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==Plot== | ==Plot== | ||
The [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] materialises on a street in [[Rose Tyler|Rose's]] [[Powell Estate|council estate]]. The [[Ninth Doctor|Doctor]] has taken Rose back home, some twelve hours after she first left with him, by his estimate. However, | The [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] materialises on a street in [[Rose Tyler|Rose's]] [[Powell Estate|council estate]]. The [[Ninth Doctor|Doctor]] has taken Rose back home, some twelve hours after she first left with him, by his estimate. Or so he believes. However, while waiting for Rose to return, a flyer on a nearby telephone pole catches his eye -- a missing-persons flyer with Rose’s picture on it. When Rose enters her flat and casually greets her mother, claiming to have spent the night with a friend, the stunned Jackie sweeps her daughter up in a desperate, unbelieving hug -- and, over her shoulder, Rose sees a table covered with missing-persons flyers and posters, all with her name and picture on them. The Doctor bursts into the flat, takes in the situation, and apologetically tells Rose that she hasn’t been gone for twelve hours, but for twelve months... | ||
Some time later, outside Jackie’s flat, a young boy spray-paints the words “BAD WOLF” on the TARDIS and cycles off. Meanwhile, a policeman sits and listens patiently as Jackie lashes out at Rose for her thoughtlessness in vanishing for over a year without so much as a phone call. Rose claims that she’s been travelling, but Jackie angrily points out that she left her passport behind. The Doctor explains that he employed Rose as his companion -- in a non-sexual sense -- but Jackie turns her anger on him, slapping him and accusing him of luring away her daughter for immoral purposes. Rose is embarrassed and remorseful, but despite Jackie’s pleas, Rose can’t even begin to explain where she’s been for the past year. | |||
Rose and the Doctor talk on the roof of her tower block, where she expresses her frustration at not being able to tell her mother because she would not understand. Nobody else on [[Earth]] knows that there are [[alien]]s and [[spacecraft|spaceships]] and things… just as a massive cruiser-like spaceship roars overhead, trailing black smoke. The craft zooms through Central [[London]], its wing cutting into the side of the Clock Tower that holds [[Big Ben]], ringing the bell before it finally careens and splashes down into the [[River Thames]]. The river is cordoned off by soldiers from the Parachute Regiment, and the Doctor and Rose have to watch the events unfold on the [[television]] in Jackie's flat. The world is being put on red alert, divers have apparently recovered an alien body from the wreckage of the craft, but there is still no word from the [[Prime Minister]]. The body is placed under military supervision under the command of General [[Asquith]] and brought to the nearby [[Albion Hospital]]. The general examines the body and asks [[Toshiko Sato|Dr Sato]], the pathologist, whether the creature is a fake. She tells him that [[X-ray]]s of the skull show wiring she has never seen before — no one could have made it up. | Rose and the Doctor talk on the roof of her tower block, where she expresses her frustration at not being able to tell her mother because she would not understand. Nobody else on [[Earth]] knows that there are [[alien]]s and [[spacecraft|spaceships]] and things… just as a massive cruiser-like spaceship roars overhead, trailing black smoke. The craft zooms through Central [[London]], its wing cutting into the side of the Clock Tower that holds [[Big Ben]], ringing the bell before it finally careens and splashes down into the [[River Thames]]. The river is cordoned off by soldiers from the Parachute Regiment, and the Doctor and Rose have to watch the events unfold on the [[television]] in Jackie's flat. The world is being put on red alert, divers have apparently recovered an alien body from the wreckage of the craft, but there is still no word from the [[Prime Minister]]. The body is placed under military supervision under the command of General [[Asquith]] and brought to the nearby [[Albion Hospital]]. The general examines the body and asks [[Toshiko Sato|Dr Sato]], the pathologist, whether the creature is a fake. She tells him that [[X-ray]]s of the skull show wiring she has never seen before — no one could have made it up. | ||
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Meanwhile, Mickey confronts Rose about where she has been with the Doctor, and smugly tells her about the TARDIS disappearing, telling Rose that the Doctor has abandoned her. When Mickey, Jackie and Rose go to where the TARDIS was formerly parked, Rose's key starts to glow, followed by the TARDIS materialising before their eyes. Rose proceeds inside with Mickey, but Jackie is too overwhelmed by what she has seen, and exits the ship to run back to her flat. The Doctor confesses that he suspected the crash was a fake — it was too perfect a set-up. Mickey notes that it is an odd way to invade a planet by putting it on red alert. Mickey (whom the Doctor insists on calling "Ricky") and the Doctor exchange barbs, but the Doctor has more important things to do. While Mickey and Rose catch up, the Doctor modifies the TARDIS scanner to track the spacecraft back twelve hours before the crash and discovers that it was launched from Earth. Whoever these aliens are, they have been here for a while. | Meanwhile, Mickey confronts Rose about where she has been with the Doctor, and smugly tells her about the TARDIS disappearing, telling Rose that the Doctor has abandoned her. When Mickey, Jackie and Rose go to where the TARDIS was formerly parked, Rose's key starts to glow, followed by the TARDIS materialising before their eyes. Rose proceeds inside with Mickey, but Jackie is too overwhelmed by what she has seen, and exits the ship to run back to her flat. The Doctor confesses that he suspected the crash was a fake — it was too perfect a set-up. Mickey notes that it is an odd way to invade a planet by putting it on red alert. Mickey (whom the Doctor insists on calling "Ricky") and the Doctor exchange barbs, but the Doctor has more important things to do. While Mickey and Rose catch up, the Doctor modifies the TARDIS scanner to track the spacecraft back twelve hours before the crash and discovers that it was launched from Earth. Whoever these aliens are, they have been here for a while. | ||
Jackie | Jackie huddles up in her flat, trying to cope with what she’s seen -- and when the Emergency Alien Hotline number reappears on the TV, she calls it up and blurts out her story, claiming that her daughter is in danger because of an alien called the Doctor who travels in a blue box called the TARDIS. These key words trigger an automated alert which Ganesh receives at 10 Downing Street. | ||
Ganesh rushes to tell General Asquith. Inside the Cabinet Office, the alien that was Oliver Charles puts on the general's skin, while Blaine remarks that they have to do something about the "gas exchange" that is causing their flatulence. Ganesh tells Asquith about that the Doctor has been spotted, and when Blaine asks who this "doctor" is; Ganesh explains that the Doctor is ''the'' expert on aliens, one they desperately need. In the meantime, other alien experts from around the world, including the [[United Nations Intelligence Taskforce]], are being summoned to Downing Street. | |||
[[Image:Slitheen.jpg|thumb|left|A Slitheen in its true form.]] | [[Image:Slitheen.jpg|thumb|left|A Slitheen in its true form.]] | ||