The Timeless Children

*The Timeless Children* is the twelfth episode of the fifty-seventh season of Doctor Who.

## The Timeless Children

### Companion(s)

Laurie Strode, Danica Sullivan, Ashley McEwan

### Featuring

The MasterNathan

The Balcony Girls

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various children and adults

### Main Enemy

Zombie Children/Wildfire Virus, The Master

## Sypnosis

The Master has created a virus that immediatley infects every human under the age of 18---meaning that the human race will die out. With the help of Laurie Strode and two new companions, can the Fifteenth Doctor defeat this before humanity is wiped out?

## Plot

### PART ONE : BEGINNING OF THE APOCALYPSE

Through the time vortex and into the deep vacuum of space, falls The Master, who was previously electrocuted and stabbed twice, is trying not to regenerate. He manages to summon his TARDIS in the vacuum of space before he lands on 25th century earth. There, he begins working on a scientific experiment, called "Wildfire". He states that the children are "time-less" and will not be aging, instead rotting while their soul frozen in time, unable to control the zombified body. Meanwhile, the TARDIS lands on a hilltop house, where a 60ish woman, Laurie Strode, stares in disbelief. She thinks the Eighth Doctor has returned with Samuel Loomis. But when a female doctor exits the TARDIS, Laurie Strode draws out a shotgun. The Fifteenth Doctor explains what happened with only fifty words, and the two embrace in a hug since, from Laurie's perspective, they haven't met in over 43 years. The Fifteenth Doctor immediatley takes Laurie into her TARDIS. Laurie looks around the neon blue and orange interior, describing it like "a Toyota!". Meanwhile, on the planet Ӊuyάѱacẚnấ, The Master finds a human child, and injects her with a syringe filled with the acid of the "Wildfire" virus. Within moments her skin is grey and bags beneath her eyes, and her arms outstretch. She walks towards another child nearby, a Ӊuyάѱacẚnấn, and bites him. However, he simply passes out from it because Ӊuyάѱacẚnấns are not humans. The Master overjoices that it worked, but is upset that it may not work on 21st century earth, which is what he wants. It may be damaged in the time travel process. Instead, he grabs a large asteroid with holes, and fills it with the acid, he then enters his TARDIS and begins tying it to a railing.

Meanwhile, The Fifteenth Doctor and Laurie Strode have had a good catchup, and have reached 2020 earth. They are in the mountains of Juniper, Wisconsin near the Juniper Lodge at 3:21 A.M., July 5th. They see a lodge, lightly illuminated. A meteor shower is happening, and two young girls are watching from the balcony. The two of them walk towards the lodge, but suddenly stop in their tracks as The Master's asteroid is thrown down. In his TARDIS, The Master cuts the rope, causing the asteroid to collapse on the balcony where the girls were standing. One of them is crushed, and the other screams in terror. She then runs inside and tries to wake the tenants. The Fifteenth Doctor and Laurie Strode rush inside to help the girl, and try taking the elevator. They go by burning floors, and eventually find the right one, but are too late. Both girls have reanimated as zombies, and walk by, but ignore The Doctor and Laurie as they are 18+. Laurie and The Doctor follow them outside. Laurie says she will catch them but The Doctor says she will save people in the building. The Doctor holds a rag over her face and walks in the burning halls, pounding on doors. She gets more out. A 12 year old called Nathan runs towards her, but he gets crushed beneath a burning pillar. He reaches for the doctor, but the (Girl That Wasnt Meteored) second zombie saw him and rushed to him, sitting on his chest and biting into his neck, causing him to scream and attracts the first zombified girl (Meteored Girl). The Doctor remembers the school fire that the Eighth Doctor visited in 1995, where a student named Gabe Everwick tried to help his sister, Kiki Everwick, from burning under a similar pillar. Laurie runs in and drops her glasses, covering her mouth and watching in terror as the two girls tear apart Nathan, pulling out his intestines, pulling off his arms and legs, eating them. Meanwhile, an explosion blows The Doctor and Laurie down the stairs where there is a bloodsplatter where G2 was infected. They then rush downstairs as the last tenants follow them as the building burns. They tell the tenants to run down the hill into the town of Juniper. Laurie and The Doctor climb into The Doctor's TARDIS right as the lodge starts collapsing.

### PART TWO : JULY 16TH, THE BATTLE OF ZOMBUET-DER-TARDIS, AND REGENERATION

One week later. July 16th, 2020. Dozens of zombified children walk around while parents try to get them home or protect the still living kids. It is now daytime, the afternoon. It appears to be a town square, you know the type, fountains, longgggg shortttt staircases and Greek-like temple architecture. The TARDIS lands in the middle of town square. The Doctor and Laurie struggle to get out of the TARDIS. They do. Laurie spots two teenage girls, huddled on top of a statue of Benjamin Franklin, one blond one brown-haired. Some of the zombie children climb on top of another, and begin climbing up the statue. The Tardis Two rush over, and manage to zap the zombified children away with the sonic screwdriver, however one of the infected managed to bite one the blondie's left ankle. The Doctor rescues the two girls after pushing past and they jump on top of the TARDIS. They learn the two girls names-Danica Sullivan and Ashley McEwan, latter is the blondie. The group struggles to get into the TARDIS and pull down Danica and Ashley without them getting bit by the infected. Laurie closes the doors before they can get in, however one gets in. Laurie shoves it into the Zero Room and it pounds on the door. On the stairs, by the wardrobe room door, The Doctor slowly uses her sonic to painlessly remove Ashley's bite and it disappears, afterwards wrapping Ashley's leg in a bandage. The Doctor then studies the effects of bites and etc.

Meanwhile, The Master is spreading numerous asteroids in different years...2000, 1980, 1960, 1946,...etc. Each time he seems to target two fifth grade females at a lodge. It's difficult for him to hurl the asteroids out of the TARDIS and soon The Master has a cauldron of acid.

Back at our TARDIS, The Doctor is asking Danica and Ashley questions about what's happened, and suddenly, Laurie figures out the plan. The children are "time-less" and will not be aging, instead rotting while their soul frozen in time, unable to control the zombified body, but in the POV, and will rot until they shrivel up and wither and die. However, the adults age, and die out. And since the virus infects every newborn baby, it will only be zombies on earth, and the adults will wipe out. Soon, the human race will be gone. Laurie then figures out that The Master has done this, and begins fiddling with the controls of The Doctor's TARDIS, managing to summon it inside of The Master's TARDIS. They find that The Master has already thrown an asteroid as far back as 1860, and causing hundreds of deaths. The Doctor zips her TARDIS to where The Master first decided to throw the asteroids as a plan on the one planet.

She interrupts him mid-throw, causing the future Master to dissapear. 'Why have you done this? Is it solely to wipe out humanity with flesh eating zombies? What's the plan?' asked The Doctor. 'You got it. Simply to wipe out the earth. And I'll control them with this remote-otherwise their souls would take control of it.' answered The Master. 'Oh no, you won't.' responded The Doctor. 'because I'm going to ruin your creation right now, preventing the future.' she continued. Laurie realized something 'But only one injection on a kid will start the virus. He already completed it!'. She then grabbed the vial out of The Master's hand. She then flipped and spilled the acid all over the floor. However, Danica was standing nearby, and some of the acid splashed on her chest, which can't be amputated. Laurie has to make a tough decision, putting her down with a gunshot before reanimation. However, The Master intervenes, saying 'if you REALLY want to save her, you can extract the acid with this-' but he is accidentally shot before he shows an anti-syringe, which would have taken the acid out of her system.

Regeneration energy glows from his chest, but he refuses regeneration. He tries fighting the Fifteenth Doctor, bashing Sonics and punching the hell out of eachother. Ashley turns towards the railing and rips it out with Laurie's help, putting it in a pokey position. The Doctor and Master fight with toy lightsabers while Laurie laughs. Ashley then kicks The Master in the balls and pushes him into the broken railing, impaling him through the gut and dangling him over the balcony. Meanwhile, Danica is laying on the floor of the TARDIS, whimpering, with her skin turning pale grey, and beginning to zombify. Laurie takes the anti-syringe, ejecting the acid from Danica, restoring her and causing steam everywhere. She then asks The Doctor how to destroy the acid. The Doctor says it couldn't handle the TARDIS's power source, the eye of harmony. The four of them go down several hallways carrying the acid with them in a bag. Eventually, they reach an elevated corridor seemingly thousands of feet above the floor, with tilted glass railings. The room is pitch black apart from a light source, a burning circular thing--the eye of harmony. Ashley throws the acid into the eye of harmony, and the acid burns up before contact. The Doctor walks back into the control room, setting the date. They land, and Laurie exits. They are in the mountains of Juniper, Wisconsin near the Juniper Lodge at 3:21 A.M., July 5th. They see a lodge, lightly illuminated. A meteor shower is happening, and two young girls are watching from the balcony. This time, no meteor strikes, and they keep watching the meteor shower until 4:00 A.M. when aurora borealis shows itself in the sky. Ashley, Danica, Laurie, and The Doctor watch happily as Aurora Borealis fills the sky. But they hear the hum of Regeneration energy behind them, as The Master pulls himself off the railing in The Doctor's TARDIS and begins to regenerate outside. The light is blinding, and The Doctor tells her three companions to get inside. They rush to close the doors before they burn, and the windows burst open as golden light comes in, burning the console. After a minute or two it goes away, as The Master pounds on the door in his new body. The Doctor and her three companions take off and leave him there, but the episode ends as we zoom on the Fifteenth Doctor's hand, which has the golden energy of Regeneration coursing through her veins. She and The Master seem to be linked. She sighs and moves on, twisting dials and stuff. Ashley walks down to the corridors and explores the pool, observatory, storage, library, wardrobe rooms, squash court and almost the Toxic Bog but stops in time. Cut back to the console room where The Doctor sits down in a comfy chair, tired, as Laurie watches the screen and Danica changes outfits a floor below luckily not showing us too much. The Doctor takes off her jacket and boots, putting the recliner up. She notices that her hand and feet veins are glowing gold regeneration energy, and then, starting with her wrists and ankles, emits a golden glow resembling flames. The Doctor groans, and twitches slightly. Laurie and Danica look up at the twitching, glowing, Doctor. The closing theme plays as the regeneration veins course up her neck and into her eyes.

## Crew

Showrunner - Chris Chibnall, Thomas Brock

Writer - Thomas Brock

Director - Jack Poster

Producer - Nicholas Briggs

TBA

## Cast

* Fifteenth Doctor - Rakhee Thakrar

* The Master - Mark Gatiss, Christopher Eccleston (last 5 minutes)

* Laurie Strode - Jamie Lee Curtis

* Danica Sullivan - Lola Flanery

* Ashley McEwan - Ruby Rose Turner

* Nathan - Ocean Maturo

* The Balcony Girls - Ava Grace Cooper (BG1) Everleigh McDonell (BG2)

* Ӊuyάѱacẚnấn Child - Lilly Aspell (female) Roman Griffin Davis (male)

* Various Adults and Children - Various Actors & Actresses

## Story Notes

* Jack Poster seemed to develop pedophilia partially through production and also a foot fetish for Flanery, Turner, McDonell and Cooper. Thomas Brock found this out during production of *Trust Me On This!* but couldn't fire him mid-production, so he let him direct that episode too.
* Danica Sullivan and Ashley McEwan were childhood character creations by Thomas Brock, he hadn't forgotten them yet

* Jamie Lee Curtis was busy during the later half of production with Halloween Kills soon to release on Friday, October 15, 2020, so had a less big part.

* Most people see this and AOTC as two separates episode, but truthfully, it was a two-parter! Both had the master trying to wipe out humanity quickly and focused on his regeneration.

### Ratings

Character Ratings were Lowest 17% and highest 100%, average 78%

Set Ratings were Lowest 19% and highest 78%, average 41%

Writing Ratings were Lowest 0% and highest 86%, average 43%

### Filming Locations

Temporary sets, Cardiff, Waterford, California, TBA, etc

### Production Errors

* The regeneration wasn't supposed to happen this episode but Rakhee Fakhar had a seizure, so just, incorporated it.
* The fake railing post that was used for the Mark Gatiss Master regeneration didn't work, but they had limited production time and budget, so could only afford the one take. The result is that some of the fake skin held onto the fake post, looking crappy as hell.