Doctor Who (2023) s01e08 Episode Script
Empire of Death
[SUSAN, DISTORTED]
I bring Sutekh's gift of death.
For you.
And for all of this tiny,
vile, incessant universe.
[THEME SONG PLAYING]
Doctor!
All of you, everyone, get out!
- All of you, get out! Get out! Go!
- I bring Sutekh's dust of death.
[MEL] Come on! Let's go!
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
[GASPS]
[GASPING]
Doc! Come on! Let's go!
Hop on, cowboy.
- [TYRES SQUEAL]
- [DOCTOR] Kate, this is the Doctor.
We're on our way back.
Try to contain that thing.
- I bring Sutekh's dust of death.
- Open fire. All weapons.
[SUTEKH GROANS]
[ROARING]
[GASPS]
Why can't I see her?
All the bullets turned to dust, ma'am.
[SUTEKH GROWLS]
Oh, one day.
I bring Sutekh's dust of death.
[KATE] Doctor, are you there?
This is me signing off
with thanks and love.
And please send this monster
back into hell.
No!
Because I have to hope
the birds will sing again.
There will be birds.
[PEOPLE SCREAMING, CLAMOURING]
There's nothing we can do
- except fight.
- [PEDAL CLICKS]
[ENGINE REVS]
- [HORN HONKS]
- [SCREAMS]
Faster! Mel, faster!
I'm going as fast as I can!
No, I mean faster!
[SCREAMING, CLAMOURING CONTINUES]
[PASSENGER] We're gonna
die! We're gonna die!
Mel, go right!
[TYRES SQUEAL]
[REPORTER] We interrupt this broadcast
with warnings of an
incident in central London.
People are being told
to evacuate the city immediately.
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
What is it? What's going on?
Do you believe in the power of prayer?
I most certainly do.
Then tell your Maker
I will come to storm down
his gates of gold
and seize his kingdom in my true name.
[STAMMERS] What you talking about?
Who Who are you?
I'm sorry, you tiny, little woman.
I'm so, so sorry it ends like this.
I had such plans.
[HUMMING]
[TARDIS THUDS]
[AUTOMATED VOICE] Time Membrane failing.
You, get out. Bunker 17 now.
Doctor, my mother. Why can't we see her?
Ruby, we have got worse problems.
[CHUCKLES]
[SIGHS]
[THE SONIC WHIRS]
[EXHALES] Okay.
It's a TARDIS remembered.
It's made of memories.
Ruby, it is feeding off you.
Yeah, give it everything you've
got, babes. Remember it harder.
Yes, yes. Yes, I can. Yes.
[DOCTOR] If time is a memory,
then memory is a time machine.
[TARDIS GROANING]
Yes. Yes. That's it.
More. More, more, more.
[CLOISTER BELL RINGS]
That should do it.
Okay.
[INHALES SHARPLY] All right.
The TARDIS is remembering itself.
Doctor!
[SUTEKH GROWLING]
We meet again, my old friend.
Don't you dare.
Doctor, what is that thing?
Sutekh. The Death of Ages.
The Typhonian Beast.
The greatest monster I have ever fought.
[SARAH] If Sutekh is so totally evil,
why didn't Horus and the
other Osirans destroy him?
- The Time Window has my memories too.
- It was against their code.
To have killed him would've meant
that they were no better than he
- [MEL] It's your life, Doctor.
- so they simply imprisoned him.
It's telling the story of your life.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
A long time ago, in the England of 1911,
Sutekh had been bound and
imprisoned for all eternity.
But he rose again, and I defeated him.
I cast you into the Time Vortex.
I sent you forward to your own death.
Instead, I found a home.
I clung to your infernal machine,
and for so many years, I hid.
I have travelled with you
for all this time,
riding the spine of your ship,
staring into eternity and
evolving into my true godhood.
Now I know every beat of the
heart of your time machine,
and I can bend it to my will.
- [TARDIS GROANING]
- [SUTEKH] It will stand as my altar.
The temple of my empire of death.
- [BREATHES SHAKILY]
- Never yours again, Doctor. Never.
But I saw inside the TARDIS.
So many secrets.
Her name.
- Susan.
- [SUTEKH] The perfect trap.
I created an apparition of her universe
so that every time we landed
on every single world,
I birthed them all.
My angels of death,
now standing triumphant
across the universe.
I bring Sutekh's dust of death.
Every living thing is an abomination.
I am come to release them
into blessed deaths.
And I find that good.
And I damn you, Sutekh.
I damn you in the name of life itself.
And I swear to you,
with both the hearts
of the last of the Time Lords,
I will stop you.
I will defeat you.
And I will turn back death.
And why am I still alive?
Killing me is your gift.
And believe me, Sutekh,
I am an extinction event.
So, what is stopping you?
Why is the god of death not killing me?
What am I missing?
[GROWLS]
I'll tell you a secret, Sute.
This feeling that you
have now, this doubt
Have you ever felt so alive?
[GROWLS]
And doesn't it feel good?
[GROWLING]
Run.
Whoa!
- What is it?
- [DOCTOR] It's a remembered TARDIS.
[TARDIS POWERS UP]
[DOCTOR] It's bits and pieces
of every TARDIS that ever was.
Held together by hopes
and wishes and luck.
[DIAL CLICKING]
[CONSOLE BEEPING]
Wait. Does this thing work? Can it fly?
No idea. [CHUCKLES, GASPS]
- [TARDIS GROANING]
- [ALL GASP]
[PANTS]
No! No, no, no, no, no,
no, no! We need that!
- [EXCLAIMS]
- [MEL GROANS]
- [GASPING]
- Right. Ruby Roo, Ruby Roo.
Tie that to that.
- Yeah? We're good.
- All right.
- Oh.
- Mel?
- What?
- Tie that lever down.
All those switches,
down, down, down. Yeah?
Ruby, see these wires?
Tie them together. Tie them tight.
Doctor, we're on fire.
- Is this thing safe?
- Absolute death trap, Melanie B.
- [GRUNTS]
- [DOCTOR] Okay.
- [METAL CLANGS]
- [RUBY GRUNTS]
Yeah, that's better.
- [TARDIS GROANING FADES]
- Okay. Okay, that's it.
That's it.
Calm down.
[SIGHS, EXHALES]
[SIGHS]
Oh, no, no.
That's it. Nice and easy.
Okay.
- [SIGHS] You see?
- [RUBY SIGHS]
[CHUCKLES]
[MEL, DOCTOR LAUGH]
That hook is a molecular bond.
- It's like intelligent rope.
- What? You mean, like
Intelligent glove.
That was the first day we met.
Man, I am so sorry.
We've gotta stabilise.
Because without the Time Window's
memories, we go kaboom.
That screen is holding
the TARDIS together.
[SIGHS] Okay.
So, what did I miss?
Every Susan Triad, they were innocent?
- They were all real?
- Absolutely real.
Every time the TARDIS would land,
it would roll her out like
[SIGHS] Okay, so the the
TARDIS has a perception filter
so it doesn't get noticed.
It just sits there, kind of unseen.
'Cause it casts a field around it
at 66.7 metres exactly.
Seventy-three yards.
How do you know that?
[STAMMERS] I don't
I don't know. I just do.
Funny things happen at 73 yards.
People say that you can see things.
So, Sutekh, he used this field,
but he used it massively.
He focused his mind
and created a whole new person
everywhere I'd land.
But perception means that she
fitted in. She had character.
She had history. She had a truth.
But Doctor, you landed
on Earth a hundred times.
[DOCTOR] I think that
she was reborn every time.
Each time the TARDIS would land,
the idea of that woman
would get stronger.
By 2024, she was Susan Triad.
This monumental figure.
[RUBY] What has she done?
Sutekh called her an angel of death.
What did she do?
The dust of death.
Spreading all over the world.
- My mother, is she
- [DOCTOR] It's everyone.
- No, but can't you just
- Nothing I can do.
[INHALES SHARPLY] She was [SIGHS]
It's happening over and over again.
Every time I landed there.
1999
1066
The Earth is dying.
So many times.
[DEVICE WARBLES]
[CLANKS]
Every world that I ever stood upon
All dead.
Venus.
Telos. Karn.
The Ood-Sphere.
- And Skaro.
- The Daleks are dead.
Everything is dead.
[MEL] But
There are so many places
you haven't been.
They must be safe.
I've travelled so far.
Everything caught
in that pattern is dying.
The whole of time and space.
I did this.
You did not.
No.
Every sun is dead.
The universe has come to a halt.
And it is my fault.
'Cause I travelled to all those worlds.
I thought it was fun.
[INHALES SHAKILY]
[SCREAMING]
[INHALES SHAKILY, SCREAMING]
The universe stands silent in death.
Yet one thing persists.
One thing keeps living despite me.
The Time Lord.
No. Greater than him.
A secret the child carries with her.
[DIAL CLICKS]
[SUTEKH] But I will find them.
Out there [LAUGHS]
in the hollows of
this desolate universe,
they are hiding somewhere,
lost in the wind and the wilds.
[WIND WHISTLING]
[PANTING]
Excuse me.
Can you tell me [CHUCKLES]
where are we?
[PANTING]
No idea.
Absolutely no idea, darling.
All I've got is this chaffee.
Do you want some?
That's very kind. J
Only if you have enough.
Where did you come from?
Nowhere. [SIGHS] Um,
I I got a bit lost.
[CHUCKLES] It's been
a very, very long time.
I haven't seen anyone in weeks.
There was a caravan that passed
through, heading towards
I don't know, somewhere over that way.
They said there was food,
but I haven't seen them since.
Hush now, darling. Let me
give the man his chaffee.
Who is the little one?
I think I called her Brindle.
Brindle Dee.
But I forget.
What is this place called?
Hard to remember. I
They say memory is dying.
There was a man that
said that actual facts
were dying in the death wave.
But I think this was the city of
It began with a B.
And the planet?
I don't think I was born here.
Then I met my husband.
Whatever his name was.
Tall. He was tall.
I remember that.
But it was all a very long time ago.
Well, at least you survived. [CHUCKLES]
I'm not sure I did, really.
The funny thing is,
I do remember an opera
house over that way.
Of all the things to remember.
Maybe I worked there. Maybe I sang.
But people used to come from all over.
The lights and the diamonds and
all sorts of things. It was lovely.
Have you got any metal?
Metal is a precious thing, sir.
I don't think anything
is precious anymore.
I suppose you do have a very nice face.
- I'll forget it in a minute.
- That's very kind of you.
I will use this spoon. I promise.
Might save the universe with this spoon.
That would be nice.
You should go now.
Are you you okay?
I think my daughter died, didn't she?
And I forgot.
I think she did.
I'm sorry.
They say it travels, the death
wave, down the family line.
Except that this man, he said it's
it's it's perverse.
That's what he said.
That it's so determined to kill
that it can travel backwards.
From child to mother.
But it's okay because
I really am very tired.
You've got such a nice face.
I swear to you with a spoon.
That's what we need.
Just some metal, not a TARDIS
memory. Something real.
Thank you, whoever you were.
Look, look, look.
After all this time, it's still
connected to the Time Window.
Yeah, I never understood
what was all that Egyptian stuff?
Cultural appropriation.
[SUTEKH ON DEVICE] Release me!
Oh. And who were they? That
woman and the man with the hair?
They just travelled in the TARDIS.
- [SUTEKH] or I shall destroy the cosmos!
- That's how I know Mel.
- We travelled together, didn't we?
- Hmm.
Best time of my life.
We met Einstein.
- [SUTEKH] I'll spare the planet Earth.
- [CHUCKLES] Did we?
[SUTEKH] I'll give it
to you as a plaything.
- God, I'd forgotten.
- [SUTEKH] Release me!
- You okay?
- [FOURTH DOCTOR] No, Sutekh
Exhausted.
- [RUBY] I don't get it. What changed?
- [SUTEKH] No!
Sutekh was hidden for years.
Why did he go on the attack?
- Ask that again.
- [RUBY] Why did he go on the attack?
Why did Sutekh appear on Ruby Road?
It's answering you.
The images are reaching out to you.
- What do you mean?
- [DOCTOR] They're trying to help.
The Time Window is still connected
to your memories.
Maybe it's trying to ask you something.
But what does this have
to do with my mother?
Oh, because because
Oh!
Oh.
Sutekh became visible
outside the church,
because when he landed
with the TARDIS in 2004,
he saw the one thing
beyond his comprehension.
- Your mother.
- But who is she?
We don't know. And neither
does he. That's the point.
Look.
She drives us crazy, but Sutekh, oh.
He's been riding on the
back of the TARDIS
beholding all of time and space,
and then he can't see one
woman. One woman.
One singular, mysterious woman.
No wonder he's keeping us alive.
To figure out the answer. Who is she?
But if gods are scared of her,
then what the hell does that mean?
She's not this big cosmic thing, is she?
Because in that case, what am I?
Ruby, you are absolutely human.
But who is she?
- And why was she pointing at you?
- Hey. Hey, hey.
Hey. Come here.
[SUTEKH] Melanie.
Melanie.
I see you.
[DISTORTED] We can find the living
- [CONSOLE BEEPS]
- through time and space
and family.
I wish there was something
we could do to just see her.
But the government says
- What government? [LAUGHS]
- Okay, then who's that?
I mean, the government
has collapsed in shame.
- In absolute shame, Amol.
- Let me see.
- [ROGER] Now's the time to vote.
- [DEVICE BEEPS]
No, nothing.
- [SIGHS] Give it to me.
- [BEEPS, WHIRS]
There. I mean him.
- Uh, show me.
- [AMOL] controversy about your manifesto.
In particular, the DNA testing regime.
It's giving you another answer.
- [AMOL CONTINUES, INDISTINCT]
- But what is it?
- That's the guy off the TV, but who's he?
- I'm trying to make life better.
I propose compulsory DNA testing
for the entire population.
- [CONTINUES, INDISTINCT]
- Roger ap Gwilliam.
The most dangerous
prime minister in history.
But that's 2046.
You haven't met him, have you?
No. No, I couldn't. Could I?
Then why is it showing you?
2046. 2046.
2046! He did it!
DNA testing became compulsory
for the entire population in the UK.
- So if your mother was still alive
- She'd be on record.
[DOCTOR] She would be on the register.
We've never been able to find her
because she never got tested.
But 2046, she's got no choice.
It is showing us the way,
Ruby. It's showing us
the path to your mother.
- If I can just
- What does that mean?
- Can we find Ruby's mother?
- Yeah. And what happens if we do?
One question at a time. [PANTING]
Okay.
All right. The TARDIS doesn't
have much power
[TARDIS WARBLES]
but if it can just make one final
Whoa.
[OBJECTS CLATTERING]
Oh.
Handy. Love a whistle.
- 2046, here we come!
- But 2046 doesn't exist, does it?
Yes, but it is preserved in death.
'Cause I once landed there.
So it's fixed, yeah?
Hold that down.
[SUTEKH] I see them, Melanie.
Every living thing contains dead cells.
[SUTEKH, SUSAN] Skin, nails, enamel.
Sutekh can see through the dead.
Melanie, closer.
Closer.
Bring them to Sutekh.
Find the mother's name!
Thank you.
I was in this building for the
overthrow of Roger ap Gwilliam.
It was the Department of Health. [SIGHS]
It'll have the DNA.
[THE SONIC WHIRS]
[RUBY] So, we're, like,
hacking a computer?
[DOCTOR] Sort of thing, yeah.
- [DEVICE WHIRS]
- Nice.
Okay. The DNA list was locked
away under top security.
But guess who invented the security.
[THE SONIC WHIRS]
Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.
Come on, come on.
Yes! Yes.
Okay. Mel, you better keep watch.
Sutekh's servants could be anywhere.
And don't take any risks.
We're all getting out of this.
Don't worry about me.
Find that name.
[SUTEKH] Submit to me, Melanie.
[DEVICE BEEPS]
[THE SONIC WHIRS]
[THE SONIC WHIRS]
[RUBY] That's me.
So, what do we do now?
Press search.
Somewhere in there
is your mother's name.
- And maybe we can use it to fight Sutekh.
- [DEVICE BEEPS, CHIMING]
Searching 76 million people.
[BUZZES, CRACKLING]
[BEEPING]
Who is she?
[SUTEKH] Melanie, Melanie, Melanie.
Here, I see you.
[CHOIR SINGING "CAROL OF THE BELLS"]
- [SUTEKH] Submit to the will of Sutekh.
- [WHIMPERS]
[SINGING INTENSIFIES]
[SHIVERING]
- [CEILING CRACKING]
- [SINGING CONTINUES]
Keep looking.
- [PANTS]
- [BEEPING CONTINUES]
[SHIVERING CONTINUES]
[DEVICE BEEPING]
Wha
What does it mean?
[SINGING ENDS]
[GASPS]
- She died.
- [PANTS]
She died.
Ruby, I'm sorry.
I loved you, Mel.
[DISTORTED] And what
good did love do, Doctor?
When did it ever help?
[BONES CRACK]
Now give me the name.
- But what does it mean?
- [DISTORTED] Give Sutekh the name.
[SUTEKH] Bring me the Time Lord
and the child and their precious secret.
[LAUGHS]
- [LEVER CLICKS]
- [CONSOLE WHIRS]
[DISTORTED] I bring
you a gift, holy Sutekh.
Excellent.
The last two creatures in existence
to die at your hand.
[DISTORTED] Then you can
end our wretched half-life
so that silence can reign.
[MEL, DISTORTED] And you can
stand alone for all eternity,
gazing upon your empire
of dust and ice and oblivion.
Show me the name.
Show me, child.
[LAUGHS]
- Sutekh.
- Bring the name to me.
Sutekh, I promise you I will
worship you if you just allow
Resist.
- [GRUNTS, GROANING]
- [HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]
[SUTEKH] You have lived for far
too long, little Lord of Time.
- I've got the name.
- No! No!
I'll give it to you.
Can you just let him go?
Don't. Don't.
[PANTING]
- The screen, it found the name.
- [GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS]
- But I don't understand
- [SUTEKH BREATHES HEAVILY]
[SOBBING] and I wish I could.
It's the only thing that I've
ever wanted for all these years.
But now I've found it.
[SOBBING] And I don't
understand. [SNIFFLES]
- But maybe you can.
- [GRUNTS]
[SUTEKH] Oh.
Maybe this is for you.
Waited for so long.
You great big god of nothing.
[SUTEKH] No!
- [GRUNTING]
- No!
[GLOVE BEEPING]
No! [GRUNTS]
'Cause I knew, Sutekh. I knew.
She's too cold.
Listen to me.
This way.
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
[SUTEKH] Die at the hand of Sutekh.
[WHISTLE BLOWING]
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
[CONSOLE WHIRS]
[PULSES]
- [TARDIS HUMMING]
- [SUTEKH GROWLS]
[SUSAN SCREAMS]
No! [ROARS]
[SING-SONGY] I'm back.
[BEEPING]
- Into the vortex.
- [TARDIS HUMMING]
[TARDIS WARBLES]
[GROWLS]
[GROWLS]
[CHUCKLES] Okay, hold that lever down.
[PANTS] What just happened?
- [CHUCKLES] Love my whistle.
- [BOTH GRUNTING]
- [GRUNTS]
- Whoa!
Got it. [GRUNTS]
You saw all of time and space
with me, Sutekh.
So I thought, "What if
you see it again?"
What happens if you
bring death to death?
You bring life! [CHUCKLES]
[GROWLS]
[GASPS]
[GASPS]
[GASPS]
[COUGHS]
[SIGHS]
[BOTH EXCLAIM, LAUGH]
Oh, that clever boy!
- That clever boy! [LAUGHS]
- [LAUGHS]
[GROWLS]
Bring death to death everywhere!
[PANTS] Leave that.
Hold that and that.
What's happening?
- Life, Ruby. Life.
- [DIAL CLICKS]
Oh!
We bring life to the
whole flipping universe.
[LAUGHS]
Okay. Vortis.
Tigella.
Vox.
Messaline. Calufrax.
Spiridon.
Telos.
Shan Shen.
[GASPS] The Ood-Sphere is alive.
[LAUGHS] Oh.
Welcome back, the Ood.
And there, there.
The planet is called Agua Santina.
[BOTH LAUGH]
[BIRDS TWITTERING]
[GASPS] Hey. [CHUCKLES]
With a spoon.
[LAUGHS]
We fought a monster. [CHUCKLES]
And now
I must become a monster.
[GROWLS]
[DOCTOR] Sutekh the Destroyer.
The lord god of death itself.
You win.
[GROWLS]
- [CRASHES]
- [GRUNTS]
Because I pride myself
I pride myself that
I am better than you.
- Because if you're death
- No! [GROWLS]
then I must represent life.
Surely that's what I am. Life.
[GRUNTING]
And that's how you win, Sutekh.
[GROWLS]
Because you turned me into this.
I am the one that brings death.
No! [GROWLS]
No! [SCREAMING]
[SCREAMS, GROANING]
[BREATHING DEEPLY]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
[UNIT OFFICER] Sir.
But I'm still me.
I've still got my memories, my family.
All of that's still true, is it?
[DOCTOR] Absolutely.
You are who you are.
The god of death created life.
And he gave you a very good brain.
- [CHUCKLES]
- I think UNIT can use you.
- Oh.
- [SUSAN] Oh, pet.
Anything to help. I don't mind.
I'll make the tea.
Did you make this tea?
I did, yes.
- Don't make the tea.
- Oh!
Ooh, Christopher!
[ALL LAUGHING]
You should've seen me.
I had to walk home.
I got in, and your gran was
telling me off for not dusting.
- [RUBY LAUGHS]
- Cherry. [CHUCKLES]
[CARLA] But I wanted to say [CRIES]
Oh, don't, Mum. It's
all right. [CHUCKLES]
[CARLA] I wanted to say
thank you, Doctor.
You brought her home. [WHIMPERS]
You brought all of us back from,
well, who-knows-where.
Do you remember what
happened when you
- Mmm. Echoes.
- Mmm.
[COMPUTER CHIMES]
- [TAPS KEY]
- [COMPUTER BEEPING]
- We've done it.
- [VLINX] DNA retrieval, 100%.
Wow.
My mother.
[MORRIS] Louise Alison Miller.
Thirty-five years old.
Fifteen, when she gave birth to you.
Records say her stepfather
was Well, he was trouble.
I think she did the right thing
getting you out of that house.
She must have hidden the pregnancy.
[KATE] Father, William Benjamin Garnet.
Fifteen at the time.
Louise moved to Coventry
at the age of 18.
Did well. Got a degree.
[CHUCKLES]
She's a nurse.
That's what I don't understand.
She [CHUCKLES] She's so ordinary.
She's wonderful.
No, she's wonderful, and she's
ordinary, but I love her for that.
I just [INHALES DEEPLY]
How did she stay invisible
[CHUCKLES] from a god?
She defeated Sutekh.
She was important
because we think she's important.
It's how everything happens.
Every war, every religion,
every love story.
We invest things with significance.
So while the whole of creation
was turning around her,
it made her sheer existence
more powerful than Time Lords and gods.
In the end, the most important
person in the universe
was the most ordinary.
A scared little girl making
her baby safe.
But she pointed.
She did.
She pointed at you, Doctor.
She wasn't pointing at me.
'Cause we cleaned up the VHS.
Behind me was that lamp post.
- So?
- It was a signpost.
She was pointing at
the name of the road.
She was naming you.
[CHUCKLES, INHALES SHARPLY]
God. I always thought I was called Ruby
because the social workers chose it
or the paramedics or whatever.
But, no, it was her. [CHUCKLES]
My own mother chose it. [CHUCKLES]
My name is Ruby. [CHUCKLING]
[CHUCKLES]
She's happy.
She's got a flat. She's
got a fella named Mike.
She goes to Spain in three weeks.
And the point is,
is that she has had over 7,000
days to come and find you,
and she never has.
But I found her.
With a time machine.
Is that fair?
Louise Miller made her choices and
I think we should leave that alone.
[INHALES DEEPLY]
[EXHALES HEAVILY, SPUTTERS]
[PATRONS CHATTERING]
- [BARISTA] What can I get you?
- Uh, oat cappuccino, please.
[LOUISE CLEARS THROAT]
- Ruby?
- That's me.
I was named after a road.
[BREATHES SHAKILY]
Ruby Road. [CRIES]
You left me by a church, 19 years ago.
- [SNIFFLES]
- Oh, my God. [BREATHES SHAKILY]
You left me where I was safe.
[CRIES] And I just wanna say thank you.
[BREATHES SHAKILY] I'm sorry.
- I'm so sorry. [CRIES]
- No, don't. [WHIMPERS]
[SNIFFLES]
- [RUBY LAUGHING] It's you.
- [CHUCKLES, CRIES]
[BOTH CRYING, LAUGHING]
[SNIFFLES, CRYING]
- My baby.
- [CRYING]
- [LOUISE CHUCKLES]
- Ooh, that's nice. [CHUCKLES]
I always thought I should get in touch.
Every Christmas I thought,
"Right, this is the year".
But every Christmas I thought,
"What if she hates me?"
There is no hatred
in this house, darling.
But what we have got is photos.
- [LOUISE] Yeah?
- [CARLA] I've got about 500.
- [LOUISE] Mm-hmm.
- [CARLA] Proper photos.
I've printed them off.
You wait till you see her
at ten years old,
dressed up as David Bowie.
- [LOUISE] Ah.
- [LOUISE, CHERRY, CARLA LAUGH]
[INHALES DEEPLY, EXHALES SHARPLY]
[SIGHS] I won't be long.
We're just gonna have a catch-up
and a pizza and
Mum set up a bed in Gran's room
so Louise can stay the night.
And then we can head off. You and me.
Where to?
Wherever you want.
- Ruby.
- Come out and join.
I've told her so much about
you. She knows everything.
- [PHONE BEEPS]
- And Hold on. Sorry.
Leave that. [LAUGHS]
And, no, I said, "Life with
the Doctor is just mad".
- [PHONE BEEPS]
- And
Hang on. I better
Oh, my God.
They think they've found
him. My dad. William.
[LAUGHS] They think
Because it turns out, his mum and dad
still live at the same address,
but she never told him.
My mum, my real mum.
So [SIGHS] she
never told Will about me,
so he doesn't even know I exist.
So we've gotta go and
[BREATHES SHAKILY]
[SOBBING] I'm sorry.
Don't be sorry.
Don't be sorry at all.
Your life is out there now.
I've shown you monsters
and planets and legends.
But this
- [SIGHS]
- Honey, your adventure is just beginning.
But you could come and
see my dad. [CRIES]
You don't do that, do you?
[SIGHS]
Will I ever see you again?
Of course you will.
Of course you will.
Your own granddaughter, you left
her and never went back. [SIGHS]
And that was my mistake.
Maybe I'll find her again one day.
But you, Ruby Sunday, I will see
again because you changed me.
I talk about family in a way
that I never did before.
It's because of you.
[LAUGHS, SNIFFLES]
You have made my life bigger and better.
And now, Ruby Sunday
goodbye.
[THUDS]
[TIME ROTOR WHIRRING]
I love you.
[INHALES DEEPLY]
[SIGHS]
[TARDIS THUDS]
[TARDIS WARBLING]
[LOUISE] Oh, she's so gorgeous.
- [CHERRY] What made you walk away?
- [CARLA] Mum! [INDISTINCT]
- [NARRATOR] And that's how the story
- [ALL CHATTERING, LAUGHING]
of the church on Ruby Road
comes to an end.
With a very happy ending
for little Ruby Sunday.
But life goes on, doesn't it?
Ruthlessly.
And what happens, you might wonder,
oh, what happens to
that mysterious traveller
in time and space known as the Doctor?
I'm sorry to say, his story
ends in absolute terror.
Night night.
[THEME SONG PLAYING]
I bring Sutekh's gift of death.
For you.
And for all of this tiny,
vile, incessant universe.
[THEME SONG PLAYING]
Doctor!
All of you, everyone, get out!
- All of you, get out! Get out! Go!
- I bring Sutekh's dust of death.
[MEL] Come on! Let's go!
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
[GASPS]
[GASPING]
Doc! Come on! Let's go!
Hop on, cowboy.
- [TYRES SQUEAL]
- [DOCTOR] Kate, this is the Doctor.
We're on our way back.
Try to contain that thing.
- I bring Sutekh's dust of death.
- Open fire. All weapons.
[SUTEKH GROANS]
[ROARING]
[GASPS]
Why can't I see her?
All the bullets turned to dust, ma'am.
[SUTEKH GROWLS]
Oh, one day.
I bring Sutekh's dust of death.
[KATE] Doctor, are you there?
This is me signing off
with thanks and love.
And please send this monster
back into hell.
No!
Because I have to hope
the birds will sing again.
There will be birds.
[PEOPLE SCREAMING, CLAMOURING]
There's nothing we can do
- except fight.
- [PEDAL CLICKS]
[ENGINE REVS]
- [HORN HONKS]
- [SCREAMS]
Faster! Mel, faster!
I'm going as fast as I can!
No, I mean faster!
[SCREAMING, CLAMOURING CONTINUES]
[PASSENGER] We're gonna
die! We're gonna die!
Mel, go right!
[TYRES SQUEAL]
[REPORTER] We interrupt this broadcast
with warnings of an
incident in central London.
People are being told
to evacuate the city immediately.
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
What is it? What's going on?
Do you believe in the power of prayer?
I most certainly do.
Then tell your Maker
I will come to storm down
his gates of gold
and seize his kingdom in my true name.
[STAMMERS] What you talking about?
Who Who are you?
I'm sorry, you tiny, little woman.
I'm so, so sorry it ends like this.
I had such plans.
[HUMMING]
[TARDIS THUDS]
[AUTOMATED VOICE] Time Membrane failing.
You, get out. Bunker 17 now.
Doctor, my mother. Why can't we see her?
Ruby, we have got worse problems.
[CHUCKLES]
[SIGHS]
[THE SONIC WHIRS]
[EXHALES] Okay.
It's a TARDIS remembered.
It's made of memories.
Ruby, it is feeding off you.
Yeah, give it everything you've
got, babes. Remember it harder.
Yes, yes. Yes, I can. Yes.
[DOCTOR] If time is a memory,
then memory is a time machine.
[TARDIS GROANING]
Yes. Yes. That's it.
More. More, more, more.
[CLOISTER BELL RINGS]
That should do it.
Okay.
[INHALES SHARPLY] All right.
The TARDIS is remembering itself.
Doctor!
[SUTEKH GROWLING]
We meet again, my old friend.
Don't you dare.
Doctor, what is that thing?
Sutekh. The Death of Ages.
The Typhonian Beast.
The greatest monster I have ever fought.
[SARAH] If Sutekh is so totally evil,
why didn't Horus and the
other Osirans destroy him?
- The Time Window has my memories too.
- It was against their code.
To have killed him would've meant
that they were no better than he
- [MEL] It's your life, Doctor.
- so they simply imprisoned him.
It's telling the story of your life.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
A long time ago, in the England of 1911,
Sutekh had been bound and
imprisoned for all eternity.
But he rose again, and I defeated him.
I cast you into the Time Vortex.
I sent you forward to your own death.
Instead, I found a home.
I clung to your infernal machine,
and for so many years, I hid.
I have travelled with you
for all this time,
riding the spine of your ship,
staring into eternity and
evolving into my true godhood.
Now I know every beat of the
heart of your time machine,
and I can bend it to my will.
- [TARDIS GROANING]
- [SUTEKH] It will stand as my altar.
The temple of my empire of death.
- [BREATHES SHAKILY]
- Never yours again, Doctor. Never.
But I saw inside the TARDIS.
So many secrets.
Her name.
- Susan.
- [SUTEKH] The perfect trap.
I created an apparition of her universe
so that every time we landed
on every single world,
I birthed them all.
My angels of death,
now standing triumphant
across the universe.
I bring Sutekh's dust of death.
Every living thing is an abomination.
I am come to release them
into blessed deaths.
And I find that good.
And I damn you, Sutekh.
I damn you in the name of life itself.
And I swear to you,
with both the hearts
of the last of the Time Lords,
I will stop you.
I will defeat you.
And I will turn back death.
And why am I still alive?
Killing me is your gift.
And believe me, Sutekh,
I am an extinction event.
So, what is stopping you?
Why is the god of death not killing me?
What am I missing?
[GROWLS]
I'll tell you a secret, Sute.
This feeling that you
have now, this doubt
Have you ever felt so alive?
[GROWLS]
And doesn't it feel good?
[GROWLING]
Run.
Whoa!
- What is it?
- [DOCTOR] It's a remembered TARDIS.
[TARDIS POWERS UP]
[DOCTOR] It's bits and pieces
of every TARDIS that ever was.
Held together by hopes
and wishes and luck.
[DIAL CLICKING]
[CONSOLE BEEPING]
Wait. Does this thing work? Can it fly?
No idea. [CHUCKLES, GASPS]
- [TARDIS GROANING]
- [ALL GASP]
[PANTS]
No! No, no, no, no, no,
no, no! We need that!
- [EXCLAIMS]
- [MEL GROANS]
- [GASPING]
- Right. Ruby Roo, Ruby Roo.
Tie that to that.
- Yeah? We're good.
- All right.
- Oh.
- Mel?
- What?
- Tie that lever down.
All those switches,
down, down, down. Yeah?
Ruby, see these wires?
Tie them together. Tie them tight.
Doctor, we're on fire.
- Is this thing safe?
- Absolute death trap, Melanie B.
- [GRUNTS]
- [DOCTOR] Okay.
- [METAL CLANGS]
- [RUBY GRUNTS]
Yeah, that's better.
- [TARDIS GROANING FADES]
- Okay. Okay, that's it.
That's it.
Calm down.
[SIGHS, EXHALES]
[SIGHS]
Oh, no, no.
That's it. Nice and easy.
Okay.
- [SIGHS] You see?
- [RUBY SIGHS]
[CHUCKLES]
[MEL, DOCTOR LAUGH]
That hook is a molecular bond.
- It's like intelligent rope.
- What? You mean, like
Intelligent glove.
That was the first day we met.
Man, I am so sorry.
We've gotta stabilise.
Because without the Time Window's
memories, we go kaboom.
That screen is holding
the TARDIS together.
[SIGHS] Okay.
So, what did I miss?
Every Susan Triad, they were innocent?
- They were all real?
- Absolutely real.
Every time the TARDIS would land,
it would roll her out like
[SIGHS] Okay, so the the
TARDIS has a perception filter
so it doesn't get noticed.
It just sits there, kind of unseen.
'Cause it casts a field around it
at 66.7 metres exactly.
Seventy-three yards.
How do you know that?
[STAMMERS] I don't
I don't know. I just do.
Funny things happen at 73 yards.
People say that you can see things.
So, Sutekh, he used this field,
but he used it massively.
He focused his mind
and created a whole new person
everywhere I'd land.
But perception means that she
fitted in. She had character.
She had history. She had a truth.
But Doctor, you landed
on Earth a hundred times.
[DOCTOR] I think that
she was reborn every time.
Each time the TARDIS would land,
the idea of that woman
would get stronger.
By 2024, she was Susan Triad.
This monumental figure.
[RUBY] What has she done?
Sutekh called her an angel of death.
What did she do?
The dust of death.
Spreading all over the world.
- My mother, is she
- [DOCTOR] It's everyone.
- No, but can't you just
- Nothing I can do.
[INHALES SHARPLY] She was [SIGHS]
It's happening over and over again.
Every time I landed there.
1999
1066
The Earth is dying.
So many times.
[DEVICE WARBLES]
[CLANKS]
Every world that I ever stood upon
All dead.
Venus.
Telos. Karn.
The Ood-Sphere.
- And Skaro.
- The Daleks are dead.
Everything is dead.
[MEL] But
There are so many places
you haven't been.
They must be safe.
I've travelled so far.
Everything caught
in that pattern is dying.
The whole of time and space.
I did this.
You did not.
No.
Every sun is dead.
The universe has come to a halt.
And it is my fault.
'Cause I travelled to all those worlds.
I thought it was fun.
[INHALES SHAKILY]
[SCREAMING]
[INHALES SHAKILY, SCREAMING]
The universe stands silent in death.
Yet one thing persists.
One thing keeps living despite me.
The Time Lord.
No. Greater than him.
A secret the child carries with her.
[DIAL CLICKS]
[SUTEKH] But I will find them.
Out there [LAUGHS]
in the hollows of
this desolate universe,
they are hiding somewhere,
lost in the wind and the wilds.
[WIND WHISTLING]
[PANTING]
Excuse me.
Can you tell me [CHUCKLES]
where are we?
[PANTING]
No idea.
Absolutely no idea, darling.
All I've got is this chaffee.
Do you want some?
That's very kind. J
Only if you have enough.
Where did you come from?
Nowhere. [SIGHS] Um,
I I got a bit lost.
[CHUCKLES] It's been
a very, very long time.
I haven't seen anyone in weeks.
There was a caravan that passed
through, heading towards
I don't know, somewhere over that way.
They said there was food,
but I haven't seen them since.
Hush now, darling. Let me
give the man his chaffee.
Who is the little one?
I think I called her Brindle.
Brindle Dee.
But I forget.
What is this place called?
Hard to remember. I
They say memory is dying.
There was a man that
said that actual facts
were dying in the death wave.
But I think this was the city of
It began with a B.
And the planet?
I don't think I was born here.
Then I met my husband.
Whatever his name was.
Tall. He was tall.
I remember that.
But it was all a very long time ago.
Well, at least you survived. [CHUCKLES]
I'm not sure I did, really.
The funny thing is,
I do remember an opera
house over that way.
Of all the things to remember.
Maybe I worked there. Maybe I sang.
But people used to come from all over.
The lights and the diamonds and
all sorts of things. It was lovely.
Have you got any metal?
Metal is a precious thing, sir.
I don't think anything
is precious anymore.
I suppose you do have a very nice face.
- I'll forget it in a minute.
- That's very kind of you.
I will use this spoon. I promise.
Might save the universe with this spoon.
That would be nice.
You should go now.
Are you you okay?
I think my daughter died, didn't she?
And I forgot.
I think she did.
I'm sorry.
They say it travels, the death
wave, down the family line.
Except that this man, he said it's
it's it's perverse.
That's what he said.
That it's so determined to kill
that it can travel backwards.
From child to mother.
But it's okay because
I really am very tired.
You've got such a nice face.
I swear to you with a spoon.
That's what we need.
Just some metal, not a TARDIS
memory. Something real.
Thank you, whoever you were.
Look, look, look.
After all this time, it's still
connected to the Time Window.
Yeah, I never understood
what was all that Egyptian stuff?
Cultural appropriation.
[SUTEKH ON DEVICE] Release me!
Oh. And who were they? That
woman and the man with the hair?
They just travelled in the TARDIS.
- [SUTEKH] or I shall destroy the cosmos!
- That's how I know Mel.
- We travelled together, didn't we?
- Hmm.
Best time of my life.
We met Einstein.
- [SUTEKH] I'll spare the planet Earth.
- [CHUCKLES] Did we?
[SUTEKH] I'll give it
to you as a plaything.
- God, I'd forgotten.
- [SUTEKH] Release me!
- You okay?
- [FOURTH DOCTOR] No, Sutekh
Exhausted.
- [RUBY] I don't get it. What changed?
- [SUTEKH] No!
Sutekh was hidden for years.
Why did he go on the attack?
- Ask that again.
- [RUBY] Why did he go on the attack?
Why did Sutekh appear on Ruby Road?
It's answering you.
The images are reaching out to you.
- What do you mean?
- [DOCTOR] They're trying to help.
The Time Window is still connected
to your memories.
Maybe it's trying to ask you something.
But what does this have
to do with my mother?
Oh, because because
Oh!
Oh.
Sutekh became visible
outside the church,
because when he landed
with the TARDIS in 2004,
he saw the one thing
beyond his comprehension.
- Your mother.
- But who is she?
We don't know. And neither
does he. That's the point.
Look.
She drives us crazy, but Sutekh, oh.
He's been riding on the
back of the TARDIS
beholding all of time and space,
and then he can't see one
woman. One woman.
One singular, mysterious woman.
No wonder he's keeping us alive.
To figure out the answer. Who is she?
But if gods are scared of her,
then what the hell does that mean?
She's not this big cosmic thing, is she?
Because in that case, what am I?
Ruby, you are absolutely human.
But who is she?
- And why was she pointing at you?
- Hey. Hey, hey.
Hey. Come here.
[SUTEKH] Melanie.
Melanie.
I see you.
[DISTORTED] We can find the living
- [CONSOLE BEEPS]
- through time and space
and family.
I wish there was something
we could do to just see her.
But the government says
- What government? [LAUGHS]
- Okay, then who's that?
I mean, the government
has collapsed in shame.
- In absolute shame, Amol.
- Let me see.
- [ROGER] Now's the time to vote.
- [DEVICE BEEPS]
No, nothing.
- [SIGHS] Give it to me.
- [BEEPS, WHIRS]
There. I mean him.
- Uh, show me.
- [AMOL] controversy about your manifesto.
In particular, the DNA testing regime.
It's giving you another answer.
- [AMOL CONTINUES, INDISTINCT]
- But what is it?
- That's the guy off the TV, but who's he?
- I'm trying to make life better.
I propose compulsory DNA testing
for the entire population.
- [CONTINUES, INDISTINCT]
- Roger ap Gwilliam.
The most dangerous
prime minister in history.
But that's 2046.
You haven't met him, have you?
No. No, I couldn't. Could I?
Then why is it showing you?
2046. 2046.
2046! He did it!
DNA testing became compulsory
for the entire population in the UK.
- So if your mother was still alive
- She'd be on record.
[DOCTOR] She would be on the register.
We've never been able to find her
because she never got tested.
But 2046, she's got no choice.
It is showing us the way,
Ruby. It's showing us
the path to your mother.
- If I can just
- What does that mean?
- Can we find Ruby's mother?
- Yeah. And what happens if we do?
One question at a time. [PANTING]
Okay.
All right. The TARDIS doesn't
have much power
[TARDIS WARBLES]
but if it can just make one final
Whoa.
[OBJECTS CLATTERING]
Oh.
Handy. Love a whistle.
- 2046, here we come!
- But 2046 doesn't exist, does it?
Yes, but it is preserved in death.
'Cause I once landed there.
So it's fixed, yeah?
Hold that down.
[SUTEKH] I see them, Melanie.
Every living thing contains dead cells.
[SUTEKH, SUSAN] Skin, nails, enamel.
Sutekh can see through the dead.
Melanie, closer.
Closer.
Bring them to Sutekh.
Find the mother's name!
Thank you.
I was in this building for the
overthrow of Roger ap Gwilliam.
It was the Department of Health. [SIGHS]
It'll have the DNA.
[THE SONIC WHIRS]
[RUBY] So, we're, like,
hacking a computer?
[DOCTOR] Sort of thing, yeah.
- [DEVICE WHIRS]
- Nice.
Okay. The DNA list was locked
away under top security.
But guess who invented the security.
[THE SONIC WHIRS]
Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.
Come on, come on.
Yes! Yes.
Okay. Mel, you better keep watch.
Sutekh's servants could be anywhere.
And don't take any risks.
We're all getting out of this.
Don't worry about me.
Find that name.
[SUTEKH] Submit to me, Melanie.
[DEVICE BEEPS]
[THE SONIC WHIRS]
[THE SONIC WHIRS]
[RUBY] That's me.
So, what do we do now?
Press search.
Somewhere in there
is your mother's name.
- And maybe we can use it to fight Sutekh.
- [DEVICE BEEPS, CHIMING]
Searching 76 million people.
[BUZZES, CRACKLING]
[BEEPING]
Who is she?
[SUTEKH] Melanie, Melanie, Melanie.
Here, I see you.
[CHOIR SINGING "CAROL OF THE BELLS"]
- [SUTEKH] Submit to the will of Sutekh.
- [WHIMPERS]
[SINGING INTENSIFIES]
[SHIVERING]
- [CEILING CRACKING]
- [SINGING CONTINUES]
Keep looking.
- [PANTS]
- [BEEPING CONTINUES]
[SHIVERING CONTINUES]
[DEVICE BEEPING]
Wha
What does it mean?
[SINGING ENDS]
[GASPS]
- She died.
- [PANTS]
She died.
Ruby, I'm sorry.
I loved you, Mel.
[DISTORTED] And what
good did love do, Doctor?
When did it ever help?
[BONES CRACK]
Now give me the name.
- But what does it mean?
- [DISTORTED] Give Sutekh the name.
[SUTEKH] Bring me the Time Lord
and the child and their precious secret.
[LAUGHS]
- [LEVER CLICKS]
- [CONSOLE WHIRS]
[DISTORTED] I bring
you a gift, holy Sutekh.
Excellent.
The last two creatures in existence
to die at your hand.
[DISTORTED] Then you can
end our wretched half-life
so that silence can reign.
[MEL, DISTORTED] And you can
stand alone for all eternity,
gazing upon your empire
of dust and ice and oblivion.
Show me the name.
Show me, child.
[LAUGHS]
- Sutekh.
- Bring the name to me.
Sutekh, I promise you I will
worship you if you just allow
Resist.
- [GRUNTS, GROANING]
- [HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]
[SUTEKH] You have lived for far
too long, little Lord of Time.
- I've got the name.
- No! No!
I'll give it to you.
Can you just let him go?
Don't. Don't.
[PANTING]
- The screen, it found the name.
- [GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS]
- But I don't understand
- [SUTEKH BREATHES HEAVILY]
[SOBBING] and I wish I could.
It's the only thing that I've
ever wanted for all these years.
But now I've found it.
[SOBBING] And I don't
understand. [SNIFFLES]
- But maybe you can.
- [GRUNTS]
[SUTEKH] Oh.
Maybe this is for you.
Waited for so long.
You great big god of nothing.
[SUTEKH] No!
- [GRUNTING]
- No!
[GLOVE BEEPING]
No! [GRUNTS]
'Cause I knew, Sutekh. I knew.
She's too cold.
Listen to me.
This way.
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
[SUTEKH] Die at the hand of Sutekh.
[WHISTLE BLOWING]
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
[CONSOLE WHIRS]
[PULSES]
- [TARDIS HUMMING]
- [SUTEKH GROWLS]
[SUSAN SCREAMS]
No! [ROARS]
[SING-SONGY] I'm back.
[BEEPING]
- Into the vortex.
- [TARDIS HUMMING]
[TARDIS WARBLES]
[GROWLS]
[GROWLS]
[CHUCKLES] Okay, hold that lever down.
[PANTS] What just happened?
- [CHUCKLES] Love my whistle.
- [BOTH GRUNTING]
- [GRUNTS]
- Whoa!
Got it. [GRUNTS]
You saw all of time and space
with me, Sutekh.
So I thought, "What if
you see it again?"
What happens if you
bring death to death?
You bring life! [CHUCKLES]
[GROWLS]
[GASPS]
[GASPS]
[GASPS]
[COUGHS]
[SIGHS]
[BOTH EXCLAIM, LAUGH]
Oh, that clever boy!
- That clever boy! [LAUGHS]
- [LAUGHS]
[GROWLS]
Bring death to death everywhere!
[PANTS] Leave that.
Hold that and that.
What's happening?
- Life, Ruby. Life.
- [DIAL CLICKS]
Oh!
We bring life to the
whole flipping universe.
[LAUGHS]
Okay. Vortis.
Tigella.
Vox.
Messaline. Calufrax.
Spiridon.
Telos.
Shan Shen.
[GASPS] The Ood-Sphere is alive.
[LAUGHS] Oh.
Welcome back, the Ood.
And there, there.
The planet is called Agua Santina.
[BOTH LAUGH]
[BIRDS TWITTERING]
[GASPS] Hey. [CHUCKLES]
With a spoon.
[LAUGHS]
We fought a monster. [CHUCKLES]
And now
I must become a monster.
[GROWLS]
[DOCTOR] Sutekh the Destroyer.
The lord god of death itself.
You win.
[GROWLS]
- [CRASHES]
- [GRUNTS]
Because I pride myself
I pride myself that
I am better than you.
- Because if you're death
- No! [GROWLS]
then I must represent life.
Surely that's what I am. Life.
[GRUNTING]
And that's how you win, Sutekh.
[GROWLS]
Because you turned me into this.
I am the one that brings death.
No! [GROWLS]
No! [SCREAMING]
[SCREAMS, GROANING]
[BREATHING DEEPLY]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
[UNIT OFFICER] Sir.
But I'm still me.
I've still got my memories, my family.
All of that's still true, is it?
[DOCTOR] Absolutely.
You are who you are.
The god of death created life.
And he gave you a very good brain.
- [CHUCKLES]
- I think UNIT can use you.
- Oh.
- [SUSAN] Oh, pet.
Anything to help. I don't mind.
I'll make the tea.
Did you make this tea?
I did, yes.
- Don't make the tea.
- Oh!
Ooh, Christopher!
[ALL LAUGHING]
You should've seen me.
I had to walk home.
I got in, and your gran was
telling me off for not dusting.
- [RUBY LAUGHS]
- Cherry. [CHUCKLES]
[CARLA] But I wanted to say [CRIES]
Oh, don't, Mum. It's
all right. [CHUCKLES]
[CARLA] I wanted to say
thank you, Doctor.
You brought her home. [WHIMPERS]
You brought all of us back from,
well, who-knows-where.
Do you remember what
happened when you
- Mmm. Echoes.
- Mmm.
[COMPUTER CHIMES]
- [TAPS KEY]
- [COMPUTER BEEPING]
- We've done it.
- [VLINX] DNA retrieval, 100%.
Wow.
My mother.
[MORRIS] Louise Alison Miller.
Thirty-five years old.
Fifteen, when she gave birth to you.
Records say her stepfather
was Well, he was trouble.
I think she did the right thing
getting you out of that house.
She must have hidden the pregnancy.
[KATE] Father, William Benjamin Garnet.
Fifteen at the time.
Louise moved to Coventry
at the age of 18.
Did well. Got a degree.
[CHUCKLES]
She's a nurse.
That's what I don't understand.
She [CHUCKLES] She's so ordinary.
She's wonderful.
No, she's wonderful, and she's
ordinary, but I love her for that.
I just [INHALES DEEPLY]
How did she stay invisible
[CHUCKLES] from a god?
She defeated Sutekh.
She was important
because we think she's important.
It's how everything happens.
Every war, every religion,
every love story.
We invest things with significance.
So while the whole of creation
was turning around her,
it made her sheer existence
more powerful than Time Lords and gods.
In the end, the most important
person in the universe
was the most ordinary.
A scared little girl making
her baby safe.
But she pointed.
She did.
She pointed at you, Doctor.
She wasn't pointing at me.
'Cause we cleaned up the VHS.
Behind me was that lamp post.
- So?
- It was a signpost.
She was pointing at
the name of the road.
She was naming you.
[CHUCKLES, INHALES SHARPLY]
God. I always thought I was called Ruby
because the social workers chose it
or the paramedics or whatever.
But, no, it was her. [CHUCKLES]
My own mother chose it. [CHUCKLES]
My name is Ruby. [CHUCKLING]
[CHUCKLES]
She's happy.
She's got a flat. She's
got a fella named Mike.
She goes to Spain in three weeks.
And the point is,
is that she has had over 7,000
days to come and find you,
and she never has.
But I found her.
With a time machine.
Is that fair?
Louise Miller made her choices and
I think we should leave that alone.
[INHALES DEEPLY]
[EXHALES HEAVILY, SPUTTERS]
[PATRONS CHATTERING]
- [BARISTA] What can I get you?
- Uh, oat cappuccino, please.
[LOUISE CLEARS THROAT]
- Ruby?
- That's me.
I was named after a road.
[BREATHES SHAKILY]
Ruby Road. [CRIES]
You left me by a church, 19 years ago.
- [SNIFFLES]
- Oh, my God. [BREATHES SHAKILY]
You left me where I was safe.
[CRIES] And I just wanna say thank you.
[BREATHES SHAKILY] I'm sorry.
- I'm so sorry. [CRIES]
- No, don't. [WHIMPERS]
[SNIFFLES]
- [RUBY LAUGHING] It's you.
- [CHUCKLES, CRIES]
[BOTH CRYING, LAUGHING]
[SNIFFLES, CRYING]
- My baby.
- [CRYING]
- [LOUISE CHUCKLES]
- Ooh, that's nice. [CHUCKLES]
I always thought I should get in touch.
Every Christmas I thought,
"Right, this is the year".
But every Christmas I thought,
"What if she hates me?"
There is no hatred
in this house, darling.
But what we have got is photos.
- [LOUISE] Yeah?
- [CARLA] I've got about 500.
- [LOUISE] Mm-hmm.
- [CARLA] Proper photos.
I've printed them off.
You wait till you see her
at ten years old,
dressed up as David Bowie.
- [LOUISE] Ah.
- [LOUISE, CHERRY, CARLA LAUGH]
[INHALES DEEPLY, EXHALES SHARPLY]
[SIGHS] I won't be long.
We're just gonna have a catch-up
and a pizza and
Mum set up a bed in Gran's room
so Louise can stay the night.
And then we can head off. You and me.
Where to?
Wherever you want.
- Ruby.
- Come out and join.
I've told her so much about
you. She knows everything.
- [PHONE BEEPS]
- And Hold on. Sorry.
Leave that. [LAUGHS]
And, no, I said, "Life with
the Doctor is just mad".
- [PHONE BEEPS]
- And
Hang on. I better
Oh, my God.
They think they've found
him. My dad. William.
[LAUGHS] They think
Because it turns out, his mum and dad
still live at the same address,
but she never told him.
My mum, my real mum.
So [SIGHS] she
never told Will about me,
so he doesn't even know I exist.
So we've gotta go and
[BREATHES SHAKILY]
[SOBBING] I'm sorry.
Don't be sorry.
Don't be sorry at all.
Your life is out there now.
I've shown you monsters
and planets and legends.
But this
- [SIGHS]
- Honey, your adventure is just beginning.
But you could come and
see my dad. [CRIES]
You don't do that, do you?
[SIGHS]
Will I ever see you again?
Of course you will.
Of course you will.
Your own granddaughter, you left
her and never went back. [SIGHS]
And that was my mistake.
Maybe I'll find her again one day.
But you, Ruby Sunday, I will see
again because you changed me.
I talk about family in a way
that I never did before.
It's because of you.
[LAUGHS, SNIFFLES]
You have made my life bigger and better.
And now, Ruby Sunday
goodbye.
[THUDS]
[TIME ROTOR WHIRRING]
I love you.
[INHALES DEEPLY]
[SIGHS]
[TARDIS THUDS]
[TARDIS WARBLING]
[LOUISE] Oh, she's so gorgeous.
- [CHERRY] What made you walk away?
- [CARLA] Mum! [INDISTINCT]
- [NARRATOR] And that's how the story
- [ALL CHATTERING, LAUGHING]
of the church on Ruby Road
comes to an end.
With a very happy ending
for little Ruby Sunday.
But life goes on, doesn't it?
Ruthlessly.
And what happens, you might wonder,
oh, what happens to
that mysterious traveller
in time and space known as the Doctor?
I'm sorry to say, his story
ends in absolute terror.
Night night.
[THEME SONG PLAYING]