TEXT: EXT. SPACE The TARDIS hurtles through space. INT. TARDIS ROSE: What's the emergency? THE DOCTOR: It's mauve. Rose and the Doctor rush around the console, as the TARDIS shudders and shakes. ROSE: Mauve? THE DOCTOR: The universally recognized colour for danger. ROSE: What happened to red? THE DOCTOR: That's just humans. By everyone else's standards, red's camp. Oh, the misunderstandings. All those red alerts, all that dancing. He gestures to the object they are following through the Time Vortex on the monitor. THE DOCTOR: It's got a very basic flight computer - I've hacked in, slaved the TARDIS. Where it goes, we go. ROSE: And how safe is it? THE DOCTOR: Totally. Part of the console explodes. THE DOCTOR (CONT'D) Okay, reasonably. Should have said reasonably there. EXT. TIME VORTEX The object hurtles through the Vortex. INT. TARDIS THE DOCTOR: Oh, no, no, no, no, no! It's jumping time tracks, getting away from us. ROSE: What exactly is this thing? THE DOCTOR: No idea. ROSE: And why are we chasing it? THE DOCTOR: It's mauve and dangerous. And about 30 seconds from the centre of London. EXT. SPACE The object hurtles towards Earth, with the TARDIS in hot pursuit. OPENING CREDITS EXT. LONDON ALLEYWAY The TARDIS materializes behind some bleak looking houses in London. Rose exits, followed by the Doctor. THE DOCTOR: Do you know how long we can knock around space without having to bump into Earth? ROSE: Five days? Or is that just when we're out of milk? THE DOCTOR: Of all the species in all the universe and it has to come out of a cow. There is a sudden distorted view of something over head as though something is watching them. They walk away from the TARDIS. THE DOCTOR: Must have
SUMMARY:
Chasing a metal cylinder marked as 'dangerous' through the Time Vortex, the Doctor and Rose land in London, 1941, during the Blitz . Rose follows a young boy in a gas mask who repeatedly asks if she is his mother. She climbs a rope attached to a barrage balloon that rises into the air, and is rescued by a Captain Jack Harkness (previously a time agent, now a con man), who interests her in buying a valuable warship. The Doctor talks with a young woman named Nancy who knows the boy is connected to a bomb-like object that recently fell. She directs the Doctor to a hospital where Dr Constantine shows him patients with injuries and gas masks identical to the boy's. Nancy reveals the child is her brother, Jamie. Rose and Jack arrive in time to save the Doctor as Constantine begins to transform like his patients.