Russell T. Davies via BBC BooksIn what looked like it was going to become a recurring theme for Russell T. Davies episodes, he wrote a sequence for Journeys End detailing Davros origins as he did for the Master in The Sound of Drums the year before. During the scenes in the Vault onboard the Crucible, this dialogue would have kicked off Davros origin story.
Rose: What happened to you? I mean your face. Your eyes. What happened? Davros: Are you showing me pity, Miss Tyler? Rose: Someone must have. Once upon a time. Davros (Quiet): Not for so many years. But I was like you, back then. Walking tall, so young and proud. On a world called Skaro. A world at war.
This exchange would have segued into a series of flashback scenes on Skaro where Davros walks on the surface, inspects wounded soldiers in a Kaled hospital (styled and shot like a World War 1 hospital), and is then caught in an explosion that leaves him blinded and scarred. After a cut back to the Crucible, Davros would have proudly proclaimed that the Daleks and their survival stemmed from a single idea and a single man. After a few lines of verbal sparring with the Doctor about this and a comment from Dalek Caan about the Daleks being born out of blood, the episode would cut to the scene with the Meta-Crisis Doctor and Donna aboard the Tardis preparing to wipe out the Daleks seen in the finished episode. This sequence was later cut during rewrites as Russell T. Davies felt that the readthrough of the script dragged too much around those scenes. A decision was most likely for the best because, as intriguing as those scenes would have been, Davros is intrinsically Terry Nations character and no other writer really has the authority to establish an unchangeable backstory for him and bind him to it too firmly.