I feel like we're on the best chat show ever.
Have you had fun on this episode, gang?
I've hated every second.
Really?
Have you had fun on this episode? Yeah, I have. All right, good. Lots of fun.
OK, Karen, take it away.
# When we wake in the middle of the night
# My father says What you gonna do with your life? #
Oh, hurrah. Well, thanks for being the worst interviewees ever.
It's good to be back, making Dr Who, isn't it?
We didn't speak to each other over Christmas.
For a whole day over Christmas.
We all said the other day,
we had that thought of going, "I should probably text...
"Nah."
It was a bit of a shock to my system,
because I've been getting up at one in the afternoon.
Have you? Wild.
I did it on more than one occasion.
You said you'd been going to the gym.
I have. You can go to the gym at any time of the day.
In the middle of the night? Yeah. Wow.
But it's exciting. Oh man, red rad's come back on. But...
That's what keeps us warm. You've seen red rad before, Confidential.
I got a toothbrush and I got socks and I got pyjamas, all the classics in one.
Did you get an electric toothbrush? Yeah, it's electric.
They're so much better than normal toothbrushes, electric ones.
I found out that you're meant to like, because I was using an electric toothbrush.
No, don't move it, keep it still.
Get right under the gum.
Do the gums, do the tongue. Sometimes I do my lips.
Have your teeth been whitened? No. Let's have a look.
Do they look whiter?
It's my toothbrush. They're clean. They look really...
Because Karen's teeth normally...
Yellowstone Park. I punched food into my face over Christmas.
I was really sick just before New Year. I had that...
There's been this bug going around and I lost half a stone, puked it all up.
Which...
is a little revealing for Confidential, I suppose. What is this?
It's kind of free-and-easy.
Yeah, I quite like it. It's never going to make the show.
We know these types of interviews never make the show.
It's November 2010 and the cast, executive producers
and show writer have gathered at the Dr Who studios to tackle the doubly hard episodes 5 and 6.
..Switch our brains around and call the real Doctor The Doctor.
He was the other Doctor, now he's The Doctor.
Let's call The Doctor the other Doctor, clear? God, I hope so.
# I'm about to lose my mind
# You've been gone for so long
# I'm running out of time
# I need a doctor
# Call me a doctor
# I need a doctor, doctor... #
Oh no! # ..to bring me back to life. #
SCREAMING
The conclusion of this thrilling two-parter
began with the birth of a doctor and ended with the mystery of a birth.
# I'm about to lose my mind
# I need a doctor
# Doctor to bring me... #
No, and why?
Given what we've learned, I'll be as humane as I can, but I need to do this and you need to stand away.
OK, so I've just been killed by The Doctor.
Oh, no...
And then I've woken up...
and I'm about to have a baby.
I think it's generally quite shocking.
I found that scene quite challenging,
really challenging actually, because...how do you play that?
You're not even real and somebody who you love and trust is looking
into your eyes and saying you're not real, I'm going to kill you now.
I need to do this and you have to stand away.
I think that Amy just felt at the time that the two most important people in her life are turning
on her, it's like that horrible feeling of betrayal and that kind of I think was really horrible for her.
I'm very frightened, like properly, properly scared.
Don't be, we're coming for you, I swear it. Whatever happens, however hard. However far.
I'm right here. No. I'm right here.
You're not, and you haven't been here for a long, long time.
I mean it's just such a huge twist for Amy,
the life of Amy Pond has taken a turn for the worst
and she's about to give birth to a baby she didn't even know she was pregnant with.
Well, dear, you're ready to pop, aren't you?
One's on its way.
Well, this is a cliffhanger not just to this two-parter,
but the whole series, cos it's changed everything we think we know.
We think we've been looking at Amelia Pond as normal and we now discover that really hasn't been her at all.
Well, it has been, it's been her mind, her heart, her soul, but it hasn't really been her, physically.
The flesh Amy's been going through episodes one to six
and hanging out, having these adventures with The Doctor and Rory,
while the real Amy's been trapped in this birthing chamber
with this strange eye-patch woman opening the hatch now and again,
checking on her progress.
The reason she's seen the eye-patch woman at strange moments
is because that reality has been seeping through into her mind.
The flesh Amy that The Doctor zaps at the end with the Sonic
is absolutely not a real person.
He's not killed Amy.
He's simply cut off the telephone communication between the operator
and this flesh Amy's that's in front of him. So it's like
snipping a wire and getting rid of a signal rather than actually doing her harm.
Does he endanger his companion and his friends? Yes, yes, he does.
He's a madman in a box.
He's never promised anybody that it's going to be sane or safe.
You could stay here, fill your life with work and food and sleep.
Or you could go...
Anywhere. Is it always this dangerous? Yeah.
He's perfectly up front about that.
You have to decide whether you're the sort of person
who'd rather stay safe at home
or would rather risk everything for a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
He wants the ones who'd risk everything.
You OK? Yeah. Sure? Yeah. Want to go back in? No way.
We could die any minute, but all the same...it's beautiful.
I was right. It's always like this with you, innit?
Oh, yes! And off we go.
He doesn't kidnap them.
He's looking for adventurers to share his adventures.
I'm definitely a madman with a box.
Ha, ha! Yeah!
Goodbye, Knebworth. Hello, everything.
My parents got me most of the Peter Sellers films...
That's amazing. ..which I was really happy with. He's a hero of ours, Peter Sellers.
My favourite stuff is the Pink Panthers.
I think it's all about the recovery.
He never apologises for things he does.
He goes on like he's done nothing wrong. That's funny.
It's really funny.
I think he's influenced us quite a lot, hasn't he? I can see it.
Can you? In both of you. Wow.
PINK PANTHER THEME MUSIC
Do you know who I see in you? Who?
Geri Halliwell.
# If you wanna be my lover... #
MOBILE PHONE TRILLS
Oh, sorry. Ginger Spice.
I'm going to take that as a compliment.
She's actually a real hero of mine!
Maybe you'll meet her one day.
I will faint or just like, be sick. Hopefully not on her.
I got a bit of a Mick Hucknall vibe coming from you yesterday.
Who's that? Simply Red!
# I'm going to fall from the stars # Straight into your arms... #
I've got a good idea for a Doctor Who monster. What is it?
..which is loads of monkeys that join together like a Power Ranger and become Mega Monkey.
OK, there's this character that me and my dad constructed called Quarterbrain...
Which is...
..this guy, right, who's missing a quarter of his brain,
so he'll like... If you book into this hotel,
that's where he'll come and get you, in the hotel.
He'll come over and say, "I'm Quarterbrain and I've come to take quarter of your brain."
I used to get scared by clothes, thinking they're...
Thinking they were ghosts?
..not just an irrational fear of clothes, but thinking they were shapes.
I used to have an imaginary friend who used to scare me. That's interesting.
What's the point in having them, then? I don't know, but I used to have massive rows with them. Wow.
Strange child.
Didn't you come up with a really good idea, though,
for a sort of monster-y thing that takes over people and makes you dance?
Yeah. I quite like that idea of yours.
I think that's quite good. Just can't stop dancing.
Can't stop dancing...
So people get a real fear of... That's not dancing.
Trust me.
I'm The Doctor.
Episode six presented a challenging double role for Matt Smith,
with the story requiring him to play The Doctor twice.
Is that what you were thinking? Yes, it's just so inspiring to here me say it.
Writing for two Doctors, interestingly, suits Matthew Smith's style of performance.
He almost, even when he's just one Doctor,
he almost feels to be finishing his own sentences.
He's always interrupting himself and contradicting himself in mid-flow.
He always says, "Do I say that? Do I mean that? Do I mean that?"
And he often is having this internal dialogue with himself.
This is insane. Yes, it's insane. And it's about to get even more insanerer.
Is that a word?
In a way, all you're doing is taking that internal dialogue
and making it external.
Hopefully, I think the key will be to sort of, for it to be interactive,
but obviously when you're doing it, it's a bit like walking in the dark.
You just don't know.
In the chapel, two Doctors.
Our Doctor, that's The Doctor, watches in horror
as the other Doctor slams up against the chancery wall...
..body convulsing in searing agony. What's happening?
The other Doctor bucks and thrashes, clawing at his own face in pain. His eyes turn opaque white.
They call me The Doctor. They call me, they, they call me...
..There's only one thing for it, Jo.
Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.
The flesh is struggling to cope with our past regenerations. Hold on!
Would you like a jelly baby? Why? Why? Why? Why, why what?
Oh, hello. I'm The Doctor.
We've moved on. The other Doctor grabs his counterpart by the collar.
You can stabilise. I've reversed the jelly baby of the neutron flow.
Doctor, Doctor, I'm, I can't... Hold on.
Hold on! No!!
The other Doctor shoves him over. His mouth ripples in a snarl. His eyes are white
and now his face begins to stretch and distort. 1,000 capillaries rise on his whitening flesh.
And with that scream, part Time Lord, part monster and one very happy actor,
we go into the main titles.
When I came up with the idea of the flesh Doctor trying to,
struggling to solidify because of all the past regenerations that The Doctor's had,
it felt like a natural sort of logical thing
that the flesh would struggle to finally fix on the 11th Doctor.
When Matthew Graham was writing this moment,
when previous Doctors' voices came out of his mouth, we would have,
probably a couple of years ago, just had the recent Doctors.
But now we know, everybody knows that Matt Smith is the 11th Doctor.
MUSIC: "Rule Britannia"
That means there's another 10. Let's hear glimpses of their voices.
One day, we shall get back.
And it's become a sort of, a real guilty thrill in Doctor Who
to go right back to say that it's all part of this great big single story.
It just became more exciting, more exciting to hear Tom Baker as The Doctor again on BBC One.
Would you like a jelly baby? Shut up!
So it seemed like a fun thing to do,
to have him speak with the voice of several of the past Doctors.
Doctor catchphrases are interesting
because we all think the old Doctors had catchphrases.
Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow!
Famously, John Pertwee said,
"Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow" all the time.
Except he doesn't. He says it once.
I reversed the polarity of the neutron flow.
And then people started saying he said it a lot
and that became the legend.
We've had a big debate today. Yeah, a massive debate.
..about what's going on in the scene.
It's so complicated and we didn't know
basically which one was which and who was saying who.
This has been very tricky, time-wise, for us in this episode
because you're having to shoot everything twice, essentially.
Filming the multiple-Doctor scenes called for not one,
but two Matt Smith doubles,
a body double and a voice double.
Confidential was there to observe the madness in the method.
I go, "Why, why, what?"
You say that next line, "Why, why, what?" I am The Doctor. No! We've moved on. Hold on!
Listen, you could stabilise.
I reversed the jelly baby of the neutron flow. Would you like a Doctor, Doctor? I can't!
In this episode, because there's two Doctors featuring
and only one Matt Smith playing The Doctor,
whenever he's playing one of the characters, they need someone to read in the lines
for the other Doctor.
What happened was...we were here...
The most recent scene we've been doing,
basically The Doctor is convulsing, he's morphing.
So it's a lot of action.
We're basically at each other's throats
towards the end of the scene, and it's very, very intense.
The flesh is struggling to cope with our past regenerations. Just hold on.
Would you like a jelly baby? Why? Why? Why what?
Hello, I'm The Doctor.
No! Let it go! We've...We've moved on.
Hold on. You could stabilise. Argh!
I've reversed the jelly baby of the neutron flow. I'm... I'm...
I'm your Doctor. I'm... You remember? I'm...
Would you like a...?
And...cut.
And pause, please.
Good stuff. Yeah, good.
You do have to keep reminding yourself of which...which one is... Which one you THINK is which.
And I guess it doesn't help because you instinctually,
you're just going to go... With you? With me. Yeah, I found myself doing that.
Um, but I checked myself. Yeah, good, detail. Nice. Yeah.
Doctor, we need to get off of here.
Hello.
The glorious thing about The Doctor is he's just thrilled.
Two of them! Party!
In his view, you can't have too much of a good thing.
Everybody else is freaked, but The Doctor's sense of identity is so strong,
he just sees a bit more him as a plus.
Two Time Lords. The universe is definitely big enough for two Time Lords.
Really? Yeah. Well, there was loads of them at one point.
Yeah, I know, and it... And isn't it always expanding? Yeah.
Well, maybe, maybe. I mean....
Would you like that? To have two? Yeah.
You could have a friend or a foe...
I've got a friend - you. Yeah, but one who's not your, like...
Basically the equivalent of a hamster. Yeah! Is that what you are?
Like one of your pets.
Shall I get you a little wheel in the TARDIS with one of those little...
That'd be funny. One of those water things.
And you as a person are quite hamster-like. Do you think? You're quite sort of...
Nibbly. Yeah, today I was. You were having a right old nibble on your crackers.
But I think one Doctor, cos it makes it tough for him...
One universe, one Doctor... Yeah, for sure. One hamster.
Is that like the slogan? Yeah. One universe...
One Doctor... Jelly baby.
One hamster. April 20th, 2011. Yeah, go see that. Doctor, Hamster.
Sorry.
OK, so artists in place...
In The Doctor Who studios, the team are making final preparations
on a deadly wardrobe malfunction.
Jimmy!
This is me being rigged
to enable smoke to come out of me,
like my chest is burning.
Putting an already melted-looking bit of orange jacket on my orange jacket.
Get the pipe smoke in there.
The idea is that he's been hit by the acid
and to recreate the effects of the acid melting into his chest,
so the elements we've got is some of the goo acid,
a piece on the chest to disguise, to make it look like it's melted.
And smoke elements, really.
Want to make sure we're not seeing that when you're lying down.
Just lie down on the floor, please.
Can you hide that?
It looks like you've got something shoved down your shirt. Yeah.
We've tried to put a smoke rig inside the costume
but the pipe's been too rigid,
so when the body moves, it's showing the line of the pipe.
With the angle that Mark was in, it would reveal the pipe too much
and it was too tricky to get that shot.
So we've gone for bicarb and vinegar, which'll foam,
anybody that knows their chemistry, will foam.
To make it fizz and give it a bit of texture, really.
Unfortunately Mark's going to smell like salt and vinegar crisps for the week.
Thanks. Do we want to check the different ring before we go?
We'll spray that on just before we roll.
It's one of those things that you can prepare for as much as you can, but it's on the day
you've got to have all different options and solutions to hand,
to make it work, really.
The solution with the smoke was to spray some up the jacket.
So let's turn over, please. Way to go.
Action!
Let me through! Let me through!
The way things are...
It's up to you now.
Be a dad.
The difficult thing in Doctor Who is that the monsters can't think that they ARE evil.
They have to think they're the good guys.
Otherwise you've invented somebody who's just saying, "Ha ha, I'm evil."
In this story, Matt Graham's two-parter, these creatures aren't evil at all.
When they destroy us, the eyes are the last things to melt,
and there's one question in those eyes.
Why?
The Gangers feel they do have souls
and they have exactly the same memories and feelings as their doppelgangers.
Why should we suffer for the sake of human beings?
If there are villains in this story,
the villains are the humans, who've been maltreating this slave class
they have, albeit accidentally, created.
Discarded flesh. Faulty, probably.
Just thrown away. Look at them.
I think the most exciting thing to do with Doctor Who is to create things with a different agenda and outlook,
because they can initially seem really frightening,
but The Doctor, with his wisdom, and cos he's a healer and a wise man rather than a warrior,
he can investigate, find out what really makes them tick.
Work out what it is they actually want.
I think you want to speak to Dad. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
One of the most exciting things in Doctor Who you can have,
because of the nature of the hero, is not give them a villain to fight, but a villain to understand.
The hardest thing to do in this story was to show the spectrum of moral choices.
The easiest thing would be to have them all act like the monster.
They all meagrely get their independence, and go, "Kill the humans."
What we wanted was that by the end of the story,
some had been good, some noble, some had sacrificed themselves.
Some had had greatness thrust upon them, like Jimmy - the original Jimmy dies,
and the Ganger Jimmy, having just learnt to say,
"Do you know what, I'm not worthy to be my son's father,"
has fatherhood thrust on him.
Daddy?
You'll do, Jimmy. What does the other Jimmy matter now? You're both the same dad, aren't you?
We wanted to make sure that The Doctor was instrumental
in the Gangers finding their morality.
You've tricked him into an act of weakness, Doctor.
No, I've helped him into an act of humanity.
And so that was why I gave Jimmy a son.
Be a dad.
# You got wires going in... #
You're a dad.
# You got wires... #
Daddy, it's me.
# Coming out of your skin. #
Hey, sunshine.
Daddy's coming home today. Yay!
# ..Making tracks
# I got tears
# That are scared of the facts
# Running down corridors through
# Automatic doors
# Got to get to you
# Got to see this through
# I see hope is here
# In a plastic box
# I've seen Christmas lights
# Reflect in your eyes. #
I think the art department on this show is more important than on any show,
because every single week, we have one standing set,
and once you go out of that standing set and the TARDIS itself and into another world,
everything is, to some degree, built or imagined,
and you very rarely can find the kind of places that we need.
So our art department work like dogs,
not just physically, but mentally, to create whole worlds.
They create more sets, props and brand-new things
on this show than any other.
The art department are pretty rocking.
So important, and I mean... And they are exceptional.
And big shout out to Kieron and Phil, who are just...
Without them, this ship, it sinks when they're not around.
And it's not just quantity, it's difficultly.
We have to create a world where fish fly in the air,
make believable a converted monastery with human duplicates.
Those are proper, enormous challenges.
It's such a big role compared to any other show I can think of.
I'm Kieron Thompson, the standby art director on Doctor Who.
You're responsible for the general look and feel of the whole set.
We're in the crypt of episode six. Hang on, don't go up any higher.
Needs to come down about six inches.
Before we go on this, give the lid a bit more of a spritz.
We've used a previous set, which was the Oval Office, but redesigned the interior.
It'll be my job to make sure everything in there is how it should be.
Have we got our kit up the top of the stairs for the props?
Everything on screen, it's looking as best as it can be.
The set is functioning the way it should be.
A quick list of my team, who's with me today.
We've got Phil Shellard, who's my standby props.
Then I have Will Pope, who's my standby chippie.
Helen Atherton, who's my standby painter. That's the full team on set.
Here we go. Yeah, we've got plenty. I can butcher one.
Even better. Does that stay in position? Yeah.
You can bend it, and... Let's do that, then.
As you saw this morning, we've had to do a few minor tweaks
to help the S-Effects boys with the steam.
Because it's going to start getting violent,
and the steam and the acid's going to be bubbling,
we're going to have to constantly throw a couple of little wedges in.
So then we can manhandle it and shake it
and give it a bit of action, a bit of life, you know?
Whenever we come into a set like this,
if we are fortunate to be in the studios, my props man,
Phil, Phil Shellard, he'll work out a little props table.
It's generally for all our stuff.
We've got the batteries charging for the torches, any of that kit.
I've got my scripts, so I can keep referring to my scripts as to what's going on.
In amongst my biscuits and sweets.
Sonic is always with us. Phil's always got this on board.
We have had to make its own little carry case for it.
We have a non-opening one and then two practical ones.
Because obviously Matt needs the various different ones
in case one breaks down, or there's damage or anything like that,
we can run straight back in and sort another one out.
There it is. There's the Sonic. That is where he lives.
That is where THEY live. Although there's only one.
I think this episode is cursed. No, it's not cursed. It's cursed, guys!
Let's look at the evidence. The director hurt himself really badly.
So had to, like, use a stick and stuff. Which kind of suited him.
Keep the stick. He looks like Hitchcock.
And also, we got snowed in.
Aren't you just repeating what you have just been told?
It's called being interviewed, where you incorporate the question into the answer.
It is a really scary episode, I think. I hope so.
We want this one to be scary, don't we? Let's do a quick...
Let's say like, there's an angel or something there,
and we are all going, we've got to get out. OK, one, two, three...
I did it, but mine was a bit casual. Yours was a bit fey, wasn't it?
I think it's the dressing gown. I feel like I'm kind of lounging.
Where has Rory Pond gone?
Look at Amy and Rory in their wellies!
I like all the scary stuff. It's fun to make the scary stuff. Yeah.
We've been filming here all week. It's our last day of filming.
It's called Caerphilly Castle in Caerphilly.
What they didn't tell us
while we were filming is that it's in fact haunted.
Ooooh!
So, we're going to meet David now,
who's going to basically tell us all about it.
Hey, David. Hello, David.
Hia. Caerphilly Castle is haunted by the ghost of the Green Lady.
And the story goes back to 1268.
The castle was founded by a man called Gilbert de Clare,
or Gilbert the Red, who had a lovely wife called Alice.
And she fell in love with a local Welsh prince.
Gilbert was so upset about this, he banished her back to France.
And he had the local Welsh prince killed.
When she heard the news, she dropped down dead.
Literally dying of a broken heart.
What I'd like to know is really whether you believe in ghosts,
and whether you've had any experiences.
Do you believe in ghosts? Me? Yes. Do you? Really? Yes.
I believe in everything other-worldly.
Aliens, ghosts...
I think you'd have to, really, wouldn't you?
You have to say that! Well, you know, I do, I think.
I do, I think I believe... Yeah. I just don't know.
Have you had any sort of strange paranormal experiences at all?
Do you know what? Me and my mother are really into paranormal stuff.
I always have been.
From when I was a really little kid, I have loads of books on it.
Like, with ghost stories and stuff.
And one time, I was in my living room with my friend,
and suddenly we just felt this presence.
Did it feel cold?
I just, it was weird because we both felt it at the same time.
And it was just chilling, like hairs on the back of your neck.
Matt, you're The Doctor.
You must surely have had something paranormal happen to you?
Well, you know, apart from working with Karen! What?!
That is not paranormal. You're pretty paranormal.
Not to my immediate recollection, actually.
I think I've probably experienced the fear of a noise.
It's that thing where you listen really intently,
and you go, it's not just me, it's something to do with energy.
I don't know what it is. Maybe.
Having started working on Doctor Who,
I've definitely become more jumpy, absolutely 100% got more jumpy.
You should see me on my own in my flat at night.
Just, like, ready for something, you know.
Because, like, going round corridors.
Yes, because Karen had a flat, and she lived above...
Oh, yes, above the dentist! Above a dentist.
So we were hanging out one night, and then we went back,
and she was like, can you walk up with me? You had to walk up the whole thing.
So I was there, going up, looking in every room.
Having set off the fire alarm! But there was blood on the door.
I know, right! Well, WAS it blood?
I didn't notice it, and then Matt was like, what is that?
I was like, it's nothing, and then I got outside, and I thought, I'm glad it's not me there!
Not really. It was fine. That was quite scary.
I constantly hear noises.
But it's funny, cos there's a moment in this script,
which we're filming in this castle, where we all went,
this is the moment in a horror film where you go, "don't go down that corridor!"
Just don't do it. Just don't do it.
PULSATING GROWL
Run. Run! RUN!
I haven't really had any sort of definite Doctor Who nightmares.
I'm just generally more jumpy and alert.
Just more the fear of not knowing your lines, stuff like that.
Pretty much. I've just turned into a gibbering wreck.
But it's definitely...
What being in Doctor Who has done, it's...
I don't know. I think anything is possible.
When writer Matthew Graham created the Flesh on paper,
he knew his vision could only be
realised on screen by a combination of CGI and live-action filming.
For rehearsal, and...action.
Confidential is in London with the man himself to check out progress.
Very exciting, because it was a few months ago that I wrote this.
So I have no idea what you've been doing
while I've been off doing other things.
You've been beavering away in the dark. Absolutely.
Well, first things first. This is some of the concept art we did.
Oh, lord. Is that done on computer? Is it designed on computer?
Yes, this was done in Photoshop. Right, yes.
So this was everyone chatting about
what they thought the creature would look like.
The idea was to make it very white, maybe a bit transparent.
Lots of veins, and make it quite fleshy.
I wanted that mixture of a real face and a completely alien body,
cos I thought it'd be frightening.
And it all came back from this...
I was inspired by this sketch I saw in Alice in Wonderland
of Alice when she'd taken a potion, and her neck had elongated.
It had Alice's face on top. It was a Victorian drawing.
And it's very disturbing.
You've this pretty little girl's face on a long, snake-like neck.
And I thought, wow, if we could do that with a whole being,
a full body, arms and legs as well.
I'm really looking forward to see how they're going to
put all the special effects together and everything.
And to see how the monster is all created,
and how the little dots on my face will be transformed into big, long,
elongated jaws and things like that, and all my limbs extended.
I can't wait.
I can grow!
It might be nice to have a bit more sort of lateral movement.
It is more kind of a side-to-side.
Like this? Yes.
We'll take the performance that we get of Jennifer,
cos her performance is very much these bodily movements.
And a slight awkwardness to the way that her body is moving.
Which are all great traits which you can
sort of pull over into your CGI creation.
And we'll take that as our inspiration and guide for the way
that we move and animate the CGI body that we're going to attach to her.
As a thing looks more natural, it's more believable.
Which is why we try and incorporate...
If you obey the laws of physics and nature,
it will be a more convincing creature at the end of the day?
It'll sit into its environment better. This is why it'll be a special monster,
cos everyone's got a very clear, definite idea about what
we want to achieve, and what the final product will look like.
I think this is why it's going to be a pretty successful
and hopefully very scary creature. It's going to be very scary!
I've just spent some time with Neil seeing how the Jennifer creature's animated,
and I'm really excited now,
cos this is going to be the semi-finished thing in situ.
So, unleash the Jennifer creature.
This door doesn't lock!
Here we go. This is our set. This is a character called Dicken.
Don't go down that corridor, Dicken. I wouldn't, mate.
He's going to try and close the door. Here she comes.
The flashing amber lights, which have to be recreated.
And this is a greyscale animation. Not finished yet.
Oh, my word! That is still pretty scary.
She's getting closer. Get that door closed!
I don't think that's going to end well. There's a sofa there.
I'm going to go and hide behind it.
Today's scene is about the gang, and the Gangers that are left,
and the humans that are left getting out,
escaping the threat of the monster, Jennifer, who's coming to eat them.
Who's a big spider. A big spidery, lollopy thing.
Also, the whole place is going to... Blow up!
Acid is going to explode everywhere. We've got to get out.
But BEFORE that, we've got to stop her getting through the door.
And also have a lot of heart-to-hearts.
You have got to reveal that The Doctor is not The Doctor.
There's a lot of narrative to get through!
And... Action!
'The final confrontation with the Jennifer monster
'saw the dramatic conclusion of several narrative threads.
'Confidential was on set to capture all the action.'
Hey, now's our chance. I have to stay, hold this door closed.
Give you time to dematerialise. Oh, don't be crazy.
Look, she forced her own molecular growth and stretched her flesh too thin.
With the Sonic, I can adjust her molecular vibration.
It will be messy, but it'll work. No, you can't. I MUST!
OK, what happens to you? Well, this place is just about to explode. But I can stop her.
Both of you can survive this. There has to be a way. Maybe you think I should stay instead.
Mr Smith.
No, of course not. But look, this man, I've flown with him.
You know? You are amazing, and yet I misjudged you. You're not...HIM.
I'm sorry.
The Doctor's big dilemma in this episode
is he has to explain principally to Amy that this other fellow is him as well.
And he does that by proving to her that she can't tell them apart.
By swapping the shoes, he tricks,
he genuinely properly tricks Amy into disliking the wrong Doctor.
Do you know, really, there can be only one. Mm?
You're fine, and everything, but he's The Doctor.
No offence. Being almost The Doctor is pretty damn impressive.
Being almost The Doctor is like being no Doctor at all.
You can be fooled. The duplicates are more than duplicates.
They're the original, twice.
Amy, we swapped shoes. I'm the Doctor.
And I'm the Flesh.
But you can't be. You're the real him?
No, I'm not. And I haven't been all along.
I'm the original Doctor, Amy.
The thing that makes Doctor Who such a unique show
is its ability to change emotional gears within a scene.
And to be able to play
very, very high pathos or great tragedy at the same time as having
jeopardy and excitement and possibly romance and possibly humour.
I'm the original. We had to know if we were truly the same.
It was important, vital, we learn about the Flesh,
and we could only do that through your eyes.
And so there's Amy hugging on to the Flesh Doctor and saying,
you're twice the man I thought you were,
and it's an emotional moment, but you've got Jennifer hammering
on the door trying to get in, and then he sends her on her way. You, too, Cleaves.
It's a sad moment and an exciting moment,
then he makes a joke with Cleaves. Marvellous. Beware of imitations!
And somehow, all those things can play in the same scene.
Ah! My death arrives, I suppose. But this one we're not invited to.
Pardon? Nothing. Your molecular memory can survive this. It may not be the end.
Yes, well, if I turn up to nick your biscuits, you'll know you were right.
The Doctors acknowledge each other with a nod, but a sadness, too,
a sadness at what might have been.
That is what's interesting about Doctor Who, and the Doctor particularly.
It's that when it's quite sad and down, he can be quite bright and up still.
Yeah, and that makes it even sadder.
Clear off out of here, the lot of you!
There may be a way back from this. Being vaporised? How?
I don't know, but let's find out, hey?
Geronimo.
I think The Doctor ignores death,
and keeps going and moving and never really dwells on it, to be honest.
He recognises it, but...I think he moves on quite quickly,
cos if he didn't, think of all the death that is on his hands.
Tell me, Doctor,
can your conscience carry the weight of another dead race?
No, no, no!
# I hurt myself today
# To see if I still feel
# I focus on the pain... #
I'm sorry.
# The only thing that's real
# The needle tears a hole
# The old familiar sting
# Tried to kill it all away
# But I remember everything
# What have I become?
# My sweetest friend?
# Everyone I know
# Goes away in the end... #
However scary it gets, however frightening, however tense,
you know The Doctor will save the day, will triumph,
and will do it in a good and kind and brave way.
# I will let you down... #
Howdy!
# I will make you... #
A bit more laughter, guys!
# If I could start again
# A million miles away
# I will keep my... #
Gotcha!
# I would find a way. #
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