The Eaters of Light

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0:00:05 > 0:00:08Judy! Judy what are you doing? Come on!

0:00:08 > 0:00:09I want to hear the music!

0:00:13 > 0:00:15You're going to get me in trouble.

0:00:15 > 0:00:18Everyone knows there are ghosts in the hill.

0:00:18 > 0:00:19Wait! You'll hear it in a minute.

0:00:21 > 0:00:22That's ghosts.

0:00:22 > 0:00:24If you stay out here listening to ghosts,

0:00:24 > 0:00:27they will come out of the hill and eat you.

0:00:27 > 0:00:28- They won't.- They will.

0:00:28 > 0:00:31And I'll get the blame. Now, come on.

0:00:37 > 0:00:39TRADITIONAL MUSIC

0:00:41 > 0:00:42I can hear it.

0:00:45 > 0:00:47Judy! No!

0:00:47 > 0:00:49- MAN'S VOICE:- I'll put the story in the stone.

0:00:49 > 0:00:51Judy!

0:00:51 > 0:00:53Put your name there.

0:00:53 > 0:00:55- CROW:- Doc-tor!

0:00:55 > 0:00:59Doc-tor! Doc-tor! Doc-tor!

0:01:45 > 0:01:46- NARDOLE:- Oh, where are we now?

0:01:46 > 0:01:49- BILL:- Aberdeen, Scotland, 2nd century AD.

0:01:49 > 0:01:52THE DOCTOR: You weren't complaining when it was Mars, were you?

0:01:52 > 0:01:54So why is Scotland suddenly more important

0:01:54 > 0:01:57than guarding the vault and keeping your sacred oath?

0:01:57 > 0:01:59She thinks she knows more about Romans than me.

0:01:59 > 0:02:02Oh, well that's explained everything, thank you(!)

0:02:02 > 0:02:05You don't know more about the Ninth Legion than me. You don't.

0:02:05 > 0:02:08I read the book. I loved the book. I read everything...

0:02:08 > 0:02:10- They disappeared. - Except they didn't.

0:02:10 > 0:02:13They were annihilated in battle.

0:02:13 > 0:02:14Then where's the big pile of bodies?

0:02:16 > 0:02:17So where's the Ninth Legion?

0:02:17 > 0:02:20If they'd left, they should still be leaving.

0:02:20 > 0:02:23Can you see 5,000 Roman soldiers marching south?

0:02:24 > 0:02:26Down there, by the river.

0:02:26 > 0:02:29They'd have followed the river, that's what they did.

0:02:29 > 0:02:33There is so much that you don't understand about Roman Britain.

0:02:33 > 0:02:35- I got an A star. - HE MUTTERS:- "Got an A star."

0:02:35 > 0:02:38I've lived in Roman Britain. Governed. Farmed.

0:02:38 > 0:02:40Juggled.

0:02:40 > 0:02:42And speaking as a former vestal virgin, second class,

0:02:42 > 0:02:43I can assure you...

0:02:43 > 0:02:46I bet you there's a Roman legion down there.

0:02:47 > 0:02:49Hang on. Second class?

0:02:49 > 0:02:51Fine. You go and check the river.

0:02:51 > 0:02:53I'll go and find their last battlefield.

0:02:53 > 0:02:58Fine. I'll meet you back here with a Roman soldier.

0:02:58 > 0:03:00Yeah, but seriously - second class?

0:03:00 > 0:03:02Yeah, it's a long story. Come on.

0:03:17 > 0:03:22LOW GROWLING

0:03:24 > 0:03:26- YOUNG WOMAN:- I honour you, Mother.

0:03:29 > 0:03:32I honour you.

0:03:32 > 0:03:33I honour all our dead.

0:03:36 > 0:03:41- VOICE BREAKING:- I honour you, Father. I honour all our dead.

0:03:41 > 0:03:45I honour you, Mother. I honour you, Father.

0:03:45 > 0:03:48I honour all our dead.

0:03:51 > 0:03:54SHE SCREAMS

0:04:23 > 0:04:265,000 Roman soldiers. Eyes peeled.

0:04:26 > 0:04:29they must have left some kind of mark on the landscape.

0:04:29 > 0:04:32Burning huts, slaughtered locals, sweetie wrappers.

0:04:34 > 0:04:37- CROW:- Dark! Dark!

0:04:37 > 0:04:39- CROW:- Dark! - Doctor..

0:04:41 > 0:04:43- CROW:- Dark! Doctor!

0:04:43 > 0:04:47Look, a stone cairn - Pictish civilisation.

0:04:47 > 0:04:48The bird!

0:04:48 > 0:04:49What about it?

0:04:49 > 0:04:51It said "dark".

0:04:51 > 0:04:53Yes, well that's why we're hurrying,

0:04:53 > 0:04:55because there's not much light at this time of day.

0:04:55 > 0:04:56But it talked!

0:04:56 > 0:04:59Well, of course it did. It's a crow. All crows talk.

0:04:59 > 0:05:01- They don't talk in the future. - Course they do.

0:05:01 > 0:05:05Human beings just stopped having intelligent conversations with them.

0:05:05 > 0:05:06And they all took a bit of a huff.

0:05:06 > 0:05:08Crows in the future are all in a huff?

0:05:08 > 0:05:11Course they are. Haven't you noticed that noise they make?

0:05:11 > 0:05:12It's like a mass sulk.

0:05:12 > 0:05:16Come on. The sooner we get there, the sooner we'll know the answer.

0:05:16 > 0:05:20- Yeah, I know, but...- Picts, early Celts. Loved stone cairns.

0:05:21 > 0:05:24They built them under the ground but close to the sky.

0:05:25 > 0:05:29They think they're doors between worlds.

0:05:29 > 0:05:30Iron age churches.

0:05:32 > 0:05:35What do you always find near churches?

0:05:35 > 0:05:37Women in hats.

0:05:37 > 0:05:39Exactly. Human settlement.

0:05:41 > 0:05:43It's all a bit damp, though, isn't it?

0:05:45 > 0:05:47It's Scotland, it's supposed to be damp.

0:05:51 > 0:05:53A Roman soldier!

0:05:54 > 0:05:57I wish I'd studied Latin so you could understand me.

0:05:57 > 0:05:59I understand you.

0:05:59 > 0:06:02- Sorry, what? - I understand you.

0:06:02 > 0:06:06But you're... You're speaking English.

0:06:06 > 0:06:08- What's English? - Er, what you're speaking in.

0:06:08 > 0:06:11- You're speaking Latin. - I'm not.

0:06:11 > 0:06:13That's Latin. You just said that in Latin.

0:06:16 > 0:06:18Ah! It's the Doctor!

0:06:18 > 0:06:23Or the TARDIS, or both. Something, a telepathic link.

0:06:23 > 0:06:27Auto-translate. That's why everyone in space speaks English.

0:06:27 > 0:06:29What on earth are you talking about?

0:06:29 > 0:06:31Oh, my God, it even does lip-sync.

0:06:31 > 0:06:33- Who are you? - I'm Bill.

0:06:36 > 0:06:38Are you from the Ninth Legion?

0:06:39 > 0:06:41Yes.

0:06:41 > 0:06:44Yes! Where have you been?

0:06:44 > 0:06:47- Don't you know?- Know what?

0:06:49 > 0:06:51Did you see what happened to us?

0:06:56 > 0:06:58It's as if his bones have disintegrated.

0:07:00 > 0:07:02But what could do that?

0:07:02 > 0:07:04A complete and total absence of any kind of sunlight.

0:07:06 > 0:07:07Death by Scotland.

0:07:09 > 0:07:12- No.- No.- It should take decades.

0:07:12 > 0:07:14This happened a short while ago.

0:07:16 > 0:07:18This is alien.

0:07:18 > 0:07:20Right. Good-oh.

0:07:20 > 0:07:24Question is, where are the rest of them?

0:07:26 > 0:07:28- HE GROANS - Just want to go back to bed.

0:07:33 > 0:07:37Well, there they are. The Ninth Legion.

0:07:39 > 0:07:41Great big pile of bodies.

0:07:42 > 0:07:45It's not always fun to be right.

0:07:45 > 0:07:48This wasn't long ago. Whatever did it is close by.

0:07:48 > 0:07:51- We need to find Bill. - Don't move! Stay where you are!

0:07:53 > 0:07:57GROWLING

0:08:09 > 0:08:12The Barbarians dug these traps everywhere.

0:08:21 > 0:08:22GROWLING

0:08:22 > 0:08:24- What was that? - It's what slaughtered the Ninth.

0:08:28 > 0:08:31Can you see it?

0:08:31 > 0:08:35They attacked us with a... A thing. A monster.

0:08:42 > 0:08:44There's nothing here.

0:08:46 > 0:08:49I've got to go back to the others.

0:08:49 > 0:08:50You said they were wiped out.

0:08:50 > 0:08:53There are survivors, a handful. I can't leave them.

0:08:53 > 0:08:58- Course not.- We found a hiding place. We might still be safe there.

0:09:02 > 0:09:05- So what was it like, this monster? - I don't know.

0:09:05 > 0:09:08We deserted. We were the ones who couldn't face it.

0:09:09 > 0:09:13Roman soldiers don't run, and we did.

0:09:14 > 0:09:16What?

0:09:16 > 0:09:18CRASHING AND GROWLING

0:09:21 > 0:09:24They're underground, by the river. There's a carving of a fish.

0:09:24 > 0:09:26Is that it? The monster?

0:09:28 > 0:09:31ROARING AND SCREAMING

0:09:31 > 0:09:32No!

0:09:35 > 0:09:37GROWLING

0:09:52 > 0:09:55GROWLING

0:09:58 > 0:10:00GROWLING

0:10:03 > 0:10:07SHE YELLS IN PAIN

0:10:07 > 0:10:10Block the entrance! Quickly, hurry up!

0:10:12 > 0:10:16GROWLING AND HISSING

0:10:21 > 0:10:24- How long will that hold? - Not for long.

0:10:24 > 0:10:28Now bring her through, where we can have a better look at her.

0:10:40 > 0:10:43You do realise the beast now knows where we are?

0:10:47 > 0:10:49- You're not one of the barbarians. - No.

0:10:51 > 0:10:54- So, you're the Ninth Legion? - We are what's left.

0:10:54 > 0:10:56Simon should be back.

0:10:56 > 0:10:59He was looking for the road. Our route south. Did you see him?

0:10:59 > 0:11:01- Yeah.- Well, where is he?

0:11:07 > 0:11:11I'm sorry. That creature killed him.

0:11:11 > 0:11:13What is it? That thing, where did it come from?

0:11:13 > 0:11:14It killed him?

0:11:14 > 0:11:19Yeah. He was covered in this, like...black slime.

0:11:20 > 0:11:22It knows where we are, and we'll all die here, in the dark.

0:11:22 > 0:11:24No-one is going to die!

0:11:31 > 0:11:32Oh, for heaven's sake.

0:11:32 > 0:11:34How long are you going to keep us here?

0:11:34 > 0:11:38Couldn't we have seats? What about the Wi-Fi code, how about that?

0:11:38 > 0:11:42Don't move. Don't speak. Kar will be here soon.

0:11:42 > 0:11:43Who's Kar?

0:11:43 > 0:11:46The keeper of the gate. My sister.

0:11:46 > 0:11:49Well, let's hope she's the brains of the family, because there's

0:11:49 > 0:11:52a big bad wolf of a monster out there and you live in a house of sticks.

0:11:52 > 0:11:55Nice here, isn't it?

0:11:55 > 0:11:58Yeah, yeah, I like what you've done with the place. Yeah.

0:11:58 > 0:12:04Yeah, would you like some popcorn? Won't take me a jiffy to make.

0:12:04 > 0:12:06What are you doing?

0:12:06 > 0:12:07I'm ingratiating myself.

0:12:07 > 0:12:09- Stop it. It's nauseating. - It's called charm.

0:12:09 > 0:12:12I'm against it. I'm against charm.

0:12:12 > 0:12:14Yeah, we all know that.

0:12:14 > 0:12:18- I said don't move!- I'm rooted.

0:12:18 > 0:12:21Shh! Did anybody hear that?

0:12:21 > 0:12:23Do you know what that sound was?

0:12:23 > 0:12:24What?

0:12:26 > 0:12:30That was the sound of my patience shattering into a billion little pieces.

0:12:30 > 0:12:32Now, there are only two things that I need to know.

0:12:32 > 0:12:37Where is my friend and what destroyed the Roman army?

0:12:37 > 0:12:38I destroyed the Roman army.

0:12:40 > 0:12:42Really?

0:12:42 > 0:12:45What? You, just on your own? That's quite a trick.

0:12:45 > 0:12:47I am the gatekeeper.

0:12:47 > 0:12:48Gatekeeper. What gate?

0:12:48 > 0:12:50Didn't you hear the call? Where were you?

0:12:50 > 0:12:52I had to find the gatekeeper's things.

0:12:52 > 0:12:53Sorry, wait a minute.

0:12:53 > 0:12:55Are you the mighty warrior that we've all been waiting for?

0:12:55 > 0:12:57Where are all the grown-ups?

0:12:58 > 0:13:03There was a great battle, a great battle, and we beat the Romans.

0:13:03 > 0:13:04Kar beat them. That's all that matters.

0:13:04 > 0:13:06Yes, but she's not a warrior. She's an embryo.

0:13:06 > 0:13:08What did you do? Throw your action figures at them?

0:13:08 > 0:13:09Listen, Roman...

0:13:09 > 0:13:12We're not Roman. We're not part of the Roman army.

0:13:12 > 0:13:15No, we're not even slightly Italian. I mean, I do a mean spag bol.

0:13:15 > 0:13:18Let me tell you about the Romans.

0:13:18 > 0:13:21They are the robbers of this world.

0:13:21 > 0:13:25When they've thieved everything on land, they'll rob the sea.

0:13:25 > 0:13:30If their enemies are rich, they'll take all they have.

0:13:30 > 0:13:34If their enemies are poor, they'll make slaves of them.

0:13:34 > 0:13:40Their work is robbery, slaughter, plunder.

0:13:40 > 0:13:43They do this work and they call it empire.

0:13:45 > 0:13:47They make deserts and they call it peace.

0:13:47 > 0:13:49Yeah, but you've got to love the indoor toilets, yeah?

0:13:49 > 0:13:51They're not conquerors, they're cowards.

0:13:51 > 0:13:53They're also all dead.

0:13:53 > 0:13:55There's an awful lot of dead cowards out there,

0:13:55 > 0:13:57and I don't believe that you killed them.

0:13:59 > 0:14:01Because the thing is, you said gate,

0:14:01 > 0:14:03and you called yourself gatekeeper, and you mentioned gate weapons,

0:14:03 > 0:14:05so I've got to wonder -

0:14:05 > 0:14:07what kind of a gate is that, and what's on the other side?

0:14:07 > 0:14:08And yes, you're absolutely right.

0:14:08 > 0:14:10- Right?- I am extremely quick.

0:14:10 > 0:14:13Listen, you are all very, very angry,

0:14:13 > 0:14:15but really you're just very scared.

0:14:15 > 0:14:19For now, would you mind awfully all just jumping out of your skins

0:14:19 > 0:14:21and allowing Nardole and I to escape in the confusion?

0:14:21 > 0:14:23- Who are you? - Let me explain.

0:14:23 > 0:14:26POPCORN POPS AND BANGS PICTS GASP IN FRIGHT

0:14:30 > 0:14:32DISTANT GROWLING

0:14:36 > 0:14:37- CROW:- Monster!

0:14:40 > 0:14:42We're looking for Bill, right?

0:14:42 > 0:14:44No, we're looking for the maximum danger in the immediate area

0:14:44 > 0:14:46and walking right into it.

0:14:46 > 0:14:48Yeah, but what about Bill?

0:14:48 > 0:14:53If she's there, we're saving her, if she's not, she's safe already.

0:14:53 > 0:14:56Trust me, this is not my first rodeo.

0:14:56 > 0:14:59Now, they think these cairns are gateways between worlds.

0:15:01 > 0:15:05And given that they keep going on about gates,

0:15:05 > 0:15:07possibly they're right.

0:15:12 > 0:15:14Oh! Oh!

0:15:17 > 0:15:20The gate's opening. Your friend won't be coming back.

0:16:07 > 0:16:10- NARDOLE:- The way I heard it, the human ship was called the Mary Celeste.

0:16:10 > 0:16:13Something like that. Anyway,

0:16:13 > 0:16:16the Enzomodons assumed that any species they encountered would

0:16:16 > 0:16:19communicate as they did, by digesting each other.

0:16:19 > 0:16:23The Enzomodan ambassador got through the whole crew

0:16:23 > 0:16:27and then very sadly choked on a lifeboat So...

0:16:27 > 0:16:28You're back!

0:16:28 > 0:16:31They said you would probably never come back.

0:16:31 > 0:16:33I was in there for seconds.

0:16:33 > 0:16:34Two days.

0:16:45 > 0:16:48It's an inter-dimensional temporal rift.

0:16:48 > 0:16:53A second in there equates to days of time on this side.

0:16:53 > 0:16:54I was in there for two days?

0:16:54 > 0:16:56And eight hours, five minutes, and...

0:16:56 > 0:16:58- Well, that's good, then, isn't it? - Good?

0:16:58 > 0:17:01Plenty of time for you to find Bill.

0:17:01 > 0:17:02Oh.

0:17:02 > 0:17:04I looked. They helped me look.

0:17:04 > 0:17:06How hard did you look?

0:17:06 > 0:17:08I think we've lost her, Doctor.

0:17:08 > 0:17:11No. No, no, no. We just don't know where she is.

0:17:11 > 0:17:13Not the same thing at all. Come on!

0:17:14 > 0:17:17I'll tell you about the Lusitania later.

0:17:17 > 0:17:18Oh, keep an eye out for Bill.

0:17:19 > 0:17:21You have to move again.

0:17:21 > 0:17:23Stay in the sunlight, it burns off the slime.

0:17:28 > 0:17:30- Thanks.- No problem.

0:17:32 > 0:17:35Are you hungry? Come on. You have to eat.

0:17:35 > 0:17:37- How much food have we got left? - Enough.

0:17:37 > 0:17:41- Really?- Shut up, Cornelius. Go on, eat it.

0:17:43 > 0:17:45It's two days, you haven't had anything.

0:17:45 > 0:17:47I've never been lost this long, I need to find him.

0:17:47 > 0:17:50- Who?- The Doctor, my friend.

0:17:50 > 0:17:53I don't know what I'm going to do if I can't find him.

0:17:53 > 0:17:54Well, we'll look after you.

0:17:56 > 0:17:58I'll have to find my way home somehow.

0:18:00 > 0:18:02This is the safest place to be.

0:18:03 > 0:18:05The beast is still out there.

0:18:12 > 0:18:15- You came back. - Did you know what was in there?

0:18:15 > 0:18:16The gate.

0:18:16 > 0:18:19A portal between dimensions, do you know what's on the other side?

0:18:22 > 0:18:25You don't know anything, do you?

0:18:25 > 0:18:28You just stand around making speeches and waving a TV aerial about.

0:18:30 > 0:18:32Shall I tell you what's in there?

0:18:32 > 0:18:36No. It's called the Eater Of Light, and we held it back.

0:18:36 > 0:18:38Every generation, a new warrior went into the gate and fought

0:18:38 > 0:18:40the Eater Of Light so it couldn't break through.

0:18:40 > 0:18:43But the creature did break through.

0:18:43 > 0:18:46It broke through and it destroyed the whole Ninth Legion.

0:18:46 > 0:18:49It's weak, it's nearly dead. It will die soon.

0:18:49 > 0:18:53Well, let's hope so, because there are millions more just like it,

0:18:53 > 0:18:55on the other side, and very soon all of them will find their way

0:18:55 > 0:18:57through to this dimension.

0:18:57 > 0:19:01- Then I'll hold them back. - You'll hold them back?

0:19:01 > 0:19:04What, with your lollypop and your kiddy face paint

0:19:04 > 0:19:06and your crazy novelty monster killing tool?

0:19:06 > 0:19:09- Are you holding that thing the right way up, by the way? - I don't want your help!

0:19:09 > 0:19:12But I'm all you've got. Believe me, I'm on your side.

0:19:12 > 0:19:15- WOMAN SCREAMS - Come on, let's go!

0:19:17 > 0:19:21We're all in this together. You're going to be fine.

0:19:21 > 0:19:24Marcus was hurt, like you, and the sunlight healed him in the end.

0:19:24 > 0:19:26- I am feeling better.- Good.

0:19:26 > 0:19:29Yeah, don't worry, Bill. Lucius'll look after you.

0:19:29 > 0:19:30Shut up, Cornelius!

0:19:33 > 0:19:36Oh, Lucius. Erm...

0:19:36 > 0:19:40Right, listen, there's something I should explain.

0:19:40 > 0:19:41What?

0:19:41 > 0:19:44This is probably just a really difficult idea.

0:19:45 > 0:19:48I don't like men...that way.

0:19:50 > 0:19:51What? Not ever?

0:19:51 > 0:19:53No. Not ever.

0:19:55 > 0:19:56Only women.

0:19:56 > 0:19:59Oh! All right. Yeah, I got it.

0:19:59 > 0:20:01You're like Vitus, then.

0:20:01 > 0:20:03- What?- He only likes men.

0:20:03 > 0:20:07Some men. Better looking men than you, Lucius.

0:20:07 > 0:20:10I don't think it's narrow-minded, I think it's fine.

0:20:10 > 0:20:12You know what you like.

0:20:12 > 0:20:14And you like both?

0:20:14 > 0:20:17I'm just ordinary. You know, like men and women.

0:20:17 > 0:20:21Huh! Well, isn't this all very...modern.

0:20:21 > 0:20:22Hey, not everyone has to be modern.

0:20:22 > 0:20:26I think it's really sweet that you're so...restricted.

0:20:27 > 0:20:29- Cheers. - We can be friends, though.

0:20:29 > 0:20:32I did save your life, that means we're friends forever.

0:20:32 > 0:20:34- SHE LAUGHS - Yeah. I can deal with that.

0:20:38 > 0:20:40- Why's it going dark? - The sun's setting.

0:20:40 > 0:20:42No, it's the beast.

0:20:42 > 0:20:44It's circling us, it's looking for a way in.

0:20:50 > 0:20:53It's getting stronger again. It's strong enough to feed.

0:20:54 > 0:20:59Every hour of sunlight that feeds it makes the world darker

0:20:59 > 0:21:01and the beast stronger.

0:21:03 > 0:21:04We've got very little time.

0:21:04 > 0:21:08I have to stop it. This is my fault.

0:21:08 > 0:21:11I'm the keeper of the gate. I have to put this right.

0:21:11 > 0:21:14So you were supposed to guard the gate while everyone else went off to war.

0:21:14 > 0:21:18But you had strangers at the door, and a guard dog in the attic. So you let the beast come through.

0:21:18 > 0:21:20It was the only thing that could defeat them.

0:21:20 > 0:21:23So you thought the Eater Of Light could destroy a whole Roman army?

0:21:23 > 0:21:24It did.

0:21:24 > 0:21:28And a whole Roman army could weaken or kill the beast?

0:21:28 > 0:21:29Yes.

0:21:29 > 0:21:30Well, it didn't work.

0:21:30 > 0:21:33You got a Roman legion slaughtered and you made the deadliest

0:21:33 > 0:21:36creature on this planet very, very cross indeed.

0:21:36 > 0:21:40To protect a muddy little hillside, you doomed your whole world.

0:21:42 > 0:21:45One man. You think one man can save us all?

0:21:45 > 0:21:49Come and meet him. He came here to meet you.

0:21:49 > 0:21:52He's met loads of people like you - the terrified, the desperate.

0:21:52 > 0:21:56And he always helps. He always makes a difference.

0:21:56 > 0:22:00There are painted barbarians up there. They outnumber us.

0:22:00 > 0:22:05There is a beast of darkness that laid waste to an entire legion in less than an hour.

0:22:05 > 0:22:06No one man can make a difference to that.

0:22:06 > 0:22:09Maybe that's what you don't learn when you think it takes

0:22:09 > 0:22:135,000 highly trained soldiers to slaughter a bunch of Scottish farmers.

0:22:13 > 0:22:16Yes, one man can. And he's here.

0:22:17 > 0:22:20If you're calling us cowards, carry on.

0:22:20 > 0:22:22We already ran away - we know.

0:22:22 > 0:22:25You're not cowards. You're scared.

0:22:27 > 0:22:30Scared is fine, scared is human.

0:22:30 > 0:22:33But I'll tell you what it isn't. It isn't a plan.

0:22:36 > 0:22:38- She's right.- Why are you even listening to her, Grandad?

0:22:38 > 0:22:40Because no-one else is saying anything.

0:22:43 > 0:22:45We need a plan.

0:22:45 > 0:22:47A real commander would have a plan.

0:22:54 > 0:22:56Why did he call you Grandad?

0:22:57 > 0:23:00They always call me Grandad.

0:23:00 > 0:23:02I'm the command,

0:23:02 > 0:23:03I'm the oldest one left.

0:23:04 > 0:23:06How old are you?

0:23:07 > 0:23:0818.

0:23:12 > 0:23:13Right, listen to me. All of you.

0:23:15 > 0:23:17I'm going up there to find my friend.

0:23:17 > 0:23:22If you come with me, I can't promise that you won't all die.

0:23:23 > 0:23:26But I can promise you this.

0:23:26 > 0:23:28You won't all die in a hole in the ground.

0:23:34 > 0:23:38We have to drive it back through and close the portal behind it.

0:23:38 > 0:23:41Now, the gate only opens when the dawn sun hits it. Why's that?

0:23:44 > 0:23:47Our ancestors couldn't close the gate completely,

0:23:47 > 0:23:50but they built the cairn to control it.

0:23:50 > 0:23:53Like venting an oil gush. If they let the portal open a few

0:23:53 > 0:23:57moments every year, they stop the whole thing ripping apart.

0:23:57 > 0:23:59It's quite clever, really.

0:23:59 > 0:24:01Are you sulking?

0:24:01 > 0:24:03I'm remembering the dead.

0:24:03 > 0:24:06Oh, right. Well, save that for old age.

0:24:06 > 0:24:07They're dead because of me.

0:24:07 > 0:24:10You know, every moment you waste wallowing about in that

0:24:10 > 0:24:12happy thought means more of the living are going to join them.

0:24:12 > 0:24:17When you want to win a war, remember this - it's not about you.

0:24:17 > 0:24:19Believe me. I know.

0:24:19 > 0:24:21Time to grow up, Kar.

0:24:23 > 0:24:24Time to fight your fight.

0:24:26 > 0:24:28How does this work?

0:24:28 > 0:24:31It poisons the light as the beast eats it.

0:24:31 > 0:24:35Good. We'll need more of this.

0:24:35 > 0:24:37It has optical cancellation properties.

0:24:38 > 0:24:41Now, we have one chance.

0:24:41 > 0:24:44Right now it's weak, it's injured, it's starving.

0:24:44 > 0:24:47But when the sun comes up, it will feed and grow strong.

0:24:47 > 0:24:50We have to lure it back through the portal before that happens, before sunrise.

0:24:50 > 0:24:53Now, I've got a plan.

0:24:53 > 0:24:55But I need your help.

0:24:55 > 0:24:57I am afraid.

0:24:57 > 0:24:58Who isn't?

0:24:58 > 0:25:01But you've still got to face your beast anyway.

0:25:04 > 0:25:05Can you do that?

0:25:08 > 0:25:09Aye.

0:25:25 > 0:25:27HISSING

0:25:27 > 0:25:29Shhh!

0:25:30 > 0:25:32It's nothing!

0:25:32 > 0:25:33It's the wind in the rocks.

0:25:35 > 0:25:36Forward, centurion, keep going.

0:25:38 > 0:25:42There are lots of entrances the beast could get through.

0:25:42 > 0:25:43It's a labyrinth

0:25:53 > 0:25:56This is where we hear them. The barbarians.

0:25:56 > 0:25:58Right up there, up above us.

0:25:58 > 0:26:00Are you sure your friend will be with them?

0:26:00 > 0:26:04Yeah. Basically, he always ends up being boss of the locals.

0:26:04 > 0:26:07- How?- Usually by annoying them.

0:26:08 > 0:26:10SOFT GROWLING

0:26:10 > 0:26:13What was that?

0:26:13 > 0:26:15All right, centurions, stay sharp.

0:26:15 > 0:26:17That's the way out. So let's get out.

0:26:17 > 0:26:20Easy, Cornelius, let's make sure we know what we're walking into.

0:26:20 > 0:26:21No. Let's go.

0:26:23 > 0:26:25No! Wait!

0:26:25 > 0:26:27GROWLING

0:26:27 > 0:26:29HE SCREAMS

0:26:34 > 0:26:37SCREAMING

0:26:37 > 0:26:39Quick! Douse the fire! Quickly!

0:26:43 > 0:26:45Shift your arse, Roman!

0:26:53 > 0:26:54Close the trap door.

0:26:57 > 0:27:00Block it off! We have to block it off!

0:27:00 > 0:27:02Centurions, defence formation.

0:27:02 > 0:27:05It's falling back. It's waiting.

0:27:05 > 0:27:09It's waiting to feed off the sunlight, to grow to its full strength.

0:27:09 > 0:27:10- Hello.- Hi.

0:27:12 > 0:27:13I brought you the Ninth Legion.

0:27:13 > 0:27:16Whoa, there they are. The lost Legion of the Ninth.

0:27:17 > 0:27:20- Totally found them. - Yeah, you totally did.

0:27:22 > 0:27:26Nardole, what happened to you?

0:27:26 > 0:27:28Oh, I'm blending in.

0:27:28 > 0:27:31- SCOTTISH ACCENT: - Welcome to our land.

0:27:31 > 0:27:32- HE CHUCKLES - Scotch.

0:27:32 > 0:27:33Drop your weapons.

0:27:33 > 0:27:35Oh, for goodness' sake! We don't have time for this!

0:27:35 > 0:27:37- Stay back! - Lucius! Stop it!

0:27:37 > 0:27:38Are you their champion now?

0:27:38 > 0:27:42- There is no time for fighting! - Exactly.

0:27:42 > 0:27:44We never wanted to fight.

0:27:44 > 0:27:48We lived in peace, and then you came and laid waste to

0:27:48 > 0:27:50everything and everyone we loved.

0:27:50 > 0:27:52All you understand is war.

0:27:52 > 0:27:54No. He understands.

0:27:55 > 0:27:58Don't you? And now he's wondering why.

0:28:00 > 0:28:02- You speak Latin?- I don't!

0:28:04 > 0:28:06Neither do I. Not a word.

0:28:07 > 0:28:10And I don't speak whatever they speak either.

0:28:10 > 0:28:12It's him.

0:28:12 > 0:28:15- It's you, isn't it? - Yes. It's me.

0:28:15 > 0:28:18Something to do with the TARDIS, maybe? Telepathic field?

0:28:18 > 0:28:22So now that we all understand each other, how do we all sound?

0:28:22 > 0:28:25- You sound like children. - You sound like children, too.

0:28:25 > 0:28:27- You all do. - Is this what happens?

0:28:27 > 0:28:30When you understand what everyone in the universe is saying,

0:28:30 > 0:28:32everybody just sounds like children.

0:28:32 > 0:28:34There are exceptions.

0:28:34 > 0:28:36- Thank you very much.- Not you.

0:28:36 > 0:28:41OK, kids, pay attention.

0:28:41 > 0:28:42She slaughtered your legion.

0:28:42 > 0:28:45You slaughtered everything that she loves.

0:28:45 > 0:28:46Now you all have a choice.

0:28:46 > 0:28:49You can carry on slaughtering each other

0:28:49 > 0:28:54till no-one is left standing, or you grow the hell up!

0:28:54 > 0:28:55Because there's a new war now.

0:28:55 > 0:29:02I think these creatures are light-eating locusts.

0:29:03 > 0:29:06Looking for rents and cracks between worlds

0:29:06 > 0:29:09to let themselves into dimensions of light.

0:29:10 > 0:29:13Once they break through, they eat.

0:29:15 > 0:29:18They will eat the sun,

0:29:18 > 0:29:22and then they will eat the stars.

0:29:23 > 0:29:26And they will keep eating

0:29:26 > 0:29:30until there are no stars left.

0:29:33 > 0:29:35So, whose side are you on now?

0:29:35 > 0:29:37Because as far as I can see, there's only one side left.

0:29:42 > 0:29:45If it helps,

0:29:45 > 0:29:46I do have a plan.

0:29:53 > 0:29:55HORN SOUNDS

0:29:56 > 0:29:59It feeds on light but it homes in on sound.

0:29:59 > 0:30:02- So what's going to happen? - It's simple.

0:30:02 > 0:30:05Bit of noise, lure the beast here,

0:30:05 > 0:30:07Drive it back through the gate.

0:30:07 > 0:30:10But how do we keep it there? I mean, you said,

0:30:10 > 0:30:12all those things are going to come through, right?

0:30:12 > 0:30:14- They can only come through one at a time.- I know.

0:30:14 > 0:30:16That's why guarding the gate worked.

0:30:16 > 0:30:18One Pict in there, fighting it off for a few minutes,

0:30:18 > 0:30:21that adds up to 60 or 70 years out here -

0:30:21 > 0:30:23I get it, yeah, and then the next one goes in.

0:30:23 > 0:30:26But what do we going to do this time?

0:30:26 > 0:30:27Or are you going line up Picts

0:30:27 > 0:30:29sacrificing themselves until the end of the world?

0:30:31 > 0:30:33I've got a better idea this time.

0:30:33 > 0:30:36- Which is the part you never tell me.- Don't I?

0:30:36 > 0:30:38I probably just get interrupted.

0:30:38 > 0:30:41TRADITIONAL MUSIC

0:30:41 > 0:30:43PICTS CHEER AND LAUGH

0:30:46 > 0:30:47This is worse than jazz.

0:30:50 > 0:30:54Nothing, there's nothing.

0:30:54 > 0:30:56Maybe it won't come.

0:30:56 > 0:30:59- Hello. - CROW CAWS:- Hello.

0:30:59 > 0:31:00Hello.

0:31:00 > 0:31:02Doctor!

0:31:02 > 0:31:04No, no. Nardole.

0:31:05 > 0:31:07It's probably a bit tricky for you, that, innit?

0:31:07 > 0:31:09Nar.

0:31:09 > 0:31:11Lovely. Hello!

0:31:11 > 0:31:13Monster!

0:31:13 > 0:31:14Sorry?

0:31:14 > 0:31:15Monster!

0:31:17 > 0:31:18There!

0:31:22 > 0:31:24- GROWLING - Oh!

0:31:24 > 0:31:26- It's coming!- It's here!

0:31:26 > 0:31:28Get ready!

0:31:28 > 0:31:29Channel the light!

0:31:35 > 0:31:37Keep it here!

0:31:37 > 0:31:39We've got to hold it here till sunrise.

0:31:46 > 0:31:48Keep it there! Keep it there!

0:31:57 > 0:31:59Turn it, the sun is rising!

0:32:06 > 0:32:08Back! Back to the void!

0:32:25 > 0:32:28It'll only stay open as long as the sunlight's on it.

0:32:28 > 0:32:30- Give me your weapon. - What are you doing?

0:32:30 > 0:32:32- This is the clever bit. - Well, tell me.

0:32:32 > 0:32:35The gate has to be guarded, there's no other way.

0:32:35 > 0:32:37The trouble is, human life spans, they're tiny.

0:32:37 > 0:32:40They're hilarious. You get used up too quickly.

0:32:40 > 0:32:42So what's the answer? Go on, figure it out.

0:32:45 > 0:32:47The answer is me. I go on for ages.

0:32:47 > 0:32:50I don't even really die, I regenerate.

0:32:50 > 0:32:53I can hold that gate till the sun goes out.

0:32:53 > 0:32:55No, you can't!

0:32:55 > 0:32:57Course I can, I'm going to.

0:32:57 > 0:32:58This is not your job.

0:32:58 > 0:33:00No, it isn't, Bill. It's who I am.

0:33:00 > 0:33:03I've been standing by the gates of your world,

0:33:03 > 0:33:06keeping you all safe, since you crawled out of the slime.

0:33:06 > 0:33:08- I'm not stopping now! - Doctor, please!

0:33:08 > 0:33:12Listen! The TARDIS will take you home, return journeys are easy.

0:33:12 > 0:33:15- Listen to me!- Leave the instruments on the current setting,

0:33:15 > 0:33:16just hit them with a spanner.

0:33:16 > 0:33:19- The weapon. Now.- No. - Give it to me. Come on.

0:33:19 > 0:33:23You'll be safe, tomorrow you'll be farming. You can name a cow after me.

0:33:23 > 0:33:26What about the other gates that you have to guard? What about the vault?

0:33:26 > 0:33:28The vault will never exist, if I let those things come through.

0:33:28 > 0:33:31- Then someone else better stop them. - Nobody else can!

0:33:31 > 0:33:32I can.

0:33:32 > 0:33:34What are you saying?

0:33:34 > 0:33:37Time to grow up, Doctor. Time to fight my fight.

0:33:37 > 0:33:39GROWLING

0:33:39 > 0:33:41I'm sorry, no.

0:33:41 > 0:33:43No-one else can do this, not like I can.

0:33:43 > 0:33:45We can.

0:33:45 > 0:33:47I'm ready. I'll guard the gate with you.

0:33:47 > 0:33:48I'll fight by your side.

0:33:48 > 0:33:51Awesome! Brilliant! You'll be a hero for two seconds.

0:33:51 > 0:33:53And then the whole solar system will be devoured.

0:33:55 > 0:33:57Stop him!

0:33:57 > 0:33:59This is my destiny. My fight.

0:33:59 > 0:34:02- Out of my way. Now! - We'll take it in turns.

0:34:02 > 0:34:04Two of you can't hold the gate.

0:34:04 > 0:34:06Two of them? I'm counting more than two.

0:34:06 > 0:34:08The Legion of the Ninth stands ready to serve.

0:34:08 > 0:34:11Oh, stop being brave. I can't bear brave people.

0:34:11 > 0:34:15I'll put the story in the stone. I'll put your name in the air.

0:34:15 > 0:34:17They'll see it for hundreds of years.

0:34:17 > 0:34:19- They'll know your name forever. - Good.

0:34:23 > 0:34:24Ready?

0:34:24 > 0:34:26No, listen to me! No, listen!

0:34:27 > 0:34:32You're wrong, Doctor. It's their destiny, not yours.

0:34:34 > 0:34:37Sorry. You're going nowhere.

0:34:37 > 0:34:39- Bill! Bill, stop it! - Quickly! Quickly!

0:34:39 > 0:34:43- Soldiers of the Ninth! Advance! - Come on!

0:34:43 > 0:34:45YELLING

0:34:45 > 0:34:48TRADITIONAL MUSIC PLAYS

0:35:16 > 0:35:19What's that? What's happening?

0:35:19 > 0:35:22Too many of them going through at once. This place is unstable.

0:35:22 > 0:35:24We need to get out of here. Now!

0:35:39 > 0:35:41I know you're inclined to bear a grudge,

0:35:41 > 0:35:44so just remember I know about 10% of your secrets.

0:35:44 > 0:35:46The dark secrets.

0:35:46 > 0:35:49And I'm the only one in the TARDIS who knows where the tea cakes are.

0:35:56 > 0:35:58- Kar. - CROW CAWS

0:35:58 > 0:36:02She's holding the gate. Remember. Her name is Kar.

0:36:02 > 0:36:04- CROW:- Kar! - Kar.

0:36:06 > 0:36:07- CROW:- Kar! Kar!

0:36:10 > 0:36:13You were wrong. The crows aren't sulking.

0:36:15 > 0:36:17The crows are remembering.

0:36:17 > 0:36:19- CROW:- Kar! Kar! Kar!

0:36:22 > 0:36:26I'm sorry, Doctor, but you have a vault to guard.

0:36:26 > 0:36:28You can't take on every fight.

0:36:31 > 0:36:33All right. I was wrong.

0:36:33 > 0:36:36I didn't know what really happened to the Ninth Legion.

0:36:36 > 0:36:37No, we were both wrong about that.

0:36:39 > 0:36:41They were never really missing.

0:36:41 > 0:36:44They've always been here.

0:36:44 > 0:36:47The Ninth Legion and the Keeper of the Gate.

0:36:47 > 0:36:51Seizing the day till the sun goes out. Holding back the dark.

0:36:51 > 0:36:54DISTANT TRADITIONAL MUSIC

0:36:57 > 0:36:58What?

0:36:59 > 0:37:02I thought... Did you hear that?

0:37:05 > 0:37:08I thought I could hear the music. But I can't, can I?

0:37:08 > 0:37:10They're in another time.

0:37:10 > 0:37:11Music's funny like that.

0:37:21 > 0:37:24CROWS CAW

0:37:28 > 0:37:31Right, shall we go back home?

0:37:31 > 0:37:35Time you were guarding that vault, we don't want Missy getting any ideas.

0:37:35 > 0:37:37Oh, one should always try to avoid those.

0:37:38 > 0:37:40Hello!

0:37:40 > 0:37:43You lot were ages, I was getting ever so worried.

0:37:43 > 0:37:45How did you get out of the vault?

0:37:45 > 0:37:46So, what do we do, how did this happen?

0:37:46 > 0:37:49It's all right, Nardole, she's been doing some work for me.

0:37:49 > 0:37:52Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I assumed they knew.

0:37:52 > 0:37:54Should I have stayed below decks?

0:37:54 > 0:37:55No, no, no. It's fine.

0:37:55 > 0:37:57She's supposed to be in the vault.

0:37:58 > 0:38:00How were the engines?

0:38:00 > 0:38:02Better than you deserve. You are naughty.

0:38:02 > 0:38:04Do you ever do basic maintenance?

0:38:04 > 0:38:06- No, but I've got a plan for that. - What?

0:38:06 > 0:38:07You.

0:38:07 > 0:38:10Seriously? What, she's doing chores for you now?

0:38:10 > 0:38:14Sir, I must to protest in the strongest, most upset terms possible.

0:38:14 > 0:38:17Don't make me go squeaky voiced!

0:38:17 > 0:38:21Do relax, you two. I'm biolocked out of the controls.

0:38:21 > 0:38:23I can't even get through those doors.

0:38:23 > 0:38:25I'm as much a prisoner here as I am in the vault.

0:38:25 > 0:38:27No, you most certainly are not.

0:38:27 > 0:38:31Doctor, seriously, why did you let her out?

0:38:31 > 0:38:34I think you may be forgetting how we got home from Mars.

0:38:34 > 0:38:36What, so now you trust her?

0:38:36 > 0:38:39No, so now he's getting TARDIS maintenance for free.

0:38:39 > 0:38:42Let's not get carried away.

0:38:42 > 0:38:44So what have you been up to? Did you watch us?

0:38:44 > 0:38:46- Some of it. A little bit. - What did you think?

0:38:46 > 0:38:48Oh, is she reviewing us now?

0:38:48 > 0:38:52All those little people, trapped in a hill, fighting forever.

0:38:52 > 0:38:55Is that really up to your bleeding heart standards?

0:38:55 > 0:38:58Well, they're not trapped and they're more than just fighting.

0:38:58 > 0:39:02And there's music. Always music.

0:39:02 > 0:39:06Well, team, who's going to help me hide his gee-tar?

0:39:06 > 0:39:09See, that's what I'm trying to teach you, Missy.

0:39:09 > 0:39:11You understand the universe, you see it, you grasp it.

0:39:11 > 0:39:13But you've never learned to hear the music.

0:39:22 > 0:39:26DISTANT MUSIC

0:40:06 > 0:40:08I don't even know why I'm crying.

0:40:08 > 0:40:11- Why do I keep doing that now? - I don't know.

0:40:11 > 0:40:13Maybe you're trying to impress me.

0:40:16 > 0:40:19Yes, probably some devious plan.

0:40:19 > 0:40:20That sounds about right.

0:40:23 > 0:40:25The alternative would be much worse.

0:40:27 > 0:40:28Really?

0:40:32 > 0:40:34The alternative is that this is for real.

0:40:36 > 0:40:38And it's time for us to become friends again.

0:40:41 > 0:40:43Do you think so?

0:40:51 > 0:40:54I don't know. That's the trouble with hope.

0:40:58 > 0:40:59It's hard to resist.

0:41:17 > 0:41:20I pick a scenario, we drop her down into it and we see how she does.

0:41:20 > 0:41:26Hello, I am that mysterious adventurer in all of time and space,

0:41:26 > 0:41:28and these are my disposables.

0:41:28 > 0:41:29Promise you won't get me killed.

0:41:29 > 0:41:31I said this was a bad idea.

0:41:32 > 0:41:36A 400-mile ship reversing away from the gravitational pull

0:41:36 > 0:41:38of a black hole.

0:41:38 > 0:41:41So sorry, but you're the reason that they're coming.

0:41:42 > 0:41:44What are they?

0:41:44 > 0:41:47A Mondasian Cyberman!

0:41:47 > 0:41:48Give us a kiss.