"There's a strange man in my bedroom." "No." "Mum?" "I'm in town!" "No, go home!" "Go home right now." "Darling you're breaking up." "Mum!" "Right then, I'll be off." "Unless..." "Idunno, you could come with me." "Is it always this dangerous?" "Yeah." "How long have I been gone?" "About 12 hours." "Oh... !" "Right,Iwon 'tbelong ." "I just want to see my mum." "What you gonna tell her?" "I dunno." "That I've been to the year five 12 hours?" "No, I'll just tell her I spent the night at Shereen's." "See you later." "Don't you disappear." "I'm back!" "I was with Shereen." "She got all upset again..." "Areyouin?" "What's been goin' on?" "How've you been?" "What's that face for?" "It's not the first time" "It's you." "Course it's me." "Oh, my God, it's you." "Oh, my God." "I-It's not 12 hours, it's 12 months." "You've been gone a whole year." "Sorry!" "The hours I sat here - days and weeks and months - all on my own!" "I thought you were dead, and where were you? "Travelling"!" "What the hell's it mean, travelling?" "That's no sort of answer!" ".You ask her, she won't tell me." "That's all she says, "travelling"." "That's what I was doing." "With your passport still in the drawer?" "I meant to phone, I really did." "I just..." "I forgot." "For a year?" "You forgot for a year, and I'm left sitting here?" "!" "I just don't believe you!" "Why won't you tell me where you've been?" "Actually, it's my fault." "I sort of..." "employed Rose as my companion." "When you say companion, is this a sexual relationship?" "No!" "No!" "Then what is it?" "Because you... !" "You waltz in here, all charm and smiles, and the next thing I know, she vanishes off the face of the Earth!" "How old are you then, 40, 45?" "What, did you find her on the Internet, go online and pretend you're a doctor(?" ") I am a doctor." "Prove it." "Stitch this." "Ow!" "(Oh-h!" ")" "Did you think about me at all?" "I did, all the time, but..." "One phone call." "Just to know that you were alive." "I'm sorry, I really am." "But d'you know, what terrifies me is that you still can't say." "What happened to you, Rose?" "What can be so bad that you can't" "I can't tell her." "I can't even begin." "She's never going to forgive me." "And I missed a year." "Was it good?" "Well, if it's this much trouble, are you gonna stay here now?" "I dunno." "Can't do that to her again, though." "Well, she's not coming with us." "No chance!" "I don't do families." "She slapped you!" "900 years of time and space" " I've never been slapped" "It hurt!" "You're so gay!" "When you say 900 years..." "That's my age." "You're 900 years old." "Yeah." "My mum was right." "That is one hell of an age gap." "Every conversation with you just goes mental." "There's no-one else I can talk to!" "I've seen all that stuff, up there, the size of it, and I can't say a word." "Aliens and spaceships and I'm the only person on planet Earth who knows they exist." "Oh, that's just not fair." "OK!" "Keep your hair on!" "It's not MY fault!" "Ah, just my luck." "Stay BACK, please." "Back, thank you." "It's blocked off!" "We're miles from the centre." "The city must be gridlocked." "The whole of London must be closing down." "I know!" "I can't believe I'm here to see this." "This is fantastic!" "Did you" "D'you recognise the ship?" "Nope!" "D'you know why it crashed?" "Nope!" "So glad I've got you(!" ") Bet you are!" "This is why I travel, Rose." "History" "Well, let's go and see it." "Never mind the traffic, we've" "With one spaceship in the middle of London, I don't wanna shove another but yours looks like a big blue box." "No-one'd notice." "You'd be surprised." "Emergency like this, all kinds of people will be watching." "Trust me," "So history is happening, and we're stuck here." "Yes, we are..." "Thishas" "We COULD do what everyone else does." "Watch it on TV." "'Big Ben destroyed as a UFO crash-lands in central London." "'Police reinforcements are drafted in from across the country 'to control widespread panic, looting and civil disturbance." "'A state of national emergency has been declared." "The police urge the public not to panic." "Here's the helpline number if you're worried about friends or family." "The military are on the lookout for more spaceships so all flights in North American airspace have been grounded." "The army are sending divers into the wreck no-one knows what they're going to find." "The President will address the nation live, but the Secretary General has asked that people watch the skies." "I've got no choice!" "." ".Broke your mother's heart... !" "Makehimwelcome" ".And I cradled her like a child..." "Oi!" "I'm trying to listen!" ".Just coming in..." "And we go to Tom at the Embankment." "They've found a body." "It's unconfirmed but I'm being told a body's been found in the wreckage, a body of non-terrestrial origins." "It's being brought ashore." "'A body has been found inside the wreckage of a spacecraft.'" "Guess who asked me out?" "Billy Croot!" "'Unconfirmed reports say the body IS of extra-terrestrial origin." "'An extraordinary event unfolding live in Central London." "'The body is being transferred to a secure-unit mortuary, whereabouts" "'And when you've stuck your fins on you can cover the whole lot" "'Ooh look at that!" "Ice it any colour you want." "'And here's one I made earlier..." "'And look at that, your very own spaceship, ready to eat." "'And for something extra special. . .'" "'." ".Albion" "Hospital.'" "We still don't know if it's alive or dead." "Whitehall's denying everything." "But the body has been brought here, Albion Hospital." "With roads closed," "(Go on!" ")" "I'm being told that's General Asquith now entering the hospital." "The building's evacuated, patients moved out onto the streets." "the police still won't confirm the presence of an alien body" "Let's have a look, then." "Good God!" "And that's real?" "It's not a hoax or a dummy, or. . ?" "I've x-rayed the skull." "It's wired up inside like nothing I've ever seen before." "We've got experts being flown in." "Until they arrive, get that out of sight." "Excuse me, sir." "I know it's a state of emergency and there's a lot is it true what they're saying?" "About the Prime Minister?" "Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of the Prime Minister." "He's not been" "The opposition are criticising his lack of leadership..." "Holdon ." "Oh, that's Joseph Green, MP for Hartley Dale." "He's Chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on the Monitoring of Sugar" "With respect, hardly the most important person right now." "Indra Ganesh, sir, Junior Secretary with the MOD." "I'll be your liaison." "If we could talk in private, sir?" "Follow me upstairs." "Excuse me..." "Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North." "I'm sorry, can't it wait?" "But I did" "Then a spaceship crashed in the middle of London." "I think" "You've heard about the body, sir?" "Never mind that." "Where is he?" "No-one knows, he's disappeared." "I have to inform you, with the city gridlocked and the Cabinet stranded outside London, you" "Oh, Lord!" "Oh, hold on." "Pardon me." "I-It's a nervous stomach." "Anyway... !" "Margaret Blaine, she's with MI5 There's no more information sir." "I personally escorted the PM from the Cabinet Room to his car." "This is" "The car's disappeared." "There's no record of it, sir." "tell me everything." "Er, sir..." "Emergency protocols." "The actions to be taken by the Government" "Right." "Good." "Blimey!" "Pardon me." "Get to work, eh?" "And where d'you think you're going?" "Nowhere." "It's... just" "History's happened." "They're talking about where to buy dodgy top-up cards" "Right." "A spaceship on the Thames, and you're just wandering(?" ") Nothing" "That was a genuine crash-landing." "Angle of descent, colour of smoke," "So maybe this is it." "First contact." "The day mankind officially comes" "I'm not interfering." "You've GOT to handle this on your own." "Just this morning, you were all tiny and small and made of clay!" "You don't need me." "Go and celebrate history." "Spend time with your mum." "Tell you what." "Tardis key." "About time you had one." "See you later." "Oi, gorgeous, come back and join the party!" "Oh, my God!" "Oi!" "Doctor!" "DOCTOR!" "I bet no-one's brought you a coffee." "Thank you." "Pleasure." "You still can't go in." "Damn, you've seen through my cunning plan." "Look, I'm sorry, it's impossible." "Not even for two minutes?" "I don't get many chances to walk these corridors," "I'm hardly one of the "babes", just a faithful backbencher." "And I know we've had a brave new world land right on our doorstep," "I think that's... probablywonderful, nevertheless, ordinary life" "I need to enter this paper." "Oh, Mr Green sir, I know you're busy, but could you put this" "What is it?" "Cottage hospitals." "I've worked out a system where cottage hospitals need not be excluded from Centres of Excellence." "You see, my mother's in the Flydale Infirmary, that's my constituency, tiny little place, you wouldn't know it - but it..." "Byallthe saints, get some perspective, woman!" "I'm busy!" "Shhh!" "Defence plan delta!" "Come on, MOVE!" "It's alive." "Spread out, tell the perimeter it's a lockdown." "Oh, my God it's still alive!" "Do it!" "Mick!" "Terry!" "Side rooms!" "Now!" "Clear!" "Clear!" "Keep it moving!" "Clear!" "I swear, it was dead..." "Coma, shock, hibernation, anything..." "What does it look like?" "It's still here." "Hello." "Don't shoot!" "What did you do that for?" "It was scared!" "It was scared!" "." ".I have the White House phoning me direct because Downing this is outrageous!" "We haven't even started the vaccination programme." "The nations of the world are watching the United Kingdom." "Well," "It's the greatest crisis in modern history, and you've done nothing." "Your behaviour's been shameful, sir!" "You're supposed to be in charge." "The capital's ground to a halt." "Furthermore, we can only assume the PM's disappearance is the direct and what've you been doing?" "Nothing!" "Sorry..." "Sorry, ah..." "Ithought" "I was Prime Minister now." "Only by default!" "Oh-h-h, that's not fair(!" ")" "I've been having such fun." "You think this is fun?" "It's a hoot, this job." "Honestly, it's super!" "Oh!" "'Scuse me." "What's going on here?" "Where's the rest of the Cabinet?" "Why haven't they been airlifted in?" "I" "Oops, there I go." "Ooh!" "And me!" "I'M... shakingmybooty." "Sir!" "Under Section 5 of the emergency protocols, it is my duty" "And by God, I'll put this country under martial law if I have to." "Ooh I'm scared(!" ")" "I mean..." "that's hair-raising." "I mean, literally." "Look." "I just assumed that's what aliens looked like." "You're saying it's an ordinary pig, from Earth?" "More like a mermaid." "Victorian showmen used to draw the crowds by gluing the skull of a cat" "Now someone's taken a pig, opened up its brain, stuck bits on." "Then they strapped it in that ship, made it dive-bomb, it must've been terrified." "They've taken this animal and turned it into a joke." "So it's a fake, a pretend, like the mermaid." "But the technology augmenting its brain, it's like nothing on Earth." "It's alien." "Aliens are faking aliens?" "Why would they... ?" "Doctor?" "Doctor?" "Here's to the Martians!" "The Martians!" "I was gonna come and see ya." "Someone owes Mickey an apology." "I'm sorry." "Not you." "Well, it's not my fault." "Be fair, what was I supposed to think?" "You disappear, who do they turn to?" "Your boyfriend." "Five times I was" "No evidence." "Couldn't be, could there?" "And HER whispering round" "Stuff through my letterbox - all cos of you." "I didn't think I'd be gone 12 months, waiting for you and the doctor to come back." "You knew about" "Yeah, why not, Rose?" "How could I tell her" "I might as well, cos you're stuck here." "The doctor's gone." "Just now," "What d'you mean?" "He's left you." "Some boyfriend he turned out to be." "He wouldn't just go." "He promised me." "Aw, he's dumped you, Rose, sailed" "Huh?" "Now you are left behind with the rest of us earthlings." "Get" "What are you two chimps on about?" "What's going on?" "What's this doctor" "He's not!" "Cos he gave me this." "He's not my boyfriend, Mickey, he's better than that." "He's much more important." "And he..." "I said so!" "Mum!" "Mum!" "Go inside!" "Don't stand there!" "Go inside, Mum!" "Oh, blimey." "How'd you do that, then?" "OK, so I lied." "I went for a look." "The whole crash-landing's a fake." "I mean, hitting Big Ben, come on!" "So I thought, "Let's go and have" "Oh, just what I need." "Don't you dare make this place domestic!" "They thought she was dead." "I was a murder suspect because of you." "I bet you don't even remember my name!" "Ricky." "It's Mickey." "I think I know my own name!" "THINK you know it?" "How stupid are you?" "Don't start a fight." "Mum!" "It's not like that, he's not..." "I'll be up in a minute hold on!" "That was a real spaceship?" "Yep." "So it's all a pack of lies." "Funny way to invade, putting the world on red alert." "'." ".Crisis continues. the Government shows remarkable lack of leadership," "'There've been at least three reports of public assaults on people" "'Now back to Tom Hitchinson." "'Are there more ships to come?" "'And what's their intention?" "'The authorities are now asking, if anyone knows anything, 'if any previous sighting has been made, then call this number." "'We need your help.'" "Yes, I've seen one, I really have, an alien." "And she's with him." "My daughter, she's with him and she's not safe." "Oh, my God, she's not safe." "I've seen an alien and I know his name." "He's called the Doctor." "It's a box, a blue box." "She called it a Tardis." "So what you doing down there?" "Ricky..." "Mickey." "Ricky, if I was to tell you what I was doing to the controls of would you even begin to understand?" "I suppose not..." "Shut it, then." "Some friend you've got." "He's winding you up." "I am sorry." "OK." "I am, though." "Every day, I looked." "On every street corner, wherever I went." "Looking for a blue box." "It's only been a few days for me." "I dunno, it's hard to tell inside this thing but I swear, it's" "Not enough time to miss me, then." "I did miss you." "I missed you." "So, um, in 12 months..." "have you been seeing anyone else?" "Nope." "OK..." "Mainlycoseveryonethinks I murdered you." "Right." "So, now that you've come back..." "are you gonna stay?" "Got it!" "Aha!" "Patched in the radar, looped it back 12 hours so it followed the flight of" "Come on!" "That's the spaceship on its way to Earth, see?" "Except!" "Hold on..." "See?" "The space-ship did a slingshot round the Earth before it landed." "What's that mean?" "It came from Earth in the first place." "Went up and came they've been here a while." "Question is, what've they been doing?" "What d'you think, how's the compression?" "I think I've got" "PHRRRT!" "Ooh, that's better!" "We must fix the gas exchange." "It's getting ridiculous." "Oh, seems human" "Shame, I quite enjoyed being Oliver." "He had a wife, a mistress and a young farmer." "God, I was busy!" "Back to work." "I have an army to command!" "Careful now." "We're not there yet." "General Asquith." "Sir, we've had a priority alarm," "Right." "Good." "Code Nine." "Which would mean... ?" "In the event of emergency protocols being activated, our software automatically searches all communications for keywords." "I think we've found him, sir." "What sort of doctor?" "Who is he?" "Evidently, he's some sort of expert in extraterrestrial affairs - the we need him here right now." "How many channels you get?" "All the basic packages." "Sports channels?" "Yes, I get the football." "Hold on." "I know that lot." "'. .but" "likely that the Government's bringing in alien-specialists, 'those people who've devoted their lives to studying outer space.'" "UNIT, United Nations Intelligence Taskforce." "Good people." "Cos he's worked for them." "Oh, yeah, don't think I sat on my backside for" "Look deep enough on the Internet or in history books - there's his name." "That's nice, good boy, Ricky(!" ") If you know 'em, why not go and help?" "They wouldn't recognise me." "I've changed a lot since the old days." "There's aliens out there - and fake aliens." "I wanna keep this alien" "I'd better keep the Tardis out of sight." "Ricky, you've got a car, you can drive." "Where to?" "The roads are clearing." "Let's see that ship." "ROSE!" "Rose!" "Raise your hands above your heads!" "You are under arrest!" "Take me to your leader." ".My daughter... !" "This is a bit posh!" "If I'd known it would be like this, being arrested," "We're not being arrested, we're being escorted." "Where to?" "You're kidding!" "I'm not!" "10 Downing Street?" "That's the one!" "Oh, my God!" "I'm going to 10 Downing Street?" "How come?" "I hate to say it," "Over the years I've visited this planet, a lot of times, and I've" "Like it said on the news, they're gathering experts in alien knowledge." "Patrick Moore." "Apart from him." "Oh, don't you just love it(!" ") Ah, he used to drink me under the table." "Who's the Prime Minister now?" "(Oh, my God.)" ".So she's OK, then?" "She's not in any trouble?" "All I can say is that your daughter and her to help the country." "We'll need to know how she made contact" "Oops!" "Right, off you go, then." "I need to talk with Mrs Tyler" "Harriet Jones, MP Flydale North." "Ladies and gentlemen, can we convene?" "Quick as we can please." "This way, on the right." "ID cards are to be worn at all times." "Here's your ID card." "I'm sorry, your companion doesn't have clearance." "You're the Code Nine, not her." "Now, I'm sorry, er..." "Doctor," "She'll have to stay outside." "She's staying with me." "Look, even I don't" "I can't let her in." "That's OK..." "Yougo." "Excuse me, are you the doctor?" "." ".Not" "now!" "We're busy, can't you go home?" "You haven't clearance." "Leave it!" ".I'll leave you with security." "It's all right, I'll look after her." "Let me be of some use." "Walk with me." "Just keep walking..." "That's right, don't look round." "Harriet Jones MP, Flydale North." "'." ".This friend of yours,'" ".he's an expert, is that right?" "He know. ." "H-He knows about aliens?" "Why d'you wanna to know?" "Ladies and gentlemen..." "Attention, please?" "As you see from the summary," "Of course the really interesting bit happened three days ago, see?" "Filed" "The North Sea." "A satellite detected a signal, a blip of radiation" "Like there's something's down there." "You were just about to investigate," "Spaceships, pigs, massive diversion." "From what?" "They turn the body into a suit, a disguise, for the thing inside... !" "It's all right, I believe you." "It's..." "It's,alien." "But they must have some serious technology behind this." "If we could" "Oh, my God." "Is that... ?" ".Harriet, for God's sake!" "This is beyond a joke, you cannot wander..." "Oh, my God." "That's the Prime Minister." "If aliens fake an alien crash and an alien pilot, what do they get?" "Us." "They get us." "It's not a diversion, it's a trap." "Oh..." ".has someone been naughty?" "It was bigger on the inside..." "I don't know!" "What do I know" "That's what worries me." "You see, this man is classified as trouble, which means that anyone associated with him... istrouble." "And that's my job, eliminating trouble." "But that's not possible." "He left this afternoon." "I mean, the Prime Minister left Downing Street, he was driven away." "And who told you that(?" ")" "Hmm?" "Me." "This is about us!" "Alien experts, the only people who know how to fight" "'Scuse me." "D'you mind not farting while I'm saving the world?" "Would you rather silent but deadly?" "Grrr!" "Hmmm!" "GRRR!" "We are the Slitheen." "GRRR!" "Thank you all for wearing your ID. cards." "They'll help to identify the bodies." "'." ".Yesterday saw the start of a brave new world.'" "Today might see it end." "Oi." "If you want aliens, you've got 'em." "They're inside Downing Street." "Planet Earth is at war." "Everybody RUN!" "Who exactly are Slitheen?" "Aliens." "I could save the world but lose you."