As the experts are being electrocuted the Doctor managers to take his ID card off. "Deadly to humans maybe." He moves towards the Slitheen and places it on the one that's unmasked. Suddenly all the Slitheen are electrocuted together.
The Doctor takes off out of the room and towards the soldiers at the front of the building. While Rose, Harriet and Indra take of passed the Slitheen while its electrocuted and out of the room.
"Oi, you want aliens." The Doctor tells the soldiers. "You got them. There inside Downing Street." And runs back to the meeting room with the soldiers behind him.
Rose, Harriet and Indra are running through the corridors when Harriet suddenly stops. "No, wait there still in there. The emergency protocols, we need them."
Harriet runs back to the cabinet room. Indra and Rose look at each other before running back to follow her. They encounter the Slitheen on the way and turning around once again they ran through the corridors.
They reach one room and Rose closes the door behind her as they run through the opposite door. The Slitheen instead off opening the door just barges through it as the Slitheen continues to chase them.
The Doctor leads the soldiers back into the meeting room where he's greeted by the Slitheen masked again.
"Where have you been?" One Slitheen asked. "I called for help," he insisted as the soldiers moved to check the bodies of the experts. "I sounded the alarm, there was this light thing, a kind of um, electricity and they all collapsed."
"I think there all dead." One soldier explained.
"That's what I'm saying," the Slitheen insisted. "He did it. That man there."
All the soldiers turn to face the Doctor.
"I think you'll find the prime minister is an alien in disguise." The Doctor stops as he realised something. "That's never going to work is it?"
"Nope," the soldier closest to him says.
"Fair enough," and the Doctor takes off out of the room as he hopes Rose is fine somewhere.
The Doctor runs into soldiers coming from the opposite direction as well. They back him up to the wall as they point there weapons at him.
"Under the juristriction of the Emergency protocols." The Slitheen General commands. "I authorise you to execute this man." He yells.
"Well now," the Doctor tries with his hands raised. "Yes, the thing is. If I was you, if I was going to execute someone by backing them against a wall, between you and me, little word of advice." The elevator opened behind him. "Don't stand him against the lift." The Doctor jumps in and uses the sonic to close the doors.
Rose, Harriet and Indra are still being chased by the Slitheen, when they reach a hall and try the opposite door to find it locked.
The lift doors open and the Doctor finds himself face to face with the Slitheen chasing Rose. "Hello," the Doctor uses the sonic to close the doors again while Rose, Harriet and Indra sneak down another corridor.
They run into another room to find all the connecting doors locked. With the Slitheen on their tails they have no choice but to hide.
The Doctor reaches the next floor up and pokes his head out to make sure the coast is clear before running out and down the stairs to try and save Rose before she's hurt.
The Slitheen chasing Rose and the others slowly walks into the room and smells the air. "Oh, this is such fun. Where are you my children, where are you. You sweet little humakins, come to me. Let me kiss you better. Kiss you with my big green lips."
Rose cringes as she hopes the Doctor will arrive soon.
The Doctor reaches the floor Rose is on when he hears the lift opening. He hides and sees two of the Slitheen walk out and heads towards where he last saw Rose running of too.
"My brothers," the Slitheen chasing Rose called as two more Slitheen walked into the room.
"Happy hunting," one inquires.
"It's wonderful," the Slitheen chasing them calls. "The more you prolong it, the more they stink of sweat."
"I can smell an old girl all stale and brittle bones and a young man who's eager to please." One brother says.
"And a ripe youngster," the one chasing them continues as it moves towards Roses hiding spot. "All hormones and adrenaline. Fresh enough to bend before she snaps."
Rose let's out a small scream when they find her.
"No," Harriet yells as Indra looks scared behind her. "Take me first, take me."
The Doctor bursts in then with a fire extinguisher and sprays the two Slitheen still near the door. "Out, with me."
Rose pulls the curtain down on the Slitheen near her as Harriet and Indra run behind the Doctor. Rose follows.
"Who the hell are you?" The Doctor inquires.
"Harriet Jones, MP for Fly Dale North." Harriet greets.
"Indra Ganesh, we met downstairs." Indra responds.
"Nice to met you." The Doctor greets. Rose rolls her eyes. Their in the middle of a situation and he's greeting people. And he gets angry when Jack does the same thing.
"Like wise," both Harriet and Indra respond.
They take off back out of the room as the Slitheen once again chase them.
"The cabinet rooms," the Doctor directs.
"That's where the emergency protocols are," Harriet pants while running. "They give instructions for aliens."
"Harriet Jones I like you," the Doctor grins.
"I think I like you too," Harriet grins back.
Again Rose wonders what Jack would think when he sees the Doctor flirting while running for their lives.
They end up back in the cabinet rooms while the Slitheen slowly advance on them.
The Doctor grabs a bottle of whisky and places his sonic to the alcohol. "One more move and my sonic device will triplicate the flammability of this alcohol. Whoof, we all go up so, back off!" The Slitheen back up a few steps. "Right then," the Doctor starts. "Question time, who exactly are the Slitheen."
"There aliens," Harriet replies.
The Doctor looks back at her. "Yes, I got that thanks."
"Who are you if not human?" One Slitheen questions back.
"Who's not human?" Indra asks confused.
"He's not human." Rose answers for the Doctor.
"He's not human," Harriet gasps.
"Can I have a bit of hush," the Doctor asks behind him before turning back to the Slitheen. "So what's the plan."
"But he's got a northern accent?" Indra asks Rose.
"Lots of planets have a North." Rose insists.
"I said hush," the Doctor says exasperatedly. "Come on, you've got a space ship hidden in the North Sea. It's transmitting a signal, you've murdered your way to the top of government. What for, invasion?"
"Why would we want to invade this godforsaken rock." One Slitheen answered.
"Then something's brought the Slitheen race here, what is it?" The Doctor insists.
The three Slitheen start laughing. " the Slitheen race."
"Slitheen is not our species, Slitheen is our surnames. Jacrassa Felfotch Passiva Dae Slitheen at your service." The leader answers.
"So your a family," the Doctor works out.
"A family business," the leader agrees.
"Then your out to make a profit," Rose intervenes. As she moves closer to the Doctor.
The Doctor looks at her impressed. "How can you do that on a godforsaken rock."
"Aaah, excuse me," one Slitheen interrupts. "Your device will do what? Triplicate the flammability."
"Oh, I said that," the Doctor starts getting nervous.
"Your making it up." The same Slitheen insists.
"Oh well," the Doctor realises. "Nice try, Harriet have a drink." The Doctor passes the whisky to his right. "I think your going to need it."
"Pass it to the left first," Harriet points out.
"Sorry," the Doctor passes it to Rose who takes it of him.
"Thanks," and passes it off to Indra.
"Now we can sort this out with a slaughter." The Slitheen start advancing again.
"Don't you think we should run?" Indra insists.
"Fascinating history Downing Street," the Doctor turns into his lecture mode. "2000 years ago this was marsh land, 1730 it was occupied by a Mr. Chicken. He was a nice man, 1796 this was the cabinet room. If the cabinets in session and in danger these are about the four most safest walls in the whole of Great Britain." He reaches over to push a button. "End of lesson."
Steel shutters slam down over all the windows and a steel door closes over the doorway.
The Doctor looks to Rose, "installed in 1991. Three inches of steel lining every single wall. They'll never get in."
"How do we get out?" Indra asks.
"Aaah," the Doctor realises.
Rose shakes her head at him, "life or death situation and you can't resist a history lesson." The Doctor raises his eyebrow at her, then he sees the cheeky smile she reserves just for him and he grins back.
The Doctor and Indra pick up the prime ministers body and place him in the cupboard. "Right what have we got?" The Doctor asks. "Any terminals, anything?"
"Nope," Rose says looking around. "This place is antique."
"What I don't understand." Indra interrupts. "When they killed the prime minister, why didn't they use him as a disguise?"
"He's too slim," the Doctor explains. "There big old beasts, they need to fit inside big humans."
"But the Slitheen are about 8 feet?" Indra continues to ask. "How do they fit inside?"
"That's the device around their necks," the Doctor continues to explain. "Compression field, literally shrinks them down a bit. That's why there's all that gas." The Doctor scans the windows with his sonic. "It's a big exchange."
"Wish I had a compression field." Rose pouted. "Then I could fit a size smaller." The Doctor looks her up and down and concludes that she's perfect just the way she is.
Harriet looks scandalised. "Excuse me, but people are dead. This is no time for making jokes."
"Sorry," Rose apologises. "You get use to this stuff when your friends with him."
Harriet looks shocked. "Well, that's a strange friendship."
"Harriet Jones," the Doctor mentions as he walks passed. "I've heard that name before. Harriet Jones, your not famous or anything are you?"
"Ha," Harriet scoffs. "Hardly."
"Rings a bell, Harriet Jones." The Doctor tries to think of where he's heard it. First he has to push thoughts of Rose out of his head.
"Life long back bencher, I'm afraid." Harriet continues. "And a fat lot of good I'm being now. The protocols are redundant, they list the people who can help and there all dead downstairs."
"Doesn't it have defence codes or things?" Rose asks. "Can't we just, launch a nuclear bomb at them."
Harriet looks scandalised. "Your a very violent young woman."
"I'm serious we could." Rose insists. Knowing, that's what gave the Doctor his idea to begin with.
"Well there's nothing like that here." Harriet insists. "Nuclear strikes do need a release code, yes. But it's kept secret by the United Nations."
The Doctor looks at her strangely, "say that again?"
"What?" Harriet turns. "About the codes?" Harriet inquires.
"Anything, all of it." The Doctors brain has a hazy idea about who she might be.
"Um, well," Harriet hesitates. "The British Isles can't gain access to atomic weapons without a special resolution from the UN."
Rose scoffs. "That's never stopped them."
"Exactly," Harriet exclaims. "Given our past record. And I voted against that, thank you very much. The codes have been taken out of the governments hands and given to the UN." Harriet turns to the Doctor. "Is it important?"
"Everything's important," the Doctor insists.
"If we only knew what the Slitheen wanted?" Harriet asked. "Listen to me, I'm saying Slitheen as if it's normal."
"Do they want our planet for something?" Rose tries to hint.
"Well, there just one family." The Doctor says. "So it's not an invasion, they don't want Slitheen world. There out to make money, that means they want to use something. Something here on earth, some kind of asset."
Rose looks over at Indra as the Doctor thinks and sees that he's looking a bit overwhelmed. "Are you alright?" Indra nods at her so she leaves him to it and tunes back into the conversation.
"Like what?" Harriet asks. "Gold, oil, water," she suggests.
"Your very good at this." The Doctor praises.
"Thank you," Harriet beams.
"Harriet Jones," the Doctor repeats. "Why do I know that name?"
Roses phone starts beeping, "oops, that's me."
Harriet looks at her surprised. "But were sealed of? How did you get a signal?"
"He zapped it," Rose pointed at the Doctor. "Super phone."
"Then we could phone for help." Harriet turns back to the Doctor. "You must have contacts."
"Dead downstairs, yeah," the Doctor tells her as he watches Rose.
Rose checks her phone and sees Mickey has sent her a picture. "It's from Mickey."
"Oh, tell ya stupid boyfriend were busy." The Doctor rolls his eyes at her but is watching her reaction carefully.
"Ya, he's not my boyfriend," the Doctor smiles as she's quick to say that. "And he's not so stupid after all." She shows him the picture of a Slitheen being electrocuted. Rose calls Mickey.
"Not just aliens, but proper aliens all stalking and everywhere and it's disgusting and more to the point, it wanted to kill us." Mickey finishes.
"I could've died," Rose hears her mum in the background.
"Is she alright though?" Rose asks. "Don't put her on, just tell me."
The Doctor takes the phone out of her hands. "Is that Rickey, don't talk just shut up and go to your computer."
"It's Mickey and why should I?" Mickey demands.
"Mickey the idiot, I might just choke before I finish this sentence but aaah," the Doctor hesitates. "I need you."
Rose grins. "Oh, I bet that was hard to say." The Doctor scowls at her while he turns the phone on speaker mode and directs Mickey to UNITs home page.
"It says password?" Mickey asks.
"Say again?" The Doctor asks.
"It's asking for the password." Mickey repeats.
"Buffalo, two F's one L." The Doctor tells him.
Harriet's in the background pouring drinks for them all and hands one to Indra who gulps it down.
"So what's that website?" Rose hears her mother asking.
"All the secret alien information known to mankind." They hear Mickey explain to Jackie. "See they've known about aliens for years, they just kept us in the dark."
"Mickey you were born in the dark." The Doctor jokes.
Rose rolls her eyes. "Oh, leave him alone."
"Thank you," Mickey replies sarcastically. "Password again?"
"Just repeat it every time." The Doctor just thought of something, "Big Ben, why did the Slitheen go and hit Big Ben?"
"You said to gather the experts," Harriet reminded him. "To kill them."
The Doctor shock his head. "That lot would've gathered for a weather balloon you didn't need to crash land in the middle of London."
"Slitheen are hiding," Rose tries to hint. "But then they put the entire planet on red alert, what are they doing?"
"Oh, listen to her," Rose hears her mother snark.
"Well at least I'm trying," Rose starts getting angry.
"Well I've got a question if you don't mind." Rose hears another rant coming on. "Since that man has walked into our lives I've been attacked in the streets, I've had creatures from the pits of hell in my own living room and my daughter disappears of the face of the earth."
"I told you what happened." Rose tried to stop the next bit.
"I'm talking to him, cause I've seen this life of yours Doctor and maybe you get off on it and maybe you think it's all clever and smart but you tell me. Just answer me this, is my daughter safe? Can you promise me that?"
Rose stares into the Doctors eyes and sees the pain and guilt he carries around. And the fear he has of loosing her, she also sees the loneliness behind all the other emotions.
"Mum," Rose replies. "The Doctor will always do what's right. What's good and what's right may sometimes be two completely different things but that's the choice he sometimes has to make and it might not be good enough for you but I would always want him to do what's right."
The Doctors staring at her in awe. After everything that happened with the Gelth and she still believes in him that much.
Mickey suddenly interrupts, "we're in."
The Doctor jumps into action. "Now then, on the left at the top there's an icon, little concentric circles. Click on that."
They hear a signal coming through the phone.
"What is that?" Mickey asks.
"The Slitheen have got a spaceship in the North Sea and it's transmitting that signal, now hush, let me work out what it's saying." The Doctor concentrates. "It's some kind of message."
"What's it saying?" Rose inquires.
"Don't know," the Doctor admits. "It's on a loop, keeps repeating."
They hear Mickeys doorbell through the phone, "hush."
"It's not me, go and see who that is." They hear Mickey direct Jackie.
"It's three o'clock in the morning." They hear Jackie argue.
"Well, go and tell them that," Mickey stats.
"It's beeping out into space," the Doctor mutters. "What's it for."
They hear her mother come back into the room. "It's him, it's the thing, it's the slikeen."
"They found us," they hear Mickey.
"Mickey I need that signal," the Doctor insists.
"Never mind the signal," Rose can feel panic welling up. "Get out mum, just get out."
"We can't, it's by the front door." Mickey stats. "Oh, my god it's unmasking. It's going to kill us."
"There has got to be someway of stopping them!" Harriet exclaims. "Your suppose to be the expert, think of something!"
"I'm trying," the Doctor directs to Rose.
They hear Mickey, "I'll take it on Jackie you just run. Don't look back, just run."
Rose stares at the Doctor. "That's my mother."
The Doctor sees the panic and fear in her eyes and wrecks his brain for how to help. "Right, if we're going to find their weakness, we need to find out where there from." As the Doctor walks passed Rose he trails his hand over her back to let her know he would do what he can to help. "Which planet so, judging by their basic shape that narrows it down to five thousand planets within travelling distance. What else do we know about them? Information?"
Indra finally shakes of his shock and gets up to help.
"There green." Rose yells out.
"Yep, narrows it down."
"Good sense of smell." Indra tells out.
"Narrows it down."
"They can smell adrenaline," Rose yells.
"Narrows it down."
"The pig technology." Harriet yells.
The Doctor grins. "Narrows it down."
"The spaceship in the Themes has a slipstream engine." Rose yells.
"Narrows it down."
"It's getting in," they hear Mickey yell.
"They hunt like its a ritual." Rose yells.
"Narrows it down."
"Wait a minute did you notice, when they fart, if you pardon the word. It doesn't smell like a fart, if you pardon the word, it's something else." Harriet tries to think. "What is it, it's more like, um."
Indra suddenly yells, "bad breathe."
"That's it," Harriet yells.
"Calcium decay, now that narrows it down."
"We're getting there mum." Rose tries to reassure her.
"Too late," Mickey yells.
"Calcium phosphate, living calcium. Creatures made out of living calcium." Rose smiles at seeing his mind work. "What else, what else? Hyphenated sodium, yes that narrows it down to one planet. Raxacoricolphalapitourius."
"Oh, yeah great." They hear Mickey respond sarcastically. "We can write em a letter."
"Get into the kitchen," the Doctor orders.
"Oh, my god it's going to rip us apart." Rose hears her mum scream.
"Calcium, condensed by the compression field." The Doctor realises. "Acetic acid, vinegar."
"Just like Hannibal," Harriet exclaims.
"Just like Hannibal," the Doctor agrees. "Mickey have you got any vinegar?"
"How should I know?" Mickey asks.
"It's your kitchen." The Doctor replies.
Rose pipes up. "Cupboard by the sink, middle shelf."
"Here, what do you need?" Her mum asks.
"Anything with vinegar," the Doctor tells her.
"Gherkins," they hear Jackie call out. "Pickled onions, pickled eggs."
The Doctor looks at Rose shocked. "You use to kiss this man."
Rose rolls her eyes at the Doctor as they wait for something to happen. They hear a bang through the phone, and all breathe a sigh of relief.
Rose gives the Doctor her cheeky smile that she reserves just for him.
"Hannibal?" Indra interrupts.
"Hannibal crossed the alps by dissolving boulders with vinegar." Harriet explained.
They all held up there glasses as Rose comments. "Well there we go then." And takes a sip.
Mickey turns on the telly and sees a news cast which he broadcasts through the phone to the Doctor.
"Listen to this," Mickey tells them.
They hear the Slitheen/Prime Minister on the news. "Our inspectors have searched the sky above our heads and they have found massive weapons of mass destruction. Capable of being deployed within 45 seconds. Our technicians can baffle the alien probes but not for long. We are facing extinction. Unless we strike first, the United Kingdom stands directly beneath the belly of the mother ship. I beg the United Nations, pass an emergency resolution. Give us the access codes, a nuclear strike at the heart of the beast is our only chance of survival because from this moment on, it is my solemn duty to inform you, planet earth is at war."
The Doctor, Rose, Harriet and Indra all look at each other confused.
"He's making it up, there's no weapons up there. There's no threat he just invented it." The Doctor assures them.
"Do you think they'll believe him?" Harriet asks appalled.
"Well they did last time," Rose mutters. Again the Doctor gets a feeling that she knows more than she's letting on.
"That's why the Slitheen went for a spectacle." The Doctor figured out. "They want the whole world panicking." The Doctor explained as he walked back to the door. "Cause you lot, you get scared, you lash out."
"They release the defence codes," Rose interrupts.
"And the Slitheen go nuclear," the Doctor pushes the button to open the door.
"But why?" Harriet asks.
The doors open to see three Slitheen and Margret in her mask looking at them. "You get the codes, release the missiles," the Doctor explained. "But not into space cause there's nothing there. You attack every other country on earth. They retaliate, fight back, world war three, whole planet gets nuked."
"And we can sit through it in our spaceship." She gloats. "Waiting in the Themes. Not crashed, just parked. Only two minutes away."
"But you would destroy the planet, this beautiful place, what for?" Harriet asked.
"Profit," the Doctor told her. "That's what the signal is beaming into space, an advert."
"Sale of the century," Margret gloats. "We reduce the earth to molten slag then sell it, piece by piece. Radioactive chunks capable of powering every cut price star liner and budget cargo ship. There's a recession out there Doctor, people are buying cheap, this rock becomes raw fuel."
"At the cost of five billion lives," the Doctor stats disgusted.
"Bargain," Margaret laughs.
"Then I'll give you a choice," the Doctor looks at her seriously. "Leave this planet or I'll stop you."
They all laugh at him, "what, you, trapped in your box."
"Yes, me."
The Doctor closes the door again as he watches nervousness creep onto Margret's face.
The Doctor knew how to stop them but it would mean he would have to risk loosing Rose and that thought sends terror through his hearts. She has such faith in him and he's finding it harder and harder to keep away from her. Especially when she so freely gives everything to him. He wonders if he pushed the boundaries a bit she might give him her heart as well.
Rose watches him wondering when he'll mention his plan to them.
"All right Doctor," they hear Jackie through the phone. "I'm not saying I trust you but there must be something you can do."
"If we could just ferment the porch we could make acetic acid." Harriet thinks out loud.
"Mickey," Rose inquires, "any luck."
"There's loads of emergency numbers," Mickey responds. "All of them on voice mail."
"Voice mail dooms us all." Harriet jokes.
"If we can just get out of here?" Indra tries one of the windows.
"There is a way out." The Doctor speaks up at last. "There's always been a way out." He stares at Rose.
"Then why don't we use it." Indra cried.
The Doctor speaks into the phone, "because I can't guarantee your daughter will be safe."
"Don't you dare," Jackie yells, "what ever it is, don't you dare."
"That's the thing." The Doctor gently explains as he looks Rose in the eyes. "If I don't dare, everyone dies."
"Do it," Rose tells him.
He stares at her in shock, here's one human who's willing to sacrifice herself for others and she doesn't even know what it is. "You don't even know what it is, you just leapt."
"Yeah," Rose agrees.
"Please, Doctor," Jackie begs. "Please, she's my daughter, she's just a kid."
"Mum, remember how I was saying there's what's right and there's what's good. You know this is what's right how can I ask the Doctor to put my life above 5 billion other lives."
The Doctors shocked speechless, she just stood by his side against her mother of all people.
"So, what are you waiting for?" Rose asks him.
"I could save the world, but lose you." It's in that moment he realises that he's not just falling in love with her, he's already fallen. With others he always put the universe first but with her it's the first time he's thought, to hell with the world and save her.
"Except it's not your decision Doctor," Harriet interrupts. "It's mine."
"Who the hell are you?" They hear Jackie demand.
"Harriet Jones, MP for Fly Dale North. The only elected representative in this room, chosen by the people, for the people and on behalf of the people I command you. Do it."
The Doctors grin comes back.
"How do we get out?" Rose asks as she walks up next to the Doctor.
"We don't," the Doctor ensures them, "we stay here." He looks through the emergency protocols.
"Use the buffalo password," he informs Mickey. "It overrides everything."
"What ya doing?" They hear Jackie ask Mickey.
"Hacking into the Royal Navy." He responds. "We're in. Here it is, HMS Taurean, Trafalgar class submarine, 10 miles off the coast of Plymouth."
"Right," the Doctor agrees. "We need a missile."
"We can't go nuclear, we don't have the defence codes." Mickey argues.
"We don't need it," the Doctor assures him. "All we needs an ordinary missile. What's the first category."
"Harpoon, UGM-84A." Mickey informs him.
"That's the one," the Doctor agrees. "Select it."
"I could stop you," they hear Jackie say to Mickey.
"Do it then," they hear Mickey respond. That's when Rose starts to hear the person Mickey becomes one day.
"Ready for this," the Doctor interrupts.
"Yeah," Mickey agrees.
"Mickey the idiot," the Doctor tells him. "The world is in your hands. Fire."
They hear Mickey exclaim, "oh my god." And took that to mean that the missile was on its way.
"How solid are these?" Indra asks.
"Not solid enough." The Doctor gently explains. "Built for short range missiles, nothing this big."
"Alright," Rose moves to the cupboard. "Now I'm making the decisions. I'm not going to die we're going to ride this one out. It's like what they say about earthquakes, you can survive them by standing under a door frame. Now this cupboards small but strong. Come and help me, come on."
Everyone but the Doctor goes to help empty the cupboard while he's just grinning at how smart she is.
"It's on radar," Mickey interrupts the Doctors thoughts.
"Counter defend it, 5566, stop them intercepting it." The Doctor informs him.
"I'm doing it now." Mickey tells him.
"Good boy," the Doctor praises.
The Doctor takes Roses phone off speaker and hands it to her. Harriet and Indra huddle in the closet but Rose stops the Doctor.
The Doctor looks questionably at Rose when she grabs the back of his head and pulls his lips to hers. Every thought is suddenly wiped out of his head as Rose snogs him so passionately he can't think of anything else.
As he's about to really get into it she pulls back and drags him into the cupboard. She sits down beside Harriet and pulls him down next to her. They hold hands as they wait for the bomb to hit.
"Nice knowing you both," Harriet says.
As the missile hits they bounce around in the cupboard and Rose somehow lands on top of the Doctor.
When the shaking finally stops they open the door to the cupboard and find all of 10 Downing Street has been turned to rubble.
"Made in Britain," Harriet exclaims.
A soldier comes running up. "Mam are you alright?"
"Harriet Jones, MP for Fly Dale North," she shows him her ID card. "I want you to contact the UN immediately, tell the ambassador the crisis is over. They can step down. Go on, tell the news."
The Doctors grinning at her when he realises where he's heard her name before.
"Someone's got a hell of a job sorting this lot out." Suddenly Harriet remembers, "oh lord, we haven't even got a prime minister."
"Maybe you should have a go." The Doctor suggests.
"Me," Harriet laughs, "I'm only a back bencher, don't be silly. Look I better go and see if I can help."
They watch Harriet address the crowd with Indra standing behind her as the Doctor grabs Roses hand. "I thought I knew her name, Harriet Jones. Future Prime Minister, elected for three successive terms. The architect of Britain's golden age."
He continues holding her hand until they reach the council estates. They split, Rose goes to her flat to check on her mother and pack some clothes while the Doctor walks into the TARDIS.
The TARDIS is happy for her thief and wolf as she sees the kiss replay in their minds. Now all they need is a little bit more of a push to become an item.
Rose is watching Harriet on the news when her mother walks in with a cup of tea.
"Harriet Jones, who does she think she is," Jackie scoffs. "Look at her, taking all the credit. Should be you on there, my daughter saved the world."
Rose rolled her eyes. "I think the Doctor helped a bit."
"Oh alright then," her mum concedes. "Him too. You should be given knighthoods."
Rose smiles at the thought of Queen Victoria knighting them, then banishing them. "It's not the way he does things, no fuss he just moves on. He's not that bad if you give him a chance."
"He's good in a crisis, I'll give him that." Jackie concedes.
"Oh," Rose smiles. "Now the world has changed, your saying nice things about him."
"Well I recogin, I've got no choice, there's no getting rid of him since your in love with him. What does he eat?"
Rose shrugs, "normal food I suppose."
"I was going to do shepherds pie, all of us, a proper sit down. Cause, I'm ready to listen, I want to know about you and that life you lead. Only I don't know, he's an alien. For all I know he eats grass and safety pins and things." Jackie concedes.
Rose laughs, "he'll have shepherds pie." Rose assures her mum. "You going to cook for him."
"What's wrong with that?" Her mother asks defensively.
"He finally met his match." Rose snarks.
"Your not too old for a slap ya know," Jackie warns her.
Jackie heads to the kitchen as the Doctor calls her on her phone.
"Hello," Rose answers grinning.
"Right, I'll be a couple of hours, then we can go." The Doctor tells her. "I've just got to send out this dispersal, there ya go, that's cancelling out the Slitheen's advert in case any bargain hunters show up."
"My mothers cooking." Rose warns him.
"Good, put it on a low heat and let it simmer," the Doctor deflects.
"She's cooking tea," Rose tries again. "For us."
"I don't do that," the Doctor insists.
"Alright then Doctor, entice me." Rose flirts.
"Right now there's this plasma storm brewing in the horse head nebula. Fires are burning ten million miles wide, I could fly the TARDIS right into the heart of it then ride the shock wave all the way out. Hurtle right across the sky and end up anywhere. Your choice."
Rose has to bite her lip to hold back a moan. Rose rushes to her room and starts to pack.
"Please, don't go sweetheart." Jackie quickly begs. "Please don't go."
Rose does feel bad for her mother as she finishes packing and her mother follows her towards the TARDIS.
The Doctor sees Mickey sitting on some trash cans. "I just went down to the shops and I was thinking you know. The whole worlds changed, aliens and spaceships. All of that in public and here it is." Mickey holds up the paper that says Alien Hoax? "How can they do that, they saw it."
The Doctor shrugs, "there just not ready, you happen to believe in something that's invisible but if it's staring you in the face, nope, can't see it. There's a scientific explanation for that," the Doctor thinks. "Your thick."
Mickey laughs, "we're just idiots."
"Well not all of ya," the Doctor concedes. "Present for you Mickey. That's a virus, put it online it'll destroy every mention of me. I'll cease to exist."
"What do you want to do that for?" Mickey asks, confused.
"Cause your right, I am dangerous I don't want anybody following me." The Doctor explains.
"How can you say that and then take her with you?" Mickey asks.
The Doctor looks over at Rose and he knows Mickeys right but for once the Doctor wants to be selfish and keep something for himself.
Her mothers still trying to convince her to stay, "I'm not leaving because of you." Rose assures her, "I'm travelling that's all and then I'll come back."
"But it's not safe," Jackie tries to reason with her.
"Mum," Rose insists, "if you saw it out there, you'd never stay home."
"Got enough stuff," the Doctor comments as Rose gives her bag to him.
"First time I stepped in there, it was spur of the moment now I'm signing up, your stuck with me." Rose gloats.
She says goodbye to both her mother and Mickey before following the Doctor into the TARDIS. The TARDIS dematerialises from the alley and appears in the time vortex.
I wanted Rose to talk back to her mum, it was her way of showing the Doctor even more, how much trust she had in him that she would defend him against her own mother. And I thought that last time she was unsure about that trust but as she was reliving her time line she would trust him completely.
