A transcript of the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special.
(We see and hear the psychedelic vortex and music of Classic episodes, and then a shadow on a stone wall. The camera pulls back, and we see that it is cast by a police officer walking past the famous junkyard of “I. M. Foreman / Scrap Merchant / 76, Totter's Lane” and the “Coal Hill / Secondary School / Shoreditch”. The sign for the latter reveals that I. Chesteron is the chairman of the governors of the school, and the headmaster is “W. Coburn”, a reference to Waris Hussein and Anthony Coburn, who directed and wrote the show's very first episode.)
CLARA (voiceover):
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” Marcus Aurelius.
[cut to inside] (The schoolbell rings; class is dismissed. Clara begins erasing the quotation from the board.
A young man rushes into her classroom )
CLARA (noticing him):
Have you been running?
MAN:
Are you okay? There was a call for you at the office. From your ... doctor.
CLARA (smiling to herself, then turning to him):
Did he leave an address?
(The MAN hands CLARA a piece of paper. She takes it and rushes to her desk, grabbing her motorcycle jacket and helmet.)
[cut to outside] (A clock shows the time, 5:16, as she drives away from the school. That was the time the first episode of the show aired, on the 23rd of November, 1963.
We follow CLARA down several streets and through a tunnel out into the open countryside where, just a bit down from an intersection, she spots the TARDIS. She smiles and drives straight at it, honking her horn. The doors open just in time for her to drive inside.
The ELEVENTH DOCTOR, wearing reading glasses, looks up from a book on Advanced Quantum Mechanics.)
ELEVENTH DOCTOR (still reading, but feeling the breeze from the open door):
Draft!
(CLARA, though wearing leather riding gloves, manages to snap her fingers; the doors close.)
ELEVENTH DOCTOR (closing the book and turning to CLARA, maintaining a look of boredom):
Fancy a week in ancient Mesopotamia? Followed by future Mars?
CLARA (hiding her own excitement):
Will there be cocktails?
ELEVENTH DOCTOR:
On the moon.
CLARA:
Moon'll do.
(The
ELEVENTH DOCTOR and CLARA finally grin. They are excited to see one another again; indeed, before a second has passed, their smiles have burst into little laughs. They rush to hug each other.)
ELEVENTH DOCTOR:
How's the new job? Teaching anything good?
CLARA:
No. Learn anything?
ELEVENTH DOCTOR:
Not a thing?
(They smile and clasp hands in a double high five. At just that moment, the TARDIS doors lock down and the console screens flash a warning: “Alert: TARDIS interference detected”.)
CLARA:
What's happening?
ELEVENTH DOCTOR:
Whoa! Whoa! We're taking off! But the engines aren't going!
[cut to outside] (We see that the TARDIS is being lifted, like a toy in a crane game, by a helicopter.)
