Doomsday
The ghosts are Cybermen.
This is a statement that should be afforded the same level of horrific realization as Soylent Green is people! or We've traced the call; it's coming from inside the house! Bloody Torchwood, meddling with things they don't understand, and now they've let the Cybermen through into this dimension. Millions of them. All over the world, coming through the cracks in the Rift like grass growing up through a stone. Then again, this is the organization that blew up a retreating spacecraft on Christmas Day, so the Doctor figures he shouldn't be that surprised.
What does surprise him is that the Cybermen are as clueless as to the origins of the Void Ship as Torchwood is. He'd assumed that they were responsible for sending the sphere through as a way to break the barriers between worlds, but apparently, they just detected it and followed it through.
"Then what's inside it?" he asks to no one in particular.
And that's when Jackie speaks up, reminding him that "Rose is down there". With the sphere. Of unknown origin.
This is a statement that should be afforded the same level of horrific realization as Soylent Green is people! or We've traced the call; it's coming from inside the house! Bloody Torchwood, meddling with things they don't understand, and now they've let the Cybermen through into this dimension. Millions of them. All over the world, coming through the cracks in the Rift like grass growing up through a stone. Then again, this is the organization that blew up a retreating spacecraft on Christmas Day, so the Doctor figures he shouldn't be that surprised.
What does surprise him is that the Cybermen are as clueless as to the origins of the Void Ship as Torchwood is. He'd assumed that they were responsible for sending the sphere through as a way to break the barriers between worlds, but apparently, they just detected it and followed it through.
"Then what's inside it?" he asks to no one in particular.
And that's when Jackie speaks up, reminding him that "Rose is down there". With the sphere. Of unknown origin.