02x05 - Cybermen

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They're back.

These brutal bad boys are out
to destroy yet again.

Only this time,
they're more chilling than ever.

Enter the Cybermen.

It's a very cold Saturday morning
in Cardiff Bay.

, Take two, B-Cam rolling.

And...action!

I never knew.

You never asked. You never said!

It's the beginning of us

finding out about Cybus Industries.

And cut. Cut!

There's a lot of people involved
and a big crane,

which is always quite difficult
to choreograph.

Filming in Cardiff, set in London.

We take down any signs

that, sort of, refer to Wales.

We'll put up
the odd Underground sign.

A couple of added touches...
Fingers crossed we get away with it!

MUSIC: "Where's Your Head At?"
by Basement Jaxx

♪ Where's your head at?

♪ Where's your head at? ♪

Hold...hold it there.

I'd like to do a two-sh*t
that develops to stay on you
all the way through, David,

so I can get a single out of this.

♪ ..Where's your head at?

♪ Where's your head at?

♪ Where's your head at? ♪

So, what we've got here is,
at a certain moment, which we will
tell you by saying "Stop", OK?

You all stop, cos you're getting
info on your earpieces.

To add to that, when you stop,
you come to a natural standstill.

You don't all suddenly stop with
one leg up in the air, or whatever.

And you're hypnotised.

Turnover!

DIRECTOR SHOUTS

Everyone level, here we go.
Background!

Action!

Because...I suppose we just
take him for granted.

You never said.

That's Mickey.

What's tricky is the starting and
stopping, cos we have to stop dead...
Stop!

..as this download happens
in their heads.

WARNING SIREN WAILS

What are they all doing?

They stopped.

It's using things in the modern
world, and maybe that we have
a paranoid fear about,

this whole idea
that we get information downloaded.

We download it into our computers
and phones. It's a short hop
to downloading it into your head.

People want the latest technology,

that's what they're after.

How many people are walking around

with the Bluetooth attachment now?

Here you go, yours again. Thank you.

That was a bit tricky, actually.
It's a prop we could really do
without for SAs.

Just hold it for a few seconds.

Tapping into modern paranoias
and modern obsessions, things that
people get joyous about as well,

is upgrading, that notion
of upgrading, that notion that
every year you can change your phone

and your MP player, and if
you don't keep up with technology,
you'll get left behind.

Like Bluetooth,
but everyone's connected.

MOBILE PHONE BEEPS

It's on my phone.

News, international news,
sports, weather...

I think it's always good
to just tap into those slight worries
that people have about modern life.

Mobile phones, which people are now
reliant on, and yet we're all still
slightly nervous of them.

They get it direct.

Downloaded right into their heads.

'We don't understand them.'

We don't know how this information
comes into this plastic thing
that we carry about.

Daily download
published by Cybus Industries.

Laugh!

That's what's chilling and clever
about those episodes.

That's where the Cybermen come from
anyway, this idea that...

that modern technology will slowly
replace us and that modern technology
is ultimately out to get us.

OK, I give up, let's go and see him.

Cut! End board. Good.

That's what we see throughout that
episode, this whole idea that
it'll just slowly creep up on us

and we won't notice it happening,
which just makes the fantastical
scene that worrying bit closer.

EXTRAS CHAT TO EACH OTHER

There. See you soon. Bye-bye.
See you next week.

Do you want to come in here?

♪ ..We can't live on,
live on without you. ♪

We brought the Cybermen back
because you should bring back
the great, iconic monsters.

It's working!

I hardly think "working"
is the correct word.

There's a very powerful businessman
called John Lumic,
who runs Cybus Industries,

who is dying and is using
all his technological might
to find ways to upgrade,

to find ways to upgrade the human
body, to find a form that means
his brilliant brain can survive.

The brain has been welded
to the exoskeleton.

WHEELCHAIR HUMS

ROBOTIC VOICE: You are John Lumic.

Skin of metal and a body
that will never age or die.

I envy it.

'The whole point of his existence
is to create this creature
that is made of metal...'

to give human beings longevity,

to last forever.

And to survive into
the st century, these metal
monsters had to look the part.

In many ways, they looked like
something made in a science fiction
programme in the year .

We just started the way we do
with anything, which is do drawings

and pictures, and work from there
and present them.

They had to be a Cyberman
for the st century.

Also, they have to look
really like metal,

Russell really wants them
to look machined.

One of the most important things,
in my mind, was to stop
calling them silver.

Steel. That's what they're made of,
that's really what they always
were made of, I think.

No one person designed it,
it really was a team effort.

I love them,
they're absolutely gorgeous.

CAST AND CREW CHAT

An idyllic country home
in the tranquil Welsh countryside.

It's a cold and misty Monday
in the sleepy Vale of Glamorgan,

and preparation is under way
for the social event of the century.
It all seems to be going to plan.

But not for long...

Nothing better than a party
that turns into a death trap!

You end up serving?
If you want to know what's going on,
work in the kitchens.

It comes together in this script.
The Cybermen were years old,
we wanted a rich Jackie...

and we went,
"What if it's her th?"

GUESTS APPLAUD

Now, I'm not giving a speech.

What better thing could happen
than the French windows
are smashed by monsters?

Cut! Cut. They were invaded
by Cybermen, which is lovely.

We had one three-hour session,
basically, to do that moment

of those Cybermen
crashing through the windows.

So, are you happy? Ready?

By the time we'd finished,
it feels like there are
Cybermen in that room.

'OK, let's stand by for a take,
please.' Stand by, please!

OK, guys?

CLAPPERBOARD CLAPS

'Words, please.' Are we ready?

Absolutely terrified, here we go!

In the end, I hope everybody will
find it terrifying. And lights!

Action!

MUSIC: "I Predict A Riot"
by Kaiser Chiefs

♪ I predict riot
Oh, I predict a riot

♪ And if there's anybody
left in here

♪ That doesn't want to be out there

♪ I predict a riot

♪ I predict a riot

♪ I predict a riot

♪ I predict a riot. ♪

Did you get hit, there?
No, not really.

THEY LAUGH

Time for the Cybermen
to take centre stage

and the job of creating
that spine-chilling voice lies
with one man and his microphone.

Here I am with my lip mic
and my ring modulator just here.

I hear their lines coming in here,

I speak into here. It comes out
in a speaker over there.

ROBOTIC VOICE:
Upgrading is compulsory.

. Take two, A-Camera marked.
Action!

You are not compatible.

What happens then?

You will be deleted!

Go!

Part of the point of the Cybermen is
how frightening they are en masse.

The Cybermen are Doctor Who's
most m*llitary monsters.

MARCHING FEET
Cut! Cut!

They are the big, scary army.
We've done it!

So, could this finally mean the
bitter end for our fearless friend?

Is this almighty force
too powerful for even the Doctor
to talk his way out of?

But this is a surrender!
You will be deleted.

Does he survive? Is this the end
of him? All I can tell you is,
"Watch out for Mickey."