0:00:29 > 0:00:33- Bed!- But Mum...- George, I won't tell you again. Get into bed.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35I'm going to be late for work.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39It's just the lift, love. How many more times?
0:00:39 > 0:00:41- Don't like it.- Well, what do we do with the things we don't like?
0:00:42 > 0:00:46- Put them in the cupboard.- The thing!
0:00:46 > 0:00:47You have to do the thing, Mum.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01Five times. It has to be five times.
0:01:06 > 0:01:12Please save me from the monsters. Please save me from the monsters.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14Please save me from the monsters.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16All right now?
0:01:16 > 0:01:21Come on, George. There's nothing to be scared of.
0:01:21 > 0:01:22Ni-night then, love.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35- How was he?- He's in bed at least.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48I'm worried about him. Why's he terrified all the time?
0:01:48 > 0:01:53- He needs help.- He's got us. - He needs a doctor.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57Please save me from the monsters.
0:01:57 > 0:02:01Please save me from the monsters.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05Please save me from the monsters.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08Please save me from the monsters.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11Haven't done this in a while!
0:02:11 > 0:02:13Done what? What're you doing?
0:02:16 > 0:02:17Making a house call.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09- No offence, Doctor... - Meaning the opposite.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12- ..but we could get a bus somewhere like this.- The exact opposite.
0:03:12 > 0:03:15Well, I suppose it can't all be planets and history and stuff, Rory.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18Yes, it can! Course it can! Planets and history and stuff.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21That's what we do! But not today. No.
0:03:21 > 0:03:26Today, we're answering a cry for help from the scariest place in the universe - a child's bedroom.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49HEAVY BREATHING
0:04:04 > 0:04:06Please save me from the monsters.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08- Who sent that? - That's what we're here to find out.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11- Sounds like something a kid would say.- Exactly. A scared kid.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13A very scared kid.
0:04:13 > 0:04:17So scared that somehow its cry for help got through to us.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20- In the TARDIS. - Yeah, but you've traced it here? - Exactly. Ah!
0:04:20 > 0:04:22Going up.
0:04:24 > 0:04:28'Now, did you know there that there are twice as many pets
0:04:28 > 0:04:30'as people here in the UK?
0:04:30 > 0:04:33'Now that's a lot of animals and we want to know how clever they are.
0:04:33 > 0:04:38'If you were watching BBC1 on Saturday night, you will have seen Rolf Harris and Kate Humble...'
0:04:56 > 0:05:02- Hi!- Hello!
0:05:02 > 0:05:06Are your mummy and daddy in, or is it just you?
0:05:06 > 0:05:08OK.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10- Is it about the bins?- Pardon?
0:05:10 > 0:05:16Community support. Just checking up on community-based...things.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19- Can I help you?- Hi. Yeah, no. Sorry.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21I was just wondering if you've had any bother around here?
0:05:21 > 0:05:22Is everything OK?
0:05:22 > 0:05:26The bins. I can't be expected to get down all them stairs. I need new knees.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29- Bother? What do you mean? - Well, I mean...
0:05:29 > 0:05:32Are your neighbours nice? Do you get on well?
0:05:32 > 0:05:34- He didn't send you, did he?- Who? - Jim Purcell. Course we get on well.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37I'm their landlord. They love me, don't they?
0:05:37 > 0:05:38You're the landlord?!
0:05:38 > 0:05:41- Not the bins, no, Miss?- Mrs Rossiter.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43Thought you'd know that, being from community support.
0:05:43 > 0:05:47Yeah. Yes! Yes, of course. Sorry.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49I've already got a new hip. I'll be able to manage when I get the knees.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52Up and down them stairs like Sherpa Tensing then.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55- Can I come in?- Ooh!
0:05:57 > 0:06:00Course not! You could be anyone!
0:06:00 > 0:06:03- Could be, but I'm not.- Or maybe it's best I could come back another time.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05I'm the Doctor.
0:06:35 > 0:06:36We've got to find that kid.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39Maybe we should let the monsters gobble him up!
0:07:01 > 0:07:06- Hey! Any luck? - Three old ladies, a traffic warden from Croatia and a man with ten cats.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08- What are we actually looking for? - Ten cats! Scared kid, remember?
0:07:08 > 0:07:10I found scary kids. Does that count?
0:07:10 > 0:07:15- Hm. Try the next floor down. Catch you later.- OK.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18Maybe it was, you know... junk mail.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20- What?- The message on the psychic paper. Maybe it was just nothing.
0:07:36 > 0:07:39THEY SCREAM
0:08:04 > 0:08:07- Oh. Right. That was quick.- Was it?
0:08:07 > 0:08:09Claire said she'd phoned someone.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12- Social Services.- Yes. Yes!
0:08:12 > 0:08:15It's not, easy, you know...admitting your kid's got a problem.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17You've got a problem. I've got a problem. I bet they're connected, I'm the Doctor.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20Call me Doctor. What can I call you?
0:08:20 > 0:08:23- Alex.- Hello, Alex.
0:08:23 > 0:08:24So...
0:08:26 > 0:08:27..tell me about George.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41What a bloomin' mess.
0:08:43 > 0:08:47I'm the only one who gives a monkeys round here any more.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51Shocking!
0:08:53 > 0:08:56Talking to yourself now, Elsie.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58They say it's the first sign.
0:09:02 > 0:09:03Ooh, Lord!
0:09:03 > 0:09:06Come out of there!
0:09:10 > 0:09:13Don't be so ruddy horrible. Trying to scare an old lady to death.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18It's not right.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21Is that you, George?
0:09:21 > 0:09:25I'll tell your mum and dad.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32Come on, you little devil. Let's see your face.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Ever since he was born he's been a funny kid.
0:09:45 > 0:09:47Funny's good!
0:09:47 > 0:09:49- We like funny, don't we? - He never cries.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52Bottles it all up, I suppose.
0:09:52 > 0:09:55Tell him off, he just looks at you.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57- How old is he? - He was eight in January.
0:09:57 > 0:10:02- He should be growing out of stuff like this, shouldn't he?- Maybe.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06It's got worse, though lately?
0:10:06 > 0:10:09Yeah. We talked about getting help.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12You know, maybe sending him somewhere.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15He started getting these nervous tics, you know, funny little cough. Blinking all the time.
0:10:15 > 0:10:20- But now it's got completely out of hand. I mean he's scared to death of everything.- Pantaphobia.- What?!
0:10:20 > 0:10:22That's what it's called. Pantaphobia.
0:10:22 > 0:10:24Not a fear of pants though, if that's what you're thinking.
0:10:24 > 0:10:28It's a fear of everything, including pants, I suppose, in that case.
0:10:28 > 0:10:29Sorry. Go on.
0:10:29 > 0:10:33- He hates clowns.- Understandable.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36Old toys. He thinks the old lady across the way is a witch. He hates having a bath in case
0:10:36 > 0:10:38there's something under the water.
0:10:38 > 0:10:43The lift sounds like someone breathing! Look, I don't know.
0:10:45 > 0:10:46I'm not an expert.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52- Maybe you can get through to him. - I'll do my best.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00Amy?
0:11:00 > 0:11:01Amy? Are you here?
0:11:01 > 0:11:04Yeah. Here. No, here! It's me.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10You OK?
0:11:10 > 0:11:12- Yeah, I think so. - What happened to the lift?
0:11:12 > 0:11:16- We were in a lift, weren't we? - Yeah, yeah. We.. I remember
0:11:16 > 0:11:20- getting in and then... What? - We're dead, aren't we?- Eh?
0:11:20 > 0:11:22- The lift fell and we're dead. - Shut up.
0:11:22 > 0:11:23We're dead... again!
0:11:23 > 0:11:25Oh, shut up! Let's just find out where we are.
0:11:40 > 0:11:44- You know it's obvious what's happened.- Yeah? Really? Because it's not obvious to me.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46The TARDIS has gone funny again.
0:11:46 > 0:11:47Some time...
0:11:47 > 0:11:50slippy... thing.
0:11:50 > 0:11:54You know, The Doctor's back there in EastEnders-land and we're stuck here in the past.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56This is probably 1700 and something.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58Yay! My favourite year(!)
0:12:16 > 0:12:19George? You OK? What's the matter?
0:12:22 > 0:12:26Oh. Never mind.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Were you having a nightmare, son?
0:12:28 > 0:12:31Wasn't a nightmare. I wasn't asleep.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37- Who are you?- I'm The Doctor.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39A doctor? Have you come to take me away?
0:12:39 > 0:12:41No, George, I just want to talk to you.
0:12:41 > 0:12:42What about?
0:12:47 > 0:12:50About the monsters.
0:13:10 > 0:13:11Bit neglected, wherever it is.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14Let's find the front door, at least.
0:13:14 > 0:13:18Then we can work out where we are. When we are.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20- Rory.- Hm?
0:13:20 > 0:13:22- Look at this. - What? It's a copper pan.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24No, it's not.
0:13:24 > 0:13:27It's wood. It's made of wood and just painted to look like copper.
0:13:27 > 0:13:29That is stupid.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35Wait. Hang on.
0:13:39 > 0:13:41There's a switch.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47Wow! Well, not 1700 and something then.
0:14:02 > 0:14:03THEY SCREAM
0:14:16 > 0:14:19It's glass! It's a glass eye.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28- Stop doing that.- It's not me.
0:14:32 > 0:14:33Come on.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36Yep.
0:14:36 > 0:14:37Hang on.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49Maybe it was things on the telly, you know?
0:14:49 > 0:14:51Right.
0:14:51 > 0:14:54Scary stuff, getting under his skin, frightening him.
0:14:54 > 0:14:58- Hm-hm. - So we stopped letting him watch. - Oh, you don't want to do that.
0:14:58 > 0:15:01- Then Claire thought it might have been something he was reading.- Great!
0:15:01 > 0:15:03Reading's great.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05You like stories, George? Yeah?
0:15:05 > 0:15:08Me, too. When I was your age, about, ooh...
0:15:08 > 0:15:12a thousand years ago, I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans.
0:15:12 > 0:15:17The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White And The Seven Keys To Doomsday, eh? All the classics.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20Rubbish. Must be broken. I hate those things.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22Better tidy it away, though, eh?
0:15:28 > 0:15:30How about in here?
0:15:30 > 0:15:33No? Not in the cupboard? Why not in there, George?
0:15:33 > 0:15:35It's a... thing.
0:15:35 > 0:15:37A thing we got him doing ages back.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40Anything that frightens him, we put it in the cupboard. Creepy toys,
0:15:40 > 0:15:43- scary pictures, that sort of thing. - And is that where the monsters go?
0:15:45 > 0:15:47Yeah.
0:15:51 > 0:15:53There's nothing to be scared of, George.
0:15:55 > 0:15:58It's just a cupboard.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07LOUD KNOCKING
0:16:08 > 0:16:10Front door.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Let's try down here.
0:16:35 > 0:16:39- Evening.- Oh, hi.
0:16:39 > 0:16:40How's Claire?
0:16:40 > 0:16:45Good, thanks. At work. Look, this really isn't a good time.
0:16:45 > 0:16:46Maybe later...
0:16:46 > 0:16:48And the kiddie?
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Good. Yeah.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55You know how I hate to mention it, but it's that time again.
0:16:55 > 0:16:56- Yes. - And you know I like my money prompt.
0:17:00 > 0:17:05The thing is, I still haven't found anywhere since the shop shut and Claire's wage only goes so far.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07I thought we could, you know, come to some sort of arrangement.
0:17:07 > 0:17:12- Is that a torch?- Screwdriver!
0:17:12 > 0:17:16A sonic one. And other stuff.
0:17:16 > 0:17:19- Please may I see the other stuff? - You may.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25Ah, pretty cool, , eh?
0:17:40 > 0:17:41Isn't he awful, eh?
0:17:41 > 0:17:45Don't growl at the nice man, Bernard.
0:17:45 > 0:17:48He don't mean to upset daddy, do you?
0:17:48 > 0:17:52- No.- Look, son,
0:17:52 > 0:17:54I know what you're thinking.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57Here comes 'orrible Purcell after his rent.
0:17:57 > 0:18:01Dog on a chain. Wasn't expecting that, was you?
0:18:04 > 0:18:06I'm not as daft as I look.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08In fact, I'm not daft at all.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19That's better. No tears from George.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21That's what I've heard.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24Go on, give us a smile. There's a brave little soldier.
0:18:25 > 0:18:30Bit rusty at this. Anyway, let's open this cupboard, eh?
0:18:30 > 0:18:32There's nothing to be...
0:18:34 > 0:18:38Off the scale.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40Off the scale!
0:18:40 > 0:18:42How...?
0:18:42 > 0:18:47All I want is my £350. Simple as that.
0:18:49 > 0:18:53Ni-night. Come on, son. Come on.
0:19:00 > 0:19:01Right. Sorry about that.
0:19:03 > 0:19:06- So, have we got this thing open yet? - No! No! No, no, no!
0:19:06 > 0:19:08You don't want to do that!
0:19:08 > 0:19:12- Why? - Because George's monsters are real.
0:19:23 > 0:19:29- Oh, at last.- What is it?
0:19:29 > 0:19:33No doorknob! Wooden pans, A massive glass eyes and now no doorknob!
0:19:33 > 0:19:36- And this clock.- What?
0:19:36 > 0:19:39Look - the hands, they're painted on.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41CHILD'S LAUGHTER
0:19:52 > 0:19:54You're supposed to be a professional!
0:19:54 > 0:19:55I'll never get him to sleep now!
0:19:55 > 0:19:57It's so... irresponsible.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00No, Alex. Responsible. Very. Cupboard bad. Cupboard not bare.
0:20:00 > 0:20:02Stay away from cupboard.
0:20:02 > 0:20:03And there's something else. Something I've missed.
0:20:03 > 0:20:04Something staring me in the face.
0:20:04 > 0:20:08Look, I'd like you to leave, please. You're just making things worse.
0:20:08 > 0:20:09Will you stop making tea!
0:20:09 > 0:20:11I want you to leave!
0:20:11 > 0:20:14- No.- What?
0:20:14 > 0:20:18What do you mean 'no'? Leave! Get out!
0:20:18 > 0:20:20Now, please!
0:20:23 > 0:20:25Look, maybe this was a bad idea.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28- We should sort out George ourselves. - You can't.
0:20:28 > 0:20:32No-one's going to tell us how to run our lives.
0:20:32 > 0:20:35I don't care who you are or what wheels have been set in motion. We'll sort it!
0:20:35 > 0:20:39I'm not just a professional.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42- I'm The Doctor. - What's that supposed to mean?
0:20:42 > 0:20:44It means I've come a long way to get here, Alex. A very long way.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47George sent a message. A distress call, if you like.
0:20:47 > 0:20:51Whatever's inside that cupboard is so terrible, so powerful that it amplified the fears
0:20:51 > 0:20:55- of an ordinary little boy across all the barriers of Time and Space.- Eh?!
0:20:55 > 0:21:00Through crimson stars and silent stars and tumbling nebulas like oceans set on fire.
0:21:00 > 0:21:04Through empires of glass and civilizations of pure thought
0:21:04 > 0:21:08and a whole, terrible, wonderful universe of impossibilities.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10You see these eyes? They're old eyes.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12And one thing I can tell you, Alex...
0:21:15 > 0:21:17monsters are real.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22You're not from Social Services, are you?
0:21:24 > 0:21:28First things first. You got any Jammie Dodgers?
0:21:28 > 0:21:30Please...I don't like being on me own.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35If there's anyone there...
0:21:35 > 0:21:39please...help me!
0:21:44 > 0:21:46CHILD'S LAUGHTER
0:21:59 > 0:22:02CHILD'S LAUGHTER
0:22:03 > 0:22:05- You hear that?- Yeah.
0:22:07 > 0:22:08Wait!
0:22:15 > 0:22:17- They're getting closer!- They?!
0:22:22 > 0:22:27LAUGHTER CONTINUES THROUGHOUT
0:23:00 > 0:23:03It's just.. It's a dummy. Oh, it's a dummy.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05This is... weird.
0:23:05 > 0:23:09Says the time-travelling nurse.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16Let's just... leave that for now. Come on.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33What is it with these photos?
0:23:33 > 0:23:36Anyway! Good. Nice tea. Nothing like a cuppa, but decision.
0:23:36 > 0:23:37Should we open the cupboard?
0:23:39 > 0:23:41- What?!- Should we?- Well...
0:23:41 > 0:23:43Got to open the cupboard, haven't we? Course we have! Come on, Alex! Alex!
0:23:43 > 0:23:45Come on! How else will we ever find out what's going on here?
0:23:45 > 0:23:47- Right. But you said...- Monsters! Yeah, well, that's what I do!
0:23:47 > 0:23:49Breakfast, dinner and tea.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51Fight the monsters. So this...this
0:23:51 > 0:23:53is just an average day at the office.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56- OK. Yeah. You're right.- Or maybe we shouldn't open the cupboard!
0:23:56 > 0:23:59We have no idea what might be in there! How powerful, how evil it might be!
0:23:59 > 0:24:04- We don't?!- Come on, Alex! Alex! Come on! Are you crazy? We can't open the cupboard!- God, no. No, we mustn't!
0:24:04 > 0:24:06- Right. That settles it. - Settles what?
0:24:09 > 0:24:11Going to open the cupboard.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16There's nothing on.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19Never anything on, is there, Bernard? Bergerac.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22God help us. 30 years old, that!
0:24:22 > 0:24:24Where's the boxing? Meant to be boxing on.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31Looks like we are going to have to watch that film again.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42What the...?!
0:24:42 > 0:24:43Hold on a minute.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50This is not... No!
0:24:54 > 0:24:57Help me, Bernard. Help!
0:25:51 > 0:25:52I don't understand it. It has to be the cupboard.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54The readings from the sonic screwdriver, they were...
0:26:06 > 0:26:07- How old is George, Alex?- What?
0:26:07 > 0:26:09- How old?- Yes. How old is George? - Well, I told you. Just turned eight.
0:26:09 > 0:26:13- So you remember when he was born then?- Of course!- 'Course you do! How could you not? You and Claire.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15Christmas Eve. 2002, right?
0:26:15 > 0:26:16What? Er... yeah.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18Couple of weeks before George was born. Tell me about the day he arrived. Must've been wonderful.
0:26:18 > 0:26:24Best day of my...life.
0:26:24 > 0:26:25Sure?
0:26:25 > 0:26:29- Yes.- You don't sound sure.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31What are you trying to say?
0:26:31 > 0:26:33Look, I don't like this. I've told you before, I want you to go!
0:26:33 > 0:26:37What's the matter, Alex?
0:26:37 > 0:26:40I can't... Don't!
0:26:40 > 0:26:42- Oh, this is scary!- No, Alex. This is scary. Claire with baby George.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44Newborn, yes?
0:26:44 > 0:26:45Yes.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47Less than a month after Christmas.
0:26:47 > 0:26:50- So?- So look. Look! Claire's not pregnant.- What?- Not pregnant.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52Well, of course not. Claire can't have kids!
0:26:54 > 0:26:58- Say that again.- We tried everything.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01She was desperate. As much IVF as we could afford, but...
0:27:04 > 0:27:06Claire can't have kids.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15How...
0:27:15 > 0:27:16How can I have forgotten that?
0:27:26 > 0:27:29Who are you, George?
0:27:29 > 0:27:33It's not possible! This isn't...
0:27:35 > 0:27:36George?
0:27:53 > 0:27:55George...!
0:27:55 > 0:27:59George, what's going on? Are you doing this?
0:27:59 > 0:28:02- What's happening? - Please save me from the Monsters!
0:28:02 > 0:28:04Please save me from the Monsters!
0:28:04 > 0:28:08Please save me from the Monsters! Please save me from the Monsters!
0:28:08 > 0:28:12Please save me from the Monsters! Please save me from the Monsters!
0:28:12 > 0:28:13Please save me from the Monsters!
0:28:13 > 0:28:16Please save me from the Monsters!
0:28:16 > 0:28:18Please save me from the Monsters!
0:28:18 > 0:28:22Please save me from the Monsters! Please save me from the Monsters!
0:28:23 > 0:28:27George!
0:28:39 > 0:28:41Why aren't there any lights?
0:28:41 > 0:28:45I miss lights. You don't really miss things till they're gone, do you?
0:28:45 > 0:28:48- That's what my nan used to say, "You'll never miss the water till the well runs dry."- Rory.
0:28:48 > 0:28:51Except light I mean, not water. Lights are great, aren't they?
0:28:51 > 0:28:54I mean if this place was all lit up, we wouldn't even be worried at all.
0:28:54 > 0:28:57Rory! Panicking. A bit.
0:28:57 > 0:28:59Yeah, yeah. Sorry.
0:28:59 > 0:29:01Help me! Please! Keep them away from me!
0:29:01 > 0:29:03Keep them away!
0:29:05 > 0:29:07AHHH!
0:29:07 > 0:29:10DOLL SINGS A NURSERY RHYME
0:29:26 > 0:29:29I take it all back. Panic now.
0:29:32 > 0:29:34'Don't run away. We want to play!'
0:30:03 > 0:30:06George! Don't do this! We want to help you, George!
0:30:16 > 0:30:19We went... We went into the cupboard!
0:30:19 > 0:30:22We went into the cupboard!
0:30:22 > 0:30:25How can it be bigger in here?
0:30:25 > 0:30:28More common than you'd think, actually. You're OK.
0:30:28 > 0:30:30- Where are we?- Obvious, isn't it?
0:30:30 > 0:30:33- No!- Dolls' house! We're inside the dolls' house.
0:30:33 > 0:30:37- The dolls' house?!- In the cupboard. In your flat. The dolls' house!
0:30:37 > 0:30:40- No, no, just slow down, would you? - Look! Wooden chicken!
0:30:40 > 0:30:43Cups, saucers, plates, knives, forks, fruit, chickens! Wood! So...
0:30:43 > 0:30:48we're either inside the dolls' house or this a refuge for dirty posh people who eat wooden food.
0:30:48 > 0:30:50Or termites! Giant termites trying to get on the property ladder.
0:30:50 > 0:30:53No, that's possible. Is that possible?
0:31:00 > 0:31:03Look, will you stop? What is he?
0:31:03 > 0:31:05What is George?
0:31:05 > 0:31:08And how could I forget that Claire can't have kids? How?
0:31:08 > 0:31:11Perception filter. Some kind of hugely powerful perception filter.
0:31:11 > 0:31:13Convinced you and Claire. Everyone. Made you change your memories.
0:31:13 > 0:31:15Now, what could do that?
0:31:20 > 0:31:22Just a mirror.
0:31:24 > 0:31:27CHILD'S LAUGHTER
0:31:30 > 0:31:33- Lock it!- There isn't a lock!
0:31:50 > 0:31:53So, Claire can't have kids and something responded to that.
0:31:53 > 0:31:55Responded to that need. What could do that?
0:31:55 > 0:32:00I thought you were the expert, fighting monsters all day long. You tell me!
0:32:00 > 0:32:02Oi, listen, mush. Old eyes, remember?
0:32:02 > 0:32:04I've been around the block a few times. More than a few.
0:32:04 > 0:32:08They've knocked down the blocks I've been round and re-built them as bigger blocks. Super blocks!
0:32:08 > 0:32:10I've been round them as well. I can't remember everything.
0:32:10 > 0:32:12Doctor...
0:32:12 > 0:32:16- It's like trying to remember the name of someone you met at a party when you were two.- Doctor, the lift.
0:32:16 > 0:32:18- And I can't just plump for 'Brian' like I normally do.- Doctor, listen!
0:32:18 > 0:32:21- Shh. What's that?- It's the lift. It's the sound that the lift makes.
0:32:21 > 0:32:23George is scared stiff of it.
0:32:46 > 0:32:48We can't stay in here. We've got to get out!
0:32:48 > 0:32:51Er, how?
0:32:51 > 0:32:54Take control, Rory. Take control of the only thing we can.
0:32:54 > 0:32:58- Letting them in!- Letting them in?
0:32:58 > 0:33:01And then we surprise them. We open the door and we push past them.
0:33:01 > 0:33:03Kick them. Punch them. Anything. OK?
0:33:03 > 0:33:06- 'Time to play!'- OK.
0:33:12 > 0:33:14Go on!
0:33:14 > 0:33:17Amy, come on!
0:33:17 > 0:33:20Rory!
0:33:20 > 0:33:24SHE SINGS A NURSERY RHYME
0:33:43 > 0:33:46- Five times.- What?
0:33:46 > 0:33:50The lights. It's happening five times. It's like one of George's habits.
0:33:50 > 0:33:54We have to switch the light on and off five times.
0:33:54 > 0:33:55- Now you're getting it! - What d'you mean?
0:33:55 > 0:34:00- What do you tell George to do, Alex, with everything that scares him? - Well, put it in the... cupboard.
0:34:00 > 0:34:03George isn't just an ordinary little boy.
0:34:03 > 0:34:08So, anything scary he puts in here. Scary toys, like the dolls' house.
0:34:08 > 0:34:10Scary noises, like, like the lift.
0:34:10 > 0:34:13Even his little rituals have become part of it.
0:34:13 > 0:34:16A psychic repository for all his fears, but what is he?
0:34:24 > 0:34:26Oh, my God!
0:34:31 > 0:34:32A gun? You've got a gun?!
0:34:32 > 0:34:35It's not a gun. Wood! I've got to invent a setting for wood.
0:34:35 > 0:34:38It's embarrassing.
0:34:38 > 0:34:42Come on!
0:34:42 > 0:34:47'Don't run away. We just want to play.'
0:34:57 > 0:34:59Massive psychic field. Perfect perception filter. And that need.
0:34:59 > 0:35:04That need of Claire's to, to... Stupid Doctor!
0:35:04 > 0:35:06Ow! George is a Tenza. Of course he is.
0:35:06 > 0:35:08He's a what?!
0:35:08 > 0:35:11A cuckoo. A cuckoo in the nest. A Tenza. He's a Tenza.
0:35:11 > 0:35:14Millions of them hatch in space and then whoomph!
0:35:14 > 0:35:15Off they drift, looking for a nest.
0:35:15 > 0:35:19The Tenza young can sense exactly what their foster parents want and then they assimilate. Perfectly.
0:35:19 > 0:35:22- George is an... alien?- Yup.
0:35:22 > 0:35:27- But he's...he's our child!- Of course he is. The child you always wanted.
0:35:27 > 0:35:32He sensed that instinctively and sought you out, but something scared him. Started this cycle of fear.
0:35:32 > 0:35:34It's all completely instinctive.
0:35:34 > 0:35:36Subconscious. George isn't even aware that he's controlling it.
0:35:37 > 0:35:40So we have to make him aware. George!
0:35:42 > 0:35:46GEORGE! You're the only one who can stop this, but you have to believe!
0:35:46 > 0:35:48You have to believe, you have to know you're safe!
0:35:48 > 0:35:50I can't save you from the monsters.
0:35:50 > 0:35:53Only you can! George, Listen to me!
0:35:53 > 0:35:56George! Listen to me!
0:36:00 > 0:36:02- Rory!- Doctor!
0:36:02 > 0:36:04Where's Amy?
0:36:04 > 0:36:06George!
0:36:06 > 0:36:08George, you have to face your fears.
0:36:08 > 0:36:10You have to face them now!
0:36:13 > 0:36:14You have to open the cupboard
0:36:14 > 0:36:17or we'll all be trapped here forever in a living death! George!
0:36:17 > 0:36:20George, listen to me! George!
0:36:20 > 0:36:23George listen to me!
0:36:23 > 0:36:25George!
0:36:25 > 0:36:28Please! George, you have to end this!
0:36:30 > 0:36:34End this end this. End this now!
0:36:47 > 0:36:49George! George! You did it!
0:36:49 > 0:36:53You did it! It's OK, it's all OK now.
0:36:53 > 0:36:55Everything's going to be fine.
0:36:55 > 0:36:58No. No.
0:36:59 > 0:37:01No, no, no, no, no!
0:37:01 > 0:37:04George, you created this whole world.
0:37:04 > 0:37:06This whole thing, you can smash it!
0:37:06 > 0:37:07You can destroy it!
0:37:09 > 0:37:11Something's holding him back. Something's holding him back.
0:37:11 > 0:37:13Something...
0:37:13 > 0:37:16Who are you?
0:37:16 > 0:37:17- I'm The Doctor.- A doctor?
0:37:17 > 0:37:19Have you come to take me away?
0:37:20 > 0:37:22That's what did it. That's what the trigger was. He thought you were rejecting him.
0:37:22 > 0:37:23He thought he wasn't wanted.
0:37:23 > 0:37:24That someone was going to come and take him away.
0:37:24 > 0:37:27Well, we...we talked about it.
0:37:27 > 0:37:28Yeah, and he heard you, Alex.
0:37:28 > 0:37:32A Tenza's sole function is to fit in, to be wanted, and you were rejecting him.
0:37:32 > 0:37:34We just couldn't cope. We needed help!
0:37:34 > 0:37:36Yes, but George didn't know that. He thought you were rejecting him. He still thinks it.
0:37:36 > 0:37:38But how can we keep him? How can we?
0:37:38 > 0:37:40He's not...
0:37:40 > 0:37:42Not what?
0:37:42 > 0:37:45He's not...human.
0:37:48 > 0:37:50No.
0:37:50 > 0:37:53DAD!
0:38:09 > 0:38:14Whatever you are, whatever you do, you're my son.
0:38:14 > 0:38:19And I will never, ever send you away.
0:38:19 > 0:38:22Oh, George.
0:38:22 > 0:38:24Oh, my little boy.
0:38:26 > 0:38:28Dad.
0:38:33 > 0:38:36My little boy.
0:38:36 > 0:38:37Dad.
0:38:52 > 0:38:56Oh, dear.
0:38:56 > 0:38:59Must be them tablets.
0:38:59 > 0:39:02Oh. Oh, dear.
0:39:10 > 0:39:12- Was I...?- Yeah.
0:39:34 > 0:39:36Hi!
0:39:43 > 0:39:46Hello! You're Claire, I expect.
0:39:46 > 0:39:50- Claire...how'd you feel about kippers?- Er...who?
0:39:50 > 0:39:52They sent someone. About George.
0:39:52 > 0:39:55- It's all sorted. - Yeah, we had a great time, didn't we?
0:39:55 > 0:39:59- Yeah!- See, he's fine. - What? Just like that?
0:39:59 > 0:40:03Yes. Trust me.
0:40:14 > 0:40:17- Doctor, wait!- Sorry, yes. Bye. - You can't just...
0:40:19 > 0:40:20- I mean...- It's sorted. You sorted it. Good man, Alex.
0:40:20 > 0:40:22- Proud of you.- What, that's it?
0:40:22 > 0:40:26Well, apart from making sure he eats his greens and getting him into a good school, yes.
0:40:26 > 0:40:30But is he going to... I don't know, sprout another head or three eyes or something?
0:40:30 > 0:40:32He's one of the Tenza remember? He'll adapt perfectly now. Hey!
0:40:32 > 0:40:34Be whatever you want him to be.
0:40:40 > 0:40:44I might pop back around puberty, mind you. Always a funny time.
0:40:48 > 0:40:50Kippers are getting cold!
0:40:53 > 0:40:57Come on, you two. Things to do, people to see, whole civilisations to save.
0:40:57 > 0:40:59You feeling OK?
0:40:59 > 0:41:01Erm, I think so.
0:41:01 > 0:41:04Well, it's good to be all back together again.
0:41:04 > 0:41:07In the flesh. Come on.
0:41:07 > 0:41:10Now did someone mention something about planets and history and stuff?
0:41:10 > 0:41:13- Where do you want to go? - Um...- Mind's gone blank.
0:41:13 > 0:41:17- Well, I have just been turned into a wooden dolly.- Excuses, excuses.
0:41:17 > 0:41:19It's tough though. It's like being given three wishes.
0:41:19 > 0:41:21- The whole universe?- Or universes.
0:41:21 > 0:41:23Ooh, three wishes like Ali Baba.
0:41:23 > 0:41:24How about that?
0:41:24 > 0:41:27GIRLS SINGS NURSERY RHYME
0:41:39 > 0:41:42- Where am 1? - You're in a faster timestream.
0:41:42 > 0:41:46- Amy!- You didn't save me?
0:41:46 > 0:41:49- So I have to choose. Which wife do I want?- Which one's Amy 1?
0:41:49 > 0:41:51If they touch you, you go to sleep.
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