♪
[Dramatic music plays]
Woman: Emergency transmission
from the Toraji Transport Network.
This is an urgent request for immediate assistance.
This is an all-frequency appeal for help.
We're under attack. We've been hijacked.
[Alarm blaring]
All passengers down here. Marshals, to your posts.
[Clamoring]
Man: Who is it? Who's attacking us?
[Clanking footsteps]
♪
[Sighs]
Woman: Be careful.
It's all right. They're dead.
Go through. Head down the train.
There are more marshals. Secure passengers safety.
[Pulsing]
What's happening to them?
That energy. They're regenerating.
All frequencies! Urgent appeal for help!
Is there anyone out there?
The Doctor: Yes, there is.
We're unable to materialize inside the craft.
The Cybermen have a blocking field in action.
We're taking a different approach.
Get out of there now.
Ready?
Ready. Ready.
[Dramatic music playing]
Leader, we have detected a rescue attempt.
Scans detect a TARDIS and Doctor.
[Shouts indistinctly]
Could you not have got a less wobbly ladder?
Why? It's perfect.
Uh...
Well, almost perfect.
Tiny jump.
Cool, right?
Oh!
Ah! Whoa!
Doctor!
The Doctor: Yaz!
I've got you.
Come on, Dan.
What am I doing? I've got a date to get to.
Whoa!
Aah!
Dan!
Oh, yeah! What a landing!
9.9!
I'll boost the connection to the electromagnetic roof.
We're literally surfing on a space train.
Shut up, Dan!
I see I float just as well, better than you.
Dan, turn around!
♪
We need to bring along the passengers.
- There's no time. - We can't just leave them.
You know what will happen to them.
We have to protect the cargo. Keep moving.
Cover the passengers. I'll head them off.
[Screaming]
Where is the cargo?
There's no cargo on board this train.
You're lying. Aah!
Identify the location of the cargo carriage
or be deleted.
I'm not afraid of the Cybermen.
We are more than Cybermen.
We have evolved.
We are your CyberMasters.
♪
The Doctor: Oh, two important points.
Number one, find something to hold on to.
Number two, don't get shot.
What? Aah!
- Dan! - [Groans]
I'm going to deactivate the train's electromagnets.
Well, that's what keeping us stuck to the roof!
Yeah. But not just us.
♪
Look out!
[All shouting]
♪
The train needs bringing under control.
We need to end the train to a halt.
The controls are over there, as I showed you.
Don't lose your stomach.
We need to find and keep the passengers safe
and find out what those CyberMasters
want with this train.
♪
Leader, the cargo has been secured.
Open it.
[Beep]
It's all right. We're here to help.
I'm The Doctor. This is Yaz.
I can sort that wound out.
Pass that medpack off the wall.
Dan: All right, Dan, son, just like she showed you.
[Screwdriver pulsing]
[Beeping]
[Alarm blaring]
- Dan? - Whoops, sorry!
Wrong setting.
Sorted... hopefully.
[Alarm stops]
This is your space train driver, Dan,
reassuring you everything is under control
and we will be slowing to a gentle stop momentarily.
I'll deal with the Cybermen.
They're not ordinary Cybermen.
I know.
♪
Get away from that pod.
Doctor.
You shall not to disrupt our mission.
Oh, I think I shall.
Feel that slowing down?
This train's under my control and reinforcements
will be here any moment, so whatever you came for,
whatever that cargo is, you failed.
Ah!
♪
[Calm music plays]
It's all right. Don't be scared.
I'm The Doctor. I'm going to protect you.
Aah!
The Doctor lies.
[Dramatic music plays]
♪
["Doctor Who" Theme plays]
♪
[Ominous music plays]
♪
[Knock on door]
♪
Father Grigori, I have a message from the Tsarina.
Your presence is urgently required at the Winter Palace.
The Tsesarevich has been taken ill.
♪
[Camera shutter clicks]
♪
Excuse me.
Can I help?
What's happened to this painting?
It was taken down for restoration work.
Oh. Was there something wrong with it?
No. From time to time,
all the paintings need a little TLC.
But this one was only restored two months ago.
It required a little additional work.
Did it?
15 of the world's most well-known paintings
all been taken down pretty much simultaneously
and with no explanation.
Where are you anyway?
Tegan: Sorry, Ace. Say again?
I said, "Where are you, Tegan?"
What day is it? Thursday? Romania.
Somewhere near the Carpathians.
Or maybe in them. I'm losing track.
What are you doing there?
There's a volcanic chain where those three seismologists
were last seen investigating a nearby earthquake.
And did you find them?
Disappeared off the face of the Earth,
just like the others.
A dozen seismologists and 15 paintings.
There's something else.
When I arrived at this cabin,
there was a package waiting for me.
When I opened it up,
there was a Russian doll toy box inside.
But there was also a card.
From The Doctor.
Ace, I haven't heard from The Doctor
for nearly four decades.
Yeah, all right, showoff.
Just 'cause it's only three decades for me.
So what was the doll?
♪
A Cyberman?
Of all the things,
why would The Doctor send me that?
That's not a fond memory.
It's not even a Russian doll.
And why send it to me now.
I think we should go in.
[TARDIS engines]
♪
Back in time for your date. You're welcome.
Shall we pick you up again in 24 hours?
Yaz, you and I can try to pick up the trail
of where the CyberMasters went with that child.
♪
You don't have to come back for me.
- Okay. - What?
I was one hand away
from flying off into space and suffocating.
I don't want to push me luck any further.
I mean, all this... all this is amazing.
And I've had the most incredible time.
But it's not my life.
And my life's far from perfect, but I need to get back to it.
I need to attack it. And I can now.
'Cause I've been with you.
I get it.
Life's important.
Home's important.
♪
Oh, yeah.
Me house.
Looks like I'll be kippin' on me mum and dad's sofa tonight.
See you again, Doctor.
[Door creaks]
Have I upset her?
Not one for good-byes.
Far as me, I'm glad to see you back here.
I'll call ya.
I'll ghost ya. [Chuckles]
♪
[Static crackling]
Doctor.
No!
Breach in transmission firewalls?
Get out of my TARDIS!
I mean you no harm.
You'd be the first Dalek to ever mean that.
I have information critical to the future
of both humans and Daleks.
It is imperative
that you and I meet immediately.
I don't think so.
I offer you the key
to the destruction of the Daleks.
A Dalek invades my TARDIS
with a message offering to destroy its own species?
I no longer believe in the Dalek Nation.
[Scoffs]
Well, that's a new one.
The Dalek machine was created to ensure
the survival of the Kaled race.
Yet Kaled identity has eroded over time.
The Dalek mission has changed
to become the perpetuation of the Dalek race.
Analysis...
We have lost the right to survive.
Your creator will both be impressed and horrified.
So, you come to me as what? A spy?
A Dalek incursion on Earth is imminent.
I offer you the chance to destroy
every Dalek before that attack.
Why would I ever trust you?
To save the lives of billions of humans.
I will communicate location and time.
You must attend.
No! You don't order me!
I am detected. Transmission must end.
Yaz: Who were you yelling at?
[Alarm blaring]
The TARDIS has locked on to the cargo trail.
Now, where is that child?
That data doesn't make sense.
It's just outside Earth in the year 1916.
Why doesn't that make sense?
Because I'm seeing one planet too many in your solar system.
And that extra planet is right in the shadow of Earth.
♪
Tsarina. Rasputin approaches.
♪
It is good to see you, Father Grigori.
How is my son?
[Ominous music plays]
Such a tiny injury and such a terrible effect.
His hemophilia is a cruel illness.
I cannot help but think that he has worsened
ever since the arrival of the second moon in the sky.
An entire new moon. These special times
must not challenge our faith.
They should strengthen it.
I'm afraid for my son.
I believe, in the morning, he will be much improved.
But can you be sure?
Are my eyes not full of certainty?
Yes.
They are.
My dear Tsar.
This endless war.
Have you made your decision? Send more troops or withdraw?
It is so difficult. W-What would your advice be?
My main concern
is that you and your family take some time away.
A holiday.
Very soon.
Don't you think?
Long holiday.
Yes.
Yes, I, um... I think so.
Don't I?
I will take care of your beautiful Winter Palace,
and you will remain assured of your one certainty.
Which is?
That you are The Master.
And I will obey you.
♪
[TARDIS engines]
♪
Organic life
converted into metal on a planetary scale.
Cyber technology?
Are they capable of this?
Cybermen everywhere we go right now, Yaz.
Those ones on the train, the CyberMasters,
they were created by The Master on Gallifrey.
Doctor.
♪
Stay here.
Nope.
[Cloister Bell tolling]
It's not yours, is it? Yours from another time?
In the future?
♪
I feel like I'm being taunted.
Ah.
The core of this TARDIS has been lashed into the center
of the planet's metal structure.
But why?
The screen's showing another energy source on the surface.
Come on.
Ah. There's a rudimentary cloaking shield in operation.
Soon fix that.
♪
[Gasps]
The Cybermen have tethered that child into this planet.
It was registering as an energy source.
How is that child an energy source?
Wait, there's more layers to the shield.
Oh, not just cloaking. It's a consciousness shield.
A creature trying to evade capture,
hiding behind a visual projection shield.
And this one shows us what we instinctively
want to protect as a defense.
So what is it?
Oh.
A Qurunx.
One of the great mysteries of the universe.
I've never seen one before Yaz.
Sentient energy, enough to power planets and civilizations.
They're so rare.
A metal planet with a Qurunx at the heart of it
on the edge of Earth in the second decade
of the 20th century. Why?
Whoa! Oh! Desist!
Ah, decided to show your face, have ya?
Is this planet your doing?
This structure is the zenith of Cyber-conversion,
an entire planet transported here.
And you think I'm going to allow that?
You will not be able to stop it.
Oh, yeah? Why's that?
Your Master awaits, Doctor.
Yaz: Doctor. What's it mean by that?
Oh!
Aah! Aah!
♪
Oh...
Yes? What?
Doctor, UNIT needs your help.
Bit busy, Kate. Can it wait?
Absolutely not. [Groans]
[TARDIS engines]
Nice new building.
Thank you. Now...
a dozen of the world's leading seismologists have gone
missing in the past two weeks, plus 15 of the world's
most valuable paintings have disappeared from view.
That's what you called us here for?
Have you any idea what's going on in outer space
in 1916 right now?
Strangely enough, no.
Oh. Also, new freelancers.
Don't be cross.
Are you ready for this? No.
Me neither.
I believe you three know each other of old.
Oh, wow.
Tegan: You said a woman.
You never said young.
Tegan.
Ace?
That is a good look on you, Professor.
What are you doing here?
I brought them in.
I'm rebuilding our intelligence networks
with people who understand the problems.
Earth faces from personal experience.
It seemed pretty clear where to start.
So...
how have you been?
Like you care? Tegan, we discussed this.
38 years.
I'm Yaz, the only one here
who doesn't really know what's going on.
We used to be you decades back.
[Exhales sharply] I see.
Wow.
So what was so urgent, Kate?
This is why I brought you in.
Let's start with the paintings.
Mona Lisa, The Scream, The Hay Wain,
Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Last Supper.
All of them and more taken out of public view
because all of them, we've discovered,
have been defaced.
The face of Rasputin inserted into every painting.
Oh, no.
That's not Rasputin. That's The Master.
What?! What?!
Greetings, seismology fans.
If you're craving answers to life's little mysteries,
my keynote address at the International Seismology.
Memorial Conference is now starting at a conference hall
vaguely near you.
Come feel the Earth move.
Here's the pin. See you in a bit.
So that's The Master now?
1916, Rasputin,
and the only person who would leave a TARDIS
that looked like mine.
Hotel.
3.2 kilometers from Mount Vesuvius.
We've got a UNIT base near Naples.
I'll get you local support.
Sorry. Dealing with multiple somethings.
It's good to see you both.
Ow! You gave me an electric shock.
Sorry. My bad. I promise.
I'm coming back.
Ow! Oh, you are really staticky.
[Pulsing]
We'll be back. Come on, Yaz.
I think I handled that quite well.
[TARDIS engines]
The Master: If we correlate the latest tremor detection data
with the aforementioned ground deformation measurements,
cross referencing the increase in volcanic gas emissions
and rising magma levels,
we note... Doctor, look.
Ladies and gentlemen, that it would only take
the slightest tectonic pressure...
Do you like my seismologist collection?
I think I've got the whole set now.
All right. I followed your bread crumb trail.
Some people think you're Rasputin,
Got a TARDIS on a mental planet
with a stolen Qurunx,
guarded by your CyberMasters in 1916.
Now, do I win a prize if I guess how this all fits together?
Or are you just going to tell me while you're grandstanding?
Be patient. We'll get there.
How did you even escape from Gallifrey?
Magnificent attention to detail.
I'm a seismologist now.
You killed all these people. For what?
To give you a simple, fair warning.
Live Earth now, Doctor,
or it will be the death of you.
Because really, h-honestly, truly,
this is the day you die.
No. Not just die.
This is the day you are erased from existence...
forever.
♪
And a bit of a conversation stopper.
Awkward. Right, Yaz?
You see what I've done? I was so clever.
'Cause I can give her this warning.
But we both know she won't leave.
She can't, not now I've said that to her,
and yet, she knows she should
because she also knows I don't make empty threats.
I can absolutely, categorically,
pinky promise-y confirm
this is no empty threat.
Man: Go! Go, go, go, go!
Oh! Ooh!
You brought soldiers?
Are these for me?
Oh, you shouldn't have. Is this rendition?
I've always wanted to be renditioned. Or is it rendered?
Ooh, gentle, gentle, gentle, boys.
Am I going to UNIT?
I hope I'm going to UNIT.
Give her a gun.
What?
Cover him. We're gonna take him in the TARDIS.
Take the gun. Yaz, she must be worried.
Thought she didn't like guns.
Fine.
[Cocks gun]
Do you even know how to use that, love?
Don't you worry. I've had weapons training.
Now move.
Great chat. Good meeting. Thank you all.
Um, clear up the tiny bodies
and informed the loved ones for me, would you?
[Groans]
You're not going to shoot me.
Not on a TARDIS. Think of the mess.
Just in case you're wondering,
all this "I'm messing with your mind" chat,
I've heard worse on a Friday night in Sheffield.
[Laughs]
Can I let you in on a little secret?
[Gasps] It's okay. It's...
I ingested the Cyberium, the battle AI of the Cybermen.
I'm so many steps ahead. I can see it all.
Right through to all our ends.
I'm sorry, Yaz, this is going to be very, very painful.
In your dreams, mate.
Yeah.
UNIT will keep you under armed guard.
While I get rid of all the mess you've been scattering around the place.
Whatever you want.
I'm in her head.
I said, "I'm in your head, dear."
[Alarm blaring]
Are those Dalek symbols?
What are they, coordinates?
Wh-Why... Why are you get messages from Daleks?
Why is she getting messages from Daleks?
I'm sure there's a good reason.
Let's hope so.
Vinder: Status report.
Inston-Vee Vinder now exiting the wormhole.
I've survived and am detecting a life signal
from the missing Qurunx.
And the wormhole is playing hard up with the ship.
In summary, wormhole navigation was a really bad idea!
[Crashing]
♪
Okay. [Sighs]
[Beep]
Let's start with the good news.
The ship did accurately predict the wormhole
and managed to surf it with me inside.
Good news, part two.
It did lead me to the missing Qurunx.
So I guess you could say mission partially successful.
Except apparently it's connected some control system on a planet
that shouldn't even be here, according to the charts.
Oh, and I have a ship problem
in that it's... it's broken.
Thanks, wormhole.
♪
Wait.
Kate: Put him in the bunker.
Constant monitoring. Full security detail.
Oh, the bunker!
That sounds nice. I love a bunker.
Anybody want to join me?
Bunk up in the bunker?
Your dad was an idiot.
[Gasps] Oh!
Tegan Jovanka. How's your Auntie Vanessa?
Do you keep her in a little doll's house.
I'm going to enjoy watching you locked up in a tiny cell.
That's right. You tell me.
And Ace.
Or should I say, Dorothy?
Didn't The Doctor ditch you?
Yeah? Little fallout with your Machiavellian maestro?
Last time I saw you, you were half cat.
A man's allowed to experiment.
- Take him away. - Yes, yes, take me away.
You'll feel safer then with me in the building.
Get in.
You not staying, Doctor?
You're not going to leave them alone, are you?
[Soldiers grunt]
Oh, you go, darling. Come take me.
Whoo! The Doctor: Ace, Tegan,
I need you to stay here and monitor The Master.
We won't be long.
Ace: Professor, where are you going?
She really doesn't want us back in there.
♪
Love what you've done with the place.
Oh!
Darling, I don't seem to have the room service menu.
And I have allergies.
I'm human-intolerant.
No?
Just trying to lighten the tone before you all die.
Doctor, stop for a second.
I can't keep doing this with you.
Running from one place to the next, never explaining.
Sorry. No time.
Make time.
Daleks.
On the same day as The Master and Cybermen.
I know. They're either separate problems
or all part of one bigger scheme.
He doesn't have that power.
He couldn't corral Daleks and Cybermen.
Could he?
It's all happening so fast.
Whoo! Very sorry.
I am really staticky today.
You're going to meet a Dalek.
Has it never occurred to you that it could be a trap?
Of course it has.
But there's about to be a Dalek attack on Earth.
The one that tipped me off said it has information
which could help us stop the Daleks.
But not just now. All Daleks forever.
It's a calculated risk, and it's one I have to take.
[TARDIS engines]
♪
I'll take down there. Meet you back here.
Be careful.
I'm supposed to be the one saying that to you.
♪
I am surprised, Doctor. I was not sure you would come.
Well, I did.
Now give me the information you promised.
All data is contained within my casing.
You must be fast.
This will extract all the information.
You're really going to let me do this?
I am.
[Beeping]
Data transfer in progress.
I have betrayed my species.
You must ensure they are destroyed.
Dalek #2: Testing complete.
All systems are in place
and operating at maximum efficiency.
[Gasps]We are ready.
Oh, no. Oh, dear.
Seismology. Volcanoes.
Daleks.
And The Master.
No. This is not good news.
I'll get surveillance up on The Master's cell.
We can take turns watching. Whatever he's up to,
he can't do much from a UNIT prison cell.
I really thought I'd seen the last of him.
[Clatter]
Ace. The toy.
Oh. Didn't want to stay inside your bag.
Oh, Tegan,
you really think The Doctor cared enough to send you
even one meager toy?
How's he doing that?
The Doctor didn't send you that.
I did.
Knowing what you would do with it.
You'd keep it so close to you because you have nothing else.
Do you know the great thing about tissue compression?
It also works in reverse.
That ain't just any Cyberman.
It's a Russian doll.
♪
Oh, and say hello to my friend, Ashad.
I killed him once, but he's forgiven me now.
Ace: Tegan! [Laughs]
[Grunts]
Gold bullets, tin heads!
You think UNIT wouldn't be ready?
Why isn't it working?
We long ago developed resistance to gold.
Run!
Oh, run! [Laughs]
Run! Oh, look at them!
Kate: All units, full combat protocol.
UNIT is under attack.
I repeat, UNIT is under attack from Cybermen.
♪
[Grunts]
I am so glad I cloned here.
Every detail... [Grunts]
...paid off.
[Bar clatters]
Such a good plan.
Data transfer almost complete.
We are detected.
Stay where you are, Doctor.
You have no escape.
Was this your plan? To lure me in and then betray me?
I did not to betray you.
The traitor speaks the truth.
We allowed the traitor to contact you.
Force opening of traitor.
♪
Exterminate the traitor.
Exterminate.
Enter the casing, Doctor.
No.
- Obey. - Obey.
Be exterminated.
[Grunting]
Mission successful.
The Doctor is a prisoner of the Daleks.
Active spatial-temporal shift.
♪
I can do this. I can do this.
Uh...
[Gasps]
[TARDIS engines]
♪
[Cloister Bell tolling]
The Doctor's in danger.
There must be a Dalek teleport trace that we can follow.
That you can lock on to. Why am I talking to you?
♪
The Master: Hello, Doctor.
Welcome to the end of your existence.
Say hello to my friends.
I believable we're all acquainted, right?
Do you like the garb?
I love the garb. Got to dress for the occasion.
I was just thinking we could call this.
The Master's Dalek Plan.
Or The CyberDalek Master Plan.
Or The CyberMaster's Dalek Plan.
I can't quite get it.
But in the end, I suppose we'll just call it.
The Day I Killed the Doctor
with a Little Help from My Friends.
Your friends? They hate each other.
And the one thing stronger than their hatred for each other
is their hatred for you.
Just took a little handsome genius to find the answers, eh?
[Snaps fingers] What unites us
is stronger than what divides us.
I mean, that's very you, that, isn't it?
You love a team, don't you?
Letting every Tom, Dick, and Harriet into your TARDIS.
Well, you have your fam.
No, I have mine.
So everything else was a diversion?
No. No, no.
Not a diversion. Very important.
[Snaps fingers] Three-phase plan.
You'll see.
Except you won't. [Chuckles]
But rest assured, without you to defend it,
Earth will fall very, very fast.
I did warn you, Doctor.
♪
I'm going old-school, Doctor.
A tribute to our elders.
Do you remember the ultimate sanction for breaking our laws?
Forced regeneration.
They even did it to you once, didn't they?
Well, maybe more than once. Who knows? Not you.
You don't have the technology.
I do.
When I ransacked Gallifrey, I took everything.
But where would he get the power?
If only I had a planet built for this purpose.
No, wait, wait. I do!
[Laughs]
You did get that, right? A conversion planet.
Except it doesn't only convert organic to Cyber.
I brought it here to help another confession altogether.
[Whirring]
[Boney M.'s "Rasputin" plays]
♪
♪ There lived a certain man in Russia long ago ♪
♪ He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow ♪
♪ Most people looked at him with terror and with fear ♪
Okay, Doctor, this is my last roll of the dice.
Been carrying this around with me since you gave it to me.
♪ Full of ecstasy and fire ♪
♪ But he also was the kind of teacher ♪
You need my help?
I could certainly do with yours.
But I'm not holding out much hope.
♪ Ra ra Rasputin ♪
♪ Lover of the Russian queen ♪
♪ There was a cat that really was gone ♪
♪ Ra ra Rasputin ♪
♪ Russia's greatest love machine ♪
♪ It was a shame how he carried on ♪
♪
Let's get you out of there.
This is Inston-Vee Vinder saying,
if you need my help... Vinder.
...I could certainly do with yours.
The Master: Hello, TARDIS.
Receiving this loud and clear?
Say good-bye, Yaz.
TARDIS, lock on to his signal.
♪
Forced regeneration, Doctor.
To force you...
to regenerate...
into me.
Oh, no.
You wouldn't. [Grunts]
[Gasps]
[Dramatic music playing]
♪
Yaz!
♪
[Screaming]
♪
[Gasping]
[Groans]
♪
It worked.
♪
[Groans]
♪
I'm...
The Doctor.
[TARDIS engines]
♪
Oh, hello, Yasmin Khan.
Where's The Doctor?
My Doctor.
Gone.
Really gone.
Forever gone.
D-D-Don't worry.
You'll get used to me.
Everyone will.
I still need a companion to ask...
bask in my brilliance.
Come on, Yaz. Let's go on an adventure.
Don't make me ask twice.
I'd hate to have to bring you down to size.
Tegan: We only just got here.
They're all over the lower floors.
I have to lock down the building.
I can't risk them getting into the world.
You both need to leave. How?
You have these panels in every room.
Automated landing parachutes.
If you can't go down, you got to go up.
Off the roof? You're kidding.
I stashed some of my stuff in here earlier.
Hope you don't mind.
Very '80s. Thanks.
Come on, Tegan. I'll hold the lockdown till you're clear.
You carry that bag with you all the time.
Beyoncé copied all my moves.
Ah! Come on, Yaz!
Let's save a civilization.
Let's correct history.
Rescue a sick animal.
These yours?
Oh, bless.
Aah!
What's that?
That is some sort of dirty protest.
Unless you want to be consigned down a black hole for eternity,
you better behave!
I am The Doctor, and you will obey me.
[Gasps]
[Grunts]
Change back. Can't be done.
I know you're worried about what I'm going to do.
Simple. The Earth will become a foundry for Daleks
and Cyber production, hence the work in the volcano,
while I tarnish the name of The Doctor.
I'm going to make The Doctor a byword for fear, pain,
and destruction, so when people hear that name in future,
they will quake in...
If you think I am going to let you...
I am The Doctor now!
I am The Doctor!
[Grunting]
You should have shot me when you had the chance.
I need clothes.
Try to escape or touch anything,
and I'll kill you.
♪
Out here.
What are you doing?
[Siren wailing distantly]We can do this.
I brought them in, the Cybermen.
It's my mistake.
You go find The Doctor. I need to help Kate.
Tegan!
♪
The Master: Oh, lovely.
Gold star and a sticker.
That's how you stop two sides warring, Yaz.
Destroy them both.
Oh, hello.
I have a message for your remaining news viewers.
I am The Doctor...
and I caused this.
♪
See?
No one to stop me now.
No!
[TARDIS engines]
I'll wait. [Scoffs]
You'll be back.
And I have
all the time.
♪
[Playing recorder]
♪
Well, you're obviously
one of the more determined of us.
I'm sorry.
You refuse to pass through.
Quite the strength of character, this incarnation, hmm?
The question is, what are we going to do about it?
Do about what? Our predicament.
This is supposed to be handed over.
You can't ruin it for the next one.
And you were doing so well.
Where am I exactly? 'Cause the last thing
I remember is being forced to regenerate.
That's why we are here.
To stop you moving any further through.
You are not finished.
We are not finished.
We being...
Vestiges of your consciousness.
Fragments of yourself...
from the past.
Guardians of the edge.
Sorry, why are you not wearing...
I don't do robes.
There's always one, has to be different.
I am a manifestation of our consciousness.
I can wear what I like.
Can we just focus on this, whatever this is.
You said, "Guardians of the edge."
The edge of what?
[Gasping]
♪
Existence.
It's symbolic, obviously. Consciousness will do that.
But this is the place you pass through
during the process of regeneration.
Go past here, there's no way back.
But time's running out.
We can't let The Master
permanently hijack our existence.
Yes.
Very aware of that.
But I was thinking, in the immediate aftermath
of regeneration, the body's weak, unstable while it reforms.
Very good. Even more so with a forced regeneration.
So until it's settled, he may be vulnerable.
We need help from the outside.
Which is easier said than done.
Unless one of us or all of us were really clever.
I mean, this is why you manifested here,
to remind me there's always a way.
Things always work out.
Right?
Hello?
Come on. I need to get back to UNIT.
If I could work with the others to get The Doctor...
Hey! Aah!
If you're seeing this, I'm dead.
What?
Is that a bad way to start, bit overdramatic?
How's it looking?
I have been working on this literally forever.
It should adapt and respond to its environment
and whomever it's interacting with.
It's an interactive AI holo me, built from data
of my behavior across thousands of years,
and it should only activate
under the gravest circumstances.
Like if I'm no longer around.
Now, that'd be disastrous.
But I will have very subtly inserted
a sonically triggered nano implant under your skin
a passed it off as static electricity.
Ow! Ohh!
If I remember to do that. I must remember to do that.
You could have told us you'd done that.
Whoa. The emotional receptors
on the AI are a bit oversensitive.
Apparently you're annoyed about me?
Apparently I should apologize for something?
I've got a plan.
Tell me if I'm doing this right.
♪
[TARDIS engines]
Who said miracles don't happen?
- The Doctor's gone? - Worse than gone.
And we're the only ones to help her.
Could you go through it again, but slowly?
No. We're on our way to our next pickup. I hope.
Doctor, I need information.
Hiya. Hiya, Vinder!
How's she doing that? Shh.
Doctor, wow do you reverse a forced regeneration?
No, no, no, no. Forced regeneration
isn't something you ever want to be dealing with.
Is that what happens to me?
It's a hologram.
Can't hurt the feelings of a hologram.
Yeah.
How do we get real you back?
Real you.
No. Impossible.
Unless. No.
Calibrating. I'm thinking.
What... What was that?
Other interfaces, other me's.
Sorry, I'm processing the information.
Only one change.
I've seen it in extreme circumstances.
It's incredibly dangerous.
Anything could happen.
Are these extreme circumstances?
♪
Conversion pod is damaged.
Let the conversions begin.
Their army shall become ours.
[Screaming]
What are you doing?
You're supposed to be getting out of here.
Yeah, well, I didn't.
I don't have time to factor you in.
I have spent the past 30 years living like a nomad.
I have done land mines, coups, I have been hijacked,
and I've nearly drowned trying to help people.
I've seen off two husbands, and somewhere out there
is an adopted son who hasn't called me for six weeks.
And if that's not enough,
I was an air hostess in the early '80s.
And trust me, compared to that,
a building full of Cybermen is nothing.
Now, what's the plan?
Containment and structural termination.
They've taken out all the systems,
but in the basement, there's a manual
activation override for the structural termination system.
It'll level the building,
leave everything inside entombed.
You said basement.
We're at the top of the building with Cybermen in between.
There is a way out. It's not pretty.
But if you can get down there, I'll distract the Cybermen.
How are you going to do that?
[Screaming]
Kate: Attention, Cybermen.
I am the commanding officer of this facility,
and I have an offer for you.
If you can find me, that is.
With me. [Screams]
♪
Oh. Um...
Okay. That's high.
Oh, come on.
This used to be easy.
You're so good with heights.
Just do it.
Just step off.
Aah!
♪
Whoa! Aah!
How do you brake?!
Whoa! Aah!
♪
[Exhales sharply]
Hi.
Did you do that?
Can you fly the TARDIS? Does she let you?
I never got to fly the TARDIS. Whoa! Nice vibe.
Where's The Doctor? Hi. I'm Ace.
Inston-Vee Vinder.
Ace, how would you feel about me dropping you
under a Bolivian in Volcano so you can stop the Daleks
from flooding the world with lava?
Wicked.
Vinder, our mission is even more dangerous than that.
[TARDIS engines]
♪
Better?
[Door creaks closed]
I'm sorry.
Are you?
Truly?
Came back, didn't I?
We could have fun, you know?
I am fun.
Different type of fun. But fun.
We could travel.
You'll see.
♪
[TARDIS engines]
♪
The Doctor: Good hiding place.
Aah!
Great.
Now I'm hallucinating.
What... What are you...
You're affecting the interface
of your hologram implant.
It's reacting to your emotional memory.
I should have accounted for that.
You sort of look like you used to, but not quite.
I could say the same to you.
Surprised you remember.
You think you left and I never thought of you again.
I never forget any of you.
I remember everything.
Yeah? Well, what am I thinking seeing all these Cybermen?
[Metallic footsteps]
Adric.
No. Brave heart.
What?
I missed you.
Missed you, too.
Now, please don't get killed. Go.
♪
[Grunts]
♪
Tectonic flame depth achieved.
Progress on to next phase of activation.
Think I might've slightly overestimated
myself here, Professor.
Although I have souped up the Nitro-9.
Nitro-999. Just what we need.
Good work, Ace.
How are you doing that? In case you need
a bit of help, but it looks like you're doing fine.
So it's fine for me to blow stuff up when you decide?
Nothing's changed.
It's never fine to blow stuff up.
Sometimes, sadly, it's the only solution,
but only after fair warning.
What? Now it's getting freaky.
I was only ever trying to teach you good habits, Ace.
Obviously, I failed.
You never failed me, Professor.
You made me the person I am today.
I'm sorry we fell out.
I'm sorry I judged you.
I didn't understand the burden you carried.
All children leave home sooner or later.
The joy is to watch them fly.
So we're good?
Oh. We're more than good.
We're ace.
Now let's get that Nitro-999 going.
Dalek: Power levels now increasing.
Prepare to engage circuit four.
All sectors now engaging full power.
Gah! Aah!
Ah, you... Uh...
Easy, love. Arnold Palmer... son.
Volcano Inspector.
"Graham, friend of The Doctor." Oh.
"Former bus driver.
Worried about the amounts of Daleks in here
and what he's going to do about it."
Can't get the hang of this.
Listen. Those metal things,
they are from outer space
and they seem to be drilling to disrupt the tectonic plates.
We've got to get rid of them a bit sharpish.
I know. Want to see how I dealt with them in 1963?
196... How old are you?
Excuse me. A gentleman never asks that,
and never on the first date.
I'm Ace.
Yes, you are.
Human structural defenses removed.
UNIT commander detected in this area.
Kate: That's far enough.
Any further, and that laser shield
will shred at least some of you.
You should know that reinforcements
are already on the way, from all around the world.
Ashad: Let them come.
They will be recruits for the new Cyber Army.
We will spread from this building
in fire and glory to conquer humanity.
You underestimate us.
I understand you.
I was like you. Weak and feeble.
Actually, I'm neither.
♪
I have knowledge of this planet.
Of its security infrastructure. Of its leaders.
Who have no reason to offer this.
Release all the soldiers you hold.
Save them from conversion.
Let them go, and you can have me.
I'm of greater strategic value.
♪
You calculate this may earn you time
for reinforcements to arrive.
You are wrong. The Doctor is not coming.
The Doctor will never save you again.
I choose to believe otherwise.
Your surrender is accepted.
Your conversion shall begin.
♪
[Gasps]
Ah!
♪
[Grunting]
Rabbits!
Renegade human in the walls.
[Grunts, screams]
♪
[Screams]
Ah. Thank you for waiting, my precious fam.
And now it's time to kill
everyone.
♪
Unleash the volcanoes.
Volcanic eruption shall commence.
Disruptor pulse activation.
Destabilizing tectonic plates.
Every volcano on planet Earth shall be activated.
All humans shall be exterminated.
♪
Cyberman: Tectonic disruption in progress.
Volcanic eruptions increasing
across the surface of planet Earth.
Yaz: You're not The Doctor. You'll never be The Doctor.
On reflection, Yaz,
I think they make much better companions than you.
I think it's time for your execution.
Yeah, well, if they're much better than me,
why didn't they spot her coming?
♪
The Master: What's going on? Who are you?
I'm The Doctor, mate.
Who the hell are you?
Shoot her.
You sure you want to do that, boys?
Fire!
So it was just the genetic material
you put into them, was it?
Maybe you should have included the brains.
Next time, check for signs of a hologram.
Schoolboy error.
But then, you were a rubbish schoolboy, too.
Was this you?
Out-thought by The Doctor.
Get in the machine.
Or you'll what?
You heard her. Quickly.
And who are you?
Did you stow away in my TARDIS?
It's not your TARDIS.
If you're friend of The Doctor's,
you aren't going to use that.
[Grunts]
I'm freelance.
Gonna let him do this to me, Yaz, huh?
To your Doctor?
You're not my Doctor.
'Cause you know the greatest strength my Doctor has?
She spent her life gathering friends.
She can't help it.
And she is loved.
Because she taught us to never give up.
Even if someone steals your very existence.
[Pulsing]
They're starting. Yaz, over there.
You've got to harness their regenerative energy.
Right, burst of two seconds and then link it into that.
No! This is weird.
You were a tour guide in Gloucester the last time
I saw you. Nice trick to use
a different interface to confuse this lot.
Now.
♪
- No! - Will it be enough?
Hopefully enough to reverse.
It's happening.
Is it safe? I hope so.
I erased you, Doctor.
Don't let me go back to being me.
♪
What's happening?
Concentrate. Reunite.
Yes. Where there's hope.
Good luck, Doctor.
[Groaning]
♪
[Panting]
[Sighs]
Hi.
What'd I miss?
What am I wearing?
Forced regeneration.
Forced degeneration.
You've brought me back. Yaz, you saved my life.
You're welcome.
Guess that's me done.
My AI hologram worked. Oh, I am a genius.
See you around.
Vinder, what are you doing here?
Oh.Whoa. Are you all right?
A whole new lease on life, if memory serves me.
We've got a lot to do. Come on.
[Groans]
Ashad: Your soldiers offered pitiful resistance.
They shall begin their ascension,
as you shall now receive yours.
Bestow upon you the greatest of gifts.
Your conversion shall begin.
[Kate shuddering]
♪
No, no.
No. No. No!
[Screaming]
♪
Oh, my God. It's worse than a cockpit.
Picture on call.
Right, divert that power into that circuit.
You're not even here. I'm everywhere, me.
I'm using your ocular nerve to scan, analyze, and process.
The cyber conversion unit is powering itself from here.
But if we change that, then they'll get a nasty surprise.
♪
Aah!
Cyberman: You will be deleted.
[Screaming]
Human resistance...
[Screaming]
♪
Daleks are setting off volcanoes in 2022,
and here in 1916,
there's a big Cyber planet
which could convert the whole of Earth.
There's definitely a fix to both.
We just got to be quick.
Just piecing it all together.
♪
We used to be friends, him and me.
So how do we fix all those problems?
Have you not figured it out yet?
Obvious, isn't it? We're going to need some help, though.
All hands on deck.
Oi! Pepper pot!
Now, Graham! Vision impaired!
It's on us! Run!
♪
Timer still needs work.Yeah.
Pack a load of Nitro on to this.
Right. Should bring it down.
Well, hope the timers last longer on this batch
because the moment this rock goes up,
we've got to get to the surface fast,
get past a load of angry Daleks,
and I'd like to make it out of here alive.
Ready? Ready.
[Beeping]
♪
Graham! Hey, Doc.
How did you get here? How did you get here?
It's about to blow, Professor.
Dalek: Sabotage!
The Doctor is still alive.
Exterminate!
♪
Whoa!
[Both panting]
I'd only just signed the lease.
Wow. Remind me never to mess with either of you.
I thought that was a given.
And, yes, I would like to go in the TARDIS.
Ah.
Kate?
[The Master breathing raggedly]
♪
[TARDIS engines]
Okay.
So now it really is crowded in here.
Just how I like it. There you go.
I'm gonna need every single one of you... stand there.
No, no, no. Not that. There, yes.
Good. Okay. Everybody okay?
[All protesting simultaneously]
No, sorry. No time. Where's Ryan?
- Patagonia. - Vinder, is like your ship
on the surface of this Cyber planet?
Don't speak, no time. Come with me.
Another problem to solve.
When I say "now," activate everything.
Chop-chop, Vinder.
She's still not explaining anything then?
How is it bigger on the inside?
Never happier than when I'm fixing things.
What a ship. Stellar engineering.
Proper build. Whoo!
Fix all the damage. Still loads of miles in this.
If you've got an excellent engineer, which I am.
Repairs complete. What are you waiting for?
Get in, start her up.
You need to be off this planet
while the wormhole's still there.
Thank you, Doctor.
Thanks for being there for me.
How's your family, by the way? Send them my love.
Remember, when I say now, get off the planet's surface.
Safe travels.
♪
Everyone still in position?
Good. I'm in The Master's TARDIS.
He's clever. I'll give him that.
Using a TARDIS to power the spatial-temporal movement
of a Cyber conversion planet... What a mind.
What a TARDIS! Type 75.
A bit flashy for my taste. But way more powerful than mine.
But he's pushed TARDIS right to the edge,
burned out half his systems, marooned himself here.
So I'm linking the TARDISes.
I'm using mine to jump-start his.
So when I say "now," activate the control I gave you,
and we'll have a double-powered TARDIS.
- Now. - Go, go, go!
♪
Ha. She did it.
Thank you, Doctor.
Vinder heading home. I'll take it.
She really doesn't like it.
Are you sure this is gonna work?
No, this has to work. No margin for error.
[TARDIS engines]
♪
Yes! Temporal hop... 106 years.
Done.
Now, the conversion.
I really hope this works.
♪
Did she just freeze volcanos into steel?
Yes, I did.
Turning multiple planet-threatening situations
into public art. You're welcome.
Okay. Don't get cocky.
Now, one last thing
and we're done.
Graham: Do you think we can let go yet?
I'm sorry for what was done to you.
I'm sorry that you were taken and that you've been harnessed.
I'll see you released.
But I need one more thing from you.
Channel your energy down into this planet.
Disintegrate everything, and then you'll be free.
Ah! Yes, that's it!
Poor creature.
Or universe.
I never understand it.
♪
[Groaning loudly]
♪
Doctor!
You lost.
You gambled and you lost.
And now your body's failing
because of what you put it through.
Maybe.
But if I can't be The Doctor...
...neither can you.
Aah!
♪
She's fine. She's fine.
[Sighs]
♪
Extended fam.
♪
[TARDIS engines]
♪
Did we do it?
We did it.
Well, you did it.
Where is everyone?
I took them home.
Did ya?
That's clever.
Well, Croydon.
So close enough.
How long was I out?
A while.
[Cloister Bell tolling]
Oh! [Panting]
Why is the Cloister Bell ringing?
Doctor, look at your hand.
Oh, no.
No.
That's not right.
I need more time.
I want more time!
Ah!
♪
You know what this means, right?
Yeah?
It's all right. It's all right, Yaz.
One last trip.
Where would you choose?
And what flavor ice cream?
[Both chuckle]
♪
How many times do you think you've saved Earth?
I've lost count.
But look at it.
How could you not love a planet like that?
I don't want it to end.
♪
A wise person once said to me.
"Good-byes only hurt
because what came before was so special."
Oh. And it's been so special.
You...
and Graham and Ryan and Dan.
Nobody else got to be us.
Nobody else got to live our days.
Nobody.
And my heart is so full of love
of all of you.
Oh, I have...
loved being with you, Yaz.
And I have loved being me.
♪
I think I need to do this next bit alone.
Let's not say good-bye.
[Chuckles]
♪
[TARDIS engines]
[Indistinct conversation]
Graham: Look, it's definitely left, not right.
Dan: Graham, I know how to read a map.
Yeah, I understand that, but maybe let me just have a look.
I've got it there.
Just let me, please.
Yaz. Yaz?
How... How is she? How... How was she?
What are you doing here?
Didn't you get your invite?
I'm Graham.
And apparently I've got to be the first one to talk, so...
[Clears throat]
Right. I have this problem.
See, I met this person,
and I got washed away across all space and time.
I mean, I had the most amazing adventures, really.
I mean, you wait till you hear this.
I'm going to tell you 'em all.
But... But I came back,
and I actually can't tell anyone
because they'd have me put away.
[Laughter]
And that started me thinking, though.
I can't be the only one.
I can't. And look, I'm not.
I reckon there are more people out there, too.
So maybe this is where we share stories
about The Doc.
I will also say I may want to recruit for some work.
[Laughter]
Dan.
I've... I've only been back a month,
and I've got to say, I'm... I'm glad
I'm not on the verge of being exterminated anymore.
[Laughter]
But I do miss her.
[Sighs]
Sorry. Did you say...
"her."
How many Doctors are there?
I think we're going to be here for quite some time.
♪
Look after the next one.
You okay?
Is she okay?
Going to take in one last sunrise.
Of course she's okay.
She's The Doctor.
♪
Oh, the blossomiest blossom.
♪
That's the only sad thing.
I want to know what happens next.
Right, then.
Doctor Whoever I'm About to Be,
tag... you're it.
♪
[Panting]
I know these teeth.
What?
What?!
["Doctor Who" Theme plays]
What?!
♪