While Rose meets “Captain Jack Harkness“, the dashing Time Agent responsible for bringing the object, The Doctor finds a group of homeless children terrorised by Jamie, an “empty” child wearing a gas mask.
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When Nancy approaches the crashed ship and cuts the barbed-wire fence, the score features the brisk string motif that would become the featured motif in the Torchwood series theme.
This is the second time that the cliffhangerfrom the previous episode was resolved before the main title sequence. The first was in World War Three. This practise would fall out of favour amongst the BBC Wales production staff, however. Since 2005, most part twopre-titles sequences have been comprised entirely of a part onerecap, orof a recap plus a seemingly unrelated teaser.
This is sometimes assumed to be the first episode to use a verb in the title, but that honour actually belongs to All Roads Lead to Rome, part two of The Romans. In any event, it is unusual for a Doctor Who title to have a verb in it, but it is more common in the BBC Wales version of the programme.Steven Moffat seems to enjoy titles with verbs, having also contributed The Pandorica Opens, A Good Man Goes To War and Let’s Kill Hitler. Arguably, Blink should also be included, butblinkis both a nounanda verb.
