Doctor Who: Future (season five)

4.6 - The Heart Of War (Part One)

On Earth:
The TARDIS materialises.
The Doctor, Quira & Alex step out.
Quira: What's that?
The Doctor: UNIT, they'll help her.
A solider runs out, The TARDIS chimes.
-That's the incursion chime, Quira I'll need you to stay here.
Quira: What for?
The Doctor: There's an alien in Trafalgar Square.
The Doctor enters the TARDIS, it materialises, Ortiz appears.
Ortiz: Sir, it would seem she's obtained another TARDIS.
Slight pause.
-I'm sorry sir, I will try harder.
SUDDENLY THERE IS DARKNESS.
An explosion goes of, The Doctor appears, there is nothing but darkness around her.
The Doctor: The Time War. One of the worst space wars in history. Planets died. People died. Millions of races were wiped out. I was at the middle, I saw it all. Death. War & Destruction. I was a coward, I never tried to help & I still feel guilty about those who lost their lives in the war. I am The Doctor & I will never forget the time war.
In London:
The Doctor is walking through Trafalgar Square, she stops & stares at a woman.
Woman: What?
The Doctor: You haven't seen a big red thing with suckers have you?
Woman: Has she been on the ale or what?
The Doctor: No? Ok?
The Doctor uses her sonic screwdriver & scans, it scans on a man.
-Oi!
Man: Uh oh!
The man runs, The Doctor follows him.
The Doctor: Come back!
Man: No chance!
They get to an alleyway, The Man is cornered by The Doctor.
The Doctor: Got you.
The man transforms into a Zygon.
-Now, we can do this the easy way or the hard way, what would you prefer?
Zygon: Hard way!
The Zygon shoots a beam at The Doctor, she dodges it.
The Doctor: Judoon platoon, I've got your fugitive!
A Judoon appears.
Judoon: Under the galactic space jurisdiction, you are to be imprisoned for unauthorised emigration fo another planet.
The Judoon grabs the Zygon's arm, they both teleport, The Doctor puts her hand on her hips.
The Doctor: TARDIS!
The Doctor walks back.
In the TARDIS:
-Where too now?
The Doctor presses buttons on the TARDIS console.
-Up to me? Ok? Um, Tranquility, I never finished my holiday there, slimy Sil's fault.
The Doctor puts in the coordinates, however The TARDIS jerks.
On a planet:
-What happened there?
The Doctor exits the TARDIS, she can see a war zone around her, a bomb falls, The Doctor flies, she screams & lands hard.
-What?
She looks around her.
-This is Gallifrey during the time war!
Man: Doctor, you are to come with us.
The Doctor: Who? What? I-I
A bag is placed over her head & she is carried away.
-Let me go! Now!
RUTH WILSON
LALLA WARD
RICHARD ARMITAGE
DOCTOR WHO
THE HEART OF WAR
WRITTEN BY RB WILSON
In a room:
The bag is taken of of The Doctor's head, she is sprayed with a mist.
The Doctor: What the hell is going on?!
Joura: You have been brought to the time war Doctor. We are in need of your help.
The Doctor: This wasn't my part to play, it was the other one.
Joura: You were the easiest to track down.
The Doctor: I don't care, I shouldn't be here! This is against the laws of time! I know what happens in the end of the time war, you lot don't.
Joura: It was this or execution Doctor.
The mist is stopped.
-Now, you are to come with me, The council will see you now.
In the council meeting room:
The door opens, The Doctor & Joura are stood there.
Romana: Doctor, in you come.
The Doctor: Romana! It's great to see you.
Romana: You to Doctor, how have you been since that incident with the Titanic.
The Doctor: Coping.
Rassilon: Enough of this chit chat!
Aura: Now Doctor, you understand why you've been brought here don't you?
The Doctor: & you are?
Aura: I am Aura, protector of the gates of Arcadia.
The Doctor: Ah I see. Hang on shouldn't you be at the Gates?
Aura: It has been taken.
The Doctor: By who?
Aura: The Daleks.
The Doctor gulps, she walks over the window, she sees Daleks & multiple Timelords running from & after each other.
The Doctor: That's my planet.
Romana: Our planet.
Joura: We must fight.
Rassilon: Our technology compared to the Daleks' technology is way too advanced.
Joura: We have a battle computer.
Rassilon: We have guns, they have bombs, they have long distanced ray guns.
Romana: We could make our own race of Daleks.
The Doctor: Romana, pardon me if this sounds rude, but have you lost your mind?
Romana : The Daleks have used corpses to make Daleks before right?
The Doctor: In a manner of speaking yes.
Romana: We have multiple dead Timeords as well as multiple Dalek mutants squelching around the wasteland outside of the city.
The Doctor: We could reprogram the mutants.
Aura: Alright.
Rassilon: What?
Aura: Doctor, you, me & Joura shall go into the wastelands to find Romana ourselves some mutants. Lord Rassilon & Romana you are to stay here & protect the Panopticon from siege.
Rassilon: Have you lost your mind?
Aura: No, this is sense Lord Rassilon, something you've never had.
Rassilon: You dare speak to the Lord President in this tone?
Aura leans in on Rassilon.
Aura: I don't dare. I do.
The Doctor: Come on then team.
Romana: Doctor. Be careful.
The Doctor: We intend to.
Romana: Oh & you'll need these.
Romana gives them vortex manipulators.
The Doctor: Vortex manipulators.
Romana: Cheap & nasty time travel, I know. But Gallifrey is in time of desperate needs.
The Doctor: Protect the panopticon.
Romana: We will, won't we Lord Rassilon?
Rassilon: Yes my lady.
The Doctor, Aura & Joura press buttons on their vortex manipulators, they all disappear, Romana walks over to the window.
Rassilon: Do us proud Doctor.
In the wastelands:
The Doctor, Aura & Joura appear.
The Doctor: We must be careful.
Aura: Of course.
A Dalek mutant squeals, The Doctor throws a net over it.
The Doctor: Got one.
More mutants appear & begin to climb up Joura & Aura.
Aura: Doctor!
Joura: Help me!
The Doctor kicks the mutants away.
Aura: Thanks.
Joura: How many do we need?
The Doctor: I think one will do won't it?
Aura: Yeah, it should.
In the panopticon:
Romana is applying multiple technical pieces of equipment to herself.
Rassilon: Romana? What do you think your doing?
Romana: I'm going to save Leela.
Rassilon: Leela is lost forever Romana.
Romana: No, she was captured by The Daleks, The Daleks wouldn't have killed her. They would have kept her alive.
Rassilon: Kept her alive? What for? The girls incapable of everything & anything.
Romana slaps him.
Romana: You may have lost hope, but I'll tell you something, I haven't, Leela is my friend & I am not giving up on her, got it?
Rassilon: I won't let you do this.
Romana: What are you gonna do? Force me into
Regeneration? Kill me? I'd love to see you try.
Rassilon: Don't push me Romana.
An alarm goes of.
Interface: The panopticon has been breached! This is not a drill!
Romana: Breached?
Rassilon: We're being invaded.
Romana gasps.
-Interface! Show me the intruder!
The interface shows a video clip of Daleks making their way through the panopticon.
Romana: We're in grave danger.
Rassilon: It would seem.
Romana: What do we do?
Rassilon: We run.
Romana & Rassilon run.
On the wasteland:
The Doctor, Aura & Joura are walking around.
The Doctor: What's happened to Leela?
Joura: She was captured by The Daleks.
The Doctor: Has no one tried to save her?
Aura: Rassilon forbids it, he believes that she is a liability for our side of the time war.
The Doctor: That's rubbish.
Joura: We know.
The Doctor's vortex manipulator begins to bleep, she opens it, Romana is on a screen in the manipulator.
Romana: Doctor! The panopticon has been breached!
The Doctor: Breached?! By who?!
Romana: The Daleks!
The Doctor: Oh no.
Romana: You must not return! The Timelords' hope has been lost forever! The Daleks have taken over Gallifrey! We're all done for!
The Doctor: Romana! Romana!
The video cuts out.
Joura: Doctor?
Aura: What is it?
The Doctor: The panopticon has been breached.
Aura: Oh my.
The Doctor: Romana & Rassilon are down.
Joura gasps.
In the panopticon:
Romana & Rassilon run down a corridor, A bronze Dalek appears.
Dalek 1: You will be exterminated!
Romana & Rassilon try to run the other way, a black Dalek appears.
Black Dalek: You are our prisoners! You shall cooperate or you will be exterminated!
On the wasteland:
The Doctor, Joura & Aura run through the wasteland, multiple Daleks surround them.
Dalek 2: Holt!
Dalek 3: You are prisoners of the Daleks!
Supreme Dalek: You will follow our orders!
The Doctor: I think not!
The Doctor, Aura & Joura try to run.
Supreme Dalek: Handmines activate!
Multiple hands with eyes emerge from the floor, grabbing The Doctor, Aura & Joura's ankles.
Aura: Doctor!
Joura: What'd we do?!

TO BE CONTINUED...

THE DOCTOR - RUTH WILSON