Harriet Jones. MP for Flydale North.

No preamble this time. Except for this tiny one explaining about the lack of preamble. Onward!

Series/Episode: 1/4
Title: Aliens of London
Writer: Russell T. Davies

The Tardis appears in Rose's hometown/time.
She's only been gone about twelve hours modern Earth time.
Rose runs off to see her mom. Wandering around, the Doctor suddenly makes a vital discovery.
When Rose's mom sees her, she drops her coffee mug. I'm beginning to doubt Rose has only been gone for twelve hours.
Stacks of missing persons fliers are stacked on Jackie's table.
The Doctor barges in and reveals that he made a mistake. Rose has been gone twelve months.
Titles!
A little boy has graffiti-ed "Bad Wolf" on the side of the Tardis. I'm thinking this is a reference to Gwyneth mentioning the Big Bad Wolf in the last episode. Or it's just a cool thing to graffiti.
Jackie is ranting about how she's been left alone while Rose was off "traveling." That's really the best story Rose could come up with?
"I meant to phone, I really did. I just...forgot." What about when she called from the year five billion? When does that fit into Jackie's timeline?
"Actually, it's my fault. I sort of employed Rose as my companion." I doubt this is going to reassure anyone.
"When you say companion, is this a sexual relationship?" "Friend" or "time traveling buddy" might have been more clear. Maybe not time traveling buddy, actually.
Jackie questions the validity of the Doctor's claims of being a real doctor. This brings up a good point. Does he have some kind of Gallifreyan degree? Can he provide medical assistance or perform surgery?
She also slaps him in the face.
In all honesty, this must be really difficult for Jackie.
When I watched this with my friend Annie, she asked me why they couldn't just try again and go back to when twelve hours would have passed. I think it's because now that they arrived a year later, them arriving a year later will always happen. Even if they came back at the appropriate time, a Doctor and a Rose would still show up in a year's time. Like they can't erase themselves, now that it's happened, and these events are locked in. Or something like that. I find it's best not to think about it.
Up on a rooftop, Rose and the Doctor discuss her plans: whether she should stay with Jackie or continue to travel.
It is revealed that the Doctor is nine hundred years old. He looks good for his age. When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not, hm?
You know, I forget about this because David Tennant erases all thoughts of other people's looks from my mind, but Christopher Eccleston is kind of handsome. In a big-eared, distinguished, James Bond-y kind of way.
Just as Rose is pondering how she is the only person on Earth (and all the UNIT people, and Mickey, and previous companions, and Clive...well, Clive's dead) who knows aliens exist, a space ship crashes into Big Ben and lands in the Thames.
I think I just caught a brief glimpse of the singer from the Counting Crows.
The Doctor doesn't know anything about this ship. "This is what I travel for, Rose. To see history happening, right in front of us!"
There's the Counting Crows guy again!
The traffic situation is chaotic, so they go back to Rose's to watch the news on TV.
There's a body in the ship. A body of non-terrestrial origins.
Jackie says some guy named Billy asked her out. This is not the time, Jackie!
The body is in UNIT's possession. I think. I kind of zoned out, but there are red berets about.
Some general goes to see the body. S'up, Toshiko? Working in the hospital, I see. I didn't realize you had medical training.
The general wants the identity of the body kept secret.
Something's up with the Prime Minister, but the general won't elaborate.
The news says he's been missing since the ordeal began.
Some random MP named Green gets ushered into 10 Downing Street.
Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North, is trying to speak to the Prime Minister. She had an appointment.
Green is told he is acting Prime Minister, and he seems to have gas. (They don't tell him the gas part. That is evident as a viewer.)
He is introduced to two other seemingly random politicians.
Once locked in a room together, the three laugh in a sinister manner.
Rose catches the Doctor sneaking off. He claims he's not going to interfere in space ship matters and was just taking a break from the room full o' humans.
"That's when the human race finally grows up. Just this morning you were all tiny and small and made of clay! Now you can expand!" Clay?
To promise that he won't wonder off, the Doctor gives Rose a key to the Tardis. Holy crap, good for her!
Mickey spots him taking off in the Tardis.
Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North, is still trying to make her appointment with the higher ups.

Harriet: "I bet no one's brought you a coffee."
Ganesh: "Thank you."
Harriet: "Pleasure."
Ganesh: "You still can't go in."
Harriet: "Damn. You've seen through my cunning plan."

She insists that while a brave new world has landed right on their doorstep, regular life still continues on.
When Green exits the...grand conference room? That'll do. When Green exits the grand conference room, Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North, tries to convince him to get cottage hospitals on the next cabinet agenda.
He snubs her, telling her to get some perspective.
When the others leave, she sneaks into the grand conference room to leave her paperwork.
Her curiosity leads her to stay and read the emergency protocols.
In the hospital, Dr. Sato hears a banging noise.
She walks cautiously towards the door of the freezer....
Meanwhile, the Doctor has landed the Tardis within the hospital.
When the sonic screwdriver makes too much noise, he tells it to "shh!"
Dr. Sato is getting closer to the door....
Dr. Doctor has walked in on a room full of UNIT officers.
Dr. Sato still has not reached the door....
There we go. She reaches for the handle. It flies open and she screams.
Hearing this, the Doctor and UNIT race to her aid.
There are a bunch of shots of them running through corridors.
Dr. Sato tells them the alien is alive.
(Side note: On Torchwood, does Captain Jack know Toshiko has met the Doctor? Does Toshiko realize that she has met the Doctor?)
The Doctor has found the alien.
It is a pig head on a humanoid body.
A UNIT officer shoots it. The Doctor is pissed. He says it was scared.
The other politicians have returned to the grand conference room with some military officer.
Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North, hides in a closet.
The officer is calling Green out for his lack of leadership. The Prime Minister is still missing.
Green and the other two are overtaken with flatulence and laughter.
The officer relieves Green of command.
At this, Green and the others sort of...unzip their foreheads.
We hear some schloppy noises and screaming. Harriet screams silently in the closet.
It seems someone has grafted the head of a pig onto a body and made it crash land in the river.
Dr. Sato says the technology is alien. She asks why aliens would be faking aliens, but the Doctor has run off. We hear the sounds of the Tardis.
Jackie makes a toast to Martians when Mickey bursts in.
In Rose's absence, the police, and Jackie, assumed Mickey was behind her disappearance.
Poor Mickey. The Doctor's ruining his life. And Rose is to blame too, I suppose.
Mickey tells Rose the Doctor has left again. She, Mickey, and Rose end up at the spot where the Tardis was last.

"He not my boyfriend, Mickey. He's better than that. He's much more important..."

Rose notices the Tardis key is glowing. As the Tardis sounds grow louder, Rose tries to get her mom back inside. It doesn't work out.
"Oh that's just what I need. Don't you dare make this place domestic!"
Jackie runs off.
The Doctor relays what he's learned to Rose: The crash landing was a fake.
Jackie decides to call an alien emergency helpline and tell them about the Doctor and his blue box called a Tardis.
These keywords make government computers freak out.
Mickey and the Doctor bicker like children. Probably jealous of each other's attention from Rose. The Doctor insists Mickey's name is Ricky.
Mickey and Rose have a reconciliation of sorts. Rose explains that it's only been a few days for her, but she missed him anyway. Mickey tells her he would look for a blue box everywhere he went. Kind of cute, actually.
She asks if he's seen anyone else in the year she's been gone. He says no, mostly because everyone thinks he murdered her.
He asks her if she's going to stay now, but they are interrupted by the Doctor.
It turns out the space ship was launched from the other side of the earth.
Back at Downing Street, the "general" slings a floppy human skin over a chair back.
There's some talk about ballast and a gas exchange, the cause behind their gaseous issues.
It seems these things, presumably aliens, are living in human skins.
Ganesh runs up to the general to tell them they have a "Code 9." They don't know what that means. He says in the case of emergency protocols the computers are programmed to search for keywords leading to the Doctor. Ganesh believes they have found him.
They think he's some kind of extraterrestrial expert.
Back in the Tardis, Mickey asks if the Doctor gets sports channels.
The Doctor recognizes UNIT when he sees them on TV.
Rose asks how he knows them, and Mickey jumps in, explaining that the Doctor used to work for them.
As they leave the Tardis to do further investigations, they are ambushed by UNIT personnel claiming they are under arrest.
Mickey runs off.
The Doctor goes, "Take me to your leader!" Cheeky bastard.
He and Rose climb into a fancy car. When Rose remarks that it's pleasant, being arrested, the Doctor explains that they are not being arrested but escorted to Downing Street because they need his help.
The false general is in the Tylers' apartment questioning Jackie. This does not bode well.
A bunch of important people have gathered in 10 Downing Street. Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North, is still snooping around. I like her.
The assistant, or whatever he is, stresses that ID cards must be worn at all times and gives one to the Doctor. He also says Rose is not allowed into the meeting. This makes me nervous. I don't like it when they're separated.
Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North, offers to keep an eye on her.
The alien emergency meeting is full of uniformed officials.
Harriet seems like she wants to ask Rose about what she saw regarding the aliens wearing human skins, but she starts to cry instead.
In the meeting, the Doctor references an incident in the North Sea where a satellite detected radiation at one hundred fathoms, "like there's something down there." As it happens, the government was about to investigate when the space ship crash landed. It seems the crash was designed as a distraction.
Outside, Harriet explains how the aliens are using human skins as suits.
Rose tries to find the hidden technology enabling the aliens to do so within the room. She opens one particular door, and the body of the prime minister falls out on her.
Back in the meeting, the Doctor is working through the alien logic. He realizes that the crash was not a diversion. It was designed to get all the alien experts enclosed in a room.
The woman/alien from earlier who was working with Green walks in on Rose, Harriet, and the dead prime minister.
The general in Jackie's apartment tells her that the Doctor is trouble, those associated with him are trouble, and his job is to eliminate trouble. He unzips his forehead.
The woman/alien unzips her forehead.
An officer in the alien expert meeting unzips his forehead, and we finally see the aliens: slimy green things with long claws and wormy necks.
They are the Slitheen.
The alien experts' ID cards are actually electrical weapons. Green activates them, electrocuting everyone.
Everyone is in imminent danger!

The End.