"Everywhere the Doctor goes, death is close behind." "Death is very present in every episode." "There is always somebody, somebody quite innocent, who's wiped out." "He leaves a trail of destruction in his wake." "Part of saving the world, part of that, probably involves a good few deaths." "They have the death penalty." "Not my problem." "Doctor Who Confidential calls to question the Doctor's fight to kill." "I love seeing the Tardis in front of the Millennium Centre there." " First time I've ever seen it." " Yeah, I've never seen it before." "Oh, it's the first time." "I think every episode, somehow, should have a different feel." "Cardiff's Millennium Centre was the stage for a standoff between the Doctor and an old enemy." "This is persecution." "Why can't you leave me alone'?" "What did I ever do to you'?" "You tried to kill me and destroy this entire planet." "It's quite important that when Margaret comes back, it's not a new enemy." "It's someone who's dealt with the Doctor before and knows what he does." "It's someone whose entire family was wiped out by the Doctor in fact." "Oh, boy." "Death is a very strong part of Doctor Who." "Whether it's the Doctor fighting to stop people dying or whether it's, in fact, the Doctor's meddling causing people to die." "It's never far behind him." "It's using the Tardis." "I can't stop it." "Never mind Cardiff, it's gonna rip open the planet!" "It's a rare program in that it always faces the consequences of death." "Especially in the new series." "Sorry." "I was always going to call episode 11 Dining with Monsters." "The whole point of the episode is to get to those scenes in the restaurant where the Doctor sits down with an enemy who he has defeated and they get to talk to each other, and they explore the consequences of the Doctor's actions." "Internal organs fall out into the liquid and I become soup." "And still alive." "Still screaming." " I don't make the law." " But you deliver it." "Can you stay to watch'?" "The real story in this is who the Doctor is and what gives him the right to live this lifestyle and what happens afterwards." "And inevitably you have to look at that and sort of say," ""Actually, as part of saving the world, part of that probably involves a good few deaths."" "Why don't you finish the job and make the Daleks extinct'?" "Rid the universe of your filth'?" "Why don't you just die!" "You would make a good Dalek." "I like the Doctor's ruthlessness." "I think..." "I, personally, have given him a fair old streak of that just because I think it's more interesting." "I know what you deserve." "Exterminate." "Retreat!" "We're dealing with a Time Lord now who's sort of war damaged." "And what of the Time Lords?" "Dead." "They burnt with you." "The end of the last great Time War." "Everyone lost." "I've always been fascinated by the fact that he is a man who always leaves." "And when the Doctor does go, it's the people who are left behind who have to pick up the pieces." "By the way, did I mention it also travels in time'?" " Thanks." " Thanks for what'?" "Exactly." "The Doctor upsets the whole balance of their relationship when he turns up, basically." "Because once he opens the door for her to adventure, she's left with the choice of same old routine or adventures beyond anyone's wildest dreams." "And there's not many people that would turn that down." "You left me!" "We were nice, we were happy." "And then what'?" "You give me a kiss and run off with him and you make me feel like nothing, Rose." "I was nothing!" "You've got Mickey, who's very much a victim of the Doctor's lifestyle." "The Doctor takes Rose in and out of Mickey's life and, you know, there's a selfishness to the brilliance of being a time traveler, actually." "They do what they want." "Off we go." " Into time." " And space." "My God, have you seen yourselves'?" "You all think you're so clever, don't you'?" " Yeah." " Yeah." "Yeah." "And that episode is a chance to look at people like Mickey, who are the victims of that lifestyle." "I can't even go out with a stupid girl from a shop because you pick up the phone and I comes running." "I mean, is that what I am, Rose, standby'?" "Here we are in Cardiff." "In Cardiff Bay." "It is freezing." "Basically, what we're doing now, we're doing a scene where Rose and Mickey have sort of a bust-up because they've, you know, she's been away and stuff like that and he's not too happy about that." "Are we on'?" "I'm on, man." "Sorry." "What can I say, man'?" "Got to work." "It's the money shot here." "That's what pays the bills." "1185, take 2, A Camera only." " Action." "The Doctor took me to this planet a while back." "It was much colder than this." "They called it Woman Wept." "The planet was actually called Woman Wept because if you looked at it, right, from above, it was like this huge continent, all curved round." "It looked a bit like a woman, sort of lamenting." "Oh, my God, and we went to this beach, right." "No people, no buildings, just this beach, like, 1,000 miles across." "And something happened, something to do with the sun, I don't know, but the sea had just frozen." "In a split second." "Like in the middle of a storm, right, waves and foam, just frozen, all the way out to the horizon." "And at midnight, right, we walk underneath these waves, 100 feet tall and made of ice." "I'm going out with Trisha Delaney." "Mickey is entirely blameless in the way he has lived his life." "And he suffers because of a Time Lord whizzing in and out of affairs." "We're all powered up." "We can leave." " How's Mickey'?" " He's okay." "He's gone." "Do you want to go and find him'?" "We'll wait." "No need." "He deserves better." "Off we go, then." "Always moving on." "Rose finds the Doctor's approach to his work or his mission quite inhumane." "And at times, he can be very cold and alien." "In the Dickens episode, you know... you see the young girl realizes that she has to sacrifice herself to save everybody else and the Doctor's complicit and allows that." "Rose finds that tremendously difficult." "They do need you, Gwyneth." "You're their only chance of survival." "I told you, leave her alone." "She's exhausted and she's not fighting your battles." "When the Doctor suggests putting Gwyneth forward and there is a chance, a risk, that she may die," "Rose isn't really at all pleased with that." "And then they knock heads." " She didn't make it." " I'm sorry." "She closed the rift." "I think it's a great property of the Doctor's to put people in the right place to enable themselves." "That happens very often throughout the series, he doesn't just solve things himself, he encourages people, as he does with Rose, he encourages people to become a better version of themselves." " You're not management, are you'?" " At last, she's clever." "With Cathica, he barely says a nice word to her." "What he's actually doing is pushing her all the time 'cause she's swanning about with a clipboard saying, "I'm a journalist."" "He's looking at her and saying, "You're not a journalist at all."" "And no one's going to stop you." "Because you bred a human race which doesn't bother to ask questions." "Stupid little slaves." "Believing every lie." "They'll just drop right into the slaughterhouse if they're told it's made of gold." "Burn out her mind." "Oh, no, you don't." "You should have promoted me years back." "He puts people like Cathica, Jabe to some extent in episode 2, he puts them in positions where they become better." "And it might mean their death a lot of the time 'cause it's a hard universe." "But he has encouraged that path." "You can't." "The heat's gonna vent through this place." " I know." " Jabe, you're made of wood." "Then stop wasting time, Time Lord." "But this time, the Tardis has come up with the ultimate solution to deal with the killer." "I almost feel better about being defeated." "I never stood a chance." "This is the technology of the gods." "Margaret Slitheen is essentially a hugely evil creature and it's clear that he can't just let her potter about Cardiff 'cause she'll kill us all." "To the future." "To the future." "And believe me... it will glow." "The problem of episode 11 is what should we do about Margaret'?" "That's what I should have called it." "What Should We Do About Margaret?" "That's a much better title!" "But genuinely, it's like, can you take someone to their death sentence'?" "And I would have thought a lot less of the Doctor if he had taken someone to a death sentence." "I don't approve of death sentences at all." "I would have despised a Doctor who had done that." "Nonetheless, the woman he's dealing with will go and murder millions if he lets her go." "The Slitheen family's huge." "There's a lot more of us, all scattered off-world." "Take me to them." "Take me somewhere safe." " But then you'll just start again." " I promise I won't." "You've been in that skin suit too long." "You've forgotten." "There used to be a real Margaret Blaine." "You killed her and stripped her and used the skin." "You're pleading for mercy out of a dead woman's lips." "The idea that you get another chance and that you can go back to the beginning and kind of do it all again in the right way is such a beautiful and seductive idea and such a sad one as well." "Thank you." "You use the Tardis and it's absolutely, clearly a deus ex machine, at the end, to come up with a solution of regressing her, of actually what Margaret needs." "Having realized that her life has gone wrong, what she needs is a chance to start again." "And to live her life again under a different set of rules, a different morality." "And so the Tardis comes in as a solution to that and..." "Which, I believe, because we've sort of said that whoever's on board the Tardis has a psychic connection to the Tardis." "So it's actually reading your mind and coming up with a solution." " Here she is." " She's an egg'?" "Regressed to her childhood." " She's an egg." "She can start again." "Live her life from scratch." "If we take her home, give her to a different family, tell them to bring her up properly, she might be all right." " Or she might be worse." " That's her choice." " She's an egg." " She's an egg." "In a series that deals with death, happy endings are few." "But just sometimes, you get a second chance." "Everybody lives!"