The Satan Pit

Episode Location: The Impossible Planet or The Bitter Pill, orbiting a black hole.
Aliens/Enemies: The Beast, The Ood
New Characters: Ida Scott, Mr. Jefferson, Zack, Toby, Danny, Scooti
Gadgets Used: The TARDIS, the bolt-gun
Episode Objective: To find the TARDIS, to discover why the planet is able to orbit a black hole without being sucked in, and to save the crew from the Ood and the Beast.

Bullet-point Plot

• The Odd are approaching
• Zack finds himself trapped in the control room
• The others are trapped by the lift shaft
• They are all low on ammunition
• Zack tells Jefferson to get everyone together
• The Doctor and Ida contact the base
• They report that the seal is open
• But the Pit seems to be bottomless
• The Doctor and Ida prepare to be brought up in the lift
• But the power fails
• The Beast begins to speak to each of the humans
• It plays on their secrets, hidden fears and insecurities
• The lift cable snaps, severing communications
• The Doctor and Ida are trapped
• With just fifty-five minutes of air left
• Ida decides to rig up the loose cable
• So she can explore the Pit
• But the Doctor tells her that he will go down
• Rose rallies the others
• Danny comes up with a way to disable the Ood
• By broadcasting a telepathic flare
• Which will reduce their telepathic field to zero
• And disrupt their brains
• However the only way to do this,
• Is to go through the airless maintenance shafts
• Zack says he can extend the oxygen field
• They struggle through the tunnels
• With the Ood in hot pursuit
• Jefferson choses to sacrifice himself
• The Ood almost reach Toby
• But his eyes turn red
• He signals the Ood not reveal his secret
• The Ood pause
• And allow Toby to be rescued by Rose and Danny
• Danny manages to activate the flare
• The telepathic field drops to 'Basic Zero'
• The Ood grab their heads and collapse
• Zack joins them back at the mine shaft
• The Doctor is suspended by the cable down the pit
• He jolts as the line finally runs out
• There is no bottom in sight
• The Doctor decides to detach the cable
• And fall the rest of the way
• Zack, Danny, and Toby plan to leave the base in their rocket
• Rose wants to stay
• But she is sedated and placed on the rocket.
• The Doctor survives his fall by a pocket of air
• He finds himself face to face with a gigantic demon
• It is chained to the cavern wall.
• The Beast appears to be little more than an animal
• The Doctor deduces that he is seeing only the physical form
• As the mind of the Devil is inside Toby
• The Doctor realizes that the planet was the perfect prison
• If the Beast freed itself the planets gravity field would collapse
• And the planet would fall into the black hole
• The loss of the gravity field would also mean the rocket would fall into the black hole
• So Rose would be sacrificed to stop the Beast
• The Doctor claims he believes in Rose
• And then causes the gravity field to collapse
• On the rocket, the runes appear on Toby's skin
• As the Beast takes full possession of him
• Rose grabs Zack's bolt gun and shoots out the glass
• She unbuckles Toby
• Who is sucked into space
• The rocket crew brace themselves for death
• Suddenly, everything becomes still
• And the rocket heads away from the black hole
• The Doctor's voice comes over the speakers
• He tells them that the TARDIS is towing them away
• He was also able to pick up Ida
• But unable to save the Ood.
• The Doctor and Rose reunite in the TARDIS
• Ida asks the Doctor what the Beast really was
• The Doctor replies that whatever he was, they beat it

Best Bits
- In the vent tunnels
- The Doctor and Ida's coversation
- The Doctor vs The Beast
- 'Go to hell'
- Doctor and Rose reunited

Favourite Quotes
The Beast: This one knows me, as I know him; the killer of his own kind.
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The Doctor: That thing is playing on very basic fears. Darkness, childhood, nightmares, all that sort of stuff.
Danny: But that's how the devil works!
The Doctor: Or a good psychologist.
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Danny: It's getting kind of cramped in here, Zack. Can't you hurry up?
Mr Jefferson: Stop complaining.
Rose: Mr Jefferson says stop complaining.
Danny: I heard.
Rose: He heard.
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The Beast: I SHALL NEVER DIE! THE THOUGHT OF ME IS FOREVER, IN THE BLEEDING HEARTS OF MEN, IN THEIR VANITY AND OBSESSIONS AND LUST! NOTHING SHALL EVER DESTROY ME! NOTHING!
Rose: Go to Hell.
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Ida: But, Doctor... you never said. Who are you really?
The Doctor: Oh... the stuff of legends.