Monday, 18 October 2021

Why Do You Trust Him?










The Designated Survivor : 
So, where'd you pick this one up, then? 

 
ROSE
Doctor. 
 

JACK
She was hanging from a barrage balloon, 
I had an invisible spaceship. 
I never stood a chance. 

 
The Designated Survivor
Okay. One, we've got to get out of here. 
Two, we can't get out of here. 
Have I missed anything? 
ROSE
Yeah. Jack just disappeared.


ROSE: 
Okay, so he's vanished into thin air. 
Why is it always the great looking ones who do that? 

 
The Designated Survivor
I'm making an effort not to be insulted
 

ROSE: 
I mean, men. 
 
The Designated Survivor
Okay, thanks, that really helped. 
 

(The radio crackles into life.) 
 

JACK
Rose? Doctor? 
Can you hear me? 
I'm back on My Ship.
 
[Jack's spaceship]
 
JACK: 
Used the emergency teleport. 
Sorry I couldn't take you.
 
It's security-keyed to my molecular structure.
 
 
I'm working on it. Hang in there. 
 
The Designated Survivor
How're you speaking to us? 

 
JACK : 
Om-Com. I can call anything with a speaker grill. 
 
 
The Designated Survivor
Now there's a coincidence. 

 
JACK [OC]: 
What is? 
 
The Designated Survivor
The Child can Om-Com, too. 

 
ROSE: 
He can? 
 
The Designated Survivor
Anything with a speaker grill. 
Even The TARDIS' phone. 

 
ROSE
What, you mean The Child can phone us? 

 
CHILD [OC]
And I can hear you. 
Coming to find you. 
Coming to find you.
 
JACK: 
Doctor, can you hear that? 

 
The Designated Survivor
Loud and clear. 
 

JACK
I'll try to block out The Signal. Least I can do.
 
CHILD [OC]: 
Coming to find you, mummy.
 
JACK
Remember this one, Rose?
[Storeroom]
(Moonlight Serenade comes through the radio.) 

 
ROSE
Our Song. 

 
(
A little later, Rose is relaxing in a wheelchair while The Doctor is at the barred window with the ever-versatile sonic screwdriver.) 

 
Tyler : 
What you doing? 
 
 The Designated Survivor
Trying to set up a resonation pattern in the concrete, 
loosen the bars. 
 
Tyler : 
You don't think he's coming back, do you
 
 The Designated Survivor
Wouldn't bet My Life. 
 

Tyler : 
Why don't you Trust him? 

 
The Designated Survivor
Why do you
 
ROSE Tyler : 
He Saved My Life --
Bloke-wise, that's up there with flossing

I Trust Him because 
He's Like You
Except, with 
Dating, and Dancing
 
What
 
The Designated Survivor
You just assume I'm 
--
 
ROSE Tyler : 
What
 
The Designated Survivor
You just assume that I don't Dance
 
Tyler : 
What, are you telling me you do dance? 

 
The Designated Survivor
Nine hundred years old, me. I've been around a bit. 
I think you can assume at some point I've danced. 

 
ROSE:  
You?!

The Designated Survivor
Problem? 

 
ROSE
Doesn't The Universe implode 
or something if you dance? 

 
The Designated Survivor
Well, I've got The Moves 
but I wouldn't want to boast. 
 

(Rose turns up the volume on the radio. It is still Moonlight Serenade.) 

 
ROSE: 
You've got The Moves...? 
Show me Your Moves.
 
The Designated Survivor
Rose, I'm trying to resonate concrete
ROSE: 
Jack'll be back. 
He'll get us out. 
 
So come on --
The World doesn't End 
because The Doctor dances. 

 
(Rose holds out her hands, and the Doctor looks at her palms.)
 
The Designated Survivor
Barrage balloon? 

 
ROSE
What? 
 
The Designated Survivor
You were hanging from a barrage balloon
 
ROSE
Oh, yeah. About two minutes after you left me. 
Thousands of feet above London, 
middle of a German air-raid, 
Union Jack all over My Chest. 

 
The Designated Survivor
I've travelled with a lot of people, 
but you're setting new records for jeopardy friendly. 

 
ROSE
Is this You, Dancing? 
Because, I've got notes. 
 
The Designated Survivor
Hanging from a rope thousands feet above London. 
Not a cut, not a bruise. 

 
ROSE
Yeah, I know. 
Captain Jack fixed me up. 
 
The Designated Survivor
Oh, we're calling him 
Captain Jack now, are we? 
 

ROSE: 
Well, His Name's Jack 
and He's a Captain. 

 
The Designated Survivor
He's not really a Captain, Rose. 

 
ROSE
Do you know what I think? 
I think you're experiencing 
Captain envy

You'll find your feet at the end of your legs. 
You may care to move them. 
 
The Designated Survivor
If ever he was a Captain, 
he's been defrocked. 
 
ROSE
Yeah? Shame I missed that.
 
[Jack's spaceship]

JACK
Actually, I quit. 
Nobody takes my frock. 

Most people notice when they've been teleported. 
You guys are so sweet. 

Sorry about the delay. 
I had to take the nav-com offline to override the teleport security. 
 
The Designated Survivor
You can spend ten minutes overriding your own protocols? 
Maybe you should remember whose ship it is
 

JACK: 
Oh, I do. She was gorgeous. 
Like I told her, 'Be Back in Five Minutes.' 

 
The Designated Survivor
This is a Chula ship. 
 

JACK:
 Yeah, just like that medical transporter. 
Only this one is dangerous. 
 

(The Doctor snaps his fingers and the golden glow envelopes his hands.) 

 
ROSE: 
They're what fixed my hands up Jack called them er 
--
 
The Designated Survivor
Nanobots? Nanogenes. 

 
ROSE
Nanogenes, yeah.
 

The Designated Survivor
Sub-atomic robots. There's millions of them in here, see? 
Burned my hand on the console when we landed. 
All better now. 
 
They activate when the bulk head's sealed. 
Check you out for damage, fix any physical flaws. 
Take us to the crash site. 
I need to see your space junk. 

 
JACK
As soon as I get the nav-com back online. 
Make yourself comfortable. 
Carry on with whatever it was you were doing. 

 
The Designated Survivor
We were talking about Dancing. 
 

JACK: 
It didn't look like Talking. 

 
ROSE
It didn't feel like Dancing.

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