TEXT: INT. EXHIBIT ROOM The TARDIS materialises and the Doctor and Rose step out. ROSE: So, what is it? What's wrong? THE DOCTOR: Don't know, some kind of signal drawing the TARDIS off course... They look about themselves. ROSE: Where are we? THE DOCTOR: Earth, Utah, North America. About half a mile underground. ROSE: And... when are we? THE DOCTOR: 2012. ROSE: God, that's so close, so I should be... 26. The Doctor flicks a switch and lights flood the museum. ROSE: Blimey! It's a great big museum! THE DOCTOR: An alien museum. Someone's got a hobby. They must've spent a fortune on this. Chunks of meteorite, moon dust... that's the milometer from the Roswell Spaceship. He passes the exhibits as he names them. They notice a Slitheen arm in one case. ROSE: That's a bit of Slitheen! That's a Slitheen's arm, it's been stuffed. The Doctor notices something else. THE DOCTOR: Ah! Look at you! Inside the glass case he is approaching, is the head of a Cyberman. The Doctor stares through the glass at it. Rose stands behind him. ROSE: What is it? THE DOCTOR: An old friend of mine... well, enemy. The stuff of nightmares reduced to an exhibit. I'm getting old. ROSE: Is that where the signal's coming from? THE DOCTOR: Nah, it's stone dead. The signal's alive. Something's reaching out. (Stares intently through the glass). Calling for help. He places the tip of his finger gently on the glass. Immediately, an alarm goes off and they are promptly surrounded by soldiers all pointing their guns at them. ROSE: If someone's collecting aliens, that makes you Exhibit A. The Doctor flashes the soldiers a grin. OPENING CREDITS INT. CORRIDOR A helicopter lands. Inside a corridor, men with guns line
SUMMARY:
The TARDIS is drawn off course by a signal and Rose and the Doctor end up near Salt Lake City, Utah in 2012, in an underground bunker owned by Henry van Statten , a rich collector of alien artefacts. The Doctor encounters his one living exhibit, which the Doctor is horrified to discover is a Dalek that survived the Time War ; the Dalek is the last survivor of a race of genetically manipulated mutants bound on purging the universe of all non-Dalek life , and the Doctor's greatest enemy. One of van Statten's employees, Adam Mitchell , leads Rose to the Dalek, but she takes pity on it and touches it, allowing it to absorb her DNA and become active. The Dalek kills many soldiers before catching up with Rose, Adam and the Doctor. Rose becomes trapped with the Dalek, but it spares her life as it has gained sympathy from Rose's DNA and destroys itself. As the Doctor and Rose leave, Adam boards the TARDIS to avoid the closure of van Statten's Vault.