Full Circle

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“Terra!” A voice cheered.

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“99.” I shrugged.

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Rose: “Mum, it’s us! We’re back!”

Jackie: “Oh, I don’t know why you bother with that phone. You never use it!”

Rose: “Shut up, come here!”

Jackie: “Oh, I love you!”

Rose: “I love you!”

Jackie: “I love you so much!”

(Jackie and Rose hug. The Doctor makes his way past.)

Jackie: “Oh no, you don’t. Come here!” (Jackie kisses the Doctor.) Jackie: “Oh, you lovely big fella! Oh, you’re all mine.”

The Doctor: “Just, just, just put me down!”

Jackie: “Yes, you are.”

(Rose hands over her rucksack.) Rose: “I’ve got loads of washing for you. And I got you this.” (A small ornate metal nick-nack.) Rose: “It’s from the market on this asteroid bazaar. It’s made of, er, what’s it called?”

The Doctor: “Bazoolium.”

Rose: “Bazoolium. When it gets cold, yeah, it means it’s going to rain. When it’s hot, it’s going to be sunny. You can use it to tell the weather.”

Jackie: “I’ve got a surprise for you and all.”

Rose: “Oh, I get her bazoolium, she doesn’t even say thanks.”

Jackie: “Guess who’s coming to visit? You’re just in time. He’ll be here at ten past. Who do you think it is?”

Rose: “I don’t know.”

Jackie: “Oh go on, guess.”

Rose: “No, I hate guessing. Just tell me.”

Jackie: “It’s your granddad. Granddad Prentice. He’s on his way any minute, Right, cup of tea!” (Jackie goes into the kitchen.)

Rose: “She’s gone mad.”

The Doctor: “Tell me something new.”

Rose: “Granddad Prentice, that’s her dad. But he died, like, ten years ago. Oh, my God. She’s lost it. Mum? What you just said about granddad.”

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I gasped, clutching onto my wrist. It burned, it burned like it hadn’t in a long time.

Jackie: “Any second now.”

Rose: “But he passed away. His heart gave out. Do you remember that?”

Jackie: “Of Course I do.”

Rose: “Then how can he come back?”

Jackie: “Why don’t you ask him yourself? Ten past. Here he comes.”

(An ethereal humanoid shape walks through the outside wall and stands next to Jackie.)

Jackie: “Here we are, then. Dad, say hello to Rose. Ain’t she grown?”

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(The Doctor and Rose run out of the block of flats.)

The Doctor: “They’re everywhere!”

(And no one is alarmed at the sight of them.)

Rose: “Doctor, look out!”

(One of the shapes walks through the Doctor. It is not a comfortable sensation.)

Jackie: “They haven’t got long. Mid Day shift only lasts a couple of minutes. They’re about to fade.”

The Doctor: “What do you mean, shift? Since when did ghosts have shifts? Since when did shifts have ghosts? What’s going on?”

Jackie: “Oh, he’s not happy when I know more than him, is he?”

The Doctor: “But no one’s running or screaming or freaking out.”

Jackie: “Why should we? Here we go. Twelve minutes past.”

“Terra!” The Doctor shouted.

My eyes shut, and I felt the Tyler’s carpet on my face.

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This was embarrassing. Sick on the job.

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“Terra?” A concerned voice asked.

I looked up, seeing Rose standing at the bedside. “Did I eat your mother’s cooking again?” I joked, weakly.

Rose didn’t find it funny. “You almost died. You had us all worried!”

“Meh, I almost died yesterday.” I said, remembering the Teller and Karabraxos. “What made today so special?” I hopped out of the bed, snapping my fingers in Rose’s face. “Ghosts.”

With the dramatics done for now, I walked out of the room to see the Doctor watching the news.

“You should go back to bed!” Rose said.

“I’ll do what I like.” I said, keeping my eyes on the TV.

The Doctor glanced up at me, then back to the news station. “Rose is right, Terra. You should relax. Take this one off.”

“I’m too stubborn to die.” I said. “Not from lack of trying, mind you.”

Jackie: “Oh, yes.”

The Doctor: “It’s all over the world.”

(Eastenders.) PEGGY: “Listen to me, Den Watts. I don’t care if you have come back from the grave. Get outta my pub! The only spirits I’m serving in this place are gin, whisky and vodka. So, you heard me. Get out!”

(The Doctor turns the TV off.)  The Doctor: “When did it start?”

Jackie: “Well, first of all, Peggy heard this noise in the cellar, so she goes down”

The Doctor: “No, I mean worldwide.”

Jackie: “Oh. That was about two months ago. Just happened. Woke up one morning, and there they all were. Ghosts, everywhere. We all ran round screaming and that. Whole planet was panicking. No sign of you, thank you very much. Then it sort of sank in. It took us time to realise that we’re lucky.”

Rose: “What makes you think it’s granddad?”

Jackie: “It just feels like him. There’s that smell, those old cigarettes. Can’t you smell it?”

Rose: “I wish I could, mum, but I can’t.”

Jackie: “You’ve got to make an effort. You’ve got to want it, sweetheart.”

The Doctor: “The more you want it, the stronger it gets.”

Jackie: “Sort of, yeah.”

The Doctor: “Like a psychic link. Of course you want your old dad to be alive, but you’re wishing him into existence. The ghosts are using that to pull themselves in.”

Jackie: “You’re spoiling it.”

The Doctor: “I’m sorry, Jackie, but there’s no smell, there’s no cigarettes. Just a memory.”

Rose: “But if they’re not ghosts, what are they then?”

Jackie: “Yeah, but they’re human! You can see them. They look human.”

Rose: “She’s got a point. I mean, they’re all sort of blurred, but they’re definitely people.”

The Doctor: “Maybe not. They’re pressing themselves into the surface of the world. But a footprint doesn’t look like a boot.”

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Rose: “According to the paper, they’ve elected a ghost as MP for Leeds. Now don’t tell me you’re going to sit back and do nothing.”

(The Doctor pops up from below the console floor wearing a backpack and holding a hose pipe like device.)

The Doctor: “Who you going to call?”

Rose: “Ghostbusters!”

The Doctor: “I ain’t afraid of no ghosts.”

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The Doctor: “When’s the next shift?”

(The Doctor puts three metal cones linked by wires on the grass.)

Jackie: “Quarter to. But don’t go causing trouble. What’s that lot do?”

The Doctor: “Triangulates their point of origin.”

Rose: “I don’t suppose it’s the Gelth?”

The Doctor: “Nah. They were just coming through one little rift. This lot are transposing themselves over the whole planet. Like tracing paper.”

Jackie: “You’re always doing this. Reducing it to science. Why can’t it be real? Just think of it, though. All the people we’ve lost. Our families coming back home. Don’t you think it’s beautiful?”

The Doctor: “I think it’s horrific. Rose, give us a hand.@

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My stomach lurched again. I let out a grunt of pain.

Jackie gently touched my arm. “Sweetheart, are you okay?”

I nodded. “Yeah, just feeling kinda sick.”

The Doctor gave me a sad look, then got back to work.

Rose held my shoulder. “You sure you’re alright?”

I rolled my eyes. “Yes! Fine! Just a little dizzy spell. It’s nothing.”

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(They plug the power cable into the TARDIS console. Jackie follows them in and closes the door. Neat trick with such a thick cable running through it.)

The Doctor: “As soon as the cones activate, if that line goes into the red, press that button there. If it doesn’t stop-”

(He hands her the sonic screwdriver.)

The Doctor: “Setting fifteen B. Hold it against the port, eight seconds and stop.”

Rose: “Fifteen B, eight seconds.”

The Doctor: “If it goes into the blue, activate the deep scan on the left.”

Rose: “Hang on a minute, I know. Push that one.”

The Doctor: “Close.”

Rose: “That one?”

The Doctor: “Now you’ve just killed us.”

Rose: “Er, that one.”

The Doctor: “Yeah! Now, what’ve we got. Two minutes to go?”

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(The Doctor activates the cones.) The Doctor: “What’s the line doing?”

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Rose: “It’s all right. It’s holding!”

Jackie: “You even look like him.”

Rose: “How do you mean? I suppose I do, yeah.”

“And there’s my cue to leave.” I walked out of the TARDIS, away from the Tyler domestic.

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The Doctor glanced over his shoulder, making sure Rose and Jackie weren’t listening. “You have a baby on the way. The last shift could have killed you.”

“Firstly, never assume I’d endanger my child’s life that easily. Secondly, I know what to expect this time so I can prepare.” I argued. “Lasty, I don’t exactly have a say in the matter.”

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“Doc. Shift.” I panted, trying to keep my head from spinning.

The Doctor: ”Here we go!”

Rose: “The scanner’s working. It says delta one six.”

The Doctor: “Come on then, you beauty!”

(In the playground, a ghost appears between the cones, and gets trapped. Jackie and Rose watch it on the scanner. The Doctor puts on a pair of red and blue 3D cardboard spectacles and makes an adjustment to his control box. An alarm sounds in the Institute.)

(The ghost is starting to writhe inside the field.)

The Doctor: “Don’t like that much, do you? Who are you? Where are you coming from? Whoa!”

(The ghost tries to break out of the field.)

The Doctor: “That’s more like it! Not so friendly now, are you?”

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The Doctor: “I said so! Those ghosts have been forced into existence from one specific point, and I can track down the source. Allonsy!”

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The Doctor: “I like that. Allons y. I should say allons y more often. Allons y. Watch out, Rose Tyler. Allonsy. And then, it would be really brilliant if I met someone called Alonso, because then I could say, allonsy, Alonso, every time. You’re both staring at me.”

Rose: ”My mum’s still on board.”

Jackie: “If we end up on Mars, I’m going to kill you.”

(The TARDIS materialises in Torchwood Loading Bay 2, and is immediately surrounded by armed troops. The Doctor watches them on the scanner.)

The Doctor: “Oh well there goes the advantage of surprise. Still, cuts to the chase. Stay in here, look after Jackie.”

Rose: “I’m not looking after my mum.”

The Doctor: “Well, you brought her.”

Jackie: “I was kidnapped!”

Rose: “Doctor, they’ve got guns.”

The Doctor: “And I haven’t. Which makes me the better person, don’t you think? They can shoot me dead, but the moral high ground is mine.”

(The Doctor steps outside and raises his arms. Yvonne runs in on her high heels.)

Yvonne: “Oh! Oh, how marvellous. Oh, very good. Superb. Happy day.”

(She starts clapping and the soldiers join in. The Doctor lowers his arms.)

The Doctor: “Er, thanks. Nice to meet you. I’m the Doctor.”

Yvonne: “Oh, I should say. Hurray!”

The Doctor: “You, you’ve heard of me, then?”

Yvonne: “Well of course we have. And I have to say, if it wasn’t for you, none of us would be here. The Doctor and the TARDIS.”

(More applause.)

The Doctor: “And you are?”

Yvonne: “Oh, plenty of time for that. But according to the records, you’re not one for travelling alone. The Doctor and his companion. That’s a pattern, isn’t it, right? There’s no point hiding anything. Not from us. So where is she?”

The Doctor: “Yes. Sorry. Good point. She’s just a bit shy, that’s all.”

(The Doctor reaches in through the slightly open door and grabs the first person he can.) The Doctor: “But here she is, Rose Tyler.”

(Oh no it isn’t.)

The Doctor: “Hmm. She’s not the best I’ve ever had. Bit too blonde. Not too steady on her pins. A lot of that.”

The Doctor: “And just last week, she stared into the heart of the Time Vortex and aged fifty seven years. But she’ll do.”

Jackie: “I’m forty.”

The Doctor: “Deluded. Bless. I’ll have to trade her in. Do you need anyone? She’s very good at tea. Well, I say very good, I mean not bad. Well, I say not bad. Anyway, lead on. Allons y. But not too fast. Her ankle’s going.”

Jackie: “(sotto) I’ll show you where my ankle’s going.”

Yvonne: “It was only a matter of time until you found us, and at last you’ve made it. I’d like to welcome you, Doctor. Welcome to Torchwood.”

(A massive warehouse area, with lots of crates, jeeps and trucks running around, and a flying saucer.)

The Doctor: “That’s a Jathar Sunglider.”

Yvonne: “Came down to Earth off the Shetland Islands ten years ago.”

The Doctor: “What, did it crash?”

Yvonne: “No, we shot it down. It violated our airspace. Then we stripped it bare. The weapon that destroyed the Sycorax on Christmas Day? That was us. Now, if you’d like to come with me. The Torchwood Institute has a motto. If it’s alien, it’s ours. Anything that comes from the sky, we strip it down and we use it for the good of the British Empire.”

Jackie: “For the good of the what?”

Yvonne: “The British Empire.”

Jackie: “There isn’t a British Empire.”

Yvonne: “Not yet. Ah, excuse me. Now, if you wouldn’t mind.” (A soldier hands Yvonne a very big gun.) Yvonne: “Do you recognise this, Doctor?”

The Doctor: “That’s a particle gun.”

Yvonne: “Good, isn’t it? Took us eight years to get it to work.”

The Doctor: “It’s the twenty first century. You can’t have particle guns.”

Yvonne: “We must defend our border against the alien. Thank you, Sebastian, isn’t it?”

SEBASTIAN: “Yes, Ma’am.”

Yvonne: “Thank you, Sebastian. I think it’s very important to know everyone by name. Torchwood is a very modern organisation. People skills. That’s what it’s all about these days. I’m a people person.”

The Doctor: “Have you got anyone called Alonso?”

Yvonne: “No, I don’t think so. Is that important?”

The Doctor: “No, I suppose not. What was your name?”

Yvonne: “Yvonne. Yvonne Hartman.”

(The Doctor picks up a black plastic step-stool with a handle on top.)

Yvonne: “Ah, yes. Now, we’re rather fond of these. The Magnaclamp. Found in a spaceship buried at the base of Mount Snowdon. Attach this to an object and it cancels the mass. I could use it to lift two tonnes of weight with a single hand. That’s an imperial ton, by the way. Torchwood refuses to go metric.”

Jackie: “I could do with that to carry the shopping.”

Yvonne: “All these devices are for Torchwood’s benefit, not the general public’s.”

The Doctor: “So, what about these ghosts?”

Yvonne: “Ah yes, the ghosts. They’re er what you might call a side effect.”

The Doctor: “Of what?”

Yvonne: “All in good time, Doctor. There is an itinerary, trust me.”

(The TARDIS is driven past on the back of a truck.)

Jackie: “Oi! Where are you taking that?”

Yvonne: “If it’s alien, it’s ours.”

The Doctor: “You’ll never get inside it.”

Yvonne: “Hmm! Et cetera.”

(Rose peeks out of the TARDIS. The Doctor gives her a little nod.)

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The Doctor: “All those times I’ve been on Earth, I’ve never heard of you.”

Yvonne: “But of course not. You’re the enemy. You’re actually named in the Torchwood Foundation Charter of 1879 as an enemy of the Crown.”

The Doctor: “1879. That was called Torchwood, that house in Scotland.”

Yvonne: “That’s right. Where you encountered Queen Victoria and the werewolf.”

Jackie: “I think he makes half of it up.”

Yvonne: “Her Majesty created the Torchwood Institute with the express intention of keeping Britain great, and fighting the alien horde.”

The Doctor: “But if I’m the enemy, does that mean that I’m a prisoner?”

Yvonne: “Oh yes. But we’ll make you perfectly comfortable. And there is so much you can teach us. Starting with this.”

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Yvonne: “Now, what do you make of that?”

Rajesh: “You must be the Doctor. Rajesh Singh. It’s an honour, sir.”

The Doctor: “Yeah.”

Jackie: “What is that thing?”

Yvonne: “We got no idea.”

Jackie: “But what’s wrong with it?”

Rajesh: “What makes you think there’s something wrong with it?”

Jackie: “I don’t know. It just feels weird.”

Yvonne: “Well, the sphere has that effect on everyone. Makes you want to run and hide, like it’s forbidden.”

Rajesh: “We tried analysing it using every device imaginable.”

(The Doctor puts on his 3D glasses.)

Rajesh: “But according to our instruments, the sphere doesn’t exist. It weighs nothing, it doesn’t age. No heat, no radiation, and has no atomic mass.”

The Doctor looked over at me, his eyebrows shot up in shock.

Jackie: “But I can see it.”

Rajesh: “Fascinating, isn’t it? It upsets people because it gives off nothing. It is absent.”

Yvonne: “Well, Doctor?”

The Doctor: “This is a Void Ship.”

Yvonne: “And what is that?”

The Doctor: “Well, it’s impossible for starters. I always thought it was just a theory, but it’s a vessel designed to exist outside time and space, travelling through the Void.”

Rajesh: “And what’s the Void?”

The Doctor: “The space between dimensions. There’s all sorts of realities around us, different dimensions, billions of parallel universes all stacked up against each other. The Void is the space in between, containing absolutely nothing. Imagine that. Nothing. No light, no dark, no up, no down, no life, no time. Without end. My people called it the Void. The Eternals call it the Howling. But some people call it Hell.”

Rajesh: “But someone built the sphere. What for? Why go there?”

The Doctor: “To explore? To escape? You could sit inside that thing and eternity would pass you by. The Big Bang, end of the Universe, start of the next, wouldn’t even touch the sides. You’d exist outside the whole of creation.”

Yvonne: “You see, we were right. There is something inside it.”

The Doctor: “Oh, yes.”

Rajesh: “So how do we get in there?”

The Doctor: “We don’t! We send that thing back into Hell. How did it get here in the first place?”

Yvonne: “Well, that’s how it all started. The sphere came through into this world, and the ghosts followed in its wake.”

The Doctor: “Show me.” (The Doctor walks out and turns left.)

Yvonne: “No, Doctor.”

(He turns round and goes right.)

“Terra-”

“I know.” I smiled, bittersweet. The Doctor looked at me in shock. “I know.”

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(Yvonne points the Doctor at the blank wall at the far end of the Lever room.)

Yvonne: “The sphere came through here. A hole in the world. Not active at the moment, but when we fire particle engines at that exact spot, the breech opens up.

The Doctor: “How did you even find it?”

Yvonne: “We were getting warning signs for years. A radar black spot. So we built this place, Torchwood Tower. The breech was six hundred feet above sea level. It was on the only way to reach it.”

The Doctor: “You built a skyscraper just to reach a spatial disturbance? How much money have you got?”

Yvonne: “Enough.”

(Jackie is looking out of a window.) Jackie: “Hold on a minute. We’re in Canary Wharf. Must be. This building, it’s Canary Wharf.”

Yvonne: “Well, that is the public name for it. But to those in the know, it’s Torchwood.”

The Doctor: “So, you find the breach, probe it, the sphere comes through six hundred feet above London, bam. It leaves a hole in the fabric of reality. And that hole, you think, oh, shall we leave it alone? Shall we back off? Shall we play it safe? Nah, you think let’s make it bigger!”

Yvonne: “It’s a massive source of energy. If we can harness that power, we need never depend on the Middle East again. Britain will become truly independent. Look, you can see for yourself. Next Ghost Shift’s in two minutes.”

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The Doctor: “Cancel it.”

Yvonne: “I don’t think so.”

The Doctor: “I’m warning you, cancel it.”

Yvonne: “Oh, exactly as the legends would have it. The Doctor, lording it over us. Assuming alien authority over the Rights of Man.”

The Doctor: “Let me show you. Sphere comes through.”

(He points his sonic screwdriver at her glass wall. It cracks.)

The Doctor: “But when it made the hole, it cracked the world around it. The entire surface of this dimension splintered. And that’s how the ghosts get through. That’s how they get everywhere. They’re bleeding through the fault lines. Walking from their world, across the Void, and into yours, with the human race hoping and wishing and helping them along. But too many ghosts, and-”

(He taps the glass and it shatters.)

Yvonne: “Well, in that case we’ll have to be more careful. Positions! Ghost Shift in one minute.”

The Doctor: “Miss Hartman, I am asking you, please don’t do it.”

Yvonne: “We have done this a thousand times.”

The Doctor: “Then stop at a thousand!”

Yvonne: “We’re in control of the ghosts. The levers can open the breach, but equally they can close it.”

The Doctor: “Okay.” (The Doctor goes back into her office and fetches a chair to sit on.)

Yvonne: “Sorry?”

The Doctor: “Never mind. As you were.”

Yvonne: “What, is that it?”

The Doctor: “No, fair enough. Said my bit. Don’t mind me. Any chance of a cup of tea?”

ADEOLA: “Ghost Shift in twenty seconds.”

The Doctor: “Mmm, can’t wait to see it.”

Yvonne “You can’t stop us, Doctor.”

The Doctor: “No, absolutely not. Pull up a chair, Rose. Come and watch the fireworks.”

ADEOLA: “Ghost Shift in ten seconds. Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two”

Yvonne: “Stop the shift. I said stop.”

The Doctor: “Thank you.”

Yvonne: “I suppose it makes sense to get as much intelligence as possible. But the programme will recommence, as soon as you’ve explained everything.”

The Doctor: “I’m glad to be of help.”

Yvonne: “And someone clear up this glass. They did warn me, Doctor. They said you like to make a mess.”

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Yvonne: “So these ghosts, whatever they are, did they build the sphere?”

The Doctor: “Must have. Aimed it at this dimension like a cannon ball.”

Rajesh: “Yvonne? I think you should see this. We’ve got a visitor. We don’t know who she is, but funnily enough, she arrived at the same time as the Doctor.”

(Yvonne turns her laptop so the Doctor can see Rose and Rajesh on the webcam.)

Yvonne: “She one of yours?”

The Doctor: “Never seen her before in my life.”

Yvonne: “Good. Then we can have her shot.”

“You hurt Rose Tyler, and I will not stop until Torchwood is a pile of ash.”

Rose’s jaw dropped. “You know my name?”

“Of course I know your name.” I said. “I like you very much.”

Yvonne: “Well, if that’s Rose Tyler, who’s she?”

Jackie: “I’m her mother.”

Yvonne: “Oh, you travel with her mother?”

Jackie: “He kidnapped me.”

The Doctor: “Please, when Torchwood comes to write my complete history, don’t tell people I travelled through time and space with her mother.”

(Clunk!)

Jackie: “Charming.”

The Doctor: “I’ve got a reputation to uphold.”

Yvonne: “Excuse me? Everyone? I thought I said stop the ghost shift. Who started the programme? But I ordered you to stop! Who’s doing that?”

(The levers are moving.)

Yvonne: “Right, step away from the monitors, everyone. Gareth, Addy, stop what you’re doing, right now. Matt, step away from your desk. That’s an order! Stop the levers! Andrew!”

(A scientist grabs one of the levers.)

Yvonne: “Stop the levers!”

The Doctor: “What’s she doing?”

Yvonne: “Addy, step away from the desk. Listen to me. Step away from the desk.”

The Doctor: “She can’t hear you. They’re overriding the system. We’re going into Ghost Shift.”

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My head started to spin. It felt like my body had turned into jello.

Before I could fall, I felt the Doctor keep me supported. “Terra, are you alright?”

My mind turned foggy, and hazy. I barely understood he was talking to me. I tried to tell him I was fine, but a low groan came out. My eyes started to close. The only thing I was doing right was breathing.

The Doctor guided me to a chair, sitting me down. My sight blurred, and all I saw was a giant white light shining in my eyes.

“Why is it killing you?” The Doctor asked.

“Your...people...” I panted. The Doctor paused in his movements, eyeing my warily. “Created in...vortex exposure.” The words were a struggle to get out, my heart heavy from all of the ghost shifts. “My people...same...in void.”

“Your people were exposed to the vortex, and became like this?” The Doctor gestured to all of me. I was able to give a weak nod.

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The Doctor cradled Terra’s head, laying her down on the ground. Her skin had turned sickly pale, and her eyes had fogged over. Her breathing had become ragged the longer the shift went on.

The Doctor: “It’s the earpiece. It’s controlling them. I’ve seen this before. Sorry. I’m so sorry.”

(He zaps Adeola’s earpiece with his sonic screwdriver. She screams, and so do Gareth and Matt. Then they collapse.)

Yvonne: “What happened? What did you just do?”

The Doctor: “They’re dead.”

Jackie: “You killed them.”

The Doctor: “Oh, someone else did that long before I got here.”

Jackie: “But you killed them!”

The Doctor: “Jackie, I haven’t got time for this.”

Yvonne: “What are those ear pieces?”

The Doctor: “Don’t.”

Yvonne: “But they’re standard comms. devices. How does it control them?”

The Doctor: “Trust me, leave them alone.”

Yvonne: “But what are they?” (Yvonne pulls one off Adeola. A rope of gray matter comes with it.) Yvonne: “Urgh! Oh, God! It goes inside their brain.”

The Doctor: “What about the Ghost Shift?”

Yvonne: “Ninety percent there and still running. Can’t you stop it?”

The Doctor: “They’re still controlling it. They’ve hijacked the system.”

Yvonne: “Who’s they?”

The Doctor: “It might be a remote transmitter but it’s got to be close by. I can trace it. Jackie, stay here!”

(Rajesh is on Yvonne’s laptop with the message Sphere Activated.)

Yvonne: “Keep those levers down. Keep them offline.”

The ghost shift ended.

Terra coughed, though it sounded more like hacking out a lung. The Doctor looked at her worriedly before running after the things he prayed to Rassilon weren’t in this building.

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My return to the world of the living was a painful one. Jackie had me cradled in her lap, brushing down on my hair. I groaned in pain, trying to force myself up.

“Terra, hold on.” Jackie advised against it. “You look like death.”

“Funny. That was my street name.”

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(Cybermen escort the Doctor and Yvonne in.)

The Doctor: “Get away from the machines. Do what they say. Don’t fight them!”

(The Cybermen activate their arm guns and shoot the scientists holding back the levers.)

Jackie: “What are they?”

CYBERMAN: “We are the Cybermen. The Ghost Shift will be increased to one hundred percent.”

(The levers move up.) COMPUTER: “Online.”

I lurched up, screaming in agony. The D

The Doctor: “Here come the ghosts.”

(The shadowy images appear as usual.)

Jackie: “But these Cybermen, what’ve they got to do with the ghosts?”

The Doctor: “Do you never listen? A footprint doesn’t look like a boot.”

CYBERLEADER: “Achieving full transfer.”

The Doctor: “They’re Cybermen. All of the ghosts are Cybermen. Millions of them, right across the world.”

(The ghosts solidify and form up in squads everywhere. People start to scream and run.)

Yvonne: “They’re invading the whole planet.”

The Doctor: “It’s not an invasion. It’s too late for that. It’s a victory.”

COMPUTER: “Sphere activated. Sphere activated. Sphere activated. Sphere activated.”

The Doctor: “But I don’t understand. The Cybermen don’t have the technology to build a Void Ship. That’s way beyond you. How did you create that sphere?”

CYBERMAN: “The sphere is not ours.”

The Doctor: “What?”

CYBERMAN: “The sphere broke down the barriers between worlds. We only followed. Its origin is unknown.”

The Doctor: “Then what’s inside it?”

Jackie: “Rose is down there.”

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Jackie: “What’s down there? She was in that room with the sphere. What’s happened to Rose?”

The Doctor: “I don’t know. I’ll find her. I brought you here, I’ll get you both out, you and your daughter. Jackie, look at me. Look at me. I promise you. I give you my word.”

CYBERLEADER: “You will talk to your central world authority and order global surrender.”

Yvonne: “Oh, do some research. We haven’t got a central world authority.”

CYBERLEADER: “You have now. I will speak on all global wavelengths. This broadcast is for humankind.”

(The Doctor puts on his 3D spectacles.)

CYBERLEADER: “Cybermen now occupy every landmass on this planet, but you need not fear. Cybermen will remove fear. Cybermen will remove sex and class and colour and creed. You will become identical. You will become like us.”

(Panic stations. The army sets up roadblocks and tries shooting at the Cybermen. A bazooka blows a Cyberman to bits. London burns.)

CYBERLEADER: “I ordered surrender.”

The Doctor: “They’re not taking instructions. Don’t you understand? You’re on every street, you’re in their homes, you’ve got their children! Of course they’re going to fight.”

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CYBERLEADER: “Units open visual link.”

(A Cyberman’s view comes up on Yvonne’s laptop.)

CYBERLEADER: “Visual contact established.”

DALEK 2: “Identify yourselves.”

CYBERMAN: “You will identify first.”

DALEK 2: “State your identity.”

CYBERMAN: “You will identify first.”

DALEK 2: “Identify!”

CYBERMAN: “That answer is (??) and illogical. You will modify.”

DALEK 2: “Daleks do not take orders.”

CYBERMAN: “You have identified as Daleks.”

Black Dalek: “Outline resembles the inferior species known as Cybermen.”

Jackie: “(sotto) Rose said about the Daleks. She was terrified of them. What have they done to her, Doctor? Is she dead?”

The Doctor: “(sotto) Phone.”

Jackie: “(sotto) What?”

The Doctor: “(sotto) Phone!”

CYBERMAN: “We followed in the wake of your sphere.”

(The Doctor phones Rose.)

Black Dalek: “Long range scans confirm the presence of crude cybernetic constructs on worldwide scale.”

(Rose answers her phone.) The Doctor: “She’s answered. She’s alive. Why haven’t they killed her?”

Jackie: “Well, don’t complain!”

The Doctor: “They must need her for something.”

DALEK 3: “We must protect the Genesis Ark.”

The Doctor: “The Genesis Ark?”

CYBERMAN: “Our species our similar, though your design is inelegant.”

(The Doctor looks at the scene on the laptop through his 3D spectacles.)

DALEK 2: “Daleks have no concept of elegance.”

CYBERMAN: “This is obvious. But consider, our technologies are compatible. Cybermen plus Daleks. Together, we could upgrade the Universe.”

DALEK 2: “You propose an alliance?”

CYBERMAN: “This is correct.”

DALEK 2: “Request denied.”

(The Cybermen ready their weapons.)

CYBERMAN: “Hostile elements will be deleted.”

(They shoot at the Dalek.)

DALEK 2: “Exterminate!”

(Dalek 2, Cybermen 0)

CYBERLEADER: “Open visual link.”

CYBERLEADER: “Daleks, be warned. You have declared war upon the Cybermen.”

Black Dalek: “This is not war. This is pest control.”

CYBERLEADER: “We have five million Cybermen. How many are you?”

Black Dalek: “Four.”

CYBERLEADER: “You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks?”

Black Dalek: “We would destroy the Cybermen with one Dalek. You are superior in only one respect.”

CYBERLEADER: “What is that?”

Black Dalek: “You are better at dying.” I couldn’t help but laugh. Daleks vs. Cybermen. That was as funny as it was terrifying. “Raise communications barrier!”

The Doctor: “Lost her.”

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CYBERLEADER: “Quarantine the Sphere chamber. Start emergency upgrading. Begin with these personnel.”

(The Cybermen take Yvonne and Jackie.)

Yvonne: “No, you can’t do this! We surrendered! We surrendered!”

CYBERMAN: “This one. His increased adrenaline suggests that he has vital Dalek information.”

Jackie: “Stop them! I don’t want to go! You promised me! You gave me your word!”

The Doctor: “I demand you leave that woman alone! I won’t help you if you hurt her. Jackie, don’t fight. I’ll think of something.”

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CYBERLEADER: “You are proof.”

The Doctor: “Of what?”

CYBERLEADER: “That emotions destroy you.”

The Doctor: “Yeah, I am. Mind you, I quite like hope. Hope’s a good emotion. And here it comes.”

(A group of black-clad commandos pop into existence and take out the remaining Cybermen in the Lever room The CyberLeader walks out of the office and gets zapped too. It’s head explodes.)

JAKE: “Doctor? Good to see you again.”

The Doctor: “Jake?”

JAKE: “The Cybermen came through from one world to another, and so did we.”

(The Doctor has been using his 3D spectacles again.)

JAKE: “Defend this room. Chrissie, monitor communications. Kill one CyberLeader and they just download into another. Move!”

(The commandos run off.)

The Doctor: “You can’t just, just, just hop from one world to another. You can’t.”

JAKE: “We just did. With these.”

(Large yellow medallions on chains around their necks. He throws one to the Doctor.)

The Doctor: “But that’s impossible. You can’t have this sort of technology.”

JAKE: “We’ve got our own version of Torchwood. They developed it. Do you want to come and see?” (Jake presses his own button.)

The Doctor: “No!” (The Doctor and Jake vanish.)

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“Okay. We keep going up these stairs.”

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(Jackie answers her phone.) Jackie: “Oh, my God, help me.”

The Doctor: “Jackie, you’re alive. Listen.”

Jackie: “They tried to download me but I ran away!”

The Doctor: “Shush. Listen, tell me. Where are you?”

Jackie: “I don’t know. Staircase.”

The Doctor: “Yeah, which one? Is there any sort of sign? Anything to identify it?”

Jackie: “Yes, a fire extinguisher.”

The Doctor: “Yeah, that helps.”

Jackie: “Oh, wait a minute. It says N3.”

The Doctor: “North corner, staircase three. Just keep low, we’re trying our best.”

Jackie: “No, don’t leave me.”

The Doctor: “I’ve got to go. I’m sorry.”

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“Don’t you want to know what happened to the Emperor?” I said.

The Daleks and humans turned to me, surprised.

“Terra!”

“Hello Mickey the Idiot.” I gave him a polite wave. “Rosita Tyler. We leave you on your own and Daleks come back. This is why we can’t have nice things.”

Black Dalek: “The Emperor survived?”

Terra: “Till he met me. Because if you’re going to kill my friends, then you’re going to listen. I met the Emperor, and I took the Time Vortex and I pulled it into his head and turned him into dust. Do you get that? The God of all Daleks, and I destroyed him. Ha!”

Black Dalek: “You will be exterminated!”

(The Doctor is wearing his 3D spectacles again.) The Doctor: “Oh now, hold on, wait a minute.”

Black Dalek: “Alert, alert. You are the Doctor.”

Dalek: “Sensors report he is unarmed.”

The Doctor: “That’s me. Always.”

Black Dalek: “Then you are powerless.”

The Doctor: “Not me. Never. How are you?”

Rose: “Oh, same old, you know.”

The Doctor: “Good. And Mickity McMickey. Nice to see you!”

Mickey: “And you, boss.”

Dalek: “Social interaction will cease!”

Black Dalek: “How did you survive the Time War?”

The Doctor: “By fighting. On the front line. I was there at the fall of Arcadia. Someday I might even come to terms with that. But you lot ran away!”

Black Dalek: “We had to survive.”

The Doctor: “The last four Daleks in existence. So what’s so special about you?”

Rose: “Doctor, they’ve got names. I mean, Daleks don’t have names, do they? One of them said they-”

Dalek: “I am Dalek Thay.”

Black Dalek: “Dalek Sek.”

DALEK 3: “Dalek Jast.”

DALEK 2: “Dalek Caan.”

The Doctor: “So that’s it! At last. The Cult of Skaro. I thought you were just a legend.”

Rose: “Who are they?”

The Doctor: “A secret order above and beyond the Emperor himself. Their job was to imagine, think as the enemy thinks. Even dared to have names. All to find new ways of killing.”

Mickey: “But that thing, they said it was yours. I mean, Time Lords. They built it. What does it do?”

The Doctor: “I don’t know. Never seen it before.”

Rose: “But it’s Time Lord.”

The Doctor: “Both sides had secrets. What is it? What have you done?”

Black Dalek: “Time Lord science will restore Dalek supremacy.”

The Doctor: “What does that mean? What sort of Time Lord science? What do you mean?”

Rose: “They said one touch from a time traveller will wake it up.”

The Doctor: “Technology using the one thing a Dalek can’t do. Touch. Sealed inside your casing. Not feeling anything ever, from birth to death, locked inside a cold metal cage. Completely alone. That explains your voice. No wonder you scream.”

Black Dalek: “The Doctor will open the Ark!”

The Doctor: “The Doctor will not.”

Black Dalek: “You have no way of resisting.”

The Doctor: “Well, you got me there. Although there is always this.”

Black Dalek: “A sonic probe?”

The Doctor: “That’s screwdriver.”

Black Dalek: “It is harmless.”

The Doctor: “Oh, yes. Harmless is just the word. That’s why I like it. Doesn’t kill, doesn’t wound, doesn’t maim. But I’ll tell you what it does do. It is very good at opening doors.”

(The door to the laboratory blows in. Enter Jake and a Cyberman with all guns blazing.)

CYBERMAN: “Delete! Delete! Delete! Delete!”

DALEK 3: “Alert. Casing impaired. Casing impaired.”

The Doctor: “Rose, get out!”

Black Dalek: “Fire power insufficient! Fire power insufficient!”

(Rose stumbles. Pete helps her up.)

PETE: “Come on.”

(Mickey dives for his big gun.)

CYBERMAN: “Daleks will be deleted. Delete. Delete.”

Rose: “Mickey, come on!”

DALEK 3: “Adapt to weaponry.”

Black Dalek: “Fire power restored!”

(And kills a Cyberman. Mickey gets jostled and he puts out his hand to steady himself. It touches the Ark. He and Jake join the Doctor, Rose and Pete at an emergency blast door.)

(The Doctor closes the blast door.)

The Doctor: “Jake, check the stairwell. The rest of you, come on.”

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Mickey: “I just fell, I didn’t mean it!”

The Doctor: “Mickey, without us, they’d have opened it by force. To do that, they’d have blown up the sun. You’ve done us a favour. Now, run!”

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(Jackie is trapped between two squads of Cybermen on the stairs, so she runs into a corridor and meets two more.)

CYBERMAN: “You will be upgraded.”

Jackie: “No, but you can’t. Please.”

(The Cybermen are shot down from behind.)

Jackie: “Pete?”

PETE: “Hello, Jacks.”

Jackie: “I said there were ghosts, but that’s not fair. Why him?”

PETE: “I’m not a ghost.”

Jackie: “But you’re dead. You died twenty years ago, Pete.”

The Doctor: “It’s Pete from a different universe. There are parallel worlds, Jackie. Every single decision we make creates a parallel existence, a different dimension where-”

Jackie: “Oh, you can shut up. Oh, you look old.”

PETE: “You don’t.”

Jackie: “How can you be standing there?”

PETE: “I just got lucky. Lived my life. You were left on your own. You didn’t marry again, or-”

Jackie: “There was never anyone else. Twenty years, though. Look at me. I never left that flat. Did nothing with myself.”

PETE: “You brought her up. Rose Tyler. That’s not bad.”

Jackie: “Yeah.”

PETE: “In my world, it worked. All those daft little plans of mine, they worked. Made me rich.”

Jackie: “I don’t care about that. How rich?”

PETE: “Very.”

Jackie: “I don’t care about that. How very?”

PETE: “Thing is though, Jacks, you’re not my wife. I’m sorry, but you’re not. I mean, we both. You know, it’s just sort of. Oh, come here.”

(He puts down the gun and she runs into his arms.)

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The Doctor looks carefully inside the warehouse, then crawls over to a crate and grabs a pair of Magnaclamps before dodging laser fire to get back.)

Rose: “Come on, please.”

SOLDIER: “Cover me.”

(The Doctor looks back in again with his 3D glasses.)

Black Dalek: “Override roof mechanism.”

(The warehouse roof shutters start to slide back.)

Black Dalek: “Elevate.”

Rose: “What’re they doing? Why do they need to get outside?”

The Doctor: “Time Lord science. What Time Lord science? What is it?”

(The Ark and the Black Dalek glide up and out into Canary Wharf.)

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The Doctor: “We’ve got to see what it’s doing. We’ve got to go back up. Come on! All of you. top floor!”

Jackie: “That’s forty five floors up! Believe me, I’ve done them all.”

JAKE: “We could always take the lift.”

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(The Doctor gets to the window in time to see the Ark shooting out Daleks in all directions as it spins around.)

The Doctor: “Time Lord science. It’s bigger on the inside.”

Mickey: “Did the Time Lords put those Daleks in there? What for?”

The Doctor: “It’s a prison ship.”

Rose: “How many Daleks?”

The Doctor: “Millions.”

(The Daleks spread out over London as Cybermen clomp their way through the streets before stopping and shooting into the sky.)

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PETE: “I’m sorry, but you’ve had it. This world’s going to crash and burn. There’s nothing we can do. We’re going home.”

(Pete takes a yellow medallion from a commando.)

PETE: “Jacks, take this. You’re coming with us.”

Jackie: “But they’re destroying the city.”

PETE: “I’d forgotten you could argue. It’s not just London, it’s the whole world. But there’s another world just waiting for you, Jacks. And it’s safe as long as the Doctor closes the breach. Doctor?”

(The Doctor turns around, wearing his 3D spectacles.) The Doctor: “Oh, I’m ready. I’ve got the equipment right here. Thank you, Torchwood.” (The Doctor uses a computer terminal.) The Doctor: “Slam it down and close off both universes.”

COMPUTER: “Reboot systems.”

Rose: “But we can’t just leave. What about the Daleks? And the Cybermen?”

The Doctor: “They’re part of the problem, and that makes them part of the solution. Oh yes! Well? Isn’t anyone going to ask what is it with the glasses?”

Rose: “What is it with the glasses?”

The Doctor: “I can see, that’s what. because we’ve got two separate worlds, but in between the two separate worlds, we’ve got the Void. That’s where the Daleks were hiding. And the Cybermen travelled through the Void to get here. And you lot, one world to another, via the Void. Oh, I like that. Via the Void. Look.”

(He gives the spectacles to Rose.)

The Doctor: “I’ve been through it. Do you see?”

(Lots of speckles in the air around the Doctor.)

COMPUTER: “Reboot in three minutes.”

Rose: “What is it?”

The Doctor: “Void stuff.”

Rose: “Like er, background radiation.”

The Doctor: “That’s it. Look at the others. And the only one who hasn’t been through the Void, your mother. First time she’s looked normal all in her life.”

Jackie: “Oi.”

“But what about Terra?” Rose asked.

“It’ll probably drain me, most likely killing me.”

The Doctor: “But the Daleks lived inside the Void. They’re bristling with it. Cybermen, all of them. I just open the Void and reverse. The Void stuff gets sucked back inside.”

Rose: “Pulling them all in!”

The Doctor: “Pulling them all in!”

Mickey: “Sorry, what’s the Void?”

The Doctor: “The dead space. Some people call it Hell.”

Mickey: “So you’re sending the Daleks and Cybermen to Hell. Man, I told you he was good.”

Rose: “But it’s like you said. We’ve all got Void stuff. Me too, because we went to that parallel world. We’re all contaminated. We’ll get pulled in.”

The Doctor: “That’s why you’ve got to go.”

COMPUTER: “Reboot in two minutes.”

The Doctor: “Back to Pete’s world. Hey, we should call it that. Pete’s World. I’m opening the Void, but only on this side. You’ll be safe on that side.”

PETE: “And then you close it, for good?”

The Doctor: “The breach itself is soaked in Void stuff. In the end it’ll close itself. And that’s it. Kaput.”

Rose: “But you stay on this side?”

Mickey: “But you’ll get pulled in.”

The Doctor: “That’s why I got these.” (Magnaclamps) “I’ll just have to hold on tight. I’ve been doing it all my life.”

Rose: “I’m supposed to go.”

The Doctor: “Yeah.”

Rose: “To another world, and then it gets sealed off.”

The Doctor: “Yeah.”

Rose: “Forever. That’s not going to happen.”

(The building shakes.)

PETE: “We haven’t got time to argue. The plan works. We’re going. You too. All of us.”

Rose: “No, I’m not leaving here.”

Jackie: “I’m not going without her.”

PETE: “Oh, my God. We’re going!”

Jackie: “I’ve had twenty years without you, so button it. I’m not leaving her.”

Rose: “You’ve got to.”

Jackie: “Well, that’s tough.”

Rose: “Mum.”

COMPUTER: “Reboot in one minute.”

Rose: “I’ve had a life with you for nineteen years, but then I met the Doctor, and all the things I’ve seen him do for me, for you, for all of us. For the whole stupid planet and every planet out there. He does it alone, mum. But not anymore, because now he’s got me.”

(The Doctor puts a medallion around Rose’s neck and Pete presses his button.)

Rose: “What’re you-”

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Rose: “I think this is the on switch.”

The Doctor: “Once the breach collapses, that’s it. You will never be able to see her again. Your own mother!”

Rose: “I made my choice a long time ago, and I’m never going to leave you. So what can I do to help?”

COMPUTER: “Systems rebooted. Open access.”

The Doctor: “Those coordinates over there, set them all at six. And hurry up.”

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Rose: “We’ve got Cybermen on the way up.”

The Doctor: “How many floors down?”

Rose: “Just one.”

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COMPUTER: “Levers operational.”

Rose: “That’s more like it. Bit of a smile. The old team.”

The Doctor: “Hope and Glory, Mutt and Jeff, Shiver and Shake.”

Rose: “Which one’s Shiver?”

The Doctor: “Oh, I’m Shake.”

(The Doctor gives Rose a Magnaclamp and they put them on the walls by the levers.)

The Doctor: “Press the red button.”

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The Doctor: “When it starts, just hold on tight. Shouldn’t be too bad for us but the Daleks and the Cybermen are steeped in Void stuff. Are you ready?”

Rose: “So are they.”

(The Daleks are visible outside the window.) The Doctor: “Let’s do it!”

(They push the levers up then grab the Magnaclamps.)

COMPUTER: “Online.”

(A bright light comes out of the breach and a strong wind rushes into it, sucking the first Daleks through the windows and into itself.)

DALEKS: “Emergency!”

The Doctor: “The breach is open! Into the Void! Ha!”

(Cybermen all over the world are lifted off their feet and into the air. There is a steady stream of Daleks and Cybermen all being sucked through the one broken window into the Void.)

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(Rose’s lever moves a little.)

COMPUTER: “Offline.”

(The suction starts to decrease. Rose has to let go of the Magnaclamp to grab the lever and pull it, but she and it are being dragged the wrong way.)

Rose: “I’ve got to get it upright!”

(Somehow she manages it.)

COMPUTER: “Online and locked.”

(The suction builds up.)

The Doctor: “Rose, hold on! Hold on!”

(Rose is being pulled horizontally towards the Void. The Doctor cannot reach her as her fingers finally slip from the lever handle. Then Pete pops in, catches her and vanishes with his daughter in his arms. The wind dies down and the Void closes itself like paper down a plughole.)

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Rose: “Where are you?

The Doctor: “Inside the TARDIS. There’s one tiny little gap in the Universe left, just about to close, and it takes a lot of power to send this projection. I’m in orbit around a supernova. I’m burning up a sun just to say goodbye.

Rose: “You look like a ghost.

The Doctor: “Hold on

(He uses his sonic screwdriver to solidify the image.)

Rose: “Can I

The Doctor: “I’m still just an image. No touch.

Rose: “Can’t you come through properly?

The Doctor: “The whole thing would fracture. Two universes would collapse.

Rose: “So?

The Doctor: “Where are we? Where did the gap come out?

Rose: “We’re in Norway.

The Doctor: “Norway. Right.

Rose: “About fifty miles out of Burgen. It’s called ‘Dårlig Ulv Stranden’.

The Doctor: “Dalek?

Rose: “Dårlig. It’s Norwegian for bad. This translates as Bad Wolf Bay. How long have we got?

The Doctor: “About two minutes.

Rose: “I can’t think of what to say!

The Doctor: “You’ve still got Mister Mickey, then?

Rose: “There’s five of us now. Mum, Dad, Mickey and the baby.

The Doctor: “You’re not?

Rose: “No. It’s mum. She’s three months gone. More Tyler’s on the way.

The Doctor: “And what about you? Are you

Rose: “Yeah, I’m back working in the shop.

The Doctor: “Oh, good for you.

Rose: “Shut up. No, I’m not. There’s still a Torchwood on this planet. It’s open for business. I think I know a thing or two about aliens.

The Doctor: “Rose Tyler, Defender of the Earth. You’re dead, officially, back home. So many people died that day and you’ve gone missing. You’re on a list of the dead. Here you are, living a life day after day. The one adventure I can never have.

Rose: “Am I ever going to see you again?

The Doctor: “You can’t.

Rose: “What’re you going to do?

The Doctor: “Oh, I’ve got the TARDIS. Same old life, last of the Time Lords.

Rose: “With Terra. I, I love you.

The Doctor: “Quite right, too. And I suppose, if it’s one last chance to say it, Rose Tyler-”

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