Doctor Who

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1 EXT. SKARO - DAY 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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2 DARK FIELD 2

- a flash of

THE DOCTOR's eyes snap open, blaze straight at us (as in The

Day Of The Doctor.)

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3 EXT. SKARO - DAY 3

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 tree

branch, 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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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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5 EXT. SKARO - DAY 5

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)

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5 CONTINUED:
5

MISSY:

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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7 EXT. SKARO - DAY 7

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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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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9 EXT. SKARO - DAY 9

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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10

INT. EXOTIC BUILDING - DAY 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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11 EXT. SKARO - DAY 11

MISSY, inspecting the sharpened end of her stick.

MISSY:

Outnumbered. Outgunned.

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12

INT. EXOTIC BUILDING - DAY 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

EXT. SKARO - DAY 13

MISSY, now swishing her stick around.

(CONTINUED)

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13 CONTINUED:
13

MISSY:

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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