'Spyfall' Part 2 (Story Code 12.02) by Chris Chibnall

"A little chaos is a wonderful thing" - The Master

While the Doctor is trapped in an alien forest, Graham, Ryan and Yaz face imminent death in a crashing airplane. Scrabbling on the floor of the cabin, Ryan finds signs bearing his name that direct him to some handy instructions on how to land a crashing plane without a cockpit. A recording of the Doctor appears on a television, directing Ryan to connect his phone to the computer under the cabin floor. Ryan then uses a new app that has appeared on his device to fly the plane to its intended destination... In the strange forest, the Doctor meets a young woman called Ada, who believes that the glowing aliens - the Kasaavin - are her guardians while she dreams. Deducing that the aliens are gateways to their home dimension, the Doctor takes Ada's hand as she steps into one of the creatures... Elsewhere, the Master's pleasure at killing the Doctor is interrupted by Barton's phone, as the CEO of VOR receives a notification that his plane has landed safely... The Doctor and Ada awake to find themselves in London, 1834, in the middle of an inventors' exhibition. The Doctor tries to explain her situation to Ada, but breaks off as an enraged Master appears and begins shrinking people with his Tissue Compression Eliminator. To stop his wanton killing, the Doctor gives herself up; but as she kneels before her old enemy, the Doctor gleans an important piece of information: not knowing how she escaped from the plane means he is not in control of the aliens. Ada opens fire on the Master with a rotary machine gun and then throws an experimental bomb at him; in the chaos she and the Doctor make their escape. In the present, Graham, Ryan and Yaz hide from Barton in a nearby plane hangar. Learning that they are in Essex, the trio make their way to the nearest town, only to receive simultaneous phone calls from Barton: he has reported them to the police, and they are now wanted as hijackers. As the public starts to take notice, Ryan stomps on their phones and then the trio run for their lives... Ada introduces the Doctor to her colleague, Charles Babbage, inventor of the Difference Engine; the Doctor is delighted at seeing the prototype computer, and realises that Ada Gorton will become famous as Ada Lovelace. When the Doctor remarks on a statue of a silver lady, Babbage explains how it was given to him by a stranger as a gift from his master. The Doctor learns from Babbage's notes that he too has seen the glowing figures. When Ada explains that she has been seeing her 'guardians' since she was thirteen, the Doctor realises the aliens have been taking her to their dimension for study for years; but the Master has now stabilised them so that they can remain on Earth - the multiple images of the planet are different time periods, showing Kasaavin spies throughout history. By sonicing the Silver Lady statue, the Doctor summons one of the aliens; but as she steps into the creature, Ada grabs her hand... Hiding in a housing construction site, Graham, Yaz and Ryan take stock of their situation: while they don't know nearly as much about the Doctor as they thought, they do still have a pair of laser shoes and rocket cufflinks. Outside, several Kasaavin materialise... The Doctor and Ada wake up in war-torn Paris in 1943, where they meet a young woman named Madeline, who leads them to safety as a Nazi patrol commanded by the Master arrives on the scene... Menaced by Kasaavin, Graham, Yaz and Ryan race outside, only to be surrounded by dozens of the glowing creatures; Graham opens fire with his laser shoes, and manages to hit some of the creatures... At the airfield hanger, Barton now has his mother tied to a chair; upset that she is still unimpressed by his achievements, Barton summons four Kasaavin using the Silver Lady and happily watches as they alter his mother's DNA... The Master and his soldiers search Madeline's apartment; after spraying the floor with bullets they depart - but luckily the Doctor and Ada are unharmed, having hidden in the flooring under Madeline's chair. Noting a secreted radio transmitter, the Doctor deduces that Madeline is the British agent Noor Inayat Kahn... Yaz calls home from a phone box, allowing the authorities to trace her location and send two Men in Black in an Range Rover to capture the fugitives; but it is a trap, and after Graham overpowers the MiBs with his laser shoes, the gang drive off in the commandeered vehicle... Using Noor's radio, the Doctor sends a personal message to the Master in the form of a Time Lord heartbeat; after the Master overhears and responds, the Doctor makes telepathic contact with her enemy, and they agree to meet atop the Eiffel Tower. At the rendezvous, the Master admits that he hijacked the MI6 car and assassinated C, and had all the spies killed when they discovered the presence of Kasaavin sleeper agents on Earth; the aliens were amassing information, but the Master gave them a better plan... Returning to the hanger, Graham, Ryan and Yaz find the husk of Barton's mother, along with the Silver Lady statue, which Ryan and Yaz recognise from Barton's office. The gang then receive a video call from Barton, who reveals that his alien DNA is the result of a proof of concept test of his forthcoming big plan... After Noor sends a message to London on behalf of the Doctor, she and Ada search Paris for something anachronistic; having found exactly that they call the Doctor using her mobile phone. The call is picked up by the Doctor's sonic screwdriver, as she records the Master explaining his plan to kill Barton and the Kasaavin once they have fulfilled his vision to destroy the human race. But this carnage is just to get the Doctor's attention, so the Master can tell her of his visit Gallifrey in its bubble universe: their home planet is in ruins, their people all dead. Hearing a squad of German soldiers approaching up the Tower's stairs, the Doctor reveals that Noor sent a message to London to implicate the Master as a double agent, a message they knew the Germans would intercept. As the Doctor escapes in the lift, the Nazis arrest the Master... Joining Ada and Noor outside the Master's house/TARDIS, the Doctor breaks in and access her enemy's records, which list every significant person in the history of computers... Barton attends a press conference that is being transmitted live across the world. After thanking all those watching for giving him and VOR access to every detail of their lives, Barton sends the whole world a text message: 'humanity is over - you have 3 mins to prepare'. Barton plans to repurpose mankind into storage devices, by using the Kasaavin to reformat their DNA into seven million hard drives. In the hanger, the Silver Lady activates and the Kasaavin answer its call; the aliens channel their energy into the statue - and from every computer device in the world burst tendrils of deadly power that latch onto the devices’ owners... As Graham, Yaz and Ryan try unsuccessfully to stop the Silver Lady, the Master arrives, having spent the last seventy-seven years on Earth following his arrest in 1943. The Master explains how the statue is transmitting Kasaavin energy that will erase humanity's DNA - but then Doctor arrives and deactivates it with her sonic. The Doctor, Ada and Noor have used the Master's TARDIS to track the statue through history, and last year they paid it a visit and implanted a virus that would shut it down once Barton activated his plan. The Doctor banishes the Kasaavin back to their home dimension, but not before she plays them her recording of the Master explaining his plan; enraged at being manipulated, the Kasaavin take the renegade Time Lord with them, stranding him in the alien forest... After introducing Graham, Yaz and Ryan to her two new friends the Doctor realises she has one job still to do, and she rushes off with Ada and Noor to create and hide the items needed to save her fam from the plummeting plane. Having reclaimed her TARDIS, the Doctor then returns Ada and Noor to their respective times and places, psychically wiping their minds of recent events. Now alone in the TARDIS, the Doctor decides to check the Master's claims by returning to Gallifrey; just like her enemy said, their home world is a burnt cinder, the once-proud capitol globe now just shattered wreckage. Shaken, the Doctor steps back inside to the TARDIS, where she receives a recorded message from the Master: he destroyed Gallifrey, in revenge for the lies the Time Lords told about their history, which was built on the lie of 'the Timeless Child' - words that the Doctor once heard uttered by the Remnants on the planet Desolation... Days later, back aboard the TARDIS, Graham, Ryan and Yaz worry if the Doctor is ok, and finally ask who she is. Putting on a brave face the Doctor tells them about herself, but promises to take them to Gallifrey another day...


Jodie Whittaker (The Doctor), Bradley Walsh (Graham O'Brian), Tosin Cole (Ryan Sinclair), Mandip Gill (Yasmin Khan), Sascha Dhawan (The Master), Lenny Henry (Daniel Barton), Sylvie Briggs (Ada Gordon [Ada Lovelace]), Aurora Marion (Madeline [Noor Inayat Kahn]), Mark Dexter (Charles Babbage), Shobna Gulati (Najia Kahn), Ravin J. Ganatra (Hakim Kahn), Bhavnisha Parmar (Sonya Kahn), Andrew Piper (Inventor), Tom Ashbury (Airport Worker), Kenneth Jay (Perkins>), Blanche Williams (Barton's Mother)

Directed by Lee Haven Jones
Produced by Alex Mercer
Executive Producers Chris Chibnall and Matt Strevens
A BBC Wales production

TX (BBC 1 & BBC 1 HD):
5th January 2020 @ 7.00 pm

Notes:
*Featuring the Thirteenth Doctor, Graham, Ryan and Yaz

*This episode is sixty minutes long

*Part two of a two-part story