04x06 - Sins of the Fathers

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04x06 - Sins of the Fathers

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Witness the birth of
a new chapter in Doctor Who history.

She's my daughter.

Jenny!

It's a story about becoming a dad.

What do you think... Dad?

Brilliant, you were brilliant!

So join Confidential and find out
who really is the daddy.

Careful, there might be traps.

Watch and learn, Father.

Action!

Today, the Doctor Who cast and crew
are all set for a new arrival.

Arm yourself.

Where did she come from? From me.

From you? How? Who is she?

She's my daughter.

Hello, Dad.

'Big story.'

big story for the Doctor.

The title is The Doctor's Daughter.

'Lo and behold, Jenny,'

who is his daughter,

steps out of the machine.

And out of this machine,
I step because

I've been made out
of his DNA so I am his daughter.

We'll put a noise. It's kind of
"klunk". Very deliberate.

I think it's one of the best
pre-title sequences we've ever had.

g*n CLICKS

Hello, Dad.

Lovely. I think that's great.

Georgia, I think it's lovely, and
I love the smile, it's really great.

OK, let's go, one more.

'Russell and Julie and Phil'

basically said the Doctor's Daughter

then they all went,
"Ssh, it's a big secret."

The Doctor doesn't accept that
she is his child at first.

Can't extrapolate a relationship
from a biological accident.
Child Support Agency can.

Just cos I share
physiological traits

with simian primates doesn't make me
a monkey's uncle. I'm not a monkey!

Or a child.

A further complication to the
Doctor's relationship with his new
daughter is that she is a warrior.

Every child of the machine
is born with this knowledge, it's
our inheritance, it's all we know.

How to fight...and how to die.

She's born to fight.
She's born to use weapons,

she's born to karate chop
and kick her feet.

No! Don't!

Why did you do that?
They were trying to k*ll us.

But they've got my friend!
Collateral damage.

She's one of the few people who can
defend a soldier's viewpoint
to the Doctor.

You keep insisting you're not a
soldier, but look at you, drawing up
strategies like a proper general.

No, I'm trying to stop the fighting.
Isn't every soldier?

She shuts him up, she makes him
speechless which Donna loves.

Donna, will you tell her?
You are speechless!

I'm loving this. You keep on, Jenny.

The Doctor has his own drawer full
of double standards when it comes

to, er, behaving as a soldier.

It's something that he clearly has
done. And on quite an epic scale.

♪ I got soul but I'm not a soldier

♪ I got soul but I'm not a soldier

♪ I got soul but I'm not a soldier

♪ I got soul but I'm not a soldier

♪ I got soul but I'm not a soldier

♪ I got soul but... ♪

That's brilliant!

Getting a taste for it, Doctor?

No, no, not at all, not me.

Don't sh**t!

There's no such thing as a pacifist
in a real universe, I think.

Let me out of these manacles.
You'll find I'm fun.

He will turn to v*olence
if there's no other option.

Sometimes you have to fight.
A simple surrender is not enough.

Everything has its time
and everything dies.

But he doesn't do it lightly.
And he doesn't do it with any joy.

He only does it for the greater good.

Come on. Move!

♪ I wanna stand up,
I wanna let go... ♪

No-o-o-o-o-o!

No second chances.

Help me, please!
Why should I? You never did.

There's a great warrior inside
there. He might hide it
under that...

smile and the charm
and the suits and the good looks.

There is a battler inside him.
He's won an awful lot of fights

and is a good man to be on your side
in a w*r. So it's a tricky area.

Do it! Just do it!

If I don't like it, it will stop.

Fascinating.

That's it! Hurry up!
Oh, no, no! It's back.

The sequence where Jenny flips
through the beams

that are
preventing them getting from one
end of the corridor to the other,

was always in that script
from the first draft, really.

Stephen Greenhorn felt it very
important, in order to just be
a very quick way of demonstrating,

just how agile, how...much
of a warrior Jenny really was.

Watch and learn, father.

No way!

The logistics of filming that
sequence really is careful planning.

So if you kind of just...
It's gonna slow down at the end. OK.

You want to be low,
where you were, I think.

Just a lot of co-ordination
with the stunt co-ordinator

and the actors and taking it
from there, really.

It had to be storyboarded
really carefully by Alice.

She really had to work out how
Jenny should move through that path

of light and how we could sh**t that
in the most economical way.

Georgia did have some training.

We did need to see her start
the movement off.

And, you know, do that final
roll and kick that she does.

Georgia's an actress,
she's not a gymnast.

And while she's really fit and really
game, we had to make her look like,

you know, an Olympic gymnast
of the highest order.

We needed a body double.

So we had a body double
who was a gymnast,
who does that fast back-flipping.

Action!

No way!

That was impossible! Not impossible
- just a bit unlikely. Brilliant!
You were brilliant.

By the end of it, they've both
realised they want to be

more like the other one
and admire that in each other.

What's happening?
The gases will escape and trigger
the terraforming process.

As soon as he looks like he's found
somebody new to share his life with,
they've got to die or leave him.

What does that mean?
It means a new world.

It... It just comes out of the blue.

No!

It's not expected.

Jenny, Jenny! Talk to me, Jenny!

♪ If I should die this very moment

♪ I wouldn't fear

♪ For I've never known completeness

♪ Like being here

♪ Wrapped in the warmth of you

♪ Loving every breath of you... ♪

It's another tragedy, another
disappointment, another heartbreak.

Jenny, be strong now. You need
to hold on. Do you hear me?

We've got things to do, you and me.

Eh? Eh?

We can go anywhere.
Everywhere - you choose.

It sounds good.

You're my daughter.
We've only just got started.

♪ ..Wanna stay right here
till the end of time... ♪

As soon as he accepts her, as soon
as the Doctor opens his heart to her,
she's got to get sh*t in one of hers.

There's no sign, Doctor.

There's no regeneration.
She's like you but maybe not enough.

No. Too much.

At the end of this episode,
it's like we're seeing a man
who's equally

had a loss and is equally distraught
but is sort of somehow stronger.

Even when he points the g*n
at Cobb's head,

you couldn't seriously
argue that he's about to k*ll him.

I never would.

He's using anger to make a statement
to the whole society around him.

It's not just a hollow gesture.

Make the foundation of this society..

...a man who never would!

He's an extraordinary man.
Who else could do that?

But he takes the most personal
moment and makes it a statement
of liberty,

of proper moral worth,
so it's amazing.

Hello, boys.

What's interesting is she's still
there at the end of the show.

Come back. Sorry, can't stop.
What you gonna do - tell my dad?

I wonder if that will become
important in Doctor Who history.

Where are you going?

I've got the whole universe -

planets to save, civilisations
to rescue, creatures to defeat...

..and an awful lot of running
to do.

It does leave a lot
of ends untied, doesn't it?
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