After talking to Reinette one night through the fireplace forming the link to 18th century France, the Doctor enters Reinette's bedroom one night a few months later and discovers a Clockwork robot from the deserted ship waiting for the young girl to turn thirty-four.

On the ship meanwhile, Rose and Mickey take a look around and discover a camera lens made from a human eye and a human heart powering a control mechanism.

The Robots create yet more time windows into the life of Reinette aiming to arrive at a time when she is thirty-four to cut off her head and use it to power their ship's computer. Will the Doctor be in time to save her?

Doctor: I'm the Doctor and I just snogged Madame Pompadour.

Rose: Trust me, you wouldn't want to mess with our designated driver... [Moments later, the Doctor arrives in a drunken state]. Ooh, look at what the Cat dragged in - the oncoming storm!

Reinette: One may tolerate a world of Demons for the sake of an angel.

Sadly the time windows were a very basic rotating set - except for one sequence where he jumps a Horse through a window and that the plot did feel a bit disjointed by using the time windows to flick between parts of Reinette's life and meant that we got a summary of events rather than a complete story.

Despite these points I was very pleased with the episode. The clockwork Robots were effective and the on screen relationship between David Tennant and (true life Girlfriend) Sophia Myles was brilliant and led to a very emotional end to the episode.

If it was an hour long or a two part story it would have gained a 5 star rating, but it's still a very well written episode - Steven Moffat most definitely sets the standard! (Dan Ludlow)