The Doctor's Daughter (TV story): Difference between revisions

Suddenly, armed men arrive and order them to drop their weapons); they raise their hands to show they are unarmed. However, the lead soldier, [[Cline]], says the Doctor's hands are "clean" and has the other two soldiers take him and force his hand into a [[progenation|machine]] near by; the Doctor is confused, wondering what's wrong with clean hands. The Doctor jokes, knowing it "isn't going to take my blood pressure", as Martha and Donna ask what they are doing to him. Cline explains everyone gets processed. In between yelps of pain, the Doctor figures out the machine is taking a sample of his tissue and is using it in the "cabinet" device attached to it.

The machine releases the Doctor's hand; he and a concerned Donna and Martha look down at his hand to see a y-shape of skin missing from the back of it. The cabinet opens with a hiss of smoke and out of it comes [[Jenny (The Doctor's Daughter)|a young blonde girl]] in combat attire, who is given a [[firearm|gun]] by Cline. As the girl preps her weapon, both Martha and Donna wonder who she is; a bit stunned by what he's seeing, the Doctor explains that she's his daughter. The girl smiles at him and says, "Hello, dad".

As the soldiers set up explosives on the walls of the tunnel, Cline questions the Doctor's daughter on how ready she is for combat. In the meantime, both Martha and Donna wonder how this woman can be the Doctor's daughter; he's told both of them [[Last Great Time War|how he became the last]] of the [[Time Lord]]s. The Doctor explains that the machine took a sample of his diploid cells, which were split into haploids, then recombined in a new pattern and grown "very quickly, apparently" into the young girl in front of them.  

Just then, someone breaks in and Cline yells it's the [[Hath]]. Each of the armed sides fire at the other as the Doctor, Donna and Martha hide. Just as the two soldiers with Cline are shot, Martha is captured by a Hath. Cline orders the explosives to be set off. Despite the Doctor's protests, his daughter obeys and sets off the explosives, sealing the tunnel, separating them from Martha and the TARDIS. The Doctor demands to know why, to which his daughter explains is because they shot at them. She calls Martha's capture collateral damage, believing him lucky; he still has Donna, but Cline lost his men. Angered, Donna tells "G.I. Jane" that Martha isn't collateral damage; they decide to go look for Martha. However, Cline points his gun at them; he's confused as they don't have marks or a will to fight, seeming to not understand the concept of [[pacifism]]. He explains that they'll be taken to [[Cobb|General Cobb]] for interrogation.

Cobb orders to prepare for a final battle for "peace in their time"; however, the Doctor asks why they don't simply stop fighting. Cobb explains once the Source is in their possession, they can wipe out the Hath. The Doctor points out Cobb's being contradictory as genocide is the opposite of peace, but Cobb says its the same result in war. Seeing Cobb's beyond reason, the Doctor tells him, "You need to get yourself a better dictionary. When you do, look up genocide. There'll be a little picture of me there and the caption will read, 'Over my dead body!'". Cobb simply mocks the Doctor for showing his army the way to the Source and orders Cline to take arms, threatening to kill his woman (Donna) if he interferes. Both the Doctor and Donna dismiss the idea they are together before Cobb orders Jenny imprisoned with them as she's "from pacifist stock" and can't be trusted because of such.

Meanwhile, Martha and the Hath she healed, [[Hath Peck|Peck]], are studying the tunnels as she wonders if there is some place where she can recharge her mobile. Peck works the controls and converts the map into 3D, delighting Martha. Noting that the distance above ground is shorter than the distance through the tunnels, she plans to beat both the humans and the Hath to the Source, inviting Peck to come along with her.

On the surface, Martha falls down a scree into quicksand. Peck leaps in to save her, but begins to inescapably sink himself. Martha is devastated and weeps bitterly as the wind howls and her friend disappears beneath the surface.

The Doctor, Donna, Jenny and Martha are reunited in the temple, which the Doctor realizes is the original and fully functional 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 colonization plan died of Byzantine fever and the human and Hath divided into factions over the resulting power vacuum. Donna stares at a digital [[clock]] on the wall and suddenly realizes 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 it's been a week since the ship landed. The machines allow for as many as 20 generations in a day, distorting facts into fiction as more and more died. They suddenly smell flowers and race to the very top to find a garden kept alive by the Source, a terraforming device to make hostile environments habitable.

Cobb's army and the Hath army arrive and the Doctor explains 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.