14x00 - Eve of the Daleks
Posted: 01/02/22 04:28
♪ Here comes the jackpot
question in advance ♪
♪ What are you doing New Year's ♪
♪ New Year's Eve. ♪
Every year, every New Year's Eve, Jeff,
you promise me that you'll work,
and then you play me for
the fool that I clearly am,
and then just at the last minute,
when you know,
you know I have plans, you leave me
high and dry, on my own,
on New Year's Eve working in
a business that you know I hate,
but not as much I hate you, Jeff,
and I do hate you.
I wish I'd never employed you.
So, yeah, can you call me back when
you get a chance? Thank you.
Oh! No!
[PHONE PINGS]
Stop it! Go away!
Oh, erm, hiya, Nick.
Happy nearly New Year, Sarah.
- Here we are again.
- Yeah, yeah.
Here we are again.
No Jeff?
No. Astonishingly, no. No Jeff.
It's become a little bit of
a tradition now. Oh, my God!
- [PHONE PINGS]
- Sorry, are you busy on your phone?
Sorry, no, just my phone's
broken, the button,
and I can't put it on silent. And so
obviously everyone's sending me
messages and texts and
pictures from their night,
and unsurprisingly I don't
really want to see them.
Much better being here!
You know, instead of all of those
parties and people and drinks.
Yeah, I mean, it's not though, is it?
- I'm not really one for New Years.
- Yeah. No, I know that, yes.
- So, you want to access your unit?
- Yes.
[PHONE CONTINUES TO PING]
- Yeah. So...
- Can you remind me of
the list of things that can't be stored?
Yes.
Stolen or illegal goods, tyres,
animals, humans, dead
or alive in any cases,
cash, plant, food, cars,
g*ns or amm*nit*on,
or any material that is
in any way toxic,
hazardous or radioactive, and a shop.
- I promise you I don't have a shop.
- Very good. Here's the keys.
And when you say hazardous...
When I say hazardous?
Well, I suppose I'd ask myself,
"If I set fire to this item, will it
have potentially expl*sive or
devastating consequences?"
So, this...
... would be okay?
- Well, that's a board game.
- Yes.
Is it a toxic, hazardous or
radioactive board game?
- There's loads of paper in there.
- There's your keys.
I hear loads of storage places
have access codes now.
Yes, Nick, they do.
They also have the money
to upgrade their systems,
whereas I have no money,
just a dilapidated building,
my rival straight across the road,
and you as my only customer.
As valued a customer as you are, Nick.
Platinum loyalty card member, that's me.
I'll be off to my unit.
Yeah.
[PHONE PINGS]
Won't be long.
See you next year.
Have you been practising that?
Yes.
- Ready?
- BOTH: Ready!
When I set this going, the TARDIS
will go into self-reset,
which should, if I've got this
right, which I'm sure I have,
clear out all the Flux debris,
minimise the number of doors,
and be back to fully functioning.
But it'll be out of service
for a little bit.
How long is a little bit?
I'm not sure, but that's why we're
landing on the sentient beaches of
San Munrohvar. We'll be playing
chess with the fish,
drinking mocktails with the lobsters.
Once I throw the last lever,
we'll have seven seconds to get out.
We don't want to be in here when
it's resetting because, well...
... we'd die.
Here we go!
Go, go! Go, go, go!
Where's the beach?
[TARDIS CRACKLES AND HUMS]
That's supposed to be like that, is it?
Not sure. Never had to do this before.
Are you sure we're in San Munrohvar?
Uh...
'Cause it doesn't look
very beachy to me.
Ah, Manchester.
- What?
- Of all the places!
Sorry. New Year's Eve .
Nine minutes to midnight.
TARDIS will be sorted soon. Come on,
there'll be a party on somewhere.
Temporal disturbance, two floors above.
Because of the TARDIS?
Don't think so, cloaked signal.
We should check. Come on.
Mancs. New Year, Mancs.
Doesn't she understand?
Erm...
Sarah?
[WARPING SOUND]
Identify!
I'm Nick.
[PHONE RINGS]
Mammy, it's four minutes to midnight.
Every year. Why are you calling me now?
The lines will all be busy at midnight.
No, they won't, because it's not .
Are you still at work?
New Year's Eve is the best
time to meet a man.
- I'm not trying to meet...
- I met your father on New Year's Eve.
- You did not.
- January th, same thing.
It's literally not the same thing,
Mammy. Anyway,
who says I even want to meet a man?
And the only reason I'm
working tonight is
because I had to keep on stupid
Jeff at the stupid place that
I inherited from your stupid uncle,
obviously no offence, God rest his soul.
- Your uncle Barry was a saint.
- Oh.
Listen, Mam, I have to go,
I've got a customer.
So, yeah, just call me at
the bongs, will you?
- The lines will all be busy.
- No, they won't.
I don't like calling on the...
[PHONE PINGS]
Go away with your stupid having fun.
MUTTERS: Stupid party, stupid drink,
stupid everyone pairing up.
Just die, everyone!
Oh, no.
Dalek. Multiple w*apon blasts.
- Was that the time disruption?
- What's a Dalek?
The deadliest k*lling
machine in the universe.
[ELEVATOR PINGS]
You all done, Nick?
I am not Nick.
This area is now under Dalek control.
- What's going on?
- Exterminate!
Dalek!
You'll answer for that.
Daleks answer to no-one.
Daleks answer to me.
Why are you k*lling these people?
- Shouldn't we just go?
- I'm using my sonic
to jam its w*apon systems.
Sonic device will not
override my weapons.
Yes, it does. 'Cause
I've used it before.
Correct.
Daleks learn.
Exterminate!
Not like this.
- But that's a board game.
- Yes.
- You okay?
- Yeah, are you okay?
I'm not sure.
- I feel like I've just had this...
- Here are your keys, by the way.
- Most places have...
- Access codes, yes, I know.
No need to go on about it.
Sorry, sorry. I'm just a bit
spaced out at the moment.
I've been working too hard...
I'll go to my unit.
Yes. You will.
You will...
[PHONE PINGS]
Oh, my God.
See you next year.
Oh, have you been practising that?
Where's the beach?
Whoa.
[CRACKLING AND HUMMING]
Has anyone else got proper deja vu?
Yeah.
Didn't we just get exterminated?
Lad by the storage unit!
Wait, did I... ?
Exterminate!
Sarah.
Exterminate!
No, no, no. No, no, no.
What the... ?
Oh! God!
I'm going to need a w*apon. A w*apon.
Jeff!
He's not here. He should be here.
We've gone back in time, Dalek incoming,
two people in this building,
about to die unless we stop it.
So, why isn't he here?
Argh!
Sarah!
Ah!
- Fifth floor, okay. Go!
- Do not move.
- You're real.
- Correct. Exterminate!
Jeff. "Temporary storage,
you said it was okay".
Honestly, I said one unit!
Honestly, give that man an inch
and he takes a corridor.
What?
No animals, alive or dead.
Oh, my God. holiday goods!
They're probably stolen.
Jeff. Food!
Gross.
I just need something
I can use as a w*apon!
[PHONE RINGS]
Mam, now is really not a good moment!
The lines will all be busy at midnight.
No. They won't, Mammy.
Are you still at work?
New Year's Eve is the best
time to meet a man.
Mam. I'm going to have to call
you back at the bongs, okay?
Look.
No. Just no.
Okay? 'Cause this is my premises
and you, sir, are trespassing.
Okay? So, just... Just...
Just shoo. Just go. Just...
Just... Just... Just get!
Increased fear levels detected.
I mean, well, obviously!
And how did you even find me?
I-I changed up what I did!
I anticipated your change.
Please, please don't k*ll me.
Exterminate!
No!
The second time I've failed to save him.
Second time the Dalek's
been cleverer than us.
Doctor, look, it got both of them.
It's ahead of us.
Way ahead of us.
Correct, Doctor.
Dalek strategy is supreme.
- Says you!
- So, there's no point making a run for it?
The entrance has been secured.
There is no escape.
If it's any consolation, we'd have
been shot before we got
- there anyway.
- So, we're dead. Second time round.
- The inferior human is correct.
- Oi. Who are you calling inferior?
You.
Assessment has been made.
Pretty smart, Daleks.
We've been here before. But time reset.
So, we're still alive. You failed.
My mission was completed.
There was a disruption with time.
This moment is the correction!
There is no escape!
Exterminate!
What?
Oh, no, you don't!
- BOTH: Time loop.
- Groundhog Day.
Same difference.
We've got to go get that lad.
Sorry! Sorry! Oh, my God, Nick,
we have to get out of here.
- That's what I was coming to say to you.
- What? No, no.
We're stuck in a time loop
with k*ller robots.
- Okay, yeah, that makes sense.
- Does it?
- 'Cause I actually thought I was losing my mind.
- No, because I've been
- k*lled twice by a robot.
- Oh, my God, me too!
Which is crazy. Because I'm still alive.
Right? But I was coming back to
save you on the second time.
- You did what?
- But you weren't there.
Yes, that's because you were
coming up to save me, right?
Yep, yeah, that was it. We must
have missed each other.
Who are they?
Hi, I'm the Doctor, this is Yaz and Dan.
How did you get in here? Wait,
are you from building control?
Are you from the council?
Yes. We're here to
control your building.
And three of you? On New Year's Eve.
You make me sick.
Building control never sleeps.
We're the rapid response unit
and we really need to get you
to safety, like right now!
Wait, have you got something
to do with that robot?
No, and it's a Dalek.
Oh, my God, you know its name!
Are you... ? Is it your robot?
'Cause you know we've died
like two times so far.
We have died! Okay?
And I know that sounds mad because
obviously I'm alive saying it.
But still! At any point, you can
just jump in and say something now.
I'm trying to figure out which one
is most unlikely... time loop
with robots or three people from
the council working on New Years.
We're here to help. We're also
stuck in the time loop.
The robot isn't a robot, it's a Dalek.
It's a living mutant creature
inside weaponised battle transport.
It will k*ll everything not
within its own image.
And then what does it want
with us? Why is it here?
I don't know. All I know is
we don't have much...
... time.
- Halt!
- Get behind me, Sarah.
- What are you doing?
- I'm being chivalrous.
- It's just patronising!
- Okay!
Everybody, into my storage
unit! Just here!
Where's the exit?
- What do you mean?
- Where's the way out?
No, the other way out.
So, we can escape.
There isn't another way out.
- What?
- It's a storage unit.
- Not a great plan, was it?
- Well, we're not dead.
From now on, I'm in charge of the plans.
And there's always another way out.
Somehow. You just have to find it.
Surrender. There is no escape!
Daleks are patient. I will wait.
[PHONE PINGS]
- Show me your phone.
- What do you want with my phone?
That's what I was worried about.
- What were you worried about?
- Shh, I'm working!
- How did you three even get in this building?
- If we told you,
you'd never believe us.
Nick, why have you got all those
names on the shelves?
They're just ex-girlfriends.
They're what?
Oh, this is where I keep stuff
for women I've split up with.
Just in case they ever ask for it back.
I don't want it in my
eyeline, you know, at home.
I have a very small flat.
I said it's a flat,
but it's more of a boxroom. With a door.
And a toilet. With like
a kitchenette on top of a toilet.
You have a lot of ex-girlfriends.
They're alive still, aren't they?
Of course... Oh, God! Of course!
Yeah. Not all of them were serious.
Some were just like a few days.
Man, you are weird.
- What?
- Bit harsh.
Bit har... ? He comes here... here...
every New Year's Eve,
which is weird enough in itself,
and for what? To do all of this!
Which is... That is weird!
He is standing right there.
- It's fine.
- No, it's not fine! It's not fine!
You're the reason that I'm here.
You're the reason that I'm trapped
in a time loop with a robot...
- BOTH: Dalek!
- With stupidly named robots,
with people I don't even
know, all so what?
Why? So, you can catalogue
your Monopoly?
Just throw that stuff away!
Um...
Yeah.
No, no, no, no, no!
No, no, no, no, no!
- Get back in here.
- Take me.
You can take me. But just let them go.
Don't try and reason with it.
- You're right, this is all my fault.
- What?
- You wouldn't be here if it wasn't for me.
- No.
So, you can let them...
It's okay. It's okay.
He did that for us. He did
that for us. For me!
- It's okay.
- But it's not his fault.
[PHONE RINGS]
Oh, my giddy aunt!
What the... ? Mammy, please,
now is not the time.
But the lines will be busy at midnight!
- No. They won't. Goodbye!
- Let's focus on what we can do now.
You know I said there's always
another way out?
- BOTH: Yeah!
- There isn't.
Solid concrete walls, thick ceilings.
It will take a long time to
resonate through those,
and nothing of any use in here,
unless you want to play Monopoly!
Our resources in defeating
the Dalek are limited
to non-existent.
Do you have anything we could use
to defeat the Dalek? It really is
a matter of life and death.
I mean... Four floors up.
I mean, there's a mad stash
of stuff four floors up.
But we're on this floor!
This time.
Doctor...
What?
Very persistent, your Dalek.
How do we get out of here?
I don't think we do.
But we get another go.
Except we'll have less time.
ALL: What?
I felt it the second time,
but this time I'm certain.
Time on your phone proved it.
We're coming back
a minute later each time.
Last time, it was eight
minutes to midnight.
This time, seven. I think
the next is going to be six.
The time loop's shortening
on each reset.
Is that a good or bad thing?
Not sure. Definitely one or the other.
Depending on your outlook!
Less time for the Dalek to find
and exterminate us.
Equally, less time for us
to figure this out
and defeat it.
Whatever's causing
the time loop can't sustain it.
It must be under some sort of pressure.
That's why it's decreasing. Either way,
the loop repeats, time repeats,
so we need to be the variation.
We need to be unpredictable,
so the Dalek can't guess what
we're going to do next.
Next time, we don't come back here.
That's what it'll be expecting.
We go straight to the fifth floor.
See what that mad stash has to offer.
But what about Nick?
Surrender.
Congratulations.
The most evil creature in
the universe has successfully
vanquished an old door.
Silence!
No chance. You just can't seem
to get rid of us, can you?
We have learned. We will
exterminate all life here
until the closure of the time loop.
All necessary calibrations
have been made.
The target will be ex*cuted.
Targeted execution of who?
You, Doctor.
- I was worried it might say that.
- So, it is your fault?
You've k*lled us twice.
Yet we're still alive.
Why do you think it's going
to work this time?
We are relentless.
Your ultimate extermination
and execution is inevitable.
You are trapped, Doctor.
Not trapped, never trapped.
You won't win.
You never win.
Incorrect. Exterminate!
Lift. Fifth floor.
Do not move!
I am very much going to move!
[SHE YELPS]
Just passed reception.
Patterns indicate that's where
the Dalek's starting this time.
And the time loop's
shortened by a minute.
Every time one minute less.
This is tricky.
It seems that the time loop
only extends to
the radius of this building.
If we can stay alive
and be outside the building
when midnight hits,
we might stand a chance
of getting clear of this.
Second Dalek signal.
In a different part of the building.
That's either an echo or...
There's two of them.
What are you doing?
I'll keep the one in reception busy.
You two try and figure out
how to stop all of this.
If I manage to stay alive,
I'll see you up there.
If not, I'll see you in the next loop.
So, there'd better be a next loop.
- Dan, you don't have to do this.
- I know.
But you saved the entire
universe last week.
I think I owe you one.
Look after each other.
Oh! You're here.
I was worried you wouldn't be here!
Look, sorry you got k*lled, you know?
But you should not have
done that, though.
Especially not because of anything
that I may or may not have said,
or made you feel, or whatever.
Anyways, I've got a plan.
- We're going to get out of here.
- What about the others?
Literally not our problem.
They'll be fine.
Probably their fault that the robots
are here in the first place.
So... That's what I was thinking.
- So, yeah, come on.
- Wait, but...
Don't have time to explain!
Identify.
All right, mate, are you new here?
I arrived . rels ago.
Yeah, well, I've got some
stuff I need storing.
I just wanted to see what was available.
Daleks do not store stuff.
You're in the wrong job,
then, aren't you?
What are you, some kind of automated
staff? How does this work?
Desist. Do not approach.
I'd get a friendlier voice, though.
This one's a little bit grating.
What kind of a welcome is that, eh?
I'll report you to your manager!
Daleks do not have managers.
Maybe that's part of your problem!
Artron energy particles detected.
You are a friend of the Doctor.
Analysis concludes this is
a delaying tactic!
Took you long enough.
Exterminate!
What the hell is that?
And what's all this stuff?
Do you know no-one's paying
for anything on this floor?
If Jeff is sub-letting this
place, honestly,
I'll actually... This is crazy.
And he knows I never come down
here, this is unbelievable.
Please don't tell anyone from
the council about this.
They're not from the council.
[PHONE RINGS]
Hard to keep track. Oh, Mammy!
Please don't call before midnight.
How many times?
No, the lines won't be busy.
What do you mean? I haven't
spoken to you since August.
- Yeah, I know. I'll call you back.
- Shh, Sarah! Down!
The robot's over there.
They must be trying to hunt us down.
The escape is over that way,
through that corridor.
Listen, I, um... I lied
to you earlier on.
I didn't come and try to save
you, that second time.
Right.
Yeah. I went to find a w*apon.
In Jeff's... On the fifth floor.
Right. I guess that's a valid approach.
But, like, I'm sure, that
had I found a w*apon,
and not been k*lled,
then I absolutely would have
come to save you.
Probably.
Except I would have been dead.
Yeah, admittedly, that was a flaw.
But that's why I came to
save you this time.
Thanks.
I really appreciate you
trying to save me.
You know, not many people
would have done that.
Some close friends and
family included, actually.
- We should get going.
- Yeah, don't want to get k*lled!
We're never going to get that moment
on the beach, where you tell me
- everything that happened to you, are we?
- Of course we will.
Interesting.
I'm not sure these are particularly
useful resources.
Eurgh.
Who eats beans
and then thinks these could just
do with being a bit beefy?
Nobody, by the looks of things.
These are three years out of date.
Oh.
I think Jeff might live here.
Oh, Jeff. You bad, bad man.
Yaz. This is the sort of stuff about
which you would ask yourself
"If I set fire to this, will it
have expl*sive
and potentially
devastating consequences?"
And the answer is yes.
Surrender, Doctor!
It's blocking our exit.
Why do you always put your stuff
into storage just before midnight on
New Years Eve?
Feels a little over-organised.
That's the time I'll
know you'll be here.
Jeff always lets you down.
I have an embarrassing crush on you.
No, I don't mean the crush
is embarrassing,
I mean... the time.
This is an embarrassing time
to let you know... now.
So, why are you saying
it to me like this, now?
'Cause I'm going to be k*lled
by aliens in a minute.
Again. I guess...
... I'm just worried that one of
these times I won't make it back.
How long has this been going on for?
- Three years.
- Oh, my! What?!
Three years? That is so stalkery.
I'd prefer unrequited. Or shy.
Stalkery would be if I was menacing you.
Or said anything about this
at all. Which I haven't.
- No. No.
- And I wouldn't...
If I wasn't going to be...
Exterminate!
No!
You're going to be sorry for that.
Daleks are never sorry.
No!
Come on, door! I know I haven't
opened you in years,
but just work with me!
Exterminate!
You will not escape us, Doctor.
You will never escape us.
So, there's two of you. Bad news.
Bad news on top of previous bad news.
Not my favourite New Year's Eve.
Your attempts to evade us are futile.
Agree to disagree.
But why have you created a time loop?
We did not create the time loop.
The time loop was created by
your TARDIS.
We caused it with the reset.
Dalek command identified
the energy pattern of your TARDIS
and despatched Daleks to execute you
for your actions against the Dalek race.
Which particular actions?
Using the Flux to destroy
the Dalek w*r fleet.
That wasn't my idea!
That was a Sontaran stratagem
that I h*jacked.
You are responsible for
the destruction of millions of Daleks.
Your death is the priority of
the Dalek race. We will not stop.
- Exterminate!
- Exterminate!
We made it back. I'm alive!
All right, don't get cocky.
Reception. Take the stairs!
I mean, a thanks would be nice.
- Oh.
- Okay.
Er, where were you?
Well, I can explain.
We had a deal. Meet on the fifth floor.
Yes, yes, fair. Fair. But... Yeah,
okay, so I did desert you, I did,
but to be fair to me, I was
trying to not get k*lled again,
and we almost got out.
Well... I almost did.
I got to the door,
but then it zapped me.
Well, actually, it zapped...
It zapped us.
Oh, my God, Nick! I have to go get him.
No, you have to stay here,
there's more than one of them.
I'm not just going to wait
for him to get k*lled.
I don't care if he's a weirdo.
And he is. He is a weirdo.
You know? But he's decent.
And he's got a good heart.
My friend Lauren actually says that
good-hearted weirdos are actually
the keepers. So...
What?
No, nothing.
No! We need to stay here
and come up with a plan. I can fix this.
But then why haven't you? You
haven't done a very good job so far,
- have you?
- Oi. I don't see you coming up with solutions.
Yeah, 'cause it's not my fault,
is it? It's hers.
And there's no point us
all sticking together
if we keep on dying. Multiple times.
Including the time you followed your
own plan. Didn't go well, did it?
Please, you need to trust me,
do as I ask and stay here.
No, you don't understand!
Nick doesn't survive past five to.
So, if he doesn't survive this time,
then there's not going
to be another five to.
It'll be four minutes to.
And then he'll be dead, properly.
That's right, isn't it?
Stay here.
Together.
Do not move!
No, I'm going to move.
Do not move!
Two of you now. That's not right.
Daleks are supreme.
Okay. Come on, then.
You've got me again.
Say it.
BOTH: Exterminate!
I'm not dead.
I can make it to midnight.
I can make it out!
Woo! You think you can k*ll a Rasta?
Nick, what happened here?
Don't worry. I've dealt with
them. I took them out.
They're not coming back. You're welcome.
I mean, they will.
'Cause the fact that there's two
of them means they've found a way
of keeping inside the time loop.
So, what did you do?
It was a lot of strategic analysis,
weapons assessment
and battle-ready thinking.
- Did you duck? Nice!
- Yeah.
You saved him.
Saved myself, actually.
Yeah. No. What really happened?
- Yeah. Took two of them out.
- Huh?
Yeah, yeah. Two top level ones
- as well.
- They were the same as the others, don't milk it.
If there's two there now, that could
mean there's more on their way?
- Knowing Daleks.
- Yeah. Listen, we need to be strategic,
and we need to work together.
The Daleks have learned
and applied it across the loops.
We need to do the same.
Yeah, but if we get rid of them,
then we can get out.
There's a door downstairs
in the basement without
that force fieldy thingy on it.
We have to think longer term.
As in four minutes longer term?
Exactly. We don't get out this time,
but we formulate a plan which
guarantees we make it out before
the loop closes.
How would you feel about
destroying this place?
I mean, I'd have to talk
to my insurance providers.
I don't think you'll be covered
for an Act of Dalek.
I mean, this place is all I have.
But if you don't get out,
you won't have anything.
Who is he? Why's he talking?
Oi, you. No dissing my mate.
That's my job.
- Thanks, Sheffield.
- Shh!
NICK: How would the plan work?
Next loop we have four
minutes. If we divide,
that's four minutes each.
Times five, that's minutes.
And we know there's a stash of toxic
and combustive materials
on the fifth floor.
Fifth floor's too far up to
lure all the Daleks in,
be sure they're destroyed,
get back down here
and out the rear exit.
There could be more of
them in the basement.
Jeff has all of this stuff down there,
even though I explicitly said to him
not to have any more stuff in there.
- Honestly...
- If we're going to divide up,
some of us could go upstairs
to the fifth floor,
get Jeff's stuff, bring it down,
then wrap it round
his other stuff downstairs.
But won't the Dalek things just find us?
I can make the Daleks think
we're somewhere else.
I can use my sonic to bounce
our life signals off
the walls, sort of sonic ventriloquism.
It's my party trick!
If I can do it long enough
to confuse the Daleks,
we can lure them to wherever
we want them to be.
Ah, but I'm going to need
an ignition trigger.
- [PHONE RINGS]
- Oh, my God, are you serious?
Ah! Two birds, one stone.
Or two Daleks, one phone.
Yeah, no, the other one's better.
Can you get your mum to call at
exactly ten seconds to midnight?
Absolutely not, she's not doing that.
Not even if her daughter's
life depended on it?
If our lives depend on my
mother ringing me at
a time I actually ask her to,
honestly, we're all dead.
I'll try, I'll try.
So, we're good, we make
this work next time round?
But we failed to do this
the last five times.
And this time we have even less time.
What makes you think that
this is going to work?
Because something seems impossible.
We try, it doesn't work, we try again,
we learn, we improve, we fail again,
but, better, we make friends,
we learn to trust,
we help each other.
We get it wrong again,
we improve together,
then ultimately succeed.
Because this is what being alive is.
And it's better than the alternative.
So, come on, you brilliant humans!
We go again. And we win.
Deal?
- Deal.
- Deal.
- Deal.
- Deal.
Exterminate!
I'm so tired.
What?! Oh, come on!
No, no, no! That's not fair!
Daleks are not fair.
Daleks are unstoppable.
Right, come on. Oh.
Rah!
I got away last time.
We can't execute the plan
in time if it's dark. Stay here.
- No, but...
- Stay here. I need to know where you are.
- We've only got four minutes here.
- Stop leaving us all the time!
We're all worried. But I'm
trying to keep everyone safe.
Have you ever told her?
Told her what?
How you feel about her.
I don't know what you mean.
Yeah, you do.
Is it that obvious?
Maybe not to a good-hearted weirdo.
But I've spent four years travelling
the world with you.
I saw it then.
- You didn't half cane looking at that hologram.
- I didn't.
I mean, it were just
that... She's just...
I don't know what to do, Dan.
I've never told anyone.
Not even myself.
Just tell her.
It's not that easy.
Look. I took way too long to
tell somebody that I liked them
and then the universe ended,
and everything got messy.
I wouldn't want that to
happen to you, Sheffield.
Dan.
Don't move.
WHISPERS: There's one behind you, Yaz.
Doctor!
The Doctor cannot save you.
The Doctor will never save you.
I'm sorry.
I'll fix this.
Incorrect.
Exterminate!
I'm angry now.
Exterminations will do that.
Right, why would he
cordon this stuff off?
Let's have a look. Oh. Oh!
Oh, Jeff, you bad, bad man.
Dan, come and help me with this.
Yaz, go get Sarah and Nick.
Bring them down here.
What about all the stuff
on the fifth floor?
Just bring them down here!
Sorry. No time.
Really, no time. My actions
are catching up with me.
Time is catching up with me.
I will not let you die because
of decisions I've taken.
Please go, get the others!
She likes you.
I like her, too.
No, I mean... she likes you.
- I don't understand what you're saying, Dan.
- I think you do.
But for some reason you pretend to me,
and to her, that you don't.
- Halt!
- In your dreams, mate!
Sorry you're going to be
losing this place.
Oh, God, I'm not. It was
a family obligation.
Everyone was grieving, and then
I sort of stepped in to help.
It just sort of became my life,
really, when I wasn't looking.
- Right.
- In that way that life does, you know?
So, who named it Elf Storage?
Oh, Elf. No, the S fell off.
- Right.
- But if this place blows up on me,
you're going to lose all your stuff.
Yeah, I feel like I'm done with it.
They're never asking for their stuff
back, are they? All my exes?
No. They're really not.
- And what are you going to do without this place?
- God. I don't know.
I always sort of wanted to travel.
Yeah, I had this romantic
notion, I suppose,
that I would go travelling
the world with someone.
But, um, yeah, never really
had someone to do it with.
You two. Come on. Out of time.
- But this is the plan.
- Basement, now!
No human presence.
Life signals in sub-ground level space.
Analysis suggests
the Doctor's survival plan
centres on that location.
So, wait, am I getting my mother
to ring now or what?
I don't know any more!
Great, well done!
Why's the plan changed?
The plan hasn't changed.
Are those fireworks
in those boxes? Jeff!
If we're to stand the best chance,
we need to be one loop
smarter than them.
The Daleks will learn based on
the information we give them
in the whole of the next loop.
That last-but-one loop
becomes a decoy loop.
So, give them false information
to change what they predict.
Bingo. Decoy plan. You know the plan,
do the opposite. Soon as it resets.
Then when it resets for
the final minute,
we will have the narrowest
of narrow precious advantages.
Surrender, Doctor!
You took your time!
I'm not even wearing a watch,
I'm doing it for show.
Still haven't beaten us, then?
The time loop is almost closed,
you cannot escape us.
I can. 'Cause we've got
a brilliant plan. Haven't
we got a brilliant plan?
- Yep.
- Yeah.
- See? Worried now.
- Daleks are not worried.
You should be.
Exterminate!
Exit the ascension device!
Sorry! Important stuff to do.
Really important stuff!
Hiya, Mam.
Hello?
Uh, yeah, just rang to say
Happy New Year, really.
Uh...
And I miss you.
And I love you.
Yeah, 'cause I'm not really
sure I say that enough.
Are you drunk?
No, I'm not drunk, Mammy.
Oh, God, are you ill?
No, I'm not... Do you know what?
Happy New Year.
I love you but I have to go.
Male human located.
He has returned to
the subsection of the facility.
The objects in this unit have
been placed as a barrier.
Male human is behind its belongings.
What are you going to do now, then?
Woo!
Thanks for the therapy.
Explain?
Ex. Terminated.
Top floor, electricals,
womenswear, fish tanks.
Locating the Doctor.
Hi, there. Want to join?
Explain?
Just having some beef and beans.
Might put on the Hootenanny.
What about you? Any plans?
Seeing friends?
Daleks do not have friends.
Yeah, well, you've only got
yourselves to blame for that.
You will never escape execution.
Let's see, shall we?
And brace for the final go-round.
Exterminate!
[PHONE RINGS]
Mam, don't speak,
I need you to call me ten seconds
before midnight, okay?
- But the lines will be busy.
- Just do it. Bye!
Thanks.
- Run!
- Go!
We'd be so good on Supermarket Sweep!
Doctor identified. Exterminate!
- We're running out of time, Doc.
- I'm really aware of that, Dan.
- We've got to go. We've got to go.
- The Doctor has deceived us!
Life signals detected in
subground level space!
Go, I'll be right behind you.
Go!
I haven't seen this much
gunpowder since .
Halt, Doctor!
Door's just through here.
Switching to dark vision mode.
Dark vision mode interference.
It is the Doctor.
Human life signals detected. Converge.
We know you are hiding within
this collection of objects.
[PHONE RINGS]
False signal confusion done!
Just answer the phone.
This way!
Where's the Doctor?
Everybody get clear, get down!
- Sarah?
- Human presence confirmed!
Good fireworks, though!
Fair play to Jeff.
[SARAH LAUGHS]
Wait. We're alive.
You did it. Time didn't reset.
We did it.
Good display.
Just for me, is it?
Look at you.
It's so much better.
Thanks for looking after us.
If you did.
Quite mysterious, really.
What did you mean,
when you said your actions
were catching up with you?
Nothing.
Nothing. I don't remember.
I say lots of things.
We all say lots of things we don't mean.
And some we do.
Do you know what I've always wondered?
The lost treasure of
the Flor de la Mar...
whatever happened to that?
Shall we go have a look?
It's ridiculous. Just use the wheels.
- I'm fine, babe.
- Oh, my God, this is the most silliest type
- of macho-ness I've ever seen.
- [PHONE RINGS]
Oh. Hiya, Mammy!
Yeah, we're just about to get
in a taxi to the airport.
- Have you got your passport?
- What?
No, I don't have my passport, Mammy,
I set fire to it in a bin last night.
Yes, I have my passport, of course.
I'm a grown woman and I
ran a business by myself
for almost five years.
Before you burnt it to the ground.
It burned to the ground, yeah.
There's a lot more to that story
than you know about, so...
- Isn't there always?
- Isn't there...
Well, moral of the story,
I have my passport. Oh, look.
- Hello, Mary.
- Oh! Hi, Nick.
Okay, Mum, I'll call you from
the other side of the world, okay?
- BOTH: Bye. Bye.
- Bye.
- Bye-bye, bye-bye!
- Bye.
Do not flirt with my mother, please.
- I'm just being nice.
- Just being nice.
What, so she doesn't think I'm
a madwoman for travelling around
the world with a man I've just met?
I guess it's a weird first date.
As opposed to our actual first date
where we were k*lled... Oh!
Where we were k*lled eight
times by robot aliens?
And saved by a woman
in an old police box.
But was that a first date? I feel
like it was more of a meet-cute.
Do you? Mm?
Madame Ching, pirate queen?
She k*lled my father and
she released a demon.
Sea devil.
question in advance ♪
♪ What are you doing New Year's ♪
♪ New Year's Eve. ♪
Every year, every New Year's Eve, Jeff,
you promise me that you'll work,
and then you play me for
the fool that I clearly am,
and then just at the last minute,
when you know,
you know I have plans, you leave me
high and dry, on my own,
on New Year's Eve working in
a business that you know I hate,
but not as much I hate you, Jeff,
and I do hate you.
I wish I'd never employed you.
So, yeah, can you call me back when
you get a chance? Thank you.
Oh! No!
[PHONE PINGS]
Stop it! Go away!
Oh, erm, hiya, Nick.
Happy nearly New Year, Sarah.
- Here we are again.
- Yeah, yeah.
Here we are again.
No Jeff?
No. Astonishingly, no. No Jeff.
It's become a little bit of
a tradition now. Oh, my God!
- [PHONE PINGS]
- Sorry, are you busy on your phone?
Sorry, no, just my phone's
broken, the button,
and I can't put it on silent. And so
obviously everyone's sending me
messages and texts and
pictures from their night,
and unsurprisingly I don't
really want to see them.
Much better being here!
You know, instead of all of those
parties and people and drinks.
Yeah, I mean, it's not though, is it?
- I'm not really one for New Years.
- Yeah. No, I know that, yes.
- So, you want to access your unit?
- Yes.
[PHONE CONTINUES TO PING]
- Yeah. So...
- Can you remind me of
the list of things that can't be stored?
Yes.
Stolen or illegal goods, tyres,
animals, humans, dead
or alive in any cases,
cash, plant, food, cars,
g*ns or amm*nit*on,
or any material that is
in any way toxic,
hazardous or radioactive, and a shop.
- I promise you I don't have a shop.
- Very good. Here's the keys.
And when you say hazardous...
When I say hazardous?
Well, I suppose I'd ask myself,
"If I set fire to this item, will it
have potentially expl*sive or
devastating consequences?"
So, this...
... would be okay?
- Well, that's a board game.
- Yes.
Is it a toxic, hazardous or
radioactive board game?
- There's loads of paper in there.
- There's your keys.
I hear loads of storage places
have access codes now.
Yes, Nick, they do.
They also have the money
to upgrade their systems,
whereas I have no money,
just a dilapidated building,
my rival straight across the road,
and you as my only customer.
As valued a customer as you are, Nick.
Platinum loyalty card member, that's me.
I'll be off to my unit.
Yeah.
[PHONE PINGS]
Won't be long.
See you next year.
Have you been practising that?
Yes.
- Ready?
- BOTH: Ready!
When I set this going, the TARDIS
will go into self-reset,
which should, if I've got this
right, which I'm sure I have,
clear out all the Flux debris,
minimise the number of doors,
and be back to fully functioning.
But it'll be out of service
for a little bit.
How long is a little bit?
I'm not sure, but that's why we're
landing on the sentient beaches of
San Munrohvar. We'll be playing
chess with the fish,
drinking mocktails with the lobsters.
Once I throw the last lever,
we'll have seven seconds to get out.
We don't want to be in here when
it's resetting because, well...
... we'd die.
Here we go!
Go, go! Go, go, go!
Where's the beach?
[TARDIS CRACKLES AND HUMS]
That's supposed to be like that, is it?
Not sure. Never had to do this before.
Are you sure we're in San Munrohvar?
Uh...
'Cause it doesn't look
very beachy to me.
Ah, Manchester.
- What?
- Of all the places!
Sorry. New Year's Eve .
Nine minutes to midnight.
TARDIS will be sorted soon. Come on,
there'll be a party on somewhere.
Temporal disturbance, two floors above.
Because of the TARDIS?
Don't think so, cloaked signal.
We should check. Come on.
Mancs. New Year, Mancs.
Doesn't she understand?
Erm...
Sarah?
[WARPING SOUND]
Identify!
I'm Nick.
[PHONE RINGS]
Mammy, it's four minutes to midnight.
Every year. Why are you calling me now?
The lines will all be busy at midnight.
No, they won't, because it's not .
Are you still at work?
New Year's Eve is the best
time to meet a man.
- I'm not trying to meet...
- I met your father on New Year's Eve.
- You did not.
- January th, same thing.
It's literally not the same thing,
Mammy. Anyway,
who says I even want to meet a man?
And the only reason I'm
working tonight is
because I had to keep on stupid
Jeff at the stupid place that
I inherited from your stupid uncle,
obviously no offence, God rest his soul.
- Your uncle Barry was a saint.
- Oh.
Listen, Mam, I have to go,
I've got a customer.
So, yeah, just call me at
the bongs, will you?
- The lines will all be busy.
- No, they won't.
I don't like calling on the...
[PHONE PINGS]
Go away with your stupid having fun.
MUTTERS: Stupid party, stupid drink,
stupid everyone pairing up.
Just die, everyone!
Oh, no.
Dalek. Multiple w*apon blasts.
- Was that the time disruption?
- What's a Dalek?
The deadliest k*lling
machine in the universe.
[ELEVATOR PINGS]
You all done, Nick?
I am not Nick.
This area is now under Dalek control.
- What's going on?
- Exterminate!
Dalek!
You'll answer for that.
Daleks answer to no-one.
Daleks answer to me.
Why are you k*lling these people?
- Shouldn't we just go?
- I'm using my sonic
to jam its w*apon systems.
Sonic device will not
override my weapons.
Yes, it does. 'Cause
I've used it before.
Correct.
Daleks learn.
Exterminate!
Not like this.
- But that's a board game.
- Yes.
- You okay?
- Yeah, are you okay?
I'm not sure.
- I feel like I've just had this...
- Here are your keys, by the way.
- Most places have...
- Access codes, yes, I know.
No need to go on about it.
Sorry, sorry. I'm just a bit
spaced out at the moment.
I've been working too hard...
I'll go to my unit.
Yes. You will.
You will...
[PHONE PINGS]
Oh, my God.
See you next year.
Oh, have you been practising that?
Where's the beach?
Whoa.
[CRACKLING AND HUMMING]
Has anyone else got proper deja vu?
Yeah.
Didn't we just get exterminated?
Lad by the storage unit!
Wait, did I... ?
Exterminate!
Sarah.
Exterminate!
No, no, no. No, no, no.
What the... ?
Oh! God!
I'm going to need a w*apon. A w*apon.
Jeff!
He's not here. He should be here.
We've gone back in time, Dalek incoming,
two people in this building,
about to die unless we stop it.
So, why isn't he here?
Argh!
Sarah!
Ah!
- Fifth floor, okay. Go!
- Do not move.
- You're real.
- Correct. Exterminate!
Jeff. "Temporary storage,
you said it was okay".
Honestly, I said one unit!
Honestly, give that man an inch
and he takes a corridor.
What?
No animals, alive or dead.
Oh, my God. holiday goods!
They're probably stolen.
Jeff. Food!
Gross.
I just need something
I can use as a w*apon!
[PHONE RINGS]
Mam, now is really not a good moment!
The lines will all be busy at midnight.
No. They won't, Mammy.
Are you still at work?
New Year's Eve is the best
time to meet a man.
Mam. I'm going to have to call
you back at the bongs, okay?
Look.
No. Just no.
Okay? 'Cause this is my premises
and you, sir, are trespassing.
Okay? So, just... Just...
Just shoo. Just go. Just...
Just... Just... Just get!
Increased fear levels detected.
I mean, well, obviously!
And how did you even find me?
I-I changed up what I did!
I anticipated your change.
Please, please don't k*ll me.
Exterminate!
No!
The second time I've failed to save him.
Second time the Dalek's
been cleverer than us.
Doctor, look, it got both of them.
It's ahead of us.
Way ahead of us.
Correct, Doctor.
Dalek strategy is supreme.
- Says you!
- So, there's no point making a run for it?
The entrance has been secured.
There is no escape.
If it's any consolation, we'd have
been shot before we got
- there anyway.
- So, we're dead. Second time round.
- The inferior human is correct.
- Oi. Who are you calling inferior?
You.
Assessment has been made.
Pretty smart, Daleks.
We've been here before. But time reset.
So, we're still alive. You failed.
My mission was completed.
There was a disruption with time.
This moment is the correction!
There is no escape!
Exterminate!
What?
Oh, no, you don't!
- BOTH: Time loop.
- Groundhog Day.
Same difference.
We've got to go get that lad.
Sorry! Sorry! Oh, my God, Nick,
we have to get out of here.
- That's what I was coming to say to you.
- What? No, no.
We're stuck in a time loop
with k*ller robots.
- Okay, yeah, that makes sense.
- Does it?
- 'Cause I actually thought I was losing my mind.
- No, because I've been
- k*lled twice by a robot.
- Oh, my God, me too!
Which is crazy. Because I'm still alive.
Right? But I was coming back to
save you on the second time.
- You did what?
- But you weren't there.
Yes, that's because you were
coming up to save me, right?
Yep, yeah, that was it. We must
have missed each other.
Who are they?
Hi, I'm the Doctor, this is Yaz and Dan.
How did you get in here? Wait,
are you from building control?
Are you from the council?
Yes. We're here to
control your building.
And three of you? On New Year's Eve.
You make me sick.
Building control never sleeps.
We're the rapid response unit
and we really need to get you
to safety, like right now!
Wait, have you got something
to do with that robot?
No, and it's a Dalek.
Oh, my God, you know its name!
Are you... ? Is it your robot?
'Cause you know we've died
like two times so far.
We have died! Okay?
And I know that sounds mad because
obviously I'm alive saying it.
But still! At any point, you can
just jump in and say something now.
I'm trying to figure out which one
is most unlikely... time loop
with robots or three people from
the council working on New Years.
We're here to help. We're also
stuck in the time loop.
The robot isn't a robot, it's a Dalek.
It's a living mutant creature
inside weaponised battle transport.
It will k*ll everything not
within its own image.
And then what does it want
with us? Why is it here?
I don't know. All I know is
we don't have much...
... time.
- Halt!
- Get behind me, Sarah.
- What are you doing?
- I'm being chivalrous.
- It's just patronising!
- Okay!
Everybody, into my storage
unit! Just here!
Where's the exit?
- What do you mean?
- Where's the way out?
No, the other way out.
So, we can escape.
There isn't another way out.
- What?
- It's a storage unit.
- Not a great plan, was it?
- Well, we're not dead.
From now on, I'm in charge of the plans.
And there's always another way out.
Somehow. You just have to find it.
Surrender. There is no escape!
Daleks are patient. I will wait.
[PHONE PINGS]
- Show me your phone.
- What do you want with my phone?
That's what I was worried about.
- What were you worried about?
- Shh, I'm working!
- How did you three even get in this building?
- If we told you,
you'd never believe us.
Nick, why have you got all those
names on the shelves?
They're just ex-girlfriends.
They're what?
Oh, this is where I keep stuff
for women I've split up with.
Just in case they ever ask for it back.
I don't want it in my
eyeline, you know, at home.
I have a very small flat.
I said it's a flat,
but it's more of a boxroom. With a door.
And a toilet. With like
a kitchenette on top of a toilet.
You have a lot of ex-girlfriends.
They're alive still, aren't they?
Of course... Oh, God! Of course!
Yeah. Not all of them were serious.
Some were just like a few days.
Man, you are weird.
- What?
- Bit harsh.
Bit har... ? He comes here... here...
every New Year's Eve,
which is weird enough in itself,
and for what? To do all of this!
Which is... That is weird!
He is standing right there.
- It's fine.
- No, it's not fine! It's not fine!
You're the reason that I'm here.
You're the reason that I'm trapped
in a time loop with a robot...
- BOTH: Dalek!
- With stupidly named robots,
with people I don't even
know, all so what?
Why? So, you can catalogue
your Monopoly?
Just throw that stuff away!
Um...
Yeah.
No, no, no, no, no!
No, no, no, no, no!
- Get back in here.
- Take me.
You can take me. But just let them go.
Don't try and reason with it.
- You're right, this is all my fault.
- What?
- You wouldn't be here if it wasn't for me.
- No.
So, you can let them...
It's okay. It's okay.
He did that for us. He did
that for us. For me!
- It's okay.
- But it's not his fault.
[PHONE RINGS]
Oh, my giddy aunt!
What the... ? Mammy, please,
now is not the time.
But the lines will be busy at midnight!
- No. They won't. Goodbye!
- Let's focus on what we can do now.
You know I said there's always
another way out?
- BOTH: Yeah!
- There isn't.
Solid concrete walls, thick ceilings.
It will take a long time to
resonate through those,
and nothing of any use in here,
unless you want to play Monopoly!
Our resources in defeating
the Dalek are limited
to non-existent.
Do you have anything we could use
to defeat the Dalek? It really is
a matter of life and death.
I mean... Four floors up.
I mean, there's a mad stash
of stuff four floors up.
But we're on this floor!
This time.
Doctor...
What?
Very persistent, your Dalek.
How do we get out of here?
I don't think we do.
But we get another go.
Except we'll have less time.
ALL: What?
I felt it the second time,
but this time I'm certain.
Time on your phone proved it.
We're coming back
a minute later each time.
Last time, it was eight
minutes to midnight.
This time, seven. I think
the next is going to be six.
The time loop's shortening
on each reset.
Is that a good or bad thing?
Not sure. Definitely one or the other.
Depending on your outlook!
Less time for the Dalek to find
and exterminate us.
Equally, less time for us
to figure this out
and defeat it.
Whatever's causing
the time loop can't sustain it.
It must be under some sort of pressure.
That's why it's decreasing. Either way,
the loop repeats, time repeats,
so we need to be the variation.
We need to be unpredictable,
so the Dalek can't guess what
we're going to do next.
Next time, we don't come back here.
That's what it'll be expecting.
We go straight to the fifth floor.
See what that mad stash has to offer.
But what about Nick?
Surrender.
Congratulations.
The most evil creature in
the universe has successfully
vanquished an old door.
Silence!
No chance. You just can't seem
to get rid of us, can you?
We have learned. We will
exterminate all life here
until the closure of the time loop.
All necessary calibrations
have been made.
The target will be ex*cuted.
Targeted execution of who?
You, Doctor.
- I was worried it might say that.
- So, it is your fault?
You've k*lled us twice.
Yet we're still alive.
Why do you think it's going
to work this time?
We are relentless.
Your ultimate extermination
and execution is inevitable.
You are trapped, Doctor.
Not trapped, never trapped.
You won't win.
You never win.
Incorrect. Exterminate!
Lift. Fifth floor.
Do not move!
I am very much going to move!
[SHE YELPS]
Just passed reception.
Patterns indicate that's where
the Dalek's starting this time.
And the time loop's
shortened by a minute.
Every time one minute less.
This is tricky.
It seems that the time loop
only extends to
the radius of this building.
If we can stay alive
and be outside the building
when midnight hits,
we might stand a chance
of getting clear of this.
Second Dalek signal.
In a different part of the building.
That's either an echo or...
There's two of them.
What are you doing?
I'll keep the one in reception busy.
You two try and figure out
how to stop all of this.
If I manage to stay alive,
I'll see you up there.
If not, I'll see you in the next loop.
So, there'd better be a next loop.
- Dan, you don't have to do this.
- I know.
But you saved the entire
universe last week.
I think I owe you one.
Look after each other.
Oh! You're here.
I was worried you wouldn't be here!
Look, sorry you got k*lled, you know?
But you should not have
done that, though.
Especially not because of anything
that I may or may not have said,
or made you feel, or whatever.
Anyways, I've got a plan.
- We're going to get out of here.
- What about the others?
Literally not our problem.
They'll be fine.
Probably their fault that the robots
are here in the first place.
So... That's what I was thinking.
- So, yeah, come on.
- Wait, but...
Don't have time to explain!
Identify.
All right, mate, are you new here?
I arrived . rels ago.
Yeah, well, I've got some
stuff I need storing.
I just wanted to see what was available.
Daleks do not store stuff.
You're in the wrong job,
then, aren't you?
What are you, some kind of automated
staff? How does this work?
Desist. Do not approach.
I'd get a friendlier voice, though.
This one's a little bit grating.
What kind of a welcome is that, eh?
I'll report you to your manager!
Daleks do not have managers.
Maybe that's part of your problem!
Artron energy particles detected.
You are a friend of the Doctor.
Analysis concludes this is
a delaying tactic!
Took you long enough.
Exterminate!
What the hell is that?
And what's all this stuff?
Do you know no-one's paying
for anything on this floor?
If Jeff is sub-letting this
place, honestly,
I'll actually... This is crazy.
And he knows I never come down
here, this is unbelievable.
Please don't tell anyone from
the council about this.
They're not from the council.
[PHONE RINGS]
Hard to keep track. Oh, Mammy!
Please don't call before midnight.
How many times?
No, the lines won't be busy.
What do you mean? I haven't
spoken to you since August.
- Yeah, I know. I'll call you back.
- Shh, Sarah! Down!
The robot's over there.
They must be trying to hunt us down.
The escape is over that way,
through that corridor.
Listen, I, um... I lied
to you earlier on.
I didn't come and try to save
you, that second time.
Right.
Yeah. I went to find a w*apon.
In Jeff's... On the fifth floor.
Right. I guess that's a valid approach.
But, like, I'm sure, that
had I found a w*apon,
and not been k*lled,
then I absolutely would have
come to save you.
Probably.
Except I would have been dead.
Yeah, admittedly, that was a flaw.
But that's why I came to
save you this time.
Thanks.
I really appreciate you
trying to save me.
You know, not many people
would have done that.
Some close friends and
family included, actually.
- We should get going.
- Yeah, don't want to get k*lled!
We're never going to get that moment
on the beach, where you tell me
- everything that happened to you, are we?
- Of course we will.
Interesting.
I'm not sure these are particularly
useful resources.
Eurgh.
Who eats beans
and then thinks these could just
do with being a bit beefy?
Nobody, by the looks of things.
These are three years out of date.
Oh.
I think Jeff might live here.
Oh, Jeff. You bad, bad man.
Yaz. This is the sort of stuff about
which you would ask yourself
"If I set fire to this, will it
have expl*sive
and potentially
devastating consequences?"
And the answer is yes.
Surrender, Doctor!
It's blocking our exit.
Why do you always put your stuff
into storage just before midnight on
New Years Eve?
Feels a little over-organised.
That's the time I'll
know you'll be here.
Jeff always lets you down.
I have an embarrassing crush on you.
No, I don't mean the crush
is embarrassing,
I mean... the time.
This is an embarrassing time
to let you know... now.
So, why are you saying
it to me like this, now?
'Cause I'm going to be k*lled
by aliens in a minute.
Again. I guess...
... I'm just worried that one of
these times I won't make it back.
How long has this been going on for?
- Three years.
- Oh, my! What?!
Three years? That is so stalkery.
I'd prefer unrequited. Or shy.
Stalkery would be if I was menacing you.
Or said anything about this
at all. Which I haven't.
- No. No.
- And I wouldn't...
If I wasn't going to be...
Exterminate!
No!
You're going to be sorry for that.
Daleks are never sorry.
No!
Come on, door! I know I haven't
opened you in years,
but just work with me!
Exterminate!
You will not escape us, Doctor.
You will never escape us.
So, there's two of you. Bad news.
Bad news on top of previous bad news.
Not my favourite New Year's Eve.
Your attempts to evade us are futile.
Agree to disagree.
But why have you created a time loop?
We did not create the time loop.
The time loop was created by
your TARDIS.
We caused it with the reset.
Dalek command identified
the energy pattern of your TARDIS
and despatched Daleks to execute you
for your actions against the Dalek race.
Which particular actions?
Using the Flux to destroy
the Dalek w*r fleet.
That wasn't my idea!
That was a Sontaran stratagem
that I h*jacked.
You are responsible for
the destruction of millions of Daleks.
Your death is the priority of
the Dalek race. We will not stop.
- Exterminate!
- Exterminate!
We made it back. I'm alive!
All right, don't get cocky.
Reception. Take the stairs!
I mean, a thanks would be nice.
- Oh.
- Okay.
Er, where were you?
Well, I can explain.
We had a deal. Meet on the fifth floor.
Yes, yes, fair. Fair. But... Yeah,
okay, so I did desert you, I did,
but to be fair to me, I was
trying to not get k*lled again,
and we almost got out.
Well... I almost did.
I got to the door,
but then it zapped me.
Well, actually, it zapped...
It zapped us.
Oh, my God, Nick! I have to go get him.
No, you have to stay here,
there's more than one of them.
I'm not just going to wait
for him to get k*lled.
I don't care if he's a weirdo.
And he is. He is a weirdo.
You know? But he's decent.
And he's got a good heart.
My friend Lauren actually says that
good-hearted weirdos are actually
the keepers. So...
What?
No, nothing.
No! We need to stay here
and come up with a plan. I can fix this.
But then why haven't you? You
haven't done a very good job so far,
- have you?
- Oi. I don't see you coming up with solutions.
Yeah, 'cause it's not my fault,
is it? It's hers.
And there's no point us
all sticking together
if we keep on dying. Multiple times.
Including the time you followed your
own plan. Didn't go well, did it?
Please, you need to trust me,
do as I ask and stay here.
No, you don't understand!
Nick doesn't survive past five to.
So, if he doesn't survive this time,
then there's not going
to be another five to.
It'll be four minutes to.
And then he'll be dead, properly.
That's right, isn't it?
Stay here.
Together.
Do not move!
No, I'm going to move.
Do not move!
Two of you now. That's not right.
Daleks are supreme.
Okay. Come on, then.
You've got me again.
Say it.
BOTH: Exterminate!
I'm not dead.
I can make it to midnight.
I can make it out!
Woo! You think you can k*ll a Rasta?
Nick, what happened here?
Don't worry. I've dealt with
them. I took them out.
They're not coming back. You're welcome.
I mean, they will.
'Cause the fact that there's two
of them means they've found a way
of keeping inside the time loop.
So, what did you do?
It was a lot of strategic analysis,
weapons assessment
and battle-ready thinking.
- Did you duck? Nice!
- Yeah.
You saved him.
Saved myself, actually.
Yeah. No. What really happened?
- Yeah. Took two of them out.
- Huh?
Yeah, yeah. Two top level ones
- as well.
- They were the same as the others, don't milk it.
If there's two there now, that could
mean there's more on their way?
- Knowing Daleks.
- Yeah. Listen, we need to be strategic,
and we need to work together.
The Daleks have learned
and applied it across the loops.
We need to do the same.
Yeah, but if we get rid of them,
then we can get out.
There's a door downstairs
in the basement without
that force fieldy thingy on it.
We have to think longer term.
As in four minutes longer term?
Exactly. We don't get out this time,
but we formulate a plan which
guarantees we make it out before
the loop closes.
How would you feel about
destroying this place?
I mean, I'd have to talk
to my insurance providers.
I don't think you'll be covered
for an Act of Dalek.
I mean, this place is all I have.
But if you don't get out,
you won't have anything.
Who is he? Why's he talking?
Oi, you. No dissing my mate.
That's my job.
- Thanks, Sheffield.
- Shh!
NICK: How would the plan work?
Next loop we have four
minutes. If we divide,
that's four minutes each.
Times five, that's minutes.
And we know there's a stash of toxic
and combustive materials
on the fifth floor.
Fifth floor's too far up to
lure all the Daleks in,
be sure they're destroyed,
get back down here
and out the rear exit.
There could be more of
them in the basement.
Jeff has all of this stuff down there,
even though I explicitly said to him
not to have any more stuff in there.
- Honestly...
- If we're going to divide up,
some of us could go upstairs
to the fifth floor,
get Jeff's stuff, bring it down,
then wrap it round
his other stuff downstairs.
But won't the Dalek things just find us?
I can make the Daleks think
we're somewhere else.
I can use my sonic to bounce
our life signals off
the walls, sort of sonic ventriloquism.
It's my party trick!
If I can do it long enough
to confuse the Daleks,
we can lure them to wherever
we want them to be.
Ah, but I'm going to need
an ignition trigger.
- [PHONE RINGS]
- Oh, my God, are you serious?
Ah! Two birds, one stone.
Or two Daleks, one phone.
Yeah, no, the other one's better.
Can you get your mum to call at
exactly ten seconds to midnight?
Absolutely not, she's not doing that.
Not even if her daughter's
life depended on it?
If our lives depend on my
mother ringing me at
a time I actually ask her to,
honestly, we're all dead.
I'll try, I'll try.
So, we're good, we make
this work next time round?
But we failed to do this
the last five times.
And this time we have even less time.
What makes you think that
this is going to work?
Because something seems impossible.
We try, it doesn't work, we try again,
we learn, we improve, we fail again,
but, better, we make friends,
we learn to trust,
we help each other.
We get it wrong again,
we improve together,
then ultimately succeed.
Because this is what being alive is.
And it's better than the alternative.
So, come on, you brilliant humans!
We go again. And we win.
Deal?
- Deal.
- Deal.
- Deal.
- Deal.
Exterminate!
I'm so tired.
What?! Oh, come on!
No, no, no! That's not fair!
Daleks are not fair.
Daleks are unstoppable.
Right, come on. Oh.
Rah!
I got away last time.
We can't execute the plan
in time if it's dark. Stay here.
- No, but...
- Stay here. I need to know where you are.
- We've only got four minutes here.
- Stop leaving us all the time!
We're all worried. But I'm
trying to keep everyone safe.
Have you ever told her?
Told her what?
How you feel about her.
I don't know what you mean.
Yeah, you do.
Is it that obvious?
Maybe not to a good-hearted weirdo.
But I've spent four years travelling
the world with you.
I saw it then.
- You didn't half cane looking at that hologram.
- I didn't.
I mean, it were just
that... She's just...
I don't know what to do, Dan.
I've never told anyone.
Not even myself.
Just tell her.
It's not that easy.
Look. I took way too long to
tell somebody that I liked them
and then the universe ended,
and everything got messy.
I wouldn't want that to
happen to you, Sheffield.
Dan.
Don't move.
WHISPERS: There's one behind you, Yaz.
Doctor!
The Doctor cannot save you.
The Doctor will never save you.
I'm sorry.
I'll fix this.
Incorrect.
Exterminate!
I'm angry now.
Exterminations will do that.
Right, why would he
cordon this stuff off?
Let's have a look. Oh. Oh!
Oh, Jeff, you bad, bad man.
Dan, come and help me with this.
Yaz, go get Sarah and Nick.
Bring them down here.
What about all the stuff
on the fifth floor?
Just bring them down here!
Sorry. No time.
Really, no time. My actions
are catching up with me.
Time is catching up with me.
I will not let you die because
of decisions I've taken.
Please go, get the others!
She likes you.
I like her, too.
No, I mean... she likes you.
- I don't understand what you're saying, Dan.
- I think you do.
But for some reason you pretend to me,
and to her, that you don't.
- Halt!
- In your dreams, mate!
Sorry you're going to be
losing this place.
Oh, God, I'm not. It was
a family obligation.
Everyone was grieving, and then
I sort of stepped in to help.
It just sort of became my life,
really, when I wasn't looking.
- Right.
- In that way that life does, you know?
So, who named it Elf Storage?
Oh, Elf. No, the S fell off.
- Right.
- But if this place blows up on me,
you're going to lose all your stuff.
Yeah, I feel like I'm done with it.
They're never asking for their stuff
back, are they? All my exes?
No. They're really not.
- And what are you going to do without this place?
- God. I don't know.
I always sort of wanted to travel.
Yeah, I had this romantic
notion, I suppose,
that I would go travelling
the world with someone.
But, um, yeah, never really
had someone to do it with.
You two. Come on. Out of time.
- But this is the plan.
- Basement, now!
No human presence.
Life signals in sub-ground level space.
Analysis suggests
the Doctor's survival plan
centres on that location.
So, wait, am I getting my mother
to ring now or what?
I don't know any more!
Great, well done!
Why's the plan changed?
The plan hasn't changed.
Are those fireworks
in those boxes? Jeff!
If we're to stand the best chance,
we need to be one loop
smarter than them.
The Daleks will learn based on
the information we give them
in the whole of the next loop.
That last-but-one loop
becomes a decoy loop.
So, give them false information
to change what they predict.
Bingo. Decoy plan. You know the plan,
do the opposite. Soon as it resets.
Then when it resets for
the final minute,
we will have the narrowest
of narrow precious advantages.
Surrender, Doctor!
You took your time!
I'm not even wearing a watch,
I'm doing it for show.
Still haven't beaten us, then?
The time loop is almost closed,
you cannot escape us.
I can. 'Cause we've got
a brilliant plan. Haven't
we got a brilliant plan?
- Yep.
- Yeah.
- See? Worried now.
- Daleks are not worried.
You should be.
Exterminate!
Exit the ascension device!
Sorry! Important stuff to do.
Really important stuff!
Hiya, Mam.
Hello?
Uh, yeah, just rang to say
Happy New Year, really.
Uh...
And I miss you.
And I love you.
Yeah, 'cause I'm not really
sure I say that enough.
Are you drunk?
No, I'm not drunk, Mammy.
Oh, God, are you ill?
No, I'm not... Do you know what?
Happy New Year.
I love you but I have to go.
Male human located.
He has returned to
the subsection of the facility.
The objects in this unit have
been placed as a barrier.
Male human is behind its belongings.
What are you going to do now, then?
Woo!
Thanks for the therapy.
Explain?
Ex. Terminated.
Top floor, electricals,
womenswear, fish tanks.
Locating the Doctor.
Hi, there. Want to join?
Explain?
Just having some beef and beans.
Might put on the Hootenanny.
What about you? Any plans?
Seeing friends?
Daleks do not have friends.
Yeah, well, you've only got
yourselves to blame for that.
You will never escape execution.
Let's see, shall we?
And brace for the final go-round.
Exterminate!
[PHONE RINGS]
Mam, don't speak,
I need you to call me ten seconds
before midnight, okay?
- But the lines will be busy.
- Just do it. Bye!
Thanks.
- Run!
- Go!
We'd be so good on Supermarket Sweep!
Doctor identified. Exterminate!
- We're running out of time, Doc.
- I'm really aware of that, Dan.
- We've got to go. We've got to go.
- The Doctor has deceived us!
Life signals detected in
subground level space!
Go, I'll be right behind you.
Go!
I haven't seen this much
gunpowder since .
Halt, Doctor!
Door's just through here.
Switching to dark vision mode.
Dark vision mode interference.
It is the Doctor.
Human life signals detected. Converge.
We know you are hiding within
this collection of objects.
[PHONE RINGS]
False signal confusion done!
Just answer the phone.
This way!
Where's the Doctor?
Everybody get clear, get down!
- Sarah?
- Human presence confirmed!
Good fireworks, though!
Fair play to Jeff.
[SARAH LAUGHS]
Wait. We're alive.
You did it. Time didn't reset.
We did it.
Good display.
Just for me, is it?
Look at you.
It's so much better.
Thanks for looking after us.
If you did.
Quite mysterious, really.
What did you mean,
when you said your actions
were catching up with you?
Nothing.
Nothing. I don't remember.
I say lots of things.
We all say lots of things we don't mean.
And some we do.
Do you know what I've always wondered?
The lost treasure of
the Flor de la Mar...
whatever happened to that?
Shall we go have a look?
It's ridiculous. Just use the wheels.
- I'm fine, babe.
- Oh, my God, this is the most silliest type
- of macho-ness I've ever seen.
- [PHONE RINGS]
Oh. Hiya, Mammy!
Yeah, we're just about to get
in a taxi to the airport.
- Have you got your passport?
- What?
No, I don't have my passport, Mammy,
I set fire to it in a bin last night.
Yes, I have my passport, of course.
I'm a grown woman and I
ran a business by myself
for almost five years.
Before you burnt it to the ground.
It burned to the ground, yeah.
There's a lot more to that story
than you know about, so...
- Isn't there always?
- Isn't there...
Well, moral of the story,
I have my passport. Oh, look.
- Hello, Mary.
- Oh! Hi, Nick.
Okay, Mum, I'll call you from
the other side of the world, okay?
- BOTH: Bye. Bye.
- Bye.
- Bye-bye, bye-bye!
- Bye.
Do not flirt with my mother, please.
- I'm just being nice.
- Just being nice.
What, so she doesn't think I'm
a madwoman for travelling around
the world with a man I've just met?
I guess it's a weird first date.
As opposed to our actual first date
where we were k*lled... Oh!
Where we were k*lled eight
times by robot aliens?
And saved by a woman
in an old police box.
But was that a first date? I feel
like it was more of a meet-cute.
Do you? Mm?
Madame Ching, pirate queen?
She k*lled my father and
she released a demon.
Sea devil.