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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. }}
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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 ''[[Doctor Who]]'' return, but they'd get people like Sir Derek Jacobi to play {{spoiler|the Master}}, well. They'd probably punch you out for taunting them or something. So, when and if you get a time machine, it's probably just as well if you don't do this.
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]]?
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* [[Big Creepy-Crawlies]]: Chantho, a ''nice'' giant insect alien. Jack Harkness thinks she's [[Extreme Omnisexual|kind of cute]].
* [[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 ''[[Torchwood]]'' had this.
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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 with Acronyms]]: {{spoiler|'''Y'''ou '''A'''re '''N'''ot '''A'''lone}}
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** And, of course, {{spoiler|The Master. Twice.}}
* [[I Was Beaten by a Girl]]:
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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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* [[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 the Mirror]]: Yana.
* [[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 It's Not Awesome?]]: The Doctor and Jack running through the halls with their coats flapping.
** 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?
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