Butterfly Effect

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It was like that daily download. The entire episode was replaying in my head, a dozen times. I remembered now. Was this going to happen every time?

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“31.” I said, hugging the Doctor tightly. I missed him. I missed this Doctor. He died last time I saw him, he was alone last time. He regenerated into Eleven, who I saw regenerated into Twelve. Then there was Seven, who I saw regenerate into Eight.

I am sick of my Doctors dying around me. It hurts my soul to have him die, to lose one man then gain another only to lose them too.

“Ah. I see.” The Doctor hugged me back. “You met the Master.”

“Yes.” I said, holding the Doctor tighter.

“I’m sorry.” The Doctor said. “He wasn’t the best.”

“Yeah.” I sniffled, pulling away from the hug to wipe away the tears. “Your seventh and eighth self were good though...really good.”

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“Okay. Then let’s go.”

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STOKER: “Now then, Mister Smith, a very good morning to you. How are you today?

The Doctor: “Oh, not so bad. Still a bit, you know, blah.

STOKER: “John Smith, admitted yesterday with severe abdominal pains. “Who are you?” Doctor Stoker asked.

I turned to the older gentleman. “Terra Song.”

“Jones, why don’t you see what you can find? Amaze me.”

I held out my hand. “Terra Song.”

Martha took my hand. “Martha.”

“Nice to meet you, Martha.” I said.

Martha: “That wasn’t very clever, running around outside, was it?

The Doctor: “Sorry?

Martha: “On Chancellor Street this morning? You came up to me and took your tie off.

The Doctor: “Really? What did I do that for?

Martha: “I don’t know, you just did.

The Doctor: “Not me. I was here, in bed. Ask the nurses.

“And I was here with him, in the bed.” I smirked.

“Not in bed, in bed.” The Doctor corrected, looking a bit embarrassed.

“Yes.” I sighed, forlorn. “Those nurses decided against it.”

Martha: “Well, that’s weird, cause it looked like you. Have you got a brother?

The Doctor: “No, not any more. Just me.

STOKER: “As time passes and I grow ever more infirm and weary, Miss Jones.

Martha: “Sorry. Right.

(Martha listens to the Doctor’s chest, and hears the two heartbeats. The Doctor winks at her.)

STOKER: “I weep for future generations. Are you having trouble locating the heart, Miss Jones?

Martha: “Er, I don’t know. Stomach cramps?

STOKER: “That is a symptom, not a diagnosis. And you rather failed basic techniques by not consulting first with the patient’s chart.

(Stoker gets an electric shock from the metal clip.)

Martha: “That happened to me this morning.

MORGENSTERN: “I had the same thing on the door handle.

SWALES: “And me, on the lift.

STOKER: “That’s only to be expected. There’s a thunderstorm moving in and lightning is a form of static electricity, as was first proven by. Anyone?

The Doctor: “Benjamin Franklin.

STOKER: “Correct.

The Doctor: “My mate, Ben. That was a day and a half. I got rope burns off that kite, and then I got soaked..

STOKER: “Quite.

The Doctor: “And then I got electrocuted.

STOKER: “Moving on. I think perhaps a visit from psychiatric. And next we have

(Martha and the Doctor exchange grins as she moves away.)

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Martha: “All right now, everyone back to bed, we’ve got an emergency but we’ll sort it out. Don’t worry.

(The Doctor draws the curtain around his bed as Martha and Swales go to the window.)

Martha: “It’s real. It’s really real. Hold on.

(Martha reaches to open the window.)

SWALES: “Don’t! We’ll lose all the air.

Martha: “But they’re not exactly air tight. If the air was going to get sucked out it would have happened straight away, but it didn’t. So how come?

(The Doctor has got dressed behind his curtain.)

The Doctor: “Very good point. Brilliant, in fact. What was your name?

Martha: “Martha.

The Doctor: “And it was Jones, wasn’t it? Well then, Martha Jones, the question is, how are we still breathing?

SWALES: “We can’t be.

The Doctor: “Obviously we are, so don’t waste my time. Martha, what have we got? Is there a balcony on this floor, or a veranda, or

Martha: “By the patients’ lounge, yeah.

The Doctor: “Fancy going out?

Martha: “Okay.

The Doctor: “We might die.

Martha: “We might not.

The Doctor: “Good. Come on. Not her, she’d hold us up.

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(They open the glass doors and step out. Each takes a deep breath.)

Martha: “We’ve got air. How does that work?

The Doctor: “Just be glad it does.

Martha: “I’ve got a party tonight. It’s my brother’s twenty first. My mother’s going to be really, really

The Doctor: “You okay?

Martha: “Yeah.

The Doctor: “Sure?

Martha: “Yeah.

The Doctor: “Want to go back in?

Martha: “No way. I mean, we could die any minute, but all the same, it’s beautiful.

The Doctor: “Do you think?

Martha: “How many people want to go to the moon? And here we are.

The Doctor: “Standing in the Earthlight.

Martha: “What do you think happened?

The Doctor: “What do you think?

Martha: “Extraterrestrial. It’s got to be. I don’t know, a few years ago that would have sounded mad, but these days? That spaceship flying into Big Ben, Christmas, those Cybermen things. I had a cousin. Adeola. She worked at Canary Wharf. She never came home.

The Doctor: “I’m sorry.

Martha: “Yeah.

The Doctor: “I was there, in the battle.

Martha: “I promise you, Mister Smith, we will find a way out. If we can travel to the moon, then we can travel back. There’s got to be a way.

The Doctor: “It’s not Smith. That’s not my real name.

Martha: “Who are you, then?

The Doctor: “I’m the Doctor.

Martha: “Me too, if I can pass my exams. What is it then, Doctor Smith?

The Doctor: “Just the Doctor.”

Martha: “How do you mean, just the Doctor?”

The Doctor: “Just the Doctor.”

Martha: “What, people call you the Doctor?”

The Doctor: “Yeah.”

“He’s the Doctor.” I encouraged. “He’s my partner in crime!”

Martha: “Well, I’m not. As far as I’m concerned, you’ve got to earn that title.

The Doctor: “Well, I’d better make a start, then. Let’s have a look. There must be some sort of

(He throws something out, and it bounces off -)

The Doctor: “Forcefield keeping the air in.

Martha: “But if that’s like a bubble sealing us in, that means this is the only air we’ve got. What happens when it runs out?

The Doctor: “How many people in this hospital?

Martha: “I don’t know. A thousand?

The Doctor: “One thousand people Suffocating.

Martha: “Why would anyone do that?

The Doctor: “Head’s up! Ask them yourself.

(Three massive columnar spaceships pass overhead, then land nearby. Columns of marching beings come stomping out.)

Martha: “Aliens. That’s aliens. Real, proper aliens.

The Doctor: “Judoon.

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(The Doctor and Martha watch it all from above.)

The Doctor: “Oh, look down there, you’ve got a little shop. I like a little shop.

Martha: “Never mind that. What are Judoon?

The Doctor: “They’re like police. Well, police for hire. They’re more like interplanetary thugs.

Martha: “And they brought us to the moon?

The Doctor: “Neutral territory. According to galactic law, they’ve got no jurisdiction over the Earth, and they isolated it. That rain, lightning? That was them, using an H2O scoop.

Martha: “What are you on about, galactic law? Where’d you get that from? If they’re police, are we under arrest? Are we trespassing on the moon or something?

The Doctor: “No, but I like that. Good thinking. No, I wish it were that simple. They’re making a catalogue. That means they’re after something non human, which is very bad news for us.

Martha: “Why? Oh, you’re kidding me. Don’t be ridiculous. Stop looking at me like that.

The Doctor: “Come on then.

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(The Doctor using his sonic screwdriver on a computer.)

Martha: “They’ve reached third floor. What’s that thing?

The Doctor: “Sonic screwdriver.

Martha: “Well, if you’re not going to answer me properly.

The Doctor: “No, really, it is. It’s a screwdriver, and it’s sonic. Look.

Martha: “What else have you got, a laser spanner?

The Doctor: “I did, but it was stolen by Emily Pankhurst, cheeky woman. Oh, this computer! The Judoon must have locked it down. Judoon platoon upon the moon. Because I was just travelling past. I swear, I was just wandering. I wasn’t looking for trouble, honestly, I wasn’t, but I noticed these plasma coils around the hospital, and that lightning, that’s a plasma coil. Been building up for two days now, so I checked in. I thought something was going on inside. It turns out the plasma coils were the Judoon up above.

Martha: “But what were they looking for?

The Doctor: “Something that looks human, but isn’t.

Martha: “Like the two of you, apparently.

The Doctor: “Like us. But not us.

Martha: “Haven’t they got a photo?

The Doctor: “Well, might be a shape-changer.

Martha: “Whatever it is, can’t you just leave the Judoon to find it?

The Doctor: “If they declare the hospital guilty of harbouring a fugitive, they’ll sentence it to execution.

Martha: “All of us?

The Doctor: “Oh yes. If I can find this thing first. Oh! You see, they’re thick! Judoon are thick! They are completely thick! They wiped the records. Oh, that’s clever.

Martha: “What are we looking for?

The Doctor: “I don’t know. Say, any patient admitted in the past week with unusual symptoms. Maybe there’s a back-up.

Martha: “Just keep working. I’ll go ask Mister Stoker. He might know.

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(Martha runs into the Doctor.)

The Doctor: “I’ve restored the back-up.

Martha: “I found her.

The Doctor: “You did what?

(The motorcycle men break down Stoker’s office door.)

The Doctor: “Run!

(They head down the stairs, but meet Judoon coming off and divert onto another floor, followed by a motorcycle man.)

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(They run in and the Doctor sonics the door lock. Then they get behind the radiation screen.)

The Doctor: “When I say now, press the button.

Martha: “But I don’t know which one.

The Doctor: “Then find out!

(The Doctor starts messing with the x-ray machine while Martha gets the Operator’s Manual from the shelf and starts reading. The man outside is battering the door off its hinges. It gets in and the Doctor points the x-ray machine at it.)

The Doctor: “Now!

(The leather-clad man gets a massive dose of radiation, and falls face down. Martha turns the machine off.)

Martha: “What did you do?

The Doctor: “Increased the radiation by five thousand per cent. Killed him dead.

Martha: “But isn’t that going to kill you?

The Doctor: “Nah, it’s only roentgen radiation. We used to play with roentgen bricks in the nursery. It’s safe for you to come out. I’ve absorbed it all. All I need to do is expel it. If I concentrate I can shake the radiation out of my body and into one spot. It’s in my left shoe. Here we go, here we go. Easy does it. Out, out, out, out, out. Out, out. Ah, ah, ah, ah! It is, it is, it is, it is, it is hot. Hold on.

(After a lot of jigging about, the Doctor throws his shoe into the bin.)

The Doctor: “Done.

Martha: “You’re completely mad.

The Doctor: “You’re right. I look daft with one shoe.

(So he gets rid of the other one.)

The Doctor: “Barefoot on the moon.

Martha: “So what is that thing? And where’s it from, the planet Zovirax?

The Doctor: “It’s just a Slab. They’re called Slabs. Basic slave drones. See? Solid leather, all the way through. Someone has got one hell of a fetish.

Martha: “But it was that woman, Miss Finnegan. It was working for her, just like a servant.

(The Doctor had left his screwdriver in the x-ray machine. It is totally fried.)

The Doctor: “My sonic screwdriver.

Martha: “She was one of the patients, but

The Doctor: “Oh, no. My sonic screwdriver.

Martha: “She had a straw like some kind of vampire.

The Doctor: “I loved my sonic screwdriver.

Martha: “Doctor?

The Doctor: “Sorry.

(He throws the screwdriver away.)

The Doctor: “You called me Doctor.

Martha: “Anyway? Miss Finnegan is the alien. She was drinking Mister Stoker’s blood.

The Doctor: “Funny time to take a snack. You’d think she’d be hiding. Unless. No. Yes, that’s it. Wait a minute. Yes! Shape-changer. Internal shape-changer. She wasn’t drinking blood, she was assimilating it. If she can assimilate Mister Stoker’s blood, mimic the biology, she’ll register as human. We’ve got to find her and show the Judoon. Come on!

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(The Doctor and Martha hide by the water dispenser as the other Slab walks down the corridor.)

The Doctor: “That’s the thing about Slabs. They always travel in pairs.

Martha: “What about you?

The Doctor: “What about me what?

Martha: “Haven’t you got back-up? You must have a partner or something?

The Doctor: “Oh. Humans. We’re stuck on the moon running out of air with Judoon and a bloodsucking criminal, you’re asking personal questions? Come on.”

Martha: “I like that. Humans. I’m still not convinced you’re an alien.”

(They walk into a Judoon and the Doctor gets scanned.)

JUDOON: “Non-human.” It turned to me. “Human hybrid.”

“Seriously, that’s what it says now?”

Martha: “Oh my God, you really are.”

The Doctor: “And again.”

(They run, and get round the corner before the Judoon fires its weapon. The chase is on. The Doctor and Martha run up the stairs.)

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(People are starting to slump to the floor.)

The Doctor: “They’ve done this floor. Come on. The Judoon are logical and just a little bit thick. They won’t go back to check a floor they’ve checked already. If we’re lucky.

(Swales is giving oxygen to a patient.)

Martha: “How much oxygen is there?

SWALES: “Not enough for all these people. We’re going to run out.

The Doctor: “How are you feeling? Are you alright?

Martha: “I’m running on adrenaline.

The Doctor: “Welcome to my world.

Martha: “What about the Judoon?

The Doctor: “Nah, great big lung reserves. It won’t slow them down. Where’s Mister Stoker’s office?

Martha: “It’s this way.

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Martha: “She’s gone. She was here.

(Stoker’s body is very white.)

The Doctor: “Drained him dry. Every last drop. I was right. She’s a plasmavore.

Martha: “What’s she doing on Earth?

The Doctor: “Hiding. On the run. Like Ronald Biggs in Rio de Janeiro. What’s she doing now? She’s still not safe. The Judoon could execute us all. Come on.

Martha: “Wait a minute.

(Martha closes Stoker’s eyes.)

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The Doctor: “Think, think, think. If I was a plasmavore surrounded by police, what would I do?

(He sees the sign to the MRI.)

The Doctor: “Ah. She’s as clever as me. Almost.

(Crash, screams.)

JUDOON: “Find the non-human. Execute.

The Doctor: “Martha, stay here. I need time. You’ve got to hold them up.

Martha: “How do I do that?

The Doctor: “Just forgive me for this. It could save a thousand lives. It means nothing. Honestly, nothing.

He kissed Martha. (The Doctor kisses Martha, long and hard, then runs away.)

Martha: “That was nothing?

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“What’s got you all ruffled?” The Doctor asked.

I don’t like sharing you.

“Nothing.”

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JUDOON: “Find the non-human. Execute.

Martha: “Now listen, I know who you’re looking for. She’s this woman. She calls herself Florence.

(The Judoon scans Martha.)

JUDOON: “Human. Wait. Non-human traits suspected. Non-human element confirmed. Authorise full scan. What are you? What are you?

(Martha gets a cross on her hand.)

JUDOON: “Confirm human. Traces of facial contact with non-human. Continue the search.

(He gives Martha a booklet written in alien.)

JUDOON: “You will need this.

Martha: “What’s that for?

JUDOON: “Compensation.

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JUDOON: “Scan him. Confirmation. Deceased.

(Martha runs in.)

Martha: “No, he can’t be. Let me through. Let me see him.

JUDOON: “Stop. Case closed.

Martha: “But it was her. She killed him. She did it. She murdered him.

JUDOON: “Judoon have no authority over human crime.

Martha: “But she’s not human.

FLORENCE: “Oh, but I am. I’ve been catalogued.

Martha: “But she’s not! She assimi. Wait a minute. You drank his blood? The Doctor’s blood? (Martha points a Judoon scanner at Florence.)

FLORENCE: “Oh, I don’t mind. Scan all you like.

JUDOON: “Non-human.

FLORENCE: “But, what?

JUDOON: “Confirm analysis.

FLORENCE: “Oh, but it’s a mistake, surely. I’m human. I’m as human as they come.

Martha: “He gave his life so they’d find you.

JUDOON: “Confirm. Plasmavore, charged with the crime of murdering the child princess of Patrival Regency Nine.

FLORENCE: “Well, she deserved it! Those pink cheeks and those blonde curls and that simpering voice. She was begging for the bite of a plasmavore.

JUDOON: “Then you confess?

FLORENCE: “Confess? I’m proud of it! Slab, stop them!

(The Judoon fries the Slab.)

JUDOON: “Verdict, guilty. Sentence, execution.

(Florence dashes behind the screen and plugs in the MRI scanner. The Magnetic Overload sign comes on.)

FLORENCE: “Enjoy your victory, Judoon, because you’re going to burn with me. Burn in hell!

(The four Judoon all fire and incinerate Florence.)

JUDOON: “Case closed.

Martha: “But what did she mean, burn with me? The scanner shouldn’t be doing that. She’s done something.

(The Judoon scans the MRI machine.)

JUDOON: “Scans detect lethal acceleration of monomagnetic pulse.

Martha: “Well, do something! Stop it!

JUDOON: “Our jurisdiction has ended. Judoon will evacuate.

Martha: “What? You can’t just leave it. What’s it going to do?

JUDOON: “All units withdraw.

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(Martha starts CPR on the Doctor.)

Martha: “One, two, three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five. Two hearts! One, two, three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five.

(Martha starts to gasp for breath. She takes a last deep lungful and gives it to the Doctor. He wakes and she collapses.)

Martha: “The scanner. She did something.

(Energy is playing all over the hospital. The Doctor crawls to the scanner controls then realises he doesn’t have a sonic screwdriver any more.)

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“You’re no help, whatsoever!” The Doctor yelled.

I growled at him. “Excuse me?

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“Cause that is the worse punishment I can think of.” I spat. I brushed my hands, as if I wiping off dirt. I held them up, backing away. “Our future, Doctor, it’s in your hands. You control the outcome now. You don’t think I help? Fine. I’ll show you what happens when I don’t help.”

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I flashed away, not noticing Martha come up the alleyway having heard all of our argument.

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I blinked my eyes open, trying to see where I had been left this time.

“A goddess!” A voice yelled.

Turning towards it, I saw a very familiar family.

“It’s Pompeii.”