[Nanoscaler]
JOURNEY: Nobody popped.
CLARA: Whoa. Ha. I can't believe this.
DOCTOR: No, neither can I.
(The chamber is injected into Rusty's eye-piece. The Doctor reaches out and the surface wibbles.)
[Lab 01]
MORGAN: We'll be following you all the way, Rescue One. Good luck all of you.
(The Doctor's arm distorts as he slowly reaches into the blue 'eye' on the end of the stalk. Then they all push their way through.)
COMPUTER: Integration complete. Dalek levels steady.
[Eye stalk]
Isabella : That was weird.
DOCTOR: You've seen nothing yet.
CLARA: What are the lights?
DOCTOR: Visual impulses travelling towards the brain.
Isabella : Beautiful.
DOCTOR: Welcome to the most dangerous place in the universe.
[Lab 01]
(The computer is monitoring their locations inside Rusty.)
JOURNEY [OC]: Entering the cranial ledge now.
[Cranial ledge]
JOURNEY: Here.
CLARA: Oh, my God.
(They look down from the ledge onto the red tentacled blob that is the organic part of Rusty. Should really be green, but times have obviously changed. Cables run down into it.)
DOCTOR: Behold, the belly of the beast.
Isabella : It's amazing.
ROSS: It's huge.
GRETCHEN: No, Ross. We're tiny.
CLARA: So how big is it, that living part, compared to me and you, right now?
DOCTOR: You see all those cables?
Isabella : Yeah.
DOCTOR: They're not all cables.
ROSS: Does it know we're here?
JOURNEY: It's what invited us in.
(The Doctor looks at banks of vertical lights around the inside of part of the ledge.)
DOCTOR: Now, this is the cortex vault, a supplementary electronic brain. Memory banks, but more than that. This is what keeps the Dalek pure.
GRETCHEN: How are Daleks pure?
DOCTOR: Dalek mutants are born hating. This is what stokes the fire, extinguishes even the tiniest glimmer of kindness or compassion. Imagine the worst possible thing in the universe, then don't bother, because you're looking at it right now. This is evil refined as engineering.
RUSTY [OC]: Doctor?
DOCTOR: Oh, hello, Rusty. You don't mind if I call you Rusty? We're going to need to come down there with you. Medical examination, and all that.
GRETCHEN: What, with those tentacles and things?
JOURNEY: How close do we have to get?
DOCTOR: Well, you know, we're never going to insert a thermometer from up here.
(Journey nods, and Ross fires a harpoon into Rusty's ledge. It hurts him. )
DOCTOR: No. No, no, no, no! Stop, stop, stop, you idiot!
(Another harpoon goes in.)
JOURNEY: We need a way down, the only way
DOCTOR: This is a Dalek, not a machine. It's a perfect analogue of a living being, and you just hurt it. So what's going to happen now?
CLARA: Oh, God.
GRETCHEN: What? What is it?
Isabella : Antibodies?
DOCTOR: Dalek antibodies.
(Little round objects fly into view.)
DOCTOR: Nobody move Any attempt to help him, or attack those things, will identify you as a secondary source of infection. Stay still!
(The antibodies open to reveal a big blue eye, then surround Ross.)
CLARA: But the Dalek wants us in here. Why is it attacking?
DOCTOR: Can you control your antibodies?
JOURNEY: Ross, stay calm. We're going to get you out of this.
Isabella : Can you?
DOCTOR: Ross, swallow that.
ROSS: What is it?
DOCTOR: Trust me.
(Ross swallows the little whatever it was that the Doctor threw to him.)
ROSS: Now what?
(An antibody aims a painful bright beam at him.)
JOURNEY: Ross!
(Ross disintegrates.)
CLARA: Oh, my God. What's it doing?
(The antibody sucks up the remains and its blue eye turns red,)
DOCTOR: The hoovering.
(The antibody flies away. The Doctor raises his sonic screwdriver.)
DOCTOR: Gotcha.
Isabella : What did you give him?
DOCTOR: Oh, just a spare power cell, but I can track the radiation signature. I need to know where they dump the bodies.
JOURNEY: I thought you were saving him.
DOCTOR: He was dead already. I was saving us. Follow me and run.
CLARA: Run!
(The other antibodies follow at a distance. The Doctor stops at a hole in the ledge.)
DOCTOR: They've dumped him in here. Organic refuse disposal. We need to get in there.
Isabella : Why?
(Gretchen and Journey shoot at the antibodies.)
DOCTOR: Those antibodies won't give up until we're inside there. I'd rather go in alive than dead.
JOURNEY: You don't know where it goes.
DOCTOR: Yes, I do. Away from here. Now in. In! In!
(Clara and isabella jumps down the hole.)
GRETCHEN: I can hold them off.
DOCTOR: No, you can't.
(He tries his screwdriver on the antibodies.)
DOCTOR: Pull back. Down. Jump, everyone, jump.
(The Doctor goes in last, and enjoys the ride.)
[Organic refuse disposal]
(They splosh into liquid gunk. Shades of Star Wars episode IV.)
CLARA: Urgh. What is this stuff?
DOCTOR: People. The Daleks need protein. Occasionally, they harvest from their victims. This is a feeding tube.
JOURNEY: Is Ross here?
DOCTOR: Yeah. Top layer, if you want to say a few words.
(Journey pushes the Doctor against the wall.)
JOURNEY: A man has just died. You will not talk like that.
DOCTOR: A lot of people have died. Everything in here is dead, and do you know why that's good?
JOURNEY: There is nothing good about that.
DOCTOR: Nothing is alive in here, so logically this is the weakest spot in the Dalek's internal security. Nobody guards the dead. Mortuaries and larders, always the easiest to break out of. Oh, I've lived a life Tell Uncle Stupid that we're in. Ah ha! A bolt hole.
(The Doctor unscrews the large bolt with the sonic screwdriver.)
Isabella : He'll get us out of here. The difficult part is not killing him before he can.
DOCTOR: Bolt hole. Actually, a hole for a bolt. Does nobody get that?
CLARA: Also, there's the puns.
DOCTOR: Watch it, decontamination tubes are hot.
[Lab 01]
(The schematic on the screen shows our heroes' Nanotags are just over half way down Rusty's innards, below where he is sitting by the plunger and gun arms.)
COMPUTER: Anomaly threat displaced. Dalek levels returning to normal parameters.
JOURNEY [OC]: Rescue One to Mission Control.
MORGAN: This is Blue, Rescue One. Report.
[Decontamination tube]
JOURNEY:The Dalek has an internal defence mechanism.
[Lab 01]
JOURNEY [OC]: We've lost Ross.
MORGAN: What kind of defence mechanism?
[Decontamination tube]
MORGAN [OC]: That thing knows you're in there to help it.
JOURNEY: Yeah, well, who knows? It's a Dalek. We're going to continue the mission.
DOCTOR: Are you all right back there? It's a bit narrow, isn't it?
CLARA: Any remarks about my hips will not be appreciated.
DOCTOR: Ach, your hips are fine. You're built like a man.
Isabella : (sotto) Thanks.
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The Story of an Idiot with a Box (Series 8) Doctor Who
ActionThe series is the first to star Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in his TARDIS, which appears to be a British police box on the outside. It also stars Jenna Coleman Zoë Lewis as his companio...
