In the TARDIS, the Doctor and his companions are clinging furiously to the console as the TARDIS flies violently through the vortex. They are shaking to every possible side while the Doctor tries to regain some control. Sparks are flying, Donna and Martha are screaming while the Doctor has a look of deep concern.
DONNA
What the hell's it doing?
DOCTOR
Controls aren't working!
He tries again with a control and sparks fly. He falls to the floor and sees his hand in the jar bubbling wildly.
DOCTOR
I don't know where we're going but my old hand's very excited about it!
DONNA
I thought that was just some freaky alien thing! You telling me it's yours?
DOCTOR
Well...
MARTHA
It got cut off. He grew a new one!
DONNA
You are completely... impossible!
DOCTOR
Not impossible, just... a bit unlikely!
The TARDIS makes one last rebellious explosion, sparks fly. The Doctor and his companions fall backwards, the Doctor lands in the chair next to the console. The TARDIS has landed. The Doctor looks at his companions before suddenly running towards the door and outside. He exits the TARDIS and looks around curiously. They seem to be in some underground tunnel, littered with junk and old equipment. His companions soon follow.
DOCTOR
Why would the TARDIS bring us here?
MARTHA
Oh, I love this bit.
DONNA
Thought you wanted to go home.
MARTHA
I know, but all the same...
The Doctor is going about his business, seemingly oblivious to the conversation. He licks his hands and looks into the distance.
MARTHA
It's that feeling you get...
DONNA
Like you swallowed a hamster?
At that moment, the Doctor and his companions hear a loud noise. They look over to the source of the commotion. Soldiers are coming.
CLINE
Don't move, stay where you are! Drop your weapons.
The soldiers point their guns at the TARDIS crew who show they are unarmed.
DOCTOR
We're not armed! Look, no weapons. Never any weapons. We're safe.
SOLDIER
Look at their hands. They're clean.
CLINE
Alright, process them! Him first.
The two soldiers who accompanied Cline move towards the Doctor. They grab him and drag him towards a strange machine.
DOCTOR
Oi, oi! What's wrong with clean hands?!
MARTHA
What's going on?
DONNA
Leave him alone!
The Doctor's hand is forced into the machine and he makes yells of pain as it whizzes away doing it's job.
DOCTOR
Something tells me this isn't about to check my blood pressure AAGGGH!
DONNA
What're you doing to him?
CLINE
Everyone gets processed.
DOCTOR
It's taken a tissue sample. Ow ow ow ow ow ow! And extrapolated it! Some kind of accelerator?
The machine lets the Doctor go, and he moves back, examining his hand. Donna and Martha run to him while he looks at a larger machine near the 'processor'.
MARTHA
Are you alright?
She examines his hand and notices a Y-shaped graze. The Doctor and Donna keep an eye on the other machine as it opens.
DOCTOR
What on earth? That's just...
A woman steps out from the machine, smoke billowing everywhere. The Doctor and his companions look on curiously as the woman looks around, also curious.
CLINE
Arm yourself!
He hands the woman the gun, and she naturally handles it.
MARTHA
Where did she come from?
DOCTOR
From me.
The woman is arming the gun as the Doctor, looking totally shocked himself, explains the situation to his companions.
DONNA
From you?! How? Who is she?
DOCTOR
Well... she's... well... she's my daughter!
Jenny, the woman, looks on with a smile on her face.
JENNY
Hello dad!
***
OPENING CREDITS
DAVID TENNANT
CATHERINE TATE
and
FREEMA AGYEMAN
THE DOCTOR'S DAUGHTER
by Stephen Greenhorn
***
Jenny joins the soldiers while the Doctor and his companions stay in the background.
CLINE
You primed to take orders, ready to fight?
JENNY
Instant mental download of all strategic and military protocols, sir. Generation 5000 soldier primed and in peak physical health. Oh, I’m ready.
DONNA
Did you say, daughter?
DOCTOR
Mm. Technically.
MARTHA
Technically how?
DOCTOR
Progenation. Reproduction from a single organism. Means one parent is biological mother and father. You take a sample of diploid cells, split them into haploids, then recombine them in a different arrangement, and grow. Very quickly, apparently.
JENNY
Something’s coming!
Hath run down the tunnel shooting.
CLINE
It’s the Hath!
The human soldiers shoot back.
JENNY
Get down!
CLINE
We have to blow the tunnel! Get the detonator!
DOCTOR
I’m not detonating anything!
A Hath grabs Martha and pulls her away, while Jenny kicks the other Hath and picks up the detonator.
CLINE
Blow that thing, blow the thing!
DOCTOR
Martha! No! Don’t!
Jenny presses the button, and they all run to cover before the tunnel explodes. The Doctor goes back to see the tunnel sealed, so Martha is stuck on the other side, or possibly dead.
DOCTOR
You’ve sealed off the tunnel. Why did you do that?!
JENNY
They were trying to kill us!
DOCTOR
But they’ve got my friend!
JENNY
Collateral damage. At least you’ve still got her, he lost both his men, I’d say you came out ahead.
DONNA
Her name’s Martha, and she’s not collateral damage, not for anyone! Have you got that, GI Jane?!
DOCTOR
I’m gonna find her.
CLINE (pointing gun at them)
You’re going nowhere. You don’t make sense, you two. No guns, no marks, no fight in you… I’m taking you to General Cobb. Now, move.
***
Martha wakes up in the debris of the explosion and spots an injured Hath.
MARTHA
Hold on, I’ve got you, is it your arm, yeah?
The Hath gurgles.
MARTHA
Is that a yes?
The Hath nods.
MARTHA
Let me examine it. Keep still. Still, yeah? No move!
The Hath nods.
MARTHA
Half fish, half human, how'm I supposed to know? Is that a shoulder? Feels like a shoulder! I think it’s dislocated.
Several Hath march in and point guns at Martha.
MARTHA
I’m trying to help him! I am a doctor and he is my patient, and I’m not leaving him! Now, this is gonna hurt. One, two, three!
Martha snaps the shoulder back into place. The Hath cock their guns. The injured Hath explains them that she was helping him, and the guns are lowered.
MARTHA
Now, then. I’m Doctor Martha Jones. Who the hell are you?
***
Cline, Jenny, Donna and the Doctor walk through the tunnels.
DONNA
I’m Donna, what’s you name?
JENNY
Don’t know, it’s not been assigned.
DONNA
Well, if you don’t know that, what do you know?
JENNY
How to fight.
DONNA
Nothing else?
DOCTOR
The machine must embed military history and tactics but no name. She’s a generated anomaly.
DONNA
Generated anomaly? Jenny-rated. Well what about that? Jenny!
JENNY
Jenny. Yeah, I like that, Jenny.
DONNA
What do you think, ‘Dad’?
DOCTOR
Good as anything, I suppose.
DONNA
Not what you’d call a natural parent, are you?
DOCTOR
They stole a tissue sample at gunpoint and processed it, it’s not what I call natural parentage.
DONNA
Rubbish! My friend Nerys fathered twins with a turkey baster, don’t bother her.
DOCTOR
You can't extrapolate a relationship from a biological accident.
DONNA
Er, Child Support Agency can.
DOCTOR
Look, just cos I share certain physiological traits with simian primates doesn’t make me a monkey’s uncle, does it?
JENNY
I’m not a monkey! Or a child.
They reach the human encampment, a huge underground room.
DOCTOR
So, where are we? What planet's this?
CLINE
Messaline. Well, what’s left of it.
TANNOY
...663 – 75 deceased. Generation 6671 – Extinct. Generation 6672 – 46 deceased. Generation 6680 – 14 deceased. Generation ...
DONNA
But, this is a theatre!
DOCTOR
Maybe they’re doing Miss Saigon.
DONNA
It’s like a town, or a city, underground. But why?
Cline just finished reporting to an older soldier who now walks to the Doctor and Donna.
DOCTOR
General Cobb, I presume?
GENERAL COBB
Found in the Western tunnels, I’m told, with no marks. There was an outbreak of pacifism in the Eastern Zone, three generations back, before we lost contact, is that where you came from?
DOCTOR
Eastern Zone, that’s us, yeah. Yeah. I’m The Doctor, this is Donna.
JENNY
And I’m Jenny.
GENERAL COBB
Don’t think you can infect us with your peacemaking. We’re committed to the fight, to the very end.
DOCTOR
Well, that’s all right, I can’t stay anyway. I’ve gotta go and find my friend.
GENERAL COBB
That’s not possible, all movement is regulated. We’re at war.
DOCTOR
Yes, I noticed. With the Hath. But tell me, cos we got a bit out of circulation, Eastern Zone and all that, so, who exactly are the Hath?
***
The Hath lead Martha into their base, similar to the human encampment. They seem delighted to meet a friendly human and they all pet Martha.
***
GENERAL COBB
Back at the dawn of this planet, these ancient halls were carved from the earth. Our ancestors dreamt of a new beginning, a colony where human and Hath could work and live together.
DOCTOR
So what happened?
GENERAL COBB
The dream died. Broken, along with Hath promises. They wanted it all for themselves. But those early pioneers, they fought back. They used the machines to produce soldiers instead of colonists, and began this battle for survival.
DONNA
There’s nothing but earth outside, why’s that? Why build everything underground?
CLINE
The surface is too dangerous.
DONNA
Well, then why build windows in the first place? And what does this mean?
Donna points at a number stamped on the wall.
GENERAL COBB
The rites and symbols of our ancestors. The meanings... lost in time.
DOCTOR
How long’s this war gone on for?
GENERAL COBB
Longer than anyone can remember. Countless generations marked only by the dead.
DONNA
What, fighting all this time?
JENNY
Because we must. Every child of the machine is born with this knowledge. It’s our inheritance, it’s all we know. How to fight. And how to die.
***
The Hath and Martha are looking at a holographic map.
MARTHA
Right…so we’re here?
She points at the map.
***
At the human camp, the Doctor is looking at an identical map.
DOCTOR
Does this show the entire city, including the Hath zones?
GENERAL COBB
Yes. Why?
DOCTOR
Well it’ll help us find Martha.
CLINE
We’ve more important things to do. The Progenation Machines are powered down for the night shift, but soon as they’re active, we could breed a whole platoon from you two.
DONNA
I’m not having sons and daughters by some great big flippin’ machine! (looking at Jenny) Sorry, no offence but you’re not... well I mean you’re not real.
JENNY
You’re no better than him! I have a body, I have a mind, I have independent thought, how am I not real? What makes you better than me?
GENERAL COBB
Well said, soldier. We need more like you if ever we’re to find the Source.
DOCTOR
Ooh, the Source, what’s that then, what’s a Source? I like a Source, what is it?
GENERAL COBB
The Breath of Life.
DOCTOR
And that would be...?
CLINE
In the beginning the great one breathed life into the universe. And then she looked at what she’d done, and she sighed.
JENNY
She? I like that.
DOCTOR
Right, so it’s a creation myth.
GENERAL COBB
It’s not myth. It’s real. That sigh. From the beginning of time it was caught and kept as the Source. It was lost when the war started. But it’s here, somewhere. Whoever holds the Source controls the destiny of the planet.
DOCTOR
Ah! I thought so! There’s a suppressed layer of information in this map, if I can just…
He sonics the map and more tunnels appear on it.
DONNA
What is it, what’s it mean?
DOCTOR
See? A whole complex of tunnels, hidden from sight.
***
The extra tunnels appear on the Hath map too.
MARTHA
Hold on, look!
***
GENERAL COBB
That must be the lost temple. The source will be inside. You’ve shown us the way! And look, we’re closer than the Hath! It’s ours!
***
MARTHA
That’s a new map. There’s a different set of tunnels!
***
GENERAL COBB
Tell them to prepare to move out. We’ll progenate new soldiers on the morning shift, then we march. Once we reach the Temple, peace will be restored at long last.
DOCTOR
Um, call me old-fashioned, but if you really wanted peace couldn’t you just stop fighting?
GENERAL COBB
Only when we have the Source. It’ll give us the power to erase every stinking Hath from the face of this planet!
DOCTOR
Hang on, hang on, a second ago it was peace in our time, now you’re talking about genocide!?
GENERAL COBB
For us, that means the same thing.
DOCTOR
Then you need to get yourself a better dictionary. When you do, look up genocide. You’ll see a little picture of me there and the caption will read 'Over my dead body'!
GENERAL COBB
And you’re the one who showed us the path to victory. But you can consider the irony from your prison cell. Cline, at arms!
Cline points his gun at the Doctor and Donna.
DONNA
Oi, oi oi! All right! Cool the beans Rambo!
GENERAL COBB
Take them, I won’t have them spreading treason. And if you try anything, Doctor, I’ll see that your woman dies first.
DOCTOR
No, we're, we're not a couple.
DONNA
I am not his woman!
CLINE
Come on. This way.
DOCTOR
I’m going to stop you, Cobb, you need to know that.
GENERAL COBB
I have an army and the breath of god on my side, Doctor, what’ll you have?
DOCTOR
This.
The Doctor points to his head.
GENERAL COBB
Lock them up, and guard them.
CLINE
What about the new soldier?
Jenny steps forward but Cobb pushes him away, into the Doctor's arms.
GENERAL COBB
Can’t trust her, she’s from pacifist stock. Take them all!
***
The Hath wave their guns in the air, celebrating Martha.
MARTHA
But, I didn’t do anything!
The Hath pat her on the back and continue to wave their guns in the air.
MARTHA
I think I just started a war.
***
The Doctor, Donna and Jenny enter their cell. Donna notices there are numbers there too.
DONNA
More numbers. They’ve gotta mean something.
DOCTOR
Makes as much sense as the breath of life story.
JENNY
You mean that’s not true?
DONNA
No, it’s a myth. Isn’t it, Doctor?
DOCTOR
Yes, but there could still be something real in that temple, something that’s become a myth. A piece of technology, a weapon.
DONNA
So the Source could be a weapon and we’ve just given directions to Captain Nutjob?
DOCTOR
Oh, yes.
DONNA
Not good, is it?
DOCTOR
That’s why we need to get out of here, find Martha and stop Cobb from slaughtering the Hath.
He notices Jenny's inquisitive look.
DOCTOR
What, what are you, what are you…what are you staring at?
JENNY
You keep insisting you’re not a soldier. But look at you! Drawing up strategies like a proper general.
DOCTOR
No no, I’m trying to stop the fighting.
JENNY
Isn’t every soldier?
DOCTOR
Well. I suppose. But that’s… that’s… technically... I haven’t got time for this! Donna, give me your phone! Time for an upgrade!
She handles him the phone and he sonics it.
JENNY
And now you’ve got a weapon!
DOCTOR
It’s not a weapon.
JENNY
But you’re using it to fight back! (she laughs) I’m gonna learn so much from you, you are such a soldier!
DOCTOR
Donna, will you tell her?
DONNA
Oh, you are speechless, I’m loving this! You keep on, Jenny!
MARTHA (on the phone)
Doctor?
DOCTOR
Martha! You're alive!
MARTHA
Doctor! Oh, am I glad to hear your voice! Are you all right?
DOCTOR
I'm with Donna, we're fine, what about you?
DONNA
And, and Jenny, she's fine too!
DOCTOR
Yes all right, (louder, to Martha) and, and Jenny... That's the woman from the machine, the soldier, my daughter, except she isn't, she's, she's... Anyway! Where are you?
MARTHA
I'm in the Hath camp. I'm OK, but, something's going on. The Hath are all marching off to some place that's appeared on this map thing.
DOCTOR
Ohhh... That was me. If both armies are heading that way, there's going to be a bloodbath.
MARTHA
What do you want me to do?
DOCTOR
Just stay where you are, if you're safe there then don't move, d'you hear?
MARTHA
But I can help.
The phone beeps and the connection breaks.
MARTHA
Doctor? Doctor!
***
General Cobb makes a speech to his troops.
GENERAL COBB
The doors that have been closed will be open to us now. The door to the Temple, to the Source, and to victory!
The soldiers cheer.
GENERAL COBB
Come the dawn cycle we march.
Their cheers and chanting is heard in the prison cell.
DOCTOR
They're getting ready to move out. We have to get past that guard.
JENNY
I can deal with him.
DOCTOR
No no no no. You're not going anywhere.
JENNY
What?
DOCTOR
You belong here, with them.
DONNA
She belongs with us. With you. She's your daughter!
DOCTOR
She's a soldier. She came out of that machine!
DONNA
Oh yes, I know that bit! Listen, have you got that stethoscope? Give it to me. Come on!
JENNY
What're you doing?
DONNA
It's all right. Just hold still.
Donna places the stethoscope to Jenny's chest, first on the left, then on the right. Then she looks at the Doctor.
DONNA
Come here. Listen. And then tell me where she belongs.
She handles him the stethoscope and makes him hear heartbeats on both sides. He steps back and stares at Jenny.
DOCTOR
Two hearts.
DONNA
Exactly.
JENNY
What's going on?
DONNA
Does that mean she's a...? What do you call a female Time Lord?
JENNY
What's a Time Lord?
DOCTOR
It's who I am. It's where I'm from.
JENNY
And I'm from you.
DOCTOR
You're an echo, that's all. A Time Lord is so much more. A sum of knowledge. A code. A shared history. A shared suffering. (pause) Only it's gone now. All of it. Gone forever.
JENNY
What happened?
DOCTOR
There was a war.
JENNY
Like this one?
He laughs at the absurdity of the comparison.
DOCTOR
Bigger. Much bigger.
JENNY
And you fought? And killed?
DOCTOR (darkly)
Yes.
JENNY
Then how are we different?
***
Martha is talking to the only Hath who stayed in the encampment with her.
MARTHA
I need to charge it up, I need power, d'you understand?
The Hath is fiddling with the controls of the map, changing it into 3D.
MARTHA
There's even more! In 3D! Oh, you're a clever Hath! So this is where everybody's headed? But look... those tunnels sort of zig-zag. If I went up and over the surface in a straight line, I'd get there first.
The Hath gurgles, protesting.
MARTHA
Why not?
He brings up a diagram.
MARTHA
Are these readings to the surface? Well it doesn't look too bad. Nitrogen and oxygen about 80:20, that's fine. Ozone levels are high. And some big radiation spikes. But as long as I'm not out there too long...
The Hath seems to ask a question.
MARTHA
I have to find my friends.
She runs off but turns back to the gurgling of the Hath, he seems to ask if he can come too.
MARTA
Come on, then!
***
Jenny goes to the cell door to talk with Cline.
JENNY
Hey.
CLINE
I'm not supposed to talk to you, I'm on duty.
JENNY
I know. Guarding me. (flirting) So does that mean I'm dangerous? Or that I need protecting?
CLINE
Protecting from what?
JENNY
Oh, I don't know. Men like you?
She pulls him closer for a kiss - then grabs his gun and points it at him.
JENNY
Keep quiet and open the door.
During this, the Doctor and Donna were waiting out of sight.
DONNA
I'd like to see you try that!
***
They walk downstairs, but stop when they notice another guard.
DOCTOR
That's the way out.
Jenny cocks the gun but the Doctor stops him.
DOCTOR
Don't you dare!
Donna steps between the two.
DONNA
Let me distract this one. I have picked up a few womanly wiles over the years.
DOCTOR
Let's... save your wiles for later. In case of emergency.
He uses a wind-up mouse to distract the guard, then Jenny steps behind the guard and knocks him out.
DOCTOR
I was gonna distract him, not clobber him!
JENNY
Well, it worked, didn't it?
DOCTOR
They must all have a copy of that new map. Just stay there, don't hurt anyone.
***
The Hath are marching down a corridor, then they stop at a point and start to break through the wall.
***
Martha and his new friend are heading upstairs, but the Hath starts to protest.
MARTHA
You can stay down here and live your whole life in the shadows, or come with me and stand in the open air. Feel the wind on your face. What's it gonna be? (he seems undecided) It's up to you. But nothing's gonna stop me.
She climbs out to the surface, the Hath following her. They are on a cold, windy, deserted planet lit by three moons.
MARTHA
I knew you couldn't resist it.
The Hath gurgles.
MARTHA
Er, language! Come on.
***
The soldiers find Cline inside the cell, tied up.
CLINE
It was the girl. She tricked me, they... they got away. I'm sorry.
GENERAL COBB
I waited all my life for this moment. No-one's gonna get in my way. Certainly not this Doctor. At arms! We march! To war!
***
The Doctor is looking at the map they've taken from the guard.
DOCTOR
Wait! This is it. The hidden tunnel. There must be a control panel.
He sonics the walls beside the locked door, while Donna notices another number.
DONNA
It's another one of those numbers. They're everywhere.
DOCTOR
The original builders must've left them. Some old cataloguing system.
DONNA
You got a pen? Bit of paper? Cos, d'you see, the numbers are counting down. (the Doctor gives her pen and paper and she takes notes) This one ends in 1-4, the prison cell said 1-6.
JENNY
Always thinking, both of you. Who are you people?
DOCTOR
I told you. I'm the Doctor.
JENNY
The Doctor? That's it?
DONNA
That's all he ever says.
JENNY
So, you don't have a name either? Are you an anomaly too?
DOCTOR
No.
DONNA
Oh, come off it! You're the most anomalous bloke I've ever met!
The Doctor takes off the cover of the control panel.
DOCTOR
Here it is!
JENNY
And Time Lords, what are they for exactly?
DOCTOR
'For'? They're not... They're not 'for' anything.
JENNY
So what do you do?
DOCTOR
I travel. Through time and space.
DONNA
He saves planets, rescues civilizations, defeats terrible creatures. And runs a lot. Seriously, there's an outrageous amount of running involved.
The door slides open.
DOCTOR
Got it!
GENERAL COBB (voice from the distance)
Squad 5, with me!
DOCTOR
Now, what were you saying about running?
They run, but soon are stopped by red beams crossing the tunnel, blocking their way.
DONNA
That's not mood lighting, is it?
The Doctor throws the clockwork mouse into the lights. It bursts into sparkles when it touches the first beam.
DONNA
No, I didn't think so.
DOCTOR
Arming device.
He starts to fiddle with the controls while Donna notices yet another set of numbers.
DONNA
There's more of these. Always eight numbers, counting down, the closer we get...
DOCTOR
Here we go!
DONNA
You better be quick!
JENNY (hearing the voice of the soldiers)
The General!
She turns to run back but the Doctor catches her.
DOCTOR
Where are you going?
JENNY
I can hold them up.
DOCTOR
No, we don't need any more dead.
JENNY
But it's them or us.
DOCTOR
It doesn't mean you have to kill them!
JENNY
I'm trying to save your life!
DOCTOR
Listen to me, the killing, after a while it infects you. And once it does you're never rid of it.
JENNY
We don't have a choice.
DOCTOR
We always have a choice.
JENNY
I'm sorry.
She runs off.
DOCTOR
Jenny!
SOLDIERS
This door! Now!
The first soldier catches sight of Jenny.
SOLDIER
There she is! At arms!
Jenny opens fire and the soldiers do the same. Hearing the shots, Donna looks very worried but the Doctor tries not to care.
DOCTOR
I told you. Nothing but a soldier.
DONNA
She's trying to help.
DOCTOR
Jenny! Come on!
JENNY
I'm coming!
GENERAL COBB
Cease fire! Cease fire!
The soldiers stop. At the same time, the Doctor manages to turn off the red beams.
DONNA
That's it!
DOCTOR
Jenny! Leave it! Let's go!
He and Donna run through the now safe corridor hand in hand. General Cobb walks forward, trying to persuade Jenny.
GENERAL COBB
You're a child of the machine. You're on my side. Join us! Join us in the war against the Hath. It's in your blood, girl, don't deny it.
Jenny takes aim, but then she fires at a pipeline over Cobb's head, and a cloud of steam blocks the soldiers view. She laughs then runs to where she's left the Doctor and Donna.
DOCTOR
Jenny! Come on! That's it!
DONNA
Hurry up!
But just when she reaches the corridor the red beams appear again.
DOCTOR
No, no, no, no! The circuit's looped back!
DONNA
Zap it back again!
DOCTOR
The controls are back there!
JENNY
They're coming!
DOCTOR
Wait! J-Just...! There isn't...! Jenny, I can't!
JENNY
I'll have to manage on my own. Watch and learn, Father!
She gets through the blocked corridor with a series of somersaults.
DONNA
No way! But that was impossible!
DOCTOR
Not impossible. Just a bit unlikely!
He hugs Jenny with a proud smile.
DOCTOR
Brilliant! You were brilliant! Brilliant!
JENNY
I didn't kill him. General Cobb, I could have kill him, but I didn't. You were right. I had a choice.
The soldiers arrive to the other end of the corridor. Donna and Jenny go ahead but the Doctor stays to talk to Cobb.
GENERAL COBB
At arms!
DOCTOR
I warned you, Cobb. If the Source is a weapon, I'm gonna make sure you never use it.
GENERAL COBB
One of us is gonna die today and it won't be me.
He opens fire and the Doctor runs off too.
***
Martha and the Hath are struggling forward on the surface.
MARTHA
It can't be much further.
She trips and slips downhills, into a bog. She tries to get out but she can't.
MARTHA
Help me! I'm sinking! I'm sinking! Help me! Peck! Help me! Help me, Peck! I'm sinking! (the Hath can't reach her) Oh it's no good. Aaah!
The Hath can't help her, so at the end he jumps into the bog too and pushes her out to the shore. But then he himself can't get out and Martha watches him sink slowly.
MARTHA
Oh noooo! Noooo!
She cries as she watches the motionless surface.
***
JENNY
So, you travel together, but you're not... 'together'?
DONNA
What? No, no! No way! No, no. We're friends. That's all. I mean, we're not even the same species, there's probably laws against it.
Jenny laughs.
JENNY
And what's it like, the travelling?
DONNA
Ah, never a dull moment. Can be terrifying, brilliant and funny - sometimes all at the same time. I've seen some amazing things though. Whole new worlds.
JENNY
Oh, I'd love to see new worlds.
DONNA
You will. Won't she, Doctor?
DOCTOR
Hm?
DONNA
D'you think Jenny will see any new worlds?
DOCTOR (with a little smile)
I suppose so.
JENNY
You mean... You mean, you'll take me with you?
DOCTOR
We can't leave you here, can we?
JENNY (hugging him)
Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you! Come on! Let's get a move on!
She runs ahead.
DOCTOR
Careful, there might be traps!
DONNA
Kids! They never listen!
But she notices that the Doctor still looks troubled.
DONNA
Oh, I know that look. See it a lot round our way. Blokes with pushchairs and frowns. You've got dad-shock.
DOCTOR
Dad-shock?
DONNA
Sudden, unexpected fatherhood. Take a bit of getting used to.
DOCTOR
No, it's not that.
DONNA
Well, what is it then? Having Jenny in the TARDIS is that it? What's she gonna do, cramp your style? Like you've got a sports car and she's gonna turn it into a people-carrier?
DOCTOR
Donna, I've been a father before.
DONNA
What?
DOCTOR
I lost all that a long time ago. Along with everything else.
DONNA
I'm sorry. I didn't know. Why didn't you tell me? You talk all the time, but you don't say anything.
DOCTOR
I know. I'm just... When I look at her now I can see them. The hole they left, all the pain that filled it. I just don't know if I can face that every day.
DONNA
It won't stay like that. She'll help you. We both will.
DOCTOR
But when they died, that part of me died with them. It'll never come back. Not now.
DONNA
I tell you something, Doctor, something I've never told you before. I think you're wrong.
They hear shooting and Jenny returns to them.
JENNY
They've blasted through the beams, time to run again. Love the running! Yeah?
DOCTOR
Love the running.
They smile at each other before they run again.
***
Martha struggles forward on the surface, still wiping tears. But now, she is nearly at the "Temple".
***
The Doctor, Donna and Jenny reach a dead end.
DONNA
We're trapped.
DOCTOR
Can't be. This must be the temple. (he touches a panel of the wall) This is a door.
DONNA
And again! We're down to 1-2 now...
DOCTOR
I've got it!
JENNY
I can hear them!
DOCTOR
Nearly done.
DONNA (still talking about the numbers)
These can't be a cataloguing system.
JENNY
They're getting closer!
DOCTOR
Then get back here!
DONNA
They're too similar. Too familiar.
JENNY
Not yet.
DOCTOR
Now! Got it!
The door opens.
***
Martha reaches a very similar door on the surface and enters.
***
The Doctor, Donna and Jenny get inside the "Temple".
JENNY
They're coming! Close the door!
The Doctor pushes some keys and the door slides closed.
JENNY
Oh, that was close!
DOCTOR
No fun otherwise!
DONNA
It's not what I'd call a temple...
JENNY
It looks more like...
DOCTOR
Fusion-drive transport. It's a spaceship!
DONNA
What, the original one? The one the first colonists arrived in?
DOCTOR
Well, it could be, but the power cells would have run down after all that time. This one's still powered-up and functioning. Come on!
As they run, they see that someone is cutting through another door.
JENNY
It's the Hath! That door's not gonna last much longer. And if General Cobb gets through down there, war's gonna break out.
DOCTOR
Look, look, look, look, look! Ship's log!
He gets to the controls.
DOCTOR
"First wave of Human/Hath co-colonisation of planet Messaline".
JENNY
So it is the original ship.
DONNA
What happened?
DOCTOR
"Phase one. Construction." They used robot drones to build the city.
DONNA
But, does it mention the war?
The Doctor scrolls down.
DOCTOR
Final entry... "Mission commander dead. Still no agreement on who should assume leadership. Hath and humans have divided into factions." That must be it! A power vacuum. The crew divided into two factions and turned on each other. Start using the progenation machines and suddenly you've got two armies fighting a never-ending war!
JENNY
Two armies who are now both outside.
DONNA
Look at that.
She looks at a screen displaying a set of numbers similar to those on the walls.
DOCTOR
It's like the numbers in the tunnels.
DONNA
No, no, no, no, but listen... I spent six months working as a temp in Hounslow Library, and I mastered the Dewey Decimal System in two days flat. I'm good with numbers! It's staring us in the face!
JENNY
What is?
DONNA
It's the date! Assuming the first two numbers are some big old space date, then you've got year, month, day. It's the other way round, like it is in America!
DOCTOR
Ohhh! It's the New Byzantine Calendar!
DONNA
The codes are completion dates for each section. They finish it, they stamp the date on! So the numbers aren't counting down, they're going out, from here, day by day, as the city got built.
DOCTOR
Yes! Oh, good work, Donna!
DONNA
Yeah! But you're, you're still not getting it. The first number I saw back there, was 6012-07-17. Well, look at the date today!
DOCTOR
07-24. No!
JENNY
What does it mean?
DOCTOR
Seven days.
DONNA
That's it! Seven days!
DOCTOR
Just seven days?!
JENNY
What d'you mean, seven days?
DOCTOR
Seven days since war broke out.
DONNA
This war started seven days ago! Just a week! A week!
JENNY
They said years!
DONNA
No. They said generations. And if they're all like you, and they're products of those machines...
DOCTOR
They could have 20 generations in a day! Each generation gets killed in the war, passes on the legend! Ohhh! Donna, you're a genius!
JENNY
But all the buildings, the encampments, they're in ruins.
DOCTOR
No they're not ruined, they're just empty! Waiting to be populated! Oh, they've mythologised their entire history! The Source must be part of that too. Come on!
They run again. They turn around a corner and bump into Martha.
MARTHA
Doctor!
DOCTOR
Martha!
They hug each other.
DOCTOR
I should've known you wouldn't stay away from the excitement!
MARTHA
Donna!
She runs to Donna and they hug too.
DONNA
Oooh, you're filthy, what happened?!
MARTHA
I, erm, took the surface route.
They hear the voice of soldiers.
DOCTOR
That's the general! We haven't got much time.
DONNA
We don't even know what we're looking for!
MARTHA
Is it me, or can you smell flowers?
DOCTOR
Yes! Bougainvillea! I say we follow our nose!
GENERAL COBB (voice from a distance)
Blocks 7 to 10, advance! With me!
The Doctor, Donna, Jenny and Martha reach a place that looks like a huge greenhouse inside the spaceship filled with palms and other exotic plants.
DOCTOR
Oh, yes! Yes! Isn't this brilliant?
In the middle there's a small place around a pedestal that holds a glass sphere, containing shining gas.
DONNA
Is that the Source?
JENNY
It's beautiful.
MARTHA
What is it?
DOCTOR
Terraforming! It's a third generation terraforming device!
DONNA
So why are we suddenly in Kew Gardens?
DOCTOR
Because that's what it does. All this, only bigger. Much bigger! It's in a transit state. Producing all this must help keep it stable before they finally...
The Hath and the human soldiers appear from the opposite sides, cocking their guns as soon as they catch sight of each other.
DOCTOR
Stop! Hold your fire!
GENERAL COBB
What is this? Some kind of trap?
DOCTOR
You said you wanted this war over.
GENERAL COBB
I want this war won.
DOCTOR
You can't win. No one can. You don't even know why you're here. Your whole history, it's just Chinese whispers. Getting more distorted the more it's passed on. (pointing to the sphere) This is the Source. This is what you're fighting over. A device to rejuvenate a planet's ecosystem. It's nothing mystical. It's from a laboratory, not some creator. It's a bubble of gases. A cocktail of stuff for accelerated evolution. Methane, hydrogen, ammonia, amino acids, proteins, nucleic acids. It's used to make barren planets habitable. Look around you! It's not for killing, it's bringing life. If you allow it, it can lift you out of these dark tunnels and into the bright, bright sunlight! No more fighting. No more killing.
He lifts up the sphere.
DOCTOR
I'm the Doctor, and I declare this war is over!
He throws it to the ground. The glass ball shatters and the gases escape, shining in gold and green as they spread out in the air. Amazed by the sight, human and Hath both put the guns to the ground.
JENNY
What's happening?
DOCTOR
The gases will escape and trigger the terraforming process.
JENNY
What does that mean?
DOCTOR
It means a new world.
Jenny laughs with delight, but then she looks at General Cobb - the only one who isn't enchanted by what's happened. He lifts his gun to shoot the Doctor, but Jenny steps in front of him.
JENNY
No!
The bullet hits her and Jenny collapses into the Doctor's arms, while the soldiers hold down Cobb and take away his gun.
DOCTOR
Jenny? Jenny! Talk to me, Jenny!
He sits down and takes Jenny into his lap. Martha checks her pulse and the wound.
DONNA
Is she gonna be all right?
Martha looks at Donna and shakes her head without a word.
JENNY (whispering)
A new world. It's beautiful.
DOCTOR
Jenny? Be strong, now. You need to hold on. D'you hear me? We've got things to do, you and me. Hey? Hey? We can go anywhere. Everywhere. You choose.
JENNY
That sounds good.
DOCTOR
You're my daughter and we've only just got started. You're gonna be great. You're gonna be more than great. You're gonna be amazing! You hear me? Jenny?
She closes her eyes and dies. The Doctor kisses her forehead in despair, then he finds one last straw to clutch.
DOCTOR
Two hearts. Two hearts, she's like me. If we wait... If we just wait...
He looks at Martha for support.
MARTHA
There's no sign, Doctor. There is no regeneration. She's like you, but... maybe not enough.
DOCTOR
No. Too much. That's the truth of it. She was too much like me.
He gently puts Jenny to the ground and kisses her one last time. Then he gets up, walks to General Cobb and picks up his gun. He stands there, panting from anger and despair, pointing the gun at Cobb's head. Martha and Donna are shocked to see what he's doing. But then he lowers the gun and crouches down to Cobb.
DOCTOR
I never would. Have you got that? I never would!
He stands up again and addresses both fighting parties.
DOCTOR
When you start this new world. This world of Human and Hath... remember that! Make the foundation of this society. A man who never would!
He throws away the gun and sits back to Jenny's body.
***
Jenny is laid out in the theatre room that used to be the human encampment. The Doctor, Donna, Martha, Cline and a Hath are around her. Suddenly, beams of light come through the windows.
MARTHA
It's happening. The terraforming.
DONNA
Build a city, nice and safe underground. Strip away the top soil. And there it is. (pause) And what about Jenny?
CLINE
Let us give her a proper ceremony. I think it'd help us. Please.
The Doctor, lost in dark thoughts, nods his approval.
***
The Doctor, Donna and Martha are back in the TARDIS.
DOCTOR
Jenny was the reason for the TARDIS bringing us here. It just got here too soon, which then created Jenny in the first place. Paradox. An endless paradox.
Donna and Martha watch him with sympathy.
DOCTOR
Time to go home?
MARTHA
Yeah. Home.
He starts to pull controls, but without his usual enthusiasm.
***
Donna and Martha walk down the road of Martha's house.
DONNA
You sure about this?
MARTHA
Yeah, positive. I can't do this any more. You'll be the same one day.
DONNA
Not me. Never! How could I ever go back to normal life after seeing all this?
She looks back to the Doctor who is a few step behind them.
DONNA
I'm gonna travel with that man for ever.
They hug each other.
MARTHA
Good luck.
DONNA
And you.
Donna stops while Martha and the Doctor walk a few steps ahead.
DOCTOR
We're making a habit of this.
MARTHA
Yeah. And you'd think it'd get easier. (she looks at the Doctor) All those things you've been ready to die for. I thought for a moment there you'd finally found something worth living for.
DOCTOR
Oh... there's always something worth living for, Martha.
They hug.
MARTHA
Bye, Doctor.
DOCTOR
Goodbye. Doctor Jones.
He turns back and walks to the TARDIS with Donna. For a second, Martha seems almost regretting her decision - then she looks at her engagement ring, smiles and rushes into the house.
***
Cline and the Hath are preparing Jenny for the ceremony. They put a pillow under her head and a sheet over her body. But suddenly her mouth opens and light comes out, resembling the terraforming substance. Cline and the Hath look at each other bemused. Then they get completely shocked when Jenny opens her eyes and smiles at them.
JENNY
Hello, boys.
***
Cline and the Hath are looking for Jenny.
CLINE
The shuttle!
He goes to a panel on the wall.
CLINE (over intercom)
Jenny? What're you doing? Come back!
Jenny is pushing controls to start the engines of the shuttle.
JENNY
Sorry. Can't stop. What you gonna do, tell my dad?
CLINE
But where are you going?!
JENNY
Oh, I've got the whole universe! Planets to save, civilizations to rescue, creatures to defeat... and an awful lot of running to do!
She shoots off to the sky with a huge smile on her face.
=== DOCTOR WHO (2005) ===
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