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Episode Location: Earth, New-New York
Aliens/Enemies: The Macra
New Characters: Novice Hame, Face of Boe, Brannigan, Milo, Cheen, Valerie
Gadgets Used: Sonic Screwdriver
Episode Objective: To save Martha and New New York

Bullet-point Plot

• The Doctor takes Martha to New-New York
• They land in the slums
• Its raining
• The Face of Boe is around
• He tells Novice Hame to find The Doctor
• In the slums
• 3 stalls are opened
• The Doctor & Martha are offered 'moods'
• They refuse
  
• Martha is grabbed by two people
• The Doctor chases them
• Martha is drugged
• And driven off
• She wakes
  
• And sees Milo and Cheen
• They apologize
  
• And say they needed 3 people
• To get onto the 'Fast lane'
  
• Martha's stuck with them for 6 years
• The Doctor enters the motorway
• And chokes on the fumes
• Cat-man Brannigan saves him
• By letting him in their car
• But now The Doctor is stuck to
• He knows something is wrong
  
• On the motorway for 23 years?!?!
• Martha's car is heading for the fast lane
• Milo and Cheen discuss the strange noises
• Cheen talks of things living at the bottom
• The Doctor knows he must get Martha back
• So he goes car hopping
• He gets to above the fast lane
• And looks below to see Macra
• A giant claw tries to kill Martha's car
• They turn off the engines
• But begin to run out of air
• Novice Hame catches up with The Doctor
• She teleports him out of the motorway
• Into a deserted embassy
• He learns everyone is dead
• Except those on the motorway
• The Doctor tries to open the motorway roof
• But the power fails
• The Face if Boe gives his last energy
• To power the roof
• All the cars drive up
• Martha, Milo and Cheen escape the Macra
• The Face of Boe says 'You are not alone'
• And dies
• The Doctor tells Martha about the Time War

My Tribute


Best Bits
- Seeing the motorway
- Brannigan
- The kittens
- Car hopping
- Macra attack
- The Face of Boe

Favorite Quotes
Martha: When you say 'last time', was that you and Rose?
The Doctor: Um... Yeah! Yeah, it was, yeah.
Martha: You're taking me to the same planets that you took her?
The Doctor: What's wrong with that?
Martha: Nothing! 'Cept have you heard of the word "rebound"?
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Brannigan: We've been driving for 12 years now.
Doctor: Sorry?
Brannigan: Yeah, started out as newly weds. Feels like yesterday.
Valerie: Feels like 12 years to me.
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[About the Doctor after he jumps down from the car]
Valerie: He's insane!
Brannigan: And perhaps a bit magnificent!
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Doctor: You keep driving Brannigan, all the way up. Cause it's here just waiting for you. The city of New New York, and it's yours. [pauses] And don't forget I want that coat back.
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Hame: The legend says more.
The Doctor: Don't, there's no need for that.
Hame: It says that the Face of Boe will speak his final secret to a traveler.
The Doctor: Yeah, but not yet; who needs secrets, eh?
The Face of Boe: I have seen so much, perhaps too much. I am the last of my kind, as you are the last of yours, Doctor.
The Doctor: That's why we have to survive, both of us. Don't go.
The Face of Boe: I must, but know this, Time Lord: You are not alone.
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Martha: He said "last of your kind." What does that mean?
The Doctor: It really doesn't matter.
Martha: You don't talk. You never say! Why not?
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The Doctor: I lied to you, 'cos I liked it. I could pretend, just for a bit, I could imagine they were still alive underneath that burnt orange sky. I'm not just a Time Lord, I'm the last of the Time Lords.
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The Doctor: There was a war. A Time War. The Last Great Time War. My people fought a race called the Daleks, for the sake of all creation. And they lost. We lost. Everyone lost. They're all gone now. My family. My friends. Even that sky. [reminiscent] Oh, you should have seen it! That old planet... The second sun would rise in the south, and the mountains would shine. The leaves on the trees were silver, when they caught the light, every morning it looked like a forest on fire. When the autumn came, a brilliant glow though the branches...