History Recap / PastDoctorAdventuresLovingTheAlien

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: On reversal of George Limb's temporal interference, [[spoiler: Ace returns to life - from a timeline where everything is slightly bigger. Being about sixty feet high enables her to lift Mullen from the clutches of the Augmentation Programme]].

* DisneyDeath: The Doctor believes Ace’s death to be irreversible. [[spoiler: It is, in fact, a result of George Limb's anomalous attempt to prevent his own death. When this fails, Ace, from the alternate timeline in which everything is slightly bigger, falls into place, and soon regains her natural size]].

** [=McBride=] and the Doctor after [[spoiler: Ace’s funeral]]; although the Doctor claims it to have little effect on his system.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Regardless of Limb's ambitions and ego, [[spoiler:his refusal to become a Cyberman leads to him rejecting a version of himself who has been concerted and accepting the Doctor's advice that the only way to stop this situation is to kill himself]].

* ItsAllMyFault: The Doctor is devastated when he realises that [[spoiler:everything he did to try and prevent Ace's death basically caused it to happen]].
* {{Kaiju}}: On failure of George Limb’s anomalous attempt to prevent his own death, [[spoiler: Ace, from a timeline in which everything is slightly bigger]], slips into place.

'''Warning:''' Spoilers may be unmarked.

-->'''The Doctor:''' You see Mr Limb, you cannot escape what time has in store for you. You are the eye of the storm. All the chaos you create cannot touch you. Wherever you turn, this is the inevitable, irrevocable conclusion.

In 1959, from Edwardian mansion Winnerton Flats, the [[Franchise/{{Quatermass}} British Rocket Group]], co-financed by the US military, launches space plane the ''Waverider''. When the rocket appears to have crashed, relief pilot Davey O’Brien disappears. An anonymous phone voice puts journalist Rita Hawks on the trail of a Mr Dumont-Smith.

In 1959, from Edwardian mansion Winnerton Flats, the [[Franchise/{{Quatermass}} British Rocket Group]], co-financed by the US military, via the ''Blue Streak'' rocket, launches space plane the ''Waverider''. When the rocket appears to have crashed, relief pilot Davey O’Brien disappears. An anonymous phone voice puts suspicious journalist Rita Hawks on the trail of a Mr Dumont-Smith.

To find Ace, the Doctor, with old friend Private Investigator [[Recap/PastDoctorAdventuresIllegalAlien Cody [=McBride=]]], finds Chief Inspector Mullen, currently dealing with an unexploded Luftwaffe bomb - which promptly goes off, mildly concussing the Doctor and shattering Mullen’s legs. An anomalous x-ray persuades Dr Bill Hark, of the Augmentation Programme, of the Doctor to be a Russian genetic construct.

In a Kennington cottage, Rita, held prisoner by Dumont-Smith and bizarrely strong elderly Emily Desmond, escapes into a London where people walk unnaturally fast - and, via a socket in the back of the head, regularly plug themselves into walls…

Written by Robert Perry and Mike Tucker; and featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace.

In 1959, from Edwardian mansion Winnerton Flats, the [[Franchise/{{Quatermass}} British Rocket Group]], co-financed by the US military, via the "Blue Streak" rocket, launches space plane the ''Waverider''. When the rocket appears to have crashed, relief pilot Davey O’Brien disappears. An anonymous phone voice puts suspicious journalist Rita Hawks on the trail of a Mr Dumont-Smith.

Having secretly exhumed from a London cemetery Ace’s near-future corpse, the Doctor, desperate to prevent her death, lands the TARDIS in the basement of a military hospital. On a private ward, Captain O’Brien is heavily fitted with prosthetic wiring. Listed under the British Space Agency - which in 1959 shouldn’t exist - he expects a visit from a Mr Dumont-Smith.

While the Doctor evades dissection on the orders of General Crawhammer, Ace learns of Jimmy’s alliance with George Limb - whose [[Recap/PastDoctorAdventuresIllegalAlien flight in the Cybermen's time machine]] has proved less fatal than anticipated.

* BoisterousBruiser: General Crawhammer is quite bullish, but sometimes in an amiable sort of way.

* InterdimensionalTravelDevice: On the ''Waverider'', a time travel circuit, blown up by a planted bomb, breaches a neighbouring universe - whose own ''Waverider'', equipped with a dimensional stabiliser, did so simultaneously, albeit deliberately.

* EldritchLocation: A circuit from the Cybermen’s time machine, layered with telepathic Vasser Dust, gives Dr Edward Drakefell a glimpse of the "endless nothingness of the vortex, where everything exists in potential." It [[GoMadFromTheRevelation overwhelms him with debilitating horror]].

In 1959, from Edwardian mansion Winnerton Flats, the [[Franchise/{{Quatermass}} British Rocket Group]], co-financed by the US military, via the ‘’Blue Streak’’ rocket, launches space plane the ''Waverider''. When the rocket appears to have crashed, relief pilot Davey O’Brien disappears. An anonymous phone voice puts suspicious journalist Rita Hawks on the trail of a Mr Dumont-Smith.

* TheAllegedCar: George Limb’s Cybermen-acquired time machine, "Betty," can’t travel back any further than the 1940 point of departure, or any further forward than 1962.

* HumanOutsideAlienInside: Caught non-fatally in a bomb blast, an x-ray reveals the Doctor’s two hearts.
* HypocriticalHumour: The Doctor, having once named an Edwardian car Bessie, jeers at George Limb’s naming of a time machine Betty as “infantile.”

-->'''The Doctor:''' You can’t undo what you’ve done - ever! You can go back and stop yourself pulling the trigger, but you don’t change what happened - you can only change your position with respect to what happened!

* TheMole: Rubber manufacturer Edward Drakefell, having narrowly escaped the Cybermen's [[Recap/PastDoctorAdventuresIllegalAlien London Underground infiltration]], found a job in the Augmentation Programme. Mentally shattered by the telepathic properties of a circuit from the Cyber-time machine, he uses the ‘’Waverider’’ to launch it into space.

* MindRape: A piece of cylindrical machinery, unaccountably layered with frost, telepathically reiterates Drakefell’s 1940 capture by the Cybermen; and overwhelms him with unfathomable impressions of infinite, simultaneous lifelessness and vibrancy.

Having secretly exhumed from a London cemetery Ace’s near-future corpse, the Doctor, desperate to prevent her death, lands the TARDIS in the basement of a military hospital. On a private ward, Captain O’Brien, heavily fitted with prosthetic wiring. Listed under the British Space Agency - which in 1959 shouldn’t exist - he expects a visit from a Mr Dumont-Smith.

* CallForward: The Doctor, disorientated by Dr Hark's anaesthesia, notes that such things tend to [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie disagree with him]]

* AlternateTimeline: George Limb’s adventures with “Betty,” as he names the Cybermen's time machine, breach a parallel timeline in which [[Recap/PastDoctorAdventuresIllegalAlien Major Lazonby]]'s dream of a Cyber-augmented British Army, having crushed the Nazis in 1942, has gendered a bionically augmented populace.

* AnArmAndALeg: Chief Inspector Mullen’s legs are shattered by a latterly exploded Luftwaffe bomb.

* CampGay: In the alternate universe, brusque ''Inquisitor'' editor George Pryke wears a beret and pink cravat, and lives with “his nibs.”

* CuttingTheKnot: Having tried to prevent Ace’s death, the Doctor realises his involvement to have sown insurmountable consequences, and that further meddling will only protract the chaos. A [[WhatTheHellHero word of protest]] from [=McBride=] encourages him to investigate the anomaly head-on.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: On a bus, when Ace rips her jacket, her exclamation of “Oh, bloody hell!” incurs the reproval of a fellow passenger. Her jacket’s pocketing of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric Captain Sorin’s badge]], in 1959, is taken by Jimmy to have [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar sinister implications]].

* PortalDoor: On the outskirts of Kennington, a cottage, due to frequent use by George Limb’s Cybermen-acquired time machine, intermittently merges with two alternate universes: one in which Britain has acquired Cyber-technology; the other near-identical to this one; only slightly bigger.

* BoisterousBruiser: General Crawhammer is quite bullish, but usually in an amiable sort of way.

* HauntedTechnology: A circuit from the Cybermen’s time machine is constantly covered Vasser Dust - a frosty substance with telepathic properties, it's a bi-product of time travel.

* ClothingDamage: On surmising him to be a Russian genetic augment, General Crawhammer rips the Doctor's shirt with a bowie knife.b

MindRape: A piece of cylindrical machinery, unaccountably layered with frost, telepathically reiterates Drakefell’s 1940 capture by the Cybermen; and overwhelms him with unfathomable impressions of infinite, simultaneous lifelessness and vibrancy.

To find Ace, the Doctor, with old friend Private Investigator [[Recap/PastDoctorAdventuresIllegalAlien Cody [=McBride=]], finds Chief Inspector Mullen, currently dealing with an unexploded Luftwaffe bomb - which promptly goes off, mildly concussing the Doctor and shattering Mullen’s legs. An anomalous x-ray persuades Dr Bill Hark, of the Augmentation Programme, of the Doctor to be a Russian genetic construct.

* AlternateTimeline: George Limb’s adventures with “Betty,” as he names the Cybermen’s time machine, breach a parallel timeline in which [[Recap/PastDoctorAdventuresIllegalAlien Major Lazonby]]'s dream of a Cyber-augmented British Army, having crushed the Nazis in 1942, has gendered a bionically augmented populace.

* AngerBornOfWorry: During an impromptu switchback tour of the galaxy, Ace’s private misadventure with several hippies perplexingly angers the Doctor - [[AccidentalPun who]] knows of, and is trying to prevent, her imminent murder.

* ContinuityNod: Ace mournfully recalls learning of previous TARDIS occupant Mel’s death in ''Heritage''. In her TARDIS room, Ace, as a reminder that nothing lasts forever, keeps Mel’s menu from the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E3DeltaAndTheBannermen Shangri La Holiday Camp]].

* EldritchLocation: A circuit from the Cybermen’s time machine, layered with telepathic Vasser Dust, gives Dr Edward Drakefell a glimpse of the “endless nothingness of the vortex, where everything exists in potential.” It [[GoMadFromTheRevelation overwhelms him with debilitating horror]].

*{{Expy}}: Wandering 1959 London, Ace stops at a cinema to watch [[Film/{{Them!}} film about radioactive giant insects]] - although beetles rather than ants.

While the Doctor evades dissection on the orders of General Crawhammer, Ace learns of Jimmy’s alliance with George Limb - whose [[Recap/PastAdventuresIllegalAlien flight in the Cybermen's time machine]] has proved less fatal than anticipated.

** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with the Doctor and Ace’s recreational visit to a planet of giant sapient butterflies.

* CallForward: The Doctor, disorientated by Dr Hark's anaesthesia, notes that such things tend to [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovieMovie disagree with him]]

* ClothingDamage: On surmising him to be a Russian genetic augment, General Crawhammer rips the Doctor’s shirt with a bowie knife.b

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: On a bus, when Ace rips her jacket, her exclamation of “Oh, bloody hell!” incurs the reproval of a fellow passenger. Her jacket’s pocketing of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric Captain Sorin’s badge]], in 1959, is taken by Jimmy to have [[UsefulNotes/TheColdWar sinister implications]].