Series 4 (2008)
Episode title: Journey's EndFeaturing: Tenth Doctor
Companions: Donna Noble, Captain Jack Harkness, Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Sarah Jane Smith, Mickey Smith, Jackie Tyler
Special assistants: Dalek Caan, Mr. Smith (Sarah Jane's computer), Luke Smith (Sarah Jane's son), Gwen Cooper (Torchwood) and Ianto Jones (Torchwood)
First shown: 5th July 2008
Related articles: Daleks, Davros, The Cult of Skaro
Guide: The Doctor is regenerating, and Captain Jack, Rose and Donna are all standing aside, terrified at what they know is going to come. He transfers the energy to a container, and is blasted backwards. He emerges as the same Doctor (David Tennant), with the same features and personality. The three are amazed as the Doctor continues to unfold the plan to rid the Daleks.
Sarah Jane is still being ambushed by two Daleks, when Mickey Smith and Jackie appears and destroys the Daleks, saving Sarah Jane’s life. Torchwood members are busy shooting away at their Dalek, when a time-lock appears and protects them from the Dalek.
Doctor explains that once he used all the regenerating energy to regenerate, he didn’t need to change, and so puts part of himself (his hand) into the container.
The TARDIS is brought to the Daleks, and the Doctor is brought to Supreme Dalek. The power in the TARDIS looses all power as it is transported to the Crucible. Back on Earth, Sarah-Jane, Jackie and Mickey all ‘surrender’ so they will be where the Doctor is. Rose explains to the Doctor that the Dimension Cannon could measure time-lines, and all of them convert to Donna.
Doctor and his friends all enter the Dalek Empire, all but Donna, who remained in the TARDIS. As Donna made a start to exit the TARDIS, the doors close and the TARDIS is sent down to the core, the flaming hot core, to be destroyed because it is a weapon to the Daleks. Inside the TARDIS, Donna screams and chokes as the TARDIS is being ripped apart by the hot core of the Crucible. She sub-confidently touches the container with the hand, and the energy flows into her and then forms another Doctor with the contained hand. He presses a button as the Daleks and the OTHER Doctor believe it has been destroyed. Jack shoots at a Dalek, who ‘exterminates’ him. As the Doctor and Rose are escorted away, Jack opens an eye and winks at him.
Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor goes around repairing the phone-box while Donna trails after him, declaring that he is ‘bonkers’. After a while, they both realise that he has adapted some of Donna’s voice and that he has one heart. Part Time-lord, and part Human. And then he realises that the fact they met was no coincidence. Something was drawing them together for such a long time.
Sarah-Jane and other arrive at the crucible, while the Doctor and Rose are contained. Doctor and Rose meet Dalek Caan, who has travelled to the future and seen all, and repeats that one of his companions would die. Sarah-Jane and Mickey escape to a nearby room where they watch the other prisoners (including Jackie) being fired at by the reality bomb. Jackie uses the transporter to transport to Mickey and Sarah-Jane, while the other prisoners are left to be dissolved.
The Doctor discovers that the 27 trapped planets are becoming one vast transmitter, and Davros confirms it, saying that wavelengths will float across the universe, never ending, never stopping. Planets and stars will become dust, which will become atoms, which will become nothing. Davros declares that his ultimate victory is the destruction of reality.
Captain Jack meets up to Sarah-Jane, Jackie and Mickey. Sarah-Jane produces warp-star, a explosion waiting to happen. Martha Jones appears on screen from Ostahagen station 4, declaring that if they do not co-operate, she will use the Ostahagen Key to destroy Earth and the 27 planets will become 26. The Daleks will not be able to use the 27 planets as a vast transmitter. At the same time, Captain Jack appears on screen and declares that he will use the warp-star to blow the Crucible up if the Daleks don’t co-operate.
However the Daleks had plans for this when it happened, and transported Martha, Sarah-Jane, Mickey, Jack and Jackie to where the Doctor was, so neither explosion can happen. All prisoners are told to surrender as the reality bomb is being activated.
The One-hearted Doctor and Donna put the TARDIS onto maximum power and appear in the midst of the other Doctor and friends. All are amazed as the TARDIS appear in front of their eyes. The One-hearted Doctor comes out with a gun and is zapped, and is trapped inside a cell. Donna comes out, grabs the gun, and moans that she doesn’t know how to use it, and she is zapped by Davros as well, the gun is destroyed. Both Doctors can do nothing but stand and watch as the bomb gets ready to blow up and destroy all living matter.
As the countdown hits zero, the screen goes blank and no explosion happens. Donna chuckles and beings pressing buttons. The Doctor is amazed and exclaims that she can’t even change a plug. Davros orders Donna to be exterminated, but she plays with more buttons and messes their circuits up. Donna smiles and tells all that it was a two-way biological metacris. Doctor Donna! All holding cells are deactivated. All Daleks loose control as Donna flicks more switches. Mickey and Jack retrieve guns and point them at Davros as he tries to stop the Doctors and Donna. The rest of the crew pushes the Daleks away. The Doctors and Donna send all the planets back home.
Dalek Caan giggles and the Doctor says that Caan knew all about this and it was him who made it all happen. The crew looses all power but there is one planet left, Earth, but they could use the TARDIS to bring it home. The One-Hearted Doctor flicks a button and destroys all Daleks. Back in Torchwood, the Dalek explodes, and the time-lock comes down. The Doctor comes running out of the TARDIS as the surrounds being to catch fire and ushers everyone into the blue box. The Doctor tries to save Davros, but he stays where he is and dies, while Dalek Caan demands that one will still die.
With Torchwood, Luke and Mr. Smith’s help, the TARDIS tows Earth back to its own position in the universe. From all around the world, familiar faces rejoice as the Earth is being flown back home. The crew cheers as the Earth takes its position near the moon again. Earth rejoices as well as they open their curtains and see the familiar sky and fireworks are lit.
Sarah-Jane, Martha and Captain Jack leave the TARDIS back to the Earth. The Doctor then brings the rest of them to the parallel universe where he left Rose. The One-Hearted Doctor tells Rose that he is exactly like the real Doctor, just with one heart. And so Rose and him can grow old together, a disappointment which lingered in Rose’s and the Doctor’s relationship before because Rose would grow old and the Doctor wouldn’t. The One-Hearted Doctor whispers in Rose’s ear, and kisses her. The TARDIS leaves just then, leaving Rose and the One-Hearted Doctor hand in hand.
The fact that Donna has a time-lord’s brain could not be, it would kill her if she kept the brain anymore. Therefore, the Doctor had to wipe her memory of him, when she woke up she would not remember anything about the Doctor. He tells her mother and her grandfather not to tell her about the story, or she’ll burn up. Donna bursts into the room, just like her own self, and departs talking on the phone. The Doctor comes into the kitchen and tells her that he was leaving, she just looks at him and says “yeah, see ya.” And turns away.
The Doctor returns to the TARDIS by himself, and is silent. He takes off his jacket, looks up at the camera, fiddles with some controls, leans on the panel…
And the Episode and the fourth series ends here.
This is the second of a two part story. Read the first part here.
Written by Kkytha.