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Line 1: {{work}} [[File:devil_5944.jpg\|frame]] {{quote\| He is awake. '''{{color\|white\|And you will worship him.}}'''}} Rose and the Doctor find themselves in a space base, but the TARDIS seemed strangely reluctant to materialise (bad sign number one). Rose points out that they can hop back in and go somewhere else if they think there's going to be trouble, but neither of them can keep a straight face at the idea. They venture inwards and find a wall with "Welcome to Hell" written on it (bad sign number two), along with a series of symbols that not even the TARDIS can translate, which means the language must be impossibly old (bad sign number three). And to top it all off, Rose's super work-anywhere cell phone has no signal (bad sign number four). Line 13: "''Don't'' turn around... if you look at me, you will die. Don't look, don't look at me. I'm reaching out, Toby... oh, ''I can touch you''." Toby ~~looks -- and~~looks—and sees nothing... until he looks in the mirror and finds his face and hands are covered in the symbols and his eyes are [[Red Eyes, Take Warning\|bright red]]. When Trainee Maintenance Scooti Manista questions the computer about an unauthorized opening of the airlock (with no space-suit being logged out), she's astonished to see Toby walking on the planet's surface unprotected... before he telekinetically shatters the window, pulling her into space. The others find only a shellshocked Toby and mournfully watch Scooti's corpse drift out of sight. When the drill finally reaches the planet's core, the Doctor talks his way into being allowed to go down in the capsule along with science officer Ida. They find the ruins of an ancient civilization and an enormous, imposing [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can\|seal]] covered with the same markings. Right on cue, it starts to open, as the Ood rise up as the "Legion of the Beast" and the planet starts trembling in its orbit. "'''[[Evil Sounds Deep\|The Pit is open]]... and I am FREEEE.'''" == Tropes == * [[Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene]]: The Doctor and Rose discussing what they'll do if they can't get the TARDIS back. * [[Adventurer Archaeologist]]: Toby * [[Black Speech]]: The writing on the wall which later appears on Toby's skin when he is possessed; it seems to be the language of Hell. * [[Call Back]]: The Ood are like a mix of [[Doctor Who/Recap/S3 E6/E06 The Ark\|the monoids]] and [[Doctor Who/Recap/S1 E7/E07 The Sensorites\|the sensorites.]] They even come from the same star system as the sensorites. * [[Creepy Monotone]]: "He is awake." "He bathes in the black sun." * [[Demonic Possession]] Line 28 ⟶ 29: * [[Dug Too Deep]] * [[E=MC Hammer]]: Various (including Maxwell's equations of electrodynamics) scribbled on the tables in the canteen. * [[Eldritch Location]]: The planet, Krop Tor, which is Valtino for "The Bitter Pill". * [[Evil Phone]]: Rose's upgraded phone fails to work for the first time...until she gets a call from the Devil himself. * [[Evil Sounds Deep]] * [[Happiness in Slavery]]: The Ood, [[Harsher in Hindsight\|allegedly]]. Line 35 ⟶ 36: * [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place]]: The planetoid is called ''The Bitter Pill''. Apparently because not even a ''black hole'' wants to swallow it. * [[I Have Many Names]]: Which will be listed, at length, in a [[Creepy Monotone]]. * [[Mark of the Beast]] / [[Human Notepad]]: Just take a gander. * [[Noodle Incident]]: {{quote\| "Mr Jefferson, tell me, sir: did your wife ever forgive you?"~~<br />~~ "...I don't know what you mean."~~<br />~~ "Let me tell you a secret. She never did." }} * [[Number of the Beast]]: {{quote\| '''The Doctor:''' ...you'd need a power source with an [[Techno Babble\|inverted self-extrapolating reflex]] of six to the power of six every six seconds.<br /> '''Rose:''' That's a lot of sixes. }} * [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]] * [[Retro Rocket]]: The base's rocket was designed with the ''[[Tintin ~~(Comic Book)~~]]'' moon ship in mind. * [[Satan]] * [[Schmuck Bait]]: "Don't turn around...if you look at me, you will die...I'm so close, Toby. I can touch you..." * [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]] * [[Slasher Smile]] * [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: A creepy, possessed Toby standing on the planet's barren surface, beckoning a woman to her death is accompanied a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMwomsJ9MR0 hauntingly beautiful violin]. * [[Tempting Fate]]: Lampshaded. {{quote\| '''The Doctor:''' Oh, come on, "no turning back"? That's almost as bad as "nothing can possibly go wrong" or "[[Soapland Christmas\|this is gonna be the best Christmas]] [[Eastenders\|Walford's]] [[Soapland Christmas\|ever had]]."}} * [[~~Unrealistic~~ Black ~~Hole~~Holes Suck]]: Black holes are, well, [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin\|black]]. The corona of light does not make much sense. [[Word of God]] says the original special effects were closer to reality, but they changed it to a corona of orange light to look more ominous. Of course they do say there's stuff being pulled in. An accretion disk would have made perfect sense and given them exactly the imagery they wanted. They also claim there are no stable orbits around a black hole which isn't really true. If we give them the benefit of the doubt and say they're inside the event horizon, though, they might have an excuse to show anything they want. * [[Welcome to Hell]] * [[Wham! Line]]: {{spoiler\|"The Beast and his armies shall rise from the pit to make war against God."}} ** The Doctor can't read the writing because it's "impossible old". This from a [[Time Lord]]. * [[You Just Had to Say It]] {{reflist}} [[Category:Doctor Who (TV)/Recap]]▼ [[Category:Recap]] [[Category:Doctor Who]] ▲[[Category:Doctor Who ~~(TV)~~/Recap]]