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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
In [[1925]] [[Soho]], [[Charles Banerjee]] enters a [[Mr Emporium|toy store]] to purchase a [[Stooky Bill]] ventriloquist’s dummy. The store's owner is delighted to learn why Banerjee wants the doll: his employer, [[John Logie Baird]], needs a subject to test his newest invention. Baird and Banerjee place the dummy's head before the camera and begin the test - the first ever television recording. The camera’s wheels spin and the bright lights burn and to the accompaniment of an arpeggioed giggle, the dummy bursts into flames. | In [[1925]] [[Soho]], [[Charles Banerjee]] enters a [[Mr Emporium|toy store]] to purchase a [[Stooky Bill]] ventriloquist’s dummy. The store's owner is delighted to learn why Banerjee wants the doll: his employer, [[John Logie Baird]], needs a subject to test his newest invention. Banerjee is disturbed by the shop owner, particularly when his German accent slips. Baird and Banerjee place the dummy's head before the camera and begin the test - the first ever television recording. The camera’s wheels spin and the bright lights burn and to the accompaniment of an arpeggioed giggle, the dummy bursts into flames. | ||
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Following their return from the [[edge of the universe]], the [[Fourteenth Doctor]] and [[Donna Noble]] find a [[2023]] [[21st century London|London]] plagued by chaotic anarchy. A man annoyed by cars driving in his way tells the Doctor that everybody on Earth believes themselves to be right all the time and that arguing drives them into a rage. [[UNIT United Kingdom|UNIT]] arrives on the scene and takes the Doctor and Donna to [[UNIT HQ, City of London|UNIT HQ]], where they are reunited with [[Shirley Anne Bingham]] and [[Kate Lethbridge-Stewart]], both inoculated to the chaos thanks to a UNIT-created armband called a [[Zeedex]]. The Doctor deduces that he and [[the Vlinx]] are immune due to their alienness, as are Donna and [[Melanie Bush]], who recently joined UNIT, benefitting from the effects of long-term TARDIS travel. Kate orders her Zeedex deactivated to demonstrate the consequences: no longer suppressed, a distorted brainwave not previously present makes her paranoid and vengeful. Analysing the waveform and playing it as a sound, the group discovers it corresponds to the giggle accompanying the Stooky Bill recording. The recording has been hidden in every screen since, only triggered when the launch of the [[KOSAT 5]] satellite finally connected all of humanity to the internet. | Following their return from the [[edge of the universe]], the [[Fourteenth Doctor]] and [[Donna Noble]] find a [[2023]] [[21st century London|London]] plagued by chaotic anarchy. A man annoyed by cars driving in his way tells the Doctor that everybody on Earth believes themselves to be right all the time and that arguing drives them into a rage. [[UNIT United Kingdom|UNIT]] arrives on the scene and takes the Doctor and Donna to [[UNIT HQ, City of London|UNIT HQ]], where they are reunited with [[Shirley Anne Bingham]] and [[Kate Lethbridge-Stewart]], both inoculated to the chaos thanks to a UNIT-created armband called a [[Zeedex]]. The Doctor deduces that he and [[the Vlinx]], a robot, are immune due to their alienness, as are Donna and [[Melanie Bush]], who recently joined UNIT, benefitting from the effects of long-term TARDIS travel. Kate orders her Zeedex deactivated to demonstrate the consequences: no longer suppressed, a distorted brainwave not previously present makes her paranoid and vengeful. Analysing the waveform and playing it as a sound, the group discovers it corresponds to the giggle accompanying the Stooky Bill recording. The recording has been hidden in every screen since, only triggered when the launch of the [[KOSAT 5]] satellite finally connected all of humanity to the internet. | ||
The Doctor and Donna trek back to 1925, searching for the cause of madness sweeping humanity, and trace Stooky Bill to the toy store. Entering it, the Doctor runs into the owner - [[the Toymaker]]. He | The Doctor and Donna trek back to 1925, searching for the cause of madness sweeping humanity, and trace Stooky Bill to the toy store. Entering it, the Doctor runs into the owner - [[the Toymaker]], who talks about the oldest game, catch, while juggling balls. He recognises his old foe, let into the world due to his invocation of a superstition: a line of salt [[Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)|at the edge of the universe]]. The Doctor chases the Toymaker, telling Donna to return to [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. Donna insists on staying with him, and the two become trapped in the Toymaker's funhouse labyrinth, stumbling around and eventually becoming separated. The Doctor encounters Banerjee, turned into a marionette who dances on the Toymaker's command after losing a game to remove the giggle in his head. Donna encounters Stooky Bill's living doll family and breaks them as they try to eat her. | ||
The Doctor and Donna reunite and find themselves the guests of honour at the Toymaker's puppet show: an attempt to recount to Donna the Doctor's adventures since leaving her. The Toymaker portrays the deaths of [[Amy Pond]], [[Clara Oswald]], and [[Bill Potts]], the Doctor objecting that none of them died under his care; all three lived on in some form. The Toymaker is dismissive and treats the nit-picking with contempt, mentioning how the [[The Flux|Flux]] ravaged the universe under the Doctor's watch. Unable to take more, the Doctor challenges the Toymaker to a game. The Toymaker accepts, bragging as they prepare about his fun since arriving in the universe. He has defeated [[God (mythology)|God]] and turned him into a [[Jack-in-the-Box]], made a jigsaw out of [[The Doctor's early life|the Doctor's history]], and become [[the Master]]'s last hope of life, sealing him inside a gold tooth when he lost his own game. There was one person the Toymaker did not face, "the one who waits", but he considers that a game for another day. | The Doctor and Donna reunite and find themselves the guests of honour at the Toymaker's puppet show: an attempt to recount to Donna the Doctor's adventures since leaving her. The Toymaker portrays the deaths of [[Amy Pond]], [[Clara Oswald]], and [[Bill Potts]], the Doctor objecting that none of them died under his care; all three lived on in some form. The Toymaker is dismissive and treats the nit-picking with contempt, mentioning how the [[The Flux|Flux]] ravaged the universe under the Doctor's watch. Unable to take more, the Doctor challenges the Toymaker to a game. The Toymaker accepts, bragging as they prepare about his fun since arriving in the universe. He has defeated [[God (mythology)|God]] and turned him into a [[Jack-in-the-Box]], made a jigsaw out of [[The Doctor's early life|the Doctor's history]], and become [[the Master]]'s last hope of life, sealing him inside a gold tooth when he lost his own game. There was one person the Toymaker did not face, "the one who waits", but he considers that a game for another day. | ||
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In UNIT HQ in 2023, UNIT manages to shoot down the KOSAT 5 satellite using their [[galvanic beam]], breaking the satellite chain triggering the giggle. The Doctor arrives and hands Mel the toy box, warning UNIT to be careful - the Toymaker is an elemental force who can meddle with reality, stepping from 1925 to the present as if walking through a door. The Toymaker promptly walks through a door he creates in the middle of the room, performing a song and dance number. UNIT's attempts to interfere are completely ineffective, their soldiers collapsing into bouncy balls upon touching him and their bullets becoming harmless rose petals. The Toymaker disappears through the floor before materialising on the helipad manning the galvanic beam. The Doctor begs the Toymaker to stop, offering to leave with him to take their game to the stars. The Toymaker is tempted, but declines; he considers [[Earth]] the ultimate playground. | In UNIT HQ in 2023, UNIT manages to shoot down the KOSAT 5 satellite using their [[galvanic beam]], breaking the satellite chain triggering the giggle. The Doctor arrives and hands Mel the toy box, warning UNIT to be careful - the Toymaker is an elemental force who can meddle with reality, stepping from 1925 to the present as if walking through a door. The Toymaker promptly walks through a door he creates in the middle of the room, performing a song and dance number. UNIT's attempts to interfere are completely ineffective, their soldiers collapsing into bouncy balls upon touching him and their bullets becoming harmless rose petals. The Toymaker disappears through the floor before materialising on the helipad manning the galvanic beam. The Doctor begs the Toymaker to stop, offering to leave with him to take their game to the stars. The Toymaker is tempted, but declines; he considers [[Earth]] the ultimate playground. | ||
The Doctor demands that the Toymaker finish their game, prompting the Toymaker to shoot him through his stomach with the galvanic beam. As he played the first game with [[First Doctor|one Doctor]] and the second with this Doctor, the rules dictate that a third Doctor must play the third game. The Doctor begins to [[regeneration|regenerate]], saying a final "Allons-y". However, when he accepts the change, the regeneration light dies away....and the Doctor doesn't change. As Donna and Mel look at him in confusion the Doctor asks the both of them, still holding his hands, to pull on him - much to the Doctor's own confusion something about the regeneration feels different this time. As Donna and Mel begin to pull | The Doctor demands that the Toymaker finish their game, prompting the Toymaker to shoot him through his stomach with the galvanic beam. As he played the first game with [[First Doctor|one Doctor]] and the second with this Doctor, the rules dictate that a third Doctor must play the third game. The Doctor begins to [[regeneration|regenerate]], saying a final "Allons-y". However, when he accepts the change, the regeneration light dies away....and the Doctor doesn't change. As Donna and Mel look at him in confusion the Doctor asks the both of them, still holding his hands, to pull on him - much to the Doctor's own confusion something about the regeneration feels different this time. As Donna and Mel begin to pull, the Doctor begins to glow with [[regeneration energy]] again, and much to the shock and confusion of everyone watching, including the Toymaker, the Doctor's body begins splitting in half. The Doctor looks in shock and confusion into the face of a dark skinned man who quickly becomes excited at what is happening as they continue to separate, with the Doctor quickly realising that this man is in fact his next incarnation: the [[Fifteenth Doctor]], and with one final push, both Doctors completely separate from each other and finish the regeneration. The split also results in parts of the Fourteenth Doctor's clothes to be shared between the two incarnations. The Doctors excitedly greet and hug each other, before the Fifteenth Doctor calms down from the excitement of what just happened and asks someone to tell him "what the hell is going on here", with Kate and Shirley also wanting to know what's going on, in particular with how it's even possible that the Doctor's regeneration resulted in him splitting in two. The Fifteenth Doctor quickly dispels everyone's confusion - he has [[Bi-generation|bi-generated]], explaining that such a regeneration isn't actually supposed to be a thing and it's something the Time Lords had thought to be a myth. | ||
The Doctors both challenge the Toymaker to a game. They strike down his protest that this is cheating - the Fifteenth Doctor was brought into the game according to the rules. The Toymaker begrudgingly begins a high-stakes take on man's oldest game: a game of catch where the first player to drop the ball loses. The trio dash across the helipad, tossing the ball back and forth, barely catching it many times, before the Toymaker misses a throw that falls to the city below. The Doctors the winners, the Fourteenth Doctor claims his prize: forever banishing the Toymaker from existence. The Toymaker cries out that his legions will come for them before folding up like a paper doll and slotting inside his toy box, which UNIT takes to their deepest vault to bind in salt as the waveform dissipates. The Toymaker's gold tooth that contained The Master, is picked up by a mysterious woman as the laugh of various incarnations of | The Doctors both challenge the Toymaker to a game. They strike down his protest that this is cheating - the Fifteenth Doctor was brought into the game according to the rules. The Toymaker begrudgingly begins a high-stakes take on man's oldest game: a game of catch where the first player to drop the ball loses. The trio dash across the helipad, tossing the ball back and forth, barely catching it many times, before the Toymaker misses a throw that falls to the city below. The Doctors the winners, the Fourteenth Doctor claims his prize: forever banishing the Toymaker from existence. The Toymaker cries out that his legions will come for them before folding up like a paper doll and slotting inside his toy box, which UNIT takes to their deepest vault to bind in salt as the waveform dissipates. The Toymaker's gold tooth that contained The Master, is picked up by a mysterious woman as the laugh of various incarnations of the Master is heard. | ||
Inside the TARDIS, the Doctors discuss how life will work with two Doctors simultaneously existing. The Fifteenth Doctor insists he is only stable because the Fourteenth Doctor spent time recovering from the Doctor's heavy experiences in their prior incarnations. Donna supports this, believing the Fourteenth Doctor regenerated into a form near-identical to the [[Tenth Doctor]] as a subconscious sign to "come home" and rest. The Fourteenth Doctor reluctantly agrees, but hesitates to part with the TARDIS. The Fifteenth Doctor realises the Toymaker's domain might be lingering and that he hasn't claimed his prize. He retrieves a mallet from under the TARDIS platform and hits the TARDIS, forging a new one. The Fourteenth Doctor bids farewell to his successor, both hugging each other and leaving by saluting each other. He boards the new TARDIS (which contains a jukebox) and dematerialises, leaving the original TARDIS with the Fourteenth Doctor. | Inside the TARDIS, the Doctors discuss how life will work with two Doctors simultaneously existing. The Fifteenth Doctor insists he is only stable because the Fourteenth Doctor spent time recovering from the Doctor's heavy experiences in their prior incarnations. Donna supports this, believing the Fourteenth Doctor regenerated into a form near-identical to the [[Tenth Doctor]] as a subconscious sign to "come home" and rest. The Fourteenth Doctor reluctantly agrees, but hesitates to part with the TARDIS. The Fifteenth Doctor realises the Toymaker's domain might be lingering and that he hasn't claimed his prize. He retrieves a mallet from under the TARDIS platform and hits the TARDIS, forging a new one. The Fourteenth Doctor bids farewell to his successor, both hugging each other and leaving by saluting each other. He boards the new TARDIS (which contains a jukebox) and dematerialises, leaving the original TARDIS with the Fourteenth Doctor. |
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