The Spark

## Behind the scenes

**The Spark** is the first episode of *Doctor Who: Fractured Timeline*.

## Cast

* Daniel Patton as The Irish Doctor
* Áine Coyle as Maggie May
* Stephen McCulla as Mr. Dawson
* Luke Lane as Statikos

## Crew

* Written by - Luke Newman
* Written by - Daniel Patton
* Directed By - Daniel J. Patton
* Directed By - Luke Newman
* Director of Photography - Daniel J. Patton
* Director of Photography - Luke Newman
* Director of Photography - Peter Shiels
* Director of Photography - Cathair Kerrigan
* Edited By - Daniel J. Patton
* Visual Effects By - Daniel J. Patton
* Set Builders - Luke Newman
* Location Manager - Anthony Murney
* Prop Maker - Luke Newman
* Prop Maker - James Sutton
* Music By - Filip Olejka
* Music By - Chris Blackwell
* Music By - Kevin Macleod
* Music By - Blair Mowat
* Music By - Jamie Robertson
* Music By - Luke Newman
* Music By - Duncan Pittock
* Music By - Yasuharu Takanashi
* Music By - Connor Hickling
* Music Provided by - Audio Network
* Archive Foorage by - Video Blocks
* Special Thanks to Peter O’Hanlan
* Producer - Connor Chadwick
* Producer - Áine Coyle
* Executive Producer - Daniel J. Patton
* Executive Producer - Luke Newman

## Synopsis

A new alien threat has come to earth, its time for the doctor to return with his new friend Maggie May.

## Plot

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Maggie May answered a call from Mr. Dawson, who checks if she has a story for this week's broadcast. When admitted on failing to find any leads, he scolds her, reminding that he had gave her two weeks. She argues that she examined all the sources he provided for her only to find nothing coming up. He then apologizes, warning that he will discharge her in two days if her stock of stories remain the same. Desperate and devastated, she begs for another chance, urging him that she is "dead end" on the story. Already gave everyone else stories, he unfortunately has none left for her, unable to provide her assistance.

Once the call got disconnected, she notices the TARDIS flying past her, which went in the sky. Bewildered on what she witnessed, she saw a man teleporting via vortex manipulator before her. He apologizes and explains that the TARDIS is set on automatic flight mode. When she became perplexed on what he said, he rambles on vortex manipulators being cheap before dodging her from experiencing physical impact from the TARDIS as it passes by. He attempts to lock on the vessel before it can cause mayhem. Charmed from her introduction, he introduces himself as "the Doc-" before once again disappearing. Returned once again, he evidently sees the vortex manipulator as decommissioned, finishing his introduction as "the Doctor". About to ask more on his name, she saw him disappear before witnessing the TARDIS dematerializing. Confident, she calls Mr. Dawson of a possible story she has for him.

Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor fiercely questions its need for an autopilot. He then becomes offended on what the TARDIS said, reminding it that they could have decapitated Maggie. Cross with it, he shouts how it could have detected from his tone, telling it that he does it think she likes it, adding that he does not like her very much either. Upset with the Doctor, the TARDIS deploys to a collision course with Earth as he struggles to revoke the action. Seeing the TARDIS' point, he panicky apologizes, prompting it to sever the course, reliving him.

Notified, the Doctor is annoyed of it and checks the monitor, seeing an The Ni Echo article by Maggie May. He became stressed of the article exposing himself to the whole wide world, noting that it can change the course of humanity forever. On a broadcast on April 2017 on a Tuesday, she greets the audience via laptop on the East Iron Coast. Subjecting to other news, she questions if aliens lives amongst them, promoting that she will tell her story of a flying blue box right after the commercial. When she starts to take a break, Mr. Dawson arrives and furiously informed that she is not permitted to mention about aliens and blue box. She argues that this is her story and that it is not required to "smell nice" since it is real news. He remains relentless on his views, ordering her to remove it from the air. Retaliating, she makes it clear that he will say nothing to remove the story. He then unexpectedly fires her, begged by her to reconsider because it deserves to be heard. Uncooperative, Dawson refuses to give her another chance.

After her termination, she packed her notices, notice an electric spark briefly emulating from a flash drive when disconnecting it from the laptop. When Mr. Dawson returns, he offers to shake her hand, but a static shock from his hand emulated through hers that startles her. Suddenly, his eyes glowed, worrying her. He then remarks that she was not supposed to see that. When she denied that she saw anything, he arrogantly caught her lie, not allowing her to leave. She notices he referred to himself as "we", explained by him that he meant him and his new business partner. He insists on introducing his partner, see it as a new "spark" for her new story. Static flows from her computer, generating Statikos (the partner), panicking Maggie to leave. Statikos insists to Dawson on not hunting her as she would not have gone far.