[ GADGETS CLICK ]
The Doctor: (quietly) Listen!
[SCENE_BREAK]
[TARDIS]
The Doctor: Question. Why do we talk out loud when we know we're alone? Conjecture. Because we know we're not.
Evolution perfects survival skills. There are perfect hunters.
[ ROARING ]
The Doctor: There is perfect defence.
Question. Why is there no such thing as perfect hiding? Answer. How would you know? Logically, if evolution were to perfect a creature whose primary skill were to hide from view, how could you know it existed? It could be with us every second and we would never know. How would you detect it, even sense it, except in those moments when, for no clear reason you choose to speak aloud? What would such a creature want? What would it do? Well? What would you do?
[ HE LAUGHS CHALK ROLLS SHE SIGHS CHATTER AND LAUGHTER SHE SIGHS ]
[Restaurant]
Danny: Hey.
Clara: Hey. Sorry. So the famous drink at last.
Danny: Yeah. Took a bit of time, family stuff, but here we are.
Clara: Dinner, in fact.
Danny: Yeah, straight to dinner.
Clara: I like a man who moves fast.
Danny: Yeah? I might go straight for extras. Afters. Dessert.
Clara: Yes, I know, I know, dessert.
Danny: Straight to dessert.
Clara: Gotcha.
Danny: So, er, how was your day?
Clara: Good. You know. Teaching.
Danny: Yep, teaching.
Clara: Teaching, teaching.
Danny: Totally teaching.
Clara: We probably shouldn't talk about work.
Danny: God, yeah.
[ THEY LAUGH ]
Clara: Though, do you take Courtney for anything?
[ HE LAUGHS ]
Danny: Are you serious?
Clara: She said she couldn't concentrate on her work, because my face was too wide.
Danny: Wide?
Clara: I could kill that girl some days.
Danny: Me too.
Clara: And from you, that means something.
Danny: Sorry? I dug twenty three wells.
Clara: I'm sorry?
Danny: Twenty three wells. When I was a soldier. Twenty three.
Clara: Okay. Good. Good wells.
Danny: Yeah, they were good, actually.
Clara: I'm not doubting the quality of your wells.
Danny: Whole villages saved. Actual towns full of people. People I didn't shoot. People I kept safe.
Clara: Okay. Point taken. Seriously.
Danny: So why doesn't that ever get mentioned?
Clara: I'm sorry I didn't mention your twenty three wells.
Waiter: Excuse me?
Clara: Sorry.
Waiter: Er, water for the table?
Clara: Don't you worry. He'll probably dig for it.
[ HE LAUGHS ]
Danny: Sorry.
Clara: It's okay.
Danny: Sensitive subject.
Clara: Yes. Can slightly see that.
Danny: Sometimes people like you get the wrong end of the stick.
Clara: People like me?
Danny: I wasn't making assumptions about you.
Clara: That really is exactly what you were doing.
Danny: You were making assumptions about me.
Clara: I made a joke.
Danny: A not-funny joke.
Clara: Yeah, well, do you know what I'm making now?
Danny: A fuss?
Clara: An exit.
[ SHE SIGHS ]
[SCENE_BREAK]
[Clara's Room]
The Doctor: You just have to squeeze through.
Clara: Doctor?
The Doctor: Why do you have three mirrors? Why don't you just turn your head?
Clara: What are you doing in here?
The Doctor: You said you had a date. I thought I'd better hide in the bedroom in case you brought him home. Bit early, aren't you? Did it all go wrong, or is this good by your standards?
Clara: It was a disaster and I am extremely upset about it, since you didn't ask.
The Doctor: Fine. I need you, for a thing.
Clara: I can't.
The Doctor: Oh, of course you can. Come on, you're free. More than usually free, in fact.
Clara: No, it's just possible that I might get a phone call.
The Doctor: From the date guy? It's too late. You've taken your make-up off.
Clara: No, I haven't. I'm still wearing my make-up.
The Doctor: Oh, right. Well, you probably just missed a bit. Come on, come on, come on, come on.
[SCENE_BREAK]
[TARDIS]
Clara: I haven't actually said yes.
The Doctor: Yes, you know sometimes when you talk to yourself, what if you're not?
Clara: Not what?
The Doctor: What if it's not you you're talking to? Proposition. What if no one is ever really alone? What if every single living being has a companion, a silent passenger, a shadow? What if the prickle on the back of your neck, is the breath of something close behind you?
Clara: How long have you been travelling alone?
The Doctor: Perhaps I never have.
Clara: It looks like your handwriting.
The Doctor: Well, I couldn't have written it and forgotten, could I?
Clara: Have you met you? What's all this?
The Doctor: Dreams. Accounts of dreams, by different people, all through history. You see, I have a theory.
Clara: I'll bet you have. What theory?
The Doctor: I think everybody, at some point in their lives, has the exact same nightmare. You wake up, or you think you do, and there's someone in the dark, someone close, or you think there might be.
[ GASPING ]
The Doctor: So you sit up, and turn on the light. And the room looks different at night. It ticks and creaks and breathes. And you tell yourself there's nobody there, nobody watching, nobody listening, nobody there at all... [ WIND WHISTLES ] and you very nearly believe it. You really, really, try and then...
[ HISSING GASPING ]
The Doctor: There are accounts of that dream throughout human history. Time and time again, the same dream. Now, there is a very obvious question I'm about to ask you. Do you know what it is?
Clara: Have you had that dream?
The Doctor: Exactly.
Clara: No, that was me asking you. Have you had that dream?
The Doctor: I asked first.
Clara: No, I did.
The Doctor: You really didn't.
Clara: Okay, yeah, probably. Yes. But everyone dreams about something under the bed.
The Doctor: Why?
Just hold on tight. If anything bites, let it.
Clara: What is it?
The Doctor: TARDIS telepathic interface. You are now in mental contact with the TARDIS, so don't think anything rude.
Clara: Why not?
The Doctor: It might end up on all of the screens. The TARDIS is extrapolating your entire timeline, from the moment of your birth, to the moment of your death.
Clara: Which I do not need a preview of.
The Doctor: I'm turning off the safeguards and navigation, slaving the TARDIS to you. Focus on the dream. Focus on the details. Picture them, feel them. The TARDIS will track on your subconscious and extract the relevant information. It should be able to home in on the moment in your timeline when you first had that dream. And then, we'll see.
Clara: What will we see?
The Doctor: What's under your bed.
[ METALLIC THRUMMING ]
Clara: Ooo!
The Doctor: Okay, now don't get distracted. Remember, you are flying a time machine.
[ METALLIC THRUMMING PHONE RINGS ]
The Doctor: No, no. Don't you dare. No, don't. Don't, don't. Just ignore it.
Okay, that's good. That worked. We're here.
Clara: Sorry, I think I got distracted.
The Doctor: No, no, no, no, no. The date's fine. Come on.
Clara: Come on where?
The Doctor: Your childhood.
[ SHE GROANS ]
[SCENE_BREAK]
[Ext. Night]
The Doctor: The West Country Children's Home. Gloucester. By the ozone level and the drains, mid-nineties. You must have been here when you had the dream.
Clara: Never been to Gloucester in my life, and I've never lived in a children's home.
The Doctor: You've probably just forgotten. Have you seen the size of human brains? They're hilarious. Little you must be in here somewhere, with your little brain.
Clara: Isn't it bad if I meet myself?
The Doctor: It is potentially catastrophic.
Clara: So why did you bring me out here?
The Doctor: I was still talking. I needed someone to nod. Probably best for you to wait in the TARDIS.
Clara: Doctor, I
The Doctor: See you in a minute. TARDIS.
Clara: Doctor. If I had have been distracted, what would have happened?
The Doctor: We would probably have ended up in the wrong place. But don't think we have, because the time zone's right. I won't be long.
Rupert: What are you doing down there?
Clara: Nothing. Er, I'm just. What's your name?
Rupert: Rupert.
Clara: Oh. Okay. Hello, Rupert.
Rupert: Rupert Pink. It's a stupid name.
Clara: No, it isn't. I know somebody called Pink.
Rupert: I meant Rupert. I'm going to change it.
Clara: Why are you awake? Are you scared?
[SCENE_BREAK]
[Children's Home]
[ BUZZING DOOR OPENS TV IN BACKGROUND ]
Reg: How did you get in?
The Doctor: Your door must be faulty.
Reg: An inspection? It's two in the morning.
The Doctor: When better? Do you always work here nights?
Reg: Most nights, yes.
The Doctor: Do you ever end up talking to yourself?
Reg: All the time. It's this place. You can't help it.
The Doctor: What about your coffee?
Reg: My coffee?
The Doctor: Sometimes, do you put it down, and look round, and it's not there?
Reg: Everybody does that.
The Doctor: Yes. Everybody.
[ TV GOES OFF ]
The Doctor: Who turned your telly off?
Reg: It does that. It just goes off.
The Doctor: Hmm.
[SCENE_BREAK]
[Rupert's]
[ DOOR CREAKS ]
Clara: Hello.
Rupert: Hello.
Clara: Nice room. You know, you should have more than one chair. What do you do when people come round?
Rupert: Sit on the bed.
Clara: Why aren't you sitting on it, then? Do you think that there's something underneath it? Hey, everyone thinks that, sometimes. That's just how people think at night.
Rupert: Why?
Clara: Did you have a dream? A hand grabbing your foot? You have, haven't you? You've had that exact dream.
Rupert: How did you know?
Clara: Do you know why dreams are called dreams?
Rupert: Why?
Clara: Because they're not real. If they were, they wouldn't need a name.
Rupert: What are you doing?
Clara: Do you know what's under there?
Rupert: What?
Clara: Me! Come on, It's perfectly safe. See? Nobody here, except us.
Rupert: Sometimes I hear noises.
Clara: It's a house full of people. Of course you hear noises.
Rupert: They're all asleep.
Clara: They're all dreaming.
Rupert: Can you hear dreams?
Clara: If you're clever enough. But they can't harm you. You know, sometimes we think there's something behind us. And the space under your bed is what's behind you at night. Simple as that. There's nothing to be afraid of.
[ DOOR OPENS RUPERT GASPS ]
Clara: (quietly) Who else is in this room?
Rupert: (quietly) Nobody.
Clara: (quietly) Someone must have come in.
Rupert: (quietly) Nobody came in.
[ CREAKING ]
Clara: Hello? Who's this? This is a friend of yours playing a game. Playing a trick, are you, hey? A little trick on Rupert here? Okay. It's not funny this, you know.
The Doctor: Where is he?
Clara: Doctor?
The Doctor: I can't find him. Can you find him?
Clara: Find who?
The Doctor: Wally.
Clara: Wally?
The Doctor: He's nowhere in this book.
Rupert: It's not a Where's Wally one.
The Doctor: Well, how would you know? Maybe you just haven't found him yet.
Rupert: He's not in every book.
The Doctor: Really? Well, that's a few years of my life I'll be needing back. Are you scared? The thing on the bed, whatever it is, look at it. Does it scare you?
Rupert: Yes.
The Doctor: Well, that's good. Want to know why that's good?
Rupert: Why?
The Doctor: Let me tell you about scared. Your heart is beating so hard, I can feel it through your hands. There's so much blood and oxygen pumping through your brain, it's like rocket fuel. Right now, you could run faster and you could fight harder, you could jump higher than ever in your life. And you are so alert, it's like you can slow down time. What's wrong with scared? Scared is a superpower. It's your superpower. There is danger in this room and guess what? It's you. Do you feel it? Do you think he feels it? Do you think he's scared? Nah. Loser. Turn your back on him.
Rupert: What?
The Doctor: Yeah, turn your back on him. Come on. You too, Clara. Clara, your back, now. Do it. Just do it now. Turn your back. Do it now, turn your back. Lovely view out this window.
Clara: Yeah. Come and see all the dark.
The Doctor: The deep and lovely dark. We'd never see the stars without it. Now, there are two possibilities. Possibility one, it's just one of your friends standing there, and he's playing a joke on you. Possibility two, it isn't.
Clara: So, plan? Plans are good.
The Doctor: You on the bed, I'm talking to you now. Go in peace. We won't look. Just go. If all you want to do is stay hidden, it's okay. Just leave.
[ RUPERT GASPS ]
Clara: Is it gone?
The Doctor: Don't look round. Not yet.
Rupert: I can't hear anything.
The Doctor: Don't look round. Look away! Look away now! Don't look at it! Don't look round. Don't look round. Don't look at the reflection.
Rupert: What is it?
The Doctor: Imagine a thing that must never be seen. What would it do if you saw it?
Rupert: I don't know.
The Doctor: Neither do I. Close your eyes.
Rupert: What?
The Doctor: Close your eyes. You too, Clara. Give it what it wants. Prove to it that you're not going to look at it. Make a promise. A promise you're never going to look at it.
Rupert: I promise never to look.
The Doctor: The breath on the back of your neck, like your hair's standing on end. That means, don't look round.
[ DOOR SLAMS ]
Clara: Gone.
The Doctor: Gone.
Rupert: He took my bedspread.
The Doctor: Oh, the human race. You're never happy, are you?
Rupert: Am I safe now?
The Doctor: Nobody's safe, especially not at night in the dark, Anything can get you. And all the way up here, you're up here all alone.
What was that for?
Clara: Shut up, leave this to me. These yours?
Rupert: They're the home's.
Clara: They're yours now.
The Doctor: People don't need to be lied to.
Clara: People don't need to be scared by a big gray-haired stick insect, but here you are. Stay still, shut up. See what I'm doing? This is your army.
The Doctor: Plastic army.
Clara: Sit! And they're going to guard under your bed. You see this one? This is the boss one, the colonel. He's going to keep a special eye out.
Rupert: It's broken, that one. It doesn't have a gun.
Clara: That's why he's the boss. A soldier so brave he doesn't need a gun. He can keep the whole world safe. What shall we call him?
Rupert: Dan.
Clara: Sorry?
Rupert: Dan, the soldier man. That's what I call him.
Clara: Good. Good name.
Rupert: Yeah. Would you read me a story? It'll help me get to sleep.
Clara: Sure.
The Doctor: Once upon a time. The end. Dad skills.
[SCENE_BREAK]
[TARDIS]
Clara: So is it possible we've just saved that kid from another kid in a bedspread?
The Doctor: Entirely possible, yes. The bigger question is, why did we end up with him, and not you?
Clara: I got distracted.
The Doctor: But why that particular boy? You don't have any. You don't have any kind of connection with him, do you?
Clara: No. No, no, no. Of course not. Why do you ask?
The Doctor: The TARDIS was slaved to your timeline. Theoretically, there should have been some connection.
Clara: Will er, will he remember any of that?
The Doctor: Scrambled his memory. Gave him a big old dream about being Dan the soldier man.
[ SHE SIGHS SHE SOBS ]
The Doctor: Are you okay?
Clara: Doctor, I am sorry to ask, and, you know, I realise this is probably against the laws of time, or summat. Er, could you do me a favour?
[SCENE_BREAK]
[Ext. Restaurant]
Clara: Is that what I look like from the back?
The Doctor: It's fine.
Clara: I was thinking it was good.
The Doctor: Really?
[ TRAFFIC IN BACKGROUND LAUGHTER AND CHATTER ]
[Restaurant]
Clara: Sorry.
Danny: Hey.
Clara: Hello. I'm Clara Oswald. I'm a bit tricky, sometimes a bit up myself, and I do not like my surname, but I think that's basically everything you need to worry about.
Danny: Hello, I'm. I'm sorry
Clara: Also, I mouth off when I'm nervous and I've got a mouth on me. Seriously, it's got a mind of its own. I'm really worried it wants to go solo.
Danny: I don't know what to say.
Clara: Don't say anything. Or say something nice.
Danny: I like your name.
Clara: It's a start.
Danny: Oswald. It suits you.
Clara: Drifting now.
Danny: Yeah, it's better than Pink.
Clara: No, Pink, Pink is nice. I like pink.
Danny: You can have it.
Clara: Ooo, a bold offer, Mister Pink.
Danny: I meant. You, no
Clara: I know, I know.
Danny: Why can't I speak today?
Clara: It's that foot you're keeping in your mouth.
Danny: Is that where I put it?
Clara: Anyway. Clara Pink. Too much.
Danny: Yeah, it is a bit much.
Clara: Mind you, Rupert Pink.
[ GLASS DROPS IN THE BACKGROUND ]
Danny: Sorry?
Clara: Er, ha, ha. Rupert Pink. It's not good.
Danny: Rupert?
Clara: Yeah. That was your name, yeah?
Danny: Who told you that?
Clara: Er, someone in the school.
[ SHE CLICKS HER TONGUE ]
Danny: No, I haven't used that name for years.
Clara: I cannot remember who it was.
Danny: Are you making fun of me?
Clara: No. No, no, no. No way.
Danny: Is this a joke?
Clara: Danny, nothing about this is any kind of joke.
[ DOOR CREAKS ]
Danny: Where's your coat?
Clara: My what?
Danny: You put your coat on when you left.
Clara: Er, I'm really sorry. Danny. There is something I should probably be honest about.
Danny: How about everything?
Clara: Everything, in my case, is actually quite a lot.
Danny: Well, that's weird.
Clara: No, no, no, it's not weird. Not really Where are you going?
Danny: I don't do weird.
Clara: Don't go.
Danny: Then do something for me, Tell me the truth, because I know when people are lying to me. However weird this thing may be, just tell me the truth.
Clara: It's not weird... Exactly.
Danny: I've had enough.
[ SHE SIGHS ]
[SCENE_BREAK]
[TARDIS]
Clara: I am trying to have a date. A real life, inter-human actual date! It's a normal nice, everyday, meeting-up sort of thing. And I would just like to know, is there any other way you can make this any more surreal than it already is?
Orson: Hello.
The Doctor: Ah, Clara! Well done, you found her. Now this is really a bit strange.
Clara: Danny?
The Doctor: What's gone wrong with your face? It's all eyes! Why are you all eyes? Get them under control.
Orson: Er, who's Danny?
The Doctor: This is Colonel Orson Pink, from about a hundred years in your future.
Clara: Orson Pink?
The Doctor: Yeah, I laughed too. Sorry. Do you have any connection with him?
Clara: Connection?
The Doctor: Yes, maybe you're like a distant relative or something?
Clara: How, how would I know?
The Doctor: Right. Okay. (to Orson) Er, well, do you have any old family photographs of her? You know, probably quite old and really fat-looking?
Orson: I don't.
Clara: How did you find him?
The Doctor: Well, you left a trace in the TARDIS telepathic circuits. I fired them up again and the TARDIS brought me straight to him. So he is something to do with your timeline.
Clara: Okay.
The Doctor: And you'll never guess where I found him.
[SCENE_BREAK]
[Capsule]
Clara: Where are we?
The Doctor: The end of the road. This is it, the end of everything. The last planet.
Clara: The end of the universe?
The Doctor: The TARDIS isn't supposed to come this far, but some idiot turned the safeguards off. Listen!
[ SILENCE ]
Clara: To what?
The Doctor: Nothing. There's nothing to hear. There's nothing anywhere. Not a breath, not a slither, not a click or a tick. All the clocks have stopped. This is the silence at the end of time.
Clara: Then how did he get here? If he's from a hundred years in my future
The Doctor: Pioneer time traveller. Rode the first of the great time shots. They were supposed to fire him into the middle of the next week.
Clara: What happened?
The Doctor: He went a bit far.
Clara: A bit?
The Doctor: A big bit. Look at him now. Robinson Crusoe at the end of time itself. The last man standing in the universe. I always thought that would be me.
Clara: It's not a competition.
The Doctor: I know it's not a competition. Course it isn't. Still time, though.
Clara: He looks like he's packing.
The Doctor: He's been stranded for six months, just met a time traveller. Of course he's packing.
Orson: You can do it, then? You can get me home?
The Doctor: I just showed you, didn't I? A test flight to a restaurant.
Orson: Yes, but to my family, to my own time?
The Doctor: Easy. I can do that, can't I, Clara?
Clara: He can, yes.
Orson: Is everything okay?
Clara: Yeah, fine. I'm fine.
Orson: Do I know you?
Clara: No. Nope.
The Doctor: Is she doing the all eyes thing? It's because her face is so wide. She needs three mirrors.
Clara: Doctor.
The Doctor: We can't leave immediately, though. The TARDIS needs to recharge.
Clara: Sorry. What?
The Doctor: Overnight, that should do it, shouldn't it, Clara?
Orson: Overnight?
The Doctor: One more night. That's, that's not a problem, is it?
Orson: No. No, no problem.
The Doctor: It's a shame, isn't it?
Orson: What's a shame?
The Doctor: There's only three people left in the universe, and you're lying to the other two. It was the first thing I noticed when I stepped in here. You must have seen it, too, Clara. You've got eyes out to here.
Clara: Seen what?
The Doctor: The universe is dead. Everything that ever was is dead and gone. There's nothing beyond this door but nothingness for ever. So why is it locked?
Orson: Please, don't make me spend another night here.
The Doctor: Afraid of the dark? But the dark is empty now.
Orson: No. No, it isn't.
[SCENE_BREAK]
[TARDIS]
Clara: You'll be safe in here. Nothing gets through those doors, I promise.
Orson: And you two are going to wait out there?
Clara: That would seem to be the plan. Wait for what exactly?
Orson: Why can't we just leave?
Clara: Like he said, it's recharging.
Orson: You didn't look like you believed him.
Clara: That's just how my face looks when he talks.
Orson: It's just a silly toy thing. A family heirloom, supposed to bring good luck.
Clara: Right. Yes. Didn't do a very good job, did it?
Orson: It did. You're here, aren't you? What were the chances of you two finding me?
Clara: Orson, do me a favour. Take my advice. When you get home, stay away from time travel.
Orson: It runs in the family.
Clara: What? Sorry, what do you mean, runs in the family?
Orson: Nothing. It's just silly stories one of my grandparents. well, great-grandparents
Clara: What is it? Tell me. You asked if you knew me. It's a family heirloom?
Orson: Yeah.
[SCENE_BREAK]
[Capsule]
Clara: What are we doing?
The Doctor: Waiting.
Clara: For what? For who? If everybody in the universe is dead, then there's nobody out there.
The Doctor: That's one way of looking at it.
Clara: What's the other?
The Doctor: That's a hell of a lot of ghosts.
Clara: Do you have your own mood lighting now? Because, frankly, the accent is enough.
[ CREAKING ]
Clara: Where did that come from?
The Doctor: It's always been there. It's only visible in the night lights.
Clara: But who wrote it?
The Doctor: Colonel Pink. Apparently, at night, he needs a reminder. Six months stranded alone, I suppose it must be tempting.
Clara: What is?
The Doctor: Company.
[ CREAKING ]
Clara: What's that?
The Doctor: What kind of explanation would you like?
Clara: A reassuring one?
The Doctor: Well, the systems are switching to low power. There are temperature differentials all over this ship. It's like pipes banging when the heating goes off.
Clara: Always thought there was something in the pipes.
The Doctor: Me, too. Who were you having dinner with?
Clara: Are you making conversation?
The Doctor: I thought that I would give it a try.
Clara: I told you. A date.
The Doctor: Serious?
Clara: It's a date.
The Doctor: A serious date?
Clara: Do I have to bring him to you for approval?
The Doctor: Well, I would like to know about his prospects. If you like, I can pop ahead and check them out.
Clara: Frankly, you've already done enough.
[ SCREECH ]
The Doctor: Atmospheric pressure equalising
Clara: Or?
The Doctor: Company.
Clara: Why are we doing this? Why don't we just go?
The Doctor: Because I need to know.
Clara: Why? About what?
The Doctor: Suppose that there are creatures that live to hide. That only show themselves to the very young or the very old, or the mad, or anyone who wouldn't be believed.
Clara: Okay, so...
The Doctor: What would those creatures do when everyone was gone? When there was only one man left standing in the universe?
[ METALLIC KNOCKING ]
Clara: What's that?
The Doctor: Potentially, the hull cooling.
Clara: Potentially?
The Doctor: Believably.
[ KNOCKS AGAIN ]
The Doctor: Someone knocking.
Yes.
[ KNOCKING CONTINUES ]
Clara: Doctor, you don't actually believe all this, do you? Hiding creatures, things from under the bed.
The Doctor: What's that in the mirror, or the corner of your eye? What's that footstep following, but never passing by?
[ KNOCKING AGAIN ]
Clara: Did we come to the end of the universe because of a nursery rhyme?
[ KNOCKING INTENSIFIES ]
Clara: That's you turning it, right?
The Doctor: No. Get in the TARDIS.
Clara: Why?
The Doctor: I have to know.
Clara: Doctor. Doctor
The Doctor: The TARDIS, now!
Clara: Okay, okay. Somebody is out there. Now we know, we can leave. Oh, Doctor!
The Doctor: It's a pressure lock. Releasing it could've triggered the opening mechanism.
Clara: Is there even an atmosphere out there?
The Doctor: There is an air shell round the ship. Why are you still here?
Clara: Because I am not going to leave you in danger!
The Doctor: Then you will never travel with me again, because that is the deal! TARDIS, now! Do as you are told!
Clara: You're an idiot.
The Doctor: I know.
[SCENE_BREAK]
[TARDIS]
Orson: What's happening?
Clara: He's opening the door.
[SCENE_BREAK]
[Capsule]
The Doctor: Perhaps they're all just waiting, perhaps when we're all dead, out they'll come a-slithering from underneath the bed.
[SCENE_BREAK]
[TARDIS]
Clara: Oh, no, no, no, not now, come on!
Oh! Always when it's important!
[ THUMPING ]
Clara: What's happening?
[ BEEPING ]
Clara: What's that?
Orson: The alarm. The air shell's breached. Stay here.
Clara: Is he okay?
Orson: He's out cold. He'll be fine, though.
Clara: Something hit him.
Orson: Everything was flying out of that door.
Clara: Could've been that.
Orson: Yeah.
Clara: What was out there? What were you so afraid of?
Orson: I've been here a long time. My own shadow, probably.
Clara: Yeah.
[ SUDDEN RUMBLING ]
Orson: That's probably just the rest of the air escaping.
Clara: You say probably a lot.
[ BANGING ]
Orson: We are safe? Nothing can get in here, right?
Clara: Probably.
[ HISSING ]
Orson: Have you got a plan?
Clara: Telepathic circuits. I left a trace in them before.
Orson: So?
Clara: So apparently, that can do a thing.
Orson: What, that's your plan?
Clara: It's not a plan, it's a thing. (quietly) Okay. Come on, come on, you can do it!
[ HE GASPS ]
Clara: Come on! Sorry.
[ RUMBLING ]
Clara: Here we go! Come on. Come on!
[ METALLIC THRUMMING ]
Clara: Come on. Come on!
[ THRUMMING STOPS ]
Orson: Is that it?
Clara: I don't know. I think so.
Orson: Where are we?
Clara: Somewhere else. I hope. No, no, no, you stay and look after the Doctor.
Orson: You can't go out there by yourself.
Clara: Thing is, my timeline, it keeps on. Orson, you don't want to meet yourself. It's really embarrassing.
[Barn]
[ DOOR CREAKS SOBBING SOBBING CONTINUES SOBBING CONTINUES ]
Clara: Rupert?
[ SOBBING CONTINUES ]
Clara: Orson?
[ SOBBING CONTINUES DOOR OPENS ]
Man: Why does he have to sleep out here?
Woman: He doesn't want the others to hear him crying.
Man: Why does he have to cry all the time?
Woman: You know why.
Man: There'll be no crying in the army.
Woman: Hush.
Man: Don't pretend you're not awake. We're not idiots.
Woman: Come and sleep in the house. You don't have to be alone. If you can hear me, you're very welcome in the house, with the other boys. I'll leave the door on the latch. Come in any time.
Man: He can't just run away crying all the time if he wants to join the army.
Woman: He doesn't want to join the army. I keep telling you.
Man: Well, he's not going to the Academy, is he, that boy? He'll never make a Time Lord.
[SCENE_BREAK]
[TARDIS]
The Doctor: Sontarans! Perverting the course of human history!
Orson: (quietly) Doctor?
The Doctor: You're confusing me. What? Shut up, shut up. Where's Clara?
[SCENE_BREAK]
[Barn]
The Doctor (O.C.): Clara! Clara!
Boy: Hello? Who's there? Hello?
Clara: It's okay. This is just a dream. Just lie back again. Just lie back on the bed. It will all be okay if you just lie down and go to sleep. Just do that for me. Just sleep.
[ SOBBING ]
Clara: Listen...
[SCENE_BREAK]
[TARDIS]
Orson: What happened? What did you see? What's out there?
Clara: What if there was nothing? What if there never was anything? Nothing under the bed, nothing at the door. What if the big bad Time Lord doesn't want to admit he's just afraid of the dark.
The Doctor: Where are we? Have we moved? Where have we landed?
Clara: Don't look where we are. Take off, and promise me you will never look where we've been.
The Doctor: Why?
Clara: Just take off. Don't ask questions.
The Doctor: I don't take orders, Clara.
Clara: Do as you're told.
[ METALLIC THRUMMING ]
Clara (O.C.): Listen...
[SCENE_BREAK]
[Barn]
Clara: This is just a dream. But very clever people can hear dreams. So, please, just listen. I know you're afraid, but being afraid is all right. Because didn't anybody ever tell you? Fear is a superpower. Fear can make you faster and cleverer and stronger. And one day, you're going to come back to this barn. And on that day you're going to be very afraid indeed.
But that's okay. Because if you're very wise and very strong, fear doesn't have to make you cruel or cowardly.
[SCENE_BREAK]
[TARDIS]
Clara (O.C.): Fear can make you kind.
The Doctor: No, no. Not the hugging. No, no, no. I'm against the hugging. Please.
[SCENE_BREAK]
[ DOORBELL RINGS ]
[Danny's]
Danny: I am so
Clara: I know.
[SCENE_BREAK]
[Barn]
Clara: It doesn't matter if there's nothing under the bed or in the dark, so long as you know it's okay to be afraid of it.
[SCENE_BREAK]
[Danny's]
Danny: And I just get nervous.
Clara: Me too.
Danny: I don't even know what I'm nervous of.
Clara (O.C.): I'll show you. So, listen. If you listen to nothing else, listen to this.
[SCENE_BREAK]
[Barn]
Clara: You're always going to be afraid, even if you learn to hide it. Fear is like a companion. A constant companion, always there. But that's okay, because fear can bring us together.
Fear can bring you home. I'm going to leave you something, just so you'll always remember, fear makes companions of us all.
Plan: A: Clara; Q: Who accidentally grabs the Doctor's leg? A: her home; Q: Where does Clara return to after a failed date with Danny? A: a childhood fear; Q: What is the creature the Doctor seeks related to? A: a hand; Q: What is the Doctor afraid of grabbing someone's leg from under the bed? A: her childhood; Q: What does Clara try to home in on using the TARDIS' telepathic circuits? A: the children's home; Q: Where did Danny grow up? A: The Doctor; Q: Who comforts Rupert when he is scared? A: time traveller; Q: What is Orson Pink's profession? A: Orson's ship; Q: What is stranded at the end of the universe? A: the hiding creature; Q: What is the Doctor trying to observe at the end of the universe? A: the TARDIS' departure; Q: What does Clara trigger when the Doctor is knocked out? A: a crying child; Q: What does Clara find in a barn? A: his leg; Q: What does Clara accidentally grab when she finds the Doctor? A: the Doctor's previous advice; Q: What does Clara use to comfort the Doctor? Summary: After a failed date with Danny, Clara returns to her home to find the Doctor awaiting her. He seeks a creature he believes has perfected its ability to hide and is related to a childhood fear everyone has of a hand grabbing someone's leg from under the bed. Clara tries to home in on her childhood using the TARDIS' telepathic circuits, but lands at the children's home where Danny, as a boy called Rupert, grew up. The Doctor comforts Rupert from his fear when an something under his bed spread scares him. After failing to apologise to Danny on the date, Clara is beckoned back to the TARDIS by time traveller Orson Pink. Clara is taken to the end of the universe where Orson's ship was stranded and the Doctor attempts to observe the hiding creature. When something on the ship knocks the Doctor out, Clara triggers the TARDIS' departure to a barn, where she finds a crying child. Hiding beneath the bed, she realises that the child is the Doctor. When the boy gets up, Clara accidentally grabs his leg. She comforts him with the Doctor's previous advice to Rupert. Orson is returned home, and Clara and Danny reconcile.