Épisode Journey's End ... La fin du voyage (2/2) S04E13 - Doctor Who (2005) Saison 4

Résumé épisode 413 "La fin du voyage"

(suite de l'épisode 412)

Après le tir mortel du Dalek, le Docteur est en pleine régénération. Pourtant, il ne veut pas et utilise alors une partie de l'énergie de la régénération pour se guérir des blessures infligées par le Dalek, puis il dirige son surplus d'énergie vers sa main coupée et conservée dans un bocal au pied de la console de commande. Il ne change donc pas, à la grande stupéfaction des autres occupants du Tardis.

Pendant ce temps-là, Mickey et Jackie se téléportent juste à temps pour sauver Sarah Jane de l'extermination. A Torchwood, Gwen Cooper et Ianto Jones sont sauvés des Daleks grâce à une bulle temporelle, installée avant sa mort par Toshiko Sato.

Malheureusement, le Tardis est capturé grâce à une prison temporelle et envoyé sur le Crucible, le vaisseau mère des Daleks.

Afin de retrouver Rose et le Docteur, Sarah Jane, Jackie et Mickey se laissent capturer et sont envoyés sur le Crucible. Martha, quant à elle, se téléporte près d’une station de l’UNIT, située à 60 miles de Nuremberg.

Dans le Tardis, les quatre amis essayent de comprendre ce que veulent faire les Daleks avec les planètes. Rose explique qu'elle a vu les mondes disparaître, même le Void, toutes les dimensions disparaissent. Elle a également vu que Donna aurait un rôle important à jouer.

A bord du Crucible, n’étant plus à l’abri à l’intérieur de la machine à remonter le temps, le Docteur, Rose et Jack décident d’affronter Davros, et toute l'équipe sort du vaisseau, sauf Donna, qui se retrouve enfermée à l’intérieur du Tardis.

Les Daleks considérant le Tardis comme une arme, il est envoyé dans un incinérateur afin d’être détruit, alors que le Docteur hurle qu'ils ne peuvent pas faire ça. Désespéré, il voit le Tardis (avec Donna à l'intérieur) être envoyé au coeur d'un feu.

Alors que le Tardis chute, Donna, malgré sa peur, remarque alors la main du Docteur, brillant grâce à l’énergie résiduelle due à la régénération du gallifréen. Curieuse malgré sa situation, Donna semble attirée par la main et la touche. L’énergie se déplace alors en elle, le choc provoqué l'éjectant à quelques mètres. Cette énergie fait aussi se former un nouveau Docteur, identique à l'actuel. Il sauve le Tardis de la destruction, avant de revêtir le costume bleu du Docteur et de découvrir qu'il n’a qu’un cœur.

A bord du Crucible, tous croient que le Tardis a été détruit, Jack attaque alors un Dalek qui riposte. Il fait croire aux Daleks qu'il est mort. Le Docteur et Rose sont alors emmenés jusqu'à Davros. Celui-ci leur explique que les 27 planètes forment un champ de compression pour l’énergie qui peut éliminer l’énergie électrique des atomes. La bombe de réalités du père des Daleks a le potentiel de détruire toute matière dans chaque univers. La réalité elle-même serait détruite. Seuls les Daleks, s'étant mis à l'abri, survivront.

La bombe est testée sur des civils, et Jackie y réchappe de peu. Les Daleks reçoivent deux transmissions : l’une de Sarah Jane, Jackie, Mickey et Jack, qui menacent d’utiliser un cristal explosif pour détruire le Crucible, l'autre de Martha qui annonce qu’elle détruira la 27ème planète, la Terre, à l’aide de la clé d’Osterhagen si les Daleks ne se rendent pas.

Le Docteur comprend alors que la prophétie de Dalek Caan, prédisant qu'à la fin les compagnons du Docteur seront réunis, que l'un d'entre eux mourra et que l'âme du Seigneur du Temps sera révélée est en train de s'accomplir. Lui, qui revendique ne jamais utiliser d'arme pour lutter contre le mal, transforme en quelque sorte les humains en armes. Beaucoup sont morts en son nom, pour l'aider à combattre le mal. Mais les Daleks téléportent Jackie, Mickey, Sarah Jane, Jack et Martha auprès de Davros. Ils se retrouvent alors impuissants.

Alors que Davros s’apprête à utiliser la bombe de réalités, le Tardis se matérialise et l’autre Docteur et Donna s’élancent dans la bataille mais sont tous deux neutralisés immédiatement par Davros. Cependant, le coup asséné à Donna, ainsi que le choc causé lorsque celle-ci a touché la main, réveille l’énergie de la régénération absorbée par la jeune femme. Donna a désormais l’esprit du Docteur. Elle est devenue mi-humaine, mi-seigneur du temps.

Donna utilise sa nouvelle intelligence pour arrêter la détonation et mettre les gardes de Davros hors d’état de nuire, utilisant un langage digne de celui des Seigneurs du temps, sous les regards ahuris ou admiratifs du reste de l'équipe. Davros est furieux, Caan aurait dû prédire cela, mais le dernier membre du culte de Skaro était parfaitement au courant, il avait vu l’entièreté du temps et a décidé de conspirer contre sa race.

Le Docteur, l’autre Docteur et Donna remettent à leur place 26 planètes, mais malheureusement, le panneau de contrôle est mis hors service par le Dalek suprême. La 27ème planète, la Terre, n'a pas eu le temps d'être récupérée. Qu'à cela ne tienne, la planète sera relocalisée à l’aide du Tardis.

Mais, alors que le Docteur est occupé dans son vaisseau, l’autre Docteur est pris à parti par Caan, il doit remplir sa prophétie et détruire les Daleks. Ce qu’il fait, avant de subir la colère du Seigneur du temps. Le Docteur offre à Davros de le sauver, mais ce dernier refuse, le nommant « le destructeur des mondes ».

À bord du Tardis, tous les compagnons (à l’exception de Jackie) conduisent le Tardis afin de remettre la Terre en orbite, avec l’aide du rift de Cardiff et de Mr Smith, l’ordinateur de Sarah Jane.

Une fois la Terre sauvée, au moment des au revoir, Sarah Jane décide de retourner chez elle auprès de son fils, alors que Martha et Mickey suivent Jack, avec, peut-être, l’intention de rejoindre les rangs de Torchwood.

Le Docteur fait ensuite route vers l’autre monde, où il laisse Jackie, Rose et son double. Rose est au bord des larmes, elle a fait tout ce chemin pour voyager avec lui, pour être à ses côtés. Le Docteur lui dit alors que son double a besoin d'elle pour le rendre meilleur, comme elle a fait avec lui. Il a détruit toute une race, il ne peut être laissé seul. L’autre Docteur lui révèle alors qu'il n’a qu’un cœur. Physiquement, il est humain. Il vieillira avec elle, si elle veut bien de lui. La jeune fille les met donc au défi. Lorsqu’ils l’ont vue la dernière fois, qu’allaient-ils lui dire ? Le Docteur gallifréen ne peut répondre qu’un pauvre « Ai-je besoin de le dire ? » alors que son double humain se penche vers elle, et lui murmure à l'oreille sans doute les trois mots tant espérés et gagne le baiser de Rose.

Alors que Rose et son Docteur s’embrassent, le Docteur et Donna s’éclipsent sans un mot et Rose voit le Tardis disparaître de sa vie.

Hélas, le cerveau humain de Donna ne peut supporter le savoir d’un Seigneur du temps sous peine de mourir. Le Docteur tente de le lui expliquer mais elle le supplie de la laisser rester avec lui jusqu'à la fin. Le Docteur, ignorant les prières de la jeune femme, doit effacer sa mémoire afin de lui sauver la vie.

Il laisse donc Donna aux bons soins de sa mère et de son grand-père après les avoir mis en garde : elle ne doit jamais se souvenir de lui et de leurs aventures sous peine de mourir.

Sylvia et Wilf sont tristes parce que Donna va retourner à sa vie banale sans se souvenir de tout ce qu'elle a vécu de merveilleux avec le Docteur. Celui-ci les réconforte en leur rappelant qu'elle a sauvé des mondes, et que loin dans l'espace, des peuples chantent des chansons en hommage à Donna. Cependant, elle ne le saura jamais.

Alors que le Docteur est sur le point de partir, Wilfred lui promet de regarder le ciel et de penser à lui de temps en temps, de la part de Donna. Le seigneur du temps entre dans son Tardis, seul une fois de plus, et triste.

 

FIN

 

Écrit par Hombidule pour Doctor Who HypnoSeries.

Script VO épisode 413 "Journey's end"

(Recap of 412).

OPENING CREDITS

The Doctor stands in front of the console, the regeneration energy bursting out through the sleeves and neck of his suit. After a few seconds, he turns around and directs the energy towards the hand in the jar, making it glow and bubble wildly. The energy fades away and the Doctor leans to a support, gasping, but still looking the same.

DOCTOR : Now then. Where were we ?

Donna, Rose and Jack stare at him in disbelief.

Sarah Jane covers her face with her arms, waiting for the death ray.

DALEKS : Exterminate ! Exterminate !

With flashes of blue light, Mickey and Jackie appear beside the car and they blast the Daleks. Sarah Jane gets out of the car, shocked.

SARAH JANE : Mickey ?

MICKEY : Us Smiths gotta stick together !

JACKIE : Jackie Tyler. Rose's mum. Now where the hell is my daughter ?!

INT. HUB

Gwen and Ianto shoot at the Dalek, raging. But they notice something strange and they cease fire. They walk forward cautiously and see their bullets hang in the air, like stopped by an invisible wall. Gwen reaches out slowly to touch it - she can't, but her finger makes a ripple in the air.

GWEN : What the hell...?

The Doctor is on his hands and knees in front of the hand in the jar, which is still glowing and bubbling.

DOCTOR : There now...

He blows onto the jar, the glow fades away and the bubbling stops.

DOCTOR (sitting up) : You see ? Used the regeneration energy to heal myself, but soon as I was done, I didn't need to change. I didn't want to, why would I ? (he adjust his tie with a smug expression). Look at me ! So, to stop the energy going all the way, I siphoned off the rest into a handy bio-matching receptacle, namely, my hand, my hand there, my handy spare hand !

He stands up and talks to Rose.

DOCTOR (to Rose) : Remember, Christmas Day, Sycorax, lost my hand in a sword fight ? That's my hand. What d'you think ?

ROSE (slowly walking forward) : You - you're still you ?

DOCTOR : I'm still me.

After all that time, they finally hug each other. Jack and Donna smile, so happy for them.

DONNA (to Jack) : You can hug me, if you want.

Jack laughs.

DONNA (seriously) : No, really, you can hug me !

Gwen and Ianto are working on a computer trying to find out what stopped the bullets and the Dalek.

IANTO : It's a Time Lock ! The ultimate defence programme. Tosh was working on it, never thought she finished it, but she did ! The Hub's sealed in a time bubble, nothing can get in.

GWEN : But that means we can't get out.

IANTO : Nope. Not without unlocking that Dalek. We're trapped inside. It's all up to Jack now.

Four Daleks surround the TARDIS.

DALEK : Report ! TARDIS has been located !

SUPREME DALEK (via intercom) : Bring it here ! Bring the Doctor to me ! Initiate temporal prison !

The Daleks glide back as a shining blue circle appears around the TARDIS.

DALEK : Temporal prison initiated !

Inside, the console room goes dark.

DOCTOR : They've got us ! Power's gone ! Some kind of chronon loop...

The ship rocks as it is pulled up towards the sky. Sarah Jane, Mickey and Jackie are hiding behind a van, watching the TARDIS fly away.

DALEK : Transferring TARDIS to the Crucible.

SARAH JANE : Those teleport things, can we use them ? If they've taken the Doctor to the Dalek spaceship, that's where we need to be.

MICKEY : It's not just a teleport, it's a Dimension Jump. Mind, this thing rips a hole in the fabric of space.

SARAH JANE : But can we use it ?

MICKEY : Not yet, it burns up energy, needs half an hour between jumps.

SARAH JANE : Then put down your guns.

MICKEY : Do what ?

SARAH JANE : If you're carrying a gun, they'll shoot you dead.

She steps out of the cover and walks towards the Daleks, her hands held up in surrender.

SARAH JANE : Daleks ! I surrender !

DALEK : All humans in this sector will be taken to the Crucible !

MICKEY : She's bloody mad !

JACKIE : Yeah, but Mickey, if they've got the Doctor, then they've got Rose.

She puts down her gun and steps forward too.

JACKIE : And us ! We surrender !

Mickey kisses his gun before he throws it down and follows Jackie.

MARTHA : Now Jack's explained the base code, I know how this teleport works. I think. But you just stay indoors, there's no Daleks on this street, you should be all right, just um... keep quiet.

FRANCINE : But where are you going ?

MARTHA : I'm a member of UNIT, and they gave me the Osterhagen Key. I've got to do my job. (she holds out her hand to keep Francine at a distance). I'm sorry.

FRANCINE : Martha. What's an Osterhagen Key ? Tell me. What does it do ?

MARTHA (with a sob) : Love you.

She teleports away.

GERMANY - 60 miles outside Nuremberg

Martha lands in a forest. She can hear Daleks nearby.

DALEK #1 : Exterminieren ! Exterminieren !

DALEK #2 : Halt ! Sonst werden wir Sie exterminieren ! Sie sind jetzt ein Gefangener der Daleks ! [Stop ! Or you will be exterminated ! You are now a prisoner of the Daleks !]

Martha peers through the woods and sees several Daleks gliding through the forest.

DALEK #1 : Exterminieren ! Exterminieren !

Martha runs in the opposite direction.

JACK : There's a massive Dalek ship at the centre of the planets. They're calling it the Crucible. Guess that's our destination.

DONNA (to the Doctor) : You said these planets were like an engine. But what for ?

DOCTOR : Rose ! You've been in a parallel world, that world's running ahead of this universe. You've seen the future. What was it ?

ROSE : It's the darkness.

DONNA (remembering) : The stars were going out.

ROSE : One by one. We looked up at the sky and they were just dying. Basically, we've been building this, um... this travel machine, this... this, er, Dimension Cannon, so I c- well, so, I could...

DOCTOR : What ?

ROSE : So I could come back. (the Doctor grins at her). Shut up. Anyway, suddenly, it started to work and the dimensions started to collapse. Not just in our world, not just in yours, but the whole of reality. Even the Void was dead. Something is destroying everything.

DONNA : In that parallel world... you said something about me.

ROSE : The Dimension Cannon could measure timelines, and it's... it's weird, Donna, but they all seemed to converge on you.

DONNA : But why me ? I mean, what have I ever done ? I'm a temp. From Chiswick !

There's a beep and the Doctor leans towards the monitor.

DOCTOR : The Dalek Crucible. All aboard !

The Daleks transferred the TARDIS to the bridge of the Crucible.

DALEK : The TARDIS is secured.

SUPREME DALEK : Doctor, you will step forth or die.

DOCTOR : We'll have to go out. Cos if we don't, they'll get in.

ROSE : You told me nothing could get through those doors.

JACK : You've got extrapolator shielding !

DOCTOR : Last time we fought the Daleks, they were scavengers and hybrids and mad. But this is a fully-fledged Dalek Empire, at the height of its power. Experts at fighting TARDISes, they can do anything. Right now, that wooden door... is just wood.

A bit further from the others, Donna is lost in her own world, the heartbeat echoing in her head again.

JACK : What about your Dimension Jump ?

ROSE : It needs another 20 minutes, and anyway, I'm not leaving.

DOCTOR : What about your teleport ?

JACK : Went down with the power loss.

DOCTOR : Right, then, all of us together... Yeah.

He notices Donna's absence from the conversation.

DOCTOR : Donna ?

He walks to Donna who is still listening to the mysterious heartbeat.

DOCTOR : Donna ?

DONNA (snapped out of trance) : Yeah.

DOCTOR : I'm sorry. There's nothing else we can do.

DONNA : Look, I know.

SUPREME DALEK : Surrender, Doctor, and face your Dalek masters.

DALEK : Crucible on maximum alert.

ROSE (with a nervous laugh) : Daleks.

JACK (laughing too) : Oh, God !

DOCTOR : It's been good, though, hasn't it ? All of us, all of it. Everything we did. (to Donna) : You were brilliant.

She smiles at him. The Doctor turns to Jack.

DOCTOR : And you were brilliant.

Jack grins at him. The Doctor looks at Rose.

DOCTOR : And you were brilliant. (he takes a deep breath). Blimey !

The Doctor steps out of the TARDIS, followed by Rose and Jack.

SUPREME DALEK : Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks !

DALEKS : Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks ! Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks !

Donna is walking towards the door, but she stops when she hears the heartbeat again.

DALEKS : Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks ! Daleks reign supreme. All hail the Daleks !

The Doctor, Rose and Jack watch the countless Daleks swarming in the air.

SUPREME DALEK : Behold, Doctor ! Behold the might of the true Dalek race !

Donna is still in the TARDIS. She looks back to the hand in the jar, trying to find where the heartbeat comes from. The Doctor notices that she's still inside.

DOCTOR : Donna, you're no safer in there.

Donna turns back towards the door, but it is slammed shut before she could follow the others.

DOCTOR (running to the TARDIS) : What ?

DONNA (banging the door from inside) : Doctor ? What have you done ?

DOCTOR : It wasn't me, I didn't do anything !

DONNA : Oi ! Oi, I'm not staying behind !

DOCTOR (to the Supreme Dalek) : What did you do ?!

SUPREME DALEK : This is not of Dalek origin.

DONNA : Doctor !

DOCTOR : Stop it ! She's my friend, now open the door and let her out !

SUPREME DALEK : This is Time Lord treachery.

DOCTOR : Me ? The door just closed on its own !

SUPREME DALEK : Nevertheless, the TARDIS is a weapon and it will be destroyed.

A trapdoor opens beneath the TARDIS and it falls down.

DOCTOR : What are you doing ? Bring it back !

Donna is clinging to the railings as the TARDIS falls through an endless tunnel.

DONNA : Doctor !

DOCTOR : What've you done, where's it going ?!

SUPREME DALEK : The Crucible has a heart of Z-Neutrino Energy. The TARDIS will be deposited into the core.

DOCTOR (horrified) : You can't, you've taken the defences down, it'll be torn apart !

The TARDIS lands in the energy globe at the heart of the Crucible. The console room is in flames, lights in the walls smash and Donna screams as she climbs back to the console.

ROSE : But Donna's still in there !

JACK : Let her go !

SUPREME DALEK : The female and the TARDIS will perish together. Observe !

He activates a holographic screen that shows the TARDIS, bobbing in the energy field.

SUPREME DALEK : The last child of Gallifrey is powerless.

DOCTOR (in panic) : Please, I'm begging you, I'll do anything ! Put me in her place, you can do anything to me, I don't care, just get her out of there !

Donna is on her hands and knees, coughing in the smoke. But suddenly she hears the heartbeat again, and, as in a trance, she turns to the hand in the jar. She reaches out to touch it and the regeneration energy appears again, sweeping up her hand. Donna gasps and shakes as the light engulfs her. The jar smashes.

The Doctor watches the screen in despair, breathing heavily.

SUPREME DALEK : You are connected to the TARDIS. Now feel it die !

Donna sits up and looks curiously at the hand. It's now on the floor, still glowing, the fingers twitching. The energy reaches out until the shape of a man appears. Fully formed, he sits up - the energy fades away, revealing the Doctor.

DONNA (stunned) : It's you...

NEW DOCTOR : Oh, yes !

DONNA (glances at him then quickly away) : You're naked.

NEW DOCTOR : Oh, yes.

Rose walks to the Doctor and takes his hand as they watch the TARDIS on the screen.

SUPREME DALEK : Total TARDIS destruction in ten rels, nine, eight, seven, six...

The new Doctor pushes some buttons on the console.

SUPREME DALEK (VO) : ... five, four, three, two, one...

The TARDIS disappears.

SUPREME DALEK : The TARDIS has been destroyed. Now tell me, Doctor. What do you feel ? Anger ? Sorrow ? Despair ?

DOCTOR (lost for words) : Yeah.

SUPREME DALEK : Then if emotions are so important, surely we have enhanced you ?

JACK : Yeah ? Feel this !

He shoots at the Supreme Dalek with his handgun, causing no harm at all.

SUPREME DALEK : Exterminate !

The death ray hits Jack and he collapses, dead. Rose kneels down to him.

ROSE : Jack ! Oh, my God ! Oh, no !

DOCTOR : Rose, come here, leave him.

ROSE : They killed him.

DOCTOR : I know. I'm sorry.

SUPREME DALEK : Escort them to the Vault.

The Doctor pulls Rose up.

DOCTOR : There's nothing we can do.

SUPREME DALEK : They are the playthings of Davros now.

The Doctor looks back to Jack who winks at him.

Now wearing a blue suit, the new Doctor is checking the walls of the TARDIS.

NEW DOCTOR : All repaired, lovely ! Ssh ! No-one knows we're here. Gotta keep quiet. Silent running, like on submarines when you can't even drop a spanner. Don't drop a spanner ! I like blue, what d'you think ?

DONNA : You. Are. Bonkers !

NEW DOCTOR : Why ?! What's wrong with blue ?

DONNA : Is that what Time Lords do ? Lop a bit off, grow another one ? You're like worms !

NEW DOCTOR : No no no no no, I'm unique. Never been another like me. Cos all that regeneration energy went into the hand. Look at my hand ! I love that hand ! But then you touched it, WHAM ! (Donna jumps and yells). Ssh ! Instantaneous biological metacrisis. I grew... (taken aback) out of you ! Still, could be worse.

DONNA : Oi ! Watch it, Spaceman !

NEW DOCTOR (sounding like her) : Oi ! Watch it, Earthgirl !

Donna's mouth hangs open from surprise - and so does the new Doctor's.

NEW DOCTOR : Oh... I sound like you. I sound all... all sort of... rough.

DONNA : Oi !

NEW DOCTOR : Oi !

DONNA : Oi !

NEW DOCTOR : Spanners, ssh ! I must've picked up a bit of your voice, that's all. (talking just like Donna). Is it ? Did I ? No ! Oh, you are kidding me, no way. One heart. (shocked, feeling his chest). I've got one heart ! This body has got only one heart !

DONNA : What ? (touching his chest). What, like you're human ?

NEW DOCTOR : Oh, that's disgusting !

DONNA : Oi !

NEW DOCTOR : Oi !

DONNA : Stop it !

NEW DOCTOR : No, wait, I'm... part Time Lord, part human.

They both look totally gob-smacked.

NEW DOCTOR (sarcastic) : Well, isn't that wizard ?

DONNA : I kept hearing that noise, that heartbeat...

NEW DOCTOR : Oh, that was me. My single heart. Cos I'm a complicated event in time and space, must have rippled back. Converging on you.

He walks to the console.

DONNA : But why me ?

NEW DOCTOR (like it's obvious) : 'Cos you're special.

DONNA : Oh, I keep telling you, I'm not !

NEW DOCTOR : No, but you are. (looking at her as if he's just understanding). Oh. You really don't believe that, do you ? I can see, Donna... what you're thinking. All that attitude. All that lip. Cos all this time... you think you're not worth it.

DONNA : Stop it !

NEW DOCTOR : Shouting at the world, cos no-one's listening. Well... why should they ?

DONNA : Doctor. Stop it.

NEW DOCTOR (proudly) : But look at what you did! (thinking for a moment). No, it's more than that, it's like... we were always heading for this.

Flashback : Donna appearing in the TARDIS on her wedding day.

NEW DOCTOR : You came to the TARDIS.

Another flashback : seeing each other in the Adipose building.

NEW DOCTOR (VO) : And you found me again.

Flashback : Wilf saluting the Doctor during Voyage of the Damned.

NEW DOCTOR (VO) : Your granddad.

Flashback : Donna opening the boot of her car, parked near the TARDIS.

NEW DOCTOR (VO) : Your car !

Flashback ends.

NEW DOCTOR : Donna, your car, you-you parked your car right where the TARDIS was gonna land, that's not coincidence at all ! We've been blind. Something's been drawing us together for such a long time.

DONNA : But you're talking, like... destiny. There's no such thing, is there ?

NEW DOCTOR : It's still not finished. It's like... the pattern's not complete, the strands are still drawing together. But heading for what ?

Martha arrives to an abandoned castle. And old woman comes to meet her.

GERMAN WOMAN : Hier ist niemand. Was immer Sie wollen, gehen Sie fort. Lassen Sie mich in Ruhe ! [There's nobody here. Whatever you want, just go away. Leave me alone !]

MARTHA : Ich heisse Martha Jones. Ich komme von UNIT. Agentin fuenf sechs sechs sieben eins, von der medizinishen Abteilung. [My name is Martha Jones. I come from UNIT, agent 56671, medical officer.]

GERMAN WOMAN : Es hiess Sie kaemen vorbei. [They said you might come.] That accent, that is London, ja ? I went to London. Long time ago.

MARTHA : I thought this place was supposed to be guarded.

GERMAN WOMAN : There were soldiers. Boys. I brought them food, every day. But when der Albtraum [nightmare] came from the sky... they went home, to die. But not you ?

MARTHA : I've got a job to do.

Determined, she walks into the castle. She crosses a dark room and pulls away a curtain, revealing a hidden door. She enters a code and puts her hand to the palm scanner. The woman follows her into the room.

GERMAN WOMAN : London, in those days. To see it ! So much glamour. I was so young. (pause). I heard the soldiers talking. Many times. They would speak of the Osterhagen Key. (pause). I think London must be changed now, yes ? But still, the glamour.

Martha opens the door, but turns back as she hears the woman cocking a gun.

GERMAN WOMAN : You will not go.

MARTHA : I've got no choice.

GERMAN WOMAN : I know the Key. What it does. (in tears). Sie sind der Albtraum, nicht die anderen, Sie ! Ich sollte Sie umbringen, am besten gleich jetzt ! [You are the nightmare, it's not them, it's you ! I should kill you right now !]

MARTHA (quietly) : Then do it.

The woman trembles, then lowers the gun. Martha steps into the lift behind the door.

GERMAN WOMAN : Martha... Zur Hoelle mit Dir ! [Go to hell !]

MARTHA : I know.

DALEK : Commence disposal. Incinerate !

They send Jack's seemingly lifeless body with a bunch of other rubbish to the incinerator.

DALEK : Disposal completed.

The Daleks leave. A second later, Jack climbs back to the room, coughing but alive.

Martha arrives to a small chamber filled with screens and controls. She sits down and presses a button.

MARTHA : This is Osterhagen Station One. My name is Martha Jones. Is there anyone there ? Over.

DALEK : Prisoners now on board the Crucible. They will be taken for testing.

The Daleks herd forward the prisoners, including Sarah Jane, Mickey and Jackie.

SARAH JANE : One step closer to the Doctor.

DAVROS : Activate the holding cells.

The Doctor and Rose stand several feet from each other, the holding cells they are put into look like spotlights over them. Davros rolls towards the Doctor.

DAVROS : Excellent. Even when powerless, a Time Lord is best contained.

DOCTOR : Still scared of me, then ?

He reaches out and touches the edge of the holding cell - it ripples with blue light.

DAVROS : It is time we talked, Doctor. After so very long.

DOCTOR : No no no no no, we're not doing the nostalgia tour, I wanna know what's happening, right here, right now, cos the Supreme Dalek said Vault, yeah ? (looking around). As in dungeon ? Cellar ? Prison ? You're not in charge of the Daleks, are you ? They've got you locked away down here in the basement like, what, a servant ? Slave ? Court jester ?

DAVROS : We have... an arrangement.

DOCTOR (with a mocking laugh) : No no no no, I've got the word. You're the Dalek's pet !

DAVROS (moving to Rose) : So very full of fire, is he not ? And to think you crossed entire universes, striding parallel to parallel to find him again.

DOCTOR : Leave her alone.

DAVROS : She is mine, to do as I please.

ROSE : Then why am I still alive ?

DAVROS : You must be here. It was foretold. Even the Supreme Dalek would not dare to contradict the prophecies of Dalek Caan.

He turns on the spotlight over Dalek Caan.

DALEK CAAN (sing-song voice) : So cold and dark, fire is coming, the endless flames...

ROSE : What is that thing ?

DOCTOR : You've met before. The last of the Cult of Skaro. But it flew into the Time War, unprotected.

DAVROS : Caan did more than that. He saw time, its infinite complexity and majesty, raging through his mind. And he saw you. Both of you.

DALEK CAAN : This I have foreseen, in the wild, and the wind. The Doctor will be here, as witness. At the end of everything. The Doctor and his precious Children of Time. (it giggles). And one of them will die !

DOCTOR (full of anger) : Was it you, Caan ? Did you kill Donna ? Why did the TARDIS door close, tell me !

DAVROS : Oh, that's it! The anger. The fire. The rage of a Time Lord who butchered millions. There he is ! Why so shy ? Show your companion. Show her your true self. Dalek Caan has promised me that, too.

DALEK CAAN : I have seen. At the time of ending, the Doctor's soul will be revealed.

DOCTOR : What does that mean ?

DAVROS : We will discover it together. Our final journey. Because the ending approaches, the testing begins.

DOCTOR : Testing of what ?

DAVROS : The Reality Bomb.

DALEK : Prisoners will stand in the designated area ! Move ! Move !

As the prisoners walk ahead, a woman falls on her knees.

SCARED WOMAN : Ohh !

DALEK : You will stand !

SCARED WOMAN : I can't...

DALEK : You will stand !

SCARED WOMAN : I can't. Please !

DALEK : On your feet. On your feet !

While the Daleks are distracted, Sarah Jane runs to a door and opens it with her sonic lipstick.

SARAH JANE : Mickey ! Mickey !

MICKEY : Jackie !

Mickey follows Sarah Jane, but Jackie has just helped the scared woman to her feet, she can't slip away unnoticed.

DALEK : Prisoners will stand in the designated area !

Mickey and Sarah Jane watch the prisoners through the window in the door.

MICKEY : We can't just leave her !

SARAH JANE : No, Mickey, wait !

A Dalek glides in front of their door.

SCARED WOMAN (to Jackie) : What does it mean ? What are they testing, what are they gonna do ?

They look up to see a big, circular green device.

JACKIE : I reckon it's that thing there.

SUPREME DALEK : Testing calibration of Reality Bomb ! Firing in ten rels, nine, eight, seven...

DAVROS : Behold the apotheosis of my genius !

He flicks a switch and a holographic screen appears, showing the test area.

SUPREME DALEK : ... two, one, zero. Activate planetary alignment field !

The TARDIS shakes violently, the new Doctor and Donna look at the monitor to find out what's happening.

NEW DOCTOR : It's the planets. The 27 planets !

White energy glow surrounds the planets.

DOCTOR : That's Z-Neutrino energy... flattened by the alignment of the planets into a single string. (turning to Davros in horror). No ! Davros ! Davros, you can't ! You can't ! NO !

In the TARDIS, the new Doctor is watching the monitor, working out what's happening.

NEW DOCTOR : Single-string Z-Neutrinos compressed into... No way !

Sarah Jane watches the prisoners while Mickey paces up and down, frustrated. The Dimension Jumps beeps in his pocket.

MICKEY : 30 minutes... it's recharged !

He dashes to the window, showing it to Jackie, gesturing wildly.

MICKEY (barely audible) : It's recharged ! It's recharged ! Use it !

JACKIE (to the scared woman) : I'm so sorry.

She presses the button and disappears.

Mickey and Jackie hug. Then the three of them watch in horror as the Reality Bomb starts to work and the prisoners get dissolved into atoms.

DALEK : Test completed.

DONNA : What was it ? Doctor ? What did it do ?

But the new Doctor is speechless from horror.

ROSE : Doctor ? What happened ?

DAVROS : Electrical energy, Miss Tyler. Every atom in existence is bound by an electrical field. The Reality Bomb cancels it out. Structure falls apart. That test was focused on the prisoners alone. Full transmission will dissolve every form of matter.

ROSE : Stars are going out...

DOCTOR : The 27 planets. They become one vast transmitter. Blasting that wavelength...

DAVROS : Across the entire universe. Never stopping, never faltering, never fading. People and planets and stars will become dust, and the dust will become atoms, and the atoms will become... nothing. And the wavelength will continue, breaking through the Rift at the heart of the Medusa Cascade into every dimension, every parallel, every single corner of creation ! This is my ultimate victory, Doctor ! The destruction of reality itself !

SUPREME DALEK : Prepare for universal detonation ! The fleet will gather at the Crucible ! All Daleks will return to shelter from the cataclysm ! We will become the only life forms in existence !

The Dalek spaceships leave the Earth. People run to the street to watch them go.

SYLVIA (smiling with relief) : Look, they're leaving ! Dad, they're going, the Daleks are going !

WILF : Going where, though ? And Donna's still out there. It's not over yet, sweetheart.

A panel on the wall is thrown open and Jack rolls out. He looks at Mickey, Sarah Jane and Jackie.

JACK : Just my luck. I climb through two miles of ventilation shafts, chasing life signs on this thing... (he points at his wrist device). And who do I find ? Mickey Mouse.

MICKEY : You can talk, Captain Cheesecake !

They laugh and hug each other.

JACK : Good to see you... and that's Beefcake.

MICKEY : And that's enough hugging.

Jack lets him go and salutes to Sarah Jane.

JACK : We meet at last, Miss Smith.

SARAH JANE : There is something we can do. You've got to understand. I have a son down there on Earth. He's only 14 years old. I've brought this.

She holds up something that looks like a diamond pendant. Jack watches it with open-mouthed awe.

SARAH JANE : It was given to me by a Verron Soothsayer. He said, "This is for the End of Days."

JACK : Is that a Warp Star ?

Sarah Jane nods.

MICKEY : Gonna tell me what a Warp Star is ?

JACK : A warpfold conjugation trapped in a carbonised shell. It's an explosion, Mickey. An explosion waiting to happen.

CHINESE WOMAN (via intercom) : This is Osterhagen Station Five. Are you receiving, Station One ?

MARTHA : I've got you. That makes three of us and three is all we need.

CHINESE WOMAN : My name is Anna Zhou, what's yours ?

MARTHA : Martha Jones. What about you, Station Four ? You never said.

LIBERIAN MAN : I don't want my name on this. Given what we're about to do.

CHINESE WOMAN : So what happens now ? Do we do it ?

MARTHA : No. Not yet.

CHINESE WOMAN : UNIT instructions say, once three Osterhagen Stations are online...

MARTHA : Yeah, but I've got a higher authority, way above UNIT. And there's one more thing the Doctor would do.

The new Doctor is putting together a device.

DONNA : So what is this thing ?

NEW DOCTOR : It's our only hope, a Z-Neutrino biological inversion catalyser.

DONNA : Yeah. Earthgirl, remember ?

NEW DOCTOR : Davros said he built those Daleks out of himself. His genetic code runs through the entire race. If I can use this to lock the Crucible's transmission onto Davros himself...

DONNA : It destroys the Daleks ?

NEW DOCTOR : Biggest backfire in history !

DALEK : Incoming transmission ! Origin Planet Earth.

SUPREME DALEK : Display !

Martha appears on a holographic screen.

MARTHA : This is Martha Jones, representing the Unified Intelligence Taskforce, on behalf of the human race.

SUPREME DALEK : Send transmission to the Vault. Continue to monitor.

The screen appears in the Vault too.

MARTHA : This message is for the Dalek Crucible, repeat, can you hear me ?

DOCTOR : Put me through.

DAVROS : It begins. As Dalek Caan foretold.

DALEK CAAN (giggling) : The Children of Time will gather. And one of them will die !

DOCTOR : Stop saying that ! Put me through !

MARTHA : Doctor ! I'm sorry. I had to.

DAVROS : Oh, but the Doctor is powerless. My prisoner. State your intent.

MARTHA (showing them the Key) : I've got the Osterhagen Key. Leave this planet and its people alone. Or I'll use it.

DOCTOR : Osterhagen what ? What's an Osterhagen Key ?!

MARTHA : There's a chain of 25 nuclear warheads, placed in strategic points beneath the Earth's crust. If I use the key, they detonate and the Earth gets ripped apart.

DOCTOR (shocked) : What ?! Who invented that ?! Well, someone called Osterhagen, I suppose. Martha, are you insane !?

MARTHA : The Osterhagen Key is to be used, if the suffering of the human race is so great, so without hope... that this becomes the final option.

DOCTOR : That's never an option !

MARTHA : Don't argue with me, Doctor ! Cos it's more than that. Now, I reckon the Daleks need these 27 planets for something, but what if it becomes 26 ? What happens then ? Daleks ? Would you risk it ?

ROSE (impressed) : She's good.

MARTHA : Who is that ?

ROSE : My name's Rose. Rose Tyler.

MARTHA : Oh, my God ! He found you.

DALEK : Second transmission, internal !

SUPREME DALEK : Display !

A second screen appears. It shows Jack holding the Warp Star high, Sarah Jane, Mickey and Jackie in the background.

JACK : Captain Jack Harkness, calling all Dalek boys and girls ! Are you receiving me ? Don't send in your goons, or I'll set this thing off !

ROSE : He's still alive ! (spotting Jackie). Oh my god, that-that's my mum !

DOCTOR : And Mickey - Captain, what are you doing ?

JACK : I've got a Warp Star wired into the mainframe. I break this shell, the entire Crucible goes up.

DOCTOR : You can't ! Where did you get a Warp Star ?!

SARAH JANE (stepping forward) : From me ! We had no choice. We saw what happened to the prisoners.

DAVROS (recognising her) : Impossible. That face... after all these years.

SARAH JANE : Davros ? (with venom). It's been quite a while. Sarah Jane Smith, remember ?

DAVROS : Oh, this is meant to be! The Circle of Time is closing. You were there, on Skaro, at the very beginning of my creation.

SARAH JANE : And I've learnt how to fight since then ! You let the Doctor go, or this Warp Star - it gets opened.

JACK : I'll do it ! Don't imagine I wouldn't.

ROSE (smiling) : Now that's what I call a ransom ! Doctor ?

But the Doctor keeps his eyes at the floor, overcome with guilt.

DAVROS : And the prophecy unfolds.

DALEK CAAN : The Doctor's soul is revealed. (giggles). See him ! See the heart of him !

DAVROS : The man who abhors violence. Never carrying a gun. But this is the truth, Doctor. You take ordinary people and you fashion THEM into weapons. Behold your Children of Time, transformed into murderers. I made the Daleks, Doctor. You made this.

DOCTOR (unconvincingly) : They're trying to help.

DAVROS : Already, I have seen them sacrifice today, for their beloved Doctor. The Earth woman, who fell opening the Subwave Network.

DOCTOR : Who was that ?

ROSE : Harriet Jones. She gave her life to get you here.

Flashback to Harriet Jones, flashing her ID to the Daleks.

DAVROS : How many more ? Just think ! How many have died in your name ?

And the Doctor remembers. So many faces over the years, sacrificing themselves for him : Jabe, the Controller, Lynda, Sir Robert, Mrs Moore, Mr Skinner, Ursula, Bridget, the Face of Boe, Chantho, Astrid, Luke Rattigan, Jenny, River Song, the Hostess... The Doctor is trembling, broken.

DAVROS : The Doctor. The man who keeps running, never looking back. Because he dare not, out of shame. This is my final victory, Doctor. I have shown you... yourself.

For once, the Doctor has no answer.

SUPREME DALEK : Enough ! Engage defence zero-five.

MARTHA (lifting up the Osterhagen Key menacingly) : It's the Crucible or the Earth.

DALEK : Transmat engaged.

The Osterhagen Key and the Warp Star fall to the ground as the transmat snatches Martha, as well as Jack and company, to the Vault. Jack helps Martha to her feet.

JACK : Martha ! I've got you, it's all right...

DOCTOR : Don't move, all of you, stay still !

DAVROS : Guard them ! On your knees, all of you. Surrender !

DOCTOR : Do as he says.

ROSE (low voice) : Mum, I told you not to !

JACKIE : Yeah, but I couldn't leave you.

DAVROS : The final prophecy is in place. The Doctor and his children, all gathered as witnesses. Supreme Dalek, the time has come ! Now... detonate the Reality Bomb !

SUPREME DALEK : Activate planetary alignment field !

Again, the planets start to glow with energy.

SUPREME DALEK : Universal Reality Detonation in 200 rels.

DOCTOR (desperately) : You can't, Davros, just listen to me ! Just stop !

DAVROS (laughing with insane delight) : Nothing can stop the detonation, nothing and no-one !

NEW DOCTOR (finishing the device he's been assembling) : Ready ! Maximum power !

He kicks a lever with his foot and the TARDIS rocks.

The Doctor and companions watch in delighted surprise as the TARDIS materialises inside the Vault.

DOCTOR : But that's...

DAVROS : Impossible !

The new Doctor appears in the door, surrounded by bright light, the device he constructed in his hand.

JACK : Brilliant !

The new Doctor sprints towards Davros.

DOCTOR : Don't !

Davros zaps the new Doctor with a bolt of electricity from his finger. He falls to the ground, stunned but not badly hurt.

DAVROS : Activate holding cell.

A holding cell appears around the new Doctor. Donna runs out of the TARDIS and picks up the weapon.

DONNA : Doctor ! I've got it. But I don't know what to do !

Davros zaps her too, the power sends her flying back towards a control panel.

DOCTOR : Donna ! Donna ! Are you all right, Donna ?

DAVROS : Destroy the weapon.

The device is exploded by a Dalek death ray.

DAVROS : I was wrong about your warriors, Doctor. They are pathetic !

ROSE (shocked) : How come there's two of you ?

DOCTOR : Human biological metacrisis. Never mind that, now we've got no way of stopping the Reality Bomb !

SUPREME DALEK : Detonation in 20 rels... 19...

Davros activates a holographic screen that shows the planets glowing with energy.

DAVROS : Stand witness, Time Lord ! Stand witness, humans ! Your strategies have failed. Your weapons are useless. And, oh. The end of the universe is come.

SUPREME DALEK : ... nine... eight... seven... six... five...

Donna emerges from behind the control panel with a surprised expression. The others are watching the screen in despair.

SUPREME DALEK : ... four... three... two... one...

The countdown stops and the holographic screen disappears. An alarm sounds as Daleks, humans and the Doctors all look around in confusion.

DONNA (confident, mocking, resembling the Doctor) : Oh... closing all Z-Neutrino relay loops using an internalised synchronous back-feed reversal loop ? (she flicks a switch). That button there !

DALEK #1 : System in shutdown !

DALEK #2 : Detonation negative !

SUPREME DALEK : Explain ! Explain ! Explain !

DOCTOR (bemused) : Donna, you can't even change a plug !

DONNA (grinning) : D'you wanna bet, Time Boy ?

DAVROS : You'll suffer for this !

He lifts his hand to zap her, but Donna flicks another switch and the electricity turns back to Davros instead.

DAVROS : Argh !

DONNA : Oh, bio-electric dampening field with a retrogressive arc inversion ?

DAVROS : Exterminate her !

DALEKS : Exterminate ! Exterminate ! Exterminate !

The humans look terrified but Donna doesn't seem bothered - she works a bit on the control panel and looks at the Daleks with a cheeky smile.

DALEK : Weapons non-functional.

DONNA : What ? Macrotransmission of a K-filter wavelength blocking Dalek weaponry in a self-replicating energy blindfold matrix ?

DOCTOR (stunned) : How d'you work that out ? You...

NEW DOCTOR : Time Lord ! Part Time Lord !

DONNA (delighted) : Part human ! Oh, yes ! That was a two-way biological metacrisis. (flashback shows as the regeneration energy from the hand engulfs Donna). Half Doctor, half Donna !

DOCTOR : The DoctorDonna ! Just like the Ood said, remember ? They saw it coming ! The DoctorDonna !

DONNA (pushing some controls) : Holding cells deactivated. And seal the Vault. Well, don't just stand there, you skinny boys in suits ! Get to work !

The two Doctors run to the control panel.

DAVROS : Stop them ! Get them away from the controls.

Donna flicks another switch and turns a dial.

DONNA : Aaand spin.

The Daleks start to spin around, helpless.

DALEK : Help me, help me !

Donna repeats the process in the opposite direction.

DONNA : Aaand the other way.

NEW DOCTOR : What did you do ?!

DONNA : Trip-stitch circuit-breaker in the psycho-kinetic threshold manipulator !

NEW DOCTOR : But that's brilliant !

DOCTOR : Why did we never think of that ?

DONNA : Because you two, you were just Time Lords, you dumbos ! Lacking that little bit of human, that gut instinct that comes hand in hand with Planet Earth. I can think of ideas you two wouldn't dream of in a million years ! Ah, the universe has been waiting for me ! Now... let's send that trip-stitch all over the ship ! Did I ever tell you ? (she hold up her hands, wiggling her fingers). Best temp in Chiswick, 100 words per minute !

NEW DOCTOR : Ha !

As Donna works with the controls, the Daleks around the Supreme Dalek start to spin uncontrollably too.

DALEK #1 : System malfunction !

DALEK #2 : Motor casing interference !

SUPREME DALEK : What is happening ? Explain !

Jack runs into the TARDIS.

DONNA : Come on then, boys, we've got 27 planets to send home ! Activate Magnetron !

DAVROS : Stop this at once !

He advances menacingly, but Jack appears with his gun and Rose's, that he throws to Mickey.

JACK : Mickey !

DAVROS : You will desist !

But Mickey stops him, pointing the massive gun at him.

MICKEY : Just stay where you are, mister.

JACK : Out of the way !

He kicks a Dalek away - it glides down a corridor, spinning helplessly. Sarah Jane and Rose push away another Dalek.

SARAH JANE : Good to see you again !

ROSE : Oh, you too !

Martha pushes one away, too.

DONNA (to the Doctors) : Ready ? And reverse !

One by one, the planets disappear from the Medusa Cascade, returning to their original location.

DOCTOR : Off you go, Clom.

NEW DOCTOR : Back home, Adipose 3 !

DONNA : Shallacatop, Pyrovillia and the Lost Moon of Poosh, sorted ! Ha !

NEW DOCTOR : Ha !

DOCTOR : We need more power !

ROSE (still completely bemused) : Is anyone gonna tell us what's going on ?

DONNA : He (gestures to the original the Doctor) poured all his regeneration energy into his spare hand, I touched the hand, he (gestures to the new Doctor) grew out of that but that fed back into me. But, it just stayed dormant in my head till the synapses got that little extra spark, kicking them into life. Thank you, Davros ! (flashback shows Donna, sitting up after the electroshock from Davros, her eyes glowing with the golden regeneration energy). Part human... part Time Lord. And I got the best bit of the Doctor. I got his mind !

SARAH JANE : So there's three of you ?

ROSE : Three Doctors ?

JACK : I can't tell you what I'm thinking right now.

DOCTOR : You're so unique the timelines were converging on you. Human being with a Time Lord brain.

Davros turns back to Dalek Caan.

DAVROS : But you promised me, Dalek Caan ! Why did you not foresee this ?

Dalek Caan giggles.

DOCTOR : Oh, I think he did. Something's been manipulating the timelines for ages. Getting Donna Noble to the right place at the right time.

DALEK CAAN : This would always have happened. I only helped, Doctor.

DAVROS : You betrayed the Daleks !

DALEK CAAN : I saw the Daleks. What we have done, throughout time and space, I saw the truth of us, Creator, and I decreed "No more !"

So far, the Supreme Dalek was following the events from the bridge via intercom.

SUPREME DALEK : I will descend to the Vault !

It appears in the Vault. Jack cocks his gun.

JACK : Heads up !

SUPREME DALEK : Davros ! You have betrayed us !

DAVROS : It was Dalek Caan.

SUPREME DALEK : The Vault will be purged ! You will all be exterminated !

It shoots at the control panel.

JACK : Like I was saying. Feel this !

This time, Jack uses his huge gun against the Supreme Dalek and blasts it out easily. The Doctor examines the control panel.

DOCTOR : Oh, we've lost the Magnetron ! And there's only one planet left - guess which one ? But we can use the TARDIS...

He dashes inside, while the new Doctor flicks switches on the remains of the control panel.

NEW DOCTOR : Holding Earth stability ! Maintaining atmospheric shell.

DALEK CAAN : The prophecy must complete.

DAVROS : Don't listen to him !

DALEK CAAN : I have seen the end of everything Dalek, and you must make it happen, Doctor !

His words make the new Doctor think.

NEW DOCTOR : He's right. Cos with or without a Reality Bomb, this Dalek Empire's big enough to slaughter the cosmos... They've got to be stopped !

DONNA : Just - just wait for the Doctor !

NEW DOCTOR : I am the Doctor ! (working with the controls). Maximising Dalekanium power feeds ! Blasting them back !

One by one, Daleks start exploding, the power of it shaking the whole Crucible, including the TARDIS. The Doctor runs out to see what's happening.

DOCTOR (horrified) : What have you done ?

NEW DOCTOR : Fulfilling the prophecy.

The Dalek saucers around the Crucible are exploding too. So does the Dalek stuck in the Hub.

GWEN : There goes the Time Lock !

DOCTOR (furiously) : D'you know what you've done ? Now get in the TARDIS ! Everyone ! All of you, inside ! Run ! In ! In ! In ! In !

NEW DOCTOR (standing just inside the door as the others run in) : Sarah Jane ! Rose ! Jackie ! Jack!  Mickey !

Explosions shake the Vault, fire and destruction everywhere. The Doctor is still outside the door, holding his hand out towards Davros.

DOCTOR : Davros ! Come with me ! I promise I can save you.

DAVROS : Never forget, Doctor. You did this ! I name you, forever... you are the Destroyer of the Worlds !

He screams as he disappears behind flames.

DALEK CAAN : One will still die.

The Doctor gets inside the TARDIS and runs to the console, which is surrounded by all his friends.

DOCTOR : And... off we go !

He pulls a lever and the TARDIS shakes violently as they take off. The Crucible explodes.

SARAH JANE : But what about the Earth ? It's stuck in the wrong part of space !

DOCTOR : I'm on it ! (watching the monitor). Torchwood Hub ! This is the Doctor ! Are you receiving me ?

GWEN : Loud and clear ! Is Jack there ?

DOCTOR : Can't get rid of him ! Jack, what's her name ?

JACK : Gwen Cooper.

DOCTOR : Tell me, Gwen Cooper, are you from an old Cardiff family ?

GWEN : Yes, all the way back to the 1800s !

The Doctor and Rose watch her with huge grins.

DOCTOR (delighted) : Yeah, thought so, spatial genetic multiplicity.

ROSE : Oh yeah !

DOCTOR : Yeah, yeah, funny old world... Now, Torchwood, I want you to open up that Rift Manipulator. Send all the power to me.

IANTO : Doing it now, sir !

GWEN : What's that for ?

DOCTOR : It's a tow-rope. Now then, Sarah, what was your son's name ?

SARAH JANE : Luke, he's called Luke. And the computer's called Mr Smith.

DOCTOR : Calling Luke and Mr Smith ! This is the Doctor. Come on Luke, shake your leg !

Luke runs to Mr Smith.

LUKE : Is Mum there ?

DOCTOR : Oh, she's fine and dandy...

SARAH JANE (laughing with relief) : Yes ! Yes !

DOCTOR : Now Mr Smith, I want you to harness the rift power and loop it around the TARDIS, you got that ?

MR SMITH : I regret, I will need remote access to TARDIS base code numerals.

DOCTOR : Oh, blimey, that's gonna take a while.

SARAH JANE : No, no, no, let me ! (she runs to the monitor). K9 ! Out you come !

K-9 appears beside Luke.

K-9 : Affirmative, Mistress !

DOCTOR : Oh, good dog ! K-9, give Mr Smith the base code !

K-9 : Master ! TARDIS base code now being transferred. The process is simple !

The code appears on Mr Smith. The Doctor walks around the console, giving instructions to everyone.

DOCTOR : Now then, you lot... Sarah, hold that down. Mickey, you hold that. Cos, you know why this TARDIS always is always rattling about the place ? Rose, that, there. It's designed to have six pilots. And I had to do it single handed. Martha, keep that level. But not any more ! Jack, there you go, steady that. Now we can fly this thing... No, Jackie, no, no, not you, don't touch anything, just... stand back.

He gently pushes Jackie away, then returns to the others.

DOCTOR : Like it's meant to be flown ! We've got the Torchwood Rift looped around the TARDIS by Mr Smith, and we're gonna fly Planet Earth back home ! (he takes his own place). Right then ! Off we go !

He pulls a lever and the TARDIS starts to move, pulling the Earth along.

Back on the planet, Luke is clinging to Mr Smith and K-9, laughing with delight. In the Torchwood Hub, Ianto and Gwen also hold on tight, laughing and cheering too. In their homes, Wilf and Sylvia look scared, while Francine takes refuge under a table.

In the TARDIS, the flight is unusually calm, as the Doctor and friends work as a perfect team.

DOCTOR (pointing to a control) : Rose.

Donna and the new Doctor are walking around, helping if necessary.

DONNA : That's really good, Jack. I think you're the best.

Donna and the new Doctor lean against a support, smiling.

The Earth arrives back to its proper position. In the TARDIS, people laugh, cheer, clap, everyone hugs everyone. Donna pushes aside Sarah Jane from Jack to throw herself in his arms.

On planet Earth, people celebrate too - Wilf and Sylvia hug each other in delight, BBC News shows fireworks all around the globe with the headline "Earth returns home", Francine spins in her front garden enjoying the sight of the blue sky and the sun.

The TARDIS materialises in a park. The Doctor and Sarah Jane emerge, they look around to find everything back to ordinary.

SARAH JANE : You know, you act like such a lonely man. But look at you. You've got the biggest family on Earth !

They hug each other.

SARAH JANE (backing away suddenly) : Gotta go ! He's only 14. It's a long story. And thank you !

The Doctor waves to her, smiling. Sarah Jane waves back, then turns around and dashes off.

DONNA (talking on her mobile inside the TARDIS) : Yeah, I'm fine, are you all right ?

MICKEY (to Jackie) : I'm gonna miss you. More than anyone.

JACKIE : What d'you mean ? The Doctor's going to take us home, isn't he ?

MICKEY : Well, that's the point.

They hug each other tightly.

The Doctor, Jack and Martha are standing in front of the TARDIS. The Doctor sonics Jack's wrist device.

DOCTOR : I told you, no teleport ! And, Martha, get rid of that Osterhagen thing, eh ? Save the world one more time.

MARTHA : Consider it done.

Jack salutes, and so does Martha. The Doctor seems surprised for a moment, then salutes back. Jack and Martha walk away hand in hand.

JACK : You know, I'm not sure about UNIT these days. Maybe there's something else you could be doing.

The Doctor watches after them, with a touch of sadness in his smile. Mickey appears from the TARDIS.

DOCTOR : Oi, where are you going ?

MICKEY : Well I'm not stupid, I can work out what happens next. And hey, I had a good time in that parallel world, but my gran passed away. Nice and peaceful. She spent her last years living in a mansion. There's nothing there for me now, certainly not Rose.

DOCTOR : What will you do ?

MICKEY : Anything ! Brand new life ! Just you watch.

They knock fists.

MICKEY : See you, boss.

He runs after Jack and Martha.

MICKEY : Hey, you two !

JACK (mock exasperation) : Oh. Thought I'd got rid of you.

Mickey throws his arms around their shoulder. The Doctor watches them for a second, then returns to the TARDIS.

DOCTOR : Just time for one last trip. Darlig Ulv Stranden. Better known as...

BAD WOLF BAY

The TARDIS materialises on the beach. Jackie, Rose and the new Doctor emerge.

JACKIE : Ah, fat lot of good this is ! Back of beyond. Bloody Norway ! I'm gonna have to phone your father, he's on the nursery run.

As they walk ahead, the Doctor and Donna come out of the TARDIS too.

JACKIE (to the new Doctor) : I was pregnant, do you remember ? Had a baby boy !

NEW DOCTOR : Ah, brilliant ! What did you call him ?

JACKIE : Doctor.

NEW DOCTOR (taken aback) : Really ?

JACKIE (smiling) : No, you plum ! He's called Tony.

ROSE (confused) : Hold on, this is... the parallel universe, right ?

DOCTOR : You're back home.

DONNA : And the walls of the world are closing again, now that the Reality Bomb never happened. It's dimensional retroclosure. See, I really get that stuff now.

ROSE : No, but... I spent all that time trying to find you. I'm not going back now !

DOCTOR : But you've got to. Cos we saved the universe, but at a cost. (looking at the new Doctor). And the cost is him. He destroyed the Daleks. He committed genocide. He's too dangerous to be left on his own.

NEW DOCTOR : You made me !

DOCTOR : Exactly. You were born in battle, full of blood and anger and revenge. (to Rose) Remind you of someone ?

Rose doesn't answer.

DOCTOR : That's me, when we first met. And you made me better. Now you can do the same for him.

ROSE : But he's not you.

DOCTOR : He needs you. That's very me.

DONNA : But it's better than that, though. Don't you see what he's trying to give you ? (to the new Doctor) :Tell her, go on.

NEW DOCTOR : I look like him, I think like him, same memories, same thoughts, same everything. Except I've only got one heart.

ROSE : Which means ?

NEW DOCTOR : I'm part human. Specifically, the aging part. I'll grow old and never regenerate. I've only got one life... Rose Tyler. I could spend it with you. If you want.

ROSE : You'll grow - grow old... at the same time as me ?

NEW DOCTOR : Together.

Confused, Rose touches him to feel his single heart. The Doctor and Donna watch them with a small smile, until a grinding sound comes from the TARDIS.

DOCTOR : We've got to go, this reality is sealing itself off... for ever.

He and Donna head to the TARDIS, but Rose runs after him.

ROSE (confused) : But... it's still not right... cos the Doctor is... still you.

DOCTOR : And I'm him !

ROSE : All right. Both of you, answer me this. When I last stood on this beach, on the worst day of my life, what was the last thing you said to me ? Go on, say it.

DOCTOR : I said, "Rose Tyler."

ROSE : Yeah, and how was that sentence gonna end ?

DOCTOR (unable to say it out) : Does it need saying ?

ROSE (to the new Doctor) : And you, Doctor ? What was the end of that sentence ?

The new Doctor leans to her and whispers it into her ear. Rose looks at him, then pulls him closer and kisses him. The Doctor watches them sadly with for a moment, then he turns around and gets inside the TARDIS, followed by Donna. Rose pulls away from the new Doctor as she hears the door closing, she runs towards the TARDIS but now all she can do is watch it dematerialising. The new Doctor walks to her slowly and takes her hand. They look at each other.

Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor leans to a support, devastated. Donna adjust some controls, then starts to talk, trying to divert the Doctor's thoughts from his sorrow.

DONNA : I thought we could try the planet Felspoon. Just cos. What a good name ! Felspoon ! Apparently, it's got mountains that sway in the breeze. Mountains that move, can you imagine ?

DOCTOR : And how d'you know that ?

DONNA : Because it's in your head. And if it's in your head, it's in mine !

DOCTOR : And how does that feel ?

DONNA : Brilliant ! Fantastic ! Molto bene ! Great big universe, packed into my brain ! You know you could fix that chameleon circuit if you just tried hotbinding the fragment-links and superseding the binary, binary, binary, binary, binary, binary, binary, binary, binary, binary, binary, binary, binary, binary (she takes a deep breath). I'm fine !

The Doctor watches her, sad but not surprised.

DONNA : Nah, never mind Felspoon. Know who I'd like to meet ? Charlie Chaplin ! I bet he's great, Charlie Chaplin. Shall we do that ? Shall we go and see Charlie Chaplin ? Shall we ? Charlie Chaplin ? Charlie Chester, Charlie Brown, no, he's fiction, friction, fiction, fixing, mixing, Rickston, Brixton...

She gasps and leans against the console, holding her head. The Doctor walks to her.

DONNA : Oh, my God !

DOCTOR (quietly) : D'you know what's happening ?

DONNA (defiant) : Yeah.

DOCTOR : There's never been a human/Time Lord metacrisis before now. And you know why.

DONNA : Because there can't be.

She turns away, unwilling to accept what's happening.

DONNA : I want to stay.

DOCTOR : Look at me. Donna. Look at me.

She turns back to him.

DONNA (her eyes moist, voice trembling) : I was gonna be with you. Forever.

DOCTOR (gently) : I know.

DONNA (wishful) : Rest of my life. Travelling. In the TARDIS. The DoctorDonna.

He just watches her, his eyes full of compassion and sorrow. Donna suddenly realises what's coming.

DONNA : No ! Oh my god... I can't go back. Don't make me go back. Doctor, please, please don't make me go back !

DOCTOR (looking into her eyes) : Donna. Oh, Donna Noble. I am so sorry. But we had the best of times. The best.

She looks at him in despair, tears running down her face.

DOCTOR (whispering) : Goodbye.

DONNA : No, no, no, please !

He places his hands on her temples and closes his eyes.

DONNA : Please, no, no !

Images from their adventures flash backwards, ending with the moment she first appeared in the TARDIS.

DONNA : No !

She falls into his arms, unconscious. The Doctor just stands there, holding her tight, terrible sadness in his eyes.

Knocking on the Noble's door. Delighted, Wilf runs to answer it.

WILF : That must be her ! Donna ?

But when he opens the door, he sees the Doctor sitting on the doorstep, holding the still unconscious Donna in his arms.

DOCTOR : Help me.

WILF : Donna ? Donna ?

Donna is laid on her bed. Wilf leaves the Doctor alone with her, watching her sadly.

In the Noble's sitting room, the Doctor explains to Wilf and Sylvia what happened.

DOCTOR : She took my mind into her own head. But that's a Time Lord consciousness. All that knowledge, it was killing her.

WILF : But she'll get better now ?

DOCTOR : I had to wipe her mind completely. Every trace of me, or the TARDIS, anything we did together, anywhere we went... had to go.

WILF : All those wonderful things she did.

DOCTOR : I know. But that version of Donna is dead. (leaning forward to stress his point). Cos if she remembers, just for a second, she'll burn up. You can never tell her ! You can't mention me or any of it... for the rest of her life.

SYLVIA : But the whole world's talking about it, we travelled across space !

DOCTOR : It'll just be a story. One of those Donna Noble stories, where she missed it all again.

WILF : But she was better with you !

SYLVIA : Don't say that.

WILF : No, she was !

DOCTOR : I just want you to know there are worlds out there, safe in the sky, because of her. That there are people living in the light, and singing songs of Donna Noble, a thousand million light years away. They will never forget her... while she can never remember. And for one moment... one shining moment... she was the most important woman in the whole wide universe.

SYLVIA : She still is. She's my daughter.

DOCTOR (abruptly) : Then maybe you should tell her that once in a while.

The conversation breaks when Donna bursts into the sitting room.

DONNA : I was asleep ! On my bed ! In my clothes ! Like a flippin' kid ! What d'you let me do that for ? (glancing to the Doctor). Don't mind me. Donna.

The Doctor stands up and hold his hand out - she shakes it without looking at him, focusing on her mobile.

DOCTOR : John Smith.

SYLVIA : Mr Smith was just leaving.

DONNA : My phone's gone mad, 32 texts ! Veena's gone barmy, she's saying planets in the sky ! What have I missed now ? (vaguely, to the Doctor) Nice to meet you.

She walks out of the room. The Doctor watches her go, heartbroken.

SYLVIA (coldly) : As I said... I think you should go.

Donna puts a jug of juice back to the fridge, while she talks on her mobile.

DONNA : How thick d'you think I am ? Planets! Tell you what that was, dumbo. That's those two-for-one lagers you get down the offy cos you fancy that little man in there with the goatee ! Haha ! Yes, you do. I've seen ya !

The Doctor appears in the kitchen, unable to leave her without goodbye, even though he knows he doesn't mean anything to her now.

DOCTOR : Donna. I was just going.

DONNA (vaguely) : Yeah, see you.

The Doctor leaves, glancing back to her one last time from the door.

DONNA (on the phone) : I tell you what though, you're wasting your time with that one, because Susie Mair, she went on that dating site, and she saw him... No. No, no, no, listen, listen, this is important ! Susie Mair wouldn't lie. Not unless it was about calories ! Haha !

The Doctor opens the front door and looks out to the storm outside.

DOCTOR : Ah. You'll have quite a bit of this. Atmospheric disturbance. Still, it'll pass. (almost to himself). Everything does.

Wilf watches him sadly. After a few seconds, the Doctor turns back to him.

DOCTOR : Bye then, Wilfred.

They shake hands and the Doctor steps out to the rain.

WILF : Oh, Doctor... What about you now ? Who've you got ? I mean, all those friends of yours...

DOCTOR : They've all got someone else. Still, that's fine. I'm fine.

But he looks everything but fine as he stands in the pouring rain.

WILF : I'll watch out for you, sir.

DOCTOR (with emphasis) : You can't ever tell her !

WILF : No, no, no. But every night, Doctor, when it gets dark, and the stars come out, I'll look up... on her behalf. I'll look up at the sky, and think of you.

DOCTOR : Thank you.

He turns and walks into the TARDIS. Wilf salutes as he watches it dematerialise. Inside, the Doctor takes off his drenched jacket. He adjusts some controls, then leans on the console and just stares into space, his eyes full of sorrow and loneliness.

 

END

 

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