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| The Story |
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The Doctor, Martha and Jack manage to hop to Earth using Jack's time travel device.
They arrive on the day when Harold Saxon is sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Great Britain.
As soon as Harold Saxon walks into the re-built cabinet office of Downing Street, he disposes of his cabinet peers using a deadly gas.
Moments later, Martha contacts her mother, who is in the company of Harold Saxon's minions. Her mother wants her to pay them a visit and the Doctor knows it's a trap. Martha's dad confirms to her that they are effectively being held hostage. As the Doctor and Jack join Martha in her bid to rescue her family, her family are arrested by the Police. When Martha arrives in her Car, she is fired on by armed Police officers. They escape, but the Doctor, Martha and Jack become the three most wanted people in the whole of Britain and Mr Saxon has the populace under his spell. Worse still, alien contact with a race that the Doctor did not believe existed has been made for eight AM the following morning... A year has passed. The Earth is off-limits due to its impending destruction. Martha Jones has spent the year travelling the world spreading a very special message from the Doctor. Using one of her followers in England, she heads to London for a meeting with a Professor Docherty. They capture one of the Toclafane and reveal what they truly are - the Humans from the year one hundred trillion modified so that they can live in the metal spheres that protect them. Martha then reveals that the true purpose of the Master's paradox machine is to allow the Toclafane to kill their ancestors without risk to themselves. On the Valiant, the Master sends Martha a warning. The Doctor is once more subjected to the bodily ageing process and is transformed into a strange child-like creature. Jack is kept chained up deep in the ship and the Jones family work as the Master's servants. With the moment to the launch of the Master's new empire into the heavens, can Martha stop him from destroying the Universe? |
| Memorable Quotes |
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Harold Saxon: Before we start all that, I just want to say thank you.
Thank you, one and all, you ugly, fat-faced bunch of wet, sniveling traitors!
Jack: The old regime was destroyed at Canary Wharf. I rebuilt it. I changed it. And when I did that, I did it for you, in your honour. Harold Saxon: Well you know what it's like. New job; all that paperwork. I think it's down the back of the settee. I did have a quick look. I found a pen, a sweet, a Bus ticket and, err, have you met the wife? Docherty: Oh God I miss Countdown. Never been the same since Des took over.
Docherty: But that's a paradox. If you're the future of the Human race and you've come back to murder your ancestors, you should cancel
yourselves out; you shouldn't exist.
Jack: When I was a kid, living in the Bo Shang peninsula. Tiny little place. I was the first one ever to be signed up to the Time agency. They were so proud of me. 'The Face of Bo' they called me. |
| Editor's Review |
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What can I say? This series has shaped up to be the best series of the new Doctor Who so far and is even a contender for best series of
Doctor Who ever! We have had a row of really good Doctor Who stories that started with Human Nature and continues right to the very
end. The Sound of Drums is, I think, the best Doctor Who episode that Russell T. Davies has written and this story is a dramatic
improvement (so far at least) to the endings of the other two series.
Throughout the week I've read countless posts on Internet forums describing how John Simm is a poor substitute for Derek Jacobi. Well they're all completely wrong! Harold Saxon has been written brilliantly. There were just so many quotable lines as well as several good jokes, and a funny face at the beginning, written for him in that episode. Without a doubt, he managed to upstage David Tennant, which is a very difficult task. Like the two conclusions to the previous series, Last of the Time Lords was a bit of a let down. I'm in no way implying that this episode was the worst episode ever, far from it in fact, but after two viewings of it, there are still some problems I have with it. Generally, you could count this as my wish-list for series four. The first problem with it was yet another stretched out goodbye. Like Rose's departure last year, Martha left with more of a whimper than a bang. The scene was far too long and was completely out of pace with the episode generally. It will be tempting to fast forward through most of it when watching the DVD. I believe that a series should end on a bit more of an understated note - unless it is the last ever of course! The other major fault came with the Doctor's so-called "Jesus moment". Although The Five Doctors showed us how the power of collective will could be used to overpower another, this really couldn't have undone the Doctor's bodily transformation. It would have been far better to use Jack's destruction of the Paradox machine and the reversal of time to do this. Of course, everyone would have had to forget the events, but it would have made for a more unique ending.
However, I must give praise to Ellie Haddington in her role as Professor Docherty. Of the cast in that episode, she was undoubtedly the best. Her lines were well written
and she had some real conviction in her voice. In some ways it will be sad to see an episode without Martha, but I'm sure her character will be a definite improvement to
the very variable quality of Torchwood. Meanwhile, the TARDIS has got a major problem with a certain famous liner...
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