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|producer       = [[Phil Collinson]]
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|writer               = Russell T Davies
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==Synopsis==
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As the [[Dalek]]s attack the [[Satellite Five|Game Station]] led by their [[Dalek Emperor|Emperor]], [[Ninth Doctor|the Doctor]] finds himself helpless. He knows he must make sacrifices if he is going to survive but does this mean losing his beloved companion [[Rose Tyler]]? And who, or what is [[Bad Wolf]]?
|confidential          = The Last Battle (CON episode)|The Last Battle
|broadcast date       = 18 June 2005
|network              = BBC One
|format               = 1x45 minute episode
|production code       = 1.13
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|next                  = Born Again (TV story)
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|clip2                = Ninth Doctor regenerates - Christoper Eccleston to David Tennant - Doctor Who - BBC
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'''''The Parting of the Ways''''' was the thirteenth and final episode of [[Series 1 (Doctor Who 2005)|series 1]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
 
It was the final chronological appearance for Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor and introduced [[David Tennant]] as the [[Tenth Doctor]] in its closing moments.
 
It concluded the [[Bad Wolf meme|Bad Wolf]] [[story arc]]. It also concluded a mild story arc about the Doctor's identity, revealed to newcomers that Time Lords could regenerate, and saw the regular departures of actors Eccleston and Barrowman (until ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''), [[Director (crew)|director]] Joe Ahearne, and [[executive producer]] [[Mal Young]]. It established a visual appearance for [[regeneration]] that would remain fairly standard into the present day until ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'' (every televised regeneration from then on with the exception of [[the Master]]'s in ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'' would appear like that until that episode), following which viewers got their first glimpse of [[David Tennant]]'s [[Tenth Doctor]].
 
From a [[visual effect]]s point of view, viewers were treated to a massive army of [[Dalek]]s and Dalek spaceships. At the time of broadcast, it was the most expansive view of a Dalek army that had yet been portrayed on screen, taking the record from ''[[Planet of the Daleks (TV story)|Planet of the Daleks]]''.
 
Despite the Ninth Doctor's short tenure as an incarnation of the Doctor on screen, novels, comic books, and audio stories would continue his adventures for over a decade and beyond, filling his timeline out with adventures previously unknown to viewers.
 
== Synopsis ==
As the [[Dalek]]s attack the [[Satellite Five|Game Station]] led by their [[Dalek Emperor|Emperor]], the [[Ninth Doctor]] finds himself helpless. He knows he must make big sacrifices if he is going to survive. But does this mean losing his beloved [[Rose Tyler]] forever?
 
With [[Jack Harkness]] assembling an army together and the Doctor powerless against the Dalek Emperor, a deadly net closes around the whole universe. One thing is for certain, not everyone will make it out of this deadly battle alive. But who or what is [[Bad Wolf (entity)|Bad Wolf]]? It's time for the Doctor and Rose to find out.
 
== Plot ==
The [[Dalek]]s turn on [[Rose Tyler]] and demand that she predict the [[Ninth Doctor]]'s actions, but she refuses. The Daleks detect [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] flying in real space towards the saucer, and launch [[missile]]s against it. The missiles detonate, but thanks to the [[tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator]] taken from [[Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen]], [[Jack Harkness|Jack]] has rigged up a force field around the TARDIS that protects it. The TARDIS materialises on board the Dalek saucer, around Rose and the single Dalek guarding her, which Jack destroys with the gun he improvised on the [[Satellite Five|Game Station]]. As the Doctor examines the wreckage of the Dalek, he muses that since it is now apparent that the Daleks survived the [[Last Great Time War|Time War]], the [[Time Lord]]s died for nothing.


==Plot==
The travellers exit the TARDIS and are immediately fired on by the surrounding Daleks, but the extrapolator's force field continues to protect them. The Doctor taunts the Daleks, reminding them that Dalek legends call him "the Oncoming Storm", and even though they claim to have eliminated all emotion, he is sure that deep inside, the Daleks still feel fear when faced with him. He asks how they survived the Time War, and is answered by a low, grating voice, "They survived... through me." The voice is that of the [[Dalek Emperor in the Last Great Time War|Dalek Emperor]], a Dalek mutant suspended in a transparent tank of fluid, flanked by panels of armour and topped by an equally gargantuan Dalek domed head. Around it floats an entourage of black-domed Daleks.
Following on from the end of "Bad Wolf", the [[Dalek]]s turn on [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] and demand that she predict [[Ninth Doctor|the Doctor]]'s actions, but she refuses. The Daleks detect [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] flying in real space towards the saucer, and launch missiles against it. The missiles detonate, but thanks to the [[tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator]] taken from [[Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen]], [[Jack Harkness|Jack]] has rigged up a force field around the TARDIS that protects it. The TARDIS materialises on board the Dalek saucer, around Rose and the single Dalek guarding her, which Jack destroys with the gun he improvised on the [[Satellite Five|Game Station]]. As the Doctor examines the wreckage of the Dalek, he muses that since it is now apparent that the Daleks survived [[Last Great Time War|the Time War]], the [[Time Lord]]s died for nothing.


The travellers exit the TARDIS, and are immediately fired on by the surrounding Daleks, but the extrapolator's force field continues to protect them. The Doctor taunts the Daleks, reminding them that Dalek legends call him "The Oncoming Storm", and even though they claim to have eliminated all emotion, he is sure that, deep inside, the Daleks still feel fear when faced with him. He asks how they had survived the [[Last Great Time War|Time War]], and is answered by a low, grating voice, "They survived... through me." The voice is that of the [[Dalek Emperor]], a Dalek mutant suspended in a transparent tank of fluid, flanked by panels of armour and topped by an equally gargantuan Dalek domed head. Around it floats an entourage of black-domed Daleks.
[[File:Parting-dalekemperor.jpg|thumb|The Dalek Emperor.]]
The Emperor explains that though the Doctor destroyed all the Daleks in the War, its ship survived: "falling through time — crippled but alive". The surviving Daleks spent centuries hiding in "the dark space", silently rebuilding, infiltrating [[Earth]]'s systems, harvesting [[human]]s and converting the genetic material into an army of Daleks. When Rose suggests that that makes the Daleks half-human, the Daleks cry out that the remark is blasphemy. The Doctor is surprised and horrified that the Daleks even have such a concept. The Emperor declares: "I reached into the dirt and made new life. I am the god of all Daleks!" Even though it used human genetic material, only one cell in a billion was fit to be nurtured, and the Emperor insists that its manipulation resulted in the cultivation of "pure and blessed Dalek". The Emperor announces that he is God of all Daleks, with the Daleks crying out "Worship him".


The Emperor explains that though the Doctor destroyed all the Daleks in the War, its ship survived: "falling through time - crippled but alive". The surviving Daleks spent centuries hiding in "the dark space", silently rebuilding, infiltrating [[Earth]]'s systems, harvesting humans and converting the genetic material into an army of Daleks. When Rose suggests that makes the Daleks half-human, the Daleks cry out that the remark is blasphemy. The Doctor is surprised that the Daleks even have such a concept. The Emperor declares: "I reached into the dirt and made new life. I AM THE GOD OF ALL DALEKS!" Even though it used human genetic material, only one cell in a billion was fit to be nurtured, and the Emperor insists that its manipulation resulted in the cultivation of "pure and blessed Dalek".
Horrified, the Doctor realises that the Daleks have been driven insane by the human values they have absorbed, becoming self-loathing fanatics who hate their own genetic makeup, which makes them deadlier than ever. The travellers re-enter the TARDIS, and the Doctor returns them to [[Floor 500]] of the Game Station.


Horrified, the Doctor realises that the Daleks have been driven insane by the human values they have absorbed, becoming self-loathing fanatics who hate their own genetic makeup, which makes them deadlier than ever. The travellers re-enter the TARDIS, and the Doctor returns them to Floor 500 of the Game Station.
The Doctor orders the two remaining programmers to turn up the transmitters so the Daleks cannot [[transmat]] aboard the station. Earth is ignoring the station's warnings since it stopped transmitting and is simply sitting there defenceless. Despite the Doctor's earlier orders, [[Lynda Moss]] is still on board, unwilling to leave him. In any case, there were not enough shuttles, and there are still about a hundred people on board, on [[Floor 000]], including [[Rodrick]], Rose's main opponent in ''[[The Weakest Link]]'', who is still looking for his prize money. The Dalek fleet begins to move towards Earth, the Emperor giving orders to purify the planet with fire and turn it into its temple.


The Doctor orders the two remaining programmers to turn up the transmitters so the Daleks cannot [[transmat]] aboard the station. Earth is ignoring the Station's warnings since it stopped transmitting and is simply sitting there defenseless. Despite the Doctor's earlier orders, [[Lynda Moss]] is still on board, unwilling to leave him. In any case, there were not enough shuttles, and there are still about a hundred people on board, on Floor Zero, including [[Rodrick]], Rose's main opponent in ''[[The Weakest Link]]'', who is still looking for his prize money. The Dalek fleet begins to move towards Earth, the Emperor giving orders to purify the planet with fire and turn it into its temple.
The Doctor begins dismantling the panels in the control room. The Daleks have left him an enormous transmitter, and to Jack's disbelief, the Doctor is proposing to build and transmit a [[Delta wave|Delta Wave]], an energy wave that will fry every brain within the radius of the blast. Unfortunately, a wave of this magnitude would require three days to build up, and the Dalek fleet will be upon them in twenty-two minutes. The Doctor must work fast.


The Doctor begins dismantling the panels in the control room. The Daleks have left him an enormous transmitter, and to Jack's disbelief, the Doctor is proposing to build and transmit a [[Delta wave]], an energy wave that will fry every brain in its path. Unfortunately, a wave of this magnitude would require three days to build up. The Dalek fleet will be upon them in twenty-two minutes. The Doctor must work fast.
Jack attaches the extrapolator to the station's systems so the Daleks cannot simply blast the station out of the sky, but it will not prevent them from physically invading to stop the wave. Jack concentrates the [[force field]] on the top six levels of the station, so the Daleks will have to enter at [[Floor 494]] and work their way up to Floor 500. Rose stays behind to help the Doctor build the wave while the others, armed with [[bastic bullet]]s which can breach Dalek casings, go down to Floor 000 to try to scare up volunteers to help hold back the Daleks. Jack kisses both Rose and the Doctor goodbye.


Jack attaches the extrapolator to the Station's systems so the Daleks cannot simply blast the Station out of the sky, but it will not prevent them from physically invading to stop the Wave. Jack concentrates the [[force field]] on the top six levels of the Station, so the Daleks will have to enter at [[Floor 494]] and work their way up to [[Floor 500]]. Rose stays behind to help the Doctor build the Wave while the others, armed with [[Bastic bullet]]s which can breach Dalek casings, go down to [[Floor Zero]] to try and scare up volunteers to help hold back the Daleks. Jack kisses both Rose and the Doctor good-bye.
On Floor 000, only a few join the defenders. Others, like Rodrick, do not believe that the Daleks still exist. Jack warns them all to stay on Floor 000 and keep quiet, even if they start to hear the sounds of battle above; if they do, hopefully, the Daleks will not notice them. On Floor 500, Rose suggests going back in time before these events, but the Doctor sadly says it's impossible due to crossing the timeline before the Delta Wave starts its build-up. But when the Doctor checks to see how long it will need to build, he hangs his head in dismay. When Rose asks how bad it is, the Doctor brightens up and says it can work if he can use the TARDIS to cross his own timeline. He ushers her into the TARDIS and tells her to stay there pressing a button, while he powers up the station. Once he exits the TARDIS, however, his expression turns sombre, and he points [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver|the sonic screwdriver]] at the ship, making it dematerialise with Rose on board.


On Floor Zero, only a few join the defenders. Others, like Rodrick, do not believe that the Daleks still exist. Jack warns them all to stay on Floor Zero and keep quiet, even if they start to hear the sounds of battle above; if they do, hopefully the Daleks will not notice them. On Floor 500, the Delta Wave starts its build-up, but when the Doctor checks to see how long it will need to build, he hangs his head in dismay. When Rose asks how bad it is, the Doctor brightens up and says it can work if he can use the TARDIS to cross his own timeline. He ushers her into the TARDIS and tells her to stay there while he powers up the Station. Once he exits the TARDIS, however, his expression turns sombre, and he points the sonic screwdriver at the ship, making it dematerialise with Rose on board.
[[File:Have_a_fantastic_life.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor's hologram says goodbye to Rose.]]
Rose finds the TARDIS doors locked, and a [[hologram]] of the Doctor appears, explaining to Rose that if she is receiving this message, then the Doctor is either dead or about to die with no chance of escape. [[Emergency Program One]] will take her home, and the TARDIS will not return for him for fear that its technology will fall into the Dalek hands. He asks her to just let the TARDIS moulder away and die, and, in remembrance of him, to have a fantastic life. The TARDIS lands Rose at [[Powell Estate|her estate]] in the [[21st century]], and despite her near-hysterical jiggling of the controls, she cannot get it to work again. Outside, [[Mickey Smith|Mickey]] comes running down the street, having heard the distinctive sound of the TARDIS's engines, and Rose hugs him, weeping.


Rose finds the TARDIS doors locked, and a [[hologram]] of the Doctor appears, explaining to Rose that if she is receiving this message, then the Doctor is either dead, or about to die with no chance of escape. [[TARDIS Emergency Programme One|Emergency Programme One]] will take her home, and the TARDIS will not return for him for fear that its technology will fall into the Dalek hands. He asks her to just let the TARDIS moulder away and die, and, in remembrance of him, to have a fantastic life. The TARDIS lands Rose at [[Powell Estate|her estate]] in the 21st century, and despite her near hysterical jiggling of the controls, she cannot get it to work again. Outside, Mickey comes running down the street, having heard the distinctive sound of the TARDIS's engines, and Rose hugs him, weeping.
When Jack contacts Floor 500, he finds that the Doctor has sent Rose home. When Jack asks if the Delta Wave will be ready, the Dalek Emperor breaks in on the transmission, noting that even if the wave is completed in time, it will not be able to discriminate between human and Dalek; it will wipe out all Daleks and humans within its long range. The Doctor replies that there are colonies in space and that the human race will survive, but the whole universe is in danger if he lets the Daleks live. Jack tells the Doctor to keep working, and defiantly tells the Emperor that he has never, and will never, doubt the Doctor. The Doctor questions the Emperor on how it managed to scatter the words "[[Bad Wolf meme|Bad Wolf]]" throughout history, but the Emperor replies that these words were not part of its design.


When Jack contacts Floor 500, he finds that the Doctor has sent Rose away. When Jack asks if the Delta Wave will be ready, the Dalek Emperor breaks in on the transmission, noting that the Wave can possibly be completed in time, but it will not be able to discriminate between human and Dalek; it will wipe all Daleks and humans within its long range. The Doctor replies that there are colonies in space and the human race will survive, but the whole universe is in danger if he lets the Daleks live. Jack tells the Doctor to keep working, and defiantly tells the Emperor that he has never, and will never doubt the Doctor. The Doctor questions the Emperor on how it managed to scatter the words "[[Bad Wolf meme|Bad Wolf]]" through history, but the Emperor replies that these words were not part of its design.
Jack places Lynda in an observation deck which has a heavy door that will hopefully hold the Daleks out for a time. From the deck, Lynda will monitor the station's sensors and update the rest of the humans on the Daleks' progress. Through the window, they see the fleet decelerate into Earth orbit, and thousands of Daleks begin to stream out from the saucers towards the station. The Daleks force the [[airlock]] on Floor 494, and begin to work their way up. They take the internal [[laser]]s off-line and ruthlessly exterminate the first batch of defenders, whose bastic bullets have no effect as they melt against the Dalek force fields. One of the people fighting screams at Jack through the radio, saying he lied to them about the effectiveness of the bullets, just before she dies.


Jack places Lynda in an observation deck which has a heavy door that will hopefully hold the Daleks out for a time. From the deck, Lynda will monitor the Station's sensors and update the rest of the humans on the Daleks' progress. Through the window, they see the fleet decelerate into Earth orbit, and thousands of Daleks begin to stream out from the saucers towards the Station. The Daleks force the [[airlock]] on Floor 494, and begin to work their way up, taking the internal [[laser]]s off-line and ruthlessly exterminating the first batch of defenders, their bastic bullets having no effect as they melt against the Dalek force fields (Jack's prediction that they "blow the Daleks wide open" was wrong).
In the 21st century, [[Jackie Tyler|Jackie]] and Mickey try to persuade Rose to just get on with her life. Rose tells them that she cannot, because the Doctor showed her a better way to live, just as he showed Mickey: you do not just give up, you make a stand and fight for what is right. As Mickey tries to reason with her, Rose notices the words "Bad Wolf" scrawled in six-foot-high letters on a paved public area of the estate, and also in the form of graffiti on the surrounding walls. Rose realises that the words are not a warning, but a message, telling her that she can still get back to the Doctor. She runs for the TARDIS, hoping at least to help the Doctor escape. She tells Mickey that the TARDIS is [[telepathy|telepathic]], and to make contact, they need to get inside it, open the console to get at the [[heart of the TARDIS]]. However, their first attempt to pry the console open by hooking a chain to Mickey's [[car]] is unsuccessful.


In the 21st century, Jackie and Mickey try to persuade Rose to just get on with her life. Rose tells them that she cannot, because the Doctor showed her a better way to live, just as he showed Mickey: you do not just give up; you make a stand and fight for what is right. As Mickey tries to reason with her, Rose notices the words "Bad Wolf" scrawled in six-foot high letters on a paved public area of the estate, and also in the form of graffiti on the surrounding walls. Rose realizes that the words are not a warning, but a message, telling her that she can still get back to the Doctor. She runs for the TARDIS, hoping at least to help the Doctor escape. She tells Mickey that the TARDIS is [[telepathy|telepathic]], and to make contact, they need to get inside it, open the console to get at the [[heart of the TARDIS]]. However, their first attempt to pry the console open by hooking a chain to Mickey's car is unsuccessful.
On [[Floor 495]], the Daleks encounter the [[Anne Droid]] from ''The Weakest Link'', and it effectively manages to dispose of three Daleks via its "[[disintegration]]" laser only for another one to shoot its head off. To Lynda's horror, instead of flying up to [[Floor 496|496]], the Daleks travel down to Floor 000, exterminating everyone left there, with Rodrick screaming they don't exist the entire time.


On [[Floor 495]], the Daleks encounter the [[Anne Droid]] from ''The Weakest Link'', and it effectively manages to dispose of three Daleks before another one shoots its head off. To Lynda's horror, instead of flying up to [[Floor 496|496]], the Daleks travel down to Floor Zero, exterminating everyone left there. In the TARDIS, Jackie tries her hand at persuading Rose to give up, but Rose tells her that [[Pete Tyler|Pete]], her father, would not have given up; she knows this because she met him. [[Jackie Tyler|Jackie]] does not believe this, until Rose reminds her that a blonde girl was there holding Pete's hand when he died and Jackie saw her from a distance; that girl was Rose. Shaken, Jackie rushes out of the TARDIS.
In the TARDIS, Jackie tries her hand at persuading Rose to give up, but Rose tells her that [[Pete Tyler|Pete]], her father, would not have given up; she knows this because [[Father's Day (TV story)|she met him]]. Jackie does not believe this until Rose [[history-proofing|reminds her]] that a blonde girl was there holding Pete's hand when he died and that Jackie saw her from a distance; that girl was Rose. Shaken, Jackie rushes out of the TARDIS.


On 2002nd century Earth, the fleet descends, bombarding the planet, the outlines of the continents distorting on Lynda's screen as they are devastated by the Dalek bombing. The Emperor proclaims that it has created Heaven on Earth. On [[Floor 499]], Jack organises the last stand against the Daleks, telling the defenders to concentrate fire on the Dalek eye-stalks. This works against one Dalek, but the others overwhelm the barricades, killing everyone but Jack, who retreats towards Floor 500, still firing vainly at the oncoming Dalek squads. As a Dalek squad begins to cut through the doors to Lynda's position, another squad floats in space outside the window of the observation deck. One Dalek fires at the window, shattering the glass and exposing Lynda to the vacuum of space.
On 2002nd century Earth, the fleet descends, bombarding the planet, the outlines of the continents distorting on Lynda's screen (notably Australasia) as they are devastated by the Dalek bombing. The Emperor proudly proclaims that he has created heaven on Earth. Meanwhile, on [[Floor 499]], Jack organises the last stand against the Daleks, telling the defenders to concentrate fire on the Dalek eye-stalks. This works against one Dalek, but the other Daleks are able to overwhelm the barricades. Lynda reports that she has a problem; the Daleks have located her. They attempt to enter the room but are unable to bypass the numerous combinations on the door. As a final resort, the Daleks summon an Assault Dalek to cut the door open with its flamethrower arm. As a terrified Lynda backs away from the door, she noticed outside of the window that a small group of Daleks have gathered outside of the window. They fire at the window, shattering it and exposing Lynda to the vacuum of space, killing her. Jack, the last person standing in the assault, vainly fires at the Daleks arriving at Floor 500, telling the Doctor to hurry up and finish the delta wave to destroy them.


Back in the 21st century, Jackie returns to the TARDIS with a heavy-duty recovery vehicle. She tells Rose that she was right; this would have been the sort of mad thing Pete would have done. The heavier chain of the recovery vehicle holds, and the console tears open. Rose stares into the heart of the TARDIS, and [[Time Vortex|energy]] from within the console flows into her eyes. The TARDIS doors close of their own accord, shutting Jackie and Mickey out, and the TARDIS dematerializes, intense light visibly streaming out of the TARDIS windows.
[[File:Rose heart tardis.jpg|thumb|Rose stares into the heart of the TARDIS.]]
Back in the 21st century, all attempts to open the TARDIS console have failed and Rose starts to consider giving up but Mickey won't allow her to, knowing how important returning to the Doctor is for her. Jackie then returns to the TARDIS with a heavy-duty recovery vehicle, loaned from an acquaintance who owes her a favour. She tells Rose that she was right; this would have been the sort of mad thing [[Pete Tyler|Pete]] would have done. The heavier chain of the recovery vehicle holds, and the console tears open. Rose stares into the heart of the TARDIS, and [[Time Vortex|energy]] from within the console flows into her eyes. The TARDIS doors close of their own accord, shutting Jackie and Mickey out, and the TARDIS dematerialises, intense light visibly streaming out of the TARDIS windows.


Jack runs out of ammunition and is exterminated at the doorway to Floor 500 just as the Doctor finishes readying the Delta Wave. The Daleks glide into the control room, and when the Doctor threatens to activate the wave, the Emperor dares him to do so, to become like it; "the Great Exterminator", to make the choice between coward and killer. The Doctor hesitates, and then says he would be a coward any day. As the Doctor prepares for extermination, the TARDIS materializes behind him. The doors open, the light from the TARDIS's heart spilling out into the control room, and in the middle of it all is Rose as [[Bad Wolf entity|Bad Wolf]], glowing brightly. In answer to the Doctor, Rose tells him she looked into the TARDIS and it into her. The Doctor tells her that she looked into the time vortex, something no one is supposed to see.
Jack runs out of ammunition and is exterminated at the doorway to Floor 500 just as the Doctor finishes readying the Delta Wave. The Daleks glide into the control room, and when the Doctor threatens to activate the wave, the Emperor dares him to do so, to become like it — "the Great Exterminator", to make the choice between coward and killer. The Doctor hesitates, and then says he would be a coward any day, resulting in the Emperor to mock the Doctor for his decision. The Doctor asks what will happen now and if he will become one of the Emperor’s angels. The Emperor responds that the Doctor is the heathen and must be exterminated. A defeated Doctor accepts his fate and prepares for extermination, only for the TARDIS to materialise behind him. The doors open, the light from the TARDIS's heart spilling out into the control room, and in the middle of it all is Rose as [[Bad Wolf (entity)|Bad Wolf]], glowing brightly. In answer to the Doctor, Rose tells him she looked into the TARDIS and it into her. The Doctor tells her that she looked into the [[time vortex]], something no one is supposed to see.


Suffused with power, Rose easily stops and diverts a [[gunstick|Dalek blast]]. As the Emperor calls her "the [[abomination]]", Rose explains that she is the [[Bad Wolf entity|Bad Wolf]] and proceeds to scatter the [[Bad Wolf meme|name]] of the Game Station's owners through time and space, to lead herself to this point. She can now see all of time and space: the past, present and all possible futures; all she wants is the Doctor to be safe and protected from the Daleks. The Emperor declares that she cannot hurt it as it is immortal, but Rose proves the Emperor wrong by waving her hand and killing him. All the Daleks - emperor, fleet and on those on Earth - are destroyed. Rose declares the Time War has ended. However, the power continues to stream through Rose, and she is unwilling to let go of the power of life and death, a power demonstrated when outside the room and unseen by the Doctor Captain Jack suddenly returns to life. The Doctor tries desperately to get her to relinquish what she has been given, but Rose weeps that she cannot cope with the power coursing through her body.
Suffused with power, Rose easily stops and diverts a [[gunstick|Dalek blast]]. As the Emperor calls her "the [[abomination]]", Rose explains that she is the Bad Wolf and proceeds to scatter the [[Bad Wolf meme|name]] of the Game Station's owners through time and space, to lead herself to this point. She can now see all of time and space: the past, present and all possible futures; all she wants is the Doctor to be safe and protected from the Daleks. The Emperor declares that she cannot hurt it as it is immortal, but Rose proves the Emperor wrong by waving her hand and disintegrating him. All the Daleks — emperor, fleet and those on Earth — are destroyed. Rose declares the [[Last Great Time War|Time War]] has ended. However, the power continues to stream through Rose, and she is unwilling to let go of the power of life and death, a power demonstrated when outside the room and unseen by the Doctor, Captain Jack suddenly returns to life. The Doctor tries desperately to get her to relinquish what she has been given, but Rose weeps that she cannot cope with the power coursing through her body and she is in great pain.


The Doctor knows that the power will kill her, so he pulls her close and kisses her, drawing the energy into himself. As Rose falls unconscious, the Doctor releases the vortex energies back into the TARDIS. Jack makes it to the control room only to see the TARDIS dematerialize without him.
The Doctor knows that the power will kill her, so he pulls her close and says to her "I think you need a Doctor" and kisses her, drawing the energy into himself. As Rose falls unconscious, the Doctor releases the vortex energies back into the TARDIS and staggers slightly. Jack makes it to the control room only to see [[the TARDIS]] dematerialise without him.


Onboard, Rose awakens, remembering little of what has transpired. As she tries to figure out what happened, the Doctor notices a small ripple of energy sweeping across the back of his hand and his expression clouds momentarily. Turning back to Rose, he tells her that he was going to take her to so many places, like [[Barcelona (planet)|Barcelona]] — the planet, not the city and perhaps he will, just not as he is now. Rose does not understand what the Doctor is talking about, until he buckles over in pain. The Doctor tells her that the vortex energy is destroying every cell in his body. He will regenerate, but this incarnation will not see her again. The Ninth Doctor's last words to Rose are, "Before I go, I just want to tell you, you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And you know what? So was I."
[[File:Ninth Doctor's Final Smile.jpg|thumb|left|The Ninth Doctor beams with one last huge grin before he regenerates.]]
On board, Rose awakens, remembering little of what has transpired. As she tries to figure out what happened, the Doctor jokes that he sang a song that made the Daleks run away, but he then notices a small ripple of energy sweeping across the back of his hand and his expression clouds momentarily. Turning back to Rose, he tells her that he was going to take her to so many places, like [[Barcelona (planet)|Barcelona]] — the [[planet]], not [[Barcelona|the city]], and that perhaps he will, just not as he is now. Rose does not understand what the Doctor is talking about until he buckles backwards in pain. The Doctor tells her that absorbing the vortex energy into himself has damaged him, and every cell in his body is dying as they speak. Trying to both ease Rose's worry and explain the process of [[regeneration]] to her, the Doctor tells her that Time Lords have a "trick" that allows them to "cheat death", but he will have to change, and this incarnation will not see her again. The [[Ninth Doctor]]'s last words to Rose are, "Before I go, I just want to tell you, you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And you know what? So was I."


With that, blazing energy courses through his body, and before Rose's astonished eyes, the Doctors features change and he regenerates into his next incarnation. The [[Tenth Doctor|new Doctor]] says "Hello," gulps, and adds, "New teeth. That's weird. Now, where was I?"
With that, the Doctor grins from ear to ear and remains smiling to the very end. Moments later, he tilts backwards with a swift jolt, blazing energy courses through his body, and before Rose's astonished eyes, the Doctor's features change and he [[regeneration|regenerates]] into his next incarnation. His short hair grows out rapidly into thick brown locks, and as the energy recedes, he raises back up with a different face and a remarkably thinner physique, looking quite nonplussed.


"Oh, that's right," he grins, "Barcelona!"
[[File:Tenth (1).jpg|thumb|The [[Tenth Doctor|new Doctor]].]]
[[Tenth Doctor|The new Doctor]] says hello and begins to introduce himself somewhat incoherently. He then interrupts himself saying, "New teeth. That's weird." He wonders where he was going to go, before saying, "Oh, that's right. Barcelona." As Rose stares at him in great shock, the Doctor smiles.


==Cast==
== Cast ==
* [[Ninth Doctor]] - [[Christopher Eccleston]]
* [[Ninth Doctor|Doctor Who]] - [[Christopher Eccleston]]
* [[Tenth Doctor]] - [[David Tennant]]
* [[Rose Tyler]] - [[Billie Piper]]
* [[Rose Tyler]] - [[Billie Piper]]
* Captain [[Jack Harkness]] - [[John Barrowman]]  
* [[Jack Harkness|Captain Jack]] - [[John Barrowman]]
* [[Mickey Smith]] - [[Noel Clarke]]
* [[Davitch Pavale|Male Programmer]] - [[Jo Stone-Fewings]]
* [[Jackie Tyler]] - [[Camille Coduri]]  
* [[Lynda Moss|Lynda]] - [[Jo Joyner]]
* [[Lynda Moss]] - [[Jo Joyner]]
* [[Rodrick]] - [[Paterson Joseph]]
* [[Rodrick]] - [[Paterson Joseph]]
* [[Female Programmer]] - [[Nisha Nayar]]  
* [[Female programmer|Female Programmer]] - [[Nisha Nayar]]
* [[Davitch Pavale]] - [[Jo Stone-Fewings]]
* [[Mickey Smith|Mickey]] - [[Noel Clarke]]
* [[Jackie Tyler|Jackie]] - [[Camille Coduri]]
* Voice of [[Anne Droid]] - [[Anne Robinson]]
* Voice of [[Anne Droid]] - [[Anne Robinson]]
* Anne droid - [[Alan Ruscoe]]
* [[Dalek]] Voice - [[Nicholas Briggs]]
* Floor Manager (uncredited) Operator - [[Jenna Russell]]  
* [[Dalek Operator]]s - [[Barnaby Edwards]], [[Nicholas Pegg]], [[David Hankinson]]
* [[Dalek]] (voice) - [[Nicholas Briggs]]
* [[Anne Droid|Android]] - [[Alan Ruscoe]]
: and introducing [[David Tennant]] as [[Tenth Doctor|Doctor Who]]


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== Crew ==
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==References==
== Worldbuilding ==
* The guns of the Game Station have [[Bastic bullet]]s.
=== Food ===
* A [[delta wave]] fries all living brains.
* After being returned home, Rose eats [[chips]] at a [[café]] with Jackie and Mickey.
* The Doctor and Jack use the [[Tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator]] to create a forcefield for the TARDIS.
* Jackie comments that the café has gone "up market" as they've started to serve little tubs of [[coleslaw]].
* The Doctor states that in the ancient legends of the Dalek homeworld he's known as [[Aliases of the Doctor|The Oncoming Storm]].
* Mickey tells Jackie about a new [[pizza]] delivery place on [[Minto Road]].


==Story Notes==
=== Individuals ===
* The Doctor regenerates into the Tenth Doctor [[David Tennant]]. His first words: "Hello. oh... new teeth, that's weird."
* The Doctor states that, in the ancient legends of [[Skaro|the Dalek home-world]], he was known as [[the Oncoming Storm]].
*According to his book ''[[The Writer's Tale]]'', [[Russell T Davies]] planned to keep the departure of Christopher Eccleston a secret until the surprise regeneration. However, soon after the broadcast of ''[[The Unquiet Dead]]'', the third episode of the season, the BBC's press office prematurely announced Eccleston's departure, which was followed several weeks later by confirmation that Tennant had been signed as the new Doctor, thereby removing both elements of surprise from the episode.
* Jackie borrows the [[truck]] from her friend [[Rodrigo (The Parting of the Ways)|Rodrigo]].
*The guns used by Jack and the Game Station people are Heckler and Koch G36Ks.
* Captain Jack Harkness is killed by three [[Dalek]]s and then resurrected by the [[Bad Wolf (entity)|Bad Wolf]]. This is later revealed to alter Jack's blood chemistry into that of an [[immortality|immortal]] and he becomes a [[fixed point]] in time.
*Although he is soon brought back to life, Jack's death in this episode makes him the first companion to die since [[Kamelion]] in ''[[Planet of Fire]]'' and the first humanoid companion to be killed since [[Adric]]'s death in ''[[Earthshock]]''.
*The Doctor's farewell recording to Rose - "Have a good life ..." - is quoted in the lyrics of "[[Song for Ten]]", featured in the next full episode, ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]''.
*Jack kisses the Doctor affectionately on the mouth (after kissing Rose) before going off to fight the Daleks. This is the first same-sex kiss featured in the ''Doctor Who'' franchise.
*This episode marks the last time the lead character is identified as "Doctor Who" in the closing credits. Beginning with ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'', the credit reverts to "The Doctor" as it had been during the last nine years of the original series. This episode is the only occasion in which David Tennant is credited as "Doctor Who".
*This is the first time the Doctor, or any Time Lord for that matter, is seen regenerating standing up, previous Doctors collapsed before regenerating. This would later be seen again in the Master's regeneration in [[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', the Tenth Doctor's aborted regeneration in [[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'', and his actual regeneration in [[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time]]''. Coincidentally, all of these episodes feature [[Jack Harkness]].
*This is the first (and so far only) series finale of the revived series to not be set in the (near) present.
*Submerging the Dalek mutant puppet in the Emperor's water tank destroyed its inner mechanics. As a result, the puppet would not be used again until [[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Journey's End]]''. (A CGI version of the mutant was later used in [[DW]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]''.)


===Ratings===
=== The Doctor ===
*6.9 million viewers.
* The [[Ninth Doctor]] regenerates into the [[Tenth Doctor]].
* After he sends Rose away in the TARDIS, a [[hologram]] of the Doctor that was pre-recorded is played.
* The Doctor reflects on the [[Last Great Time War|Time War]] and of the [[Time Lord]]s after he and Jack rescue Rose.


===Myths===
=== Technology ===
* In one version (a fake version) Rose was to have died.
* The [[firearm|guns]] of the [[Satellite Five|Game Station]] have [[bastic bullet]]s.
* After it was announced prematurely by the BBC that Eccleston was leaving the series, some media reports indicated that he would leave (and regenerate) in the announced Christmas special episode, not this one. ''This may have been intentional in order to preserve the surprise ending of this episode (which might also explain the fake Rose death reports, too).''
* A [[delta wave]] fries all living [[brain]]s.
* The Doctor and Jack use the [[tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator]] to create a force field for [[the TARDIS]].
* The [[Heart of the TARDIS]] can be absorbed by living beings, but prolonged exposure will burn up the cells in their body as the energies of time vortex deteriorate them.
* An [[Assault Dalek]] uses a blowtorch instead of a [[manipulator arm]] to cut through a [[door]] comprised of [[Hydra Combination]].


===Filming Locations===
=== Planets ===
* The future [[Earth]] is bombarded by apocalyptic Dalek attacks that are strong enough to badly warp and disfigure the shapes of its continents.
* The Doctor wishes to take Rose to the planet [[Barcelona (planet)|Barcelona]].
 
=== Places ===
* The Doctor says he and Rose could go to [[1989]] [[Marbella]] to avoid the oncoming Dalek attack.
 
=== Species ===
* [[Barcelonian dog]]s have no [[nose]]s.
 
== Story notes ==
* According to his book ''[[The Writer's Tale]]'', [[Russell T Davies]] planned to keep the departure of [[Christopher Eccleston]] a secret until the surprise regeneration. However, soon after the broadcast of ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'', the third episode of the season, the BBC's press office prematurely announced Eccleston's departure, which was followed several weeks later by confirmation that Tennant had been signed as the new Doctor, thereby removing both elements of surprise from the episode.
* The guns used by Jack and the Game Station people are Heckler and Koch G36Ks.
* Although he is soon brought back to life, Jack's death in this episode makes him the first companion to die since [[Kamelion]] in ''[[Planet of Fire (TV story)|Planet of Fire]]''.
* The Doctor's farewell recording to Rose — "Have a good life ..." — is quoted in the lyrics of "[[Song for Ten]]", featured in the next full episode, ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]''.
* Jack kisses the Doctor affectionately on the mouth before going off to fight the Daleks. This is the first same-sex kiss featured in the ''Doctor Who'' franchise. The next instance of a same-sex kiss occurs in {{cs|Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story)}} between the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Rory Williams]], though this was improvised by [[Matt Smith]]. Another occasion of a same-sex kiss occurs in the episode ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'', when Madame Vastra kisses her wife Jenny, although this was more so out of survival than affection. Jack later kisses who he thinks to be the Doctor but is actually the Doctor's companion [[Graham O'Brien]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)|Fugitive of the Judoon]]''.
* This episode marks the last time that the lead character is identified as "Doctor Who" in the closing credits, with the exception of some releases of {{cs|The Next Doctor (TV story)}}. Beginning with ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'', the credit reverts to "The Doctor" as it had been during the last nine years of the original series.
* This is the first time the Doctor, or any Time Lord for that matter, is seen regenerating standing up, as previous Doctors collapsed before regenerating. This would later become the norm.
* Submerging the Dalek mutant puppet in the Emperor's water tank destroyed its inner mechanics. As a result, the puppet would not be used again until [[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]''. A CGI version of the mutant was later used in [[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)|Daleks in Manhattan]]''.
* This is the third regeneration episode to credit both actors playing the Doctor, the first two being [[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani (TV story)|The Caves of Androzani]]. ''The fourth occasion would be [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''. Unlike the first two, and like the fourth, the incoming actor is the last actor to be credited. [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'' also credited both actors who played the Doctor, but did so in the opening credits and without listing their roles specifically.
* Back in 1993, the BBC produced a documentary entitled ''[[30 Years in the TARDIS]]'', which ended with several scenes showing how modern-day special effects could be applied to "new" ''Doctor Who'' production. One of these scenes shows many Daleks hovering together. Whether by accident or intent, this episode includes several scenes that strongly resemble this "what if" scenario.
[[File:Doctor Who will return in The Christmas Invasion.jpg|thumb|right]]
* As the last episode of the series, there is no "Next Time" trailer at the end of the episode, merely a message that "Doctor Who will return in ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]''".
* The story was chosen by [[BBC America]] to represent the [[Christopher Eccleston]] era during their 50th anniversary programming. Edited into an [[omnibus]] format with ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'', it was aired by BBCA on [[29 September (releases)|29 September]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]], after the debut of their homegrown special called ''[[The Doctors Revisited - The Ninth Doctor (documentary)|The Doctors Revisited - The Ninth Doctor]]''. It also aired in the [[United Kingdom]] later in the same year on [[9 November (releases)|9 November]], along with the ''Revisited'' special, on the [[Watch (TV channel)|Watch]] channel.
* The only characters who do not die in this episode are Rose, Jackie and Mickey, who are all either main or recurring characters. Every guest character dies, along with the Ninth Doctor and Jack, though the latter is revived shortly afterwards. As a result, this is the first episode to kill off the entire guest cast since ''[[Horror of Fang Rock (TV story)|Horror of Fang Rock]]'' 28 years before, an act that would not be repeated again until ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'' 6 years later.
* Interestingly, [[David Tennant]] played Barty Crouch Jr. in the film adaptation of ''[[Harry Potter]] and the Goblet of Fire, ''who first appears in the present events of the story in a chapter called ''The Parting of the Ways''. Both characters Tennant plays emerge after a person the rest of the characters are familiar with change their appearance, winding up with Tennant in a battered leather jacket and black jumper, displaying maniacal tendencies.
* [[David Tennant]] is credited last, in the format of "and introducing David Tennant as Doctor Who." Apart from replacing "Doctor Who" with "The Doctor," all subsequent regeneration stories have credited the incoming Doctor in the same manner, including David Tennant's return as the [[Fourteenth Doctor]] in {{Cite source|The Power of the Doctor (TV story)}}.
* This was the first episode in this series which was not given a press screening prior to the broadcast. The [[Radio Times]] stated, "No preview tape was available for this episode." The episode was, however, screened for [[BAFTA]] on 15 June 2005.
* According to [[Russell T Davies]] in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'', Jack was left behind because they wanted to explore the effects of the regeneration on Rose (noting that Jack would have taken the regeneration "in his stride").
* An alternate ending was written and filmed, with the intention that it would be shown to press previewers to hide the secret of the regeneration. The "false" ending would have featured similar dialogue to the televised final scene, but the TARDIS would have scanned Rose and the viewers would have seen the display read: "LIFEFORM DYING". [[Russell T Davies]] considered this scene inferior to the one actually shown but suggested that it might be suitable as an extra on a DVD someday. On the DVD commentary, executive producer [[Julie Gardner]] and [[Billie Piper]] briefly discuss this ending, which Gardner describes as featuring Rose's death; unlike Davies, Gardner expresses doubts that it will be issued on DVD (it was not included in the Series 1 DVD set).
* [[David Tennant]]'s portion of the regeneration scene was actually filmed much later than [[Christopher Eccleston]]'s and without the presence of [[Billie Piper]]. Tennant's segment was recorded with him speaking to a piece of sticky tape indicating Piper's eyeline and then edited into the broadcast version.
* Initially, the Controller survived into this episode to provide the Doctor with someone to talk to, until [[Russell T Davies]] decided it would be more effective to have him converse with the Emperor Dalek instead.
* This is the second time that [[Christopher Eccleston]] and [[David Tennant]] have appeared together. They had previously both appeared in the film ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_(film) Jude], ''with Eccleston playing the lead role and Tennant making a cameo.
* [[Joe Ahearne]] named Lynda's death scene as his favourite death in the series.
* The Hungarian title of this episode is "Csata után találkozunk" (We Meet After the Battle).
* The release of the audio story ''[[Terror Firma (audio story)|Terror Firma]]'' relatively shortly following ''The Parting of the Ways'' gave rise to a theory which suggested that [[Davros]] was destined to become the Emperor seen in this story, which was officially denied by [[Big Finish]]. Davros' return in ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'' and subsequent stories firmly established that Davros and the War Emperor were separate individuals and that Davros was no longer the Emperor by the [[Last Great Time War]].
* Rose's statement that the new Daleks were now half-human, to which they responded by calling her blasphemous for saying as such is a reference to how fans did not react well to the [[Eighth Doctor]] telling [[Grace Holloway]] in [[Doctor Who (TV story)|the TV movie]] that he is apparently half-human.
* Having spotlighted the menace of a lone Dalek in ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'', [[Russell T Davies]] now intended to dazzle audiences with the spectacle of a massive Dalek army.
* Part of the reason Jack was added to the TARDIS crew was to provide [[Russell T Davies]] with a character well-versed in military tactics who could believably coordinate a defence against a full-scale Dalek assault.
* Russell T Davies wanted to reunite Jackie with modern-day versions of her friends [[Bev (Father's Day)|Bev]], [[Sarah Clark]] and [[Suzie (Father's Day)|Suzie]], who had been seen as young women in ''[[Father's Day (TV story)|Father's Day]]''. With the help of Jackie's boyfriend, Rodrigo, they would link their vehicles together to open the TARDIS console. This sequence was later replaced with the more straightforward introduction of the tow truck which Jackie borrowed from the now-unseen Rodrigo.
* For the Doctor's regeneration, [[Russell T Davies]] was determined to establish a more dynamic and affirmative staging than had previously been employed. To this point, the Doctor had always regenerated in a vulnerable, prone position; now he would be standing and exploding with energy, turning into a virtual fountain of light.
* [[Christopher Eccleston]]'s part of the regeneration was then taped in secret, with a minimal crew.
* The animatronic [[Kaled]] mutant introduced in ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'' was reused with the understanding that the liquid in which it floated would ultimately destroy the mechanism.
* [[Nicholas Briggs]] modelled his Emperor Dalek voice on [[Peter Hawkins]], who had voiced the character in ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)|The Evil of the Daleks]]''.
* Working to one-fifth scale, supervisor [[Mike Tucker]] and his team constructed a six-foot-tall version of the thirty-foot Emperor Dalek.
 
=== Ratings ===
* 6.91 million viewers. (UK final)<ref>[http://guide.doctorwhonews.net/info.php?detail=ratings&start=100&type=date&order= Doctor Who - consolidated ratings]</ref>
 
=== Myths ===
* An alternative version of the ending features the death of Rose Tyler. ''[[Russell T Davies]] states that an alternative version of the final scene showed the Ninth Doctor looking at a screen displaying the text "DANGER: LIFE FORM DYING". This version was shown to the press in an attempt to preserve the surprise of the regeneration. This scene has never been released to the public, Davies electing not to include the scene on the Complete First Series DVD set, however, he stated it may make an interesting curio for a DVD release at some point in the future.''
* After it was announced prematurely by the BBC that [[Christopher Eccleston]] was leaving the series, some media reports indicated that he would leave (and regenerate) in the announced Christmas special, rather than this episode. ''This may have been intentional in order to preserve the surprise ending of this episode (which might also explain the fake Rose death reports, too).''
* [[Lynda Moss]] was going to join and/or replace Rose Tyler as a companion in this story, but the script was re-written to depict her extermination. ''[[Billie Piper]] had already signed on for an additional series, and no plans were made to incorporate Lynda Moss as a recurring character.''
* This episode would feature Spider Daleks. ''This was proven false.''
 
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===Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors===
=== Production errors ===
*The Doctor states that in the ancient legends on the Dalek homeworld he's known as '[[Aliases of the Doctor|the Oncoming Storm]]', however this was the name the [[Draconian]]s gave him, the Dalek name for him is [[Aliases of the Doctor|Ka Faraq Gatri]]. ''It is possible that two races have the same name for the Doctor, or the Daleks - or the Draconians - "stole" the nickname.''
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*When Rose was Bad Wolf, why did she not see the Cult of Skaro and destroy them? ''At that point, the Cult was in [[the Void]]. It's unlikely she would have been able to see them. Or she did and dismissed it as irrelevant since it had nothing to do with saving the Doctor and Earth at that moment in time. She didn't destroy [[Henry van Statten]]'s Dalek, or any of the Daleks seen in the previous 26 seasons either, and she could have.''
* The guns, when shown close-up, are revealed to be on "safe".
*Since every other "disintegrator beam" was actually a secondary transmat system, when the Anne Droid shoots the 3 Daleks with it, wouldn't they just be sent back to the Dalek mothership like the Controller and Rose? ''The Doctor states that the transmat has been shut down. That means that these Daleks wouldn't be able to re-integrate until the transmat is back online. Until then, they would have been kept in whatever place things go when being transmatted or teleported. Besides, even if they were transported back to their ship, they would still be out of the fight for the time being.''
* All of the Daleks' ID codes except for the Emperor are the same three numbers over and over again.
*How does the Doctor know to turn his head when his hologram appears to Rose in the TARDIS? He can't have been transmitting live because he said that "he bets" Rose was fussing and moaning - as in he couldn't see her. It's unlikely that he would have gotten to know her so well he could turn his head at the right moment and stare at the right place. ''The program was probably tied in with the TARDIS' sentient systems. Also there are interactive computer programs in real life that can react in this way. And the Doctor may have been transmitting and could have said "bet" to add a bit of humour into the scene and then turned his head to show Rose that he was actually talking to her.'' Another case of this happening is in [[The Age of Steel]] when the Doctor being watched by Mickey points were the last digit in the sequense should go whilst saying the number. This sugests that at times the Doctor can predict in some way events that appear to be random.
* The Emperor Dalek's lights are flashing (albeit briefly) when his drone Daleks are shouting "DO NOT BLASPHEME".
*When the Daleks were trying to get to the Doctor using the lifts, why did they stop at every floor? Why not just go straight up to floor 500? ''Possibly so if the Doctor managed to escape floor 500, he would be caught in an ambush. The Daleks also wanted to be thorough and make sure all the humans were exterminated.''
* When the Daleks exterminate Jack, the CGI skeleton's foot can clearly be seen in front of the Dalek "sucker" when it should, in fact, be behind it.
*Rose asks the Doctor why he cannot simply travel back in time and warn the humans about the Daleks. He replies that he has become part of events and so cannot do that. However, in [[Doctor Who (1996)|the TV movie]], the Eye of Harmony destroys the Earth, before the Doctor basically rewinds time and prevents it from happening. ''The Time Lords were still alive during that event so they could fix any accidents from occuring. Also, ''[[Time-Flight]]'' and other stories have also established that the Doctor can't or won't change certain events. The Eye of Harmony's destruction of Earth was not meant to happen - as the Doctor was familiar with post-1999 Earth, so it had to be undone.''
* The CGI Dalek Emperor contained a pink [[Dalek mutant|Dalek Mutant]], however, the prop for the Dalek Emperor mutant was later made to be purple. In some scenes, the original CGI mutant can be seen with incorrect colouring.
*The Doctor saves Rose's life by taking the vortex energy out of her. He then returns the energy to the TARDIS. Why, then, do the effects of the energy kill him? It should either kill them both (as they both had the energy in them) or neither of them (as they both lost it). ''Some novels have stated that, while regenerating, a body can absorb [[artron energy]] and feed it into the regenerative process. Assuming that the vortex energy is the same as artron energy, it is possible that the Doctor deliberately triggered a regeneration, possibly allowing him to absorb the energy from Rose. The regeneration then had to complete. It's also possible the vortex energy had a different effect on the Doctor's physiology when he absorbed it.''
* How does everyone on Satellite 5 (including Jack) know about the Daleks? ''The story takes place hundreds of millennia from now, and the ''Doctor Who'' franchise has featured many Dalek events, including several invasions of Earth. Presumably by this far-future time they would likely be well known. Jack, as a Time Agent, might well have encountered Daleks in his own adventures. Even if only "new series" references are counted, the events of ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Journey's End]]'' made the Daleks known world-wide.''. The Daleks may have ended up like the Doctor is to races that knew about the time lord race such as the [[Shadow Proclamation]].
* At one point in the episode, the Daleks are "bombing whole continents," and we see on a computer map that their bombing is so drastic as to radically change coastlines of entire continents. With all the things Rose/Bad Wolf changed, why does she leave that destruction in place, and why does no one seem concerned about it after the fact? ''Bad Wold/Rose happened after the bombing, so it is likely when she said I bring life, the continents were restored''
* Being able to control the whole of time & space, Rose could have easily brought Lynda Moss back to life. The Doctor would have known this and despite promising to let her travel with him, he leaves her like Jack. ''Lynda was sucked into space. If she was brought back to life, and become immortal like Jack, she would of had a terrible fate of drifting through space dying and ressurecting over and over again forever- Rose may have known this and stopped herself. Also, she was rather jealous of Lynda's friendship with the Doctor and may have stopped herself. ''You're forgetting that as the Bad Wolf, Rose was god-like. She could have easily transported Lynda back to the GameStation and if not, the Doctor could have materialised the TARDIS where Lynda was floating around in space, and as you say, dying and resurrecting. Plus, Rose is very compassionate. In 'Dalek', she still showed remorse for the Dalek despite massacring over 200 people. She wouldn't have let her die just because she was somewhat jealous of the Doctor's affection for her. And even if this was the case, the Doctor would be angry or horrified with her for not resurrecting Lynda.'  ''Rose had no idea that Lynda had died''
* '''Why would it take it 3 to 2 minutes to get across the solar system? Haven't the Daleks moved around galaxies before?'''
* The Doctor later says that if a Time Lord absorbs the Time Vortex, they would become a vengeful god ([[DW]]: [[Utopia]]). So why is it that when he absorbs the Vortex from Rose, he doesn't become a "vengeful god"?


==Continuity==
== Continuity ==
* This is the first ''on-screen'' occurrence of a Dalek in the TARDIS, however [[EDA]]: ''[[War of the Daleks]]'' and the stage play [[Doctor Who: The Ultimate Adventure]] featured a Dalek within the TARDIS.
[[File:Assault_Dalek_Arm.jpg|thumb|Dalek cutting arm.]]
* Rose tells the Cult of Skaro that she met the emperor in [[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]''.
* [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] would later tell both [[Sarah Jane Smith]] ([[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion (TV story)|School Reunion]]'') and the [[Cult of Skaro]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'') that she met the [[Dalek Emperor]].
* Rose brings Jack back to life, an act that has far-reaching consequences for him as it makes him immortal. This becomes an underlying concept of ''[[Torchwood]]'', is later addressed in [[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'' and may ultimately be connected to the [[Face of Boe]], who Rose encountered in [[DW]]: ''[[The End of the World]]'' and again in [[DW]]: ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]''.
* The [[Tenth Doctor]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') and {{Simm}} ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') later remark on how Rose absorbed the Time Vortex.
* Humans have been made into Daleks before in [[DW]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks]]''.
* The Doctor also met a giant [[Dalek Emperor]] and some black-domed [[Dalek Guard]]s while in his [[Second Doctor|second incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)|The Evil of the Daleks]]'')
* Other attempts at reviving the Dalek race would occur in [[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'' and [[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'' / ''[[Journey's End]]''
* Jackie goes into the Doctor's TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]'')
*While an attempt at creating a different sort of Dalek/Human hybrid would occur in [[DW]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]'' / ''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]''.  
* The Doctor pulls a wire out too quickly while beginning to build the Delta wave, triggering a sheepish grin in him. He did a near-exact thing in [[TV]]: ''[[The Long Game (TV story)|The Long Game]]''.
* One of the Daleks has a cutting tool instead of a plunger; this has previously been seen in [[DW]]: ''[[The Daleks]]''. (A 5" figure of this Dalek was released by [[Character Options]] as 'Assault Dalek').[[Image:Assault_Dalek_Arm.jpg|thumb|Dalek cutting arm.]]
* Rose brings [[Jack Harkness|Jack]] back to life, an act that has far-reaching consequences for him as it makes him [[Immortality|immortal]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]'' et al.) and may ultimately be connected to the [[Face of Boe]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')
* A version of the Doctor's holographic Doctor appeared in [[NA]]: ''[[Infinite Requiem]]''.
* The [[Ninth Doctor]] abandons Jack as he runs for the TARDIS. The [[Tenth Doctor]] would later reveal that he had done this purposely, as Jack's immortality, and his being a [[fixed point in time]], was "wrong" to him as a Time Lord. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') Jack would spend another year on [[Earth]] before travelling back to find the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Year After I Died (audio story)|The Year After I Died]]'')
* Rose learnt about the heart of the TARDIS in [[DW]]: ''[[Boom Town]]''.
* [[Human]]s have previously been converted to Daleks on [[Necros]] by the Daleks' creator [[Davros]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)|Revelation of the Daleks]]'') on [[Red Rocket Rising]] by [[Professor]] [[Martez]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Blood of the Daleks (audio story)|Blood of the Daleks]]'') and by the Dalek Fleet as cannon fodder for the [[Time War]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War]]'') [[Clara Oswald#Oswin Oswald|Oswin Oswald]] would later be converted as well. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'')
* Rose mentions the events of [[DW]]: ''[[Father's Day]]'' to Jackie.
* Other attempts at reviving the Dalek race would occur in [[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'', ''[[Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)|Daleks in Manhattan]]''/''[[Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)|Evolution of the Daleks]]'' and ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]''.
* Mickey mentions in [[DW]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'' that he saved the world with a yellow truck.
* An attempt at creating a different sort of Dalek/human hybrid would occur in [[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)|Daleks in Manhattan]]''/''[[Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)|Evolution of the Daleks]]''.
* The Daleks have previously invaded Earth in [[DW]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'' and [[DW]]: ''[[Day of the Daleks]]''.
* Daleks find the concept of being "impure" disgusting, ([[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'') an idea that would reappear in [[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[Revolution of the Daleks (TV story)|Revolution of the Daleks]]''.
* This is the first time (chronologically) in the 'revived series' the Doctor's kisses have had an effect on humans. The other being on Martha Jones, when the [[Tenth Doctor]] kisses her, the [[Judoon]] identify her as having traces of non human DNA (timelord). [[DW]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]'')
* One of the Daleks has a cutting tool instead of a plunger. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'', ''[[Planet of the Daleks (TV story)|Planet of the Daleks]]'')
* The [[Eighth Doctor]] looked into the vortex in [[DWM]]: ''[[The Flood]]''; in an unpublished version of that story, this event led to his regeneration into the [[Ninth Doctor]].
* The Daleks have overcome their weakness to [[bastic bullet]]s, which previously appeared in [[TV]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)|Revelation of the Daleks]]''.
* Shortly after his sixth regeneration, the [[Seventh Doctor]] previously recorded a non-interactive [[hologram]] for another temporally stranded companion, namely [[Melanie Bush]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Unregenerate! (audio story)|Unregenerate!]]'') A holographic version of the Tenth Doctor would later appear in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] to [[Sally Sparrow (Blink)|Sally Sparrow]] and [[Larry Nightingale]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Blink (TV story)|Blink]]'') and a holographic version of his [[Eleventh Doctor|immediate successor]] appeared in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] to the Doctor himself, as he was dying after being poisoned by [[River Song]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'')
* Rose uses the heart of the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[Boom Town (TV story)|Boom Town]]'')
* Rose mentions the Doctor taking her to meet [[Pete Tyler|her dad]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Father's Day (TV story)|Father's Day]]'')
* Mickey later mentions that he saved the world with a yellow truck. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'')
* The Daleks have previously invaded Earth, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'', ''[[Day of the Daleks (TV story)|Day of the Daleks]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lucie Miller (audio story)|Lucie Miller]]'') and would do so again. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'', ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'', ''[[Revolution of the Daleks (TV story)|Revolution of the Daleks]]'')
* This is the first known time that the Doctor's [[kiss]]es have had an effect on humans beyond the act itself. In this case, the Doctor removes the time vortex energy from Rose by kissing her. In the next, he imparts traces of his alien DNA to Martha Jones. ([[TV]]: ''[[Smith and Jones (TV story)|Smith and Jones]]'') The Doctor and [[Donna Noble]] later kiss, but in that instance ''the Doctor'' is the one affected, as the kiss was a catalyst for an antidote to poison — Donna kissed him to give his system a shock. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)|The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'')
* The [[Time Vortex]] also appeared as "red to come, blue behind" when [[Ace]] travelled back in time from [[2001]] to [[1887]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'')
* The [[Eighth Doctor]] looked into the vortex in [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]''.
* The Ninth Doctor looks at his left hand before he regenerates. His [[Tenth Doctor|next incarnation]] does exactly the same thing twice but looking at his right hand. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'', ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
* The Doctor holds off his regeneration for a few moments to explain the situation to Rose. The [[Fifth Doctor]] previously delayed his regeneration to rescue [[Peri Brown]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani (TV story)|The Caves of Androzani]]'') The [[Tenth Doctor|Tenth]] and [[Twelfth Doctor|Twelfth]] Doctors will later hold it off as well. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
* The Ninth Doctor's pre-regeneration statement, "I mean it's a bit dodgy this process, you never know what you're gonna end up with", echoes the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s post-regeneration statement, "That's the trouble with regeneration, you never quite know what you're going to get". ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalava]]'')
* The Ninth Doctor evidently had an underlying desire to be ginger in his next incarnation, as the [[Tenth Doctor]] would bemoan missing the opportunity. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'')
* Lynda would be among those remembered when [[Davros]] asks the Doctor how many have died in his name. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')
* The [[Eighth Doctor]] also absorbed the Time Vortex. In that case it was to stop the [[Cybermen]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]'')
* The orange, glowing regeneration resembled that of [[Ninth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|another Ninth Doctor]] and his successors. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|The Curse of Fatal Death]]'')


==DVD and Other Releases==
== Home video releases ==
[[Image:Bbcdvd-s1-v4.jpg|thumb|221px|Series 1 Volume 4: Boom Town - Bad Wolf - The Parting of the Ways DVD Cover]]
[[File:Bbcdvd-s1-v4.jpg|thumb|Series 1 Volume 4: Boom Town - Bad Wolf - The Parting of the Ways DVD Cover]]
* The Parting of the Ways has been released on a single DVD together with [[Boom Town]] and [[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]].
* ''The Parting of the Ways'' was released on a single DVD together with ''[[Boom Town (TV story)|Boom Town]]'' and ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]].'' The three episodes were also released on a single UMD (for Sony's PlayStation Portable).
* The Parting of the Ways has been released on a single UMD (for Sony's Playstation Portable) together with [[Boom Town]] and [[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]].
* ''The Parting of the Ways'' was also released as part of the Series 1 DVD box set.
* The Parting of the Ways was also released as part of the Series 1 DVD boxset.
* This story was also released with Issue 7 of the [[Doctor Who DVD Files]].
* This was also released with Issue 7 of the [[Doctor Who DVD Files]].


==See also==
== External links ==
*[[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]''
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/episodes/2005/partingoftheways.shtml Official BBC Website - Episode Guide for '''The Parting of the Ways''']
*[[DW]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks]]''
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*[[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]''
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The Parting of the Ways was the thirteenth and final episode of series 1 of Doctor Who.

It was the final chronological appearance for Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor and introduced David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor in its closing moments.

It concluded the Bad Wolf story arc. It also concluded a mild story arc about the Doctor's identity, revealed to newcomers that Time Lords could regenerate, and saw the regular departures of actors Eccleston and Barrowman (until Utopia), director Joe Ahearne, and executive producer Mal Young. It established a visual appearance for regeneration that would remain fairly standard into the present day until Twice Upon a Time (every televised regeneration from then on with the exception of the Master's in Utopia would appear like that until that episode), following which viewers got their first glimpse of David Tennant's Tenth Doctor.

From a visual effects point of view, viewers were treated to a massive army of Daleks and Dalek spaceships. At the time of broadcast, it was the most expansive view of a Dalek army that had yet been portrayed on screen, taking the record from Planet of the Daleks.

Despite the Ninth Doctor's short tenure as an incarnation of the Doctor on screen, novels, comic books, and audio stories would continue his adventures for over a decade and beyond, filling his timeline out with adventures previously unknown to viewers.

Synopsis[[edit] | [edit source]]

As the Daleks attack the Game Station led by their Emperor, the Ninth Doctor finds himself helpless. He knows he must make big sacrifices if he is going to survive. But does this mean losing his beloved Rose Tyler forever?

With Jack Harkness assembling an army together and the Doctor powerless against the Dalek Emperor, a deadly net closes around the whole universe. One thing is for certain, not everyone will make it out of this deadly battle alive. But who or what is Bad Wolf? It's time for the Doctor and Rose to find out.

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The Daleks turn on Rose Tyler and demand that she predict the Ninth Doctor's actions, but she refuses. The Daleks detect the Doctor's TARDIS flying in real space towards the saucer, and launch missiles against it. The missiles detonate, but thanks to the tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator taken from Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen, Jack has rigged up a force field around the TARDIS that protects it. The TARDIS materialises on board the Dalek saucer, around Rose and the single Dalek guarding her, which Jack destroys with the gun he improvised on the Game Station. As the Doctor examines the wreckage of the Dalek, he muses that since it is now apparent that the Daleks survived the Time War, the Time Lords died for nothing.

The travellers exit the TARDIS and are immediately fired on by the surrounding Daleks, but the extrapolator's force field continues to protect them. The Doctor taunts the Daleks, reminding them that Dalek legends call him "the Oncoming Storm", and even though they claim to have eliminated all emotion, he is sure that deep inside, the Daleks still feel fear when faced with him. He asks how they survived the Time War, and is answered by a low, grating voice, "They survived... through me." The voice is that of the Dalek Emperor, a Dalek mutant suspended in a transparent tank of fluid, flanked by panels of armour and topped by an equally gargantuan Dalek domed head. Around it floats an entourage of black-domed Daleks.

The Dalek Emperor.

The Emperor explains that though the Doctor destroyed all the Daleks in the War, its ship survived: "falling through time — crippled but alive". The surviving Daleks spent centuries hiding in "the dark space", silently rebuilding, infiltrating Earth's systems, harvesting humans and converting the genetic material into an army of Daleks. When Rose suggests that that makes the Daleks half-human, the Daleks cry out that the remark is blasphemy. The Doctor is surprised and horrified that the Daleks even have such a concept. The Emperor declares: "I reached into the dirt and made new life. I am the god of all Daleks!" Even though it used human genetic material, only one cell in a billion was fit to be nurtured, and the Emperor insists that its manipulation resulted in the cultivation of "pure and blessed Dalek". The Emperor announces that he is God of all Daleks, with the Daleks crying out "Worship him".

Horrified, the Doctor realises that the Daleks have been driven insane by the human values they have absorbed, becoming self-loathing fanatics who hate their own genetic makeup, which makes them deadlier than ever. The travellers re-enter the TARDIS, and the Doctor returns them to Floor 500 of the Game Station.

The Doctor orders the two remaining programmers to turn up the transmitters so the Daleks cannot transmat aboard the station. Earth is ignoring the station's warnings since it stopped transmitting and is simply sitting there defenceless. Despite the Doctor's earlier orders, Lynda Moss is still on board, unwilling to leave him. In any case, there were not enough shuttles, and there are still about a hundred people on board, on Floor 000, including Rodrick, Rose's main opponent in The Weakest Link, who is still looking for his prize money. The Dalek fleet begins to move towards Earth, the Emperor giving orders to purify the planet with fire and turn it into its temple.

The Doctor begins dismantling the panels in the control room. The Daleks have left him an enormous transmitter, and to Jack's disbelief, the Doctor is proposing to build and transmit a Delta Wave, an energy wave that will fry every brain within the radius of the blast. Unfortunately, a wave of this magnitude would require three days to build up, and the Dalek fleet will be upon them in twenty-two minutes. The Doctor must work fast.

Jack attaches the extrapolator to the station's systems so the Daleks cannot simply blast the station out of the sky, but it will not prevent them from physically invading to stop the wave. Jack concentrates the force field on the top six levels of the station, so the Daleks will have to enter at Floor 494 and work their way up to Floor 500. Rose stays behind to help the Doctor build the wave while the others, armed with bastic bullets which can breach Dalek casings, go down to Floor 000 to try to scare up volunteers to help hold back the Daleks. Jack kisses both Rose and the Doctor goodbye.

On Floor 000, only a few join the defenders. Others, like Rodrick, do not believe that the Daleks still exist. Jack warns them all to stay on Floor 000 and keep quiet, even if they start to hear the sounds of battle above; if they do, hopefully, the Daleks will not notice them. On Floor 500, Rose suggests going back in time before these events, but the Doctor sadly says it's impossible due to crossing the timeline before the Delta Wave starts its build-up. But when the Doctor checks to see how long it will need to build, he hangs his head in dismay. When Rose asks how bad it is, the Doctor brightens up and says it can work if he can use the TARDIS to cross his own timeline. He ushers her into the TARDIS and tells her to stay there pressing a button, while he powers up the station. Once he exits the TARDIS, however, his expression turns sombre, and he points the sonic screwdriver at the ship, making it dematerialise with Rose on board.

The Doctor's hologram says goodbye to Rose.

Rose finds the TARDIS doors locked, and a hologram of the Doctor appears, explaining to Rose that if she is receiving this message, then the Doctor is either dead or about to die with no chance of escape. Emergency Program One will take her home, and the TARDIS will not return for him for fear that its technology will fall into the Dalek hands. He asks her to just let the TARDIS moulder away and die, and, in remembrance of him, to have a fantastic life. The TARDIS lands Rose at her estate in the 21st century, and despite her near-hysterical jiggling of the controls, she cannot get it to work again. Outside, Mickey comes running down the street, having heard the distinctive sound of the TARDIS's engines, and Rose hugs him, weeping.

When Jack contacts Floor 500, he finds that the Doctor has sent Rose home. When Jack asks if the Delta Wave will be ready, the Dalek Emperor breaks in on the transmission, noting that even if the wave is completed in time, it will not be able to discriminate between human and Dalek; it will wipe out all Daleks and humans within its long range. The Doctor replies that there are colonies in space and that the human race will survive, but the whole universe is in danger if he lets the Daleks live. Jack tells the Doctor to keep working, and defiantly tells the Emperor that he has never, and will never, doubt the Doctor. The Doctor questions the Emperor on how it managed to scatter the words "Bad Wolf" throughout history, but the Emperor replies that these words were not part of its design.

Jack places Lynda in an observation deck which has a heavy door that will hopefully hold the Daleks out for a time. From the deck, Lynda will monitor the station's sensors and update the rest of the humans on the Daleks' progress. Through the window, they see the fleet decelerate into Earth orbit, and thousands of Daleks begin to stream out from the saucers towards the station. The Daleks force the airlock on Floor 494, and begin to work their way up. They take the internal lasers off-line and ruthlessly exterminate the first batch of defenders, whose bastic bullets have no effect as they melt against the Dalek force fields. One of the people fighting screams at Jack through the radio, saying he lied to them about the effectiveness of the bullets, just before she dies.

In the 21st century, Jackie and Mickey try to persuade Rose to just get on with her life. Rose tells them that she cannot, because the Doctor showed her a better way to live, just as he showed Mickey: you do not just give up, you make a stand and fight for what is right. As Mickey tries to reason with her, Rose notices the words "Bad Wolf" scrawled in six-foot-high letters on a paved public area of the estate, and also in the form of graffiti on the surrounding walls. Rose realises that the words are not a warning, but a message, telling her that she can still get back to the Doctor. She runs for the TARDIS, hoping at least to help the Doctor escape. She tells Mickey that the TARDIS is telepathic, and to make contact, they need to get inside it, open the console to get at the heart of the TARDIS. However, their first attempt to pry the console open by hooking a chain to Mickey's car is unsuccessful.

On Floor 495, the Daleks encounter the Anne Droid from The Weakest Link, and it effectively manages to dispose of three Daleks via its "disintegration" laser only for another one to shoot its head off. To Lynda's horror, instead of flying up to 496, the Daleks travel down to Floor 000, exterminating everyone left there, with Rodrick screaming they don't exist the entire time.

In the TARDIS, Jackie tries her hand at persuading Rose to give up, but Rose tells her that Pete, her father, would not have given up; she knows this because she met him. Jackie does not believe this until Rose reminds her that a blonde girl was there holding Pete's hand when he died and that Jackie saw her from a distance; that girl was Rose. Shaken, Jackie rushes out of the TARDIS.

On 2002nd century Earth, the fleet descends, bombarding the planet, the outlines of the continents distorting on Lynda's screen (notably Australasia) as they are devastated by the Dalek bombing. The Emperor proudly proclaims that he has created heaven on Earth. Meanwhile, on Floor 499, Jack organises the last stand against the Daleks, telling the defenders to concentrate fire on the Dalek eye-stalks. This works against one Dalek, but the other Daleks are able to overwhelm the barricades. Lynda reports that she has a problem; the Daleks have located her. They attempt to enter the room but are unable to bypass the numerous combinations on the door. As a final resort, the Daleks summon an Assault Dalek to cut the door open with its flamethrower arm. As a terrified Lynda backs away from the door, she noticed outside of the window that a small group of Daleks have gathered outside of the window. They fire at the window, shattering it and exposing Lynda to the vacuum of space, killing her. Jack, the last person standing in the assault, vainly fires at the Daleks arriving at Floor 500, telling the Doctor to hurry up and finish the delta wave to destroy them.

Rose stares into the heart of the TARDIS.

Back in the 21st century, all attempts to open the TARDIS console have failed and Rose starts to consider giving up but Mickey won't allow her to, knowing how important returning to the Doctor is for her. Jackie then returns to the TARDIS with a heavy-duty recovery vehicle, loaned from an acquaintance who owes her a favour. She tells Rose that she was right; this would have been the sort of mad thing Pete would have done. The heavier chain of the recovery vehicle holds, and the console tears open. Rose stares into the heart of the TARDIS, and energy from within the console flows into her eyes. The TARDIS doors close of their own accord, shutting Jackie and Mickey out, and the TARDIS dematerialises, intense light visibly streaming out of the TARDIS windows.

Jack runs out of ammunition and is exterminated at the doorway to Floor 500 just as the Doctor finishes readying the Delta Wave. The Daleks glide into the control room, and when the Doctor threatens to activate the wave, the Emperor dares him to do so, to become like it — "the Great Exterminator", to make the choice between coward and killer. The Doctor hesitates, and then says he would be a coward any day, resulting in the Emperor to mock the Doctor for his decision. The Doctor asks what will happen now and if he will become one of the Emperor’s angels. The Emperor responds that the Doctor is the heathen and must be exterminated. A defeated Doctor accepts his fate and prepares for extermination, only for the TARDIS to materialise behind him. The doors open, the light from the TARDIS's heart spilling out into the control room, and in the middle of it all is Rose as Bad Wolf, glowing brightly. In answer to the Doctor, Rose tells him she looked into the TARDIS and it into her. The Doctor tells her that she looked into the time vortex, something no one is supposed to see.

Suffused with power, Rose easily stops and diverts a Dalek blast. As the Emperor calls her "the abomination", Rose explains that she is the Bad Wolf and proceeds to scatter the name of the Game Station's owners through time and space, to lead herself to this point. She can now see all of time and space: the past, present and all possible futures; all she wants is the Doctor to be safe and protected from the Daleks. The Emperor declares that she cannot hurt it as it is immortal, but Rose proves the Emperor wrong by waving her hand and disintegrating him. All the Daleks — emperor, fleet and those on Earth — are destroyed. Rose declares the Time War has ended. However, the power continues to stream through Rose, and she is unwilling to let go of the power of life and death, a power demonstrated when outside the room and unseen by the Doctor, Captain Jack suddenly returns to life. The Doctor tries desperately to get her to relinquish what she has been given, but Rose weeps that she cannot cope with the power coursing through her body and she is in great pain.

The Doctor knows that the power will kill her, so he pulls her close and says to her "I think you need a Doctor" and kisses her, drawing the energy into himself. As Rose falls unconscious, the Doctor releases the vortex energies back into the TARDIS and staggers slightly. Jack makes it to the control room only to see the TARDIS dematerialise without him.

The Ninth Doctor beams with one last huge grin before he regenerates.

On board, Rose awakens, remembering little of what has transpired. As she tries to figure out what happened, the Doctor jokes that he sang a song that made the Daleks run away, but he then notices a small ripple of energy sweeping across the back of his hand and his expression clouds momentarily. Turning back to Rose, he tells her that he was going to take her to so many places, like Barcelona — the planet, not the city, and that perhaps he will, just not as he is now. Rose does not understand what the Doctor is talking about until he buckles backwards in pain. The Doctor tells her that absorbing the vortex energy into himself has damaged him, and every cell in his body is dying as they speak. Trying to both ease Rose's worry and explain the process of regeneration to her, the Doctor tells her that Time Lords have a "trick" that allows them to "cheat death", but he will have to change, and this incarnation will not see her again. The Ninth Doctor's last words to Rose are, "Before I go, I just want to tell you, you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And you know what? So was I."

With that, the Doctor grins from ear to ear and remains smiling to the very end. Moments later, he tilts backwards with a swift jolt, blazing energy courses through his body, and before Rose's astonished eyes, the Doctor's features change and he regenerates into his next incarnation. His short hair grows out rapidly into thick brown locks, and as the energy recedes, he raises back up with a different face and a remarkably thinner physique, looking quite nonplussed.

The new Doctor.

The new Doctor says hello and begins to introduce himself somewhat incoherently. He then interrupts himself saying, "New teeth. That's weird." He wonders where he was going to go, before saying, "Oh, that's right. Barcelona." As Rose stares at him in great shock, the Doctor smiles.

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

and introducing David Tennant as Doctor Who

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

General production staff

Script department

Camera and lighting department

Art department

Costume department

Make-up and prosthetics

Movement

Casting

General post-production staff

Special and visual effects

Sound



Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.


Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Food[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • After being returned home, Rose eats chips at a café with Jackie and Mickey.
  • Jackie comments that the café has gone "up market" as they've started to serve little tubs of coleslaw.
  • Mickey tells Jackie about a new pizza delivery place on Minto Road.

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Technology[[edit] | [edit source]]

Planets[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The future Earth is bombarded by apocalyptic Dalek attacks that are strong enough to badly warp and disfigure the shapes of its continents.
  • The Doctor wishes to take Rose to the planet Barcelona.

Places[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor says he and Rose could go to 1989 Marbella to avoid the oncoming Dalek attack.

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

Story notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • According to his book The Writer's Tale, Russell T Davies planned to keep the departure of Christopher Eccleston a secret until the surprise regeneration. However, soon after the broadcast of The Unquiet Dead, the third episode of the season, the BBC's press office prematurely announced Eccleston's departure, which was followed several weeks later by confirmation that Tennant had been signed as the new Doctor, thereby removing both elements of surprise from the episode.
  • The guns used by Jack and the Game Station people are Heckler and Koch G36Ks.
  • Although he is soon brought back to life, Jack's death in this episode makes him the first companion to die since Kamelion in Planet of Fire.
  • The Doctor's farewell recording to Rose — "Have a good life ..." — is quoted in the lyrics of "Song for Ten", featured in the next full episode, The Christmas Invasion.
  • Jack kisses the Doctor affectionately on the mouth before going off to fight the Daleks. This is the first same-sex kiss featured in the Doctor Who franchise. The next instance of a same-sex kiss occurs in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship [+]Loading...["Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story)"] between the Eleventh Doctor and Rory Williams, though this was improvised by Matt Smith. Another occasion of a same-sex kiss occurs in the episode Deep Breath, when Madame Vastra kisses her wife Jenny, although this was more so out of survival than affection. Jack later kisses who he thinks to be the Doctor but is actually the Doctor's companion Graham O'Brien in TV: Fugitive of the Judoon.
  • This episode marks the last time that the lead character is identified as "Doctor Who" in the closing credits, with the exception of some releases of The Next Doctor [+]Loading...["The Next Doctor (TV story)"]. Beginning with The Christmas Invasion, the credit reverts to "The Doctor" as it had been during the last nine years of the original series.
  • This is the first time the Doctor, or any Time Lord for that matter, is seen regenerating standing up, as previous Doctors collapsed before regenerating. This would later become the norm.
  • Submerging the Dalek mutant puppet in the Emperor's water tank destroyed its inner mechanics. As a result, the puppet would not be used again until TV: The Stolen Earth/Journey's End. A CGI version of the mutant was later used in TV: Daleks in Manhattan.
  • This is the third regeneration episode to credit both actors playing the Doctor, the first two being TV: Logopolis and TV: The Caves of Androzani. The fourth occasion would be TV: The End of Time. Unlike the first two, and like the fourth, the incoming actor is the last actor to be credited. TV: Doctor Who also credited both actors who played the Doctor, but did so in the opening credits and without listing their roles specifically.
  • Back in 1993, the BBC produced a documentary entitled 30 Years in the TARDIS, which ended with several scenes showing how modern-day special effects could be applied to "new" Doctor Who production. One of these scenes shows many Daleks hovering together. Whether by accident or intent, this episode includes several scenes that strongly resemble this "what if" scenario.
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  • As the last episode of the series, there is no "Next Time" trailer at the end of the episode, merely a message that "Doctor Who will return in The Christmas Invasion".
  • The story was chosen by BBC America to represent the Christopher Eccleston era during their 50th anniversary programming. Edited into an omnibus format with Bad Wolf, it was aired by BBCA on 29 September 2013, after the debut of their homegrown special called The Doctors Revisited - The Ninth Doctor. It also aired in the United Kingdom later in the same year on 9 November, along with the Revisited special, on the Watch channel.
  • The only characters who do not die in this episode are Rose, Jackie and Mickey, who are all either main or recurring characters. Every guest character dies, along with the Ninth Doctor and Jack, though the latter is revived shortly afterwards. As a result, this is the first episode to kill off the entire guest cast since Horror of Fang Rock 28 years before, an act that would not be repeated again until The Doctor's Wife 6 years later.
  • Interestingly, David Tennant played Barty Crouch Jr. in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, who first appears in the present events of the story in a chapter called The Parting of the Ways. Both characters Tennant plays emerge after a person the rest of the characters are familiar with change their appearance, winding up with Tennant in a battered leather jacket and black jumper, displaying maniacal tendencies.
  • David Tennant is credited last, in the format of "and introducing David Tennant as Doctor Who." Apart from replacing "Doctor Who" with "The Doctor," all subsequent regeneration stories have credited the incoming Doctor in the same manner, including David Tennant's return as the Fourteenth Doctor in The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"].
  • This was the first episode in this series which was not given a press screening prior to the broadcast. The Radio Times stated, "No preview tape was available for this episode." The episode was, however, screened for BAFTA on 15 June 2005.
  • According to Russell T Davies in Doctor Who Magazine, Jack was left behind because they wanted to explore the effects of the regeneration on Rose (noting that Jack would have taken the regeneration "in his stride").
  • An alternate ending was written and filmed, with the intention that it would be shown to press previewers to hide the secret of the regeneration. The "false" ending would have featured similar dialogue to the televised final scene, but the TARDIS would have scanned Rose and the viewers would have seen the display read: "LIFEFORM DYING". Russell T Davies considered this scene inferior to the one actually shown but suggested that it might be suitable as an extra on a DVD someday. On the DVD commentary, executive producer Julie Gardner and Billie Piper briefly discuss this ending, which Gardner describes as featuring Rose's death; unlike Davies, Gardner expresses doubts that it will be issued on DVD (it was not included in the Series 1 DVD set).
  • David Tennant's portion of the regeneration scene was actually filmed much later than Christopher Eccleston's and without the presence of Billie Piper. Tennant's segment was recorded with him speaking to a piece of sticky tape indicating Piper's eyeline and then edited into the broadcast version.
  • Initially, the Controller survived into this episode to provide the Doctor with someone to talk to, until Russell T Davies decided it would be more effective to have him converse with the Emperor Dalek instead.
  • This is the second time that Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant have appeared together. They had previously both appeared in the film Jude, with Eccleston playing the lead role and Tennant making a cameo.
  • Joe Ahearne named Lynda's death scene as his favourite death in the series.
  • The Hungarian title of this episode is "Csata után találkozunk" (We Meet After the Battle).
  • The release of the audio story Terror Firma relatively shortly following The Parting of the Ways gave rise to a theory which suggested that Davros was destined to become the Emperor seen in this story, which was officially denied by Big Finish. Davros' return in The Stolen Earth and subsequent stories firmly established that Davros and the War Emperor were separate individuals and that Davros was no longer the Emperor by the Last Great Time War.
  • Rose's statement that the new Daleks were now half-human, to which they responded by calling her blasphemous for saying as such is a reference to how fans did not react well to the Eighth Doctor telling Grace Holloway in the TV movie that he is apparently half-human.
  • Having spotlighted the menace of a lone Dalek in Dalek, Russell T Davies now intended to dazzle audiences with the spectacle of a massive Dalek army.
  • Part of the reason Jack was added to the TARDIS crew was to provide Russell T Davies with a character well-versed in military tactics who could believably coordinate a defence against a full-scale Dalek assault.
  • Russell T Davies wanted to reunite Jackie with modern-day versions of her friends Bev, Sarah Clark and Suzie, who had been seen as young women in Father's Day. With the help of Jackie's boyfriend, Rodrigo, they would link their vehicles together to open the TARDIS console. This sequence was later replaced with the more straightforward introduction of the tow truck which Jackie borrowed from the now-unseen Rodrigo.
  • For the Doctor's regeneration, Russell T Davies was determined to establish a more dynamic and affirmative staging than had previously been employed. To this point, the Doctor had always regenerated in a vulnerable, prone position; now he would be standing and exploding with energy, turning into a virtual fountain of light.
  • Christopher Eccleston's part of the regeneration was then taped in secret, with a minimal crew.
  • The animatronic Kaled mutant introduced in Dalek was reused with the understanding that the liquid in which it floated would ultimately destroy the mechanism.
  • Nicholas Briggs modelled his Emperor Dalek voice on Peter Hawkins, who had voiced the character in The Evil of the Daleks.
  • Working to one-fifth scale, supervisor Mike Tucker and his team constructed a six-foot-tall version of the thirty-foot Emperor Dalek.

Ratings[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • 6.91 million viewers. (UK final)[1]

Myths[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • An alternative version of the ending features the death of Rose Tyler. Russell T Davies states that an alternative version of the final scene showed the Ninth Doctor looking at a screen displaying the text "DANGER: LIFE FORM DYING". This version was shown to the press in an attempt to preserve the surprise of the regeneration. This scene has never been released to the public, Davies electing not to include the scene on the Complete First Series DVD set, however, he stated it may make an interesting curio for a DVD release at some point in the future.
  • After it was announced prematurely by the BBC that Christopher Eccleston was leaving the series, some media reports indicated that he would leave (and regenerate) in the announced Christmas special, rather than this episode. This may have been intentional in order to preserve the surprise ending of this episode (which might also explain the fake Rose death reports, too).
  • Lynda Moss was going to join and/or replace Rose Tyler as a companion in this story, but the script was re-written to depict her extermination. Billie Piper had already signed on for an additional series, and no plans were made to incorporate Lynda Moss as a recurring character.
  • This episode would feature Spider Daleks. This was proven false.

Filming locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Production errors[[edit] | [edit source]]

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.
  • The guns, when shown close-up, are revealed to be on "safe".
  • All of the Daleks' ID codes except for the Emperor are the same three numbers over and over again.
  • The Emperor Dalek's lights are flashing (albeit briefly) when his drone Daleks are shouting "DO NOT BLASPHEME".
  • When the Daleks exterminate Jack, the CGI skeleton's foot can clearly be seen in front of the Dalek "sucker" when it should, in fact, be behind it.
  • The CGI Dalek Emperor contained a pink Dalek Mutant, however, the prop for the Dalek Emperor mutant was later made to be purple. In some scenes, the original CGI mutant can be seen with incorrect colouring.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Dalek cutting arm.

Home video releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

Series 1 Volume 4: Boom Town - Bad Wolf - The Parting of the Ways DVD Cover
  • The Parting of the Ways was released on a single DVD together with Boom Town and Bad Wolf. The three episodes were also released on a single UMD (for Sony's PlayStation Portable).
  • The Parting of the Ways was also released as part of the Series 1 DVD box set.
  • This story was also released with Issue 7 of the Doctor Who DVD Files.

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ Doctor Who - consolidated ratings
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