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When we last left our heroes, things looked grim. Sarah Jane was about to get gunned down in her car, Gwen and Ianto's [[More Dakka]] was not going to cut it, and the Doctor was regenerating. Well, Torchwood gets protected by a nifty program Tosh designed, Mickey and Jackie materialize with their [[BFG]]'s just in time to save Sarah Jane, and Ten regenerates... back into Ten.
 
Wait, what? Apparently, since the Doctor's hand-in-a-jar is [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S4 E6S30/E06 The DoctorsDoctor's Daughter|kept in the control room]], he could use it to heal without changing. He simply directed the excess energy into the hand, instead of into a whole new body. Everyone is relieved that Ten is still Ten.
 
The Daleks surround the TARDIS, suck out its power, and take them to the Crucible, the Daleks' base ship. Sarah Jane, Mickey and Jacks decide to go along, and some helpful Daleks take them there too.
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More than that, New Ten has only got one heart. Apparently, he's part Time Lord, part human. And he explains to Donna how special she is for being part of him now. She's finally starting to believe it a little.
 
Back at the crucible, Davros gives the Doctor a briefing on their plan. Apparently all the 27 planets combined form a "reality bomb" that dissolves every form of matter. Davros gets really excited and [[Large Ham|chews on every available piece of scenery.]] But the Doctor realizes that Davros isn't remotely in charge of his creatures any more. He was taken out of the Time War by [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S3 E5S29/E05 Evolution of the Daleks|Dalek Caan]], who stared into Time itself, neatly mirroring [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S1 S27/E13 The Parting of the Ways|the way Rose saved the Doctor from the Daleks once]]. But Dalek Caan didn't have a Time Lord around to take Time itself away again, and he went ''completely mad'' in the process. Davros is now little more than the Daleks' "pet": a source of DNA cells to rebuild the Dalek race, but locked in the basement by his own offspring. Davros explains that the 27 stolen planets form a compression field which can cancel the electrical energy of atoms. The resulting "reality bomb" has the potential to destroy all matter in every universe; reality itself would be destroyed.
 
The Doctor's friends haven't given up yet. Jack, Sarah Jane, Mickey and Jackie ''will'' blow up the Crucible (including themselves) with Sarah Jane's [[The Sarah Jane Adventures/Recap/S1 E7/E07 E8 Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane|Veran necklace]] if Davros doesn't stop. Sarah Jane and Davros have a moment together when they recognise each other. Similarly, Martha Jones ''will'' blow up the Earth (including herself) using the Osterhagen key. Unfortunately, these threats work well with Davros' [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]], as Davros accuses the Doctor of being a [[Technical Pacifist]] while his friends have become tools of violence. The Doctor remembers all the people who died to save his life during his tenth regeneration. But regardless of all that, the Doctor's friends' plans come to naught, as they are immediately zapped to the Vault by the Daleks.
 
And suddenly, the TARDIS materializes, and the Doctor Clone runs forward with their new Dalek-killing gun. But Davros, in true [[Star Wars|Emperor]] fashion, can shoot lightning out of his hands, and he zaps Doctor Clone and Donna. The reality bomb goes into its final countdown and...
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Nothing happens.
 
Donna stopped it! Even though she used to not even be able to change a plug, Davros' lightning triggered the ''other'' half of the metacrisis: when she activated the energy in the hand, part of her became filled with Time Lord essence. Now in possession of an active Time Lord mind, she's able to come up with Dalek-disabling solutions lightning fast with a huge surge of techno-babble. So that's [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S4 E3S30/E03 Planet of the Ood|what the Ood were talking about]]!
 
{{quote|'''Doctor-Donna''': Did I ever tell you, best temp in Chiswick? A hundred words a minute!}}
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As they get into the TARDIS, the Doctor Clone decides to blow up all the Daleks, which he does... to the utter horror of the Doctor, who ''really'' doesn't like to be reminded of what he did in the Time War. The Doctor offers Davros a chance to be saved, but Davros chooses to just sit behind some flames for a bit.
 
All the planets are sent home, but Earth ''just'' doesn't make it before the teleportation device gets blasted. So, they decide to turn the TARDIS into an Earth tow boat. In Cardiff, Torchwood Three uses the Cardiff Rift to provide massive amounts of energy. The Doctor introduces himself to Ianto and Gwen through their video connection, and he and Rose are happy to see that [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S1 E3S27/E03 The Unquiet Dead|Gwyneth]] has a 21st century relative. In Ealing, K-9 and Luke provide the supercomputer Mr. Smith with all the TARDIS data needed to get the Earth back home. Everyone gathers around the TARDIS core to help fly the Earth back home. (Well, all except Jackie, who isn't allowed near the controls.) Everyone hugs everyone. Donna especially hugs Jack a lot.
 
Sarah Jane heads back home to Luke. The Doctor blocks Jack's teleportation wrist watch again. Martha promises to destroy the Ostenhagen key and walks off with Jack (whose story continues in [[Torchwood/Recap/S3 E1/E01 Day One|Torchwood]]). Mickey realizes that he's finally done following Rose around and... starts following Martha around. The TARDIS heads back to alternate dimension Norway to drop off Rose and Jackie. Rose doesn't want to leave the Doctor, but the Doctor offers her a nice consolation prize of the Doctor Clone, because the Doctor feels that this version of himself is a bit too genocide-happy (much like he himself used to be) and needs a Rose in his life to cure that. The Doctor Clone is also part ''human'', able to age, and willing to spend his life with Rose from now on. This doesn't sit quite right with Rose yet. She begs the two Doctors to finally tell her [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S2 S28/E13 Doomsday|what he wanted to say to her last time]], after she said "I love you" to him. The Doctor still [[Cannot Spit It Out]]. <ref> Rose: 0. Little shops: 3.</ref> The Doctor Clone whispers it into her ear, and although we can't hear it, she's happy enough and responds by snogging him.
 
In the TARDIS, Doctor-Donna is starting to exhibit some problems. There never has been a human with a Time Lord brain, and she's quickly overloading. There's only one cure. {{spoiler|She begs and pleads, but he takes her into his arms and gently uses his touch telepathy to wipe her memories. She can never remember who she was, or anything about the Doctor, or she'll burn up. She goes back to the way she used to be, and she can never know about how much she saved the universe or how amazing she was. The Doctor takes her home, where she turns into her old self... her ''old'' old self, loud and crass and extremely, insufferably dumb.}} ... And [[Fridge Horror|someone's going to have to tell her that]] {{spoiler|she's missed two full years, and that her fiance and her father are dead. The Doctor tells Donna's mom to be ''nice'' to her for a change, bids Wilf farewell, and steps out of their lives.}}
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The Doctor goes off, once again on his own. He takes off his jacket.
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* [[Acting for Two]]: David Tennant as both Doctors.
* [[And Starring]]: Elisabeth Sladen again.
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* [[Badass]]: The German soldier in the Castle, she stayed to defend it even when the soldiers left, because it was her duty.
* [[BFG]]: Rose has one of these. Jack's is pretty big too.
** Mickey and ''Jackie'' of all people even have [[BFG|BFGs]]s. They're endemic.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Mickey and Jackie saving Sarah Jane Smith from a pair of Daleks early on.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Rose and the Doctor are finally reunited, but he has to watch her in the arms of another man and leave her behind forever. Donna saved not only the entire Earth (and the other 26 planets), but all of ''creation'', but can't remember or else she'll burn up. So Donna's an idiot again, and the Doctor's on his own again.
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** Doctor-Donna's fate is sealed as her mind has absorbed too much information to possibly contain. It's a very similar fate to Bad Wolf/Rose, though the solution is somewhat different.
** Also, Sarah Jane was given the warp necklace thingy by a "Veran soothsayer," the same one who gave her the puzzlebox in ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'''s "Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?"
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* [[Crisis Crossover]]: Ianto, Jack and Gwen from ''[[Torchwood]]'', and Sarah Jane, Luke and Mr Smith from ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'', and Rose and Martha and Mickey and Harriet Jones and basically everyone connected to the show since Rusty got hold of it all turn up. Even K9 gets to appear. ''Crisis of Infinite Doctors'', perhaps?
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: K9 being called out at exactly the moment he's needed. Good dog!
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* [[Fan Fic Magnet]]
* [[Fan Service]]: Naked Doctor clone. Well not really [[Fan Service]], but as damn close as you're ever going to get, unfortunately.
** [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E11 The Lodger|At least until next season.]]
* [[Flowers for Algernon Syndrome]]: Yet another trope that applies to Donna's metacrisis.
* [[Gondor Calls for Aid]]: Literally. Imagine the bill!
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* [[Large Ham]]: Even discounting the usual suspects, Doctor-Donna and Davros could have stocked a deli section all by themselves.
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]
* [[Left for Dead]]: Davros and Dalek Caan. After all, [[No One Could Survive That]], right? It's not like there's such thing as [[Joker Immunity]], [[There Is Another]], [[Back From the Dead]] or -- [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E03 Victory of the Daleks|c'mon, you just know this isn't the end of the Daleks]].<br /><br />[[Word of God]] has already stated that Davros survived. Davies admitted he doesn't want to kill such a classic villain off. Odds are good that Dalek Caan survived somehow, too.
 
[[Word of God]] has already stated that Davros survived. Davies admitted he doesn't want to kill such a classic villain off. Odds are good that Dalek Caan survived somehow, too.
* [[Lightning Can Do Anything]]
* [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Davros even calls the Doctor that (minus the "Mike Nelson" bit, of course).
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