The Archer sighed as she got pulled by the Doctor because he wanted to save someone that was in the building in which they were. They were in a shop, at the bottom of it where all the mannequins were stored. They moved, and they were moving fast, to reach a girl named Rose Tyler, which they had yet to meet. The Archer and the Doctor pulled the girl, saving her from the mess the mannequins were going to make by hitting her until she died.
The Archer helped the Doctor pull the Auton's arm off in the elevator in which they stood.
"You pulled his arm off," says Rose Tyler, a bit shocked.
"Yep," says the Doctor, "plastic."
"Ah, mannequins," the Archer says out loud, "the worst part of regular stores."
"Right," the Doctor agreed.
"Very clever. Nice trick! Who were they then, students? Is this a student thing or what?" Rose asks the Time Lord and Time Lady.
"Why would they be students?" the Doctor asks.
"That's a dumb assumption," the Archer says. She sees the look on Rose's face. Then the Doctor nudges her. "No offense."
"I don't know why," Rose adds after the Archer's comment.
"Well, you said it. Why students?" asks the Doctor.
"'Cos to get that many people dressed up and being silly, they got to be students," says Rose.
"That makes sense. Well done," the Doctor says. The Archer makes a face.
"Thanks."
"They're not students," says the Doctor. The Archer smiles when Rose frowns.
"Whoever they are, when Wilson finds them, he's going to call the police."
"Who's Wilson?" the Doctor asks. He looks at the Archer for hints. She shrugs.
"Chief electrician," Rose answers.
"Wilson's dead," the Doctor replies. The Archer 'oh's'. "That guy."
"What do you mean 'that guy'?"
"We found him dead," the Archer says, giggling. The Doctor looks at her with disgust. She frowns. "But that's all."
"That's just not funny. That's sick!"
"Hold on. Mind your eyes," says the Doctor.
"I've had enough of this now," Rose says.
The Doctor disables the lift mechanism with his sonic screwdriver.
"Who are you two, then?" Rose asks. "Who's that lot down there? I said, who are they?"
"They're made of plastic. Living plastic creatures. They're being controlled by a relay device in the roof, which would be a great big problem if I didn't have this," he holds a small bomb. "So, I'm going to go up there and blow them up, and I might well die in the process, but don't worry about me. No, you go home. Go on. Go and have your lovely beans on toast. Don't tell anyone about this, because if you do, you'll get them killed."
He shuts the door behind the two, then opens it again.
"I'm the Doctor, by the way. What's your name?"
"Rose," says Rose. "Who's she?"
"The Archer."
"Nice to meet you Rose, now run for your life!" the Doctor says after the Archer gives a small smile towards Rose before the door closes. The Doctor grabbed the Archer's hand and they left Rose.
&&&
The next day, the Doctor and the Archer were at the flats near the building they burned, and the Doctor knocked the screws out of the cat flap that was from someone's flat. To their surprise, it was Rose Tyler's apartment. They heard a muffled voice before spotting her lifting up the cat flap.
"What're you doing here?" the Doctor asks, pushing the Archer out of the way. She almost falls and he catches her. She smiles, but almost blushes and thankfully, she hid her blush.
"I live here," Rose replies.
"Well, what do you do that for?"
"Because I do. I'm only at home because two people blew up my job," says Rose.
"I must have got the wrong signal. You're not plastic, are you?" he knocks on her head. "No, bonehead. Bye, then."
"Doc –" the Archer starts, but Rose grabs her by the arm.
"You two. Inside. Right now," Rose tells the time lord and time lady. She pulls the two into the flat.
"Who is it?" asks Rose's mum, Jackie. But the Archer doesn't know her name. Not yet.
Jackie is in her bedroom putting on her makeup.
"It's about last night. They're part of the inquiry. Give us all ten minutes," Rose tells Jackie.
"She deserves compensation," says Jackie.
The Doctor is in the open doorway with the Archer secretly behind him, listening to their conversation.
"Oh, we're talking millions," says the Doctor.
"I'm in my dressing gown," says Jackie.
"Yes, you are."
"There's a strange man in my bedroom."
That does it for the Archer.
"Yes, there is," says the Doctor.
"Well, anything could happen," Jackie says.
The Archer comes out. She looks Jackie in the eye and says, "no," the same time as the Doctor. She giggles when they leave the room after watching Jackie's expression change from happy to upset.
"Don't mind the mess. Do you want a coffee?" Rose asks.
"Might as well, thanks. Just milk."
"No thanks," the Archer replies.
"We should go to the police. Seriously. All of us," Rose starts. The Archer rolls her eyes.
The Doctor looks at the copy of Heat on the coffee table. The Archer reads over his shoulder.
"That won't last, he's gay and she's an alien," says the Doctor.
"Sounds like us," the Archer laughs. The Doctor glares at her.
"You calling me gay?" He sounds offended. "I'm –"
"Are you against the LGBTQ community, Doc?"
"No, of course not, Archer! How many times to I have to tell you to not call me 'Doc'?"
"I'm not blaming you, even if it was just some sort of joke that went wrong," Rose barely paid attention to their conversation.
The Doctor flicks through a paperback book. "Hmm. Sad ending."
"They said on the news they'd found a body," says Rose.
"Rose Tyler," the Doctor reads out loud. The Archer makes an expression that's like a frown for being impressed, (if you know what I mean) just like the Doctor.
The Doctor sees his reflection in a mirror, and behaves as if he's just seeing himself for the first time. And he is. The Archer watches him. She regenerated when he did, and hadn't seen herself either. She looks into the mirror and sees a pretty woman. Herself, to be exact. (Obviously. She looks like Lana Parrilla.) She 'humph's' at herself in the mirror.
"I look like I could be the Evil Queen from the show Once Upon a Time," says the Archer.
"Maybe you are," says the Doctor.
"Oi," she says, her british accent coming thick.
The Doctor continues to look into the mirror. "Ah, could've been worse. Look at the ears."
The Archer touches one of them and flips it. He swats her hand away.
"All the same, he was nice. Nice bloke," says Rose.
The Doctor tries to shuffle a pack of cards. The Archer rolls her eyes again. This wasn't going to end well.
"Luck be a lady," says the Doctor.
"Anyway, if we are going to go to the police, I want to know what I'm saying," says Rose.
The pack of cards goes flying across the room. The Archer sighs.
"Why? Just why?" she asks the Doctor. He shrugs.
"I want you two to explain everything," Rose says.
"Why me? It was his idea," says the Archer.
"Maybe not," says the Doctor.
The cat flap rattles. The Doctor grows curious.
"What's that, then? You got a cat?" he asks Rose.
"No," Rose replies.
Unseen by anyone else but the Archer, the Auton arm grabs the Doctor by the throat. The Archer struggles to take it off of him.
"We did have, but now they're just strays. They come in off the estate," Rose explains, not paying attention to the couple (that's not a couple) that is struggling to get the arm off the Doctor's neck.
Rose comes in from the kitchen area with two mugs of instant coffee. The Doctor is still being strangled with the Archer trying to help, but she still takes no notice.
"I told Mickey to chuck that out. You're all the same. Give a man a plastic hand. Anyway, I don't even know your name. Doctor and Archer, what was it?"
The Doctor manages to throw the arm off. The Archer had given up a second before the arm stopped. It stops in mid air and grabs Rose's face instead. The Doctor and the Archer pull at it, pulling Rose down on top of him as they fall onto the coffee table and smash it. Jackie is using her hairdryer and hears nothing. The Archer finally gets it off Rose with her sonic screwdriver, then jabs the device into its palm. The fingers stop flexing.
"It's all right, She's stopped it. See? Armless," says the Doctor.
"Do you think?" Rose asks. Rose hits him with it.
"Ow!"
"Like that hurt," the Archer tells him. He glares at her.
&&&
The Archer and the Doctor are 'running' away from Rose. They're going down a flight of stairs while Rose talks to them.
"Hold on a minute. You can't just go swanning off," says Rose.
"Yes I can. Here I am. This is us, swanning off. See you," says the Doctor.
"But that arm was moving. It tried to kill me," Rose says back.
"Ten out of ten for observation," the Doctor says. The Archer slaps him for being ignorant.
"You can't just walk away. That's not fair. You two have got to tell me what's going on," says Rose.
"No, I don't," says the Doctor.
"All right, then. I'll go to the police. I'll tell everyone. You said, if I did that, I'd get people killed. So, your choice. Tell me, or I'll start talking," says Rose. The Archer thought this girl was feisty.
"Is that supposed to sound tough?"
"Sort of."
"I thought so," the Archer tells the Doctor.
"Doesn't work. Not on me, at least," says the Doctor.
"Who are you?"
"Told you. The Doctor."
"The Archer," says the Archer.
"Yeah, but Doctor what? Archer who?"
"Just the Doctor and the Archer."
"The Archer. The Doctor."
"Hello!"
"Hi!" the Archer greets Rose.
"Is that supposed to sound impressive?" asks Rose.
"Sort of," says the Doctor. The Archer sees the pattern.
"Come on, then. You can tell me. I've seen enough. Are you two the police?" asks Rose.
"No, we were just passing through. We're a long way from home," the Doctor tells Rose.
"But what have I done wrong? How come those plastic things keep coming after me?" asks Rose.
"Oh, suddenly the entire world revolves around you. You were just an accident. You got in the way, that's all," says the Doctor.
"It tried to kill me," says Rose.
"It was after us, not you. Last night, in the shop, we were there, you blundered in, almost ruined the whole thing. This morning, we were tracking it down, it was tracking us down. The only reason it is fixed on you is 'cos you've met me. Us."
"So what you're saying is, the entire world revolves around you two," says Rose.
The Doctor looks at the Archer, who is looking at Rose. She doesn't notice his expression when he says, "Sort of, yeah."
"You're full of it," says Rose.
"Sort of, yeah," the Doctor replies.
"But, all this plastic stuff. Who else knows about it?" Rose asks.
"No one. Just the Archer and I," says the Doctor.
"What, you two're on your own?" asks Rose.
"Well, who else is there? I mean, you lot, all you do is eat chips, go to bed, and watch telly, while all the time, underneath you, there's a war going on."
"Okay. Start from the beginning. I mean, if we're going to go with the living plastic, and I don't even believe that, but if we do, how did you kill it?"
"The thing controlling it projects life into the arm. The Archer cut off the signal, dead," says the Doctor.
"So that's radio control?" asks Rose.
"Thought control. Are you all right?" the Doctor asks Rose.
"Yeah. So, who's controlling it, then?" asks Rose.
"Long story," the Archer says before the Doctor. She needed to start saying stuff now, not just him.
"But what's it all for? I mean, shop window dummies, what's that about? Is someone trying to take over Britain's shops?"
"No," the time lord and time lady say in unison.
"No," Rose repeats.
"It's not a price war. They want to overthrow the human race and destroy you. Do you believe me?" the Doctor asks.
"No," Rose replies.
"But you're still listening," says the Archer.
"Really, though, Doctor. Archer. Tell me, who are you?"
"Do you know what we were saying about the Earth revolving? It's like when you were a kid. The first time they tell you the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it because everything looks like it's standing still. I can feel it. The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, and the entire planet is hurtling round the sun at sixty seven thousand miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you, the Archer and I, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go. That's who we are. Now, forget me, Rose Tyler. Go home."
"Go home Rose, it's for your own good," the Archer tells the nineteen year old. Rose frowns as she turns around.
The Doctor and the Archer walk off towards the TARDIS with the arm in the Doctor's arm while he grabs the Archer's hand with his other arm. Rose walks off towards another block of flats when there is a rush of air and a strange noise. She turns and runs back, and the TARDIS has gone.
&&&
Rose's boyfriend, Mickey Smith, is in trouble. The Archer and the Doctor knew that, so they went to the place where Rose and his plastic-version of him went for a pizza. The time lord and time lady acted as though they were a waiter or waitress. The Doctor had the idea of a champagne bottle to knock the top off to hit the plastic Mickey in the face. It had worked, and the topping of the bottle got spit out by the plastic Mickey.
"Anyway," says plastic Mickey.
Plastic Mickey gets up and turns his hand into a chopper. Rose flees, screaming, as Mickey wrecks the table. The Doctor grabs the plastic Mickey and pulls off its head. The rest of the customers scream.
"Don't think that's going to stop me," he says. The Archer's eyes went wide.
The body gets up and starts flailing around. The Archer sees that Rose sets off the fire alarm.
"Everyone out! Out now! Get out! Get out! Get out!" Rose shouts.
Rose, the Archer and the Doctor run through the kitchens while the Doctor is carrying the head, while the body wrecks the restaurant before following them to the back exit. The Doctor had offered the Archer to hold the head, but she denied the request because she was too creeped out.
The Doctor seals the exit shut while Rose runs down the alley, past the TARDIS. The Archer watches Rose. The end is secured by padlocked gates.
"Open the gate! Use that tube thing. Archer, use your device. Come on!" Rose shouts.
"Sonic screwdriver," says the Doctor and the Archer in unison.
"Use it!"
The Doctor stops the Archer from going further with her pink sonic screwdriver that matched his. "Nah. Tell you what, let's go in here."
The Doctor unlocks the TARDIS and goes inside while the plastic Mickey hammers on the metal door, making large dents.
"You can't hide inside a wooden box. It's going to get us! Doctor! Archer!"
Rose tries the gate again then runs inside the TARDIS. She stops, takes one look and runs outside again. The Archer lets out a laugh. The Doctor slaps her side lightly. A siren is wailing in the distance. She runs around the TARDIS then when the Auton finally smashes through the metal door, she makes up her mind.
"It's going to follow us!" Rose shouts.
"The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried. Now, shut up a minute," says the Doctor.
"You see, the arm was too simple, but the head's perfect. The Archer and I can use it to trace the signal back to the original source. Right. Where do you want to start?"
"Er, the inside's bigger than the outside?" Rose questions.
"Yes," says the Time Lord and Time Lady.
"It's alien," says Rose.
"Yeah."
"Are you alien?" Rose asks the Doctor.
"Yes. Is that all right?"
"Yeah. Are you alien, Archer?"
"Yes," says the Archer. "Is THAT okay?"
"Yes," says Rose.
"It's called the TARDIS, this thing. T A R D I S. That's Time And Relative Dimension In Space," says the Doctor.
Suddenly Rose bursts into tears. The Archer frowns as she looks at the Doctor.
"That's okay. Culture shock. Happens to the best of us," he tries to 'comfort' her.
"Did they kill him? Mickey? Did they kill Mickey? Is he dead?" asks Rose. The Archer didn't expect that.
"Oh. I didn't think of that," says the Doctor. "Did you, Archer?"
"Not a thought," she says.
"He's my boyfriend. You pulled off his head. They copied him and you didn't even think? And now you're just going to let him melt?" asks Rose. The Archer raises an eyebrow. Melt?
"Melt?" asks the Doctor.
The plastic head is melting on the console, where it is attached by cables.
"Oh, no, no, no, no, no!" shouts the Doctor.
The Doctor sets the TARDIS in motion. The Archer helps.
"What're you doing?" asks Rose.
"Following the signal. It's fading. Wait a minute, I've got it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no! Almost there. Almost there. Here we go!"
The TARDIS lands and the Doctor runs for the door.
"You can't go out there. It's not safe," says Rose.
They're somewhere else now. The Archer watches Rose's expression as they walk out of the TARDIS.
"I lost the signal, we got so close," says the Doctor.
"We've moved. Does it fly?" asks Rose.
"Disappears there and reappears here. You wouldn't understand," says the Doctor.
"If we're somewhere else, what about that headless thing? It's still on the loose," Rose says.
"It melted with the head. Are you going to witter on all night?" asks the Doctor. The Archer lightly slaps him.
"I'll have to tell his mother. Mickey. I'll have to tell his mother he's dead, and you just went and forgot him, again! You were right, you two are alien."
"Look, if we did forget some kid called Mickey–"
"Yeah, he's not a kid," Rose says.
"It's because Archer and I are trying to save the life of every stupid ape blundering on top of this planet, all right?"
"All right."
"Yes, it is!" says the Doctor.
"If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the North? And how come you're not like him, Archer?" Rose asks.
"Lots of planets have a north, and that's a long story, how she's not like me, but she is like me."
"How?" Rose asks.
"Not the time, Rose," says the Archer.
"Fine, then, what's a police public call box?" Rose asks.
"It's a telephone box from the 1950s. It's a disguise."
"You don't know what that is?" asks the Archer.
"Yeah, I don't. But okay. And this, this living plastic. What's it got against us?" Rose asks.
"Nothing. It loves you. You've got such a good planet. Lots of smoke and oil, plenty of toxins and dioxins in the air, perfect. Just what the Nestene Consciousness needs. Its food stock was destroyed in the war, all its protein plants rotted, so Earth, dinner!"
"Any way of stopping it?" Rose asks.
The Doctor holds up a tube of blue liquid.
"Anti-plastic."
"Anti-plastic," repeats the Archer.
"Anti-plastic," repeats Rose.
"Anti-plastic. But first we've got to find it. How can you hide something that big in a city this small?" asks the Doctor.
"Hold on. Hide what?" Rose asks.
"The transmitter. The Consciousness is controlling every single piece of plastic, so it needs a transmitter to boost the signal."
"What's it look like?" Rose asks.
"Like a transmitter. Round and massive, slap bang in the middle of London. A huge circular metal structure like a dish, like a wheel. Radial. Close to where we're standing. Must be completely invisible. What? What?"
The Archer watches the Doctor turn and look at what Rose is staring at on the south bank but is oblivious to the answer. The Archer is somewhat confused before getting what Rose was getting at.
"What? What is it? What?" the Doctor asks.
"Doc," says the Archer.
He finally catches on to what Rose is looking at. The London eye.
"Oh. Fantastic!"
&&&
The Archer, the Doctor, and Rose run across Westminster Bridge.
"Think of it, plastic all over the world, every artificial thing waiting to come alive. The shop window dummies, the phones, the wires, the cables –"
"The breast implants," Rose adds.
"Still, we've found the transmitter. The Consciousness must be somewhere underneath," says the Doctor.
"What about down here?" asks Rose.
Rose looks over the parapet and sees a large manhole entrance at the bottom of some steps.
"Looks good to me. What about you, Archer?" asks the Doctor.
"Fine by me," says the Archer.
They run down and the Doctor opens up the hatch. There is a red light inside.
They climb down a short ladder into a brick-built area with lots of chains. From there they go through a door and down a flight of steps into a multi-level chamber.
"The Nestene Consciousness. That's it, inside the vat. A living plastic creature," says the Doctor.
"Well, then. Tip in your anti-plastic and let's go," says Rose.
"I'm not here to kill it. The Archer and I've got to give it a chance," says the Doctor. The time lord and time lady go down to a catwalk overlooking the seething vat.
"The Archer and I seek an audience with the Nestene Consciousness under peaceful contract according to convention 15 of the Shadow Proclamation."
The lava in the vat flexes.
"Thank you. If we might have permission to approach?" asks the Archer.
Rose spots Mickey on a lower level and runs down.
"Oh, God! Mickey, it's me! It's okay. It's all right."
The Archer can hear Mickey say, "That thing down there, the liquid. Rose, it can talk!"
"You're stinking. Doctor, Archer, they kept him alive," Rose says.
"Yeah, that was always a possibility. Keep him alive to maintain the copy."
"You knew that and you never said?" asks Rose.
"Can we keep the domestics outside, thank you?" the Doctor asks.
The Doctor and the Archer continue downwards.
The Doctor speaks, "Are we addressing the Consciousness? Thank you. If I might observe, you infiltrated this civilisation by means of warp shunt technology. So, may I suggest, with the greatest respect, that you shunt off?"
A sort of face forms in the vat of plastic.
"Oh, don't give us that. It's an invasion, plain and simple. Don't talk about constitutional rights. I am talking! This planet is just starting. These stupid little people have only just learnt how to walk, but they're capable of so much more. I'm asking you on their behalf. Please, just go."
"Archer! Doctor!" shouts Rose.
A pair of shop dummies grab the Doctor. Another grabs the Archer. One takes the vial of anti-plastic from the Doctor's pocket.
"That was just insurance. We weren't going to use it. We were not attacking you. We're here to help. We're not your enemy. We swear, we're not. What do you mean?"
A door slides back to reveal the TARDIS.
"No. Oh, no. Honestly, no. Yes, that's our ship. That's not true. I should know, we were there. We fought in the war. It wasn't our fault. We couldn't save your world! We couldn't save any of them!"
"What's it doing?!" shouts Rose.
"It's the TARDIS! The Nestene's identified its superior technology. It's terrified. It's going to the final phase. It's starting the invasion! Get out, Rose! Just leg it now!"
As the plastic in the vat keeps roaring, Rose phones her mother. The Archer can't hear Jackie's end of the conversation, but the phone call is cut short.
The Consciousness starts throwing energy bolts around.
"It's the activation signal. It's transmitting!" says the Doctor. The Eye lights up with energy.
"It's the end of the world," Rose says out loud.
The plastic in the vat is getting extremely agitated.
"Get out, Rose! Just get out! Run!"
"Go, Rose!" shouts the Archer.
"The stairs have gone," says Rose.
The Autons try to push the Doctor and the Archer into the vat. Rose and Mickey run to the TARDIS.
"I haven't got the key!" says Rose.
"We're going to die!" shouts Mickey.
Rose looks around for other possibilities.
"No!" shouts the Doctor.
"Time Lord. Time Lady," says the Nestene.
Rose stands up and looks at the Doctor and the Archer, then runs round the chamber.
"Just leave them! There's nothing you can do!" says Mickey. The Archer gets annoyed with him.
"I've got no A Levels, no job, no future," says Rose. She grabs an ax. "But I tell you what I have got. Jericho Street Junior School under 7s gymnastic team. I've got the bronze!"
Rose chops through the rope holding a very long chain to the wall and takes firm hold. She runs and swings out along the side of the catwalk, kicking the four Autons into the vat. The second one also drops the vial of anti-plastic into it. The golden Nestene screams as it starts to turn blue.
"Rose!" the Doctor says.
The Doctor grabs her as she swings back. The Archer can't help but feel a little jealous at the attention that Rose was getting, but she tries to ignore it because she can't have feelings for her best friend – why was her brain thinking these things? She couldn't explain it. She didn't want to, at a time like this.
"Now we're in trouble," says the Doctor.
Explosions start and the signals from the Eye stop. The shop dummies start to stagger then fall over. The Doctor and Rose run to the TARDIS, where Mickey is holding on for dear life, and they all go inside. The TARDIS dematerialises.
"A fat lot of good you two were," Rose says.
"Nestene Consciousness? Easy," the Doctor smiles at the Archer. She blushes, this time her blush could show.
"You were useless in there. You two'd be dead if it wasn't for me," says Rose.
"Yes, we would. Thank you. Right then, I'll be off, unless, er, I don't know, you could come with me. This box isn't just a London hopper, you know. It goes anywhere in the universe free of charge."
"Don't. He's an alien. She's an alien. They're a thing," Mickey says.
"Hey, we are NOT a thing," the Archer takes his comment the wrong way. The Doctor frowns at the Archer.
"We're not a couple, you know that Archer. He wasn't insinuating that," says the Doctor.
"Oh," says the Archer. "Then never mind."
"What you said was still true, though," says the Doctor, "we aren't a couple."
"Not yet," the Archer leans over more. The Doctor pushes her away.
"Not in a million years," he says.
"We'll see about that," the Archer says.
"Uh, guys, we're still here," Rose says.
"Oh, right," says the Doctor. He points to Mickey. "He's not invited. What do you think? You could stay here, fill your life with work and food and sleep, or you could go anywhere."
"Is it always this dangerous?"
"Yeah," the Doctor and the Archer say in unison.
"Yeah, I can't. I've er, I've got to go and find my mum and someone's got to look after this stupid lump, so."
"Okay. See you around," says the Doctor. He closes the doors and heads to the console. The Archer stands in the doorway.
"Do you really believe that, Doc?" the Archer asks.
"Believe what?" he asks, not getting the hint.
"That you said 'not in a million years'. Have you ever thought about feelings at all? I mean, our feelings. For each other," the Archer says. The Doctor frowns.
"Are you really willing to become a couple?" the Doctor asks.
"Well, I – I – uh," the Archer starts, but the Doctor says, "I'm not ready for that yet, Archer. When the time comes, maybe we can start a relationship, but after this war . . ."
"Oh, you and the war. Fine, once you get over the war, maybe we can go for a date or two?" asks the Archer.
"Maybe," the Doctor says, flicking switches on the console.
"Remember that," says the Archer.
"I will," says the Doctor, "just like I'm remembering Rose right now."
"You'll fancy her like you do me," says the Archer.
"No way," the Doctor says. "Not in a million years."
"Sure," the Archer says as he moves past her. He opens the door again. Rose had moved further back with Mickey.
"By the way, did I mention it also travels in time?" the Doctor asks her. The Archer smiles as Rose comes running towards them. And that was the start of their adventure as the ninth Doctor and the ninth Archer.