01x04 - I Get a Side-Kick Out of You

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SIMO N: What does it take
to be the Doctor's new companion?

I got no A levels.

No job.

No future.

But I'll tell you what I have got.

Jericho Street Junior School,
under-sevens gymnastics team.

I got the bronze.

SIMO N: Rose Tyler is ready for the ride.

Meet Rose Tyler,
the Doctor's new partner in time.

PW ER". This has been our lives
for eight months.

And the other day,
I was sat down talking to a friend...

Let me out!

...and I realised that I'd been Rose

more in the eight months
than I've actually been myself.

SIMON: From Autans to aliens,
Dickens to Slit/lean,

Rose has been alongside the Doctor
every step of the way.

Rose is the Doctor's equal in every way,

apart from, possibly,
his scientific knowledge.

DOCTOR: Hold that one down.
ROSE: I'm holding this one down.

- Well, hold them both down.
- It's not going to work.

I promised you a time machine
and that's what you're getting.

What Billie's bringing out is her
bravery, I think, and her humour.

I mean, shop-window dummies,
what's that about?

Is someone trying to take over
Britain's shops?

No.

PIPER: And they raw, they have tiffs.
They're like a married couple.

- Where are you from?
- What does it matter?

ROSE: Tell me who you are.
DOCTOR: This is who I am.

Right here, right now, all right?
All that counts is here and now

and this is me!

ROSE: Yeah, and I'm here, too,
'cause you brought me here, so tell me.

She's not scared to say no to the Doctor

or challenge him equally, you know.

Your machine gets inside my head.

It gets inside and it changes my mind
and you didn't even ask?

I think that's something
that he finds quite brilliant about her.

There's a mystery to it as well,
which has gotta remain.

They love being together.

I'm so glad I met you.

Me, too.

Rose is years old, lives in a council
estate, so she can handle herself.

She'll also come up with ideas herself
and be thinking about things herself.

So, on the off-chance that the Doctor's
not on the ball, she'll be there.

(SIREN WAILING)

So history's happening
and we're stuck here.

Yes, we are.

We could always do
what everybody else does.

We could watch it on TV.

She's a pretty ballsy woman, you know.

She's gutsy, a lot more gutsy than I am.

And I want you home by midnight.

The companion, I think, is your way in,
it's your way into science fiction.

Your point of view is the person going,

“Oh, my God, there's no such thing as
monsters. There's no such thing.“

The Moxx of Balhoon.

My felicitations
upon this historical happenstance.

And also, because we wanted
a more emotional series...

than, perhaps, Doctor Who
was famous for in the past,

someone who will find the joy
in seeing alien landscapes,

that's what she was invented for.

Oh, now, don't stare.

I know. I know, it's shocking, isn't it?

I think Rose makes a good companion
for the Doctor.

Mainly because, you know,
she's adventurous.

One of Rose's many qualities,
but I consider it her greatest quality,

is that she does go out there

and confront danger
pretty much all of the time.

ECCLESTON: I think
he knows instinctively

that she'll be able
to look after herself

from the way she reacts to the Autons
in the first episode.

Now we're in trouble.

The notion is that the Doctor's lonely
and Rose is bored.

He loses some of his loneliness and she
loses all of her boredom when they meet.

Right, then. I'll be off.

Unless... I don't know,
you could come with me.

She's living this, kind of, what she
considers a bit of a mundane lifestyle.

Getting up, going to work. It's all very
nice, but nothing really challenging.

And then she meets this guy

who completely challenges her ideas
like nobody else has ever done.

And so, she's waiting
for something to happen.

You could stay here, fill your life
with work and food and sleep,

or you could go...anywhere.

- Is it always this dangerous?
- Yeah.

In that particular situation,

you know, she realised that there's more
to life than sitting on the couch

watching her boyfriend watch football.

- Thanks.
- Thanks for what?

Exactly.

She took the chance.
I mean, who could blame her, really?

There's not many people
that would turn that down.

I mean, I probably would, but that's me.

(WHOOSHING)

In the old days,
it was travel or nothing.

With the Doctor you'd get on board the
Tardis and...that's it, you were gone.

And now,
I don't believe you'd watch the series

without asking the basic common sense
questions, "Don't her family miss her?"

"Has she gone missing?"

"Who loves her?"
"Who's left behind?"

It's not hours, it's months.

You've been gone a whole year.

Sorry.

The most important thing I wanted to do
was make her real, to give her a life,

and that's why I invented a mother
for her and a boyfriend.

Not only that, but a story to structure
them, as we keep coming back to that.

We keep exploring Rose's life
against normal life.

To keep it real, to be honest.
that you've always got a touchstone.

Okay, finish rehearsing, please.

And action.

As my mate Shareen says,
don't argue with the designated driver.

Can't exactly call for a taxi.

Tell you what,
with a little bit of jiggery-pokery...

Is that a technical term,
jiggery-pokery?

There you go.

You're kidding?

Mum?

What is it? What's wrong?
What have I done now? Go on.

There must be something. You never
phone in the middle of the day.

- What's so funny?
- Nothing.

- You all right, though?
- Yeah, why wouldn't I be?

I was just calling
'cause I might be late home.

Is there something wrong?

No, I'm fine.

Top of the world.

See you later.

Think that's amazing,
you want to see the bill.

Bringing her back home
enabled us to see that...

she was also missing her family,
missing her friends.

And that maybe if there was something
there that could keep her at home,

she would stay.

But every time she comes back,

there's not necessarily anything
that's really keeping her there.

It's all very normal. It's like
any mother-daughter relationship.

You know, when you're ,
as much as you love your mum

and as much as you can be
the best of friends at times,

there's also this resentment when they
try and stop you from moving forward.

Don't go, sweetheart.

Please don't go.

PIP ER: But I suppose that's the test
of a really good relationship.

It's a love story.

You know, that kind of...
It's like love at first sight, in a way.

Not a bad life.

Better with two.

- Blimey!
- Don't laugh.

You look beautiful.

Considering.

- Considering what?
- That you're human.

It's such an interesting dynamic

because, reading the script,
you just can't put your finger on

what their relationship
is actually about.

Promise you won't disappear?

Tell you what, Tardis key.

About time you had one. See you later.

I don't think they really
ever question it.

They just, you know, get on with it.

But there's this kind of suggestion, you
know, that there may be some romance.

I think she's quite in love with him.

You've seen how dangerous it is.
Do you want to go home?

I don't know.

I want...

Can you smell chips?

Yeah. Yeah.

- I want chips.
- Me, too.

Right, then. Before you get me back in
that box, chips it is. And you can pay.

- No money.
- What sort of date are you?

Come on then, tightwad. Chips are on me.

We've only got five billion years
till the shops close.