The Doctor turned to head back inside with Martha and Scout closely following. They quickly made their way to the entrance lobby where they hid behind some potted plants to watch what the Judoon were doing. Several of the aliens had removed their helmets to reveal their heads which were shaped like that of a rhino's. The Judoon had the humans boxed in while they proceeded to shine blue lights in their faces.
But the Doctor had been distracted.
'Look down there, Rosebud. They've got a little shop. I like a little shop.'
'Never mind that,' Martha said angrily, 'What are Judoon?'
'Rosebud, pop quiz, what are Judoon?'
'Galactic police. Well, actually they're police for hire.'
'More like interplanetary thugs.' The Doctor interjected.
'And they brought us to the moon?'
'Neutral Territory,' Scout continued her explanation, 'According to galactic law, they've got no jurisdiction over the Earth, so they isolated us. It was the rain, wasn't it daddy? Was it an H2O scoop?'
'Yep.'
'What's that about 'galactic law'? Where'd you get that from? If they're police, are we under arrest? Are we trespassing on the moon or something?'
'No. But I like that. Good thinking. No it's more simple. They're making a catalogue, it means they're after something non-human, which is very bad news for us. Best keep out of the way Rosebud.'
Martha turned to look at the Doctor.
'Why?' the Doctor just stared at her. 'Oh, you're kidding me. Don't be ridiculous. Stop looking at me like that.'
'Come on then.'
The Doctor began to move again, heading towards the closest office. Judging by her obedience, Martha presumed that this was a habit for them. The Doctor sat down at the computer while Martha stood guarding the door. He pulled out a long, thin metallic object which he buzzed a long the edge of the computer.
'What's that thing?' Martha asked.
'Sonic screwdriver.'
'Well, if you're not going to answer me properly.'
'No, really, it is. It's a screwdriver and it's sonic. Look.'
'What else have you got? A laser spanner?
'I did, but it was stolen by Emily Pankhurst, cheeky woman. Oh this computer! The Judoon must have locked it down. Judoon platoon upon the moon! Rosebud see if you can access anything.' The Doctor and his daughter switched positions and the Doctor could give his full attention towards Martha.
'Cause we were just travelling past, I swear, we were just wandering. I wasn't looking for trouble, honestly, I wasn't but she noticed these plasma coils around the hospital, and that lightning, that's plasma coils, been building up for two days now, so I checked her in. We thought something was going on inside, It turns out the plasma coils were the Judoon up above.'
'But what are they looking for?'
'Something that looks human , but isn't.'
'Like you two apparently.'
'Like us. But not us.'
'Haven't they got a photo?'
'Might be a shape changer.'
'Whatever it is can't you just leave the Judoon to find it?'
'If they declare the hospital guilty of harbouring a fugitive, they'll sentence it to execution.'
'All of us?'
'Oh yes, if I can find this thing first-'
'No. They are thick. Judoon are thick. They've wiped all the records. It's completely blank, I can't recover them from this terminal.'
'Well that's clever.'
'What are we looking for?'
'Any patient admitted in the past week with unusual symptoms. Maybe there's a back-up.'
'Daddy, I just thought, don't they use oxygen in anaesthetic for surgery? Maybe I can access that to give us more air.'
'Good plan.'
'Doctor you keep working. I'll show Rosebud-'
'My name is Scout. Rosebud's a pet name only Daddy calls me that.'
'Sorry. I'll show Scout towards the surgical wing and then I'll find Mr Stoker, he might know about our mystery patient.'
'Good plan. But Scout you stay out of the way of the Judoon. They won't care that you're just a baby.'
The Three split up per the plan. After showing Scout which direction to head towards, Martha went to Mr Stoker's office only to find the two leather clad men. They were standing guard by Florence Finnegan, who was bent over Mr Stoker's prone body with a straw dripping blood in her hand.
Martha turned and ran back the way she came. She ran back to the Doctor who was proclaiming that he'd restored the back-up.
'I found her' Martha yelled. But before the Doctor could find out what she knew, he spied Miss Finnegan's guards heading towards them.
'Run' he ordered just as he turned to hurry as far from them as he could get. Martha and the Doctor continued to run as fast as they could trying to avoid not only Finnegan's goons but the Judoon as well. They didn't stop until the Doctor pulled her into the radiology room.
The Doctor ingeniously increased the radiation output of the machine so that they could effectively kill thing; which happened to be called a slab. Martha looked on perplexed as the Doctor, hopping around doing what looked like a strange dance, told her that he could expel the radiation from his body; but this left him shoeless.
Martha investigated the body and began to tell the Doctor about Miss Finnegan when she heard him exclaim, 'My Sonic Screwdriver!'
'She was one of the patients, but – '
'My sonic screwdriver!'
'She had a straw like some kind of vampire.'
'I loved my sonic screwdriver!'
Martha looked up to the Doctor to find him staring in despair at his burnt out sonic screwdriver.
'Doctor!' she cried.
The Doctor shifted his attention immediately, his screwdriver forgotten. She informed him again of Miss Finnegan's particular tastes.
'Funny time to take snack.' The Doctor remarked. 'You'd think she'd be hiding. Unless – no. Yes, that's it, wait a minute. Yes! Shape-changer. Internal shape-changer. She wasn't drinking blood, she was assimilating it.'
After explaining to Martha how Miss Finnegan was using the blood they both took off to search for the wayward alien.
They were running down a corridor when they ran into another slab.
'That's the thing about slabs; they always travel in pairs.'
'What about you?'
'What about me what?'
'Haven't you got back-up? I mean besides your teenage daughter, you must have a partner or something?'
'Uh. Human. We're stuck on the moon running out of air with Judoon and a bloodsucking criminal and you're asking personal questions. Come on.'
'I like that. "Humans". I'm still not convinced you're an alien.'
They stepped out in front of a Judoon who, after scanning the Doctor, announced him 'non-human'.
'Oh my God, you really are!'
'And again.'
The Doctor and Martha kept running to a floor that had already been scanned. The Doctor explained to her that the Judoon wouldn't double back. They made their way to Mr. Stoker's office to find that the plasmavore had moved on. They promptly left again, the Doctor trying to think where she would go.
'Aah. She's as clever as me.' He announced after seeing a sign directing to the MRI, 'Almost.'
But the Judoon were closing in on their position.
'Stay here. I need time. You're going to have to hold them up.'
'How do I do that?'
'Martha, forgive me for this. It's to save a thousand lives, it means nothing. Honestly, nothing.'
The Doctor then kissed Martha so thoroughly it left her seeing stars. After the Doctor left, Martha stood in the corridor waiting for the Judoon to come. The sound of marching preceded the space rhinos, who brought their scanners with them. They got right up in her face before they detected trace elements of non-human. They were rougher after that doing a higher level scan. After finally declaring her human, the Judoon left her to do what she liked. She ran towards the MRI room as fast as she could. The Judoon were already there; as were Miss Finnegan and the Doctor who was lying unconscious on the ground. The Judoon declared him dead.
'No, he can't be. Let me through, let me see him.'
'Stop. Case closed.'
'But it was her. She killed him. She did it. She murdered him.'
'The Judoon have no authority over human crime.
'But she's not human.'
'Oh, but I am. I've been catalogued.'
'But she's not! She assimil—Wait a minute. You drank his blood. The Doctor's blood.'
After grabbing the Closest Judoon scanner and pointing it at Miss Finnegan, Martha revealed the alien to the room. The Judoon executed the plasmavore and were leaving, ignoring Martha's pleas for help with the Doctor and the MRI which was clearly ready to explode.
She was attempting CPR on the Doctor when a voice called to her.
'He has two hearts.' Scout was coming into the room staring at the Doctor on the ground in fear. But then the Malfunctioning machine caught her eye.
'What's been going on down here?'
'The alien was a plasmavore, the Doctor tricked her into drinking his blood and now the Judoon are leaving. But she did something to the scanner.'
'You leave that to me. You just get him breathing again. If the Judoon are leaving then we'll be returning to Earth soon. I was only able to filter a limited amount of oxygen through the ventilation. We really need to be down there.'
While Scout had been talking Martha could hear her moving around in the closed off part of the room, while she worked on the Doctor. The Doctor gasped as he was revived, he started to cough. Scout managed to pull the plug on the machine before she came out to give the Doctor a big hug. All three walked out to the window to watch rain as the hospital was taken back to where it should be.
In the aftermath of the incident Martha lost sight of the Doctor and Scout; until she saw them walking into a blue box.
She thought about them all afternoon and all evening when her family were asking questions about what happened at the hospital. She was so preoccupied that she didn't even pay attention to the trouble that was brewing between her Father's girlfriend and the rest of the family. When the family all walked outside she followed but didn't care to join in. She turned away from them to see the Doctor standing at the corner of an alley. He turned away and she followed.
When she turned down the alley she saw him leaning on a big blue police box.
'I went to the moon today.'
'A bit more peaceful than down here.'
'You never told me who you are.'
'The Doctor.'
'What sort of species? It's not every day I get to ask that.'
'I'm a Time Lord.'
'Right! Not pompous at all, then.'
'I just thought since you saved my life and I've got a brand new sonic screwdriver which needs road testing, you might fancy a trip.'
'What, into space?'
'Well.'
'I can't. I've got exams. I've got things to do. I have to go into town first thing and pay the rent, I've got my family going mad…'
'If it helps, I can travel in time, as well.'
'Get out of here.'
'I can.'
'Come on now, that's going too far.'
'I'll prove it.'
The Doctor walked into the blue box and after a couple of seconds it started to make a loud whirring noise and disappeared. But it was back as quick as it left. The Doctor walked out holding his tie in his hand.
'Told you.' He said.
'I know but… that was this morning! But – Did you… Oh, my God! You can travel in time!'
After answering several questions from Martha about time travel and his space ship he walked into the TARDIS with her following him. Like all of his other companions she was amazed at the ship.
'It's bigger on the inside.' She exclaimed.
'Is it? I hadn't noticed.'
The Doctor closed the door behind her. Martha walked further into the room and saw what looked like the central column that was covered in all sorts of buttons, levers and wires. Several feet away Scout was sitting on the ground with wires twisted around her and different pieces of machinery that she couldn't identify.
'All right, then, let's get going.' The Doctor said from behind her.
'But is there a crew? Like a navigator and stuff? Where is everyone?'
'Just me.'
'What about Scout? Is she not allowed? Does she have to be a certain age or something?'
'No. DO NOT let her near the console. She's not allowed to touch the console unsupervised.'
'Why?' asked Martha, 'will she crash the ship or something.
'Hey! I know how to drive it.' Scout looked affronted at Martha's assumption. 'I'm just not allowed near it, 'cause one time I rewired the console so that whenever Daddy pressed anything Justin Bieber would start blasting.'
'Who's Justin Bieber?' Martha inquires.
'Oh, you'll find out. And then you'll wish you hadn't.' The Doctor shudders after he gives his answer.
'So that's why I alone drive the TARDIS.'
'All on your own?'
'Well, sometimes I have guests. I mean some friends, travelling alongside. I haven't had anyone here since Scout's mother. Rose… we were together. Anyway.'
'Where is she now?'
'With her family. Happy. She's fine. Not that you're replacing her.'
'Never said I was.'
'Just one trip to say "thanks" and because it'll do Scout some good to learn more about you humans, you get one trip, then back home. I'd rather be with my daughter.'
IT was the that Martha Jones began her second adventure.
