"Get down!" "The Doctor's not been himself of late." " Did they see you'?" " I don't know." "But did they see you'?" "The Doctor has become human..." "This is not you." "This is 1913." "Good, this is 1913." "...and is now living as a school teacher in England just before World War I." "Only Martha Jones has the secret." "Martha, this watch is me." "Pardon me, Mr. Smith." "The Doctor, as she knows him, has vanished." "She's frustrated." "I wish you'd come back." "There are aliens on his trail who are after a Time Lord's life span." "He's hiding from them, but they find him." "The teacher, he's the Doctor." "Come along with Confidential as we go undercover with the Doctor and Martha, alias Smith and Jones." "MANI Set!" "Get down!" "The Doctor is hiding because the Family of Blood is after him." "Ah!" "They're following us." "They can follow us wherever we go." "Right across the universe." "They're never gonna stop." "Martha, you trust me, don't you'?" " Of course I do." "'Cause it all depends on you." "Thank you." "Shoot it next time, please." "And turnover, please." "Ready!" "Ready!" "667, take one." "And the good news is'?" "They can smell me, but they haven't seen me, so we hide." "Wait for them to die." "It is the first time we've actually told a story in which the Doctor is hidden away." "We've never seen the Chameleon Arch before." "Never thought I'd use this." "All the times I've wondered." " What does it do'?" " Chameleon Arch." "Rewrites my biology." "It literally changes every single cell in my body." " Cut." "Good." " Cut." "The Chameleon Arch literally rewrites the Doctor's biology." "It changes him into a human being." "667, take three." "Now, the Tardis will take care of everything." "Invent a life story for me, find me a setting and integrate me." "It can't do the same for you." "You'll just have to improvise." "Thank you, chaps." "Very good." "We'll come down." "There is no memory of the fact that this being was once the Doctor." "Morning, sir." " Yes, hi." "The Doctor has gone, really, to all intents and purposes." "John Smith has subsumed the Doctor's personality." "Permission to give Latimer a beating, sir." "Permission granted." "He's not the same man." "He's a creation of the Tardis." "Cut." "Thank you." " Excellent." "Steven?" " Yeah, yeah, good." "I approached him as a new character, as somebody who wasn't the Doctor." "I mean, it was very important for that story to make sense that John Smith was not the Doctor, was somebody else, was his own man." "Admittedly, now and again, there are little things that occur to John Smith which by rights shouldn't really be occurring to him." "I dream, quite often, that..." "That I have two hearts." "Well, then, I can be the judge of that." "Basically, he's no longer the Doctor, 'cause he's completely unaware of Time Lords and spaceships and Daleks." "He does have these dreams." "I dream I'm this... adventurer." "This daredevil, a madman." "The Doctor." "When he becomes John Smith, he has no memory of being the Doctor, apart from vague dreams that kind of come back to him." "Then he writes them all down." "A Journal of Impossible Things."" "Wonderful." "Such imagination." "But somewhere in his subconscious he has an awareness that there is a doctor." "Think how magical life would be if stories like this were true." "As far as John Smith is concerned, it's just something from his imagination." "Yeah, it's funny how dreams slip away." "But he doesn't, for a second, imagine that they are anything other than fantastic dreams that he has." "It all took place in the future." "In the year of our Lord, 2007." "That's very important." "The story wouldn't play if he suspected from the beginning that he was anything other than a man living in 1913, being a school teacher." "Martha, what have I told you about entering unannounced'?" "In the middle of playing the same character, month on month, to get to do something so completely different, in some ways it was a great liberation." "What other long-running show, what other long-running character, halfway through the series gets to be completely and utterly different from the way he was last week'?" "Inspector Morse doesn't suddenly become a transvestite shoplifter, it wouldn't make sense." "NARRATOR"." "It's not just aliens who are chasing John Smith." "School matron Joan Redfern has her eye on him, too." "I think Joan is very worldly wise." " I appear to be holding your books." " Yes, so you are, sorry." "Sorry." "She's quite forward for a woman of her age." "When it's just you and me," "I'd much rather you called me Nurse Redfern." "That's actually why we made her a widow." "Though we've known each other all of two months, you could even say Joan." "She knows what it's like to be married, and so I think she quite consciously sets her eye on John Smith as a husband, and is going after him from the moment we first see them together." "She is quite forward for a woman of the age in sort of talking about her husband, and she's very open about her emotions, and they just dance around each other." "Then, eventually, all leading up to the dance, where they have the last possible nice time they can have before Doctor Who world descends, and monsters arrive and the scarecrows and laser guns, and rips them apart." "So, it's a very, very precious time, Episode 8." "It's the only chance they'll get to be happy." "NARRATOR"." "With scores of performers on set, the production crew must choreograph every inch of what's seen on screen." "Her and the matron are gonna have a little chat." "You guys, again, all are just gonna be scattered about having a really good time." "A few people drinking, eating, chatting, dancing, all the rest of it." "The dance hall scene was quite complicated to do." "Working with that many extras is always quite difficult, 'cause it takes a long time to get anything done." "And also, they're all in period costume and period makeup, and so that takes a long time." "Nice and quiet, please." "All eyes on the MC." "397, take one." "A camera." "B camera." "Thank you." "Here we go, folks." "Ladies and gentlemen, please take your partners for a waltz." "Don't have everyone Waltzing round like The King and I, sort of spinning round each other, 'cause these are ordinary village folk." "They're not great dancers." "They're just ordinary people in a really nice, comfy little setting." " You can dance." " I surprised myself." "I'll tell you one thing about Doctor Who, is never have a party." "Don't go to a dance, don't have people round your house, 'cause some monster's gonna crash though the windows." "It's becoming a rule now, they're dancing, there's music, send in the monsters." "Right on cue the aliens land to gatecrash the gathering." "Parking their ship out of sight, they're more than ready for a hapless schoolboy to bump into them." "Right." "Well, never mind that little toad." "Who's for beer'?" "You've got beer'?" "No, but Baxter's hidden a secret supply in Blackdown Woods." "Well, what are you waiting for'?" "Hurry back, Baines." "I'm parched." "Look, in the sky." "The invisible spaceship was no trouble at all, because it was invisible and it was to be done later by The Mill." "We do see it very briefly when he touches it." "Harry is a super actor." "I did talk to him about having some..." "Doing some mime work with our movement artist, but we didn't do it in the end, and I think he does it terribly well." "Baines bumping into that thing, and it's..." "It becomes a mime act with his hands." "It's the sort of thing you can do in the schoolyard." "You can imagine meeting an invisible spaceship." "It's sort of great fun, and then leads him into something terrifying, leads him to his death." "Lovely." "Here we go, folks." "Rehearsing." "Nice and quiet, please." "Is that an airplane'?" "Are you chaps all right'?" "That was a tricky day, first of all 'cause it was freezing and very wet." "Charlie, the director, came up to me that morning and said," ""How are you at mime?"" "And I said, "Well, I'm okay."" "I still haven't seen it, so I don't know, but I..." "It felt a bit stupid." "But I like to think we might have got away with it." "With all the special effects and all the sounds, they'll cover up all my mistakes." "These aliens need some interesting, spooky servants." "How about scarecrows?" "Activate the soldiers." "The scarecrows are great." "It's taking the mundane and making it creepy, which is one of the surefire things that this show does very well." "They're peculiarly creepy." "The eyes that aren't quite there." "Fantastic creatures." "It's nice to have something very scary that can legitimately stand there in a field being completely ordinary." "I wish they had scarecrows like that in fields these days." "Freak kids out." "Help me!" "You kind of think, "How could we not have done living scarecrows before?"" "It seems such an obvious idea when you see it." "The only thing that was lacking was something to grab you if you're eight years old, to be honest, and so I said, "Scarecrows," to Paul, and he said, "No."" "And, as with Paul, you just wait a day, and then he turns round and says, "Yes." He always does that." "Then he turns round, "Oh, a great idea."" "This is great, because I love spooky scarecrows." "They're so gothic and wonderful and really, really English." "And the guys inside did such a great job, that kind of lolloping, rolling gait that they all had, which somehow made them all the more creepy." "Notice the thermals, essential." "Okay." "Action." "It was decided that scarecrows should shamble." "God!" "No!" "No!" "A little bit like..." "With a vestige of the scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz, who lollops all over the place." "No!" "Help!" "No!" "That's what you expect a scarecrow should do." "These monsters should do what you expect them to do." " Stay there, fellas." " And action." " Help me!" "No!" " Cut." "They're silent as well." "It just gives them..." "It's just that shambling that makes them a bit animal and a bit mindless." "Turn over A and B, please." "I think that makes them terrifying." "Help me!" "Cut there." "Cut there." "Give us a kiss." "Thank you." "Let's cut there."