History Recap / DoctorWhoNSS3E1SmithAndJones

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->Judoon platoon upon the moon!
-->'''The Doctor'''

A medical student called Martha Jones heads off to a normal day at work, and a strange man (the Doctor) comes up to her in the street, says "Like so!", and takes his tie off. Martha, only mildly perplexed, continues to the hospital, where she encounters the same man, calling himself "John Smith". He's been in the hospital all day and has no idea what she's talking about. To top it off, the mysterious John Smith has two hearts. Then it starts to rain upwards, and the hospital ends up on the moon. The Doctor decides that Martha, being unperplexed by his two hearts (unlike ''some'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie companions]]) and not flipping out over being on the moon, is exactly the sort of person he could use for help, so he enlists her in the task of saving the hospital.

Meanwhile, a herd of rhino-alien-police (Judoon) enter the hospital and begin to methodically search it for alien life, so the Doctor needs to find the malicious alien and keep himself out of rhino hands, all before the hospital's supply of oxygen runs out.

The alien in question is an old granny, a humanoid plasmavore, who is wanted for murder. She drains the head of the hospital, then fools a Judoon scan because the blood makes her read as human. (And, to distract the rhinos for a while, the Doctor puts some of his own alien bio-bits on Martha by snogging her. No complaints from Martha.) Anyway, Granny has devised a plan to save herself that will kill the human population (the half facing the moon, anyway). She imparts this plan in detail to mild-mannered "John Smith" and then drinks his blood.

Martha finds the plasmavore just as she drains the Doctor dry, which, unbeknownst to her, renders her decidedly alien on any bio-scan. The Rhinos kill the plasmavore and Martha revives the Doctor, just in time for him to reverse the doomsday CT scan and save humanity. In return for saving his life, the Doctor offers Martha a quick tour of the galaxy in his TARDIS. She refuses at first, but then, in response to her question of how he would prove that the TARDIS can travel through time, he steps into the TARDIS, disappears, and reappears with his tie off. See first sentence.

The Doctor promises her one little trip, just for fun, and they awkwardly agree that she's [[LampshadeHanging not there to replace Rose]]. Also, Martha's only attracted to humans. With those negotiations over with, they're on their way.
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!!Tropes:
* ArcWords: There's "Vote Saxon" signs in the alley at the end, and Mr. Saxon gets name-dropped.
* AlliterativeName: The plasmavore chose an alliterative alias Florence Finnigan.
* AlmostOutOfOxygen: The force-field keeps the air in, but it starts running out quickly. Thankfully, the Judoon aren't completely merciless and teleport the hospital back once they're done.
* AssimilationBackfire: Finnegan drinks human blood so the Judoon would think she is a human when bio-scanned. The Doctor tricks her into drinking his blood, thus making her look like an alien through the bio-scanner, albeit different from what she actually is.
* BiggerOnTheInside: Can't be an official Companion if you don't mention it. Complete with the Doctor mockingly mouthing along when Martha says it.
* BrickJoke:
** Oh, so that's why he said "Like so!"
** The Doctor squeeing over the hospital having "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E1NewEarth a little shop]]!"
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: The Doctor has just absorbed a lethal-to-humans dose of radiation and is trying to expel it via his foot into his shoe.
-->'''The Doctor:''' Ow, ow, itchy, itchy, itchy... ''(shakes foot wildly, hopping around on one foot, before pulling his shoe off and binning it triumphantly)''\\
'''Martha Jones:''' You're completely mad.\\
'''The Doctor:''' You're right. I look daft with one shoe. ''(pulls other shoe off)'' Barefoot on the moon!
* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: Apparently CPR will fix clinical death brought on by ''blood loss'' in ''non-humans''. Considering how little we know abound TimeLord biology, this could be true.
* DiesWideShut: Dr. Stoker, after the Plasmavore drains his blood. Martha closes his eyes for him.
* DisproportionateRetribution: As Oliver Morgenstern is telling terrified patients to cooperate with the Judoon as they scan everyone looking for the Plasmavore, one patient grabs a vase and smashes it over another Judoon.
-->'''Judoon Captain:''' Witness: a crime. Charge: physical assault. Plea: Guilty. Sentence: execution. ''[vaporises the man on the spot]''
** The Doctors says that if the Judoon find the Plasmavore first, they'll execute everyone in the hospital for harboring a fugitive.
* EatMe
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Doctor shakes off fatal levels of radiation with surprising ease. Doesn't go so well the second time. Granted, there's a huge difference in how much he's exposed to the next time it happens.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "It's a Slab, basic slave drone. Solid leather, all the way through. Someone has got one hell of a fetish."
* HaveWeMetYet: Martha recognises the Doctor in the hospital, but he has no idea what she's referring to until the end of the episode when he does his "cheap trick".
* HellBentForLeather: Parodied with the Slabs, androids composed entirely of leather. Played more straight with the Judoon however.
* HollywoodMidlifeCrisis: Clive Jones seems to be in the middle of one. He's about to turn 50, recently-divorced, and sporting a brand new car and a 21-year-old girlfriend the script compares to a Big-Brother eviction night.
* ImpostorExposingTest: The Judoon have scanners which can distinguish humans from non-humans, which they try to use to find a plasmavore criminal hiding in a hospital. The plasmavore is able to change its physiology by drinking blood, and tries to use that to beat the test; however, the Doctor tricks it into feeding on him. Since he's an alien, the scanners identify the plasmavore as non-human and kill it.
* ImprobableWeaponUser:
** Florence Finnigan's method of sucking blood is to use a ''bendy straw''!
** Florence Finnigan uses an MRI machine which will fry the half of the Earth facing the moon.
** The Doctor kills a Slab with an x-ray machine by increasing the radiation output to fatal levels.
* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: The Judoon do this role when one guy tries assaulting one of them with a vase; "Justice is swift".
* KarmaHoudini: Sure, the Judoon were polite enough to send the hospital back to Earth when they were done with it, and give Martha [[NoodleImplements "compensation"]] but they murdered a man acting in perceived self-defense and nearly killed everyone else from oxygen starvation... and if the Doctor hadn't deactivated the MRI, it would have flash-fried everyone on Earth.
* MeaningfulEcho: Martha Jones is exuding so much calm confidence that ''she'' promises ''the Doctor'' that she will get him home. These are usually the Doctor's exact words; he looks slightly non-plussed.
-->'''Martha''': I promise you, Mr Smith, we'll find a way out.
* MeaningfulName: There's a "Dr. [[Creator/BramStoker Stoker]]", who's the first on-screen victim of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent blood-sucking Plasmavore]].
* MidlifeCrisisCar: Rusty's script describes Clive's car as "very much midlife crisis".
* MundaneUtility: "Crossing into established time streams is strictly forbidden. Except for cheap tricks."
* NoodleIncident:
--> "It's a screwdriver and it's... sonic."
--> "What else have you got? Laser spanner?"
--> "I ''did'', but it was stolen by Emmeline Pankhurst. Cheeky woman."
* PersonalRaincloud: Referenced -- the cloud over the hospital, just before the teleport, is compared to one by Martha's sister, like something straight out of the cartoons.
* RecycledInSpace: The Tenth Doctor [[PlayingWithATrope plays with this trope]]:
--->'''Doctor:''' Have you seen?! There are these things, these great big space Rhino things, I mean, Rhinos from space, and we're on the moon! Big space Rhinos, with guns! [-ON THE MOON-]!
* {{Retirony}}: Dr. Stoker says he was planning to go on for two more years and then retire to Florida. ''Then'' he cements his fate with a version of the FatalFamilyPhoto, saying that he has a daughter still attending university.
* RhymesOnADime: Gotta love that "Judoon platoon upon the moon" joke. PlayedForLaughs when you realise they put that line in because when David Tennant pronounces "oon", he tends to get a bad case of OohMeAccentsSlipping.
* SadClown: "You're quite a funny man -- and yet, I think, laughing on purpose at the darkness. [[PreMortemOneLiner Time you had some peace.]]"
* ShoutOut: The plasmavore uses a bendy straw to suck blood, much like how the [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents Yugopotamians]] use bendy straws to feast on human brains.
* StealTheSurroundings: An entire building was transported to the moon so the MonsterOfTheWeek can locate a single person.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: You are ''not'' a ReplacementGoldfish, Martha Jones!
* ThanatosGambit: The Doctor allows the Plasmavore to feed on him so that she will register as an alien to the Judoon's scanners.
* WhamLine: A sneaky one when Martha asks the Doctor if he's got a brother, and he replies -- "No, not anymore; just me". The Doctor's brother, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath Braxiatel]], is a major character in the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse stories (specifically in the BerniceSummerfield stories and in the ''AudioPlay/{{Gallifrey}}'' audios) taking place before the end of the Time War.
* YouAreWhoYouEat: The Plasmavore.
* YouLookFamiliar:
** What's that, Martha, you weren't upgraded by the Cybermen at Canary Wharf? It was [[UncannyFamilyResemblance your cousin Adeola Oshodi]]?
** For older viewers, the actress for the Plasmavore previously played a nurse who was attacked by the similarly vampiric Haemovores in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric The Curse of Fenric]]''. We are given no clues as to whether the two are linked though.
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* AssholeVictim: Dr. Stoker's a bit of a sarcastic ass to his students.

* ShoutOut: The plasmavore uses a bendy straw to suck blood, much like how the [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents Yugopotamians]] use bendy straw to feast on human brains.

* DiesWideShut: Dr. Stoker, after getting sucked off by the Plasmavore. Martha closes his eyes for him.

* ArcWords: There's "Vote Saxon" signs in the alley at the end, and Mr Saxon gets name-dropped.

* AlmostOutOfOxygen: The force-field keeps the air in, but it starts running out quickly. Thankfully, the Judoon aren't completely merciless and teleport the hospital back once they're done.

* DiesWideShut: Martha does this for Dr Stoker.

* KarmaHoudini: Sure, the Judoon were polite enough to send the hospital back to Earth when they were done with it, and give Martha [[NoodleImplements "compensation"]] but they murdered a man acting in perceived self-defense and nearly killed everyone else from oxygen starvation.

--> "It's a screwdriver and it's...sonic."

* PersonalRaincloud: Referenced -- the cloud over the hospital, just before the teleport, is compared to one.
* {{Retirony}}: Dr Stoker says he was planning to go on for two more years and then retire to Florida. ''Then'' he cements his fate with a version of the FatalFamilyPhoto, saying that he has a daughter still attending university.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint
--> "You're completely mad."
--> "You're right. I look daft with one shoe" (puts the other one in the waste bin).

* WhamLine: A sneaky one when Martha asks the Doctor if he's got a brother, and he replies -- "No, not anymore; just me". The Doctor's brother, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath Braxiatel]], is a major character in the DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse stories (specifically in the BerniceSummerfield stories and in the ''{{Gallifrey}}'' audios) taking place before the end of the Time War.

* MeaningfulName: There's a "Dr Stoker", who's the first on-screen victim of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent blood-sucking Plasmavore]].

The alien in question is an old granny, a humanoid plasmavore, who is wanted for murder and has devised a plan to save herself that will kill the human population (only the half facing the moon, anyway). She imparts this plan in detail to mild-mannered "John Smith" and then drinks his blood, because if she drinks the blood of a human, the rhinos will think she's human. Also, to distract the rhinos for a while, the Doctor puts some of his own alien bio-bits on Martha by snogging her. No complaints from Martha.

* BrickJoke: Oh, so that's why he said "Like so!"
** And the Doctor {{Squee}}ing over the hospital having "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E1NewEarth a little shop]]!"

* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: Apparently CPR will fix clinical death brought on by ''blood loss'' in ''non-humans''.
** Considering how little we know abound TimeLord biology, this could be true.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Florence Finnegan's method of sucking blood is to use a ''bendy straw''! And then an MRI machine which will fry the half of the Earth facing the moon.

* RhymesOnADime: Gotta love that "Judoon platoon upon the moon" joke.
** PlayedForLaughs when you realise they put that line in because when David Tennant pronounces "oon", he tends to get a bad case of OohMeAccentsSlipping.

* YouLookFamiliar: What's that, Martha, you weren't upgraded by the Cybermen at Canary Wharf? It was [[UncannyFamilyResemblance your cousin Adeola Oshodi]]?
** And for older viewers, the actress for the Plasmavore previously played a nurse who was attacked by the similarly vampiric Haemovores in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric The Curse of Fenric]]''. We are given no clues as to whether the two are linked though.

A medical student named Martha Jones heads off to a regular day at work, and a strange man (The Doctor) comes up to her in the street, says "Like so!", and takes his tie off. Martha, only mildly perplexed, continues to the hospital, where she encounters the same man, calling himself "John Smith". He's been in the hospital all day and has no idea what she's talking about. To top it off, the mysterious John Smith has two hearts. Then it starts to rain upwards, and the hospital ends up on the moon. The Doctor decides that Martha, being unperplexed by his two hearts (unlike ''some'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie companions]]) and not flipping out over being on the moon, is exactly the sort of person he could use for help, so he enlists her in the task of saving the hospital.

Martha finds the plasmavore just as she drains the Doctor dry, which, unbeknownst to the plasmavore, renders her decidedly alien on any bio-scan. The Rhinos kill the plasmavore and Martha revives the Doctor, just in time for him to reverse the doomsday CT scan and save humanity. In return for saving his life, the Doctor offers Martha a quick tour of the galaxy in his TARDIS. She refuses at first, but then, in response to her question of how he would prove that the TARDIS can travel through time, he steps into the TARDIS, disappears, and reappears with his tie off. See first sentence.

* ArcWords: There's "Vote Saxon" signs in the alley at the end, and Mr. Saxon gets name-dropped.
* AlmostOutOfOxygen: The force-field keeps a certain amount of air in, but it starts running out quickly. Thankfully, the Judoon aren't completely merciless and teleport the hospital back once they're done.
* AssimilationBackfire: Finnegan drinks human blood so the Judoon would think she is a human when bio-scanned. The Doctor tricks her into drinking his blood, thus making her look like an alien through the bio-scanner, albeit a different one than she actually is.

--> "You're right. I look daft with one shoe." (puts the other one in the trash) "Barefoot on the moon!"

* DiesWideShut: Martha does this for Dr. Stoker.

-->'''Judoon Captain:''' Witness: a crime. Charge: physical assault. Plea: Guilty. Sentence: execution. ''[vaporizes the man on the spot]''

* HaveWeMetYet: Martha recognizes the Doctor in the hospital, but he has no idea what she's referring to until the end of the episode when he does his "cheap trick."

* ImpostorExposingTest: The Judoon have scanners which can distinguish humans from non-humans, which they try to use to find a plasmavore criminal hiding in a hospital. The plasmavore is able to change its physiology by drinking blood, and tries to use that to beat the test; however, the Doctor tricks it into feeding on him. Since he's a Time Lord, the scanners identify the plasmavore as non-human and kill it.

* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: The Judoon do this role when one guy tries assaulting one of them with a vase. "Justice is swift".

-->'''Martha''': I promise you, Mr. Smith, we'll find a way out.
* MeaningfulName: There's a "Dr Stoker", who's the first onscreen victim of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent blood-sucking Plasmavore]].

* PersonalRaincloud: Referenced - the cloud over the hospital just before the teleport is compared to one.
* {{Retirony}}: Dr. Stoker says he was planning to go on for two more years and then retire to Florida. ''Then'' he cements his fate with a version of the FatalFamilyPhoto, saying that he has a daughter still attending the university.

** PlayedForLaughs when you realize they put that line in because when David Tennant pronounces "oon", he tends to get a bad case of OohMeAccentsSlipping.
* SadClown: "You're quite a funny man - and yet, I think, laughing on purpose at the darkness. [[PreMortemOneLiner Time you had some peace.]]"

* WhamLine: A sneaky one when Martha asks the Doctor if he's got a brother, and he replies -- "no, not anymore, just me". The Doctor's brother, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath Braxiatel]], is a major character in the DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse stories (specifically in the BerniceSummerfield stories and in the ''{{Gallifrey}}'' audios) taking place before the end of the Time War.

** Considering how little we know abound TimeLord biology, This could be true.

Martha finds the plasmavore just as she drains the Doctor dry, which, unbeknownst to the plasmavore, renders her decidedly alien on any bio-scan. The Rhinos kill the plasmavore and Martha revives the Doctor, just in time for him to reverse the doomsday CT scan and save humanity. In return for saving his life, the Doctor offers Martha a quick tour of the galaxy in his TARDIS. She refuses at first, but then, in response her question of how he would prove that the TARDIS can travel through time, he steps into the TARDIS, disappears, and reappears with his tie off. See first sentence.

** Considering how little we know abound Time Lord Biology, This could be true.

* AssimilationBackfire: Finnegan drinks human blood so the Judoon would think she is a human when bio-scanned. The Doctor tricks her into drinking his blood, thus making she look like an alien through the bio-scanner.

--> "You're right. I look daft with one shoe." (bins the other one) "Barefoot on the moon!"