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| The Story |
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The Doctor and Rose follow a mysterious time craft into Earth because the Doctor thinks that it's dangerous. They arrive in London in 1941 during the Blitz.
Rose wonders off after seeing a mysterious child wearing a gas mask and eventually meets up with a Captain Jack Harkness.
The Doctor on the other hand meets up with a group of homeless kids lead by a older girl named Nancy, who starts to reveal the secrets behind the mysterious boy in the gas mask that she lives in fear of and a mysterious bomb that isn't a bomb. She directs him to Albion Hospital where he finds a DNA plague and a dying Doctor. Jack and Rose meet up with him in the Hospital and then the living dead start coming to life! The story concludes when the Doctor, Rose and Jack just about make it out of the Hospital with the aide of Jack's teleportation system and go to the bomb site, where they find Nancy chained to a table after breaking in. However, when Jack enters the code to the Tula medical ship, the keypad brakes and the emergency signal is transmitted... The gas-mask life forms march towards the ship and the boy (named Jamie) opens the gates. Nancy is forced to having to admit that Jamie is her son and gives him a hug, which tells the nano-genes altering the people that they've got the DNA wrong and everyone comes back to life. Jack narrowly stops a bomb falling on top of them and takes it away only to have to sacrifice his ship in the process. Luckily, he's saved by the Doctor and Rose and joins the crew of the TARDIS. |
| Memorable Quotes |
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Doctor: I'm not sure if it's Marxism in action or a west-end musical
Doctor: I want to find a blonde in a Union Jack. I mean a specific one... I didn't just wake up with a craving Doctor: I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words! Doctor: What? You've never been bored? Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up? Rose: The World doesn't end 'cause the Doctor Dances |
| Editor's Review |
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I thoroughly enjoyed The Empty Child. It had a slower pace than is common to the episodes this series, but was very intelligently written and acted.
The standard of the acting from the extras was quite good and the plot - mysterious. I am looking forward to next week.
The conclusion is on a par with the first part and keeps the same level of excitement going. There is much less horror and there is a nice plot twist in Nancy's revelation. The resolution was a bit strange and the escape from the cliff-hanger quite funny, but it was a really enjoyable episode. Congratulations to Steven Moffat - we'll forget all about Chalk now. (Dan Ludlow) |