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{{quote|I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon.... in ''Cardiff!''|'''The Doctor'''}}
The Doctor tries to take Rose to Naples, 1860. The TARDIS disagrees, and instead takes them to Cardiff, Christmas 1869.
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Dragging the very skeptical Dickens along, he organises a seance and negotiates with the aliens. If he helps them through the Cardiff Rift, they can temporarily occupy some corpses until he finds them a better home. Rose is [[Squick
The Gelth (as they call themselves) prove to be a bunch of lying promise-breakers bent on (what else?) taking over the galaxy. The Doctor shows his raging [[Survivor Guilt]] over having previously killed a few species, most recently his own, and hesitates to jump into action. Gwyneth takes the decision out of his hands by sacrificing herself. Charles Dickens learns an important lesson about Christmas, and merrily bids the Doctor farewell, planning to include all sorts of ghosts and blue lights and aliens in police boxes in his novels from now on. The Doctor gloomily notes that nothing will actually change, though, because Dickens will be dead of natural causes within a year.
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* [[Aliens in Cardiff]]: Quite literally.
* [[Arc Words]]
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* [[Can't Argue
* [[Casting Gag]]: Simon Callow is a Dickensian scholar and has played [[
* [[Changed My Jumper]]: [[Trope Namer]]. Nobody but Dickens remarks on the Doctor's attire anyway.
* [[Christmas Episode]]
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* [[Ghostly Chill]]: The morgue cools down when the Gelth appear.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: By Gwyneth to sabotage the Gelth.
* [[Historical Domain Character]]: [[
* [[Historical
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]
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'''Rose:''' I can't believe you just said that. }}
* [[I Was Just Passing Through]]: The Doctor claims this when Dickens inquires as to his true identity.
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* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]: The Gelth.
* [[Spooky Seance]]
* [[Temporal Paradox]]: Rose ''thinks'' that this means the Gelth can't kill her in 1869, since she's still living in 2005. As the Doctor explains, however, a paradox only prevents you from killing your past
* [[Victorian Britain]]: Cardiff, 1869.
* [[You Look Familiar]]: The voice of the main Gelth sounds an awful lot like the [[Doctor Who
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