INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, MAP ROOM
A siren wails. In the smoky room, men and women in RAF uniforms are manning the phones and radio headsets as they keep track of an ongoing battle.
MALE OFFICER: Can't we shut that ruddy thing up?
WOMAN #1:(into headset)
If wishes were kisses... Hostile 36, confirm.
MALE OFFICER: Able Victor Charlie down.
A second woman enters with a clipboard.
WOMAN #2: 26 and 41 detailed to intercept.
WOMAN #1: 41? (removes headset) That's... that's Reg's squadron.
CHURCHILL enters the room and everyone stands to attention.
WOMAN #2: Sir.
CHURCHILL: How many?
MALE OFFICER: Looks like a dozen Heinkel at least, sir. With Messerschmidts flanking.
CHURCHILL: Out of range?
WOMAN #1: Normally, sir, yes.
CHURCHILL: (puffs on cigar)
Well, then. Time to roll out the secret w*apon!
The first woman nods, and with a long stick, pushes the figure of a Dalek across the map.
Matt Smith
Karen Gillan
DOCTOR WHO
"Victory of the Daleks"
by Mark Gatiss
Producer
Peter Bennett
Director
Andrew Gunn
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, STORAGE ROOM
The TARDIS materializes.
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, CHURCHILL'S OFFICE
CHURCHILL is working at his desk when a buzzer sounds. He smiles.
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, STORAGE ROOM
The DOCTOR steps out of the TARDIS and has soldiers pointing g*ns at him. The soldiers part for CHURCHILL.
DOCTOR: Amy... (holds out arm in introduction) Winston Churchill.
CHURCHILL: Doctor? Is it you?
AMY steps out and stares at CHURCHILL in amazement.
DOCTOR: Oh, Winston, my old friend! (goes to shake hands but CHURCHILL motions with his hand that he wants something) Ah, every time!
AMY: What's he after?
DOCTOR: TARDIS key, of course.
CHURCHILL: Think of what I could achieve with your remarkable machine, Doctor! The lives that could be saved!
DOCTOR: Ah, doesn't work like that. (closes TARDIS door)
CHURCHILL: Must I take it by force?
DOCTOR: I'd like to see you try.
CHURCHILL: At ease. (soldiers lower their r*fles)
DOCTOR: You rang?
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, CORRIDOR
The DOCTOR, AMY and CHURCHILL stride through the corridor as an air raid happens above. The DOCTOR has CHURCHILL'S cane.
CHURCHILL: So you've changed your face, again.
DOCTOR: Yeah, well, had a bit of work done.
AMY: Got it, got it, got it! Cabinet w*r Rooms, right?
DOCTOR: Yup. Top secret heart of the w*r Office, right under London.
CHURCHILL: You're late, by the way.
WOMAN #1: (hands CHURCHILL a clipboard and pen) Requisitions, sir.
CHURCHILL: Excellent.
DOCTOR: Late?
CHURCHILL: I rang you a month ago. (signs papers)
DOCTOR: Really? Sorry. Sorry, it's a Type 40 TARDIS. I'm just running her in.
CHURCHILL: (hands clipboard back) Something the matter, Breen? You look a little down in the dumps.
BREEN: (hugs clipboard) No, sir. Fine, sir.
CHURCHILL: Action this day, Breen! Action this day!
BREEN: Yes, sir. (nods, forces a smile and casts a glance AMY'S way before leaving)
OFFICER: Excuse me, sir, got another formation coming in, Prime Minister. Stukas, by the look of them.
CHURCHILL: We shall go up top then, Group Captain! We'll give 'em what for! Coming, Doctor?
DOCTOR: Why?
CHURCHILL: (snatches back cane) I have something to show you.
The DOCTOR mouths "Oooh" to AMY and she giggles.
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, LIFT
CHURCHILL starts the lift and puffs on his cigar. The DOCTOR waves the smoke away. AMY stands to the back.
CHURCHILL: We stand at a crossroads, Doctor. Quite alone, with our backs to the wall. Invasion is expected daily. So I will grasp with both hands anything that will give us an advantage over the n*zi menace.
DOCTOR: Such as?
The lift stops and CHURCHILL opens the gate.
CHURCHILL: Follow me.
EXT. NEW PUBLIC OFFICES, ROOFTOP, DAY
Amidst the sandbags on the roof, a man in a white coat is watching the sky with binoculars. The DOCTOR and AMY follow CHURCHILL.
AMY: Wow!
CHURCHILL: Doctor, this is Professor Edwin Bracewell, head of our Ironsides Project.
The DOCTOR holds up his hand with a "V for Victory".
BRACEWELL: How d'you do? (waves at them then looks through binoculars again)
A formation of German planes are approaching. The DOCTOR and AMY walk towards the edge and look out over London and its barrage balloons as the bombs drop.
AMY: Oh, Doctor... Doctor, it's...
DOCTOR: History.
CHURCHILL: Ready, Bracewell?
BRACEWELL: Aye-aye, sir. (gives "thumbs up") On my order! Fire!
From within a sandbagged area on the room, laser beams are fired at the German planes and they're destroyed.
AMY: What was that?
DOCTOR: That wasn't human, that was never human technology. That sounded like... Show me! Show me what that was! (climbs ladder to stand by BRACEWELL)
BRACEWELL: Advance!
CHURCHILL: Our new secret w*apon!
A Dalek trundles out. It is painted in Army khaki, a utility belt around it, a small Union Flag under the eyestalk and the lights on the top of the dome are covered. The DOCTOR watches, horrified.
CHURCHILL: What do you think? Quite something, eh?
DOCTOR: (Dalek POV) What are you doing here?
DALEK: I am your soldier.
DOCTOR: What?
DALEK: I am your soldier.
DOCTOR: Stop this. (Dalek POV) Stop now! You know who I am, you always know.
DALEK: Your identity is unknown.
BRACEWELL: Perhaps I can clarify things here, this is one of my Ironsides.
DOCTOR: Your what?
BRACEWELL: (to Dalek) You will help the Allied cause in any way that you can?
DALEK: Yes.
BRACEWELL: Until the Germans have been utterly smashed?
DALEK: Yes.
BRACEWELL: And what is your ultimate aim?
DALEK: To win the w*r!
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, CHURCHILL'S OFFICE
The DOCTOR looks at the diagrams and blueprints that clearly show a Dalek.
DOCTOR: They're Daleks! They're called Daleks!
CHURCHILL: They are Bracewell's Ironsides, Doctor! Look! Blueprints, statistics, field-tests, photographs. He invented them!
DOCTOR: Invented them? Oh, no, no, no!
CHURCHILL: Yes! He approached one of our brass hats a few months ago. Fella's a genius.
AMY: A Scottish genius, too. Maybe you should listen to...
DOCTOR: Shh! He didn't invent them! They're alien.
CHURCHILL: Alien?
A Dalek glides by the open doorway and the DOCTOR senses its presence, looking over his shoulder. The Dalek views the action in the room before continuing on.
DOCTOR: And totally hostile!
CHURCHILL: Precisely. They will win me the w*r! (turns over a blueprint to show a propaganda poster with a large Dalek)
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, CORRIDOR
DOCTOR: Why won't you listen? Why call me in if you won't listen to me?!
CHURCHILL: When I rang you a month ago, I must admit, I had my doubts. The Ironsides seemed too good to be true.
DOCTOR: Yes! Right! So destroy them! Exterminate them!
CHURCHILL: But imagine what I could do with a hundred! A thousand!
DOCTOR: I am imagining. (A courier Dalek passes them) Amy, tell him.
AMY: Tell him what?
DOCTOR: About the Daleks!
AMY: What would I know about the Daleks?
DOCTOR: Everything. They invaded your world, remember? Planets in the sky, you don't forget that! Amy... Tell me you remember the Daleks.
AMY: Nope, sorry.
DOCTOR: That's not possible.
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, MAP ROOM
Women are manning the radios and moving the figures on the map as required.
BREEN: And 6... 2357, over! 2357, over!
A Dalek glides past the DOCTOR and AMY as they enter.
DOCTOR: So they're up to something, but what is it? What are they after?
AMY: Well, let's just ask, shall we? (walks over to the Dalek)
DOCTOR: Amy... Amelia!
AMY taps on the Dalek's casing and it swivels to focus its eyestalk on her
DALEK: Can I be of assistance?
AMY: Oh. Yes. Yes! See, my friend reckons you're dangerous. (Dalek POV) That you're an alien. Is it true?
DALEK: I am your soldier.
The DOCTOR watches thoughtfully.
AMY: Yeah. Got that bit. Love a squaddie. What else, though?
DALEK: Please excuse me. I have duties to perform.
The DOCTOR goes over to CHURCHILL and takes the cigar from the Prime Minister's mouth.
DOCTOR: Winston, Winston, please.
CHURCHILL: We are waging total w*r, Doctor! Day after day, the Luftwaffe pound this great city like an iron fist.
DOCTOR: Wait till the Daleks get started.
CHURCHILL: Men, women and children slaughtered. Families torn apart. Wren's churches in flames.
DOCTOR: Yeah? Try the Earth in flames!
CHURCHILL: I weep for my country, I weep for my empire. It is breaking my heart. (moves around the table)
DOCTOR: (follows CHURCHILL) But you're resisting, Winston! The whole world knows you're resisting! You're a beacon of hope.
CHURCHILL: (signs more papers) But for how long? Millions of innocent lives will be saved if I use these Ironsides now!
DALEK: Can I be of assistance?
DOCTOR: (to Dalek) Shut it! (to CHURCHILL) Listen to me. Just listen! The Daleks have no conscience, no mercy, no pity. They are my oldest and deadliest enemy. You cannot trust them!
CHURCHILL: If h*tler invaded hell, I would give a favourable reference to the Devil! These machines are our salvation! (siren sounds) Oh, the all-clear. We are safe. For now. (leaves)
The DOCTOR stares at the Dalek before it, too, turns away and leaves.
AMY: Doctor, it's the all-clear. Are you OK?
DOCTOR: (twisting an officer's cap in his hands) What does hate look like, Amy?
AMY: Hate?
DOCTOR: It looks like a Dalek. And I'm going to prove it. (tosses cap before putting it on a desk as he walks out)
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, BRACEWELL'S LAB
BRACEWELL is working at his desk and a few technicians are working nearby. A Dalek glides up to him.
DALEK: Would you care for some tea?
BRACEWELL: That would be very nice. Thank you.
The DOCTOR and AMY stride in and the DOCTOR begins checking everything out.
DOCTOR: All right, Prof! The PM's been filling me in. Amazing things, these Ironsides of yours. Amazing. You must be very proud of them.
BRACEWELL: Just doing my bit.
AMY: (picks up spanner) Not bad for a Paisley boy.
The DOCTOR sits on a chair and begins to read a file.
BRACEWELL: Yes, I thought I detected a familiar cadence, my dear.
DOCTOR: How did you do it? Come up with the idea?
BRACEWELL: How does the muse of invention come to anyone?
DOCTOR: (tosses file onto desk behind him) But you get a lot of these clever notions, do you?
BRACEWELL: Well, ideas just seem to teem from my head! Wonderful things! Like... let me show you. (shows them files) Some musings on the potential of hypersonic flight. Gravity bubbles that could sustain life outside of the terrestrial atmosphere! Came to me in the bath!
DOCTOR: And are these your ideas or theirs?
BRACEWELL: No, no, no, no. These robots are entirely under my control, Doctor. They are...(a Dalek brings his tea) Thank you...the perfect servant, and the perfect warrior.
DOCTOR: I don't know what you're up to, Professor, but whatever they've promised, you cannot trust them! Call them what you like, the Daleks are death!
CHURCHILL: (enters followed by another Dalek) Yes, Doctor. Death to our enemies! Death to the forces of darkness, and death to the Third Reich!
DOCTOR: Yes, Winston, and death to everyone else too!
DALEK: Would you care for some tea?
DOCTOR: (upsets tray and cup causing them to fall to the floor) Stop this! What are you doing here? What do you want?
DALEK: We seek only to help you.
DOCTOR: To do what?
DALEK: To win the w*r.
DOCTOR: Really? Which w*r?
DALEK: I do not understand.
DOCTOR: This w*r, against the Nazis? Or your w*r? The w*r against the rest of the Universe? The w*r against all life-forms that are not Dalek?
DALEK: I do not understand. (Dalek pov) I am your soldier.
DOCTOR: (Dalek POV) Oh, yeah? OK. (normal POV)(the DOCTOR turns around and picks up a giant spanner) OK, soldier, defend yourself! (bangs spanner against Dalek)
BRACEWELL: Doctor, what the devil...?!
DALEK: You do not require tea?
The DOCTOR keeps striking the Dalek.
BRACEWELL: Stop it! Prime Minister, please!
CHURCHILL: Doctor, please, these machines are precious.
DOCTOR: Come on! Fight back! You want to, don't you? You know you do!
BRACEWELL: I must protest!
DOCTOR: What are you waiting for? You hate me. You want to k*ll me. Well, go on! k*ll me. k*ll me! (strikes again)
AMY: Doctor, be careful! (pushes him back)
DALEK: Please desist from striking me. I am your soldier.
DOCTOR: You are my enemy! (punctuates sentence with hits) And I am yours! You are everything I despise! The worst thing in all creation. I've defeated you time and time again, I've defeated you. I sent you back into the void! I saved the whole of reality from you! I am the Doctor! And you are the Daleks! (kicks the Dalek and it rolls backwards)
DALEK: Correct. (Dalek POV) Review testimony.
DOCTOR: (on playback) 'I am the Doctor. And you are the Daleks!' (real) Testimony? What are you talking about, testimony?
DALEK #2: Transmitting testimony now.
DOCTOR: Transmit what, where?
SPACE
A Dalek spaceship is hiding on the far side of the moon.
INT. DALEK SPACESHIP
A Dalek has its "plunger" arm attached to what seems to be a receiver.
DALEK #3: Receiving testimony now.
A small Dalek-shaped device is suspended by two metal bars in a cubicle. The DOCTOR'S voice echoes through the room as the testimony repeats. Lights on the device begin to flash and it beeps.
DALEK #3: Progenitor activated. Testimony accepted! Testimony accepted!
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, BRACEWELL'S LAB
DALEK #2: Testimony accepted!
DOCTOR: Get back! All of you!
CHURCHILL: Marines! Marines! Get in here!
Two Marines enter and one of the Daleks kills them.
BRACEWELL: Stop it! Stop it, please! What are you doing? (Dalek POV) You are my Ironsides!
DALEK #1: We are the Daleks!
BRACEWELL: But I created you!
DALEK #1: No. (sh**t off BRACEWELL'S hand revealing a stump of wires and circuits) We created you!
DALEKS:(in unison)
Victory! Victory! Victory! (teleport to ship)
AMY: What just happened, Doctor?
DOCTOR: I wanted to know what they wanted, what their plan was. I was their plan! (runs out of the room)
AMY: Hey!
INT. DALEK SPACESHIP
The Progenitor device is flashing faster. The two Daleks from the Cabinet w*r Rooms joins the third.
DALEK #3: Commencing Phase Two. The Progenitor is activated! It begins!
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, STORAGE ROOM
The DOCTOR enters the room and a rush and goes down the stairs towards the TARDIS
DOCTOR: "Testimony accepted!" That's what they said! My testimony.
AMY: (follows) Don't b*at yourself up. You were right. (the DOCTOR unlocks the TARDIS) What do we do? Is this what we do now? Chase after them?
DOCTOR: This is what I do. It's dangerous, so wait here.
CHURCHILL comes to stand behind AMY.
AMY: What, so you mean I've got to stay safe down here in the middle of the London Blitz?
DOCTOR: Safe as it gets around me. (waves and steps into the TARDIS)
AMY and CHURCHILL watch as the TARDIS dematerializes.
AMY: What does he expect us to do now?
CHURCHILL: KBO, of course.
AMY: What?
CHURCHILL: Keep buggering on!
INT. TARDIS
The DOCTOR works the controls before checking the monitor. The Dalek ship appears.
DOCTOR: Bingo!
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, STORAGE ROOM
BREEN enters with a communiqué.
BREEN: Prime Minister.
CHURCHILL: Yes?
BREEN: (hands him the paper) Signal from RDF, sir. Unidentified object. Hanging in the sky, Captain Childers says. We can't get a proper fix, though. It's too far up.
CHURCHILL: What do you think, Miss Pond? The Doctor's in trouble and now we know where he is.
AMY: Yeah. Cos he'll be on that ship, won't he? Right in the middle of everything.
CHURCHILL: Exactly!
EXT. NEW PUBLIC OFFICES, ROOFTOP, NIGHT
An Air Raid Warden is watching from the rooftop as more bombs fall. Someone violates the blackout.
WARDEN: Oi! Put that light out!
The light is switched off.
INT. DALEK SPACESHIP
The three Daleks watch as the Progenitor device continues to run its programmed course.
DALEK #1: The final phase commences, channel all reserve power to Progenitor.
The TARDIS materializes and the three Daleks swivel their top sections to see the DOCTOR emerge rubbing his hands.
DOCTOR: How about that cuppa now, then?
DALEK #1: It is the Doctor! Exterminate!
DOCTOR: Wait, wait, wait, I wouldn't if I were you! (pulls out a small round object and holds it out in front of him) TARDIS self-destruct. And you know what that means. My ship goes, you all go with it.
DALEK #2: You would not use such a device.
DOCTOR: Try me. (DALEK #1 moves forward) Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. No scans! No nothing! One move and I'll destroy us all, you got that? TARDIS bang-bang, Daleks boom! (DALEK #1 moves back) Good boy. (looks at the Daleks' instrument panels) This ship's pretty beaten up - running on empty, I'd say, like you. When we last met, you were at the end of your rope. Finished.
DALEK #2: One ship survived.
DOCTOR: And you fell back through time, yes? Crippled? Dying?
DALEK #2: We picked up a trace. One of the Progenitor devices.
DOCTOR: Progenitor? What's that when it's at home?
DALEK #2: It is our past. And our future.
DOCTOR: Ohhh, that's deep. That is deep for a Dalek. What does it mean, though?
DALEK #3: It contains pure Dalek DNA, thousands were created, all were lost, save one.
DOCTOR: OK, but there's still one thing I don't get, though - if you've got the Progenitor, why build Bracewell?
DALEK #2: It was... necessary.
DOCTOR: But why? I get it. Oh, I get it! I get it. Oh, ho, this is rich! The Progenitor wouldn't recognise you, would it? It saw you as impure, the DNA is unrecognisable as Dalek.
DALEK #2: A solution was devised.
DOCTOR: Yes, yes, yes. Me. My testimony. So you set a trap, you knew that the Progenitor would recognise me. The Daleks' greatest enemy! It would accept my word. My recognition of you. (DALEK #2 turns to the instrument panel behind it) No, no, no. What are you doing? (holds out object again)
DALEK #3: Withdraw now, Doctor, or the city dies in flames.
DOCTOR: Who are you kidding? This ship is a wreck, you don't have the power to destroy London.
DALEK #2: Watch as the humans destroy themselves.
SPACE
The Dalek ship lowers a dish which then collects and sends a stream of energy towards London
EXT. NEW PUBLIC OFFICES, ROOFTOP, NIGHT
The WARDEN watches, stunned, as lights come on all over the city.
WARDEN: What the...? No!
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, MAP ROOM
One of the officers tries to turn off the lights
OFFICER: The generators won't switch off! The lights are on all across London, Prime Minister!
AMY: Has to be them. Has to be the Daleks.
CHURCHILL: The Germans can see every inch of the city. We're sitting ducks. Get those lights out before the Germans get here! (OFFICER goes to check generators)
WOMAN #2: (into radio) Confirm, Squadron 244 and 56 mobilised.
BREEN: (into radio) Emergency, emergency, 109? 109, confirm?
CHURCHILL: Thousands will die if we don't get those lights out now.
BREEN: German bombers sighted over the Channel, sir. ETA 10 minutes, sir.
CHURCHILL: Here they come. Get a message to Mr Attlee. w*r Cabinet meeting at 0300--if we're all still here.
AMY: We can't just sit here! We've got to take the fight to the Daleks!
CHURCHILL: How? None of our weapons are a match for theirs.
AMY: Oh, look, we must have something. Oh! Staring us in the face! A gift! From the Daleks!
INT. DALEK SPACESHIP
DOCTOR: Turn those lights off now. Turn London off or I swear I will use the TARDIS self-destruct!
DALEK #2: Stalemate, Doctor. Leave us, and return to Earth.
DOCTOR: Oh, that's it? That's your great victory? You leave?
DALEK #2: Extinction is not an option. We shall return to our own time and begin again.
DOCTOR: No, no, no! I won't let you get away this time! I won't!
There is a mechanical "whoosh" and then a soft thrumming.
DALEK #3: We have succeeded - DNA reconstruction is complete.
The Daleks glide back from the cubicle which is enveloped in red energy. The doors slide open amidst sparks.
DALEK #2: Observe, Doctor, a new Dalek paradigm!
The DOCTOR watches as new, larger Daleks emerge from the smoke and steam, each a different color: white, blue, yellow, orange and red
DALEK #2: The Progenitor has fulfilled our new destiny. Behold, the restoration of the Daleks! The resurrection of the master race!
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, BRACEWELL'S LAB
BRACEWELL is holding a revolver in his remaining hand and is about to place it to his head when AMY and CHURCHILL enter.
CHURCHILL: Bracewell! Put the g*n down!
BRACEWELL: My life is a lie, and I choose to end it.
AMY: In your own time, Paisley boy, (AMY stands next to him) because right now we need your help.
BRACEWELL: But those creatures...my Ironsides…they made me? I... I can remember things, so many things. The last w*r-- The squalor and the mud and the awful, awful misery of it all. What am I? What am I?
CHURCHILL: What you are, sir, is either on our side, or theirs. Now, I don't give a damn if you're a machine, Bracewell... Are you a man?
AMY: Listen to me. I understand. Really, I do. (gently takes g*n from BRACEWELL'S hand) Look, there is a spaceship up there lighting up London like a Christmas tree. Thousands of people will die tonight if we don't stop it, and you're the only one who can help take it down.
BRACEWELL: I am?
AMY: You're alien technology. You're as clever as the Daleks are, so start thinking! What about rockets? You got rockets? Cos you said gravity whatsits, hypersonic flight, some kind of m*ssile.
CHURCHILL: This isn't a fireworks party, Miss Pond! We need proper tactical... A m*ssile... or...?
AMY: Or what?
CHURCHILL: We could send something up there, you say?
BRACEWELL: With a gravity bubble, yes. (shows CHURCHILL the plans) Theoretically it's possible we could actually send something into space.
CHURCHILL: Bracewell... It's time to think big!
SPACE
The beam from the Dalek ship is still f*ring on London.
INT. DALEK SPACESHIP
DALEK #1: All hail the new Daleks! All hail the new Daleks!
WHITE DALEK: Yes, you are inferior!
DALEK #1: Yes.
WHITE DALEK: Then prepare.
DALEKS 1-3: We are ready!
WHITE DALEK: Cleanse the unclean! Total obliteration! Disintegrate!
The BLUE DALEK fires upon DALEKS #1 and #3 and the RED DALEK sh**t DALEK #2.
DOCTOR: Blimey, what do you do to the ones who mess up?
WHITE DALEK: You are the Doctor! You must be exterminated!
DOCTOR: (pulls out "TARDIS self-destruct) (Dalek POV) Don't mess with me, sweetheart!
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, MAP ROOM
BREEN and others are on their radio headphones, maneuvering representations of flying squadrons. Dust falls from the ceiling at the city above them is bombed.
TANNOY: 'Advancing bombers approaching in strike formation. Incendiary bombs have hit the East End of London. '
BRACEWELL, his arm in a sling, enters with a device on a wheeled office chair. He also has a homemade headset on.
CHURCHILL: At last! Are they ready?
BRACEWELL: I hope so. But in the meantime... (places device on desk. It has a screen with control knobs) This will pick up Dalek transmissions. (slaps the side)
The DOCTOR and the WHITE DALEK appear on the small black and white screen.
WHITE DALEK: (over receiver) 'We are the paradigm of a new Dalek race. '
AMY: It's him! It's the Doctor!
WHITE DALEK: (on screen) Scientist, Strategist
INT. DALEK SPACESHIP
WHITE DALEK: Drone, Eternal, and the Supreme.
DOCTOR: Which would be you, I'm guessing? Well, you know, nice paint job. I'd be feeling pretty swish if I looked like you. Pretty "Supre-eme
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, MAP ROOM
AMY: He's got company. New company. We've got to hurry up!
A phone rings and BRACEWELL answers.
BRACEWELL: Yes? Right. Right, thanks! (hangs up phone) Ready when you are, Prime Minister.
CHURCHILL: Splendid!
BRACEWELL: (ship appears on the screen) Spaceship's exact co-ordinates located!
CHURCHILL: Go to it, Group Captain! Go to it!
GROUP CAPTAIN: Broadsword to Danny Boy! Broadsword to Danny Boy! Scramble! Scramble! Scramble!
INT. DALEK SPACESHIP
DOCTOR: Question is, what do we do now? Either you turn off your clever machine or I'll blow you and your new paradigm into eternity. (the BLUE DALEK is scanning the DOCTOR)
WHITE DALEK: And yourself.
DOCTOR: Occupational hazard.
BLUE DALEK: Scan reveals nothing! TARDIS self-destruct device non-existent!
DOCTOR: All right, (bites cookie) it's a Jammy Dodger, but I was promised tea!
A siren sounds. The BLUE DALEK goes to the scanner.
BLUE DALEK: Alert! Unidentified projectile approaching! (the DOCTOR looks at a second scanner) Correction. Multiple projectiles!
WHITE DALEK: What have the humans done?
DOCTOR: I don't know.
WHITE DALEK: Explain! Explain! Explain!
PILOT: (over radio) Danny Boy to the Doctor! Danny Boy to the Doctor! Are you receiving me? Over.
DOCTOR: (stands and looks up) Oh, Winston! You beauty!
SPACE
The RAF has sent up fighter planes to att*ck the Dalek ship
PILOT: Danny Boy to the Doctor! Come in. Over.
INT. DALEK SPACESHIP
DOCTOR: Loud and clear, Danny Boy! Big dish, side of the ship, blow it up! Over!
WHITE DALEK: Exterminate the Doctor!
The DOCTOR escapes to the TARDIS as the Daleks fire.
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, MAP ROOM
CHURCHILL: You heard him, Group Captain! Target that dish! Send in all we've got!
AMY watches the action on the screen of BRACEWELL'S receiver.
SPACE, ALONGSIDE "DANNY BOY"
GROUP CAPTAIN: (over radio) 4-4 to Danny Boy, target the dish and stop that signal.
PILOT: Over. Understood, sir. Over.
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, MAP ROOM
PILOT: (over radio) 'You can count on us! Over. '
WOMAN:
Oh, good luck, lads!
SPACE
PILOT: OK, chaps, let's put London back under cover of darkness. Tally ho!
The squadron begins f*ring on the Dalek ship and the dish.
PILOT: Cover my back, going in close! (the Dalek ship fires back) Pull out, pull out.
One of the RAF planes is sh*t down.
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, MAP ROOM
Everyone possible is gathered around the screen listening in.
PILOT: (over radio) We've lost Jubilee, sir! Over.
BREEN looks on in worry.
GROUP CAPTAIN: Beam still active, sir.
CHURCHILL: Then send them in again!
SPACE
The planes regroup and att*ck again.
PILOT: 'Flintlock's down sir, and the dish seems to be protected. Over. '
INT. DALEK SPACESHIP
BLUE DALEK: Shields intact, pulse still active.
SPACE
PILOT: Danny Boy to the Doctor... only me left now.
INT. TARDIS
PILOT: (over radio) Anything you can do, sir? Over.
The DOCTOR picks up a small microphone and speaks into it.
DOCTOR: The Doctor to Danny Boy... The Doctor to Danny Boy.
SPACE
DOCTOR: (over radio) I can disrupt the Dalek shields, but not for long. Over.
PILOT: Good show, Doctor, go to it. Over.
INT. TARDIS
The DOCTOR starts the TARDIS
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, MAP ROOM
PILOT: (over radio) 'Going in, wish me luck. Over. '
SPACE
"Danny Boy" makes another approach.
INT. TARDIS
The DOCTOR frantically works the controls.
INT. DALEK SPACESHIP
YELLOW DALEK: Shields de-activated!
SPACE
"Danny Boy" destroys the beam.
INT. DALEK SPACESHIP
RED DALEK: Energy pulse destroyed!
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, MAP ROOM
GROUP CAPTAIN: Direct hit, sir!
Everyone cheers.
EXT. NEW PUBLIC OFFICES, ROOFTOP, NIGHT
The WARDEN watches as the lights go out and sighs in relief.
WARDEN: Thank the Lord! (raises fist to sky) Do your worst, Adolf!
SPACE
PILOT: Danny Boy to the Doctor...going in for another att*ck.
INT. TARDIS
DOCTOR: The Doctor to Danny Boy. The Doctor to Danny Boy. Destroy this ship! Over.
SPACE
PILOT: What about you, Doctor?
INT. TARDIS
DOCTOR: I'll be OK.
The White Dalek appears on the monitor.
WHITE DALEK: Doctor! Call off your att*ck!
DOCTOR: Ah-ha, what? And let you scuttle off back to the future? No fear. This is the end for you. The final end!
WHITE DALEK: Call off the att*ck, or we will destroy the Earth.
DOCTOR: I'm not stupid, mate! You've just played your last card!
WHITE DALEK: Bracewell is a b*mb.
DOCTOR: You're bluffing. Deception's second nature to you. There isn't a sincere bone in your body. There isn't a bone in your body!
WHITE DALEK: His power is derived from an Oblivion Continuum! Call off your att*ck, or we will detonate the android.
DOCTOR: No! This is my best chance ever! The last of the Daleks! I can rid the Universe of you, once and for all!
WHITE DALEK: Then do it. But we will shatter the planet below! The Earth will die screaming!
DOCTOR: And if I let you go, you'll be stronger than ever. A new race of Daleks.
WHITE DALEK: Then choose, Doctor! Destroy the Daleks or save the Earth. Begin countdown of Oblivion Continuum! Choose, Doctor! Choose! Choose!
DOCTOR: (picks up microphone) The Doctor to Danny Boy. The Doctor to Danny Boy. Withdraw.
SPACE
PILOT: Say again, sir. Over.
INT. TARDIS
DOCTOR: Withdraw! Return to Earth. Over and out.
SPACE
PILOT: But sir...!
DOCTOR: (over radio) There's no time, you have to return to Earth now! Over!
INT. TARDIS
The DOCTOR sets the coordinates for Earth.
SPACE
"Danny Boy" flies back to Earth.
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, STORAGE ROOM
The TARDIS materializes and the DOCTOR exits and runs out of the room.
INT. DALEK SPACESHIP
WHITE DALEK: The Doctor has failed. His compassion is his greatest weakness. Daleks have no such weakness.
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, MAP ROOM
The DOCTOR runs in and punches BRACEWELL, knocking him to the ground. The DOCTOR shakes his hand in pain.
AMY: (appalled) Doctor!
DOCTOR: Ow! Sorry, Professor. You're a b*mb! An inconceivably massive Dalek b*mb.
BRACEWELL: What?
DOCTOR: There's an Oblivion Continuum inside you - a captured wormhole that provides perpetual power. Detonate that, and the Earth will bleed through into another dimension! (kneels beside him, pulls out sonic and opens BRACEWELL'S shirt) Now keep down! (uses sonic to reveal mechanics underneath skin)
INT. DALEK SPACESHIP
WHITE DALEK: Detonation sequence activated. Time corridor establishing...
BLUE DALEK: Time jump in thirty rels!
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, MAP ROOM
There is a circular pad divided into sections glowing blue on BRACEWELL'S chest. One section turns yellow.
AMY: Well?
DOCTOR: I dunno, I dunno, I dunno! (shakes screwdriver) Never seen one up close before!
AMY: So, what, they've wired him up to detonate?
DOCTOR: Not wired him up! He is a b*mb. Walking, talking, (makes exploding sound effect) exploding! The moment that flashes red.
AMY: There's... a blue wire or something you have to cut, isn't there? There's always a blue wire. (DOCTOR stands) Or a red one.
DOCTOR: You're not helping!
CHURCHILL: It's incredible. He talked to us about his memories. The Great w*r...
DOCTOR: (tosses screwdriver hand to hand) Someone else's stolen thoughts, implanted in a positronic brain. Tell me about it. Bracewell! Tell me about your life! (kneels back down)
BRACEWELL: Doctor, I really don't think this is the time!
DOCTOR: Tell me and prove you're human. Tell me everything.
INT. DALEK SPACESHIP
Five sections of the "clock" are showing red.
WHITE DALEK: Countdown proceeding.
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, MAP ROOM
One section of BRACEWELL'S chest is red and the second yellow.
BRACEWELL: My family ran the Post Office. It's a little place just near the abbey. Just by the ash trees. There used to be eight trees but...but there was a storm.
DOCTOR: (tries to hurry him) And your parents? Come on! Tell me!
BRACEWELL: Good people. Kind people. They... They d*ed. Scarlet fever.
DOCTOR: What was that like? How did it feel?
BRACEWELL: Please...
DOCTOR: How did it make you feel, Edwin? Tell me! Tell me now!
BRACEWELL: It hurt. It hurts, Doctor, so badly. Like a wound. (the second section turns red and the third, yellow) It was worse than a wound. Like I'd been emptied out. There was nothing.
DOCTOR: Good. Remember it now, Edwin! The ash trees by the Post Office and your mum and dad and losing them and men in the trenches you saw die... Remember it! Feel it, because you're human. (the third section turns red) You're not like them. You are not like the Daleks!
BRACEWELL: It hurts! Doctor, it hurts so much!
DOCTOR: Good! Good! Good! Brilliant! Embrace it. (the fourth section turns red) That means you're alive! They cannot explode that b*mb, you're a human being! You are flesh and blood! They cannot explode that b*mb! Believe it! You are Professor Edwin Bracewell! And you, my friend, are a human being! (the fifth section turns red) It's not working, I can't stop it!
AMY: (kneels beside BRACEWELL) Hey... Paisley. Ever fancied someone you know you shouldn't?
BRACEWELL: W... What?
AMY: Hurts, doesn't it? (the last section remains yellow) But kind of a good hurt.
BRACEWELL: I really shouldn't talk about her.
AMY: Oh. There's a her. (the last section reverts to blue)
DOCTOR: What was her name?
BRACEWELL: Dorabella.
DOCTOR: Dorabella? It's a lovely name, it's a beautiful name.
AMY: What was she like, Edwin?
BRACEWELL: (dreamy) Oh... Such a smile. And her eyes... Her eyes were so blue...Almost violet. Like the last touch of sunset on the edge of the world... Dorabella...(all sections revert to blue, disarming the b*mb)
INT. DALEK SPACESHIP
The countdown reverts to zero as all sections go white and shuts down.
BLUE DALEK: Oblivion Continuum... inactive.
WHITE DALEK: Impossible!
BLUE DALEK: Time jump imminent! Prepare!
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, MAP ROOM
DOCTOR: Welcome to the human race. (smiles at AMY) (to CHURCHILL) You're brilliant, (to BRACEWELL) you're brilliant... (to AMY) And you... (kisses her on the head and stands) Now, gotta stop them! Stop the Daleks! (runs out of the room)
BRACEWELL: Wait! Doctor! Wait... Wait. (the DOCTOR stops as BRACEWELL sits up) It's too late.
SPACE
The Dalek ship flies by the Moon.
INT. DALEK SPACESHIP
WHITE DALEK: You will never defeat us, Doctor, we will return.
BLUE DALEK: We will return!
SPACE
The Dalek ship uses some sort of warp drive and escapes.
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, MAP ROOM
BRACEWELL: Gone. They've gone.
DOCTOR: No, no, no! They can't! They can't have got away from me again!
BRACEWELL: No, I can feel it, my mind is clear. The Daleks have gone.
The DOCTOR leans against a pole, all energy suddenly drained.
AMY: Doctor. It's OK! You did it. You stopped the b*mb. Doctor?
DOCTOR: I had a choice. And they knew I'd choose the Earth. The Daleks have won. They b*at me. They've won.
AMY: But you saved the Earth. Not too shabby, is it...?
The DOCTOR looks at CHURCHILL and all the people in the room who all look back at him in support.
AMY: Is it?
DOCTOR: No. (smiles slowly) It's not too shabby.
CHURCHILL: It's a brilliant achievement, my dear friend. Here, have a cigar!
DOCTOR: No... (waves it off, still hurt from his loss)
EXT. NEW PUBLIC OFFICES, ROOFTOP, DAY
The WARDEN and a group of Marines raise the Union Flag.
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, MAP ROOM
AMY: So, what now, then?
CHURCHILL: I still have a w*r to run, Miss Pond.
WOMAN:
(hands CHURCHILL communiqué) Prime Minister.
CHURCHILL: Oh, thank you.(reads document) They hit the Palace and St Paul's again. Fire crews only just saved it.
BREEN enters crying.
AMY: Is she OK?
CHURCHILL: What?
AMY: She looks very upset.
CHURCHILL: Oh, Miss Breen? Her young man didn't make it, I'm afraid. Just got word. sh*t down over the Channel.
AMY: Where's the Doctor?
DOCTOR: (enters) Tying up loose ends. I've taken out all the alien tech Bracewell put in.
CHURCHILL: Won't you reconsider, Doctor? Those Spitfires would win me the w*r in 24 hours!
DOCTOR: Exactly. (sips tea)
CHURCHILL: But why not? Why can't we put an end to all this misery?
DOCTOR: Oh, it doesn't work like that, Winston. It's gonna be tough. There are terrible days to come. The darkest days. But you can do it. You know you can.
CHURCHILL: Stay with us, and help us win through! The world needs you.
DOCTOR: The world doesn't need me.
CHURCHILL: No?
DOCTOR: The world's got Winston Spencer Churchill. (makes the Victory sign)
CHURCHILL: It's been a pleasure, as always.
DOCTOR: Too right.
The two men hug.
CHURCHILL: Goodbye, Doctor.
DOCTOR: Oh, shall we say adieu?
CHURCHILL: (ends hug) Indeed. Goodbye, Miss Pond.
AMY: It's.. it's been amazing. Meeting you.
CHURCHILL: I'm sure it has!
AMY kisses CHURCHILL on the cheek. CHURCHILL heads for the door.
AMY: Oi, Churchill! (holds out her hand) TARDIS key. The one you just took from the Doctor.
The Doctor nearly chokes on his tea and pats his pocket.
CHURCHILL: Oh, she's good, Doctor. As sharp as a pin! (hands her key) Almost as sharp as me! (lights cigar) KBO!
After CHURCHILL leaves, the DOCTOR holds out his hand and AMY gives the key back
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, BRACEWELL'S LAB
BRACEWELL standing stoically in his office, waiting for the inevitable. He now has a leather glove over the stump. The DOCTOR and AMY enter
BRACEWELL: I've been expecting you, Doctor. I knew this moment had to come.
DOCTOR: Moment?
BRACEWELL: It's time to de-activate me.
DOCTOR: Is it...? (AMY looks at him) Oh... yeah.
BRACEWELL: You have no choice. I'm Dalek technology. Can't allow me to go pottering around down here where I have no business.
DOCTOR: No, you're dead right, Professor. 100% right. And by the time I get back here in... what, ten minutes?
AMY: More like 15.
DOCTOR: Fifteen minutes, yeah, that's exactly what I'm going to do. You are going to be so de-activated. It's going be like you've never even been... activated.
AMY: Yeah.
BRACEWELL: 15 minutes?
DOCTOR: More like 20, if I'm honest. Once Pond and I see to the urgent thing…
AMY: Yes!
DOCTOR: …we've got to see to. The... the... See?
BRACEWELL: Very well, Doctor. I shall wait here and prepare myself.
AMY: (aside to DOCTOR) That Dalek tech's a little bit slow on the uptake. (normal voice) That thing we've got to do. Gonna take half an hour, realistically, isn't it, Doctor?
DOCTOR: Easily! So no running off, that's what I'm saying. Don't go trying to find that little Post Office with the ash trees or that girl... What was her name?
BRACEWELL: Dorabella.
DOCTOR: Dorabella. On no account go looking for her. Mind you, you can get a lot done in half an hour.
BRACEWELL smiles and laughs as he realizes what the DOCTOR is doing.
BRACEWELL: Thank you, thank you, Doctor!
DOCTOR: Come along, Pond!
The DOCTOR and AMY leave and BRACEWELL begins to pack a suitcase.
INT. CABINET w*r ROOMS, STORAGE ROOM
The DOCTOR and AMY head for the TARDIS
AMY: So, you have enemies then?
DOCTOR: Everyone's got enemies.
AMY: Yeah, but mine's the woman outside Budgens with the mental Jack Russell. You've got, like, you know, arch-enemies.
They both lean against the TARDIS
DOCTOR: Suppose so.
AMY: And here's me thinking we'd just be running through time, being daft and fixing stuff. But no, it's dangerous.
DOCTOR: Yup. Very. Is that a problem?
AMY: I'm still here, aren't I? You're worried about the Daleks.
DOCTOR: I'm always worried about the Daleks.
AMY: It'll take time, though, won't it? There's still not many of them. They'll need a while to build themselves up.
DOCTOR: It's not that. There's something else. Something we've forgotten. Or rather you have.
AMY: Me?
DOCTOR: You didn't know them, Amy. You'd never seen them before. And you should have done. You should.
The DOCTOR enters the TARDIS leaving a confused AMY to follow. After the TARDIS dematerializes, we see a small cr*ck in the wall, the exact same shape as the cr*ck in AMY'S room when she was a child. There is a light spilling out from it.
05x03 - Victory of the Daleks
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Time and Space traveling adventures of a Gallifreyan Time Lord only known as "the Doctor" and his companions.
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