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== Synopsis ==

== Plot ==

Meanwhile, Martha and the Hath she healed, [[Hath Peck|Peck]], are studying the tunnels as she wonders if there is some place where she can recharge her mobile. Peck works the controls and converts the map into 3D, delighting Martha. Noting that the distance above ground is shorter than the distance through the tunnels, she plans to beat both the humans and the Hath to the Source. However, Peck informs her that it's a bad idea as the surface has low radiation levels; Martha decides that small time exposed to it wouldn't have any lasting harmful effects.

In the meantime, the Hath have found their side of the entrance into [[the Temple]] and use a battering ram to create a shortcut. Martha and Peck reach a hatch and escape to the desolate surface while Martha berates Peck for using foul language when she says he couldn't resist seeing the surface.

After Jenny runs ahead to scout, the Doctor explains to Donna his previous parenting, the pain of losing the Time Lords and his family, and the fact that he is reminded of them when he sees Jenny. They come across a [[Laser|security grid]] and the Doctor shuts it off just as Cobb and his men break through the door. This gives Jenny a choice: follow her dad or shoot Cobb. She shoots a pipe to release some steam to buy time but doesn't make it back to the Doctor in time as the security beams come back on. Jenny abandons her gun and flips through the beams, astonishing the Doctor and Donna. The Doctor yells to Cobb that if the Source is a weapon, he's going to destroy it, while Cobb threatens the Doctor's life, saying one of them will die, but not himself.

They proceed up the stairs, finding Martha, who tells them she took the surface route. At the same time, the Hath and Cobb's forces are cutting through the doors to get inside the ship. The quartet suddenly smell flowers and race to the very top to find a garden kept alive by the Source, a terraforming device to make hostile environments habitable. The original colonists likely died a few days into the war, leaving the soldiers with inaccurate information, leaving them to speculate; this caused them to fight over nothing.

However, Cobb, full of malice out of being denied his [[murder]] of the Hath, takes a shot at the Doctor. Jenny takes the [[bullet]] instead. Both the human army and the Hath army look on in sadness as Cline and two soldiers hold Cobb down. Donna asks Martha if Jenny is going to be okay. However, when Martha takes Jenny's pulse, she gives a grim look, signifying she won't make it. Jenny dies in the Doctor's arms, happy that he invited her to travel with him. The Doctor cries, saying that if they just wait, maybe Jenny will [[Regeneration|regenerate]]. However, Martha gently says that she must not be enough like the Doctor to regenerate. The Doctor replies that she was too much like himself.

Later, the Doctor concludes that Jenny's creation was the reason the TARDIS had brought them to Messaline. The only problem was that they had just gotten there a little too soon; thus they ended up creating Jenny in the first place - "[[Temporal paradox#Creating one's own past or future|Paradox, an endless paradox]]" the Doctor quips. He returns Martha home, where Martha and Donna talk about travelling with the Doctor. Donna tells Martha, "I'm going to travel with that man forever", before returning to the TARDIS. Martha hugs the Doctor and bids him goodbye, and the Doctor bids goodbye to Dr Jones, returning to the TARDIS.

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* [[Messaline]] has high [[radiation]] and an [[Earth]]-like atmosphere.

* Donna tells the Doctor that her friend [[Nerys]] "fathered twins using a [[turkey baster]]".

* Donna calls the plants created by the terraforming device [[Kew Gardens]].

* Donna calls Jenny "[[G.I. Jane]]" and nicknames Cline "[[Rambo]]".

* [[Cash (The Doctor's Daughter)|Cash]] is one of the soldiers that is killed.

== Story notes ==

* The humans' weapons are modified real-life weapons. For example, Jenny enters the episode and is given a modified P90 with a long silencer and a longer butt stock.

* When Jenny escaped from Messaline, this led to speculation that she might reappear in later episodes.

* A protest regarding school closures took place outside Cardiff City Hall, prompting Hath Camp scenes to be postponed for a few days.

=== Ratings ===

* It was also rumoured that Jenny was a clone, a hologram, an illusion or something of that sort. All of these proved to be false, to one degree or another. Technically Jenny is not a clone; she is actually the Doctor's daughter, via asexual reproduction through a process similar to parthenogenesis.

* The initial televised trailer showed Jenny kissing an individual on the mouth; due to the fast-cut editing of the trailer, the gender of the individual being kissed was not clear, leading to speculation, ultimately debunked by the episode itself, that Jenny would engage in a same-sex kiss — the character being kissed turned out to be male.

* A rumour related to the above had Jenny returning for the Series 4 finale; except for a brief flashback appearance recalling her "death", she did not.

* As the Hath carry the battering ram, the leader holds up a hand to stop the others. However, the Hath can be clearly heard to say "Halt!", despite the species communicating only via bubbles and groaning.

* When Martha enters the spaceship after travelling the surface it cuts to the Doctor, Donna, and Jenny but when they cut back to Martha it shows her entering again but from a different angle.

* During the scene where Donna, the Doctor and Jenny try to get past the laser beams, the laser beams change positions between shots.

== Home video releases ==

* It was released as Series 4 Volume 2 in a vanilla edition with ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]'', ''[[The Poison Sky (TV story)|The Poison Sky]]'' and ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)|The Unicorn and the Wasp]]''.