Doctor Who

It's a sanctuary base! Deep-space exploration. Welcome to hell. . .

What are you lot doing here? - That's a black hole. - That's impossible.

This lump of rock is suspended in perpetual geostationary orbit

around that black hole, without falling in.

Some sort of power source is holding us here.

We're drilling down to try and find it.

The Tardis is gone.

Whatever it is, it's not a natural phenomenon.

Some form of civilisation.

They buried something.

What are they called? . They're the Ood, basic slave race.

There's something happening with the Ood. . .

And you will worship him.

You can tell Toby what we've found is civilisation.

These are the words of the beast. . . and he has woken.

I have been imprisoned for eternity.

But no more.

The pit is open!

And I am free!

"DOCTOR WHO" THEME

Open fire!

We're stabilising!

We've got orbit.

Doctor? STATIC HISS

Doctor, can you hear me? Doctor, Ida, are you there?

It's me!

But they're coming. It's the Ood.

They've gone mad. How many of them?

All of them, all 50. Danny, out of the way. Out of the way!

But they're armed! It's the interface device.

I don't know how, but they're using it as a weapon.

A-A-A-A-Aaah!

Close Door One.

Open Door One. Close Door One.

Lockdown! Seal Door One!

VOICES BABBLE

Jefferson, what's happening?

I've got very little ammunition, sir, how about you?

All I've got is a bolt-gun.

With, uh. . .all of one bolt.

I could take out a grand total of one Ood, fat lot of good that is( !)

Given the emergency, I'd recommend. . .Strategy Nine.

Strategy Nine, agreed. Right, we need to get everyone together. Rose?

What about Ida and the Doctor, any word? I can't get a reply.

Just. . . nothing. I keep trying, but it's. . .

No, sorry, I'm fine, still here!

Oh, you could've said, you stupid. . . FEEDBACK WHINES

Woah. Careful. Anyway! It's both of us, me and Ida, hello!

But the seal opened up.

It's gone.

All we've got left is this. . .chasm.

'How deep is it?' Can't tell.

Looks like it goes down forever. 'The Pit is open. '

That's what the voice said. But there's nothing. . . I mean, there's nothing coming out?

No, no sign of the Beast.

It said Satan. Come on, Rose. Keep it together.

Is there no such thing?

Doctor.

'Doctor, tell me there's no such thing. '

Ida. I recommend that you withdraw, immediately.

But we've come all this way. . . ! OK, that was an order. Withdraw!

When that opened, the whole planet shifted.

One more inch, and we fall into the black hole. This stops, now.

But it's not much better up there, with the Ood.

I'm initiating Strategy Nine,

so I need the two of you back up top, immediately, no arg. . .

Ida. IDA? !

What do you think?

He gave an order.

Yeah, but what do YOU think?

It said, "I am the temptation. "

If there's something in there. . .

Why's it still hiding?

Maybe we've opened the prison, but not the cell.

We should go down.

I'd go.

What about you? Ohh, in a second. But then again. . .

That is so human.

Where angels fear to tread.

Even now, standing on the edge.

It's that feeling you get, yeah?

Right at the back of your head,

that impulse,

that strange little impulse,

that mad little voice saying, "Go on, go on, go on,

"go over, go on. . . "

Maybe it's relying on that.

For once in my life, Officer Scott,

I'm going to say. . .

Retreat.

Ohh.

Now I know I'm getting old.

Rose. We're coming back.

Best news I've heard all day.

What are you doing?

He's infected. He brought that thing on board - you saw it.

Are you gonna start shooting your own people now, is that what you're gonna do? Is it? If necessary.

Well, then, you'll have to shoot me. If necessary. So what's it gonna be?

Look at his face. Whatever it was, it's gone.

It passed into the Ood, you saw it happen.

He's clean.

Any sign of trouble, I'll shoot him.

You all right?

Yeah.

Um. Dunno. Can you remember anything? Just. . .

It was so angry.

It was fury, and rage, and. . .death.

It was him.

It was the Devil.

Come on.

What's Strategy Nine? Open the airlocks.

We'll be safe inside the lockdown. The Ood will get thrown out, into the vacuum.

So we're going back to a slaughter.

The Devil's work.

COMMUNICATOR HISSES 'OK, we're in. Bring us up. '

Ascension, in three, two, one.

'This is the darkness. '

This is my domain.

You little things that live in the light,

clinging to your feeble suns,

which die, in the end. . .

That's not the Ood. Something is talking through them.

Only the darkness remains.

This is Captain Zachary Cross Flane, of Sanctuary Base Six,

representing the Torchwood Archive. You will identify yourself.

You know my name.

What do you want?

You will die here. All of you.

This planet is your grave.

It's him. It's him. It's him.

If you are the Beast, then answer me this. Which one?

Cos the universe has been busy since you've been gone.

There's more religions than there are planets.

The Arkiphets, Quoldonity, Christianity, Pash-Pash,

New Judaism, San Claar, the Church of the Tin Vagabond. . .

Which Devil are you? All of them.

What, then you're the truth behind the myth(? )

This one knows me.

As I know him. The killer of his own kind.

How did you end up on this rock?

The Disciples of the Light rose up against me,

and chained me in the Pit for all eternity.

When was this? Before time.

What does that mean? Before time.

What does "before time" MEAN?

Before time and light and space and matter.

Before the cataclysm.

Before this universe was created.

That's impossible. No life could have existed back then.

Is that your religion?

It's a belief. You know nothing.

All of you, so small.

The Captain, so scared of command.

The soldier, haunted by the eyes of his wife.

The scientist, still running from Daddy.

The little boy who lied.

The virgin.

And the lost girl.

So far away from home.

The valiant child who will die in battle, so very soon.

Doctor, what does that mean?

Rose, don't listen. What does it mean? !

You will die. . .

. .and I will live.

What the hell was that?

I had that thing inside my head!

Doctor, what did it mean?

What do we do? Jefferson, Zack, what do we do? Captain. . . ?

The orbit, the planet, the black hole - everything's true.

How did it know that? Did anyone. . . ?

What battle? What did it mean? Stop! What do we do?

FEEDBACK WHINES

If you want voices in the dark, listen to mine. It's playing on basic fears.

Darkness, childhood, nightmares, all that stuff. But that's how the Devil works. Or a good psychologist.

How did it know about my father?

OK. But what makes his version of the truth any better than mine?

Cos I'll tell you what I can see. Humans. Brilliant humans.

Humans who travelled all the way across space, flying in a tiny rocket,

into the orbit of a black hole, just for the sake of discovery!

That's amazing! D'you hear me? Amazing.

All of you. The captain. His officer. His elder.

His juniors. His friends.

All with one advantage. The Beast is alone. We are not.

If we can use that to fight against him. . .

The cable snapped! Get out!

Doctor, we lost the cable!

Doctor, are you all right? Doctor?

Comms are down.

I've still got life-signs, but. . .we've lost the capsule.

There's no way out.

They're stuck down there.

How much air have we got?

60 minutes.

55.

But we've got to bring them back!

They're ten miles down. We haven't got another ten miles of cable.

EXPLOSION Captain?

Situation report.

BANGING

It's the Ood.