As the Tardis traveled through the Time Vortex,the Doctor turns a wheeled control, Rose was piloting the Tardis as well, using another control on the console. while Martha holds on to the console to remain steady "But how do both of you travel in time? What makes it go?"

"Oh, let's take the fun and mystery out of everything. Martha, you don't wanna know. It just does. Hold on tight," The Doctor said and he practically climbs onto the console, using his foot on another control. Martha and Rose get knocked to the floor and the Doctor falls off the console.

"Blimey! Do you have to pass a test to fly this thing?" Martha asked them.

"Yes, and I failed it," the Doctor told her as he grabs his coat "Now, make the most of it."

"Well, I passed mine," Rose told Martha, the Doctor hands Martha, her jacket to her. "We promised you one trip and one trip only."

"Outside this door..." the Doctor said as he stops at the door and faces Martha "Brave new world," he finishes.

"Where are we?" Martha asked.

"Take a look," he said as he Opens door. "After you."

Martha walks outside, followed by Rose and the Doctor and onto an Elizabethan street at night with people milling about.

"Oh, you are kidding me. You are so kidding me. Oh, my God! We did it. We travelled in time. Where are we? No, sorry. I gotta get used to this whole new language. When are we?"

"Garde a l'eau," They heard someone above them say as the Doctor looks up and pulls Martha back as from a first floor window and man dumps the contents of a bucket "Mind out," the Doctor said "Somewhere before the invention of the toilet. Sorry about that."

"I've seen worse. I've worked the late night shift at A&E." Martha said as the Doctor and Rose starts to walk away from the Tardis.

"But are we safe? I mean, can we move around and stuff?"

"Of course we can," the Doctor told her "Why do you ask?"

"It's like in the films. You step on a butterfly; you change the future of the human race," Martha answered.

"Well, tell you what then, don't step on any butterflies. What have butterflies ever done to you?"

They then continued walking "What if, I dunno, what if I kill my grandfather?" Martha asked, out of curiosity.

"Martha, are you planning to kill him?" Rose asked Martha.

"No."

"Well, then," the Doctor said.

"This is London?" Martha asked.

"I think so. Right about 1599." He told her.

"Oh, but hold on. Am I all right? I'm not gonna get carted off as a slave, am I?" Martha asked them.

"Why would they do that?" The Doctor asked.

"Not exactly white, in case you haven't noticed."

"We're not even human. Just walk about like you own the place. Works for us. Besides, you'd be surprised," he reassured her. "Elizabethan England, not so different from your time. Look over there." He then points at a man shovels manure "They've got recycling."

"Water cooler moment." He said as they saw two men conversing at a water barrel.

"and the world will be consumed by flame!" A preacher said as they walk past a man preaching about the end of the world.

"Global warming."

"Oh, yes, and... entertainment! Popular entertainment for the masses. If I'm right, we're just down the river by Southwark right next to..." He said as they run around a corner "Oh, yes, the Globe Theatre! Brand new. Just opened. Through, strictly speaking, it's not a globe; it's a tetradecagon, 14 sides, containing the man himself."

"Whoa, you don't mean... is Shakespeare in there?" Martha asked.

"Oh, yes, he is." Rose said

"Miss Jones, will you accompany me and Rose to the theatre?" The Doctor asked Martha.

"Yes, Mr. and , I will." Martha told them as she continued to walked with them.

"When you get home, you can tell everyone you've seen Shakespeare," the Doctor suggested.

"Then I could get sectioned," Marth told him, telling him that she'd be taken to an insane asylum if she told people from her time that.

The Globe Theatre was a Packed house, everyone applauding and cheering, actors onstage taking their bows.

"That's amazing! Just amazing. It's worth putting up with the smell. And those are men dressed as women, yeah?" Martha asked.

"London never changes," The Doctor said "Right, Rose?"

"Yeah, it never changes except for the primitiveness compared to the 20th and 21st centuries," Rose said.

"Where's Shakespeare? I wanna see Shakespeare," Martha said "Author! Author," she then said as she chants with fist in air both the Doctor and Rose looks at her.

"Do people shout that? Do they shout Author?" Martha asked them and then suddenly a man in the crowd by Martha picks up the chant and it soon spreads.

"Well... they do now." Rose said as she and her husband looks around the crowd

Then a man with a full head of hear and a beard and that man was William Shakespeare and he comes out and takes an exaggerated bow and blows kisses. Audience goes wild and cheers even louder.

"He's a bit different from his portraits." Martha noted

"Genius. He's a genius, the genius. The most human Human that's ever been. Now we're gonna hear him speak. Always, he chooses the best words. New, beautiful, brilliant words," The Doctor told Martha

"Yeah he was," Rose agreed with her husband

"Oh, shut your big fat mouths!" Shakespeare shouts at the audience and the audience then laughs.

"Oh, well," The Doctor mutters as he was disappointed.

"You should never meet your heroes," Martha told the Doctor.

"Martha, he's met his heroes before, he and I met Charles Dickens a few years ago, and he was exactly like thay say he was," Rose told Martha.

"You have excellent taste! I'll give you that," Shakespeare said as he points to a man in the audience "Oh, that's a wig!" He added, pointing at someone in the audience.

"I know what you're all saying. 'Love's Labour's Lost', that's a funny ending, isn't it? It just stops! Will the boys get the girls? Well, don't get your hose in a tangle, you'll find out soon," He told the audience, as he paces on the stage.

"When?" People in the audience asks him.

"Yeah, yeah. All in good time. You don't rush a genius," he said as he bows and the he suddenly jerks upright.

"When? Tomorrow night." He said and the audience cheers, "The premiere of my brand new play. A sequel, no less, and I call it Love's Labour's Won!"

The audience applauds loudly and both the Doctor and Rose remains quiet, as they have never even heard of that play even when studying history of other species at the academy on Gallifrey but they figured it was the play that was lost.

Soon the Doctor, Rose and Martha leave the theatre with the rest of the crowd "I'm not an expert, but I've never heard of Love's Labour's Won," Martha told the two Gallifreyans.

"Exactly, the lost play. It doesn't exist, only in rumours. It's mentioned in lists of his plays but never ever turns up. No one knows why," The Doctor said.

"Have you got a mini-disk or something? We could tape it. We can flog it. Sell it when we get home and make a mint," Martha suggested and both the Doctor and Rose looks at her

"No."

"That would be bad?" Martha guessed.

"Yeah. It would be bad, like what you said Martha about the butterfly effect. It could cause like let's say the thirteen colonies not getting independence from britain and becoming the United States of America," Rose told Martha.

"Well, how come it disappeared in the first place?" Martha asked them

"Well, we both were just gonna give you a quick little trip in the Tardis but I suppose we could stay a bit longer," the Doctor said "Wouldn't you say Rose, investigate of what happened to the lost play?" He asked Rose

"Yep, let's find out what happened to it," Rose told her husband as she agreed with him.

They go to the inn where Shakespeare was staying at and the Doctor Knocks on an open door of the inn "Hello! Excuse me! I'm not interrupting, am I? Mr. Shakespeare, isn't it?" The Doctor asked as he and Rose came in the room

"Oh no, no, no, no," Shakespeare said as he facepalmed himself "Who let both of you in? No autographs. No, you two can't have yourself sketched with me. And please don't ask where I get my ideas from. Thanks for the interest. Now be a good boy and girl and shove..."

"Hey, nonny nonny. Sit right down here next to me," he said as he sees Martha standing behind the Doctor and Rose.

"You two get sewing on them costumes. Off you go." Shakespeare told two of his stage actors.

"Come on, lads. I think our William's found his new muse." A blonde female landlady told the two stage actors.

"Sweet lady," Shakespeare said as the two stage actors go to sew costumes for their next play.

Martha sits at the table "Such unusual clothes. So... fitted," Shakespeare noted as the Doctor and Rose took a seat as well.

"Um, verily, forsooth, egads," Martha said, trying to speak in an elizabethan english accent, that made Rose remember the time she tried to do the same with a scottish accent at Queen Victoria.

"No, no, don't do that. Don't," he told Martha and he Holds out his psychic paper to Shakespeare. "I'm Sir Doctor of Tardis, the blonde with me is my wife Dame Rose of the powell estate and Tardis and this is our companion, Miss Martha Jones."

"Interesting, that bit of paper. It's blank," Shakespeare told them.

"Oh, that's... very clever. That proves it. Absolute genius," The Doctor said as he and Rose were impressed.

Martha peers at the psychic paper "No, it says so right there. Sir Doctor, Dame Rose and Martha Jones. It says so."

"And I say it's blank," Shakespeare told Martha.

"Psychic paper. Um, long story. Oh, he hates starting from scratch." Rose told Martha as the Doctor puts his psychic paper away.

"Psychic. Never heard that before and words are my trade. Who are you two exactly? More's the point, who is your delicious blackamoor lady?"

"What did you say?" Martha asked, wanting to know if she heard that correctly.

"Woops. Isn't that a word we use nowadays? An Ethiop girl? A swarth? A Queen of Afric..." Shakespeare asked Martha.

"I can't believe I'm hearing this," Martha said as she was offended by the racial terms that Shakespeare just said.

"It's political correctness gone mad. Um, Martha's from a far-off land. Freedonia," The Doctor told him.

"Excuse me!" A man with a full grown beard said as he enters the room "Hold hard a moment. This is abominable behaviour. A new play with no warning? I demand to see a script, Mr Shakespeare. As Master of the Revels, every new script must be registered at my office and examined by me before it can be performed," The man told Shakespeare.

"Tomorrow morning, first thing, I'll send it 'round." Shakespeare reassured him.

"I don't work to your schedule, you work to mine. The script, now!"

"I can't," shakespeare replied.

"Then tomorrow's performance is cancelled," the man told him

It's all go, 'round here, isn't it?" Martha asked

"I'm returning to my office for a banning order. If it's the last thing I do, Love's Labour's Won will never be played," the man told Shakespeare before leaving.

"Well, then..." Martha starts after drinking some water from a cup "mystery solved. That's 'Love's Labour's Won over and done with. Thought it might be something more, you know... more mysterious." She added, Rose and the Doctor figured that it wasn't over and something more mysterious is at play here and then suddenly, they hear screaming from outside and they rush out to the street where they saw that the man that asked shakespeare for the script was spitting up water.

"It's that Lynley bloke," Martha said.

"What's wrong with him?" The Doctor asked "Leave it to men. I'm a doctor," he said as he goes to Lynley's side.

"So am I near enough," Martha interjected as she goes to the other side of Lynley and a few moments later, Lynley falls to the ground. The Doctor stands and runs to look down the street, as Martha puts her ear on lynley's chest trying to listen for heartbeat and breathing from him "Gotta get the heart going. Mr Lynley, c'mon, can you hear me? You're gonna be all right."

She prepares to start mouth-to-mouth as the Doctor returns with Rose going with him and water gushes from Lynley's mouth.

"What the hell is that?"

"I've never seen a death like it. His lungs are full of water, he drowned and then... I dunno, like a blow to the heart, an invisible blow," the Doctor told Martha .

"Good mistress, this poor fellow has died from a sudden imbalance of the humours. A natural if unfortunate demise. Call a constable and have him taken away," He then said as he stands and addresses the landlady

"Yes, sir," the landlady replied

"I'll do it, ma'am," another woman, wearing a headgear on her head said and she walks away with a satisfied smirk. The Doctor crouches back down beside the body, Rose crouched afterwards.

"And why are you telling them that?" Martha asked the Doctor.

"This lot still have got one foot in the Dark Ages. If either me or Rose tell them the truth, they'll panic and think it was witchcraft," he answered

"Okay, what was it then?"

"Witchcraft," Rose replied

I got you a room, Sir Doctor and Dame Rose. Miss Jones has another room across from you two which is just across the landing," the landlady told the Doctor, Rose and martha as they got back to Shakespeare's room before leaving.

"Poor Lynley. So many strange events. Not least of all, this land of Freedonia where a woman can be a doctor?" Shakespeare asked Martha.

"Where a woman can do what she likes," Martha told him.

"And you two, Sir Doctor and Dame Rose," Shakespeare said turning to the Doctor and Rose "How can a man and his wife that are both so young have eyes so old?"

"We do a lot of reading," the Doctor and Rose both told him.

"A trite reply. Yeah, that's what I'd do," Shakespeare said.

"And you, you look at them like you're surprised they both exists. they're as much of a puzzle to you as they are to me," Shakespeare said to Martha.

"I think we should say good night," Martha said as she leaves to her room.

"I must work. I have a play to complete. But I'll get my answers tomorrow, Doctor, and I'll discover more about you, your wife and why this constant performance of yours." Shakespeare told the Time Lord.

"All the world's a stage," the Doctor said from the doorway as he quotes shakespeare from a play he hasn't written yet.

"Hm, I might use that. Good night, Doctor," Shakespeare told the Doctor.

"Nighty-night, Shakespeare," the Doctor said as he and Rose leaves to their rooms.

"Theta?" Rose said after they got to their rooms.

"What, Arkytior?"

"Do you have a feeling that whatever caused Lynley to die was a creature from before the big bang, but didn't go extinct?" Rose asked her husband.

"It's a possibility, but remember what I said on krop-tor, I believe that it's impossible to survive the end of the universe before ours existed."

"Let's go to bed," Rose said

"I agree with you, arkytior," he said as they both layed down on the bed and tries to get some sleep.

Meanwhile in Shakespeare's room a woman watches Shakespeare's window from the street and she levitates and opens the window from outside She blows the fumes of a potion towards him as he writes, he inhales the gas fumes and falls unconscious.

The woman enters room and raises a marionette "Bind the mind and take the man. Speed the words to writer's hand." Shakespeare suddenly jerks up and, as the woman moves the puppet's arm, he writes.

In their room, the Doctor and Rose couldn't sleep as they are still wide awake.

the woman was done with Shakespeare and his head falls back on the table and the woman touches his hair.

"Will? Finished cleaning just in time for your special treat." the landlady said as she walks in Shakespeare's room with a broom in hand and she stops when she sees the woman "Oh, aye. I'm not the first then."

"I'll take that to aid my flight and you shall speak no more this night," the woman said as she turns around, and her face changes to one of an elderly person but without the greyed hair and she grabs the broom and the landlady screams.

The Doctor and Rose jumps up as they heard the landlady's scream and as they ran out their room Martha follows them to Shakespeare's room

As they got to Shakespeare's room, he wakes with a start when they enter and stop to examine the landlady's body.

"What? What was that?" Shakespeare asked as Martha runs to the window where she sees the silhouette of a witch on a broom flying in the sky, crackling.

"Her heart gave out," the Doctor said

"She died of fright," Rose added as she examines the body of the landlady as well.

"Doctor? Rose?" Martha calls both Gallifreyans and they joins her at the window "What did you see?" They asked her.

"A witch," Martha answers their question.