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DW9:
"The Witch's Familiar" by Steven Moffat - PINK Script 12/02/15

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35 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL - DAY 35

The encircling DALEKS, staring at:

Close on a detail - a tea cup and saucer on Davros's

dashboard. A hand picks up the tea cup.

Wider:
THE DOCTOR, unharmed, unruffled, sipping a cup of tea

as he sits in Davros’s chair.

THE DOCTOR:

The real question, of course, is

where did I get the cup of tea?

Answer:
I’m the Doctor - just

accept it.

SUPREME DALEK:

You are unharmed.

He starts gliding forward. Instinctively, the DALEKS part to

let him through.

THE DOCTOR:

Proposition - Davros is an insane,

paranoid genius who has survived

among several billion trigger-happy

mini-tanks for centuries.

Conclusion - I’m definitely having

his chair.

He sets down his tea, and lifts up the Dalek gun unit, which

is sitting on the dash. He levels it at the SUPREME DALEK.

THE DOCTOR (cont’d)

-I’m guessing his personal force-

field only works in one direction.

Shall we see?

SUPREME DALEK:

The Doctor does not use weapons.

THE DOCTOR:

The Doctor? The Doctor in the

TARDIS, with Clara Oswald? Well you

killed Clara and you destroyed the

TARDIS.

Clicks the gun, the building whine of energy.

On THE DOCTOR:
incandescent!

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THE DOCTOR (cont’d)

So do I still look like the Doctor

to you?

The SUPREME DALEK: silence.

Silence in the whole room - just the throb-throb DALEK noise.

THE DOCTOR:
his most evil grin.

THE DOCTOR (cont’) (cont’d)

Oh, listen to your little hearts

beat!

CUT TO:

36 INT. CAVE. TUNNELS - DUSK 36

On CLARA, flat on soft, black mossy ground, stirring,

muttering. Now sitting up. She is dishevelled, there is a cut

on her forehead.

Woozily looking around.

A long, low cavern. Rusty old pipes running the length of it.

There are hanging lights. Some kind of organic residue coats

the walls, like a tangle wet black seaweed.

Also running the length of the corridor, is a raised

platform, like a walkway.

MISSY is a few feet away, inspecting one of the pipes.

Hearing something, she turns.

MISSY:

Oh, hello. Awake, are we?

CLARA, staring - rage, disbelief.

CLARA sees the carved stick lying on the ground. Snatches it

up, levelling it at MISSY.

MISSY (cont’d)

Oh, poppet! Do you really think you

could?

CLARA:

First chance I get.

MISSY:

You won’t survive down here on your

own.

CLARA:

You won’t survive turning your

back.

MISSY:

How exciting.

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And MISSY simply turns her back, waits.

CLARA - doesn’t move.

MISSY looks over her shoulder.

MISSY (cont’d)

God, you’re dull.

And with extraordinary speed and dexterity, she spins round

and whisks the stick from CLARA's hand.

MISSY (cont’d)

In future, if you’re going to take

my stick, do me the courtesy of

killing me. Team-work is all about

respect.

CLARA:

We’re not a team.

MISSY:

Of course we are. Every miner needs

a canary. Now, hush, and look

around. Bit of mess, isn’t it?

MISSY gently prods at the squelching black tangle.

CLARA:

You said it was a sewer...

MISSY:

The Daleks don’t generate much in

the way of waste - everything’s

recycled. Any time you think a

Dalek is full of it, you’re

substantially correct.

CLARA:

So what’s all that?

MISSY:

Daleks can’t die. The mutant

creature inside the mechanical

shell is functionally immortal.

Genetically hard-wired to keep on

living, whatever happens. But they

still age, the poor loves. Over

time, the body breaks down, rots,

liquefies.

(Stamps in puddle)

Step in a puddle - if you’re lucky

you can hear it scream.

Interestingly, the Dalek word for

sewer is the same as their word

She swings back the stick, and swings it hard at the mossy,

muddy wall. Whack!!

MISSY (cont’d)

-for graveyard.

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And the wall twitches and writhes. There is a dreadful,

unearthly squealing. And now MISSY - gleeful, savage - is

hacking and slashing at the seaweedy mass, as it howls.

MISSY (cont’d)

Come on, little shrivelly Daleks!

Let’s do the Time War again!

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37 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL - DUSK 37

THE DOCTOR, gliding round the Dalek Control, lording it over

them.

THE DOCTOR:

Ask me what I want.

SUPREME DALEK:

Irrelevant. You will not prevail.

You will not succeed.

THE DOCTOR:

Do you remember the battle of Skull

Moon? You sent four Dalek fleets to

hunt me down in the Heaven cluster.

I sent you back one eyestalk - it

was all anyone could find. I’ve

been at the heart of your empire

for 42 minutes, and I own it - and

I haven’t even got out of my chair.

Ask me what I want.

SUPREME DALEK:

What do you want?

THE DOCTOR flicks a switch. Now his voice, booming over the

speakers, everywhere.

THE DOCTOR:

Clara Oswald.

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38 EXT. DALEK CITY. VARIOUS LOCATIONS - DUSK 38

Cutting round various locations in the city, as DALEKS listen

to THE DOCTOR's booming voice.

THE DOCTOR:

(V.O.)

I want Clara Oswald, safe, alive

and returned to me, immediately.

The camera moving down, down through the depths of the city

(some model shots here, maybe?) as DALEKS stop and listen,

swaying around their eye-stalks. The voice of their ancient

enemy.

THE DOCTOR (cont’d)

(V.O.)

I came here of my own free will. I

did not expect to survive.

(MORE)

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That’s fine. Everybody’s got to diesome day. But when you harm myfriends, you make a mistake that Iwill make you regret forever.

THE DOCTOR (cont’d)

Down, down ...

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39 INT. CAVES. TUNNELS - DUSK 39

Down, down ...

Now down into the tunnels, another section of them (redress!)

MISSY and CLARA making their way along, also hearing The

Doctor.

THE DOCTOR:

(V.O.)

If any of you know where Clara is,

you bring her back, you do that. Do

that now.

Was that a crack of emotion in his voice? It wounds CLARA. It

seems to thrill MISSY.

THE DOCTOR (cont’d)

(V.O.)

Unharmed, unhurt, alive.

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40 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL - DUSK 40

THE DOCTOR, the DALEKS.

SUPREME DALEK:

Your associate was extermin

THE DOCTOR:

Unharmed, unhurt, alive.

SUPREME DALEK:

Your associate

THE DOCTOR:

I saw it happen. I saw what you

did. And I’m hoping, for all our

sakes, that it was a trick.

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