Journey's End (TV story): Difference between revisions

Meanwhile, Sarah Jane is covering her arms, waiting to be exterminated by the Daleks, but with flashes of blue light, Mickey and Jackie appear beside the car and they blast the Daleks to pieces. Sarah Jane gets out of the car, shocked. Over at Torchwood, Gwen and Ianto shoot at the Dalek, raging. But they notice something strange and they cease fire. They walk forward cautiously and see their bullets hang in the air, like stopped by an invisible wall. Gwen reaches out slowly to touch it - she can't, but her finger makes a ripple in the air.

The TARDIS is transported by the [[Dalek]]s to the Dalek [[Crucible]] and rendered powerless. The Doctor, Jack, and Rose exit, but Donna is distracted by the sound of a heartbeat and, while she is looking back, the TARDIS door slams closed. Before the Doctor can free her, the Daleks dump the TARDIS into a waste chute, to be destroyed in the centre-core of the [[Crucible]]. The TARDIS plummets down the chute and begins to burn up. As the TARDIS interior explodes around her, Donna collapses near the severed hand. She hears the heartbeat again and touches the container and energy flows between it and her. The hand bursts out of the container, and forms as a [[Clone Doctor|new Doctor]], although this Doctor has only one heart and has picked up some of Donna's mannerisms. With his help, the TARDIS escapes destruction and gives the new Doctor and Donna time to come up with a plan.

Aboard the Crucible, Jack creates a distraction by shooting the [[Supreme One|Supreme Dalek]] with his revolver, but is exterminated by the Daleks. The Doctor and Rose are taken to the Vault where Davros is held. Rose is desolate; she doesn't know she made Jack immortal as the [[Bad Wolf (entity)|Bad Wolf]] and that his [[immortality]] has allowed him to escape.

With the Doctor and Rose contained, Davros explains that the twenty-seven planets form an energy pattern amplified into a "[[reality bomb]]", able to break apart the electrical forces holding everything together, a creation Davros calls ''"the apotheosis of my genius!"''. Mickey, Jackie, and Sarah Jane have been taken with many other humans to a testing of the bomb but they escape the test chamber just in time (unlike the other humans, who vanish). The effect of the bomb is shown to the Doctor. Both Doctors realise how it works. Jack finds his way to the three, and with a [[Warp star]] from Sarah Jane, creates a device that will implode the Crucible. Meanwhile, Martha makes contact with two other bases in [[China]] and [[Liberia]]. The Chinese counterpart wants to get it over and done with, but Martha, knowing the Doctor, first broadcasts a signal to the Crucible to give them (probably both Earth and the Daleks) a second chance, vowing to use the [[Osterhagen key]] to detonate twenty-five nuclear warheads under the [[Earth]]'s crust to destroy it and disable the reality bomb.

The Daleks lock onto their positions and [[transmat]] Martha, Jack, Mickey, Jackie, and Sarah Jane to the Vault where the Doctor and Rose are being held captive.

Nothing happens. Donna has used the controls to disable it. The Doctor recognises that the creation of the new Doctor has had an unintended side effect: Donna is now half Time Lord herself, sharing the Doctor's intellect. She explains that the meta-crisis that created the other Doctor also affected her, but the effect had laid dormant, just needing a little spark to start it. She loudly and proudly thanks Davros for electrocuting her. Donna and the new Doctor free the others, and, with the help of the original Doctor, disable the Daleks and start to send the planets back to their proper time and space. The Daleks are left literally spinning round in circles thanks to Donna.

The Supreme Dalek descends to the vault, furious to know why Dalek Caan had not seen this. The Doctor suggests that he '''did''' see it, and Caan admits that he had seen the Daleks for what they were, seen all the evil they caused and secretly aided the Doctor in their destruction.

Twenty-six planets are returned to their correct places, but before Earth can be, the machinery is destroyed by the Supreme Dalek, who is destroyed by Jack. The original Doctor races into the TARDIS to replace the broken machine. Realising that [[Dalek Caan]] has seen the end of the Daleks, has been manipulating time to achieve this, and knowing that, even without the Reality Bomb, the Daleks can still take the universe by force, the new Doctor uses the remaining machinery to destroy all the Daleks and their fleet. The companions flee into the TARDIS. When the Doctor offers to save [[Davros]], he refuses. Gesturing at the destruction around them, he bellows ''"Never forget, Doctor, you did this! I name you forever! You are the Destroyer of Worlds!"'', an epithet the Daleks have long associated with the Doctor. Caan ominously predicts again that one of the Doctor's companions will still die. Unable to save either of them, the Doctor flees into the TARDIS just before the Crucible is destroyed.

Returning to their universe, Donna finds she has trouble thinking; the Doctor explains that the human brain cannot take in the Time Lord mentality. She begs him not to, but to save her, he wipes her mind of all her encounters with the Doctor/ He returns her home and explains to her family, [[Sylvia Noble]] and [[Wilfred Mott]], that she must never be reminded of her time with the Doctor or she will die. As Donna recovers consciousness, she shows no interest in the Doctor and chats on the phone to her friends, who are all talking about the Medusa Cascade incident. Wilfred promises he will look out for the Doctor every night while he looks at the sky on her behalf. The Doctor quickly thanks Wilfred, then returns to the TARDIS alone, exhausted and heartbroken.