History Recap / DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances

The Doctor, Rose and Jack desperately try to escape the gas mask people and figure out what the hell is going on. While Jack teleports away, Rose and the Doctor are trapped for a while, and Rose takes the opportunity to ask the Doctor if he can dance like Jack can. The Doctor is a bit offended, and says he's actually got quite an amount of experience with... [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything dancing]]. Rose really can't picture him... [[UnusualEuphemism dancing]]. While the Doctor steps closer and takes her hands for an intense... [[ShipTease dance]], they fail to look around and realize that Jack's already saved them. It also turns out that Jack isn't exactly with the TimePolice any more; he turned rogue after waking up one morning and finding that two years of his memory had been wiped by his employer.

* GoneHorriblyRight: The Doctor opens the episode by treating the Empty Child as a bad boy, and sending him to his room. Later on, the Doctor visits the laboratory that acted as Ground Zero for the Empty Child's plague, only to realize that [[OhCrap this is his room]].

*** Along with that, they are playing back tapes of Jamie in the hospital repeating things about his mummy. Then they realize they are still hearing Jamie even though the tape ran out.

** Nancy, when she sees the scar on the back of the hand of the soldier set to watch her. The soldier then panics as she makes him realize this isn't just some cough as he cannot remember his wife's name, any children they have, or ''even his own name''.

* HopeBringer: Rose becomes this to Nancy when she reveals that she comes from London in the future. Nancy by this point was convinced that Germany would destroy England, but Rose assures her that England will win the war.

[[caption-width-right:350:"[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Yes, I am your mummy. I will]] ''[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming always]]'' [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming be your mummy.]]"]]

* LukeIAmYourFather: Jamie, I Am Your Mummy. It turns out Jamie's not Nancy's brother — he's her son. Nancy deliberately lied to people about having a child that young and out of wedlock, and given how young she looks and the current state of Britain, no-one would question it. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments "I will always be your mummy..."]]

* GoToYourRoom: How the Doctor manages to get the gas-mask zombies to back off at the beginning, since their leader is a child. Unfortunately, as mentioned just above, this leads to the Doctor, Rose and Jack actually being ''in'' the Empty Child's room when he get's back there...

* ChekovsGun: According to Creator/StevenMoffat, the sonic blaster used by Jack to blast open the door is destined to be kept in the TARDIS for River Song to find, so that she can use it in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead Forest of the Dead]]".

** The soldier who is meant to watch Nancy is panicking as she makes him realize this isn't just some cough as he cannot remember his wife's name, any children they have, or ''even his own name''. And before that, Nancy herself when she saw the scar on the soldier's hand.

** The soldier who is meant to watch Nancy is panicking as she makes him realize this isn't just some cough as he cannot remember his wife's name, any children they have, or ''even his own name''.

-->'''Rose:''' So we go out into the stars and...\\

* TrickedOutTime: When the Doctor blows up the Chulan warship (which is an ambulance) he mentions that "History said there was an explosion here". Originally, this was caused by a bomb, but Captain Jack got rid of that.

* AmericaSavesTheDay: Despite taking place in 1941, and thus mere months before the US would join UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and come to Britain's direct aid, the most obvious use of the trope is never discussed. On the other hand, Rose seems confident enough that the swaggering well-equipped (fake) American (from the distant future) will come through that she insists on the Doctor taking a break for a bit so they could dance.

Seeing the crash site, the Doctor figures it out: the Chula warship was a field ambulance,[[note]]Well, [[ExactWords technically]], as Jack points out, ambulances are ''used'' in war, thus making them ''war''ships by definition...[[/note]] and contained nanobots (here called "nanogenes") for expedient battlefield healing. When Jamie was first hit by the ship, the nanogenes swung into action and tried to fix him... but they'd never interacted with humans before, and so derived their idea of what humans looked like from a badly wounded kid in a gas mask. They sort of made it up as they went along -- assuming that fully healed people wore gas masks, they made the people they "infected" sprout gas masks. But when they finally met Nancy ([[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo really Jamie's mother, not his sister]]), they had a different model of a healthy human being to work towards... and the parent/child relationship between the subjects meant that the nanogenes knew that this pattern was the right one.

EverybodyLives as the Doctor re-infects everyone with the nanogenes, who now know how to fix humans. Even previously dead humans. Hooray! It goes better than expected, because at least one person grows their whole leg back, so it's safe to say everyone even got their war wounds reversed. Jack uses the Chula ship to suspend the dropping of the bomb that was supposed to blow up in the location the Chula ambulance crashed, "Schlecter[[labelnote:*]]Böser[[/labelnote]] Wolf" (Roughly translated as "Bad Wolf" -- ArcWords strike again!) He flies off into space. The Doctor decides the evidence of an alien race needs to be wiped out to keep history sterile. He makes the Chula ambulance self-destruct when the area is clear of people, reasoning, "History says there was an explosion here. Who am I to argue with history?" with Rose replying, "Usually the first in line."

Jack Harkness is flying through space in his handy Chula ship, but he only delayed "Schlecter[[labelnote:*]]Böser[[/labelnote]] Wolf" from its volcano day. The WWII bomb is about to go off, and Jack cannot stop it from blowing him and his ship into space dust. After bickering with the A.I. of his ship under the false hope there might be an escape pod somewhere, he is repeatedly told not so, until the A.I. flatly spells it out for him that he is '''100%''' doomed. Resigned to his fate, he orders an Emergency Protocol 147 -- a martini... with too much vermouth. Jack is going to drink to his own death and go out with a bang, reminiscing about the time he got out of it before by charming his executioners into bed with him...

Cue the faint sound of vintage swing music from afar. The TARDIS has docked to Jack's ship long enough for him to cross over and let the bomb wipe out the last trace of the Chula civilization without him on board. The Doctor has given him a lift after Rose's concerns set off the alarm bells in his head to pick up Jack so the bomb won't get him. He tells Jack to hurry up and get in the TARDIS, but to also shut the door- [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking there will be quite a draft when the explosion strikes]]. Needless to say, Captain Jack joins the TARDIS, saved by the Doctor just before his ship goes kablooey in an attempted HeroicSacrifice. He walks in to find the Doctor and Rose... [[DancePartyEnding dancing]]. Rose asks if Jack would like to cut in and also... [[SexyManInstantHarem dance]]. The Doctor, amused to have an openly not-straight companion, wonders which of the two Jack would... [[HoYay dance]] with.

Also, bananas are good. And don't worry, Villengard will be visited later...[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime much, much, later...and much, much earlier]].

* ALittleSomethingWeCallRockAndRoll: When the nanogenes restore young Jamie from gasmask-zombie to human, the Doctor lifts the boy up, joyously announcing, "Welcome back, Jamie! Twenty years to pop music, you're gonna love it!"

* AwesomeButImpractical: Jack's flashy sonic blaster turns out to be this; it looks good on the surface and has all sorts of cool features, and leads both him and Rose to make some slightly snide comments about the Doctor's much-less impressive seeming sonic screwdriver. But it turns out that all those cool features run the battery out really fast and it's very quickly next to useless . .. unlike the Doctor's trusty sonic screwdriver. This is part of a direct comparison between Jack, who seems like a perfect sci-fi hero but quickly reveals himself to have feet of clay and to be completely out of his depth, and the Doctor, who seems a lot more eccentric and unusual but ultimately can get the job done.

** Adam isn't mentioned by name, but the Doctor is not fond of Jack at first, and this is before he realized Jack's full involvement in the plot. He asks Rose where she picked Jack up.

* ChewingTheScenery: When the Doctor cries "JUST THIS ONCE... EVERYBODY LIVES!" he milks the line so hard that a little [[Literature/TheMeaningOfLife skoonspruit]] shoots out from under his tongue.

* DancePartyEnding: In the TARDIS. The only question is who will Jack dance with.

* EverybodyLives: TropeNamer! [[OneLinerNameOneLiner Just this once, Rose]], TropeNamer!

* ExtremeOmnisexual: While the episode before this one hinted at it, this episode confirms that no, when it comes to sex, Captain Jack Harkness does not care about your gender or even your species. It's also stated that most people from the 51 century are like that. Which builds on Cassandra hinting in the second episode that there are no more full blooded humans by the year 5 billion, but there are a lot of human-like species.

** Earlier, the room where Jamie was kept was covered with crude drawings of him and his mother. Noticeably, there is no sign of his "older sister" in them.
** Jack's ship can call anything with a speaker grill... just like the Child.

* GoneHorriblyRight: The Doctor opens the episode by treating the Empty Child as a bad boy, and sending him to his room. Later on, the Doctor visits the laboratory that acted as Ground Zero for the Empty Child's plague, only to realize that [[OhCrap this is his room.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: It's mentioned that by the 51st century humanity has spread out among the stars, and has apparently had interbred and mixed into with every intelligent species possible. In fact, in about 5 billion years, pure humans are extinct, leaving only hybrids, engineered variants, and so on.

* HopeBringer: Rose becomes this to Nancy when she reveals that she came from London in the future. Nancy by this point was convinced that Germany would destroy England, but Rose assures her that England would win the war.

* LukeIAmYourFather: Jamie, I Am Your Mummy. It turns out Jamie's not Nancy's brother -- he's her son. Nancy deliberately lied to people about having a child that young and out of wedlock, and given how young she looks and the current state of Britain, no-one would question it. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments "I will always be your mummy..."]]

** The moment with the typewriter. A small boy wants to do some typing, so he does. Nothing scary about that . . . until Nancy mentions the fact that he stopped typing a minute ago, but the typing was still going on. Not to mention that what was being typed was "Are you my mummy?" over and over.

* OneLastSmoke: Or One Last Drink -- Emergency Protocol 417. A Martini. With too much vermouth. Luckily for Captain Jack, he's saved by the Doctor and Rose.

* ScrewDestiny: Averted. The Doctor notes history said a bomb went off where the Chula ship fell, so he was going to set it to self-destruct. Who is he to argue with history? Rose notes that normally he's first in line.

* WhamLine: "I sent the child to its room. This is its room".

-->'''Jack''': Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, "Ooohh, this could be a little more sonic"?

** While waiting for the bomb to explode, Captain Jack recalls the last time he was sentenced to death. He ordered four Hyper Vodkas, [[WhatDidIDoLastNight and woke up in bed with both his executioners]]. They stayed in touch afterwards.

* LargeHam: "EVERYBODY LIVES, ROSE!!! JUST THIS ONCE, EVERYBODY LIVES!!"

-->'''The Doctor''': Software patch. Gonna e-mail the upgrade. You want moves, Rose? I'll give you moves.

* CreepyChild: Jamie, quite possibly the creepiest child since Billy Mumy in ''Series/TheTwilightZone''.