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In the music hall, Dickens gives a reading of ''[[A Christmas Carol]]''. Just as he reaches the point where Marley's face appears in Scrooge's door knocker, he stops short as in the audience, Mrs. Pearce starts to glow blue. Vapour pours out of her mouth, and an ethereal gas with a vaguely human shape sweeps around the hall, emitting ghastly screams and sends the audience running in a panic. The screams attract Rose and the Doctor as well as Sneed and Gwyneth. As the vapour completely leaves the dead woman's body is sucked into a gas lamp, and the body collapses. Dickens accuses the Doctor of being responsible for the illusion. Sneed and Gwyneth carry the limp body out. Rose goes in pursuit, and Sneed [[Wikipedia:chloroform|chloroforms]] her, bundling her into the hearse with the dead woman. The Doctor commandeers Dickens's coach, but the great writer's protests vanish when the Doctor discovers who he is and gushes over his genius. When the Doctor tells him about Rose, Dickens chivalrously joins the chase. | In the music hall, Dickens gives a reading of ''[[A Christmas Carol]]''. Just as he reaches the point where Marley's face appears in Scrooge's door knocker, he stops short as in the audience, Mrs. Pearce starts to glow blue. Vapour pours out of her mouth, and an ethereal gas with a vaguely human shape sweeps around the hall, emitting ghastly screams and sends the audience running in a panic. The screams attract Rose and the Doctor as well as Sneed and Gwyneth. As the vapour completely leaves the dead woman's body is sucked into a gas lamp, and the body collapses. Dickens accuses the Doctor of being responsible for the illusion. Sneed and Gwyneth carry the limp body out. Rose goes in pursuit, and Sneed [[Wikipedia:chloroform|chloroforms]] her, bundling her into the hearse with the dead woman. The Doctor commandeers Dickens's coach, but the great writer's protests vanish when the Doctor discovers who he is and gushes over his genius. When the Doctor tells him about Rose, Dickens chivalrously joins the chase. | ||
[[File:Doctor dickens.jpg|thumb|The Doctor meets Charles Dickens.]] | |||
Rose awakens in the locked viewing gallery of the funeral parlour, not seeing another gaseous entity take over the late Mr. Redpath's body. As the Doctor and Dickens arrive at the parlour and force their way in, Mr. Redpath and his grandmother climb out of their coffins to menace Rose. The house's gas lights flicker. The Doctor realises there is something living in the pipes. He hears Rose's cries and breaks the door down, pulling her away from the corpses. He asks them who they are. The corpses cry that they are dying because [[Cardiff rift|the Rift]] is failing and these forms cannot be sustained. The screaming blue vapours stream out of the dead, and the bodies collapse again. | Rose awakens in the locked viewing gallery of the funeral parlour, not seeing another gaseous entity take over the late Mr. Redpath's body. As the Doctor and Dickens arrive at the parlour and force their way in, Mr. Redpath and his grandmother climb out of their coffins to menace Rose. The house's gas lights flicker. The Doctor realises there is something living in the pipes. He hears Rose's cries and breaks the door down, pulling her away from the corpses. He asks them who they are. The corpses cry that they are dying because [[Cardiff rift|the Rift]] is failing and these forms cannot be sustained. The screaming blue vapours stream out of the dead, and the bodies collapse again. | ||