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== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
=== Part one '''Bat Attack!''' === | === Part one '''Bat Attack!''' === | ||
After helping [[Lestrade|Inspector Lestrade]] solve "the case of the unsuitable suitor" and stop the evil [[Janus (Bat Attack!)|Professor Janus]] getting married (!), the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] leave to catch a cab to [[Waterloo]], boat train to [[Paris]] and a night at Le [[Moulin Rouge]]. Their journey, however, is interrupted immediately. A cloud of vampire [[bat]]s block the sun, congregating above the [[Royal Lyceum Theatre]]. | After helping [[Lestrade|Inspector Lestrade]] solve "the case of the unsuitable suitor" and stop the evil [[Janus (Bat Attack!)|Professor Janus]] getting married (!), the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] leave to catch a cab to [[Waterloo]], boat train to [[Paris]] and a night at Le [[Moulin Rouge]]. Their journey, however, is interrupted immediately. A cloud of vampire [[bat]]s block the sun, congregating above the [[Royal Lyceum Theatre]]. | ||
Following the bats, the Doctor and Rose's timely arrival stops a young girl from being attacked by a bat. Yet all is not as it seems. The theatre is rehearsing for [[Bram Stoker]]'s new production — [[Dracula (fictional character)|Dracula]]. Bram is supported and assisted by his wife [[Florence Stoker|Florence]], who warns her husband that the descendant of the real [[Dracula|Count Dracula]] has arrived from [[Transylvania]]. Furious that his and his family's name is being wrongfully misrepresented, he arrives intent on exacting his revenge on the writer by killing him. | Following the bats, the Doctor and Rose's timely arrival stops a young girl from being attacked by a bat. Yet all is not as it seems. The theatre is rehearsing for [[Bram Stoker]]'s new production — [[Dracula (fictional character)|Dracula]]. Bram is supported and assisted by his wife [[Florence Stoker|Florence]], who warns her husband that the descendant of the real [[Dracula|Count Dracula]] has arrived from [[Transylvania]]. Furious that his and his family's name is being wrongfully misrepresented, he arrives intent on exacting his revenge on the writer by killing him. | ||
Florence saves her husband from Dracula, revealing herself as a [[vampire]]; she had been bitten some twenty years earlier by [[Oscar Wilde]], who is currently serving a sentence at [[Reading Gaol]]. | Florence saves her husband from Dracula, revealing herself as a [[vampire]]; she had been bitten some twenty years earlier by [[Oscar Wilde]], who is currently serving a sentence at [[Reading Gaol]]. | ||
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=== Part two '''The Battle of Reading Gaol''' === | === Part two '''The Battle of Reading Gaol''' === | ||
Using Florence's bats to fly him into the gaol, the Doctor finds and rescues Oscar Wilde who has been there two years. Oscar explains that he was turned into a vampire when a strange shining creature, an alien probe, arrived at his door one evening while he was holding a [[séance]] with a few of his friends, drawn by the séance and travelling the thought waves. His friends were killed and their blood used to fill the aliens' tanks. | Using Florence's bats to fly him into the gaol, the Doctor finds and rescues Oscar Wilde who has been there two years. Oscar explains that he was turned into a vampire when a strange shining creature, an alien probe, arrived at his door one evening while he was holding a [[séance]] with a few of his friends, drawn by the séance and travelling the thought waves. His friends were killed and their blood used to fill the aliens' tanks. | ||
Oscar was spared and left alive to spread the virus, its survival letting others know of the planet Earth's rich pickings. Florence was Oscar's first love and while in [[Ireland]], he infected her. Rose and Florence's distraction, created for the Doctor, had led to their capture by the prison staff who have themselves been turned into vampires by the prison doctor and manager, who had been using Oscar in their experiments. Arriving just in time, the Doctor and a very "butch" Oscar rescue Rose and Florence. Oscar, the stronger, original carrier of the virus, takes command of the infected guards. | Oscar was spared and left alive to spread the virus, its survival letting others know of the planet Earth's rich pickings. Florence was Oscar's first love and while in [[Ireland]], he infected her. Rose and Florence's distraction, created for the Doctor, had led to their capture by the prison staff who have themselves been turned into vampires by the prison doctor and manager, who had been using Oscar in their experiments. Arriving just in time, the Doctor and a very "butch" Oscar rescue Rose and Florence. Oscar, the stronger, original carrier of the virus, takes command of the infected guards. | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
*The Doctor is reluctant to allow Inspector Lestrade to credit him and Rose to Queen [[Victoria]], due to their breaking of the banishment rules. ([[TV]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'') | * The Doctor is reluctant to allow Inspector Lestrade to credit him and Rose to Queen [[Victoria]], due to their breaking of the banishment rules. ([[TV]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'') | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||