The Dalek keeps coming. It's pretty scary, because it's not anything but what it's about. The whole "we can't negotiate" thing is irritating, but only because it's heavily wielded -- the basic issue is scary for sure. What it is, is what it does: exterminate. They shoot and shoot and shoot at it, and upstairs, Goddard's got visual on to see what's happening. The Doctor realizes what the Dalek's doing: "It wants us to see." See? Scary. The Dalek elevates off the floor, fires at the sprinklers in the ceiling, and then exterminates a bunch of people by exterminating the water and electrocuting them. The commander of the squad and another guy stay back from the area, and they fall back, but the Dalek exterminates both of them, too. It stares around at all the bodies and the huge amount of pointless bullets.

Up in van Statten's office, everybody's like, "Whoa." Van Statten finally -- to his credit, he's not cringing, just speaking kind of robotically -- admits that it might be "time for a new strategy," possibly including getting the fuck out of there. Goddard, who has lost hella respect for van Statten in the last few minutes, is like, "Except for the no electricity, idiot?" The Doctor asks about sealing the Vault, and van Statten goes to the computer: "It was designed to be a bunker in the event of a nuclear war -- steel bulkheads --" It's not exactly a triumph of 2012 feminism that Goddard immediately flips over to being the Doctor's assistant instead of van Statten's: "There's not enough power; those bulkheads are massive." The Doctor tells her to reroute the emergency power, and she's like, "But the security codes! It will take a computer genius!" (They call up the Dalek and it's like, "Sounds! Good!") Van Statten's like, "Thank God that I am a computer genius," and he's such a mixed-up mishmash of weird American stereotypes (at one point the writer wanted him in a ten-gallon hat, okay) that we can be forgiven for forgetting that he's also Bill Gates. The Doctor can't believe that he wants to help! Like there's nothing in it for him! But van Statten sets him straight: "I don't want to die, Doctor, simple as that. [And] nobody knows this software better than me." How weird, if you took the cowboy thing, and the Silicon Valley thing, and the corporate monster thing, and the Republican arrogance, and the moustache, and put them all together like this. All you're missing is the delightful world-conquering paternalistic cryptofascist imperialism! No wonder everyone's scared of America. And actually, van Statten's got military or quasi-military on his side too, for some reason, so...