01x04 - 73 Yards

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[TARDIS WHOOSHES]

Oh, yes! We are in Wales!

- Spectacular!
- What? How can you tell?

Oh! [SNIFFS]

That smell, that green,
that coastline, Ruby.

- [GIGGLES]
- Oh!

The rocks and the water, it never ends.

The w*r between the land and the sea.

Oh, you know what?
I've been to Wales twice.

- I went to see Shygirl in Cardiff.
- Oh.

And then I went to Mumbles when
I was about 16 because of a boy.

- I broke his heart, but there you go.
- Oh, bless him.

Mind you, Roger ap Gwilliam,
that's a bad example of the Welsh.

- Terrifying.
- Oh, yeah?

The most dangerous
prime minister in history.

He led the world to
the brink of nuclear...

Wait, what year are you from?



Oh, yikes. Sorry. He was 2046.

[GIGGLES] Sorry, spoilers.

- Forget I said anything.
- No, no, no. Tell me what happened.

[BELLS TINKLE]

No, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no. What is this?

[BELLS TINKLE]

Oh, it's a circle. Someone made this.

I'm sorry, man. I am sorry.

Aw. It looks like something
made by children, doesn't it?

Lucky charms and bird skulls.

Hey, there's little messages. Look.

"I miss you". That's all it says.

[SIGHS] "Rest in peace, Mad Jack".

[SMACKS LIPS] Aw, poor old Mad Jack.

[INHALES] Bless him, eh?
Looks like some sort of memorial.

[WIND WHOOSHES]

[GROANS] All right,
don't be doing that to me.

[DOOR RATTLES]

[KEY RATTLES IN LOCK]

Hey, it's locked!

You've locked it from the inside.

Doctor.

I hope you're not having
a pee 'round the back.

[SMACKS LIPS] Hmm...

[SIGHS]

[VOICES WHISPERING]

[INHALES DEEPLY]

Hiya. Um, have you seen my friend?

He was here. H-He's just, um...

Can you just w-wait there? J...

Okay.

[SIGHS] Okay. Okay.

[SIGHS] Very clever.

Very clever.

[SIGHS]

Are you a part of this?

What... What... What have you
done? Did... Did you do this?

Where is the Doctor?

Where is he? What have you done to him?

[SIGHS]

[SIGHS]

[BREATHES SHAKILY]

[SIGHS]

[GIGGLES]

[SIGHS]

- Hello there.
- Ah. [LAUGHS]

Ooh, you must be mad.
Is that all you're wearing?

Yeah, I got kind of caught.
Um, the-the car broke down.

- [HIKER] Oh, no.
- [SIGHS]

Oh, you poor thing.

I know. What a day.

Um, wh-where is that?

Down there. What is it?

Oh, that's Glyngatwg, if you'll
forgive my pronunciation.

Which they don't.

I... I haven't met you before, have I?

Well, I don't think so. Have you?

Uh, no, that was a
different... [STAMMERS]

Uh, sorry, could you help me?

That, um, woman over there,
do you see her?

Of course I can. Who is she?

Um, this is gonna sound
a bit mad. [CHUCKLES]

But she's following me.

I think I may have trespassed
or something,

I dunno, but could you
just tell her I'm sorry?

Sorry for what?

Uh, I don't know.

Have I walked into something?

No, no, no, no. Sorry.

You're just going that way, so
could you just tell her that I'm fine?

She can go home. [CHUCKLES]

Well, I'm intrigued now,
and it's no skin off my nose.

But once that's done, get
in the warm, both of you.

Whatever little game this is.

[GASPS] Oh, could you ask
her if she knows the Doctor?

Oh, do you need a doctor?

No, but can you just ask?

I'll try.

[SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]

[VOICES WHISPERING]

- [GASPS]
- [HIKER SCREAMING]

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]

[SIGN CREAKING]

[VOICES WHISPERING]

[THUNDER RUMBLES]

- [BREATHES SHAKILY]
- [THUNDER RUMBLES]

[PANTS]

[FAINT TV CHATTER]

State on you.

Who goes out in this without a coat?

No, I've lost my things.

[SIGHS] Sorry, it's
kind of a long story.

Is it?

Um, I-I... I don't suppose...
[SIGHS] I'm a bit stuck.

- Have you got a room for the night?
- I have.



I haven't got anything in for breakfast,

but I can do yoghurt and toast.

Don't let her cook, for God's sake.

- Shut it.
- Don't let her cook.

Uh, no, that's fine.

[CHUCKLES]

I haven't got any cash on me.
C-C-Can I pay on my phone?

Can you what?

Can I pay with my phone?

Pay with your phone?

Yeah.

How do you pay with your phone?

Oh, well, it's sort of
like online banking,

but the phone can transfer money
from my account into...

Yes, you can pay with your phone.

Oh. Sorry. Thank you. [GIGGLES]

We're not quite the
Dark Ages, young lady.

Despite what they say.

Well, apparently, next week
we're getting Christianity.

- [PATRONS LAUGH]
- Throw 'em to the lions.

Throw them to the lions and
watch them getting eaten alive.

With-With great big teeth
and the blood and things.

Drink?

Yeah, I... I'll... I'll have, um...

[SIGHS] No, I'll just have a Coke.

Last of the big spenders.

[SIGHS]

- [WIND BLOWING]
- [FIRE CRACKLING]

'Ey, do... do you mind if I ask,

that woman out there, can you see her?

Oh, she must be bloody freezing, mun.

Do you know who she is?

I've never seen her. Why? Who is she?

I don't know. [SIGHS]

I rather think, in this sort of weather,

you should try asking her in.

Oh, no, no. She's... She's not with me.

She's just following me.

What for?

[RUBY] I don't know.

But she's definitely following you?

Well, yeah, I think so. Yeah.

Five quid.

How much?

- Five quid.
- [SIGHS]

Pardon me for stating the obvious,

but if there's a woman following you,

have you tried asking her why?

- No.
- Oh, my God!

I'll ask her now. I'm
off home for my tea.

I'll send her in for a pie and a pint.

- Hey, you can pay on your magic phone.
- [BOTH LAUGH]

- All right. Night, girls.
- Night then, Josh.

Safely home.

Um, could you ask her... [STAMMERS]

There was a friend of mine
in a yellow duffel coat.

Could you just ask her
if she's seen him?

Black guy, 5'10'.

Yeah, I'll give it a go.

Cheerio, then.

[OWNER] See you tomorrow, Josh.

[THUNDER RUMBLES]

[SIGHS]

[SIGHS]

Following's the wrong word

because she doesn't approach.

She comes so far, and
it's like she stays away,

never comes any closer.

I can't think of a synonym
for keeping your distance.

I suppose to coin a new word,

in Latin, it would be semperdistans,
always distant.

She's semperdistans to you.

[JOSH SCREAMING]

Oh, my God. Josh is running.

It's his wife shouting at him.

No, really though. He's running.

He saw that woman, and he ran away.

He ran away like the
devil was on his bum.

- [CHUCKLES] What'd she say to him?
- I-I don't know.

- Who is she?
- I don't know!

[OLDER PATRON] It seems
that Josh is semperdistans.

[RUBY] I wonder... [SIGHS] I thought...

See, I was with my friend,

and we walked into this
thing up on the clifftops.

Like, a circle of cotton,

little toy things, like charms
and skulls of birds.

I... Just, like,
a witchcraft sort of thing.

[TV CHATTER STOPS]

What you mean cotton?

Like strands with these things.

Witchcraft is a very strong word.

No, no, no, no. I did not mean
witchcraft. I just meant it's like...

Where was it?

Up on the cliffs, a couple
miles that way.

It's what they call a fairy circle.

[LAUGHS] You can ask him about that.

Shut your face.

When you say you walked
into it, did you break it?

Well, it... [SIGHS] Yeah.

Uh, no. But it was by mistake.

I mean, it's not magic,
is it? [CHUCKLES]

[OLDER PATRON] Is it not?

The clifftops are a boundary
between the land and the sea.

A liminal space, neither here nor there,

where rules are suspended.

And then there's the blood.

What... What blood?

Do you know why Wales has so
many picturesque little castles?

No.

They were t*rture centres set up
by the English to rule with fear.

Steeped in blood, we are.

[YOUNG PATRON] Tons of blood.

[GASPS]

This land is a powerful place.

It's said that he walks
through the gaps.

The spiteful one.

No, but it was by accident.

My friend... [SIGHS]

He would never disrespect a circle
or do anything like that.

And I walked away as soon as
it said "rest in peace".

What did?

The messages. The little scrolls.

- You read them?
- J-Just a couple.

You opened them and read them?

Why did you do that?

Well, they were there!

I think whatever spell was cast
in this circle is now broken.

What else did they say?

- It was just, um...
- What else did they say?

O-One said, "Rest in peace".

- "Rest in peace, Mad Jack".
- [BOTH GASP]

- [THUNDERCLAPS]
- Oh, my God.

I think, perhaps, that wasn't wise.

No, I-I just thought it was
someone's dog or something.

[SCOFFS] Say that to Mad Jack's face.

- [RUBY] Why? Who was he?
- He was insane.

And he's dead!

But now she's broken the circle.

Yeah, but what does that mean?

[OLDER PATRON] The charm was very clear.

Binding his soul to rest in peace.

Semperdistans to keep him away.

But now you've broken it.

And if that woman outside is his herald,

that means Mad Jack is unbound.

- [POUNDING AT DOOR]
- Oh, don't. [BREATHES HEAVILY]

He'd k*ll me. He would k*ll me!

I'm the one he'd k*ll first,
and you know why, don't you?

What the hell have you done?

- No, that's just someone at the door.
- [POUNDING CONTINUES]

No, no, no. But he'd go home!

He wouldn't have come
here. He'd go home!

There's no home to go to,
you idiot. Not anymore.

He drank in this pub.

He called this place home.

That is not Mad Jack out there!

Then answer the door.

- [THUNDERCLAPS]
- [POUNDING ON DOOR]

- [SLOW POUNDING]
- [OWNER] It's him. It's him.

Oh, my God. It's him.

Hurry up. I've got my hands full.

[PATRONS LAUGHING]

You've got enough pasties
here to last two weeks!

[LAUGHING CONTINUES]

Get 'em in the freezer fast.

- [LAUGHING CONTINUES]
- What's so funny?

Her face! Oh, my God, her face.

- [ALL LAUGHING]
- [YOUNG PATRON] Best one yet, that was.

His herald, I loved that bit.

It's r*cist, my dear, to be blunt.

People come from outside, they
think we're all witches and druids.

For God's sake, child, you
walked into a piece of string.

Can I stand you a pint, Eddie?

Don't mind if I do.

[LAUGHING CONTINUES]

- [LAUGHS ECHOING]
- [THUNDER RUMBLES]

[BIRDS TWEETING]

[SPOON CLINKS]

Got those spare.

I'll have them back, mind.

[SIGHS]

[SIGHS]

[WHOOSH]

I said to Josh...

I said, "We haven't seen you".
He said, "I'm never coming back".

I said, "Why?" And he said, "Ask her".

So, I'm asking you, why?

I think he meant ask her.

Well, I made it very clear to Josh
you will be packing and going.

And we won't see you again as of today.

Is that understood?

Look, maybe I should just go home.

I haven't even known you
for that long anyway, but...

You know, maybe t-this...
this is what you do.

[SIGHS]

But if you come back... [CHUCKLES]

... I would love to see you again.

God, I-I-I'd just absolutely love it.

[WHISPERS] Okay.

Bye-bye. [CHUCKLES]

[SIGHS]

I'm going now!

Okay?

You win!

[SIGHS]

[TRAIN ANNOUNCER] This is
the Great Western Railway service

to London Paddington.

[REGGAE MUSIC PLAYING]

- [SIGHS, LAUGHS]
- Here she is, here she is, here she is.

- All safe and sound. [SIGHS]
- Love you.

She's back!

I told her that man was no good
with his box of magic tricks!

Some kind of guzum.

Maybe the Doctor went
inside his box and...

That's what men do.

They go into their sheds
and they potter.

They have train sets and hobbies,

and things women should
never know about.

I mean, I don't know.

I've never had a garden.
Never had a shed.

I've never had a man.

But that's what they say.

And your intergalactic nutcase
is doing it on a cosmic scale.

But he's still, essentially,
inside his shed pottering.

He must be!

[KETTLE BOILING]

Look, I-I didn't tell you everything.

There's this woman. [SIGHS]

This is what we'll do!

If I can approach her,
then I'll phone you.

I'll walk up to her like this.

- Hello?
- [PHONE RINGS]

- Hi.
- Then I can talk to her.

- Then you can hear what she's got to say.
- No, I've told you.

Everyone she talks to,
they just run away.

Yes, but Welsh people.

Trust me, darling. It's a plan.

All right. Well, just be careful! Okay.

Having a nice time?

Yeah, I'm just speaking to...

You're standing in the street
on the phone to your own mother?

[STAMMERS] Yeah.

Nothing to do with me.

Mum, what does she look like?

[CARLA] She looks like
what she looks like.

What does that mean?

She looks like what she is.

Mum, what's she saying? I can't...
[SIGHS] I can't quite hear.

- [STATIC CRACKLES ON PHONE]
- What's she saying?

Mum?

Mum, whatever she's saying
just don't... No, Mum!

Mum, don't listen to her!

- Please, don't do this to me. Mum!
- [SCREAMS]

- Mum, don't do this to me. Mum!
- [CARLA SCREAMING]

Mum!

Mum, please! Just stop!

Mum? [PANTS]

[LOW WHIRRING]

[DISTORTED] Mum! Mum, please!

[SOBBING]

[SOBBING]

She run away? What did you say to her?

What? It wasn't me. It was the woman.

Mum, phone me back.

Just... [HUFFS] Just tell me what
she said. Just talk to me, okay?

Just please phone me back.

Look, I don't care
if you're on answerphone.

[SCOFFS] I will keep calling
a hundred times a day.

And you've got to come home.

Come on, Mum. Gran
is calling you everything.

... and if you do come home,

I'll make that shepherd's pie, yeah?

The one we saw on Saturday Kitchen
with the cheese,

and we can sit down
and just pretend that...

Hang on.

[SIGHS]

[DOOR RATTLES]

Oh, no, you did not.

Mum! Mum, can you hear me?

Gran? Gran, are you in there?

Come on. You can't change
the locks on me! Come on!

[ECHOING] Mum!

[CARLA] I won't ask you again, Ruby.

Please stop calling and go away.

But I'm your daughter.

Well, except you're not.

Are you?

Even your real mother didn't want you.

I take it that's the woman
behind me, is that right?

- Yes. [SIGHS]
- Good.

Well, just look at me instead.

I'm Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,
and I think I can help.

[SIGHS]

[RUBY] Yeah, and that
was over a year ago.

She's put an injunction out
against me, my own mother.

I thought about going
back to Manchester,

but I don't want to leave,
you know, just in case.

And I've got this rubbish job
at Kleinermann's to make ends meet.

- [CHUCKLES]
- Well, I think we can help with that.

We have a tradition of helping
the Doctor's former companions

once they return to a normal life.

No, I-I was hardly with him really.

- But it felt like a lifetime?
- Yeah.

Well, we're the Unified
Intelligence Taskforce

created to investigate
the extraterrestrial.

And, more and more, the supernatural.

Things seem to be turning
that way these days.

And you work with the Doctor?

With him, despite him,
against him sometimes.

And I adore him.

[CHUCKLES]

I can only say that now he's not here.

Oh, no, I... I won't say a word.

I wish you'd got in touch
with us sooner.

We thought the Doctor was... was silent.

Oh, I know. I keep wondering
how the world survives without him.

Well, that's classified.

I think I can say, skin of our teeth.

Although, I think this timeline might

be suspended along your event.

- I'm glad we found you.
- Oh, my... [SIGHS] So am I. [CHUCKLES]

And you can take us to the TARDIS?

Yeah, it's just sitting there.

I'm actually surprised
no one's reported it, really.

It has a perception filter.

People notice it, but
sort of... sort of don't.

Mmm.

[STAMMERS] I wonder if it's connected.

If... If landing a perception filter

on top of that circle
has affected things.

Huh.

Well, maybe. 'Cause she...
she has a perception thing.

- Huh.
- Like, no one at work has complained

about the old woman
stood outside every day.

It's like they see her,
but they don't notice her.

'Ey, I once positioned her
right in front of a police car,

and they drove right around her.

And if you sit in a room
with no windows?

No, I can't see her.
But I know she's there.

Seventy-three yards. I have
measured it a hundred times.

I have measured it a thousand
times. It's 73 yards.

- But if you went on a plane?
- Or a boat.

Yeah, I know, I know. [INHALES]

But I don't. [SIGHS]

'Cause I keep thinking if
I cut her off, I might die

or she might die.

I... I don't know. Does that
sound mad? [CHUCKLES]

- Sounds wise.
- Mm-hmm.

It's what we do, all of us.

We see something inexplicable

and invent the rules to make it work.

Mankind saw the sunrise and created God.

Or we saw the arrival of a Sontaran,
one or the other.

- [RUBY CHUCKLES]
- [PHONE DINGS]

And I can confirm. Our scan
says 73 yards exactly.

I hope you don't mind.
I didn't come alone.

Don't worry. You're quite safe.

[STAMMERS] No, no.
That's great. That's fine.

We photographed her. But this
is the only image we can get.

Oh, I know. I bought the
most expensive camera,

and I still couldn't zoom
in on her face.

Well, our equipment is a bit
more sophisticated, and yet

she only registers
from the point of view

of an average person's 20/20 eyesight

from 73 yards, 219 feet,

- 66.7 metres.
- [RUBY] 66.7 metres.

- But it proves you're not going mad.
- [LAUGHS] Thank you.

Well, there's only one more option.

Let's bring her in.

[RUBY] Oh, but she won't...

If you talk to her, she... I don't
know, she does something.

My staff have full psychic training.

We have telepathic dampeners,
mesmeric shielding,

and necklaces of silver and
salt in case of witchcraft.

- Don't worry. You're with experts now.
- [CHUCKLES] Phew.

Go, go, go!

- [r*fle CLICKS]
- [UNIT MEMBER] Initiate target approach.

[CLAMOURING]

Do not talk to her. Do not
look her in the eyes.

Do not engage with her in
any way. Just bring her in.

[VOICE EXHALING]

[VOICE GASPS]

I said, "Do not engage!"

No, Kate.

[FADING] No, Kate, what's she saying?

[RUBY'S VOICE FADES]

Disengage.

[SIGHS]

Kate. No, Kate, you can't leave.

Kate! Kate, please don't go. Kate!

[UNIT RADIOS BEEPING, STATIC]

Kate, wait! Kate!

All right.

All right, all right, all right!

- [SIGHS]
- Oi! Do you mind?

Yeah, I said, "All right!" [SIGHS]

[SIRENS WAILING]

["WATCH ME" PLAYING]

[DATE 1] You know what?
I'm not complaining.

But I say let's go away. Let's go
to New York, and you say no.

So, I keep thinking...

I don't want you to take this
the wrong way, but I've got to ask.

[SINGER VOCALISING]

Is there someone else?

[VOCALISING CONTINUES]

[SIREN WAILING]

[DATE 2] It's just, sometimes,
I get the impression

you're not really listening,

like you're drifting off
thinking of something else.

♪ Watch me when you call my name ♪

Well, like now, to be honest.

♪ See me sparkle ♪

♪ See me flame ♪

Mmm.

[DATE 3] The thing is, I know
you've had a tough time.

That whole thing with
your mother is weird...

[FADING] ... okay, but it's hard
for me sometimes, you know?

[VOICE FADES]

[MEDIATOR] Thank you. And what's your
take on this, Roger ap Gwilliam?

Well, no public school for me.
I've done hard work.

I started off as a pizza delivery boy.

I worked on a fruit stall
in Swansea Market.

Hospital porter, the steel
mills, security guard.

I was a jack of all trades.

"Mad Jack" they used to call me.

Mad Jack.

Roger ap Gwilliam, that's a bad
example of the Welsh. Terrifying.

The most dangerous
prime minister in history.

[DATE 3] Even in bed, it's like
you're always a distance away.

Semperdistans is the word.

Look, you were sweet, and this
was... Oh, this was nice, yeah?

But you were right. It was never
gonna work, and that is my fault.

E-Except for the bed thing.

'Cause that... [CHUCKLES]
That really was you.

But it has taken me all this time
to realise what I'm here to do.

Which is what?

I'm gonna save the world.

[SINGER VOCALISING]

[LAUGHS] See ya!

[VOCALISING CONTINUES]

Come on. We've got work to do.

[VOCALISING CONTINUES]

[SONG STOPS]

- [SINGER SCATTING]
- [SONG RESUMES]

[SONG FADES OUT]

Hi there. I would like
to offer my services.

- I thought I'd volunteer.
- Okay, good news.

What for exactly?

Oh, anything. Anything at all.

I just think Roger ap
Gwilliam is amazing,

and I want to help the cause.

I have a thousand pounds in my savings

which I can donate right now.

I'll do leaflets, answering the phones.

Just tell me what to do,
and I'll do anything.

'Ey, I'll even carry the
coats. [CHUCKLES]

[INTERVIEWER] Yes,
but the government says...

[ROGER LAUGHS] What government?

The government has collapsed in shame.

In absolute shame, Amol.

[STAMMERS] Now's the time
to vote, you know, uh,

for Britain to find its voice,
to find its pride, its future.

Yes, but the point is that if people
are worried about anything,

it's the cost of living, it's inflation,

it's a price cap at £15,000.

And you want to spend billions.

Indeed, you're committed to spending

£65 billion on nuclear weapons.

[ROGER] Amol, I'm a Welshman.
I-I was born in Wales.

That's what the "ap" in my name means.

It's not one of those apps that you used

to have on your phones in the old days.

It means "son of".

I am a son of Wales.

And the Welsh know what
it's like to be oppressed.

And that has taught me
to say, "No more".

And that's what I am saying. No more.

I want Great Britain to say, "No more".

So, yes, I have pledged
to defend our borders

and set us up on high as one of
the greatest nations in the world.

[AMOL] But we are members of NATO.

When did NATO ever, you know,
fire a nuclear m*ssile? Ever?


not a single rocket.

[SCOFFS] Excuse me, I'm sorry.

Are you saying that you actually
want to fire a nuclear m*ssile?

[CHUCKLES]

We'll cut that bit out, right?

[PRODUCER] Uh, okay,
everyone, let's take ten.

[BELL RINGS]

Danny, uh, speak to comms
about next week.

[DANNY] Yeah. Yeah.

- Immediately.
- [DANNY] Yes, sir.

- Craig, get the car.
- [CRAIG] Yes, sir.

Are you with us?

Yes.

My name's Ruby.

Tell me, um, what about her?

The girl over there. Is she one of ours?

She's on Danny's team.
She's a volunteer.

What's her name?

Marti Bridges.

Marti.

Boy's name.

Huh.

[CLEARS THROAT] Marti?

Yeah? Yes, hi. [SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]

[NEWSCASTER] I declare
that Roger ap Gwilliam

is duly elected as member of
parliament for the constituency.

- Yeah! Come on!
- [CROWD CHEERING]

I will go to His Majesty
and prepare for government.

Roger! Roger! Roger! [CHEERING]

[BELL TOLLING]

Good news?

Between you and me,
I know he's brilliant.

But sometimes, I don't know,
I think he gives me the shivers.

Oh, he is a monster.

- [CHEERING]
- [ROGER] Come on! Yes!

[LAUGHS] Yes, thank you.

We're here to help, okay?

You see anything suspect,
talk to security.

And back at the hotel,
eyes and ears open.

We have a busy three
days, so stay alert.

If you could all be checked
for clearance again.

[WAND BEEPING]

You know Roger.
He arouses strong opinions.

Uh, and let me tell you.

Rule number one, do
not step on the grass.

Well, I don't see why.

Come Saturday, there's gonna
be 10,000 people on there.

And until then, keep off the grass.

This place has a capacity of 30,000,
plus 10,000 on the pitch.

It's gonna be amazing.

Cardiff City, he's brought
it home. [CHUCKLES]

This place will broadcast Roger
ap Gwilliam all over the world.

Here he is.

Look at him. He still says hello
to every single person.

I'd love to meet him face to face.

Well, he's Prime Minister now.
We don't get access anymore.

Our job's on the sidelines.

Except for you, Marti.

Roger said there's room for you
at the party Saturday night.

He asked for you by name.

They're saying it's gonna be wild.

[RUBY SCOFFS]

[CRAIG] Now, we need to help branding

on the grandstand, rows 11 to 61.

[MUTTERS INDISTINCTLY]

[RUBY] They won't be watching,
though. The whole world.

Who cares about the
British Prime Minister

making a speech in Cardiff?

That's the point.

They'll listen if he's
got something to say.

What do you mean?

Mmm. There are rumours.

[CHUCKLES]

They say Saturday is
when control transfers.

What? F-For what?

We're purchasing the nuclear
arsenal from Pakistan.

And on Saturday, Roger will declare
us independent from NATO.

Saturday, Roger ap Gwilliam
gets the codes.

[MARTI] Saturday?

He'll launch.

Don't be stupid, Marti.

It's symbolic. The moment
is completely symbolic.

I'm sorry I took so long.

Because I think I'll only get one chance,

and I had to make sure I was right.

But I wish I could have
helped you. I'm so sorry.

Uh, get us a coffee while you're there.

Ruby, I said keep off the grass.

Hey, get off the pitch, love.

Ruby, what are you doing?

What is she doing?

Hey, there are no unofficial
photos. Thank you.

- [AUTOMATED VOICE] Fifty-five yards.
- [AIDE] Put that down!

[GROUNDSMAN] Get off the pitch!

- [AUTOMATED VOICE] Fifty-six yards.
- Ruby!

Just stop that, and get back here.

- Fifty-eight yards, 59 yards.
- Ruby!

Excuse me. Hey, can
you get off the grass?

[GROUNDSMAN] I said get off the pitch.

- Are you listening?
- 62 yards.

Get off the pitch!

- [CRAIG] Ruby! What are you doing?
- [r*fle COCKS]

I'll have to ask you to put
that device down immediately.

Ruby! Stop it! Ruby!

Stay where you are. That's an order.
I said stay where you are!

- 70 yards.
- I said stay where you are.

- 72 yards, 73 yards.
- Final warning, stay where you are!

That's exactly what I'm gonna do.

[ROGER SCREAMS]

- [CHUCKLING, EXHALES HEAVILY]
- [SECURITY] Sir! Sir!

[SECURITY CLAMOURS, SHOUTING]

[RUBY SIGHS, LAUGHS]

[SIGHS]

[NEWSCASTER] And fifty minutes later,

Roger ap Gwilliam resigned
from the office of prime minister,

refusing to give any reasons
for his actions.

- [REPORTER 1] What happened?
- [REPORTER 2] Why did you resign?

Ask her.

- Ask her.
- [SHUTTER CLICKING]

Ask her!

The deputy prime
minister, Iris Cabriola,

has stepped forward to take control

and has already promised what she calls

a more lenient and listening government.

[SIGHS]

Is that it?

'Ey, is that what you were for?

[WHISPERS] Can you leave me alone now?

[SIGHS]

[SEAGULL CRIES]

[DOOR SHUTS]

I'm sorry, Ruby.
I can't drive any closer.

I can't get a signal for
the engine this far out.

No, it's fine.

I haven't been here in such a long time.

What a beautiful view.

[BELLS TINKLE]

Why do people put flowers here?

I don't think they know.

I presume she must be gone, my mother.

No one ever told me.

And I didn't find my birth mother.

It never snowed again.

But I keep thinking I know why.

The woman.

And I've been thinking
about it my whole life.

Why is she here?

And I think, at the end, I have hope.

Because that's very you,
isn't it, my old friend?

I dare to hope.

- [MONITOR BEEPING]
- [NURSE] I've set the light, Ruby.

If you wake up in the night,

you say "light" out loud,
and it comes on.

Yes, I know. That's not new.

We had that when I was young.

Anything else you need?

I could make it snow once upon a time.

That's nice.

If you need me, I'm just down the hall.

So, you won't be on your own.

Don't worry. Everyone has
abandoned me my whole life...

but I haven't been alone for 65 years.

[NURSE] Night then, Ruby.

- Light off.
- [BEEPS]

- [DOOR CLOSES]
- [MONITOR BEEPING CONTINUES]

[VOICES WHISPERING]

Light.

[BREATHES HEAVILY]

[VOICES WHISPERING]

[HEART THUMPING]

[BEEPING CONTINUES]

[HEARTBEAT SLOWS]

[RAPID BEEPING]

[FLAT TONE]

[CHATTER, LAUGHS]

[OLD RUBY] I'm sorry I took
so long, and I tried so hard.

What else could I do?

It took all these years.

All these long years.

And look at me, I was so young.

[DOCTOR] Spectacular! We are in Wales!

- [RUBY] What? How can you tell?
- Oh! [SNIFFS]

That smell, that green,
that coastline, Ruby.

- [GIGGLES]
- The rock and the water, it never ends.

The w*r between the land and the sea.

'Ey, you know what? I have been
to Wales three times now.

- I went to see Shygirl in Cardiff.
- Oh, yeah?

And then went to Mumbles
because of a boy.

- I broke his heart, but there you go.
- Oh, bless him.

Mind you, Roger ap Gwilliam,
that's a bad example of the Welsh.

- Terrifying.
- [OLD RUBY] Don't step...

[DOCTOR] The most dangerous
prime minister in history.

- Who's she?
- [OLD RUBY] Don't step...

- [DOCTOR] Who?
- Well, over there.

[OLD RUBY] Don't step...

- Where?
- [OLD RUBY] Don't step...

There was a woman...

Well, she's not there
anymore. [CHUCKLES]

But there was. There was a woman.
She was just standing there.

Maybe she was looking for someone.

All right, Ruby. All right.

- [BELLS TINKLE]
- [RUBY] Oh, no, no, no. Don't step.

Oh.

I almost broke that.

Careful.

Oh, honey, what a beautiful thing.

- What is it?
- It's a... It's a fairy circle.

Man, they are so delicate.

Just charms and spells
and hopes and dreams.

It's here at the end of the land.

- Well, yeah. What do they say?
- No, no, no, no. Better not.

[SIGHS] Give them their respect, Ruby.

Let them rest in peace.

- Like your mysterious woman.
- [CHUCKLES] Oh, she was there.

Uh-huh. [CHUCKLES]

And we are here!

[BOTH LAUGH]

So, what was the third time
that you've been to Wales?

You said you've been three times.
What was the other one?

Oh, um, oh, I don't know.
When was it? I can't think.

I suppose it must've been... [SIGHS]

... now.

[THEME SONG PLAYS]

[WEATHERMAN] It's a glorious
day in Finetime.

There are creatures out
there in the real world.

There are monsters...

- [SCREAMS]
- ... and they're coming to get you.

[VICTIM] Just look at my Close
Friends. Look how many are missing.

- God, it's me! They're coming for me!
- [COMPUTER] Forward. Forward.

[SONG CONTINUES]