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(GASPS)
The monsters in Doctor Who's universe terrify me.
(GASPS)
They're the kind of monsters that you worry live under your bed.
I've never quite seen monsters like this.
So, so many creepy, creepy monsters.
They're the most exciting part of the show.
Oh, my God!
-Look behind you. -Honey, there is nothing...
(SCREAMS)
What does hate look like, Amy?
-Hate? -Hmm.
It looks like a Dalek.
The Daleks have no emotion, they just want to destroy everything.
The essence of pure evil, ultimately.
-They're alien. -Alien?
REGGIE WATTS: The Daleks represent total, absolute hatred.
The most hateful thing he's ever encountered.
You are everything I despise.
The worst thing in all creation.
Their driving belief is that weakness should be destroyed.
One of the wonders of the show is that a robot that kind of looks like
an upside-down garbage can with a toilet plunger coming out of the front
can be actually one of the more terrifying things you've ever seen.
(SCREAMS)
They're really not so scary if you look at them.
But they will mess you up.
They will win me the war.
ROGERS: When the Doctor gets to World-War-II-era Britain
and there are Daleks there and they're fighting on the side of the Allies,
it's a moment of like, "What the hell's going on?"
-DALEK: I am your soldier. -What?
-I am your soldier. -Stop this. You stop it now.
HARDWICK: But you always know Daleks are always going to screw you over.
That's just what they do.
They're these weird, squishy little squid creatures
that live in a crunchy outer shell made of hate.
Please, what are you doing? You are my Ironsides!
We are the Daleks.
-But I created you! -No!
(YELLS)
We created you.
HARDWICK: "Oh, you sure did. Look at that. I got a robot hand.
"I'm an android."
DALEK: Receiving testimony now.
DOCTOR: I am the Doctor and you are the Daleks.
DALEK: Progenitor activated.
Testimony accepted.
ROGERS: When the plan is revealed and those Daleks end up giving rise
to these new advanced Daleks,
now there's something else even worse.
DALEK 1: All hail the new Daleks! All hail the new Daleks!
DALEK 2: Yes, you are inferior. DALEK 1: Yes.
DALEK 2: Then prepare.
OLD DALEKS: We are ready.
DALEK 2: Cleanse the unclean.
Total obliteration. Disintegrate!
HUGH DOUGLAS: Those older green Daleks that they had,
I mean, they served their purpose.
They were put in play to help create the newer, improved Daleks.
So there was nothing they could do with them.
But when your goal is to destroy the entire universe,
you've got to be willing to kill your friends.
Blimey, what do you do to the ones who mess up?
You are the Doctor. You must be exterminated.
Don't mess with me, sweetheart.
-How many rooms? -I'm sorry, what?
On this floor. How many rooms on this floor?
-Count them for me now. -Why?
Because it will change your life.
Five. One, two, three, four, five.
-Six. -Six?
-Look. -Look where?
Exactly where you don't want to look, where you never want to look.
The corner of your eye. Look behind you.
That's... That is not possible.
How is that possible?
There's a whole room.
There's a whole room I've never even noticed.
Something came here a while ago to hide.
It's still hiding and you need to uncuff me now.
Why does no one ever listen to me?
Do I just have to face that nobody listens to?
HARDWICK: Prisoner Zero is an escaped con.
The thing that Amy's been feeling all that time
is this inmate who has been living in the corner
of her perception for the last 20 years.
DOUGLAS: If it was me and I was in that situation
and I found out that for 12 years
I had been living with an alien in my home
and I just now found out that it could have killed me at any point,
I would need a lot of therapy.
ROGERS: Prisoner Zero is taking over the images of human beings
and speaking through them but sometimes messing up.
So the guy and his dog,
he's got the dog barking through the human
and then talking through the dog.
Look at the faces.
(GROWLING)
(BARKING)
I'm sorry, but what?
HARDWICK: Because it's a multiform,
it's disguising itself with multiple beings
but it can never quite get it 100% right.
I think Dr Ramsden's dead. And the nurses.
WOMAN'S VOICE: He was so angry he kept shouting and shouting.
And that dog. The size of that dog, I swear it was rabid.
And he just went mad, attacking everyone.
Where did he go? Did you see? Has he gone?
We hid in the ladies.
Oh, I'm getting it wrong again, aren't I? I'm always doing that.
So many mouths.
ROGERS: That whole bodysnatcher thing,
there's something primal about taking over somebody else
we're pretty well-trained to be afraid of.
Anybody who can do that, probably a bad guy.
Look at the teeth.
They're like a big old eel that was out of water.
He went to jail for eating people.
NATALIE MORALES: I think he's probably the scariest in the eel form.
Who likes an eel? I mean, a dog and a man? Okay.
Little girls and a mom. We're good.
But the eel in the room? Terrifying.
(SNARLING)
SCOTT ADSIT: Little girls are always going to be creepier
than anything you can think of.
At least to boys, are really just creepy. Especially twins.
-DOCTOR: Don't look at it. -(GASPS)
DOCTOR: Do not look.
Well, if you're the Time Lord, let's call me the Dream Lord.
Now, this is bad. This is very, very bad.
Look at this x-ray. Your brain is completely see-through.
But then, I've always been able to see through you, Doctor.
ROGERS: The Dream Lord ostensibly was somebody who was forcing
the Doctor and Rory and Amy
to live either in some idyllic village later in their lives together
or back on the Tardis.
And he forced them to choose which one was the real world
and which one was the dream world.
DREAM LORD: So here's your challenge. Two worlds.
Here in the time machine and there, in the village that time forgot.
One is real, the other's fake.
And just to make it more interesting,
you're going to face, in both worlds, a deadly danger.
But only one of the dangers is real.
Tweet, tweet. Time to sleep.
(TWITTERING)
Oh! Or are you waking up?
We were never sure if we were in the waking world
or if we were in the dream world.
And then there were dreams within dreams.
And then there was...
I don't even know if I'm awake right now, honestly.
What's this? Attack of the old people? Oh, that's ridiculous.
This has got to be the dream, hasn't it?
What do you think, Amy?
Let's all jump under a bus and wake up in the Tardis.
-You first. -Leave her alone.
Do that again. I love it when he does that.
Tall, dark hero. "Leave her alone!"
-Just leave her. -Yes, you're not quite so impressive.
But I know where your heart lies. Don't I, Amy Pond?
Shut up! Just shut up and leave me alone.
But listen, you're in there.
Loves a redhead, our naughty Doctor.
Has he told you about Elizabeth I?
Well, she thought she was the first.
Drop it. Drop all of it. I know who you are.
-Of course you don't. -Of course I do.
No idea how you can be here, but there's only one person
in the universe who hates me as much as you do.
TOMPKINS: It is distressing to find out
that the Dream Lord represents the dark side of the Doctor.
It's like a manifestation of his dark side.
DOCTOR: Psychic pollen, it's a mind parasite.
It feeds on everything dark in you.
Gives it a voice, turns it against you.
I'm 907, it had a lot to go on.
-But why didn't it feed on us, too? -The darkness in you pair,
it would've starved to death in an instant.
I choose my friends with great care.
But those things he said about you,
you don't think any of that's true?
HARDWICK: You want to be his buddy but at the same time,
there are really horrendous things that lurk in him
that you should be afraid of.
TOMPKINS: But it is comforting to know that it's just a little.
He's a little guy.
If that's all the darkness there is, then it's not so bad.
(BELL DINGS)
(TARDIS WHOOSHING)
Amy lived with Prisoner Zero for years.
What monster would you like to live with?
That's a hard one. There are so many.
Ood. Not a slave Ood but just an Ood,
because I think they're adorable.
Cybermen. They get all shiny.
World War II Dalek that serves you tea.
I could handle that. I could handle having a Dalek maid.
Siren, in the ocean. I mean, she's a doctor.
So any time you're sick, she's on it.
Maybe the Silence because then I wouldn't even know they're there.
(GASPS)
The Weeping Angels are this alien race that appear to us to be statues.
Perfectly harmless statues of angels.
They're ancient, old-world assassins
who can only move when you're not looking at them.
AMY: Doctor!
-Amy! -Doctor!
Are you all right? What's happening?
Doctor?
ROGERS: Every time you blink, it's a little bit closer
and the teeth come out.
When you look back at it again, it's in a different position.
The statues have moved.
I love the idea of something
attacking you when you're not looking and only when you're not looking
because that's the scariest thing in the world.
ROGERS: Just taps into this primal fear of things
not being the way they're supposed to be.
The world is supposed to be a certain way,
statues aren't supposed to move. When you blink and open your eyes again
the world's supposed to be the way it was when you closed them.
To have that not be the case, it's the exact sort of moment
that the Doctor has to show up and save people.
OCTAVIAN: According to the Doctor, we are facing an enemy
of unknowable power and infinite evil.
So it would be good, it would be very good
if we could all remain calm in the presence of decor.
What's your name?
-Bob, sir. -Oh, that's a great name.
-I love Bob. -OCTAVIAN: It's a sacred name.
We all have sacred names.
Sacred Bob. More like Scared Bob now, eh?
-Yes, sir. -Ah, good.
Scared keeps you fast.
Anyone in this room who isn't scared is a moron.
SHEPPARD: Yet again, another thing you're not sure what it wants,
another entity that you're never quite sure what it wants to do,
if it just wants to kill.
-How did you escape? -BOB: I didn't escape, sir.
The Angel killed me, too.
TOMPKINS: So Bob gets killed.
My thoughts and prayers are with Bob and Bob's family.
But then the Weeping Angels are using his voice.
We hear it through various communications devices.
And it is creepy in the extreme.
BOB: Wasn't as painless as I expected
but it was pretty quick so that was something.
If you're dead, how can I be talking to you?
You're not talking to me, sir. The Angel has no voice.
DOUGLAS: And he's talking to you in a matter-of-fact kind of way,
like, "Yeah, you're gonna die.
"As a matter of fact, one's in her eye."
The image of an Angel is an Angel.
DOCTOR: A living mental image in a living human mind.
When we stare at them to stop them getting closer,
we don't even blink. And that is exactly what they want.
Because as long as our eyes are open, they can climb inside.
There's an Angel in her mind.
Three.
Doctor, it's coming, I can feel it. I'm going to die.
That was real creepy.
So can I open my eyes now?
Amy, listen to me. If you open your eyes now
for more than a second, you will die.
MAN: (ON INTERCOM) Hello? Hello, please. Hello?
I need your help. There's been an accident.
ROGERS: The beauty of the Neighbour is that it's another monster
that plays on the fear of normal things not acting normally.
MAN: Please, help me.
ROGERS: The intercom on the outside of the building,
and somebody asking for help,
a little kid or an older person asking for help,
preying on the natural human desire to come help somebody who needs them.
It's all this stuff that gets you in your gut,
that you can feel it as a thing that's just not right.
MAN: Please, will you help me?
Help you? What's wrong?
Something terrible's happened. Please help me.
ADSIT: I would probably try to help someone who was asking for help
because I watch Doctor Who and I know that you're supposed to help people.
But then I'd be killed.
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
Craig, what's that on the ceiling?
-What's what on the ceiling? -That.
It's coming from upstairs. Who lives up there again?
Just some bloke.
TOMPKINS: So, the Doctor is stranded for a little bit.
He ends up being roommates with this guy Craig.
It was a really weird feeling because you keep waiting
for something horrible to happen.
Because it's just this domestic scene of these two dudes hanging out.
But then the whole time there's an upstairs neighbour
who is a hologram,
who is luring people to their deaths via the intercom system.
CHILD: (ON INTERCOM) Please, can you help me?
Can you help me, please?
ROGERS: It's the kind of soulless serial killing
of hapless people walking by a flat someplace,
that's the dreadful thing. It earns those kind of monsters
the scorn and the anger of the Doctor.
I've lost my mum and I don't know where she is.
Please, can you help me?
Help you?
You poor thing. What's happened?
Can you help me find her?
Nothing is more terrifying than creepy little children.
And for the record, I do find most little children to be creepy anyway
but when they're actively trying to be creepy,
that is the worst.
It's not threatening but isn't that what's the scariest thing,
like, something that's non-threatening?
Like little children in horror movies are always super-scary
because they are "non-threatening".
I just want to address all creepy little children right now
and say, "Knock it off. Knock it off."
What are you doing?
Protecting our race against the apes.
The Silurians are this race of intelligent dinosaurs
that lived on Earth before human beings did.
And they're one of the old... They're a classic villain.
The Silurians, we have not seen them in quite some time.
I want to say, if my memory serves me, Fifth Doctor-era?
And you know what? They've gotten very attractive.
Your tribe are going to give us back our people in exchange for you.
No.
Shall I tell you what's really going to happen, apes?
One of you will kill me.
My death shall ignite a war
and every stinking ape shall be wiped from the surface of my beloved planet.
We won't allow that to happen.
I know apes better than you know yourselves.
I know which one of you will kill me.
Do you?
MORALES: They want their turn. They want their world.
They feel like this is theirs
because they've been here longer than the humans
and they're getting ready to attack.
ALAYA: Our sensors detected a threat to our life-support systems.
The warrior class was activated to prevent the assault.
We will wipe the vermin from the surface and reclaim our planet.
Do we have to say "vermin"? They're really very nice.
You could go way deep into politics with the Silurians.
You can talk about who was here first and whose land is whose
and immigrants created the world.
ROGERS: What the Silurians want is what everybody wants.
So they're fighting to protect their families
and their homes and their cities
and they want back what they perceive human beings
to have stolen from them.
And the human beings actually act pretty badly.
The Silurians do a really good job
of holding a mirror up to ourselves as humans.
Because it's definitely a moment
where we don't know if we're actually the good guys in this one.
I'm just protecting my family here, that's all.
I don't want to use it. I want you to put things right.
-Use it. -What?
Use it on me.
But you're too afraid.
A woman who can't even protect her own child
must be too weak to take...
(SCREAMING)
I didn't want to do that. Are you all right?
Tell me, what's the cure for my dad?
He's vermin. He deserves a painful death!
-I am giving you a chance. -I knew it would be you.
The one with the most to lose. The weakest.
(SCREAMING)
The reveal is we're all monsters under the latex.
And you want us to trust these apes, Doctor?
One woman. She was scared for her family.
-She is not typical. -I think she is.
One person let us down,
but there is a whole race of dazzling, peaceful human beings up there.
You were building something here. Come on!
An alliance could work.
It's too late for that, Doctor.
Don't do this. Don't call their bluff.
Let us go back.
And you promise to never come to the surface ever again.
We'll walk away, leave you alone.
Execute her!
(ALL YELLING)
What monster from Doctor Who scares you the most?
Either the Silence or the Weeping Angels.
-The Angels. -Yeah, definitely the Angels.
I've always had a fear of statues anyway
and, well, that one just kind of added to it.
When you blink, they come right at you and it's just like,
"What the heck?"
Especially when they send you back in time and then you just live to death.
I was actually pretty afraid that I was going to get nightmares.
The Silence very close behind, but Weeping Angels is number one.
-Who's that? -Hmm? Who's who?
Sorry, what?
What did you see? You said you saw something.
No, I didn't.
(GASPS)
I saw you before at the lake and here.
But then I forgot.
ROGERS: The Silence are another monster that you think is behind a door.
And they're playing with memory
because you only remember them when you're looking at them.
And when you aren't looking at them, they don't exist for you any more.
IAN: Here's a monster that could basically tell you anything it wants
and make you do things
and you'll never remember that it told you to do this
as soon as you look away.
So this thing could basically screw with you your whole life.
(GASPS)
HAISLIP: I mean, who isn't scared of the dark?
We're all scared of the dark at some point.
Even when we can tell ourselves it's okay to be in the dark.
Now I feel like there might actually be something in the dark.
(BREATHING RAGGEDLY)
AMY: I can see them, but I think they're asleep. Get out! Just get out!
(GRUNTING)
ROGERS: You get these moments
where they see their reflection in a mirror or something,
they look around a room and when they see their reflection again,
they're all marked up with hash marks
because they've been told to mark down whenever they see one.
So you know that something horrifying has happened to them somewhere else,
right off-screen.
And the off-screen stuff is always the scariest stuff.
SHEPPARD: There is also their ability to control your mind,
to manipulate you to do the things that they want to do.
So the power of suggestion makes them so effectively parasitic.
The concept of memory protection I think is amazing.
How do you fight something that you can't remember you've ever seen?
WATTS: Their mouth kind of appears in a weird sucking fashion
and then their weird tentacley finger points at someone
and suddenly they just evaporate into nothing.
And they don't really care.
The Silence are a really creepy monster.
They just destroy this woman in the bathroom for no reason.
SILENCE: We have ruled your lives since your lives began.
You should kill us all on sight.
But you will never remember we were even here.
WATTS: If the Silence have been around
since the advent of human consciousness and its evolution,
then it is just as much a part of humanity
as humanity views itself apart from the Silence.
So then the question is, "What is humanity?"
(SIREN VOCALISING)
TOMPKINS: The Siren, at first glance,
seems to be the classic seven seas ghosty thing
that lures sailors to their death.
(SCREAMS)
I have to touch her. Let me touch her.
Sorry, but he is spoken for.
(SCREAMS)
But then it turns out she is actually a doctor on a spacecraft.
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(VOCALISING)
(BREATHING RHYTHMICALLY)
-Anaesthetic. -AVERY: What?
DOCTOR: The music. The song.
So she anaesthetises people and puts their body in stasis.
The only people she attacks are people
that injure themselves or cut themselves, in a way.
So she takes them, only she takes them
in the scariest possible way a nurse could ever take you.
If a nurse came and tried to help me like that,
I'd run.
(SCREECHING)
(DOCTOR SNEEZES)
Fire. That's new. Fire. What does fire do?
Burn? Yes. Destroy. What else?
Sterilise?
(STAMMERING) I sneezed. I brought germs in.
I guess she doesn't realise
that when you turn your face into a demonic mask,
that's going to put some people off.
She's not a killer at all. She's a doctor!
This is an automated sick bay.
She's teleporting everyone on board. The crew are dead.
And so the sick bay has had nothing to do.
It's been looking after humanity whilst it's been idle.
Look at her.
A virtual doctor, able to sterilise a whole room.
-Able to burn your face off. -She's just an interface.
Seeped through the join between the planes,
broadcast in our world.
Protein circuitry means she can change her form
and become a human doctor for humans.
Oh, sister, you are good!
ROGERS: When the Doctor confronts something that seems supernatural,
he's such a hyper-rationalist that he knows it's not supernatural.
Even when there's paranormal stuff like telepathy or telekinesis,
there's a scientific explanation for it.
There's always machinery to be fixed. You can build devices.
You can wrap your brain around what's going on.
What kind of new monster would you like to see fight the Doctor?
I want to see him fight dinosaurs.
I want to see him fight a dinosaur, a T-rex.
A velociraptor or like a giant squid.
A mixture of a gorilla, cobra, man.
Those ones that, like, bite your neck and, like, blood squirts out.
Something that could match him almost intellectually.
Another evil Time Lord.
Not the Master but somebody new, from his past.
I don't know. He's done everything, hasn't he?
(GASPS)
(EXHALES)
MORALES: The Gangers.
I wouldn't consider these a monster, even though they are monstrous.
They were avatars that were created by people
to do their jobs for them because they were lazy
or because they didn't want to run the risk
of getting hurt on the job.
So they just had this vat of humanoid flesh
that they would create themselves out of.
And that avatar that was created
had all their thoughts and memories in life programmed into them already,
so they thought they were this own person.
What do you do if you realise you're just this fake creation
but you have feelings and you have thoughts
and you remember things, you know things to be true?
So I wouldn't consider that a monster. I think it's a really sad story.
-What are you going to do to them? -Sorry, they're monsters.
Mistakes. They have to be destroyed.
DOCTOR: Give me the probe, Cleaves.
We always have to take charge, don't we, Miranda?
Even when we don't really know what the hell is going on.
(GROANING)
DOCTOR: Buzzer. Agh! Dead!
We call it decommissioned.
You stopped his heart. He had a heart!
Aorta, valves, a real human heart!
ROGERS: They realise how horrible their lot in life is,
they develop autonomy and their own intelligence.
They go off and there's almost a civil war
between people who look exactly alike and think exactly alike.
You are fighting a civil war with yourself.
So you know what the plan's going to be,
you can guess what the person's passwords
and encryption are going to be.
In fact, if you say, "Oh, I'm fighting myself.
"I'm going to know what I'm going to guess for a password
"so I'm going to guess something else,"
the self can say that, too.
They know that you know that they know. It's a great notion.
The Flesh avatars, for my money, were maybe the creepiest of them all.
They were really, really disturbing and hard to look at.
(SNARLING)
DOCTOR: It's frightening, unexpected.
Frankly, a total, utter splattering mess on the carpet.
But I am certain, 100% certain, that we can work this out.
Trust me.
I'm the Doctor.
ADSIT: I think they're going to make a return in some way
and we're not going to know who's who eventually.
Perhaps you should have wondered why we call them headless.
It's time you knew what these guys have sacrificed for faith.
As you all know, it is a level one heresy,
punishable by death, to lower the hood of a Headless Monk.
But by the divine grant of the Papal Mainframe herself,
on this one and only occasion I can show you the truth.
Because these guys never can be
persuaded.
They never can be
afraid.
What the hell? Like what... How does that work?
Because it's just nuts.
"Oh, we'll call them Headless Monks and check this out.
"They'll be headless!"
Their bodies seem to be just sort of tied off at the neck.
But they're like walking around and doing stuff.
WOMAN: (ON PA) Reminder: do not interact with Headless Monks
without divine permission.
Do not interact with Headless Monks without divine permission.
You're not supposed to stare at them.
And if they think you're trying to see under their hoods, they'll kill you.
On the spot.
Why are they called the Headless Monks? They can't really be headless.
They believe the domain of faith is the heart
and the domain of doubt is the head.
They follow their hearts, that's all.
I think as a human being, there's nothing more frightening
than encountering another human being without a head.
The Headless Monks raise a lot of questions.
How does this work, exactly?
What's in the little boxes?
WOMAN: (ON PA) Welcome, Applicant, to the Order of the Headless.
It is traditional for visiting armies of other faiths
to offer individuals for conversion to our order.
You have been selected.
Are you ready
to make a donation?
I think it's obvious why the Headless Monks were after the Doctor.
He's got a head. Right?
He's a super-smart guy, which makes his head very desirable.
I'm assuming the fancy British accent comes with the head.
That might be more of a vocal cords thing.
I'm not a doctor myself.
ROGERS: The lightsabers come out and there's the big clash.
I mean, you don't have widescreen action with Doctor Who,
so you see the big thing of lots of people
fighting with lots of people, it's pretty neat.
Amy!
Do you think the Doctor would get bored without monsters to fight?
I can't imagine that. He would be definitely bored.
I think he would feel lost and he wouldn't have a purpose any more.
I'm surprised he hasn't gotten bored already.
You know, he's been around for 900 years.
He usually wants to go have fun, relax, but we never get to see any of that.
So he could be spending hundreds of years having a blast
and we'll never know about it.
I'm being extremely clever up here
and there's no one to stand around looking impressed.
What's the point in having you all?
He's a bored old madman.
-With a box. -With a box.
There's a crack in my wall.
Aunt Sharon says it's just an ordinary crack,
but I know it's not because at night, there's voices.
ROGERS: The Crack is
something that nobody would notice except a little girl.
Amy, as a little girl, knows there's something weird
about this crack in her wall.
And it's only over time
that the Doctor and the viewers start to realise
that the crack is showing up all over the universe
at different times and different places.
Obviously, that's not supposed to happen.
And it becomes the reveal of like,
"Oh, there's something much worse out there
"than just the kind of creature of the week."
There's something terrifying.
SHEPPARD: I think it's as dark and scary as the Joker's smile.
It's extraordinarily foreboding,
extraordinarily foreboding.
WATTS: How often is a shape creepy?
It's just a line, you know,
that becomes this representation of something really ominous and not good.
So that becomes the major story arc of the Eleventh Doctor's first series,
where this crack keeps reappearing
and you know that there's some horrible event in time
and he doesn't know what it is.
And then he reaches into the crack
and he pulls out a piece of the Tardis.
(GRUNTS)
The Crack is actually...
was modelled after a piece of dark matter
that they saw in the constellation Sagittarius.
Perhaps if the Doctor would have come up with
some kind of a temporal spackling agent,
maybe it could have prevented the Crack from reappearing.
The Crack was the same crack throughout time and space
that was either caused or going to be caused
by the destruction of the Tardis.
Obviously we don't want that to happen because the Tardis is our magic box
and the Doctor doesn't want it to happen, either.
But because the different races and creatures and people
who the Doctor has been in contact with,
you realise that the Tardis is the problem.
It unites all of them against the Doctor.
-What we do? -RIVER: Doctor, listen to me.
Everything that ever hated you is coming here tonight.
You can't win this. You can't even fight it.
Doctor, this once, just this one time, please, you have to run.
The Pandorica is ready.
-Ready for what? -Ready for you.
Now, you lot, working together.
An alliance.
How is that possible?
The cracks in the skin of the universe.
All of reality is threatened.
CYBERMAN: All universes will be deleted.
What?
And you've come to me for help?
No. We will save the universe from you!
HARDWICK: All of the villainous creatures that we've seen
throughout Doctor Who, the Judoon
and the Cybermen and the Daleks,
they all came together to imprison the Doctor
because they were afraid of him.
And so they felt like the best way that they could deal with him
was to stick him in this Pandorica,
which previously the Doctor had thought was a myth,
but just basically, an inescapable prison for all of eternity.
(LOUD CLANGING)
ROGERS: The best bad guys have reasons for being bad guys.
In this case, all those creatures, robots, aliens,
who we have been trained to think of as the worst of the worst,
actually, we realise, think of the Doctor as the worst of the worst,
not just because he's stopping their plans for blowing up our planet,
but because he's going to destroy the universe
because he is a threat himself.
So they become, in a way, the good guys.
MORALES: If you think something is going to destroy everything,
are you in the right to want to put it in a box?
Yeah. I mean, they're just trying to defend themselves,
which is what makes them real monsters.
It's not the fact that they are just being mean for no reason.
It's because they have a right to and they have a reason to.
ADSIT: It was really kind of frightening when they started dragging him
toward the Pandorica and you realise what it's for.
Because again, how are they going to get out of this?
DOCTOR: The whole universe will never have existed.
Please, listen to me!
-Seal the Pandorica. -No.
Please, listen to me!
The Tardis is exploding right now and I'm the only one who can stop it!
Listen to me!
If you were an alien fighting the Doctor,
how would you defeat him?
I'd take away his sonic screwdriver, for one.
I'd lead a long trail of Jelly Babies and sweets and Jammie Dodgers.
I would probably try and use his companions against him.
WOMAN: I'd definitely go the hostage route.
He's got those two big hearts.
I wouldn't let him talk.
I'd be like, "You don't get a monologue."
You can't beat the Doctor. (LAUGHS)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
-Sleep. -No. No, get off me.
-No. No. No! -Sleep.
Oh, interesting!
These kind of monsters have to be so bad that they can attract the attention
of this 900-year-old traveller who has seen, almost literally, everything.
WATTS: You need monsters to have heroes, I suppose.
They make for an interesting and dangerous, dangerous time.
(GROWLING)
Run. Run. Run!
One of the things that Doctor Who does really well
is they incorporate horror into their sci-fi.
When those two combine, it's really pretty frightening.
He was here. He was here.
-Elliot! -Ambrose, don't go running off.
It's Mum!
No!
(SOBBING)
I have literally lost sleep over some of these episodes.
And it's been such a long time since I've been scared like that.
Mrs Hamill. We don't understand.
RORY: Whoa!
(BOTH YELL)
There's nothing you can rationalise with,
there's nothing you can talk to, there's nothing you can change.
So it's truly, truly scary.
(YELLS)
(THUNDER CRASHING)
ROGERS: Even the most innocuous creaking branch outside a window
or the dark at the bottom of a staircase
is the kind of thing that you can build all sorts of narratives
in your head that will keep you from falling asleep at night.
One of the great lessons, I think, of Doctor Who,
is probably that those kinds of things are not to be dismissed.
And they make for the most interesting stories.
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(METALLIC CLATTERING)
I see you.
I see you.
ROGERS: Steven Moffat is very good at
understanding the strengths of the medium he's working in.
The Weeping Angels and the Silence are perfect television villains
because they operate on the same psychological frequency.
They are scary for the same reasons that television is scary,
that it's something that you look at that's hypnotic,
you can't look away from,
or if you do look away from, something bad is going to happen.
The classic move when you're watching a horror movie
or something scary, you cover your eyes.
With both of them, the worst possible thing you can do
is cover your eyes.
Right? You cannot look away, literally, you'll get killed.
-But it's just a statue. -It's a statue when you see it.
Where did it come from?
Oh, pulled from the ruins of Razbahan, end of last century.
It's been in private hands ever since.
Dormant all that time.
There's a difference between dormant and patient.
What does that mean, it's a statue when you see it?
The Weeping Angels can only move if they're unseen,
so legend has it.
No, it's not legend, it's a quantum lock.
In the sight of any living creature, the Angels literally cease to exist.
They're just stone. The ultimate defence mechanism.
What? Being a stone?
Being a stone until you turn your back.
HARDWICK: Moffat is genius at sort of playing with perception
and ideas of what you think aliens are,
what they can do, at the corners of our perception
there lie these things that you need to be afraid of.
(BEEPING)
-What's that? -It's a warning.
There are Angels round you now.
IAN: I know these things aren't real.
So something is able to be that smart
where it actually moved me to the point of fear.
Then they're doing an incredible job.
HARDWICK: Anything odd or unexplainable
Doctor Who is able to explain away with aliens.
If you ever feel that thing in your peripheral vision,
and you're like, "Oh, it was just... I was just imagining that."
You were not imagining it. It was an alien.
ROGERS: They're the things that lurk in the dark.
One of the reasons the Doctor is so interesting
is that he's always this beacon of light.
He always shows up at the moment when you need somebody to help.
What he's there to help against is the kind of terrifying stuff
that's in your closet, that you ask your parents to check
before they turn the light out.
It's why you want your mom and dad to check under the bed.
HARDWICK: All those things you thought, your parents said,
"Don't worry about it. There's nothing in the closet."
There is something in the closet!
And it is not of this world, children.
Sweet dreams.
(BARKING)