Doctor Who (2005–…): Season 1, Episode 8 - Father's Day - full transcript

Peter Alan Tyler, my dad.

The most wonderful man in the world.

Born 15th September 1954.

Come here, Rose. Come here.

Who's that? It's your daddy.

You weren't old enough
to remember when he died.

1987.

7th of November.

D'you remember what I told you?

The day that Stuart Hoskins
and Sarah Clark got married.

He was always having adventures.



Ah, he would have loved
to have seen you now.

That's what Mum always says.

So I was thinking. . .could we?

Could we go and see my dad,
when he was still alive?

Where's this come from
all of a sudden?

If we can't, if it goes against the
laws of time or something,

never mind, just leave it.
No, I can do anything.
I'm just more worried about you.

I wanna see him.

Your wish is my command.

But be careful what you wish for. . .

I, Peter Alan Tyler, take you,
Jacqueline Andrea Suzette Prentice. . .

I, Peter Alan Tyler,

take you, Jacqueline Susanne. . .

Suzette. . . Anita?



Oh, just carry on.
If it's good enough for Lady Di. . .

I thought he'd be taller.
To be my lawful wedded wife.

To love and behold
till death us do part. . .

'He died so close to home.'

I wasn't there, nobody was.

It was a hit-and-run driver.

Never found out who. He was dead
when the ambulance got there.

I only wish there'd been
someone there for him.

'I want to be that someone.

'So he doesn't die alone.'

November the 7th? 1987.

MUSIC: "Never Can Say Goodbye"
by the Communards

That's so weird.

The day my father died.

.I thought it would be
all sort of grim and stormy.
It's just an ordinary day.

The past is another country.

1987 is just the Isle of Wight.

You sure about this? Yeah.

This is it, Jordan Road.

He was late. . .

He'd been to get a
wedding present, the vase.

Mum always said, "That stupid vase."

He got out of his car.

And crossed the road. . .
Oh, God. This is it.

Go to him. Quick!

It's too late now.

By the time the ambulance
got there, he was dead.

He can't die on his own.

Can I try again?

Right, that's the first you and me.
It's a very bad idea, two sets
of us being here at the same time.

Just be careful they don't see us,
wait till she runs off and he
follows, then go to your dad.

Oh, God. This is it.

I can't do this. You don't have to
do anything you don't want to.

But this is the last time
we can be here.

Rose! No!

I did it.

I saved your life!
Blimey, see the speed of it?
D'you get his number?

I really did it!

Oh, my God, look at you, you're
alive! That car was gonna kill ya!

Give me some credit. I did see it
coming. I wasn't gonna walk under it.

I'm Rose.

Oh, that's a coincidence,
that's my daughter's name.
That's a great name.

Good choice. Well done.

I better shift.
I've got a wedding to go to.

Is that Sarah Clark's wedding?
Yeah. Are you going? Yeah!

Do you and your
boyfriend need a lift?

SCREECHING

Right, there we go.
Sorry about the mess.

If you want a cup of tea, kitchen's
down there, milk's in the fridge,

Well it would be, wouldn't it?
Where else would you put the milk?

Mind you, there's always the
windowsill outside.

If someone invented a windowsill with
special compartments -

one for milk, one for yoghurt -
you could make a lot of money
out of that,

sell it to students and things.
I should write that down.

Anyway, 'scuse me a minute,
gotta go and change.

All the stuff Mum kept. His stuff.

She kept it all packed away in
boxes. She used to show me
when she'd had a bit to drink.

Here it is. . .

on display. Where it should be.

Third prize at the bowling.

First two got to go to Didcot.

Health drinks!

Tonics, mum used to call them.
He made his money selling
this Vitex stuff.

He had all sorts
of jobs, he was so clever.

Solar power!

Mum said he was going to do this -
now he can!

OK, I'll tell him
you're not my boyfriend.

When we met, I said, "travel
with me in space." You said no.

Then I said, "Time machine".

It wasn't some big plan.

I just saw it happening,
and I thought, "I can stop it."

I picked another stupid ape. I should've known.
It's not about showing you the universe.

It never is. It's about the universe
doing something for you.
So it's OK when YOU go to other times,

and YOU save people's lives,
but not when it's me saving my dad?

I know what I'm doing. You don't! Two sets
of us being there made that a vulnerable point.
But he's alive.

My entire planet died - my whole family.
Do you think it never occurred to me
to go back and save them?

But it's not like I've
changed history. Not much.

I mean, he's never gonna be a world leader.
He's not gonna start
World War Three or anything.

There's a man alive in the
world who wasn't alive before.

An ordinary man. That's the
most important thing in creation.

The whole world's different because
he's alive. Would you rather him
dead? I'm not saying that. I get it.

For once, YOU'RE not the
most important man in my life!

Let's see how you get on without me.
Give me the key.

The TARDIS key. If I'm so
insignificant, give it me back!
All right then, I will!

You've got what you wanted,
so that's goodbye then.

You don't scare me!

I know how sad you are!
You'll be back in a minute!

Or will you hang around outside
the TARDIS waiting for me.

And I'll make you wait a long time!

Boyfriend trouble?

WHOOSHING

SCREECHING

MORE SCREECHING

SCREECHING

ARGH!

WHOOSHING

A-ARGH!

A-A-ARGH!

'Scuse me, d'you mind?
What are you tidying up for?

Sorry, force of habit.
Don't worry about him.
Couples have rows all the time.

We're not a couple. Why does
everyone think we're a couple?

I think he left me. Pretty girl like
you? If I was going out with you. . .
Stop right there.

I'm just saying. I know what you're
saying

and we're not going there.
At no point are we going anywhere
near there.

You aren't even aware
that "there" exists.

I don't even want to think about
"there", and, believe me, neither
do you. "There", for you, is like,

like the Bermuda Triangle.

Blimey, you know how to
flatter a bloke. Right. Are we off?

So that wouldn't be a
mixed signal at all? Absolutely not.

I'd take you back to the
loony bin where you belong.

I'm sure I've met you somewhere
before.

ORGAN MUSIC

It's weird, there's
so many people missing.

Uncle Steven, Aunty Lynn, all the
Baxters.

I mean, where are they?
You don't think
something's gone wrong?

Maybe it's a godsend,
gives you time to think.

You don't have to go through with it.
Live in sin for a bit.

Dad! In ten years' time,
you'll turn round and say,

"If only I could turn the clock
back!"

TINKLING

Is it me, or did it just get cold?

BIRDS CAW

LOUD CAWING

WHOOSHING AND SCREECHING

CAWING STOPS

Rose!

I met this bloke at the horses -
he's cutting me in on copyright.
MUSIC ON RADIO

I thought you were
a proper businessman. I wish!

I do a bit of this, bit of that.
I scrape by. Right.

# Never gonna give you up. . . #
I must've heard wrong.

So, really, you're
a bit of a. . .Del Boy.

Oh, shoot me down in flames(!) You're
not related to my wife, are you?

My God. She'll be at the wedding.

What, Jackie? D'you know her?

Sort of.
What's she told you about me, then?

She said she'd picked the most
fantastic man in the world.

Must be a different Jackie.
She'd never say that.

STATIC
# Put your phone back
Quit staring into space. . .#

This stuff goes right over my head.

That's not out yet.
Good job an' all. I'm just gonna
check my messages.

How d'ya mean, messages?

# . .Who decides
whether it's off or on. . . #
Is that a phone? Yeah.

# . .Now the girl's rude
I know she's rude. . . #

'Watson, come here. I need you.'

'Watson, come here. I need you.

'Watson, come here. I need you.'

Half the guests haven't turned up!

You're better off not being here.
It's a disaster in the making.

No, in this case "knocked her up"
IS a phrase I'd use!

'Watson, come here. I need you.'

Hello? Who's this?
'Watson, come here. I n. . .'

Dad, get inside!
We can't see the bride before
the wedding. It's bad luck!

Bad luck when you met her!
I tell you, this day is cursed!

Now that's what I call a meringue!

Stuart's dad said, go round
the block cos there's people
missing. Missing?!

There's no Dave, no Sunita, no Bea.

No-one from the Lamb and Flag.
Oh, my train's detached again.
I knew I should have used Velcro!

I'm here. Stop your bellyaching!
Take Rose a sec, will you?

Oh, ain't she pretty?
She's a little madam!

Oh, I need more hands! Where's her
useless article of a dad got to?

Dad!
TYRES SCREECH

It was that car. Same one as before.

Where's he gone?

You called me dad? !
What did you say that for?

Oh, wonderful! Here he is,
the accident waiting to happen!

You'd be late for your own
funeral and it nearly was!

No damage done. And who's this?

What you looking at
with your mouth open? !

Your hair.
What? I've never seen it like. . .

I mean. . .

It's lovely. Your hair's lovely.

And that baby you're holding. . .

That would be. . .

your baby.

Another one of yours, is she?
She saved my life!

Ah, that's a new one.
What was it last time?

I didn't even know her!
She was a cloakroom attendant!

I was helping her look for my ticket.

There were 3 duffle coats all the
same. Somehow the rack collapsed.

We were under all this stuff.
Were you playing around? !

What's it got to do with you?

What does he get up to? You'd know!
Oh, cos I'm that stupid.

I play around, and bring her to
meet the missus!

But you ARE that stupid!

Can we keep this stuff for back home?

What, with the rest of the rubbish?
You bring home cut-price detergents,

tonic water,
Betamax tapes, and none of it works.
I'm drowning in your rubbish.

What did he tell you? Did he
say he's this big businessman?

Cos he's not, he's a failure. Born
failure, that one! Rose needs a
proper father,

not one who's playing about like a
big kid. . . I'm making a living. It
keeps us fed, doesn't it? Stop it!

You're not like this.
You love each other.

Oh, Pete!
You never used to like them mental.
Or I don't know, maybe you did.

Jackie, listen. . . If you're
not careful, there'll be a wedding
and a divorce on the same day.

Wait here. Give us a minute with the
missus. Straighten the car up, or
stick it round the corner!

Don't cause any more trouble!

WHOOSHING

Hey Jack. Jack. . .

WHOOSHING

WHOOSHING

I'm not listening, it's the duffle
coats all over again.

Jackie, sometimes a duffle
coat is just a duffle coat.

Things will get better soon.
I promise. I've had enough of all
your daft schemes.

I never know where the next meal's
coming from. I'll get it right, love
I promise you, one day soon.

Come on!

Monsters! Going to eat us!

What sort of monsters, sweetheart?
Is it aliens?

Rose!

Get in the church!

ROARING

GASPING

Get in the church!

Oh, my God! What are they? !
What are they? ! Inside!

SCREECHING

Sarah! Stay in there!

SCREECHING

THEY SCREECH
Aargh! Aargh!

SHE SCREAMS

A-argh!

In!

BABY CRIES
SCREECHING AND ROARING

WHOOSHING

SCREECHING

SCREECHING CONTINUES

They can't get in.
Old windows and doors. OK?

The older something
is, the stronger it is.

What else?

SCREECHING

Go and check the other doors. Move!
What's happening? !

What are they? ! There's been an
accident in time. A wound in time.

They're like bacteria, taking
advantage.

What d'you mean, "time"?

I might've known you'd argue.

Jackie, I'm sick of you
complaining. . . How d'you know my
name?

No, and you never will,
unless I sort this out. I've waited
a long time to say this.

Jackie Tyler. Do as I say.
Go and check the doors!

Yes, sir.
I should've done that ages ago.
My dad was out there.

We've got to concentrate on keeping
ourselves alive. My dad had. . .

There is nothing I can do for him.
No, but he had this phone thing.

I can't get it to work. I keep
getting this voice. 'Watson, come
here. I need you. Watson. . .'

That's the very first
phone call. Alexander Graham Bell.

The telephone won't be much use. But
someone must've called the police!

The police can't help
you now. No-one can. Nothing in this
universe can harm those things.

Time's been damaged, and they've
come to sterilise the wound. . .

.by consuming everything inside.

Is this because. . .

Is this my fault?

SCREECHING

NO!

There's smoke coming up
from the city, but no sirens.

I don't think it's just us. I think
these things are all over the place.

Maybe the whole world.

Was that a car?

It's not important.

Don't worry about it.

SCREECHING

This mate of yours. . .

What did he mean, this is your fault?

Dunno. Just. . .everything.

I gave you my car keys.

You don't give your keys
to a complete stranger.

It's like I trusted you.

Moment I met you.

I just did.

A wound in time.

You called me Dad.

I can see it.

In my eyes.

Jackie's attitude.

You sound like her when you shout.

You are! You are. You're my Rose.

You're my Rose grown up!

Dad.

My dad. . .

My daddy. . .

Excuse me. Mr. . .um? Doctor.
You seem to know what's going on.
I give that impression, yeah.

I just wanted to ask. . .
Can you save us?

Who are you two, then?
Stuart Hoskins. Sarah Clark.

And one extra, boy or girl?

I dunno. I don't want to know,
really.

How did all this get started?

Outside the Beatbox Club, 2am.

Street corner, I'd lost my purse,
didn't have money for a taxi.

I took her home.

Then what? Asked her for a date?

Wrote his number on
the back of my hand.

Never got rid of her since!
My dad said. . .

I don't know what this is all about,
and I know we're not important. . .

Who said you're not important?

I've travelled to all sorts
of places, done things
you couldn't even imagine, but. . .

you two. . .

Street corner, two in the morning,

getting a taxi home. . .

I've never had a life like that.

Yes!

I'll try and save you.

I'm a dad.

I mean, I'm already a dad, but. . .

Rose grows up and. . .

she's you!

That's wonderful.

I suppose I thought. . .
that you'd be a bit useless,
with my useless genes.

But how did you get here?

Do you really wanna know? Yeah.

A time machine.

Time machine?

Cross my heart.

Do you all have time machines where
you come from? No, just the Doctor.

Did you know these. . .
these things were coming? No.

God, I dunno, my head's spinning.

What's the future like?

It's not so different.

What am I like? Have I gone grey?

Have I gone bald?

Don't tell me I've gone bald!

So, if this mate of yours isn't your
boyfriend, I have to say I'm glad,

cos being your dad,
I think he's a bit old for you!

Have you got a bloke?
No. I did have. Mickey!

Do you know him? I just. . .
didn't recognise him in a suit.

You have to let go of me,
sweetheart.
.I'm always saying that.

He grabs hold of what's passing and
holds on for dear life. God help
his poor girlfriend, if he gets one.

Me and Rose were just talking.

Oh, yeah, talking? While the world
comes to an end, what do you do?
Cling to the youngest blonde!

Come on, Mick!

You can't tell her. Why?

I don't want you to tell her.
You don't want people to know?

Where I come from, Jackie doesn't
know how to work the video recorder.
I showed her that last week!

Point taken.

SCREECHING

Now, Rose, you're not going to bring
about the end of the world, are you?

Are you?

Jackie gave her to me to look after.

How times change.

I'd better be careful.
I think I just imprinted myself on
Mickey like a mother chicken.

No! Don't touch the baby.
SCREECHING CONTINUES

You're the same person, that's
a paradox. We don't want that,
not with these things outside.

Anything new, any disturbance
in time, makes them stronger.

A paradox might let them in.

I can't do anything right, can I?

Since you asked, no. So. . .

don't touch the baby!

I'm not stupid! You could've
fooled me.

All right,

I'm sorry.

I wasn't really going to
leave you on your own. I know.

Between you and me,
I haven't got a plan.

No idea.

No way out.

You'll think of something.

The entire Earth's been sterilised.

This, and other places like it, are
all that's left of the human race.

We might hold out for a while,
but nothing can stop them.
They'll get through,

the walls aren't that old.

And there's nothing I can do
to stop them.

There used to be laws stopping
this kind of thing from happening.
My people would have stopped this.

But they're all gone.

And now I'm going the same way.

If I'd realised. . .

Just. . .

.tell me you're sorry.

I am.

I'm sorry.

Doc?

Have you got something hot?

Agh!

It's the TARDIS key!

It's telling me it's still
connected to the TARDIS!

The inside of my ship was thrown out
of the wound, but we can use this
to bring it back.

And once I've got my ship back,
I can mend everything! I just need
power. Has anybody got a battery?

This one big enough?

Fantastic! Good old dad.
There you go.

Just need to do a bit
of charging up,

and then we can bring everyone back.

SCREECHING, CRASH AT DOOR

SCREECHING AND CRASHING CONTINUES

You, um, you never said why you
came here in the first place.

If I had a time machine, I wouldn't
have thought 1987 was anything
special. Not round 'ere, anyway!

We just ended up 'ere.

Lucky for me, eh?
If you hadn't been there to save me.

That was just a coincidence.
That was just really good luck.

It's amazing.

So, in the future, um, are me
and her indoors still together?

Yeah.

You still livin' with us?

Yep.

Am I a good dad?

You. . .

You told me a bedtime story
every night, when I was small.

You were always there,
you never missed one.

And. . .um. . .

.you took us for picnics
in the country every Saturday.

You never let us down.

You were there for us all the time.

Someone I could really rely on.

That's not me.

Right, no-one touches that key!
Have you got that? Don't touch it.

Anyone touches that key,
it'll be. . .well, zap!

Leave it be, and everything
will be fine. We'll get out of here.
All of us. Stuart. Sarah!

You're gonna get married,
just like I said!

SCREECHING

THRUMMING

When time gets sorted. . . Everybody
here forgets what happened.

And don't worry, the thing that
you changed will. . .stay changed.

You mean, I'll still be alive.

Though I'm meant to be dead.

That's why I've haven't done anything
with my life. Why it meant nothing.

Doesn't work like that. Rubbish.

I was so useless,
I couldn't even die properly!

Now it's my fault all this
has happened. This is my fault.

No, love.

I'm your dad.

It's my job for it to be my fault.

Her dad?

How are you her dad?

How old were you, 12?

Oh, that's disgusting!

Jacks, listen.

This is Rose.

Rose? ! How sick is that? ! Did you
give my daughter a second-hand name?
How many are there?

Do you call them all Rose? ! Oh, for
God's sake, look! It's the same Rose.

Rose! No!

THEY ALL SCREAM
Everyone, behind me!

I'm the oldest thing in here!

Doctor!

Cold. . .

He's cold.

Oh, my God, he's dead.

It's all my fault.

Both of you! All of you!

The whole world! Ah, come on!

SCREECHING RESUMES

This is it. There's nothing
we can do. It's the end.

The Doctor really cared about you.

He didn't want you to go through it
again, not if there was another way.

Now there isn't.

What are you talking about?

The car that should have killed me,
love. It's here.

The Doctor worked it out way back,
but he, um. . .

he tried to protect me.

Still. . .

He's not in charge any more.

I am.

But you can't. . .

Who am I, love?

My daddy.

Jackie, look at her.

She's ours.

Oh, God.

I'm meant to be dead, Jackie.

You're gonna get rid of me at last.

Don't say that.

For once in your life, trust me.
It's gotta be done.

You've got to survive, cos you've
got to bring up our daughter.

I never read those bedtime stories,
I never took you on those picnics.

I was never there for you.

You would've been.

But I can do this for you.

I can be a proper dad to you now.

It's not fair.

I've had all these extra hours.

No-one else in the world
has ever had that.

And on top of that,

I get to see you.

And you're beautiful.

How lucky am I, eh?

So, come on, do as your dad says.

You gonna be there for me, love?

Thanks for saving me.

SCREECHING

TYRES SCREECH

Goodbye, love.

Go to him. Quick.

The driver was just a kid.

He stopped,

he waited for the police.

It wasn't his fault.

For some reason, Pete just ran out.

People say there was this girl. . .

And she sat with Pete while
he was dying. She held his hand.

Then she was gone.

Never found out who she was.

'Peter Alan Tyler, my dad.

'The most wonderful man
in the world.

'Died the 7th of November 1987.'

And why are we chasing it?

It's mauve and dangerous, and about
30 seconds from the centre of London.

Rose! Please let me in, Mummy.

You mustn't let him touch ya!
Are you a doctor? I have my moments.

You mustn't let him touch ya!
Are you a doctor? I have my moments.

They've all got the same injuries.
Right down to the scar on the back of their hand.

Physical injuries. . .as plague.

Hello. Hello.
Shall we have a drink on the balcony?

Ooh!

Ooh, I like to think of myself
as a criminal. I bet you do!

SHE SCREAMS

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