2009 In 2009 , numerous alien attacks on Earth were stopped by Torchwood Three and the Bannerman Road gang . This year saw the Tenth Doctor being fatally wounded on two separate occasions . ( TV : " Journey ' s End " , " The End of Time " ) ATMOS , a combination GPS / emission control system for automobile s , became widespread in vehicles around the world . ( TV : " The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky " ) By this year , Polly Wright worked in the City of Westminster . ( AUDIO : " The Three Companions " ) Dated events . January - May . Early in the year , conspiracy theorists and Donna Noble had begun noting the disappearance of bee s from the planet Earth . ( TV : " Partners in Crime " , et al . ) They had left Earth in anticipation of its imminent relocation to the Medusa Cascade . ( TV : " The Stolen Earth " ) Donna Noble investigated Adipose Industries and met the Tenth Doctor again . Matron Cofelia forced the birth of thousands of Adipose from London ers ' bodies . The Doctor and Donna turned off the parthenogenesis signal before it proved fatal . The Adipose were sent into their ship , and Cofelia was killed by the Adiposian First Family to cover up seeding a Level 5 planet . Donna joined the Doctor in the TARDIS . Before leaving with the Doctor , she encountered Rose Tyler , unaware of who she was . ( TV : " Partners in Crime " ) Also early in the year , over 4 months before August , Thomas Brewster and Gerald Lendler came to London . At the time , Lendler had stolen the Doctor ' s TARDIS from Brewster . When Brewster rummaged through Lendler ' s collection of valuable items , he accidentally woke up a hibernating Coffin - Loader and it escaped into the River Thames . It released methane and mould into the atmosphere which increased Earth ' s temperature by 1 degree . ( AUDIO : " The Three Companions " ) In February , two henchmen of Max Capricorn Cruiseliners found traces of bekaren energy on Jack Harkness and mistook him for Max Capricorn . He was abducted and taken to Penhaxico Two . The Tenth Doctor came to Earth and reunited with Martha Jones . Together , they rescued Jack and then returned to Earth . ( COMIC : " Escape to Penhaxico " ) In March , the Vostok came to Cardiff with the intentions of using its rift to bring the Earth into a new Ice Age . Torchwood Three visited Cardiff Bay after it was frozen and discovered the Vostok beneath the ice . They defeated the Vostok by covering the ice in fuel and dropping a match in the fuel , burning the Vostok alive . ( COMIC : " The Return of the Vostok " ) On 12 April , Easter , the 200 bus travelled through a wormhole , leaving several passengers , including the Tenth Doctor and Lady Christina de Souza , stranded on the desert planet San Helios , which had been turned into a sandy wasteland within the last year by alien stingrays which had started approaching the wormhole to devour Earth . Using some Tritovore anti - gravity clamp s taken by Lady Christina , the 200 flew through the wormhole safely . The wormhole was closed and the handful of stingrays which made it through were destroyed by UNIT . The Doctor declined Lady Christina ' s offer to join the TARDIS , but helped her evade arrest . ( TV : " Planet of the Dead " ) Sometime before 18 May , UNIT investigated the simultaneous deaths of fifty - two people across the world , all in ATMOS - equipped vehicles . Dr . Martha Jones , now working for UNIT , called in the Tenth Doctor . UNIT raided an ATMOS factory . The Sontaran s captured Martha and cloned her . As part of a Sontaran invasion plan , all ATMOS - equipped vehicles , half of all cars on Earth , emitted a toxic gas . ( TV : " The Sontaran Stratagem " ) The TARDIS , with Donna Noble inside , was taken to the Sontaran flagship . The Sontarans invaded the ATMOS factory , but UNIT retook it . The Doctor found Martha with her clone ' s help . The clone ' s link was severed . Before dying , she revealed the ATMOS gas would be used to clone Sontarans . With Donna ' s aid , the Doctor retook his TARDIS and used the technology from the Rattigan Academy to create an atmospheric converter to destroy the gas . Luke Rattigan , learning his plans to start a new world with his students had failed , swapped places with the Doctor and destroyed the Sontaran fleet and himself . The TARDIS , with Martha inside as well as the Doctor and Donna , suddenly started moving on its own . ( TV : " The Poison Sky " ) The last survivor of the ATMOS Sontaran invasion , Commander Kaagh , tried to destroy Earth by commandeering the Tycho Project in Goblin ' s Copse , landing satellites onto nuclear stockpiles . He was thwarted when Luke Smith shut down the project and Chrissie Jackson attacked Kaagh ' s probic vent , knocking him out . Kaagh left Earth disgraced . Chrissie Jackson became aware of aliens and of Sarah Jane and her team ' s fight against them . ( TV : " The Last Sontaran " , at least six weeks before the events of " The Day of the Clown " ) From 15 May to 18 May , the Mandragora Helix attempted a takeover of Earth through the MorganTech computer systems . ( PROSE : " Beautiful Chaos " ) Dalek attack on reality . Between the Rempath invasion ( PROSE : " In the Blood " ) and late June , ( PROSE : " Beautiful Chaos " ) the Dalek s attempted to destroy reality with a reality bomb . The Earth and twenty - three other planets were relocated to the Medusa Cascade by the Daleks ( with three other planets , Adipose 3 , Pyrovillia and the Lost Moon of Poosh from other time zones ) by the Supreme Dalek and Davros . The Tenth Doctor went to the Shadow Proclamation and tracked the Earth to the Medusa Cascade before the trail went cold . An invasion of Earth by the Daleks began and human s were taken to the Crucible . Former Prime Minister Harriet Jones contacted some of the Doctor ' s former companions , including Captain Jack Harkness , Sarah Jane Smith and Martha Jones , to reach the Tenth Doctor , using the Cardiff Rift and Mr Smith , before she herself was killed by the Daleks . Rose Tyler , meanwhile , contacted Donna Noble ' s family and was reunited with the Doctor , having broken through to the out - of - sync Cascade . ( TV : " The Stolen Earth " ) The Tenth Doctor underwent a partial regeneration to heal damage from a Dalek blast . He threw his regenerative energy into his old hand . The TARDIS was taken to the Crucible . Humans were used for tests of the reality bomb . The TARDIS was almost destroyed in the Crucible ' s Z - neutrino core , but the energy - infused hand formed into a human Time - Lord Meta - Crisis clone of the Doctor after making physical contact with Donna Noble , safely piloting the TARDIS away . Sarah Jane threatened the Crucible with a warp star , while Martha planned to blow up Earth , stopping the use of the reality bombs . Davros and the Daleks quickly stopped them . The Meta - Crisis Doctor and Donna attempted an attack on Davros but failed . The electricity from his hand awakened her dormant Time Lord mind , the regeneration energy from earlier having spread both ways , turning her into the " DoctorDonna " . Donna used a Dalek interface to shut down the Crucible and disable the Daleks and was able to send all but one planet home , while the Meta - Crisis Doctor finished off the Daleks . The Doctor and his companions towed the remaining planet , Earth , home with the TARDIS ; this sparked worldwide celebrations around the planet . Afterwards , Mickey Smith chose to remain on his original Earth instead of returning to Pete ' s World . Jack and Martha went back to their respective jobs , and the Doctor returned Rose and Jackie Tyler to Pete ' s World , along with his clone , whom he considered unsafe . He asked Rose to help the clone , as she had helped him . Donna Noble was returned to her family with all memories of the Doctor wiped from her mind due to the danger to her survival posed by her transformation . ( TV : " Journey ' s End " ) During these events , a young Adelaide Brooke lost her family and saw a Dalek . For reasons unknown to her , it chose not to exterminate her . This inspired her to become an astronaut , a trailblazer for human exploration of space — in her case , establishing the first human base on Mars in 2058 and , in turn , inspiring generations of Brookes who would impel humanity to reach into the stars . ( TV : " The Waters of Mars " ) In the aftermath of the Medusa Cascade incident , the human race began coming to terms with the fact it was not alone in the universe . While many accepted it , others experienced crises of faith and many committed suicide . Brian Green became British Prime Minister before September . ( TV : " " ) June - August . In late June , Lukas Carnes delivered a letter to Wilfred Mott which Donna had written six weeks earlier , before she lost her memories . ( PROSE : " Beautiful Chaos " ) Sometime before 18 August , Polly Wright read a blog post by Jo Jones about Jo ' s encounter with Doreen Killebrew in the 1970s . From this blog post , she learned that Brigadier Lethbridge - Stewart knew the Doctor and they began exchanging emails on their past adventures with him . Eventually , they were contacted by Thomas Brewster , who thought they could help him deal with Gerald Lendler . On 18 August , Polly and Alistair met up with Brewster at a restaurant where Brewster had been working for three weeks . Lendler had hired a an alien hunter to deal with the creature . The Coffin - Loader came out of the River Thames and parts of London were flooded . Using Alistair as bait for the Coffin - Loader , the Hunter lured it to Trafalgar Square and killed it , returning Earth ' s climate to normal . Aterwards , with some convincing from Polly and Alistair , Lendler gave the Doctor ' s TARDIS back to Brewster . ( AUDIO : " The Three Companions " ) September - December . Members of the Stockbridge Preservation Society began to go missing . ( COMIC : " The Stockbridge Child " ) On 8 : 40AM GMT on a Wednesday in September , every child on Earth stopped in their tracks and recited the message , " We are coming " , repeatedly , all them in English . Behind the scenes , the British government knew this came from the 456 , a race who had visited Earth before . Gwen Cooper spoke to Clement McDonald , who also stopped and said the message , He told Gwen that when he was a child , the children on his orphanage bus were stolen away , with him almost being taken too . Jack Harkness had a bomb encased in his body which blew up the Torchwood Three hub . ( TV : " " ) Jack , his body slowly reconstituting itself , was held by Johnson , while Gwen went on the run from the British government , revealing to her husband Rhys she was pregnant . The children on Earth stopped again to say , " We are coming . . . tomorrow " . Mr Dekker built a container for the 456 to specification , filled with unusual gases . Lois Habiba revealed to Gwen that John Frobisher was behind the death orders for Torchwood . Johnson sealed Jack in concrete , but Ianto arrived , releasing him . Jack and Ianto escaped with Rhys and Gwen . ( TV : " " ) The 456 ambassador materialised in the gassy container in Thames House . They demanded 10 % of all of Earth ' s children . Clem revealed that Jack had been behind the handover in 1965 , and Jack staid it was for the 456 . ( TV : " " ) Jack continued to talk about the night he and others handed children over to the 456 in 1965 . At Thames House , the 456 ambassador had one of the children of 1965 as part of its system , unaging . As negotiations failed , the government started to think of ways to hand over the 10 % , which Lois recorded with Torchwood ' s Eye - 5 contact lenses as incriminating evidence . The 456 killed Clem . Jack and Ianto faced the 456 , but were also killed , along with the rest of Thames House once the 456 released the virus . Jack revived , upset over his loss . ( TV : " " ) The British government started sending the 10 % to the 456 , labelling it " inocculations " . The ambassador revealed the children were to be used as drugs . The Prime Minister informed John Frobisher that his children would be among those handed over to the 456 . Unable to cope with this , Frobisher killed his family and committed suicide . Gwen and Rhys tried to escape with as many children as they could . Jack used the wave the 456 had used to kill Clem the previous day to destroy the 456 , but sacrificed his grandson Steven to set it up . Stricken with guilt over the death of his grandson , Jack left Cardiff and spent the next few months wandering the Earth . ( TV : " " ) In mid - December , the Aurelia Festival was held in Stockbridge . The Tenth Doctor and new companion Majenta Pryce arrived to find themselves involved in an adventure with Maxwell Edison . ( COMIC : " The Stockbridge Child " ) On 24 December , was resurrected by Miss Trefusis and the new governor of Broadfell Prison on Christmas Eve . Lucy Saxon caused an explosion at the prison , killing everyone inside , except for the Master . The White House announced that US President Barack Obama would make a Christmas Day speech announcing new economic initiatives to resolve the current worldwide economic crisis . ( TV : " The End of Time " ) On 25 December , the Tenth Doctor and his companion Heather McCrimmon visited the village of Stillmuir to celebrate Christmas with Heather ' s family . The celebrations were interrupted by three blue - skinned aliens who wanted to learn about Christmas . They transported the entire village away from Earth to a giant snow globe where they could observe the humans . The Doctor talked with the aliens and invited them to observe Christmas by attending the McCrimmon family ' s celebrations if they returned the village to Earth . The aliens agreed and spent Christmas night celebrating . ( COMIC : " A Merry Little Christmas " ) Also that day , the Master was captured by soldiers working for Joshua Naismith to help him use the Immortality Gate . The Master betrayed him and , as Obama gave a speech on the recession , used the Gate , intended to heal planets , to turn every human on Earth except Donna Noble and Wilfred Mott into copies of the Master . On 26 December , a diamond called a White - Point Star was sent from Gallifrey through time and space and crashed to Earth , where it was retrieved by the Master . He used it to open a portal that allowed Rassilon and other Time Lord s to escape the Last Great Time War . Rassilon undid the " cloning " of the Master and Gallifrey entered the space around Earth , the Time Lords ready to end time . The Tenth Doctor shot the diamond , breaking the connection , and the Master blasted the Time Lords back into the time lock , the Master also disappearing . The Tenth Doctor rescued Wilf from certain death . In doing so , he was flooded with radiation . The Doctor began his regeneration cycle . A malfunction with the world ' s wi - fi systems was later blamed for causing mass hallucinations , a cover story concocted by Mr Smith . Shortly after , Luke Smith was nearly run over by a car on Bannerman Road , but rescued by the slowly - regenerating Tenth Doctor , who disappeared into his TARDIS . ( TV : " The End of Time " ) Undated events . Gareth , head of the seismology unit of the UCMA taskforce , developed a system for accurately predicting earthquakes . Gareth ' s system was credited for saving the human race several times . ( TV : " Doctor Who " ) Kate Maguire first encountered the Tenth Doctor . However , he knew that one day she would help him defend the Earth against an Auton invasion . ( PROSE : " Autonomy " ) Mary Baker , the paternal grandmother of Julia Hardwick as well as one of her possible descendants due to time travel , died at the age of 82 . ( WC : " A Ghost Story for Christmas " ) A crashed Terpsivore spaceship was buried under Birmingham before being repaired and leaving in 2009 . ( COMIC : " Death Disco " ) Rani Chandra visited a Krulius spaceship . ( COMIC : " Return of the Krulius " ) Ellie Faber became homeless . ( TV : " The Curse of Clyde Langer " ) Phil Houseman ' s " The Myth of Artificial Intelligence " was published . ( PROSE : " Theatre of War " ) The nine - year - old Sally Morgan ' s parents were killed in the Middle East when their convoy was ambushed . From then onwards , she was raised by her grandfather . ( AUDIO : " Black and White " ) Jack Odwards swam the English Channel to raise money for Chuckle - Aid . ( AUDIO : " Kronos Vad ' s History of Earth Vol . 36 , 379 " ) The Second Doctor , Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot visited London for a few days during their travels . The Doctor met Miranda Peel on a Tuesday and a Wednesday on the London Underground while Jamie and Zoe explored the city . ( PROSE : " Favourite Star " ) One of Abslom Daak ' s ancestors was found guilty by Intersol for crimes against New Devonia . ( COMIC : " The Crimson Hand " ) Undated adventures of Torchwood Three . Prior to Dalek invasion of Earth . Dr Owen Harper still had difficulty accepting his new undead existence . He was relieved of his duties with Torchwood Three , though he continued as their tea boy . Martha Jones stayed on as medical officer . After attempting suicide , Harper began to come to terms with his death . He returned to active duty for a mission to steal an alien artefact from a dying millionaire , Henry Parker , who revealed intimate knowledge about Torchwood and its personnel before he passed away . With Owen Harper reinstated , Martha left for her duties at UNIT . Soon after , Owen talked a young woman out of suicide . ( TV : " A Day in the Death " ) On the night of her bachelorette party , Gwen Cooper was made the host of a Nostrovite offspring whose mother was waiting to pull it straight out of Gwen ' s womb . At her and Rhys Williams ' wedding , Rhys destroyed the unborn Nostrovite young with the singularity scalpel without harming Gwen , and Jack Harkness killed the mother . Gwen married Rhys . ( TV : " Something Borrowed " ) The Torchwood Three team investigated the Night Travellers , and defeated them by trapping their celluloid forms on film and exposing the film . ( TV : " From Out of the Rain " ) Gwen Cooper investigated the disappearance of Jonah Bevan and others lost through the Cardiff Rift . She found Flat Holm Island , where some of those apparently returned by the Rift were kept . Nikki Bevan met her son , who had only vanished seven months previously , now much older . She was forced to leave Jonah at Flat Holm , after hearing an unearthly shriek come from him . ( TV : " Adrift " ) Captain John Hart placed bombs in an abandoned building Torchwood were investigating . After they escaped , John showed Jack a hologram of Gray . ( TV : " Fragments " ) The Torchwood team regained consciousness . They tried to stop John Hart . That night aliens attacked Cardiff . Weevil s killed four police officers . A Hoix ran loose in a hospital , to be captured by Owen Harper . Men in cloaks haunting a building and were shot dead by Toshiko Sato and Ianto Jones . John Hart captured Jack Harkness and set off bombs in key buildings across Cardiff . Jack ' s brother Gray was forcing John Hart to do his bidding . Gray sent Jack back to 27 A . D . to be buried . Jack was discovered in 1901 and stored in Torchwood ' s cryo - chamber to be re - awakened . Gray unleashed all of the Weevils in Cardiff ' s sewers and shot Toshiko . She later died of her wounds . Owen was destroyed by nuclear radiation which flooded into the room he was in , which consumed his body . This resulted in his permanent death . Cardiff was saved . The other members of Torchwood who survived the ordeal then decommissioned Owen and Tosh ' s database access through a final logout . In Tosh ' s case , it triggered a message she recorded in the event of her death , saying her final goodbyes to the team and confessing her love for Owen . ( TV : " Exit Wounds " ) Martha Jones called in Torchwood Three for help at CERN . ( AUDIO : " Lost Souls " ) Prior to 456 incursion . A half - alien , half - human girl named Freda was sent back from the future to escape persecution and came under the protection of Torchwood Three . ( AUDIO : " Asylum " ) Torchwood Three discovered Torchwood India still existed and its members were preserving their own time in their headquarters by draining the life out of innocent civilians , with plans to roll back time to Britain ' s empire across the world . Torchwood Three defeated them and Torchwood India was frozen in time . ( AUDIO : " Golden Age " ) Torchwood Three combatted a mysterious force that put people into coma - like trances after they answered the phone . ( AUDIO : " The Dead Line " ) Rhys Williams ' uncle Bryn died . Torchwood Three investigated mysterious power cuts and Miss Carew . She was a woman in her eighties who was fit and at work after being on her deathbed not long before . Carew worked with Fitzroy to destroy all electricity on Earth , but was stopped . ( AUDIO : " The Devil and Miss Carew " ) Torchwood Three , working in cooperation with UNIT , tracked a distress signal to the Mariana Trench and discovered Sam Doyle of the " Guernica " , who hadn ' t aged in fifty years . The team defeated the entity possessing him which later entered Carlie Roberts . ( AUDIO : " Submission " ) Undated adventures of Sarah Jane Smith & friends . Maria and Alan Jackson moved to America . ( TV : " The Last Sontaran " ) Rani Chandra and her family moved to Bannerman Road . Clyde and Rani investigated Spellman ' s Magical Museum of the Circus . The owner , Elijah Spellman , was the clown and the Pied Piper , having come from a meteorite in the Jeggorabax Cluster centuries before . The Piper gathered children he had given balloons to , but Mr Smith interfered by contacting their mobile phones . Clyde , weakening the fear - eating Pied Piper with humour , allowed Sarah Jane to trap the Piped Piper back inside his meteorite , releasing the children who had been recently taken by him . ( TV : " The Day of the Clown " ) Martin Trueman , using the power of the Ancient Lights , started enslaving every human on Earth using astrology . Luke , not having a starsign , defeated him . ( TV : " Secrets of the Stars " ) Rani Chandra discovered the Berserker pendant . Clyde Langer ' s father Paul came to visit him after having walked out on his family years before . Paul took and was possessed by the pendant , but Sarah Jane and the team brought him back to himself . Clyde threw the pendant into the sea . ( TV : " The Mark of the Berserker " ) The Trickster used a time fissure to trick Sarah Jane into saving her parents ' lives in 1951 and created an alternate timeline where he drained the life out of Earth and enslaved humanity . Sarah Jane and her friends returned to 2009 after Sarah Jane ' s parents , Eddie and Barbara Smith , prevented this alternate timeline by sacrificing themselves in 1951 . ( TV : " The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith " ) Mrs Wormwood and Commander Kaagh became allies in the light of Wormwood ' s exile from the Bane and Kaagh ' s self - imposed exile from the Sontarans . Taking the Tunguska Scroll from Sarah Jane and her gang , they used Luke to place the scroll on the " tomb " of Horath , the tyrant of the Dark Empire , to bring him back . Kaagh , disgraced by Wormwood ' s preference for her " son " Luke , pushed Wormwood into the interdimensional portal that held Horath , destroying the link . ( TV : " Enemy of the Bane " ) The Veil Androvax crashed in Ealing , followed by the Judoon Tybo . Androvax escaped to Genetec Systems , using Nanoform s to build a spaceship and destroy Earth . Luke deactivated the Nanoforms , and Tybo arrested Androvax . Clyde and Rani were grounded on Earth by the Judoon . ( TV : " Prisoner of the Judoon " ) Rani was called to Danemouth by Samuel Lloyd to investigate a haunted funfair . Sarah Jane , Luke and Clyde followed . Rani found Eve , whose powers were out of control . Eve was taken to Ship to control them . Sarah Jane gave Ship the co - ordinates to the black hole K9 was protecting , freeing him and powering Ship . Eve , Samuel and Eve ' s adopted father Harry left in Ship to explore the universe . ( TV : " The Mad Woman in the Attic " ) Peter Dalton was about to marry Sarah Jane Smith , but the Tenth Doctor interfered . The Trickster took Sarah Jane and her gang into a time loop , with Sarah Jane and Peter stuck in one second and the Doctor , Clyde and Rani in another . Peter revoked his deal with the Trickster and died . Time resumed its natural course . With Peter nowhere to be seen , Sarah Jane called the wedding off . ( TV : " The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith " ) At Ashen Hill Manor , Sarah Jane discovered the people who had disappeared at the manor had been trapped inside another dimension , keeping Erasmus Darkening alive . Sarah Jane tricken Darkening by putting him into an electromagnetic field . ( TV : " The Eternity Trap " ) The " Mona Lisa " was in the International Gallery in London , on loan from the Louvre . Due to her proximity to " The Abomination " , made from the same sentient paint as the " Mona Lisa " , Mona Lisa was brought to life . She returned to her painting when she was tricked into bringing a sketch of K9 to life , who shot at " The Abomination " . ( TV : " Mona Lisa ' s Revenge " ) The Slitheen - Blathereen family captured some Slitheen , stopping them from destroying the Earth . The Slitheen - Blathereen gave Sarah Jane a Rakweed plant , which the next day mutated , sending spores across London that would have put humans into a coma . Mr Smith used a high - pitched frequency across the city to destroy the plants , and when the Slitheen - Blathereen attacked Sarah Jane , he did so again , destroying their Rakweed - saturated bodies . ( TV : " The Gift " ) Sarah Jane , Luke , Clyde and Rani fought and killed a Raxacoricofallapatorian , while K9 defused a bomb . ( TV : " The Nightmare Man " ) Chang Hu was born . ( PROSE : " Observer Effect " ) Other timelines . In the summer , Rani , upset over not living up to the standards of her predecessor , Maria , offhandedly wished that her friends would leave her alone . Ship took this as an actual request and erased Sarah Jane , Luke , Clyde and K9 . Eve ' s son Adam reversed this once an older Rani told him about this in 2059 . ( TV : " The Mad Woman in the Attic " ) In a potential timeline created by a continuity bomb , the Tenth Doctor didn ' t sacrifice himself to save Wilfred Mott from radiation poisoning on 26 December and Wilf died . From here , the Doctor became " Time Lord Victorious " and ruled over the cosmos with an iron fist . ( COMIC : " Four Doctors " ) The Year That Never Was . In the spring , ruled Earth with an iron fist through dictatorship . During this time , the Tenth Doctor , physically aged , was kept captive aboard the UNIT airship the " Valiant " , along with Jack Harkness and most of Martha Jones ' family , while the Toclafane invaded Earth . Meanwhile , Martha , following instruction given to her by the Doctor , spent the year travelling the world spreading stories and faith about the Doctor . Ultimately , the collected faith of the people of the world restored the Doctor , leading to the Master ' s defeat . Captain Jack destroyed the paradox machine , reversing time back to 2008 . ( TV : " Last of the Time Lords " ) Donna ' s world . After the " Titanic " fell to Earth on 25 December 2008 , annihilating London and rendering most of southern England uninhabitable with nuclear radiation , Great Britain had become a police state . People across Southern England were subject to forced relocations ; Donna Noble ' s family was moved to Leeds . After Donna ' s family was relocated , the parthenogenesis of the Adipose was a huge success , with 60 million Americans killed before the Adipose were moved to their spaceship . Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones died saving the world from ATMOS , and Captain Jack was transferred to Sontar . Rose Tyler worked with the UNIT of this timeline to help Donna Noble restore the proper chain of events which , at one point , involved sending Donna back to 2007 . ( TV : " Turn Left " )