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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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* [[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.}}
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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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