TEXT: EXT. ISLAND, DAY We zoom in on an isolated island, a fortified stone building perched on the surface. INT. BUILDING, TUNNELS, DAY Three figures appear at the opposite end of the dark tunnel. MAN: Lights. The lights in the tunnel turn on and the humans - two men, one woman - wearing advanced hazmat suits walk down the tunnel. INT. BUILDING, ROOM, DAY A code is keyed into the door and it opens, allowing the three inside. MAN: Lights. You know the drill, people - acid visors down and locked. Buzzer. The second man, BUZZER, turns a crank that lifts the heavy lid from the large vat in the center of the room. The WOMAN holds a device over the contents and takes a reading. WOMAN: Reading of 9.7. MAN: Sounds a bit low for unrefined. How's the average? WOMAN: The acid potency stats have definitely dropped below the mean during the last quarter. As she speaks, BUZZER climbs on the lip of the vat to place a pin in a hole to prevent the lid from falling on them. BUZZER: Better than a computer, isn't she? WOMAN: Give over, Buzz. She playfully shoves BUZZER and he falls into the vat. WOMAN: Buzzer! Buzz. MAN: (sighs) Oh, great. Nice going, twinkle toes. WOMAN: I shouldn't have swung at him. Sorry, Buzz. My bad. BUZZER: No, you're all right. Jimmy. JIMMY: Well, no point carrying you back legless. Sorry, Buzzer, you're dead. BUZZER: Oh, this is a right pain in the ar- heart's gone now. The WOMAN smacks the side of the device as it warbles. JIMMY: Look, we'd best get off. Got to write this one up for the boss. Those suits cost a bomb. If
SUMMARY:
Caught in a "solar tsunami", the TARDIS crash-lands on a 22nd century monastery which been turned into a factory for pumping the deadly acid off an island. The crew of the factory, headed by Miranda Cleaves, creates doppelgängers (called " Gangers ") of themselves using a self-replicating fluid known as the Flesh, which they can safely operate through dangerous duties and are disposable. Cleaves refuses to heed the Doctor's warning about the solar storm until she receives official orders. The Doctor attempts to disconnect the solar connector, but an electrical strike knocks everyone unconscious and have caused the crew's Gangers to become sentient, and the Gangers are planning on killing the humans. As the Doctor herds the humans to a safe place in the monastery, Rory leaves to find Jennifer, whose estranged Ganger is hunting her. In the chapel, Amy and the Doctor discover a Flesh version of the Doctor.