Doctor Who: Last of the Time Lords/The Doctor's Master

The Doctor's Master is the 10th episode of Doctor Who: Last of the Time Lords. This episode holds the return of several characters at UNIT, including Kate Stewart, Lisa, and the Defenders of Earth (Ice of London), as well as Michelle Gomez as Missy.

Script
''The Doctor puts on his sonic sunglasses. He puts down the sonic hologram device and grabs the FLIPCAE. He then looks at the monitor of the TARDIS.''

Doctor: Well, time can be rewritten if I want it to be!

The Doctor runs around the TARDIS, pulling switches and levers.

Dalek Thine: What are you talking about?

Doctor: I don't feel like dying today, so I'm not going to.

Dalek Thine: I do not understand. Please explain.

''The Doctor falls on the floor. The lights in the TARDIS turn off.''

Doctor: What's happening to me?

''The Doctor curls up and holds his head. He repeatedly yells.''

Dalek Thine: What is the meaning of this?

Doctor: My time is up! I'm... I'm breaking.

The TARDIS dimension is compressed to a single room.

Doctor: Today is the day, Dalek Thine.

Dalek Thine: Which day?

Doctor: I forgot... And now I remember...

Dalek Thine: Which day, Doctor?

Doctor: The eighth day of the week. Happy Doomsday.

''Altered title sequence. Gears explode and the Time Vortex (with a red background) falls down. Lightning strikes several times. The TARDIS is not present.''

The Doctor runs around the TARDIS and pulls many levers.

Doctor: Dalek Thine, I need you to exit the TARDIS immediately.

Dalek Thine: Why?

''The TARDIS lands in the UNIT headquarters. The Doctor steps out. A female soldier walks up.''

Doctor: I would highly appreciate if you were to kindly instruct me to your leader.

Soldier: Get the hell out of here, Doctor. You aren't welcome.

Doctor: Could you elaborate? I'm at UNIT, right? Where's Kate?

Soldier: You killed them. All of them.

Doctor: All of what?

Soldier: Our soldiers- our... Agents, I mean. They called for help.

Doctor: No... I couldn't have done that. There must be some misunderstanding here. The Teselecta, maybe? But no, that isn't the important part... The important part is that they're dead. I have to go see them back in time, I suppose.

Soldier: No. You don't understand.

Doctor: I perfectly understand. You don't. I'm right, you're wrong.

Soldier: Doctor, no. You were the one who killed them.

Doctor: There's no reason for me to do that, and I never would. From that logic, I can tell that I'm not going to. Who are you, anyways?

Soldier: My name is Maya Flora. I'm part of the Scotland division of UNIT. I haven't been ordered to kill you Doctor. I'm supposed to tell you that the Earth is not your home. Leave before someone catches you breaking in.

The Doctor looks saddened.

Doctor: Very well, then, Miss Flora. I'll be seeing you very soon from your perspective.

Maya: Doctor-

''The Doctor closes the TARDIS door. Maya walks away. He then opens it again.''

Doctor: Excuse me, but why do you think that was me? There's no way that I would kill them- while fully conscious, at least.

Maya: We don't know... We just have to assume. All we know is that you told them that there was a problem in the Galerie des Glaces.

The Doctor presses the sonic sunglasses' trigger.

Doctor: That's strange. There is indeed a problem in the Galerie des Glaces... However, it's in the 1680s. I couldn't possibly kill them all from there at that point in time or ask them all to get into my TARDIS. Even if there were a problem in the modern day Galerie, I still wouldn't be able to kill them from there unless I did it immediately after I told them.

Maya: Well, you did, Doctor.

''Maya throws a Dalek eyestalk to the Doctor. The Doctor closes the door behind him and grabs it. He puts it in his jacket.''

Doctor: Dalek Thine...

''Maya walks away. The Doctor looks at her as she walks away, then steps back into his TARDIS. He slowly walks over towards the console and begins to fly it.''

Dalek Thine: Who was that, Doctor?

Doctor: Someone irrelevant and from the future.

Dalek Thine: What was your talk about Doomsday earlier?

Doctor: From your perspective of today, something's going to happen that will largely affect the world. Anyways, I'm going to need to take you to meet my friends.

''The TARDIS lands in modern-day UNIT. The Doctor and Dalek Thine get out of it.''

Doctor: Stop, don't shoot at him! He's friendly and likes to hug people.

Dalek Thine: No, I do not.

Kate Stewart: Why did you bring a Dalek, Doctor?

Doctor: This is my... Sort-of companion at the moment. That other girl's lost and I need you to watch him. His name's Dalek Thine, and he's against all of the other Daleks.

The Doctor turns to Dalek Thine.

Doctor: Wait, why are you against the Daleks?

Dalek Thine: That isn't important right now, Doctor.

Doctor: Anyways, Kate, I'm off to solve a problem in the Galerie des Glaces. Do you happen to have a Vortex Manipulator?

Kate: Can't you just use the TARDIS?

The TARDIS goes into siege mode immediately.

Doctor: No, I can't. I'm going to need to leave it with Dalek Thine right now.

Kate: What just happened to it?

Doctor: Siege mode. Nothing gets in or out. Vortex Manipulator me, please.

''The Doctor picks up the TARDIS and stores it into Dalek Thine's shell. He walks with Kate to the Black Archive.''

Kate: This Vortex Manipulator was found recently. It was on a trail of extraterrestrial objects. This was the first one from Earth.

Doctor: What did it lead to?

Kate: Our team hasn't found the end yet. Several squads around the world have found these objects, and they all seem to be connected somehow.

The Doctor looks concerned.

Doctor: Look into it for me with your squad of Earth Defenders while I'm gone, will you? I'll see you all later.

Kate: We sent out the Earth Defenders.

Doctor: Well, you made a mistake.

The Doctor picks up the Vortex Manipulator and goes back in time.

Kate: Follow me, Dalek Thine. He told us to look into it, so that's what we're going to do.

''Kate and Dalek Thine head to another part of UNIT. They find Lisa, frightened by the sight of the Dalek.''

Lisa: What's a Dalek doing here?

Kate: I'll explain later. The Doctor told us to look further into the incident.

Dalek Thine: What is special about this?

Lisa: They just appeared one day. They weren't there before, and it's still going. Here, I'll pull up the points of what we've found so far.

Lisa pulls up a list of 27 blue points and one red point on a computer.

Lisa: Every second object also seems to have a letter attached to it. So far, we've got these letters in this order: C, E, N, T, D, T, N, O, H, E, T, O, and C. We don't know what they mean. We think it's the name of an alien ship. We haven't found anymore objects in about a month.

Dalek Thine: That sounds like a message. Perhaps an anagram? What's that red point on the map?

Lisa: We're tracking the current squad that we sent out.

Kate's phone rings.

Kate: Sorry, I'm going to need to take this.

Kate steps outside the room and answers the phone.

Kate: Hello? Have you found anything?

Mickey: Yes. It looks like the Doctor's sonic screwdriver. It has the letter "S" attached to it, but that's not what's strange about it. It says "THE END" after that, and then it has an instruction telling us to stay where we are.

Kate: Don't worry. Just stay there for now.

Kate walks back into the room.

Kate: They found the letter "S." They think it's the last one. Mark it on the map.

Lisa: Will do.

''Lisa marks the point on the map. Dalek Thine steps up to the computer.''

Dalek Thine: Let me do this.

Dalek Thine presses his manipulator arm against the computer.

Lisa: What's he doing?

Dalek Thine: Connect the dots.

Kate: What are you talking about?

Dalek Thine: This is an anagram. It says to connect the dots.

Kate: Maybe it means the points on the maps? Connect them.

''Dalek Thine proceeds to use his manipulator arm to connect the points on the computer's map. They arrange into a strange shape.''

Lisa: What could that be?

Kate: Perhaps you could tilt the image a bit? Turn it upside down?

The image is tilted upside down.

Lisa: It looks like a message... M... I... S... S... Y.

Kate: Oh gosh, it's her. We need to contact the Earth Defenders immediately.

Kate picks up her phone and dials a number.

Kate: Mickey? Are you okay? Are you with the other Earth Defenders?

Missy: Well, what do we have here?

Kate: What did you do to Mickey?

Missy: Was the owner of this phone named Mickey? Well, too bad. I killed him. I'm the only one who's allowed to be so fine.

Kate: You killed them?

Missy: Only him. He had the most attractive phone. Anyways, not permanently, no. I'm always welcome in hell.

Kate: Save him or we're going to kill you.

Missy: Don't worry, I will in a few minutes. Just had to get the fear factor there.

Kate: Save him now.

Missy: Alright, I'll call you back later.

''Missy hangs up the phone. It rings again a few seconds later. Kate picks up.''

Missy: Hello again.

Kate: How did you-

Missy: I'm a Time Lady, what do you expect?

Kate: Did you save him?

Missy: I don't usually do this sort of thing, but it's the end of the world, so why not?

Kate: End of the world?

Missy: I'll explain later. I'll be there in a few seconds.

Kate: Few seconds?

''Missy hangs up again. A car crashes through the wall. Missy steps out of it.''

Missy: Well, hello there.

Kate: Where are they?

The Defenders of Earth, excluding Katherine, step out of the car.

Missy: Right here.

Kate: How did they fit in there?

Missy: You'll find that the interior is a bit larger than the exterior.

The Doctor arrives at the Galerie des Glaces in the 1680s.

Doctor: Ah, the Galerie des Glaces. The Hall of Mirrors, or, the translation that I prefer, the Hall of Ice Creams.

A man with a long black wig walks out.

Man: Sir, what are you doing here?

Doctor: I'm the exterminator. I've been called to get rid of some pests.

Man: Guards!

Doctor: No, don't call for the guards. Give it a couple of centuries and it will be entirely legal for me to stand here.

Man: What are you talking about?

Doctor: You know, a time past your king and his obnoxious wig. Kind of looks like you actually- oh. Oh, your Louis XIV. Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you or your hair, your highness.

Louis XIV: Get out!

Doctor: No, something's definitely wrong here. You didn't act this way last time I visited! Of course, that was in the middle of September in 1715, and you weren't exactly- no, I won't tell you.

Louis XIV: Are you some kind of sorcerer? Like a witch or something?

Doctor: No, those trials aren't supposed to begin until 1692.

Louis XIV: Guards, throw this man out of the Hall immediately! Where are they? I haven't seen them all day!

Doctor: I'll be right back.

''The Doctor enters coordinates on the Vortex Manipulator and disappears. He then reappears after a few seconds.''

Louis XIV: What just happened?

Doctor: Well, let's put it this way. Your guards are… tomorrow.

Louis XIV: What does that mean?

Doctor: You'll find out soon enough. Now, I'm going to need you to leave.

Louis XIV: I'm not just going to leave, sir! Who are you, anyways?

Doctor: My name is Dances with Daleks, and you are going to leave, King Louis XIV.

Louis XIV: I'm not afraid of you.

Doctor: But what if I have sunglasses that make a buzzy noise?

The Doctor puts on his sonic sunglasses and presses the button.

Louis XIV: I get it. You're one of those secret agents, aren't you?

Doctor: No, I'm an alien… A strange creature from another world. I come from the sky and I'm very, very scary.

Louis XIV: An alien? Ha! You don't even look like one! You must be a comedian.

Doctor: Seriously. Take my pulse.

''The Doctor puts out both of his wrists. Louis XIV feels the Doctor's right wrist.''

Louis XIV: A bit unusual, but nothing unearthly.

The Doctor shakes his head.

Doctor: Both wrists.

Louis XIV, confused, feels the other wrist at the same time.

Louis XIV: The heart is beating at a different pulse on your left wrist.

Doctor: Exactly. I have two hearts.

Louis XIV lets go, acting disgusted.

Louis XIV: How is that possible?

Doctor: Doesn't matter. You won't remember this anyways. All you need to know is that you best leave me alone or I'll destroy the world.

Louis XIV: Yes, yes sir... Just don't destroy or ruin anything in here, I beg of you.

Doctor: I promise.

''Louis XIV runs away. The Doctor takes out his curioscanner. When he turns it on, it beeps quickly.''

Doctor: That definitely doesn't help. Where are you, problem? Show yourself!

At present-day UNIT, Missy gestures towards Kate.

Missy: Come on. Get off the floor. We need to get going.

Kate: Going? Where?

Missy: On an adventure! You like those, don't you?

Kate: What are you talking about?

Osgood 1: Trust her.

Kate: Well-

Kate stops and looks confused for a second.

Kate: Osgood? Why are you on her side?

McGillop: You know what she's capable of.

Missy: Yes, that's it! I can do things and that's why they're with me!

Kate: I don't trust that. Are they even real?

Missy: Why wouldn't they be real?

Kate: One of you, tell me something that only I would know.

Everyone is silent.

Martha: Torchwood?

Kate: Not good enough. Give me something else.

Mickey: What about the time I was trapped in an alternate dimension, fighting against the Cybermen? Do you know about that?

Kate: Okay, that's pretty good, I guess.

Missy: So now you agree with me. Get in the van.

Kate: Wait, what were you talking about on the phone? The end of the world?

Missy: Doesn't matter now. Just get in the van.

Dalek Thine: Who is she?

Missy: I'm Missy, the Doctor's best friend who he hates. I used to be male.

Dalek Thine: What does that mean?

Kate: I'm not getting in your car until you answer my question.

Missy: I'm not going to negotiate with you. Get in the van or else.

Kate: Or else what?

Missy: Oh, did you just ask that question?

Missy closes the door of the car.

Missy: Or else the world will end, and you will be the one to blame. Get in the van now.

Kate: Since when do you care about the world?

Missy: I don't. I care about the Doctor. Get in the van.

Kate reluctantly opens the door and gets in the car.

Missy: You, too.

The Defenders of Earth and Dalek Thine follow her in.

Dalek Thine: This is like the Doctor's TARDIS.

Kate: I think it is. How does it look like a car though?

Missy: It's a Type 98. Technically, in your words, it's not called a TARDIS anymore, it's just a tank. A spacetime-traveling tank with a chameleon circuit.

Osgood 2: Could you explain to us where we're going now?

Missy: Get your seat belts on. We're going on a road trip through time and space.

The Doctor looks around the Hall of Mirrors.

Doctor: Where could it be?

The Doctor sees an object with a drape over it.

Doctor: Ah, there it is.

The Doctor takes off the drape, revealing a mirror.

Doctor: Doesn't seem out of the ordinary… so, what are you?

''The Doctor uses his sunglasses. Nothing happens.''

Doctor: Show yourself!

Something echoes back in the Doctor's voice.

Echo: You are afraid.

Doctor: No, I'm not! Who are you?

Echo: I am the Doctor.

Doctor: Yes, you sound like me, but who are you really? Some sort of monster that can steal people?

Echo: I am the Doctor.

Doctor: You keep saying that, but you aren't! You're-

The Doctor turns to the mirror.

Mirror: I am the Doctor.

Doctor: Are you an alien life form of some sort?

Mirror: I am the last of the Time Lords.

Doctor: No, you aren't. You must be something that I have never encountered before, and believe me, those aren't entirely rare. In fact, that may very well mean that your story ends today.

Mirror: If my story ends, then so does yours.

Doctor: So that's how you work? If you die, I die? Because we're connected, I assume?

Mirror: We are not connected. We are one and the same, Doctor. What happens to you happens to me.

Doctor: That doesn't make any sense at all. How could we be having a conversation here if we are exactly the same?

Mirror: There's an anomaly here. The link between our universes has shattered at this spot in time and space.

Doctor: A link? You're from another universe?

Mirror: No, you're from another universe. A mirror universe to mine.

Doctor: The problem with that is you're also in a mirror universe to mine, meaning that there would be no original universe to begin with. That, and the fact that I didn't know about the link before you told me, meaning that one of us isn't the Doctor.

Mirror: That's the funny thing about mirror universes. They don't always function as they are supposed to.

Doctor: They should.

Mirror: There's a reason this link broke at this point in time. It didn't happen on accident.

Doctor: This happened on purpose?

Mirror: The universes made this happen on purpose. The universe doesn't just forget something.

The Doctor is silent and looks confused.

Mirror: What's that face, Doctor?

The Doctor remains silent.

Mirror: Oh. You don't understand?

Doctor: The universe is neither conscious nor a physical being. It can't just make decisions by itself.

Mirror: Smaller things can impact it.

Doctor: Why are we even talking about this? There's no such thing as a mirror universe.

Mirror: Of course there is. You've just never known.

Doctor: It still seems impossible for that to work, and that seems entirely useless anyways.

Mirror: It's not, Doctor. There can be communication between the two.

Doctor: And I'm supposed to believe that two universes that are exactly the same at every point in time can be completely different just once?

Mirror: On accident? Yes.

Doctor: No. Anyways, you specifically told me that this was on purpose.

Mirror: It was.

Doctor: Then what are you talking about? In no way can we have different knowledge.

Mirror: There are many ways, Doctor. One is a paradox.

''The Doctor looks concerned. The Doctor in the mirror takes off his sunglasses, and so does the real Doctor.''

Mirror: I know what question you're going to ask next- which paradox?

Doctor: How did you do that? How did you make me follow your actions? And how did you know what I was going to ask?

Mirror: Let me ask you this, Doctor- which one of us is on the side of the mirror with control?

''Missy gets near the doors of her TARDIS, where the console has been moved to. She sits down in a seat and looks through a glass window.''

Kate: Where are you taking us?

Missy: I don't need to answer that. Let's go.

Missy tries to start up the TARDIS, but it just rumbles.

Missy: Can someone get the flux capacitor working?

Kate: Flux capacitor?

Missy: No, of course not. We're out of gas.

Osgood 2: I thought you said we had more than enough gas to get us here.

Missy: Yes, that's true. I emptied the gas tank in the middle of the Time Vortex.

Dalek Thine: What? Why would you do that?

Missy: Because I knew we would have more than enough time to get more.

Kate: Why does a TARDIS run on gas?

Mickey: Exactly, that's what I asked.

Missy: I made it do that.

Dalek Thine: Why?

Missy: So we could get more.

Martha: Why do we need gas?

Missy: To refill the gas tank.

Osgood 1: But why did you add a gas tank?

Missy: I already answered that.

McGillop: Why are you doing this?

Missy opens the door.

Missy: Come on. I'll explain on the way. Get out of the van.

''Everyone gets out of the van. They walk outside of UNIT headquarters.''

Missy: If a tree makes a sound and nobody's around to hear it, does it still make a sound?

The Doctor is shown in the Hall of Mirrors as Missy speaks.

Missy: You humans believe that there's such thing as cause to effect, yet some of you still ask that question.

Doctor: I would like to let you know that I have full control of myself.

The Doctor puts the sunglasses back on, and the mirror Doctor does, too.

Mirror: And do you think I do?

''The mirror Doctor takes off the sunglasses and throws them on the ground. He crushes them under his foot. The Doctor repeats his actions.''

Mirror: Don't you feel it?

Missy: The answer's obviously yes, but let me explain the butterfly effect.

Mirror: Neither of us think we're a puppet… One of us has to be, though. Which one of us is the original, Doctor? One of us has to be for the mirror universe to exist in the first place. You don't understand this logic.

Doctor: I completely understand the logic behind that, and it's that there isn't any! I am the Doctor.

Mirror: That's the problem.

Missy: You've probably heard of it already, but let me continue anyways.

Mirror: Both of our universes had to be created at the exact same time, so which one of our universes were modeled after the other? Think about it.

Doctor: Neither.

Missy: Sometimes, a butterfly flaps its wings in order to fly.

Doctor: I still don't believe that you are from a mirror universe. That would imply that you are exactly the same as me, yet you are not.

Mirror: You're almost right. You're just wrong about everything you aren't right about.

Doctor: Then what am I right about?

Mirror: That I'm not exactly the same as you.

Missy: And sometimes, there are hurricanes.

Mirror: It's not called a mirror universe because it's exactly the same, and it's not called that because it's in a mirror.

The Doctors move closer to the mirror on both sides.

Mirror: You don't look into a mirror and see a mirror universe. That's not how it works. That would be silly.

Doctor: Then what is a mirror universe?

Mirror: A universe for your reflection.

The Doctor is suddenly in a room surrounded by mirrors.

Doctor: What is this?

Missy: A butterfly flapping its wings a few weeks ago could be the cause of a hurricane now.

Mirrors: I am the Doctor. The other Doctor.

Doctor: None of you are the Doctor!

Mirrors: How will you stop us?

Doctor: You can't control me anymore. There are infinite versions of you now, reflecting yourself through yourself, and none of them can control me.

Missy: A long, long time ago, there was a butterfly.

Doctor: And-

Mirrors: Go ahead, Doctor. Break me.

Doctor: No. That's what you want me to do.

Mirrors: Then how are you going to end this?

The Doctor looks around.

Missy: And that butterfly didn't flap its wings, ever. Just so he didn't have to start a hurricane.

Doctor: Think about this, Doctor…

The Doctor stops at the original mirror and turns around.

Doctor: What do I have to do?

Mirrors: Break me now.

Doctor: No, I'm not going to break you! I'm not going to let you control me!

Mirrors: It's a fixed point in time, Doctor.

The Doctor turns to the right.

Mirrors: How are you going to fix the link?

Doctor: Well, let me tell you how I'm going to do it.

The Doctor starts turning around again.

Doctor: I am the Doctor, and I'm not going to listen to you.

Mirrors: Then how are you going to do this?

Doctor: I'll leave with my Vortex Manipulator. If I'm not here, you won't be, either.

Mirrors: The link doesn't go past today.

Doctor: I made a promise to not break anything in this gallery, and I'm going to keep it.

Mirrors: Nobody else will be here to break it, Doctor.

The Doctor stands at the original mirror again.

Mirrors: You know it's true.

The Doctor looks angered.

Mirrors: It's a fixed point in time.

Missy: And then one day…

''The Doctor punches, breaking the mirror. Everything in the room shatters aside from the Doctor, who is now back in the Hall of Mirrors with the broken mirror.''

Missy: That butterfly had no other choice but to flap its wings.

The Doctor sits on the floor, angered at himself and holding his hands over his face.

Doctor: What have I done? What have I done?

Missy holds a can of gasoline back at UNIT headquarters and inserts it into her TARDIS' gas tank.

Missy: It's been a long time since then, but only now do we have to prepare for the hurricane.

McGillop: I still don't get why you installed a gas tank.

Missy: It would be immensely boring for me to explain that if we didn't do something in the meantime.

Missy opens the door to her TARDIS.

Missy: Now, get back in the van.

Everyone gets back in her TARDIS again, and Missy goes to the console.

Missy: Let's find the person who can help us.

Dalek Thine: How will we drive out of here?

Kate: It's a TARDIS, we don't have to drive.

Missy: Yes, we do. Buckle up.

Kate: What?

Missy starts up the TARDIS.

Missy: We have to leave here at an exact time. Five… four… three… two… one.

Missy pulls the reverse lever and the TARDIS starts going backwards.

Missy: I never got my driver's license, by the way.

Everyone in the TARDIS except for Missy and Dalek Thine are knocked backwards.

NEXT TIME…

Mickey: Where are we?

Missy: I have no idea.

Dalek Thine: You think the Doctor is here?

Jenny: What are you doing on this planet?

Katherine: HELP!

Cast

 * Peter Capaldi as the Doctor
 * Nicholas Briggs as Dalek Thine
 * Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart
 * Michelle Gomez as Missy
 * Noel Clarke as Mickey Smith
 * Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones
 * Ingrid Oliver as Petronella Osgood
 * Jill Winternitz as Lisa
 * Julie Graham as Maya Flora
 * Hugh Laurie as Louis XIV

Uncredited

 * Peter Capaldi as the Doctor in the mirror
 * Ingrid Oliver as second Petronella Osgood