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00:00I bring Sutax, King of Death, for you and for all of this tiny, vile, incessant universe!
00:30I bring Sutax, Dust of Death, for you and for all of this tiny, vile, incessant universe!
00:50I bring Sutax, Dust of Death, for you and for all of this tiny, vile, incessant universe!
01:20I bring Sutax, Dust of Death, for you and for all of this tiny, vile, incessant universe!
01:50I bring Sutax, Dust of Death, for you and for all of this tiny, vile, incessant universe!
02:10Oh, one day, I bring Sutax, Dust of Death.
02:23Doctor, are you there? This is me, signing off.
02:26With thanks and love. And please send this monster back into Hell.
02:31No!
02:32Because I have to hope.
02:33Birds will sing again. There will be birds.
02:40There's nothing we can do. Except fight!
02:58Faster! Now, faster!
03:00I'm going as fast as I can!
03:02Come on in, faster!
03:13Open the door! Open the door!
03:20Now, wait!
03:21Wait!
03:31We interrupt this broadcast with warnings of an incident in central London.
03:35People are being told to evacuate the city immediately.
03:41What is it? What's going on?
03:45Do you believe in the power of prayer?
03:49I most certainly do.
03:53Then tell your maker I will come to storm down his gates of gold and seize his kingdom in my true name.
04:01What are you talking about?
04:06Who are you?
04:10I'm sorry, you tiny little woman. I'm so, so sorry it ends like this.
04:18I had such plans.
04:41Time membrane failing.
04:44You get out, bunker 17 now.
04:46Doctor, my mother, why can't we see her?
04:47Ruby, we've got worse problems.
05:17It's the hardest remembered. It's made of memories.
05:31Ruby, it is feeding off you.
05:33Yeah, give it everything you've got, babes. Remember it harder.
05:36Yes, yes, yes I can, yes.
05:38If time is a memory, the memory is a time machine.
05:41Yes, yes, that's it. More, more, more, more.
05:52That should do it.
05:54Okay, all right.
05:57As hard as this is remembering itself.
05:59Doctor!
06:01We meet again, my old friend.
06:05Don't you dare.
06:07Doctor, what is that thing?
06:09Sutak, the death of ages, the Typhonian beast, the greatest monster I have ever fought.
06:18Sutak is so totally evil. What if Horus and the others are?
06:21It's time it was put to rest.
06:24It's telling the story of your life.
06:26A long time ago, in the England of 1911, Sutak had been bound and imprisoned for all eternity.
06:33But he rose again, and I defeated him.
06:36I cast you into the time vortex. I sent you forward to your death.
06:41I sent you forward to your death.
06:44I sent you forward to your death.
06:47I sent you forward to your death.
06:50I cast you into the time vortex. I sent you forward to your own death.
06:55Instead, I found a home.
06:59I clung to your infernal machine, and for so many years, I hate it.
07:07I have traveled with you for all this time, riding the spine of your ship,
07:14staring into eternity and evolving into my true godhood.
07:23Now I know every beat of the heart of your time machine, and I can lend it to my will.
07:34It will stand as my altar, the temple of my empire of death.
07:45Never yours again, Doctor. Never.
07:49But I saw inside the TARDIS so many secrets.
07:55Her name seasoned the perfect trap.
08:00I created an apparition of her universally.
08:04Every time we landed on every single world, I burst them all by angels of death.
08:13Now standing triumphant across the universe, I bring Sutek's dust of death.
08:22Every living thing is an abomination.
08:28I am coming to release them into blessed death, and I find that good.
08:38And I damn you, Sutek. I damn you in the name of life itself.
08:46And I swear to you, with both the hearts of the last of the Time Lords, I will stop you.
08:53I will defeat you, and I will turn back death.
08:57And why am I still alive?
09:03Killing me is your gift.
09:07And believe me, Sutek, I am an extinction of hate.
09:10So what is stopping you? Why is the god of death not killing me?
09:16What am I missing?
09:20I'll tell you a secret, Sute.
09:26This feeling that you have now, this doubt, have you ever felt so alive?
09:40And doesn't it feel good?
09:45Run!
09:52What is it?
09:53It's a Remember Tardis.
09:56It's bits and pieces of every Tardis that ever was, held together by hopes and wishes and luck.
10:07Wait, does this thing work? Can it fly?
10:09No idea.
10:23No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, we need that.
10:29No!
10:37Right, right, right, right, right, right.
10:39Tie that to that, yeah, like this.
10:41Oh!
10:42Now, now.
10:43What?
10:44Tie that lever down, all those switches, down, down, down, down, down, yeah?
10:47What?
10:48See these wires? Tie them together, tie them tight.
10:51Doctor, we're on fire!
11:00He's lost himself!
11:02Absolute deathtrap, the baby.
11:04Okay.
11:08Yeah, that's better.
11:21Okay, okay, that's it, that's it.
11:25Calm down.
11:33That's it, nice and easy.
11:35Okay.
11:39See?
11:44That hook is a molecular bond.
11:47It's like intelligent rope.
11:49What do you mean, like?
11:51Intelligent glove.
11:54That was the first day we met.
11:59Man, I am so sorry.
12:09You've got to stabilise.
12:11Because without the time and those memories, we go kaboom.
12:15That screen is holding the TARDIS together.
12:19Okay, so what did I miss?
12:21Every Susan Triumph, they were innocent, they were all real.
12:24Absolutely real.
12:26Every time the TARDIS would land, it would roll her out like...
12:30Okay, so the TARDIS has a perception filter,
12:33so it doesn't get noticed, it just sits there kind of unseen,
12:36because it casts a field around it at 66.7 metres exact.
12:4073 yards.
12:43How do you know that?
12:46I don't know, I just do.
12:51Funny things happen at 73 yards.
12:54People say that you can see things.
12:57Saul, Sue Tech, he used this field, but he used it massively.
13:01He focused his mind, created a whole new person everywhere it'd land.
13:05But perception means that she fitted in, she had character,
13:08she had history, she had a truth.
13:10But Doctor, who landed on Earth?
13:14Who landed on Earth a hundred times?
13:16I think she was reborn every time.
13:18Each time the TARDIS would land,
13:20the idea of that woman would get stronger and stronger.
13:22By 2024, she was Susan Triad, this monumental figure.
13:26What's she done? Sue Tech called her an angel of death.
13:29What did she do?
13:45The dust of death.
13:49Spreading all over the world.
13:55My mother, is she...
13:56It's everyone.
13:58No, but can't you just...
13:59Nothing I can do.
14:06Jesus.
14:09I'm sorry.
14:12She was...
14:15It's happening over and over again.
14:19Every time I landed there.
14:221999.
14:261066.
14:302005.
14:36The Earth is dying.
14:41So many times.
15:11Every world that I ever stood upon.
15:18All dead.
15:22Venus.
15:24Telos.
15:26Cairn.
15:31The Utesphere.
15:34And Skaro.
15:36The Daleks are dead.
15:38Everything is dead.
15:41But...
15:43There are so many places you haven't been.
15:45They must be safe.
15:47I've traveled so far.
15:50Everything caught in that pattern is dying.
15:55The whole of time and space.
15:57I did this?
15:59You did not.
16:01No.
16:08Every sun is dead.
16:11The universe has come to a halt.
16:17The sun is dead.
16:21The sun is dead.
16:24The sun is dead.
16:28And it is my fault.
16:32Because I traveled to all those worlds.
16:38I thought it was fun.
16:57No!
17:09The universe stands silent in death.
17:17Yet, one thing persists.
17:22One thing keeps living despite me.
17:27The Time Lord.
17:29No, greater than him.
17:31The secret the Child carries with her.
17:36But I will find them.
17:38Out there.
17:40In the hollows of this desolate universe.
17:43They are hiding somewhere.
17:46Lost to the wind and the wild.
17:58Excuse me.
18:01Can you tell me...
18:04where are we?
18:07No idea.
18:09Absolutely no idea, darling.
18:13All I've got is this chaffee. Do you want some?
18:15That's very kind.
18:18Only if you have enough.
18:21Where did you get it?
18:23Only if you have enough.
18:26Where did you come from?
18:29Nowhere.
18:31I got a bit lost.
18:35It's been a very, very long time.
18:40I haven't seen anyone in weeks.
18:42There was a caravan that passed through,
18:45heading towards, I don't know, somewhere over that way.
18:49They said there was food, but I haven't seen them since.
18:54Hush now, darling. Let me give the man his chaffee.
18:58Who is the little one?
19:02I think I called her Brindle.
19:05Brindle D.
19:07But I forget.
19:10What is this place called?
19:15Hard to remember. I...
19:18They say memory is dying.
19:20There was a man that said that actual facts were dying in the death wave.
19:25But I think this was the city of...
19:29It began with a B.
19:31And the planet?
19:34I don't think I was born here.
19:37Then I met my husband.
19:39Whatever his name was. Tall.
19:42He was tall. I remember that.
19:45But it was all a very long time ago.
19:48Well, at least you survived.
19:50I'm not sure I did, really.
19:52The funny thing is, I do remember an opera house over that way.
20:00Of all the things to remember.
20:02Maybe I worked there, maybe I sang.
20:05But people used to come from all over.
20:07With lights, and their diamonds, and all sorts of things. It was lovely.
20:15Have you got any meds?
20:19Metal is a precious thing, sir.
20:23I don't think anything's precious anymore.
20:30I suppose you do have a very nice face.
20:49I'll forget it in a minute.
20:51That's very kind of you.
21:05I will use this spoon, I promise.
21:08I'm sorry.
21:10I'm sorry.
21:12I'm sorry.
21:14I'm sorry.
21:16I will use this spoon, I promise.
21:19It might save the universe for the spoon.
21:22That would be nice.
21:25You should go now.
21:27Are you okay?
21:32I think my daughter died.
21:34Didn't she?
21:37And I forgot.
21:47I think she did.
21:51I'm sorry.
21:54They say it travels the death wave, down the family line.
22:00Except that this man, he said it's...
22:03It's...
22:05It's perverse, is what he said.
22:07But it's so determined to kill that it can travel backwards.
22:11From child to mother.
22:16And it's okay, because I really am very tired.
22:22You've got such a nice face.
22:42I swear to you.
22:44This spoon...
22:53It's what we need.
22:55Just some metal, not TARDIS memory, something real.
22:59Thank you.
23:01Whoever you are.
23:03Look, look, look.
23:05After all this time, it's still connected to the time window.
23:09Yeah, I never understood, what was all that Egyptian stuff?
23:12Cultural appropriation.
23:16And who were they, that woman and the man with the hair?
23:19They just travelled in the TARDIS.
23:22That's how I know Mel.
23:24We travelled together, didn't we?
23:27Best time of my life.
23:29We met Einstein.
23:32Did we?
23:35God, I've forgotten.
23:36You okay?
23:38Exhausted.
23:40I still don't get it, what changed?
23:42Sutekh was hidden for years.
23:44Why did he go on the attack?
23:49Ask her again.
23:50Why did he go on the attack?
23:52Why did Sutekh appear on Ruby Road?
23:54He's answering you.
23:55The images are reaching out to you.
23:57What do you mean?
23:58They're trying to help.
24:03The time window is still connected to your memories.
24:05Maybe it's trying to ask you something.
24:07But what does this have to do with my mother?
24:10Oh, because...
24:12Because...
24:14Oh!
24:16Oh!
24:19Sutekh became visible outside the church
24:21because when he landed with the TARDIS in 2004,
24:24he saw the one thing beyond his comprehension.
24:26Your mother.
24:28But who is she?
24:29We don't know.
24:30And neither does he, that's the point.
24:35She drives us crazy, but Sutekh, oh...
24:38He's been riding on the back of the TARDIS
24:40beholding all of time and space,
24:41and then he can't see one woman.
24:43One woman, one singular, mysterious woman.
24:47No wonder he's keeping us alive.
24:48To figure out the answer, who is she?
24:50But if gods are scared of him, what the hell does that mean?
24:53She's not this big cosmic thing, is she?
24:55Because in that case, what am I?
24:56Ruby, you are absolutely human.
24:58But who is she?
24:59And why was she pointing at you?
25:04Come here.
25:05Melanie.
25:07Melanie.
25:10I saw you.
25:14We can find the living through time and space
25:19and family.
25:22I wish there was something we could do to just see her.
25:25But the government says...
25:26Okay, the news is out.
25:28I mean, the government has collapsed
25:31in shame, in absolute shame.
25:33Let me see.
25:34Time to vote.
25:37No, nothing.
25:38Give it to me.
25:42There, I mean him.
25:43Uh, show me.
25:46In particular, the DNA testing regime.
25:49It's giving you another answer.
25:51What is it?
25:53Well, that's the guy with the TV, but who's he?
25:56I propose compulsory DNA tests and for the entire population.
25:59Roger Atwillian.
26:02The most dangerous prime minister in history.
26:07Well, that's 2046.
26:10You haven't met him, have you?
26:12No.
26:13No, I couldn't, could I?
26:15Then why is it showing you?
26:182046, 2046, 2046...
26:232046!
26:25He did it!
26:26DNA testing became compulsory for the entire population in the UK.
26:30So if your mother was still alive...
26:31She'd be on record.
26:32She would be on the register.
26:34We've never been able to find her because she never got tested,
26:36but 2046, she's got no choice.
26:38It is showing us the way, Ruby.
26:40It's showing us the path to your mother.
26:41If I could just...
26:42What does that mean?
26:43Can we find Ruby's mother?
26:44Yeah, and what happens if we do?
26:45One question at a time.
26:47Okay.
26:49All right, the TARDIS doesn't have much power,
26:54but if it can just make one final...
27:01No!
27:06Handy.
27:07Another whistle.
27:112046, here we come!
27:132046 doesn't exist, does it?
27:15Yes, but it is preserved in death, because I once landed there,
27:17so it's fixed, yeah?
27:18Hold her down.
27:21I see them, Melanie.
27:27Every living thing contains dead cells.
27:33Skin.
27:34Names.
27:36You have them.
27:37Sutekh.
27:38Come and see.
27:39Fool the dead.
27:41Melanie.
27:43Closer.
27:44Closer!
27:46Bring them to Sutekh.
27:48Find the mother's name.
27:522046.
28:05Thank you.
28:22I was in this building for the overthrow of Roger Abgulyam.
28:27He was the Department of Health.
28:31He'll have the DNA.
28:34So, we're like hacking a computer?
28:37Sort of thing, yeah.
28:51The DNA list was locked away under top security.
29:16I guess who invented the security?
29:21Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
29:24Come on, come on.
29:26Yes!
29:27Yes.
29:28Okay, Mel, you better keep watch.
29:32Su-Tek service could be anywhere.
29:35And don't take any risks.
29:38We're all getting out of this.
29:41Don't worry about me.
29:44Find that name.
29:47Submit to me, Melanie.
29:55Mel?
30:06Submit to me, Melanie.
30:25That's me.
30:28So what do we do now?
30:31Press search.
30:33Somewhere in there is your mother's name.
30:36And maybe we can use it to fight Su-Tek.
30:44Searching 76 million people.
30:55Who is she?
30:58Melanie.
30:59Melanie.
31:00Melanie.
31:01Melanie.
31:02Yes.
31:03Melanie.
31:04Melanie.
31:05Submit to the will of Su-Tek.
31:25Keep looking.
31:40What does it mean?
31:46She died.
31:50She died.
31:53She died.
31:55I'm sorry.
31:57I loved you, Mel.
31:59And what good did love do, daughter?
32:02When did it ever help?
32:06Now give me the name.
32:07But what does it mean, Mel?
32:09Give Su-Tek the name.
32:14Bring me the Time Lord and the Child and their precious.
32:30I bring you a gift, Holy Su-Tek.
32:33Excellent.
32:34The last two creatures in existence.
32:38To die at your hand.
32:41Then you can end our wretched half-life.
32:45So that silence can reign and you can stand alone for all eternity.
32:51Gazing upon your empire of dust and ice and oblivion.
32:58Show me the name.
33:00Show me, child.
33:07Su-Tek.
33:08Bring the name to me.
33:11Su-Tek, I promise you I will worship you.
33:15If you just allow me.
33:23You have lived for far too long, little Lord of Time.
33:27I've got the name.
33:28No, I've got the name and I'll give it to you.
33:30Can you just let him go?
33:31Do it. Do it.
33:35The screen.
33:37It found the name.
33:42But I don't understand.
33:44And I wish I could.
33:47It's the only thing I've ever wanted for all these years.
33:54But now I've found it.
33:57And I don't understand.
34:02But maybe you can.
34:07Maybe this is for you.
34:11Waiting for so long.
34:17You great big god of nothing.
34:29Because I knew, Su-Tek. I knew.
34:32She's too cold.
34:34Listen to me.
34:35Die at the hand of Su-Tek.
35:06No!
35:18I'm back!
35:22No!
35:35Into the vortex.
35:52Hold that lever down.
35:55What just happened?
35:57Lord, now we're talking.
36:06Got it.
36:09He saw all of time and space with me, Su-Tek.
36:13So I thought, what if you see again?
36:17What happens if you bring death to death?
36:20Su-Tek, you bring life!
36:50No.
37:21Oh my god!
37:26No, no, no!
37:28Grab my arm!
37:50No!
37:56Bring death to death!
37:59Everywhere!
38:03Leave that, hold that, and that.
38:05What's happening?
38:06Life, Ruby, life.
38:09Oh, we bring life to the whole flipping universe!
38:13What the hell?
38:15Tigella.
38:16Vox.
38:18Mesoline.
38:19Canthrax.
38:21Spiridon.
38:23Telos.
38:25Shanshan.
38:30The oozphere is alive!
38:35Welcome back, the ooze.
38:37And there, there.
38:39The planet is called Agua Santina.
38:45Agua Santina.
38:51Hey!
38:59Let's go.
39:12We fought a monster.
39:16And now...
39:20I must become a monster.
39:46Prepare to destroy us!
39:48The lord god of death itself!
39:52You win!
39:57Because I pride myself.
39:59I pride myself that I am better than you.
40:02Because if you're dead,
40:05then I must represent life.
40:08Surely that's who I am!
40:10Life!
40:16And that's how you win, Sutekh.
40:20Because you turned me into this!
40:24I am the one that brings death.
40:45No!
41:16Sir.
41:26But I'm still me.
41:28I've still got my memories, my family.
41:30All of that's still true, is it?
41:32Absolutely.
41:33You are who you are.
41:36The god of death created life.
41:39And he gave you a very good brain.
41:41I think Yuna can use you.
41:43Oh.
41:44Anything to help, I don't mind.
41:46I'll make the tea.
41:47Did you make this tea?
41:49I did, yes.
41:50Don't make the tea.
41:54You should have seen me.
41:55I had to walk home.
41:57I got in and your gran was telling me off for not dusting.
42:04I want you to say...
42:05Oh, don't, Mum, it's all right.
42:07I want you to say thank you, Doctor.
42:09You brought the hope.
42:12You brought all of us back from, well, who knows where.
42:17Do you remember what happened when you...?
42:20Echoes.
42:32We've done it!
42:34DNA retrieval confirmed.
42:37DNA retrieval 100%.
42:53Wow.
42:55My mother.
42:59Louise Alison Miller.
43:0135 years old.
43:0215 when she gave birth to you.
43:05Records say her stepfather was...
43:07Well, he was trouble.
43:09I think she did the right thing getting you out of that house.
43:12She must have hidden the pregnancy.
43:15Father, William Benjamin Garnett.
43:1815 at the time.
43:20Louise moved to Coventry at the age of 18.
43:22Did well, got a degree.
43:26She's a nurse.
43:27That's what I don't understand.
43:29She's so ordinary.
43:31She's wonderful.
43:32No, she's wonderful.
43:34And she's ordinary, but I love her for that.
43:36I just...
43:37How did she stay invisible from a god?
43:40She defeated Zutek.
43:41She was important.
43:44Because we think she's important.
43:46It's how everything happens.
43:48Every war, every religion, every love story.
43:51We invest things with significance.
43:54So while the whole of creation is turning around her,
43:59I made her sheer existence more powerful than time lords and gods.
44:04In the end, the most important person in the universe
44:08was the most ordinary.
44:12A scared little girl,
44:14making her baby safe.
44:16But she pointed.
44:19She did.
44:21She pointed at you, Doctor.
44:23She wasn't pointing at me.
44:25Because we cleaned up the VHS.
44:27She wasn't pointing at me.
44:29It was that lamppost.
44:31So?
44:32It was a signpost.
44:35She was pointing at the name of the road.
44:39She was naming you.
44:47I always thought it was called Ruby because
44:50the social workers chose it or the paramedics or whatever,
44:53but no, it was her.
44:56My own mother chose it.
45:00My name is Ruby.
45:13She's happy.
45:15She's got a flat.
45:17She's got a fellow named Mike.
45:20She goes to Spain in three weeks.
45:27And the point is,
45:29is that she has had over 7,000 dates
45:33to come and find you and she never has.
45:36I found her.
45:38With a time machine.
45:42Is that fair?
45:45Louise Miller made her choices and
45:49I think we should leave her alone.
45:53Oh, my God.
46:07What can I get you?
46:09Oh, a cappuccino, please.
46:22Thank you.
46:44Ruby?
46:46That's me.
46:49I was named after a road.
46:53Ruby Road.
46:56You left me by a church
46:5919 years ago.
47:01Oh, my God.
47:02You left me where I was safe.
47:04And I just want to say thank you.
47:07I'm sorry.
47:09I'm so sorry.
47:12I don't know where this year is going.
47:18Oh, my God.
47:36Oh, you're very nice to me.
47:39I always thought I should get in touch.
47:42Every Christmas I thought, right, this is the year.
47:45Every Christmas I thought,
47:47what if she hates me?
47:49There is no hatred in this house, darling.
47:52But what we have got is photos.
47:54Yeah?
47:55I've got about 500 proper photos.
47:57I printed them off.
48:18It won't be long.
48:19We're just going to catch up on a pizza
48:22and mum's set up a bed in Gran's room
48:24so Louise can stay the night.
48:26And then we can head off, you and me.
48:29Where to?
48:31Wherever you want.
48:34Ruby.
48:35Come out and join.
48:36I've told her so much about you.
48:37She knows everything.
48:38And...
48:40Hold on.
48:41Sorry. Leave that.
48:43And, you know, I said life at the doctor's is mad.
48:46And...
48:48Hang on, I better...
48:52Oh, my God.
48:54They think they've found him.
48:56My dad, William, they think...
48:58Because it turns out his mum and dad still live at the same address
49:01but she never told him.
49:02My mum.
49:03My real mum.
49:04So she never told Will about me
49:06so he doesn't even know I exist.
49:08So we've got to go and...
49:13I'm sorry.
49:17Don't be sorry.
49:25Don't be sorry at all.
49:28Your life
49:30is out there now.
49:34I've shown you monsters
49:36and planets, legends
49:39but this...
49:41But this...
49:45Honey, your adventures just began here.
49:49You could go.
49:51I see.
49:53But I don't...
49:58You don't do that to me.
50:06Will I ever see you again?
50:08Of course you will.
50:10Of course you will.
50:15Your own granddaughter.
50:17You left her and never went back.
50:19And that was my mistake.
50:23Maybe I'll find her again, one day.
50:27But you, Ruby Sundate, I will see again.
50:32Because you changed me.
50:36I talk about family in a way that I never did before.
50:39It's because of you.
50:42You have made my life bigger and better.
50:49And now,
50:51Ruby Sundate,
50:55goodbye.
51:09I love you.
51:19I love you.
51:39I love you.
52:09I love you.
52:22And that's how the story of the church on Ruby Road
52:26comes to an end.
52:30With a very happy ending for little Ruby Sundate.
52:39Life goes on, doesn't it?
52:41Ruthlessly.
52:43And what happens, you might wonder,
52:45oh, what happens to that mysterious traveler
52:49in time and space known as the Doctor?
52:54I'm sorry to say his story ends in absolute terror.
53:00Night, night.
53:09Night, night.
53:39Night, night.
54:09you