History Recap / DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances

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.

* UnexplainedRecovery: "Doctor Constantine, my leg's grown back!"

* UnusualEuphemism: Dancing.

* BoldlyComing: The Doctor explains to Rose that this lies in humanity's future. People from the 51[-[[superscript:st]]-] century are "more flexible when it comes to dancing."

* BoldlyComing: The Doctor explains to Rose that this lies in humanity's future. People from the 51st century are "more flexible when it comes to dancing."

* BoldlyComing: The Doctor explains to rose that this lies in humanity's future.

* AdultFear: Something terrible has happened to your child, something that can't be stopped and leaves them with symptoms that can't be treated. And this all happened because of an attempted cure, not for lack of one.

* ArbitrarySkepticism:

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[[labelnote:*]]Böser[[/labelnote]] Wolf" (Roughly translated as "Bad Wolf" — ArcWords strike 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."

Jack Harkness is flying through space in his handy Chula ship, but he only delayed "Schlecter[[labelnote:*]] Böser[[/labelnote]] 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%''' 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...

* ArcWords: "Schlecter[[labelnote:*]] Böser [[/labelnote]] 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.

--> '''Rose:''' [[ChevkovsGun Nanogenes!]]

* WhamLine: "I sent the child to its room. ''This'' is its room."

* FamousLastWords: Lampshaded by the Doctor. "Go to your room!" would be very bad last words.

* HeroicSacrifice: Subverted; Jack was willing to [[GoOutWithASmile die with a smile on his face]] drinking a martini as the bomb was about to explode when the Doctor saves him.

Also, bananas are good. And don't worry, Villengard will be visited later... [[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime much, much, later... and much, much earlier]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Try [[CensorshipTropes bleeping]] out every use of "dance".

* CreepyChild: Jamie, quite possibly the creepiest child since Billy Mumy in ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}''.

* 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?

* AnArmAndALeg: Inverted. Mrs. Harcourt, one of the victims of the nanogenes, had her leg grown back by them.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Jack's flashy sonic blaster turns out to be this; it looks good on the surface and has all sorts of cool features, and leads both him and Rose to make some slightly snide comments about the Doctor's much-less impressive seeming sonic screwdriver. But it turns out that all those cool features run the battery out really fast and it's very quickly next to useless ... unlike the Doctor's trusty sonic screwdriver. This is part of a direct comparison between Jack, who seems like a perfect sci-fi hero but quickly reveals himself to have feet of clay and to be completely out of his depth, and the Doctor, who seems a lot more eccentric and unusual but ultimately can get the job done.

* {{Blackmail}}: A homeowner catches Nancy stealing food and threatens her with the police. Nancy isn't cowed in the slightest, and imperiously demands that the homeowner give her some tools she needs, on the grounds that she knows it's ''him'', not his wife, who's been trading sexual favors for extra rations from the local butcher.

* BiggerOnTheInside: When Capt. Jack Harkness makes the remark, the Ninth Doctor turns it into a DoubleEntendre by responding, "You'd better be."

* DeathIsCheap: The [[{{Nanomachines}} nanogenes]] can revive the dead. As the Doctor puts it, "What's life, but nature's way of keeping meat fresh."

* 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.

* ExtremeOmnisexual: While the episode before this one hinted at it, this episode confirms that no, when it comes to sex, Captain Jack Harkness does not care about your gender or even your species. It's also stated that most people from the 51st century are like that. Which builds on Cassandra hinting in the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld second episode]] that there are no more full-blooded humans by the year 5 billion, but there are a lot of human-like species.

** The room where Jamie was kept was covered with crude drawings of him and his mother. Noticeably, there is no sign of his "older sister" in them.

-->'''The Doctor:''' ''[identifying Jack's weapon]'' Sonic Blaster. Fifty-first century. Weapons factory of Villengard?\\

* HalfHumanHybrid: It's mentioned that by the 51st century humanity has spread out among the stars, and has apparently interbred and mixed with every intelligent species possible. In fact, in about 5 billion years, pure humans are extinct, leaving only hybrids, engineered variants, and so on.
* HeroicSacrifice: Subverted when Jack was willing to [[GoOutWithASmile die with a smile on his face]] drinking a martini as the bomb was about to explode when the Doctor saves him.

* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: The nanogenes could've cured Jamie from the get-go had Nancy just given him a hug.

* ObiWanMoment: Captain Jack sits there rather calmly even though a bomb is about to destroy the ship he's on. Of course he's rescued, but there's no way he could have known that would happen.

** 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 actually (just barely) old enough to really be Jamie's mother. The actress really was the age of the character too, despite being able to pass for 13 or 14.
* 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.

** Continuing the ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' theme from last episode, with the Doctor still known to Jack as "Mr. Spock".

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. The Doctor implies that he was responsible for the destruction of a weapons factory at Villengard in the 51st Century, as well as replacing it with a banana grove.

* TrickedOutTime: When the Doctor blows up the Chula warship (which is an ambulance) he mentions that "History said there was an explosion here". Originally, this was caused by a bomb, but Captain Jack got rid of that.

* WhamLine: "I sent the child to its room. This is its room."

* UsefulNotes/WorldWarII: The time of the episode's setting.

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 realise 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.