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[[There Is Only One Bed]]. They both crawl in, their faces very close... and the Doctor tells her that there's something he's... missing. Something... staring right into his eyes. Something... close, but just out of reach. "Rose would know what to do," he sighs moodily, oblivious to the sexual tension. Martha looks extremely annoyed. Meanwhile, the witch has crept in at night in order to plant some words in Shakespeare's script. Martha sees the witch flying off on her broomstick, and bemusedly IDs her.
This clue, along with the murder of the Master of the Revels, leads the Doctor and Martha to Bedlam, the insane asylum, with Shakespeare tagging along. They interview the architect who designed the
They don't exactly succeed. Shakespeare bursts onto the stage and announces that the show must not go on, but is K.O.'d by witch magic. Will Kemp improvises an excellent triple-meaning couplet: if "Will" refers to Shakespeare, it's him dismissing the warning as drunken ramblings. If "Will" refers to Kemp, it's a mock-apology for his own silliness (emphasized with a goofy caper). If "Will" is the Elizabethan-era slang for penis, it's a joke about alcohol-induced [[The Loins Sleep Tonight|sexual impotence]]. Meanwhile, the Doctor and Martha find the youngest witch and try the naming again, but it turns out "[[It Only Works Once]]". The witch tries it on Martha, but Martha's anachronism saves her from permanent harm. The Doctor, of course, has no discernible name. So the witch vamps him instead, gets a lock of his hair, and stops his heart. One of them, anyway. Martha wakes up, improvises some first aid to get the afflicted heart going, and they're off to back up Shakespeare.
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* [[Historical In-Joke]]:
** ''[[wikipedia:Love's Labour's Won|Love's Labour's Won]]'' is a lost play today because it was commandeered into a spell to release the Carrionite race. When the spell is reversed, the play vanishes along with the Carrionites.
** The Doctor feeding Shakespeare his own lines. Specifically, it resolves the [[Brick Joke]] of the Sycorax set up in [[Doctor Who/Recap/2005 CS the Christmas Invasion|"The Christmas Invasion"]]; Sycorax is a witch mentioned in ''[[The Tempest]]'', and where Shakespeare got the name is a bit of an academic
** Shakespeare's reaction to Martha's appearance foreshadows the reveal that she's his Dark Lady.
* [[It Only Works Once]]: The power of a [[True Name]].
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