" Bye!" " See you later." "Bye!" "The store will be closing in five minutes." "Thank you." "Hey!" "Wilson?" "Wilson, I've got the lottery money." "Wilson." "Are you there?" "I can't hang about 'cause they're closing the shop." "Wilson!" "Oh, come on." "Hello?" "Hello, Wilson." "It's Rose." "Hello?" "Wil..." "Wilson?" "Wilson?" "Wilson!" "You're kidding me!" "Is that someone mucking about?" "Who is it?" "You got me." "Very funny" "Right, I've got the joke." "Whose idea was this?" "Is it Derek's?" "Is it?" "Derek, is this you?" "Run!" " You pulled his arm off!" " Yep." "Plastic." "Nice trick." "Who were they?" " Is it a student thing?" " Why would they be students?" " I don't know." " You said it." "Why students?" "That many people dressed up and being silly." "They gotta be students." "That makes sense." "Well done." " Thanks." " They're not students." "Wilson will call the police." " Wilson?" " Chief electrician." "Wilson's dead." " That's not funny." "That's sick." " Mind your eyes." "I've had enough of this now." "Who are you, then?" "Who's that lot down there?" "I said who are they?" "They're living plastic creatures." "They're controlled by a relay device on the roof, which would be a problem if I didn't have this." "I'm going to blow it up, and I might well die in the process, but don't worry about me - go home and have your beans on toast." "If you tell anyone about this, you'll get them killed." " I'm the Doctor." "You are?" " Rose." "Nice to meet you, Rose." "Run for your life!" "Watch it!" "Police investigate a fire in Central London." "I know." "It's on the telly." "It's everywhere." "She's lucky to be alive!" "It's aged her." "Skin like an old Bible." "You'd think I was HER daughter." "Here's himself." "I've been phoning your mobile." "You could have been dead." "I can't believe the shop went up!" "I'm fine." "Don't make a fuss." " What happened?" " I don't know." " What caused it?" " I wasn't in the shop." "I didn't see anything." "Debbie knows a man on the "Mirror"." "500 quid for an interview." "Brilliant." "Give it here." "You've got to find some way of making money." "I'm not bailing you out." "Bev!" "She's alive!" "I've told her." "Sue for compensation." "She was within seconds of death!" " Is that tea?" "You need something stronger." " I'm all right." "You deserve a proper drink." " Let's go down the pub." " Is there a match on?" " No!" "I'm just thinking about you." " There's a match on." " We could catch the last five minutes." " Go on, then." "I'm fine." "Go." "Get rid of that." " Bye!" " Bye." "It's thought there's very little chance of saving the infrastructure." "There's no point in getting up, sweetheart." "You've got no job to go to." "There's Finch's." " They've always got jobs." " Oh, great." "The butcher's" "It might do you good." "That shop gave you airs and graces." "I mean it about compensation." "You've had shock and trauma." "Arianna got 2,000 quid off the council 'cause the old man at the desk said she looked Greek." "She IS Greek, but that's not the point." "It was a valid claim." "Mum, I told you to nail that cat flap down." "We're gonna get strays." " I did it weeks back!" " You thought about it." "What are you doing here?" " I live here." " What for?" "'Cause I do." "I'm only here 'cause someone blew up my job." "I must have the wrong signal." "You're not plastic, are you?" "No, bonehead." "Bye, then." "Inside." "Right now." "Who is it?" "It's about last night." "Give us ten minutes." "She deserves compensation." "Oh, we're talking millions!" "Um..." " I'm in my dressing gown." " Yes, you are." "There's a strange man in my bedroom." "Yes, there is." "Well, anything could happen." "No." " Don't mind the mess." "Do you want a coffee?" " Might as well, thanks." "Just milk." " We should go to the police." "Seriously." " That won't last." "He's gay and she's an alien." "I'm not blaming you." " Even if it was a joke that went wrong." " Hmm." "Sad ending." " It said on the news they found a body." " "Rose Tyler."" "Ah!" "Could have been worse." "Look at the ears!" " He was a nice bloke." " Luck be a lady..." "If we do go to the police, I wanna know what I'm saying." "I want you to explain everything." "Maybe not!" "What's that, then?" " Have you got a cat?" " No." "We did have, but now we just get strays." "They come in off the estate." " I told Mickey to chuck that out." " You're all the same." "Give a man a plastic hand" "Anyway, I don't even know your name." "Doctor what?" "Agh!" "I've stopped it." "See?" " 'Armless" " Do you think?" " You can't just go swanning off!" " Yes, I can." "This is me swanning off." " That arm tried to kill me!" " Well observed." "You can't just walk away." " You've got to tell me what's going on." " No, I don't." "All right." "I'll go to the police." "I'll tell everyone." "You said if I did that, I'd get people killed, so, your choice." " Tell me or I'll start talking." " Is that supposed to sound tough?" " Sort of." " It doesn't work." " Who are you?" " Told you." "The Doctor." " Doctor what?" " Just the Doctor." " The Doctor?" " Hello!" " Is that supposed to sound impressive?" " Sort of." "Come on." "You can tell me." "I've seen enough." "Are you the police?" "No!" "I was just passing through." "I'm a long way from home." "What have I done wrong?" "Why are those plastic things after me?" "Suddenly the entire world revolves around you You just got in the way." "It tried to kill me." "It was after me, not you." "I was in the shop, you blundered in, almost ruined the whole thing." "I was tracking it down, it was tracking me down." "It only fixed on you 'cause you met me." "So you're saying the entire world revolves around you." " Sort of, yeah." " You're full of it!" "Sort of, yeah!" "All this plastic stuff - who else knows about it?" " No one." " What, you're on your own?" "Who else is there?" "I mean, you lot, all you do is eat chips, go to bed and watch telly, while underneath you there's a war going on." "OK." "Start from the beginning." "If we're going with the living plastic - I don't even believe that - how did you kill it?" "The thing controlling it projects life into the arm." "I cut off the signal." " So that's radio control?" " Thought control." " Are you all right?" " Yeah." " So who's controlling it, then?" " Long story." "What's it all for?" "I mean, shop window dummies." "What's that about?" "Is someone trying to take over Britain's shops?" "No!" " Well, no." " It's not a price war!" "They want to overthrow the human race and destroy you." "Do you believe me?" " No." " But you're still listening." "Really, though, Doctor... tell me." "Who are you?" "Do you know like we were saying about the Earth revolving?" "It's like when you're a kid and they tell you that the world's turning, but everything looks like it's standing still." "I can feel it." "The turn of the Earth." "The ground beneath our feet spinning at 1,000 miles an hour, and the entire planet is hurtling round the sun at 67,000 miles an hour, and I can feel it." "We're falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go..." "That's who I am." "Now forget me, Rose Tyler." "Go home." " Hey-hey!" "Here's my woman." "Kit off!" " Shut up." " Coffee?" " Yeah, only if you wash the mug." " Not rinse, wash." "Can I use your computer?" " Yeah." "Any excuse to get in the bedroom!" "Don't read my emails!" "You're not coming in." "He's safe." "He's got a wife and kids." "Who told you that?" "He did." "That's exactly what an internet murderer would say!" "Hello." "I've come to see Clive." "We've been emailing." "Dad!" "One of your nutters!" "Oh, sorry." "Hello." "You must be Rose." "I'm Clive, obviously." "My boyfriend's waiting in the car - just in case you're gonna kill me" "Good point." "No murders!" " Who is it?" " It's to do with the Doctor." "She's been reading the website." "Come through." "I'm in the shed." "She?" "She's read the website about the Doctor and she's a she?" "A lot of this stuff's quite sensitive." "I couldn't just send it to you." "People might intercept it." "If you dig deep enough and keep a lively mind, this Doctor crops up all over the place - political diaries, conspiracy theories, even ghost stories." "No first name, no last name, just "the Doctor" - always "the Doctor"." "And the title seems to be passed down from father to son - an inheritance." "That's your Doctor there." "Yeah." "I tracked it down to the Washington Public Archive last year." "That photo's enhanced." "This is the original." "November 22nd 1963." "The assassination of President Kennedy." " It must be his father." " Going further back..." "April 1912." "This is the Daniels family of Southampton and friend." "This was taken the day before they were due to sail on the Titanic." "For some unknown reason, they cancelled the trip and survived." "Here we are... 1883." "Another Doctor." "Look - the same lineage." "It's identical." "This one washed up on the coast of Sumatra the night that Krakatoa exploded." "The Doctor is a legend woven throughout history." "When disaster comes, he's there." "He brings a storm in his wake, and has one constant companion." "Who's that?" "Death." "If the Doctor's back, if you've seen him, Rose, then one thing's for certain." "We're all in danger." "Come on, then!" "If he singled you out, if the Doctor's making house calls... then God help you!" "Agh!" "Who is he?" "Who do you think he is?" "I think he's the same man." "I think he's immortal." "I think he's an alien from another world." "All right, he's a nutter!" "Off his head." "A complete online conspiracy freak." "You win." "What are we gonna do tonight?" "I fancy a pizza." " Pizza!" "Puh-puh-pizza!" " Or a Chinese." "Pizza!" "Do you think I should try the hospital?" "Suki said they had jobs going in the canteen." "Is that it, then - dishing out chips?" "I could do A levels." "It's all Jimmy Stones's fault." "I only left school 'cause of him and look where he ended up." "What do you think?" " Where did you meet this Doctor?" " Sorry." "Did I talk about me then" "It started at the shop, right?" "Was he something to do with that?" " No." " Come on." "Sort of." " What was he doing there?" " I'm not going on about it, Mickey." "I'm not." "I know it sounds daft but I don't think he's safe." "He's dangerous." " You can trust me, sweetheart." " Babe." "Sugar." "Tell me what the Doctor's planning and I can help you, Rose." " That's all I really want to do, sweetheart." " Babe." "Sugar." "Sweetheart." "What are you doing?" " Your champagne." " We didn't order it." " Where's the Doctor?" " Your champagne." "It's not ours." "Mickey, what's wrong?" "I need to find out how much he knows." " Don't you want champagne?" " We didn't order it." " Ah!" "Gotcha!" " Don't mind me." "Just toasting the happy couple." "On the house!" "Anyway..." "That's not gonna stop me." "Everyone out now!" "Get out!" "Get out!" "Open the gate!" "Use that tube thing." " Sonic screwdriver." " Use it!" "Nah." "Let's go in here." "You can't hide inside a wooden box!" "He's gonna get us!" "Doctor!" "He's gonna follow us!" "The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door." "Believe me, they've tried." "You see, the arm was too simple, but the head is perfect." "I can use it to trace the signal back to the original source." "Right." "Where do you want to start?" "The inside is bigger than the outside." " Yes." " It's alien." "Yep." "Are you alien?" "Yes." " Is that all right?" " Yeah." "It's called the Tardis." "T-A-R-D-l-S." "Time And Relative Dimension In Space." "That's OK." "Culture shock." " Happens to the best of us." " Did they kill him?" "Mickey?" "Did they kill Mickey?" "Is he dead?" "Oh." "I didn't think of that." "He's my boyfriend." "You pulled off his head." "They copied him and you didn't even think?" " And now you're just gonna let him melt?" " Melt?" " No, no, no!" " What are you doing?" "Following the signal." "It's fading." "No, no!" "Almost there." "Here we go." "You can't go out there." "It's not safe." "I lost the signal." "I got so close!" " We've moved." "Does it fly?" " Disappears there and reappears here." "What about that headless thing?" "It's still on the loose." " It melted with the head." "Stop wittering on." " I'll have to tell his mother." "Mickey." "I'll have to tell his mother he's dead." "You forgot him again!" " You were right." "You ARE alien." " If I did forget some kid, it's because I'm trying to save every stupid ape on this planet, all right?" " All right." " Yes, it is!" " Why do you sound like you're from the north?" " Lots of planets have a north." "What's a police public call box?" "It's a telephone box from the 1950s." " It's a disguise." " OK." " This living plastic, what's it got against us?" " Nothing." "It loves you." "You have a great planet." "Lots of smoke and oil, toxins and dioxins in the air." "Perfect." "Just what the Nestene Consciousness needs." "Its food stock was destroyed." " Its protein planets rotted, so Earth - dinner!" " Can you stop it?" " Antiplastic." " Antiplastic?" "First I've got to find it." "How can you hide something that big?" " What?" " The transmitter." "The Consciousness controls the plastic." "The transmitter boosts the signal." " What does it look like?" " Like a transmitter." "Round and massive." "Slap bang in the middle of London." "A huge metal circular structure." "Like a wheel." "Close to where we're standing." "Must be completely invisible." "What?" "What?" "What is it?" "What?" "Oh." "Fantastic!" "Think of it - plastic all over the world." "Everything coming alive." "The shop window dummies, phones, wires." " The cables..." " The breast implants." "The Consciousness must be somewhere underneath." "What about down here?" "Looks good to me." "The Nestene Consciousness." "That's it inside the vat." "A living plastic creature." " Tip in your antiplastic and let's go." " I'm not here to kill it." "I've got to give it a chance." "I seek audience with you under peaceful contract according to Convention 15 of the Shadow Proclamation." "Thank you." "If I might have permission to approach?" "Oh, God!" "Mickey, it's me." "It's OK." "It's all right." "That thing down there - the liquid, Rose - it can talk!" "You're stinking!" "Doctor, they kept him alive!" "That was always a possibility." "That way, they maintain the copy." " You knew that and never said?" " Can we keep the domestics outside?" "Am I addressing the Consciousness?" "Thank you." "You infiltrated this civilisation by means of warp-shunt technology, so may I respectfully suggest that you shunt off?" "It's an invasion, plain and simple." "Don't talk about constitutional rights." "I am talking!" "This planet is just starting." "These stupid people have only just learnt to walk, but they're capable of so much more." " I'm asking you on their behalf." "Please go." " Doctor!" "It was just insurance." "I wasn't gonna use it." "I was not attacking you." "I'm here to help." "I'm not your enemy." "I swear I'm not." "What do you mean?" "No!" "Honestly, no!" "Yes, that's my ship." "That's not true." "I should know." "I was there." "I fought in the war." "It wasn't my fault." "I couldn't save your world or any of them." "What's it doing?" "The Nestene's identified the Tardis as superior technology." "It's terrified." "It's going to the final base." "It's starting the invasion." "Get out, Rose." "Just leg it now!" " Mum?" " There you are." "I was just gonna phone." "You CAN get compensation." "I've got this document off the police." "Don't thank me." " Where are you, Mum?" " I'm in town." " Just go home right now." " You're breaking up." "I'm just gonna do a bit of late-night shopping." "See you later." "Ta-ra!" "Mum?" "Mum!" "It's the activation signal." "It's transmitting!" "It's the end of the world." "There's no point in a spreadsheet if you spend summer money in winter." "God!" "I thought they were dummies." "I nearly had a heart attack." "It's true." "Everything I read - all the stories - it's all true." " Get out, Rose!" "Just get out!" "Run!" " The stairs have gone!" "I haven't got the key!" "We're gonna die." "Agh!" "Agh!" " No!" " Time Lord!" "Just leave him!" " There's nothing you can do!" " I've got no A levels." "No job." "No future." "But I'll tell you what I HAVE got." "Jericho Street Junior School Under-7s Gymnastics Team." "I've got the bronze." "Rose!" "Now we're in trouble!" "Rose!" "Don't go out of the house." "It's not safe." "These things were shooting..." "Hello?" "Fat lot of good you were!" " Nestene Consciousness?" "Easy!" " You were useless in there." " You'd be dead if it wasn't for me." " Yes, I would." "Thank you." "Right, then, I'll be off... unless..." "I don't know..." "You could come with me." "This box goes anywhere in the universe free of charge." "Don't." "He's an alien." "He's a thing!" "He's not invited." "What do you think?" "You could stay here, fill your life with work and food and sleep, or you could go anywhere." " Is it always this dangerous?" " Yeah." "Yeah, I can't." "I've got to go and find my mum, and someone's got to look after this stupid lump, so..." "OK." "See you around." "Come on, let's go." "Come on." "Come on." "By the way, did I mention it also travels in time?" " Thanks." " Thanks for what?" "Exactly!" "This is the year five billion." "And this is the day..." "Hold on..." "Welcome to the end of the world." "Who the hell are you?" "I'm the Doctor." "This is Rose Tyler, my "plus one", OK?" "Representing the Forest of Cheam, we have trees." "The Moxx of Balhoon." "The Face of Boe." "The last human - the Lady Cassandra O'Brien." "Oh, now, don't stare!" "Look how thin I am!" "That's not supposed to happen." "Run." " I'm the Doctor." " I'm Rose." "Nice to meet you." "Run!" "It's following us!" "Genghis Khan couldn't get in here and he's tried." " Are you alien?" " Yes." "Come with me." " Is it always dangerous?" " Yeah." "Right, Rose Tyler, do you want to go backwards or forwards in time?" " It's your choice." "What's it going to be?" " Forwards." " How far?" " 100 years." " Step outside." "It's the 22nd century." " You're kidding?" " Do you want to go further?" " Fine by me." "10,000 years in the future." "Step outside." "It's 12005." "The new Roman Empire." " You think you're so impressive." " I am." " You wish!" " You asked for it." "I know where to go." "Hold on." "Where are we?" "What's out there?" "You lot spend all your time thinking about dying - like you're going to get killed by eggs or beef or global warming or asteroids." "You never take time to imagine the impossible - that you'll survive." "This is the year 5.5/Apple/26." "Five billion years in your future." "And this is the day..." "Hold on." "This is the day the Sun expands." "Welcome to the end of the world." "Shuttles Five and Six now docking." "Guests are reminded that Platform One forbids the use of weapons, teleportation and religion." "Earth death is scheduled for 15.39, followed by drinks in the Manchester Suite." " "Guests"?" "Does that mean people?" " Depends what you mean by people." " I mean people." "What do you mean?" " Aliens." "What are they doing on board this spaceship?" "It's more an observation deck." "The great and the good are going to watch the planet burn." " What for?" " Fun." "When I say "the great and the good", I mean the rich." "But they did this on "Newsround Extra" - the sun expanding." "It takes hundreds of years." "The planet belongs to the National Trust." "They've been preserving it." "See there?" "Gravity satellites holding back the sun." "The planet looks the same." "I thought the continents shifted." "They did and the Trust shifted them back." "That's a classic Earth." "Now the money's run out, nature takes over." " How long's it got?" " About half an hour." "Then it gets roasted." "Is that why we're here?" "Do you jump in at the last minute and save the Earth?" " I'm not saving it." "Time's up." " What about the people?" "It's empty." "They've all gone." "No one left." " Just me, then." " Who the hell are you?" " That's nice." "Thanks." " How did you get in?" "This is a maximum hospitality zone." "The guests have disembarked." "That's me." "I'm a guest." "I've got an invitation." "Look." "It's fine." ""The Doctor plus one." I'm the Doctor and this is Rose Tyler." "All right?" "Well... obviously." "Apologies, etcetera." "If you're on board, we'd better start." "Enjoy." "The paper's psychic." "It shows them what I want them to see." " Saves a lot of time." " He's blue." " Yeah." " OK." "We have in attendance the Doctor and Rose Tyler." "Thank you." "All staff to their positions." "Hurry, now." "Quick as we can." "Come along, come along." "Might I introduce the next honoured guest?" "Representing the Forest of Cheam, we have trees, namely Jabe, Lute and Coffa." "There will be an exchange of gifts representing peace." "Keep the room circulating." "Next, from the solicitors Jolco and Jolco, we have the Moxx of Balhoon." "And next, from Financial Family Seven, we have the Adherents of the Repeated Mean..." "The inventors of Hypo-Slip Travel Systems, the brothers Hop Pyleen..." "Cal Spark Plug..." "Mr and Mrs Pacoon..." "Ambassadors from the city state of Binding Light..." "The gift of peace." "I bring you a cutting of my grandfather." "Thank you." "Yes." "Gifts..." "I give you in return... air from my lungs." "How... intimate." " There's more where that came from." " I bet there is." "From the Silver Devastation, the sponsor of the main event, please welcome the Face of Boe." "The Moxx of Balhoon." "My felicitations upon this historical happenstance." "I bring you the gift of bodily salivas." "Thank you." "Ah, the Adherents of the Repeated Mean." "I bring you air from my lungs." "A gift of peace in all good faith." "Last, but not least, our very special guest." "Ladies and gentlemen and trees and multiforms... consider the Earth below." "In memory of this dying world, we call forth the last human." "The lady Cassandra O'Brien." "Delta 17." "Now, don't stare." "I know." "I know, it's shocking, isn't it?" "I've had my chin completely taken away and look at the difference." "Look how thin I am." "Thin and dainty." "I don't look a day over 2,000." "Moisturise me." "Moisturise me." "Truly I am the last human." "My father was a Texan, my mother was from the Arctic desert." "They were born on the Earth and they were the last to be buried in its soil." "I have come to honour them and to say goodbye." "No tears." "No tears..." "I'm sorry." "But behold, I bring gifts." "From Earth itself, the last remaining ostrich egg." "Legend says it had a wingspan of 50 feet and blew fire from its nostrils." "Or was that my third husband?" "No, don't laugh." "I'll get laughter lines." "And here, another rarity." "According to the archives, this was called an iPod." "It stores classical music from humanity's greatest composers." "Play on." "Refreshments are served." "Earth death in 30 minutes." "Sometimes I feel I've got to... run away" "I've got to... get away" "From the pain you drive into the heart of me" "The love we share" "Seems to go nowhere" "And I've lost my light" "For I toss and turn I can't sleep at night..." "Doctor?" "Thank you." "A gift of peace in all good faith." " You're kind, but I'm just the steward." " A gift of peace in all good faith." "Well, yes." "Thank you." "Of course." "Identify species." "Please identify species." "Stop it." "Identify his race." "Where's he from?" "It's impossible." "Sorry." "Am I allowed to be in here?" "You have to give us permission to talk." "Er..." "You have permission." "Thank you." "And no, you're not in the way." "Guests are allowed anywhere." "OK." " What's your name?" " Raffalo." "Raffalo?" "Yes, miss." "I won't be long." "I've just got to carry out some maintenance." "There's a glitch in the Face of Boe's suite." "There must be something blocking the system." "He's not getting hot water." " So you're a plumber?" " That's right, miss." " You still have plumbers?" " Else I'm out of a job." " Where are you from?" " Crespallion." " That's a planet, isn't it?" " No." "It's part of the Jaggit Brocade, affiliated to the Scarlet Junction." "Convex 56." "Where are you from, miss?" "If you don't mind me asking." "No, not at all." "Um..." "I don't know." "A long way away." "I just sort of hitched a lift with this man." "I didn't even think about it." "I don't even know who he is." "He's a complete stranger." "Anyway, don't let me keep you." "Good luck with it." "Thank you, miss, and er..." "Thank you for the permission." "Not many people are that considerate." "OK." "See you later." "Now, then..." "Control, I'm at Junction 19." "I think the problem's here." "I'll go in and have a look." "What's that?" "Is something in there?" "Who are you, then?" "Hold on!" "If you're an upgrade, I just need to register you." "Come back." "There you are." "I need to register your ident." "Oh, there's two of you." "Got yourself a little mate." "I think I'd better report this to Control." "How many of you are there?" "What are you?" "No, please..." "No!" "No!" "What's that?" "How should I know?" "Would the owner of the blue box in Gallery 15 please report to the Steward's office?" "Guests are reminded that the use of teleportation devices is strictly forbidden under peace treaty 5.4/Cup/16." "Thank you." " Earth death in 25 minutes." " Earth death in 25 minutes." "Oh, thanks." "Hello." "My name's Rose." "That's a sort of plant." "We might be related." "I'm talking to a twig." "Careful with that." "Park it properly." "No scratches." "Rose?" "Are you in there?" "Aye, aye." " What do you think, then?" " Great." "Yeah." "Fine." "Once you get past the slightly psychic paper." "They're just so alien." "The aliens are so alien." "You look at 'em and they're alien." "Good thing I didn't take you to the Deep South." " Where are you from?" " All over the place." " They all speak English." " No." "You hear English." "It's the Tardis." "The telepathic field gets into your brain and translates." " It's inside my brain?" " In a good way." "Your machine gets inside my head and changes my mind and you didn't even ask?" " I didn't think of it." " No." "You were too busy thinking up cheap shots about the Deep South!" "Who are you, then, Doctor?" "What sort of alien are you?" " I'm just the Doctor." " From what planet?" " You wouldn't know it." " Where are you from?" " Why?" " Tell me who you are." "This is who I am, right here and now." "All that counts is here and now and this is me!" "And I'm here too 'cause you brought me!" "So just tell me!" "Earth death in 20 minutes." "Earth death in 20 minutes." "All right." "As my mate Shereen says, "Don't argue with the designated driver."" "Can't exactly call for a taxi." "There's no signal." "We're out of range." "Just a bit." " With a bit of jiggery-pokery..." " Is that a technical term?" " Yeah." "I came first in jiggery-pokery." "You?" " No." "I failed hullabaloo." "There you go." "Hello?" " Mum?" " What is it?" "What have I done now?" "This red top's falling to bits." "You should get your money back." "You never phone in the middle of the day." "What's so funny?" " Nothing." "You all right?" " Yeah." "Why wouldn't I be?" " What day is it?" " Wednesday." "All day." "You got a hangover?" "Put a quid in that Lottery syndicate." "I'll pay you back later." "Yeah." "I was just calling 'cause I might be late home." " Is there something wrong?" " No." "I'm fine." "Top of the world." "Think that's amazing, you want to see the bill." "That was five billion years ago." "So..." "She's dead now." " Five billion years later, my mum's dead." " Bundle of laughs, you are." "That's not supposed to happen." "What was it?" "I'm just getting green lights at this end." "Guests may be reassured that gravity pockets may cause slight turbulence." "The whole place shook!" "I felt it." "I've hosted events on Platforms One, Three, Six and 15 and I've never felt a tremor." "If this lot decide to sue..." "I'm going to scan the infrastructure." "What's that?" "Control, I don't want to worry you, but I'm picking up readings..." "I have no idea." "They're small." "The scan says they're metal." "I don't know what they look like!" "Although I imagine they might look rather like that." "You're not on the guest list." "How did you get on board?" "No!" " Sun filter deactivated." " No!" "Sun filter descending." " Sun filter up!" " External temperature 4,000 degrees." " Control, respond!" "Sun filter up!" " Sun filter descending." "Indubitably, this is the bad-move scenario." "I find the inherent laxity of the ongoing..." "That wasn't a gravity pocket." "They don't feel like that." "What do you think, Jabe?" "Listen to the engines." "They've pitched up about 30 hertz." "It's the sound of metal." "It doesn't make sense to me." " Where's the engine room?" " I don't know." "The maintenance duct is behind our suite." "I could show you and... your wife." "She's not my wife." " Partner?" " No." " Concubine?" " No." " Prostitute?" " Whatever I am, it must be invisible!" "You two go and pollinate." "I'll catch up with the family." "Word with Michael Jackson." "Don't start a fight." "I'm all yours." "And I want you home by midnight." " Earth death in 15 minutes." " Earth death in 15 minutes." "Who's in charge of Platform One?" "Is there a captain?" "Just the steward and the staff." "The rest is controlled by the metal mind." "The computer?" "Who controls that?" "The corporation." "They move Platform One from one artistic event to another." "But no one from the corporation is on board?" "They're not needed." "This facility is purely automatic." " Nothing can go wrong." " Unsinkable?" "If you like." "The nautical metaphor is appropriate." "I was on board another ship they said was unsinkable." "I ended up clinging to an iceberg." "So if we get in trouble, there's no one to help us out?" " I'm afraid not." " Fantastic." "I don't understand." "In what way is that fantastic?" "Soon the Sun will blossom into a red giant and my home will die." "That's where I used to live when I was a little boy." "Mummy and Daddy had a house built into the side of the Los Angeles crevasse." "I'd have such fun." "What happened to the human race?" "Where did it go?" "They say mankind has touched every star in the sky." " So you're not the last human?" " I am the last pure human." "The others mingled." "They call themselves new humans, proto-humans, digi-humans, even human-ish, but do you know what I call them?" "Mongrels." "Right." "And you stayed behind." "I kept myself pure." "How many operations have you had?" "708." "Next week it's 709." "I'm having my blood bleached." "Is that why you wanted a word?" "You could be flatter." " You've got a bit of a chin poking out." " I'd rather die." " It doesn't hurt." " No, I mean it." "I would rather die." "It's better to die than live like you - a bitchy trampoline." "What do you know?" "I was born on that planet and so was my mum and dad and that makes me the last human being." "You're not human." "You've had it all flattened until there's nothing left." "Anything human got chucked in the bin." "You're just skin." "Lipstick and skin." "Nice talking." "So, Jabe, what's a tree like you doing in a place like this?" " Respect for the Earth." " Come on." "Everyone here's worth zillions." "Perhaps it's having to be seen at the right occasions." "In case your shares drop?" "You've got massive forests everywhere." "There's always money in land." "All the same, we respect the Earth as family." "So many species evolved from that planet." "Mankind is only one." "I'm another." "My ancestors were transplanted from the planet down below." "I'm a direct descendant of the tropical rainforest." "Excuse me." "What about your ancestry?" "Perhaps you could tell a story or two." "Perhaps a man only enjoys trouble when there's nothing else left." "I scanned you earlier." "The metal machine had trouble identifying your species and even when it named you, I wouldn't believe it." "But it was right." "I know where you're from." "Forgive me for intruding but it's remarkable that you even exist." "I just wanted to say how sorry I am." "Is it me or is it a bit nippy?" "That's a great bit of air conditioning." "Nice and old-fashioned." "I bet they call it retro." "Gotcha." " What the hell's that?" " Is it part of the retro?" "I don't think so." "Hold on." " Hey, nice liana." " Thanks." "I shouldn't show them in public." "Don't worry." "I won't tell anyone." "Who's been bringing their pets on board?" " What does it do?" " Sabotage." " Earth death in ten minutes." " The temperature's about to rocket." " The planet's end." " Come gather!" "Come gather!" "Bid farewell to the cradle of civilisation." "Let us mourn her with a traditional ballad." "Baby, can't you see I'm calling?" "A guy like you should wear a warning" "It's dangerous, I'm falling..." "Hold on." "Get back." " Sun filter rising." "Sun filter rising." " Is the steward in there?" "You can smell him." "There's another sun filter programmed to descend." "Too high, can't come down" "Losing my head, spinning round and round" "Do you feel me now..." " Sun filter descending." " Sun filter descending." " Sun filter descending." " Let me out!" "Let me out!" "Let me out!" " Let me out!" " Sun filter descending." "Sun filter descending." " Anyone in there?" " Let me out!" " It would be you." " Open the door!" " Give us two ticks." " Sun filter descending." "Sun filter descending." "Sun filter rising." "Sun filter rising." "Sun filter rising." "Sun filter rising." " Sun filter descending." " The computer's getting clever." " Stop mucking about!" " I'm not." "It's fighting back." " Open the door!" " I know!" "The lock's melted!" "Sun filter descending." "Sun filter descending." "Sun filter rising." "Sun filter rising." " The whole thing's jammed." "Stay there." " Where am I going to go, Ipswich?" "Earth death in five minutes." "The metal machine confirms - the spiders have infiltrated the whole of Platform One." "How is that possible?" "Our rooms are protected by a code wall." "Moisturise me." " Summon the steward." " I'm afraid the steward is dead." "Who killed him?" "This event was sponsored by the Face of Boe." "He invited us." "Talk to the Face!" "Someone brought their pet on board." "Let's send him back to master." "The Adherents of the Repeated Mean." "J'accuse!" "That's all very well and obvious, but if you think about it..." "A repeated mean is just an idea and that's all they are - an idea." "Remote-controlled droids." "Cover for the real troublemaker." "Go on, Jimbo." "Go home." "I bet you were the school swot and never got kissed." " At arms!" " Are you going to moisturise me?" "With acid." "You're too late anyway." "My spiders have control of the mainframe." "You all carried them as gifts, tax-free, past every code wall." "I'm not just a pretty face." "Sabotaging a ship you're on?" "How stupid's that?" "I'd hoped to manufacture a hostage situation, with myself as a victim." " The compensation would have been huge." " Five billion years and it's still money." "Do you think it's cheap looking like this?" "Flatness costs a fortune." "I am the last human, Doctor." "Me." "Not that freaky little kid of yours." " Arrest her." "Infidel." " Oh, shut it, pixie!" " I've still got my final option." " Earth death in three minutes." "And here it comes." "You're all just as useful dead." "I have shares in your rival companies." "They'll triple in price once you're dead." "My spiders are ready to destroy the safety systems." "How does that old Earth song go?" " "Burn, Baby, Burn"." " Then you'll burn with us." "Oh, I'm so sorry." "I know the use of teleportation is strictly forbidden, but..." "I'm so naughty." "Spiders, activate!" "Force-field's gone with the planet about to explode." "At least it'll be quick." "Just like my fifth husband." "Oh, shame on me." "Bye-bye, darlings." "Bye-bye, my darlings." "Heat levels rising." " Reset the computer." " The steward would know how." "No." "We can do it." "There must be a system restore switch." "Jabe, come on." "You lot, just chill." "Earth death in two minutes." "Earth death in two minutes." "Heat levels critical." "Heat levels critical." "Oh." "And guess where the switch is." "Heat levels rising." "Heat levels rising." "External temperature 5,000 degrees." "You can't." "The heat will vent through here." " I know." " Jabe, you're made of wood." "Then stop wasting time..." "Time Lord." "Heat levels rising." "Heat levels rising." " We're going to die!" " Heat levels hazardous." "Shields malfunction." "Shields malfunction." "Shields malfunction." "Shields malfunction." "Heat levels critical." "Heat levels critical." "Heat levels rising." "Heat levels rising." "Land explodes in... ten..." "Nine..." "Eight..." "Seven..." "Six..." "Five..." "Four..." "Raise shields!" "One..." "Exoglass repair." "Exoglass repair." "Exoglass repair." "Exoglass repair." " You all right?" " Yeah." "I'm fine." "I'm full of ideas." "I'm bristling with them." "Idea one - teleportation through 5,000 degrees needs some kind of feed." "Idea two - this feed must be hidden nearby." "Idea three - if you're as clever as me, then a teleportation feed can be reversed." "You should have seen their little alien faces..." " Oh!" " The last human." "You passed my little test." "Bravo." "This makes you eligible to join... the Human Club." " People have died." "You murdered them." " It depends on your definition of people." "That should keep your lawyers dizzy for centuries." "Take me to court, Doctor, and watch me smile and cry and..." "And creak?" " And what?" " Creak." "You're creaking." "What?" "I'm drying out." "Sweet heavens!" "Moisturise me!" "Moisturise me!" "Where are my surgeons?" " My lovely boys!" "It's too hot." " You raised the temperature." "Have pity!" "Moisturise me!" " Oh, Doctor..." " Help her." "Everything has its time and everything dies." "I am... too... young!" "Shuttles Four and Six departing." "This unit now closing down for maintenance." "The end of the Earth." "It's gone." "We were too busy saving ourselves." "No one saw it go." "All those years, all that history, and no one was even looking." " It's just..." " Come with me." ""Big Issue"." ""Big Issue"." "You think it'll last for ever - people and cars and concrete." "But it won't." "One day it's all gone." "Even the sky." "My planet's gone." "It's dead." "It burned like the Earth." "It's just rocks and dust." "Before its time." " What happened?" " There was a war and we lost." "A war with who?" "What about your people?" "I'm a Time Lord." "I'm the last of the Time Lords." "They're all gone." "I'm the only survivor." "I'm left travelling on my own 'cause there's no one else." "There's me." "You've seen it's dangerous." "Do you want to go home?" "I don't know..." "I want..." " Can you smell chips?" " Yeah." " Yeah." " I want chips." "Me too." "Chips it is, and you can pay." " No money." " What sort of date are you?" "Come on, tight-wad." "Chips are on me." "We've only got five billion years till the shops close." "Let's have a look at the past." "1860." "How does 1860 sound?" " What happened in 1860?" " Let's find out." " I can't believe she's gone." " Not gone, Mr Redpath." "Merely sleeping." " She's on her feet and out there somewhere." " For shame!" "It's ungodly." "Mr Dickens, this is your call." "Use the sight." "Find the old lady or you're dismissed." "What phantasmagoria is this?" "That's more like it." "Sneed And Company offer their sincerest condolences, sir, in this most trying hour." "Grandmama had a good innings, Mr Sneed." "She was so full of life." " I can't believe she's gone." " Not gone, Mr Redpath." "Merely sleeping." " May I have a moment?" " Yes, of course." "I shall be in the next room should you need anything." "Oh, no." "Gwyneth!" "Get down here now!" "We've got another one!" " Hold that one down." " I am!" " Hold them both down!" " It won't work!" "I promised you a time machine." "We've seen the future." "Let's see the past." " How does 1860 sound?" " What happened in 1860?" "I don't know." "Let's find out." "Hold on." "Gwyneth!" "Where are you, girl?" "Gwyneth!" "Where have you been?" "I was shouting." " The stables, breaking the ice for Samson." " Go back and harness him up." " Whatever for, sir?" " The stiffs are getting lively again." "Mr Redpath's grandmother is up and out there somewhere." "We've got to find her." "Mr Sneed, how many more times?" "It's ungodly." "Don't look at me like it's my fault." "Hurry up." "She was 86." "She can't have got far." "What about Mr Redpath?" "Did you deal with him?" "No... she did." "That's awful, sir." "I know it's not my place and please forgive me for talking out of turn, sir, but this is getting beyond now." "Something terrible is happening here and we need to get help." "And we will... as soon as I get that dead old woman locked up." "Stop prevaricating, get the hearse ready." "We're going body-snatching." " Blimey!" " Are you all right?" "Yeah, I think so." "Nothing broken." "Did we make it?" "I did it." "Give the man a medal." "Earth, Naples." "December 24th 1860." "That's so weird." "It's Christmas." "All yours." "But it's like..." "Think about it, though." "Christmas 1860." "It happens once, just once, and it's gone." "It's finished." "It'll never happen again." "Except for you." "You can go back and see days that are dead and gone 100,000 sunsets ago." " No wonder you never stay still." " Not a bad life?" "Better with two." "Come on." " Where are you going?" " 1860." "Like that?" "You'll start a riot, Barbarella." "There's a wardrobe." "First left, second right, past the bins, fifth door on your left." "Hurry up." "Not a sign." "Where is she?" "She's vanished into the ether, sir." "Where can she be?" " You tell me, girl." " What do you mean?" " Gwyneth, you know full well." " No, sir." "I can't." " Use the sight." " It's not right, sir." "Find the old lady or you're dismissed." "Now..." "look inside, girl." "Look deep." "Where is she?" "She's lost, sir." "She's so alone." "Oh, my Lord." "So many strange things in her head." "But where?" "She was excited about tonight." " Before she passed on, she was to see him." " Who's him?" "The great man." "All the way from London." "The great, great man." "Mr Dickens?" "Excuse me, sir." "This is your call." " Are you quite well, sir?" " Splendid." "Sorry." " Time you were on, sir." " Absolutely." "I was just brooding." "Christmas Eve." "Not the best of times to be alone." "Did no one travel with you, sir?" "No lady wife?" " Afraid not." " You can have mine, if you want." "I wouldn't dare." "I've been rather..." "let's say clumsy with family matters." "Thank God I'm too old to cause any more trouble." " You speak as if it's all over, sir." " No." "It's never over." "On and on I go... the same old show." "I'm like a ghost, condemned to repeat myself through all eternity." "It's never too late, sir." "You can think up some new turns." "No, I can't." "Even my imagination grows stale." "I'm an old man." "Perhaps I've thought everything I'll ever think." "Still..." "The lure of the limelight's as potent as a pipe, what?" "On with the motley." " Blimey!" " Don't laugh." "You look beautiful." " Considering." " Considering what?" "That you're human." "I think that's a compliment." "Are you changing?" " I've changed my jumper." "Come on." " You stay there." "This is mine." "Ready for this?" "Here we go." "History." ""GOD REST YE MERRY, GENTLEMEN")" " She's in there, sir." "I'm certain of it." " Right." " I got the flight a bit wrong." " I don't care." " It's not 1860, it's 1869." " I don't care." " And it's not Naples." " I don't care." "It's Cardiff." "Right." "Now, it is a fact that there was nothing particular at all about the knocker on the door of this house, but let any man explain to me, if he can, how it happened that Scrooge, having his key in the lock of the door," "saw in the knocker, without its undergoing any intermediate process of change... not a knocker, but Marley's face." "Marley's face!" "It looked at Scrooge as Marley used to look." "It looked like..." "Oh, my Lord." "It looked..." "like that." "What phantasmagoria is this?" "That's more like it." "Stay in your seats..." "I beg you." "It is a lantern show." "It's trickery." " Excuse me." " There she is, sir!" "I can see that." "The whole blooming world can see that!" "Fantastic." " Did you see where it came from?" " Ah, the wag reveals himself." " I trust you're satisfied, sir!" " Oi!" "Leave her alone!" "I'll get them!" "Be careful!" "Did it say anything?" "Can it speak?" " I'm the Doctor." " You look more like a navvy." "What's wrong with this jumper?" " What are you doing?" " It's a tragedy, miss." "We'll deal with it." "This poor lady's been taken with the brain fever." "She's cold." "She's dead." "What did you do to her?" " What did you do that for?" " She's seen too much." "Get her in." "Legs." "Gas." "It's made of gas." " Rose!" " You're not escaping me, sir." "What do you know about that hobgoblin?" "Projection on glass?" "Who put you up to it?" "Yeah, mate." "Not now." "Oi, you!" "Follow that hearse!" " I can't do that, sir." " Why not?" "I'll tell you why not!" "Because this is my coach." "Well, get in, then." "Move!" "Yah!" "Come on." " Come on." " Everything in order, Mr Dickens?" " No!" " What did he say?" " I am not without a sense of humour..." " Dickens?" " Yes." " Charles Dickens?" "The Charles Dickens?" " Shall I remove the gentleman, sir?" " You're brilliant!" "I've read them all." ""Great Expectations", "Oliver Twist" and the one with the ghost." " "A Christmas Carol"?" " No." "With the trains." ""The Signalman"." "Terrifying." "The best short story ever." "You're a genius." " Shall I get rid of him, sir?" " No." "He can stay." "Charles..." "Can I call you Charles?" "I'm such a fan." " A what?" "A big what?" " Fan." "Number one fan." "How exactly are you a fan?" "How do you resemble a way of keeping cool?" "It means fanatic." "Mind you, the American bit in "Martin Chuzzlewit", what's that?" "It's rubbish." " I thought you were my fan." " If you can't take criticism..." "Do the death of Little Nell..." "No, forget that." "Faster!" "Who exactly is in that hearse?" "My friend." "She's only 19." "Now she's in danger." "Why are we talking about dry old books?" "This is much more important." " Driver, be swift!" "The chase is on!" " Attaboy, Charlie." " Nobody calls me Charlie." " The ladies do." " How do you know?" " I'm your..." "Number one fan." "Yes." " What are we going to do with her?" " I don't know." "I didn't plan any of this." "It isn't my fault if the dead won't stay dead." "Then whose fault is it, sir?" "Why is this happening to us?" "I did the bishop a favour once - made his nephew look like a cherub though he'd been a fortnight in the weir." "Perhaps he'll do us an exorcism on the cheap." "Say I'm not in." "Just get rid of them." " We're closed." " Nonsense." "Undertakers don't keep office hours." "The dead don't die on schedule." " I demand to see your master." " He's not in." "Don't lie to me, child!" "Summon him." "I'm sorry, Mr Dickens, but the master's indisposed." " Having trouble with your gas?" " What the Shakespeare is going on?" "Are you all right?" "You're kidding me, yeah?" "You are kidding me, aren't you?" "OK." "No kidding." " You're not allowed in, sir." " There's something in the walls." "The gas pipes." "Something's living inside the gas." "Let me out!" "Open the door!" " That's her." " Please let me out!" " How dare you, sir?" "This is my house!" " Shut up!" "I told you..." "Let me out!" "Somebody open the door!" "Open the door!" "I think this is my dance." "It's a prank." "We're under some mesmeric influence." " No." "The dead are walking." "Hi." " Hi." "Who's your friend?" " Charles Dickens." " OK." "I'm the Doctor." "Who are you?" " Failing." " Open the rift." "We're dying." "Trapped in this form." "Cannot sustain." "Help us." "First you drug me, then you kidnap me - and I felt your hands having a quick wander!" " I won't be spoken to like this!" " You put me in a room full of zombies!" " You swan off and leave me to die!" " It's not my fault!" "It's this house." "It always had a reputation." "Haunted." "I never had much bother until three months back." "Then the stiffs..." "The... dear departed..." "started getting restless." " Tommy-rot!" " You witnessed it." "Can't keep the beggars down, sir." "They walk." "The queerest thing, they hang on to scraps..." "Two sugars, sir." "How you like it." "One old sexton almost went to his own memorial service." "Just like the old lady going to your performance, sir." " Morbid fancy." " Charles, you were there." " I saw nothing but an illusion." " If you're going to deny it, just shut up." " What about the gas?" " That's new, sir." "I've never seen that." "The rift's getting wider and something's getting through." " What's a rift?" " A weak point in time and space." "A connection with another place." "That's the cause of ghost stories." "That's how I got the house so cheap." "Stories going back generations." "Echoes in the dark, queer songs in the air and this feeling like a shadow passing over your soul." "It's been good for business." "What people expect from a gloomy old trade like mine." "Impossible." "Checking for strings?" "Wires, perhaps." "There must be some mechanism behind this fraud." "Oh, come on, Charles." "I shouldn't have told you to shut up." "I'm sorry." "You've got one of the best minds in the world." " You saw the gas creatures." " I cannot accept..." "What does the human body do when it decomposes?" "It produces gas." "Perfect home for these gas things." "They can use it as a vehicle." " Just like your coach." " Stop it." "Can it be that I have the world entirely wrong?" " Not wrong." "There's just more to learn." " I've always railed against the fantasist." "I've always loved an illusion, but that's exactly what they were - illusions." "The real world is something else." "I dedicated myself to that - injustices, the great social causes." "I hoped that I was a force for good." "Now you tell me that the real world is a realm of spectres and jack-o'-lanterns." "In which case, have I wasted my brief span here, Doctor?" "Has it all been for nothing?" " Miss, you shouldn't be helping." " Don't be daft." "Sneed works you to death." " How much do you get paid?" " Eight pound a year, miss." " How much?" " I know." "I would have been happy with six." " So did you even go to school or what?" " Of course I did." "What do you think I am, an urchin?" "I went every Sunday, nice and proper." " Once a week?" " We did sums and everything." " To be honest, I hated every second." " Me too." "Don't tell anyone, but one week..." "I didn't go and I runned on the heath on my own!" "I did plenty of that." "I used to go round the shops with my mate Shereen." " We used to go and look at boys." " I don't know much about that, miss." "Times haven't changed that much." "I bet you've done the same." " I don't think so, miss." " Gwyneth, you can tell me." "I bet you've got your eye on someone." "I suppose..." "There is one lad." "The butcher's boy." "He comes by every Tuesday." "Such a lovely smile on him." "I like a nice smile." "Good smile." "Nice bum." "Well, I've never heard the like!" "Ask him out." "Give him a cup of tea or something." "That's a start." "I swear it is the strangest thing, miss." "You've got the clothes and the breeding, but you talk like some sort of wild thing." "Maybe I am." "Maybe that's a good thing." "You need a bit more in your life than Mr Sneed." "That's not fair." "He's not so bad, old Sneed." "He was very kind to take me in." "I lost my mum and dad to the flu when I was 12." "I'm sorry." "Thank you, miss." "But I'll be with them again one day - sitting with them in paradise." "I shall be so blessed." "They're waiting for me." "Maybe your dad's up there waiting for you too, miss." "Maybe." "Um..." "Who told you he was dead?" "I don't know." "Must have been the Doctor." "My father died years back." "But you've been thinking about him lately." "I suppose so." "How do you know all this?" "Mr Sneed says I think too much." "I'm all alone down here." "I bet you've got dozens of servants, haven't you?" " No." "No servants where I'm from." " And you've come such a long way." "What makes you think so?" "You're from London." "I've seen London in drawings, but never like that." "All those people rushing about, half-naked." "For shame." "And the noise..." "And the metal boxes racing past." "And the birds in the sky..." "No, they're metal as well." "Metal birds with people in them." "People are flying." "And you've flown so far, further than anyone." "The things you've seen." "The darkness..." "The Big Bad Wolf." " I'm sorry." "I'm sorry, miss." " It's all right." "Ever since I was a little girl, my mam said I had the sight." "But it's getting stronger, more powerful?" "All the time, sir." "Every night... voices in my head." "You grew up on top of the rift." "You're part of it." "You're the key." "I've tried to make sense of it, sir." "Consulted with spiritualists, table rappers, all sorts." "That should help." "You can show us what to do." " What do to where, sir?" " We're going to have a seance." "This is how Madam Mortlock summons those from the Land of Mists." "Come..." " Join hands." " I can't take part." "Humbug?" "Come on." "Open mind." "This is precisely the sort of cheap mummery I strive to unmask." "Seances?" "Nothing but luminous tambourines and a squeeze-box concealed between the knees." " This girl knows nothing." " Don't antagonise her." " I love a happy medium." " I can't believe you said that." "Come on." "We might need you." "Good man." "Now, Gwyneth..." "Reach out." "Speak to us." "Are you there, spirits?" "Come." "Speak to us that we may relieve your burden." "Can you hear that?" " Nothing can happen." "This is sheer folly." " Look at her." "I see them." "I feel them." " What's it saying?" " It can't get through." "You're controlling it." "Look deep." "Allow them through." " I can't." " You can." "Just believe it." "I have faith in you, Gwyneth." "Make the link." "Yes." "Great God!" "Spirits from the other side." "The other side of the universe." " Pity us." " Pity the Gelth." "There is so little time." "Help us." " What do you want us to do?" " The rift." " Take the girl to the rift." "Make a bridge." " What for?" "We are so very few - the last of our kind." "We face extinction." "Why?" "What happened?" "We had a physical form like you, but then the war came..." "War?" "What war?" "The Time War." "The whole universe convulsed." "The Time War raged." "Invisible to smaller species, but devastating to higher forms." "Our bodies wasted away." "We're trapped in this gaseous state." "That's why you need the corpses." "We want to stand tall, to feel the sunlight, to live again." "We need a physical form and your dead are abandoned." " They go to waste." "Give them to us." " But we can't." " Why not?" " It's not..." "I mean, it's not..." "Not decent?" "It could save their lives." "Open the rift." "Let the Gelth through." "We're dying." "Help us." "Pity the Gelth." "Gwyneth?" "All true." "Are you OK?" "It's all true." "It's all right." "You just sleep." "But my angels, miss..." "They came, didn't they?" "They need me." " They do." "You're their only chance." " Leave her alone." "She's exhausted and she's not fighting your battles." "Drink this." "What did you say, Doctor?" "Explain it again." "What are they?" "Aliens." " Like foreigners?" " Pretty foreign, yeah." "From up there." " Brecon?" " Close." "They want to get from Brecon to Cardiff, but the road's blocked." "Only a few get through and they're weak." "They can only test-drive the bodies for so long, then they revert to gas." " Which is why they need the girl." " No." "But she can help." "She can open up the rift, make a bridge and let them through." "Incredible." "Ghosts that are not ghosts, but beings from another world, who can only exist in our world by inhabiting cadavers." "Good system." " You can't let them inside dead people." " Why not?" "It's recycling." " Seriously, you can't." " Seriously, I can!" "It's wrong." "Those bodies were living people." "We should respect them even in death." " Do you carry a donor card?" " It's different." "Yes, it's a different morality." "Get used to it or go home." "Time's short." "I can't worry about a few corpses when the Gelth could be dying." " I don't care." "They're not using her." " Don't I get a say, miss?" "Look... you don't understand what's going on." "You would say that, miss, because inside your head you think I'm stupid." " That's not fair." " It's true, though." "Things might be different where you're from, but here and now I know my own mind and the angels need me." " Doctor, what do I have to do?" " You don't have to do anything." "They've been singing to me since I was a child, sent by my mam on holy mission." " So tell me." " We need to find the rift." "This house is on a weak spot." "Mr Sneed, what's the weakest part of this house?" " The place where most ghosts are seen." " That would be the morgue." "Any chance you were going to say gazebo?" "Talk about Bleak House." "Doctor, the Gelth don't succeed." "I know they don't." "I know corpses weren't walking around in 1869." "Time's changing every second." "Your world can be rewritten like that." " Nothing is safe." "Remember that." "Nothing." " Doctor..." "I think the room is getting colder." "Here they come." "You've come to help." "Praise the Doctor!" "Praise him!" " Promise you won't hurt her." " Hurry." "So little time." "Pity the Gelth." "I'll take you somewhere else after." "Somewhere you can build bodies." "This isn't a permanent solution." "My angels." "I can help them live." " Where's the weak point?" " Here." "Beneath the arch." "Beneath the arch." " You don't have to do this." " My angels." "Establish the bridge out of the void, let us through." "Yes." "I can see you." "I can see you..." "Come." " Bridgehead establishing." " Come to this world, poor lost souls." "It is begun." "The bridge is made." " She has given herself to the Gelth." " There's rather a lot of them." "The bridge is open." "We descend." "The Gelth will come through in force." "You said you were few in number." "A few billion." "And all of us in need of corpses." "Oh, Gwyneth..." "Stop this!" "Listen to your master." "This has gone far enough." "Stop dabbling, child, and leave these things alone, I beg of you." "Mr Sneed!" " I think it's gone a little bit wrong." " I have joined the legions of the Gelth." "Come." "March with us." "No..." "We need bodies." "All of you... dead." "The human race... dead." "Gwyneth, send them back!" "Three more bodies." "Make them vessels for the Gelth." "Doctor, I can't..." "Sorry." "This new world of yours is too much for me." "I'm so..." "Give yourself to glory." "Sacrifice your lives to the Gelth." " I trusted you." "I pitied you." " We don't want your pity!" " We want this world and all its flesh!" " Not while I'm alive." "Then live no more." "But I can't die." "Tell me I can't." "I haven't even been born yet." "It's impossible for me to die." "Isn't it?" "I'm sorry." "Failing." "Atmosphere hostile." "Gas..." "Gas!" "But it's 1869." "How can I die now?" "Time isn't a straight line." "It can twist into any shape." "You can be born in the 20th century and die in the 19th and it's my fault." "I brought you here." "It's not your fault." "I wanted to come." "What about me?" "I saw the fall of Troy, World War Five." "I pushed boxes at the Boston Tea Party." "Now I'm going to die in a dungeon... in Cardiff!" "It's not just dying..." "We're going to become one of them." " We'll go down fighting, yeah?" " Yeah." " Together?" " Yeah." "I'm so glad I met you." "Me too." "Doctor!" "Doctor!" "Turn off the flame, turn up the gas!" " Fill the room now!" " What are you doing?" "Turn it all on." "Flood the place!" " Brilliant." "Gas." " So we choke to death instead?" "Am I correct, Doctor?" "These creatures are gaseous." "Fill the room with gas, it'll draw them out of the host - like poison from a wound." "I hope..." "Oh, Lord." "I hope that this theory will be validated soon... if not immediately." "Plenty more!" "It's working." "Gwyneth!" "Send them back!" "They lied." "They're not angels." " Liars?" " Look at me." "If your mother and father could see this, they'd tell you the same." "They'd give you strength." "Send them back." " I can't breathe." " Charles, get her out." " I'm not leaving her!" " They're too strong." "Remember Rose's world?" "None of it will exist unless you send them back through the rift." "I can't send them back." "But I can hold them." "Hold them in this place, hold them here." "Get out." " You can't!" " Leave this place!" "Get out!" "I won't leave her while she's in danger." "Leave that to me." "This way." "I'm sorry." "Thank you." " She didn't make it." " I'm sorry." "She closed the rift." "At such a cost." "The poor child." "I did try, but Gwyneth was already dead." " She had been for at least five minutes." " What do you mean?" "She was dead when she stood in that arch." "But she can't have..." "She spoke to us." "She helped us." "She saved us." "How could she have done that?" ""There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy."" "Even for you, Doctor." "She saved the world." "A servant girl." "No one will ever know." "Right, then, Charlie boy." "I've just got to go into my... shed." " Won't be long." " What are you going to do now?" "I shall take the mail coach back to London, post-haste." "This is no time for me to be on my own." "I shall spend Christmas with my family and make amends to them." "After all I've learned tonight, there can be nothing more vital." " You've cheered up." " Exceedingly." "I thought I knew everything in the world." "Now I know I've just started." "All these huge and wonderful notions." "I'm inspired." "I must write about them." " Do you think that's wise?" " I shall be subtle... at first." ""The Mystery Of Edwin Drood" still lacks an ending." "Perhaps the killer was not the boy's uncle." "Perhaps he was not of this earth." ""The Mystery Of Edwin Drood And The Blue Elementals"." "I can spread the word, the truth." "Good luck with it." "Nice to meet you." "Fantastic." "Bye, then." "And thanks." "Oh, my dear..." "How modern." "Thank you." "But I don't understand..." "In what way is this goodbye?" " Where are you going?" " You'll see." "In the shed." "'Pon my soul, Doctor." "It's one riddle after another with you." "After all these revelations, there's one mystery you still haven't explained." "Answer me this..." "Who are you?" "Just a friend, passing through." "But you have such knowledge of future times..." "I don't wish to impose on you, but I must ask you." "My books, Doctor... do they last?" "Oh, yes." " For how long?" " For ever." "Right." "Shed." "Come on, Rose." "In the box?" "Both of you?" "Down, boy." "See you." "Doesn't it change history if he writes about blue ghosts?" "In a week it's 1870 and that's the year he dies." "He'll never get to tell his story." "Oh, no." "He was so nice." "In your time he was dead." "We've brought him back to life." "He's more alive now than he's ever been." "Let's give him one last surprise." " Merry Christmas, sir." " Merry Christmas to you." "God bless us, every one!" "Big Ben destroyed as a UFO crash-lands in central London." " Are they invading?" " By putting the world on red alert?" "I'll put the country under martial law if I have to!" "Defence Plan Delta!" "Come on, move, move!" "Clear!"