Cabinet War Rooms controlling air squadrons and Churchill (Ian McNeice) deems it time to "roll out the secret weapon." Daleks. Churchill is always after the TARDIS key. He comments the Doctor's (Matt Smith) face has changed. He's had some work done lately. Churchill called him a month ago. Amy's ( Karen Gillan) finally lost her pyjamas. Churchill will do anything to win the Nazis and introduces Professer Bracewell (Bill Paterson). This set looked like the one of wartime London with Rose. (Billy Piper) This is history. The Dalek (Nicholas Briggs) in, khahki paint, attacks the German planes. Claiming: "I am your soldier." This is one of Bracewell's Ironsides. But who are they kidding, they're fooling no one, the Daleks always know their mortal enemy, the Doctor.
The Dalek claims not to know who the Doctor is. He tells them Bracewell didn't invent the Daleks. The Dalek claims their objective is to "win the war." Yes, but not the Second World War, their true agenda is to win the war against the Doctor once and for all. Doctor: "they're alien...totally hostile" and he demands they be destroyed. The Daleks watch the Doctor's every move. He wants Amy to tell them about the Dalek's invasion of Earth, but she doesn't recall ever seeing them before. The Doctor is certain they're up to something. Amy questions their motive. The Dalek was a sinister looking menace. The Doctor reiterates what he already knows of them, having no "conscience, mercy or pity...they're my oldest and deadliest enemy. Hate looks like a Dalek" and he'll prove it. Bracewell is positive he controls them all. The Doctor insists the Daleks can't be trusted and loses his temper; questioning which war the Daleks want to win? "The war against all life forms."
The Doctor attacks the Dalek in an efforet to make it fight back, little realizing that's exactly what they want him to do. "You are my enemy and I am yours." He despises them. Doctor: "I defeated you time and time again. I am the Doctor and you are the Daleks. The Dalek speaks: "review testimony." Then transmits the Testimony to the mothership. They had him fall for that one, looking for the Doctor. The Daleks are beamed aboard the mothership. Doctor: "I was their plan." He goes after them in the TARDIS. Phase 2 begins. Amy is concerned he's on the mothership in the midst of it all.
All power is transferred to the Progenitor. The final phase begins. The Doctor threatens the Daleks with a Jammie Dodger: it's the self-destruct key to the TARDIS. The Dalek explains the progenitor is "their past and their future." Containing pure Dalek DNA. The Daleks built Bracewell. The Progenitor didn't recognize Dalek DNA, but it did recognize the Doctor and accepted his word, his "testimony." But this Doctor was new, so they had to be sure they had the right Doctor. They light up London, allowing it to be bombed. Amy is adament they need to fight the Daleks and their weapon is a gift from the Daleks. The Doctor still threatens them with self-destruct and their greatest victory would be to leave. He's determined not to let them get away. New Daleks emerge from the Progenitor: new brightly-multi-coloured Daleks, like Fruit Pastilles. Their new destiny: the resurrection of the Master race. (Obsessed with the master race just as Hitler was and to think they were meant to be helping to fight him!)
Bracewell has memories and Amy is sure only he can help, he's alien technology like the Daleks. Bracewell suggests sending something into space through the gravity bubble. The new Master race of Daleks extermintes the old ones, they've served their purpose. Doctor: "What do you do to the ones that mess up?" They must exterminate the Doctor, who warns, "don't mess with me, sweetheart!" The Spitfires have the coordinates of the mothership and attack it. Lead by Danny Boy. Doctor: "It's a Jammie Dodger, but I was promised tea." He didn't want any tea from the Dalek, he was too busy riling it up and himself along with it. He tells the planes to blow the dish on the ship's side but the shield holds. The Doctor can disrupt the shield for a few seconds. Didn't think the Daleks would let him enter the TARDIS.
The Doctor orders them to destroy the ship and the Daleks threaten to destroy the Earth. Bracewell is a bomb. The Oblivion Continium gives him the power. The Doctor rues this was his only chance to destroy them for good. If he lets the Daleks go the new race will be stronger. He must choose. Plenty of choices for the Doctor again, just as in the episode before, Amy made the choice for him, which he bereated her for doing. Now it's his decision once more. The Dalek tells him his "greatest compassion is his greatest weakness."
The Doctor arrives back on Earth and wants Bracewell to prove he's human, he can't explode the bomb because he's human. Amy interjects that he fancies someone he shouldn't. He recalls Dorabella and the bomb finally deactivates. The Daleks jump the time continium and escape. Sadly they won't be featured in anymore episodes in season 6 and the foreseeable future, as Stephen Moffat doesn't want them in anymore storylines. Which is a shame after we got new ones. So enjoy them while they last, like a mouth-watering Fruit Pastille they won't be around for long! The Doctor is saddened as they knew he'd choose to save Earth and so they won. Amy tells him the Doctor saved Earth, but he's always saving Earth, with a little help. Churchill wants the Doctor to help him, but the Doctor tells him the world has Churchill. Amy notices him take the TARDIS key. The Doctor gives Bracewell time to leave before he's deactivated.
Everyone has enemies the Doctor tells Amy, it's dangerous being with him. He always worries about the Daleks, well no more worries there then. What's wrong is that Amy should have known about the Daleks but she doesn't. Suggesting all the past history between the Doctor on Earth and the Daleks never happened. The crack from Amy's bedroom wall is visible behind the wall where the TARDIS landed.
Where did the Daleks get the 'pure DNA' and more importantly who does it belong to? This new Doctor's portrayal in meeting the Daleks seems to be one of despair, having to deal with them over and then they manage to escape by holding Earth to ransom once more. Just when he's close to defeating them for good. Matt Smith really has come into his own now with his believable reactions of anger on the one hand, to comical and compassionate the next, in the never-ending realm of choices he's forever faced with. great choice for the Doctor to be played by him. Again it's Amy who saves the day as she does.
When the Doctor alludes to Amy not recalling the Daleks on Earth, he's referring to past episodes, The Stolen Earth and Journey's End. The Daleks being slaves of humans was done in Power of the Daleks, where they uttered, "I am your servant." Wanting to see the Daleks destroyed was also said by the Doctor in Evil of the Daleks. The call-sign used between control and the Spit fires, "Broadsword to Danny Boy" was from the movie Where Eagles Dare (1968).
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