TEXT: Recap of 312 "The sound of drums". OPENING CREDITS We see a computer screen showing the solar system with a concentration on the Earth. To the right it reads "EXTINCTION". COMPUTER: Space lane traffic is advised to stay away from Sol 3, also known as Earth. Pilots are warned that Sol 3 is now entering terminal extinction. Planet Earth is closed. Planet Earth is closed. Planet Earth is closed. Over a shot of the Earth spinning in space, we see the caption "ONE YEAR LATER". We then see an old fashioned lantern before the camera pans out and we see it is held by a man somewhere in his late twenties with a scruffy beard. A boat offshore answers with a light of its own. A figure dressed in black wades ashore and strides up the beach. As it gets closer, we see it's Martha. MARTHA: What's your name, then? TOM: Tom Milligan. No need to ask who you are, the famous Martha Jones. How long since you were last in Britain? MARTHA: 365 days. It's been a long year. Martha and Tom walk up the beach. TOM: So what's the plan? MARTHA: This Professor Docherty. I need to see her. Can you get me there? TOM: She works in a repair shed, Nuclear Plant 7. I can get you inside. What's all this for? What's so important about her? MARTHA: Sorry, the more you know, the more you're at risk. TOM: There's a lot of people depending on you. You're a bit of a legend. MARTHA: What does the legend say? TOM: That you sailed the Atlantic, walked across America. That you're the only person to get out of Japan alive. Martha Jones, they say: She's gonna save the world. Bit late for that. MARTHA (on seeing his truck) : How come you can drive? Don't you get stopped? TOM: Medical staff. Used to be in paediatrics back in the old days. But that gives me a license to travel so I can help out at the
SUMMARY:
One year later, Martha returns to England. The Master is readying a fleet of rockets to attack other worlds. Tricking the Master into bringing her on board the Valiant, Martha turns the Master's mind-control satellite technology against him; having travelled the world to gather support for the captured and weakened Doctor, she has instructed them to think of the Doctor just as the Master intends to launch his fleet, so that their combined thoughts, travelling through the network, are able to rejuvenate him. Jack destroys the paradox machine that originally brought the Toclafane-the descendants of humanity regressed to a childlike form-to the 21st century. This undoes the events of the previous year. Lucy Saxon, the Master's wife, shoots and kills the Master. The Doctor cremates his body. Jack decides to return to the Torchwood Institute in Cardiff, and Martha stays behind to look after her family.