Watching doctor who

Chapter 7 the power of three

DOCTOR: Kate? Before they shut down, they scanned everything, from your medical limits to your military response patterns. They made a complete assessment of Planet Earth and its inhabitants. That's what the surge of activity was.
(The power cuts off.)
DOCTOR: Problem with the power?
KATE: Not possible. We've got back-ups.
DOCTOR: Hmm.
AMY: Doctor? Look.
DOCTOR: What?
KATE: Why do they all say seven?
(Every cube is showing the same number.)
DOCTOR: Seven. Seven, what's important about seven? Seven wonders of the world, seven streams of the River Ota, seven sides of a cube.
AMY: A cube has six sides.
DOCTOR: Not if you count the inside.
(Clunk, six.)
DOCTOR: It has to be a countdown.
KATE: Not in minutes.
DOCTOR: Why would it be minutes? Kate, we have to get humanity away from those cubes. God knows what they'll do if they hit zero. Get the information out any way you can. News channels, websites, radio, text messages. People have to know that the cubes are dangerous.
AMY: Okay, but why is this starting now? I mean, the cubes arrived months ago. Why wait this long?
DOCTOR: Because they're clever. Allow people enough time to collect them, take them into their homes, their lives. Humans, the great early adopters. And then, wham! Profile every inch of Earth's existence.
KATE: Discover how best to attack us.
DOCTOR: Get that information out any way you can. Go!
KATE: Right.
(The computers are still working.)
DOCTOR: Every cube was activated. There must be signals, energy fluctuations on a colossal scale, there must be some trace. There can't not be. We need to think of all the variables, all the possibilities, okay? Go, go, go, go, go!
MATTHEW [on TV]: This is a national security alert. The Government advises that members of the public dispose of all cubes. If there are cubes inside your house, remove them immediately.
(The number drops from five to four.)

[Hospital]

RORY: We've get them out of the building. Away from here, as far as you can, and get back here before it hits zero. Dad, could you go and get me a box of tape for dressings? It's just the cupboard round the corner.
BRIAN: Yes, boss.

[Corridor]

(Brian is nearly knocked over by the twin orderlies pushing a trolley.)
BRIAN: Sorry. Er, excuse me? I'm looking for the supplies cupboard. I said, I'm looking for the supplies cupboard.
(The orderlies turn and advance towards Brian. Three.

[Hospital]

RORY: Have you seen my dad?
NURSE: No, sorry.

[Corridor]

(Rory sees the orderlies at the far end, with Brian on the trolley.)
RORY: Hey. Dad! Hey! Hey!
(The orderlies run into a goods lift with Do Not Use tape all over it. Rory presses the button, the doors open again but it is empty. He goes in and tries the floor buttons. The doors close. Rory touches the wall opposite and it wibbles. He walks through and onto a spaceship in geosyncronous orbit above an Earth surrounded by clouds..)
Everyone looked horrified by what the tv was showing it was like a horror movie

AMY: Doctor, please. You don't have to do this.
KATE: She's right. You don't have to be in there. We can do this remotely.
DOCTOR: Remotely isn't my style. See you after.
(The Doctor enters a cubicle as the number on the cube changes to two. Then it goes to one rather quickly, and finally zero. Then it switches off and opens its lid.)
DOCTOR: Geronimo.
KATE: What's happening?
AMY: Well? What's in there?
DOCTOR: There is nothing in here.
AMY: Er, well, that's good. It's not, it's not bombs, it's not aliens.
DOCTOR: Why? Why is there nothing inside? Why? It doesn't make any sense.
(The Doctor comes out of the cubicle and goes to the bespectacled Researcher.)
DOCTOR: Glasses, is it the same? Is it the same all around the world?
KATE: They're empty. We're safe, right?
DOCTOR: Ah, no, no, no, we are very far from safe. All along, every action has been deliberate. Why draw attention to the cubes if they don't contain anything?
AMY: Doctor, look.
(On the monitors, people are clutching at their chests in pain as they walk near cubes on the ground.)
RESEARCHER: They're CCTV feeds from across the world. They're showing the same.
KATE: People are dying.
DOCTOR: What? They can't be dying. How? How are they dying?
KATE: I want information on how people are being affected.
DOCTOR: The cubes brought people close together. They opened and then argh!
(The Doctor clutches his chest.)
AMY: Doctor, what's the matter?
DOCTOR: Argh. Ah, I don't know!
RESEARCHER: Hospitals are logging a global surge in heart failures. Cardiac arrests.
DOCTOR: That's it. Oh! Oh! Oh! Only one heart. Other one's not working.
AMY: Okay, I'm going to get you to the hospital!
DOCTOR: Oh, no, no, no, no. Just a short circuit. Turn around, turn around. Tell me, show me. Ten seconds after the cubes opened, show me the patterns in their electrical currents.
(A heartbeat.)
DOCTOR: See?
KATE: No!
DOCTOR: Yes, the power cut. They zapped the power and then argh! They're signal boxes. People leaning in, wham. Pure electrical surge out of the cube targeted at the nearest human heart. The heart, an organ powered by electrical currents, short-circuited. How to destroy a human? Go for the heart. Ow. Crikey Moses.
KATE: Doctor, the scan you set running. The transmitter locations. It's found them.
DOCTOR: And look at them all, pulsing bold as brass. Seven of them, all across the world. Ow! Seven stations, seven minutes. Why is that important? Argh! Ow, ow. How do you people manage? One heart, it is pitiful. A wormhole, bridging two dimensions. Seven of them hitched onto this planet, but where's the closest one? Glasses, zoom in.
AMY: It's the hospital where Rory works.