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{{quote|Judoon platoon upon the moon!|'''The Doctor'''}}
Martha Jones heads off to a regular day at work and a strange man (The Doctor) comes up to her in the street, says "Like so!", and takes his tie off. Martha, only mildly perplexed, continues to the hospital, where she encounters the same man, calling himself "John Smith", who has been in the hospital all day and has no idea what she's talking about. To top it off, the mysterious John Smith has two hearts. Then it starts to rain upwards, and the hospital ends up on the moon. The Doctor decides that Martha, having kept his two-heart secret and not flipped out over being on the moon, is exactly the sort of person he could use for help, so he enlists her in the task of saving the hospital. Meanwhile, a herd of rhino-alien-police (Judoon) enter the hospital and begin to methodically search it for alien life, so the Doctor needs to find the malicious alien and keep himself out of rhino hands, all before the hospital's supply of oxygen runs out.
The alien in question is an old granny, a humanoid plasmavore, who is wanted for murder and has devised a plan to save herself that will kill the human population (only the half facing the moon, anyway). She imparts this plan in detail to mild-mannered John Smith and then drinks his blood, because if she drinks the blood of a human, the rhinos will think she's human. Also, to distract the rhinos for a while, the Doctor puts some of his own alien bio-bits on Martha by snogging her. No complaints from Martha.
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The Doctor promises her one little trip, just for fun, and they awkwardly agree that she's [[Lampshade Hanging|not there to replace Rose]]. Also, Martha's only attracted to humans. With those negotiations over with, they're on their way.
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* [[Arc Words]]: There's "Vote Saxon" signs in the alley at the end, and Mr. Saxon gets name-dropped.
* [[Almost Out of Oxygen]]: The force-field keeps a certain amount of air in, but it starts running out quickly. Thankfully, the Judoon aren't completely merciless and teleport the hospital back once they're done.
* [[Brick Joke]]: Oh, so that's why he said "Like so!"
** And the Doctor [[Squee
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]
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"You're right. I look daft with one shoe." (bins the other one) "Barefoot on the moon!" }}
* [[CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable]]: Apparently CPR will fix clinical death brought on by ''blood loss'' in ''non-humans''.
* [[Eat Me]]
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "It's a Slab, basic slave drone. Solid leather, all the way through. Someone has got one hell of a fetish."
* [[Hell-Bent for Leather]]: Parodied with the Slabs, androids composed entirely of leather. Played more straight with the Judoon however.
* [[Impostor
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: The plasmavore uses a ''goddamn bendy straw''. And then an MRI machine which will fry the half of the Earth facing the moon.
* [[Judge, Jury, and Executioner]]: The Judoon.
* [[Meaningful Echo]]: Martha Jones is exuding so much calm confidence that ''she'' promises ''the Doctor'' that she will get him home. These are usually the Doctor's exact words; he looks slightly non-plussed.
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: There's a "Dr Stoker", who's the first onscreen victim of the [[Our Vampires Are Different|blood-sucking Plasmavore]].
* [[Mundane Utility]]
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* [[Noodle Incident]]
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"What else have you got? Laser spanner?"
"I ''did'', but it was stolen by Emmeline Pankhurst. Cheeky woman." }}
* [[Personal Raincloud]]: Referenced - the cloud over the hospital just before the teleport is compared to one.
* [[Retirony]]: Dr. Stoker says he was planning to go on for two more years and then retire to Florida. ''Then'' he cements his fate with a version of the [[Fatal Family Photo]], saying that he has a daughter still in university.
* [[Rhymes
** [[Played for Laughs]] when you realize they put that line in because when Tennant pronounces "oon", he tends to get a bad case of [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]].
* [[Steal the Surroundings]]: An entire building was transported to the moon so the [[Monster of the Week]] can locate a single person.
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* [[You Are Who You Eat]]: The Plasmavore.
* [[You Look Familiar]]: What's that, Martha, you weren't upgraded by the Cybermen at Canary Wharf? It was [[Uncanny Family Resemblance|your cousin]]?
** And for older viewers, the actress for the Plasmavore previously played a nurse who was attacked by the similarly vampiric Haemovores in ''[[Doctor Who
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