Drama script - Doctor Who - The Lady and the Locket

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Doctor Who - The Lady and the Locket

Cast:

The Doctor – Joe Powell

Amy Pond – Alex Swallow

Rory Williams – Ed Pocock

Dana – Lydia Dominguez/Lucy Thomas

Bounty hunter – Ryan Kirk

Maxis – Matt Clark

General Talok – Joe Powell (voice)

Plot:

Team TARDIS arrive at a small village on Earth in response to a distress call, but there is a surprise in store for the Doctor and with a bounty hunter after the new arrival, the job of keeping her safe is going to be trickier that anticipated.

Script

The scene opens in space, and a damaged spacecraft hurtles towards Earth. On the TARDIS, the Doctor, Amy and Rory are talking.

Doctor: One of these days I’ll take you two to the sixth moon of B-zazz, it’s got upside down mountains that glow in the dark and every inhabitant is lactose intolerant but they’re okay about that.

Amy: What’s wrong with the other five?

Doctor: the first three are at war with each other, the fourth is lodged in the planet itself and the fifth is a massive black market with lots of guns. Not exactly pleasant so number six it is!

The Doctor stops suddenly and closes his eyes.

Amy: Doctor?

Rory: Are you okay?

Inside his head, the Doctor hears the voice of a distressed alien. He suddenly opens his eyes and starts flicking switches.

Doctor: Sorry kids, B-zazz will have to wait!

Amy: What’s happened?

Doctor: Psychic distress call, locking on to signal, crash trajectory puts it on a course for Earth! Hold on, the Doctor’s on the way!

Credits

The scene changes pace as Dana runs through the woods, pursued by a bounty hunter. The pursuit continues until the bounty hunter stops, raises his pistol, and fires. Dana cries out in pain and rolls limply down an embankment before coming to a rest at the bottom. He stands over her, victorious, but the sound of the TARDIS engines startle him and he retreats, leaving the wounded Dana. The Doctor, Amy and Rory approach the edge of the embankment and see the injured figure below.

Doctor: Oh.

He and Rory slide down the embankment and crouch near the limp Dana.

Rory: stand back, I’m a nurse!

Doctor: I’m the Doctor!

Rory checks the wound on the girl’s shoulder.

Rory: it’s not a projectile weapon, whatever did this. I need a bandage!

Doctor: That’s a plasma blast wound. (Scanning her with the sonic) she’s not alien. She’s 100% human, but the engine signature I detected was…

He notices a locket around Dana’s neck and examines it.

Doctor: no…

Rory: (panicking) Doctor, she’s going into shock!

Doctor: (whispering to Dana) hey, what’s your name?

Dana: (weakly) D…Dana…

Doctor: Dana, trust me when I say this – everything’s going to be fine. Rory, stand back!

He opens the locket. A strange orange light flies out and into Dana. The Doctor stands back and Rory hurries back to Amy.

Amy: Doctor, what’s going on?

Dana erupts in a glare of orange light. Slowly, her body changes into a new one and finally the light subsides. The Doctor approaches cautiously. Suddenly Dana sits up.

Dana: Woah, not bad for a first time!

She starts checking her new body – commenting on her new appearance (improv)

Amy: Okay…am I the only one creeped out a bit by this?

Rory: …nope.

Amy: Doctor, what just happened?

Doctor: she regenerated, that’s what! She’s a Time Lord, or rather, a Time Lady.

Rory: But you said she was human?

Doctor: When in danger, Time Lords can hide themselves and their DNA away in a device, say a fob watch or something, replacing their personality with that of a different person of their own creation. I should know; I’ve done it before.

Amy: Umm, where did she go?

The Doctor spins round to see Dana running away.

Doctor: Oh, good grief…

They pursue Dana, who runs straight into a tree, knocking herself out.

Rory: erm, okay?

Doctor: Rory, this is perfectly normal behaviour for a Time Lady after regeneration.

Amy: I’m not convinced.

Doctor: She’s confused, that’s all. Amy, take the locket and keep it safe, we can’t let anything happen to it.

A minute later, Dana regains consciousness.

Amy: Hello? Wakey wakey! Rise and shine, crazy time lady person.

Dana: I have a name…

She tries to get up.

Rory: whoa, not too fast, you knocked yourself out and you’ve got a nasty bump on your head.

Dana: Where am I? And who are you?

Doctor: I’m the Doctor, the redhead behind me is Amy and stupid face looking you over is Rory.

Rory: Please don’t call me that.

Amy: And you’re on Earth, by the way. We followed your ship down when it crashed.

Dana: My ship…where’s my ship?

Doctor: We’ll find it, don’t worry. Rory, Amy, stay here with her; find out what happened to her.

Rory: And you’re gonna do what, exactly?

Doctor: Find her ship, can’t be far and the sonic can easily lock on to the engine signature, assuming they’re still online.

Join now!

He wanders off, leaving the others behind. From a distance, a mysterious figure watches them, before retreating.

Dana: The Doctor, huh? Doesn’t seem like a doctor to me…

Amy: It’s just a name he uses, don’t worry about that, he’s…eccentric.

Rory: you feeling any better?

Dana: Yeah, thanks, bit of a headache though.

Amy: So, can you remember how you ended up here?

Dana: Not really, I remember my ship being shot and sending a distress signal…and the locket.

Amy: The locket, that’s what you hid away in, right?

Dana: yeah…(startled) ...

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