1.2 The Doctor's Tool

1.1 Deal With The Devil

My Doctor Who Episodes Series 1

Journey's End

The episode continues on from the end of "The Stolen Earth"; the Doctor is regenerating inside the TARDIS. Once his body has 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 Crucible, the Dalek flagship at the heart of the 27 planets. The Doctor and his previous companions Jack Harkness and Rose Tyler leave the TARDIS, but Donna Noble is locked in. The Supreme Dalek orders the TARDIS to be destroyed; in the process, Donna collapses by the Doctor's severed hand, and activates the energy stored in the hand to form a second Doctor who saves the TARDIS from destruction.Concurrently, Torchwood employees Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones find safety from an advancing Dalek 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, who surrender with her to get aboard the Crucible; and Martha Jones teleports to a castle near Nuremberg where the Daleks are heard speaking German.The Doctor and Rose are taken to Davros, creator of the Daleks. The Doctor taunts Davros on account of the fact he is not in charge (Davros having been overthrown, imprisoned and kept alive for his knowledge), but Davros in turn retorts that the Doctor is as much a monster as he. Davros explains that the twenty-seven stolen planets form a compression field 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 Jane, Mickey, Jack, and Jackie threaten to destroy the Crucible using a "Warpstar" that Sarah Jane had, and Martha threatens to use the Osterhagen Key - a last resort device which would destroy Earth by setting off a chain of nuclear warheads. Their actions cause Davros to challenge the Doctor's reliance on his companions. The companions, however, are transported to the Vault before they can execute their plans, whereupon Davros gloats over his seeming victory and makes the Doctor reflect over the deaths he has caused and the sheer number of people who have died for him. Davros then summarises the Doctor as "The man who keeps running, never looking back because he dare not...out of shame!" and calls the moment "This is my final victory Doctor; I have shown you yourself".Davros prepares to detonate the reality bomb, before the TARDIS materialises in front of him. The second Doctor and Donna run out but are stunned by Davros' energy blasts. The blast activates Time Lord knowledge imbued within Donna when she helped create the second Doctor, and she disables the reality bomb, Davros and the Daleks. The two Doctors help her relocate the missing planets, but the control panel is destroyed by the Supreme Dalek before Earth can be relocated. In the confusion, Davros asks Dalek Caan why he didn't foresee this, but the Doctor realises that he had. Caan confirms this, citing that having witnessed the atrocities committed by the Daleks throughout time and space, Caan sought to bring an end to it.Motivated by Dalek Caan's prophecy of the Daleks' extinction, and knowing the Daleks could still take the Universe by force, with or without the Reality Bomb, the new Doctor destroys the Daleks and the Crucible. The original Doctor offers to save Davros who refuses, accusing the Doctor of being responsible for the destruction and naming him as "the Destroyer of Worlds". The companions flee into the TARDIS as the Crucible self-destructs, and "tow" the Earth back into its original orbit with the aid of Sarah Jane's supercomputer Mr Smith, her robotic dog K-9, and the spatio-temporal rift in Cardiff.In the dénouement of the episode, the Doctor parts ways with his companions: Sarah Jane returns home to her son Luke; Martha and Mickey leave with Jack; and the Doctor returns Rose and Jackie to the parallel universe in which they were trapped in "Doomsday". Rose stays in her parallel universe with the part human doctor, after finding out that both doctors requite her love, but she can only spend her life with one of them. After departing, Donna becomes overwhelmed by the Time Lord knowledge. To save her life, the Doctor is forced to wipe her mind, and explains to her mother Sylvia and grandfather Wilfred Mott that Donna must never remember him, even for a second, because she will die if she does so. As the Doctor leaves, Wilfred promises that he will never forget the Doctor on his granddaughter's behalf.