03x08 - Alter Ego

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Get down! The doctor has not beenDid they see you?

I don't know. But did they see you?
The doctor has become human.

This is not you. This is .Good. This is .

He is now living
as a school teacher in England
just before World w*r I.

Only Martha Jones has the secret.

Martha, this watch is me.

Pardon me, Mr Smith. The doctor asArgghh!

She's frustrated.
I wish you'd come back.

There are aliens on his trail who
are after a Time Lord's lifespan.

He's hiding from them,
but they find him.

The teacher, he's the Doctor.

Come along with confidential as we
go undercover with the doctor and
Martha, alias Smith and Jones.

The doctor is hiding because
the family of blood is after him.

They're following us!
They can follow us wherever we go,

right across the universe.
They're never going to stop.

Martha, you trust me, don't you?

Of course I do.Because it all depends on you.

Thank you.
sh**t it next time, please.

Now... Turn over, please.

Ready? Six, season seven, take one.

And the good news is...? They can
smell me, but they haven't seen me.
So, we hide, wait for them to die.

It's the first time we've told a
story in which the Doctor is hidden.

I never thought I'd use this.
All the times I've wondered.

What does it do? Chameleon Arch.

It rewrites my biology. It literally
changes every single cell in my body.

Cut!

The Chameleon Arch literally
rewrites the doctor's biology,
it changes him into a human being.

, take .

Now, the Tardis will
take care of everything -

invent a life story for me, find
me a setting and integrate me.

Can't do the same for you,
you'll just have to improvise.

There is no memory of the fact
that this being was once the Doctor.

Good morning, sir. Yes, quite.

The Doctor has gone, really,
to all intents and purposes.

John Smith has subsumed
the Doctor's personality.

- Permission to give
Latimer a b*ating, Sir.
- Permission granted.

He's not the same man.
He's a creation of the Tardis.

Thank you. Excellent. Steven?

I approached him as a new character,
not as the Doctor.

I mean, it was very important
for that story to make sense

that John Smith was not the Doctor,
was somebody else, was his own man.

I dream, quite often, that...

that I have two hearts.

Well, then, I can be
the judge of that.

Basically, he's no longer the Doctor,

cos he's unaware of Time Lords
and spaceships and Daleks.
I mean, he does have these dreams.

I dream I'm this...

adventurer...

this daredevil, a madman -
"the Doctor".

When he's John Smith, he has no
memory of being the Doctor,

apart from dreams that come backHe writes them down.

"Journal of impossible
things". How wonderful.

Such imagination!

It's in his subconscious, he has
an awareness that there is a Doctor.

Think how magical life would be
if stories like this were true.

As far as John Smith is concerned,
it's something from his imagination.

It's funny how dreams slip away.

He doesn't for a second imagine
they're anything other than
fantastic dreams that he has.

It all took place in the future,

in the year of our Lord .

That's very important. The story
wouldn't play if he suspected
from the beginning

he was anything other than a man in
, being a school teacher.

What have I told you
about entering unannounced?

In the middle of playing the
same character,

to get to do something different, in
a way was a liberation.

What other long-running show
and character,

halfway through the series gets to
be completely different from the way
he was last week?

Inspector Morse doesn't become a
tr*nsv*stite shoplifter, you know?
It wouldn't make sense.

It's not just aliens who are chasing
John Smith - school matron Joan
Redfearn has her eye on him, too.

I think Joan is very worldly wise.

I appear to be holding your books.Yes, so you are. Sorry, sorry.

She's quite forward of her age.

When it's with me, I'd rather you
call me Nurse Redfearn.

So we made her a widow.

Though we've known each other two
months, you could even say Joan.

She knows what it's like
to be married

and so she quite consciously sets
her eye on John Smith as a husband

and is going after him from the
moment we first see them together.

She's forward for a woman
in talking about her husband.

She's very open about her emotions,
and they dance around each other.

MUSIC: "My Humps" by Black Eyed Peas

Then, eventually, all leading up
to the dance,

where they have the last
possible nice time they can have

before Doctor Who world descends
and monsters arrive and laserguns
and rips them apart.

It's a precious time. It's the
only chance they'll get to be happy.

With scores of performers on set,

the crew must choreograph
what's seen on screen.

Martha and the matron
are gonna have a little chat.

You guys will be scattered
about having a good time.

A few people eating, drinking,
chatting, dancing, all the rest
of it.

The dance hall scene
was quite complicated to do.

Working with that many extras is
always difficult

cos it takes a long time
to get anything done,

and they are all in period costume
and make-up, so that takes
a long time.

Nice and quiet, please.
All eyes on the MC.

, take one. "A" camera.
"B" camera.

Thank you. Here we go, folks.

Ladies and gentlemen, please take
your partners for the waltz.

Don't have everyone waltzing
round like The King And I.

These are ordinary village folk,
not great dancers.

They're ordinary people in a nice,
comfy little setting.

You can dance! I'm surprised myself.

One thing about Doctor Who
is never have a party.

Don't go to a dance, cos a monster's
gonna crash through the windows.

It's becoming a rule - "They're
dancing, send in monsters!"

Right on cue, the aliens land
to gatecrash the gathering.

They're more than ready
for a hapless schoolboy to bump
into them.

Right. Well, never mind that
little toad, who's for beer?

You've got beer? Baxter's hidden a

Well, what you waiting for?
Hurry back, I'm parched.

Look, in the sky!

The invisible space ship was no
trouble because it was invisible.

cos originally there was a
lot more money to be spent on that.

Later, we do see it very briefly.

Harry is a super actor and I did talk
to him about having some...

Doing some mime work
with our movement artist,

but we didn't do it in the end, and
I think he does it terribly well.

Baines bumping into that thing, it
becomes a mime act with his hands.

It's the sort of thing you can do
in the schoolyard.

Then it leads him into somethingArghh!

Here we go, rehearsing.
Nice and quiet.

Is that an aeroplane?

Are you chaps all right? Argh!

'That was a tricky day.'

First of all, because it
was freezing and very wet.

Charlie, the director, came up to me
that morning, and said, um...

"How are you at mime?"

And I said, "Well, I'm OK."

I still haven't seen it, so I don't
know, but it felt a bit stupid,

but I think we might
have got away with it,

with all the special-effects,
they'll cover up my mistakes.

These aliens need some
interesting spooky servants.

How about scarecrows?

Activate the soldiers.

The scarecrows are great. It's taking
the mundane and making it creepy,

which is one of the sure-fire things
that this show does very well.

They're peculiarly creepy.

The eyes aren't quite there.
Fantastic creatures.

It's nice to have something
very scary that can legitimately

stand there in the field,
being completely ordinary.

I wish they had scarecrows like that
these days. Freak kids out.

Help me!

You kind of think, "How can we not
have done living scarecrows before?"

It seems such an obvious idea
when you see it.

The only thing that was lacking
was something to grab you.

So, I said scarecrows to Paul and he
said no, and as with Paul, you just
wait a day, and then he turns round

and says, "Oh, great idea."

This is great. I love spooky
scarecrows, they're so gothic and
wonderful and really English.

And the guys inside did such a great
job, that, kind of, lolloping,

rolling gait, which somehow
made them all the more creepy.

Notice the thermals.

Essential.

We decided
that scarecrows should shamble.

Argh! Argh! Argh!

A little bit like with a vestige of
the scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz,
who lollops all over the place.

Argh! Argh!

That's what you expect a scarecrow
should do, these monsters should
do what you expect them to do.

And, action!

Help me!

Cut. They're silent as well,
it just gives them...

It's just that shambling, it makes
them a bit animal, a bit mindless.

I think that makes them terrifying.

Help me!

Cut there.

Give us a kiss. Thank you.