TEXT: EXT. COUNCIL ESTATE, NIGHT A forlorn swing creaks with the wind. We then close in on one of the many identical flats. We see hoodies in the stairway. An older woman is pulling her wheeled bag through the entry to the lift and goes up. INT. FLAT, GEORGE'S BEDROOM, NIGHT GEORGE is sitting nervously at the end of his bed. His room has a large number of toys scattered around the floor and table. MUM: Bed! GEORGE: But Mum... MUM: George, I won't tell you again. Get into bed. I'm going to be late for work. It's just the lift, love. How many more times? GEORGE: Don't like it. MUM walks from the door to the cupboard. MUM: Well, what do we do with the things we don't like? MUM and GEORGE: Put them in the cupboard. GEORGE: The thing! You have to do the thing, Mum. MUM walks back to the doorway and flips the light switch on and off four times. GEORGE: Five times. It has to be five times. MUM does it one more time. GEORGE: (closes eyes) Please save me from the monsters. Please save me from the monsters. We then seem to be travelling through space. GEORGE: Please save me from the monsters. (opens eyes) MUM: All right now? (walks over) Come on, George. There's nothing to be scared of. (rubs his back as he gets under the covers) Ni-night then, love. (kisses him goodnight and leaves) GEORGE can see out into the parlor where his DAD is sitting on a chair and MUM talks with him. DAD: How was he? MUM: He's in bed at least. GEORGE shines his torch around the room, everything normal in daylight now casting eerie shadows DAD: I'm worried about him. Why's he terrified all the time? MUM: He needs help. DAD: He's got us.
SUMMARY:
The Doctor, Amy, and Rory make a " house call " to a boy named George who is terrified of almost everything, especially the wardrobe in his room. As the Doctor talks to his father Alex, Amy and Rory are transported from the lift to a life-size doll house where other members of the housing estate have arrived, to be turned into peg dolls . The Doctor investigates and Alex suddenly realises that his wife Claire was never pregnant. The Doctor asserts that George is an empathic alien who took on the form of Alex and Claire's desired child through a perception filter , and has the ability to lock away his fears within the wardrobe. George panics, causing the Doctor and Alex to be sucked into the doll's house. The Doctor realises that if George faces his fears by opening the wardrobe, the world in the dollhouse will be destroyed. George opens the wardrobe and is surrounded by dolls due to his belief that he is not wanted. Alex embraces George as a son, causing the dollhouse world to cease to exist and the inhabitants are returned to their world.