Doctor Who Confidential (2005–2011): Season 4, Episode 6 - Sins of the Fathers - full transcript
(SCREAMING)
NARRATOR: We witness the birth
of a new chapter
in Doctor Who history.
She's my daughter.
Jenny!
It's a story about becoming a dad.
What do you think, Dad?
Brilliant! You were brilliant!
NARRATOR: So join Confidential
and find out who really is the daddy.
Careful, there might be traps.
Watch and learn, Father.
MAN: Action.
NARRATOR: Today the Doctor Who cast
and crew are all set for a new arrival.
MAN: Arm yourself.
-MARTHA: Where did she come from?
-From me.
From you? How?
Who is she?
She's my daughter.
Hello, Dad.
Big story. Big story for the Doctor.
The title is “The Doctor's Daughter“.
Low and behold, Jenny,
who is his daughter,
steps out of the machine.
GEORGIA MOFFETT:
And out of this machine, I step.
Because I have been made out of his DNA,
so I am his daughter.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
It's very deliberate.
I think it's one of the best
pre-title sequences we've ever had.
Hello, Dad.
Lovely.
That's great.
Georgia, I think it's lovely.
And I love the smile. It's really great.
Okay, let's go, please. One more.
The phone call from Russell and Julia
and Phil basically said,
"The Doctor's daughter."
And then they all went,
"Shh. It's going to be a big secret."
First of all, you get a Doctor
who just wants nothing to do with her.
You know, the CSA would be
chasing him across the galaxy.
Not mine. Technically mine,
but not my responsibility
in any way, shape or form.
-She's a generated anomaly.
-Generated anomaly?
Generated.
Well, what about that? Jenny.
Jenny. Yeah. I like that. Jenny.
I don't think the Doctor accepts
that she is his child at first.
You can't extrapolate a relationship
from a biological accident.
Uh, Child Support Agency can.
Look, just 'cause I share
certain physiological traits
with simian primates, doesn't make me
a monkey's uncle, does it?
I'm not a monkey or a child.
A further complication
to the Doctor's relationship
with his new daughter
is that she is a warrior.
Every child of the machine
is born with this knowledge.
It's our inheritance. It's all we know.
How to fight and how to die.
She's born to fight.
She's born to use weapons.
She's born to karate chop
and kick her feet.
No. Don't!
Why did you do that?
-They were trying to kill us.
-But they've got my friend.
Collateral damage.
She's one of the few people
who can properly defend
a soldier's viewpoint to the Doctor.
You keep insisting you're not a soldier,
but look at you, drawing up strategies
like a proper general.
-No, I'm trying to stop the fighting.
-Isn't every soldier?
And she shuts him up. She actually
makes him speechless once or twice,
which Donna loves.
-Donna, will you tell her?
-Ooh, you are speechless.
I'm loving this. You keep on, Jenny.
I think over the time,
she learns from the Doctor and Donna
that actually the way that she's...
The way that she, kind of ...
She does fight
and she doesn't control how she feels
is not necessarily
the right way of doing it.
She learns morals over the time.
It's kind of a story of growth, I guess.
-That's it!
-Hurry up!
Oh, no, no, no, no.
The circuits moved back.
The sequence where
Jenny flips through the beams,
preventing them getting from
one end of the corridor to the other,
was always in that script
from the first draft, really.
Stephen Greenhorn felt it very important
in order to just be a very quick way
of demonstrating, really,
just how agile,
how much of a warrior Jenny really was.
She's not a clone of the Doctor.
We were very careful
to avoid the fact that she's not cloned.
That she is her own person, but you
can see the "Doctorishness" in her.
Watch and learn, Father.
And you can see that actually
the reason he would warm to her
is because he begins to recognise
there are elements in her
that are strong in him as well.
No way.
The logistics of filming that sequence
really is careful planning.
So, if you just...
It's gonna slow down at the end of it.
Right.
You wanna be low, where you were,
I think, Carlo.
Yeah, it's good.
Just a lot of coordination
with the stunt coordinator
and the actors,
and taking it from there, really.
It had to be storyboarded
really carefully by Alice.
She really had to work out
how Jenny should move
through that path of light
and how we could shoot that
in the most economical way.
Georgia did have to have
some kind of training
because obviously we did need to see her
start the movement off.
And, you know, do that final
roll and kick that she does.
Georgia's an actress,
she's not a gymnast.
And while she's really fit
and really game,
we had to make her look
like an Olympic gymnast
of the highest order.
We very quickly realised
we were gonna need a body double.
So, we had a body double
who was a gymnast
who does that fast back-flipping.
The costume and make-up department
had to make that lady look
identical to Jenny.
I mean, she's obviously
not identical to Jenny,
and the sequence moves so quickly
that actually you blink and not know.
MAN: And action.
No way.
-That was impossible.
-Not impossible. Just a bit unlikely.
Brilliant. You were brilliant!
Brilliant!
By the end of it, they've both realised
that they want to be
a little bit more like the other one.
And admire that in each other.
What's happening?
The gases will escape and trigger
the terraforming process.
It's a recurring motif, isn't it,
that as soon as the Doctor looks like
he's found somebody new
to share his life with,
they've got to die or leave him.
-What does that mean?
-It means a new world.
It just comes out of the blue.
No!
It's not expected.
Jenny. Jenny. Talk to me, Jenny.
From the Doctor's point of view,
it's another tragedy.
It's another disappointment.
It's another heartbreak.
Jenny, be strong now.
You need to hold on, do you hear me?
We've got things to do,
you and me, eh? Eh?
We can go anywhere.
Everywhere. You choose.
That sounds good.
As soon as the Doctor
begins to accept her,
as soon as the Doctor
opens his hearts to her,
she's got to get shot in one of hers.
Two hearts.
There's no sign, Doctor.
There's no regeneration.
She's like you, but maybe not enough.
No. Too much.
It was a really bizarre experience
because it was definitely
my favourite scene,
and yet it was the hardest one to play.
He's in a situation where,
when he picks up the gun
and points it at Cobb's head,
that's quite unusual for him
to even threaten violence.
I never would.
Towards the end, when
the Doctor does pick up a weapon,
that was something that was gonna...
That was discussed at some length
because it was such an extraordinary
thing for his character to do.
Have you got that?
I never would.
I don't think it's seriously argued
that he's about to kill him.
He's using this moment of anger
to make a statement
to the whole society around him.
It's not just a hollow gesture.
It's not just personal.
Make the foundation of this society
a man who never would!
It's a tremendous moment
of actually setting the foundation
for the entire planet of Messaline.
DAVIES: He's an extraordinary man.
You know, who else could do that?
I just can't imagine.
But he takes the most personal moment
and makes it into a statement of liberty
and of proper moral worth.
So, it's amazing.
Hello, boys.
I think what's interesting
is the fact that she's still there
at the end of the show.
-CLINE: Come back.
-Sorry, can't stop.
What are you gonna do? Tell my dad?
I wonder if that will become important
in Doctor Who history.
-But where are you going?
-I've got the whole universe.
Planets to save,
civilisations to rescue,
creatures to defeat
and an awful lot of running to do.
It does leave a lot of ends untied,
doesn't it?
NARRATOR: We witness the birth
of a new chapter
in Doctor Who history.
She's my daughter.
Jenny!
It's a story about becoming a dad.
What do you think, Dad?
Brilliant! You were brilliant!
NARRATOR: So join Confidential
and find out who really is the daddy.
Careful, there might be traps.
Watch and learn, Father.
MAN: Action.
NARRATOR: Today the Doctor Who cast
and crew are all set for a new arrival.
MAN: Arm yourself.
-MARTHA: Where did she come from?
-From me.
From you? How?
Who is she?
She's my daughter.
Hello, Dad.
Big story. Big story for the Doctor.
The title is “The Doctor's Daughter“.
Low and behold, Jenny,
who is his daughter,
steps out of the machine.
GEORGIA MOFFETT:
And out of this machine, I step.
Because I have been made out of his DNA,
so I am his daughter.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
It's very deliberate.
I think it's one of the best
pre-title sequences we've ever had.
Hello, Dad.
Lovely.
That's great.
Georgia, I think it's lovely.
And I love the smile. It's really great.
Okay, let's go, please. One more.
The phone call from Russell and Julia
and Phil basically said,
"The Doctor's daughter."
And then they all went,
"Shh. It's going to be a big secret."
First of all, you get a Doctor
who just wants nothing to do with her.
You know, the CSA would be
chasing him across the galaxy.
Not mine. Technically mine,
but not my responsibility
in any way, shape or form.
-She's a generated anomaly.
-Generated anomaly?
Generated.
Well, what about that? Jenny.
Jenny. Yeah. I like that. Jenny.
I don't think the Doctor accepts
that she is his child at first.
You can't extrapolate a relationship
from a biological accident.
Uh, Child Support Agency can.
Look, just 'cause I share
certain physiological traits
with simian primates, doesn't make me
a monkey's uncle, does it?
I'm not a monkey or a child.
A further complication
to the Doctor's relationship
with his new daughter
is that she is a warrior.
Every child of the machine
is born with this knowledge.
It's our inheritance. It's all we know.
How to fight and how to die.
She's born to fight.
She's born to use weapons.
She's born to karate chop
and kick her feet.
No. Don't!
Why did you do that?
-They were trying to kill us.
-But they've got my friend.
Collateral damage.
She's one of the few people
who can properly defend
a soldier's viewpoint to the Doctor.
You keep insisting you're not a soldier,
but look at you, drawing up strategies
like a proper general.
-No, I'm trying to stop the fighting.
-Isn't every soldier?
And she shuts him up. She actually
makes him speechless once or twice,
which Donna loves.
-Donna, will you tell her?
-Ooh, you are speechless.
I'm loving this. You keep on, Jenny.
I think over the time,
she learns from the Doctor and Donna
that actually the way that she's...
The way that she, kind of ...
She does fight
and she doesn't control how she feels
is not necessarily
the right way of doing it.
She learns morals over the time.
It's kind of a story of growth, I guess.
-That's it!
-Hurry up!
Oh, no, no, no, no.
The circuits moved back.
The sequence where
Jenny flips through the beams,
preventing them getting from
one end of the corridor to the other,
was always in that script
from the first draft, really.
Stephen Greenhorn felt it very important
in order to just be a very quick way
of demonstrating, really,
just how agile,
how much of a warrior Jenny really was.
She's not a clone of the Doctor.
We were very careful
to avoid the fact that she's not cloned.
That she is her own person, but you
can see the "Doctorishness" in her.
Watch and learn, Father.
And you can see that actually
the reason he would warm to her
is because he begins to recognise
there are elements in her
that are strong in him as well.
No way.
The logistics of filming that sequence
really is careful planning.
So, if you just...
It's gonna slow down at the end of it.
Right.
You wanna be low, where you were,
I think, Carlo.
Yeah, it's good.
Just a lot of coordination
with the stunt coordinator
and the actors,
and taking it from there, really.
It had to be storyboarded
really carefully by Alice.
She really had to work out
how Jenny should move
through that path of light
and how we could shoot that
in the most economical way.
Georgia did have to have
some kind of training
because obviously we did need to see her
start the movement off.
And, you know, do that final
roll and kick that she does.
Georgia's an actress,
she's not a gymnast.
And while she's really fit
and really game,
we had to make her look
like an Olympic gymnast
of the highest order.
We very quickly realised
we were gonna need a body double.
So, we had a body double
who was a gymnast
who does that fast back-flipping.
The costume and make-up department
had to make that lady look
identical to Jenny.
I mean, she's obviously
not identical to Jenny,
and the sequence moves so quickly
that actually you blink and not know.
MAN: And action.
No way.
-That was impossible.
-Not impossible. Just a bit unlikely.
Brilliant. You were brilliant!
Brilliant!
By the end of it, they've both realised
that they want to be
a little bit more like the other one.
And admire that in each other.
What's happening?
The gases will escape and trigger
the terraforming process.
It's a recurring motif, isn't it,
that as soon as the Doctor looks like
he's found somebody new
to share his life with,
they've got to die or leave him.
-What does that mean?
-It means a new world.
It just comes out of the blue.
No!
It's not expected.
Jenny. Jenny. Talk to me, Jenny.
From the Doctor's point of view,
it's another tragedy.
It's another disappointment.
It's another heartbreak.
Jenny, be strong now.
You need to hold on, do you hear me?
We've got things to do,
you and me, eh? Eh?
We can go anywhere.
Everywhere. You choose.
That sounds good.
As soon as the Doctor
begins to accept her,
as soon as the Doctor
opens his hearts to her,
she's got to get shot in one of hers.
Two hearts.
There's no sign, Doctor.
There's no regeneration.
She's like you, but maybe not enough.
No. Too much.
It was a really bizarre experience
because it was definitely
my favourite scene,
and yet it was the hardest one to play.
He's in a situation where,
when he picks up the gun
and points it at Cobb's head,
that's quite unusual for him
to even threaten violence.
I never would.
Towards the end, when
the Doctor does pick up a weapon,
that was something that was gonna...
That was discussed at some length
because it was such an extraordinary
thing for his character to do.
Have you got that?
I never would.
I don't think it's seriously argued
that he's about to kill him.
He's using this moment of anger
to make a statement
to the whole society around him.
It's not just a hollow gesture.
It's not just personal.
Make the foundation of this society
a man who never would!
It's a tremendous moment
of actually setting the foundation
for the entire planet of Messaline.
DAVIES: He's an extraordinary man.
You know, who else could do that?
I just can't imagine.
But he takes the most personal moment
and makes it into a statement of liberty
and of proper moral worth.
So, it's amazing.
Hello, boys.
I think what's interesting
is the fact that she's still there
at the end of the show.
-CLINE: Come back.
-Sorry, can't stop.
What are you gonna do? Tell my dad?
I wonder if that will become important
in Doctor Who history.
-But where are you going?
-I've got the whole universe.
Planets to save,
civilisations to rescue,
creatures to defeat
and an awful lot of running to do.
It does leave a lot of ends untied,
doesn't it?