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'''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 ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'', who is ''not'' going to let the Doctor get away twice. The hand-in-a-jar that Jack's been carrying around in ''Torchwood'' turns out to be the Doctor's old hand, which Jack's been using as a "Doctor detector". With a dramatic cry of '''"[[Incoming Ham|DOOOOCTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!]]"''', Jack leaps onto the TARDIS as it's disappering. It turns out that the TARDIS does ''not'' like Jack ever since he [[Came Back Wrong]], and rejects him, hurling through time and space in an attempt to shake him off. Jack ends up dead when the TARDIS lands on a lonely dark planet trillions of years in the future. But everyone except Martha knows that [[Death Is Cheap|death is pretty temporary for Captain Jack]].
 
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.
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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/NS/Recap/S3 E8 Human Nature|the Doctor's watch.]] [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S3 E9 The FamilyofFamily of Blood|Which can be used as a receptacle for Essence Of Time Lord.]]
 
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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* [[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 -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 novel -- fans who'd read the novel would actually be less likely to think of its appearance in Family of Blood to be foreshadowing for the series' climax.
* [[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 (TV)|Torchwood]]'' had this.
** 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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* [[Evil Is Hammy]]
* [[Fangs Are Evil]]
* [[Fun Withwith Acronyms]]: {{spoiler|'''Y'''ou '''A'''re '''N'''ot '''A'''lone}}
* {{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 Byby a Girl]]:
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Master!Yana:'''}} Killed by an insect... a ''girl''... how inappropriate.}}
* [[Just Between You and Me]]: Defied; see [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]].
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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 Onon the Fourth Wall]].
* [[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.}}
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* [[This Is Sparta]]: A whispered example, but no less awesome:
{{quote| '''Professor Yana''': {{spoiler|''I... am... '''The Master.'''''}}}}
* [[Tomato in Thethe Mirror]]: Yana.
* [[Too Much Information]]:
{{quote| '''Chantho''': Chan-[[Bizarre Alien Biology|I am happy drinking my own internal milk]]-tho.<br />
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* [[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 [[Doctor Who Magazine (Magazine)|Doctor Who Magazine]], RTD told the wardrobe department to "[[William Hartnell|Hartnell]] him up".
* [[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 Withwith Acronyms|Also a]] [[Meaningful Name]]
 
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