Ouput listing title in my own page.php

I want to output the_title(); or whatever is needed on my listing page. I am doing a custom theme and I cannot work with the default way of doing things. So I have everything working I just need to output the title into my title bar. But the listing page when I get the ID is 0. And echoing the title produces nothing. So what do I need to do. Maybe some kind of $global to make things work? Basically I want to ‘get the page title’ and have that show up on a single directory listing in my page.php file in my child theme.