2007 In 2007 , recorded as 21K0 . 7 by the 43rd century dating system , ( AUDIO : " The Torchwood Archive " ) Torchwood One was destroyed in a battle between the Cult of Skaro and the Cybus Cybermen in a conflict known as the Battle of Canary Wharf . ( TV : " Doomsday " ) Dated events . On 31 January , the SS " Elysium " arrived safely in Panama , its passengers and crew having endured an attack by Cybermen just weeks earlier . One passenger , artist Michael Brack , was airlifted to hospital for treatment for hypothermia suffered during the attack . He missed his chance to tell Ruby Duvall that he was the man responsible for her father ' s paralysis . ( PROSE : " Iceberg " ) One Tuesday night in March was " when it all changed " for LINDA . Victor Kennedy , also known as the Abzorbaloff , discovered LINDA and quickly took command of the group to help him find the Doctor . ( TV : " Love & Monsters " ) On 25 June , Donna Noble chose to take a job with H . C . Clements , rejecting her mother ' s suggestion that she work for Jival Chowdry . A version of herself from a parallel world had been hit by a lorry a few blocks away to stop her making the contrary decision . Rose Tyler travelled back in time from approximately two years in the future to ask the Donna to pass a message on to the Tenth Doctor when she " died " . ( TV : " Turn Left " ) On 7 July , C ' rizz went on a rampage in King ' s Cross station . He was stopped by the Eighth Doctor and Luke Tillyard . ( PROSE : " Salva Mea " ) On 18 December , Diane Holmes , Emma - Louise Cowell and John Ellis arrived in the " Sky Gypsy " from 1953 through the Rift . ( TV : " Out of Time " ) Just before Christmas , Lance Metcalf ' s father , Simon Metcalf , was kill ed fighting in the Iraq War . ( PROSE : " Warriors of Kudlak " ) On 24 December , Diane flew through the rift , Emma departed from Cardiff to London and John committed suicide , all against the wishes of the Torchwood Three team . ( TV : " Out of Time " ) Also on 24 December , Donna Noble ' s wedding to Lance Bennett was interrupted when the Huon particles inside her body ( put there by Lance ) dragged her into the Doctor ' s TARDIS . After being attacked by Roboform s at the wedding reception , the Tenth Doctor , Donna and Lance went to H . C . Clements ' basement . There , they travelled to a Torchwood base on the Thames Flood Barrier . The Empress of the Racnoss force fed Lance Huon energy to awaken her children , killing him . The Doctor drowned the awakened Racnoss using the Thames . The Empress descended in the " Webstar " to exact revenge upon Earth , but her ship was destroyed by the British military by order of Minister of Defence . ( TV : " The Runaway Bride " ) On 25 December , the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe celebrated Christmas with the Cracker family . ( PROSE : " The Crackers " ) On 31 December , the Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard visited Singapore a few minutes before midnight . ( AUDIO : " The Girl Who Never Was " ) Undated events . The annual de - frosting of Tommy Brockless , a young soldier first cryogenically frozen in 1918 , took place in Torchwood Three . ( TV : " To the Last Man " ) The Fourth Doctor and Oliver Day defeated the Puppeteer , who was travelling across the stars to feed on Humanity ' s warfare . After this adventure , the pair went their separate ways . ( PROSE : " Puppeteer " ) An " Arms for Humanity " concert was held to raise money for the Preserve our Planet Fund . ( PROSE : " Iceberg " ) The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones , following information provided to them by Sally Sparrow , investigated the Wester Drumlins estate near London , where they were touched by the Weeping Angel s and transported to 1969 ; the TARDIS remained behind . By sending messages through easter egg s on DVDs , the Doctor was able to contact Sally Sparrow and Larry Nightingale and help them defeat the Angels and send the TARDIS to 1969 . ( TV : " Blink " ) Professor Mallingan and his team of scientists began draining the power of the icy planet Isqar , hoping it would put an end to global warming on Earth . The Tenth Doctor came across Mallingan ' s plans and enlisted the help of one of his scientists to destroy his lab , saving Isqar . ( COMIC : " Cold War " ) The Eleventh Doctor , Amy Pond and Rory Williams arrived in 2007 to visit the prominent Lexington Bank . There , they discovered two mysterious men , Mr Symington and Mr Blenkinsop , giving out devices that permitted users to travel through time . Amy used it once , to the Doctor ' s disappointment , and found that the device had many consequences . ( PROSE : " Borrowed Time " ) Joseph Serf was killed in a skiing accident in Val d ' Isère , France . However , his death was covered up by John Harrison . ( TV : " The Man Who Never Was " ) A BBC News bulletin reported that the United States and United Kingdom governments were anticipating final victory in the Iraq War in the near future . ( AUDIO : " Unregenerate ! " ) Jamie Colquhoun had his family take him to the St Michel War Cemetery in the Somme . The Tenth Doctor and Gabby Gonzalez watched him from a distance . As Jamie left with his family , his granddaughter Gabriella tripped on the hand of a Weeping Angel . ( COMIC : " The Weeping Angels of Mons " ) Jason Summerfield , a distant ancestor of Bernice Summerfield , was born . ( PROSE : " Dead Romance " ) Clara Oswald went sledging . ( COMIC : " Wintervention " ) Before the Battle of Canary Wharf . The Tenth Doctor contacted Mickey Smith and told him to infiltrate the Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum and destroy the recovered Sycorax Sword . Mickey created a robot and sent it into the museum . When the robot found the sword , it destroyed itself and took the sword with it . ( GAME : " Security Bot " ) Mickey Smith contacted the Tenth Doctor to investigate Deffry Vale High School after discovering strange occurrences there . ( TV : " School Reunion " ) The Tenth Doctor and Rose signed up as a teacher and a dinner lady respectively . The Doctor met Sarah Jane Smith for the first time since he had been called to Gallifrey and had left her on Earth . ( TV : " The Hand of Fear " , " School Reunion " ) The Doctor repaired K9 Mark III . K9 identified the intelligence - enhancing oil in the school children ' s chips as of Krillitane origin . The Doctor learnt they were using the children to solve the Skasis Paradigm . K9 destroyed the Krillitanes , along with himself and the oil , but the Doctor gave Sarah Jane a new model , K9 Mark IV . Mickey joined the Tenth Doctor and Rose in the TARDIS . ( TV : " School Reunion " ) Mickey , Jackie and a group of actors posing as the crew and audience of an alien talk show helped the Tenth Doctor free Rose from the Iagnon by making her jealous . ( COMIC : " The Green - Eyed Monster " ) LINDA was destroyed when the Abzorbaloff absorbed all members save Elton , one by one . The Tenth Doctor killed the Abzorbaloff and restored Ursula Blake in the form of a paving slab . ( TV : " Love & Monsters " ) The English city of Norwich was invaded by the Zaross as part of an alien television programme . Jackie Tyler contacted the Tenth Doctor and Rose and together they convinced the Zaross to turn on their producers and end the show . Torchwood cleaned up after the event . ( AUDIO : " Infamy of the Zaross " ) The Battle of Canary Wharf . The Tenth Doctor landed in Torchwood Tower with Rose and Jackie Tyler after tracking the ghost shift s and was taken prisoner by Torchwood One . The ghosts were actually Cybermen from a parallel universe the Doctor had visited . Rose Tyler stumbled upon a Void Ship and discovered Mickey , back from Pete ' s World . The two of them witnessed four Dalek s emerging from the ship . ( TV : " Army of Ghosts " ) Cybermen encountered Daleks ; they fought , destroying Torchwood One . The Cybermen upgraded Torchwood staff to fight the Daleks . The Daleks identified themselves as the Cult of Skaro and used Mickey ' s DNA print to release millions of Daleks from the Genesis Ark to attack all life on Earth . The Tenth Doctor opened the gateway to the Void , letting the void stuff - covered Daleks and Cybermen be sucked into it ( apart from the Cult , who emergency temporal shift ed ) , before sealing itself . Rose , Jackie and Mickey were trapped in Pete ' s World , with no way back to their own universe , where Rose was declared dead . ( TV : " Doomsday " ) The partial cyber - conversion of Lisa Hallett happened during this battle . ( TV : " Cyberwoman " ) After the Battle of Canary Wharf . After the battle former Torchwood One operative Ianto Jones relocated to Cardiff to convince Jack Harkness to give him a position with Torchwood Three . ( TV : " Fragments " ) . He was successful . He subsequently hid his partially - converted girlfriend , Lisa Hallett , within the Torchwood Hub . ( TV : " Cyberwoman " ) Torchwood Three member Suzie Costello shot herself after being discovered for the murder s she committed . Gwen Cooper joined the empty spot left in Torchwood Three . ( TV : " Everything Changes " ) On her first day of work , Gwen accidentally released an alien entity contained in a meteorite that inhabited Carys Fletcher . ( TV : " Day One " ) Jessica Pugh died on that same night as a result of an accident caused when a car driver was distracted by the sight of the meteorite above Cardiff . ( AUDIO : " More Than This " ) The Torchwood Three team later caught up with it and tricked it , trapping it inside the portable prison cell . The creature was poisoned by Earth ' s atmosphere and died . ( TV : " Day One " ) The Torchwood Three team retrieved a quantum transducer that saw the past and future from Bernie Harris . It was eventually locked away . Ed Morgan impaled himself on a knife Gwen had confiscated . ( TV : " Ghost Machine " ) With the help of Dr Tanizaki , Ianto took Lisa off her life support . She attacked the Torchwood Hub to make it a base to start converting more Cybermen . The rest of the Torchwood Three team killed her . ( TV : " Cyberwoman " ) The Torchwood Three team handed over Jasmine Pierce to the Fairies after they threatened to destroy the Earth . ( TV : " Small Worlds " ) Jack incapacitated a set of cannibalistic villagers in the Welsh countryside . They were arrested by police . ( TV : " Countrycide " ) The Arcateenian " Mary " handed Toshiko Sato a telepathy pendant . When Mary snuck into the Torchwood hub , Jack tricked her into using the teleport device she was looking for . It sent her into the centre of the sun . ( TV : " Greeks Bearing Gifts " ) Three months after her death , Suzie Costello was resurrected for a short period by Gwen , who used the resurrection gauntlet . Suzie drew life energy from Gwen over time . She died again when the gauntlet was destroyed . ( TV : " They Keep Killing Suzie " ) After his friends falsely inflated a bid for it on eBay , Eugene Jones swallowed a Dogon sixth eye to make sure they couldn ' t flog it themselves . He continued existing as a ghost for a time after his death . He helped Gwen Cooper investigate his death ( which he couldn ' t recall ) and passed on . ( TV : " Random Shoes " ) Other realities . In a parallel universe , a Doctor Who annual was released . ( COMIC : " The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who " ) Donna ' s World . On 25 June , Donna Noble made a decision that resulted in her not joining H . C . Clements and so not meeting Lance Bennett and becoming engaged to him . Instead , she took a job as Jival Chowdry ' s secretary . As a consequence of never joining H . C . Clements , the Tenth Doctor never met Donna and he died after thwarting the Empress of the Racnoss ' plans . Rose Tyler , travelling between dimensions , ended up in this alternate timeline and arrived soon after the Doctor ' s corpse had been retrieved by UNIT . ( TV : " Turn Left " ) Pete ' s World . On 1 February 2007 , the TARDIS fell into a parallel universe dubbed " Pete ' s World " , where it almost died . With twenty - four hours before the TARDIS could return to its home universe , Rose discovered a living version of her dad , Pete Tyler , alive and a successful businessman . To meet her " father " , Rose snuck with the Tenth Doctor into the birthday party of a parallel version of her mother . The President of Great Britain forbade the use of John Lumic ' s new cybernetic lifeform , but Lumic ignored him . Mickey , mistaken for his parallel self , Ricky Smith , was taken by the Preachers , who fought Lumic . The cybernetic life , dubbed Cybermen , attacked Jackie Tyler ' s birthday party , killing most of those inside , including the President . ( TV : " Rise of the Cybermen " ) The following day , the Doctor and Rose escaped the Cyberman attack with the Preachers , Mickey and Pete . They infiltrated the Cyberman factory , where every Londoner in EarPod s was being upgraded , including Pete ' s wife , Jackie . Mickey and Jake destroyed the transmitter controls so the hypnotised EarPod bearers could escape . Mickey also sent the Doctor the codes to break the inhibitor controls , destroying the Cybermen . The survivors of the resistance escaped the burning factory in a zeppelin . With the TARDIS cells charged , the Doctor and Rose returned to their universe . Mickey stayed behind , taking his deceased counterpart ' s place in shutting down more Cyberman factories . ( TV : " The Age of Steel " )