Doctor Who Finale Part 3 Recap: “Journey’s End”

Sarah Jane sees the TARDIS floating off into space and asks Mickey about the transporter devices he and Jackie used to get to her. He holds up the most adorable little round gadget you’ve ever seen on this show — it looks like a designer purse that Charlize Theron might clutch in her armpit up the red carpet. Mickey explains that the devices, although powerful, pretty much suck when it comes to battery life and will take thirty minutes to recharge.

Sarah Jane promptly puts her hands over her head, marches to the Daleks, and announces she surrenders. This leads Mickey to declare her totally bonkers. But she actually has a plan in mind, as Jackie seems to figure out (and who would ever have guessed Jackie would be the brains here?). By surrendering they’ll be taken to wherever they’re bringing the Doctor and Rose. So Jackie and Mickey turn themselves in as well.

Martha’s mum’s house. Martha straps on the Indigo backpack, telling her mum that since Jack explained about the base code, she thinks she knows how to work it. If all it took to work that thing properly was knowing that stupid two-digit code, I don’t understand why Jack didn’t just tell her that before she used it the first time rather than getting all sobby and kicking the Hub furniture around. He can be such a drama queen.

Her mum doesn’t want her to go, but Martha explains she’s a UNIT employee and has a job to do. Otherwise they’ll make her plan the UNIT Christmas party, and nobody wants to have to do that. She activates the backpack and disappears. If it were my mom, she’d have figured out a way to stuff the backpack with pot roast and insisted I call as soon as I got wherever I was teleporting off to in such a hurry.

A screen title informs us that Martha has arrived near Nuremburg. Because until now the Nazi allusions have been so subtle we might have missed them. Hilariously, she hears a group of Daleks speaking German amongst themselves. You have to hand it to them, at least they make an effort to be sensitive to the local cultures they’re attempting to wipe out.

Meanwhile, as the TARDIS approaches the Crucible, which is a giant Dalek ship at the center of the stolen planets, the Doctor and company decide to pass the time by expositioning plot points …

The Doctor asks Rose, since she’s been living in a parallel world that exists a bit in the future, if she’s already seen what the Daleks are up to. She talks about how the stars had started going out one by one, and yammers on about building a time machine called “the dimension cannon” so she could try to come find the Doctor (which, total narcissist he is, greatly pleases him).