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|series = [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] mini-series and one-shots | |series = [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] mini-series and one-shots | ||
|doctor = Tenth Doctor | |doctor = Tenth Doctor | ||
|companions = | |companions = [[The Doctor's TARDIS]] | ||
|featuring = Numberous Doctors and companions | |featuring = Numberous Doctors and companions | ||
|enemy = | |enemy = [[Es'Cartrss]] | ||
|setting = {{il|[[TARDIS matrix]]|[[The Doctor's TARDIS]]|[[Giza]], [[BC#3rd Millennium B.C.|26th century B.C.]]|A [[space station]]|[[England]], [[1972]] and the [[1990s]]|[[France]], [[1914]] and [[2000]]|[[Agrovan Seven]]|A [[Planet (The Forgotten)|planet]]}} | |setting = {{il|[[TARDIS matrix]]|[[The Doctor's TARDIS]]|[[Giza]], [[BC#3rd Millennium B.C.|26th century B.C.]]|A [[space station]]|[[England]], [[1972]] and the [[1990s]]|[[France]], [[1914]] and [[2000]]|[[Agrovan Seven]]|A [[Planet (The Forgotten)|planet]]}} | ||
|writer = [[Tony Lee]] | |writer = [[Tony Lee]] | ||
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The [[Tenth Doctor]] discovers a [[museum]] dedicated to his lives and has to remember events from his previous incarnations in order to restore his fading memories. | The [[Tenth Doctor]] discovers a [[museum]] dedicated to his lives and has to remember events from his previous incarnations in order to restore his fading memories. | ||
== | == Plot == | ||
=== Amputation (1) === | |||
The [[Tenth Doctor]] wakes in a strange room, without [[the TARDIS]] or the [[sonic screwdriver]], with only [[Martha Jones]] for company. Together they explore the building, soon learning that it is a museum dedicated to the Doctor. | |||
The displays consist of various items, such as a [[Dalek]] gun, the [[Seal of Rassilon]] and a [[Voord]] helmet. They enter a large room where the Doctor's clothes from his nine of his previous incarnations are found, along with items he used during each of the incarnation, including [[jelly babies]], a walking stick, a [[recorder]] and [[psychic paper]]. The Doctor states that he'd be lost without his previous incarnations. | |||
A strange man in a darkly lit room decides to test that theory. The Doctor suddenly becomes very weak. He realises he can't remember anything from before [[The Christmas Invasion|his encounter with the Sycorax on Christmas Day]] a couple of years ago. | |||
Martha brings him his walking stick from his [[First Doctor|first incarnation]] and he tells her a story of his travels with [[Susan Foreman|Susan]], [[Barbara Chesterton|Barbara]] and [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]], where he saved a pharaoh's life with that staff. He also tells her how and when he dropped Ian, Barbara, and Susan off. Martha asks if he thinks that Susan is dead and he replies in the affirmative, stating that, as far as he knows, he is the last. The Doctor mentions he left Susan on a future [[Earth]] with a freedom fighter she fell in love with. The strange man chuckles, saying "If only that were true." He reveals that he will force the Doctor to [[regenerate]] so he can steal the Doctor's remaining incarnations. The Doctor suddenly tells Martha that one of his hearts has stopped, and collapses into unconsciousness. | |||
=== Renewal (2) === | |||
The Doctor has fallen into a [[coma]]. Martha performs [[CPR]] on him and he wakes up. The Doctor and Martha explore more of the [[museum]] and find the [[recorder]] he played in his [[Second Doctor|second incarnation]]. He tells Martha about his second incarnation. | |||
[[File:Snake-like creatures attack Jamie.jpg|thumb|left|Snake-like creatures attack [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]].]] | |||
The Second Doctor is on a [[spaceship]] with [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]] and [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]]. They find it has been attacked by [[snake]]-like creatures. They help the crew of the spaceship defeat them by playing on the recorder. Back in the museum the man watching the Doctor and Martha releases an [[Auton]], ready to kill the Doctor and Martha. | |||
The Doctor remembers his [[Third Doctor|third incarnation]] as Martha hands him the keys to [[Bessie]], the car he used to drive while he worked for [[UNIT]]. He, [[the Brigadier]] and [[Jo Grant]] are in a car, chased by giant, spider-like [[robot]]s, with humanoid [[dog]]s as drivers. Jo uses her make-up [[mirror]] to aim the [[laser]] beams at the ships and the Doctor uses his [[sonic screwdriver]] to destroy the dog-like aliens, with [[Mike Yates|Captain Yates]]'s help. | |||
Back at the Museum the Auton approaches the Doctor and Martha. The Doctor fires a can of [[Nitro 9]] at the Auton, killing it. The Doctor checks the readings of the [[TARDIS key]]. Horrified by the absolute lack of response, he tells Martha that it means the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] has been destroyed. | |||
=== Misdirection (3) === | |||
[[Martha Jones]] asks if the TARDIS is actually gone. She and the Doctor return to the costume room and find a bag of [[Jelly Babies]]. This reminds him of his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnation]]. | |||
He recalls taking [[Romana II|Romana]] to [[Paris]] for the second time, in the year [[2000]]. Romana notices a [[mime]] posing. She thinks he is trapped in time, but a time hole appears near him. The mime, the Doctor and Romana fall through the hole and land in a late [[17th century]] [[sewer]]. They are soon questioned by guards; the Doctor makes up an alias so he can have an excuse to boss them around. Following the trail, they reach the exit door, which is guarded by [[Taureau]] the [[Minotaur]], who agrees to let them pass if they answer his riddle. When Romana fails miserably to answer correctly, the Doctor opens a wall, causing an explosion, killing Taureau and the mime. The Doctor and Romana escape through it. | |||
Back at the [[museum]], the Doctor says to himself that Romana did pretty well for herself—until the [[Last Great Time War|Time War]]. He notices Martha has gone. He finds a [[cricket ball]] in his pocket. He thinks about his [[Fifth Doctor|fifth incarnation]]. | |||
The Fifth Doctor is playing [[cricket]] near [[Allen Road]]. [[Tegan Jovanka]] and [[Vislor Turlough]] are watching. All of a sudden a [[Judoon]] ship flies over. The Doctor asks Turlough to fetch his [[Five Hundred Year Diary|five hundred year diary]], while he and Tegan go to meet the Judoon. It turns out the Judoon have landed on [[Earth]] in search of the [[Eye of Akasha]]. Turlough returns and the Doctor fetches the Eye from the TARDIS before doing a switch with his cricket ball. He gives the Judoon the ball. | |||
In the museum the Doctor finds Martha. She is holding Ace's [[baseball bat]], ready to defend herself. The strange onlooker releases a swarm of giant [[spider]]s from [[Metebelis III]], surrounding Martha... | |||
=== Survival (4) === | |||
The Doctor arrives and distracts the [[Metebelis Three]] [[spider]]s with the crystal from his [[sonic screwdriver]], which is similar to the type they search for. He and [[Martha Jones]] escape and the Doctor vaguely recalls the phrase "There's something on your back." He collapses and begins to fade again. Martha hands him his [[Sixth Doctor|sixth incarnation]]'s [[cat brooch]] and goes off to hunt for the "[[Time Ring|Time Bracelet thing]]" and another screwdriver in the [[Fourth Doctor]]'s costume, while the Doctor recalls a memory from his sixth life involving the brooch. | |||
He remembers when he and [[Peri Brown]] were in the court of an [[animal]] people with Peri accused of the first-degree [[murder]] of [[Professor]] [[Mis'Kin Karac]]. On the first day of the trial, Peri tells the court how while in the market, a boy pushed a [[firearm|gun]] into her hands. It fired, killing the professor as he left the building. Peri says she never meant to kill anyone and the Doctor calls off questioning. | |||
On the second day, Professor Karac's assistant offers evidence against Peri and the judge calls a recess until the next day. The Doctor gets the assistant's permission to check out the lab, where the professor and he had been working on quantum flux technology. The Doctor finds the murder weapon in the lab and comes up with a plan. | |||
The next day in court, the Doctor pulls out the gun and aims at Peri, explaining that it is tagged with a genetic signature which the [[bullet]] uses to find its target. He also explains this was why the professor's assistant was behind Peri: so he could fire through her at the professor and make it look like she, being the one with the gun, had done it. He tells the assistant how he is currently wearing a [[cat brooch]] doused in chronal energy and with a drop of his blood on it. If he fires, the bullet will kill him, not Peri. The assistant confesses and is taken away. As Peri and the Doctor leave, the Doctor explains that the gun wouldn't have worked. He was bluffing, a bluff which the assistant fell for. | |||
Back in the [[museum]], the Doctor speaks through a camera to the mysterious onlooker, who says that he and the Doctor have much in common, except for the obvious, and that he should have left him in the [[Crucible]]. The Doctor challenges him to come out, holding up an [[umbrella]] and remembering his [[Seventh Doctor|seventh incarnation]]. | |||
He recalls the time that he and [[Ace]] ended up in the war of [[Agrovan Seven]], which was declared a non-intervention site by the [[Time Lord]]s. Someone had given the [[Stryke]]s a [[Gallifrey]]an [[virus]] to use on the [[Marat (organisation)|Marat]]s and the Doctor had to stop it. They were captured by the Strykes, but escaped due to an air strike. They met a Marat, who took them to the Marats infected by the Strykes' new bioweapon. The Doctor met with Doctor Treykan and gave her the antidote to the plague, hidden in his umbrella. He seemed to talk to the current Doctor, telling him to fight to survive. | |||
Back in the museum, the Doctor finds the same restorative inside the umbrella and begins to hear the [[Cloister Bell]]. He declares the impossibility of this, as it can only be heard in [[the TARDIS]], the [[the Matrix|Time Lord Matrix]] or on Gallifrey, none of which they are at--or are they? | |||
Martha demonstrates knowledge of the Cloister Bell she shouldn't yet have and the Doctor remembers her saying he isn't the only doctor in the TARDIS, though she's only a medical student. The Doctor wonders again what's really going on. The mystery onlooker says they can't have the Doctor remembering his future just yet and sends out a [[Clockwork Droid]] and a [[Voc Robot]]. In the TARDIS with the Cloister Bell tolls, the interior red and an alien life form attaching itself to the unconscious Doctor... | |||
=== Revelation (5) === | |||
After the [[Cloister Bell]] rings, the [[Tenth Doctor|Doctor]] begins to question who or what [[Martha Jones]] really is. They are attacked by a [[Clockwork Droid]] and a [[Voc Robot]]. The Doctor and Martha escape. Martha hands the Doctor a [[cravat]] from his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]] and the Doctor begins to tell Martha about that life. | |||
The Doctor was alone in a prison cell on a [[Planet (The Forgotten)|planet]], wondering whether the [[Last Great Time War]] was still being waged, when the cell door opened and the [[prison guard (The Forgotten)|guards]] threw a new [[prisoner]] into the cell. Sixteen days later the Doctor and his new cellmate, [[Chantir]], saw through the cell window a spaceship land. The Doctor said it was time to escape. The Doctor slowed his heartbeats to almost nothing and Chantir called in the guards. The Doctor and Chantir overpowered them and stole their [[laser]] weapons. The Doctor opened all the other cells to allow the other prisoners to escape. | |||
They travelled to the end of the hall and blasted open the door. Inside, [[the Great Key]] stood on a pillar in the centre of the room. The Doctor picked it up and told Chantir he planned to use it to recreate the [[De-mat Gun]] and possibly even modify the original to increase its lethality to remove millions from time and space at once. The Doctor and Chantir escaped from the prison by sliding down a power cable on the outside wall of the prison. Chantir left the Doctor to find his crewmates and the Doctor walked a few miles to recover [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]]. | |||
Martha asks if the Doctor was always alone in that regeneration. The Doctor explains to Martha that his eighth incarnation started and [[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|ended alone]], because the [[Last Great Time War]] happened. He remembers how [[War Doctor|he]] saw [[Arcadia (city)|Arcadia]] [[Fall of Arcadia|destroyed]], laughed in the face of the [[Nightmare Child]], [[Gallifrey]] sacrificed, which burned when the [[Cruciform]] fell, and how he ended the Time War with the Great Key that turned "[[Time lock|the lock]]" and doomed everyone. | |||
Martha has the Doctor acknowledge that the victims knew the cost of what the Doctor did- saving everything else. She makes the Doctor focus his thoughts on what happened immediately after the war, such as meeting [[Rose Tyler|Rose]], and gives him the [[psychic paper]]. The paper displays the message, "Everything is not as it seems". The Doctor ponders that he spent much more time in cells and brigs than saving the universe before he had this utility and he remembers his [[Ninth Doctor|ninth incarnation]]. | |||
The Doctor and [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] arrived in a [[World War I]] trench on [[Christmas]] Day and the Doctor showed the [[British]] occupants documents identifying him as [[Winifred Bambera|Brigadier Bambera]] with the psychic paper. A [[football]] landed in the trench and the [[German]]s asked the British to hand them back their football. The Doctor challenged the Germans to a football match for their ball. As the British played football with them, the Doctor refereed. After the match, the Doctor and Rose left in the TARDIS. | |||
Martha hands the Doctor the [[Chameleon Arch]] and the Doctor regains the last of his memories. At that very moment, an individual resembling the [[Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor]], but calling himself [[the Valeyard]], arrives with the Clockwork Droid and the Voc Robot and threatens to steal the Doctor's regenerations so he can regenerate himself. | |||
=== Reunion (6) === | |||
As the [[Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor]] finishes his threat, the real Doctor laughs mockingly. He claims to have known it was a bad fake made by the creature who was responsible for the entire mess, using bits and pieces of [[the Master]], [[the Valeyard]] and the [[Meta-Crisis Doctor]] to fabricate a poor amalgam to bedevil the Doctor. | |||
Infuriated at his plans being exposed, the being identifies itself: [[Es'Cartrss]] of the [[Tactire]], a parasitic race known as the Cranial Parasites. It tells him of how his [[planet]] was one of the many the [[Dalek]]s had stolen to power the [[Reality Bomb]]. He infiltrated the [[Crucible]] until its destruction, then entered the Doctor's TARDIS and attached itself to him in the effort that began the story. | |||
The Doctor uses the distraction to flee and "Martha" gives him the final clues to realise what she truly is - [[the TARDIS]]' own mind, desperately trying to help its pilot shake off the parasite. The entire [[museum]] was actually the TARDIS matrix. Upon discovering this, the Doctor realises that the TARDIS could assume the form of anyone who had ever travelled with him. | |||
Prompted by the Doctor, the TARDIS assumes a variety of disguises of many past companions geared for combat, such as [[Steven Taylor]], [[Leela]] and [[Harry Sullivan]], while the Doctor examines the [[baseball bat]]. He realises it was, in fact, a [[chameleon circuit]] covering the [[Great Key of Rassilon]], the final key to the last door of [[the Matrix]], the one the [[robot]]s had been so desperate to keep them away from. | |||
The TARDIS begins assuming other shapes better suited to specific tasks, like [[Kamelion]], who shrugged off attacks by the [[Voc Robot]] and the [[Clockwork Droid]] to open the door with the Great Key; [[Sarah Jane Smith]]; and [[Adric]], whose intellect allowed him to design a way to break the parasite's hold on the Matrix by blowing himself, the infected Matrix components and the droids, with one of Ace's old [[Nitro 9]] cans. | |||
Confronted by the last of the Tactire, the Doctor implements his plan - reminding the Matrix there was only one Time Lord in existence: himself. As he speaks, the power of the items he has gathered coalesces, and summons all of his other forms at once - ten Doctors against a Tactire. He offers his enemy a final chance and Escart'rss rejects it. Sighing, the Doctor asks the Matrix to eliminate all non-Time Lords from itself, purging the system of Escartr'ss. | |||
The Doctors converse briefly. The Tenth is surprised, not realising it could be done, despite some squabbling and complaining on every side. Leaving his memories, the Doctor and "Martha" walk through the museum to the exit, modelled after the TARDIS. Having lost his key, the Doctor wonders how to open the doors, until Martha reminds him [[River Song]] already taught him how. Smiling, the Doctor thanks her and snaps his fingers. The doors open and flood the museum with light. Before leaving, he asks the TARDIS to assume a final form and she agrees. | |||
[[Susan Foreman]] appears before her grandfather, who begs her forgiveness and asks if she's had a good life. She hugs him and soothes him, saying she understood his thoughts and that she always knew he was doing the right thing. She beckons him to walk into the light, and the dream ends. | |||
The Doctor awakens inside the real TARDIS, and kicks the now-mindless Tactire out of the way. Reflecting how he's never truly alone with his oldest companion, he thanks her and decides to go on a little adventure - to [[Barcelona (planet)|Barcelona]]. | |||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
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* [[Itennu]] | * [[Itennu]] | ||
* [[Menkaure]] | * [[Menkaure]] | ||
* [[Auton]]s | |||
* [[Peters (The Forgotten)|Peters]] | |||
* [[Alvarian space wyrm]] | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
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** The Doctor revisits, after a fashion, the events of his past adventures. | ** The Doctor revisits, after a fashion, the events of his past adventures. | ||
** The Doctor has an encounter with his previous incarnations, though in this case it is mental projections of them rather than the genuine articles. | ** The Doctor has an encounter with his previous incarnations, though in this case it is mental projections of them rather than the genuine articles. | ||
* On [[April (releases)|April]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]], a [[The Forgotten (graphic novel)|graphic novel]] was released, recollecting this story. | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
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* The final issue establishes that the events of ''The Forgotten'' occur immediately following the final scene of [[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End]]''. | * The final issue establishes that the events of ''The Forgotten'' occur immediately following the final scene of [[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End]]''. | ||
* A [[Heavenly Host]]'s disk is in a glass case in the TARDIS Matrix. ([[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'') | * A [[Heavenly Host]]'s disk is in a glass case in the TARDIS Matrix. ([[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'') | ||
{{Tenth Doctor IDW comics}} | {{Tenth Doctor IDW comics}} | ||
