Doctor Who

In this episode, there are familiar prejudices to face for the Doctor's friends.

Hey, you!

You don't go that way.

That way's not for coloureds.

Get off, go round to the back and get on there.

That's your entrance.

You know that.

I don't see the need for getting off, then back on there.

Not when there's folks standing in the stepwell.

How am I going to squeeze on there?

If you ain't going through that back door, you're getting off my bus.

Sir, let me go.

Please don't do that. Stop!

WHISPERS AND MURMURS

You better not hit me.

Get out that door!

Hey!

Hey!

Hey, hold on, stop!

TARDIS VWORPS

Nearly.

Sheffield? Almost. Really close.

So not Sheffield, then?

You're doing this deliberately, aren't you?

Who are you talking to?

If it's me, I haven't touched anything.

I'm talking to the TARDIS, cos this is our ninth attempt.

14th. You can't control this thing, can you?

Excuse me! Yes, I can. Most of the time.

Just sometimes, like now, it has a mind of its own.

So where are we, actually?

Earth, United States.

1955, Montgomery, Alabama.

If I'm reading this properly.

New displays - still figuring them out.

1955?! Elvis, could we see Elvis?

I think he's in New York this week.

I could give him a call.

You haven't got Elvis's phone number.

Don't ever tell anyone I lent him a mobile phone.

SHRILL RINGING

Whoa, what's that?

Traces of artron energy?

Should we know what artron energy is?

It's the same type of energy the TARDIS runs off.

There really shouldn't be traces of artron energy here,

unless they're ours, which they're not.

And now you want to check it out.

Yeah, I should.

Quick look, but quietly. History is very delicate.

We stick together.

Real-life 1950s.

Time travel is awesome!

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

You dropped this.

Hey! Get your filthy black hands off my wife. Whoa! Stop!

Sir, please take a step back.

You OK, Ryan?

I was just trying to give her back her glove.

Is this your boy? He's my grandson, actually.

Your what? My grandson.

You ain't from around here.

We don't want any trouble.

I don't know how it goes where you folks are from,

but your boy, he'll be swinging from a tree with a noose for

a neckerchief if he touches a white woman in Montgomery.

What did you just say?!

There a problem here, Mr Steele? Step away now.

Go ahead, step away.

These friends of yours? No, sir.

Just on my lunch break.

Wondering if I can help out with any misunderstanding.

Oh, I believe your suit will be ready tomorrow.

The alterations going to make it look just right, sir.

Let's go, Lizzie.

Are you crazy? He slapped me!

Don't you read the newspapers?

You know what they did to young Emmett Till.

We're from out of town.

So was Emmett Till, on vacation from the north.

Couple of words to a white woman in Mississippi,

and the next thing, they find his body in the river.

You want that to be you?

No.

Did your mother raise you with no manners?

I will take a "no, ma'am".

No, ma'am.

You all together? Yes.

We're very grateful, Miss...

Mrs.

Parks, Rosa Parks.

No way! You're kidding.

Brilliant! Rosa Parks!

Lovely to meet you, Rosa Parks. Big fan.

Excuse me?

Big fan... of Montgomery.

I am... We are just visiting.

Recommend anything for tourists like us?

I recommend you get yourselves the hell out of Alabama

before you find yourselves in trouble you can't get out of.

SONIC SCREWDRIVER WHIRS

Oh, my God, can you believe it? Actual Rosa Parks!

Amazing.

Also, a problem.

Registering traces of artron energy all around her.

Why is that?

DEVICE WHIRS

No.

TARDIS VWORPS

Force shields?

We were in Rosa Parks class in primary. Do you remember?

All the Year 4, 5 and 6 classes were named after inspirational people.

She's the bus woman, right?

You do remember what she did.

Yeah, first black woman to ever drive a bus.

No, Ryan! What?

Your nan would have a fit right now. How could you have been in a class

named after the woman and not know who she is?

She's American.

She refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus to

a white passenger, and got arrested for it.

Her arrest started a boycott of the buses in Montgomery.

Or rather, will start.

Today is Wednesday, November 30th, 1955.

Tomorrow, Rosa refuses to give up her seat.

And all this basically kicked off the US civil rights movement,

led by Martin Luther King.

See, I'm not totally ignorant,

I just got confused by the whole bus thing.

Martin Luther King is a minister here in Montgomery right now.

He and Rosa knew each other? Yeah.

Is it me, or has it gone very quiet in here?

We don't serve negroes.

Good, cos I don't eat them.

Or Mexicans.

Is she talking to me?

Y'all need to eat somewhere else.

Come on.

OK, listen. I can deal with this.

You guys go back to the TARDIS and be safe.

While you do what? Locate the source of these energy anomalies.

We're one day out of a tipping point in Earth history,

I don't want anything disrupting that.

It's easy for me here, it's more dangerous for you.

You can walk away from this.

Rosa Parks can't.

Rosa Parks doesn't.

If she can live her whole life,

a couple of hours ain't going to kill me.

It ain't going to kill me, right? No.

Not if we look out for each other.

I'm cool with it.

What do you reckon, Mexican lady?

Oi. Keep that up, I'll use you as a pinata.

Epicentre of the artron readings is 1.2 miles that way. Come on.

Hey, hey, we will stop somewhere else to eat, though, won't we?

No time, Graham!

Have you noticed that happens a lot?

I need regular food, that's all.

We just got thrown out of a bar and that's what you're worried about?

Not just that.

Not sure your stomach's compatible with time travel, Graham.

Can I help you?

There a problem here?

No problem, ma'am.

No problem at all.

This is where the artron signals converge.

At the bus company.

All roads lead to Rosa Parks.

Yeah. Bit of a worry.

Let's have a look around.

I'm not sure about this.

SONIC SCREWDRIVER WHIRS

There's nothing in here. Why padlock an empty room?

Unless it's not empty.

That wasn't there a second ago.

No kidding.

It was there. We just couldn't see it.

Perception filter.

Why would anybody do that to a suitcase?

Can we open it?

Is the right question!

Is anyone excited? Cos I'm really excited.

You won't be if it's a bomb.

Don't kill the vibe, Graham!

Whoa, not very '50s.

I knew it.

See, now there's a problem.

We're not the only ones in Montgomery who don't belong here.

Any clues what any of that is?

Information brick...

..multi-intercept and surveillance device.

All a bit knackered, though. Well, why's it been left in here?

SHE GASPS

This explains the artron signals.

This is very bad news.

Secondary charger for a... WEAPON BLASTS

Run!

In here.