Full Circle

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The Doctor: “It’s the year five billion and twenty three. We’re in the galaxy M87, and this? This is New Earth.”

Rose: “That’s just. That’s just-”

The Doctor: “Not bad. Not bad at all.”

Rose: “That’s amazing. I’ll never get used to this. Never. Different ground beneath my feet, different sky. What’s that smell?”

The Doctor: “Apple grass.”

Rose: “Apple grass.”

The Doctor: “Yeah, yeah.”

Rose saw that look in his eyes. He missed Terra, they both did. She had left so suddenly the other day, barely even a goodbye. She had liked the presents Terra left behind under the tree, a thing Terra did on every gift giving holiday.

Terra would love this, being with the Doctor. Rose didn’t know what exactly happened after Terra took in the Time Vortex, waiting out in the hall as the Bad Wolf told her to. Normally, she would ignore it, but something about how Bad Wolf said her name, her real name coming from Terra when it has been nothing but nicknames.

She would know what was going on, she would know the right words to say. Terra had met this Doctor, knew this Doctor. Terra would be giving her advice, or at least give the Doctor something to focus on. Terra had always been good at distracting him.

Something told Rose it would be even easier with this Doctor to be distracted by Terra.

The way the Doctor was looking out on the New Earth horizon, it told Rose that he missed Terra. He was so sad when he came back to the flat alone. Rose thought the two of them admitted their feelings for each other, started snogging, and then Terra was taken away. It would happen to those two.

Still, Rose knew her job. It was what Terra told her to do since Rose first agreed to come along with the Doctor. Rose Tyler needed to be the Doctor’s friend.

Rose: “It’s beautiful. Oh, I love this. Can I just say, travelling with you, I love it.”

The Doctor: “Me too. Come on.”

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Chip: “Human! She’s pure-blood human! Closer, closer.”

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The Doctor: “So, the year five billion, the sun expands, the Earth gets roasted.”

Rose: “That was your first date.” She teased him.

The Doctor: “We had chips. So anyway, planet gone, all rocks and dust, but the human race lives on, spread out across the stars. Soon as the Earth burns up, oh yeah, they get all nostalgic, big revival movement, but then find this place. Same size as the Earth, same air, same orbit. Lovely. Call goes out, the humans move in.”

Rose: “What’s the city called?”

The Doctor: “New New York.”

Rose: “Oh, come on.”

The Doctor: “It is. It’s the city of New New York. Strictly speaking, it’s the fifteenth New York since the original, so that makes it New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York. What?”

Rose: “You’re so different.”

The Doctor: “New New Doctor.”

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Cassandra: “Impossible. I recognize that child. Her face. Show me her face!”

Chip: “Closer, closer.”

Cassandra: “Face! Face! Face!”

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Rose: “Can we go and visit New New York, so good they named it twice?”

The Doctor: “Well, I thought we might go there first.”

(An elegant pair of curved skyscrapers standing apart from the city on their side of the river.)

Rose: “Why, what is it?”

The Doctor: “Some sort of hospital. Green moon on the side. That’s the universal symbol for hospitals. I got this. A message on the psychic paper.”

(Which says -Ward 26 Please Come. Bring Terra.)

The Doctor: “Someone wants to see me.”

Rose: “Hmm. And I thought we were just sight-seeing. Come on, then. Let’s go and buy some grapes.”

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Cassandra: “Rose Tyler! I knew it. That dirty blonde assassin.”

Chip: “She’s coming here, mistress.”

Cassandra: “This is beyond coincidence. This is destiny. At last I can be revenged on that little-”

There was a loud crackling noise, almost like thundr. Cassandra turned her gaze towards it, seeing a woman fall to the ground.

“Terra Song.” Cassandra growled.

The black haired woman sat up, clutching her bleeding stomach. “SON OF A B-”

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“Bit rich coming from you.”

The Doctor: “I can’t help it. I don’t like hospitals. They give me the creeps.”

TANNOY: “The Pleasure Gardens will now take visitors carrying green or blue identification cards for the next fifteen minutes. Visitors are reminded that cuttings from the gardens are not permitted.”

Rose: “Very smart. Not exactly NHS.”

The Doctor: “No shop. I like the little shop.”

Rose: “I thought this far in the future, they’d have cured everything.”

The Doctor: “The human race moves on, but so do the viruses. It’s an ongoing war.”

(Rose finally notices the faces of the nursing staff in their nun-like wimples and habits.)

Rose: “They’re cats.”

The Doctor: “Now, don’t stare. Think what you look like to them, all pink and yellow. That’s where I’d put the shop. Right there.”

(The Doctor walks into the lift alone.)

The Doctor: “Ward 26, thanks!”

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Rose: “Hold on! Hold on!”

The Doctor: “Oh, too late. I’m going up.”

Rose: “It’s all right, there’s another lift.”

The Doctor: “Ward 26. And watch out for the disinfectant.”

ROSE: “Watch out for what?”

The Doctor: “The disinfectant!”

Rose: “The what?”

The Doctor: “The disin-. Oh, you’ll find out.”

Rose: “Er, Ward 26, thanks.”

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SPEAKER: “Commence stage one disinfection.”

Rose got blasted, jumping back in shock. ‘Oh, I’m gonna kill him.’

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‘Oh, he’s gonna kill me.’

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“I can heal.” The flesh human said. “I have some supplies-”

“I need some Story damn peace and quiet, can I have that?” I snapped. The pain was getting worse, I reached into my bag and pulled out the Time Lord safe drugs I swiped from the TARDIS. The force grown man just stood around my makeshift medbay. “Are you just gonna stand there and watch?”

“Please, I can help.” The man stuttered. “Chip has knowledge on the medical supplies here.”

“And I’ve taken bullets out of me before.” I said, pulling out my medkit from my bag. “You just stand there and look pretty for me.”

The force grown clone blinked, confused. I used his distraction to get to work. I put on rubber gloves, and pulled out the various medical supplies I needed. It took a bit of work, but I was able to get the wound sterilized. Some more work, and a bit of twisting and turning, and the bullet popped out. It wasn’t that deep, thankfully, you could still see the back from the skin.

The bullet that killed the Master. I clenched it in my fist, shoving it into my pocket. It would’ve been easy to save him, but that meant changing The End of Time. He might not have had a failed regeneration, which meant he didn’t have the power to send the Time Lords back into the Time War. It hurt seeing him like that, but at the same time I couldn’t change it. If anything, I’d want to change Naismith’s end.

I pushed away that pain, focusing instead on my bullet wound. I had a new baby that needed me now, with the Doctor, just like we always hoped. Blythe would be safe with the Doctor-

Holy shit the next episode was Voyage of the Damned! Son of a bitch!

“I’m gonna kill him.” I grumbled, putting my hand over the wound. “If my baby gets anything worse than a papercut.”

My hand started to glow with golden regeneration energy. I winced as it left a slight burning sensation across my hand, and then my wound. Soon enough the hole in my stomach closed, I blew away the excess energy.

I shivered. “Woah. I just gave up five years. I can actually feel that I’ve lost five years.” Shaking my head, I pushed myself off the ground. “That’s a weird feeling. It’s like I’ve just sneezed really hard and my head is a bit spinny.”

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Cassandra: “I mean, you never know what your life is going to be like, ever. I’m bored with this drink. Anyway. Oh, hello darling! Now, don’t. Stop it.”

Terra: “No. No! No! I was just shot, I don’t need-”

Cassandra: “Peekaboo!”

Terra: “The trampoline of Platform One. Don’t you come anywhere near me, Cassandra.”

Cassandra: “Why? What do you think I’m going to do? Flap you to death?”

Terra: “Yeah, but what about Chip?”

Cassandra: “Oh he’s my pet.”

Chip: “I worship the mistress.”

Cassandra: “Moisturise me, moisturise me.”

(Chip sprays Cassandra.)

Cassandra: “He’s not even a proper life form. He’s a force grown clone. I modelled him on my favorite pattern. But he’s so faithful. Chip sees to my physical needs.”

Terra: “I hope that means food. How come you’re still alive?”

Cassandra: “After you murdered me.”

Terra: “That was your own fault.”

Chip: “The brain of my mistress survived. And her pretty blue eyes were salvaged from the bin.”

Terra: “What about the skin? I saw it. You got ripped apart.”

Cassandra: “That piece of skin was taken from the front of my body. This piece is the back.”

Terra: “Right! So you’re talking out of your a-”

Cassandra: “Ask not.”

“I always knew that you pulled your ideas out of there.” I laughed. “But to see it in real life.”

Chip: “The mistress was lucky to survive. Chip secreted m’lady into the hospital.”

Terra: “So they don’t know you’re here?”

Chip: “Chip steals medicine. Helps m’lady. Soothes her, strokes her.”

Terra: “I was really hoping she didn’t meant that kind of pet.”

Cassandra: “But I’m so alone, hidden down here. The last Human in existence.”

Terra: “Don’t start that again. They’ve called this planet New Earth, you useless flap of skin.”

Cassandra: “A vegetable patch.”

Terra: “And there’s millions of Humans out there. Millions of them.”

Cassandra: “Mutant stock.”

Terra: “They moved on, Cassandra. They just moved on, like they should. You stayed still. Now you’re here, in this rat nest, while they’re up there living their lives. What good did it do you?”

Cassandra: “Oh, I remember that night. Drinks for the Ambassador of Thrace. That was the last time anyone told me I was beautiful. After that it all became such hard work.”

Terra: “Well, you’ve got a knack for survival, I’ll give you that.”

Cassandra: “But I’ve not been idle, Terra, tucked away underneath this hospital. I’ve been listening. The Sisters are hiding something.”

Terra: “I already know.”

“What?”

“Rule Four. I know everything. These cats can’t hide from me anymore than a kite can hide from a breeze.”

Cassandra: “Oh these cats have secrets. Hush, let me whisper. Come close.”

Terra: “You must be joking if you think I’m coming anywhere near you.” (Energy grabs Terra’s hands, holding her still.)

Cassandra: “Chip, activate the psychograft.”

Terra: “I can’t move. Cassandra, let me go! What’re you doing?”

(Light streams down from a contraption overhead.) Cassandra: “The lady’s moving on. It’s goodbye trampoline, and hello beauty.”

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Rose glared at him. “I’m gonna kill you.” She growled. She whacked his arm. “Watch out for the disinfectant?”

The Doctor rubbed the sore mark on his arm. It was still sore from when she punched it in the hospital lobby. “Exactly. I told you about it.”

Rose rolled her eyes, then laughed. “Terra was right. You are rude.”

The Doctor: “Nice place. No shop, downstairs. I’d have a shop. Not a big one. Just a shop, so people can shop.”

(The nurse removes her veil.) Jatt: “The hospital is a place of healing.”

The Doctor: “A shop does some people the world of good. Not me. Other people.”

Jatt: “The Sisters of Plentitude take a lifelong vow to help, and to mend.”

(They pass an open cubicle.)

Clovis: “Excuse me! Members of the public may only gaze upon the Duke of Manhattan with written permission from the Senate of New New York.”

The Doctor: “That’s Petrifold Regression, right?”

Duke: “I’m dying, sir. A lifetime of charity and abstinence, and it ends like this.”

Clovis: “Any statements made by the Duke of Manhattan may not be made public without official clearance.”

Duke: “Frau Clovis! I’m so weak.”

Clovis: “Sister Jatt. A little privacy, please.”

Jatt: “He’ll be up and about in no time.”

The Doctor: “I doubt it. Petrifold Regression? He’s turning to stone. There won’t be a cure for oh, a thousand years? He might be up and about, but only as a statue.”

Jatt: “Have faith in the Sisterhood. But is there no one here you recognise? It’s rather unusual to visit without knowing the patient.”

The Doctor: “No, I think I’ve found him.”

“Oh my God. It can’t be.”

(A large face in a container by the picture window with a view of the city.)

Jatt: “Novice Hame, if I can leave this gentleman in your care?”

The Doctor: “Oh, I think my friend got lost. Terra Song. Could you ask at reception?”

Jatt: “Certainly, sir.” (Sister Jatt leaves.)

Hame: “I’m afraid the Face of Boe’s asleep. That’s all he tends to do these days. Are you a friend, or.”

The Doctor: “We met just the once on Platform One.”

“What’s wrong with him?” Rose asked, staring at the head sadly.

Hame: “I’m so sorry. I thought you knew. The Face of Boe is dying.”

The Doctor: “Of what?”

Hame: “Old age. The one thing we can’t cure. He’s thousands of years old. Some people say millions, although that’s impossible.”

The Doctor: “Oh, I don’t know. I like impossible. I’m here. I look a bit different, but it’s me, It’s the Doctor.”

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TANNOY: “Hope, harmony and health. Hope, harmony and health.”

(The Doctor brings Hame a cup of water.)

Hame: “That’s very kind. There’s no need.”

The Doctor: “You’re the one working.”

Hame: “There’s not much to do, just maintain his smoke. And I suppose I’m company. I can hear him singing, sometimes, in my mind. Such ancient songs.”

The Doctor: “Am I the only visitor?”

Hame: “The rest of Boe-kind became extinct long ago. He’s the only one left. Legend says that the Face of Boe has watched the universe grow old. There’s all sorts of superstitions around him. One story says that just before his death, the Face of Boe will impart his great secret, that he will speak those words only to those like himself.”

The Doctor: “What does that mean?”

Hame: “It’s just a story.”

The Doctor: “Tell me the rest.”

Hame: “It’s said he’ll talk to the wanderers. To the man without a home, and to the woman without roots. The empty Goddess and the lonely God.”

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Cassandra: “Look at me. From class to brass. Although, oh, curves. Oh, baby, it’s like living inside a bouncy castle!”

Chip: “The mistress is beautiful.”

Cassandra: “Absolutement! Oh, but look.” (The equipment that had been keeping flat Cassandra alive is fried.)

Chip: “Oh, the brain lead expired. My old mistress is gone.”

Cassandra: “But safe and sound in here.”

Chip: “But what of the Terra child’s mind?”

Cassandra: “Oh, tucked away. I can just about access the surface memory. She’s. Gosh, she’s with the Doctor. A man. He’s the Doctor. The same Doctor with a new face. That hypocrite! I must get the name of his surgeon. I could do with a little work. Although.” Cassandra cupped the breasts. “She’s at least got something in the front. Hmm.”

(The phone in Terra’s back pocket rings.) Cassandra: “Oh, it seems to be ringing. Is it meant to ring?”

Chip: “A primitive communications device.”

The Doctor: “Terra, where are you right now?”

Cassandra: “How does she speak?”

Chip: “Old Earth American.”

Cassandra: “Er, waz up?”

The Doctor: “Are you on New Earth? We’re in Ward 26 of the hospital.”

Cassandra: “I’m on my way, dude. I’m, like, coming now.”

The Doctor: “You’ll never guess. I’m with the Face of Boe. Have you met him yet?”

Cassandra: “Like, duh. That big old.” “Face.”

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The Doctor: “I’d better go. See you in a minute.”

Duke: “Didn’t think I was going to make it. It’s that man again! He’s my good luck charm. Come in. Don’t be shy.”

Clovis: “Any friendship expressed by the Duke of Manhattan does not constitute a form of legal contract.”

Duke: “Winch me up. Up! Look at me. No sign of infection.”

WAITER: “Champagne, sir?”

The Doctor: “No, thanks. You had Petrifold Regression, right?”

Duke: “That being the operative word. Past tense. Completely cured.”

The Doctor: “But that’s impossible.”

Casp: “Primitive species would accuse us of magic, but it’s merely the tender application of science.”

The Doctor: “How on Earth did you cure him?”

Casp: “How on New Earth, you might say.”

The Doctor: “What’s in that solution?”

Casp: “A simple remedy.”

The Doctor: “Then tell me what it is.”

Casp: “I’m sorry. Patient confidentiality. I don’t believe we’ve met. My name is Matron Casp.”

The Doctor: “I’m the Doctor.”

Casp: “I think you’ll find that we’re the doctors here.”

Jatt: “Matron Casp, you’re needed in Intensive Care.”

Casp: “If you would excuse me.”

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Chip: “This Doctor man is dangerous.”

Cassandra: “Dangerous and clever. I might need a mind like his. The Sisterhood is up to something. Remember that Old Earth saying, never trust a Nun? Never trust a Nurse. And never trust a cat. Perfume?”

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TANNOY: “Ambient temperature stands at fourteen degrees. This temperature is designed to promote healing and well-being.”

(The Doctor is going round all the cubicles. One has a person floating in midair.)

The Doctor: “There you are. Come and look at this patient. Marconi’s Disease. Should take years to recover. Two days. I’ve never seen anything like it. They’ve invented a cell washing cascade. It’s amazing. Their medical science is way advanced. And this one.”

(An man as white as his bed gown.)

The Doctor: “Pallidome Pancrosis. Kills you in ten minutes, and he’s fine. I need to find a terminal. I’ve got to see how they do this. Because if they’ve got the best medicine in the world, then why is it such a secret?”

Cassandra: “I can’t, like, believe it.”

The Doctor: “What’s, what’s. what’s with the voice?”

Cassandra: “Oh, I don’t know. Just larking about. New Earth, new me.”

The Doctor: “Well, I can talk. New New Doctor.”

Cassandra: “Mmm, aren’t you just.”

Rose’s jaw dropped.

(Cassandra grabs the Doctor and kisses him, long and hard.) Cassandra: “Terminal’s this way. Phew.”

The Doctor: “Yep, still got it.”

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The Doctor: “Nope, nothing odd. Surgery, post-op, nano-dentistry. No sign of a shop. They should have a shop.”

Cassandra: “No, it’s missing something else. When I was downstairs, those Nurse Cat Nuns were talking about Intensive Care. Where is it?”

The Doctor: “You’re right. Well done.”

“What about the-” Rose began.

“Quiet Rose, the grown ups are talking.” Cassandra scolded. Rose flinched back at the use of her real name. Had Terra ever called her by that? “Why would they hide a whole department? It’s got to be there somewhere. Search the sub-frame.

The Doctor: “What if the sub-frame’s locked?”

Cassandra: “Try the installation protocol.”

The Doctor: “Yeah. Of course. Sorry. Hold on.” (He uses the sonic screwdriver on the interface, and the whole wall slides down to reveal a corridor.)

The Doctor: “Intensive Care. Certainly looks intensive.”

(Their actions are noticed by Novice Hame.)

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Cassandra: “That’s disgusting. What’s wrong with him?”

The Doctor: “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.”

(The Doctor closes the door and moves on to the next. It contains a young woman.) Cassandra: “What disease is that?”

The Doctor: “All of them. Every single disease in the galaxy. They’ve been infected with everything.”

Cassandra: “What about us? Are we safe?”

The Doctor: “The air’s sterile. Just don’t touch them.” (He closes the door.)

Cassandra: “How many patients are there?”

The Doctor: “They’re not patients.”

Cassandra: “But they’re sick.”

The Doctor: “They were born sick. They’re meant to be sick. They exist to be sick. Lab rats. No wonder the Sisters have got a cure for everything. They’ve built the ultimate research laboratory. A human farm.”

Cassandra: “Why don’t they just die?”

The Doctor: “Plague carriers. The last to go.”

Hame: “It’s for the greater cause.”

The Doctor: “Novice Hame, When you took your vows, did you agree to this?”

Hame: “The Sisterhood has sworn to help.”

The Doctor: “What, by killing?”

Hame: “But they’re not real people. They’re specially grown. They have no proper existence.”

The Doctor: “What’s the turnover, hmm? Thousand a day? Thousand the next? Thousand the next? How many thousands? For how many years? How many!”

Hame: “Mankind needed us. They came to this planet with so many illnesses. We couldn’t cope. We did try. We tried everything. We tried using clone-meat and bio-cattle, but the results were too slow, so the Sisterhood grew its own flesh. That’s all they are. Flesh.”

The Doctor: “These people are alive.”

Hame: “But think of those Humans out there, healthy and happy, because of us.”

The Doctor: “If they live because of this, then life is worthless.”

Hame: “But who are you to decide that?”

The Doctor: “I’m the Doctor. And if you don’t like it, if you want to take it to a higher authority, then there isn’t one. It stops with me.”

Cassandra: “Just to confirm. None of the humans in the city actually know about this?”

Hame: “We thought it best not.”

The Doctor: “Hold on. I can understand the bodies. I can understand your vows. One thing I can’t understand. What have you done to Terra?”

Hame: “I don’t know what you mean.”

The Doctor: “And I’m being very, very calm. You want to be aware of that. Very, very calm. And the only reason I’m being so very, very calm is that the brain is a delicate thing. Whatever you’ve done to Terra’s head, I want it reversed.”

Hame: “We haven’t done anything.”

Cassandra: “I’m perfectly fine.”

The Doctor: “She didn’t tell me what number she was on. That’s her way of saying hello. She called Rose by her name, and she never does that. And these people are dying, and as much as people think otherwise, Terra would care.”

Cassandra: “Oh, all right, clever clogs. Smarty pants. Lady-killer.”

The Doctor: “What’s happened to you?”

Cassandra: “I knew something was going on in this hospital, but I needed this body and your mind to find it out.”

The Doctor: “Who are you?”

Cassandra: “The last human.”

The Doctor: “Cassandra?”

Cassandra: “Wake up and smell the perfume.” (She squirts the vial up his nose, and he passes out.)

Hame: “You’ve hurt him. I don’t understand. I’ll have to fetch Matron.”

Cassandra: “You do that, because I want to see her. Now, run along. Sound the alarm!”

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The Doctor: “Let me out! Let me out!”

Cassandra: “Aren’t you lucky there was a spare? Standing room only.”

The Doctor saw the grin and hated it. He had seen Terra’s smile. It made everything part of her come alive. It made her eyes glow like sunshine. “You’ve stolen Terra’s body.”

Cassandra: “Over the years, I’ve thought of a thousand ways to kill you, Doctor. And now, that’s exactly what I’ve got. One thousand diseases. They pump the patients with a top-up every ten minutes. You’ve got about three minutes left. Enjoy.”

The Doctor: “Just let Terra go, Cassandra.”

Cassandra: “And waste such a perfect opportunity? I’m gorgeous. She’s a Queen. I could rule an entire bloody country with this.

Now hushaby. It’s showtime.”

Jatt: “Anything we can do to help?”

Cassandra: “Straight to the point, Whiskers. I want money.”

Casp: “The Sisterhood is a charity. We don’t give money. We only accept.”

Cassandra: “The humans across the water pay you a fortune, and that’s exactly what I need. A one-off payment, that’s all I want. Oh, and perhaps a yacht. In return for which, I shall tell the city nothing of your institutional murder. Is that a deal?”

Casp: “I’m afraid not.”

Cassandra: “I’d really advise you to think about this.”

Casp: “Oh, there’s no need. I have to decline.”

Cassandra: “I’ll tell them, and you’ve no way of stopping me. You’re not exactly Nuns with Guns. You’re not even armed.”

Casp: “Who needs arms when we have claws?” (Matron unsheathes her claws.)

Cassandra: “Well, nice try. Chip? Plan B.”

(Chip pulls a lever, and all the doors on that level open. The Doctor comes out along with a lot of dazed, diseased people.)

The Doctor: “What’ve you done?”

Cassandra: “Gave the system a shot of adrenaline, just to wake them up. See you!”

The Doctor: “Don’t touch them! Whatever you do, don’t touch!”

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Cassandra: “Oh, my God.”

The Doctor: “What the hell have you done?”

Cassandra: “It wasn’t me.”

The Doctor: “One touch and you get every disease in the world, and I want that body safe, Cassandra. We’ve got to go down.”

Cassandra: “But there’s thousands of them!”

The Doctor: “Run! Down! Down! Go down!”

TANNOY: “This building is under quarantine. Repeat, this building is under quarantine. No one may leave the premises. Repeat, no one may leave the premises.”

The Doctor: “Keep going! Go down!”

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The Doctor: “No, the lifts have closed down. That’s the quarantine. Nothing’s moving.”

Cassandra: “This way!”

(She leads the Doctor towards her lair. Chip gets cut off from them as more people approach.)

The Doctor: “Someone will touch him.”

Cassandra: “Leave him! He’s just a clone thing. He’s only got a half life. Come on!”

Chip: “Mistress!”

The Doctor: “I’m sorry, I can’t let her escape.”

Chip: “My Mistress!”

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Cassandra: “We’re trapped! What am I going to do?”

The Doctor: “Well, for starters, you’re going to leave that body. That psychograft is banned on every civilised planet. You’re compressing Terra to death.”

Cassandra: “But I’ve got nowhere to go. My original skin’s dead.”

The Doctor: “Not my problem. You can float as atoms in the air. Now, get out. Give her back to me.”

Cassandra: “You asked for it.” (Cassandra take a deep breath and blows energy out to the Doctor.)

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Terra: “Imma kill that trampoline.” I garbled, sitting up. “76!”

“Terra!” Rose’s voice cheered.

Cassandra: “Oh, my. This is different.”

Rose: “Cassandra?”

Cassandra: “Goodness me, I’m a man. Yum. So many parts. And hardly used. Oh, oh, two hearts! Oh, baby, I’m beating out a samba!”

Rose: “Get out of him.”

Cassandra: “Oo, he’s slim, and a little bit foxy. You’ve thought so too. I’ve been inside your head. You’ve been looking. You like it.” (The diseased people burst in.) Cassandra: “What do we do? What would he do? The Doctor, what the hell would he do?”

Rose: “Ladder. We’ve got to get up.”

Cassandra: “Out of the way, blondie!”

WOMAN: “Please, help us. Help.”

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Rose: “If you get out of the Doctor’s body, he can think of something.”

Cassandra: “Yap, yap, yap. God, it was tedious inside your head. Hormone city.”

Rose: “We’re going to die if-”

“Biscuits!” Terra grunted, kicking at the cat. “Get off me!”

CASP: “All our good work. All that healing. The good name of the Sisterhood. You have destroyed everything.”

Cassandra: “Go and play with a ball of string.”

CASP: “Everywhere, disease. This is the human world. Sickness!”

(A diseased arm reaches up and grasps Casp’s ankle. She falls, screaming.)

Rose: “Move!”

TANNOY: “Maximum quarantine. Divert all shuttles.”

(The doors on the next level will not open.)

MAN: “Help us.”

Cassandra: “Now what do we do?”

Rose: “Use the sonic screwdriver.”

Cassandra: “You mean this thing?”

Rose: “Yes, I mean that thing.”

Cassandra: “Well, I don’t know how. That Doctor’s hidden away all his thoughts.”

Terra: “Cassandra, go back into me. The Doctor can open it. Do it!”

Cassandra: “Hold on tight.”

(The energy transfers.) Cassandra: “Oh, chavtastic again. Open it!”

The Doctor: “Not till you get out of her.”

Cassandra: “We need the Doctor.”

The Doctor: “I order you to leave her.”

(So Cassandra swaps back again.)

Cassandra: “No matter how difficult the situation, there is no need to shout.”

Rose: “Cassandra, get out of him!”

Cassandra: “But I can’t go into either of you, he simply refuses. He’s so rude.”

Terra: “I don’t care. Just do something.”

Cassandra: “Oh, I am so going to regret this.”

(Cassandra transfers to the lead woman on the ladder below them.)

Cassandra: “Oh, sweet Lord. I look disgusting.”

(The Doctor opens the lift doors.)

The Doctor: “(to Terra) Nice to have you back.”

Cassandra: “No, you don’t.” She jumped inside of Rose.

The Doctor: “That was your last warning, Cassandra!”

Cassandra: “Inside her head. They’re so alone. They keep reaching out, just to hold us. All their lives and they’ve never been touched.”

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Terra

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The Doctor: “We’re safe! We’re safe! We’re safe! We’re clean! We’re clean! Look, look.”

Clovis: “Show me your skin.”

The Doctor: Look, clean. Look, if we’d been touched, we’d be dead. So how’s it going up here? What’s the status?”

Clovis: “There’s nothing but silence from the other wards. I think we’re the only ones left. And I’ve been trying to override the quarantine. If I can trip a signal over to New New York, they can send a private executive squad.”

The Doctor: “You can’t do that. If they forced entry, they’d break quarantine.”

Clovis: “I am not dying in here.”

The Doctor: “We can’t let a single particle of disease get out. There is ten million people in that city. They’d all be at risk. Now, turn that off!”

Clovis: “Not if it gets me out.”

The Doctor: “All right, fine. So I have to stop you lot as well. Suits me. Rose, novice Hame, everyone! Excuse me, your Grace. Get me intravenous solutions for every single disease. Move it!”

(Everyone grabs drip bags while the Doctor collects a long piece of heavy silk rope and starts hanging them on his body.)

The Doctor: “How’s that? Will that do?”

Cassandra: “I don’t know. Will it do for what?”

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Cassandra: “The lifts aren’t working.”

The Doctor: “Not moving. Different thing. Here we go.” (He puts the sonic screwdriver between his teeth and runs.)

Cassandra: “But you’re not going to-” (He jumps and grabs the lift cable.) Cassandra: “What do you think you’re doing?”

The Doctor: “I’m going down! Come on!” (He attaches a round piece of equipment to the cable.)

Cassandra: “Not in a million years.”

The Doctor: “I need another pair of hands. What do you think? If you’re so desperate to stay alive, why don’t you live a little?”

FRAU Clovis: “Seal the door!”

(Cassandra is trapped with approaching disease.) Cassandra: “No!” Cassandra: “You’re completely mad. I can see why she likes you.”

The Doctor: “Going down!”

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Cassandra: “Well, that’s one way to lose weight.”

The Doctor: “Now, listen. When I say so, take hold of that lever.”

Cassandra: “There’s still a quarantine down there, we can’t-”

The Doctor: “Hold that lever! I’m cooking up a cocktail. I know a bit about medicine myself.” (The Doctor pours the contents of the drip bags into the lift’s disinfectant tank.) The Doctor: “Now, that lever’s going to resist. But keep it in position. Hold onto it with everything you’ve got.”

Cassandra: “What about you?”

The Doctor: “I’ve got an appointment. The Doctor is in.”

The Doctor: “I’m in here! Come on!”

Cassandra: “Don’t tell them.”

The Doctor: “Pull that lever!”

(All the diseased people in hotel reception start to shuffle towards the lift.)

The Doctor: “Come and get me. Come on!” The Doctor: “I’m in here! Come on!”

TANNOY: “Commence stage one disinfection.”

The Doctor: “Hurry up! Come on!” (The contents of the disinfectant tank are poured onto him.) The Doctor: “Come on, come on.” (The first of the humans join him, and get sprayed as well, then leave.) The Doctor: “All they want to do is pass it on. Pass it on!”

Cassandra: “Pass on what? Pass on what?”

The Doctor: “Pass it on!”

Cassandra: “What did they pass on? Did you kill them? All of them?”

The Doctor: “No. That’s your way of doing things.”

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The Doctor: “I’m the Doctor, and I cured them.”

(A woman hugs the Doctor.)

The Doctor: “That’s right. Hey, there we go, sweetheart. Go to him. Go on, that’s it. That’s it. It’s a new sub-species, Cassandra. A brand new form of life. New humans! Look at them. Look! Grown by cats, kept in the dark, fed by tubes, but completely, completely alive. You can’t deny them, because you helped create them. The human race just keeps on going, keeps on changing. Life will out! Ha!”

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The Doctor: “You were supposed to be dying.”

Face of Boe: “There are better things to do today. Dying can wait.”

Cassandra: “Oh, I hate telepathy. Just what I need, a head full of big face.”

The Doctor: “Shh! “

Face of Boe: “I have grown tired with the universe, Doctor, but you have taught me to look at it anew.”

The Doctor: “There are legends, you know, saying that you’re millions of years old.”

Face of Boe: “There are? That would be impossible.”

The Doctor: “Wouldn’t it just. I got the impression there was something you wanted to tell me.”

Face of Boe: “A great secret.”

The Doctor: “So the legend says.”

Face of Boe: “It can wait.”

The Doctor: “Oh, does it have to?”

Face of Boe: “We shall meet again, Doctor, for the third time, for the last time, and the truth shall be told. Until that day.”

The Doctor: “That is enigmatic. That, that is, that is textbook enigmatic. And now for you.”

Cassandra: “But everything’s happy. Everything’s fine. Can’t you just leave me?”

The Doctor: “You’ve lived long enough. Leave that body and end it, Cassandra.”

Cassandra: “I don’t want to die.”

The Doctor: “No one does.”

Cassandra: “Help me.”

The Doctor: “I can’t.”

Chip: “Mistress!”

Cassandra: “Oh, you’re alive.”

Chip: “I kept myself safe for you, mistress.”

Cassandra: “A body. And not just that, a volunteer.”

The Doctor: “Don’t you dare. He’s got a life of his own.”

Chip: “But I worship the mistress. I welcome her.”

The Doctor: “You can’t, Cassandra, you-”

(The energy transfer takes place and Rose collapses into the Doctor’s arms.)

The Doctor: “Oh! You all right? Whoa! Okay?”

Rose: “Yeah. Hello!”

The Doctor: “Hello. Welcome back.”

Cassandra: “Oh, sweet Lord. I’m a walking doodle.”

The Doctor: “You can’t stay in there. I’m sorry, Cassandra, but that’s not fair. I can take you to the city. They can build you a skin tank and you can stand trial for what you’ve done.”

Cassandra: “Well, that would be rather dramatic. Possibly my finest hour, and certainly my finest hat, but I’m afraid we don’t have time. Poor little Chip is only a half-life, and he’s been through so much. His heart is racing so. He’s failing. I don’t think he’s going to last.”

(Cassandra falls to her knees.) The Doctor: “Are you alright?”

Cassandra: “I’m fine. I’m dying, but that’s fine.”

The Doctor: “I can take you to the city.”

Cassandra: “No, you won’t. Everything’s new on this planet. There’s no place for Chip and me any more. You’re right, Doctor. It’s time to die, and that’s good.”

The Doctor: “Come on. There’s one last thing I can do.”

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Younger Cassandra: “Oh no, don’t. Stop it. Simply not true. Tiny. The beaches were so dismal, and the mosquitoes were-”

Cassandra: “Thank you.”

The Doctor: “Just go. And don’t look back.”

Rose: “Good luck.”

Younger Cassandra: “And if you actually see them, you’re shocked. But don’t quote me on that. Oh, naughty. À bientôt!”

Older Cassandra: “Excuse me, Lady Cassandra.”

Younger Cassandra: “I’m sorry, I don’t need anything right now. I’m fine, thank you.”

Older Cassandra: “No, I just wanted to say you look beautiful.”

Younger Cassandra: “Well, that’s very kind, you strange little thing. Thank you very much.”

Older Cassandra: “I mean it. You look so beautiful.”

Younger Cassandra: “Thank you.” (Chip’s body collapses. Lady Cassandra cradles him.) Younger Cassandra: “Oh, my Lord. Are you alright? What is it? What’s wrong? Someone get some help! Call a medic or something, quickly!”

WOMAN: “Who is he?”

Younger Cassandra: “I don’t know. He just came up to me. I don’t even know his name. He just collapsed. I think he’s dying. Someone do something! I’ve got you, sweetheart. It’s all right. There you are. There you are, I’ve got you. It’ll be alright. There, there, you poor little thing.”

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“There is just one more little thing that needs to be straightened out.

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“That.” I panted. The Doctor looked nearly as shocked as Rose did. “Is how Terra’s do it. Make note of it, there will be a test.”

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