'Cause this ship is thirty-seven years old. A ship. Accept that. Actually, several. An hour? And for some reason, God knows what, only the brain of Madame de Pompadour will do. DROID: She is complete. Eighteenth century! Her milometer. I have known you since I was seven years old. MICKEY: From who? Must be a spatio-temporal hyperlink. No way back. Only forty-three when she died. REINETTE'S BEDROOM
They enter Reinette's bedroom and stand in the doorway. REINETTE: Fireplace man! Rose is hesitant to leave the Doctor, and glances over her shoulder as Mickey leads her from the console room. SPACESHIP
On the spaceship, there are only shards of glass and the interior of the spaceship where the time window into the ballroom used to be. She slowly focuses on one of the clockwork droids, staring down at her. THE DOCTOR: Madame de Pompadour. THE DOCTOR: No, not my question, theirs. The Doctor, Rose and Mickey stare at her. The droid creaks back into life and teleports away. The neigh of a horse is heard and the young Reinette's eyes snap open to see the silhouette of the Doctor at the window. They have no purpose now. Time window... deliberately arranged along the life of one particular woman. Your ship needs a brain.
Plan: A: The Doctor; Q: Who saves Reinette from the droids? A: an abandoned spaceship; Q: Where do the Doctor, Rose, and Mickey arrive on? A: Madame de Pompadour; Q: Who is the ship named after? A: her bedroom; Q: Where does the Doctor first enter Reinette's life? A: 18th-century; Q: What era is the fireplace in Reinette's bedroom? A: a clockwork man; Q: Who is hiding under Reinette's bed? A: the ship's human crew; Q: Who has died out on the ship? A: the droids; Q: Who shut down because they have no way of returning to their ship? A: their organs; Q: What did the droids recycle from the crew? A: 37 years old; Q: How old must Reinette's brain be to be fully functional? A: her 37th birthday costume ball; Q: Where does the Doctor save Reinette from the droids? Summary: The Doctor, Rose, and Mickey arrive on an abandoned spaceship which contains several "time windows" into the life of Madame de Pompadour , known as "Reinette". The Doctor first enters her bedroom through an 18th-century fireplace when she is seven years old and saves her from a clockwork man which has hidden under her bed. On the ship, the Doctor and his companions discover more time windows into Reinette's life and see that the clockwork droids continue stalking her, but do not consider her "complete". The Doctor discovers that the ship's human crew have died out and the droids have recycled some of their organs for use in the ship but still needs Reinette's brain to be fully functional. The brain must be 37 years old, the age of the ship; the ship is actually named after Madame de Pompadour. The Doctor manages to arrive at her 37th birthday costume ball and save her from the droids, who shut down because they have no way of returning to their ship.