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A long silence. THE DOCTOR's face. Is he tempted? A step

closer to the cables. But no further.

DAVROS (cont’d)

Why do you hesitate?. No one will

know. Clara Oswald is dead.

A flash of pain and anger on THE DOCTOR’s face

-but somehow this pain makes him step back not forward.

DAVROS (cont’d)

Is this the conscience of the

Doctor - or his shame? The shame

that brought you here.

THE DOCTOR:

There’s no such thing as the

Doctor. I’m just a bloke in a box,

telling stories. I’m not here

because I’m ashamed. Bit of shame

never hurt anyone. I came because

you’re sick and you asked - and

sometimes, on a very good day, when

I try very hard, I’m not just some

old Time Lord who ran away ... I’m

the Doctor.

DAVROS:

Compassion then.

THE DOCTOR:

Always.

DAVROS:

It grows strong and fierce in you -

like a cancer.

THE DOCTOR:

I hope so.

DAVROS:

It will kill you in the end.

THE DOCTOR:

I wouldn’t die of anything else.

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DAVROS:

You may rely on it.

CUT TO:

49 INT. CAVES. TUNNELS - NIGHT 49

The DALEK. The front sections have been opened up, the panels

have split and opened up, like the petals of a flower

(exactly like the DALEK opened up in Dalek, from the first

series.)

Where the Dalek Mutant should sit, CLARA is now sitting, a

little apprehensive. MISSY is busy wiring her into the

machinery. She seems to be attaching electrodes to CLARA's

head.

CLARA:

How am I supposed to make it go -

are there pedals?

MISSY:

Telepathic control. Open wide!

CLARA opens her mouth.

MISSY (cont’d)

No, I meant your skull. Never mind.

MISSY makes an effort, CLARA screams out in pain.

MISSY (cont’d)

Hush now, don’t worry. There’s

loads of nano-tech repairing any

damage as the feed goes in.

CLARA:

What about when it comes out?

MISSY:

Nobody knows. To control the unit,

you just have to think. Try it -

move forwards.

CLARA:

I don’t know how to

But the DALEK unit just slides forward anyway.

MISSY:

You see?

CLARA:

How did I do that?

MISSY:

Circle right.

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CLARA:

I don’t

But the DALEK simply revolves on the spot.

MISSY:

Circle left.

The DALEK revolves on the spot in the other direction.

MISSY (cont’d)

There you go - that skirt is you.

MISSY has reached into the DALEK, clicked a switch. The whine

of machinery, the hiss of hydraulics, as the DALEK starts

clunking shut around CLARA.

CLARA:

No, please, no, don’t, don’t!

Clunk! Shut! Silence!

CUT TO:

50 INT. DALEK - NIGHT 50

Terrible darkness. In the faint glow of technology, we can

just make out CLARA, her terrified face.

CUT TO:

51 INT. DALEK - NIGHT / INT. CAVES. TUNNELS - NIGHT 51

We now intercut between CLARA in the DALEK, and MISSY in the

tunnel.

The head-lights of the DALEK slowly flicker on, then the iris

light.

MISSY:

Good girl, very good. Are you okay?

On CLARA in the dark. When she speaks, a strange thing

happens. We hear her voice and - like simultaneous

translation - we hear the DALEK voice.

CLARA DALEK:

Fine, I think. Fine, I think.

(NB The DALEKS voice is always a tiny fraction behind

CLARA's. Also we only hear CLARA if we’re INSIDE the DALEK.

While outside the DALEK, we just hear the DALEK voice.)

CLARA registers the double voice.

CLARA (cont'd) DALEK (cont'd)

Okay -Okay

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Now cutting outside the DALEK.

DALEK (cont’d)

-that’s a bit weird.

(NB When the CLARA DALEK speaks it is the usual, monotone,

grating voice.)

MISSY:

Now say your name.

DALEK:

Why?

MISSY:

Just say it.

Inside the DALEK.

CLARA DALEK:

Clara. Dalek.

CLARA frowns. What?

MISSY:

Try again.

CLARA DALEK:

Clara Oswald. Dalek. Dalek.

MISSY:

One more time!

CLARA DALEK:

(Visibly frustrated now)

I am Clara Oswald. I am Clara

I am a Dalek. I am a Dalek.

Oswald!

Outside the DALEK.

DALEK (cont’d)

I am a Dalek!! I am Dalek!!

And the DALEK fires its gun.

Effortlessly, MISSY slips out of the way of the beam.

MISSY:

Don’t get emotional. Emotion fires

the gun.

Inside:

CLARA DALEK:

I don’t understand. I do not understand.

MISSY:

Say “I love you”. Those exact words

-don’t ask why, just do it.

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CLARA DALEK:

I love you. Exterminate.

What??

MISSY:

Say “You are different from me.”

CLARA DALEK:

You are different from me. Exterminate! Exterminate!

MISSY's face:
incandescent with fascination and delight.

MISSY:

Say exterminate!

CLARA hesitates, then:

CLARA DALEK:

Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!

Exterminate!!

As the DALEK squawks, it spins round and round, firing and

firing

-MISSY, so fluid, and fast, just dances and pirouettes out

of the way, laughing all the time.

The firing stops.

In the DALEK, CLARA flops, exhausted, freaked out.

MISSY:

Cybermen suppress emotion - Daleks

channel it. Through a gun. That’s

why they keep yelling Exterminate -

it’s how they reload.

(Big grin)

So let’s go and kill them!!

CUT TO:

52 INT. SICK ROOM - DAY 52

THE DOCTOR, agitated, moving round the chamber, like he’s

searching for something.

DAVROS:

What are you looking for?

THE DOCTOR:

I don’t know. A way out? Maybe a

packet of mints.

DAVROS:

What are you running from?

Temptation, perhaps.

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THE DOCTOR:

I just run, it’s a habit.

DAVROS:

Which brings me to a question. One

I have longed to ask you.

THE DOCTOR:

If you’re going to put a hand on my

knee, it isn’t going to go well.

DAVROS:

Why did you leave Gallifrey?

THE DOCTOR - caught out, by the question. Did not expect

that.

THE DOCTOR:

... because I did.

DAVROS:

You stole a TARDIS, and ran and

ran. Why?

THE DOCTOR, moving away from DAVROS again, evading.

THE DOCTOR:

Boring place, Gallifrey, I was

going out of my mind.

DAVROS:

Yet you long to return.

THE DOCTOR:

I’m inconsistent.

DAVROS:

But it’s always the same lie.

THE DOCTOR:

What lie?

DAVROS:

You weren’t bored. No one runs the

way you have run, for so small a

reason.

THE DOCTOR:

I do.

DAVROS:

No, you don’t.

THE DOCTOR:
saying nothing.

DAVROS spins his chair, goes to table. There is a little box,

containing -

Oh!

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