Here we have Dalek - the Rose and Ninth Doctor adventure!

Sticking with the Dalek theme, next time will be Revolution of the Daleks!

Enjoy


The Tardis listened to Donna, leaving the group no time to confront her before the next title showed up on screen.

"Dalek." Yaz muttered in disdain. "That's descriptive."

"Any ideas Doctor?" Rory turned a questioning look on the Doctor.

The Doctor shrugged, "It's a broad title. Could be any number of messes."

"Let's see then." Amy nodded to the screen. There was no further delay from the Tardis, the video immediately rolling.

The Tardis materialises in a dimly lit area with carpeting and display cases. Rose asks what is it, what's wrong? The ninth Doctor doesn't know, there was some kind of signal drawing the Tardis off course

"Oh!" Rose's eyes widened drastically; the appearance of her first Doctor and lack of Jack really narrowed down the video they could be watching. It really only left one option.

"Ah." The Doctor gave a small nod to themselves before sharing a glance with Rose. She could already hear River and Jack's oncoming arguments.

Martha glanced between the two of them, "I'm guessing you know what this video is about?"

Rose nodded with a grimace, "Unfortunately." Not a reassuring reaction for the onlooking group to hear.

Rose asks where they are and he tells her Utah, North America, Earth, about a half mile underground

"Secret bunker?" Ryan asked curious.

"Secret bunker in America." Bill countered with a grimace, that was usually how horror movies and such started.

Rose then asks when they are and he replies 2012 as he looks at a display case. Rose comments on how close that is, saying she should be twenty-six

"You're so old." Yaz couldn't help but mutter. The very idea of 2012 being the future or being 26 then was crazy to her. She would have been about 13 in 2012. The joys of time travel.

The Doctor finds the light switch and things become clearer, Rose realises it is a museum. The Doctor adds it is an alien museum and someone has a hobby, an expensive one based on the chunks of meteorites and moon dust, and spaceship parts

"An alien walks into an alien museum." River raised an eyebrow at her wife, "This can't end well." The last thing the Doctor needed was to advertise their alien-ness in a place like this, but knowing her that's exactly what they'd do.

Rose points out a Slitheen arm that had been stuffed. The Doctor finds a head of a Cybermen as Rose asks what it is

"Cyberman." Mickey sighed at the sight of the familiar helmet. If the title was to be believed, however, it was another familiar enemy Rose and the Doctor would be facing.

The Doctor replies it is an old friend of his, well enemy, the stuff of nightmares reduced to an exhibit, he's getting old

Jack snorted, "You're just staying that now?" It seemed ironic that it was a much younger Doctor saying that.

Rose asks if that is where the signal is coming from and he says no as it is very dead and the signal is alive, something calling for help. He touches the display case and an alarm goes off, armed guards rushing in and cutting them off from the Tardis. Rose mentions to the Doctor that he's Exhibit A if they collect aliens

"So, you might want to come up with a cover story and quickly." Clara pointed out worried. They were about to have company with all those alarms.

A tannoy goes off in the corridor announcing Bad Wolf One descending

The group exchanged looks at the reoccurring phrase 'bad wolf', last video had certainly drawn their attention to it enough that they didn't miss it here. Still, they didn't know what exactly it meant.

Jack, Rose and the Doctor all shared a silent conversation. Rose had scattered those words across time, but they'd been blind to them before they knew the significance.

A helicopter lands, four armed-guards line the corridor as a man and his aides stride out the doorway

"Well, they certainly look friendly." Nardole declared, delightful sarcastic.

Polkowski wishes the man a happy birthday saying the President called to convey his personal wishes. The man – Van Statten says the President is ten points down, he wants him replaced. Polkowski counters he doesn't think that very wise, Van Statten doesn't appreciate it thanking him for his opinion but he's fired. An armed guard drags him away

"Ah, power hungry business man with no regards for people." River clocked the type immediately, "That makes this the wrong place for you to linger Doctor."

The Doctor offered a sheepish shrug, they hadn't left when they should have. When did they?

Van Statten tells the guards to wipe his memory and drop him in the road someplace, somewhere beginning with M. A woman runs up to take Polkowski's place, he asks if she thinks the next president should be republican or democratic, the woman – Goddard – replies democrat and when asked, nervously says because they're funny

"They're terrified of him." Martha shook her head, "There's no way they're going to disobey." Which means it was going to take some effort for the Doctor and Rose to get some help when they inevitably found trouble.

Van Statten stops and asks her name – Diana Goddard, he says he likes her then asks where the English kid is. Adam arrives, saying he bought ten more artefacts at auction

"Obsessed with aliens, and one intrudes into his museum." Donna crossed her arms with a pointed glance at the Doctor, "I wonder how this is going to go." She tilted her head, voice full of sarcasm.

Van Statten wants to see them, Goddard interrupts with respect saying there is more urgent business as they arrested two intruders fifty-three floors down and they don't know how they got in. Van Statten says he'll tell them how they got in: in-tru-da window, when no one laughs he says it was funny and they all laugh

"Let's hope the Doctor has a better excuse." Yaz declared hopefully, but disbelieving.

Van Statten wants to see them, and to tell Simmons he wants to visits his pet. He goes through a doorway as Goddard steps aside to use her headset saying Simmons better give her good news, is it talking?

"He has something alive in there." Rory sat up further in his seat.

Amy grimaced, "And I have a funny feeling I know what it might be." The title might be a blaring clue, and not a pleasant one.

Simmons is watching something in a cage as he holds a chainsaw and replies that it isn't exactly talking. Goddard asks what it is doing, Simmons replies screaming if that is any good

"They're monsters." Bill exclaimed outraged. It didn't matter what they'd captured, they were torturing it! And, worse, they didn't even care!

In an office Adam is showing Statten his latest purchases as the Doctor, Rose and Goddard enter. Van Statten asks what a piece does, Adam points out tubes on the side suggesting it channels something like fuel

"Doesn't look worth eight hundred dollars." Ryan muttered, tilting his head to try and get a better look at the tube.

The Doctor interrupts that he wouldn't hold it like that, Goddard tells him to shut up but the Doctor persists that it's wrong. Adam asks if it is dangerous and the Doctor replies no, it just looks silly

"Doctor." River sighed, they'd just met Van Statten and the Doctor was already antagonising him. The Doctor shrugged, looking completely unrepentant.

The Doctor reaches for it and guns get pointed at him until Van Staten hands him the curved object

"Touchy." Amy muttered, wide eyed at the immediate sounds of guns being readied.

The Doctor strokes it and it makes a noise, he says they just need to be delicate. Van Statten realises it is a musical instrument

"He's not going to like that." Clara mused; he wasn't the kind of guy to enjoy the joy of an alien musical instrument.

The Doctor adds it is a long way from home. Van Statten takes it back, but his touch is harsher so the notes are too

"Erh, not quite." Graham winced at the horrible sounds the instrument produced.

The Doctor says it needs precision and reacts to the smallest fingerprint; Van Statten gets the hang of it and the Doctor compliments him before Van Statten tosses it aside onto the floor

Half the room winced at how Van Statten immediately rejected the instrument after getting bored of it; he was a volatile man and they're weren't excited to see when the Doctor inevitably messed up and revealed what he was.

Van Statten asks who he is, and the Doctor introduces himself asking who he is

"He's a pretentious one." Mickey remarked, "He's going to expect you to know."

Van Statten replies like he doesn't know, they're in the most valuable collection of extra-terrestrial artefacts in the world and they just stumbled in by mistake. The Doctor agrees that sums him up, yeah

"It's about standard with the Doctor." Bill nodded. They always ended up somewhere they weren't supposed to be.

Van Statten asks how they got in, as they're fifty-three floors down, and he has his pretty cat burglar with him. Rose announces she'll hit him if he keeps talking about her like that

"As she should." Donna nodded in eager agreement with Rose.

Van Statten comments on her being English. Adam introduces Henry Van Statten, saying he owns the internet

"And yet we've never heard of him." Yaz crossed her arms doubtful.

Rose tells him not to be stupid as no one owns the internet, Van Statten says they'll keep the world thinking that

"I didn't like him then." Rose sighed, "And I still don't now." All those years had passed, she'd grown so much, and Van Statten was still unbearable.

The Doctor says Van Statten is an expert in everything except the things in the museum and anything he doesn't understand he locks up. Van Statten asks if he claims greater knowledge and the Doctor replies he doesn't need to make claims as he knows how good he is

"Doctor." Jack sighed, a mix of exasperated and fond. It was bittersweet seeing his original Doctor, but the Doctor was really pushing Van Statten's buttons which wasn't something they wanted to do.

Van Statten counters he still captured them, right next to the cage, what were they doing there? The Doctor replies for him to tell her, Van Statten continues that the cage continues his one living specimen, and admits he doesn't know what it is as the Doctor uses careful questions. The Doctor demands to be shown

"How is this working?" Mickey shook his head in some disbelief at how the Doctor's tactic of answering all Van Statten's questions with more questions was actually working.

Rose comments on being able to smell the testosterone. Van Statten orders Goddard to inform the cage they're on the way. He tells Adam to look after Rose and do whatever the British do, inviting the Doctor to come see his pet

"Ah, pretentious, xenophobic and sexist." Amy raised an eyebrow. "He keeps getting better and better."

Outside the cage, Van Statten shares they tried everything and the creature shielded itself but there are certain signs of life inside. The Doctor asks inside what? Simmons welcomes them saying he's taken the power down as the Metaltron is resting, the Doctor asks about the name

"That's a terrible name." Martha snorted. Even if they didn't know it was a Dalek, it was still a terrible name.

Van Statten is proud of it, even if he'd prefers to find its real name. Simmons gives the gauntlets to put on as the last guy that touched it burst into flames

"Such casual disregard for life." Rory shook his head, with a grimace. It didn't bode well for Rose and the Doctor's fate later.

The Doctor replies he won't touch it then. Van Statten tells him to go ahead, impress him. The Doctor steps through and Van Statten orders Simmons to not open the door until they get a result, him and Goddard move to a desk with monitors on it

"This can't end well." Nardole declared with a glance at the Doctor, especially if it was a Dalek in the cage.

Inside the cage is dark as the door locks. The Doctor apologises saying Van Statten thinks he's clever but not to mind him as he's come to help, he's the Doctor

"Maybe not a good idea to introduce yourself to the strange alien prisoner before knowing what it is." Yaz gave the Doctor a pointed look, continually disapproving of their bad life choices.

The metaltron speaks slowly Doc Tor? The Doctor declares it impossible

"Oh." Rose's eyes widened; she'd almost forgotten that at this point the Doctor thought the Dalek's were all gone in the Time War.

"Wait why would that be impossible?" Ryan asked curious.

The Doctor sighed, sharing a quick glance with Rose. "This occurred relatively soon after the Time War for me, I thought that the Dalek's had been eradicated alongside Gallifrey." Their explanation earned several understanding and contemplative nods, it certainly added another layer to the Doctor's emotional state.

A light comes on to reveal a Dalek. It shouts exterminate, recognising him

"Get him out of there." Amy sat up, talking to the screen in a pointless manner. The whole group had tensed up at the Dalek's immediate and familiar response.

The Doctor hammers on the door, terrified, shouting to be let out. The Dalek repeats exterminate as outside the cage Goddard thinks it is going to kill him and Van Statten is elated that it is talking

"There's no way they're letting him out." Clara grit out, grimacing. They'd seen enough of Van Statten to know that much so far.

The Dalek declares him an enemy and he must be destroyed, its gun arm twitches but nothing happens

"Oh, thank god." Martha sighed in relief at the gun arm not doing anything. It reduced the immediate threat of the Dalek but it did not make them safe. the Doctor still had to get out of there, and quick.

DOCTOR: It's not working.
(The Doctor laughs as the Dalek looks at its impotent weapon.)
DOCTOR: Fantastic! Oh, fantastic! Powerless! Look at you. The great space dustbin. How does it feel?

"Maybe don't antagonise the Dalek you're trapped in a cage with." Yaz pointed out, more than a little incredulous. The Doctor conveniently avoided eye contact with the group.

The Dalek tells him to keep back but the Doctor stands inches away staring into its eyepiece. The Doctor asks what for, what's it going to do, what good is it for if it can't kill him? What's the point of it? nothing

"Really not a good idea, Doctor." Jack warned with a wary glance between the screen and the Doctor.

The Doctor ignored the rest of the group in favour of a shared glance with Rose, both very aware of how this was going to end.

He asks what the hell is it here for? It replies it is waiting for orders; it is a soldier. Bred to receive orders

"Don't think it's going to get any orders anytime soon." Rory crossed his arms.

Amy grimaced, "Which means it might go crazy on its own."

The Doctor replies it won't ever get any, it demands orders, the Doctor continues they aren't coming as its race Is dead, burnt all of them, the entire Dalek race wiped out in one second

"If only." The Doctor scowled quietly at the floor. Every time she thought she was rid of them; they found a way to slither through the cracks and escape.

The Dalek protests he lies; the Doctor persists he watched it happen, made it happen, the Dalek asks about him destroying them, and he replies he had no choice

The group all shared knowing glances, they'd heard that story very times with varying ends and truths. The reminder wasn't exactly appreciated, as they knew how much it had messed the Doctor up.

The Dalek asks about the Time Lords and the Doctor admits they are dead too, burnt with the Daleks, the end of the last great Time War, everyone lost

"Not until later." The Master sang with a smug smirk in the Doctor's direction. He'd take any opportunity to remind them all of what he'd done to Gallifrey. The Doctor frowned but didn't look in his direction, solely focusing on the screen.

The Dalek says the coward survived. The Doctor replies he caught its signal, poor little thing but there is no one else coming because there is no one left. The Dalek declares it is alone in the universe

"Maybe don't set the crazy Dalek off." Clara strongly suggested to the Doctor, despite the fact this was in the past and no one could do anything.

The Doctor agrees

"Nope." Rose countered; arms crossed with a grin at the Doctor. They may have been the only Time Lord (ish) around, but they certainly weren't alone. Everyone in the room could attest to that.

The Dalek says they are the same as so is he. The Doctor argues they aren't before pausing and realising maybe it is right, and it has a point as he knows what should happen, what it deserves. He says exterminate, pulling a lever on a console and lighting up the Dalek with electricity

"Doctor?" Yaz sat up, wide eyed in surprise. It wasn't often they'd seen the Doctor be so outright … cruel. They were in a bad place mentally but that didn't mean torturing the Dalek was right.

The Doctor was scowling, eyes still locked on the screen; "I'm not proud of it."

"Well, I am. Just delightful dear. Truly." The Master cackled to himself at the Doctor's cruelty. He'd always said they were alike, and here the Doctor was providing them more evidence. The Doctor's frown deepened but she didn't grace him with a response.

The Dalek cries for pity as he responds why should he, it never did. Outside the cage, Van Statten orders him out

"Oh, now he wants to get the Doctor out." Jack scowled. Typical, Van Statten was only willing to free the Doctor when its prize was at risk.

"Wait." Bill sat up straighter, having just realised something. "Van Statten was listening that whole time. The Doctor practically just admitted to being alien too!" They'd all been too distracted by the Dalek and the Doctor's confrontation to remember their audience.

"This can't end well." Martha scowled at the screen. They'd all been fearing exactly this situation, they just had to hope Van Statten was too distracted by the Dalek talking to recognise what their words meant.

The Dalek cries for help and a guard grabs the Doctor as he goes to ramp up the voltage. Van Statten demands it talks to him as he saved its life as Simmons turns off the electricity. The Doctor shouts they have to destroy it

"Don't think they're going to listen to you." Mickey pointed out.

"Oh, they certainly aren't." Rose answered for her. They hadn't been willing to destroy it until almost everything had been destroyed and so many had been pointlessly killed.

The Doctor is dragged out as Van Statten is happy to know its name, demanding it speaks to him and recognises him. He orders Simmons to make it talk again, whatever it takes

"Doesn't like you." Nardole commented, there was no way the Dalek was going to talk to them.

In Adam's workshop, he apologises to Rose for the mess as he's allowed to do his own thing as long as he delivers the goods. He hands Rose a thick piece of metal asking what she thinks it is, she replies a lump of metal

"She's not wrong." Rory grinned, entertained by Rose's lack of interest in Adam.

Adam agrees but thinks it is from the hull of a spacecraft, and aliens, spacecrafts are all real despite everything the United Nations tries to keep quiet. Rose replies that's amazing and Adam continues half-ignoring her, as he says it sounds incredible but he honestly thinks the whole universe is teeming with life

"He has no idea." Amy snorted. Rose was just standing there pretending like she hadn't been travelling time and space with an alien. Rose and the Doctor just shared a look, they both knew Adam's fate.

Rose claims she's gobsmacked, asking if he sits there and catalogues it, Adam says it is the best job in the world

"I'd argue it really isn't." Graham said.

Ryan rolled his eyes, "Yeah, but you'd say being a bus driver was."

"Nothing wrong with being a bus driver. Mighty fine job, it is." Graham argued to Yaz's amuse and Ryan's fond annoyance.

Rose tells him to imagine if he could get out there, travel amongst the stars and see it for real

"Imagine that crazy scenario." Bill snickered.

Adam says he'd give anything but it isn't going to happen, not in their lifetimes. Rose replies he never knows, asking about all the people who've claimed to talk to aliens and been inside spaceships. Adam thinks them nutters

"And what does that make you." Rose muttered quietly. Mickey was the only one who heard and shot her a confused look which she just shook her head at.

Rose agrees asking how he ended up there. Adam explains Van Statten has agents all over the world looking for geniuses to recruit, Rose says he's a genius then (unimpressed)

"And humble too." Clara raised an eyebrow. Adam really wasn't endearing himself to the group.

Adam apologises but says he can't help it as he was born clever. He shares he logged onto the US Defence System and almost caused WW3, Rose asks if he thinks it was funny? Adam replies she should have seen them running around, Rose thinks he sounds like the Doctor

"I take insult to that." The Doctor huffed. She hadn't liked Adam back then, and she still didn't now; and it wasn't just because of his obvious crush on Rose.

Rose smiled fondly, "You would." She wasn't taking the words back though; they definitely had their differences though.

Adam asks if she is with him, she says they're just friends, which Adam thinks is good, not expanding when Rose asks why

"He means because he has a huge crush on you." Mickey pointed out, earning an eye roll from Rose. Seriously, had half the galaxy fallen in love with Rose before he'd joined the Doctor and Rose in their travels.

Rose says wouldn't he rather be downstairs, as Van Statten has a living creature then. Adam admits he did ask but he keeps it to himself, but as a genius it doesn't take much to patch through the comm system, Rose says let's have a look then

"Ah, smart." Martha grinned. "Use his desire to show off to get information."

Adam continues it doesn't do much, it's kind of useless and a big pepper pot. They watch the Dalek scream as Simmons takes a big drill to its casing. Rose asks where the Doctor is as it is being tortured, Adam doesn't know. Rose demands to be taken there now

"You haven't seen a Dalek before, have you?" River raised an eyebrow. If Rose had she would have recognised the description and not been so eager to defend it, wanting to be with the Doctor more to help.

Rose just shook her head with a grimace. She hadn't and a lot had gone wrong because she had still been naïve; not that she was remotely the only person to blame in everything that had gone wrong.

In a lift, the Doctor explains the metal is battle armour and the real Dalek creature is inside. Van Statten asks what it looks like, the Doctor tells him a mutation, saying the Daleks were genetically engineered and all emotions removed except hate

"And you aren't afraid of how suspicious your knowledge is?" Amy sighed. The Doctor had been completely taken aback by the Dalek's appearance, and had been blinded in attempts to warn them to realise they were too heartless to do anything.

Van Statten asks who genetically engineered them, the Doctor replies a genius, he'd like him. Goddard explains it has been on Earth for fifty years, it got sold at private auction and moved between collections since, so why would it be a threat now?

"Because they never stop being threats?" Rory asked, clearly a rhetorical question to all those that knew the Daleks.

The Doctor replies because he's there. He asks if they know how it got to Earth. Goddard continues the records say it fell like a meteorite on the Ascension Islands, burnt in a crater for three days before anyone could get near, screaming all the time, it must have gone insane

"It was already insane." The Doctor scowled at the screen. The rest of the group sharing glances around her.

The Doctor says it must have fallen through time, the only survivor. Goddard remembers he talked about a war

"Oh no, he definitely heard what was said." Jack frowned. That wasn't good news for the Doctor and Rose's chances of just walking out of there unbothered and without attempts to be added to the collection.

The Doctor says the Time War, the final battle between his people and Daleks. Van Statten points out he survived to, the Doctor replies not by choice. Van Statten has realised the Doctor is an alien too, the only one of his kind in existence

"Doctor." River sighed in frustration.

They really couldn't keep their mouth shut even when it was important for self-preservation. She'd give them a little leeway with the shock they'd experienced at seeing a Dalek for the first time since the end of the Time War, but the emotional breakdown they were having wasn't going to do anyone any favours in that exact moment.

The Doctor is stripped and chained spread-eagle in his own cage as Van Statten tells him to smile

"That didn't take long." Jack scowled. Van Statten was unfortunately predictable. "It's up to you now Rose." Rose was the Doctor's best chance in their current predicament; however, her wince didn't reassure anyone that things had gone smoothly.

The Doctor was busy avoiding the groups' worried looks, the weight of their eyes very heavy on her. She even blocked the tapping at the mental equivalent of a door to her and the Master's mental connection, she really couldn't deal with him right now.

A painful laser runs down the Doctor's body and Van Statten is excited by his two hearts, and says he's going to patent this

"Oh no you're not Mister." Donna scowled, sitting up in her seat as if she was about to try and find Van Statten to verbally abuse him. None of the group was happy about the Doctor's current situation, and the lack of ability to stop it was becoming a frustratingly familiar experience.

The Doctor says that's his secret, he doesn't collect stuff but scavenge it. Van Statten claims the technology had been falling to Earth for centuries, and it only took the right mind to use it, he says the Doctor has no idea the advances he's made using it. Just last year they cultivated bacteria from a crater and found the cure for the common cold which they kept within laboratory of course, no need to excite people as why sell one cure when he can sell a thousand palliatives

"Because this guy couldn't get much worse." Amy glared at the screen, then turned to Rose and the Doctor. "Please tell me he's not still around in a position of power?"

Rose frowned at the screen, glancing at the Doctor who was still avoiding eye contact, before turning to answer the group trying to be purposefully vague. "He wasn't in a position of power when we left."

The Doctor asks if he knows what a Dalek is, it is honest, does what it was born to do for survival of is species. He finishes the creature in his dungeon is better than him

"The bar was on the ground, yet he found a shovel and started digging." Bill crossed her arms. None of them had any patience for people like Van Statten, and unfortunately, they'd all experienced their fair share during their travels with the Doctor.

Van Statten says in that case; he'll be true to himself and continue. The Doctor shouts for him to listen as the Daelk will kill every last one of them. Van Statten claims nothing can escape the cage

"Famous last words." Mickey frowned. All of them had no doubt in their mind that the Dalek would get free and wreak havoc on the whole base, it was only a matter of time.

He hits the Dalek with the laser again as the Doctor continues shouting it has woken up and is going to get out, no one on the base is safe, no one on the planet! The laser is run again and the Doctor screams

The group were all sending dark scowls at the screen, extreme disdain for Van Statten only growing which they thought hadn't been possible.

"Focus on getting free and getting yourself and Rose out first, Doctor." River turned to her wife; Van Statten had ignored all the Doctor's warnings whatever happened he'd brought upon himself.

The Doctor shook her head, "They didn't know what they were getting into."

"No, but you tried to warn them." Jack argued, agreeing with River. "You tried Doctor, a man like Van Statten isn't going to listen."

The Doctor continued shaking her head in disapproval but didn't argue further, eyes still locked on the screen. Jack and River shared a knowing look above her head.

Outside the cage, Adam gets them past security, warning Rose not to get too close to the creature as they enter the cage

"That is exactly the last place you want to be." Nardole gestured to the screen.

Rose asks if it is in pain, introducing herself and saying she has a friend who can help, the Doctor, and asking its name

"Rose." Mickey sighed at her naivety. Her desire to help could be admired, but in this circumstance it could only end badly.

Rose grimaced, "I know, I know. I was young and naïve, and we'd not seen Daleks before. I didn't know better."

The Dalek replies yes, it's in pain, they torture him and still fear him. It asks if she fears it, Rose replies no

Rose sighed. She still didn't fear him, but she held a much better understanding of how dangerous and heartless Daleks were. Watching this was frustrating, a million other ways this could have gone if she'd done something different racing through her mind.

The Dalek declares it is dying, Rose wants to help, but the Dalek welcomes death and he is glad he met a human who was not afraid before it dies. Rose asks if there is anything they can do and the Dalek replies its race is dead, it shall die alone

"Good." Amy crossed her arms, though she had a strong suspicion that wsn't how this was going to go.

Rose reaches for the Dalek's head but Adam shout no

"Don't touch it!" Donna shouted pointlessly. Touching a Dalek was never a good idea, and they'd literally just heard how the last people that touched it had disintegrated.

A brief touch leaves a golden handprint which quickly fades, making it more animated. The Dalek initiates cellular reconstruction extrapolating the genetic material

Jack sat up straighter, body tense as he immediately realised what had happened. "You rejuvenated it."

"Not on purpose." Rose sighed, barley resisting the urge to hang her head in her hands. Things were only going to get worse from here.

The Dalek breaks its chains as Simmons enters asking what the hell they've done

"A mistake." Rose answered for her past self.

Simmons goes to the Dalek carrying the drill as the Dalek raises its plunger. He asks what it is going to do, sucker him to death? The Dalek sticks the sucker to his nose and mouth creating a vacuum

"Yep." Martha grimaced, "And now you have a loose and very angry Dalek. Everyone's in danger." No one was safe anymore, Rose needed to find the Doctor, free him and then both of them needed to get out of there and quick.

Outside the cage, Rose realises it is killing him and tells someone to do something. Bywater (a guard) shouts code red, and with the Doctor he tells Van Statten to release him if they want to live

"Listen to him." River begged the people on the screen. It was the only chance the humans had, and it would secure the Doctor's freedom from the torture room.

They can see the scene in the cage on a large tv, the Doctor warns them they have to keep it in that cell. On screen rose says it is all her fault and the guard reports they sealed the compartment and it can't get out as the lock has a billion combinations

"That's not going to stop it." Jack shook his head; the humans had no idea what they'd just started.

The Doctor tells them Daleks are geniuses and it can calculate that in one second flat. The warning comes too late as the Dalek escapes in a moment, the guard opens fire

"Still not going to work." Mickey frowned, concerned about Rose's predicament. A private army controlled by a pompous businessman and a locked underground base didn't give many options for Rose and the Doctor to run or escape.

Van Statten tells them not to shoot it as he wants it unharmed, the Doctor shouts for Rose to get out of there. Bywater orders another guard – De Maggio – to get the civilians out of there

"Finally, a sensible person!" Donna threw her hands up in the air in frustration. It was a miracle to find someone with a brain cell in this bunker.

De Maggio obeys guiding Rose and Adam away. The Dalek moves to the wall monitor and smashes it, absorbing the electricity, mending its armour. Bywater informs them they're abandoning the cage

"Run. Just run." Ryan urged the people on screen. It was pointless to try and shoot at the Dalek like that, the only thing they could do was run and hope the Doctor had a solution.

Goddard reports they're losing power as it is draining the base, draining the entire power supply of Utah. The Doctor says it is downloading, Van Statten asks downloading what

"The internet." Yaz quickly made the connection, "It's working out everything it's missed and where it is."

Goddard reports the entire West Coast has gone down as the Doctor explains it isn't just energy but the Dalek is absorbing the entire internet. The Dalek declares the Daleks survive in him, it fires its weapons

"Unfortunately." Nardole muttered, "And it's not the last one." The Daleks always managed to find a way to survive.

Goddard finds the cameras in the vault are down and the Doctor says they only have the emergency power, and they have to kill it now!

"He's not going to be eager to kill it." Clara shook her head. They all knew Van Goddard prized his possessions more than human life, that had been shown several times already.

Goddard orders all the guards to the cage, elsewhere De Maggio shouts to let their little group through the oncoming guards

"Just get far away from there and find the Doctor." Amy said, it was Rose and Adam's best way of staying safe.

Bywater gives out orders and guards start dying as they open fire only for the Dalek to absorb the bullets and fire back

"This is a slaughter." Rory shook his head; they'd all been expecting it but it was still terrible to see. So many people pointlessly killed.

Van Statten still wants them to stop shooting at it, Goddard protests it is killing them, but he argues they're disposable and the Dalek is unique and he doesn't want a scratch on it, do they hear him?

"You -." Donna scowled at the screen, cutting herself off with muffled curses. They'd all been expecting it, had all seen it before, but for Van Statten to outright say it, it was horrible.

The gunfire stops as everyone is dead, Goddard pulls up schematics of the base pointing out where they are near the surface and where the cage and Dalek is. The Doctor asks if the museum has any alien weapons

That earned a few raised eyebrows from the group, the Doctor wasn't a big supporter of aliens so for him to be suggesting them now showed both his mentality and how serious it was.

Goddard says they have lots but the Dalek is between them and the weapons. Van Statten says to deal the entire vault and trap it there to keep it alive. The Doctor is against the plan as everyone would be trapped with it, Rose included, and he won't let that happen. He points out one area that it has to go through asking what it is

"He's not going to listen to you Doctor." River turned to her wife, serious look in her eyes. She waited until the Doctor finally met her eyes. "A man like him; he's never going to listen to you. You have to do what you have to do." The Doctor frowned, but couldn't come up with a reply.

It's weapons testing according to Goddard, the Doctor tells them to give guns to everyone as that's the only chance they have of killing it

"Don't leave anyone defenceless." Ryan nodded; even if the guns didn't work it was better than being completely defenceless.

Rose spots a staircase, happy as the Dalek doesn't have legs and will get stuck

Rose groaned at her lack of knowledge; she'd been so hopeful but she'd known nothing about Daleks. The group that knew about the Daleks, all winced as they realised what was about to happen.

De Maggio spots it coming and hurries them up. They run up and look back at the Dalek, Adam mocks it saying it is a big alien death machine defeated by a flight of stairs

"Don't get ahead of yourself mate." Mickey shook his head, disproving. He wasn't liking Adam in general, let alone how he was actin around Rose – and not because of his own former crush/being boyfriend to Rose. He just got the wrong kind of vibes from him.

De Maggio orders it to return to its cage, saying if it wants to negotiate, she can guarantee a talk with Van Statten, the killing has to stop now, she demands its surrender, admitting they imprisoned it and that might be wrong, but the killing stops

"The Dalek is never going to listen to that." Amy frowned, waving a hand at the screen.

Rory snorted, "Would anything listen to a demand like that after being caged and tortured?"

The Dalek simply says elevate, gliding up the stairs

"That's a definite no." Graham announced.

Rose is shocked and De Maggio orders Adam to get her out of there. Rose tells De Maggio to come with them as she can't stop it, De Maggio argues someone has to try, and to run and not look back. She shoots but missed the eyepiece, dying quickly after

The group winced, feeling some remorse for De Maggio's fate; she'd at least tried to help the two escape. She hadn't deserved to be killed like that, none of them had. It wasn't their fault their employer was Van Statten.

Elsewhere, Van Statten asks if the Doctor is so impressive why does it not just reason with the Dalek as it must be willing to negotiate, everything needs something

"It needs to kill." Jack crossed his arms, glaring at the screen as if to convey his anger to Van Statten through it. "There's no negotiating with a Dalek." The Doctor and Clara shared a quick glance, though Jack's words were predominantly true but they had one or two small exceptions that weren't relevant here.

The Doctor asks where the nearest town is, Van Statten reports it is Salt Lake City with a population of a million. The Doctor says they are all dead if the Dalek gets out, it will murder everything living, that's all it needs

"You need to stop it." Bill stated, staring the Doctor down. That was non-negotiable, the Dalek had to be stopped by any means necessary before it escaped and reached civilisation.

Van Statten asks why it would do that and the Doctor explains it honestly believed they should die. Anything different is wrong, the ultimate in racial cleansing and Van Statten let it lose. He adds the Dalek is surrounded by a force field melting the bullets before they hit but it isn't indestructible

"As the Doctor has proven time and time again." Rose remarked. There was a reason the Doctor was the Dalek's number one enemy, well one of many.

The Doctor tells the next group of soldiers via radio to concentrate their fire, aim for the dome, the eyepiece as it is the weak point. The commander thanks him but declares he thinks he knows how to fight a single tin robot, ordering his men into position

"Ignorant idiots are going to get everyone killed." Donna scowled. None of them were learning anything from all the deaths and destruction; they were only going to end up suffering the same fate.

The soldiers take cover as Adam and Rose run into view, the commander tells them to get the hell out of there and they run past the guards just before the Dalek enters, zooming in on Rose's face before they get out the loading bay

"The Dalek's following you two." Mickey noticed. It made sense seeing as they'd been in the cage with the Dalek when they'd escaped, but they hadn't managed to outpace it and reunite with the Doctor.

Outside the loading bay Rose says it was looking at her, Adam replies it wants to slaughter them but Rose counters she knows but it was looking right at her

"You brought it back." River remarked, giving Rose a considering look, "Maybe it took note of that." If it was going to give anyone some kind of mercy it might be Rose, which could be useful if things go even more drastically wrong.

Rose sighed to the reminder of what she'd done, River was certainly right and it had saved her but that didn't mean she had to like it. This whole adventure had been a mess from start to end.

Adam doesn't see her meaning saying it was looking all around, Rose doesn't know what she means but there is something inside her, like it knows her. In the loading bay the commander opens fire as Goddard and the Doctor get visual of the fight in the office, the Dalek wants them to see

"It wants you to know what it's doing." Martha crossed her arms with a scowl, "It knows you can't do anything to stop its path of destruction."

In the loading bay, the rain of bullets has no effect and the Dalek rises off the floor, zapping the fire alarm to set the sprinklers off. When there is a sheet of water on the floor, it fires downwards electrocuting all the wet soldiers

"It's clever." Clara reluctantly admitted, grimacing at the path of destruction and death the Dalek was paving. That's what made the Daleks so dangerous, they were smart killers.

The commander orders the remains to fall back but the Dalek kills him and the rest of his men, continuing to hover in the air as water pours down

"Killed by your pride." Donna commented with no joy. If he'd listened to the Doctor, he might have been alive, but he'd refused based on his pride and stubbornness and got his whole team killed alongside him.

Van Statten admits it might be time for a new strategy, maybe they should abandon the place

"Oh, he's finally seeing sense!" Yaz threw her hands in the air as she scoffed. It was far past time.

Goddard argues there is no power to the helipad so they can't get out. The Doctor remembers he said they could seal the vault and Van Statten explains it was designed to be a bunker in a nuclear war, steel bulkheads. Goddard counters there isn't enough power and the bulkheads are massive. The Doctor argues they have emergency power and can re-route that to the bulkhead doors

"Seal the Dalek in, and then what? Destroy it or leave it to die?" Ryan asked, receiving no answer as Rose and the Doctor shared a long glance.

Goddard says it would take a computer genius to bypass the security codes, Van Statten says it is a good thing they have him then

"And Adam if he fails." Amy added on, "Neither of them have been quiet about their achievements. We just have to hope they live up to their words."

The Doctor is shocked he wants to help, Van Statten replies he doesn't want to die, simple as that, and nobody knows the software better than him. Goddard brings their attention back to the screen where the Dalek is back on the ground

"It wants to talk." Jack raised an eyebrow, curious what it wanted to say.

It will only talk to the Doctor

"Of course, it will." River sighed; not sure what else she expected.

"But about what?" Jack pushed; he had a weird feeling about all this. River caught his eye upon hearing his tone, raising an eyebrow to which Hack replied with a half-frown and nod to the Doctor.

The Doctor says it is going to get rusty, the Dalek announced it fed off the DNA of Rose, and extrapolating the biomass of a time traveller regenerated it. The Dalek asks what its next trick is, and the Dalek shares it has been searching for the Daleks

"Oh." Bill said, "It's found out you weren't lying in the cage." That was her best bet based on how the Daleks was reacting and its questions. It did leave the questions of what it was going to do with the information, and why it felt the need to talk to the Doctor about it.

The Doctor replies he saw, asking what it found. The Dalek scanned their satellites and radio telescopes and found nothing, it asks where it will get its orders now. The Doctor declares it a solider without commands

"Which is not necessarily a good thing where a Dalek is concerned." Clara pointed out. The Dalek had already proven it didn't need orders to just go round killing everyone.

The Dalek says it will follow the primary order then; the Dalek instinct is to destroy and conquer. The doctor asks what the point is, doesn't it see it is all gone, everything it was, everything it stood for

"Existential conversation with a Dalek." Amy raised an eyebrow, "Now I have seen it all." She'd seen Daleks in weird positions – the Dalek Asylum had been good for that - but this conversation with the Doctor was spiralling.

The Dalek asks what it should do and the Doctor says alright then, if it wants orders, follow this one – kill itself

There was several startled gasps and coughs at the Doctor's very direct orders, the group all shooting unsure glances their way. The Doctor wasn't necessarily wrong, the Dalek needed to die if it was going to be stopped, but to have the Doctor say those words so vehemently like that was startling.

The Master, smirking and leaning back casually in his chair let out a startled chuckle. "Well, well, well, dear. Didn't know you had it in you."

The Doctor scowled at the floor, not wanting to see everyone's reactions to her younger self. There was still more to come too.

The Dalek argues the Daleks must survive

"No, they must not." Nardole countered.

The Doctor shouts the Daleks have failed, why doesn't it finish the job and make them extinct, rid the universe of their filth, why doesn't it just die? The Dalek says he would make a good Dalek

"He's not going to take that well." Clara winced, eyeing the screen warily. That was the last thing the Doctor needed to hear right in that moment.

The screen goes blank with the Doctor and he tells them to seal the vault. Van Statten says he can leech power off the ground defences and feed it to the bulkheads, saying it's been years since he had to work this fast

"Or since you've had to actually work." Yaz crossed her arms. Van Statten wasn't redeeming himself in any of their eyes, this was pure self-preservation.

The Doctor asks if he is enjoying it, Goddard points out Rose it still down there. In a staircase, Rose's phone rings and she says it isn't the best time

"When is it ever?" Rose snorted, shaking her head.

The Doctor is on the phone asking where she is – level 49. He tells her to keep moving as the vault is being sealed off at level forty-six

"Great a time limit to add to the imminent threat of death." Martha rolled her eyes, "Just what we need." Rose and Adam would have to move fats to get above the sealed-off levels and avoid getting caught by the Dalek.

Rose asks if he can stop them closing, and he admits he's closing them, he can't wait and can't help her, so for god's sake, run

"Always with the running." Graham remarked, "It's not good for my bones."

"You're just old grandad." Ryan countered.

The Dalek is at level fifty-one. Van Statten is done, they have power to the bulkheads and Goddard reports the Dalek is right behind them. Rose says they're almost there, they just need two seconds

"C'mon, c'mon." Mickey urged, leaning forward in his seat. Realistically he knew Rose would be fine, she was sitting next to him after all, but it didn't stop the fear of what was about to happen.

Van Statten can't maintain the power, the whole system is failing, they have to close the bulkheads. The Doctor apologises as he hits enter, a klaxon sounding and the bulkhead starts to lower. Adam rolls under the bulkhead hurrying Rose on

"He just left Rose!" Amy threw a hand at the screen in frustration.

"Doctor!" Mickey turned an annoyed look on the Doctor, couldn't he have waited two more seconds!?

"Leave him alone." Rose spoke up to protect the Doctor, "He couldn't have done anything. Besides it turned out alright in the end."

"Somehow." The Doctor remarked, sharking a knowing look with Rose. The room grumbled but allowed the video to continue, eager for answers.

Van Statten says the vault is sealed. The Doctor asks where Rose is, asking if she made it. Rose didn't, she apologises as she was a bit slow. The Dalek comes round the corner

"Oh no." Rory muttered. "You have to hope the Dalek has mercy because you revived him." Rose being trapped with a murderous Dalek couldn't end well, they had to hope the Doctor comes up with a plan and quickly.

Rose tells him it wasn't his fault, remember that, it wasn't his fault, and she wouldn't have missed it for the world

"And I stand by those words." Rose stared the Doctor down; she'd grown a lot since that mess but she didn't regret her words. The Doctor nodded once, meeting her eyes briefly before turning their attention back to the screen.

The Dalek shouts exterminate with a zap

"No!"

"Rose!"

"How?!" Jack turned to Rose and the Doctor panicked. Rose can't have died there, that made no sense.

Rose rolled their eyes at the panic; grateful they cared but she'd expected they'd know better with the context of what they'd seen and talked about. "Calm down and just watch."

The Doctor is in shock as he killed her, Van Statten apologises. The Doctor continues he said he'd protect her and she was only there because of him, and he's sorry? He could have killed the Dalek in its cell but Van Statten stopped him, Van Statten argues it was the prize of his collection

"He's still obsessed with his collection and not everyone who has died for his stupid museum." Bill scowled at the screen.

The Doctor asks if it was worth it, all those people's deaths? Rose's death? He tells Van Statten mankind goes into space to explore, be part of something greater. Van Statten agrees saying he wanted to touch the stars. The Doctor counters he wanted to drag the stars don and stick them underground, he's as far from the stars as they can get and he took her down with her, Rose was only nineteen

Rose blinked, it felt so weird to think she was only nineteen back then, time had flown past even with all the time travel shenanigans. The Doctor was on a full rant as well, it was admittedly interesting to see everything she missed and get the full context for the situation – especially as she was one of the few that knew how this all ended so she was much more relaxed than the majority of the group.

On level 46, Rose is alive. She tells it to kill him, asking why it is doing this. The Dalek says it is armed, it will kill, that's its purpose

"Yet its hesitating." Martha noticed immediately, "That's a promising sign." A promising sign that Rose wasn't about to die.

Rose says they're all dead because of it, the Dalek counters they're dead because of them

"Sharing the blame and not taking credit for its deeds. Not very Dalek like." Amy raised an eyebrow.

Rose asks what now, what is it wating for? The Dalek says it feels her fear, and Rose asks what it expects. The Daleks says they do not fear, must not fear

"You've altered it." Clara shot up in her seat, curious. The rare occasion where something like this happened to a Dalek it usually had an unexpected ending.

The Dalek shoots either side of the bulkhead door. It says she gave it life, what else has she given it? It is contaminated

"Which might just be enough to save Rose and everyone else." Jack announced cautiously hopeful.

Adam enters the office and the Doctor remarks he was quick on his feet, leaving Rose behind. Adam argues he's not the one who sealed the vault

"Play the blame game later." Mickey argued, "Save Rose first."

On the screen, the Dalek demands the bulkhead opens or Rose dies, the Doctor is thrilled that Rose is alive, and she says he can't get rid of her

"Never want to." The Doctor grinned, sharing a smile with Rose.

The Dalek repeats its demand and Rose shouts not to. The Dalek says what use are emotions if not to save the woman he loves, the Doctor decides he killed her once, he can't do it again. The bulkhead opens, and the Dalek and Rose go through

"Rose is a bit safer." Barring the Dalek still threatening her, "Now what are you going to do about the Dalek?" Donna pointed out.

None of them questioned the Doctor's decision to open the door, all knowing what they'd do in the situation, and that the Doctor would have done it for any of them.

Van Statten calls him a bleeding heart asking what the hell they do. Adam suggests killing it when it gets there but Goddard reminds him guns are useless and the alien weapons are in the vault, Adam counters only the catalogued ones are

"What's he hiding up his sleeve?" Yaz narrowed her eyes in suspicion at Adam onscreen, still not trusting him remotely.

In Adam's workshop, the Doctor finds most of it rubbish, and Adam explained he kept some stuff in case he needed to fight back one day as Van Statten wipes the memory of his disposed staff. The Doctor remarks he'd like to see Adam in a fight, what's he going to do? Throw his A-Level's at them? He finds a weapon

"Not the important thing at the moment Doctor." River shook her head with an exasperated roll of her eyes.

"Am I wrong?" The Doctor countered, just earning another a sigh from her wife.

In a lift, Rose begs the Dalek not to kill them as it didn't kill her. The Dalek asks why not, why is she alive? His function is to kill, what is it?

"Existential crisis from a Dalek." Ryan muttered, "What is the world coming to?"

They reach the office, and Rose tells them not to move or do anything as it is beginning to question itself. It asks why Van Statten tortured it

"Because he wants to own things and doesn't care about life." An angry Bill answered for Van Statten.

Van Statten claims to have wanted to help it, he wanted to talk to it and mend it, he apologises saying all he wanted was for it to talk, he backs up against the wall

"Coming up with excuses now that his life is the one being threatened." Martha shook her head with a frown.

The Dalek tells him to hear it talk – exterminate! Rose shouts not to, don't kill him it doesn't have to do this anymore, there must be something else, what does it want? It wants freedom

"That is a terrible idea." Jack shook his head, "No can do." No matter what the Dalek said it couldn't be trusted to not just go on a murder spree the second it left the bunker.

The Doctor runs up the stairs with a big gun as the Dalek blasts a hole in the roof and a shaft of sunlight streams down straight into its eyepiece. Rose tells the Dalek it is out, and then comments she never thought she'd feel the sunlight again

Rose nodded along with herself on screen. "That bunker was depressing."

The Dalek asks how it feels, it opens itself to reveal the mutant within, holding out a tendril

"Ugly things." Mickey grimaced, he never got used to the sight of an actual Dalek and not just the shell.

The Doctor shouts for Rose to get out of the way but she refuses to let him do it. The Doctor tells her it killed hundreds of people and she counters it isn't the one pointing a gun at her

"She raises a good point." Clara nodded to Rose, "But it does have to die." She landed on the Doctor's side of the fence with an apologetic shrug at Rose.

Rose just nodded, "First encounter with a Dalek." He just reminded the group; she didn't know enough about them to agree with the Doctor. Knowing more now she agreed, but it hadn't been a traditional first encounter with a classic Dalek – what with the whole existential crisis and everything.

DOCTOR: I've got to do this. I've got to end it. The Daleks destroyed my home, my people. I've got nothing left.

"Doctor." River had tensed upon hearing the Doctor's words, turning to her wife who was conveniently avoiding eye contact. "That's not true. You know that right?" They had so much to live for, even in this moment – they had Rose.

The Doctor shrugged, non-committedly.

River glanced at Jack who was matching her frown. "Doctor. You have a lot to live for, and a lot of people who care about you. We need you, the last video proved how important you were." Jack tried to push River's point. He and River were eager to use the last video as ammunition in their continual war against the Doctor's self-importance issues.

The comment caught the Doctor's attention, but not her eyes. "It showed Donna how important she was." They attempted to argue.

The rest of the group was watching intensely, not even pretending to not be listening in, yet none but Donna decided to speak up. "Actually, it proved how important our choices were. We were both needed to stop the destruction of last video." Donna countered, arms crossed and stubbornly staring the Doctor down.

The Doctor was about to argue again, but a pillow to her face stopped her mouth open. She turned an annoyed expression in the culprit, a smirking Master. "I'm always going to be here. You're never alone Doctor, and you'll never escape me." It was said with menace and sincere promise, but somehow it was a reassuring message amongst the sinister undertones.

River leaned in to whisper to her wife, "We're not letting this go, Doctor." However stubborn the Doctor could be, River and Jack were prepared and willing to persevere past. This was something they were passionate about, and not willing to drop no matter how much the Doctor wanted to avoid the conversation.

The Tardis took that as a que to continue the video, even as River and Jack shared another exchange – they needed to keep challenging the Doctor's perspectives.

Rose tells him to look at it, and he asks what it is doing. She explains it is the sunlight, and that's all it wants. The Doctor argues it can't, but Rose pushes it couldn't kill Van Statten or herself, its changing, so what about him, what the hell is he changing into? The Doctor replies he couldn't, he wasn't, they're all dead

Rose winced at her lack of knowledge and context, knowing what she knew now her comment seemed a bit insensitive. She managed to catch the Doctor's eye mouthing a 'sorry' to which the Doctor nodded with an understanding smile; she wasn't exactly proud of herself in the moment either.

The Dalek asks why they survive, the Doctor doesn't know, and the Dalek continues it is the last of the Daleks

"No, it's not, unfortunately." Nardole reminded the group rather pointlessly.

The Doctor says it isn't even that as Rose did more than regenerate it, it absorbed her DNA so it is mutating. The Dalek asks into what, and the Doctor continues into something new, he's sorry

"Worst thing a Dalek can hear." Jack grimaced. Who knows what the Dalek would do with that knowledge, it could only go one of two ways and he was certainly hopeful for it to swing a certain way.

Rose asks isn't that for the better but the Doctor tells her not for a Dalek. The Dalek says it can feel so many ideas, so much darkness, it asks Rose to give it orders, order it to die. Rose can't

No one could blame Rose for hesitation, that was a heavy thing to ask someone, especially a nineteen-year-old girl who'd just made a connection with the Dalek and had no context/knowledge of the background. Rose just grimaced at the screen; this had lingered on her mind for a long time after they escaped.

The Dalek tells her this isn't life, this is sickness and it will not be like her, it demands she orders its destruction. Rose tells him to do it

"You did the right thing." River told Rose quietly. There was no other way that could have ended, the Dalek was always going to have to be destroyed.

Rose nodded once, "I know." But it hadn't made it any easier.

The Dalek asks if she is frightened, she is, the Dalek admits so is it. The Dalek shuts its eye, Rose backs up as it rises into the air, and it implodes safely

"Self-destruction with no more casualties." Rory said, "Surprising." Not often you saw with Daleks, but Rose had managed to change this one irreversibly and in the end that may have been the catalyst to this event but it had also been its end.

In a corridor, Van Statten is under guard and asks what they hell they're doing. Goddard reports two hundred personnel dead all because of him, she orders the guards to take him away, wipe his memory and leave him by the road someplace

"A bit of his own medicine." Martha raised an eyebrow, "A fitting fate." It was more appropriate than him dying certainly, and while it wasn't right it was likely the only way those people would ever get any form of justice.

Van Statten protests they can't do that to him but Goddard continues by tonight he'll be homeless, brainless junkie living on the streets of someplace beginning with S

"She's been waiting to say that for a while." Amy snorted.

In the museum, the Doctor says a little piece of home is better than nothing. Rose asks if that is the end of the Time War

"Not for a long time." The Doctor answered Rose; eyes locked on the screen. It hadn't ended for real until the first video they'd seen. Her current regeneration was the first to be fully free from the war, and then the Master had brought it back with his own destruction of Gallifrey. The Master seemed to know exactly what she was thinking based on the smirk he was sending her.

The Doctor says he's the only one left, he wins, how about that? Rose suggests if the Dalek survived maybe some of his people did too

The Master gave a little wave from his corner with a smirk. Far too happy at all the attention, suddenly directed his way even if they were all glares.

The Doctor counters he'd know, in his head, it feels like there is no one

Which there hadn't been. The Master had been stuck as Yana at the end of the universe, there was no way he'd have been able to sense his continued existence until they met. Though she strongly suspected he'd had contingencies in place in case Yana had never been found.

Rose says it is a good thing she's not going anywhere then, he agrees

The Doctor and Rose shared a bittersweet smile, their days together had been good but nothing really lasted forever.

Adam comes up to them saying they better get out as Van Statten has disappeared and they're closing down the base. Goddard is going to fill it full of cement like it never happened. Rose says about time as Adam says he'll have to go home

"Yeah, you do that." Bill crossed her arms with a scowl at Adam. She really didn't like him.

The Doctor says he better hurry up then as the next flight to Heathrow leaves soon. Rose tells the Doctor Adam was saying he's always wanted to see the stars

"No, Rose." Mickey groaned. "Please tell me you didn't."

Rose winced, giving him a grimace in answer, which only made Mickey and several others groan. Rose was too nice for her own good.

The Doctor says he can go and stand outside then

That earned several snorts from the group, the Doctor playing oblivious was certainly entertaining.

Rose persists that he's all on his own and did help, the Doctor argues he left her down there, Rose reminds him so did he

"Completely different." The Doctor tried to argue; nose pointed to the air. She really didn't like Adam, especially knowing everything still to come.

Adam asks what they're talking about as they have to leave. The Doctor adds he's a bit pretty and Rose claims she hadn't noticed

Both Mickey and the Doctor sent her matching raised eyebrows which she responded with a roll of her eyes and crossed arms at the pair. There was a good reason the two had butted heads a lot to begin with, they were quiet alike in some ways.

The Doctor says on her own head, unlocking the Tardis. Adam asks what they're doing, Goddard wasn't joking about the cement, they're going to get sealed in

"Oh, so naïve and stupid for a supposed genius." Yaz shook her head. She didn't like where this was going.

The Doctor and Rose go inside the Tardis. Adam asks what they're doing sanding in the box; he creeps inside and it dematerialises

The screen turned blank, telling the group the video had finally ended.

"How did Adam get on?" Clara raised an eyebrow curious. It can't have gone well if Adam wasn't there, no one else knew of him, and the Doctor and Rose never spoke of him.

The Doctor just scoffed with a scowl. Rose sighed in exasperation at him but answered the group in her place. "Badly, sent home after one adventure."

"For a good reason." The Doctor added on, with a pointed finger in Rose's direction, then she turned to the group at large. "One more than a break?"

With mumbled agreements and no more immediate questions (although there were some shared glances), the room nodded in consent to the proposed plan. That just left it up to the Tardis what they'd see next.