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'''The Doctor:''' Bit of a hermit.
'''Professor Yana:''' A... a hermit? With, uh, friends?
'''The Doctor:''' Hermits United. We meet up every 10 years, swap stories about caves. }}
The TARDIS lands in Cardiff to refuel, and the Doctor picks up a hitchhiker: Captain Jack Harkness, lately of ''[[
Once everyone's all caught up, the Doctor lays it out: they're at the ass-end of time, right at the heat death of the universe. The stars have all burned out. Humanity, they learn, have all congregated together in this planet's [[Elaborate Underground Base]], where they've been lured by vague promises of shuttle service to Utopia.
The only one who knows anything about how to get to Utopia is kindly old Professor [[You Are Not Alone|Yana]], who is played by ''[[Derek Jacobi|Sir Derek fucking Jacobi]]''. If you'd told people, back when the old show was cancelled in '89, that not only would ''[[
Anyway. Sir Derek's plan is to load everyone onto these enormous rockets and send them to Utopia, but the rockets aren't actually in working order. They need someone to enter a chamber filled with deadly radiation to reset some switches. Sounds like a job for someone immortal! Jack takes off a few layers of clothing for good measure before starting.
And it works! The evacuation starts; the rockets are boarded by the last dregs of humanity, hoping for something, ''anything'' better than a slow death in the night. Everyone congratulates each other on a job well done... and then Martha notices that Professor Yana has a pocket watch. And it looks just like [[Doctor Who
The Doctor goes into full-on [[Oh Crap]] mode and dashes back to try to stop Yana from opening the watch, but he's too late: Yana reveals himself to be a very evil bastard and gets shot by his sweet assistant Chantho. Which doesn't deter him, because he is {{spoiler|the Master}}...
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Who promptly regenerates into [[John Simm]], steals the TARDIS and leaves our heroes stranded in the umpteen-billionth century with savages beating down the doors.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: Though not widely known, this isn't the first time that Sir Derek Jacobi has played this
* [[After the End]]
* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: Is the Doctor yelling at Martha because he's overwhelmed and impatient, and is trying to figure out how to save the human race AND deal with another Time Lord? Or is he panicking because he knows ''exactly'' [[Arch Nemesis|who's in Yana's watch]]?
** Possible [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Out of all the Time Lords, there's precisely two who would have the smarts and creativity to figure out a way of surviving the Time War, and one of them is the Doctor himself...
* [[Big Creepy
* [[Big No]]
* [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]: Averted by {{spoiler|the Master:}} "Anyway. Why don't we stop and have a nice little chat while I tell you all my plans and you can work out a way to stop me. I DON'T think!"
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The fob watch makes an especially powerful one, as its appearance earlier in this series was adapted from a Seventh Doctor
* [[Contest Winner Cameo]]: The kid with a speaking role is a ''[[Blue Peter]]'' competition winner. {{spoiler|His character gets turned into a Toclafane offscreen.}}
* [[Continuity Nod]]: The Doctor notes upon refueling that somebody's opened up the Rift since he was last there. The finale of the first season of ''[[
** Which is why Jack is running full tilt towards the TARDIS. He heard the dematerlisation at the end of that episode.
** Jack brings the Doctor's old severed hand from "The Christmas Invasion" with him. {{spoiler|The Master steals it along with the TARDIS.}}
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* [[Disaster Scavengers]]: The average mob of ''[[Mad Max]]''-style tattooed goons haunting the lands outside the base.
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: {{spoiler|Inverted with Yana -- a thoroughly decent man who's only mildly annoyed his genius didn't get some recognition, as opposed to the egotistical, power-hungry and insane Master.}}
* [[Evil Is Hammy]]
* [[Fangs Are Evil]]
* [[Fun
* {{spoiler|[[Grand Theft Me]]}}: Of course, given that both parties are the same, it's played with mercilessly.
* [[Incoming Ham]]: Jack.
** And, of course, {{spoiler|The Master. Twice.}}
* [[I Was Beaten
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* [[Just Between You and Me]]: Defied; see [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]].
* [[Last Breath Bullet]]: Chantho. It doesn't stick.
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** {{spoiler|And the way the Master says it, so dripping with sarcasm... really, it should have been obvious who the Toclafane were.}}
* [[Medium Awareness]]: The futurekind apparently sense that the intro scene happened because they all raise their heads and declare "Humansss! Humans are coming!"
** Actually they soon come across and pursue a human from their own time, so it was him they sensed. Still perhaps a case of [[Leaning
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: where to start? the Doctor, for {{spoiler|not recognizing his old nemesis,}} Martha for getting Professor [[Meaningful Name|Yana]] to {{spoiler|open the watch,}} Jack for latching onto the TARDIS and causing a huge chunk of the mess...
** To be fair to Martha, she {{spoiler|had no idea who the Master was, and simply thought it was another Time Lord, and unsealing him would be a good thing.}}
* [[Negate Your Own Sacrifice]]: The launch can't be completed unless someone goes into a deadly-radiation-filled room to flip some switches. Good thing Jack is immortal...
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* [[Oh Crap]]: The Doctor's face, on realizing that whoever Yana is, he's not supposed to be able to really see the watch, and Martha just drew his attention to it.
** His subsequent panic implies that the Doctor knows perfectly well which Time Lord it is. When the two finally make eye contact, {{spoiler|the Master}} coyly grins and the Doctor shows no surprise whatsoever, even naming his foe without hesitation.
* [[One
* [[One Word Title]]
* [[Pardon My Klingon]]: Apparently Chantho forgoing her [[Verbal Tic]] would be the equivalent of swearing.
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* [[Terrible Ticking]]: Professor Yana's "headache". Duh-duh-duh-dum, duh-duh-duh-dum...
* [[This Is Sparta]]: A whispered example, but no less awesome:
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* [[Tomato in
* [[Too Much Information]]:
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'''Yana''': Yes, well, that's quite enough information, thank you. }}
* [[Used Future]]
* '''[[Wham! Episode]]'''
* [[Wham! Line]]: One of the biggest in the whole series, and easily the biggest so far in the New Series.
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* [[What Do You Mean
** What about going into a room full of harmful radiation with nothing more than the clothes on your back, while having a chat with a friend about the good old times?
* [[Verbal Tic]]: Chantho can't say any sentences that don't begin and end with "Chan" and "Tho." Well, she ''could,'' but it'd be rude.
** [[Verbal Tic Name]]
* [[Waistcoat of Style]]: Professor Yana - according to [[
* [[Wham! Line]]: "Even this thing never worked..."
** And shortly after, "Does it matter?" If only Martha had a better poker face.
* [[You Are Not Alone]]: Plot point!
** [[Fun
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