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Doctor Who: The Parting of the Ways (2)

The Doctor's friendship with Rose is put to the ultimate test as the Earth is plunged into all-out war - and the Time Lord is forced to take desperate measures to save humanity from annihilation.


9.5/10 (12 Votes cast)

Episode Info


Episode number: 1x13
Production Number: 113
Airdate: Saturday June 18th, 2005


Alternate Airdates:

Ireland Jun 18, 2005
Australia Aug 13, 2005
US (BBC America) Jun 09, 2006
Germany Jun 01, 2008

Guest Stars
Jo Stone-FewingsJo Stone-Fewings
As Male Programmer
Recurring
Jo JoynerJo Joyner
As Lynda
Recurring
Paterson JosephPaterson Joseph
As Rodrick
Recurring
Nisha NayarNisha Nayar
As Female Programmer
Recurring
Noel ClarkeNoel Clarke
As Mickey (Mickey Smith)
Recurring
Camille CoduriCamille Coduri
As Jackie (Jackie Tyler)
Recurring
Anne RobinsonAnne Robinson
voiced Anne Droid
Recurring
Nicholas BriggsNicholas Briggs
voiced Daleks
Recurring
Barnaby EdwardsBarnaby Edwards
As Dalek Operator
Recurring
Nicholas PeggNicholas Pegg
As Dalek Operator
Recurring
David HankinsonDavid Hankinson
As Dalek Operator
Recurring
Alan RuscoeAlan Ruscoe
As Android
Recurring
David TennantDavid Tennant
As The Tenth Doctor (introducing)
Main Cast
Billie PiperBillie Piper
As Rose Tyler
John BarrowmanJohn Barrowman
As Captain Jack Harkness
Christopher EcclestonChristopher Eccleston
As The Ninth Doctor

Recap

Aboard the Dalek command saucer, the Daleks detect the TARDIS in flight and prepare to open fire. The missiles impact the TARDIS and explode, but Jack and the Doctor dematerialize before impact and rematerialize on the saucer... around Rose and a Dalek. Jack shoots and destroys the Dalek, and the Doctor embraces Rose...

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Episode Notes
Date: 100 years after The Long Game; After Boom Town
Location: The Game Station; London

The Bad Wolf reference in this episode is: Graffiti all over the estate where Rose's mum lives, all saying Bad Wolf

This episode marks the final appearance of the Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and his regeneration into the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant).

Christopher Eccleston (The Ninth Doctor) and David Tennant (The Tenth Doctor) previously appeared in Jude together. They played Jude Fawley and a drunk undergraduate respectively.



Episode Quotes
Dalek 1: You know the Doctor. You understand him. You will predict his actions.
Rose: I don't know! And even if I did, I wouldn't tell you!
Dalek 1: Predict. Predict! PREDICT!
Dalek 2: TARDIS detected, in flight.
Dalek 1: Launch missiles! Exterminate!
Rose: You can't! The TARDIS hasn't got any defenses! You're going to kill him!
Dalek 1: You have predicted correctly.

Jack: The extrapolator's working. we've got a fully functional forcefield. Try saying that when you're drunk.

Jack: One minute, they’re the greatest threat in the universe, the next minute they vanished out of time and space.
The Doctor: They went off to fight a bigger war. The Time War.
Jack: I thought that was just a legend.
The Doctor: I was there. The war between the Daleks and the Time Lords, with the whole of creation at stake. My people were destroyed, but they took the Daleks with them. I almost thought it was worth it. Now it turns out they died for nothing.

The Doctor: It's all right, come on out. That forcefield can hold back anything.
Jack: Almost anything.
The Doctor: Yes, but I wasn't gonna tell them that, thanks.
Jack: Sorry.

The Doctor: Do you know what they call me in the ancient legends of the Dalek homeworld? The Oncoming Storm. You may have removed all your emotions, but I reckon right down deep in your DNA there's one little spark left, and that's fear. Doesn't it just burn when you face me? So tell me, how did you survive the Time War?
Emperor Dalek: They survived through me.

Emperor Dalek: You destroyed us, Doctor. The Dalek race died in your inferno, but my ship survived. Falling through time, crippled but alive.
The Doctor: I get it.
Daleks: Do not interrupt! Do not interrupt! Do not interrupt!
The Doctor: I think you're forgetting something. I'm the Doctor and if there's one thing I can do, it's talk. I've got five billion languages and you haven't got one way of stopping me. So if anybody's going to shut up, it's you! Okey-dokey, so where were we?

Emperor Dalek: Everything human has been purged. I cultivated pure and blessed Dalek.
The Doctor: Since when did the Daleks have a concept of blasphemy?
Emperor Dalek: I reached into the dirt and made new life. I am the God of all Daleks.
Daleks: Worship him! Worship him! Worship him!
The Doctor: They're insane. Hiding in silence for hundreds of years, that's enough to drive anyone mad. But it's worse than that. Driven mad by your own flesh, the stink of humanity. You hate your own existence. And that makes them more deadly than ever.

Jack: It’s been fun, but I guess this is goodbye.
Rose: Don’t talk like that! The Doctor’s gonna do it. You just watch him.
Jack: Rose. You are worth fighting for. (kisses her) I wish I’d never met you, Doctor. I was much better off as a coward. (kisses him) See you in Hell.

The Doctor: There's another thing the TARDIS could do. It could take us away. We could leave; let history take its course. We go to Marbella in 1989.
Rose: Yeah, but you'd never do that
The Doctor: No, but you could ask. Never even occurred to you, did it?

The Doctor: If I'm very clever--and I'm more than clever, I'm brilliant--I might just save the world. Or rip it apart.
Rose: I'd go for the first one.
The Doctor: Me, too.

The Doctor: This is Emergency Program 1. Rose, now listen, this is important. If this message has activated, then it can only mean one thing: we must be in danger, and I mean fatal. I'm dead, or about to die any second with no chance of escape.
Rose: No!
The Doctor: And that's okay, I hope it's a good death. But I promised to look after you, and that's what I'm doing. The TARDIS is taking you home...
Rose: I won't let you.
The Doctor: : ...and I bet you're fussing and moaning now. Typical. But hold on and just listen a bit more. The TARDIS can never return for me. Emergency Program 1 means I'm facing an enemy that should never get their hands on this machine. So this is what you should do. Let the TARDIS die. Just let this old box gather dust. No one can open it, no one will even notice it. Let it become a strange little thing standing on a street corner. And over the years the world will move on, and the box will be buried. And if you want to remember me, you can do one thing. That's all, one thing: Have a good life. Do that for me Rose. Have a fantastic life.

Jack: The Delta Wave. Is it ever going to be ready?
Emperor Dalek: Tell him the truth, Doctor. There is every possibility the Delta Wave could be complete, but no possibility of refining it. The Delta Wave must kill every living thing in its path, with no distinction between human and Dalek. All things will die. By your hand
Jack: Doctor, the range of this transmitter covers the entire Earth.
Emperor Dalek: You would destroy Daleks and humans together? If I am God, the creator of all things, then what does that make you, Doctor?
The Doctor: There are colonies out there. The human race would survive in some shape or form, but you're the only Daleks in existence. The whole universe is in danger if I let you live. D'you see, Jack? That's the decision I've got to make for every living thing. Die as a human or live as a Dalek. What would you do?

Rose: That fight is happening right now. And he's fighting for us, for the whole planet, and I'm just sitting here eating chips!
Jackie Tyler: Listen to me. God knows I have hated that man, but right now I love him. And do you know why? Cos he did the right thing. He sent you back to me.
Rose: But what do I do every day, Mum? What do I do? Get up, catch the bus, go to work, come back home, eat chips and go to bed? Is that it?
Mickey Smith: It's what the rest of us do.
Rose: Well, I can't.
Mickey Smith: Why? Cos you're better than us?

Emperor Dalek: I want to see you become like me. Hail the Doctor, the great exterminator.
The Doctor: I'll do it!
Emperor Dalek: Then prove yourself, Doctor. What are you? Coward, or killer?
(the Doctor considers activating the trigger, then stops)
The Doctor: Coward. Any day.

Rose: I want you safe... my Doctor. Protected from the false god.

Rose: I can see everything. All that is...all that was...all that ever could be.

The Doctor: Rose Tyler. I was going to take you to so many places. Barcelona. Not the city Barcelona, the planet Barcelona. You’d love it. Fantastic place. They’ve got dogs with no noses. Imagine how many times a day you end up telling that joke, and it’s still funny.
Rose: Then why can’t we go?
The Doctor: Maybe you will. Maybe I will. But not like this.
Rose: You’re not making sense.
The Doctor: I might never make sense again. I might have two heads. Or no head! Imagine me with no head. And don’t say that’s an improvement. But it’s a bit dodgy, this process. You never know what you’re going to end up with.
Rose: Doctor!
The Doctor: Stay away!
Rose: Tell me what’s going on.
The Doctor: I absorbed all the energy of the Time Vortex and no-one’s meant to do that (grimaces) Every cell in my body’s dying.
Rose: Can’t you do something?
The Doctor: Yeah, I’m doing it now. Time Lords have this little trick, it’s sort of a way of cheating death. Except… it means I’m gonna change. And I’m not gonna see you again. Not like this. Not with this daft old face.

The (Ninth) Doctor: (his final words) And before I go, Rose...before I go, I just want to tell you: you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And d'you know what? So was I.

The Tenth Doctor: (his first words) Hello. New teeth...that's weird. Now, where was I? Oh, that's right... Barcelona!



Other Episode Crew

Executive ProducerRussell T. Davies  |  Mal Young (1)  |  Julie Gardner (1)
ProducerPhil Collinson
Associate ProducerHelen Vallis
Production DesignerMichael Edward Thomas (3)
EditorGraham Walker (3)
CastingAndy Pryor
First Assistant DirectorPeter Bennett (3)
Second Assistant DirectorSteff Morris
MusicMurray Gold
Costume DesignerLucinda Wright
GripJohn Robinson (3)
Camera OperatorMartin Stephens
Set DecoratorLiz Griffiths (1)
Location ManagerLlyr Morus
Property MasterAdrian Anscombe
Production CoordinatorJess Van Niekerk
Assistant EditorCeres Doyle
Post Production SupervisorMarie Brown (2)
GafferMark Hutchings
On-Line EditorMatthew Clarke (2)
Director of PhotographyErnie Vincze
StuntsDerek Lea (1)  |  Stuart Clarke  |  Tony Lucken
Stunt CoordinatorJamie Edgell
Production ManagementTracie Simpson
Special EffectsDavid Houghton  |  Will Cohen (3)
Script EditorHelen Raynor
Dubbing MixerTim Ricketts
Sound RecordistIan Richardson (3)
Third Assistant DirectorDan Mumford
Boom OperatorDamian Richardson
Art Department CoordinatorGwenllian Llwyd
Main Title ThemeRon Grainer
Production AccountantEndaf Emyr Williams
Best BoyPeter Chester
Casting AssociateKirsty Robertson
ColoristPaul Harrison (3)
ContinuityNon Eleri Hughes
Focus PullerMark Isaac
Graphic ArtistJenny Bowers
Makeup ArtistSteve Williams (3)  |  Claire Pritchard
Dialogue EditorPaul McFadden
A/production AccountantKath Blackman  |  Debi Griffiths
Concept ArtistBryan Hitch
Production BuyerCatherine Samuel
Supervising Art DirectorStephen Nicholas
Standby Art DirectorJulian Luxton
Construction ManagerAndrew Smith (3)
Standby PropsTristan Howell  |  Phill Shellard
Wardrobe SupervisorYolanda Peart-Smith
Production RunnerAnna Evans  |  Debbie Meldrum  |  Tim Hodges
Sound Special Effects EditorPaul Jefferies
Make-up DesignerDavy Jones
Make-up SupervisorLinda Davie
 
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