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The Doctor tells Rose that the Earth has emptied, mankind having left it long ago and the planet taken over by the National Trust. They have used gravity satellites to hold the effects of the sun back, but now the money has run out the Earth will be allowed to be swallowed up by the Sun at last. | The Doctor tells Rose that the Earth has emptied, mankind having left it long ago and the planet taken over by the National Trust. They have used gravity satellites to hold the effects of the sun back, but now the money has run out the Earth will be allowed to be swallowed up by the Sun at last. | ||
The extraterrestrial rich of the universe will witness the end of the world, which will occur in about an hour. The station has automated systems and is staffed by blue-skinned humanoids. On encountering the Steward, who manages Platform One, the Doctor persuades him that he and Rose are invited guests by using a piece of "[[Psychic paper]]" that makes people see what the Doctor wants them to see. The other guests arrive, including the diminutive [[Moxx of Balhoon]], the [[Face of Boe]], living humanoid trees from the [[Forest of Cheem]] (whose ancestors originated on Earth) and, from Financial Family Seven, a group of hooded aliens, known as the Adherents of the Repeated Meme. Rose watches in fascination as the last living human arrives — the [[Lady Cassandra|Lady Cassandra O'Brien Dot Delta Seventeen]] (a piece of stretched-out skin with eyes and a mouth, mounted on a frame and connected to a brain jar). The skin needs to be constantly moisturised by her attendants. The guests exchange gifts: [[Jabe]] of the Forest of Cheem gives the Doctor a cutting taken from her grandfather; the Doctor gives her the gift of air from his lungs. | The extraterrestrial rich of the universe will witness the end of the world, which will occur in about an hour. The station has automated systems and is staffed by blue-skinned humanoids. On encountering the Steward, who manages Platform One, the Doctor persuades him that he and Rose are invited guests by using a piece of "[[Psychic paper]]" that makes people see what the Doctor wants them to see. The other guests arrive, including the diminutive [[Moxx of Balhoon]], the [[Face of Boe]], living humanoid trees from the [[Forest of Cheem]] (whose ancestors originated on Earth) and, from Financial Family Seven, a group of hooded aliens, known as the Adherents of the Repeated Meme. Rose watches in fascination as the last living human arrives — the [[Lady Cassandra|Lady Cassandra O'Brien Dot Delta Seventeen]] (a piece of stretched-out skin with eyes and a mouth, mounted on a frame and connected to a brain jar). The skin needs to be constantly moisturised by her attendants. The guests exchange gifts: [[Jabe]] of the Forest of Cheem gives the Doctor a cutting taken from her grandfather; the Doctor gives her the gift of air from his lungs. The Moxx gives the gift of bodily salivas, and the Adherents of the Repeated Meme hand out gifts of "peace" in the form of metal spheres, even to the Steward. | ||
Cassandra gives her own gifts: the last [[ostrich]] egg, and an "[[iPod]]" (which is actually a jukebox) from ancient Earth. Rose is a bit overwhelmed when the jukebox plays "classical" music — the song "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell — and leaves the hall. She has a brief conversation with a station plumber, [[Raffalo]], | Cassandra gives her own gifts: the last [[ostrich]] egg, and an "[[iPod]]" (which is actually a jukebox) from ancient Earth. Rose is a bit overwhelmed when the jukebox plays "classical" music — the song "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell — and leaves the hall. She has a brief conversation with a station plumber, [[Raffalo]], who is investigating a blockage. At first she is comforted by the familiarity of Raffalo's matter-of-fact, working-class manner. But when Raffalo explains that she is from Crespallion, which is part of the Jaggit Brocade, affiliated to the Scarlet Junction, in Complex 56, Rose realises how far she is from home, and with a man she does not even know. Rose leaves, and does not see Raffalo spot some small, spider-like robots in the ducts, which rapidly grab her and pull her inside. Meanwhile, the spiders are being disgorged from the metal spheres gifted by the Adherents of the Repeated Meme to the various guests, and soon infiltrate the entire station, sabotaging its systems. | ||
The Doctor finds Rose, and when Rose asks him where he is from, the Doctor brushes her questions off, getting defensive and angry. When the Doctor alters Rose's [[mobile phone]] so she can talk to her mother in the past, another fact sinks in — her mother is long dead. The Doctor jokes that if Rose thought the telephone call was amazing, she should see the bill. Suddenly, a tremor shakes the station, and the Doctor observes that it was not supposed to happen. The Steward, investigating the cause of the tremor, is killed when a spider lowers the sun filter in his room, exposing him to the direct heat of the Sun's rays. | The Doctor finds Rose, and when Rose asks him where he is from, the Doctor brushes her questions off, getting defensive and angry. When the Doctor alters Rose's [[mobile phone]] so she can talk to her mother in the past, another fact sinks in — her mother is long dead. The Doctor jokes that if Rose thought the telephone call was amazing, she should see the bill. Suddenly, a tremor shakes the station, and the Doctor observes that it was not supposed to happen. The Steward, investigating the cause of the tremor, is killed when a spider lowers the sun filter in his room, exposing him to the direct heat of the Sun's rays. | ||
