The Doctor Dances

Story

Featuring: Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness

Placement Rating: 
5 - Part of ongoing series
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Location: 
London, 1941

The Doctor tells the patients to "go to your room", and they retreat. The Doctor, Rose, and Jack end up teleporting to Jack's ship. They go investigate the bomb site, but all its guards have been infected. The Doctor and Jack open the object, which is a Tula medical ship full of nanogenes - little machines that heal and rebuild people. Their first contact with humans was a little boy who had just been killed in an air raid so they have been reconstructing humans to match the boy. They also installed additional protocols in the people they altered, and the intrusion into the medical ship calls the affected people to the bomb site.

The Doctor works out that Nancy is older than she looks and is actually the boy's mother, rather than his sister as she had claimed. Jack escapes back to his ship to intercept the bomb. The Doctor convinces Nancy to tell the boy, Jamie, that she is his mummy. As she embraces Jamie the nanogenes realise that Nancy is Jamie's mother, and use the information to rebuild Jamie into a normal boy.

The Doctor then makes sure that the nanogenes rebuild all the people that they have converted. This heals all the injuries and sicknesses that those in the hospital had previously had. He then sets the capsule to self-destruct, keeping history on track. The Doctor then travels to Jack's ship in the vortex where the stasis field Jack is using to keep the German bomb from exploding has a limited lifespan. Their intervention saves his life and he joins the TARDIS crew as his own ship explodes.

Placement Notes: 
Follows on directly from the end of The Empty Child
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