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LUNAR ORBIT-DAY 1 The Moon, half in sunlight, half in shadow, hanging in space .  \nCAPTION: The Moon, 2049 . *  \nTravel down on to the surface , faster and faster, past crags, mountains, dark shapes:  \nCUT TO:  \n2  INT . INTERNATIONAL MOONBASE-DAY 2  \nTight on CLARA-she looks up at us . She’s wearing a spacesuit (without a helmet) . She’s scared .  \nCLARA  \nHello, Earth .  \nShe is sitting at a control panel in a dusty, cobwebbed Moonbase . Two space-suited bodies are propped up against a wall .  \nCLARA (CONT’D)  \nWe have a terrible decision to  \nmake . It’s an uncertain decision  \nand we don’t have a lot of time .  \nThe man . . . who normally helps  \nhe’s gone . Maybe he’s not coming back . In fact, I really don’t think  \nhe is . We’re on our own .  \nShe looks up at COURTNEY, who stands there, afraid . Looking *  \nanxiously at CLARA .  \nCLARA looks at COURTNEY for a long moment, then looks back to the screen .  \nCLARA (CONT’D)  \nSo-an innocent life versus the  \nfuture of all mankind .  \nA tear drops from CLARA’s eye .  \nCLARA (CONT’D)  \n. . .We have forty-five minutes to  \ndecide .  \nTight on a computer display, the countdown timer ticking down:  \n00:44:58 -57-56 . ..  \nOPENING TITLES *  \n3  OMITTED 3 *  \n© BBC 2014 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL 1 .  \nDW8: 'Return To Sarn' by Peter Harness-Shooting Script-03/05/14  \n4  INT . COAL HILL SCHOOL . CORRIDOR-DAY 4  \nTHE DOCTOR hurries down the corridor with his usual urgency, alongside CLARA, who is trying to get him to listen .  \nCLARA  \nCourtney Woods . She’s just gone  \ncrazy-she’s uncontrollable .  \nDoctor-she took your psychic  \npaper . She’s been using it as fake  \nID .  \nTHE DOCTOR  \nTo get into museums? *  \nCLARA  \nNo, to buy White Lightning or  \nalcopops or whatever  \nTHE DOCTOR  \nI’ve no idea what you’re talking  \nabout . What is Courtney Woods?  \nCLARA  \nOne of my year tens . She was in the  \nTARDIS .  \nTHE DOCTOR  \nDoing what?!  \nCLARA  \nThrowing up .  \nTHE DOCTOR  \nOh, her . Oh, that was ages ago .  \nCLARA  \nShe says you told her she wasn’t  \nspecial.  \nTHE DOCTOR  \nRubbish . *  \nCLARA  \nShe says that’s what sent her off  \nthe rails  \nTHE DOCTOR frowns . *  \nCRASH CUT TO: *  \n4A  INT . COAL HILL . STORE CUPBOARD-DAY (FLASHBACK) 4A *  \nTight on THE DOCTOR, leaning protectively against the TARDIS * door . *  \n(CONTINUED)  \n© BBC 2014 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL 2 .  \nDW8: 'Return To Sarn' by Peter Harness-Shooting Script-03/05/14  \n4A CONTINUED: 4A  \nTHE DOCTOR *  \nNo, Courtney, you may not come in! *  \nOnly very special people allowed in *  \nhere! *  \nCRASH BACK TO: *  \n4B  \nINT . COAL HILL . CORRIDOR-DAY  \nTHE DOCTOR and CLARA as before .  \n4B *  \n*  \nTHE DOCTOR  \nPfph!  \nCLARA  \nI know-but you say something like  \nthat to someone-it hurts .  \nSpecially someone of her age .  \nSpecially if you’re you . Doctor  \nit can effect her whole life  \nCUT TO:  \n5  INT . THE TARDIS-CONTINUOUS-DAY 5  \nTHE DOCTOR and CLARA enter . COURTNEY stands there by the console, standing defensively. She’s nervous, but she’s not going anywhere.  \nTHE DOCTOR  \nOi!  \nCLARA  \nOi!  \nCOURTNEY  \nI got stuff to clean up with!  \nShe lifts her arms . She holds some cleaning fluid in two squirty bottles . And on her wrists are two little black bands , which she demonstrates with a flick .  \nCOURTNEY (CONT’D)  \nI got these from the chemist .  \nTHE DOCTOR  \nVortex manipulators!  \nCOURTNEY  \nTravel sickness .  \nTHE DOCTOR  \nOh . . . Good . Because I don’t like  \npeople being sick in my TARDIS . No  \nbeing sick . And no hanky-panky.  \n(CONTINUED)  \n© BBC 2014 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL 3 .  \nDW8: 'Return To Sarn' by Peter Harness-Shooting Script-03/05/14  \n5 CONTINUED: 5  \nCLARA  \nDoctor- !  \nTHE DOCTOR  \nSorry, those are the rules .  \nCLARA  \nYou’re not going to need those,  \nCourtney . You’re not ","cbCailVgZzvUqpUO","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailVgZzvUqpUO","pdf",265543,"English","# EXT . LUNAR ORBIT-DAY\n## INT . INTERNATIONAL MOONBASE-DAY\n# INT . COAL HILL SCHOOL . CORRIDOR-DAY\n## INT . COAL HILL . STORE CUPBOARD-DAY (FLASHBACK)\n# INT . THE TARDIS-CONTINUOUS-DAY\n# INT . 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