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->''"The world doesn't end 'cos [[TitleDrop the Doctor dances]]."''
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->''"The world doesn't end 'cos [[TitleDrop the Doctor dances]].dances."''
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** TheVirus responsible for the plague turns out to be [[spoiler: the same kind of nanogenes used to fix up Rose's hand]] in the previous episode.
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-->''"Everybody lives, Rose. Just this once, EVERYBODY LIVES!!"''
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** TheVirus responsible for the plague turn out to be [[spoiler: the same kind of nanogenes used to fix up Rose's hand]] in the previous episode.
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* DeathIsCheap: The nanogenes can revive the dead. As the Doctor puts it, "what's life, but nature's way of keeping meat fresh."
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EverybodyLives as the Doctor re-infects everyone with the nanogenes, who now know how to fix humans. Even previously dead humans. Hooray! It goes better than expected, because at least one person grows their whole leg back, so it's safe to say everyone even got their war wounds reversed. Jack uses the Chula ship to suspend the dropping of the bomb that was supposed to blow up in the location the Chula ambulance crashed, "Schlecter Wolf" (German for "Bad Wolf"- ArcWords struck again!) He flies off into space.
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EverybodyLives as the Doctor re-infects everyone with the nanogenes, who now know how to fix humans. Even previously dead humans. Hooray! It goes better than expected, because at least one person grows their whole leg back, so it's safe to say everyone even got their war wounds reversed. Jack uses the Chula ship to suspend the dropping of the bomb that was supposed to blow up in the location the Chula ambulance crashed, "Schlecter Wolf" (German for (Roughly translated as "Bad Wolf"- ArcWords struck strike again!) He flies off into space.
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Cue the faint sound of vintage swing music from afar. The TARDIS has docked to Jack's ship long enough for him to cross over and let the bomb wipe out the last trace of the Chula civilization without him on board. The Doctor has given him a lift after Rose's concerns set off the alarm bells in his head to pick up Jack so the bomb won't get him. He tells Jack to hurry up and get in the TARDIS, but to also shut the door because there will be quite a draft, when the explosion strikes. Needless to say, Captain Jack joins the TARDIS, saved by the Doctor just before his ship goes kablooey in an attempted HeroicSacrifice. He walks in to find the Doctor and Rose... [[DancePartyEnding dancing]]. Rose asks if Jack would like to cut in and also... [[SexyManInstantHarem dance]]. The Doctor, amused to have an openly not-straight companion, wonders which of the two Jack would... [[HoYay dance]] with.
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Cue the faint sound of vintage swing music from afar. The TARDIS has docked to Jack's ship long enough for him to cross over and let the bomb wipe out the last trace of the Chula civilization without him on board. The Doctor has given him a lift after Rose's concerns set off the alarm bells in his head to pick up Jack so the bomb won't get him. He tells Jack to hurry up and get in the TARDIS, but to also shut the door because door- [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking there will be quite a draft, draft when the explosion strikes.strikes]]. Needless to say, Captain Jack joins the TARDIS, saved by the Doctor just before his ship goes kablooey in an attempted HeroicSacrifice. He walks in to find the Doctor and Rose... [[DancePartyEnding dancing]]. Rose asks if Jack would like to cut in and also... [[SexyManInstantHarem dance]]. The Doctor, amused to have an openly not-straight companion, wonders which of the two Jack would... [[HoYay dance]] with.
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Cue the faint sound of vintage swing music from afar. The TARDIS has docked to Jack's ship long enough for him to cross over and let the bomb wipe out the last trace of the Chula civilization without him on board. The Doctor has given him a lift after Rose's concerns set off the alarm bells in his head to pick up Jack before so the bomb got won't get him. He tells Jack to hurry up and get in the TARDIS, but to also shut the door because there will be quite a draft, when the explosion strikes. Needless to say, Captain Jack joins the TARDIS, saved by the Doctor just before his ship goes kablooey in an attempted HeroicSacrifice. He walks in to find the Doctor and Rose... [[DancePartyEnding dancing]]. Rose asks if Jack would like to cut in and also... [[SexyManInstantHarem dance]]. The Doctor, amused to have an openly not-straight companion, wonders which of the two Jack would... [[HoYay dance]] with.
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Cue the faint sound of vintage swing music from afar. The TARDIS has docked to Jack's ship long enough for him to cross over and let the bomb wipe out the last trace of the Chula civilization without him on board. The Doctor has given him a lift after Rose's concerns set off the alarm bells in his head to save pick up Jack before the bomb got him. He tells Jack to hurry up and get in the TARDIS, but to also shut the door because there will be quite a draft, when the explosion strikes. Needless to say, Captain Jack joins the TARDIS, saved by the Doctor just before his ship goes kablooey in an attempted HeroicSacrifice. He walks in to find the Doctor and Rose... [[DancePartyEnding dancing]]. Rose asks if Jack would like to cut in and also... [[SexyManInstantHarem dance]]. The Doctor, amused to have an openly not-straight companion, wonders which of the two Jack would... [[HoYay dance]] with.
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Jack Harkness is flying through space in his handy Chula Ship, but he only delayed "Schlecter Wolf" from its volcano day. The WWII bomb is about to go off, and Jack cannot stop it from blowing him and his ship into space dust. After bickering with the A.I. of his ship under the false hope there might be an escape pod somewhere, he is repeatedly told not so, until the A.I. spells out for him that he is 100% doomed. Resigned to his fate, he orders an Emergency Protocol 147- a martini... with too much vermouth. Jack is going to drink to his own death and go out with a bang, reminiscing about the time he got out of it before by charming his executioners into bed with him...
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Jack Harkness is flying through space in his handy Chula Ship, but he only delayed "Schlecter Wolf" from its volcano day. The WWII bomb is about to go off, and Jack cannot stop it from blowing him and his ship into space dust. After bickering with the A.I. of his ship under the false hope there might be an escape pod somewhere, he is repeatedly told not so, until the A.I. flatly spells it out for him that he is 100% '''100%''' doomed. Resigned to his fate, he orders an Emergency Protocol 147- a martini... with too much vermouth. Jack is going to drink to his own death and go out with a bang, reminiscing about the time he got out of it before by charming his executioners into bed with him...
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The Doctor and Rose return to the TARDIS, with the Doctor apparently knowing what Rose wanted for Christmas when she was twelve and having a part in it. But mostly ecstatic that everybody lived... until Rose wonders what happened to Jack.
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The Doctor and Rose return to the TARDIS, with the Doctor apparently knowing what Rose wanted for Christmas when she was twelve and having a part in getting it. But mostly ecstatic that everybody lived... until Rose wonders what happened to Jack.
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EverybodyLives as the Doctor re-infects everyone with the nanogenes, who now know how to fix humans. Even previously dead humans. Hooray! Also, Captain Jack joins the TARDIS, saved by the Doctor just before his ship goes kablooey in an attempted HeroicSacrifice. He walks in to find the Doctor and Rose... [[DancePartyEnding dancing]]. Rose asks if Jack would like to cut in and also... [[SexyManInstantHarem dance]]. The Doctor, amused to have an openly not-straight companion, wonders which of the two Jack would... [[HoYay dance]] with.
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EverybodyLives as the Doctor re-infects everyone with the nanogenes, who now know how to fix humans. Even previously dead humans. Hooray! Also, It goes better than expected, because at least one person grows their whole leg back, so it's safe to say everyone even got their war wounds reversed. Jack uses the Chula ship to suspend the dropping of the bomb that was supposed to blow up in the location the Chula ambulance crashed, "Schlecter Wolf" (German for "Bad Wolf"- ArcWords struck again!) He flies off into space.
The Doctor decides the evidence of an alien race needs to be wiped out to keep history sterile. He makes the Chula ambulance self-destruct when the area is clear of people, reasoning, "History says there was an explosion here. Who am I to argue with history?" with Rose replying, "Usually the first in line."
The Doctor and Rose return to the TARDIS, with the Doctor apparently knowing what Rose wanted for Christmas when she was twelve and having a part in it. But mostly ecstatic that everybody lived... until Rose wonders what happened to Jack.
Jack Harkness is flying through space in his handy Chula Ship, but he only delayed "Schlecter Wolf" from its volcano day. The WWII bomb is about to go off, and Jack cannot stop it from blowing him and his ship into space dust. After bickering with the A.I. of his ship under the false hope there might be an escape pod somewhere, he is repeatedly told not so, until the A.I. spells out for him that he is 100% doomed. Resigned to his fate, he orders an Emergency Protocol 147- a martini... with too much vermouth. Jack is going to drink to his own death and go out with a bang, reminiscing about the time he got out of it before by charming his executioners into bed with him...
Cue the faint sound of vintage swing music from afar. The TARDIS has docked to Jack's ship long enough for him to cross over and let the bomb wipe out the last trace of the Chula civilization without him on board. The Doctor has given him a lift after Rose's concerns set off the alarm bells in his head to save Jack before the bomb got him. He tells Jack to hurry up and get in the TARDIS, but to also shut the door because there will be quite a draft, when the explosion strikes. Needless to say, Captain Jack joins the TARDIS, saved by the Doctor just before his ship goes kablooey in an attempted HeroicSacrifice. He walks in to find the Doctor and Rose... [[DancePartyEnding dancing]]. Rose asks if Jack would like to cut in and also... [[SexyManInstantHarem dance]]. The Doctor, amused to have an openly not-straight companion, wonders which of the two Jack would... [[HoYay dance]] with.
The Doctor decides the evidence of an alien race needs to be wiped out to keep history sterile. He makes the Chula ambulance self-destruct when the area is clear of people, reasoning, "History says there was an explosion here. Who am I to argue with history?" with Rose replying, "Usually the first in line."
The Doctor and Rose return to the TARDIS, with the Doctor apparently knowing what Rose wanted for Christmas when she was twelve and having a part in it. But mostly ecstatic that everybody lived... until Rose wonders what happened to Jack.
Jack Harkness is flying through space in his handy Chula Ship, but he only delayed "Schlecter Wolf" from its volcano day. The WWII bomb is about to go off, and Jack cannot stop it from blowing him and his ship into space dust. After bickering with the A.I. of his ship under the false hope there might be an escape pod somewhere, he is repeatedly told not so, until the A.I. spells out for him that he is 100% doomed. Resigned to his fate, he orders an Emergency Protocol 147- a martini... with too much vermouth. Jack is going to drink to his own death and go out with a bang, reminiscing about the time he got out of it before by charming his executioners into bed with him...
Cue the faint sound of vintage swing music from afar. The TARDIS has docked to Jack's ship long enough for him to cross over and let the bomb wipe out the last trace of the Chula civilization without him on board. The Doctor has given him a lift after Rose's concerns set off the alarm bells in his head to save Jack before the bomb got him. He tells Jack to hurry up and get in the TARDIS, but to also shut the door because there will be quite a draft, when the explosion strikes. Needless to say, Captain Jack joins the TARDIS, saved by the Doctor just before his ship goes kablooey in an attempted HeroicSacrifice. He walks in to find the Doctor and Rose... [[DancePartyEnding dancing]]. Rose asks if Jack would like to cut in and also... [[SexyManInstantHarem dance]]. The Doctor, amused to have an openly not-straight companion, wonders which of the two Jack would... [[HoYay dance]] with.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Locked in a room with a panicked infected soldier, Nancy is able to calm him down and put him to sleep by singing lullabies, [[spoiler: as a mother would do for her child.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Locked in a room with a panicked infected soldier, Nancy is able to calm him down and put him to sleep by singing lullabies, [[spoiler: as a mother would do for her child.]]
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** The Doctor realizing that he'd sent the boy to his room... the room they were in.
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** The Doctor realizing that he'd sent the boy to his room... the room they were in.
*** Along with that, they are playing back tapes of Jamie in the hospital repeating things about his mummy. Then they realize they are still hearing Jamie even though the tape ran out.
*** Along with that, they are playing back tapes of Jamie in the hospital repeating things about his mummy. Then they realize they are still hearing Jamie even though the tape ran out.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: A plot point for Nancy, who looks young enough to blend in with a group of orphans but is (barely) old enough to really be Jamie's mother. The actress really was that old, too.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: A plot point for Nancy, who looks young enough to blend in with a group of orphans but is (barely) actually (just barely) old enough to really be Jamie's mother. The actress really was that old, too.the age of the character too, despite being able to pass for 13 or 14.
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* ArcWords: "Schlecter Wolf", a BlindIdiotTranslation of "Bad Wolf", on the bomb Captain Jack rides at the end.
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* ArcWords: "Schlecter Wolf", a BlindIdiotTranslation of "Bad Wolf", on the bomb Captain Jack rides at the end. This was a last minute addition, as Moffat hadn't been told about the arc.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Locked in a room with a panicked infected soldier, Nancy is able to calm him down and put him to sleep by singing lullabys, [[spoiler: as a mother would do for her child.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Locked in a room with a panicked infected soldier, Nancy is able to calm him down and put him to sleep by singing lullabys, lullabies, [[spoiler: as a mother would do for her child.]]
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* AmericaSavesTheDay: Despite taking place in 1941, and thus mere months before the US would join WorldWarII and come to Britain's direct aid, the most obvious use of the trope is never discussed. On the other hand, Rose seems confident enough that the swaggering well-equipped (fake) American (from the distant future) will come through that she insists on the Doctor taking a break for a bit so they could dance.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Locked in a room with a panicked infected soldier, Nancy is able to calm him down and put him to sleep by singing lullabys, [[spoiler: as a mother would do for her child.]]
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: DiscussedTrope
-->'''Nancy''': You just told me that was an ambulance from another world. There are people running round with gas-mask heads calling for their mummies and the sky's full of Germans dropping bombs on me. Tell me, do you think there's anything left I couldn't believe?
** And then ZigZagged when Nancy has trouble accepting that Rose and the Doctor could be time travelers from the future. She points at the nighttime London skyline, with flak bursts and barrage balloons and the Germans doing their level best to destroy the city. [[WarIsHell What]] [[DespairEventHorizon future?]]
-->'''Nancy''': You just told me that was an ambulance from another world. There are people running round with gas-mask heads calling for their mummies and the sky's full of Germans dropping bombs on me. Tell me, do you think there's anything left I couldn't believe?
** And then ZigZagged when Nancy has trouble accepting that Rose and the Doctor could be time travelers from the future. She points at the nighttime London skyline, with flak bursts and barrage balloons and the Germans doing their level best to destroy the city. [[WarIsHell What]] [[DespairEventHorizon future?]]
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* NonMaliciousMonster: The child and his bodies, again, and the nanogenes were just trying to help; they just had a really bad template.
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* CoolButInefficient: Jack's "Squareness Gun". The special features drain the battery and with the lack of replacement parts or software available to fix things, it has some issues to it.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Attempted and averted. Jack was willing to die with a smile on his face drinking a martini as the bomb was about to explode when the Doctor saves him.
* TheHomeFront: London during theBlitzBlitz.
* TheHomeFront: London during the
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* RidingTheBomb: Cap'n Jack. He even teleports onto it to be able to talk with the Doctor and Rose.
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* ScrewDestiny: Averted. The Doctor notes history said a bomb went off where the Chula ship fell, so he was going to set it to self-destruct. Who is he to argue with History? Rose notes, normally he's first in line.
* SexyManInstantHarem:JackJack.
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'''The Doctor:''' [[BoldlyComing Dannce]].Dance]].
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'''Rose Tyler'''
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--> '''The Doctor:''' ''[identifying Jack's weapon]'' Sonic Blaster. Fifty-first century. Weapons factory at Villengard?\\
'''Captain Jack Harkness:''' You've been to the factories?\\
'''Captain Jack Harkness:''' You've been to the factories?\\
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* WeirdnessMagnet: Albion Hospital was also home to an [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E4AliensOfLondon "alien" pig]].
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* WeirdnessMagnet: Albion Hospital was also home to an [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E4AliensOfLondon [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E4AliensOfLondon "alien" pig]].
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* CallBack: Adam isn't mentioned by name but the Doctor is not fond of Jack at first, and this is before he realized Jack's full involvement in the plot. He asks Rose where she picked Jack up.
* OneManArmy: Jame, as the first victim of the nanogenes is called the General by the Doctor. The kid knocked down a solid wall to get to the Doctor, Jack, and Rose.
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* SuperSoldier: The victims of the nanogenes become this.
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* AnArmAndALeg: Inverted. Mrs. Harcourt, one of the victims of the nanogenes, had her leg grown back by them.
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* ExactWords: Jack's Chula warship is an ambulance. They have ambulances in wars.
* GoingCritical: Not in the story proper, but the reactor at the factory Jack got his gun from went critical.
--> '''The Doctor:''' ''[identifying Jack's weapon]'' Sonic Blaster. Fifty-first century. Weapons factory at Villengard?\\
'''Captain Jack Harkness:''' You've been to the factories?\\
'''The Doctor:''' Once.\\
'''Captain Jack Harkness:''' Well, they're gone now, destroyed. Main reactor went critical, vaporized the lot.\\
'''The Doctor:''' Like I said. ''Once.''\\
''[looking over at Rose; matter-of-factly]''\\
'''The Doctor:''' There's a banana grove there now.\\
''[looks at Jack; smiling]''\\
'''The Doctor:''' I like bananas. Bananas are good.
--> '''The Doctor:''' ''[identifying Jack's weapon]'' Sonic Blaster. Fifty-first century. Weapons factory at Villengard?\\
'''Captain Jack Harkness:''' You've been to the factories?\\
'''The Doctor:''' Once.\\
'''Captain Jack Harkness:''' Well, they're gone now, destroyed. Main reactor went critical, vaporized the lot.\\
'''The Doctor:''' Like I said. ''Once.''\\
''[looking over at Rose; matter-of-factly]''\\
'''The Doctor:''' There's a banana grove there now.\\
''[looks at Jack; smiling]''\\
'''The Doctor:''' I like bananas. Bananas are good.
** The soldier who is meant to watch Nancy is panicking as she makes him realize this isn't just some cough as he cannot remember his wife's name, any children they have, or ''even his own name''.
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UsefulNotes/WorldWarII: The time of the episode's setting.
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->''"The world doesn't end 'cos [[TitleDrop the Doctor dances]]."''
-->-- '''Rose'''
The Doctor, Rose and Jack desperately try to escape the gas mask people and figure out what the hell is going on. While Jack teleports away, Rose and the Doctor are trapped for a while, and Rose takes the opportunity to ask the Doctor if he can dance like Jack can. The Doctor is a bit offended, and says he's actually got quite an amount of experience with... [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything dancing]]. Rose really can't picture him... [[UnusualEuphemism dancing]]. While the Doctor steps closer and takes her hands for an intense... [[ShipTease dance]], they fail to look around and realize that Jack's already saved them. It also turns out that Jack isn't exactly with the TimePolice any more; he turned rogue after waking up one morning and finding that two years of his memory had been wiped by his employer.
Jack goes off to distract a gay crash site guard with his suave, omnisexual allure, and the Doctor explains to Rose that Jack is, quote, "just a bit more flexible when it comes to... [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow dancing]]". In Jack's century, people will travel the whole universe to find aliens of all sexes and genders, and... [[BoldlyComing dance with them]]. Meanwhile, the virus becomes airborne and everyone around the warship crash site starts mutating.
Seeing the crash site, the Doctor figures it out: the Chula warship was a field ambulance,[[note]]Well, [[ExactWords technically]], as Jack points out, ambulances are ''used'' in war, thus making them ''war''ships by definition...[[/note]] and contained nanobots (here called "nanogenes") for expedient battlefield healing. When Jamie was first hit by the ship, the nanogenes swung into action and tried to fix him... but they'd never interacted with humans before, and so derived their idea of what humans looked like from a badly wounded kid in a gas mask. They sort of made it up as they went along -- assuming that fully healed people wore gas masks, they made the people they "infected" sprout gas masks. But when they finally met Nancy ([[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo really Jamie's mother, not his sister]]), they had a different model of a healthy human being to work towards... and the parent/child relationship between the subjects meant that the nanogenes knew that this pattern was the right one.
EverybodyLives as the Doctor re-infects everyone with the nanogenes, who now know how to fix humans. Even previously dead humans. Hooray! Also, Captain Jack joins the TARDIS, saved by the Doctor just before his ship goes kablooey in an attempted HeroicSacrifice. He walks in to find the Doctor and Rose... [[DancePartyEnding dancing]]. Rose asks if Jack would like to cut in and also... [[SexyManInstantHarem dance]]. The Doctor, amused to have an openly not-straight companion, wonders which of the two Jack would... [[HoYay dance]] with.
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!!Tropes:
* ArcWords: "Schlecter Wolf", a BlindIdiotTranslation of "Bad Wolf", on the bomb Captain Jack rides at the end.
* AuthorAppeal: This episode is pretty much Creator/StevenMoffat's love letter to {{shipping}}, and a manifesto on how he refuses to see the Doctor as asexual (as many fans, for some reason, do). It also marks the start of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' TV series being completely inclusive of LGBTQ culture (which the novels had already been since the late '90s).
* {{Autodoc}}: It turns out that this is what the Chula warship is.
* BavarianFireDrill: The Doctor gets all the gas-mask people to leave them alone by acting like a stern mummy and telling them to "Go to [their] room!" Comes back to bite the Doctor when he realizes he, Jack, and Rose were standing in the child's room when he gets there.
* BulletholeDoor: Well, Squareness Gun-hole door. Also used on the floor once.
* ChekhovMIA: Jamie's mummy.
* CoolButInefficient: Jack's "Squareness Gun".
* CreepyChild: Jamie; quite possibly the creepiest child since Billy Mumy in ''Series/TheTwilightZone''.
* DancePartyEnding
* DeathGlare: The Doctor to Jack, multiple times, until he finally admits that it's all his fault and tries to make up for it by way of HeroicSacrifice.
-->'''Jack:''' Getting a hint of disapproval.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** Try [[CensorshipTropes bleeping]] out every use of "dance".
** In a very dramatic way, when Jack learns that the nanogenes are going to change every human being into the creepy creatures they spend the episode running away from, he says "I didn't know!" Who else used that excuse?
* DoubleMeaning: Jack swears several times that the Chula ship was "empty". He was wrong, but given that Jamie is described several times as empty, he's sort of right by extension without realizing it.
* EverybodyLives: TropeNamer! Just this once, Rose, TropeNamer!
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: Former TropeNamer as "Are You My Mummy?"
* FamousLastWords: Lampshaded by the Doctor. "Go to your room!" would be very bad last words.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: All that talk about "dancing".
* TheHomeFront: London during the Blitz
* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: The nanogenes could've cured Jamie from the get-go had Nancy just given him a hug.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Jamie, I Am Your Mummy. It turns out Jamie's not Nancy's brother -- he's her son. Nancy deliberately lied to people about having a child that young and out of wedlock, and given how young she is and the current state of Britain, no-one would question it. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments "I will always be your mummy..."]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Jack is incredibly flippant about things throughout the entire episode, until the Doctor finally realizes what's happened, and that it's the nanogenes from the ship that Jack very carelessly sent careening to Earth which are causing all the trouble. The Doctor then makes a point of explaining to Jack in very precise and no uncertain terms exactly how he's just gone and doomed the entire human race, [[DeathGlare with a look of barely-restrained fury and disgust on his face the whole time]]. Jack looks [[OhCrap a lot less flippant]] at that point.
* NoodleIncident: While waiting for the bomb to explode, Captain Jack recalls the last time he was sentenced to death. He ordered four Hyper Vodkas, and woke up in bed with both his executioners. They stayed in touch afterwards.
* OhCrap:
** The Doctor realizing that he'd sent the boy to his room... the room they were in.
** Also Jack, once he realizes that he's to blame for the entire situation and has probably doomed Earth.
* OlderThanTheyLook: A plot point for Nancy, who looks young enough to blend in with a group of orphans but is (barely) old enough to really be Jamie's mother. The actress really was that old, too.
* OneLastSmoke: Or One Last Drink -- Emergency Protocol 417. A Martini. With too much vermouth. Luckily for Captain Jack, he's saved by the Doctor and Rose.
* RidingTheBomb: Cap'n Jack.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Belonging to the original patient, plastered in doodlings of "mummy".
* SexyManInstantHarem: Jack
* ShoutOut:
** Continuing the ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' from last episode, with the Doctor still known to Jack as "Mr. Spock".
--->'''Rose:''' What, is that what we do when we get out there? We [[OpeningNarration seek out new life and]]...and...\\
'''Doctor:''' [[BoldlyComing Dannce]].
** And, in light of the earlier Spock references, the computer quoting the odds of survival to Jack near the end probably counts too.
* ShowSomeLeg: Rose offers to do this, only for Jack to explain she's not the guard's type.
* SnubByOmission: After Jack teleports out, Rose asks why it's always the great-looking ones who vanish into thin air.
-->'''Doctor:''' I'm making an effort not to be insulted.
* StuffBlowingUp:
-->'''Rose:''' First day I met him, he blew my job up! That's practically how he communicates.
* TitleDrop: See the page quote.
* TheVirus: Actually nanogenes.
* WeirdnessMagnet: Albion Hospital was also home to an [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E4AliensOfLondon "alien" pig]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Jack's memory loss was never explained, although in ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', we do get to meet a [[Recap/TorchwoodS2E1KissKissBangBang fellow Time Agent]].
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarII
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->''"The world doesn't end 'cos [[TitleDrop the Doctor dances]]."''
-->-- '''Rose'''
The Doctor, Rose and Jack desperately try to escape the gas mask people and figure out what the hell is going on. While Jack teleports away, Rose and the Doctor are trapped for a while, and Rose takes the opportunity to ask the Doctor if he can dance like Jack can. The Doctor is a bit offended, and says he's actually got quite an amount of experience with... [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything dancing]]. Rose really can't picture him... [[UnusualEuphemism dancing]]. While the Doctor steps closer and takes her hands for an intense... [[ShipTease dance]], they fail to look around and realize that Jack's already saved them. It also turns out that Jack isn't exactly with the TimePolice any more; he turned rogue after waking up one morning and finding that two years of his memory had been wiped by his employer.
Jack goes off to distract a gay crash site guard with his suave, omnisexual allure, and the Doctor explains to Rose that Jack is, quote, "just a bit more flexible when it comes to... [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow dancing]]". In Jack's century, people will travel the whole universe to find aliens of all sexes and genders, and... [[BoldlyComing dance with them]]. Meanwhile, the virus becomes airborne and everyone around the warship crash site starts mutating.
Seeing the crash site, the Doctor figures it out: the Chula warship was a field ambulance,[[note]]Well, [[ExactWords technically]], as Jack points out, ambulances are ''used'' in war, thus making them ''war''ships by definition...[[/note]] and contained nanobots (here called "nanogenes") for expedient battlefield healing. When Jamie was first hit by the ship, the nanogenes swung into action and tried to fix him... but they'd never interacted with humans before, and so derived their idea of what humans looked like from a badly wounded kid in a gas mask. They sort of made it up as they went along -- assuming that fully healed people wore gas masks, they made the people they "infected" sprout gas masks. But when they finally met Nancy ([[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo really Jamie's mother, not his sister]]), they had a different model of a healthy human being to work towards... and the parent/child relationship between the subjects meant that the nanogenes knew that this pattern was the right one.
EverybodyLives as the Doctor re-infects everyone with the nanogenes, who now know how to fix humans. Even previously dead humans. Hooray! Also, Captain Jack joins the TARDIS, saved by the Doctor just before his ship goes kablooey in an attempted HeroicSacrifice. He walks in to find the Doctor and Rose... [[DancePartyEnding dancing]]. Rose asks if Jack would like to cut in and also... [[SexyManInstantHarem dance]]. The Doctor, amused to have an openly not-straight companion, wonders which of the two Jack would... [[HoYay dance]] with.
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!!Tropes:
* ArcWords: "Schlecter Wolf", a BlindIdiotTranslation of "Bad Wolf", on the bomb Captain Jack rides at the end.
* AuthorAppeal: This episode is pretty much Creator/StevenMoffat's love letter to {{shipping}}, and a manifesto on how he refuses to see the Doctor as asexual (as many fans, for some reason, do). It also marks the start of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' TV series being completely inclusive of LGBTQ culture (which the novels had already been since the late '90s).
* {{Autodoc}}: It turns out that this is what the Chula warship is.
* BavarianFireDrill: The Doctor gets all the gas-mask people to leave them alone by acting like a stern mummy and telling them to "Go to [their] room!" Comes back to bite the Doctor when he realizes he, Jack, and Rose were standing in the child's room when he gets there.
* BulletholeDoor: Well, Squareness Gun-hole door. Also used on the floor once.
* ChekhovMIA: Jamie's mummy.
* CoolButInefficient: Jack's "Squareness Gun".
* CreepyChild: Jamie; quite possibly the creepiest child since Billy Mumy in ''Series/TheTwilightZone''.
* DancePartyEnding
* DeathGlare: The Doctor to Jack, multiple times, until he finally admits that it's all his fault and tries to make up for it by way of HeroicSacrifice.
-->'''Jack:''' Getting a hint of disapproval.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** Try [[CensorshipTropes bleeping]] out every use of "dance".
** In a very dramatic way, when Jack learns that the nanogenes are going to change every human being into the creepy creatures they spend the episode running away from, he says "I didn't know!" Who else used that excuse?
* DoubleMeaning: Jack swears several times that the Chula ship was "empty". He was wrong, but given that Jamie is described several times as empty, he's sort of right by extension without realizing it.
* EverybodyLives: TropeNamer! Just this once, Rose, TropeNamer!
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: Former TropeNamer as "Are You My Mummy?"
* FamousLastWords: Lampshaded by the Doctor. "Go to your room!" would be very bad last words.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: All that talk about "dancing".
* TheHomeFront: London during the Blitz
* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: The nanogenes could've cured Jamie from the get-go had Nancy just given him a hug.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Jamie, I Am Your Mummy. It turns out Jamie's not Nancy's brother -- he's her son. Nancy deliberately lied to people about having a child that young and out of wedlock, and given how young she is and the current state of Britain, no-one would question it. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments "I will always be your mummy..."]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Jack is incredibly flippant about things throughout the entire episode, until the Doctor finally realizes what's happened, and that it's the nanogenes from the ship that Jack very carelessly sent careening to Earth which are causing all the trouble. The Doctor then makes a point of explaining to Jack in very precise and no uncertain terms exactly how he's just gone and doomed the entire human race, [[DeathGlare with a look of barely-restrained fury and disgust on his face the whole time]]. Jack looks [[OhCrap a lot less flippant]] at that point.
* NoodleIncident: While waiting for the bomb to explode, Captain Jack recalls the last time he was sentenced to death. He ordered four Hyper Vodkas, and woke up in bed with both his executioners. They stayed in touch afterwards.
* OhCrap:
** The Doctor realizing that he'd sent the boy to his room... the room they were in.
** Also Jack, once he realizes that he's to blame for the entire situation and has probably doomed Earth.
* OlderThanTheyLook: A plot point for Nancy, who looks young enough to blend in with a group of orphans but is (barely) old enough to really be Jamie's mother. The actress really was that old, too.
* OneLastSmoke: Or One Last Drink -- Emergency Protocol 417. A Martini. With too much vermouth. Luckily for Captain Jack, he's saved by the Doctor and Rose.
* RidingTheBomb: Cap'n Jack.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Belonging to the original patient, plastered in doodlings of "mummy".
* SexyManInstantHarem: Jack
* ShoutOut:
** Continuing the ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' from last episode, with the Doctor still known to Jack as "Mr. Spock".
--->'''Rose:''' What, is that what we do when we get out there? We [[OpeningNarration seek out new life and]]...and...\\
'''Doctor:''' [[BoldlyComing Dannce]].
** And, in light of the earlier Spock references, the computer quoting the odds of survival to Jack near the end probably counts too.
* ShowSomeLeg: Rose offers to do this, only for Jack to explain she's not the guard's type.
* SnubByOmission: After Jack teleports out, Rose asks why it's always the great-looking ones who vanish into thin air.
-->'''Doctor:''' I'm making an effort not to be insulted.
* StuffBlowingUp:
-->'''Rose:''' First day I met him, he blew my job up! That's practically how he communicates.
* TitleDrop: See the page quote.
* TheVirus: Actually nanogenes.
* WeirdnessMagnet: Albion Hospital was also home to an [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E4AliensOfLondon "alien" pig]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Jack's memory loss was never explained, although in ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', we do get to meet a [[Recap/TorchwoodS2E1KissKissBangBang fellow Time Agent]].
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarII
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