Monday, 4 October 2021

The Designated Survivor




ROSE
I'm begging you, don't kill them. 
You didn't kill me. 


DALEK
But why not

Why are you alive? 
My Function is to Kill. 

What am I? 
What am I?

[Office]
ROSE
Don't move. Don't do anything. 
It's beginning to 
Question Itself. 


DALEK
Van Statten. 
You tortured me. Why? 


VAN STATTEN
I wanted to help you. 
I just, I don't know. 
I was trying to help. 

I thought if we could 
get through to you, 
if we could mend you. 

I wanted you better. 

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry! 
I swear, I just wanted you to talk! 


(Van Statten is backed up against the wall.) 


DALEK
Then hear me talk now

Exterminate! 
Exterminate! 
Exterminate! 

ROSE
Don't do it! Don't kill him! 
You don't have to do this anymore. 

There must be Something Else, 
not just Killing. 

What else is there? 
What do you want? 


DALEK
I want Freedom. 


(The Doctor is running up the stairs with his honking big gun.)

[Level 1]
(The Dalek blasts a hole in the roof, and a shaft of sunlight streams down straight onto its eyepiece.) 


ROSE: 
You're out. You made it. 

I never thought I'd feel 
the sunlight again. 


DALEK: 
How does it feel? 


(The Dalek opens its middle and dome sections to reveal the one-eyed mutant within. It holds out a tendril.) 


DOCTOR: 
Get out of the way. 
Rose, get out of the way now! 


ROSE: 
No. I won't let you do this. 


DOCTOR: 
That thing killed hundreds of people.
 

ROSE: 
It's not the one pointing the gun at me. 


DOCTOR: 
I've got to do this. 
I've got to end it. 

The Daleks destroyed My Home, 
My People. 

I've got nothing left. 


ROSE: 
Look at it. 


DOCTOR: 
What's it doing? 


ROSE: 
It's the sunlight, that's all it wants. 


DOCTOR: 
But it can't 


ROSE: 
It couldn't kill Van Statten, 
it couldn't kill me. 

It's changing. 

What about you, Doctor? 
What the hell are you changing into? 

The Designated Survivor
I couldn't… I wasn't…
Oh, Rose. They're all dead. 


DALEK: 
Why Do We Survive? 


The Designated Survivor :
I Don't Know. 


DALEK
I am The Last of The Daleks. 


The Designated Survivor : 
You're not even that
Rose did more than regenerate you.

You've absorbed her DNA. 
You're mutating

DALEK
Into what? 


The Designated Survivor 
Something New. 
I'm sorry. 


ROSE
Isn't that better? 


The Designated Survivor 
Not for a Dalek. 


DALEK
I can feel so many ideas
So much Darkness

Rose, give me orders. 
Order me to die. 


ROSE
I can't do that. 


DALEK: 
This is not Life. This is Sickness. 
I shall not be like you. 

Order my destruction! 
Obey! Obey! Obey! 


ROSE: 
Do it. 


DALEK: 
Are you frightened, Rose Tyler? 


ROSE: 
Yeah. 


DALEK: 
So am I. 
Exterminate. 



The Dalek shuts its eye. 

Rose retreats as it closes up its armour again then rises into the air. 

The balls on its lower body spread out around it creating a forcefield, then it implodes safely.

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