Doctor who the end of the world Page #5

Season #1 Episode #2

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[Space]

COMPUTER:
Earth Death in two minutes. Earth Death in two minutes.

[Maintenance duct]

COMPUTER:
Heat levels critical.

[Engine room]

COMPUTER:
Heat levels critical.

DOCTOR:
Oh. And guess where the switch is.

(On the other side of the turning razor sharp fans.)

COMPUTER:
Heat levels rising. Heat levels rising.

(The Doctor pulls a breaker lever and the fans slow a little, but it resets as soon as he lets go of it.)

COMPUTER:
External temperature five thousand degrees.

(Jabe pulls the breaker and holds it down.)

DOCTOR:
You can't. The heat's going to vent through this place.

JABE:
I know.

DOCTOR:
Jabe, you're made of wood.

JABE:
Then stop wasting time, Time Lord.

COMPUTER:
Heat levels rising. Heat levels rising.

[Observation gallery]

COMPUTER:
Heat levels hazardous.

(The observation window begins to crack.)

MOXX:
We're going to die!

COMPUTER:
Heat levels hazardous.

(The Doctor makes it past the first fan.)

[Gallery 15]

(The window begins to crack here, too.)

COMPUTER:
Shields malfunction. Shields malfunction. Shields malfunction.

(Random pieces of deadly glare lance into the room.)

[Engine room]

COMPUTER:
Heat levels critical. Heat levels critical.

(The Doctor looks back at Jabe, then times his run past the second fan.

Glare lances through into the main observation gallery.)

COMPUTER:
Heat levels rising. Heat levels rising.

(Jabe starts to combust. She lets go of the breaker and the fans speed up to faster than before until they are just a blur.)

COMPUTER:
Planet explodes in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five

(The Doctor shuts his eyes and walks past the last fan.)

COMPUTER:
Four.

(He opens his eyes, realises he is safe and dashes for the reset breaker.)

DOCTOR:
Raise shields!

[Gallery 15]

COMPUTER:
One.

(A forcefield envelopes Platform One as the Earth starts to boil, then explodes.)

COMPUTER:
Exoglass repair. Exoglass repair. Exoglass repair.

(Rose opens her eyes as the cracks in the window vanish, and she sees the fractured remains of home floating by.)

COMPUTER:
Exoglass repair.

(In the engine rooms, the fans have slowed right down for the Doctor to walk back easily to Jabe's smoking remains.)

[Observation gallery]

(Rose enters. The Moxx of Balhoon had got fried by the glare. The Doctor enters and goes over to the two other trees. He gives them the bad news.)

DOCTOR:
I'm sorry.

ROSE:
You all right?

DOCTOR:
Yeah, I'm fine. I'm full of ideas, I'm bristling with them. Idea number one, teleportation through five thousand degrees needs some kind of feed. Idea number two, this feed must be hidden nearby.

(He smashes open the alleged ostrich egg to reveal a small device.)

DOCTOR:
Idea number three, if you're as clever as me, then a teleportation feed can be reversed.

CASSANDRA [OC]:
Oh, you should have seen their little alien faces.

(Cassandra is beamed back in.)

CASSANDRA:
Oh.

DOCTOR:
The last human.

CASSANDRA:
So, you passed my little test. Bravo. This makes you eligible to join, er, the Human Club.

DOCTOR:
People have died, Cassandra. You murdered them.

CASSANDRA:
It depends on your definition of people, and that's enough of a technicality to keep your lawyers dizzy for centuries. Take me to court, then, Doctor, and watch me smile and cry and flutter

DOCTOR:
And creak?

CASSANDRA:
And what?

DOCTOR:
Creak. You're creaking.

CASSANDRA:
What? Ah! I'm drying out! Oh, sweet heavens. Moisturise me, moisturise me! Where are my surgeons? My lovely boys! It's too hot!

DOCTOR:
You raised the temperature.

CASSANDRA:
Have pity! Moisturise me! Oh, oh, Doctor. I'm sorry. I'll do anything.

ROSE:
Help her.

DOCTOR:
Everything has its time and everything dies.

CASSANDRA:
I'm too young!

(Splat!)

[Space]

COMPUTER:
Shuttles four and six departing. This unit now closing down for maintenance.

[Observation gallery]

(Only Rose and the Doctor are left, looking at the asteroids that were once the Earth as they float past the red giant Sun.)

ROSE:
The end of the Earth. It's gone. We were too busy saving ourselves. No one saw it go. All those years, all that history, and no one was even looking. It's just

DOCTOR:
Come with me.

[London]

(A baby cries, a man laughs. The Doctor and Rose stand in the middle of teeming people going about their daily lives.)

MAN:
Big Issue! Big Issue!

DOCTOR:
You think it'll last forever, people and cars and concrete, but it won't. One day it's all gone. Even the sky. My planet's gone. It's dead. It burned like the Earth. It's just rocks and dust before its time.

ROSE:
What happened?

DOCTOR:
There was a war and we lost.

ROSE:
A war with who? What about your people?

DOCTOR:
I'm a Time Lord. I'm the last of the Time Lords. They're all gone. I'm the only survivor. I'm left travelling on my own 'cos there's no one else.

ROSE:
There's me.

DOCTOR:
You've seen how dangerous it is. Do you want to go home?

ROSE:
I don't know. I want. Oh, can you smell chips?

DOCTOR:
Yeah. Yeah.

ROSE:
I want chips.

DOCTOR:
Me too.

ROSE:
Right then, before you get me back in that box, chips it is, and you can pay.

DOCTOR:
No money.

ROSE:
What sort of date are you? Come on then, tightwad, chips are on me. We've only got five billion years till the shops close.

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