History Recap / DoctorWhoNSS3E1SmithAndJones

* ImprobableWeaponUser: The plasmavore uses a ''goddamn bendy straw''. And then an MRI machine which will fry the half of the Earth facing the moon.

* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: The Judoon. "Justice is swift".

* NoodleIncident

* AssimilationBackfire: An alien 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.

* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: The Judoon.

* MundaneUtility
-->"Crossing into established time streams is strictly forbidden. Except for cheap tricks."

* {{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 in university.
* RhymesOnADime: Gotta love that Judoon platoon upon the moon.
** PlayedForLaughs when you realize they put that line in because when 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]]?

* WhamLine: A sneaky one when Martha asks the Doctor if she'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.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Doctor shakes off fatal levels of radiation with surprising ease. Doesn't go so well the second time.

!!Tropes

* AssimilationBackfire: the doctor tricks the alien into drinking his blood, so she will look like an alien through the bio-scanner.

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 [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie ''some'' 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 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", who has 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, having kept his two-heart secret and not flipped 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 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.

* MidlifeCrisisCar: Rusty's script describes Clive's car is "very much midlife crisis".

* HollywoodMidlifeCrisis: Clive Jones seems to be in the middle of one. Recently-divorced, sporty new car, girlfriend the script compares to a Big-Brother evictee...

* MidlifeCrisisCar

The alien in question is 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.

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", who has 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, having kept his two-heart secret and not flipped 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 fixed supply of oxygen runs out.

The alien in question is 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. 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 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.

* YouAreWhoYouEat: The Hemovore.

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