History Recap / ChildrenOfTimeS1E4TheManhattanConspiracy

* ActionGirl: Kit.

* WalkingSpoiler: Kit -- although to be fair, her information is pretty generalized up until her reveal/unreveal, and even then, the warning that she gives is sympathy for whatever is going to befall the PowerTrio in the future.

* ColdBloodedTorture[=/=]ForTheEvulz:
** [[spoiler:Major Barnes]] suggests to Dalek Caan that the Doctor be handed over to people in Roswell to be dissected -- the suggestion is made to further his good standing with the Daleks. Caan is taken with the idea.

* RealityRetcon: The involvement of the Daleks in [[spoiler: the Manhattan Project]].

Just when it seems that they're about to be in huge trouble with the commanding officer, a young woman claims that they're there to help her. More than that, however, she knows the Doctor, [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E8SilenceInTheLibrary even though he has no idea who she is]].

Though the setting is far removed from 1930s' New York City, [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E4DaleksInManhattan the Doctor still comes face to face with an old foe]]...

!!This Episode Provides Examples of:

* {{Expy}}: Kit manages in one episode to make several parallels to River Song throughout said character's run. Kit has a [=PhD=]., [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E8SilenceInTheLibrary has met the Doctor before he meets her, has poor relations with her current boss]], [[spoiler:is a Time Lady]], [[spoiler:[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E8LetsKillHitler uses a burst of regenerative energy in defense]]]], [[TheReveal reveals her identity]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar to the Doctor]] [[TheUnreveal without doing so to his Companions or the audience]], and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang gives the Doctor a vague but heartfelt warning about the future]]. ''Unlike'' River, however, she does not flirt with the Doctor, has no guilt or regrets in facing him, and [[spoiler:does not die in the Doctor's first adventure with her]].

* HeelFaceTurn: Dalek Sec, [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks as per the original story]], but rather more thoroughly this time around.

It's been a couple of adventures since the last time we saw the Doctor and his new, official Companions, and he's intending now to take them to a festival in the American Southwest, 2010. Instead, they end up in a military base, and the Doctor quickly realizes... he's landed them in WorldWarII. And not just ''any'' [=WWII=] base...

* WorldWarII: One word: ''Manhattan''.

** [[spoiler:Colonel Marshall]] suggests to Dalek Caan that the Doctor be handed over to people in Roswell to be dissected -- the suggestion is made to further his good standing with the Daleks. Caan is taken with the idea.
* {{Expy}}: Kit manages in one episode to make several parallels to River Song throughout said character's run. Kit has a [=PhD=]., [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E8SilenceInTheLibrary has met the Doctor before he meets her, has poor relations with her current boss]], [[spoiler:is a Time Lady]], [[spoiler:uses a burst of regenerative energy in defense]], [[TheReveal reveals her identity to the Doctor]] [[TheUnreveal without doing so to his Companions or the audience]], and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang gives both the Doctor and Holmes a vague but heartfelt warning about the future]]. ''Unlike'' River, however, she does not flirt with the Doctor, has no guilt or regrets in facing him, and [[spoiler:does not die in the Doctor's first adventure with her]].

** [[spoiler:Marshall is quite taken with the power of the atomic bomb. The two Time Lords plan accordingly.]]
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The undercurrent of the story at first until [[spoiler:Colonel Marshall]] brings it to full, ugly glory.

* MoralEventHorizon (InUniverse): [[spoiler:Colonel Marshall]] crosses it in a very big way just by opening his mouth, the point where the Doctor's temporarily-three Companions agree that the man is ''dead''.

* OhCrap: The moment that [[spoiler:Marshall]] notices [[spoiler:Kit's]] HealingFactor, and Caan expresses ''interest''.

Just when it seems that they're about to be in huge trouble with the commanding officer, a young woman claims that they're there to help her. More than that, however, she knows the Doctor, [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E8SilenceInTheLibrary even though the Doctor has no idea who she is]].

* BittersweetEnding

* {{Expy}}: Kit manages in one episode to make several parallels to River Song throughout said character's run. Kit has a [=PhD=]., [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E8SilenceInTheLibrary has met the Doctor before he meets her, has poor relations with her current boss]], [[spoiler:is a Time Lady]], [[spoiler:uses a burst of regenerative energy in defense]], [[TheReveal reveals her identity to the Doctor]] [[TheUnreveal without doing so to his Companions or the audience]], and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS314E13TheBigBang gives both the Doctor and Holmes a vague but heartfelt warning about the future]]. ''Unlike'' River, however, she does not flirt with the Doctor, has no guilt or regrets in facing him, and [[spoiler:does not die in the Doctor's first adventure with her]].

* {{Expy}}: Kit manages in one episode to make several parallels to River Song throughout said character's run. Kit has a [=PhD=]., has met the Doctor before he meets her, has poor relations with her current boss, [[spoiler:is a Time Lady]], [[spoiler:uses a burst of regenerative energy in defense]], [[TheReveal reveals her identity to the Doctor]] [[TheUnreveal without doing so to his Companions or the audience]], and gives the Doctor a vague but heartfelt warning about the future. ''Unlike'' River, however, she does not flirt with the Doctor, has no guilt or regrets in facing him, and [[spoiler:does not die in the Doctor's first adventure with her]].

* WalkingSpoiler: Kit -- although to be fair, her information is pretty generalized up until her reveal/unreveal, and even then, the warning that she gives is merely sympathy for whatever is going to befall the PowerTrio in the future.

* {{Expy}}: Kit manages in one episode to make several parallels to River Song throughout said character's run. Kit has a PhD., has met the Doctor before he meets her, has poor relations with her current boss, [[spoiler:is a Time Lady]], [[spoiler:uses a burst of regenerative energy in defense]], reveals her identity to the Doctor without doing so to his Companions or the audience, and gives the Doctor a vague but heartfelt warning about the future. ''Unlike'' River, however, she does not flirt with the Doctor, has no guilt or regrets in facing him, and [[spoiler:does not die in the Doctor's first adventure with her]].

* Expy: Kit manages in one episode to make several parallels to River Song throughout said character's run. Kit has a PhD., has met the Doctor before he meets her,

* HaveWeMetYet: The trio quickly realizes that Kit already knows them.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Caan's killing one man triggers a very human response in Sec.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Caan wanted to "study" a Time Lord's regenerative use of the Time Vortex? Give 'im the Time Vortex, then...]]

* HalfHumanHybrid: Sec, of course.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:A character you get to know for one scene only but who is also obviously friends with Kit. His death leaves her seriously shaken.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: Dalek Sec, [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks as per the original story]].

* YouCantFightFate: Kit tells the Doctor that the Daleks will never change -- [[WalkingSpoiler she's from his future]], and [[ForegoneConclusion she knows what becomes of them]].

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Colonel Marshall]] crosses it in a very big way just by opening his mouth, the point where the Doctor's temporarily-three Companions agree that the man is ''dead''.

* OoMeAccentsSlipping: Subverted in that Kit deliberately drops her Midwestern accent for a middle-class London one, then later switches back.

* HeelFaceTurn: Dalek Sec, [Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks as per the original story].

* YouCantFightFate: Kit tells the Doctor that the Daleks will never change -- [[WalkingSpoiler she's from his future]], and [[ForgoneConclusion she knows what becomes of them]].

* OooMeAccentsSlipping: Subverted in that Kit deliberately drops her Midwestern accent for a middle-class London one, then later switches back.

* WalkingSpoiler: Mm, guess.

* YouCantFightFate: Kit tells the Doctor that the Daleks will never change -- she's from his future, and she knows what becomes of them.

* HaveWeMetYet: Holmes begins to suspect this regarding Kit.