Just finished watching the last three episodes of “Doctor Who” and I’m posting a full spoiler filled summary. I know that this technically isn’t the show’s “series finale” but in a way it is. David Tennent and the current producer are making two more specials and then both are leaving. So in a way it makes sense that these last three episodes wrap up all of the ongoing storylines.

Turn Left

Basic Sum-Up: A bug-creature manipulates Donna’s past by going back in time and making sure she never met The Doctor.

Details: On an alien world a fortune teller/bug-lady infests Donna. The lady as well as Donna go back in time several years to a point where Donna and her mother are at a T-Intersection. If Donna turns right she will take a job in the country and start a career. If she turns left she will take a temp job in the city that will make set her life on course to met The Doctor.

The bug forces Donna to turn right. The timeline is re-written and we see what would have happened if Donna had never met The Doctor. He dies as does Martha Jones, all of Torchwood, and Sarah Jane Smith. After several attacks the earth is finally destroyed by aliens.

While the false-time line is progressing forward Rose Tyler breaks out of her universe and into the paradox universe that Donna is experiencing. Rose eventually convinces Donna that something is wrong with the world and proves to Donna that her time-line is being messed with by a giant bug.

To solve the problem, Donna is sent back in time and to prevent her past self from turning right (and thus never meeting the doctor) she throws herself in front of a truck causing a traffic accident. The past version of Donna, not wanting to deal with traffic turns left and the timeline is restored. As the Paradox version of Donna lays dying (because she was hit by a truck) Rose Tyler says two words to her: Bad Wolf.

Stolen Earth

Basic Sum-Up: Daleks kidnap 27 planets to create a giant universe erasing machine and its up to Torchwood, Martha Jones, Sarah Jane Smith, Rose Tyler, Donna Noble, and The Doctor to save the multiverse.

Details:

At the beginning of the episode, which directly follows the episode “Turn Left”, the Earth is teleported out of its spatial location shortly after the Doctor and his companion Donna Noble arrive to investigate Rose Tyler’s warning. The Doctor contacts the Shadow Proclamation, a universal police force, to find Earth. They determine that twenty-seven missing planets—including Earth, Adipose III,[3] Pyrovillia,[4] and the Lost Moon of Poosh[5]—reorganise when placed near each other. Donna mentions the disappearance of bees on contemporary Earth; this allows the Doctor to trace the planets to the Medusa Cascade, an interuniversal rift.

On Earth, a Dalek force, led by their creator Davros and the red Supreme Dalek, quickly subjugate Earth. Military bases, including UNIT’s headquarters in New York City and the aircraft carrier Valiant, are destroyed. Davros, who was thought to have perished at the beginning of the Time War, was saved by Dalek Caan, who entered the conflict after performing an emergency temporal shift.[6] The power needed to enter the Time War—which is “time-locked”, preventing time-travellers entering the conflict—caused Caan to become precognitive and insane.

The Doctor’s former companions Captain Jack Harkness, Martha Jones, Sarah Jane Smith, and Rose Tyler, who have all encountered the Daleks before,[7][8][9][10] hide in various places: Jack takes refuge in Torchwood with his team Ianto Jones and Gwen Cooper; Martha uses Project Indigo—an experimental teleport device scavenged from the Sontarans—to escape UNIT with the “Osterhagen Key”, a device designed to be used as a last resort; Sarah stays in her home with her son Luke Smith and supercomputer Mr Smith; and Rose tracks down Donna’s mother Sylvia Noble (Jacqueline King) and grandfather Wilfred Mott (Bernard Cribbins). They are contacted by former Prime Minister Harriet Jones (Penelope Wilton) through a secret “sub-wave network” designed by Mr Copper — a humanoid alien who met the Doctor in “Voyage of the Damned”[11] — to contact the Doctor’s companions in a dire situation. They attempt to contact the Doctor by amplifying the sub-wave signal using Mr Smith and the spatiotemporal rift in Cardiff. The Doctor and the Daleks receive the transmission and trace the signal. Harriet Jones is exterminated,[12] and the Doctor is able to locate Earth in a temporally desynchronised pocket universe.

At the end of the episode, the Doctor travels into the pocket universe and receives the sub-wave signal. After Davros hijacks the signal, the Doctor breaks communication and attempts to convene with his companions. The TARDIS lands on a street where Rose is waiting for the Doctor. He runs to embrace her, but is hit by a Dalek extermination ray. Rose, Jack, and Donna help the Doctor into the TARDIS, where the Doctor begins to regenerate.

Journey’s End

Continuing from the end of “The Stolen Earth”, the Doctor (David Tennant) is regenerating inside the TARDIS. Once his body is healed, he halts the transformation by transferring the remaining energy into his severed hand. The TARDIS is captured by the Daleks and transported to the Dalek Crucible. Powerless, the Doctor and his previous companions Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) and Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) leave the TARDIS, but Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) is unwittingly locked in. The Daleks send the TARDIS to be destroyed; in the process, Donna collapses by the Doctor’s severed hand and touches it. The stored energy flows into her then back into the hand, forming a new Doctor, who saves the TARDIS from destruction. Concurrently, Torchwood employees Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles) and Ianto Jones (Gareth David-Lloyd) find safety in an impenetrable time bubble; Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) is saved from a Dalek extermination by Rose’s ex-boyfriend Mickey Smith (Noel Clarke) and mother Jackie Tyler (Camille Coduri) and surrender themselves to get aboard the Crucible; and Martha Jones teleports to a Schloss sixty miles from Nuremburg which houses a UNIT station.

Aboard the Crucible, the Doctor and Rose are taken to Davros (Julian Bleach), creator of the Daleks. Davros explains that the twenty-seven stolen planets form a compression field for energy which can cancel the electrical energy of atoms. The resulting “reality bomb” has the potential to destroy all matter in every universe; reality itself would be destroyed. After the device is tested, the Daleks receive two transmissions: Sarah, Mickey, Jack, and Jackie threaten to use an explosive crystal to destroy the Crucible, and Martha threatens to use the Osterhagen Key — a last resort device which would destroy Earth. The Daleks teleport all five to Davros’ chamber; Davros uses their actions to challenge the Doctor:

“The man who abhors violence [...] but this is the truth: you take ordinary people and fashion them into weapons. [...] How many have died in your name? The Doctor, the man who keeps on running, never looking back because he dare not, out of shame. This is my final victory, Doctor. I have shown you yourself.”

Davros prepares to detonate the reality bomb seconds before the TARDIS materalises in the room. The other Doctor and Donna try to attack Davros but are quickly immobilised. Just before the bomb detonates, Donna becomes imbued with Time Lord knowledge as a side effect of the creation of the other Doctor. She uses a control panel to stop the detonation and disable Davros’ guards. The two Doctors and Donna return the stolen planets to their original locations; Davros asks the precognitive Dalek Caan why he did not foresee this. Caan explains that he realised the Daleks’ evil and conspired to destroy the entire race.

Before Earth can be relocated, the control panel is destroyed by a Supreme Dalek. As the Doctor prepares the TARDIS, the other Doctor fulfills Dalek Caan’s foretelling, destroying the Daleks and triggering the Crucible’s destruction. The Doctor offers to save Davros; he refuses, labelling the Doctor as “the Destroyer of Worlds”. The companions flee into the TARDIS before the Crucible is destroyed and — aided by Sarah’s computer Mr Smith, her robotic dog K-9, and the spatio-temporal rift in Cardiff — “tow” the Earth back into its original orbit.

In the dénouement of the episode, the Doctor parts ways with his companions: Sarah returns home to her son Luke; Martha and Mickey leave with Jack; and the Doctor returns Rose and Jackie to the alternative universe they were trapped in in “Doomsday”. The Doctor forces the other Doctor to stay in the parallel universe as punishment for committing genocide and to requite Rose’s love. After departing, Donna becomes overwhelmed by the Time Lord knowledge. The Doctor is forced to erase her memories of him, and explains to her mother Sylvia (Jacqueline King) and grandfather Wilfred Mott (Bernard Cribbins) that she will die if she remembers him. As the Doctor leaves, Wilfred promises to remember the Doctor on his granddaughter’s behalf. The episode concludes with the Doctor in the TARDIS, left alone with his thoughts.