Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:07:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: J
Subject: Doctor Who, Jesse, and Jeremy 115

It's been a worldwide hit for 30 years and tonight the sy fy phenomenon
comes to America in the FOX original movie DOCTOR WHO! For over a thousand
minutes they've been immortal and blob enemies...now these two travelers...
one from time and one from space...and from different worlds --one good
(Doctor to a scientist named Rivers who looks like Eric Roberts, "I'm not
human, half human."), one pure hunger and evil... (Jesse: Beware the
Blob!)...will face each other in a final duel to the death...and the
battlefield is a parallel Earth! Paul McGann and Eric Roberts in the motion
picture event of the year...DOCTOR WHO 115 on the Fox Tuesday night
movie... starting right now!!!!!


115


CUE into a big blue planet...somehow turning red as the red spread over the
entire globe...the same continents as Earth...

8th Doctor's voice: "It was on a parallel Earth that a new enemy, the blob,
was finally frozen thanks to my help. I could have destroyed it or moved it
but the TARDIS HADS system had been on the blink since arriving here...it
was a message the old girl...or is the TARDIS now a boy? A message it was
trying to tell me. While they were willing to help me get back to my TARDIS
in due time...not time enough for me so a nice, young family named Young,
in town, lent me a balloon....For this world listened calmly to my
suggestion that they get rocket fuel technology...for they had no flying
machines even though they possessed the know how and tech to have planes
and rockets...they were smart not to...at least in their eyes...The
scientists were not willing to give me the last word but let me help them,
these very same scientists here made it clear that they made all the
decisions. They thought they could contain it. They couldn't lock it up. It
was a move they never should have attempted."

The Doctor's eyes...

The time vortex from the TV MOVIE opening credits...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xofXLKqQdSo


DOCTOR WHO THE TV MOVIE LIKE CREDITS AND MUSIC

Instead of asteroids, we see asteroids and satellites, warning sounds
issuing, "Stay away, stay away..."


DOCTOR WHO

Starring Paul McGann

Special Guest Star...Eric Roberts

Guest Starring...Jeremy Sumpter

Sylvester McCoy...The Old Doctor

Jesse McCartney

Yee Jee Tso

J. Radick as Gareth

Dave Hurtubise as Professor Wagg

Daphne Ashbrook



THE ENEMY WITHOUT (title removed on transmission...maybe)

Aka The Known Enemy (also not seen on transmission)


"A Time Lord has over 1300 lives. My old friend, The Master, didn't know
this was possible and I wanted to keep that secret. It wasn't usual,
usually we die after 13 lives but that doesn't pertain to here and
now...what does is that a scientist on this parallel Earth the TARDIS slid
into was a counterpart to one of the Master's bodies...and yes...he looks
like the Eric Roberts Master. In this parallel life, I could trust him. He
wasn't a Time Lord though. Not yet...."

At a balloon set up, the long haired Doctor used his sonic screwdriver over
the device rigging the air to the balloon, "There, that should do it."

"In all of my travels through space and time, and nearing the end of my 8th
body as inside my 13388th body...I think...or was 138th or 38th? I
realized, Mister Rivers, that you can never be too careful. And your
scientists are not being too careful."

Rivers turned to him, "You don't have to call me, Mister Rivers, Doctor. I
tried to make them see it your way."

Gareth, a younger man turned to them both, "Well, listen to the big
matters, they won't. But at least to some things, they have taken your
precautions."

The Doctor paused, hopping to the rim of the hot air balloon he had made
with their help, "Listen," he put his hands up like the Fourth Doctor,
"Listen. I am all one for understanding the need to experiment, hah. Huh?
But really, with something that dangerous, something so coldly unstoppable,
not even thinking about the havoc it could cause."

"But you believe we have time to get everyone off this planet?"

"Yes, Gareth, and/or take it to another planet...but that would be most
dangerous. IF I can get this thing back up to my TARDIS..." he looked up at
the TARDIS, which was suspended in the sky, "I can get everyone out of
here. And by my timetable, we have months. Frozen solid like it is and
without any nourishment it's as stopped as a Time Lord in a room of women."

Gareth looked at Rivers and shook his head as the Doctor continued his
work. The Doctor wore his familiar green velvet frock coat, silver waist
jacket, and cravat and too large dress shoes. His hair was very long.


(MUSIC CUE: ALL THE STRANGE STRANGE CREATURES from soundtrack two of DOCTOR
WHO new series: alternate version from THE SECOND PROMS uses a repeating
motif from earlier on as it continues longer...)

ALTERNATELY use the music from soundtrack two (but called Series 3) track
19---named Utopia and used in 4th series trailer


>From Jeremy’s hand held and old fashioned walkie talkie, the
Doctor's voice sounded shaky, as if he knew what was happening before he
asked, “What's going on?"

Jeremy stared at Griswald, the redheaded fresh and freckled faced 40 year
old, "Doctor, I think Griswald's been feeding it."

"What?"  The Doctor fumed, "When and how much!?"

"When? How much?"

"No, no, no. Don't worry. It's perfectly safe. I've been feeding him
through this little device of mine that I made."  He patted the metallic
funnel, "It can't get out."

"When and how much?"  The Doctor yelled via walkie talkie.

"When and how much?!" Jeremy repeated.

"Three times a day just for three days. Raw meat, oh about sixty termons."

Jeremy felt awful, "Why didn't you tell me?"

"You were very busy with Professor Holoway and Professor Wagg, making sure
they followed your and the Doctor's instructions."

"You did everything the Doctor said so I didn't think you..."

The Doctor did his own calculations to convert to units he could
understand. "Tell he's a fucking moron!"

"He told me to tell you you're a fucking moron."  Jeremy said without
thinking. He shook his head, "Sorry."

"Don't be sorry. Jeremy, get out of there now."

"Why? What's he done?"

"Accelerated its processes. He's accelerated its processes!"  The Doctor
yelled so loud that Jesse and Rivers who were both working on the balloon's
final arrangement, heard him and stopped their endeavors to listen. He
turned to them, "Don't stop! Keep working."

Jeremy asked, "Doctor...how long have we got?"

"The basic processes...by giving it food like that...he's increased its
rate, its strength...this changes the time table. Even frozen like
this...the fucking fool!"

"I'm not the fool. All I gave it was the raw meat and some energy pellets."

Jeremy held the walkie talkie to his mouth, "Doct..."

"Energy pel!...I heard him," the Doctor said, "Tell him he's a stupid
fucking moronic asshole who has seconds to live."

"You're stupid fucking moron who's...Doctor, I can't tell him that!"

"NO! I want YOU to RUN! Did you hear me? Jeremy?! Why don't I hear your
feet hitting the ground running? RUN!"

"Maybe…" Jeremy thought there was something more they could do.

As Griswald looked at the funnel device to see if it was secure...and it
was, Jeremy asked, "Are you sure? Isn't there..."  Jeremy saw the glass
plate the red jelly blob was behind...one of thirteen. It was cracking and
the red fluid was up against it. "Doctor, it's..."

Jeremy turned to Griswald, "Hey, stupid fucking idiot, it's..."  Griswald
turned to look at Jeremy but the blob had shot out of the funnel, bypassing
the safety "air" lock and squirting out into Griswald's face. Griswald's
face was now bone, mostly. Some residual flesh still clung to it but the
red stuff was eating at even that. Eye balls were in sockets. One fell
out. The bottom of the mouth was moving up and down quickly as if Griswald
were trying to say something. His tongue was red with the blob. Another eye
ball fell out.

Jeremy screamed loudly, his mouth open wide. He ran and held the walkie
talkie up to his mouth, "Doctor! Just leave! Get out of there, now!"

"We are not leaving without you. Get here. If you stop running, you kill us
all here. Me, Jesse, Rivers. We are not going without you! SO RUN!"

Jeremy dropped the walkie talkie and ran. The blob covered the walkie
talkie. The blob smashed into the room, fully breaking and covering the
glass, the rest of Griswald's decaying body...which became broken bones
uncovered by eaten flesh and it sank into the red pool or organism. The
blob followed Jeremy into the hallway and Jeremy ran down it. Another plate
shattered and the blob came out into the hallway in front of him. It was
still pretty slow and still a bit cold and some of it had frost on it.

"Geronimo!"  Jeremy jumped and flung himself over it and onto the other
side. Another window smashed behind him and red ooze came out. He ran for
the control room. He heard technicians running and screaming and
dying. Their bodies were decayed under them and their eyes widened as they
realized the rest of them was sinking into the organism of red life...and
death. They saw Griswald's remains mixing with the bones of their
feet. Some screamed and red came out of their mouths. Men and women who
were working to contain it now died in it.

Jeremy saw the last one, a female, sinking into it, a look of despair and
pain on her face, shock. "Grace!"  He called to her. He had been working
with these people for weeks, having helped the Doctor capture the blob
since it arrived on this parallel Earth and, following the Doctor's
instructions and making them follow the Doctor's instructions. Griswald was
the last one he thought would have been sneaking around performing
experiments, feeding the monster.

With each person eaten, the thing grow less cold and more warm. Hair of the
dead sank into it.

Jeremy ran into the control room. He saw Wagg, "What are you doing? It's
free!"

"I know. I saw and heard."  He flipped a switch. The blob splashed up at
the plate facing the control room. A metallic door slid closed blocking
it. Some of the blob got caught on the glass however and cracks
started. "I'm sealing it in."

"With us?"  Jeremy asked, "That won't work. It's strong enough to get
through."

"I know but at least it'll slow it down some more to give you time to get
away."  The door adjacent to the door Jeremy came in from, stretched to its
limit as the thing slammed blob against it. He wanted to move toward the
door to try to test it for permeability, which he realized was a stupid
thing to do so he moved back toward Wagg' room. The door behind Jeremy
closed and he jumped away from it. "Now get out of here before I have to
seal you in to save the Doctor."

"Come with me," Jeremy said as the glass cracked.



At the balloon site, Rivers moved to the Doctor, "You...you'll let us die
if Jeremy doesn't get here?"

"I had to give him the incentive. The dumb blond will sacrifice himself for
us if I didn't. He'd never try to get here if he thought we'd leave."

Jesse started to protest, "Doctor, we are NOT leaving without Jeremy."

"I know."

Rivers took his glasses off, "Doctor, I don't..."

Even though in his 8th body, the Doctor sounded a bit out of breath, like
his nervous 5th self, "Ahh, Rivers," he took the glasses and used his sonic
screwdriver on them, "Once we reach the TARDIS..."

Jesse smiled, "You'll love the TARDIS..."

"...I shall have to do something about your eyes. We can discard these soon
then..."

"Doctor, you're going to let me, my pal Gareth here, renown scientists
both..."

The Doctor shook his head sideways, "All scientists are renown in their own
way...but by whom is what matters..."

"We can help but even the......and the lovely...."  He put his arm around
Jesse and his hand down his shoulder on the other side, "Jesse....Jesse
here die and yourself...mind you...just to save Jeremy...?"

Jesse looked down. He moved closer to the Doctor. They both adverted their
eyes from each other and Rivers. Gareth, working on the air hoses, looked
up. The Doctor nodded, "Yes. I am waiting for him. Life without Jeremy is
not worth living. Life's not worth living with Jeremy out of it."

Jesse felt for a moment, a bit of jealousy.  "Yes."  Jesse put his hands
around the Doctor's back and over his shoulders, "I agree."

"Enough pouting about this," The Doctor turned and held Jesse's hands,
"Let's see about getting this balloon up and going as soon as we sight the
boy, aye?"  Jesse smiled and nodded his head.

Jesse dropped the smile quickly though, "Doctor, what about the rest of the
planet? The people? The family that lent us the balloon?"

The Doctor looked up into the sky, toward the suspended TARDIS in the white
clouds and blue canvass behind it. "IF I can get to the TARDIS, there might
be something I can still do. Some kind of frost excitation. Maybe and then
I can maybe start getting people off the planet with the TARDIS..."

Jeremy was in his flight stance as he saw the red ooze out of the crack in
the control room. He looked to the other rooms and saw the doors sliding
shut and metallic coverings over those. Wagg yelled, "Get out now or I'll
close it in with you. The Doctor might have a chance if you leave now!"

"I'm sorry," Jeremy looked at him. He smiled.

"So am I. But it was good to have known you," Wagg smiled, "And your
friends."

"You as well," Jeremy ran for the door. He looked back and saw a shower of
glass and red blob burst out of the glass and smack right into Wagg. Wagg'
hand was on the switch and the rest of him was on the wall with the
blob. Even so the weight of it made the switch move down and the door near
Jeremy was closing. He threw himself to one side and out of the door as
blob smashed against it. It almost gave way. Another door slid over that
one. Jeremy turned and saw Wagg' face twist around from the back of his
head as the thing absorbed him. Wagg' one hand was against the glass panel
to the outside. Jeremy was wide eyed. "I'm sorry!!!!"  He ran for the last
exit and saw the door above closing downward, sliding downward and he threw
himself at it. Blob behind him. Tentacles came from it as it slid across
the metallic floor to the outside. Jeremy threw himself down to the floor,
chest first but kept his head up and saw the door closing. He had just
enough room to slide through. He made it and the door slammed shut behind
his heels. He stood up and heard the blob smash against the door seconds
later. He ran across the street into the quant suburban town around the
huge white laboratory building. He made it out of the parking lot when he
heard the doors all smash open and the blob, now extended through every
hall and door and window in the lab, sprayed out. He ran.


(MUSIC CUE: ALL THE STRANGE STRANGE CREATURES from soundtrack two of DOCTOR
WHO new series: alternate version from THE SECOND PROMS uses a repeating
motif from earlier on as it continues longer...)


Many people hadn't listened to the Doctor. They stayed. They preferred to
not worry. Worry did not good, right? They thought the Doctor and the
scientists who had brought so much work and good economy to the town would
solve the problems and contain the creature.

Jeremy knew that behind him the thing was entering relatively unprotected
homes and from every opening, devouring people as if jelly were hitting
them. He heard screams. Men. Women. Children. All ages. The elderly. A man
in a wheel chair. Pets. A cat on a curb playing with a dog in cute
fashion. The thing rolled at them and they tried to attack it or play with
it and were turned to skin and bones. And then were gone.

Despite the fact that the living things the blob was killing slowed it down
from pursuing him, Jeremy didn't hold back a warning. He yelled to whomever
he could to leave, "RUN! GET OUT OF HERE! THE BLOB IS COMING! THE MONSTER
IS FREE! MOVE OUT! RUN! SAVE YOURSELVES! COME WITH ME!"

An Asian named Yee was between two houses, trying to break into one that he
knew no one was in. He came running out of the small space and yelled,
"What's he doping about?"  As Jeremy ran past, waving at him and yelling at
him to run, the Asian tried to grab him but missed. "Ruinin' my scene,
man!"  The blob hit him low and he lost his balance and fell face first
into red Jell-O. He screamed and his mouth filled with blob.


Jeremy knew that there were some people that left town. The family that
lent them the balloon had listened to the Doctor and left town. He also, as
he ran, thought that if they had stayed there might have been some chance
that they could have made it up to the TARDIS with them and would be
safe. Maybe. As he ran he yelled to people, "RUN! THAT THING IS COMING! THE
BLOB'S COMING! THE BLOB IS COMING!"  Some of them ran but some didn't. He
saw a mother and two young children playing on the front lawn. The thing
came at them and covered them, hitting their legs low and making them stuck
as if in mud or quicksand.  At first, it was like they were playing with a
rubber band but then it never came unstuck and slowly melted their cells.

Jeremy felt tears streaming from his face as he heard the dying sounds of
men, women, children, animals. The anguish some had discovering their loved
ones were being slowly dissolved in the pool of red gelatinous material. As
the Doctor might say, Jeremy thought "the thing has no mind for
violence. It's just doing what comes naturally. Science can be so cruel
sometimes."

On all sides, the blob filled streets. Jeremy ran down the one street that
was untouched. Behind him, the thing exited many houses and fences,
knocking aside trees and garbage cans with the same aplomb, the sounds of
both differing but warning him that his pursuer was relentless. He glanced
back once and saw a whirlpool, a wave of garbage inside the monster, mixed
with car parts, body parts, purses, toy dolls, and brains. He almost threw
up but he knew if he didn't make it he was signing the death warrants of
Jesse, Rivers and the Doctor. He knew he would have to run for them and for
his parents and his siblings and all those who cared about him back in his
life in his present time zone on his Earth. He swallowed and knew if he
died he would go to an afterlife, however he didn't want it to end for him
like this, here and now this way. It would be an agonizing death and he
would leave behind so many devastated people. The survival instinct was
strong for him anyway and he knew, raw, that he wanted to live and not be
dissolved by a red blob on some parallel and distant Earth from his own. He
cried for all the others who were its victims.

Standing on top one of the rims of the balloon box, Jesse pointed, "There
HE is!"

"OH MY GOD!"  The Doctor looked through a telescope he withdrew from one of
his voluminous pockets. "LAUNCH!"  He moved to the rope nearest him and cut
it with the sonic screwdriver.

He could see Jeremy running. On either side and right behind was the red
lined jelly, pursuing, picking up speed and strength. Jeremy waved at them,
"LAUNCH! LAUNCH! GET OUT OF HERE, DOCTOR! GET AWAY! SAVE YOURSELVES! IT'S
TOO LATE!"

Jesse stood where he was and followed him with his body language, "I
thought we were waiting for Jeremy!?"

"LAUNCH! FOR GOD'S SAKE, LAUNCH!"  The Doctor cut the other rope near
Jesse. Gareth and Rivers untied the ones on the other side.


Jesse asked, "What gives? I thought?"

The Doctor grabbed him up under the arms, "By Rassalon's Rod, will you just
do as I say and get in there?!"  He tossed Jesse over the side and into the
balloon.

"You've seen Rassalon's Rod and by all counts, it's a little thing...and
HEY!"  Jesse landed on his side and stood up quickly, rubbing his shoulder,
"What the fuck!?"

"Gareth, help me!"  The Doctor gasped as the man stood just watching,
confused. His gray hair shone in the sunlight.

With Gareth's help, the Doctor undid all the hoses of air. The balloon
started to rise without Rivers. "Rivers get in!"  River jumped in and held
his glasses with one hand, while the other hand held the side as he jumped
over. He almost bumped nose to nose with the 8th Doctor body. He
straightened his glasses as he put them back on and noticed he and the
Doctor were chest to chest. "Oh dear."

"Yes, indeed," the Doctor said as the balloon rose.

Jesse grabbed the Doctor and turned him sideways to look over the
side. "Indeed? Indeed this! He's still down there! With no..."  He noticed
the Doctor uncovering a tangle of something that had been covered by a
white sheet. The Doctor tossed the sheet over the side and no body watched
it but it sailed down and flapped in the wind. Landing, it covered a small
patch of a big red pool. An ever expanding pool of dark red mixed with the
blood of victims.  Soon, the white was melded in, too, a racing patch of
red soon replacing it. Jesse frowned, "What're ya doin?"

"Use your eyes, Jes, me love," the Doctor tied rope to a center piece that
in the balloon. Rivers manned the controls of the balloon.

"Rope?"  Jesse asked.

"Rope," the Doctor said, "Rope."  He threw it over the side. "Jeremy!
HURRY! RUN!"  Then he turned back to point at Jesse, "And YOU, Jesse
McCartney, you thought I'd abandoned Jeremy! Given up on him! Oww, that's
rude, am I rude in this body?"

Jesse's eyes averted as if he were Rose in THE CHRISTMAS INVASION on the
Sycorax ship, and had been told almost the same thing by the Tenth Doctor.
He couldn't cope with this right now.  He started to say something but the
Doctor turned back over the side again, "NICE MEETING YOU, JEREMY! RUN FOR
YOUR LIFE!"

"What's he fucking talking about?"  Jeremy ran and as he ran he saw the
balloon risen, the rope come out over the edge. Even though he saw it rise,
he didn't stop running for he trusted the Doctor and Jesse that much, he
knew that there would be a rope ladder or a rope of some kind. It was a
knotted rope, not a ladder but he knew he could make it. One line to
life. He ran but the thing was at his heels. If one touch hit even his
heel, he would be lost...dead in minutes, taken along for a blobby bloody
deadly ride as his bones dissolved while he watched and felt it, drowning
in red liquid that filled his body and mouth and came in and out of him. He
never hesitated. "I'M COMING!"

Over the Doctor's back, and draped on it, Jesse watched, "How often I've
heard those words from those lisping lips!"

"He doesn't lisp that bad any longer. Entirely due to my tutoring and
training of course."

Gareth nodded, and tutted, "Will you two shut up? Your friend is running
for his life down there. And you're making jokes?"

Rivers came between, "It's how they cope."

The Doctor stopped Jesse about to yell at Rivers, "No. We're just making
statements about his life."

Rivers asked, "What about it?"

"Like the life of all beings, it's worth living," the Doctor smiled. Rivers
melted at those blue eyes and that infectious smile and smiled back.

The balloon rose up and the rope was off the ground now. Jeremy had it in
his sights. The blob was right behind him and spreading on all sides,
flattening itself in every direction. "Jeremy, dive for it!"  Jesse yelled
over the side. Something happened to the balloon mechanism and air hissed
out.

"Jesse, see to that, you know enough about it!"  The Doctor snapped, "And
don't get excited!"

"I'm not, you are," Jesse turned from looking over the side. He moved to
the mechanism with Rivers.

Jeremy jumped up like a basketball player but with hands raised. The blob
spread under him and if he missed the rope's end, he would fall right into
a mass of red gelatin, laced with body parts, bones, flesh, garbage,
automobiles...but he grabbed onto the rope and pulled himself up
higher. The Doctor punched the air, "OH YES!"  Jeremy began to climb up and
his adrenalin had already caused him to have several feet of rope under
him. The knots in the rope helped him make quick progress upward.

As the Doctor looked up at the TARDIS and said, absently, "Wish this thing
could faster..."  Gareth looked down at Jeremy and beyond.

"Oh no!"

"What do you mean Oh no?"  The Doctor asked him and looked down with him,
"Oh no!"

"He's not out of danger yet!"  Gareth gasped.

Jesse asked, "What'da ya mean?"

He was crouched with River working on the balloon mechanism.

Behind Jeremy and below, the blob shot out an almost see through tentacle
but it turned red quickly and shot up at the end of the rope that dangled
beneath Jeremy's feet. The Doctor noticed Jeremy paused to catch his
breath, "Jeremy! Get up here fast! Don't stop and don't look down!"

Jeremy looked down.  "Oh shit!"  He saw the tentacle swipe the rope and
miss. He pulled himself up it some more and used both feet and hands to do
so. The thing made contact with the rope and it only needed one time. It
began to make a slither upward.

"Jeremy, listen. Listen to me," the Doctor shouted, "The colder air up here
is slowing it down so you have time to get up here!"

"Cut the rope!"  Jeremy yelled, "Save yourselves! Save Jesse!"

"As if," the Doctor pouted.

"What's he on about now?"  Jesse asked.

The Doctor ignored him. "Is that thing okay now?"

Rivers didn't turn around but had a wrench to the device, "Almost."

The Doctor turned to look back down at Jeremy and could see the blob
slithering up after him, pulling a heavy blob load behind him.

Gareth put a hand on the Doctor's shoulder, "It'll pull us down!"

"I don't think it can do that yet," the Doctor gasped, "It's still too cold
up here for it to get much of itself up but if..."

"...if it so much as touches your pretty friend, he's a gonna!"  Gareth
said. "It'll kill him. All it needs is one touch!"

Jeremy was at the side of the balloon soon enough. There were moments when
the blob seemed about to slither onto his heels. He managed to get up
higher above it and it seemed to stop. Gareth reached over the side as the
Doctor stooped to help Rivers and Jesse, saying, "What's taking you two so
long?"

A gust of wind hit the balloon and as it did, Gareth was leaning over
Jeremy to put his hand out and he fell. Gareth screamed as he flipped right
over Jeremy's head and entire body to land on the rope under Jeremy. Jeremy
had reached out to try to grab him but it was futile.

The blob was just under Gareth's heels now. He screamed as he fell but he
was able to hold on. Jeremy pulled himself upward, "Doctor! Gareth! I have
to help him! He's fallen!"

"I can't get up!"  Gareth yelled.

"Yes you can!"  The Doctor yelled back to him.

"You have to cut the rope!"  Rivers yelled, "It's dragging us back down,
Doctor!"  Rivers picked up an axe.

Standing up, Jesse smacked the hands that held the axe and it fell to the
floor of the basket, "We're not cutting the rope!"

A gust of wind hit the balloon again and the Doctor toppled over the side,
head and chest first, just like Gareth! Jesse had turned to see this in
time and grabbed the Doctor's legs, "WHOA!"  He held the Doctor's body and
the back of the Doctor's head was facing Jeremy's front.

The Doctor twisted so that his face nearly met Jeremy's face, "Hello,
Jeremy. Nice to see you again."

"Hullo," Jeremy smiled, "Can you get me outta here and Gareth, too?"

"Pull me up!"  The Doctor said.

Jesse gasped, "We shouldn't have let him eat first!"  Jesse pulled and
Rivers, behind him, almost stuck to him, front to Jesse's back, sweating,
helped. The Doctor had his body on the side of the balloon now.

Jeremy put his hand upward as the Doctor turned back to him and over the
side, "Doctor, I'm slipping!"

"No, you're not! A big strapping chap like you!"  The Doctor was nearly up
but put his hand out, "Breath out, Jeremy!"  Jeremy breathed out and the
Doctor with one hand grabbed Jeremy's hand and pulled. At the same time,
Rivers and Jesse pulled the Doctor upward. All four piled into a bunch
inside the balloon. The Doctor was up first, "Gareth!"

On the floor, sitting or squatting, the two boys recovered. Rivers turned
back to the gauges. Jesse looked at Jeremy and didn't say a word. He just
hugged him. Jesse noticed the axe was no longer on the floor.

Gareth was climbing up the rope. His upper body was at the side of the
balloon. The Doctor reached out and grabbed Gareth's hand and pulled. "Hold
on! I've got you!"

The blob hit Gareth's heel and made short work of his shoe. It steamed
inside his foot. Gareth screamed. The Doctor had Gareth's hand. He went
wide eyed. "Gareth! I'm so sorry! I'm soo, soo sorry!" Gareth screamed but
looked at the Doctor wide eyed. He shook his head yes but winced in
pain. He groaned. The Doctor let go of his hand. In his opposite hand, the
Doctor wielded the axe and cut the rope. Gareth's lower body was already
covered in red blob as he was loosened from the balloon. The cut rope,
Gareth, and blob fell straight toward the red planet below. The Doctor
dropped the axe onto the basket's floor.

Jesse stood up, his hands planted firmly on both sides of his own head,
pulling his own hair. He grit his teeth.

Jeremy looked over the side, "NOOOOOOO!"  Jeremy banged on the side of the
balloon edge, "NO! NO! NO! FUCKING MONSTER!"  Then he just hung himself
over the edge and looked down.

The Doctor picked him up, faced him, and placed his hand on Jeremy's
chest. He put his other hand on the boy's back. "It's ...just..."

"How could you do that?"  Jesse asked. "You just..."

"He saved our lives," Rivers turned Jesse toward him. "He saved us. He had
to."

The Doctor hugged Jeremy but over Jeremy's shoulder, he saw Jesse's sad
face, "I'm sorry. I'm so very sorry."  Jeremy was looking down as Gareth
fell. He wasn't fully covered by the red monster yet. The Doctor turned so
that Jeremy faced Jesse now and the Doctor himself could see Gareth's fall
end. It was as if he never was. "This is my life, Jesse. You should know
that now. It's not funny and clever. It's just standin up and taking a
stand when no one else will want to do it. It's not easy. I had to. If you
and Jeremy and Rivers were to survive...I had to."

As he spoke, the Doctor looked down. He saw Gareth sinking slowly, other
materials blocking his descent. He was already dead, or at least the Doctor
hoped he was. If he was not, he'd be in intense, horrible, agonizing pain.

Breaking from the Doctor, Jeremy lost something in himself and sagged down
to the edge, looking over it at the monster below.

Jesse nodded, "Yes, I do understand. I haven't forgotten Avar and Von. Nor
Jeremy's friends Rob and Harn. People die, Doctor, that's a fact. I
just..."

"It stunned you to see me do it?"

"Yes, that's all."

"C'mere."  The Doctor put his arms out and hugged Jesse, who was crying.

"The whole world. The whole Earth, gone..."  Jesse gasped. The Doctor took
Jeremy's hand and was higher up than the boy who was crouching at and
somewhat over the side, as if trying to be with Gareth in the dying man's
...now dead man's final moments...Without looking at him, Jeremy took his
hand and still looked over the side. At the same time, The Doctor put his
other hand in Jesse's, the pop star's hand being wet with tears he had been
wiping. Jesse took it. "The whole Earth..."

Jeremy rose up and moved from the Doctor, still holding his hand, and then
stared over the side of the balloon again and suddenly had a thought. Hope.
He rose up. "Not the whole," Jeremy smiled at Jesse, looking at his face,
which was over the Doctor's shoulder. He nodded at Rivers, who was
innocently straightening out his glasses.

The Doctor handed Jesse over to Jeremy and they hugged. "I am sorry."

"I know, Doctor," Rivers said, "And I miss Gareth already. He
was...IS...cause I believe he is still somewhere..."

"Yes," the Doctor forced a smile.

"....he is a good man. BUT if you didn't cut the rope, I would have."

The boys stopped hugging and arm in arm, arms behind backs, looked up at
the TARDIS as the rays of the sun hit it. It glistened, seemingly waiting
for them eager to accept them. It made them feel warm again.  Jesse smiled,
"The one thing I can't wait to do...is sleep...as soon as I get in
there..."

"Sleep is for tortoises."  The Doctor said, serious. "We...I..."  he looked
at Rivers, "We ...have work to do."

Jesse turned, "Cor, maybe for Time Lords sleep can be overlooked but
for..."  He saw the Doctor in a corner of the gently rocking
basket. Asleep. He tapped Jeremy's shoulder for him to take a look. He
nodded to the Doctor and Jeremy.  "How can someone so contradictory be
so...and so..."

"The stress," Jeremy smiled, "He deserves a rest."

"All three of you do," Rivers stated.

 The balloon rose over the red coated planet. The burping, slurping and
bubbling blob had covered almost all the horizons they saw. The plants were
gone and the strange twilight area of carbon dioxide filled the air. There
was a certain stillness as the blob settled down. Jesse looked up. He
looked at the Doctor again and checked to see if he were breathing. As he
reached his hand under the Doctor's nose to feel air, the Doctor suddenly
sprang up, "OKAY, BLOODY HELL!"

"FUCK SHIT!"  Jesse jumped back but Jeremy caught him in his arms, Jesse's
back to his front. "YOU FUCK!"

"Sorry, my boy, didn't mean to scare you but enough of that sleep
business. Never pass up the opportunity to take a quick nap, cause it'll do
any life form some good. Now then..." He looked as the bottom of the TARDIS
approached. "Good, good, almost there, then!"  He picked up some more rope
and lassoed it out of the balloon. He flung it up and out and it hit the
top of the TARDIS light and then he clicked his fingers, "Please work!
C'MON!"  On the first try, the doors did not open. He clicked again and the
doors opened. "Okay, this is our exit...and our entrance. Jesse, you
first..."

"I think Rivers should go first, he's the only one...whoa!"  Jesse was
pushed over the side as the balloon came up alongside the TARDIS doors,
which were opened outward this time. He flung into the console room. He
recovered quickly and saw Jeremy dangling on the door, holding onto the top
of it. Jesse reached out and grabbed both sides of Jeremy's waist and
pulled him inside. Rivers followed. Then the Doctor in spectacular fashion
as he jumped and cut the rope of the balloon at the same time.  He yelled,
"GERONIMO!!!!"

As he landed, Jesse said and shook his head, "Yeah, don't do that."

"Yeah, you big ham," Jeremy added.

The Doctor began working the controls, "Hullo, K9," he said without taking
his head up from the work. The TARDIS made some sounds, "Don't worry, dear
boy, it won't get you. Just as it didn't get the four of us."

On the scanner, the whole Earth seemed engulfed by the blob.

As Jesse and Jeremy began to change clothes, Rivers moved to the door. The
Doctor didn't look anywhere else but the console, "If I can just program
some of those old satellites I have sitting around, they'll last for
billions...oh billions and billions of years, warning off travelers from
this world. Then I can also leave some old fashioned flags on the Parallel
Moon, like DON'T GO TO THE EARTH BELOW, IT'S DANGEROUS TO EVEN LAND. That
sorta thing, what'd you think of those, aye?"

"Good," Rivers was the foot of the doors. He put his feet on the
edge. Below, he could see nothing but red. The light was dimming from the
sun.

"You can shut the doors from there but it might be dangerous at the mo,"
the Doctor said, "I can just do it from..."  the Doctor turned to see
Rivers on the edge, his feet almost entirely dangling off. "Rivers, what're
you doin."

"Doctor," Rivers just looked down, the balloon had sailed up and up and
burst. It fell past the TARDIS doors, basket and all. "I'm going to join
them."

The Doctor tried to keep calm, "What? The basket and the balloon. I don't
think they're lonely."

"No. That's just the point, isn't it, Doctor. I will be."

Jesse, his shirt off, moved toward Rivers.

Rivers yelled, "Stay where you are."  He took his glasses off and put his
arm out, "I'm going to join my people. They're all...everyone I ever
knew. My friends, my family..."

The Doctor smiled, gently, "You said your family were all dead."

"That doesn't matter. All my people, everyone I ever knew, is dead. Gone."

"Trust when I say they're not. Oh they may be gone from this realm. But oh,
there are so, so many others. Oh, so many others. Some very far away from
here and us that even I can't get to them. Heaven, if you'd like."

"Doctor, you've been great. Really great. Terrific."

"Fantastic?"  The Doctor stalled. For Jeremy, his pants and underwear off,
with just his t-shirt on, rounded past the Doctor's side and moved on the
far wall of the TARDIS, roundels behind him. He was in the shadows.

"Really fantastic. But I'm sorry. What kind of life am I going to have now?
A lonely one."

Jesse smiled, "You can stay here with us."

"Not really. I see what you three having going."

"Really?"  Jesse said, "It's that apparent?"  He sighed, "That was
sarcasm. We've never really hidden it...at least not deliberately. And if
we ever sort out the Doctor's loony home planet and get back to our own,
we'll never hide it again. Truth is: we all take in others all the
time. We're not exclusive. That just makes it bad for everyone else not to
get their hands on this lovely body. I mean look at this, lookatwhat I can
do."  He started to pop his pecs, "Just like in JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF
THE EARTH 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. The Rock taught me that when I met
him."  He moved both pecs. Rivers turned to look at him. Rivers smiled.

"What would I do with you?"  Rivers asked.

"Anything you want," Jesse said. He could see Rivers thinking it all
over. The blob below would take him with some notice. The balloon and the
basket sank, the device inside hissing. It sank and was soon gone. Nothing
was left. All there was below was the blob.

"Nice try," Rivers started to throw himself off.

The Doctor's loudening voice stopped him, "RIVERS! C'MON DON'T DO THIS! I
DEMAND YOU NOT DO THIS!"

"No more demands Doctor. I've done everything you ever said."

Watching Rivers carefully, Jeremy tried to lean against the wall for as
Rivers turned to the Doctor, he was sure Rivers would see him. He moved as
far back as he could. Behind Jeremy, he felt the coat hanger. On it, was
the Doctor's 19 foot scarf. He wasn't sure why it was there at the moment
but he took it. He balled up one end in his fist and knew what he had to
do.

"It's not a suicide, it's sort of a returning," Rivers said and moved
again.

"Jesse! Catch! Pull on the Doctor's..."

"Not his penis but why not!"

What happened was that Jeremy launched the scarf to the front of Rivers
from the man's right side. Jesse saw the dangling end and grabbed it. He
pulled. Jeremy pulled from the other side. The Doctor rushed forward to the
doors and caught Rivers's entire body as he fell backward. The boys pulled
him in using the scarf. K9 rushed to the door control and moved it with his
nose. The doors slammed shut with the old familiar humming sound. The
Doctor cradled Rivers in his lap, his head on his chest. Rivers put his
head snug into the Doctor. The Doctor smiled, "I'm the Doctor. That's
Jeremy, Jesse, and that door shutter over there is K9. Let's talk about it,
shall we, huh? Jelly baby?"

Later...

"Jesse, you're right, I do love the TARDIS."


The Doctor smiled, "And I can tell he loves you. Rivers, what's your first
name, anyway?"

"Roberts."

"Roberts? That's an unusual first name."

"Well, my parents thought they were going to have twins. So the
plural. Silly, I know," he touched his glasses again.

"Now come with me, we have to see what we can do about those glasses, shall
we?"

"Yes, of course."  He said, "Of course, Rivers isn't my last name," he said
as they moved out of the dark control room of the 8th Doctors.

"What is?"

Jesse and Jeremy leaned their backs on the console as they heard him say,
"Masters, of course."

As the Doctor played WHEN YOU SWING ON A STAR in the TARDIS lab via the
speakers, he fashioned contacts for Rivers. "These are self cleaning, self
repairing, self adjusting," he told him. "You never have to take them out
for anything. Not even..."  he cleared his throat, "Sex."

"Thanks," Rivers took them and put them in.

"We'll take you to a planet that is similar to Earth if you like or
anywhere you'd like..."

"How about somewhere peaceful?"

"Will do."


Later, the TARDIS appears in a snowy area. Snow is coming down. The doors
open, creaking. The doors open inward this time. Jeremy and Jesse come out
in skimpy bathing suits and nothing else on. The suits are the kind life
guards wear in Australia. Jesse held a beach ball. Rivers is behind the
Doctor when they emerge. Jesse looks around, "This isn't Florana?"

"No."

"You forgot to cancel the coordinate program?"  Jesse asked.

"No."

"You forgot to reset the drift compensators and had a timing malfunction?"
Jeremy asked.

"Yes."

"Sup'pose, it's better than a wardrobe malfunction. BUT we won't get a sun
tan here?"  Jesse asked.

"No."

Rivers looks, "It seems to be...ahh, Antarctica... or the Artic...hard to
say..."

"Anything but hard right now," Jesse looked down. Snow drifted all around
them, heavily coming down.

Rivers looked inside, "The console says it is 1958..."

They hear a plane and look up. "A military plane," the Doctor squints
through snow.

"They're dropping something," Jesse says.

A small pack attached to a parachute sails down from the plane.

"Oh no, it's..."  The Doctor said.

Rivers read a large note attached to the pack, "The Blob. Beware the blob."

"It...it can't get out here, can it? With all the cold?" Jeremy's teeth
chattered from the cold.

The Doctor shrugged, "Not to worry, it'll be here till 1972...so ahhm,
Rivers, just don't be here...or 30 miles east of LA...Pomona or Diamond
Bar...take a vacation that June somewhere other than there...or we can drop
you off on a totally different planet..."

"I get it," Rivers smiled and cleaned his glasses off as snow and ice has
landed on them.

"I want to go inside," Jesse gasped, shaking, chilled. Goosebumps.

"Me, too," Jeremy agrees.

"I hope we can find Florana this time," The Doctor said. "Hang on, have we
been here before?"

"Or..."  Jesse starts and smiles.

Jesse, Jeremy, and the Doctor, "Are we yet to come?"

They laugh. Inside the music has switched on the gramophone from SWING ON A
STAR to some love ballad sung by a woman. The song is about unrequited love
("and for all those tears I've cried or dried...a time for us....there is
time....time...time...time") and it starts to skip on the word TIME.

The 8th Doctor body: Oh no not again.


THE END morphs into a large red question mark.

The gramophone starts to skip but then plays:


THEME: BEWARE THE BLOB from the 1958 movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I3VHKO3qGM

beware of the blob it creeps, it leaps, it glides and slides across the
floor right through the door, and all around the wall a splotch, a blotch
be carefull of the blob repeat


This then leads into the end theme for the DOCTOR WHO THE SPECTACULAR
FEATURE FILM MOVIE MUSIC...end theme... and we see the vortex and the
TARDIS...

                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSUId_pqecM

and at 3:17----

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn_laHrOVRU


DOCTOR WHO

Starring Paul McGann

Special Guest Star...Eric Roberts

Guest Starring...Jeremy Sumpter

Sylvester McCoy (parts cut out for re-addition in next episode)

Jesse McCartney

Yee Jee Tso...teen crook who dies

J. Radick as Gareth

Dave Hurtubise as Professor Wagg

Daphne Ashbrook....Grace

Based on the long running TV series by the BBC and the special movie by
Matthew Jacobs...

Dee Jay Jackson...lab tech that dies

Dolores Drake...lab tech that dies

Catherine Lough...extra on street that dies

Joel Wirkkunin...man in house that dies

Gordon Tipple...military plane pilot