Doctor Who Confidential (2005–2011): Season 4, Episode 12 - Friends and Foe - full transcript
NARRATOR: He's menacing.
He's mad.
He's the Doctor's most dangerous enemy.
He's been 20 years in the Time Void,
and now he's back.
On set in Cardiff, the most evil being
in the universe
is getting ready to make an entrance.
-I've never seen Davros' face like this.
-Right.
I didn't want to show him too quickly.
I didn't want to show Davros' features
so you see him too early.
And action.
I warned you, Supreme One.
Just as Dalek Caan foretold.
The children of time
are moving against us.
But everything is falling into place.
It was quite hard to show a little bit
at a time, little bit at a time,
'cause you've got the skirt,
you've got a gloved hand,
and you've got some dials on the top,
and then the rest of it's
a leather jacket and then the face.
Just move your hand, through the speech,
move your hand slowly across.
-On the speech...
-I go, “Dalek Caan is uneasy.“
So you go with it, and it's that one.
Action.
DAVROS: I could almost mistake
that tone for one of victory.
Beware your pride.
SUPREME DALEK:
The Doctor cannot stop us.
And yet Dalek Caan is uneasy.
Thank you.
And that was my huge responsibility
to start with, and from there onwards...
Just gonna pull you back to position.
...to make sure that the prosthetics
and the body and the figure
looked authentic and terrific.
It's just getting the right
kind of shots to show him off.
Action.
Supreme One, this Subwave Network,
I will address it. Give me access.
Oh!
-We've lost them.
-No, no, no, no.
There's another signal coming through.
There's someone else out there.
Hello? Can you hear me?
Rose.
Your voice is different and yet
its arrogance fs unchanged.
No.
But he's dead.
Welcome to my new empire, Doctor.
Cut.
NARRATOR: But it's not
Davros' first appearance in the studios.
Complex creations need a trial run.
(LAUGHING)
-Wow, this is brilliant. Nice.
-It looks wonderful.
-Absolutely brilliant.
-That chair looks so mean.
With most of the big designs
of the monsters,
we have what is called
a "show and tell",
so a couple of days before the first day
of filming, we'll get the actor in,
we'll get the prosthetics
on them if that's what they need,
or a costume on them.
We'll get them in the chair,
or the device, or the whatever.
-Can I have a lift?
-And we'll just put the whole thing
together and see how it works.
How much... How malleable is all that?
It's fully flexible.
Eyebrows go and everything.
(LAUGHING) And here's the Doctor!
Cool! How's it feel?
Fine, thanks. Yeah.
It's very comfortable.
It's very comfortable!
David and I spent the entire morning
in a state of complete frenzy
because we knew we were gonna do the
Davros "show and tell" that afternoon.
We just kept laughing at each other,
and we were so excited.
One of my earliest memories of
Doctor Who is Davros.
It was 1975,
so, you know, I was a very small child
absolutely captivated by
this extraordinary creature.
Do the wires come out?
TENNANT: It doesn't disappoint
when these things
from your own sort of cultural memory
are suddenly
now part of the fob
you're doing, for real.
You never quite get over those
slightly surreal moments, I don't think.
One, two, three.
NARRATOR: Inn a nearby rehearsal room,
another cultural memory
is being awakened.
What we're doing here today is
we're doing a bit of troubleshooting.
It's about 18 months, nearly two years,
since we last did a Dalek episode.
Is that right? About 18.
I have been summoned!
So we're just making sure that
everything works, we're all getting in,
having a trundle around,
making sure all the things fit
and all the electrics work.
-We need more bodies immediately!
-Yes, Master.
It's all about the legs. If you've got
long legs, you're in trouble.
But luckily, it's all right.
But, I mean, yeah.
Basically you've got
this very simple seat,
which is a bit padded
at the bottom here.
And it's trying not to bang your knees.
Daleks have no concept of worry.
We've got quite used to it,
though, haven't we? Over the years.
The visibility is always
a bit restricted.
You've usually only got one view.
It's usually off to one side as well.
You're there in the Dalek and
the bit you can see out of is like that.
If you've gotta look there, fine.
If you've gotta look there...
Come with me!
Just, you know,
using the Force, really. Just guessing.
And we're wearing these
at the same time.
-Oh, yes, you have to do that.
-Then there's smoke and steam
from the minibar and the Jacuzzi
that you have in there.
The in-Dalek entertainment system.
It's all in there.
Now join with me!
The hardest part is keeping out of the
way of the mutant. Isn't it, mutant?
Yeah, the mutant doesn't like
if you sit on him.
-Doesn't like that one bit.
-You sort of get in sideways,
having him along side,
or have him on your lap.
It really is the case that
once we're inside
and the lids have been put on
and everything,
people do kind of forget that
we're in there
because it looks like a Dalek
and it's real,
and it moves and it twitches
and we glide around.
Again, it's a testament to
what an amazing piece of design it is
that it comes to life and
people think it's just a Dalek.
It's not a bloke in some plywood
and some fibreglass and some metal,
it's a Dalek. Fantastic.
-Hello, boys.
-DALEKS: Hello, Graeme.
(ALL LAUGHING)
Could you show me your twitching?
Check us all out.
MAN: No, the far one,
are you switched on?
ACTOR: I'm switched on, yes.
HARPER: Can you move for us as well?
ACTOR: Yeah, sure.
Do you want us to just...
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's gonna be good.
Once you know who they are,
you remember their names.
But once they start moving,
I haven't a clue.
"Who's this? Who am I talking to?"
-Ready.
-643, take 2.
Action!
Dalek fleet in battle formation/
All systems locked and primed.
Crucible at 90% efficiency.
The human harvest will commence.
-Right, cut.
-Yes, please.
MAN: Rehearsing.
And action.
Negative. No reports of Time Lord.
A big part of the Dalek is the voice.
We are beyond the Doctor's reach.
The person who realises that, really,
is Nick Briggs.
He's genius.
He sits at the side of the set
and delivers a completely
chilling performance.
The Doctor cannot stop us!
NARRATOR: Nick's involvement
begins months before shooting,
when the cast gathers for
a first read-through of the script.
Nick comes to the read-through
with his ring modulator.
-Jacqueline King.
-Gary Milner.
Nick Briggs.
(ALL LAUGHING)
And he sets up a little speaker
and he sits there,
and he patiently waits for
the first Dalek line to come around,
knowing that when it does,
and when it first booms across that
read-through room,
he's gonna get a shiver of delight
from everyone in the room.
"I'm receiving a communication
from the Earth-bound ships,
“they have a message
for the human race."
"Put it through, let's hear it."
BRIGGS: Exterminate! Exterminate!
Exterminate!
Exterminate!
(ALL CHEERING)
MAN: Overacting!
(ALL LAUGHING)
It's lovely for an actor's ego.
I got a huge round
of applause on my first line.
And then any little different nuance
I did, another round of applause.
Now the Daleks are masters of Earth/
Daleks are the masters of Earth/
(ALL LAUGHING)
And we're in a massive multiplication
shot of the Daleks on the floor,
everywhere, all chanting...
BRIGGS: Everyone together now.
(ALL LAUGHING)
Daleks are the masters of Earth/
Oh, my God.
NARRATOR: It's late at night
on a street in South Wales,
and there's an invasion in progress.
EDWARDS: This is the first time ever
in the new series
that the Daleks have gone on location.
So, we've got rain, and we've got cold,
and weather, and it's brilliant.
I love it.
We're doing the scene where Rose
and the Doctor are reunited
after so many years.
And just before they embrace,
a Dalek comes out of the shadows
and kills the Doctor.
-Barnaby?
-Yes.
On "action",
you are trundling from the back...
-Yeah.
-...up to the front there,
-turning and firing.
-Yeah.
With an "exterminate"!
We'll do “exterminate“, then gun.
"Exterminate", then gun, yeah.
I mean, after, whatever it is, 45 years,
it feels good to be
the Dalek who got him.
Exterminate!
-Long time no see.
-Yeah.
Been busy, you know.
Don't die.
It's...
It's a moment of high emotion
for all involved.
No, don't die.
My God, don't die.
We can't have happy endings,
especially not when there's
a cliffhanger to be worked up towards.
110, take 1, A camera. Mark.
And action.
DONNA: What do we do?
There must be some medicine
or something.
Rose is faced with the fact that she
might be about to lose another Doctor.
Just step back. Rose!
Do as I say and get back!
Just as she's managed to
come goodness knows how many
zillion light years
to be reunited with him.
He's dying.
And you know what happens next.
-What do you mean?
-He can't.
She's very fond of
this version of the Doctor.
She hasn't seen him for a long time,
she's completely in love with him,
and he's about to change form again.
I came all this way.
What do you mean? What happens next?
She knows what it means,
and it frightens her.
It's starting!
So, yeah, the Doctor is mortally wounded
and needs to regenerate.
And there's not really
any going back from that.
But you can't!
I'm sorry, it's too late.
I'm regenerating!
So, at the end of the episode,
the Doctor's dying.
He starts to glow, starts to boil.
He's changing into a new man.
I've got no idea what happens next.
And I'm gonna be sitting down
next week watching
as rapt and as excited
and as in the dark as everyone else.
Honestly.
He's mad.
He's the Doctor's most dangerous enemy.
He's been 20 years in the Time Void,
and now he's back.
On set in Cardiff, the most evil being
in the universe
is getting ready to make an entrance.
-I've never seen Davros' face like this.
-Right.
I didn't want to show him too quickly.
I didn't want to show Davros' features
so you see him too early.
And action.
I warned you, Supreme One.
Just as Dalek Caan foretold.
The children of time
are moving against us.
But everything is falling into place.
It was quite hard to show a little bit
at a time, little bit at a time,
'cause you've got the skirt,
you've got a gloved hand,
and you've got some dials on the top,
and then the rest of it's
a leather jacket and then the face.
Just move your hand, through the speech,
move your hand slowly across.
-On the speech...
-I go, “Dalek Caan is uneasy.“
So you go with it, and it's that one.
Action.
DAVROS: I could almost mistake
that tone for one of victory.
Beware your pride.
SUPREME DALEK:
The Doctor cannot stop us.
And yet Dalek Caan is uneasy.
Thank you.
And that was my huge responsibility
to start with, and from there onwards...
Just gonna pull you back to position.
...to make sure that the prosthetics
and the body and the figure
looked authentic and terrific.
It's just getting the right
kind of shots to show him off.
Action.
Supreme One, this Subwave Network,
I will address it. Give me access.
Oh!
-We've lost them.
-No, no, no, no.
There's another signal coming through.
There's someone else out there.
Hello? Can you hear me?
Rose.
Your voice is different and yet
its arrogance fs unchanged.
No.
But he's dead.
Welcome to my new empire, Doctor.
Cut.
NARRATOR: But it's not
Davros' first appearance in the studios.
Complex creations need a trial run.
(LAUGHING)
-Wow, this is brilliant. Nice.
-It looks wonderful.
-Absolutely brilliant.
-That chair looks so mean.
With most of the big designs
of the monsters,
we have what is called
a "show and tell",
so a couple of days before the first day
of filming, we'll get the actor in,
we'll get the prosthetics
on them if that's what they need,
or a costume on them.
We'll get them in the chair,
or the device, or the whatever.
-Can I have a lift?
-And we'll just put the whole thing
together and see how it works.
How much... How malleable is all that?
It's fully flexible.
Eyebrows go and everything.
(LAUGHING) And here's the Doctor!
Cool! How's it feel?
Fine, thanks. Yeah.
It's very comfortable.
It's very comfortable!
David and I spent the entire morning
in a state of complete frenzy
because we knew we were gonna do the
Davros "show and tell" that afternoon.
We just kept laughing at each other,
and we were so excited.
One of my earliest memories of
Doctor Who is Davros.
It was 1975,
so, you know, I was a very small child
absolutely captivated by
this extraordinary creature.
Do the wires come out?
TENNANT: It doesn't disappoint
when these things
from your own sort of cultural memory
are suddenly
now part of the fob
you're doing, for real.
You never quite get over those
slightly surreal moments, I don't think.
One, two, three.
NARRATOR: Inn a nearby rehearsal room,
another cultural memory
is being awakened.
What we're doing here today is
we're doing a bit of troubleshooting.
It's about 18 months, nearly two years,
since we last did a Dalek episode.
Is that right? About 18.
I have been summoned!
So we're just making sure that
everything works, we're all getting in,
having a trundle around,
making sure all the things fit
and all the electrics work.
-We need more bodies immediately!
-Yes, Master.
It's all about the legs. If you've got
long legs, you're in trouble.
But luckily, it's all right.
But, I mean, yeah.
Basically you've got
this very simple seat,
which is a bit padded
at the bottom here.
And it's trying not to bang your knees.
Daleks have no concept of worry.
We've got quite used to it,
though, haven't we? Over the years.
The visibility is always
a bit restricted.
You've usually only got one view.
It's usually off to one side as well.
You're there in the Dalek and
the bit you can see out of is like that.
If you've gotta look there, fine.
If you've gotta look there...
Come with me!
Just, you know,
using the Force, really. Just guessing.
And we're wearing these
at the same time.
-Oh, yes, you have to do that.
-Then there's smoke and steam
from the minibar and the Jacuzzi
that you have in there.
The in-Dalek entertainment system.
It's all in there.
Now join with me!
The hardest part is keeping out of the
way of the mutant. Isn't it, mutant?
Yeah, the mutant doesn't like
if you sit on him.
-Doesn't like that one bit.
-You sort of get in sideways,
having him along side,
or have him on your lap.
It really is the case that
once we're inside
and the lids have been put on
and everything,
people do kind of forget that
we're in there
because it looks like a Dalek
and it's real,
and it moves and it twitches
and we glide around.
Again, it's a testament to
what an amazing piece of design it is
that it comes to life and
people think it's just a Dalek.
It's not a bloke in some plywood
and some fibreglass and some metal,
it's a Dalek. Fantastic.
-Hello, boys.
-DALEKS: Hello, Graeme.
(ALL LAUGHING)
Could you show me your twitching?
Check us all out.
MAN: No, the far one,
are you switched on?
ACTOR: I'm switched on, yes.
HARPER: Can you move for us as well?
ACTOR: Yeah, sure.
Do you want us to just...
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's gonna be good.
Once you know who they are,
you remember their names.
But once they start moving,
I haven't a clue.
"Who's this? Who am I talking to?"
-Ready.
-643, take 2.
Action!
Dalek fleet in battle formation/
All systems locked and primed.
Crucible at 90% efficiency.
The human harvest will commence.
-Right, cut.
-Yes, please.
MAN: Rehearsing.
And action.
Negative. No reports of Time Lord.
A big part of the Dalek is the voice.
We are beyond the Doctor's reach.
The person who realises that, really,
is Nick Briggs.
He's genius.
He sits at the side of the set
and delivers a completely
chilling performance.
The Doctor cannot stop us!
NARRATOR: Nick's involvement
begins months before shooting,
when the cast gathers for
a first read-through of the script.
Nick comes to the read-through
with his ring modulator.
-Jacqueline King.
-Gary Milner.
Nick Briggs.
(ALL LAUGHING)
And he sets up a little speaker
and he sits there,
and he patiently waits for
the first Dalek line to come around,
knowing that when it does,
and when it first booms across that
read-through room,
he's gonna get a shiver of delight
from everyone in the room.
"I'm receiving a communication
from the Earth-bound ships,
“they have a message
for the human race."
"Put it through, let's hear it."
BRIGGS: Exterminate! Exterminate!
Exterminate!
Exterminate!
(ALL CHEERING)
MAN: Overacting!
(ALL LAUGHING)
It's lovely for an actor's ego.
I got a huge round
of applause on my first line.
And then any little different nuance
I did, another round of applause.
Now the Daleks are masters of Earth/
Daleks are the masters of Earth/
(ALL LAUGHING)
And we're in a massive multiplication
shot of the Daleks on the floor,
everywhere, all chanting...
BRIGGS: Everyone together now.
(ALL LAUGHING)
Daleks are the masters of Earth/
Oh, my God.
NARRATOR: It's late at night
on a street in South Wales,
and there's an invasion in progress.
EDWARDS: This is the first time ever
in the new series
that the Daleks have gone on location.
So, we've got rain, and we've got cold,
and weather, and it's brilliant.
I love it.
We're doing the scene where Rose
and the Doctor are reunited
after so many years.
And just before they embrace,
a Dalek comes out of the shadows
and kills the Doctor.
-Barnaby?
-Yes.
On "action",
you are trundling from the back...
-Yeah.
-...up to the front there,
-turning and firing.
-Yeah.
With an "exterminate"!
We'll do “exterminate“, then gun.
"Exterminate", then gun, yeah.
I mean, after, whatever it is, 45 years,
it feels good to be
the Dalek who got him.
Exterminate!
-Long time no see.
-Yeah.
Been busy, you know.
Don't die.
It's...
It's a moment of high emotion
for all involved.
No, don't die.
My God, don't die.
We can't have happy endings,
especially not when there's
a cliffhanger to be worked up towards.
110, take 1, A camera. Mark.
And action.
DONNA: What do we do?
There must be some medicine
or something.
Rose is faced with the fact that she
might be about to lose another Doctor.
Just step back. Rose!
Do as I say and get back!
Just as she's managed to
come goodness knows how many
zillion light years
to be reunited with him.
He's dying.
And you know what happens next.
-What do you mean?
-He can't.
She's very fond of
this version of the Doctor.
She hasn't seen him for a long time,
she's completely in love with him,
and he's about to change form again.
I came all this way.
What do you mean? What happens next?
She knows what it means,
and it frightens her.
It's starting!
So, yeah, the Doctor is mortally wounded
and needs to regenerate.
And there's not really
any going back from that.
But you can't!
I'm sorry, it's too late.
I'm regenerating!
So, at the end of the episode,
the Doctor's dying.
He starts to glow, starts to boil.
He's changing into a new man.
I've got no idea what happens next.
And I'm gonna be sitting down
next week watching
as rapt and as excited
and as in the dark as everyone else.
Honestly.