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== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
The TARDIS lands on | The TARDIS lands in London in 2023, as [[Fourteenth Doctor|the Doctor]] ventures out and strolls down the road. He wanders into a bustle of people before seeing a woman holding a large pile of boxes, which he tries to help with. He helps her with a few and is shocked to discover [[Donna Noble]], who doesn't remember him. Her daughter, [[Rose Noble]], runs up as Donna becomes distracted with her boxes, missing the spaceship that crashes to earth not too far away. Donna and Rose head off right before [[Shaun Temple]] drives up in his taxi. The Doctor convinces Shaun to take him to the crash, and as they drive he pumps Shaun for information, claiming to be a friend of [[Nerys]]'. | ||
The Doctor manages to access the crash site inside the steelworks even as [[UNIT]] has established a perimeter around it. He isolates himself inside and begins to analyze the data from the crash as [[Shirley Anne Bingham]] comes up and offers him her readings on the site. He expresses hesitancy to work with UNIT - he doesn't fully know who he is at the moment. He has his old face again and he's not sure what to make of that, or of the fact that he ran into Donna Noble almost immediately after. Soldiers come up and mention that they've found the escape pod to the wreck and are sending a team after it, prompting the Doctor to leave with them. | |||
After the Doctor leaves, UNIT manages to unlock the ship and sends a squad of soldiers to secure whatever's inside. As the door opens, tendrils of light flow out into the eyes of the soldiers, leaving them [[stellar psychedelia|aglow]] as they turn and walk away. | |||
Meanwhile Rose and Donna return to their house and to [[Sylvia Noble|Sylvia]] who's cooking dinner. Donna asks Sylvia if she heard anything about the spaceship that everyone's been talking about, which Sylvia resolutely denies. Rose finds [[Beep the Meep|a creature]] as she's taking out the recycling. The creature names itself The Meep and insists that there are others after it, "monsters". Rose hides the Meep in her backyard shed though Donna stumbles in. Donna first mistakes the Meep for a stuffed toy before prodding it in the eye, realizing that it's alive and panicking. The Meep tries to calm Donna down and Sylvia intervenes, insisting that the entire thing is just a hallucination - the Meep doesn't exist. The Doctor shows up at their house after UNIT stops nearby, realizing that something must have happened, unlocking the door using [[Fourteenth Doctor's sonic screwdriver|his sonic screwdriver]]. | |||
The UNIT team with glowing eyes order those who are guarding the escape pod back to the steelworks and begin to search for the Meep. | |||
The Nobles, the Meep, the Doctor, and Shaun, who came in not too long after the Doctor, discuss what to do with the Meep, with the Doctor and Sylvia insisting that he should take the Meep. The Meep explains to them all that the [[Wrarth Warrior]]s used to hunt [[meep]]s for their fur, and when the rest of the galaxy put a stop to the practice they decided to kill the entire species. UNIT soldiers knock at the door, and as the Doctor answers it he scrolls up their visors, seeing glowing eyes. The Doctor closes the door on them right as the back entrance is smashed open by two Wrarth Warriors, the UNIT soldiers crashing through almost immediately after. The Doctor, the Noble family, and the Meep escape through the attics on the street using the sonic screwdriver to weaken the brick walls between them. The group drives off and stops in a car park. | |||
The Doctor dons a wig and uses his sonic screwdriver to summon two Wrarth Warriors, [[Zogroth]] and [[Zreeg]]. The Doctor notes how there was no damage done to the taxi and that the fallen UNIT soldiers weren't killed, merely unconscious. The Wrarth confirm, their weapons apply an anesthetic. They consider the tale of the meep to be tragic, a species whose sun turned [[Psychedelic sun|psychedelic]] and mutated them all into maniacs bent on conquest. The Wrarth Warriors were summoned to stop their conquest. As they all fight to the death, only this last one remains, their leader, the worst of them all, Beep. The Doctor asks the Meep if they have anything to say in their defense. Instead, the Meep pulls out a weapon and kills both of the Wrarth Warriors as UNIT soldiers, brainwashed by the psychedelic sun, arrive. The Doctor manages to convince Beep the Meep that they're more useful as hostages than dead. | |||
Beep takes the group back to the steelworks and shows off the ship present there. The Doctor insists that the ship can't be used - it has a [[dagger drive]], it gets its power for propulsion by stabbing downwards, it would use the whole of London as fuel. Beep laughs and orders the group taken aboard the ship. | |||
''Meep, meep''! | ''Meep, meep''! | ||
