Doctor Who Confidential (2005–2011): Season 4, Episode 11 - Here Come the Girls! - full transcript
NARRATOR: The Doctor's time has run out,
and now the ladies in his life
need to turn back the clock.
Here she is, thrown into a Doctor-less
world where she never met...
Donna displays great courage.
Activate!
NARRATOR: So join Confidential backstage
in a world bereft of the Doctor,
but blessed with a Noble and a Rose.
Filming the Shan Shen market, it was
awful, the weather. Oh, God, the rain!
It was chucking it down.
We brought all sorts of
hocus-pocusy sort of stuff
and brilliant banners, brilliant stalls,
exotic fruits.
Our second AD managed to find
all Chinese extras
from the west of England.
So that was great.
Everybody was very high-spirited,
and thank God they were,
because it could have been
a thoroughly miserable day.
And action.
My entire contribution to Episode 11
was done in one day,
which was a fairly manic day.
We had Shan Shen Alley first thing.
It was an extraordinary day to
turn up on, to have this huge set-up
with all these supporting artists,
all the set dressing, all this stuff,
all these banners
hanging from everything.
Shan Shen Alley was beautiful.
A chance for the props department to use
all the strange, weird little props
that they've never been able to
put anywhere else.
You could sell them on market stalls
in an alien marketplace. Perfect.
TENNANT: So, Russell, when you knew
that you were bringing Billie back...
-Hmm. Yes.
-...Rose back,
did you know that Bad Wolf would be...
I sort of thought it's part and
parcel of Rose, really, as a warning,
as a message,
as a sign that goes with her.
Rose was trapped in a parallel universe.
-TENNANT: Yeah.
-The walls are closed.
Opening those walls was going to
mean the deaths of all universes,
death, everything collapses.
So if messages are bleeding through,
if she's crossing those universes,
everything is in danger.
Not just this universe, but everything.
She is using Bad Wolf
to let the Doctor know
-ahead of time.
-Yes. Yes.
It's like the Bat signal, isn't it?
That's a much better way
of putting it! It's that, too.
Take 2. A camera. Mark.
B camera. And action.
One of the things
we address in the episode
is what the world would be like
without the Doctor.
What she doesn't know is that
in another life, in another world,
she was with the Doctor
when he did defeat the Racnoss.
Donna, of course,
is connected to the Doctor.
By her not meeting the Doctor
in The Runaway Bride,
the Doctor was killed. But the events of
The Runaway Bride continue anyway.
Some other secretary at HC Clements
must have been dosed with
huon particles.
The plan almost succeeded,
the Doctor stopped them,
but Donna wasn't there to stop him
in that moment of destruction.
Doctor, you can stop now.
Loads of energy!
What happened? What did they find?
Sorry, did they find someone?
I don't know.
Bloke called the Doctor or something.
-Cut.
-Cut there.
LIGGAT: Rose knows
how important Donna is.
Even though she sees herself as nothing
as she says, absolutely nothing.
I'm nothing special. I'm a temp.
Donna Noble, you're the most important
woman in the whole of creation.
Rose, the Torchwood in Rose's universe,
is monitoring the timelines.
So Rose has an overview,
an objectivity of all that's going on.
And because their universe
is slightly ahead of ours,
she can see where she needs
to go in our universe
to stop everything unravelling.
25, take 2. A camera only.
-Where is he?
-They took him away. He's dead.
DONNA: I'm sorry. Did you know him?
Billie's return in Episode 11 was...
We had to keep that really under wraps.
That had to be kept really quiet.
DAVIES: We never knew whether
it would be two or three episodes.
To be honest, I would have done with
one scene at the end.
But actually, the planning
for this goes back 18 months or so.
When I found out that
I was returning to Doctor Who,
I was fine up until about three weeks
before shooting
and then I had a minor breakdown,
and I thought I could
never play that character again.
So I went out desperately,
frantically, buying box sets
and watching my performance.
This is such a sad confession.
Episode 11 is
an extraordinary episode for Donna.
Action.
This is where we leave you.
I don't want to see that thing
on my back.
DAVIES: I honestly think that
the moments in the circle of mirrors,
both times
when she's in the circle of mirrors.
First of all, she's terrified,
and then when she's so beautifully
hopeful travelling back in time,
I think it was
one of the finest performances
I've ever been associated with.
At least I'm not going to die.
'Cause I understand now.
You said I was gonna die,
but you mean this whole world
is going to blink out of existence.
But that's not dying,
'cause a better world takes it place.
The Doctor's world.
And I'm still alive.
And, of course, Rose knows differently.
I'm sorry.
I'm not gonna get there.
But she told me to warn you.
She said, "Two words."
What two words? What were they?
What did she say?
Bad wolf.
Doctor, what is it? What's bad wolf?
(CLOISTER BELL TOLLING)
It's the end of the universe.
We're heading towards
the series climax now.
There's all sorts of things
that have been stewing.
In every episode,
there's elements being carried forward
that will pay off in the finale.
There's been the return of Rose
slowly coming through.
She is returning. We've seen Rose.
We've seen her now with Donna.
We've seen Martha, of course,
before becoming part of
the Doctor's world back on Earth.
So, all those seeds and elements are...
All these things are about to...
It's like a rolling stone
gathering moss.
All these elements, something, something
from every episode is about to pay off
as we hit the biggest finale
on planet Earth. It's fantastic.
and now the ladies in his life
need to turn back the clock.
Here she is, thrown into a Doctor-less
world where she never met...
Donna displays great courage.
Activate!
NARRATOR: So join Confidential backstage
in a world bereft of the Doctor,
but blessed with a Noble and a Rose.
Filming the Shan Shen market, it was
awful, the weather. Oh, God, the rain!
It was chucking it down.
We brought all sorts of
hocus-pocusy sort of stuff
and brilliant banners, brilliant stalls,
exotic fruits.
Our second AD managed to find
all Chinese extras
from the west of England.
So that was great.
Everybody was very high-spirited,
and thank God they were,
because it could have been
a thoroughly miserable day.
And action.
My entire contribution to Episode 11
was done in one day,
which was a fairly manic day.
We had Shan Shen Alley first thing.
It was an extraordinary day to
turn up on, to have this huge set-up
with all these supporting artists,
all the set dressing, all this stuff,
all these banners
hanging from everything.
Shan Shen Alley was beautiful.
A chance for the props department to use
all the strange, weird little props
that they've never been able to
put anywhere else.
You could sell them on market stalls
in an alien marketplace. Perfect.
TENNANT: So, Russell, when you knew
that you were bringing Billie back...
-Hmm. Yes.
-...Rose back,
did you know that Bad Wolf would be...
I sort of thought it's part and
parcel of Rose, really, as a warning,
as a message,
as a sign that goes with her.
Rose was trapped in a parallel universe.
-TENNANT: Yeah.
-The walls are closed.
Opening those walls was going to
mean the deaths of all universes,
death, everything collapses.
So if messages are bleeding through,
if she's crossing those universes,
everything is in danger.
Not just this universe, but everything.
She is using Bad Wolf
to let the Doctor know
-ahead of time.
-Yes. Yes.
It's like the Bat signal, isn't it?
That's a much better way
of putting it! It's that, too.
Take 2. A camera. Mark.
B camera. And action.
One of the things
we address in the episode
is what the world would be like
without the Doctor.
What she doesn't know is that
in another life, in another world,
she was with the Doctor
when he did defeat the Racnoss.
Donna, of course,
is connected to the Doctor.
By her not meeting the Doctor
in The Runaway Bride,
the Doctor was killed. But the events of
The Runaway Bride continue anyway.
Some other secretary at HC Clements
must have been dosed with
huon particles.
The plan almost succeeded,
the Doctor stopped them,
but Donna wasn't there to stop him
in that moment of destruction.
Doctor, you can stop now.
Loads of energy!
What happened? What did they find?
Sorry, did they find someone?
I don't know.
Bloke called the Doctor or something.
-Cut.
-Cut there.
LIGGAT: Rose knows
how important Donna is.
Even though she sees herself as nothing
as she says, absolutely nothing.
I'm nothing special. I'm a temp.
Donna Noble, you're the most important
woman in the whole of creation.
Rose, the Torchwood in Rose's universe,
is monitoring the timelines.
So Rose has an overview,
an objectivity of all that's going on.
And because their universe
is slightly ahead of ours,
she can see where she needs
to go in our universe
to stop everything unravelling.
25, take 2. A camera only.
-Where is he?
-They took him away. He's dead.
DONNA: I'm sorry. Did you know him?
Billie's return in Episode 11 was...
We had to keep that really under wraps.
That had to be kept really quiet.
DAVIES: We never knew whether
it would be two or three episodes.
To be honest, I would have done with
one scene at the end.
But actually, the planning
for this goes back 18 months or so.
When I found out that
I was returning to Doctor Who,
I was fine up until about three weeks
before shooting
and then I had a minor breakdown,
and I thought I could
never play that character again.
So I went out desperately,
frantically, buying box sets
and watching my performance.
This is such a sad confession.
Episode 11 is
an extraordinary episode for Donna.
Action.
This is where we leave you.
I don't want to see that thing
on my back.
DAVIES: I honestly think that
the moments in the circle of mirrors,
both times
when she's in the circle of mirrors.
First of all, she's terrified,
and then when she's so beautifully
hopeful travelling back in time,
I think it was
one of the finest performances
I've ever been associated with.
At least I'm not going to die.
'Cause I understand now.
You said I was gonna die,
but you mean this whole world
is going to blink out of existence.
But that's not dying,
'cause a better world takes it place.
The Doctor's world.
And I'm still alive.
And, of course, Rose knows differently.
I'm sorry.
I'm not gonna get there.
But she told me to warn you.
She said, "Two words."
What two words? What were they?
What did she say?
Bad wolf.
Doctor, what is it? What's bad wolf?
(CLOISTER BELL TOLLING)
It's the end of the universe.
We're heading towards
the series climax now.
There's all sorts of things
that have been stewing.
In every episode,
there's elements being carried forward
that will pay off in the finale.
There's been the return of Rose
slowly coming through.
She is returning. We've seen Rose.
We've seen her now with Donna.
We've seen Martha, of course,
before becoming part of
the Doctor's world back on Earth.
So, all those seeds and elements are...
All these things are about to...
It's like a rolling stone
gathering moss.
All these elements, something, something
from every episode is about to pay off
as we hit the biggest finale
on planet Earth. It's fantastic.