"You want moves, Rose'?" "I'll give you moves." "The nanogenes may be the science of the very, very small, but its implications are huge." "Welcome to the mad science world of Doctor Who." "Everybody lives, Rose." "Just this once!" "Everybody lives!" "The Doctor's always been known for his magic touch but behind every trick, there must be a scientific explanation." "Dr Constantine, who never left his patients." "Listen, whatever was wrong with them in the past, you're probably gonna find that they're cured." "Just tell them what a great doctor you are, don't make a big thing of it." "Okay'?" "Dr Constantine." "Mrs. Harcourt!" "How much better you're looking!" "My leg's grown back." "Now!" "The nanobots that we look at in Doctor Who are medical ones." "So they're, kind of, part of the hospital's medical kit, basically, and they're designed to fix you up." "You know, if you've got a cut, they swarm in, stitch you up, sort you out." "They activate when the bulkheads sealed." "Check you out for damage, fix any physical flaws." "Idea of the nanogenes." "I think I'd half-read something somewhere that I don't remember very well, and certainly didn't go back and look it up again, because it's Doctor Who and really, you're not making a documentary, you're just making up something" "that sounds vaguely credible with roughly the right words." "Nanogenes, subatomic robots." "The air in here is full of them." "They just repaired three layers of your skin." "Tell them thanks." "One of the fun things about Doctor Who is that... you take things that are happening now and look at what they become in future." "And that whole nanotechnology thing, they say, you know, it is a real technology, there is real research into it." "Even Prince Charles has told us it will destroy the world." "Steven's script in episode 10 then sort of says," ""Look what happens when nanotechnology runs riot."" "What is happening here, Doctor'?" "Human DNA is being rewritten." " By an idiot." " What do you mean'?" "I don't know, some kind of virus." "Converting human beings into these things." "But why'?" "What's the point'?" "For cutting edge science on Doctor Who' see also "completely mad"." "Apparently, you can fall out of the sky at any time if Captain Jack happens to fancy you." " Okay, I got you." " Who's got me'?" "Who's got me and, you know, how?" "I'm just programming your descent pattern." "Stay as still as you can and keep your hands and feet inside the light field." "Descent pattern'?" "And can you switch off your mobile phone'?" "No, seriously, it interferes with my instruments." "No one ever believes that." "Thank you, that's much better." "Yeah, that's a real load off, that is." "Captain Jack may have his impressive technical gizmos but the Doctor has got his psychic paper." "His what?" "It's psychic paper, it tells you what..." " Whatever you want it to, I remember." " Sorry." "Not very Spock, is it'?" "Give me some Spock, for once." "Would it kill you'?" "The psychic paper that the Doctor carries around, that's a bit of nonsense, really." "You're too clever for me." "We were warned about this in basic training." "It's a very simple device, the psychic paper." "It's like a policeman showing his ID." "Look, there, you see, it's fine." "You see'?" "The Doctor plus one." "I'm the Doctor, this is Rose Tyler." "She's my plus one." "Is that all right'?" "Well, obviously." "I just wanted something that sometimes would help him to say," ""Let me in," and they'd just let him in, and you wouldn't question it." "And what would he do without his sonic screwdriver?" "Just need to do a bit of charging up." "You want villains to get in his way, you want motives to get in his way, you want great big chasms like on Platform One to get in his way, but you don't want a door to get in his way." "It's the most unimportant thing of all." "I think the design of it is fantastic." "And in a way, it is of the Tardis." "You know, if you look at that, it's quite similar to the central column of the Tardis and it's of the Tardis." "Possibly has similar... unlocked-for qualities." "We went through hundreds of concept drawings introducing various finishes and colors." "But we soon ended up with a very clinical design." "Porcelain base, cracked over the years." "And something that really was the Doctor's tool that could do everything." "And it's kind of quite endearing that he didn't make himself a sonic atomic bomb or a sonic machine gun." "He made himself a sonic screwdriver." " Who has a sonic screwdriver'?" " I do." "Lights'?" "Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, "Ooh, this could be a little more sonic?"" " What, you've never been bored'?" " There's got to be a light switch." "Never had a long night'?" "Never had a lot of cabinets to put up'?" "Once you've got that device," "I think you can actually have a bit of a laugh with it and use it for all sorts of functions." "I mean, Steven Moffat has it repairing barbed wire." "It opens doors, obviously." "It does medical scans on people." "Conclusions'?" "Massive head trauma, mostly to the left side." "Partial collapse of the chest cavity, mostly to the right." "I think all of that's fine so long as the sonic screwdriver never solves the plot in the end." "Okay." "This can function as a sonic blaster, a sonic cannon and it's a triple-enfolded sonic disruptor." " Doc, what you got'?" " I've got a sonic..." "Never mind." "Gizmos and gadgets and the Doctor and Captain Jack." "Well, that is all about sex." "All of it." "It's about the Doctor and Jack competing over Rose." "Disruptor'?" "Cannon'?" "What'?" "It's sonic, totally sonic." "I am soniced up." "A sonic what'?" "Screwdriver!" "All those scenes are the Doctor being threatened for the first time by another man as far as Rose is concerned." "Maybe we should go find him." " And how you going to do that'?" " Easy." "I'll do a scan for alien tech." "Finally, a professional." "Obviously and, fairly quite overtly really, the subtext of this show is the Doctor is hopelessly in love with Rose and trying to impress her." "And then a younger, better-looking guy with a better gun turns up and he's so annoyed." "Come on, we're not done yet." "Assets." "I've got a banana and, in a pinch, you could put up some shelves." "Window?" "Barred." "Sheer drop outside." "Seven storeys." "And no other exits." "The assets conversation went in a flash, didn't it'?" " Where'd you pick this one up, then'?" " Doctor." "She was hanging from a barrage balloon, I had an invisible spaceship." "I never stood a chance." "The thing I absolutely hate that we've more or less eradicated from the scripts is all that techno babble." "With a little bit of jiggery-pokery..." "Is that a technical term, jiggery-pokery?" "Yeah, I came first in jiggery-pokery." "What about you'?" "No." "I failed hullabaloo." "There's a certain amount of fun you can have when you do allow a little bit of techno babble in which, really, I only tend to do for a joke." "I think in episode 7 there's the nurse who puts nanotermites in the lining of Adam's throat to stop him throwing up." "I'm going to be sick." "Special offer." "We installed the Vomitomatic at the same time." "Nanotermites have been placed in the lining of your throat." "In the event of sickness... they freeze the waste." "Yuck." "From nanotermites to nanogenes and a night-shoot on Barry Island." "You see'?" "Just an ambulance." "That's an ambulance'?" "It's hard to explain." "It's from another world." "I'd say I've learnt my lesson." "It's like, never do a two-parter set in the Blitz at night in a blackout and film it in January." "Everybody lives!" "That's great." "This is the big day in Barry." "There are three cameras on the setup and there are 26 zombie extras, and there's a big crew." "It's one of the bigger days on the Doctor Who production." "The script had to be at night, it had to be in the Blitz." "There was no choice, really." "It was that railway station where the bomb is found, the cylinder, the Chula cylinder, is found in episode 10." "It was a little hard to shoot the whole thing." "All I'm getting for this..." "To suggest that the bombers are getting very close, we're about to have two explosions as if two bombs have been dropped from a German plane." "Stand by, please." "Let's do it." "So we've got a special effects team rigging two large explosions with the zombies walking forward." " Action." " Go one." "Go two." "Just hope that all the effort shows up on camera." "Doctor, that bomb, we've got seconds." "Jack'?" "How old were you five years ago'?" "15'?" "16'?" "Old enough to give birth, anyway." "He's not your brother, is he'?" "He comes round here and he stands there and starts to do this." "Over his shoulder, you'll start to see all this fairy dust happening." "One of the beats of the story in these episodes are nanogenes." "Now to create that, there are interactive effects, which means we've got on-set lights to suggest that these glowing creatures have just arrived." "I am your mummy." "I will always be your mummy." "I'm so sorry." "I'm so, so sorry." "We had to be very clear and very precise at what points they were gonna swarm in so that we could, kind of, pop a light on." "Then the Mill have to kind of..." "I believe it's a particle-generating computer program so it kind of makes particles that move." "Come on, you clever little nanogenes." "Figure it out." "Then once the CGI is in, it looks like the light's coming from them and vanishes at a certain point." "See?" "Recognizing the same DNA." "Come on." "Give me a day like this." "Give me this one." "Welcome back!" "20 years to pop music, you're gonna love it." "And cut." "People are interested in the story of Doctor Who, in the characters, in the adventure." "They're never really interested in the science." "As a show, it's not hard science fiction." "Welcome to the Tardis." " Much bigger on the inside." " You'd better be." "Frankly, that's not Doctor Who's territory, and never can be, because the whole concept of the piece is about a man who travels in a box which is bigger inside than out and travels in time and space." "Rose!" "I've just remembered!" " What'?" "I can dance." "And they all lived happily ever after." "Thanks to the mad science of Doctor Who."