04x05 - The Poison Sky (2)

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04x05 - The Poison Sky (2)

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Recap of Episode 4.

OPENING CREDITS

DONNA: He's gonna choke! Doctor!

DOCTOR: It won't open!

Sylvia rushes to the car with an axe and smashes the windscreen.

SYLVIA: Well, don't just stand there! Get him out!

UNIT OFFICER: All soldiers to a door! Make the factory secure and take positions on the ground floor!

COLONEL MACE: Wicowsky, take the soldiers into the factory! Make the area secure. Seal off doors and windows.

Soldiers are pushing the cars out of the factory.

SOLDIER: We've tried everything, it just won't stop!

Colonel Mace goes into the UNIT field base.

COLONEL MACE: What have we got?

CAPTAIN PRICE: ATMOS is running wild, sir. It can't be stopped, it's everywhere. The whole planet.

The Martha clone enters the UNIT base and uses Martha's level 1 security clearance to get into the NATO defence system.

WILF: Thanks!

DONNA: I can't believe you've got an axe!

SYLVIA: Burglars!

DOCTOR: Get inside the house. Just try and close off the doors and windows.

Ross pulls up in a black cab.

ROSS: Doctor! This is all I could find that hasn't got ATMOS.

The Doctor runs to the cab, shouting back to Donna who is still with Wilf and Sylvia.

DOCTOR: Donna, you coming?

DONNA: Yeah!

SYLVIA: Donna! Don't go! Look what happens every time that Doctor appears! Stay with us, please.

WILF: You go my darling!

SYLVIA: Dad!

WILF: Don't listen to her! You go with the Doctor! That's my girl! ...

Donna gets into the cab, though feeling guilty to leave her family.

WILF: Bye!

The Martha clone downloads the security protocols to her PDA.

COMMANDER SKORR: Success, the operative has the necessary information.

GENERAL STAAL: Good work for a female. Now she must be protected.

COMMANDER SKORR: I will prepare an att*ck squad.

He leaves.

LUKE: This is it, isn't it! Oh man, this is w*r!

GENERAL STAAL: How does it feel, boy?

LUKE: Magnificent!

NEWS 24 NEWSREADER: The Government has declared a state of emergency. People are being told to stay away from all cars with ATMOS devices attached.

AMNN NEWSREADER: The gas appears to be toxic. We are warning anyone and everyone, stay away from the cars. Repeat, stay away from your cars.

The taxi pulls up to the ATMOS factory, the Doctor and Donna exit.

DOCTOR: Ross, look after yourself, get inside the building.

ROSS: Will do. (Over radio) Greyhound 40 to Trap 1, I have just returned the Doctor to base safe and sound, over.

The Martha clone is hears Ross and hurries to Colonel Mace.

COLONEL MACE (over radio): Trap 1, received. Over.

MARTHA CLONE: Sir, message from the Doctor, he says Code Red Sontaran.

COLONEL MACE (over radio): All troops, Code Red Sontaran. Code Red Sontaran.

DONNA: The air is disgusting!

DOCTOR: It's not so bad for me, go on, get inside the TARDIS. Oh, never given you a key! (He pulls out a key). Keep that! Go on, that's yours! Quite a big moment really!

DONNA: Yeah, maybe we can get sentimental after the world's finished choking to death!

DOCTOR: Good idea!

DONNA: Where are you going?

DOCTOR: Stop a w*r!

He rushes to the UNIT field base while Donna runs to the TARDIS.

DOCTOR: Right then, here I am, good. Whatever you do, Colonel Mace, do not engage the Sontarans in battle, there is nothing they like better than a w*r. Just leave this to me.

COLONEL MACE: And what are you going to do?

DOCTOR: I've got the TARDIS, I'm gonna get on board their ship.

The Martha clone presses a button on the PDA, the hypnotised privates activate.

DOCTOR (to the Martha clone): Come on!

The privates place devices on the TARDIS.

PRIVATE HARRIS: Ready for transport.

The TARDIS is teleported to the Sontaran ship, with Donna inside.

GENERAL STAAL: The spoils of w*r! The Doctor's infamous vessel in Sontaran hands.

LUKE: It's time I made a move, sir, I have soldiers of my own. I'll tell them of the honour and the glory, sir! I'll tell them that Planetfall is coming!

He teleports back to Earth.

COMMANDER SKORR: He is behaving exactly as predicted, sir.

Donna peeks out of the TARDIS door, then quickly closes it as she glimpses the Sontarans.

GENERAL STAAL: None of the humans can guess our true purpose.

The Doctor runs down the alleyway to find the TARDIS gone.

MARTHA CLONE: But... where's the TARDIS?

DOCTOR: Taste that, in the air. Yecch. That sort of metal tang. Teleport exchange. It's the Sontarans, they've taken it. I'm stuck, on Earth like... like an ordinary person. Like a human! How rubbish is that! Sorry, no offence, but come on!

MARTHA CLONE: So what do we do?

DOCTOR: Well... I mean it's shielded, they could never detect it.

He stares at her.

MARTHA CLONE: What?

DOCTOR: I'm just wondering, have you phoned your family and Tom?

MARTHA CLONE: No, what for?

DOCTOR: The gas. Tell them to stay inside.

MARTHA CLONE: Course I will, yeah, but, what about Donna? I mean, where's she?

DOCTOR: Oh, she's gone home. She's not like you, she's not a soldier. Right. So, avanti!

Rattigan's students look out over London.

LUKE: Leave it. Turn away. Civilisation is falling!

MALE STUDENT: But it's all over the news, sir, it's everywhere. Paris and New York.

LUKE: It's time I told you, all of you. It's time I revealed what our work has been for!

The Doctor and the Martha clone enter the UNIT base.

DOCTOR: Change of plan!

COLONEL MACE: Good to have you fighting alongside us, Doctor.

DOCTOR: I'm not fighting, I'm not-fighting, as in not hyphen fighting, got it? Now, does anyone know what this gas is yet?

MARTHA CLONE: We're working on it.

CAPTAIN PRICE: It's harmful, but not lethal until it reaches 80% density. We're having the first reports of deaths from the centre of Tokyo City.

DOCTOR: And who are you?

CAPTAIN PRICE (salutes): Captain Marion Price, sir.

DOCTOR: Oh, put your hand down. Don't salute.

COLONEL MACE: Jodrell Bank's traced a signal, Doctor, coming from 5000 miles above the Earth. We're guessing that's what triggered the cars.

DOCTOR: The Sontaran ship.

COLONEL MACE: NATO has gone to Defcon One, we're preparing a strike.

DOCTOR: You can't do that, nuclear missiles won't even scratch the surface. Let me talk to the Sontarans.

COLONEL MACE: You're not authorised to speak on behalf of the Earth.

DOCTOR: I've got that authority, I earned that a long time ago. (He uses the sonic screwdriver to connect the UNIT systems to the Sontaran ship). Calling the Sontaran Command Ship under Jurisdiction Two of the Intergalactic Rules of Engagement. This is The Doctor.

The transmission is also received inside the TARDIS. For a split second, Rose Tyler appears on a screen, but fades away before Donna gets there, so she only sees the Doctor calling from the UNIT base.

DONNA: Doctor, I'm here, can you hear me?

GENERAL STAAL: Doctor, breathing your last?

COLONEL MACE: My God, they're like trolls.

DOCTOR (to the Colonel): Yeah, loving the diplomacy, thanks. (Louder, to the Sontarans) So, tell me, General Staal, since when did you lot become cowards?

GENERAL STAAL: How dare you!

COLONEL MACE: Oh, that's diplomacy?

GENERAL STAAL: Doctor, you impugn my honour!

DOCTOR: Yeah, I'm really glad you didn't say belittle cos then I'd have a field day. But poison gas? That's the w*apon of a coward and you know it. Staal, you could blast this planet out of the sky, and yet you're sitting up above watching it die. Where's the fight in that? Where's the honour? Or, are you lot planning something else? Cos this isn't normal Sontaran warfare. What are you lot up to?

GENERAL STAAL: A general would be unwise to reveal his strategy to the opposing forces.

DOCTOR: Aaah, the w*r's not going so well, then? Losing, are we?

GENERAL STAAL: Such a suggestion is impossible.

COLONEL MACE: What w*r?

DOCTOR: The w*r between the Sontarans and the Rutans. It's been raging, far out in the stars for 50,000 years. 50,000 years of bloodshed, and for what?

GENERAL STAAL: For victory. Sontar-ha!

SONTARANS: Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha!

DOCTOR (rolling the eyes): Give me a break.

He pulls out the sonic screwdriver and changes the channel to the cartoon, Tommy Zoom.

COLONEL MACE: Doctor. I would seriously recommend that this dialogue is handled by official Earth representation.

The Doctor sonics the channel back to the Sontaran ship.

DOCTOR: Finished?

GENERAL STAAL: You will not be so quick to ridicule when you'll see our prize. Behold! (He gestures to the TARDIS behind him). We are the first Sontarans in history to capture a TARDIS.

DOCTOR: Well. As prizes go, that's... noble. (Donna is watching the Doctor on a screen). As they say in Latin, Donna nobis pacem.

DONNA: That's me. I'm here!

DOCTOR: Did you never wonder about its design? It's phone box. It contains a phone. A telephonic device for communication. Sort of symbolic. Like if only we could communicate. You and I.

GENERAL STAAL: All you have communicated is your distress, Doctor.

DONNA: Oh my god.

She picks up Martha's mobile and opens it.

DOCTOR: Big mistake though. Showing it to me.

DONNA: But who do I phone?

DOCTOR (lifting up a device): Cos I've got remote control.

GENERAL STAAL: Cease transmission!

DONNA: Doctor, what number are you on?

The screen goes black.

DONNA: You haven't even got a number!

GENERAL STAAL: Remove the box from the w*r Room, beyond the transmission field.

DOCTOR: Oh, well.

He gets up.

COLONEL MACE: That's achieved nothing.

DOCTOR: Oh, you'd be surprised.

Donna is thrown around the TARDIS as a group of Sontarans push the TARDIS away.

DONNA: But what do I do?

LUKE: All this stuff we've been building. All this invention. Where's it been heading? Gravity intensifiers, hydroponics, atmospheric conversion, ecoshell. More then enough to build a brand new world!

MALE STUDENT: Luke, we haven't got time for this. I've got to find my parents.

LUKE: Oh, but this isn't just theory. I'm talking Planetfall. For all of us. A brand new start for a brand new human race. Look. (He opens a 3-D projection of a planet). A new world. Far out. Beyond Alpha Geminorium, just waiting for us. Its official destination is Castor 36. I think of it as Earth Point Two. I did wonder about Rattigan's World, but... we can take a vote on that.

MALE STUDENT: What the hell are you on about?

LUKE: This is where we're going. I have partners willing to take us there.

FEMALE STUDENT: Oh, he's lost it. I haven't got time for this.

LUKE (turning the projector off): Excuse me, I haven't finished. Where are you going?

FEMALE STUDENT: To find my brother.

LUKE: I didn't say you could leave.

FEMALE STUDENT: I told him to put ATMOS is his car. I've got to go and help him.

LUKE (pulling out a g*n): Stay where you are!

FEMALE STUDENT: What do you think your doing?

MALE STUDENT: Luke. Put that down.

LUKE: But... I did this for you. Don't you see? We've spent all our lives excluded. The clever ones. They... They've laughed at us. And pulled us down. Those ordinary people out there. Those cattle. This is our chance to leave them behind!

MALE STUDENT: You mean you want them dead?

LUKE: And I chose you to survive! With Planetfall we can start again. We can build, and breed. We can prosper, we can do anything!

FEMALE STUDENT: We're going to breed?

LUKE: I've designed a mating program. I've planned the whole thing.

FEMALE STUDENT: Well then. sh**t me!

She leaves.

LUKE: Stay where you are. Stay where you are I said. Stay where you are! (Students start to run out of the room). Stay where you are, that's an order!

He lowers the g*n as most of the students leave the room.

MALE STUDENT: Castor 36? You're just sick.

He goes too, leaving Luke alone in the room.

LUKE (manically): Guess that just proves it! I'm cleverer then you! I'm cleverer then everyone! D'you hear me! (Shouting and stamping his feet). I'm clever! !

NEWS 24 NEWSREADER: The United Nations has issued a directive worldwide, telling urban populations to stay indoors. Those in rural areas are being ordered to stay away from all major cities. There are reports from every country in Europe of thousands of people walking across country to escape. And on the Eastern seaboard of America it's said to be reminiscent of Dunkirk, with boats taking refugees out into the Atlantic.

AMNN NEWSREADER: With the freeways blocked by ATMOS cars, populations of major cities are now walking across open country to escape the fumes. It is being likened to a Biblical plague. Some are calling this the End of Days.

Donna phones home.

DONNA: Mum? You all right?

SYLVIA: Donna! Where are you sweetheart?

WILF: Is that her?

SYLVIA: Oh, just finish the job. Your granddad's sealing us in. He's sealing the windows. Our own house, and we're sealed in! All those things they said about pollution and ozone and carbon, they're really happening aren't they?

DONNA: There's people working on it, Mum. They're gonna fix it, I promise.

SYLVIA: Oh, like you'd know, you're so clever?

DONNA: Oh don't start. Please, don't.

SYLVIA: I'm sorry. I wish you were here.

WILF: Now, come on Sylvia, look. That doesn't help. (He takes the receiver from his daughter). Donna? Where are you?

DONNA: It's sort of hard to say. You all right?

WILF: Yeah, fighting fit, yeah. Is he with you, the Doctor?

SYLVIA: Oh, the Doctor!

DONNA: No. I'm all on my own.

WILF: Look, you promised he was gonna look after you.

DONNA: He will, Gramps. There's... something he needs me to do. I just don't know what.

WILF: Well, I mean, the whole place is covered, the whole of London they're saying and the whole, the whole world. It's the scale of it, Donna. I mean, how can one man stop all that?

DONNA: Trust me. He can do it.

WILF: Yeah, well if he doesn't, you tell him he'll have to answer to me.

DONNA: I will. Just as soon as I see him, I'll tell him.

WILF: Huh.

Wilf puts the phone down, and Donna ends the call. Sylvia looks out at the fog engulfed streets.

The Doctor snatches a clipboard from the Martha clone.

MARTHA CLONE: There's carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides but 10% unidentified. Some sort of artificial heavy element we can't trace. You ever seen anything like it?

DOCTOR: Must be something the Sontarans invented. This isn't just poison, they need this gas for something else. What could that be?

CAPTAIN PRICE: Launch grid online and active.

COLONEL MACE: Positions ladies and gentlemen, Defcon One initiatives in progress.

DOCTOR: What?! I told you not to launch!

COLONEL MACE: The gas is at 60% density, 80% and people start dying, Doctor. We've got no choice.

CAPTAIN PRICE: Launching in 60, 59, 58, 57, 56... Worldwide nuclear grid now co-ordinating. 54, 53...

The Sontarans are following the events on their ship.

GENERAL STAAL: Hah! The planet is going nuclear! I admire them. The bravery of idiots is bravery nonetheless.

SONTARAN: The operative is in place, sir.

GENERAL STAAL: Commander Skorr! Is the att*ck squad ready?

COMMANDER SKORR: Ready and eager for battle, sir. We've been watching for long enough, it'll be good to taste blood.

DOCTOR: You're making a mistake, Colonel! For once, I hope the Sontarans are ahead of you.

CAPTAIN PRICE: North America, online. United Kingdom, online. France, online. India, online. Pakistan, online. China, online. North Korea, online. All systems locked and co-ordinated. Launching in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5...

COLONEL MACE: God save us.

CAPTAIN PRICE: ...4, 3, 2, 1...

The Martha clone presses "No" on her PDA.

CAPTAIN PRICE: 0.

The screen shuts off.

COLONEL MACE: What is it? What happened? Did we launch? Well, did we?

CAPTAIN PRICE: Negative, sir. The launch codes have been wiped, sir. It must be the Sontarans.

COLONEL MACE: Can we override it?

CAPTAIN PRICE: Trying it now, sir.

DOCTOR: Missiles wouldn't even dent that ship, so why are the Sontarans so keen to stop you? (Looking at the clone). Any ideas?

MARTHA CLONE: How should I know?

GENERAL STAAL: Now protect the operative.

Sontarans march through the factory. Ross is guarding a deserted corridor with four more soldiers.

ROSS: Stinking out there.

The other soldiers chat. Ross hears something.

ROSS: Shhh! Keep it down lads.

Sontarans come down the corridor.

ROSS (over radio): Enemy within! At arms! Greyhound 40 declaring absolute emergency. Sontarans within factory grounds, east corridor grid six.

COLONEL MACE (over radio): Absolute emergency, declaring Code Red. All troops, Code Red!

DOCTOR: Get them out of there!

COLONEL MACE (over radio): All troops, open fire!

The soldiers try to fire but their g*ns only click.

ROSS (over radio): The g*ns aren't working. Inform all troops, standard weapons do not work.

The Sontarans sh**t at the soldiers, who fall to the ground, screaming.

ROSS (over radio): Tell the Doctor it's that Cordolaine signal. He's the only one who can stop them.

The Sontarans sh**t Ross, he falls to the ground. Static from the radio.

COLONEL MACE: Greyhound 40, report. Over. Greyhound 40, report. Greyhound 40, report!

DOCTOR: He wasn't Greyhound 40, his name was Ross. Now listen to me, and get them out of there!

COLONEL MACE: Trap One to all stations. Retreat. Order imperative, immediate retreat!

Soldiers are running everywhere trying to get away.

SOLDIER: Retreat! Retreat!

The Sontarans march out and start sh**ting everyone down. Chaos everywhere. Private Gray and Private Harris walk out and address a Sontaran.

PRIVATE GRAY / PRIVATE HARRIS: Reporting for duty, sir!

The Sontaran walks past, then turns back and sh**t them.

COMMANDER SKORR: This is too easy! Their running like slimebait from a speelfox.

Sontarans continue to sh**t UNIT soldiers.

COMMANDER SKORR (laughing): This isn't w*r, this is sport!

The factory doors slide down sealing the Sontarans inside.

COLONEL MACE: They've taken the factory.

DOCTOR: Why? They don't need it. Why att*ck now? What are they up to? Times like this, I could do with the Brigadier. No offence.

COLONEL MACE: None taken. Sir Alistair's a fine man, if not the best. Unfortunately he's stranded in Peru.

CAPTAIN PRICE: Launch grid back online.

The computer screens turn on to show a map of the world. The Martha clone presses No Launch on her PDA. The screens go black again.

CAPTAIN PRICE: They're inside the system, sir. It's coming from within UNIT itself.

COLONEL MACE: Trace it. Find out where it's coming from, and quickly. Gas levels?

CAPTAIN PRICE: 66% in major population areas. And rising.

COMMANDER SKORR (over intercom): Commander Skorr reports victory with many glorious deaths.

Luke Rattigan appears in teleport.

LUKE: Sorry to report, sir, I've failed. They wouldn't come. The students, they... didn't have the imagination to believe.

GENERAL STAAL: A pity. We've lost our target practice!

LUKE: What do you mean?

GENERAL STAAL: Upon arrival on board this ship, your students would have been sh*t down. Perhaps they were more clever then you thought.

LUKE (looking hurt): You promised!

GENERAL STAAL: There was no Planetfall. Castor 36, indeed! We only needed you for installation of the ATMOS system.

LUKE: No, but... I'm on your side! I did everything you wanted! And it's not ATMOS system, that's a tautology. Just ATMOS.

GENERAL STAAL: Execute him!

Luke presses a button and teleports away.

GENERAL STAAL: A coward's retreat. Now close all teleport links to Earth. Isolate them, as they perish.

Luke lies on the floor of the teleport pod, crying.

COLONEL MACE: Why are they defending the factory only after we were inside?

DOCTOR: Because they wanted UNIT here. You gave them something they needed. Something now hidden inside the factory. Something precious.

COLONEL MACE: Then we've got to recover it. This Cordolaine signal thing, how does it work?

DOCTOR: The b*ll*ts. It causes expansion of the copper shell.

COLONEL MACE: Excellent. I'm on it.

He gets up and leaves.

DOCTOR: For the billionth time, you can't fight Sontarans!

He walks out too, and talks quietly to the nearest officer, so that the Martha clone can't hear them.

DOCTOR: Phone. Have you got a phone? I need your mobile, quickly, hurry up!

Someone hands him a mobile and he gets back to Colonel Mace's office to phone Donna.

DONNA: What's happened, where are you?

DOCTOR: Still on Earth. But don't worry, I've got my secret w*apon.

DONNA: What's that?

DOCTOR: You.

DONNA: Oh. Somehow that's not making me happy. Can't you just zap us down to Earth with that remote thing?

DOCTOR: Yeah, I haven't got a remote, though I really should. But I need you on that ship. That's why I made them move the TARDIS. I'm sorry, but you've got to go outside.

DONNA: But there's Sonterruns out there.

DOCTOR: Sontarans, but they'll all be on battle stations right now. They don't walk around having coffee. I can talk you through it.

DONNA: But what if they find me?

DOCTOR: I know, and I wouldn't ask, but there's nothing else I can do. The whole planet is choking, Donna.

DONNA (walking towards the TARDIS door): What d'you need me to do?

DOCTOR: The Sontarans are inside the factory which means they've got a teleport link with the ship, but they'll have deadlocked it. I need you to reopen the link.

DONNA: But, I can't even mend a fuse.

DOCTOR: Donna! Stop talking about yourself like that. You can do this. I promise.

Donna opens the TARDIS door to see a Sontaran a few feet away with his back to the TARDIS. She closes the door silently.

DONNA: There's a Sonterrun... Sontaran.

DOCTOR: Did he see you?

DONNA: No, he's got his back to me.

DOCTOR: Right, Donna, listen, on the back of his neck on his collar there's a sort of plug, like a hole. The Probic Vent. One blow to the Probic Vent knocks 'em out.

DONNA: But he's gonna k*ll me.

DOCTOR: I'm sorry. I swear I'm so sorry. But you've got to try.

She picks up the mallet that the Doctor uses so happily when piloting the TARDIS. She sneaks behind the Sontaran and hits his probic went, knocking him out.

DONNA (triumphant): Back of the neck!

DOCTOR: Now then you gotta find the external junction feed to the teleport.

DONNA: What... what's it look like?

DOCTOR: A circular panel on the wall. Big symbol on the front, like a, like a letter T with a horizontal line through it. Or, or two Fs back to back.

DONNA: Well, there's a door.

DOCTOR: Should be a switch by the side.

DONNA: Yeah there is. But it's Sontaran-shaped, you need three fingers.

DOCTOR: You've got three fingers.

DONNA: Oh, yeah!

She puts her hand into the pattern and the door slides open.

DONNA: I am through.

DOCTOR (kissing the phone): Oh, you are brilliant, you are.

DONNA: Shut up. Right. T with a line through it.

Colonel Mace returns to the UNIT base.

DOCTOR: Got to go. Keep the line open!

COLONEL MACE: Counter-att*ck!

DOCTOR: I said you don't stand a chance!

COLONEL MACE: Positions. That means everyone!

He throws a gas mask to the Doctor.

MARTHA CLONE: You're not going without me!

DOCTOR: Wouldn't dream of it.

On the spaceship, Donna hides into a shadowy corner when a troop of Sontarans marches past. Outside of the ATMOS factory, UNIT people gather. They're all wearing gas masks, so does the Doctor. Colonel Mace shows him a g*n.

COLONEL MACE: Latest f*ring stock, what do you think, Doctor?

DOCTOR: Are you my mummy?

COLONEL MACE: If you could concentrate. b*ll*ts with a rad-steel coating, no copper surface. Should overcome the Cordolaine signal.

DOCTOR: But the Sontarans have got lasers! You can't even see in this fog, the night-vision doesn't work.

COLONEL MACE: Thank you Doctor, thank you for your lack of faith. But this time, I'm not listening.

He pulls off the gas mask and addresses his soldiers.

COLONEL MACE: Attention, all troops! Sontarans might think of us as primitive. As does every passing species with an axe to grind. They make a mockery of our weapons, our soldiers, our ideals. But no more! From this point on, it stops. From this point on, the people of Earth fight back and we show them! We show the warriors of Sontar what the human race can do! Trap One to Hawk Major! Go, go, go!

Everyone looks up as a loud sound comes from the sky, the fog starts to clear and we get sight of the Valiant flying above.

COLONEL MACE: It's working! The area's clearing. Engines to maximum!

DOCTOR: It's the Valiant!

COLONEL MACE: UNIT Carrier Ship Valiant reporting for duty, Doctor! With engines strong enough to clear away the fog.

They take off the gas masks.

DOCTOR: Woah, that's brilliant!

COLONEL MACE: Getting a taste for it, Doctor?

DOCTOR: No, not at all. Not me.

COLONEL MACE: Valiant, fire at will!

A bunch of green beams unite and the Valiant fires at the ATMOS factory. At the same time, UNIT soldiers start an att*ck on the ground too. This time, it's the Sontarans who are overpowered.

COLONEL MACE: East and north secure. Doctor?

He rushes away with the soldiers.



DOCTOR (on the phone): Donna, hold on. I'm coming.

The Martha clone appears.

MARTHA CLONE: Shouldn't we follow the Colonel?

DOCTOR: Nah, you and me, Martha Jones. Just like old times!

She stops the nuclear launch one more time. The Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver to find their way.

DOCTOR: Alien technology, this way.

UNIT and Sontaran soldiers sh**ting each other everywhere. Commander Skorr is there, without helmet, obviously having a great time.

COMMANDER SKORR: The honour of battle. The glory!

The Doctor and the Martha clone head to the basement, following the signal. The place is deserted.

DOCTOR: No Sontarans down here. They can't resist a battle. Here we go.

They enter the clone lab, where the real Martha is still in hypnotic sleep. The Doctor runs to her.

DOCTOR: Ooh, Martha, I'm so sorry. (He checks her pulse). Still alive.

The Martha clone points a g*n at him, but he hardly looks at her.

DOCTOR: Am I supposed to be impressed?

MARTHA CLONE: Wish you carried a g*n now?

DOCTOR: Not at all.

MARTHA CLONE: I've been stopping the nuclear launch all this time.

DOCTOR: Doing exactly what I wanted. I needed to stop the missiles, just as much as the Sontarans. I'm not having Earth start an interstellar w*r. You're a triple agent!

MARTHA CLONE: When did you know?

DOCTOR: What, you? Oh, right from the start. Reduced iris contraction, slight thinning of the hair follicles on the left temple. And, frankly, you smell. You might as well have worn a T-shirt saying "clone". Although, maybe not in front of Captain Jack. You remember him, don't you? Cos you've got all her memories. That's why the Sontarans had to protect her, to keep you inside UNIT. Martha Jones is keeping you alive.

He pulls off the device from the real Martha's head. She awakes with a scream. At the same time the clone falls to the ground in agony. The Doctor kicks away the g*n that the clone has dropped, then hugs the real Martha.

DOCTOR: It's all right. It's all right, I'm here, I'm here. I've got you, got you.

MARTHA: There was this thing, Doctor, this alien, with this head...

The mobile rings.

DOCTOR: Oh, blimey I'm busy. Got it?

DONNA: Yes. Now hurry up!

DOCTOR: Take off the covering. All the blue switches inside, flick them up like a fusebox. And that should get the teleport working.

Martha looks around and sees the clone, sitting on the ground panting.

MARTHA: Oh, my God. That's me.

Commander Skorr walks on a corridor when Colonel Mace comes up behind him.

COLONEL MACE: You will face me, sir!

The Sontaran turns back, pleased for the fight. The Colonel sh**t him and he falls to the floor dying, but still seems happy.

COMMANDER SKORR: Wonderful.

In the clone lab, the Doctor is working on the teleport while the real Martha sits beside the clone.

MARTHA CLONE: Don't touch me!

MARTHA: It's not my fault. The Sontarans created you. But... you had all my memories.

MARTHA CLONE: You've got a brother, sister, mother and father.

MARTHA: If you don't help me, they're gonna die.

MARTHA CLONE: You love them.

MARTHA: Yes. Remember that?

DOCTOR (shouting from the teleport pod): The gas! Tell us about the gas.

MARTHA CLONE: He's the enemy!

MARTHA: Then tell me. It's not just poison, what's it for? Martha, please!

MARTHA CLONE: Caesofine concentrate. It's one part of Bosteen, two parts Probic 5.

DOCTOR: Clonefeed! It's clonefeed!

MARTHA: What's clonefeed?

DOCTOR: Like amniotic fluid for Sontarans. That's why they're not invading, they're converting the atmosphere. Changing the planet into a clone world. Earth becomes a great big hatchery. Cos the Sontarans are clones, that's how they reproduce. Give 'em a planet this big, they'll create billions of new soldiers. That gas isn't poison, it's food!

He goes back to work on the teleport.

MARTHA CLONE: My heart... It's getting slower.

MARTHA: There's nothing I can do.

MARTHA CLONE: In your mind, you've got so many plans. There's so much that you wanna do.

MARTHA: And I will. Never do tomorrow what you can do today, my mum says. Cos...

MARTHA CLONE: Cos you never know how long you've got. Martha Jones... All that life.

She dies. The real Martha pulls off her engagement ring from the clone's finger.

DONNA: Doctor.

The Doctor picks up the phone.

DONNA: Blue switches done. (A door slides open and Sontarans march in). But they've found me!

DOCTOR: Now!

He points the sonic screwdriver to the teleport pod, activating it. Donna, who was standing inside the pod on the Sontaran ship, disappears and reappears in the clone lab. She runs to hug the Doctor.

DONNA: Have I ever told you how much I hate you?

DOCTOR: Hold on, hold on. Get off me, get off me! Gotta bring the TARDIS down.

He sonics the teleport and the TARDIS is beamed back down.

DOCTOR: Right, now. Martha, you coming?

MARTHA: What about this nuclear launch thing?

DOCTOR: Just keep pressing N, we want to keep those missiles on the ground.

Donna catches sight of the dead clone.

DONNA: But there's... two of them.

DOCTOR: Yeah, long story. (All three get inside the teleport pod). Here we go. The old team, back together! Well, the new team.

DONNA: We're not going back on that ship!

DOCTOR: No, no, no. No. I needed to get the teleport working so that we could get to...

They teleport to the Rattigan Academy.

DOCTOR: ...here! The Rattigan Academy, owned by...

Luke points a g*n at them.

LUKE: Don't tell anyone what I did! It wasn't my fault, the Sontarans lied to me, they...

The Doctor grabs his g*n.

DOCTOR: If I see one more g*n...

He throws the g*n away.

DONNA (to Martha, who wears the Doctor's coat over her hospital-type gown): You know, that coat, sort of works.

MARTHA: Feel like a kid in my dad's clothes.

DONNA: Oh, well if you're calling him dad you're definitely getting over him.

SONTARAN: A human female on board ship. It could only be the Doctor's work and all the teleport systems have been deadlocked open.

GENERAL STAAL: No matter. Increase the ATMOS devices to maximum. Choke them! Behold, the cloneworld is born.

Alarm blares. Back on Earth, car engines rev. The gas is now also inside the Noble's house. Wilf puts a towel in the gap at the bottom of a door, then he goes to hug Sylvia, who sits on the ground crying.

WILF: Oh, my little girl. Come on, we'll be all right. We'll be all right. Donna said so. She promised. Come on, darling. It's all right.

The Doctor begins to assemble a device from things found in Luke's laboratory.

DOCTOR: That's why the Sontarans had to stop the missiles, they were holding back. Because, caesofine gas is volatile, that's why they had to use you to stop the nuclear att*ck. Ground-to-air engagement could've sparked off the whole thing.

MARTHA: What, like set fire to the atmosphere?

DOCTOR: Yeah. They need all the gas intact to breed their clone army. And all the time we had Luke here in his dream factory. Planning a little trip, were we?

LUKE: They promised me a new world.

DOCTOR: You were building equipment, ready to terraform El Mondo Luko so that humans could live there and breathe the air with this! An atmospheric converter.

GENERAL STAAL: Prepare to launch clone pods. We will breed across the surface of the Earth. For the glory of Sontar!

The Doctor runs outside with the atmospheric converter.

DONNA: That's London. You can't even see it. My family's in there.

DOCTOR: If I can get this on the right setting...

MARTHA: Doctor, hold on, you said the atmosphere would ignite.

DOCTOR: Yeah, I did, didn't I?

The Doctor presses a button and a flame sh**t up into the sky and the sky ignites. The Doctor crosses his fingers.

DOCTOR: Please, please, please, please, please, please, please...

Sylvia and Wilf look out of the window to see the sky aflame. UNIT look up at the burning sky.

SONTARAN: General Staal, sir!

GENERAL STAAL: What's happening?

Alarm blares. The Earth below is engulfed in flame. Then the fire clears to reveal the planet, blue and green as usual. Wilf, Sylvia and their neighbours come out of their houses and celebrate. UNIT soldiers cheer, Captain Price kisses Colonel Mace.

LUKE: He's a genius!

MARTHA: Just brilliant.

DOCTOR: Now we're in trouble!

He picks up the converter and runs back to the building.

GENERAL STAAL: It seems we must revert to Basic Sontaran Stratagem One. We will ravage this planet. Prepare Weapons! Wipe them out! Every last stinking human beast!

The Doctor gets inside the teleport pod with the atmospheric converter.

DOCTOR: Right, so... Donna, thank you. For everything. Martha, you too. Oh... so many times. Luke, do something clever with your life.

DONNA: You're saying goodbye.

DOCTOR: Sontarans are never defeated. They'll be getting ready for w*r. And, well, you know, I've recalibrated this for Sontaran air, so...

MARTHA: You're gonna ignite them.

DONNA: You'll k*ll yourself.

MARTHA: Just send that thing up, on it's own. I don't know... put it on a delay.

DOCTOR: I can't.

DONNA: Why not?

DOCTOR: I've got to give them a choice.

He teleports. Donna and Martha look the empty pod in despair. The Doctor appears on the Sontaran ship.

GENERAL STAAL: Oh, excellent!

DOCTOR: General Staal, you know what this is. But there's one more option. You can go. Just leave. Sontaran High Command need never know what happened here.

GENERAL STAAL: Your stratagem would be wise if Sontarans feared death. But we do not. At arms!

DOCTOR: I'll do it, Staal. If it saves the Earth, I'll do it.

GENERAL STAAL: A warrior doesn't talk, he acts!

DOCTOR: I am giving you the chance to leave.

GENERAL STAAL: And miss the glory of this moment?

SONTARAN VOICE FROM LOUDSPEAKERS: All weapons targeting Earth, sir. f*ring in 20.

DOCTOR: I'm warning you!

GENERAL STAAL: And I salute you! Take aim!

DOCTOR: sh**t me, I'm still gonna press this! You'll die, Staal.

GENERAL STAAL: Knowing that you die, too.

VOICE FROM LOUDSPEAKERS: f*ring in 15.

GENERAL STAAL: For the glory of Sontar! (He starts chanting). Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha!

SONTARANS: Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha!

DOCTOR: I'll do it!

GENERAL STAAL: Then do it!

Back on Earth, Luke is fiddling with the teleport pod.

MARTHA: What are you doing?

LUKE: Something clever.

Standing up, he pushes a key and teleports to the Sontaran ship, at the same time zapping the Doctor back to the Academy.

SONTARANS: Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha! Sontar-ha!

VOICE FROM LOUDSPEAKERS: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3...

The Sontarans stop chanting as they catch sight of Luke.

LUKE: Sontar? Ha!

He pushes the button of the converter.

VOICE FROM LOUDSPEAKERS: ...1.

The spaceship explodes before they could launch the strike on Earth. The Doctor appears in the teleport pod at the Rattigan Academy, looking confused. He climbs forward and sits to the edge of the pod, still shocked. Martha runs to him smiling and nestles by his side. Donna walks to them and gives the Doctor a big whack for worrying them so much, then grasps his arm, so relieved that he is alive.

Sylvia walks homeward with two big bags.

SYLVIA: Morning.

NEIGHBOUR: Morning.

SYLVIA: Walked all the way, won't catch me driving.

The neighbour gets into her car and pulls off the ATMOS sticker from the rear window. Sylvia enters the house and goes into the kitchen where Donna and Wilf are sitting.

SYLVIA: The streets are half-empty. People still aren't driving. There's kids on bikes all over the place, it's wonderful. Unpack that lot, I'm gonna see if Suzette's all right.

She puts the bags at the kitchen counter and leaves.

WILF: I won't tell her. Best not. Just keep it as our little secret, eh?

DONNA: Yeah.

WILF: And you go with him, that wonderful Doctor. You go and see the stars. And then bring a bit of 'em back, for your old Gramps.

She nods, then gets up to hug him and kisses his head.

DONNA: Love you.

She walks out, fighting back her tears. Donna enters the TARDIS.

MARTHA: How were they?

DONNA: Oh, same old stuff. (She wipes off a tear and tries to sound casual). They're fine. So! You gonna come with us? We're not exactly short of space.

MARTHA: Oh, I have missed all this, but, you know. I'm good here. Back at home. And I'm better for having been away. Besides, (she shows her engagement ring) someone needs me. Never mind the universe, I've got a great big world of my own now!

She walks towards the door, but suddenly it shuts and the TARDIS shakes wildly as it sets to flight. They all cling to different objects to hold their balance. Under the console, the hand in the jar is bubbles wildly.

DOCTOR: What? What!?

MARTHA: Doctor, don't you dare!

DOCTOR: No, no, no! I didn't touch anything! We're in flight, it's not me!

DONNA: Where are we going?

DOCTOR: I don't know, it's out of control!

MARTHA: Doctor, just listen to me! You take me home, take me home right now!

END
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