History Recap / DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw

In the morning, Victoria knights "Sir Doctor of TARDIS" and "Dame Rose of the Powell Estate". Having rewarded them, she banishes them from the Empire (not a problem for Rose, as she lives in the 21st century; the Doctor isn't even native to Earth). The Queen admits that she does not know who or even what they are, but that their world is steeped in terror and blasphemy and yet they consider it all fun and games. She makes it clear that she cannot allow this in her world, and warns them to consider how much longer they might survive such a dangerous life. During this she says, "[[BrickJoke I am not amused]]". Having won her bet with the Doctor, Rose cannot suppress a smirk, until Victoria adds that she is "not remotely amused".

** At the beginning of the episode, the Doctor tells Victoria's guard that he studied medicine with a Dr. Bell at the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Bell was one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's teachers, and is likely the inspiration for Literature/SherlockHolmes.

* FullyClothedNudity: Rose, by the standards of the 19[-[[superscript:th]]-] century (polite society, anyway), is said to be "naked" because she's not wearing a full dress. The contemporary characters keep commenting on this. In fact, 19[-[[superscript:th]]-]-century England was a place where it wasn't uncommon for people to even ''take baths'' with clothes on.

* ArtisticLicense:

An authoritative voice from the carriage the soldiers are escorting asks the Doctor and Rose to approach. To the Doctor's delight, it's UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria, who is on her way to Balmoral Castle. When Victoria sees the Doctor's psychic paper, she notes it says the Lord Provost has appointed the Doctor as her protector, meaning the time travellers are stuck in this time period for a while. The Doctor wonders why the Queen is traveling by road when there's a railway line to Aberdeen, and the Queen replies that a fallen tree has blocked the tracks, but she believes it was an assassination attempt, much like the six previous ones against her. The Doctor and Rose walk alongside the carriage as the entourage makes their way to the Torchwood Estate, where the Queen plans to spend the night. They squee about the fact that they're meeting Queen Victoria in the midst of their little detour, and Rose gets the Doctor to agree to a {{side bet}} that she can get Victoria to say "[[BeamMeUpScotty We are not amused]]", which [[RunningGag she will spend the rest of the episode trying to do]].

In the kitchen, Lady Isobel notices the monks are wearing mistletoe about their necks, a charm against werewolves. She notices sprigs of mistletoe on the kitchen floor and orders the other women to gather them. In the library, the Doctor comes to the same conclusion when he notices wooden details on the doors carved into the shape of mistletoe. He realises the walls are varnished with viscum album, which is oil of mistletoe. The werewolf is allergic to it, or the monks have trained it to be to control it, and Sir Robert's father knew this. Lady Isobel and the women cook the mistletoe into a broth. In the library, the others find an account of something falling near the monastery in 1540. The Doctor theorises that perhaps only a single cell survived, passing itself from host to host while it grew stronger with each generation. Now it wants to establish an empire, [[{{Steampunk}} advancing technology and building starships and missiles fueled by coal and driven by steam, laying waste to history]]. Victoria breaks in at this point, telling Sir Robert [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled she would prefer to die rather than be infected]]. She asks him to find a safe place for something more precious and reveals the contents of the box: the Koh-i-Noor. The Queen had been taking it to the royal jewellers at Hazlehead to be re-cut.

->''"Lupus magnus est, lupus fortis est, lupus deus est..."'' ("The wolf is great, the wolf is strong, the wolf is a god...")[[note]]Or, in other words: [[MemeticMutation Wolf is love. Wolf is life.]][[/note]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
-->'''Sir Robert:''' Did you think there was nothing strange about my household staff?\\
'''The Doctor:''' Well, they were bald, athletic, your wife's away — I just thought you were happy.
** The Norwegian Netflix sub drives it home by directly calling it "sex life".

In the TARDIS, the Doctor and Rose are doing what they do best — bopping around the universe and having fun: in this particular instance, the Doctor is trying to steer to Sheffield in 1979, so he can take Rose to see Music/IanDuryAndTheBlockheads in concert. [[ChangedMyJumper Rose has even dressed accordingly for the time period, with a pink T-shirt and a denim minidress.]] When they land, they exit the TARDIS... and walk right into armed Scottish soldiers escorting a carriage, who point their guns at them — once again, the TARDIS has missed the mark, by a hundred years this time; it's ''18''79. Their leader Captain Reynolds, demands explanations for the Doctor's presence and Rose's "[[FullyClothedNudity nakedness]]". Using psychic paper and a [[ActorAllusion perfect Scottish accent]], the Doctor claims that his name is [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E4TheHighlanders James McCrimmon]] from the [[Series/{{Balamory}} township of Balamory]]. Rose tries to do her own Scottish accent as well, but [[OohMeAccentsSlipping the result is so hilariously terrible]] that the Doctor passes her off as mentally ill.

** Rose attempts a Scottish accent, and is so hilariously bad at it the Doctor's expression is literally pained.

In the TARDIS, the Doctor and Rose are doing what they do best — bopping around the universe and having fun: in this particular instance, the Doctor is trying to steer to Sheffield in 1979, so he can take Rose to see Music/IanDuryAndTheBlockheads in concert. [[ChangedMyJumper Rose has even dressed accordingly for the time period, with a pink T-shirt and a denim minidress.]] When they land, they exit the TARDIS... and walk right into armed Scottish soldiers escorting a carriage, who point their guns at them — once again, the TARDIS has missed the mark, by a hundred years this time; it's 1879. The leader of the Scottish soldiers, Captain Reynolds, demands explanations for the Doctor's presence and Rose's "[[FullyClothedNudity nakedness]]". Using psychic paper and a [[ActorAllusion perfect Scottish accent]], the Doctor claims that his name is [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E4TheHighlanders James McCrimmon]] from the [[Series/{{Balamory}} township of Balamory]]. Rose tries to do her own Scottish accent as well, but [[OohMeAccentsSlipping the result is so hilariously terrible]] that the Doctor passes her off as mentally ill.

An authoritative voice from the carriage the soldiers are escorting asks the Doctor and Rose to approach. To the Doctor's amazement, it's UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria, who is on her way to Balmoral Castle. When Victoria sees the Doctor's psychic paper, she notes it says the Lord Provost has appointed the Doctor as her protector, meaning the time travellers are stuck in this time period for a while. The Doctor wonders why the Queen is traveling by road when there's a railway line to Aberdeen, and the Queen replies that a fallen tree has blocked the tracks, but she believes it was an assassination attempt, much like the six previous ones against her. The Doctor and Rose walk alongside the carriage as the entourage makes their way to the Torchwood Estate, where the Queen plans to spend the night. They squee about the fact that they're meeting Queen Victoria in the midst of their little detour, and Rose gets the Doctor to agree to a {{side bet}} that she can get Victoria to say "[[BeamMeUpScotty We are not amused]]", which [[RunningGag she will spend the rest of the episode trying to do]].

* AllMonksKnowKungFu: Inverted; British monks generally aren't known for their martial arts skills, and the household staff are completely taken aback when Father Angelo and his monks turn on the kung fu.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Doctor and Rose save Queen Victoria from a werewolf, but because they act like selfish, immature adrenaline junkies, she decides to found the Torchwood Institute to protect the British Empire against extraterrestrial threats. They then spend a good century robbing and murdering innocent alien passers-by, and nearly destroying the human race several times ForScience

* NotUsingTheZWord: The Doctor explain that the monster is a "lupine wavelength haemovariform", but it's called a werewolf throughout.

** Queen Victoria in reality had very little power, so the Empire of the Wolf plan was rather futile. That said, the wolf probably did not know this, seeing as it arrived on Earth in the reign of Henry VIII, an era when the monarchy was still near all-powerful, and arguably still heading towards the zenith of its power with the Age of Absolutism. Also, Victoria had a lot of unofficial, informal power.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Queen Victoria banishes the Doctor and Rose from the British Empire for having too much fun while saving her life. Admittedly, her values and theirs are a bit different due to the times (and a more technical knowledge of astronomy still considered heresy), but creating Torchwood to fight both alien monsters ''and'' the Doctor himself puts her squarely in the UngratefulBitch category.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Victoria might seem a tad ungrateful to respond to the Doctor and Rose saving her life by banishing them, but she does have a point about their attitude in the face of the wolf — to attempt to get her to say her CatchPhrase all while people are dying horribly around them and treat it all as a game, to say nothing of the Doctor's NightmareFetishist tendencies, is beyond inappropriate. She also has a point when she wonders how long they'll survive their madcap lifestyle. (And her criticism does have an impact; although the Doctor and Rose continue to laugh in the face of danger in subsequent adventures, they never again act as blasé as they do here, nor does the Tenth Doctor with his subsequent companions Martha and Donna.)

A band of hooded monks travel along a dirt road across the windswept Scottish moors. They enter the courtyard of the Torchwood Estate, belonging to Sir Robert [=MacLeish=]. Their leader, Father Angelo, approaches the steward and demands possession of the house. The steward stands his ground, as Father Angelo and his brethren have apparently had disagreements with Sir Robert's family for the past few generations. He dares to ask if Father Angelo will show the hand of God to take the house, to which Angelo retorts, "No. The fist of man." [[AllMonksKnowKungFu He and his monks proceed to show off their martial arts skills]], with which they take over the house, knocking out Sir Robert, while taking his wife Lady Isobel and any other servants they find hostage and parading them into the cellars. Afterwards, they carry a covered cage into the cellar where they're keeping the hostages. When the steward tries to prod Father Angelo for answers as to what's inside the cage, Father Angelo simply replies "May God forgive me," and his monks remove the canvas, invoking screams of terror from their hostages.

In the TARDIS, the Doctor and Rose are doing what they do best - bopping around the universe and having fun: in this particular instance, the Doctor is trying to steer to Sheffield in 1979, so he can take Rose to see Music/IanDuryAndTheBlockheads in concert. [[ChangedMyJumper Rose has even dressed accordingly for the time period, with a pink T-shirt and a denim mini-dress.]] When they land, they exit the TARDIS... and walk right into armed Scottish soldiers escorting a carriage, who point their guns at them - once again, the TARDIS has missed the mark, by a hundred years this time; it's 1879. The leader of the Scottish soldiers, Captain Reynolds, demands explanations for the Doctor's presence and Rose's "[[FullyClothedNudity nakedness]]" - the Queen, for her part, gives little fucks about Rose's "nakedness"; she's had five daughters, after all. Using psychic paper and a [[ActorAllusion perfect Scottish accent]], the Doctor claims that his name is [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E4TheHighlanders James McCrimmon]] from the [[Series/{{Balamory}} township of Balamory]]. Rose tries to do her own Scottish accent as well, but [[OohMeAccentsSlipping the result is so hilariously terrible]] that the Doctor passes her off as mentally ill.

The werewolf crashes through the door and moves to slash at Victoria, but the Doctor tosses the diamond on the floor. It catches the light, which intercepts the werewolf and suspends it in mid-air. The werewolf reverts to human form; the host asks the Doctor to make the light brighter, to end its life and the ''lupine wavelength haemovariform'', as the Doctor calls it.

* AllMonksKnowKungFu: Inverted; British monks generally aren't known for their martial arts skill, and the household staff are completely taken aback when Father Angelo and his monks turn on the kung fu.

* ChangedMyJumper: Alluded to, as Rose (in a pink T-shirt and denim overall mini-skirt) is said to be "naked". She'd actually dressed quite appropriately — if not stylishly — for the ''intended'' destination. The TARDIS just had other plans that day...

* FullyClothedNudity: Rose, by the standards of the 19[-[[superscript:th]]-] century (polite society, anyway), is said to be "naked" because she's not wearing a full dress. The contemporary characters keep commenting on this. In fact, 19th-century England was a place where it wasn't uncommon for people to even ''take baths'' with clothes on.

* HappilyMarried: If Sir Robert was not this trope then he would not have been so quick to commit treason to keep his wife safe (while it's doubtful that he would have sacrificed her if the marriage was going badly, since he seemed like a decent bloke, he was very quick, if very reluctant, to comply). They kiss several times in this episode once she and the servants are rescued, she braves the Wolf to save him and the others, explicitly stating that she's going to help him if there's the slightest chance that he's still alive, and his last thoughts are of her.

** When the Doctor and Rose exit the TARDIS only to find themselves face to face with Queen Victoria's guards, who are holding guns on them, the Doctor switches from his Estuary accent into a Scottish accent (which, contrary to popular belief, ''isn't'' actually Creator/DavidTennant's natural accent) in an attempt to pose as a Scot.

* ShoutOut: A couple of references to Creator/RobertBurns' poem ''To a Mouse''.

* UnderdressedForTheOccasion: Rose is wearing a denim overall miniskirt and a tight-fitting, low-cut shirt that's appropriate for their intended destination of 1979. But the TARDIS does one of its famous missed landings, ends up in 1879 when such attire would be very inappropriate, and so the other characters see her as being "naked".

In the TARDIS, the Doctor and Rose are doing what they do best. Bopping around the universe and having fun: in this particular instance, the Doctor is trying to steer to Sheffield in 1979, so he can take Rose to see Music/IanDuryAndTheBlockheads in concert. [[ChangedMyJumper Rose has even dressed accordingly for the time period, with a pink T-shirt and a denim mini-dress.]] When they land, they exit the TARDIS... and walk right into armed Scottish soldiers escorting a carriage, who point their guns at them - once again, the TARDIS has missed the mark, by a hundred years this time; it's 1879. The leader of the Scottish soldiers, Captain Reynolds, demands explanations for the Doctor's presence and Rose's "[[FullyClothedNudity nakedness]]" - the Queen, for her part, gives little fucks about Rose's "nakedness"; she's had five daughters, after all. Using psychic paper and a [[ActorAllusion perfect Scottish accent]], the Doctor claims that his name is [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E4TheHighlanders James McCrimmon]] from the [[Series/{{Balamory}} township of Balamory]]. Rose tries to do her own Scottish accent as well, but [[OohMeAccentsSlipping the result is so hilariously terrible]] that the Doctor passes her off as mentally ill.

In the TARDIS, the Doctor is trying to steer to Sheffield in 1979, so he can take Rose to see Music/IanDuryAndTheBlockheads in concert. [[ChangedMyJumper Rose has even dressed accordingly for the time period, with a pink T-shirt and a denim mini-dress.]] When they land, they exit the TARDIS... and walk right into armed Scottish soldiers escorting a carriage, who point their guns at them. Their leader, Captain Reynolds, demands explanations for the Doctor's presence and Rose's "[[FullyClothedNudity nakedness]]". Using psychic paper and a [[ActorAllusion perfect Scottish accent]], the Doctor claims that his name is [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E4TheHighlanders James McCrimmon]] from the [[Series/{{Balamory}} township of Balamory]]. Rose tries to do her own Scottish accent as well, but [[OohMeAccentsSlipping the result is so hilariously terrible]] that the Doctor passes her off as mentally ill.

In the TARDIS, the Doctor is trying to steer to Sheffield in 1979, so he can take Rose to see Music/IanDuryAndTheBlockheads in concert. [[ChangedMyJumper Rose has even dressed accordingly for the time period, with a pink T-shirt and a denim mini-dress]]. When they land, they exit the TARDIS... and walk right into armed Scottish soldiers escorting a carriage, who point their guns at them. Their leader, Captain Reynolds, demands explanations for the Doctor's presence and Rose's "[[FullyClothedNudity nakedness]]". Using psychic paper and a [[ActorAllusion perfect Scottish accent]], the Doctor claims that his name is [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E4TheHighlanders James McCrimmon]] from the [[Series/{{Balamory}} township of Balamory]] Rose tries to do her own Scottish accent as well, but [[OohMeAccentsSlipping the result is so hilariously terrible]] that the Doctor passes her off as mentally ill.

An authoritative voice from the carriage the soldiers are escorting asks the Doctor and Rose to approach. To the Doctor's amazement, it's UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria, who is on her way to Balmoral Castle. When Victoria sees the Doctor's psychic paper, she notes it says the Lord Provost has appointed the Doctor as her protector, meaning the time travelers are stuck in this time period for a while. The Doctor wonders why the Queen is traveling by road when there's a railway line to Aberdeen, and the Queen replies that a fallen tree has blocked the tracks, but she believes it was an assassination attempt, much like the six previous ones against her. The Doctor and Rose walk alongside the carriage as the entourage makes their way to the Torchwood Estate, where the Queen plans to spend the night. They squee about the fact that they're meeting Queen Victoria in the midst of their little detour, and [[SideBet Rose gets the Doctor to agree to a side bet]] that she can get Victoria to say "[[BeamMeUpScotty We are not amused]]", which [[RunningGag she will spend the rest of the episode trying to do]].

As the Queen's entourage enters the Torchwood Estate's courtyard, a very queasy Sir Robert watches them from the window. Father Angelo and his monks are forcing him to commit treason against the crown under the threat of harm to his wife and servants. It takes a reminder from Father Angelo (in the room dressed as a servant) of the threatened consequences to get Sir Robert to do as asked. He goes downstairs to receive Victoria. Despite his cryptic efforts to tell Victoria that all is not right, Victoria insists on staying; the estate was a favourite spot of her late consort, Prince Albert, who was good friends with Sir Robert's father. They enter the manor, with Captain Reynolds deploying his men to guard the estate. He also carries a small leather box inside, which he locks in a safe. In the cellar, the captive in the cage, who appears to be a hooded man, indicates to the other prisoners to be silent.

Sir Robert shows the Queen, Doctor and Rose the observatory, which contains a telescope his father designed. The Doctor notices it has many prisms more than a typical telescope, causing too much magnification for simple stargazing. Sir Robert admits he knows little of his father's eccentric work. Victoria mentions that Sir Robert's father was a polymath, equally versed in science and folklore and that Albert was fascinated by local stories of [[WolfMan a wolf]]. Before Sir Robert can tell the tale, however, Father Angelo interrupts, offering to take the guests to their rooms to prepare for dinner.

In the cellar, Rose notices the caged man's alien-looking eyes. She asks him what planet he is from. Amused, he tells Rose the human body he possesses was born ten miles away, a boy stolen by the Brethren, but he comes from a much longer distance. Rose offers to take the alien intelligence back home, but he does not wish to leave. He shall bite Queen Victoria, migrate into her body and begin the Empire of the Wolf. He says Rose has "something of the wolf" about her, but while she burned like the Sun, all he requires is the Moon.

While that's happening, at the dinner table, Sir Robert tells the Queen, the Doctor and Captain Reynolds a story. For the past three hundred years, livestock has been found ripped apart every full moon. Once a generation, a boy vanishes, and there are sightings of a werewolf. Sir Robert's father believed the story to be fact, and even claimed to have communicated with the beast and learned its purpose. However, the Brethren of the monastery in the Glen of Saint Catherine opposed his investigations. Sir Robert lets slip the truth about the ongoing situation as he ponders, what if the monks had turned from God and started worshipping the wolf? It is at that moment that the Doctor sees Father Angelo face the full moon through the window, chanting in Latin, "Lupus magnus est, lupus fortis est, lupus deus est".[[note]]"The wolf is great, the wolf is strong, the wolf is God"[[/note]] The Doctor realizes the monks are with them right now.

The monks throw open the cellar doors and moonlight streams into the Host's cage, triggering a horrifying transformation. Rose rallies the other prisoners, telling them not to look, but to pull on the chains. As Father Angelo is transfixed with chanting at the moon, Sir Robert apologises to the Queen for his betrayal and the leverage they used against him. The Doctor demands to know where Rose is, but Father Angelo ignores him, continuing his chanting. The Doctor and Sir Robert rush to the cellar, leaving the Queen with Reynolds, who trains his pistol on Father Angelo, asking him what his goals are. Father Angelo replies, "The throne", and swiftly disarms Reynolds.

The Doctor and Sir Robert reach the cellar just as Rose and the other prisoners manage to break their chains, but the Host has finished his transformation into a werewolf and breaks out of the cage. The others run out of the cellar, the Doctor transfixed at the "beautiful" werewolf until the last second. He seals the door with his sonic screwdriver as the werewolf howls at the moon. Above, Victoria surmises correctly that the monks had sabotaged the tracks to bring her here. However, [[CrazyPrepared she is not unprepared, after six attempts on her life]], and pulls a small revolver from her bag, aiming at Angelo. He sneers at her skeptically, calling her "woman". The Queen retorts "The correct form of address is 'Your Majesty'!" and shoots him dead.

In the kitchen, Lady Isobel notices the monks are wearing mistletoe about their necks, a charm against werewolves. She notices sprigs of mistletoe on the kitchen floor and orders the other women to gather the scraps. In the library, the Doctor comes to the same conclusion when he notices wooden details on the doors carved into the shape of mistletoe. He realises the walls are varnished with viscum album, which is oil of mistletoe. The werewolf is allergic to it, or the monks have trained it to be to control it, and Sir Robert's father knew this. Lady Isobel and the women cook the mistletoe into a broth. In the library, the others find an account of something falling near the monastery in 1540. The Doctor theorises that perhaps only a single cell survived, passing itself from host to host while it grew stronger with each generation. Now it wants to establish an empire, [[{{Steampunk}} advancing technology and building starships and missiles fueled by coal and driven by steam, laying waste to history]]. Victoria breaks in at this point, telling Sir Robert [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled she will die rather than be infected]]. She asks him to find a safe place for something more precious and reveals the contents of the box: the Koh-i-Noor. The Queen had been taking it to the royal jewellers at Hazlehead to be re-cut.

The Doctor needs time. The doors to the observatory are not barred against the werewolf, as Sir Robert's father intended the wolf to come in. Sir Robert offers to place himself between the werewolf and them, willing to die with honour to atone for his betrayal. He holds the werewolf off with a sword. As his screams penetrate the door, the Doctor and Rose move the telescope to align it with the full moon. The telescope is not a telescope, but a light chamber, magnifying the moon's rays. [[WeaksauceWeakness The werewolf may thrive on moonlight, but it can still drown in it]].

The werewolf crashes through the door and moves to slash at Victoria, but the Doctor tosses the diamond on the floor. It catches the light, which intercepts the werewolf and suspends it in mid-air. The werewolf reverts to human form; the host asks the Doctor to make the light brighter, to end its life and the ''lupine wavelength haemovariform'' as the Doctor calls it.

* AccentSlipUp: The Doctor puts on a Scottish accent while trying to pass as a native of the Scottish highlands. Later, whilst being chased by the werewolf, he forgets to keep using the accent as part of a planned moment for breaking character, and is caught by Queen Victoria.
* ActorAllusion:

* BlackEyesOfEvil: The werewolf's human form. This is why Rose knows that he's not really human.

* CatchPhrase: Throughout the whole episode Rose [[InvokedTrope tries to get Queen Victoria to say "We are not amused"]]. She succeeds.

-->'''Steward:''' [[TemptingFate And I'm telling you, I'll sleep well tonight with that thing's hide upon my wall.]] ''[walks over, looks around]'' Must have crawled away to [[KilledMidSentence di-]] ''[is lifted up by the wolf]''

In the TARDIS, the Doctor is trying to steer to Sheffield in 1979, so he can take Rose to see Music/IanDuryAndTheBlockheads in concert. [[ChangedMyJumper Rose has even dressed accordingly for the time period, with a pink T-shirt and a denim mini-dress]]. When they land, they exit the TARDIS... and walk right into armed Scottish soldiers escorting a carriage, who point their guns at them. Their leader, Captain Reynolds, demands explanations for the Doctor's presence and Rose's "[[FullyClothedNudity nakedness]]". Using psychic paper and a [[ActorAllusion perfect Scottish accent]], the Doctor claims that his name is [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E4TheHighlanders James McCrimmon]] from the [[Series/{{Balamory}} township of Balamory]] (Rose tries to do her own Scottish accent as well, but [[OohMeAccentsSlipping the result is so hilariously terrible]] that the Doctor passes her off as mentally ill).

An authoritative voice from the carriage the soldiers are escorting asks the Doctor and Rose to approach. To the Doctor's amazement, it's UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria, who is on her way to Balmoral Castle. When Victoria sees the Doctor's psychic paper, she notes it says the Lord Provost has appointed the Doctor as her protector, meaning the time travelers are stuck in this time period for a while. The Doctor wonders why the Queen is traveling by road when there's a railway line to Aberdeen, and the Queen replies that a fallen tree has blocked the tracks, but she believes it was an assassination attempt, much like the six previous ones against her. The Doctor and Rose walk alongside the carriage as the entourage makes their way to the Torchwood Estate, where the Queen plans to spend the night. They're ecstatic about meeting Queen Victoria. [[SideBet Rose makes a side bet]] that she can get Victoria to say "[[BeamMeUpScotty We are not amused]]", which [[RunningGag she will spend the rest of the episode trying to do]].

As the Queen's convoy enters the Torchwood Estate's courtyard, a very queasy Sir Robert watches them from the window. Father Angelo and his monks are forcing him to commit treason against the crown under the threat of harm to his wife and servants. It takes a reminder from Father Angelo (in the room dressed as a servant) of the threatened consequences to get Sir Robert to do as asked. He goes downstairs to receive Victoria. Despite his cryptic efforts to tell Victoria that all is not right, Victoria insists on staying; the estate was a favourite spot of her late consort, Prince Albert, who was good friends with Sir Robert's father. They enter the manor, with Captain Reynolds deploying his men to guard the estate. He also carries a small leather box inside, which he locks in a safe. In the cellar, the captive in the cage, who appears to be a hooded man, indicates to the other prisoners to be silent.

* AccentSlipUp: The Doctor puts on a Scottish accent while trying to pass as a native of the Scottish highlands. Later, whilst being chased by the werewolf, he forgets to keep using the accent and is caught by Queen Victoria.

** Queen Victoria in reality had very little power, so the Empire of the Wolf plan was rather futile. That said, it is unlikely that the wolf knew this, having arrived on Earth in the reign of Henry VIII, an era when the monarchy was still near all-powerful — and arguably still heading towards the zenith of its power with the Age of Absolutism. Also, Victoria had a lot of unofficial, informal power.

* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Lots of people are eaten by the werewolf, and all of them are male. It passes over Lady Isobel and the maids, because they had the good fortune to wind up in the mistletoe-filled kitchen. The lower-ranking monks standing guard outside the house aren't seen to be killed, but it's not all that likely they'd have survived for long in Victorian Britain, at a time when they were only too happy to punish traitors to the crown by hanging.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: An in-universe example; once the werewolf is unleashed, the resulting confusion causes the Doctor to forget that he's supposed to be using a Scottish accent, on which Victoria pulls him up. Considering that the Doctor had earlier introduced himself specifically as "Dr. James [=McCrimmon=] from the township of Balamory", he's obviously not who he claimed to be.

* UnderdressedForTheOccasion: The Doctor and Rose land in 1879 at a house Queen Victoria will be staying at. Rose is wearing a denim overall miniskirt and a tight-fitting, low-cut shirt. Throughout the episode, she is described by the others as being naked.

A band of hooded monks travel along a dirt road across the windswept Scottish moors. They enter the courtyard of the Torchwood Estate, belonging to Sir Robert [=MacLeish=]. Their leader, Father Angelo, approaches the steward and demands possession of the house (the steward is wary, as Father Angelo and his brethren have apparently had disagreements with the Torchwood Estate's owners). When the steward refuses, asking if the hand of God would make them comply, Angelo retorts, "No. The fist of man." [[AllMonksKnowKungFu He and his monks proceed to show off their martial arts skills]], with which they take over the house, knocking out Sir Robert, while taking his wife Lady Isobel and any other staff members they find hostage and parading them into the cellars. Afterwards, they carry a covered cage into the cellar. When the steward tries to prod Father Angelo for answers as to what's inside the cage, Father Angelo simply replies "May God forgive me," and his monks remove the canvas, invoking screams of terror from their hostages.

In the TARDIS, the Doctor is trying to steer to Sheffield in 1979, so he can take Rose to see Music/IanDuryAndTheBlockheads in concert. [[ChangedMyJumper Rose has even dressed accordingly for the time period, with a pink T-shirt and a denim mini-dress]]. When they land, they exit the TARDIS... and walk right into armed Scottish soldiers escorting a carriage, who point their guns at them. Their leader, Captain Reynolds, demand explanations for the Doctor's presence and Rose's "[[FullyClothedNudity nakedness]]". The Doctor realises that they have arrived in 1879 Scotland; "same difference". Using psychic paper and a [[ActorAllusion perfect Scottish accent]], the Doctor claims that his name is [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E4TheHighlanders James McCrimmon]] from the [[Series/{{Balamory}} township of Balamory]] (Rose tries to do her own Scottish accent as well, but [[OohMeAccentsSlipping the result is so hilariously terrible]] that the Doctor passes her off as mentally ill).

In the TARDIS, the Doctor is trying to steer to Sheffield in 1979, so he can take Rose to see Music/IanDuryAndTheBlockheads in concert. Rose has even dressed accordingly for the time period, with a pink T-shirt and a denim mini-dress. When they land, they exit the TARDIS... and walk right into armed Scottish soldiers on horseback who point their guns at them. They demand explanations for the Doctor's presence and Rose's "[[FullyClothedNudity nakedness]]". The Doctor realises that they have arrived in 1879 Scotland; "same difference". Using psychic paper and a [[ActorAllusion perfect Scottish accent]], the Doctor tells their leader, Captain Reynolds, that his name is [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E4TheHighlanders James McCrimmon]] from the [[Series/{{Balamory}} township of Balamory]] (Rose tries to do her own Scottish accent as well, but [[OohMeAccentsSlipping the result is so hilariously terrible]] that the Doctor has to tell her to stop).

An authoritative voice from the carriage the soldiers are escorting asks the Doctor and Rose to approach. To the Doctor's amazement, it's UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria, who is on her way to Balmoral Castle. When Victoria sees the Doctor's psychic paper, she notes it says the Lord Provost has appointed the Doctor as her protector, meaning the time travelers are stuck in this time period for a while. The Doctor wonders why the Queen is traveling by road when there's a railroad line to Aberdeen, and the Queen replies that a fallen tree has blocked the tracks, but she believes it was an assassination attempt, much like the six previous ones against her. The Doctor and Rose accompany the carriage on to the Torchwood Estate, where the Queen plans to spend the night. On the way, [[SideBet Rose makes a side bet with the Doctor]] that she can get Victoria to say "[[BeamMeUpScotty We are not amused]]", which [[RunningGag she will spend the rest of the episode trying to do]].

An authoritative voice from the carriage the soldiers are escorting asks the Doctor and Rose to approach. To the Doctor's amazement, it's UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria, who is on her way to Balmoral Castle. When Victoria sees the Doctor's psychic paper, she notes it says the Lord Provost has appointed the Doctor as her protector, meaning the time travelers are stuck in this time period for a while. The Doctor wonders why the Queen is traveling by road when there's a railroad line to Aberdeen, and the Queen replies that a fallen tree has blocked the tracks, but she believes it was an assassination attempt, much like the six previous ones against her. The Doctor and Rose accompany the carriage on to the Torchwood Estate, where the Queen plans to spend the night. On the way, [[SideBet Rose makes a side bet with the Doctor]] that she can get Victoria to say, "[[BeamMeUpScotty We are not amused]]," which [[RunningGag she will spend the rest of the episode trying to do]].

* EvilPlan: The alien wolf parasite thing wants to create "the empire of the wolf" on Earth, and the monks want to help him/it accomplish it because they worship it instead of {{God}}.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: An in-universe example; once the werewolf is unleashed, the resulting confusion causes the Doctor to forget that he's supposed to be using a Scottish accent, on which Victoria pulls him up. Considering that the Doctor had earlier introduced himself specifically as "[=Dr. James McCrimmon=] from the township of Balamory", he's obviously not who he claimed to be.

* RoyallyScrewedUp: The episode strongly implies that eventually the British Royal family might become werewolves. However at the time Victoria had already had all her children, and the Doctor is on good terms with UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen, so it was clearly a joke.

-->'''Steward:''' [[TemptingFate And I'm telling you, I'll sleep well tonight with that thing's hide upon my wall.]] ''[walks over, looks around]'' Must have crawled away to [[KilledMidSentence di-]]''[Is lifted up by the wolf]''