Just wondering how you would make it, a new story entirly or a rewriten version of what we saw on screen. Here is mine:
‘It was on the planet Skaro that my old enemy the Master was finally put on trial. They say he listened calmly as his list of evil crimes was read and sentence passed. Then he made his last and, I thought, somewhat curious request. He demanded that I, the Doctor, a rival Time Lord, should take his remains back to our home planet, Gallifrey.’
We see the Master being sentenced by the Daleks: ‘You have been found guilty…’, ‘The penalty is death…’, and then the typical ‘Exterminate! Exterminate!’ A massive shock rips through the Master, and he explodes.
‘It was a request they should never have granted.’
The TARDIS is in the time vortex heading back to Gallifrey, dateline 5725.2, in the Rassilon era. A Time Lord has 13 lives and the Master has used up all of his. But rules never meant much to him, as his stealing of Tremas’s body proves. So, even in death, the Doctor tells us, he couldn't trust the Master. The Doctor, still in his 7th incarnation, brings the box of the Master's remains to a counter in an overly large redesigned TARDIS console room -- a gigantic mass of metal, wood and antiques. After placing the remains in a box, the Doctor seals it shut with the sonic screwdriver, comments that that should do it, and then sits in a big plush chair and listens to a record as he has tea and eats jelly babies out of a jar. The Eighth Doctor’s voice says that in all his travels, and now at the end of his seventh life, the Doctor’s only now realising that you can never be too careful. There are many clocks ticking and a few statues. Suddenly, the Master's box splits and cracks open widely with goo falling out of it and sliding into the TARDIS console, causing a critical malfunction. The Doctor runs to the console and tries to right it. He pulls down a scanner screen from the ceiling and it seems stuck on December 30th, 1999 -- a critical timing malfunction has caused the TARDIS to activate an automatic emergency landing fail-safe device that will make the TARDIS land at that time. Checking the box containing the Master's remains, the Doctor realizes his old foe has once again cheated death, and now will be more desperate than ever before.
San Francisco, December 30, 1999. Three Chinese boys are running trying to escape from a large dark car chasing them. Another car appears and they run down an alley and jump over a large fence. From the other side, the trio of boys shoot guns at the car, which backs out of the alley. The boys rejoice in their victory, but suddenly four older men with automatic guns stand up from the trash cans. They open fire on the three boys, killing two of them. The third one, Chang Lee, dives for the trash cans on the other side of the alley and dodges bullets. The men play with him, firing just behind and above. He rushes out of the trash to stand against a wall, hands raised in surrender. One of the men tells him to say his prayers.
Just as the four men are about to fire, a large blue Police Telephone Box appears in front of Chang Lee and takes the bullets meant for him. The four men are startled and reload just as the Doctor steps out of the TARDIS. As he locks the door, the men decide not to waste their bullets and shoot him and he falls. The four men run off. Chang Lee comes from behind the TARDIS and checks his friends -- they are dead. He hears the Doctor moan and goes to him. The Doctor babbles about a timing malfunction and to stop the goo from coming out of the TARDIS lock. Chang Lee seems sympathetic and will help him, but really has no clue what he’s talking about when he says ‘Stop it…’ his last words before falling unconscious. They hear an ambulance coming already. "Hold on there, old guy, Chang Lee will help you out." The goo forms a puddle. When the ambulance arrives, the goo gets on it.
In the ambulance, Bruce, a paramedic, questions Chang Lee, asking if the man is rich -- where they are taking him, he will need to be. Chang Lee needs to sign papers -- a release form -- and writes John Smith as the name of the patient. They arrive at the Walker General Hospital and the Doctor is wheeled out and off into the hospital. The goo has transformed itself into a snake like creature, which wants to follow the Doctor.
At the hospital, the resident on duty and two nurses discover that the bullets come out of the Doctor easily and have not caused much damage -- in fact one went through his shoulder and another two went through his left leg. They are, however, amazed at the double hearts in the x-rays of the Doctor. They assume it is a double exposure.
Inside the ambulance, the snake goes into Bruce's jacket sleeve.
The nurses, meanwhile, realise that the Doctor’s hearts are beating at a rate that would be dangerous if he were human, and decide to call in a cardiologist. On call for Cardiology is Dr. Grace Holloway, who happens to be at the Grand Metropolitan Opera House enjoying Madam Butterfly. She is beeped to the Emergency Room and has to leave her live-in boyfriend Brian.
After a bitter discussion on the phone with Brian while preparing herself at the hospital, Dr. Holloway is ready to enter the operating room and asks a nurse to play a CD of Madam Butterfly to relax her. The Doctor's heart is fibrillating at 300, which is dangerous for a human.
The Doctor awakens, seeing Grace over him with a scalpel. He urges her to stop, he babbles about himself not being human, and how he is not like her, while fiercely holding her arm. He also asks for a beryllium atomic clock, also saying ‘This is 1999, isn’t it?’ She wants to find out why his heart is going wild and wants to fix it, and says that he’ll be fine. The bullets are out of the Doctor, she tells him, looking into his blue eyes. The Doctor is put under anesthetic and seems totally under; however, he sits up and tells them, "Timing malfunction! The Master -- he's out there!" The nurses and Grace sit him back down. However, just before he goes, he cries out ‘I’ve got to stop…’ Grace doesn't think this guy's name is John Smith. She readies to put a micro surgical probe into the Doctor to explore his heart.
While this is going on the hospital's administrator is showing potential investors around. Swift takes them above the operation room to watch Grace work, commenting that she is one of their senior cardiologists.
Grace feels déjà vu as she watches where she is probing within the Doctor's hearts, not realizing there are two hearts in the Doctor. She thinks she lost where the probe is supposed to go, and comments that she isn’t where she should be. Another medic says that she could only be where she thinks she is if the Doctor was a donkey. She tries something else but the Doctor has a massive seizure and Grace finds it difficult to pull the probe out of the Doctor; it snaps, part of it inside him. They use an electro resuscitation machine on him. The Doctor sits up again and screams, wide eyed. He falls back and further attempts to revive him, fail. Time of death: 10:03. Grace is upset and wants to see those x-rays. She storms out angrily as a sheet is pulled over the Doctor’s face.
While looking at the x-rays, Grace says to Wheeler that the Doctor is to be booked in for an autopsy. Wheeler asks about that kid that brought him in, who might be able to help them since there is no other way to identify the Doctor's real name. Grace doesn't believe the x-ray of two hearts is a double exposure. She goes out to the waiting room to talk to Chang Lee, who asks her if she's the doctor. Grace tells him what happened and tries to console this "friend" of the dead man. Lee takes it in stride and checks a bag of the Doctor's belongings, including the TARDIS key. When Grace realizes Chang Lee didn't know this man at all, the teenager grabs the bag and races out of the hospital into the night. Grace tries to chase him but in vain.
12:50 am. Bruce is asleep in an apartment and his snoring is keeping his wife awake. The snake comes out of his paramedic jacket.
The Doctor's body has been toe tagged and is wheeled by into the mortuary. The Doctor is wrapped in a white shroud only. The mortuary overseer, Pete, talks to the body of the Doctor, making jokes and acting like an irreverent fool. He says that he has a nice autopsy booked for the Doctor, followed by a sauna or a massage, here pulling the sheet down and asking the Doctor which he’d prefer. While signing the Doctor in, another medic called Ted reveals he’s going to the New Year’s Eve party as Wild Bill Hicock. The Doctor's body is stored into an ice box room.
The Master snake form climbs up onto the bed and into Bruce's open mouth as the man snores. The snake violently shakes into him and moves through his body as if under a sheet. Bruce seems to feel pain and his eyes register what is happening. Then the eyes close as the Master mixes with his DNA, thus acquiring his fifteenth incarnation.
In a room adjacent to the mortuary, Pete is watching the movie "Frankenstein" on TV, eating popcorn with his feet up.
In the icebox room, the Doctor's sheet is alive with electricity -- his skeleton being seen through the sheet. The sheet falls off from the power surging. The Doctor's face is changing once again, but it seems to be difficult, as though the Doctor is fighting something for this incarnation. It appears to succeed, as the Doctor's arm moves and his hand leans off the table he is lying on, but he isn’t moving. Suddenly, his breath starts up and icy air can be seen spewing from his opening mouth. His eyes open.
On the TV, Dr. Frankenstein goes on and on about how his monster is, "Alive! He's alive!"
The Doctor sits up.
"He's alive!"
‘It was on the planet Skaro that my old enemy the Master was finally put on trial. They say he listened calmly as his list of evil crimes was read and sentence passed. Then he made his last and, I thought, somewhat curious request. He demanded that I, the Doctor, a rival Time Lord, should take his remains back to our home planet, Gallifrey.’
We see the Master being sentenced by the Daleks: ‘You have been found guilty…’, ‘The penalty is death…’, and then the typical ‘Exterminate! Exterminate!’ A massive shock rips through the Master, and he explodes.
‘It was a request they should never have granted.’
The TARDIS is in the time vortex heading back to Gallifrey, dateline 5725.2, in the Rassilon era. A Time Lord has 13 lives and the Master has used up all of his. But rules never meant much to him, as his stealing of Tremas’s body proves. So, even in death, the Doctor tells us, he couldn't trust the Master. The Doctor, still in his 7th incarnation, brings the box of the Master's remains to a counter in an overly large redesigned TARDIS console room -- a gigantic mass of metal, wood and antiques. After placing the remains in a box, the Doctor seals it shut with the sonic screwdriver, comments that that should do it, and then sits in a big plush chair and listens to a record as he has tea and eats jelly babies out of a jar. The Eighth Doctor’s voice says that in all his travels, and now at the end of his seventh life, the Doctor’s only now realising that you can never be too careful. There are many clocks ticking and a few statues. Suddenly, the Master's box splits and cracks open widely with goo falling out of it and sliding into the TARDIS console, causing a critical malfunction. The Doctor runs to the console and tries to right it. He pulls down a scanner screen from the ceiling and it seems stuck on December 30th, 1999 -- a critical timing malfunction has caused the TARDIS to activate an automatic emergency landing fail-safe device that will make the TARDIS land at that time. Checking the box containing the Master's remains, the Doctor realizes his old foe has once again cheated death, and now will be more desperate than ever before.
San Francisco, December 30, 1999. Three Chinese boys are running trying to escape from a large dark car chasing them. Another car appears and they run down an alley and jump over a large fence. From the other side, the trio of boys shoot guns at the car, which backs out of the alley. The boys rejoice in their victory, but suddenly four older men with automatic guns stand up from the trash cans. They open fire on the three boys, killing two of them. The third one, Chang Lee, dives for the trash cans on the other side of the alley and dodges bullets. The men play with him, firing just behind and above. He rushes out of the trash to stand against a wall, hands raised in surrender. One of the men tells him to say his prayers.
Just as the four men are about to fire, a large blue Police Telephone Box appears in front of Chang Lee and takes the bullets meant for him. The four men are startled and reload just as the Doctor steps out of the TARDIS. As he locks the door, the men decide not to waste their bullets and shoot him and he falls. The four men run off. Chang Lee comes from behind the TARDIS and checks his friends -- they are dead. He hears the Doctor moan and goes to him. The Doctor babbles about a timing malfunction and to stop the goo from coming out of the TARDIS lock. Chang Lee seems sympathetic and will help him, but really has no clue what he’s talking about when he says ‘Stop it…’ his last words before falling unconscious. They hear an ambulance coming already. "Hold on there, old guy, Chang Lee will help you out." The goo forms a puddle. When the ambulance arrives, the goo gets on it.
In the ambulance, Bruce, a paramedic, questions Chang Lee, asking if the man is rich -- where they are taking him, he will need to be. Chang Lee needs to sign papers -- a release form -- and writes John Smith as the name of the patient. They arrive at the Walker General Hospital and the Doctor is wheeled out and off into the hospital. The goo has transformed itself into a snake like creature, which wants to follow the Doctor.
At the hospital, the resident on duty and two nurses discover that the bullets come out of the Doctor easily and have not caused much damage -- in fact one went through his shoulder and another two went through his left leg. They are, however, amazed at the double hearts in the x-rays of the Doctor. They assume it is a double exposure.
Inside the ambulance, the snake goes into Bruce's jacket sleeve.
The nurses, meanwhile, realise that the Doctor’s hearts are beating at a rate that would be dangerous if he were human, and decide to call in a cardiologist. On call for Cardiology is Dr. Grace Holloway, who happens to be at the Grand Metropolitan Opera House enjoying Madam Butterfly. She is beeped to the Emergency Room and has to leave her live-in boyfriend Brian.
After a bitter discussion on the phone with Brian while preparing herself at the hospital, Dr. Holloway is ready to enter the operating room and asks a nurse to play a CD of Madam Butterfly to relax her. The Doctor's heart is fibrillating at 300, which is dangerous for a human.
The Doctor awakens, seeing Grace over him with a scalpel. He urges her to stop, he babbles about himself not being human, and how he is not like her, while fiercely holding her arm. He also asks for a beryllium atomic clock, also saying ‘This is 1999, isn’t it?’ She wants to find out why his heart is going wild and wants to fix it, and says that he’ll be fine. The bullets are out of the Doctor, she tells him, looking into his blue eyes. The Doctor is put under anesthetic and seems totally under; however, he sits up and tells them, "Timing malfunction! The Master -- he's out there!" The nurses and Grace sit him back down. However, just before he goes, he cries out ‘I’ve got to stop…’ Grace doesn't think this guy's name is John Smith. She readies to put a micro surgical probe into the Doctor to explore his heart.
While this is going on the hospital's administrator is showing potential investors around. Swift takes them above the operation room to watch Grace work, commenting that she is one of their senior cardiologists.
Grace feels déjà vu as she watches where she is probing within the Doctor's hearts, not realizing there are two hearts in the Doctor. She thinks she lost where the probe is supposed to go, and comments that she isn’t where she should be. Another medic says that she could only be where she thinks she is if the Doctor was a donkey. She tries something else but the Doctor has a massive seizure and Grace finds it difficult to pull the probe out of the Doctor; it snaps, part of it inside him. They use an electro resuscitation machine on him. The Doctor sits up again and screams, wide eyed. He falls back and further attempts to revive him, fail. Time of death: 10:03. Grace is upset and wants to see those x-rays. She storms out angrily as a sheet is pulled over the Doctor’s face.
While looking at the x-rays, Grace says to Wheeler that the Doctor is to be booked in for an autopsy. Wheeler asks about that kid that brought him in, who might be able to help them since there is no other way to identify the Doctor's real name. Grace doesn't believe the x-ray of two hearts is a double exposure. She goes out to the waiting room to talk to Chang Lee, who asks her if she's the doctor. Grace tells him what happened and tries to console this "friend" of the dead man. Lee takes it in stride and checks a bag of the Doctor's belongings, including the TARDIS key. When Grace realizes Chang Lee didn't know this man at all, the teenager grabs the bag and races out of the hospital into the night. Grace tries to chase him but in vain.
12:50 am. Bruce is asleep in an apartment and his snoring is keeping his wife awake. The snake comes out of his paramedic jacket.
The Doctor's body has been toe tagged and is wheeled by into the mortuary. The Doctor is wrapped in a white shroud only. The mortuary overseer, Pete, talks to the body of the Doctor, making jokes and acting like an irreverent fool. He says that he has a nice autopsy booked for the Doctor, followed by a sauna or a massage, here pulling the sheet down and asking the Doctor which he’d prefer. While signing the Doctor in, another medic called Ted reveals he’s going to the New Year’s Eve party as Wild Bill Hicock. The Doctor's body is stored into an ice box room.
The Master snake form climbs up onto the bed and into Bruce's open mouth as the man snores. The snake violently shakes into him and moves through his body as if under a sheet. Bruce seems to feel pain and his eyes register what is happening. Then the eyes close as the Master mixes with his DNA, thus acquiring his fifteenth incarnation.
In a room adjacent to the mortuary, Pete is watching the movie "Frankenstein" on TV, eating popcorn with his feet up.
In the icebox room, the Doctor's sheet is alive with electricity -- his skeleton being seen through the sheet. The sheet falls off from the power surging. The Doctor's face is changing once again, but it seems to be difficult, as though the Doctor is fighting something for this incarnation. It appears to succeed, as the Doctor's arm moves and his hand leans off the table he is lying on, but he isn’t moving. Suddenly, his breath starts up and icy air can be seen spewing from his opening mouth. His eyes open.
On the TV, Dr. Frankenstein goes on and on about how his monster is, "Alive! He's alive!"
The Doctor sits up.
"He's alive!"
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