TEXT: EXT. THAMES EMBANKMENT London 1599. Elizabethan London skyline at night, moonlight reflected on the Thames. EXT. ALL HALLOWS STREET A young man is playing a lute as he serenades a woman at a balcony. WIGGINS: # Her face was like a winter's moon that lights the traveller's way. Her smile was like a summer bloom that bursts then fades away. My love is night, my love is day. My love she is my world.# LILITH: Such sweet music shows your blood to be afire. Why wait we on stale custom for consummation? WIGGINS: Oh, yes. Tonight's the night. He heads for the door of the house and is met by Lilith. LILITH (coyly): Would you enter, bold sir? WIGGINS: Oh, I would. INT. WITCHES' HOUSE He enters the dwelling to see it dark with numerous fires burning, sharp instruments hanging from the walls and dried plants. WIGGENS (CONT'D): Lilith, this cannot be the home of one so beautiful. Forgive me, this is foul. LILITH (shushes him): Sshh. Sad words suit not upon a lover's tongue. (Kisses him. When she pulls away, her face is wizened and her teeth, fangs). Your kiss transformed me. He backs away, terrified. LILITH (CONT'D): A suitor should meet his beloved's parents. Mother Doomfinger. An old woman with features similar to Lilith rises from behind him. He turns to face her, gasping. LILITH (CONT'D): And Mother Bloodtide. A second on the ceiling cackles before falling to the floor. They converge upon Wiggins who screams and falls under their attack. Lilith rises and faces the camera. LILITH (CONT'D): Soon at the hour of woven words we shall rise again and this fleeting Earth will perish! She cackles. OPENING CREDITS INT. TARDIS
SUMMARY:
The Doctor and Martha land around Southwark in 1599, where they discover that William Shakespeare is under the spell of witch-like aliens known as Carrionites who are forcing him to finish Love's Labour's Won using a poppet . The Doctor learns that they are using the powerful words of the play to bring back their imprisoned species; the words spoken by the actors are instructions which open a portal. The Doctor tries and fails to get Shakespeare to stop the play's performance at the Globe Theatre . When the Carrionites start coming through the portal, the Doctor convinces Shakespeare to use his own powerful gift of words to close the portal. The closing of the portal brings all of the copies of Shakespeare's lost play with the Carrionites.