jacket, a black girl with frizzy hair in a patchy denim jacket, another man with spiky brown hair black hoodie, dark jeans, and a red polo shirt, and – Rose Tyler.

This Rose was older, her face starting to line, and her hair was no longer dyed, and cut shorter, curled around her face. She had a wedding ring, glittering in the harsh lights over their head, and she looked more serene than her younger version.

'Alright, what the hell is this?' She said loudly. Her voice echoed, and she looked vaguely embarrassed. 'Sorry. John?'

The man beside her stepped forward, examined everyone there, and shook his head. 'Ye-ope.' He popped the "p" the same way as bowtie had. 'No idea. Sorry. Huh. Still new to that. Having no idea.'

'Uh, I'm Rose Tyler.' She said. 'This my husband, John Tyler.'

He gave an embarrassed little wave.

'See! That is how it works!' Bowtie said pointedly, to Amy and Rory.

'Alright.' Younger Rose butted in, stepping forward. 'How much older than me are you? Because- No. What about the Doctor?' She looked genuinely frantic by some perceived failing of hers. 'I promised you forever!'

Most of the companions cringed a little at that, the mere existence of each other, and the multiple instances of the Doctor, proving the naivete of such a statement.

'Spoilers, I rather think.' River interjected.

'Ooh, yes.' Bowtie said, waving his hands around at all of them. 'Temporal paradoxes, and all that. But the universe knows we can travel in time, so she'll forgive two of you in the same place. Best not to push it, though, she's terribly overwrought. Highly strung. You go sharing too much information, she just might snap and delete the lot of us.'

'Sorry.' Rory said. 'But how is the universe a girl, exactly?'

Amy gave him a fox-like grin, and he ducked his head.

'It's a vessel, ain't it.' Graham said absently. 'We all live in it. And all vessels are girls.'

'Not all of us.' Rose Noble clutched her husband's hand, and lead him to a seat; the two sat as close as Amy and Rory. 'Hey.' She said softly, to the leather jacket Doctor. 'Nice seeing you again. Never thought I would. Universe loves me.'

'You did save her.' He said brightly. 'From me. My fantastic Rose.'

There were tears in her eyes, and she let herself cry them. One of her Doctors was here, and though she wished the other would show up, with his stupid crooked smile and his hair all over the place from the running, and the mostly boundless optimism he carried about him – he would grab her hand, and she never felt safer.

Purple light lit up the room, and it shuddered.

'Right, could be wrong, Doctor.' The black girl with the cool jacket who had flashed in with magician-doctor, spoke for the first time in a slightly nasally voice. 'But isn't that guy there, and like, that guy there, the same man?'

'Yes, Bill. Your eyes remain as trustworthy as ever.' He said slowly. He, of course, knew what was up.

'Right. Cool.'

The new man scrunched up his face as he peered at the audience. He looked exactly like John Tyler, but younger, and he wore a brown suit and a long coat, with red converse. His hair looked like a hedgehog. Beside him was a woman, a bit older than the other companions, with ginger hair. She was wearing a brown trouser suit and a pale blue blouse. The Doctor's face widened into a grin.

'Hello! I'm the Doctor!' He snapped out his screwdriver, the tip buzzing blue, and scanned them all. Leather, magician, and bowtie did the same, their screwdrivers all varying in shape and size and colour.

'Ah.' Hedgehog Doctor said. 'Brilliant.'

'Well, do share what's so brilliant with the class, Doctor.' The woman said impatiently. 'Stop waving those things about. This isn't a bloody rave. Or a library! Which you promised me. "Books, Donna! Greatest weapons in the world" Nothing compared to your masterful sense of direction!'

'Class.' The Doctor said, once he was sure she was done. Not making that mistake ever again. 'This is Donna Noble.'

The Doctor's eyes scanned the crowd, and he went still, back going rod-straight. 'Rose Tyler! He opened his arms, and when she didn't move, he slowly dropped them. 'Yes, better not. If you're from the future it might cause a temporal constriction that ricochets down the timelines and-'

She hopped over several empty seats and a few occupied ones to wrap him in a hug, almost tipping him over. Rose might have been crying, and hitting him, and Donna rolled her eyes and came and sat down. Rose and hedgehog Doctor followed. He looked at John, mouthed "how…?" and then decided not to ask.

Introductions were made.

'And this is Missy.'

'Hello, dear.'

Hedgehog's mouth dropped open. 'You crazy bastard! I knew you survived. I knew you must've. How, though? They took you back through the portal!'

Missy tapped her nose. Secret. Then she booped the Doctor's nose. He looked baffled for a moment, but gave her one of Those smiles. Rose almost felt – jealous. Especially when hedgehog all but threw himself at Missy, hugging her and saying he was sorry. It turned the Doctor's stomach, and she wondered why in Rassilon she was being made to sit through this.

A sudden clicking got everyone's attention, and they turned as a section of the wall caved in in a neat rectangle, and a large, flat screen, showing nothing but static, appeared in the gap. It fizzled in black and white and grey for a few more moments, and then a face appeared. A horribly familiar face with short blonde hair, curled and with a little pouffe in the front, dressed in an overlarge white shirt, a red waistcoat, high-waisted black trousers with gold buttons and a wine-red long coat with a pattern of Gallifreyan embroidered in gold and black. She had the collar, two, and the shoulder-pieces, arcing over her head. Every Doctor gathered took in a breath to see her so flagrantly mocking the High Council. They'd always done it, but this…

She laced her fingers together.

'Hiya, all! Ooh, no. Don't like that. I'll stick to hello, it's much better. Hello wifey! Hello Rose. Roses. And the Ponds! Good to see you all again. You're probably wondering why I scooped you all up from The Timeline and bought you here! Well, all will be crystal clear soon. So no fear! Well, maybe a little.' She smiled, that familiar, wide-toothed grin, but it didn't reach her ageless eyes. 'I bought my slightly-younger self here, too. Now, she knows nothing of all of this – though she's almost there. I need you to understand, I suppose.'

'I don't get it!' Amy yelled. 'Who are you?'

'Haven't you guessed?' The blonde tossed her head. 'I'm the Valeyard.'

The screen cut back to static.

'Is she telling the truth?' Rose demanded of the Doctor, who shrunk into her seat, utterly lost. Definitely her – but – her eyes. It felt like her chest was caving in. She couldn't tell them – understand what? 'Who's the Valeyard? Doctor?'

They all opened their mouth to reply, but nothing – no answer.

'No one?' Bowtie said miserably. He clasped his hands together. 'She said she wanted us to understand. So I suppose we'll find out soon enough.' He gave the Doctor a reproachful look. 'I'm sure it can be explained.'

'Perhaps a zygon?' Bill suggested. 'Those shape-shifting things.'

'Maybe.' No one was convinced.

'Doctor?' They all spun to face her. 'We probably ought to make a way to tell you all apart. Can't just call you all the Doctor, can I?' She gave a weak smile.

'Okay, well.' Leather Doctor jabbed a thumb at his chest. 'I'm the ninth incarnation of the Doctor, so I'll be Nine, I guess.'

'I'm Ten.' Hedgehog Doctor butted in. 'Quite like that.'

'Eleven.' Bowtie said.

'Twelve.' Magician said. Eleven whipped towards him, mouth-flying open. River put her finger over it, and he seemed very affronted by that.

'Spoilers.'

'Who's the Valeyard?' Bill cut in. 'Because at least the Doctor makes sense. But what even is a valeyard?'

'They make wine there.' Younger Rose said.

'The Valeyard.' Missy said slowly, her eyes starting to glitter as if all her dreams had come true, 'Is the Doctor. But more like me, and less like himself.'

'What does that mean?' Amy said. 'What's she like? Doctor?'

The screen began to beep, and they all gratefully turned their attention back to it. It was a countdown, placed on a screen ticking down to zero – three, two, one – and then a kind of music started up. The screen changed into a mess of swirling blues, and a cheerful music started up. Woo wee ooh…

Every Doctor yelped, and scrambled to cover their companions eyes. 'That's the-!' Eleven spluttered.

'Time vortex.' Ten finished, stunned.

'It's not real.' Yaz muttered. 'It's CGI.'

'Think so, yeah.' Ryan chipped in. 'It's not the real vortex.'

The word Dalek flashed across the screen, and a tangible kind of tension yanked everyone's spine upwards.

'Wait- 'Rose kind of said, but then she fell silent.

(The Tardis materialises in dimly lit area with carpeting and display cases. A museum.)

ROSE: So what is it? What's wrong?

DOCTOR: Don't know. Some kind of signal drawing the Tardis off course.

ROSE: Where are we?

DOCTOR: Earth. Utah, North America. About half a mile underground.

ROSE: And when are we?

DOCTOR: Two thousand and twelve.

(He looks at a display case.)

ROSE: God, that's so close. So I should be twenty six.

(The Doctor finds the light switch, and things become more clear.)

ROSE: Blimey. It's a great big museum.

DOCTOR: An alien museum. Someone's got a hobby. They must have spent a fortune on this. Chunks of meteorite, moon dust. That's the milometer from the Roswell spaceship.

ROSE: That's a bit of Slitheen! That's a Slitheen's arm. It's been stuffed.

DOCTOR: Oh, look at you.

ROSE: What is it?

(The head of a Cyberman.)

DOCTOR: An old friend of mine. Well, enemy. The stuff of nightmares reduced to an exhibit. I'm getting old.

ROSE: Is that where the signal's coming from?

DOCTOR: No, it's stone dead. The signal's alive. Something's reaching out, calling for help.

(The Doctor touches the display case and an alarm goes off. Armed guards rush in from all sides and cut them off from the Tardis.)

ROSE: If someone's collecting aliens, that makes you Exhibit A.

There were a few nervous sniggers at that, and Rose looked somewhere between embarrassed and proud.

[The next shot is in a corridor, which several people are walking down]

TANNOY: Attention all personnel. Bad Wolf One descending. Bad Wolf One descending.
(A helicopter has landed. Four armed guards line the corridor as a man and his aides stride out of a doorway.)

POLKOWSKI: On behalf of all of us, I want to wish you a very happy birthday, sir. And the President called to convey his personal best wishes.

VAN STATTEN: The President is ten points down. I want him replaced.

POLKOWSKI: I don't think that's very wise, sir.

VAN STATTEN: Thank you so much for your opinion. You're fired. Get rid of him.

POLKOWSKI: What?

(An armed guard drags Polkowski away.)

VAN STATTEN: Wipe his memory, put him on the road someplace. Memphis, Minneapolis. Somewhere beginning with M.
(A woman runs up to take Polkowski's place.)

VAN STATTEN: So, the next President. What do you think? Republican or Democrat?
GODDARD: Democrat, sir.

VAN STATTEN: For what reason?

GODDARD: They're just so funny, sir?

'Ha!' Donna said. 'Obama won. Maybe that girl can predict the future.'

(Van Statten stops.)
VAN STATTEN: What is your name?

GODDARD: Goddard, sir. Diana Goddard.

VAN STATTEN: I like you, Diana Goddard. So, where's the English kid?

ADAM: Sir! Sir! I bought ten more artefacts at auction, Mister Van Statten.

VAN STATTEN: Bring 'em on, let me see 'em.

GODDARD: Sir, with respect, there's something more urgent. We arrested two intruders fifty three floors down. We don't know how they got in.

VAN STATTEN: I'll tell you how they got in. In-tru-da window. In-tru-da window. That was funny!
(Obedient laughter.)

VAN STATTEN: Bring 'em in. Let's see 'em. And tell Simmons I want to visit my little pet. Get to it!

(Van Statten goes through a doorway. Goddard steps aside to use her headset.)

GODDARD: Simmons? You'd better give me good news. Is it talking?

[The scene switches to another room. Something with blue vision is watching a man wearing a protective suit wielding a chainsaw on itself.)

SIMMONS: Not exactly talking, no.

[Corridor]

GODDARD: Then what's it doing?

[Cage]

SIMMONS: Screaming. Is that any good?

'Oh, my God.' Rory said. 'They're hurting it!'

[The scene switches to an office. Adam is showing his boss the latest purchases.)

ADAM: And this is the last. Paid eight hundred thousand dollars for it.

(The Doctor, Rose and Goddard enter.)
VAN STATTEN: What does it do?

ADAM: Well, you see the tubes on the side? It must be to channel something. I think maybe fuel.

DOCTOR: I really wouldn't hold it like that.

GODDARD: Shut it.

DOCTOR: Really, though, that's wrong.

ADAM: Is it dangerous?

DOCTOR: No, it just looks silly.
(The Doctor reaches for the item, and firing bolts click all around him. Van Stratton hands him the curved, palm sized object.)
DOCTOR: You just need to be

(The Doctor strokes the artefact and it makes a note.)
DOCTOR: Delicate.

(He plays several different notes.)
VAN STATTEN: It's a musical instrument.

DOCTOR: And it's a long way from home.

VAN STATTEN: Here, let me.

(Van Statten's touch is harsher. Not nice sounds are produced.)
DOCTOR: I did say delicate. It reacts to the smallest fingerprint. It needs precision.
(Van Statten finally gets the hang of it.)
DOCTOR: Very good. Quite the expert.
VAN STATTEN: As are you.

(Van Statton casually tosses it aside, onto the floor.)
VAN STATTEN: Who exactly are you?

DOCTOR: I'm the Doctor. And who are you?

VAN STATTEN: Like you don't know. We're hidden away with the most valuable collection of extra-terrestrial artefacts in the world, and you just stumbled in by mistake.

DOCTOR: Pretty much sums me up, yeah.

A few of the companions smirked. 'Mad man in a blue box.' Amy murmured fondly.

VAN STATTEN: The question is, how did you get in? Fifty three floors down, with your little cat burglar accomplice. You're quite a collector yourself, she's rather pretty.

ROSE: She's going to smack you if you keep calling her she.

VAN STATTEN: She's English too! Hey, little Lord Fauntleroy. Got you a girlfriend.

ADAM: This is Mister Henry Van Statten.

ROSE: And who's he when he's at home?

ADAM: Mister Van Statten owns the internet.

ROSE: Don't be stupid. No one owns the internet.

VAN STATTEN: And let's just keep the whole world thinking that way, right kids?

DOCTOR: So you're just about an expert in everything except the things in your museum. Anything you don't understand, you lock up.
VAN STATTEN: And you claim greater knowledge?

DOCTOR: I don't need to make claims, I know how good I am.

VAN STATTEN: And yet, I captured you. Right next to the Cage. What were you doing down there?

DOCTOR: You tell me.

VAN STATTEN: The cage contains my one living specimen.

DOCTOR: And what's that?

VAN STATTEN: Like you don't know.

DOCTOR: Show me.

VAN STATTEN: You want to see it?

ROSE: Blimey, you can smell the testosterone.

VAN STATTEN: Goddard, inform the Cage we're heading down. You, English. Look after the girl. Go and canoodle or spoon or whatever it is you British do. And you, Doctor with no name, come and see my pet.

[Outside the Cage]

VAN STATTEN: We've tried everything. The creature has shielded itself but there's definite signs of life inside.

DOCTOR: Inside? Inside what?

SIMMONS: Welcome back, sir. I've had to take the power down. The Metaltron is resting.

DOCTOR: Metaltron?

VAN STATTEN: Thought of it myself. Good, isn't it? Although I'd much to prefer to find out its real name.

SIMMONS: Here, you'd better put these on. (gauntlets) The last guy that touched it burst into flames.

DOCTOR: I won't touch it then.

VAN STATTEN: Go ahead, Doctor. Impress me.

(The Doctor steps through the heavy door.)
VAN STATTEN: Don't open that door until we get a result.

(Van Statten and Goddard go to a desk with monitors on it.)

'Bastard!' Donna said. 'It could have killed you! Mind you, he's not as bad as my boss at Demwhicks. He picked his teeth with the coffee stirrers and-

[Cage]

(It is dark inside. The door clangs shut and locks.)

DOCTOR: Look, I'm sorry about this. Mister Van Statten might think he's clever, but never mind him. I've come to help. I'm the Doctor.

(A white light blinks next to a blue glow.)
METALTRON: Doc Tor?

DOCTOR: Impossible.

METALTRON: The Doctor?

(The voice is recognisable immediately. The lights come up to reveal a Dalek, in chains.)
DALEK: Exterminate! Exterminate!

(The Doctor hammers on the door in terror.)
DOCTOR: Let me out!

DALEK: Exterminate!

Rose gripped the seat of her chair and Nine placed his hand over hers in comfort. Amy and Rory looked befuddled, and River glanced carefully at Eleven. He was shaking, just slightly.

'Doctor. Uh, twelve.' Bill said. 'It's one of those…things. When we were being chased by the puddle – you took me to see those.'

[Outside the Cage]

GODDARD: Sir, it's going to kill him.

VAN STATTEN: It's talking!

[Cage]

DALEK: You are an enemy of the Daleks! You must be destroyed!
(Its gun arm twitches but nothing happens.)
DOCTOR: It's not working.

(The Doctor laughs as the Dalek looks at its impotent weapon.)
DOCTOR: Fantastic! Oh, fantastic! Powerless! Look at you. The great space dustbin. How does it feel?

DALEK: Keep back!

(The Doctor stands inches away, staring into its eyepiece.)
DOCTOR: What for? What're you going to do to me? If you can't kill, then what are you good for, Dalek? What's the point of you? You're nothing.

[Outside the Cage]

DOCTOR [on monitor]: What the hell are you here for?

DALEK [on monitor]: I am waiting for orders.

[Cage]

DOCTOR: What does that mean?

DALEK: I am a soldier. I was bred to receive orders.

DOCTOR: Well you're never going to get any. Not ever.

DALEK: I demand orders!

DOCTOR: They're never going to come! Your race is dead! You all burnt, all of you. Ten million ships on fire. The entire Dalek race wiped out in one Moment.

DALEK: You lie!

DOCTOR: I watched it happen. I made it happen.

DALEK: You destroyed us?

DOCTOR: I had no choice.

DALEK: And what of the Time Lords?

DOCTOR: Dead. They burnt with you. The end of the last great Time War. Everyone lost.

DALEK: And the coward survived.

'He did.' Jodie murmured. Everyone looked, but she didn't say anything more, just met Missy's eyes.

DOCTOR: Oh, and I caught your little signal. Help me. Poor little thing. But there's no one else coming 'cause there's no one else left.

DALEK: I am alone in the universe.

DOCTOR: Yep.

DALEK: So are you. We are the same.

DOCTOR: We're not the same! I'm not (pause) No, wait. Maybe we are. You're right. Yeah, okay. You've got a point. 'Cause I know what to do. I know what should happen. I know what you deserve. Exterminate.

(The Doctor pulls a lever on a nearby console and the Dalek is lit up with electricity.)
DALEK: Have pity!

DOCTOR: Why should I? You never did.

The TV paused there, despite it clearly not being the end. The companions shuffled in their seats, and Eleven stared determinedly at the floor.

'I was angry.' Ten said finally. 'Still am, I guess.' He ran a hand over his hair. It sprang right back into place.

'You were right to be, sweetie.' River said softly. 'All of you. I'd have been.'

'I'm sorry.' Donna said. 'Hard as it is to deal with one of you – I hate you being so alone. No one deserves that.'

'It's my – our – fault though.' Eleven said forlornly. 'We ended it. We damned ourselves.'

'It's difficult.' Older Rose said. 'Because on the one hand – things should be given second chances. Things are supposed to be able to get better, otherwise what's the point? And it's not entirely the Dalek's fault – if it was genetically engineered to feel nothing but hate, and anger, what else is it supposed to do? But there's no saving things like that.' She cleared her throat. 'Anyways – I'm not saying electrocuting it was right, but I can understand why you treated it differently to every other run-of-the-mill alien. Its personal. And humans so some pretty bad things too. Some of them have no feelings at all. And we blew up a couple of cities to end our war, and it worked. It was horrible, but less people died in that than they would have if the war continued. Not that it was good, and people are still suffering for it, but- we understand.'

'But.' Yaz said. 'The Dalek didn't show pity because it couldn't. The Doctor didn't show pity because he was angry.' She looked uncomfortable. 'There's a difference, I guess. It did deserve it though. If one of those killed my family, I'd blast it into the atmosphere.'

The TV un-paused.

[Outside the Cage]

VAN STATTEN: Get him out.

[Cage]

DALEK: Help me!

(Guards grab the Doctor as he goes to ramp up the voltage again.)
VAN STATTEN: I saved your life. Now talk to me. Goddamn it, talk to me!

(Simmons turns off the electricity.)
DOCTOR: You've got to destroy it!

(The Doctor is dragged out.)
VAN STATTEN: The last in the universe. And now I know your name. Dalek. Speak to me, Dalek. I am Henry van Statten, now recognise me! Make it talk again, Simmons. Whatever it takes.

'I'd smack him.' Donna said. 'So hard he'd see his bloody stars right up close.'

[The scene changes to appear in a small, cluttered office. ADAM and Rose are inside, standing sort of awkwardly.]

ADAM: Sorry about the mess. Mister Van Statten sort of lets me do my own thing, so long as I deliver the goods. What do you think that is?
(Adam gives Rose an inch think piece of metal.)
ROSE: Er, a lump of metal?

ADAM: Yeah. Yeah, but I think, well, I'm almost certain, it's from the hull of a spacecraft. The thing is, it's all true. Everything the United Nations tries to keep quiet, spacecraft, aliens, visitors to Earth. They really exist.

ROSE: That's amazing.

ADAM: I know it sounds incredible, but I honestly believe the whole universe is just teeming with life.

ROSE: I'm gobsmacked, yeah. And you do what, sit here and catalogue it?

ADAM: Best job in the world.

ROSE: Imagine if you could get out there. Travel amongst the stars and see it for real.

ADAM: Yeah, I'd give anything. I don't think it's ever going to happen. Not in our lifetimes.

ROSE: Oh, you never know. What about all those people who say they've been inside of spaceships and things and talked to aliens?

ADAM: I think they're nutters.

ROSE: Yeah, me too. So, how'd you end up here?

ADAM: Van Statten has agents all over the world looking for geniuses to recruit.

ROSE: Oh, right. You're a genius.

ADAM: Sorry, but yeah. I can't help it. I was born clever. When I was eight, I logged onto the US Defence System. Nearly caused World War Three.

ROSE: What, and that's funny, is it?

ADAM: Well, you should've been there just to see them running about. Fantastic!

ROSE: You sound like the Doctor.

ADAM: Are you and him?

ROSE: No, we're just friends.

ADAM: Good.

ROSE: Why is it good?

ADAM: It just is.

ROSE: So, wouldn't you rather be downstairs? I mean, you've got these bits of metal and stuff, but Mister Van Statten's got a living creature down there.

ADAM: Yeah. Yeah, well, I did ask, but he keeps it to himself. Although, if you're a genius, it doesn't take long to patch through on the comm. system.

ROSE: Let's have a look, then.

ADAM: It doesn't do much, the alien. It's weird. It's kind of useless. It's just like this great big pepper pot.

(They watch the Dalek screaming as Simmons takes a big drill to its casing.)
ROSE: It's being tortured! Where's the Doctor?

ADAM: I don't know.

ROSE: Take me down there. Now.

Amy smiled at Rose. Of course, she would feel outrage at that. Of course, she would care – she didn't know better. The Doctor knew how to pick them.

DOCTOR: The metal's just battle armour. The real Dalek creature's inside.

VAN STATTEN: What does it look like?

DOCTOR: A nightmare. It's a mutation. The Dalek race was genetically engineered. Every single emotion was removed except hate.

VAN STATTEN: Genetically engineered. By whom?

DOCTOR: By a genius, Van Statten. By a man who was king of his own little world. You'd like him.

GODDARD: It's been on Earth for over fifty years. Sold at a private auction, moving from one collection to another. Why would it be a threat now?

DOCTOR: Because I'm here. How did it get to Earth? Does anyone know?

GODDARD: The records say it came from the sky like a meteorite. It fell to Earth on the Ascension Islands. Burnt in its crater for three days before anybody could get near it and all that time it was screaming. It must have gone insane.

DOCTOR: It must have fallen through time. The only survivor.

GODDARD: You talked about a war?

DOCTOR: The Time War. The final battle between my people and the Dalek race.

VAN STATTEN: But you survived, too.

DOCTOR: Not by choice.

VAN STATTEN: This means that the Dalek isn't the only alien on Earth. Doctor, there's you. The only one of your kind in existence.

A brief meeting of eyes, and every companion joined forces to punch their respective Doctor in the shoulder.

'What was that for?' Eleven exclaimed, rubbing his arm. 'Pond!'

'Saying you want to die!' Amy announced. 'Shut up, I know you've died before. I mean properly. I refuse to listen to such nonsense.'

'Where would the universe be without the Doctor?' Rose said, and she grinned at her younger self. 'Where would any of us be? Wasting away my life in a shop? First thing he said to me, more or less; complaining about how all humans do is work, watch telly, and eat chips. Well, with him, we can see the universe too. So you can just shut up.'

[The Doctor is chained in a cage of his own, shirtless, arms spread out]

VAN STATTEN: Now, smile!
(A painful laser scan runs down the Doctor's body.)

VAN STATTEN: Two hearts! Binary vascular system. Oh, I am so going to patent this.

DOCTOR: So that's your secret. You don't just collect this stuff, you scavenge it.

VAN STATTEN: This technology has been falling to Earth for centuries. All it took was the right mind to use it properly. Oh, the advances I've made from alien junk. You have no idea, Doctor. Broadband? Roswell. Just last year my scientists cultivated bacteria from the Russian crater, and do you know what we found? The cure for the common cold. Kept it strictly within the laboratory of course. No need to get people excited. Why sell one cure when I can sell a thousand palliatives?

DOCTOR: Do you know what a Dalek is, Van Statten? A Dalek is honest. It does what it was born to do for the survival of its species. That creature in your dungeon is better than you.

VAN STATTEN: In that case, I will be true to myself and continue.

DOCTOR: Listen to me! That thing downstairs is going to kill every last one of us!

VAN STATTEN: Nothing can escape the Cage.
(He blasts the Doctor with the laser again.)

DOCTOR: But it's woken up. It knows I'm here. It's going to get out. Van Statten, I swear, no one on this base is safe. No one on this planet!
(Van Statten runs the laser scan again, and the Doctor screams)

[Outside the Cage]

BYWATER: Hold it right there.

ADAM: Level three access. Special clearance from Mister Van Statten.

[Cage]

ADAM: Don't get too close.

(The door closes behind Rose and Adam.)
ROSE: Hello. Are you in pain? My name's Rose Tyler. I've got a friend, he can help. He's called the Doctor. What's your name?

DALEK: Yes.

ROSE: What?

DALEK: I am in pain. They torture me, but still they fear me. Do you fear me?

ROSE: No.

DALEK: I am dying.

ROSE: No, we can help.

DALEK: I welcome death. But I am glad that before I die I have met a human who was not afraid.

ROSE: Isn't there anything I can do?

DALEK: My race is dead, and I shall die alone.
(Rose reaches for the Dalek's head.)

ADAM: Rose, no!
(A brief touch leaves a golden handprint which quickly fades. The Dalek becomes more animated.)

DALEK: Genetic material extrapolated. Initiate cellular reconstruction!
(The Dalek breaks its chains. Simmons enters.)

SIMMONS: What the hell have you done?

(He goes to the Dalek, carrying his drill. The Dalek raises its sink plunger.)
SIMMONS: What are you going to do? Sucker me to death? (That is exactly what the Dalek does, placing its suckers on either side of his head. It crumples. The man is dead.)

[Outside the Cage]

ROSE: It's killing him! Do something!
BYWATER: Condition red! Condition red!

[Doctor's cage]

GUARD [OC]: I repeat, this is not a drill!
DOCTOR: Release me if you want to live.

[Office]

(The scene in the Cage is on a large wall TV.)
DOCTOR: You've got to keep it in that cell.

ROSE [on screen]: Doctor, it's all my fault.
GUARD [on screen]: I've sealed the compartment. It can't get out, that lock's got a billion combinations.

DOCTOR: A Dalek's a genius. It can calculate a thousand billion combinations in one second flat.

[Outside the Cage]

(The Dalek places its sucker over the pad, running through the combinations so fast they are a blur.)
BYWATER: Open fire!

[Office]

VAN STATTEN: Don't shoot it! I want it unharmed.
DOCTOR: Rose, get out of there!

[Outside the Cage]

BYWATER: De Maggio, take the civilians and get them out alive. That is your job, got that?
(The woman guard obeys.)
DE MAGGIO: You, with me.

[Outside the Cage]

(The Dalek glides up to the wall monitor and smashes it, absorbing the electricity. It's battered armour starts to mend, turning from brown to golden.)
BYWATER: Abandoning the Cage, sir.

[Office]

GODDARD: We're losing power. It's draining the base. Oh, my God. It's draining entire power supplies for the whole of Utah.

DOCTOR: It's downloading.

VAN STATTEN: Downloading what?

GODDARD: Sir, the entire West Coast has gone down.
DOCTOR: It's not just energy. That Dalek just absorbed the entire internet. It knows everything.

[Outside the Cage]

DALEK: The Daleks survive in me!
(The Dalek uses its weapon on its surroundings.)

[Office]

GODDARD: The cameras in the vault have gone down.
DOCTOR: We've only got emergency power. It's eaten everything else. You've got to kill it now!
GODDARD: All guards to converge in the Metaltron cage, immediately.

[Corridor]

DE MAGGIO: Civilians! Let them through!
(Rose and Adam, and de Maggio, run through the incoming phalanx of guards.)
BYWATER: Cover the north wall. Red division, maintain suppressing fire along the perimeter. Blue division argh!
(The guard dies the traditional extermination death, by turning black and white and having his skeleton exposed. The guards open fire, but the Dalek just absorbs the bullets. It kills another man. More guards come up behind it, so it swivels its eyepiece around then its middle section turns to open fire on them. Back and forward it alternates, killing someone each time.)

[Office]

VAN STATTEN: Tell them to stop shooting at it.
GODDARD: But it's killing them!

VAN STATTEN: They're dispensable. That Dalek is unique. I don't want a scratch on its bodywork, do you hear me? Do you hear me?

(There is no one left alive to hear him, and the camera hovers over their bodies. Van Statten realises this, and looks grave for a moment, as if realising the danger they are all in.)
GODDARD: That's us, right below the surface. That's the cage, and that's the Dalek.

DOCTOR: This museum of yours. Have you got any alien weapons?

GODDARD: Lots of them, but the trouble is the Dalek's between us and them.
VAN STATTEN: We've got to keep that thing alive. We could just seal the entire vault, trap it down there.

DOCTOR: Leaving everyone trapped with it. Rose is down there. I won't let that happen. Have you got that? It's got to go through this area. What's that?
GODDARD: Weapons testing.

DOCTOR: Give guns to the technicians, the lawyers, anyone. Everyone. Only then have you got a chance of killing it.

[Staircase]

ROSE: Stairs! That's more like it. It hasn't got legs. It's stuck!
DE MAGGIO: It's coming! Get up!

(They run a flight and look down on the Dalek.)
ADAM: Great big alien death machine defeated by a flight of stairs.

DE MAGGIO: Now listen to me. I demand that you return to your cage. If you want to negotiate then I can guarantee that Mister van Statten will be willing to talk. I accept that we imprisoned you and maybe that was wrong, but people have died, and that stops right now. The killing stops. Have you got that? I demand that you surrender. Is that clear?

(The Dalek does not react to their mockery, its eye swivelling to them, above it. It waits a few more moments as if it is stumped.)
DALEK: Elevate.

'Oh, my god.' Donna murmured. 'There's just – nothing there. We are nothing to it. It sees a problem - a pleading human, a gun, stairs – and it just – solves it.'

(The Dalek glides up the stairs. It was never stuck.)
ROSE: Oh my God.

DE MAGGIO: Adam, get her out of here.

ROSE: Come with us. You can't stop it.

DE MAGGIO: Someone's got to try. Now get out! Don't look back. Just run.

(They do, charging down the hallway. They hear the Dalek's weapon discharge, and a scream. De Maggio is dead)

[Office]

VAN STATTEN: I thought you were the great expert, Doctor. If you're so impressive, then why not just reason with this Dalek? It must be willing to negotiate. There must be something it needs. Everything needs something.

DOCTOR: What's the nearest town?

VAN STATTEN: Salt Lake City.

DOCTOR: Population?

VAN STATTEN: One million.

DOCTOR: All dead. If the Dalek gets out, it'll murder every living creature. That's all it needs.
VAN STATTEN: But why would it do that?

DOCTOR: Because it honestly believes they should die. Human beings are different, and anything different is wrong. It's the ultimate in racial cleansing and you, Van Statten, you've let it loose! The Dalek's surrounded by a force field. The bullets are melting before they even hit home, but it's not indestructible.

[Loading bay]

DOCTOR [OC]: If you concentrate your fire, you might get through. Aim for the dome, the head, the eyepiece.

[Office]

DOCTOR: That's the weak spot.

[Loading bay]

COMMANDER: Thank you, Doctor, but I think I know how to fight one single tin robot. Positions!
(His men take cover behind various corners, packing cases, boxes and up on a catwalk with him. Rose and Adam run into view.)

'Idiot!' Rory yelled, startling everyone. He stuck his hands up in frustration.

'Faces no one listens to.' Eleven said solemnly.

COMMANDER: Hold your fire! You two, get the hell out of there!
(Rose and Adam run past a guard at the entrance. The Dalek enters, turns and zooms in on Rose's face. They get out of the bay.)

[Outside the loading bay]

ROSE: It was looking at me.

ADAM: Yeah, it wants to slaughter us.

ROSE: I know, but it was looking right at me.

ADAM: So? It's just a sort of metal eye thing. It's looking all around.

ROSE: I don't know. It's like there's something inside, looking at me, like, like it knows me.

[Loading bay]

COMMANDER: On my mark. Open fire!

[Office]

GODDARD: We've got vision.
DOCTOR: It wants us to see.

[Loading bay]

(The hail of bullets is having no effect. Then the Dalek starts to rise straight up into the air. It zaps the fire alarm and the sprinklers are set off. Once the concrete floor is covered with a layer of water, it fires downwards and electrocutes every wet person on the ground.)
COMMANDER: Fall back! Fall back!
(The Dalek exterminates kills him and the rest of his men with another strategic shot, then continues to hang there, water pouring down its shell, crying in the rain.)

[Office]

VAN STATTEN: Perhaps it's time for a new strategy. Maybe we should consider abandoning this place.

GODDARD: Except there's no power to the helipad, sir. We can't get out.

DOCTOR: You said we could seal the vault.

VAN STATTEN: It was designed to be a bunker in the event of nuclear war. Steel bulkheads
GODDARD: There's not enough power, those bulkheads are massive.

DOCTOR: We've got emergency power. We can re-route that to the bulkhead doors.

GODDARD: We'd have to bypass the security codes. That would take a computer genius.

VAN STATTEN: Good thing you've got me, then.

DOCTOR: You want to help?

VAN STATTEN: I don't want to die, Doctor. Simple as that. And nobody knows this software better than me.

GODDARD: Sir.
(The Dalek is back on the ground.)
DALEK [on screen]: I shall speak only to the Doctor.

DOCTOR: You're going to get rusty.

DALEK [on screen]: I fed off the DNA of Rose Tyler. Extrapolating the biomass of a time traveller regenerated me.

DOCTOR: What's your next trick?

DALEK [on screen]: I have been searching for the Daleks.

DOCTOR: Yeah, I saw. downloading the internet. What did you find?

[Loading bay]

DALEK: I scanned your satellites and radio telescopes.

[Office]

DOCTOR: And?
DALEK [on screen]: Nothing. Where shall I get my orders now?

DOCTOR: You're just a soldier without commands.

DALEK [on screen]: Then I shall follow the Primary Order, the Dalek instinct to destroy, to conquer.

DOCTOR: What for? What's the point? Don't you see it's all gone? Everything you were, everything you stood for.

[Loading bay]

DALEK: Then what should I do?

[Office]

DOCTOR: All right, then. If you want orders, follow this one. Kill yourself.

[Loading bay]

DALEK: The Daleks must survive!

[Office]

DOCTOR: The Daleks have failed! Why don't you finish the job and make the Daleks extinct. Rid the Universe of your filth. Why don't you just die?

[Loading bay]

DALEK: You would make a good Dalek.

The Dalek had to have the final word, the last laugh, and the Doctor is thrown for a moment. Twelve looks at the ground; he'd had that same sentiment extended to him, and the fact it had happened twice made him cold.

'Nah.' Amy said. 'No, Doctor. You're nothing like that – thing. Is that why we're here? To call you out every time you believe stuff like that? I can see why you're awful alone. You're an idiot. You'd be a terrible Dalek! A crying child brings you crashing to a halt, remember? A Dalek would never.'

[Office]

(The screen goes blank.)
DOCTOR: Seal the Vault.

VAN STATTEN: I can leech power off the ground defences, feed it to the bulkheads. God, it's been years since I had to work this fast.

DOCTOR: Are you enjoying this?
GODDARD: Doctor, she's still down there.

[Staircase]

(Rose's phone rings.)
ROSE: This isn't the best time.

DOCTOR [OC]: Where are you?
ROSE: Level forty nine.

[Office]

DOCTOR: You've got to keep moving. The vault's being sealed off up at level forty six.

[Staircase]

ROSE: Can't you stop them closing?

[Office]

DOCTOR: I'm the one who's closing them. I can't wait and I can't help you.

[Staircase]

DOCTOR [OC]: Now for God's sake, run.
(The Dalek is at level fifty one.)

[Office]

VAN STATTEN: Done it. We've got power to the bulkheads.
GODDARD: The Dalek's right behind them.

[Level 46]

ROSE: We're nearly there. Give us two seconds.

[Office]

VAN STATTEN: Doctor, I can't sustain the power. The whole system is failing. Doctor, you've got to close the bulkheads.
DOCTOR: I'm sorry.

[Level 46]

(The Doctor hits Enter. A klaxon sounds and the bulkhead starts to lower.)
ADAM: Come on!
(Adam rolls under the bulkhead with eighteen inches to spare.)

[Office]

VAN STATTEN: The vault is sealed.
DOCTOR: Rose, where are you? Rose, did you make it?

[Level 46]

ROSE: Sorry, I was a bit slow.
(The Dalek comes round the corner.)
ROSE: See you, then, Doctor. It wasn't your fault. Remember that, okay? It wasn't your fault.

[Office]

ROSE [OC]: And do you know what?

[Level 46]

ROSE: I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

[Office]

DALEK [OC]: Exterminate!
(Its laser fired, the sound clearly heard and chilling over the monitor.)

Despite it being apparent that Rose had lived – her sitting there proof of that – every one in the room felt the same rush of anxiety, either in memory of the event, or from uncertainty. It seemed even the Doctor was out of reach – and belief in the Doctor was a thing they all held dear.

DOCTOR: I killed her.

VAN STATTEN: I'm sorry.

DOCTOR: I said I'd protect her. She was only here because of me, and you're sorry? I could've killed that Dalek in it's cell, but you stopped me.

VAN STATTEN: It was the prize of my collection!

DOCTOR: Your collection? But was it worth it? Worth all those men's deaths? Worth Rose? Let me tell you something, Van Statten. Mankind goes into space to explore, to be part of something greater.

VAN STATTEN: Exactly! I wanted to touch the stars!

DOCTOR: You just want to drag the stars down and stick them underground, underneath tons of sand and dirt, and label them. You're about as far from the stars as you can get. And you took her down with you. She was nineteen years old.

[Level 46]

ROSE: Go on then, kill me. Why're you doing this?

DALEK: I am armed. I will kill. It is my purpose.

ROSE: They're all dead because of you.

DALEK: They are dead because of us.

ROSE: And now what? What're you waiting for?

DALEK: I feel your fear.

ROSE: What do you expect?

DALEK: Daleks do not fear. Must not fear.

(The Dalek shoots at either side of the bulkhead door.)
DALEK: You gave me life. What else have you given me? I am contaminated.

[Office]

(Adam enters.)
DOCTOR: You were quick on your feet, leaving Rose behind.
ADAM: I'm not the one who sealed the vault!

DALEK [on screen]: Open the bulkhead or Rose Tyler dies.

DOCTOR: You're alive!

ROSE [on screen]: Can't get rid of me.

DOCTOR: I thought you were dead.

DALEK [on screen]: Open the bulkhead!

ROSE [on screen]: Don't do it!

DALEK [on screen]: What use are emotions if you will not save the woman you love?
DOCTOR: I killed her once. I can't do it again.

(He opens the bulkhead again. Rose and the Dalek walk through.)
VAN STATTEN: What do we do now, you bleeding heart. What the hell do we do?
ADAM: Kill it when it gets here.

GODDARD: All the guns are useless, and the alien weapons are in the vault.
ADAM: Only the catalogued ones.

'Woman you love, Doctor?' Amy said teasingly to Eleven – and he flushed, of course he did. He was nothing if not predictable.

[Adam's workshop]

DOCTOR: Broken. Broken. Hairdryer.

ADAM: Mister Van Statten tends to dispose of his staff, and when he does he wipes their memory. I kept this stuff in case I needed to fight my way out one day.
DOCTOR: What, you in a fight? I'd like to see that.

ADAM: I could do.
DOCTOR: What're you going to do, throw your A-Levels at 'em? Oh, yes. Lock and load.

[Lift]

ROSE: I'm begging you, don't kill them. You didn't kill me.
DALEK: But why not? Why are you alive? My function is to kill. What am I? What am I?

[Office]

ROSE: Don't move. Don't do anything. It's beginning to question itself.
DALEK: Van Statten. You tortured me. Why?
VAN STATTEN: I wanted to help you. I just, I don't know. I was trying to help. I thought if we could get through to you, if we could mend you. I wanted you better. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry! I swear, I just wanted you to talk!

(Van Statten is backed up against the wall.)
DALEK: Then hear me talk now. Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!

ROSE: Don't do it! Don't kill him! You don't have to do this anymore. There must be something else, not just killing. What else is there? What do you want?
DALEK: I want freedom.

(The Doctor is running up the stairs with an almost comically-oversized gun and a grim expression.)

'Freedom?' Bill said. 'Weird. I thought they couldn't feel. I dunno, though, if I was stuck in that ugly thing all my life I'd probably want freedom too.'

(The Dalek blasts a hole in the roof, and a shaft of sunlight streams down straight onto its eyepiece.)
ROSE: You're out. You made it. I never thought I'd feel the sunlight again.

DALEK: How does it feel?
(The Dalek opens its middle and dome sections to reveal the one-eyed mutant within. It holds out a tendril.)

DOCTOR: Get out of the way. Rose, get out of the way now!
ROSE: No. I won't let you do this.

DOCTOR: That thing killed hundreds of people.
ROSE: It's not the one pointing the gun at me.

DOCTOR: I've got to do this. I've got to end it. The Daleks destroyed my home, my people. I've got nothing left.

ROSE: Look at it.
DOCTOR: What's it doing?

ROSE: It's the sunlight, that's all it wants.
DOCTOR: But it can't

ROSE: It couldn't kill Van Statten, it couldn't kill me. It's changing. What about you, Doctor? What the hell are you changing into?

DOCTOR: I couldn't- I wasn't- Oh, Rose. They're all dead.
DALEK: Why do we survive?
DOCTOR: I don't know.
DALEK: I am the last of the Daleks.

DOCTOR: You're not even that. Rose did more than regenerate you. You've absorbed her DNA. You're mutating.
DALEK: Into what?

DOCTOR: Something new. I'm sorry.
ROSE: Isn't that better?

DOCTOR: Not for a Dalek.
DALEK: I can feel so many ideas. So much darkness. Rose, give me orders. Order me to die.
ROSE: I can't do that.

DALEK: This is not life. This is sickness. I shall not be like you. Order my destruction! Obey! Obey! Obey!
ROSE: Do it.

DALEK: Are you frightened, Rose Tyler?
ROSE: Yeah.
DALEK: So am I. Exterminate.
(The Dalek shuts its eye. Rose retreats as it closes up its armour again then rises into the air. The balls on its lower body spread out around it creating a forcefield, then it implodes safely.)

Amy was surprised to find herself wiping away tears – the plight of the Doctor, the beauty of the Dalek dying having felt sunlight; the solidarity of the Doctor and the Dalek, the last of their doomed races – the Dalek gaining emotions in time to die. Feeling fear, for the first time. 'You've got us, Doctor.' She whispered. 'You've always got your friends.'

[Corridor]

(Van Statten is under guard, wherever they came from.)
VAN STATTEN: What the hell are you doing?
GODDARD: Two hundred personnel dead, and all because of you, sir. Take him away, wipe his memory, and leave him by the road someplace.
VAN STATTEN: You can't do this to me. I am Henry van Statten!
GODDARD: And by tonight, Henry van Statten will be a homeless, brainless junkie living on the streets of San Diego, Seattle, Sacramento. Someplace beginning with S.

(It has come full circle with him.)

Museum]

DOCTOR: A little piece of home. Better than nothing.
ROSE: Is that the end of it, the Time War?

DOCTOR: I'm the only one left. I win. How about that?
ROSE: The Dalek survived. Maybe some of your people did too.

DOCTOR: I'd know. In here. (his head) Feels like there's no one.
ROSE: Well then, good thing I'm not going anywhere.

DOCTOR: Yeah.
ADAM: We'd better get out. Van Statten's disappeared. They're closing down the base. Goddard says they're going to fill it full of cement, like it never existed.
ROSE: About time.

ADAM: I'll have to go back home.
DOCTOR: Better hurry up then. Next flight to Heathrow leaves at fifteen hundred hours.
ROSE: Adam was saying that all his life he wanted to see the stars.

DOCTOR: Tell him to go and stand outside, then.
ROSE: He's all on his own, Doctor, and he did help.
DOCTOR: He left you down there.

ROSE: So did you.
ADAM: What're you talking about? We've got to leave.
DOCTOR: Plus, he's a bit pretty.

ROSE: I hadn't noticed.
DOCTOR: On your own head.
(The Doctor unlocks the Tardis.)

ADAM: What're you doing? She said cement. She wasn't joking. We're going to get sealed in.
(The Doctor and Rose go inside the Tardis.)

ADAM: Doctor? What're you doing standing inside a box? Rose?
(Adam creeps inside the Tardis, and it dematerialises.)

Rose groaned, putting her head in her hands. Both remembered how awful Adam had been, though perhaps he hadn't deserved his fate. They hoped they wouldn't have to watch that.

On screen, the end-credits rolled, and a small icon appeared. Next Episode. It appeared to be loading, but before it could finish, it cut to black.