[Cortex vault]
CLARA: Show me a star, Rusty.
(More lights come back on.)
[Organic compartment]
(Impulses flow down the cables to Rusty. These images are of Daleks flying in space, attacking the Valiant in Stolen Earth.)
DOCTOR: Oh, look. It's your memories again. It's like somebody's mucking about up there. Memories, all those memories. Do you remember the star you saw being born?
[Cortex vault]
Isabella : Almost done. One more to go.
[Cranial ledge]
JOURNEY: Hurry up, Clara! Isabella! Hurry up.
(The last set of lights come on, and Rusty's eyepiece goes dark. The antibodies retreat.)
JOURNEY: Clara,Isabella you did it. It's rebooting.
[Cortex vault]
JOURNEY [OC]: The antibodies have reset.
[Organic compartment]
RUSTY: I, I remember.
DOCTOR: You saw the truth, Rusty. Remember how you felt. You saw a star being born. The endless rebirth of the universe.
RUSTY: No.
DOCTOR: And you realised the truth about the Daleks
[Aristotle]
(Rusty is spinning around.)
RUSTY: Truth? What is the truth?
[Organic compartment]
DOCTOR: Let me show you the truth. I've opened your mind and now I'm coming in.
[Aristotle]
(The Daleks are starting to burn through the bulkhead door.)
MORGAN: That door is never going to hold. But I'm damned if I'm going to make it easy for them.
[Rusty's mind]
(The Doctor splices the two pieces of cut neurone together with his bare hands, and screams as the energy surges through his body.)
DOCTOR: I'm part of you. My mind is in your mind.
[Lab 01]
RUSTY: I see your mind, Doctor. I see your universe.
[Rusty's mind]
DOCTOR: And isn't the universe beautiful?
RUSTY [OC]: I see beauty.
DOCTOR: Yes, that's good. That is good. Hold on to that.
RUSTY [OC]: I see endless, divine perfection.
DOCTOR: Make it a part of you. Remember how you feel right now. Put it inside you and live by it.
RUSTY [OC]: I see into your soul, Doctor. I see beauty. I see divinity. I see hatred.
DOCTOR: Hatred?
[Lab 01]
RUSTY: I see your hatred of the Daleks and it is good.
[Rusty's mind]
(Behind the Doctor, the Crucible explodes.)
DOCTOR: No, no, no. You must see more than that, there must be more than that.
[Lab 01]
RUSTY: Death to the Daleks.
[Rusty's mind]
RUSTY [OC]: Death to the Daleks. Death to the Daleks.
DOCTOR: No, there must be more than that. There must be more than that. Please.
[Aristotle]
RUSTY: Daleks are evil. Daleks must be exterminated. Daleks are evil.
(Rusty approaches his former comrades from the rear, while Morgan and his surviving soldiers prepare for them to break through the bulkhead door.)
MORGAN: God save us all.
RUSTY: Daleks must be exterminated.
(The Daleks turn and Rusty shoots them to pieces.)
RUSTY: Exterminate.
DALEK: Under attack from a Dalek!
(KaBOOMs all round!)
RUSTY: The Daleks are exterminated
[Rusty's mind]
DOCTOR: Of course they are. That's what you do, isn't it?
[Aristotle]
(The humans have left Rusty and are normal size again.)
MORGAN: Journey.
JOURNEY: Uncle Morgan.
RUSTY: I have transmitted a retreat signal. The Daleks will believe the humans have initiated the ship's self-destruct.
(Journey briefly hugs Morgan.)
CLARA: What about you, Rusty?
RUSTY: I must go with them.
DOCTOR: Of course you must. You've unfinished work, haven't you?
RUSTY: Victory is yours, but it does not please you.
DOCTOR: You looked inside me and you saw hatred. That's not victory. Victory would have been a good Dalek.
RUSTY: I am not a good Dalek. You are a good Dalek.
(Rusty turns to leave, then looks back at the Doctor.)
DOCTOR: Till the next time.
(The Doctor goes through the door to Med Sec 07.)
JOURNEY: Is he leaving? Isn't he going to say goodbye?
Isabella : I think that was it. Yep, that was it. Sorry, got to run.
(Clara goes after the Doctor. Rusty leaves.)
JOURNEY: I'm sorry.
(Journey kisses Morgan on the cheek and follows Clara. and Isabella )
MORGAN: Sorry?
[Med Sec 07]
JOURNEY: Doctor. Take me with you.
DOCTOR: I think you're probably nice. Underneath it all, I think you're kind and you're definitely brave. I just wish you hadn't been a soldier.
(Journey and Clara exchange final sheepish smiles before Clara follows the Doctor into the Tardis. The Dalek Saucer leaves the asteroid belt.)
[Tardis]
(Isabella runs up the stairs in new clothes. The Tardis is in flight.)
Isabella : How do I look?
DOCTOR: Sort of short and round-ish, but with a good personality, which is the main thing.
Isabella : I meant my clothes. I just changed.
DOCTOR: Oh, good for you, still making an effort.
(The Tardis lands.)
DOCTOR: Okay, right, you're back in your cupboard, thirty seconds after you left.
Isabella : When will I see you again?
DOCTOR: Oh. Soon, I expect. Or later. One of those.
(Clara and Isabella opens the door.)
CLARA: I don't know.
DOCTOR: I'm sorry?
Isabella : You asked me if you're a good man and the answer is, I don't know. But I think you try to be and I think that's probably the point.
DOCTOR: I think you're probably an amazing teacher.
Isabella : I think I'd better be.
[Corridor]
(Isabella comes out of the supply cupboard.)
Ronald : Ah, hey.
Isabella : Hey, Isabella .
Ronald : Have you changed your clothes?
Isabella : Yes. Yes, I, I have. Well noticed.
Ronald : Okay, good.
Isabella : Yes, good. Very good. Good work. You passed the test.
Ronald : Are you really going to go for a drink with me?
Isabella : Yeah, course I am. Why wouldn't I?
Ronald : I just thought
Isabella : Thought what?
Ronald : I thought you might have a rule against soldiers.
Isabella : No. No, not at all.
(They go different ways.)
Isabella : Not me.
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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...
