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1 EXT. SKARO - DAY 1

Spinning, blurry.

A faint impression, of blue sky, mountains and a dark figure

rotating past us - but all upside down!

The spinning, slowing. Becoming gentle revolutions.

The upside-down figure, silhouetted against the blazing sun -

it is clearly MISSY.

MISSY:

Consider the Doctor.

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2 DARK FIELD 2

- a flash of

THE DOCTOR's eyes snap open, blaze straight at us (as in The

Day Of The Doctor.)

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3 EXT. SKARO - DAY 3

Slower revolutions, less blurry.

MISSY, still talking, but now we can see that she is casually

sharpening a stick.

MISSY:

The Doctor, trapped. The Doctor,

alone.

(Looks directly into the

camera)

You all right there, dear?

Wider. Out on the plains of Skaro, the Dalek city glittering

in the far distance. MISSY, sharpening a stick with a little

knife.

CLARA:
she’s trussed up, hanging upside down from a tree

branch, and revolving slowly. Blinking awake. (The above was

her POV.)

CLARA:

... where ..? how did we ..?

MISSY:

Shh, now, Mummy’s talking. Okay,

the Doctor. On the run, no TARDIS,

no friends, no help. In other

words, the Doctor happy.

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4 INT. EXOTIC BUILDING - DAY 4

A place of marble columns and gantries. Looks exotic, could

even be alien.

There is zap sound and a glow from behind one of the columns

MISSY:

(V.O.)

This was a long time ago.

A figure flits between the columns, wearing a floppy hat and

a long scarf - clearly the TOM BAKER DOCTOR. He’s only

briefly glimpsed before he darts behind another column.

MISSY (cont’d)

(V.O.)

Doesn’t matter which face he was

wearing

-the figure flits between the next two columns, this time

much smaller, with long white hair - the WILLIAM HARTNELL

DOCTOR MISSY:

(cont’d)

(V.O.)

They’re all the Doctor to me.

Now moving closer on the CAPALDI DOCTOR, as he races from

behind the next pillar, now flattens himself against a wall.

Looking around - hunted, haunted, a man on the run!

MISSY (cont’d)

(V.O.)

So let’s give it to the eyebrows.

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5 EXT. SKARO - DAY 5

CLARA, slowly revolving to a halt, still blinking in

confusion.

CLARA:

... I don’t ... where are we?

MISSY:

A few miles from where we were.

CLARA:

But ... the Daleks ...

MISSY:

I’m coming to that.

CLARA:

Shouldn’t we be ... I don’t want to

say dead?

(CONTINUED)

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3.

5 CONTINUED:
5

MISSY:

Hush!

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6 INT. EXOTIC BUILDING - DAY 6

Close on THE DOCTOR, eyes darting around, frantically.

Cutting round details - shadows, columns, flickers of

movement.

MISSY:

(V.O.)

The City of the Screaming Lakes.

Abandoned for over two-thousand

years. He got in by teleporter -

doesn’t matter why.

On THE DOCTOR, frantically jabbing at a wrist unit that looks

like a big elaborate watch.

MISSY (cont’d)

(V.O.)

What matters is that his teleporter

is now out of power.

THE DOCTOR, frustrated - slamming the teleport bracelet

against a wall. Damn it, damn it!

Now -Zap! Zap! Zap! Zap!

From all around, in every corner, behind every pillar, the

same zaps and glows that accompanied his own arrival.

MISSY (cont’d)

(V.O.)

Also worth mentioning - he’s being

stalked by, oh, say about fifty

android assassins.

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7 EXT. SKARO - DAY 7

CLARA hanging, MISSY whittling. She shoots a grin at CLARA.

MISSY:

I may be rounding up.

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