The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)

The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre was the third short story exclusively published on the Who is Doctor Who? website on 3 April 2005 by the BBC webteam. This short story revealed more information about the Dummy Massacre in Rose. This short story was set a week after the events of Rose and the previous short story on the website, Dummy Massacre, giving more detail about the aftermath of the "Dummy Massacre"; while this story was released at the same time as the television episode The End of the World, it didn't tie into it as that episode was set in the year 5,000,000,000.

Plot
The Who is Doctor Who? website is updated, a week after the Dummy Massacre; "everyone in the know", apparently, knew of the Ninth Doctor's involvement in the Dummy Massacre, which is why it is all the more strange he wasn't captured on CCTV cameras around the "Killing Grounds". That being said, one piece of evidence did slip through the Doctor's supposed suppression of the footage, that being a video of Rose Tyler eating at a restaurant in Kennington, seemingly with her boyfriend, Mickey Smith. However "Mickey" was not actually him, but, as the webmaster speculates, perhaps some sort of special model or Advance Guard of the Killer Dummies. As the webmaster observes, the Doctor was briefly visible towards the edge of the frame of the footage, and questions if the Doctor was there to prevent the attack, or perhaps more insidiously, to contribute to it. But regardless, there is one thing for certain, that Rose hadn't been seen since.

In another section of the website, the webmaster writes about the conspiracy that has been growing since the Dummy Massacre, that despite the seventy-eight fatalities and the three hundred casualties and the countless pieces of video footage and eyewitness accounts, the coverage of the attack is vanishing from the World Media. And, as the webmaster puts it, those strong enough to remember what they saw with their own eyes can "only watch in horror" as cynical hands divert people's attention to home security, terrorist threats, public order, and consumerism, disregarding the greater threat. People are in denial.

The webmaster continues onto the subject of Clive, the man who "tirelessly" devoted his life to his search for the Doctor, and his reward? Death, as the webmaster sardonically answers. He died during the Dummy Massacre, and the webmaster reveals that he visited Clive's widow — Maggie — and, after discussion with her, agreed to take on Clive's mantle to prove the truth to the world. The webmaster is at peace with the idea that he too could pay with his life for his efforts, but values the truth above all.

Finally, the webmaster addresses the claims that "millions" of people heard a "ghostly disembodied voice" last weekend, although these claims are unverified. The webmaster is still interested in the claims despite the possibility of them not being true and asks his readers to contact the site with their stories.

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Continuity

 * The Rose being nineteen aligns with her birthdate being given as early 1986 in sources such as The Unquiet Dead, Dalek, Army of Ghosts, etc, although it contradicts other sources that give her birthdate as 27 April 1987, in sources such as Father's Day, Rise of the Cybermen, and Rose Tyler.
 * This story, and Dummy Massacre, is set in the aftermath of Rose.
 * Mickey Smith taking over Who is Doctor Who? would become an ongoing storyline in later stories published on the Who is Doctor Who? tie-in website, from this story to Lifeboat Museum and beyond. The short story The Secret Lives of Monsters, although it has a few minor contradictions with the tie-in website, does mention that the in-universe website continued to be updated after Clive Finch's death. Even the short story Mickey's Blog, which alternately asserts that Mickey never took over Who is Doctor Who? and instead ran a blog, followed a very similar plot to the tie-in website.
 * In this story, Mickey suspects that the Doctor removed the footage captured by CCTV cameras of himself, however the short story Operation Mannequin reveals that many cameras malfunctioned during the attack.
 * The details about Clive corresponds with his appearance in Rose.
 * Rose sends a phone call from the year five billion. (TV: The End of the World)
 * Rose is seen with Charles Dickens. (TV: The Unquiet Dead)
 * Rose is spotted in 1987. (TV: Father's Day)
 * Rose is spotted with a "Casanova" lookalike, a likely reference to the fact that David Tennant, who was rumoured to take over from Christopher Eccleston in the role, had previously played Casanova. David Tennant did indeed play the Tenth Doctor, beginning with the minisode Born Again.
 * An entry by Guy Anwar was previously present in Have You Seen This Man?.