Doctor Who Confidential (2005–2011): Season 4, Episode 13 - End of an Era - full transcript
It's the best finale
we could possibly give.
It is huge.
It's always "Wow".
NARRATOR: "Wow" is the word
as Doctor Who crescendos
to a cataclysmic conclusion.
You do just think, "Where now?"
Where possibly now? And there you go.
You get two Doctors.
What have you done?
Fulfilling the prophecy.
I am the Doctor!
The stakes are higher,
the explosions are bigger,
and the list of returning characters is
longer than it has ever been before.
NARRATOR: It's a tight squeeze
in the Tardis
as we witness the end of an era.
There's a lot of stories to be told
and finished off,
and a lot of people's journeys
that have an end to reach.
One will still die.
Shudder!
The whole Crucible is blowing up.
Explosion!
There's fire raining down.
Fire!
This year, we had to deliver
the grandest finale of all.
Flame! Bang!
Davros, come with me!
I promise I can save you.
Flames!
Never forget, Doctor, you did this!
I name you forever!
You are the Destroyer of Worlds!
When we filmed Christmas this year,
The Voyage of the Damned,
I thought, "Well,
that's the biggest we'll ever do."
And then I read these scripts,
and they're even bigger.
With it being the finale,
there's that sense that
the stakes are higher than ever,
that this is a bigger battle
than we've ever witnessed before.
Everything has to be bigger and better
and louder
and more extraordinary
than we've ever managed before.
DAVIES: It's universal,
the scale of this episode.
I think it's the first time
in the new series
in which the entire universe
is in danger.
And not just the universe,
but every reality beyond that.
For this one, it's your reaction to
the Crucible about to explode
-and things falling down or whatever.
-Right.
So, shudder.
Danny, what happens after shudder?
It'll start going bang, bang.
What we had to do was create lots of ...
Well, the whole ship is exploding,
so we had various
different effects happening,
lots of pyrotechnics exploding,
I've got a girder falling down,
which is obviously happening
in front of him.
When I see them with my naked eye,
I know what they'll look like on camera
because I'm going to tighten the lens
so you fill the frame
with the explosion.
Whereas when you're in a big room,
it happens there, little explosion,
it goes "phutt".
But we then put a big explosion on it,
the visual of it is shocking.
It's all controlled effects, okay?
I'm firing it all on the buttons,
all right? So you're safe.
So as long as I stay
in the same place...
As long as you stay in the same place,
yeah, it's all fine, all right?
Right, stand by then, please.
Good luck, everyone.
And action.
Shudder!
Davros, come with me!
I promise I can save you.
Never forget, Doctor, you did this!
I name you forever/!
You are the Destroyer of Worlds!
(SCREAMING)
More, more, more flames.
And cut! Thank you.
Making safe, everyone.
No one move.
Oh, it's stunning.
Look at that, it's brilliant.
(LAUGHING)
When you see it,
I think it is terrifying.
And I'm really thrilled with it.
It's exactly what I wanted.
(DAVROS SCREAMING)
Is he dead? I couldn't tell you.
Impossible!
Brilliant!
This is so busy and so mental
and so epic and universal in scale
that you need two Doctors to solve it.
Two Doctors, yes, that was a nightmare.
-How comes there are two of you?
-Human biological metacrisis.
On a technical level, the two Doctors
is a whole other consideration
that we have to make because,
obviously, there is only one David.
Were we to have a limitless budget,
you know,
we'd film every scene with David
as both characters. We don't.
We only have a certain number
of effects shots
where we can see
the two Doctors together,
so we picked those really carefully.
And I'd love to do a shot here,
which is with two Doctors.
I'd like to see Doc number 1
settling into the back position here,
about to say, "Off we go,"
and Doc number 2, for real,
in the foreground here with Rose.
Off we go!
In all the other moments,
where you're just kind of ...
The camera's over the shoulder
of one Doctor looking at the other,
where you might just see an arm of a
Doctor or part of the side of his head,
we've a really good double for David.
TENNANT: There's a chap called Colum,
who's a musician, actually,
very nice chap, and he's doubled for me
now and again through the whole series.
There's a few shots
of the back of his head here and there.
There are two or three wide shots. ..
I shouldn't tell you this.
There are two or three wide shots
where he's got his back...
Just as he turns, you can cut to
a close-up of the real one,
which is David.
But just as he turns,
you get away with it,
he's got the same sideboards,
he's got the same height,
he's got the same figure.
And was just as handsome.
What have you done?
If you shoot me in brown,
and then you also need me in blue,
then you have to lock the camera
while I go and get changed,
and then Colum's standing in
to line up the shot,
and then you do a pass with Colum in
for a reference,
and then a pass with Colum out.
Now, get in the Tardis!
(MUMBLING)
NARRATOR: With the Doctor suffering
a double dilemma,
the Tardis travels back to Bad Wolf Bay.
Time for the Doctor Who team to pack
their bucket and spade and hit the surf.
It's really weird, actually,
being back today,
because of it mirroring, almost,
two years ago
when we were here for Doomsday,
when the Doctor said goodbye to Rose.
I love you.
Quite right, too.
And I suppose...
Rose Tyler...
311, take 1. A camera. Mark.
B camera.
Hold on.
This is the parallel universe, right?
You're back home.
And the walls of the world
are closing again.
DAVIES: Return to Bad Wolf Bay is...
That's a tricky scene to act, tricky to
direct, tricky to edit, as well,
because is it sad? Is it happy?
313, take 1. A camera. Mark.
B camera.
And action.
You made me.
Exactly. You were born in battle.
Full of blood and anger and revenge.
Remind you of someone?
That's me when we first met.
And you made me better.
-Now you can do the same for him.
-But he's not you.
He needs you. That's very me.
I think it was the most perfect choice
to focus on the human Doctor,
and to pull it right back to what Rose
was like when she met the ninth Doctor,
and her influence on
the Christopher Eccleston Doctor,
and to make him better.
-Rose, get out of the way now.
-No, because I won't let you do this.
That thing killed hundreds of people.
It's not the one pointing the gun at me.
I've got to do this. I've got to end it.
Look at it.
It couldn't kill me. It's changing.
What about you, Doctor?
What the hell are you changing into?
So it's throwing back at Rose
the most extraordinary compliment,
that she is like the doctor,
she makes people better.
Don't you see what
he's trying to give you?
Tell her, go on.
I look like him, I think like him.
Same memories, same thoughts,
same everything.
Except I've only got one heart.
I've only got one life, Rose Tyler.
I could spend it with you.
There's part of her
that feels very comfortable
and very attracted to this new Doctor
because he is the same guy.
But clearly he's not.
And clearly she's saying goodbye
to this other man
that she's been in love with.
We got to go, this reality
is sealing itself off forever.
But it's still not right,
'cause the Doctor's still you.
And I'm him.
For the Doctor himself, there's just
another heartbreak and another tragedy,
and he's back at Bad Wolf Bay,
where he last experienced this.
You know, he's saying goodbye again
and he's bidding farewell again,
and this time, it's closing forever
and there's no going back.
And in gifting her this other Doctor,
he's not really allowing himself
to go back either.
All right. Both of you, answer me this.
When I last stood on this beach
on the worst day of my life,
what was the last thing you said to me?
So again she takes it back to the
first time they were at Bad Wolf Bay,
and, of course, our Doctor can't say it.
Go on.
I said, "Rose Tyler."
Yeah, and how was
that sentence gonna end?
And why can't he say it?
He can't say it because
he can't ever be completely human,
and he has to be in pain.
I think the Doctor is most heroic
and most compelling
when he is having to sacrifice things,
where he's having to be under pressure.
And it's terrible
that he knows all of that,
and he knows he's going to be alone,
that he loves this woman so much that
he gives her the chance to have a life.
Does it need saying?
And you, Doctor?
What was the end of that sentence?
GARDNER: Of course he's saying,
"I love you." Of course he is.
Even though we don't hear it,
of course he's saying, "I love you."
I always have hated the scene with
that moment in Beauty and the Beast
when Belle kisses the Beast
and he turns into a man,
and you're really happy that he's human,
but you're also really upset
that the Beast is gone.
And I always felt like that
at the end...
I don't know where I'm going with this!
But I always felt like that...
I always felt like she shouldn't be
kissing that number two.
And also, he's not the same.
It's all a bit weird.
I think it's such a tragedy
that the woman you love
gets someone who looks exactly like you
and who is just as good as you
in every single way,
and you've got to admit
that you're happy for them,
and that's as good as it gets and
you've got to turn your back and go.
I think the beauty of sci-fi
is that anything is possible,
and I think that it's never really
the end for the Doctor and Rose.
Well, maybe it is, I just don't know it.
Maybe I'm the one who can't let go.
But I think it's certainly the end
for the foreseeable future.
But who knows what will happen?
And cut.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Catherine Tate just did her last shot.
NARRATOR: Another adventure that
has come to an end is Donna Noble's,
whose terrific time on the Tardis
has been terminated.
Yesterday I was told,
"It's your last scene," but it wasn't,
and today it apparently is.
They were just, like,
pick-up shots, though.
It was really sad, you know, because
I've done this job for eight months,
and it was so daunting
when I first got here,
to think I had eight months,
you know, of being away.
And now I just can't believe
it's gone so quick.
And I will be really, really bereft
once it dawns on me that it's finished,
because I've just loved it,
I've really loved it.
Thank you so much.
I've had such a wonderful time,
and it has been because of you,
so thank you.
TENNANT: I think Donna has been
a very different co-inhabitor
of the Tardis
to any we'd seen in recent years.
And I think that's brought
a new energy to this show
and allowed it to go in different...
Tell slightly different
types of stories.
I think what Catherine does
so brilliant with Donna is that
she remains ordinary at all times.
There are so many moments I'm proud of.
When you think of the performance
she gives in Episode 11,
standing in that circle of mirrors
where she has to travel back in time.
She's so brave and hopeful and doomed.
I'm sorry.
But I can't die!
I've got a future!
With the Doctor! You told me!
I think her humour and the genius
that Catherine Tate brings to Donna,
for me, is exemplified best
in two scenes.
It's the first scene
in Partners in Crime where they meet,
and the whole dumb show.
(MOUTHING)
But then the scene
where she meets the second Doctor.
You are bonkers.
-Why, what's wrong with blue?
-Is that what Time Lords do?
Lop a bit off, grow another one?
You're like worms!
No, no, no, no, no. I'm unique.
Never been another like me.
'Cause all that regeneration energy
went into the hand.
Look at my hand! I love that hand!
But then you touched it, wham!
Shh!
The comedy between those two,
with “Oi, oi, oi!“
- Oi!
- Oi!
-Oi!
-Spanners! Shh!
It's just... How lucky are we?
It's so brilliant.
How lucky are we to
get those two on board the Tardis?
I grew out of you.
Still, could be worse.
-Oi! Watch it, spaceman!
-Oi! Watch it, Earth girl! Ooh.
I think Catherine Tate has shown
to be the most wonderful actress.
What am I supposed to do?
I'm nothing special. I mean, I'm...
I'm not...
I'm nothing special. I'm a temp!
I'm not even that! I'm nothing!
Donna Noble, you're the most important
woman in the whole of creation.
The depth, depths that none of us knew
she was going to kind of dig up
and show. A wonderful performance.
Action.
You know you could fix
that chameleon circuit
if you just tried hotbinding
the fragment links and superseding
the binary, binary, binary, binary,
binary, binary, binary, binary...
(GASPS) I'm fine!
Nah, never mind Felspoon. You know
who I'd like to meet? Charlie Chaplin.
I bet he's great, Charlie Chaplin.
Shall we do that?
Shall we go and see Charlie Chaplin?
Shall we? Charlie Chaplin?
Charlie Chester? Charlie Brown.
No, he's fiction, friction, fixing,
mixing, Rickston, Brixton.
(GASPS)
Cut.
That's where I take it up to, yeah?
I found that scene in the Tardis
really hard.
It broke me up the moment
we started shooting it.
It was hard.
I won't do a full rehearsal
of the whole scene now...
No, that's fine...
As soon as David moves off
from that spot, I'm off this section.
You do not want an actress
who's going to have to break down
and floods of tears, and they want to
and they can do it.
You don't want to be doing that
two or three times.
326, take 2, A camera. Mark.
B camera.
And action.
I want to stay.
Donna... Look at me, Donna.
Look at me.
I think I had two goes. That was it.
And we've used the first take.
I know we've used the first take
because they're always the best,
in terms of that emotion.
Oh! Oh, but I can't go back.
Donna's fate is like a death, I think.
It's... I can't bear it.
Oh, my God.
Do you know what's happening?
Yeah.
She doesn't get to remember
any of the joy
and the wonder that
the Doctor showed her.
And I think that is
absolutely heartbreaking.
There's never been
a human-Time Lord metacrisis before now.
-And you know why?
-Because there can't be.
And the poor Doctor, he loved Donna.
He's such a mate of Donna's,
such a best friend.
-Help me.
-Donna?
Donna.
I think Donna's story is brilliant
and sad and wonderful,
and I think Catherine
has served that beautifully.
I had to wipe her mind completely.
Every trace of me or the Tardis,
anything we did together,
anywhere we went, had to go.
With this ring, I thee bio-damp.
For better or for worse.
I've never given you a key.
Get out of the way!
-Quite a big moment, really.
-Yeah.
I bloody love you!
DOCTOR: All that knowledge,
it was killing her.
All those wonderful things she did.
Sometimes I need someone.
Welcome aboard.
(SCREAMS)
Hold on!
Oh, Donna Noble. I am so sorry.
But we had the best of times.
The best.
-Goodbye.
-No, no, no, please.
Please! No, no, no!
No!
And that's the tragedy of Donna,
is that she will never know.
She will never know.
And this, you know...
Oh, it's so sad that
she will probably just
not reach any potential
because she doesn't know she's got any.
You know, but hopefully she'll be happy.
Sky-plusing X-Factor.
It's desperately, bitterly sad
that Donna will never remember
any of the extraordinary things
that she's experienced.
Um, it's desperately sad for the Doctor,
as well.
Donna, I was just going.
Yeah, see you.
And he has to sacrifice
that relationship for the greater good,
as he has to sacrifice
every relationship he has
for the greater good.
Bye then, Wilfred.
Oh, and, Doctor.
What about you now?
I'm fine.
And he's left from having a Tardis
brimful of all his friends,
brimful of his new family.
A few hours later,
he's on his own again.
Every night, Doctor,
when it gets dark
and the stars come out,
I'll look up.
On her behalf, I'll look up at the sky
and think of you.
Thank you.
I always think the more
you emphasise lonely Doctor,
the more you come back to
what the heart of the series is about,
which is a man travelling through
time and space in a box.
(WHOOSHING)
TENNANT: It's desperately sad.
And this character,
who deserves so much,
ends up with nothing again.
we could possibly give.
It is huge.
It's always "Wow".
NARRATOR: "Wow" is the word
as Doctor Who crescendos
to a cataclysmic conclusion.
You do just think, "Where now?"
Where possibly now? And there you go.
You get two Doctors.
What have you done?
Fulfilling the prophecy.
I am the Doctor!
The stakes are higher,
the explosions are bigger,
and the list of returning characters is
longer than it has ever been before.
NARRATOR: It's a tight squeeze
in the Tardis
as we witness the end of an era.
There's a lot of stories to be told
and finished off,
and a lot of people's journeys
that have an end to reach.
One will still die.
Shudder!
The whole Crucible is blowing up.
Explosion!
There's fire raining down.
Fire!
This year, we had to deliver
the grandest finale of all.
Flame! Bang!
Davros, come with me!
I promise I can save you.
Flames!
Never forget, Doctor, you did this!
I name you forever!
You are the Destroyer of Worlds!
When we filmed Christmas this year,
The Voyage of the Damned,
I thought, "Well,
that's the biggest we'll ever do."
And then I read these scripts,
and they're even bigger.
With it being the finale,
there's that sense that
the stakes are higher than ever,
that this is a bigger battle
than we've ever witnessed before.
Everything has to be bigger and better
and louder
and more extraordinary
than we've ever managed before.
DAVIES: It's universal,
the scale of this episode.
I think it's the first time
in the new series
in which the entire universe
is in danger.
And not just the universe,
but every reality beyond that.
For this one, it's your reaction to
the Crucible about to explode
-and things falling down or whatever.
-Right.
So, shudder.
Danny, what happens after shudder?
It'll start going bang, bang.
What we had to do was create lots of ...
Well, the whole ship is exploding,
so we had various
different effects happening,
lots of pyrotechnics exploding,
I've got a girder falling down,
which is obviously happening
in front of him.
When I see them with my naked eye,
I know what they'll look like on camera
because I'm going to tighten the lens
so you fill the frame
with the explosion.
Whereas when you're in a big room,
it happens there, little explosion,
it goes "phutt".
But we then put a big explosion on it,
the visual of it is shocking.
It's all controlled effects, okay?
I'm firing it all on the buttons,
all right? So you're safe.
So as long as I stay
in the same place...
As long as you stay in the same place,
yeah, it's all fine, all right?
Right, stand by then, please.
Good luck, everyone.
And action.
Shudder!
Davros, come with me!
I promise I can save you.
Never forget, Doctor, you did this!
I name you forever/!
You are the Destroyer of Worlds!
(SCREAMING)
More, more, more flames.
And cut! Thank you.
Making safe, everyone.
No one move.
Oh, it's stunning.
Look at that, it's brilliant.
(LAUGHING)
When you see it,
I think it is terrifying.
And I'm really thrilled with it.
It's exactly what I wanted.
(DAVROS SCREAMING)
Is he dead? I couldn't tell you.
Impossible!
Brilliant!
This is so busy and so mental
and so epic and universal in scale
that you need two Doctors to solve it.
Two Doctors, yes, that was a nightmare.
-How comes there are two of you?
-Human biological metacrisis.
On a technical level, the two Doctors
is a whole other consideration
that we have to make because,
obviously, there is only one David.
Were we to have a limitless budget,
you know,
we'd film every scene with David
as both characters. We don't.
We only have a certain number
of effects shots
where we can see
the two Doctors together,
so we picked those really carefully.
And I'd love to do a shot here,
which is with two Doctors.
I'd like to see Doc number 1
settling into the back position here,
about to say, "Off we go,"
and Doc number 2, for real,
in the foreground here with Rose.
Off we go!
In all the other moments,
where you're just kind of ...
The camera's over the shoulder
of one Doctor looking at the other,
where you might just see an arm of a
Doctor or part of the side of his head,
we've a really good double for David.
TENNANT: There's a chap called Colum,
who's a musician, actually,
very nice chap, and he's doubled for me
now and again through the whole series.
There's a few shots
of the back of his head here and there.
There are two or three wide shots. ..
I shouldn't tell you this.
There are two or three wide shots
where he's got his back...
Just as he turns, you can cut to
a close-up of the real one,
which is David.
But just as he turns,
you get away with it,
he's got the same sideboards,
he's got the same height,
he's got the same figure.
And was just as handsome.
What have you done?
If you shoot me in brown,
and then you also need me in blue,
then you have to lock the camera
while I go and get changed,
and then Colum's standing in
to line up the shot,
and then you do a pass with Colum in
for a reference,
and then a pass with Colum out.
Now, get in the Tardis!
(MUMBLING)
NARRATOR: With the Doctor suffering
a double dilemma,
the Tardis travels back to Bad Wolf Bay.
Time for the Doctor Who team to pack
their bucket and spade and hit the surf.
It's really weird, actually,
being back today,
because of it mirroring, almost,
two years ago
when we were here for Doomsday,
when the Doctor said goodbye to Rose.
I love you.
Quite right, too.
And I suppose...
Rose Tyler...
311, take 1. A camera. Mark.
B camera.
Hold on.
This is the parallel universe, right?
You're back home.
And the walls of the world
are closing again.
DAVIES: Return to Bad Wolf Bay is...
That's a tricky scene to act, tricky to
direct, tricky to edit, as well,
because is it sad? Is it happy?
313, take 1. A camera. Mark.
B camera.
And action.
You made me.
Exactly. You were born in battle.
Full of blood and anger and revenge.
Remind you of someone?
That's me when we first met.
And you made me better.
-Now you can do the same for him.
-But he's not you.
He needs you. That's very me.
I think it was the most perfect choice
to focus on the human Doctor,
and to pull it right back to what Rose
was like when she met the ninth Doctor,
and her influence on
the Christopher Eccleston Doctor,
and to make him better.
-Rose, get out of the way now.
-No, because I won't let you do this.
That thing killed hundreds of people.
It's not the one pointing the gun at me.
I've got to do this. I've got to end it.
Look at it.
It couldn't kill me. It's changing.
What about you, Doctor?
What the hell are you changing into?
So it's throwing back at Rose
the most extraordinary compliment,
that she is like the doctor,
she makes people better.
Don't you see what
he's trying to give you?
Tell her, go on.
I look like him, I think like him.
Same memories, same thoughts,
same everything.
Except I've only got one heart.
I've only got one life, Rose Tyler.
I could spend it with you.
There's part of her
that feels very comfortable
and very attracted to this new Doctor
because he is the same guy.
But clearly he's not.
And clearly she's saying goodbye
to this other man
that she's been in love with.
We got to go, this reality
is sealing itself off forever.
But it's still not right,
'cause the Doctor's still you.
And I'm him.
For the Doctor himself, there's just
another heartbreak and another tragedy,
and he's back at Bad Wolf Bay,
where he last experienced this.
You know, he's saying goodbye again
and he's bidding farewell again,
and this time, it's closing forever
and there's no going back.
And in gifting her this other Doctor,
he's not really allowing himself
to go back either.
All right. Both of you, answer me this.
When I last stood on this beach
on the worst day of my life,
what was the last thing you said to me?
So again she takes it back to the
first time they were at Bad Wolf Bay,
and, of course, our Doctor can't say it.
Go on.
I said, "Rose Tyler."
Yeah, and how was
that sentence gonna end?
And why can't he say it?
He can't say it because
he can't ever be completely human,
and he has to be in pain.
I think the Doctor is most heroic
and most compelling
when he is having to sacrifice things,
where he's having to be under pressure.
And it's terrible
that he knows all of that,
and he knows he's going to be alone,
that he loves this woman so much that
he gives her the chance to have a life.
Does it need saying?
And you, Doctor?
What was the end of that sentence?
GARDNER: Of course he's saying,
"I love you." Of course he is.
Even though we don't hear it,
of course he's saying, "I love you."
I always have hated the scene with
that moment in Beauty and the Beast
when Belle kisses the Beast
and he turns into a man,
and you're really happy that he's human,
but you're also really upset
that the Beast is gone.
And I always felt like that
at the end...
I don't know where I'm going with this!
But I always felt like that...
I always felt like she shouldn't be
kissing that number two.
And also, he's not the same.
It's all a bit weird.
I think it's such a tragedy
that the woman you love
gets someone who looks exactly like you
and who is just as good as you
in every single way,
and you've got to admit
that you're happy for them,
and that's as good as it gets and
you've got to turn your back and go.
I think the beauty of sci-fi
is that anything is possible,
and I think that it's never really
the end for the Doctor and Rose.
Well, maybe it is, I just don't know it.
Maybe I'm the one who can't let go.
But I think it's certainly the end
for the foreseeable future.
But who knows what will happen?
And cut.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Catherine Tate just did her last shot.
NARRATOR: Another adventure that
has come to an end is Donna Noble's,
whose terrific time on the Tardis
has been terminated.
Yesterday I was told,
"It's your last scene," but it wasn't,
and today it apparently is.
They were just, like,
pick-up shots, though.
It was really sad, you know, because
I've done this job for eight months,
and it was so daunting
when I first got here,
to think I had eight months,
you know, of being away.
And now I just can't believe
it's gone so quick.
And I will be really, really bereft
once it dawns on me that it's finished,
because I've just loved it,
I've really loved it.
Thank you so much.
I've had such a wonderful time,
and it has been because of you,
so thank you.
TENNANT: I think Donna has been
a very different co-inhabitor
of the Tardis
to any we'd seen in recent years.
And I think that's brought
a new energy to this show
and allowed it to go in different...
Tell slightly different
types of stories.
I think what Catherine does
so brilliant with Donna is that
she remains ordinary at all times.
There are so many moments I'm proud of.
When you think of the performance
she gives in Episode 11,
standing in that circle of mirrors
where she has to travel back in time.
She's so brave and hopeful and doomed.
I'm sorry.
But I can't die!
I've got a future!
With the Doctor! You told me!
I think her humour and the genius
that Catherine Tate brings to Donna,
for me, is exemplified best
in two scenes.
It's the first scene
in Partners in Crime where they meet,
and the whole dumb show.
(MOUTHING)
But then the scene
where she meets the second Doctor.
You are bonkers.
-Why, what's wrong with blue?
-Is that what Time Lords do?
Lop a bit off, grow another one?
You're like worms!
No, no, no, no, no. I'm unique.
Never been another like me.
'Cause all that regeneration energy
went into the hand.
Look at my hand! I love that hand!
But then you touched it, wham!
Shh!
The comedy between those two,
with “Oi, oi, oi!“
- Oi!
- Oi!
-Oi!
-Spanners! Shh!
It's just... How lucky are we?
It's so brilliant.
How lucky are we to
get those two on board the Tardis?
I grew out of you.
Still, could be worse.
-Oi! Watch it, spaceman!
-Oi! Watch it, Earth girl! Ooh.
I think Catherine Tate has shown
to be the most wonderful actress.
What am I supposed to do?
I'm nothing special. I mean, I'm...
I'm not...
I'm nothing special. I'm a temp!
I'm not even that! I'm nothing!
Donna Noble, you're the most important
woman in the whole of creation.
The depth, depths that none of us knew
she was going to kind of dig up
and show. A wonderful performance.
Action.
You know you could fix
that chameleon circuit
if you just tried hotbinding
the fragment links and superseding
the binary, binary, binary, binary,
binary, binary, binary, binary...
(GASPS) I'm fine!
Nah, never mind Felspoon. You know
who I'd like to meet? Charlie Chaplin.
I bet he's great, Charlie Chaplin.
Shall we do that?
Shall we go and see Charlie Chaplin?
Shall we? Charlie Chaplin?
Charlie Chester? Charlie Brown.
No, he's fiction, friction, fixing,
mixing, Rickston, Brixton.
(GASPS)
Cut.
That's where I take it up to, yeah?
I found that scene in the Tardis
really hard.
It broke me up the moment
we started shooting it.
It was hard.
I won't do a full rehearsal
of the whole scene now...
No, that's fine...
As soon as David moves off
from that spot, I'm off this section.
You do not want an actress
who's going to have to break down
and floods of tears, and they want to
and they can do it.
You don't want to be doing that
two or three times.
326, take 2, A camera. Mark.
B camera.
And action.
I want to stay.
Donna... Look at me, Donna.
Look at me.
I think I had two goes. That was it.
And we've used the first take.
I know we've used the first take
because they're always the best,
in terms of that emotion.
Oh! Oh, but I can't go back.
Donna's fate is like a death, I think.
It's... I can't bear it.
Oh, my God.
Do you know what's happening?
Yeah.
She doesn't get to remember
any of the joy
and the wonder that
the Doctor showed her.
And I think that is
absolutely heartbreaking.
There's never been
a human-Time Lord metacrisis before now.
-And you know why?
-Because there can't be.
And the poor Doctor, he loved Donna.
He's such a mate of Donna's,
such a best friend.
-Help me.
-Donna?
Donna.
I think Donna's story is brilliant
and sad and wonderful,
and I think Catherine
has served that beautifully.
I had to wipe her mind completely.
Every trace of me or the Tardis,
anything we did together,
anywhere we went, had to go.
With this ring, I thee bio-damp.
For better or for worse.
I've never given you a key.
Get out of the way!
-Quite a big moment, really.
-Yeah.
I bloody love you!
DOCTOR: All that knowledge,
it was killing her.
All those wonderful things she did.
Sometimes I need someone.
Welcome aboard.
(SCREAMS)
Hold on!
Oh, Donna Noble. I am so sorry.
But we had the best of times.
The best.
-Goodbye.
-No, no, no, please.
Please! No, no, no!
No!
And that's the tragedy of Donna,
is that she will never know.
She will never know.
And this, you know...
Oh, it's so sad that
she will probably just
not reach any potential
because she doesn't know she's got any.
You know, but hopefully she'll be happy.
Sky-plusing X-Factor.
It's desperately, bitterly sad
that Donna will never remember
any of the extraordinary things
that she's experienced.
Um, it's desperately sad for the Doctor,
as well.
Donna, I was just going.
Yeah, see you.
And he has to sacrifice
that relationship for the greater good,
as he has to sacrifice
every relationship he has
for the greater good.
Bye then, Wilfred.
Oh, and, Doctor.
What about you now?
I'm fine.
And he's left from having a Tardis
brimful of all his friends,
brimful of his new family.
A few hours later,
he's on his own again.
Every night, Doctor,
when it gets dark
and the stars come out,
I'll look up.
On her behalf, I'll look up at the sky
and think of you.
Thank you.
I always think the more
you emphasise lonely Doctor,
the more you come back to
what the heart of the series is about,
which is a man travelling through
time and space in a box.
(WHOOSHING)
TENNANT: It's desperately sad.
And this character,
who deserves so much,
ends up with nothing again.