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"Dalek" is the sixth episode of the first revived series of British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on 30 April 2005. This episode is the first appearance of the Daleks in the 21st century revival of Doctor Who; it also marks the first appearance of Bruno Langley as companion Adam Mitchell.
The episode is set in Utah in the year 2012, in the underground bunker owned by Henry van Statten, a rich collector of alien artifacts. The Doctor encounters his one living exhibit: a creature called "the Metaltron", which the Doctor is horrified to discover is a surviving Dalek. When the Dalek escapes, the Doctor races against time to stop it from getting to the surface and wreaking havoc on humanity.
Plot
The Doctor and Rose land the TARDIS in a massive underground bunker near Salt Lake City, Utah in the year 2012. They were drawn there by a distress signal being transmitted from the bunker. They look around at various alien artifacts that have been set up on display in glass cases. After touching one case, they are surrounded by soldiers who take them to see Henry van Statten, the owner of the collection. The Doctor talks to van Statten, while Rose tours the facility with a technician named Adam Mitchell. Van Statten wants the Doctor's opinion on the pride of his collection, which he calls the "Metaltron". Van Statten orders the Doctor locked into the vault with the Metaltron. The Doctor is first shocked and then horrified to find that the Metaltron is actually a Dalek, all of whom he thought destroyed in the Time War. The Doctor finds out that the Dalek is weakened and chained down, unable to fight back. The Doctor attempts to destroy it, but is stopped by van Statten's guards and escorted back to his offices.
Meanwhile, Adam takes Rose to the vault to see the Dalek. She takes pity on the Dalek, touching its casing. The Dalek absorbs her DNA and the time energy she has been exposed to from travelling in the TARDIS. The Dalek becomes re-energised, plugging itself into the electrical grid and drawing power from all over the western United States to recharge itself. It rebuilds its casing and breaks the chains that were holding it. In another part of the complex, van Statten reveals to the Doctor that not only does he collect alien, but he also tortures it before displaying it, which he does that to the Doctor by torturing him so he can learn more about his physiology, and display it. Upon hearing the alarms sound, van Statten releases the Doctor who tries to stop the Dalek. The Dalek breaks out of the cage it was sealed in and plugs itself into the Internet, learning that it is (apparently) the last Dalek. Without other Daleks coming, it reverts to its original mission - the destruction of all non-Dalek life. The Dalek chases Adam and Rose, killing the guards in the way. It kills a large group of soldiers in a warehouse before declaring it will speak only to the Doctor. The Doctor then suggests the Dalek kill itself to remove the presence of its race from the universe, but the Dalek decides to proceed with exterminating everyone.
Adam tries to help Rose escape, but she is trapped inside the vault when it is sealed by the Doctor. The video feeds are disrupted moments before the Dalek encounters Rose. The Dalek finds that it cannot exterminate Rose, and is conflicted by the human DNA it absorbed from her. The Dalek forces the Doctor to let it out of the vault in exchange for Rose's life, and it makes its way to van Statten's office to kill him. Rose convinces the Dalek to spare van Statten and accompanies it to the highest part of the vault, where it blasts a hole in the ceiling. The Dalek opens its casing and basks in the sunlight as the Doctor arrives with an alien weapon. Rose pleads for the Dalek's life, arguing that it has changed because it couldn't kill her or van Statten. The Dalek becomes upset at what it has become and asks Rose to order it to self-destruct. She finally agrees, and the Dalek engages its self-destruct mechanism and implodes.
Van Statten's assistant takes over, ordering van Statten's mind wiped and having him dropped off on the side of the road somewhere beginning with S. The Doctor and Rose head back to the TARDIS with Adam following them. He tries to convince them to leave immediately because the vault is about to be filled with cement, but instead Rose invites him to travel with them.
Continuity
The Dalek ability to fly or hover dates back to The Chase, where a Dalek was implied to have taken flight,[1] while in Revelation of the Daleks, a Dalek hovered to exterminate two victims. The first part of the 1988 serialRemembrance of the Daleks shows a Dalek who was clearly seen to hover up a flight of stairs to the Doctor's horror.[2] Rose and Adam allude to a long-held fan joke about the Daleks' inability to climb stairs,[3][4][5] and are horrified when it does so.
The museum's display items feature the arm of a Slitheen (Raxacoricofallapatorian) from "Aliens of London", which Rose recognises, and something that the Doctor refers to as "An old friend, well, enemy... " – a Cyberman head (from Revenge of the Cybermen, but the label on its display case references The Invasion). A reference book, Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary, describes the exhibit behind The Doctor's and Rose's heads when they are looking at the Cyberman's helmet as the decayed head of a Sea Devil from the Jon Pertwee serial The Sea Devils. As well as a dead Mechanoid from the serial "The Chase" seen from a few long shots in the darkened side of the Vault after they first materialize, and before they depart.
The callsign for van Statten's personal helicopter is "Bad Wolf One", a recurrent phrase throughout the first series. An excerpt from this episode is used in "Bad Wolf", when Rose recalls where she had encountered the phrase before.[6]
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