Chapter 10 army of ghosts

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YVONNE: Two minutes to the next shift. Let's make it a good one, people.
(Adeola enters, wearing two earpieces.)
YVONNE: Come on, you two.
ADEOLA: I'm sorry we're late.
YVONNE: Save it 'til later.
(So is Gareth.)
GARETH: Sorry we're late.
YVONNE: And powering up.
(The man in the lab coat moves the big lever. Gareth and Adeola's earpieces flash, and they type into their computers.)
That doesn't look good doc graham said state the obvious much nardole said making me stand up and march towards him angrily I seen Clara follow me leave graham alone nardole I shouted in his face oh you don't change he said making me madder oi egg man I yelled suddenly clara appeared doctor calm down she said before pulling me to sit back down I seen everyone looking surprised what I said pouting I could see nardole glaring and bill chastising him making me smirk at him I felt clara poke me stop she said before the video resumed.

Playground]

(The Doctor activates the cones.)
DOCTOR: What's the line doing?

[Tardis]

ROSE: It's all right. It's holding!
JACKIE: You even look like him?
ROSE: How do you mean? I suppose I do, yeah.
JACKIE: You've changed so much.
ROSE: For the better.
JACKIE: I suppose.
ROSE: Mum, I used to work in a shop.
JACKIE: I've worked in shops. What's wrong with that?
ROSE: No, I didn't mean that.
JACKIE: I know what you meant. What happens when I'm gone?
ROSE: Don't talk like that.
JACKIE: No, but really. When I'm dead and buried, you won't have any reason to come back home. What happens then?
ROSE: I don't know.
JACKIE: Do you think you'll ever settle down?
ROSE: The Doctor never will, so I can't. I'll just keep on travelling.
JACKIE: And you'll keep on changing. And in forty years time, fifty, there'll be this woman, this strange woman, walking through the marketplace on some planet a billion miles from Earth. But she's not Rose Tyler. Not anymore. She's not even human.
I felt rose move away from me making me frown what's wrong I mumbled in her ear I'll tell you later she said softly before the video resumed

DOCTOR [OC]: Here we go!
ROSE: The scanner's working. It says delta one six.

[Playground]

DOCTOR: Come on then, you beauty!

[Lever room]

YVONNE: And we're into Ghost Shift.
(She puts on a pair of dark glasses as the room fills with bright light.)
COMPUTER: Online.
(In the playground, a ghost appears between the cones, and gets trapped. Jackie and Rose watch it on the scanner. The Doctor puts on a pair of red and blue 3D cardboard spectacles and makes an adjustment to his control box. An alarm sounds in the Institute.)
YVONNE: What've we got?
MATT: Something's interfering with the ghost field.
YVONNE: Location?
MATT: It's close. It's within the city.

[Playground]

(The ghost is starting to writhe inside the field.)
DOCTOR: Don't like that much, do you? Who are you? Where are you coming from? Whoa!
(The ghost tries to break out of the field.)
DOCTOR: That's more like it! Not so friendly now, are you?

[Lever room]

YVONNE: Close it down. Close it down!
COMPUTER: Offline.
(We now see there are two levers to be moved, on either side of the room. The ghost fades and vanishes. The Doctor gathers up the cones.)
MATT: It was a very specific excitation of the ghost field, and that makes it easy to pinpoint. Almost there South London. South East fifteen. It's a council estate. The Powell Estate. SU15 7GO. It was a public area.
YVONNE: Can we patch into the CCTV network?
MATT: Doing it now.
(The Doctor runs into the Tardis.)
MATT: Here we go. We've got a camera within fifty yards.
(The Tardis comes into view.)
YVONNE: Oh, my God.
MATT: Is it him?
YVONNE: It's him.

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