History Recap / DoctorWho60thASTheStarBeast

Fifteen years have passed for Donna since the [[Characters/DoctorWhoTenthDoctor Tenth Doctor]] parted ways with her, and many centuries have passed for him. After becoming [[Characters/DoctorWhoEleventhDoctor a handsome, fez-loving bloke with a bow-tie]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoTwelfthDoctor a stern yet altruistic old Scottsman who preached for kindness but loved shutting people up]] and [[Characters/DoctorWhoThirteenthDoctor a really brilliant woman who found out that her]] ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E10TheTimelessChildren own species were using her to gain her time-godly powers]]'' [[BusCrash (on top of them becoming extinct off-screen!)]], the Doctor has now been given a familiar form that resembles their tenth incarnation.

In present-day Earth (i.e. late November 2023), the Doctor arrives in London. They had just been [[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor forced to regenerate during an adventure with the Master, the Cybermen and the Daleks]], spent an hour or so dealing with [[Recap/DoctorWhoMagazine584To597LiberationOfTheDaleks simulated Daleks attempting to destroy the universe]] and [[Recap/DoctorWho2023CiNSDoctorWhoChildrenInNeed made Davros and his assistant proud when it comes to designing a real Dalek]]. For once, the Doctor definitely deserves to do something non-Dalek related, something that will help him find out the reason behind this new yet "familiar" incarnation. And as he helps out a random citizen in the streets of London... ''he ends up running into Donna Noble.'' The very last person he can run into, especially given his current face. Donna calls out for "Rose", which greatly confuses the Doctor even more, and we see that this particular Rose is, in fact, the daughter of Donna, and not Rose Tyler ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd who was last seen in a parallel dimension]]).

In present-day Earth (i.e. late November 2023), the Doctor arrives in London after spending an hour or so dealing with [[Recap/DoctorWhoMagazine584To597LiberationOfTheDaleks simulated Daleks attempting to destroy the universe]] and [[Recap/DoctorWho2023CiNSDoctorWhoChildrenInNeed making Davros and his assistant proud when it comes to designing a real Dalek]]. For once, the Doctor definitely deserves to do something non-Dalek related, something that will help him find out the reason behind this "familiar" incarnation. And as he helps out a random citizen in the streets of London... ''he ends up running into Donna Noble.'' The very last person he can run into, especially given his current face. Donna calls out for "Rose", which greatly confuses the Doctor even more, and we see that this particular Rose is, in fact, the daughter of Donna, and not Rose Tyler ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd who was last seen in a parallel dimension]]).

This is the first episode of the 2023 Specials Trilogy [[MilestoneCelebration created to celebrate the 60th Anniversary]] of ''Series/DoctorWho'', and the first episode to be broadcast on the Creator/DisneyPlus streaming service. It is also the first televised story to have an actor who portrayed a former incarnation of the Doctor return to portray a new one.

* InsectoidAliens: The Wrarth Warriors.

OnceUponATime, or if you prefer, Once Upon a ''Time Lord'', there was a time an alien with a time-travelling blue box who once hailed from the planet Gallifrey known as the Doctor, and there was a woman from Earth named Donna Noble, who befriended said alien after being caught up in [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride a ruse with a giant spider monster who sabotaged Donna's wedding back in Christmas of 2007]]. The Doctor and Donna then went on to have plenty of adventures during [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture the year 2009]], but when the Doctor had to deal with ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth the]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth biggest Dalek invasion on Earth]], his own regenerative Time Lord power, and the knowledge of a Time Lord, was accidentally passed to Donna, though saving the world as we know it- and, as a result, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd he locked the power in Donna's mind alongside all of her memories with the Doctor to prevent her brain]] from [[MySkullRunnethOver blowing up]] due to the overwhelming amount of information in a Time Lord mind, the worst SadisticChoice amongst lifetimes of them.

Before this new Rose can introduce herself to the Doctor, out of nowhere do we see a spaceship crashing down onto London. In the midst of the spaceship falling out of the sky, Donna is too busy minding her own business as she stacks all of Rose's arts-and-craft purchases just long enough to miss the spaceship (which, to be fair, isn't the first time that Donna misses out on something that's not even normal to begin with). Thankfully, the Doctor's worries of Donna recognizing him are nulled as Donna snarks on the Doctor's nostalgia-ridden suit he's got on without even remembering who he really is. As Rose leaves with her mother, we hear ''another'' person calling out for Rose. This person ''also'' ends up being part of Donna's life, as the taxi driver the Doctor encounters is Donna's own husband, Shaun Temple. The Doctor ends up taking Shaun's taxi cab towards the spaceship's crash site thanks to the Doctor's usage of psychic paper (which has yet to adjust to his gender change), and the pair proceeds to "Allon-sy!"

Back at the Nobles' house, Rose managed to house the Meep in her shed, as the Meep plays with it's new "little friends", which are just mere toys that Rose made with her own hands. The Meep is saddened by the Meep's own lonely situation, something that Rose can relate to. However, their conversation attracts the attention of Donna, and thus the Meep hides in the pile of plush toys, hoping that Donna won't notice the ''very realistic looking'' plush toy Rose has. However, this "toy" can blink on its own, and Donna decides to see if the "toy" is real enough by poking it straight in the eye. Predictably, this ends up annoying the Meep. Donna '''exclaims.'''

The Doctor decides to stay put with the Nobles for now, as he mends the Meep's paw and catches up on how the family has been doing as of recent times. The Doctor notices one person being missing from the house-- that being good ol' Wilfred Mott. Sadly, he's not with them anymore... or at least, in a literal sense, as he's currently in sheltered accommodation due to his age (as he can't manage the stairs anymore). In fact, he's able to get said housing thanks to Kate Stewart. Speaking of finding a home, the Doctor offers the Meep some help to get him...uh, what're the Meep's pronouns again? Doesn't matter anyway, as the Meep identifies solely as the Meep. As for whom the Meep is trying to escape from, the two bug-eyed aliens we saw earlier are known as the Wrarth Warriors, who, according to the Meep, cultivated Meepkind for their fur, until the galactic council banned them from doing so, causing them to kill their livestock.

Suddenly, the brainwashed UNIT soldiers arrive at the Noble estate to search for the Meep! How does the Doctor know they're brainwashed? Well, by using the sonic of course. Before even considering to escape through the back, the Wrarth Warriors come crashing into the house, and prepare to hunt down the Meep! Now ''both'' sides of the house are totally inaccessible due to gunfire and laser-fire. Luckily, the Doctor has a plan; seems the new sonic screwdriver is new in other ways as he's able to create forcefields to protect the family and Meep from fire. That being said, the group has to travel upstairs and through the attic's brick wall in order to escape through a neighbouring house, allowing for a proper escape route via Shaun's taxi cab. All this happens alongside UNIT soldiers trying their best to stop those Wrarth Warriors from intercepting. When the gang manages to escape, the Doctor checks up on a "dead" UNIT soldier...only to find out that they still have a pulse after being shot by a Wrarth Warrior. And why are their lasers not causing scorch marks on the taxi? As the team escapes, the Doctor realizes that things might have gone very wrong.

As the team pulls into a carpark, the Doctor decides to give the Meep an impromptu trial case, as the Meep might have not been telling their story straight. He summons two of the Wrarth as defendants, as the Doctor invokes Shadow Proclamation protocols 15, P, and 6. To start off, Donna confirms that the taxi has no scorch marks from the Wrarth's lasers. Next, the Doctor reaffirms that the UNIT soldiers that were gunned down by their lasers, were not even killed to begin with, as the two Wrarth Warriors (who are truly known as Sergeant Zogroth and Constable Zreeg) confirms that they were using stun guns only, and these ones apply anesthetic! The Meep, however, also reaffirms that the Wrarth wants to kill the Meep...only for the Doctor to remind the Meep that the brainwashed UNIT soldiers were shooting to kill, not stun. Therefore, they might have been working in the Meep's favor. To bring the case to a complete close, the Wrarth explain the truth behind the Meep as a whole. The Meep (as a species) went wild after their planet's psychedelic sun went as mad as they did. And the Galactic Council didn't outright ban the Wrarth from making Meep fur coats (as if the Wrarth even wanted to make coats in the first place), the council was actually ''eaten'' by the Meeps. Therefore, the Wrarth were sent in to kill off the species to prevent the Meeps from slaughtering more people across the galaxy. And the Meep that's currently with the group is the only Meep left in the universe, and is also the '''leader''' of the Meep species.

When the gang arrives at the Meep's spaceship, they notice that even more brainwashed people have been working on the Meep's side to get the spaceship back up and running. Heck, the brainwashed folk even praise highlines to the Meep! And yes, because of how the spaceship uses a dagger drive to start it's engines, it's going to blow London up into a smouldering pile of smoke and ash if it's able start up completely. Luckily, help is on the way, as Shirley is able to take down two brainwashed UNIT soldiers to free the gang from being imprisoned. After all, UNIT-made wheelchairs are equipped with tools and weapons for any situation! However, as Donna leaves with her family to escape, she realizes that she must do more good for the planet, for London, her family, and for her daughter, and runs back to the Doctor in order to help him stop the engines from being activated. However, as Sylvia picks up, Donna just called him "Doctor", something no one had called him yet...

This ends up causing the non-waterproof TARDIS to go haywire, as the Doctor and Donna hold on tight for dear life. As the cloister bells (AKA the TARDIS's signal to [[BringMyBrownPants switch to brown trousers]]) chime endlessly, the TARDIS disappears from Earth, sending the reunited partners in crime...[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASWildBlueYonder into the wild blue yonder.]]

* BlindJump: When Donna spills her coffee on the [=TARDIS=] controls, the Doctor says they could be transported anywhere in time and space.

--> '''The Meep:''' Oh, to ''hell'' with this! Exhibit C! ''[The Meep pulls out a gun and shoots both Wrarth Warriors]'' No stun-guns for me! Just ''die!''
* BrainwashedAndCrazy:

** The Doctor's final line in the prologue directly connects back to Ood Sigma's consolation to the Tenth Doctor:
--->'''Sigma:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime This song is ending, but the story never ends.]]\\
'''The Doctor:''' I think... the story hasn't ended yet.

** Sylvia's reintroduction is a mirror of her appearance back in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E1PartnersInCrime Partners in Crime]]", with Donna returning home late to find her there waiting. In a sign of Sylvia's CharacterDevelopment, she warmly welcomes Donna home and tells her that dinner's on.
** The Doctor [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E9Flatline names something of the villain's,]] this time dubbing the Meep's ship "The Delusions of Grandeur".
** A minor one, but Fudge's surname is Merchandani; In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft Turn Left]]", the Merchandanis were one of the refugee families sharing the house in Leeds with the Nobles and the Colasantos.

** The end of the TriggerPhrase used to fully unlock Donna's memories/the [=DoctorDonna=] is "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Binary, binary, binary".]]
** Just as in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]", the resurgence of the [=DoctorDonna=] is accompanied by a burst of regeneration energy.
** Donna [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E1PartnersInCrime complains that the TARDIS is "still a bit nippy"]] and unconsciously echoes her grandfather when she notes [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime how clean it is]].
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia The TARDIS is once again flung into an unknown time.]]

** The psychic paper is still giving the Doctor [[Characters/DoctorWhoThirteenthDoctor female-designated titles]], causing him to slap it and tell it to "catch up!"

** The Doctor notes that it seems [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd the universe is once again revolving around Donna Noble.]]

** Donna refers to the Meep as "the bloody [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride Martian]] in the shed" after discovering the alien.

** The Doctor has kept the barrister's wig from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E3TheStonesOfBlood "The Stones of Blood"]], and uses it to conduct a trial against an alien race again.
** The Doctor invokes Shadow Proclamation Protocols 15, P, and 6 to hold his mock trial and ensure there will be no violence between the two parties. The Meep, of course, eventually disregards this to shoot the inquisitors.
** It turns out that Donna and Rose's shared memories extended to making plushies out of the creatures that the Doctor and Donna met, including [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Daleks]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth the Judoon]], the Cybermen ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E12NightmareInSilver represented with an "Upgrade in Progress" soundbyte]]), [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E1PartnersInCrime the Adipose]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E1FluxChapterOneTheHalloweenApocalypse the Lupari]], and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E3PlanetOfTheOod the Ood]].

--> '''The Doctor:''' [[LampshadeHanging I think all that coincidence was heading here, to save London from burning.]]

-->''Hail to the Meep! Hail to the Most High!''

* DeceptivelyCuteCritter: Rose finds a small, furry, cute-looking alien named Meep and takes it in. It acts like a cute animal for a while, playing with her stuffed toys and asking for help against the monsters coming to hunt it. It's actually the evil one, eventually breaking the facade after tricking people into fighting for it and then luring the Doctor, along with Donna and her family, into a trap. It digs the knife in by taunting all of them and nearly killing the Doctor and Donna.

* DeflectorShields: The Doctor can use his sonic screwdriver to make force-fields to block fire from the Wrarth Warriors and possessed [=UNIT=] soldiers. They can only take so much damage though.
* DemotedToExtra: Aside from the Wrarth Constabulary, Fudge goes from a secondary character in the comic to a throwaway role in the spisode.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Constable Zogroth dies in Donna's arms after the Meep shoots him, and Donna briefly ends up dying in the Doctor's arms, but returns to life soon after.

* EvolvingCredits: [[https://youtu.be/X_1bgdz7vig As to be expected]].

** [=UNIT=]'s rounds are shown physically piercing and eventually shattering the Sonic-generated forcefields while the Wrarth Warriors' weapons seemingly have no effect, foreshadowing the true pro-antagonist dynamic in the story.
** At the end of the episode, Donna asks the Doctor why everything seems to be one last adventure for him, suggesting that he visit her family for ''"tea, dinner and a laugh"''. [[spoiler:He gets to do this [[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle two episodes later]], thanks to a bigeneration that allows his future self to split from his body and ensure himself a peaceful retirement]].

* HappyEndingOverride: . "The End of Time" showed Donna and Shaun starting off HappilyMarried, with the implication that the Doctor had helped set them up financially. However, Donna (thanks to the influence of the Doctor still in there) gave ''all'' her lottery winnings away after buying a house, and, while Sylvia is much nicer towards her daughter, she and Wilfred have spent the years since walking on eggshells around her, with Wilfred apparently losing a lot of his cheerful rambling about aliens. That said, they're otherwise happy with their lot.

* InsectoidAliens: The Wrarth Warriors

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7umktMyPQ0k The Doctor's Theme]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCVD0Gm3k2w Donna's Theme]] / [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsYJZKI9jG8 A Noble Girl About Town]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEm1KCIc2fM The Doctor Forever]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ew3v5vR9Ko All the Strange, Strange Creatures]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lNgcctekck Four Knocks]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=komb7TaF-6o I Am The Doctor]]

** It's subtle, but those helmets that the UNIT soldiers are wearing look notably similar to those worn by the Robomen in '' Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD''

* RedEyesTakeWarning: The moment the Meep drops the façade of being a cute, innocent and childish alien, the Meep's eyes go from yellow to bloodshot red.

** The third time, the "what"s are split between the newly-freed [=UNIT=] soldiers, the Doctor, and the Meep... before [[NotQuiteDead Donna wakes]] and adds a fourth.

-->''[[BrickJoke I gave away all my money.]]''

* {{Squee}}: The Doctor and Donna let out a loud one when geeking out over the new [=TARDIS=] console and interior, and it's ''adorable''.
* SuperWheelchair: UNIT has fitted Shirley's wheelchair with weaponry, and it's implied that all of UNIT's wheelchair using personnel have them as well.

-->'''Donna''': I'll triple-drive the particle manifesto, overstep the umbilical feed, vindicate the cyberline and roast the hyperfeeds! Like this!

-->'''Donna''': Here we are, [[BrickJoke having a coffee! What's gonna go wrong--]] ''[[BrickJoke [spills coffee over the TARDIS console]]]'' [[BigOMG Oh my God,]] [[OhNoNotAgain I did it again!]]

--->'''The Meep''': [[EvilAllAlong Oh, to]] ''[[EvilAllAlong hell]]'' [[EvilAllAlong with this!]]

* AdaptedOut: The briefly-seen commander of the Wrarth Warriors is not present here, nor is the third Wrarth Warrior accompanying Zogroth and Zreeg.

* AdaptationalVillainy: While the Meep in the original comics was TheSociopath, he did not eat his enemies.

--->'''The Doctor''': "I'm so glad you're back, 'cause ''it killed me'', Donna...[[BrutalHonesty it killed me, it killed me, it killed me.]]"

* FluffyTheTerrible: The Meep is a cannibalistic and unhinged member of a warrior race driven mad by the light of an insane sentient sun. The Meep is also incredibly cute, resembling a cross between a bush baby and a pet fancy rat. The Meep also refers to themselves as "the Beep of the Meeps" after it shows its true colours in a tone meant to be intimidating.

* HereditaryCurse: The Biological Meta-Crisis ended up passing down to Rose through Donna, enabling them to share the knowledge and take the strain off her brain.

* INeverToldYouMyName: It's a sign that Donna's amnesia is wearing off when she refers to him as the Doctor despite him going out of his way not to introduce himself by name.

-->'''Donna''': "I'll triple-drive the particle manifesto, overstep the umbilical feed, vindicate the cyberline and roast the hyperfeeds! Like this!"

[[Recap/DoctorWho2023CiNSDoctorWhoChildrenInNeed 2023]] ''[[Recap/DoctorWho2023CiNSDoctorWhoChildrenInNeed Children in Need]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWho2023CiNSDoctorWhoChildrenInNeed Special]]\\
'''60th Anniversary Specials''': "'''The Star Beast'''" | "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASWildBlueYonder Wild Blue Yonder]]" | "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle The Giggle]]"]]-]]]
'''2023 Specials, Episode 1:'''

->Written by Creator/RussellTDavies, from a ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoMagazine19To26TheStarBeast story by Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons]]\\

'''Air date:''' 25 November, 2023

->'''The Doctor:''' And now this face has come back... ''why?!''\\

** At the end of the episode, Donna asks the Doctor why everything seems to be one last adventure for him, suggesting that he visit her family for ''"tea, dinner and a laugh"''. [[spoiler:He gets to do this [[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggletwo episodes later]], thanks to a bigeneration that allows his future self to split from his body and ensure himself a peaceful retirement]].

* AdaptationalVillainy: While the Meep in the original comics was TheSociopath, he did not eat his enemies.

* AdaptedOut: The briefly-seen commander of the Wrarth Warriors is not present here, nor is the third Wrarth Warrior accompanying Zogroth and Zreeg.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Several UNIT soldiers end up enslaved by the Meep via psychedelic sun energy from the Meep's ship.

* AngerIsHealthyAesop: Played for laughs. One of the key characteristics of Donna is that she is hot-blooded, defensive, and loves spending money. When Donna loses her memories, she makes subconscious decisions that she thinks the Doctor would make and the most noticeable one is that she gave away ''£166 million'' (much to the bewilderment of Shaun and the Doctor) because she felt that the less fortunate needed it more than she did (which is considered too charitable to the Doctor by Donna's standards) and the Doctor sees this as a sign that the memory loss has affected her personality in a bad way. When she regains her memory, the first thing she does is express anger that she just gave away the £166 million without thinking to use it for herself. This signals to the Doctor that the process was a success and the old Donna is back.

* {{Squee}}: The Doctor and Donna let out a loud one when geeking out over the new [=TARDIS=] console and it's ''adorable''.

-->'''Donna''': Here we are, having a coffee! What’s gonna go wrong-- ''[spills coffee over the TARDIS console]'' Oh my God, I did it again!

--> '''The Meep:''' "[[VillainousBreakdown Oh, to ''hell'' with this!]] Exhibit C!" ''[The Meep pulls out a gun and shoots both Wrarth Warriors]'' "No stun-guns for me! Just ''die!''"

--->'''Sigma:''' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime This song is ending, but the story never ends.]]"\\
'''The Doctor:''' "I think... the story hasn't ended yet."

--->'''The Doctor:''' "Oh! Here we go again!"

--> '''The Doctor:''' [[LampshadeHanging "I think all that coincidence was heading here, to save London from burning."]]

-->'''Donna''': "Here we are, having a coffee! What’s gonna go wrong--" ''[spills coffee over the TARDIS console]'' "Oh my God, I did it again!"

--->'''The Meep''': "[[EvilAllAlong Oh, to ''hell'' with this!]]"

When the gang arrives at the Meep's spaceship, they notice that even more brainwashed people have been working on the Meep's side to get the spaceship back up and running. Heck, the brainwashed folk even praise highlines to the Meep! And yes, because of how the spaceship uses a dagger drive to start it's engines, it's going to blow London up into a smouldering pile of smoke and ash if its able start up completely. Luckily, help is on the way, as Shirley is able to take down two brainwashed UNIT soldiers to free the gang from being imprisoned. After all, UNIT-made wheelchairs are equipped with tools and weapons for any situation! However, as Donna leaves with her family to escape, she realizes that she must do more good for the planet, for London, her family, and for her daughter, and runs back to the Doctor in order to help him stop the engines from being activated. However, as Sylvia picks up, Donna just called him "Doctor", something no one had called him yet...

OnceUponATime, there was a time an alien with a time-travelling blue box who once hailed from the planet Gallifrey known as the Doctor, and there was a woman from Earth named Donna Noble, who befriended said alien after being caught up in [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride a ruse with a giant spider monster who sabotaged Donna's wedding back in Christmas of 2007]]. The Doctor and Donna then went on to have plenty of adventures during [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture the year 2009]], but when the Doctor had to deal with ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth the]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth biggest Dalek invasion on Earth]], his own regenerative Time Lord power, and the knowledge of a Time Lord, was accidentally passed to Donna, though saving the world as we know it- and, as a result, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd he locked the power in Donna's mind alongside all of her memories with the Doctor to prevent her brain]] from [[MySkullRunnethOver blowing up]] due to the overwhelming amount of information in a Time Lord mind, the worst SadisticChoice amongst lifetimes of them.

Fifteen years have passed for Donna since the [[Characters/DoctorWhoTenthDoctor Tenth Doctor]] parted ways with her, and many centuries have passed for him. After becoming [[Characters/DoctorWhoEleventhDoctor a handsome, fez-loving bloke with a bow-tie]], [[Characters/DoctorWhoTwelfthDoctor a stern yet altruistic old Scottsman who preached for kindness but loved shutting people up]] and [[Characters/DoctorWhoThirteenthDoctor and a really brilliant woman who found out that her]] ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E10TheTimelessChildren own species were using her to gain her time-godly powers]]'' [[BusCrash (on top of them becoming extinct off-screen!)]], the Doctor has now been given a familiar form that resembles their tenth incarnation.

The UNIT soldiers arrive at the pod site, and the Doctor heads on over to the Nobles' house, where Donna and Sylvia panic at the sight of the Meep. And then Sylvia hears the Doctor. In a matter of moments, the Doctor makes his way into the house to see the Meep, and all hell breaks loose as Sylvia tries to cover it up. And then Shaun walks in on them. One awkward "meep meep" later, and the UNIT soldiers at the pod site are told by the (brainwashed) soldiers to head towards the location of the Meep...

Suddenly, the brainwashed UNIT soldiers arrive at the Noble estate to search for the Meep! Before even considering to escape through the back, the Wrarth Warriors come crashing into the house, and prepare to hunt down the Meep! Now ''both'' sides of the house are totally inaccessible due to gunfire and laser-fire. Luckily, the Doctor has a plan; seems the new sonic screwdriver is new in other ways as he's able to create forcefields to protect the family and Meep from fire. That being said, the group has to travel upstairs and through the attic's brick wall in order to escape through a neighbouring house, allowing for a proper escape route via Shaun's taxi cab. All this happens alongside UNIT soldiers trying their best to stop those Wrarth Warriors from intercepting. When the gang manages to escape, the Doctor checks up on a "dead" UNIT soldier...only to find out that they still have a pulse after being shot by a Wrarth Warrior. And why are their lasers not causing scorch marks on the taxi? As the team escapes, the Doctor realizes that things might have gone very wrong.

As the team pulls into an underground carpark, the Doctor decides to give the Meep an impromptu trial case, as the Meep might have not been telling the story straight. He summons two of the Wrarth Warriors as defendants, as the Doctor invokes Shadow Proclamation protocols 15, P, and 6. To start off, Donna confirms that the taxi has no scorch marks from the Wrarth Warrior's lasers. Next, the Doctor reaffirms that the UNIT soldiers that were gunned down by their lasers were not even killed to begin with, as the two Wrarth Warriors, Sergeant Zogroth and Constable Zreeg, confirm that they were using stun guns only. The Meep, however, also reaffirms that the Wrarth Warriors want to kill the Meep... only for the Doctor to remind the Meep that the brainwashed UNIT soldiers were shooting to kill, not stun. Therefore, they might have been working in the Meep's favour. To bring the case to a complete close, the Wrarth Warriors explain the truth behind the Meep as a whole. The Meep species went wild after their planet's psychedelic sun went as mad and ate the Galactic Council in their conquest of the universe, with the Wrarth Warriors sent in to kill off the species to prevent the Meeps from slaughtering more people across the galaxy. And the Meep that's currently with the group, the leader of the Meep species, is the only Meep left in the universe.

It turns out this whole entire time, the Meep was faking their sob-story, brainwashing UNIT soldiers for the Meep's sake, and plans to kill off the human race when it proceeds to get their spaceship working again. The now gremlin-like Meep proceeds to shoot the two Wrarth Warriors in cold blood, and corners the gang with the assistance of their brainwashed goons. The Meep then proclaim that the Meep is "THE BEEP OF ALL THE MEEPS!" as Zogroth regrets his decision of taking on this particular duty ''after'' he retired. The Meep taunts Donna for being stupid and also taunts her "weird child", which angers Donna. The Doctor attempts to mediate the situation by offering the Meep some knowledge about himself (since he is a two-hearted alien like the Meep is) as long as the Meep spares the Nobles. And while he's able to get the Meep to accept the offer, his next offer in regards to getting the Meep off the Earth safely is rendered useless as the Doctor is knocked out by the brainwashed soldiers. With the group kidnapped, the Meep triumphally cackles.

As the Doctor does his best to stop the clock, the spaceship's deadlocked is sealed... which won't affect the Doctor that much, as he proceeds to use his hands to stop the engines. What ''will'' affect him, however, is the spaceship's maxifold bisecting. In layman's terms: The Doctor and Donna are now separated by a glass wall. The dagger drive starts digging down, as cracks begin to spread throughout London, with fires being unleashed from the ground up. The only way for the Doctor to stop all of this... is to bring back Donna's memories from all those years ago. As the Doctor angrily yells about how destiny's a bitch, Donna tells him to get on with it. With the key words once uttered all those years ago, binary included, the [=DoctorDonna=] is finally unleashed once again, with all of her Doctor-related memories brought back as well.

This ends up causing the non-waterproof TARDIS to go haywire, as the Doctor and Donna hold on tight for dear life. As the cloister bells chime endlessly, the TARDIS disappears from Earth, sending the reunited partners in crime...[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASWildBlueYonder into the wild blue yonder.]]