Chapter 21 the doctor falls

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[Dormitory]
(Amidst idyllic rolling hills, a pair of ponies draws a wagon with children seated in the back through a field of crucified Cyber-patients to a farmhouse inside a low stone wall. Some of the Cyber-patients lift their heads as they go past. The excited children are greeted by a woman at the door. The number on the sky say 507. Upstairs in the farmhouse, a pillow fight is going on until a bell starts ringing. The woman comes in holding a rifle.)
HAZRAN: Everyone under their beds, now!
ALIT: (a little girl) Again?
HAZRAN: Alit, get under your bed and stay there!
(Outside, the adults shoot at the approaching Cyber-patients. Alit watches from the window while the others hide under their beds as ordered.)
ALIT: It's the scarecrows. New ones.
GAZRON: (another girl) It's okay. We'll be okay.
REXHILL [OC]: Save your ammo! Wait for it! Fire!
(Next day, these shot Cyber-patients are being tied up as scarecrows too. Alit wanders through the field. There is a noise like thunder then the ground by a big tree splits and an aircraft zooms upwards before running out of thrust and falling back down. Alit runs. Boom! Then stomping feet. It is a Cyberman, and it is carrying an unconscious Doctor.)
I'm so confused river said looking at me bill and nardole confused
[Memory]

(The Doctor has a nasty head wound.)
MASTER: How many times have you died?
MISSY: How many different ways?
MASTER: Have you burned?
MISSY: I know you've fallen.
MASTER: Have you ever drowned?
MISSY: Have you felt the blade?
MASTER: I suppose what we're really asking, my dear, is, well
MISSY: Any requests?
I thought you said she was changing Martha said angrily she was I mumbled
(Memories of the scene in the Conversion Theatre, with Cyber-Bill reaching out to him then the Master and Missy attacking him. He is knocked against a computer keyboard by Missy as Nardole flees.)

[Level 1056 Hospital roof]

(A 1930s style waltz plays and the Master and Missy dance together. The Doctor is tied to a wheelchair and Cyber-Bill is standing nearby.)
MASTER: So, I imagine you're the next one along, then?
MISSY: Oh, I think so. I'm a bit hazy on the whole regeneration thing, I'm afraid.
MASTER: You mean, I'm going to turn into a woman and you don't even remember it happening?
MISSY: Oh! Am I a woman now?
MASTER: Well, kind of, yeah.
MISSY: Hold me.
MASTER: Kiss me.
MISSY: Make me.
DOCTOR: Do you two want to be alone? Which, in your case, would mean more than it usually does.
MASTER Urgh, Grandad's back.
(The music and dancing stops.)
MASTER: We've been debating the best way to kill you.
DOCTOR: Where's Bill?
MISSY: Well, we thought we might chuck you off the roof, but I wasn't sure how many regenerations you had left.
MASTER: Yeah, we could have been up and down the stairs all night.
MISSY: We could shoot you, but that's a bit vanilla.
MASTER: But old school, nice for a change.
MISSY: For a change.
DOCTOR: I said, where is Bill?
MASTER: Well, if we told you that, I'm safraid you'd be really, really upset.
MISSY: So
BOTH: She's right behind you!
(The Doctor looks round.)
MISSY: Look, there's Bill. Dead, dismembered, fed through a grinder and squeezed into a Cyberman. Doomed to spend an eternal afterlife as a bio-mechanical psycho-zombie. It was hilarious.
MASTER: Ten years you spent up there, chatting. You missed her by two hours.
MISSY: Ripped out her heart, threw it in to a bin, and burned it all away. He's internalising. I love it when he's Mister Volcano.
DOCTOR: (to the Master) The last time I saw you, you were on your way to Gallifrey.
MASTER: Well, I didn't stay. Why would I stay?
DOCTOR: So they cured your little condition and kicked you out.
MASTER: It was a mutual kicking me out.
(Bored Missy is repairing her lip gloss.)
DOCTOR: Somehow you ended up in this dump. You never could drive.
I know I meant to hate this guy but you can't drive either raggedy man I mean 12 years or 14 if we're being technical Amy said grinning at me making me river and Rory laugh
MASTER: Meh. You wouldn't understand.
DOCTOR: Well, let's see how I do. Your Tardis got stuck. You killed a lot of people, took over the city, lived like a king until they rebelled against your cruelty. And ever since then you've been hiding out, probably in disguise, because everybody knows your stupid round face.
MASTER: Round?
Wow he's got his priorities you did that speech the only thing he took out of it was round Donna said shaking her head
MISSY: It's a little bit.
MASTER: Shut up! Do you want to see my city, Doctor? Do you want to see what happens when you're too late to save your little friend and everybody else?
(He wheels the Doctor to the parapet to watch the columns of people being escorted by patients.)
MASTER: See? This used to be just a hospital. Now it's mass production. The Cyber Foundries.
MISSY: The whole city is a machine to turn people into Cybermen. What do you think? Exciting, isn't it? Watching the Cybermen getting started.
DOCTOR: They always get started. They happen everywhere there's people. Mondas, Telos, Earth, Planet 14, Marinus. Like sewage and smartphones and Donald Trump, some things are just inevitable.
(Missy notices an aerial is pulsing out a signal.)
MISSY: Doctor. Doctor, have you done something? What's happening?
DOCTOR: People get the Cybermen wrong. There's no evil plan, no evil genius. Just parallel evolution.
MASTER: Doctor, what have you done?
DOCTOR: People plus technology minus humanity. The internet, cyberspace, Cybermen. Always read the comments, because one day they'll be an army.
MISSY: Look, they're coming. They're coming for us!
MASTER: This doesn't make any sense!
DOCTOR: Doesn't it?
MASTER: These Cybermen are primitive. They're programmed to track human beings and convert them. They home in on human life signs only.
DOCTOR: You two, you should know by now. When you're winning, and I'm in the room, you're missing something.
MASTER: What have we missed?
DOCTOR: You shouldn't have hit me, Missy. I was waiting for my chance. Computer, containing the algorithm defining human life signs. I only had time to change one detail. A single number. One to a two. One heart to two hearts. I expanded the definition of humanity. Took 'em a while to update the net, but here we go. Welcome to the menu.
(Cybermen are stomping up the stairs to the now floodlit roof.)
DOCTOR: Now they think that we count as humans, and they're going to fix that in a hurry!
That's actually a good plan sweetie except you might be killed but well done river said patting me making me preen and everyone else laugh and stare at us
(Missy sonicks the doors shut. The Master sonicks a Cyberman that has come up the fire escape and sets its chest unit on fire.)
MASTER: There must be other ways up here. We can't cover them all.
DOCTOR: You can't fight a whole city. You know the stories. There's only ever been one way to stop that many Cybermen. Me!
(The Master sonicks another Cyberman then goes to the Doctor.)
MASTER: Then do it. Stop them!
DOCTOR: Begging for your life already? That's a new record.
MASTER: I'm not begging you. I'd rather die than beg you.
DOCTOR: Lucky day, then.
MASTER: I can do this. They're not difficult. They're Cybermen.
DOCTOR: Knock yourself out.
(Missy pirouettes and KO's the Master with her parasol.)
MISSY: Your wish is my command.
(She unties the Doctor.)
MISSY: I was secretly on your side all along, you silly sausage.
Is she being serious bill said laughing making me smile not fully happy but
DOCTOR: Is that true?
MISSY: Don't spoil the moment.
DOCTOR: Seriously, I need to know. Is that true?
(He holds Missy's hand.)
MISSY: It's hard to say. I, I'm in two minds. Fortunately, the other one's unconscious.
(The Doctor leaps onto the parapet and speaks into his sonic screwdriver.)
DOCTOR: Nardole, have you been useful?
Oh first time you see nardole not how are you just have you been useful Donna said looking annoyed making me smirk at her
NARDOLE [OC]: Yeah. Found this in the loading bay.
(The little spaceship rises up to come level with the Doctor. Oh, how often has Trek used that image...)
NARDOLE: Shuttlecraft.
(Then goes a bit higher and drops a rope ladder from a hatch in its underside.)
DOCTOR: Get Junior up there.
(They pick up the Master and he wakes.)
MASTER: Oh, you hit me really hard.
MISSY: You're telling me. I think, I think I've still got the bump.
(The Master climbs the ladder.)
DOCTOR: Right. First things first
(Electricity plays over the Doctor's body. A Cyberman has grabbed him from behind.)
DOCTOR: Argh! Argh! Argh!
(Missy picks up the Doctor's sonic screwdriver, but before she can press the button, the Cyberman is zapped by a beam from another Cyberman's headpiece. It lets the Doctor go, and gets zapped again. It goes bang!)
DOCTOR: Bill.
(He collapses.)
You saved me I said grabbing bills hand staring at her I always will old man she said smiling
MISSY: What was that, Doctor? You'll only slow us down? Yeah, I think you're right.
(She puts her parasol between her teeth and climbs the ladder.)

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