Note: follows on from: The End of the Doctor
Legacy of the Doctor: 1x01 Deep Breath Part 1
Scene 1
Ext. Victorian London
A female Tyrannosaurus Rex is walking in the Thames near Westminster. Police Officers are holding back the crowds.
Police Officer (Gregson): Madame Vastra, Thank goodness. I’d wager you haven’t seen anything like this before.
Madame Vastra: Takes off veil. Well, not since I was a little girl.
Jenny Flint: Big fellow, isn’t he?
Vastra: Dinosaurs were mostly this size. I do believe it is a she.
Jenny: No, they weren’t. I’ve seen fossils.
Vastra: I was there.
Gregson: Well, that is all well and good, but what’s this dinosaur fellow doing in the Thames?
SFX: Crowd Screems.
Vastra: It must have time travelled.
Jenny begins to scan the giant T-Rex with a scanning device in her glove.
Gregson: Time Travelled?
The T-Rex makes a sound as if it is choking
Jenny: Is it choking?
Vastra: I don’t know. Perhaps it was something it ate.
The T-Rex coughs up the TARDIS, which lands on the riverbank.
Gregson: Stand back, stand back, Stand back
He pushes his way to a better vantage point
Gregson: Well, it’s just laid an egg.
Vastra: Looks at him askance. It’s dropped a blue box marked Police out of its mouth. Your grasp of Biology, it troubles me.
Jenny: It’s the TARDIS.
Vastra: It would seem so.
Vastra: We’ll take care of this, Inspector.
Gregson: But what if that thing goes on the rampage?
Vastra hands him some devices
Vasta: Place these lanterns on the embankment and the bridges, encircling the creature at twenty foot intervals.
Gregson: What will they do?
Vastra: They will emit a signal that will incline it to remain within their circumference. She turns to her fellow investigators. Jenny, Strax, with me.
Scene 2:
Riverbank
Jenny: So, it’s him then, the Doctor?
Vastra: A giant dinosaur from the past has just vomited up a blue box from outer space. This is not a day for jumping to conclusions.
She turns to Strax.
Vastra: Strax, if you wouldn’t mind.
Strax knocks on the TARDIS doors.
Strax: Hello? Exit the box and surrender to the glory of the Sontarran Empire.
A young brunette woman in a hospital gown opens the door, letting out smoke.
Woman: Oi! Be Quiet!
She closes the door again.
Strax: Boy?
The door opens again.
Woman: I was being chased by a giant dinosaur, but I think I gave it the slip.
She closes the door, and opens it
Woman (Quietly): Sleepy?
Strax: Sir?
Woman: That’s not right. Who are you?
She exits the TARDIS.
Woman: Who are you?
Another woman who looks very similar to the first, but wearing a black fitted jacket and tartan mini-kilt, exits the TARDIS.
First Woman: This is, pauses Clara?
Clara Oswald: Hi. You know me, Clara.
The Dinosaur roars.
First Woman (Excitedly): Oh, you have a dinosaur too...
Clara: Susan! You need to calm down.
Susan: Oh, we’re back in London? How disappointing. Faints.
Jenny: I don’t understand. Who’s she? Where’s the Doctor.
Clara (teary): The Doctor perished, on Trenzalore. This is his granddaughter, Susan.
Vastra: Well, here we go again...
Scene 3
Int. Paternoster Row Bedroom
Clara: Susan, you need to lie down, since we arrived here you’ve been falling asleep.
Susan: Sleep! How can I, when there’s a dinosaur in Victorian London.
Vastra: You can’t help with it if you keep fainting.
Susan: But I’m awake again fairly quickly.
Vastra: I can fix that. Puts her hands on Susan’s temples
Susan: You want to link with me? I’d hit you like a harpsichord!
Vastra: Then be gentle.
Susan: Here it is, the harpischord. Falls asleep.
Vastra: There. She’ll get a good rest. Tuck her in, Jenny.
Jenny: Yes, Ma’am.
Vastra leaves the bedroom
Scene 4
Int. Vastra’s Chamber
Vastra is interrogating Clara, wearing her veil
Vastra: And then.
Clara: And then I managed to get the TARDIS to leave Trenzalore. You know how.
Vastra: Assume that I don’t.
Clara: Echoes from those other me’s! One of them was a Time Lady.
Vastra: I see.
Clara: Why are you wearing a veil?
Vastra: And then?
Clara: And then I met Susan. We got introduced and we re-entered the TARDIS. Which is when she did the same thing the Doctor could and changed.
Clara pauses.
Vastra: Go on.
Clara: She changed to look and sound like me! It’s more than a bit creepy. Then we were crashing and ran into the dinosaur.
Vastra: You miss the Doctor.
Clara (teary): Of course I do.
Vastra: How do you that he’s dead?
Clara: The timestream was there!
Vastra: The timestream was also there for you to jump into. Was he dead then?
Clara: No!
Vastra: Then how do you know that he’s dead?
Clara: Tasha said that we had arrived too late. The Daleks were also ‘making good’ on their conquest of Trenzalore.
Vastra (sadly): You certainly believe he is dead. Back to Susan. You asked her why she regenerated to look like you?
Clara: I asked her. She simply said that Time Ladies have the ability and that she choose to use it with me.
Vastra: And you don’t like that she did?
Clara: More than a bit creepy.
Vastra: Maybe she didn’t do it consciously?
Clara: What?
Vastra: It could have been a reflex.
Clara: That’s some reflex.
Vastra: Clarify
Clara: I don’t think it would be a reflex.
Vastra: Tell me again about how you met her.
Clara: Why?
Vastra: It may be important.
Clara: I had managed to leave Trenzalore and landed in a hospital room in the early 24th Century. Susan was a patient there. It seemed that she had been for some time.
Vastra: She must have been lonely. Who knows how long she would have been there before you arrived.
Clara: I have no idea.
Vastra: She regenerated to look like you for a reason. I guess it has to do with familiarity.
Clara: Familiarity?
Vastra: Giving a familiar face. What is more familiar than your own? Are you judging her based on her choice?
Clara: No!
Vastra: Think about it.
Clara takes a few moments to think.
Clara: She didn’t need to look like me to be accepted by me!
Vastra: True, but she choose to look like you regardless.
Clara: Are you saying I need to accept that she now looks like me?
Vastra: Are you putting words in my mouth?
Clara: Is that what you’re saying?
Vastra: Yes.
Clara: How dare, you how dare you!
Scene 5
Int. Bedroom
Susan is awake, writing on the floorboards.
SFX: Dinosaur roars.
Susan hears. She goes to the door.
Susan: Not this way. It’d be boring.
Susan goes to the window.
Susan: Across the rooftops of London. Is there any other way?
Susan exits through the window.
Scene 6
Int. Vastra’s Chamber
Clara: I’m not afraid because of Susan looking like me!
Jenny claps her hands.
Jenny: Whoo. Whoo. Notices Clara and Vastra looking at her. Sorry.
Vastra: Well, goodness me. The lake is ruffled at last. I often wondered what you’d be like when you lost your temper.
Jenny: Oi. Married.
Vastra: Susan needs us, you more than anyone. She’s lost in the ruin of herself, and we must bring her home.
Clara: When did you stop wearing your veil?
Vastra: When you stopped seeing it.
Scene 7
Ext. London Rooftops
Susan is making her way from Paternoster Row towards the river. Effortlessly leaping across the streets...
She’s close.
Susan: Rexxie? I may call you Rexxie, right? Sorry. It’s all my fault. My time machine got stuck in your throat. It happens. You were brought along by accident. I will get you home.
Suddenly the Dinosaur bursts into flames...
Susan: What! No!
Legacy of the Doctor: 1x01 Deep Breath Part 1
Scene 1
Ext. Victorian London
A female Tyrannosaurus Rex is walking in the Thames near Westminster. Police Officers are holding back the crowds.
Police Officer (Gregson): Madame Vastra, Thank goodness. I’d wager you haven’t seen anything like this before.
Madame Vastra: Takes off veil. Well, not since I was a little girl.
Jenny Flint: Big fellow, isn’t he?
Vastra: Dinosaurs were mostly this size. I do believe it is a she.
Jenny: No, they weren’t. I’ve seen fossils.
Vastra: I was there.
Gregson: Well, that is all well and good, but what’s this dinosaur fellow doing in the Thames?
SFX: Crowd Screems.
Vastra: It must have time travelled.
Jenny begins to scan the giant T-Rex with a scanning device in her glove.
Gregson: Time Travelled?
The T-Rex makes a sound as if it is choking
Jenny: Is it choking?
Vastra: I don’t know. Perhaps it was something it ate.
The T-Rex coughs up the TARDIS, which lands on the riverbank.
Gregson: Stand back, stand back, Stand back
He pushes his way to a better vantage point
Gregson: Well, it’s just laid an egg.
Vastra: Looks at him askance. It’s dropped a blue box marked Police out of its mouth. Your grasp of Biology, it troubles me.
Jenny: It’s the TARDIS.
Vastra: It would seem so.
Vastra: We’ll take care of this, Inspector.
Gregson: But what if that thing goes on the rampage?
Vastra hands him some devices
Vasta: Place these lanterns on the embankment and the bridges, encircling the creature at twenty foot intervals.
Gregson: What will they do?
Vastra: They will emit a signal that will incline it to remain within their circumference. She turns to her fellow investigators. Jenny, Strax, with me.
Scene 2:
Riverbank
Jenny: So, it’s him then, the Doctor?
Vastra: A giant dinosaur from the past has just vomited up a blue box from outer space. This is not a day for jumping to conclusions.
She turns to Strax.
Vastra: Strax, if you wouldn’t mind.
Strax knocks on the TARDIS doors.
Strax: Hello? Exit the box and surrender to the glory of the Sontarran Empire.
A young brunette woman in a hospital gown opens the door, letting out smoke.
Woman: Oi! Be Quiet!
She closes the door again.
Strax: Boy?
The door opens again.
Woman: I was being chased by a giant dinosaur, but I think I gave it the slip.
She closes the door, and opens it
Woman (Quietly): Sleepy?
Strax: Sir?
Woman: That’s not right. Who are you?
She exits the TARDIS.
Woman: Who are you?
Another woman who looks very similar to the first, but wearing a black fitted jacket and tartan mini-kilt, exits the TARDIS.
First Woman: This is, pauses Clara?
Clara Oswald: Hi. You know me, Clara.
The Dinosaur roars.
First Woman (Excitedly): Oh, you have a dinosaur too...
Clara: Susan! You need to calm down.
Susan: Oh, we’re back in London? How disappointing. Faints.
Jenny: I don’t understand. Who’s she? Where’s the Doctor.
Clara (teary): The Doctor perished, on Trenzalore. This is his granddaughter, Susan.
Vastra: Well, here we go again...
Scene 3
Int. Paternoster Row Bedroom
Clara: Susan, you need to lie down, since we arrived here you’ve been falling asleep.
Susan: Sleep! How can I, when there’s a dinosaur in Victorian London.
Vastra: You can’t help with it if you keep fainting.
Susan: But I’m awake again fairly quickly.
Vastra: I can fix that. Puts her hands on Susan’s temples
Susan: You want to link with me? I’d hit you like a harpsichord!
Vastra: Then be gentle.
Susan: Here it is, the harpischord. Falls asleep.
Vastra: There. She’ll get a good rest. Tuck her in, Jenny.
Jenny: Yes, Ma’am.
Vastra leaves the bedroom
Scene 4
Int. Vastra’s Chamber
Vastra is interrogating Clara, wearing her veil
Vastra: And then.
Clara: And then I managed to get the TARDIS to leave Trenzalore. You know how.
Vastra: Assume that I don’t.
Clara: Echoes from those other me’s! One of them was a Time Lady.
Vastra: I see.
Clara: Why are you wearing a veil?
Vastra: And then?
Clara: And then I met Susan. We got introduced and we re-entered the TARDIS. Which is when she did the same thing the Doctor could and changed.
Clara pauses.
Vastra: Go on.
Clara: She changed to look and sound like me! It’s more than a bit creepy. Then we were crashing and ran into the dinosaur.
Vastra: You miss the Doctor.
Clara (teary): Of course I do.
Vastra: How do you that he’s dead?
Clara: The timestream was there!
Vastra: The timestream was also there for you to jump into. Was he dead then?
Clara: No!
Vastra: Then how do you know that he’s dead?
Clara: Tasha said that we had arrived too late. The Daleks were also ‘making good’ on their conquest of Trenzalore.
Vastra (sadly): You certainly believe he is dead. Back to Susan. You asked her why she regenerated to look like you?
Clara: I asked her. She simply said that Time Ladies have the ability and that she choose to use it with me.
Vastra: And you don’t like that she did?
Clara: More than a bit creepy.
Vastra: Maybe she didn’t do it consciously?
Clara: What?
Vastra: It could have been a reflex.
Clara: That’s some reflex.
Vastra: Clarify
Clara: I don’t think it would be a reflex.
Vastra: Tell me again about how you met her.
Clara: Why?
Vastra: It may be important.
Clara: I had managed to leave Trenzalore and landed in a hospital room in the early 24th Century. Susan was a patient there. It seemed that she had been for some time.
Vastra: She must have been lonely. Who knows how long she would have been there before you arrived.
Clara: I have no idea.
Vastra: She regenerated to look like you for a reason. I guess it has to do with familiarity.
Clara: Familiarity?
Vastra: Giving a familiar face. What is more familiar than your own? Are you judging her based on her choice?
Clara: No!
Vastra: Think about it.
Clara takes a few moments to think.
Clara: She didn’t need to look like me to be accepted by me!
Vastra: True, but she choose to look like you regardless.
Clara: Are you saying I need to accept that she now looks like me?
Vastra: Are you putting words in my mouth?
Clara: Is that what you’re saying?
Vastra: Yes.
Clara: How dare, you how dare you!
Scene 5
Int. Bedroom
Susan is awake, writing on the floorboards.
SFX: Dinosaur roars.
Susan hears. She goes to the door.
Susan: Not this way. It’d be boring.
Susan goes to the window.
Susan: Across the rooftops of London. Is there any other way?
Susan exits through the window.
Scene 6
Int. Vastra’s Chamber
Clara: I’m not afraid because of Susan looking like me!
Jenny claps her hands.
Jenny: Whoo. Whoo. Notices Clara and Vastra looking at her. Sorry.
Vastra: Well, goodness me. The lake is ruffled at last. I often wondered what you’d be like when you lost your temper.
Jenny: Oi. Married.
Vastra: Susan needs us, you more than anyone. She’s lost in the ruin of herself, and we must bring her home.
Clara: When did you stop wearing your veil?
Vastra: When you stopped seeing it.
Scene 7
Ext. London Rooftops
Susan is making her way from Paternoster Row towards the river. Effortlessly leaping across the streets...
She’s close.
Susan: Rexxie? I may call you Rexxie, right? Sorry. It’s all my fault. My time machine got stuck in your throat. It happens. You were brought along by accident. I will get you home.
Suddenly the Dinosaur bursts into flames...
Susan: What! No!
