Doctor who the unquiet dead Page #4

Season #1 Episode #3

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[Morgue]

(A cold basement where the recently departed lie under white sheets.)

DOCTOR:
Urgh. Talk about Bleak House.

ROSE:
The thing is, Doctor, the Gelth don't succeed, 'cos I know they don't. I know for a fact there weren't corpses walking around in 1869.

DOCTOR:
Time's in flux, changing every second. Your cozy little world can be rewritten like that. Nothing is safe. Remember that. Nothing.

DICKENS:
Doctor, I think the room is getting colder.

ROSE:
Here they come.

(A Gelth comes out of a gas lamp by the door and stands under a stone archway.)

GELTH:
You've come to help. Praise the Doctor. Praise him.

ROSE:
Promise you won't hurt her.

GELTH:
Hurry! Please, so little time. Pity the Gelth.

DOCTOR:
I'll take you somewhere else after the transfer. Somewhere you can build proper bodies. This isn't a permanent solution, all right?

GWYNETH:
My angels. I can help them live.

DOCTOR:
Okay, where's the weak point?

GELTH:
Here, beneath the arch.

GWYNETH:
Beneath the arch.

(Gwyneth stands under the arch, inside the Gelth.)

ROSE:
You don't have to do this.

GWYNETH:
My angels.

GELTH:
Establish the bridge. Reach out to the void. Let us through!

GWYNETH:
Yes, I can see you. I can see you. Come!

GELTH:
Bridgehead establishing.

GWYNETH:
Come to me. Come to this world, poor lost souls!

GELTH:
It is begun. The bridge is made.

(Gwyneth opens her mouth, and blue gas comes out.)

GELTH:
She has given herself to the Gelth. The bridge is open. We descend.

(The sweet blue apparition turns flame red with sharp teeth. It's voice deepens and hardens.)

GELTH:
The Gelth will come through in force.

DICKENS:
You said that you were few in number.

GELTH:
A few billion. And all of us in need of corpses.

(The dead get up.)

SNEED:
Gwyneth, stop this. Listen to your master. This has gone far enough. Stop dabbling, child, and leave these things alone, I beg of you

ROSE:
Mister Sneed, get back!

(A corpse grabs Sneed and snaps his neck. A Gelth zooms into his mouth.)

DOCTOR:
I think it's gone a little bit wrong.

SNEED:
I have joined the legions of the Gelth. Come, march with us.

DICKENS:
No.

GELTH:
We need bodies. All of you. Dead. The human race. Dead.

DOCTOR:
Gwyneth, stop them! Send them back now!

GELTH:
Three more bodies. Convert them. Make them vessels for the Gelth.

(Dead Sneed backs Rose and the Doctor up against a metal gate.)

DICKENS:
Doctor, I can't. I'm sorry. This new world of yours is too much for me. I'm so

(The Doctor and Rose hide behind the metal gate, where the corpses cannot reach them.)

GELTH:
Give yourself to glory. Sacrifice your lives for the Gelth.

DOCTOR:
I trusted you. I pitied you!

GELTH:
We don't want your pity. We want this world and all it's flesh.

DOCTOR:
Not while I'm alive.

GELTH:
Then live no more.

(Dickens runs out of the house, but blue gas seeps out round the door. He runs down the street, chased by a Gelph.)

ROSE:
But I can't die. Tell me I can't. I haven't even been born yet. It's impossible for me to die. Isn't it?

DOCTOR:
I'm sorry.

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