02x03 - Friends Reunited

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This new Doctor is up to speed with
the adventures of time travel.

He's seen off the Sycorax...

canoodled with Cassandra...

and wrestled with a werewolf.

But this is one encounter
he really didn't see coming.

Hello, Sarah Jane.

It's a massive universe,
but a small world.

We need to run.

About there. So it's just
for that little moment?

It's the August

and Elisabeth Sladen is sh**ting

her first scene on Dr Who
for almost years.

It's like my past life is running
through my mind at the moment.

It's embarrassing

with what clarity
it comes back, actually.

And... Roll, please.

When I hear her voice,

it's years ago and I'm eating

cheese on toast with the family
watching Doctor Who, as a kid.

Action!

Where's K- ? We need to run.
What have you done?

A lot of people will be amazed to
see her. It's like she hasn't aged.

DIRECTOR: Cut!

The mood on
set is totally Doctor Who.

Liz, could you just let David
slam the door before you arrive.

Everyone is enjoying being here.
That feels totally the same.

David, can you squeeze a bit longer
on the sonic thing?

It's just bigger.

Action!

Where's K- ? We need to run. Where
is he? What have you done?!

Cut!

A hand for Liz's first sh*t.
Welcome back, Sarah Jane Smith.

The main thing about bringing back
Sarah Jane

is we thought
of a great story for her.

Never mind the past, what it means
to other generations,

things like that.
There's a great story to be told.

Action.

Hello, Sarah Jane.

It's you. Doctor.

Oh, my God, it's you, isn't it?

One of the things about the doctor
is that he goes through life
picking people up and moving on,

and that's never really
examined in the show.

Did I do something wrong? Because
you never came back for me,
you just dumped me.

Like an old girlfriend,
they split up.

The doctor dumped her,
and years later, they meet up again.

Where are they left with that,

and how does that affect you
if you've been travelling
through time and space?

You took me to the furthest reaches
of the galaxy, you showed me
supernovas, intergalactic battles,

and then you just
dropped me back on Earth.

How could anything compare to that?

Sarah Jane's
not particularly pleased
about how her life's turned out.

He really did love her,
but he really has never
been back to see her.

I waited for you. I missed you.

You have to ask, "Why?
Why does he live a life like that?"

Oh, you didn't need me.
You were getting on with your life.

You were my life.

Imagine that as a story about a man,
going from woman to woman, it's a
very interesting emotional story.

Who's she?
Rose, Sarah Jane. Sarah Jane, Rose.

Hi. Nice to meet you. You can tell
you're getting older,
your assistants are getting younger.

I'm not his assistant. No.
You tell him that.

As ever, with any story,
you're looking at what the Doctor
and Rose's relationship is,

so some new slant or light
on that story.

It's hard to think of new elements,
so Sarah Jane brings in jealousy
which we'd never had before.

I don't mean to be rude or
anything, but who exactly are you?

Sarah Jane Smith.
I used to travel with the doctor.

Oh, he's never mentioned you.

Must have done. Sarah Jane.
Mention her all the time.

Hold on...

Sorry. Never. What?

It is an interesting situation
when Rose meets Sarah Jane.
I think Mickey says...

Oh, mate. The missus and the ex.
Welcome to every man's
worst nightmare.

Which puts the Doctor in a slightly
awkward position at times,

and is certainly a very difficult
position for Rose,
who hadn't until this point

really thought this through, that
there were other ones before her.

How many of us have there been
travelling with you?

Does it matter? Yeah, it does if I'm
just the latest in a long line.
As opposed to what?

In School Reunion, there's the
realisation that possibly life for
the Doctor is not forever.

I thought you and me were...
I obviously got it wrong.

The journey that Rose is taking,
Sarah has already done.

I've been to the year
billion, right?

But this...this
is really seeing the future.

You just leave us behind. Is
that what you're going to do to me?

No, not to you.

What Sarah Jane does
for Rose in the story is to give her

a new perspective on life with
the Doctor and this time, it's not
necessarily a good perspective.

It's the fact that this cannot last.

But Sarah Jane.
You were that close to her once and
now... You never even mention her.

This is the Doctor.
This is what he does. He will go on.

As the series goes on,
we see what Rose's resolve is,
how to deal with that.

You can spend the rest of
your life with me,

but I can't spend the rest of mine
with you.

I have to live on...

alone.

Life with a Time Lord
cannot be forever.

He will outlive you no matter what.

That's the curse of the Time Lords.

But in the meantime,
the Doctor has problems of his own

with the arrival of Mr Finch,
the ultimate bat out of hell.

The first scene we did
together was that scene

at the swimming pool where the two
characters - it's the big High Noon
moment, it's the big confrontation.

I'd never met Tony Head before.
Obviously I've seen him in a million
things. Often the characters

he plays are rather kind of stern,
slightly patrician characters.

And he himself is so unlike that.

He's so friendly
and he's really good fun.

And then of course he turns it on
as Mr Finch
and he's dripping malevolence.

No parents. No-one to miss you.

Come inside.

It's nearly time for lunch.

Having Anthony Head

to play the headmaster Finch
was just inspired.

What is it now, Mr Finch?

I am now a Krillitane.

We're having lunch.

I think I sound a little bit like
a hair product.

RASPING RENDING RIPS

He's a sinister creature in this.
You know bad is going to happen.
Action!

Villains are fun. There's got to be
a reason why they're villainous,

they're not just pure evil for
the sake of it, cos who cares?

It's nice with something like this
where there is an animalistic thing

kind of added to it

that you can play a little without
going widely over the top.

This plan of yours, what is it? You
don't know. That's why I'm asking.

Well, show me how clever you are.
Work it out.

If I don't like it,
then it will stop.

Fascinating.

What you get there
off Anthony Head round that
swimming pool is perfect pitch.

Your people were peaceful
to the point of indolence.

You seem to be something new.

It's so well judged.
David's very glittering
at the centre of the screen.

Very hard to match him and
Anthony Head absolutely does it.

Would you declare w*r on us, Doctor?

I'm so old now.

I used to have so much mercy.

When someone's that powerful
and that crazed,
it's great to act opposite.

You get one warning.

That was it.

But we're not even enemies.

Soon you will embrace us.

Once they've discovered that they
are each other's match, as it were,

from then on it's a dash
to the finish line, really.

Well, next time we meet,

you will join with me...

I promise you.

Cut. That was fab.

It was the best yet in every
department. Terrific. Thank you.

At least there's the return of
one old friend to lighten the mood.

K- !

It's a robot dog.

Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith,
allow me to introduce K- .

Well, K- Mark III, to be precise.

The most fun you could have
with a robot and with a dog.

Ooh, what's the nasty lady done
to you?

It's not as messy as a dog.

It's not as boring as a robot.
Two brilliant words put together
to make something even better.

This scene here,

Mickey runs out of the school and
tries to get K- working,

cos we need to break in
to save the Doctor and Ros.

One more rehearsal, please. Action!

Come on. I need some help.

K- did get a bit
of ear damage in the scene.

He's not used to the physical
activity we have to put in.

He broke K- .

No, I didn't. He broke K- 's ear.

I would never break that dog.

Luckily,
he was all right after five minutes.

The guy that was helping me out
came and tweaked his ear and it
was all better, and he's fine now.

You're working, OK.
No time to explain.
We need to get inside the school.

Do you have... I don't know, a
lock-picking device? We are in a car.

Maybe a drill attachment? We are in
a car. Fat lot of good you are!

Wait a second. We're in a car.

Get back!

And cut.

We had a good little scene there.

He got a bit diva-ish
and I had to conk him on his head.

You know, he did his job and he's
in for one episode, so I could
tolerate the diva behaviour.

K- .

Yeah, he's fine now, he's good.

But there's one new
arrival to Doctor Who
about to meet a sticky end.

This afternoon,
I will be getting glooped.

Can somebody tell me about
the spraying of the gunk, please?

It will not be affecting me as it
will be affecting some
of my accomplices.

Just want to remind you, you are
incredibly powerful alien creatures.

They're all going to get
b*rned rather unpleasantly.

This is where B camera's going to
play quite heavily as well for our
moments of splatting.

I have a feeling that it'll be
probably fairly messy. Action!

When you find him, eat him if
you must, but bring me his brain.

The little dog with the nasty bite.

Not so powerful now, are you?

Bang.

THEY SCREAM

It's everyone's destiny to be glooped
by something, one time in their life,

and the Krillitanes are glooped
by their own oil. You bad dog!

Affirmative.

It's a fitting end.