Chapter 11: The Doctor Dances

Everyone waited impatiently for the next episode to start, except those who knew what happened who were watching the others in amusement.

The patients are almost within touching distance. The Doctor orders the child to go to its room. The child and the patients hang their heads and shuffle away. The patients get back into bed. The Doctor comments that he's glad it worked as those would have been bad last words.

"I've heard worse." Jack shrugs.

"I'm so not going to ask." Mickey rolls his eyes.

From the window, Nancy watches the child walk away down the street. She murmurs his name and then sits on the floor, crying. Back at the hospital, Rose asks why they are all wearing the masks and Jack explains they are part of the face. The Doctor asks how Jack's con was supposed to work.

Jack winced. It was a stroke of luck that it was the Doctor who had seen his con rather than actual Time Agents or the problem would never have been fixed and all humanity would be like the child.

Jack explains and it's clear the Doctor disapproves. Jack comments on this and the Doctor points out that his 'harmless' space junk did this. Jack protests that it was empty but the Doctor ignores him, turning to Rose and telling her they are going upstairs.

"I'm guessing it wasn't as empty as you thought?" Sarah Jane looks over at Jack. He shakes his head at her guiltily.

"Apparently not." He admits.

Jack keeps trying to defend himself and the Doctor tells him he miscalculated and that it is volcano day. A siren sounds and when Rose asks what it is, Jack tells her it is the all clear and the Doctor comments that he wishes. Nancy heads for the back door and is confronted by a boy who takes a gas mask off and she tells him she thought he was Jamie.

"She must know more than she has said. Like why the boy is following her." Sarah Jane notes.

"He is related to her." Mickey points out with a sigh. They keep coming back to the same points.

Nancy runs past him as he calls for his dad. Mr Lloyd man-handles her back inside the house.

"Oops." Martha frowns as Nancy gets caught.

"She seems to be able to take care of herself." Jack shrugs.

Back at the hospital, Jack and Rose are trying to keep up with the Doctor who is a whole flight of stairs ahead of them. The Doctor asks if Jack has a blaster who replies that he does. The two run up to join him outside a secure metal door. The Doctor explains that the night the ambulance landed someone was hurt and taken to that room.

"Wasn't the kid the first one? It all seems to revolve around Jamie." Rose points out.

"Yes it does." Nine agrees.

"You just sent the child to his room." Donna notes anxiously.

"So?" Nine shrugs.

"If he was taken to that room, isn't that then his room you've just sent him to?" She asks. Rose looks up at Nine with eyes wide and he bites his lip.

"Na, I sent him a while ago and with how quick he can move he would have been there already and the door wouldn't be locked." Nine argues.

"Yep." Jack tells her with a grin.

"Typical." Donna gives a half laugh.

Rose asks what happened and the Doctor asks Jack to get it open. She asks what's wrong with the screwdriver and he replies nothing. Jack's blaster disintegrates the lock and the Doctor asks if it is from Villengard. Jack asks if he has been to the factories and then admits they were destroyed. The Doctor says there is a banana grove there now.

"You said you had been there once. Was that, by any chance, around the time the factories were destroyed?" Rose asks in amusement.

"Why would you assume that?" Ten replies innocently.

"I can't imagine." Donna rolls her eyes.

"Only you would plant a banana grove." Rose laughs.

"That is simply not true. Plenty of other people are intelligent enough to love bananas." Nine tells her.

"Wow, your love of bananas is even strong enough to overcome your need to insult other species." Rose notes. He ignores this and turns back to the TV.

Rose comments on the blast pattern saying she likes it. In the room there is filing cabinets, electronic equipment and a big mess. An observation window across the room is broken.

"BIt messy, that room." Donna laughs a little nervously.

"Something powerful obviously lived there." Martha noted.

The Doctor asks what they think and Jack comments that something powerful and angry broke out. There are child's crayon drawings scattered on the floor and a teddy bear.

"What possessed that kid?" Donna asked. Nobody answered.

Rose asks how a child could do that as the Doctor turns on a tape machine. It plays doctor Constantine trying to talk to the child while it just repeats that it wants its mummy. Rose comments that she has heard the voice before.

"Oh yeah, I forgot you haven't actually seen the child up close since the beginning. You've been having fun with Jack." Sarah-Jane laughs.

"Champagne and dancing, can't get much better." Jack winks.

"Well, it coulda been with the Doctor." Rose shrugs. "Only way it could better."

"Good to know." Nine grins.

The Doctor says he has heard it before as well and Rose asks why the child doesn't know who his mummy is. Back at the Lloyd's house, Mr Lloyd is sarcastically asking Nancy if there is anything else she would like and she agrees that she needs some wire cutters and a torch.

"What does she need those for?"

"Well the bomb is guarded by wire so I'm guessing she intends to go to the bomb site." Jack shrugs.

"Why would he give her those tools when she is about to be arrested for trespassing?" Rose frowns. Everybody shrugs.

Nancy says she has been watching the house for ages, commenting on the amount of food on the table. She says half the street thinks Mr Lloyd's wife is messing around with the butcher but she knows that it's him instead. Then demands all the things she has asked for.

"Go Nancy." Donna grins.

At the hospital the Doctor asks if they can sense it, both Rose and Jack are confused which exasperates the Doctor.

"Oi, Spaceman, these human brains aren't as bad as you make out." Donna scowls.

"London eye ring any bells." Mickey smirks.

"He justs likes insulting species when he is stressed." Rose laughs.

Rose explains to Jack that the Doctor insults species when he is stressed.

"See?" Rose laughs harder.

She adds that when he cuts himself shaving he does half an hour on life forms he is cleverer than.

"Does he do that often?" Jack asks, looking amused.

"Every couple of days or so. Seeing as he has such a big ego even with half an hour he can't get through all the species he is cleverer than." She smirks.

Getting back on topic, the Doctor comments on the street children and supposes they were there when the bomb landed. Jack protests it was harmless but the Doctor goes on to say that one of them may have been altered. The tape runs out and a voice announces it is here.

"Well, the child just founds its room that you sent it to." Mickey frowns.

"Yep. Took longer than I thought it would." Ten shrugs.

The Doctor claims it is afraid and powerful and that he just sent it to its room, which is where they are. He notices the tape ran out but the child's voice is still talking. They turn and the child is on the other side of the desk. Jack tells the other two to make for the door on his signal, aiming his blaster at the child only to find he is holding a banana.

"Really Doctor? Not the time for pranks." Rose sighs exasperatedly.

"I still don't know how you did that." Jack complains.

"Good reflexes, me." Nine smirks at him.

The Doctor pulls Jack's blaster from his pocket and makes a hole in the wall. They all charge through and the Doctor tells him not to drop the banana as it is a good source of potassium.

"Not the time." Rose says again.

"Save your banana addiction for a time you are safe." Sarah-Jane laughs.

"Couldn't just let him throw a perfectly good banana away." Nine pouts.

In the hallway, Jack grabs his blaster back and uses it to repair the wall, complimenting the Doctor on switching them. The wall starts to crack, Rose calls to him and they make to run but the patients are coming towards them from the other direction. Jack asks if the child is controlling them but the Doctor corrects that it is them.

"So are they all sharing a mind?" Martha asks.

"Something like that." Nine shrugs.

Jack starts listing off all the functions of his blaster, asking what the Doctor has. He says he has a sonic and then trails off saying it doesn't matter. Jack presses and he replies he is totally soniced up.

"You embarrassed?" Rose asks with a smirk.

"Course not. I love my screwdriver." Nine defends.

"You love it so much you nicked my blaster." Jack adds in with a smug grin.

"I bet you just didn't want to give Rose any more reason to prefer Jack." Mickey laughs. The tips of Nine's ears go red but he doesn't respond.

The Doctor finally caves and yells it's a screwdriver. The child breaks through the wall and Rose grabs Jack's blaster, pointing it at the floor. She yells out they are going down and makes a hole in the floor.

"At least one of you had some sense." Donna rolls her eyes.

"You should keep a better hold of that blaster. These two make it look very easy to steal." Mickey comments with a snigger.

Once they have landed, Jack repairs the ceiling. Rose checks on the Doctor who complains he could have had a warning. Jack asks who has a sonic screwdriver. Rose ignores both of them and looks for a light switch.

"Ahh, the testosterone." Sarah-Jane laughs lightly. "Typical boys with their toys trying to impress the pretty girl."

The patients in the ward the trip are in all sit up. The three make for the door but Jack's blaster doesn't work. He curses the batteries. The screwdriver gets them into a storeroom and Rose tells Jack it's lame. Jack defends he was going to send for another one but the factory blew up. Rose tells him that the Doctor blew up her job first time they met.

"I'm not that bad. I don't like guns so the factory deserved to be blown up. As for your job, well it was the only way."

"Of course." Rose tells him sarcastically. "At least being with you is never borin'."

"I should hope not."

The Doctor says the door should hold it but Jack says the wall didn't hold it. The Doctor says it has to find them first and tries to list their assets but that conversation goes quickly. The Doctor asks Rose where she picked Jack up and he explains about the barrage balloon. When the Doctor asks if he missed anything Rose notes that Jack had disappeared.

"How'd you do that?" Donna asks.

"Emergency teleport, it took me back to my ship. It's keyed to my molecular structure so I had to go back so I could teleport Rosie and Doc to the ship." He explains.

"You could have explained that at the time." Rose mock scowls at him.

"Not really much time." He shrugs with a grin.

At Nancy's hideout Jim is using a typewriter when Nancy comes in. She asks what they are all doing there as they should use a different house every night. Jim replies that they thought she was dead or gone. Nancy empties her sack of loot and the kids comment on Jim writing a letter to his dad and how he would send it. She asks them what they would do if she didn't come back one day, admitting she is going to the bombsite.

"Wonder why she wants to get close to that place?" Mickey shudders.

"Well she said Jamie was her brother, if it were my brother I'd be doing everything I could to find out what happened to him." Martha points out.

The kids say it always comes for them and Nancy corrects that he always come for her and that they aren't safe with her.

"It's sweet how attached those kids are to her. She's obviously done a very good job of looking after them." Rose smiles.

Ernie declares she is the one that keeps them safe so Nancy points out that Jim is sat next to him yet the typewriter can still be heard. Then it stops and she takes the paper. She then throws it away and leaves. Ernie picks it up and it below Jim's writing it Are You My Mummy.

"So whatever has done this to him isn't completely in control then. We know he can obviously sense Nancy but can't tell she is his sister not his mum." Martha notes.

"If he can sense her, why can't he sense their mum though? Unless he never knew his mum." Mickey shrugs, still confused as to why something would want to do this to a child.

"What's confusing me is whatever did this to him clearly isn't trying to hurt Jamie. There doesn't seem to be any purpose behind it." Sarah-Jane frowns.

Back at the hospital Rose says Jack vanished and asks why it's always the great looking ones who do that.

"Oi!" Nine complains.

"You're very handsome but not pretty like Jack is." Rose grins up at him.

The Doctor says he is making an effort not to be insulted and Rose clarifies she meant men.

"Oi!" He complains again. "Definitely insulted now. I am a man."

"I meant human men." She explains with a laugh.

He sarcastically says that really helped. The radio crackles into life and Jack's voice comes through informing them he is on his ship. Jack tells them he couldn't take them as his emergency teleport is keyed to his molecular structure. The Doctor asks how he is speaking to them and that it's a coincidence that he can speak to anything with a speaker grill just like the child.

"What are you trying to imply?" Donna asked with a scowl.

"Just that it was Jack's piece of space junk that seemed to start this mess and that he can conveniently communicate exactly the same way as the child." Nine shrugs.

The child's voice is heard through the grill. Jack says he will block out the signal. He puts on Glenn Millar, asking if Rose remembers this one. The Doctor looks at Rose and she tells him it's their song. Meanwhile, Nancy has made it to Limehouse Green and is cutting the barbed wire. A little later, Rose is relaxing in a wheelchair while the Doctor is at the barred window with the sonic screwdriver. He explains he is trying to resonate the concrete to loosen the bars.

"You didn't think I was coming back?" Jack looks affronted.

"You had admitted you were a conman." NIne tells him.

"Doesn't mean I would leave you to die." Jack replies with a frown. "Or be turned into one of those things."

"Course you wouldn't." Rose interjects. "The Doctor is just nervous and maybe a little jealous."

"I am not." Nine protests.

"You so are." Martha laughs.

Rose realises he doesn't think Jack is coming back and the Doctor asks why she trusts him. She says that he saved her life and that he is like the Doctor except with dating and dancing.

"You don't think I dance?" He looks at her, eyebrows raised.

"Well...now I think you might be able to manage it. There, well, you haven't given me much indication you dance in that timeline." Rose shrugs.

The Doctor looks over at her and she asks what. He looks back at the wall muttering that she assumes he doesn't dance. Rose looks surprised, asking if he does. He replies that he is nine hundred years old and that she can assume he danced at some point.

"I woulda thought you superior Time Lords were above dancing." Jack smirked.

"Some were. Most marriages were arranged." Nine informed him. "But I've always been a rebel."

"So it's no guarantee that just coz you're nine hundred that you have danced." Rose asked with a grin. He scowled at her.

Rose doesn't seem to believe him asking if the universe explodes if he dances.

"Well, if it does we're gonna have a problem." He smirks at Rose.

He tells her he has the moves but wouldn't want to boast.

"Liar, you love to boast." Sarah-Jane laughs.

Rose turns up the volume on the radio. It is still Moonlight Serenade. She tells him to show her his moves and he says he is trying to resonate concrete.

"Really? Trying to resonate concrete is your excuse?" Jack stares at him. The tips of Nine's ears go red and Ten rubs the back of his neck sheepishly.

"Well, it wasn't really the time for dancing." Ten argues weakly.

Rose is confident Jack will get them out and she holds out her hands. The Doctor looks at her palms and asks about the barrage balloon. He comments she sets a new record for jeopardy friendly.

"He has a point there." Mickey agrees.

Rose asks if this is dancing and he comments she has no cuts or bruises. She explains that Jack fixed her hands and the Doctor questions her calling him Captain. Rose tells him he has captain envy and that he should move his feet.

"Well, I don't blame you for having Captain envy. It's wonderful being me." Jack winks over at both Doctors.

"I don't have Captain envy. I've got all I need right here." NIne squeezes Rose.

"Yeah, but there you are jealous." Donna laughs, pointing at the screen.

The Doctor states that if he ever was a Captain he has been defrocked and Rose comments it's a shame she missed it.

"I can show you if you wish?" Jack offers.

"No!" Both Doctors say together.

"Your loss." Jack smirks.

Jack comments that he quit and nobody takes his frock. Then notes that most people notice when they are teleported. The Doctor is unimpressed he had to spend so long overriding his own protocols. He then notices it's a Chula ship. Jack agrees it's like the ambulance but his ship is dangerous. The Doctor snaps his fingers and the golden glow envelopes his hands.

"Oh." Nine sighs in realisation.

"What?" Rose asks. He shakes his head and gestures to the screen.

The Doctor explains that they are sub-atomic robots and asks Jack to take them to the crash site. Jack agrees once they nav-com is back online, telling them to go back to what they were doing. When the Doctor says they were talking about dancing, Jack comments it didn't look like talking. Rose adds it didn't feel like dancing.

There was some snickering at Rose's comment.

"Definitely more talking than dancing." Donna scoffs.

"You weren't even talking about dancing, you were talking about how Rose got her hands fixed." Mickey rolls his eyes.

Nancy makes her way to the tarpaulin covered spacecraft. Just as she starts to pull it back, the spotlights come on and rifles are pointed at her. Someone tells her not to move.

"I wonder what she thought she was going to find?" Martha commented.

On the spaceship Rose is asking Jack about himself and he explains that the Time Agency had stolen two years of his memories. He comments that the Doctor doesn't trust him and he may have good reason not to.

"They stole your memories? That's horrible." Donna scowls.

"It does suck, but I guess it only really matters what I do now. If I end up tagging along with those two then I'm sure I'll end up doing some good in the world no matter what I did in those two years." Jack shrugs with a slight smile.

Nancy is escorted in to a room. An unwell soldier tries to stand up. Nancy spots a scar on the back of the guards hand and pleads not to be left with him. Algy says that she shouldn't have broken in if she didn't want to stay. She keeps claiming that she doesn't want to stay with him. A soldier says he found bolt cutters. Algy comments that she didn't drop in by accident then and Nancy admits her brother died here and she wanted to find out what killed him.

"He won't care." Jack sighs.

"I hope she finds a way out before he turns." Sarah-Jane said.

Algy orders the soldier to check the fence for other breaches saying Nancy may not be alone. Nancy begs again not to be left with him and Algy tells the man to watch her. He replies 'yes mummy'.

"She doesn't have much time." Martha states worriedly.

"Surely if it's now airbourne, he can't be the only one sick?" Rose asked.

"He might not be, just the first to show symptoms." Nine tells her.

Algy is confused but Jenkins replies he doesn't know what came over him, sounding normal again. Nancy pleads that she doesn't care if they lock her up just not with him but Algy leaves. Jenkins tries to reassure her and she begs him to let her go. She explains what will happen to him, trying to ask him his wife's and kid's names in an effort to make him remember. He asks what she but then cuts himself off and just says mummy.

"Poor Nancy." Rose breathed.

The trio arrive at the site and Rose asks if she needs to distract the guard.

"Probably best if I do it." Jack laughs.

"Don't think I can handle it?" She asks, raising an eyebrow.

"You're not his type." Jack smirks. Rose recalled the conversation between Algy and Jack in the previous episode. She smirks back at him.

Jack tells her that she isn't his type. Jack says he knows him and can be a distraction before moving off towards Algy. The Doctor tells Rose to relax as Jack is a fifty first century guy who is more flexible when it comes to dancing.

"Still didn't realise exactly how flexible." Ten laughs. "But then I think that is just Jack."

"Of course it's not just me. It takes two to tango and they are all happy to dance with me." Jack grins in return.

"I bet they are." Rose winks. Nine pokes her in the arm but when she looks at him he is looking amused underneath his fake scowl.

Rose asks how flexible. He tells her that by Jack's time humans have spread across half the galaxy and that they are so many species and so little time.

"Glad you understand Doc." Jack smirks over at him.

"Well, I'm not exactly going to frown upon interspecies relations, am I?" Nine tells him looking down at Rose.

He adds that humans just seek out new life and dance. Jack stands in front of Algy and asks how it's going. Algy replies with mummy and Jack is confused. Algy repeats mummy before retching and his face turns to a gas mask. Rose and the Doctor run forwards. He realises the effect has become airbourne. An air raid siren starts up as Rose asks what is keeping them safe. The Doctor tells her nothing. Rose then asks Jack if he had said a bomb was going to land on the ambulance.

"That's not good." Martha frowns.

"The bomb is not the biggest problem." Sarah-Jane comments.

The Doctor says that if the contaminants airbourne then there is hours left. When Jack asks hours left until what, the Doctor says that there will be nothing forever. Then asks if others can hear singing. The song rock-a-bye baby can be heard. Jenkins in fully transformed and slumped across the table as Nancy sings. The Doctor enters and gestures to her to keep singing. He then frees her from the handcuffs.

"Thank goodness." Martha smiled.

They light up and uncover the spacecraft. Jack states that it is just an ambulance and Nancy is confused. He says they have been trying to get in and the Doctor replies that they think they have Hitler's secret weapon. Jack starts keying in the codes as the Doctor asks what he is doing so Jack explains that the quicker he sees it is empty, the sooner the Doctor will realise it isn't his fault. There is an alarm from the ambulance and Jack is startled, commenting that didn't happen last time. The Doctor explains it hadn't crashed last time, there will be emergency protocols.

"That's going to bring everything down on you." Mickey states, horrified.

"It's an air raid, everybody will be inside." Donna points out.

"The people in the gas masks won't be." Rose corrects.

Rose asks what that is. In the hospital all the patients get up. They start battering at the hospital doors. The Doctor tells Jack to secure the gates and asks Nancy how she got in. When she says she cut the wire and the Doctor throws Rose the sonic screwdriver while telling her which setting will fix the wire.

"They are all coming to the ambulance." Rose bites her lip in worry. "Wire won't hold them for long given that they can break through walls."

"Any amount of time we can buy will be valuable." Nine tells her.

As the patients leave the hospital, Rose mends the cuts in the barbed wire. Bombs fall on London again. Nancy begins questioning Rose who tells her she is from the future and that they win the war.

"Rose." Sighs Nine, though he sounds more resigned than angry.

Jack gets the ambulance open and tells the Doctor it is empty. The Doctor asks Rose what she should expect in a Chula medical transporter. When she replies that she doesn't know he tells her she does.

"Oh." Rose gasps.

"Those nanogenes." Sarah-Jane states.

"What does that mean?" Martha frowns. "How is that bad?" Nobody answers.

Rose realises he means nanogenes and the Doctor tells Jack the ambulance wasn't empty, it had been full of nanogenes. He continues to explain that they escaped when the ship crashed and found a dead child. Rose asks if they could bring him back to life and the Doctor says that is easy for them. However they had never seen a human before so didn't know what they should look like. They brought the body back to life, assuming the gas mask was part of it.

"So, they are trying to fix humans and getting it wrong because they don't realise humans don't look like that?" Rose tries to wrap her head around it.

"Can't you just give them an example of a proper human and get them to fix everyone back again?" Martha asks.

"They have met normal humans but they don't match what they think humans should look like." Nine explains.

The Doctor continues explaining that they won't ever stop. The human race would be torn down and rebuilt in the form of a terrified child who wants to find his mum. Jack is dumbstruck and says he didn't know. The Doctor works on the ambulance as the patients approach. Rose realises that the ambulance has recalled all the gas masked people.

"Oh god." Donna gasps, eyes wide. Jack sinks down in his beanbag. Despite knowing how it turns out he still felt sick at the possible outcome of what he had done.

The Doctor says that the ship thinks it is under attack and explains that as a battlefield ambulance it doesn't just fix people, it also gets them ready for the front line. Rose realises that means that is why the child is so strong. The Doctor agrees with her that it is a fully equipped Chula warrior. All the power in a hysterical four year old and now there is an army of them.

"So they all are programmed to be warriors now?" Mickey asks. Nine nods.

"And they want to defend the ship that they think you are attacking?" Donna clarifies. He nods again.

The patients surround them outside the wire. Jack asks why they don't attack and the Doctor explains that they are soldiers waiting for their commander. Jack asks if he means the child and Nancy corrects that his name is Jamie. Rose asks how long left until the bomb falls and Jack tells her it will be any second. The Doctor asks if it is a bit close to the volcano for the Captain. Nancy says that he is just a little boy. The Doctor agrees that there isn't a little boy born who wouldn't tear the world apart to save his mummy.

"Poor kid." Rose muttered. "Not enough that he died and came back, he suddenly had so much power in his hands but all he wants is to find his mummy.

Rose asks what they are going to do and the Doctor says he doesn't know

"That's the scariest thing I've ever heard." Rose shudders slightly.

"You always have a plan." Sarah-Jane agrees.

Nancy says it is her fault. The Doctor asks how it can be her fault but is cut off by the patients chanting mummy. Suddenly the Doctor asks how old Nancy is as the bomb gets closer. Rose says he can teleport them out but Jack points out the nav-com is back online so he can't override the protocols quickly enough to teleport them all out. The Doctor tells him to do what he has to do and Jack vanishes.

"You're just going to leave them?" Donna yells at him.

"No." Jack murmurs quietly.

The Doctor returns to question Nancy and realises that she is Jamie's mother not his sister, stating she lied even to him.

"Oh. That explains so much." Martha sighs.

"He can't find his mum because he has never actually known her as his mum." Mickey adds sadly.

The bomb site gate opens and Jamie stands there. The Doctor tells Nancy that he will keep asking and that she needs to tell Jamie the truth. She walks towards Jamie and sinks to her knees. When he asks if she is his mummy, this time Nancy agrees that she is his mummy. He keeps asking and she keeps telling him that she is. The Doctor looks worried, saying that there isn't enough of the child left to understand. Nancy hugs Jamie and nanogenes surround them. Rose is worried but the Doctor is urging on the nanogenes, saying that they should recognise the same DNA.

"They can recognise that Nancy has the same DNA so they can realise that is what humans should really look like?" Rose asks hopefully. Ten nods at her with a smile.

Jamie lets go and Nancy falls on the ground. The Doctor is begging to have a day like this as he removes Jamie's gas mask. Jamie is alive and normal underneath and the Doctor is delighted. Nancy asks what happened and the Doctor explains that the nanogenes recognised the parent DNA. Rose remembers the bomb but the Doctor says it has been taken care of. As it hurtles towards them it gets caught in Jack's beam before impact, with Jack sitting on it.

"Thanks for that Jack." Rose grins at him.

"Can't have a pretty girl getting hurt." He winks back, sounding more like himself again.

Jack calls that the bomb has already commenced detonation but that he has put it in stasis. The Doctor asks if he can get rid of it safely. Jack calls a goodbye to Rose and then vanishes with the bomb. He reappears to call out that he loves her t-shirt before vanishing again. The Doctor summons some nanogenes and explains he is going to do a software patch. He tells her he will give her moves.

"Not quite the moves I originally had in mind." Rose smiles up at him, soaking in his obvious joy on the screen.

"These are better. Everybody will live, even those who shouldn't have lived like Jamie." He beams.

He throws the nanogenes to the waiting patients, who fall to the ground. Then he beams around excitedly calling out that everybody lives, just this once everybody lives.

"Crikey, you are almost as bouncy and excitable as him." Donna gestures at Ten.

"I don't get days like that often." Nine tells her still grinning widely. "I think I'm even in a good enough mood to pick up your pretty boy, Rose." He smirks, nodding his head towards Jack.

"You just can't resist me, Doc." Jack grins.

"You wish." Nine laughs.

The patients stand up, all normal again. The Doctor speaks to Constantine and says that his patients are all better now. Constantine seems confused and asks why they are all standing in a disused railway station. The Doctor comments it is cutbacks.

They all laugh, the good mood infectious.

The Doctor explains that he is going to find that his patients are all cured of whatever they had previously suffered from and tells Constantine to tell them what a great Doctor he is and not to make a big fuss. He leaves them as an old woman hobbles up. Constantine comments how much better she is looking. She tells him that her leg has grown back. Constantine looks unsure and weakly asks if she could have miscounted.

More laughter rippled around the room. "Yes, it's very easy to miscount your legs." Mickey snorts.

"It's the only explanation he can really give her." Martha tells him, still chuckling.

The Doctor says he is going to set the ambulance to self-destruct as soon as everybody is clear. He states that history says there was an explosion there and who is he to argue with history. Rose comments he is usually first in line.

"I am not first in line. I try to keep history as it should be." Ten pouts at her. Everybody looks at him in disbelief and he grumbles about how they all pick on him.

Back on the TARDIS the Doctor says that the nanogenes will clean up the mess and then switch themselves off as he told them to. He is still beaming and bouncing as he says that Nancy and Jamie will go to Doctor Constantine for help. He comments that all things considered it's fantastic. Rose smiles as she comments on him beaming away like Father Christmas.

"You need to look like that more often." Rose tells him.

"I'm sure you will give me reason to." He whispers with a smirk.

"I hope so." He sees an expression in her eye that he cannot quite place.

The Doctor asks who says he is not and mentions her red bicycle when she was twelve.

"How you do…?" She looks at him in confusion.

"Story for another time." Ten tells her quietly. She frowns but nods.

Rose is confused but he ignores that and goes back to being excited that everybody lived, saying he needs more days like that. Rose calls his name and he tells her to ask him anything, he is on fire. She asks why Jack said goodbye. On Jack's ship he is asking the computer how long they can keep the bomb in statis. It tells him it will detonate in three minutes. It gives him an 100 percent probability of it detonating if they try to jettison it. Then tells him the ship has no escape pod.

"No escape pod? Bit of a design flaw." Ten rolls his eyes.

"Yeah, I kinda figured that." Jack sighed.

Jack comments he sees the flaw in that and states he will get in the escape pod.

"Hard to get in one you don't have." Donna tells him dryly.

"Wasn't quite thinking straight." Jack shrugs, grinning at her.

Jack asks if the computer checked everyone and it confirms that it did. He asks how dead he is and it confirms a 100 percent probability of his death in two minutes. He initiates emergency protocol four one seven. A martini appears and Jack drinks it, commenting there is a little too much vermouth. Then he talks about the last time he was sentenced to death.

"Does that happen a lot to you?" Donna asks him.

"On the odd occasion." He smirks.

"No wonder you fit in so well with these two." She nods over at Nine and Rose.

"We don't know what you mean, Donna." Rose grins cheekily.

Moonlight Serenade plays. Jack looks down the spaceship and through the open doors of the Tardis, where the Doctor and Rose are dancing. Rose tells him to hurry up and Jack runs in. Rose is trying to teach the Doctor to dance, commenting there are no points for a half-nelson.

"Real smooth moves there Doc." Jack sniggers.

"I swear I used to know how to dance." Nine frowns.

"You do." Ten assures his younger counterpart.

The Doctor comments that he is sure he used to know this stuff and then tells Jack to close the door as his ship blowing up will cause a draught. When the door is shut, the Doctor starts the engines. He welcomes Jack to the TARDIS. When Jack notes it is bigger on the inside, the Doctor tells him that he had better be. Rose then says that Jack may cut in. At that, the Doctor looks up and calls to Rose that he remembers. She is confused as the music changes to swing and he tells her he can dance. She says that she thinks Jack might like the dance and the Doctor agrees that he is sure Jack would, but who with?

"Both of ya." Jack smirks.

"I'll be sure to remember I owe you a dance." Rose tells him with a laugh.

Rose dances with the Doctor while Jack watches. This style he can do, and Rose loves it when he dips her. Then the screen goes black.

"Well there was my first rule aboard the TARDIS." Jack smirks. "Hands off the blonde."

"Quite right too." Nine and Ten say together.

"Well, that's where I came from so it's all future for me now too." Jack informs them all.

"Well, let's get on with it then. We have no idea how long we are going to be here or how many of these we have to watch." Martha says. Everyone agrees with her.

"We should get a few more in before bedtime." Ten nods. Jack takes the remote and pushes the button.