Greatest Moments - 01x02 - The Companions

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Greatest Moments - 01x02 - The Companions

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The Doctor. Hello!

He can certainly look after himself,

but he loves nothing better
than sharing his adventures

with like-minded companions.

Run!

From New New Earth to Old Pompeii,

this dynamic duo make
the universe a safer place.

Hi!

Coming up on Doctor Who's
Greatest Moments,

we buddy up with his best friends to
find out that even the Doctor needs
somebody.

♪ I've been roaming around
always looking down at all I see

♪ Painted faces fill
the places I can't reach

♪ You know
that I could use somebody... ♪

I'm so glad I met you. Thank you!

So hold on tight. I am!

As we bring you
the very best companion action.

They are our way in, they are the
character that we identify with.

I think it's important for the
Doctor to have somebody there.

To have somebody that you
can share the magic with.

But what exactly does it take
to be a hit with the Doctor?

Back of the net!

It's how the show has always worked

and there's been usually
a human TARDIS traveller.

We identify with them that they
are our way in. Skasis Paradigm.

They're trying to cr*ck the
Skasis Paradigm. The Skasis what?

The God-maker. The Universal Theory.

cr*ck that equation, you've
got control of the building
blocks of the universe.

On a very practical level, you
need someone to ask the questions.

The Doctor knows everything,
so needs a reason to say out loud
what's going on

rather than just know it inside
this head. Time and space and matter.

Yours to control.

What? And the kids are like
a giant computer? Yes.

So, there's that very, very
pragmatic need to have somebody there
alongside the Doctor.

SQUAWKING

You're asking the questions that
your audience of all ages will ask.

Why? What? When? How?
And that takes you forward.

I can't shift it. I thought the sonic
screwdriver could open anything.

Anything except a deadlocked seal.
There must be something inside.

You're just allowing the
audience to think, "What would
that really be like?

"What would that feel like?"
What would the sense of that be?"

To suddenly be hurtling
through time and space.

You've redecorated.
You like it? Oh, I do, yeah.

So, to be an assistant,
you enter into that genre.

You enter into that land of
taking a leap into the unknown.

They say that first
impressions count and none

more so than when mysterious
alien meets future companion.

What? What? Who are you?

Martha's meeting with the Time Lord
was far from straightforward.

But, like, how?

Like so!

You see?

Told you. No, but...

that was this morning.

We see him at the beginning of
Series Three in a place in his life

where he's kind of
just getting on with it on his own.

He wasn't looking to recruit
anybody at that time.

You get one trip, then back home.
I'd rather be on my own.

And I do think that she does
display all of those things that
he does admire in a companion.

Hold on. Don't!

We'll lose all the air.

But they're not exactly airtight.

If the air was going to get sucked
out, it would have happened
straightaway. But it didn't.

Very good point! Brilliant, in fact.
What was your name? Martha.

And it was Jones, wasn't it?

Well, Martha Jones, the question
is, how are we still breathing?

She speaks her mind, which
I think he finds quite amusing.

You're completely mad.

He seemed to stumble across her in
a time of his life when perhaps he

didn't expect to, so it probably
starts as a more temporary thing.

Are you OK?

Yeah. Sure? Yeah.
Do you want to go back in? No way.

I mean, we could die any minute,
but all the same, it's beautiful.

Do you think? How many people want go
to the moon? And here we are.

When we find Rose, there's nothing
that exciting going on in her life.

And she just feels bored.

And when you're bored you get
lethargic and lazy.

There's no point
in getting up, sweetheart.

You've got no job to go to.

She's waiting for something to
happen and sure enough it does.

Run!

She meets this guy who completely
challenges her ideas,

like nobody else has ever done.

Who are you?

I told you, the Doctor.

Yeah, but Doctor what?

Just the Doctor. The Doctor?

Hello!

Broadens her horizons.

I saw things you wouldn't believe.
Try me. Mummies. I've met ghosts.

Robots, lots of robots.
Slitheen in Downing Street.

Daleks! Met the Emperor.

Anti-matter monsters.
Gas-mask zombies.

Real living dinosaurs.
Real living werewolf.

The Loch Ness Monster! Seriously?

He sees there's something going on
with this girl

and there's something special about
her, so he invests in her

and she's loyal to him
and she's committed

and she shows so much conviction
in everything she does.

And when The Doctor first descends
on companion-to-be Donna Noble,

it seems she has other commitments.

Well, she's fairly appalled and
gobsmacked and not entirely pleased.

I mean,
it is the middle of her wedding.

It's not the most ideal
time to be snatched out of
the space-time continuum.

SHE SCREAMS

She's fairly unforgiving about
it.

She assumes that she's having
some prank played on her

and she clearly doesn't imagine
for one second

that the Doctor is
really a time-travelling alien.

I demand you tell me right now
where am I?

Inside the TARDIS.

You what? The TARDIS.

You what? The TARDIS!

The what!? It's called the TARDIS.

That's not even a proper word.
You're just saying things!

She just thinks she's
being set up by Nerys.

Who was it? Who's paying you?

Was it Nerys? Oh, my God!

She's finally got me back. This
has got Nerys written all over it.

It takes her a while to be convinced
that the Doctor is who he says he is.

Who are you?

I'm the Doctor. You? Donna.

Human? Yeah. Is that optional?

Well, it is for me.

You're an alien? Yeah.

Once the Doctor companions
have got used to the idea of

a two-hearted Time Lord from outer
space, they then have to

come to terms with the TARDIS,
his totally pimped-out ride.

But it's just a box. But it's huge!

When I first walked into
the TARDIS early one morning,

I was just overwhelmed by the size
and scale of it. And it's beautiful.

It's very impressive.

And it takes your breath away.

Then, obviously, playing Rose,
the idea of walking into
this blue police box

and then entering this world,

because it is a world in there,
it's this crazy world

and there's this crazy
mad sorcerer in there

just conjuring up loads of magic.

Are you alien?

Yes.

Is that all right? Yeah.

It's quite daunting at first
for Rose.

That's OK. Culture shock.
Happens to the best of us.

But then she kind of just slips
into it

and, you know, learns to fly that
thing and gets involved and mucks in

and has responsibilities in the
TARDIS. And then it's her home.

Only a lucky few ever
fly with The Doctor

and only the best of the best
get their own key.

Promise you won't disappear?

Tell you what, TARDIS key.
About time you had one.

See you later!

I think the moment the companion
gets a key, it's absolutely clearly

like getting the keys to your
front door when you're at home.

It is, it's trust. Here you can come
and go as you please and treat it
maybe more like your home.

So it's so important
for Martha to receive the key,

especially in episode seven, which
is, I believe, this pivotal moment.

Now, what do you say?

Ice-skating on the mineral lakes
of Kurhan? Fancy it?

Whatever you like.

By the way, you'll be needing this.

Really? Frequent flyer's privilege.

It's really quite far in to series
three when Martha finally gets a key.

The Doctor's been resisting it, I
suppose,

and he's been resisting the idea

that he's going to have anyone
travelling with him at all.

But finally he has to
face the fact that Martha's
fairly indispensable to him.

Thank you. Don't mention it.

At that point, I think she relaxes
a little bit more,

that she, you know, is perhaps
more of a permanent feature there.

So it's really significant
to receive the key.

Donna ends up getting
a key to the TARDIS

slightly incidentally because
they're in the middle of sorting out,

you know, the end of the world.

The air is disgusting. It's not so
bad for me. Go on.

Get inside the TARDIS. Oh! I've never
given you a key.

So he has to just
quickly hand it over.

Then The Doctor feels a
bit guilty about that and tries
to make a bit of moment of it.

Go on, that's yours.
Quite a big moment, really.

Yeah, maybe we'll get sentimental
after the world's finished choking
to death. Good idea!

There's no real poetry in that
moment, it's just a practical moment

that of course she's delighted about
but she's not that way inclined.

Once a companion gets their own key,

it unlocks a world
of adventures on board the TARDIS.

It's the TARDIS.

My TARDIS.

The best ship in the universe.

Off we go then! Allons-y!

Come with me.

I like it, don't you? I love it!

Search any social networking
site for a companion of the Doctor

and their relationship status is,
well, it's complicated.

Basically, the story between the
Doctor and Rose was a love story.

They clearly found each other

when they both needed each other
for very different reasons.

Rose needed a new life.

Thanks. Thanks for what? Exactly.

The Doctor needed a touchstone.

The Doctor needed someone to
level him out and to make him

believe in the possibilities
of life again, I think.

I'm a Time Lord.

I'm the last of the Time Lords.

They're all gone.

I'm the only survivor.

I'm left travelling on my own
because there's no one else.

There's me.

It's such an interesting dynamic
because, reading the scripts,

you just can't put your finger on
what their relationship is about.

And I don't
think they really ever question it.

They just get on with it.

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

I think she's quite
in love with him.

I think when you see them being most
affectionate towards each other

is when they're
having fun together.

Tooth And Claw, where they have the
running joke of trying to get Queen
Victoria to say, "I am not amused".

She's a fair old child. I bought
her for sixpence in Old London Town.

It was her or the Elephant Man, so...
Thinks he's funny,

but I'm so not amused. What do you
think, Ma'am?

There are the more
obviously emotional scenes

like in Satan Pit when The Doctor
is hanging on the end of the rope

and asking to be remembered to her.
If you talk to Rose, just tell her...

Tell her...

Oh, she knows.

In Impossible planet, where they talk
about setting up home together

and whether that's
ever likely to happen...

Me, living in a house?
Now, that is terrifying.

You'd have to get a mortgage!

No. Oh, yeah! I'm dying. I'm dying.
That's it. It is all over.

What about me?
I'd have to get one too.

I don't know.
It could be the same one.

We could both...

I dunno, share. Or not. Whatever.

All sorts of... Anyway... We'll see.

When The Doctor goes missing in Fear
Her and Rose wonders if she's lost
him,

and then of course when they're
reunited again,

it's a great scene
where they talk about cupcakes.

I can't stress this enough.
Ball-bearings you can eat.

Masterpiece!

Ooh! I thought I'd lost you!

They talk about spending
the rest of their life together and

then the Doctor gets some kind of
portent of doom.

No, we'll always be OK, you and me.
FIREWORKS FIZZ AND BANG

Don't you reckon, Doctor?

Something in the air.
Something coming. What?

A storm's approaching.

I think the thing with Rose and the
Doctor was that this was a sparky

bright girl from an estate that gets
plucked into time travel

and you see over the time under
the Doctor's tutelage and friendship,

this sort of young girl blossom

into this clever, responsible,
beautiful woman.

I'll see you later.

Not if I see you first!

And it was the first time as a
viewer you really got to see the
Doctor engage with another person.

It left an imprint that then
went through all the companions.

The Battle of Canary Wharf.

I saw the list of the dead.

It said Rose Tyler. On no! Sorry.

She's alive.

You're kidding?
Parallel world. Safe and sound.

And Mickey. And her mother. Yes!

Good old Rose.

The relationship she thought she
would maybe at the beginning

have with the Doctor
is never going to happen.

He is never going
to love her like she loves him.

And it's just painful for her
to just be around him all the time.

He looked kind of nice.

He's a bit more than that.
Are you and him...?

Sometimes I think he likes me

but sometimes I just think
he needs someone with him.

The Doctor doesn't seem to
notice that Martha might have
a bit of a crush on him.

Whether he chooses not to notice it
or whether he genuinely can't see

it is a matter for some debate.

So, who's going where?
There's only one bed.

We'll manage. Come on.

In the Shakespeare Code
where they end up
sharing a bed together, you know,

it would seem quite
cruel of the Doctor

to be doing that if he actually knew
that she was in some way smitten.

So I like to believe that
he genuinely hadn't noticed it.

Are you going to stand there
all night?

Budge up a bit, then.

Sorry. Martha possibly sees this
as her opportunity, but it doesn't

really work out that way because The
Doctor couldn't be less interested.

There's not much room.
Us two here, same bed.

Tongues will wag. There's such a
thing as psychic energy, but a human
couldn't channel it like that.

Not without a generator
the size of Taunton,

and we would have spotted that. No.

There's something
I'm missing, Martha.

Something really close.

And then makes the fatal mistake of
mentioning the ex-girlfriend.

Rose would know.
A friend of mine, Rose, right now
she'd say exactly the right thing.

Still, can't be helped.

You're a novice. Never mind.

Take you back home tomorrow. Great.

What the companions
always want from The Doctor -

the acceptance, they don't get
in their own world,

so they're on the TARDIS, doing what
they can to please The Doctor

to get that acceptance
or to get that romance.

I know what it's like.

It's like when you fancy someone
and they don't even know you exist.

That's what it's like. Come on!

You too, huh?

Although they became very close and
they became a good team,

that was always going
to drive a rift between them

that the Doctor could
never be to Martha

what she ultimately wanted him to be.

You got yourself a
forward-thinking guy with that hot
potato in the sharp suit.

He's not...we're not together.

Oh, sure you are.
I've seen the way you look at him.

It's obvious. Not to him.

So then with Donna, I think there was
a great relief for The Doctor

that she couldn't
be less interested in him

as anything other than a friend.

I just want a mate.
You just want to mate?

I just want a mate.

You're not mating with me, sunshine.

A mate. I want a mate!

Just as well because I'm not
having any of that nonsense.

You're just a long streak
of nothing. Alien nothing.

There we are, then.

OK.

I can come?

Yeah. Of course you can, yeah.

I'd love it.

And they were just best mates,
I think, which was usually quite
liberating for the Doctor.

They just had a laugh.

I'm here! In Rome.

Donna Noble in Rome.

This is just weird.

I think the Doctor
has to slightly readjust to what
he's used to in a companion.

I've been thinking. Sorry.

I'm going home.

Really?

I've got to.

Well, if that's what you want.

I mean, it's a bit soon.

Thank you.

Thank you, Donna Noble.

It's been brilliant.

You've saved my life in so many ways.

You're...

You're just popping home
for a visit, that's what you mean.

You dumbo.

And then you're coming back.
Do you know what you are?

A great big outer space dunce. Yeah.

Donna brings what
I have always believed

was an essential element into life

which is men and women
can be friends

and can be platonic friends and
we can be good working companions.

We don't have to make everything
into a, "Do I fancy him? Don't I?"

That's not necessarily an issue.

Hello!

Who are you?

I am...Spartacus.

And so am I.

Mr and Mrs Spartacus?
Oh, no. We're not together.

Then brother and sister?

Yes, of course!
You look very much alike.

BOTH: Really?

She was a great
reality check for him.

And wouldn't really let
him away with anything.

She belongs with us. With you.
She's your daughter.

She's a soldier. She
came out of that machine.

Oh yes, I know that bit!

She's quite direct, you know.

So there's no need for
her to coat it in anything.

Come here.

Listen.

And then tell me where she belongs.

HEARTBEAT

HEARTBEAT

It was never going to be
an easy ride with Donna,

but it was going to be worth it in
the end. Do you know what I mean?

To take the time for them
to get to know each other.

Although he never gets hitched to
any of his travelling companions,

The Doctor still has the
unenviable task of dealing
with the dreaded in-laws.

If you just stay with the Doctor
and his companion,

it almost becomes normal
and it's "There's another monster",

and "Oh, we'll just have to
save the planet yet again".

Get it off me!

Sylvia and all mothers
help the audience to see

how extraordinary the experience
is that the companions are
going through.

And what time's this? How old am I?

And you get the family dynamic that
makes a much more rounded figure.

It's no good sitting there, dressed
up, looking like you're job-hunting.

You've got to do something.

It's not like the s. No-one's
unemployed these days except you.

You know where they've come from,
how they've got their strengths, how
they are the people that they are.

And are not just companions and
are not people that are there

to fall in love
or to be told what to do, but are
people in their own right.

Mums and daughters may
have their ups and downs,

but there's no-one
quite like granddad.

I think he's looked after Donna
ever since she was born.

It would appear she's his
only grandchild. I don't know.

But she's certainly his favourite
and he's spoiled her forever.

And also, she was sympathetic
to him with his telescope

up in the allotment, looking at
stars and all that sort of business.

Brought you a Thermos. Oh, ta.

Have you seen anything?

Yeah, I've got Venus. There within a
current magnitude of - . at least.

That's what it says
in my little book.

Have a seat. Go on.

There you go. All right?

That's the only planet in the
solar system named after a woman.

Good for her.

And he was just incredibly
fond and protective of her.

You're not yourself,
I'll give you that.

Introducing families and relatives
to the companions is so brilliant

because people love, at home, to
see kind of everyday life going on.

That's yours.

It's pink.

Mum, it should be yours!

Jackie doesn't know what's hit her

when this strange man arrives and
her daughter goes off with him

and she's terrified because she
thinks, "What's he doing with her?"

Just answer me this.

Is my daughter safe?

I'm fine.

'Is she safe?'

Will she always be safe?

Part of her thinks, "Why isn't he
coming after me?" kind of thing
because she's a terrible flirt.

Um... I'm in my dressing-gown.
Yes, you are.

There's a strange man in my bedroom.

Yes, there is.

Well, anything could happen.

No!

Then when she realises
and understands that
he's somebody very special

and he's going to really look
after her daughter, then she's in.

He's not that bad if
you gave him a chance.

He's good in a crisis,
I'll give him that.

It goes from the hostile...

Stitch this, mate!

"How dare you do
that to my daughter?"

To the, "You're all right".

What does he eat?

How do you mean?

I was going to do shepherd's pie.
All of us. Proper sit-down.

Cos...I'm ready to listen.

I think in The Christmas Invasion
when the Doctor becomes poorly,

she really loves him
in quite a maternal way.

I'm having a neuron implosion.
I need...

What do you need? Tell me, tell me.
Painkillers? You need aspirin?
Codeine? Paracetamol? Pepto Bismal?

Liquid paraffin? Vitamin C?

Vitamin D? Vitamin E? Is it food?

Something simple. Bowl of soup?
Nice bowl of soup and a sandwich?

A little ham sandwich?

I need you to shut up! Oh, he
hasn't changed that much, has he?

And loves them for also
looking after her daughter.

And, in fact, saving the world.
Jackie thinks that's brilliant.

I think the home-life
context, sort of,

lets you see what a
journey they're on.

I don't mind your father making
a fool of himself in private.

But this Leo's st. Everyone is
going to be there and the entire
family is going to look ridiculous.

Mum, it's a party. I can't stop
Dad from bringing his girlfriend.

You know, they're chugging along
with all the ordinary daily stresses
and struggles that many people have.

You know, work,
relationships, money...

Clive, that woman is disrespecting
me. She's never liked me!

I can't think why, after
you stole my husband!

Then this sort of bombshell
is dropped into their lives.

Which is the Doctor.

This is a friend of mine.
The Doctor.

Doctor what?

No, it's just the Doctor.

We've been doing some work together.
You all right, mate?

Lovely to meet you, Mrs Jones.
I've heard a lot about you.
Have you? What have you heard?

You know, that you're
Martha's mother and...

No, actually, that's about it.
We haven't had much time to chat.

You know, been busy.
Busy? Doing what, exactly?

You know...stuff.

I think any mother who sees
her children put in harm's way

will want to go to what they think
is the source of that and stop it

and so, for Francine,
the source of the harm in her
children's life is the Doctor.

So he deserves a slap!

Ah, Mrs Jones.

We still haven't finished our chat.

Keep away from my daughter.

Mum, what are you doing?
All of the mothers. Every time!

But for all his heroics,
sometimes it's not the Doctor
that saves the day.

Occasionally, it's the companion
that has to swing into action.

There's nothing you can do!

I've got no A-levels,
no job, no future.

But I tell you what I have got.

Jericho Street junior school
under-sevens gymnastics team.

I got the bronze.

MUSIC: Theme from Indiana Jones

Rose!

Now we're in trouble.

At times, the Doctor can't see
a way out of the situation.

And Rose is there
and she's so astute

and so inquisitive
that she spots things.

How can you hide something
that big in a city this small?

Hide what? The transmitter.

In the end, ultimately, they
help the Doctor with his mission.

A huge, metal, circular structure.
Like a dish, like a wheel. Radial.

Close to where we're standing.
Must be completely invisible.

What?

What?

What is it, what?

Oh.

At the end of Satan Pit,
yes, it's Rose who manages

to send Will Thorpe into the
vacuum of space with a bolt g*n.

Nothing shall either destroy me!
Nothing!

Go to hell.

Fear Her, as well.
Of course it's Rose,

when the Doctor disappears
into Chloe Webber's painting,

it's Rose who takes matters
into her own hands.

Doctor, if you can hear me,
I'm going to get you out of there.

I'll find the pod.

It's Rose who works out what
the Isolus needs to fly free.

No! No!

Stop! You just took a council
axe from a council van and now
you're digging up a council road!

I'm reporting you to the council!

It went for the hottest thing in
the street, your tar! What is it?

It's a spaceship. Not a council
spaceship, I'm afraid.

It's Rose who wields an axe
to get into the bedroom where
it's all kicking off.

She has to sort
that one out herself.

Feel the love.

Oh, the maid is full of fire!

And you can shut up!

'She is not a wallflower.'

She likes to get her hands dirty.

She likes to get in there
and get involved.

Martha, where are you?

It's all right, I'm here.
Just save everything up.

That's my girl!

Big bolt of lightning, electricity
all down the building.

Connect this to the lift
and they get zapped.

I think there's moments when
your children exceed your
expectations and you go...

"Oh, you're not just my baby.

"You're a whole person
and you can do amazing things. Wow."

'I think that Martha's journey
to save the world,'

is SO important...

because, you know, she knows
that it's all on her.

No need to ask who you are.
The famous Martha Jones.

How long since you
were last in Britain?

days.

It's been a long year.

The sacrifice that Martha makes,
actually, to save the day, to save
the world from The Master,

'is on a scale that we've never
seen elsewhere, actually.'

She finds that year draining,
difficult, lonely.

Just really quite, you know,
negative in terms of what
she's been asked to do.

But she keeps the faith.

If Martha Jones became a
legend, then that's wrong.

Because my name isn't important.
There's someone else.

And building towards
this one moment in time

where the Doctor's going to be
able to use this psychic network

to bring himself back to full
power and sort The Master out.

Right across the world, one word,
just one thought at one moment.

But with satellites.

What?

The Archangel Network.
A telepathic field,

binding the whole human race together
with every person on earth

thinking the same thing at the same
time. And that word...is Doctor.

ALL: Doctor! Doctor! Doctor!

Doctor. Doctor.

The one thing you can't do -
stop them thinking.

I think it's just perfect for her and
a perfect ending for her, I think.

But for Donna,
it's not about being an action hero.

She has other skills
at her fingertips.

Did I ever tell you,
best temp in Chiswick?

words per minute.

Donna's clerical skills end up
becoming quite important to
the future of the universe.

Oi, you lot. All your stormtroopers
and your sonics, rubbish.

You should have come with me.

You've got the assembled might
of UNIT and Martha Jones

and everybody else trying to
figure out what's going on.

And Donna just
looks through the files.

I spent years as a temp. I can find
my way around an office blindfold.

The first thing I noticed
is an empty file.

Why, what's inside it?
Or what's not inside?

Sick days.

There aren't any. Hundreds of people
working here and no one's sick.

Not one hangover, man-flu,
sneaky little shopping trip.
Nothing, not ever.

They don't get ill.

She can't imagine
anyone would go through life
without claiming the odd sick day.

So that ends up being
the first clue to what is going on.

That can't be right. You've
been checking out the building,

you should have been checking
out the work force. I can see
why he likes you.

You are good. Supertemp.

Dr Jones, set up a medical post,
start examining the workers.
I'll get them sent through.

Come on, Donna. Give me a hand.

She has to step up because
she's left alone in the TARDIS
and she doesn't know.

She doesn't really know
if he's coming back.

PHONE RINGS

What's happened, where are you?
Still on earth. But don't worry,
I've got my secret w*apon.

'And what's that?' You.

Somehow, that's not making me happy.

You know, she is saying,
"I can't change a plug."

Or whatever it is,
"I can't mend a fuse."

I can't even mend a fuse.

Stop talking about yourself
like that. You can do this,

'I promise.'

Then there she does
the one thing that, you know,

enables them to defeat
the Sontarans, really.

She disables them with a big old
mallet, sh*t to the back of his neck.

Back of the neck!

In The Doctor's Daughter, it is
Donna who figures out the numbers on
the wall are a big old space date.

Look at that.

It's like the numbers in the
tunnels. No, no, no. But listen.

I spent six months working
as a temp in Hounslow Library and
I mastered the Dewey decimal system

in two days flat.
I'm good with numbers.

It's staring us in the face!
What is?

It's the date.

At the end of the day, she
will make the ultimate sacrifice.

In Turn Left we see
her sacrificing herself

for the future of everyone else.

That's right. Isn't it? I don't die.
If I'd change things, I don't die.

That's right, isn't it?

That's not when she's gonna die.
She's going to have to.... Well,
she has to make the decision to die.

Please.

The Doctor will always
put his assistants...

Not intentionally, but he always
puts them in some kind of danger.

And he gets in the danger himself.

But he will try his
utmost to save them.

♪ Rescue me

♪ Oh, take me in your arms

♪ Rescue me

♪ I want your tender charms

♪ But I'm lonely and I'm blue

♪ I need you and your love too

♪ Come on and rescue me
Rescue me

♪ Oh, take me in your arms

♪ Rescue me

♪ I want your tender charms

♪ Cos I'm lonely and
I'm blue I need you

♪ And your love too

♪ Come on and rescue me. ♪

Doctor, get me out!

I think this is my dance.

Help me!

♪ Rescue me! ♪

Let me go!

Now, jump!

♪ Rescue me

♪ Oh, take me in your arms

♪ Rescue me

♪ I want your tender charms
Cos I'm lonely

♪ And I'm blue

♪ I need you and your love too

♪ Come on and rescue me

♪ Did it like that
and now we do it like this

♪ Did it like that and now
we do it like this... ♪

Go to your room.

♪ Did it like that and
now we do it like this

♪ Did it like that and
now we do it like this. ♪

Did you miss me?

Now, sometimes our man from
Gallifrey can go a little too far.

Often, a good companion is the
only one who can bring this time
traveller back down to earth.

Just...promise me one thing.

Find someone.

I don't need anyone. Yes, you do.

Cos sometimes I think you
need someone to stop you.

Yeah.

I think there's
something just about

having someone there for the Doctor
to look out for and look after,

which tempers his excesses
in themself, I think.

Just...

I suppose it's...you know,

having another person there
gives you an objectivity

on yourself, I think,

which is something
the Doctor clearly requires.

It's one of the
many necessary functions

that his travelling companions
provide for him, I think.

Get out the way!

Rose, get out the way! Now!

No.

She's not scared to say no
to the Doctor or challenge him.

I won't let you do this.

That thing k*lled
hundreds of people.

It's not the one
pointing the g*n at me.

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

Because she will say no.

It couldn't k*ll van Statten and
it couldn't k*ll me. It's changing.

And what about you, Doctor?

What the hell are you changing into?

I think it's a really important
role for the companion

to be the Doctor's moral guardian,
if you like.

I think there are

going to be times when the Doctor

will get quite out of hand,
I would have thought.

My home planet is
far away and long since gone.

But its name lives on.

Gallifrey.

They m*rder*d the Racnoss!

I warned you.

You did this.

No! No! Doctor!

No!

He's really stopped at the brink
of committing genocide by Donna.

My children!

Doctor!

Ah!

You can stop now.

My children!

I think that though quickly
the companions come to realise it,

and perhaps their part is to
help him keep perspective.

Because he's great,
but he has got a fury

that I think needs reining in
from time to time.

Incredible. Ghosts that are not
ghosts, but beings from another

world who can only exist in our
realm by inhabiting cadavers.

Good system - it might work.

Rose finds the Doctor's
approach to his work

or his mission quite inhumane.

And at times
he can be very cold and alien.

And that really annoys her.

You can't let them run
around inside dead people.

Why not? It's like recycling.

Seriously, though, you can't.
Seriously, though, I can.

But it's just...wrong.

She is part of the human race.

So when she meets aliens and humans
in the same room, she's always

most likely to feel more sympathy
and she's more compassionate

towards the people that are involved.

Those bodies were living people, we
should respect them - even in death.

Do you carry a donor card?

That's different...

It is different, it's a different
morality. Get used to it or go home.

But, as with all good things,
time with the Doctor

must always come to an end.

Join Doctor Who's greatest
moments for the final farewells

of his finest companions. No!

The one thing you learn about
the people who surround the Doctor,

or who befriend the Doctor or who
become companions to the Doctor,

it's inevitable they'll leave.

The sacrifice will be them
not returning to the Doctor.

Rose was a sacrifice, in a sense.

She was taken to that dimension,

and the Doctor was part of
the cause of that, in a way.

You have the sacrifice of
Captain Jack on Satellite .

Exterminate!

I kind of figured that.

You've got a different kind
of sacrifice with Donna.

The Doctor sacrifices
his relationship with her

in order to keep her...sane,
you know?

It's one of the saddest
and gut-wrenching moments.

Oh, Donna Noble. I am so sorry.

But we had the best of times.

'The Bad Wolf Bay scene is one
that a lot of people talk about'

and is certainly something that...

you know, is the culmination
of two years of this story

of the Doctor and Rose, and
it's a beautifully written scene,

'and Billie is so wonderful in it,
it's a real favourite of mine.'

Where are we? Where did the gap
come out? We're in Norway.

Norway, right.

About miles out of Bergen.

It's called Darlig Ulv Stranden.

Dalek? Darlig.

It's Norwegian for "bad".

This translates as Bad Wolf Bay.

'It was the end of...'

my first year in the show,
which had been

a very...a big deal for me and had
been very emotional in lots of ways.

Here you are...living a life
day after day.

The one adventure I can never have.

Am I ever gonna see you again?

You can't.

People who are very much...
you know, who love each other

deeply, who could be travelling
around the universe together,

are separated just through trying
to save the universe,

and that makes the tragedy
even worse.

I love you.

Quite right, too.

And I suppose...

..if it's
my last chance to say it...

Rose Tyler...

'Martha does definitely change,
cos she has experienced, and her and

'her family experienced all the
things they did'

at the end of series three,

I think that it's one of the
reasons she doesn't want

to travel with the Doctor any more,
she needs to be with her family.

I've spent all these years
training to be a doctor,

now I've got people to look after.

They saw half the planet
slaughtered and they're devastated -

I can't leave them. Course not.

'When she chooses to leave him,'

you see a young woman
who has grown into herself...

a young woman
who's gone, "I love you...

"Oh, you don't love me. OK, I have
to be grown-up about this

"and I have to just get
on with my life."

That's a hugely mature thing to do.

Thank you.

I think he again unintentionally made
her feel a little bit...second best,

but she's able to kind of stand up
tall,

and I think she realises she
needs to maintain standing up tall.

The scene where Martha leaves,
the Doctor's been fully aware

of what's been going on but has
chosen to ignore it, and she calls
him on that.

Cos the thing is,
it's like my friend Vicky.

She lived with this bloke, student
housing, five of them, all packed in,
and this bloke was called Sean.

And she loved him.
She did, she completely adored him,
spent all day long talking about him.

Is this going anywhere? Yes!

Cos he never looked at her twice.

I think that's an interesting
moment as well, er...

where the Doctor is forced to
admit that he's been insensitive.

And I told her, I always said to her
time and time again, I said,
"Get out."

So this is me, getting out.

The tragedy of the Doctor
and Donna, I think, is that
they had such a great time.

You know, the Doctor had had...

We had the love story with Rose
that didn't work out, we had
the unrequited love story

with Martha that didn't work out,

and finally he's just travelling
the universe with a great mate.

You are gonna love this!
One, two, three...

Mmm! Ah! It's lovely!

There's no complications, there's
no agenda, and they're just seeing
the universe and drinking it up.

And then circumstances
conspire against them,

and Donna,

although she's ended up
saving all of reality by taking on
some of the Doctor's persona...

I thought we'd try the
planet Feldspoon, just cos.
What a good name, Feldspoon.

Apparently it's got mountains
that sway in the breeze, mountains
that move, can you imagine?

..that will also ultimately
k*ll her, so he has to
remove that from her mind.

You know you could fix that chameleon
circuit if you just tried hot-binding
the fragment links and superseding

the binary binary binary binary
binary binary binary binary binary
binary binary binary binary binary...

binary... I'm fine!

When he takes me back,
after he has had to...

erase everything from my memory,
that version of Donna is dead,

and I just think
it's the most devastating...

I think it's sadder than
if she'd just actually d*ed,

because just before he wipes
her memory, she knows how

awful that is, because she says,
"Please don't, I can't go back,"
because she sees how far she's come.

The rest of my life...

travelling...

in the TARDIS.

The Doctor-Donna.

Oh...

Oh, my G...

I can't go back.

Don't make me go back.

Doctor...

Please. Please, don't
make me go back!

Donna...

The best.

Goodbye.

No, no! No, please! Please, no!

No! No!

No!

And then of course she
just goes back to a world where...

the...trivialities of life
are all she cares about.

Don't mind me. Donna.

John Smith.

Mr Smith was just living.
My phone's gone mad -

texts, she's gonna barmy, she's
saying, "Planets in the sky!"
What have I missed now?!

Nice to meet you.

It's very tragic that
that uncomplicated friendship
has to end that way.

Not only does Donna...robbed of
all the experiences that she'd had,

but the Doctor is robbed
of his best mate.

How thick do you think I am?!
Planets?!

I'll tell you what that was, Dumbo.

That's those two-for-one lagers you
get down the offie cos you fancy that
little man in there with the goatee.

Yes, you do!

I've seen ya! Donna?
I was just going.

Yeah, see ya.

When he's telling Wilfred and Sylvia
that she can never remember,

but, you know...there
are...universes on the other side
of the sky

that are singing her praises,
it's beautiful
and heartbreaking.

I just want you to know that
there are worlds out there

safe in the sky because of her,

that there are people
living in the light

and singing songs of Donna Noble

a thousand million light-years away.

They will never forget her...

..while she can never remember.

How can we ever forget the
Doctor's fantastic companions?

Let's have one last look
at some of their greatest moments.

How long are you gonna stay with me?

Forever.

♪ You and I, we were one

♪ And I swore I'd stay forever

♪ But they say
all good things come to an end... ♪

We were too late.

♪ ..My friend... ♪
I bloody love you!

♪ ..Now it's time to move on

♪ But don't think that this is easy

♪ Cos it's hard
to be leaving you behind... ♪

I just wanna tell you
you were fantastic.

♪ ..Oh
So if you believe

♪ Say a prayer for me

♪ I won't be here tomorrow
There's somewhere I gotta be... ♪

Come back!

♪ ..The things you want to say

♪ Save 'em for another day

♪ Cos I can hear the angels calling

♪ Angels calling for me... ♪

Martha Jones, you saved the world.
Yes, I did.

I spent a lot of time with you
thinking I was second best,
but do you know what? I am good.

Hmm.

Right, then. Bye.

♪ ..Oh
So if you believe

♪ Say a prayer for me

♪ I won't be here tomorrow

♪ There's somewhere I've gotta be

♪ The things you want to say

♪ Save 'em for another day

♪ Cos I can hear the angels calling

♪ Angels calling for me... ♪

You had to go and fall in love
with a human...that wasn't me.

Travelling with you...

I love it.

He's just...

dazzling!

♪ Oh
So if you believe

♪ Say a prayer for me

♪ I won't be here tomorrow

♪ There's somewhere I've gotta be

♪ The things you want to say

♪ Save 'em for another day

♪ Cos I can hear the angels calling

♪ Angels calling for me... ♪

Goodbye. No, no! No, please!
Please, no! No! No!

♪ You and I
We were one

♪ And I swore I'd stay forever

♪ But they say... ♪

No! ♪ ..All good things
come to an end. ♪
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