History Recap / DoctorWhoNSS1E4AliensOfLondon

* ChekhovsGunman: Tosh appears a full year before Torchwood was even mentioned.

* ChekhovsGunman: Tosh.

* FirstContact: The Slitheen hoax a "first contact" situation as part of a plan to destroy the planet.

Make that twelve ''months'' after she left. Oopsie! Jackie goes all MamaBear on the Doctor, Mickey sulks in the background, and an enormous spaceship clips Big Ben and crashes into the Thames. The Doctor, hearing that the spaceship's pilot has been taken to Albion Hospital, sneaks off to investigate, but the only strange life form he encounters there is [[Characters/{{Torchwood}} Tosh]], who's only been with Torchwood for two weeks and is generally a bit confused. [[hottip:*: Also, covering for Owen, who was hung over that day.]]

Make that twelve ''months'' after she left. Oopsie! Jackie goes all MamaBear on the Doctor, Mickey sulks in the background, and an enormous spaceship clips Big Ben and crashes into the Thames. The Doctor, hearing that the spaceship's pilot has been taken to Albion Hospital, sneaks off to investigate, but the only strange life form he encounters there is [[Characters/{{Torchwood}} Tosh]], who's only been with Torchwood for two weeks and is generally a bit confused. [[hottip:*: She later explains that she was covering for Owen, who was hung over that day.]]

Make that twelve ''months'' after she left. Oopsie! Jackie goes all MamaBear on the Doctor, Mickey sulks in the background, and an enormous spaceship clips Big Ben and crashes into the Thames. The Doctor, hearing that the spaceship's pilot has been taken to Albion Hospital, sneaks off to investigate, but the only strange life form he encounters there is [[Characters/{{Torchwood}} Tosh]].

Rose isn't allowed in, so Harriet Jones (MP, Flydale North) takes her aside and confides to her about the alien thing. The Doctor comes to roughly the same conclusion a few minutes later, when he realizes that the Conference On Aliens is an excuse to gather all the most knowledgeable about aliens in one room, and then kill them.

The Doctor goes back to pick up Rose, freaking out Jackie but acquiring the invaluable help of Mickey. Jackie runs upstairs and reports an alien sighting of a ''specific'' alien, namely the Doctor, which makes the British government go even ''more'' apeshit. They send the black helicopters after the Doctor and Rose, and pretty soon they're on their way to 10 Downing Street, for a Conference On Aliens.

The Doctor goes back to pick up Rose, freaking out Jackie but acquiring the invaluable help of Mickey. Jackie runs upstairs and reports an alien sighting of a ''specific'' alien, which makes the British government go even ''more'' apeshit. They send the black helicopters after the Doctor and Rose, and pretty soon they're on their way to 10 Downing Street, for a Conference On Aliens.

The British government is in full crisis mode, here defined as "a bunch of people running around, not sure what to do". Harriet Jones (MP, Flydale North) displays a crackerjack sense of timing as she decides that the middle of an alien invasion is the perfect time to advance her pet project. Everyone fends her off, on the grounds that there's an ''alien invasion'' on, so she sneaks into the Secret Meeting Room and puts her project briefing folder inside the official alien invasion briefcase. Approaching footsteps warn her to hide in a convenient closet, so she's the first to discover that the acting heads of the British government have been taken over by aliens! Dun duh DUUUUN!

Make that twelve ''months'' after she left. Oopsie! Jackie goes all MamaBear on the Doctor, Mickey sulks in the background, and an enormous spaceship clips Big Ben and crashed into the Thames. The Doctor, hearing that the spaceship's pilot has been taken to Albion Hospital, sneaks off to investigate, but the only strange life form he encounters there is [[Characters/{{Torchwood}} Tosh]].

* [[Jerkass]]: Mickey for good reason, during Rose's absence he was accused of murder and was constantly berated by Jackie for it.

* Jerkass: Mickey for good reason, during Rose's absence he was accused of murder and was constantly berated by Jackie for it.

* MyNameIsNotDurwoord: The Doctor insists on calling Mickey "Ricky". When first corrected, the Doctor jabs that how should Mickey know his own name? He's much too stupid for that.

* [[InvisiblePresident Invisible Prime Minister]]: The episode was broadcast close to the General Election - when the Doctor asks Rose who the PM is, she points out that she missed a year. [[spoiler: When they find the PM's corpse, we never see his face in detail.]]]

* ToiletHumour: The Slitheen.

Make that twelve ''months'' after she left. Oopsie! Jackie goes all MamaBear on the Doctor, Mickey sulks in the background, and an enormous spaceship crashes into Big Ben. The Doctor, hearing that the spaceship's pilot has been taken to Albion Hospital, sneaks off to investigate, but the only strange life form he encounters there is [[Characters/{{Torchwood}} Tosh]].

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* Main/AliensOfLondon: TropeNamer.
* Main/ArcWords: A kid spray-paints "BAD WOLF" on the side of the TARDIS.
* Main/BavarianFireDrill: The Doctor manages to get out of being held at gunpoint by a room full of soldiers by shouting "Defense Plan Delta! Come on!" after a scream is heard. He didn't even flash his psychic paper!
* Main/BoardToDeath: The Slitheen conveniently discuss their plan in the room where Harriet Jones is hiding.
* Main/CatchPhrase: "Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North".
* [[Main/AttackPatternAlpha Defense Plan Delta]]
* FirstContact: The Slitheen hoax a "first contact" situation as part of a plan to destroy the planet.
* Main/{{Gasshole}}: The whole Slitheen family, due to how they compress themselves to fit into their meat suits.
* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Guy]]: Harriet Jones, also known as Shaun's mum in ''ShaunOfTheDead''.
* Main/PuppeteerParasite: The Slitheen.
* Main/TrailersAlwaysSpoil / Main/WallBanger: The "Next Time" trailer for the following episode began ''immediately'' after the cliffhanger, and showed that [[spoiler:all the characters (including minor ones who the viewers might have thought were going to die) would survive]]. Needless to say, many fans (and even casual viewers) were pissed at the first ''Doctor Who'' cliffhanger in sixteen years being utterly ruined, and future episodes of the series would have the "Next Time" trailer moved to being after the end credits, giving viewers enough time to turn the channel.
* Main/ToiletHumour: The Slitheen.
* Main/{{Whitehall}}: Number 10, Downing Street is the setting of most of this episode and the next.
* Main/TheXOfY

* Main/AliensOfLondon: TropeNamer!

* Main/BavarianFireDrill: The Doctor manages to get out of being held at gunpoint by a room full of soldiers by shouting "Defense Plan Delta! Come on!" after a scream is heard. He didn't even flash his psychic paper! (Though see the entry for some theories on this)
* Main/BoardToDeath
* Main/CatchPhrase[[spoiler:PhraseCatcher]]: Our introduction to Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North.
** Until now, we did not know who she was.

* Main/{{Gasshole}}

* Main/PuppeteerParasite
* Main/TrailersAlwaysSpoil / Main/WallBanger: The "Next Time" trailer for the following episode began ''immediately'' after the cliffhanger, and showed that [[spoiler:all the characters imperilled during the cliffhanger would survive unharmed]]. Needless to say, many fans (and even casual viewers) were pissed at the first ''Doctor Who'' cliffhanger in sixteen years being utterly ruined, and future episodes of the series would have the "Next Time" trailer moved to being after the end credits, giving viewers enough time to turn the channel.
** Most viewers would probably be GenreSavvy enough to know that there was no way that [[spoiler:the Doctor or Rose]] would die, but the trailer also showed that [[spoiler:Jackie, Mickey and Harriet Jones]] would survive the cliffhanger, even though viewers could have easily believed they might die at this point in the series, considering none of them were particularly major characters yet.
* Main/ToiletHumour
* Main/{{Whitehall}}