In the TARDIS, the Doctor and his companions are clinging furiously to the console as the TARDIS flies violently through the vortex. They are shaking to every possible side while the Doctor tries to regain some control. Sparks are flying, Donna and Martha are screaming while the Doctor has a look of deep concern.
DONNA: What the hell's it doing?
DOCTOR : Controls aren't working!
He tries again with a control and sparks fly. He falls to the floor and sees his hand in the jar bubbling wildly.
DOCTOR : I don't know where we're going but my old hand's very excited about it!
DONNA: I thought that was just some freaky alien thing! You telling me it's yours?
DOCTOR : Well...
MARTHA: It got cut off. He grew a new one!
DONNA: You are completely... impossible!
DOCTOR : Not impossible, just... a bit unlikely!
The TARDIS makes one last rebellious explosion, sparks fly. The Doctor and his companions fall backwards, the Doctor lands in the chair next to the console. The TARDIS has landed. The Doctor looks at his companions before suddenly running towards the door and outside. He exits the TARDIS and looks around curiously. They seem to be in some underground tunnel, littered with junk and old equipment. His companions soon follow.
DOCTOR : Why would the TARDIS bring us here?
MARTHA: Oh, I love this bit.
DONNA: Thought you wanted to go home.
MARTHA: I know, but all the same...
The Doctor is going about his business, seemingly oblivious to the conversation. He licks his hands and looks into the distance.
MARTHA: It's that feeling you get...
DONNA: Like you swallowed a hamster?
At that moment, the Doctor and his companions hear a loud noise. They look over to the source of the commotion. Soldiers are coming.
CLINE: Don't move, stay where you are! Drop your weapons.
The soldiers point their guns at the TARDIS crew who show they are unarmed.
DOCTOR : We're not armed! Look, no weapons. Never any weapons. We're safe.
SOLDIER : Look at their hands. They're clean.
CLINE: Alright, process them! Him first.
The two soldiers who accompanied Cline move towards the Doctor. They grab him and drag him towards a strange machine.
DOCTOR : Oi, oi! What's wrong with clean hands?!
MARTHA: What's going on?
DONNA: Leave him alone!
The Doctor's hand is forced into the machine and he makes yells of pain as it whizzes away doing it's job.
DOCTOR : Something tells me this isn't about to check my blood pressure. AAGGGH!
DONNA: What're you doing to him?
CLINE: Everyone gets processed.
DOCTOR : It's taken a tissue sample. Ow ow ow ow ow ow! And extrapolated it! Some kind of accelerator?
The machine lets the Doctor go, and he moves back, examining his hand. Donna and Martha run to him while he looks at a larger machine near the 'processor'.
MARTHA: Are you alright?
She examines his hand and notices a Y-shaped graze. The Doctor and Donna keep an eye on the other machine as it opens.
DOCTOR: What on earth? That's just...
A woman steps out from the machine, smoke billowing everywhere. The Doctor and his companions look on curiously as the woman looks around, also curious.
CLINE: Arm yourself!
He hands the woman the gun, and she naturally handles it.
MARTHA: Where did she come from?
DOCTOR : From me.
The woman is arming the gun as the Doctor, looking totally shocked himself, explains the situation to his companions.
DONNA: From you?! How? Who is she?
DOCTOR : Well... she's... well... she's my daughter!
The young woman looks on with a smile on her face.
JENNY: Hello dad!
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Jenny joins the soldiers while the Doctor and his companions stay in the background.
CLINE: You primed to take orders, ready to fight?
JENNY: Instant mental download of all strategic and military protocols, sir. Generation 5000 soldier primed and in peak physical health. Oh, I'm ready.
DONNA: Did you say, daughter?
DOCTOR : Mm. Technically.
MARTHA: Technically how?
DOCTOR : Progenation. Reproduction from a single organism. Means one parent is biological mother and father. You take a sample of diploid cells, split them into haploids, then recombine them in a different arrangement, and grow. Very quickly, apparently.
JENNY: Something's coming!
A Hath run down the tunnel shooting.
CLINE: It's the Haths!
The human soldiers shoot back.
JENNY: Get down!
CLINE: We have to blow the tunnel! Get the detonator!
DOCTOR : I'm not detonating anything!
A Hath grabs Martha and pulls her away, while Jenny kicks the other Hath and picks up the detonator.
CLINE: Blow that thing, blow the thing!
DOCTOR : Martha! No! Don't!
Jenny presses the button, and they all run to cover before the tunnel explodes. The Doctor goes back to see the tunnel sealed, so Martha is stuck on the other side, or possibly dead.
DOCTOR : You've sealed off the tunnel. Why did you do that?!
JENNY: They were trying to kill us!
DOCTOR: But they've got my friend!
JENNY: Collateral damage. At least you've still got her, he lost both his men, I'd say you came out ahead.
DONNA: Her name's Martha, and she's not collateral damage, not for anyone! Have you got that, GI Jane?!
DOCTOR : I'm gonna find her.
CLINE (pointing gun at them): You're going nowhere. You don't make sense, you two. No guns, no marks, no fight in you... I'm taking you to General Cobb. Now, move.
[SCENE_BREAK]
Martha wakes up in the debris of the explosion and spots an injured Hath.
MARTHA: Hold on, I've got you, is it your arm, yeah?
The Hath gurgles.
MARTHA: Is that a yes?
The Hath nods.
MARTHA: Let me examine it. Keep still. Still, yeah? No move!
The Hath nods.
MARTHA: Half fish, half human, how'm I supposed to know? Is that a shoulder? Feels like a shoulder! I think it's dislocated.
Several Haths march in and point guns at Martha.
MARTHA : I'm trying to help him! I am a doctor and he is my patient, and I'm not leaving him! Now, this is gonna hurt. One, two, three!
Martha snaps the shoulder back into place. The Hath cock their guns. The injured Hath explains them that she was helping him, and the guns are lowered.
MARTHA: Now, then. I'm Doctor Martha Jones. Who the hell are you?
[SCENE_BREAK]
Cline, Jenny, Donna and the Doctor walk through the tunnels.
DONNA: I'm Donna, what's you name?
JENNY: Don't know, it's not been assigned.
DONNA: Well, if you don't know that, what do you know?
JENNY: How to fight.
DONNA: Nothing else?
DOCTOR : The machine must embed military history and tactics but no name. She's a generated anomaly.
DONNA: Generated anomaly? Jenny-rated. Well what about that? Jenny!
JENNY: Jenny. Yeah, I like that, Jenny.
DONNA: What do you think, 'Dad'?
DOCTOR : Good as anything, I suppose.
DONNA: Not what you'd call a natural parent, are you?
DOCTOR : They stole a tissue sample at gunpoint and processed it, it's not what I call natural parentage.
DONNA: Rubbish! My friend Nerys fathered twins with a turkey baster, don't bother her.
DOCTOR : You can't extrapolate a relationship from a biological accident.
DONNA: Er, Child Support Agency can.
DOCTOR : Look, just cos I share certain physiological traits with simian primates doesn't make me a monkey's uncle, does it?
JENNY: I'm not a monkey! Or a child.
They reach the human encampment, a huge underground room.
DOCTOR : So, where are we? What planet's this?
CLINE: Messaline. Well, what's left of it.
TANNOY: ... 663 - 75 deceased. Generation 6671 - Extinct. Generation 6672 - 46 deceased. Generation 6680 - 14 deceased. Generation ...
DONNA: But, this is a theatre!
DOCTOR : Maybe they're doing Miss Saigon.
DONNA: It's like a town, or a city, underground. But why?
Cline just finished reporting to an older soldier who now walks to the Doctor and Donna.
DOCTOR : General Cobb, I presume?
GENERAL COBB : Found in the Western tunnels, I'm told, with no marks. There was an outbreak of pacifism in the Eastern Zone, three generations back, before we lost contact, is that where you came from?
DOCTOR : Eastern Zone, that's us, yeah. Yeah. I'm The Doctor, this is Donna.
JENNY: And I'm Jenny.
GENERAL COBB : Don't think you can infect us with your peacemaking. We're committed to the fight, to the very end.
DOCTOR : Well, that's all right, I can't stay anyway. I've gotta go and find my friend.
GENERAL COBB : That's not possible, all movement is regulated. We're at war.
DOCTOR : Yes, I noticed. With the Hath. But tell me, cos we got a bit out of circulation, Eastern Zone and all that, so, who exactly are the Haths?
[SCENE_BREAK]
The Haths lead Martha into their base, similar to the human encampment. They seem delighted to meet a friendly human and they all pet Martha.
[SCENE_BREAK]
GENERAL COBB : Back at the dawn of this planet, these ancient halls were carved from the earth. Our ancestors dreamt of a new beginning, a colony where human and Hath could work and live together.
DOCTOR : So what happened?
GENERAL COBB : The dream died. Broken, along with Hath promises. They wanted it all for themselves. But those early pioneers, they fought back. They used the machines to produce soldiers instead of colonists, and began this battle for survival.
DONNA: There's nothing but earth outside, why's that? Why build everything underground?
CLINE: The surface is too dangerous.
DONNA: Well, then why build windows in the first place? And what does this mean?
Donna points at a number stamped on the wall.
GENERAL COBB : The rites and symbols of our ancestors. The meanings... lost in time.
DOCTOR : How long's this war gone on for?
GENERAL COBB : Longer than anyone can remember. Countless generations marked only by the dead.
DONNA: What, fighting all this time?
JENNY: Because we must. Every child of the machine is born with this knowledge. It's our inheritance, it's all we know. How to fight. And how to die.
[SCENE_BREAK]
The Hath and Martha are looking at a holographic map.
MARTHA: Right... so we're here?
She points at the map.
[SCENE_BREAK]
At the human camp, the Doctor is looking at an identical map.
DOCTOR : Does this show the entire city, including the Haths zones?
GENERAL COBB : Yes. Why?
DOCTOR : Well it'll help us find Martha.
CLINE: We've more important things to do. The Progenation Machines are powered down for the night shift, but soon as they're active, we could breed a whole platoon from you two.
DONNA: I'm not having sons and daughters by some great big flippin' machine! (looking at Jenny) Sorry, no offence but you're not... well I mean you're not real.
JENNY: You're no better than him! I have a body, I have a mind, I have independent thought, how am I not real? What makes you better than me?
GENERAL COBB : Well said, soldier. We need more like you if ever we're to find the Source.
DOCTOR : Ooh, the Source, what's that then, what's a Source? I like a Source, what is it?
GENERAL COBB : The Breath of Life.
DOCTOR : And that would be...?
CLINE : In the beginning the great one breathed life into the universe. And then she looked at what she'd done, and she sighed.
JENNY: She? I like that.
DOCTOR : Right, so it's a creation myth.
GENERAL COBB : It's not myth. It's real. That sigh. From the beginning of time it was caught and kept as the Source. It was lost when the war started. But it's here, somewhere. Whoever holds the Source controls the destiny of the planet.
DOCTOR: Ah! I thought so! There's a suppressed layer of information in this map, if I can just...
He sonics the map and more tunnels appear on it.
DONNA: What is it, what's it mean?
DOCTOR : See? A whole complex of tunnels, hidden from sight.
[SCENE_BREAK]
The extra tunnels appear on the Hath map too.
MARTHA: Hold on, look!
[SCENE_BREAK]
GENERAL COBB : That must be the lost temple. The source will be inside. You've shown us the way! And look, we're closer than the Haths! It's ours!
[SCENE_BREAK]
MARTHA: That's a new map. There's a different set of tunnels!
[SCENE_BREAK]
GENERAL COBB : Tell them to prepare to move out. We'll progenate new soldiers on the morning shift, then we march. Once we reach the Temple, peace will be restored at long last.
DOCTOR : Um, call me old-fashioned, but if you really wanted peace couldn't you just stop fighting?
GENERAL COBB : Only when we have the Source. It'll give us the power to erase every stinking Hath from the face of this planet!
DOCTOR : Hang on, hang on, a second ago it was peace in our time, now you're talking about genocide!?
GENERAL COBB : For us, that means the same thing.
DOCTOR : Then you need to get yourself a better dictionary. When you do, look up genocide. You'll see a little picture of me there and the caption will read 'Over my dead body'!
GENERAL COBB : And you're the one who showed us the path to victory. But you can consider the irony from your prison cell. Cline, at arms!
Cline points his gun at the Doctor and Donna.
DONNA: Oi, oi oi! All right! Cool the beans Rambo!
GENERAL COBB : Take them, I won't have them spreading treason. And if you try anything, Doctor, I'll see that your woman dies first.
DOCTOR : No, we're, we're not a couple.
DONNA: I am not his woman!
CLINE: Come on. This way.
DOCTOR : I'm going to stop you, Cobb, you need to know that.
GENERAL COBB : I have an army and the breath of god on my side, Doctor, what'll you have?
DOCTOR : This.
The Doctor points to his head.
GENERAL COBB : Lock them up, and guard them.
CLINE: What about the new soldier?
Jenny steps forward but Cobb pushes him away, into the Doctor's arms.
GENERAL COBB : Can't trust her, she's from pacifist stock. Take them all!
[SCENE_BREAK]
The Haths wave their guns in the air, celebrating Martha.
MARTHA: But, I didn't do anything!
The Haths pat her on the back and continue to wave their guns in the air.
MARTHA: I think I just started a war.
[SCENE_BREAK]
The Doctor, Donna and Jenny enter their cell. Donna notices there are numbers there too.
DONNA: More numbers. They've gotta mean something.
DOCTOR : Makes as much sense as the breath of life story.
JENNY: You mean that's not true?
DONNA: No, it's a myth. Isn't it, Doctor?
DOCTOR : Yes, but there could still be something real in that temple, something that's become a myth. A piece of technology, a weapon.
DONNA: So the Source could be a weapon and we've just given directions to Captain Nutjob?
DOCTOR : Oh, yes.
DONNA: Not good, is it?
DOCTOR : That's why we need to get out of here, find Martha and stop Cobb from slaughtering the Haths.
He notices Jenny's inquisitive look.
DOCTOR : What, what are you, what are you... what are you staring at?
JENNY: You keep insisting you're not a soldier. But look at you! Drawing up strategies like a proper general.
DOCTOR : No no, I'm trying to stop the fighting.
JENNY: Isn't every soldier?
DOCTOR : Well. I suppose. But that's... that's... technically... I haven't got time for this! Donna, give me your phone! Time for an upgrade!
She handles him the phone and he sonics it.
JENNY: And now you've got a weapon!
DOCTOR : It's not a weapon.
JENNY: But you're using it to fight back! (she laughs). I'm gonna learn so much from you, you are such a soldier!
DOCTOR : Donna, will you tell her?
DONNA: Oh, you are speechless, I'm loving this! You keep on, Jenny!
MARTHA (on the phone): Doctor?
DOCTOR : Martha! You're alive!
MARTHA : Doctor! Oh, am I glad to hear your voice! Are you all right?
DOCTOR: I'm with Donna, we're fine, what about you?
DONNA: And Jenny, she's fine too!
DOCTOR : Yes all right, (louder, to Martha) and, and Jenny... That's the woman from the machine, the soldier, my daughter, except she isn't, she's, she's... Anyway! Where are you?
MARTHA: I'm in the Haths camp. I'm OK, but, something's going on. The Hath are all marching off to some place that's appeared on this map thing.
DOCTOR : Ohhh... That was me. If both armies are heading that way, there's going to be a bloodbath.
MARTHA : What do you want me to do?
DOCTOR : Just stay where you are, if you're safe there then don't move, d'you hear?
MARTHA : But I can help.
The phone beeps and the connection breaks.
MARTHA : Doctor? Doctor!
[SCENE_BREAK]
General Cobb makes a speech to his troops.
GENERAL COBB : The doors that have been closed will be open to us now. The door to the Temple, to the Source, and to victory!
The soldiers cheer.
GENERAL COBB : Come the dawn cycle we march.
Their cheers and chanting is heard in the prison cell.
DOCTOR : They're getting ready to move out. We have to get past that guard.
JENNY: I can deal with him.
DOCTOR : No, no, no, no. You're not going anywhere.
JENNY : What?
DOCTOR : You belong here, with them.
DONNA : She belongs with us. With you. She's your daughter!
DOCTOR : She's a soldier. She came out of that machine!
DONNA : Oh yes, I know that bit! Listen, have you got that stethoscope? Give it to me. Come on!
JENNY : What're you doing?
DONNA : It's all right. Just hold still.
Donna places the stethoscope to Jenny's chest, first on the left, then on the right. Then she looks at the Doctor.
DONNA : Come here. Listen. And then tell me where she belongs.
She handles him the stethoscope and makes him hear heartbeats on both sides. He steps back and stares at Jenny.
DOCTOR : Two hearts.
DONNA : Exactly.
JENNY : What's going on?
DONNA : Does that mean she's a...? What do you call a female Time Lord?
JENNY : What's a Time Lord?
DOCTOR : It's who I am. It's where I'm from.
JENNY : And I'm from you.
DOCTOR : You're an echo, that's all. A Time Lord is so much more. A sum of knowledge. A code. A shared history. A shared suffering. (pause) Only it's gone now. All of it. Gone forever.
JENNY : What happened?
DOCTOR : There was a war.
JENNY : Like this one?
He laughs at the absurdity of the comparison.
DOCTOR: Bigger. Much bigger.
JENNY : And you fought? And killed?
DOCTOR (darkly): Yes.
JENNY : Then how are we different?
[SCENE_BREAK]
Martha is talking to the only Hath who stayed in the encampment with her.
MARTHA : I need to charge it up, I need power, d'you understand?
The Hath is fiddling with the controls of the map, changing it into 3D.
MARTHA : There's even more! In 3D! Oh, you're a clever Hath! So this is where everybody's headed? But look... those tunnels sort of zig-zag. If I went up and over the surface in a straight line, I'd get there first.
The Hath gurgles, protesting.
MARTHA : Why not?
He brings up a diagram.
MARTHA : Are these readings to the surface? Well it doesn't look too bad. Nitrogen and oxygen about 80:20, that's fine. Ozone levels are high. And some big radiation spikes. But as long as I'm not out there too long...
The Hath seems to ask a question.
MARTHA : I have to find my friends.
She runs off but turns back to the gurgling of the Hath, he seems to ask if he can come too.
MARTHA: Come on, then!
[SCENE_BREAK]
Jenny goes to the cell door to talk with Cline.
JENNY : Hey.
CLINE : I'm not supposed to talk to you, I'm on duty.
JENNY : I know. Guarding me. (flirting) So does that mean I'm dangerous? Or that I need protecting?
CLINE : Protecting from what?
JENNY : Oh, I don't know. Men like you?
She pulls him closer for a kiss, then grabs his gun and points it at him.
JENNY : Keep quiet and open the door.
During this, the Doctor and Donna were waiting out of sight.
DONNA: I'd like to see you try that!
[SCENE_BREAK]
They walk downstairs, but stop when they notice another guard.
DOCTOR : That's the way out.
Jenny cocks the gun but the Doctor stops him.
DOCTOR : Don't you dare!
Donna steps between the two.
DONNA : Let me distract this one. I have picked up a few womanly wiles over the years.
DOCTOR : Let's... save your wiles for later. In case of emergency.
He uses a wind-up mouse to distract the guard, then Jenny steps behind the guard and knocks him out.
DOCTOR : I was gonna distract him, not clobber him!
JENNY : Well, it worked, didn't it?
DOCTOR : They must all have a copy of that new map. Just stay there, don't hurt anyone.
[SCENE_BREAK]
The Hath are marching down a corridor, then they stop at a point and start to break through the wall.
[SCENE_BREAK]
Martha and his new friend are heading upstairs, but the Hath starts to protest.
MARTHA : You can stay down here and live your whole life in the shadows, or come with me and stand in the open air. Feel the wind on your face. What's it gonna be? (he seems undecided). It's up to you. But nothing's gonna stop me.
She climbs out to the surface, the Hath following her. They are on a cold, windy, deserted planet lit by three moons.
MARTHA : I knew you couldn't resist it.
The Hath gurgles.
MARTHA : Er, language! Come on.
[SCENE_BREAK]
The soldiers find Cline inside the cell, tied up.
CLINE : It was the girl. She tricked me, they... they got away. I'm sorry.
GENERAL COBB : I waited all my life for this moment. No-one's gonna get in my way. Certainly not this Doctor. At arms! We march! To war!
[SCENE_BREAK]
The Doctor is looking at the map they've taken from the guard.
DOCTOR : Wait! This is it. The hidden tunnel. There must be a control panel.
He sonics the walls beside the locked door, while Donna notices another number.
DONNA : It's another one of those numbers. They're everywhere.
DOCTOR: The original builders must've left them. Some old cataloguing system.
DONNA: You got a pen? Bit of paper? Cos, d'you see, the numbers are counting down. (the Doctor gives her pen and paper and she takes notes). This one ends in 1-4, the prison cell said 1-6.
JENNY : Always thinking, both of you. Who are you people?
DOCTOR: I told you. I'm the Doctor.
JENNY : The Doctor? That's it?
DONNA : That's all he ever says.
JENNY : So, you don't have a name either? Are you an anomaly too?
DOCTOR : No.
DONNA : Oh, come off it! You're the most anomalous bloke I've ever met!
The Doctor takes off the cover of the control panel.
DOCTOR : Here it is!
JENNY : And Time Lords, what are they for exactly?
DOCTOR : 'For'? They're not... They're not 'for' anything.
JENNY : So what do you do?
DOCTOR : I travel. Through time and space.
DONNA : He saves planets, rescues civilizations, defeats terrible creatures. And runs a lot. Seriously, there's an outrageous amount of running involved.
The door slides open.
DOCTOR : Got it!
GENERAL COBB (voice from the distance): Squad 5, with me!
DOCTOR : Now, what were you saying about running?
They run, but soon are stopped by red beams crossing the tunnel, blocking their way.
DONNA : That's not mood lighting, is it?
The Doctor throws the clockwork mouse into the lights. It bursts into sparkles when it touches the first beam.
DONNA : No, I didn't think so.
DOCTOR : Arming device.
He starts to fiddle with the controls while Donna notices yet another set of numbers.
DONNA : There's more of these. Always eight numbers, counting down, the closer we get...
DOCTOR : Here we go!
DONNA : You better be quick!
JENNY (hearing the voice of the soldiers): The General!
She turns to run back but the Doctor catches her.
DOCTOR : Where are you going?
JENNY : I can hold them up.
DOCTOR : No, we don't need any more dead.
JENNY : But it's them or us.
DOCTOR: It doesn't mean you have to kill them!
JENNY: I'm trying to save your life!
DOCTOR: Listen to me, the killing, after a while it infects you. And once it does you're never rid of it.
JENNY : We don't have a choice.
DOCTOR : We always have a choice.
JENNY: I'm sorry.
She runs off.
DOCTOR: Jenny!
SOLDIERS: This door! Now!
The first soldier catches sight of Jenny.
SOLDIER: There she is! At arms!
Jenny opens fire and the soldiers do the same. Hearing the shots, Donna looks very worried but the Doctor tries not to care.
DOCTOR : I told you. Nothing but a soldier.
DONNA: She's trying to help.
DOCTOR : Jenny! Come on!
JENNY: I'm coming!
GENERAL COBB : Cease fire! Cease fire!
The soldiers stop. At the same time, the Doctor manages to turn off the red beams.
DONNA: That's it!
DOCTOR: Jenny! Leave it! Let's go!
He and Donna run through the now safe corridor hand in hand. General Cobb walks forward, trying to persuade Jenny.
GENERAL COBB : You're a child of the machine. You're on my side. Join us! Join us in the war against the Hath. It's in your blood, girl, don't deny it.
Jenny takes aim, but then she fires at a pipeline over Cobb's head, and a cloud of steam blocks the soldiers view. She laughs then runs to where she's left the Doctor and Donna.
DOCTOR: Jenny! Come on! That's it!
DONNA: Hurry up!
But just when she reaches the corridor the red beams appear again.
DOCTOR: No, no, no, no! The circuit's looped back!
DONNA: Zap it back again!
DOCTOR: The controls are back there!
JENNY: They're coming!
DOCTOR: Wait! J-Just...! There isn't...! Jenny, I can't!
JENNY: I'll have to manage on my own. Watch and learn, Father!
She gets through the blocked corridor with a series of somersaults.
DONNA: No way! But that was impossible!
DOCTOR: Not impossible. Just a bit unlikely!
He hugs Jenny with a proud smile.
DOCTOR: Brilliant! You were brilliant! Brilliant!
JENNY: I didn't kill him. General Cobb, I could have kill him, but I didn't. You were right. I had a choice.
The soldiers arrive to the other end of the corridor. Donna and Jenny go ahead but the Doctor stays to talk to Cobb.
GENERAL COBB : At arms!
DOCTOR: I warned you, Cobb. If the Source is a weapon, I'm gonna make sure you never use it.
GENERAL COBB : One of us is gonna die today and it won't be me.
He opens fire and the Doctor runs off too.
[SCENE_BREAK]
Martha and the Hath are struggling forward on the surface.
MARTHA: It can't be much further. (She trips and slips downhills, into a bog. She tries to get out but she can't). Help me! I'm sinking! I'm sinking! Help me! Peck! Help me! Help me, Peck! I'm sinking! (the Hath can't reach her) Oh it's no good. Aaah!
The Hath can't help her, so at the end he jumps into the bog too and pushes her out to the shore. But then he himself can't get out and Martha watches him sink slowly.
MARTHA: Oh noooo! Noooo!
She cries as she watches the motionless surface.
[SCENE_BREAK]
JENNY: So, you travel together, but you're not... 'together'?
DONNA: What? No, no! No way! No, no. We're friends. That's all. I mean, we're not even the same species, there's probably laws against it.
Jenny laughs.
JENNY: And what's it like, the travelling?
DONNA : Ah, never a dull moment. Can be terrifying, brilliant and funny, sometimes all at the same time. I've seen some amazing things though. Whole new worlds.
JENNY: Oh, I'd love to see new worlds.
DONNA: You will. Won't she, Doctor?
DOCTOR: Hm?
DONNA: D'you think Jenny will see any new worlds?
DOCTOR (with a little smile) : I suppose so.
JENNY: You mean... You mean, you'll take me with you?
DOCTOR: We can't leave you here, can we?
JENNY (hugging him): Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you! Come on! Let's get a move on!
She runs ahead.
DOCTOR: Careful, there might be traps!
DONNA: Kids! They never listen! (But she notices that the Doctor still looks troubled). Oh, I know that look. See it a lot round our way. Blokes with pushchairs and frowns. You've got dad-shock.
DOCTOR: Dad-shock?
DONNA: Sudden, unexpected fatherhood. Take a bit of getting used to.
DOCTOR: No, it's not that.
DONNA: Well, what is it then? Having Jenny in the TARDIS is that it? What's she gonna do, cramp your style? Like you've got a sports car and she's gonna turn it into a people-carrier?
DOCTOR: Donna, I've been a father before.
DONNA : What?
DOCTOR: I lost all that a long time ago. Along with everything else.
DONNA: I'm sorry. I didn't know. Why didn't you tell me? You talk all the time, but you don't say anything.
DOCTOR: I know. I'm just... When I look at her now I can see them. The hole they left, all the pain that filled it. I just don't know if I can face that every day.
DONNA: It won't stay like that. She'll help you. We both will.
DOCTOR: But when they died, that part of me died with them. It'll never come back. Not now.
DONNA: I tell you something, Doctor, something I've never told you before. I think you're wrong.
They hear shooting and Jenny returns to them.
JENNY: They've blasted through the beams, time to run again. Love the running! Yeah?
DOCTOR: Love the running.
They smile at each other before they run again.
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Martha struggles forward on the surface, still wiping tears. But now, she is nearly at the "Temple".
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The Doctor, Donna and Jenny reach a dead end.
DONNA: We're trapped.
DOCTOR: Can't be. This must be the temple. (he touches a panel of the wall) This is a door.
DONNA: And again! We're down to 1-2 now...
DOCTOR: I've got it!
JENNY: I can hear them!
DOCTOR: Nearly done.
DONNA (still talking about the numbers): These can't be a cataloguing system.
JENNY: They're getting closer!
DOCTOR: Then get back here!
DONNA: They're too similar. Too familiar.
JENNY: Not yet.
DOCTOR: Now! Got it!
The door opens.
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Martha reaches a very similar door on the surface and enters.
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The Doctor, Donna and Jenny get inside the "Temple".
JENNY: They're coming! Close the door!
The Doctor pushes some keys and the door slides closed.
JENNY: Oh, that was close!
DOCTOR: No fun otherwise!
DONNA: It's not what I'd call a temple...
JENNY: It looks more like...
DOCTOR: Fusion-drive transport. It's a spaceship!
DONNA: What, the original one? The one the first colonists arrived in?
DOCTOR : Well, it could be, but the power cells would have run down after all that time. This one's still powered-up and functioning. Come on!
As they run, they see that someone is cutting through another door.
JENNY: It's the Haths! That door's not gonna last much longer. And if General Cobb gets through down there, war's gonna break out.
DOCTOR: Look, look, look, look, look! Ship's log!
He gets to the controls.
DOCTOR: "First wave of Human/Hath co-colonisation of planet Messaline".
JENNY: So it is the original ship.
DONNA: What happened?
DOCTOR: "Phase one. Construction." They used robot drones to build the city.
DONNA: But, does it mention the war?
The Doctor scrolls down.
DOCTOR: Final entry... "Mission commander dead. Still no agreement on who should assume leadership. Hath and humans have divided into factions." That must be it! A power vacuum. The crew divided into two factions and turned on each other. Start using the progenation machines and suddenly you've got two armies fighting a never-ending war!
JENNY: Two armies who are now both outside.
DONNA: Look at that.
She looks at a screen displaying a set of numbers similar to those on the walls.
DOCTOR: It's like the numbers in the tunnels.
DONNA: No, no, no, no, but listen... I spent six months working as a temp in Hounslow Library, and I mastered the Dewey Decimal System in two days flat. I'm good with numbers! It's staring us in the face!
JENNY: What is?
DONNA: It's the date! Assuming the first two numbers are some big old space date, then you've got year, month, day. It's the other way round, like it is in America!
DOCTOR: Ohhh! It's the New Byzantine Calendar!
DONNA: The codes are completion dates for each section. They finish it, they stamp the date on! So the numbers aren't counting down, they're going out, from here, day by day, as the city got built.
DOCTOR: Yes! Oh, good work, Donna!
DONNA: Yeah! But you're, you're still not getting it. The first number I saw back there, was 6012-07-17. Well, look at the date today!
DOCTOR: 07-24. No!
JENNY: What does it mean?
DOCTOR : Seven days.
DONNA: That's it! Seven days!
DOCTOR: Just seven days?!
JENNY: What d'you mean, seven days?
DOCTOR: Seven days since war broke out.
DONNA: This war started seven days ago! Just a week! A week!
JENNY: They said years!
DONNA: No. They said generations. And if they're all like you, and they're products of those machines...
DOCTOR: They could have 20 generations in a day! Each generation gets killed in the war, passes on the legend! Ohhh! Donna, you're a genius!
JENNY: But all the buildings, the encampments, they're in ruins.
DOCTOR: No they're not ruined, they're just empty! Waiting to be populated! Oh, they've mythologised their entire history! The Source must be part of that too. Come on!
They run again. They turn around a corner and bump into Martha.
MARTHA: Doctor!
DOCTOR: Martha!
They hug each other.
DOCTOR: I should've known you wouldn't stay away from the excitement!
MARTHA: Donna!
She runs to Donna and they hug too.
DONNA: Oooh, you're filthy, what happened?!
MARTHA: I, erm, took the surface route.
They hear the voice of soldiers.
DOCTOR: That's the general! We haven't got much time.
DONNA: We don't even know what we're looking for!
MARTHA: Is it me, or can you smell flowers?
DOCTOR: Yes! Bougainvillea! I say we follow our nose!
GENERAL COBB (voice from a distance) : Blocks 7 to 10, advance! With me!
The Doctor, Donna, Jenny and Martha reach a place that looks like a huge greenhouse inside the spaceship filled with palms and other exotic plants.
DOCTOR: Oh, yes! Yes! Isn't this brilliant?
In the middle there's a small place around a pedestal that holds a glass sphere, containing shining gas.
DONNA: Is that the Source?
JENNY: It's beautiful.
MARTHA: What is it?
DOCTOR: Terraforming! It's a third generation terraforming device!
DONNA: So why are we suddenly in Kew Gardens?
DOCTOR: Because that's what it does. All this, only bigger. Much bigger! It's in a transit state. Producing all this must help keep it stable before they finally...
The Haths and the humans soldiers appear from the opposite sides, cocking their guns as soon as they catch sight of each other.
DOCTOR: Stop! Hold your fire!
GENERAL COBB : What is this? Some kind of trap?
DOCTOR: You said you wanted this war over.
GENERAL COBB : I want this war won.
DOCTOR: You can't win. No one can. You don't even know why you're here. Your whole history, it's just Chinese whispers. Getting more distorted the more it's passed on. (pointing to the sphere) This is the Source. This is what you're fighting over. A device to rejuvenate a planet's ecosystem. It's nothing mystical. It's from a laboratory, not some creator. It's a bubble of gases. A cocktail of stuff for accelerated evolution. Methane, hydrogen, ammonia, amino acids, proteins, nucleic acids. It's used to make barren planets habitable. Look around you! It's not for killing, it's bringing life. If you allow it, it can lift you out of these dark tunnels and into the bright, bright sunlight! No more fighting. No more killing.
He lifts up the sphere.
DOCTOR: I'm the Doctor, and I declare this war is over!
He throws it to the ground. The glass ball shatters and the gases escape, shining in gold and green as they spread out in the air. Amazed by the sight, human and Hath both put the guns to the ground.
JENNY: What's happening?
DOCTOR: The gases will escape and trigger the terraforming process.
JENNY: What does that mean?
DOCTOR: It means a new world.
Jenny laughs with delight, but then she looks at General Cobb, the only one who isn't enchanted by what's happened. He lifts his gun to shoot the Doctor, but Jenny steps in front of him.
JENNY: No!
The bullet hits her and Jenny collapses into the Doctor's arms, while the soldiers hold down Cobb and take away his gun.
DOCTOR: Jenny? Jenny! Talk to me, Jenny!
He sits down and takes Jenny into his lap. Martha checks her pulse and the wound.
DONNA: Is she gonna be all right?
Martha looks at Donna and shakes her head without a word.
JENNY (whispering) : A new world. It's beautiful.
DOCTOR: Jenny? Be strong, now. You need to hold on. D'you hear me? We've got things to do, you and me. Hey? Hey? We can go anywhere. Everywhere. You choose.
JENNY: That sounds good.
DOCTOR: You're my daughter and we've only just got started. You're gonna be great. You're gonna be more than great. You're gonna be amazing! You hear me? Jenny?
She closes her eyes and dies. The Doctor kisses her forehead in despair, then he finds one last straw to clutch.
DOCTOR: Two hearts. Two hearts, she's like me. If we wait... If we just wait...
He looks at Martha for support.
MARTHA: There's no sign, Doctor. There is no regeneration. She's like you, but... maybe not enough.
DOCTOR: No. Too much. That's the truth of it. She was too much like me.
He gently puts Jenny to the ground and kisses her one last time. Then he gets up, walks to General Cobb and picks up his gun. He stands there, panting from anger and despair, pointing the gun at Cobb's head. Martha and Donna are shocked to see what he's doing. But then he lowers the gun and crouches down to Cobb.
DOCTOR: I never would. Have you got that? I never would! (He stands up again and addresses both fighting parties). When you start this new world. This world of Humans and Haths... remember that! Make the foundation of this society. A man who never would!
He throws away the gun and sits back to Jenny's body.
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Jenny is laid out in the theatre room that used to be the human encampment. The Doctor, Donna, Martha, Cline and a Hath are around her. Suddenly, beams of light come through the windows.
MARTHA: It's happening. The terraforming.
DONNA: Build a city, nice and safe underground. Strip away the top soil. And there it is. (pause) And what about Jenny?
CLINE: Let us give her a proper ceremony. I think it'd help us. Please.
The Doctor, lost in dark thoughts, nods his approval.
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The Doctor, Donna and Martha are back in the TARDIS.
DOCTOR: Jenny was the reason for the TARDIS bringing us here. It just got here too soon, which then created Jenny in the first place. Paradox. An endless paradox.
Donna and Martha watch him with sympathy.
DOCTOR: Time to go home?
MARTHA: Yeah. Home.
He starts to pull controls, but without his usual enthusiasm.
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Donna and Martha walk down the road of Martha's house.
DONNA: You sure about this?
MARTHA: Yeah, positive. I can't do this any more. You'll be the same one day.
DONNA: Not me. Never! How could I ever go back to normal life after seeing all this? (She looks back to the Doctor who is a few step behind them). I'm gonna travel with that man for ever.
They hug each other.
MARTHA: Good luck.
DONNA: And you.
Donna stops while Martha and the Doctor walk a few steps ahead.
DOCTOR: We're making a habit of this.
MARTHA: Yeah. And you'd think it'd get easier. (she looks at the Doctor) All those things you've been ready to die for. I thought for a moment there you'd finally found something worth living for.
DOCTOR: Oh... there's always something worth living for, Martha.
They hug.
MARTHA: Bye, Doctor.
DOCTOR: Goodbye. Doctor Jones.
He turns back and walks to the TARDIS with Donna. For a second, Martha seems almost regretting her decision, then she looks at her engagement ring, smiles and rushes into the house.
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Cline and the Hath are preparing Jenny for the ceremony. They put a pillow under her head and a sheet over her body. But suddenly her mouth opens and light comes out, resembling the terraforming substance. Cline and the Hath look at each other bemused. Then they get completely shocked when Jenny opens her eyes and smiles at them.
JENNY: Hello, boys.
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Cline and the Hath are looking for Jenny.
CLINE: The shuttle!
He goes to a panel on the wall.
CLINE (over intercom) : Jenny? What're you doing? Come back!
Jenny is pushing controls to start the engines of the shuttle.
JENNY: Sorry. Can't stop. What you gonna do, tell my dad?
CLINE: But where are you going?!
JENNY: Oh, I've got the whole universe! Planets to save, civilizations to rescue, creatures to defeat... and an awful lot of running to do!
She shoots off to the sky with a huge smile on her face.
Plan: A: The TARDIS; Q: What takes the Doctor, Martha, and Donna to the planet Messaline? A: Martha; Q: Who is taken hostage by the Hath? A: Donna; Q: Who names the Doctor's daughter Jenny? A: the planet; Q: What does Jenny commandeer a rocket to leave? A: Cobb; Q: Who is the General on Messaline? A: a progenation machine; Q: What do the soldiers force the Doctor into? A: his DNA; Q: What does the progenation machine use to create the Doctor's daughter? A: The Doctor; Q: Who declares the war to be over and releases the terraforming agent? A: the Doctor's daughter "Jenny; Q: What does Donna name the soldier that the Doctor created? A: their command center; Q: Where do the Hath take Martha after she tends to an injured Hath? A: The General; Q: Who explains that they were meant to live with the Hath? A: battle; Q: What do the humans and the Hath prepare for when the Doctor accidentally reveals the location of the Source? A: a terraforming device; Q: What is the Source? A: both armies; Q: Who arrives at the Source after the Doctor and Donna arrive? A: the bullet; Q: What does Jenny take to the chest? Summary: The TARDIS takes the Doctor, Martha, and Donna to the planet Messaline. They are met by soldiers working for General Cobb. The soldiers force the Doctor into a progenation machine, which uses his DNA to generate a soldier who becomes the Doctor's daughter. The other occupants of the planet, the Hath , attack, taking Martha hostage. The Doctor and Donna are taken to see Cobb, and Donna names the Doctor's daughter "Jenny". Elsewhere, Martha tends to an injured Hath, and they take her back to their command center. The General explains that they were meant to live with the Hath, but a dispute arose over "the Source". The Doctor inadvertently reveals its location to the humans and the Hath, and the two sides prepare for battle. The Source turns out to be a terraforming device. The Doctor, Martha, Donna, and Jenny make their way to the Source before both armies arrive. The Doctor declares the war to be over and releases the terraforming agent. Cobb tries to shoot the Doctor, but Jenny takes the bullet to the chest and dies. Later, Jenny revives and commandeers a rocket to leave the planet.