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Line 4: '''Dalek:''' I want... freedom. }} Marked the return of the eponymous villain to ''[[Doctor Who]]'', and began the extremely brief tenure of ~~bad~~disobedient companion Adam Mitchell. ~~<!-- %%% -->~~ ~~<!-- %% The above is not a review-like remark. He was ejected from the TARDIS the following episode for his behaviour. He's clearly characterised as a "bad companion". -->~~ ~~<!-- %%% -->~~ ---- The Doctor and Rose arrive in [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future\|2012]] Utah, in a museum of alien parts. As they discover when they are captured, they're in the [[Elaborate Underground Base]] of Henry van Statten, an American tycoon with way more money than sense. The pride of [[The Collector of the Strange]]'s collection is a strange metal... droid... thing, that Mister Alien Expert just ''knows'' is sentient, but that he can't communicate with. So he locks the Doctor in there with it. Line 15 ⟶ 13: Anyway, van Statten kidnaps the Doctor for forcible induction into the Alien Museum. While he's indisposed, the Dalek tricks Rose into touching it, repairs itself using her time traveller DNA, and escapes from its holding cell to wreak some ''serious'' havoc. The Dalek is horrified to learn it is the last of its kind. Rose and Adam try to rejoin the Doctor (who has convinced van Statten to let him go try to save everyone's lives), but are separated by a steel blast door. And Rose is on the wrong side of it. An even ''tenser'' standoff ensues, while the Doctor watches over CCTV, but Rose's ~~DNA -- transferred~~DNA—transferred to the Dalek when she touched ~~it -- is~~it—is messing with the Dalek's xenophobic sensibilities, and it suffers an identity crisis instead of just killing Rose. The Dalek nearly kills a panicking van Statten, but Rose stops it, and it decides it wants to leave. She goes with it to the top floor of the dam and it shoots a hole in the ceiling, letting in the sunlight. It opens its shell to feel the warmth of the sun. The Doctor arrives at this point, wielding a BFG and telling Rose to get out of the way. She refuses and [[What the Hell, Hero?\|calls him out on trying to kill it when "all it wants is the sunlight."]] The Dalek learns Rose touching it has combined its DNA with hers, making it "impure." It decides it wants to die rather than live as a new lifeform, and orders Rose to tell it to self-destruct. She reluctantly does so, and it kills itself. Meanwhile, van Statten's assistant has his guards seize him and orders them to wipe his memory, [[Ironic Echo~~\|Ironic Echoing~~]]ing him when he'd earlier decided another assistant [[You Have Failed Me...\|had failed him]] and ordered him memory-wiped and dumped on the side of the road in "some place beginning with 'M'". Rose and the Doctor get ready to leave, followed by Adam, who doesn't understand why they're going into a box when the dam is going to be filled with cement, but Rose has persuaded the Doctor to let him come. He follows them into the TARDIS. ----- === Tropes: === * [[Arc Words]]: "Bad Wolf One" is the call sign for van Statten's helicopter. Line 93 ⟶ 91: '''The Doctor''': ''[[Absolute Xenophobe\|Because it honestly believes they should die]]''. [[Fantastic Racism\|Human beings are different,]] [[Kill All Humans\|and anything different is]] ''[[Kill All Humans\|wrong]]''. [[A Nazi by Any Other Name\|It's the ultimate in racial cleansing]], and ''you'', van Statten, ''YOU'VE LET IT LOOSE!'' }} ** He also rather bluntly states that van Statten is ''worse'' than a Dalek at one point. * [[Reconstruction]]: The episode might as well be called "Reconstruction of the Daleks"; the production team are clearly going all out to restore the Daleks from 'tired jokes' to 'shit-your-pants scary'. Before writing the script, Rob Shearman asked his girlfriend what she thought were the silliest things about the Daleks. He then took the responses he ~~got -- that~~got—that they couldn't go upstairs, that they had that silly plunger, that they couldn't see anything behind them, that bullets could damage them, ~~etc -- and~~etc—and had the characters actively invoke them in the story. And then had the Dalek completely subvert the expected weaknesses and even use them to kill said characters horribly. The Dalek can now fly upstairs to kill people. The Dalek can swivel it's eyestalk and weapons to kill people behind it. The Dalek now has a forcefield that melts bullets. The Dalek can now use it's plunger to ''CRUSH PEOPLE'S SKULLS IN''. And so on. It's also notable that several terms often used dismissively towards the Daleks ('tinpot', 'pepperpot', etc) tend to crop ~~up -- and~~up—and the people who use them tend to die horribly not long after. ** Some of these weaknesses (particularly the flying thing) had been addressed in the earlier "Remembrance of the Daleks", but that story was both over fifteen years in the past at the time of this story's airing, and was broadcast at a time when ''[[Doctor Who]]'' was not as popular with or watched by as many people as were watching in 2005, so it's not entirely surprising that the production team thought a refresher was in order. * [[Come with Me If You Want to Live\|Release Me If You Want To Live]] Line 126 ⟶ 124: [[Category:Hugo Award]] [[Category:Recap]] ~~[[Category:Pages with comment tags]]~~ [[Category:Doctor Who]]▼ [[Category:Doctor Who/Recap]] ▲[[Category:~~Doctor Who~~{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]