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THE DOCTOR:

Let me have a look.

What he doesn’t see, behind him: some of the cables flex and

shimmer as if in anticipation.

Now THE DOCTOR turns and walks towards the cables...

CUT TO:

55 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL / INT. CLARA DALEK - DAWN 55

The DALEKS, waiting. At their centre, the SUPREME DALEK.

Now, entering through the arch

MISSY! She is followed by the DALEK they just spoke to, and

the CLARA/DALEK.

MISSY:

Oh, hello! Look at you all, with

your shiny domes, loving this.

(Aside to one Dalek)

You’re my secret favourite - don’t

tell the others.

SUPREME DALEK:

You are an enemy of the Daleks.

MISSY:

Well anyone who’s not a Dalek is an

enemy of the Daleks, so that was an

easy guess

SUPREME DALEK:

You will be exterminated.

MISSY:

Oh, please do. I’ve been on my feet

all day. But before you get all

exterminatey - two things. One. I

want to see Davros. And two, I’ve

got a little gift for you all, if

you take me to him right now.

SUPREME DALEK:

We do not negotiate.

(CONTINUED)

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MISSY:

Clara Oswald.

Inside the DALEK: CLARA tenses! Why did she do that? Why did

she mention her??

MISSY (cont’d)

You heard the Doctor talking about

her. You know what she means to

him. I brought you complete control

of the Doctor, gift-wrapped.

Better! Canned.

CUT TO:

56 INT. SICK ROOM - DAWN 56

The row of mountains, the sky brightening beyond ...

On DAVROS, staring at this view from his window. Beyond and

behind, THE DOCTOR is working among the hanging cables.

DAVROS:

It is beautiful, my world, is it

not?

THE DOCTOR:

How did you get it back?

DAVROS:

The Daleks remade it. Like you,

they have a strong concept of home.

THE DOCTOR:

No, like you. Everything you are,

they are.

DAVROS:

Like both of us, perhaps. How far

we have come, to go home again.

THE DOCTOR now pulls a cable to DAVROS's chair - starts

wiring it in.

THE DOCTOR:

I’m trying to pep this up, but

you’ve been going a long time.

Every Dalek on Skaro isn’t enough,

any more.

DAVROS:

It is so good of you to help me.

THE DOCTOR:

I’m not helping you. I’m helping a

little boy I abandoned on a

battlefield. I think I owe him a

sunrise.

(CONTINUED)

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THE DOCTOR (cont’d)

Chin up.

(Glances at the window)

Any minute now...

DAVROS raising his head - so painful, such effort.

DAVROS:

... I have always admired you,

Doctor. I have never said so ...

(Coughs, splutters)

... but I have always held you in

the utmost ... regard ...

His head drops again. THE DOCTOR, working at the cables.

Doesn’t notice a few twitch behind him, as he glances towards

the window.

The window:
the sun is just peeping over the mountains now...

THE DOCTOR:

Here it comes.

DAVROS forces his head back up. But his eyes are flickering

shut now ...

DAVROS:

... I wish ... just once ... we had

been on the same side.

THE DOCTOR:

Look. The sun’s coming up. We’re on

the same side now.

On DAVROS's ancient face. It is bathed in the orange glow of

dawn - but he can’t see it.

DAVROS:

I regret ... I cannot open my eyes

...

His breathing, laboured now. The end is coming.

THE DOCTOR - moved, in spite of himself.

THE DOCTOR:

Okay. Don’t ever tell anyone I did

this.

He looks at his hand - it is starting to glow, with

regeneration energy.

THE DOCTOR (cont’d)

Tiny little bit of regeneration

energy - probably cost me an arm or

a leg, somewhere down the line. Or

I’ll just be really little ...

Close on DAVROS - and, oh, a change!

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A smile twitches at the corner of his ancient mouth - a

malevolent smile

-and the blue forehead light flickers on again.

With his glowing hand, THE DOCTOR grasps several of the

cables.

THE DOCTOR (cont’d)

Should be enough, just to

And his words are silenced by his cry of pain.

Several of the hanging cables - the ones that are a secretly

snakes - lash out at him, grab him by both wrists, violently

spreading him out. The golden glow is now pulsing from both

his hands, and along the cables.

DAVROS, now rotating in his chair to face him.

DAVROS:

Hold him firm, Colony Sarff. He is

precious to us now.

THE DOCTOR, crying out in pain.

THE DOCTOR:

What ... what are you doing ...

DAVROS:

Regeneration energy - the ancient

magic of the Time Lords. I thought

I’d have to tear you apart to take

it from you - but as always, your

compassion is your downfall.

THE DOCTOR:

No!! No, please!

DAVROS:

You have opened your veins of your

own free will, and now all Daleks

shall drink the blood of Gallifrey.

They shall rise stronger than ever.

A scream is torn from THE DOCTOR - terrible pain.

DAVROS (cont’d)

You see, Doctor. Just as I dreamed

it. You and I, on the same side at

last.

THE DOCTOR screaming and screaming...

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57 INT. DALEK CITY. DALEK CONTROL / INT. CLARA DALEK - DAY 57

The SUPREME DALEK and MISSY, still in confrontation.

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SUPREME DALEK:

Where is Clara Oswald?

MISSY is making a great pantomime of going from one DALEK to

another.

MISSY:

Now, hang on, was she in this one?

Maybe it was this one?

Inside the DALEK: CLARA, listening. Oh my God!!

SUPREME DALEK:

You will tell us!

MISSY:

Okay, here’s an idea - everybody

strip!

SUPREME DALEK:

You will tell us!! YOU WILL TELL

US!! YOU WILL

The SUPREME DALEK's voice just cuts dead. Every DALEK

eyestalk in the room just drops. All the iris lights go out.

(The CLARA DALEK is the only exception.)

MISSY, looking around in confusion.

MISSY:

Sorry, was I boring you?

But now her eyes are widening in horror. No! No!!

The golden glow of regeneration is drifting through their

grilles.

MISSY (cont’d)

No! Doctor, no, what have you

done??

Inside the DALEK:

CLARA:

What’s happening?

DALEK:

What is happening?

MISSY:

I have to find the Doctor.

She is racing from the room CLARA/

DALEK starts to follow.

Inside the DALEK:

CLARA DALEK:

No, stop, you can’t leave me Exterminate! Exterminate!

here. Help me! Exterminate!

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INT. SICK ROOM - DAY 58

DAVROS, still exulting. THE DOCTOR, still trapped, agonised.

DAVROS:

There was a prophecy, Doctor, on

your own world.

THE DOCTOR:

Please ... you must ... stop this.

DAVROS:

It spoke of a hybrid creature. Two

great warrior races forced together

to create a warrior greater than

either. Is that what you ran from?

Your part in the coming of the

Hybrid? Half Dalek - half Time

Lord!

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