page_title: Tooth and Claw (Doctor Who)
section_title: Plot
hierarchical_section_title: Tooth and Claw (Doctor Who) / Plot
caption_attribution_description: Tooth and claw Doctor Who Experience
context_page_description: "Tooth and Claw" is the second episode in the second series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on BBC One on 22 April 2006.
  The episode is set in Scotland in 1879. In the episode, a group of warrior monks intend to use an alien werewolf to take over the British Empire and start an "Empire of the Wolf" by turning Queen Victoria into a werewolf.
context_section_description: The Tenth Doctor and Rose land in the Scottish moors in 1879. They encounter a carriage carrying Queen Victoria, who has been forced to travel by roads to Balmoral Castle as a fallen tree has blocked the train line to Aberdeen, which is feared to be a potential assassination attempt. The Doctor poses as  the Queen's protector using his psychic paper, and he and Rose join the Queen as she travels to the Torchwood Estate, a favourite of her late consort Prince Albert, to spend the night. The royal party is unaware that the Torchwood Estate has been captured by a group of monks led by Father Angelo, forcing its owner, Sir Robert MacLeish, to play into their ruse as they take the place of the house's servants and guards. The monks, having arranged for the fallen tree to force the Queen to the estate, have brought a man infected with a form of lycanthropy, hoping to pass its nature to the Queen and create a new "Empire of the Wolf".
  The Doctor soon realises the trap they have fallen into, and helps to save Rose, the Queen, and Sir Robert from Father Angelo's men and the werewolf by taking shelter in the estate's library, its wood coated with oil of mistletoe wood to stave off the beast. They study the library and discover evidence collected by Sir Robert's father, a polymath, and Prince Albert which indicates the werewolf is really the current form of an alien species that survives by passing its lycanthropic form from human to human. The Doctor also realises that the estate was designed as a trap for the werewolf, as by use of its strange telescope along with the Queen's Koh-i-Noor diamond, its cut fashioned by Prince Albert, they can destroy the alien lifeform.
  Sir Robert sacrifices himself to allow the Doctor, Rose, and the Queen to prepare the telescope in the observatory. They are able to trap and kill the werewolf in the concentrated light of the full moon collected by the diamond. The next day, the Queen gives the Doctor and Rose knighthoods before banishing them from the British Empire, with an order to never return. In honour of Sir Robert's sacrifice and his father's ingenuity, she orders the creation of the Torchwood Institute to help defend Britain from further alien attacks, declaring that, if the Doctor should return, he should beware, because Torchwood will be waiting, ready to deal with him.
caption: The costume and set of the werewolf, as shown at the Doctor Who Experience.
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