The Doctor and The Captain - Book One

S1 EP1: Rose Part 3

"Look, if I did forget some kid called Mickey." the Doctor tries to justify getting cut off by Rose

"Yeah, he's not a kid!"

"...It's because I'm trying to save every stupid ape blundering about on this planet, all right?" he raises his voice.

"All right?!"

"Yes, it is!"

"If you are an alien, why do you sound like you're from the north?" Rose asks.

"Lots of planets have a north!" the Doctor replies crossing his arms.

"...What's a police public call box?"

"It's a telephone box, from the 1950s. It's a disguise." the Captain says as he turns around to look at the box.

This earns a smirk and a slight chuckle from Rose "Okay. And, this, this living plastic, what's it got against us?" she asks taking a step closer to the Captain.

"Nothing. It loves you. You've got a good planet, lots of smoke and oil, plenty of toxins and dioxins, perfect. Just what the Nestene Consciousness needs. Its food stock was destroyed in the war, all its protein planets rotted. So. Earth. Dinner." the Captain goes on to say whilst walking towards the Tardis.

"Any way of stopping it?" Rose asks concerned.

"Antiplastic." the Doctor says revealing a tube of blue liquid.

"Antiplastic?"

"Antiplastic!" the Captain responds.

"But first, we've got to find it." the Doctor says looking about. "How can you hide something that big in a city this small?" he says walking away from the two still standing next to the Tardis.

"Hold on. Hide what?" Rose asks.

"A transmitter." the Captain says next to her.

"The Consciousness is controlling every single piece of plastic, so it needs a transmitter to boost the signal." the Doctor says turning around and walking up to Rose.

"What does it look like?"

"Like a transmitter!" the Doctor replies.

"Round and massive - somewhere slap bang in the middle of London." the Captain tells Rose as the three walk past a pillar.

"A huge, metal, circular structure, like a dish, like a wheel, radial, close to where we're standing, it must be completely invisible." the Doctor carries on from where the Captain left off.

"What?" the two men ask as Rose looks behind them and nods in the direction, they turn around "What?" the Doctor asks turning back around not noticing the London Eye in the background.

"Doctor, look." the Captain tells him. He turns around again

"What is it? What?" he asks turning around for the last time realising whats been behind them the entire time. "Oh... Fantastic!" the Doctor says as both him and the Captain run off, Rose following behind. They run across the bridge Rose's hand in the Doctor's.

"Think. Plastic all over the world. Everywhere, every artificial thing waiting to come alive. The shop window dummies, the phones, the wires, the cables." the Doctor tells her.

"The breast implants." Rose adds.

"Breast implants? Behave. Still, we've found the transmitter. The consciousness must be somewhere underneath." the Captain says and as he finishes the sentence Rose rushes off to a set of stairs that lead down to the river bed.

"What 'bout down here?" Rose asks grabbing the attention of the two men who rush off to her side and look down at where she's looking.

"Looks good to me." the Doctor smiles. The three people head straight to a hatch and the Doctor opens it, revealing a red glow and smoke leaving the hole. The Doctor is the first person to climb down the ladder, followed by the Captain and then Rose. The three walk past chains that are hanging from the ceiling towards a door, which the Doctor opens. They walk down some stairs and stop "The Nestene Consciousness. That's it, inside the vat, a living plastic creature." the Doctor tells Rose.