Doctor Who (2023) s02e08 Episode Script
The Reality War
And I know that you'll try everything
to stop me, so I can't take that risk.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[SCREAMING] Rani!
[THEME SONG PLAYING]
[SCREAMS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Welcome to the Time Hotel.
If you'd like to come with me, sir?
Magic door?
He had an actual
magic door? The little
Too late.
[GASPS]
[GASPS, SIGHING]
Happy morning.
One more day to go. It's
May the 24th tomorrow.
[ALARM CLOCK RINGS]
Mmm.
[ALARM STOPS]
John?
[PANTS]
- What? But
- [CHUCKLES]
Anita!
Hello, Doctor.
Oh! [CHUCKLES] Oh, my God.
Oh [STAMMERS] But
the world The world was
The world was destroyed.
No. No, no, look.
- Look.
- [KEYPAD BEEPS]
- [ANITA] It's May the 23rd again.
- [ROARING]
May the 24th never arrives. It resets.
It gets to midnight and
then it all clicks back
to 7:00 a.m. on May the 23rd.
It's done it hundreds of times.
[DOCTOR] But we're
We're in mid-air.
I've got the house key. I
can open a door anywhere.
This is crazy.
Anita, it's
It's so good to see you.
[WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]
And, honey, somebody else
was pleased to see you too.
[BOTH LAUGH]
[BOTH SIGH]
- [ANITA CHUCKLES]
- [DOCTOR SIGHS]
- Ricardo.
- Ricardo.
- Head of HR.
- Head of HR.
He worries too much, but he's lovely.
And this is a baby boy,
due in three months
If we ever get there because
this place is in trouble.
[BUILDING CRASHES, STRAINS]
[ALARM SOUNDS]
The Hotel's in spasm,
cause we're in 4202 and the
world keeps ending in 2025.
As far as I can see,
- that woman in the sky
- The Rani.
- The Rani.
- The Rani.
- She's a Time Lord too, yeah?
- Yes.
I tried looking for your TARDIS
- But I can't find it.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Anita, you are
You are talking Time Lords and TARDISes.
When I left you, you
were just [CHUCKLES]
Ordinary.
I didn't say that.
This job at the Time
Hotel taught me so much
[DOCTOR CHUCKLES]
And
On my days off, I'd go looking for you.
- [CROWD CHEERING]
- [WIND BLOWING]
[HEROIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[DALEK] You are the Doctor!
You are an enemy of the Daleks!
Now you are in our power.
You will be exterminated.
[CHAMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
Oh.
I ran straight from that to
Ricardo, so all's well that ends well.
But what about this Rani?
Why's she doing all this?
Why does Friday the
23rd keep resetting itself?
She needs the same
day to keep repeating itself
so that it gets thinner and
thinner and thinner until it snaps.
Once it's broken, she can see
underneath the skin of reality.
What for?
To find Omega.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
The most fearsome
Time Lord in existence.
Can you take me to her?
That palace of hers is No Entry.
She's surrounded by a Threshold.
We can't get in.
It says that portal was the
Time Hotel, December 2024.
You were supposed to
follow him everywhere.
All right, I had Christmas
off, and so did you.
We're the same person.
That strutting little pompadour.
He'll try to stop us.
We can't wait for another midnight.
Nine, nine, nine, nine,
seven, seven, seven,
six, seven, seven,
seven, seven, seven, nine.
We don't have to.
The Seekers have fixed the location.
There. Hidden beneath
reality, deep in the Underverse.
Omega.
Creator of the Time Lords.
Our Lord and Master.
No one is Lord and Master of me.
Now, how to bring him home?
[DISPLAY BEEPS]
[PORTAL OPENS]
[ANITA] Here you are,
Doctor. Poppy's room.
[PORTAL CLOSES]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]
Belinda woke up without you.
Every time the world
resets, it gets a bit bumpy.
Things fall through the gaps.
Everyone sort of compensates,
like they make the reality work.
It's a world built on a wish,
willed into existence by the
Rani's pet human, Conrad Clark.
Oh, the Doctor loved
playing jokes and games.
And he had a favourite
planet called Earth.
A quiet little
And I have a daughter.
But she isn't real.
How dare you?
I have been in the
halls of the Goblin King.
I have stood in the
Palaces of the Daleks.
I have entered the
caves of Satan himself.
But what has happened here
in this tiny little bedroom
in the middle of suburbia
is bigger than anything.
[BELINDA] Hello?
Is someone there?
- It's me.
- Oh.
You're home. I thought you were
I don't know what I thought.
I'm coming down.
I'll make us some tea.
[UPLIFTING MUSIC PLAYING]
[SIGHS]
Nice surprise. Daddy's here.
- [PORTAL OPENS]
- [GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
[PORTAL CLOSES]
But I'm
I'm Belinda Chandra.
And you're Poppy.
She's real.
- Oh, my God. You're the Doctor.
- [CHUCKLES]
But you're real.
Here she is.
- We've had a baby.
- In a single day.
[BOTH LAUGH]
And who's that?
[STAMMERS] This This is Anita.
I just work in hospitality, really.
Is she safe, Doctor?
Please tell me our daughter is safe.
She is in danger, but we
will fight, Bel, to save her.
Fight like never before.
[PHONES RINGING]
What on earth?
Well, don't look. All
of you, keep working.
I said keep working.
[HEROIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Mr Smith, what on earth
do you think you're wearing?
The future.
Just a second, guys, because
these are doorways into real time,
allowing you to see the truth.
- [GRUNTS]
- [GASPS]
Mr Smith, whatever this
is, I demand that you stop.
Mr Smith is gone.
I am the Doctor.
I'm wearing a suit.
I'm wearing tweed.
I'm wearing nylon.
[WORKERS SHOUTING]
Danger. Sub-atomic disruption.
Reality levels now converging.
[CHUCKLES]
Doctor, what's happening?
Welcome back, Kate.
- [EXPLOSION SOUNDS]
- [METAL CREAKS]
- What is it now?
- I don't know.
I've never done this
before. Hold on tight.
I think reality is reasserting itself.
Rosie.
- Oh. [LAUGHS]
- [LAUGHS]
Rosie.
Conrad Conrad couldn't
imagine you for even a second
so you didn't exist.
But now you are back, thanks to Anita.
[LAUGHS]
I'm in the hotel industry.
Neet, Neet, I need you to
stay there. Keep that door open.
Keep the real time flowing, honey.
Why is Conrad Clark on television?
Never mind him.
What the bloody hell is that thing?
Bone Beasts. Creatures
from the Underverse.
Because when two realities
collide, it creates friction
and the friction creates
these excitated atoms,
and that summons the Bone
Beasts. They're like antibodies.
They sort of graze,
feeding off the atoms.
Cleaning up the world.
Now,
one more thing.
[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
Hello, everyone.
I'm Belinda.
And this is our daughter, Poppy.
Well, now you're going too far.
[TRAINS RUMBLE]
[SHIRLEY] Morning, Winnie love.
Another day in paradise?
- Happy May the 23rd.
- Same to you.
Only one day to go.
We had all UNIT personnel
biochipped so we know where they are.
We only have a ten-mile radius,
but maybe we can use the chip
to signal them and wake them up.
[COMPUTER BEEPING]
[TRIUMPHANT MUSIC PLAYING]
[CHIP BEEPS]
But
What the hell is going on?
[CHIP BEEPS]
You can't say things like that.
You've got to behave, Ruby.
You can't go slandering Conrad.
Winnie, I'm sorry about this,
but I promise things will change.
I don't understand.
It's just a normal day.
Where are you going?
Me?
I'm gonna save the world.
- [WHEELCHAIR BLASTS OFF]
- [GASPS]
Whoo-hoo! [LAUGHS]
You're running up and
down like a mad sumaddy.
What you really doing?
What I do best.
Bye!
[CONRAD] Okay. Let's repeat chapter one.
[UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING]
- Is it working?
- We need to move a little faster.
Sweet little Desidirium.
If only you were older, you could
imagine such complicated things.
Instead, I've got you.
I'll do anything for you, mistress.
Don't say that.
You really are ridiculously handsome.
I could tilt you on your side
and serve olives in those dimples.
- [CHUCKLES]
- Hmm?
But still, the Doctor,
he's out there somewhere
and you hold all of the
wish in your head, Conrad.
Can you see him?
Can you find him, Connie?
For me?
[TANNOY] Gold alert. Gold alert.
So, you see those plans up there?
Cross-match them into null-space.
I need you to build me that in
record time. Can you do that?
Consider it done, sir. [CHUCKLES]
Doctor!
[LAUGHS]
- Oh, hello.
- Hi.
- You're blonder.
- Yes.
- How is Carla?
- She's fine.
How is
- [EXCLAIMS]
- Oh, no.
No, no, no. Do not go hugging me, you.
I feel like I haven't washed for days.
[CHUCKLES, SIGHS]
A daughter?
Do you mean an actual daughter?
That's amazing.
- Yeah, it surprised me too.
- [ENGINE SOUNDS]
[HORN TOOTS]
I have been a housewife.
[LAUGHS]
Come here!
[ALL CHUCKLE]
Gold protocols. Doctor on the bridge.
- Update all of us please.
- [RUBY, MEL SIGH]
Basically, we are
facing the Unholy Trinity.
God of Wishes, crazy
Time Lady, Conrad Clark.
Mel, I am sorry. It is the Rani.
- She's still alive?
- Mmm.
I fought the Rani when I travelled
with the Doctor all those years ago.
This should be the best day of my life.
Another Time Lord. It means I'm
not alone [CHUCKLES] except
She's ruthless.
Worse than ruthless,
she's indifferent to any
pain or morality or humanity.
The whole universe is
just an experiment to her.
Now, the Trinity have wished this
world into existence. Conrad's world.
But he couldn't imagine
everything, so he used us.
We half-remembered ourselves,
living Conrad's version
of an ordinary life.
All crushed and stifled and appalling.
But if things are half remembered,
then we met a girl named Poppy.
- Exactly like her, Doctor.
- What does that mean?
It just makes it even more amazing, Bel.
Little scraps of
memories, yours and mine,
have come to life in a child of our own.
[ALARM BLARES]
Caution. Teleport incoming.
[MENACING MUSIC PLAYING]
You really are an idiot, Doctor.
You had a whole world to hide
in and you ran half a mile away.
The Rani.
- [CHUCKLES]
- Hmm.
And Melanie.
We meet again.
I thought you'd be dead.
I thought there's no way that painted
doll of a princess could ever survive.
I never thought about you once.
Oh, you thought of me every night.
Rani, the Time Lords were
slaughtered. How did you survive?
I saw it coming, the genetic explosion.
I had a split second, flipped my
DNA, made a biological sidestep,
survived the carnage.
How did you get to Earth?
I have the only TARDIS in existence.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
[DOCTOR] Time Ring.
- Poor baby.
- It led me to you.
Although, that wasn't difficult.
Find a stupid, blonde
Earth girl and there you are.
Excuse me?
It was so tedious putting up
with you and your 57 mothers.
I've never met you in my life.
- All right, Rubes darling?
- Uh, Mrs Flood?
- That's my neighbour.
- That's my neighbour.
They're both the Rani.
We bi-generated.
Obviously, I bow to the mistress,
but it took a lot of planning
spying on those two.
"Cor blimey, look at that police box."
And pinning it all down to May the 24th.
But I was brilliant.
The plan is Omega?
Splitting open the world to reach
him in the Underverse beneath.
Oh.
Every civilisation has a thousand
legends about the world hidden below.
The Upside Down or Narnia or Hell.
That is the Underverse.
To which Omega was banished.
My father fought
Omega back in the 1970s.
Said he was a Titan,
called him the Mad God.
Omega was the first.
The one who discovered time travel.
Some call him the Original
Sin of the Time Lords.
Cast out from Gallifrey.
Legend says that they bound him
and banished him because he is insane.
The point is, he's alive.
Exiled to the Underverse
means he survived.
You can't know that.
Alive or dead, he will
work as a gene bank.
With his body, I can
resurrect the Time Lords
and construct a new Gallifrey.
[CHUCKLES]
Your Gallifrey?
Well, the Gallifrey of old
never did appreciate me.
But this one, this will
be a power in the sky.
But if you need the DNA of a
Time Lord, then what about you?
The two of you?
I think she's asking us to mate.
You don't understand.
That's why I keep telling
you that Poppy is so special.
Because she is impossible.
The child of a Time Lord.
And?
There's no such thing.
We're sterile.
We are infertile.
The species is barren.
We're a biological dead end.
There can never be
another Gallifreyan child.
Sometimes I think that's
what bi-generation is.
A life force trying
anything it can to survive.
What happened?
That genetic explosion it [SIGHS]
It didn't kill us but it
roasted us and sterilised us.
Extinction is taking
a bit longer, that's all.
So, Poppy came out of the wish?
Like an accident?
The most beautiful accident
because that is what life does.
It just happens.
A mad woman and a maniac
came up with a ridiculous plan
and out of it [CHUCKLES] came her.
Doesn't Poppy solve everything?
I mean, she's Time Lord DNA.
Well, yes, except
- The mother.
- What about me?
- Human.
- And?
The child is contaminated.
- [GROANS]
- [SHIRLEY LAUGHS] Oh, come on.
Oh, I think I've lost the crowd.
- You are disgusting.
- And you are cattle.
We're talking about Time Lords here.
The highest universal race,
the greatest and purest
classification of life.
He walks around like he's one of you,
but you're like insects to
him, playthings, a fetish.
And deep down in
your hearts, you know it.
Now shut up, step aside.
Let me build a new Gallifrey, and
I will leave your world untouched.
Then Then the wish ends.
- What would happen to Poppy?
- She would cease to exist.
- No.
- She would vanish.
Like a whisper.
Doctor, I am genuinely
sorry, but she's not real.
She's made of hopes
and dreams and wishes.
That is every child.
But if we don't end the wish,
this stays as Conrad's world.
We can't do that. That's not
happening. Absolutely not.
Don't you tell me what
we can and can't do
cause I don't care what UNIT thinks,
or Time Lords or gods or anyone.
I remember her being my daughter,
and if I remember it, then it's true.
Not one of you is taking
her out of existence.
Have you got that?
Not one of you.
Quite the dilemma.
I just came to make an offer.
Stand with me, Doctor,
and set a new race of
Time Lords up on high,
or stay down here with the beasts below.
I swear I will stop you.
[GRUNTS]
The battle is on, Doctor.
Good luck.
How close are we?
Target fixed.
The Chronon Beam will pull
Omega out of the Underverse.
Trouble is, the UNIT tower
is a tinderbox of weapons,
but if we fake an
excitation of its atoms,
the Bone Beasts will see
the Tower as an enemy.
[ALARM BLARES]
She is provoking the Bone Beasts.
We are at war.
[ROARS]
[ADVENTUROUS MUSIC PLAYING]
- [TANNOY] Hostiles detected.
- [ALARM BLARES]
Sector 7, grid 5, sector 14, grid 1,
sector 19, grid 5, sector 27, grid four.
- All weapons coordinated and primed.
- Attention all staff.
This tower is going into battle mode.
Combat teams, attend your stations now!
- [VLINX] The Vlinx is designated
- [DOCTOR] Mel. Melanie!
- Prime Battle Coordinator.
- Power up the Indigo Device.
Rose, I want you to bio-sync Ruby
- for the flight.
- I'm on it.
- Did you say flight?
- [DOCTOR] Yes, I did.
- [TANNOY] Gold alert. Gold alert.
- Anita, Anita, keep that door open.
I need you to keep real time flowing.
Hey. Hi. Bel, trust me.
We're going down to
floor minus 10, yeah?
- Come on.
- Activating weapons platform.
[TANNOY] Warning. Null-space activation.
Warning. Null-space activation.
Is it ready?
If I have to hold it together
with my bare hands.
- Yes, it's ready.
- What is that thing?
[DOCTOR] I call it a Zero Room.
We're half a mile underground.
We're shielded from all signals.
And the room inside that thing,
it is beyond time and space.
It will exist outside of reality.
We put Poppy in and if the wish
comes to an end, we open it up.
And Poppy will still exist?
- I hope.
- You hope?
I will do everything I
can to make it work.
I owe the Doctor my life, Miss Chandra.
I won't let him down.
[BELINDA] Do you mean
Poppy goes in there alone?
Cause I'm telling you, she does not.
I'm going with her.
And I can't help you in the fight.
My battle is in there,
saving my daughter.
Bel, if the Rani wins
and we are destroyed,
you will be locked in
there for all eternity.
You wouldn't starve or
age or suffocate. You'd just
You'd just be. Forever.
- With Poppy.
- With Poppy.
Let's do it.
[GRUNTS]
Open the Parallax Cannons.
- Fire!
- [TANNOY] Maximum parallax!
Caution. Zero coordinates
mapped on to Real Time Dynamics.
Repeat. Zero coordinates
mapped on to Real Time Dynamics.
Warning. Floor minus ten
is now an instability zone.
- [BONE BEASTS ROAR]
- [EXPLOSIONS SOUND]
- What if it doesn't work?
- I think we won't remember.
She will fade away like gossamer.
It'll be like Poppy never existed.
- That will never happen.
- Never.
Because it makes sense now. I
was meant to meet you, Belinda.
It was all for this, so
that Poppy can live.
[KISSES]
Close it.
- Double galvanic beams.
- Fire!
[TANNOY] Squad 1, maintain position.
- They're getting closer.
- Squad 2, maintain position.
- More power.
- Squad 3, terminated.
[GASPS, SHOUTS]
[TANNOY] Squad 4, defend the east flank.
- Ow. What's that for?
- It's like a bio sync-up thing.
It makes the software respond to you.
[SHOUTS]
The Indigo Device is a
transmat, like a matter transporter.
You'll be fine as long as you
don't press the yellow button.
Oh, my God. It really works.
Press the blue button.
That'll get you to Conrad
so you can stop him and
bring his wish to an end.
Well, how do I do that? What
do I do? Can I punch him?
Yes, you can.
[ALL GRUNT, SHOUT]
[UNIT SOLDIER ONE] Medic! Medic!
Parallax Cannons, east 21.6.
Fire!
Well, hang on. What about
Anita and her magic doors?
I'm just a hotelier, really.
Well, can't you get us into the palace?
Anita needs to keep that door open
or you lot will slip back into the wish.
Now, the Bone Palace is protected.
It has a Threshold.
If you tried to transmat in there,
- you'd be pureed, baby girl.
- Nice.
I need to get in there,
lower the Threshold
so I can stop the Rani.
- But how can you do that?
- Oh, I I tricked her.
Hmm?
[THE SONIC BEEPS]
Copied her coding.
[THE SONIC WHIRS]
Bone Beast three, out of range.
We're turning, west 44.5.
All personnel, hold on tight.
- [TANNOY] Warning, revolve protocols.
- [GRUNTS]
- Warning, revolve protocols.
- [GRUNTS]
- Galvanic beams at maximum.
- Fire!
[SHOUTING]
Get to cover!
Shirley, monitor the
Threshold on frequency five.
As soon as it falls, Ruby,
activate the Indigo Device.
Fly well, Doctor.
If we die here today, I love you lot.
Just shut up and go!
[LAUGHS]
[HEROIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Protect the retrofold cables.
Keep the red-links connected.
[NO AUDIBLE SOUND]
[MUSIC RESUMES]
[GRUNTS]
Threshold down!
Come on!
- [GASPS]
- Like I wasn't ready for you.
[GROANS]
- Ouch!
- You were too late, Doctor.
The portal has locked on to its target.
And you're really very obvious.
I know you haven't
arrived with a weapon.
Only a speech, some
dazzling words, maybe a pun
and then some lachrymose
little tug-the-heartstrings
mimosa-scented platitudes
about the power of love.
But aren't you tempted,
Doctor, to start again?
The Time Lords reborn?
The Time Lords of Omega
were tyrants and murderers.
Then rebuild them with us.
You're not amongst the
humans now. Stop pretending.
You're a Lord of Time
and Space. Now act like it.
[MRS FLOOD] Don't you want
to see him? The Almighty One.
Don't you?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Yes.
Omega locked and approaching.
Here he comes. Back to reality.
What is that? What is
that? Is that a doorway or
The tomb of Omega or
his prison, his asylum?
I suggest we find out.
[THE RANI'S SONIC WHIRS]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[RUBY PANTS]
I want to say thank you.
[SCOFFS, CHUCKLES]
- Sure.
- I mean it.
Because Conrad's World, it
could've been so much worse.
A fantasy world, I'd expect guns
and whisky and girls, but yours is nice.
- It's actually nice.
- I did what he said.
- Who?
- The Doctor.
He told me people just want
to be safe and fed and warm.
So that's what I did.
And you tried to give everyone a family.
All that time we spent together,
you never mentioned your dad.
You never ever mentioned your father.
And I I wonder why.
You don't know me at all.
[THE RANI'S SONIC WHIRS]
[DOUBLE HEARTBEAT SOUNDS]
[SEEKERS MUTTER]
A heartbeat.
A double heartbeat.
Omega lives.
Omega. Omega. Omega
I summon you, creator of the Time Lords.
Come back to this world.
Omega. Omega. Omega. Omega.
Omega. Omega. Omega. Omega.
Omega. Omega. Omega. Omega.
Omega. Omega. Omega. Omega.
But some of it was true.
You and me.
Because I was there, Conrad.
In the dark, when I made you smile.
That was real.
[SEEKERS] Omega. Omega. Omega.
Omega. Omega. Omega. Omega. Omega.
Drone Guards, stand by.
[THE RANI] Yes.
[GROWLS]
What?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[ROARS]
Rani, get back.
But what is it?
The Underverse is a world of legends,
so Omega has become his own legend.
He is the Mad God,
the Titan,
the Original Sin.
I will become the God of Time
with Time Lords to feast upon.
Well, I think you'll find
[THE RANI SCREAMS]
[SCREAMS]
[BEAST OF OMEGA] So sweet.
[ROARS]
[HIGH-PITCH RINGING]
[SCREAMING]
[BEAST OF OMEGA GROWLS]
Omega.
Omega!
Remember me?
My little Doctor.
It's been a very long time.
May I introduce to you the Rani.
[BEAST OF OMEGA] This little thing?
So much for the two Ranis.
It's a goodnight from me.
Oh, thanks.
- Omega.
- [GROWLS]
The very first Time Lord.
May I ask, what is your intent?
I am free to feast upon this world.
None shall stop me.
Then there's nothing I can do.
I stand here without hope or help.
Just thinking if only
[CHUCKLES]
If only I had a weapon
Hiding in plain sight.
Wait a minute.
[HEROIC MUSIC PLAYING]
The power of one billion supernovas.
[GRUNTS]
[SHOUTING]
[BEAST OF OMEGA HOWLS]
[INDIGO DEVICE BEEPS]
[RUBY] Conrad
I wish you to be happy.
[BLOWS]
- [SHOUTING]
- [BEAST OF OMEGA HOWLING]
Back into Hell!
[MUSIC ENDS]
[SIGHS]
[KISSES]
End the wish.
[BLOWS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Hold your fire. Hold your fire.
Don't you ever wonder deep
down in both your hearts,
where your TARDIS is?
[CHUCKLES] We were in the TARDIS.
[PANTS]
[TARDIS WARBLES]
[LAUGHS]
[RUBY GASPS]
[DOCTOR] Back to floor minus ten.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
- [TARDIS GROANS]
- [SHUSHES]
It's okay.
[WISTFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
Can't we wish for Poppy?
But then she might vanish
When I do this.
Because I must.
No more wishes.
- Ooh.
- [DESIDIRIUM CRIES]
- You okay?
- I'm okay.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
I don't know.
[ALL CHEERING]
Poppy.
[DOCTOR LAUGHING]
Oh, baby!
[DOCTOR] Poppy!
Oh, my God.
Hey. Boop.
[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
Well, we know he's human by birth.
We just don't know where
in time and space he's from.
Do we? We don't know.
Hey, he's a foundling just like me.
Like me.
So, I thought,
- who is the best mother in the world?
- Me.
But I am too busy playing poker.
Cherry.
[CARLA] But we can't just
I mean, there's paperwork and all sorts.
- Paperwork is sorted.
- [RUBY] Ah.
Joseph.
Joseph was my late husband's name.
- Aw, Joe Sunday.
- Aw. Joe Sunday.
- Little Joe Sunday.
- Yeah.
And what about you, Doctor?
- Ruby says you're a father now.
- Uh-huh.
I pity the child.
But what will you do?
You can't run around
like a nutcase anymore.
Things will have to change.
[CHUCKLES]
I know.
Poppy! Where's my girl?
She's too big for this
already. Aren't you, Poppy?
She'll climb out. This
place is a deathtrap.
I know, I know, I know.
We need rails. Safety rails
going all the way around.
It's gonna look amazing.
So what are you guys
gonna do, the three of you?
- Like, settle down?
- Oh, absolutely not.
My daughter's not
gonna have a boring life.
- We can go anywhere
- [BLOWING RASPBERRIES]
and everywhere and
show her everything.
Are you too hot in this, Pops?
It's always cold in here, but
for the first time it's too warm.
Mmm. That's the TARDIS accommodating.
There's one thing I
still don't understand.
How come my memory was different?
Why did I remember things
that no one else could?
I have no idea,
but we have seen many a
strange thing together, Ruby-Roo.
Hey, it's a skill!
It's a skill.
[ALL LAUGH]
We'll need all sorts of
things, like a room for toys.
I can do that. I can do that. I
can turn the TARDIS into anything.
[CONSOLE BEEPS]
We can put a room off there or anywhere.
- [CHUCKLES, SIGHS]
- I wonder where we take her first.
She could see Neptune. No!
- She could see Kerala!
- Kerala.
- I have never been.
- [CHUCKLES]
All of the universe
and I have never been.
We can go and see my
Uncle Roo. Oh, he's wonderful.
In the year 60,000, there is a
planet called New New Delhi.
- Oh, we are going there.
- We're going there.
[WISTFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
Isn't it funny? I used
to say take me home.
Mm-hmm. And now
you wanna stay. I knew it.
I knew. I knew I would
get you in the end.
I wanna see planets and galaxies.
- Oh.
- I wanna see the Big Bang.
Mate, we will have the
best of times. [CHUCKLES]
Where's she gone?
- Who?
- Poppy.
Who's Poppy?
But
[CONSOLE BEEPS]
One more thing I've gotta sort out.
Oh. Okay. Let's see.
Because the robots
The robots from Missbelindachandra One.
- Oh.
- [DOCTOR, BELINDA LAUGH]
Ruby, I had a whole planet
named after me. It was so mad.
They picked up the
Star Register in the future
after the Rani destroyed the Earth.
Now, the planet is not destroyed,
so I've gotta chuck this
thing back out into space,
then the robots can find it.
[LAUGHS]
[GRUNTS]
History is intact. Thank you very much.
- Doctor, where's she gone?
- Who?
- Poppy.
- Who's Poppy?
Your daughter.
What do you mean?
You have a daughter.
The two of you. Together.
I think I'd remember that.
Imagine.
But what what do
you think the cot is?
No. No, no, no, no, no, no.
There There was There
was a little girl named Poppy.
A long time ago.
That space baby lives far
away in a different world.
Ruby, I think your memory
got a little bit scrambled.
[CHUCKLES]
Belinda, where shall we go?
There's a great big
universe waiting for us.
Take me to the stars.
Good. Good. Good, good, good. [LAUGHS]
Let me just make sure
everything is back in place.
- [TARDIS WARBLES]
- [DOOR OPENS]
Oh, look out. Here he is. Trouble.
And you're just in time, Doctor.
Here it comes.
[BELL TOLLS]
- [LAUGHS]
- [UNIT SOLDIERS CHEERING]
[CHEERS]
- At last!
- It is now officially May the 24th.
The day we thought would never arrive.
Congratulations.
Welcome.
Happy May the 24th.
- Happy 24th.
- Happy 24th.
And I better go.
That signals the end
of my time here, I think.
Anita, you are so amazing. I
Thank you.
You're very welcome to stay, Anita.
You could work for UNIT. You'd
be very useful with a key like that.
Oh, I'm so sorry, but this key
is far too powerful
for the 21st century.
And they only gave me one day.
I'm not allowed to stay.
There's far too much to do.
- Oh, they say hello, by the way.
- Who does?
The Boss.
[PORTAL CLOSES]
Okay. Parking that.
So, the entire world is back to normal?
Yes. Yes!
And we [LAUGHS]
are off to Neptune.
See you later. [LAUGHS]
- Come on, Rubes, we'll pop you home.
- No, no. Just wait. It's important.
Is the world exactly as it was?
Well, funny you should say.
There are tiny little changes.
Like, Conrad's World
was sort of glitchy.
Now we've got the same.
We're getting reports that the
border between Norway and Sweden
has moved seven miles east.
And the colour teal is a bit more blue.
And Ernest Borgnine is still alive.
So there are mistakes.
It was bound to happen, Ruby.
Reality shifted on a massive scale.
- Ernest Borgnine got lucky.
- [CHUCKLES]
And there's one more big change.
[KATE] Mel found this.
Reporting from Empress
House. And I found him.
He posted this online.
Stop filming me.
Nice.
Chief cook and bottle washer.
Nice little place in Lewisham.
I looked inside. It's harmless.
And no one remembers
him from the old days.
That Conrad's been
forgotten. Even by himself.
I think Ruby did a very kind thing.
The gods are full of tricks.
One wish survived.
And it turns out to be him, not Poppy.
Ruby. Ruby, I told you
there is no one called Poppy.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
Kate, do you remember a
child called Poppy in this room?
No.
- Do you?
- No.
The Vlinx, do you have any record
of a child called Poppy, in
this building, on May the 23rd?
Negative.
Shirley, do you remember her?
No.
Susan, you saved Poppy's life.
You built a Zero Room to save her.
Surely you've got to remember that.
There is a Zero Room on floor minus ten.
I built it like an escape
pod. For all of us.
Poppy went in there.
We all watched her come out.
- We saw it. We did.
- [DOCTOR] Ruby, I'm sorry,
but you are remembering this wrong.
[BELINDA] And not to be rude,
but it's kind of offensive to say
I've got a daughter I don't remember.
Poppy's your daughter?
Well, exactly.
She doesn't exist.
So what we're saying is, my
memory is one of the glitches.
- It must be.
- I'm glitching?
- Yes.
- Poppy's a glitch?
Yes.
Except the glitches were
real before they changed.
Because I was right in
the Wish World, wasn't I?
And I'm right now.
Conrad wasn't some nice, happy chef,
- was he, Kate?
- No.
And that's not teal, is it?
No, it's too blue.
Don't you see? There's another world.
A slightly different reality.
And it might just be a tiny
little change, but she's a child.
She's a little girl and
she's so beautiful.
Her name is Poppy, and
she's lost somewhere out there.
Ruby, I'm not wrong on this.
Doctor, one life has disappeared.
And you know this can happen.
You know this better than anyone
because it has happened before.
It happened to me, remember?
I'm looking for your daughter, Ruby.
- Who's Ruby?
- [RUBY] That Christmas
- I was that life. I ceased to exist.
- [CRYING]
And you did everything
you could to bring me back
because you couldn't bear a
world with one person missing.
You did that for me too.
I was trapped in that time explosion.
[SHOUTING]
I was a baby.
And you were there.
You said you went
through my entire life.
That car when you were seven.
- That was you.
- Yeah, but
You saved me.
I'm barely a year old.
Born out of the TARDIS, remember?
You set me free and saved my life.
You save all of us.
Sometimes I think
we're all your children.
[MAJESTIC MUSIC PLAYING]
We're missing one person.
Your daughter.
I have a daughter?
Yes. [CHUCKLES]
If Poppy's real, that
means she was mine.
I will find her.
Bel, I swear on my life I
will do anything to find her.
But, Doctor, we can help.
We've got the Time Window.
We've got temporal dams. We've
got retrodynamic artron cascades.
Time has shifted by one degree.
By the tiniest little degree.
There is no technology in the
universe that can change that.
There is only one thing
that is strong enough
To change reality one tiny degree.
Which is what?
The last of the Time Lords.
[HEROIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[TARDIS WARBLES]
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS]
Okay.
[BLOWS]
[SIGHS] Poppy.
Her name is Poppy.
Okay. Her name is Poppy.
[SIGHS]
Aw, man, I like this face.
[TARDIS CONSOLE WHIRS]
What are you showing me that for?
Man.
Oh, man.
Let's be honest.
I was the best.
Okay, let's say best male.
But don't tell the others.
[ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYING]
What? How?
- How are you here?
- I know.
I shouldn't be here at all.
Cause and effect is
getting a little bit out of order.
I'm surprised it's not the other
guy. He is always turning up.
You've redecorated.
I don't like it.
Does it really need to be bigger
in a room defined by its bigness?
But why are you here?
I've been popped out, like
popped out of my timeline
because there's a great big time
schism on its way, caused by you.
Time needs to be shifted, Doctor.
So I am going to punch a
ton of regeneration energy
into the vortex to jolt it. One degree.
- Giving your life?
- A life for a life.
Because I saved the world
at the expense of one person.
And that is no world at all.
There won't be any worlds.
If you rupture the Time Vortex, you
could damage the whole of creation.
Is that why you're here?
To stop me?
Nah, it was never gonna work.
[SIGHS]
Blimey, you're gorgeous.
Your face is absolutely beautiful.
Well, it will be our last
one if I get this wrong.
Don't get it wrong then.
Good idea. [CHUCKLES]
This is gonna eat my soul.
- No chance of bi-generation?
- No chance of what?
Oh. Never mind. Forget I said anything.
Just this is gonna hurt.
Try shifting your third
strand of phenotype markers
one micro-spasm to the left.
Just might help.
Oh, that is clever.
But, hold on
I'm older than you.
Why didn't I know that?
You know, it's all a bit
- timey wimey.
- Time-wimey.
- Is that still a thing?
- Going strong.
[GASPS]
- [CHUCKLES]
- We never change.
All these faces and
we never really change.
[SIGHS]
- Oh, man.
- You scared?
Terrified.
Don't go in fear.
Go with that lovely smile.
[CHUCKLES]
I just wish we
We had longer.
May we always wish that.
[TARDIS WARBLES]
We're stretching the timeline too far.
I've got to go.
Back to my old life.
Bye then.
Good luck.
I love you, Doctor.
I never say things like that.
That's why you got me.
I should say that to Yaz.
[DOCTOR] You never do.
But she knows.
- Goodbye, Doctor.
- Goodbye, Doctor.
[HEROIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
- [REGENERATION ENERGY SWELLS]
- [GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTING]
[SHOUTS]
[GRUNTS]
[SHOUTING]
[PANTING]
[PANTING]
[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
- [REGENERATION ENERGY SWELLS]
- [GASPS]
No.
Not yet.
Not yet.
[GRUNTING, PANTS]
Here he is.
- Bad penny.
- [GASPS]
Go on then, mystery man.
Where have you been?
Oh, I would love to be called Bad Penny.
[LAUGHS]
But what
What happened?
You were there, and then you were gone.
[CHUCKLES] But come on. She's waiting.
- Uh [STAMMERS] who is?
- Poppy.
Poppy.
[GASPS] Oh.
Poppy, Poppy, Poppy, Poppy, Poppy!
- [LAUGHS]
- Oh.
- Isn't she beautiful? [CHUCKLES]
- The best. How could I forget?
Remind me, what happened
What happened again?
I was with you and then
Well, we stopped the Rani.
And then all of UNI
got busy all of a sudden.
Then I turned around and you'd gone.
And I had to get back home.
Cause that was the point.
All this time I had to be here,
in this house, at 7:30 a.m.
On the 24th of May, remember?
I kept telling you every time we landed.
- [GRUNTS]
- [TARDIS WARBLES]
Doctor, I told you. Get me home!
24th of May 2025.
I need to get back for Poppy.
Never mind Miami.
Poppy's waiting for me.
My daughter.
Will I ever see her again?
Never mind happy New Year.
I've got to be home for
Poppy on May the 24th.
If I'm not back by 7:30, I'm in trouble.
I can't wait for you to meet
Poppy. She's so cheeky.
So you were
You were always coming home for Poppy.
- Exactly.
- [CHUCKLES]
I got taken away by
the Robots on the 23rd.
And for my timeline to get back to
normal, I had to be here, for Poppy,
on the 24th of May at 7:30 a.m.
But why 7:30?
Right. Better be off.
Oh.
Bit early for gentlemen
callers, Belinda.
But he's a nice one.
- This is my mum, Lakshmi.
- [DOCTOR CHUCKLES]
Oh.
- Hello. I have heard so much about you.
- Oh. [CHUCKLES]
And this, um, is one of the
doctors from the hospital.
At last. I keep telling her
to bring home a doctor.
- Amma.
- No, no, no, not for you.
- For me, Doctor.
- Oh.
You see, I have this pain down
my left side every time I turn corners.
- Right.
- It's really
- [CAR HORN HONKS]
- Oh [LAUGHS] that's for me.
I got to go. I've got a
concert in Manchester.
- Oh, good luck.
- Lovely meeting you.
And you as well.
- Bye, sweetheart.
- Bye.
Bye, Poppy love. [KISSES]
Bye-bye.
[DOCTOR LAUGHS]
So you You had to come
home because your mother
I'm on nights.
So Mum and Dad had Poppy.
I had to be back for 7:30
- Because Manchester.
- [DOOR CLOSES]
You really have forgotten, haven't you?
[CHUCKLES]
I'm glad you managed to
find us so you can finally meet.
Poppy, this is Uncle Doctor.
I'm her uncle?
[POPPY BABBLES]
Well, I thought it sounded nice.
[CHUCKLES]
Who's her father?
- I've told you.
- Remind me.
Her father's Ritchie.
- Ritchie Akingbola.
- Oh.
I've known him since I was 21.
We got together, and well,
Poppy was born. [CHUCKLES]
We're not together anymore.
We both wanted different
things, but he's a lovely man.
He sees her all the time.
He's a good soul. You'd like him.
[CHUCKLES]
I hope Ritchie Akingbola
knows how lucky he is
to be the father of a girl who is
[THE SONIC WHIRS]
[THE SONIC BEEPS]
[CHUCKLES]
one hundred per cent human
since the day she was born.
What else would she be?
Nothing. Nothing. [LAUGHS]
Poppy the human. Always and forever.
- [DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
- All is well with the universe.
I thought I had those grips.
You know, the ones for my
hands. Have you seen them?
I saw Dad trying them out. I
think they're under the stairs.
Hold on.
Hello, Pops. [CHUCKLES]
Can I tell you a secret?
I can't have children.
But if I could, I wish that
she was exactly like you.
Boop.
Except I brought all
the wishes to an end.
Clever old me.
[CHUCKLES, INHALES SHARPLY]
There we go.
Hey.
You all right?
Yeah.
Yeah, just, you know, thinking.
The gods play tricks.
[CHUCKLES]
But I beat them.
I always win.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
Thank you. For everything.
You've driven me absolutely mad.
[CHUCKLES]
But I've got to say, you're the
most amazing man in the world.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
That sounds like a goodbye.
[BELINDA] Hmm.
I wish we could come with you.
I'd love to show Poppy the stars.
But you know what happens next.
She'll be shot at by lasers
or hunted by cartoons
or blown up by mad Time Ladies.
I can't do that to her.
It's been an honour,
Miss Belinda Chandra.
An honour, a nightmare and a triumph.
Maybe when she's grown
up, you could come back?
Take me to Neptune?
I'd like that.
I'd love that.
But will you?
Will I ever see you again
or do you never go back?
I hope you'll see me again.
But not like this.
[CHUCKLES] What does that mean?
[LAUGHS]
I've got to go.
Just
[BREATHES HEAVILY]
Why does it feel like there's
something I've forgotten?
That's our lives, Belinda.
We travel in and out of
the slipstreams of time.
Beautiful things can
be forgotten and gone.
But they still happened somewhere.
I think one thing remains.
I love you.
And I love you, Pops.
That will never change.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[TARDIS WARBLES]
[POIGNANT MUSIC PLAYING]
[CHUCKLES]
Don't wanna do this alone.
[CHUCKLES]
I'm never alone with you.
[CHUCKLES]
Joy to the world!
And that is exactly the word.
This has been an absolute joy.
Oh, hello.
to stop me, so I can't take that risk.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[SCREAMING] Rani!
[THEME SONG PLAYING]
[SCREAMS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Welcome to the Time Hotel.
If you'd like to come with me, sir?
Magic door?
He had an actual
magic door? The little
Too late.
[GASPS]
[GASPS, SIGHING]
Happy morning.
One more day to go. It's
May the 24th tomorrow.
[ALARM CLOCK RINGS]
Mmm.
[ALARM STOPS]
John?
[PANTS]
- What? But
- [CHUCKLES]
Anita!
Hello, Doctor.
Oh! [CHUCKLES] Oh, my God.
Oh [STAMMERS] But
the world The world was
The world was destroyed.
No. No, no, look.
- Look.
- [KEYPAD BEEPS]
- [ANITA] It's May the 23rd again.
- [ROARING]
May the 24th never arrives. It resets.
It gets to midnight and
then it all clicks back
to 7:00 a.m. on May the 23rd.
It's done it hundreds of times.
[DOCTOR] But we're
We're in mid-air.
I've got the house key. I
can open a door anywhere.
This is crazy.
Anita, it's
It's so good to see you.
[WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]
And, honey, somebody else
was pleased to see you too.
[BOTH LAUGH]
[BOTH SIGH]
- [ANITA CHUCKLES]
- [DOCTOR SIGHS]
- Ricardo.
- Ricardo.
- Head of HR.
- Head of HR.
He worries too much, but he's lovely.
And this is a baby boy,
due in three months
If we ever get there because
this place is in trouble.
[BUILDING CRASHES, STRAINS]
[ALARM SOUNDS]
The Hotel's in spasm,
cause we're in 4202 and the
world keeps ending in 2025.
As far as I can see,
- that woman in the sky
- The Rani.
- The Rani.
- The Rani.
- She's a Time Lord too, yeah?
- Yes.
I tried looking for your TARDIS
- But I can't find it.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Anita, you are
You are talking Time Lords and TARDISes.
When I left you, you
were just [CHUCKLES]
Ordinary.
I didn't say that.
This job at the Time
Hotel taught me so much
[DOCTOR CHUCKLES]
And
On my days off, I'd go looking for you.
- [CROWD CHEERING]
- [WIND BLOWING]
[HEROIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[DALEK] You are the Doctor!
You are an enemy of the Daleks!
Now you are in our power.
You will be exterminated.
[CHAMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
Oh.
I ran straight from that to
Ricardo, so all's well that ends well.
But what about this Rani?
Why's she doing all this?
Why does Friday the
23rd keep resetting itself?
She needs the same
day to keep repeating itself
so that it gets thinner and
thinner and thinner until it snaps.
Once it's broken, she can see
underneath the skin of reality.
What for?
To find Omega.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
The most fearsome
Time Lord in existence.
Can you take me to her?
That palace of hers is No Entry.
She's surrounded by a Threshold.
We can't get in.
It says that portal was the
Time Hotel, December 2024.
You were supposed to
follow him everywhere.
All right, I had Christmas
off, and so did you.
We're the same person.
That strutting little pompadour.
He'll try to stop us.
We can't wait for another midnight.
Nine, nine, nine, nine,
seven, seven, seven,
six, seven, seven,
seven, seven, seven, nine.
We don't have to.
The Seekers have fixed the location.
There. Hidden beneath
reality, deep in the Underverse.
Omega.
Creator of the Time Lords.
Our Lord and Master.
No one is Lord and Master of me.
Now, how to bring him home?
[DISPLAY BEEPS]
[PORTAL OPENS]
[ANITA] Here you are,
Doctor. Poppy's room.
[PORTAL CLOSES]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]
Belinda woke up without you.
Every time the world
resets, it gets a bit bumpy.
Things fall through the gaps.
Everyone sort of compensates,
like they make the reality work.
It's a world built on a wish,
willed into existence by the
Rani's pet human, Conrad Clark.
Oh, the Doctor loved
playing jokes and games.
And he had a favourite
planet called Earth.
A quiet little
And I have a daughter.
But she isn't real.
How dare you?
I have been in the
halls of the Goblin King.
I have stood in the
Palaces of the Daleks.
I have entered the
caves of Satan himself.
But what has happened here
in this tiny little bedroom
in the middle of suburbia
is bigger than anything.
[BELINDA] Hello?
Is someone there?
- It's me.
- Oh.
You're home. I thought you were
I don't know what I thought.
I'm coming down.
I'll make us some tea.
[UPLIFTING MUSIC PLAYING]
[SIGHS]
Nice surprise. Daddy's here.
- [PORTAL OPENS]
- [GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
[PORTAL CLOSES]
But I'm
I'm Belinda Chandra.
And you're Poppy.
She's real.
- Oh, my God. You're the Doctor.
- [CHUCKLES]
But you're real.
Here she is.
- We've had a baby.
- In a single day.
[BOTH LAUGH]
And who's that?
[STAMMERS] This This is Anita.
I just work in hospitality, really.
Is she safe, Doctor?
Please tell me our daughter is safe.
She is in danger, but we
will fight, Bel, to save her.
Fight like never before.
[PHONES RINGING]
What on earth?
Well, don't look. All
of you, keep working.
I said keep working.
[HEROIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Mr Smith, what on earth
do you think you're wearing?
The future.
Just a second, guys, because
these are doorways into real time,
allowing you to see the truth.
- [GRUNTS]
- [GASPS]
Mr Smith, whatever this
is, I demand that you stop.
Mr Smith is gone.
I am the Doctor.
I'm wearing a suit.
I'm wearing tweed.
I'm wearing nylon.
[WORKERS SHOUTING]
Danger. Sub-atomic disruption.
Reality levels now converging.
[CHUCKLES]
Doctor, what's happening?
Welcome back, Kate.
- [EXPLOSION SOUNDS]
- [METAL CREAKS]
- What is it now?
- I don't know.
I've never done this
before. Hold on tight.
I think reality is reasserting itself.
Rosie.
- Oh. [LAUGHS]
- [LAUGHS]
Rosie.
Conrad Conrad couldn't
imagine you for even a second
so you didn't exist.
But now you are back, thanks to Anita.
[LAUGHS]
I'm in the hotel industry.
Neet, Neet, I need you to
stay there. Keep that door open.
Keep the real time flowing, honey.
Why is Conrad Clark on television?
Never mind him.
What the bloody hell is that thing?
Bone Beasts. Creatures
from the Underverse.
Because when two realities
collide, it creates friction
and the friction creates
these excitated atoms,
and that summons the Bone
Beasts. They're like antibodies.
They sort of graze,
feeding off the atoms.
Cleaning up the world.
Now,
one more thing.
[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
Hello, everyone.
I'm Belinda.
And this is our daughter, Poppy.
Well, now you're going too far.
[TRAINS RUMBLE]
[SHIRLEY] Morning, Winnie love.
Another day in paradise?
- Happy May the 23rd.
- Same to you.
Only one day to go.
We had all UNIT personnel
biochipped so we know where they are.
We only have a ten-mile radius,
but maybe we can use the chip
to signal them and wake them up.
[COMPUTER BEEPING]
[TRIUMPHANT MUSIC PLAYING]
[CHIP BEEPS]
But
What the hell is going on?
[CHIP BEEPS]
You can't say things like that.
You've got to behave, Ruby.
You can't go slandering Conrad.
Winnie, I'm sorry about this,
but I promise things will change.
I don't understand.
It's just a normal day.
Where are you going?
Me?
I'm gonna save the world.
- [WHEELCHAIR BLASTS OFF]
- [GASPS]
Whoo-hoo! [LAUGHS]
You're running up and
down like a mad sumaddy.
What you really doing?
What I do best.
Bye!
[CONRAD] Okay. Let's repeat chapter one.
[UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING]
- Is it working?
- We need to move a little faster.
Sweet little Desidirium.
If only you were older, you could
imagine such complicated things.
Instead, I've got you.
I'll do anything for you, mistress.
Don't say that.
You really are ridiculously handsome.
I could tilt you on your side
and serve olives in those dimples.
- [CHUCKLES]
- Hmm?
But still, the Doctor,
he's out there somewhere
and you hold all of the
wish in your head, Conrad.
Can you see him?
Can you find him, Connie?
For me?
[TANNOY] Gold alert. Gold alert.
So, you see those plans up there?
Cross-match them into null-space.
I need you to build me that in
record time. Can you do that?
Consider it done, sir. [CHUCKLES]
Doctor!
[LAUGHS]
- Oh, hello.
- Hi.
- You're blonder.
- Yes.
- How is Carla?
- She's fine.
How is
- [EXCLAIMS]
- Oh, no.
No, no, no. Do not go hugging me, you.
I feel like I haven't washed for days.
[CHUCKLES, SIGHS]
A daughter?
Do you mean an actual daughter?
That's amazing.
- Yeah, it surprised me too.
- [ENGINE SOUNDS]
[HORN TOOTS]
I have been a housewife.
[LAUGHS]
Come here!
[ALL CHUCKLE]
Gold protocols. Doctor on the bridge.
- Update all of us please.
- [RUBY, MEL SIGH]
Basically, we are
facing the Unholy Trinity.
God of Wishes, crazy
Time Lady, Conrad Clark.
Mel, I am sorry. It is the Rani.
- She's still alive?
- Mmm.
I fought the Rani when I travelled
with the Doctor all those years ago.
This should be the best day of my life.
Another Time Lord. It means I'm
not alone [CHUCKLES] except
She's ruthless.
Worse than ruthless,
she's indifferent to any
pain or morality or humanity.
The whole universe is
just an experiment to her.
Now, the Trinity have wished this
world into existence. Conrad's world.
But he couldn't imagine
everything, so he used us.
We half-remembered ourselves,
living Conrad's version
of an ordinary life.
All crushed and stifled and appalling.
But if things are half remembered,
then we met a girl named Poppy.
- Exactly like her, Doctor.
- What does that mean?
It just makes it even more amazing, Bel.
Little scraps of
memories, yours and mine,
have come to life in a child of our own.
[ALARM BLARES]
Caution. Teleport incoming.
[MENACING MUSIC PLAYING]
You really are an idiot, Doctor.
You had a whole world to hide
in and you ran half a mile away.
The Rani.
- [CHUCKLES]
- Hmm.
And Melanie.
We meet again.
I thought you'd be dead.
I thought there's no way that painted
doll of a princess could ever survive.
I never thought about you once.
Oh, you thought of me every night.
Rani, the Time Lords were
slaughtered. How did you survive?
I saw it coming, the genetic explosion.
I had a split second, flipped my
DNA, made a biological sidestep,
survived the carnage.
How did you get to Earth?
I have the only TARDIS in existence.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
[DOCTOR] Time Ring.
- Poor baby.
- It led me to you.
Although, that wasn't difficult.
Find a stupid, blonde
Earth girl and there you are.
Excuse me?
It was so tedious putting up
with you and your 57 mothers.
I've never met you in my life.
- All right, Rubes darling?
- Uh, Mrs Flood?
- That's my neighbour.
- That's my neighbour.
They're both the Rani.
We bi-generated.
Obviously, I bow to the mistress,
but it took a lot of planning
spying on those two.
"Cor blimey, look at that police box."
And pinning it all down to May the 24th.
But I was brilliant.
The plan is Omega?
Splitting open the world to reach
him in the Underverse beneath.
Oh.
Every civilisation has a thousand
legends about the world hidden below.
The Upside Down or Narnia or Hell.
That is the Underverse.
To which Omega was banished.
My father fought
Omega back in the 1970s.
Said he was a Titan,
called him the Mad God.
Omega was the first.
The one who discovered time travel.
Some call him the Original
Sin of the Time Lords.
Cast out from Gallifrey.
Legend says that they bound him
and banished him because he is insane.
The point is, he's alive.
Exiled to the Underverse
means he survived.
You can't know that.
Alive or dead, he will
work as a gene bank.
With his body, I can
resurrect the Time Lords
and construct a new Gallifrey.
[CHUCKLES]
Your Gallifrey?
Well, the Gallifrey of old
never did appreciate me.
But this one, this will
be a power in the sky.
But if you need the DNA of a
Time Lord, then what about you?
The two of you?
I think she's asking us to mate.
You don't understand.
That's why I keep telling
you that Poppy is so special.
Because she is impossible.
The child of a Time Lord.
And?
There's no such thing.
We're sterile.
We are infertile.
The species is barren.
We're a biological dead end.
There can never be
another Gallifreyan child.
Sometimes I think that's
what bi-generation is.
A life force trying
anything it can to survive.
What happened?
That genetic explosion it [SIGHS]
It didn't kill us but it
roasted us and sterilised us.
Extinction is taking
a bit longer, that's all.
So, Poppy came out of the wish?
Like an accident?
The most beautiful accident
because that is what life does.
It just happens.
A mad woman and a maniac
came up with a ridiculous plan
and out of it [CHUCKLES] came her.
Doesn't Poppy solve everything?
I mean, she's Time Lord DNA.
Well, yes, except
- The mother.
- What about me?
- Human.
- And?
The child is contaminated.
- [GROANS]
- [SHIRLEY LAUGHS] Oh, come on.
Oh, I think I've lost the crowd.
- You are disgusting.
- And you are cattle.
We're talking about Time Lords here.
The highest universal race,
the greatest and purest
classification of life.
He walks around like he's one of you,
but you're like insects to
him, playthings, a fetish.
And deep down in
your hearts, you know it.
Now shut up, step aside.
Let me build a new Gallifrey, and
I will leave your world untouched.
Then Then the wish ends.
- What would happen to Poppy?
- She would cease to exist.
- No.
- She would vanish.
Like a whisper.
Doctor, I am genuinely
sorry, but she's not real.
She's made of hopes
and dreams and wishes.
That is every child.
But if we don't end the wish,
this stays as Conrad's world.
We can't do that. That's not
happening. Absolutely not.
Don't you tell me what
we can and can't do
cause I don't care what UNIT thinks,
or Time Lords or gods or anyone.
I remember her being my daughter,
and if I remember it, then it's true.
Not one of you is taking
her out of existence.
Have you got that?
Not one of you.
Quite the dilemma.
I just came to make an offer.
Stand with me, Doctor,
and set a new race of
Time Lords up on high,
or stay down here with the beasts below.
I swear I will stop you.
[GRUNTS]
The battle is on, Doctor.
Good luck.
How close are we?
Target fixed.
The Chronon Beam will pull
Omega out of the Underverse.
Trouble is, the UNIT tower
is a tinderbox of weapons,
but if we fake an
excitation of its atoms,
the Bone Beasts will see
the Tower as an enemy.
[ALARM BLARES]
She is provoking the Bone Beasts.
We are at war.
[ROARS]
[ADVENTUROUS MUSIC PLAYING]
- [TANNOY] Hostiles detected.
- [ALARM BLARES]
Sector 7, grid 5, sector 14, grid 1,
sector 19, grid 5, sector 27, grid four.
- All weapons coordinated and primed.
- Attention all staff.
This tower is going into battle mode.
Combat teams, attend your stations now!
- [VLINX] The Vlinx is designated
- [DOCTOR] Mel. Melanie!
- Prime Battle Coordinator.
- Power up the Indigo Device.
Rose, I want you to bio-sync Ruby
- for the flight.
- I'm on it.
- Did you say flight?
- [DOCTOR] Yes, I did.
- [TANNOY] Gold alert. Gold alert.
- Anita, Anita, keep that door open.
I need you to keep real time flowing.
Hey. Hi. Bel, trust me.
We're going down to
floor minus 10, yeah?
- Come on.
- Activating weapons platform.
[TANNOY] Warning. Null-space activation.
Warning. Null-space activation.
Is it ready?
If I have to hold it together
with my bare hands.
- Yes, it's ready.
- What is that thing?
[DOCTOR] I call it a Zero Room.
We're half a mile underground.
We're shielded from all signals.
And the room inside that thing,
it is beyond time and space.
It will exist outside of reality.
We put Poppy in and if the wish
comes to an end, we open it up.
And Poppy will still exist?
- I hope.
- You hope?
I will do everything I
can to make it work.
I owe the Doctor my life, Miss Chandra.
I won't let him down.
[BELINDA] Do you mean
Poppy goes in there alone?
Cause I'm telling you, she does not.
I'm going with her.
And I can't help you in the fight.
My battle is in there,
saving my daughter.
Bel, if the Rani wins
and we are destroyed,
you will be locked in
there for all eternity.
You wouldn't starve or
age or suffocate. You'd just
You'd just be. Forever.
- With Poppy.
- With Poppy.
Let's do it.
[GRUNTS]
Open the Parallax Cannons.
- Fire!
- [TANNOY] Maximum parallax!
Caution. Zero coordinates
mapped on to Real Time Dynamics.
Repeat. Zero coordinates
mapped on to Real Time Dynamics.
Warning. Floor minus ten
is now an instability zone.
- [BONE BEASTS ROAR]
- [EXPLOSIONS SOUND]
- What if it doesn't work?
- I think we won't remember.
She will fade away like gossamer.
It'll be like Poppy never existed.
- That will never happen.
- Never.
Because it makes sense now. I
was meant to meet you, Belinda.
It was all for this, so
that Poppy can live.
[KISSES]
Close it.
- Double galvanic beams.
- Fire!
[TANNOY] Squad 1, maintain position.
- They're getting closer.
- Squad 2, maintain position.
- More power.
- Squad 3, terminated.
[GASPS, SHOUTS]
[TANNOY] Squad 4, defend the east flank.
- Ow. What's that for?
- It's like a bio sync-up thing.
It makes the software respond to you.
[SHOUTS]
The Indigo Device is a
transmat, like a matter transporter.
You'll be fine as long as you
don't press the yellow button.
Oh, my God. It really works.
Press the blue button.
That'll get you to Conrad
so you can stop him and
bring his wish to an end.
Well, how do I do that? What
do I do? Can I punch him?
Yes, you can.
[ALL GRUNT, SHOUT]
[UNIT SOLDIER ONE] Medic! Medic!
Parallax Cannons, east 21.6.
Fire!
Well, hang on. What about
Anita and her magic doors?
I'm just a hotelier, really.
Well, can't you get us into the palace?
Anita needs to keep that door open
or you lot will slip back into the wish.
Now, the Bone Palace is protected.
It has a Threshold.
If you tried to transmat in there,
- you'd be pureed, baby girl.
- Nice.
I need to get in there,
lower the Threshold
so I can stop the Rani.
- But how can you do that?
- Oh, I I tricked her.
Hmm?
[THE SONIC BEEPS]
Copied her coding.
[THE SONIC WHIRS]
Bone Beast three, out of range.
We're turning, west 44.5.
All personnel, hold on tight.
- [TANNOY] Warning, revolve protocols.
- [GRUNTS]
- Warning, revolve protocols.
- [GRUNTS]
- Galvanic beams at maximum.
- Fire!
[SHOUTING]
Get to cover!
Shirley, monitor the
Threshold on frequency five.
As soon as it falls, Ruby,
activate the Indigo Device.
Fly well, Doctor.
If we die here today, I love you lot.
Just shut up and go!
[LAUGHS]
[HEROIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Protect the retrofold cables.
Keep the red-links connected.
[NO AUDIBLE SOUND]
[MUSIC RESUMES]
[GRUNTS]
Threshold down!
Come on!
- [GASPS]
- Like I wasn't ready for you.
[GROANS]
- Ouch!
- You were too late, Doctor.
The portal has locked on to its target.
And you're really very obvious.
I know you haven't
arrived with a weapon.
Only a speech, some
dazzling words, maybe a pun
and then some lachrymose
little tug-the-heartstrings
mimosa-scented platitudes
about the power of love.
But aren't you tempted,
Doctor, to start again?
The Time Lords reborn?
The Time Lords of Omega
were tyrants and murderers.
Then rebuild them with us.
You're not amongst the
humans now. Stop pretending.
You're a Lord of Time
and Space. Now act like it.
[MRS FLOOD] Don't you want
to see him? The Almighty One.
Don't you?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Yes.
Omega locked and approaching.
Here he comes. Back to reality.
What is that? What is
that? Is that a doorway or
The tomb of Omega or
his prison, his asylum?
I suggest we find out.
[THE RANI'S SONIC WHIRS]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[RUBY PANTS]
I want to say thank you.
[SCOFFS, CHUCKLES]
- Sure.
- I mean it.
Because Conrad's World, it
could've been so much worse.
A fantasy world, I'd expect guns
and whisky and girls, but yours is nice.
- It's actually nice.
- I did what he said.
- Who?
- The Doctor.
He told me people just want
to be safe and fed and warm.
So that's what I did.
And you tried to give everyone a family.
All that time we spent together,
you never mentioned your dad.
You never ever mentioned your father.
And I I wonder why.
You don't know me at all.
[THE RANI'S SONIC WHIRS]
[DOUBLE HEARTBEAT SOUNDS]
[SEEKERS MUTTER]
A heartbeat.
A double heartbeat.
Omega lives.
Omega. Omega. Omega
I summon you, creator of the Time Lords.
Come back to this world.
Omega. Omega. Omega. Omega.
Omega. Omega. Omega. Omega.
Omega. Omega. Omega. Omega.
Omega. Omega. Omega. Omega.
But some of it was true.
You and me.
Because I was there, Conrad.
In the dark, when I made you smile.
That was real.
[SEEKERS] Omega. Omega. Omega.
Omega. Omega. Omega. Omega. Omega.
Drone Guards, stand by.
[THE RANI] Yes.
[GROWLS]
What?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[ROARS]
Rani, get back.
But what is it?
The Underverse is a world of legends,
so Omega has become his own legend.
He is the Mad God,
the Titan,
the Original Sin.
I will become the God of Time
with Time Lords to feast upon.
Well, I think you'll find
[THE RANI SCREAMS]
[SCREAMS]
[BEAST OF OMEGA] So sweet.
[ROARS]
[HIGH-PITCH RINGING]
[SCREAMING]
[BEAST OF OMEGA GROWLS]
Omega.
Omega!
Remember me?
My little Doctor.
It's been a very long time.
May I introduce to you the Rani.
[BEAST OF OMEGA] This little thing?
So much for the two Ranis.
It's a goodnight from me.
Oh, thanks.
- Omega.
- [GROWLS]
The very first Time Lord.
May I ask, what is your intent?
I am free to feast upon this world.
None shall stop me.
Then there's nothing I can do.
I stand here without hope or help.
Just thinking if only
[CHUCKLES]
If only I had a weapon
Hiding in plain sight.
Wait a minute.
[HEROIC MUSIC PLAYING]
The power of one billion supernovas.
[GRUNTS]
[SHOUTING]
[BEAST OF OMEGA HOWLS]
[INDIGO DEVICE BEEPS]
[RUBY] Conrad
I wish you to be happy.
[BLOWS]
- [SHOUTING]
- [BEAST OF OMEGA HOWLING]
Back into Hell!
[MUSIC ENDS]
[SIGHS]
[KISSES]
End the wish.
[BLOWS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Hold your fire. Hold your fire.
Don't you ever wonder deep
down in both your hearts,
where your TARDIS is?
[CHUCKLES] We were in the TARDIS.
[PANTS]
[TARDIS WARBLES]
[LAUGHS]
[RUBY GASPS]
[DOCTOR] Back to floor minus ten.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
- [TARDIS GROANS]
- [SHUSHES]
It's okay.
[WISTFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
Can't we wish for Poppy?
But then she might vanish
When I do this.
Because I must.
No more wishes.
- Ooh.
- [DESIDIRIUM CRIES]
- You okay?
- I'm okay.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
I don't know.
[ALL CHEERING]
Poppy.
[DOCTOR LAUGHING]
Oh, baby!
[DOCTOR] Poppy!
Oh, my God.
Hey. Boop.
[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
Well, we know he's human by birth.
We just don't know where
in time and space he's from.
Do we? We don't know.
Hey, he's a foundling just like me.
Like me.
So, I thought,
- who is the best mother in the world?
- Me.
But I am too busy playing poker.
Cherry.
[CARLA] But we can't just
I mean, there's paperwork and all sorts.
- Paperwork is sorted.
- [RUBY] Ah.
Joseph.
Joseph was my late husband's name.
- Aw, Joe Sunday.
- Aw. Joe Sunday.
- Little Joe Sunday.
- Yeah.
And what about you, Doctor?
- Ruby says you're a father now.
- Uh-huh.
I pity the child.
But what will you do?
You can't run around
like a nutcase anymore.
Things will have to change.
[CHUCKLES]
I know.
Poppy! Where's my girl?
She's too big for this
already. Aren't you, Poppy?
She'll climb out. This
place is a deathtrap.
I know, I know, I know.
We need rails. Safety rails
going all the way around.
It's gonna look amazing.
So what are you guys
gonna do, the three of you?
- Like, settle down?
- Oh, absolutely not.
My daughter's not
gonna have a boring life.
- We can go anywhere
- [BLOWING RASPBERRIES]
and everywhere and
show her everything.
Are you too hot in this, Pops?
It's always cold in here, but
for the first time it's too warm.
Mmm. That's the TARDIS accommodating.
There's one thing I
still don't understand.
How come my memory was different?
Why did I remember things
that no one else could?
I have no idea,
but we have seen many a
strange thing together, Ruby-Roo.
Hey, it's a skill!
It's a skill.
[ALL LAUGH]
We'll need all sorts of
things, like a room for toys.
I can do that. I can do that. I
can turn the TARDIS into anything.
[CONSOLE BEEPS]
We can put a room off there or anywhere.
- [CHUCKLES, SIGHS]
- I wonder where we take her first.
She could see Neptune. No!
- She could see Kerala!
- Kerala.
- I have never been.
- [CHUCKLES]
All of the universe
and I have never been.
We can go and see my
Uncle Roo. Oh, he's wonderful.
In the year 60,000, there is a
planet called New New Delhi.
- Oh, we are going there.
- We're going there.
[WISTFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
Isn't it funny? I used
to say take me home.
Mm-hmm. And now
you wanna stay. I knew it.
I knew. I knew I would
get you in the end.
I wanna see planets and galaxies.
- Oh.
- I wanna see the Big Bang.
Mate, we will have the
best of times. [CHUCKLES]
Where's she gone?
- Who?
- Poppy.
Who's Poppy?
But
[CONSOLE BEEPS]
One more thing I've gotta sort out.
Oh. Okay. Let's see.
Because the robots
The robots from Missbelindachandra One.
- Oh.
- [DOCTOR, BELINDA LAUGH]
Ruby, I had a whole planet
named after me. It was so mad.
They picked up the
Star Register in the future
after the Rani destroyed the Earth.
Now, the planet is not destroyed,
so I've gotta chuck this
thing back out into space,
then the robots can find it.
[LAUGHS]
[GRUNTS]
History is intact. Thank you very much.
- Doctor, where's she gone?
- Who?
- Poppy.
- Who's Poppy?
Your daughter.
What do you mean?
You have a daughter.
The two of you. Together.
I think I'd remember that.
Imagine.
But what what do
you think the cot is?
No. No, no, no, no, no, no.
There There was There
was a little girl named Poppy.
A long time ago.
That space baby lives far
away in a different world.
Ruby, I think your memory
got a little bit scrambled.
[CHUCKLES]
Belinda, where shall we go?
There's a great big
universe waiting for us.
Take me to the stars.
Good. Good. Good, good, good. [LAUGHS]
Let me just make sure
everything is back in place.
- [TARDIS WARBLES]
- [DOOR OPENS]
Oh, look out. Here he is. Trouble.
And you're just in time, Doctor.
Here it comes.
[BELL TOLLS]
- [LAUGHS]
- [UNIT SOLDIERS CHEERING]
[CHEERS]
- At last!
- It is now officially May the 24th.
The day we thought would never arrive.
Congratulations.
Welcome.
Happy May the 24th.
- Happy 24th.
- Happy 24th.
And I better go.
That signals the end
of my time here, I think.
Anita, you are so amazing. I
Thank you.
You're very welcome to stay, Anita.
You could work for UNIT. You'd
be very useful with a key like that.
Oh, I'm so sorry, but this key
is far too powerful
for the 21st century.
And they only gave me one day.
I'm not allowed to stay.
There's far too much to do.
- Oh, they say hello, by the way.
- Who does?
The Boss.
[PORTAL CLOSES]
Okay. Parking that.
So, the entire world is back to normal?
Yes. Yes!
And we [LAUGHS]
are off to Neptune.
See you later. [LAUGHS]
- Come on, Rubes, we'll pop you home.
- No, no. Just wait. It's important.
Is the world exactly as it was?
Well, funny you should say.
There are tiny little changes.
Like, Conrad's World
was sort of glitchy.
Now we've got the same.
We're getting reports that the
border between Norway and Sweden
has moved seven miles east.
And the colour teal is a bit more blue.
And Ernest Borgnine is still alive.
So there are mistakes.
It was bound to happen, Ruby.
Reality shifted on a massive scale.
- Ernest Borgnine got lucky.
- [CHUCKLES]
And there's one more big change.
[KATE] Mel found this.
Reporting from Empress
House. And I found him.
He posted this online.
Stop filming me.
Nice.
Chief cook and bottle washer.
Nice little place in Lewisham.
I looked inside. It's harmless.
And no one remembers
him from the old days.
That Conrad's been
forgotten. Even by himself.
I think Ruby did a very kind thing.
The gods are full of tricks.
One wish survived.
And it turns out to be him, not Poppy.
Ruby. Ruby, I told you
there is no one called Poppy.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
Kate, do you remember a
child called Poppy in this room?
No.
- Do you?
- No.
The Vlinx, do you have any record
of a child called Poppy, in
this building, on May the 23rd?
Negative.
Shirley, do you remember her?
No.
Susan, you saved Poppy's life.
You built a Zero Room to save her.
Surely you've got to remember that.
There is a Zero Room on floor minus ten.
I built it like an escape
pod. For all of us.
Poppy went in there.
We all watched her come out.
- We saw it. We did.
- [DOCTOR] Ruby, I'm sorry,
but you are remembering this wrong.
[BELINDA] And not to be rude,
but it's kind of offensive to say
I've got a daughter I don't remember.
Poppy's your daughter?
Well, exactly.
She doesn't exist.
So what we're saying is, my
memory is one of the glitches.
- It must be.
- I'm glitching?
- Yes.
- Poppy's a glitch?
Yes.
Except the glitches were
real before they changed.
Because I was right in
the Wish World, wasn't I?
And I'm right now.
Conrad wasn't some nice, happy chef,
- was he, Kate?
- No.
And that's not teal, is it?
No, it's too blue.
Don't you see? There's another world.
A slightly different reality.
And it might just be a tiny
little change, but she's a child.
She's a little girl and
she's so beautiful.
Her name is Poppy, and
she's lost somewhere out there.
Ruby, I'm not wrong on this.
Doctor, one life has disappeared.
And you know this can happen.
You know this better than anyone
because it has happened before.
It happened to me, remember?
I'm looking for your daughter, Ruby.
- Who's Ruby?
- [RUBY] That Christmas
- I was that life. I ceased to exist.
- [CRYING]
And you did everything
you could to bring me back
because you couldn't bear a
world with one person missing.
You did that for me too.
I was trapped in that time explosion.
[SHOUTING]
I was a baby.
And you were there.
You said you went
through my entire life.
That car when you were seven.
- That was you.
- Yeah, but
You saved me.
I'm barely a year old.
Born out of the TARDIS, remember?
You set me free and saved my life.
You save all of us.
Sometimes I think
we're all your children.
[MAJESTIC MUSIC PLAYING]
We're missing one person.
Your daughter.
I have a daughter?
Yes. [CHUCKLES]
If Poppy's real, that
means she was mine.
I will find her.
Bel, I swear on my life I
will do anything to find her.
But, Doctor, we can help.
We've got the Time Window.
We've got temporal dams. We've
got retrodynamic artron cascades.
Time has shifted by one degree.
By the tiniest little degree.
There is no technology in the
universe that can change that.
There is only one thing
that is strong enough
To change reality one tiny degree.
Which is what?
The last of the Time Lords.
[HEROIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[TARDIS WARBLES]
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS]
Okay.
[BLOWS]
[SIGHS] Poppy.
Her name is Poppy.
Okay. Her name is Poppy.
[SIGHS]
Aw, man, I like this face.
[TARDIS CONSOLE WHIRS]
What are you showing me that for?
Man.
Oh, man.
Let's be honest.
I was the best.
Okay, let's say best male.
But don't tell the others.
[ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYING]
What? How?
- How are you here?
- I know.
I shouldn't be here at all.
Cause and effect is
getting a little bit out of order.
I'm surprised it's not the other
guy. He is always turning up.
You've redecorated.
I don't like it.
Does it really need to be bigger
in a room defined by its bigness?
But why are you here?
I've been popped out, like
popped out of my timeline
because there's a great big time
schism on its way, caused by you.
Time needs to be shifted, Doctor.
So I am going to punch a
ton of regeneration energy
into the vortex to jolt it. One degree.
- Giving your life?
- A life for a life.
Because I saved the world
at the expense of one person.
And that is no world at all.
There won't be any worlds.
If you rupture the Time Vortex, you
could damage the whole of creation.
Is that why you're here?
To stop me?
Nah, it was never gonna work.
[SIGHS]
Blimey, you're gorgeous.
Your face is absolutely beautiful.
Well, it will be our last
one if I get this wrong.
Don't get it wrong then.
Good idea. [CHUCKLES]
This is gonna eat my soul.
- No chance of bi-generation?
- No chance of what?
Oh. Never mind. Forget I said anything.
Just this is gonna hurt.
Try shifting your third
strand of phenotype markers
one micro-spasm to the left.
Just might help.
Oh, that is clever.
But, hold on
I'm older than you.
Why didn't I know that?
You know, it's all a bit
- timey wimey.
- Time-wimey.
- Is that still a thing?
- Going strong.
[GASPS]
- [CHUCKLES]
- We never change.
All these faces and
we never really change.
[SIGHS]
- Oh, man.
- You scared?
Terrified.
Don't go in fear.
Go with that lovely smile.
[CHUCKLES]
I just wish we
We had longer.
May we always wish that.
[TARDIS WARBLES]
We're stretching the timeline too far.
I've got to go.
Back to my old life.
Bye then.
Good luck.
I love you, Doctor.
I never say things like that.
That's why you got me.
I should say that to Yaz.
[DOCTOR] You never do.
But she knows.
- Goodbye, Doctor.
- Goodbye, Doctor.
[HEROIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
- [REGENERATION ENERGY SWELLS]
- [GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTING]
[SHOUTS]
[GRUNTS]
[SHOUTING]
[PANTING]
[PANTING]
[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
- [REGENERATION ENERGY SWELLS]
- [GASPS]
No.
Not yet.
Not yet.
[GRUNTING, PANTS]
Here he is.
- Bad penny.
- [GASPS]
Go on then, mystery man.
Where have you been?
Oh, I would love to be called Bad Penny.
[LAUGHS]
But what
What happened?
You were there, and then you were gone.
[CHUCKLES] But come on. She's waiting.
- Uh [STAMMERS] who is?
- Poppy.
Poppy.
[GASPS] Oh.
Poppy, Poppy, Poppy, Poppy, Poppy!
- [LAUGHS]
- Oh.
- Isn't she beautiful? [CHUCKLES]
- The best. How could I forget?
Remind me, what happened
What happened again?
I was with you and then
Well, we stopped the Rani.
And then all of UNI
got busy all of a sudden.
Then I turned around and you'd gone.
And I had to get back home.
Cause that was the point.
All this time I had to be here,
in this house, at 7:30 a.m.
On the 24th of May, remember?
I kept telling you every time we landed.
- [GRUNTS]
- [TARDIS WARBLES]
Doctor, I told you. Get me home!
24th of May 2025.
I need to get back for Poppy.
Never mind Miami.
Poppy's waiting for me.
My daughter.
Will I ever see her again?
Never mind happy New Year.
I've got to be home for
Poppy on May the 24th.
If I'm not back by 7:30, I'm in trouble.
I can't wait for you to meet
Poppy. She's so cheeky.
So you were
You were always coming home for Poppy.
- Exactly.
- [CHUCKLES]
I got taken away by
the Robots on the 23rd.
And for my timeline to get back to
normal, I had to be here, for Poppy,
on the 24th of May at 7:30 a.m.
But why 7:30?
Right. Better be off.
Oh.
Bit early for gentlemen
callers, Belinda.
But he's a nice one.
- This is my mum, Lakshmi.
- [DOCTOR CHUCKLES]
Oh.
- Hello. I have heard so much about you.
- Oh. [CHUCKLES]
And this, um, is one of the
doctors from the hospital.
At last. I keep telling her
to bring home a doctor.
- Amma.
- No, no, no, not for you.
- For me, Doctor.
- Oh.
You see, I have this pain down
my left side every time I turn corners.
- Right.
- It's really
- [CAR HORN HONKS]
- Oh [LAUGHS] that's for me.
I got to go. I've got a
concert in Manchester.
- Oh, good luck.
- Lovely meeting you.
And you as well.
- Bye, sweetheart.
- Bye.
Bye, Poppy love. [KISSES]
Bye-bye.
[DOCTOR LAUGHS]
So you You had to come
home because your mother
I'm on nights.
So Mum and Dad had Poppy.
I had to be back for 7:30
- Because Manchester.
- [DOOR CLOSES]
You really have forgotten, haven't you?
[CHUCKLES]
I'm glad you managed to
find us so you can finally meet.
Poppy, this is Uncle Doctor.
I'm her uncle?
[POPPY BABBLES]
Well, I thought it sounded nice.
[CHUCKLES]
Who's her father?
- I've told you.
- Remind me.
Her father's Ritchie.
- Ritchie Akingbola.
- Oh.
I've known him since I was 21.
We got together, and well,
Poppy was born. [CHUCKLES]
We're not together anymore.
We both wanted different
things, but he's a lovely man.
He sees her all the time.
He's a good soul. You'd like him.
[CHUCKLES]
I hope Ritchie Akingbola
knows how lucky he is
to be the father of a girl who is
[THE SONIC WHIRS]
[THE SONIC BEEPS]
[CHUCKLES]
one hundred per cent human
since the day she was born.
What else would she be?
Nothing. Nothing. [LAUGHS]
Poppy the human. Always and forever.
- [DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
- All is well with the universe.
I thought I had those grips.
You know, the ones for my
hands. Have you seen them?
I saw Dad trying them out. I
think they're under the stairs.
Hold on.
Hello, Pops. [CHUCKLES]
Can I tell you a secret?
I can't have children.
But if I could, I wish that
she was exactly like you.
Boop.
Except I brought all
the wishes to an end.
Clever old me.
[CHUCKLES, INHALES SHARPLY]
There we go.
Hey.
You all right?
Yeah.
Yeah, just, you know, thinking.
The gods play tricks.
[CHUCKLES]
But I beat them.
I always win.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
Thank you. For everything.
You've driven me absolutely mad.
[CHUCKLES]
But I've got to say, you're the
most amazing man in the world.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
That sounds like a goodbye.
[BELINDA] Hmm.
I wish we could come with you.
I'd love to show Poppy the stars.
But you know what happens next.
She'll be shot at by lasers
or hunted by cartoons
or blown up by mad Time Ladies.
I can't do that to her.
It's been an honour,
Miss Belinda Chandra.
An honour, a nightmare and a triumph.
Maybe when she's grown
up, you could come back?
Take me to Neptune?
I'd like that.
I'd love that.
But will you?
Will I ever see you again
or do you never go back?
I hope you'll see me again.
But not like this.
[CHUCKLES] What does that mean?
[LAUGHS]
I've got to go.
Just
[BREATHES HEAVILY]
Why does it feel like there's
something I've forgotten?
That's our lives, Belinda.
We travel in and out of
the slipstreams of time.
Beautiful things can
be forgotten and gone.
But they still happened somewhere.
I think one thing remains.
I love you.
And I love you, Pops.
That will never change.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[TARDIS WARBLES]
[POIGNANT MUSIC PLAYING]
[CHUCKLES]
Don't wanna do this alone.
[CHUCKLES]
I'm never alone with you.
[CHUCKLES]
Joy to the world!
And that is exactly the word.
This has been an absolute joy.
Oh, hello.