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 ♫ I can't decide, whether you should live or die ♫ It's one year later.Most people have spent it in slavery (or dead), but Martha Jones has been Walking the Earth, picking her way amongst the ruins, and looking for the four segments of a weapon that can allegedly kill the Master. She also discovers that the Toclafane are mutated remnants of the humans from the end of time.Meanwhile, the Master has made Martha's family into his personal slaves. He's also got Jack chained up as a toy to kill over and over. He plays with the Doctor for a bit while singing along to the Scissor Sisters, then turns him into a heap of Conspicuous CGI.Martha's returned to Britain, where she tells her story one last time and then is captured by the Master's Mooks. Up aboard the Valiant, the Master makes her Kneel Before Zod and prepares to kill her.Then she laughs at him. Come on, she says, Plot Coupons? Seriously? No, what she was really doing was telling everyone about the Doctor. Thanks to Martha's stories, and using the Master's global countdown, the whole Earth manages to think the Doctor back to health and youth with a feedback effect through the Master's own mind-controlling cellphone satellite network, keeping people under his influence. The destruction of the paradox machine reverses time to exactly one year ago, with everyone's memories neatly wiped and all the mutated humans disappear from the present day. But everyone in the "eye of the storm" — including Martha's family — keep the memories of everything they've seen.While the Doctor attempts to stop everyone from killing the Master (being a Time Lord, he sees it as his domain to deal with him), the Master's wife shoots him. The Doctor cradles the Master in his lap, gently forgives him and asks if they can be together from now on, but the Master refuses to regenerate, and dies in the arms of a wildly sobbing Doctor.The Master's corpse is burned. Martha's family remains deeply traumatized. The Doctor puts a lock on Jack's time machine, to make sure Jack can only ever travel somewhere twice — "the second time to apologize". Jack leaves because he misses Torchwood Three, but not before telling the others that he's very slowly aging into something unknown, and that his nickname was once "The Face Of Boe". Oh what. Also, Martha finally understands that the Doctor will never return her affections. She hands him her phone, as she realises that she may need his help again some day.Meanwhile at the Master's funeral pyre, a mysterious woman removes a maniacally laughing ring with Gallifreyan symbols on it. Is the Master not dead after all? —The Master shows his love for the Scissor Sisters. Tropes
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