04x04 - Send in the Clones

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An old friend is back. Martha Jones.

Doctor...

And she's not alone.

She will be terminated!

SHE SCREAMS

Join Doctor Who Confidential,
as we do a double-take on the
Sontaran world of cloning.

The Doctor Who crew
have successfully navigated

themselves to the edge
of Cardiff docks.

And for tonight's filming,

a usually buoyant team
have that sinking feeling...

This is a big number for us.
Location - finding a location

to have hard standing near water.

It's a night sh**t, so quite a lot
of setting up finding the location.

And the car that you see
behind you is a double.

This one's been with Any Effects
of the past week.

Something different for Doctor Who.

It's the first time
since Doctor Who's been back

on the screens that we've done
a car cannon,

so it's quite a biggie for
all departments, including myself.

This vehicle here arrived

at our workshop about a week ago,
and since then we've been stripping

out the car, taking all the seats
out, the fuel t*nk, and putting in

a special high-pressure system,
which is what we call a car cannon.

The car cannon consists of
a long metal tube, which is

pumped full of gas at high pressure,
ready to be fired off like a rocket.

Towards the end of the week,

we were testing at a lower
pressure to make sure the
whole system was working,

we didn't have any leaks
or anything like that.

Three, two, one.

By the time it's leaving the bank,

it's probably doing about mph,
so it'll be flying into the water.

GAS HISSES

, take one. Camera, mark.

A set? Camera B set?

C set?

All ready? Yeah!
Five ready? In five.

There's gonna be a loud whoosh.

Four, three, two, one.

Launch!

♪ Said, hey, take control of me

♪ Take control of me

♪ Take control of me

♪ Take control of me... ♪

APPLAUSE

Marvellous!

A familiar face at unit base today
is unit's finest.

♪ This is my comeback, girl... ♪

Hello?!
Hi!

♪ This is my comeback, girl... ♪

Hello! Morning!

It is great to be back.

It, in many ways,
feels like I've not gone anywhere.

A little bit nervous, don't know
who I'm going to be sitting next to.

Yeah, it does kind of feel like the

first day at school, it really does.
You are sort of...

Hello! Hello, Freema.

Nice to see you.

But it's nice cos I'm seeing
everybody that was here last year.

I'm gonna go and get
changed now, but I think

we're gonna take pictures.
You should come along and see.

And when you have two hearts,
clearly three is not a crowd.

I think the Doctor's nervous
about seeing her again.

HE SNEEZES LOUDLY

It's always nerve-wracking
meeting up with an ex, isn't it?

Especially if it's one that -
that it didn't end...

entirely happily with.

Maybe he didn't behave
as well as he might have done
when he starts looking back at it.

Action!

Martha Jones.

It could be awkward,
it could be strange. What I think is

lovely about that script is that
all the tensions just disappear.

When she meets him again it is
very much in a professional level,

in a professional capacity.

There is a different dynamic
between them. She doesn't have that

need for the Doctor that she
had before in terms of, you know,

having a love reciprocated.

But of course she's
overwhelmed to see him

because they've got
this amazing friendship.

You haven't changed a bit!

Neither have you!

That's not
going to have just disappeared.

But at the same time it's
moved on to a different place.

How's the family?
You know, not so bad. Recovering.

What about you?

He's bringing the new girl along,

and he's nervous that that's
going to cause ructions.

Right.
Should have known.

When Donna and Martha meet,
there is that moment

in that silence
where there's probably

a million things going through
Martha's head, but she does start
by saying to the Doctor...

Didn't take you long to replace me
then? Now...

She's comfortable enough with where
she is in her life and where she

knows their relationship is
to make a joke about that.

His initial impulse is, "Come on,
girls. Time out, round one."

Martha, Donna. Donna, Martha. Please,
don't fight, I can't bear fighting.

You wish.
I've heard all about you.

It's a lovely scene when the
three of them come together,

and you can see the Doctor
standing on guard, getting ready to

break up a massive catfight,
which, of course, doesn't happen
because they're both mature ladies.

He talks about you all the time.
I dread to think. No, no, no.
He says nice things.

Donna wouldn't see her as a rival

because she doesn't look at
the Doctor in a romantic way.

Didn't take long to get over it,
though. Who's the lucky man?

What man? Lucky what?

She's engaged, you prawn.

And then, of course, Martha's
got over the Doctor as well, so he

suddenly finds himself
being ganged up on.

He is too skinny for words. You
give him a hug, you get a paper cut.

Oh, I'd rather you were fighting.

Speaking of which...

This is Dr Jones.
Operation Blue Sky is go, go, go.

I repeat, this is a go.

We should head back.

There's not much down here.

It should be just
boiler rooms, generators.

But what is down there
spells double trouble -

the Sontaran cloning room.

Aye, aye.

Cue camera.

And...action!

There's a classic Doctor Who spooky
sequence of going into a dark room.

What the hell?

Discovering a t*nk,
there's a knocking inside.

LOUD THUD

g*n CLICKS

LOUD THUD

Opening it and revealing the monster.

I hope everyone's expecting something
Sontaran in there and it's not.

It's this great, big, weird,

mysterious, vile clone
in all the green gloop.

Identify yourself! Identify!

I think that clone is vile, actually.
I think it's one of our scariest
monsters. It's the mouth.

I don't even think
it is properly alive.

Cut. And we cut there, thank you.

The prosthetic took about
two hours to put on.

So you needed somebody quite Zen.

And Ruari Mears is somebody that

is one of our regular main
monster creature guys.

And I have known him very well
from Cybermen, being a Cyberman.

It completely covers all of your
head and your ears and your nose.

The only holes being a few little

holes for the mouth and for your
nose, so you can actually breathe.

Can you actually open your mouth?

Yeah, I can.

Lovely.

It's a bit like sensory
deprivation. So you can imagine...

It's quite comfortable.

You're sitting there, it's easy to
just chill out. Because you haven't

got all of the other senses around
you distracting you about things.

So you just zone out.

Is someone in there?

Hello?

If you could open your hand
now, I'm right in front of you.

You can feel my face, here. Yeah.

That's the shape
that you go with your hand.

If you go this way, the chances are

you might poke him in the eyes.
If you come flat-handed.

Palm flat, OK.

Then there's no chance of any damage
to him happening. Which I'm
sure you wouldn't want to do anyway.

Of course not. Everything you
have to do, you have to be guided.

Walking around everywhere.
Taken here, taken there.

Guide him round, folks.
Where are you going in, that side?

'I knew he would be OK
with the claustrophobia.

'Also, we were going to have to'

wax everything
on whoever was going to do it.

'So hands, arms, chest, head.

'Full shave from the waist up.'

Ruari, I kind of knew,
wouldn't mind being waxed.

To go with his piercings.

I've got it.

Yeah? Well done, mate.

You're sat nearly in the middle of
the bath at the moment.

OK.

The monitors are behind you
and the cameras are in front of you.

Righty-oh.

Ruari, sit up for me as if you
are sitting up in the scene.

Lift up your left arm and hand,
directly to your side.

Keep going, higher and backwards.
So it's there.

Bring your hand a bit
higher please, Ruari.

That's where his face is, there. OK.

What I'd like to do is for you to do

a rise up and see if you can find
that position where his face is.

OK, for Ruari's sake,
I'm going to go straight away, guys.

Get ready, Ruari? Are you ready?

And...action.

What the hell is that stuff?

'Finding the mark with my hand
was quite difficult.'

It is literally a matter of
confidence. You put your

hand into the position where
they want the end position to be.

And then you visualise the space
and remember where it is,
and just put your hand there...

Identify yourself!

Not too slowly, because obviously
the actor needs to be able
to react to it.

Ah! Ah!

But then not so fast
that I'm going to knock him out.

That was challenging.

I've got a nose bleed.
He put his finger right up my nose.

I'm sorry. It's all right,
it wasn't your fault!

You've got to do it confidently
and hope you get it right.

Identify!

Declaring absolute emergency, sir.
Repeat, absolute emergency. Over.

Can you hear me?

Can you understand me?

Look at his neck.
It's like an...umbilical cord.

Well, don't get too close.

I think it's harmless.

I don't even think it's
properly alive.

Right, Ruari.

Thank you very much.
Let's get him out, please.

Get Ruari out, please.

Do you want to come over towards me,
Ruari? All right there?

I've never been
submerged in goo before.

Which was quite entertaining.

Not one to do again?

No, I'd do it again.

It was the full body wax that was
the bit that I wouldn't be

too enthusiastic about
doing too soon again.

They goo bit, that was great.
I enjoyed it. Nice one.