03x11 - 'Ello 'Ello 'Ello

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It's a very curious position he finds himself in.

It's quite an exciting, pivotal moment in Doctor Who history.

Join Confidential as we witness the beginning of the end,

and say 'ello 'ello 'ello to John Barrowman, Derek Jacobi and John Simm.

♪ Hello, hello, hello, hello. ♪

Oh, my God!

It was always the plan to bring Jack back.

Hello, again.

SHE SCREAMS

It's great to have Captain Jack coming back

and very exciting to have John Barrowman on set because he's a force of nature,

a lively and lovely man.

Jack's return to Doctor Who

was long-awaited not only by myself but by the audience.

I'm sorry, there's no heartbeat.

There's nothing. (He's dead.)

It's funny cos David and I have socialised together

but suddenly I'm with David's Doctor so that's a bit different but it's great.

It's Captain Jack. He's slipped back into his skin so easily.

He came back into Doctor Who and we all started laughing.

Not that we were miserable before

but he carries so much energy and so much charisma.

He's warm, he's funny

and he laughs enormously. He's a bundle of fun.

♪ I'm singing in the rain Just singing in the rain... ♪

GENE KELLY: ♪ What a glorious feeling I'm happy again... ♪

Ooh, it's getting heavier. Ho-ho-ho, yes!

Welcome to the Welsh spa.

THEY CHUCKLE

Could I have the seaweed wrap

and then I'd like... the massage with the stones, please?

He's so upbeat and he really loves what he's doing, as well.

And he's so good at it that it makes it a joy to perform with him.

I started cracking up. Did you see that?

Captain Jack is brave. He's loyal. Jack's the muscle in Doctor Who.

He's sexy.Works for me.

He'll go that extra mile. He'll do stuff no-one else will in all sorts of ways.

Where were you hiding that?!

You really don't want to know.

He does have this cheek and this glint in his eyes.

I'm Jack Harkness. I'm Jack Harkness and WHO are you?Stop it!

You used to be a time agent and now you're some kind of free-lancer?

You're never quite sure whether to trust what he says and believe him.

But you can't help liking him.

You are worth fighting for.

He comes under the Doctor's influence. Under the wing of a much better, much cleverer

and a much more compassionate man and learns off him.

I wish I'd never met you Doctor.

One last time!

Any more volunteers?

When we get to a massive Dalek att*ck in The Parting Of The Ways, he is the last man standing

and will fight with a useless g*n against advancing armies of Daleks

and will not stop, in order to buy the Doctor more time.

Exterminate!

I kind of figured that.

But his extermination was short-lived

thanks to a Rose resurrection, Jack came back.

I bring life.

He's now immortal.Powered up.

At the start of it, the Doctor's keen to leave him behind...

DOCTOR...

..because it opens up a Pandora's Box of problems for the Doctor in terms

of the laws of time and the laws of physics.

The year trillion? Impossible!

We're going to the end of the universe.

So when he meets the Doctor again it's tense.

So there I was, stranded in the year ankle deep in Dalek dust and he goes off without me.

Why was he abandoned? What went on? There's a great friendship but a new sense of distrust between them.

Jack and the Doctor have jibes at each other and say things but never confront it.

The thing is, how come you left him behind, Doctor?I was busy.

Is that what happens then, seriously?

You just get bored and disappear? Not if you're blonde.

Oh, she was blonde? Oh, what a surprise.

You two! We are at the end of the universe, all right?

Right at the edge of knowledge itself and you're busy blogging.

Now, come on.

Episode deals with the Doctor telling Jack his own story,

telling Jack why he is like he is.

It strikes me, Professor, you've got a room which no man can enter without dying. Is that correct?

Yes. Well...Huuuh!

I think I've got just the man.

When did you realise?

Earth, .

Got in a fight on Ellis Island.

Man sh*t me through the heart. I woke up.

Thought it was kind of strange.

But then it never stopped.

Fell off a cliff, trampled by horses, World w*r I,

World w*r II, poison, starvation, a stray javelin.Ooh.

In the end, I got the message.

I'm the man who can never die.

Jack wonders if theDoctor can fix it, and heasks him that,

and the Doctor doesn't have an answer.

What happened?Rose.

She brought you back to life.

But she couldn't control it. She brought you back forever.

That scene is written very deliberately because that's what men are like.

They have to be in the middle of a nuclear rocket crisis

and they have to have a door between them

and the lives of , people in their hands

and then they decide to have a chat.

Do you want to die?This one's a little stuck.

Jack?

I thought I did, but I don't know.

Back in the studio, the Doctor meets the Master

played by legendary actor Derek Jacobi.

Yeah, what a coup - Derek Jacobi!

Here's to it, Utopia.

What a treat to have him.

It seems that something new has arrived.

I'm working with an icon.

What a perfect bit of casting. I can't imagine anyone else playing it.

The Doctor?That's me...Oh, good! Good!

I was gobsmacked when he said, "Oh, I love Doctor Who.

"I've watched them all. I think it's the best programme on television and I would love to be in it."

I said, "Well, are you being serious or are you just flattering me?" And he laughed. He said, "I'm serious."

Good! Good! Good!

One of my ambitions since the sixties,

has been to take part in a Doctor Who

and the other one is Coronation Street. I've cracked Doctor Who now. I'm still waiting for Corrie.

I remember his first day. He bounded on and was going, "This is so exciting."

Some admiration would've been nice. Just a little. Just once.

Well, you have it now.

It's one of the great treats of this job that people like Derek Jacobi say they'll do an episode.

I went to a stage door to get Derek Jacobi's autograph when I was at drama school

and now I'm in an episode of Doctor Who with him. How cool is THAT?

Still...no rest for the wicked.

All the elements that have been laid in the series are coming together.

This watch is ME.

I'm gonna become human.

We put in a flashback so that people recognise it

and, at the same time, Martha and Jack and the Doctor's dialogue

spells it all out from scratch.

Doctor, it's the professor.

He's got a fob watch, it's the same as yours.

Same writing on it, same everything.

It's directed so this fob watch is really important

and has a lot of significance and everyone acts as if it has,

so you've got to make it accessible, remember it might be someone's first episode.

ECHOING VOICE

Regneration. Regeneration.

But, of course, Yana doesn't really know who he is. He just keeps hearing drums -

there's something in his brain

that he almost has the answer to something

but he's not quite sure what.

When he turns round and looks at Chantho,

when he's changed into the Master, with no dialogue and the look in his eyes, how do they do that?

How do actors do that because I just think that's STUNNING.

Having been this rather gentle, rather kind, rather lovable professor,

this nutty professor,

the evil side of me takes over and I start k*lling people.

That came quite easily.

Who are you tho?

I am...

..the Master.

The stage is set for Derek's final moments.

It's taken three years, but the Master's time on the Tardis is finally here.

k*lled by an insect.

A girl!

How inappropriate.

We're going to sh**t the first part of the Master's regeneration

from Derek into John.

In the past, in the Classic series, as I think it's called now,

all regenerations were different, depending on the director

and the producer at the time and what they decided to do.

This time, Russell said, I'd like the regeneration

to be exactly as the regeneration from Chris into David.

It just helps to spell out that this is a Time Lord regeneration,

this is the same process, this is how he becomes a new man. It's just exciting.

There's the thrill of going, "It's exactly the same process."

That was such a good effect, I didn't want to change it.

It's how Time Lords regenerate.

The Master...reborn!

And cut.

Mixing between the two Masters is no mean feat.

John Simm has to be in exactly the right place

in order to be every inch the Doctor's arch-enemy.

Right a little bit.

Move back an inch, John. We're running. Now inch your face slightly to your right.

Here we go. Steady. Action!

BUBBLING

To cast two brilliant actors as the Master, to have Derek Jacobi

and then to have John Simm is beyond my wildest dreams.

End of the universe. Have fun! Bye-bye!

Doctor, stop him!

It's that slightly creepy dawning realisation

that the Doctor's not on his own, that there's another one. Somebody else can regenerate,

can operate the Tardis, somebody might be the Doctor's equal.

The old plotting, the old genius, the dark old genius

is still there and instantly knows what to do

and that is the titanic battle that we have ahead of us in and .

He might have finally met his match.

I think that's quite exciting.