Magpie suddenly came in from the back. "What do you think you're doing?" he demanded. The Doctor and Nova angrily marched over to him.

"We want our friend restored, and I think that's beyond a little backstreet electrician, so tell me, who's really in charge here?" The Doctor growled.

"Yoo hoo!" Everyone's attention turned to the Wire. "I think that must be me. Ooh, this one's smart as paint. And that one is as pretty as a seashell"

"Is she talking to us?" Bishop wondered out loud.

"I'm sorry gentlemen, and madam, I'm afraid you've brought this on yourselves. May I introduce you to my new friend" Magpie said.

"Jolly nice to meet you" the Wire said.

"Oh my God, it's her, that woman off the telly" Bishop exclaimed.

"No, it's just using her image" Nova clarified.

"What?" Tommy muttered in confusion. "What are you?"

"I'm the Wire, and I will gobble you up, pretty boy" The way she said it with a smile on her face was highly disturbing. "Every last morsel" The black and white image changed to a colored image. "And when I have feasted, I shall regain the corporeal body, which my fellow kind denied me"

"Good lord" Bishop gasped with eyes wide. "Colour television!"

"So your own people tried to stop you?" The Doctor pried.

"They executed me. But I escaped in this form and fled across the stars" the Wire explained.

"And now you're trapped in the television"

The Wire frowned as the colour on the screen reverted back to black and white. "Not for much longer"

"Doctor, Nightingale, is this what got my Gran?" Tommy asked.

"Yes, Tommy" Nova answered with a nod. "It feeds off the electrical activity of the brain, but it gorges itself like a great overfed pig, taking people's faces, their essences. It stuffs itself"

"And you let her do it, Magpie" Bishop correctly accused.

"I had to. She allowed me my face" Magpie explained, as if it was an excuse for doing what he did. "She's promised to release me at the time of manifestation"

"What does that mean?" Tommy asked.

"The appointed time. My crowning glory" the Wire stated.

"Doctor, Nightingale, the coronation!" Bishop realized.

"For the first time in history, millions gathered around a television set. But you're not strong enough yet, are you? You can't do it all from here" The Doctor said.

Nova continued on from that point. She grabbed the portable television. "That's why you need this. You need something more powerful! This will turn a big transmitter into a big receiver"

"What clever things you both are!" the Wire said, shaking her head. "But why fret about it? Why not just relax? Kick off your shoes and enjoy the Coronation. Believe me, you'll be glued to the screen" Energy came out of the television, and grabbed onto The Doctor, Nova, Bishop, and Tommy's faces.

"Doctor! Nightingale!" Bishop pleaded for them to help.

"Hungry! Hungry! The Wire is hungry! Ah, these two are tasty. Oh, I'll have lashings of them! Delicious!" The Doctor and Nova both reached into their pockets for their sonic screwdrivers. "Ah! Armed. They're armed and clever. Withdraw! Withdraw!" The energy disappeared and the four of them collapsed to the ground. "The box, Magpie! The box!" Magpie grabbed the portable television, which had dropped beside a blank-faced Bishop. "Hold tight!" The Wire zapped herself into the small box. "Conduct me to my victory, Magpie"

Magpie left the store with The Wire. The Doctor and Nova eventually woke up moments after they left. "Supernova?" It was The Doctor's first instinct to make sure that his lover was alright. He reached over and cupped her face in his hands. "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine, my Doctor" She assured him. She took notice of Bishop and frowned. "But I don't think Bishop is" Tommy was starting to stir awake. "Tommy, sweetheart, wake up now!" 

"What happened?" He asked.

"Where's Magpie?" The Doctor wondered. He stood up, and then helped Nova onto her feet. Tommy stood up as well, and the three of them made their way into the street outside the shop.

"We don't even know where to start looking. It's too late"

"It's never too late, as a wise person once said. Kylie, I think. The Wire's got big plans. It'll need. Yes, yes, yes, it's got to harvest half the population. Millions and millions of people and where are we?"

"Muswell Hill"

"Muswell Hill. Muswell Hill! Which means Alexandra Palace"

"That's the biggest TV transmitter in North London!" Nova exclaimed. "Oh, that's why it chose this place"

"What are you two going to do?" Tommy wondered.

"We're going shopping" The Doctor gave as an answer before he went back inside the shop. Nova and Tommy followed after him.

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Inside Magpie's shop, the three of them rummaged through drawers and boxes for potential parts they could use. Tommy had found a big valve. "Is this what you want?" Tommy asked, holding up the valve.

The Doctor grabbed the valve. "Perfect!" He added it to their pile of parts, and then handed the pile to Tommy. "Right, we need one more thing" They all ran outside and went to the Tardis. The Doctor popped inside to get the piece he needed and then came right back out. "Got it. Let's go"

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The three of them made it to Alexandra Palace. "There!" Tommy announced, pointing at the tall transmitter.

"Come on!" The Doctor urged. They began running towards the transmitter. The two Time Lords flashed their psychic paper to the guard that they ran past.

"Oh! I'm very sorry, sir and madam. Shouldn't you be at the Coronation?" the guard asked.

"They're saving us a couple seats" Nova quickly improvised.

"Who did he think you two were?" Tommy wondered.

Both The Doctor and Nova looked at their psychic paper. Then they flashed their papers to each other. "The King and Queen of Belgium, apparently" The Doctor said.

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The Doctor flipped on a switch in the control room. "Keep this switched on" He asked of Tommy. "Don't let anyone stop you, Tommy. Everything depends on it. You understand?" The Doctor grabbed a coil of copper wire.

"We believe in you, Tommy!" Nova smiled at the boy, before she and The Doctor ran out of the control room. They made a run for the transmitter, making their way past the guard from earlier. They began their climb up the transmitter. They had reached the top of the mast shortly after Magpie plugged in the portable television, and red energy started coming out of the mast.

"It's too late!" Magpie called out to them. "It's too late for all of us!"

"I shall consume you, Doctor and Nightingale!" the Wire threatened.

"We won't let you do this, Magpie!" The Doctor said.

"Help me, Doctor. Help me, Nightingale" Magpie cried. "It burns. It took my face, my soul"

"You cannot stop the Wire. Soon I shall become manifest" the Wire said.

"No more of this. You promised me peace!"

"And peace you shall have" The Wire electrocuted Magpie, and he was zapped into atoms. The Wire laughed maniacally. Nova made an attempt to grab the portable television, but her fingers were zapped.

"Ow!" She yelped in pain, shaking her hand. The Doctor shook his hand as well, as he felt the shock that she had received. "Looks like she's been burning the candle at both ends"

"And by doing so, she's over extended herself" The Doctor responded. "You shouldn't have had a crack at poor old Magpie there" He managed to grab the portable television. The Wire attempted to electrocute him, but he got no more than a shock. "Rubber soles, swear by them!" He plugged in the cable. That caused valves to blow down in the control room.

"Oh dear. Has our little plan gone horribly wrong, Doctor and Nightingale?" the Wire teased. She laughed a victorious laugh, but back in the control room, Tommy had plugged in the replacement valve he found in the store. The energy retreated back into the mast. "No!"

"It's close down, I'm afraid, and no epilogue" The Wire let out a scream before the screen on the portable television went blank.

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The Doctor and Nova went back into the control room. Tommy was waiting nervously for them to return while the National Anthem played in the background. "Have we missed anything?" Nova chimed, making Tommy look at them.

"Doctor! Nightingale! What happened?"

"Sorted. Electrical creature, TV technology, two clever alien life forms. That's us by the way. We turned the receiver back into a transmitter and we trapped the Wire in here" The Doctor explained. He popped open a VCR and pulled out a tape. 

"We've just invented the home video thirty years early" Nova quipped.

The Doctor looked down at the tape. "Betamax" His attention was then diverted to the screens in front of them. "Oh, look. God save the Queen, eh?"

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The Doctor, Nova, and Tommy went to Florizel Street where all the previously faceless people were crowding. Tommy saw his gran and ran to her. The Doctor and Nova saw Rose and Tate standing together. Rose looked over at them, giving them a big grin. The two Time Lords ran to her and the both of them engulfed her in a hug.

A party was set up in the street filled with music, dancing, and food. The Tardis team walked along the street. "We could go down the Mall, join in with the crowds" Rose suggested.

"Nah, that's just pomp and circumstance. This is history right here" The Doctor said.

"The domestic approach" Rose winked at Tate as she bumped her shoulder against his, referencing the remark Nova made to him earlier.

"Wouldn't have it any other way" Tate replied with a smile. "That thing, is it trapped for good on that video?"

"Hope so. Just to be on the safe side though, I'll use my unrivalled knowledge of transtemporal extirpation methods to neutralise the residual electronic pattern" The Doctor said.

Rose looked at him with a dumbfounded expression. "You what?"

"He's going to tape over it" Nova gave the simplified explanation.

"Oh, well he can leave that to me. I'm always doing that"

They had found Tommy and joined him. "Tell you what, Tommy, you can have the scooter" The Doctor offered. "Little present. Best, er, keep it in the garage for a few years though, eh?"

"Why not take both of them?" Nova added with a shrug. "You know, just incase"

Tommy saw his father exit the house wearing an overcoat and carrying a suitcase. "Good riddance" the boy muttered. Though it wasn't in annoyance. It was in relief. Eddie walked away from the house.

"Is that it, then, Tommy?" The Doctor asked him. "New monarch, new age, new world. No room for a man like Eddie Connelly"

"That's right. He deserves it"

"Tommy, go after him" Rose urged the boy.

"What for?"

"He's your dad"

"He's an idiot"

"Of course he is. Like I said, he's your dad. But you're clever. Clever enough to save the world, so don't stop there"

"You don't go after him and try to talk things out with him now, you're going to regret it" Tate added. Tommy ran after his father. He even carried his suitcase for him. The Doctor handed Nova, Rose, and Tate a glass of orange juice. He then grabbed one for himself. They all drank to a toast.

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After the party, the four of them were making their way back to the Tardis. There was a woman who was walking by that had accidently bumped shoulders with Nova. "Oh, I'm very sorry Miss" the woman uttered out an apology. "I really must be more careful about where I'm going"

"Oh, it's alright" Nova assured the woman. The voice belonging to the woman was quite familiar to her. She was sure she had heard it somewhere before, but where? Nova didn't get a chance to see the woman's face, but she saw the short brown hair, and she could make out lips that were painted red. The woman seemed to walk off in a hurry. Nova stared at the woman until she disappeared from sight.

"Nova," Rose approached her. "You alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. Did you see that woman who bumped into me?"

Rose nodded her head. "Yeah. Why? Do you know her?"

"No, I don't think I do. But, this may sound silly, but I recognized her voice"

"Believe me, that's not the silliest thing I've ever heard" Rose linked her arm with Nova's and they started walking to the Tardis. "I've heard a lot of nonsense come out of The Doctor's mouth over the year I've been travelling with him"

Nova laughed at Rose's statement. "Rose, you remember that offer I made about us having a girls day? I said I'd take you to a roller rink in the seventies?"

"Yes! Can we go?" Rose pleaded with excitement. "Don't get me wrong, I love The Doctor and Tate, I really do, but it'd be nice to just have a girl's day"

"Get out your roller skates, Rose Tyler"

"Yes!" Rose squealed in excitement. They had reached the Tardis. Rose stepped inside first. Nova was about to step inside, when she looked back one last time. Something about the woman she bumped into was oddly familiar. But why?