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Doctor Who: Scherzo (#52)
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There were two friends, and together they travelled the cosmos. They
thwarted tyrants and defeated monsters, they righted wrongs wherever
they went. They explored the distant future and the distant past, new
worlds and galaxies, places beyond imagining.
But every good story has to come to an end.
With no times or places left to explore, all the two friends have now
are each other. But maybe that's one voyage too many. Maybe they'll
discover things they'd rather have left undisturbed... hidden away in the
suffocating, unfeeling, deafening brightness.
Once upon a time. Far, far away.
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Episode One:
After taking his hand, Charley asks the Doctor what they must do next.
He replies they must continue walking, on and on, the pair of them
into the brightness. They have no choice...
Episode Two:
Charley is disgusted at the Doctor's suggestion that they eat the
raw flesh of the corpse but he insists they have no choice if they
are to survive...
Episode Three:
The Doctor asks Charley if she trusts him, and she replies that
she loves him. With that she cuts the Doctor's throat and as he
screams a cacophony of music is released...
Episode Four:
The Doctor laments that he and Charley are trapped on one planet
without the TARDIS, lost in a new and uncertain universe. Charley
is adamant she's ready to find out what it's like if the Doctor is.
She offers him her hand and the Doctor tells her there's no need
for them to hold on to each other any longer. Charley tells him
to take her hand anyway...
The Doctor: "Between you and me I'm hiding from lots of other things
too." Charley: "Other things apart from nothing?"
The Doctor: "Inevitable things. Pain, fear, death. Silly really since
they are inevitable. Perhaps I should just get on with it. Confront
them once and for all, stop hiding behind the console of this worn
out TARDIS of mine. Stop running away all my lives. But what then?
That's the problem isn't it. What do I do then?"
The Doctor: "The TARDIS feels it too. This universe has no place for
her. A time machine and a Time Lord, how redundant. How pathetic!"
The Doctor: "Leave the TARDIS? But it's a whole new universe out
there!" Charley: "Exactly. Don't you want to see what it looks like?
Don't you want to explore?" The Doctor: "It's too late, there's too
much blackness."
The Doctor: "So you love me." Charley: "Yes, yes I do."
The Doctor: "And is that it?" Charley: "Isn't that enough? If you
knew how hard it was for me to say that..." The Doctor: "Not half as
hard as it was to listen to. Tell me Charley, what good do you think
your love will do me?"
The Doctor: "Evolution or extinction. It's the only way forward."
Scherzo is Robert Shearman's
fourth full script for the Doctor Who range and is a two-hander
featuring only Paul McGann and
India Fisher.
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