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1 PODCAST FLASHBACK

CLEO, ABBY and SHAWNA are cracking up. Happier times.

SHAWNA

So basically I heard that all the chemtrails that are in the sky, they have to keep the record on the blue box!

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CLEO & ABBY

Oh what!

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SHAWNA

There鈥檚 something to do with the colour! Otherwise they can鈥檛 track em, that鈥檚 it! Because -

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ABBY

Shawna, you are deranged! Don鈥檛 ever change, I love you, but you鈥檙e massive weirdo!

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SHAWNA

Aw, thanks!

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ABBY

What about you Cleo?

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CLEO

What about me?

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ABBY

Who do you think鈥檚 in the Blue Box?

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Cleo thinks a moment.

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CLEO

Don鈥檛 make fun of me, OK? I like the idea that there鈥檚 someone out there, up in the sky, looking after us. It makes me feel safe, I dunno.

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FX 鈥� Slow, happy music reflecting friendship plays.

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CREDITS: DR WHO REDACTED - EPISODE TEN, BY JUNO DAWSON.

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2 INT. VASTRA鈥橲 DEN.

We pick-up from Ep 9.

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FX 鈥� Dripping water from the sewer.

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CLEO

I鈥檓 gone. Am I dead?

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FX 鈥� THE FLOATER breathes raspily.

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FLOATER

You live, Earthling.

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CLEO

Oh my god, I鈥檝e never been so glad to hear a talking alien baby in my life. I don鈥檛 get it, everyone鈥檚 gone.

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FLOATER

They have gone to the Other Place.

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FX 鈥� Ghostly voices whisper in the background.

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CLEO

What does that mean?

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FLOATER

You are the last one left.

The horror of that sinks in.

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CLEO

What? Even Vastra? No.

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FX - quiet redacted effect.

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CLEO (CONT鈥橠)

I see them. Is that my friends?

(Beat)
No! They can鈥檛 be gone...

(Beat)

They鈥檙e ghosts...

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FLOATER

Beware their touch. They are drawn

to you. You reek of home.

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FX - the spectre FX.

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CLEO (CONT鈥橠)

Don鈥檛 touch me!

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FX 鈥� spectre FX continues.

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CLEO (CONT鈥橠)

Abby, Shawna, please...

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FLOATER

You are your people鈥檚 final hope, earthling.

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CLEO

What?

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FLOATER

Run, child, run.

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FX - Cleo footsteps pounding through the wet sewers and her panting breath. Pounding electronic music suddenly erupts as

CLEO runs away.

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CLEO

Oh god, I have got to join a gym.

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FX - she gasps for breath as she reaches the ladders. We hear the metallic clang of her climbing.

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EXT. LONDON STREET.

FX - London is now a ghost town. We hear the quiet redacted sound.

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CLEO

Hello? Where is everyone?

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FX - more footsteps. We gradually hear the siren that the UNIT vehicles were sounding to attract the ghosts.

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CLEO (CONT鈥橠)

(Calls)

Soldier people?

(To self) What the hell? Where鈥檝e they gone? I can鈥檛 be the only one left, that鈥檚 insane. I don鈥檛 get it.

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FX 鈥� the siren stops.

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CLEO (CONT鈥橠)

I don鈥檛 think I want to attract any more ghosts, thanks. (Beat)

Keys in the ignition, rookie mistake. Thanks fellas.

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FX - engine starts and Cleo moves the van out.

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CLEO (CONT鈥橠)

Now let鈥檚 get the hell out of...hell.

EXT. LONDON.

FX - car driving.

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CLEO

(To self)

Man, this is so weird. 28 Days Later much.

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VASTRA (FLASHBACK)

The Doctor is attracted to catastrophe like a moth to the flame.

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Soft piano music plays as CLEO thinks of her friends.

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CLEO

Alright. What would Abby do? She鈥檇 think of something heroic and selfless and Buffy. Shawna would do the thing the rest of us were scared to do. What would I do? I鈥檇 get the first train out of town like a normal person. But what if it鈥檚 not just London? What if it鈥檚 north of Watford too?

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FX 鈥� car stops. 听

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CLEO (CONT鈥橠)

I鈥檓 gonna be so bored. Nah as if. I鈥檒l go mad. Right. OK then. Do the right thing.

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FX 鈥� engine starts again. CLEO drives off.

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EXT. POWELL ESTATE. DAY
CLEO brings the UNIT truck to a halt.

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CLEO

God, I hope this works...

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FX - the siren starts again.

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CLEO (CONT鈥橠)

Come get your ghost ice-cream!

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Cleo slams the door shut and runs.

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CLEO (CONT鈥橠)

That better buy me some time.

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Distantly, we hear the TARDIS materialize.

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CLEO (CONT鈥橠)

Oh god what now..?

EXT. POWELL ESTATE.
FX - The TARDIS materializes - more loudly this time. The door

creaks open.

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DOCTOR

Powell Estate, we meet again. It鈥檚 been a while. She takes in this eerie new ghost-town.

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DOCTOR (CONT鈥橠)

Oh dear. Well that鈥檚 unfortunate. It鈥檚 worse than I thought...

FX - we hear a bat being struck against a metal post.

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CLEO

Oi! You the Doctor?

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DOCTOR

Here we go. Welcoming committee...

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CLEO

(At a distance)

Um, put your hands up.

(Beat)

You mug.

FX - Cleo鈥檚 footsteps coming closer.

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CLEO (CONT鈥橠)

I mean it. Don鈥檛 move.

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DOCTOR

Well that鈥檚 even more unfortunate isn鈥檛 it? The last person left in London wants to kill me. Figures. Where on earth did you get that bat? This is Peckham, not Pittsburgh!

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CLEO

My mum keeps it under her bed for burglars. And I think we had a rounders match with it once. But that鈥檚 not the point.

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DOCTOR

Come on, put the bat down please. I鈥檓 here to help, not fight.

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FX 鈥� spectre sound effect.

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Pause.

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CLEO

Help? Sure, Jan. Do you see them terrifying ghost people? That was you. This is all your fault. I know all about you...

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DOCTOR

Yeah, I鈥檝e heard your podcast...

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CLEO

Babe maybe you think you help. But it seems to me that when you rock up somewhere you leave behind a bunch of bodies. No offense, but you have very chaotic energy.

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DOCTOR

Er I didn鈥檛 plan this, I swear!

(Beat)
Cleo, you have to believe me. I want to help. That鈥檚 what I do.

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CLEO

I met Rani Chandra. She said you

were contagious. What did you do?

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DOCTOR

I made a terrible mistake.

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CLEO

You think?

(Beat)
Look. All I know is the weird alien baby said if you died, this all goes away.

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DOCTOR

We don鈥檛 know that...

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Soft piano music plays as CLEO and the DOCTOR try to understand one another.

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CLEO

It鈥檚 the best chance we got.

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DOCTOR

Go on then. Take you best shot.

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CLEO

What?

DOCTOR

I thought you of all people might

be different, but no. Reach for a

weapon; end everything in bloodshed. Such a let down. Never meet your heroes. The two face off.

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A pause.

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DOCTOR (CONT鈥橠)

At least let me explain. Just FYI, if you did clobber me, I鈥檇 only get back up again. Possibly several times, who can say?

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DOCTOR (CONT鈥橠)

Come on. I鈥檝e faced off against

many an armed lunatic and I鈥檓 not

getting that vibe from you.

(beat)
Please, put down the bat.

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Another pause.

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CLEO sighs as she changes her mind about the DOCTOR.

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CLEO

Ugh! I want chocolate.

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DOCTOR

What?

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CLEO

This way come on. I鈥檓 keeping the bat though. I dunno if I can bop a ghost but I鈥檒l give it go.

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FX 鈥� they walk to the caf茅.

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INT. CAFE. DAY
FX - the siren continues as the Doctor and Cleo enter the

cafe.

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DOCTOR

That鈥檚 a transdimensional beacon. Did you do that?

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CLEO

Nope. That UNIT lot.

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DOCTOR

Ah. I see.

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CLEO

The oat milk hasn鈥檛 gone off.

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FX 鈥� chairs scraping as Cleo joins the Doctor table.

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CLEO (CONT鈥橠)

Alright then, question 1 - where is everyone?

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DOCTOR

It鈥檚 hard to explain.

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CLEO

It鈥檚 hard to experience babes, so you

better try.

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The Doctor sighs deeply.

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DOCTOR

I鈥檒l start at the beginning: My

friends and I took a little trip to the Unmarked Purlieus.

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CLEO

The what now?

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DOCTOR

An uncharted star system at the very edge of reality. I鈥檇 heard rumours of life there, of the most extraordinary singing sunsets...well anyway it was lovely, little bit overrated maybe, you know it鈥檚 never as good as the hype is it? But something seems to have followed me back...

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CLEO

The virus?

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DOCTOR

A psychic virus. There was life out there, and it infected me, got into my psyche. It doesn鈥檛 spread through touch or air...it spreads through thought. Anyone I鈥檝e ever known...gone.

(Beat)
And I couldn鈥檛 do a thing to stop it.

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Mournful piano tune plays into the background as the DOCTOR tells CLEO her story.

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DOCTOR (CONT'D)

It鈥檚 funny, you know. I鈥檝e faced monsters and madmen and tyrants and robots, but then along comes this teeny-tiny little thing...and I can鈥檛 fight it; I can鈥檛 reason with it; I can鈥檛 talk my way out of it. It just carries on. It grows and spreads because that鈥檚 all it does.

(Beat)
I鈥檓 powerless. But you have to know, Cleo. I won鈥檛 stop until I put this right. There has to be a way to fix this.

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CLEO

A psychic virus.

(She sighs and laughs)

For real?

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DOCTOR

Look at this.

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She rummages in her pocket.

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DOCTOR (CONT鈥橠)

What does that say?

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CLEO

It says 鈥淭his paper is psychic鈥�.

(Beat)
What does that even prove?

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DOCTOR

I鈥檓 not a hundred percent certain, myself. Psychic paper though! Are you not impressed?

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CLEO

But where is everyone though? And why is here so bad? Why the Powell estate?

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DOCTOR

I had a friend here once. I鈥檝e spent a lot of time on your planet. It makes sense that here would be affected first and worst.

CLEO

You go to other planets?

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DOCTOR

Cleo. I think you know I do. I鈥檝e heard your transmissions. I went to Scotland and left Abby a note...but she forgot I sent it.

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CLEO

Wait. Abby was right? About everything?

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DOCTOR

Oh yes. I鈥檓 here to save you! I don鈥檛 know why I adore humans so much, but you鈥檙e my absolute faves, you really are.

(Beat)
Cleo Proctor: Last of the Londoners.

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CLEO

What鈥檚 that about? Out of everyone there was only me and Rani who remembered you. Why?

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DOCTOR

Rani鈥檚 gone too. They all have.

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CLEO

What? So why me?

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DOCTOR

I don鈥檛 know. I can understand why

the virus would affect me differently, but not you.

(Beat)
You grew up on the Powell Estate?

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CLEO

Yeah.

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DOCTOR

Do you mind? Can I get a little look inside.

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CLEO

Get your fingers off my face man, nasty!

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DOCTOR

I need to look through your memories to see if there鈥檚 some reason why you haven鈥檛 been affected.

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CLEO

Babe you do not want to go looking

through my mind, trust me.

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DOCTOR

Very well. How about this? You look

through my mind. I haven鈥檛 always looked like this...

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CLEO

Girl, same.

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DOCTOR

You might recognize a familiar face...

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CLEO

OK....

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FX - we hear a mash-up of Doctor鈥檚 past, soundbites of all of them, all layered over each other in a chaotic jumble.

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CLEO (CONT鈥橠)

They鈥檙e all you?

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DOCTOR

And then some.

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FX - a snippet of the Tenth Doctor.

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CLEO

You!

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TENTH DOCTOR

Nice to meet you.

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DOCTOR

There!

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TENTH DOCTOR

I think I just invented the banana daiquiri a couple of centuries early.

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CLEO

You were a man!

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DOCTOR

Well, technically...actually we really don鈥檛 have time to get into all that now.

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CLEO

Well I鈥檓 not really one to talk am I babe?

DOCTOR

Did we meet?

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CLEO

I don鈥檛 know...

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DOCTOR

Let me see...go deeper...

(Beat)
You grew up here?

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CLEO

My whole life.

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FX - music suggests falling backwards through time, like Cleo鈥檚 in a trance state, regressing.

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FX 鈥� children playing on the estate.

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DOCTOR

Rose.

CLEO

Rose Tyler?

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DOCTOR

Yes. How do you know Rose?

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CLEO

She was our babysitter. When we was

little, before she done a runner.

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DOCTOR

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Ah right.

(Pause)
Yes, I knew Rose.

(Beat) Go on.

(Beat)
What happened here, Cleo?

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CLEO

I don鈥檛 remember.

(Beat)

Nah I can鈥檛.

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DOCTOR

Let me look inside...

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A pause. She decides to trust her.

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CLEO

OK...

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DOCTOR

There鈥檚...a psychic barrier in your

mind. Why?

(Beat)

Cleo. There鈥檚 something in your past you鈥檝e blocked out. I need you to see. We need to understand.

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FX - distant, childlike laughter. Footsteps crunching through the undergrowth.

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CLEO

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No...

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DOCTOR

You鈥檙e safe, Cleo. I鈥檝e got you.

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FX - the footsteps get louder.

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CLEO

OK. We had a den. On the common. We used to play there in the holidays. We had a rope swing and an old settee. It was sick.

(Beat)
It was so good. One day...one day I took my dad. I wanted to show him the den. And that鈥檚 when we found it...

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DOCTOR

Found what?

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CLEO

We found an egg. This huge, red egg. We thought...we thought it was the best thing ever...

(Beat)

Only then...

(Beat)
Only then it started to hatch and...

(beat)
Oh my god...oh my god it was so big...its teeth...

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DOCTOR

The Red Hatching. The migration.

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CLEO

It was so fast...and the noise.

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SFX - distantly, a terrible bird call. Bloodthirsty. A man screaming.

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CLEO (CONT鈥橠)

Oh my...Dad. Dad tried to protect me, but...but...

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DOCTOR

Cleo...

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CLEO

And then you were there...

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FX 鈥� Sounds of arrows flying from the TENTH DOCTOR鈥檚 bow as they save CLEO. The Red Hatching screams then falls.

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DOCTOR

You. You were the child I saved.

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CLEO

You saved my life.

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8 INT. CAFE. DAY

Back to the DOCTOR and CLEO in the present. The time tunnel

music stops.

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DOCTOR

(Tender)

I鈥檓 so sorry, Cleo. Your father; I was too late. I鈥檓 so, so sorry. I tried. I did everything I could, but sometimes...sometimes it鈥檚 not enough.

(And then, sadly)

It鈥檚 never enough.

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Cleo takes a second.

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CLEO

It鈥檚 OK. It鈥檚 not your fault. And

without you, I鈥檇...

(Beat)

Why don鈥檛 I remember that?

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DOCTOR

(Kindly)

You were only, what? Six? Seven?

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CLEO

I remember everything now. That

day...that thing. My dad. Aliens are real.

(Beat)
How the hell did I forget that? My own dad!

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DOCTOR

Cleo, the human mind is a powerful

and complex thing. What you experienced that day would traumatize anyone, never mind a little girl.

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Comforting piano music plays.

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DOCTOR

Here鈥檚 my hypothesis: Your mind protected itself from the grief, the loss. It built up walls. You blocked me out so effectively you were psychically immune to the virus.

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CLEO

That鈥檚 what Vastra said. That our mind could make a shield.

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DOCTOR

Exactly. You were trying to protect yourself. And it worked.

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CLEO

OK. At least now I know the truth. That鈥檚 something.

(Beat)
What are we gonna do about everyone else?

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DOCTOR

I鈥檓 brewing a plan. A plan is like a teabag, sometimes you need to be in hot water before the magic happens.

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CLEO

Could you brew faster please?

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DOCTOR

Yes. Let鈥檚 get them home. There must be a way.

(Beat)

Come with me!

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Piano gets louder and more purposeful then fades into the next scene:

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9 EXT. POWELL ESTATE.

FX - spectre sound effect.

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DOCTOR

Stay behind me.
(Beat)

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FX - Sonic screwdriver.

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DOCTOR (CONT鈥橠)

I can only deter them for so long.

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FX - Cleo runs to match the Doctor鈥檚 stride.

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CLEO

Where are we going?

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DOCTOR

It鈥檚 transmitting to the ghost dimension, right? I think I can use that. I think my chums at UNIT were almost onto something.

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CLEO

Stop! You know what? I鈥檓 gonna lay

on the floor and scream unless you tell me what鈥檚 going on.

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DOCTOR

(Sigh)

I need something from my TARDIS, I鈥檝e no time for explanations.

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CLEO

Er excuse me?

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DOCTOR

Wait here a sec.

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FX - TARDIS door creaks open and the Doctor ducks in. Cleo surveys the TARDIS.

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CLEO

(To self)

Wow. Blue Box. We finally meet.

(Beat)

Cannot lie; this is pretty cool.

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FX - The Doctor crashes out of the TARDIS.

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DOCTOR

Got it!

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CLEO

You have got to be kidding. What is that?

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FX 鈥� low tech alien beeping noises

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DOCTOR

Part of a Delta Wave Augmenter: a psychic interface. I鈥檓 going to talk to the nice ghosts. I can鈥檛 reason with a

virus, but I can chat to them. Come on!

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Purposeful music as CLEO and the DOCTOR head towards the ghosts.

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FX - the spectre noise

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CLEO

Watch out. Don鈥檛 let them touch you.

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The Doctor and Cleo reach the UNIT van. The doors open and the Doctor climbs in.

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DOCTOR

OK. This frequency transmits to the alternate dimension. Our patients can hear it.

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CLEO

I guess...

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DOCTOR

And the patients all forgot me?

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CLEO

Yeah.

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DOCTOR

So let鈥檚 remind them! Maybe I can reach them, I鈥檒l be like a giant, walking, talking vaccine: override the virus in their minds.

CLEO

And that鈥檒l bring them back?

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DOCTOR

I don鈥檛 know. But a little bit of faith goes a long way I鈥檝e found.

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FX - spectre noise grows louder.

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CLEO

Doctor, they鈥檙e coming. There鈥檚 hundreds of them.

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DOCTOR

If I do this...

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FX - sonic screwdriver.

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DOCTOR (CONT鈥橠)

I can transit on the same frequency. Hospital radio!

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CLEO

Quickly!

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The siren stops. Instead, the Doctor鈥檚 voice is now amplified, like she鈥檚 speaking through a loudspeaker.

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DOCTOR

My name is the Doctor. I mean you no harm. Come to me. I want to help you back over the wall...

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The Doctor gets out of the UNIT truck.

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Inspiring music starts as the DOCTOR talks directly to the ghosts.

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DOCTOR (CONT鈥橠)

I need you to remember me. Some of you knew me, some of you know my legend. This place...is a home from home to me. Now come home too.

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The Doctor cries out in pain. The spectre noise intensifies.

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CLEO

What鈥檚 happening?

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DOCTOR

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(In pain)

I don鈥檛 know. They鈥檙e attacking me.

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Music intensifies as the DOCTOR cries out in pain.

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CLEO

Why aren鈥檛 you vanishing?

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DOCTOR

It鈥檚 like they鈥檙e trying to use me as a portal back to this reality...

She howls in pain. We hear ghostly whispers from the other dimension.

CLEO

Oh my god! What do I do?

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DOCTOR

Not sure there鈥檚 anything you can...they鈥檙e pulling me apart...

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CLEO

(Frantic)

Tell me what to do!

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CLEO (CONT'D)

(Beat)

Doctor?

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DOCTOR

No good...I can鈥檛...you have to...

(Beat)
Make them remember.

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The Doctor collapses.

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CLEO

Doctor...Doctor! What do I do?

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Cleo grabs the Delta Wave Augmenter from the Doctor. She runs back to the UNIT truck. The door slams.

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CLEO (CONT鈥橠)

Oh god, oh my god. Oh my days.

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Cleo fumbles with the tech.

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CLEO (CONT鈥橠)

Oh god, how does this thing even work?

(Beat)
Make them remember. Shawna? Abby? Can you hear me? OK, OK, OK. This better work. Take this.

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We now hear an old version of the Blue Box Files podcast, echoing out through the loudspeaker -

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ABBY (podcast)

Hello there and welcome to this week鈥檚 Blue Box Files.

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CLEO (podcast)

As regular listeners know, if a random public police box rocks up in your town, you are in for a whole lot of trouble.

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ABBY (podcast)

No-one really believes the Royal

Hope landed on the surface of the moon but...

We get a megamix of highlights...

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CLEO (to self)

(Quiet)

What are they doing? Can they hear this? What are they doing?

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SHAWNA (podcast)

And this was all, of course,

connected to Harriet Jones 鈥� I mean who else are we expecting?

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ABBY (podcast)

I think the Doctor figure is symbolic of timeless heroism, a cultural need we have for -

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CLEO (To self)

It鈥檚 not working...they鈥檙e coming for me.

(To ghosts)

No! Stop! Please!

(Beat)

NO!

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The redaction FX reaches fever pitch and then everything goes very quiet.

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10 EXT. THE OTHER PLACE. NIGHT

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FX - A cold wind howls.

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CLEO

Where on earth..?

(Beat)

Hello?

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CLEO (CONT鈥橠)

It鈥檚 so cold...what the hell is this place?

(Beat)

I guess it finally got me too.

(Beat)

Doctor? Doctor, where are you? Doctor?

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Through the wind, we hear a voice calling her.

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MONICA

Cleo!

They run to meet in the middle.

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Pause.

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CLEO

Oh my god, Mum! Are you OK?

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MONICA

I鈥檝e been better.

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CLEO

Where are we?

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MONICA

It鈥檚 the Powell Estate but it鈥檚...dead. Everything鈥檚 dead. Nothing can live here, not for long...

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MONICA (CONT鈥橠)

Quick. Come inside the flat. It鈥檚

yer brother.

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CLEO

Jordan? You found him.

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MONICA

I did, but he ain鈥檛 doin鈥� so good.

Love, I need your help.

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CLEO

Mum wait! I gotta find the Doctor.

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MONICA

We can鈥檛 wait for no doctor! It鈥檚

like he鈥檚 freezing to death.

(Beat)

I can鈥檛 lose him. I can鈥檛 lose my baby.

(Beat)
I already lost you.

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MONICA (CONT'D)

(Beat)

Look, love, I鈥檝e been meaning to say -

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Long piano notes intercut Monica鈥檚 speech as she tries to apologise to CLEO.

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CLEO

Now isn鈥檛 the time.

(Beat)
Please take me to Jordan.

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MONICA

Cleo, this might be all the time we

got. Let me say my piece.

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CLEO

Mum we do not have (time) -

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MONICA

I鈥檓 sorry. You know what Proctor women are like because you is one. We鈥檙e stubborn as mules, but I shoulda known better. I鈥檓 meant to be the grown-up.

(Beat)
I was a bad mum. But I wanna do better now.

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CLEO

Jordan needs us.

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MONICA

Cleo please! I wanna make things right.

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Pause.

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CLEO

You threw me out. I was 16 Mum. 听

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MONICA

I was wrong! I was a mess! Your dad

had gone and I...

(Beat)

I didn鈥檛 cope.

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Another pause.

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CLEO

I blamed you for him. I shouldn鈥檛 have done that. I should have believed you.

(Beat)

So I guess I鈥檓 sorry too.

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MONICA

No. You ain鈥檛 got nothing to be

sorry for. I made a mess. If I could do it all again, I鈥檇 do a lot different.

(Beat)
Look at you now. You done amazing.

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FX - footsteps running towards them.

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ABBY/SHAWNA

Cleo?!

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CLEO

Thank god, you鈥檙e OK!

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SHAWNA

Yeah we鈥檙e fine. For now.

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ABBY

Where did you go?

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CLEO

I didn鈥檛 go anywhere. I鈥檓 immune or at least I was.

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ABBY

What do you mean?

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CLEO

(Ignoring her)

It鈥檚 a virus. It鈥檚 in our heads. A psychic virus.

She pauses.
Oh my god! I鈥檓 so stupid!

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SHAWNA

What?

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CLEO (CONT鈥橠)

This! It鈥檚 all in our heads. It鈥檚 a PSYCHIC VIRUS girls. None of this is real. It鈥檚 making us see things and think things that don鈥檛 really exist. Like the Doctor鈥檚 paper! You didn鈥檛 go anywhere. You鈥檝e been here the whole time, we just couldn鈥檛 see you.

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ABBY

Cleo, it鈥檚 freezing. People are going to freeze to death.

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CLEO

No! No you鈥檙e not. You just think you are. It鈥檚 psychosomatic...like the episode we did on mass hysteria. You think you鈥檙e freezing, so you are!

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SHAWNA

Babe. That鈥檚 a lot to take in.

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CLEO

Trust me please. The Doctor can help us.

Abby. Shawna. The Doctor is real and she鈥檚 right here...

(Beat)
Somewhere. We just can鈥檛 see her.

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MONICA

Cleo, I鈥檝e got to get back to Jordan...

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CLEO

Wait. I can figure this out.

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FX - The podcast continues to play from before - 听

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SHAWNA (voiceover)

I just don鈥檛 believe in aliens

because they鈥檇 have made contact by now...

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ABBY

Is that us?

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CLEO

Focus on that. Listen. Follow it

home. None of this is real girls. What if that鈥檚 how we beat this thing? Mind over matter? None of this is real.

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MONICA

Babes, you鈥檙e fading away.

Don鈥檛...don鈥檛 go. Not again. I don鈥檛 want to lose you again.

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CLEO

I can鈥檛 help it...

(beat)
Just keep listening. Follow the sound...

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MONICA

You what love? You鈥檙e not making

sense.

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CLEO

(Fading away)

Listen...none of this is real...

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FX - Her words echo on the breeze.

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11 EXT. POWELL ESTATE. DAY

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FX - the distortion sound once more. We can still hear the podcast in the background.

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CLEO

Doctor! Are you OK?

听

The Doctor groans.

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DOCTOR

They left me alone. Another minute or two and...But why did they leave me alone?

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CLEO

I figured it out. The virus was psychic right? They didn鈥檛 go anywhere. They just thought they did.

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DOCTOR

What?! Cleo, you鈥檙e a genius!

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CLEO

Thanks babes.

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DOCTOR

Of course! They鈥檙e in a psychic coma.

(She jumps up)
I think it鈥檚 time they woke up.

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They run back to the van and open the door.

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DOCTOR (CONT鈥橠)

Is this signal breaking through?

听

CLEO

Yep. They can hear everything.

听

DOCTOR

In that case, let鈥檚 TURN IT UP.

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FX - sonic screwdriver. The podcast dialogue BOOMS across the Powell Estate for a moment and then goes silent.

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DOCTOR (CONT鈥橠)

It鈥檚 only transmitting to them now.

(Beat)
If the virus is creating a psychic manifestation, reality should cut through the illusion.

(Beat)
The truth is always more powerful than a lie.

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FX 鈥� birds tweeting on the estate.

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CLEO

What now?

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DOCTOR

We wait. Cross your fingers, toes, tentacles...

FX - the distortion effect.

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CLEO

Doctor? Can you see them?

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DOCTOR

I can...it鈥檚 working!

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FX - distortion effect.

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MONICA

Cleo? Cleo love? Is that you?

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CLEO

Mum! It worked!

(Pause) Come here!

听

The pair embrace. We hear the distortion again.

听

CLEO

听

Abs! Oh my god!

听

ABBY

Cleo no-one likes hearing their voice

played back, please.

听

We hear Cleo and Abby hug.

听

CLEO

It worked though, didn鈥檛 it!

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ABBY

Oh it did! You can hear it for miles.

(Beat)

Who鈥檚 this?

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CLEO

(Proudly)

Abby MacPhail, meet the Doctor, owner of one blue box.

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ABBY

(Gasps)

No. Way.

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DOCTOR

Always nice to meet the fans.

听

FX - the distortion noise and Shawna appears.

听

SHAWNA

Oh wow. My head! That was mad, like...

听

The three girls embrace.

听

DOCTOR

And I take it this is Shawna?

听

ABBY

What, you listen to our podcast?

听

DOCTOR

Oh yes. And right now, we need a special episode. I can use the TARDIS to transmit it all over the world. All over all the worlds.

听

ABBY

What?

听

DOCTOR

A very simple message: wake up. The

biggest alarm clock ever.

听

The Redaction FX again.

听

CLEO

Jordan!

听

JORDAN

(groggily)

Morning, bum face.

听

MONICA

My boy!

听

CLEO

Oh come here! I missed you so much, smelly.

听

CLEO hugs JORDAN tightly. 听

听

JORDAN

I鈥檓 fine, I鈥檓 fine. Get off.

听

MONICA

My babies. I鈥檒l never let you out

of my sight ever again. Come 鈥榚re!

听

Monica laughs which fades into the next scene:

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12 INT. TARDIS. LATER

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We hear the familiar console room backing track of the TARDIS.

听

DOCTOR

And there we go! Message sent, and on loop. Every device in that dimension is guiding them back. The virus seems to be in remission. The spell is broken, the bubble is burst.

(Beat)

Girls? What鈥檚 up?

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SHAWNA

OK. I was wrong. About everything.

There I said it.

听

Cleo and Abby laugh.

听

CLEO

See how easy that was? Three little words Shawna.

听

SHAWNA

I won鈥檛 be making it a habit.

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CLEO

Weird looking spaceship though. I

want the future to be silver. Silver everything.

听

ABBY

Cleo! It鈥檚 literally bigger on the inside!

听

DOCTOR

Thank goodness someone said it.

听

ABBY

Can we talk about this on the podcast?

听

DOCTOR

No! Fame is highly overrated. You need big sunglasses, you can鈥檛 get the bus. Nightmare.

听

ABBY

Please?

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CLEO

Oh come on, you heard her. She鈥檚 keeping it on the DL. She鈥檚

living stealth. We gotta respect that.

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DOCTOR

Thank you. To be honest, I don鈥檛 know how much of this any of you will remember in the long run鈥�you might still forget certain aspects.

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ABBY

(Sadly)

OK.

听

DOCTOR

Keep it up though, all of you. Your world, more so than ever, is full of powerful liars. You have work to do. Speak truth to power. Always.

听

SHAWNA

听

We will. I promise.

听

SFX - TARDIS alert.

听

DOCTOR

(To self)

Uh. Ravulox freighter spotted on edge of Andromeda galaxy. I鈥檇 better go have a word.

听

Comforting music starts as CLEO asks the DOCTOR a question.

听

CLEO

Can, can I come with you?

(Beat)
I鈥檝e only got to give the theatre two week鈥檚 notice and Jordan gets his sofa back.

听

SHAWNA

Cleo?

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There鈥檚 a poignant silence.

听

DOCTOR

Cleo. I have work to do. First I need to make sure my friends are OK, and I can鈥檛 put you in danger. A lot of very bad people - and things - took advantage of the situation.

听

CLEO

Like that Ravioli thing that attacked Rani? That was not cute.

听

DOCTOR

It鈥檚 not just them. My friends have been protecting your planet for decades, and they all vanished. Earth was vulnerable.

(Beat)
Moreover, that virus exists everywhere I鈥檝e ever been so...

听

CLEO

I won鈥檛 get in the way. I can help.

听

ABBY

But what about the podcast?

听

DOCTOR

Cleo, I think there鈥檚 some people here who are looking for you. You can鈥檛 outrun your past. Take it from someone who knows...

听

Thoughtful music builds as the DOCTOR鈥檚 words sink in. Then it fades into:

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13 INT. PUB. NIGHT

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FX - Ambient pub noise - glasses, chatter etc.

听

MONICA

Well I told her, didn鈥檛 I? If you don鈥檛 know where you鈥檝e been for two days, Val, how am I supposed to know? What am I, your keeper?

听

JORDAN

I think there鈥檚 something going round, like flu or something? I feel like I鈥檝e been hallucinating, it鈥檚 mad. Like I鈥檝e been on one for a few days or something like that.

听

MONICA

You know what I think it is? 5G. Messin鈥� with our brains and that. Eh, that can be one for your podcast Cleo.

听

CLEO

Yeah alright, Mum.

听

MONICA

Ain鈥檛 this nice? Been time since we had a family dinner all together.

听

CLEO

Well whose fault鈥檚 that?

听

There鈥檚 an awkward silence.

听

JORDAN

Oh my god, the two of you, you always make it so awkward.

听

MONICA

She鈥檚 right, Jordan. She鈥檚 right.

(Beat)
You gotta understand, Cleo. You didn鈥檛 come with a manual. There weren鈥檛 nothing about trans kids on the telly when you was little. I just didn鈥檛 know what to do love.

(Beat)
And when your dad vanished, I weren鈥檛 in a good place. I鈥檓 sorry.

听

CLEO

I just wish we鈥檇 been able to have this conversation back then Mum.

听

MONICA

I don鈥檛 want to lose you again. You鈥檙e my girl. Simple as that. Sod what anyone else says. Just sod 鈥榚m.

听

Poignant pause.

CLEO

Mum. That鈥檚 all I ever needed to hear.

听

Music builds into the next scene:

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14 EXT. TRAIN STATION. DAY

听

We hear a distant train announcement and a train pulling out.

听

ABBY

It鈥檚 starting to go. What it was like in the cold world. It was so real, but now it feels like a nightmare...they鈥檙e forgotten by mid-morning.

听

SHAWNA

Me too. It鈥檚 like we were drunk or

something...

(Beat)

Is this your train?

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FX 鈥� Train pulls into the station.

听

ABBY

Aye. I鈥檇 better get on, go find my seat.

听

SHAWNA

Well. It鈥檚 been fun having you in Sheffield though. Will you come again?

听

ABBY

Maybe...

(Laughs)
Yeah of course I will! Come here 鈥�

They hug warmly.

听

SHAWNA

Oh you鈥檙e not going back to UNIT are you?

听

ABBY

Oh god no. They want to keep everything secret. I want to do what the Doctor said. I want to reveal the secrets, not keep them.

听

SHAWNA

Can I kiss you?

听

ABBY

What?

听

Romantic music begins to play as they finally admit their more than friends.

听

SHAWNA

Like just to make sure we鈥檙e not still

in that crazy psychic nightmare world?

听

ABBY

Shawna. You don鈥檛 need to make up an excuse to kiss me. You never did.

听

SHAWNA

What about Craig?

听

ABBY

I am not the girl that goes out

with Craig anymore. She was somebody else.

It鈥檚 time for me to be a new woman and,

well, she鈥檚 presently single.

(Beat)

I spoke to him while you were in the shower last night. It was the right thing to do.

听

SHAWNA

听

For real?

听

ABBY

Yeah. So where鈥檚 this kiss then?

听

Romantic music builds then fades suddenly into -

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15 PODCAST RECORDING 鈥� The Blue Box Files

Catchy and content music plays as the girls record the show.

听

ABBY

Hello, hello and welcome back to Blue Box

Files. Your one-stop-shop for all things relating to the global Blue Box conspiracy. I鈥檓 Abby MacPhail, author of the forthcoming Thinking Outside the Box the definitive text on the history of the theory.

听

SHAWNA

I鈥檓 Shawna Thompson, still cynical, still gay, still the only woman in the IT department.

听

CLEO

And I鈥檓 Cleo Proctor, trans activist and actress.

听

SHAWNA/ABBY

Actress!

听

SHAWNA

Yas! When do you start your course?

听

CLEO

Next Monday. She鈥檚 going back to

school! Stage school!

听

ABBY

Oh pal, I always said you belonged on the

stage! I鈥檓 so excited for you!

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SHAWNA

Yeah!

听

CLEO

Aw, thanks guys. I hope I can finish school this time.

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They all laugh.

CLEO (CONT鈥橠)

Anyway, what are we all talking about today?

听

ABBY

As ever, we鈥檙e discussing the Guardian Rationale. The ideology of a covert global protector.

听

CLEO

Girl, speak English! If you鈥檙e a new listener, it鈥檚 the idea that there鈥檚 someone out there looking after us. Someone in a blue box.

听

SHAWNA

Told you! It鈥檚 bonkers...

听

ABBY

Shawna...

听

CLEO

Come on, doesn鈥檛 it ever feel like there鈥檚 someone watching over us? Someone looking out for us? Even when you鈥檙e all alone, it鈥檚 that feeling inside; like you got a friend out there somewhere.

听

SHAWNA

Er, no.

听

CLEO

Well, a little faith goes a long way.

听

The music reflects new beginnings, getting louder then fading into -

CREDITS

听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Doctor Who Redacted: Episode Ten,

听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 By Juno Dawson.

听Starring: Charlie Craggs, Lois Chimimba, Holly Quin-Ankrah, Jodie Whittaker, Sarah Thom, Jacob Hawley and Alasdair听 Beckett-King.

听听听听听听听听听听 Directed and produced by Ella Watts.

Sound design by David Thomas and Arlie Adlington. Original composition by David Devereux.

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The music fades into -

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16 INT. CLEO鈥橲 FLAT. DAY. POST CREDITS.

听

Cleo enters the living room. JORDAN is present.

听

CLEO

Er Jordan, why does this flat always smell of your feet?

听

JORDAN

That鈥檚 definitely your feet.

听

CLEO

Excuse me?

听

JORDAN

You gonna tell me what ordering then? I thought you were boycotting Amazon?

听

CLEO

I am. That鈥檚 not mine!

听

JORDAN

It鈥檚 literally got your name on it.

听

CLEO

Wait, what? It鈥檚 huge.

听

JORDAN

(laughs)

Oi oi!

听

CLEO

Ok shut up, you鈥檙e disgusting.

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JORDAN

(still laughing)

You gonna open it or what?

听

CLEO

OK...

听

We hear tape being pulled off.

听

CLEO (CONT鈥橠)

There鈥檚 a card...

听

FX 鈥� Cleo opens the card -

听

CLEO (CONT鈥橠)

鈥淒earest Cleo, I suspect you fearless girls won鈥檛 stop looking for the truth, and won鈥檛 stop heading into trouble, so here鈥檚 something that鈥檒l help...look after him. Love, Madame Vastra.鈥�

听

Joyful yet playful music begins to build -

听

JORDAN

Madame Who? What is that another drag queen or something?

听

CLEO

Pretty much. If you saw her makeup, you鈥檇 gag.

听

JORDAN

Go on then, open the box.

听

CLEO

OK.

听

More tape being pulled off, cardboard box being opened.

听

CLEO

Oh. My. God.

听

We hear a familiar rasping.

听

FLOATER

Greetings, Earthlings.

听

Jordan falls over the sofa.

听

JORDAN

Woah! You bloody what? What the hell is

that?

听

CLEO

Jordan. We鈥檝e got a new housemate babe...

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END OF SERIES.

听

The joyful music rises -

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CREDITS:
A 大象传媒 STUDIOS PRODUCTION.

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-听听 then stops abruptly with a sharp glitch which ends with a beep.

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