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Close on the frozen DOCTOR. Impossibly (in CLARA's

imagination) he turns to look at CLARA, grins, winks at her.

On CLARA:
grins back. Got it!

CUT TO:

15 EXT. SKARO - DAY 15

MISSY waiting, CLARA grinning.

CLARA:

Where did he get the teleport

thingie?

MISSY:

Oh good, very good. He stole it

from one of the androids.

(CONTINUED)

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CLARA:

So, I’m guessing it works off the

same power source as the android

weapons, right?

MISSY:

Excellent! I’m not seeing you as

sandwiches now.

CLARA:

Okay then!

CUT TO:

16 INT. EXOTIC BUILDING - DAY 16

On the frozen DOCTOR - the ultra-slow motion starts up again.

THE DOCTOR starts dropping down, holding the teleport

bracelet aloft, with the sonic screwdriver jammed against it.

The slow-motion beams of energy start converging on the

screwdriver and bracelet.

CLARA:

(V.O.)

He uses the energy wave from the

weapons, to recharge the teleport

bracelet.

THE DOCTOR flickers out of existent.

CLARA (cont’d)

(V.O.)

At the exact moment he’s supposed

to disintegrate, he actually

teleports!

CUT TO:

17 EXT. SKARO - DAY 17

On CLARA - getting it!

CLARA:

Hang on - that’s how you did it.

FLASHBACK:
From Death In Heaven: MISSY apparently shot and

disintegrated by the CYBERMEN.

FLASHBACK:
From The Magician’s Apprentice: in quick

succession, MISSY and CLARA shot and disintegrated.

CLARA (cont’d)

That’s how we escaped the Daleks.

(CONTINUED)

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MISSY:

I modified the same principle for

our vortex manipulators, yes. Blew

them out, I’m afraid.

(She indicates the charred

mark on her wrist)

But the Doctor improvised it. He

must have got through several

thousand calculations in the time

it takes to fire a disintegrator.

Seriously, what a swot.

CUT TO:

18 INT. EXOTIC BUILDING - DAY 18

THE DOCTOR races along, a free man.

CLARA:

(V.O.)

So the androids think he’s dead and

the Doctor escapes.

MISSY:

(V.O.)

Well

THE DOCTOR just drops out of frame, straight down, as if he’s

fallen through a trapdoor.

MISSY (cont’d)

(V.O.)

That city always was full of traps!

CUT TO:

19 INT. DARKNESS 19

Blackness - the buzz of the screwdriver, illuminating THE

DOCTOR's face.

MISSY:

(V.O.)

-he fell into a nest of vampire

monkeys All

round THE DOCTOR glittering pairs of eyes are snapping

open in the darkness.

CUT TO:

20 EXT. SKARO - DAY 20

MISSY:

-but that’s another story!

(CONTINUED)

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MISSY reaches up and, with her knife, slices the rope

suspending CLARA. She crashes to the ground.

MISSY (cont’d)

Why does the Doctor always survive?

CLARA, picking herself up.

CLARA:

Because he’s clever.

MISSY:

There are lots of clever dead

people. I love killing clever-

clogs, they make the best faces.

FLASHBACK:
THE DOCTOR winking at CLARA.

CLARA:

Because he always assumes he’s

going to win - he always knows

somehow there’s a way to survive

FLASHBACK:
THE DOCTOR teleporting away, as the beams

converge.

CLARA (cont’d)

-so all he’s got to do is find it.

MISSY:

Except this time, he made a will,

and threw a goodbye party. When the

Doctor assumes he’s going to die -

what happens then?

CLARA considers for a moment

-looks to the Dalek city glittering in the distance.

Closer. The metal spires and minarets - flying DALEKS buzzing

around them.

CLARA:

We do.

MISSY follows her look. Yep.

MISSY:

He’s trapped at the heart of the

Dalek empire. Between us and him is

everything the deadliest warrior

race in the history of the universe

can throw at us. We, on the other

hand, have a pointy stick. How we

do we start?

CLARA:

We assume we’re going to win.

A little nod from MISSY. Almost a smile.

(CONTINUED)

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MISSY:

Pity really. I was actually quite

peckish.

She starts walking towards the Dalek city, swishing her

stick, utterly confident.

CLARA:
God, she’s mad! Then she’s running to catch up.

We hold on them a moment, heading off together ...

CLARA:

Can I have a stick, too?

MISSY:

Make your own stick.

CUT TO:

OPENING TITLES:

21 EXT. BATTLEFIELD - DAY 21

The BOY, as we last saw him, pleading with the departed

Doctor - the sound of the TARDIS, dematerialising...

BOY:

(V.O.)

Please, you can’t leave me, you

promised, you did! ... ... You said

I had a chance!!

The scrape of a foot from behind him. He startles, spins,

What??

And now he’s staring up at someone ...

BOY (cont’d)

Who are CUT

TO:

22 INT. SICK ROOM - DAY 22

- on the adult DAVROS. His head is bowed, the blue light in

his forehead dimmed

-as we cut to him his head is rising, the blue light

flickering on.

A moment of disorientation, looking around.

Alone in the room, except for THE

DOCTOR, standing there, staring at him. That hatchet

face, baleful. Silent. Never looked more ominous.

(CONTINUED)

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DAVROS:

Forgive an old man, Doctor ... so

often I grow weak. The past rises

up to obscure the present ... as

the future closes its doors.

THE DOCTOR:
silent.

DAVROS (cont’d)

It took me so long to understand it

was you. You, all along. But old

age is a time for memories, and

there you were - standing at the

gates of my beginning.

THE DOCTOR:
nothing.

DAVROS (cont’d)

You taught me the most valuable

lesson of all. We are alone.

THE DOCTOR still saying silent. Now looking round the

chamber.

DAVROS (cont’d)

In life the only reality is

yourself. So I filled the world

with me!

He flicks a switch. All around, screens illuminate. The Dalek

city, all the DALEKS buzzing around it.

Now on the screens, scenes of DALEK conquest and destruction!

DAVROS glories in it - the good old days.

DAVROS (cont’d)

The universe turned on a helpless

child - and found itself

outnumbered.

THE DOCTOR has gone to what looks like on old, abandoned work

bench. Loads of old Dalek technology. He starts rooting

through it.

Now on the screens - the screaming victims! Endless

exterminations. DALEK slaughter!

DAVROS (cont’d)

Look at them run. Look at them

scream. Look what they made me do.

THE DOCTOR:
he’s found what he’s looking for amid all the

junk. He pulls something free -

-- a Dalek exterminator gun. Just like the one we saw him

holding at the end of the last episode.

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