Doctor Who
- Year:
- 2015
- 82 min
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1.
Spinning, blurry.
A faint impression, of blue sky, mountains and a dark figure
rotating past us - but all upside down!
The spinning, slowing. Becoming gentle revolutions.
The upside-down figure, silhouetted against the blazing sun -
it is clearly MISSY.
MISSY:
Consider the Doctor.
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- a flash of
THE DOCTOR's eyes snap open, blaze straight at us (as in The
Day Of The Doctor.)
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Slower revolutions, less blurry.
MISSY, still talking, but now we can see that she is casually
sharpening a stick.
MISSY:
The Doctor, trapped. The Doctor,
alone.
(Looks directly into the
camera)
You all right there, dear?
Wider. Out on the plains of Skaro, the Dalek city glittering
in the far distance. MISSY, sharpening a stick with a little
knife.
CLARA:
she’s trussed up, hanging upside down from a treebranch, and revolving slowly. Blinking awake. (The above was
her POV.)
CLARA:
... where ..? how did we ..?
MISSY:
Shh, now, Mummy’s talking. Okay,
the Doctor. On the run, no TARDIS,
no friends, no help. In other
words, the Doctor happy.
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BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
DW9:
"The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/152.
4 INT. EXOTIC BUILDING - DAY 4
A place of marble columns and gantries. Looks exotic, could
even be alien.
There is zap sound and a glow from behind one of the columns
MISSY:
(V.O.)
This was a long time ago.
A figure flits between the columns, wearing a floppy hat and
a long scarf - clearly the TOM BAKER DOCTOR. He’s only
briefly glimpsed before he darts behind another column.
MISSY (cont’d)
(V.O.)
Doesn’t matter which face he was
wearing
-the figure flits between the next two columns, this time
much smaller, with long white hair - the WILLIAM HARTNELL
DOCTOR MISSY:
(cont’d)
(V.O.)
They’re all the Doctor to me.
Now moving closer on the CAPALDI DOCTOR, as he races from
behind the next pillar, now flattens himself against a wall.
Looking around - hunted, haunted, a man on the run!
MISSY (cont’d)
(V.O.)
So let’s give it to the eyebrows.
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CLARA, slowly revolving to a halt, still blinking in
confusion.
CLARA:
... I don’t ... where are we?
MISSY:
A few miles from where we were.
CLARA:
But ... the Daleks ...
MISSY:
I’m coming to that.
CLARA:
Shouldn’t we be ... I don’t want to
say dead?
(CONTINUED)
BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
DW9:
"The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/153.
5 CONTINUED:
5MISSY:
Hush!
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6 INT. EXOTIC BUILDING - DAY 6
Close on THE DOCTOR, eyes darting around, frantically.
Cutting round details - shadows, columns, flickers of
movement.
MISSY:
(V.O.)
The City of the Screaming Lakes.
Abandoned for over two-thousand
years. He got in by teleporter -
doesn’t matter why.
On THE DOCTOR, frantically jabbing at a wrist unit that looks
like a big elaborate watch.
MISSY (cont’d)
(V.O.)
What matters is that his teleporter
is now out of power.
THE DOCTOR, frustrated - slamming the teleport bracelet
against a wall. Damn it, damn it!
Now -Zap! Zap! Zap! Zap!
From all around, in every corner, behind every pillar, the
same zaps and glows that accompanied his own arrival.
MISSY (cont’d)
(V.O.)
Also worth mentioning - he’s being
stalked by, oh, say about fifty
android assassins.
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CLARA hanging, MISSY whittling. She shoots a grin at CLARA.
MISSY:
I may be rounding up.
She tests the point on the stick. Ow!
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BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
DW9:
"The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/154.
8 INT. EXOTIC BUILDING - DAY 8
Close on THE DOCTOR, staring, narrowing his eyes, squinting
at something.
THE DOCTOR's POV. A flicker of distortion speeds along a
wall, as if something not quite visible is moving rapidly
past it.
MISSY:
(V.O.)
Fifty invisible android assassins.
THE DOCTOR ducks, dives, rolls out of sight.
MISSY (cont’d)
(V.O.)
Fifty invisible indestructible,
android assassins. All exclusively
programmed to kill him.
THE DOCTOR's head pops over a low wall, ducks out of sight
again
-just as dozens of energy beams blast into the pillar behind
him.
MISSY (cont’d)
(V.O.)
State of the art disintegrators,
100 percent regeneration proof.
Hilarious in a crowded place, ideal
if you don’t like queuing.
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CLARA, hanging there, watching MISSY's stick sharpening, in
increasing apprehension.
CLARA:
... why are you sharpening that
stick?
MISSY:
No idea how long we’ll be stuck out
here, I might have to go hunting.
CLARA:
Okay, so why am I tied up?
MISSY:
In case there’s nothing to hunt.
(Winks at her, smacks her
lips)
The Doctor then!
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BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
DW9:
"The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/155.
10
THE DOCTOR, making a bolt for it across the open space
-now skidding to a halt.
THE DOCTOR's POV. A shimmer of movement across the scene in
front of him. INVISIBLE ANDROID ASSASSINS!!
He spins, starts racing the other way THE
DOCTOR's POV - another shimmer across the view.
Surrounded!!
On THE DOCTOR, skidding to a halt again
-as the action grinds into ultra slow motion, freezing him
mid-skid.
MISSY:
(V.O.)
Surrounded!
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MISSY, inspecting the sharpened end of her stick.
MISSY:
Outnumbered. Outgunned.
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12
On the freeze-frame Doctor. A building whine
-and all the invisible guns circling him, start firing.
Still in ultra-slow motion visible energy beams from the
invisible guns, and start converging, sluggishly, on THE
DOCTOR.
MISSY:
(V.O.)
Nanoseconds to live. Four, I’d say,
being generous.
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13
MISSY, now swishing her stick around.
(CONTINUED)
BBC 2015 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
DW9:
"The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/156.
13 CONTINUED:
13MISSY:
Now, even if the Doctor, by some
miracle, survives the blast, that
won’t save him. The androids are
indestructible, immortal,
unstoppable. They’ll just keep on
killing him until they think he’s
dead enough.
Rounds on CLARA, marches up to her. Stands there, slapping
the stick against the palm of her other hand.
MISSY (cont’d)
My question is this. How did he
survive?
On CLARA, watching the slapping stick, getting the
uncomfortable feeling she’s talking to avoiding being lunch!
MISSY (cont’d)
Come on, Clara! You know him.
Consider the Doctor.
Close on CLARA, thinking frantically!
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14 INT. EXOTIC BUILDING - DAY 14
On the frozen DOCTOR, surrounded by the frozen energy beams
converging on him
-pulling out to reveal CLARA hanging upside down in the
foreground, staring at him (she’s picturing the scenario.)
How did he escape?
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