Dawn of a Brave New Age

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**Dawn of a Brave New Age** is the first episode of *Doctor Who*.

## Cast

* Evan Hammond as The Doctor & Cybermen (voice)
* Chase Suttles as Harry Schwartz
* Mark Hammond as Eptos
* Carson Subttles as Cybermen
* Patty Reed as Mrs. Green
* Daniel Jackson as Dying Man
* Doug Reed as Uncle George
* Carson Suttles as Crazed Kid
* Presley Chanley as Resistance Leader
* Amy Reed as Exponent
* Sophie Birks as Announcer
* Charles Williams as Cybership (voice)

## Crew

* Producer - Evan Hammond
* Director - Evan Hammond
* Cinematographer - Patty Reed
* Cinematographer - Evan Hammond
* Cinematographer - Mark Hammond
* Lighting Director - Carson Suttles
* Set Designer - Evan Hammond
* Production Assistant - Carson Suttles
* Production Assistant - Patty Reed
* Makeup Artist - Patty Reed
* Costume Designer - Evan Hammond
* Audio Technican - Evan Hammond
* Executive Producer - Evan Hammond

## Synopsis

Harry Schwartz’s life is turned upside down when a blue box falls from the sky, and out of the box, a man who can’t remember his own name. Adding to Harry’s troubles is a cult-like group promoting something called Damson. Harry is looking for answers. What is Damson, and just who is the man who fell from the stars?

## Plot

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After regeneration in the TARDIS in deep space, the Doctor confused doesn't remember the place, shocked to be a teenager. Notices that the place is uncomfortably hot, the Doctor questions why regeneration energy is mad in the TARDIS as he's about to crash in a city.

In the city, a fifteen-year-old, Harry Schwartz, punches an alarm clock at 8:45 as he's still in bed. Because he's just like any other kid, Harry wants to do something no one else has. In another room, he bids good morning to his uncle George. Told that Harry broke his clock, George suggests him to mow Mrs. Green's yard for money to buy a new one. Gave in, Harry disgustedly agrees. After the death of his parents, Harry now lives with his uncle, thinking he can be dull at times cause he only likes the newspapers. Figured it'd be good to get out of the house, Harry considers that adventure falling out of the sky.

Although he is heading to Mrs. Green's house, Harry is willing to mow for anyone else besides her since she's meticulous to detail and that she's not too interesting to talk to, only finding her to be only interested in her cats. Notices the TARDIS nearby, Harry excitedly witness it crash, which was survived by the Doctor as the individual weakly makes it on the surface with blood on his face. Needs help, the Doctor got Harry to carry his back to walk. When Harry asks who he is, the Doctor answered that he does not know of himself or what happened. Believing to regain strength, the Doctor lets go of Harry, feeling like he could walk. As he starts to stand alone, the Doctor immediately faints.

Somewhere indoors, Harry wipes the Doctor's face while he is in bed. When the electrical system soon ran out, Harry grabs a flashlight to walk in the hallway, considering maybe call a tech guy. Awake, the Doctor accidentally sneaks up on Harry, starling him. Rejoined with Harry, the Doctor failed to fix it via sonic screwdriver only for the device to malfunction by leaving brief sparks. When the Doctor infers that the sonic can't help, Harry asks what the device is. In response, the Doctor sat him down to tell everything. Possibly remembering little snippets, the Doctor explains that his device was handy for light, doors, and things; and that box from before was his ship, although he couldn't recall the vessel's name.

Heard a robotic voice, the two head for the front door to find a mind-controlled and monotonous Mrs. Green coming inside and heading for the two, creepily repeating the phrase "It is the dawn of a brave new age." The two then quickly ran out and shut the door, leaving her inside. Horrified from Harry, a group is excitedly yelling. The Doctor asks them about what's this about; a woman of the group explains that they're trying to promote a new product which is all the rage on social media. Harry looks it up and discovered it to be named Damson on their post on Immediate Graham, explained by the woman that it's a suit that can hooks up their phone to their whole body. The Doctor expresses disapproval of this, finding that they're so addicted to their phones that they wanted it to be a part of them, backing up the reason why he hated the twenty-first century. The Doctor and Harry both became suspicious from how the group promotes the new product and how Mrs. Green lumbers as a zombie; the Doctor figures that they're both connected.

Elsewhere, a man saw the two nearby as his targets, asking from a vortex manipulator to go after them. A voice from the device orders him to go after Harry first, finding him more likely to cooperate rather than the Doctor. Understood, the man then proceeds with his given orders.

Back with Harry and the Doctor, they need to know what Damson actually is, so Harry suggests the name of it to be like an anagram. Praised by the Doctor of his idea, Harry looks the word upon an anagram app, coming upon "Mondas". The Doctor briefly recognizes the word as he heard it before. Harry guessed that it was the spaceship he fell from only for the Doctor to actually recall him the spaceship's name to be actually the "TARDIS", which is still rebuilding after the crash. The two soon decided to split up to search in the neighborhood.

Alone, Harry notices the place to be deserted. Eventually, he discovers the word "help" on a brick wall in red, coming to the conclusion that someone was here. With this, Harry came up with two possibilities: either that someone ran from a mind-controlled zombie or that the word was written by a zombie themselves. Suppose the zombies are in pain, Harry considers that them being what they are is not their fault, processing that this happened in his neighborhood. Needing to find more evidence, Harry was sneaked up by a zombie, initially familiar with him. Revealing what is from saying "It is the dawn of a brave new age", the zombie chases him, soon cornering him. As the creature hold Harry's face, he was shot down by the man with the vortex manipulator.

Joining with the man, Harry confusedly asked what's going on from seeing a zombie for a second time. The man gently pushes him to a wall and told him to keep quiet, having reasons to believe Harry's friend was an alien who was not from this world. The man introduces himself as Eptos who is a member of the Cyber-resistance that goes up against the Mondasion Health Organization, which believes that turning into emotionless cyborgs can save the Human race. Recognizes the name of Mondasion Health Organization, Harry points out that the Doctor mentions "Mondas".

As explained by Eptos, the Doctor was the greatest war hero of their time, confused from Harry since he's a teenager. Eptos notes Harry's underestimation of him, knowing that the Doctor made possible for their many victories. Eptos told Harry the Doctor— possibly the savior of Mondas— is a Time Lord who travels the universe. Since Harry doesn't know where the Doctor is, Eptos realize that they may need to find the Cybermen without him. Asked from Harry who they are, Eptos shows a hologram of them from his device and explains the following: their armor is made out of flexible titanium which gives extreme protection without any hindrance to movement like conventional armor, their projected weapons are mounted on their heads and bellow their chest units, and that they have super strength that made them capable to bend metal with bare hands and kill with a single blow if they were enough.

When Harry hopelessly asks how can they beat them, Eptos decides to take him to their mothership where they will destroy its central power source, which is hidden on the far side of the Earth's moon; this would disintegrate their bodies since their life support systems are powered from there thus severing their connection. Harry protested this plan, reasoning that their Human; Eptos justified that anything Human from the ship was purged. Figured that the Doctor will eventually find them, Eptos teleports to the ship with Harry.

Somewhere in the neighborhood, the Doctor came to assists a weak zombie, who insists on him joining them. He notices him says "dawn of a brave new age" like Mrs. Green, curious of what it means. Discovered that he's not actually being mind-controlled rather than having an implant on his brain, the Doctor asked who was responsible before it dies, closing his eyes for him. After witnessing his death, the Doctor obligates himself to find out who and to make sure this never happen to anyone again.

When Eptos and Harry arrive at the mothership, Harry unexpectedly freaks out at bit, assured by Eptos that they'd be dead from this if the place was inhabited; affronted of what he said, Harry disputed about the shocking things he saw, reasoning that he shouldn't be told to calm down, argued from Eptos that he has a lot to learn. Planning to split up to start Eptos' plan, Eptos will disable the defenses in order for Harry to reach the power core to shut down the Cybermen's operation. Annoyed from Harry's ignorance on how to do his part, Eptos gave him a communicator, so that he can instruct him. Assuming if the plan works, they will meet back where they initially teleported.

Back in the neighborhood, a Cyberman informs another of Mrs Green— one of their failed patient— followed the TARDIS' signature to a house where two Humans (The Doctor and Harry) escaped. The other Cybermen claims that one of the Humans is necessary for their plan's success if he is the Doctor. When the Cybermen left, the Doctor spies on them from afar, now remembering them as the Cybermen. Based on what he gathered, he figures that Mrs Green and the weak zombie were failed conversions and that they mange to lure people in with Damson. He followed the Cyberman to a transmat technology, taking him somewhere indoors only to be noticed by five Cybermen who forced him to follow them.

When Harry remotely asked Eptos on how he started fighting the Mondasion Health Organization, Eptos declares that he will never forgive what they did and began explaining. Two years ago on his city, Eptos and various others had heard of rumors regarding Cybemen development. Eventually, he found out that they were true when they storm houses and claim to have taking them for surgery. However, Eptos saw their deception, knocked unconscious while his wife and kids tried to escape only for them to missing when he wakes up. Eventually, he was founded by the Cyber-resistance after failing to find his family for days. Joined them, Eptos vows to end the Cybermen in order for others to not suffer like his family did. Sympathizing with Eptos, Harry tells him the lack of happiness he felt after his parents death, however he now feels like he's doing something worthwhile. Although Eptos is happy for Harry, he doesn't have much luck of finding what he has since he's drowning in revenge.

When the two soon continues with the plan, Harry enters through a door and discovers two boxes labeled Damson, connecting them to the group promoting the product. Caught up on what Damson is, Eptos claims that the Cybermen luring people in with the product. When Harry saw a woman on an operating table, Eptos explains that the product is promoted to convert people into a tech maniac only for them to actually turn into Cybermen. Harry then watches a Damson video via computer which says it creates a brave new age, recognized from Harry of the phrase. The brave new age is an ideal way of living for the Cybermen only for it to be actually a "living death". Harry notices that Mrs Green from earlier wasn't like the other Cybermen, explained from Eptos that the conversions don't fully work out that left them as empty shells of Humans.

Back with the Doctor, he wakes up trapped by two Cybermen, figuring he needs a sonic a screwdriver. Asked for name, occupation, and age, he answers "John Smith", professor, and eighteen. A Cyberman then told him he will be the first one to experience the dawn of a brave new age, reminding the Doctor of the same thing of what Mrs Green said. According the Cyberman, this age is the future when Humans are immortal with no physical or psychological weaknesses to be held back from.

Before they decide to start his conversion, the Cyberman asks if he saw the Doctor while showing pictures of him, figuring he has information since he went through the transmat device. Looking at the pictures, the Doctor recognizes all of them as him in different lives, recalling his own name. However, he lies to them, telling them to have not recognized any of the pictures. The Cybermen believes that there is a Human spy who has morals against the species that support the idea of emotions having value or mortality being good, planing to destroy the Cyber-resistance; recollecting from their mention of the group, the Doctor remembers the Cyber-wars, which was determined at this point to be in its early stages. According to a Cyberman, the Doctor is one being who has the power to regenerate to cheat death, which was why the Cybermen hate him; they find that their technology isn't enough for them to escape extinction as the Doctor would outlive them. So in order to make Humans and Cybermen immortal, they plan to integrate his regenerative abilities which would start the brave new age of the Cybermen.

When Harry believes he's closer to the power source, a Cyberman suddenly walks in on him, chasing him. Telling him that he almost got defenses down, Eptos assures him he will found another way to get through. After the defenses got down, the Doctor became free from his trap, running into Harry. Reunited, the Doctor speaks to Eptos via Harry's communicator, much to Eptos' relief. At the control center, Eptos managed to lock the Cybermen out, however, he's unsure of how long it can hold. Ordered from the Doctor, Eptos sets himself to raise the power to maximum from the main control value that would have stalled the Cybermen for a few minutes, therefore giving the Doctor and Harry the opportunity to reach the power source.

Like himself, Eptos prepares to see everthing the Cybermen care for destroyed in their eyes. He leaves the room and soon knocks a Cyberman down. About to kill, Eptos recalls his leader telling him to control his rage after killing a man. Horrified of what he's done, the leader reminded him he can have him to be court-marshaled, however he still sees the possible potential he has for mercy. What his leader said convince him to to spare the Cyberman, now seeing that they were Human once too.

Harry and the Doctor head to the room to the power source only for the Doctor to be accidentally locked out from the room, leaving Harry to continue the plan alone. Outside the door, the Doctor is approached by three Cybermen who all persist in their plan's success despite the Doctor's lack of faith. When the Cybermen declared Human bodies as weaknesses, the Doctor argues the contrary, not allowing them to restrain the bodies.

The Cybermen then remark him as a Human child, which reminded the Doctor with the jumbled memory that he regenerated into a teenager. Before the Cybermen can convert him, the Doctor tells them that he's a Time Lord, shocking them. He even admits to them that they gave out a little too much information while he was captured. Waited for seven hours, thirteen minutes, and thirty-nine seconds, the Doctor says "I'm the Doctor, traveling the universe, righting wrongs and making friends." The Cybermen then attempted to harness his regeneration powers, trapping him once again. When Harry tried to shut the power, the button is blocked by a force field. Luckily, the Doctor uses his regeneration powers to cancel the force field, allowing Harry to shut it down, urging the Cybermen to protect the power core. However, as the Doctor said, it was too late for the species to began as one of them became a lifeless unmasked skeleton.

After the plan worked, Harry frees the Doctor and the two rejoin with Eptos. Harry became guilty of killing innocents; the Doctor comforts him, claiming there was nothing else they can do as they can't reconvert them back to Humans. Meeting the Doctor in person, Eptos couldn't keep up with him due to his faces, thanked by him for his help. Auto-destructing in five minutes, the ship was set by Eptos to implode which hurried them to leave back to Earth via Eptos' vortex manipulator, nauseating the Doctor. Needing to get back to his resistance's base, Eptos is thanked by Harry for all he did as he thanks him back for helping him find himself again. Before leaving, Eptos let the Doctor know he was honored to serve with him.