World War Three

So we open with scenes from the last show- spaceship crashing, the Doctor being electrocuted, etc, and then we have the Doctor ripping the ID card off and sticking it onto the Slitheen. That Slitheen being electrocuted causes all the other Slitheen to be electrocuted as well, rather over-dramatically might I add. This saves Rose and Harriet, as well as Jackie and Mickey, and of course the Doctor himself. But that doesn't put them completely out of danger; the Slitheen cannot be killed in that manner. The aliens chase the Doctor, Rose, and Harriet and trap them in the cabinet room, so that they're unable to directly attack the Slitheen- they have to relay their instructions through Mickey and Jackie to get anything accomplished. That annoys me- I mean, yeah Jackie and Mickey need to be fleshed out a little, but seeing the Doctor and Rose not in the middle of the action... it's so out of character it's unrealistic.
Anyways... they're able to find out that "Slitheen" is not a race of aliens; it's the aliens' surname. Their actual species is Raxacoricofallapatorian... from the planet Raxacoricofallapatorious. Upon discovering this, Jackie is able to kill one of the Raxacoricofallapatorians.
A Slitheen that is disguised as the acting Prime Minister lies on live TV, telling all of London that there are alien weapons of mass destruction poised to attack over Earth, with the mother ship directly over London itself. He does this to gain access to nuclear launch codes so that he can "destroy the threat-" or rather, attack the other countries and start a nuclear war. World War Three.
The Doctor, furious at the lie, goes to one of the Slitheen and demands an explanation of why they plan on destroying Earth. She tells the him what they want with Earth; the Slitheen want to start a nuclear war and turn Earth into molten slag and sell it off as fuel. There is a recession in space and they could become incomparably rich off of it- and they're already sending out a signal, calling other ships in and telling them of the fuel available for purchase.
The only way to stop them is to have Mickey hack into the Royal Navy and launch a bomb at 10 Downing Street itself- with Rose, the Doctor, and Harriet inside. The Doctor uses it as a last-ditch effort, telling Rose, "I could save the world but lose you." MELT! I love that line- when he finally tells Rose how much he cares for her. :D
So Mickey launches the bomb, destroys 10 Downing Street, kills the Slitheen, saves Earth- and Rose and the Doctor live. Harriet goes out and takes control, telling everyone that, "The crisis is over," and the Doctor, after agonizing over where he knew Harriet from throughout the whole episode, realizes how he knows her name. She is the future Prime Minister for three consecutive terms, and the architect of Britain's Golden Age.
Jackie finally decides that the Doctor isn't so bad and she wants to talk to him and get to know him, but the Doctor is unwilling to do that. Rose and the Doctor head off, leaving a dejected Jackie and Mickey behind.
Overall, I guess this is an okay episode. There aren't really as many great one-liners in this episode as there are on average, and Rose and the Doctor were well out of the action the whole time. However, there is another appearance of Bad Wolf, the discovery of who Harriet Jones is, and the Doctor's telling Rose that he, more or less, needs her.

Stay geeky (and nerdy if you're a nerd as well),
-A fellow Whovian