History Recap / DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays

The Daleks approach the comms centre of the satellite as the Doctor is still preparing his wave attack, and they EX-TER-MI-NATE anyone they encounter — including Lynda and Jack. The Dalek Emperor tells the Doctor to make his choice. Will he be a killer like he was in the Time War, murdering every last human on Earth to destroy the Daleks? Or will he be a coward and let nature take its course? The Doctor realizes that he can't bear to repeat the actions he took during the Time War, and says that he'd be a coward, any day. Even if it means letting those mutated humans live on as Daleks forever. Even if it means he'll have to sacrifice himself.

* MyGreatestSecondChance: Implicitly suggested. It's been gradually revealed that the Doctor ended the Time War in the backstory by committing double genocide, destroying the Daleks at the cost of his own people. In this episode, he has to make a similar choice, with the opportunity to press a button and produce an energy wave that will eliminate the new Dalek fleet, while also destroying all life on Earth. This time, he can't go through with it.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Compared to all the other regenerations of post-revival ''Who'', the Ninth Doctor's is different in that rather than just suddenly shifting from one face to the next (as with the Tenth to the Eleventh, or the Eleventh to the Twelfth), we see Creator/ChristopherEccleston's facial features change into Creator/DavidTennant's, complete with his hair growing out.

* ActorAllusion: The final chapter of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' was titled ''The Parting of the Ways.'' Creator/DavidTennant played Barty Crouch Jr. in the film adaptation and this ends up being his first appearance as The Doctor.

When we left our heroes, they were staring down an absolutely ridiculous number of Daleks. Who, in a twist that was [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks done roughly 30 years before]], turn out to be mutated humans, trapped in their pepperpots forever.

When we left our heroes, they were staring down an absolutely ridiculous number of Daleks. Who, in a twist that was [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks done before]], turn out to be mutated humans, trapped in their pepperpots forever.

The one where we say allons-y to someone fantastic [[WeHardlyKnewYe only 13 episodes into the new series]].

The Doctor and Jack rig a force field out of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown Margaret the Slitheen's surfboard]], and go fetch Rose[[note]]The episode also reveals that the TARDIS ''survived the entire Time War '''without a single shield''''' as the Dalek confirms that Rose is "correct" when she says they'll destroy the TARDIS as it has no defences.[[/note]]. Jack tenderly kisses Rose and the Doctor goodbye on their lips, and goes off to stall the Daleks, knowing that he probably won't survive. [[note]]This is the first time that the Doctor's kissed a guy ''on screen''. In the ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'' novels, the Doctor happily snogged his male companion Fitz (who had a crush on him) years earlier.[[/note]] The Doctor tricks Rose into going back into the TARDIS and sends her back to her own time to keep her safe. He activates a hologram recording that tells Rose to live a normal life, let the TARDIS die and experience all she can as a normal human girl.

Rose won't have any of it and, looking for a way back, notices the words "Bad Wolf" ''everywhere'' around her in cloudy grey London. For the first time, she realizes that it may not be a warning at all... it may be an inspiration. She talks Mickey and Jackie into helping her rip apart the heart of the TARDIS using the hook of a heavy duty tow truck to expose the ship's living telepathic core to her. While the TARDIS is ''incredibly'' temperamental, ''this'' time she and Rose want the same thing - to get back to the Doctor - so off goes the TARDIS, with Rose inside, in a flash of white light.

*** Possibly averted with the fact that the TARDIS is alive and just needed a ''reason'' to go back - Rose provides the alibi for her.

Rose won't have any of it and, looking for a way back, notices the words "Bad Wolf" ''everywhere'' around her in cloudy grey London. For the first time, she realizes that it may not be a warning at all... it may be an inspiration. She talks Mickey and Jackie into helping her rip apart the heart of the TARDIS using the hook of a heavy duty tow truck to expose the ship's living telepathic core to her.

The Doctor and Jack rig a force field out of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown Margaret the Slitheen's surfboard]], and go fetch Rose. Jack tenderly kisses Rose and the Doctor goodbye on their lips, and goes off to stall the Daleks, knowing that he probably won't survive. [[note]]This is the first time that the Doctor's kissed a guy ''on screen''. In the ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'' novels, the Doctor happily snogged his male companion Fitz (who had a crush on him) years earlier.[[/note]] The Doctor tricks Rose into going back into the TARDIS and sends her back to her own time to keep her safe. He activates a hologram recording that tells Rose to live a normal life, let the TARDIS die and experience all she can as a normal human girl.

Rose wakes up unharmed from her ordeal, with some memories jumbled. However, Nine is starting to show an ominous glowing in his hand, and we realize something's wrong. He tells Rose that he had so many plans for her, like taking her to Barcelona. Not the Spanish city, but a planet of the same name where a breed of noseless dogs lives. Except that jolly rambling is interrupted by a jolt of hissing yellow energy thrashing inside of his chest. Though the Doctor's saved Rose, the Time Vortex energy he absorbed turned corrosive and it's making all his cells die. Fortunately, the Time Lords have a neat little trick, a way to cheat death. The downside? [[TheNthDoctor He has to change into a new man to live on.]] Knowing he's going to lose the aspects of this incarnation, the Ninth Doctor smiles at Rose Tyler as he bids her goodbye, telling her that she was "Fantastic... Absolutely fantastic! And you know what? So was I!" The Doctor is consumed with a burst of flaming energy and morphs into Creator/DavidTennant. The new Doctor tries to awkwardly introduce himself to a confused Rose, but interrupts himself when he realizes that he has brand new teeth, finding the sensation "weird". He takes a moment to try and remember what he was talking about, before realizing "Oh, that's right! Barcelona." From there, the ending segues into "[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CiNSDoctorWhoChildrenInNeed Doctor Who: Children in Need]]".

* BrokenAesop: The Doctor declines to destroy Earth to destroy the Daleks, claiming that it's the morally better choice to not wipe out humanity with the Daleks. However, the Daleks have just attacked Earth with such force they have distorted continents, meaning they have probably wiped out at least nearly all humanity and any survivors will soon be either killed, enslaved or turned into Daleks, which is clearly a FateWorseThanDeath, the Dalek Emperor even saying humanity will be harvested. The Doctor even points out that humanity won't be wiped out with Earth as they have spread to other worlds by now, "You're the only Daleks in existence. The whole universe is in danger if I let you live." But the Daleks surviving means they'll attack other worlds, giving humanity even less of a chance. It's only a literal Deus ex Machina that saves possibly the Universe from the Daleks. Overall the Doctor's decision, considering he may well be the only non-Dalek in range of the delta wave and the Daleks are about to exterminate him anyway, looks quite odd. It is suggested that his actions are based on his overwhelming guilt at having to destroy the Time Lords in order to also destroy the Daleks, he's too broken and demoralised to essentially make the same decision once again with Earth, and that he's just looking for any thin shred of hope that will justify him not doing so.

* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: When facing certain death from the Daleks, Captain Jack simply retorts "I kind of figured."

* MeanwhileInTheFuture: Rose contemplates the Doctor's imminent destruction — several hundred millennia in the future. She's in a tremendous hurry to get back the future and rescue the Doctor, despite the fact that, logically, there's really no need to rush, as her companions point out totally unconcerned, while for her it had just been happening right then. Given that Rose pilots the TARDIS by effectively becoming a God, so she can put it where/when she needs, there really was no real need to rush.

** The dilemma was not really about how to get back to the future quickly, it was whether to try and do anything about it at all. It appears that at least several days have gone by while Rose was back home (meanwhile, in the future it was only minutes or hours), and she was never specifically worried about being in a hurry.

* MythologyGag: The TARDIS' holographic Doctor was first seen in "Infinite Requiem".

** Most of all when he sees [[GodzillaThreshold Rose has absorbed the Heart of the TARDIS.]]

* ScottyTime: The Doctor states that making a Delta Wave transmitter using the Gamestation, even for him, should take three days. By the time he's come up with the idea he's got barely half an hour before the Daleks get there. Somehow he manages to successfully rig it up before they get to him, which even he seems surprised by. However, he had to cut corners in order to get it ready in time and so it will kill both Daleks ''and'' humans in its range.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Rose says that if they can open the TARDIS' console, they call "tell it what to do" because the TARDIS is "alive". While she's right that the TARDIS ''is'' alive, she's entirely ''wrong'' about telling the TARDIS what to do — the TARDIS does exactly what ''she'' wants to do. That, in this case, just so happens to be what Rose wants.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Rose says that if they can open the TARDIS' console, they call "tell it what to do" because the TARDIS is "alive". While she's right that the TARDIS ''is'' alive, she's entirely ''wrong'' about telling the TARDIS what to do — the TARDIS does exactly what ''she'' wants too do. That, in this case, just so happens to be what Rose wants.

* DyingVocalChange: The Anne-Droid briefly gets to deploy her catchphrase and disintegrator ray against the Daleks - before she's interrupted by getting her head shot off, causing her voice to [[LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand electronically trail off]] as she finishes her sentence.

Just as he's about to be murdered, Rose... no, sorry, ''Bad Wolf'' steps in, with ''time itself'' pulsing through her from the TARDIS core. As a catalyst for the Time Vortex, she's become a literal [[DeusExMachina goddess from the machine]], and with a single word she promptly kills every last Dalek she can find. On top of that, she scatters her name — and the name of the TV station — throughout time, space and parallel dimensions, as a sign to herself. [[CreatingLifeIsUnforseen Oh, and she revives Jack.]]

Rose won't have any of it and, looking for a way back, notices the words "Bad Wolf" ''everywhere'' around her in cloudy grey London. For the first time, she realizes that it may not be a warning at all... it may be an inspiration. She talks Mickey and Jackie into helping her rip apart the TARDIS to expose the ship's living telepathic core to her.

Just as he's about to be murdered, Rose... no, sorry, ''Bad Wolf'' steps in, with ''time itself'' pulsing through her from the TARDIS core. As a catalyst for the Time Vortex, she's become a literal [[DeusExMachina goddess from the machine]], and with a single word she promptly kills every last Dalek she can find. On top of that, she scatters her name — and the name of the TV station — throughout time, space and parallel dimensions, as a sign to herself. Oh, and she revives Jack.

With all that, she collapses, and the Doctor, grinning, tells her... "I think you need a Doctor". He absorbs the full force of the Time Vortex from Rose's body by kissing her. It's a beautiful moment until it kills him. He blows the essence of the Heart back into the TARDIS, and then takes flight... without Jack. Jack hears the "VWORP-VWORP" of the TARDIS as it vanishes, leaving the poor guy stranded in 200,100... From here he'll go on to star in ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''.

The one where we say allons-y to someone fantastic [[WeHardlyKnewYe only 13 episodes into the new series.]]

* BigShutUp: "I think you're forgetting something. I'm the Doctor, and if there's one thing I can do it's talk. I've got five billion languages and you haven't got one way of stopping me, so if anybody's going to shut up, [[SuddenlyShouting IT'S]] ''[[SuddenlyShouting YOU]]!!''" ''[Gives [[EmotionSuppression the]] [[NervesOfSteel Daleks]] a '''volcanic''' DeathGlare; they '''''[[NotSoStoic back away in fear]]''''']''

* BrickJoke: Just before he goes, Nine mentions going to Barcelona (Not the city, the planet Barcelona). Apparently they have dogs with no noses. Then he regenerates. The second thing Ten mentions? Barcelona.

* FiveRoundsRapid: Played with when Captain Jack gives a group of volunteers under his command "bastic" bullets he is convinced will "blow a Dalek wide open". However, he fails to take into account the Daleks' new bullet-dissipating forcefields, which render the rounds useless. Bitterly lampshaded when a minor character despairingly declares "They're not working!" moments before she gets Exterminated. However, at one point the bullets do work to ''blind'' one of the Daleks.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Rose when she absorbs the Time Vortex energies. When the Doctor takes it out of her, his eyes glow too.

* SadisticChoice: Either the Doctor uses the Delta Wave to commit double genocide against human and Dalek alike, or he allows the Daleks to spread throughout the universe. Fortunately, [[TakeAThirdOption another option comes in the Bad Wolf]] arriving.

-->'''The Doctor:''' I think you're forgetting something. I'm the Doctor and if there's one thing I can do, it's talk. I've got five billion languages and you've got no way of stopping me. So if there is anybody who's going to shut up IT'S YOU!

* ThisCannotBe: When the Daleks reach floor zero where [[ShootTheShaggyDog the civilians are stranded:]]
--> '''Rodrick:''' You can't!! ''[[NotSoExtinct You don't exist!!!]]'' It's not fair! [[SkewedPriorities I won the game!! I should be rich!!!]] I'm the winner!! ''You can't do this to me!!!!'' (FIRING AND SCREAMS)
** When Bad Wolf!Rose starts to disintegrate him and his fleet, the Dalek Emperor yells "[[AC:I cannot die!]]"

The one where we say goodbye to someone fantastic [[WeHardlyKnewYe only 13 episodes into the new series.]]

Rose wakes up unharmed from her ordeal, with some memories jumbled. However, Nine is starting to show an ominous glowing in his hand, and we realize something's wrong. He tells Rose that he had so many plans for her, like taking her to Barcelona. Not the Spanish city, but a planet of the same name where a breed of noseless dogs lives. Except that jolly rambling is interrupted by a jolt of hissing yellow energy thrashing inside of his chest. Though the Doctor's saved Rose, the Time Vortex energy he absorbed turned corrosive and it's making all his cells die. Fortunately, the Time Lords have a neat little trick, a way to cheat death. The downside? [[TheNthDoctor He has to change into a new man to live on.]] Knowing he's going to lose the aspects of this incarnation, the Ninth Doctor smiles at Rose Tyler as he bids her goodbye, telling her that she was "Fantastic... Absolutely fantastic! And you know what? So was I!" The Ninth Doctor is consumed with a burst of flaming energy and morphs into Creator/DavidTennant, the Tenth Doctor. The new Doctor tries to awkwardly introduce himself to a confused Rose, but interrupts himself when he realizes that he has brand new teeth, finding the sensation "weird". He takes a moment to try and remember what he was talking about, before realizing "Oh, that's right! Barcelona." From there, the ending segues into "[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CiNSDoctorWhoChildrenInNeed Doctor Who: Children in Need]]".

** Mickey and Rose have tried to reactivate the TARDIS, to no avail. Cue Jackie, with a friggen ''truck'' (she knew a guy who owed her some favours). That manages to do it.

* BrickJoke: Just before he goes, Nine mentions going to Barcelona (Not the city, the planet Barcelona). Apparently they have dogs with no noses. Then he regenerates. The second thing Ten mentions? Barcelona!

* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: The Doctor invites Lynda aboard the TARDIS. Rose, who's been in love with him for most of the series, isn't at all impressed by this development. Fortunately for Rose's peace of mind, Lynda doesn't make it to the end of the following episode.

* AgentScully: Rodrick is stubbornly adamant when he hears Jack announce that the Daleks are invading, replying that they disappeared thousands of years ago, and choosing to wait on floor zero for exterior help along with most of the other civilians. [[ScepticismFailure It doesn't end well for any of them.]]

* AgentScully: Rodrick is stubbornly adamant when he hears Jack announce that the Daleks are invading, replying that they disappeared thousands of years ago, and choosing to wait on floor zero for exterior help along with most of the other civilians. It doesn't end well for any of them.

--> '''Rodrick:''' You can't!! ''You don't exist!!!'' It's not fair! [[SkewedPriorities I won the game!! I should be rich!!!]] I'm the winner!! ''You can't do this to me!!!!'' (FIRING AND SCREAMS)

* ThisCannotBe: When Bad Wolf!Rose starts to disintegrate him and his fleet, the Dalek Emperor yells "[[AC:I cannot die!]]"

* LipLockSunBlock: The BigDamnKiss between the Doctor and Bad Wolf blocks the light coming out of the TARDIS.