And here is the next one - Partners in Crime! (one of my favourite episodes admittedly)

Next up is a much darker episode - Waters of Mars

Enjoy and have a good holiday!

It took a few minutes for the room to clear, everyone slowly getting up and stretching stiff limbs before moving towards the corridor, chatting away in groups. The Doctor waited for everyone to disappear, taking a deep breath before moving herself in search of Clara. Clara had been one of the first people to leave the room, talking away quietly with Bill who had been radiating enough energy for the both of them.

The Doctor found them still chatting away in a corner of the kitchen, a bit separated from everyone else. Bill was the first one to notice her approach giving her an appraising look before quietly making her excuses and heading towards where Ryan and Yaz were arguing at a table, Graham having abandoned them in favour of talking to Mickey. Martha was nearby her husband talking with Rory, while Amy was holding an animated conversation with Donna. River, Jack and Rose seemed to be having their own conversation. Neither Nardole or the Master seemed to be around, which was probably for the best.

The Doctor silently slunk up to Clara who had turned around and spotted her after Bill had left, she looked as apprehensive as the Doctor felt. The pair stood in silence for several minutes, fidgeting and occasionally opening their mouths but not saying anything as they weren't sure where to start.

Deciding to break the silence, the Doctor took a deep breath but before she could Clara finally spoke. "Are we okay?" It was quiet and unsure, which sounded weird coming from the normally stubborn Clara.

Her words confused the Doctor, "What do you mean?"

"Are we-." She waved between the two of them, "Okay? The last time we saw each other we were self-destructing; you were left alone without your memories after going through hell and I ran off with Ashildr without a heartbeat. It's not exactly fond memories, or a good ending."

"It wasn't an ending though, just the beginning of a new chapter." The Doctor smiled sadly.

Clara gave her a pointed look, "That's very cheesy, and I worked as an English teacher in a High School." Despite her words she matched the Doctor's smile. "Good sentiment though."

"Are you happy with Ashildr?" The Doctor asked quietly, tone more serious now.

"I am, I love travelling with her." Clara answered with a fond smile.

"And you love her." The Doctor read between the lines.

Clara shrugged; a bit surprised by how perceptive the Doctor was being. It was usually hit or miss with her, and often a miss when love was involved. "We're taking it slow, we've both have a lot to work through before we settle on anything." Silence settled between them again, although this time it was a bit more comfortable.

"Seriously though, after everything, are we okay?" Clara asked again.

"I think we've got our own things to work through, but yeah, we are." The Doctor answered quite but serious, then hesitantly added, "I missed you."

Clara smiled at that, "You miss everyone who used to travel with you." She pointed out, which earned a casual shrug from the Doctor. It was true and they both knew it, but it didn't belittle the sentiment.

Neither was sure what else to say after that, unspoken words being shared between them. The Doctor was right about still having things to work through, but maybe spending the time in this room and watching these videos would give them all some time to heal. The quiet between them was comfortable and peaceful, reminding them both of quiet days in the Tardis between adventures. Neither of them wanted to interrupt it and bring up bad memories, despite the need to talk about some of their adventures they both silently decided that it could wait a bit longer.

They sat in comfortable silence (with the Doctor only occasionally fiddling) until the rest of the group slowly decided to trail back into the tv room, having decided it was time to get on with the videos and see what was awaiting them next. Sharing a final glance, Clara and the Doctor moved to join the rest of the group and strolled back to their seats in the main room. The Master was the last to appear, (from where, she didn't know which was slightly concerning) and the room all shuffled in their seats, apprehension starting to take hold. Every time they watched a new video it revealed new secrets about both the Doctor and each other, and they were all a bit nervous about what this video would feature.

With them all settled and ready, the screen turned back on, and the screen turned black signifying the next video was about to start. The group watched impatient for the new title to appear, all wondering what they could possibly be shown this time and hoping for a clue of what to expect.

"Partners in Crime?" Amy blinked, "That could be talking about anything."

"Well, I guess it means there's two people and they're doing crime?" Rory tried to theorise with a shrug.

"Maybe it involves River or Jack?" Clara suggested, the group nodded at that, those two were the most likely to be involved in crime (but they all had definitely also been involved in crime at some point, it was inevitable when the Doctor was around). The Doctor, herself, was often a criminal (for varying reasons) but it usually wasn't her goal, maybe the title was referring to an adventure one of the two had dragged the Doctor into?

"Guess we'll have to watch and find out." Jack leaned back in his seat in an attempt to calm his excitement. He wanted to watch some of his time with the Doctor, but he was also apprehensive about it, as the videos didn't often focus on nice, calm adventures. There were about as many adventures he didn't want to relive anytime soon.

With that, the group turned to the screen to see what they would be shown this time.

At Adipose Industries, both the Doctor and Donna Noble walk along different streets to the same building. Donna goes in the main reception while the Doctor sonics his way into the rear fire escape

Upon seeing Donna appear on screen and the Pinstripes Doctor, the group all turned to glance at said red head. Donna in turn was sharing a glance with the Doctor, both immediately recognising what this video was going to be featuring, grins slowly took over both of their faces, this was going to be entertaining.

"Guess it's featuring Donna." Martha smiled, interested to see her friend on screen (and aware this couldn't be too long after she had stopped traveling with the Doctor herself).

"Those smiles are a bit unnerving though." Mickey added, a bit unnerved by Donna and the Doctor's matching grins. The pair were a strange one that worked surprising well, but very prone to causing chaos, which was saying something as the Doctor was capable of causing chaos with almost anyone.

The receptionist greets Donna who shows an ID and declares herself as health and safety

"Classic." Bill nodded approvingly of Donna's tactic.

In the basement the Doctor flashes his psychic paper to a guard and introduces himself as John Smith, health and safety

A few people grinned at the familiar fake name and also the same strategy being employed by both halves of the pair. Donna and the Doctor were sharing a look, both wondering exactly how close they'd been to running into each other throughout that mess.

"Wait, you're not travelling together?" Yaz asked a bit confused. If they had been together surely, they would have gone in together or come up with a different excuse, right?

"No, we weren't travelling together yet. I'd run into Donna before, but she turned down my offer at the time before deciding she did want to travel so she started investigating things like Adipose to try and find me." The Doctor explained, failing to mention how stunned she still was that Donna had been able to find her again, it wasn't something that many people had achieved and really it only served to show how utterly brilliant Donna Noble was.

"All you have to do to find this idiot, is find weird alien things and they'll turn up eventually." Donna snorted, giving the Doctor a pointed look while the Doctor in turn just smiled, shaking her head in disbelief.

In a lecture hall a woman (Foster) is giving a presentation to an audience about weight loss from one capsule that you take once a day for three weeks, and the fat just walks away

"Because that is not at all suspicious." Amy raised an eyebrow at the screen, even if the Doctor and Donna hadn't already decided the place was 'suspicious' that little presentation would have certainly done so.

A woman in the audience (Penny) speaks up, she introduces herself as the science correspondent for the Observer and asks about how they know Adipose isn't just coning people to steal their money

"Cynical but good point." Rory nodded at Penny's question, he'd certainly seen a lot during his time as a nurse and knew enough to know most of the 'diet pills' people advertised didn't actually help.

Foster comments on her cynicism but indulges the question but turning on a narrator to talk about the science. Donna is in the audience and the Doctor is watching from the projector room.

Donna and the Doctor shared another glance, this may start to get painful to see how close they got to each other without ever spotting the other. The rest of the group glanced at the pair, all starting to smile, it seemed this video might be more entertaining than painful for once. It was always fun to see the Doctor meet a new companion, even though this was technically the second meeting between the two.

Foster declares it fully legal and effective

"Doesn't mean it isn't suspicious." Ryan commented, it had to be after all for both the Doctor and Donna to be sneaking in, and for it to be featured in a video.

Penny asks how many have take the pills so far and Foster explains they have one million customers in Greater London alone, but they will soon be going nationwide

"You should maybe figure out what's wrong before that happens." Rose decided, giving a worried glance at the Doctor and Donna who just gave her matching grins, which did reassure her a little at least.

In a call centre Donna sits next to a man in a cubicle (Craig) as he goes through his pitch on the phone, she introduces herself quietly and tells him to not mind her. The Doctor does the same with a young woman (Clare)

"Oh, so you're both snooping and interrupting people trying to work." Jack commented with a smirk.

The Doctor rolled her eyes, "What else were we supposed to do? It's the easiest way to get answers."

Craig keeps talking on the phone, saying each pack comes with a free gift of a gold plated pendant, which Donna and the Doctor inspect

The Doctor and Donna shared a knowing look, both remembering the importance of those pendants and suddenly very glad both of them had been sneaking around, allowing them to get two of them.

Clare is going through the same pitch, except the person stubbornly asks about getting a pen instead

"Why would you want a pen? They've just told you that you get an actual gold pendant, and they want a pen?" Mickey muttered, shaking his head in disbelief.

Martha shrugged next to him, "People are weird."

Donna declares she'll keep the pendant for testing and she needs a list of their customers, asking Craig to print it off

"Good idea." River nodded approvingly at Donna; she could easily see why her wife thought so highly of Donna Noble. She'd only actually met the fiery red head once, during the mess at the Library and the Doctor rarely talked details about her old companions, so these videos were at least helping the Doctor open up more and introducing them together.

Craig agrees, and Donna asks where the printer is, looking up from the cubicle as Craig points it out. As she sits down again, the Doctor pops up

"How ...?" The Doctor muttered, bamboozled by how close they had been too each other and yet still missing each other. Donna looked equally bewildered and also a bit annoyed at how close she'd been to finding him. The rest of the group had started to snicker at the purely comedic timing of the two missing each other.

The Doctor also asks about the printer, ducking down as Donna pops up again asking about a code. She sits down as Craig says he does it from his computer, and the Doctor stands up again

"Again! Seriously!" The Doctor complained, the rest of the group giving up and descending into laughter while both the Doctor and Donna groaned.

He asks about paper, and he's told it's kept stocked. Miss Foster walks in with guards

"Hide." Yaz announces, eying Miss Foster and the guards carefully. It seemed security was pretty high for a 100% legal industry that had nothing to hide.

Foster asks for everyone's attention and the employees all stand. She sells their not selling enough, she wants a hundred sales per day and threatened to replace them if they don't, telling them to get back to it

"So, she's now actually threatening her employees." Clara frowned, Miss Foster was looking less and less friendly.

Miss Foster leaves and Donna and the Doctor ask for the printed list, thanking the employees

"Yeah, get out before you get spotted." Bill agreed, the whole room a bit more on edge after that clear threat. They weren't sure what was up with Adipose Industries, but it clearly wasn't innocent diet pills.

Donna heads to the printer, but as the Doctor stands and Clare pulls him down again to give him a piece of paper with her phone number

"Ohhoho, the Doctor's charm strikes again!" Jack smirked teasingly.

"Jack!" The Doctor protested, cheeks turning red as the rest of the group snickered. Rose and Martha sharing a glance before dissolving further into snickers.

The Doctor asks what her number is for, Clara jokes about him being health and she'll be safety. The Doctro makes up a rule about it being against the rules, apologising and leaving

The group broke out into actual laughter upon watching the Doctor become so completely flustered. The Doctor groaned, as the rest of the group found entertainment out of her suffering.

"Doing okay Sweetie?" River teased her wife. The Doctor just groaned again, earning a loud laugh from her wife, the Doctor managed to hide her smile in her hands.

Donna collects the printouts and leaves. The Doctor goes to the printer after her and finds no copies, so he goes back to Clare

The group broke out into even louder laughter.

"We missed each other ... because someone was flirting with you!?" Donna exclaimed in a mix of frustration and humour.

"That says everything about Pinstripes." Rose grinned, Martha and Jack laughing the loudest near her.

Donna arrives at a customer – Stacy Campbell's house. She introduces herself as a representative of Adipose Industries

"Now you're pretending to be from Adipose Industries. You're far too good at this for it to be the first time you've done it." Yaz narrowed her eyes at Donna, mildly impressed but not willing to admit it.

"I'd looked into some other nonsense but Spaceman over there didn't turn up." Donna nodded over to the Doctor who immediately started to complain about that comment but went ignored by the group.

The Doctor is doing the same at another customer's house – Roger Davey. He wants to ask the man some questions

"So, you're both doing the same thing." Rory remarked.

"Poor Donna, she hasn't even travelled with the Doctor and she's already thinking like them." Amy faked sorrow, as the group broke out into more snickers. They were enjoying the break from the high tension, high drama videos they'd been watching lately. This video was quite nice and calm (and entertaining), and neither Donna nor the Doctor seemed overly worried about the contents which was putting them at ease.

Stacy tells Donna about how good the pill has been, she's lost eleven pounds in five days with no side effects. She asks Donna about her earrings as she's getting ready

"That's impressive." Mickey whistled.

"Worryingly so, something's up." Martha narrowed her eyes at the screen.

At Roger's house, he tells the Doctor how he's lost fourteen kilos in two weeks. Riger explains he loses one kilo exactly every day and it disappears overnight – specifically at ten past one in the morning

"Ten past one in the morning? That's very specific." Clara announced, something was definitely up here.

The Doctor asks why that specific and Roger explains that's when he gets woken up so he weighs himself at the same time

"Woken up by what?" Nardole asked. No one answered him, as none of them knew the answer. The Doctor and Donna shared a knowing look.

At Stacy's, Donna asks if she's going on a date. Stacy explains the opposite and she's dumping her boyfriend. She moves to the bathroom saying she won't be long and to shout on her if the taxi appears

Donna frowned, remembering what was about to happen. She hadn't known exactly what had happened at the time, but she knew now, and she didn't want to be reminded. Poor Stacy had never gotten to leave that house again.

Roger explains that every night he is woken up by the burglar alarm at ten minutes past one. He'd had people in to look at it, even replaced it but every morning it goes off, with no burglars. The Doctor asks if he has a cat flap – he does

"You think a cat is sneaky in?" Graham asked, utterly bewildered by the Doctor's train of thought.

"No." The Doctor answered cryptically. Several people shot annoyed looks at her purposefully avoiding answering the actual question, but no one argued with her.

Roger says the cat flap came with the house but he's not a cat person. The Doctor says he's met cat people, and Roger is nothing like them

"Literal cat people." The Doctor grinned at her own little joke.

Roger asks if its cats getting into his house and the Doctor mentions that cat flaps don't just let things in, but also let things out

"Ominous." Ryan muttered, eyeing the screen nervously. Things were certainly taking a turn.

Roger asks what and the Doctor repeats Adipose's slogan – the fat just walk away

"Literally?" Bill blinked confused. "No, seriously Doctor. Literally? Doctor?" Neither Donna nor the Doctor answered her.

At Stacy's, Donna fiddles with the Adipose pendant, twisting it. In the bathroom, Stacy's stomach growls and moves as Donna keeps twisting the capsule

Donna looked away from the screen, unusually quiet. She hadn't realised how much of a part she had played in Stacy's fate and the guilt was starting to eat her. After everything she'd been through since, and after how long it had been she hadn't realised how much it would hit her (she hadn't had the opportunity to think about it – due to the missing memories and all).

In Foster's office an alarm goes off for an unscheduled parthenogenesis

The tension in the room rose as the group became unsettled. The whole feel of the video had suddenly taken a turn for the worst. The Doctor shot Donna a sympathetic look, having a feeling she knew what was about to happen – they'd never discussed it in depth.

The Doctor thanks Roger for his help, telling him to maybe stop the pills for a week or so

"Probably a good idea until you know what is actually going on." Rory nodded with a grimace.

The Doctor declares he has to go. Foster sends out a collection squad to bring 'them' home, a black van speeds out of Adipose Industries

"Them? What does she mean 'them'?" Rose asked, sitting up straighter in her seat. Foster clearly wasn't talking about Stacy anymore which was the worrying thing.

To her frustration, the Doctor and Donna only shared a knowing glance before the Doctor answered with a, "You'll see." Which didn't actually answer anything.

At Stacy's, a blob creature breaks off Stacy's abdomen and jumps into the sink

"That ... is not ... normal. What?" Bill blinked. Her bewilderment and horror at the scene were echoed in the faces of the rest of the group. They'd seen a lot of things during their travel with the Doctor, but this was something else.

Donna calls up asking if she's alright, Stacy claims she is as the creature looks at her

"I don't think she's alright." Nardole muttered, watching the screen as confused as the rest of the group.

Back with Foster, she declares the adipose had been witnessed so they're activating full parthenogenesis. Foster twirls her own pendant

"That does not sound good." Clara declared; voice laced with obvious concern.

Donna's shoulders slumped; emotions conflicted. On one hand some of the guilt was relieved as she hadn't been the one to fully destroy Stacy, but on the other hand if she hadn't been playing with the pendant than Stacy wouldn't have seen it to begin with.

Another creature appears out of Stacy, waving at her as Stacy asks what they are

"That's what we want to know too." Amy muttered; this didn't seem like it was going to end well.

Donna is at the foot of the stairs asking if she's alright up there

The group all grimaced, feeling a bit sorry for poor Donna who was unaware of what was going on to poor Stacy.

Donna knocks on the bathroom door, asking if she can use the loo. Stacy cries for help as lots of lumps move beneath her clothes

The group watched in silence as things continued to go from bad to worse. It seemed, like many of these videos, things started off okay but quickly went downhill. This video didn't look like it was going to go as bad as some of the ones they'd watched recently but it didn't mean things were going to go well.

Donna asks what's wrong but can't get in as Stacy has bolted it from inside. Stacy screams and her clothes fall to the floor as lots of creatures run out, Donna bursts in just in time to see the last one on the windowsill as it waves before jumping out

"Poor Stacy." Yaz muttered, no one would ever be able to explain what had happened to her. The room fell silent for a moment, out of respect for Stacy. Donna couldn't deny the feeling of guilt that lingered, if she hadn't fiddled with the pendant than Foster wouldn't have decided to accelerate Stacy's progress. She knew logically that she wasn't actually to blame but it was hard to remind herself that sometimes.

On the street the Doctor is following a signal on his gizmo, he has to hit it a few times to keep it working

"You and your gizmos." River shook her head fondly at her wife.

A van arrives outside Stacy's as Donna leaves via the backdoor. She follows the creature's trail as the men from the van round up the creatures with butterfly nets and shove them in the van. They drive past Donna and nearly knock over the Doctor who takes off after the van. A taxi pulls up by Donna

"What are those things and why does Foster want them?" Martha demanded answers, already feeling frustrated by the lack of understanding over what was going on.

Donna and the Doctor shared a silent conversation in a single look. "It's best to just watch Martha." The Doctor sighed. She ignored the annoyed looks from the rest of the group, she was telling the truth, plus there was no point in telling them if they were about to watch it.

The taxi Driver asks for Stacy and Donna says she's gone, the driver isn't happy but puts his sign back on and drive off. In the alleyway, yards from Donna, the Doctor loses the signal on his gizmo

"He wouldn't believe you even if you had told him." Rose muttered. That was one disadvantage to travelling with the Doctor, you could never explain what you'd gone through to most people as they'd never believe you.

In Miss Foster's office, she's looking at the security footage and declares they have a case of industrial espionage, saying someone must have stolen a raw capsule, Foster declares there she is, asking what they're going to do with her

"They've found you." Rory declared, glancing at Donna concerned. Based on the use of 'she', he was presuming Foster was referring to Donna over Pinstripes.

"Maybe not." Donna muttered quietly, not loud enough for anyone outside of Martha and Mickey (who shared a sofa with her) to hear. She'd thought she'd been caught for a long time too, but apparently, she'd been sneakier than the reporter.

Donna returns home and her mother (Sylvia) demands to know where she's been and why she didn't call

Donna rolled her eyes at her mother on screen, it seemed even in this room she couldn't escape her mother's nagging.

Later Donna is siting at a kitchen table with a mug not really listening to her mother natter about her failure in Job hunting, having only lasted at Health and Safety for two days before walking out, and how she won't find anything sitting there and dreaming

Everyone purposely avoided Donna's eyes not wanting to make it anymore awkward than it was. They understood where Donna had gotten her Health and Safety pass that she used to sneak into Adipose Industries now, but the whole rant from her mother was not something they should have normally seen so it felt awkward to comment on it.

Donna asks where her grandad is, and Sylvia declares he's up the hill as normal

The Doctor visibly perked up at that smiling widely, "Good Old Wilfred." It had been a long time since she'd seen the old man, and she'd certainly missed him a lot even if he wasn't exactly one of her traditional companions. She couldn't help but wonder what he'd think of her now, after all Pinstripes had been rather dramatic (truthful, but dramatic) about regeneration. Her sudden upturn in mood was noticed by the rest of the group but no one, outside of Donna really understood it, though their curiosity had been piqued.

Donna finds her grandad, Wilf, wit his telescope and camping chair next to his allotment shed. He spots Donna approaching with a thermos and declares her trouble jokingly

Both Donna and the Doctor were grinning widely as Wilf appeared on screen. Jack, Martha, Mickey and Rose had all narrowed their eyes at the screen, recognising the old man from the Planet in the Sky mess (and ATMOS in Martha's case), although they hadn't really ever had a proper introduction to the man. It seemed they were going to get to meet Donna's famous grandfather through this video as well.

Donna jokingly asks permission to board the ship which Wilf grants as he asks if her mother was nagging her. The answer is a firm yes and Wilf appreciates the thermos Donna brought

The Doctor hummed quietly at the screen, glancing at Graham consideringly. "I think you'd get along with Wilf, Graham. Remind me to try and introduce you too at some point."

Graham smiled softly at the Doctor, recognising the excitement in her eyes, "I'm sure we'd get on well. He seems like a nice bloke, and we could probably share some good stories."

"Oh, the stories you could share ..." The Doctor trailed off almost wistful, a few people glanced concerned at her but for once it seemed a pleasant kind of lost in thought rather than her normal depressive spiral, so they let her be.

Donna asks if he's seen anything, he's seen Venus he explains as Donna settles on the tarpaulin on the ground next to him. He lets her have a look through the telescope as she asks how far away it is. Wilf explains its twenty-six million miles away but one day they'll be out there, amongst the stars

"He really believes that." Clara realised, "Has he met you before?" She turned to the Doctor.

The Doctor considered her answer for a moment, "Yes, briefly, but not enough to know anything. That's just Wilf." She finished with a shrug, a fond smile still gracing her face.

Donna asks if he really believes all that and Wilf does. Donna asks if he's seen a blue box and Wilf asks if that's slang for something, Donna tells him to shout for her if he ever sees a blue box flying in the sky

"And he did." Donna smiled, although this time it was tinged with a bit of sadness, the Doctor sharing the same train of thought as the normally loud red head.

Wilf says he doesn't understand half the things she says these days, Donna agrees. Wilf admits she's had a hard time since Lance and the old Christmas, wishing she'd tell them what really happened. Donna says sometimes she thinks she's gone crazy, seeing the things she has, starting to talk about her day before cutting herself off and saying it doesn't matter

"Do we want to know?" Amy asked, giving Donna a curious look. Whatever had happened with Lance at Christmas didn't sound great.

Donna grimaced, "It was how I met the Doctor." She glanced at the Doctor in the room. "I don't really want to talk about it, unless it comes up later." She was seriously hoping it would not come up in the videos, it had been bad enough the first time around.

Wilf is worried as he declares she isn't herself; she seems to be drifting. Donna argues she's just waiting, waiting for the right man

The Doctor grinned at Donna, teasingly, both of the thinking of the same thing.

"Not like that, Martian! Honestly!" Donna immediately dealt with that line of teasing before anyone could get any ideas.

Donna corrects herself to say not like that, saying she met him just once, but she let him fly away. Wilf tells her to go out and find him and Donna says she's tried but he's nowhere

"You're a lot closer than you think. Finding the Doctor is no easy task, and you've accomplished it far quicker than most." River offered; she knew from her own personal experience how hard it was to find the Doctor.

Wilf declares it isn't like her to give up, reminding her of when she was six and got a bus to Strathclyde on her own because her mum said no holiday that year, they had the police after her. Donna says he's right, that the man is still out there, and she'll find him, even if she has to wait a hundred years

"You only had to wait another day or so, but glad to know you were so determined." The Doctor grinned. She was definitely going to remember that story about Strathclyde, it seemed so very Donna, she loved it.

"Oh, shut up, Spaceman."

In the Tardis, the Doctor is looking at the pendant through a magnifying glass, calling it a bio-flip digital switch before stopping as he realises he's talking to himself

A few people glanced concerned at the Doctor, recognising that he was alone and clearly unused to it. That was worrying.

"And in English?" Rose asked, purposely trying to distract everyone from the lone Doctor.

"Just watch." The Doctor answered, face blank as she remembered her time as Pinstripes alone. She didn't make good decisions when she was on her own, but Pinstripes had made some extremely poor decisions even be her standards and she had the funny feeling they were going to come back to haunt her at some point (at least more than they normally did).

Outside Donna's house, Sylvia comes out the house wearing her dressing gown as she claims its her turn for the car and asking why Donna even needs it – a quick getaway apparently

Donna and the Doctor shared another look, in the end she hadn't needed that getaway, she'd left that day in the Tardis instead.

Donna parks in an alley near Adipose Industries, leaving just before the Tardis materialises nearby. They both re-enter the building like they did before

Both the Doctor and Donna let out an exasperated, albeit a bit resigned, sigh at seeing another example of how they kept missing each other by such narrow margins. The rest of the group were grinning, enjoying the comedy that this video was providing so far, although they were a bit more on edge after hearing that Foster seemingly knew about Donna sneaking in.

Donna casually greets the receptionist

"Very nice, acting casual." Bill nodded approvingly at Donna.

The Doctor goes into a storage room and sonics the door as Donna settles into a cubicle in the ladies bathroom

"Seems you both have the same idea again but what are you waiting for?" Ryan asked the pair.

The pair shared a glance before the Doctor answered with a grin, "Closing time, it's the best time to snoop around after all."

Foster tells security to keep an eye out as she'll come back

The group got more unnerved by Foster's increasingly threatening demeanour, things weren't looking great and they didn't even know what Foster's plan was. Several people glanced concerned at Donna who seemed completely unperturbed.

The clock moves from 9:30 to 6:10 and the staff leave, and lights go off. The Doctor comes out of hiding, Donna goes to do the same before her phone rings and she answers quietly

"Worst possible time for a phone call." Mickey grimaced sympathetically.

Sylvia asks where she is saying she need the car; Donna declares she is busy. Sylvia asks why she is whispering, and Donna claims to be praying in church

The group all laughed at that, Donna's attitude and the situation just creating the peak of comedy for the group that had been living on the edge of hysteria for several videos. They also couldn't picture Donna sitting quietly, praying in church, it seemed the least likely environment for the normally very loud red head.

Sylvia declares its too late for that and shushes Wilf as he asks why Donna is in church. Sylvia continues saying she's going out with her friends including Suzette whose been on the Adipose pills

"That's not good." Yaz muttered. They still didn't know much about the Adipose pills but from the little they'd seen; it wasn't anything normal or good.

Miss Foster enters the toilets with armed guards

"They've found you." Martha declared worried. The Doctor and Donna shared a glance, the group weren't quite right about who had been caught, still the Doctor hadn't known how close it had been.

Foster declares they know she's there and to do the easy thing and show herself. No one comes out so she says they'll do it the hard way telling the guards to get her

"Can she be anymore cliché villain? 'The easy way or the hard way', really?" Amy snorted, "They need to get some new material." Rory just sighed, exasperated with his wife while the Doctor grinned, nodding in agreement with Amy's point.

The guards kick open the cubicles, in the fifth one they find the reporter Penny and Foster declares there she is

The group let out a collective breath that they'd been holding since the guards started knocking in the bathroom stall doors. They were relieved to see Donna hadn't been found and more than a bit surprised that the reporter had also been investigating (which seemed like it should have been obvious in retrospect). Honestly, Foster needed to up their security if they only found one person snooping and not all three that had been, although it was good for the Doctor and Donna's sake.

Penny declares she's been through all the records and all the results are fake, and they're not telling the full truth about the pills

"There's a lot about those pills that they're not telling us about." Jack announced, turning to the Doctor, "Want to share with the class?" The Doctor smiled cryptically and didn't answer.

Foster declares she'll be conducting the interview. They leave the bathroom and elsewhere the Doctor sneaks out the plant room onto the roof and gets in the window cleaner's cradle

A few people raised an eyebrow at the Doctor's choice, it was smart but could very quickly go so wrong. The Doctor grimaced in reminder of how close both she and Donna had been to falling to their deaths from that cradle.

Penny protests her capture and the Doctor lowers the cradle to Miss Foster's office in time to see the group arrive. Penny is forced to sit even as she declares she'll phone her editor

"I don't think phoning your editor is going to help." Clara shook her head; there was no way Penny's editor would be equipped to deal with any of this (whatever this was), her best choice would have been thee police and even then they likely wouldn't help much (due to no obvious wrong doings and Penny technically having trespassed).

Outside the window, the Doctor uses a stethoscope to listen to the conversation while staying hidden

"Really leaning into the doctor thing." Rose sighed but her smile revealed her amusement, "Where did you even get a stethoscope from?"

"Pockets!" The Doctor grinned proudly before frowning, "That's one thing I miss about men's clothing. Woman's clothing has no pockets! Or their tiny or even fake! How am I supposed to carry stuff!?"

Martha, Donna, Rose, Amy, Clara, Bill and Yaz nodded in solemn agreement and misery. River smiled softly at her wife, "It's so they can sell you expensive bags and handbags sweetie. It's capitalism."

"It's always capitalism." Bill declared in agreement.

"I'm ... pretty sure that's not true." Graham frowned at Bill who just stared him down.

"It's always capitalism." Bill repeated.

Penny declares they can't tie her up and what kind of country they think it is. Foster declares it a lovely fat country and she's come a long way to find this much obesity

"Okay so she's likes fat, but what does she want those little fat ... creatures for?" Rory asked bewildered, they didn't exactly look dangerous, although looks could be deceiving.

"Just watch." The Doctor answered, with a knowing look.

Penny asks what the pills are as Donna arrives as the secretary station outside the office

"Good you're both in position to eavesdrop. Now Foster just needs to answer." Mickey said.

"Knowing how much those kinds of people like to brag about their plans, she should." Martha added.

Foster declares she'll give her the scoop as it will never be printed, she calls the capsule a spark of life

"What does that even mean?" Ryan asked confused. No one had any answers for him. The group was all listening carefully, waiting expectantly to receive answers for the mysteries of the video.

Penny asks what the means and Foster explains that it attracts the fat and binds it together, galvanising it to form a body

"The fat creature." Yaz nodded, still confused on the motive but happy to finally get some form of answers.

Penny asks about the body thing and Foster says she's shocked she never asked about her name as she chose it well – a foster mother to all the children. She pulls a fat creature out a drawer and puts it on her desk

"So, she's making children out of fat, because she wants to be a mother?" Clara raised an eyebrow, turning to the Doctor, "That makes no sense."

"Close but not quite, just watch." The Doctor smiled.

"My question is why she just has one sitting in a drawer?" Bill declared, "Like was she waiting for a dramatic moment?"

"Who knows with people like this." Yaz snorted, seeing where Bill was coming from. It was kinda odd for Foster to just keep one in a drawer.

Penny asks what the hell it is, as both the Doctor and Donna look through the windows on opposite sides of the office

"How have you both not been spotted?" River asked incredulous, it wasn't like the pair were even trying very hard to hide.

"Just that good." The Doctor grinned proudly.

"Keep telling yourself that Sweetie."

"Oi!"

Foster explains it is called Adipose and are made of living fat, Penny doesn't understand. The Doctor and Donna finally spot each other and have a (very entertaining) mimed conversation

The group cheered as they noticed that the Doctor and Donna had finally spotted each other, enjoying the bewildered reaction from the Doctor and the excited one from Donna.

They are shocked to see each other, Donna declares it brilliant as the Doctor asks why she's there, which is to find him

The group had started laughing as they watched the mimed conversation between the two, they didn't mind, for once, that they were missing that actual explanation for Adipose, enjoying the comedic conversation between the pair far too much. It was made even better by the fact they could tell exactly what the pair were sating to each other based on their mimes and reactions, arguably the two loudest people in the group and here they were having a silent conversation that still somehow radiated their normal energy.

They stop as they realise Miss Foster is staring at them; she asks sarcastically if she's interrupting

The laughter abruptly stopped as they realised the pair on screen had been spotted.

"Uh oh, they caught you." Jack grinned, not that worried as the pair were unworried, so it wasn't like they had got into too much trouble, and he was still riding off the hilarity of their mimed conversation.

The Doctor shouts run, and Foster says to get them. The Doctor zaps the office door with his sonic

Donna nodded her thanks at the Doctor, glad that he'd given her the few extra seconds to start her getaway. The Doctor grinned back, honestly this was one video she was enjoying for once. There wasn't much serious danger, and she knew how it ended, so it was almost enjoyable to watch.

The Doctor sends the cradle back up the roof, as Donna runs upstairs with the guards shooting the office door open

"Don't head to the roof!" Rose declared, "You're just going to get trapped."

"They could use the window cleaning thing." Mickey suggested with a shrug.

Rose shook her head immediately, "There are so many ways that could go wrong." Non one noticed the exchange that the Doctor and Donna shared, things had certainly gone wrong.

Penny is left alone and asks what about her

"I kinda feel a bit sorry for her. She's just been left there." Rory declared upon seeing Penny abandoned in the room in favour of Donna and the Doctor.

"It just means she has a chance to escape now, they're not watching her." Amy countered with a shrug.

Rory blinked, "That's true. Maybe she'll be able to get out." The Doctor and Donna exchanged a look, from what they'd seen of Penny later on, she hadn't taken this time to escape.

The Doctor and Donna meet on the stairs and hug as Donna declares she can't believe its really him, asking if he ever changes his suit

"That's a very good question. You seem to wear roughly the same thing for the entire length of a regeneration but you have a huge wardrobe in the Tardis!" Bill pointed at the Doctor with a raised eyebrow.

"Hey! I like my clothes." The Doctor protested, looking down at the clothes she was wearing with a small frown.

"Do you ever change though?" Donna asked again with a grin.

The Doctor spluttered, "Of course I do! I just have lots of versions of it." She trailed off quietly as the group laughed at her.

The Doctor says not right now, and they spot the guards a few floors below as the Doctor says its like old times as they run again

"Ah, the running." Jack grinned, glad for the familiar scene. Running was almost comforting at this point, especially during situations like this where the danger didn't seem too bad.

On the roof, Donna is talking about her journey to find the Doctor, and how she thought looking for trouble was the best as he'd turn up

"Very true." River smiled at Donna, before smiling fondly at her wife.

The Doctor sonics the door as Donna continues talking about everything she looked at – UFOs, crop circles, sea monsters, and how she found lots of stuff like the bees disappearing. She also says that he opened her eyes, and she believes now, apart from the replica of the Titanic flying over Buckingham Palace on Christmas day as that's surely a hoax

The Doctor frowned in memory of the Titanic and all the good people that had died because of Max Capricorn – Morvin and Foon Van Hoff, Bannakaffalatta, and Astrid, all good people who hadn't deserved their horrible fate. Her hands were clenched in fists but thankfully everyone was too distracted with the screen and Donna's words to ask many questions.

The Doctor asks about the bees disappearing

"Bees? That's not really on the same scale as the other stuff." Mickey blinked, the Titanic and UFO sightings he could understand but the Bees?

"I thought that was just human impact killing bees and destroying their habitats? Why are they a sign of aliens?" Yaz asked curious.

Donna and the Doctor shared a glance knowing just how significant the bees were, without them they never would have found the Earth in time before the Daleks used the 27 planets as the death weapon that they tried to use it as.

The Doctor nodded at Yaz with a smile, "It is, but some bees are alien as well."

"I have so many more questions." Ryan muttered but the Doctor had already turned back to the screen.

Donna doesn't know, that's just what the internet said, and the same site had conspiracy theories about Adipose, so she thought she'd look

"And I found you." Donna grinned proud of herself.

"And you found me." The Doctor grinned back at Donna.

The Doctor sonics the cradle controls and tells Donna to get in. She's resistant based on the fact they can just call them back up again

"She raises a very good point, Doctor." Rose pointed out, not mentioning that she was also thinking about how the cradle situation could be made worse – someone could just cut the line.

The Doctor argues they can't as he locked the controls with his sonic and the only way they can control it is if Foster has a sonic of her own, which is unlikely. Flash to another room with Foster as she unlocks the door to the roof with a sonic (a pen specifically)

"How does she .... Why does ... Someone else has a sonic?" Martha asked confused, it was rare for them to run into someone else with a sonic device, not impossible but rare. It seemed very odd for Foster to have a sonic so casually.

"Unfortunately." The Doctor grimaced, she really hadn't expected it from Foster, and they'd almost paid for that.

On the roof Foster looks down at the cradle and sonic the control causing it to drop suddenly

The room immediately tensed as Donna and the Doctor's situation went from kind of manageable to actually dangerous. They'd all been lulled into a false sense of security due to the humour of the video and the lack of worry from the pair involved and it had suddenly hit them that they were still in actual danger (although they had clearly survived).

The Doctor manages to make the cradle stop, telling Donna to hold in as they'll go through a window. He tries to sonic through the glass

"You might want to do that quickly Doctor." Amy grimaced, concern rising. Foster was unpredictable and they still didn't know her motive which made her all the more dangerous. No one missed the grimace that Donna and the Doctor shared, it didn't reassure any of them.

Foster orders her guards to deadlock the building

"There it is." Rory sighed, there was always something with the Doctor.

The Doctor can't get the window open as Donna tells her to smash it. Donna grabs a spanner and starts hitting the glass as Foster aims her sonic at one of the steel cables which starts to burn

"Not good. Glass like that can withstand a lot more than a spanner but that wire isn't going to last much longer." Clara grimaced; things were rapidly going from bad to worse. Only the Doctor and Donna's presence n the room and lack of panic was keeping the group from worrying more.

Donna declares she's cutting the cable just before the cable snaps and Donna tips out but the Doctor manages to hang on

"Donna!" Martha exclaimed, eyes widening in worry for her friend. When Donna had mentioned how she'd met the Doctor she'd missed out a lot of details apparently.

Donna is dangling from the edge of the cable; the Doctor tells her to hang on to which Donna shouts she is

Despite their worry the group grinned at Donna's familiar attitude even in the face of death. She didn't take nonsense from anyone, let alone from the Doctor.

Foster goes to the other side of the cradle mechanism and starts to sonic the other cable, the Doctor aim up and blasts the pen out of her hand, which hurts Foster

"About time!" Donna grumbled at the Doctor.

"What?!" The Doctor protested.

"Should have done that before she broke the first wire, Spaceman!"

"Sorry! I was a bit busy with trying to get into the building!" The Doctor argued back, she knew she wasn't going to win though, and Donna wasn't really annoyed, it was just how they worked.

The Doctor catches the falling pen, putting it between his teeth and climbs to a window as Donna is still dangling. In Foster's office, Donna's legs are visible through the window and Penny is confused about what is going on

"I don't think any of us know." Rory sighed resigned to it.

"You wouldn't like it any other way." Amy grinned.

Rory immediately went to protest, "I mean, I kind of woul-."

"You wouldn't like it any other way." Amy repeated, loudly, cutting off Rory who just shook his head fondly at his wife.

Donna declares it is all the Doctor's fault, and she should have stayed home. The Doctor slides open a window and climbs inside claiming to only be a minute

"I don't know if you have a minute." Mickey muttered worriedly with a glance at Donna who was still dangling precariously.

"It was fine." The Doctor answered with a shrug, expression not wavering despite the dubious looks sent her way.

"For you maybe, Martian!"

Foster declares the Doctor is slippery and they need to find out who he is

"Good luck with that." Nardole declared. He was ignored.

The Doctor runs downstairs to Foster's office and to the window. Penny demands to know what's going on, the Doctor asks if she's a journalist and when told she is, tells her to make it up

"Good to know your opinion of reporters." Graham shook his head fondly at the Doctor who just smiled with a shrug.

The Doctor unlocks the window and grabs Donna's legs telling her he has her and to stop kicking

The group all grinned at that, reassured by Donna's typical behaviour. She was the only person who'd still try to kick the Doctor when he's trying to save her from falling to her death.

Foster and her guards head downstairs as the Doctor pulls Donna inside. Donna says it's always like this with him, isn't it

"Yes."

"Always."

"Yep."

"Can't escape it."

"Constantly."

"Absolutely."

"Unfortunately."

"Oh, yes."

The Doctor agrees it is excitedly, he zaps Penny free as they run out, telling her to do herself a favour and get out

"What's the bet on whether she actually listens to the Doctor?" Bill asked with a grin.

"She's far too nosey to just leave with nothing." Yaz answered.

"I don't know." Ryan argued, "She might just leave after getting trapped and seeing people climb in a window several stories up."

Both Yaz and Bill turned to him. "You think that she'd going to leave because people climbed in a window rather than the fat creature thing?"

Ryan just shrugged.

The Doctor and Donna run into Foster and her guards in the call centre, they all say hello. The Doctor and Donna introduce themselves as Foster declares them partners in crims and obviously not from Earth based on the sonic

"Roll credits." Clara smiled; the title definitely made more sense now. They hadn't been right about any of their suspicions, but the episode (so far) had been more enjoyable than most. That was slightly worrying to be honest, how bad could the next few videos be if the Tardis was giving them a calmer one now?

The Doctor says he still has her sonic pen and likes how sleek it is, the Donna agrees it is sleek

"Are you two being obnoxiously polite?" Jack asked the pair who grinned in sync (which was just unnerving).

"Best way to get answers." The Doctor answered.

The Doctor asks what her real name is – Matron Cofelia of the Five Straighten Classabindi Nursery Fleet, Intergalactic Class. The Doctor declares her a wet nurse that uses humans as surrogates

The group nodded, thankful for the clarification as only Jack, River and Nardole (plus the Master who had been very quiet this video) understood any of those titles or names.

Foster explains she's been employed by Adiposian First families to foster new generations after their breeding planet was lost. The Doctor asks how you lose a planet

Donna and the Doctor shared another glance. They hadn't realised how far back the lost planets had gone; it seemed their whole time together had been leading up to the Daleks.

Foster waves off the politics as not her concern, she cares only about the children. Donna asks about how nothing was left of Stacy even though the creatures are made of fat. Foster explains in a crisis it can also convert bone, hair, and internal organs which makes them a little sick, poor things

"Poor things? What about poor Stacy!" Martha protested. The group all grimaced at Foster's words and the reminder of what had happened to poor Stacy.

Donna asks what about poor Stacy. The Doctor points out seeding a level five planet is against galactic laws and Foster asks if he's threatening her. The Doctor says he's trying to help her as if she doesn't call it off, they'll have to stop her. Foster doubts he can stop bullets as the guards take aim

The group all tensed again, the conversation had clearly reached its end and Donna and the Doctor were still defenceless (especially compared to the guards). The Doctor was clever and in that protective mood of theirs, but guns were still very dangerous.

The Doctor wants to know one thing before they die – what happens when you hold two identical sonic devices against each other. Neither Foster nor the Doctor know, and he says let's find out. They make an awful noise, and everyone grabs their heads in pain as glass shutters, Donna grabs his arm, and they run

The group let out a breath as the pair escaped even as they grimaced at the sound the two sonics produced. It was a very Doctor move all in all.

"You are so lucky." Rose shook her head; they were very lucky that was all the sonics had done.

Foster declares they're advancing the birth plan and going into premature labour

"That's not good." Mickey grimaced.

In Foster's office, Penny is collecting files for evidence as Foster returns and orders her tied up again

"It seems she didn't learn her lesson." Yaz smiled smugly, turning to Ryan. "Pay up."

"We didn't even bet anything!" Ryan spluttered.

The Doctor and Donna run into a storage cupboard to hide; Donna declares it is one solution – hiding in a cupboard

"Not very long term but there are worse hiding places." Jack nodding approvingly.

The Doctor gave him a pointed look, "You'd know."

Jack smirked with a wink, "Oh I can tell you plenty of stories about fun I've had in cupboards."

"Jack!"

The Doctor moves stuff around and finds a big green machine behind a sliding back wall as he explains he's been hacking into it all day as Foster has a computer core running through the whole building but with her sonic pen he can get into it finally

"Good. You might want to work fast though." Clara nodded, Foster didn't sound like she was prepared to wait any longer and they didn't want what had happened to Stacy to happen to everyone else that had taken the pills.

In her office, Foster opens her equivalent of the wall panel as Penny asks what it does. Foster declares it is an inducer; they wanted to seed millions but the Doctor will alert the Shadow Proclamation so the first million will have to do. She also orders her guards to find them and not waste time, just kill them

"The last thing the Doctor's going to do is alert the Shadow Proclamation, he's just going to try and deal with it all himself." River snorted. The Doctor usually did their best to avoid the Shadow Proclamation, not go running to them any time anything happened.

In the cupboard, the Doctor holds wires together to create a forcefield to stop the guards to give them some time. He asks why she's wired up the tower block and what is all for

"That's the guards dealt with at least. Now you just need to stop Foster." Amy declared with a decisive nod. Things were starting to look a bit more manageable, the Doctor just needed to hack the computer quickly and figure out how to shut it all down.

The computer declares the inducer online. Donna says the Doctor looks older

Donna looked at the Doctor with assessing eyes, he had looked older than when she'd first met him, maybe not actually older but the eyes always gave the Doctor away. The Doctor in the room was so much older and she knew this Doctor was ancient, unbelievable so, but it still made something in her ache.

DOCTOR: Thanks.
DONNA: Still on your own?
DOCTOR: Yup. Well, no. I had this friend. Martha she was called. Martha Jones. She was brilliant. And I destroyed half her life. But she's fine, she's good. She's gone.

Martha raised an eyebrow at the mention of her name, very curious about what exactly the Doctor would say about her to Donna. She smiled a bit at the compliment, turning to the Doctor who avoided eye contact, which stole the frown off her face. It seemed they needed to have another conversation, as the Doctor still blamed themselves for everything apparently. She met Jack's gaze and gave him a small nod; they'd make sure to actually talk about the Year at some point. They'd always avoided it (for obvious reasons) but maybe it would be healthier to actually deal with the trauma instead of ignoring it. As terrible as that sounded.

Donna asks about Rose, and the Doctor says she's still lost, saying he thought she was going to travel the world

Rose perked up briefly at the mention of her name. She knew the Doctor had mentioned her to Donna as Donna had known her, but clearly, she'd been discussed a few times for Donna to just bring her up like that.

Donna declares that easier said than done, she thought after the day with him things would change but she woke up the next morning to the same life. She mentions how she tried, went to Egypt but then two weeks later you're back home and its not like being with the Doctor. Donna says she was crazy to turn down his offer, the Doctor asks what offer, and Donna reminds him how he offered her to come with him, he repeats the question confused and she agree to go with him, which he just accepts

The group laughed at the very typical Donna behaviour, and bewilderment from the Doctor. They also understood Donna's point with the holiday, once you'd seen the universe and time it was hard to just go back to Earth and act like it didn't happen. The pair shared a small grin, neither regretting Donna's decision to travel with the Doctor at all.

The computer says the inducer is activated and Donna asks what is happening, the Doctor tells her Foster is staring the program

"Not good."

In Foster's office she tells Penny to mark the date, to celebrate a million birthdays. At a wine bar, Slyvia and her friends are sitting at a table, drinking happily. Her friend Suzette talks about how great the Adipose pills are

"Oh god." Martha muttered, concern skyrocketing. She'd forgotten that Donna's mum was going out with a friend who'd been taking the pills. This wasn't going to end well if the Doctor wasn't quick.

Sylvia declares it a miracle, all from one pill

"Too good to be true." Rory grimaced shaking his head, so many people desperately wanted a quick way to lose weight but many of the advertised tactics didn't work, though companies would never advertise that.

Suzette starts twitching and growling, Sylvia asks if she's alright, and Suzette says it's a funny kind of feeling. Other people in the restaurant are experiencing the same

"Oh no, it's starting." Clara muttered. She glanced at the Doctor and Donna who were watching the screen curious but not overly concerned. The pair themselves shared a look, they'd obviously not been aware of what was going on out in London (as they were in a cupboard trying to stop it) and were a bit curious to see what had actually happened but concerned about how close they'd been (as there had been a lot of Adipose when they'd seen them later).

No one knows what's happening. Suzette declares she better go to the bathroom but as she stands Sylvia sees a lump moving on her back

"Oh god." Someone muttered, all of them grimacing as the adipose started to get more active, all starting to worry about a repeat of poor Stacy.

Sylvia tries to warn her, shocked. Elsewhere Roger also has lumps forming on him. Sylvia pulls down the back of Suzette's blouse to reveal an Adipose which are popping out of people all around the restaurant, and in his home one comes out of Roger, waving as it goes out the cat flap. Sylvia runs out the restaurant after Suzette's baby only to find thousands in the street all heading in the same direction

"There's so many of them." Bill whispered in a bit of shock. She knew she should have expected that when Foster said millions of customers, but it was different to see all the adipose blobs walking down the street like that, also wondering because that was a lot of poor people going through that.

Foster calls for the children to come to her

"A bit creepy." Ryan muttered.

In the street a policewoman tells everyone to get back and not touch them

"At least they're doing something. I mean that must be bewildering but at least they're trying to keep people safe from the things." Rose said. The police couldn't really do much about the situation, let alone understand what was going on but it was good they were trying to do something.

In the storage cupboard, Donna and the Doctor worry about how Foster has upped it to emergency pathogenesis, so millions of people are about to be converted and die, they need to cancel the signal

"And quickly." Yaz declared with worried glances between the screen and the Doctor in the room.

The Doctor dismantles his pendant, saying it contains a primary signal and if he can switch it off, the fat becomes just fat again. He attached the pendant to the inducer

"Convenient." River raised an eyebrow at the pendant.

"Why are they just handing those out, if they're part of the control panel?" Mickey asked, "That just seems ... weird."

Foster declares it a nice try but puts it on double strength. In the cupboard the Doctor starts to panic as she's doubled the power, and he doesn't have time to override it so everyone it about to die

"Stop panicking and focus." Jack muttered quietly to the Doctor next to him.

The Doctor elbowed him in the side, "This was a while ago Jack."

"Ow! I know, I know." Jack rubbed his side where the Doctor had elbowed him, it hadn't hurt but it did put the Doctor more at ease. The Doctor just rolled her eyes at him, but he just grinned widely at her.

Donna asks if there is anything she can do, and the Doctor says it is above her. Donna pushes asking what he needs, the Doctor says he need another pendant to boost the override, but he doesn't have one. Donna holds up her pendant which he grabs and plugs in, shutting the inducer down

"Brilliant Donna!" Martha grinned, happy for her friend. The group was all grinning very happy that Donna had been investigating alongside the Doctor and managed to get one of those pendants.

In the bar, Suzette and the other patrons are thankful it has stopped

The group all let out a breath as the adipose stopped being 'born' and Foster's plan was finally halted, all very glad that was done with without too many causalities (outside of poor Stacy).

In her office, Foster fiddles with the crankshaft of the inducer as Penny asks what happened. Foster thinks the Doctor happened but ten thousand Adipose were still born and the nursery is coming

"Nursery is coming? Does that mean aliens are coming with a ship?" Clara raised an eyebrow at the Doctor who just nodded in answer, staying quiet.

In their cupboard, the Doctor and Donna hear a loud noise in the sky and Donna asks what it is

"The nursery I'm presuming." Graham announced.

Foster declares it is her lift home as Penny shouts that they can't just leave her there

"I'm pretty sure they can and will." Amy declared with a snort; Penny apparently wasn't taking any hints here.

At the bar, they also hear the noise and go outside to see a large round spaceship flying over the city. In his allotment, Wilf has headphones on and misses everything as the ship pauses behind him

"Of course, he missed everything!" Donna bemoaned, shaking her head at her grandad. No wonder he'd been confused by her mother's nattering about the event. The Doctor grinned widely, laughing a bit at both Donna's annoyance and Wilf's obliviousness.

The spaceship stops over Adipose Industries with all the babies waving at it

"You know, they're kinda cute. Odd, and a bit weird ... but cute." Bill tilted her head to the side in consideration.

A few people tilted their heads at the screen in an attempt to see Bill's point. Several shook their heads while others nodded, both Donna and the Doctor nodded with small smiles – they could see Bill's point.

Donna gets the Doctor to clarify he means a nursery ship

"A very impressive ship actually." Mickey mused.

Rose grinned knowing exactly what Mickey was thinking, "The kind of UFO you expect before knowing aliens are actually real."

The computer lights up as they receive an incoming signal and a voice in an alien language is heard. Donna asks if they shouldn't be going up there to stop them, but the Doctor wants to wait and listen to the instructions from the Adiposian First Family

"Instructions?" River raised an eyebrow at her wife who just nodded at the screen.

Outside, Foster addresses the children saying she is taking them home which earns her cheers

"They're so excited." Yaz muttered with a small smile, she could definitely see Bill's point.

Blue beams start to appear from the spaceship as Foster encourages them into them to join their new parents waiting across the galaxy. The adipose go into the beams and float upwards

"Are you just ... letting them go?" Ryan asked.

The Doctor shrugged, "I mean what am I mean to do? They're just babies, they've not done anything wrong here and they can't exactly stay on Earth. It's better for them to go with their parents. I can, however, stop it happening again."

Still in the cupboard, the Doctor declares Foster wired up the tower to convert in into a levitation post, and they aren't in trouble anymore but Foster is. Foster calls up to the spaceship saying they need her to

"If they have their parents now, why would they need the nanny?" Clara asked.

The Doctor and Donna shared a knowing glance and grimace, "Exactly." The Doctor answered giving the group a sudden bad feeling, they didn't exactly like Foster, but that statement was ominous.

They run to the roof and Donna asks what the Doctor is going to do, and if he's going to blow them up. The Doctor argues saying they're just children and can't help where they come from. Donna declares that a change from last time and Martha must have been good for him

"The last time? I guess you mean the first time you met? I'm taking it that it didn't go well then?" Rose raised an eyebrow at the pair. The pair exchanged another look before Donna answered.

"You could say that." The group all gave the pair a look but they both refused to elaborate.

The Doctor agrees Martha did and ads she fancied him, Donna changes her tune declaring her mad Martha, charity Martha before focusing on the fact she's waving at fat

"Oi!" Martha exclaimed shooting the pair a glare even as she blushed a bit out of humiliation. It seemed the Doctor had worked out her crush at some point and was apparently telling people about it.

Both Donna and the Doctor winced a bit, (Donna more because she'd actually met and was friendly with Martha now). "Sorry Martha." They both offered apologies which were readily accepted as Martha hadn't actually been that bothered, with these videos it was likely that worse would be shown at some point.

The Doctor says as a diet plan it kind of work, they then spot Foster floating upwards behind the little Adipose. She stops at roof level and the Doctor tries to get her to listen as he's just trying to help. She doesn't want to see him again and refuses to listen even as the Doctor tells her to try and get onto the roof

"Why?" Bill asked in a low tone sounding as if she already knew what was going to happen but was still hoping for a denial. The Doctor's grimace dashed any hope she had.

Foster doesn't want to listen as the Doctor says he listened to the Adiposian instructions, and they know it's a crime to breed on Earth, so they want to get rid of their accomplice. Foster argues she's more as she's the children's nanny but the Doctor points out they have parents now so don't need a nanny. Too late, the levitation beam switches off and Foster falls with a scream and splat, then the spaceship flies away

The group all grimaced at Foster's fate, they'd already suspected it hadn't been well after the Doctor and Donna's words, but it was still horrible to see. Foster hadn't exactly been a great person – between killing Stacy, tying up Penny, trying to kill the Doctor and Donna, and the willingness to kill millions for her job but she hadn't deserved that fate.

Back on the street the Doctor throws the sonic pen in a bin as Penny comes along still tied to a chair, she shouts at them calling them mad and saying she'll report them for madness

"I think the police are going to find her mad." Rory grimaced; Penny really hadn't made the best choices.

"Yeah, her career is going down the drain if she tries to explain what happened." Amy agreed. "I doubt anyone is going to ever believe her."

Donna declares some people can't take it, but others can, telling him to come on to the Tardis

The Doctor just smiled fondly at Donna's eagerness to start the travels. She was unbelievably thankful that Donna had managed to track her down, after Martha and Jack leaving, the Master's 'death', and Astrid's death she hadn't been in a great place mentally. Donna had been a great breath of fresh air, keeping her sane and stopping her from spiralling as she tended to do when she was left alone. She didn't want to ponder what would have happened if she hadn't run into Donna again; there was far too many knock-on effects that could have ended terribly.

In the alleyway Donna sees her car near the Taris and declares it fate. She's been ready as the boot is full of suitcases, she declares she packed ages ago just in case prepared for all weather, even no weather, and she'll be prepared wherever they go

"No weather?" The Doctor asked Donna with an obvious crinkle in her forehead.

"You've not been everywhere Spaceman! You never know." Donna defended her point.

She puts the cases into the Doctor's arms as he comments on the fact she has a hatbox

"A hatbox." The Doctor shook her head, still amused by the idea. Donna was definitely unique in terms of her companions. All her companions were unique, but Donna was something else entirely.

Donna declares she's ready for everything, asking if she needs any injections like you do to travel to some countries, she then says he's not saying much. The Doctor declares it an odd life in the Tardis. Donna thinks he doesn't want her, the Doctor argues he didn't say that. Donna says he asked her and asks if he would rather be on his own

"No." The Doctor muttered to herself, hands fiddling on her lap as she didn't look at anyone. It hadn't been loud enough for many to hear but they all glanced at her anyway, all knowing that she didn't like to travel alone – otherwise why would she keep picking up people?

The Doctor says he wouldn't but the last time with Martha it got complicated which was his fault, he just wanted a mate. Donna misunderstands and they argue about mates and mating, Donna vehemently refusing the idea. The Doctor clarifies he just wants a friend, and Donna says it's just as well as she won't take any of his nonsense, and he's a long streak of alien nothing

The group all broke out into loud laughter at the interaction between Donna and the Doctor, it was so very them and very entertaining to watch. It did its job of distracting them all from the more worrying tones and mention of the complicated end with Martha, although Martha, Jack and the Doctor did share a glance when he'd mentioned it on screen.

Donna asks if she can come, and the Doctor agrees saying she can, and he'd love if she did

"And I did." The Doctor said quietly smiling fondly at Donna who rolled her eyes but didn't try to hide her own fond smile.

"What? You want me to say something Skinny?" Donna exclaimed boisterously, then she hesitated slightly and rolled her eyes again, "I enjoyed it too, idiot." The Doctor lit up and smiled even brighter, looking very like a happy puppy that had just seen a friend.

They almost hug before Donna remembers the car keys, saying she won't be a minute. She runs off, leaving the Doctor to lug her bags to the Tardis

The Doctor shook her head fondly at the reminder of all of Donna's bags, it was so very her and she was almost grateful for the reminder. She had sincerely missed travelling with Donna, one of her closest and best friends from all her years travelling.

Donna is on the phone with her mother saying she did see the fat people but she'd going to stay with a friend for a bit. Sylvia is still in disbelief about the aliens and Donna tells her about the car keys which she's leaving in a bin on Brook Street. Sylvia tells her she can't do that, but Donna waves her off saying she has to go and goodbye

The group all grinned at the interaction between Donna and her mother, Sylvia just wanted answers about the alien stuff while Donna was just ignoring that completely to try and tell her mother where she was leaving the keys.

Donna moves over to people by police barriers and speaks to a blonde woman. Donna tells her about how her mother is going to come along and it's that bin there, which will make sense to her. Donna leaves and the blonde turns around to reveal its Rose Tyler who walks away and vanishes

Everyone gave audible gasps at seeing Rose, even those that didn't know why it was almost impossible for Rose to have been there at that point; they just hadn't been expecting it. Donna blinked at the screen having never realised she'd been running into Rose that far back; it seemed everything linked back to the Dalek Crucible in some way. The Doctor just frowned not realising how close she'd come to seeing Rose again back then, she wasn't sure what she would have done if she'd met Rose, even briefly, back then before her travels with Donna (which had done wonders for helping her deal with everything that had happened with Rose and Martha).

Mickey turned to Rose, "Is this when-?"

Rose nodded, "Yeah, our first successful jump. Took me a while to realise it had been Donna I'd run into, but it makes sense." She nodded at Donna.

"Anyone going to explain for the rest of us?" Clara asked, raising an eyebrow at the group who seemed to know what was going on.

Rose, Mickey, Martha (who'd been told details by Mickey and seen Rose during the mess with the Dalek Crucibles) Donna and the Doctor shared a glance before Rose ultimately answers for them, "It's a long story ... it's just complicated. I'm sure it will be shown at some point."

Donna returns to the Tardis; the Doctor tries to do the bigger on the inside spiel but Donna reminds him she already knows that part, but he could turn the heating up

"Only you, Donna." The Doctor shook her head with a fond smile on her face. To be fair, Donna had gone through all that before with the mess with Lance and the Racnoss, it wasn't anything new for the redhead.

The Doctor asks where she wants to go in the whole universe, and Donna knows exactly where she wants to go – two and a half miles in a certain direction

"Wilf." Martha grinned, knowing exactly what Donna was thinking.

Donna and the Doctor grinned, nodding and answering in sync; "Wilf."

They immediately turned to each other and looked a bit disturbed by the fact they'd done it in sync, to the room's entertainment.

In the allotment, Wilf is packing up for the night when he sees the Tardis flying nearby. He starts shouting for Donna until he looks through the telescope and sees Donna waving from the Tardis door, the Doctor also waves as Wilf cheers for the pair of them (having recognised the Doctor from the Titanic incident)

The group were all grinning at Wilf's excitement upon seeing the box and both Donna and the Doctor onboard. His enthusiasm was just so catchy leaving them all feeling more joyful. It also helped that the video had been a lot nicer and more enjoyable/relaxing than most of the videos they'd watched during their time in the room. Both Donna and the Doctor were grinning fondly. The Doctor thought about Wilf's own brief trips to space which left her feeling a mix of fondness, wistful and a touch sad as Wilf had never got to experience space at the same time as Donna. Wilf had only gone to space after Donna had lost all her memories of her time with the Doctor.

"Good on Wilf." Jack smiled, happy for a nice ending for once and enjoying the old man's enthusiasm.

"Well, that was a nice video for once." Rory smiled as the screen finally tuned blank.

Amy grinned too before shrugging, "I'm sure it won't last."

"Please don't say that." The Doctor sighed, she had a feeling the Tardis was trying to give them a nice break before hitting them with a hard video, and she was terrified about what would be so bad for the Tardis to do so.

"Too late." River grinned at her wife, although her eyes portrayed her own worry over where they were going next.

The Doctor just sighed again, shaking her head at the parent-daughter trio before turning to the room at large; "Let's carry on then."