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After Jenny runs ahead to scout, the Doctor explains to Donna his previous parenting, the pain of losing the Time Lords and his family, and the fact that he is reminded of them when he sees Jenny. They come across a [[Laser|security grid]] and the Doctor shuts it off just as Cobb and his men break through the door. This gives Jenny an epiphany: follow her dad or shoot Cobb. She chooses to shoot a pipe to buy time, but doesn't make it back to the Doctor in time as the security beams come back on. Jenny abandons her gun and flips through the beams, astonishing her father and Donna. The Doctor yells to Cobb that if the Source is a weapon, he's going to destroy it, while Cobb threatens the Doctor's life, saying one of them will die, but not himself. | After Jenny runs ahead to scout, the Doctor explains to Donna his previous parenting, the pain of losing the Time Lords and his family, and the fact that he is reminded of them when he sees Jenny. They come across a [[Laser|security grid]] and the Doctor shuts it off just as Cobb and his men break through the door. This gives Jenny an epiphany: follow her dad or shoot Cobb. She chooses to shoot a pipe to buy time, but doesn't make it back to the Doctor in time as the security beams come back on. Jenny abandons her gun and flips through the beams, astonishing her father and Donna. The Doctor yells to Cobb that if the Source is a weapon, he's going to destroy it, while Cobb threatens the Doctor's life, saying one of them will die, but not himself. | ||
The Doctor, Donna, Jenny and Martha are reunited in the temple, which the Doctor realises is the original and fully functional colony spaceship. This puzzles him as the ship is obviously well-maintained. They find a computer that says the mission commander of the colonisation for Messaline died of Byzantine fever and the human and Hath dived into factions over | The Doctor, Donna, Jenny and Martha are reunited in the temple, which the Doctor realises is the original and fully functional colony spaceship. This puzzles him as the ship is obviously well-maintained, despite having supposedly being abandoned for years. They find a computer that says the mission commander of the colonisation for Messaline died of Byzantine fever and the human and Hath dived into factions over the resulting power vacuum. Donna stares at a digital [[clock]] on the wall and suddenly realises what the numbers are... dates; the city was built in sections outward from the spaceship and the dates (which aren't counting ''down'', but counting ''out'') mark when each section was completed. The clock shows that it has been a mere week since the ship landed. The Doctor realises that the term "generations" is relative. The technological reproduction system of the humans and Hath allows for as many as twenty generations in a single day; they have turned their history into a mythology. They suddenly smell flowers and race to the very top to find "[[Kew Gardens]]", which houses the fabled Source, a terraforming device to make hostile environments habitable. | ||
Cobb's army and the Hath army arrive and the Doctor explains that they no longer really know why they're here as their history is getting more distorted the more it's passed on, like [[Chinese whispers]]. The Doctor, surrounded by both armies, declares the war over and smashes the Source to release its gases and start the [[terraform]]ing process. Both armies lay down their weapons in awe of the new planet forming around them. Jenny wonders what is happening and the Doctor tells her the gases will escape to the outside, triggering the terraforming process, and a new world will be born. | Cobb's army and the Hath army arrive and the Doctor explains that they no longer really know why they're here as their history is getting more distorted the more it's passed on, like [[Chinese whispers]]. The Doctor, surrounded by both armies, declares the war over and smashes the Source to release its gases and start the [[terraform]]ing process. Both armies lay down their weapons in awe of the new planet forming around them. Jenny wonders what is happening and the Doctor tells her the gases will escape to the outside, triggering the terraforming process, and a new world will be born. | ||
