Doctor Who Confidential (2005–2011): Season 6, Episode 6 - Take Two - full transcript
I feel really empowered, I feel like
we're on the best chat show ever.
Have you had fun on this episode, gang?
-I've hated every second.
-Oh, really?
-Have you had fun on this episode?
-Yeah, I have.
-All right, good.
-Lots of fun.
Oh, hurrah. Well, thanks for
being the worst interviewees ever.
SMITH: It's good to be back
making Doctor Who, isn't it?
We didn't speak to each
other over Christmas.
For a whole day over Christmas.
-Sort of...
-We all said the other day,
we had that thought of going,
"I should probably text..."
"Nah."
Though, I was really sick
just before New Year.
I had that... There's been this
bug going around,
and I lost half a stone.
Puked it all up.
Which, um, is a little revealing
for Confidential 1 suppose.
What is this interview?
-It's kind of free and easy.
-Yeah, I quite like it.
It's never going to make the show.
We know these types of interviews
never make the show.
NARRATOR: It's November 2010
and the cast, executive producers
and show writer have gathered
at the Doctor Who studios
to tackle the doubly
hard episodes 5 and 6.
"So now let us switch our brains around
and call the real Doctor the Doctor."
"He was the other Doctor,
but now he is the Doctor."
"Let us all call the Doctor
the other Doctor, yes?"
"Is that clear? God, I hope so."
Oh, no.
(ELECTRONIC WHIRRING)
(WHIMPERING)
(SCREAMS)
(SCREAMS)
NARRATOR: The conclusion of
this thrilling two-parter
began with the birth of a Doctor and
ended with the mystery of a birth.
(GASPS)
(SCREAMS)
Geronimo.
Ow.
No, and why?
Given what we've learned,
I'll be as humane as I can.
But I need to do this
and you need to stand away!
Okay, so, I've just been killed
by the Doctor.
Oh, no.
(ELECTRONIC WHIRRING)
And then I've woken up...
(GASPS)
And I'm about to have a baby.
I think it's generally quite shocking.
I found that scene quite challenging.
Really challenging, actually,
because how do you play that?
You're not even real and somebody
who you love and trust is looking
into your eyes and saying, "You are
not real, I'm going to kill you now."
I need to do this and
you have to stand away!
I think that Amy just felt at the time
that the two most important people
in her life are turning on her,
it's like that horrible feeling
of betrayal and that kind of
I think was really horrible for her.
I'm very frightened.
Like properly, properly scared.
Don't be, we're coming
for you, I swear it.
Whatever happens, however hard.
However far.
-I'm right here.
-No.
I am right here.
You're not, and you haven't been here
for a long, long time.
I mean, it's just such
a huge twist for Amy.
The life of Amy Pond has taken
a turn for the worst
and she's about to give birth
to a baby she didn't even know
she was pregnant with.
Well dear,
you're ready to pop, aren't you?
Little one's on its way.
Well, this is a cliff-hanger
not just to this two-parter,
but the whole series to date,
'cause it's changed everything
we think we know.
We think we've been looking at
Amelia Pond as normal.
What?
And we now discover that really
hasn't been her at all.
Well, it has been, it's been her mind,
it's been her heart, her soul,
but it hasn't really
been her, physically.
The flesh Amy has been going
through episodes 1-6
and hanging out, having these
adventures with the Doctor and Rory,
while the real Amy has been trapped
in this birthing chamber
with this strange eye-patch woman
opening a hatch every now and again,
and checking on her progress.
And the reason that she has seen the
eye-patch woman at strange moments
is because that reality has been
seeping through into her mind.
The flesh Amy that the Doctor
zaps at the end with the Sonic
is absolutely not a real person.
He's not killed Amy.
He has simply cut off the telephone
communication between the operator
and this flesh Amy's that's
in front of him.
So it really is like snipping a wire
and just getting rid of a signal
rather than actually doing her harm.
Trust me.
I'm the Doctor.
NARRATOR: Episode 6 presented a
challenging double role for Matt Smith,
with the story requiring him
to play the Doctor twice.
-Is that what you were thinking?
-Yes, it's just so inspiring
to hear me say it.
I know.
Writing for two Doctors, interestingly,
suits Matt Smith's
style of performance.
Because he almost, even when
he's just one Doctor,
he almost feels to be finishing his own
sentences, if you know what I mean.
He's always interrupting himself and
contradicting himself in mid-flow.
He always says, "Do I say that?
Do I mean that? Do I mean that?"
And he often is having this
internal dialogue with himself.
-This is insane.
-Yes, it's insane.
And it's about to get
even more insanerer.
Is that a word?
In a way, all you're doing is
taking that internal dialogue
and making it external.
-Two Time Lords.
-I think the universe is definitely
big enough for two Time Lords.
-Really?
-Yeah. Well, there was loads
of them at one point.
-Yeah, I know, and it...
-And isn't it always expanding?
Yeah. Well, maybe, maybe. I mean...
-Would you like that?
-To have two?
Yeah. You could have
a friend or a foe...
-I've got a friend. You.
-Yeah, but one who's not your, like...
basically the equivalent of a hamster.
Yeah! Is that what you are?
Like one of your pets.
Shall I get you a little wheel
in the Tardis
with one of those little...
Yeah.
-That would be funny.
-One of those water things.
And actually, you as a person
are quite hamster-like.
-Do you think?
-You're quite sort of nibbly.
Yeah, like today I was.
You were having
a right old nibble on your crackers.
But no, I think one Doctor,
'cause it makes it tough for him...
-One universe, one Doctor...
-Yeah, for sure.
One hamster.
-It's a really scary episode, I think.
-I hope so.
-We want this one to be scary, don't we?
-Yeah.
-It's fun to make the scary stuff.
-Yeah.
GILLAN: We've been filming here all
week. It's our last day of filming.
It's called Caerphilly Castle
in Caerphilly.
What they didn't tell us
while we were filming
is that it's in fact haunted.
Ooh!
So, we're going to meet David now,
who's going to basically tell us
all about it.
-Hey, David.
-Hello, David.
Hi. Caerphilly Castle is haunted
by the ghost of the Green Lady.
And the story goes back to 1268.
The castle was founded by a man
called Gilbert de Clare,
or Gilbert the Red, and he had
a lovely wife called Alice.
And she fell in love with
a local Welsh prince.
Gilbert was so upset about this,
he banished her back to France.
And he had the local
Welsh prince killed.
When she heard of the news,
she dropped down dead,
literally dying of a broken heart.
But it's funny, 'cause there's
a moment in this particular script,
which we're filming in this
castle, where I think we all went,
"This is the moment in a horror film
where you go,
"'Don't go down that corridor!""
-Just don't do it.
-Just don't do it.
(PULSATING GROWL)
Run. Run! Run!
NARRATOR: When writer Matthew Graham
created the Flesh on paper,
he knew his vision
could only be realised
on screen by a combination
of CGI and live-action filming.
For rehearsal. And action.
Confidential is in London with the
man himself to check out progress.
Very exciting, because it was a few
months ago that I wrote this.
Yeah.
So, I have no idea what
you've been doing
while I've been off doing other things.
-You've been beavering away in the dark.
-Absolutely.
Well, first things first. This is
some of the concept art we did.
Oh, Lord. Is that done on computer?
Is it designed on computer?
-Yes, this was done in Photoshop.
-Right, yeah.
So, this was everyone chatting about
what they thought
the creature would look like.
The idea was to make it very white,
maybe a bit transparent.
Lots of veins,
and make it quite fleshy.
I wanted that mixture of a real face
and a completely alien body.
I'm really looking forward
to see how they're going to
put all the special effects together
and everything.
And to see how the monster
is all created,
and how these little dots on my face
will be transformed into big, long,
elongated jaws and things like that,
and all my limbs extended.
Yeah, I can't wait.
-Action.
-I can grow!
It might be nice to have a bit more
sort of lateral movement.
It is more kind of a side-to-side.
-Like this?
-Yes.
We'll take the performance
that we get of Jennifer,
because her performance is very much
these bodily movements,
and a slight awkwardness
to the way that her body is moving,
which are all great traits
which you can
sort of pull over
into your CGI creation.
And we'll take that as our
inspiration and guide for the way
that we move and animate the CGI body
that we're going to attach to her.
I've just spent some time with Neil
seeing how the Jennifer creature
is animated, and I'm really excited now,
because this is going to be
the semi-finished thing in situ.
So, unleash the Jennifer creature.
This door doesn't lock!
Here we go. This is our set.
This is a character called Dicken.
Don't go down that corridor, Dicken.
I wouldn't, mate.
He's going to try and close
the door. Oh, here she comes.
The flashing amber lights,
which have to be recreated.
And this is a greyscale animation,
so it's obviously not finished yet.
But oh, my word!
But still pretty scary.
She's getting closer.
Get that door closed!
Ah. I don't think that's going to end
well. There's a sofa there.
I'm going to go and hide behind it.
we're on the best chat show ever.
Have you had fun on this episode, gang?
-I've hated every second.
-Oh, really?
-Have you had fun on this episode?
-Yeah, I have.
-All right, good.
-Lots of fun.
Oh, hurrah. Well, thanks for
being the worst interviewees ever.
SMITH: It's good to be back
making Doctor Who, isn't it?
We didn't speak to each
other over Christmas.
For a whole day over Christmas.
-Sort of...
-We all said the other day,
we had that thought of going,
"I should probably text..."
"Nah."
Though, I was really sick
just before New Year.
I had that... There's been this
bug going around,
and I lost half a stone.
Puked it all up.
Which, um, is a little revealing
for Confidential 1 suppose.
What is this interview?
-It's kind of free and easy.
-Yeah, I quite like it.
It's never going to make the show.
We know these types of interviews
never make the show.
NARRATOR: It's November 2010
and the cast, executive producers
and show writer have gathered
at the Doctor Who studios
to tackle the doubly
hard episodes 5 and 6.
"So now let us switch our brains around
and call the real Doctor the Doctor."
"He was the other Doctor,
but now he is the Doctor."
"Let us all call the Doctor
the other Doctor, yes?"
"Is that clear? God, I hope so."
Oh, no.
(ELECTRONIC WHIRRING)
(WHIMPERING)
(SCREAMS)
(SCREAMS)
NARRATOR: The conclusion of
this thrilling two-parter
began with the birth of a Doctor and
ended with the mystery of a birth.
(GASPS)
(SCREAMS)
Geronimo.
Ow.
No, and why?
Given what we've learned,
I'll be as humane as I can.
But I need to do this
and you need to stand away!
Okay, so, I've just been killed
by the Doctor.
Oh, no.
(ELECTRONIC WHIRRING)
And then I've woken up...
(GASPS)
And I'm about to have a baby.
I think it's generally quite shocking.
I found that scene quite challenging.
Really challenging, actually,
because how do you play that?
You're not even real and somebody
who you love and trust is looking
into your eyes and saying, "You are
not real, I'm going to kill you now."
I need to do this and
you have to stand away!
I think that Amy just felt at the time
that the two most important people
in her life are turning on her,
it's like that horrible feeling
of betrayal and that kind of
I think was really horrible for her.
I'm very frightened.
Like properly, properly scared.
Don't be, we're coming
for you, I swear it.
Whatever happens, however hard.
However far.
-I'm right here.
-No.
I am right here.
You're not, and you haven't been here
for a long, long time.
I mean, it's just such
a huge twist for Amy.
The life of Amy Pond has taken
a turn for the worst
and she's about to give birth
to a baby she didn't even know
she was pregnant with.
Well dear,
you're ready to pop, aren't you?
Little one's on its way.
Well, this is a cliff-hanger
not just to this two-parter,
but the whole series to date,
'cause it's changed everything
we think we know.
We think we've been looking at
Amelia Pond as normal.
What?
And we now discover that really
hasn't been her at all.
Well, it has been, it's been her mind,
it's been her heart, her soul,
but it hasn't really
been her, physically.
The flesh Amy has been going
through episodes 1-6
and hanging out, having these
adventures with the Doctor and Rory,
while the real Amy has been trapped
in this birthing chamber
with this strange eye-patch woman
opening a hatch every now and again,
and checking on her progress.
And the reason that she has seen the
eye-patch woman at strange moments
is because that reality has been
seeping through into her mind.
The flesh Amy that the Doctor
zaps at the end with the Sonic
is absolutely not a real person.
He's not killed Amy.
He has simply cut off the telephone
communication between the operator
and this flesh Amy's that's
in front of him.
So it really is like snipping a wire
and just getting rid of a signal
rather than actually doing her harm.
Trust me.
I'm the Doctor.
NARRATOR: Episode 6 presented a
challenging double role for Matt Smith,
with the story requiring him
to play the Doctor twice.
-Is that what you were thinking?
-Yes, it's just so inspiring
to hear me say it.
I know.
Writing for two Doctors, interestingly,
suits Matt Smith's
style of performance.
Because he almost, even when
he's just one Doctor,
he almost feels to be finishing his own
sentences, if you know what I mean.
He's always interrupting himself and
contradicting himself in mid-flow.
He always says, "Do I say that?
Do I mean that? Do I mean that?"
And he often is having this
internal dialogue with himself.
-This is insane.
-Yes, it's insane.
And it's about to get
even more insanerer.
Is that a word?
In a way, all you're doing is
taking that internal dialogue
and making it external.
-Two Time Lords.
-I think the universe is definitely
big enough for two Time Lords.
-Really?
-Yeah. Well, there was loads
of them at one point.
-Yeah, I know, and it...
-And isn't it always expanding?
Yeah. Well, maybe, maybe. I mean...
-Would you like that?
-To have two?
Yeah. You could have
a friend or a foe...
-I've got a friend. You.
-Yeah, but one who's not your, like...
basically the equivalent of a hamster.
Yeah! Is that what you are?
Like one of your pets.
Shall I get you a little wheel
in the Tardis
with one of those little...
Yeah.
-That would be funny.
-One of those water things.
And actually, you as a person
are quite hamster-like.
-Do you think?
-You're quite sort of nibbly.
Yeah, like today I was.
You were having
a right old nibble on your crackers.
But no, I think one Doctor,
'cause it makes it tough for him...
-One universe, one Doctor...
-Yeah, for sure.
One hamster.
-It's a really scary episode, I think.
-I hope so.
-We want this one to be scary, don't we?
-Yeah.
-It's fun to make the scary stuff.
-Yeah.
GILLAN: We've been filming here all
week. It's our last day of filming.
It's called Caerphilly Castle
in Caerphilly.
What they didn't tell us
while we were filming
is that it's in fact haunted.
Ooh!
So, we're going to meet David now,
who's going to basically tell us
all about it.
-Hey, David.
-Hello, David.
Hi. Caerphilly Castle is haunted
by the ghost of the Green Lady.
And the story goes back to 1268.
The castle was founded by a man
called Gilbert de Clare,
or Gilbert the Red, and he had
a lovely wife called Alice.
And she fell in love with
a local Welsh prince.
Gilbert was so upset about this,
he banished her back to France.
And he had the local
Welsh prince killed.
When she heard of the news,
she dropped down dead,
literally dying of a broken heart.
But it's funny, 'cause there's
a moment in this particular script,
which we're filming in this
castle, where I think we all went,
"This is the moment in a horror film
where you go,
"'Don't go down that corridor!""
-Just don't do it.
-Just don't do it.
(PULSATING GROWL)
Run. Run! Run!
NARRATOR: When writer Matthew Graham
created the Flesh on paper,
he knew his vision
could only be realised
on screen by a combination
of CGI and live-action filming.
For rehearsal. And action.
Confidential is in London with the
man himself to check out progress.
Very exciting, because it was a few
months ago that I wrote this.
Yeah.
So, I have no idea what
you've been doing
while I've been off doing other things.
-You've been beavering away in the dark.
-Absolutely.
Well, first things first. This is
some of the concept art we did.
Oh, Lord. Is that done on computer?
Is it designed on computer?
-Yes, this was done in Photoshop.
-Right, yeah.
So, this was everyone chatting about
what they thought
the creature would look like.
The idea was to make it very white,
maybe a bit transparent.
Lots of veins,
and make it quite fleshy.
I wanted that mixture of a real face
and a completely alien body.
I'm really looking forward
to see how they're going to
put all the special effects together
and everything.
And to see how the monster
is all created,
and how these little dots on my face
will be transformed into big, long,
elongated jaws and things like that,
and all my limbs extended.
Yeah, I can't wait.
-Action.
-I can grow!
It might be nice to have a bit more
sort of lateral movement.
It is more kind of a side-to-side.
-Like this?
-Yes.
We'll take the performance
that we get of Jennifer,
because her performance is very much
these bodily movements,
and a slight awkwardness
to the way that her body is moving,
which are all great traits
which you can
sort of pull over
into your CGI creation.
And we'll take that as our
inspiration and guide for the way
that we move and animate the CGI body
that we're going to attach to her.
I've just spent some time with Neil
seeing how the Jennifer creature
is animated, and I'm really excited now,
because this is going to be
the semi-finished thing in situ.
So, unleash the Jennifer creature.
This door doesn't lock!
Here we go. This is our set.
This is a character called Dicken.
Don't go down that corridor, Dicken.
I wouldn't, mate.
He's going to try and close
the door. Oh, here she comes.
The flashing amber lights,
which have to be recreated.
And this is a greyscale animation,
so it's obviously not finished yet.
But oh, my word!
But still pretty scary.
She's getting closer.
Get that door closed!
Ah. I don't think that's going to end
well. There's a sofa there.
I'm going to go and hide behind it.