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Overview

First aired

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Production Code

4.2

Written by

Keith Temple

Directed by

Graeme Harper

Runtime

45 minutes

Time Travel

Future

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Ice Planet, Slave Labour

Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!)

Doctor-Donna

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Ood-Sphere

UK Viewers

7.5 million

Appreciation Index

87

Synopsis

The Tenth Doctor takes Donna Noble to her very first alien planet: the Ood Sphere. There, the Doctor encounters the Ood once more, and red-eye strikes again. But what is causing it this time? He and Donna soon learn the horrible secrets kept by Ood Operations, and they discover just what mankind is capable of. Elsewhere, what is the secret Warehouse 15 holds within its walls? The Doctor arrives, and everything will change. The revolution begins.

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DOCTOR: What are you holding? Show me. Friend. Doctor, Donna. Friend. Let me see. Look at me. Let me see. That's it. That's it, go on. Go on.

(The Ood opens his hands. He is holding a small brain.)

DONNA: Is that?

DOCTOR: It's a brain. A hind brain. The Ood are born with a secondary brain. Like the amygdala in humans, it processes memory and emotions. You get rid of that, you wouldn't be Donna any more. You'd be like an Ood. A processed Ood.

DONNA: So the company cuts off their brains?

DOCTOR: And they stitch on the translator.

DONNA: Like a lobotomy. I spent all that time looking for you, Doctor, because I thought it was so wonderful out here. I want to go home.

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[Office]

(An advertisement is running on a big screen that takes up the entire wall opposite the desk. It features the Ood, those creatures with tentacles for mouths from Impossible Planet, who speak through a globe they hold in their hand.)

NARRATOR [OC]: The Ood. They came from distant world. They voyaged across the stars, all with one purpose.
OOD: Do you take milk and sugar?
NARRATOR [OC]: To serve.
BARTLE: That's good. That's excellent. I like it, sir. Buy one now. Direct. Straight to the point.

(He is speaking into his wrist-comm.)

HALPEN [OC]: We play that across the Tri-galactic for two weeks, then introduce this.
NARRATOR [OC]: Now only fifty credits.
BARTLE: Fifty? We're reducing the price to fifty credits?
HALPEN [OC]: Sales are down. We've got to reposition ourselves. So get going.


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