Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Doctor Who Season 4 Episode 13 Journey's End

Journey's End Doctor Who Ep. 13/13
Continuing from the end of "The Stolen Earth", the Doctor is regenerating inside the TARDIS. Once his body is healed, he halts the transformation by transferring the remaining energy into his severed hand. The TARDIS is captured by the Daleks and transported to the Dalek Crucible, their flagship. Powerless, the Doctor and his previous companions Jack Harkness and Rose Tyler leave the TARDIS, but Donna Noble is mysteriously locked in. The Daleks send the TARDIS to be destroyed; in the process, Donna collapses by the Doctor's severed hand. The energy stored in the hand forms a new Doctor who saves the TARDIS from destruction.
Concurrently, Torchwood employees Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones find safety in an impenetrable time bubble; Sarah Jane Smith is saved from a Dalek extermination by Rose's ex-boyfriend Mickey Smith and mother Jackie Tyler and surrender themselves to get aboard the Crucible; and Martha Jones teleports to a Schloss sixty miles from Nuremburg.
Aboard the Crucible, the Doctor and Rose are taken to Davros, creator of the Daleks. Davros explains that the twenty-seven stolen planets form a compression field for energy which can cancel the electrical energy of atoms. The resulting "reality bomb" has the potential to destroy all matter in every universe; reality itself would be destroyed. After the device is tested, the Daleks receive two transmissions: Sarah, Mickey, Jack, and Jackie threaten to use an explosive crystal to destroy the Crucible; and Martha threatens to use the Osterhagen Key—a last resort device which would destroy Earth. The Daleks teleport all five to Davros' chamber and Davros challenges the Doctor's reliance on his companions.
Davros prepares to detonate the reality bomb as the TARDIS materalises in the room. The other Doctor and Donna charge out and try to attack Davros but are quickly immobilized. Seconds before the bomb detonates, Donna becomes imbued with Time Lord knowledge. She uses a control panel to stop the detonation and disable Davros' guards. The two Doctors and Donna return the stolen planets to their original locations; Davros asks the precognitive Dalek Caan why he didn't foresee this. Caan explains that he realised the Daleks' evil and conspired to destroy the entire race.
Before Earth can be relocated, the control panel is destroyed by the Supreme Dalek. As the Doctor prepares the TARDIS, the other Doctor fulfills Caan's prophecy and destroys the Daleks, triggering the flagship's destruction. The Doctor offers to save Davros; he refuses, labeling the Doctor as "the Destroyer of Worlds". The companions flee into the TARDIS before the Crucible is destroyed and—aided by Sarah's computer Mr Smith, her robotic dog K-9, and the spatio-temporal rift in Cardiff—"tow" the Earth back into its original orbit.
In the dénouement of the episode, the Doctor parts ways with his companions: Sarah returns home to her son Luke; Martha and Mickey leave with Jack; and the Doctor returns Rose and Jackie to the alternative universe they were trapped in in "Doomsday". The Doctor forces the other Doctor to stay in the parallel universe as punishment for committing genocide and to requite Rose's love. After departing, Donna becomes overwhelmed by the Time Lord knowledge. The Doctor is forced to wipe her mind, and explains to her mother Sylvia and grandfather Wilfred Mott that Donna must never remember him, reverting to her very different character at the start of "The Runaway Bride". As the Doctor leaves, Wilfred promises that he will never forget the Doctor on his granddaughter's behalf.

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