History Recap / DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek

The one with a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dalek...]] and one ''very'' angry post-war [[StealthPun Doctor who]] thought they were all gone.

* KickTheSonOfABitch
** Goddard, arguably a BitchInSheepsClothing herself, promptly removes van Statten from [=GeoComTex=] after he causes over 200 deaths and gives him the karmic punishment of firing and mind-wiping him just as he did to the people he didn't like, and dumping his grubby keister "somewhere beginning with 'S'" without a scant trace of his [[LaserGuidedAmnesia own identity]].
** The first person the Dalek kills is Simmons, who was torturing it for information. It would've killed him regardless, but given he was torturing something he didn't even know [[AbsoluteXenophobe was a Dalek]] you don't care what happens to him.

-->'''The Doctor:''' Alright then. If you want orders, follow this one. Kill yourself.\\

-->'''The Doctor:''' Do you know what a Dalek is, van Statten? [[AtLeastIAdmitIt A Dalek is honest. It does what it was born to do for the survival of its species. That creature in your dungeon is better than you!]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Well illustrated in the Doctor:
-->'''The Doctor:''' The Daleks have failed! Why don't you finish the job, and make the Daleks extinct? Rid the universe of your filth! Why don't you just ''die?''\\

-->'''The Doctor:''' If you want orders, follow this one. Kill yourself.\\

'''The Doctor:''' ''[literally foaming at the mouth]'' The Daleks have ''failed''! Now why don't you finish the job, and make the Daleks extinct?! Rid the universe of your filth! '''WHY DON'T YOU JUST ''DIE''?!'''\\

Shearman adapted the story ''again'' in 2021 into a {{Novelisation}}, which [[AdaptationExpansion expands on many of the one-shot characters' backstories]] and [[AllThereInTheManual explains why the episode's antagonists - Van Statten and the Dalek - are they way they are.]]

* AdaptationExpansion: The 2021 novelisation, also written by Shearman, expands on many of the one-shot characters' backstories and makes the circumstances of the story a lot more tragic. It also gives Van Statten a more [[KarmicDeath deserved]] [[MindRape fate]].

** The 2021 novelisation, also by Shearman, throws out a lot of the game's details, putting Van Statten somewhere in his mid-fifties. It also expands on most of the characters' backstories, including [[FreudianExcuse why Van Statten is such a contemptible asshole]].

* DarkerAndEdgier:
** The Doctor brandishing a gun, torturing his enemies and gloating about committing genocide? Though this wasn't the first attempt to introduce a DarkSide to the Doctor's character, from now on there would be a continuing theme of the Doctor losing his moral inhibitions and the matching importance of his Companion as a MoralityChain.
** The 2021 novelisation gets even darker, with the revelation that Simmons is actually a violent criminal named Aaron Denton who beat the real Simmons half to death as a child, and is implied to have killed him as an adult.

* IncrediblyLamePun: Courtesy of van Statten: "I'll tell you how they got in, in-tru-da window!"

* PetTheDog: The only half-decent thing Van Statten does throughout the whole episode is offer his sympathies to the Doctor after Rose's apparent death. Unfortunately for him, this just earns him a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "Reason You Suck" Speech]] due to how he was partially responsible for her (almost) dying in the first place.

* PetTheDog: The only half-decent thing Van Statten does throughout the whole episode is offer his sympathies to the Doctor after Rose's apparent death. Unfortunately for him, this just earns him a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Reason You Suck Speech]] due to how he was partially responsible for her (almost) dying in the first place.

%% Doesnt explain what the reaction is. Please do not unhide until further context has been added. * BerserkButton:
%%** The Daleks, for the Doctor.
%%** And vice versa. Remember, the Dalek had been there for years, stoic and silent, until someone introduces himself to it as the Doctor.
%%--->'''The Dalek:''' "DOC-TOR? '''''THE''''' DOC-TOR?! EX-TER-MINATE! '''EX-TER-MINATE!!''' '''''EX-TER-MINAAAAAATE!!!'''''"

* CowTools: The contents of van Statten's museum.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The Doctor brandishing a gun, torturing his enemies and gloating about committing genocide? Though this wasn't the first attempt to introduce a DarkSide to the Doctor's character, from now on there would be a continuing theme of the Doctor losing his moral inhibitions and the matching importance of his Companion as a MoralityChain.

* DrivenToSuicide: This episode demonstrates just how ''scared'' the Daleks are of becoming anything other than their idea of perfection.

* FirstTimeInTheSun: The Dalek feels the sun on its body for the first time.

* RetGone: This episode heavily implies that the destruction of the Daleks (and the Time Lords) in the Time War erased them from the history of the universe. For one, the Dalek searches for traces of its kind through the internet, satellites and radio telescopes, only to find nothing. Then there's the fact that, in this episode and the next few series, any appearance by a Dalek or Time Lord must be a survivor of the Time War as far as the Doctor is concerned. Of course, [[Main/TimeyWimeyBall this does not always stick]].

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Goddard, arguably a BitchInSheepsClothing herself, promptly removes van Statten from [=GeoComTex=] after he causes over 200 deaths and gives him the karmic punishment of firing and mind-wiping him just as he did to the people he didn't like, and dumping his grubby keister "somewhere beginning with 'S'" without a scant trace of his [[LaserGuidedAmnesia own identity]].

* LicensedGame: This episode was the basis for the online game ''VideoGame/TheLastDalek'', which allows the player to take control of the eponymous Dalek, fight their way to freedom and exterminate the Doctor.

* LicensedGame: A flash game based on this episode is available [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/games/lastdalek/index.shtml on the BBC website]]. Remarkable in that it lets you play as [[VillainProtagonist the lone Dalek]] and [[TheBadGuyWins exterminate everyone]], ''including'' [[TheHero the Doctor]].

* SlasherMovie: Tying in with the show's longtime affinity for horror plotlines, this episode takes the conventional slasher outline and transplants it to an American oligarch's private underground museum, with the killer being a Dalek that survived a GreatOffscreenWar that wiped out the rest of its species. The killer being an ImplacableMan takes the form of the Dalek's self-defense mechanisms, and the relentless slaughter is motivated by the fact that the Daleks were deliberately engineered to be {{Absolute Xenophobe}}s, with the Doctor describing them as "the ultimate in racial cleansing."

* BerserkButton:
** The Daleks, for the Doctor.
** And vice versa. Remember, the Dalek had been there for years, stoic and silent, until someone introduces himself to it as the Doctor.
--->'''The Dalek:''' "DOC-TOR? '''''THE''''' DOC-TOR?! EX-TER-MINATE! '''EX-TER-MINATE!!''' '''''EX-TER-MINAAAAAATE!!!'''''"

** The Doctor: A Dalek's a genius. It can calculate a thousand billion combinations in one second flat.

-->'''The Doctor:''' Do you know what a Dalek is, van Statten? A Dalek is honest. It does what it was born to do for the survival of its species. That creature in your dungeon is better than you!

--->'''Rose''': They're all dead because of you!
--->'''Dalek''': THEY ARE DEAD BECAUSE OF '''US'''!

-->"Do you know what a Dalek is, Van Statten? A Dalek is honest. It does what it was born to do for the survival of its species. That creature in your dungeon is better than you.

The one with a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dalek...]] and one ''very'' angry postwar [[StealthPun Doctor who]] thought they were all gone.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Adam works in a secret underground bunker cataloguing alien artifacts, yet doesn't believe in alien abductions.

** The 2021 novelisation gets even darker, with the revelation that Simmons is actually a violent criminal named Aaron Denton who beat the the real Simmons half to death as a child, and is implied to have killed him as an adult.

* BittersweetEnding: The Dalek's rampage is stopped, van Satten is arrested, and his illegal collection of stolen alien artifacts is shut down for good. However, the Dalek left a huge body count in its wake, and it, the Doctor, and Rose are all thoroughly rattled by both the violent experience and the former two's shared trauma as Time War survivors resurfacing.

* EverythingIsOnline: The Dalek not only manages to download the entire Internet within mere seconds from a random terminal, it simultaneously drains the entire western United States of electricity.

* ICannotSelfTerminate: The Dalek can, but only if it's ordered to first.

** DOCTOR: A Dalek's a genius. It can calculate a thousand billion combinations in one second flat.

* BaldWomen: [=DiMaggio=], the female guard who gives her life to buy Rose and Adam time to flee, appears to have a shaved head under her hat.

'''The Doctor:''' We're not the same! I'm not... no, wait. Maybe we are. You're right, yeah, okay. You've got a point. Because I know what to do. I know what should happen. I know what you deserve. ''[sadistic grin]'' ''Exterminate!'' ''[yanks down the shock lever]''\\