Dalek ( TV story ) Dalek was the sixth episode of series 1 of " Doctor Who " . It was the first appearance of a Dalek in the revived series and the debut of companion Adam Mitchell . The story was adapted from Robert Shearman ' s audio story " Jubilee " . Narratively , " Dalek " was the first major look at the Last Great Time War ' s destructive scope , on both the Dalek species and the Doctor himself , and the severity of the guilt and rage in the Ninth Doctor that lingered onward after he personally ended the war by causing an intolerable amount of death . It was here that his feelings of disgust reached a boiling point and he found an ominous parallel with his most hated foe . Synopsis . The Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler arrive in 2012 to answer a distress signal and meet a collector of alien artefacts who has one living specimen . However , the Doctor is horrified to find out that the creature is a member of a race he thought was destroyed : a Dalek . Plot . The Doctor ' s TARDIS is drawn off course by a signal and materialises underground in a bunker located in Utah in the year 2012 . As the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler step out to investigate , they find that the bunker is a very special sort of museum , full of alien artefacts , including a mileometer from the Roswell crash , a stuffed Raxacoricofallapatorian arm , and even the head of a Cyberman . As the Doctor muses over the fact that he ' s getting old , he touches the glass casing of the Cyberman exhibit and sets off an alarm . Immediately , he and Rose are surrounded by armed guards . They are taken to see the owner of the Vault — Henry van Statten , a billionaire businessman who claims to own the Internet . One of his employees says that he can ' t replace the president . Van Statten then fires the man with the remark , " Thank you so much for your opinion , you ' re fired ! " He has been collecting alien artefacts for years , and is impressed when the Doctor manages to identify a new piece that one of his assistants , a young English researcher named Adam Mitchell , has acquired in an auction . The Doctor shows van Statten how to play the alien musical instrument , but is disturbed when he tosses it aside carelessly . Van Statten asks the Doctor if he would like to see his one living specimen dubbed Metaltron , which is locked up in a part of the Vault called the Cage . Van Statten ' s scientists have been trying to get the Metaltron to talk by torturing it , but it has so far remained silent except for screaming . The Doctor enters the darkened Cage , and begins by saying that he is here to help . When he introduces himself , however , a grating , familiar screech repeats his name , synchronised with flashing lights . The Doctor is shocked at the impossibility of the sight before him as the lights come up . The Metaltron is a Dalek in chains . It declares the Doctor an enemy of the Daleks and cries its intent to exterminate . The Doctor , panicked , bangs on the door and demands to be let out , until he realises that the Dalek ' s casing is cracked and worn and its weapon stalk does not work . Delighted , the Doctor rounds on the Dalek , who is demanding orders . The Doctor says that no orders will be forthcoming ; the Dalek race is dead , all ten million ships of its fleet burning , and the Doctor was the one who destroyed them . The Dalek asks what happened to the Time Lord s , and the Doctor grimly acknowledges that all of them are dead as well , casualties of the Last Great Time War . The two of them are the last of their kind , and the Dalek declares that , because of this , they are the same . This casts the Doctor into a rage , and , determined to finish off the last Dalek , he pulls a lever , sending electricity coursing through the Dalek , ignoring the Dalek ' s pleas for him to show mercy . Van Statten sends his guards to stop the Doctor . As they ride up to the upper levels , van Statten ' s assistant , Diana Goddard , tells the Doctor that the Dalek fell to Earth fifty years before , on the Ascension Islands , where it burned in a crater for three days before anyone could approach it . It passed through the hands of several collectors before van Statten bought it at an auction . The Doctor concludes it must have fallen through time somehow , and van Statten notes that the Dalek is not the only alien on Earth now . The Doctor is chained up , stripped to the waist and painfully scanned . As van Statten gleefully observes that he can patent the Doctor ' s binary vascular system , the Doctor realises that van Statten is not just a collector . He scavenges technology from the artefacts and then sells them . Van Statten proudly admits this , revealing that broadband was derived from Roswell technology , and that recently his scientists found the cure to the common cold in bacteria recovered from the " Russian crater " . Meanwhile , Adam is showing Rose ( who is unaware of the Doctor ' s predicament ) around the base . When Adam shows her the Dalek on the monitor , they see one of the technicians , Simmons , torturing it , trying to get it to speak again as per van Statten ' s orders . Rose asks to be taken down to the Cage so she can stop Simmons . There , Rose talks to the Dalek , offering to help . The Dalek feigns helplessness , getting Rose to approach it . In sympathy , Rose touches the Dalek casing , and immediately the Dalek absorbs some of her DNA , which allows it to regenerate part of its casing and break free of its chains . When Simmons approaches it , the Dalek uses its plunger - shaped manipulator arm to crush his skull . The Cage is sealed , and van Statten alerted . The Doctor calmly tells van Statten to release him if they want to live . Although the lock to the Cage has a billion combinations , the Dalek easily runs through them in a matter of moments . It then smashes a computer terminal with its manipulator arm , absorbing electricity from the Vault and seven states in the western United States to completely repair itself , as well as learning all the information on the Internet . Rose and Adam are evacuated from the level as van Statten ' s guards take position in a corridor . Commander Bywater runs into the corridor with the Dalek on his heels . As he yells commands , he is struck with an energy beam that exposes his skeleton and he falls to the ground , dead . The guards open fire , but a force field melts the bullets before they hit its casing , and its middle section can swivel around , giving its energy weapon a 360 - degree field of fire . Van Statten shouts over the guards ' communicators that he does not want the Dalek damaged , but there is no answer — the Dalek has killed all of them . The Doctor tells Diana to have weapons distributed to everyone . Adam , Rose and a female guard named De Maggio are climbing the stairs to the upper levels , hoping to escape the Dalek , but it hovers up after them , killing De Maggio when she bravely remains behind to delay its advance . Van Statten still thinks the Dalek can be negotiated with , but the Doctor bluntly tells him that the Dalek will kill everyone who is different from a Dalek , because it honestly believes they should die . It is the ultimate in racial cleansing , and the Doctor claims that van Statten has let it loose . In the Vault ' s weapons testing range , another group of guards take up a firing position . Once Rose and Adam are clear , they open fire on the Dalek , assisted by technicians , scientists and lawyers , but it sits there , impervious , even allowing the Doctor to see this on the monitors to prove it . It then hovers in the air , triggering the sprinklers . With one shot , it electrifies the water on the floor and kills the guards there . A second shot runs through a metal walkway , taking care of those guards . It demands to speak to the Doctor , and reveals that absorbing Rose ' s DNA — the genetic code of a time travel ler — allowed it to " extrapolate her biomass " and regenerate itself . Its search through the world ' s satellite and radio telescope systems has revealed no Daleks anywhere , confirming the Doctor ' s claim that it is the last of its kind . As the Dalek now knows that no new orders will ever come , it intends to carry out the default Dalek function — to destroy and conquer , starting with Earth and her population . But The Doctor protests , insisting that there ' s no point to any of it now that he ' s the only Dalek left . Conflicted , the Dalek asks The Doctor what should it do . The Doctor suggests , with almost uncharacteristic venom , that if it wants an order , it should just kill itself . When the Dalek protests , the Doctor screams , " Why don ' t you just " DIE ? ! " " The Dalek observes that the Doctor would make a good Dalek , leaving him in a stunned silence . Van Statten has managed to restore some power to the bulkheads , but not for long . The Doctor holds off activating the doors for as long as he can to allow Rose and Adam to get to safety , but the power is failing , and he has no choice but to shut them . Adam makes it to the other side , but Rose is trapped . Over her " superphone " , Rose tells the Doctor it was not his fault , and the Doctor hears the Dalek cry , " Exterminate ! " and the sound of the Dalek weapon firing . Furious with grief , he blames van Statten for all the deaths that have transpired , especially Rose ' s . The Dalek , however , has not killed Rose . The DNA it absorbed from her is making it hesitant , and it can feel Rose ' s fear , something that a Dalek should not be able to do . It contacts the Doctor , holding Rose hostage and demanding that the bulkheads be opened or it will kill her this time . It taunts the Doctor , saying , " What use are emotions if you will not save the woman you love ? " The Doctor tells van Statten that he already killed Rose once ; he cannot do it again . He unseals the doors . Adam informs the Doctor that , while the alien weapons van Statten has collected are down in the lower levels , there are some uncatalogued ones in his laboratory . Van Statten mindwipes his employees after he terminates their service , and Adam wanted to keep some aside in case he had to fight his way out . The Doctor sorts through the pile and finds a large weapon like a handheld cannon . The Dalek reaches van Statten ' s office , and threatens to kill van Statten for torturing it , though it ignores Goddard . Rose stops it , to which the Dalek hesitates once more , and turns to Rose . Rose tells the Dalek that it does not have to kill any more and asks it what it wants , besides killing people . The Dalek turns back to van Statten , but then turns back to Rose and replies that it wants freedom . They ride up to Level 1 , and there , the Dalek blows a hole in the roof of the Vault , letting the sunlight stream through . It opens its casing to reveal the mutated creature inside , a tentacle waving up to capture the warmth of the Sun . The Doctor appears , weapon in hand , telling Rose to get out of the way , but Rose refuses to let the Doctor kill it . The Dalek did not kill van Statten — it is changing . But what , Rose asks , is the Doctor changing into ? The Doctor , appalled at his own actions , lowers the weapon . Thinking on Rose ' s words , he realises that the DNA the Dalek absorbed from Rose is mutating it further . The Dalek also realises this , as its mind is filled with so many new ideas , and it cannot reconcile it with the Dalek notion of species purity . It asks Rose to order it to die - at first she cannot bring herself to , but when the Dalek screams in desperation for her to obey , she reluctantly does . The Dalek rises into the air , the globes on its shell disengaging to form a sphere around it . The spheres emit energy and it implodes , completely disintegrating . Meanwhile , Goddard orders the guards to take van Statten away and mindwipe him for causing the events that resulted in the death of 200 people , smugly ordering him dumped on a street corner in San Francisco or another city starting with an " S " . She also orders the Vault to be filled in with cement , aware of the terrible potential the alien technology within holds . Rose and the Doctor make it back to the TARDIS , where the Doctor ruefully observes that the Time War is finished , and as the last survivor he " wins " . Rose asks whether it is possible , since the Dalek survived , that some of the Time Lord s did as well . The Doctor says he would feel it if they had , and it feels like there is no one . Adam comes by , saying that they have to leave as Goddard is sealing the base . Rose hints to the Doctor that they should take Adam along , as he always wanted to see the stars . The Doctor is sceptical , but does not object and tells Rose , " On your own head . " Adam , not knowing what they are really saying , follows the Doctor and Rose into the TARDIS with a puzzled expression , and it dematerialises . Home video releases . Faux documentary . Following the broadcasts of " The Parting of the Ways " , BBC Radio aired " The Dalek Conquests " , a 2 1 / 2 - hour faux documentary on the history of the Daleks . Narrated by Nicholas Briggs and featuring extensive sound clips from " Dalek " and other " Doctor Who " stories dating back to 1963 , the documentary supposedly takes place at some point after " Dalek " , with Briggs describing a post - incident visit to van Statten ' s facility , now decommissioned . " The Dalek Conquests " was released to CD by BBC Audio in 2006 .