Post by Craig Oxbrow on Apr 10, 2010 0:39:42 GMT
The TARDIS stops in orbit of Earth, above the Moon.
The Doctor: Fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. Amazing. Pity there's so little in space these days...
He trails off as something hits the side of the TARDIS with a clang, throwing him off his feet.
--
Red and white laser blasts tear through space.
A battered Federation T-Wing fighter painted with red stripes roars through the stars, chasing a grey Torlan Scimitar fighter shaped like a pair of curved blades.
We pull in to the T-Wing cockpit, where a young pilot looks over at her gunner.
Drummond: They're getting away!
Eckner: Whatever they just fired scrambled our navigation. I don't even recognise the system!
The camera whips around to follow the ships, flying towards a massive battle between two fleets, human and alien. Human fighters surround a bar-shaped carrier, the others swarm around a repurposed asteroid bristling with technology.
And it pulls back to show the two sides are in the shadow of the Moon.
Eckner: Getting an anomalous blip on the scanners.
Drummond: Looks like... an escape capsule or something?
She squints at the blue box hanging in the middle of the battle, just as a Scimitar wing smacks into the side of it.
Eckner: Tough, whatever it is.
Drummond; Maybe it's local, we might be able to find out where we are.
She peels away, and we see the fighter silhouetted by the Earth behind it.
--
Inside, the Doctor gets up, and another jolt throws him about.
He reaches the doors and pulls them open.
The Doctor: Oy!
Drummond and Eckner share a look - and we go to the credits.
--
The Doctor stands in the TARDIS doorway, looking at Drummond and Eckner as their T-Wing screeches to a halt in front of him.
The Doctor: Yes! Hello!
Drummond: Ah... This is a restricted area. No civilian spacecraft. There's a war on, you know!
The Doctor: Yeah, so I noticed. And there really shouldn't be!
Eckner: Er, yes, we seem to have moved system, the Torlan fired some kind of weapon...
The Doctor: The Torlan? Really? So... where are you from?
Drummond: Fifth Fleet, Terran Federation.
The Doctor: So, that planet over there, does it look familiar at all?
Drummond: Eh?
She turns and looks at the Earth.
Drummond: Blue water, basic Class M...
Eckner: I suppose it looks a bit like Earth... but where are the flight stations?
The Doctor: That is Earth. In the year Two Thousand Nine.
Drummond: Say again?
The Doctor: What year are you from?
Drummond: Uh... Three Thousand Six Eighty-One, by that reckoning.
The Doctor: So you'd agree there's a problem?
Eckner: Um...
The Doctor: Tell you what... take me to your leader.
Drummond grimaces, twists her controls and starts flying towards the carrier. The Doctor gets back in and follows.
Drummond: We're going around the back. Shouldn't be so many Torlan shooting at us.
The Doctor: Blimey, that’s a big spaceship. Overlord class, isn’t it? Very nice... bit showy...
--
The fighter and the TARDIS land in a hangar bay. Pilots and deckhands run about urgently, mostly human but some of humanoid alien species, pausing to look at the blue box standing in one of the spaces.
A middle-aged man in uniform strides over, flanked by two human and two non-human guards.
Drummond: Admiral, this is...
The Doctor: Oh, hello. I'm the Doctor.
Cutter: I... see...
The Doctor: Admiral, what was it...
Cutter: Cutter.
The Doctor: Right, 'allo. The Torlan fired something, right, something you haven't seen before, and suddenly you're somewhere else, right?
Cutter: Right...
The Doctor: Right. Well. I have to find out what the Torlan did so I can undo it. Have you met the Torlan?
Cutter: We've been fighting them for eighty years.
The Doctor: But have you met them? Lovely people really, bit territorial but...
He trails off as something launches out of the Torlan asteroid base, towards Earth.
The Doctor: Gotta go, gotta find out what they just did!
He runs for the TARDIS, and the Admiral's guards point blasters at him.
Drummond: How about we take him in our ship?
Cutter: Don't let him out of your sight.
The Doctor: Admiral! (points to the TARDIS) Not a scratch!
He follows Drummond and Eckner.
--
Meanwhile, many miles below, Karen Owens looks up at a rumble from above, like thunder.
Karen: Aw no...
She looks over at her house, into her shopping bag to confirm she didn't bring an umbrella.
Then something like a thirty-foot bullet plummets out of the sky and slams into her house.
Karen: WHAT?!
--
The Doctor looks down over London, frowning.
Drummond: This city, it's so small...
The Doctor: And yet it's so much trouble. Take us down.
--
Karen: My house!
Alex: Karen!
A young policeman runs up to Karen as she looks at the thing protruding from the crater she used to live in.
Rajiv: PC Rajiv Sherma. Did you -
Karen: This was my house...
Alex: Oh, uh, I live across the road. Know her from college.
Rajiv: Maybe you could take her inside, get her a cup of tea. Look, the fire brigade's on the way. (quietly) And the bomb squad.
The Doctor: And Special Branch.
The Doctor strides up, with Drummond and Eckner following, looking around warily.
Rajiv: Special Branch?
The Doctor: Yep, that's me, (flashes his wallet) definitely Special Branch.
Rajiv: You don't look like Special Branch.
The Doctor: That's what makes me special. (grins)
Rajiv: And they're...?
The Doctor: Also here.
Rajiv: So do you know what this thing is?
The Doctor: Weeeeell, it's...
He trails off, runs over to it, and listens at the side.
The Doctor: ... drilling.
Karen: Drilling?
The Doctor: Yup, definitely drilling. Definitely drilling down. Deeper down. Down down doobie doo down down.
Karen: What for?
The Doctor: Well, I don't think there's oil in Ipswich. Hmm... It's...
He looks at his watch.
The Doctor: And when they left it was... so they would have been expecting the Earth to be there, so... they were aiming for the Marianas Trench and forgot to carry the hours as well as the centuries. (tuts) Rookie mistake.
Karen: Okay, again, why are they digging under the hole where my house was?
The Doctor: Based on how they're talking, my guess would be to plant a bomb.
Karen: WHAT?
The Doctor: Big enough to crack open the world.
The Doctor: Fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. Amazing. Pity there's so little in space these days...
He trails off as something hits the side of the TARDIS with a clang, throwing him off his feet.
--
Red and white laser blasts tear through space.
A battered Federation T-Wing fighter painted with red stripes roars through the stars, chasing a grey Torlan Scimitar fighter shaped like a pair of curved blades.
We pull in to the T-Wing cockpit, where a young pilot looks over at her gunner.
Drummond: They're getting away!
Eckner: Whatever they just fired scrambled our navigation. I don't even recognise the system!
The camera whips around to follow the ships, flying towards a massive battle between two fleets, human and alien. Human fighters surround a bar-shaped carrier, the others swarm around a repurposed asteroid bristling with technology.
And it pulls back to show the two sides are in the shadow of the Moon.
Eckner: Getting an anomalous blip on the scanners.
Drummond: Looks like... an escape capsule or something?
She squints at the blue box hanging in the middle of the battle, just as a Scimitar wing smacks into the side of it.
Eckner: Tough, whatever it is.
Drummond; Maybe it's local, we might be able to find out where we are.
She peels away, and we see the fighter silhouetted by the Earth behind it.
--
Inside, the Doctor gets up, and another jolt throws him about.
He reaches the doors and pulls them open.
The Doctor: Oy!
Drummond and Eckner share a look - and we go to the credits.
David Tennant as the Doctor
Nora-Jane Noone as Drummond
Chris Robson as Eckner
Sinead Moynihan as Karen
Phillip Rhys as Rajiv
Sam Riley as Alex
DOCTOR WHO
THE HAMMER OF TIME
by Russell T Davies and Craig Oxbrow
Nora-Jane Noone as Drummond
Chris Robson as Eckner
Sinead Moynihan as Karen
Phillip Rhys as Rajiv
Sam Riley as Alex
DOCTOR WHO
THE HAMMER OF TIME
by Russell T Davies and Craig Oxbrow
--
The Doctor stands in the TARDIS doorway, looking at Drummond and Eckner as their T-Wing screeches to a halt in front of him.
The Doctor: Yes! Hello!
Drummond: Ah... This is a restricted area. No civilian spacecraft. There's a war on, you know!
The Doctor: Yeah, so I noticed. And there really shouldn't be!
Eckner: Er, yes, we seem to have moved system, the Torlan fired some kind of weapon...
The Doctor: The Torlan? Really? So... where are you from?
Drummond: Fifth Fleet, Terran Federation.
The Doctor: So, that planet over there, does it look familiar at all?
Drummond: Eh?
She turns and looks at the Earth.
Drummond: Blue water, basic Class M...
Eckner: I suppose it looks a bit like Earth... but where are the flight stations?
The Doctor: That is Earth. In the year Two Thousand Nine.
Drummond: Say again?
The Doctor: What year are you from?
Drummond: Uh... Three Thousand Six Eighty-One, by that reckoning.
The Doctor: So you'd agree there's a problem?
Eckner: Um...
The Doctor: Tell you what... take me to your leader.
Drummond grimaces, twists her controls and starts flying towards the carrier. The Doctor gets back in and follows.
Drummond: We're going around the back. Shouldn't be so many Torlan shooting at us.
The Doctor: Blimey, that’s a big spaceship. Overlord class, isn’t it? Very nice... bit showy...
--
The fighter and the TARDIS land in a hangar bay. Pilots and deckhands run about urgently, mostly human but some of humanoid alien species, pausing to look at the blue box standing in one of the spaces.
A middle-aged man in uniform strides over, flanked by two human and two non-human guards.
Drummond: Admiral, this is...
The Doctor: Oh, hello. I'm the Doctor.
Cutter: I... see...
The Doctor: Admiral, what was it...
Cutter: Cutter.
The Doctor: Right, 'allo. The Torlan fired something, right, something you haven't seen before, and suddenly you're somewhere else, right?
Cutter: Right...
The Doctor: Right. Well. I have to find out what the Torlan did so I can undo it. Have you met the Torlan?
Cutter: We've been fighting them for eighty years.
The Doctor: But have you met them? Lovely people really, bit territorial but...
He trails off as something launches out of the Torlan asteroid base, towards Earth.
The Doctor: Gotta go, gotta find out what they just did!
He runs for the TARDIS, and the Admiral's guards point blasters at him.
Drummond: How about we take him in our ship?
Cutter: Don't let him out of your sight.
The Doctor: Admiral! (points to the TARDIS) Not a scratch!
He follows Drummond and Eckner.
--
Meanwhile, many miles below, Karen Owens looks up at a rumble from above, like thunder.
Karen: Aw no...
She looks over at her house, into her shopping bag to confirm she didn't bring an umbrella.
Then something like a thirty-foot bullet plummets out of the sky and slams into her house.
Karen: WHAT?!
--
The Doctor looks down over London, frowning.
Drummond: This city, it's so small...
The Doctor: And yet it's so much trouble. Take us down.
--
Karen: My house!
Alex: Karen!
A young policeman runs up to Karen as she looks at the thing protruding from the crater she used to live in.
Rajiv: PC Rajiv Sherma. Did you -
Karen: This was my house...
Alex: Oh, uh, I live across the road. Know her from college.
Rajiv: Maybe you could take her inside, get her a cup of tea. Look, the fire brigade's on the way. (quietly) And the bomb squad.
The Doctor: And Special Branch.
The Doctor strides up, with Drummond and Eckner following, looking around warily.
Rajiv: Special Branch?
The Doctor: Yep, that's me, (flashes his wallet) definitely Special Branch.
Rajiv: You don't look like Special Branch.
The Doctor: That's what makes me special. (grins)
Rajiv: And they're...?
The Doctor: Also here.
Rajiv: So do you know what this thing is?
The Doctor: Weeeeell, it's...
He trails off, runs over to it, and listens at the side.
The Doctor: ... drilling.
Karen: Drilling?
The Doctor: Yup, definitely drilling. Definitely drilling down. Deeper down. Down down doobie doo down down.
Karen: What for?
The Doctor: Well, I don't think there's oil in Ipswich. Hmm... It's...
He looks at his watch.
The Doctor: And when they left it was... so they would have been expecting the Earth to be there, so... they were aiming for the Marianas Trench and forgot to carry the hours as well as the centuries. (tuts) Rookie mistake.
Karen: Okay, again, why are they digging under the hole where my house was?
The Doctor: Based on how they're talking, my guess would be to plant a bomb.
Karen: WHAT?
The Doctor: Big enough to crack open the world.