Doctor Who Confidential (2005–2011): Season 2, Episode 12 - Welcome to Torchwood - full transcript
Daleks made of bronze.
Exterminate!
Cybermen made of steel.
Torchwood made of ordinary human flesh.
There's no point hiding
anything. Not from us.
Put them together.
Oh, my God!
What a fight.
We're about to do the scene with the Daleks
when they first come out,
and, to be honest, I'm a bit nervous.
Because I've seen them off-set, over there,
and I was kind of, like, getting goosebumps.
The Mickey you see today, in episode 12,
is a new kind of brave Mickey,
a Mickey that's being away from
the Doctor and Rose for quite sometime
and is coming undercover to sort out the...
What he thinks is the Cybermen.
Exterminate! Exterminate!/
I was a bit prima donna-ish earlier
and said, "I need some tea."
"I need something warm to help my throat."
I'm loving it. It's like a
holiday. With Daleks.
501, take 2.
Action!
That's not Cybermen.
Oh, my God!
Location, Earth. Life forms detected.
Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate/
Exterminate!
The Daleks are back
because Daleks always come back.
That's what Daleks do. And they are loved.
I love them.
I think there's a whole new generation
that loves them,
and an old generation
that always loved them.
And you'd be mad to sit here
and say they're gone forever.
At the end of season one,
we always knew they'd come back.
If the Daleks weren't in Doctor Who,
it is like fish without chips,
or Cagney without Lacey. It's just wrong.
The Daleks have to come back.
No matter how utterly they are defeated.
No matter how much
they're totally destroyed.
You can wipe out their planets,
wipe out their ships.
They have to come back.
I will not die!
I cannot die/
I really think they're an essential part
of Doctor Who.
To a lot of people,
it is Doctor Who and the Daleks.
The first time that Rose saw a Dalek
is the first time
that Rose saw the Doctor really weak.
-Exterminate! Exterminate!
-Let me out!
Exterminate!
Seeing them going down corridors,
seeing them wandering around Torchwood,
a place which has been looking
for alien intelligences,
and suddenly they've got the Daleks
in the middle of it.
And then, icing on the cake,
they're fighting the Cybermen.
I don't think they really tended
to do that in the classic series,
kind of put monsters together,
which seems like quite an obvious thing
to do now, I think.
It's one of those things that I think people
who watched the show casually in years gone by,
imagine has happened before.
They imagine that the Daleks and Cybermen
must've fought each other.
They never have, it's
a real Doctor Who first.
Identify yourselves/
We are the Cybermen.
You will be deleted.
-Exterminate!
-Delete!
-Exterminate!
-Delete!
-Exterminate!
-Delete!
Bit of a nightmare for the Doctor,
of course, you know.
The two greatest enemies,
he's got to defeat them both.
We're bringing back the Cybermen,
we've got the Daleks,
I think that's exactly what
an eight-year-old would do in their heads.
You know, in playgrounds across
the country, since 1966 pretty much,
people have said,
"Who's best? Daleks or Cybermen?"
And now, finally, we get to find out.
B camera.
Lights!
Here we go, and action!
Get away from the machines!
Do what they say! Don't fight them!
Don't shoot! They're just doing their job!
What are they?
We are the Cybermen.
Suddenly I'm on set and there's the Tardis,
and there's a Dalek and there's a Cyberman.
I mean, it's really, really exciting.
I bumped into one on the way up,
he was working out his moves down there,
and I said, "Oh, sorry!"
And he just stared at me and turned.
He didn't say anything,
which really shook me up even more.
What a scaredy-cat.
GATISS: So now it's the Daleks,
the Cybermen and Torchwood,
all out to get the Doctor.
But did you spot the Torchwood references
throughout the series?
So, The Doctor Who Trainspotter's
Guide to Torchwood, I think, is...
-The touchdown.
-No. Torchwood.
What about Torchwood?
Still working on it.
The Torchwood Institute.
Can't get any photos 'cause
then it gets all classified as secret.
In other news, the Torchwood
Institute has published a study...
Stevie, how's things?
How's it going at Torchwood?
Tomorrow, on the big day, we'll have
Torchwood on our backs then, make no mistake.
You really have to pay
attention to that one.
Representing the Torchwood archive.
In the Torchwood files, we're able to look at
all the old databases in a completely new light.
-And then we'll never feel alone ever again.
-Torchwood.
So I think that's pretty much everything.
-Oh my God.
-Is it him?
It's him.
The Doctor, in a sense, is indirectly
responsible for Torchwood's creation,
because Queen Victoria set it up
almost in retaliation to him
back in Tooth and Claw.
I propose an institute
to investigate these strange happenings
and to fight them.
We can presume, therefore,
that it's always been there.
Throughout the many
years of Doctor Who's life,
when he lived on Earth,
working for the United Nations.
It's very much like having the CIA and the
FBI not telling each other what they're doing.
I think the key to that is that, actually, the
Doctor is officially the enemy of Torchwood.
And if this Doctor should return,
then he should beware,
because Torchwood will be waiting.
The Doctor remains blissfully unaware
that this place exists.
Until, in episode 12, he lands the Tardis there
and discovers that there's this huge organisation.
-And... And... And you are?
-Oh, plenty of time for that.
There's something slightly worrying
about Torchwood,
there's something a little bit
master-racey about it,
which, of course, the Doctor
is not particularly pleased with.
GATISS: Initially based in the Scottish
Highlands, by episode 12, Torchwood is in London.
Hold on a minute. We're in Canary Wharf.
This Torchwood
the Doctor is encountering now is...
Well, it's evil, though I hate using that word,
you know, they are the bad guys in some ways,
but they're also very professional
and quite measured about what they do.
-Thank you, Sebastian, isn't it?
-Yes, ma'am.
Thank you, Sebastian.
I think it's very important
to know everyone by name.
Torchwood is a very modern organisation.
People skills.
That's what it's all about these days.
I'm a people person.
She's utterly charming,
but also is vehemently patriotic.
Truly believes that
everything they're doing at Torchwood
is for the good of the British empire.
And she wants to make Britain great.
I guess she's a pseudo-fascist, really.
It was only a matter of
time until you found us.
And at last you've made it.
I'd like to welcome you, Doctor.
Welcome to Torchwood.
That's a Jathaa Sun Glider.
Came down to Earth off
the Shetland Islands 10 years ago.
-What, did it crash?
-No, we shot it down.
-It violated our airspace...
-I've got a dribbling nose. I'm sorry.
WOMAN: Okay, do it again. Action.
(CAMERA THUDDING)
And again.
We're much closer.
(THUDDING)
(CREW CHATTERING)
That might have been my fault 'cause
I asked Tracy Ann to push both doors.
'Cause when I pushed my door, it felt like,
"Why am I pushing a door in Torchwood?"
As long as they both come together,
and it should be her.
-It's your fault, it's not my fault.
-It was only a matter of time until you found us.
And at last you've made it.
I'd like to welcome you, Doctor.
Welcome to Torchwood.
GATISS: A vast array of alien artefacts
had to be created for episode 12,
the most important of which is the Sphere.
They're trying everything they can to
get this Sphere to open and it won't open.
But then, one day, all these
ghosts start arriving into the world.
And we're into Ghost Shift.
COMPUTER: Online.
You now know why you need the sunglasses.
It's really, really blinding.
Yeah, that's great.
Mostly I would describe exactly where various
things were gonna happen within the set.
And they had great use
of their own imagination.
Bright light, really, really bleaching out the room,
and suddenly there are loads and loads of ghosts.
It's a chance to work with CGI,
and a lot of the stuff that you can't see,
that you have to have in your imagination.
There are 30, 40, 50 of them, ghosts.
You've never seen this amount before.
Achieving full transfer.
They're Cybermen.
All of the ghosts are Cybermen.
Millions of them.
Right across the world.
COHEN: We shot generic people
against green screen.
Dave Houghton, the effects supervisor,
went through the script
and worked out what angles and what
kind of movements we needed to film.
Okay, so start to judder again.
When you swipe this
time, continue shuddering.
So, if you swipe now...
Who are you? Where are you coming from?
Whoa! That's more like it!
Not so friendly now, are you?
We were quite conscious not to make them
too dissimilar from Cybermen
because we knew, obviously,
they were gonna materialise into them.
But also we didn't want to
give the game away, either.
So they had to be generic enough
for all the characters in the show
to assume they were the ghosts
they wanted them to be.
Ten past, here he comes.
GARDNER: Jackie
thinks it's her dead father.
So the ghost effect needs to look human.
At the same time that's a cheat
because we know from the script
that it's going to be revealed
that the ghosts are actually Cybermen.
And, of course, we wanted to try
to build to that huge cliff-hanger.
(BEEPING)
COMPUTER: Sphere
activated. Sphere activated.
Daleks and Cybermen together at war
is the ultimate.
Two major enemies of the Doctor converging.
It is as many armies as possible
descending upon the Torchwood Tower.
It's a bit of a dark moment for the Doctor.
He's a prisoner with the Cybermen
at the top of the Torchwood Tower.
He just knows he's gonna have to deal
with Cybermen.
They're invading the whole planet.
It's not an invasion.
It's too late for that.
It's a victory.
It's... It's awful. It's awful.
-Not great.
-They are terrified.
He doesn't yet know
about the appearance of the Dalek.
It's about as bad as
it's ever been, I think.
It is as big as it gets.
The build-up to a big climax.
Exterminate!
And it's absolutely gonna deliver.
Exterminate!
Cybermen made of steel.
Torchwood made of ordinary human flesh.
There's no point hiding
anything. Not from us.
Put them together.
Oh, my God!
What a fight.
We're about to do the scene with the Daleks
when they first come out,
and, to be honest, I'm a bit nervous.
Because I've seen them off-set, over there,
and I was kind of, like, getting goosebumps.
The Mickey you see today, in episode 12,
is a new kind of brave Mickey,
a Mickey that's being away from
the Doctor and Rose for quite sometime
and is coming undercover to sort out the...
What he thinks is the Cybermen.
Exterminate! Exterminate!/
I was a bit prima donna-ish earlier
and said, "I need some tea."
"I need something warm to help my throat."
I'm loving it. It's like a
holiday. With Daleks.
501, take 2.
Action!
That's not Cybermen.
Oh, my God!
Location, Earth. Life forms detected.
Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate/
Exterminate!
The Daleks are back
because Daleks always come back.
That's what Daleks do. And they are loved.
I love them.
I think there's a whole new generation
that loves them,
and an old generation
that always loved them.
And you'd be mad to sit here
and say they're gone forever.
At the end of season one,
we always knew they'd come back.
If the Daleks weren't in Doctor Who,
it is like fish without chips,
or Cagney without Lacey. It's just wrong.
The Daleks have to come back.
No matter how utterly they are defeated.
No matter how much
they're totally destroyed.
You can wipe out their planets,
wipe out their ships.
They have to come back.
I will not die!
I cannot die/
I really think they're an essential part
of Doctor Who.
To a lot of people,
it is Doctor Who and the Daleks.
The first time that Rose saw a Dalek
is the first time
that Rose saw the Doctor really weak.
-Exterminate! Exterminate!
-Let me out!
Exterminate!
Seeing them going down corridors,
seeing them wandering around Torchwood,
a place which has been looking
for alien intelligences,
and suddenly they've got the Daleks
in the middle of it.
And then, icing on the cake,
they're fighting the Cybermen.
I don't think they really tended
to do that in the classic series,
kind of put monsters together,
which seems like quite an obvious thing
to do now, I think.
It's one of those things that I think people
who watched the show casually in years gone by,
imagine has happened before.
They imagine that the Daleks and Cybermen
must've fought each other.
They never have, it's
a real Doctor Who first.
Identify yourselves/
We are the Cybermen.
You will be deleted.
-Exterminate!
-Delete!
-Exterminate!
-Delete!
-Exterminate!
-Delete!
Bit of a nightmare for the Doctor,
of course, you know.
The two greatest enemies,
he's got to defeat them both.
We're bringing back the Cybermen,
we've got the Daleks,
I think that's exactly what
an eight-year-old would do in their heads.
You know, in playgrounds across
the country, since 1966 pretty much,
people have said,
"Who's best? Daleks or Cybermen?"
And now, finally, we get to find out.
B camera.
Lights!
Here we go, and action!
Get away from the machines!
Do what they say! Don't fight them!
Don't shoot! They're just doing their job!
What are they?
We are the Cybermen.
Suddenly I'm on set and there's the Tardis,
and there's a Dalek and there's a Cyberman.
I mean, it's really, really exciting.
I bumped into one on the way up,
he was working out his moves down there,
and I said, "Oh, sorry!"
And he just stared at me and turned.
He didn't say anything,
which really shook me up even more.
What a scaredy-cat.
GATISS: So now it's the Daleks,
the Cybermen and Torchwood,
all out to get the Doctor.
But did you spot the Torchwood references
throughout the series?
So, The Doctor Who Trainspotter's
Guide to Torchwood, I think, is...
-The touchdown.
-No. Torchwood.
What about Torchwood?
Still working on it.
The Torchwood Institute.
Can't get any photos 'cause
then it gets all classified as secret.
In other news, the Torchwood
Institute has published a study...
Stevie, how's things?
How's it going at Torchwood?
Tomorrow, on the big day, we'll have
Torchwood on our backs then, make no mistake.
You really have to pay
attention to that one.
Representing the Torchwood archive.
In the Torchwood files, we're able to look at
all the old databases in a completely new light.
-And then we'll never feel alone ever again.
-Torchwood.
So I think that's pretty much everything.
-Oh my God.
-Is it him?
It's him.
The Doctor, in a sense, is indirectly
responsible for Torchwood's creation,
because Queen Victoria set it up
almost in retaliation to him
back in Tooth and Claw.
I propose an institute
to investigate these strange happenings
and to fight them.
We can presume, therefore,
that it's always been there.
Throughout the many
years of Doctor Who's life,
when he lived on Earth,
working for the United Nations.
It's very much like having the CIA and the
FBI not telling each other what they're doing.
I think the key to that is that, actually, the
Doctor is officially the enemy of Torchwood.
And if this Doctor should return,
then he should beware,
because Torchwood will be waiting.
The Doctor remains blissfully unaware
that this place exists.
Until, in episode 12, he lands the Tardis there
and discovers that there's this huge organisation.
-And... And... And you are?
-Oh, plenty of time for that.
There's something slightly worrying
about Torchwood,
there's something a little bit
master-racey about it,
which, of course, the Doctor
is not particularly pleased with.
GATISS: Initially based in the Scottish
Highlands, by episode 12, Torchwood is in London.
Hold on a minute. We're in Canary Wharf.
This Torchwood
the Doctor is encountering now is...
Well, it's evil, though I hate using that word,
you know, they are the bad guys in some ways,
but they're also very professional
and quite measured about what they do.
-Thank you, Sebastian, isn't it?
-Yes, ma'am.
Thank you, Sebastian.
I think it's very important
to know everyone by name.
Torchwood is a very modern organisation.
People skills.
That's what it's all about these days.
I'm a people person.
She's utterly charming,
but also is vehemently patriotic.
Truly believes that
everything they're doing at Torchwood
is for the good of the British empire.
And she wants to make Britain great.
I guess she's a pseudo-fascist, really.
It was only a matter of
time until you found us.
And at last you've made it.
I'd like to welcome you, Doctor.
Welcome to Torchwood.
That's a Jathaa Sun Glider.
Came down to Earth off
the Shetland Islands 10 years ago.
-What, did it crash?
-No, we shot it down.
-It violated our airspace...
-I've got a dribbling nose. I'm sorry.
WOMAN: Okay, do it again. Action.
(CAMERA THUDDING)
And again.
We're much closer.
(THUDDING)
(CREW CHATTERING)
That might have been my fault 'cause
I asked Tracy Ann to push both doors.
'Cause when I pushed my door, it felt like,
"Why am I pushing a door in Torchwood?"
As long as they both come together,
and it should be her.
-It's your fault, it's not my fault.
-It was only a matter of time until you found us.
And at last you've made it.
I'd like to welcome you, Doctor.
Welcome to Torchwood.
GATISS: A vast array of alien artefacts
had to be created for episode 12,
the most important of which is the Sphere.
They're trying everything they can to
get this Sphere to open and it won't open.
But then, one day, all these
ghosts start arriving into the world.
And we're into Ghost Shift.
COMPUTER: Online.
You now know why you need the sunglasses.
It's really, really blinding.
Yeah, that's great.
Mostly I would describe exactly where various
things were gonna happen within the set.
And they had great use
of their own imagination.
Bright light, really, really bleaching out the room,
and suddenly there are loads and loads of ghosts.
It's a chance to work with CGI,
and a lot of the stuff that you can't see,
that you have to have in your imagination.
There are 30, 40, 50 of them, ghosts.
You've never seen this amount before.
Achieving full transfer.
They're Cybermen.
All of the ghosts are Cybermen.
Millions of them.
Right across the world.
COHEN: We shot generic people
against green screen.
Dave Houghton, the effects supervisor,
went through the script
and worked out what angles and what
kind of movements we needed to film.
Okay, so start to judder again.
When you swipe this
time, continue shuddering.
So, if you swipe now...
Who are you? Where are you coming from?
Whoa! That's more like it!
Not so friendly now, are you?
We were quite conscious not to make them
too dissimilar from Cybermen
because we knew, obviously,
they were gonna materialise into them.
But also we didn't want to
give the game away, either.
So they had to be generic enough
for all the characters in the show
to assume they were the ghosts
they wanted them to be.
Ten past, here he comes.
GARDNER: Jackie
thinks it's her dead father.
So the ghost effect needs to look human.
At the same time that's a cheat
because we know from the script
that it's going to be revealed
that the ghosts are actually Cybermen.
And, of course, we wanted to try
to build to that huge cliff-hanger.
(BEEPING)
COMPUTER: Sphere
activated. Sphere activated.
Daleks and Cybermen together at war
is the ultimate.
Two major enemies of the Doctor converging.
It is as many armies as possible
descending upon the Torchwood Tower.
It's a bit of a dark moment for the Doctor.
He's a prisoner with the Cybermen
at the top of the Torchwood Tower.
He just knows he's gonna have to deal
with Cybermen.
They're invading the whole planet.
It's not an invasion.
It's too late for that.
It's a victory.
It's... It's awful. It's awful.
-Not great.
-They are terrified.
He doesn't yet know
about the appearance of the Dalek.
It's about as bad as
it's ever been, I think.
It is as big as it gets.
The build-up to a big climax.
Exterminate!
And it's absolutely gonna deliver.