2002 In 2002 , the 12 - year - old child genius Luke Rattigan invented the Fountain Six search engine , which made him a millionaire almost overnight . ( TV : " The Sontaran Stratagem " ) The main Xhinn fleet were due to arrive in this year . ( PROSE : " Amorality Tale " ) The Seventh Doctor had a 2002 edition of the Baadeker in his TARDIS library . ( PROSE : " Prelude Birthright " ) Dated events . On 30 May , Mary Barton was told by her father that she was adopted . ( PROSE : " There ' s Something About Mary " ) In early November , the Eighth Doctor , Fitz Kreiner and Samantha Jones arrived in San Francisco . Sam and the TARDIS fell into a dimension al anomaly . She was lost , reverting to her original timeline . This version of Sam sacrificed herself to save the TARDIS and San Francisco . ( PROSE : " Unnatural History " ) On 24 December , Alex and his wife Claire had a Christmas Eve party . Despite the fact that their son George was supposedly born a few weeks later , Claire was not pregnant . ( TV : " Night Terrors " ) Undated events . As the United Kingdom headed for a general election , Sherilyn Harper ' s far right New Britannia Party ( NBP ) threatened to hold the balance of power in a volatile political climate . Several assassination attempts were made against Harper , first by unknown gunmen and then by a terrorist organisation called United Front — which also firebombed some district NBP offices in the southeast . These assassination attempts were later discovered to have been staged by the NBP itself . As the crisis deepened , riots broke out in London just before polling day . This descent into chaos was partly caused by a creature from a distant world , the Fearmonger , which fed off fear . Still , it was helped by Harper ' s party ' s attempts to create fear in the British populace . The Seventh Doctor intervened and destroyed the creature — and exposed Harper and her party — by using the skills of " shock jock " Mick Thompson . ( AUDIO : " The Fearmonger " ) On a Saturday , a man was bitten and turned into a vampire . He began killing people to survive and had delusions that he had become a celebrity known as the Capricorn Killer . 52 days after he was infected , he was confronted by the Fourth Doctor and Romana II in a club . The Doctor killed the vampire by stabbing him in the heart with a stake . ( PROSE : " I Was a Monster ! ! ! " ) Nimrod found Cassandra Schofield in Norway . He brought her back to the Forge Alpha Facility using Pegasus One . Unable to control her vampiric instincts , Cassie killed Mark Bradley shortly after arriving . She was restrained and brought to the lower levels of the facility . Dr Edith Crumpton brainwashed Cassie into becoming a loyal agent for the Forge . ( PROSE : " Project : Valhalla " ) A severe drought occurred . ( PROSE : " The Hollow Men " ) Kevin Lee got married . ( AUDIO : " Snake Head " ) Pragostimine was developed as a fertiliser . ( PROSE : " Happy Endings " ) Births & deaths . Mickey Smith ' s grandmother , Rita - Anne Smith , died . ( TV : " Rise of the Cybermen " ) Jane McKillen was born . ( TV : " Fear Her " ) Ruby Baker was born . ( PROSE : " Yes , Missy " ) Behind the scenes . According to the official SJA website , Sarah Jane Smith recovered a mirror drone in Sosnowiecz , Poland in this year .