Plot
After the creation of the hybrid Human-Dalek Sec, The Doctor, Martha, Frank and the other human captives manage to escape when the Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to cause a nearby radio to emit a high-pitched frequency. Daleks Jast and Caan give chase, and discover in each other a concern over Sec's plan. The Doctor and Martha meet up later with Tallulah and Frank, and make their way back to Hooverville. The Doctor warns Solomon that the Daleks are seeking out more human subjects, but Solomon believes he can reason with them. The Daleks and their Pig Slaves attack, but Solomon initiates a conference with the hovering Daleks. He pleads his case for shared values and compassion; indifferent, the Daleks kill Solomon in front of the other humans. The Doctor, angered by Solomon's death, tells Caan to kill him as well, but Sec orders them to bring the Doctor in. Martha tries to go as well, but the Doctor makes her stay behind, giving her his psychic paper as he leaves with the Daleks.
At the Dalek lab at the Empire State Building, the Doctor learns that Dalek Sec's plan is to continue the Dalek race by injecting humans of high intelligence with a mix of human and Dalek DNA, allowing their minds to be programmed as Daleks. However, as the task requires more energy than the human technology of 1930 can produce, Dalek Sec plans to use gamma strike energy from a solar flare that will occur within minutes, and forces the Doctor to help him finalise the energy system. These new beings won't, Sec says, be the emotionless beings Daleks have heretofore been; instead, they will combine human ability to evolve and survive with Dalek intelligence. Caan, Thay and Jast rebel; they see Sec as a traitor to their race, no longer even a real Dalek ("You told us to imagine... and we imagined your irrelevance.") They stage a mutiny, changing the DNA mix being fed into the humans into that of pure Dalek. The Doctor and Laszlo escape during the chaos, heading for the top floors of the building. They meet Martha, Tallulah, and Frank, who have used the psychic paper to get past the building's human guards. Martha, who has already analyzed the building plans, tells the Doctor he must remove the "Dalekanium" panels on the mast of the Empire State Building. The Doctor quickly climbs up, telling Martha to stay behind and fight. As the Doctor struggles to remove the panels, Martha, with the help of the others, lays out pieces of metal from the framework of the building to connect with the elevator, which should conduct electricity when the gamma strike hits. The Pig Slaves are electrocuted in the elevator, but the Doctor drops his sonic screwdriver and so fails to remove all the panels in time; as he holds onto the mast, the strike hits and the energy transfers into the human-Dalek shells: the Dalek's new army begins to awaken.
Martha and the others recover the Doctor, then flee to Tallulah's theater, with the human-Dalek army following them in the sewers. As they are surrounded by the Dalek's new army, they find that Dalek Thay and Jast have Sec in chains. As the two prepare to kill the Doctor, Sec tries to reason with them and then steps in the way of their blaster fire, sacrificing himself to save the Doctor. The Daleks order their army to kill the Doctor, but find that the humans are resisting; the Doctor, by exposing himself to the gamma strike, caused some of his Time Lord DNA to transfer to the human shells, giving them freedom from Dalek control. The human-Dalek army turn on Thay and Jast, killing them; but Caan, watching from the Empire State Building, activates a termination sequence to kill the rest of the army. The Doctor returns to the Dalek lab to face Caan, offering mercy and aid; but instead the Dalek escapes once again via emergency temporal shift. As the Doctor regroups with the others, Laszlo's heart begins to fail, due to his partial transformation as a Pig Slave. The Doctor, however, finds a way to stabilise his condition, although it will not restore his human appearance. Laszlo and Tallulah are reunited, and learn from Frank that the people of Hooverville will take Laszlo in despite his looks. The Doctor and Martha finally return to Liberty Island and the TARDIS, where the Doctor muses that there is to be yet another confrontation with the Daleks in their future.
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