PLEASE NOTE: These caches were originally all letterboxes, with stamps that I personally painstakingly made. Unfortunately, they have proven quite popular, and with that comes muggling. Apparently a number of the stamps have gone missing, and as some have complained about this, and I haven't the time to go and check all 100+ of them on a regular basis, I will be converting them to Traditional caches as needed.
It pains me to make this decision, but it must be done. I recognize that with a powertrail, caches are bound to go missing (that is the nature of the beast), and I appreciate that many of you have helped out by bringing along spares. However, your average cacher does NOT carry around spare stamps, and even if you did, it wouldn't be the one that I originally and personally made for the cache.
So, I am asking for your help: please let me know in your logs which ones are indeed missing their stamps, and I will be changing them to Traditionals (the alternative is archival, unfortunately). Thanks for your assistance in this endeavor, and thanks for supporting this series. I am glad that I spent the many hours needed to create these. However, I cannot justify consistently having to make and then replace all the stamps, due to time constraints.
Sincerely, the CO, josephaw
9/27/15
First off, let me thank you for finding this geocache! I hope you enjoyed the experience of finding it as much as I enjoyed creating and hiding all of these letterbox caches.
This is just one of many such caches in my Dr Who Letterbox Series, made with the help and inspiration of friends. As a Letterbox cache, please leave the stamp for others to see and use, thanks! Each cache has a unique stamp, so bring an inkpad and collect them all! Have fun, and be safe!
"New Earth" is the first episode of the second series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, first broadcast on 15 April 2006. It is a sequel to the first seriesepisode "The End of the World", and brings back its villain who was thought to be destroyed, Lady Cassandra, as well as the mysterious Face of Boe. In the year five billion and twenty-three, after the destruction of Earth in "The End of the World", the Doctor and Rose arrive on the New Earth and enter a hospital run by half-alien cat-like nuns called the Sisters of Plenitude, who have been hiding a gruesome secret.
Plot
The Doctor takes Rose to the farthest point he's ever taken her, to the year five billion and twenty-three in the M87 galaxy. After the destruction of the Earth, humanity settled onto a world they named "New Earth". The Doctor is summoned to Ward 26 in a hospital in New New York through his psychic paper. In the Ward, the Doctor meets several humanoid feline nuns of the Sisters of Plenitude who are overseeing the patients. The patients catch the attention of the Doctor because they all have incurable maladies but are somehow being cured by the Sisters. The Doctor recognises the Face of Boe, who sent the message the Doctor received. Meanwhile, Rose is separated from the Doctor and brought to the basement, where she is escorted by Chip to meet Lady Cassandra. Chip has been using the hospital facility to care for Cassandra, but she is suspicious of the methods used in the hospital and needs Rose's help to investigate. Rose is tricked into stepping into a psychograft, a machine that allows Cassandra to implant her mind into Rose's body possessing her. Examining her new appearance, Cassandra is initially disgusted by Rose's "Chav" outfit but soon decides she is attractive enough. She is able to access Rose's thoughts and learns of the Doctor's new form.
The Doctor is suspicious of Cassandra/Rose's actions after she kisses him and displays knowledge of advanced computer systems. He and Cassandra/Rose discover that the hospital houses thousands of pods containing artificially grown humans what is supposedly the hospital's intensive care unit. The artificial humans are forcibly infected with every disease in the galaxy so that the Sisters can discover the cures. The Doctor confronts the Sisters over their atrocity, and they insist it was necessary to deal with the influx of settlers and the diseases they brought with them. They also insist that they are simply flesh due to their origins, without any actual life. The Doctor believes that Rose's current actions are a result of being a test subject and orders her affliction to be reversed, but Cassandra/Rose uses a perfume gas hidden in her cleavage to knock the Doctor out, locking him in a pod. Cassandra/Rose then approaches the head Sister and demands payment in exchange for keeping the human test subjects secret. The Sisters refuse, and Cassandra/Rose releases the Doctor and some of the humans as a distraction. The infected humans release others from their pods and soon a zombie-like attack begins, with those infected trying to attack others in the hospital.
A quarantine is ordered, and the Doctor, Cassandra/Rose, and the remaining Sisters try to flee the lower levels. Cassandra is able to jump her mind between other bodies, including one of the infected humans, and learns that the infected humans feel a strong sense of loneliness of not being able to touch or be touched. Eventually, the Doctor and Cassandra/Rose reach Ward 26 and grab all the intravenous medical solutions, emptying them into a disinfectant shower. They are able to spray the mixture onto a group of the infected humans, who within moments become cured of their diseases. The Doctor encourages them to go and spread the cure to the other infected people, and soon the attack is over. The police arrest the surviving Sisters, while the Face of Boe tells the Doctor that the message for him can wait until they meet for the third and final time.
The Doctor orders Cassandra out of Rose's body. Cassandra doesn't want to die, and Chip volunteers to accept her consciousness. Chip's cloned body begins to fail, and Cassandra finally accepts her impending true death. The Doctor decides to do one last thing for Cassandra and takes her back to see herself on the last night someone had called her beautiful. Cassandra/Chip approaches the Lady Cassandra at a party and tells that she is beautiful before collapsing and dying in the younger Cassandra's arms. As Cassandra finally dies, the Doctor and Rose silently leave in the TARDIS.
Continuity
This episode is set twenty-three years after the events of the 2005 episode "The End of the World", and thirty years prior to the events of the 2007 episode "Gridlock". Originally, Davies intended the Face of Boe to impart his message upon the Doctor in this episode; when he discovered that a third series was definitely to occur, Davies quickly decided to delay Boe's message for a year.[citation needed]
The ailment that the Duke of Manhattan is dying from, Petrifold Regression — a disease that turns its victims to stone — is also mentioned in the Tenth Doctor Adventures novel The Stone Rose by Jacqueline Rayner.
According to Russell T Davies on the episode commentary, Cassandra's earlier self bases Chip on the man who had praised her beauty at the party — Chip himself. Where the "pattern" for Chip comes from in the first instance is thus unclear, creating an ontological paradox.
Also in the commentary, Tennant noted that the TARDIS has moved since "The Christmas Invasion". He speculates that there might have been many off-screen adventures, or (observing that it no longer seems like Christmas in the introduction) perhaps that the Doctor "lived there for a bit".