13x08 - Legend of the Sea Devils

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THUNDER RUMBLES

MAN: Inside now!

WOMAN: Inside! Quickly!

Get inside!
Come inside!

SHOUTING

THUNDER RUMBLES

Pa, she's heading for the statue.

No, Pa, don't!

This is our duty.
If she's come for the statue,

she doesn't understand
what she'll unleash.

Pa, you can't!

Stay here.

If anything happens to me...

..the duty passes to you.

STONE CRACKS

THUNDER RUMBLES

Stop!

I said, stop!

Take your sword off my neck!

You have no idea
what you're doing.

I was about to say the same
to you...

..before I k*ll you!

HEAVY THUDDING

VWORP

YAZ: Dan, hurry up!

SONIC BUZZES

Four centuries off. Why's that?

We finally got to a beach!

Yeah, when we weren't
aiming for one.

Centuries off what I wanted.

What are you wearing?

What she gave me.

Too much?

Way too much.

You said I looked all right.

Yaz, did you dress Dan up
like this?

She said nautical would suit me.

I can't leave you alone
for a second.

At least you didn't bring
the hook!

WHIRRING
Ow!

Ow.

Get off!

Agh! Ah...

SONIC BUZZES

h*jacked jewellery.

What's that about?

SONIC BUZZES

Unless...

WHIRRING

Your skimming's a bit off.

Kinetic hyper-curve. Very odd.

You try.

WHIRRING

See?

Geomagnetic disturbance.

Maybe a localised core.

Might be why the TARDIS
was pulled off course.

Question is...why?

SCREAMING

Come on!

SCREAMING
Get out!

They're coming! The demons!

PANICKED SHOUTING

No. No!

Stop right there!

Sea Devil.

Land Parasite.

All right, let's not get into
the name-calling.

How would you prefer
to be addressed?

Where is it?

Mr Where-Is-It?
Lord Where-Is-It?

SHE GASPS

Why are you trashing this place?

Who are you?

I'm the Doctor.

Now!

And I just caught a whopper!

SHE STRAINS

RUMBLING

LOUD THUDDING

WIND WHISTLES

What is that?

You think such feeble material
can hold me?

Can hold any of my kind?

CREAKING

That's impossible!

Since when do Sea Devils
have a ship?

Since me.

Pirate Sea Devils
in 19th-century China!

We're never going to
get our beach holiday, are we?

That's not possible.

SHE GASPS

You want to die out here too?

Like him?

He was my father.

Hexo-toxic poisoning.

Sea Devil w*apon.

It's filled every capillary.

I'm sorry for your loss.

I don't know who she is,
but I don't think she did this.

I am Zheng Shih.

Zheng Yi Sao or Madam Ching.

Who are you?
Madam Ching?! Pirate Queen?

I'm the Doctor. This is Yaz and Dan.
Hiya.

Sorry about his outfit.

SONIC BUZZES

Recently broken,
presumably by you.

It contained information
about treasure I was seeking.

Must be some treasure.

The lost treasure
of the Flor de la Mar

is worth any amount of statues.

The Flor de la Mar?

I thought that went down
off the coast of Sumatra.

Legend says the treasure
was found years later

by the great captain
Sin Ji-Hun.

He was born at sea and knew
the oceans like no-one else.

But his ship went down somewhere in
these waters centuries past,

with the treasure still on it.

Pulse feels way beyond anything
feasible for 19th-century humans.

What was on here?

An ocean demon.

She k*lled my father
and she released a demon.

My kin, I was betrayed.

Deprived of our world
and our waters,

entombed in the filth
and parasitic air

of the Land Crawlers.

They showed me no mercy.

The call went out, and you awoke,
and now our time has returned.

Is the Hua-Shen ready to hunt?

Let it seek.

Let it feast.

HE GASPS

HE STRAINS

ROAR

FISHERMAN SCREAMS

Listen...

..I'm sorry about your dad.

The duty's mine now.

I'm not going to let her get away.

We can get on her ship,

make sure my father
didn't die in vain.

How are we going to get on there?

Swim, of course.

I'm not supposed to wander off.

Rule one - don't wander off.

Why didn't you stop him?

Why is it my fault?
He's a grown man.

Since when do Sea Devils
have a ship?

So you know them,
these Sea Devils?

Crossed paths once or twice.

Where do they come from?

Slight wrinkle there.

Earth. They were here before humans.

They regard Earth
as their own planet.

That's not good.
Just trying to get

a trace on this Sea Devil ship,
but I'm not getting anything.

They've masked their route.
They must know I'm onto them.

Maybe it's time to have a word
with Madam Ching.

She didn't take much notice of you
last time.

No, but she did give
something away.

She's looking for the lost ship
of Ji-Hun

and the lost treasure
of the Flor de la Mar.

Now, what if we had it?

But we don't have it.
But what if we did?

That'd shut her up
and bring her on our side.

I mean, that's what we came for
in the first place,

to find out what happened,
then we got diverted off course.

Well, I'm diverting us back on.
What, we're leaving without Dan?

He wandered off.
Now we're wandering off too.

A short hop. A few centuries.

If I can access
the TARDIS data banks

to find the last known
sighting of a ship

with a commander named Ji-Hun...

This is where a time machine
comes in handy.

Exactly. We find out
what happened to Ji-Hun,

maybe pick up the lost treasure,

zoom back to bargain
with Madam Ching,

and track down those Sea Devils.

I don't understand.
Where are her crew?

That's what I was just thinking.

This will make it easy
to k*ll her.

Whoa!

Nobody said anything about k*lling.

I have to avenge my father.

Son, you don't stand a chance.

There's two of us. You must be
pretty good at fighting

if you've survived to be...

What?

..70?

60?
Forty...t-two!

Stowaways!

Let me do the talking here.

So, my stupid little stowaways...

..you think you can bring
bad luck to my ship?

Tell me why I shouldn't
k*ll you both now.

You might as well,
otherwise we're going to k*ll you.

For a boy hanging upside down,
you still have some spirit.

But that won't keep you alive
for long.

You've got no crew.

Somehow, you've managed to sail
this thing here on your own.

Now, I'm no expert,

and I don't know how many crew
you should have on here,

but surely three's better than one?

You think you're so clever?

I'm not clever.
I got what I came for.

But I need to get to the wreck
of the lost ship fast.

If I let you live,

you work the ship, do as I say.

And if you're lucky,

you might make it back home alive.

So where are we going to exactly?

The shipwreck which holds
the lost treasure of Ji-Hun.

VWORP

MAN: No, no!

MAN SCREAMS

Please...
Who wants to be next?

Any man who tries to stay
will be ex*cuted at my hand!

Looks like a mutiny
on Ji-Hun's ship.

Go!

No! Please!
All of you.

That includes you, Lei Bao.

MAN YELLS, SPLASH

Ji-Hun, what has happened to you?

JI-HUN ROARS

MAN SCREAMS

SPLASH

Doctor...

..this isn't a mutiny.

He's throwing them all off.

Jump to your fate!

Now! I said leave!

He's forcing them off
to die in the water.

SPLASH

What is that?

That's not natural mist.

Oh, no.

Those things were here
in the 16th century.

Come on!

My Lord, my ship is yours.

Ji-Hun's in league
with the Sea Devils.

Why would he do that?

Do you have what we agreed?

I do.

How does it feel
to betray your own?

GURGLING ROAR

What was that?

ROARING INTENSIFIES

You expect me to honour
an agreement

with a Land Crawler like you?

Betrayal!
Victory!

This ship is going down.
Back to the TARDIS!

What was he doing?

I mean, that's the trouble
with history -

never anything like the books.

Same as Stephen King movies.

And we didn't get the treasure.
No,

but we did get something
Madam Ching doesn't have -

an exact location.

Of where the ship went down,

and a TARDIS that can take us
to the same spot in the future.

Yep, 274 years,
four months and two days

into the future will take us
back to where we left Dan,

even if he did wander off,
and onto the ocean floor,

where, with a bit of luck,

we'll find the wreck of
Ji-Hun's ship and the lost treasure.

BOTH GASP

Did you see how quick that was?
And we're bang-on.

Come on,
tell me you're impressed.

You're like a kid sometimes.

Thanks!

What, only sometimes?

Let's take a look
at this shipwreck.

Wait! Aren't we underwater?
Shipwreck? Bottom of the ocean?

I know. I love being
at the bottom of the ocean.

And you're going to
open those doors?

Oh, yeah.

BOTH: Oxygen bubble.

I reinforced it with
an aquashield as well,

just in case.

It'd be a bit embarrassing
if we drowned after all this.

Wow.

Isn't it spectacular?

What a universe.

What a planet. Just when
you think you've seen the lot,

there's something like this.

It's stunning.

Yes, it is.

Not a bad date, am I?

No.

Something's missing.

No ship, Sherlock.

Not even the tiniest sign.
Where's the ship?

It's only been 274 years.

At the very least,
there'd be a wreck.

We're definitely
in the right spot.

SONIC BEEPS

These are the exact coordinates
where it went down.

It can't just have disappeared
into thin water.

Could it have moved
with the currents over time?

Maybe. But there'd still
be mineral detritus,

and I'm not getting anything.

SONIC BUZZES

CRACKLING

Yaz?

You know the ocean floor?

Yeah?

It's not really there any more.

Why are we not falling?

And how is the water
not moving?

Not sure.

ROARS

BOTH YELL

LOW ROAR

Argh!

Sea Devils!

Yeah.

How can it be broken?

What's the problem?

None of our equipment works.

We have to go by
celestial navigation.

Ursa Minor.

Polaris.

I always thought that I'd learn
the constellations,

but then I just downloaded an app
on me phone.

But I haven't got me phone with me.

I don't understand
half the words you say.

You're not the first to say that.

Menkar's there, which would mean...

Did you see?

The stars just moved.
Yeah.

The world is being disrupted.

Because of you!

Because of what you unleashed.

We have to get to this place.
Nothing is more important

than getting our hands
on that treasure.

Why is it so important to you?

Oh!

Is that yours?

What?

WHISPERS: She's got both.

You want to know
why I'm on this ship alone?

My crew were taken.

They're being held hostage by
Guo Podai and the Black Flag Fleet.

There's a ransom to pay...

...or they all die.

You lost your father.

I could lose my sons.

How old are the boys?

Three and six.

I promised I'd return with the
treasure as release payment.

The longer I take,

the less likely I am
to see them again.

THUNDEROUS CRASH

What was that?

BOOMING ROAR

SHIP RUMBLES

It's the sound of Hua-Shen.

RUMBLING GROWL

Hua-Shen doesn't exist. It's a myth!

If it doesn't exist...

..what's that?

Man the cannons.

It's coming straight for us.

Now!

HE GASPS

BOOMING ROAR
What was that?

Down!

PANTING

Least they could do is
park it the right way up.

So rude.

You thought you could follow us
with your transport.

How does it work?
Oi, fins off!

It's mine now.

You have no status here.

Yeah, well, status is overrated.

Anyway, we weren't following you.

We were searching for a lost ship.

Belonged to a fella named Ji-Hun.
Ever heard of him?

What do you know of Ji-Hun?

We know you and he were in league.

We know you're the cause
of his ship sinking.

So what have you done
with the treasure?

WHISPERS: I was keeping
all that in reserve.

Sorry.
Oh, I forgive you.

What's that geomagnograph for?

SOFT HUM

Are you measuring
the current flow?

Oh, is that hum
a current regulator?

And how do you keep it airtight
down here? I mean...

Oh, orbital electron stripping.

And the algae regulates
the microclimate.

Right? Clever!

A bit claustrophobic, though.

Damp. A bit cramped.
Damp-cramp.

You talk to secure yourself
time to think.

All right, don't need the analysis.

Anyway, who says that you're right?
Sh.

You're not the same
as the other Land Crawlers.

Correct. Crawled in
from a different land.

I've met your species
in the future.

Your people are conflict-averse.

Honourable.

So what's this, then?

Is this how you develop?

Or are you just the bad egg
of the species?

How did you come to be
inside that statue?

And what have you done
with Ji-Hun's ship?

We made it our own.

HUMMING INTENSIFIES

You really pimped his ride!

Do people still say that?

It's 1807.
I'm ahead of the curve.

Speaking of curves...

That geomagnetic disruption,
that's part of this, right?

Where is the keystone?

Not your turn for questions.

Due some answers first.

Do not make the mistake of thinking
I wish to keep you alive.

Now tell me where the keystone is.

We don't know what you're talk...
What do you reckon, Yaz?

Shall we tell him or shall we not?

Tell you what -
show us the ship first,

and we'll talk to you
about the keystone.

LOW GROWL

Since when did you need a ship?
You're aquatic creatures.

It's not a question of need.

It instils fear
in the Land Crawlers.

We came here to find out what
happened to the lost treasure ship.

Well, here it is -
stolen by a Sea Devil,

held under the ocean bed.

No wonder it's never been found.

What about Ji-Hun?

What happened to him?

Do you want to see the fate of those
who attempt to resist my will?

Doctor, stop. What's the plan?

For getting out of here,
for finding Dan,

for stopping whatever
fin-face here is up to?

I'm going to keep him talking
till he reveals himself.

He's got quite an ego.

Much more of a zealot than the ones
I've met before in the future.

I'm going to find out what he's
up to, and then I'll dazzle you

with a beautiful bit
of improvisation.

You mean there's no plan.

Early days!

And these are the souped-up engines
and navigation systems of your ship.

Ah!

So there's a shield around the ship

as it moves from the surface
to the ocean bed.

OK!

Not bad for an amateur, I suppose.

I'd have done it a bit
differently, personally.

I mean, this section definitely
needs a bit of work.

What does this do?

Do not touch.

All right! Only curious.

You asked about
the Land Crawler Ji-Hun.

Does this answer your question?

Wake up, Land Crawler.

More of your kind.

Ji-Hun.

You kept him here all this time?

This is the fate
of those who oppose us.

He was helping you.

He did everything you asked.

BEEPING

Phone call? You can take it.
Don't mind us.

Just don't give out your card
details - lot of sharks out there.

Quiet!

Ji-Hun, I'm the Doctor. This is Yaz.

How are you still alive?

What pact did you make
with these creatures?

No...pact.

We saw you.

That day, we saw you kneel
before that creature.

To save my men.

To allow them to escape.

You weren't working
with that Sea Devil...

...you were tricking it.

The keystone.

Is it safe?

Everybody's talking about that,
aren't they?

What is it?

A tiny part of the treasure
of the Flor de la Mar.

My ship was carrying
the most formidable gem,

with infinite powers.

Hold the keystone...

..and you may change
the course of the world.

Freeze life and time.

Transport matter.

The vast, lost power
of a demon race,

from below our waters.

Sea Devil technology.

I gave it to
my most trusted crew member

and got him off my ship.

Is it safe?

The creatures cannot be allowed
to have it back.

Move away from him, Doctor.

You say you have the keystone.

What? Here?!
Sh.

She knows what she's doing.

Yeah, that's right.

I've got the keystone.

And if I'm going to
let you have it,

you're going to agree
to my conditions,

which are including,
and not limited to,

releasing Ji-Hun,
letting Yaz and I go, and also...

I know you don't have the keystone.

You seem very certain of that
all of a sudden.

The Hua-Shen has located it
on the surface.

The what, sorry?

Our creature of the depths.

Stitched up by a sniffer dog.

And now I'm certain you're lying,

you are disposable.

Brace.

Oh, no.

Any last words to try and
save your skin, Doctor?

Yep.

Going up!

RUMBLING

What's going on? Something just
came out of the water!

That's impossible.

Yeah.

THE DOCTOR AND YAZ: Geronimo!

Doctor! Yaz!

Is that your ship?

No, but this is our friend.

Nice entrance.

Thank you.

Ji-Hun. Rumours of his death
have been greatly exaggerated.

What? You call this a ship?
Where's the crew?

DAN: Well...that'll be us.

We don't stand a chance.

Oi, that's Dan. Don't diss Dan.

Dan's my mate.
Yeah.

You can't be alive.

That's not possible.

I agree.

Focus now. Where do you
keep your treasure?

Because that statue creature
you released

is looking for a keystone
that was in the treasure

of the Flor de la Mar.

And their pet sea monster seems
to reckon it's on this ship.

What does it look like?
Tiny orange jewel.

Can glow unexpectedly.

Any ideas?

I have.

Take off the keystone.

It's nothing.
It belonged to my mother.

She got it from her grandfather!

It goes all the way back
to the great Lei Bao.

Lei Bao?

He made it to land.

And you're his descendant.

Your family's oath
across the centuries.

It wasn't just a statue.
It was hiding the keystone!

And you went to get it.

After you imprisoned Ji-Hun,
you followed Lei Bao.

I was tricked.
You were defeated.

The legend of the keystone told it
could be used to entomb aggressors.

Frozen in time.

A statue on land. A stone prison.

No wonder that gem's so valuable.

Oh.

But wait, if that's
plutonic crystal,

and your systems below the ocean
are fluo-geomagnetic...

Your world is now doomed!

The keystone is mine!

If that ship goes back down
without us on it,

we don't stand a chance.

With me!

Geronimo!

I know what you're doing.

You're trying to flip
the Earth's geomagnetic poles

south to north, north to south,
longitude to latitude.

That's why even the stars
feel like they're moving.

You want to create chaos.

Melt the ice.

Shift the current.

Change the pressure.

Until the whole Earth
is flooded.

We're reclaiming what was ours.

It is our right
and it is our time.

BEEPING

It's done, Doctor.

What do you mean, it's done?

The plutonic crystal
has been sent down.

The sequence will begin.

Our Earth will be gloriously aqua
once more.

No, no, no, no!

And my kin are ascending
to reclaim this ship.

It's coming after me. Be ready.

You can't get away from me, Doctor.

Say hello to my crew.

Go.

Argh!

I knew that'd come in handy.

Don't let the swords
touch your skin!

Oh!

How do you like me pirate moves?

Better than your outfit.
Come on!

Argh!

THUD

You saved my life.

I should've saved your father's.

Now fight!

Argh!

SEA DEVIL ROARS

I'm lowering the ship.
Hold him there!

HE GRUNTS

SEA DEVIL SHRIEKS

You didn't have to k*ll him!

It took my ship,

my crew,

and my life!

No mercy.

It's starting.

RUMBLING AND CRACKLING

I thought you said you could
remember how she worked it.

Yeah, well, I was wrong.

Maybe it were that one.
BEEPING

Did you say anything to the Doctor?

About what I said to you?

Like what?

I don't know.

Something...

Has she said something to you?

Why? What would she say to me?

Oh, come on, Yaz.
Can't you see it?

Geomagnetic instability's
increasing!

Out of the way.

There's no time.
WHIRRING

SONIC BEEPS
Hold tight.

HE LAUGHS

Is it always like this at sea?

THE DOCTOR GRUNTS

I think that'll have alerted all
our friend's Sea Devil acolytes.

Dan, I need you to supervise
Ji-Hun and Madam Ching.

I need you to keep
those Sea Devils at bay.

Only to be used in emergencies.

What, like the imminent flooding
of the entire planet?

Yeah, like that. Yaz, with me.

Control core's this way.

Oh. This is going to be tricky.

CRACKLING AND FIZZING

DAN: Right, you three, our job is
to keep all Sea Devils

away from the Doctor and Yaz.

I'm going to check down there.
Don't want any surprises.

Ji-Hun, you're in charge.

Go and off-load the treasure
from my ship.

If you get it now, that treasure
can still do some good.

Boy, with me.

We've got company on the way!

Wait,
where have the other two gone?

Argh!

Stop right there!

I'm with a centuries-old seafarer
with a grudge!

He'll take you out
before you even blink!

GROWLING

SHRIEKING

Where did you learn to deal with
your enemies like that?

You should meet me mum.

Defractor rod.
Two minutes and counting.

Good. Love it when there's
not enough time.

Simple but delicate.

I need to short-circuit the power
and internalise the charge.

If I localise the power,

this base becomes
the densest place on Earth.

No-one - no Sea Devil, no human -
will be able to leave

for a very long time.

We'll be able to get out first,
though, right? Yeah.

Hopefully. Probably.

WHIRRING

Definitely. One of those.

I just need to get this done.

You know what I said earlier
about not being a bad date?

Well, dates are not something
I really do, you know.

I mean, I used to. Have done.

And if I was going to, believe me,
it'd be with you.

I think you're one of
the greatest people I've ever known.

Including my wife.

Your what?

Er...wasn't going to mention that.

It was a long time ago.
I was a different man back then.

But the point is,
if it was going to be anyone...

...it'd be you.

But I can't.

Why not?

Because at some point,
time always runs out.

Argh!

Whoops! I just lessened the time.
50 seconds!

What?!

We need to get
back to the TARDIS,

but this cable needs to hold.

Yaz, you have to go.

Get the others out.
I'll keep this in place.

No, you go. I'll hold.

I can't ask you to do that.

The world out there isn't mine.

But if I can help preserve it
for others,

all those centuries
will not have been for nothing.

You truly are a legend.

And you need to run.

WHIRRING

You got it back the right way up!

Nice work. Out of the way!

If I don't get us out now...
Three seconds.

..the magnetism will drag
the TARDIS down. Two seconds.

VWORP

METAL CLINKS

Enough to get your crew back?

Enough.

I solved the mystery of Ji-Hun

and found the lost treasure
of the Flor de la Mar.

What do I even tell my crew?

That you vanquished mythical
creatures to bring them home.

No-one will ever believe me.

That's what makes a good legend.

We should get you
back to your village.

Yeah.

No.

He's my responsibility.

I'm sorry for what happened
to your father,

but you could find a home here,
as part of my crew.

Really?

Don't ever do that again.

Yes.

HE CLEARS THROAT
No. Sorry.

Who are you?

Where do you even come from?

We're just a crew...

..from a ship...

..looking for adventure.

And often finding it.

Right?

Aye aye, Captain.

Where will you go now?

Good question.

You do keep promising us a beach.

SPLASH

Di?

HE SIGHS
It's me.

Long time no speak. Well...

..it feels like a long time for me,
anyway.

Just leaving you a voice message,
so no need to pick up.

Just to let you know
I've been thinking about you.

And...

I don't know.
HE SIGHS

I've been having all these mad
adventures, and I can't tell anyone,

and I just felt like telling you.

I know we're...

..not at where we were at, but...

PHONE RINGS

Di?

That's weird.

You're weird. I was
just thinking about you...

..and your big daft face.

I think I might've been
missing seeing you...

...which is really weird.

Are you going to be back here
any time soon?

You OK?

Yaz...

..I can't fix myself...

..to anything...

..anywhere...

..or anyone.

I've never been able to.

That's what my life is.

Yeah, of course.

Not because I don't want to.

Because I might.

But if I do fix myself
to somebody...

..I know, sooner or later...

..it'll hurt.

My nani says...

..courage is knowing
something will hurt...

..and doing it anyway.

Mind you, she also said it's
the definition of stupidity.

THE DOCTOR CHUCKLES

Can we just live in the present?

Of what we have...

..while we still have it?

Sure.

Make a wish and skim it.

I wish...

You can't say your wish out loud!

You can where I'm from.

I wish...

I wish this would go on forever.

Nothing is forever.

No regeneration.

No life.

Beware of the forces
that mass against you,

and their Master.

This is the day you die.

Ace, I haven't heard from the Doctor
for nearly four decades.

Just cos it's only
three decades for me.

Welcome to the end
of your existence.

Yaz!