Beneath the Salt Plains of Utah, the billionaire collector Henry Van Statten holds the last relic of an alien race. When The Doctor and Rose investigate, they discover that The Doctor’s oldest and most deadly enemy is about to break free. It’s a fight to the death, with Rose caught in the middle.
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf: In a trend begun in the first episode and continuing up to the series finale, each episode contains references to the “Bad Wolf“. In this episode, Henry van Statten’s helicopter bears the callsign Bad Wolf One.
During this episode, the Geocomtex website lists under its PRODUCTS section Node Stabilized (in Lupus and Nocens variants).”Lupus” is Latin for “wolf”, “nocens” Latin for “harmful” or “bad.” Interestingly, they also offer Argentum Ordnance, otherwise known as silver bullets.
The destruction of the Time Lords at the hands of the Daleks appears to contradict their destruction as told in The Ancestor Cell, but given that The Doctor erased the people responsible for that event from history before Gallifrey itself was annihalated, it’s always possible that history was somehow altered and the Daleks were inserted into the gap.
Given that the Time Lords deliberately sent Fourth Doctor back to alter Dalek history in Genesis of the Daleks, that story could be seen, in retrospect, as anearly volley in, or an attempt to head off, the Time War.
The Doctor was once told by a woman named Cassthat there was no longer a difference between the Time Lords and Daleks after they went to war, eventually spurring him into the incarnation who would ultimately end the battle. (The Night of the Doctor)
This is the first televised Dalek story not to feature their creator Davros or use the … Of the Daleks naming scheme since Death to the Daleks in 1974.
