Doctor Who Christmas Special 2006: The Runaway Bride

The Doctor in his TARDIS as it orbits a supernova, finishes his farewells to Rose Tyler, when suddenly a bride appears in the control room. Both are astounded by this event. Donna, the bride, demands the Doctor return her to the church in Chiswick where she was just in the middle of her wedding ceremony before appearing on the TARDIS. The Doctor tries to return there, but ends up near Oxford Street. Donna storms out of the TARDIS and tries to contact her family through a public telephone, while the Doctor wonders how she could have got aboard. He then notices familiar masked Santas, recognising them as the robotic scavengers from the previous year's Christmas, levelling their weapons disguised as instruments at him; he distracts them by using his sonic screwdriver on a nearby ATM to make it spit out money and causing a crazed rush from the nearby crowd, and then goes off in search of Donna. He finds she has managed to collect some money and is taking off in a cab, though its driver is another one of the robotic Santas. Donna quickly realizes that her cab is not taking her to the church, and discovers that the Doctor has managed to engage the TARDIS in pursuit of the cab along a highway and is able to rescue her. However, such an endeavour has put a strain on the TARDIS, and he cannot use it for some time. The Doctor gives Donna a ring to prevent the Santas from tracking her and tries to learn more about her, learning that she works at a security firm called H.C. Clements, and that that is where she met her husband-to-be, Lance. The Doctor takes Donna to her reception, to the relief of Lance, her family and their friends. The Doctor learns that H.C. Clements is owned by the Torchwood Institute, and that through footage taken by the photographer at the wedding earlier, that Donna was turned into Huon particles, a source of energy that hasn't existed for billions of years, and cannot be masked by the ring he gave her earlier. He finds the reception hall surrounded by the Santas, and that they have rigged a Christmas tree's ornaments to fly off explosively at the crowd. Using the sound system at the reception and his sonic screwdriver, the Doctor is able to shake apart the robots, and trace the source of their control to star-shaped spaceship hanging above the city, but shortly loses its signal.

The Doctor asks Lance to take her and Donna to H.C. Clements, learning that after Torchwood One's dissolution in the Battle of Canary Wharf, someone else took control of the company. The Doctor discovers a basement level not on the floor plans and the three travel to it, finding themselves in a long tunnel that eventually leads to the Thames Barrier. There, the Doctor discovers a laboratory where Huon particles have been manufactured and stored in liquid form. The Doctor determines that Donna was saturated in them, and due to the stress of her wedding day, causes the particles to catalyze and activate, pulling her into the TARDIS' own source of Huon particles. A large hole also extends across the room, the Doctor surmising that it was dug out by Torchwood's laser technology and extending to the centre of the Earth. As they explore, a half-humanoid, half-spider teleports into the lab, which the Doctor recognises being one of the Racnoss, a race thought wiped out billions of years ago by the Fledgling Empires during the Dark Times of the universe. The Racnoss calls itself the Empress, and has fashioned a large web above the pit, where the body of H.C. Clements still hangs. As the Doctor talks to the Empress, Lance sneaks around behind it with an axe, threatening to strike, but quickly reveals that he has been working with the Empress; he had spiked the coffee he gave to Donna every day with Huon particles as to allow them to mature in her, so that the Empress can use their activated energy to regain her ancient power. However, as the Doctor and Donna are targeted by more of the robotic agents under the Empress' control, the TARDIS materializes around them and they escape. The Empress is not thwarted as she knows exactly how to achieve the same result with Lance, and begins to force feed him the Huon liquid while trapping him in her web.

The Doctor takes the TARDIS to the creation of the Earth to learn why the Racnoss has dug into the core of the planet, and finds that a Racnoss spaceship is the actual core of Earth, the rest of the planet forming around it, and that if the Empress were to use the Huon particles, she would be able to reawaken those still on the ship. Armed with that knowledge, he and Donna return to a corridor by the laboratory, but Donna is immediately captured into the Empress' web, while the Doctor is held at gunpoint. The Empress begins to activate the Huon particles and, knowing that her fellow Racnoss will be hungry, severs Lance from the web dropping him into the pit. Meanwhile, the Empress' ship begins to descend towards the city, initially mistaken as a Christmas star before it starts firing on the city. The Doctor manages to sneak back into the laboratory and issues the Racnoss a final offer, to take her and her kind to a planet where they will not threaten anyone. She refuses, and the Doctor reveals himself as from Gallifrey, (his long-gone race having previously defeated the Racnoss). The Empress shrieks in fury, accusing the Time Lords of having murdered the Racnoss, but the Doctor simply tells her that what happens next is of her own doing, and using some of the explosive Christmas ornaments, bursts apart the walls and floods the room with water from the River Thames, drowning the infant Racnoss at the Earth's centre. The Doctor is able to escape with Donna into the TARDIS, while the Empress teleports back to her ship, moments before it is blown out of the sky by tanks under orders of "Mr Saxon".

The Doctor returns Donna home, but she is desolate having lost her job and her fiancé the same evening, and the Doctor uses a burst of energy from the TARDIS to make it snow in hopes to cheer her up, and offers her to join him on the TARDIS. She declines, but encourages him to find someone, recognizing that he had just lost someone himself. The Doctor tells her briefly about Rose, and then disappears into his TARDIS.
Cast
Doctor David Tennant (Tenth Doctor)
Companion Catherine Tate (Donna Noble)
Guest stars
Sarah Parish – Empress
Don Gilet – Lance Bennett
Howard Attfield – Geoff Noble
Jacqueline King – Sylvia Noble
Trevor Georges – Vicar
Rhodri Meilir – Rhodri
Krystal Archer – Nerys
Zafirah Boateng – Little Girl
Paul Kasey – Robot Santa

Production
Writer Russell T. Davies
Director Euros Lyn
Script editor Simon Winstone
Producer Phil Collinson
Executive producer(s) Russell T. Davies
Julie Gardner
Production code 3.X
Series Series 3
Length 60 minutes
Originally broadcast 25 December 2006

Series 3 Episodes: Smith & Jones #1

Originally broadcast
31 March 2007

The Doctor is incognito in a London hospital, pretending to be a patient, to investigate the appearance of plasma coils on the hospital. Martha happens to be a particularly astute medical student.

A brutal mercenary police force, the rhinoceros-like Judoon, who have no jurisdiction on Earth, transport the hospital to the Moon by a H2O Scoop in order to apprehend and execute Florence Finnegan, a shapeshifting bloodsucker (a "plasmavore") who has the ability to appear as whatever species whose blood she consumes. Mrs Finnegan attempts to evade capture by sucking the blood of humans. Her first victim is Mr Stoker, the head doctor, and so she is registered as a human, but is cleverly tricked into sucking the Doctor's blood, believing him to be human. He collapses, unconscious. She is apprehended by the Judoon, pointed out by Martha, and identified as non-human and executed by the Judoon for the murder of the child princess of Padrivole Regency Nine.

Meanwhile before expiring the bloodsucker has modified an MRI scanner to make it destroy all intelligent life on the Moon and on the half of Earth facing the Moon. Martha uses CPR on the Doctor's two hearts and manages to revive him, and he turns off the scanner. Oxygen levels are low and the occupants of the hospital are near death, but as they depart the Judoon return the hospital safely to Earth.

Martha attends her brother's birthday party, but it breaks down into a family row. She notices the Doctor and follows him. He goes to the TARDIS and invites Martha to go on a trip with him as a reward for her help; during this, he refers to Rose Tyler and emphasizes that Martha is not replacing her, and that he prefers to travel alone.

In this episode, Martha's powers of observation and deduction are showcased: when the hospital is on the moon she realises that there must be some kind of force field keeping the air in, for the windows are not well enough sealed to stop the air escaping fast. She also observes, before the crisis, that the Doctor has two hearts, and remembers to perform CPR on both of them when she needs to revive him.

Cast
The Doctor — David Tennant
Martha Jones — Freema Agyeman
Florence Finnegan — Anne Reid
Mr. Stoker — Roy Marsden
Francine Jones — Adjoa Andoh
Tish Jones — Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Leo Jones — Reggie Yates
Clive Jones — Trevor Laird
Annalise — Kimmi Richards
Oliver Morgenstern — Ben Righton
Julia Swales — Vineeta Rishi
Judoon Leader — Paul Kasey
Judoon Voices — Nicholas Briggs

Cast notes
Freema Agyeman previously played Adeola Oshodi in "Army of Ghosts" (2006).
Adjoa Andoh previously appeared as Sister Jatt in the Tenth Doctor episode "New Earth" (2006).
Anne Reid previously appeared as Nurse Crane in the Seventh Doctor story The Curse of Fenric (1989).
Trevor Laird previously appeared as Frax in the Sixth Doctor story Mindwarp (1986).

Series 3 Episodes: The Shakespeare Code #2

Originally broadcast
7 April 2007

A young woman is serenaded from her balcony by a lute-playing suitor, Wiggins. She bids him enter the house, but to his shock he finds it full of witching artefacts. The woman, Lilith, kisses Wiggins — but, on pulling away, he finds her transformed into a wrinkled hag. She introduces her two "mothers", Doomfinger and Bloodtide, who appear, cackling, and lunge at the screaming youth, apparently devouring him.

Meanwhile, the TARDIS lands in Elizabethan London. Martha questions whether it is safe to walk around in the past, citing such time travel concepts as the Grandfather paradox and a reference to the Ray Bradbury short story "A Sound of Thunder"; and also worrying about her reception as a black woman in a time when slavery still exists. The Doctor tells her not to worry. He declares that they have arrived in London in 1599 and takes her to a performance at the Globe Theatre. At the end of the play, Love's Labour's Lost, Shakespeare announces that there will soon be a sequel called Love's Labour's Won. Lilith, using a poppet, influences Shakespeare to declare, rashly, that the new play will premiere the following evening. Martha asks why she has never heard of Love's Labour's Won. The Doctor knows of the lost play and, curious, decides to find out more about why it was never published — and extends Martha's "one trip".

The two go to The Elephant, the inn where William Shakespeare is staying. They chat with the playwright, who intends to finish writing the final scene of Love Labour's Won that night. An instantly beguiled Shakespeare ("Hey nonny nonny!") tries to woo Martha, describing her as "a queen of Afric" or a "Blackamoor lady", which she finds slightly offensive. The Doctor claims she comes from 'Freedonia' to explain her strange clothing and modern attitudes. Shakespeare sees past the Doctor's psychic paper, which the Doctor cites as proof of the man's genius.

Lynley, Master of the Revels, demands to see the script before he allows the play to proceed. When Shakespeare offers to show him the finished script in the morning, the official leaves proclaiming that this slight means he will ensure the play will never be performed. The trio of 'witches' watch the scene in a cauldron. Lilith, who works at the inn, secretly takes some of Lynley's hair and makes another poppet, which she plunges into a bucket of water. The Doctor, Martha and Shakespeare hear a commotion in the street and run out, where they witness Lynley vomiting water. Lilith stabs the doll in the chest, and Lynley collapses, dead. The Doctor calmly announces that Lynley has died of an imbalance of the humours, and privately tells Martha that any other explanation would lead to panic about witchcraft. When Martha asks what did kill Lynley, the Doctor responds, "Witchcraft".

Martha and the Doctor stay overnight at the inn. The Doctor gives a disgruntled Martha mixed signals by casually sharing a bed with her only to then openly bemoan the lack of Rose's insight. Meanwhile, Lilith entrances Shakespeare and, using a marionette, compels him to write a strange concluding paragraph to Love's Labour's Won. She is discovered by the landlady (also the Bard's lover), whom she frightens to death. On hearing another scream, the Doctor runs in and finds the body. Through the window, Martha sees a witch fly away on a broomstick.

In the morning the Doctor, Martha and Shakespeare proceed to the Globe Theatre, where the Doctor asks why the theatre has 14 sides. Shakespeare replies that the architect thought it would make sound carry well and mentions that he eventually went mad and talked of witches. The three then visit the architect, Peter Streete, in Bedlam Asylum. The Doctor helps Streete to emerge from his catatonia for long enough to reveal that the witches dictated the Globe's design to him. He also tells the Doctor that the witches were based in All Hallows Street.

The witches observe this interview through their cauldron. Doomfinger teleports to the cell and kills Peter with a touch. She threatens the other three but the Doctor works out who the 'witches' really are. He names the creature as a Carrionite, which causes her to disappear. The Doctor explains that the Carrionites produce their "magic" through an ancient science based on the power of words.

Back at the Elephant, the Doctor deduces that the Carrionites intend to use the words of a genius — Shakespeare — to break their species out of eternal imprisonment when Love's Labours Won is performed. The Doctor tells Shakespeare to stop the play whilst he and Martha go to All Hallows Street to thwart the witches. Shakespeare bursts on to the Globe's stage to make the announcement, but two of the Carrionites are already there and use one of their dolls to render him unconscious. The actors — thinking Shakespeare has passed out drunk — carry the playwright off stage and the performance proceeds.

The Doctor and Martha reach All Hallows Street and confront Lilith, who is expecting them. She confirms the Doctor's suspicions: the three Carrionites hope to gain entry for the rest of their species, eliminate the humans, begin a new empire on Earth and spread out from there. Martha, mimicking the Doctor's actions at Bedlam, tries to neutralise her by speaking the name Carrionite, but Lilith mocks her, since naming only works once. Instead, she names Martha Jones, rendering her unconscious.

Lilith tries to do the same to the Doctor, but it fails to affect him, as she is unable to discover his real name. She attempts to weaken him by naming "Rose", but he assures her that that name keeps him fighting. Lilith then feigns an attempt at seduction, which brings her close enough to the Doctor to steal a lock of his hair. Taking flight through the window, she attaches the hair to a doll — which the Doctor explains is essentially a DNA replication module — and stabs it in the heart, whereupon the Doctor collapses. Assuming that he is dead, Lilith flies to the Globe. Martha wakes, and helps the Doctor restart his left heart before the duo race to the Globe.

The actors have already spoken the last lines of the play, a series of directions and instructions that have opened a portal allowing the Carrionites back into the universe. The Doctor tells Shakespeare that only he can find the words to close the portal. Shakespeare improvises a short rhyming stanza but is stuck for a final word. Martha comes up with "Expelliarmus" and the Carrionites — together with all the extant copies of Love's Labour's Won — are sucked back through the closing portal. Martha, Shakespeare and the actors from the play are left to take the applause of the audience who believe it all to be special effects. The Doctor meanwhile finds the three 'witches' trapped, screaming in their own crystal ball and appropriates it for safe keeping in a "dark attic" of the TARDIS.

In the morning, Shakespeare flirts once more with Martha...and with the Doctor. He reveals his deduction that the Doctor is not of the Earth and that Martha is from the future, once again proving his genius. For his "Dark Lady", he produces the sonnet, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" in her honour, but is interrupted when two of his actors burst in, heralding the arrival of the Queen. Queen Elizabeth enters, recognises the Doctor as her "sworn enemy" and declares, "Off with his head!" The Doctor is surprised at her outburst, since he says he has not yet met the Queen, but comments that he is looking forward to finding out what he will do to offend her. He and Martha flee to the TARDIS, slamming the door just as an arrow embeds itself in the TARDIS' exterior before dematerialisation.

Cast
The Doctor — David Tennant
Martha Jones — Freema Agyeman
William Shakespeare — Dean Lennox Kelly
Lilith — Christina Cole
Wiggins — Sam Marks
Doomfinger — Amanda Lawrence
Bloodtide — Linda Clarke
Dick — Jalaal Hartley
Kempe — David Westhead
Dolly Bailey — Andree Bernard
Lynley — Chris Larkin
Jailer — Stephen Marcus
Peter Streete — Matt King
Preacher — Robert Demeger
Queen Elizabeth I — Angela Pleasence

Series 3 Episodes: Gridlock #3

Originally broadcast
14 April 2007

Sally Calypso gives the daily travel news to all the cars. Ma and Pa are seated in one of the vehicles. They call the police for help as they are apparently attacked by something from outside. They are placed on hold by the Police computer system, and scream as their car is torn apart.

The Doctor offers Martha one trip into the future, to visit another planet. She asks if he can take her to his home planet, and speculates as to its beauty. He describes Gallifrey's Citadel, mountains, orange sky and other features as if they still existed, but claims he does not want to go home. Instead, he takes her to the year five billion and fifty three, into a dark alleyway where it is raining, and introduces her to New New York in New Earth. The Doctor repeats some things he told Rose the last time he was there. Martha becomes slightly upset when she realises she is being taken to the same place the Doctor took Rose, and mutters the word "rebound".

Meanwhile, the Face of Boe sits in a room with Novice Hame. He tells her to find the Doctor before it is too late. She takes out a gun and leaves. The Doctor and Martha are in a run-down street. Three pharmacists open their market stands and try to sell the Doctor and Martha patches that dispense "moods", particularly Happy. The Doctor is angry, but is intrigued when a young girl buys Forget after losing her parents to "The Motorway".

Suddenly, a young couple armed with guns grab Martha and haul her away, subduing her with a patch inducing Sleep. The Doctor chases them but they escape in their car. The Doctor asks the pharmacists for directions to the Motorway; they comply, but warn him that he may never see Martha again. He tells them to find alternative employment as he promises to shut down their enterprises by that very evening.

Martha wakes up and grabs a gun, only to learn it is a fake. Her kidnappers introduce themselves as Milo and Cheen. Cheen says she is pregnant. Milo explains they only wanted her so they could get on the Fast Lane, which requires three adult passengers. They say they can drop her off when they reach their destination — in six years.

The Doctor arrives at the Motorway, where he discovers thousands of Volkswagen-like hover vans in a traffic jam. He starts to cough and choke from the fumes. A Cat Person invites him into his car, introducing himself as Thomas Kincade Brannigan and his human wife as Valerie. Their kittens, two months old, have never seen sunlight or trod on ground. The Brannigans themselves have been driving for twelve years, and have travelled only five miles.

As Milo, Cheen and Martha head for the Fast Lane, the Doctor calls the Police but is put on hold. Brannigan speaks to some old friends, the Cassini "sisters" (a same-sex married couple), who identify the one car from Pharmacy Town that has gone to the Fast Lane. The Doctor learns that some people have not left their cars in upwards of twenty years. Milo, Cheen and Martha are dropping down to the Fast Lane, but there are strange noises. Cheen tells Martha of stories about cars disappearing but Milo insists they only hear the ventilation shafts.

Brannigan and Valerie refuse to go to the Fast Lane, fearing for the safety of their kittens. The Doctor asks whether they or the Cassinis have ever seen any authorities. The Cassinis reluctantly admit they have not seen any police or ambulances in 23 years of driving. The Doctor believes that the people have been trapped in the under-city and abandoned. Making his own way toward Martha, he opens the shaft on the floor of the car and drops down to the car below. He then moves through several cars, opening the roofs with his sonic screwdriver and continuing through the floor to the car below. In this fashion he meets several characters including hippies, two Asiatic girls, a nude couple and a foppish business man.

Martha's car enters the Fast Lane, but the exits are all closed. A nearby Cat Person driver tells him to escape to the slow lanes above, but Milo does not believe in the danger until he hears the other driver's screams. Meanwhile Novice Hame reaches Brannigan's car and demands to know where the Doctor is.

The Doctor reaches the lower levels, just above the Fast Lane. He clears the fog to discover what's down there; an old enemy — hundreds of Macra. The Doctor explains to the car's driver that the Macra once built an empire, but have since devolved into hungry non-sentient beasts. As Martha's van races along the Fast Lane, the Macra's huge claws attempt to crush it. Reasoning that the light and motion of the vehicle attract the Macra, Martha has Milo turn off the power. It works, but they have only eight minutes of air.

Novice Hame makes it to the car that the Doctor is in. She tells him how she has repented her sins under 'his' guidance, and teleports the Doctor against his will to the upper city. She explains that everyone in the upper city, and indeed the whole surface level of New Earth died because of a virus in the Pharmacists' 'Bliss' drug, but the under city was sealed off and Hame was protected by 'him'. The citizens in the under-city have not been betrayed and abandoned; they have been saved. Hearing a familiar telepathic voice, the Doctor runs to meet the Face of Boe. Hame says the Face has wired himself to the system to keep the lower levels functioning, but they are unable to free the people there. The Face of Boe asks the Doctor to save the people of the Motorway.

Milo's car is running out of air and, despite Milo and Cheen's doubts, Martha says the Doctor will think of something. Milo starts the power up again, giving them air but exposing them to the Macra's grasp. As the car races along, they are briefly caught by one of the claws, but break free.

The Doctor asks Hame to help him restore power, but there is not enough. The Face of Boe, in one last act of self-sacrifice, gives even more of his 'life force' to power the equipment. The Doctor pulls a lever, opening the seal at the top of the motorway. The sunlight beams in, and the Doctor broadcasts to the motorists, telling them to drive upwards and out. This clears the way for Milo's car to escape from the Macra. Meanwhile Hame cries out as the Face of Boe's glass begins to shatter.

Martha arrives at the Senate building where she sees human skeletons, and meets the dying Face of Boe, sprawled out on the ground. The Doctor urges him to live, since (as Boe says) the two of them are each the last of their kind; but the Face responds "Everything has its time". He whispers his secret — "You are not alone" — before dying. An expression of shock and disbelief crosses the Doctor's face as Hame weeps.

Martha and the Doctor arrive back at the alleyway. The Pharmacists are gone. Martha asks what the Face meant, and whether she is why the Doctor is not alone. The Doctor shakes his head; he does not want to talk about Boe's words, but Martha refuses to move until the Doctor tells her the truth. The Doctor admits he is the last of his kind, explains about the Time War and the Daleks, and then goes on to describe Gallifrey. Far above the slums, the over-city thrives with the newly freed motorists. The sun sets orange over New New York as the credits roll.

Cast
The Doctor — David Tennant
Martha Jones — Freema Agyeman
Thomas Kincade Brannigan — Ardal O'Hanlon
Novice Hame — Anna Hope
Milo — Travis Oliver
Cheen — Lenora Crichlow
Valerie — Jennifer Hennessy
Alice — Bridget Turner
May — Georgine Anderson
Whitey — Simon Pearsall
Javit — Daisy Lewis
Businessman — Nicholas Bolton
Sally Calypso — Erika Macleod
Ma — Judy Norman
Pa — Graham Padden
Pale Woman — Lucy Davenport
Pharmacist #1 — Tom Edden
Pharmacist #2 — Natasha Williams
Pharmacist #3 — Gayle Telfer Stevens
The Face of Boe — Struan Rodger

Series 3 Episodes: Daleks in Manhattan #4

Originally broadcast
21 April 2007

A young man, Laszlo, gives Tallulah, a showgirl, a rosebud before her nightly performance. As she leaves to take the stage, he investigates a sound, walks into a dark room, and is attacked by a creature that resembles a humanoid pig.

The Doctor and Martha arrive at the Statue of Liberty on November 1, 1930 and see the uncompleted Empire State Building. The Doctor reads a newspaper headline 'Hooverville Mystery Deepens' about people going missing. They go to Central Park where Hooverville is located. Solomon, leader of Hooverville, tells them that people disappear at night. He asks the Doctor why people can build the tallest building in the world but not help the starving people of Hooverville.

At the top of the Empire State Building, Mr Diagoras, a wealthy and ruthless businessman, orders a foreman to speed up construction on the mast. When the foreman refuses, Mr Diagoras summons one of his 'Masters', Dalek Caan, accompanied by two Pig Slaves. Dalek Caan has the foreman taken away for "the final experiment" and orders Mr Diagoras to recruit more "bodies".

Mr Diagoras arrives at Hooverville to recruit workers to clear a sewer collapse. Intrigued by an admission that people sometimes fail to return, the Doctor accepts the job for $1. Martha goes with him, along with Solomon and a young man named Frank. Mr Diagoras sends them half a mile in, but they find no obstruction, just a green lump of alien flesh. The Doctor examines and pockets it. Next they come across a lone Pig Slave. As the Doctor talks to it, more Pig Slaves arrive, and chase the Doctor and friends.

Mr Diagoras orders the crew working on the Empire State Building to attach strips of metal (taken from a Dalek's 'skirt') to the base of the mast, and to complete the task that night. The workers complain about the unsafe conditions, but comply after Diagoras threatens to replace them. After they leave, Dalek Caan discusses the construction with Mr Diagoras, and mentions that his planet was destroyed in a war, while humans survive across time, building and rebuilding New York City. Mr Diagoras tells the Dalek that he fought in a war; afterwards he promised himself he would survive at any cost, and he has developed a desire to run New York. Noting that Diagoras is most like them in mentality, Dalek Sec orders him to the basement, where he is seized for use in their 'final experiment'.

The Doctor, Martha and Solomon escape the sewers through a manhole, but Frank is captured. The others emerge in the theatre, where Tallulah points a gun at them. She demands to know what they did with Laszlo, who disappeared two weeks earlier. The Doctor gets Tallulah to discard the gun (which was only a prop), and Tallulah tells them about Laszlo's disappearance. The Doctor and Solomon search for equipment the Doctor can use to examine the alien flesh, while Martha and Tallulah compare notes about Laszlo and the Doctor. Solomon confesses that he left Frank behind because he was scared. Solomon then returns to Hooverville, telling everybody about what happened to Frank, and that they must now fight.

Back at the Empire State building, the Dalekanium is finally attached to the mast. And the Daleks are ready to conduct the Final experiment, using Mr Diagoras' flesh. Dalek Sec states that, to survive, the Daleks must evolve. Daleks Thay and Jast question the results of the experiment, arguing that merging with humans (an inferior race) is directly against the Dalek philosophy. Sec counters that, after everything that has happened, there remain millions of Humans but only four Daleks. Dalek Sec intends to sacrifice himself for the survival of the Dalek race, just as Dalek Thay sacrificed the Dalekanium strips from his casing. Dalek Sec opens up his casing and uses his long tentacles to grab Diagoras. He pulls him closer and envelops him in his own body before dragging him into his casing to begin the 'evolution'.

Martha is watching Tallulah's dance number when she notices a Pig Slave watching from the other side of the stage. She tries sneaking behind the dancers to reach him, but he runs away. Noticing that he is more human than pig, she follows him into the prop store, where he disappears down the manhole.

The Doctor studies the alien flesh, and learns its planet of origin: Skaro. He rushes to find Martha, and hears her scream as she is seized by Pig Slaves. He goes down the manhole after her. Tallulah follows him, despite the Doctor's warning. Moments later, he grabs her and hides as a Dalek glides by. The two then find the Pig Slave that Martha saw: Laszlo, who managed to escape the Dalek lab before his alteration into a Pig Slave was completed.

Back in the Dalek lab, smoke billows from Dalek Sec's casing while he shakes violently. His comrades urge him to cancel the experiment, but he refuses and asks for an injection. Dalek Jast plunges a syringe containing a "chromatin solution" into his casing.

Martha is thrust in with a parade of captives, including Frank. They are met first by Dalek Caan, and then Dalek Thay who reports that "the Dalekanium is in place." The Daleks use their manipulator arms to scan their captives' brains as the Doctor hides nearby and watches. Laszlo explains that the "low intelligence" captives become Pig Slaves, while the "high intelligence" ones are designated for 'the final experiment'. Laszlo urges Tallulah to go back without him. The Doctor joins Martha in the high intelligence group as they proceed towards 'the final experiment'. Tallulah runs through the sewers, but gets lost.

The captive party reaches the Dalek lab under the Empire State Building, where Dalek Jast attends to Dalek Sec. The Doctor tells Martha to ask what they are doing; he does not want the Daleks to notice him. Martha steps forward and demands to know what is happening. Dalek Caan tells her she will bear witness to the rebirth of the Dalek race. Dalek Sec's casing opens, and a humanoid creature emerges, with a Dalek mutant-like head and yellow hands, wearing Mr Diagoras' suit. It flexes its new limbs as everyone — including the other three Daleks — recoils in horror. "I am a Human Dalek," it tells them all. "I am your future!"


[edit] Cast
The Doctor — David Tennant
Martha Jones — Freema Agyeman
Tallulah — Miranda Raison
Laszlo — Ryan Carnes
Solomon — Hugh Quarshie
Frank — Andrew Garfield
Mr Diagoras — Eric Loren
Myrna — Flik Swan
Lois — Alexis Caley
Man #1 — Earl Perkins
Man #2 — Peter Brooke
Foreman — Ian Porter
Worker #1 — Joe Montana
Worker #2 — Stewart Alexander
Dock Worker — Mel Taylor
Dalek Operators — Barnaby Edwards, Nicholas Pegg, Anthony Spargo, David Hankinson
Dalek Voices — Nicholas Briggs
Hero Pig — Paul Kasey

Series 3 Episodes: Evolution of the Daleks #5

Originally broadcast
28 April 2007

The hybrid Dalek Sec announces that the captive humans are to be prepared for "hybridisation". Suddenly a radio plays; Dalek Sec comes face to face with the Doctor, who has emerged from the crowd. The other Daleks wish to exterminate him, but Sec orders them to stop. The Doctor asks Sec what it feels like to be human. Sec's response focusing on the traits of ambition, hatred, and war, all traits that humans have in common with Daleks, does not impress the Doctor. The Doctor then tells Sec and the other Daleks that they have achieved nothing with the Final Experiment. They attempt to capture him but the Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver and a radio to emit a high pitched sound, disorienting the Daleks and the Pig Slaves. The Doctor and the captured humans escape, catching up with Tallulah on the way. Dalek Thay remains behind to guard Dalek Sec whilst Jast and Caan, secretly discuss their doubts about Dalek Sec's orders ever since he became part human.

The group arrives back at Hooverville, Solomon advances the possibility that he could reason with the Daleks, but the Doctor explains that because they are vulnerable they have become more dangerous than ever. Soon enough, a watchman sees one of the Pig Slaves, in response the remaining residents form a defensive circle to shoot the Slaves, which are armed only with their tusks and bare hands. Daleks Jast and Caan fly over Hooverville, killing its habitants, allowing the Pig Slaves abduct others. Confronting the few armed survivors, the Daleks prepare to exterminate the humans, as Dalek Sec and Dalek Thay watch from the Empire State Building via visual link. The leader, Solomon, tries to reason with the Daleks, appealing to their sense of mercy. As pure Daleks have none, Caan promptly exterminates him. Sec gasps as Solomon falls to the ground. Furious, the Doctor steps out and demands they kill him too, provided they spare the other residents of Hooverville. Caan is more than willing to oblige him but is ordered to stop by Dalek Sec, who requests that the Doctor return to the Daleks' genetics laboratory. Hesitating, Caan and Jast begrudgingly obey. The Doctor, noting that the Daleks have changed their minds for the first time in history, agrees to be taken to the laboratory on the condition that the Daleks do not kill the residents of Hooverville. Martha asks the Doctor whether she can go with him, but the Doctor refuses, saying that she should help the injured. At the same time, he slips her the psychic paper.

At the lab, the Doctor is furious that the Daleks killed people, even though Dalek Sec wanted the Doctor only. Sec admits that the deaths were wrong and that he admired Solomon's courage. Sec explains to the Doctor how he wants to create a new race with combined Dalek and human DNA by 'formatting' the human brain, ready for information to be loaded onto it, thus ensuring that the Daleks will live on in these new hybrids. As Earth's power generation capabilities are inadequate for the task, Sec plans to use a gamma strike from a solar flare (only eleven minutes away) which will hit the Empire State Building as an energy source, but there are problems which only the Doctor's knowledge can fix. The Doctor has no choice but to help the Daleks. He prepares the gene solution, ready to be fed into the human 'shells'. In the meantime, Sec explains that the new race will have the intelligence of a Dalek, but the emotions of a human. He also states that the Daleks' obsession with universal supremacy must be removed. The Doctor asks Sec about the Pig-Slaves; Sec explains that none survive for more than a few weeks, as Laszlo overhears him. However, seven minutes before the flare, as the gene-solution containing Sec's altered DNA is pumped into the humans, a malfunction occurs. The other Daleks are overriding the system. Dalek Caan leads a mutiny, taking Sec and the Doctor hostage. They propose that Sec is no longer Dalek, or worthy of leadership. Thay and Jast load pure Dalek gene solution into the humans. However, the Doctor and Laszlo escape to the elevator and ascend to the top of the Empire State Building. Dalek Caan orders the Pig Slaves to pursue them and kill the Doctor.

At the same time, Martha, Frank and Tallulah use the psychic paper to gain entry into the Empire State Building. Upon reaching the top floor, they scan the building's blueprints, looking for any changes in design or construction. They discover that plans for the top of the building — where Dalekanium has been added — have been modified. The Doctor and Laszlo arrive, having escaped from the Daleks' laboratory. The Doctor climbs up to the top of the building and starts using the sonic screwdriver to loosen the bolts holding the Dalekanium. However, after removing one strip of Dalekanium and a bolt holding another, he drops the sonic screwdriver; all he can do is hug the pole as the lightning strikes. Meanwhile, Martha has made a makeshift lightning rod from some spare pipes to divert the lightning onto the elevator, electrocuting the Pig Slaves as they arrive.

The Dalek humans awaken, and Dalek Caan designates himself the new leader. Sec angrily states that he was to be the controller, but Caan deems him unfit and orders the Dalek humans to take up arms (Thompsons fitted with standard Dalek laser weapons). The army heads into the sewers, and the Doctor, Martha, Tallulah, Frank and Laszlo head for Tallulah's theatre.

At the theatre, the Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver to let the Daleks know where he is, and a squad of Dalek humans march in. Daleks Thay and Jast come blast through onto the stage, with Sec bound in chains and crawling like a dog. The Doctor tries to tell the Daleks that what they have done to Sec is wrong, because he is the most intelligent Dalek who ever existed. They prepare exterminate the Doctor, but Sec tries to reason with them. When that fails, Sec sacrifices himself by standing in the way of a blast which Thay had intended for the Doctor. The Doctor showed his respect for Sec by calling him the only creature who could have led the Daleks out of the darkness. He then demands that the Daleks order the Dalek humans kill him. Dalek Thay gives the order, but the Dalek humans do not respond. One of the Dalek humans repeatedly questions Thay's orders, and eventually states that they are not Daleks. The Doctor reveals that, because he hugged the pole as the lightning came through, some Time Lord DNA was mixed with the hybrids and gave the Dalek humans freedom. Thay promptly kills the one who questioned his orders, and the other Dalek humans then return fire. Thay and Jast kill several more but are eventually overwhelmed by the sheer volume of fire power. Back in the building, watching via the visual link, Caan states that the Dalek humans are a failure, and commands the Dalek Humans to "destruct". All the Dalek humans suddenly clutch their heads in agony and collapse.

After witnessing this genocide, the Doctor goes to the Empire State Building to confront Caan, both of them the last of their respective species. He offers to help, telling Caan that he is probably the only person in the universe that would show him any compassion. He has already seen one genocide today; he does not want to see another. Caan replies with a cry of "Emergency Temporal Shift!" and, as the Doctor lunges forward to stop him, Caan vanishes.

Laszlo is on his deathbed, his heart is racing and it is getting impossible for him to breathe, so the Doctor starts to work on a solution to save him, stating that "there's been enough death today". Later, Laszlo (still a Pig Slave, but alive and healthy) and Tallulah are in the park. Frank comes and tells Laszlo that he talked to the residents of Hooverville, and that they will take him in and give him a home; as always, Hooverville is the place people can go when they have nowhere else. As the Doctor and Martha are about to enter the TARDIS, Martha says there's somebody for everyone; the Doctor's reply is noncommittal. Martha then asks the Doctor if he thinks he will ever meet Dalek Caan again, and the Doctor responds, "Oh, yes. One day."

Cast
The Doctor — David Tennant
Martha Jones — Freema Agyeman
Tallulah — Miranda Raison
Solomon — Hugh Quarshie
Laszlo — Ryan Carnes
Frank — Andrew Garfield
Dalek Sec — Eric Loren
Myrna — Flik Swan
Lois — Alexis Caley
Man #1 — Earl Perkins
Man #2 — Peter Brooke
Hybrid — Ian Porter
Dalek Voice — Nicholas Briggs
Hero Pig — Paul Kasey
Dalek Operators — Barnaby Edwards, Nicholas Pegg, David Hankinson

Series 3 Episodes: Lazarus Experiment #6

Originally broadcast
5 May 2007

The TARDIS materialises in Martha's flat. The Doctor tells her that they had agreed — one trip and home. It is about twelve hours after they left. Martha's phone rings, but she does not pick it up; it is her mother, Francine, saying that her sister Tish is on the news. Martha turns the television on and, alongside Tish, an elderly man, Professor Richard Lazarus, announces that tonight he "will change what it means to be human." The Doctor says goodbye to Martha and, oblivious to her being upset, steps into the TARDIS. It dematerialises, but quickly rematerialises. "No, I'm sorry, did he say he was going to change what it meant to be human?"

At Lazarus Labs, Professor Lazarus and Lady Thaw discuss the need for the experiment to work, with Thaw mentioning that Mr Saxon is funding their research. Tish comes in and Lazarus attempts to flirt with her.

The Doctor and Martha attend Professor Lazarus' reception that evening, as do Martha's mother and her brother Leo. Martha introduces the Doctor to her family; Francine is suspicious of him. Lazarus announces he is to perform a "miracle", and steps into the manipulator's capsule. As technicians operate the machine, the Doctor notices that the system is overloaded and jumps in to avert disaster. Lazarus emerges, looking decades younger. Despite the momentary crisis, his experiment appears to have been a success — but the Doctor is certain there are dangers the professor has overlooked. Lazarus scoffs at the Doctor's warnings and tells the Doctor that "In a few years you'll look back and laugh at how wrong you were", so the Doctor and Martha sneak off to conduct their own tests, taking a DNA sample from Martha's hand, which Lazarus has just kissed. They see that his sonically "hacked" DNA is unstable: Lazarus is changing.

Meanwhile, Lazarus speaks with Lady Thaw. She wants to be the next to be rejuvenated, and to continue their partnership both personally and professionally. He rejects her. As she threatens to complain to Mr Saxon, Lazarus' financial backer, he transforms into a monstrous scorpion-like humanoid and kills her.

Downstairs, Francine asks Tish and Leo whether Martha has ever mentioned the Doctor to them before. She worries there is "something going on". Lazarus returns to the reception, apparently human and wearing a different suit, and invites Tish upstairs with him.

The Doctor and Martha find Lady Thaw's body; the Doctor says she had all the life energy drained to supply energy to the processes caused by Lazarus' fluctuating DNA. Worried he will kill again, they go back downstairs, only to learn that he has gone off with Tish. They rush off, the Doctor accidentally spilling a drink on Francine. Another man replaces her drink, and darkly warns that Martha should be more careful in choosing her friends.

Lazarus takes Tish to the roof, where he talks about nearby Southwark Cathedral and quotes T.S. Eliot, a quote the Doctor completes. As they argue, Martha gets Tish away from Lazarus before he transforms again into a monster. The Doctor comments that what Lazarus has transformed into is an accidentally-unlocked evolutionary dead-end lying dormant in human genes. They run away, tripping a security lockdown. The Doctor gives Martha the sonic screwdriver to unlock the doors, and warns everyone at the reception to get out; but Lazarus kills one woman and Leo suffers a concussion. The Doctor draws Lazarus away from Francine. Lazarus chases the Doctor down a corridor.

Martha examines Leo, gets everyone out of the building, and goes back inside to help the Doctor despite Francine's protests. Tish guesses that "maybe she loves him". The man who replaced Francine's drink earlier calls the Doctor "dangerous", and whispers in Francine's ear the things he says she "should know" about him.

The Doctor turns on the gas in a lab and leaps away from the resulting fireball, but the Lazarus monster survives. Martha returns the sonic screwdriver to the Doctor. They flee together into the capsule of Lazarus' machine, on the Doctor's hunch that Lazarus is unlikely to destroy his own creation. Instead, Lazarus turns it on. The Doctor "reverses the polarity" so that it affects the outside of the capsule instead of the inside, apparently killing Lazarus and causing him to revert to his human form.

Outside, as the ambulance carrying Lazarus' body pulls away, Francine slaps the Doctor, and tells him to keep away from Martha. The Doctor hears the ambulance crash and rushes toward it, followed by Martha and Tish. They find two more of Lazarus' victims in it; Lazarus has come back to life. They find him in human form inside Southwark Cathedral, where as a child he took refuge during the London Blitz. The Doctor says he was present during the Blitz, but Lazarus says that he is not old enough to have been there. They argue again about the benefits and curse of longevity. Martha (accompanied by Tish) then lures Lazarus away to the top of the bell tower; the Doctor told her earlier that Lazarus could be defeated if he could just get him up there. As the Lazarus monster chases the Jones sisters at the top of the cathedral, the Doctor pulls out all the stops on the pipe organ, inserts the sonic screwdriver, and plays it at maximum volume, setting up a resonance in the bell above Lazarus that interferes with his sonic-based experiment. In a swoon Lazarus falls to the cathedral floor below, transforming one last time — back into the elderly man he once was.

Back in Martha's flat, the Doctor offers Martha one more trip, but Martha refuses to go with him on that basis, as a mere passenger being given a treat. The Doctor says "Okay, then, if that's what you want." She thinks he means to leave her again, but he indicates with a nod that she is welcome to rejoin him on her terms, and admits she was "never really just a passenger". They leave together in the TARDIS. As it disappears, Martha's phone rings; it is Francine. She warns Martha about "who this Doctor really is", saying, "This information comes from Harold Saxon himself. You're not safe!"

Cast
The Doctor — David Tennant
Martha Jones — Freema Agyeman
Tish Jones — Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Leo Jones — Reggie Yates
Francine Jones — Adjoa Andoh
Professor Richard Lazarus — Mark Gatiss
Lady Thaw — Thelma Barlow
Party Guest — Lucy O'Connell
Mysterious Man — Bertie Carvel

Series 3 Episodes: 42 # 7

Originally broadcast
19 May 2007

In the TARDIS, the Doctor adjusts Martha's mobile phone, enabling it to call anywhere in time and space — an ability he refers to as Universal Roaming, a "frequent flyer's privilege". As she is about to telephone her mother, Francine, they materialise on a very hot spaceship (in answer to a distress signal), and the Doctor notes that the engines are not operating. They open the door to the next room and are pulled through by three members of the crew, who then slam the door shut. The captain, McDonnell, explains that the engines have cut out and left the ship on a crash course with a local star. A nearby monitor announces that the projected time until impact is 42 minutes. The Doctor suggests evacuating the crew on the TARDIS, but the ship has begun venting excess heat through the room it materialised in, rendering it unreachable.

The Doctor organises Martha and one of the crew to open a series of password-protected doors in order to access the control room where the auxiliary engines can be activated. Meanwhile the others move to the main engine room, to try to fix the systems. The Doctor finds that all the engine-related machinery has been destroyed, and comments that someone "knew what they were doing."

There is a call from Abi, a medic, to say that Korwin, McDonnell's husband, is having some sort of seizure. McDonnell runs up to the MedCenter with the Doctor following close behind. They go to find Korwin lying near a stasis chamber with his eyes closed, screaming in agony, crying "It's burning me!" before the Doctor sedates him. Upon sedation the Doctor instructs Abi to test Korwin to find out what is wrong with him; then the Doctor and McDonnell return to the rest of the crew.

While updating the crew on Korwin's status, the crew hears Abi's screams for assistance as Korwin gets up and backs Abi against the wall, saying in a deep voice, "Burn with me". As he opens his eyes, a blinding light comes out and Abi screams in terror. Korwin then takes a type of welding mask and puts it on to control when he vaporises somebody.

The Doctor runs to Abi's aid telling everyone else to keep working on the engine. McDonnell and Scannell ignore his demand and follow him, Scannell saying that he only takes orders from one person. At the same time, Martha and Riley continue to open doors by answering questions set by the crew, years previously. To answer one of these questions, Martha has to ring her mother and argues with her until her mother looks up the answer on the Internet. Meanwhile, the Doctor finds the imprint of Abi and concludes that she was vaporised. He reasons that Korwin has been infected in some way by something, and can vaporize people somehow.

McDonnell is at first unwilling to believe that Korwin could be responsible for sabotaging the ship and killing Abi, but then relents and alerts the rest of the crew to avoid him. Ashton, working on the engines, sends Erina a message asking for more tools. She mutes the sound and mutters under her breath about the injustice of being sent on every errand as she goes to the control cupboard. She sarcastically ends her spiel with "just kill me now." When Erina closes the door, she turns to find Korwin standing there. He backs Erina against the wall as he did with Abi, and vaporizes her. Korwin goes on to find Ashton, saying "they are getting too far", and proceeds to infect Ashton too. Ashton then puts on an identical welding mask. He goes after Martha and Riley — the ones who were "getting too far" — who, in terror, lock themselves in an escape capsule.

Ashton tries to override the system in order to send Martha and Riley plummeting towards the sun, but Riley is trying equally hard inside the capsule to stop this from happening. Ashton finally simply destroys the system, which makes the capsule Martha and Riley are stuck in plummet towards the sun. The Doctor gets there seconds too late, but decides not to give up. He puts on a space suit and tells Scannell he is planning to pull the capsule back to the ship by setting the magnetic pull off, a system that is outside the ship.

In the capsule, Martha implores Riley to have faith in the Doctor, wondering why he has not found anyone in his life to have faith in — his family is all but gone and he has no romantic attachments. Resigned to her fate, Martha phones Francine once more and, unwilling to divulge her predicament, instead tells her mother that she loves her and tries to get her to simply converse about her life, until Francine's probing of whether the Doctor is with her causes a tearful Martha to end the call. Unknown to Martha, Francine was knowingly having her call monitored on a computer by a woman sitting in her living room, dressed in a suit.

Meanwhile, with some difficulty, the Doctor manages to press the magnetic pull control buttons on the side of the ship. Climbing back into the ship, he looks at the sun and stares into it, realising that it is alive, before he too is infected by the same entity as Korwin. Martha and Riley come back to the ship grinning until they see the Doctor in agony. When they try to see what is wrong with him, his eyes burst open, showing the deadly haze of light that appears in the others when they vaporise someone, and the Doctor snarls at them to stay away. McDonnell arrives and the Doctor angrily explains to her that because she illegally mined the sun for fuel, without checking for life signs, she has seriously injured the living being within the sun. He tells them that the sun is alive in him, and tells them how they can save/stop him. He has his eyes shut, like Korwin, and asks the two women to place him into a cryogenic stasis machine to get the sun entity out of him. He tells them that if it does not work the sun entity will use him to kill everyone on board the ship. Before he goes in he cries for Martha to stay with him, telling her that he is scared. He tries to tell Martha about a process which may happen as she tries to assure him that he will not die.

Martha starts the freezing process but it is interrupted by Korwin, who turns off the power to the stasis chamber from the engineering department. The Doctor then tells Martha that she must go to the front of the ship and jettison the fuel, which will return the living particles back to the sun. Martha runs to tell the rest of the crew to jettison the fuel while the defrosted Doctor appears to lose the fight against his possession, collapsing onto the floor and snarling "Burn with me, Martha". Elsewhere, a shocked McDonnell encounters Korwin. She admits to Korwin that this was all her fault and lures him close to an airlock. She tells him that she loves him and apologises to the rest of the crew through her radio, then opens the airlock and the two of them are sucked out into space in a final embrace. Martha tells the rest of the crew to vent the fuel, which ends the crisis by replenishing the sun and freeing the ship from its gravitational pull, and also ends the sun creature's control over the Doctor.

The Doctor and Martha head back to the entrance of the TARDIS, where Martha kisses Riley goodbye. Inside the TARDIS, Martha tries to speak to the Doctor but he is caught up in his own thoughts. He snaps out of it with his usual energy but Martha is upset as she can see that he is hiding his real feelings. The Doctor then thanks Martha sincerely for saving him and, as a further sign of acceptance, gives Martha her own key to the TARDIS (another "frequent flyer's privilege"). Martha calls her mother back, who invites her over for tea and informs her that it is Election Day. Martha accepts, assured that the Doctor will bring her home in time. After Martha hangs up, we see the woman, and two other men, tapping Francine's phone again. Confiscating the phone, the woman asks Francine if she has voted. Francine replies "Of course. Just don't expect me to tell you who for". The woman thanks her for all she has been doing, saying "Mr Saxon will be very grateful."

Cast
The Doctor — David Tennant
Martha Jones — Freema Agyeman
Francine Jones — Adjoa Andoh
Kath McDonnell — Michelle Collins
Riley Vashtee — William Ash
Orin Scannell — Anthony Flanagan
Korwin — Matthew Chambers[3]
Abi Lerner — Vinette Robinson
Dev Ashton — Gary Powell
Erina Lessak — Rebecca Oldfield
Sinister Woman — Elize du Toit
Voice of countdown — Joshua Hill

Series 3 Episodes: Human Nature #8

Originally broadcast
26 May 2007

The story is told partly in flashback to scenes in which the TARDIS is being pursued, under attack using some kind of energy beam weapon. The Doctor tells Martha that those who are pursuing him could trace him across the universe, and he must undergo a transformation to turn him into a human. His pursuers are dying, the Doctor says. His plan is to transform into a human for three months, by which time those beings should all be dead. His Time Lord configuration is stored in a fob watch and Martha is charged with guarding it.

As a human, John Smith, the Doctor becomes a schoolteacher in Farringham School in England before the Great War. The story picks up two months into his human life. Smith is unaware of his previous life as a Time Lord, and his character is quiet, a little timid and introspective. He has dreams of being a Time Lord and sometimes sketches them in a notebook, his "Journal of Impossible Things". Martha (who is aware of what is happening and remembers everything) is his maid.

His pursuers, who refer to themselves as the Family, show up on Earth in an invisible spaceship and take over the body of a school prefect who stumbles upon their ship while digging up a hidden cache of beer. They have scarecrow-like creatures as their henchmen, who round up more victims, a young girl holding a balloon and a farmer, to use as vessels.

Smith is cajoled by the school nurse, Joan Redfern, to attend a dance. Martha is distraught as she realises that he has fallen in love with a human, particularly someone other than Martha herself. The Doctor left recorded instructions telling her what to do in nearly any eventuality. One of these was "Don't let me abandon you". But his instructions did not foresee that he might fall in love.

Meanwhile, one of Smith's pupils, Timothy Latimer, who has previously demonstrated extrasensory perception in an encounter with other students, finds and takes the fob watch, having heard the Doctor's thoughts despite the perception filter the Doctor had placed on it. When he briefly opens the watch, the Family sense that the Time Lord they are hunting is located somewhere within the school. Capturing and possessing a friend that Martha has made whilst working as a maid, one of the Family attempts to question Martha, but she escapes. Martha realises she must bring the Doctor back, but the watch is gone, without which she cannot restore him. Shocked by Martha's bizarre claims (and a slap to the face), Smith fires her.

The climax comes at the dance. Martha retrieves the sonic screwdriver and rushes to find Smith there, hoping the familiar object from his other life will help convince him. Meanwhile the Family arrive, one of them having overheard Martha trying to convince Smith he is the Doctor. They kill two people and then take Martha and Joan hostage, demanding that Smith "change back" into a Time Lord. Still believing he was born human, Smith does not understand the Family's words. In a cliffhanger ending, he is further horrified when they tell him to choose whom they should kill: "Maid or matron, your friend or your lover. Your choice."

Cast
Smith/The Doctor — David Tennant
Martha Jones — Freema Agyeman
Joan Redfern — Jessica Hynes
Jeremy Baines — Harry Lloyd
Tim Latimer — Thomas Sangster
Hutchinson — Tom Palmer
Rocastle — Pip Torrens
Jenny — Rebekah Staton
Mr. Clark — Gerard Horan
Lucy Cartwright — Lauren Wilson
Phillips — Matthew White
Doorman — Derek Smith
Mr. Chambers — Peter Bourke

Series 3 Episodes Family of Blood # 9

Originally broadcast
2 June 2007

As the Family of Blood holds Martha Jones and Joan Redfern captive, John Smith stands by helplessly. Tim Latimer briefly opens the fob watch containing the Doctor's essence, thus confusing the Family with the Doctor's scent. This allows Martha to grab a gun from the Mother, take her hostage and point the gun at the Son, who points his gun at Martha. Eventually the Family members lower their weapons, and Martha tells Smith to evacuate the building. After everyone has left, an animated scarecrow grabs Martha and retrieves the gun. She escapes and runs outside, where she finds Smith and berates him for not running away. The watch still tells Latimer to keep it hidden.

Smith, Joan, and Martha race back to the school and Smith sounds the alarm. The Father investigates Martha's past movements while the rest of the Family return to the school. They send the Sister inside to spy on the school's inhabitants.

Inside the school, Martha argues with Smith about having the students fight, but Smith says that they are trained to defend King and Country. Headmaster Rocastle enters, initially angry, but approves Smith's actions upon hearing that Baines (the Son) and Clark (the Father) have gone insane and are chasing them, and that people have been murdered. The headmaster and Smith arm the boys and prepare for battle. Unable to stop them, Martha races to Smith's room to search for the watch, followed by Joan. Joan slowly comes to believe the origins of Martha and the Doctor. Latimer hides with the watch.

Rocastle and Phillips head outside to assess the situation. The Son demands that John Smith be handed over along with his Time Lord consciousness, and mocks Rocastle for teaching children to fight in the war that the Son knows is coming. Rocastle states his devotion to King and Country. The Son vaporizes Phillips. Rocastle runs back into the school, where he and Smith resume battle preparations, ordering the boys to set up barricades and a line of machine guns to repel the Family. The Son summons his scarecrow "soldiers". The Father finds the TARDIS. Joan asks Smith about his Nottingham childhood, noting that his knowledge is confined to facts. "How can you think I'm not real?" he protests. She argues that whoever he is, he knows it is wrong to have the boys fight.

The Sister finds Latimer, who beams the Time Lord consciousness out of the watch, striking her with an image of the Doctor at his most merciless. This betrays his position, and the Family send their scarecrow army in to bring out the watch. This army's first line is machine-gunned, but Smith finds himself unable to fire. The Sister appears and Rocastle thinks she is merely a girl and should be brought into the school for her own safety, despite warnings from Martha, Joan and Smith. The Sister kills Rocastle, then taunts the defenders about their unwillingness to harm her. Smith instructs the boys to make an orderly retreat, but the Family and their scarecrows chase them and line them up to look for the watch. Finding that none of them have it, they are about to massacre the boys when Latimer sends a beam from the watch on an upper floor. This distracts them, and the boys get away. Latimer escapes out a window.

The Family bring the TARDIS to the school, and taunt Smith (who is watching from the adjoining woods) to come to them. Smith denies having seen the TARDIS before, but Joan recognizes it as the blue box in Smith's journal. No longer able to deny the Doctor's existence, Smith pleads desperately to remain himself. The Family return to their ship and use their alien technology to bombard the village in an attempt to hasten Smith's surrender.

Smith, Joan and Martha retreat to the Cartwrights' empty cottage, Joan having deduced that the Sister killed her human host's parents earlier in the day. Latimer arrives soon after, watch in hand. He says he has seen the Doctor, and describes him as both fearsome and wonderful. After Smith takes the closed watch, it causes him to speak in the Doctor's voice for a moment, explaining Latimer's telepathic abilities as being due to "an extra synaptic engram". Smith is horrified. Martha tries to convince Smith to open the watch and change back, saying that she loves the Doctor to bits and that he is needed—then says she hopes the Doctor won't remember what she says now when he returns to normal. Smith sees the prospect of his transformation back to the Doctor as his own suicide and accuses Martha of wanting him to become the lonely man she described the Time Lord as being. Joan then asks Latimer and Martha to leave her and Smith alone for a while. Smith has an agonised discussion with Joan over their future. Holding the watch together, they share a vision of how Smith could live out his life if he remained human: marrying Joan, having children, becoming a grandfather, and dying peacefully and contentedly at home with Joan at his bedside. Joan, having discovered from Smith's journal the awful consequences of the Family gaining what they seek, realises that however desperately she loves John Smith and wants to keep him, Smith needs to become the Doctor once again.

Smith appears at the Family's ship and stumbles into things as he gives up the watch in return for the Family stopping the bombardment (and, apparently, to preserve his human identity). When they open the watch in triumph, they find it empty. Smith has changed back into the Doctor, misdirected their senses so as to seem human, and in falling around pushed buttons that cause the spaceship to overheat and destroy itself. The Family and the Doctor escape, but the Son narrates the fate that befalls the Family afterward. He now realises that the Doctor made himself human out of kindness to the Family; he would have preferred that they die out peacefully. After all the death they caused, however, he deals out the ultimate punishments to them. They wanted to become immortal by absorbing a Time Lord, and then conquer across time and space, and so the Doctor grants this wish in other ways: he traps the Father in chains forged at the heart of a dwarf star, the Mother in the event horizon of a collapsing galaxy, the Sister in every mirror in existence. (It is said that whenever one sees something moving in the mirror, even for a second, it is she. The Son also states that the Doctor visits her once a year, every year, indicating that the narration is taking place some years after the events of this story.) Finally, the Doctor suspends the Son in time, and dresses him as a scarecrow to watch over the fields of England as its protector.

The Doctor then visits Joan, who has resigned herself to the reality that her beloved "John Smith" is gone. The Doctor states that although he will not transform himself back into Smith, Smith still exists within him, and he claims he is capable of everything that Smith was, but she is not prepared to accept it. He suggests they could start over and invites her to travel with him, but Joan refuses to go with the stranger who resembles her dead lover. She accuses him of causing the deaths around the school, by having chosen their time and place to hide from the Family, and sends him away. She watches him leave and then starts to cry, clutching Smith's A Journal of Impossible Things to her chest. The Doctor returns to the TARDIS, where Martha awaits him. She nervously brushes off her earlier confession of love as an act of desperation, which he seems to accept. He thanks her for looking after him and they hug.

Latimer shows up to see the Doctor and Martha off. He states that he understands about the coming war and knows what he must do, is given the now-empty watch by the Doctor, and watches the TARDIS leave. Latimer later saves Hutchinson and himself on the Western Front, based on his premonition in the previous episode. The scene then cuts to the future, when an elderly, wheelchair-bound Latimer attends a Remembrance Sunday commemoration, still holding the watch. The Doctor and Martha observe from a distance, wearing artificial poppies.The travelling pair and Latimer silently acknowledge one another as the service continues.

Cast
Smith/The Doctor — David Tennant
Martha Jones — Freema Agyeman
Joan Redfern — Jessica Hynes
Jeremy Baines — Harry Lloyd
Tim Latimer — Thomas Sangster
Hutchinson — Tom Palmer
Rocastle — Pip Torrens
Jenny — Rebekah Staton
Mr. Clark — Gerard Horan
Lucy Cartwright — Lauren Wilson
Phillips — Matthew White
Vicar — Sophie Turner

Series 3 Episodes Blink #10

Originally broadcast
9 June 2007

The episode, set mainly in 2007, focuses upon Sally Sparrow, who breaks into a dilapidated house called Wester Drumlins to take photographs. There she discovers behind the peeling wallpaper a message from "the Doctor" dated 1969, calling her by name and telling her to "beware the Weeping Angels" and then to "duck now", just before an object launched from behind nearly hits her.

She returns the next day with her friend, Kathy Nightingale. A man soon arrives at the door with a decades-old letter from his grandmother, saying he had promised to deliver it to Sally on this date at exactly this time. The name of his grandmother was Kathy Nightingale. Thinking this is a prank, she searches for Kathy, who has just disappeared. Sally encounters three Weeping Angel statues, one holding a Yale key. She takes the key and leaves the house, unaware that the Angels have moved and are watching her from the windows.

Sally reads the letter, wherein Kathy explains that the Weeping Angels transported her back to 1920. The letter asks Sally to explain her absence to her last close relative — Kathy's brother Larry, who runs a store that sells rare DVDs. Larry has also discovered a message from the Doctor, which features him carrying on half of an unfathomable conversation, as an easter egg hidden on seventeen unrelated DVDs. Larry gives Sally a list of the DVDs that have the Doctor on them.

Sally goes to the police, where a Detective Inspector, Billy Shipton, shows her a car park full of abandoned vehicles found at Wester Drumlins, including a fake police box with a Yale lock that cannot be opened. Billy then begins to flirt with Sally, asking her to have a drink with him. She laughs, gives him her telephone number and leaves. Outside, Sally realises that the Yale key could be used to open the police box while inside, Billy is transported by the Weeping Angels to 1969. The Doctor finds him and asks him to deliver a message to Sally once he lives his way back to the present: that she should check the list of DVDs. Stuck in the past, Billy goes into the video business and reveals to Sally that he was responsible for adding the easter eggs. In 2007, Billy calls Sally and she meets him in a hospital. He is now an old man, although he still loves her. He gives her the Doctor's message and she stays with him until he dies shortly after.

After realising that the list exactly matches her own DVD collection, Sally and Larry enter Wester Drumlins, and watch the Doctor's message on a DVD. This time Sally provides the other half of the conversation, which Larry adds to a transcript he brought with him. The Doctor explains several things: he has a complete transcript of the incomplete conversation, which is possible due to the non-linear nature of time; and that the Weeping Angels are "quantum locked", meaning they turn to stone when observed, but when unobserved they are fast and can be deadly, hence it is of utmost importance that she does not blink. He also tells them that the Weeping Angels feed off of time by teleporting people to the past where they "live to death" and then feed off of the time the victims could have had. They stole the TARDIS from The Doctor and Martha to feed off of all of the time energy in it.

While trying to escape from an Angel in the room they are watching the DVD in, Larry and Sally discover the TARDIS in the cellar. Unwilling to let their prey escape, the Angels cause a light bulb, the room's only light source, to flicker, allowing them to draw closer to the TARDIS. Larry and Sally manage to get into the TARDIS and shut the doors, just as the Angels manage to surround it. The DVD that Larry and Sally brought with them activates a protocol in the TARDIS, causing it to return to the Doctor. Sally and Larry are left behind, leaving the Angels trapped forever in a circle, tricked into observing each other.

The final scene takes place a year later, with Sally and Larry running the DVD store together. The Doctor and Martha emerge from a taxi outside the shop, armed with bows and arrows, apparently in pursuit of an unidentified monster. When the Doctor fails to recognize Sally, she realizes he has not yet experienced the episode's events (causing an ontological paradox), so Sally gives the transcript and list of DVDs to the Doctor. Sally, Larry and the Doctor exchange goodbyes. The episode ends with a repeat of the Doctor's warning to Sally, this time directed at the viewer, overlaid with flashes of famous bronze and stone statues.

Cast
The Doctor — David Tennant
Martha Jones — Freema Agyeman
Sally Sparrow — Carey Mulligan
Kathy Nightingale — Lucy Gaskell
Larry Nightingale — Finlay Robertson
Malcolm Wainwright — Richard Cant
DI Billy Shipton — Michael Obiora
Old Billy — Louis Mahoney
Ben Wainwright — Thomas Nelstrop
Banto — Ian Boldsworth
Desk Sergeant — Ray Sawyer
Weeping Angel — Aga Blonska (uncredited, but listed in Radio Times article)[3]

Cast Notes
Louis Mahoney plays an elder Billy Shipton. He has previously appeared in the Third Doctor serial Frontier in Space (1973) as a newscaster, and the Fourth Doctor serial Planet of Evil (1975) as Ponti.

Series 3 Episodes Utopia #11

Originally broadcast
16 June 2007

The TARDIS lands in Cardiff to refuel from the Rift. The Doctor states that this will only take twenty seconds (in contrast to his previous visit), noting that the Rift has been active recently. Captain Jack Harkness races towards the TARDIS, grabbing onto it as it dematerialises, causing it to hurtle out of control to the end of the Universe.

After landing in the year 100 trillion on the planet Malcassairo, the Doctor and Martha find Jack, apparently dead from travelling through the vortex. Moments later he revives. After confronting the Doctor about abandoning him on Satellite 5, Jack asks about Rose Tyler, and is told she is living with her family on a parallel world. Jack reveals that he returned to Earth using a vortex manipulator, but was stranded in the 19th century. Exploring, they find a dead city and encounter the Futurekind, cannibalistic humanoids who are hunting a human. The human is attempting to reach a transport to "Utopia", the last hope of the human race.

At the transport site, the TARDIS crew meet the elderly Professor Yana and his insectoid assistant Chantho, who are desperate for help. The spacecraft to Utopia is unable to take off due to problems with its experimental drive system, and Yana's research has been stalled for some time. These problems are worsened by a Futurekind infiltrator who vandalises the power systems. Despite the unfamiliar technology, the Doctor solves the scientific problems, and Jack makes final preparations in a heavily irradiated room. As Jack does this, he and the Doctor discuss Jack's inability to die, and why the Doctor abandoned him on Satellite 5. The rocket finally takes off for Utopia, leaving the Doctor, Yana, Chantho, Martha, and Jack behind.

A separate plot shows that Yana has been hearing a constant drumbeat inside his head — a condition he reports having had all his life, with the drums getting louder of late. Words such as "regeneration" and "TARDIS" — elements of Time Lord lore — exacerbate the problem, confusing and distracting him. When Martha expresses concern over the Professor's uneasiness, he reveals a long-standing concern with time, and shows Martha what appears to be a broken fob watch he has had since he was found as an orphaned child. The watch is identical in design to John Smith's watch in "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood". Concerned about the implications, Martha rushes to inform the Doctor, leaving Yana alone with Chantho, contemplating the watch.

When the Doctor hears about Yana's timepiece, a flashback sequence inter-cut with the letters of the Professor's name makes clear that "Yana" is an acronym of "You are not alone", the Face of Boe's last words to the Doctor. At the same time, Yana opens the watch, releasing his Time Lord essence. Frantic and horrified, the Doctor races towards Yana's laboratory but is hindered as the Professor closes the doors and allows the Futurekind to enter the base. Yana reveals his true identity to Chantho: he is the Master. He electrocutes her, but Chantho manages to shoot him before dying.

The Doctor arrives in Yana's laboratory just as the Master enters the Doctor's TARDIS, taking the severed hand (which Jack recovered after the events of "The Christmas Invasion" and had carried ever since) with him. He then deadlock seals the TARDIS doors, preventing the Doctor from opening it. Dying from Chantho's shot, the Master regenerates into a younger body, whose voice Martha recognises. After taunting the Doctor, he leaves in the TARDIS, stranding the three time travellers in the distant future, with the Futurekind about to break through the door.


Cast
The Doctor — David Tennant
Martha Jones — Freema Agyeman
Captain Jack Harkness — John Barrowman
Professor Yana — Derek Jacobi
Chantho — Chipo Chung
Padra — René Zagger
Lieutenant Atillo — Neil Reidman
Chieftain — Paul Marc Davies
Guard — Robert Forknall
Creet — John Bell
Kistane — Deborah Maclaren
Wiry Woman — Abigail Canton
The Master — John Simm

Cast notes
This is Derek Jacobi's third involvement in Doctor Who. The first was in the September 2003 audio drama Deadline, where he played a screenwriter who believes himself to be the Doctor. The second was several months later, in the webcast Scream of the Shalka, where he played an android version of the Master.
John Bell is a nine-year-old who won a Blue Peter competition to appear in this episode.

Series 3 Episodes: Sound of Drums # 12

The Doctor, Martha, and Jack materialize in a London alleyway, having used Jack's Vortex Manipulator, repaired by the Doctor, to escape the Futurekind in the year 100 trillion. Seeing "Vote Saxon" posters everywhere, and Saxon himself on a giant TV screen, the Doctor and Martha realize that the new Prime Minister, the mysterious "Mr Saxon", is the Master.

In 10 Downing Street, the Master speaks briefly with Tish Jones, who is unsure of her duties in her new job there. Next he enters the newly rebuilt cabinet room. After calling the cabinet members traitors, because they abandoned their parties to join his electoral bandwagon, he puts on a gas mask and activates jets of poisonous gas. As the cabinet collapses, the Master beats his hand on the table, drumming out a four-beat rhythm.

Journalist Vivien Rook obtains an interview with Master's wife, Lucy Saxon, as a pretext to warn Lucy that "Saxon" did not exist eighteen months ago — his entire life before that is a fabrication. Mrs Saxon turns to the Master, who is now standing by the door. He confirms that Saxon doesn't exist, and then introduces his "friends", four floating, metallic spheres, which materialize and kill Vivien. The Master promises his wife that "everything will end tomorrow".

Meanwhile, the Doctor, Martha and Jack have gone to Martha's flat to find out more about the Master's "Saxon" persona. Part of his apparently varied history is the Archangel network, a mobile phone network which Saxon was in charge of launching. The Master then makes a televised announcement about the Toclafane, the spheres seen earlier, saying that first contact will take place the following morning. The Doctor is surprised; the name Toclafane is that of a Gallifreyan fairytale villain, not a real alien race. As the Master makes his speech, he references various jobs, ending with specific emphasis on "medical student". The Doctor quickly turns to Martha and then back to the TV, which has a bomb attached to the back. They make it outside just as her flat explodes.

Martha rings up her mum to check on her; Francine asks Martha to come to her house, claiming that she plans to get back together with Clive. She passes the phone to Clive, who tries to warn Martha away; however, the "sinister woman" is listening and orders police to arrest the entire Jones family. Martha hurriedly drives to the scene with the Doctor and Jack. On the way she phones Tish in Downing Street, just as Tish is dragged away by guards. Martha arrives at Francine's house, but the police open fire on her car and she is forced to drive away.

As the Doctor, Jack, and Martha abandon the car, Martha phones Leo to warn him, and is relieved to learn that he is in Brighton. Saxon interrupts the conversation and the Doctor takes the phone. He tells the Master about the Time War and how it ended. The Master reveals that he was resurrected by the Time Lords in order to fight in the war, but ran away in fear. He then informs the Doctor that they are now Britain's most wanted terrorists and tells them to run, noting that Jack's friends have been sent on a wild-goose chase in the Himalayas.

One of the Toclafane appears before the Master, asking if the "machine" is ready. The Master confirms it will reach critical mass at 8:02 AM, two minutes after first contact. The Toclafane warns of an impending "terrible darkness" and suggests that they flee, but the Master merely reminds it of its deadline.

As they hide in an abandoned building, the Doctor gives Martha and Jack some insight into the Master's background, explaining that Time Lords on Gallifrey stare into the time vortex at the age of eight: some are inspired, some run away, and some are driven mad. The Doctor ran and never stopped, but he believes the latter happened to the Master. After Jack receives a posthumously-sent message from Vivien Rook to Torchwood about the Archangel network, the Doctor discovers that the Master is transmitting a mysterious four-beat rhythm that subliminally persuaded people to vote for him, which also kept the Doctor from previously detecting the Master. The Doctor then adds a perception filter to the TARDIS keys, allowing the trio to move about unnoticed. When he explains the perception filter to Martha and Jack, Martha is confused at first, but then the Doctor describes it as "...like when you fancy someone, and they don't even know you exist." As Martha stares incredulously at him, Jack asks her, "You too...?"

While the TARDIS crew look on, US President Arthur Winters arrives in Air Force One. He tells the Master that UNIT now controls the operation. Citing a 1968 United Nations protocol, Winters insists on moving first contact to the neutral ground of the UNIT aircraft carrier Valiant and conducting the meeting himself. The Master brings Martha's family along, and the Doctor and friends follow using Jack's Vortex Manipulator. Onboard the Valiant, they find the TARDIS, its Cloister bell ringing and the interior glowing an ominous red. It has been "cannibalized" by the Master into a Paradox Machine, set to go off at 8:02 AM. The trio head for the room where first contact is being made. The Doctor has a plan: if he can get his TARDIS key around the Master's neck, everyone will see him for what he really is.

When first contact begins, the Toclafane complain that the President is not the Master. The Master reveals himself and has his friends kill the President. The Doctor is captured by guards, and the Master temporarily "kills" Jack with his laser screwdriver, which is also equipped with LazLabs genetic manipulation technology. Coupled with biological data from the Doctor's severed hand, stolen in the previous episode, it allows the Master to artificially age the Doctor by 100 years. Jack gives Martha the Vortex Manipulator and tells her to escape. The Master then brings in Martha's family to witness his triumph. He refuses to reveal the Toclafane's true identity to the aged Doctor, saying that the revelation would break the Doctor's hearts.

With the paradox machine ready, the Master tells the people of Earth that it's "the end of the world" and plays "Voodoo Child". The machine activates, creating a massive rift above the Valiant from which six billion Toclafane emerge. He orders them to kill one tenth of the Earth's population. Whilst the Master is distracted, Martha glances mournfully at the Doctor, Jack, and her family, then teleports to Earth using the Manipulator, promising to return as she watches the Toclafane descend. The Master and his wife look down on "his new dominion", with the aged Doctor between them, forced to confront his failure to stop the Master.

Cast
The Doctor — David Tennant
Martha Jones — Freema Agyeman
Captain Jack Harkness — John Barrowman
The Master — John Simm
Francine Jones — Adjoa Andoh
Clive Jones — Trevor Laird
Tish Jones — Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Leo Jones — Reggie Yates
Lucy Saxon — Alexandra Moen
Sinister Woman — Elize du Toit
Vivien Rook — Nichola McAuliffe
Albert Dumfries — Nicholas Gecks
President Arthur Winters — Colin Stinton
BBC Newsreader — Olivia Hill
Chinese Newsreader — Daniel Ming
US Newsreader — Lachele Carl
Sharon Osbourne — Herself
McFly — Themselves
Ann Widdecombe — Herself
Toclafane voices — Zoe Thorne, Gerard Logan, and Johnnie Lyne-Pirkis

Cast notes
Lachele Carl previously appeared as the American news anchor in "Aliens of London", "World War Three"' and "The Christmas Invasion". The spin-off website "Who is Doctor Who?" states her name as "Mal Loup". This is French for "Bad Wolf".
Zoe Thorne previously voiced the Gelth in "The Unquiet Dead".
Olivia Hill played a TV Reporter in The Sarah Jane Adventures episode "Invasion of the Bane" (2007).

Series 3 Episodes: Last of the Time Lords #13

A year after the events of "The Sound of Drums", Earth has been closed to all species and labelled as in "terminal extinction". Martha returns to Britain, having travelled the world since teleporting away from the Valiant at the moment of the Master's triumph. Her TARDIS key, still generating a perception filter, has kept her hidden all this time. She meets Thomas Milligan, a doctor-turned-freedom-fighter, who can lead her to one Professor Docherty. Martha herself has become a figure of hope against the Master, rumoured to be the only one capable of killing him .
Meanwhile, on the Valiant, the Master is keeping the aged Doctor in a 'dog-kennel' tent as his humiliated prisoner, Martha's family as his servants, and Jack Harkness in chains. Lucy Saxon is still his companion, but shows evidence of physical abuse. The Master shows the Doctor the world he has created: the new Time Lord Empire. Across the planet, warships are being built to wage war on the rest of the universe. The Doctor has "only one thing to say", but the Master doesn't want to hear it. After a failed attempt by the Jones family, Jack, and the Doctor to gain control by stealing the Master's laser screwdriver, the Master sends out a transmission intended for Martha. Watching in Docherty's lab, she sees the Master suspend the Doctor's capacity to regenerate and age him by a further nine hundred years, shrinking him into a tiny, frail creature. Instead of being dismayed, Martha draws hope from the Doctor's continued survival.

Though the Toclafane have proven to be virtually invincible, Martha reveals that she stumbled upon one that was struck by lightning, and with the data gathered from the incident Docherty is able to replicate the required conditions. Upon examining the sphere thus captured, they make a horrifying discovery: the Toclafane contain the conscious remains of the humans from the year 100 trillion. The Toclafane claims there was no Utopia, only more darkness, and with everything dying around them the humans cannibalised and regressed themselves, becoming the child-like Toclafane. The Master brought them back in time using the TARDIS, which could only travel between Utopia and present-day Earth. The contradiction of the Toclafane killing their own ancestors is made possible by the paradox machine built by the Master. Martha is horrified when the Toclafane quotes young Creet that she met on Malcassairo, telling her that the Toclafane have shared memories of the last of humanity. When questioned as to why it wishes to kill its own ancestors, the Toclafane responds, "Because it's fun" and laughs maniacally. Tom, sickened and horrified, shoots it dead.

When Docherty asks if the rumours about Martha are true, Martha reveals a gun, developed by Torchwood and UNIT, purportedly able to kill a Time Lord and prevent the ensuing regeneration. Martha has retrieved three of the four chemicals needed for the gun from their hiding places around the world, and has returned to London to find the fourth. After Martha and Thomas depart for a shelter in Bexley to hide, Docherty (who is desperate for information regarding her missing son) reveals their whereabouts to the Master.

The Master thus comes to Earth's surface to capture Martha, killing Tom, destroying the special gun and taking her back to the Valiant. He intends to execute her before the Doctor and her family, at the moment his fleet is launched. As the clock counts down, Martha reveals the real reason she travelled the globe. It wasn't for a fictional anti-regeneration gun, or to fight back, but merely to talk. She told everyone about the Doctor; specifically, she told everyone to think of the Doctor at the same time the Master plans to launch his fleet. Docherty's betrayal was expected, engineered by Martha so that she would be brought on board the Valiant to rejoin the Doctor. Combined with the Master's Archangel satellite network, which the Doctor has had an entire year to get in tune with, this has the effect of charging the Doctor with the combined psychic energy of the people of Earth. This enables the Doctor to restore his youthful physiognomy and end the Master's control. As the Master cowers, the Doctor says the words the Master was afraid to hear: "I forgive you".

With the Master out of the picture, Jack rounds up some soldiers to destroy the paradox machine, but is delayed by the Toclafane. The Master, using Jack's vortex manipulator, teleports himself and the Doctor to Earth, threatening to detonate his fleet and take the Earth with it. The Doctor knows that the Master would never kill himself, and manages to teleport both himself and the Master back to the Valiant just as Jack destroys the paradox machine, rewinding time to just after the US President is killed and just before the Toclafane arrive. All those on the Valiant remember the events due to being at "the eye of the storm", but nobody else will know of the Master's reign of terror in "the year that never was".

The Master, now defenceless, is handcuffed and stands before the Doctor. The Doctor announces that, since the Master is a Time Lord, he is the Doctor's responsibility and will be imprisoned on board the TARDIS. Francine Jones is talked out of shooting the Master, but Lucy Saxon, with a glazed expression, seizes a gun herself and shoots him. Rather than be a prisoner for the rest of his lives, the Master lets himself die, refusing to regenerate despite the Doctor's desperate pleas. Just before dying in his opponent's arms, the Master muses on the constant drumming in his head, wondering if it will finally stop, and with a smile says, "I win", leaving the Doctor to weep uncontrollably for his lost adversary and fellow Time Lord. The Doctor cremates the Master's body on a pyre. However, after he leaves, a female hand wearing red nail polish is seen taking the Master's signet ring from the burnt-out pyre, with malevolent laughter echoing in the background.

In Cardiff, Jack decides to remain behind to look after his team, "defending the Earth". The Doctor disables Jack's vortex manipulator to keep him from jumping through time unsupervised. The Doctor then tells Jack there's nothing that can be done about his immortality: it seems likely he'll never be able to die — though he isn't sure about aging. Thinking about what he might look like millions of years from now, Jack confesses his vanity and recalls how, as the first person from the Boeshane Peninsula to join the Time Agency, his good looks earned him the nickname "the Face of Boe", much to the surprise of the Doctor and Martha.

With the TARDIS repaired, the Doctor is ready to move on. Martha, however, has decided to stay so she can look after her family and finally qualify as a medical doctor. She gives the Doctor her phone so they can keep in touch and says she will see him again, but when someone is in love and it's unrequited, they have to get out: "this is me getting out". The Doctor sets the TARDIS controls - until the room is suddenly shaken with great force, and the bow of a ship smashes through the console room wall. Picking up a lifebelt, he finds "Titanic" written on it, to which he can only respond flatly, "What?!"


Cast
The Doctor — David Tennant
Martha Jones — Freema Agyeman
Jack Harkness — John Barrowman
The Master — John Simm
Lucy Saxon — Alexandra Moen
Francine Jones — Adjoa Andoh
Clive Jones — Trevor Laird
Tish Jones — Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Thomas Milligan — Tom Ellis
Professor Docherty — Ellie Haddington
Lad — Tom Golding
Woman — Natasha Alexander
Toclafane voices — Zoe Thorne, Gerard Logan, and Johnnie Lyne-Pirkis