06x07 - Take Two

[bunniefuu]

I feel like we're on the best
chat show ever.

Have you had fun on
this episode, g*ng?

I've hated every second.

Really?

Have you had fun on this episode?
Yeah, I have. All right, good.
Lots of fun.

OK, Karen, take it away.

♪ When we wake
in the middle of the night

♪ My father says
What you gonna do with your life? ♪

Oh, hurrah. Well, thanks for
being the worst interviewees ever.

It's good to be back,
making Dr Who, isn't it?

We didn't speak to each
other over Christmas.

For a whole day over Christmas.

We all said the other day,

we had that thought of going,
"I should probably text...

"Nah."

It was a bit of a shock
to my system,

because I've been getting up
at one in the afternoon.

Have you? Wild.

I did it on more than one occasion.

You said you'd been going to
the gym.

I have. You can go to the gym
at any time of the day.

In the middle of the night?
Yeah. Wow.

But it's exciting. Oh man,
red rad's come back on. But...

That's what keeps us warm. You've
seen red rad before, Confidential.

I got a toothbrush and I got socks
and I got pyjamas,
all the classics in one.

Did you get an electric toothbrush?
Yeah, it's electric.

They're so much better than
normal toothbrushes, electric ones.

I found out that
you're meant to like, because I was
using an electric toothbrush.

No, don't move it, keep it still.

Get right under the gum.

Do the gums, do the tongue.
Sometimes I do my lips.

Have your teeth been whitened? No.
Let's have a look.

Do they look whiter?

It's my toothbrush. They're clean.
They look really...

Because Karen's teeth normally...

Yellowstone Park. I punched food
into my face over Christmas.

I was really sick just before
New Year. I had that...

There's been this bug going around
and I lost half a stone,
puked it all up.

Which...

is a little revealing for
Confidential, I suppose.
What is this?

It's kind of free-and-easy.

Yeah, I quite like it.
It's never going to make the show.

We know these types of interviews
never make the show.

It's November
and the cast, executive producers

and show writer have gathered
at the Dr Who studios to tackle
the doubly hard episodes and .

..Switch our brains around and call
the real Doctor The Doctor.

He was the other Doctor,
now he's The Doctor.

Let's call The Doctor the other
Doctor, clear? God, I hope so.

♪ I'm about to lose my mind

♪ You've been gone for so long

♪ I'm running out of time

♪ I need a doctor

♪ Call me a doctor

♪ I need a doctor, doctor... ♪

Oh no!
♪ ..to bring me back to life. ♪

SCREAMING

The conclusion of
this thrilling two-parter

began with the birth of a doctor and
ended with the mystery of a birth.

♪ I'm about to lose my mind

♪ I need a doctor

♪ Doctor to bring me... ♪

No, and why?

Given what we've learned, I'll be
as humane as I can, but I need to
do this and you need to stand away.

OK, so I've just been k*lled
by The Doctor.

Oh, no...

And then I've woken up...

and I'm about to have a baby.

I think it's generally
quite shocking.

I found that scene
quite challenging,

really challenging actually,
because...how do you play that?

You're not even real and somebody
who you love and trust is looking

into your eyes and saying you're
not real, I'm going to k*ll you now.

I need to do this and
you have to stand away.

I think that Amy just felt at the
time that the two most important
people in her life are turning

on her, it's like that horrible
feeling of betrayal and that kind of
I think was really horrible for her.

I'm very frightened,
like properly, properly scared.

Don't be, we're coming for you,
I swear it. Whatever happens,
however hard. However far.

I'm right here. No. I'm right here.

You're not, and you haven't been here
for a long, long time.

I mean it's just such a huge twist
for Amy,

the life of Amy Pond has taken
a turn for the worst

and she's about to give birth
to a baby she didn't even
know she was pregnant with.

Well, dear,
you're ready to pop, aren't you?

One's on its way.

Well, this is a cliffhanger
not just to this two-parter,

but the whole series, cos it's
changed everything we think we know.

We think we've been looking at Amelia
Pond as normal and we now discover
that really hasn't been her at all.

Well, it has been, it's been her
mind, her heart, her soul, but it
hasn't really been her, physically.

The flesh Amy's been going
through episodes one to six

and hanging out, having these
adventures with The Doctor and Rory,

while the real Amy's been trapped
in this birthing chamber

with this strange eye-patch woman
opening the hatch now and again,

checking on her progress.

The reason she's seen the eye-patch
woman at strange moments

is because that reality has been
seeping through into her mind.

The flesh Amy that The Doctor
zaps at the end with the Sonic

is absolutely not a real person.

He's not k*lled Amy.

He's simply cut off the telephone
communication between the operator

and this flesh Amy's that's
in front of him. So it's like

snipping a wire and getting rid
of a signal rather than actually
doing her harm.

Does he endanger his companion
and his friends? Yes, yes, he does.

He's a madman in a box.

He's never promised anybody that
it's going to be sane or safe.

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

Or you could go...

Anywhere. Is it always
this dangerous? Yeah.

He's perfectly up front about that.

You have to decide whether
you're the sort of person

who'd rather stay safe at home

or would rather risk everything for
a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

He wants the ones
who'd risk everything.

You OK? Yeah. Sure? Yeah.
Want to go back in? No way.

We could die any minute,
but all the same...it's beautiful.

I was right. It's always like this
with you, innit?

Oh, yes! And off we go.

He doesn't kidnap them.

He's looking for adventurers
to share his adventures.

I'm definitely a madman with a box.

Ha, ha! Yeah!

Goodbye, Knebworth.
Hello, everything.

My parents got me most of
the Peter Sellers films...

That's amazing.
..which I was really happy with.
He's a hero of ours, Peter Sellers.

My favourite stuff
is the Pink Panthers.

I think it's all about the recovery.

He never apologises
for things he does.

He goes on like he's done
nothing wrong. That's funny.

It's really funny.

I think he's influenced us quite a
lot, hasn't he? I can see it.

Can you? In both of you. Wow.

PINK PANTHER THEME MUSIC

Do you know who I see in you? Who?

Geri Halliwell.

♪ If you wanna be my lover... ♪

MOBILE PHONE TRILLS

Oh, sorry. Ginger Spice.

I'm going to take that
as a compliment.

She's actually a real hero of mine!

Maybe you'll meet her one day.

I will faint or just like, be sick.
Hopefully not on her.

I got a bit of a Mick Hucknall vibe
coming from you yesterday.

Who's that? Simply Red!

♪ I'm going to fall from the stars
♪ Straight into your arms... ♪

I've got a good idea for
a Doctor Who monster. What is it?

..which is loads of monkeys that
join together like a Power Ranger
and become Mega Monkey.

OK, there's this character that me
and my dad constructed
called Quarterbrain...

Which is...

..this guy, right, who's missing
a quarter of his brain,

so he'll like... If you book
into this hotel,

that's where he'll come
and get you, in the hotel.

He'll come over and say,
"I'm Quarterbrain and I've come
to take quarter of your brain."

I used to get scared by clothes,
thinking they're...

Thinking they were ghosts?

..not just an irrational fear of
clothes, but thinking
they were shapes.

I used to have an imaginary friend
who used to scare me.
That's interesting.

What's the point in having them,
then? I don't know, but I used to
have massive rows with them. Wow.

Strange child.

Didn't you come up with a really
good idea, though,

for a sort of monster-y thing
that takes over people
and makes you dance?

Yeah.
I quite like that idea of yours.

I think that's quite good.
Just can't stop dancing.

Can't stop dancing...

So people get a real fear of...
That's not dancing.

Trust me.

I'm The Doctor.

Episode six presented a challenging
double role for Matt Smith,

with the story requiring him
to play The Doctor twice.

Is that what you were thinking?
Yes, it's just so inspiring to
here me say it.

Writing for two Doctors,
interestingly, suits Matthew Smith's
style of performance.

He almost, even when
he's just one Doctor,

he almost feels to be finishing
his own sentences.

He's always interrupting himself and
contradicting himself in mid-flow.

He always says, "Do I say that?
Do I mean that? Do I mean that?"

And he often is having this
internal dialogue with himself.

This is insane. Yes, it's insane.
And it's about to get
even more insanerer.

Is that a word?

In a way, all you're doing is
taking that internal dialogue

and making it external.

Hopefully, I think the key will be
to sort of, for it to be interactive,

but obviously when you're doing it,
it's a bit like walking in the dark.

You just don't know.

In the chapel, two Doctors.

Our Doctor, that's The Doctor,
watches in horror

as the other Doctor slams up
against the chancery wall...

..body convulsing in searing agony.
What's happening?

The other Doctor bucks and thrashes,
clawing at his own face in pain.
His eyes turn opaque white.

They call me The Doctor.
They call me, they, they call me...

..There's only one thing for it, Jo.

Reverse the polarity
of the neutron flow.

The flesh is struggling to cope with
our past regenerations. Hold on!

Would you like a jelly baby?
Why? Why? Why? Why, why what?

Oh, hello. I'm The Doctor.

We've moved on. The other Doctor
grabs his counterpart by the collar.

You can stabilise. I've reversed
the jelly baby of the neutron flow.

Doctor, Doctor, I'm, I can't...
Hold on.

Hold on! No!!

The other Doctor shoves him over.
His mouth ripples in a snarl.
His eyes are white

and now his face begins to stretch
and distort. , capillaries
rise on his whitening flesh.

And with that scream,
part Time Lord, part monster
and one very happy actor,

we go into the main titles.

When I came up with the idea
of the flesh Doctor trying to,

struggling to solidify because of
all the past regenerations
that The Doctor's had,

it felt like a natural
sort of logical thing

that the flesh would struggle to
finally fix on the th Doctor.

When Matthew Graham was
writing this moment,

when previous Doctors' voices came
out of his mouth, we would have,

probably a couple of years ago,
just had the recent Doctors.

But now we know, everybody knows
that Matt Smith is the th Doctor.

MUSIC: "Rule Britannia"

That means there's another .
Let's hear glimpses of their voices.

One day, we shall get back.

And it's become a sort of,
a real guilty thrill in Doctor Who

to go right back to say
that it's all part of this
great big single story.

It just became more exciting,
more exciting to hear Tom Baker
as The Doctor again on BBC One.

Would you like a jelly baby?
Shut up!

So it seemed like a fun thing
to do,

to have him speak with the voice of
several of the past Doctors.

Doctor catchphrases are interesting

because we all think
the old Doctors had catchphrases.

Reverse the polarity
of the neutron flow!

Famously, John Pertwee said,

"Reverse the polarity of the neutron
flow" all the time.

Except he doesn't. He says it once.

I reversed the polarity
of the neutron flow.

And then people started saying
he said it a lot

and that became the legend.

We've had a big debate today.
Yeah, a massive debate.

..about what's going on
in the scene.

It's so complicated
and we didn't know

basically which one was which
and who was saying who.

This has been very tricky, time-wise,
for us in this episode

because you're having to sh**t
everything twice, essentially.

Filming the multiple-Doctor
scenes called for not one,

but two Matt Smith doubles,

a body double and a voice double.

Confidential was there to observe
the madness in the method.

I go, "Why, why, what?"

You say that next line, "Why, why,
what?" I am The Doctor.
No! We've moved on. Hold on!

Listen, you could stabilise.

I reversed the jelly baby of
the neutron flow. Would you like
a Doctor, Doctor? I can't!

In this episode, because there's
two Doctors featuring

and only one Matt Smith
playing The Doctor,

whenever he's playing one of
the characters, they need someone
to read in the lines

for the other Doctor.

What happened was...we were here...

The most recent scene
we've been doing,

basically The Doctor is convulsing,
he's morphing.

So it's a lot of action.

We're basically at each
other's throats

towards the end of the scene,
and it's very, very intense.

The flesh is struggling to cope
with our past regenerations.
Just hold on.

Would you like a jelly baby?
Why? Why? Why what?

Hello, I'm The Doctor.

No! Let it go!
We've...We've moved on.

Hold on. You could stabilise.
Argh!

I've reversed the jelly baby of
the neutron flow. I'm... I'm...

I'm your Doctor. I'm...
You remember? I'm...

Would you like a...?

And...cut.

And pause, please.

Good stuff. Yeah, good.

You do have to keep reminding
yourself of which...which one is...
Which one you THINK is which.

And I guess it doesn't help
because you instinctually,

you're just going to go...
With you? With me. Yeah,
I found myself doing that.

Um, but I checked myself.
Yeah, good, detail. Nice. Yeah.

Doctor, we need to get off of here.

Hello.

The glorious thing about The Doctor
is he's just thrilled.

Two of them! Party!

In his view, you can't have too much
of a good thing.

Everybody else is freaked,
but The Doctor's sense of identity
is so strong,

he just sees a bit more him
as a plus.

Two Time Lords. The universe
is definitely big enough
for two Time Lords.

Really? Yeah. Well, there was loads
of them at one point.

Yeah, I know, and it... And isn't
it always expanding? Yeah.

Well, maybe, maybe. I mean....

Would you like that?
To have two? Yeah.

You could have a friend or a foe...

I've got a friend - you. Yeah,
but one who's not your, like...

Basically the equivalent of a
hamster. Yeah! Is that what you are?

Like one of your pets.

Shall I get you a little wheel
in the TARDIS with one of those
little...

That'd be funny.
One of those water things.

And you as a person are quite
hamster-like. Do you think?
You're quite sort of...

Nibbly. Yeah, today I was. You
were having a right old nibble
on your crackers.

But I think one Doctor, cos it
makes it tough for him...

One universe, one Doctor...
Yeah, for sure. One hamster.

Is that like the slogan? Yeah.
One universe...

One Doctor... Jelly baby.

One hamster. April th, .
Yeah, go see that.
Doctor, Hamster.

Sorry.

OK, so artists in place...

In The Doctor Who studios,
the team are making
final preparations

on a deadly wardrobe malfunction.

Jimmy!

This is me being rigged

to enable smoke to come out of me,

like my chest is burning.

Putting an already melted-looking bit
of orange jacket on my orange jacket.

Get the pipe smoke in there.

The idea is that
he's been hit by the acid

and to recreate the effects
of the acid melting into his chest,

so the elements we've got
is some of the goo acid,

a piece on the chest to disguise,
to make it look like it's melted.

And smoke elements, really.

Want to make sure we're not seeing
that when you're lying down.

Just lie down on the floor, please.

Can you hide that?

It looks like you've got something
shoved down your shirt. Yeah.

We've tried to put a smoke rig
inside the costume

but the pipe's been too rigid,

so when the body moves,
it's showing the line of the pipe.

With the angle that Mark was in,
it would reveal the pipe too much

and it was too tricky
to get that sh*t.

So we've gone for bicarb
and vinegar, which'll foam,

anybody that knows their chemistry,
will foam.

To make it fizz and give it
a bit of texture, really.

Unfortunately Mark's going to
smell like salt and vinegar crisps
for the week.

Thanks. Do we want to check
the different ring before we go?

We'll spray that on
just before we roll.

It's one of those things that you
can prepare for as much as you can,
but it's on the day

you've got to have all different
options and solutions to hand,

to make it work, really.

The solution with the smoke
was to spray some up the jacket.

So let's turn over, please.
Way to go.

Action!

Let me through!
Let me through!

The way things are...

It's up to you now.

Be a dad.

The difficult thing in Doctor Who
is that the monsters can't think
that they ARE evil.

They have to think
they're the good guys.

Otherwise you've invented somebody
who's just saying, "Ha ha, I'm evil."

In this story,
Matt Graham's two-parter,
these creatures aren't evil at all.

When they destroy us, the eyes
are the last things to melt,

and there's one question
in those eyes.

Why?

The Gangers feel they do have souls

and they have exactly the same
memories and feelings as their
doppelgangers.

Why should we suffer
for the sake of human beings?

If there are villains
in this story,

the villains are the humans, who've
been maltreating this sl*ve class

they have, albeit accidentally,
created.

Discarded flesh. Faulty, probably.

Just thrown away. Look at them.

I think the most exciting thing to do
with Doctor Who is to create things
with a different agenda and outlook,

because they can initially
seem really frightening,

but The Doctor, with his wisdom,
and cos he's a healer and a wise man
rather than a warrior,

he can investigate,
find out what really makes them tick.

Work out what it is
they actually want.

I think you want to speak to Dad.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

One of the most exciting things
in Doctor Who you can have,

because of the nature of the hero,
is not give them a villain to fight,
but a villain to understand.

The hardest thing to do in this
story was to show the spectrum
of moral choices.

The easiest thing would be to have
them all act like the monster.

They all meagrely get
their independence, and go,
"k*ll the humans."

What we wanted was that
by the end of the story,

some had been good, some noble,
some had sacrificed themselves.

Some had had greatness thrust
upon them, like Jimmy -
the original Jimmy dies,

and the Ganger Jimmy,
having just learnt to say,

"Do you know what, I'm not worthy
to be my son's father,"

has fatherhood thrust on him.

Daddy?

You'll do, Jimmy. What does the
other Jimmy matter now? You're
both the same dad, aren't you?

We wanted to make sure
that The Doctor was instrumental

in the Gangers finding
their morality.

You've tricked him into
an act of weakness, Doctor.

No, I've helped him
into an act of humanity.

And so that was why
I gave Jimmy a son.

Be a dad.

♪ You got wires going in... ♪

You're a dad.

♪ You got wires... ♪

Daddy, it's me.

♪ Coming out of your skin. ♪

Hey, sunshine.

Daddy's coming home today. Yay!

♪ ..Making tracks

♪ I got tears

♪ That are scared of the facts

♪ Running down corridors through

♪ a*t*matic doors

♪ Got to get to you

♪ Got to see this through

♪ I see hope is here

♪ In a plastic box

♪ I've seen Christmas lights

♪ Reflect in your eyes. ♪

I think the art department
on this show is more important
than on any show,

because every single week,
we have one standing set,

and once you go out of that standing
set and the TARDIS itself
and into another world,

everything is, to some degree,
built or imagined,

and you very rarely can find
the kind of places that we need.

So our art department
work like dogs,

not just physically, but mentally,
to create whole worlds.

They create more sets, props
and brand-new things

on this show than any other.

The art department
are pretty rocking.

So important, and I mean...
And they are exceptional.

And big shout out to Kieron
and Phil, who are just...

Without them, this ship,
it sinks when they're not around.

And it's not just quantity,
it's difficultly.

We have to create a world where
fish fly in the air,

make believable a converted
monastery with human duplicates.

Those are proper,
enormous challenges.

It's such a big role compared to
any other show I can think of.

I'm Kieron Thompson, the standby
art director on Doctor Who.

You're responsible for the general
look and feel of the whole set.

We're in the crypt of episode six.
Hang on, don't go up any higher.

Needs to come down about six inches.

Before we go on this, give the lid
a bit more of a spritz.

We've used a previous set,
which was the Oval Office,
but redesigned the interior.

It'll be my job to make sure
everything in there
is how it should be.

Have we got our kit up the top
of the stairs for the props?

Everything on screen,
it's looking as best as it can be.

The set is functioning
the way it should be.

A quick list of my team,
who's with me today.

We've got Phil Shellard,
who's my standby props.

Then I have Will Pope,
who's my standby chippie.

Helen Atherton, who's my standby
painter. That's the full team on set.

Here we go. Yeah, we've got plenty.
I can butcher one.

Even better. Does that stay
in position? Yeah.

You can bend it, and...
Let's do that, then.

As you saw this morning,
we've had to do a few minor tweaks

to help the S-Effects
boys with the steam.

Because it's going to start
getting violent,

and the steam and the acid's
going to be bubbling,

we're going to have to constantly
throw a couple of little wedges in.

So then we can manhandle it
and shake it

and give it a bit of action,
a bit of life, you know?

Whenever we come
into a set like this,

if we are fortunate to be in
the studios, my props man,

Phil, Phil Shellard, he'll work out
a little props table.

It's generally for all our stuff.

We've got the batteries charging for
the torches, any of that kit.

I've got my scripts, so I can
keep referring to my scripts
as to what's going on.

In amongst my biscuits and sweets.

Sonic is always with us.
Phil's always got this on board.

We have had to make its own
little carry case for it.

We have a non-opening one
and then two practical ones.

Because obviously Matt needs
the various different ones

in case one breaks down, or there's
damage or anything like that,

we can run straight back in
and sort another one out.

There it is. There's the Sonic.
That is where he lives.

That is where THEY live.
Although there's only one.

I think this episode is cursed. No,
it's not cursed. It's cursed, guys!

Let's look at the evidence. The
director hurt himself really badly.

So had to, like, use a stick
and stuff. Which kind of suited him.

Keep the stick.
He looks like Hitchcock.

And also, we got snowed in.

Aren't you just repeating
what you have just been told?

It's called being interviewed,
where you incorporate the question
into the answer.

It is a really scary episode,
I think. I hope so.

We want this one to be scary,
don't we? Let's do a quick...

Let's say like, there's an angel
or something there,

and we are all going, we've got
to get out. OK, one, two, three...

I did it, but mine was a bit casual.
Yours was a bit fey, wasn't it?

I think it's the dressing gown.
I feel like I'm kind of lounging.

Where has Rory Pond gone?

Look at Amy and Rory
in their wellies!

I like all the scary stuff. It's
fun to make the scary stuff. Yeah.

We've been filming here all week.
It's our last day of filming.

It's called Caerphilly Castle
in Caerphilly.

What they didn't tell us

while we were filming
is that it's in fact haunted.

Ooooh!

So, we're going to meet David now,

who's going to basically tell us
all about it.

Hey, David. Hello, David.

Hia. Caerphilly Castle is haunted
by the ghost of the Green Lady.

And the story goes back to .

The castle was founded by a man
called Gilbert de Clare,

or Gilbert the Red, who had
a lovely wife called Alice.

And she fell in love with
a local Welsh prince.

Gilbert was so upset about this,
he banished her back to France.

And he had the local
Welsh prince k*lled.

When she heard the news,
she dropped down dead.

Literally dying of a broken heart.

What I'd like to know is really
whether you believe in ghosts,

and whether you've had
any experiences.

Do you believe in ghosts? Me? Yes.
Do you? Really? Yes.

I believe in everything
other-worldly.

Aliens, ghosts...

I think you'd have to,
really, wouldn't you?

You have to say that!
Well, you know, I do, I think.

I do, I think I believe... Yeah.
I just don't know.

Have you had any sort of strange
paranormal experiences at all?

Do you know what? Me and my mother
are really into paranormal stuff.

I always have been.

From when I was a really little kid,
I have loads of books on it.

Like, with ghost stories and stuff.

And one time, I was in
my living room with my friend,

and suddenly we just felt
this presence.

Did it feel cold?

I just, it was weird because
we both felt it at the same time.

And it was just chilling,
like hairs on the back of your neck.

Matt, you're The Doctor.

You must surely have had something
paranormal happen to you?

Well, you know, apart from
working with Karen! What?!

That is not paranormal.
You're pretty paranormal.

Not to my immediate recollection,
actually.

I think I've probably experienced
the fear of a noise.

It's that thing where you listen
really intently,

and you go, it's not just me,
it's something to do with energy.

I don't know what it is. Maybe.

Having started working
on Doctor Who,

I've definitely become more jumpy,
absolutely % got more jumpy.

You should see me on my own
in my flat at night.

Just, like, ready for something,
you know.

Because, like,
going round corridors.

Yes, because Karen had a flat,
and she lived above...

Oh, yes, above the dentist!
Above a dentist.

So we were hanging out one night,
and then we went back,

and she was like,
can you walk up with me?
You had to walk up the whole thing.

So I was there, going up,
looking in every room.

Having set off the fire alarm!
But there was blood on the door.

I know, right! Well, WAS it blood?

I didn't notice it, and then Matt
was like, what is that?

I was like, it's nothing, and
then I got outside, and I thought,
I'm glad it's not me there!

Not really. It was fine.
That was quite scary.

I constantly hear noises.

But it's funny, cos there's
a moment in this script,

which we're filming in this
castle, where we all went,

this is the moment
in a horror film where you go,
"don't go down that corridor!"

Just don't do it. Just don't do it.

PULSATING GROWL

Run. Run! RUN!

I haven't really had any sort of
definite Doctor Who nightmares.

I'm just generally
more jumpy and alert.

Just more the fear of not knowing
your lines, stuff like that.

Pretty much. I've just turned into
a gibbering wreck.

But it's definitely...

What being in Doctor Who
has done, it's...

I don't know.
I think anything is possible.

When writer Matthew Graham
created the Flesh on paper,

he knew his vision could only be

realised on screen by a combination
of CGI and live-action filming.

For rehearsal, and...action.

Confidential is in London with the
man himself to check out progress.

Very exciting, because it was a few
months ago that I wrote this.

So I have no idea what
you've been doing

while I've been off doing
other things.

You've been beavering away
in the dark. Absolutely.

Well, first things first. This is
some of the concept art we did.

Oh, lord. Is that done on computer?
Is it designed on computer?

Yes, this was done in Photoshop.
Right, yes.

So this was everyone chatting about

what they thought
the creature would look like.

The idea was to make it very white,
maybe a bit transparent.

Lots of veins,
and make it quite fleshy.

I wanted that mixture of a real face
and a completely alien body,

cos I thought it'd be frightening.

And it all came back from this...

I was inspired by this sketch I saw
in Alice in Wonderland

of Alice when she'd taken a potion,
and her neck had elongated.

It had Alice's face on top.
It was a Victorian drawing.

And it's very disturbing.

You've this pretty little girl's face
on a long, snake-like neck.

And I thought, wow, if we could
do that with a whole being,

a full body, arms and legs as well.

I'm really looking forward
to see how they're going to

put all the special effects together
and everything.

And to see how the monster
is all created,

and how the little dots on my face
will be transformed into big, long,

elongated jaws and things like that,
and all my limbs extended.

I can't wait.

I can grow!

It might be nice to have a bit more
sort of lateral movement.

It is more kind of a side-to-side.

Like this? Yes.

We'll take the performance
that we get of Jennifer,

cos her performance is very much
these bodily movements.

And a slight awkwardness
to the way that her body is moving.

Which are all great traits
which you can

sort of pull over
into your CGI creation.

And we'll take that as our
inspiration and guide for the way

that we move and animate the CGI body
that we're going to attach to her.

As a thing looks more natural,
it's more believable.

Which is why we try
and incorporate...

If you obey the laws
of physics and nature,

it will be a more convincing creature
at the end of the day?

It'll sit into its environment
better. This is why it'll be
a special monster,

cos everyone's got a very clear,
definite idea about what

we want to achieve, and what
the final product will look like.

I think this is why it's
going to be a pretty successful

and hopefully very scary creature.
It's going to be very scary!

I've just spent some time
with Neil seeing how
the Jennifer creature's animated,

and I'm really excited now,

cos this is going to be
the semi-finished thing in situ.

So, unleash the Jennifer creature.

This door doesn't lock!

Here we go. This is our set.
This is a character called Dicken.

Don't go down that corridor, Dicken.
I wouldn't, mate.

He's going to try and close
the door. Here she comes.

The flashing amber lights,
which have to be recreated.

And this is a greyscale animation.
Not finished yet.

Oh, my word! That is still
pretty scary.

She's getting closer.
Get that door closed!

I don't think that's going to end
well. There's a sofa there.

I'm going to go and hide behind it.

Today's scene is about the g*ng,
and the Gangers that are left,

and the humans
that are left getting out,

escaping the thr*at of the monster,
Jennifer, who's coming to eat them.

Who's a big spider.
A big spidery, lollopy thing.

Also, the whole place is going to...
Blow up!

Acid is going to explode everywhere.
We've got to get out.

But BEFORE that, we've got to stop
her getting through the door.

And also have a lot of
heart-to-hearts.

You have got to reveal that
The Doctor is not The Doctor.

There's a lot of narrative
to get through!

And... Action!

'The final confrontation
with the Jennifer monster

'saw the dramatic conclusion
of several narrative threads.

'Confidential was on set
to capture all the action.'

Hey, now's our chance. I have to
stay, hold this door closed.

Give you time to dematerialise.
Oh, don't be crazy.

Look, she forced her own molecular
growth and stretched her flesh
too thin.

With the Sonic, I can adjust
her molecular vibration.

It will be messy, but it'll work.
No, you can't. I MUST!

OK, what happens to you? Well,
this place is just about to explode.
But I can stop her.

Both of you can survive this.
There has to be a way. Maybe you
think I should stay instead.

Mr Smith.

No, of course not. But look,
this man, I've flown with him.

You know? You are amazing, and yet
I misjudged you. You're not...HIM.

I'm sorry.

The Doctor's big dilemma
in this episode

is he has to explain principally
to Amy that this other fellow
is him as well.

And he does that by proving to her
that she can't tell them apart.

By swapping the shoes, he tricks,

he genuinely properly tricks Amy
into disliking the wrong Doctor.

Do you know, really,
there can be only one. Mm?

You're fine, and everything,
but he's The Doctor.

No offence. Being almost The Doctor
is pretty damn impressive.

Being almost The Doctor
is like being no Doctor at all.

You can be fooled. The duplicates
are more than duplicates.

They're the original, twice.

Amy, we swapped shoes.
I'm the Doctor.

And I'm the Flesh.

But you can't be.
You're the real him?

No, I'm not.
And I haven't been all along.

I'm the original Doctor, Amy.

The thing that makes Doctor Who
such a unique show

is its ability to change
emotional gears within a scene.

And to be able to play

very, very high pathos or great
tragedy at the same time as having

jeopardy and excitement and possibly
romance and possibly humour.

I'm the original. We had to know
if we were truly the same.

It was important, vital,
we learn about the Flesh,

and we could only do that
through your eyes.

And so there's Amy hugging on
to the Flesh Doctor and saying,

you're twice the man
I thought you were,

and it's an emotional moment,
but you've got Jennifer hammering

on the door trying to get in,
and then he sends her on her way.
You, too, Cleaves.

It's a sad moment
and an exciting moment,

then he makes a joke with Cleaves.
Marvellous. Beware of imitations!

And somehow, all those things
can play in the same scene.

Ah! My death arrives, I suppose.
But this one we're not invited to.

Pardon? Nothing. Your molecular
memory can survive this.
It may not be the end.

Yes, well, if I turn up to
nick your biscuits,
you'll know you were right.

The Doctors acknowledge each other
with a nod, but a sadness, too,

a sadness at what might have been.

That is what's interesting
about Doctor Who,
and the Doctor particularly.

It's that when it's quite sad
and down, he can be quite bright
and up still.

Yeah, and that makes it even sadder.

Clear off out of here,
the lot of you!

There may be a way back from this.
Being vaporised? How?

I don't know,
but let's find out, hey?

Geronimo.

I think The Doctor ignores death,

and keeps going and moving and never
really dwells on it, to be honest.

He recognises it, but...I think
he moves on quite quickly,

cos if he didn't, think of all
the death that is on his hands.

Tell me, Doctor,

can your conscience carry
the weight of another dead race?

No, no, no!

♪ I hurt myself today

♪ To see if I still feel

♪ I focus on the pain... ♪

I'm sorry.

♪ The only thing that's real

♪ The needle tears a hole

♪ The old familiar sting

♪ Tried to k*ll it all away

♪ But I remember everything

♪ What have I become?

♪ My sweetest friend?

♪ Everyone I know

♪ Goes away in the end... ♪

However scary it gets,
however frightening, however tense,

you know The Doctor will
save the day, will triumph,

and will do it in a good
and kind and brave way.

♪ I will let you down... ♪

Howdy!

♪ I will make you... ♪

A bit more laughter, guys!

♪ If I could start again

♪ A million miles away

♪ I will keep my... ♪

Gotcha!

♪ I would find a way. ♪