#and sutek getting leashed like a bad dog

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So why the snow? Why did the memory change? Why did the Doctor cry? Why can't he remember? Why couldn't anyone see her face?? No explanations for this in the episode. So rewrite. (Also wish it hadn't been just four mostly disconnected mysteries and mystery women (Mrs Flood, Susan Triad, ruby’s mother, the woman in 73 yards).)

We're doing that rtd theme: the most ordinary woman in the world is the most important but we make it make sense. The mundane should not exist BESIDE the magic, the magic should elevate the mundane.

Basically the essence is that Ruby broke that piece of time using the time window when it shorted in ep 1. And the dusting of Unit and all the panic in the streets is moved towards the end of ep 1. And Sutek has a voice over about how every Susan in every place that The Doctor’s ever landed is destroying life now. And it's all the Doctor’s fault (And there's no scene where the Doctor and Sutek have a slow and boring conversation and standoff).. And the Doctor storms into the time window and uses the memory TARDIS and that bit of cracked time to place them outside time. ‘this eddy, this crack, this memory of time. YOU made it Ruby Sunday when you broke the the time window, because you looked so so hard. All so you might be able to see your mother's face. That's why this little bit of time is so strong, it comes through everywhere, snow, singing, and so broken, muddled, even I can't remember. And THATS because… I am cracking open this little bit of memorytime and pulling us through beyond it RIGHT NOW.’ Goes on about how maybe, if theyre lucky, they’re not affected by Sutek’s power if they can just get THROUGH because it's just slightly out of true with time.And Ruby and Mel remember the TARDIS for him and he tries to remember the night. And then he tries to take off and the thing half explodes and the time window disappears and all that's left is the scene hanging in the darkness of nothing.

Ep 2

The beginning is the Doctor arriving at the dying woman's place and getting the spoon. Great atmosphere, establishes immediately that everything has gone to shit, and things are DIRE. And things have changed drastically, we are in a new world and there are things we don't know about the story because of this.

Then the Doctor RUNS towards the Tardis and dives in. He barely makes it as it's already dematerialising and it is still on fire. Ruby and Mel and him try to tie everything together and the spoon makes it work. Fire extinguisher. They barely make it, the Tardis takes off roughly and langs rougher. they're pulled back to the cracked moment in time, a frozen moment of that night hanging out in nothing. Exposition Doctor: now they've fixed the TARDIS a bit they should be able to do longer hops out into reality. Closed the doors back up and they go into a hop we get the scene in space where the dust races across the continents. The Doctor despairs. First the flux and now this, he's a virus after all, a parasite, he's killed the universe (this is about adoption, so please refer to tecteun !!). Ruby and Mel say: no. This wasn't you. But he says: It's me!! It's me!! I came here and it's happening because of me everything I ever touched. And there's nothing! Nothing I can do!!! He probably screams.

Scene with Ruby sitting in cracked time, crying about Carla and Cherry. The Doctor sees it, sits next to her. Ruby: says and i STILL dont know who she is, laughs. Like it matters now. The Doctor goes: why not, its the end of the universe, lets go. Lets go who cares if we cross our own timelines now! Ruby's like: won't she be dust. The Doctor says: maybe, but she's special, this place in time is special. They try but the Memory TARDIS will not go.

Sutek probably shouldn't get a scene but if he does he shouldn't be worried about Ruby, he should be like: the Lord of Time, they say he's immortal, that he came from beyond the universe like my siblings the gods. How did he escape? All of time and space is dead!

Back to the Doctor and Ruby, they have the screen, the Doctor is trying to sonic it but it's delicate, but when Ruby touches it, the image changes (‘do that again’) and some talk show is trying to get through (gwilliam). RUBY recognises the man. (‘how dyou know that) They can't get it to show up. The Doctors like, it doesn't make sense, it's like there’s a perception filter, like the TARDIS has. Liminal space. 66 metres. 73 yards. ('What...how dyou') You see things at 73 yards. Ruby takes the screen and steps backward, as though she's done this before. The Doctor is like woahwoah woah. Because there's barely an ounce of reality beyond the memory. They go out into the dark, walking backwards lit by the screen, holdin onto each other, the Doctor (don't blink) never losing sight of the memory TARDIS. Ruby holds the screen up over the memory of her mother, a flash of the fairy woman, then gwilliam and the Doctor remembers DNA.

Is it worth it? We can't just sit here forever. (Though technically maybe they could). At least we can find out who she was. Try and find out. At the end of the world. Mel’s exhausted (death catching up???) but is in favour. When they step out, the doctor tells them: they only have so much time until they have to return to the memory TARDIS or it will leave without them back to cracked time. And Sutek will be able to sense them. The moment Mel steps out he tries to possess her. Harrowing dust scenes. Mel leaves, the Doctor and Ruby, snow, carollers. Does the computer have a match?? We don't find out, ruby snatches the screen to her chest, because Sutek arrives. Turned Mel tries to dust Ruby but the Doctor steps in between. He suffers but doesn't die.

Sutek says, you won't stand up to my direct power. Immortal life versus eternal death. Who are you? My brother and sister ? Regen slurp scene. Ruby's like: stop please stop. Goes: don't you want to know how we managed to escape you? Lots of people escaped that way, dont you want to find them? Its on this computer and offers it up. Drops it (gasp, her DNA answer!) and leashes sutek.

The doctor then TELLS RUBY ‘bringing death to death means life!’ Triumph!!! life! Cherry and Mrs flood. Carla, Kate. The planets are back!!! Then he goes still and serious. He's going to have to be a monster. He goes to hang out in the TARDIS doorway. It SHAKES which explains holding on like that. He doesn't shout but talks loudly. ‘ life wins. Death loses. You lose. And I lose. Because there's no other choice. I'm sorry.’ cuts sutek off. He stares into the vortex as sutek dissipates.

Next scene, ruby asks whether they can go look for gwilliams dna data base again, the Doctor says huh? That never existed, gwilliam stepped down the day he was going to be handed access to the nuclear codes (‘somebody saved the world that day’). Ruby is like: huh??? ‘but…..there's another way’ the Doctor says. the doctor has to fix that bit of cracked time, placing the memory TARDIS back, and in that moment, anything might be possible. and ruby steps out a final time into the memory, which is not a hologram and not quite real. It's a chance. She can wade out between time and memory. ‘ go, go you're not here and you're here, this is our only chance to see, in between the temporal pixels, the snow resolving into image. Go and look!’ and she wades out. And the Doctor is stood next to his earlier self. And Ruby looks and makes a small sound and her mother hears it and sees the Doctor and points. (The memory changed) And the Doctor looks and she's pointing at the street sign. Ruby road. Oh. ‘She named you, Ruby. She named you after the street.’ And the Doctors both cry. The memory dissolves.

‘did you see her face?’ yeah…yeah!

And they're stood in Unit base (not the time window). And Morris : ‘description? Just kidding, that's why we had you wear a camera.’

And BAM photos. Kate reads out the story. The rest goes the same way. Except the ending.

The Doctor leaves her behind for being too busy? Nah it needs to be a little different.

‘Ruby. You've got Carla, Cherry, Claire (?), you'll be meeting your dad. Don't leave them.’

‘Will I see you again?’

‘Of course’

Ruby points out the stuff about Susan.

The Doctor says: you’ve shown me something Ruby Sunday, something I'll never forget. And…I will see Susan again too.

A decision and a sudden knowing in one. BECAUSE THAT WOULD DELIVER ON THE SUSAN BAITING. THE SUSAN THATS STILL TO COME.