Tenth Doctor

The Tenth Doctor was the tenth incarnation of the renegade Time Lord known as the Doctor. Unlike his immediate predecessor, who was plagued by melancholy due to his actions during the Last Great Time War, this incarnation was much more outgoing and genial, a demeanour that hid the "survivor's guilt" that had plagued him since the war. Over his life, however, the weight became much more pronounced. He was haunted by companions lost, enemies believed long-dead and events that threatened the fabric of time itself. He met his end after he absorbed a huge quantity of nuclear radiation whilst saving the life of his friend, Wilfred Mott, leading to his regeneration into his next incarnation.

Post-Regeneration
The Ninth Doctor absorbed the Time Vortex from inside his companion Rose Tyler and put it back into the Heart of the TARDIS. After this, the forces began to destroy every cell in his body. He regenerated for the ninth time to save his life. (DW: The Parting of the Ways)

The Doctor had dematerialised the TARDIS from Satellite 5, intending to fulfill his promise to take Rose to the planet Barcelona in the year 5006. With Rose suffering an emotional crisis over his sudden change, however, the Doctor instead headed back to the Powell Estate in London on Christmas Eve 2006 after convincing her of his identity by reminding her of the first thing he said to her: "Run". Before he could complete the landing, he began to suffer adverse effects from the violence of his physical change and experienced manic hyperactivity. He accelerated the TARDIS and it crash-landed. (DW: Children in Need Special)

He staggered out, dazedly wished Jackie and Mickey a merry Christmas and fell into a coma. He snapped out of it briefly to save Mickey and the Tylers from a killer Christmas tree, but the stress of waking up too soon made matters worse, and he collapsed again. When the TARDIS was taken aboard a Sycorax spaceship on Christmas morning, the Doctor awoke with the help of some tea. He stopped the Sycorax leader's blood control of one third of humanity. The Doctor challenged the leader over the fate of Earth. In a sword fight, the Sycorax leader chopped off the Doctor's hand, but because he was still in the first fifteen hours of his regeneration cycle, the Doctor grew a new hand and killed him.

When the Sycorax fled, Prime Minister Harriet Jones ordered Torchwood to destroy the ship. The angry Doctor spoke some words into her aide's ear to bring about Jones' premature downfall. (DW: The Christmas Invasion)

New adventures with Rose
The Doctor and Rose embarked on more adventures together through time and space. They went to New Earth and were summoned to the New New York Hospital by the Face of Boe. While there, he stopped the Sisters of Plenitude, who were creating humans and infecting them with every disease. Rose was possessed by Cassandra, who was trying to extend her life, but the Doctor eventually convinced Cassandra to "end it". (DW: New Earth)

Having failed to land on the planet Shantella Prime and getting soaked by a passing car when she opened the door, Rose challenges the Doctor to explain the TARDIS console switches. After pressing the wraparound hologram switch and the Galactic lotto draw switch, they press the in-flight stereo-system, which the Doctor had absent-mindedly swapped for a micro-modulator, which shrinks them. they climb up the Doctor's tie, which has been discarded untidily across the console, but have to get to the other side. Rose slips on a patch of machine oil left by the Doctor when he was oiling the gravity gauge, but is saved when she catches a lifeline thrown by the Doctor. Rose fights through the cobwebs and finally throws the switch in reverse, returning the Doctor and Rose to normal size.

The TARDIS, along with the Doctor and Rose is brought to a rough landing by Coffa and Lute, who greet them with a warning: the survivors of "that dreadful day" on Platform One are disappearing one by one.

While the biogrove's protective shields are down to let the TARDIS through, a cyborg called Montodon Slemm, along with his robotic gardener SNIP-7, also arrive. As soon as their ship lands and starts scorching the forest, they begin to harvest the land for intelligent trees for Slemm's customers back home (where he owns the Cyborg Intergalactic Garden Centres).

Taking Coffa and Lute to safety in the TARDIS, the Doctor and Rose are pursued by Slemm and SNIP-7. They lure them into a field of super-evolved space dandelions, which seed and grow in metal very quickly.

The robotic parts quickly become clogged. With his Garden Bot useless, Slemm, also affected by the seeds, leaves in a hurry. Returning to the TARDIS, the Doctor and Rose find no sign of Coffa and Lute. They decide to leave, wondering where the survivors of Platform One have gone and when they will be next...

The Doctor and Rose arise on the Hyperfilm Studio set of the Great Director, Zemm Foolini, on the planet Woldyhool, in the year Five Billion. Zemm is not happy. His monster shoot has been interupted and his leading manbot, Cal "Spark Plug" MacNannovich, has gone missing. To make things worse, the monster (a Bajunx from the Isop Galaxy) isn't as well-behaved an actor as his agent promised, and goes on a rampage, eating all of the extras and the security forces. Recognising its species and sensing that something is not right, the Doctor pacifies the creature with bright studio lights and a shadow puppet show. Recognising it as a baby, prone to shoving things in its mouth, the Doctor waits for the extras and security forces to be sicked up unharmed. The adult Bajunx, the real monster actor, turns up, looking for his little boy! With events settled, the Doctor and Rose leave to find out what has happened to another survivor from Platform One.

The Doctor and Rose arrive on Astro-Race Day as Skip is readying his Hyposlip 500 lightspeed podule for its first-ever race. As the space race starts, a huge ship appears and starts blasting the ships and using a tractor beam, takes them all on board. The Doctor, having always wanted to drive one of the pods, goes in pursuit, closely followed by Rose and Skip's mechanic Jumo in a pod awaiting repairs and prone to power surges. The Doctor's pod is damaged and taken on board, where the Doctor overhears Skip's plan to sell the Hyposlip-500's technology for ten trillion to the Rakkonoids, a race of galactic techno-thieves. Skip had hoped his treachery would be unknown, but when Rose and Jumo crash into the ship, chaos ensues. Once the Doctor has piloted the ship back to the cliff-top launch site, Skip, along with the Rakkonoids, are led away by the authorities. Jumo tells the Doctor and Rose that his bosses, the Brothers Hop Pyleen, will be grateful and want to thank them but they have disappeared.

No closer to tracking the other Platform One survivors, the Doctor and Rose leave in the TARDIS still looking for answers.

The Doctor and Rose arrive at the Reading Dome of the University of Rago Rago 56 Rago (home to some ten trillion books), to catch up with the Chosen Scholars of Class 55. The books are stored digitally and can be downloaded directly to the brain via small mindlink devices which attach themselves to one's forehead. Rose takes the virtual tour, but the software has been affected by Macrobes which have been lying quietly waiting for the chance to infect the living brains and spread their infection. Sensing the Doctor is a Time Lord and now wanting to use the TARDIS and the Doctor to spread the virus throughout Time and Space, the Macrobes emerge from the system and using the brainlinks, takes over the wearers, including Rose. With Head Librarian Kriz's help, the Doctor hides in a room full of books to be junked as they've been deemed to be too boring to be stored (including Toenail Clippings of the Ug-Raptor, A History of Peas and How to Speak Zarbi in 10,000 Steps).

The Doctor downloads the boring books, sending the Library Zombies to sleep and the Macrobes retreating back to the net, which the Doctor disconnects. With the Macrobes trapped in the storage, a clean-up team is sent in to remove the infection. The Chosen Scholars have also disappeared and the Doctor prepares to read through all the information looking for answers to the mysterious disappearances of Platform One's surviving guests.

Having found a useful book on power-boosted transmats in the Reading Dome, the Doctor and Rose arrive at Gameworld Gama, a hunting location owned by Mr and Mrs Pakoo. They hope to pick up the trail of lectra energy leaks which seems to have occurred around all their recent landings. When the Doctor discovers humans have been brought from a pet shop, and are being used in the Royal Hunt, he insists the games stop. Before he can flash his psychic paper ID, the Pakoo guards attack. Rescued by the surviving humans the Doctor and Rose make their escape, dropping his psychic-paper as they head to the swamps with the Pakoo guards in pursuit. The Pakoos' aerial attack is thwarted by the Doctor using his sonic screwdriver to ignite the swamp gases. The Huntmasters catch up to them and, having found the Doctor's ID, which reads as personal assistant to President Kaakaa herself, apologise and offer them assistance. The Doctor orders them to send the humans home and returns with the Huntmasters to deliver a warning to Mr and Mrs Pakoo, only to find they too have disappeared – but this time leaving a trail for the Doctor to follow. (DWBIT: The Hunt of Doom)

The TARDIS is following the lectra energy leak of a power-boosted transmat beam, found every time survivors of Platform One have disappeared, including most recently Mr and Mrs Pacoo. A TARDIS intruder arrives, identifies Rose and transmats her away to join the others. The Doctor, whose identity was not confirmed as a result of his regeneration, is not taken.

Rose awakes to find herself imprisoned with the other survivors of Platform One. They are faced by a vengeful Elth of Balhoon. He believes his brother, Moxx of Balhoon, was abandoned to die alone in agony when the Platform One shields failed. In accordance with Statute 7 of the Hanamacat Pel Jadrabone Convention, Elth feels he may take his revenge on the survivors who let the Moxx die. The Doctor arrives undetected by the Elth's bioslaves, defeats them and releases the prisoners with his sonic screwdriver. His plans thwarted, the Elth breaks down in tears, mourning the loss of his family member. The Doctor asks the others to go easy on him. To Rose's surprise, the former prisoners rally round the Elth with offers to make a film of the Moxx's life, grow a garden in his memory, and offers of sponsorship and free travel for visitors. The mystery solved, the Doctor and Rose quietly slip away in the TARDIS. (DWBIT: Reunion of Fear)

Finally admitting that the TARDIS food machine is in need of more than a few adjustments, the Tenth Doctor takes Rose to a steak joint he knows on Phijax IV. Armed with an umbrella, the Doctor and Rose step out to non-stop rain and very low gravity, only to find themselves standing in an arena where they are expected to fight for their survival or be eaten by the Glutonoid (a giant purple blob with an excitable appetite for flesh). Forced to fight and chained together, Rose and the Doctor use the low gravity to overpower the competition, but the Glutonoid still wants to taste and eat Rose, in spite of the Doctor's warning. The Doctor activates the Glutonoid's hover pad, using its small, handheld device, and once in the air, feeds it the rejected mixture of TARDIS food pills. The combination of tastes proves lethal and the Glutinoid explodes as the Doctor and Rose drift to the ground using the Doctor's extended umbrella. With the Glutonoid gone there will be no more fights to the death. The Doctor has built up an appetite but Rose will settle instead for a glass of water. (DWBIT: The Glutonoid Menace)

Landing near a creepy alien castle, the Doctor and Rose split up to explore, but Rose, entering a room filled with mirrors, is snatched by her evil reflection. She finds herself in another dimension filled of Mirrorlings, creatures waiting for their chance to escape using the mirrors to take on a new life and replace the originals, all of whom are stuck along with Rose - some for as long as fifty years! As the Mirrorling-Rose prepares to leave in the TARDIS with the Doctor, a band of locals arrive and warn them not to enter the house. The Doctor and Rose are told that for years people had come out of the house somehow different people. When they realised it had something to do with mirrors, they collected them all and locked them in the house. Breaking the mirrors simply breaks any link and traps the people forever. When Rose shows no interest in solving the mystery, preferring to leave in the TARDIS, the Doctor knows something is wrong and returns to the house to find the real Rose. Using himself as bait, he lures the Mirrorlings out of the mirrors but uses his sonic screwdriver to stop them from fully stepping through. Calling Rose and all the others to escape through the mirrors, the Doctor waits until they have all returned before using the sonic screwdriver to smash the mirrors, which returns the Mirrorlings to their own dimension. (DWA: Mirror Image)

They took a trip to 1879 Scotland, where the Doctor protected Queen Victoria from further assassination attempts. The Brethren took over Torchwood House, and intended to use the bite of the wolf to put the Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform on the British throne. Inside Torchwood House, the Doctor used Prince Albert's Koh-i-Noor diamond with the Light chamber designed by Sir George MacLeish, the house's former owner, to destroy the werewolf Host, before its bite was passed on.

As a reward, the Doctor was knighted "Sir Doctor of TARDIS" and Rose was knighted "Dame Rose of the Powell Estate". They were also banished from the British Empire, since their blasé attitude to danger unnerved the Queen. The Doctor also inadvertently inspired Queen Victoria to found the Torchwood Institute, dedicated to defending Britain from the alien threat, particularly him. (DW: Tooth and Claw)

It's Indonesia in 1883. The Doctor and Rose escape from being tied to a post by the local islanders. They spoke about Men of Flames who are destroying their land. Racing through the jungle, they hide behind a waterfall. It leads underground where the Chalderans (a silicon-based, flame-red, horned lifeform, with an incredibly high body temperaure) are drilling into the planet to empty its core and leave behind another dead planet. The Chalderans have three weaknesses; extreme heat, water and stupidity. The Doctor convinces them they have been drilling in the wrong direction. They start to argue amongst themselves. The Doctor and Rose run for the TARDIS. The pursing Chalderans are killed when they run into the waterfall. In the TARDIS the Doctor and Rose watch from a safe distance as the island explodes, killing the remaining Chalderans. The island's name, the Doctor tells Rose, is Krakatoa,. When it exploded. it destroyed two-thirds of the island. For more stunning displays, the Doctor suggests the mating Fire Dragons of Ket-el or the lovely twin supernova out near Deneb-3. (DWA: Under the Volcano)

Soon after the leader of the Futurist group dissapears, Milan is destroyed. In it's place is a huge, futuristic city. The Doctor and Rose travel back to the time of the Romans to find out who is behind this... (DWM: The Futurists)

The Doctor and Rose Tyler arrived on a Magellan-Class Star Cruiser circa 3000 AD, where they encounter the surviving members of Pakafroon Wabster, the greatest rock band in history, even though no one has heard from them in centuries. The Doctor soon discovers why: the vessel is caught in a time-loop which repeats the same few hours prior to the vessel's destruction by sabotage. After experiencing one of the loops -- which results in the (temporary) death of Rose, the Doctor works to solve a double mystery: how to break the time loop, and the identity of the saboteur. (DWM: Interstellar Overdrive)

Mickey summons the Doctor and Rose to the British Natural History Museum and along with Jackie they visit the Roman gallery where the young man shows him his discovery; a statue of Rose, posing as the goddess Fortuna from two thousand years ago. As they examine it they discover it has the same jewellery as Rose yet only one arm; and the two time travellers soon realise that this means they are destined for a visit to ancient Rome.

Stepping outside Mickey explains to Rose that he has been volunteering to take guided tours around the museum but asks her not to tell the Doctor, who is already saying his goodbyes in preparation to leave.

Some time later, after Rose has abandoned the idea of wearing a bed sheet as a make-shift toga and put on a genuine Roman dress from the TARDIS wardrobe, the TARDIS lands in ancient Rome and she and the Doctor, decked out in a real toga, step outside. Despite being rather unimpressed with the general hygiene of the city around them the two travellers are sprung to action when they see an old man being mugged.

After Rose wards off the attackers by hitting them with large pottery urns, the Doctor helps the old man to his feet, who introduces himself as Gracilis and explains he is on an important search mission. As the three of them begin to walk away the Doctor asks the date and he replies, telling him it is the Ides of March, much to Rose’s amusement. The two travellers see that he is very weak and take him to a nearby café where he explains that he is looking for his lost son Optatus.

The owner of the café overhears their conversation overhears them and tells Gracilis that he should consult a local girl, who has the ability to predict the future with much accuracy, she has even predicted the fall of the empire. The old man is keen to consult her and as he sets off the Doctor and Rose follow, keen to find out more.

When they arrive on the small estate of houses Gracilis pays the proprietor of one of the buildings to see the young girl who turns out to be a slave. As Gracilis talks of his lost son the young girl, called Vanessa, begins to list a series of complicated equations that intrigue the Doctor but when Rose thinks about it she realises the girl is bluffing, simply scrawling down the numbers in an attempt to think of something to say.

The Doctor drops the hint that perhaps Vanessa needs to be at the last place Optatus was seen in, in order to make a proper guess at where he is now but her owner refuses, claiming he would loose business. Gracilis manages to convince the man to sell her to him and soon the four of them are on their way to Gracilis’ villa in a horse and cart.

Rose tries to ask Vanessa about herself and learns that she is only sixteen years old, but when she asks how she got into astrology the girl starts to cry. The time traveller wonders what is making the girl so scared and the next morning, after a stop at a way station for the night, she begins to question her more but fails to find out more.

The Doctor meanwhile has calculated the date as 120 AD, and whilst he consults with Rose the group finally arrive at the villa. Marcia, Gracilis’ wife welcomes them and whilst her husband tells her about Vanessa the others go up to bed.

The next day Rose finds the Doctor sitting under a tree, thinking, and after they amuse themselves with banter about the Doctor being the next Hercule Poirot, they are taken by one of the servants to the villa’s grove, where Gracilis introduces them to Ursus, a master sculptor. He unveils a statue of the missing Optatus and as Marcia longingly hugs it, she comments that now the others can find the real human.

Once left alone with Ursus the time travellers ask him about his work but he remains very secretive, not allowing them to visit his workshop. He also denies knowing much of Optatus, before taking the opportunity to ask Rose to pose for a statue of a goddess he is due to start work on.

Some time later, in the villa grounds, the travellers discuss the sculptor before pondering if Vanessa really can see into the future, the Doctor disbanding Rose’s firm disbelief by explaining that Vanessa once talked of Hadrian’s Wall, despite the fact he has not been built. A while after they separate, the Doctor sets off to talk to more people about Optatus whilst Rose talks with Marcia and Vanessa.

She talks to them about Ursus and Marcia comments how clumsy he was as a child, yet he suddenly became an expert at sculpture. She tells them she met him at the Festival of Fortuna, the name of which makes Vanessa shiver and reminds Rose of the name of the statue she saw in the museum.

She goes on to talk about modelling for Ursus before taking Vanessa to meet the Doctor, managing to get her to admit her ‘predictions’ are all faked. She promises to return her home once Optatus is found but the young girl bursts into tears, explaining she hasn’t a home.

The Doctor joins them and explains that Optatus was last seen visiting Ursus’ studio when the statues was still in the planning stages, however when the boy disappeared it was apparently almost finished, despite the fact sculptures can take months to complete. After contemplating life as a sculptor he tells the others that they must get into Ursus’ studio and find out his working habits.

The two travellers leave Vanessa to her thoughts whilst they go on, Rose explaining Vanessa lack of foresight and the two of them contemplating the concept of slavery, before the Doctor sees Ursus walking in the grounds, meaning his workshop is empty. He runs with Rose to the workshop and pick the lock of the door, before stepping inside where they find a young man called Tiro, who is also acting as a model. As he talks to Rose about posing the Doctor notes how Ursus has no stone to work on.

Soon Ursus returns and yells at them for trespassing before telling Rose to return the next day for her sitting but disallows the Doctor to come with her. The Time Lord asks where the stone for the statues is and the sculptor tells him it is to be delivered. After accusing the intruder as a rival sculptor and ignoring his prattlings about the pristine condition of the workshop, coupled with the gloves he wears whilst working he throws the two strangers out, where upon they decide to go to dinner.

After struggling to get used to the strange seating positions Rose begins to examine the food that is being served at the banquet, also having to accustom herself to not having a knife and fork. She notes that Vanessa is nowhere to be seen and after the meal she leaves to find her in the grove, where they talk about upholding Vanessa’s disguise and Rose’s early call for posing in the morning.

Vanessa offers to wake her on time and as Rose contemplates how in her time the Roman Empire would be dust, with only artefacts like her statue, Vanessa prepares to enter the house and they walk off together.

The next morning the two girls make their way to Ursus’ studio but the sculptor tells the would be prophet to leave he and his model alone. Once she has gone he gives Rose a goblet of wine which, when drunk begins to make her feel giddy. As she begins to pass out Ursus places a spear in her hand, like the one her statue was carrying and as she realises her time may be up she watches as the modeller uncovers another statue, the completed model of Tiro he had never even stated the day before.

With little success the Doctor has been investigating and comes to the conclusion only Ursus knows where Optatus can be found. He decides to go and visit Rose and when he arrives at Ursus’ studio finds a cart pulling way carrying the completed statue of Tiro posing as the god Mercury. As he thinks he suddenly thinks of how Ursus could have made such lifelike statues so quickly, and he begins to run.

In the studio Ursus talks to the paralysed Rose, explaining that he prayed to his goddess for the ability to sculpt despite his stumpy fingers and one day his prayers were answered. As he talks Rose remembers the man with Petrifold Regression from the hospital on New Earth, then passes out.

The Doctor finds Ursus loading another statue onto a cart but before he can see it he is knocked out by Vanessa, who explains when he comes round a while later that she was actually aiming for Ursus but missed. She explains that she has no idea where Rose has been taken but the Doctor explodes at her, accusing her of lying before going on to tell her to explain how; despite the fact she has a non-Roman name, knows of the un-built Hadrian’s Wall and has the ability to calculate a mathematical formula from the twenty fourth century, is thousands of years in her own past. He demands to know what has happened to Rose but instead of answering she pulls a weapon on him and threatens to shoot if he does not let her go.

The Doctor manages to take the device, which he discovers is a vid-cast remote control. Vanessa breaks down and explains how scared she has been since she arrived in Rome after leaving her home on Earth in 2375. The Doctor sees her distress and does not ask how she arrived and instead they go to Ursus’ workshop where Rose is nowhere to be seen.

Vanessa admits the statue Ursus was taking away was of Rose and the Doctor realises that it is not a statue; it is Rose having been turned to stone, it is Rose standing in the British Museum. He vows to find her then returns to his room to fetch his Sonic Screwdriver, and when he arrives find it inside a small drawstring punch Rose has made him as a present.

He sprints outside with Vanessa, out of the villa and finds a fork in the road. After guessing that Rose will have been taken to Rome he takes the path he believes to the correct route whilst Vanessa takes the other, each planning to return to the villa at nightfall. Despite his search along the road the Time Lord finds no trace of Rose and is forced to head back where he finds no trace of Vanessa but ignores it and asks Gracilis to help him get to Rome.

The two men travel by donkey and stop for the night in a way station where they let the mules rest. The Doctor asks the proprietor if there is a spare horse for him to ride on with but he tells him there aren’t. However, when a soldier named Rufus arrives the Doctor takes the opportunity to liberate the horse set aside for his use and is soon no more than a speck in the distance of the horizon.

After arriving in Rome and embarking on a fruitless search for Rose’s statue, the Doctor finds himself in a shrine to Fortuna, the goddess Rose’s statue was modelled on. The statue inside is not the one he is looking for but as he turns to leave a disembodied voice addresses him and a phial of liquid rolls along the floor towards him, which the voice tells him will bring the statues back to life. He tries to find the source of the voice but is interrupted when Gracilis enters attempting to warn him of something.

Suddenly Rufus enters and his band of soldiers drag the Doctor away to the arena, but on his way out of the shrine he drops the phial, the one cure. He ponders his dilemma as he is dragged away and then wonders why the voice was speaking through an alien vocoder.

The Doctor is taken to a dungeon in an Amphitheatre where two guards, Flaccus and Thermus, lock him in after taking away his belt pouch, containing the sonic screwdriver. He sits and introduces himself to his fellow depressed prisoners, who explain they will be put in the arena the next day. The Doctor comes to name them Ringo, John, Paul and George and he listens as the four of them talk about violent events they have seen in the arena.

Throughout the night the Doctor appeals to guards for help but makes no ground and the next day, as the crowd’s cheers ring out the four prisoners explain to their new comrade that the first event is now over, after the clear up of the bodies it is their turn in the arena…

Thermus enters and tells the Doctor that an old man, Gracilis, has appealed for his freedom and now it has been granted he is led away. He passes the guards quarters and takes the opportunity to retrieve the sonic screwdriver, before being shown the way out, up a ramp. He walks up and the door closes behind him. He looks around and realises he has been tricked; he is standing in the arena.

A series of trapdoors are opened and starved creatures such as lions, tigers and bears are released. The Doctor bows to the crowd then dispatches the lion with the sonic screwdriver, lulling it to sleep. Next comes the bear and the Doctor scrambles up a tree for safety, dropping the sonic screwdriver. The bear prepares to climb the tree and the Time Lord jumps down. Clinging to the creature’s neck.

As the mighty beast prepares to roll on it’s back to unseat it’s rider the Doctor leaps and grabs the sonic screwdriver, firing it at the roaring bear which sulks away. Suddenly two of the animal trainers enter, armed with flaming torches and tridents. They torment a nearby tiger and it runs for the Doctor, who jumps over its head and runs off, leaving the trainers to be devoured. The Time Lord, now holding the trident, realises there are more animals to come and that he must get out, but nobody has ever escaped from the arena…

Ringo, Paul, John and George are brought out and tied on stakes with raw meet left at their feet. The Doctor rushes forward and begins to cut them free with the trident. As the men help to free each other as well as other prisoners. Suddenly a group of leopards are released, followed by a group of guards who are dispatched by the prisoners. Flaccus and Thermus are left and they run, tripping over the sleeping lion and waking it up.

The Doctor leaves them to their fate and uses the trident to pole-vault over the arena wall, into the stands. Brandishing a liberated sword he takes two senators togas then uses them as a rope to let the others scale up the wall. Many do so and arm themselves with swords, as the now present Gracilis manages to warn the Doctor that Rufus is about to attack. The Time Lord avoids being hit by an arrow and upon Rufus’ second attack the magistrate is killed by George. The remaining men escape the arena and together they run for freedom, out onto the streets.

Outside the Time Lord marvels at his escape then meets Gracilis and together they prepare to leave, the Doctor using Gracilis’ cloak as a disguise. They arrive back at the shrine of Fortuna where the Doctor dropped the phial, only for Gracilis to reveal he picked it up after his friend’s capture. They prepare to find Rose’s statue and a man at the shrine tells them a new statue by Ursus is about to be unveiled in the forum. The two friends rush there, the Doctor still contemplating the familiarity of the ghostly voice that talked to him before his capture. They soon arrive at the forum but the Doctor’s joy is short-lived. The new statue is not of Fortuna, it is of Mercury. This is not Rose’s statue, it is the slave Tiro’s.

The Doctor’s heart sinks but he realises he has work to do. He takes the phial of liquid and spills a drop of it on Tiro’s statue. Slowly but surely the stone becomes skin again, and Tiro comes to life much to many spectators surprise. The Doctor covers Gracilis and Tiro’s departure by performing magic tricks with a coin, and then moves to join, them telling them they must cure all of the statues before going back to the villa and saving Optatus.

As the day progresses the Doctor and Gracilis embark on their journey to save the trapped slaves, and after Gracilis promises the Doctor that he will take care of the free slaves they move to find the last statue. However when they locate it they find it under heavy guard due to the disappearance of the other statues. The Doctor sneaks past as Gracilis distracts the soldiers. The Doctor uses some of the last remaining solution to awaken the young girl but is seen by a guard. He manages to convince the guard he has not stolen the missing statue and with Gracilis’ help is able to walk away unharmed with the liberated slave.

After the Gracilis arranges transport for the would-be statues, he and the Doctor prepare to return to the villa, picking up the TARDIS on the way. They arrive some time after and the Doctor uses one of the last drops to revive Optatus, allowing him to fall into the clutches of his father’s embracing arms. The Doctor finds that there has been no word from Ursus or Vanessa since he last saw her, and as Gracilis and his family celebrate, the Doctor finally realises exactly where he can find Rose…

He arrives back at the British Museum where Mickey welcomes him. He is forced to admit that the statue before them is Rose and Mickey breaks down, almost in tears as he realises his old girlfriend might be dead. As he laments that she was always to good for him and how he always knew she would leave him eventually, the Doctor admits there is a way to save her.

When the statue is left alone they return to it where upon the Doctor pours the remaining liquid over the stone figurine, but no change occurs. As he and Mickey realise it is too late to change her back the Time Lord realises the statue is not really the one he is looking for; whereas it is wearing two earrings the real Rose was only wearing one after she saw the statue for the first time in the British museum and took one off to compare t to her counterpart.

The Doctor discovers there is a very small amount of liquid left and begins to realise where the other state might of came from and with a little help from Mickey he is soon on his way back to Rome.

It is a few days before he rescued the rest of the statues and the Doctor manages to revive Rose before explaining she is dressed not as Fortuna but as Minerva, the goddess of art. Vanessa arrives and finally explains the events leading up to her arrival in Rome:

Her father was a scientist experimenting with Artificial Reality. She had been at home watching a vidcast on Ancient Rome when the power cut out and she found a box containing what she presumed was the device her father was working on. She did not look at it but instead received a phone call from her friend during which she mentioned how she wished she were in ancient Rome. Everything went dark and the next thing she knew she was in Rome.

The Doctor decides it is time to find Ursus, whom he followed in order to find Rose. He begins to trace the footsteps the sculptor would have made on his way around. The three friends arrive at a run down temple where they find Ursus worshipping a woman dressed as Minerva, who Rose realises by the light in the woman’s eyes is a real goddess. As the sculptor reaches to sacrifice a lamb to his worship Rose rushes to stop him but is too late as she is thrown into slow motion. The deed is done and soon Minerva has absorbed the spilt blood, and the body of the lamb…

The Doctor gets Ursus to admit that it was the goddess Minerva who gave him the ability to make statues, after he began to give offerings to her. Rose begins to attack him by asking why he sacrificed so many people for his so-called art. The Doctor meanwhile begins to dismiss the idea of a real roman goddess; he has seen many things in his time such as abominable snowmen, werewolves, demons and vampires but never could a goddess be real.

He suddenly comes to realise what the goddess really is and wishes to see it in its true form. There is a sound like thunder and the goddess transforms into a small platypus dragon-like creature sitting in a box. Ursus lunges at the Time Lord with his knife but only manages to turn the Time Lord and Vanessa into stone, before falling on the knife and killing himself.

Rose cries over the Doctor and wishes he had never come to Rome. There is another sound like lightening and then he is gone, leaving Rose to think that something is missing from the room but not being able to think what…

Rose strives to remember how she ended up in Rome and decides she must have been hijacked by aliens. She wishes she knew how she arrived and sure enough after the dragon-like creature in the box replies it all comes flooding back to her and she realises the Doctor has gone.

She reels in horror as Ursus’ body is absorbed by the dragon creature, much like the incident with the lamb. She calms herself then asks the creature where the Doctor is but it denies there was ever a doctor present. Upon the young travellers’ request it explains it is a Genetically Engineered Neutral Imagination Engine, or GENIE for short. It is an invention of Vanessa’s fathers and is capable of granting wishes.

Rose realises that it was the GENIE that brought Vanessa to Rome and also gave Ursus his special power but after she asks it tells he that it cannot bring the Doctor back by reversing her previous wish. It does however refill the phial of liquid that the Doctor acquired and Rose uses it to bring Vanessa back to life. She then begins to think about using the GENIE to get Vanessa back home but it explains to do so it needs more energy, 1,718,902 times more than is obtained by consuming one dead human body.

Rose and Vanessa decide they must go back to Gracilis’ villa and after Rose wishes that the GENIE take on the appearance of a monkey as soon as any Romans are around the two girls take the creature outside to Ursus’ cart and prepare to leave. They arrive some time later to find Marcia waiting for them and are invited to a party. Rose realises that if Marcia recognises her despite the fact the Doctor supposedly never arrived; technically she should not be present, time must be trying to heal the paradox that has been created.

During the party, as Rose wonders what to do next events take a terrible turn as the GENIE, held in its box by Vanessa, begins to grant the many wishes of the other party-goers. Soon people are being moved across the room or disappearing all together, people change appearance and gain possessions and suddenly one of the young men present is transformed into an Emperor.

Rose denies his status and as the brainwashed masses begin to turn on her she calls out with one last hope to the GENIE, wishing that she and Vanessa were somewhere safe. There is a sound like thunder and everything disappears.

Rose and Vanessa find themselves in a white void where nothing else can be seen. The distortion of perception means Vanessa soon gets lost and once Rose manages to find the GENIE she has time to figure out exactly why the creature can sends her and Vanessa between realities yet cannot send Vanessa home.

She realises the GENIE does not alter reality. It does not introduce new matter or take things away; it merely alters people’s perception of the matter concerned in the wish they make. The Doctor is not really gone; the GENIE has merely altered her own perception so that she cannot see him. She wishes that she and Vanessa were back in Rome and that their perceptions of reality had not been changed.

Soon enough she is back in the shrine with the petrified Doctor before her. She takes out the phial of liquid and uses some of it to bring her friend back to life and soon enough they are together again. The Doctor congratulates her on discovering the truth but his friend is not finished yet. She gets the GENIE to undo all of the wishes back at the party then asks why the creature once before told her it couldn’t undo her wish to bring the Doctor back. The Time Lord answers her question, telling her the creature didn’t want to because it was afraid of him.

The Doctor explains the GENIE was afraid of him because it knew the Doctor knew that GENIES would do mankind no good, they would simply use them to smite each other and cause disrupt and agony for each other. The human race saw this and were forced to create a massive paradox where they took the very first GENIE back in time to stop it’s own creation, but to do this they needed the energy of the sun to do this and the creature died as a result.

Vanessa’s GENIE is the same GENIE that was taken back in time but at a point before the incident occurred and as a result if it were to return to Earth the entire planet would become over-run once more. The Doctor explains that although the GENIE cannot go home Vanessa can. He and Rose prepare to take her home in the TARDIS but first there is something else to do.

The Doctor takes them to the shrine where he first found the phial of liquid and heard the goddess Fortuna speak to him. After regaling his companion as to how he once had the luck to avoid getting married to an elephant, the Doctor pushes her out into the shrine where she sees the past version of himself inspecting the statue of Fortuna. She rolls to him the phial of liquid, talking to him via a vocoder but panics when the Doctor drops the phial and is abducted. Gracilis enters but nearly leaves without taking the phial but Rose uses the GENIE to make sure he returns and picks it up, so as to hand it to the Doctor later after his escape from the arena.

Some time later the Doctor and Rose drop Vanessa home and the Time Lord warns her to make sure her father never develops another GENIE and as soon as she is settled they take off again, wondering what to do with the creature they still have onboard. Rose decides to grant the GENIE freedom and wishes that it had the ability to not be enslaved, that it could only grant wishes when it wanted to. She then wishes it was somewhere it could be at peace and with a sound like thunder the creature is gone.

Rose realises there is still something left to do, there is now no statue left to be put in the museum in two thousand years time but amidst her panic the Doctor takes her into another room of the ship where there stands another statue of her, one he has sculpted himself. He explains that when he went back to the museum and met Mickey they picked up the statue there and found the Doctor’s Gallifreyan signature underneath. He then went back to the Renascence and made the statue with the guidance of Michelangelo before returning to Rome to follow Ursus and save Rose.

They take the statue back to Gracilis’ villa where it takes the place of the new revived statue of Ursus and once it is in place Gracilis tells them he will honour them all of his life for the deeds they have done. Rose makes him promise he will not offer them sacrifices and he heartily agrees.

Soon history has taken its true course again; Jackie has a photo of the statue sellotaped to the cupboard wall, Mickey is still taking children to see the figure in his spare time and in the distant future Vanessa sits and wonders if her father will create another GENIE in order to end her boredom…

Elsewhere the GENIE is leading its new life and sits together in a lush field of grass with a guinea pig, granting its wish for another carrot. It thinks for a while and decides it will be happy here…(NSA: The Stone Rose)

On a sinking ship struck down in the North Sea young sailor Jay Selby staggers on deck wondering why the boat is sinking so fast, despite the fact not a shot has been fired. As the rest of the crew realise there are no lifeboats Jay realises that whatever took them did not show on the radar.

The crew capsize and as Jay flounders about remembering his mum and his sister Keisha, something grabs hold of his leg, puncturing the base of his neck and stabbing his back at the same time. Despite floundering for safety it is no use; he is plunged into the depths of the water as the creatures of the water swirl around him.

Some time later Rose sits in her friend Keisha’s living room, as she explains that Jay’s ship has been pulled up the Thames in a million pieces, yet still his death is unconfirmed, even though she knows he is gone. She admits she hasn’t the details to contact her mother on and is yet to tell her as Rose looks over to the Doctor, who stands staring out of a window.

After she asks about him Rose explains to Keisha that she met the Doctor the time she disappeared for twelve months, and after she admits the rest of her friends had thought Mickey had killed her the Doctor goes on to ask what Jay did on the ship. Seeing that it doesn’t lighten things he decides to go and buy them some chips, leaving the two girls alone.

No sooner has he left, the ghost of Jay appears in the corner of the room, a scarred phantom. Shivering, he calls for them to come and help him, rescue him before the feast. Suddenly, water flows from his nose and mouth and he fades away, leaving a pool of water than soaks into nothing. Keisha gets hysterical; telling Rose that she must find him and help him. The Doctor returns with the chips and news that some of the customers in the nearby newsagents have collapsed into fits. After he has finished Keisha tells him what they have just seen…

The Doctor and Rose leave Keisha to rest and on their way out the Doctor admits he has no belief the thing they saw was a ghost. He decides that they need to find out more about the ship Jay was on; the ‘Ascendant’ and that they so go to Mickey’s house to check the Internet.

Once there they find that the giant ship was sunk in the North Sea and that the entire crew was lost. It was brought up the Thames in pieces to a place called Stanchion House. Rose wonders why the ship was taken up in pieces and Mickey theorises it may have been to send different parts to different departments.

Soon he and Rose are arguing about Keisha, Mickey spouting that Keisha is a bad influence and Rose defending her. Loosing his temper he reveals that the first time she went away in the TARDIS for a year, Keisha had her friends push things through his letterbox and try to beat a confession out of him in regards to what had happened.

The Doctor tries to calm them down before revealing from one of the report he has read that around twenty people have gone missing around the Thames area since the Ascendant was brought up river. He decides it is time to go and look at the ship for themselves in the TARDIS but when Rose and Mickey agree t come with him the human traveller tells him that they are taking the bus.

Some time after they have arrived at the river where all bridges leading to Stanchion House have been closed. They find another woman, called Anne, who has also seen one of the beckoning apparitions, this time of her lost son Peter who was also on the Ascendant, and is trying to get to the wreckage to find her son before the feast.

After stopping her from jumping into the river they are confronted by a troop of soldiers who collapse in a fit. The Doctor takes one of their passes and runs off to get to Stanchion House. After Anne goes into panic over Peter, once again seeing his ghost calling out to her, and an ill-feeling Mickey helps call of an ambulance as the soldiers calm down, and a pool of water where Peter stood appears from the ground, trickling off to join with the river.

The Doctor arrives at Stanchion House where he introduces himself as Sir John Smith, Scientific Advisor to the Admiralty. As the receptionists tell him of the pedestrians jumping into the river in order to reach the Ascendant. The Doctor looks at the staff list and tells them he is here to see Vida Swann, and is then taken to his office.

At the riverside Mickey has been sick from dehydration and as Rose decides to take Anne to rest at her mum’s house a man called Rear Admiral Crayshaw approaches and tells them an ambulance for the fallen soldiers will not be necessary. He tells them that he and his men will look after them; he is in charge of the operation regarding the Ascendant. He dismisses the stories if people diving into the Thames and then sends them on their way before making his way back to Stanchion House, where Rose realises the Doctor is still at large within.

The Doctor is led to Vida Swann’s office where he uses his stolen pass to get inside. He discovers she is a Liaison Officer for the European Office Of Oceanic Research And Development. And after she accidentally hits him in the head by opening a door he introduces himself again as John Smith. He asks to be directed to where the pieces of the Ascendant were brought up the river. Instead she reveals that when he entered her computer read his pass as Sergeant Jodie North, she knows it is stolen. He finally introduces himself as the Doctor and then darts to escape, Vida having admitted she has already activated the alarm. He runs out into the corridor but the windows are locked, the lifts are full and on their way up, and the stairs are alive with the sound of approaching soldiers, he’s trapped.

As Vida un-eagerly awaits the arrival of Crayshaw the Doctor hides in a cupboard then sneaks into the lift where he uses a series of hidden button leads him deep below ground. In the streets of the city Rose phones Jackie but there is no room at the flat for Anne because a man called Dennis is coming round. After Anne start asking to be taken back to the river Rose decides to take her to Keisha, she knows about seeing one of the ghosts.

Crayshaw enters Vida’s office and she tells him the intruder wanted to know about the Ascendant. She goes on to criticise the treatment of her and her fellow scientists, they are denied information and have been labelled as a security breech and she is not even allowed to board the ancient tug moored outside. Crayshaw upholds his own scientists are able to deal with the ship. He tells her that her affairs must be dealt with elsewhere then leaves.

The Doctor arrives in the underground lair where he is introduced to a scientist named Huntly. Posing as a scientific advisor he examines the remains of the Ascendant, which has been carved perfectly into chunks. He asks how this was done when the technology shouldn’t exist. Huntly tells him it was not done by the humans; this was how the ship was found at the bottom of the ocean.

After arriving at Keisha’s flat Rose sees that she has been preparing for Jay to return, cooking his favourite dinner and facing all furniture towards the spot where he appeared. After Mickey and Keisha argue over their past encounters Mickey goes to get more water to cure his illness and Keisha comforts Anne, they are ready for the next time the ghosts return.

As the Doctor ponders what might have carved up the ship in such a way Huntly explains the pieces were brought up the Thames and brought down to the Unloading bay, which is connected to the underside of an ancient tug out in the river. Suddenly and alarm sounds and soldiers arrive to take the Doctor as the Time Lord says goodbye to Huntly and flees towards the unloading bay. Running along through chambers and into a large room where the cargo is brought down he seals himself away from the soldiers and is puzzled by the presence of salt water when the water is from the river. He decides to find out if he can get out the way the cargo came in runs off into the darkness. Crayshaw arrives in the underground chamber and Huntly tells him what the Doctor, alias John Smith, has said about the way the ship was carved using hydrogen anti-cellularisation. He admits he is open to these knew ideas and before he leaves Crayshaw tells him to stay behind after his shift to talk to him, as the soldiers struggle to open the door the Doctor locked with the Sonic Screwdriver.

The Doctor arrives in a large chamber with no ceiling, stretching up into the darkness.

As he sniffs the salt water he begins to ascend the large ladders of what he presumes is a cargo lift. As he goes he realises someone else has recently done the same and pondering who, he continues. He arrives at the platform on which the cargo is placed and then finds the inspection hatch covered in blood. He reaches to release it but then gunfire rings out.

As Rose, Mickey, Keisha and Anne sit in silence Rose remembers life on Earth growing up and how the Doctor has helped her to grow up. Or grow old. Mickey decides to go to the newsagents and Rose remembers how the Doctor said that when he went there when fetching chips earlier he said some customers had collapsed in fits, the same time that Jay appeared, and the same happened to the soldiers on the bridge when Anne saw her son. She decides to visit the newsagents and find out more, telling Mickey to stay behind with Keisha.

The Doctor dodges the gunfire, organised by Crayshaw and gets into the inspection hatch as the soldiers are ordered to spread out and find him. Suddenly a ghostly voice tells its mignons not to kill all the soldiers, some are still needed. The escaping one will be taken and bound to swell numbers at the feast. The Doctor ponders if they mean him or the one who came before him. He wonders what the other escapee might have been running from before setting off to get to the tug before the soldiers cut off his escape.

Sloshing through the water he finds a figure standing before him, the other escapee. It asks him to help in a London accent. He looks upon the disfigured face calling for help and realises it is Jay, Keisha’s brother. He tries to help but two figures rise from the convulsing water, each dressed in different period costumes. They take the screaming Jay and pull him below the water level and are washed away in an unseen current. The Doctor vows to return and proceeds to the hull of the tug, and there to the cabin where he can hear the sound of footsteps coming towards him.

In the newsagents Rose discovers the people who collapsed in fits were suffering from advanced dehydration. She remembers how the ghost of Jay had spewed water from his mouth when he arrived in Keisha’s flat. Suddenly the woman behind the counter collapses and goes into spasm and before her Jay’s ghost appears again, telling her to save him before the feast.

After Mickey remembers his one night stand with Keisha, something he never told Rose about, he panics as Keisha and Anne start to see their lost ones again calling to him. He sees nothing but rushes outside to see people begin sick in the streets. He returns to the flat to try and stop Anne and Keisha from leaving. Anne escapes and he is forced to stop Keisha by shutting her in the bathroom. As she struggles to get out Rose knocks on the door and Mickey tells her about Anne. She bids him farewell and runs to find the old woman. Running through the streets she reflects on what has happened and calls for a taxi.

On the deck of the tug Vida curses Crayshaw and then finds the Doctor. He explains about the dissection of the ship by alien technology and some alien intervention of the crew as he saw with Jay. She admits that she knows nothing of what is going on as the Doctor traps at the controls of the boat. Suddenly he decides that they must move on before the soldiers arrive and prepares to launch the boat as more gunfire rattles out, Crayshaw doesn’t want him to get away alive…

Rose gets the cab driver to stop at a police station but when she gets out a lone policeman called PC Fraser tells her due to staffing issues they are closed. After Rose explains about Anne he explains she may well be in the river. He tells her that many people have been seen jumping in, like there was a curse drawing them there. He explains that despite the fact they have all gone in not one person has been retrieved from the water, as if something was taking them. He tells her to try a station in Waterloo for finding Anne and as he goes off Rose returns to the impatient cab driver.

On the tug the gunfire continues from the soldiers as the Doctor starts up the boats engines. Unable to see because of the tarpaulin draped over the vessel he manages to get them moving, explaining to Vide that Crayshaw will kill them both and claim it was an accident. He decides to move out and remove the tarpaulin so that they can get to somewhere more public and thus be safer. Vida protests but it is too late because he has already gone.

In Keisha’s flat Mickey struggles to keep the bathroom door closed and looses his grip on the handle. Keisha runs out but stops dead when a message plays on her answer phone from her mother, who she has not heard in years. She calms down and begins to weep as Mickey moves off to make some tea.

Rose stops her taxi and gets out, thinking she has seen Anne. However the woman she runs up to in not Anne and instead she is drawn to the sounds of mass screaming. She runs and finds herself at the side of the river, where soldiers are trying to hold back crowds of people wanting to reach their lost relatives from the Ascendant. An old man joins her and talks of the cursed waters but she dismisses him, explaining it is the ghosts of the dead.

Suddenly the Doctor appears struggling to free the tarpaulin on the tug that towed the wreckage up river. As Rose looks on he calls and says he’s aiming to stop it by crashing it into something soft; the large restaurant barge in front of him. She runs onboard and everyone starts to clear out as the Doctor instructs Vida to throw the boat into a handbrake turn. Soon she is on the deck with him and Rose is on her way from the barge as the two boats collide, crashing the barge into the side of the river.

Rose gets to her feet and the Doctor and Vida scramble onto the barge. Rose creates a distraction to busy the approaching soldiers and soon the three of them are on the roadside. They approach the waiting taxi driver and the Doctor tells him to go to the HQ of the European Office of Oceanic Research and Development, Mickey and the others can meet them there.

Back at Stanchion House Huntly sits waiting for Crayshaw to arrive. After some time he does so and decides to show him something. He takes him along a corridor to a giant pool of water, lined by stationary bodies. Crayshaw admits that they are dead, but still full of life. As Huntly stutters he tells him they want him to join the feast. He falls into the water and something stabs him in the neck, as he slowly becomes lost to the water.

In the cab the Doctor explains about the base and seeing Jay, the victim of an alien vivisection. Rose admits that when she saw him in the newsagents she had the urge to go and find him, to rescue him. The Doctor congratulates her on fighting the feeling, the apparitions rely on the trust of loved ones to bring them forward, and Rose always had a crush on Jay. Vida begins to contact her boss Andrew Dolan but he has disappeared ever since he was last seen with Crayshaw. They soon arrive at the office and the Doctor produces a bag of water he took when in the transport tunnels. As he disappears into a laboratory Rose prepares to phone Mickey and tell him to come and meet them.

In the flat Mickey takes down the address and then wakes Keisha initially reluctant she decides to come with him and together they leave, as Anne’s mobile phone starts to ring. In the laboratory the Doctor is examining the sample of water and as Rose looks on Vida explains that her research deals with using chemical tracers to measure pollution in the water, some of which were onboard the Ascendant.

The Doctor explains to them about the carved up ship in the underground chamber and then theorises that perhaps the aliens who did it wanted to steal the tracers. He then gets Vida to admit that when the Ascendant sunk she and Andrew tested water from the North Sea and found inhuman elements and proteins in the samples. They also found out that the drainage pit below ground was extended two months ago, as if someone was building something. She prepares more equipment and samples for the Doctor as he wonders where Keisha is; he needs to see if any of the alien proteins found where the Ascendant sank are also inside her.

He explains that they are fighting something that has an affinity with water; it can harness it. Rose realises that the reason everyone collapsed when the apparitions appeared was because they were feeding off of the water inside the people they were talking to, causing them to dehydrate. The Doctor has a hunch that the minerals may be present in Keisha’s blood because she has seen one of the creatures in the form of Jay’s apparition, it may even be in Rose’s blood. As he continues his experiments Rose ponders how long they have to stop the creatures they are up against.

Some time later the Doctor is conducting tests on Keisha having taken blood from Rose and using Vida as a control. He asks Mickey to help Vida search the computers for all information held on the crew of the Ascendant to see if there is a link between them and the young human gets to work. As the Time Lord examines Keisha he sees that the alien proteins are burying themselves into her and as a natural defence she is becoming her mutated, just as an oyster forms a pearl to get rid of dirt, her eyes are forming protective layers. The damage in Rose is less advanced because of her lesser exposure.

He realises that the aliens are using the sensory information of those they capture to transmit as pheromones to those the captive recognises. They take over the brain and help them to unscramble the information and see the apparition. It feeds off of the water in nearby humans in order to transmit, which causes the dehydration. That is why Mickey, who has never met Jay, cannot see his apparition and nobody but Anne could see her son Peter on the bridge where the soldiers collapsed. Keisha scolds his scientific analysis and storms out as the Doctor explains to Rose it is the alien proteins scrambling her brain. Soon Rose is gone as well, as from the ceiling of the lab water is dripping, soon pouring down and filling the room.

Mickey and Vida find no link between the files for the crew of the Ascendant. As they idly bring up files they find one for Crayshaw and suddenly they are sprinting to tell the Doctor what they have seen, according to his file Crayshaw is nearly two hundred and fifty years old. The Time Lord meanwhile sits in the laboratory before realising the water from his beaker is gone. Suddenly water flies out of the sink and attacks him, trying to force its way into his mouth and down his throat.

Rose catches up with Keisha but she is angry with the Doctor for being so cold hearted. As a row develops she bitterly admits that in Rose’s absence she and Mickey had an affair. As Rose reels back Mickey and Vida arrive but Rose explodes at him. Suddenly a wave of water floods the corridor. Three apparitions, a Victorian woman, a pirate and a U-boat captain appear, standing with pearls for eyes, and carry Vida away on a wave of water. As the water flows away carrying Vida with it Rose runs after her, realising she is not just giving chase to the water creatures, but running away from Mickey and Keisha behind her.

Vida is carried away by the water down into the sewers, where she wonders if her workmate Andrew will be waiting, having succumbed to the same fate. Rose is soon on her tail but fails to catch sight of her. Struggling to forget about Mickey and Keisha she grabs onto the back of a nearby police van, hoping she will find herself wherever Vida might have been taken. The Doctor meanwhile manages to expel the attacking water and it escapes down the drain. Mickey and Keisha arrive and Mickey explains about their attack. He explains about Crayshaw and his age. The Time Lord explains he must have drowned at sea and the aliens got him, the salt water and the alien biochemistry being used to sustain him. He decides they must get to Stanchion House, where he proposes the water will have taken Vida, they will pick Rose up on the way.

The police van comes to a halt by the river and after finding no sign of Vida, Rose looks over the barrier where a bus has driven through into the dark waters. She sees PC Fraser, who explains his friend has been taken; he must get to him. He dives into the water and Rose screams but soon joins him when she looses her balance and falls in. She struggles to get out but something punctures her neck. As she begins to fall deeper into the murky depths she struggles to get free.

After finding no sign of Rose or Vida the Doctor, Mickey and Keisha return to the estate where Keisha admits it was her who tried to seduce Mickey, but when he crashed out at a party she waited until he woke and convinced him they had slept together. She lied to get back at Rose, her best friend who left her and never said why, who deserted her for life with the Doctor. They are interrupted by Anne’s abandoned phone and after checking her messages realises that she to has jumped into the river; and her family are looking for her.

Mickey begins to realise it is an unstoppable cycle. The crew of the Ascendant are drowned then call out to their loved ones. They then fall into the river, drown, and call out to their loved ones, and on it goes. He runs to tell the Doctor who is sitting outside but as he goes he is stopped by another apparition appearing in the room, calling for him and Keisha to come and save them before the feast. Only this is not Jay, it is Rose.

Vida awakens in one of the carved sections of the Ascendant and is confronted by Crayshaw, who speaks with a ghostly alien voice. Around her she sees the bodies of many people including Andrew Dolan and Rose. Crayshaw explains they are growing gills, to live under water with. He explains his race are of the waterhive, and they need Vice Admiral Kelper. He explains that Vida will be used to lure Kelper to them and then they will use him and his power to take over, after all the hour of the feast is approaching.

Elsewhere the Doctor admits he to saw a ghost of Rose but it is no time to panic. He yells at the frantic Keisha and Mickey that they must not panic, there is work to do. They ascend to find Jackie who hits the Doctor round the face before breaking into tears. The Doctor explains the beckoning apparition of Rose is a trick then tells Keisha to stay and look after her and a milkman they found dehydrated on the stairs. He warns her not to let Jackie out of her sight then descends to set to work, leaving Mickey confused as to what is on the Time Lord’s mind.

Rose walks along amidst the waters of the Thames and walks towards a large pipeline on one side of the river. She begins to walk inside, amidst many others who are all now members of the hive. Meanwhile, the Doctor and Mickey make their way to the London Underground and find a small cupboard leading to a service shaft, which passes down, inches away from the decontamination chamber where the creatures are hiding. Reluctantly Mickey follows him inside the tube and together they descend into the darkness.

As the sun slowly rises, Vida is taken to the reception of Stanchion House, where she fails to call Vice Admiral Kelper due to the fact her mobile phone has no battery. However Kelper has already heard of the chaos in London and arrives in the building where Vida tries to warn him that he is walking into danger. It is too late however; the water engulfs the floor and forms into a group of the ghosts who abducted her back at the laboratory, all of whom stand blocking their way out.

In a flooded pit deep below ground Rose stands remembering and calling out to people; Vida, who quietly cared, the Doctor in both his forms, Jackie, Mickey and Keisha. She thinks of them coming to join her before the start of the feast and how nice it would be. Sure enough in her flat she appears to Jackie and Keisha, calling to help.

As the Doctor and Mickey continue their descent in the large concrete tunnel, Crayshaw leads Kelper and Vida down into the decontamination chamber where the rest of the Stanchion House staff are waiting. Crayshaw watches as one of the walls is smashed and a wave of water floods in. All of them, including Vida and Kelper, are to be drowned before newness takes over.

As the water floods in the Doctor and Mickey arrive, knocking out the wall. As everyone there flees back up the tunnel has finds Vida and Kelper, who claims they will need Torchwood to resolve the matter. Suddenly the water around them freezes to ice and an angry Crayshaw advances on the Doctor.

Meanwhile, Rose is found by Huntley who warns her not to think about those she loves because they will be in danger. He explains he resists the will of the waterhive, as he has nobody to love, no family at all. He then explains to her in her ear what the ‘feast’ is, and she immediately feels sick. Back in the chamber the Doctor breaks free of the ice and as Crayshaw confronts him he realises the waterhive have laid eggs in the people they abduct, and during the feast of the drowned they will hatch and devour their host bodies. The Doctor swears to stop them then he and the others run for cover, but when they arrive in the ruined laboratory the Time Lord wonders if they believed him.

In the streets Keisha and Jackie are trying to get to the river and find a lorry, which someone has hijacked. They get inside as Keisha, in her mind, tells Jay and Rose they are coming to get them. In the Thames Rose and Huntley find Jay amongst the ranks of the drowned and he explains that he has appeared once more to Keisha and he saw what she was doing. She is with Jackie and they are on their way to the river.

The Doctor explains the waterhive need Kelper to organise ships to other country in order to spread themselves across the world. They will then travel via the hydrogen in the atmosphere and populate other worlds. He sends Kelper and several others to find some ships to block off the Thames. One of the soldiers, the one the Doctor stole a pass from, hands Mickey two grenades to defend themselves then leaves as the Doctor prepares to launch his stage of the plan to stop he hive.

Rose places an image of the TARDIS between her and Jackie to stop thinking of her as she realises that is Jay could see Keisha and Jackie through the eyes of his projection image it might be possible to send their own messages to the ones they love, but as she thinks the mental picture of the TARDIS fades and she sees someone other than Jackie standing beyond.

In the tunnel the Doctor is trying to resonate the concrete and find a way out but an image of Rose appears before them, feeding off of Mickey and Vida and warning them that if the Doctor interferes then his friends will die.

Rose fights the feeling of trying to call to her friends and tries to stop them hurting. Her apparition disappears as the Doctor realises that the signals and the conscious of the waterhive can be overridden. He remembers his tests on the water samples in the lab and how after he added some of the chemical tracers the water fought back. The tracers intercept the conscious of the waterhive and if Rose and the others can also override the signals the creatures would be beaten. Vida remembers that the Ascendant carried a store of tracers, which are now floating on the Thames.

Rose rejoices that she has warned the Doctor but there is more work to do. She appears to Keisha and Jackie in the lorry and warns them the apparitions are a trick. Jackie manages to stop the driver crashing into the Thames and then wonders what they are going to do as the air is filled with gunfire.

As the Doctor runs off to draw the water away from Mickey and Vida the two humans flee up a large staircase. Suddenly there is the gush of water as the hive follows them, flowing up the stairwell. They reach the top but the door is locked and their stolen ID card won’t work; leaving them left to watch the water approach.

Under the Thames Rose explains she has warned Jackie and Keisha then hatches a plan to get to the surface to warn the others what has happened. Huntley and Jay agree and begin rallying the others. Back in the stairwell the ID card finally works and Mickey and Vida run to the reception area where they use a broken door as a surfboard to ride around on the water, as well as one of Mickey’s grenades to create a wave of water to carry them over the turnstiles. They smash through the doors and out into the street, where the ancient water creatures are waiting for them.

The Doctor returns to the underground layer where Crayshaw and the others are waiting. He explains he wishes to make a deal with them. He will take the waterhive in the TARDIS to another planet to breed and the Earth will be left alone. As Crayshaw reveals the creature controlling him, a large one-eyed eel, his minions reach forward and grab the Doctor, he will not share his ship with them, they will take it from him.

Rose and the others arrive at the reception area of Stanchion House and threaten to kill themselves thus destroying the eggs they are carrying. The water creatures standing over Vida and Mickey go off to consult their leader and Vida tells Rose about the tracers. The young traveller decides to go with Jay to collect them, in the storage area they and the other drowned people were left to acclimatise after they were modified. As Vida, Mickey and Huntley stay behind to keep up the threat of killing the eggs, the hunt for the cylinders of tracers.

They arrive in the cargo trailer and find the crates containing the cylinders but they have been detected. Legions of the drowned approach, coupled with large sluggish monsters. They try to run but a blockade of water has been erected, about to drown the cargo trailer and send them back to the depths of the river. Meanwhile on the embankment, Jackie and Keisha are lost for what to do until Jackie is pulled from the truck and members of the thronging crowds take over. They smash through the barriers into the blockade and the crowd rush into the water, taking Keisha and Jackie with them.

In the cargo trailer Rose grabs hold of the crate as the wave blockade strikes. She holds on as she is pulled deeper and deeper into the water; she can hear Mickey and Vida calling out to her and Jay disappears from sight, leaving her to hold onto the crate and plunge down into the river.

From the side of the river, outside Stanchion House, Vida, Mickey and Huntley watch as Rose is pulled deep down into the river. They call out but realise it is too late; she and the sealed tracers are gone. Suddenly Commodore Powers appears with his cronies and they threaten to kill the carriers again. It is too late however as more of the water creatures appear and overpower them. Meanwhile, deep underground the Doctor waits as the queen of the hive positions herself on his neck. As the water apparitions let go of his arms the queen injects him in the neck, like so many who have drowned before.

As Keisha tries to resist getting trampled and pushed into the river she sees a little girl about to be killed by the crowd, who are rushing to get into the river. She reaches out, as Rose’s voice calls out to her to sort her life out, and tries to save the small child.

Vida and Mickey struggle to be let free and suddenly are joined by Rose, who is thrown up out of the river, still holding the crate of tracers. She explains the creatures must have known they were a danger and wanted to get rid of them. Vida manages to take hold of the crate and as Rose helps to fend off more of the drowned water creatures, Mickey hands her the remaining grenade and she jams it inside the crate. As she activates it she is thrown into the river by another of the drowned apparitions. Se struggles as the water seems to reject the crate and as the five-second fuse terminates, she prays all of their efforts were not for nothing.

As Rose ends up back in the water, sinking deeper, she feels a shockwave rush through the water and tastes a chemical tint to the water. As she worries about the Doctor, and if he will ever know what they achieved, she sees him in a vision, standing in a pool of water with one of the creatures attached to his neck. He places his hands on his temples and screams, as Rose looses sight of him and sinks deeper into the water.

As the Doctor allows his mind to meld with the queen’s, he begins to fight back. He sees into her mind, the mind of the hive that spreads across the water, feeding on love and longing. He sees the signals sent across the hive community and then he sees the chemical traces flooding across the water. He grabs them and activates them, scrambling the signals of the hive. As the queen screams out he screams with her and is cast into darkness.

In the river Jackie looks on as Keisha desperately tries to save the little girl before suddenly being pulled down into the water by some alien creature. She tries to tug free but something else intervenes. Suddenly the water bubbles, the creature lets go and she begins to rise to the surface of the river. Over the other side of the river, Vida also feels this and finds herself floating on the surface of the river. Soon Mickey and the others appear and Vida soon realises the water has gained a high salt content, and they are floating because of it, like in the Dead Sea.

As Rose appears, her gills healing and the alien vivisection being undone, she realises this is the Doctor’s doing, and sure enough he appears beside them, very weary and beaten, but alive. He explains that he used the chemical tracers to confuse the hive mind, to swamp the communication channels and leave them to fall to pieces. Now that the mind has gone, which was responsible for upholding the mutations inflicted on the drowned humans, are healing up. The salts in the water are the results of the creatures being broken down by the overload.

He explains that the salts will dissolve over time and the river will return to normal, before telling Vida that she and Andrew will have a lot of work to do, and as Vida feels the warm sunshine on her skin she agrees.

Later on, Keisha is fished out from the Thames and left on the wharf to recover. She sees Jay and together they embrace, lamenting that despite her phone call, it is unlikely their mother will return. They prepare to spend life together again, commenting how things can change it for the better or for the worse and they have to change with them, just like Rose with the Doctor.

The Doctor and Rose prepare to say their goodbyes. As Huntley and Vida prepare to start the clean-up operation Mickey tells Rose that nothing ever happened between him and Keisha. Rose says she believes him and soon Jackie is on the phone, calling from a pay phone by the river, explaining she met a man in the river who danced with her on the water-surface. She explains that Keisha and Jay are fine. As her money runs out she asks Rose if she will be back soon and as the line cuts out Rose whispers that she will. She turns and says goodbye to Mickey before sending a text message to Keisha to say farewell, before walking off with the Doctor towards new adventures. (NSA: The Feast of the Drowned)

In the TARDIS the computers are malfunctioning. Outside is what the Doctor describes as an Electromagnetic Pulse signature and inside, after the console explodes, the Time Lord pilot uses an everlasting match to find radiation pills for himself and Rose so that they can go outside, As Rose pockets the match the Doctor uses a crank to start opening the doors and when the two travellers step outside they find themselves in a Dikensian-type city. As Rose looks around the Doctor ponders what is wrong with the TARDIS.

The ship doors snap shut, incapable of opening until the internal infrastructure is repaired and the Doctor and Rose walk off into the city to find the source of the pulses, the Doctor theorising it could be the eighteenth century. They hitch a life on a cart and find themselves in a seaport where the Doctor realises they are not on Earth, the stars are different. They come to a halt and are confronted by a giant ship, half sailing boat half space vessel. The Doctor marvels at it before explaining the reason it cannot use more modern technology than wind power is because of the pulses, they stop all modern technology working. He admits it seems likely it will not be possible to stop them, as they are a naturally occurring phenomenon then decides they should find out more by visiting the local pub.

After looking at the other steam driven machinery in the city they arrive at the pub, called The Broken Spyglass, where the landlady is talking to a small boy called Jimm, who is shocked when he sees the Doctor and Rose. The Time Lord approaches him and offers to but him a drink before ordering for himself and Rose as well as the landlady, who turns out to be half steam-driven robot and half actual human. After Jim explains his uncle Bobb is on his way to collect him he explains his dreams of working on one of the ships outside.

After being asked, he and Sally the half-human barmaid tell the Doctor that the reason no electricity works on the planet, known as Starfall, is because of a field of electromagnetic gravitation called the Zeg, which interferes with electrical circuits. Rose asks why people still come here and they explains that it is because of the wealthy mining areas, which can help you make your fortune.

They go on to talk about the legend of the lost treasure of Hamlek Glint. Jimm explains how both his uncle Bobb and the ruler of Starfall Drel McCavity are big collectors of artefacts to do with Glint and as they talk another drinker in the pub, called Rodd (a friend of McCavity and accomplice in a gang consisting of four people called Kasper, Edd, Bonny and himself), empties his pockets to pay for his drinks he unravels a blank piece of paper. He looks at the markings on it and runs out of the building in horror as Sally explains the death of Kasper to the others, and how his body was ripped to pieces.

Outside Rodd tries to flee but the creature that killed Kasper appears and apologises, claiming it is his job. He claws him to death and then once again fades away.

In the pub Bobb arrives to take Jimm home and offers to tell the Doctor and Rose about Hamlek Glint should they call at their home. The two travellers then asks if there is any way they can make their way outside of the Zeg, perhaps by seeking passage on the ship. Sally ponders then tells them they may have to crew on the ship in order to get there. They are soon on a boat called the Clipper; using the psychic paper to bluff the crew into letting them see a recently found body, the body of Rodd. The Doctor asks if anything was found on the body and is shown by the captain a small piece of paper with a black blob on it. The Doctor explains it is known as the Black Shadow, a curse bestowed on people to mark them for death. As he talks he and rose look at the paper, which curls and crumbles to dust.

The Doctor agrees to tell McCavity, who was a friend of Rodd’s about his death and then tells Rose to try and find Edd and Bonny, the two accomplices of Rodd and their friend Kasper. Two of the group are already dead; the other two must be warned. After a bumpy ride and a warning from his driver about the volatile temper that rises whenever his late wife is mentioned of the man he is about to visit, the Doctor arrives at the house of Drel McCavity. Rose meanwhile goes back to the pub where the barman gives her directions to a warehouse Edd and Bonny apparently work in.

In McCavity’s house the Doctor looks around waiting for the man he has come to meet, finding the giant house covered in paintings and pictures, all of the same woman. He then finds McCavity’s collection of Hamlek Glint artefacts, models of spaceships and personal items including a lead statue of a man supposedly killed by Glint. McCavity himself finally arrives and having been told his visitor’s name is John Smith, he offers to show him round, as the Doctor explains why he is here and why he has never heard of him.

In the warehouse Rose finds Bonny and Edd, who explains that Rodd’s death was no accident. They reveal that they were the ones who sold a lot of the Glint artefacts to McCavity, despite the fact they were fakes. Bobb had examined them and told them and he went mad, despite the fact the medallion they sold him many years ago was in fact real. McCavity wanted the cursed treasure, and now there certainly is a curse, both Kasper and Rodd are dead. They decide it is time for them to move on. They realise now someone is after him, it could be McCavity, even if they did give him his money back; but they’ve conned so many people over the years it could be anyone.

The Doctor looks around at McCavity’s collection of artefacts as he admits that some of them used to be fakes, but the rest; including a statue of one of the ship captains who tried to stand up to Glint. He briefly refers to the ultimate treasure of Glint, known as the Resurrection Casket. He then thanks the Doctor for his concern for his safety and shows him to the door. As he talks he begins to mutter to himself, as if there was another being with him. The Doctor remembers what the cab driver said earlier about McCavity having a bad temper whenever his late wife is mentioned. He decides to mention her and McCavity begins to shout that she will return to him, she has not left yet.

In the warehouse Edd and Bonny prepare to leave again but it is too late. The giant shaggy creature arrives, apologises and attacks. As screams ring out it finishes its work and apologises to Rose for the mess.

The Doctor returns from Drel McCavity’s mansion and arrives at Bobb and Jimm’s house. They show him around their vast collection of Hamlek Glint memorabilia and he sees a photo of him, his cabin boy Robbie and his crew of seven robots named Cannon-K, Elvis, Dusty, Stubbs, Octo 1-9, Smithers and Salvo 7-50, the fiercest most vicious pirate of the lot. As the Doctor muses at a shadowy figure at the edge of the photo Bobb explains that before Glint disappeared, he sold the robots to a scrap merchant and Robbie was never seen again. Some believe Glint made his way to Starfall to conceal his treasure, the Resurrection Casket, but Bobb supposes that his ship would have been incompatible with the Zeg and he would have thus gone somewhere else.

He explains to the Doctor that the reason he doesn’t want his son to visit the stars and try to find Glint’s treasure is because he knows what damage Glint did to people, the death and destruction he caused, he doesn’t want Jimm to follow in those footsteps. Silver Sally soon arrives, as does Rose who, after the Doctor tells Jimm a story that will hopefully put him off becoming like Glint, explains about the monster that killed Edd and Bonny.

The Doctor shows her around Bobb and Jimm’s collection, including the photo of the crew, and they then visit a custom built replica of Glint’s fortune. Jimm swears some of it is missing but Bobb dismisses it, it is not even real. The Doctor then gets Bobb and Sally to tell him what happened to Drel McCavity’s wife and they explain that she ran off with the Captain of the Watch, and Drel was the last to find out. He turned to collecting Glint memorabilia, which fuelled tourism to Starfall for people to mine, hoping to find the Resurrection Casket, Glint’s treasure. Drel makes a profit on anything found in the mines and thus makes a living from his collection.

Bobb and Jimm explain the Resurrection Casket is supposedly one of the things Glint stole on his travels, and has the power to bring the dead back to life, it was taken from a clone ship. Sally departs and the Doctor shows Rose the fuzzy figure in the picture of Glint’s crew; it could be the Black Shadow, the monster that killed Edd and Bonny. After vetoing Rose’s idea that Bobb is really Glint, having used the Casket to cheat death, the Doctor searches his pockets for some paper to draw a picture of the creature in the picture, but he finds that someone has planted the Black Shadow on him. Suddenly the creature has walked through the front door, apologises and swipes at the Doctor.

He dodges the attack and runs off into the exhibition part of the house as Rose goes to find Jimm, who answered the door to the beast. The Time Lord tries to dodge and ends up inside the display case containing the replica of the treasure. He examines one of the brooches before running off again. He confronts the beast, who’s real name is Kevin, and realises his is from the Black Shadow Dimension, with three honorary degrees and many books to read. He confuses the beast by explaining he has no name and thus cannot be the one he is after, seeing as he ahs been given a name to find and kill, as is stated in his contract. He bids farewell to the Doctor and fades away to his own dimension.

Later on the Time Lord explains to the others that someone is using an artefact of Glint’s to summon the beast and in return for being set free they do their master’s bidding. He muses that Kevin may well be the same beast in the picture of Glint and his crew. Bobb testifies his innocence of the matter and the Doctor decides it is time to inspect Glint’s ship. Using artefacts from the ship he can trace the energy emissions of the ship and find where it went after Glint disappeared. He will need specialist equipment and money to fund a ship, which Jimm points out he could get from Drel McCavity.

Arriving at his house the Doctor explains his theory that Glint was heading for Starfall when he disappeared, but was caught up in the Zeg and is now stranded. McCavity agrees to fund a small mission, with a select crew. The Doctor tells him the TARDIS must come as well and McCavity explains his full intention; he is coming with them. Soon the Doctor and Rose, along with Jimm are on their way to the pub again, and the Doctor reveals he pulled out a tuft of Kevin’s hair in the attack, which he will use to find the traces from the ship. He also explains to Rose that she must call herself Miss Taylor, so that if Kevin is sent to kill her she can ward him off with a wrong name.

In the pub Sally explains that she can find them a cheap crew, as well as a cook. She explains that they will have to be robotic so that they are cheap and don’t demand much, but the second condition is that she comes with them. The Doctor agrees and they toast to finding the treasure of Hamlek Glint.

Back at Bobb’s house Jimm storms off in anger when his father tells him he is not allowed to go on the mission, he is too young. He then tells the Doctor and Rose that he himself is not coming with them, he is getting too old. Jimm is all he lives for and the Resurrection Casket can stay a myth. As soon as Jimm is ready to fend for himself his time will have passed. The Doctor and Rose are left to board their ship, called the Venture, along with McCavity and an old chest of his, and soon they are taking off, and very uncomfortably so.

After Rose meets the robotic crew; Kenny the plumber, King the navigator and Jonesy who works in the boiler room, she observes a shark-like creature called a krark. It hurls itself at one of the portals but Sally assures her that so long as Kenny has done his job they will be fine. Over the days of travel Rose begins to wonder how Sally lost half of her organic body and had to have it replaced by steam-driven robotics. She never asks and is soon guilty for feeling sorry for her, as she doesn’t want or need sympathy.

As Rose gets to know McCavity’s body guard Dugg, she and the Doctor continue to try and get into the TARDIS, which is parked in one of the escape pods, but the doors remain locked shut. The Doctor thus decides to improve the ship’s engines to get them outside of the Zeg, into the Outreaches faster. After some time he does so and the powered-down TARDIS unlocks. As the Doctor sets about drawing a treasure map to find Glint’s ship Rose decides to go and find Sally and tell her how things are going.

She overhears Sally and King talking to each other in an abrupt manor, referring to each other as Elvis and Salvo. As the other robots make their way towards her she remembers the photograph of Glint and his crew; of which Salvo 7-50 was the ‘fiercest and most vicious pirate of the lot’. She runs and hides in a cupboard where she props her legs up against something soft. As the other robots, alias Smithers and Cannon-K join them they plot to wait until Glint’s ship is found, then they will kill the Doctor and the others then take the vessel for themselves, where they can abandon the steam technology they use to allow them to work in the Zeg. Suddenly the thing Rose is propped up against falls out of the cupboard and Sally, alias Salvo 7-50 advances on it.

Elsewhere McCavity, who continually talks to his absent wife, provides the Doctor with a medallion from Glint’s treasure hoard. The Doctor prepares to cross reference the trace signatures, hoping it won’t take as long as a minute. Elsewhere Sally closes the door, not noticing Rose and together the robot pirates leave. Rose inspects the cupboard and finds Jimm inside. She closes the door as Sally returns. She greets her then runs to the living quarters to tell the Doctor.

She explains what is going on and the Doctor helps her barricade the door. Sally tries to get in but after the Doctor tells her they know her true identity, she tells them they will not die until they have found the trace signature. If they do not agree to help, Jimm will be killed. She leaves them and the Doctor hatches a plot, fracturing part of the pipeline, weakening the hull of the ship. As Sally and the others return with the unconscious Jimm the Time Lord explains that the krarks outside will widen the breech and destroy the ship, unless they allow him outside to fix the problem. Reluctantly they agree to give him a space suit and the Doctor tells them to leave the others in a grounded escape pod, which can act as a prison cell. Sally agrees; musing it could be a prison cell or even a coffin.

Once inside the pod Jimm begins to awaken but is still groggy. Suddenly the pod is released from the ship, left to float in space. The Doctor soon arrives, hauling himself through the door, explaining there were no krarks; they were a way of getting him to the pod. He explains that he has tracked down Glint’s ship and they are on their way to find it before Salvo 7-50 and the others realise what is going on. Suddenly he realises something is missing; the TARDIS is not in the vessel with them. Rose realises this too and confirms that it is in the other escape pod.

They are soon trawling through the lost ships floating around the Zeg and after finding several dead ends arrive at the sight of the Buccaneer, Hamlek Glint’s ship. They arrive onboard and as they walk around in the dimly lit ship (Dugg following carrying the trunk McCavity brought onboard.) They walk through a gallery of weapons and then to the treasure vault where all that is left is a large coffin-like casket. The Doctor warns them not to open it; it could contain the most dangerous pirate ever to walk in the universe.

As McCavity curses at the lack of actually treasure Kevin appears suddenly appears in the room. He reveals that the ship is his home and the Doctor realises that he is under McCavity’s control. Rose warns him not to let him put the Black Shadow on anyone as McCavity reveals the medallion he wears upon his neck is the device that controls Kevin. Suddenly the room shakes and the Doctor realises that Sally, alias Salvo 7-50 and the other robots have got the ship working again and traced them to the Buccaneer.

Kevin tells them to move and helping them to lift the Resurrection Casket, he guides them to the recreation room. Dugg brings McCavity’s space trunk and when they arrive decide to barricade the door to keep the robots out. They stack furniture up against the door but Sally is already on the other side. The Doctor tells the others that they want Glint out of the Casket to seek revenge but then realises that it is not a device capable of bringing the dead back to life, merely a way of sustaining the body in stasis.

As McCavity demands that the Casket be opened the Doctor wonders why he is so insistent and as Sally tries to dislodge the barricade, McCavity’s chest falls open, revealing the skeleton of his lost wife Larissa. The Doctor sees a bullet hole in the skull and realises Drel killed his own wife as an act of revenge for her betrayal. He then remembers the lead statue in Drel’s Glint memorabilia collection and realises it was not Glint who killed him; it was McCavity killing the man Larissa ran off with.

McCavity demands the Doctor make the Resurrection work to revive her but he explains that it is only a preserver and only works on living tissue. Drel orders him and then plants the Black Shadow on him before running off. As the snooker table gives way and Rose and Jimm are thrown to the floor Kevin turns on the Doctor. He explains that the only way to be free from the Shadow is to give back the parchment to the one who dealt it or be granted a reprieve. The Doctor begs him not to, but the beast is bound by contract.

As before the Doctor jumps out of the way as Kevin strikes, diving out of the room warning them to move the Resurrection Casket and reminding Jimm of his action figures. Kevin makes to follow but Rose stalls him, and when he sees Sally breaking through the blockade, hides behind the sofa. Rose suddenly remembers seeing an old snooker table and the rubber in the cushions. She begins to rip it off of the table and prepares to use it as a catapult. Jimm meanwhile remembers his action figures of the group of Glint’s robots and how Cannon-K had a weak neck. Rose prepares to fire a ball at it, as it makes its way across the barricade.

The Doctor runs, trying to find McCavity so as to hand back the Black Shadow and free himself from Kevin. McCavity appears and lunges at him with a sword. He manages to knock him down and continues to run off as the unhinged McCavity hurriedly gets to his feet. Elsewhere Dugg desperately tries to get the Resurrection Casket to safety but cannot lift it. Kevin arrives and picks it up leaving Dugg to run to help the others. He arrives to find Cannon-K’s head has been knocked off. As Sally and the others tell them they have forgiven Glint for selling them for scrap they start to break through, claiming they want him back to start their old lives again. Dugg stays behind to control the catapult as Rose and Jimm runs to find the Doctor, taking Dugg’s notebook with them for safekeeping.

The Doctor arrives in the main engine room and arms himself with a fire axe as McCavity enters still wielding his sword. A fight ensures and soon the Doctor has damaged one of the cooling tanks, blasting both McCavity and his axe with sub-zero steam. The axe smashes to pieces and McCavity recovers. As the Doctor stumbles and falls to the floor McCavity leans over him and brings down the sword.

Kevin arrives and stops McCavity, claiming killing is his job. Rose and Jimm follow them inside and tell McCavity that if he allows the Doctor to be killed they will be unable to stop Glint’s robots. He calls off Kevin, who seals the safety hatch of the room and the Doctor hands back the Black Shadow. He then formulates a plan and tells Kevin, who can survive without air, that he will be an important part of the plan.

As the robots break into the recreation room, glancing at the dead body of Dugg, they fix Cannon-K and prepare to revive Glint. They arrive at the engine room and manage to break inside, only to find the Doctor and the others have gone.

The Doctor’s plan was to have Kevin carry him, Rose, Jimm and McCavity in storage lockers around the ship and into the secondary control room where the Time Lord plans to switch everything back on again within the ship. Slowly the power begins to return. The robots realise what is going on they set to find the Doctor and his friends, preparing to blast them out of the sky with the ships newly-restored weaponry should they attempt to undock in the other ship. As they go Sally realises she needs to top up her joints with water and sets out to the galleys.

The Doctor realises what will happen if they try to leave in the other ship and instead leads the others off to the control deck, Kevin following on from behind with the Resurrection Casket. As the robots arrive they prepare to shred the wires that will allow the other ship to dock. Suddenly the Doctor appears on a communication screen and tells them that he will make a deal with them, they allow them to return with the Resurrection Casket to Starfall and they will send the Buccaneer out of the Zeg field. They refuse but the Doctor threatens that he has the power to kill any one of them. Cannon-K laughs as the Doctor tells him his method is on a piece of paper on the floor nearby. Cannon picks it up and realises it is a trick, on the paper is the Black Shadow. Kevin, alias Polly to the robots, arrives and apologises, before severing his robotic neck.

Kevin appears in the control room as over the intercom Sally appears and threatens to use the medallion McCavity uses to control Kevin to send him to hell. She tells Smithers and Elvis not to touch anything encase it is engraved with the Black Shadow. The Doctor offers her one last chance to take him up on his deal but she thinks he is bluffing and orders the others to break down the control room door, linking the two ships.

As the Venture starts to push the Buccaneer back into the Zeg; Sally tells the Doctor that the Zeg does not affect her and Elvis and Smithers will revert to steam power, he cannot kill them by entering the Zeg. However as the Doctor tells the others in the control room that they must get back to the escape pod containing the TARDIS, the Buccaneer begins to rock, damaged by explosions. As the newly powered-up systems of the Buccaneer start to overload, the Doctor and the others hold onto the control room computers for support. As McCavity notes they will be torn apart along with the Buccaneer the Doctor claims there is somewhere they will be doubly safe; he gets up and staggers out of the room.

As Smithers and Elvis seize up the Buccaneer’s systems all start to overload and the ship is beginning to be torn apart. The pod containing the TARDIS and the group of travellers departs, ready to enter the Zeg again and as an angry krark lunges into the ship to take care of Smithers and Elvis, McCavity tells the Doctor about his ultimatum again; activate the Resurrection Casket or die. Again the Doctor dismisses the idea but it is too late, McCavity has already planted the Black Shadow on him again and Kevin is ready to strike once more.

The Doctor once again lunges and runs around the pod as Jimm sees Sally standing in the air lock, sandwiched between two doors. She pleads to be let in and as the Doctor and Kevin discuss a crossword clue the creature was solving before the trouble on the Buccaneer started, McCavity looks on. Finally the Doctor gives in. He says goodbye to Rose, telling her to do as she thinks best. She thinks about it and lets Sally in before ordering her not to speak. The Doctor then says goodbye to Jimm, asking if he knows what to do. He claims he does and launches at McCavity in rage, calling him a murderer. He pushes him away and Kevin prepares to attack, but it is McCavity he turns on, not the Doctor.

Kevin tells him the paper in the Doctor’s pocket says the Black Shadow is in McCavity’s pocket. Sure enough he pulls out a piece of paper on which is printed the black shadow. The Doctor reveals that he has tricked him using his psychic paper and as Kevin turns on his master Sally and the others look on. McCavity scrambles to open the Resurrection Casket and Sally languishes, urging him on. The Doctor tells him not to and explains that it is empty.

Sure enough as McCavity opens it he sees it is empty and concludes it is a fake. The Doctor tells him it is not and as McCavity edges away from Kevin; he stumbles and falls inside. Jimm closes the Casket and takes the fallen medallion, claiming he is the new master and orders that Kevin is to leave McCavity inside. Kevin claims he cannot do that but the Doctor claims that the man inside is no longer the same Drel McCavity who murdered his wife and his lover, as Kevin knows. He trails off as he looks over at Sally, who has Rose’s throat in her clasp.

As Sally warns of Kevin, remembering how he used to do all of the mundane jobs on the ship, she tells the Doctor to let her take the pod back to Starfall with Glint. The others will be left on a ship awaiting rescue. Rose tries to tell her that Glint is dead but she dismisses her. The Doctor however has everything in hand and tells Rose to take matters into her own hands. Sure enough she does and stamps on Sally’s human foot. She releases her and the young traveller rejoins the Doctor, who tells Sally he’s about to propose a new idea and if she doesn’t agree he will use the sonic screwdriver to boil away the water in her mechanical side, leaving her paralysed.

Some time later as Sally admits she now knows the truth about Glint and his treasure, the Doctor tells her that they are nearly at the edge of the Zeg. Once there they will find a modern-style escape pod and will place Sally inside. She will be free to go where she pleases; so long as it is not Starfall or across the Doctor’s path, and if she does she will have to face the consequences.

He invites Rose and Jimm to sit down and they do so as he prepares to tell them a story; whilst Kevin stands in the background. The Time Lord begins by talking about a pirate named Hamlek Glint, who decided to give up piracy. He theorises that perhaps he never wanted to become a pirate and kill people but his robot crew egged him on. Now he had got rid of them he has the chance to settle down. His cabin boy Robbie also decided to leave him, having been disillusioned by his travels in space. When Glint climbed inside the Resurrection Casket Robbie fled in an escape pod leaving the Buccaneer drifting in space. The pod looses power and Robbie, along with the treasure he has taken, is left to drift until it lands somewhere. All the while Kevin is left alone and the medallion that controls him is found and sold to Drel McCavity, who had developed an obsession with Glint as a way of living a life without his wife and also in order to cover up for the statue of her dead lover.

Rose asks what happened to Glint and the Doctor tells Kevin to continue. The creature explains that in the years between living under Glint and McCavity’s control, he spent time on Starfall and onboard the Buccaneer. On Starfall, ten years ago, he found Robbie, who was guilty about leaving Glint, and he took him back to the Buccaneer. There he let him release Glint and together they went back to Starfall.

The Doctor realises the pod is about to drift back out of the Zeg and prepares to find a pod to seal Sally inside. Sure enough they locate one and the Doctor tells Sally to go off and find a civilisation zone where she will be picked up. Despite Rose’s protests that the Doctor is letting her go he lets the pod drift away, before returning to the others standing in the pod.

He decides it is time to go, and as he unlocks the doors of the TARDIS, tells the others to set a course for home. Jimm decides it is time Kevin had his freedom and returns his medallion. He thanks him and the Doctor and Rose make a move to get inside their ship the Time Lord realises they had better open the Resurrection Casket. Jimm does so and Rose finally realises what it is the device does. Inside is a pile of crumpled clothes, and a small baby lying amongst them.

As Sally, alias Salvo 7-50 drifts away she realises that the Doctor has out her inside a pod that will not be affected by the Zeg. She realises that it will only take a while to turn around and soon she will catch up with them.

Elsewhere; a man is purchasing a steam-yacht on Starfall. Money is no object and despite the fact it has been years since he crewed a ship, he is soon into the regular routine and is steaming his way towards the Buccaneer.

The Doctor decides to keep the baby in the Casket until they return to Starfall and he and Kevin then reveal that it was the same thing that happened ten years ago when Bobb returned to the Buccaneer. As Rose and Jimm look on stunned Kevin explains that Bobb is Robbie, and it was he who raised the baby of Hamlek Glint for ten years…until he grew up into Jimm.

As the Doctor tells Jimm to live his life as he always has, not to be jaded by this new revelation, he and Rose prepare to leave before the TARDIS runs down again. Kevin then explains he has a few things to take care of and fades from view, promising to return shortly after bidding farewell to the Doctor and Rose. The two travellers then say goodbye to Jimm and Rose hands him Dugg’s notebook, which she has realised is a sort of logbook. The Doctor tells him to use it to remember them but also the death, to remember Dugg and how he died saving others. He walks inside the ship and Rose follows.

Inside the ship the Doctor prepares to take off and as the engines ground to life he tells Rose that with the start Bobb and Kevin have given him it is unlikely that Jimm will grow up to be a pirate like Glint. He explains that the treasure mock-up Bobb has in his collection is in fact real, and he was selling bits of it off to raise money; including the medallion, which Glint would have kept a secret encase anyone found out it controlled Kevin. Rose then asks about Sally and the Doctor claims that she too has made her choice.

Inside her pod Sally realises the Doctor tricked her. He knew she would try to follow the other pod and so sealed her in a vessel, which had several systems that would be affected by the Zeg. As the pod begins to break up she prepares to make her own way out in space, even if it means the human half of her will die. Suddenly Kevin arrives in the pod and warns her of the krarks waiting for her outside. She tries to bluff him into thinking she always liked him but he doesn’t believe her and then leaves, leaving her to be sucked into space as the observation screen gives way.

Back in the pod Jimm awakens from his sleep as something docks with him. He looks on as a figure enters and removes its helmet, revealing himself to be Bobb. He welcomes him and Jimm thanks him for everything he has done for him. Bobb does the same and as they embrace a dark shaggy figure fades into view behind them, wiping a tear from its eye. Meanwhile. Back in the TARDIS, Rose asks the Doctor if Jimm will be able to get back to Starfall. As he activates the controls, piloting the ship across time and space, he tells her that he can, it’s in his blood. (NSA: The Resurrection Casket)

In the TARDIS, the Doctor turns off the air and gravity inside the ship after he and Rose seal themselves in spacesuits to get ready to visit the Moon. However, when Rose jumps out of the TARDIS she falls down in a quite ordinary way; smashing into a wooden table. After looking around, she concludes that they had landed on Earth in a bar. She finds a newspaper and whilst checking the news discovers an article about the discovery of ancient Roman remains and a mosaic that depicted a disturbingly familiar pepper pot shape. Worried, she runs for the TARDIS but the door slams shut in her face and then leaves her standing alone as it dematerialises.

Elsewhere, a girl named Kate Yates begins to wake up as the radio switches on, but falls asleep again and wakes up an hour and a half later. She gets out of bed and hurries to get ready for work, before setting off to catch the bus, whilst thinking about her various problems; such as how she had tried to live in a big city on her own but had come back to the village she once lived in with big debts to pay. Most of all she thinks about how much trouble she will be in with her boss Serena for being late.

Rose climbs out of her spacesuit, wondering why the Doctor has gone away without her. She concludes that it must be connected to the Dalek she has seen in the mosaic and then goes to have a look around outside at the village. She sits on a bench looking at her TARDIS key waiting for it to glow; indicating that the ship is coming back for her.

Kate runs to catch the bus but while she is in the middle of the road a sport car zooms round the corner and smashes into her. As she falls to the ground; she knows that she is about to die.

Rose hears the smack of metal on flesh and runs to see Kate dying on the ground, before trying to see if it was possible to rescue her. She holds her hand but stings her so she draws back. Kate's back arches and an aura spreads out from the wound of the crash and covers her entire body. It suddenly disappears leaving Kate perfectly all right, only with her hair having turned from red to blonde.

When the TARDIS materializes again after taking off without his intervention, the Doctor goes out to check where he has been brought and discovers that he was in a nuclear bunker. He hears the distant tones of a radio and decides to go and see who is listening to it.

Frank Openshaw is checking the archaeological dig that uncovered the ancient Roman remains when someone asks him for access to the phone; a strange man in a pinstripe suit too old to be one of the students working on the excavation. Frank warns him that there is no signal deep underground but the man connects a strange tubular tool to the phone, dials and seems to get through. He hears the voice of a woman talking to man and after a brief conversation the man hangs up and starts watching the progressing dig, showing a great knowledge of Roman history. Frank manages to interrupt him to ask for his name and the man answers that he is just the Doctor. He asks him if by any chance they have dug up anything they didn't really understand and Frank points down a corridor where there is a mosaic. As he thinks about the strange situation he has entered into, one of the students calls him warning him that they had found something very weird.

The Doctor goes along the corridor and when he sees the mosaic his heart skips a bit. He hears the students call to Frank he goes back, jumps down into the pit where they have been digging and warns the students to back off from the Dalek they had found. The students begin to get very excited but the Doctor tells them that it is a bomb and they must evacuate, and is supported in his claims by Frank supported by Frank.

Meanwhile, Kate talks to Serena at the phone and gets angry because her boss doesn’t believe that she was almost run over. After entering a teashop she looks at a newspaper and glances at the puzzle page. She realizes that the games look very easy, despite the fact she has never been good at them. When she looks up she notices that the girl who had helped her on the road, Rose, has just entered the shop. She is annoyed when Rose goes to her and asks her questions she doesn’t want to answer so she asks her to leave, not interested in her company and curiosity.

Frank watches the Doctor open the object he has described as a bomb and when he does sot they notice that there is an empty space within it. The Doctor looks relieved and when Frank manifests his puzzlement the Time Lord explains the nature and the origin of Daleks. However, the old man believes that the Doctor is joking.

Rose doesn’t give up and asks Kate to go with her and meet the Doctor. Something in Kate's mind reacts to that name and she accepts, so they set off to catch the bus to find him. Strange thoughts start crossing Kate's mind, as if they were somebody else's memories, images of other worlds and the echo of the word Doctor, then a word starts running through her head endlessly: exterminate!

Slowly the Doctor removes the gun instrument from the Dalek and gives it to Frank. He comments that Frank doesn’t ask questions about travelling in time and changing history and the old man replies by admitting that if he could travel in time, there's one thing he'd like to change. It would be meeting his wife Sandra earlier in his life so as to spend more time with her, back when the both of them were attending Durham University. In the true course of event however, it would be ten years before they met. The Doctor asks Frank to bring the gun back home with him and promises that he'll come to pick it up in the evening, after dismantling the Dalek for safety.

Rose and Kate arrive at the digging site and eventually find the Doctor. Kate begins to wonder about her new sense of cunning when she realizes that the Doctor is dangerous and she needs to play a game with her new asset.

Rose and the Doctor talk about the Dalek, how it must have arrived on Earth and how to get rid of it for good. Rose tries to talk to the Doctor about Kate but he is more interested in the Dalek. Kate has never heard the word ‘Dalek’ before yet it causes a strange satisfaction inside her. She gets closer to the Dalek and reaches into the mass of electronic connections inside. The Doctor turns and realizes that tiny glowing filaments are flowing from her fingertips and into the empty Dalek casing.

He knocks Kate down and asks Rose to tell him everything she knows about her, and after she tells him about the accident and her apparent regeneration, he is convinced that Kate was the result of a Daleks attempt to imprint their factor in the human race that for some reason only now has emerged in true form, having been injected many years ago when it landed in Rome. He decides that it will be better for everyone if Rose took Kate somewhere else, away from the casing and when he goes to check the Dalek again, so as to resume his task of dismantling it, he realizes that a little Dalek creature has been born inside, and is reaching out to take hold of the various controls housed around it. The Dalek’s lights come into life and the Doctor realizes that it is time to run. He takes the lift but the Dalek follows him and starts dragging it back down.

The Doctor manages to open the service hatch on the lift’s ceiling and jumps out of the cabin then he starts climbing the steel cable outside. When he gets out of the lift shaft he discovers that several police cars are arriving. The cops ask him to identify himself despite the urgency he is in and in the elapsing time the Dalek reaches them and starts pulling the police cars around with its sucker arm; destroying them and causing total chaos. The Doctor yells at the Dalek in order to distract it and when he finally gets its attention he introduces himself. The Dalek recognizes its race's archenemy and when the Doctor runs away it follows him.

A lorry stops and picks up Rose and Kate as the young traveller tries to get the young woman as far away from the Dalek as possible. Once inside, Kate feels torn into two people; with the Dalek part trying to force her to hate all the humans. Despite Rose’s attempts to calm her down she feels a growing anger towards mankind, willing to exterminate her ex boyfriend who had spent all her money and left her in debt. Suddenly Kate grabs the wheel of the lorry and twists it violently, forcing the driver to jump on the breaks. Rose tries to stop her but Kate manages to jump out of the vehicle, leaving Rose to follow her.

The Doctor manages to reach a crane nearby in the scrap yard where the dig took place. He jumps into the cab and when the Dalek gets close enough he throws a brick on its eyestalk, blinding it. Taking advantage of the situation the Doctor activates the half-ton wrecking ball attached to the crane to hit the Dalek, throwing it into a nearby stretch of water. He then jumps out of the cab to go and finish his job of dismantling the creature but when he activates the sonic screwdriver an electrical discharge stuns him and the Dalek glides away.

Kate arrives at the market where she works and confronts her boss Serena. Kate tries to choke her with her bare hands but Rose arrives just in time to stop her, appealing to her human side. Meanwhile, the Doctor wakes up in the water, the Dalek now out of sight, and realizes it wants its gun back.

Frank is going home on a train; thinking about the story he will tell his wife in regards to his day at the dig and the alien gun he has acquired, but is interrupted when the Dalek attacks the locomotive. When it finds Frank it forces him to reattach the gun threatening by another passenger with its sucker arm. When Frank has reattached the gun the Dalek decides to test it on him.

Police officers arrive at the market to check what was happening with Kate. Rose tries to convince them that the girl just needs to go to a hospital very far away when the Dalek arrives, looking for Kate. The girl reaches it and this time her human side is too overwhelmed for any of Rose's words to reach out to her so she tells the Dalek that Rose is the Doctor's companion and it decides to exterminate her as an act against his nemesis. However, before it can carry out the act, the TARDIS materializes in the market and the Doctor appears from within, daring the Dalek to exterminate him.

The Doctor knows that the Dalek's knowledge is out of date and it wants an update from him so for the moment it won't kill him. Exploiting the Dalek's need for information the Doctor convinces it to tell him about its race's biological influence on humans and the Dalek explains the its race sent a capsule back to Earth in the past to spread the Dalek factor among humans to create back-up from raw matter but it was hit during the Time War so it could spread just a little bit of Dalek factor, which was triggered when the digging disturbed the Dalek who felt in the past.

The Dalek offers the Doctor a deal: it’ll spare the Earth in from biological mutation in exchange for a means of travel in space and time to find a new planet on which to give birth to a new Dalek race. Rose points out that the new Daleks would destroy other planets but despite her words, the Doctor accepts the deal.

The Doctor and Rose return to the TARDIS where the Doctor finds an old Time Ring, a sort of personal TARDIS, which the Dalek can use to find a new place to settle, still willing to go on with the deal despite Rose's objections.

After the Dalek is given the Time Ring he tells Kate to set the coordinates as the device was made to be operated by a humanoid figure. Rose begs Kate's human side not to do so but it is of no use; she operates the Time Ring. After the set-up is completed the Dalek states that he will exterminate the Doctor anyway but when it fires, a sphere of light forms around it: Kate has activated the Time Ring. She is torn between her human side and the Dalek factor but eventually her true self wins and she announces she has activated the Time Ring to self-destruct. The Doctor grabs Kate and Rose, pulls them into the TARDIS, and dematerialises whilst outside, the Dalek implodes.

With the destruction of the Dalek, Kate has returned to full human mentality, with her original red hair. She begins to become confused by the anomaly of the TARDIS interior as the Doctor asks her what he could do for her in return for her services to them. Rose asks her if she has her credit card with her so Kate asks if he could pay off her debts. The Doctor runs the sonic screwdriver along the magnetic strip of the card and announces that her debts are gone, but warns her that he has battered her credit rating forever so she shouldn't even try to apply for another one. Kate remembers that she has tried to kill her boss but the Doctor points out that it was a natural blonde who had attacked Serena, not a redhead, so it couldn't have been her.

When she arrives home, Kate ponders that with all her debts gone she could start a new life, before walking back into the every day world.

It is a sunny afternoon in summer of 1970 at Durham University. Frank Openshaw is on his way to his next history lecture when he sees a gorgeous third year but he knows he doesn’t stand a chance at wooing her. Suddenly a blonde girl crashes into him with a bicycle and whilst the girl is apologizes for the incident the third year rushes to help him and they start talking while the girl on the bike cycles away.

Rose reaches the TARDIS on her bike whilst the Doctor looks at Frank and his new friend Sandra walking away together, confirming that Rose has done well. After Rose asks why he asked her to do such a thing he states that he is bending the rules for a friend. (QR: I Am A Dalek)

In 2007, Mickey brought the Doctor and Rose to Deffry Vale High School, which had had suspiciously high exam results and UFO sightings. The Doctor went undercover as physics teacher John Smith. The Doctor reunited with Sarah Jane Smith and K9 Mark III while the two investigated the school. He learnt that the oil used to boost the children's intelligence was Krillitane oil, and the Krillitanes were using the children's minds to construct the Skasis Paradigm, a computation that could rebuild the fabric of the universe. When the Doctor refused this temptation, K9 sacrificed his life to blow up the Krillitanes with their toxic oil.

On Sarah Jane's suggestion, the Doctor allowed Mickey to accompany him and Rose on their travels. Sarah Jane, who refused to continue travelling with the Doctor, had a new K9 model built by him. (DW: School Reunion)

The Doctor, Rose and Mickey travelled to the SS Madame de Pompadour in the 51st century, where they found the crew's organs were taken as "parts" by the repair droids after the ship was damaged. The droids created time windows to find the ship's namesake Reinette when she was what they considered "complete" as the final "part". While investigating this, the Doctor travelled throughout Reinette's life inside these time windows fighting the droids throughout 18th century France, and they fell in love.

When the droids found the "complete" Madame de Pompadour, the Doctor broke through the time window to the court of Versailles in 1758, shattering the connection to the ship and stranding the droids. Without purpose, the droids shut down.

Reinette had taken a fireplace, which due to being disconnected, retained its link to the SS Madame de Pompadour. The Doctor tried travelling back through the fireplace for Reinette to see the stars, but the loose connection to the time window meant she had already died when he returned six years later from her perspective. (DW: The Girl in the Fireplace)

On a parallel Earth, the Doctor, Rose and Mickey witnessed the birth of the Cybermen of that world. The adventure ended with Mickey deciding to stay in the parallel universe, leaving Rose and the Doctor to continue their travels together. (DW: Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel)

The Doctor and Rose planned to see an Elvis concert, donning outfits of the 1950s and riding a scooter out of the TARDIS. However, they accidentally ended up in England, 2 June, 1953, where the Wire was planning to steal the essences and faces of everyone watching the coronation 0f Queen Elizabeth II on television. Rose fell victim to the Wire, but during the coronation the Doctor defeated the Wire, restoring the faces of its victims. (DW: The Idiot's Lantern)

The Doctor and Rose travelled to the planet of Krop Tor, an impossible planet that orbited the black hole K37 Gem 5, inhabited by Sanctuary Base 6. The humans of Sanctuary Base 6 had journeyed to Krop Tor to discover the source of power emanating from the planet's core, which was allowing the planet to orbit the black hole without falling in. In the base, the Beast had been terrorising the explorers on the surface and possessing their servants, the Ood. The Doctor and a crew member of Sanctuary Base 6 named Ida Scott, descended into the core of the planet to explore and discovered a pit which had started opening. (DW: The Impossible Planet)

The Doctor descended into the pit alone. On the bottom, he found himself face-to-face with the Beast's mindless body. The Doctor trapped the Beast by imprisoning its body and the rest in the black hole, while Rose had its mind, which had possessed the base's archaeologist Toby Zed, ejected from the Sanctuary Base 6 rocket at around the same time. The Doctor TARDIS by accident, allowing him to rescue Rose and the surviving humans of the base from the black hole. (DW: The Satan Pit)

When Elton Pope upset Rose's mother, the Doctor and Rose confronted him and helped him defeat the Abzorbaloff. (DW: Love & Monsters)

He and Rose travelled to 2012 to see the London Olympics. He met a girl named Chloe Webber who had been possessed by a lone Isolus. Chloe was trapping other children from her street in drawings to stop the Isolus from feeling lonely. After briefly being trapped in a drawing himself, along with the TARDIS, the Doctor ran with the Olympic torch to the stadium, lit the Olympic flame, and then reunited with Rose. (DW: Fear Her)

When the Doctor and Rose returned to 2007 London, they found that the entire planet was being visited by beings believed to be ghosts. The Doctor tracked the signal to Torchwood Tower and was subsequently taken prisoner by the Torchwood Institute. He strongly opposed their use of "ghost shifts" for a power source, as it was ripping a hole between parallel worlds which increased in size with every iteration. The original tear was caused by "the Sphere", an object the Doctor identified as a Void Ship. Later, three computer technicians who were secretly under the control of Cybermen restarted the ghost shift. This led to the ghosts, who were actually Cybermen, coming through from the parallel world where the Doctor and Rose had left Mickey. As the Cyberman invasion of Earth began, the Void Ship opened, revealing the Cult of Skaro, a group of Daleks with a Genesis Ark. (DW: Army of Ghosts) The Genesis Ark was Time Lord technology, a prison ship containing millions of Daleks captured by the Time Lords.

In order to save both dimensions from annihilation and defeat the Daleks and Cybermen, the Doctor decided to open the Void. This opening would suck anything covered in "Void stuff" into it. Realising that himself, Rose and the others were also covered in Void stuff, the Doctor sent Rose, against her will, to the parallel world, along with Mickey, Pete Tyler and her mother, where they all would be safe from the Void. However, Rose returned, refusing to leave the Doctor and knowing that in making her choice she would never see her family again. Together, they opened the Void, and the Daleks and Cybermen were sucked in. The plan initially went smoothly, until Rose's lever malfunctioned, threatening to halt the process. Rose managed to secure the lever, but couldn't hold on and was almost sucked into the Void. However, Rose was saved at the last second by her parallel father and taken back across to the parallel universe, separating her from the Doctor. The Doctor and Rose were able to meet one last time on Dårlig Ulv Stranden in Norway. The Doctor had parked the TARDIS in orbit around a supernova for enough power to project an image through the last gap between the universes to say goodbye. Rose was able to confirm her love for the Doctor to him, but the Doctor was cut off before he could tell her he loved her too. (DW: Doomsday)

A Noble encounter
Whilst he was grieving over Rose, a bride named Donna Noble was pulled inside the TARDIS during her wedding ceremony to Lance Bennett. While taking Donna back to the ceremony on Christmas Eve, 2007, the Doctor discovered the involvement of the Empress of the Racnoss. He found her attempting to use Huon particles embedded in Donna and Lance to revive the Empress' Racnoss offspring, who lay in stasis at the core of the Earth. The Doctor flooded the chamber with all of the River Thames, but was unable to save Lance. The British military finished off the Empress' Webstar.

Largely because of the Doctor's merciless treatment of them, Donna decided not to travel with him and left after advising the Doctor to "find someone". (DW: The Runaway Bride)

An old and best friend
Some time after meeting Donna, the Doctor, travelling alone, landed on the Slough of the Disjointed Planets, an area of space populated by warlike races renowned for their brutal conflicts. There he encountered the dying War Keeper, the ancient controller of the population of the Disjointed Planets. To find a worthy successor, the War Keeper scanned the Doctor's mind for the identity and location of the greatest leader of the cosmos, and chose Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. The old soldier, now retired and in his late seventies, found himself transported to the Slough to receive the position, but refused to accept the role.

As an alternative, the War Keeper chose Mike Yates, but accidentally summoned another, far less capable man with the same name. Rivals of the dying War Keeper infiltrated his helpers before his death and passed onto the other Mike Yates the Keeper's control device, the Warkeeper's Crown. With the weak-minded, wrong Yates under control of the Crown, and with the wrong Yates in turn in control of the numerous forces of the Disjointed Planets, the deceased War Keeper's rivals planned to control the conflicts. The controlled Yates transported himself back to his home on Earth, along with many Orcs, Hawks, and other creatures. The Doctor and the Brigadier, with an army of Brigadier-clones the Doctor created with technology at the Slough, returned to the Earth to defeat the demon hordes and free Yates from the Crown's control. During this time, the Mike Yates whom the Doctor and the Brigadier knew of old witnessed the conflict. With the danger passed, the Doctor and the Brigadier, still and ever the best of friends, re-lived their old glories, and said their good-byes, although the Brigadier expected to see his old friend once more. (DWM: The Warkeeper's Crown)

Smith and Jones
While investigating a set of plasma coils, the Doctor checked himself into Royal Hope Hospital in 2008, where he met Martha Jones. The hospital was H2O scooped onto the Moon by the Judoon. The Doctor tricked the Plasmavore Florence Finnegan into absorbing his blood, and the Judoon, identifying Finnegan as an alien murderer, executed her. When Martha revived the blood-starved Doctor, he unplugged Finnegan's overloading MRI machine, which was set to kill half of the Earth, and the hospital returned to London. The same day, Martha accepted an invitation to travel in the TARDIS. (DW: Smith and Jones)

They arrived in London in 1599 to meet William Shakespeare. Shakespeare had been manipulated by the Carrionites to use the power of words of Love's Labour's Won to bring an army of them out of the Deep Darkness at the premiere of his play in the Globe Theatre. At the climax, he was aided by the Doctor and Martha to use his own words to banish them, along with the scripts to Love's Labour's Won back to the Darkness.

After the performance, Queen Elizabeth I arrived at the Globe Theatre and ordered her men to kill her sworn enemy, even though the Doctor hadn't met her yet. (DW: The Shakespeare Code)

Despite initially demanding that Martha would only go on one trip, the Doctor stretched the definition to further trips before returning her home. (DW: Gridlock, Daleks in Manhattan, The Lazarus Experiment)

In 5,000,000,053, the Doctor searched for Martha, who was taken to the New New York Motorway's fast lane. Novice Hame took the Doctor to what was left of the Senate to help the Face of Boe open up the Motorway, freeing Martha from the Macra. After the Face of Boe sacrificed his own life, he uttered his final words to the Doctor and Martha, "You are not alone". The Doctor talked to Martha about the Last Great Time War and how he thought the Face of Boe was wrong. (DW: Gridlock)

In 1930 New York City, the Doctor and Martha investigated kidnappings from Hooverville, where humans were taken to the sewers, where they were either turned into pig slaves or taken to the Cult of Skaro's Final Experiment. In the sewers, the Doctor discovered the Experiment, which began with Dalek Sec becoming a human-Dalek hybrid. (DW: Daleks in Manhattan)

Dalek Sec was deposed by the rest of the Cult for his attempt to work with the Doctor to give the kidnapped humans human survival instinct instead of making them full Daleks. The Doctor climbed to the top of the Empire State Building and got in the way of the solar flare that powered the Experiment. He added Time Lord morality to the hybrids. Due to this morality, the Daleks fought the hybrids; Daleks Sec, Jast and Thay and the hybrids all died, and Dalek Caan underwent another emergency temporal shift. (DW: Evolution of the Daleks)

Soon after, Martha and the Doctor put an end to the work of mad Professor Richard Lazarus, (DW: The Lazarus Experiment) and following that helped save a spaceship from plummeting into a sun. (DW: 42)

Later, the Doctor hid from the Family of Blood, aliens who wanted his Time Lord body. He used a Chameleon Arch to transform himself mentally and physically into a human school teacher named John Smith, completely hiding his Time Lord self so that his alter ego had no recollection of the Doctor. John Smith fell in love, much to the disappointment of Martha, with the matron of the school, Joan Redfern. (DW: Human Nature) However, the Doctor was forced to retake his Time Lord body to save the Earth from destruction, and sought suitable punishment for the Family of Blood. (DW: The Family of Blood)

The Doctor and Martha travelled to 2007 to investigate strange disappearances at an old abandoned house. They were transported back in time to 1969 by aliens in the form of stone angels who fed off their potential energy. Using information given to him by Sally Sparrow prior to the incident, he left messages for Sally in the future to bring the TARDIS back to 1969. (DW: Blink) In Cardiff, the Doctor "refuelled" the TARDIS using the Cardiff Space-Time Rift. Captain Jack Harkness jumped onto and clung to the exterior of the TARDIS, hitching a ride to the planet Malcassairo in the extremely far distant future. On Malcassairo, the Doctor found Professor Yana, who was actually his most fearsome nemesis, the Master. The Master had been made human by another Chameleon Arch, but when Martha questioned his old fob watch, he opened it and became the Master again. After being shot by Professor Yana's assistant, Chantho, and facing imminent regeneration, the Master locked himself inside the Doctor's TARDIS and despite the pleas of his fellow Time Lord, hijacked the ship and escaped, leaving the Doctor, Jack and Martha to die at the hands of the Futurekind. (DW: Utopia) They were able to escape to 2008 when the Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to repair Jack's broken vortex manipulator. Under the human name of Harold Saxon, the Master became Prime Minister of Great Britain and invited an army of Toclafane to invade the world. (DW: The Sound of Drums)

He imprisoned the Doctor for a year, during which time he used his laser screwdriver to artificially age the Doctor nine hundred years, turning him into a small creature. The Master was later defeated by manipulation of his Archangel Network to the Doctor's own advantage. The Doctor displayed great powers during this period, using the psychic energy of the Earth's people, who had been told by Martha to think of the Doctor at a specific moment. He restored his young appearance and used the psychic energy to grant himself almost god-like abilities. After disarming the Master, he forgave him. The Master threatened to self-destruct his war fleet and take the Earth with him, but the Doctor knew that doing so would require the Master to sacrifice himself, which he couldn't do. The Master reluctantly surrendered and the Doctor reversed time, trapping the Toclafane at the end of the Universe and reversing the Master's control over Earth. Subsequently, the Doctor decided to rehabilitate the Master, planning to keep him a prisoner aboard the TARDIS. The Master was shot by his human wife, Lucy Saxon, who sought revenge for his cruel treatment of her. At the thought of becoming the Doctor's captive, the Master refused to regenerate and died for, supposedly, the final time in the arms of the Doctor, thus leaving the Doctor truly the last Time Lord in existence.

Following the events of the Year That Never Was, Martha left the Doctor, believing that she needed to live her own life and be with her family. Her family had been tortured at the hands of the Master and Martha felt partly responsible for their suffering. Almost from their first encounter, Martha had fallen in love with the Doctor. However, she knew that her love was unrequited and that he only saw Rose when he looked at her. Martha explained this to the Doctor and they parted amicably. (DW: Last of the Time Lords)

When incarnations meet
Shortly after Martha left, the Doctor accidentally crashed his TARDIS with that of his fifth incarnation. He was able to use his memory of the event from when he was in his fifth incarnation to separate the TARDISes. However, before the tenth Doctor could turn the TARDIS' shields back on, the spaceship Titanic crashed in through the walls. (DW: Time Crash)

A Titanic adventure
After fixing the damage to his TARDIS, the Doctor transported it inside the ship, where he decided to join the party. He quickly made a new friend, Astrid Peth, on board the Titanic. When the ship's owner, Max Capricorn, had a meteor shower purposely crash into the Titanic, the Doctor attempted to save the passengers. He could only save Astrid by transforming her into a being of light, but managed to save three other people. The Doctor stopped the Titanic from crashing into Earth. Additionally, he refused to allow the ship's tour guide Mr Copper to travel with him, though Mr Copper had accidentally had more than enough credit to get by for the first time in his life. Following the incident, the Doctor set out on his own once again. (DW: Voyage of the Damned)

A Noble reunion
While investigating Adipose Industries, the Doctor was reunited with Donna Noble, who finally accepted his invitation to travel with him. With the help of Donna, he used two Adipose Pill Necklaces to prevent a million Londoners from being killed and their organs and skeletons converted into Adipose. The Doctor tried to save the life of Matron Cofelia, the foster mother to the few thousand Adipose that made it through before the birthing stopped, but the Adipose First Family's ship dropped her as it took aboard the incomplete harvest of Adipose.

The Doctor and Donna were both quick to rule out the possibility of a romantic involvement, making their companionship dynamically different from those of Rose and Martha. (DW: Partners in Crime)

The Doctor and Donna travelled to 79, where they were forced to cause the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii to avert world domination and conversion of all of humanity by the Pyroviles. The Doctor saved a family from being killed in the eruption per Donna's request. (DW: The Fires of Pompeii)

In 4126, the Doctor learned that the Ood of the Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire were actualy slaves instead of servants and helped free them by opening the field blocking the Ood Brain, the "third element" of Oodkind's minds. After this, Ood Sigma foretold that his song would end soon. (DW: Planet of the Ood)

Reunion with Martha
Martha phoned to the Doctor to call him back to UNIT in 2009, to investigate 52 simultaneous ATMOS-related deaths across the Earth. He discovered the Sontarans were working with Luke Rattigan to create ATMOS. (DW: The Sontaran Stratagem) The sezerfine gas started being emitted from ATMOS-equipped cars across the Earth to be used to breed more Sontarans for the war against the Rutans. The Doctor built an Atmospheric Converter to ignite the atmosphere, destroying the gas. The Sontarans' next plan was to simply conquer Earth. Rattigan, having been betrayed by the Sontarans, sacrificed his life, swapping places with the Doctor at the last minute to destroy the flagship with the converter. (DW: The Poison Sky)

Directly following this, the TARDIS transported the Doctor, Donna and Martha to the planet Messaline in the year 6012, where his DNA was stolen and replicated to produce Jenny, his biological daughter, which due to a paradox was what brought her to Messaline to begin with. Initially critical of the girl due to her predilection for violence, the Doctor came to love her. The Doctor activated the Source, a terraforming device that had become a subject of mythology. Messaline became inhabitable and the war between humans and Hath on the planet ended. The Doctor mourned Jenny's "death" at the hands of General Cobb. He overcame his desire for revenge, however, in order to help found a new society on the planet. Martha returned to her fiancé Tom Milligan, as she had been taken there by mistake. (DW: The Doctor's Daughter)

Solved and unsolved mysteries
The Doctor was part of a murder mystery in Eddison Manor in 1926. He learnt that Arnold Golightly, who had recently discovered his Vespiform upbringing, was turned into a murderer when the Firestone telepathically connected Agatha Christie to Golightly. When Donna threw the Firestone into a lake, the connection caused temporary amnesia in Christie, and the Doctor dropped her off in the Harrogate Hotel. (DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp)

Professor River Song called the Doctor to the Library in the 51st century. River claimed to know the Doctor from his future, and owned a newer sonic screwdriver. The Library was under attack by Vashta Nerada. (DW: Silence in the Library) While attempting to teleport Donna safely to the TARDIS, she ended up "saved" inside the Library's core. River knew the Doctor's real name, gaining his trust. She sacrificed herself to boost the Library's memory, returning the 4000 people who were saved in the Library's core a century earlier as well as Donna. The Doctor, inspired by her faith in him, saved River Song by preserving her data ghost that his future self placed in the sonic screwdriver in the core's virtual reality. (DW: Forest of the Dead)

Failed vacations
The Doctor and Donna later visited the leisure planet Midnight. Donna stayed at the leisure palace whilst the Doctor took a four-hour ride on the Crusader 50 bus to the Sapphire Waterfall. The bus was attacked by an unknown entity which possessed one of the passengers, Sky Silvestry and eventually appeared to pass into the Doctor, inciting mass hysteria among the other passengers. Before the creature could trick the passengers into throwing out the Doctor, Sky was dragged out into the Xtonic sunlight by the bus' hostess, who realised that Sky was stealing the Doctor's voice, and the creature departed, its plans defeated. (DW: Midnight)

The Doctor and Donna visited the Chinese-influenced planet of Shan Shen. While Donna had her fortune told, a member of the Trickster's Brigade created an alternate universe around her, one in which Donna never met the Doctor. In this alternate universe she met Rose Tyler, who told her two words to tell the Doctor. After Donna corrected the universe, she was able to tell the Doctor: "Bad Wolf"; it meant the end of the universe. (DW: Turn Left)

Reunions and farewells
The Doctor rushed back to Earth. He found that everything was normal, but when they re-entered the TARDIS, the planet was gone. Finding no clue as to its location he went to the Shadow Proclamation and learned twenty-seven planets had been stolen. With the cooperation of Harriet Jones, Jack Harkness, Sarah Jane Smith, Luke Smith, Martha Jones, Mr Smith and Rose Tyler, his Children of Time, he was contacted. He locked onto the location of the Earth by following the trail of the Tandocca Scale left by the missing Earth as well as the Children of Time's signal. After talking with his friends and Davros, who had been saved by Dalek Caan from the Last Great Time War, he landed on Earth. While talking to Donna, she pointed out Rose was behind him. The two began to run towards each other. A Dalek emerged from the shadows and fired at him before being destroyed by a teleporting Jack Harkness. It was only a glancing blow, but was enough to mortally wound him. The Doctor was taken back into the TARDIS, where he began to regenerate. (DW: The Stolen Earth)

Using his nearby severed hand, the Doctor used the regeneration to heal himself, but not to regenerate into a new form. The TARDIS was taken on board the Dalek Crucible where the Doctor, Rose and Jack were captured. Donna was locked inside the TARDIS, which was sent to be destroyed. As a result of this, a new Doctor was born from his severed hand when Donna touched it. The meta-crisis made Donna part-Time Lord, becoming the DoctorDonna of the Ood prophecy. DoctorDonna disabled the planet powered Reality bomb to stop Davros from destroying the entire universe and then the three Doctors sent the planets back to their original time and space. The Doctor was horrified by the actions of the new Doctor, who had wiped out the last remaining members of the Dalek race knowing they had the numbers to take the universe by force, and knew he was too dangerous to keep unsupervised.

As the Doctor's companions fled to safety in the TARDIS, the Doctor offered to save Davros and Caan. Davros refused, hatefully denouncing the Doctor as "The Destroyer of Worlds", while Caan predicted that one of the Doctor's companions would perish. The Children of Time used the TARDIS to tow Earth back to its original point in time and space. The Doctor said his goodbyes to Sarah Jane, Martha, Jack and Mickey before he left the new Doctor in a parallel world, hoping Rose and he would be able to help each other. The new Doctor was able to tell Rose that he loved her and they kissed. Upon returning to his own universe, the Doctor was forced to remove all of Donna's Time Lord abilities and memories of travelling with him, as they would have killed her because her human body couldn't handle it. He returned Donna to her mother and grandfather, and told them they would have to make sure she never remembered him. The Doctor was then left to travel on, alone and saddened. (DW: Journey's End)

Invasion of the mind
Es'Cartrss of the Tactire, an inhabitant of Callufrax Minor, had been stuck on the Crucible and was unable to return home before the Doctors returned the planets. He escaped to the TARDIS where he attempted to take over the Doctor's mind, but his link with the TARDIS forced them both into the Matrix. The Doctor had the stronger mind and took control, killing Es'Cartrss. (IDW: The Forgotten)

Walk of the Cyberking
Some time after leaving Donna, the Doctor travelled to London on Christmas Eve, 1851. Whilst there, the Doctor met a man calling himself "the Doctor" and at first assumed him to be his future incarnation. In reality, he was a human, Jackson Lake, who had the contents of an infostamp about the Doctor imprinted on his brain. Jackson and his companion, Rosita Farisi, aided the Doctor in stopping the plot of the Cybermen and their ally, Mercy Hartigan. London was saved, Lake was reunited with his son, and invited the Doctor to share Christmas dinner with his new family, an offer which was at first declined, then accepted by the Doctor. (DW: The Next Doctor)

Heather and Wolfie
Travelling alone, The Doctor met Heather McCrimmon, a history student at Edinburgh University. After helping him defeat the Mozhtratta, The Doctor invited Heather aboard the TARDIS. (DWA: The Chromosome Connection) On their first adventure together, The Doctor and Heather relocated the Spaeron to Kerun Za, since their planet had been destroyed by the Daleks. (DWA: The Aquarius Condition)

The pair went on to have many adventures together. They defeated the Incasaurs in 1911 Peru, (DWA: Hitching Point) saved a German crew from drowning in World War II (DWA: The Submariners) travelled to 21st century New York and uncovered an alien working within the NYPD (DWA: The Greed of the Gavulav) and defeated the star demon of Kroul at the Ashgar prison. (DWA: The Spirit of Ashgar)

The Doctor and Heather were later joined by 16-year old Wolfie Ryder. (DWA: Flight of the Giurgeax) the trio visited many planets around the Universe, including Lurbos 3, (DWA: Sweet Dreams) the forests of Yellan, (DWA: Copycat) Earth in 1967 (DWA: Shadow of the Vaipid) and the misty land of Salzburg. (DWA: The Curse of Vladula) When Wolfgang is almost killed in a battle to save the world, The Doctor returns him home, fearing that he is putting his life in danger. (DWA: Bad Wolfie)

After many other adventures in time and space, the Doctor's journeys with Heather came to an end when she was infected by the Mozhatta's deadly machine. The Doctor discovered that if Heather travelled in time, she would be ripped apart by time radiation, and he was forced to leave her behind, even though he was deeply heartbroken by this. (DWA: Dead-line)

Final Adventures
Some time after his adventure with Heather, the Doctor travelled to London in 2009 at Easter, investigating strange readings on a bus. While he investigated, the bus hurtled through a wormhole to reappear on San Helios. On the bus, he met Christina de Souza, and cooperated with her to return the bus and its occupants to Earth and stop the Swarm from invading. Before leaving in the TARDIS, the Doctor rejected Christina's offer of companionship, stating that he had lost everyone who travelled with him and he had sworn never again. Carmen, a low level psychic who aided the Doctor, offered a prophecy. She told him "Your song is ending sir, It is returning. It is returning through the dark, oh but then... He will knock four times". Christina was arrested for multiple thefts, but the Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to aid her escape in the bus. When the Doctor was about to be arrested for helping Christina, he entered the "police box" to "arrest himself" and left. (DW: Planet of the Dead)

The Doctor crashed Sarah Jane's wedding. He knew the Trickster, an old enemy of hers, would try and get his revenge on her after she had foiled his previous attempts to cause chaos. As he arrived, Sarah Jane and her fiancé Peter Dalton were taken by the Trickster. He was teleported to a nether realm along with Rani Chandra and Clyde Langer, whom he had heard all about from Sarah Jane, and Luke, who he had met when the Earth was stolen. He fought the Trickster, who hinted about his death, stating that "the gate is waiting". The TARDIS gave Clyde the power to control artron energy by mistake, so he could have defeated the Trickster, while the Doctor informed Sarah Jane what needed to be done. Peter, Sarah Jane's fiancé, sacrificed himself to destroy the Trickster, leaving Sarah Jane alone and heartbroken. When the world was put back to normal, the Doctor visited 13 Bannerman Road and let Sarah Jane and her friends look inside TARDIS, after which he said farewell while sincerely asking Sarah Jane to never forget him. (SJA: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith)

The Doctor, deciding to go to the planet Mars met the crew of Bowie Base One, including Adelaide Brooke. He knew the crew of Bowie Base would die, as it was one of the most important events in the expansion of humanity through the universe. He learned that the crew died due to the Flood, which possessed six of them. Initially unwilling to interfere due to his belief that the event was a fixed point in time, Adelaide's death causing her grand daughter to be inspired and explore the stars, he changed course once he remembered the deaths he had lived through and what it had left him with. He saved Adelaide, Mia and Yuri and took them back to Earth 2059. Adelaide was angry at the Doctor's interference and scolded him for thinking himself above obeying history's course. Adelaide then entered her home, apparently having given up trying to defy the Doctor, but committed suicide. The Doctor's memories of the day's events changed to fit in with the new timeline created. Distraught at the impossibility of his task of changing history, he began to ponder his own end when a vision of Ood Sigma appeared before him. It was this that made the Doctor realise that he had gone too far. As he entered the TARDIS, the Cloister Bell rang. With a defiant "No!" he activated the TARDIS. (DW: The Waters of Mars)

The Doctor spent an unknown amount of time avoiding answering the Ood's summons, during which time he married "Queen Bess". (DW: The End of Time)

The Doctor visited America in 1958. While there, he visited a diner, meeting Cassie Rice and Jimmy Stalkingwolf. The Doctor examined a piece of "space junk" from a UFO crash. He accidentally activated it, drawing the attention of the android, Mister Dread. Escaping, the Doctor, Cassie and Jimmy were attacked by a Viperox battle drone, which was promptly blown up by the United States military. The three were taken to Area 51. They encountered Colonel Stark, who dismissed the Doctor's warnings about the Viperox, and attempted to have the Doctor and his companions mind-wiped. The attempt was unsuccessful, and the trio soon escaped, discovering a small grey alien along the way. They fled to the town of Solitude and took shelter in a deserted building. Jimmy was kidnapped by the Viperox, forcing the Doctor and Cassie to follow. They found Jimmy in the presence of a Viperox Queen before escaping into the desert, where they were confronted by four members of the Alliance of Shades who were destroyed by Jimmy's father, Night Eagle. Night Eagle took them to Rivesh Mantilax, the husband of Seruba Velak, the grey alien captive in Area 51. Colonel Stark captured them all and took them back to Area 51. They Doctor ran off with the "space junk", which was actually a weapon capable of destroying the Viperox. He was cornered on the roof by the Colonel, but convinced him to turn against the Viperox. The Viperox invaded America but were beaten back by the Doctor. Before they retreated, the Viperox commander Lord Azlok snarled "Your day will come, Doctor!", reminding the Doctor of his ever-approaching fate. He departed soon after, leaving Cassie and Jimmy with a suggestion to start dating. (DW: Dreamland)

After being shrunk to size of a doll and helping the Ulian Empire's robots find Princess Cilia, the Doctor decided to rendezvous with the Ood. (WC: The Doctor on My Shoulder)

The Time Lords Return
After meeting with the Ood on their home planet, the Doctor learned of the Master's resurrection on Earth, and raced to stop it, only to arrive too late. After discovering the Master living in the wastelands of London, he tried to confront him, only to be reunited with Wilfred Mott. That night, the Doctor tracked down the Master once again, only for the Master to be abducted by Joshua Naismith's private army.

The next morning, the Doctor contacted Wilf, who informed him of Naismith and went with him in the TARDIS to the Naismith Manor. In the Manor's basement, the Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to unveil two Vinvocci, Addams and Rossiter, who informed him of the Immortality Gate's true purpose. The Doctor rushed to stop the Gate's activation, but was unable to, and the Master turned the entire human race into copies of himself.

Wilf and the Doctor were then rescued by the Vinvocci, who took them to their ship, which the Doctor took offline to stop the Master finding them. Realising that the Master had the means to bring back the Time Lords using the White-Point Star he found, the Doctor took the gun he initially refused from Wilf and piloted the Vinvocci ship back towards the Naismith Manor, where he crashed through the manor's glass roof. However, he was unable to stop the Master from using the Star and the signal from the drums to create a link to Gallifrey, which allowed Rassilon and other Time Lords to appear.

Rassilon undid the Master's conversion of the human race, as Gallifrey appeared in the Earth's sky and began tearing open the time vortex. The Doctor, upon seeing a familiar face behind Lord President Rassilon as he stepped out of the Immortality Gate, targeted the White-Point Star, severing the link, causing Gallifrey and the Time Lords to return to their proper time. Rassilon tried to kill the Doctor, but he was saved by the Master, who used his powers to fight Rassilon and sacrificed himself as the Time Lords returned to the Time War.

The Doctor realised he had survived, but then he heard four knocks. Wilf was trapped inside a radiation control booth which was about to be flooded with radiation. Despite his own anger and Wilf's pleas to leave him, he released Wilf and took his place, receiving a fatal level of radiation. The Doctor's regenerative process had started. Unlike previous occasions, however, the actual regeneration did not immediately occur, and the Doctor was able to not only return Wilf to his home, but spend an unknown length of time travelling through time and space revisiting his past companions, an act he referred to as his "reward". The Doctor visited Martha Jones and Mickey Smith, now freelance alien fighters and married, saving them from a Sontaran. He went to 13 Bannerman Road where he prevented Luke Smith from being run over by a car. He travelled to a bar on the planet Zog, where Captain Jack Harkness was drowning his sorrows in a drink. He passed a note to Jack reading, "His name is Alonso". Jack turned to see Midshipman Alonso Frame, and the Doctor departed as the two began flirting. The Doctor entered a bookstore where Verity Newman, a descendant of Joan Redfern, was signing copies of her book, A Journal of Impossible Things, (DW: The End of Time) which was based on the journal the Doctor had written during his time as John Smith. (DW: Human Nature) The Doctor had Verity sign his copy, and she realised he was the same Doctor. The Doctor asked Verity if Joan had been happy in the end which she confirmed, but he refused to answer her question of if he was. He then encountered Geoff Noble at some point before the man's death, and borrowed a pound from him. He then went to the future and used that pound to purchase a winning lottery ticket. He arrived at the wedding of Donna Noble and Shaun Temple, and asked Sylvia Noble and Wilf to give Donna the triple rollover-winning ticket as a wedding gift. (DW: The End of Time) The Doctor also visited Heather McCrimmon, a descendant of the Second Doctor's companion Jamie McCrimmon. (DWA: Lucky Heather) The Doctor visited all of his former companions from all of his previous incarnations, seeing how they got on. (SJA: Death of the Doctor)

Finally, he travelled to the Powell Estate, on 1 January, 2005, where he observed Rose Tyler and her mother, Jackie Tyler, months before Rose first met him. Although he kept to the shadows, a sudden spasm of pain caught Rose's attention and the two exchanged New Year's greetings, with the Doctor telling Rose that she would have a "really great year" with tears in his eyes as he spoke. (DW: The End of Time)

Death
After Rose departed, the pain of regeneration overwhelmed him and the Doctor collapsed in the street. Ood Sigma then appeared and told him that while his song was ending, his story never would, and that the universe would sing him to his sleep. Reaching the TARDIS, he piloted it into orbit around Earth, stated "I don't want to go" and then regenerated for the tenth time. This time the energy released during the regeneration was enough to cause massive damage to the TARDIS. (DW: The End of Time)

Undated/Unchronicled events

 * The Doctor once commented that he, Rose Tyler, and an Arcturan had an interesting experience in a cellar. (NSA: The Day of the Troll)
 * The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler visited a rocky, barren planet watching giant creatures, similar to manta rays in appearance, fly past. (DW: Army of Ghosts)
 * The Tenth Doctor tried to save Elton Pope's mother from an Elemental Shade from the Howling Halls, but was unsuccessful. (DW: Love & Monsters)
 * This occurred some point before the main events of DW: Love & Monsters, as the Doctor recognised Elton as an adult.


 * The Doctor rescued Charlemagne from an insane computer. (DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp, WC: The Lonely Computer)
 * The Tenth Doctor travelled with a green-skinned young alien named Majenta Pryce. (DWM: Thinktwice) Technically, however, the Doctor was considered Pryce's assistant, rather than the other way around. He also briefly reunited with on-again, off-again companion Maxwell Edison, who had previously shared adventures with the Doctor's fifth and eighth incarnations. (DWM: The Stockbridge Child)
 * The Doctor saved a 13th century convent from a "demon from the sky" and was named the "sainted physician" by the locals. An image of the TARDIS was later incorporated into a stained glass window commemorating the event. (DW: The End of Time)
 * It is unclear, however, whether this event occurred to the Doctor's tenth incarnation or another.


 * The Tenth Doctor attended the funeral of Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. (ST: The Gift)
 * The Tenth Doctor and Rose were in a chase with a Hoix, an event seen by Elton Pope. The Doctor ran into Elton for the second time. (DW: Love & Monsters)
 * The Tenth Doctor was searching for Sontaran grenades in 1895. During his search, he came across his old friend Winston Churchill. (REF: The Brilliant Book 2011)
 * There are several unchronicled periods in the Doctor's history during which some of his activities are unknown:
 * Between Donna Noble's initial invitation to join the TARDIS and his first meeting with Martha is unchronicled. (DW: The Runaway Bride, Smith and Jones)
 * During the interval between his first meeting with Donna Noble and the arrival of Martha Jones, the Doctor briefly travelled with an alien woman named Grayla. (IDW: The Whispering Gallery)
 * An unchronicled adventure with Martha Jones involving "four things and a lizard" and requiring the use of bows and arrows occurred in the modern day, during which the Doctor encountered Sally Sparrow and she handed him a package of information relating to events that had yet to occur to him. (DW: Blink)
 * At some point after his encounter with Sally Sparrow, the Doctor and Martha encountered the Weeping Angels and were transported without the TARDIS to 1969, where they spent an unknown length of time following the information provided by Sparrow. Their activities during this period have not been completely detailed. (DW: Blink)
 * After dropping Mr Copper off on Earth and before his reunion with Donna is unchronicled. (DW: Voyage of the Damned and Partners in Crime)
 * Adventures chronicled following the memory-wipe of Donna do not occur consecutively and thus any length of time may occur between them. (DW: Journey's End)
 * At some point after leaving Donna, the Doctor causes a change in a planet's timeline that results in a friend named Carla disappearing. Per Carla's request, the Doctor spent "years" searching for what became of Carla in the new timeline, eventually locating her. (DWS: The Haldenmor Fugue)
 * At some point after meeting Lady Christina, and after an adventure involving the Shadow Proclamation and an encounter with Mr. Finch and the Krillitanes. The Doctor rescinds his prohibition on not travelling with companions and invites Matthew Finnegan and Emily Winter, two inhabitants of 1920s Hollywood, to travel with him. (IDW: Fugitive, Tesseract) At some point during this period the Doctor was reunited briefly with Martha Jones and UNIT for an adventure. (IDW: Don't Step on the Grass)
 * The Doctor's discussion with Ood Sigma establishes an interval of indeterminate length between the Bowie Base One incident and the events leading to his regeneration, during which many events could have occurred. (DW: The End of Time)
 * The Doctor saves a planet from the Red Carnivorous Maw.
 * The Doctor names a galaxy, "Alison".
 * The Doctor marries Queen Elizabeth I, then becomes her enemy. (DW: The Shakespeare Code)
 * It is not known how long the Doctor spent travelling to visit past companions before succumbing to radiation and regenerating. The Eleventh Doctor later told Jo Grant that he visited all of his previous companions, not just those specific to the Tenth Doctor. (SJA: Death of the Doctor)


 * For a list of Tenth Doctor stories in the order in which he experienced them, see Tenth Doctor - Timeline.

Donna's World

 * In the parallel timeline in which Donna Noble never met the Doctor, this incarnation of the Doctor was the last, as he was killed before he had a chance to regenerate as a result of his defeating the Empress of the Racnoss without being stopped. His former companion, Rose Tyler, along with the alternate timeline version of Donna, eventually restored the original timeline. (DW: Turn Left)

Personality
This incarnation was very cheerful, charismatic and enthusiastic, often at inappropriate times, even when in danger. (DW: Tooth and Claw) While previous incarnations intentionally flouted social conventions, the tenth incarnation was genuinely shocked when he was rude or uncouth. He frequently got into trouble because of his vast and loose sense of superiority. (DW: Midnight) He regularly provided his name as a threat, which only rarely worked, despite his apparent expectations. (DW: New Earth) This was mostly because so few species knew of his or the Time Lords' existence.

The tenth incarnation retained and even exceeded his last incarnation's capacity for righteous anger, which was especially shown when Rose was threatened or at risk. (DW: The Idiot's Lantern) When driven by anger or justice, he would act without hesitation to strike down those who opposed him, such as causing the downfall of Harriet Jones for, as he saw it, mass murder. (DW: The Christmas Invasion) There was an undeniable shadow cast over the jollity of him at these times, and a ruthless, bordering on arrogant personality seemed to take over, one that was almost eerie to behold.

While he had resolved much of the survivor's guilt felt previously, the Doctor had begun to feel his age. Beneath his youthful veneer and outward playfulness was a very old man who had seen many terrible things. He felt a deep loneliness and his keen sense of loss led him to empathise with those who had also suffered. Sarah Jane Smith tried to comfort him by saying that although he acted like a lonely man he had the biggest family in the world. She was referring to the many companions the Doctor had picked up on his travels. (DW: Journey's End) This incarnation had a very forgiving nature, offering to help Dalek Caan even though he had committed genocide (DW: Evolution of the Daleks). He also forgave the Master for all the atrocities he committed while he was ruling the Earth, which included turning his TARDIS into a paradox machine, torturing his companions for pleasure and turning him into an incredibly ancient man. (DW: Last of the Time Lords). However when his patience reached its limit his enemies got no second chance which he stated himself shortly after defeating the leader of the Sycorax. (DW: The Christmas Invasion). When he ran from the Family of Blood, he was showing them mercy, saving them from his rage. When they continued to hunt him, killing innocent people and separating him from his love interest, Joan Redfern, in the process, the Doctor lost his temper and gave each member of the Family of Blood an eternal punishment, fulfilling their wish for immortality in a twisted way. (DW: The Family of Blood) Donna would later link this mercy to his travelling with Martha, which the Doctor would agree on.

The Doctor had a very hard time accepting defeat or failure. When he was unable to save Astrid he kicked a teleport, screaming. (DW: Voyage of the Damned) Having seen so much destruction he felt driven to try to prevent it where possible. River Song thought that if he lost this trait, the universe would become a darker place. (DW: Forest of the Dead)

Upon their first meeting, Donna Noble noted that the reason the Doctor required so many companions was to keep him from succumbing to his darker urges. (DW: The Runaway Bride) After losing Donna to a meta-crisis, the Doctor chose to no longer take on companions and avoid getting his heart broken again. This time spent alone ultimately resulted in the Doctor succumbing to those darker urges and breaking the laws of time to satisfy his ego. (DW: The Waters of Mars)

The tenth incarnation engaged in romantic situations far more frequently than his predecessors. Having travelled with her since he was first shown in his ninth incarnation, the tenth Doctor fell in love with Rose Tyler and was heartbroken by her loss. (DW: Doomsday) However the Doctor never actually stated his feelings for Rose though he nearly did a few times. (DW: The Satan Pit, Doomsday). In the end it was the Meta-Crisis tenth Doctor that revealed the Doctor's feelings for Rose and since the Meta-Crisis Doctor was almost identical to the original Doctor, albeit a bit more violent and with some of Donna Noble's personality traits, as well as the fact that he possessed all of the original Doctor's memories, it is almost certain that the original Doctor felt the same way. Many others attempted to engage him romantically, including Madame de Pompadour, Joan Redfern, Martha Jones, Astrid Peth, River Song, and Christina de Souza. (DW: The Girl in the Fireplace, Human Nature/The Family of Blood, Voyage of the Damned, Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, Planet of the Dead) The Doctor reciprocated all of those except Martha, Christina and River, whose relationship was supposedly unknown to him.

This incarnation refused to take up a weapon against an enemy. While previous incarnations had, the tenth incarnation would not, repeatedly refusing even when offered one by UNIT while attacking the Sontarans. (DW: The Poison Sky) Davros even pointed out his refusal to take up a gun, but pointed out that he turned his companions into weapons. Eventually however the Doctor decided to take Wilfred Mott's pistol with him when he attempted to stop Rassilon and the Time Lords from destroying reality. (DW The End of Time)

This incarnation always attempted to find another way to solve a situation instead of violence if it was possible. He attempted to settle a dispute with the Sycorax leader without killing the leader, but was forced to when the leader betrayed his promise. Using the leader's defeat, he banished the Sycorax from Earth with the message that it was defended. He was extremely angered when Torchwood destroyed the ship afterwards. (DW: The Christmas Invasion) The Doctor also tried to help the Dalek survivors in New York to find a new world for themselves rather than fight to the death. He initially succeeded in convincing them until the Daleks turned against Dalek Sec. Even when only Dalek Caan was left, he tried to find a peaceful solution. (DW: Evolution of the Daleks) He also tried to get the Sontarans to leave peacefully after their plan was foiled, but they refused. Luke Rattigan killed them in place of the Doctor. (DW: The Poison Sky) Later, the Doctor tried to find a way to solve the Master Race crisis without killing the Master. When the Time Lords returned, he was forced to take a gun into the situation, being forced to choose between killing Rassilon or the Master. He found another way by using the gun to destroy the White Point Star diamond, breaking the link holding the Time Lords out of the time lock. (DW: The End of Time)

This incarnation had a great respect for humanity, as well as a great desire to protect it, constantly noting their importance. Some of this may have come from the influence of his companions. Most notably however, was when Wilfred Mott said that humanity must look like insects to the Doctor, but the Doctor responded that humanity looked like giants to him. (DW: The End of Time)

Towards the end of his life, this incarnation was undeniably afraid of his predicted death, going on all sorts of adventures to circumvent or delay it. (DW: The End of Time)

Habits and quirks
The Doctor made frequent reference to twentieth century pop culture, including the Ghostbusters theme, (DW: Army of Ghosts) the song "Circle of Life" from The Lion King, (DW: The Christmas Invasion) and one of Kylie Minogue's songs, "Never Too Late". (DW: The Idiot's Lantern) He had also read the Harry Potter books, noting that he cried after reading the seventh book (DW: The Shakespeare Code) Even though he knew so much of pop culture he did not understand certain remarks, such as being called a "science geek". (DW: The Lazarus Experiment) He was fond of rock and roll, trying to take Rose to see concerts by both Ian Dury and Elvis Presley. (DW: Tooth and Claw, The Idiot's Lantern)

He often remarked that exotic technology or life was "beautiful" or "brilliant" and was genuinely enthralled by such discoveries, sometimes to the extent that he placed himself or his companions in danger. When this incarnation was faced with an occurrence that dumbfounded him he would repeatedly say "What?", looking increasingly astonished with each repetition. (DW: Doomsday, Last of the Time Lords) While attempting to explain something he would often interrupt himself with a "Well..." and further elaborate what it was he was talking about (DW: Blink, et al) The Doctor was also fond of the phrase "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry", mainly talking to persons he knows are about to die and whom he cannot save. Other favoured phrases were "Allons-y!" (DW: Army of Ghosts) and "Molto bene." (DW: Voyage of the Damned) Like his seventh incarnation, he also often responded "I'm always all right" even when all evidence pointed to the contrary. (DW: Forest of the Dead)

He also demonstrated an ability of his fifth incarnation, which was being able to determine the properties of an object by taste. (DW: The Christmas Invasion, The Idiot's Lantern, Tooth and Claw, Utopia, The Fires of Pompeii, The Sontaran Stratagem, The Unicorn and the Wasp, Planet of the Dead) He also possessed a heightened sense of smell, which could be used to track other Time Lords, such as the Master. (DW: The End of Time)

Until they left his life, he continued his previous incarnation's habit of mildly mocking both Mickey and Jackie, though generally in a more obviously playful fashion.

The tenth incarnation of the Doctor had a fondness for bananas like his predecessor. (DW: The Girl in the Fireplace)

The Doctor had a stated fondness for "little shops", the gift stores usually found in hospitals and other public places. Though he retained a great dislike for hospitals due to his seventh incarnation being killed at one by accident. (DW: New Earth)

This incarnation of the Doctor relied heavily upon his sonic screwdriver, pushing it to limits not seen in previous incarnations and even chiding his fifth incarnation for going "hands free". (DW: Time Crash) He also continued to heavily use the psychic paper. (DW New Earth et al) Like previous selves, he appeared to have the ability to carry a large and diverse number of objects in his pockets, stating once that they were bigger on the inside. (DW: The Runaway Bride)

He also revived the occasional use of a stethoscope, like his second incarnation in mostly non-medical situations, such as the diagnosis of electronic or mechanical faults. (DW: Fury from the Deep, Rise of the Cybermen, The Stolen Earth) He used his hammer many times during this incarnation, to knock out Sontarans and even pilot the TARDIS. (DW: The Runaway Bride, The End of Time)

He had been given a GSM mobile phone by Martha, when she left him as his companion, that he carried with him in his travels. (DW: Last of the Time Lords) The number could be used to contact him anywhere in space and time. (DW: The Sontaran Stratagem, The Stolen Earth) As his previous incarnation had with Rose Tyler's "superphone", this incarnation also upgraded the mobile phones of his later companions in order to facilitate communication with their families and with the Doctor. Both Martha Jones and Donna Noble's phones were modified and, like Rose's mother, their close relatives were able to communicate through time and space as a result. (DW: The Stolen Earth)

He also followed the trend of his immediate predecessors in displaying increasing skill for using the TARDIS, on several occasions even using it in the form of a standard spaceship rather than simply dematerialising it every time. (DW: The Runaway Bride, Partners in Crime) He was told by a future companion, River Song, that he would one day be able to command the TARDIS with a snap of his fingers. Initially, he believed this to be nonsense, but later found that he did possess such abilities. (DW: Forest of the Dead)

The Doctor often did math calculations in his head very fast. This included making an estimate, waiting for those around him to respond, then giving a very exact answer. (DW: Voyage of the Damned) For food, he hated pears and (like his sixth life) carrots, but liked apples, yogurt, beans, bacon and bread as demonstrated when his next incarnation tried this incarnation's favourite foods. (DW: The Eleventh Hour)

Appearance
The Tenth Doctor was a handsome man with a tall, slim frame, dark brown hair, pale skin and dark brown eyes. (DW: Children in Need Special) While he was possessed by Cassandra at New New York Hospital, Cassandra stated that he was "slim and a little bit foxy." (DW: New Earth)

Grooming and hair
The tenth incarnation was happy to have sideburns and to have more hair than his previous incarnation, whose hair was very close-cut. (DW: Children in Need Special) Though he initially seemed disappointed at not being ginger, he would come to take great pride in his dark brown hair, wearing it in various ways throughout his adventures. He would wear it un-styled, (DW: The Christmas Invasion) in a fifties-style quiff, (DW: The Idiot's Lantern) or flattened forwards. (DW: The Runaway Bride)

Clothes
For the early minutes of his life, the Doctor continued to wear the clothes his previous incarnation had on at the time of his regeneration. After arriving in London and collapsing, he was placed in a set of pyjamas and a dressing gown, which he kept until the end of his first adventure, when he chose a new outfit. (DW: Children in Need Special, The Christmas Invasion)

This incarnation had several variations of dress. He had two main suits, a dark brown suit with blue pinstripes and a blue suit with red pinstripes. On rare occasions, he would also don a bow tie and tuxedo. (DW: Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, The Lazarus Experiment, Voyage of the Damned)

Under his suits he usually wore a shirt and a tie, or wore an open-necked shirt with a t-shirt underneath. He had a red-hued t-shirt, a brown t-shirt or a purple t-shirt. Both brown and blue suits were often accompanied by a light brown overcoat, which the Doctor claimed had been given to him by Janis Joplin. (DW: Gridlock)

The Doctor appeared to have more than one suit of each design. The Meta-Crisis Doctor wore a blue suit after his creation, and was wearing it when the walls of the universe sealed him in a parallel world. (DW: Journey's End) Nevertheless, the Doctor subsequently wore a blue suit on several occasions, implying he had more than one. (DW: Music of the Spheres, SJA: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith, DW: The Waters of Mars)

His footwear choices were trainers, more specifically, Converse All Stars. He varied the colours from cream to go with his brown suit, black for wearing with his tuxedo and on a few occasion with his brown suit, or red to go with the blue suit.

Another part of the Doctor's attire was a pair of dark tortoise-shell rectangular frame glasses, which he called "brainy specs". Although he wore them on numerous occasions, he later pointed out to an earlier incarnation they didn't need them and simply used them because they made him look clever. (DW: Time Crash) At one time, the Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to darken the lenses to effectively turn them into sunglasses. (DW: Planet of the Dead)

His favourite variation of dress seemed to be his brown suit with blue pinstripes, a light blue shirt, a tie and cream Converse All Stars.

Lifespan
Assuming the Doctor's stated age of 900 around the start of this incarnation was correct, it would appear he lived for slightly less than 7 years, given his stated age of 906 just prior to his regeneration. (DW: The End of Time) His next incarnation would state his age as 907 early in his adventures. (DW: Flesh and Stone) There are, however, some discrepancies as there are some accounts that suggest his stated tally may not be correct. (DW: The Infinite Quest)
 * See separate article.

Behind the scenes
The Tenth Doctor was the first incarnation since the Seventh Doctor to have encountered the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Master and Davros on screen. David Tennant stated on The End of Time commentary that he kept his costume for possible future use, and that he would gladly return for a multi-Doctor special should he ever be asked to participate in one.

Costuming
David Tennant described his costume "geek chic." According to an interview on Parkinson, Tennant and Russell T Davies got the idea for the tenth incarnation's costume from an outfit Jamie Oliver had worn on Parkinson just after Tennant had taken the role of the Doctor.

According to costume designer Louise Page, there were only four sets of the brown suit in existence, as they were pieced together from many copies of a pin-striped pair of trousers that Tennant picked out during the initial costuming process. His overcoat was made from sofa covering and there was one version that had five inches from the bottom cut off then sewn back on, as Davies and Phil Collinson had different ideas about how long it should be.