[Power unit]
(The Doctor helps Isabella down from the tube.)
DOCTOR: What's that noise? Are you wearing a Geiger counter?
GRETCHEN: Standard battle equipment. That's just low level radiation.
(There are large printed circuit boards here.)
DOCTOR: But stronger down here, for some reason. Gimme.
MORGAN [OC]: Was that him?
[Lab 01]
MORGAN: How's he working out?
JOURNEY [OC]: It's hard to say.
[Power unit]
JOURNEY: He's
(The Doctor sweeps the circuit boards with the Geiger counter.)
DOCTOR: I've got it. I know what's wrong with Rusty.
CLARA: Okay, that's good. Is that good?
DOCTOR: Well, you know how I said this was the most dangerous place in the universe? I was wrong. It's way more dangerous than that.
[Lab 01]
JOURNEY [OC]: Colonel, we have radiation indicators red-lining in here. Could be that the Dalek is badly damaged than we thought.
MORGAN: Copy that.
DOCTOR [OC]: Old Rusty here is suffering a trionic radiation leak.
[Power unit]
DOCTOR: It's poisoning the Dalek and us. Just as well we're here.
JOURNEY: Really? Perhaps we should get out while we can. Why should we trust a Dalek? Why would it change?
[Organic compartment]
(Rusty is watching them on an internal monitor.)
DOCTOR [on screen]: Good question. Rusty? What changed you?
RUSTY: I saw beauty.
DOCTOR [on screen]: You saw what?
RUSTY: In the silence and the cold, I saw worlds burning.
JOURNEY [on screen]: That's not beauty, that's destruction.
RUSTY: I saw
[Power unit]
RUSTY [OC]: More.
DOCTOR: What? What did you see?
RUSTY [OC]: The birth of a star.
DOCTOR: Stars are born every day. You've seen a million stars born. So what?
RUSTY [OC]: Daleks have destroyed a million stars.
[Organic compartment]
DOCTOR [on screen]: Oh, millions and millions. Trust me, I keep count.
RUSTY: And yet, new stars are born.
DOCTOR [on screen]: Every time.
[Power unit]
RUSTY [OC]: Resistance is futile.
DOCTOR: Resistance to what?
RUSTY [OC]: Life returns. Life prevails. Resistance is futile.
DOCTOR : So you saw a star being born, and you learned something. Oh, Dalek, do not be lying to me. Come on.
[Lab 01]
JOURNEY [OC]: Heading for the Trionic power cells, Colonel.
MORGAN: Radiation approxing two hundred Rads. Danger levels.
COMPUTER: Radiation levels increasing.
[Power cell]
(Directly underneath Rusty.)
DOCTOR: We're at the heart of the Dalek.
CLARA: It's incredible.
(Energy arcs above them.)
JOURNEY: Geiger counter's off the scale. Looks like it's about to blow.
DOCTOR: Good.
JOURNEY: How is that good?
DOCTOR: Well, I like a bit of pressure. Rusty, can you hear me?
RUSTY [OC]: Doctor?
DOCTOR: Rusty, we've found the damage. I'm sealing up the breach in your power cell.
(He uses the sonic screwdriver as a welder.)
DOCTOR: No more radiation poisoning. Good as new. There. Job done.
Isabella : That's it? Just like that?
DOCTOR: An anti-climax once in a while is good for my hearts. Rusty? How do you feel? Rusty? Rusty? Rusty.
RUSTY [OC]: The malfunction is corrected.
JOURNEY: What's happened?
DOCTOR: Not entirely sure.
(Lights come on.)
JOURNEY: It's like it's waking up.
DOCTOR: Rusty, come on, talk to me. What's going on?
RUSTY [OC]: The malfunction is corrected. All systems are functioning.
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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...
