Doctor Who

SCHOOL BELL RINGS

'Well done, Mabel.

'Well done, Alfie.

'Good girl, Tabitha.

'Very well done, Ranjit.

'Good girl, Chloe.

'Well done, Ben.

'Well done, Mandy.

'Bad boy, Timmy.

'Zero. '

You got a zero, didn't you?Yeah. So?

You'll have to walk home, then. Walk to London? That's 20 decks!

You can't ride a Vator with a zero. You know what happens.

You'll get sent below.

I'll wait for you.

'Welcome to Vator Verse,

sponsored by McLintock's Candy Burgers. '

L- London, please.

'A horse and a man, above, below

'One has a plan, but both must go

'Mile after mile, above, beneath

'One has a smile, and one has teeth

'Though the man above might say hello

'Expect no love from the beast below. '

Help!

Help me!

HE YELLS

My name is Amy Pond.

When I was seven, I had an imaginary friend.

Last night was the night before my wedding... Come on, Pond.

.. and my imaginary friend came back.

NOW do you believe me?OK, your box is a spaceship.

It's really, really a spaceship.

We are in space! Whoo!

What are we breathing? I'veextended the air shell - we're fine.

Now, that's interesting.

29th Century. Solar flares roast the earth,

and the entire human race packs its bags

and moves out till the weather improves.

Whole nations... Doctor?.. migrating to the stars.

Doctor? Isn't that amazing?

Doctor!

Well, come on.

I've found us a spaceship.

This is the United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland -

all of it, bolted together and floating in the sky.

Starship UK. It's Britain,

but metal.

That's not just a ship - that's an idea.

That's a whole country,

living and laughing and...

shopping.

SHE CHUCKLES

Searching the stars for a new home.

Can we go out and see? Course we canbut first, there's a thing. A thing?

An important thing.

In fact, thing one -

we are observers only. That's the one rule I've always stuck to in my travels.

I never get involved in the affairs of other peoples or planets. Ooh!

That's interesting. So we're like a wildlife documentary, yeah?

Cos if they see a wounded cub or something, they can't just save it -

they've got to keep filming and let it die.

That's got to be hard.

I don't think I could do that.

Don't you find that hard - being all, like, detached and cold?

Doctor?

'Welcome to London Market.

'You are being monitored. '

I'm in the future.

Like hundreds... of years in the future.

I've been dead for centuries. Oh, lovely.

You're a cheery one.

Never mind dead, look at this place. Isn't it wrong? What's wrong?

Use your eyes, notice everything. What's wrong with this picture?

Is it... the bicycles?

Bit unusual on a spaceship, bicycles. Says the girl in the nightie.

Oh, my God! I'm in my nightie.

Now, come on, look around you. Actually look.

'London Marketis a crime-free zone. '

Life on a giant starship, back to basics.

Bicycles, washing lines, wind-up street lamps.

But look closer. Secrets and shadows, lives led in fear.

Society bent out of shape, on the brink of collapse. A police state.

Excuse me.

What are you doing?

Sorry.

Checking all the water in this area.

There's an escaped fish.

Where was I? Why did you just do that with the water?

Don't know. I think a lot. It's hardto keep track. Now, police state -do you see it yet? Where?

There.

SHE CRIES

PHONE RINGS

Are you sure?

Saw it myself.

'Are you going to tell her?'

We're under orders to tell her.

'Well done. Keep tabs on him. '

PHONE RINGS

'Sorry to interrupt. There's been a sighting.

'London block, Oxford Street.

'A man. '

Did he do the thing?

'Apparently. '

I'll have a look on the monitors.

One little girl crying. So?

Crying silently.

I mean, children cry cos they want attention,

cos they're hurt or afraid.

When they cry silently, it's cos they just can't stop.

Any parent knows that. Are you a parent?

Hundreds of parents walking past and not one of them's asking her what's wrong,

which means... they already know, and it's something they don't talk about.

Secrets. They're not helping her, so it's something they're afraid of.

Shadows - whatever they're afraid of - it's nowhere to be seen,

which means it's everywhere.

Police state.

Where'd she go? Deck 207,Apple Sesame block, Dwelling 54A.You're looking for Mandy Tanner.

Oh, this fell out of her pocket when I accidentally bumped into her.

Took me four goes.

Ask her about those things - the smiling fellows in the booths. They're everywhere.

But they're just things.

They're clean.

Everything else here is battered and filthy - look at this place.

But no-one's laid a finger on those booths. Not a footprint within two feet of them.

Ask Mandy, "Why are people scared of the things in the booths?"

No. Hang on - what do I do? I don't know what I'm doing here and I'm not even dressed!

It's this or Leadworth. What do you think?

Let's see. What will Amy Pond choose?

Ha-ha, gotcha!

Meet me back here in half an hour.

What are you going to do? What I always do.

Stay out of trouble.

Badly.

So is this how it works, Doctor?

You never interfere in the affairs of other peoples or planets, unless there's children crying?

Yes.

You're following me.

Saw you watching me at the marketplace.

You dropped this.

Yeah, when your friend kept bumping into me.

What's that?

There's a hole. We have to go back.

A what? A hole?

Are you stupid? There's a hole in the road. We can't go that way.

There's a travel pipe down by the airlocks, if you've got stamps. What are you doing?

Oh, don't mind me.

Never could resist a "keep out" sign.

What's through there? What's so scary about a hole?

Something under the road?

Nobody knows.

We're not supposed to talk about it.

About what?

Below.

And because you're not supposed to, you don't?

Watch and learn.

You sound Scottish. I am Scottish. What's wrong with that?

Scotland's got to be here somewhere.

No.

They wanted their own ship.

Hmm. Good for them. Nothing changes.

So... how did you get here?

Oh, just passing through, you know, with a guy. Your boyfriend?

Oh.

What? Nothing.

It's just... I'm getting married.

Funny how things slip your mind.

Married? Yeah, shut up, married.

Really, actually married.

Almost definitely. When?

Well, it's kind of weird.

A long time ago, tomorrow morning.

I wonder what I did.

Hey-hey, result!

Coming? No.

Suit yourself. < WHIRRING

Stop! You mustn't do that!

Oh, my God.

That's weird. That's...

SHE SQUEALS

Can't be.

FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

The impossible truth

in a glass of water.

Not many people see it.

But you do, don't you, Doctor?

You know me? Keep your voice down.

They're everywhere.

Tell me what you see in the glass.

Who says I see anything?

Don't waste time. At the marketplace,

you placed a glass of water on the floor, looked at it,

then came straight here to the engine room. Why?

No engine vibration on deck. Ship this size, engine this big, you'd feel it. The water would move.

So... I thought I'd take a look.

It doesn't make sense.

These power couplings, they're not connected. Look.

Look - they're dummies, see?

And behind this wall, nothing. It's hollow.

If I didn't know better, I'd say there was... No engine at all.