[Entrance hall]
(Sally lets Larry into the house.)
LARRY: You live in Scooby Doo's house.
SALLY: For God's sake, I don't live here.
[Drawing room]
(Larry puts a DVD into his portable player.)
LARRY: Okay, this is the one with the clearest sound. Slightly better picture quality on this one, but I don't know
SALLY: It doesn't matter.
LARRY: Okay. There he is.
SALLY: The Doctor.
LARRY: Who's the Doctor?
SALLY: He's the Doctor.
DOCTOR [on screen]: Yup. That's me.
SALLY: Okay, that was scary.
LARRY: No, it sounds like he's replying, but he always says that.
DOCTOR [on screen]: Yes, I do.
LARRY: And that.
DOCTOR [on screen]: Yup. And this.
SALLY: He can hear us. Oh, my God, you can really hear us?
LARRY: Of course he can't hear us. Look, I've got a transcript. See? Everything he says. Yup, that's me. Yes, I do. Yup, and this. Next it's
DOCTOR [on screen] + LARRY: Are you going to read out the whole thing?
LARRY: Sorry.
SALLY: Who are you?
DOCTOR: I'm a time traveller. Or I was. I'm stuck in 1969.
MARTHA [on screen]: We're stuck. All of space and time, he promised me. Now I've got a job in a shop. I've got to support him!
DOCTOR [on screen]: Martha.
MARTHA [on screen]: Sorry.
SALLY: I've seen this bit before.
DOCTOR [on screen]: Quite possibly.
SALLY: 1969, that's where you're talking from?
DOCTOR [on screen]: Afraid so.
SALLY: But you're replying to me. You can't know exactly what I'm going to say, forty years before I say it.
DOCTOR [on screen]: Thirty eight.
LARRY: I'm getting this down. I'm writing in your bits.
SALLY: How? How is this possible? Tell me.
LARRY: Not so fast.
DOCTOR [on screen]: People don't understand time. It's not what you think it is.
SALLY: Then what is it?
DOCTOR [on screen]: Complicated.
SALLY: Tell me.
DOCTOR [on screen]: Very complicated.
SALLY: I'm clever and I'm listening. And don't patronise me because people have died, and I'm not happy. Tell me.
DOCTOR [on screen]: People a**ume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.
SALLY: Yeah, I've seen this bit before. You said that sentence got
away from you.
DOCTOR [on screen]: It got away from me, yeah.
SALLY: Next thing you're going to say is, well I can hear you.
DOCTOR [on screen]: Well, I can hear you.
SALLY: This isn't possible.
LARRY: No. It's brilliant!
DOCTOR [on screen]: Well, not hear you, exactly, but I know everything you're going to say.
LARRY: Always gives me the shivers, that bit.
SALLY: How can you know what I'm going to say?
DOCTOR [on screen]: Look to your left.
(Where Larry is sitting on the floor, writing.)
LARRY: What does he mean by look to your left? I've written tons about that on the forums. I think it's a political statement.
SALLY: He means you. What are you doing?
LARRY: I'm writing in your bits. That way I've got a complete transcript of the whole conversation. Wait until this hits the net. This will explode the egg forums.
DOCTOR [on screen]: I've got a copy of the finished transcript. It's on my autocue.
SALLY: How can you have a copy of the finished transcript? It's still being written.
DOCTOR [on screen]: I told you. I'm a time traveller. I got it in the future.
SALLY: Okay, let me get my head round this. You're reading aloud from a transcript of a conversation you're still having.
DOCTOR [on screen]: Yeah. Wibbly wobbly, timey-wimey.
SALLY: Never mind that. You can do shorthand?
LARRY: So?
DOCTOR [on screen]: What matters is, we can communicate. We have got big problems now. They have taken the blue box, haven't they? The angels have the phone box.
LARRY: The angels have the phone box. That's my favourite, I've got it on a t-shirt.
SALLY: What do you mean, angels? You mean those statue things?
DOCTOR [on screen]: Creatures from another world.
SALLY: But they're just statues.
DOCTOR [on screen]: Only when you see them.
SALLY: What does that mean?
DOCTOR [on screen]: The lonely a**a**ins, they used to be called. No one quite knows where they came from, but they're as old as the universe, or very nearly, and they have survived this long because they have the most perfect defence system ever evolved. They are quantum-locked. They don't exist when they're being observed. The moment they are seen by any other living creature, they freeze into rock. No choice. It's a fact of their biology. In the sight of any living thing, they literally turn to stone. And you can't k** a stone. Of course, a stone can't k** you either. But then you turn your head away, then you blink, and oh yes it can.
SALLY: Don't take your eyes off that.
(There is an Angel close by.)
DOCTOR [on screen]: That's why they cover their eyes. They're not weeping. They can't risk looking at each other. Their greatest a**et is their greatest curse. They can never be seen. The loneliest creatures in the universe. And I'm sorry. I am very, very sorry. It's up to you now.
SALLY: What am I supposed to do?
DOCTOR [on screen]: The blue box, it's my time machine. There is a world of time energy in there they could feast on forever, but the damage they could do could switch off the sun. You have got to send it back to me.
SALLY: How? How?
DOCTOR [on screen]: And that's it, I'm afraid. There's no more from you on the transcript, that's the last I've got. I don't know what stopped you talking, but I can guess. They're coming. The angels are coming for you. But listen, your life could depend on this. Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink. Good luck.
(The picture freezes.)
SALLY: No! Don't! You can't!
LARRY: I'll rewind him.
SALLY: What good would that do? You're not looking at the statue.
LARRY: Neither are you.
(The Angel is towering over them, reaching out, mouth wide open. They back away.)
SALLY: Keep looking at it. Keep looking at it.
LARRY: There's just one, right, there's just this one. We're okay if we just keep staring at this one statue. Everything's going to be fine.
SALLY: There are three more.
LARRY: Three?
SALLY: They were upstairs before, but I think I heard them moving.
LARRY: Moving where? Three of them? Moving where?
SALLY: I'm going to look around. I'm going to check. You keep looking at this one. Don't blink. Remember what he said. Don't even blink.
LARRY: Who blinks? I'm too scared to blink.
SALLY: Okay, we're going to the door. The front door.
(Sally guides Larry backwards to the doorway.) Okay. We can't both get to the front door without taking our eyes off that thing, so you stay here.
LARRY: What?
SALLY: I'll be just round the corner. You stay here. They've locked it. They've locked us in!
LARRY: Why?
SALLY [OC]: I've got something they want.
LARRY: What?
SALLY: The key. I took it last time I was here. They followed me to get it back. I led them to the blue box. Now they've got that.
LARRY: Well, give them the key.
SALLY: I'm going to check the back door. You wait here.
LARRY: Give them the key! Give them what they want! Sally, no. What if they come behind me?
SALLY [OC]: Hang on!
LARRY: Oh, God. Oh, God.
SALLY [OC]: It's locked!
(Larry looks behind him briefly to check where the doorway is, and when he turns back the Angel is inches from his face.)
LARRY: Sally! Sally!
SALLY [OC]: It won't open!
LARRY: Sally, please, I can't do this! Sally, hurry up! Where are you?
(He backs away through the doorway.)
SALLY: Larry? They've blocked off the back door, but there's a cellar. There might be a way out. A delivery hatch or something.
LARRY: Coming! I can't stay here.
(Larry backs away round the corner.)