Saturday, April 5, 2008

Doctor Who Season 2 Episode 13 Doomsday-Finale

Doctor Who Doomsday 13/13
The episode's opening continues from the final scene of "Army of Ghosts"; Dr Singh, Mickey, and Rose Tyler are trapped in a sealed room within Torchwood Tower. Four Daleks, accompanied by a device known as the "Genesis Ark", have emerged from the void ship. A Dalek Supreme called Dalek Sec extracts information about Earth from Singh. He discovers that a separate invasion is in progress, and sends Dalek Thay out to investigate. The Cybermen, who took control of Torchwood, detect the Dalek technology and offer an alliance. Thay declines, and the two species declare war on each other.
While discussing humanity with the Doctor, the Cyber Leader is destroyed by a strike team led by Jake Simmonds from the same universe as the Cybermen. Jake takes the Doctor to his universe, explains the Cybermen's actions. Pete Tyler then implores the Doctor to close the breach.
Meanwhile, Rose tells Mickey they were kept alive because their touch would activate the Ark. Sec explains that the Cult cannot open the Ark because it is stolen Time Lord technology. He demands that Rose open it, but she goads the Daleks about annihilating their Emperor until the Doctor appears. Upon realising that the Daleks are the Cult of Skaro, he uses his sonic screwdriver to allow Cybermen to combat the Daleks. Mickey accidentally activates the Ark when escaping, and the Daleks travel to the exterior of Canary Wharf to release the Ark's contents: millions of Daleks who were imprisoned during the Time War.
The Doctor flees to the room where the main breach is located, and explains that crossing the Void causes a traveller to become saturated in background radiation. He plans to open the breach to create a vacuum effect, but notes that Rose and Mickey also crossed the Void. Mickey, Jackie, and Pete cross into the parallel universe, but Rose refuses to leave the Doctor, and helps him open the breach. They each hold onto a pair of magnetic clamps as the Cybermen and Daleks become drawn in. Rose's lever becomes damaged, and Rose tries to fix it, but loses her grip. Before the breach closes upon her, Pete catches her and drags her through a portal to his world.
Some time later, Rose has a dream where she hears the Doctor's voice calling her. The Tyler family follow the voice to a remote bay in Norway called Bad Wolf Bay, where an image of the Doctor appears, who harnessed the power of a supernova to transmit an image through one of the final breaches. Because the breach is to close permanently in two minutes, the pair share one last conversation. Rose breaks down in tears and tells him that she loves him, but as the Doctor starts to reply, the breach closes. In the TARDIS, a tearful Doctor regains his composure and sets a new course. He looks up to see a woman in a wedding dress who demands to know where she is.

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