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The TARDIS materialises in a dark warehouse in 2012, many storeys below the surface of Utah near Salt Lake City, in what appears to be a museum of alien artifacts... including a Cybermen head and a Slitheen arm. The Doctor touches one of the cases which sets off the alarm, and soon he and Rose are surrounded by guards who take them prisoner.
The facility they are in is owned by Geocomtex, a technology company owned by the wealthy and powerful Henry van Statten, who arrives in a helicopter at the complex and meets its manager, Diana Goddard and a brainy science genius who examines the alien technology, Adam. The Doctor and Rose meet van Statten, who remains unimpressed with the Doctor's seemingly endless knowledge of alien technology. But van Statten realises the Doctor may have some use to him, as he puts him into a cell with Geocomtex's one live alien specimen... what he calls a "metaltron," but what the Doctor soon realises is a Dalek. A Dalek that should not exist....
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Director:
Joe Ahearne
Writer:
Robert Shearman
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Broadcast: 2005-04-30
Production No.: (unknown)
Episode Overall No.: 6
Episode Type: Regular Episode
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The long-awaited return of the Daleks, this story featured one lone Dalek and took place in America, totally within an isolated bunker in Utah. The Dalek is the last of his kind, like the Doctor; the Daleks fought the Time Lords in the last Time War, and both races were completely eradicated. Van Statten's museum of alien artifacts includes a Cybermen head from "Revenge of the Cybermen" and a Slitheen arm. All of the actors who played Americans in this episode were actually American except for one (Anna Louise Plowman, who played Diana.) The story was loosely based on Rob Shearman's audio story "Jubilee" from Big Finish; he was asked to model his script on that audio. Adam (Bruno Langley) joins the Doctor and Rose at the end of the story. The Dalek is refered to as a Metaltron (Van Statten and his team do not know its real name), while his company is called Geocomtex. Van Statten's helicopter is called Bad Wolf One. |
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