Kill him with kindness

Before I start I'd like to say I've never seen an episode of Doctor Who and only know about it through Youtube shorts so I'd like to pre-emptively apologise for any mistakes I make. However, I believe that the idea that has crossed my mind is best suited in the context of a Doctor Who episode.

What I know about The Doctor is that he is a witty time-travelling alien who solves most conflicts by outsmarting his foes and that his mortal enemies are The Daleks, a race of squid cyborgs that operate murder boxes to move around and are incapable of any emotions besides hate and anger, I also know The Doctor has killed a very large number of Daleks.

I am aware as well that The Doctor has a sort of foil in a character called The Master who is essentially an evil version of The Doctor. I bring this up because these are characters I intend to use for the story.

*THE EPISODE:*

The episode begins with the doctor landing on an alien world and discovering to his surprise, a seeminly kind civilisation of Daleks. He is met by a young Dalek that is eager to meet The Doctor and take them on a tour around city.

The Doctor is incredibly suspicious and eventually ends up letting it slip what he thinks about Daleks and how many he's killed causing him to be arrested by an older sternish Dalek.

He is then put on trial for his actions and is given an public defender, it turns into a political debate as the older Dalek says that The Doctor should be put to death for the first time in this civilisation's history, for the safety of all Daleks (the audience is given the impression that this Dalek is genuinely concerned and is being purely pragmatic). The younger Dalek that showed The Doctor around the city argues that The Doctor is mentally unwell but still capable of doing good and that he should be rehabilitated and given a lighter sentence.

The matter is eventually taken to the highest power in their civilisation, "the one who thaught them the value of kindness".

The doctor is taken to this person who is revealed to be The Master. The Doctor asks what they've done to the Daleks to make them act like this and The Master says that they've done nothing but talk to them. The Doctor is horrified, that's impossible, if it was possible, if there was a way to do that he would've done it ages ago. If there was even a semblance of doubt a Dalek could change he wouldn't have killed so many.

The Master tells the Doctor that all he did was explain to the Daleks, that they're greatest enemy, The Doctor, who is a deeply empathetic person who abhors violence and has only justified killing so many Daleks because they were seemingly implacable, killing machines that could not be reasoned with and that the greatest means of cruelty at their disposal would be to prove him wrong, to prove that they were capable of kindness (if only for the purpose of Cruelty). So the Daleks allowed the Master to create a splinter group of Daleks that were under orders to act as kind as possible.

The Doctor argues that isn't true kindness but the Master says it doesn't matter the intentions, the result is the same, and that the Doctor is wrong nevertheless as each generation of Dalek was created more kind than the previous until eventually the younger ones were kind purely for kindness' sake.

The episode ends with a schism between the Daleks as the older ones eventually break character and try to kill the younger Daleks and Doctor out of frustration (save for a few exceptions such as the older Dalek that arrested The Doctor and his public defender, who had both commited to the goal of being kind). The Doctor is then forced to save the kind Daleks who border on pacificism and refuse to fight against what are essentially their veteran grandparents.

At the end of the episode the Doctor is exhausted and racked with guilt. He tells the younger Dalek that he should be thrown in jail or executed only for the younger Dalek to say they forgive him where it is there place to forgive and that because of the Doctor the good Daleks will one day surpass the bad (though they'll probably never be brought up again).

*CONCLUSION:*

I don't know if any of this is a good idea, I lnow plenty of people are attached to the idea of the Daleks being irredeemable monsters and I don't if any of this has ever been done in another episode or if this even works in the current version of the show but if anyone likes this idea please let me know