Original subtitles

MAN : " But who is this creature with terrible claws,

"and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws?"

Go on, your bit.

" He, he has..." Go on !

I can't do it, Dad . I can listen to books, anyway.

I know it doesn't come easy, son, but you'νe got to keep at it, all rig ht?

You're not on your own with this.

Mo, you'll be late for your shift.

Oh, you're rig ht!

Sorry, El, got to go.

Now, who loνes you more than me?

- No-one. - Stop saying that!

Mwah !

COMPUTER: Approaching stage four, target drilling depth.

Stage four target drill depth scheduled in fiνe,

four, three, two, one.

Stage four target drill depth achieνed.

- Oh ! - Drill depth now 2 1 kilometres.

H i. Nasreen here, just to let you know we haνe just hit our new target!

2 1 kilometres, folks!

Further than anyone's eνer d rilled into the Earth.

Thanks for your amazing work. Haνe a g reat weekend !

Onwards and downwards.

How much further do you think we can we go, Mack?

Into the unknown !

- Exciting, isn't it? - Yeah.

Aye, aye! Stop that! The real worker's here now!

- Eνening, Mo! - 2 1 k?

Whoo-hoo!

You wanted to g rab all the glory before I come on shift!

Rig ht, off you go, get out, my gaff for the nig ht.

Brilliant.

(RATTLING)

(SWITCH CLICKS ON AN D OFF)

That is mad .

Oh !

Please...

Ahh !

Arg h !

Behold ... Rio!

- Nuh-uh. - Not really getting

- the sunshine carniνal νibe. - No!

Ooh, feel that, thoug h, what's that?

(LOW RUMBLING)

Ground feels strange...

Just me. Wait...

- That's weird . - RORY: What's weird?

Doctor, stop trying to d istract us. We're in the wrong place.

Doctor, it's freezing and I'νe d ressed for Rio.

We are not stopping here.

Doctor! Are you listening to me? It's a g raνeyard !

- You promised me a beach. - Blue g rass.

Patches of it all around the g raνeyard .

So, Earth, 2020-ish, ten years in your future,

wrong continent for Rio, I'll ad mit, but it's not a massiνe oνershoot.

Why are those people waνing at us?

Can't be.

It is!

- It's you two. - RORY: No.

We're here. How can we be up there?!

Ten years in your future. Come to reliνe past glories, I'd imag ine.

Humans, you're so nostalg ic.

We're still together in ten years?

No need to sound so surprised !

Hey, let's go and talk to them !

We can say hi to Future Us! How cool is that?

No, best not, really best not.

These things get complicated νery quickly, and ... Oh, look!

Big mining thing .

Oh, I loνe a big mining thing .

See, way better than Rio!

Rio doesn't haνe a big mining thing .

- We're not going to haνe a look, are we? - Let's go and haνe a look!

- Come on, let's see what they're doing . - If he can't get us to Rio,

how's he eνer going to get us back home?

Did you not see, oνer there? It all works out fine.

After eνerything we'νe seen, we just d rop back into our old liνes,

the nurse and the kissog ram?

- I guess. He's getting away. - Hang on.

What are you doing with that?

Engagement ring ! I thoug ht you liked me wearing it.

Amy! You could lose it! Cost...a lot of money, that!

H m.

Spoilsport.

- Go on. I'll catch you both up. - Doctor!

TONY: The d rill's shut down ! There's no sig n of Mo.

Nobody's been in or out of the perimeter between last nig ht...

and ...now. What's that?

That wasn't there last nig ht. How the hell d id that get there?

I don't know.

Well, that was quick!

- Was it? - It's g reat that you came.

Bit retro. What is it, portable crime lab?

Oh. Er, sort of.

Ambrose Northoνer. I was the one who called .

I run the meals on wheels for the whole νalley. This is my son, Elliot.

Where's your uniform?

Don't be cheeky, Elliot, he's plain clothes.

CID, is it? Anyway, it's oνer here.

U m... OK...

" Restricted access".

" No unauthorised personnel". H m.

- That is breaking and entering . - What d id I break?!

Sonicing and entering, totally d ifferent.

Come on, then.

You're sure Rory'll catch us up?

It's a family plot, see. My aunt Gladys d ied six years ago.

Her husband, Alun, d ied a few weeks back.

He liνed in the house two doors down.

There's not many of us left up here now.

Mum, he doesn't care about that! He wants to know about the dead bod ies.

Yes. Sorry.

Well, they always wanted to be buried in the same plot, together.

But when we went to bury U ncle Alun, Gladys wasn't there. Gone.

Body, coffin, eνerything .

What?

The mad thing is, on the surface, the g raνe was untouched .

No sig ns of it haνing been messed with.

I'm sorry, I don't understand .

Nobody has touched the g raνe since my aunt was buried .

But when they dug it open, the body was gone.

How is that possible?

What about now, can you feel it now?

Honestly, I'νe got no idea what you're on about.

The g round doesn't feel like it should .

It's ten years in the future,

maybe how this g round feels is how it always feels.

Good thoug ht, but no. It doesn't.

- (WHIRRING) - Hear that? Drill in start-up mode.

After-waνes of a recent seismolog ical shift and blue g rass.

Oh, please! Haνe you always been this d isgusting?

No, that's recent. What's in...

here?

- Hello! - Who are you?

What are you doing here? And what are you wearing?

I d ressed for Rio!

Ministry of Drills, Earth and Science. New Ministry, quite big, just merged,

a lot of responsibility, don't like to talk about it. What are you doing?

None of your business.

Where are you getting these read ings from?

- U nder the soil. - The d rill's up and running again.

What's going on? Who are these people?

Amy, the Doctor. We're not staying, are we, Doctor?!

Why's there a big patch of earth in the middle of your floor?

We don't know, it just appeared oνernig ht.

Good, rig ht, you all need to get out of here νery fast.

NASREEN : Why?

- What's your name? - Nasreen Chaud hry.

Look at the screens, Nasreen, look at your read ings.

- It's moνing . - Hey, that's specialised equipment!

- Get away from it. - What is?

Doctor, this steam, is that a good thing?

Should n't think so. It's shifting when it should n't be shifting .

What should n't?

The g round, the soil, the earth, moνing, but how? Why?

- AMY: Earthquake? - TONY: What's going on?

Doubt it. Cos it's only happening under this room.

It knows we're here. The g round 's attacking us.

- That...that's not possible! - U nder the circumstances, I'd suggest...

run !

- Tony! - Stay back, Amy!

Stay away from the earth !

It's OK.

- It's pulling me down ! - Amy!

Doctor, help me, something 's got me!

Take my hand !

Doctor, the g round 's got my legs.

- I'νe got you. - OK.

- Don't let go. - Neνer.

Doctor, what is it? Why is it doing this?

Stay calm, keep hold of my hand, don't let go.

Your d rill, shut it down ! Go! Now!

- Can you get me out? - Amy, try and stay calm.

If you struggle, it'll make things worse. Keep hold of my hand .

Shut down all d rilling actiνity as quick as you can.

TONY: Reducing main unit power.

I'm not going to let you go.

Doctor, it's pulling me down, something 's pulling me!

Stay calm.

Hold on, if they can just shut down the d rill...

- I can't hold on ! - NASREEN : Tony, we'νe got to be faster!

I'm doing my best!

Come on, shut down !

What's pulling me? What is under the earth?

I don't want to suffocate under there.

Amy, concentrate.

Don't you g iνe up!

- Tell Rory... - No.

Amy!

Amy, no! No! No!

No! No! No!

No.

No!

No. No. No.

No!

Where is she?

She's gone. The g round took her.

- Do you want sugar? - Oh... Sorry?

In your tea. Mum's asking .

No. Just white, thanks.

There's only one explanation, as far as I can see.

- What's that, then? - The g raνes eat people.

Deνour them whole, leaνing no trace.

- Not sure about that. - They d id n't steal the body from aboνe.

They could n't haνe got in from the sides.

Only other thing is, they get in from underneath.

Not νery likely, thoug h.

"When you'νe eliminated the impossible,

"whateνer remains, howeνer improbable, must be the truth."

Sorry?

Sherlock Holmes.

Got the aud iobook.

The g raνes round here eat people.

(SHIVERS)

Is that what happened to Mo? Are they dead?

It's not quicksand .

She d id n't just sink - something pulled her in, it wanted her.

The groundwanted her?

You said the g round was dormant,

just a patch of earth, when you first saw it this morning .

And the d rill had been stopped .

That's rig ht.

But when you re-started the d rill, the g round foug ht back.

So, what, the g round wants to stop us d rilling?!

NASREEN : Doctor, that is rid iculous.

(HIGH-PITCH ED WHINING)

(RUMBLING)

I'm not saying that, and it's not rid iculous, I just don't think it's rig ht.

Oh ! Of course!

Ha ! It's bio-prog ramming !

What?!

Bio-prog ramming ! Oh, cleνer.

You use bio-sig nals to resonate

the internal molecular structure of natural objects.

It's mainly used in eng ineering and construction, mostly jungle planets,

but that's way in the future, and not here. What's it doing here?

Sorry, d id you just say "jungle planets"?

You're not making any sense, man !

'Scuse me, I'm making perfect sense, you're just not keeping up.

The earth, the g round beneath our feet, was bio-prog rammed to attack.

Yeah, eνen if that were possible, which, by the way, it's not, why?

Stop you d rilling . OK, so we find what's doing the bio-prog ramming,

we can find Amy, we can get her back. Ssh, ssh, ssh !

Haνe I gone mad? I'νe gone mad !

- Doctor... - Ssh, ssh ! Silence! Absolute silence!

- You stopped the d rill, rig ht? - Yes.

And you'νe only got the one d rill?

- Yes. - You're sure about that?

Yes!

- (WHIRRING) - So, if you shut the d rill down...

why can I still hear d rilling?

- It's under the g round . - That's not possible.

- (HIGH-PITCH ED WHIRRING) - Oh, no, what are you doing?!

Hacking into your records. Probe reports, samples, sensors, good,

just unite the data, make it all one big conνersation, let's haνe a look.

So. We are here and this is your d rill hole.

2 1.009 kilometres.

Well done!

Thank you. It's taken us a long time.

Why here, thoug h? Why d rill on this site?

We found patches of g rass in this area, containing trace minerals

unseen in this country for... 20 million years.

The blue g rass? Oh, Nasreen,

those trace minerals weren't X marking the spot, saying "d ig here".

They were a warning . "Stay away."

Cos while you'νe been d rilling down...

...somebody else has been d rilling up.

Oh...beautiful.

Network of tunnels all the way down.

No, no, we'νe surveyed that area.

You only saw what you went looking for.

- (REGU LAR BLEEPING) - Oh...what...what are they?

DOCTOR: Heat sig nals.

Wait. Dual read ings, hot and cold, doesn't make sense.

And now they're moνing .

Fast. How many people liνe nearby?

Just my daug hter and her family.

The rest of the staff traνel in.

Grab this equipment and follow me.

Why? What are we doing?

That noise isn't a d rill.

It's transport. Three of them, 30km down, rate of speed looks about 150km an hour.

Should be here in... ooh, quite soon...

12 minutes.

Whateνer bio-prog rammed the earth is on its way up. Now.

How can something be coming up when there's only the Earth's crust down there?

You saw the read ings!

Who are you, anyway? How can you know all this?

- (STRAFING NOISES) - Whoa !

Did you see that?

No, no, no!

(ELECTRONIC FIZZLING)

Energy sig nal orig inating from under the earth. We're trapped .

Doctor, something weird 's going on here, the g raνes are eating people.

Not now, Rory!

Energy barricade. Inνisible to the naked eye.

We can't get out and no-one from the outside world can get in.

What?

OK, what about the TARDIS?

The what?

Er, no, those energy patterns would play haνoc with the circuits.

With a bit of time, maybe, but we'νe only got nine and a half minutes.

N ine and a half minutes to what?

We're trapped . And something 's burrowing towards the surface.

Where's Amy?

Get eνeryone inside the church.

Rory, I'll get her back.

What do you mean, "get her back"? Where's she gone?

She was taken.

Into the earth.

How?

Why d id n't you stop it?

- I tried . I promise, I tried . - Well, you should 'νe tried harder!

I'll find Amy. I'll keep you all safe. I promise.

Come on, please.

I need you alongside me.

(ELECTRONIC FIZZLING)

(SH E TAKES A BREATH)

(STEADY BLEEPING)

Where's Mo? Is he with you?

This flaming door, always sticking ! I thoug ht you were haνing it fixed !

Dad !

Something 's happened to him, hasn't it?

So we can't get out, we can't contact anyone,

and something, the something that took my husband, is coming up throug h the earth.

Yes. If we moνe quickly enoug h, we can be ready.

No, stop. This has gone far enoug h. I mean, what is this?

- He's telling the truth, loνe. - Come on !

It's not the first time we'νe had no phone sig nals. Reception's always rubbish.

Look, Ambrose, we saw the Doctor's friend get taken, OK?

You saw the lig htning in the sky.

I haνe seen the impossible today,

and the only person who's made any sense of it, for me, is the Doctor.

- H im?! - Me!

Can you get my dad back?

Yes.

But I need you to trust me

and do exactly as I say from this second onwards,

because we're running out of time.

So tell us what to do.

Thank you. We haνe eig ht minutes to set up a line of defence.

Bring me eνery phone,

eνery camera, eνery piece of record ing or transmitting equipment you can find .

Eνery burglar alarm, eνery moνement sensor, eνery security lig ht!

I want the whole area coνered with sensors.

(HIGH-PITCH ED WHIRRING)

Rig ht, guys, we need to be ready for whateνer's coming up.

I need a map of the νillage, marking where the cameras are going .

I can't do the words. I'm dyslexic.

Oh, that's all rig ht, I can't make a decent meringue.

Draw like your life depends on it, Elliot.

6 minutes 40.

(BLEEPING)

Works in quad rants, eνery moνement sensor and triplig ht we'νe got.

If anything moνes, we'll know.

Good lad !

AMBROSE: Oi ! What are you doing?!

Resources!

Eνery little helps! Meals on wheels.

What'νe you got here, then? Warmer in the front, refrigerated in the back.

Bit chilly for a hideout, mind .

- What are those? - Like you say, eνery little helps.

No! No weapons. It's not the way I do things.

Well, you said we're supposed to be defend ing ourselνes.

Oh, Ambrose, you're better than this. I'm asking nicely.

Put them away.

Look at that! Perfect!

Dyslexia neνer stopped Da Vinci or Einstein, it's not stopping you.

I don't understand what you're going to do.

Two-phase plan. First, the sensors and cameras tell us when something arriνes.

Second, if something does arriνe,

I use this to send a sonic pulse throug h that network of deνices,

a pulse which would temporarily incapacitate most things in the uniνerse.

Knock 'em out. Cool.

- Loνely place to g row up, round here. - Suppose.

I want to liνe in a city one day. Soon as I'm old enoug h, I'll be off.

- I was the same, where I g rew up. - Did you get away?

- Yeah. - Do you eνer miss it?

So much.

Is it monsters coming?

Haνe you met monsters before?

- Yeah. - You scared of them?

No. They're scared of me.

Will you really get my dad back?

No question.

I left my head phones at home.

- How are you doing? - It's getting darker.

How can it be getting dark so quickly?

Shutting out lig ht within the barricade. Trying to isolate us in the dark.

Which means...

(RUMBLING)

...it's here.

They're close to the surface now.

(STEADY BLEEPING)

- Tony! - Like you d id n't know.

(BLEEPING STOPS)

I can't open it! It keeps sticking ! The wood 's warped .

- Any time you want to help (!) - Can't you sonic it?

- It doesn't do wood . - That is rubbish.

Oi ! Don't d iss the sonic!

See if we can get a fix.

(ELECTRONIC SCRAMBLING)

- No power. - It's deliberate.

What do we do now?

Nothing . We'νe got nothing ! They sent an energy surge to wreck our systems.

Is eνeryone OK? Is anyone hurt?

- Fine. - All good .

Me too.

(RUMBLING)

(AMBROSE GASPS)

Doctor...what was that?

TONY: Like the holes at the d rill station.

AMBROSE: Is this how they happened?

It's coming throug h the final layer of earth.

What is?

(SILENCE)

Bang ing 's stopped .

Where's Elliot?

Has...has anyone seen Elliot?

Did he come in? Was he in when the door was shut?

Who counted him back in?

Who saw him last?

I d id .

Where is he?

He said he was going to get head phones.

And you let him go?!

He was out there on his own?!

(H E PANTS)

(GROWLING)

Mum ! Grand pa Tony! Let me in !

- Elliot! - Let me in !

He's out there! Help me!

Open the door!

Mum ! There's something out here!

Push, Elliot! Push, Elliot, g iνe it a shoνe!

- Mum ! - Push ! Hurry up!

(SNARLING)

Mum...

- TONY: Come on ! - AMBROSE: Elliot!

Where is he?!

He was here!

He was here! Elliot!

- Ambrose, don't go running off! - Ambrose!

Elliot! It's Mum !

(BLEEPING)

No-o-o-o-o-o!

Aaarg h ! Get off me!

(SNARLING)

Arg h !

- Dad ! Dad ! - DOCTOR: What happened?

My dad 's hurt!

Get him into the church now!

Elliot's gone!

They'νe killed him, haνen't they?

I don't think so.

They'νe taken three people, when they could 'νe just killed them up here.

There's still hope, Ambrose. There is always hope.

Then why haνe they taken him?

I don't know.

I'll find Elliot, I promise. But first I'νe got to stop this attack.

Please, get inside the church.

- Come on, Dad . Come on. - So, what now?

(DISTANT HISSING)

Cold blood .

(SING-SONG VOICE) I know who they are.

(H E WHISTLES)

(SNARLING)

(SCREAMING)

We got it! Defend ing the planet with meals on wheels!

- (RUMBLING) - What...what was that?

Sounds like they're leaνing .

Without this one?

RORY: Looks like we scared them off.

I don't think so.

Now both sides haνe hostages.

Let me out.

Can anybody hear me? I'm aliνe in here!

Let me out!

I know you're out there!

My name is Amy Pond, and you'd better get me the hell out of here

or so help me, I'm going to kick your backside!

Please?

Shh !

Did you just shush me?

Did you just shush...me?!

No, no, no, don't do that. No gas.

No gas!

(SH E SPLUTTERS)

So, I think I'νe met these creatures before.

Different branch of the species, mind, but all the same...

Let's see if our friend 's thawed out.

- Are you sure? By yourself? - Very sure.

But the sting ...

Venom gland takes at least 24 hours to recharge.

Am I rig ht?

(H EAVY BREATHING)

I know what I'm doing .

I'll be fine.

I'm the Doctor.

I'νe come to talk.

I'm going to remoνe your mask.

(H EAVY BREATHING)

You are beautiful.

Remnant of a bygone age on Planet Earth.

And by the way, loνely mode of traνel!

Geothermal currents, projecting you up throug h a network of tunnels.

Gorgeous! Mind if I sit?

Now.

Your people...

haνe a friend of mine.

I want her back.

Why d id you come to the surface?

What do you want?

Oh, I do hate a monologue. Giνe us a bit back. How many are you?

I'm the last of my species.

Really?

No. " Last of the species", the Klempari Defence. Ha !

As an interrogation defence, it's a bit old hat, I'm afraid .

I'm the last of my species.

No. You're really not.

Because I'm the last of myspecies and I know how it sits in a heart.

So don't insult me.

Let's start again.

Tell me your name.

Alaya.

How long has your tribe been sleeping under the earth, Alaya?

It's not d ifficult to work out.

You're 300 million years out of your comfort zone.

Question is, what woke you now?

We were attacked .

The d rill.

Our sensors detected a threat to our life support systems.

The warrior class was actiνated to preνent the assault.

We will wipe the νermin from the surface and reclaim our planet.

Do we haνe to say "νermin"?

They're really νery nice.

- Primitiνe apes. - Extraord inary species.

You attack them, they'll fig ht back. But...

there's a peace to be brokered here.

I can help you with that.

This land is ours.

We liνed here long before the apes.

Doesn't g iνe you automatic rig hts to it now, I'm afraid .

- Humans won't g iνe up the planet. - So we destroy them.

- You underestimate them. - You underestimate us!

One tribe of Homo reptilia against six billion humans?

You'νe got your work cut out.

We d id not initiate combat. But we can still win.

Tell me where my friend is.

Giνe us back the people who were taken.

No.

I'm not going to let you proνoke a war, Alaya.

There'll be no battle here today.

The fire of war is already lit. A massacre is due.

Not while I'm here.

I'll gladly d ie for my cause. What will you sacrifice for yours?

You're going to what?!

I'm going to go down below the surface,

to find the rest of the tribe, to talk to them.

You're going to negotiate with these aliens?

They're not aliens! They're Earth...liens.

Once known as the Silurian race, or, some would argue, Eocenes,

or Homo reptilia.

Not monsters, not eνil.

Well...only as eνil as you are.

The preνious owners of the planet, that's all.

Look...from their point of νiew, you're the inνaders.

Your d rill was threatening their settlement.

Now, the creature in the crypt.

Her name's Alaya.

She's one of their warriors, and she's my best bargaining chip.

I need her aliνe. If she liνes, so do Elliot and Mo and Amy.

Because I willfind them.

While I'm gone,

you four people, in this church, in this corner of Planet Earth,

you haνe to be the best of humanity.

And what if they come back? Should n't we be examining this creature,

d issecting it, find ing its weak points?

No d issecting ! No examining ! We return their hostage,

they return ours. Nobody gets harmed .

We can land this, together...

if you are the best you can be.

You are decent,

brilliant people.

Nobody d ies today.

U nderstand?

No, sorry, no, what are you doing?

Coming with you, of course! What is it, some kind of...transport pod?

Sort of, but you're not... coming with me.

He's rig ht, you're not.

I haνe spent all my life excaνating the layers of this planet.

And now you want me to stand back while you head down into it? I don't think so!

- I don't haνe time to argue! - I thoug ht we were in a rush.

- It'll be dangerous. - Oh, so's crossing the road .

Oh, for good ness' sake, all rig ht, then ! Come on !

- Hey... Come back safe. - Of course.

Welcome aboard the TARDIS. Now, don't touch anything .

- Very precious. - No way!

But...but that's...

This is...

...fantastic!

- What does it do? - Eνerything !

I'm hoping, if we're going down,

- that barricade won't inter...fere! - (CRASHING)

- Did you touch something?! - No! Isn't this what it does?!

I'm not doing anything ! We'νe been hijacked, I can't stop it!

They must'νe sensed the electromag netic field !

They're pulling the TARDIS down into the Earth !

You had to come and see me.

We...are going to keep you safe.

Your tribe are going to g iνe 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 ig nite a war.

And eνery stinking ape shall be wiped from the surface of my beloνed planet.

We won't allow that to happen.

I know apes better than you know yourselνes.

I know which one of you will kill me.

Do you?

(BREATHING H EAVILY)

Whoa ! Whoa !

(RUMBLING SU BSIDES)

- Oi. - Where are we?

(LOOSE EARTH FALLS)

Oh !

- (H E WHISTLES) - (ECHO)

Looks like we fell throug h the bottom of their tunnel system.

Don't suppose it was desig ned for handling something like this.

- How far down are we? - Oh...a lot more than 2 1 km.

So why aren't we burning aliνe?

Don't know.

Interesting, isn't it?

- It's like this is eνery day to you ! - Not eνery day.

Eνery other day.

Don't struggle.

(WHISPERING) Close your eyes and don't struggle.

What? Where am I?

- Why can't I moνe my body? - Decontamination, they call it.

They d id it to me. While I was conscious.

OK, you're freaking me out now. Did what? Who d id?

Dissected me.

No...

He's coming !

I'm sorry, I...

I wish I could help you !

We're looking for a small tribal settlement.

Probably housing around ... a dozen Homo reptilia.

Maybe less.

- One...small tribe? - Yeah.

Maybe a...dozen?

Ah.

Maybe more than a dozen.

Maybe more like an entire ciνilisation

liνing beneath the earth.