Watching doctor who

Chapter 6 the power of three

[Brian's lounge]

(Something jolts Brian awake. It is the box moving. He dozes off again and reawakens when it starts to spin around.)
BRIAN: Do it again.

[Kitchen]

AMY: Good job, mister. Civilisations saved, surfaces wiped. What more could any woman ask for?
RORY: Ha, ha.
AMY: I mean it.
RORY: Where's the Doctor?
AMY: On the Wii again. I'm going for a bath.
(The cube on the work surface opens its lid and closes it again.)

[Lounge]

DOCTOR: Oh, yes! Second set, Doctor! Ha ha! Oh, if Fred Perry could see me now, eh? He'd probably ask for his shorts back.

[Bathroom]

(Amy sees the cube in here glowing. She puts her hand on it and gets stabbed by a square of 25 short needles.)
AMY: Ow!
(The needles disappear back inside the cube then a heartbeat line appears through the middle of it.
(Down in the kitchen, Rory spots the cube opening and closing. He tries to see what is inside it.)

[Lounge]

DOCTOR: Third set decider, come on, then.
(A cube flies around him and blocks his view.)
DOCTOR: Out of the way, dear, I'm trying to. Whatever you are, this planet, these people, are precious to me. And I will defend them to my last breath. Is that all you can do, hover? I had a metal dog could do that.
(The cube points a tube at him.)
DOCTOR: What's that?
(The cube fires, the Doctor dodges and a vase shatters. The Doctor escapes after two more pot shots, then the cube settles in front of the TV and computer console and images flicker across the screen very quickly.)

[Hallway]

(The Doctor looks in round the door.)
DOCTOR: Ooo, you really have woken up.
RORY: Doctor? Hi. Er, the cube in there, it just opened.
AMY: The cube upstairs just spiked me and took my pulse!
DOCTOR: Ha! Really? Mine fired laser bolts and now it's surfing the net.
(Brian enters.)
BRIAN: You're never going to believe this. My cube just moved. It rattled.
(Rory answers his mobile phone.)
RORY: Hello?

[Hospital]

RANJIT: Rory, mate, I'm desperate for help. People are saying they've been attacked by the cubes. It's going to be a long night.
(The little girl is still sitting there with a glowing cube. Since December?)
RORY [OC]: Okay, I'm on my way.

[Hallway]

RORY: I have to get to work. They need all the help they can get.
BRIAN: Let me come, help out.
RORY: Take your dad to work night, brilliant! Okay, are you going to be all right here?
AMY: Keep away from the cubes.
RORY: Right.
(Rory and Brian leave. The Doctor is looking at his psychic paper.)
AMY: What are you grinning about?
DOCTOR: We're wanted at the Tower of London.

(They arrive by car.)
KATE: Every cube across the whole world activated at the same moment.
DOCTOR: Now we're in business. You sent me a message to my psychic paper. You know what? I'm almost impressed.

[UNIT HQ]

AMY: Secret base beneath the Tower. Hope we're not here because we know too much.
KATE: Yes, I've got officers trained in beheading. Also ravens of death.
AMY: I like her.
(They enter an area with lots of individual armoured cubicles, each containing a cube.)
KATE: There are fifty being monitored, and more coming in all the time. I don't know how useful it is. Every cube is behaving individually. There's no meaningful pattern. Some respond to proximity. Some create mood swings.
(Amy touches one cubicle and the cube produces a flames. In another, a woman weeps.)
AMY: Er, what's this one?
KATE: Try the door.
(Amy opens the door and the Birdie Song starts playing.)
KATE: On a loop!
(Amy shuts the door again quickly.)
KATE: This is the latest.
DOCTOR: Oh dear. Systems breach at the Pentagon, China, every African nation, the Middle East.
KATE: I've got governments screaming for explanations and no idea what to tell them. I'm lost, Doctor. We all are.
DOCTOR: Don't despair, Kate. Your dad never did. Kate Stewart, heading up UNIT, changing the way they work. How could you not be? Why did you drop Lethbridge?
KATE: I didn't want any favours. Though he guided me, even to the end. Science leads, he always told me. Said he'd learned that from an old friend.
DOCTOR: We don't let him down. We don't let this planet down.
RESEARCHER: They've stopped. The cubes, across the world, they just shut down.
KATE: Active for forty seven minutes, and then they just die?
DOCTOR: Not dead. Dormant, maybe.
AMY: Then why shut down?
DOCTOR: I don't know. I don't know. I need to think. I need some air. Who has an underground base? Terrible ventilation.

[By the Thames]

DOCTOR: The moment they arrived, I should have made sure they were collected and burned. That is what I should have done.
AMY: How? Nobody would have listened.
DOCTOR: You're thinking of stopping, aren't you? You and Rory.
AMY: No. I mean, we haven't made a decision.
DOCTOR: But you're considering it.
AMY: Maybe. I don't know. We don't know. Well, our lives have changed so much. But there was a time, there were years, when I couldn't live without you. When just the whole everyday thing would drive me crazy. But since you dropped us back here, since you gave us this house, you know, we've built a life. I don't know if I can have both.
DOCTOR: Why?
AMY: Because they pull at each other. Because they pull at me, and because the travelling is starting to feel like running away.
DOCTOR: That's not what it is.
AMY: Oh, come on. Look at you, four days in a lounge and you go crazy.
DOCTOR: I'm not running away. But this is one corner of one country in one continent on one planet that's a corner of a galaxy that's a corner of a universe that is forever growing and shrinking and creating and destroying and never remaining the same for a single millisecond. And there is so much, so much to see, Amy. Because it goes so fast. I'm not running away from things, I am running to them before they flare and fade forever. And it's all right. Our lives won't run the same. They can't. One day, soon maybe, you'll stop. I've known for a while.
AMY: Then why do you keep coming back for us?
DOCTOR: Because you were the first. The first face this face saw. And you're seared onto my hearts, Amelia Pond. You always will be. I'm running to you, and Rory, before you fade from me.
AMY: Don't be nice to me. I don't want you to be nice to me.
DOCTOR: Yeah, you do, Pond, and you always get what you want. They got what they wanted.
AMY: What? Who did?
DOCTOR: The cubes. That's why they stopped. Come on.
I heard someone muttering under their breath I turned and it was rose she looked angry what I said not about to tell her she was the image of her mother it's just yous are having a lovely conversation and you bring up the cubes why are you incapable of talking about your feelings she said making me a bit angry look rose before i regenerated I had just lost Donna then I met the ponds and they saved my life and that there I said pointing at the screen that was us talking about our feelings ok I'm sorry if you didn't see it like that but to be honest that was a conversation meant for just me and Amelia so can we continue I finished feeling exhausted I'm sorry doctor she said after awhile me too I said laying my head on Amy's shoulder grateful for the ponds being here. As I turned I seen Amy and Rory glaring at rose I poked them making them smile softly at me before the video continued.