9 - The Silurians: A Good Man Goes to War Doctor Who: Greatest Monsters & Villains

Hello, and welcome back to Doctor Who's 50th anniversary Monsters And

Villains weekend, where we reveal your favourite beasties from across

time and space - as voted for by you. And after an early exit from

the Judoon, I can deduce that none of you will be signing up to the

Save The Rhino campaign. Moving on, we can now reveal the Monster and

Villain that you voted in at number nine. They live right here on Earth.

They are the most advanced species on the planet, and left unchecked

could bring the destruction of life on Earth.

It is, of course, the Silurians. They have evolved. I've seen it for

mice self. Biggest hope apes for sport. So it turns out we are aren't

the most sophisticated species on the planet after all, and Silurians

were here on Earth for thousands of years before we even evolved from

our early ape-like form. If that's the case, how come they ended up

living under ground whilst the human race evolved to take over the world?

Their astronomers predicted the planet heading to Earth, crash

course. They have put themselves to sleep in order to avert what they

thought was the copper -- the apocalypse when in reality it was

the room coming into alignment with So basically, like a bunch of cock

robins, they thought the sky was falling down. The Earth.

Sophisticated my foot. My foot is actually quite sophisticated. The

Silurians have been around long before Matt Smith encountered them

as the 11th Doctor, and these scaly alien monsters have appeared in

their many different guises, and under many different names. They are

not aliens. All right, mate. Calm down, Mr Pedantic. There were of

course the early three-eyed lizard men, the Sea Devils, and the more

recently named. Homo-reptilia. Sorry. Homo what? Hey, I'm a modern

guy, and what they choose to get-up to in the privacy of their own

vivarium is their own business. You may have also noticed that the

newest incarnations are quite a bit sexier. You are beautiful. Which

explains why the Doctor is now banned from the reptile enclosure at

London Zoo. Anyway. The Silurian race share many similarities with

humanity, but are more advanced and progressive in many other ways.

Taking the lead from other reptiles in the animal kingdom, it is the

female of the species who are the warriors and protectors of the

Silurians. And like their human counterparts at a handbag sale in TK

Maxx, they are just as aggressive and deadly. It is a race against the

apes. # The female of the species is more

deadly than the male #. This may go some way to explaining

why on previous occasions, where humans and Silurians have come into

contact, things seemed to turn out badly.

See? But to say they are villains or enemies of humanity would be wrong,

based upon the actions of just a few. That would be like having all

of humanity judged on the actions of Justin Bieber. In this upcoming

episode, we see the Doctor becoming a sci-fi version of Liam Neeson in

Taken, as he sets out across the Galaxy to Amy Pond. But watching

over him and proving to be one of the Doctor's greatest allies is none

other than a Silurian. So judge for yourself in A Good Man Goes To

This little girl, it's all about her. Who was she? Doctor!

What is happening to her? Contractions.

Contractions? She's going into labour.

Breathe! SHE GROANS

I needed enough information to block the signal to 'The Flesh'.

What signal? The signal to you!

Rory, I don't like this. Stand away from her, Rory.

whatever happens, however hard, however far, we will find you.

And you haven't been for a long, long time.

I wish I could tell you that you'll be loved.

That you'll be safe and cared for and protected.

Two minutes. But not as brave as they'll have to be.

I don't know where he is, or what he's doing,

but trust me. He's on his way.

Intruder. Level nine. Seal level nine.

There's a man who's never going to let us down.

And not even an army can get in the way.

Please leave her! SHE SOBS

Leave her! BABY CRIES

Intruder, level 11. Seal levels 12, 13 and 14.

EXPLOSION Intruder, level 15.

He looks young, but he's lived for hundreds and hundreds of years.

And wherever they take you, Melody,

He has a name, but the people of our world know him better...

A message from the Doctor and a question from me.

The 12th Cyber Legion monitors this entire quadrant.

So you tell me what I need to know, you tell me now,

and I'll be on my way. What is the Doctor's message?

Would you like me to repeat the question?

A whole Cyber legion though. He just blew them all up. To make a point!

We're being paid to fight him, not praise him.

Digger says he once chased the Atraxi off a planet,

then called them back for a scolding.

TANNOY: Reminder. This base is on Yellow Alert.

She's on a break she can do what she likes.

That one. No, that's the psychic.

You've got to look for the fractals.

Don't look bored, we're on Yellow Alert.

We've been on Yellow Alert for three weeks!

TANNOY: Reminder do not interact with headless monks

Do not interact with headless monks without designed permission.

You're not supposed to stare at them.

They believe the domain of faith is the heart,

They follow their hearts... that's all.

You're Lorna Bucket, aren't you? Yeah. Hello!

I'm the thin one, this is my husband he's the fat one.

We're the thin, fat, gay, married, Anglican marines.

Oh! Looks like I'm off! Time for my conversion tutorial.

Cos I'm not good at giving things up...

Lorna Bucket. You've had an Encounter, haven't you?

You've met him. I was just a kid.

He said "run". Just "run"?

He said it a lot. And this was in the Gamma Forests, yeah?

is the only thing that ever happened there.

Oh, this is nice, I like this. I mean, quite a lot of red.

I hope it's not to hide the stains! HE LAUGHS

Welcome, applicant to the order of the Headless.

It is traditional for visiting armies of other faiths to offer

individuals for conversion to our order. You have been selected.

If the Doctor's really coming here, where is he?

He's the Doctor. He could be anywhere in time and space.

You're back early, ma'am. Another case cracked, I assume?

Send a telegram to Inspector Abberline of the yard.

Jack the Ripper has claimed his last victim.

Stringy, but tasty all the same. I shan't be needing dinner.

However, a matter has arisen in the drawing room.

It just appeared. What does it mean?

It means a very old debt is to be repaid.

Pack the cases, Jenny. And we're going to need the swords.

He needs help! Madame President, I'm sorry, but we have to go now!

Those things could be here any second!

Will I be OK? Of course you will, my boy.

And perhaps one day you and I shall meet on the field of battle,

and I will destroy you for the glory of the Sontaran Empire.

Commander Strax. I just have to ask. A Sontaran nurse?

I serve a penance to restore the honour of my clone batch.

It is the greatest punishment a Sontaran can endure,

to help the weak and sick. Who came up with that one?

Tonight, though, perhaps my penance is over.

Captain Harcourt, I hope some day to meet you in the glory of battle,

when I shall crush the life from your worthless human form.

Oh, turn it off. I'm breaking in, not out.

This is River Song, back in her cell...

Oh, and I'll take breakfast at the usual time.

Oh, are you boys dressing up as Romans now?

Time streams, I'm not quite sure where we are... Yes. Yes, we've met.

SHE GASPS It's my birthday.

The Doctor took me ice skating on the River Thames in 1814,

Stevie Wonder sang in 1814? Yes, he did. But you must never tell him.

Yes, But at a different point in time.

Unless there's two of them. Now, that's a whole different birthday.

I'm from his future. I always know.

The Doctor's idea. Of course. His rules of engagement.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Look ridiculous. Have you considered heels?

The Doctor's getting some people together, we're going after her,

I'm sorry? This is The Battle of Demons Run.

He'll rise higher than ever before and then fall so much further.

And...I can't be with him till the very end.

This is the day he finds out who I am.

HE SIGHS Goodbye.

You appear to be closing down, Dorium.

I admire your courage. I should like to admire it from afar.

We've been waiting a month. He's done nothing.

There are people all over this galaxy that owe that man a debt.

By now, a few of them will have found a blue box waiting for them

You think he's raising an army? You think he isn't?

If that man is finally collecting on his debts, God help you,

Colonel Manton, all those stories you've heard about him.

They're not stories, they're true. HE LAUGHS

Really, you're not telling me you don't know what's coming?

We're wasting our time here! Agreed.

The asteroid, where you've made your base.

Do you know why they call it Demons Run?

How do you know the location of our base?

"Demons run, when a good man goes to war".

You don't need me! Why would you need me?! I'm old! I'm fat!

He is not a goblin, or a phantom or a trickster.

The Doctor is a living, breathing man,

and as I look around this room I know one thing...

We're sure as hell going to fix that.

I shouldn't be here, I'm meant to be at the thing.

Your child's name, in the language of my people.

and we believe, if you keep this with you,

your child will always come home to you. Can I borrow your gun?

Why? Cos I've got a feeling you're going to keep talking.

He's sort of like a... I dunno. A dark legend.

So was I. You've been with him a long time then.

Hey. You can wait a long time for the Doctor.

The thing is, he's coming. No question about it.

Just you make sure you're on the right side when he gets here.

On this day, in this place, the Doctor will fall.

The man who talks, the man who reasons, the man who lies,

Some of you have wondered why have we have allied ourselves

Perhaps you should have wondered why we call them Headless.

It's time you knew what these guys have sacrificed for faith.

As you all know, it is a Level One Heresy, punishable by death,

to lower the hood of a Headless Monk.

But by the divine grant of the Papal Mainframe herself,

on this one and only occasion, I can show you the truth.

And they can never, ever be... SHOCKED GASPS

HE LAUGHS Hello everyone! Guess who!

Please point a gun at me if it helps you relax.

Now, dear, which button controls the lights?

Doctor, you will come with me, right now!

Three minutes, forty seconds. Amelia Pond! Get your coat!

Doctor, show yourself! It's him! He's here!

Clever, isn't he? And rather attractive.

Nobody discharge their weapon in this room. Nobody!

Do not fire! Was I being insensitive again, dear?

All of you, discharge your weapon packs.

The Doctor is trying to make fools of us...

We are soldiers of God, we are not fools!

We are not fools! ALL: We are not fools!

We are not fools! We are not fools!

Colonel Manton is regaining control. Where's the doctor gone?

ALL: We are not fools. We are not fools.

If Demons Run goes down, there's an automatic distress call.

DOCTOR ON THE TANNOY: Not if we knock out your communications array.

Danny Boy to the Doctor. Danny Boy to the Doctor.

I need to get off this station now. Bring me the child!

Don't slump, it's bad for your spine!

Get back in there with the rest of them. Remember.

The Doctor must think he's winning, right until the trap closes!

Airlock engaged. Shuttle ready for boarding. No.

How do you expect to gain control of my ship?

All airlocks sealed, resistance neutralised!

Colonel Manton, you will give the order for your men to withdraw.

I want you to tell your men to run away.

I want you to be famous for those exact words.

I want people to call you Colonel Run-Away.

I want children laughing outside your door,

cos they've found the house of Colonel Run-Away.

I'm really not sure what's going to happen now.

The anger of a good man is not a problem.

Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.

Give the order Colonel Run-Away. BANGING ON THE DOOR

You watch it, cos I'm armed and really dangerous and...cross!

That is never, ever going to happen.

Oh, my God. Where's she been, what have they done to her... She's fine.

You're OK. Crying Roman with a baby, definitely cool.

Ugh, kissing and crying, I'll be back in a bit.

Melody! Hello, Melody Pond! Melody Williams.

..is a geography teacher. Melody Pond is a superhero!

Never really sniffed her, maybe I should give it a go.

I'm sorry we were so long. It's OK, I knew you were coming.

Both of you. My boys! BABY COOS

I speak Baby. No, you don't!

I speak everything... Don't I, Melody Pond?

Doctor! Take a look. They're leaving.

Demons Run is ours without a drop of blood spilled.

My friend, you have never risen higher!

BABY CRIES Hey what's wrong?

She doesn't like the TARDIS noise. I asked him to turn something off,

Rory! The Judoon have escorted the Clerics out of the quadrant,

spitfires have returned to their own time,

and Captain Avery and his men... BABY CONTINUES CRYING

Is she all right? Yes, she's just crying.

Give her to me, human fool. She needs changing.

I just changed her. I think she might need a feed.

A feed, of course. I'll take care of everything.

I really don't think you will, actually.

I have gene-spliced myself for all nursing duties.

I can produce magnificent quantities of lactic fluid.

Sorry, Melody, they're just not listening.

Very pretty, according to your daughter. It's a...it's a cot.

No flies on the Roman. Give her here. Hey!

There we go? But where would you get a cot?

The whole time I thought I was on the TARDIS, I was really here.

Be aware, I do have a sword. At all times.

You were on the TARDIS too... your heart, your mind, your soul.

But physically, yes, you were still in this place.

So her flesh avatar was with us all that time.

Yeah, they're very clever. Who are? Whoever wants our baby.

Is there anything you're not telling us?

You knew Amy wasn't real, you never said.

Well, I couldn't be sure they weren't listening.

But you always hold out on us. Please, not this time.

Doctor, it's our baby. Tell us something. One little thing.

The cot. It's my cot. I slept in there.

Oh, my God. It's the Doctor's first stars.

Drop your weapons. State your rank and intent!

You've hacked into their software then? I believe I sold it to them.

I'm sorry? The words of an old friend...

who once found me in the London Underground,

attempting to avenge my sisters on perfectly innocent tunnel diggers.

Well... You were very cross at the time.

As you were today, old friend. Point taken, I hope.

Now, I have a question. A simple one. Is Melody human?

Sorry, what? Of course she is! HE LAUGHS UNCOMFORTABLY

Completely human, what are you talking about?!

They've been scanning her since she was born

and I think they found what they were looking for. Human DNA.

Specifically...human plus Time Lord.

I heard her talking... This is a trap.

Why would I lie to you? You might want to take a look at your uniform.

The only reason I joined the Clerics was to meet the Doctor again.

You wanted to meet him, so you joined an army to fight him?

Well, how else do you meet a great warrior? He's not a warrior.

It's starting. Please listen to me.

But she's human. She's Amy and Rory's daughter.

to the time vortex. The untempered schism...

Over billions of years, it didn't just happen.

So how close is she? Could she even regenerate?

No, no! I don't think so.

You don't sound so sure. Because I don't understand how this happened!

Which leads me to ask... when did it happen? When?

I am trying to be delicate... I know how you can blush.

In flight, in the vortex. No, no, impossible!

It's all running about, sexy fish vampires and blowing up stuff.

And Rory wasn't even there at the beginning.

Then he was dead, then he didn't exist, then he was plastic.

Then I had to reboot the whole universe...long story.

So technically the first time they were on the TARDIS together,

in this version of reality, was on their... On their what?

COMPUTER BEEPS Confirmed.

No life forms registering on this base, except us and the Silurians.

The Headless Monks aren't alive... they don't register as life forms.

Doesn't make sense! You can't just cook yourself a Time Lord.

Of course not. But you gave them one hell of a start.

And they've been working very hard ever since.

And yet they gave in so easily. Does this not that bother anyone else?

Amy! She worried the baby would have a time head. She said that...

Only you would ignore the instincts of a mother!

Or the instincts of a coward. This is too easy.

There's something wrong. Why even do it?

Even if you could get your hands on a brand new Time Lord, what for?

A weapon? Why would a Time Lord be a weapon?

Mr Maldovar, you're right. This was too easy.

I'd say she's human, going by the life-support software.

She climbed out of the suit like she forced her way out.

Do you understand yet? Oh, don't worry, I'm a long way away.

But I like to keep tabs on you. The child then...

What do you think? What is she? Hope.

Quick, come with me. Commander Strax!

I'm trying to seal off this area of the lighting grid.

Clear lines of sight on all approaches.

Rory, no offence to the others, but you let them all die first, OK?

Then find them, boy! She's definitely a girl.

I'm friends to the Monks, they know me.

Yeah, and they know you just sold them out to the Doctor.

Oh, they'll understand. It's only me, only silly old me.

Arm yourself, fool! Dorium!

The child! At all costs, protect the child!

and I swear I will never let you anywhere near her again.

Oh, Doctor. Fooling you once was a joy...

but fooling you twice, the same way,

'Night will fall and drown the sun when a good man goes to war.

'Night will fall and the dark will rise

'the battle's won but the child is lost.'

I have often dreamed of dying in combat.

I'm not enjoying it as much as I'd hoped.

It's all right, I've had a good life.

Listen to me. You'll be back on your feet in no time.

Doctor, there's someone who wants to speak to you.

Her name is Lorna, she came to warn us.

They'd almost certainly have taken her to Earth, raise her

in the correct environment. Yes, they did.

And it's already too late. You're giving up? You never do that.

Every time you've asked, I have been there.

But hold tight, Amy, because you're going to be.

You think I wanted this? I didn't do this.

This was exactly you. All this, all of it.

When you began, all those years ago, sailing off to see the universe,

did you ever think you'd become this?

The man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name?

The word for healer and wise man, throughout the universe.

But if you carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean?

the word "Doctor" means mighty warrior.

and they're going to turn her into a weapon, just to bring you down.

And all this, my love... in fear of you.

Oh, look, your cot! Haven't seen that in a very long while.

No, no, you tell me. Tell me... who you are.

Ooh! But you and I, we, we, we, er...

I'd better be. Yes, you'd better be.

and on my life, she will be safe. River, get them all home.

Doctor? No!

Where's he going? What did you tell him?

Amy, no, stop it! It's OK, Rory, she's fine,

she's good. It's the TARDIS translation matrix, it takes a while

It's because it's Gallifreyan and doesn't translate.

It's your daughter's name in the language of the forest.

Except they don't have a word for "pond"

because the only water in the forest is the river.

and he will care for her whatever it takes and I know that.