Last of the Time Lords (TV story): Difference between revisions

But as the clock counts down, Martha starts to laugh out loud, prompting the Master to angrily demand to know what she finds so funny. Martha now reveals the real reason she travelled the globe: it wasn't for a fictional anti-regeneration gun, as the Doctor himself points out that he would have never asked Martha to kill, nor was it to fight back; but merely to talk. She told everyone about the Doctor; specifically, she told everyone to think of the Doctor at the same time the Master plans to launch his fleet. Docherty's betrayal was planned — engineered by Martha so that she would be brought on board the ''Valiant'' to rejoin the Doctor. Combined with the Master's [[Archangel Network]], which the Doctor has had an entire year to tune to the frequency of, this has the effect of charging the Doctor with the combined psychic energy of the people of Earth. This enables the Doctor to restore his youthful physiognomy and end the Master's control. The combined psychic energy gives the Doctor great power and he is not only able to restore himself with it, but it shields him and temporarily grants him [[telekinesis]] with which he removes the Master's laser screwdriver from his hand. As the Master cowers against a wall, the Doctor says the words the Master was terrified to hear: "I forgive you".

With the Master out of the picture, Jack rounds up some soldiers to destroy the paradox machine, but is delayed by the Toclafane. The Master, using Jack's [[vortex manipulator]], teleports himself and the Doctor to Earth, threatening to detonate his fleet and take the Earth with it. The Doctor knows that the Master would never kill himself, and manages to teleport both himself and the Master back to the ''Valiant'' just as Jack destroys the paradox machine; this causes all time to reverse. Time reverses to the moment of the Paradox machine's activation, just after the [[Arthur Coleman Winters|US President]] was killed and just before the Toclafane arrived. All those on the ''Valiant'' will remember the events of the previous year due to being at "the eye of the storm," but nobody else will know of the Master's reign of terror in "[[The Year That Never Was|the year that never was]]." The Master tries to run but ends up running straight into Jack who recaptures him.