Doctor Who

Aargh!

Aaargh!

Dear Santa, thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish.

It's Easter now, so I hope I didn't wake you.

But honest, it is an emergency.

There's a crack in my wall.

Aunt Sharon says it's just an ordinary crack, but...

I know it's not, because... at night, there's voices.

So please, please, could you send someone to fix it?

Or a policeman. Or...

Back in a moment.

Thank you, Santa.

Can I have an apple?

All I can think about - apples.

I love apples. Maybe I'm having a craving.

That's new - never had cravings before.

Whoa!

Look at that!

Are you OK?

Just had a fall. All the way down there, right to the library.

Hell of a climb back up.

- You're soaking wet. - I was in the swimming pool.

- You said you were in the library. - So was the swimming pool.

- Are you a policeman? - Why?

Did you call a policeman?

Did you come about the crack in my wall?

What cra...? Argh!

Are you all right, mister?

No, I'm fine, it's OK.

This is all perfectly norm...

Who are you?

I don't know yet. I'm still cooking.

Does it scare you?

No, it just looks a bit weird.

No, no, no. The crack in your wall.

- Does it scare you? - Yes.

Well, then, no time to lose.

I'm the Doctor. Do everything I tell you,

don't ask stupid questions and don't wander off.

Are you all right?

Early days.

Steering's a bit off.

If you're a doctor, why does your box say Police?

That's disgusting. What is that?

- An apple. - Apples are rubbish. I hate apples.

You said you loved them.

No, no, I love yoghurt. Yoghurt's my favourite. Give me yoghurt.

I hate yoghurt, it's just stuff with bits in.

- You said it was your favourite. - New mouth, new rules.

It's like eating after cleaning your teeth, everything tastes...wro-agh!

What is it? What's wrong with you?

Wrong with me? It's not my fault.

Why can't you give me decent food? You're Scottish - fry something.

Ah! Bacon!

Bacon.

That's bacon.

Are you trying to poison me?

Ah. You see? Beans.

Beans are evil. Bad, bad beans.

Bread and butter.

Now you're talking.

And stay out!

We've got some carrots.

Carrots? Are you insane? No, wait, hang on.

I know what I need. I need...I need...I need...

fish fingers and custard.

- Funny. - Am I?

Good. Funny's good.

- What's your name? - Amelia Pond.

Ah, that's a brilliant name.

"Amelia Pond", like a name in a fairy tale.

Are we in Scotland, Amelia?

No. Had to move to England.

It's rubbish.

So what about your mum and dad, then? Are they upstairs?

- Thought we'd have woken them by now. - I don't have a mum and dad.

Just an aunt.

I don't even have an aunt.

You're lucky.

I know.

So, your aunt.

Where is she?

She's out.

And she left you all alone?

- I'm not scared. - You're not scared of anything!

Box falls out of the sky, man falls out of box, man eats fish custard,

and look at you, just sitting there.

- So you know what I think? - What?

Must be a hell of a scary crack in your wall.

You've had some cowboys in here.

Not actual cowboys,

though that can happen.

I used to hate apples, so my mum put faces on them.

She sounds good, your mum. I'll keep it for later.

This wall is solid and the crack doesn't go all the way through it.

So here's a thing - where's the draught coming from?

Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey. You know what the crack is?

What?

It's a crack.

I'll tell you something funny. If you knocked this wall down,

the crack would stay put, cos the crack isn't in the wall.

- Where is it, then? - Everywhere.

In everything. It's a split in the skin of the world.

Two parts of space and time that should never have touched,

pressed together...

...right here in the wall of your bedroom.

- Sometimes, can you hear...? - A voice.

Yes.

Prisoner Zero has escaped.

- Prisoner Zero? - "Prisoner Zero has escaped."

That's what I heard. What does it mean?

Prisoner Zero has escaped.

It means that, on the other side of this wall, there's a prison

and they've lost a prisoner. Do you know what that means?

- What? - You need a better wall.

The only way to close the breach is to open it all the way.

The forces will invert and it'll snap itself shut.

- Or... - What?

You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine

and you think they're probably lying to make you feel better?

Yes.

Everything's going to be fine.

Prisoner Zero has escaped.

Hello?

Hello!

What's that?

There. You see, told you it would close. Good as new.

What was that thing? Was that Prisoner Zero?

No. I think that was Prisoner Zero's guard.

Whatever it was, it sent me a message. Psychic paper -

takes a lovely little message.

"Prisoner Zero has escaped."

But why tell us?

Unless...

Unless what?

Unless Prisoner Zero escaped through here.

But he couldn't have.

We'd know.

It's difficult. Brand-new me, nothing works yet.

But there's something I'm missing...

...in the corner...

...of my eye.

No, no, no, no, no, no!

I've got to get back in there.

The engines are phasing. It's going to burn!

But...

...it's just a box!

- How can a box have engines? - It's not a box.

It's a time machine.

What, a real one?

You've got a real time machine?

Not for much longer if I can't get her stabilised.

Five-minute hop into the future should do it.

Can I come?

Not safe in here, not yet. Five minutes. Give me five minutes.

I'll be right back.

People always say that.

Am I people?

Do I even look like people?

Trust me.

I'm the Doctor.

Geronimo!

Amelia!

Amelia, I worked out what it was. I know what I was missing!

You've got to get out of there!

Amelia?

Amelia, are you all right? Are you there?

Prisoner Zero is here.

Prisoner Zero is here! Prisoner Zero is here!

Do you understand me? Prisoner Zero is...

So...they all called out at once, that's what you're saying?

All of them, all the coma patients.

You do understand that these people are all comatose, don't you?

- They can't speak. - Yes, Dr Ramsden.

Then why are you wasting my time?

- Because they called for you. - Me?

Doctor.

Doctor.

Doctor. Doctor...

Doctor... Doctor...

Doctor... Doctor...

Doctor...!

White male, mid-20s, breaking and entering.

Send me some back-up, I've got him restrained.

Oi, you! Sit still.

Cricket bat. I'm getting cricket bat.

You were breaking and entering.

That's much better.

Brand-new me, whack on the head. Just what it needed.

Do you want to shut up now? I've got back-up on the way.

Hang on, wait - you're a policewoman.

You're breaking and entering. See how this works?

What are you doing here? Where's Amelia?

Amelia Pond?

Yeah. Amelia. Little Scottish girl. Where is she?

I promised her five minutes but the engines were phasing.

I suppose I must have gone a bit far. Has something happened to her?

Amelia Pond hasn't lived here in a long time.

How long?

- Six months. - No!