Best Of The Specials - 01x02 - Best Of The Monsters

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Best Of The Specials - 01x02 - Best Of The Monsters

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[ Gasps ]

Woman: The monsters

in "Doctor Who's"
universe terrify me.

[ Yelps ]

Man: They're
the kind of monsters

that you worry live
under your bed.

Woman: I've never quite seen
monsters like this.

Man: So, so many

creepy, creepy monsters.

Woman: They're the most
exciting part of the show.

Rory: Oh, my God!

Amy: Look behind you.

Honey, there is nothing --
aah!

What does hate
look like, Amy?

Hate?
Mmm.

It looks like a Dalek.

Man: The Daleks
have no emotion.

They just want to
destroy everything.

Essence of pure evil,
ultimately.

They're alien.
Alien?

Man: The Daleks represent

total, absolute hatred.

The most hateful thing
he's ever encountered.

You are everything I despise.

The worst thing
in all creation.

Man: Their sort of
driving belief is that

weakness should be destroyed.

Man: One of the wonders of
the show is that a robot that

looks like an upside-down
garbage can with

a toilet plunger
coming out of the front

can be one of the more
terrifying things you've seen.

[ Screams ]

Man: They're really

not so scary if
you looked at them,

but they will mess you up.

They will win me
the w*r.

Rogers: When the Doctor gets to
World w*r II-era Britain

and there are Daleks there
and they're

fighting on the side
of the allies,

I am your soldier.
Stop this.

You stop it now.

Hardwick: But you know
Daleks are always going to

screw you over.
That's just what they do.

They're these weird,
squishy little squid creatures

that live in a crunchy
outer shell made of hate.

Please!
What are you doing?

You are my Ironsides!

We are the Daleks.

But I created you!

No.

Aaah!

[ Electricity sparking ]

Ah!
We created you.

Hardwick: Oh, you sure did.

Look at that, I got a robot
hand. I'm an android.

Dalek: Receiving
testimony now.

The Doctor: I am the Doctor,
and you

are the Daleks.

Dalek: Progenitor activated.

Testimony accepted.

Rogers: When the plan
is revealed

and those Daleks end up
giving rise to these new,

advanced Daleks, now there's
something else even worse.

Dalek: All hail the new Daleks.

All hail the new Daleks.

Dalek: Yes.
You are inferior.

Yes.

Then prepare.

We are ready.

Dalek: Cleanse the unclean.

Total obliteration,
disintegrate!

Man: Those older
green Daleks that they had,

I mean, they served
their purpose.

They were put in play
to help create

the newer, improved Daleks,

so there was nothing
they could do with them.

But when your goal's
to destroy the entire Universe,

you've got to be willing to
k*ll your friends.

The Doctor: Blimey.

What do you do to
the ones who mess up?

You are the Doctor.

You must be exterminated.

Don't mess with me,
sweetheart.

How many rooms?

I'm sorry, what?
On this floor. How many rooms

on this floor?
Count them for me now.

Why?

Because it will
change your life.

Five.

One, two, three, four, five.
Six.

Six?
Look.

Look where?
Exactly where you never want to look.

The corner of your eye.

Look behind you.

That's -- that is
not possible.

How is that possible?

That's a whole room.
That's a whole room

I've never even noticed.

Something came here
a while ago to hide.

It's still hiding,
and you need to uncuff me now!

Why does no one
ever listen to me?

Do I just have a face

that nobody listens to?

Hardwick: Prisoner Zero
is an escaped con.

That thing that Amy's been
feeling all that time is

this inmate who
has been living in

the corner of her perception
for the last years.

Douglas: If it was me
and I was in that situation

and I found out
that for years

I had been living with
an alien in my home

and I just now found out that
it could have k*lled me

at any point, I would need
a lot of therapy.

Rogers: Prisoner Zero

is taking over the images

of human beings
and speaking through them,

but sometimes messing up,
so the guy and his dog,

he's got the dog
barking through the human

and then talking
through the dog.

Look at the faces.

[ Dog growling ]

[ Barking ]

I'm sorry, but what?

Hardwick: Because
it's a multiform,

it's disguising itself

with multiple beings,

but it can never quite
get it % right.

I think Dr. Ramsden's dead,
and the nurses.

[ Beep ]

He was so angry.

He kept shouting
and shouting.

And that dog,
the size of that dog.

I swear it was rabid.

And he just went mad,
attacking everyone.

Where did he go,
did you see?

Has he gone?

We hid in
the ladies'.

Oh, I'm getting it

wrong again, aren't I?
I'm always doing that.

So many mouths.

Rogers: That whole
body-snatcher thing,

there's something primal about
taking over somebody else.

We're pretty well trained
to be afraid of.

Anybody who can do that,
probably a bad guy.

Look at the teeth.

They're the -- like a big old
eel that was out of water.

He went to jail
for eating people.

Woman: I think he's probably
the scariest in the eel form.

Who likes an eel?

I mean, a dog
and a man? Okay.

Little girls and a mom,
we're good.

But the eel in the room?
Terrifying.

[ Hissing ]

Man: Little girls are always
going to be creepier

than anything you can think of.

At least to boys,
are really just creepy,

especially twins.

The Doctor: Don't look at it!

Do not...look.

[ Hisses ]

Well, if you're the Time Lord,
let's call me the Dream Lord.

[ Gasping ]

Dream Lord: This is bad.
This is very,

very bad.
Look at this X-ray.

Your brain is completely
see-through.

But then, I've always been able
to see through you, Doctor.

Rogers: The Dream Lord
ostensibly was somebody who

was forcing the Doctor
and Rory and Amy to live

either in some idyllic village
later in their lives together

or back on the TARDIS,
and force them to choose

which was the real world
and which was a dream world.

Dream Lord: So here's
your challenge.

Two worlds --
here in the time machine

and there in the village
that time forgot.

One is real,
the other's fake.

And, just to make it
more interesting,

you are to face in both worlds
a deadly danger,

but only one of the dangers

is real.

Tweet, Tweet,
time to sleep.

[ Birds singing ]

Oh! Or are you waking up?

We were never sure if we were
in the waking world or

if we were in the dream world,
and then you would --

there were dreams within dreams,
and then there was --

it -- I don't even know if I'm
awake right now, honestly.

What's this,
att*ck of the old people?

Oh, that's ridiculous.

This has got to be the dream,
hasn't it?

What do you think, Amy?

Let's all jump under a bus

and wake up
in the TARDIS.

You first.
Leave her alone.

Do that again.
I love it when he does that.

Tall, dark hero.

"Leave her alone."

Just leave her.
Yes.

You're not quite
so impressive,

but I know where your heart
lies, don't I, Amy Pond?

Shut up.

Just shut up
and leave me alone.

But listen.
You're in there.

Loves a redhead,

our naughty Doctor.

Has he told you about
Elizabeth I?

Well, she thought
she was the first.

The Doctor: Drop it.
Drop all of it.

I know who you are.

Of course you don't.
Of course I do.

No idea how you can
be here,

but there's only one person
in the Universe

who hates me
as much as you do.

Tompkins: It is distressing
to find out

that the Dream Lord represents

the dark side
of the Doctor.

It's like a manifestation
of his dark side.

The Doctor: Psychic pollen.
It's a mind parasite.

It feeds on everything
dark in you.

Gives it a voice,
turns it against you.

I'm .

I have a lot to go on.

But why didn't it
feed on us, too?

The darkness
in you pair,

it would have starved
to death in an instant.

I choose my friends
with great care.

But those things
he said about you.

You don't think
any of that's true.

Hardwick: You want
to be his buddy,

but at the same time,

there are really horrendous
things that lurk in him

that you should be afraid of.

Tompkins: But it is
comforting to know

that he's just little.
He's a little guy.

If that's all the darkness
there is,

then it's not so bad.

Amy lived with
Prisoner Zero for years.

What monster would you
like to live with?

That's a hard one.
There's so many.

The Ood. Not a sl*ve Ood,
but just an Ood,

because I think
they're adorable.

A Cyberman.
They get all shiny.

World w*r II Dalek
that serves you tea.

I could handle that.

I could handle having
a Dalek maid.

Siren in the ocean.
I mean, she's a Doctor,

so any time you're sick,
she's on it.

Maybe the Silence,
because then I wouldn't

even know they're there.

[ Gasps ]

Tompkins: The Weeping Angels

are this alien race
that appear to us

to be statues --

perfectly harmless statues --
of angels.

They're ancient, old-world
assassins who can only move when

you're not looking at them.

Amy: Doctor!

Amy!
Doctor!

Are you all right?
What's happening?

Doctor?

Rogers: Every time you blink,

it's a little bit closer,
and the teeth come out.

When you look back at it again,
it's in a different position.

The statues have moved.

I love the idea
of something

attacking you
when you're not looking

and only when
you're not looking,

because that's the scariest
thing in the world.

Rogers: Just taps into
this primal fear

of things not being the way
they're supposed to be.

The world's supposed to be
a certain way.

Statues aren't supposed to move.
When you blink, open your eyes,

the world's supposed to be
the way it was when

you closed them.
To have that not be the case,

it's the exact
sort of moment the Doctor

has to show up
and save people.

Octavian: According
to the Doctor,

we are facing an enemy
of unknowable power

and infinite evil,

so it would be good,
it would be very good,

if we could all
remain calm

in the presence
of decor.

What's your name?

Bob, sir.

Ah, that's a great name.
I love Bob.

Octavian: It's a sacred name.

We all have
sacred names.

Sacred Bob.
More like "scared" Bob now, eh?

Yes, sir.

Ah, good.

Scared keeps you fast.

Anyone in this room who
isn't scared is a moron.

Sheppard: Yet again,

another thing you're
not sure what it wants.

Another entity that
you're never quite sure

what it wants to do,
if it just wants to k*ll.

How did you escape?

Bob: I didn't escape, sir.

The angel k*lled me, too.

Tompkins: So,
Bob gets k*lled.

Our thoughts and prayers are
with Bob and Bob's family.

But then the Weeping Angels
are using his voice,

we hear it through various
communications devices,

and it is creepy
in the extreme.

Wasn't as painless
as I expected,

but it was pretty quick,
so that was something.

If you're dead, how can I
be talking to you?

You're not talking to me, sir.
The angel has no voice.

Douglas: And it's talking to you
in a matter-of-fact kind of way,

like, "yeah,
you're going to die.

As a matter of fact,
one's in her eye."

The image of an angel
is an angel.

The Doctor: A living mental
image in a living human mind.

We stare at them to stop
them getting closer.

We don't even blink.
And that is exactly

what they want,
because as long as

our eyes are open,
they can climb inside.

There's an angel
in her mind!

Three.

Doctor, it's coming.

I can feel it.
I'm going to die.

That was real creepy.

So can I open
my eyes now?

Amy, listen to me.
If you open

your eyes now
for more than a second,

you will die.

Old man: Hello?
Hello, please? Hello?

I need your help.

There's been an accident.

Rogers: The beauty of
the neighbor is that it's

another monster that plays on

the fear of normal things
not acting normally.

Please help me.

Rogers: The intercom on
the outside of the building

and somebody
asking for help --

a little kid or an older person
asking for help,

preying on natural humans'
desire to come help

somebody who needs them.

It's all this stuff
that gets you in your gut,

that you can feel it as a thing
that's just not right.

Old man: Please,
will you help me?

Help you?

What's wrong?

Something terrible's happened.

Please help me.

Adsit: I would probably
try to help someone

who's asking for help

because I watch "Doctor Who"
and I know that

you're supposed to help people,
but then I'd be k*lled.

[ Electricity pulsing ]

Craig, what's that
on the ceiling?

What's what
on the ceiling?

That.

It's coming
from upstairs.

Who lives up there,
again?

Just some bloke.

Tompkins: So the Doctor
is stranded

for a little bit.
He ends up being roommates

with this guy Craig.

And there's a really
weird feeling,

because you keep waiting for
something horrible

to happen because it's just
this domestic scene

of these two dudes
hanging out,

but then the whole time
there's an upstairs neighbor

who is a hologram

who is luring people
to their deaths

via the intercom system.

Girl: Please,
can you help me?

Can you help me, please?

Rogers: It's the kind of

soulless serial k*lling
of hapless people

walking by a flat someplace.

That's the dreadful thing.

It earns those kind of monsters

the scorn and the anger
of the Doctor.

Girl: I've lost my mum
and I don't know where she is.

Please, can you help me?

Woman: Help you?

You poor thing.
What's happened?

Girl: Can you
help me find her?

Tompkins: Nothing is
more terrifying than

creepy little children.

And, for the record,
I do find

most little children
to be creepy, anyway,

but when they're actively
trying to be creepy?

That is the worst.

It's not threatening,

but isn't that what's
the scariest thing,

like, something that's
non-threatening?

That's why little children
in horror movies

are always super-scary
because they're non-threatening.

I just want to address all
creepy little children right now

and say, knock it off.

Knock it off.

What are you doing?

Protecting our race
against the apes.

Rogers: The Silurians are this
race of intelligent dinosaurs

that lived on Earth
before human beings did,

and they're one of the old --
they're a classic villain.

The Silurians, we have not seen
them in quite some time.

I want to say,
if my memory serves me,

fifth-Doctor era?

And, you know what?

They've gotten
very attractive.

Ambrose: Your tribe
are going to

give us back our people
in exchange for you.

No.

[ Laughs ]

Shall I tell you what's
really going to happen, apes?

One of you will k*ll me.

My death shall
ignite a w*r,

and every stinking ape

shall be wiped from

the surface of
my beloved planet.

We won't allow that
to happen.

I know apes better than

you know yourselves.

I know which one of you
will k*ll me.

Do you?

Morales: They want their turn,
they want their world.

They feel like this
is theirs because

they've been here longer
than the humans,

and they're getting ready
to att*ck.

Alaya: Our sensors detected

a thr*at to our
life support systems.

The warrior class was activated
to prevent the as*ault.

We will wipe the vermin
from the surface

and reclaim our planet.

Do we have to say
"vermin"?

They're really very nice.

You can way go deep into
politics with the Silurians.

You can talk about
who was here first

and whose land is whose

and immigrants
created the world.

Rogers: What the Silurians want
is what everybody wants,

so they're fighting to protect
their families and their homes

and their cities,
and they want back what

they perceive human beings
to have stolen from them,

and human beings actually
acted pretty badly.

The Silurians do
a really good job of

holding a mirror up
to ourselves as humans,

'cause it's a definitely
a moment where

we don't know if we're actually
the good guys in this one.

I'm just protecting my
family here, that's all.

I don't want to use it.

I want you
to put things right.

Use it.

What?

Use it on me.

But you're too afraid.

A woman who can't
even protect

her own child must be
too weak to --

no! Alaya!

I didn't
want to do that.

Are you all right?

Just tell me, what's
the cure for my dad?

He's vermin,
he deserves a painful death!

I am giving you
a chance!

I knew it would be you,
the one with

the most to lose,
the weakest!

[ Electricity crackling ]
[ Screams ]

Roger: The reveal is we're all
monsters under the latex.

And you want us to trust
these apes, Doctor?

One woman.
She was scared for her family.

She's not typical.

I think she is.

One person
let us down,

but there is a whole

race of dazzling, peaceful
human beings up there.

You were building
something here!

Come on! An alliance
could work!

Ambrose: It's too late
for that, Doctor.

Don't do this.
Don't call their bluff.

Let us go back,

and you promise to never

come to the surface
ever again.

We'll walk away,

leave you alone.

Execute her!

No!

What monster from "Doctor Who"
scares you the most?

Either the Silence
or the Weeping Angels.

The angels.
Yeah, definitely.

The angels.

I've always had a fear
of statues anyway,

and, well, that one just
kind of added to it.

When you blink,
they come right at you,

and it's just like,
"what the heck?"

Especially when they, like,
send you back in time

and then you just live to death.

I was actually pretty afraid

that I was going to
get nightmares.

The Silence
very close behind,

but Weeping Angels
is number one.

Who's that?
Hmm? Who do you see?

Sorry, what?

Who did you see?
You said you saw someone.

No, I didn't.

[ Yelps ]

[ The silent breathing ]

I saw you before,
at the lake.

And here.

But then I forgot.

Rogers: The Silence
are another monster

that you think
is behind a door,

and they're playing
with memory

because you only remember them
when you're looking at them,

and when you aren't
looking at them,

they don't exist
for you anymore.

[ Breathing ]

Ian: Here's a monster
that could basically

tell you anything it wants
and make you do things

and you'll never remember that

it told you to do this
as soon as you look away,

so this thing could basically
screw with you your whole life.

[ Gasps ]

[ Floorboards creaking ]

Haislip: I mean,
who isn't scared of the dark?

We're all scared of the dark
at some point.

Even when we
can tell ourselves

it's okay to be in the dark,
now I feel like

there might actually be
something in the dark.

[ Bleep ]
Amy: I can see them

but I think they're asleep.

Get out. Just get out!

[ Gasping ]

Rogers: You get moments where
they see their reflection,

they look around,
and when they see

their reflection again,
they're all marked up with

hash marks because they've
been told to mark down

whenever they see one,
so you know that something

horrifying has
happened to them

somewhere else
right off-screen,

and the off-screen stuff's
always the scariest stuff.

[ Breathing ]

Sheppard: But there is
also their ability to control

your minds to manipulate you
to do the things that

they want to do,
so the power of suggestion

makes them so
effectively parasitic.

The concept of memory protection
I think is amazing.

How do you fight something that

you can't remember
you've ever seen?

Watts: Their mouth
kind of appears

in a weird sucking fashion,

and their weird,
tentacley finger

points at someone
and suddenly

they just evaporate
into nothing,

and they don't really care.

The Silence are
a really creepy monster.

They just destroy this woman in
the bathroom for no reason.

We have ruled your lives
since your lives began.

You should k*ll us
all on sight,

but you will never remember
we were even here.

Watts: If the Silence have been
around since the advent

of human consciousness
and its evolution,

then it is just as much
a part of humanity

as humanity views itself
apart from the Silence.

So then the question is,
what is humanity?

[ Woman singing ]

Tompkins: The Siren,
at first glance,

seems to be

the classic seven seas
ghosty thing

that lures sailors

to their death.

[ Screams ]

[ Panting ]

I have to touch her,
let me touch her!

Sorry,
but he is spoken for.

[ Hisses ]
[ Yells ]

But then it turns out

she's actually a Doctor
on a spacecraft.

[ Singing ]

Anesthetic.

Avery: What?
Her music.

The song.

So she anesthetizes people

and then puts
their body in stasis.

The only people
she att*cks are people

that injure themselves
or cut themselves in a way,

so she takes them,
only she takes them

in the scariest possible way
a nurse could ever take you.

Like if a nurse came and tried
to help me like that,

I'd run.

[ Shrieks ]

[ Sniffs ]

[ The Doctor sneezes ]

The Doctor: Fire.

That's new. Uh,
what does fire do?

Uh, yes, destroy,
what else?

Uh, sterilize.

I -- I -- I --

I sneezed,
I've got germs.

[ Blows nose ]

Tompkins: I guess
she doesn't realize

that when you turn your face
into a demonic mask,

that's going to put
some people off.

The Doctor: She's not a k*ller
at all, she's a Doctor!

This is an automated sick bay.

It's teleporting
everyone aboard.

The crew are dead,
and so the sick bay's

had nothing to do.

It's been looking after humanity
whilst it's been idle.

Look at her.

A virtual Doctor,
able to sterilize a whole room.

Able to burn
your face off.

She's just an interface,
seeped through

the joint between the planes,
broadcast in our world.

Protein circuitry means she
can change her form

and become a human Doctor
for humans.

Oh! Sister,

you are good!

Rogers: When the Doctor
confronts something

that seems supernatural,
he's such a hyper-rationalist

that he knows it's
not supernatural.

Even when there's
paranormal stuff,

like telepathy
or telekinesis,

there's a scientific
explanation for it.

There's always machinery
to be fixed.

You can build devices.

You can wrap your brain around
what's going on.

What kind of new monster

would you like to see
fight the Doctor?

I want to see him
fight dinosaurs.

[ Laughs ]

See him fight a dinosaur.
A T-Rex.

A velociraptor
or like a giant squid.

Mixture of a gorilla,
cobra, man.

Those ones that, like,
bite your neck

and blood squirts out.

Something that could match him
almost intellectually.

Another evil Time Lord.
Not the master,

but somebody new
from his past.

I don't know.

He's done everything,
hasn't he?

[ Gasps ]

[ Exhales ]

Morales: The Gangers.

I wouldn't consider
these a monster,

even though
they are monstrous.

They were avatars that
were created by people

to do their jobs for them
because they were lazy

or because they didn't want to

run the risk of getting
hurt on the job, so they just

have this vat of
humanoid flesh

that they would create
themselves out of.

And that avatar that was created

had all their thoughts
and memories in life

programmed into them already,
so they thought

they were this own person.

What do you do if you
realize you're just

this fake creation
but you have feelings

and you have thoughts
and you've remembered things,

you know things to be true?

So I wouldn't consider
that a monster.

I think it's
a really sad story.

What are you
going to do to them?

Sorry, they're monsters.

Mistakes.

They have to be destroyed.

The Doctor: Give me
the probe, please.

We always have to take charge,
don't we, Miranda?

Even when we
don't really know

what the hell
is going on.

[ Groaning ]

Stop. Ah, he's dead!

We call it "decommissioned."

Ah.
You stopped his heart.

He had a heart!

Aorta, valves --

a real...human...
Heart!

Rogers: They realize how
horrible their lot in life is.

They develop autonomy
and their own intelligence.

They go off and there's
almost a civil w*r

between people who look
and think exactly alike.

You were fighting
a civil w*r with yourself,

so you know what
the plan will be,

you can guess what
the person's passwords

and encryption will be.
In fact, if you say,

"I'm fighting myself,
I'm going to know what I

will guess for a password,
so I'll guess something else,"

the self can say that too.
They know that you know

that they know.
It's a great notion.

The flesh avatars,
for my money,

were maybe the creepiest
of them all.

They were really, really
disturbing and hard to look at.

[ Roaring ]

The Doctor: It's frightening,
unexpected, frankly, a total,

utter, splattering mess
on the carpet,

but I'm certain,
% certain,

that we can work
this out.

Trust me.

I'm the Doctor.

Adsit: I think they're going to
make a return in some way

and we're not going to know
who's who eventually.

Perhaps you should have wondered
why we call them "headless."

It's time you knew what these
guys have sacrificed for faith.

As you all know,
it is a level-one heresy

punishable by death

to lower the hood
of a headless monk.

But by the divine grant

of the papal mainframe herself,

on this one and only occasion,
I can show you

the truth.

Because these guys
never can be...

persuaded.

They never can be...

afraid.

What the hell?
Like, what?

How does that work?
'Cause it's just nuts.

It's like, "oh, we'll
call them headless monks,

and, check this out --
they'll be headless!"

Their bodies seem to be just
sort of tied off at the neck,

but they're, like,
walking around and doing stuff.

Woman: Reminder --
do not interact

with headless monks
without divine permission.

Do not interact
with headless monks

without divine permission.

You're not supposed
to stare at them.

And if they think
you're tying to

see under their hoods,
they'll k*ll you,

on the spot.

Why are they called
the headless monks?

They can't really
be headless.

Woman: They believe
the domain of faith

is the heart and the domain
of doubt is the head.

They follow their hearts,
that's all.

I think as a human being,
there's nothing

more frightening
than encountering

another human being
without a head.

The headless monks
raise a lot of questions.

How does this work, exactly?

What's in the little boxes?

Woman: Welcome, applicant to
the order of the headless.

It is traditional
for visiting armies

of other faiths to offer
individuals a conversion

to our order.

You have been selected.

Are you ready

to make a donation?

[ Blade swings and clangs ]

I think it's obvious why
the headless monks

are after the Doctor --
he's got a head, right?

He's a super-smart guy.

Makes his head
very desirable.

I'm assuming the fancy British
accent comes with the head.

That might be more of
a vocal cords thing.

I'm not a Doctor myself.

Rogers: The lightsabers come out
and there's the big clash.

You don't have wide-screen
action with "Doctor Who,"

so when you see
the big thing of lots

of people fighting,
it's pretty neat.

Amy!

Do you think the Doctor
would get bored

without monsters to fight?

I can't imagine that.

He would be
definitely bored.

I think he would feel lost

and he wouldn't have
a purpose anymore.

I'm surprised he hasn't
gotten bored already.

He's been around
for years.

He usually wants to go
have fun, relax,

but we never get to see
any of that.

So he could be spending
hundreds of years

having a blast,
and we'll never know about it.

I'm being extremely
clever up here,

and there's no one to stand
around looking impressed!

What's the point
in having you all?

He's a bored old madman.

With a box.
With a box.

There is a cr*ck
in my wall.

Aunt Sharon said it's just
an ordinary cr*ck,

but I know it's not,

'cause at night
there's voices.

Rogers: The cr*ck
is something that

nobody would notice
except a little girl.

Amy as a little girl knows
there's something weird

about this cr*ck in her wall.

And it's only over time
that the Doctor

and the viewers
start to realize that

the cr*ck is showing up
all over the Universe

at different times
in different places.

Obviously that's not
supposed to happen.

And it becomes the sort of
reveal of, like,

"Oh, there's something
much worse out there

than just the kind of
creature of the week.

There's something
terrifying."

Sheppard: I think
it's as dark

and as scary
as the Joker's smile.

It's extraordinarily foreboding.

Extraordinarily foreboding.

[ Disembodied voices ]

Watts: How often is
a shape creepy?

It's just a line, you know,
that becomes this representation

of something really
ominous and not good.

Hardwick: That becomes
a major story arc of

the eleventh Doctor's
first series where

this cr*ck keeps reappearing
and you know there's some

horrible event in time
and he doesn't know what it is,

and then he reaches into
the cr*ck and he pulls out

a piece of the TARDIS.

The cr*ck is actually --
was modelled after

a piece of dark matter
that they saw

in the constellation
Sagittarius.

Perhaps if the Doctor
would have come up with

some kind of a temporal
spackling agent,

maybe it could have prevented
the cr*ck from reappearing.

The cr*ck was the same cr*ck
throughout time and space

that was either caused
or going to be caused

by the destruction
of the TARDIS.

Obviously we don't
want that to happen,

because the TARDIS is
our magic box,

and the Doctor
doesn't want it

to happen, either,
but because

the different races
and creatures and people

who the Doctor has been
in contact with,

you realize that
the TARDIS is the problem.

It unites all of them
against the Doctor.

What do we do?

River: Doctor,
listen to me.

Everything that ever hated you
is coming here tonight.

You can't win this.

You can't even fight it.

Doctor, this once,
just this one time,

please, you have to run.

The Pandorica is ready!

Ready for what?

Dalek: Ready for you.

Are you lot
working together?

An alliance?
How is that possible?

Dalek: The cracks in
the skin of the Universe.

All reality is threatened.

All universes
will be deleted.

What?

And you -- you've come
to me for help?

No! We will save
the Universe...from you!

Hardwick: All of
the villainous creatures

that we've seen
throughout "Doctor Who" --

the Judoon and the Cybermen
and Daleks --

they all came together
to imprison the Doctor

because they were
afraid of him,

and so they felt like
the best way that they could

deal with him was to stick him
in this Pandorica,

which previously
the Doctor thought was a myth,

but just basically

an inescapable prison
for all of eternity.

[ Clanging ]

Rogers: The best bad guys have
reasons for being bad guys.

In this case,

all those creatures,
robots, aliens

who we have been
trained to think of

as the worst of the worst
actually,

we realize,
think of the Doctor

as the worst of the worst,
not just because

he's stopping their plans
for blowing up our planet,

but because he's going to
destroy the Universe,

because he's
a thr*at himself.

So they become, in a way,
the good guys.

Morales: If you think something

is going to
destroy everything,

are you in the right to
want to put it in a box?

Yeah. I mean, they're just
trying to defend themselves,

which is what makes them
real monsters.

It's not the fact that
they are just being mean

for no reason,
it's because

they have a right to
and they have a reason to.

Adsit: It was really
kind of frightening

when they started
dragging him

toward the Pandorica
and you realize what it's for,

because, again, how are they
going to get out of this?

The Doctor: The whole universe
will never have existed!

Please listen to me!

Cyberman: Seal the Pandorica.

No! Please listen to me!

The TARDIS is
exploding right now,

and I'm the only one
who can stop it!

Listen to me!

If you were an alien
fighting the Doctor,

how would you defeat him?

I'd take away his
sonic screwdriver, for one.

I'd lead a long trail
of jelly babies

and sweets
and Jammie Dodgers.

I would probably try and use
his companions against him.

Woman: I'd definitely go
the hostage route.

He's got those two big hearts.

I wouldn't let him talk.

I'd be like,
"you don't get a monologue."

You can't b*at the Doctor.

[ Breathing ]
[ Gasps ]

Sleep.
No, no.

Sleep.
Get off me.

No. No!

Sleep!
No!

Oh. Interesting.

These kind of monsters
have to be so bad

that they can attract
the attention of

this -year-old traveler

who has seen almost
literally everything.

Watts: We need monsters
to have heroes, I suppose.

They make for an interesting
and dangerous, dangerous time.

[ Growling ]

Run.

Run!

Run!

Ian: One of the things

that "Doctor Who"
does really well

is they incorporate horror
into their Sci-Fi.

[ Growling ]

When those two combine,

it's really
pretty frightening.

He was here!

He was here!
Elliot!

The Doctor: Ambrose,
don't go running off!

It's mum!

[ Beeping ]

Oh!

No!

I have literally lost sleep
over some of these episodes,

and it's --
it's been such a long time

since I've been
scared like that.

Mrs. Hammill.

We don't understand.

[ Screeches ]

Rory: Oh!

Rory: Whoa!

Sheppard: There's
nothing you could

rationalize with,

there's nothing
you can talk to,

there's nothing you can change,

so, truly, truly scary.

[ Thunder crashes ]

Rogers: Even the most innocuous
creaking branch outside a window

or the dark at the bottom
of a staircase

is the kind of thing
that you can build

all sorts of narratives
in your head

that will keep you from
falling asleep at night.

One of the great lessons,
I think, of "Doctor Who"

is probably that
those kinds of things

are not to be dismissed.

And they make for the most
interesting stories.

[ Gasping ]

[ Clanging echoing ]

[ Silence breathing ]

I see you.

I...see...you.

Rogers: Steven Moffat is
very good at understanding

the strengths of the medium
he's working in.

The Weeping Angels
and the Silence

are perfect
television villains

because they operate on the same
psychological frequency.

[ Crunching ]
They are scary

for the same reasons that
television is scary,

that it's something that you
look at that's hypnotic,

you can't look away from,

or if you do look
away from,

something bad's
going to happen.

The classic move when you're
watching a horror movie

or something scary,
you cover your eyes.

With both of them,
the worst possible thing

you can do is cover
your eyes, right?

You cannot look away,
literally.

You'll get k*lled.

But it's just
a statue.

It's a statue
when you see it.

Where'd it come from?
Oh, pulled from

the ruins of Razbahan,
end of last century.

It's been in private hands ever
since, dormant all that time.

There's a difference between
dormant and patient.

What's that mean,

it's a statue
when you see it?

The Weeping Angels
can only move

if they're unseen.

So legend has it.

No, it's not legend.
It's a quantum lock.

In the sight of
any living creature,

the angels literally
cease to exist.

They're just stone.

The ultimate
defense mechanism.

What, being a stone?

Being a stone...

until you
turn your back.

Hardwick: Moffat is genius at
sort of playing with perception

and ideas of what
you think aliens are,

what they can do.

At the corners
of our perception,

there lie these things that
you need to be afraid of.

[ Tree Borgs powering down ]

What's that?

It's a warning.

There are angels
around you now.

[ Beeping ]

Ian: I know these
things aren't real,

so if something
is able to be

that smart where it actually
moves me to the point of fear,

that's -- then they're doing
an incredible job.

Hardwick: Anything odd
or unexplainable,

"Doctor Who" is able to
explain away with aliens.

If you ever feel that thing
in your peripheral vision

and you're like, "oh,
I was just imagining that."

You were not imagining it.
It was an alien.

Rogers: They're the things

that lurk in the dark.

One of the reasons
the Doctor's

so interesting is that he's
always this beacon of light.

He shows up at the moment
you need somebody to help.

What he's there to help against
is the kind of terrifying stuff

that's in your closet that you
ask your parents to check

before they turn
the light off.

[ Breathing ]

It's why you want your mom
and dad to check under the bed.

[ Breathing ]

Hardwick: All those things you
thought, your parents said,

"Don't worry about it,
there's nothing in the closet,"

there's something in the closet

and it is not of
this world, children!

Sweet dreams.

[ Barking ]
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