Doctor Who (2005–…): Season 12, Episode 6 - Praxeus - full transcript

THE DOCTOR: Planet Earth.

Early in the third decade
of the 21st century.

Population: seven billion.

Seven billion lives,
separate and connected.

From the depths
of the oceans...

..to the edge
of the atmosphere.

ALARMS BLARE

Soyuz to Control, we have
automatic system failure.

CONTROL: Copy that, Soyuz.

Can you switch to ballistic descent
and maintain trajectory?

Negative. I'm way off course.



DMP's failed.

And we have to deploy
the parachute!

HE GASPS

Control, do you copy?

HE GROANS

You, my friend,
are under arrest.

You do not
have to say anything,

but anything you do say
may seriously aggravate me.

Jake, what are you doing?!

Nailed him.

I can't believe
you're letting him walk away.

You can't go round
rugby-tackling kids like that!

You're not a police officer,
Jake.

Yes, I am!



I'm just...on a break.

Getting my head straight.

This really isn't working out,
is it?

Obrigada!

Close your eyes. Why?

Trust me!

You're gonna love this.

This is the most beautiful
river in the world.

OK.

FLIES BUZZ

PLASTIC CRUNCHES UNDERFOOT

Is this a joke?

It's wrecked.

BIRDS SQUAWK

I don't know what happened. Three
years ago, this was paradise.

Gabriela,
there's no way in hell

we're camping here tonight.

LOUD SNORING

Every time.

FLUTTERING NEARBY

PATTERING

BIRDS SQUAWK

Oh!

Ugh.

SQUAWKING INTENSIFIES

SHE SCREAMS

TV: Another win for Liverpool

has seen them increase pressure

on their title rivals
Manchester City.

Now, I'm just hearing that
we have some breaking news.

Mate, can you turn that up?

A statement just issued by
the European Space Agency

says they're still unable
to confirm

whether the British astronaut
Adam Lang

managed to evacuate
his descent module safely

after it veered off course

and crashed into
the Indian Ocean earlier today.

Although search and rescue teams

continue to trawl the waters,
the agencies say

they are now treating Adam Lang
as missing, presumed dead.

There are tributes for Mr Lang
on social media

and his family have asked...

PHONE VIBRATES

..for privacy at what they say
is a difficult time.

MESSAGE SENT TONE

Jamila!

SHOUT ECHOES

What the hell?

That's weird.

Hey!

Don't touch it.

Something's wrong
with the birds.

PHONE: You have arrived
at your destination.

INTERCOM BUZZES

HE KEEPS PRESSING BUZZER

YAZ: I don't think they're
too keen on visitors.

Come on, son, fists down.

There's a good lad.

Now, perhaps you'd like
to tell us

why you're so interested in
that door.

DI Jake Willis.

I've reason to believe there may be

a missing person
inside that building.

Bit out of your jurisdiction,
this.

Sorry, who are you?

We're the people...

with a nice big set
of skeleton keys.

Good morning, Suki.

Sleep in?

One day I will get here before you.

But I'm always ready for work.

Especially work like this.

Need some help over here!

Hi!

Why is it always the big lads
that need rescuing?

Oh, thanks.

I normally have my mates with me.
I gave them all errands.

If you touched Jamila... Hey,
I don't even know who Jamila is.

She vanished. And you are the
only other person out here. OK.

But I swear I haven't seen her.

I'm here because of
what's wrong with the birds.

You think I'll buy that? You should,
because it's the truth.

Look, I'm not armed.
There's nothing in me bag.

Check yourself
if you don't believe me.

How long has she been gone?

I last saw her
before I went to sleep last night.

Stand still.

Have you tried her phone?

Of course I've tried her phone.
I tried her on everything.

I just messaged some contacts
on Reddit

to access emergency services
and satellites.

Ooh.

You work out?

I do a lot of running.

I'm Gabriela.

I'm guessing you know that.

No.

Two Girls Roaming?

The travel vlog!

That's me and Jamila.

Sorry. Bit behind. I do a fair
bit of travelling myself.

I'm Ryan.

Need to take that bird.

These markings -
they're not natural.

What are you doing?

Birds are falling
out of the sky.

I'm trying to find out
the reason.

PHONE ALERT

That her?

No.

But someone's found out there was an
emergency call-out this morning.

One mile away.

Ambulancia.

JAKE: So who are you?

Interpol?

Did the ESA send you?

ESA?

European Space Agency.
To find their missing astronaut?

Your missing person's an astronaut?

Adam Lang. Equipment failure coming
back

from the International
Space Station.

It's all over the ne...

You're not even
looking for him, are you?

There's some very unusual
energy patterns

coming from this building.

We're under instructions
to find out why.

A man's gone missing and nobody's
doing anything to find him.

Apart from you.

The police.

Yeah.

THE DOCTOR: Right.
Let's put him down.

This is a US naval uniform.

What's he doing here? A US submarine
went missing in the Indian Ocean.

I've been checking the tide
patterns for survivors.

I'm the Doctor, by the way.

Aramu and Suki.

Nice to meet you both.
You live here?

Work here. That's my lab.

We could get him inside and...

MAN GASPS FOR AIR

It's all right!

You're safe!

No... No, I'm not...
What's your name?

Zach Olson.

There was an impact.

Our captain tried to raise
the sub, but it was too late.

It was already inside.

What was already inside, Zach?

CRUNCHING

No!

What's on his hand?

Oh, no!

No! No!

OK.

So with the understanding that
that was pretty alarming...

..don't be overly alarmed.

His body just disintegrated.

Yes. Poor man.

How is that even possible?

I don't know.

There's a connection between
all these things, I just...

Agh, I just can't see it yet.

Between what things?
A missing submarine,

a dead naval officer
off the coast of Madagascar,

birds going haywire in Peru,

and active alien tech
in Hong Kong.

There's also a talking cat
in Ontario,

but I've ruled him out for now.

What?

You just said...alien.

This is the hospital
the ambulance brought her to.

RYAN: Hello?

Hello?

Where are all the staff?

Another one in here.
What are you doing?

The same as the river.

DOOR BANGS

Hey! The whole point of quarantine

is not going in where it says
"quarantine".

Do you want to find her or not?

Tell me that's not her.

Jamila!

I'm sorry.

Melhor amiga.

Doctor?

I found something
that you wanna see.

Who are you talking to?

How are you calling a doctor?

You've seen these markings before?

Jamila!

Hey, get away from her!

No! She's alive!

GABRIELA SPEAKS PORTUGUESE

I don't think that's alive.
We have to help her!

No, Ryan's right, she's not alive.

Whatever caused her death seems
to still be attacking her body.

Who are you? Doctor, her face.

Yeah. I've just seen the same
thing

on a naval officer in Madagascar.

Jamila!

Same as Zach on the beach.

No, no, no,
this can't be happening.

Hey, it's OK.

No, it's not! Two identical deaths
on two different continents.

It's even more dangerous than
I thought, and it's spreading.

Which could mean...

Have you heard
from Yaz and Graham?

DEVICE CHIMES

Hey! Hey.

Whatever is giving off
those weird readings...

..is on the other side
of that wall.

..Is on the other side
of this door.

You're welcome.

Locked from the inside.

Maybe if we went round
the other way...

Chat, chat, chat, chat, chat.

What the hell's all this?

Exactly what we've been looking for.

Adam?

Adam!

I told you he was here. I'm gonna
get this stuff off him. Wait!

Not until we know
what all this stuff is doing.

Yaz is right. You can't
just go blundering in,

you could end up killing him.
How long's that going to take?

We've been in this room
as long as you.

Doctor, we found the source
of the energy.

Plus a kidnapped astronaut.

Adam? Can you hear me?

It's Jake. I'm here.
I'm here for you.

I'm here.

Get out.

What?

They'll come!

Unplug him and get him out!

You just said that wasn't safe!

The situation's changed!
Get him out!

Yaz, what are you doing?!

Oi!

Guns down, or I'll trash it.

GROWLING

Hesitation.

Must be valuable. Yaz, we're out.

Lads, keep going!

They're right behind us.

You came. Course I came!

Who are you with?
Can you get backup?

Backup? Why would he have backup?

He's a copper!

Ex-copper.
BOTH: What?

Can we not do this now? Look out!

Down! Look out!

I'm on a sabbatical.

That's OK. So's she.

Except I don't go around
announcing I'm police.

Never believe anything he says.

Mate, he's just come halfway
round the world to rescue you.

Thank you! I scanned this building
for life signals

before I sent you here,
so why didn't these register?

Doctor? Could be the suit blocking
the scan. Is she with you?

Ugh! Can't get
the breathing apparatus off

to see their face.

Non-terrestrial.

Same as the weapon.

So who are you?

I'm the backup.

Oh! Adam Lang.
Famous British astronaut.

Famous missing British astronaut.

Glad you're safe. How are you
feeling? Terrible.

Yeah, you look it.

Hadn't factored you into this.

Focused too much on that cat.

This way. I'll introduce you to
Gabriela once we're inside.

She's having a tough time
as well.

Inside where?

Probably best
you see for yourself.

Is it like, er,
an optical illusion?

I really don't know.

How long have you and Jamila
known each other?

Five years.

I don't know
what I'm going to do now.

You'll get through it.

Cos you've known me
for how many hours?

We're going to find out
what happened.

And we're going to put it right.

So you really don't believe
this thing travels?

No way.

Through the doors!

Past Ryan! We're not all going to
fit in there!

You'll be surprised.

Ryan, this is Jake and Adam.

Come on, Yaz!

No. Sorry? There was a device in
there.

I couldn't get it free in time. It
looked really important to them.

I want to go back and get it.
We don't have enough time.

You go. Come back for me in,

I don't know, an hour or something.
It's too dangerous.

We need to know why Adam was taken
there and what they did to him,

and how this is all connected
to those other events.

I'll come with you. I'm more
than ready to fight something.

One hour.

Hey, I'm Gabriela.
You must be Yaz.

Come on. He's through here.

So the box is the doorway
to this building?

No building.
You're still in the box.

But...the box was smaller
than this.

The inside of the box
is bigger than the outside.

That's not possible. It clearly is,
cos you're in it.

It's a space and time ship, mate.

Don't be stupid. Well, excuse me,
Inspector Morse,

but I ain't
the fantasist round here.

Adam, you really don't
look well.

I need to do an MOT.

ADAM GROANS

Ow! I did say it'd hurt.

No, you didn't. Well, I meant to.

It takes a blood sample
for analysis.

So... International
Space Station.

Was it awesome?

Really awesome.

Best bits?

Just watching the planet turn
across a day.

The aurora borealis.

Seeing hurricanes start to form
from above.

It just changes how you...
see everything.

RINGTONE

Incoming call.

Is this the Doctor?

Aramu. Suki. Everything all right?

You said to call if anything
else unusual happened.

Suki?

This is not an ordinary day.

No. Very not ordinary.

Before you show me unusual,

can me and my friends
make use of your lab?

Where did you go? Busy day.

Still can't believe
what we saw earlier.

He's not the first person
to die like that today.

Same thing happened to
a young woman in Peru.

They're linked.
I need to work out how.

Plus we've got a sick astronaut
getting sicker by the moment.

So you two know each other how?

We're separated. We're married.

Well, one of yous is in for a shock.

One of us doesn't like
putting the work in.

I came halfway round the world.

Seven months too late.

Boys! Maybe now is not
the moment. Let's get inside.

Come on, son. You can do it.
Few more steps.

The birds are
looking wrong here, too.

I only saw it the first few days.

At first I thought
it was OK, you know?

It's not the first bird
to fly off its course.

It's not native to Madagascar.

No.

Hey. Don't get too close.

That's not the only one.

Others...

have started to come.

Yes, they have.

But why here?

There was a dead bird
in that deserted hospital,

and all over the dumping ground

where Gabriela and Jamila
were camping.

And now they're circling this
beach where Zach washed up.

Alien birds? I don't know.

If I could get hold of one
to analyse it...

Good job I've got one
in my backpack.

Picked it up when I were in Peru.

That's why you smell of dead bird!

I thought you'd changed your shower
gel. Doc!

Doc, Adam's in a bad way in there.

I think we made a mistake

by disconnecting him from
all that gubbins in Hong Kong.

Or maybe you just want to
stand out here watching birds.

More like they're watching us.

You go inside.

I'll keep my eye on them.

Let's take a look at Adam.

Let us know if anything changes,
Aramu!

BIRDS SQUAWK LOUDLY

So, I guess you recognise me.

No?

Two Girls Roaming!

I haven't seen it.

What's the matter with you people?

STRAINED BREATHING

In here.

Is that what we came for?

Yeah.

OK, so let's get out of here.

It's connected into the systems.

I want to see what I can find.

It looks like this lab is part of
a triangulation of signals

with two other locations.

One's Madagascar.

Hide!

That's one of
the creatures Jake shot.

What is it doing?

Whoa! Where did it go?

What did it just do?

It's a teleport station.

We could follow it.

Are you crazy?

So here's your present from Peru.

Ryan, will you dissect it for me?

What?! You must have done it
at school.

Doesn't need to be elegant.

Good! Cos it won't be.

Nice lab.

Very well equipped. Thanks.

Right. First things first.

How are you off for
broad-spectrum antibiotics?

Yes, but only... Great!
...a small supply. Graham!

Jake. See if you can rig up
an IV.

We need to get some medicine
into Adam, try and stabilise him.

I have no idea how to do that.

I'll give you a hand.

I've seen a few
intravenous drips in my time.

Finally, it comes in handy.

I might need a high-powered
microscope,

blood cultures,
rapid genome sequencing,

a spectrophotometer,
and a super fast incubator.

I've got most of that.

Suki Cheng,
on a Madagascan beach,

excellently equipped
and ready for anything.

Ooh, can I use your computer?

Right.

I want to see what's going on
inside Adam.

Gonna use your laptop

to download the readings
I took from him earlier.

So what is it you do here?

We're working on a marine filtration
system

connected into the Crystal Oceans
Initiative. Ah!

Hence the water filtration system.

Micro version, is it?

You take a lot in, very fast.
Yes, I do.

It's one of my skills.

BEEP

Ah! Here we go.

Initial blood analysis for Adam.

You OK, Doc?

I'm sorry, Adam.

Your bloodstream's been infected
with an alien pathogen,

presumably in Hong Kong.

Is it bad if I don't know
what a pathogen is?

I'm glad you asked that, cos I...

I didn't want to look stupid.

It's a microorganism
that carries disease.

Alien bacteria, which is
latching on to life-forms...

and killing them.

I'm afraid it's inside you,
Adam,

and right now, I don't know
how we stop it overwhelming you.

You really want to
follow that creature.

We're seriously going to do this?

Yeah.

Without knowing where we're going?

Yeah.

What's the worst place
we could end up?

Long list.

You don't want to know.

You are crazy!

Two girls roaming.

Ready?

I know you're worried about
your husband, mate,

but he's in good hands
with the Doc.

Just go away.

What did he mean when he said,
"Seven months too late"?

I was supposed to come out
and see him launch.

Say goodbye
as he went off to the ISS.

And you didn't go.

He knew what he was taking on with
me.

I don't do emotions.

And I'm really not good at...

sticking with things,
you know? Commitment.

Also, I really don't like
foreign travel.

Wow. So you were
quite the catch, then.

Yeah. He's a lucky, lucky bloke.

My husband is an astronaut.

Do you have any idea
how hard it is

being married to somebody
that impressive?

It sort of sends me the other way.

I wallow in being unreliable.

Like I'm punishing him.

What for?

Not being honest.

No, sorry, you lost me.

If he's that...impressive,
if he's that amazing...

...which he is...

he can't love me
the way he says he does.

It doesn't make sense. Why would he?

Oh, mate.

I don't think he's the one
you're punishing.

We're still alive.

We didn't die!

Didn't teleport into
an active volcano.

Result!

What do you think this is?

Some sort of alien colony.

Look at all this stuff.

What even is it?

If we're on an alien planet,

then what is that?

That...

..is part of a submarine.

I've gene-sequenced blood cultures
from Adam and that bird.

Wow, you are fast.

If I track changes
in the optical density

and confirm the bacteria's growth
rate,

we might be able to use that data
to genetically engineer a virus.

That's what I was thinking!

We're so sympa.

Hey.

CRUNCHING

The antibiotics aren't working!

He's getting worse!

Doctor! Doc. Doc.

Aramu says that the birds are
getting really angry out there.

Not surprised, if this is what
their insides are like.

Take a look.

They're full of plastic.

Once plastic gets in the ocean,
birds mistake it for food.

I've seen hatchlings regurgitate
200 individual pieces.

It's feasting on the plastic
in the birds and taking them over!

The alien pathogens
attacked the plastic.

The plastic metastasized
as if it was living.

Oh...

Autons?

No, it can't be Autons.

They don't work like this.
Not bacterial.

Come on, brains! Move it along!

Did she say "brains", plural?

How does that explain
what happened to Jamila?

Like, she just got taken over.

Yeah. How does it? It attacks
the plastic in the birds,

but there's no plastic in humans.

Except...

Oh!

Microfiltration!

Hey, Doc. That's not a thought -
that's just a random phrase.

No, no, no.
That's a very big thought.

The microfiltration system
in the water.

It filters out...
BOTH: ...microplastics!

Alien bacteria

homing in on microplastics

because humans are full of them!

Excuse me, I'm not full of plastic.

Full of something.
I'm afraid you are, Graham.

It's in the air, it's in your
food, it's in your water.

Humans have flooded this planet
with plastics

that can't be fully broken down,

so much so that you're ingesting
microparticles

whether you know it or not!

You're poisoning yourselves
as well as your planet.

An alien bacteria
has come to this planet,

and it found a feast.

BIRDS SQUAWK

Hey, Doc, let's get rid of
this bird,

cos it really, really smells.

No. Look!

What?

See what the birds' natural
enzymes are doing.

Oh, yeah. Clear as mud.

Planet Earth. So clever.

Two strains from Peru fighting back,
ganging up on the bacteria,

holding it back to allow
natural decomposition!

Come on. Catch me up on this,
please.

Ryan Sinclair picks up
a dead bird in Peru,

and might just
have saved the world.

Well, I am here for you guys,
you know?

If we isolate and boost
the enzyme, then splice them,

we'd have one supercharged virus.

Yes, we would.

COMMDOT BEEPS

Yaz, how are you doing?
Cos we've literally got

the most exciting rotting bird
that I've ever seen.

I don't want you to panic,

but we followed one of those
things through a teleport,

and now I think
we're on an alien planet.

Well, you don't do things by halves.

Also, I think we found
the missing submarine.

Not sure how that got here.
Oh, and another thing.

The lab in Hong Kong was sending
data to two locations.

One in the middle
of the Indian Ocean,

but the other is in Madagascar,

Where you are...right now.

Doctor.

Doctor,
did you hear what I said?

Yeah. Thanks, Yaz.

Sit tight.

Suki Cheng.

Out here all alone
in an over-equipped lab.

I should have spotted it
straight away.

What's happening?

Where's Yaz?

I was so worried
when you turned up.

When you took him
from Hong Kong.

But you've really helped.

Got even more answers from you

than we did from experimenting
on Adam.

We call the infection Praxeus.

Trust me, it's smart,
it's relentless,

and it knows you're onto it.

Oh, I'm a sucker for a scientist!

Where did she just go?

BIRDS SQUAWK OUTSIDE

SQUAWKING INTENSIFIES

We need to get out of here.

SILENCE OUTSIDE

Have they gone?

Doc, come on!

THE DOCTOR: Take cover! Let's go!

Come on!

We need to get out!

Don't let them scratch you -
they'll infect you!

I need to get the samples!
Doctor, come on!

This is why I don't go abroad!

Let's go!

Doc, catch!

Come on!

Head straight for the TARDIS. Quick
as you can. They've seen us!

They're following!

Just keep running!

In here, all of you.

Come on, Ryan!

Yaz, we're on our way. Locked
in on your commdot signal.

We're coming for you, wherever you
are.

If Praxeus is being spread
by birds,

it could get around the world
incredibly fast,

attacking and infecting
every living thing.

We may potentially have a cure,
but we don't know if it works.

Test it on me.

No. Too dangerous.

It's too dangerous
if we don't do it.

You said yourself there's no time.

You need a clinical trial, a human
body, and now you've got one.

No. We don't have time to argue.

Adam, no. No way.
I'm not gonna let you!

It's not your choice to make.

Yaz.

Look.

Looks like it was
trying to get somewhere

but its injuries were too bad.
I wanna know what they are.

Oh, my God!

Bioreadings synced
with the TARDIS.

If the antidote works on you,
the TARDIS will make more.

Sure?

Stop faffing about.

SONIC WHIRS

HE GASPS

TARDIS WHOOSHES

We've landed.

But where?

Stay in here.
We'll be as quick as we can.

With me.

DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES

God, you look miserable right now.

Yaz! Found you.

Thanks for coming to get us,
Eventually.

Look at you, going off on your
own and not getting killed!

Plus, totally found
an alien colony.

Sort of.
It is an alien construct,

but it's not an alien colony.

Then where are we?

A long way below the Indian Ocean.

Beneath a gyre of plastic pollution.

We're under the sea?

It's a naturally occurring hot spot
where ocean currents trap pollution.

There are five major gyres
on Earth right now.

Praxeus is attracted to plastic.

It's built a whole environment
here from the plastic,

a world of pure Praxeus!

This is where it all started.

Seabirds infected with Praxeus

transporting the bacteria
around the world,

transferring it to humans
when they attack!

But how does the alien bacteria
end up in the Indian Ocean

in the first place?

SONIC WHIRS

There's something else down here,

and I think it's connected
to our friend Suki.

Come on.

What are you
looking like that for?

Thought I'd discovered
an alien planet on my own.

We're at the bottom
of the Indian Ocean?

How are you feeling?

Dying.

Not allowed.

Dying man's wish.

Stop dodging life.

Please.

We followed it
through the teleport...

and found it here.

Humanoid.

But not human. Infected with
Praxeus,

but the body hasn't disintegrated.

Must be due to
the different biology.

I don't get it.

Why were these guys
experimenting on Adam?

Maybe for the same reasons we are.

To find a cure.

HE GROANS

What does all this stuff mean?

BEEPING AND WHIRRING

ALARMS BLARE

Going somewhere?
Who were they, Suki?

The infected people in the hazmat
suits?

My crew.

I'm the last one left.

Wait. That's a spaceship, right?

Well, the back end of one, yes.

Just when I thought things
couldn't get any madder.

Whoa. How did you get here?

I was going to ask you
the same question,

but I presume that ship is how.
So the question is...why?

Praxeus devastated my planet.

The survivors
were assigned to lab ships

to find an antidote
for the few of us left alive.

You're infected too.

Cellular mutation is slower for us.

If you're scientists in lab ships,

please tell me you didn't bring this
infection here deliberately.

Praxeus breeds in plastic,
and this planet is saturated in it.

We travelled across three
galaxies

to find the perfect living
laboratory.

To use Earth as a petri dish,

destroying one race to save
the remnants of your own.

But this down here, this
environment, it wasn't deliberate.

We lost control of the shuttle
on entry.

Crash-landed.

Bacteria flooded out,
irradiated, formed this world.

And a broken spacecraft

sending out pulses of energy
from the bottom of the ocean

was enough to down and frazzle
a returning space capsule.

This is the centre of where
everything's been happening!

Your arm. You've been scratched
by those birds.

You've had a double dose
of Praxeus.

But you showed me how to find a
cure!

Thanks to you, my mission was
successful.

They already have the transmission
of how the cure could work.

No! Suki, the cure is designed
for humans,

and we don't even know
if it works on them.

If you're not human,
who knows what will happen?

Please tell me you haven't
administered it on yourself.

Stay out of my way.

Stay here.

Suki! Listen to me!

We can work together on this.

Get out of here!
I wouldn't use that in here.

Not with those reverse pulse
proton engines.

Very unreliable.
No wonder you crashed.

Put that thing down!
Sortable, though.

Organic fuel cells.

Oh, hang on.
I'm having half a thought.

Ooh! This one tickles. What is it?

Oh! Yes!

You can store anything
in organic fuel cells -

anything vaguely organic!
Look at us, Suki.

Two brilliant scientists -
we can fix this!

Work together, find a cure
for you, and then we can

stop Earth from being
taken over by Praxeus!

CRUNCHING

What's happening to me?!

It's spreading! How do I stop it?

Help me!

You OK? Where's Suki?

Succumbed to Praxeus.

But I think this may give us a way
through. I need a crew in here.

Count us in. Hi.

Turns out...

it worked.

Your machine spat this out.
That's the antidote.

And by the way,
where the hell are we?

Follow me! Lots to do.

Engine vents on. Apparently.

System set to automated
timed venting. I think.

Manual bypass, bypassed.

Dials on full clockwise.

I said anticlockwise!
Just testing!

Organic fuel cells
loaded with Praxeus antidote.

Trajectory aligned. Comms off.
Spatial regulators disabled.

Organic fuel cells filled
with Praxeus-killing virus,

as tested on Adam, check.

Autopilot system set for
the Earth's stratosphere, check.

All systems set for automation.

No idea what any of this means,
but is that literally

the controls for up, down,
left and right? Yeah.

Adam Lang, your job is so easy!

COMPUTER: Shuttle initiating
autopilot take-off.

Gold stars
for my apprentice engineers.

What is actually happening?

Once the ship
is in the stratosphere,

the engines discharge the virus
in one superpowered burst,

dispersing it around the world,
killing Praxeus stone dead.

Hopefully.

Only one tiny flaw in the plan.

Send this into the atmosphere,
it'll rip a hole in this world,

and we'll be crushed under
the entire Indian Ocean.

That's more than a tiny flaw, Doc!

And that's why I set the autopilot.

So everybody, out, now.

Go!

What was that? Autopilot failure.

It can't connect.

It's gonna work, though, right?
I dunno. It might not.

But it's definitely going to take
off. We need to get out of here!

What if it doesn't work?

Too late to fix! Come on.

Got to be fast taking off!

Where's Jake?

Where's Jake? He was right behind
us.

JAKE ON COMMS: Are these comms on?

Spacecraft to blue box -
can you hear me?

Jake, what are you doing?

Manual pilot making up for
broken autopilot.

Any idiot can fly a spaceship,
right?

Jake.

I don't want this.

Maybe I do.

Maybe I need this.

You're entering into
the stratosphere!

Yeah, that really doesn't
mean anything to me!

But if I was a betting man,

and my husband would tell you
I really am,

I'd say the automatic release
is bust.

Tell me what I need to do!

The controls by your right hand
will vent the antidote.

You need to flick
the three switches at once.

I'm going to give it a go!

The ship's gonna break up.

Jake, you have to wait until the
shuttle's in the right position.

Adam?

Adam!

I'm sorry I wasn't at the launch.

This is me not dodging.

Don't say I never listened to you!

Shuttle's in position, Jake.

Dispersing antidote...

I think.

Jake, you've done it!

Antidote particles being dispersed
into the jet streams.

Hope it works!

The ship's very knackered!

About to blow!

You can save him, right?

EXPLOSION

ALARMS BLARE

Doc, come on!

TARDIS WHOOSHES

I hate you.

Yes, I can save him.

Just, if I materialise around him

in the millisecond
before the ship breaks up.

Nice work, Doc.

What can I say?

I'm a romantic.

I guess this is goodbye, then.

Keep the planet safe for us.

Cos we'll be coming back,
so it better be in good nick.

Or we'll know who to blame!

Thank you. Our pleasure.

Really.

Although I have to say,

worst thing about
saving the human race?

Nobody knows it was me.

Least I could get was a statue!

So what's the plan now for you two?

Dunno. Spend some time together.

We never had a honeymoon because
he didn't want to go abroad.

Maybe now's the time.
I'll come with you!

How's that a honeymoon
if you're with us?

We can vlog about it!

What you gonna call it?
Three Idiots Roaming?

I like it! It's snappy!

And factual.

Yeah, you guys can go now.

We'll take the planet from here.

Hey!

Come find us some time.

Planet Earth.
Seven billion lives.

Separate, and connected,

from the edge of the atmosphere

to the depths of the ocean.

Welcome to Aleppo!

Your worst fears. My creativity.

Who are you?

Get everyone out.